Jewish Standard, July 13, 2018

TOURO LAUNCHES PHD PROGRAM IN JEWISH STUDIES page 6
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FROM SWASTIKA TO JIM CROW page 10
LOCAL RABBI MARCHES FOR IMMIGRATION IN SAN DIEGO page 12
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Israel gets a date with the moon
l The deadlines were trolled landing on the
missed, the $20 million moon’s surface.
prize was withdrawn, but The probe will be
the mission to the moon launched from Cape Ca-
is on — and now it has a naveral aboard a SpaceX
schedule. Falcon 9 rocket, officials
SpaceIL, formed to said during a press con-
launch an Israeli-built ference held this week
rocket to the moon at an Israel Aerospace
and collect a Google X Industries space technol-
prize, announced launch ogy site in Yehud.
and landing plans this “We will put the Israeli
week, four months after flag on the moon,” Ido
Google withdrew the Anteby, SpaceIL’s CEO,
prize after none of the said. President Morris Kahn, Schusterman also have
groups competing to The spacecraft will who donated some $27 contributed to the proj-
land on the moon met carry out a Weizmann million to the project, ect, which has cost some
an extended but still-ex- Institute of Science ex- told a gathering of jour- $95 million.
pired deadline. periment to measure the nalists: “We are making Whereas other moon-
February 13, 2019, moon’s magnetic field, history.” shot spacecraft have
is when SpaceIL plans finishing its mission with- The Israeli government taken just days to reach
to land its unmanned in two days. has promised to fund 10 their target, SpaceIL’s
spacecraft on the moon. SpaceIL’s vehicle is percent of the project, will be fired into an el-
The launch is scheduled just six feet in diameter he said, but the money is liptical orbit to bring it
for two months earlier, in and not even five feet yet to come. “The gov- gradually closer to the
December. tall, standing on its four ernment should recog- moon, a journey that will
If all goes well, Spa- legs. It weighs 1,200 nize that space is very take two months but will
ceIL’s spider-like craft pounds, making it the important for the future,” burn less fuel than other,
will give Israel entree smallest craft to touch Kahn said. quicker space ships.
into the exclusive club of down on the moon. Diaspora Jewish
Stuart Winer and
just three nations that so Israeli billionaire phi- billionaires Sheldon Shoshana Solomon /
far have achieved a con- lanthropist and SpaceIL Adelson and Lynn Times of Israel
Candlelighting:
Gal Gadot visits children’s hospital Friday, July 13, 8:10 p.m.
in full Wonder Woman costume Shabbat ends:
Saturday, July 14, 9:16 p.m.
l Gal Gadot showed she can be 2017 blockbuster movie “Wonder
a wonder woman on and off the Woman.”
screen last week when she visited
children at a Virginia hospital
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produced by Warner Bros. Pictures
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Noshes
“New slogan: Reform Jews
rock your world!”
— Haaretz reporter Allison Kaplan Sommer, reacting to the
headline, “Reform Jews to blame for earthquake in northern
Israel, ultra-Orthodox lawmaker says.”
DREAM ON:
Seinfeld on Barr
and ‘Roseanne’
The hit interview replacement are tiny. The Valley Torah High School
show “Comedians make-or-break pressure in Los Angeles, was the
in Cars Getting on any actress would be best Jewish school
Coffee,” hosted by JERRY enormous. She would be basketball player in the
SEINFELD, 64, began toast if the ratings slipped country during his
streaming on Netflix last even a bit after the huge senior year. Turell lead
Friday. (It moved over look-in audience for the his team to a 29-8
from Crackle, another first replacement “Rose- league record as he put
streaming service.) The anne” episode. Maybe up great personal
12-episode season only Meryl Streep could offensive numbers. He
includes an interview with pull it off. Now if they got was heavily recruited by
the late JERRY LEWIS. Meryl (not likely) that big-time basketball
Seinfeld recently would be a hoot. Con- Division I colleges and
weighed in on the whole sider the irony: someone universities (including
Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Lewis Roseanne Barr
controversy surrounding who President Trump two service academies).
ROSEANNE BARR, 65. hates playing his favorite Ultimately, however, he
Among other things, Jer- TV character. decided late this spring
ry suggested that another that he couldn’t go to a
actress be hired to play If 50 or so people college where observing
the Roseanne Connor died at once — a Shabbat would be
character in the second Jew could be on difficult. He’ll be attend-
season of the “Roseanne” the throne ing Yeshiva University, a
show revival. “A Very English Division III school, this
He told Entertain- Scandal,” a fall.
ment Tonight: “I think three-episode The final World Cup
they should get an- BBC series, is now game will be played
other Roseanne. They streaming on Hulu. It stars this Sunday, July 15. As
brought Dan Conner Hugh Grant as Jeremy I write this, there is a
back, he was dead and Thorpe (1929-2004), the Stephen Frears Ryan Turell Vladimir Granat remote chance that Rus-
they brought him back. British Liberal Party sia will make that final.
So, why can’t we get an- leader from 1970 to 76. 2017) from 1973 until his was a beautiful woman Jew has ever come to (They didn’t, defeated
other Roseanne. There Thorpe was a charismatic, death. Her Jewish last and a talented concert the throne. by Croatia.) Russia
are other funny women articulate man who was name made me look pianist. Her first hus- By the way, Queen has one Jewish player:
that could do that part.” at the cusp of real power her up. Stein was born band, George Lascelles, Mary, the grandmother VLADIMIR GRANAT, 31,
(Dan was killed off in several times (via a in Vienna; she and her the Earl of Harwood, of George Lascelles and a defenseman who has
the original series and coalition with another, parents fled to the U.K. was Queen Elizabeth’s Queen Elizabeth II, ini- been a pro since 2004.
his death was explained bigger party). His political in 1938. Her Jewish fa- first cousin. (His mother tially objected to Stein He’s played for the Rus-
away in the revival as a career ended when he ther, ERWIN STEIN, was and her father were joining the extended sian national team since
dream of Roseanne’s.) was accused of being a prominent musician. siblings.) At his birth, royal family. Lascelles 2011. He also played for
I beg to disagree with involved in a plot to Obits seem to imply her Lascelles was sixth in once summed up Mary’s Russia in the 2014 World
Mr. Seinfeld. Sure, Dan murder a man with whom mother wasn’t Jew- line to the throne. Stein objections to Stein in Cup. He was a member
was killed off and two he had an affair. The ish, but her maternal wed the duke in an An- three words: “Jewish. of the Russian Maccabi
actresses played the series, which got good grandmother’s maiden glican ceremony, and I Doesn’t hunt.” team and he played in
part of Roseanne’s older reviews, was directed by name was Cohn, so presume she adopted the 2017 Maccabiah
daughter in the original STEPHEN FREARS, 77, a my research jury still is his faith. They had two Sport shorts Games in Israel. (Thanks
series. But the odds of two-time Oscar nominee. out about Marion be- sons. The elder son, the RYAN TURELL, to Jewish Sports Review
finding an actress who Thorpe was married ing Jewish (at least in present earl, is as close 18, a 2018 magazine for this tip.)
could pull off Roseanne’s to Marion Stein (1926- a halachic sense). Stein as a possibly halachic graduate of –N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

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Learning the nuances of Jewish studies
Touro launches a Ph.D. program and names a Teaneck scholar to lead it
JOANNE PALMER “Remember, if you want to understand medieval Jew-
ish philosophy, you have to understand medieval Muslim
It’s not easy to start a doctoral program. philosophy,” he added; the cultures learned and took from
In fact, it’s hard to decide where to start; you need high- each other with abandon.
level faculty, genuine scholars who can both research Dr. Shmidman remembers his own education with joy;
and teach. You need high-level students, searchers and he is confident that Touro’s doctoral students will get the
thinkers who have the intellectual rigor to pursue knowl- same excitement and feeling of connection with the past
edge wherever it will take them. You need the funding and the future that he got as he studied primary sources.
to hire the teachers. You need the curriculum to attract “There is a satisfaction in better understanding who we
the students. And you need accreditation if you are to be are and where we came from and what we stand for,” he
taken seriously enough to be able to draw those teachers said. “That’s the Jewish intellectual tradition. How can we
and students. continue it? It’s exciting to try to place ourselves in some
You need an intellectual passion that brings students of these historical contexts.
and teachers and administrators together. If that intellec- “When I study the Rambam” — Dr. Shmidman has writ-
tual passion is joined by an emotional connection to the ten about Maimonides and finds the 12th-century physi-
subject, you have a base to build on. cian and philosopher a great source of inspiration — “it
Touro College and University System is a relatively new sometimes feels as if he is with me, helping me along.
institution, which has developed into a four-country net- That is a special feeling that I try to convey to my own
work of 30 schools, enrolling more than 19,000 students students, to help them experience the joy, the stimula-
since it was founded in 1970. Some of its schools are purely tion, the excitement of studying together with some of the
professional, while others relate more directly to the mis- major figures of Jewish history, of trying to recreate and
sion it embraced at its founding as a school that focused be present at major events of Jewish history, and of trying
on higher education for Jewish students. to transmit the lessons of Jewish history to current and
Touro is about to add another program. In September, subsequent generations of students.”
it will launch its first doctoral program in the arts and sci- Maimonides was not an ahistoric figure but lived in a
ences as it offers students the chance to earn a Ph.D. in very specific time and place, as do all the rest of us. There
Jewish studies. is much to be gained from learning how a genius dealt
The program has been created and will be led by Rabbi with real-world problems. “It is no accident that to this
Dr. Michael Shmidman of Teaneck, dean of Touro’s Gradu- Rabbi Dr. Michael Shmidman day, the Jews of Yemen have such respect for the Ram-
ate School of Jewish Studies, who has been working on it bam,” Dr. Shmidman said. “That’s because of the letter he
for a decade. and the media, and Zvi Kaplan, a rabbi and professor of wrote to them in 1172, a letter that addressed two major
“It is fitting that our first Ph.D. in the liberal arts should history who focuses on the Jews of Western Europe and crises going on at the time in the Jewish community.”
be in Jewish studies, because Jewish studies has been whose doctorate is from Columbia. “These two are among One was forced conversion, which drove the commu-
at the core of Touro’s mission from the beginning,” Dr. a number of other distinguished scholars on the faculty,” nity to a state of fatalistic despair, and the other was a false
Shmidman said. “The program began in 1981, and we were Dr. Shmidman said. messiah, who was giving them false hope. “The Rambam
chartered to offer a master’s degree in Jewish studies. I Just as it is important to engage the right faculty mem- had to give them real hope,” Dr. Shmidman said. “That
was brought in then to run this new program.” Dr. Shmid- bers, it is important to enroll the right students. “We are was a remarkable challenge, because he had to do two
man’s own doctorate, in Near Eastern languages and civi- recruiting students very selectively,” Dr. Shmidman said. opposite things — give them hope in the face of despair,
lizations, comes from Harvard. He also is an ordained “We expect to begin with just four or five; we already have and not give them false hope.”
Orthodox rabbi, and he led Teaneck’s Congregation Keter several among the most outstanding of the masters’ pro- It is because the study of history allows us to study such
Torah for a few years, until the press of his academic obli- gram who are continuing with us.” nightmares and understand both why they unfolded
gations became so unremitting that he had to give it up. The program will focus on “modern Jewish studies,” he and how their repercussions played out that history is
Dr. Shmidman is proud of Touro’s master’s program. continued. “We define that as from the 16th century to so important, Dr. Shmidman suggested. “We can learn
“It is highly respected in the field,” he said. “A number of the present, but there is a scholarly debate about how you from it and enhance our own lives as Jews and as mem-
years back, the Middle States evaluators called it a model define the 16th century, as late medieval or early modern. bers of society,” he said. “The more we understand the
of excellence. So it is a fitting culmination of all these years We’re defining it as early modern. But in a few years we Jewish intellectual and religious tradition, the more we
of masters’ courses that we have been given approval for hope to add more in medieval Jewish studies. can learn from it.”
a Ph.D. program.” It is, in fact, he added, “the realization “The degree is in Jewish studies, not Jewish history,” he He expects that the students who earn their Ph.D.s at
of a dream.” explained. “History is at the core of the curriculum, but Touro will go on to become Jewish communal leaders,
The new program’s faculty will include Dr. Shnayer Lei- we call it Jewish studies, not history, because we use an as so many students who have earned masters’ degrees
man, who has been named Distinguished Professor of interdisciplinary approach. We are interested in intellec- already have done.
Jewish History and Literature. Dr. Leiman is a professor tual history, cultural history. To understand all that, you Oh, and there’s one other thing, Dr. Shmidman said. He
emeritus of Jewish history and literature at Brooklyn Col- have to integrate the disciplines and methodologies of lit- knows that many Jews are fascinated by history, although
lege. His background includes a doctorate from the Uni- erature, sociology, anthropology, and more; all of this is a most of them are not prepared to commit themselves to a
versity of Pennsylvania and a teaching stint at Yale, among part of what goes into the history of Jews and Judaism over master’s degree program, much less a doctoral one, and
other prestigious universities. He also is an ordained rabbi the last millennium.” by far most of them lack the credentials that acceptance
— his smicha comes from the Mirrer Yeshiva — so, like Dr. Students will have to be “proficient in Hebrew; we also to such a program would entail.
Shmidman, he embodies a thorough and rigorous mixture expect French and German proficiency, and whatever But they can audit! The master’s program holds a lim-
of Orthodox and secular scholarship. other languages are relevant to the particular student’s ited number of seats for “qualified auditors,” Dr. Shmid-
The new doctoral program’s faculty includes two other pursuits. It could be Arabic, if you are interested in the man said. “Some of them have been major assets to our
Teaneck residents — Maya Balakirsky Katz, a professor of relationships between Jews and Muslims, or it could be program.” In fact, some “eventually matriculate as stu-
art history who earned her doctorate at Bryn Mawr and Latin if your interest is in the relationship between the dents. Even if you are older, why not try to maximize your
focuses on the relationship between religious identity church and the Jewish community. intellectual creativity?”

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Breaking the stigma

Discussion in Teaneck to center on postpartum depression
Abigail Klein Leichman Ms. Laves said some people are more predisposed to
perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, which also can
Arona Berow is a licensed social worker living in Washing- strike new fathers. Someone with prior mental health
ton Heights, right across the George Washington Bridge issues, prior experience with anxiety or depression dur-
from Bergen County. ing pregnancy, or a history of infertility, miscarriage,
She’s also a young mother who experienced postpar- or traumatic pregnancy or childbirth, is more likely to
tum depression. As part of her mission to destigmatize be affected.
and normalize mental-health issues, she will tell her story According to the Centers for Disease Control, postpar-
at a program hosted by the Jewish Center of Teaneck next tum depression affects one out of nine women. “Postpar-
Sunday titled “Postpartum Depression: Raising Awareness tum depression is different than the common ‘baby blues’
and Breaking the Stigma.” (See box.) that happen in 60 to 80 percent of new parents at a time
Teaneck native Marilyn Laves, a Manhattan-based when they are overwhelmed, exhausted, and stressed out,”
licensed clinical social worker who has been speaking Ms. Laves emphasized. “But if it goes on longer and the new
at area synagogues to raise awareness of the symptoms Rabbi Daniel Fridman Marilyn Laves mother has lost interest in life or feels helpless and worth-
and treatments for pregnancy-related emotional issues less, that’s more serious and something to pay attention to.”
including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, also will and I reached out to anybody I could think of, but no one She explained that dramatic fluctuations in hormonal
speak that evening. could help us for a long time so that became my mission,” levels are responsible for the mood swings associated with
“Perinatal” refers to the period ranging from pregnancy Ms. Laves said. the perinatal period.
to up to one year after birth. Like most of us, Ms. Laves did “The birth of a baby is supposed to be a time of joy “Hormones, particularly estrogen and progesterone,
not know that overwhelming anxiety and obsessive behav- and anticipation,” she continued. “People are ashamed are responsible for changes during pregnancy and impact
iors can strike even during pregnancy, but she found out and embarrassed when they feel depressed. I want to your ability to regulate your mood. After delivery, the sud-
some 20 years ago when her own sister experienced peri- educate people to recognize the signs, ask the right ques- den drop in those hormone levels can cause baby blues.
natal depression shortly before her baby was born. tions, know where to reach out, and what we can do as Breastfeeding produces the hormone oxytocin, and while
“At the time, I was just starting out in my profession a community.” See depression page 21
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Moral Mincha Mondays

Young Orthodox Jews daven to protest family separations by the U.S.
JOANNE PALMER
Sometimes a good way to

show your unease with the
way things are, to make
clear your refusal to be
bullied or shamed or bored
into going along with the
things the way they are
when you know, deep in
your heart and your head,
that they are wrong, is to
do what you know to be
the right thing to do — but Nava Friedman
to do it with a twist.
Drawing from the Christian tradition, the Rev. William
Barber, who heads the NAACP in North Carolina, began
what he calls “Moral Mondays,” a civil disobedience move-
ment whose participants showed great respect to the poli-
ticians whose policies they protested.
Drawing from the Jewish tradition, Nava Friedman, who
grew up in Teaneck, and her partner in this work, Rebecca
Krevitz, began what they call Moral Mincha Mondays.
They organize minyanim, run according to Orthodox hal-
acha, at which Jews can pray together to show solidarity
with each other and protest what they see as immoral gov-
ernmental policy, showing great respect to each other and
to the tradition as they do so. Members of the social action groups Hitoreri and Torah Trumps Hate gather for Moral Mincha Monday in the
The idea for Moral Mincha Mondays began as a protest plaza at One Broadway in lower Manhattan.
Conference connects yeshiva high school teachers

YHShare fosters educator strategies and networking during inaugural session
LOIS GOLDRICH
Even the best teachers appreciate learning new teaching

strategies. Or having their own ideas reinforced. Or meet-
ing colleagues from around the country. So it’s no surprise
then that the Bergen County yeshiva high school teachers
who attended the recent YHShare conference spoke so
highly of the experience.
Shifra Schapiro, a Judaic studies instructor at Teaneck’s
Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, not only par-
ticipated in the conference but arranged for other teach-
ers from Ma’ayanot to be there too. “We decided that we
should all go, not have one person go and report back,”
she said.
The experience was extremely valuable, Ms. Schap-
iro said. “We had the opportunity to network with other
teachers, from Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as this
area. We got to hear about cutting-edge tools from educa-
tors who strive every day to improve the way we teach and
reach our students.”
Ms. Schapiro intends to keep the interchange going. “I
made a connection with someone from Chicago to follow
up something we discussed at the conference,” she said.
More than 100 educators representing modern Ortho-
dox high schools from across the United States partici-
pated in YHShare, the inaugural conference of yeshiva
high school Judaic studies teachers. The two-day con- Rabbi Howard Jachter leads a session, “Teaching Emunah to Modern Orthodox High School Students,” at
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“With Moral Mincha Mondays, we want
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‘From Swastika to Jim Crow’

Film by Teaneck documentarian recaptures the story
of Jewish academic refugees and their lives in the Deep South
JOANNE PALMER
I
n the 1930s, life started getting harder
for Jewish academics in Germany.
Not as hard as it would get for all
Jews in Germany and the rest of East-
ern Europe, of course. They weren’t herded
into ghettos. They weren’t sent off on cattle
cars to extermination camps. That was still
a few years off.
Still, they were expelled from German
universities, which were hotbeds of Nazi
ideology. It became clear that their careers
would wither, and their lives would dwin-
dle into less and less fulfilling dead ends — if
they were lucky, that is.
Some of them were able to see what was
coming and escape to the United States.
Some of them were able to get teaching jobs
at historically black colleges. Extraordinary
relationships and discoveries and lives came
from that.
In 2000, Stephen Fischler of Teaneck
and his business partner, Joel Sucher of
Hartsdale, N.Y., completed a documentary,
“From Swastika to Jim Crow,” that told the
stories of some of these Jewish academics.
On July 18, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum and the March on Washington
Film Festival will screen the film in Wash-
ington, and a panel of experts, including Mr.
Fischler, will talk about it. Documentarian Stephen Fischler of Teaneck kneels at the headstone of Professor Ernst Borinski, buried on the campus of
“We started to work on the film prob- Tougaloo University in Mississippi.
ably 20 years ago,” Mr. Fischler said. “We
read a letter to the editor in the New York very powerful.”
Times from Professor John Herz, who was About 50 German Jews taught at histori-
one of the people profiled in the film.” Dr. cally black colleges, the film tells us. They
Herz was a political scientist who fled Dus- found themselves in an odd situation,
seldorf, went to Howard University, and at once a minority and a majority, sort
then later on to Princeton. Dr. Herz’s let- of able to pass as long as they kept their
ter was in response to stories about black mouths closed, but quintessential outsid-
anti-Semitism, in response to genuine black ers nonetheless.
anti-Semitism from the Nation of Islam. “He One of the speakers in Washington will
wrote that we were forgetting that there was be Joy Ladner, who was Howard Univer-
a time when black institutions lent a help- sity’s first woman president. “She had a
ing hand to ‘Jewish refugees like me,’” Mr. very significant role in the civil rights move-
Fischler remembered. “And he mentioned ment, and she is an amazing person,” Mr.
a book about that history, called ‘From Fischler said.
Swastika to Jim Crow.’ The book’s author, “She is in the film, because she was a
Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, was a refugee student of one of the refugee scholars,” he
from Germany. She said that Howard Uni- continued. That was Ernst Borinski, who
versity had saved her life.” (Howard Univer- spent his entire career at Tougaloo College,
sity, in Washington, is one of the historically a historically black institution in Jackson,
black colleges.) Mississippi. “Joy Ladner was like an 18- or
Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher made their 19-year-old student, from a small town in
documentary based on Ms. Edgcomb’s Mississippi,” Mr. Fischler said. “Borinski Ernst Manasse, standing, left, with students at North Carolina College for Negroes,
book. “It’s a hidden story,” Mr. Fischler became her mentor, and they developed a now North Carolina Central University.
said. “It’s about how many of them went deep relationship. She tells a story of how,
from being oppressed in Germany as Jews when she eventually defended her disserta- he told her. 1938, enlisted in the United States Army and
to being the only whites on campus dur- tion” — she earned a doctorate in sociology “And all these scholars — they got paid spent four years there, and then earned his
ing segregation. from Washington University in St. Louis in bubkes,” Mr. Fischler added. One hundred doctorate, in sociology, from the University
“The film is about what happens when 1968 — “the first person she called was Ernst dollars was a lot of money. of Pittsburgh. Then he went to Mississippi.
they get to these black colleges, and the Borinski. And he sent her a check for $100, Dr. Borinski never married. His family “His teaching became his life,” Mr. Fis-
relationships they have with their students. and said she should use it to take her friends remained in Germany, where they were chler said. “He was buried on the campus,
It’s very dramatic, very emotional, and out to dinner. You earned it. You deserve it, murdered. He got to the United States in at Tougaloo.”

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scholars, Mr. Fischler said. “There was no Facebook group husband had lunch with a black colleague, and they were
for them. They didn’t identify as part of a group — but it arrested and had to pay a $25 fine for eating lunch with him.”
was pretty clear that there was a group. Things have changed immeasurably since then, Mr. Fis-
“When we showed the film at black colleges, invariably chler said. In general, they have gotten better. And the rela-
there would be one teacher there who would watch it and tionships between blacks and Jews have gone back and forth
say, ‘You know what? There was a teacher where I went to since then, but on the whole, he thinks that there is reason
college who probably was part of that group.’” for hope now.
Life was different for professors in the rural south than “Yes, there is anti-Semitism in some black communities,
it had been in Germany, Mr. Fischler said. “Professors and there is racism in some parts of the Jewish community,”
were venerated in Europe. A professor would walk in, he said. “But in general, things are getting better and better.”
and the students all would stand up. They would never He’s glad that “From Swastikas to Jim Crow” is being
talk while a professor was talking.” In North Carolina or revived. “I think it’s kind of cool that people can see it
Alabama or Washington? Not so much. again,” he said. “So that people can see what it was like in
Also, the Jewish refugees had to adapt to the realities of the the 1940s and 50s and early 60s.” So that things can keep
Jim Crow south. “There was one of the teachers; she and her getting better.
Professor Donald Cunnigen of the University

of Rhode Island visits the gravesite of Dr. Ernst
Borinski.
In the film, Dr. Herz tells a story “about how he was

at Howard, talking to a student at the dental or medi-
cal school, and asks if there are a lot of white students
there,” Mr. Fischler said. “The student says there are not
a lot of white students, but there are some Jewish ones.
“Jews were seen as sort of halfway.”
Mr. Fischler is “kind of excited by the fact that the
whole idea of the screening is that now we’re looking
at the relationship between the civil rights movement
and this group of Jews,” he said. “Borinski, for exam-
ple, was very important to the movement, behind
the scenes.”
Why did the historically black colleges take the Jewish
academics in the first place? “One reason was a desire
to help out the refugees,” Mr. Fischler said. “There
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Marching for immigration

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster brings support to San Diego and Tijuana
Larry Yudelson
W
hen 1,500 people marched
through San Diego last
week to prote st the
Trump administration’s
immigration policies, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-
Troster of Teaneck was among them.
Rabbi Kahn-Troster is the deputy direc-
tor of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human
Rights. She led a group of two dozen rab-
bis and cantors from across the country
that joined the march.
The next day, she took her delegation to
Tijuana, Mexico, touring migrant centers
with the help of HIAS, the immigration
agency formerly known as the Hebrew
Immigration Aid Society.
The march in San Diego was organized
by Mijente, a Latino organization whose
name means “my people.” “We were there
for support,” Rabbi Kahn-Troster said.
“It was unusual for rabbis and cantors
who are used to being in front and giving
the speeches.”
Truah gathered with other Jewish
groups — including Bend the Arc, Jews For
Racial and Economic Justice, and If Not
Now — before the march for Shacharit ser-
vices. All told, the Jewish delegation was
more than 100 people. It was the largest
religious group at the march. Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, left, at the protest in San Diego. Photos courtesy Bend The Arc
Speeches before the march began

focused on the effect of immigration poli- up and see it,” Rabbi Kahn-Troster said. us that the administration is systemati- asylum in the United States, as well as
cies on families. During the march, some Those protestors face felony charges for cally dismantling our asylum system, people who had been deported from the
people blocked the entrance to the court- conspiracy and misdemeanor charges for making it difficult for people fleeing vio- United States after their asylum claims
room where immigration trials take place. trespassing and obstruction of justice. lence to reach our country,” Rabbi Kahn- were rejected.
Ten protesters were arrested for hang- That protest was last Monday, July 2. The Troster said. “It was heartbreaking to be there,” Rabbi
ing a banner on a hotel across the street next day began with presentations from Then the group crossed the border to Kahn-Troster said. “One man — you could
from the courtroom declaring “FREE OUR the Jewish Family Service of San Diego Tijuana, where they visited two shelters see the marks on his wrists from the hand-
FAMILIES NOW!” “It was amazing to look and from HIAS, whose speakers “warned housing people on their way to apply for cuffs when he had been in custody — told
Rabbi Kahn-Troster, center, is at Shachrit services before the march. Protest signs call for the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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us all his family is in the U.S. We heard stories about motto of a protest two weeks ago. That’s a positive vision, populations in our society is a clear part of the Jewish tra-
what the families back in the U.S. are going through. that’s a message synagogues can get behind given the cen- dition,” she said. “Given the moral crisis we find ourselves
“One thing I didn’t realize was that if you have chil- trality of the family — broadly defined — in Judaism. We are in as a nation, if synagogues are not places where we can
dren in the United States, not only can’t you be with morally accountable as a society that is putting children in talk about these issues, if they are places where it would be
them in the U.S., you can’t automatically bring them to cages and families in jail, asking children one year old to too politically difficult to say children and parents belong
Mexico,” she said. “You have to prove you can support represent themselves in court. together, we should think carefully about what are the val-
them. The process may take a year or more. “Standing in solidarity with the most vulnerable ues of our synagogue.”
“It’s heartbreaking. They told stories of women who
could talk to their children only by phone or Skype.
The children ask them where they were.
“As a human being, as a parent, I spent a lot of
time thinking about the choices my family made to
get to Canada,” where Rabbi Kahn-Troster grew up,
she said. “What would it mean to flee everything you
know in search of a better life and not being able to
get there?”
“It’s really important that T’ruah combined the
day of witness with HIAS with the day of justice in the
streets,” she continued. “We weren’t there just to see
what was going on. HIAS was teaching us how to advo-
cate, how we can continue to support asylum seekers
and refugees. And we were in the streets with com-
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Hannah Cowan named director

of Sinai’s Shalem school at Heichal
Hannah Cowan has become Teacher Project and has
the new director of Sinai’s a history of collabora-
Rabbi Mark and Linda Kara- tion and partnership with
sick Shalem High School at many professionals.
Heichal HaTorah in Teaneck. Sinai Shalem at Heichal
Ms. Cowan, who comes from is for 18- to 21-year-olds
England, earned a master’s who are classified with
degree and certification developmental or pro-
in special education in the found learning disabilities,
United States, and has partici- including autism, social/
pated in professional develop- Hannah Cowan emotional challenges,
ment in educational technol- Down Syndrome, cere-
ogy relating to special education. She bral palsy, and neurological disabilities. Olim from the July 3 flight gather for a group photo. PHOTOS BY BEN KELMER
has more than a decade of experience Shalem at Heichal provides a second

working in special education, particu-
larly with students who have intellec-
stage of high school for older boys who
are ready to focus intensely on life skills
Nefesh B’Nefesh processing
tual or developmental disabilities, and and vocational training in preparation a summer groundswell of olim
comes to Sinai from Kulanu Academy in for their transition to adulthood. Nefesh B’Nefesh, in cooperation
Cedarhurst, N.Y. Ms. Cowan, her husband, Yosef, and with the Ministry of Aliyah and
Ms. Cowan has been a mentor to their infant daughter will move to New Integration, the Jewish Agency,
other teachers through the Jewish New Jersey this summer. KKL-JNF, and JNF-USA, welcomed
98 new olim to Israel on Tuesday.
Five El Al flights carrying olim
from Toronto, Miami, Los Angeles,
JFK, and Newark airports arrived
throughout the day at Ben Gurion
Airport. The Newark group had 74
olim; the youngest is eight months
old. Two charter and eight group
aliyah flights are scheduled to arrive
over an eight-week period.
“The next eight weeks are our
busiest and most exciting time of
year as we work round the clock
helping nearly 2,000 olim realize
their dream of aliyah,” said Rabbi
Yehoshua Fass, Nefesh B’Nefesh’s
co-founder and executive director.
“We wish each and every one of The Sheps family of Fair Lawn.
Robin Buchholz of New York, left, Micole Tuchman of Englewood, and Shera today’s 100 olim, who are kickstart-
Aranoff Tuchman of New York attend the Israel Bonds meeting. ing our summer aliyah season, a smooth the situation keeps hitting me in the little
acclimation as they build their new lives in moments. I can’t believe how lucky I am,
the Jewish homeland.” and I’m so appreciative of the opportunity
“My husband and I have been desper- to be here and to Nefesh B’Nefesh for mak-
ate to make aliyah for the longest time,” ing it so easy.”
Shira Lankin Sheps, who had lived in Fair More than 50 percent of new olim move
Ronald Lauder,
Lawn until she and her family made ali- to Israel during the summer, which is a
left, with Stuart
yah this week, said. “Suddenly, the end natural transition period for them. They
Garawitz, Israel
of the preparations just crept up on us, have a chance to settle into their homes
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and now we’re finally here. The reality of and prepare for the upcoming school year.
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philanthropist, and diplomat, who is the museum’s president. The meet-
is the president of the World Jewish ing generated $2.6 million in Israel Congressman
Congress, hosted investors from Israel bonds investments. Bill Pascrell

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Dr. Lynn
Sugarman,
left, Deborah
and Mark
Meadows,
Dr. David
Wisotsky, and
Naomi and
Dr. Daniel
Feuer.
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Congressman Meadows hosted
at Englewood Norpac meeting
Naomi and Dr. Daniel Feuer and Drs. Lynn Sug- Mr. Meadows came to recognition among the
Clifton shul marks 75 years arman and David Wisotsky co-hosted a Norpac
pro-Israel meeting in Englewood for Congress-
pro-Israel community in 2014, when he intro-
duced the Hezbollah International Financing Pre-
From left, Rabbi Bob Mark of the Clifton Jewish Center, Passaic County Free- man Mark Meadows (R-N.C.). vention Act. The legislation, which passed the fol-
holder Director Sandi Lazzara, CJC president Elinor Alboum, event chair- Mr. Meadows was elected to Congress after lowing year with overwhelming support, cut off
man Malvin Gang, and Freeholder John W. Bartlett display a proclamation a 27-year career as a small business owner. He Hezbollah’s access to U.S. banks. He is also chair
congratulating the CJC on its 75th anniversary during a celebratory gala at sits on the House Oversight and Government of the Freedom Caucus in the House. At the Nor-
the Richfield Regency in Verona on June 24. Reform Committee; since 2015, he has chaired pac meeting, Mr. Meadows discussed his follow-
that committee’s Subcommittee on Govern- up legislation that would tighten sanctions even
ment Operations. He also sits on the House further by disallowing U.S. banks to deal with
Foreign Affairs Committee, where he serves other entities working with Hezbollah.
on the Subcommittee on the Middle East and He is finishing his third term in Congress and
North Africa. is seeking re-election in November.
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Riding a bike,
Englewood woman goes on ‘Ride for the Living’
from Auschwitz to the JCC of Krakow
JOANNE PALMER that work was done with her late husband, Marty
G
Kraar, who had worked for many Jewish organi-
oing backward from hell doesn’t make zations and headed some of them before he and
hell go away. It doesn’t undo the past. It Lynda started Kraar Associates.) “That’s how I got
doesn’t change much. involved in this particular ride,” she said. She was
Also, it changes everything. talking about the Ride for the Living, the 55-mile
Lynda Kraar of Englewood (and before that, for daylong ride from Auschwitz to the JCC of Krakow,
many years, of Teaneck, and before that of many a ride that reverses the trip through the death
places, and before that of Toronto, where she grew camp’s hell gate, with its lying slogan, “Work Sets
up) knows that. She’s the daughter of Holocaust sur- Your Free,” radiating malice, even 73 years after
vivors — the clear-eyed, unsentimental, occasionally it was liberated. The ride goes through the lovely,
rage-filled daughter of Holocaust survivors. bucolic Polish countryside to the JCC, and to the
She didn’t ride a bicycle from Auschwitz to Kra- Jewish Culture Festival that spills through the
kow to prove anything, but she was there to maybe, ancient city, with sounds of klezmer and joy at the
for just a minute, to fix something. same time.
Ms. Kraar is a consultant who has worked with Ms. Kraar grew up riding a bicycle. It was the way
Lynda Kraar is exhilarated at the JCC in many nonprofits, including the Polin Museum of she and all her friends, mostly survivors’ kids, got
Krakow, at the end of the RIde for the Living. the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. (Much of places. “That was the mode of transportation,” she

At the far left, the approximately 200
riders listen to speakers at Auschwitz
before they begin their 55-mile ride;
at left, they bunch together on a small
Polish road, from which traffic has
been barred for the day.
(Nor, to be clear, should you have.) He was

not an easy parent, she said; nor was her
mother, Chana Frajlich, who survived the
war not in a camp but in a Siberian gulag.
Their relationship was not easy. Her child-
hood was not easy.
“What those guys lived through was
insane,” she said. “And I wanted to dis-
pense with the drama.
“I wanted to cleanse myself.”
So, she said, “I decided that I would do
it. I signed up for the trip.”
She spent some time at the festival first.
“It’s like Aspen,” she said. “You see every-
body.” The ride and festival “overlap, but
they’re separate things,” she said. “The
festival is like Polish Jewish University. The
theme this year was Zion. There were thou-
sands of people for the concert the final
night. On Friday night, there was a din-
ner. It was right after the ride – you clean
up and go and there are 650 people there,
including groups from all over the place.
“The ride is part of the JCC Krakow,
, cleansing a soul
which is a Jewish community center with
no track and no pool but activities for the
local Holocaust survivors, including a full-
day program for them, and a new school,
and all sorts of other activities.”
The bike ride comes with four days of
events, but the ride itself is just one very
full day. “It’s like a multiday comprehen-
said. “Our parents worked hard. We were annual nine-day festival, featuring con- in a story, “The Items,” we published in the sive program,” Ms. Kraar said. “It includes
latchkey kids. We rode bikes.” certs and performances and lectures and Jewish Standard last year, “My father was a visit to the camp, with specialists who
As a young mother, she continued to food and chance encounters and unex- not acquainted with anger management.” take you through in small groups. The day
ride; she remembers biking from her pected learning, was started by a non-Jew, Clearly, if you were likely to respond before the ride there is a meet-and-greet
house in Teaneck to take her younger Janusz Makuch, who fell in love with Jew- dinner. The next morning, you get up at
daughter, Yona McGraw, to the Teaneck ish culture and wanted to share that love 6, you get an orientation, you get on your
Charter School. She’d ride to Votee Park with the world. bus.” It’s about an hour to Auschwitz from
next, and then later she’d bike back to When she was in Krakow last year, Ms. Krakow, she said.
school to pick Yona up. Kraar ran into a woman, a friend from My dad was There were about 200 people riding
Still, she hadn’t considered anything
like a 55-mile ride over Polish roads until
Cleveland, who had just finished the ride.
“She said, ‘You should do this next year,’
really a tough this year. “There were two Holocaust
survivors, and one of them was 83,” Ms.
last year. and the more I read about it, the more I case.... [He] was Kraar said. “One of the survivors had a
At that time, she and her older daughter,
Miriam Borden, who is working toward a
thought about it, the more I thought that
this sounds like something I could get
not acquainted granddaughter who was in from Israel
and she rode with us.” The youngest rider
doctorate in Yiddish at the University of behind,” Ms. Kraar said. “If for no other with anger was a teenager.
Toronto, went to Poland together. It was
last summer’s Jewish Culture Festival,
reason than to cleanse my soul.
“At the end of the war, a few days before
management. Most but not all of the riders were Jew-
ish. The chief rabbi of Poland, New York-
and it was exhilarating, Ms. Kraar said. it ended, my father and two friends walked born Michael Schudrich, joined them.
It’s in Kazimierz, the part of Krakow that out of Auschwitz,” she said. “They went to to injustice or even frustration with fury “He is an awesome guy,” Ms. Kraar said.
once was Jewish, and it is a celebration of Krakow. They wanted to see what was left. before being imprisoned in a concentra- “He is a real defender of the Jewish peo-
all that was vital and explosive and life- “My dad was really a tough case,” tion camp and having your entire family ple.” The group also included non-Jews,
affirming and had been stomped under- Ms. Kraar added. Her father, Abraham slaughtered, you were unlikely to have among them Greg Lemond, the great
foot but as it turned out not killed. The Siedlecki, had been a boxer; as she wrote learned restraint during that experience. American cyclist who won the Tour de

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France three times.

Ms. Kraar rode for about 40 of the 55
miles; she took a bus for part of the last
third, and then rejoined the group for the
triumphal entry into Krakow.
“The ride took about 5 1/2 hours,” she
said. “It was a very interesting transforma-
tion. “You start at the gates of Auschwitz,
and it was kind of surreal. Everybody is
pretty uplifted.
“And then you start riding. It’s kind of
like ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this.’ You
have to say to yourself ‘I have to store my
energy.’ You have to not over-train before
you do the ride, because in the end it is
just a bike ride. At the end of the day, there
is a mundane aspect to it. You are getting
on a bike and going for a ride.”
On the other hand, this wasn’t just any
old ride.
For one thing, it was beautiful. “We took
a lot of backwater country roads,” Ms.
Kraar said. It had rained for days before –
the forecast was for more rain the Friday
of the ride, but instead it was gorgeous,
sunny, not too hot, not too cold, just spar-
kling. But because it had rained, “we rode
a few miles through mud, and there were
people falling off their bikes, getting a little
bit cut up. It was slippery.” But once past
the mud, “it was beautiful.
“There were wildflowers,” she contin-
ued. “The setting looked like everything
you’d heard about from your elders. There
were berries and mushrooms and beauti- Above, the riders pedal past a sign for Oswiecim — Auschwitz in Polish. The camp is in the town of Oswiecim.
ful little flowers everywhere. When we
through these little hamlets, people came What would her father have thought of
out to their gates and they applauded us, the ride? “He would have thought it was
yelling ‘Bravo’ at us, cheering us on.” crazy,” Ms. Kraar said immediately.
The roads were closed to traffic, she And then she paused. “He would have
added. “We rode around traffic circles, thought it was crazy – but he was a boxer,”
on some bigger paths but mostly on bike she said. “I think he would have appreci-
paths, smaller roads, even some dirt ated the physicality of the ride.”
roads.” She told a story her father told, about
And then “we came to Krakow. It was an how he had left Auschwitz and soon he
unbelievable feeling. We had all bunched and his two friends, in their striped camp
up together, and any biker will tell you that pajamas, as Ms. Kraar called them, found
that’s the worst. You bump into other bik- themselves sitting in a dead silent train.
ers. But we went at a very slow pace. We “There was a Russian guy, in uniform, sit-
got to the Vistula, and we all rode on one ting across from them,” Ms. Kraar said.
narrow, beautiful bike path, and then we “He got off the train. Just before he got off,
rode over a bridge, and then through the he looked at my father, and said ‘Be suc-
old city of Krakow, through Kazimierz,” cessful,’ in Yiddish. ‘Go get ’em.’
which always was beautiful if you like very “I never forgot that story.”
old cities and now has become trendy, That day on the train, like every day of
artsy, the place to be in Krakow. “You ride his life after it was tattooed on his arm,
through the streets, and when you do that Ms. Kraar’s father wore his number. It was
you see a lot of normal people doing nor- 111855. “That was my number for the ride,”
mal things – going to dinner, going to a bar, Ms. Kraar said. It was on her badge as she
looking at the beautiful architecture, and rode out of Auschwitz, and it was on her
here all of a sudden they see 200 people badge as she rode into Krakow.
on bikes. Ms. Kraar plans to do the Ride for the
“You see them start to applaud you. Living again next year. She hopes to ride
“And then you get to the gates of the JCC all 55 of it miles then, and she has many
– some people were able to ride through friends who say that they are at the very
the gates, and the rest of us parked our least thinking seriously about joining her
bikes outside them and walked through – then. Just as it cleansed her souls, it will
and there were people cheering and bal- cleanse theirs, she said.
loons and refreshments. There’s information about the ride at
“And the minute I crossed the finish www.friendsofjcckrakow.org, and about
line, I said to myself, ‘Dad, we did it. We the Krakow Jewish Festival at www.jew-
made it.’” ishfestival.pl/en. The riders march triumphantly through the gates of the JCC Krakow.

Jewish World
In Jerusalem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

celebrates her commitment to tikkun olam
Sam Sokol example — I was heartened by the words
of a girl of my generation,” said Gins-
JERUSALEM — Supreme Court Justice burg, 85. “I am a judge, born, raised,
Ruth Bader Ginsburg described how and proud of being a Jew. The demand
grateful she was for her Jewish heritage for justice, for peace, and for enlighten-
during a screening of a new documen- ment runs through the entirety of Jew-
tary film about her life and career at the ish history and Jewish tradition. I hope,
Jerusalem Cinematheque. in all the years I have the good fortune
“The demand for justice, peace, and to continue serving on the bench of the
enlightenment runs through Jewish his- Supreme Court of the United States, I will
tory and tradition,” she said on July 5, have the strength and courage to remain
describing how she is reminded of this steadfast in the service of that demand.”
fact every day when she enters her judi- Initially offered the Genesis Founda-
cial chambers and is confronted with tion’s annual Genesis Prize, which comes
a poster proclaiming the biblical verse with a cash grant, Ginsburg said she
“Justice, justice thou shalt pursue.” demurred, worried that the presence of
“My room has the only mezuzah in Israeli politicians on the selection com-
the U.S. Supreme Court,” she said, not- mittee would run afoul of the Constitu-
ing that “growing up Jewish, the con- tion’s emoluments clause, which prohib-
cept of tikkun olam, repairing tears in its government officials from receiving
the community and making things bet- gifts from foreign powers. She said it was
ter for people less fortunate, was part of only after the foundation agreed to create
my heritage. The Jews are the people of a new lifetime achievement award whose Benjamin Friedenberg, an Israeli filmmaker, interviews Supreme Court Justice Ruth
the book and learning is prized above all selection committee was apolitical that Bader Ginsburg at the Jerusalem Cinematheque on July 5, 2018. Natasha Kuperman
else. I am lucky to have that heritage.” she relented and agreed to be honored.
In Jerusalem to receive a lifetime The award later went to actress Nata-
achievement award from the Genesis lie Portman, who declined to attend the
Prize Foundation, Ginsburg — who is award ceremony because of her political
equally well known for her scathing dis- differences with Prime Minister Benja-
senting opinions as for her lifetime com- min Netanyahu.
mitment to gender equality — was feted Addressing the crowded theater
by the Jewish state’s political and judi- after the screening of “RBG,” Ginsburg
cial elites. made two pleas. The first was a call for
In a speech honoring her American renewed bipartisanship in Washington,
coreligionist at the award ceremony D.C., specifically when it comes to con-
on July 4, Israeli Supreme Court Presi- firming federal judges. That process has
dent Esther Hayut praised Ginsburg as become deeply politicized in the years
a spokeswoman for the marginalized since her ascension to the Supreme
and ignored. Court. The announcement last week
“Law is about justice, and the expe- that Anthony Kennedy will be retir-
rience of injustice gives one profound ing as the high court’s frequent swing
insight as to what justice should look vote, and the nomination battle ahead,
like,” Hayut said, according to the Jeru- did not come up in her onstage inter-
salem Post. “Through her decisions, Jus- view with Benjamin Friedenberg, an
tice Bader Ginsburg upholds the values Israeli filmmaker.
without which democracy would be an Ginsburg also reiterated her long-
empty vessel.” standing support for the adoption of an
Former Israeli Supreme Court Presi- equal rights amendment to the Constitu-
dent Aharon Barak made a similar state- tion. Holding up a pocket copy of Ameri-
ment, calling Ginsburg “one of the great can’s foundational legal text, the justice
legal minds of our time; an outstanding said that she would like to be able to
Jewish jurist whose fearless pursuit of show it to her great-granddaughter and
human rights, equality and justice for all tell her “your equality is a fundamental
stems from her Jewish values.” tenet of the United States.”
Speaking at the ceremony, Ginsburg Asked what she would do if she
evoked the memory of Anne Frank, who weren’t a judge, Ginsburg, who is well
questioned common gender roles in her known for her love of opera, replied that
famous diary. if she could choose any other career, she
“When I became active in the move- would be “a great diva.”
ment to open doors to women, enabling “But sadly for me I’m a monotone,”
them to enter occupations once closed she said, “so I can be [a diva] only in my
to them — lawyering and judging, bar- dreams and occasionally in the shower
tending, policing and firefighting, for when I sing.” JTA Wire Service

Jewish World
How Supreme Court nominee Brett

Kavanaugh could affect issues that matter to Jews
Josefin Dolsten
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination

of Brett Kavanaugh, a Republican establishment favorite
who has worked in the George W. Bush administration,
has triggered reactions from Jewish groups ranging from
furious to relieved.
Progressive groups raised flags about the pick, saying
Kavanaugh’s record shows that he would be a threat to
reproductive rights and the separation of church and
state, while an Orthodox group said it was happy about
his record on religious liberty.
Trump announced on Monday evening that he was
nominating Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge in
Washington, D.C., to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy
when Kennedy retires at the end of July.
Within an hour of the announcement, the National
Council of Jewish Women released a statement saying it
was “incensed” by the choice, and the group helped to
organize an opposition rally in front of the Supreme Court.
Other progressive groups, such as the Workmen’s Circle,
a Jewish organization with roots in the labor movement,
denounced Trump’s pick, while the centrist Anti-Defa-
mation League said it was wary because the nominee’s
judicial record “does not reflect the demonstrated inde-
pendence and commitment to fair treatment for all that
is necessary to merit a seat on our nation’s highest court.”
On Tuesday, Jody Rabhan, who directs NCJW’s Washing-
ton operations, said that Kavanaugh, like the other candi-
dates considered by Trump, was “terrible on the issues
that we care about.”
“The assumption based on his record and his ruling is
that he would further push the court in the direction of Nominee Brett Kavanaugh is at the Capitol in Washington on July 10, 2018 — the day after he was nominated
using religion as an excuse to discriminate, not to mention to the U.S. Supreme Court. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
the incredible horrors that could be, should he end up on

the court, around reproductive health rights and justice,” case was “disturbing” and raised questions. called Kavanaugh “ a very impressive candidate.” Cohen
Rabhan said. “It’s not clear to us what that means exactly,” Stern was happy about Kavanaugh’s rulings about religious free-
Many on the left are concerned that a Trump appointee said. “Does he believe that immigrants have lesser con- dom, based on an initial overview of the judge’s record.
could join a conservative majority in taking away abortion stitutional rights than everybody else? Does he think that Agudath and other Orthodox groups favor rulings that
rights and overturn Roe v. Wade, which Trump made a teenagers don’t have a right [to an abortion]? … Does he would exempt religious groups and individuals from gen-
campaign promise to do. CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin mean only that the government has a right not to partici- erally applicable laws that clash with their beliefs.
has said that there is “just no doubt” that abortion will be pate and you’re sort of on your own?” “We’re gratified that he’s given due deference to reli-
illegal in a significant part of the United States within 18 The AJC has not taken a position on the nomination, gious liberty, and that he has been supportive of a greater
months of the confirmation of whomever Trump picked and Stern said it was studying Kavanaugh’s record, spe- involvement of religious organizations and institutions in
to fill Kennedy’s seat. cifically with regard to issues of immigration law, religious society,” Cohen said.
In 2006, Kavanaugh said he would respect Roe v. Wade, liberty, separation of church and state, and reproductive Cohen cited Kavanaugh’s opinion in a case relating to
but Rabhan said that did not assuage her concern. freedom. He said that Kavanaugh’s opinion in Newdow v. contraceptive care exemptions for religious groups, Priests
“Trump has said that overturning Roe v. Wade is a lit- Roberts, a case presenting a challenge to prayers at the for Life v. HHS. The appeals court agreed that religious
mus test for anybody on his shortlist for the Supreme presidential inauguration and the phrase “so help me employers did not have to provide contraceptives, but they
Court, and he has made anti-abortion views a litmus test God” in the presidential oath, offered “some glimmer did have to file a form telling the government they were not
for folks he’s nominated to lower courts,” she said. “We’ve of hope” for those supporting separation of church and doing so. In his dissent, Kavanaugh argued that the filing
seen it, so we believe him.” state. Though the challenge by the plaintiff, an atheist requirement violated the plaintiffs’ religious freedom.
Rabhan and others cited a case, Garza v. Hagan, in opposing the prayers, was dismissed, Kavanaugh said he “We support that position, we think that’s giving proper
which Kavanaugh opposed a detained undocumented did have standing to sue. deference to religious rights, and we don’t think that’s in
immigrant minor’s right to obtain an abortion. In that Stern does not think Kavanaugh would shift the court any way a retreat from the rights of others, so that’s one
2017 case, the government had mandated that the teen radically. Although Kennedy was a swing vote on issues area where we are pleased about,” Cohen said.
could leave her detention center to have an abortion. like abortion and same-sex marriage, he often was reliably During his time in private practice, Kavanaugh took
Kavanaugh vacated the order, postponing the abortion for conservative. on pro bono cases, including that of a Reconstructionist
another week and a half, until a court ultimately ruled in “On separation [of church and state] issues, he will read synagogue, Adat Shalom in Bethesda, Maryland, which
the minor’s favor. Kavanaugh dissented, writing that the the principle more narrowly than AJC would like,” Stern was facing challenges from its neighbors in constructing
government had betrayed its “interest in favoring fetal said. “But from what little he’s written, it doesn’t appear a building. In 2000, a U.S. District Court sided with the
life, protecting the best interests of a minor, and refrain- that he’s going to be writing in a whole different vein than synagogue, saying a permit issued to the congregation was
ing from facilitating abortion.” where the court as a whole has been — but that’s a guess.” consistent with the establishment clause. The synagogue
Marc Stern, the general counsel of the American Jew- Agudath Israel of America, a charedi Orthodox organi- confirmed that it had been represented by Kavanaugh but
ish Committee, said that most of Kavanaugh’s legal record zation, has not taken an official position on the nomina- did not return a request for further comment in time for
was “unremarkable,” but that his opinion in the Garza tion yet, but its Washington director, Rabbi Abba Cohen, publication. JTA Wire Service
20 Jewish Standard JULY 13, 2018

Local/Jewish World
Depression a community, we will not be satisfied Teachers it.” Some things, however, cannot be inte-
from page 7 until someone with mental illness of any from page 9 grated into an Orthodox education. “It
many women have a positive reaction to kind is treated no differently than some- the Torah as a guide,” might be useful. goes back to Abraham,” he said. “We are
that hormone, others experience a very one who may be struggling with any “Can we contribute to what guidance not polytheistic [and cannot] accept what
agitated state, where nursing can make physical malady.” counselors are doing?” she asked. is unacceptable. It’s like a semi-permeable
them depressed. Some women expe- The Teaneck Baby Gemach, a local Rabbi Jachter is the rabbi of Congrega- membrane. We let in the good but filter
rience mood swings during and after Jewish lending service for baby gear and tion Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congre- out the bad.”
weaning from the drop in oxytocin.” formula headed by Ginnine Fried, is one gation of Teaneck, and is a dayan on the One thing he tried to get across was that
Ms. Laves said that she always involves of the evening’s sponsors. beth din of Elizabeth, where he serves as a “if students are willing to sit down and dis-
husbands and partners in her clinical “We feel that bringing further aware- get administrator. He also is the author of cuss something at great length, teachers
work. “They’re my ‘eyes’ and they need ness to postpartum depression is a criti- “Reason To Believe: Rational Explanations need to be prepared to answer their ques-
to know what to look for. It can be very cal component of our mission statement, of Orthodox Jewish Faith.” tions, at length, on belief,” Rabbi Jachter
scary for them,” she said. as the condition is more common than “The goal of the conference was to grow said. “But they also have to be able to pro-
When speaking with groups, Ms. one might think,” Ms. Fried said. “It’s together and become more effective in vide a sound bite, like Hillel did, when
Laves assures listeners that perinatal very important to distinguish between reaching out to students,” Rabbi Jachter asked to teach the Torah while [the ques-
depression and anxiety disorders can someone who is overwhelmed with said. His session, which drew about 50 tioner] was standing on one foot.”
be treated by medications prescribed by motherhood and someone who might teachers, tried to impart the message that During a panel discussion on the
a reproductive psychiatrist or by prac- have a deeper problem. We are proud “students will ask questions, and teachers “Teacher’s Great Balancing Act: Rigor,
tices such as acupuncture, meditation, to be an organization that serves men better know how to answer them. We have Relationships & Religious Growth,” a
and mindfulness. as equally as women, and would like to to fortify teachers with the knowledge they group of educational leaders answered
“A lot of my work provides support increase the awareness that men have need.” He commended Rabbi Tirschwell questions about building a culture of reli-
and deals with normalizing feelings over this serious condition.” on convening a gathering devoted to gious growth in the classroom and exam-
and encouraging a mother’s engage- Rabbi Fridman said the event is part “styles, strategies, and materials that high ining the relationship between academic
ment with and attachment to the baby,” of a broader movement gaining steam in school students will find compelling.” If goals and religious growth. The panel,
she said. Teaneck over the past couple of years. students do not enjoy learning, he said, moderated by Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin,
Ms. Laves does not believe perinatal “We’re seeing, thank God, much more then it will not be effective. the director of education at International
depression is any more prevalent in the attention paid to mental illness,” he said. Rabbi Jachter, who has been teaching NCSY, included several local religious
Jewish community than elsewhere. How- “I want to acknowledge the crucial work for 30 years, said “it never becomes easy leaders. Participants included the princi-
ever, she says, “The stigma around men- done by two of my colleagues in par- — you have to work hard” to find ways to pal of the Frisch School, Rabbi Eli Ciner;
tal health is stronger in all religious com- ticular in this respect: Rabbi Ari Zahtz make material meaningful to students. As the principal of Ma’ayanot, Rivka Kahan;
munities, and in the Jewish community of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun for his for borrowing techniques from the out- and the head of school at TABC, Rabbi
there is a lot of joy and ritual around hav- work with Project Ometz, helping fami- side world, he said, “If it’s useful, we use Asher Yablok.
ing a child but not a lot of conversation lies raising children struggling with men-
or awareness about postpartum depres- tal illness, and Rabbi Larry Rothwachs
sion. People don’t know if it’s okay to of Congregation Beth Aaron for his work
talk about.” with Amudim, combating diseases asso-
Daniel Fridman, the rabbi of the Jew- ciated with substance abuse.”
ish Center of Teaneck, concurred.
“As we continue to fight the stigmas
associated with mental illness, we are
Rabbi Fridman sees this trend as no
less than fulfilling the mitzvah of imita-
tio dei, imitating the Divine. “The Psalm-
Sandi M. Malkin, LL C
acutely aware that postpartum depres-
sion is particularly insidious, in so far as
ist described the Almighty as ‘healer
of those with broken hearts, binder of
Interior Designer
the outsider naturally expects the new their wounds,’” he said. (Psalms 147:3). (former interior designer of model
mother to be filled with joy and happi- “We must act in accordance with the rooms for NY’s #1 Dept. Store)
ness,” Rabbi Fridman said. Almighty’s example.”
“This sense of a potential gap between Ms. Laves suggests that teachers of
communal expectations and the pain marriage classes for religious brides For a totally new look using
that the mother may be suffering is exac-
erbated in the Jewish community, where
and grooms consider adding informa-
tion about perinatal depression to their
your furniture or starting anew.
such an emphasis is placed on fam- curriculum, and that mikvah attendants Staging also available
ily, and rightly so, and the joy of either offer resources on this issue as they do
becoming a parent for the first time, or on domestic violence. At the talk on Sun- 973-535-9192
enlarging a family, becomes a commu- day, she will distribute such resources,
nal celebration. including numbers for hotlines and
“And so we have a unique responsibil- “warm lines.”
ity, within our community, to address “The more people know, the more
these issues, to raise awareness and sensi- chance they have to be happy parents,”
tivity in the community at large regarding Ms. Laves said.
what a certain percentage of new moth-
ers are experiencing.
What: “Postpartum Depression:
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sibility to the mothers and couples the Stigma”
themselves to provide support, to make
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When: Sunday July 15, at 7 p.m.
man said.
“I’m thrilled that Marilyn Laves, who For more information: Call (201)
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of the new documentary,
talk to the children whose lives he
had affected for decades.
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“Won’t You Be My Neigh- Fred Rogers was not Jewish. He was those were earned eccentricities.
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Rogers stared right at the camera although he kept Protestant theology he loved the number 143; in fact, s
and said “We are all called to be ‘tik- — in fact all theology — far away from although he had been an overweight ustices of the U.S. Supreme Court are sup- A
kun olam,’ repairers of creation,” I his show. But he embodied a good- child (someone in the film posits that posed to be chosen based on their judicial l
couldn’t possibly have cared less that ness that all of us could use right now. if he had not been called Fat Fred- knowledge and temperament, not on their p
his understanding of the phrase tik- (All of us could use that goodness all die early in his life, if that hurt had political beliefs. They must be willing to rule M
kun olam wasn’t exactly right. (Tik- the time, to be clear, it’s just that right not stayed with him, his sensitivity, in opposition to their own political beliefs when
kun olam refers to an act, repairing now it’s particularly lacking.) caused by that wound, might never the arguments warrant it. c
the world, not to the person, the Mr. Rogers listened to children. have developed), he maintained his President Donald Trump m
repairer.) He didn’t preach to them. He didn’t weight at 143 pounds throughout his acknowledged as much a
But I knew exactly what Fred Rog- talk down to them. It’s not that he adult life. when, on Monday eve- e
ers was trying to say. Not only that, I was childish in any way; his under- But the number 143 had a deeper ning, he announced that e
knew that he meant it. Deeply. Pas- standing of how children’s minds meaning to him. For Fred Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
sionately. Although the phrase might worked was sophisticated. But he 143 meant “I love you.” In a way that Brett M. Kavanaugh was his c
have been new to him, the desire to knew that he had to listen to what reminds a Jewish viewer of gema- nominee to replace retiring d
fix childhood, to mend people, to go they were saying, to filter it through tria, he said that the 1 in 143 stands Associate Justice Anthony s
down to a child’s eye level and have their understanding of the world as for the number of letters in the word M. Kennedy on the top s
a serious discussion with that child a strange and at times inexplicable “I.” The 4 is because the word “love” court. “What matters is not Shammai J
— the desire to do tikkun olam—was place, partly terrifying, partly won- has four letters, and of course the 3 a judge’s political views, but Engelmayer b
honest and real and deep and true. drous, whose rules are specific to is because “you” is three letters. So, whether they [sic] can set f
That segment was taped soon childhood. He didn’t try to explain 143 means I love you. QED. aside those views to do what c
after September 11, 2001; Mr. Rogers the world to them as an adult, In a world that does not seem to be the law and the Constitution require,” he said. l
already had retired from his televi- using adult logic, but he used chil- brimming over with love right now, it While his statement was right on point, the path o
sion show by then, and would die dren’s logic to explain the world’s is fitting to remember someone who he chose to make his choice suggests otherwise. In i
just a few years later, in 2003, but he truths in ways that children could embodied it, and whose love encom- that, he is not much different from all of his recent f
felt the need to write and perform in understand. passed all children (and even the predecessors. Presidents nominate someone to the [
a special show because he wanted to Mr. Rogers was idiosyncratic in adults they grew up to be). —JP Supreme Court whom they believe will uphold either a
their own political views, or the views of their political o
base. The last thing they want is to put someone on p
Saying goodbye to the Trinidads the top court who will judge each case based on what
is just and right, and in the best interests of the nation
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Just as Fred Rogers was not Jewish, neither as a whole, regardless of whether that judgment com- t
were Audie Trinidad and his four daugh- ports to a particular political view. p
ters, Kaitlyn, Danna, Melissa, and Allison. Trump is no exception. During the 2016 cam- p
But they were our neighbors in Teaneck, paign, he even trumpeted the fact that all his choices
and we mourn their death and recoil from would be political — chosen from a list that had been m
its horror. approved by the Federalist Society and the Heritage
They were by all accounts a family Foundation, two very conservative organizations. i
devoted to each other and to their com- Jewish law takes a whole different approach. While a
munity. Their fate — they were com- the United States is not subject to halacha, neverthe- o
ing home from a family vacation, driv- less it is instructive to examine what Jewish law has to Z
ing through Delaware, close to home, say on the subject. p
when a car jumped the highway divider, To begin with, according to Maimonides (the Ram- t
hit another car, and spun into their van, bam), judges need to be both “wise” and “understand- w
turning it into an unrecognizable death ing,” must be “experts” in the law, but also must be n
machine — is monstrous. It hurts just to well versed in other areas of knowledge, “so that they t
think about it. may be competent to deal with cases requiring such i
Mr. Trinidad’s wife, the four daughters’ mother, Mary presumptuous to try. b
Rose Ballocanag, survived the crash. We cannot imag- We send her our deepest sorrow. In the end, we are all Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Congregation Beth A
ine what it must feel like, and it is both terrifying and one community, and horror like that hurts all of us. —JP Israel of the Palisades, now in Fort Lee. s
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knowledge….” (See his Mishneh Torah,

Judges, 2:1.)
Before exploring that definition, let
us return to Kavanaugh’s nomination to Jewish law applies nuance
Because the Torah demands that
“in righteousness shall you judge your
the Supreme Court, this time from the
judge’s point of view. In his statement to questions of abortion
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neighbor” (see Leviticus 19:15), a judge introducing himself to the nation, Kava-
must act with “perfect impartiality to naugh described his judicial philosophy ome reply has to be made to Rabbi godless or radical, as the authors do. We Jews
both litigants.” (See MT Judges, Chap- as being “straightforward.” He said: “A Mitchell Rocklin and Howard are religious and we see the issue of abortion
ter 21:1.) judge must interpret statutes as written, Slugh’s July 6 op-ed, “Justice Ken- differently from either camp.
“At all times,” the Rambam adds, “a and a judge must interpret the Constitu- nedy and a kosher court.” 2. The other issue, as many Jews see it, is
judge should think of himself as if a tion as written, informed by history and Claiming to describe the “liberal or secu- not whether we Jews support abortion on
sword were suspended over his head…. tradition and precedent.” lar” Jewish argument regarding the current demand for any and every possible reason,
A judge who does not render an abso- This statement would disqualify standard for abortion in the United States as but whether or not the political and legal cli-
lutely true judgment causes the divine him as a judge under Jewish law. That a “surprising twist” on Jewish tradition, the mate permits or criminalizes those people
presence to depart from Israel.” (See is because judges in Judaism must be authors of the opinion piece claim that “in who are following Jewish law and tradition.
MT Judges 23:8-9.) willing to go “lifnim mi-shurat ha-din,” some circumstances … Jewish law may per- Just as the Jewish community has rightly pro-
That raises the question of what hala- which literally means “inside the line mit or even require a mother to procure an tested laws that make Jewish ritual slaughter
cha considers “an absolutely true judg- of justice,” but actually means going abortion.” This is true, and there are hala- (shechita) or ritual circumcision (brit milah)
ment.” In the Rambam’s view, it means beyond the letter of the law in order to chic sources going back 2,000 years that illegal in various European countries, we
a judgment that does not favor any do that which is right and just. delineate such circumstances. ought to protest just as stri-
extreme — not of the left or the right. He Thus, we are taught, “Rabbi Yochanan Then, however, they pro- dently when elements in our
explains it this way: says: ‘Jerusalem was destroyed only for ceed to (mis)characterize the own country make it illegal to
All Jews, and judges especially, “are the fact that they [strictly] adjudicated argument in these terms: “Let’s follow a ruling of the Rambam
commanded to walk in these interme- cases on the basis of Torah law…and did ignore for a moment the fact or the Shulchan Aruch. Accord-
diate paths — and they are good and not go lifnim mi-shurat ha-din.” (See BT that the overwhelming major- ing to the Talmud and Jewish
straight paths — as [Deuteronomy 28:9] Bava Metzia 30b.) A similar reason was ity of abortions are not per- law codes, a fetus is not consid-
states: ‘and you shall walk in His ways….’ given for why Sodom was destroyed. formed to save a mother’s life, ered a baby or a “separate indi-
Just as He is called ‘gracious,’ you shall Noting that the law requires a judge to and that any abortion regula- vidual” until it has emerged at
be gracious; just as He is called ‘merci- issue “a true judgment to its very truth” tion would include an excep- least halfway from the birth
ful,’ you shall be merciful; just as He is (din emet la-amito), the 16th century tion for such cases.” Rabbi David canal.
called ‘holy,’ you shall be holy. In a simi- halachist Rabbi Joel Sirkis (the Bach) This is patently false. We Bockman The fetus is “a limb of its
lar manner, the prophets called God by offered this explanation: have seen in the past, as well as mother” in halacha, and
other titles: ‘slow to anger,’ ‘abundant “[One] should judge in accordance in proposed state restrictions should not be amputated cal-
in kindness,’ ‘righteous,’ ‘just,’ ‘per- with the particular place and time, so on abortion, that there is not an automatic lously; but on the other hand, there is stron-
fect,’ ‘Almighty,’ ‘powerful,’ and the like. that the judgment is in full conformity exception for either the life or the health of ger agreement than in most other areas of
[They did so] to inform us that these with the truth, rather than always inflex- the mother. If we recall candidate Trump’s halacha that the mother’s life and health
are good and just paths. A person is ibly apply the law precisely as it is set words, he proposed criminalizing abortion take precedence. To my mind, this indi-
obligated to accustom himself to these forth in the Torah. Sometimes, a judge’s not by arresting physicians but by locking cates supporting the pro-choice camp in the
paths and to resemble Him to the extent decision must go lifnim mi-shurat ha-din, up the women who have the procedure. debates, the side that now is the law of the
of his ability…. and reflect what is called for by the par- Granted, the unconsidered words of a can- land. It does not require anybody to have an
“Since the Creator is called by these ticular time and circumstances. When didate trying to woo the evangelical Chris- abortion, but instead it allows the individual
terms and they make up the middle the judge does not do this, then even if tian vote most likely will not become the law — the woman — to make the decision, con-
path that we are obligated to follow, this his judgment is correct, it is not ‘a true of the land — but our president believes that sulting whomever she wants about whether
path is called ‘the path of God.” judgment to its very truth.’ this might be what his voting base wants. or not to terminate her pregnancy.
The Rambam here echoed the Tal- “This is the meaning of the statement That should frighten us as Jews. If Roe is overturned, it seems abundantly
mud’s take on the middle path: of the Sages: ‘Jerusalem was destroyed It used to be that the Republican party clear that in more than a dozen states, the pro-
“Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korchah says: only for the fact that they [strictly] adju- wanted a government that didn’t interfere in cedure will be outlawed. The decision regard-
it is a mitzvah to mediate a dispute, dicated cases on the basis of Torah law… citizens’ lives too much. But overturning Roe ing a nascent human life will be in the hands
as it is stated: ‘execute the judgment and did not go lifnim mi-shurat ha-din.” v. Wade will not magically ensconce the hala- of a region’s legislature or its courts. The
of truth and peace in your gates’ [see (Drishah to Tur, Choshen Mishpat 1:2; chic definitions of life and medical necessity woman’s religious sensibilities and require-
Zechariah 8.16]. Is it not that in the quoted in Menachem Elon’s Jewish Law, in American law — it will do that for Christian ments will not be taken into consideration.
place where there is strict judgment vol. 1, page 159.) definitions. Whatever a person’s thoughts on the way
there is no true peace, and in a place Summarizing Sirkis, Menachem Elon We in the Jewish community (especially to achieve a societal stance on abortions
where there is true peace, there is writes (ibid.) “that sometimes a judge is the observant Jewish community) ought to that is both ethical and sensitive to minority
no strict judgment? Rather, which is obligated to decide lifnim mi-shurat ha- stop imagining that our goal in public policy religious requirements, that person should
the judgment that has peace within din, in accordance with the felt neces- debates should be to attempt to establish not — as Rabbi Rocklin and Mr. Slugh do —
it? You must say: this is mediation, as sities of the time and the exigencies of halachic norms as the basis of laws in the reduce his or her bnei plugta — the dispu-
both sides are satisfied with the result. the case; if he does not do so, his deci- United States. (We can’t even reach that level tants — to straw-man arguments. The subject
And similarly, with regard to David, it sion may be ‘true,’ but it does not reflect in Israel!) Instead, we should try to assert matter is too important to pretend that reli-
says: ‘and David executed justice and the essential truth of the law. When, in a our rather nuanced halachic opinions in two giosity and virtue are only on one side, when
charity to all his people’ [see 2 Samuel particular case, a judge decides contrary ways in the United States: at least some of the people fighting to pre-
8.15. And is it not that wherever there to his view of what strict law requires, he 1. Because our positions do not fit into serve legal access to this medical procedure
is strict justice, there is no charity, and is not deviating from the law but declar- either major camp (pro-abortion on demand, are just as concerned with right and truth as
wherever there is charity, there is no ing it truly: he does not change left into as the authors portray it, or making abortion they are.
strict justice? Rather, which is the jus- right, but his decision is ‘right.’” illegal in almost all cases), we should use our
tice that has within it charity? You must In other words, to rework Kava- Jewish voices to help others in our country David Bockman, the rabbi of Congregation
say: this is mediation.” (See the Baby- naugh’s statement to fit halacha, “A realize that the two political extremes are not Beth Shalom in Pompton Lakes, is a former
lonian Talmud tractate Sanhedrin 6b.) judge must not always interpret stat- the only way of framing the issue. Certainly president of the New Jersey Rabbinical
The Talmud, and the responsa liter- utes as written, and a judge must not not reinforce the dichotomy of religious vs. Assembly region.
ature that followed, takes in the Ram- always interpret the Constitution as
bam’s view and significantly adds to written.” To believe otherwise dis-
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publishers, or other staffers. We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
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An unusual presidential meditation
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“‘ wanted to give my country a new Through the medium of an espionage Clinton also makes a case how far all three countries
spirit,’ I say. ‘I wanted to make us thriller, Bill Clinton has found an engross- for the importance of strong have come since the days of
closer. I wanted us to feel like we ingly creative way to give expression to alliances supported by per- the Holocaust and the Second
were all in this together. Or at least the emotional and intellectual nature of sonal friendships between World War.
get us moving in that direction. I thought I the presidency, with all its extraordinary world leaders, clearly taking There are places in the
could. I really thought I could do that.’ responsibilities. That he makes the Israeli aim at the Trump adminis- novel where Clinton allows
“‘You still can,’ she says.” prime minister one of the president’s closest tration’s more isolationist his own voice to come out
These words are from the quite gripping confidants in the book speaks much about approach. a little too clearly. He closes
and surprisingly good novel that Presi- his feelings about Israel and the nature of When President Duncan the book with a nine-page
dent Bill Clinton recently published with American-Israeli relations. As he writes tell- calls his secret summit at Rabbi Dr. transcript of an address that
James Patterson, “The President is Miss- ingly in the novel, through the first-person an undisclosed location, he David J. Fine President Duncan delivers to
ing.” (Warning: this essay may contain narrative of President Duncan: “Noya and I invites the Russian president, Congress, including a list of
some minor spoilers.) In this passage, the have had disagreements over the two-state whom he suspects of support- policies and agenda items for
fictional president of the novel, Jonathan solution and settlements on the West Bank, ing the terrorist plot. The two other invited today. That’s quite an unusual element in a
Duncan, seeks the friendship and support but when it comes to the things that bring us guests, the close allies and friends who James Patterson page-turner, which rarely
of his closest ally, an elderly woman named together today, there is no daylight between Duncan brings to his side, are the Israeli has a chapter longer than three or four
Noya Baram, who is the prime minister of our positions. A safe and stable United prime minister and the German chancel- pages and rarely is without some dialogue
Israel. He sets this scene, writing how “Noya States means a safe and stable Israel. They lor. Besides Israel, the United States leans or action on every page. Clinton has Duncan
Baram walks beside me. Takes my hand, have every reason to help us and no reason on Germany as the leader of the European cleverly apologize for Clinton’s excess, writ-
wraps her bony, delicate fingers in mine” not to. And…they play defense better than Union. In a portrait the combines elements ing how “I got some criticism for using the
(p. 380). Later in the novel, as President anybody” (p. 243). of Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel, speech to advance my agenda, but I wanted
Duncan says goodbye to his Israeli friend, Rephrasing here a policy approach that the novel’s depiction of the character of Americans to know what I wanted to do for
who had joined him at a secret emergency resembles more the Obama administra- Juergen Richter as the stalwart ally provides them and still leave plenty of opportunities
“off-the-grid” summit dealing with a cred- tion’s (that is, Secretary of State Hillary a telling insight of President Clinton’s, that for working with the other side” (p. 511).
ible terrorist threat facing the United States, Clinton’s) relationship with Israel, Bill Clin- in a post-Brexit scenario the U.K. has ceded And in a scene where President Duncan is
he muses that “the best decision I made was ton here makes the argument that the U.S.- its importance and “special relationship” dressing down the Russian ambassador in
bringing Noya here today. Without my aides Israeli friendship is an essential strategic with the United States. the White House, Clinton has his fictional
here with me, I felt her presence and guid- alliance that cannot be shaken by politi- We also are treated to fascinating com- avatar say, in a line that has nothing to do
ance to be a comfort beyond description. cal disagreements. What is brilliant about mentary about how close the relationship with the book but everything to do with Bill
But in the end, no number of aides or advice President Clinton’s argument here is that is (or can be) between the United States, Clinton, his family, and his party: “Oh, and
can change the fact that this all comes down he shows not how much Israel needs the Germany, and Israel. That Bill Clinton could stay out of our elections” (p. 495).
to me. This is happening on my watch. This United States but how much the United paint such a picture without any explana- These literary licenses, along with the
is my responsibility” (p 396). States needs Israel. tions or qualifications speaks volumes about supporting story line about President
Denmark confronts Islamism and integration
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mam Mundhir Abdallah is a good him was forceful — and not solely from the Most of that hostilit y which began with a terror
example of the dilemmas that have Jewish community. comes from the Muslim operation against the satiri-
confronted politicians in Den- Speaking for the government, the min- community. Surveys con- cal magazine Charlie Hebdo
mark in their response to Islamist ister of immigration and integration, Inger ducted in Denmark during and ended in a murderous
extremism among the country’s 300,000 Støjberg, denounced Abdallah’s words as the last decade show that hostage-taking siege at a
Muslims, the large majority of whom are “horrible, anti-democratic, and abomina- Muslims are much more kosher supermarket, Euro-
first- or second-generation immigrants. ble.” Columnist Tarek Ziad Hussein wrote likely to hold anti-Semitic peans were faced, in sledge-
In May 2017, the Danish Jewish com- frankly in the newspaper Politiken, “it is beliefs, with one poll dem- hammer fashion, with the
munity filed a complaint against Imam with a heavy heart that I must admit that onstrating that 75 percent realization that the rise in
Abdallah for a sermon he had delivered we in Muslim circles have serious prob- agree with such statements Ben Cohen anti-Semitism and anti-Jew-
two months earlier. In that sermon, he lems with anti-Semitism.” Addressing the as “Jews incite war and ish fervor can result in tar-
implored faithful Muslims to kill the Jews core of the matter — and this in a country blame others” and “Jews geted attacks on the general
on “Judgment Day” and urged the “lib- famous for being the only nation to resist want to dominate everything.” Yet levels population as well.
eration” of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusa- the Nazi deportation of its 7,200 Jews of anti-Semitism among the wider popu- Many European countries now have
lem from “the filth of the Zionists.” during World War II — Hussein asserted lation are relatively low, with an ADL sur- introduced extensive civic education pro-
The Danish authorities were aware of against the anti-Semites that “Danish Jews vey from 2015 revealing that 9 percent of grams for immigrants, but it is the ambi-
Imam Abdallah’s extremist beliefs and have the right to be treated equally, regard- Danes hold anti-Semitic views, as against tious pending legislation in Denmark that
associations for at least two years before less of their political views” on Israel. 29 percent of Spain’s population and 37 has led to a wave of concern about rac-
that. In February 2015, a man named Omar There are between 7,000 and 9,000 percent of France’s. ism and discrimination. In part, that’s
al-Hussein attended Abdallah’s mosque in Jews in Denmark. Even when compared In Denmark, as elsewhere in Europe, because of the unique conditions that
the Copenhagen suburb of Nørrebro; two with other small Jewish communities the rise of anti-Semitism among Mus- prevail there.
days later, al-Hussein embarked on an elsewhere in Europe, Jewish Danes con- lim communities is closely connected to New welfare benefits laws that were
armed terror rampage in the Danish capi- stitute a tiny fragment — some 0.16 per- other alarming trends, most obviously passed at the end of the 1990s effec-
tal, gunning down a Jewish security vol- cent — of the country’s overall population terrorism. Along with Copenhagen, Brus- tively froze immigrant populations in
unteer, Dan Uzan, at Copenhagen’s main of 5.5 million. And yet, for much of this sels and Toulouse are two other cities the urban neighborhoods where they
synagogue before being shot by police. So decade they have endured anti-Semitic that have witnessed terrorist attacks on originally settled, by assigning them to a
when audio of Abdallah’s Jew-baiting ser- attacks and abuse wildly out of propor- Jewish targets in recent years. After the specific municipality in order to receive
mon of 2017 surfaced, the reaction against tion to their numbers. week of terror in Paris in January 2015, their welfare payments. As of 2013, these

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Duncan besting a speaker of the House from know how badly he’d been wounded. I
the opposing party who is trying to impeach called Hillary, who was upstairs working
him, are welcomed by the reader who on her book, and told her what happened.
understands that we are reading a book She came down and held me for a while
that is as much about (one of ) its author’s as we talked about how Yitzhak and I had
political testimony as it is about the story it been together just ten days before when
purports to tell. he had come to the United States to pres-
Returning to the character of Noya ent me with the United Jewish Appeal’s Isa-
Baram, we can read into Clinton’s portrayal iah Award. It was a happy night. Yitzhak,
of the close relationship between an Ameri- who hated to dress up, showed up for the
can president and an Israeli prime minister black-tie event in a dark suit with a regular
a meditation on what Yitzhak Rabin meant tie. He borrowed a bow tie from my presi-
to him. As he first introduces the charac- dential aide, Steve Goodin, and I straight-
ter: “Noya is sixty-four, with gray dominat- ened it for him just before we walked
ing her shoulder-length hair and dark eyes out. When Yitzhak presented the award
that can be both fierce and engaging. She to me, he insisted that, as the honoree, I
is one of the most fearsome people I’ve stand on his right, even though protocol
ever known. She called me the night I was dictated that foreign leaders stand on the
elected president. She asked if she could call President’s right. ‘Tonight we reverse the
me Johnny, which nobody in my life had order,’ he said. I replied that he was prob- Rabbi David Fine and his son, Laurence, stood in line to get President Bill
ever done. Surprised, off balance, giddy ably right to do so before the United Jew- Clinton’s signature on his book. It was Laurence’s 15th birthday.
from the win, I said, ‘Sure you can!’ She’s ish Appeal because, ‘after all, they may be
called me that ever since” (p. 242). more your crowd than mine.’ Now I hoped care for him more. By the time he was painted in this quick read of a novel, of an
Throughout the book, we are made against hope that we would laugh like that killed, I had come to love him as I had America and Israel and Europe that work
quite aware of the rare times when a presi- together again” (My Life, p. 678). rarely loved another man” (My Life, p. past challenges through collaboration and
dent is called by name, always against That particular memory of surpassing 679). In “The President is Missing,” Bill friendship to achieve security and peace,
protocol. This description of affection protocol marked a very special relation- Clinton brings us back into his relation- is a fiction worth realizing.
that surpassed the formalities of office ship. “In the two and a half years we had ship with Rabin. While he changed the
between a younger American president worked together,” Clinton wrote in “My gender of the Israeli leader, perhaps to Dr. David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple
looking up to an older Israeli leader is the Life,” “Rabin and I had developed an make the closeness of the relationship Israel and Jewish Community Center in
relationship that Clinton remembers with unusually close relationship, marked by more believable, the reader cannot help Ridgewood and president of the New Jersey
Rabin. In Clinton’s account of his learning candor, trust and thought processes. We but recognize that Bill Clinton is imagin- Rabbinical Assembly. He holds a doctorate in
about Rabin’s assassination, as he wrote had become friends in that unique way ing Yitzhak Rabin by his side. modern European history and is an adjunct
in his memoir, “My Life,” he movingly tells people do when they are in a struggle Memories can give rise to fiction and fan- professor of Jewish law at the Abraham
us that “Yitzhak had been rushed to the that they believe is great and good. With tasy. But dreams can become real through Geiger and Zacharias Frankel colleges at the
hospital, and for a good while we didn’t every encounter, I came to respect and commitment and hard work. The picture University of Potsdam in Germany.
critics that its new policies are not driven compared the policy of providing wel-
by racism. But the policies in themselves, fare payments to immigrants — while
assembled in a plan to break up the ghet- engaging them in integration efforts at
tos by 2030, should be welcomed by the same time — to Australia’s repres-
anyone who has observed the havoc and sion of its Aboriginal population. But
insecurity wrought in Europe by Islamist racist legislation by definition targets
extremism, as well as anyone concerned specified groups; in Denmark’s case, all
that the dunderheads of the far right will residents of these neighborhoods will
capitalize on this state of affairs, as they be governed by the same rules. The goal
have been. is social assimilation instead of further
Included in the proposed legislation marginalization.
is mandatory instruction in “Danish val- The chatter about mass “Christianiza-
ues” for ghetto children, starting from tion” or mass loss of citizenship or similar
babyhood (at the age of 1), for 25 hours radical measures only obscures the real
per week. Parents who force their chil- debate here: whether these measures
dren to make extended visits to their can be effective in introducing peaceabil-
ancestral countries, where much of the ity and a degree of prosperity to mainly
work of integration can be undone rap- Muslim immigrant communities. Many
idly, could face prison sentences as a Europeans, not least in the continent’s
result. Families who do not send their Jewish communities, will be hoping that
children to school or who do not com- Denmark’s government succeeds.JNS.ORG
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and dependency on state benefits are pri- “ghetto” has been criticized widely as Some critics have lambasted the Dan- Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
mary features of daily life — are known being deeply insensitive; its use does the ish proposal as an exercise in racial the Wall Street Journal, and many other
officially as “ghettos.” government no favors in persuading its profiling. One commentator even publications.

Jewish World
Filipino family comes to Israel as guest workers,

decides to stay, and then embraces Judaism
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV — Christmas is one of the big-

gest days of the year for Ronaldo and Ber-
nadette Lopez.
They open up their Filipino restaurant
in South Tel Aviv, and their friends bring
their families, crowd the place, and eat
embutido, a rolled pork dish from their
shared home country.
But this year may be different, because
the Lopez family no longer celebrates
Christmas. In April, they converted to
Judaism. And as of May, they still hadn’t
told their Filipino friends about the deci-
sion, which followed a year and a half of
study and an oral exam they had to pass.
“Not yet,” Ronaldo said, laughing, as
he prepared chicken in the family restau-
rant last month. “I’m keeping it as a secret
for us. Until now I am still in Cloud Nine.
I don’t believe that I passed everything.
They will be shocked. They will not believe
that I already converted to Judaism.”
Like many of the approximately 25,000
Filipinos working in Israel, the Lopezes,
who arrived in 2003, came to work as
caregivers to the elderly. But with their
conversion, they have taken a major step
that most of their fellow expatriates have
not: While many Filipinos come to Israel
for a few years to make money in a devel- Ronaldo and Bernadette Lopez now run a Filipino restaurant. They converted to Judaism in April. BEN SALES
oped economy, they tend to remain cultur-

ally separate from Israelis. can I do? They are already comfortable others,” said Bernadette, who has adopted the Lopezes’ story. The Israeli chief rab-
Many communicate with their employ- here,” he said. “They don’t want to go to the Hebrew name Shir-El (God’s song). She binate, which conducts all recognized
ers in English, with a few Hebrew words the Philippines.” doesn’t even mind the daylong fast that Orthodox conversions in the country,
mixed in. They largely retain their Catholic Bernadette began selling Filipino food in accompanies the repentance. does not provide records of its conver-
religion. Because Filipinos live with their a nearby park, and the couple’s restaurant “Since it’s in your heart, in your mind sions broken down by nationality. And
clients for most of the week, they have a license came through 11 years ago. Now that you have to do this, it’s your mitzvah,” because study can be done with a private
much smaller footprint on the everyday they spend their days in its kitchen, cook- she said. “It’s really good. You will not die rabbi before the official oral exam, chief
life of Tel Aviv than do African asylum ing specialties from home. The square in one day.” rabbinate spokesman Kobi Alter could not
seekers, who face racism and cultural room, with its rectangular tables lined up But Ronaldo has struggled with Juda- confirm the name of the teacher whom
resentment. (Relations between Israel in rows, fills up on Sundays, which many ism’s theological aspects. After an edu- the Lopezes mentioned. I could not reach
and the Philippines also are improving. Filipinos take off. The Lopezes chose the cation in Catholic schools and a lifetime people who had that name.
Rodrigo Duterte, the controversial Filipino diverse, poor immigrant neighborhood of of worshipping Jesus, it was not easy to “Every conversion is evaluated for itself
president, is slated to visit later this year.) Neve Shaanan for the restaurant because switch to rejecting the New Testament and based on the couple that wants to con-
But the Lopezes have sought out con- many Filipinos live there. believing that everything he had learned vert,” Alter said.
nections with Israelis. They have lived “We only came here to work, not to was wrong. The Lopezes said that eventually they
here for 15 years. This is the only coun- make anything else,” Ronaldo said. “To “The hardest part is how to take away will tell their Filipino friends about their
try their two sons, who are 9 and 13, have stay here longer, you have to be a good what I used to do,” said Ronaldo, who took new religion. But they are worried about
known. Israel’s government gave them a person here — not like you’re the owner of the name Aharon. what it will do to those relationships,
license to run their restaurant. And Berna- the country.” In the past, he said, “I go to the church as their friends may not understand
dette says Israelis have been supportive of But while the couple are soft-spoken every Sunday, I pray to that. When I con- the choice.
their integration. and polite — friendly and accommodat- verted Jewish, they tell me that’s not true. “Filipinos are Christians, okay?” Ron-
“I like the way the Israelis teach us how ing, for example, as they work in their … Now I understand what is the truth aldo said. “They will not accept us because
to be independent because we don’t have small, hot kitchen, and an American or not the truth. I’m in the middle, but I before I was a Christian. Now we already
any family here,” she said. “It’s better for journalist peppers them with questions — believe what Judaism tells us is true. I’m converted to another religion. I don’t want
us to tell everything to Israelis because they grin and radiate joy as they discuss sure right now because I already studied to debate about our religion.”
they’re everyone who can teach, who can their conversion. Bernadette finds Pass- for a year and a half.” And in the meantime, they’re not chang-
tell us what is good, what is not good.” over and Yom Kippur particularly mean- Bernadette is more concerned about ing the restaurant menu. (A majority of Tel
Ronaldo dismisses the idea of a return ingful. Earlier this year, their son became what will happen if their boys serve in the Aviv’s restaurants are not certified kosher.)
to his home country. “What will I do in the a bar mitzvah, and they hope to obtain Israeli army for three years, in the coun- “Maybe someday,” he said. “Right now
Philippines?” he asks. Israeli citizenship. try’s mandatory draft. “When I think I’m thinking about it because my cus-
Speaking of the conversion, Ron- “Yom Kippur, this is the day we really about it, and my friends told me their son tomers are all Filipino. Not everything
aldo says the couple did it not for them- like because you should think what you is there, I start to cry,” she said. is kosher.”
selves but for their children. “What did bad, what you didn’t do good to I was not able to verify some details of JTA WIRE SERVICE

D’var Torah
Matot/Massei: Where are you heading?
S
everal weeks ago, as I wheeled my is filled with endless opportunity for spiri- Rabbi DovBer greeted his Mezeritch is just a stop along
daughter’s suitcases to her camp tual growth, fulfillment, and purpose. visitor warmly, but since he the road of his voyage. As we
bus, I was reminded of the time I The ultimate journey of our people, was in the middle of teach- are just travelers, our true
was standing at a train station in which began when we left Egypt, will ing, he asked him to return home is not in Mezeritch or
London. I was a 16-year-old yeshiva stu- culminate with the coming of Moshiach, after the lesson was over. wherever we may find our-
dent, traveling with two heavy suitcases, when we will all experience world peace When the fellow returned selves. Life is a journey.
packed with everything (I thought) I would and Godly awareness. As individuals, our that evening, he found that As we travel through life,
need at my yeshiva. As I stood there, journey begins when we are born and will the table was no longer however, we often become
a fellow standing near me, obviously conclude after we complete the purpose there, for every evening distracted from our Godly
taken aback by the size of my suitcases, for which our soul was sent into this world. these boards were used Rabbi assigned task and purpose.
remarked sarcastically, “Where are you My father would often share the follow- as the children’s beds. Mendy Lewis Sometimes this is a result of
heading? You look like you’ve packed your ing story: Once Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov Rabbi DovBer was exceed- Chabad of Old life’s spiritual or material com-
Tappan, Orthodox
entire home including the kitchen sink.” asked one of his Shabbat visitors, a villager ingly pleased to receive his forts and other times from life’s
This week, we read two Torah portions, from a village near Mezeritch, to stop on regards from the Baal Shem challenges and distresses.
Matot and Massei. In the second por- his way home and give his regards to Rabbi Tov and invited the guest to be seated on Indeed, while the Torah permits us to
tion, Massei, which means Journeys, the DovBer of Mezeritch, his disciple. one of the “chairs”. pursue, to utilize and even enjoy the lux-
Torah briefly reviews the journeys of the When the villager arrived in Mezeritch, Having passed on the message from uries of life, the 42 journeys listed in our
Jewish people through the desert, as the he asked around as to the whereabouts the Baal Shem Tov, the surprised villager Torah portion remind us never to be sat-
verse states, (Numbers 33:2) “And Moses of this Rabbi Dovber and was eventually turned to Rabbi DovBer. “What shall I isfied with our current state of spiritual
recorded their starting points of their jour- directed to the home of a teacher in one say?” the villager said. “I am far from rich, affairs. We must never lose focus, and
neys according to the word of God, and of the poor alleys. The home was a run- but if you were to come to my home you never despair, God forbid.
these were their journeys with their start- down cottage with small windows, some will find, thank God, a stool, a chair, cribs Life is an incredible journey, filled with
ing points.” of which were broken. Inside, he saw a for the little ones, and other furniture.” tremendous opportunities for spiritual
The journeys in our portion, we are man with a face of unspeakable nobility. Rabbi DovBer replied: “At home, things growth and advancement. Every phase,
taught, represent the many journeys of Rabbi DovBer was seated on a wooden are quite different. At home one does encounter, and experience in our journey
the Jewish people, both as a collective stump and his students sat on planks that in fact need a chair, a bed, a table, and enables us to reach our final destination,
whole and as individuals. Each place and rested on smaller stumps. The table too a lamp.” our true home, having completed our mis-
circumstance in which we find ourselves was made in the same style. Rabbi DovBer taught his visitor that sion to the best of our ability.
BRIEFS
Israeli lawmakers set Teams prep for first World Lacrosse

to decriminalize use of cannabis Championship to be held in Israel
Israeli lawmakers are set to decriminalize canna- rehabilitation of drug addicts, instead of taking the Two teams participating in the World Lacrosse Championship, which
bis use for the first three times someone is caught money to the state’s funds,” Knesset member Mei- kicks off on July 12, warmed up together last week at the Kraft Family
using the drug for personal use. rav Ben-Ari said. She is a member of the Kulanu Stadium pitch in Jerusalem.
According to the bill, a person caught using can- Party and of the Knesset’s Labor, Welfare and In a match put together by the Israel Project, in cooperation with
nabis would pay a fine of NIS 1,000 for the first Health Committee that advanced the law. the Israeli Lacrosse Association, players from the United States and
offense, NIS 2,000 for second offense if done The decriminalization of cannabis comes amid Hong Kong practiced on the field and signed shirts for crowds of local
within the five years of the first, and a “conditional concerns over Israel’s medical cannabis industry. children who had come to watch the rare event.
arrangement” for the third offense that requires While Israel is known as a global leader in the On the other side of the field, Team Israel, which also is participat-
the person to pay a fine or do community service, research and development of medical cannabis, ing in the international competition, held a workshop for underprivi-
instead of facing criminal charges, the Jerusalem recent restrictions on foreign investment and the leged children from the E4E (Educating for Excellence) organization.
Post reported. Israeli government’s slow response in approving Assisting in teaching the kids were players from Sderot’s Youth Team,
But children under 18, prisoners, and previous medical-cannabis exports have been inhibiting a city near Gaza that has been a continued target of rocket fire from
criminal offenders are not covered by the new law, growth in that sector. over the border.
which is slated to take effect for only three years so An Israeli medical-cannabis grower, Together “Israel is joining countries across the world in becoming a lacrosse-
it can be observed and studied. Pharma, announced last week that it would be loving nation,” said Lior Weintraub, vice president and director in
Security Minister Gilad Erdan praised the law, moving some of its greenhouses from Israel to Israel for the Israel Project. “The fact that Israel is the first non-Eng-
saying he “hopes and believes that the law will the European Union amid ongoing Israeli bureau- lish speaking country ever to host the World Lacrosse Tournament,
prevent unnecessary incrimination of civilians, cratic hurdles. which happens to be the biggest yet with 50 teams and 2,000 athletes
while also minimizing cannabis consumption, Last year, Israeli lawmakers approved new participating, is a testament to the country’s flourishing spot in the
especially for our youth.” measures to allow for the international export of international community.”
“I definitely hope that the money collected from cannabis, with some reports saying that the state The World Lacrosse Championship will be held from July 12 to July
the fines will be allocated for the establishment of could earn up to $4 billion annually in revenue 21 at the Netanya Stadium and Wingate Institute.
a fund for education, information, treatment and from its exportation. JNS.ORG JNS.ORG
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Take me to the fair
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ife is full of experiences. and some sort of tube top. I was ready
When you have lots of for the State Fair.
money, those experiences “Honey,” I gently shouted, “Honey,
can be full of exotic adven- put your walking shoes on, you and me
tures, travel to faraway lands, tasting is going to the fair!” “Can I go to Mincha
culinary masterpieces from all ends of first?” “Of course you can darling — and
the earth, and so on and so forth and then we is on our way! Heehaw!”
what have you. But even if you do have It was Sunday, the weather was
money, you might not want to travel. beautiful, and we were actually going
And whether you have money or not, somewhere that didn’t involve using
life still is what you make of it. Taking a our DVR. Husband #1 sprang for park-
walk in a park can be just ing and everything! I felt
as adventurous as being like a Disney princess.
dropped from a helicopter We waited on line with all
and skiing down a moun- sorts of folks. Ones dressed
tain. Okay, maybe not as up in stockings with seams
adventurous, but at least and three layers of blouses.
you aren’t sitting on your Some folks had Hello Kitty
couch watching reruns of tattoos on their backs with
“NYPD Blue” — not that their bleached blond hair
there is anything wrong in pigtails. It was quite the
with that…. Banji fashion show. And I felt
So as you may have Ganchrow perfectly at home with my
heard, sons 1, 2, and 3 Billy Joel T-shirt and yoga
all have left us, to spread pants. And my old lady
their talents in various camps around Sketchers — the most comfortable shoes
the Lakewood, Pennsylvania, area and in all of the universe.
we are very proud of them. Despite the I saw on the schedule that the pig
Across Down
fact that they are wearing long sleeves races would began at 4 p.m. There was
1. Grasp 1. Treif radios?
and long pants in 100 percent humid- no way I was missing those! We were the
5. Dry 2. One who moves to Israel
9. Common man, briefly 3. Make like the Browns in 2017 ity, they are all doing quite well, thank first ones to arrive, and we staked our
14. Common cream in crosswords 4. Architect’s portfolio God. This leaves husband #1 and me to seats in the shade, so husband #1’s head
15. See 6-Down 5. Mode predecessor be alone. All alone. By ourselves alone. wouldn’t burn and he wouldn’t wind
16. Pesky Persian, long ago 6. Kylo whose mom is 15-Across So quiet that you want to scream alone. up looking like a giant tomato. But of
17. Like a star savior from Argentina? 7. Episode where Yoda fights the Emperor
Boo hoo, we are all alone with no kids course the crowds just came pouring in,
19. Cold adverb 8. Notorious concentration camp
20. The Iron ___ (former wrestling star) 9. High priest with a Parshah named after in the house, what do we have to com- and insisted on standing in front of all of
21. Cooped-up creature him plain about. Really? Have you just met us losers who arrived 30 minutes early.
23. Chai, e.g. 10. Lakers’ local rivals, on the scoreboard me? Honestly, it is very lovely being But it all worked out — and believe you
24. ___ whiz! 11. Discharge on a totally selfish schedule that only me, it was totally worth it to see these
26. “Psycho” screamer Leigh 12. “Exodus: Gods and Kings” star
involves making sure husband #1 gets pigs run. But it was even more worth it
28. Portuguese star’s treats on Chanukah? 13. One-named Irish singer
34. 52-Across team that probably won’t 18. Big furniture retailer dinner every night and his clothes are to see the last heat of pigs not run and
do as well in 2019, for short 22. H.S. subject washed, dried, and folded (and some- just relieve themselves on the track and
35. “Y” pluralized 25. Late great Wiesel times put away, but that is never really walk backwards.
36. “A Light in the ___” (Shel Silverstein 26. Pulitzer and Stalin part of the schedule.) I get to walk, Now that is real entertainment.
book) 27. Blasting letters
spin, walk, eat, spin, eat, walk… you The petting zoo had a kangaroo that
37. It makes men mean? 28. Ability to cover a lot of ground, as for
38. Reads from the Torah like a Brazilian a shortstop get the picture. But there has just got to was suffering heat stroke and there was
star? 29. Biological egg source be more! an elephant giving guests rides. This
41. “Give ___ chance” 30. “The Shape of Water” director And then I saw and ad in the paper poor elephant has seen better days
42. Be on the same page Guillermo ___ Toro for the Meadowlands State Fair, and my and I was tempted to kidnap him and
44. Brave, Chief or Indian 31. City near Syracuse
mind went all giddy. A state fair!! And bring him home because he looked so
45. Hail ___ (cry “Taxi!”) 32. Atlas or Thanos
46. Bitter month for a Brazilian star? 33. Replacement player, to some one that doesn’t involve my kids singing depressed. But, alas, we had no room
50. Those with addictions 34. “Elf” actor James the 50 State song from their project in for him because we didn’t bring our van
51. Color shade 38. Farm laborers of low social rank Yeshivat Noam. because we had no kids with us. Which
52. See 34-Across 39. Strong, angry emotion This fair advertised games and rides was both relaxing and creepy all at the
55. Ruling great-grandson of Solomon 40. Have some babka
and petting zoos (which you could actu- same time.
56. Ruth gathered it 43. Animal on the Australian coat of arms
60. All time homerun leader, to purists 45. So-so ally smell from the ad). This fair had In the end, it was a fun day, feeling
62. Hand for a British star? 47. Lo-___ monitors sea lions and camels and pig races. You like a real American at a real state fair
66. Got some shuteye 48. Grouchy heard me — pig races. Not to be con- and eating soft serve ice cream that was
67. Talk big 49. Grant or Jackman fused with car races or horse races. really kosher. God bless America!
68. Chocolate coin 52. Agcy. known to shoot for the stars
Who knew that pigs could race? I once
69. Accumulate 53. Lip soother
70. Blabs 54. Geometric figure heard they could fly, but never that they Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck hopes you
71. Donald and Ivana, e.g. 57. Big credit card name, for short had the ability to race. I was excited. I are all enjoying your summers with or
58. Part of an archipelago was pumped. I was ready to get a tat- without kids, but definitely with some ice
59. Capital city sluggers, for short too, a really short pair of jean shorts, cream….
The solution to last week’s puzzle is 61. “Black” CIA doings
on page 34.
63. New ___ (64-Down makers)
64. Steve Rogers, to his teammates
65. Metric weights: Abbr.

Arts & Culture
‘Chronicles of The Last Jewish Gangster:
From Meyer to Myron’
Wherein the titular protagonist from New Jersey
regales with tales of mobsters, machers, and mayhem
WALLACE GREENE the mob bosses in many different lands, com-
F
municating with them in their native tongue. He
rom “The Untouchables” to “The Al Capone speaks seven languages.
Story” to “Goodfellas” and “The Godfather” “The Last Jewish Gangster” follows its author
— and including many other television and from 1959 to the present day, as he traversed the
movie depictions of mobsters in America — we globe, from Europe to Africa to South America
have some idea of the gangster life. But missing from to Asia, rubbing shoulders with dangerous men
the largely Italian and Irish narrative is the Jewish gang- and such legendary mob figures as Longie Zwill-
ster component. man, Meyer Lansky, Joe “Doc” Stacher, Gerry
Myron Sugerman’s memoir, “The Chronicles of The Last Catena, Tony Bananas Caponigro, Tommy Ryan
Jewish Gangster: From Meyer to Myron,” is an enthrall- Eboli, and many others. The story covers every-
ing account of the author’s six-decade career as an inter- thing from his dealings with the fearsome Cali
national outlaw in the field of slot machines, juke boxes, cartel to helping famous Nazi hunter Simon
pinball machines, arcade machines, gambling machines Wiesenthal track down Dr. Josef Mengele in
— especially gambling machines — and casinos, as part of Paraguay. Mr. Sugerman also recalls how Meyer
the Jewish mob, with connections to the Genovese and Lansky’s group and the bosses of Bally Manu-
Gambino crime families, the Yakuza, the Cali cartel, and facturing Company sent him to Lagos, Nigeria,
many other nefarious groups. to run a joint venture gambling machine opera-
Mr. Sugerman’s narrative also is a treatise on topics such tion with Arabs from Lebanon.
as aging, respect, trust, adventure, greed, and man’s ten- This book contains something for everyone —
dency to be his own worst enemy. Amid the many stories real life crime stories, scary adventures, 20th-
and anecdotes, the book also contains many life lessons, century history vignettes, and the Jewish reli-
such as disquisitions on how to differentiate a calculated gious philosophy and perspective of a man who
risk from gambling, and how to maintain your place in has lived a long life and seen more than most of
the world as you grow older. Bon mots such as “greed kills us can even imagine seeing. Aside from admir-
more people than pistols” fill the book, as do expressions ing and respecting the early Jewish mobsters,
in Yiddish, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages. Myron Sugerman was and is still an admirer
The style of the book is very folksy, as if Mr. Sugerman is of Zev Jabotinsky and the Lubavitcher rebbe.
schmoozing with you over a cup of tea. Mr. Sugerman always dealt fair and square
Mr. Sugerman learned his trade from his father, the late and made sure everybody got the right end of a deal. He Hinkes at the Second Avenue Deli.
Barney (Sugie) Sugerman, who started out with a candy is proud to have helped a lot of people achieve financial Mr. Sugerman reveres the memory of his father, who
store and jukeboxes in Newark before World War II, before independence. Mr. Sugerman says he learned early in life died when Myron was young. Mr. Sugerman says the
he branched out. Myron Sugerman has installed tens of that truth is man’s best friend. He tried always to answer “uncles” took over and raised him in the world of the
thousands of gambling devices in casinos, clubs, bodegas, to God’s law, and sometimes even to man’s law. However, Kosher Nostra.
bars, and goulash joints across the United States, Europe, since there are discrepancies between God’s law and His memoir takes the reader back to his roots in post-
Latin America, South America, and Africa, and dealt with man’s law, Mr. Sugerman spent 19 months as a guest of the war Newark — today, he lives in Maplewood — and then
U.S. government penal system — but he takes you from casinos and bars in the remotest parts of
is very sanguine about this experience. Africa, including Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda, and the Dem-
Myron Sugerman is an expert on a ocratic Republic of Congo, to adventures throughout all
bygone era of old-school gangsters, of South America, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,
their ethics, their morality, and their Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.
sense of right and wrong. This book He also discusses the history of the Jewish mob (with
tells the story of a man who grew up help from Italians and Irish) and their contributions to
at the feet of some of the most famous the Jewish people both here in the United States during
Jewish, Italian, and Irish gangsters, the 1930s — fighting anti-Semitism and the American Nazi
and understood the traditions of Party — and in the 1940s after World War II, securing ille-
that world. The book includes touch- gal weapons and providing cash for both the Haganah and
ing stories, such as flying an elderly the Irgun in Palestine — pre-state Israel — in the struggle
Jewish mobster to Israel and saying for Jewish statehood.
kaddish for one of the chevra, with “I’m the last man standing of a generation of a world
people wearing ski masks instead that once was,” Mr. Sugerman says. “Those were
of kipot. men who in their own way cared for their people and
When Dustin Hoffman needed old their community.”
timers who knew Dutch Schultz so Myron Sugerman now is lecturing on the Jewish mob all
he could play the part of Schultz in over the United States.
the movie “Billy Bathgate,” Mr. Sug-
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia destroying slot machines owned by Meyer erman arranged a meeting with Little Wallace Greene received his Ph.D. in Jewish History from
Lansky and Frank Costello circa 1940. Itzig, Louie the Rush, and Max Puddy Yeshiva University. He writes and lectures on Jewish topics.

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Ave. Reservations,
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JULY 13 3 Valley Road. Limited ahavathtorah.org/dorldor.
seating. (973) 247-0085
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Pianist Eric Clark
or lambertcastle.org.
Wednesday
performs in concert JULY 18
at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck. Barbecue, short
family-friendly service,
and oneg with concert,
beginning at 6 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
Barbecue reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org. Arona Berow
Postpartum depression:
Saturday The Jewish Center Tova Warburg Sinensky
JULY 14 of Teaneck offers
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Afternoon tea in Raising Awareness and women’s issues: A
Teaneck: AMIT’s Hindy Breaking the Stigma” community-wide yoetzet
Weinstock-Geula chapter with social workers initiative fundraiser is
offers Shabbat summer Arona Berow and Marilyn at Congregation Rinat
afternoon tea to honor Laves, 7 p.m. 70 Sterling Yisrael in Teaneck, 8 p.m.
the memory of Anita Place. JCOT.org. Sponsored by American
Scharf at a private home Friends of Nishmat, AMIT,
in Teaneck, 5 p.m. Guest
speaker Shira Schiowitz,
Tuesday Emunah, Lamdeinu,
Nechama Comfort,
Tanach instructor at SAR JULY 17 Project Sarah, Sharsheret,
High School, discusses and Yesh Tikvah. 389
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as a Handbook for (201) 837-2795 or Rinat.
Life.” Register at org.
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Thursday
Kaye, (212) 477-5465 or JULY 19
GeneneK@amitchildren. JULY A participant concentrates during a yoga
org. Parkinson’s support: class at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
15
The Jewish Home Family
Women’s song circle continues a monthly Tenafly. Yoga, meditation, and mindful living
Rabbi Daniel Goldberg
in Teaneck: Join a support group for trainer Mark Van Buren will lead a meditation
z’mirot song circle for people diagnosed with retreat at the Kaplen JCC at 12:30 p.m on July 15. Half-day
women only at Netivot Parkinson’s Disease, their
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Palisade Ave. Email with tai chi, at the Jewish into a daily routine. For information call Hagit Tal at (201)
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airway dysfunction at
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Teachers College, will New Jersey co-sponsor Emerson. (201) 820-3902 Crusades and Other
Dor L’Dor group at “Bubbles and Books,” or www.bisrael.com. Battlegrounds — The
discuss “Latest Research
Congregation Ahavath with live guitar music, Golden Age of Spain.”
on Parkinson’s from
Torah in Englewood crafts, books, bubbles, Judaism & Islam: The Series continues Aug. 2
Columbia University.”
offers pre-Tisha B’Av and popsicles. It’s part CSI Scholar Fund of and 9. 1449 Anderson
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Double Entendre plays after 1967”; afterward, in Emerson and Shalom 10:30-11:30 a.m. If it Ages.” Refreshments
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Israeli Air Force vet to speak

on rescues and aiding teens
Classroom: A Visit to
The Jewish Community Center of Northern host families during the summer. He par-
Saturday Rutgers and William
Paterson Universities” New Jersey (formerly the YJCC) hosts a pro- ticipated in many daring rescue missions,
JULY 21 at meeting of REAP gram with Ori Katzman, 24, who was a com- including the recent rescue of nine teenag-
(Retired Executives bat soldier in the Israeli Air Force’s Elite 669 ers from a fatal flood in the Tzafit Wadi in
Tisha B’Av in Teaneck: and Professionals) at
Rabbi Golan Ben- the Kaplen JCC on the Medivac Combat Search & Rescue Unit. The Southern Israel. As head of the Air Force
Chorin discusses Palisades in Tenafly, talk will be on Tuesday, July 17, at a private Evasion & Survival Division, he planned
“Destruction and 11 a.m. 411 East Clinton home in Park Ridge at 7:45 p.m. and led joint trainings in Israel with spe-
Deconstruction: Past Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
Tragedy, Present Threat, Mr. Katzman is a counselor with Open cial units from the United States and other
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Karen Luschar Tisha B’Av observance vides respite and comfort to disadvan- A dessert reception follows. For informa-
at Temple Emeth,
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concert series at
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Wednesday
continues with “Chasing JULY 18
Rainbows: The Songs of
Judy Garland” by Karen Sunday Oak Ridge Boys headed to Englewood
Lunch in Nyack:
Luschar, 7 p.m. Series JULY 22 Singles 65+ from the The Bergen Performing Arts Center has
runs through August 30. JCC Rockland meet for
The Metro YMCAs of tickets on sale for upcoming shows, includ-
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Tisha B’Av films lunch at Amici Italian
the Oranges is a partner ing the Oak Ridge Boys, who will perform
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of the YM-YWHA of Congregation Darchei Nyack, N.Y., 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, at 8 p.m.
North Jersey. 1 Pike Noam screens two Individual checks. 425 The Oak Ridge Boys — Duane Allen,
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or www.wayneymca.org. Richard Sterban, Joe Bonsall, and William
of the Holocaust, (845) 356-5525.
“Greenhorn,” adapted
Lee Golden — bring 50 years of tradition
Concert in Teaneck: to their shows. Their four-part harmonies
The free Bergen County from the book by Anna
Olswanger of Fair Lawn,
Friday and upbeat songs have spawned dozens of country hits, and Grammy, Dove, CMA, and
Summer Music Concert
series in Overpeck Park, and “Schindler’s List JULY 27 ACM awards. Their hits include “Elvira,” “Bobbie Sue,” “Dream On,” “Thank God For
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Tedesco and the Board grandfather of Mickey weekend: Sharon
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JULY 24 discussions, Shabbat
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College anti-Semitism: and Saturday night
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Caught between jihadists and neo-Nazis,

Swedish Jews fear for their future
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
MALMO, SWEDEN — When Carinne Sjo-

berg dissolved the Jewish Community
of Umea in northern Sweden in May,
she knew it would send shockwaves far
beyond the small congregation that she
had spent decades building.
The move was a result of intimida-
tion by neo-Nazis. That was the first time
in decades that a Jewish organization
in Western Europe acknowledged that
it felt compelled to close up shop over
safety concerns.
Beginning in 2016, neo-Nazis from the
Nordic Resistance Movement pasted stick-
ers with fascist imagery on Umea’s Jew-
ish community center, “making the place
look like after Kristallnacht,” Sjoberg said.
The closure followed surveillance activity
on the center by the neo-Nazis, who pub-
lished details about individual visitors.
“I didn’t take it lightly,” Sjoberg, a
56-year-old Jewish mother of two, said
about the decision to close. “I hate giving
neo-Nazis this victory. But I can’t bear the
COURTESY OF SJOBERG
responsibility for people’s lives, not under
such threats,” she said of her city’s Jewish
community of 70 people.
The closure caused a national uproar.
Amid intense media coverage of the affair
in Sweden, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven
mentioned it in a speech denouncing anti- Carinne Sjoberg peels off a sticker that neo-Nazis left on the door of what used to be the Jewish community center of
democracy forces in his country. Umea, Sweden.
But the indignation did little to change
the fact that in Sweden, Muslim extremism a dozen community members have died in reluctantly,” the father said. “He doesn’t We will have to flee this country eventually.”
and the far right are part of a broader set anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims since 2012. want to live here. He wants to move back Dozzi, who works for the association full
of challenges to Jewish communal life. So Conversely, Muslim extremism is not a real to Israel as soon as he turns 18, join the time, said he feels “safer in Israel.”
while the Jewish community of Stockholm issue to the Jews in Ukraine, where far- army and fight the Arabs. Back in Umea, Sjoberg said she has faced
may be growing, the problems nonethe- right nationalists recently have assaulted “He’s become very right wing.” various forms of anti-Semitism, ranging
less are causing some Swedish Jews to fear several congregants. Stefan Dozzi, the secretary-general of from the neo-Nazi harassment to “Arabs
for their future as a minority here. Which is why some Jewish community the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association, who spat at me on the street for wearing a
“We have a vibrant community in leaders in Europe say that Swedish Jewry also has firsthand experience of the dual Star of David pendant.”
Stockholm but even here we face mul- is something of a test case for the rest of threat facing Swedish Jewry. Such incidents involving Muslims are on
tiple threats, from Muslim extremism to the continent. During the Almedalem political activ- the mild end of the spectrum.
far-right violence,” said Aron Verstandig, “The challenges that the Jewish commu- ism conference last week on the island Last month, three Arab men were con-
president of the Council of Swedish Jew- nity in Sweden face today are sadly indica- of Gotland, south of Stockholm, he and victed of hurling firebombs at the syna-
ish Communities, an umbrella group with tive of far wider phenomena taking place another activist for the organization gogue of Gothenburg in southern Swe-
approximately 6,000 members out of Swe- across Europe,” said Moshe Kantor, presi- were physically assaulted by neo-Nazis, den in December after President Donald
den’s estimated 20,000 Jews. dent of the European Jewish Congress. who attempted to place their banner on Trump announced the U.S. Embassy in
None of these challenges are unique to In the southern province of Skane, a the association’s flag in the group’s pavil- Israel would be moved to Jerusalem from
Swedish Jewry. Several Jewish commu- 15-year-old Jewish student attending a high ion. It was the first time the pro-Israel Tel Aviv. It was one of several attacks on
nities in Eastern Europe suffer neo-Nazi school near Malmo suffers violent harass- group set up a pavilion during the Alme- Jewish places of worship in southern
intimidation, and many Jews in the conti- ment at school from both ethnic Swedes dalen conference. Sweden in recent years, and especially in
nent’s west have experienced violence at and Muslim immigrants, his father said. The incident was reported widely in Malmo, where a third of this city’s popula-
the hands of radical Muslims. ‘The leader of one gang is an Afghan Swedish media. However, Dozzi said, “no tion of 350,000 is Muslim and about 1,000
Nor are the problems connected to liv- boy,” the father, an Israeli who moved to one wrote about the intimidation by Mus- residents are Jewish.
ing as a religious minority in an ultra-sec- Sweden eight years ago for work, said, lims” at Almedalen. At least two men he Jihadism and neo-Nazi anti-Semitism
ular society like Sweden’s endemic to this speaking on condition of anonymity. One described as Muslims told him they would “feed off one another” in Sweden, Sjoberg
country; they occur across Scandinavia beating happened last year after his son burn the Israeli flag on display at the asso- said. The arrival of hundreds of thousands
and beyond. refused to play in a soccer match with ciation’s pavilion. Dozzi said the flag was of Muslims to Sweden, starting in the
But Sweden is perhaps the only Euro- one team called “the Jews” and another stolen during a break later that day. 1970s, generated “less tolerance to people
pean country where Jews are reporting a “the Palestinians.” “We have two kinds of enemies,” said who are perceived as foreign,” embolden-
critical convergence of these issues. For Another beating involved an ethnic Dozzi, who described himself as having Jew- ing the far right. “I don’t think they would
example, far-right violence is not a real Swede who picked on the Jewish boy, ish roots. “I think things will only get worse have dared to go after us like this 15 years
concern for Jews in France, but more than the father said. His son “goes to school here, with the Muslims and the neo-Nazis. SEE CAUGHT PAGE 36

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Roy Feinman
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Beverly Vardi
Beverly Jane Vardi, née Greenberg, 75, of Hackensack
Robert Schmertz Payne
Born in Brooklyn, he was a linguist for the U.S. died July 6. On 3 July 2018, Robert Schmertz Payne, beloved
government. She graduated from Brooklyn College and earned husband of 68 years of Anita Payne, precious father
A brother, Ronald, of San Diego, Calif., and cousins a Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. She worked for the
of Dr. David Payne (& Dr. Nancy) and Clarissa Payne
survive him. Teaneck school system and as a private consultant.
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Caught on homeschooling their children. And in kindergarten and a Jewish school “with a Nord acknowledged. She said some Jews
FROM PAGE 32 March, two Cabinet ministers called for long waiting list,” Kahn Nord said, adding from her hometown of Malmo, Gothen-
ago,” Sjoberg said. shuttering all faith schools. that the community in the city is growing burg and beyond leave for Stockholm
The boldness of neo-Nazis in Swe- Yet even against this backdrop, Jewish with a lively participation of young con- because of harassment.
den seems unusual for Western Europe, life has prevailed, at least in Stockholm, gregants and at least one Limmud Jewish But many do so “for positive reasons
where law enforcement agencies in many according to Petra Kahn Nord, the commu- learning conference annually. — because they want to have a more Jew-
countries with bitter memories of Nazism nity’s spokeswoman. The capital, she said, But this success feeds on other commu- ish life,” Kahn Nord said. So while “Stock-
have a relatively low tolerance for far- has three synagogues, a JCC with a kosher nities, like Malmo, where there are so few holm’s Jewish community is growing,” in
right shenanigans. shop and a newly opened Jewish library. Jews left that the Jewish kindergarten there the rest of Sweden “it’s just dying away.”
In 2015 and 2017, skinheads twice dis- Stockholm also has a Jewish now has mostly non-Jewish children, Kahn JTA WIRE SERVICE
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last year, hundreds of neo-Nazis marched
on Yom Kippur to celebrate their hateful
ideology. The original itinerary had them
passing by the synagogue, but city authori-
ties made them avoid it.
Part of the problem, Sjoberg said, is that
Sweden was never de-Nazified after World
COURTESY OF THE SWEDEN-ISRAEL RIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION

War II. It was officially neutral — but in
practice collaborated with Nazi Germany.
“There was massive support for the
Nazis, but none of the reckoning against
collaborators that happened in occupied
countries after liberation,” she said, ref-
erencing tp the dismissal of collabora-
tors from positions of influence and pros-
ecutions in France, Italy, the Netherlands
and beyond.
In Umea, authorities lack the determina-
tion to stand up for the Jewish community,
Sjoberg said. Talks with the city on mov-
COURTESY OF SJOBERG
ing the Jewish center to a secure location

ended abruptly last year, she said, when
authorities put the intended space up for
rent and backed out of an agreement to Stefan Dozzi, right, and Motti Toledano are at the pro-Israel pavilion in Visby, Sweden, on July 3, 2018.
turn it into a JCC.
“They were giving us the run-around,
not keeping to agreements and leaving us
twisting in the wind when we were being
targeted by neo-Nazis keeping track of
our comings and goings. I had to pull the
plug,” Sjoberg said.
Umea’s deputy mayor, Margareta
Rönngren, disputed her account of nego-
tiations. “The members decided to close
down the community, the municipal-
ity cannot take responsibility for that,”
Rönngren said. “Accommodation was an
urgent issue, the municipality tried to help
the community, but could not at this time
find a safe solution that met the commu-
nity’s requirements.”
The city “in fact offered the Jewish
community center other accommoda-
tion, safety premises were checked by our
security department, but the community
didn’t approve,” she said. “The closure of
the Umea Jewish community center is very
sad” and “very serious when the causes
are threats and harassment.”
In addition to violent harassment,
Swedish Jews also need to deal with strict
secularism on the part of authorities that
sometimes encroaches on their customs.
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Ritual slaughter of animals is illegal in

Sweden, and although ritual circumcision
of boys under 18 is allowed, banning the
practice is a constant subject for debate.
A Jewish couple in Gothenburg, a Chabad
rabbi and his wife, are facing hundreds of
thousands of dollars in fines for insisting A view of the Great Synagogue of Stockholm in 2012. The city’s Jewish community is growing.

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check out the minyan. “It was very mov- branch of the Smithsonian, inside the old
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help but feel optimism about the mod- “Outside there is a massive statue
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