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● To mark Passover, Jerusalem’s renowned
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design has
released images of one-of-a-kind functional
Judaica created by students, alumni, and fac-
ulty over the years.
The images are an exploration of the inter-
section of belief and art.
“Bezalel Academy has always blended old
traditions with cutting-edge creation and
design, and I believe is the only place on the
globe teaching Judaica design at an aca-
demic level,” said Liv Sperber, Bezalel’s vice
president for international affairs.
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“The very name of the academy illustrates
the desire of our founder, Boris Schatz, to
continue the strong Jewish tradition of artis-
tic practice; Bezalel being the Biblical charac-
ter entrusted with designing the Tabernacle,
and thereby the first artist and designer
known to the world,” she added.
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Noshes
“And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds
controlling the climate to create natural
disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man.
Be careful.”
— Trayon White Sr., a DC councilman, expounding on his theory of climate change. He
later apologized. “I did not intend to be anti-Semitic,” he said.

IT’S QUITE A STORY:

A Jewish connection
to a French town
I’ve previously
reported that
TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET,
24, who was nominated
for the leading actor
Oscar for playing a
young Jewish man in
“Call Me By Your Name,”
is the son of an American
Jewish mother and a
French Protestant father.
In an interview exchange,
he seemed to call himself
Jewish, and his mother
has posted photos of the
family celebrating
Chanukah and Pesach.
Normally I don’t report
much on the non-Jewish
side of a celeb’s family.
But there’s a good —
maybe a great —Jewish
story on that side of
Chalamet’s family. His
father, Marc, and his late
paternal grandfather,
Roger, came from a small
French village called Le
Chambon-Sur-Lignon,
also called Chambon.
Timothée spent his
summers there when he
was growing up.
In 1990, Chambon was
one of two municipali-
ties collectively honored
as the Righteous Among
the Nations by Yad Vash-
em in Israel for saving
Jews during the Holo-
caust. (The other is in the
Netherlands.) These two
towns remain the only to
be so honored. As you
may know, French Prot-
estants, usually called
Huguenots, were perse-
cuted viciously by the
Catholic kings of France
during the 16th, 17th, and
18th centuries, and many
fled to England and
America. But Chambon
is in an isolated area, and
this isolation allowed
the town to become
and remain overwhelm-
ingly Protestant. In 1940,
the Germans occupied
France. Led by two Prot-
estant ministers, André
Trocmé and deputy pas-
tor Edouard Theis, the
villagers of Chambon
did everything imagin-
able to help Jews: hid
them in local homes and
public buildings, got
them ration cards, and
helped some to escape
to neutral Switzerland.
Estimates vary on how
many Jews they saved —
usually it’s between 800
and 3,000. Whatever
the number, the villag-
ers were heroic and they
provided a great ex-
ample of goodness. They
did it at considerable risk
to themselves. One of
Trocmé’s cousins, Daniel,
was sent to a concentra-
tion camp and murdered.
A friend discovered
that Roger Chalamet,
who died in 1985, was a
Protestant minister. He
was born in either 1926
or 1928; he clearly was
old enough to have wit-
nessed the occupation
and the heroism of his
fellow villagers, and per-
haps he participated in
this heroism himself. We
reasonably can speculate
that his decision to be
Timothée Chalamet
Sarah Goldberg
a minister was inspired
by the heroism of the
pastors of his home-
town. I am working on a
way to get in touch with
his grandson and learn
more. So far, only one
French publication has
noted the actor’s ties to
this town. There was little
in the way of details—just
that Chambon is proud
of the young actor. As I
learn more, I will report
it, because, as I told my
friend, “What are the
odds that an Oscar-nom-
inated American actor —
with a Jewish mother —
would have such strong
ties to a French town of
less than 3,000 people
with such a wonderful
Jewish story?”
Other notes: Chal-
amet will appear in the
Henry Winkler
Zach Braff in a scene from “Alex, Inc.”
Zach’s back on series TV
● ZACH BRAFF, 42, the former star of “Scrubs,”
returns to series TV with his new ABC show, “Alex, Inc.”
He plays Alex Schuman, a radio journalist, husband,
Glenn Fleshler and father of two, who decides to quit his job and start
his own company (Starts Wednesday, March 28, at
upcoming film “Beauti-
8:30 p.m.). Braff, the director and writer of the hit film
ful Boy.” It’s based on
a memoir by Jewish “Garden State,”, is from South Orange. – N.B.
journalist DAVID SHEFF,
62, about his son’s addic-
tion problems. Chalamet
plays the son. Chalamet’s involved in the L.A. dling, and he discovered
co-star in “Call Me By community theater in Shandling’s journals
Your Name,” Armie Ham- scene. Co-stars include that Shandling made a
mer, will play the late HENRY WINKLER, 72,
MARTIN GINSBURG in a conscious decision to
Canadian actress SARAH
biopic (“On the Basis of GOLDBERG, 32, and mentor him and others.
Sex”) about Martin and GLENN FLESHLER, 49. Apatow told Variety, “He
his wife, Supreme Court (It starts March 25). wanted to help people
Justice RUTH BADER Also on HBO is the
and he thought that
GINSBURG, now 85. two-part documen-
Both films will open later was the win in life, to
tary, “The Zen of Garry
this year. Shandling,” which will help people.” There are
premiere on March 26 tons of clips and home
Upcoming on TV and 27. It’s a biographi-
movies. The more than
The HBO series
cal tribute to the late 40 interviewees include
“Barry” stars Bill
comedian GARRY
Hader as a low-rent hit SACHA BARON COHEN,
SHANDLING. The direc-
man who moves to Los JON FAVREAU, JERRY
tor is JUDD APATOW,
Angeles and finds a new SEINFELD, and SARAH
outlook on life by getting 50. Early in his career,
Apatow wrote for Shan- SILVERMAN. –N.B.

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Local
Better together
Englewood hospital, Tenafly JCC join forces to provide health and wellness care
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

S
itting on campuses a mere two
miles from one another, the
Englewood Hospital and Medi-
cal Center and the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly serve many of the
same populations and even share many of
the same donors and lay leaders.
Because the two longstanding Bergen
County institutions also share a mission of
enhancing the wellbeing of their constitu-
ent communities, they recently unveiled
an ambitious new partnership for the
mutual benefit of JCC member families
and EHMC staff and patients.
Soft-launched last November, with addi-
tional elements of the partnership sched-
uled to start in the coming month, the new
relationship offers a range of joint health-
and-wellness activities at both locations.
Specially certified JCC staffers, working
in coordination with EHMC physicians,
will provide hospital-sponsored per-
sonal training, group classes, and fitness
programming for the 3,000-plus EHMC
employees, in addition to collaborative
nutritional coaching, stress management,
and healthy living guidance.
EHMC employees and their families
will receive discounted membership
to the JCC, whose 65,000 feet of dedi- A meditation program at the hospital’s Graf Center for Integrative Medicine. EHMC

cated wellness space include a spa, gym,

swimming pools, tennis and racquetball
courts, cycling room, Pilates room, and
youth fitness center, as well as a host
of fitness classes in such disciplines as
yoga, swimming, Pilates, barre, cycling,
Zumba, and triathlon training, as well
as free drop-in group exercise classes,
among other offerings.
For JCC members, EHMC’s Graf Center
for Integrative Medicine will offer acu-
puncture, therapeutic massage, nutri-
tional counseling, yoga, aroma therapy,
meditation, and physician consultations.
Community health screenings, educa-
tional events, and a monthly newsletter
are planned for JCC members and the
EHMC community.
Perhaps the most novel part of the
partnership addresses the common com-
munity through the joint development of
condition-specific fitness and nutrition
programs for people with pre-diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, or cancer, as
well as people preparing for such proce-
dures at EHMC as bariatric (weight-loss)
or joint-replacement surgery. As opposed
to rehabilitation following illness or
injury, these programs will begin at ear-
lier stages for enhanced effect.
“It’s become clearer over time and in the
Warren Geller Dr. Michael Harris Jordan Shenker
research that so-called ‘pre-hab’ leads to “Cancer is another case where nutri-
better outcomes, so we are excited about tion counseling — which we offer to
our physicians and other professionals every newly diagnosed patient — and fit-
working with JCC personal trainers to ness training improve patients’ ability to
develop fitness and strength programs for tolerate therapy and lead to improved
patients before as well as after certain pro- outcome.”
cedures,” EHMC’s chief medical officer, Dr. In 2016, the latest year for which figures
Michael Harris, said. are available, the 352-bed medical center
“Bariatric surgery is a great example served a total of 281,600 inpatients and
because there is a six-month waiting outpatients. The Kaplen JCC counts more
period and ideally we can use that time than 3,500 membership units, which is
to focus on nutrition and exercise that about 13,000 individual members.
in some cases will preclude the need for The JCC’s CEO, Jordan Shenker, said
surgery,” he continued. “And for those about a dozen JCCs in the United States
patients who do have the surgery, it will have a variety of partnership programs
better condition them for the surgery with hospitals that serve their catchment
and recovery. area. In that spirit, for the last decade the
Tenafly JCC has planned collaborative pro-
grams with the Englewood medical center,
including physician lectures, to support
one another’s objectives.
“In the last 18 months, we began to crys-
tallize ideas to activate this collaboration
in a more robust way that would leverage
community and business opportunities —
adding value for employees and patients of
the hospital and members of the JCC while
giving the JCC a pipeline of new clients and
helping us achieve our wellness mission,”
Mr. Shenker said.
Another beneficial aspect of the part-
nership, he added, is that JCC members
will be able to take advantage of the
expertise of community center fitness
staffers who have earned additional certi-
fications to work with the joint program.
“We hope it will lead to clients doing
ongoing programs such as personal train-
ing,” he said.
Warren Geller, the medical center’s
president and CEO, said, “As a medical
center devoted to caring for the whole
patient, not just their disease or condition,
we hope these activities and services give
our patients and families lifelong tools and
resources to support them on the journey
to wellness.”

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Local
Team Teaneck
Adler supporters raise funds, showcase new Jewish items
LOIS GOLDRICH
I
t’s truly remarkable how much loy-
alty, affection, and enthusiasm the
Adler Aphasia Center sparks in its
volunteers.
As one expression of that commitment,
several Teaneck residents — dubbed
“Team Teaneck” by Chrysa Golashesky,
director of Adler’s Something Special Pro-
gram — have showcased the center’s jew-
elry and gift items at several house parties
in the community.
“The whole team works and/or volun-
teers at the center,” Ms. Golashesky said.
“Their passion and dedication to advo-
cate for aphasia is reflected in their desire
to share our crafters’ talents with friends
who don’t have an opportunity to visit the
center.”
To date, the team has raised more than
$8400. Sales of Something Special items
primarily support the center’s scholarship
fund, so that everyone with aphasia can
participate in Adler’s programs and ser-
vices, regardless of their ability to pay the
tuition fee.
Over the last year, as part of its jewelry
line, Adler has added specifically Jewish
items — which are selling quite well, and,
the team members say, are particularly
appropriate for members of their respec-
tive synagogue communities. Adler volun-
teer Linda Kostrinsky began making items
of Judaica about nine months ago, and still
is making pieces to add to the collection.
Then, six months ago, volunteer and cou-
ture jewelry instructor Stacy Kaplan took
over the collection, adding more sophisti-
cated pieces.
“Linda made some simple bracelets and
necklaces with stars, and they seemed
pretty popular,” Ms. Kaplan, who first
came to Adler as a member, said. “Adler
was a life-saver for me,” she added. “Not
only did it help my aphasia but it gave me
a venue to show my creativity.” That cre-
ativity is manifest in the imaginative Jew-
ish pieces she creates, including earrings,
necklaces, and bracelets. “We even found
beads with a Star of David on them to put
on our utensils,” she said. In addition to
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Adler Aphasia Center members Stacy Kaplan and Javed Ispahany show an item
of jewelry that Ms. Kaplan designed. From left, Adler staff members Robin Strau
and Tamara Heimlich – founding members of Team Teaneck – and Adler mem-
bers Ken Albrecht and Denise Powlis-Lighty look on.
stars, the jewelry features hamsas and
trees of life. Yads — Torah pointers — have
been available for several years.
Adler’s Jewish line will be on prominent
display at the upcoming Zahal Shalom
Spring Boutique, to be held at Teaneck’s
Congregation Beth Sholom on March 22.
Created in 1993 by a group of supporters
in Bergen County, Zahal Shalom brings 10
disabled Israeli war veterans to the com-
munity, where they are hosted by local
families, for two weeks. Adler partici-
pated in an event for the organization once
before, and was invited again this year.
Why do the members of Team Teaneck
carry their support for Adler outside
the walls of the center and into their
community?
“Adler is a calling,” team member
Tamara Heimlich said; she began volun-
teering with Adler about 8 years ago. “I
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saw an article in the Jewish Standard and
physically cut it out,” she continued. “I
said, when I go back to work, I’m going to
go there as a volunteer.” Four years later,
she was tapped to be a research associate;
she took over as life coach in May.
Still, Ms. Heimlich, like other members
of the team, is motivated to do even more.
“You do anything you can to support it,”
she said. “The members are special peo-
ple and working with them is a gift. Selling
jewelry and supporting them is something
I will always do.”
The membership of Team Teaneck has
been flexible — former Adler volunteer
Lisa Rosenfeld was a founding member
but no longer is involved — and several
new members, including Renee Denis and
Jeanne Freiman, have come on board. But
Robin Straus, one of the group’s creators,
is as active as ever, despite her full-time
job at the center as education and train-
ing director.
“I loved Adler, even when I was a vol-
unteer,” Ms. Straus said. She is a mem-
ber of Teaneck’s Netivot Shalom, as is
Elana Samad, who has hosted two of
Team Teaneck’s house parties. “Often on
Shabbes morning, I see friends [at shul]
wearing a piece of our jewelry. And I have
given our yad to several bat mitzvah girls
at the synagogue.” She expressed her grati-
tude to the Samad family for opening their
home and being “wonderful supporters.”
As Ms. Straus recalls it, the idea for a sale
arose in a conversation with Ms. Heimlich
and Ms. Rosenfeld. Their plan was to invite
only their friends, through email and Face-
book, rather than open the house party to
the public. The first party was at Ms. Heim-
lich’s home, some six years ago. Not only
was it well attended, but “a woman” — she
was a staff member at Yavneh Academy,
Ms. Heimlich recalled — “came and was so
impressed by the members, the cause, and
the merchandise that she decided to pur-
chase hostess gifts for the people hosting
out of town guests for her son’s upcoming
bar mitzvah. By giving these gifts, she most
likely introduced many people to Adler
who are not familiar with it.”
“Team Teaneck is just a volunteer thing,”
Ms. Straus said. “We enjoy it so much. We
have friends who come — and those who
come love interacting with the members.
They remember them from year to year.
“People should attend our sales because
our items are the most meaningful and
beautiful gifts to give,” she continued.
“You get a beautiful piece of merchandise,
beautifully packaged. And with the bio” —
each package include a biography of the
Adler member who made the item — “it’s
so meaningful.
“What a wonderful way to spread the
word about aphasia. People thank us for
being able to buy the merchandise.”
Something Special will hold an open
house at the Adler Aphasia Center from
4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 4,
to showcase gift and jewelry items made
by its members. The Center is at 60 West
Hunter Ave. in Maywood.
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Local
Cancer science today: Knowing your family’s cancer risk
MIRYAM Z. WAHRMAN, PHD
O
n March 15, as I entered the
John Theurer Cancer Center
at the Hackensack University
Medical Center, I was greeted
by sounds of a live pianist playing sooth-
ing music in the artfully decorated, soar-
ing atrium. I walked down a bright corridor
off the lobby, passing medical offices and
patient services, as I headed to the confer-
ence center to attend the “Cancer Science
Today” community talk offered by the
Memorial Sloan Kettering — Hackensack
Meridian Health partnership.
More than 100 people — most of them
women — filled the conference center for
the program, called “Knowing your family’s
cancer risk,” the first in a series of compli-
mentary talks on cancer treatment.
The partnership between New Jersey’s
Hackensack University Medical Center and
New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can-
cer Center is designed to “combine the
expertise of two world-class organizations
to work toward more cures for cancer and
increase patient access to the highest-qual-
ity cancer care available,” according to the
partners’ press release. One eventual goal
that its founders hope will result from link-
ing the two centers is the opening of joint
treatment facilities.
The cancer genetics panel included mod-
erator Joanna Gagis, the host of NJTV’s “Life
& Living with Joanna Gagis,” and experts
from the two institutional partners: Dr.
Elizabeth Jewell, director of surgery at MSK
Monmouth and MSK Basking Ridge, and Dr.
Deena Mary Atieh Graham, breast and gyne-
cologic medical oncologist at Hackensack’s
John Theurer Cancer Center.
One of the most rapidly moving fields in
21st-century medicine involves the discov-
ery of cancer genes and the new technolo-
gies that permit genetic screening for cancer
linked genetic mutations. Since the human
genome project was completed formally in
2003, the analysis of human genes has led
to the identification of a multitude of human
genes linked to such diseases as cancer.
Cancer genes can be passed from parents
to offspring, or they can arise from spo-
radic, unpredictable mutations that occur
throughout life. “We’re constantly evolv-
ing,” Dr. Jewell said. “We heal, we recover,
we change, and sometimes we don’t heal
correctly. We are exposed to smoke or
chemicals or UV radiation. Or we are born
with genes that are already mutated, as
opposed to sporadic mutations. You don’t
pick your mom, you don’t pick your dad.
That’s what you’re left with — your inherited
mutations.” She reported that “most can-
cers are sporadic. Only five to ten percent of
cancers are related to inherited mutations.”
Dr. Jewell explained that although you
cannot control what you have inherited,
to some extent you can reduce your
exposure to environmental triggers that
10 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 23, 2018
From left, Dr. Elizabeth Jewell, Joanna Gagis, and Dr. Deena Graham talked
about how people can learn about their chances of developing cancer at the
Hackensack Medical Center.
One of the most rapidly moving
fields in 21st-century medicine
involves the discovery of cancer
genes and the new technologies
that permit genetic screening for
cancer linked genetic mutations.
lead to cancer. “By not smoking, by eat-
ing well, exercising, and wearing sun-
screen, you reduce the risk of the genes
mutating,” she said.
Dr. Graham gave examples of cancer
genes, noting that the genes associated
with breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and
BRCA2, typically are inherited as germ-line
mutations that impede the ability of cells to
repair themselves. “The risk of breast can-
cer [due to BRCA genes] can be upward of
70 percent, and up to 40 percent for ovar-
ian cancer,” Dr. Graham said.
She explained that another type of
inherited cancer, Lynch syndrome, also
involves faulty genes that affect DNA
repair. That kind of genetic glitch disrupts
cells’ ability to perform mismatch repair.
When the letters of the DNA code are mis-
matched, healthy cells can cut and repair
errors before they affect cell function. But
cells with certain mutations cannot per-
form those operations leading to abnormal
cell growth, and in the case of Lynch syn-
drome, a high risk for colon cancer as well
as cancers of the ovary, uterus, stomach,
brain, skin, and other organs.
Lynch syndrome, also known as heredi-
tary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer — or
more approachably HNPCC —was named
for Henry T. Lynch, who many consider
to be the father of cancer genetics. In the
1960s and ‘70s, when most of the medical
establishment was convinced that environ-
mental factors caused cancer, Dr. Lynch
stubbornly continued his research on the
familial and genetic basis of cancer, dem-
onstrating that some cancers run in fami-
lies and are transmitted from generation to
generation. His work encouraged others to
study specific genes, and this led to the iden-
tification of BRCA1 and BRCA2 and many
other cancer-associated genes.
It is important to note that inherited
mutations do not necessarily develop
into cancer, Dr. Graham said. “Even if you
inherit, it’s not a guarantee to get cancer,”
she said. “There are things you can do to
lower risk. It doesn’t have to be a fearful
thing; it is better to have the knowledge.”
“Family history is critical and provides
clues for yourself or your healthcare pro-
vider,” Dr. Jewell said. Some flags for heredi-
tary cancer include: “If you develop cancer
prior to age 45, or have several different
cancers, such as breast and colon, or have
several family members on one side [of the
family] with cancer, or a clustering of dis-
ease types, [such as] three cousins on one
side with colon cancer or melanomas,”
those are indications that inherited cancer
genes may be involved.
Heritage can also be a factor, she con-
tinued. “There are distinct populations at
higher risk for carrying these mutations.
Ashkenazi Jews are at a higher risk for BRCA
mutations. Icelandic populations and Mexi-
can Hispanic populations have elevated
risks as well.” About one in 50 Ashkenazi
Jews carry mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2
that are associated with an elevated risk
of cancer. About 1 in 200 Icelandic people
have a unique BRCA2 mutation.
Ms. Gagis, who moderated the discus-
sion, asked if there is a misperception that
only women can pass hereditary cancer
genes to their children. Dr. Jewell answered
that both men and women can transmit the
genes to their offspring. She said that some-
times patients will say with relief, “I’m safe,
I have three sons, I’m OK,” thinking erro-
neously that the problem genes end with
them. “They’re not OK,” Dr. Jewell said.
“They can pass down the genes to sons and
daughters. BRCA and Lynch syndrome are
not just a lady problem.” The cancer genes
can increase risk of breast, ovarian, pros-
tate, pancreatic, and colon cancer, and both
men and women have to be aware of that.
“There are males with BRCA, and there is
breast cancer in males,” Dr. Jewell said.
The Federal Drug Agency recently
approved the sale of genetic tests direct to
consumers without a physician or genetic
counselor being involved, she continued.
The FDA lists about 100 different approved
genetic tests on its website, tests that doz-
ens of different companies offer to con-
sumers. Those tests screen for genes asso-
ciated with breast and ovarian cancer,
melanoma, lung cancer, prostate cancer,
acute myeloid leukemia, and others. The
variety and complexity of what is avail-
able would make it very difficult for even a
genetics expert to decipher.
Dr. Jewell offered an example of a direct-
to-consumer genetic testing company,
23andMe, which got its start designing tests
to reveal genealogical roots and heritage.
(The company’s name is based on the 23
unique pairs of chromosomes in all our cells
that serve as the repository of our genes.)
“You can get all the clues about your gene,”
she said. “For about $200 all the mysteries
of your life are answered, what percent of
you came from here and there.”
The first commercial tests for cancer
genes were developed by Myriad Genetics,
which patented the process of screening for
cancer genes. The patent was challenged
based on the fact that DNA is a natural mate-
rial, not an invention or innovation. “The
court system decided that genes are not pat-
entable,” Dr. Jewell said. This court decision
opened the floodgates to other companies
to develop their versions of genetic tests.
Ms. Gagis asked the two doctors how DTC
testing differs from clinical testing. How
does genetic testing work at Hackensack
Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering?
Dr. Graham said that clinical testing is
broader and includes other genes, as well
as genetic counseling. She recommends
that genetic testing be done under the
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auspices of a genetic counselor. “Genetic
testing is not black and white,” she said.
“It’s not cut and dry. When you meet with
a genetic counselor you will know what
the test will tell you and what the test will
not tell you. Perhaps DTC testing is use-
ful for people who don’t otherwise have
access to testing. But in this area there are
resources.” Most importantly, she added,
“a genetic counselor can tell you what to
do with these results.”
Dr. Jewell concurred, noting that 23andMe
tests for only a few versions of the mutated
genes. “It requires expertise to decide what
to test you for.” If the test comes out nega-
tive for mutations, the patient “may feel
false reassurance that they have not inher-
ited the gene to be concerned about.”
In other words, the testing that private
DTC companies do may be inadequate and
result in incomplete information to the det-
riment of the patient.
“In the 1990s there were just two tests,”
Dr. Jewell said. “Now it’s an alphabet
soup.” She was referring to the fact that
genetic tests are labeled with an odd array
of code letters and acronyms. “There are
so many genes. It is the medical commu-
nity’s responsibility to keep the public
educated. It becomes a bigger problem
as we find more genes. We are concerned
and excited about the future, and how it
will inform the public.”
Ms. Gagis asked the panelists “If you have
an inherited mutation, what preventative
measures are there?”
Dr. Jewell responded by summariz-
ing the vast scope of medical practice in
cancer treatment in just a few sentences:
Tamoxifen can reduce risk for women
with BRCA mutations; so can surveillance
through frequent mammograms and
MRIs. In addition, “risk-reducing surger-
ies for the more serious cancers,” she said,
can prevent cancers. “There are no good
screening tests for ovarian cancer. CA125
[blood test] and ultrasound do not detect
ovarian cancer at an early stage. But you
can remove the fallopian tubes and ova-
ries.” There is also a new approach that is
being tested called the WISP trial — WISP
stands for Women Choosing Surgical Pre-
vention. Women at high risk due to BRCA
mutations are assigned into two groups.
The women in the first groups undergo
hysterectomy and oophorectomy at the
same time — that removes the uterus, uter-
ine tubes, and ovaries. The second group
has their Fallopian tubes removed first;
years later, their ovaries are removed. The
intention of the second protocol is to delay
menopause and permit fertility, while still
reducing risk. This ongoing study still is
enrolling volunteer subjects. The outcome
of the study may change the approach to
prophylactic surgery and give women
more choices in treatment.
Another promising therapy Dr. Graham
reported is the PARP inhibitor olaparib
(Lynparz), which the FDA approved in Jan-
uary 2018 for patients with certain types of
BRCA-associated breast cancers. Research
on this drug, conducted in the “OlympiAD
trial” on 302 patients from 19 countries,
showed a 42 percent reduced risk of cancer
progression or death. Dr. Graham explained
that “targeted drug options … are mostly
oral medications that target the error in
BRCA and cells. They prevent cancer from
happening in the first place.”
Immunotherapy is another approach
that “revs up the immune system to fight
the cancer,” Dr. Graham said. “Cancers
sometimes do not look foreign, and the
immune system doesn’t recognize it as
foreign.” Immunotherapy already has
changed the outcome for many cancer sur-
vivors, extending their lives and improving
the quality of those lives.
Marsha Eisen of Hackensack attended
the program to learn what she can do about
her family’s cancer risk. “I’m thinking about
where I’m coming from,” she said. “Three
out of three of my primary relatives had
cancer.” Ms. Eisen’s father died of bladder
cancer when he was 73; her brother, who
had esophageal cancer, died at 58, and
her mother was treated for breast cancer
at Hackensack Hospital. Although she was
negative for BRCA mutations, Ms. Eisen was
part of a national study on the BRCA genes.
Ms. Eisen, who retired after a more than
35-year career as a dietician at Hackensack
Hospital, said that “you don’t have to cross
the [Hudson] river” for high-quality cancer
treatment. She remarked on the growth of
treatment options in the past few years,
noting that “the hospital has mushroomed
since I retired.”
Information on the John Theurer Cancer
center is at www.hackensackumc.org/ser-
vices/cancer-care. MSK-HMH Partnership
activities and services are at msk-hmhpart-
nership.org.
Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman of Teaneck is a
professor of biology at William Paterson
University in Wayne. Her book, “The Hand
Book: Surviving in a Germ-Filled World”
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‘Continuity is not a numbers game’

Local rabbi, future rabbi react to Conservative movement head’s controversial comments
Joanne Palmer

T
he Conservative movement —
not the political one, which is
spelled with a lower-case c and
is in fact conservative, as its
name implies, but the Jewish one, which
spells its name with an upper-case C and
defines itself as more-or-less liberal — has
found itself to be somewhat beleaguered
during the last few years.
Unlike the movements to its right —
modern Orthodoxy — and to its left —
Reform — the Conservative movement is
balkanized. Unlike the others, its leading
institutions include two rabbinical semi-
naries — the Jewish Theological Seminary
in Manhattan and the Ziegler School in Cal-
ifornia — an independent congregational
group, the United Synagogue of Conserva-
tive Judaism, independent groups for men
(the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs) and
women (Women’s League for Conservative
Judaism), and the Rabbinical Assembly
and Cantors Assembly. These groups tend
to jockey for position, using energy that in
the Reform and Orthodox world might be
aimed externally rather than internally.
According to the Pew Report, the large
study that was published in 2013 and has
been used as the Rosetta Stone for Jewish
demographers ever since, 18 percent of
American Jews are Conservative; only 10
percent are Orthodox, but that commu-
nity skews younger and so shows more
obvious potential for growth. The Conser-
vative community, according to demogra-
phers, is shrinking.
Last week, the CEO and executive vice
president of United Synagogue, Rabbi Ste-
ven Wernick, gave an interview to Lev Grin-
gauz, a student journalist; it was published
in New Voices. Rabbi Wernick talked about
how the movement had to “reposition the
movement as a platform,” and he said that
it’s frequently seen as “Parve. Not milchig”
and equally “not fleichig. You can eat it, but
who wants to, right?” Rabbi Wernick talked
about going beyond denominationalism as
it is now; “I’m actually beginning to think
about it in a meta-denominational way,” he
is reported as having said.
He also talked about how United Syna-
gogue was forced to shut down Koach,
its program for college students, when it
faced financial difficulties about five years
ago. “What’s the right balance between
strengthening and transforming legacy
institutions, and scale, meaning college,
young adults, and so forth and so on,” he
said in the interview.
Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine, who heads Tem-
ple Israel and Jewish Community Center
of Israel, is a lifelong Conservative Jew,
the son of a Conservative rabbi; he is also
a historian with a doctorate from CCNY.
Eric Leiderman, left, and Matthew Nelson of Rockland County, who went to Reuben Gittelman in New City, learn together
in the beit midrash of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
His involvement with the movement goes
way back too; he was a USYer and then a
member of Koach when he was in college;
before and then during rabbinical school
he worked for Koach as well as for Metny,
United Synagogue’s Metropolitan New
York region.
He remembers that funding Koach
always was a challenge. “I remember at
one point, in the early 90s, when I was
in college” — he went to Wesleyan — “we
had about a dozen Koach kids at a United
Synagogue convention. That was a novel
idea then, having students. We were ask-
ing for an extra twenty-five cents per year
per affiliated member, as a special alloca-
tion for Koach.” It passed overwhelmingly.
“But since then United Synagogue’s over-
all funding has decreased, and the number
of affiliated congregations has decreased,
and the overall membership rates in every
synagogue has decreased,” Rabbi Fine said.
“And I know that every affiliated congre-
gation is having more and more discus-
sions about the question of affiliation with
United Synagogue, so that it is not a given
that United Synagogue is able to collect dues
even from the affiliated ones.
“It is harder and harder to stay in busi-
ness with the decreased number of dollars.
“And that is driven by a lot of different
factors,” he continued. “We still haven’t
recovered from the change in giving pat-
terns from 2008. And there is a genera-
tional difference.
“The younger generation doesn’t take it
as a given that they have to affiliate,” Rabbi
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point that Rabbi Fine thinks is important. compromises and move forward.”
It’s about the value of being in the center. In fact, Rabbi Fine says, this is a point
We “are living now in a polarized reality,” about which he has cared for some time;
Rabbi Wernick said in the interview. “And in 2016 he published “Passionate Cen-
it’s hard for centrists to be centrists in that trism.” It’s about Conservative Judaism,
reality, because all the activity is taking and the title expresses his feelings accu-
place on the ends. But it’s not sustainable rately. “We have to find a way to be pas-
long term, so eventually people will realize sionate about it,” he said. “We don’t have
that the poles are taking you to disaster.” to have a majority. Continuity is not a
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numbers game. We Jews have been around
for a very long time — longer than anyone
else — and it is not about numbers.
“You do need a critical mass, and you
need a community and a philosophy that
makes sense and excites people. And there
will always be a need for Conservative Juda-
ism, which represents the center of the Jew-
ish community, with its commitment to tra-
ditional practice and moderate change.”
Rabbi Fine thinks that the nature of the
millennial generation poses problems for
synagogues, but he also thinks that it also
presents great opportunities. The most
obvious problem/opportunity comes
from the generation’s disinclination to
affiliate, and how that will help affect the
inevitable financial restructuring that lies
ahead. “A lot of changes have to be done
on the local level, and our institutions are
a reflection of that,” he said. “We have too
many shuls. We have 10 buildings where
we should have two, and it’s the weight of
maintaining all those buildings that caused
the defunding of Koach.
“The United Synagogue board had an
impossible job,” he said; the choice to
defund Koach rather than take resources
from local synagogues perhaps was
inevitable, given the Scylla and Charybdis
it was navigating. The board did the best it
could with what it had.
“We on the ground control the real assets
of the Jewish community, and we have to do
a better job of pooling them,” he said. “We
have to put communal values over parochial
values. And it might be a generation before
we can make that change.
Millennials don’t tend to join institu-
tions, he said, but on the other hand they
tend not to be sentimental about them.
“The new generation isn’t like the regnant
one,” he said. “They might be better able
to understand that yes, there is loyalty, but
we have to be able to sustain all the Jew-
ish people, not just the Jewish people in a
specific zip code.
“We have to remember not to fetishize
objects, and buildings are objects.”
Eric Leiderman, who grew up in Engle-
wood — he went to Moriah and then to
the Abraham Joshua Heschel School, and
whose family moved from Ahavath Torah
to Kol HaNeshamah, both in Englewood —
is a co-founder of Masorti on Campus, the
grassroots organization that has taken over
some of Koach’s work.
Like Rabbi Fine, Mr. Leiderman, 26, feels
deeply connected to Conservative Juda-
ism. He is spending the year in Jerusalem,
studying Torah lishmah — not for a degree
or a certification, but for its own sake, for
the joy of learning — at the Conservative
Yeshiva there. He isn’t exactly sure what
he’ll do next, but he does know that even-
tually he will become a Conservative rabbi.
The movement is his home.
“Not because of the movement or its
institutions, but because of Conservative
Judaism as an ideology,” he said. “To this
form of authentic Judaism that holds onto
tradition and embraces both being fully
Jewish and fully in the world.
“I definitely separate the movement
as a series of institutions and organiza-
tions from Conservative Judaism, which
is a series of ideologies and beliefs,” he
continued. “Conservative Jews can exist
without the movement, without the for-
malized structure.”
So Masorti on Campus “is an example
of how without formal structure or big
money we were able to come together
and have a Shabbaton at the University
of Pennsylvania and have 15 campuses
represented there,” he said. It was an
entirely grassroots effort.
He was infuriated by Rabbi Wernick’s
dismissal of Masorti on Campus as hav-
ing a “really minimal” reach. “Is Masorti
on Campus at the table?” Rabbi Wernick
is quoted as asking rhetorically. (It is not
clear what the table is, but it seems to
be a theoretical negotiating table, where
important but vague issues are being dis-
cussed.) “I think that our partners at Hillel
and JTS and Masorti Olami and the Conser-
vative Yeshiva would disagree with that,”
Mr. Leiderman said. “We have all these
partners from across the movement.”
Beyond the specifics of funding Conser-
vative college students, there is the larger
issue of the movement itself.
“I find it frustrating when someone says
it is hard to define Conservative Judaism,
when all they can say is that it is not this or
not that,” Mr. Leiderman said. “Conserva-
tive Judaism has its own set of beliefs. It is
the belief that Judaism can exist in a fully
egalitarian space, and that Jewish tradition
can exist without having to be compro-
mised and still live in the modern world.
“It’s about having a Jewish community
where we can engage in intellectual con-
versations about biblical criticism and the
structure of the Talmud and rabbinic lit-
erature without having our connection to
Judaism feel threatened. We can be intel-
lectually honest.
“I feel that Conservative Judaism is the
most intellectually honest way to express
our Judaism.”

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Love song in four voices

Author of Song of Songs commentary to speak in Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON

When is a love song not a love song?

When it’s an allegory for God’s love for the Jew-
ish people, of course.
That, in any rate, is the argument Rabbi Akiva
famously used to get the Song of Songs included
among the sacred books of the Bible, despite the
fact that the Song begins “Let him kiss me with the
kisses of his mouth,” and continues in that vein for
eight chapters, with frequent detours into meta-
phorical descriptions of body parts.
Shir Hashirim, as it is called in Hebrew, tradi-
tionally is read on the Shabbat of Pesach. With
that day coming up, Congregation Beth Sholom in
Teaneck is featuring a lunch-and-learn this Shabbat
afternoon with Professor Michael Fishbane, proba-
bly American Jewry’s foremost scholar on the Song
of Songs and its millennia of interpretation.
Dr. Fishbane staked his claim to that position
by writing a 300 page commentary on the Song of
Songs, which the Jewish Publication Society pub-
lished three years ago. He is the Nathan Cummings
Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the Uni-
versity of Chicago, but he has lived in Teaneck since
August. He is edging toward retirement, teaching Dr. Michael Fishbane and his Song of Songs commentary.
two courses in the fall semester. “We came here
to be closer to family at this time in our lives,” he said.
His son Eitan, a professor of Jewish thought at the Jewish
Theological Seminary, lives in Teaneck; another son, Eli-
sha, lives in Highland Park.
Dr. Fishbane’s engagement with the Song of Songs
began when he started teaching at Chicago in 1990, after
a quarter of a century as a student and teacher at Brandeis
University. He started the work leading to the published
commentary more than 15 years ago.
In the interpretation of the Song of Songs, he said,
“you have the entire range of the Jewish tradition filtered
through the dynamics of love and longing and desire, at
the human level, the national level, the covenantal level. I
became captive to its embrace.”
Despite what Rabbi Akiva would have us believe, the
Song of Songs is not just an allegory for God’s love of
Israel. It remains at its heart a human love song. (Dr. Fish-
bane traces its origins to a thousand years of ancient Egyp-
tian and Mesopotamian lyrics.) In fact, Jewish tradition as
it developed in the Middle Ages speaks of four levels of
interpretation. (Contemporary Christian Bible interpret-
ers similarly counted four levels of interpretation, though
the levels were defined differently.)
There is the pshat, the plain meaning, by which the
Song of Songs consists of the dialogue of two besotted lov-
ers, one male, one female, full of ardor but lacking a clear
plot line. There is the drash, the homiletic interpretation
that understands it to be talking about the history of God’s
love for the Jewish people, as preferred by Rabbi Akiva.
There is also the remez, which understands the book as
containing important philosophical or moral teachings.
And there is the sod, the secret, mystical level, particu-
larly beloved by the kabbalists.
These four different levels form the basis of Dr. Fish-
bane’s commentary. He discusses each verse using each
of the four approaches. His goal is for readers “to really
see the dynamic relationships between these four levels
of interpretation,” he said.
Reading the book at the simple level of pshat, as you
do when you are following the synagogue reading in the
Hebrew or in translation, you soon confront the problem
that the book has no clear plot.
That, Dr. Fishbane explains, is because “the text itself is
a series of ancient love lyrics and love dialogues that have
been placed together. If one looks carefully at the original
text and sees it in the light of the love lyrics from which
it’s drawn, you can see that multiple songs have been inte-
grated. There are recurrences, doublets, similar kinds of
repeated episodes. Even at the end, the text has no clo-
sure. It ends with the female beloved asking the male to
flee as they try to negotiate times and places to meet:
‘Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or
to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.’”
But later a narrative was imposed on the text by inter-
preters on the level of drash. After all, if it’s telling the
story of a real event — the love of God for Israel — shouldn’t
it be following the event’s history?
“The first real attempt to try to give this a kind of nar-
rative coherence appears in the targum, an early rabbinic
Aramaic paraphrase and translation,” Dr. Fishbane said.
“They took hundreds and hundreds of instances of inter-
pretation that are found in the midrash and tried to form
a coherent narrative. They created a vision of sacred his-
tory, beginning with the patriarchs going down to Egypt,
coming to Sinai, going into exile, and anticipating the
redemption.”
Later, Rashi built on the targum’s scheme.
Other approaches, particularly certain philosophi-
cal ones, meshed better with looping nature of the text,
“where love is sought and found and frustrated, renegoti- Illumination for the opening verse of Song of Songs,
ated and lost in an ongoing cycle of seeking and finding,” the Rothschild Mahzor, manuscript on parchment.
Dr. Fishbane said. “It has a coherence from that point of Florence, Italy, 1492.
view in terms of the dynamics of love.”
Dr. Fishbane said that there are a number of reasons of the nation.”
why the book came to be associated with Passover. “The Then there is the book’s ninth verse: “I have compared
Song of Songs is in large part talking about the rebirth of thee, O my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.” For those
nature,” he said. “When love is reborn, nature is reborn. reading the book as an allegory for Jewish history, that line
Pesach is the time of the rebirth of nature and the rebirth was identified with the coming out from Egypt.

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Jewish people and the history of the covenant.
“The third level, the philosophical level, deals with It’s not manna from heaven, but this
purifying one’s emotions. What we would today call
self-development or enlightenment, when one tries to Passover, provide something just as crucial
purify one’s mind or consciousness.
And “the mystical level is understood as a kind of to the survival of the Israeli people.
cosmic love song for God’s love for the world,” he said.
“I do have access to all these levels. I try to keep it all
in play.
“Most Jews are not aware of this range, of multiple
options for interpretation. They think a text has to
mean X or Y, that one level is authoritative. I wanted
to open that up.”
Ten years ago, Dr. Fishbane placed the four levels
of interpretation at the center of a book of theology,
“Sacred Attunements.”
“I wanted to use each of these four levels as a way
of cultivating certain attitudes toward the world
and God and the Jewish tradition. Jewish thought is
always interpretive, reinterpreting older texts. Since
these four levels reflect the major mental and spiri-
tual ways the Hebrew Bible was interpreted, I tried to
find out how these levels orient one to the world, to
tradition, to God.”
Dr. Fishbane now is finishing up a new book of the-
ology, following up on “Sacred Attunements,” which
he expects to publish in the next year or so. And he is
working on a project, funded by the Templeton Foun-
dation, to collect chasidic spiritual practices.
“In some cases lists of practices were appended to
the beginning or end of a traditional chasidic work,”
he said. “In other cases they have to be ferreted out
from the massive chasidic literature of sermons and
homilies and records of narratives by students and dis-
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Plug in, tune out, keep Shabbos

GE, OU, and Clifton company give refrigerators their day of rest
LARRY YUDELSON

Zman Technologies of Clifton wants to

give your refrigerator a temporary brain
transplant.
The goal: To make the appliance stu-
pider, and thereby Shabbat-compliant.
The just-unveiled GE Shabbos Keeper,
developed by Zman in partnership with
the Orthodox Union and GE Appliances,
plugs into the RJ-45 jack at the top of your
36-inch French-door refrigerator. The jack
was designed so technicians could plug
into it and debug the computer running
the machine, but the Shabbos Keeper
uses it to patch in and override. Prepro-
grammed with a Jewish calendar, the
Shabbos Keeper knows when it is Shabbat
or yom tov; on those days, it wrests con-
trol of the refrigerator from the computers
that normally control the touch panels and
monitor the heat and run the motors and
turn on and off the lights. It puts the refrig-
erator into a low tech mode that ignores
the buttons, operates on a fixed schedule
regardless of how much an opened door
has heated it up, and — in a bonus touch
— keeps the internal lights on (at a low set-
ting) whether the door is open or closed.
That may sound like a lot of work to
avoid doing a little work on Shabbat. But
the OU maintains this device is necessary
because unscrewing your refrigerator’s
light bulb is no longer sufficient to avoid
desecrating the Sabbath.
Rabbi Tzvi Ortner is the OU’s director of
halacha and technology — a new position
that puts him in charge of the cooperation
between the OU’s rabbis and GE’s engi-
neers. He concedes that simply unscrew-
ing the light bulb worked fine for what he
calls the first generation of refrigerators.
Those refrigerators were electrically sim-
ple. They had a compressor that cools the
refrigerator, they had a light bulb on the
inside that got switched on when the door
was opened, and that was basically that.
Back in the 1950s, there was a debate
among Orthodox rabbis about whether
you could open the refrigerator door when
the compressor was not running. Would
opening the door heat up the interior
enough to cause the motor to start?
“Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi
Aharon Kotler said you should only open
the door when the compressor was on,”
Eli Antebi, Zman’s operations manager,
said. (That was the moderate position.
The liberal position maintained that the
open door’s impact on the motor was too
indirect to worry about. And the arch-tra-
ditionalist sage known as the Chazon Ish
ruled that you shouldn’t open a refrigera-
tor on Shabbat altogether.)
If that was an Orthodox status quo
since the 1950s, the second generation
Rabbi Ortner works with engineers from GE.
of refrigerators raised red flags for a
new generation of Orthodox rabbis. Self-
defrosting refrigerators, Rabbi Ortner
said, don’t just cool. They regularly heat
up to remove the frost. And heating, he
said, is considered a more serious viola-
tion of the Sabbath than just running the
motor. (For those interested in the hala-
chic details: Running the compressor was
considered an issur d’rabanan; heating a
metal coil is considered an issur d’oraita.)
How much you had to worry about this
heat going on every time you opened the
refrigerator door depended on which
model refrigerator you used and which
rabbi you asked.
Then came the current, third genera-
tion of refrigerators, which have as many
as eight computers on board, to monitor
internal temperature and humidity, to run
the ice maker and the water dispenser,
perhaps to control a touch screen — and to
pay particular attention to whenever you
open the refrigerator door.
The Shabbos
Keeper box
“That makes the situation today very
complicated,” Rabbi Ortner said.
All this led to the creation of a “Sab-
bath mode” for refrigerators. Star-K, a
kosher supervision agency based in Bal-
timore, certifies the Sabbath mode for
seven brands of refrigerators. But the Star-
K Sabbath mode primarily dealt with the
defrost cycle. As for the underlying com-
puter control, it relied “on a leniency that
a computer may be utilized as long as the
digital display is not seen,” Rabbi Yair Hoff-
man wrote in the Five Town Jewish Times.
That lenience, he wrote, has been ques-
tioned by many Orthodox halachic author-
ities, some of whom said that having your
actions affect a computer on Shabbat is as
severe a violation as cooking on Shabbat.
The Shabbos Keeper avoids all these
problems by overriding, and disconnect-
ing, the refrigerator’s brains. And because
it uses a pre-programmed 30-year Jewish
calendar, it doesn’t have to be set before
every Shabbat, like the Sabbath mode does.
“I’ve spoken to so many people who use
the Shabbos mode and say they’ve forgot-
ten to set it,” Mr. Antebi said. “They’re on
the way to shul on Friday night and they
remember: ‘Whoops! I forgot to turn on the
Shabbos mode? What do I need to do now?’
“This, once it’s set up, it will take care of
it for you,” he said.
Which brings us to Zman Technology,
and how it came to work with the OU and
GE. The company’s first product, back
around 2014, was a timer for electric
lights. It aimed to improve on such sub-
urban Shabbat staples as the Honeywell
RPLS730B1000/U 7-Day Programmable
Light Switch Timer, which replaces a
light switch and is only $22.66 at Home
Depot. People who have installed such
devices in their dining rooms know the
pleasures of having lights turn off auto-
matically on Friday night and back on
again on Shabbat morning or afternoon.
The device’s drawbacks, however, led
Mr. Antebi and his partners to believe
that there was room for improvement.
For one thing, the timer features a big
switch to turn on and off the light when
you don’t want to use its programmed
mode. Unfortunately, if a guest acciden-
tally leans against it on a Friday night, it’s
lights out. And then there is the obscure
method of programming the device with
only a handful of buttons. Is there a holi-
day coming up so you want to program
the lights for Saturday night too? Do you
want to extend the hours for a late seder?
Prepare to squint and Google the instruc-
tion manual before undertaking the
unpleasant programming task.
The Zman Technology light switch

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solved both these problems. First, it is pro-
grammed with Shabbat and holiday dates
for decades to come. Tell it the date and
your location when you install it, and it
automatically lights up your dining room
on Friday night and keeps them bright
extra late on the night of the seders. Sec-
ond, when it knows it to be Shabbat or
yom tov, it disconnects the switch. Lean
all you like; the lights stay on.
This invention attracted the attention of
the OU.
“We met Rabbi Belsky,” Mr. Antebi said.
That’s Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, who was a
long-time senior kashrut advisor to the OU
until his death in 2016. “He started advo-
cating and pushing us to get into other
Shabbos modes for appliances.” He had
considered refrigerators to be problematic
for a long time.
That led to the development of Zman’s
second product: A timer that a refrigerator
plugs into; on Shabbat or holidays, it turns
the machine off for six minutes four times
an hour. When the machine was turned
off, an LED light would turn on, signaling
that it was safe to open the refrigerator
without fear of violating Shabbat.
With one solution to the Shabbat refrig-
erator in hand, the OU began to raise
awareness of the issue. And it reached out
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Rabbi Ortner with GE CEO Kevin Nolan
to GE to see if it could find a receptive part-
ner to take a deep dive into a refrigerator’s
innards.
“They were ready to give it a try,” Rabbi
Ortner said.
Kevin Nolan, who was GE’s vice presi-
dent of technology before being promoted
to CEO last year, “was very willing and
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very helpful and excited about trying to
work out a solution for the Jewish commu-
nity,” he added.
There were trips back and forth between
the OU’s New York office and GE’s Kentucky
operations. There were weekly conference
calls with the GE engineers, scheduled,
appropriately enough, on Fridays.
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After a year of development the testing
began. That took almost a year. “There
was endless testing to make sure of the
quality of the product — the quality of the
fridge and the quality of the food inside of
the fridge,” Rabbi Ortner said.
Although Zman manufactured the other
devices, GE is making the Shabbos Keeper.
“That will give the user confidence that it
works, that it doesn’t take away the war-
ranty, that it’s foolproof,” Mr. Antebi said.
The Shabbos Keeper is compatible with
110 models of GE refrigerators. It retails for
$150. “The markup is not great,” he added.
“We think it’s going to make big changes in
the way people use appliances
The external refrigerator timer costs
about $120. And the original Zman light
switch is $59. “There’s a big future for
the industry,” Mr. Antebi said. That is, the
industry of adapting computerized appli-
ances for Sabbath observers.
There are other models of refrigerators
that could benefit from similar add-ons.
And then there are ovens and dishwashers.
“People don’t use dishwashers on Shab-
bos, but people like to load dishwashers on
Shabbos,” Mr. Antebi said. “But new dish-
washers have digital indicators, lights that
go on and off when you open the door.”
Stay tuned.
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Jewish Historical Society

of North Jersey gala
The Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey honors Ina
Cohen-Harris at its gala dinner on Wednesday, May 16, at 6
p.m., at Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes.
Ms. Cohen, an educator and dedicated community volun-
teer, will be honored for her commitment to the JHSNJ and for
being instrumental in its success.
All journal ad material must be received by April 9. For
information, call (201) 300-6590.
Ina Cohen-Harris

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Teaneck’s Yonatan Schwartz

Kosher Troops sends
Passover packages to the troops
Simone Wilker, left, and Sara Fuerst, the president of Kosher Troops, pack boxes
of kosher for Passover items that will be delivered to American servicemen and
women at home and abroad. To help with packing or donations, go to www.
KosherTroops.com. Kosher Troops is a 501c(3) non profit organization.
Food donations needed in Wayne
WIN, the Wayne Interfaith Network, a coali-
tion of volunteers from houses of worship
and service organizations in the greater
Wayne area, provides ongoing provisions
of non-perishable foods and other basic
necessities for needy Wayne residents.
Donors can bring bags of non-perish-
able food and other basic necessities,
including paper goods, toiletry items,
and cleaning products, to one of the
drop off areas in town: the Wayne Y (use
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Go to www.winfoodpantry.org for a list
of what the pantry needs the most right
now. Limit donations to regular sizes, not
super sizes, and check that all expiration
dates are current. Plastic or aluminum
containers are preferable to glass. Items
must be non-perishable, with no dents or
cracks in cans or bottles, and no torn or
open boxes or containers.
Anyone who needs supplies from the
WIN food pantry should call the Wayne
receives Genetics Society award
Yeshiva College senior Yonatan males could maintain their fertility.
Schwartz of Teaneck is the first YU My work is now examining if sperm
student to be awarded the Victoria storage over the long term harms
Finnerty undergraduate travel award sperm, or if older males can restart
by the Genetics Society of America. making sperm if they do not have
The award memorializes Finnerty, stored sperm. Our work will help us
a longtime member of the Genetics understand better why male fertil-
Society of America, and her com- ity declines with age and will inform
mitment to teaching and mentoring human fertility counseling and
undergraduates engaged in drosoph- treatment.”
ila research — that is, in genetics stud- He will be headed to the Philadel-
ies using fruit fly models. The award phia research conference to present
covers its winner’s travel costs to his work in April. “This is a fabulous
help them get to the society’s annual opportunity for Yoni to experience a
drosophila research conference. national scientific conference and for
Mr. Schwartz’s research is on the Drosophila community to hear
drosophila melanogaster — aka the about Yoni’s work,” Dr. Josefa Stein-
common fruit fly. “My project inves- hauer, an associate professor of biol-
tigated how aging impacts male fer- ogy, said. “Yoni has worked in my lab
tility,” Mr. Schwartz said. “Previous
studies in the lab found that fertility
since spring 2017, and he is writing
an honors thesis based on his work
declines steadily and progressively this year.” Schwartz will graduate
as males age, but if males were per- from Yeshiva College this spring and
mitted to store sperm, even older is planning to go to medical school.
Norpac hosts Senator Menendez
Last week, Joyce and Daniel
Straus and Zahava and Moshael
Straus hosted a Norpac pro-
Israel event for Senator Robert
Menendez (D-NJ) in Englewood.
Mr. Menendez is the former
chair of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and now
is its ranking member. The
committee is responsible for
most major legislation related
to America’s relationship with
Israel. Mr. Menendez was one Daniel Straus, left, Senator Robert Menendez,
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the Jewish Family Services entrance); the
Wayne Public Library or the Preakness
branch; or the Wayne Municipal Build-
ing. All drop-offs should be made during
building hours.
People who are moving or doing spring
cleaning should consider donating their
non-expired food to the food pantry.
Township’s director of senior and social
services at (973) 694-1800, ext. 3281.
Groups and organizations planning to
collect food and other basic necessities
should first call (973) 595-1900. Donation
can be made by check or money order
mailed to the Wayne Interfaith Network,
POB 3341, Wayne, NJ 07474-3341.
in his party to vote against the
Iran deal in 2015. He also is a cosponsor
of the Taylor Force Act, which would cut
off American funding to the Palestinian
Authority for funds they give to the fami-
lies of dead terrorists.
In Englewood, Mr. Menendez
discussed his recent meeting with Ben-
jamin Netanyahu and his appearance at
AIPAC’s policy conference.
Mr. Menendez is serving his second
term in the U.S. Senate and will run for
re-election this year.

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Norpac sponsors a pro-Israel event in Closter for Congress-
man Ron Estes (R-KS) and hosted by the Kazmir family, on
Sunday, March 25, at 6 p.m. Event chairs are Drs. Munr and
Sundes Kazmir.
For additional information or to RSVP, email
Avi@NORPAC.net or call (201) 788-5133.
Teaneck artist-in-residence weekend
Temple Emeth in Teaneck recently held
an artist-in-residence weekend featur-
ing Jonatas Chimen Dias DaSilva-Bena-
yon, a Brazilian-American symbolist
artist, author, and academic. (The week-
end was the subject of a recent Jewish
Remembering Leonard Bernstein
Rita Lerner of Englewood Cliffs, second
from left, and her family were at the
opening of “Leonard Bernstein: The
Power of Music” at the National Museum
of American Jewish History in Philadel-
phia on March 14. Ms. Lerner’s sister,
Vivian Reisman, is to her left, and her
daughter, Samantha Silverman, and
her son, Jason Lerner, are on the right
side of the photo. The family also got to
meet Leonard Bernstein’s son Alexan-
der Bernstein.
Ms. Lerner’s family is standing in front
of a photograph showing an orchestra
made up of concentration camp sur-
vivors. Leonard Bernstein is on the far
right, in the white shirt and tie. Next
to him is Ms. Lerner’s aunt, Fania Dur-
mashkin Beker; her uncle, Max Beker, is
two down. Ms. Lerner’s mother, Henia
COURTESY NORPAC
Rep. Ron Estes
Harriet Bograd, left,
president of Kulanu,
Jonatas Chimen, and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu.
BARBARA BALKIN
Standard cover story.) Mr. Chimen is a
featured speaker for Kulanu (“all of us”
in Hebrew), group that supports iso-
lated, emerging, and returning Jewish
communities around the world.
Durmashkin, stands to the left of her in
the background photo, wearing a blazer.
The night before the Philadelphia
opening, there was a cocktail reception
for the exhibit in Manhattan’s Steinway
Hall. Ms. Lerner spoke about Leonard
Bernstein and her mother and the ex-
concentration camp orchestra.
The Leonard Bernstein exhibition in
Philadelphia has testimony from Ms.
Lerner’s mom, who was talking about
the time when Leonard Bernstein came
to conduct the orchestra and she sang
the song “Ghetto.” The exhibit also has
artifacts borrowed from the Museum
of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust, including a program
and poster.
Ms. Lerner’s cousin Sonia, Fania and
Max’s daughter, also was at the opening.
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Cover Story
Making the
summer even better
Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Shmira Initiative
highlights Leaders’ Conference
Joanne Palmer
S
ummer camp is an entirely
immersive experience.
That is a jargon-y way of saying
that when you are a child or a teen-
ager or a young staff member, and you’re
in camp, camp is your entire world. It sur-
rounds you; you breathe it and you move
through it and it coats your skin and it’s all
you see and hear and touch and feel and
know. While you’re at camp, nothing else
matters except vaguely; if camp works for
you as it does for so many campers, the rest
of the year is a countdown toward camp.
Jewish summer camping is one of the
most effective ways of teaching and social-
izing and orienting young Jews. During
the time they’re at camp, Jewish camp-
ers at Jewish camps live entirely Jewishly.
26 Jewish Standard March 23, 2018
Their parents can choose from a range of
Jewish camps — Orthodox, Conservative,
Reform, Zionist, progressive, Yiddish-
ist, artsy, sporty — and their children will
come home with an understanding of that
part of the Jewish world bonded at the
molecular level.
The Foundation for Jewish Camp (not
Camping, or Camps, just plain stark
Camp) understands that and supports
that range of Jewish camps. This week, the
foundation held its seventh biennial con-
ference, the Leaders Assembly; this year,
it met in Baltimore.
The camp leaders, educators, and foun-
dation heads who met there explored the
interplay of camp and the outside world,
which waits right outside every camp’s
borders. This year, “we had just shy of
800 people,” the Foundation for Jewish
Camp’s executive director, Jeremy Finger-
man of Englewood, said. “At this confer-
ence we unveiled a new initiative to pre-
vent harassment and abuse and bullying
and inappropriate language and behavior
in camp communities.”
The Foundation plans to spend
$100,000 on what it calls the Shmira Ini-
tiative, to “change camp culture on all lev-
els, implementing a shift in staff program-
ming, training, policy and enforcement
around issues of gender, sex and power,”
according to its press release.
Shmira means guard duty; in Jewish
summer camps, it’s the counselors’ job,
making sure that their charges are safe at
night. The Foundation will take that term
from the literal to the metaphoric level
as it “embodies the social and individual
responsibility every community member
has to ensure a safe environment.”
So what does that mean?
“We believe that our mission at the
Foundation is to help the field adapt to
rapid, unprecedented change,” Mr. Fin-
german said. “We are helping to create
camp communities that reflect the best of
Jewish values.
“Right now, in North America, we have
been experiencing a breakthrough of con-
sciousness of sex and gender and power
and violence, and for sure there has
been a new spotlight shining on power
and exploitation,” he said. “These issues
affect all our communities, and we have
to address them. Working in partnership
with parents and authorities and all our
Jewish institutions, we believe that we
really have a chance to define what pre-
vention and response plans are, and to
 Cover Story

Scenes from camp; at left,

welcoming Shabbat at URJ
Camp Harlam in Pennsylvania;
at right, the Special Olympics at
the JCC Camp Chi in Chicago.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY FJC

lead the discussion of cultural changes in Jeanette Weinberg Foundation; and Deb-
our community.” orah Meyer, CEO of Moving Traditions.
To begin, he continued, “We will raise (Irrelevant but totally fun fact — Ms. Platt is
the awareness of camps as they go through the mother of actor Ben Platt of Dear Evan
their staff programming to create camps Hansen, who has credited Camp Ramah in
that are caring and safe. This is
something we have been talking
about for a while.”
It is important to remem-
ber that the problems that the We have gone to
Shmira Initiative will address
are not unique to camps, he
camps to train the
added. They’re culturally perva- staff, who are mainly
sive, and to some extent they’re
generational — millennials feel
teenagers or young
pressured in ways that their adults, on issues of
elders did not, and the genera-
tion below them, the iGen, as
body image, bullying,
Mr. Fingerman called them, who sexuality, and the
are today’s campers and young
staffers, feel that even more
pressure to hook up.
profoundly. It’s complicated.
And although the problems Deborah Meyer Campers at Ramah in the Poconos celebrate Israel Day.
the initiative is set to tackle are
society-wide, “we had a panel, moder- Ojai, California, as one of the places where address this issue in an important way.” up,” Ms. Meyer said. It’s complicated.
ated by our board chair, of foundation he began to refine his craft. Don’t miss “Moving Traditions has been focused For one thing, campers and counsel-
heads, powerhouses in the Jewish world,” the YouTube video of him on Late Night on moral development issues for a long ors live in the outside world, they bring
come to talk and to offer help. Those lead- with Seth Meyers, singing “Luck Be a Lady time,” Ms. Meyer said. “How do we help the attitudes they learn in that world, or
ers included the Foundation’s own new Tonight” from Guys and Dolls in Hebrew; understand who we are? We have been online, with them to camp, Ms. Meyer said.
board chair, Julie Beren Platt, Lisa Eisen, he learned it, he said, by playing Sky Mas- working with experts on healthy sexuality For another, what she called “the pressure
vice president of the Charles and Lynn terson at a Ramah production.) programs for years.” to hook up” often can be reframed as the
Schusterman Family Foundation; Barry “I am so proud they came to our con- Now, “we have gone to camps to train communal desire to have young Jews date
Finestone, president and CEO of the Jim ference,” Mr. Fingerman said. “I am so the staff, who are mainly teenagers or each other, which is in itself a good thing.
Joseph Foundation; Rachel Garbow Mon- proud that they can see that we in the field young adults, on issues of body image, bul- “But on the other hand it can be inappro-
roe, president and CEO of the Harry and of Jewish camp really want to step up and lying, sexuality, and the pressure to hook priate and problematic,” she said, insofar

Jewish Standard March 23, 2018 27

y Cover Story

A panel discussion features, from left, Julie Beren Platt; Lisa Eisen, Barry Finestone,
Deborah Meyer Rachel Garbow Monroe, and Deborah Meyer. Jeremy Fingerman

as it pushes often age-inappropriate sexu-
ality on kids who are not yet ready for it.
“We have come to understand that more
in the last few years.”
Any kid — any person — who has access
to a computer — in other words, just about
everyone — sees deeply disturbing things
that they cannot fit into their understand-
ing of the world, and it can be warping.
“Any kid who has a smart device today is
seeing pornography, either looking for it
or stumbling across it,” Ms. Meyer said.
“And they are freaked out by it. We have
had boys say, ‘Do I have to choke a girl?’
What they see is so aberrant.
“And girls don’t know that sex is some-
thing that they can enjoy. They learn online
that sex is something that girls and women
do for boys and men. They don’t know that
it’s intimacy, that they do for and with each
other, and they do it for love.
“That is where Jewish values come in,”
she said. “We don’t want to say that the
body is bad.” And camp is embodied.”
It’s physical; it’s not a disembodied intel-
lectual experience. “You are living there,
all summer long, inside your body. It’s an
opportunity to teach the right values. “Sex-
uality is about intimacy,” she said. “You
don’t get a kiss, or steal a kiss. You kiss with
somebody.” It’s about choice and caring.
When Moving Traditions works with staff-
ers, either as they get to camp to prepare for
the summer or once camp has started, there
is a two-step process. “The first part is when
the staffers find out about the camp’s stated

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We are looking at how to create a
community that is based on ethical,
respectful, positive behavior.
policies and the second part is when they
talk about how things really happen,” Ms.
Meyer said. “They find out that they have
great policies and values but they are not
always fulfilled.” Sometimes the language
of teasing can be hurtful; “the words can
be homophobic or gender stereotypes,
and full of body image objectification.
And it is not conscious.”
What does she mean? For example,
campers often are encouraged to pair
off for Shabbat walks; when a boy gets
back to his bunk, his friends “might put
a chair in the middle of the room, and he
is asked to sit there and tell them exactly
what happened on the walk.” Hand-
holding, kissing, the sort of intimacy
that is appropriate for teenagers but not
meant to be shared with anyone else.
“It is not a conscious thing,” Ms. Meyer
said. “It is not as if they are pushing boys
to push girls to have sex. But it comes out
of their tradition, out of the camp culture
that has developed over many decades.
“It is inappropriate,” she said. “This
counselor may be a 19-year-old and this
is what happened to him when he was
in this camp. He might not remember
that not all boys want to do this. It is not
coming from a place of venality, or of
consciously trying to pursue an agenda.
He would have thought that it was funny
and sweet.” But it’s not.
These exercises help the staff assess
the differences between the camp’s
beliefs, policies, and goals, and the real-
ity of camp life. The fact that it falls short
isn’t shocking — it’s a human institution
— but pointing it out helps staffers keep
their real goals and values in mind.
“We work with counselors to help
them see the issues for themselves, and
then we help them figure out how to
approach the kids,” Ms. Meyer said.
“In the earlier grades, we find that
crushes are kind of pushes. This is an
unconscious agenda, not a planned cur-
riculum, but somehow the culture fos-
ters the ‘Who do you have a crush on?
Who do you want to be a couple with?’
when you are 8 or 9. But you’re not nec-
essarily interested then, so why push it?
Even when the kids get older, how do
we foster a healthy sexuality?
“When I say sexuality, I am not just
talking about intercourse,” she added. “I
am talking about feelings. Feeling inter-
ested. Feeling excited. For most people,
this starts happening around puberty,
and we want to be able to acknowledge
it and celebrate it, and also set bound-
aries around what is ethical and what is
normal and what is not.
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are paying attention to these things,” Ms. Rabbi Menachem Genack Mrs. Atara Segal
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across the country that really want to
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Jewish World
Malcolm Hoenlein says his role with Israeli gas giant
is ‘completely transparent’
BEN SALES
M
alcolm Hoenlein, the profes-
sional head of one of Ameri-
can Jewry’s most influential
organizations and a board
member of a large Israeli energy company,
told JTA that he sees no conflict between
those roles.
Hoenlein is executive vice chairman
of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, an
umbrella group that speaks for more than
50 Jewish groups on foreign policy, includ-
ing issues related to Israel. Since June, he
also has been on the board of directors of
Delek Drilling, a private company that is a
major stakeholder in Israel’s large offshore
natural gas fields.
His role in the company has come under
scrutiny after the Forward reported last
week that the Presidents Conference has
been active on issues relevant to Delek
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Theater
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30 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 23, 2018
operations. The article also said that con-
stituent groups of the Presidents Confer-
ence did not know about Hoenlein sitting
on the Delek board.
Since that story’s publication, two large
constituent groups, the Union for Reform
Judaism and the American Jewish Com-
mittee, said they are seeking more trans-
parency about his activities outside of the
Presidents Conference.
But Hoenlein insists that he and the
Presidents Conference leadership have
been transparent.
“It was announced in a big newspaper
story,” he said in a phone interview with
JTA on Friday, referring to his appoint-
ment as a Delek director. “It was no secret.
This was nothing other than completely
transparent.” Malcolm Hoenlein, right, is with Ronald Lauder at the Apollo Theater in Manhat-
The Forward article suggested a pos- tan on March 16, 2011.  SHAHAR AZRAN/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES
sible conflict of interest between Hoen-
lein’s role at the energy company and his president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Sisi’s gov- deal to buy energy from Delek and Noble
positive assessments of Egypt’s autocratic ernment recently signed a $15 billion Energy, which control the natural gas field.
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The story also noted Hoenlein’s advo- in negotiating the deal among Delek, before accepting the post — as he had done it could have on the important work of the
cacy of stronger ties between Israel and Noble and Egypt. He also holds no Delek when he accepted board positions at other Conference of Presidents.”
Cyprus and Greece, which he calls a “Med- stock, he told JTA, though its board mem- companies. The Presidents Conference announced
iterranean alternative” to the Jewish state’s bers do receive compensation. “You don’t think it’s a tribute?” Hoenlein last month, weeks before the Forward
hostile neighbors. A pipeline from the nat- “There were no contradictions,” he said. asked of being offered the board position. story, that Hoenlein would begin the pro-
ural gas fields to Turkey, the article said, “Quite the opposite. This enhances our “That it’s a recognition on the part of the cess of stepping aside as CEO of the orga-
would run through Cypriot waters. role and our understanding of the region.” business world that we have executives nization as the group seeks “an executive
Hoenlein told JTA that the meetings he The Forward spoke with a few Presi- they respect and think are worthy? I com- to assume responsibility for the Confer-
and his group have long held with Middle dents Conference members who said they pletely disclosed this.” ence’s ongoing operations and activities,”
Eastern leaders have no relation to his did not know Hoenlein sat on the Delek Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the but that he would stay on in a capacity still
position at Delek. His support for Sisi and board. Hoenlein did not send a notice to Union for Reform Judaism, said there did to be determined. He has held the post for
Cyprus predate his appointment as a Delek members when he accepted the position. not appear to be anything untoward in 32 years, in that time becoming one of the
director. He said he uses those meetings to But he said his appointment was pub- the arrangement, though transparency at most important interlocutors between the
improve relations between the Arab world lic knowledge, as it had been reported the Presidents Conference was an issue. Jewish establishment and both Washing-
and Israel, and that other Presidents Con- in several Israeli and American business “We continue to be concerned about the ton and Jerusalem.
ference members are also present at them. newspapers. lack of transparency at the Conference of Asked what prompted his decision
The work with Greece and Cyprus, he said, A Google search found mentions of his Presidents,” Jacobs said in a statement in Hoenlein, 74, told JTA on Friday that
also involves Greek-American leaders and appointment on an undated stock market response to JTA. “However we have no rea- he wanted to make the move before the
B’nai B’rith, the Jewish group. information page maintained by Reuters, son to believe there is any wrongdoing.” group chooses a new chair, a process that
Hoenlein is seen as an ally of Israeli as well as a Feb. 5 Bloomberg article on The American Jewish Committee will begin soon, because he did not want
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel-Turkey relations. The most promi- praised Hoenlein, but said it is seeking the decision to be seen as a rebuke of the
as a backchannel to regional heads of state. nent of the mentions was a June 29 arti- more information about the effect of his new chair.
“We’ve been doing it for more than 20 cle in the Israeli publication the Marker, role at Delek. “We have always had great “It’s not because I’m tired,” he said. “I
years,” he said regarding Presidents Con- which appears in Hebrew, declaring that respect and appreciation for Malcolm’s have more energy than almost anyone. I
ference meetings with Arab leaders. “I’ve Delek was acquiring a new director “who indefatigable role in the life of the Jewish did it because I just wanted to do the right
only been on the [Delek] board since is well connected to the high places — in people,” the AJC said in a statement shared thing ... I wanted to do it before we started
June.... We don’t have negotiations. We Israel and the United States — and no less with the Forward. “That said, we were pre- electing a chair. I like all the candidates,
talk about the issues. People are always so in Arab countries.” viously unaware of his membership on the and it has nothing to do with that. I didn’t
present at these meetings who can tell you Hoenlein also said he cleared the board of Delek Drilling. We are now seek- want it to appear as if I am casting asper-
what we did say.” appointment with the Presidents Con- ing to understand the significance of that sions on the next chairperson.”
Hoenlein added that he played no part ference chairman, Stephen Greenberg, connection and what impact, if any at all,  JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Exiled opposition leader from Maduro’s Venezuela

draws strength from Jewish roots
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON — David Smolansky has become the exiled
face of the resistance to the regime of Venezuelan Presi-
dent Nicolas Maduro.
It doesn’t take long to realize why the major media con-
stantly seeks him out for commentary on the repressive
socialist regime and its collapsing economy. Smolansky,
32, has packed a lot into his young life.
A journalist and former student activist, he is the young-
est mayor in his country’s history. When he realized last
year that he was targeted for arrest for his politics, he
adopted a false identity, shaved his beard, put on a flat
hat, and cleared 35 checkpoints before making it into the
jungles of Brazil.
And this keeps cropping up in his interviews: Political
exile runs in his family.
“My grandparents left the Soviet Union in 1927, my
nation’s capital. “They have been my inspiration,” he said
of his father and grandfather. “They had to flee a country
twice and bounce back.”
Both of Smolansky’s grandparents left what is now
Ukraine because of anti-Semitism and the privations of
living in the Soviet Union. They met in Cuba and married,
starting a clothing business. They could not withstand the
pressures on business brought by the Castro regime, and
in 1970 left for a brief stay in Mexico before moving on
to Venezuela. “They didn’t have any freedom,” he said.
“My family’s house [in Cuba] is now a ‘Center for Social-
ist Policy.’”
His grandparents died in 1989, when he was 3. His mem-
ory of his grandfather, Naum, is the pleasure he took in
taking his grandson to a nearby bakery; breadlines in the
Soviet Union led him to cherish the freedom to get bread David Smolansky, a leader in exile of Venezuela’s
whenever he liked. opposition, is in Washington, D.C., on March 12, 2018.
Now his father, José Smolansky, lives in Venezuela  Ron Kampeas

father left Cuba in 1970, so I am the third generation of
Smolanskys who’ve had to leave a country because of a
totalitarian regime,” he told the BBC in December. “I’m
the third generation that has had to emigrate,” he told
Reuters last month.
JTA met with Smolansky this week at a think tank off of
K Street, the corridor for think tanks and lobbyists in the
under the watchful eye of the regime. “He is a victim of
his son being forced to leave,” Smolansky said.
Smolansky’s party, Popular Will, grew out of grass-
roots efforts in the mid-2000s to resist sweeping changes
to constitutional law proposed by Maduro’s late men-
tor, the authoritarian leftist Hugo Chavez, that seemed
to be aimed at stifling opposition. Many of Popular Will’s
leaders were mayors. Its leader, Leopoldo López, now is
under house arrest.
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2009, and four years later, at 28, he easily won his bid to
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He said his Jewish roots always have
been fodder for his attackers. “I have
been accused of being the boss of Zion-
ism in Venezuela, I was accused of being
trained by the Mossad,” he said of the
Israeli intelligence agency. “The walls of
my house were covered in graffiti, ‘Zion-
ist shit.’ It’s awful to see people on social
media refer to me as a ‘shitty Jew.’”
Smolansky does not identify as fully
Jewish — he says he had a Jewish and
Catholic upbringing (his mother, Marilia
Urosa de Smolansky, is a Roman Catho-
lic). But he said it played a role in shap-
ing him; he misses being with his father
on Yom Kippur.
“I go with my father to synagogue”
on the Jewish Day of Atonement and
twice, Smolansky said, he fasted with
his father. “It’s a very special day, you
separate from almost everybody, you
are with yourself and you think on the
last year,” he said.
He frets at the diminishing numbers
of the Jewish community in his coun-
try, saying that it now numbers no more
than 10,000, down from what Smolan-
sky and some other observers say was
30,000 before Chavez came to power in
1998.
Smolansky, who is not married, is a
visiting scholar at Georgetown University
here. He is researching security for citi-
zens, with an emphasis on the status of
Caracas as one of the most violent cities
in the world and the dangers that Ven-
ezuela’s government poses to the region,
in part because of its ties to Hezbollah,
the Lebanese terrorist militia allied with
Iran. Venezuela’s proximity, Smolansky
Brief
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her luggage.
Dalia Hadad, from Beersheva, told Kan
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her luggage when she arrived at Baku air-
port belonged to her daughter, who had
used the luggage when she was in basic
training in the Israel Defense Forces.
Hadad told interviewers that while
she was detained and ordered to remain
in the country, she was treated well by
Azerbaijani authorities and not jailed for
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the American Israel Public Affairs Com-
mittee, which he found “interesting.”
He wants Israel to speak out: Since its
relations with Venezuela are precarious
and Israel has vacated its embassy in
the Latin American country, Smolansky
asks: What has it got to lose?
“It will be important to have a state-
ment,” he said.
Above all, unlike his parents and
grandparents, Smolansky insists his exile
is not permanent.
“I don’t want to be disconnected from
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discovered with bullets in Egypt, India,
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Last year, 19 Israelis were detained
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loose bullets, typically in bags they used
in the army.
Another Israeli, Elli Avraham, also
was released from Azerbaijan in recent
days, after being detained for more than
two months for traveling with five bul-
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In a statement, the foreign ministry
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A happy and kosher Pesach to all!

The Polychrome
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Jacob Freedman (Author)
Tzvee Zahavy (Foreword)
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But Israel was the star.
The International Homeland Defense
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this Gulf Coast city, far from any Jewish
population center, in a state the local
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panies showed up, along with a del-
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arms industry. And speakers, especially
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stop talking about it.
Bryant, a Republican, credited a
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at in Israel in 2016 as the inspiration
for this one. One of the first pictures he
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mandant, said of Israel that “there’s
no better example of a country that
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ist said “Israel is literally our anchor in
the Middle East.” Israelis spoke on two
panels, and at a news conference the
governor invited a few Israeli officials
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military officers.
The Israeli delegation featured com-
panies specializing in security technol-
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U.S. market and introduce themselves
to local officials and private companies.
One tool, Smart Shooter, promises
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security sensor system that’s used on
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“If there’s anyone that knows about
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Israel and Mississippi also share cultural similarities,
said Lior Haiat, Israel’s consul general for the region, Assisted Living & Memory Care
who is based in Florida. Its population of fewer than
3 million makes it intimate like Israel. And the high
percentage of soldiers and veterans makes military
service a familiar and appreciated part of life, as it is
in Israel, where there’s a mandatory draft.
“It’s very similar because Mississippi is a very small
place where work is very centralized,” Haiat said. “The
governor knows all of the key players personally, and
he personally opens the door for Israeli companies.”
In his closing speech at the conference, Bryant said:
“Should there come a day when there will be a threat,
and it will, we will have friends around the world. We
are preparing ourselves in the event that that terror
attack does occur.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Prenatal vitamins markedly lower autism Technion analysts: Cats could

risk, according to Israeli researchers
A four-year study of tens of thousands of Israeli children
has concluded that mothers who take folic acid and multi-
vitamins before and during pregnancy are at a significantly
lower risk of giving birth to children with autism than
women who do not.
Professor Stephen Levine of the University of Haifa’s com-
munity mental-health department led a study from 2003 to
2007 investigating the prescription data for the mothers of
45,300 Israeli children. By 2015, 572 of these children were
diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Mothers who took folic acid, multivitamins, or both
before pregnancy were 61 percent less likely to give birth to
an autistic child, according to the study. When women took
the supplements during pregnancy, that number jumped to
73 percent. The results were published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association Psychiatry.
Vitamin deficiencies in mothers long have been associ-
ated with neural defects, and pregnant women are advised
to take folic acid and multivitamins. But research has not
been conclusive as to whether the supplements can affect
autism risk.
In an interview with Reuters Health, Levine emphasized
that “factors before pregnancy may be a target for further
scrutiny to reduce the likelihood of autism.”
Autism now affects one out of every 160 children in the
world, according to the World Health Organization. JNS.ORG
help in development
of anti-HIV drugs for humans
Researchers at the Technion–Israel Institute of Tech-
nology in Haifa have uncovered the mechanism that
enables Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, or FIV, pro-
teins to become drug-resistant—a phenomenon not yet
observed in the AIDS-causing HIV-1 virus, which affects
millions of people worldwide.
While FIV does not infect humans, it is widely
researched to benefit cats. More important are its par-
allels with the AIDS virus.
The virus is transmitted between male street cats,
primarily via saliva. Like in humans, the virus involves
immune impairment and the inability to fight off
infections, diseases and cancer. Because highly simi-
lar viruses cause FIV and HIV, researchers hope that
the findings could lead to the development of anti-HIV
drugs that could preempt future strains of drug-resis-
tant AIDS viruses.
This phenomenon of FIV-protein drug resistance,
which inhibits the same protein in HIV-1, puzzled sci-
entists until now.
According to an American Technion Society press
release, Assistant Professor Akram Alian and Dr.
Meytal Galilee from the Technion biology faculty have
shown the 3D structure of this protein in the FIV and
used it to uncover the mechanistic basis of viral resis-
tance to anti-reverse transcriptase drugs.
Their findings, published recently in PLOS Patho-

Is your gens, show that the FIV protein forms a closed pocket
that blocks the drugs from effective binding.

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captain of the Iranian national team and I show it can
be different.”
Buzaglo posted a picture of himself sitting on a table
with Ashkan Dejagah, Iran’s national team captain.
Dejagah refused to play with the German Under 21
team in Israel in 2007, but said he had declined out of
fear that he would be jailed by the regime if he ever
went back to Iran.
Iran does not recognize Israel, and forbids all of its
athletes and coaches from competing against Israelis.
Earlier this month, the head of Iran’s wrestling fed-
eration resigned due to Iran’s policy of throwing wres-
tling matches against Israelis. In February, an Israeli
judoka won a bronze medal at the Dusseldorf Grand
Slam competition after his Iranian opponent intention-
ally gained weight to avoid competing with the Israeli
in his weight class.
In August, two Iranian soccer players were booted
from the national team for competing against an Israeli
team during their professional careers in the Greek
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The first Torah reading in orbit
and 5 other fun facts about Jews in space
JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
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he Torah tells how God cre-
ated the earth and the heav-
ens, although the stories that
follow tell us more about the
former than the latter. A new exhibit
doesn’t quite answer theological ques-
tions about space, but it does show the
ways in which Jews have looked at, writ-
ten about and traveled into the final
frontier.
“Jews in Space: Members of the Tribe
in Orbit,” named after a Mel Brooks gag,
is an exhibit organized and on view at
the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
and the Center for Jewish History in
Manhattan. It features both Yiddish and
Hebrew books on astronomy and astrol-
ogy, science fiction works created by
Jews, and sections on the history of Jew-
ish astronauts.
JTA was given a tour by Eddy Portnoy,
YIVO’s senior researcher and director
of exhibitions, who curated the collec-
tion with Melanie Meyers, and learned
about some of the unusual and unex-
pected relationship between Jews and
the cosmos.
1. This book of horoscopes was writ-
ten in Yiddish.
Published in 1907 in Odessa, Ukraine,
“The Revealer of That Which Is Hidden:
A New Practical Book of Fate” gave Yid-
dish readers a way to learn about their
futures by way of astrology. Much like
Mission specialist Judith Resnik sends a message to her father from the
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a modern-day horoscope, the book a Brooklyn native who was born in 1944, Jewish origins.
offered predictions based on the read- brought a scaled-down Torah with him and Actor Leonard Nimoy used an unlikely
er’s zodiac sign. Similar books existed did the first Torah reading outside of Earth. source of inspiration for his character
in both Yiddish and Hebrew during the He also had a set of Jewish ritual items spe- Spock’s iconic Vulcan salute, which consists
period, but rabbinic authorities were cially made for his trip, including a mezuzah of a raised hand with the middle and ring
not thrilled, since astrology is banned with a Velcro strip that he would attach to fingers parted into a V. The gesture looks
by Jewish law (although zodiac symbols his bunk and a prayer shawl with weights to just like the one kohanim do in synagogue
have shown up as synagogue decora- keep it from floating away in zero-gravity. He when they make the priestly blessing. In
tions for at least 1,500 years). Despite also brought a menorah to celebrate Chanu- his autobiography, Nimoy explained that
that, Jews at the time continued to read kah, although he was never able to actually he had copied the Jewish gesture, which he
horoscopes as well as seek other ways of light it aboard the spacecraft. had seen in a synagogue as a child (it also
predicting the future, such as by going to 4. The Vulcan salute on “Star Trek” has SEE JEWS IN SPACE PAGE 43
psychics and reading tea leaves.
2. The first Jewish American to go into
space was a woman.
Judith Resnik became the first Jew-
ish American and second Jew (Soviet
astronaut Boris Volynov was the first)
to go into space when she flew on the
maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Dis-
covery in 1984. Born in 1949 to Jewish
immigrants from Ukraine who settled in
Ohio, Resnik worked as an engineer at
the Xerox Corp. before being recruited
to NASA in a program to diversify its
workforce. Resnik was only the fourth
woman to do so. She died in 1986 along
with the rest of the crew of the space
shuttle Challenger when the spacecraft
broke apart shortly after takeoff.
3. In 1985, a Jewish-American astro-
naut read from the Torah in space.
Jeffrey Hoffman, the first Jewish-
American man to go into space, con-
sulted a rabbi on how to observe Juda-
ism on his first trip, in 1985. Hoffman,
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honor her by naming the character after the topic of her work, the
archive and research center on Eastern European Jewish life founded
in Vilna in 1925.
6. A Jewish immigrant to the U.S. helped popularize science fiction.
Hugo Gernsback, a Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg, is some-
times called “the father of science fiction” for publishing a magazine
that helped popularize the genre. Launched in 1926, “Amazing Stories”
featured tales of aliens, robots, and other beings, including some writ-
ten by Gernsback himself. His magazine brought science fiction — a
term he coined — to the mainstream, and inspired many writers, such
as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Jewish-American duo that created
Superman. Gernsback left “Amazing Stories” in 1929, although it held
on in one form or another until 2005. Among the Jewish writers who
had their first stories published in the magazine were Isaac Asimov Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman signals directions
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and prosper” (the kohanim’s blessing begins “May God
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Passover

Preparing for Passover Kosher for Passover

Over the last few weeks, as we continue to help our readers prepare for Passover,
at Teaneck Stop & Shop
the Jewish Standard has published information about community seders, recipes, Rabbi Chaim Poupko, members
and lots of ideas for the holiday, which begins this year at sundown on Friday, of the Teaneck Jewish commu-
March 30, and ends on Saturday, April 7. Check local synagogues and community nity, and representatives of the
organizations for seders near you. If you missed any information, feel free to call kosher food industry gathered at
Beth Chananie at the Jewish Standard at (201) 837-8818, ext. 110. the Teaneck Stop & Shop to dis-
cuss the growth in the number
of kosher for Passover products.
Manischewitz launches first The number of kosher for Pass-
over products has more than dou-
pre-sliced frozen gefilte fish bled since 2012 in the $1.3 billion
The Manischewitz Company, the largest marketer of kosher for Passover food industry.
kosher foods in North America, is offering pre-sliced According to Martin Siegel, a
frozen gefilte fish. The new product is available at select vice president of supermarket Mollie Fish, a 60-year Teaneck resident,
kosher grocery stores and at select ShopRite and Stop & sales for Kayco, the largest kosher is joined by Teaneck Stop & Shop’s store
Shop locations. The new product will cut down the 1 1/2 food distributor in the nation, manager, Joe Gondek, left, and Rabbi Chaim
hour cooking time to just 15 minutes. “the kosher food industry is meld- Poupko, the president of the Rabbinical
The gluten-free fish is kosher for Passover and year- ing tradition with modern tastes, Council of Bergen County, as she does her
round, and comes in a 20-ounce resealable bag. It is sensing a change in the market. Passover shopping. She says she was amazed
certified kosher by both the Orthodox Union and Rabbi The industry is rolling out eclectic by the thousands of Passover items in Stop &
Shmuel Teitelbaum of the Tartikov Bet Din, giving it broad offerings transforming Passover.” Shop’s Passover aisle. PHOTO PROVIDED

appeal among all segments of the kosher market. Among the most unusual prod-
ucts that Passover shoppers will find this
year: seaweed snacks, frozen riced cau-
liflower, coconut chews, jarred aspara-
Passover minyans in Paterson gus, gluten-free cinnamon matzah, and
lasagna noodles.
The bottom line, Rabbi Poupko added,
is that “the 2018 Passover aisle is not your
grandmother’s Passover aisle.”

The Paterson Shul at the Federation Apartments is seeking help in making Passover
minyans. The shul at 510 E. 27th Street (corner of 12th Ave.), is holding services for
Passover on two Saturdays, March 31 and April 7, at 9 a.m. Both days, a chometz-free
Flourless chocolate dessert
kiddush will follow services. For more information, go to www.PatersonShul.com. for Pesach and all year round
Waltraud Unger of Glen Rock, a member rich, chocolatey dessert that didn’t add a
Kosher for Passover Shabbat dinner of Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood, is a
board-certified health and lifestyle coach.
ton of sugar or carbs to our plate, since my
husband and I are avoiding dairy and glu-
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake offers “Chefs’ Night Out” She shares this recipe with our readers. ten.” The result is below.
on Friday, April 6. It’s a kosher for Passover Shabbat dinner at 6:30 p.m. The dinner She said, “Recently I was looking for a
offers a break from eating more seder leftovers. All are welcome For reservations,
call (201) 391-0801.
Chocolate Tart with
Hazelnut Crust
By Waltraud R. Unger
serves 16

From last year’s Big Bread Burn 
Big Bread Burn in Teaneck
The annual Big Bread Burn, named this
year for the Jewish Center of Teaneck’s
congregant Elizabeth Sher, who had
been active in all the previous big bread
burns, and died in December, is set for
Friday, March 30, from 9 a.m. to noon.
As in the past, the Teaneck Fire
Department will have fire trucks in the
JCT parking lot for a photo op for all
the kids who come to burn their small
bags of chometz. The Jewish Center of
MICHAEL LAVES
Teaneck, in partnership with Heichal
HaTorah, along with many synagogues
and other local Jewish organizations,
will give out red fire chief hats and Stre-
its kosher for Passover lollipops to all
attendees.
Chometz must be in paper bags.
They’ll be thrown into the dumpster.
To be a volunteer, greeting the attend-
ees and distributing the free items, email
Sigi Laster at sigilaster@verizon.net.
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups whole hazelnuts
1/2 cup coconut flour
(Lieber’s makes a KP one)
3 tablespoons maple syrup, divided
1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
7 ounces dark chocolate chips
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 (13 1/2) ounce can Lieber’s coconut
milk (don’t use reduced fat)
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon coconut oil to grease
tart pan
unsweetened cacao powder to garnish
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a
10 inch tart pan with removable bottom
with coconut oil. In a food processor,
pulse the hazelnuts until finely ground,
about 20 pulses. Add coconut flour and
1 tablespoon maple syrup and pulse 4
to 5 times to combine. With the motor
running, stream in the melted coconut
oil and keep motor running until the
dough comes together, approximately
20 seconds. Remove blade and trans-
fer dough to the prepared pan, scrap-
ing the bowl of the food processor
with a rubber spatula if necessary as
the dough will be soft. Press the dough
evenly into the bottom of the tart pan
and halfway up the sides. Place the
pan on a baking sheet and bake until
golden, about 10 minutes. Set aside
to cool slightly. Reduce oven to 325
degrees. Add chocolate to a heat proof
bowl with vanilla, salt, and remaining
2 tablespoons maple syrup. In a small
sauce pan over medium heat bring the
coconut milk to a simmer, but do not
boil, stirring frequently. Pour the hot co-
conut milk over the chocolate and stir
to melt. Transfer the chocolate mixture
to the cleaned food processor bowl and
add eggs. Pulse until the mixture is well
combined, about 5 to 7 pulses. Pour the
mixture into the crust. Carefully return
the tart to the oven until the filling is set
and no longer jiggles, about 20 min-
utes. As oven temperatures vary keep
an eye on it to avoid burning the filling.
Let cool completely and dust with the
cacao powder using a fine mesh sieve.

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 Passover
Culinary expert pens Passover cookbook
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
Jennifer Felicia Abadi, a culinary expert
who teaches at the Institute of Culinary
Education and the JCC of Manhattan,
recently gave a presentation to the sister-
hood of the Glen Rock Jewish Center on her
new book “Too Good to Passover — Seph-
ardic and Judeo-Arabic Seder Menus and
Memories From Africa, Asia, and Europe.”
According to the president of Glen
Rock’s sisterhood, Randi Asher, Ms. Abadi
said that as she gathered information for
her book, she spoke to 100 people in more
than 23 Jewish communities around the
world. They were all of Sephardic and
Judeo-Arabic descent. The most striking
theme she found was the lengths those
Sephardic Jews took to continue to observe
the mitzvot of Passover, matzah, and seder.
In some communities, people owned
Mayina
serves 6
©Jennifer Abadi from “Too Good To
Passover: Sephardic & Judeo-Arabic
Menus and Memories from Africa, Asia
and Europe”
FOR MEAT FILLING:
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 cups finely chopped yellow onions
(about 3 medium onions)
1 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground lamb
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon sugar
3/4 cup coarsely chopped flat leaf
(Italian) parsley
one 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes
(about 3 cups)
5 large eggs, lightly beaten
For matzah layers:
10 squares of regular (not egg)
matzahs
1 large egg, lightly beaten with 1/8
teaspoon kosher salt, for brushing
top matzah
•Extra prepared (or plain store-
bought) tomato sauce for serving
and reheating, if desired
PREPARE THE FILLING:
1. Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a
large skillet over medium heat for one
minute. Add the chopped onions and
cook until soft and somewhat transpar-
ent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the ground
beef, ground lamb, salt, black pep-
per, allspice, cinnamon, and sugar and
cook until brown, about 8 to 10 minutes
(stir occasionally and mash with a fork
to cook pieces). Lower to a medium
heat and add the chopped parsley and
mix well. Cook 2 to 3 minutes. Pour in
crushed tomatoes and mix well. Bring
to a slow boil over high heat and cook 2
minutes, then lower the heat to medium
and cook an additional 7 to 10 minutes.
Remove from heat and cool to room
5 46 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 23, 2018
special dining tables with built-in drawers
so they could hide the seder objects if the
police came. In other communities, they
put playing cards on the table to make it
look like a family was just playing a game.
In Russsia, the haggadah was forbidden, so
they read from the Bible, which was per-
missible. Every community felt the need to
observe Passover in some way.
For the Glen Rock presentation, Ms.
Abadi prepared and offered tastings of
three kinds of charoset — Moroccan, Syr-
ian, and Portuguese. Last week, we fea-
tured a Hawaiian charoset.
Now, we give you a recipe for mayina —
an E�yptian-style layered matzah pie with
ground beef, allspice, and cinnamon.
Ms. Abadi’s almost-700-page book
reads like a novel, with the bonus of the
amazing Sephardic recipes from Africa,
Asia, and Europe. There are menus
The mayina in this photo does not
have tomato sauce on top.
temperature. Mix in the beaten eggs
and set aside. (Note: If preparing ahead,
cover meat filling and refrigerate until
ready to use. The filling may be pre-
pared up to one day in advance.)
PREPARE THE MATZAHS:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat
a 9-inch square baking pan gener-
ously with oil and line the bottom with
parchment paper. Completely wet 2
clean kitchen towels with cold water,
wring them dry, then lay them side
by side on the counter or a tabletop.
(Note: You can also use a double layer
of very absorbent paper towels.) Stack
all of the matzah squares in a baking
pan and fill with cold water to cover.
(If the topmost matzah square floats
to the surface, place something small
like a cup on top to completely weigh
down and submerge them). Let soak 4
minutes, but no more (you want them
to become slightly pliable, not mushy).
Line the soaked matzahs (side by side)
on top of the dampened towels to keep
them from falling apart as you work.
ASSEMBLE THE PIE AND BAKE:
Place a softened matzah square into
the baking pan. Use a second piece to
break into large pieces and fill in the
spaces of the pan so that the entire
bottom layer is covered. Do one more
Jennifer Abadi
— suggestions- and just Jennifer’s wonder-
ful stories to read.
Fo r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n , g o t o
Jenniferabadi.com. The cookbook is
layer of matzah the same way, then
spread out a third of the filling on top.
Repeat this process two more times
(doing a single layer of matzah this
time), ending with a top double layer
of softened matzah. (Note: You should
have three layers of meat filling and
four layers of matzah.) Brush the top-
most layer of matzah with the egg and
salt mixture. Place onto the top rack in
the oven and bake (uncovered) until
the edges are golden brown and the
center is firm when pierced with a knife,
45 to 50 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes to
allow the pie to set before cutting into
squares and serving on a platter. Store
in the refrigerator in an air-tight con-
tainer for up to 3 days. To reheat, sprin-
kle with a tiny amount of cold water
or extra tomato sauce (to rehydrate),
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•Note: Matzah will absorb liquid like
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of your favorite prepared tomato sauce
and spoon it over each square when
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sic batch of the sauce without the meat
by cooking the chopped onions in the
oil, then adding the crushed tomatoes,
chopped parsley and dill, black pepper,
and salt to taste. Having the extra sauce
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Local couple writes Slow cooked short ribs

second cookbook Serves 4-6

BETH JANOFF CHANANIE 3 tablespoons consommé

vegetable oil 1/2 teaspoon ground
2 pounds boneless beef pepper
Yael Gevertzman, the marketing and media short ribs 1/2 teaspoon salt
coordinator at Congregation Gesher Shalom/ 2 cans (15 ounce) 1/2 teaspoon garlic
JCC Fort Lee, and her husband, Jason, have tomato sauce powder
published their second cookbook, “3 step prep 4 teaspoons apple cider 1/2 teaspoon onion
— kosher recipes for the everyday cook.” vinegar powder
According to the Gevertzmans, the “3-step 2 cups water 1/2 teaspoon thyme
4 teaspoons beef 1/2 cup red wine
prep” includes 100 recipes, each with only
three steps. It allows cooks to prepare dishes Add oil and short ribs to a large skillet over medium heat and brown all sides for about 5
from an accessible list of pantry ingredients minutes. Add short ribs and remaining ingredients to a slow cooker. Cook on low heat for 8
using easy, delicious gourmet recipes. Most hours and serve. This dish is best served over rice (if you eat kitniyot) or mashed potatoes.
recipes include bright color photos with help-
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book has recipes for cooks who are short on time, families with picky eaters,
and people who are interested in new and easy dishes. 10 ounce container almond 1/4 cup ground almonds
butter• 3/4 cup chocolate chips
I shared the recipe below with other people at the office, and everyone
1 egg 1/4 cup sliced or slivered
agreed that it seemed like a good one to include here. When we critique cook- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract almonds
books here at the Jewish Standard, we keep families in mind, so we look for 1 cup brown sugar
shorter, easier recipes. We also appreciate photographs of the dishes so you Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix almond butter, egg,
have an idea of what the recipe is supposed to look like. We also look for reci- vanilla, sugar, and ground almonds in a bowl. Fold in the
pes with ingredients you recognize and do not have to buy just to use once. chocolate chips and almonds. Roll the dough into 1 1/2 inch
In picking the three-step recipes that would work well for Passover, I went balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 — 12
right to the author herself. She says that she has found the short ribs and cook- minutes or until the bottom of the cookie is golden brown. Make sure to let the cookies rest
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Editorial
Remembering
Rabbi Ozer Glickman
W O
e were devastated to learn
about the sudden death
of Rabbi Ozer Glickman of
Teaneck on Monday night.
By “we” I mean I, but I also mean the
local Jewish community, the Yeshiva
University community of which he was
a vital part, and much of the rest of the
wider Jewish community, because every-
one knew him. I suspect that it’s also true
of the business community where he
worked, because he was that kind of man.
It seems odd to use the past tense
about Tony Glickman, because he was
a person of such force, charisma, and
life that the thought that his heart — and
of all organs, this extraordinarily big-
hearted man’s heart — had betrayed him
seems impossible.
Rabbi Glickman, who was only 67 when
he died, was one of those people who
did so much, thought so much, taught so
much, knew so many people and cared
so much about all of them, that is hard to
imagine the world without him. He will
leave a huge, Ozer Glickman-sized hole
in the world. But on the other hand, his
presence was so palpable that it is likely
that it will linger.
Rabbi Glickman lived in many worlds,
occupying each of them like a native.
Although he did not grow up Ortho-
dox but chose Orthodoxy for himself,
he was so at home there that one of his
most overwhelming pleasures was to
teach Jewish thought to rabbinical stu-
dents. He was a tremendously success-
ful businessman, and both spoke and
taught business. He was widely read, and
could quote poetry almost as a Victorian,
taught to memorize as we no longer are
taught to do, could. He was a gifted natu-
ral musician, who supported himself at
one point, early in his adult life, through
music. He also was the son of a French-
woman, who taught him French and read
him Saint-Exupéry’s “Little Prince,” in
French, when he was a child.
(How are all those things possible? How
could any one person do all those things —
and many many more? We have no idea. It
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Rabbi Ozer Glickman
is tiring just to think about being able to do
all those things, much less actually doing
them. But he did them.)
He also was a husband and a father; he
loved his wife, Ilana, their six children,
and their growing brood of grandchildren
with a surpassing love; he talked about
them with pride.
He befriended people, offering a com-
plex mixture of compassion, interest,
warmth, kindness, and intellectual chal-
lenge; people who were lucky enough to
be offered that gift will be able to hold
onto it. And he reached outside his own
world to make those connections; the Jew-
ish world is small, and he could unearth
existing relationships and forge new ones.
He was diplomatic but honest in his
assessment of the world around him,
and had begun to speak out increasingly
about what he saw around him. While
not allowing himself to be as enmeshed
in the daily outrages emanating from
Washington as many others of us, still he
saw them, and was gearing up to be more
and more public in his responses to them.
When we lost him, we lost a voice that we
could have used.
We were not able to write an obituary of
Rabbi Glickman this week, because we’re
a weekly. But we could not let his death go
unmentioned for a week. The hole he left
is far too big for that. —JP
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KEEPING THE FAITH
The Exodus:
Debunking the debunkers
n the morning of Sunday, April This, I wrote, was especially true regard-
8, 2001, a man stood before a ing the Exodus. Said the Haaretz article,
reported audience of 2,200 “There is, in fact, no evidence to substanti-
people and declared that the ate [the narratives in the Book of] Exodus.”
Exodus most likely never happened. In fact, there is “evidence to substanti-
Citing “virtually every modern archae- ate” the basic outlines of the Exodus nar-
ologist,” the man declared “that the way ratives. The problem, as I noted in the
the Bible describes the Exodus is not the November column, is that the Torah is
way that it happened, if it happened at all.” not a history book in the ordinary sense.
He added that archaeologists have “found It was, is, and always will be a book of
no trace of the tribes of Israel — not one “sacred history,” reporting on events as
shard of pottery” — in Egypt or the Sinai seen through a God-centered lens.
to support the narrative. For example, a computer modeling
The claim was neither new nor original, study by researchers at the National Cen-
yet the man’s words that day ter for Atmospheric Research
made headlines around the and the University of Colo-
world. That was because the rado at Boulder “shows
man who spoke those words how the movement of wind
was David Wolpe, a nation- as described in the Book of
ally prominent Conservative Exodus could have parted
rabbi, and he spoke them as the waters” of the Red Sea. A
part of his sermon on that historian viewing this at the
day — the first morning of time would merely report
Pesach, Passover, the festi- that an extraordinarily heavy
val of freedom celebrating Shammai east wind from Gaza parted
that very Exodus. Engelmayer a section of the Red Sea. As
Wolpe’s point was that it happens, a large group of
the authenticity of the nar- escaped slaves were at the
rative was irrelevant. What mattered were site and used the phenomenon to complete
the messages of that story — messages of their escape.
freedom for all, equality for all, justice for The sacred historian did report on the
all, and fealty to the God whose messages event, but in his version, God sent the east
those are. wind to part the sea just when the Israelites
Wolpe was not wrong in saying the Exo- needed Him to do so. That is the difference
dus saga did not occur the way the Torah between history and sacred history.
reports it, but he was wrong in adding “if One of the objections raised by archae-
it happened at all,” and in declaring that ologists is that the Exodus narratives were
there is no archaeological evidence to sup- written so many centuries after the events
port it. they claim to recount that they are totally
This is a song that never stops playing. useless in providing supportive evidence.
In my column last November 17, for exam- Biblical scholars say such thinking is
ple, I quoted from an article that had just simply wrong.
appeared in the Israeli daily newspaper In his 2017 book “The Exodus,” Dr.
Haaretz. It said that despite “cutting-edge Richard Elliott Friedman cites evidence
dating and molecular technologies, archae- amassed by Rutgers’ Dr. Gary Rendsburg.
ologists increasingly agree…that generally, He “collected a series of known items of
the Bible does not reflect historical truths.” Egyptian lore that appear in the story of
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the exodus,” Friedman wrote, and “noted that
the story in Exodus 1-15 ‘repeatedly shows famil-
iarity with Egyptian traditions….In sum, the nar-
rative that encompasses Exodus 1-15 evokes the
Egyptian setting at every turn.’”
This led Rendsburg to challenge two prominent
archaeologists at a conference in San Diego some
years ago. As Friedman reports it, “He noted that
the Bible [Amos 9:7] says, ‘Didn’t I bring up Israel
from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from
Caphtor?’ The archaeologists agreed that the
Bible was right about this…. So, Rendsburg asked,
if the Israelites could remember the history of the
Philistines 400 years back, why should we think
that they could not remember their own history
that far back?!”
Neither archaeologist was able to answer Rends-
burg adequately.
A similar notion came from an Egyptian-born,
University of Toronto-trained archaeologist who
also happens to be a biblical scholar — Prof. James
K. Hoffmeier. “It would be inexplicable,” he wrote
some years ago, “for the prophet (and his audi-
ence) to know the origins of the Philistines and
Arameans, but be wrong about Israel’s origin.”
Friedman also cites some startling discoveries
made by other biblical scholars. For example, Dr.
Michael Homan of Xavier University demonstrated
how the structure of the wilderness tabernacle, the
Mishkan, is a perfect match for the structure of the
war camp of Rameses II. Both were enclosed rect-
angular structures, with their entrances on the east
side. Both had a tent located toward the west end.
Within Rameses’ tent was a second, more private,
area that served as his throne room, where he held
conversations with his officers and other officials.
Within the Mishkan’s tent was a second, more pri-
vate, area — the Holy of Holies, where, said God to
Moses, “I will meet with you, and I will impart to
you…all that I will command you concerning the
Israelite people.” (See Exodus 25:22.)
University of Washington’s Dr. Scott Noegel,
meanwhile, “showed parallels between the…Ark
of the Covenant and Egyptian barks,” Friedman
wrote. These barks “were sacred ritual objects”
and so “were rarely set in water.” Some were
“gold-plated, many were decorated with winged
cherubs or birds, they were carried on poles by
priests, and they served as a throne and footstool,”
which was the role played by the Ark in the Holy
of Holies according to Exodus 25:22, 1 Chronicles
28:2, and several psalms. “Noegel concluded that
‘the bark served as a model, which the Israelites
adapted for their own needs.’”
As for the claim that nothing archaeological
ever has been found in Egypt or Sinai to cor-
roborate the Exodus narrative, that claim should
have flown out the window in the mid-1980s. I
commend readers to explore the work of Dr.
Emmanuel Anati, an Italian archaeologist who
has spent several decades excavating a single site
in the Sinai — Har Karkom, which he identifies as
“the Mountain of God.” His very convincing 1986
book of that name is updated with each new find
(and they are plentiful). Anati’s incredible work is
detailed at www.harkarkom.com.
Chag sameach v’kasher.
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Opinion
In defense of the humanities
I
want to take notice of two trends of the past decade,
one an educational one and the other one societal.
The educational trend is STEM — Science, Technol-
ogy, Engineering, and Math — programs, which pre-
pare our kids to be competitive in such fields as computer
programming, robotics and artificial intelligence, data anal-
ysis, and more, giving them an advantage in a world that’s
increasingly technological.
The other trend is one we all know too well, and that’s the
increased polarization of subgroups and cultures, to the point
where we are today — where people have lost the ability to
speak to those with whom they disagree and instead retreat
to safe echo chambers, where they can bash an opposing side
in freedom. I hope we’re all tiring of this behavior, especially
seeing as it’s getting us nowhere.
It may seem odd to yoke these two trends together, but
I’d like to suggest there’s a commonality: these trends, for
me, expose the need for the humanities in STEM education
and in our lives.
Let’s start with technology. As anyone who has read any
science fiction story will tell you, machines
taking over the world never ends well. And
that’s why the liberal arts college was invented:
because people understood the value of know-
ing things like history, literature, philosophy,
languages, and the classics. These subjects not
only give people a deep sense of who they are
and where they’re from — and it’s always good
to be grounded in your own origin story — but
they’re also a way to learn how to take in oth-
ers’ perspectives. Tikvah
Whether it’s studying history using primary Weiner
sources that conflict with each other; reading lit-
erature by storytellers from different cultures,
places, and times; contemplating moral dilemmas that don’t
have black and white solutions; or learning a language that
requires understanding of the culture that produced it, we
are forced out of our own heads and into the minds of others
when we steep ourselves in humanist studies.
Humanism seems like a good complement to technology.
Or should I say antidote? It’s logical in our age that the pendu-
lum has swung away from the humanities and in the direction
of STEM, but perhaps the wiser move is to recognize that we
need both: a knowledge of how to use tech and apply it in big
and ambitious ways, and the heart and soul not to forget that
we’re people, not outgrowths of our phones.
Ken Gordon, a friend, fellow English major, and content,
conversation, and community strategist at Continuum, a
design thinking firm, laments the decline in English majors at
universities. He cites a blog post by Scott Jaschik from Inside
Higher Ed, posted in March 2016, which notes that there was
an 8.7 percent decline in humanities degrees from 2012 to
2014. Ken responded to this news by writing about the need
for close readers in the world and showcasing the benefits of
having someone on staff who can scan a sonnet like nobody’s
business. Among the advantages: people who, because
they’re well-read, can envision a new future with their highly
developed imaginations, who can speak and write about a
company in a unique and articulate voice, and who can con-
centrate. (I know, it’s fun to mock philosophy majors and
wonder what they’re going to do with their degrees, but let’s
sit for a moment and contemplate how hard it is to read and
actually make sense of Kant or Derrida.)
As Ken notes: “English gets a bad rap, and it’s unfair. We
need to reappraise the major’s ethos, based on an under-
standing of what this degree teaches. English’s problem—part
of the problem for the liberal arts in general—is its indiffer-
ence, or perceived indifference, to life off campus. ‘Poetry
makes nothing happen,’ wrote [poet] W. H. Auden, but the
purpose of studying liberal arts is less about the production
of poetry than the development of people who can make
meaning of texts, including the text of life, for themselves
and others.”
So true. And that brings me to the other trend: the
one where we’re talking at each other, not to each other,
whether that’s in real life, regurgitating old arguments at
family get-togethers, or sharing one-sided views on Twitter
and Facebook, where we can unfollow or block anyone who
doesn’t agree with us.
Here’s a place where the humanities has a crucial role to
play. Steeping ourselves in someone else’s narrative exer-
cises our empathy muscle, giving us the ability to imagine
the world from a fresh, wholly unconsidered perspective,
and landing us in a place where we perhaps can articulate
how even an adversary might feel. Ken admired readers for
their ability to concentrate, and I want to build on that:
reading is a kind of listening. To have the patience to work
out what another mind thinks and means and says isn’t just
an act of reading, but an act of listening. When we then take
that skill of reading into the world, what we’re
really doing is listening well, being curious and
adventurous about others, and not closed and
judgmental.
We’re forcing ourselves to meet and consider
the Other in all of their humanity.
Marketing and PR firms have spent the past
decade insisting that everyone tell their story.
Everything from soda to boxes has a narrative
— literally. (Walmart had three directors tell a
60-second tale about the store’s boxes during
the Oscars last week.) And that makes sense.
Humans are storytelling creatures, and we
thrive on a good yarn. But we also need to stop
and listen, hard as that may be to do. We might take inspira-
tion from the Jewish tradition: on the upcoming Passover
holiday, when we tell one of the most key stories, if not
the most, about our national history, we take a moment
to mourn the Egyptians. At the apogee of our own excite-
ment about being free, we spill wine to mark the loss that
our enemies suffered. Though immersed in recounting our
own tale, we nevertheless make room for another’s, even
our foe’s.
And though we’re a people of the book, and we tell the
Torah’s stories each week on Shabbat, it’s the Shema,
whose main verb is an exhortation to listen, that we say
each morning and night.
I was working on this article when I found out that my men-
tor, colleague, friend, rebbe — Rabbi Ozer Glickman — had
suddenly passed away. Rabbi Glickman had been the one to
encourage me to write about why the humanities are needed
so badly today. He was a man who loved literature, languages,
and poetry, at the same time as he was an extraordinary
Torah scholar and on the senior advisory board of a global
management consulting firm. An expert on risk analysis, he
was as comfortable giving a lecture on artificial intelligence
and big data as he was in the beit midrash and quoting French
literature and English poets. His wide range of interests and
areas of expertise meant that he understood nuance and
complexity, and was taking time with his students, acolytes,
and community to make sure they did, too. I dedicate this
column to him.
Thank you, Rabbi Glickman, for sharing your Torah,
insights, and stories, for making us think, and for getting us
to look at each more kindly. We are listening.
Tikvah Wiener is head of school of the Idea School, a co-ed
Orthodox high school opening in Bergen County September
2018. Learn more at www.theideaschool.org.
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Opinion

How to end the occupation — a response

R
abbi Aryeh Meir’s view of “The
occupation and Israel’s human
rights record” (in his March 2
op ed) is problematic—indeed,
counterproductive.
Before analysis, though, I want to make
it perfectly clear that I find Rabbi Meir’s
concern for Palestinians and for Israelis,
and more broadly, for Jewish values, noble
and entirely admirable. Nothing I write
here should be construed to be an attack
on Rabbi Meir’s loyalty to the Jewish people
or to the State of Israel. It is a testament to
humanity to demonstrate his concern, and
as much as I may disagree with Rabbi Meir’s
political and moral analysis, I applaud his
humanity (and strive to share it).
But disagree I do. Rabbi Meir bemoans the
lack of Palestinian freedom on “their land.”
Their land? When, exactly, did it become
“their land?” A Palestinian individual’s title to
a particular plot of land may well be entirely
legal. But Rabbi Meir implies that the land in
question belongs to the Palestinian people.
As opposed to the Jewish people.
An argument could be made for that
position. But an argument—to my mind, a
far stronger argument—could be made for
a Jewish national claim to that territory. We
could, in fact, question whether the occu-
pation is really an occupation at all. How,
exactly, did this occupation begin, and how
have things changed over the past 50 years
that would justify ending it? The occupation
began as a result of an act of military aggres-
sion by Jordan, Syria, and Egypt on territory
that clearly did not belong to them—an act
that confers no rights whatsoever on the
aggressor. The occupation continues today
because no peace treaty has been signed by
the Palestinians, to whom Jordan and Egypt
ceded territorial control. Which means that
the current situation is not only about secu-
rity, but also about legality.
This has two implications. The first is that
by international law, Israel may not apply
Israeli law to the non-citizen residents of the
territory. Such application would, in fact, be
illegal. Second, Israel, by law, may remain
in those territories until hell freezes over if
the technically belligerent enemy refuses
to make peace. Which, after 50 years, after
Madrid, Oslo, a couple of Camp Davids, etc.
(not to mention several intifadas and mini-
wars) they have not.
Rabbi Meir mentions a number of exam-
ples of the occupation’s negative impact on
Palestinian lives. Fair enough, but unfairly
oversimplified. Take check- as opposed to the obligatory
points. Yes, it is true, much is 31mcm/y). And it’s also true
done in the name of security. that the Israelis and the Pal-
Inconvenient? To say the least. estinians (together with the
Humiliating? Often. But is there Jordanians) just signed a deal
a real security-driven need for it? to provide another 32 mil-
To ask the question is to answer lion cubic meters of water to
it. Consider the fact that in the the Palestinian Authority.
year before the separation bar- And it’s also true that by
rier (typically unfairly character- Rabbi Robert contrast with this wise and
ized as “the wall”) went up, there L. Wolkoff hopeful act of coopera-
were 457 Israelis murdered by tion, the Palestinians have
terrorists. In 2009, the year after refused Israeli help in pre-
the fence was completed, there were nine. venting cement residue from Palestinian
Is there a better way to protect Israeli lives? factories from polluting water in the West
Maybe. But two things are clear. The Israelis Bank because such efforts would also help
won’t end the occupation without finding Jewish settlements.
that way. And it won’t happen without active You pays your money, and you takes your
participation on the part of the Palestinians. choice.
Water is another example. Rabbi Meir Does occupation mean that we have “bru-
writes that Palestinian access to “their own” tishly taken over their [Palestinian] land?”
water is severely limited. This is true. What’s No. Does it mean that the conditions in which
also true is that because of Israel, the Palestin- the Palestinians live parallels qualitatively or
ians have more water, better water, and more quantitatively our Jewish experience of “the
readily accessible water than they ever had or pain of losing freedom, property, and human
would otherwise have had. It’s also true that dignity?” No. And, perhaps most important,
Israel supplies 80 percent more water to the does it mean that we can just wave our magic
Palestinians than it is obligated to do by the wands and “end the occupation?” No. That’s
Oslo accords (53.3 million cubic meters/year, not how things work in the real world.

The magic of the seder —

connecting us to our past and our future.

M
ost of us never met our great
grandparents. But it’s safe
to say that we know exactly
what they were doing on the
night of the seders; eating marror (bitter
herbs) and matzah, and reading from the
haggadah. The magic of the seder connects
all of us to our past and our future through
the infinite time-tunnel of the haggadah.
With Passover approaching, I haul down
my boxes of haggadot from the attic. The
boxes are heavier each year. So many dis-
tinguished rabbis have written their own
commentaries, and I continue to add new
ones to my collection, hoping every year
to enhance the magic of our seder. As the
preparations begin, I am reminded of a Con-
fucian proverb: “If you plan for a year, plant
rice. If you plan for 10 years, plant trees. If
your plan for a lifetime, educate a child.”
As families gather around the table, the
Passover seder richly incorporates the wis-
dom of this proverb. The haggadah turns all
Jewish parents into educators and all Jewish
children into students of history — so that
one day they too will become the educators
of their children. Through the reciting of
the haggadah on the seder nights, we pass
down our history, our narrative, and our
legacy to the next generation.
The word “haggadah” literally means “to
tell.” Simply put, the haggadah is the retell-
ing of our personal and collective story, in
the form of a parent-child dialogue, remind-
ing us of who we are, where we came from,
and what we stand for.
The haggadah is a carefully choreo-
graphed compilation of stories, instruc-
tions, and songs. It is designed so our chil-
dren will ask questions and our history of
freedom and redemption will unfold, in all
its many layers and nuances, recounting
our past as slaves and remembering how
we became a free people and a nation. Not
only are we prompted to ask some question,
but also a wealth of other questions arises,
and themes emerge. All of this transmits val-
ues we hold dear and wish to convey to the
next generation.
All children learn to ask the formulaic
question about why we dip parsley in salt
water at the start of the seder. It’s a leading
question, meant to recall the tears shed by
the Jewish slaves. Yet Rashi has a different
answer entirely for that question, under-
scoring how questions and answers lead
us deeper into the soul of the narrative.
According to the 19th century scholar of
Baghdad, the Ben-Ish-Chai, Rashi describes
Yosef ’s coat of many colors, kutonet
hapasim, as “K’mo Karpas” —
like fine linen. He posits that it’s
not by coincidence that we eat
what we call karpas (parsley or
celery) early on in the seder.
Rather, by connecting karpas to
the story of Yosef and his broth-
ers, we are given an invaluable
message. This teaches us that
before we can begin to remem- Dr. Tani
ber that we were slaves in Egypt, Foger
first we must recall what led to
our enslavement. It all started
when Yosef’s brothers sold him into slavery
— when brother turned against brother.
The purpose of retelling the story of our
exodus from Egypt in each generation is
to emphasize the strength of klal Yisrael,
and to teach us the meaning of kol Yisrael
arevim ze la ze — that all of Israel is respon- servant; more than 70 percent of Jewish
sible for one another. We learn that when
there is disharmony we are weakened, but
when we look out for each other we become
strong and indomitable. In highlighting this
truth, the haggadah helps turn our history
into memory, and memory into a sense of
mutual responsibility, thus empowering our
children to develop a stronger sense of iden-
tity and belonging.
But why is it so important to remember
our slavery and our free-
dom? According to Rav Dov
Soloveitchik, by remember-
ing that we were slaves we
ensure that Jews will never
ignore the pain of others or
neglect the needs of those
less fortunate. Thus, the
seder offers us a remarkable
teaching tool, encourag-
ing our children to become
compassionate people.
It’s our blueprint to be a
light unto the nations.
As we each prepare to sit down at our
seder table, Jews the world over will be
doing the very same thing. Passover is said
to be the most celebrated Jewish holiday,
even among those who claim to be unob-
Americans take part in a seder. Perhaps it
is because of the importance of the seder’s
message. The re-telling of our story from
grandparent to grandchild, from parent to
child, unites us with Jews around the globe
and across the generations.
Yet while we all tell the same exact story
of the Exodus, in the same exact words
from the haggadah, no two seders are ever
exactly the same. That too is the richness

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When Rabbi Meir writes that Palestin-
ians cannot “participate in the political
process that determines the future of this
geographic area,” he is precisely wrong.
The Palestinians have participated, and
they have chosen leaders who are either
explicitly genocidal or supporters of grue-
some violence. In fact, by all indications,
the majority of Palestinians would prefer
leaders who are even more supportive of
violence. Palestinian think-tank director
Khalil Shikaki writes that young Palestinians
between 18 and 22 “support violence, they
oppose the two-state solution, and they
don’t believe in the Palestinian leadership.”
But not just the young: “In all groups, across
all categories, a majority supports violence.”
It goes without saying (or should, at least)
that there is much that is negative about
the current situation. Michael Sfard is cor-
rect in pointing out that Israel, unlike many
other occupying powers, is a democracy —
the only democracy that is involved in an
ongoing occupation. Of course we should
be expected to care about the situation that
thus arises far more than we care about
immoral dictatorial regimes.
We do.
When, after all, have you seen an article
in a Chinese newspaper lamenting the moral
burden of the Chinese occupation of Tibet?
How about Russia in Georgia? Morocco in
Western Sahara? Indonesia in East Timor?
of the seder! While the seder speaks of
order, the retelling of the Passover story is
achieved through individuality. We each
bring our own interpretations, commentar-
ies, and unique style and so create a seder
that is like no other. Just as no two people
are exactly alike, but instead each brings
his or her own uniqueness to the world, so
too on seder nights we each pass along our
traditions, in our own unique and distinctly
creative way.
Some of us continue in the path of our
parents and grandparents, while others
observe rituals in new ways. Yet all still
belonging to the same chain, connected to
the same ancient tribe, with the same spiri-
tual roots in the Torah. All still read from the
same haggadah.
Our sages teach us that our seder table is
like an altar; it is an instrument to help us
achieve new and greater spiritual heights.
They carefully wrote the haggadah detailing
15 steps to freedom, which correspond to
the 15 steps leading up to the Temple. Just as
the Temple helped the Jewish people appre-
ciate God’s presence in the world, so too the
seder is a reminder of God’s constant pres-
ence in our lives, guiding us and providing
us with order in a world that frequently is
chaotic and in turmoil.
Passover is celebrated widely because it
resonates with Jews from all denominations.
It is about telling our story through rituals,
songs, and prayer. It’s about the relationship
between parents and children. It’s about
Etc. etc. etc. In most cases, these occupa-
tions are profoundly questionable, if not
clearly illegal. They certainly stand in glar-
ing contrast to Israel’s occupation of Judea
and Samaria, for which it has both a serious
title claim and a moral justification. This
underscores the fact that the very expres-
sion “the occupation” is profoundly prob-
lematic. The? As if it is the one and only?
As if it is somehow more significant than all
the others? In fact, if “the” occupation is in
any way unique, it is unique because of its
morality, not its immorality.
If you don’t think so, ask the Tibetans.
Rabbi Meir and B’Tselem have it precisely
backwards—ending the occupation is not
the way forward to a future in which human
rights, democracy, liberty, and equality are
ensured to all people. Creating a future in
which human rights, democracy, liberty,
and equality are ensured to all people is the
only way to end the occupation.
And we can’t do that by ourselves. To
imagine that we can—to remove all sense
of agency from the Palestinians and lay all
responsibility on our Jewish shoulders—
doesn’t enhance the chances for peace. It
destroys them.
Robert L. Wolkoff has lectured and written
internationally on Israel and Judaism. He
is the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Tikvah in
North Brunswick and is a JNF Rabbi for Israel.
giving our children a sense of identity and
belonging, along with the self-confidence to
pass it along to the next generation.
As a free people, we are obligated to
tell and retell our history. Alongside the
telling of the Exodus from Egypt, the
seder night encourages our great grand-
parents and grandparents to share their
own stories about their own departures
from Germany or Poland, Morocco or
Yemen, the USSR or Ethiopia. This night
is a celebration of storytelling and a les-
son in educating our children in our rich
history, so that when the time comes,
they will educate their children, and so
on and so forth…
As free people, we also need to make
room for conversations that don’t just val-
idate our own set of beliefs, but that even
may force us out of our comfort zone to
being open to truths that we otherwise
might not have encountered. This Pesach,
let’s acknowledge our freedom not only by
questioning, but also by listening with open-
ness to everyone’s answers. Let us model
tolerance to our children and to the guests
at our seder table. May the lessons of seder
empower us to continue to be a caring and
compassionate people!
I wish everyone a uniquely wonderful,
fun, and inspiring seder, and a chag kasher
v’sameach!
Dr. Tani Foger, Ed.D, of Englewood is an
educational consultant and psychologist.
Opinion
White supremacists spar with counterprotesters as they attempt to guard
the entrance to Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12, 2017.
 CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
‘Nobody is talking
about anti-Semitism.’
You’re kidding, right?
S
late podcaster is everywhere these days.
Mike Pesca has a In part it is a symptom of
theory that when- news overload — impor-
eve r P re s i d e n t tant things that demand
Donald Trump says “every- attention disappear at the
body” it means “almost speed of a tweet about
nobody,” and when he says some other thing that
“nobody” or “anybody” it also demands immedi-
means “almost everybody.” ate attention. Everybody
Try it. When Trump said, Andrew knows that Trump is adept
“Nobody knew health care Silow-Carroll at changing the subject,
could be so complicated” and almost nobody knows
— well, nearly everybody how to resist the bait. And
disagreed. And when he says, “Every- while the web has democratized news
body knows there was no collusion,” he and made it theoretically easier to get a
means, “I insist there was no collusion, story out to the public, it also means that
but am worried that nobody else, includ- many more stories and ideas are jockey-
ing Robert Mueller, agrees with me.” ing for attention.
That kind of verbal irony has become Bill Moyers does an annual survey
a way of arguing on social media. A Face- of “Overlooked, Under-Reported and
book friend complained recently that Ignored Stories.” Last year’s list included
two weeks after Louis Farrakhan gave the growing movement for Medicare
yet another anti-Semitic speech, “no for All, U.S. airstrikes against ISIS in
one really cares.” In fact, the Farrakhan Iraq, and the impact of Trump’s poli-
speech was widely reported in the main- cies — not his tweets, not his scandals,
stream media, from the Washington Post but his policies — on American society.
to CNN to Fox News to Rolling Stone, Last week, on the public radio show “On
especially after a leader of the Women’s The Media,” social media monitor Thalia
March attended the Nation of Islam lead- Beaty spoke about how hard it is to get
er’s speech and refused to acknowledge attention for the Syrian government’s
his hate or apologize. By waiting too long vicious siege of the Damascus suburb of
to release a tepid statement on the inci- eastern Ghouta.
dent, march leaders kept the story going “It just doesn’t seem that media out-
another week. So did the right, which lets know how to tell this story of human
used Farrakhan’s re-emergence into the suffering without a geopolitical angle,”
public spotlight as an opportunity to she said.
bash the left. But usually when people say that
You could say that people care about “nobody is talking” about something,
Farrakhan now more than they have in they mean “not enough people are talk-
20 years. ing about a story the way I want them to
I don’t mean to pick on my friend; talk about it.” That could mean that the
the “everybody” and “nobody” trope SEE ANTI-SEMITISM PAGE 56
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Crossword
“PASSOVER PREP” BY YONI GLATT
KOSHER CROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
Across
1. Distrusting sort
6. Luxury Swiss watch
10. Charoset ingredient
14. Chant in the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg
Bop”
15. The first “A” of A.A. Milne
16. Aseret ___ Teshuvah (repentance
time)
17. Elizabeth or Ashley
18. Jr. preceder
19. What many do at a Seder
20. Prepare for Passover
23. Portman’s “V for Vendetta” co-star
24. Marlins’ locale, briefly
25. CBS show produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer
28. Prepare for Passover
34. Sinai or Habayit preceder
35. Lahren of Fox News
36. Ring advantage
37. Above
39. Amazon voice-activated assistants
42. Lie adjacent
43. Buy more Time?
45. “It’s the end of the world ___...”
47. Parseghian of Notre Dame
48. Prepare for Passover
52. “Danny and the Dinosaur” author Hoff
53. Trigonometry abbr.
54. 610, to Caesar
55. Alternative to 20, 28 and 48-Across
61. When many a seder ends
64. What many do during the course of
a seder
65. Pianist’s practice piece
66. Abba of Israel
67. Parsha Kedoshim follower
68. Those who have more than four cups
at a seder, maybe
69. Charoset ingredient
70. Make like a bubbie to a grandchild
71. Bamboozles
The solution to last week’s puzzle is
on page 59.
52 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 23, 2018
The Frazzled Housewife
The birthday present —
or how I tried
to kill Husband #1
B
uying the perfect
present for some-
one you care
about is never
easy. Unless you really know
what that person likes. For
example, if anyone related
to me is reading this, I find
that jewelry always fits. Dia-
monds especially. In earring Banji
form, ring form, bracelet Ganchrow
form or necklace form. Pock-
etbooks also always fit, but
diamonds are forever. Now that son #1
is an oreo (wears only black and white)
the perfect gift for him will encompass
anything you can buy at a Judaica store. I
am assuming the same will now apply to
son #2, but as for son #3, I still know that birthday that, thank God, husband #1 is
there is a wider range of gift ideas. Until, alive to celebrate. He often complains
of course, he comes home from Israel
and then the scope will, again, narrow.
The gift history between me and the
old ball and chain has not been fantas-
tic. One year, I got him mezuzahs. Two
sterling silver mezuzahs. You would
Down
think a guy who goes to minyan three or
1. Partner of van.
four times a day would appreciate a gift
2. What annoying fans may do
3. Wall St. fixture like that. Nope. He was not happy. And
4. “___ Huckabees” in the end, neither was I, because you
5. Get in touch have to polish silver mezuzahs. Or, you
6. Reckless can be like me and not polish them…
7. Burn balm
which doesn’t look great.
8. Actress Zuniga of “Spaceballs”
9. Where one might hear elevator music In truth, what gifts do you get for your I known what husband #1 would look
off an elevator spouse? I have given him three sons,
10. Noah of “The Librarian” thank God, isn’t that enough? I do all of
11. The Beatles’ “___ Mine” his laundry and prepare all of his meals.
12. PBS funder
It’s like every day is his birthday in this know, I probably would have worn a
13. Karem or Gedi
21. Western resort lake house. For his 40th birthday, we weren’t
22. She said “Don’t be humble... you’re speaking, I can’t remember why, but
not that great.” I bought him a papercut of the Friday
25. Many an overseas contact, for Jews night “blessing of the sons.” I hung it in
26. Impervious to bugs
his sightline, because he occasionally
27. 1987 Beatty- Hoffman bomb
28. Relatives of flats forgot to say it, and this way, he would
29. Weak, as a brew remember because it was hanging right
30. Pressed there. Clever, right? I think he liked it,
31. SHO subsidiary but I wasn’t entirely sure because we
32. Drum kit part
were in a small fight. Quite honestly, I
33. Yam, in Hebrew
38. Invigorate, with “up” can’t really remember his other gifts.
40. ___ Kosh B’Gosh And that brings us to this year.
41. Alfred Nobel, for one Husband #1 and I met, initially, when
44. 1993 standoff site we were 13 years old, at an NCSY regional
46. Forgoes
convention. He had hair. I had a waist.
49. Cheered (for)
50. Word preceding dog or Pie
51. Like some birds
55. Stein and Stiller
56. A gait
57. What “poh” means The gift history
58. Ahi, e.g.
59. Another name for Esau between me
60. Take away
61. Football’s Dawson
and the old ball
62. Disney simian
63. Ink
and chain has
not been
fantastic.
Life was good. Though, as
the story goes, we didn’t
start dating until 11 years
later, I reflect back on
some of the early gifts he
gave me. He bought me
a bracelet from a jewelry
store in a mall. This is a
big no-no. Gentleman,
you NEVER buy jewelry
in a mall. You buy it from
a sketchy chasid on 47th
street. Just kidding. You
buy it from someone you know. Some-
one you trust. Or think you trust. You
never buy it in a mall. (Did I make that
clear?) This year is another birthday. Not
one that ends in a zero or a five, just a
that his back hurts, no, that has nothing
to do with me, but thanks for thinking
that, and I decided he needed yoga.
Now, for those of you who know
my dear spouse, he and yoga do not
go together. He and a couch, he and a
recliner, he and a bed — those things go
together. But I thought I came up with
the greatest idea ever, so I called my
friend who teaches yoga and begged
her to give us a private lesson, with son
#3 tagging along. “Please make it very,
very, very beginner. Very beginner.” Had
like doing the “happy baby,” which my
former yoga teacher called the “happy
hubby,” for reasons that only yogis
depends because it was that funny… but
we survived.
Candles lit in the middle of the hockey
room aka the basement, and playing the
role of son #3 was a friend of husband
#1 who he has known since kindergar-
ten. That friend showed up wearing his
wife’s yoga pants, which added a whole
other element of humor to the class. But
in the end, husband #1 really enjoyed the
different stretches and really enjoyed
the yoga block that the teacher put
under his lower back…so much so, that
he asked me to buy him one. And I did.
The best thing about it? I don’t have to
polish it!
Will husband #1 take another yoga
class? Only time and our health insur-
ance coverage will tell, but at least he
liked his gift. And no one broke anything.
And I don’t have to worry about
another present for a whole year!
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is hoping
that by the time you read this, all of her
monkeys will be home. And not ganging
up on her to stop wearing pants….
Ben Caplan as Ben and
Mary Fay Coady as
Chaya in “Old Stock.”
STOO METZ PHOTOGRAPHY
‘Old Stock’
Klezmer musical gets close to tragedy, stays funny
O
CURT SCHLEIER
“
ld Stock: A Refugee
Love Story” opens
on a stage that is bare
but for a shipping con-
tainer, the kind that
carries goods from borders to borders.
Unexpectedly, a trap door on its roof
opens and Ben (Ben Caplan) pops up and
breaks out in song.
Thus begins this exhilarating, klezmer-
infused musical that is both joyful and
sad, a reminder of old wounds and today’s
headlines. It is innovative, perfectly cast,
and made even more meaningful because
it is at least partially based on playwright
Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandparents’
experiences.
When the shipping container opens
completely, revealing the cast and musi-
cians, Ben reappears in all his glory to con-
tinue his raspy-voiced singing:
“Who can deny your moral right to pros-
perity and order?
“You fell out of your mother on the cor-
rect side of the border.”
He is a sight: a wild-eyed cross between
a chasidic rabbi in full flowing beard and a
ringmaster in top hat and red-hued tails.
He serves as both, periodically reminding
Arts & Culture
us of appropriate Jewish tradition and
mitzvot and also acting as narrator and
jokester, keeping the play moving.
It begins at Halifax’s Pier 2, then the
Canadian equivalent of Ellis Island. It is
1908, and Romanians Chaya (Mary Fay
Coady) and Chaim (Chris Weatherstone),
just off the boat, meet while waiting on a
medical line, he because of a rash and she
because of a cough.
It soon becomes clear that in addition
to the physical luggage they carried with
them, each also brought substantial emo-
tional baggage. His family was slaughtered
in a pogrom while the husband she still
loves and reveres died of typhus as the
family fled Romania for Russia.
Chaim is a youthful, naive 19-year-old
who immediately falls for his new friend;
Chaya is a 24-year-old widow. But more
than age separates them. Chaim looks
forward, optimistically expecting a bright
future; Chaya is locked in the past, still in
love with her dead husband, Yochay.
Both Coady and Weatherstone are
extremely talented. In addition to their
acting chores, they also sing and are part
of the onstage band. She plays the vio-
lin, he the woodwinds. But more impor-
tant, they bring an undeniable chemistry
to their roles that likely will draw you in,
making you wish (as I did) that despite
obstacles they can make a life together.
They do, but it isn’t easy, because the past
haunts even Chaim. Is it possible to find love
or God after staring death in the face?
There are reminders everywhere, even
in Canada: movie theaters reserved for
gentiles and newspaper headlines that
read: “Old Stock Canadians Soon To Be
Overrun by Semitic Hordes.”
For Chaya especially there is the ghost
of Yochay, which continues to haunt her,
stepping between her and happiness. On
their wedding night, young, naive Chaim
wants reassurance of love from his bride,
but instead Chaya tells him she can’t share
his happiness: “All this joy you feel,” she
explains. “I’ve felt it once before.”
It’s a challenging start to wedded bliss,
further dampened when their first child
develops a typhus-type rash.
At this point, even ringmaster Ben sees
the musical going south. He turns to the
audience and asks: “The laughs are turn-
ing into ‘why [the heck] did I come to see
this depressing show?’ I hope you are not
getting too depressed.”
When he next goes on to sing El Malei
Rachamim, it’s hard not to feel dispirited,
especially if you’ve vested so much in this
couple’s happiness. (I did.)
But, spoiler alert, the prayer for the
dead is a false flag, a misstep that made me
feel manipulated, a misguided attempt to
set me up for a happier ending to follow.
Another problem is an overuse of the “f”
word, one I don’t need to hear over and
over again. I know it’s prudish of me, but
I feel an obligation to warn fellow prudes.
Still, I walked out buoyed by the jaunty
songs by Ben Caplan; a creative set design,
by Louise Adamson and Christian Barry
with Andrew Cull, that makes excellent
use of the small space, and spot-on light-
ing design, again by Adamson and Barry.
Barry, who co-created the show and is
the playwright’s husband, also directed;
he moves the well-cast players around
with efficiency.
The real Chaim and Chaya lived long
and I hope happy lives, with four children,
eight grandchildren, and 16 great grand-
children. Last year, their 14th great great
grandchild was born.
At the play’s end, Ben turns to the smil-
ing actors and concludes with a fitting
“mazel tov.”
“Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story”
is at the 59E59 Theaters until April 22.
Tickets, from $25 to $70, are available at
www.59e59.org or from Ticket Central
(212) 279-4200.
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Calendar Steven Scott, and Mike at 11, Cantor Alan and
Shabbat in Closter: Spoirs, 8 p.m. Doors open Mega food drive in Erica Sokoloff will lead a
Temple Beth El offers at 7. BYOB; brotherhood Paramus: The Jewish short ceremony to burn
Shabbat services with sponsors dessert and Federation of Northern chametz. 87 Overlook
harpist Barbara Allen snacks. 385 Howland New Jersey’s community- Drive. (201) 391-0801.
and flutist Wendy Stern, Ave. (201) 489-2463, wide Mega Food Drive is
accompanied by pianist at its offices. Volunteers
James Rensink, the
or avodatshalom.net/
community/brotherhood. are needed to pack and Saturday 
shul’s music director, sort food donations MARCH 31
7:30 p.m. The service to benefit area food
includes meditative and Sunday  pantries, 1-3 p.m. 50
Shabbat in Jersey
poetic readings led by MARCH 25 Eisenhower Drive. www.
City: Congregation
Rabbis David Widzer JFNNJ.org/FoodDrive or
B’nai Jacob marks
and Beth Kramer- (201) 820-3947.
Passover during services,
Mazer and student
10:30 a.m. 176 West Side
cantor Julie Staple. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Monday  Ave. (201) 435-5725.
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or MARCH 26
www.tbenv.org. Monday 
Lunch and learn: Rabbi APRIL 2
Saturday  Aaron Katz leads a
program over lunch
MARCH 24 Lunch and learn: Rabbi
on current topics at
Aaron Katz leads a
Rabbi Dr. Michael Congregation B’nai
Passover program over
Jacob in Jersey City,
Rosensweig lunch on current topics
noon. $10. 176 West Side
at Congregation B’nai
Pre-Pesach shiur in Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
Jacob in Jersey City,
Teaneck: Rabbi Dr. Info@bnaijacobjc.org.
noon. $10. 176 West Side
Michael Rosensweig Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
discusses “The Status Wednesday  Info@bnaijacobjc.org.
and Significance of
MARCH 28
Chagigat Yud Daled,”
at an adult education Tuesday 
MAR. Jewish jazz pianist committee event at Volunteer training in APRIL 3
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Englewood: Englewood
David Schlossberg Congregation Rinat

25 Schacter Yisrael, 8:45 a.m. He Hospital and Medical

Courageous women:
performs in concert is rosh yeshiva and Center holds an
Dumont historian Dick
on Sunday, March 25, rosh kollel of the Beren information session for
Burnon discusses
volunteers for its end-
at 3 p.m., at Temple Israel & JCC in Kollel Elyon at Yeshiva
of-life doula program at
“Women of Courage,”
University. 389 West at meeting of REAP
Ridgewood. The program includes Englewood Ave. (201) the hospital, 5-6:30 p.m.
(Retired Executives
jazz arrangements of “Fiddler on 837-2795. Participants should
be compassionate,
and Professionals) at
the Roof.” Dessert buffet. Doors Chocolate seder in dedicated community
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly,
open at 2:45. 475 Grove St. Montebello: The members who will
10:45 a.m. Part one, Edith
Email music@synagogue.org Montebello Jewish provide comfort and
Cavell and Sally Ride.
Center hosts a chocolate meaning to patients
or call (201) 444-9320. Rabbi Herschel
seder for families with during their final days of
411 East Clinton Ave.
Schacter, z”l (201) 569-7900 or www.
3- to 13-year-olds, 10 a.m. life. Volunteers receive
jccotp.org.
34 Montebello Road. comprehensive training,
songwriter Jacob Shabbat lecture in support, and continued
Teaneck: Congregation (845) 357-2430 or www.
Friday  Kraus. 950 Preakness montebellojc.org. education. Also April 15,
MARCH 23
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Rinat Yisrael presents
Yeshiva University “Shalom Sesame” in
10 a.m. Supported by
the Kaplen Foundation.
Singles
professor and Jersey City: Shalom (201) 894-3896 or
Shabbat in Wyckoff: congregant, Rabbi Baby of the Jewish EnglewoodHealth.org/ Sunday 
Temple Beth Rishon’s Dr. Jacob J. Schacter,
discussing “The Deeds
Federation of Northern calendar. MARCH 25
adult choir, Kol Rishon, New Jersey celebrates
and its teen choir, Zemer of the Fathers as a
Rishon, join with Cantor Personal and National
Israel’s 70th birthday
with a celebration Friday  Brunch and
entertainment in
Ilan Mamber, Rabbi Roadmap for their including Elmo and MARCH 30
Children,” in memory of Clifton: North Jersey
Stephen Wylen, pianist Cookie Monster, as well Jewish Singles 45-60s, a
Itay Goren, percussionist his father, Rabbi Herschel as music, games, and Study session/ group sponsored by the
Jimmy Cohen, soloist Schacter, 5:20 p.m. 389 crafts, at Hamilton House,
Jacob Kraus breakfast/chametz Clifton Jewish Center,
Jo-Ann Skiena-Garey, West Englewood Ave. 10 a.m. 255 Brunswick St.; burning in Woodcliff hosts brunch, with
and clarinetist Jacob (201) 837-2795. building entrance on 10th
Shabbat in Wayne: Lake: “The Last Bagel,” schmoozing, and a dance
Niederman for its Street where free parking Temple Emanuel of with music by DJ Ryan
The Caring Community Comedy in River Edge:
pre-Passover service, is available. www.JFNNJ. the Pascack Valley’s Evans, noon. 18 Delaware
of Temple Beth Tikvah Temple Avodat Shalom
7:30 p.m. Desserts org/ShalomSesame or siyum study session St. (973) 772-3131 or
shares Shabbat dinner, hosts its comedy night
follow. 585 Russell Ave. (201) 820-3900. and breakfast, on the www.meetup.com.
6 p.m. Services follow with stand-up comedians
(201) 891-4466 or www. Fast of the Firstborn,
featuring Jewish singer/ Buddy Fitzpatrick,
bethrishon.org. Nisan 14, is at 7 a.m.

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 Calendar “RAGS MIXED WITH A TOUCH OF FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
KEEP YOUR EYE ON GOLDSTEIN!”
Passover
musical MICHAEL RIEDEL,
in NYC
The Kaufman Music Center
presents “Shlemiel Crooks — 90 YEARS OF THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK
A Musical” at Merkin Concert
Hall on Sunday, March 25, at
11 a.m. The funny family musi-
cal is based on the children’s
books “Shlemiel Crooks” and
“Chicken Bone Man” by Fair
Lawn author Anna Olswanger.
Narrated by Jerry, the family
dog, and featuring a couple of
dimwitted crooks named Burt
and Ernie, the show is about
the importance of family loy- Book by Music and Lyrics by Directed by
alty and the need to follow your CHARLIE SCHULMAN MICHAEL ROBERTS BRAD ROUSE
dreams.
The theater is at 129 W. 67th
St. in Manhattan. For informa-
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Characters from “Shlemeil Crooks.”

Geri Sandler, Eli Rosen, and Ronit Asheri in “The Labor of Life.” PHOTO PROVIDED

New Yiddish Rep offers

two plays in two languages
New Yiddish Rep presents “Hanoch
Levin Squared,” a repertory engage-
ment of two short plays by Israeli play-
wright Hanoch Levin, performed in
both Hebrew and Yiddish with Eng-
lish supertitles. Performances began
March 14 at Theater at 224 Waverly,
224 Waverly Place, just west of Sev-
enth Avenue, between 11th Avenue and
Perry Street. For more information, go
to www.NewYiddishRep.org.
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Tommy James and the Shondells

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Opinion
Evan Bernstein, left, and Oren Segal discuss the arrest of a St. Louis man
charged in connection with bomb threats against JCCs. They’re at the Anti-
Defamation League national headquarters in Manhattan on March 3, 2017.
 DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES
Anti-Semitism
FROM PAGE 51
New York Times or CNN hasn’t put the
story on the front page or at the top of
the hour. Or that legislators have sent the
issue to the back burner. Or that activists
are focused on X when they should be
focused on Y.
Jewish activists and media profession-
als seemed to do a Freaky Friday switch
over the weekend, when the New York
Times published an essay by one of its
editors charging that American Jewish
leaders have done too little to call out
the troubling anti-Semitism of the past
two years. Jonathan Weisman, who was
a target of alt-right anti-Semites during
the 2016 campaign, has written a book
called “(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in
America in the Age of Trump.” In Sun-
day’s essay, he claimed that the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, the Jewish Fed-
erations of North America, and other
leading Jewish organizations “have
been remarkably quiet” on the rise of
anti-Semitism.
His evidence is rather narrow, having
to do with the Anti-Defamation League
and its condemnation of two popular alt-
right figures for spreading anti-Semitic
theories. When Ohio’s Republican state
treasurer, Josh Mandel, lashed out at the
ADL in defense of the two conspiracy
theorists, Weisman wrote, “I did not see
any organized effort to rally around the
institution, one of the few major Jewish
groups in the United States that is still
not predominantly engaged in debate
over Israel.”
It’s an odd charge. First, the ADL talks
plenty about Israel. Second, if the Jewish
community were a government, the ADL
would be its Department of Defense,
AJC would be its Department of State,
and JFNA would be the IRS. That’s not to
say that their missions don’t overlap fre-
quently, but the ADL usually is deferred
to when it comes to anti-anti-Semitism.
The AJC does a lot of work on anti-Semi-
tism, but mainly in Europe. The JFNA is
56 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 23, 2018
a fundraising trade group that generally
avoids made-for-Twitter issues like the
ADL-Mandel ruckus.
But coming after a period that
included Charlottesville, the JCC bomb-
ings, and a general feeling of disquiet fol-
lowing the 2016 campaign and the rise of
the alt-right, it’s just weird to conclude
that Jewish organizations are ignoring
or downplaying anti-Semitism. The ADL
certainly has been loud and consistent
in calling it out in the past 16 months,
joined frequently by the American Jew-
ish Committee, Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ter, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
and, ahem, the Jewish media.
Weisman gets it only partly right when
he talks about how partisanship has dis-
torted the internal Jewish debate on anti-
Semitism. Partisanship hasn’t silenced
or cowed the ADL or left it isolated, as
he suggests. But it has made it harder
for Jews to agree on what constitutes
the greatest anti-Semitic threat of the
moment. Right-wing critics say the ADL
goes after the alt-right in order to tarnish
Trump. They accuse the ADL of ignoring
left-wing anti-Semitism as represented
by the Boycott Israel movement, which
the ADL also consistently and assertively
condemns. The Jewish left, meanwhile,
says the Jewish establishment spends
too much time vilifying domestic critics
of Israel and really should be focused on
the rise of white nationalism.
That’s certainly how the Farrakhan
debate is playing out. The right has
raised Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism as a
symbol of all that plagues the left. And
the left insists that the right’s focus on
Farrakhan is meant to deflect from its
own coddling of white nationalists and
other hatemongers.
So nobody is talking about anti-Sem-
itism? Everybody is talking about anti-
Semitism. They’re just not listening to
each other. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the
editor in chief of JTA Wire Service.
Obituaries
Seymour Bernstein
Seymour F. Bernstein, 98, of Pompton
Plains, died March 13.
A CPA, he was a pilot in World War II
and Korea.
Predeceased by a brother, Fred, he is
survived by his wife, Shirley; children,
Leonard (Ellan), Sol (Risa), Jay
(Beatrice), and Maxine Hart (David);
and grandchildren, Mathew, Benji,
Raizel, Ari, Suzanne, Eliana, Coby,
Lisa, Marc, Eli, and Evan.
Contributions can be sent to Mended
Hearts, American Cancer Society, or
Grace Hospice. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Stuart Frankel
Stuart Frankel, 87, died March 14.
He graduated CCNY and earned a
master’s from NYU.
He volunteered for the Alzheimer’s
Association and Suicide Prevention
Hotline. He studied the weekly Torah
portion for the last 20 years.
Predeceased by siblings, Larry,
Elaine, and Gladys; he is survived
by children Ilene Flaherty (Robert)
of Aberdeen, Alan (Caren) of Fair
Lawn, and Eric (Nancy) of Westwood;
grandchildren, Rachel and Amos,
Robert, Gabrielle, and Jacob; and two
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to UJA
or the Humane Society of the U.S.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Ruth Greenwald
Ruth E. Greenwald, 84 of Rochelle
Park, formerly of Fair Lawn, died
March 15.
Predeceased by her husband, Paul,
she is survived by daughters, Shelley
Wittenberg (Paul) of Fair Lawn, and
Deborah Robinson (Mark) of Montville;
grandchildren, Leah (David), Sarah,
Corey, and Matthew.
Donations can be made to 11th Hour
Rescue, or the Bergen County Animal
Shelter. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Elise Hellinger
Elise Hellinger, 58, of Queens, died
March 13.
She earned a master’s degree from
Columbia University and was a medical
writer and editor for New York City
firms.
Predeceased by her mother, Eva, née
Anschel, she is survived by her father,
Martin; siblings, Bruce (Mila), Belinda
Fornasieri (Steven); and a niece and
nephew, Olivia and Leo.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Lillian Litt
Lillian Anna Litt, 104, née Neuman,
died March 19.
She was born in Jersey City.
Predeceased by her husband,
Simon, son, Stephen, and sisters
Florence Block, Ruth Slutsky, and
Annette Liberman; she is survived by
daughters, Renee Feldman (Stuart),
and Leslie Litt; daughter-in-law, Sandra
Litt; grandchildren, Stefan Litt (Tana),
Jodi Chodos (Powell), Jacquelyn
Feldman Biggs, and Jonathan Feldman;
and five great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Phyllis Nadler
Phyllis Patty Nadler of Wayne, formerly of
Paterson, died March 15.
Predeceased by her parents, Sophie
and Nat Adler, she is survived by a
sister Abbe Weber (Sam). Donations
can be made to Ramapo-Bergen
Animal Refuge, Oakland, www.rbari.
org. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Anna Oken
Anna C. Oken, 92, of Fort Lee,
died March 15.
She was a graduate of Hackensack
Nursing School and had a long career.
Predeceased by her husband, Ira,
and son, David, she is survived by
daughters, Stephanie Wallendjack
( John) and Wendy Neuenhaus
(Tom); grandchildren, Joel, Sarah,
William, and Emily; and five
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to the
Jewish National Fund. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Ellen Tankel
Ellen Tankel, née Sauer, 70, of
Parsippany, formerly of Fair Lawn,
died March 16.
A Monmouth University graduate,
she was a teacher at Eastside High
School in Paterson, and a member
of B’nai B’rith Women, Adath Israel
Congregation in Boonton, and the New
Jersey Education Association.
Predeceased by her husband,
Richard, she is survived by sons, David,
Michael (Carla), and Matthew ( Jessica);
stepson, Joseph (Patricia); brothers,
Steven Sauer (Sherry) and Barry ( Jaye);
and grandchildren, Julian, Logan,
Lorelai, Daniel, and Rachel.
Donations can be made to the
Parkinson’s Foundation. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
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YU rosh yeshiva dies suddenly on March 19
Rabbi Ozer Glickman of Teaneck died on March 19. He was Rabbi Glickman received
a rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Semi- his BA in philosophy from
nary; a teacher at Sy Syms School of Business, Isaac Breuer Columbia University and Obituaries are prepared with
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FIDF ‘From Holocaust to Independence’ mission, April 12-20

More than 150 Friends of the Israel
Defense Forces (FIDF) from across the
United States will embark on a mission
to Poland and Israel, April 12-20, with
Holocaust survivors and 50 soldiers and
officers representing all branches of the
Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The mission is
the largest in FIDF’s history, and will cel-
ebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary, as well as
the establishment of the IDF on May 26,
1948, two weeks after the creation of the
state of Israel.
Joining the delegation will be Auschwitz
survivor Leon Shear, 91, who was born in
Bedzin, Poland, and watched his mother
and sister being sent to the gas chambers
at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Except for his
brother, who also resides in the United
States, his entire family perished in the
Holocaust. Shear now lives in Beachwood,
Ohio. His son, Howard, and grandson, Jer-
emy, will accompany him on his journey to
Poland and Israel.
“I survived two years at Auschwitz, but
it was as if time stood still in that hell. To
return to this awful place in the presence
of our people’s bravest — the soldiers of
the IDF — fills my spirit with new hope,”
said Shear, who plans to say a special
prayer for those murdered at the camp. “I
haven’t forgotten you, and our people will
always remember what happened there.”
Also joining the group from Israel will be
Holocaust survivors Giselle “Gita” Cycow-
icz, 91, Eva Lavi, 81, and Arie Oz, 82. Cyco-
wicz was born in the town of Khust, then
part of Czechoslovakia, in the Carpathian
Mountains, and survived five months in
Birkenau. At just six years old, Lavi was
the youngest person on German industri-
alist Oskar Schindler’s list, which helped
spare the lives of some 1,200 Jews who
were destined for Auschwitz. Born in Ger-
many, Oz fled to Holland, where a Chris-
tian family hid him. From their attic, he
watched Allied bombers attack the Nazis
and dreamed of one day becoming a pilot.
Oz moved to Israel after the war and joined
the Israeli Air Force, flying in Israel’s his-
toric wars and operations and retiring with
the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Led by FIDF National President Peter
Weintraub and FIDF National Director
and CEO Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir,
the nine-day “From Holocaust to Inde-
pendence” mission will span Jewish his-
tory, from its darkest moments to its most
triumphant. Israeli soldiers and Holocaust
survivors will accompany the FIDF sup-
porters on a trip across Poland, starting in
Krakow, once home to more than 60,000
Jews, and tracing the community’s steps
from the city’s ghetto to the Buczyna for-
est, where the Nazis executed more than
800 children, and then to the Auschwitz-
Birkenau concentration and extermina-
tion camps.
The entire delegation will then fly to
Israel, where they will visit IDF bases and
meet soldiers serving on Israel’s front
lines, commemorate Yom HaZikaron —
Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers
and victims of terror — and celebrate Isra-
el’s 70th Independence Day.
“This historic delegation traces the mod-
ern history of the Jewish people through
the memories of Holocaust survivors and
the eyes of IDF officers,” said Klifi-Amir.
“It tells the story of our near-extinction in
Europe, the creation of the state of Israel
70 years ago as the Jewish homeland, and
the new generation of Jewish defenders
who safeguard our legacy today. Marching
tall and proud into the dreadful Auschwitz-
Birkenau camps together with IDF officers
and the survivors who somehow endured
there, all while flying the Israeli flag,
sends a powerful message to the world
that we will never forget; ‘Never Forget’
is the guarantee of ‘Never Again.’ Thanks
to a strong IDF — one of the world’s most
moral armies — we can make sure that the
Holocaust cannot and will not ever hap-
pen again.”
“This mission comes at a crucial time,
and is one of the last opportunities for
survivors to return to Auschwitz and tell
of its horrors,” said Weintraub. “We will
pass through the gates of hell, ignoring
the false promise that ‘work will set you
free,’ where countless Jews suffered from
unimaginable cold, hunger, and despair.
We’ll be surrounded by those who sur-
vived within the camps’ walls, and also by
those who make sure their stories are not
forgotten — the brave soldiers who protect
their legacy: the state of Israel and the Jew-
ish diaspora.”

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In the collaborative Rock Musical Theater Intensive
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In this total-immersion, collaborative theater expe-
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numerous genres of theater as they rehearse and
mount a uniquely staged, elaborately produced full-
length show. Roles (and even the actual show itself )
are chosen specifically for each participant to show-
case his/her/their talents and give each the oppor-
tunity to grow over the course of the summer. This
year’s most likely production will be ‘Rent’ (School
Edition). (Note: Some material may be considered
sophisticated, and content warnings for audiences
are displayed on all performance publicity materials
whenever deemed necessary by the artistic director.)
Those students who are interested in what goes
on behind the scenes — set design, lighting, costume
design, special effects, stage management, etc. — are
also encouraged to join. Black Box also seek one stu-
dent director (a 12th grade graduate) and, sometimes,
one older student stage manager for the program. To
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are available for behind-the-scenes participants. For
those under 13 and over 19 (or otherwise not enter-
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becomes necessary, a waiting list will be formed and
any vacated slots will be filled on a first-come-first-
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Teaneck Organization for

SELLING YOUR HOME? Public Schools to hold Teaneck 5K
On Sunday, May 6, Teaneck will host
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to help fund technology programs for
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Race has been fully certified and sanc-
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also be a 1-mile Color Fun Run so that
children and families of all ages and abil-
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Bronwyn Tobin, a Teaneck resident
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1099LB
American Black Angus Beef American Black Angus Beef Veal Ground Freshly Marinated Section
Shoulder Boneless Breast Chuck Ground Ready to Cook
London Broil Short Super Family Pack Lamb Dark Meat
Ribs Turkey Shwarma

$
1099LB $
1399LB 8
$ 99
LB 4
$ 99
LB 7
$ 99
LB 5
$ 99
LB
Redemption 1 lb
Yehuda, Aviv, 5 lb
Kedem 64 oz
Haddar 32 oz
Glick’s 64 oz
Gefen 19 oz

Hand Shmurah or Streit’s Concord Imitation Apple Juice Cucumbers In

Matzo Matzos Grape Juice White Brine 7-9 ct
Vinegar

$
1299EA 6
$ 99
EA 3
$ 99
EA 99¢EA 1
$ 79
EA
4/$
5
Gefen 11 oz
Tonnelli or Lieber’s 25 oz Gold’s 40 oz
Manischewitz 32 oz
Lieber’s 0.5-5 oz
Haddar 14 oz

Whole Orange Marinara or Sweet & Sour Chicken Spices Cut Hearts
Mandarins Pasta Sauce Duck Sauce Broth Assorted Of Palm
Assorted (Excluding: All Peppers,
(Excluding Dairy Vodka) Minced Garlic, Garlic Powder,
Montreal, Shwarma, Ground
Nutmeg & Sour Salt)

4/$
3 2/$
3 2/$
5 1
$ 79
EA 99¢EA 5/$
5
Glick’s 8 oz
Domino 1 lb
Miller’s 3 lb
Tropicana 59 oz
Breakstone 16 oz
LaYogurt 6 oz

Mushrooms Sugar Boxes American Cheese Orange Juice Cottage Yogurt

Stems & Pieces Dark or Light Brown Only 108 Slices Assorted Cheese Assorted
White or Assorted
Yellow Only

5/$
5 5/$
5 $
1299EA 2/$
6 2/$
4 3/$
2
Mehadrin 12 pack
Pine Belt 12 pack
Gefen 19 oz
Gefen 2.8 oz
Unger’s 16 oz
Abe’s 56 oz

Chocolate Extra Large French Fries Crushed Coffee Parvelicious

Leben White Eggs Assorted Garlic Cubes Whitener Ice Cream
By the Case Assorted

9
$ 99
EA
2/$
5 2/$
6 2/$
5 2/$
3 5
$ 99
EA
B’gan 24 oz
Of Tov 5 oz
Aarons 4 oz
Solomon’s 6 oz

Diced Butternut Turkey Slices Sliced Chicken Sliced Beef

Squash Assorted Bologna Pastrami or
Corned Beef

2/$
5 2/$
5 5/$
5 4
$ 99
EA
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