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Have art, will travel
Larry yudeLson
W
ould you like your art to transport you to Israel?
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is
running an art competition, and the top two top win-
ners will be awarded trips to Israel, where they will present their
work at the federations sister community in Nahariya.
All the winners will have their work displayed at two exhibitions
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly and at the Belskie
Museum of Art & Science in Closter.
The theme for the competition is the common thread that runs
through the people of New Jersey and Nahariya, according to the
flier announcing the competition.
Our main goal is to connect people, said Sarit Ron, who coor-
dinates the federations Partnership 2Gether sister city activities.
As part of that connection, the exhibitions also will feature art
from a parallel contest that is being held now in Nahariya. And the
winners of that contest will be flown to northern New Jersey, where
they will have the opportunity to make art with their American
counterparts.
Art is a language everybody understands, Ron said.
One of last years visitors spoke no English, only French and
Hebrew. But under his guidance, artists from New Jersey and Israel
collaborated on a statue of three dancers, Ron said.
So while contestants wont be judged on their knowledge of
Hebrew, a desire and willingness to collaborate will be considered.
The deadline is February 18. Submissions are to be made elec-
tronically, in .jpg format. The original artwork can be up to 40
inches square. Full details are at http://bit.ly/js-art2
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for whom we mourn.
Menorah Rotenberg, Teaneck
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Sinai honoree takes particular pride in award
Greene called driving force behind creation of special needs programs
Lois GoLdrich
B
eing the honoree at an annual dinner is always
a cause for pride. But for Dr. Wallace Greene
who is among those being feted at this years
Sinai Schools benefit dinner it is also a joy.
Im fortunate to have some noteworthy
accomplishments, said Greene, the driving force behind
the creation of the school and the recipient of Sinais Poel
Tzedek award. But this stands out.
Greene now managing director at the Adolph
Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland and former
longtime director of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Jewish Educational Services said the idea
for the school took shape at a sisterhood meeting at Fair
Lawns Shomrei Torah some 35 years ago. We had two
kids in the shul with serious issues, he recalled.
The meeting included a presentation by Rabbi Aharon
Hersh Fried, who, Greene said, founded the first Jewish
special education program and was one of only a few
working on that.
Every principal of every day school was invited to
attend, he said. As it happened, he was the only one to
show up, representing the Hebrew Youth Academy of
Essex County, now known as the Joseph Kushner Hebrew
Academy.
What he said turned me on, Greene said. I was
embarrassed that as a Jewish educator I didnt think of
this on my own. Why werent we taking care of these kids?
I gave it a lot of thought and came up with an idea to
develop a school within a school.
It wasnt called inclusion, he continued. The
word was not yet invented. But I realized that the social
impact of being sent to a special school was very harmful
to these kids. They needed to go on the same bus as
their friends and siblings. They needed to be part of an
environment that was welcoming not set apart or
discriminated against.
Apparently, Greene said, that idea was still a novelty,
so he set out to do the necessary research, immersing
himself in the subject. Ultimately, it took two years of
persistent, annoying cajoling of the board to get them
to understand and agree to house a school at HYA. The
two conditions were that he raise one years operating
expenses in advance and that the school not take up
more than two classrooms.
I have to give credit to Bruce Shoulson, president
of the school at the time, Greene said. Most board
presidents would have shut me down a long time before
that. But he allowed me to make a pitch at every board
meeting.
It was unheard of, he said. At that time, in the late
70s, this was not a socially acceptable disability. Glasses
were acceptable, hearing aids were acceptable, but with
learning disabilities, there was tremendous prejudice to
overcome. He said, though, that Dassy Brandstatter and
other founding parents were there to push him along.
He convinced an old childhood friend, Lorette
Rothwachs then living in Far Rockaway and teaching
learning disabled children to come to the wilds of Fair
Lawn. (Although the school is in Essex County, Greene
lives in Fair Lawn.)
When Rothwachs agreed to become a partner in the
project, the program began with about four students.
Inclusion by design sets school apart, Sinai dean says
Personalized approach is a hallmark of the program
Lois GoLdrich
D
r. Yisrael Rothwachs, dean of Sinai
schools (and Lorette Rothwachs son),
has no doubt that people appreciate the
work the school is doing. But, he fears, they may
not fully understand its philosophy.
I wouldnt want to come off as being
presumptive about what people think, he
said. But in conversations Ive had with both
professionals and prospective parents over
time, Ive become sensitized to the lack of
understanding of what our philosophy is.
Because the school offers self-contained
classes, he said some mistakenly assume that
the special needs students are kept separate.
For so many years, when parents had to
find a better placement for their children than a
regular yeshiva, for the most part they had two
options, he said. They could put the child in
a restrictive, segregated type of setting, which
might give academic or specific emotional
support but [leave the child] socially isolated.
Or, they might try to make it work in a mainstream
school and give extra support through things like a
shadow. [The children] wouldnt be isolated, but they
might not be getting the support they needed.
Sinai, he said, sees itself as offering the best of both
worlds. They come to our school, get self-contained
classes and individual instruction for the parts of the
day they need that for. But for those parts of day they
dont, the options are there.
The dean explained that some children
may be in self-contained classes for one
subject, like reading, but in partner classes
for other subjects, whether math, history, or
Chumash. It depends on the kid, he said.
Describing what he called the
individualized approach to education,
Rothwachs said that Sinais policy, inclusion
by design, does not mean that Sinai students
will have the opportunity to participate in
everything, but that decisions regarding their
placement are thoughtful and deliberate.
We sit down with the parents not only when
the child is accepted but on an ongoing
basis, planning with them what the inclusion
formula will be for this particular child.
Minimally, he said, the children benefit
from being in a school with their peers,
riding the same buses, sitting at the same
lunch tables, attending the same music
classes. They can say, We go to YNJ or We go to
Kushner. They dont have to explain about Sinai.
Rothwachs said that for anything thats available
for the kids to be part of and included in, we make the
What: sinai schools annual benefit dinner
When: sunday, February 10
Where: Marriott Glenpointe hotel, teaneck
Guests of honor: Lisa and Lowell Baron of
Bergenfield; rachel and Michael dube of englewood;
dr. wallace Greene of Fair Lawn; and debbie and
Michael Kaplan of Livingston
For more information, or to make reservations or a
donation, call (201) 833-1134, ext. 105, or go to www.
sinaidinner.org
Sinai and TABC students spend some free time together.
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right decision together with the parents on what to offer.
He stressed that inclusion by design isnt just about
academic classes but embraces the totality of the childs
participation in the school, from color war to field trips.
Today, Sinai students can be found at the Sinai
Elementary School at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy
in Livingston; Sinai Elementary School at Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge; Maor High School,
hosted within the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in
Livingston; and the Rabbi Mark & Linda Karasick Shalem
High School at Torah Academy of Bergen County and
the Rabbi Mark & Linda Karasick Shalem High School at
Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, both in Teaneck.
Sinai also runs adult transitional programs, including
the Nathan Miller S.H.E.L.I. Residence for Men and Sinai
Netivot Day Habilitation Program, both in Teaneck.
The partner schools cooperate 100 percent of the
time, if it makes sense, Rothwachs said, noting that
there are so many variables in each class. They usually
work with us to find the right siduch between a teacher
and our students. I can really say that 100 percent of the
time, the teachers chosen to include our kids do it eagerly
and embrace it.
For their part, Sinai staff dont just pop them in and
say good luck. There is a high degree of communication.
Sinais mission, he said, is to serve all the kids who
need us. Its not our mission to be in every school, but to
fill the needs of the community.
According to Sam Fishman, a former Sinai parent and now its consulting managing
director, Sinai is the only school in the community that serves Jewish children with a
broad range of learning or developmental disabilities.
He pointed out that creating a completely
individualized program for each child translates into a
nearly 1:2 staff-to-student ratio and several different in-
house therapies, with specialists on staff at each school.
Noting that Sinai is the only Jewish day school
for children with special needs that has received
accreditation from the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools, Fishman said the schools tuition,
reflective of the schools own costs, ranges from $45,000
to $66,500 per year.
Without significant financial aid, Sinais tuition is
beyond the reach of the vast majority of families, he
said. Sinai awards large scholarships to 90 percent of
its students with the average scholarship actually
exceeding the amount of full tuition at most regular
yeshivot. Sinai relies on its dinner to raise a large portion
of the funds necessary for these scholarships each year.
This years dinner will feature a video called Heroes.
It tells the moving story of the Minchenberg family
and the challenges they have overcome with three
children in Sinai Schools, Fishman said, noting that
Rabbi Yehuda Minchenberg is a teacher at Yeshivat Noam
in Paramus.
Rothwachs said that the most important thing about
Sinais policy of inclusion is the individualization, the
thoughtfulness of the process. Its very unique, he said,
both in yeshivot and in special education schools.
I try to get across that this is not just a Jewish option
but a really good option, he said. The fact that were a yeshiva is an added plus. Its
high quality. Outside evaluators who get to know our structure are impressed by the
amount of energy that goes into each child in a very thoughtful way.
Sinai and rYnJ students sit together in music class.
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Teaching teens to Stand Up for Israel
workshop prepares students for college campus conversations
Lois GoLdrich
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o matter how much they know about Israel, high
school students need help preparing for the
inevitable conversations they will have when
they get to college.
All too frequently on college campuses there
are explosions or at least ripples of anti-Israel
sentiment, said Jeffrey Salkin, New Jersey regional
director of the Anti-Defamation League, whose group
has co-sponsored workshops on this issue for the past
several years.
We would not dream of sending kids out into world
without their shots, vaccinations, and inoculations,
Salkin said. The purpose of Israel advocacy training is
not to inoculate kids against what they will experience
but to provide them with a context for having those
conversations.
Dubbed Stand Up for Israel, the next workshop
jointly sponsored by ADL, the Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies, and the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys Jewish Community Relations
Council is scheduled for February 10 at Teanecks
Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. The event is
geared to high school juniors and seniors.
Salkin expects the workshop to draw about 70
students from a variety of schools and synagogues.
Whats important about this is that its a delicious
opportunity for the entire Jewish community to come
together, he said. I believe all kids need this kind of
education.
Participants will include teachers, ADL staff, and
members of the Israel advocacy group Stand With Us,
as well as Hillel directors and students. Partnering
organizations include more than a dozen local schools,
synagogues, and Jewish communal organizations.
Salkin would like to see the gathering become an
annual event.
Some campuses can be danger zones for
Jewish students, he said. While full-blown anti-Israel
incidents are relatively rare, when they happen, theyre
a source of concern. Moreover, even when there arent
blatant anti-Israel demonstrations, sometimes there
are more subtle forms of anti-Israel activity, in which
the notion of the Jewish state is subject to intellectual
micromanagement in ways no other nationality will ever
experience.
Salkin said the purpose of the workshops is to teach
students what theyre likely to experience, how they
might respond, and what not to say.
Were not so much giving them a catechism of history
but the mindset of standing up for themselves, he said.
The ADL has no political dog in this fight. Our issue is
simply this: If you want to criticize Israeli policies, go
right ahead. Our particular concern is when the needle
moves into the red zone and becomes anti-Semitism
when Israel is demonized, delegitimized, and when
double standards are applied. We have to teach kids how
to recognize this and speak up civilly.
Most of our kids across the board religiously are
ill prepared to respond to these kinds of challenges,
he continued. Religious education prepares them
adequately to participate in the ritual life of the Jewish
people and to have a strong sense of Jewish identity
and community. But Israel education has always been
problematic.
Mainly, he said, this is because while we dont often
have to update course materials on liturgy, we need a
constant update on Israel.
Our kids grow up in an intellectual atmosphere
where theyre taught that all truths and all narratives
have equal validity, he said. One of my mottos is, Dont
let your mind be so open that everything falls out. We
want our kids to have open minds but also to understand
the truth.
Bess Adler, principal of BCHSJS a co-sponsor of
the event said the workshop is open to all teens in
the county. Weve gotten the word out to synagogues
to spread the word, she said, noting that her school has
some 50 students in the appropriate age group. Wed
love to have as many as possible.
Adler said she got very positive feedback from a
similar program held last year.
Its not just a frontal presentation, she said. It gives
kids an opportunity to engage in conversation. Its a nice
way of educating kids about what they can expect.
Adler said that while some students are very savvy
about Israel and about what happens on a college
campus, the majority of kids dont have a clue. To bring
it to the fore is very important. I dont think any of them
are prepared to face what goes on [on campus] without a
conversation and a chance to discuss it.
Rabbi Paula Feldstein, rabbi-educator at Temple
Avodat Shalom in River Edge, said she will try to get as
many 11th and 12th graders as possible to attend the
program.
It is a very important program, she said. [Even]
those of us who are well-educated about Israel are
constantly confused. When our Temple kids go off to
college, they have learned a lot about Israel but not
enough to be able to talk in an articulate, confident way
to people who attack Israel. We want them to understand
that Israel is an imperfect place what place in the
world is perfect? and yet it is their Jewish home, and its
right to exist and thrive are crucial.
Miriam Allenson, speaking on behalf of JFNNJ also
a co-sponsor of the event pointed out that our Jewish
communitys connections with Israel are a federation
priority. We promote that connection in dozens of ways.
The kind of program thats taking place on February 10,
where federation brings together forces that can help
kids learn how to stand up for Israel, is central to what we
do here.
The workshop will take place from 10:15 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. To register, go to www.jfnnj.org/jcrc. For
registration questions, call Natalya Taleysnik at (201)
820-3944 or email her at natalyat@jfnnj.org. For program
information, call Salkin at (973) 845-2821.
In 2011, Avi Posner of StandByUs and Rabbi Ely Allen,
who teaches at BCHSJS and heads northern New
Jerseys Hillel, interact with students at the workshop.
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Finding a Jewish future around the world
Local YU undergrads travel to underserved communities during winter break
AbigAil Klein leichmAn
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n Nicaragua, Texas, and Israel, several local Yeshiva
University undergrads used their winter intersession
to discover new things about the world and about
themselves.
The universitys Center for the Jewish Future offered
four 10-day service learning trips to YU and Stern
College undergraduates over the January semester break:
Teaching English and self-exploration through art to
Israeli teens in Kiryat Malachi, Dimona, and Jerusalem;
meeting Jewish communal leaders in Dallas, San Antonio,
and Houston; and two humanitarian missions in one
Mexican Mayan community and the other in Nicaragua.
Sam Weinstein of Teaneck, a sophomore who is
majoring in accounting, was one of 39 YU students
running programs for about 450 Israeli teenagers from
underprivileged Israeli neighborhoods. In Kiryat Malachi,
he learned about some of the issues facing Ethiopian
immigrants.
The principals and therapists we spoke to explained
that these are all great kids, but they dont see so many
people who go to college and come from stable families,
Weinstein said. Teaching English and doing projects with
seventh-, ninth-, and 10th-graders was a way to act as role
models while interacting with the students.
One discussion-prompting activity with ninth-grade
girls involved gluing a mirror to a sheet of construction
paper and adding pictures to the page symbolizing their
dreams for the future. Weinstein noticed that one girl
wasnt even looking through the packet of pictures he
provided, so he asked her if she had any ideas about life
after high school.
She said No. I said, Have you thought about it at
all? and she said, No, I dont care. So I went through the
pictures with her and she said, Oh, Im kind of interested
in going to the army, and I am kind of interested in
cosmetics, and slowly we added pictures to her page.
Shes not necessarily going to do those things when she
grows up, but now she has a general direction.
Jeffrey Berger, also a sophomore from Teaneck, opted
for the Nicaragua trip. He and 17 other YU students
stayed in the impoverished city of San Juan del Sur and
spent their mornings moving wood, sawing pipes, and
hammering nails with a crew of Nicaraguan builders,
working in collaboration with American Jewish World
Service and Servicios Mdicos Comunales. They were
constructing a technological school and public library.
The goal was for us to benefit from learning about
a new culture, and for them to benefit from our help
building the school, but I think it was more a learning
experience for us, as we lived and worked with them
and contrasted their circumstances to our lives and
our opportunities, he said. It was very different, very
isolated.
Assuming correctly, as it turned out that the local
populace had little knowledge of Judaism or Israel, Berger
made it a priority to provide an introduction. I brought a
box of matzah, and offered it to them as a way of offering
my culture, through a translator, and though they didnt
like the taste so much, they appreciated it.
When it came to Israel, Berger told the Nicaraguans:
Visiting Israel is similar to visiting Nicaragua in that
people have a perception that its a war-torn, third-world
country with nothing growing or prospering, but thats
not really what its like at all.
He confided that the prospect of leaving brought him
to tears, despite his inability to converse in Spanish.
Somehow through hand motions and a few basic words
we were able to communicate, laugh, and have a great
time. The biggest lesson I learned was how to look beyond
differences and see that the similarities shine brighter
than the differences, he said.
Shai Berman and Chaim Metzger of Teaneck and
Uri Schneider of Bergenfield joined 20 other future
communal leaders in meeting Texas Jewish lay leaders,
educators, and rabbis from all streams of Jewish life to
understand the dynamics and challenges of out of town
Jewish life.
All three were especially impressed by a 27-year-
old Texan who is founding a new Jewish day school in
San Antonio, a city with only about a dozen Sabbath-
observant families. In the New York area there are many
such schools and lots of kids, but in Texas they need to
make the [Jewish] school available to all segments of the
Jewish community, said Berman, noting the friendship
among rabbis of different streams in Houston. They
work together on their commonalities, he said.
Metzger learned that its not only rabbis who can take
a leadership role in a small community. You can have an
impact, even if you dont know it yet, was his take-home
message from meeting a woman in Houston who built a
community mikveh in the basement of her own house.
She ran it by herself for 30 years. Really impressive.
Schneider, who is considering the rabbinate as a
career, was affected by a remark made by one of the
rabbinic directors of an outreach kollel (scholarly
institute) in Dallas. He was from Plano, and he said
that the only way [these small communities] can grow is
through Torah. It comes down to teaching Torah. We have
to be able to interact on different religious levels, but we
have to be able to teach something.
The YU students led tikkun olam social action
activities at Jewish day schools in the three cities.
At the end, each kid goes to the board and writes
something they could do to make the community better,
Berman said. We did the same thing among ourselves at
the end of our trip, writing something that we are inspired
to do now or in the future based on what we learned.
Among those items: I definitely would consider
living outside the New York area. They have a very warm
environment and there are a lot of opportunities in terms
of affordability and helping the Jewish community grow.
Clockwise, from left: Shai Berman volunteering at Aishel House, a project that provides Jewish patients at the
Texas Medical Center with kosher food and other services; Berman leads a program at Yavneh Academy in
Dallas; Sam Weinstein with ninth-graders in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.
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Black Is a Color
Artist searches for technique and faith; eventually finds both
Joanne Palmer
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n an odd and disquieting sort of way, the
Shoah liberated the artist inside the son of one
of its survivors.
Until he began his work on Black Is a Color,
Stanley Aaron Lebovic had been a technical
illustrator, working on the boundary where art
meets science and most of the time science
wins. His fathers experience permitted him (or
perhaps it is more fair to say compelled him)
to overthrow the conventions and retain the
precision of his profession to develop striking
new techniques that allow him to look at the
Holocaust from new angles.
It is emotionally complicated to find any spark
of good in overwhelming evil. Lebovic does not
try to avoid that complication. In fact, his book,
composed of his art and explanatory essays,
is made of emotional complications and hard
truths.
I was really trying to use whatever I had at
my disposal to deal with issues that are very
important to me, Lebovic said. What I could use,
I threw at it. I divorced myself from everything
else I was working on; I sold my company
basically gave it away to devote myself to this.
I took what little talent I had, I put it all together, I
threw it all at this, and anything that stuck I went
with. I didnt know where it was going until I was
done.
Photography, Photoshopping, history,
philosophy, Jewish, non-Jewish whatever
worked.
Black Is a Color is made up of 20 discrete
pieces, tied together by an introduction and
conclusion. It is the fruit of Lebovics attempt
to make some sense for himself of the world
he inherited. It is the result of his background
My father was the kind of survivor who
would talk about what he went through; a lot
of survivors dont, his son said. My father
was very nonchalant when he talked about it
non-emotional so it started to affect me
more deeply as I got older, when the impossible
horror his fathers stories had skated around sank
in.
My father Alex Lebovic would tell me
about concentration camps and the Holocaust,
and at the same time hed tell me that there was a
good God who ruled the world. Those two things
were difficult to comprehend.
And then when Stan Lebovic, who had been
brought up not religious, just to believe in God,
was a teenager, he became more observant.
Lebovic, 49, now lives in Baltimore with his
wife and the youngest of his four children, but he
grew up in Los Angeles.
The public school that I was supposed to go
to wasnt so good, so my parents sent me to day
school, and then I went to a yeshivah in Israel, and that
was that.
The more observant he became, though, the harder it
became for him to reconcile history and faith, the truth of
the Shoah and a belief in a good and loving God. At some
point, about six years ago, in my mid-40s, I decided that
I really couldnt deal with the stress anymore, he said. I
had to work it out.
My main objective was to give religion a chance to
prove itself. If I wasnt hearing what I wanted to hear, was
it because the Holocaust was too much for Judaism, or
was it something that I was missing?
So when I tried to explore the issues that bothered
me, I looked into the Torah to see how it could
encompass such a thing. If we believe that the
Torah was written before the world began, as
a blueprint, then something that shows up
in creation has got to be somewhere in that
blueprint.
I wanted to look at the Bible, at the stories
my father told me, and to see if there was a
message that I could hold onto, that said that
Judaism gets it, understands the struggle of life,
is not just the opium of the masses.
Black Is a Color is divided into three parts.
The first part is about defining the Holocaust,
Lebovic said, and that demanded looking at the
Shoah clearly. There is a lot of talk about the
miracles through which individual people were
saved I understand why people gravitate to
that, he said but that could not be enough.
The blackness was the wholesale slaughter of
town after town, he said. Any discussion, much
less any conclusion that he could reach, had to
come from looking at it honestly, not watering it
down.
I cant do justice to the horror, he continued.
But I had to constantly keep pushing to be as
realistic as I possibly could.
A series of three photographs illustrates that
theme. The pictures show a red-haired boy with a
pinwheel. In the middle photo, which originally
was to have stood alone, a pinwheel, motionless,
leaves a subtle but unmistakable shadow on the
boys face. It is the shadow of a swastika.
At first, I wanted to give quick answers, Lebovic said.
I wanted to show that perhaps looking at the Holocaust
is not a fair way of looking at humanity, so in that picture,
when the pinwheel stops spinning, you have the nasty
swastika shadow that but exists only in that moment. If
you stopped it at any other time, you wouldnt see it.
So I might have been saying that the Holocaust is
just a sliver of time in the perspective of the history of the
world since creation. Thats fair, but it didnt do anything
for me. I couldnt think that 10,000 years of good times
could wipe out the Holocaust. This quick way of trying
In Lots, one goat goes to God, the other to Azazel. Which is the
lucky one?
Each of Stan Lebovics works is assembled with great care and pre-
cision. Nothing in any of these photographs is without meaning.
Courtesy stan LeboviC
A Lasting Impression; the three panels are
labeled Before, During, and After.
See BLAck page 50
Who: Stan Lebovic
What: Talking about his book, Black Is a Color
When: Saturday, February 9, at 8:15 p.m.
Where: Congregation Beth Aaron, 950 Queen Anne
Road, Teaneck
Why: To look at questions about the Holocaust, faith, and
God, through the lens of art
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Nigel Savage
takes the long view
hazon director to speak on Judaism
and sustainability in teaneck
Larry yudeLson
N
igel Savage is think-
ing about the long
term and how it
intersects with the Jewish
tradition.
Take, for example, the
shmitta, or sabbatical year
the culmination of the
biblical seven year cycle
in which, according to the
Torah, no agricultural work
may be performed.
As executive director of
Hazon, the Jewish organization devoted to
sustainability and environmental aware-
ness, he has started planning activities to
tie in to the next shmitta year, which begins
in about 18 months, on Rosh Hashana
2014.
But he also has some thoughts about
the following cycle, the one that begins in
the fall of 2021.
What would it take to help the whole
Jewish world look at the whole cycle of
2015 through 2022, and charge themselves
seven-sixths of the cost of everything for six
years, so that in the year starting in 2021,
Jewish life was free, synagogues were free,
day schools were free? he wonders.
It would be profound to have that
whole conversation. Maybe we cant make
it free for everybody, but maybe we would
like to say that for anyone who has an
income under X, synagogue membership
would be free, day school would be free.
Would we like to do that?
In other words, Savage wants to take
the ancient idea of shmitta, with its year-
long Sabbath, its break from day-to-day
economics, and consider applying it to
contemporary Jewish life. This sort of
challenge to the Jewish community to
reconsider its business-as-usual in light
of classical Jewish values is at the core of
Hazons mission to bring the ideas of sus-
tainability and environmentalism to the
Jewish community.
Were working to create a healthier and
more sustainable Jewish community and a
healthier and more sustainable world for
everybody, Savage said.
On Sunday morning, Savage will
talk about these ideas at Teanecks
Congregation Beth Sholom.
Savage came to the Jewish sustainability
movement after a career on the London
equivalent of Wall Street, where he man-
aged investments for the Rothschilds.
Then he took time off
to study in Israel. An invi-
tation from a friend for a
cross-country bike trip from
the Mediterranean to the
Kineret changed his life.
It was the first time I was
really outdoors, he said. I
started connecting to the
Israeli environmental move-
ment, and to the Jewish tra-
dition in relationship to the
world. I felt getting outdoors
and pushing ourselves physically was good
for us, and a great way to bring Jewish tra-
dition to life.
Savage came to New York and launched
Hazon in 2000. Its first project: a nation-
wide Jewish bike tour. Its scope soon
expanded to include food conferences (fea-
turing demonstrations of kosher slaughter).
In December, a merger with the Isabella
Freedman Retreat Center in Connecticut
was announced, giving the organization its
own environmental Jewish farm.
The organizational growth has coin-
cided with a change in public perception
of food.
When Hazon was started, people
were very nice to me and very polite, but
in retrospect, the thought bubble over
their head was saying, What is he talking
about? It started with us phoning people
and wanting to engage people. Now the
phone is ringing off the hook, Savage said.
He says that members of his organiza-
tion dont want to be stereotyped as Jewish
environmentalists who bang you over the
head and say baal tashchit the Torahs
prohibition on wanton destruction and
say you have to A, B, and C. Were interested
in thinking through issues, engaging tradi-
tion, and providing the opportunity for
people to figure out things for themselves.
Thinking things through does not trans-
late into simple. Hazon has a 60-page food
guide and audit to help synagogue and day
school leaders think about their food poli-
cies. Its anthology of Jewish source texts
related to food is 130 pages long.
As Jews, Savage said, Were engaged in
3,000 years of Jewish food traditions: keep-
ing kosher, eating matzah on Pesach, eat-
ing cholent on Shabbat, saying blessings
on food. He wants to expand the mindful-
ness around eating to ask a different set of
questions: How are animals treated? How
is the land treated? What do we think about
genetically modified food? What do we
think about teenage obesity?
The work of the Jewish food movement,
he said, is to show that the two sets of con-
versations about food the traditional
Jewish one and the contemporary one
are not separate.
Nigel Savage
What: nigel savage on sustainability
and stewardship: what are the Jewish
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354 Maitland ave., teaneck
When: 11 a.m., sunday, February 3
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A new voter ventures forth in Israel
Daniel Santacruz
T
uesday, January 22, was election day in Israel. It
was a day like no other.
Not only did you have the day off from work
for voting, after which you could go to the beach, the
mall, or a barbecue, but you got paid too. Ah, and on top
of that, the temperature was 80 degrees. Not bad for a
winter day.
For me, voting in Israel for the first time, as well as
following the electoral process, was quite an educa-
tion. The voting place was near my house and most of
the volunteers, and all the voters, spoke English; Bet
Shemesh has a large Anglo community. Once I was
inside the voting place a school my address and
my name were checked against a huge address book,
because I had lost my notice to voters postcard. Then
came my first encounter with the Hebrew Alphabet
Soup that decides the fate of each party.
The Alphabet Soup are cards stacked in piles in
a blue tray, with the initials of each of the 32 parties
participating in the election, neatly arranged inside
32 boxes. I didnt try to find logic in the initials or what
they stood for. Labors letters, for example, spelled out
Emet (Truth), which is completely unrelated to Mifleget
HaAvoda HaYisraeli, its official name. Or Likud, which
was identified with a mem, a chet, and a lamed, a far cry
from its name, HaLikud Ysrael Beiteinu. Needless to say,
confusing.
After finding my party, the three letters of which I
had memorized, I enclosed my card in a blue envelope,
took it to a blue box located in front of the officials who
were checking names, and pushed it through a hole.
The color of the box matched the envelope, which
matched the tray, which matched the Israeli flag.
For a country that prides itself on technological in-
novations, using cardboard boxes to cast the votes in-
stead of electronic voting machines, was disappointing.
The campaign process was short by American stan-
dards, and voters didnt have to suffer through prima-
ries and party conventions with predictable results. The
streets of Israeli cities and towns were full of posters, a
colorful assortment of banners and slogans.
You may say that 32 parties for a country the size of
New Jersey is a lot, but that shows the vibrancy of Israeli
democracy. Even little-known parties, like the Pirate
Party and Balad, whose founder is a fugitive from Israeli
justice who lives in Qatar, have the chance to sit in the
Knesset.
You know its a healthy democracy when the gov-
ernment installs 194 polling stations at hospitals. Or it
gives inmates freedom to choose at 57 polling stations
at prisons.
Candidates, over all, behaved nicely to each other
during the campaign, and some rabbis didnt threaten
to excommunicate members of rival parties as they had
in earlier elections. There was no fire and brimstone
coming from some sectors, and no candidates aired
their dirty laundry in public.
Heres a summary of what made the elections
memorable:
The story that wasnt: HaRav Zalman Leib Teitlebaum
of Satmar flew from New York to Israel to attend his
granddaughters wedding two days before the elections,
but according to some reports, also to pay $100 cash to
those who abstained from voting. But the rebbe, who is
rabidly anti-Zionist, didnt hand out any money in the
end. Ironically, he was escorted by the police during his
stay in the country.
Embarrassment award: Went to Shas for a TV ad
making fun of conversions and non-Jews, featuring
a bride with a thick Russian accent who receives her
conversion certificate by fax right under the chuppah.
(How do you say tacky in Hebrew?) The party pulled the
ad at the request of the Supreme Court, but not without
alienating many voters first.
Winners and losers: Fifty members of the 19th
Knesset are newcomers, 26 are women, and 38 are reli-
gious. There could be more women if Shas and United
Torah Judaism allowed them to run. Only one American
candidate, Rabbi Dov Lipman of Bet Shemesh, formerly
of Baltimore, was elected. The other three Americans
lost: New Brunswick-born Alon Tal of the Tzipi Livni
Party; Atlanta-born Jeremy Gimpel of Bayit Yehudi; and
Boston native Baruch Marzel of Strong Israel.
Provocation: In the religious neighborhood of Bayit
VeGan in Jerusalem, someone complained to the
Central Elections Committee that a female worker at
one of the polling places was dressed provocatively.
What a country.
Daniel Santacruz, who has written for this newspaper for
several years, made aliyah from Teaneck to Bet Shemesh in
November 2012. His story about religious extremism in Bet Sh-
emesh appeared in the January 27, 2012 issue of the Standard.
A Shas banner with the picture of its spiritual leader,
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, is posted in a poor neighbor-
hood of Bet Shemesh. Daniel Santacruz
A Taste of fame for Standard writer
Jeanette Friedman fails the audition, to viewers chagrin
larry yuDelSon
J
eanette Friedman of New Milford knew that her
appearance on the first episode of ABCs new real-
ity show, The Taste, would be her last. Like 43 of
her fellow contestants who were flown out to Los Angeles
for filming, she wasnt chosen for one of the four teams
headed by celebrity chefs.
What she couldnt know is that she would prove to be
the most popular contestant to people watching at home
and sharing their opinions in real time on Twitter.
I love that Jewish woman Jeanette. Noodle pudding!!!
#JewishPride #TheTaste, Justin Albinder tweeted.
How dare you not pick my dream grandma Jeanette
Friedman!!! wrote a Twitter user who goes by the name
Meg, addressing chef Anthony Bourdain, who had chas-
tised Friedman for breaking with tradition by adding jala-
peno to her kugel dish.
Friedman, a frequent contributor to this newspaper,
had prepared cholent for her first audition.
The Taste proved to be the most popular show in its
time slot, and one of ABCs highest rated shows in months.
The New York Times called it a two-hour blur of choreo-
graphed humiliation and tear-jerking back stories.
Friedman was the fourth contestant to appear on the
show, which premiered last Tuesday night.
The first was a professional chef from Las Vegas, who
promised to wow the judges, smashing them in the face
with awesomeness. But his pineapple maitake ground
turkey mac and cheese stir fry was derided by all four
judges, who said it was awful.
Another contestant, also a professional chef, offered
chicken-fried watermelon with pickled watermelon rinds.
Neither of these professionals made the cut.
And none of these contests caught the audiences fancy
as Friedman did.
I want to watch Jeanette Friedman from New Milford
New Jersey on TV every week, Elizabeth Figueredo
tweeted. Someone give that woman the talk show of our
dreams.
Buzzfeeds food section joined in criticizing the judges:
UGH @Bourdain how could you not take the kugel bait!
TRAVESTY. #TheTaste
In her five minutes of television screen time, Friedman
tossed off bon mots that got picked up by bloggers writing
about the show.
Jewish food is like the Pointer Sisters: with a slow
hand and a loving touch, she said. And: Even though Im
Jewish, I gotta bring in the bacon!
In fact, even during her week in Los Angeles, she stayed
in the hotel, working on freelance assignments on her lap-
top, while other contestants were hitting the bars.
So what did she learn?
About cooking: Technique matters. Texture matters.
It is as important as taste. You cant just make something
thats mushy without a crunch.
About the world of television: I learned not to take
yourself too seriously. You need to take it in a spirit of fun.
And did anyone in Hollywood see her five minutes
of fame and popularity and decided to follow up on her
dream of a cooking/interview show?
Nothing I can talk about, she said. But think positive.
David Cohen thanking a donor.
Photos by JFNNJ
Long-time volunteer caller Jeff
Wisotsky with his son, first-time caller
Jake Wisotsky.
Placemats with the federations message in brief.
eNgageNJ young leaders had a tailgate party and a
Ping-Pong tournament, in addition to making many
phone calls along with members of Hillel of Northern
New Jersey and Rutgers Hillel. Pictured: Sarah
Goldberg, Erika Gould and Lisa Ames.
The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies was well
represented at the telethon.
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Phoning for funding
super sunday raises money for Jewish communities in new Jersey and around the world
Larry yudeLson
T
hey came. They called. They charged credit cards
and took pledges.
Volunteers turned out in force at the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey for the organizations
annual Super Sunday telethon.
We had a lot of volunteers, said the federations CEO,
Jason Shames. There was great energy in the room.
Two hundred and seventy donors made calls on Super
Sunday. The final accounting is not completed yet, but
the gifts tallied so far come to just over $800,000.
But more important than the total figure, to Shames,
is the number of donors 1,705 and even more so,
the 213 new donors.
Overall, he said, It sounded like people were more
receptive than theyve been in the past.
But connecting by phone grows harder and harder,
as people increasingly screen their calls or ignore their
telephones altogether.
We try to cover our base through different methods,
Shames said. Rather than being a stand-alone event,
Super Sunday is now one piece of a full package
of fundraising that includes direct mail and email
solicitations.
Weve tried to be a little more accurate in our
sophistication of the marketplace, in knowing what
messages are effective with people, he said.
Its always a work in progress.
Super Sunday chairs Matt Libien, Amy Silna Shafron, and Howard Chernin.
Jan Seligmann Weiss helping first-time volunteer Michael Paisner.
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Locals march in inaugural parade
Zara Simpson of Hillsdale, far left, and Jason Weinberg
of River Vale, center, marched in President Obamas
inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in
Washington as part of the drumline section of the
Mighty Sound of Maryland, the University of
Marylands marching band. Simpson, a 2008 graduate of
Pascack Valley High School and the Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies, and Weinberg, a 2012 graduate
of PVHS, were members of Pascack Valleys marching
band. Simpson is the daughter of Alicia and Burt
Simpson, members of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake, and Weinberg is the son of
Naomi and Bruce Weinberg, who belong to Congregation
Bnai Israel in Emerson.
Debbie and Michael Kaplan
Photos courtesy sinai
Rachel and Michael Dube Lisa and Lowell Baron
Allyn and Richard Michaelson
courtesy tBs
Rabbi Dr. Wallace
Greene
Seven will be lauded at Sinai Schools dinner on February 10
Sinai Schools will celebrate its annual dinner on Sunday,
February 10, at the Marriott Glenpointe Hotel in Teaneck,
at 4:45 p.m.
This years guests of honor are Lisa and Lowell Baron,
Rachel and Michael Dube, Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene, and
Debbie and Michael Kaplan.
The dinner will feature a new video, Heroes,
which tells the story of the Minchenberg family and the
challenges they have overcome with three children in
Sinai Schools. Rabbi Yehuda Minchenberg is a teacher at
Yeshivat Noam in Paramus.
Sinai is the only local school for Jewish children
who have a broad range of learning or developmental
disabilities and cannot learn in a regular education
setting.
For information, call (201) 833-1134, ext. 105, or go to
www.sinaidinner.org.
Teaneck seeks volunteers
for emergency situations
Everyone is welcome to volunteer for the Teaneck Office
of Emergency Management to help township employees
as they set up the Rodda Center as a temporary transition
facility for use during emergencies, including major
storms, floods, fires, and other disasters. The facility will
serve as a warming/cooling and activity center that will
receive, register, and determine the needs of displaced
Teaneck residents. Volunteers will not be asked to enter
emergency scenes or perform hazardous duties; instead,
they will provide support for township employees.
The Red Cross will provide training at no cost and
applicants will be subject to a background check. Email
Teanecks human resources director, Dean Kazinci, at
dkazinci@teanecknj.gov or call him at (201) 837-1600,
ext. 1651.
OU announces presidential election
An election for the office of president of the Orthodox
Union will be held in New York City on Sunday, March 10,
at 1 p.m. at the Sheraton New York.
Credentialed delegates appointed by OU member
synagogues in good standing are eligible to vote in the
election.
ORT installing new officers
The Englewood & Cliffs Chapter of ORT America will host
a luncheon to install new officers at Le Jardin Restaurant
in Edgewater on February 5 at noon.
Officers include the president, Doris Levin, and vice
presidents Barbara Robbins, Elinor Weinrich, and Alice
Macri.
For information, call Levin at (201) 461-0677.
Michaelsons are June honorees
Allyn and Richard Michaelson will be honored at Temple
Beth Sholom of Fair Lawns ad journal dinner dance on
Sunday, June 9. The dinner will be held at the shul and
will be catered by Main Event, with music by the Benji
Rafaeli Orchestra.
The Michaelsons have been active at TBS for more
than 30 years. Richard Michaelson has served two terms
as co-president, the first one in the mid 1990s. He is
now in the middle of another two-year term and is also
on the Daughters of Miriams board of directors. Allyn
Michaelson, who grew up at Temple Beth Sholom and
became a board member 20 years ago, has chaired the
trustees for the last decade and been involved in many
committees. She is a vice president of Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey, co-chairs the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jerseys Holocaust Commemoration
Committee, and sits on the JFNNJ Womens Philanthropy
Board. She received the Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies Volunteer award and the Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey Lou & Sadie Glatt volunteer
award.
For information, call (201) 797-9321, ext 1.
Overnight camp opportunities
help special needs children
Parents looking for a Jewish camping experience for
their children with special needs can find one through
Yachad/National Jewish Council for Disabilities. Yachad
runs a variety of special needs camping programs within
mainstream overnight camps, where children can be in-
cluded in activities along with peers of all abilities.
Studies have shown that Jewish overnight camping
experiences correlate highly with long-term Jewish en-
gagement. Yachad can help parents find the right camp
for their children. It runs different styles of programming
for campers across a range of developmental abilities in a
variety of camp settings in the Catskills and the Poconos.
For more information, call Nechama Braun at (212)
613-8369 or email her at braunn@ou.org.
Emergency preparedness seminar
A Teaneck community emergency preparedness semi-
nar has been scheduled for Thursday, February 7, at 7
p.m. The program has been put together by the Teaneck
police departments community policing squad, the
Teaneck fire department, and the towns office of emer-
gency preparedness.
All town residents are encouraged to attend and learn
what they can do to be prepared for an emergency. The
event will take pace at police headquarters in the roll call
room, 900 Teaneck Road.
For more information, call Officer Michael Sunga at
(201) 837-2600, ext. 2311.
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CareOne at Teaneck
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An invitation from
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Join us and Kosher by Design author Susie Fishbein, as she
demonstrates her time-tested methods of preparing and serving
delicious meals, followed by a book signing. Space is limited so
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The inaugural speech
about values that
President Obama
could have delivered
Rabbi Shmuley boteach
W
hat was most telling about President
Obamas inaugural speech was not
what he said, but what he failed to
say. He supported gay marriage but said noth-
ing of shoring up the crumbling institution of
heterosexual marriage. He spoke of the need to
address gun violence but said nothing of gang
youth in America who are raised mostly without
fathers and perpetrate
a large part of that
violence. He spoke of
women earning equal
pay but declined to address the rot of values that
reduces women in media offerings and advertis-
ing to little more than a mans sexual plaything,
their bodies being used to sell cars and beer.
Over four years, a man who was raised
without his father has been reluctant to address
the out-of-wedlock birthrate that is 70 percent
in the African-American community, 60 percent
among Latinos, and 40 percent among whites.
This leaves many women with the burden of
raising their children alone. A man who is a
loving and devoted husband has never once,
to my knowledge, spoken of the 50 percent
American divorce rate, which has ravaged
American marital commitment. And a man
who celebrates his Christianity has yet to call on
all his fellow citizens to rediscover the spiritual
bond that unites all of Gods children and to
heed the call of service that is the obligation of
every American.
My point is not to be critical. President
Obama has a right to his agenda, and there are
many aspects of that agenda that I support. But
what America needs more than anything else
is a values renaissance that will shore up the
rotting parts of our culture, and in this regard a
man of considerable eloquence mostly has been
silent.
Having run as a Republican for Congress,
it is unlikely that I will be invited to serve as a
presidential speechwriter. But that shouldnt
stop me from suggesting the speech the
president ought to give. Here it is:
My fellow Americans, on our streets kids
who should be in junior high are mowing each
other down with high powered assault weapons.
And I think we can all agree that they shouldnt
have access to guns and I therefore will propose
strict new gun measures. But even I understand
that this is treating the symptom rather than the
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has just published his newest
book, The Fed-up Man of Faith: Challenging God in
the Face of Tragedy and Suffering. He lives in Engle-
wood.
Crossing over into hate
E
ditorial cartoons are not Disney-esque by their
nature. They are meant to be pictorially biting com-
mentary on current events.
A cartoon from 2012, for example, depicted a knight
wearing a helmet and chain mail. Both arms and one leg are
cut off by a depiction of sword-wielding Justice. The knight
is labeled Arizona, and his sword, still being held in his now-
amputated right arm, lying on the ground before him, is
called immigration law. Says the knight to Justice, quoting
Monty Python: Its just a flesh wound.
The cartoon was a sharp commentary on how much
Arizona was in denial about how damaged its anti-
immigration law had become in a series of court decisions.
Editorial cartoons, however, must never step over the line
from biting to hateful. A cartoon in a recent edition of the
Sunday Times of London stepped way over the line, and was
reminiscent of the vicious anti-Semitic cartoons published
in Julius Streichers notorious Nazi house organ Der Strmer.
The cartoon showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in a sleeveless undershirt, wearing a determined
scowl and holding a bloody trowel in his hand, building a
wall on screaming Palestinian bodies. It is clear from the
color cartoon that the cement he is using was made from
blood. The caption read, Israeli Elections Will Cementing
Peace Continue?
Adding to the outrage was the day it was published last
Sunday, International Holocaust Memorial Day.
Wrote Joe Hyams, the man behind the HonestReporting
website, On any day, this cartoons imagery is an assault on
the real victims of genocide, demeans their suffering, and
insults their memory. HonestReporting, which bills itself as
defending Israel from media bias, labeled the cartoon a
blood libel.
The editorial cartoon is an outrage in every sense of the
word. It is the rankest form of anti-Semitism and never would
have been published in a legitimate newspaper decades ago.
Especially in the past 10 to 15 years, however, anti-Semitism
once again has become fashionable throughout Europe.
We recall an incident in 2001, when the then French
ambassador to the Court of St. James, Daniel Bernard, told
his dinner party host how that [expletive deleted] little
country, Israel, was paving the way for World War III.
The remark was made at a party hosted by a journalist
and passionate Zionist, Lady Barbara Amiel Black, and her
husband, Lord Conrad Black, at the time the owner of a
media empire that included the London Daily Telegraph,
the Chicago Tribune, and the Jerusalem Post, among other
holdings. Lady Black is Jewish; Lord Black is not.
In a column she wrote after the incident, Lady Black also
cited the case of a prominent British socialite who told a
gathering that she could not stand Jews, who were to blame
for their own troubles. When she saw the shock on peoples
faces, she said, Oh come on, you all feel like that.
Sadly, as the Sunday Times cartoon demonstrates, the
socialite was all too correct.
The Sunday Times and the cartoonist both owe their
readers and the Jewish people everywhere, not just in Israel,
an explanation and an apology.
Justice defied
I
n what has to be one of the most egregious examples of
justice defied, the Republic of Argentina has engaged a
partner as it seeks to finally and authoritatively expose the
perpetrators of the 1994 bombing of the Asociacin Mutual
Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association).
Argentinas partner in forming what it calls a truth commis-
sion is the Islamic Republic of Iran, otherwise known as the
most likely overall perpetrator of this act of terrorism. Eighty-
five people were killed and many scores of others injured in
the attack on the AMIA, a Buenos Aires Jewish community
center.
It is like asking al-Qaeda to join an investigation into who
was behind the 9/11 attacks, or Turkey to definitively probe
accusations that there ever was murder of Armenians on a
massive scale (what most of the world correctly refers to as
the Armenian genocide).
In doing so, Argentina is reverting to the kind of behavior
it apologized for in July 2005 namely, a cover-up of the
crime that ran down from the highest levels of the Argentine
government into the darkest recesses of its investigative
services. Indeed, over the years there has been evidence
presented that a former president of Argentina, Carlos
Menem, accepted a multimillion-dollar bribe to make the
investigation go away. (Exactly how many millions remains a
matter of dispute.)
In 2005, another president of the republic, Nstor
Kirchner, called the governments response to the crime
a national disgrace. In the months that followed, fresh
investigators, armed with new evidence that included
credible testimony from former members of Iranian
intelligence, filed a formal charge sheet accusing Iran and
Hezbollah of carrying out the attack jointly. Argentine
prosecutors subsequently asked Interpol to issue a Red
Notice (roughly equivalent to an international arrest warrant
and extradition request) for six people five Iranian officials
and a member of Lebanons Hezbollah.
Now, Argentina has made Iran its partner in assembling
its truth commission. The news came as no surprise.
Kirchners widow and successor as president, Cristina
Fernndez de Kirchner, telegraphed the move in a speech to
the United Nations General Assembly several months ago.
What does come as a surprise is Argentinas stated belief that
Iran has any interest in the truth. Its government long has
been on record as insisting that the AMIA bombing was a
Zionist plot designed to make it look bad.
Our hearts go out to the Argentine Jewish community, to
the survivors of the bombing, and to the families of those
killed. They have been seeking justice for over 18 years. Now
they may never find it.
trUtH
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CoNSEQUENCES
Bring more love
liSa StuRm
I
t was no surprise that when my
grandmother died, her last
words to me were I love
you.
These were her parting
words for as long as I
could remember. They came
right after Be well, dont
work too hard, dont worry
about anything, and Enjoy
every minute of your life.
That was the kind of lady my
grandmother was; quick to give
advice and blessings, praise and
kisses. Whatever you wish for yourself,
God should grant you. You should have
only nachas. So of course she would part
from me with love on her lips.
Recently, as a clinical social worker, Ive begun
to work with people who are ill and sometimes even
dying, and Ive been surprised by their last words to
me. Last year, I became involved in the case of a highly
regarded engineer who was at the pinnacle of his career
when he was stricken with cancer. When I first met
him, he was most interested in ascertaining what my
role would be in his care, and why exactly I was sitting
with him in his living room on that particular winter
afternoon. On my second visit, he gave me a hug before
I left and thanked me for coming. At our third and final
meeting, just a few weeks before
his death, his speech was nearly
gone and he was bedridden.
Still, before we parted he took
my hand and softly spoke the
words, I love you. These
seemed to be among the last
words he was able to locate
and vocalize.
Around that time, I took
over a modest caseload from
a therapist who specialized
in eldercare. Many of my new
clients struggled with depression
related to memory loss or losing their
independence. Some I saw on a weekly
basis, and we developed strong therapeutic
relationships. One particular gentleman, whom
Ill call George, was wheelchair-bound and showed
some signs of dementia right from the start. George
had been a fiercely independent man and never had
married. He was an Air Force veteran who had worked
for the government, enjoyed sports, and loved his large
extended family. He had a face that looked like a boxers
and always had a twinkle in his light blue eyes. I worked
with him for more than a year; over that time both his
memory and his physical condition had deteriorated.
On the morning, a few months ago, when Georges
underlying cause. In my book, Dreams of My Father,
I speak of the pain of not having my dad around when
I grew up. Its something Ive tried to correct by always
being there, amid a hectic schedule, for Sasha and
Malia. But a father is not a luxury that should be the
blessing of only certain families. Men in families are not
superfluous. They are an absolute necessity. When dads
are not at home its often the police who have to raise
these kids on the streets. And an absent dad puts an
unfair strain on single moms who already are heroes
in our communities to support and raise these kids
by themselves, all while nursing the pain of aloneness.
Then you have all the marriages where a mom
and a dad pledged undying love to one another, had
children, but then saw their relationship fragment and
the marriage end in divorce, which today accounts for
one in two marriages.
I know what thats like. I was raised by a single mom
after my own parents marriage ended in divorce. And I
did not get the opportunity to grow up around my dad.
So Im calling on all men in our society to shoulder
the responsibility of raising their children. You are
not a hero to the world unless youre a hero first and
foremost to your own children. And you are not a man
of significance unless you make your children feel that
they have infinite worth.
I believe in marriage equality for same-sex couples.
But I also believe in the continuity of opposite sex
couples. And here in America, men and women
in relationships are not faring all that well. I plan,
therefore, to introduce stronger legislation that offers
further financial incentives for couples to marry and
stay married, and stiffer penalties to deadbeat dads
who abandon their kids.
And speaking of kids, I am the proud father of two
daughters. I want my girls to be raised in a country that
values their minds more than their appearance, their
productive capacity as much as their reproductive
role. I therefore want women to be paid equally to
men. But I also want to my daughters to grow up in a
culture where they are respected and valued by men.
I am therefore calling on American corporations and
media organizations to be sensitive to their depiction
of women in the culture. When you highlight stick-
thin women to our teenage girls, or supermodels to
our women at home, youre sending the message that
a womans body is much more important than her
intelligence. Men are also affected by that depiction,
and it gives us the kinds of problems I referred to
above: men who are drawn to women for what they can
provide sensually but not emotionally.
Which leads me to my finale. Unlike other nations
that were born of geography, America was born of an
idea. As President Lincoln said, our country is based
on the proposition that all men are created equal. We
have fought long and hard to see the full realization
of that proposition. Men and women have marched,
fought, and died so that they can be treated as equals
in America. But the highest realization of that American
ideal of equality is not found in material but in spiritual
terms. By equality we dont mean that all people are the
same height, the same color, or possessed of the same
gifts. Rather, we mean that they are possessed of the
same spark of the divine. Thats why Lincoln said that
we were created equal. I call today for a new dawn of
American soulfulness. Lets together create a society
where the gay man and the black woman, the Jewish
boy and the Islamic girl, the stay-at-home mom and the
professional woman, all find relevance in a nation that
values their contribution and cannot prosper without
their gift.
I am calling today, therefore, for a mandatory year
of national service, to commence upon graduation
from high school, for every American man and woman,
to both reverse the growing culture of narcissism and
to teach us that America is a nation of givers and not
takers.
oP-Ed
JS-19
In support of Obama and Hagel
Rabbi baRRy l. SchWaRtZ
I
am an American rabbi who loves America and loves
Israel. I also happen to have dual American-Israeli
citizenship, and I served in the Israel Defense Forces.
I write in support of President Obama and his
nomination of Chuck Hagel. I understand the concerns
that have been expressed, but have less sympathy for the
outright distortions and attacks on his character.
Heres how I see the big picture:
With elections behind us and both President Obamas
national security team and the next Israeli government
falling into place, it is time for the president to make good
on his support for a two-state solution and launch a bold
new peace initiative in the Middle East. President Obama
already has made clear his commitment to a two-state
resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has made
clear that he will not permit Iran to acquire nuclear arms.
The American people and an overwhelming majority
of American Jews voted in November to re-elect the
President and to pursue a bold second term agenda.
So when the president nominates Hagel, a decorated
military veteran and distinguished senator who shares
his urgency for U.S. leadership in the Middle East, we
should stand with him. And when a few groups try to
derail Hagels confirmation by smearing him as anti-
Israel, it is our job as American Jews to set the record
straight.
Hagels strong support of Israel is evidenced clearly in
his record. Over his 12-year Senate career, Hagel voted
for nearly $40 billion in aid to Israel. He co-sponsored
legislation that condemned and helped to combat
terrorism against Israel and supported sanctions against
Iran.
And Hagel hasnt only defended Israel with his voting
record; before it was popular to say so in Washington
circles, Hagel spoke passionately and often of the need
for the United States to help Israel achieve a two-state
solution. Those views put him in line with over 80
percent of American Jews, and the last three Israeli prime
ministers and U.S. presidents.
We need a two-state solution, and we dont have
much time. We saw last year in Gaza that it only takes a
single spark to reignite the conflict into violence. Only
a political agreement can achieve a lasting end to this
conflict. Without one, both Israelis and Palestinians will
continue to lose hope, abandoning leaders who speak
of compromise in favor of stubborn replacements who
claim peace is impossible. Soon, the Palestinians might
decide that without negotiations, violence presents their
best chance at achieving a state. And when Jews become
a minority in the area under Israeli control, Israel
will lose either its Jewish character or its democracy,
compromising its founding principles and inviting
unprecedented global isolation.
That is not a future that we should accept as
inevitable. Hagel understands the unique role that
the United States can play in bringing Israel and the
Palestinians back to negotiations. Over his long career,
Hagel has demonstrated a keen appreciation for political
over military solutions, and his deep knowledge of
the appropriate uses and limitations of military force
made him a key voice in the debates over the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. That is why the president wants
him. We need that kind of voice now, by the presidents
see LOVE page 21
see OBAMA AND HAGEL page 21
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lEttErS
Passivity against racism leads to disaster
moShe KantoR
GENEVA, Switzerland One of the seminal slogans of
the 20th century was the historic refrain Never again!
This cry, which rose from the ashes of the Holocaust,
was meant to ensure that there would be no repeat of the
greatest tragedy in modern European history.
The refrain remains hollow if it remains a theoretical
verbiage, used during speeches and ceremonies but
lacking any real intent and action.
In recent years, a seemingly long-dormant ideology
returned to a semblance of power for the first time since
the unconditional surrender of the German forces on
May 8, 1945. For the first time in well over six decades,
political parties that require members to be of Aryan
origin have full-armed and open-fisted salutes and
logos distinctly resembling the swastika. Calls for a
census of Jews are heard once again in Europe.
These elements no longer are consigned to the beer
halls, isolated farm retreats, or the margins of European
political discourse. They are moving closer and closer to
the mainstream.
In fact, this newfound political confidence is reflected
in the street, where more and more Jews are being
physically and verbally attacked in the open.
The Golden Dawn party in Greece, Jobbik in Hungary,
and Svoboda in Ukraine are just three examples of
European political parties that have moved well beyond
the historic far right and still unacceptable discourse
of those like Le Pens National Front in France and the
Freedom Party in Austria.
We appear to be entering a new phase in European
political history, which has extremely worrying parallels
with the past. Of course, many will argue that none of
these parties now have much power.
But at what point will their power be too great? Its a
question that all decision makers, opinion shapers, and
law enforcement agencies in Europe must ask. Not in a
theoretical sense, but in a very real practical sense.
The Jewish people and other minorities who are in
the direct line of fire from this malevolent hate have no
doubt that this threshold already has passed, and it is
having a very real practical effect on the streets. A recent
survey found that 63 percent of Hungarians are willing to
affirm their anti-Semitism with no shame.
On Sunday, the international community observed
International Holocaust Remembrance Day to
remember the victims of the Holocaust and learn its
lessons. A few days before, I visited the seat of European
governance, the European Parliament, which was
the joint recipient of the recent Nobel Prize for Peace,
along with other European Union institutions. Along
with many others, I lauded the Nobel committee for
recognizing the European Unions commitment to peace
and its success at unifying a continent that has known so
much bloodshed.
However, as Europeans, we cannot afford to rest on
our laurels and claim that a lack of war or conflict means
that the European Union has succeeded in creating a
harmonious and peaceful continent that can prevent
future catastrophes.
As the number of Holocaust survivors begins to
dwindle, many are witnessing something that would
have been unbelievable to them only a few short years
ago: The new groups, rapidly increasing in popularity,
are emulating and co-opting the policies and ideology of
those who murdered their families and brought to them
untold suffering.
There are too many Europeans, especially those
among its leadership, who remember the death and
destruction that follows the Nazi ideology. We, as
Europeans, should do everything we can to rid ourselves
of this force that again tries to lay a dark shadow on our
continent.
We call on all figures in Europe media, cultural, or
academic to use their platforms to assist in ridding
the continent of this disease. European politicians as a
moral mass must adopt stricter legislation proscribing
groups that promote hate, discrimination, and racism
from European political institutions. There also must be
a demand for tougher enforcement and punishment and
the strengthening of education teaching tolerance.
Some eight decades ago, the National Socialist
Movement caught many by surprise, and most did not
fully comprehend or believe that it would be willing or
able to fulfill its genocidal and destructive platform.
Living with this dark history in our relatively recent past,
we have no similar excuses. We know what this ideology
seeks, we know what this racist movement aspires to, and
we cannot let it get a foothold again on our continent.
Just as eight decades ago Nazi ideology was able to
take advantage of a financial recession, so we face similar
economic challenges today. This is when we must be at
our most vigilant. We must beat back the advances of
this ideology, not for the victims of the past but for the
possible victims in the future. If we do not, then Never
again! will remain a hollow term used during speeches
and ceremonies.
As the prominent Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer
said, Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a
perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
JTA Wire Service
Moshe Kantor is president of the European Jewish Congress
and co-chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and
Reconciliation.
Thank you, Rabbi Engelmayer
I was touched by your insightful and
timely column, and saddened to hear that
another stirring voice crying out in the
wilderness would be stilled. I find it dis-
tressing whenever a valiant warrior bat-
tling the pernicious cult of the Arrogance
of Absolutism retires.
Rabbi Dr. Zvi H. Szubin
Teaneck
My friend, teacher, and colleague Rabbi
Shammai Engelmeyers decision to take
a sabbatical from his challenging and
thought-provoking column leaves a void
in our communal dialogue. Shammais
ability and willingness to speak truth to
power, and to do so with intelligence and
elegance of expression and with no con-
cern for political correctness has been a
great gift to all who care about Jewish life
in general and our northern New Jersey
Jewish community in particular. True to
his rabbinic namesake, Rabbi Shammai
seldom has found himself in the majority,
but like the Shammai of the Mishnah he
is willing to speak and teach Torah, using
his heart, soul, and might. May we all take
up Shammais challenge and recognize
that the rabbinic teaching shivim panim
la Torah in the 21st century is a challenge
to all if us to listen to each other, including
the others with whom we disagree.
Thank you, Shammai, for this great
summation of the years of Torah you
have taught, and the standard of truth
and honesty you have set for us all.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz
River Edge
Kaddish is not fungible
Having read Soma Morgensterns The
Third Pillar many years ago, I can un-
derstand the impulse that drew Robert
Kanter to think of it as an almost universal
Kaddish (Saying Kaddish for Newtown,
Jan. 18). However, Morgensterns elegaic
Kaddish is not a fungible document to
use as Mr. Kanter did. Morgenstern de-
voted The Third Pillar to try to come to
terms with the Holocaust. In the end, he
affirms the belief that despite the horror,
We say Yes to the creation, and we say
Yes to our Creator and to His eternity and
holiness. He follows this with the tradi-
tional Kaddish, in which 17 sites where
Jews were murdered (be it concentration
camps or Babi Yar) are interspersed with
the age-old text. So if we were to read
Soma Morgensterns text, we would be
reciting:
Yitkadal, Auschwitz
vyitkadash, Lodz
shmei raba, Ponar
balma di vra khirutei, Babi Yar....
What Mr. Kanter has done by sub-
stituting the names of seventeen of
the slain children (AH) in Newton for
these catastrophic sites was to wrench
Morgensterns excruciatingly painful ren-
dition horribly out of context. In thinking
that one tragedy is commensurate with
another he has at the same time blotted
out the existence of a most gifted writer
whose name he does not mention.
For the sake of historical accuracy,
I would also note that the Siddur Sim
Sholom (1985) in its sources section,
pages 874-879, carefully attributed this
reading for Yom Hashoah to the author
(page 877). Furthermore, this is hardly
the Kaddish that Conservative Jews
traditionally say on YomHashoah and
Yom Kippur. At the time of publication
by the Rabbinical Assembly, the editor,
Jules Harlow, together with the Siddur
Committee accepted a suggestion from
Professor Neil Gilman that this be
included in the readings for Yom Hashoah
along with the many other readings
included in this siddur.
I think we need to tread very carefully
on the graves of those for whom we
mourn. No matter how deep our grief,
each murder and loss deserves to be
memorialized in its own way.
Menorah Rotenberg
Teaneck
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side, as he works toward a two-state solution to defend
Israels Jewish and democratic future.
Recognizing the importance of Hagels confirmation,
dozens of Jewish leaders, political leaders, and national
security experts, including former ambassadors to Israel,
have vouched for his pro-Israel credentials. So has Israels
own deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, who said he
saw firsthand that Hagel believes in the relationship, in
the natural partnership between Israel and the United
States.
Given Hagels notable supporters, perhaps it is his
opponents who are outside the mainstream. The anti-
Hagel campaign is being conducted by the same groups
who tried and failed to make us question President
Obamas commitment to Israel. But we cant afford
inaction. This is not just a question of choosing our
battles wisely. We who are pro-Israel and pro-peace need,
in the words of Isaiah, to raise our voice like a shofar.
For our sake, and for the America and Israel we love.
Barry L. Schwartz is the rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in
Leonia.
There are too many Europeans, especially those
among its leadership, who remember the death and
destruction that follows the Nazi ideology. We, as
Europeans, should do everything we can to rid ourselves
of this force that again tries to lay a dark shadow on our
continent.
We call on all figures in Europe media, cultural, or
academic to use their platforms to assist in ridding
the continent of this disease. European politicians as a
moral mass must adopt stricter legislation proscribing
groups that promote hate, discrimination, and racism
from European political institutions. There also must be
a demand for tougher enforcement and punishment and
the strengthening of education teaching tolerance.
Some eight decades ago, the National Socialist
Movement caught many by surprise, and most did not
fully comprehend or believe that it would be willing or
able to fulfill its genocidal and destructive platform.
Living with this dark history in our relatively recent past,
we have no similar excuses. We know what this ideology
seeks, we know what this racist movement aspires to, and
we cannot let it get a foothold again on our continent.
Just as eight decades ago Nazi ideology was able to
take advantage of a financial recession, so we face similar
economic challenges today. This is when we must be at
our most vigilant. We must beat back the advances of
this ideology, not for the victims of the past but for the
possible victims in the future. If we do not, then Never
again! will remain a hollow term used during speeches
and ceremonies.
As the prominent Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer
said, Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a
perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
JTA Wire Service
Moshe Kantor is president of the European Jewish Congress
and co-chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and
Reconciliation.
mind was surprisingly clear and we were able to discuss
his failing health, tears streamed down his face as he
told me a story, one stored in some compartment of his
mind that still was accessible to him. As a child, he had
attended a local fair with his aunt and some cousins.
There they saw a family with many children, all looking
longingly at the rides, too poor to buy tickets. He said
his aunt gave him all of their tickets and told him to give
them to the destitute mother for her children. That
was the way I was raised, to always care for others, he
concluded. Before I left that day he asked if he could kiss
me, and I placed my cheek against his scared face, his
gnarled arthritic hand in my own.
Two weeks later George was hospitalized, and I visited
him for the last time. He looked small and frail but his
eyes still were shining. Before I left I took his hand in
mine and he said, I love you. I love you too, I replied
and waved goodbye. George died about a week later.
Then just yesterday, I went to visit another elderly
client, whom Ill call Anna, who is now hospitalized. She
had led a rather reclusive life, had never married, and
had no children. Anna had been a journalist, but since
she had retired she rarely left her apartment. Even at the
assisted living facility where she lived, Anna never went
down to communal meals and spent most of her time
in bed, curled up with her furry companion, a noble
golden alley cat shed rescued from the streets of her old
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Love From page 19
Obama and Hagel From page 19
If there is a single method for performing tikkun olam
and healing everything in our world, then perhaps, just
perhaps, this is it.
Lisa A. Sturm, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with a private prac-
tice in Mountainside.
she was hospitalized she ate less and less and her body
began to waste away. When I entered her hospital room
I was shocked by her condition; she twitched and shook
and mumbled disconnected words to herself. I called
her name and she gave me a half smile. After getting her
an extra blanket and after a few futile attempts to get her
to eat, I finally just sat down and took her hand. What
can I do for you? I asked, leaning in close to hear her
response.
Annas answer was both audible and clear. Bring
more love into the world.
That was not at all the answer I was expecting. I felt
helpless; I wanted to do something practical. After a
few minutes I repeated my question, hoping to hear
about some action I could take to help her feel more
comfortable.
This time she raised her voice slightly as if she were
annoyed that I hadnt understood her the first time. I
said bring more love into the world!
Okay, I thought, I understand. In the end the very
bitter, deteriorated, demented, trembling, wasting away,
hopeless end there is only love. Since I have heard it
from a Jewish grandmother, from an engineer, from a
government worker, and from a journalist I have come
to believe it is true. I do not know whether these words
are being expressed because these people already have
one foot in the spiritual realm or if they are simply part
of a final realization of what is most important in life. Or
perhaps both explanations are accurate.
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Joanne Palmer
D
avid Broza often is called the
Jewish Bruce Springsteen.
Thats because he is charismatic
and gifted as both a musician and
a poet, telling the stories both of
his own heart and of his people.
But what do you think of first when you think of
Springsteen? New Jersey! And as unlikely as it seems,
Broza, who grew up in Israel and Spain, lived in Bergen
County for 17 years. His children grew up here.
So it makes perfect sense that Broza will be in concert
at Temple Emanu-El of Closter on Sunday, February 10,
raising money to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.
New Jersey is beautiful, Broza said in a phone
interview from a studio in Tel Aviv. We were in New York
with little babies, and we thought that it would be hard
to maintain a family life there, so we crossed the bridge.
And what we saw there was gorgeous green and lush
and hilly. We found a house, and we moved in.
Broza left Cresskill for Spain in 2000, and three years
later he moved back to Israel. My work was changing,
he said. Now he lives in three places. I dont have three
legs, but basically I have one foot in Tel Aviv, one foot in
Madrid, and one in New York.
Broza, who is 57 years old, is a social activist, as well
as an artist. (He comes by that naturally; his grandfather,
Wellesley Aaron, who led a fascinating life, was a founder
of Neve Shalom Wahat as-Salam, a village in Israel
where Jews and Arabs live together in peace.)
He feels compelled to present the concert for storm
relief, he said, because it is horrifying, the outcome of
the storm. Its not over. A lot of people are struggling with
loss; lost property, and the inability to stand on their feet.
Because my life is so entangled and entwined with
this area, I felt personally hurt. My way of showing
solidarity and lending a hand is to dedicate a show,
where hopefully we can raise funds and direct them to
those who need it.
I think funds are fundamental not only in rebuilding
and reconstructing from the damage, but also in
rebuilding peoples lives.
This storm didnt hit only the poor. It hit everybody.
The community needs support.
I cant fill Madison Square Garden, but I hope that we
can fill Temple Emanu-El. I hope that people will come
out, and that they will continue offering help to those in
need. And Im happy to do it in Bergen County, because
Hitting a high note
Broza is back in Bergen to sing our way to relief
for Sandys victims
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Im part of it and its part of me.
The idea of the concert came from Mr. Broza, Rabbi
David-Seth Kirshner said. It is being presented by the
New York Board of Rabbis at Temple Emanu-El, which
Kirshner leads. Mr. Broza is donating all his services.
We are covering the sound and lighting, and the VIP
reception. Everything else is going directly to hurricane
victims.
Were limited to 500 people. We hope to sell out; were
already halfway there.
(The Jewish Standard is a concert co-sponsor.)
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik is the executive director of
the New York Board of Rabbis, where Kirshner is vice
president-elect.
Despite its name, the board is not limited by
geography. Its the largest interdenominational rabbinic
body in the world, Potasnik said. We have all streams
of Jewish life represented here. We like to think that it
makes this a very special place, where people of different
denominations can have discourse with one another.
It also means that we have a responsibility to help
each other.
Hurricane Sandy was a tragedy that said to us that
we need to do something to support and help those who
were so deeply affected.
Once the money is raised, we will establish a
committee of rabbis of different streams of Jewish life to
decide on the distribution, Potasnik said.
He sees that some good has come from the storm.
This is a wonderful moment of solidarity, he said.
Sadly, sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring us all
together. Maybe well learn that we have to perpetuate
that spirit.
We have to bring people together not just during
extraordinary times, but during ordinary times as well.
Because David Broza grew up on two continents and
spent much of his adulthood in a third, a sense of place
and of language suffuses his work. When he first came
to the United States, decades ago, he toured the country
to understand it, primarily through its music and poetry.
He concentrated on the Midwest and the South. The
blues, rockabilly, bluegrass, country music, country and
western music; I connect with all of that, he said. I
wanted to connect through music, but I had to sing my
way through, and in order to do that I had to find the
words. The words were hidden in the poetry, and the
poems were the treasure the poets held.
Ive mastered a lot of the poetry that I was studying in
order to understand American language and culture, he
said. I fell in love with Elizabeth Bishop, and particularly
a poem called One Eye. That should be adopted almost
as a mantra for the recovery from Sandy.
Broza quoted the beginning of the poem from
memory.
The art of losing isnt hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster, he said.
Look it up, he urged. Read all of it. Its one of the
most magical poems written in 20th-century America.
Hes written music for the lovely and haunting words
of this poem. With luck, he will sing it on the evening of
February 10.
for Sandys victims
Who: david Broza
Where: temple emanu-el of Closter
When: sunday, February 10, at 6 pm; a ViP reception will follow the concert
Why: to benefit new Jersey victims of hurricane sandy
How: Presented by the new York Board of rabbis
For tickets call Jessie diPaolo at (212) 983-3521 or email her at jdipaolo@nybr.org.
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Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON Preaching to a preacher
man or woman doesnt always play
out as planned.
Thats the lesson learned this week
by officials at the National Cathedral
after several clergy, including three rab-
bis, made impromptu changes to the
readings they were given to deliver at a
prayer service following President Barack
Obamas inauguration on January 22.
Rabbis Rick Jacobs, Sharon Brous, and
Julie Schonfeld made changes to the texts
they were handed in the hope of making
the language Jewier, as Brous put it lat-
er: more conversational, more forthright,
and more reflective of the rabbis under-
standing of Jewish theology.
I wanted to be able to pray with real
kavannah [intention] in that moment, so
the specific language mattered a lot to
me, Brous, who is a Conservative rabbi
and the founder of IKAR, an indepen-
dent congregation in Los Angeles, said.
I worked to find a way to capture the
essence of the prayer in a Jewish idiom,
to translate the beautiful sentiment into
words that would be more personally
resonant.
A spokeswoman for the National
Cathedral said the institution had no
problem with the changes. Neither did
Josh Dubois, the White Houses faith-
based initiatives boss, who helped coordi-
nate the event.
Gina Campbell, the cathedrals di-
rector of worship, encouraged all the
religious leaders to be faithful to their
own traditions and to emend texts as
they saw fit, said the spokeswoman, who
spoke on condition of not being named.
Clergy were assigned readings rather
than asked to offer their own because the
service was pegged to the inaugurations
theme, Faith in Americas Future, drawn
from Abraham Lincolns determination
150 years ago to keep the nation united
and to expand its liberties to all its people.
The staff at the cathedral were sen-
sitive about theological language and
wanting people to speak in language that
was comfortable and authentic, said
Jacobs, the president of the Union for
Reform Judaism.
Jacobs was assigned the recital of
the priestly blessing alongside Laila
Muhammad, the founder of a Muslim
family service organization in Chicago.
Muhammad told Jacobs beforehand
that she would change The Lord in the
blessing to Allah. Jacobs replied that
he would not use the Lord either. He
substituted the Holy One to reflect the
Reform movements tendency to abjure
gender-specific references to God.
Schonfeld, the executive director of
the Conservative movements Rabbinical
Assembly, had no objection to the trans-
lation of a psalm she was assigned. But
reciting it without context raised difficult
theological questions about human re-
sponsibility, especially in the wake of the
massacre of schoolchildren last month in
Newtown, Conn.
The translation, as assigned by the ca-
thedral, reads in part, The Lord watches
over the innocent. Schonfeld changed
that to The Lord watches over the inno-
cent and calls upon us to watch over the
innocent.
God can only watch over the innocent
insofar as human beings watch over the
innocent, Schonfeld said.
The services also featured Cantor
Mikhail Manevich of Washington Hebrew
Congregation, which is Reform. He sang
the Shema in Hebrew.
Christian clergy also made adjust-
ments in keeping with their own religious
orientations. The Rev. Nancy Wilson,
moderator of the Universal Fellowship of
Metropolitan Community Churches, a
denomination emphasizing outreach to
the LGBT community, replaced five mas-
culine pronouns in her assigned prayer,
which opened the service.
The National Cathedral is both an
Episcopal seat and a place of worship
chartered by the Congress in the 19th
century as the natural setting for national
events. The churchs website emphasizes
that it welcomes all faiths.
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Ron Kampeas
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bid to secure Senate confirmation as defense secretary,
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senators and meeting with the leaders of major
American Jewish groups.
But opposition by conservative pro-Israel groups
remains fierce. It is bolstered by the pivotal role being
played by Christians United For Israel, the Texas-based
group founded by Pastor John Hagee.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the first senator to come
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CUFIs affiliated Action Fund also has rallied hun-
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we believe that it is crucial that these senators be made
aware of where so many of their constituents stand on
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At a gathering Monday for more than 400 Christian
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anti-Hagel lobbying, Hagee revealed that he had asked
Cornyn to oppose Hagel weeks before President Obama
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In his remarks on Monday, Cornyn went over Hagels
much-reported past remarks: describing a Jewish
lobby that intimidates lawmakers; advocating direct
outreach to groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and ex-
pressing skepticism about unilateral sanctions on Iran
and the use of a military strike to prevent it from obtain-
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I cannot support a nominee for defense secretary
who suggests we should be tougher on Israel and more
lenient on Iran, Cornyn said.
Hagel has walked back many of these positions and
apologized for the Jewish lobby remark. But Cornyn
said he believed they were part of what he called a con-
firmation conversion.
In his efforts to tamp down the pro-Israel opposition
to his nomination, Hagel has won support from some of
the leading Jewish pro-Israel Democrats in the Senate:
Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the Armed Services
Committee, Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Barbara Boxer
(D-Calif.), and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.).
The Vietnam War hero also has the support of liberal
Jewish groups, including Americans for Peace Now, the
Israel Policy Forum, and J Street. On Wednesday, J Street
was set to join Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a veteran and a
member of the Armed Services Committee, on a confer-
ence call backing Hagel.
Hagel also has met with leaders of centrist pro-Israel
groups, several of which had expressed concerns about
his candidacy, including the Anti-Defamation League,
the American Jewish Committee, the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The
groups described the meeting as an important opportu-
nity for a serious and thorough discussion.
Democrats control 55 of the Senates 100 seats, and
sources close to Hagel have said he is hoping that his
longstanding friendships with some Senate Republicans
will be enough to get the 60 votes necessary to avoid a
filibuster.
Meanwhile, conservative Jewish groups have worked
to keep up the pressure.
Last week, the Republican Jewish Coalition posted
a web video featuring Democrats and Jewish organi-
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Emergency Committee for Israel similarly ran a full-page
ad in the New York Times on January 15. The Zionist
Organization of America is lobbying Senate offices.
Sheldon Adelson, one of the GOPs most generous
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directly to make the case against Hagel.
Weve made a strategic decision to gin up as much
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watch the recorded broadcast after Shabbat ends.
Yes, were all absolute Ravens nuts, Noam Heller, a
25-year-old Baltimore native, said. Were not just casual
football fans like some other states. Everyone who knows
our crew knows were crazy.
The group has been reveling in the Ravens together
for about five years at the homes of its members. Wives
and kids come along now, too.
With their beloved squad slated to face off against
the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday,
Heller and company no doubt will get even crazier than
usual.
Adding to its significance, the showdown comes just
six months after the death of former owner Art Modell,
the Jewish Brooklyn native who moved the team to
Baltimore from Cleveland in 1996. Ravens players dedi-
cated this season to Modell, wearing a patch with Art on
their jerseys.
And even more poignant: The Pro Football Hall of
Fame will announce whether Modell will be inducted on
the day before the big game.
Honestly, Im kvelling over this game, David Modell,
one of the late owners two sons, himself a former presi-
dent and CEO of the Ravens, said. Im not praying for
results, Im praying for the strength and courage of this
team, and the rest will take care of itself. But a Super Bowl
victory and a place in the Hall of Fame would be an in-
credible way to honor my fathers memory.
Modells legacy is something of a touchy subject for
football fans. Supporters see him as a brilliant busi-
nessman, best known for his role in negotiations with
the ABC television network leading to the creation of
Monday Night Football in 1970, and for his support for
community charities in Cleveland and Baltimore.
In Cleveland, though, Modell isnt remembered as
fondly. After 34 years as owner of the Browns, Modell
took the team to Baltimore in 1996 and renamed them
the Ravens. Many Cleveland fans remain bitter over the
loss of their team, and they say it would be wrong to
honor Modell with a spot in the Hall of Fame.
I dont care how much money he gave to either
community or how well Baltimore is doing, said one
disgruntled Jewish Clevelander, who asked that his name
not be published for fear of bad football karma. Art
Modell stole our pride in Cleveland, and stealing in foot-
ball should not be praised.
David Modell said that many Cleveland fans wrote
to him and his brother, John, to offer condolences after
their father died. It seemed that they forgave Modell, who
sold the Ravens in 2004, for abandoning Cleveland. They
now remember him mainly as a football legend.
Although Modells two sons are Catholic, children
from the first marriage of his wife Patricia Breslin, David
Modell said his father made sure to teach them the basic
Jewish traditions of the religion he loved.
My father wasnt the type of man who wore his spiri-
tuality on his sleeve, but he was a quietly religious and
very spiritual Jew, David Modell said. We knew that he
carried around a piece of paper with Gods name in his
pocket every day of his life. Every year he would light me-
morial candles for his parents death. He always attended
temple on High Holidays. And Chanukah candles were
so important to him that my brother in California and I
Skyped together this year to light candles and recite the
prayers.
Modell had a special relationship with football players
as well as fans, specifically with Ray Lewis, the Ravens
All-Pro linebacker who is retiring at the end of this sea-
son. Modell watched his team practice every day and had
a father-son relationship with Lewis.
Unlike his former boss, Lewis did wear his spirituality
on his sleeve or at least on his chest. Following a 24-9
playoff victory over the Colts earlier this month, Lewis re-
moved his game jersey to reveal a T-shirt that read Psalm
91, which concludes with the line, With long life I will
satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Heller and his friends responded by getting together
for a communal reading of the psalm and to pray on the
Ravens behalf.
Weve loved the Ravens since Art Modell first brought
them to Baltimore in 1996, Heller said. We all looked up
to him as kids.
And this Super Bowl is going to be ours.
JTA Wire Service
Art Modell, the late owner of the Baltimore Ravens,
has a hug for star linebacker Ray Lewis in 2001.
Courtesy Baltimore ravens
Left to right, Baltimore Ravens coach John
Harbaugh, late owner Art Modell, and general man-
ager Ozzie Newsome at the Ravens training facilities
in 2008. Courtesy Baltimore ravens
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TEL AVIV Last weeks Israeli election saw a major
shakeup in the countrys government, with 53 new mem-
bers elected to its parliament, the Knesset.
Some already have received wide attention, including
Yair Lapid, the middle class-focused chairman of Yesh
Atid; Naftali Bennett, the high-tech entrepreneur who
chairs the new Jewish Home party; technocrat Yair
Shamir, Yisrael Beiteinus No. 2; and Moshe Feiglin, the
nationalist settler who finally landed a Knesset seat with
the ruling Likud Party.
Though lesser known, many of the other new faces
in the Knesset are no less interesting. Meet five of them:
a woman with a doctorate in Talmud, an Ethiopian
immigrant, a mother of 11 from Hebron, a socially
conscious venture capitalist, and an American-born
rabbi.
Meet some of Israels new Knesset members
Rabbi Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid)
Hes a charedi Orthodox rabbi in
a party calling for charedi army
service. Hes been an advocate for
coexistence in a city fraught with
interreligious conflict. Soon hell
be the first American-born mem-
ber of Israels Knesset since Meir
Kahane.
Lipman, 41, originally from
Silver Spring, Md., was a Jewish
educator in Cincinnati and
Maryland before moving to Israel
with his family in 2004. They
ended up in Beit Shemesh,
a Jerusalem suburb with a
large charedi and Anglophone
population that also has been a
flashpoint for conflict between
charedi and Modern Orthodox Israelis. As the citys
conflicts escalated in recent years, Lipman tried to serve
as a bridge between the two sides.
He says he believes that theres no contradiction
between working, serving the country, and being charedi,
and he wants to bring that ethic to Israel. Its a challenge:
Many of Israels charedim are unemployed, few serve in
the Israeli military, and many are avowedly non-Zionist.
In America, charedim have education, there are
opportunities, and they work, Lipman said. That
issue bothers us more because we know theres no
contradiction.
Lipman hopes his presence in Yesh Atid the party
campaigned for universal national service, including
by charedim will allow him to help integrate charedi
Israelis into the rest of Israeli society.
Leading up to Election Day, few expected Lipman, No.
17 on the Yesh Atid ticket, to land a seat in the Knesset.
But Yesh Atid campaigned hard. Every night, it seemed,
Lipman hosted a parlor meeting for English-speaking
Israelis, participated in English-language debates, or
blogged on the English news site Times of Israel.
When Yesh Atid won 19 seats, Lipman was in.
Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid)
Calderon, 51, is a Jewish scholar who, like Lipman, ad-
vocates interreligious understanding. Unlike Lipman
and most Jewish scholars in Israel, Calderon earned her
degree at a university, not a yeshivah.
But that didnt stop her from starting one. Calderon,
who holds a doctorate in Talmud from Jerusalems
Hebrew University, founded the Elul Beit Midrash in
Jerusalem in 1989. It is one of the citys first Jewish study
houses where secular and religious Israelis can study
and discuss Judaism together. More recently, Calderon
founded Alma, a center for Hebrew culture in Tel
Aviv whose mission is to combine Jewish, Israeli, and
universal culture.
Calderon calls herself a non-halachic person, but
that doesnt stop her from posting daily passages from
the Mishnah on her Facebook page. She also hosted
Hacheder, a television program in which she discussed
Hebrew culture with guests.
Erel Margalit (Labor)
The Labor Partys campaign this year, driven by party
Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich, was to strengthen
middle-class and poor Israelis. One of the campaigns
central slogans declared that Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is good for rich people. Shelly is
American-born
Rabbi Dov Lipman
of the Yesh Atid
party says there is
no contradiction
between working,
serving the coun-
try, and being cha-
redi. Yossi Zeliger/
Flash90/JTa
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Rabbi Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid)
Hes a charedi Orthodox rabbi in
a party calling for charedi army
service. Hes been an advocate for
coexistence in a city fraught with
interreligious conflict. Soon hell
be the first American-born mem-
ber of Israels Knesset since Meir
Kahane.
Lipman, 41, originally from
Silver Spring, Md., was a Jewish
educator in Cincinnati and
Maryland before moving to Israel
with his family in 2004. They
ended up in Beit Shemesh,
a Jerusalem suburb with a
large charedi and Anglophone
population that also has been a
flashpoint for conflict between
charedi and Modern Orthodox Israelis. As the citys
conflicts escalated in recent years, Lipman tried to serve
as a bridge between the two sides.
He says he believes that theres no contradiction
between working, serving the country, and being charedi,
and he wants to bring that ethic to Israel. Its a challenge:
Many of Israels charedim are unemployed, few serve in
the Israeli military, and many are avowedly non-Zionist.
In America, charedim have education, there are
opportunities, and they work, Lipman said. That
issue bothers us more because we know theres no
contradiction.
Lipman hopes his presence in Yesh Atid the party
campaigned for universal national service, including
by charedim will allow him to help integrate charedi
Israelis into the rest of Israeli society.
Leading up to Election Day, few expected Lipman, No.
17 on the Yesh Atid ticket, to land a seat in the Knesset.
But Yesh Atid campaigned hard. Every night, it seemed,
Lipman hosted a parlor meeting for English-speaking
Israelis, participated in English-language debates, or
blogged on the English news site Times of Israel.
When Yesh Atid won 19 seats, Lipman was in.
Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid)
Calderon, 51, is a Jewish scholar who, like Lipman, ad-
vocates interreligious understanding. Unlike Lipman
and most Jewish scholars in Israel, Calderon earned her
degree at a university, not a yeshivah.
But that didnt stop her from starting one. Calderon,
who holds a doctorate in Talmud from Jerusalems
Hebrew University, founded the Elul Beit Midrash in
Jerusalem in 1989. It is one of the citys first Jewish study
houses where secular and religious Israelis can study
and discuss Judaism together. More recently, Calderon
founded Alma, a center for Hebrew culture in Tel
Aviv whose mission is to combine Jewish, Israeli, and
universal culture.
Calderon calls herself a non-halachic person, but
that doesnt stop her from posting daily passages from
the Mishnah on her Facebook page. She also hosted
Hacheder, a television program in which she discussed
Hebrew culture with guests.
Erel Margalit (Labor)
The Labor Partys campaign this year, driven by party
Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich, was to strengthen
middle-class and poor Israelis. One of the campaigns
central slogans declared that Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu is good for rich people. Shelly is
good for you, and one of the
partys most public new faces
was 2011 social protest leader
Stav Shaffir.
Now one of the partys
freshmen is one of Israels
wealthiest and most successful
venture capitalists.
Margalit, 51, founder of
Jerusalem Venture Partners,
has been declared king of the
exits by the Marker, Haaretzs
business magazine. From 2000
to 2010, he presided over seven
$100 million exits, or sales of
stakes in companies the
most in Israel.
But Labors social-democratic values
speak to Margalit. He grew up on a
kibbutz and in 2002 he founded JVP
Community, a fund to address social
issues in Jerusalem. One of its flagship
programs is Bakehila, Hebrew for
in the community, which organizes
educational programs for disadvantaged
Jewish and Arab children.
After Labor split and fell to a historic
nadir of eight seats in 2011, Margalit
founded the Labor Now organization
to recruit new members to the party
and reinvigorate its values. He ran for
the party chairmanship that year but
dropped out of the race.
Margalit may still harbor leadership
ambitions. After Labor won 15 seats
last week, he criticized Yachimovichs
campaign focus for the partys failure to
do better.
We should have expressed ourselves
more clearly over our foreign policy
agenda, he said, according to the daily
Israel Hayom.
When he was a child, Margalit lived in
Detroit for two years. He later earned a
doctorate in philosophy from Columbia
University.
Orit Struk (Jewish Home)
Struk, who comes from one
of the most ideological com-
munities in the west bank, will
have to pass through a check-
point or two on her commute
to her new job in the Knesset.
She lives in Hebron, where she
runs the Jewish communitys
legal and diplomatic division
and has made her home for 30
years.
A mother of 11 and
grandmother of 12, Struk
also is the founder and
chairwoman of Human Rights
in Yesha, an organization that
advocates for settlers rights.
In that capacity, Struk has
fought against alleged abuse of settlers by
soldiers and policemen, and advocated
for the rights of those who protested
Israels withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
Struk, 52, also runs the Land of
Israel lobby in the Knesset
that fought for settlement
expansion and legalizing
settlement outposts.
Days before the election,
in the wake of the release
of a video of Jeremy
Gimpel, another Jewish
Home candidate, speaking
enthusiastically about the
Dome of the Rock exploding,
Struk said, We pray that
the Temple will rise again in
Jerusalem.
At times, Struk was
described as a liability in
Bennetts campaign to present
Jewish Home as an inclusive right-wing
party, not a settlers party. But in an
interview shortly before the election with
Israels Channel 2, Bennett denied she
was a liability.
Im not hiding Orit Struk, he said.
In every party, people vote with their
conscience and its okay that among 15
people, well have a representative of the
right.
Shimon Solomon
(Yesh Atid)
Solomon, 44, has come a long way to the
Knesset. When he was 12, Solomon set
out on foot with his family from Ethiopia,
getting through Sudan to Israel.
Later, after becoming a social worker,
he returned to Addis Ababa, Ethiopias
capital. From 2005 to 2007 he helped
others follow in his footsteps. He also
works with Physicians for Human Rights
as an advocate for refugees and is a
former director of the Agahozo-Shalom
Youth Village in Rwanda, a center for
orphans of the Rwandan genocide.
The future of refugees and migrants in
Israel has been a topic of heated debate
over the last year or two.
He reminds me of my father, said
Lapid, the Yesh Atid chairman and son of
late Israeli politician Tommy
Lapid, as he introduced
Solomon as a candidate in
November. My father was an
immigrant. He came here in
a ship from another country
without knowing a word of
Hebrew. And like Shimon,
when he set foot in Israel, it
became his.
Solomon responded by
promoting an ethic of service.
Everyone needs to give of
what he has, even if he doesnt
have much, he said.
Solomon served in the
Israeli Defense Forces
paratroopers unit and is a
reserve officer. He is one of two
Ethiopians on Yesh Atids list along with
Pnina Tamnu-Shata, the first Ethiopian
woman to be elected to the Knesset.
JTA Wire Service
American-born
Rabbi Dov Lipman
of the Yesh Atid
party says there is
no contradiction
between working,
serving the coun-
try, and being cha-
redi. Yossi Zeliger/
Flash90/JTa
New Jewish Home
Knesset member
Orit Struk, shown
here looking
through a window
of her Hebron
home, which had
been pierced by
bullets. Flash90/JTa
Erel Margalit, one
of Israels wealthi-
est and most suc-
cessful venture
capitalists, is a
new member of
Knesset from the
Labor Party. Kobi
gideon/Flash90/JTa
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speaks out for gun control
VANCOUVER, Canada Cheryl Stumbo, a victim in the
2006 Seattle Jewish federation shootings, has begun ad-
vocating for stricter gun control in response to the Sandy
Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn.
After years of mass shootings, Stumbo decided to
use her personal experience to fight the American gun
lobby by telling her story, she told the Seattle Times in an
interview published on Sunday. She said she believes the
more visible gun violence victims are, the quicker public
opinion will shift.
Victims of gun violence are walking around every
day, Stumbo, 50, told the Times. You know someone, or
they know someone, who was shot or had a gun held to
their heads.
Stumbo, who is not Jewish, said it took her six years of
therapy to feel comfortable speaking publicly about the
event, but after 20 elementary students and six school
staffers were killed in the Newtown shootings, she de-
cided it was time to speak.
When Newtown happened, I had made the decision
that I was going to do something about this, Stumbo
said. I was going to use my personal perspective to help
people understand.
Stumbo, who worked as the marketing director for the
Jewish federation, also was interviewed by local Seattle
news channel King 5, an NBC affiliate.
The shooting at the Seattle Jewish federation took
place on July 28, 2006, on a late Friday afternoon. Much
of the staff had left to prepare for Shabbat, Stumbo said,
when she stepped out of her office into the hallway and
found herself staring down the barrel of a gun. The gun-
man, Naveed Afzal Haq, shot Stumbo in the rib cage with
a hollow-point bullet.
The shooting resulted in beefed-up security at Jewish
institutions around the United States.
Stumbo was one of six women who was shot. Pam
Waechter, 58, the director of annual giving at the federa-
tion, was killed.
In Belgium, Moshe Friedman loses
latest round on coed classes
THE HAGUE The Belgian judge who forced a girls
school to admit two sons of Moshe Friedman refused a
separate petition to enroll the charedi Orthodox pariahs
daughters at a boys yeshiva.
According to the Belgian Jewish publication Joods
Actueel, on Monday the judge cited procedural issues
in rejecting the motion by Friedman, a father of eight
who filed a request for an injunction against the Yavne
Yeshiva, a boys religious seminary.
Last month the judge issued an injunction order-
ing a girls school, Benoth Jerusalem, to admit two of
Friedmans sons. They started studying there on January 7.
Friedman, 40, is an anti-Zionist campaigner who has
been excommunicated by the institutions and many
members of Antwerps charedi community, including the
Jewish school that refused to enroll his children. In 2006
he attended a conference of Holocaust deniers in Tehran
and hugged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.
In rejecting Friedmans petition against the Yavne
Yeshiva, the judge said she could not issue a temporary
injunction in summary proceedings on a permanent
issue.
Benoth Jerusalem is appealing the injunction forcing
it to enroll the two boys, Joods Actueel reported.
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Israeli officials order halt to pressure
in contraception of Ethiopian women
Ben SaleS
TEL AVIV Following a TV report alleging that Ethiopian
Israeli women were being given contraceptive shots
against their will, Israels Health Ministry has ordered
physicians to put a stop to the practice.
The report, broadcast December 8 on the Vacuum
investigative news program on Israeli Educational
Television, alleged that Ethiopian immigrants were
coerced or coaxed into receiving Depo-Provera, a long-
term contraceptive shot that lasts three months, both by
Jewish aid officials before their immigration to Israel and
by health workers once they arrived in Israel.
In the last decade, births among Ethiopian women in
Israel have fallen by nearly 50 percent, according to the
report.
Last week, the Health Ministry instructed doctors to
stop administering the shots unless women ask for them
and understand their ramifications.
The ministrys directive, sent by Director General Ron
Gamzu on January 20 in response to a petition filed by
the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, instructs doc-
tors not to renew prescriptions of Depo-Provera to
women of Ethiopian origin or any other women who, for
whatever reason, may not understand the treatments
implications.
The directive also instructs doctors to ask patients
why they want to take the shot before administering it,
and to use a translator if necessary. The directive does not
confirm the allegations or acknowledge any wrongdoing.
We didnt give the shots, ministry spokeswoman
Einav Shimron Greenbaum said. We didnt give them to
anyone. We still deny it today.
The allegations extend as far back as the health clin-
ics the women visited in Ethiopia before they immi-
grated to Israel. The American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee provides prospective Ethiopians immigrants
with an array of health services at those clinics, including
contraception.
They said, Come, there are vaccinations, gather
everyone, Amawaish Alane, an Ethiopian immigrant
to Israel, told Vacuum reporter Gal Gabbay in the
December 8 broadcast. We said we wouldnt receive it.
They said, You wont move to Israel.
Alana and others on the program charged that work-
ers at the JDC clinic told them it would be hard for them
to work, get apartments, or survive in Israel with large
families.
A woman identified as S. said on the program that
she was told at the Jewish aid compound in Gondar,
Ethiopia, that she wouldnt get a ticket to Israel if she
didnt take the shot.
I didnt want to take it, she said. They wanted me to
take it. But I didnt know it was a contraceptive. I thought
it was an immunization.
JDC denies the charges.
At no time did JDC coerce anyone into engaging at
family planning at its clinics. Those options were totally
voluntary and offered to women who requested it, a JDC
spokesman in New York said in December. They chose
the form of contraceptive based on being fully informed
of all the options available to them.
The Vacuum report alleged that the women contin-
ued to be coaxed into receiving the shots once they im-
migrated to Israel, often without knowing that what they
were getting was contraception.
A spokesman for ACRI, which filed its petition after
the December 8 report aired, said that ACRI is interested
in preventing future unwanted contraceptive shots rath-
er than casting blame.
Admission of guilt is not what were about, ACRI
spokesman Marc Grey said. Its more about acknowl-
edging that this occurred and making sure it doesnt hap-
pen again.
The project coordinator for women and medical tech-
nologies at Isha LIsha, an Israeli feminist group that also
signed the petition, praised the Health Ministrys Gamzu
for issuing the new directive.
What hes done is different from all the other state-
ments from the Health Ministry, which blamed the
women and said thats what they want, Hedva Eyal, the
project coordinator, said. He said maybe we made a
mistake. We need to make sure this never happens to any
group with any health issue.
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emboldens European activists
Cnaan Liphshiz
BRUSSELS Immediately after a French court ordered
Twitter to reveal details about users who had posted anti-
Semitic messages, a proud Sacha Reingewirtz was already
spreading the word about a judgment he helped win via
Twitter.
Within minutes of the January 24 ruling, the vice presi-
dent of the Union of French Jewish Students was firing off
tweets with the details of the decision. The Grand Instance
Court in Paris, responding to a complaint filed by the
union and several other groups last year, gave Twitter 15
days to hand over personal details of users suspected of
posting anti-Semitic tweets in violation of Frances restric-
tive laws on hate speech.
The court also imposed a $1,300 fine for every day that
Twitter fails to comply, and ordered the company to set up
a system that would flag illegal content for removal.
It is a major victory for us and a legal breakthrough for
others to use elsewhere in Europe, Reingewirtz said.
The French ruling is the latest skirmish in the fight over
the extent of free speech protections in the digital age,
exposing the gap between Europes more restrictive post-
Holocaust legislation on hate speech and the sweeping
protections of the U.S. Constitutions First Amendment.
Its a rift that also runs through the Jewish world, with
European Jewish groups hailing the ruling as an important
bulwark against hate.
Behind the anonymity that Twitter affords them, some
European users feel safe to air out hateful views which
they would not disseminate under their own names,
said Esther Voet, deputy director of CIDI, a Dutch Jewish
watchdog on anti-Semitism. But Twitter is also a public
space, subject to the same laws that apply on the street.
The Anti-Defamation League, an American group, of-
fered a more muted response, and declined to directly
address the substance of the court order to reveal the
identities of the offending users.
Whether the French court order can or should be
enforced in the United States gives rise to complicated is-
sues of French legal interests versus American legal inter-
ests, Abraham Foxman, the ADLs national director, said.
While the law may be one tool in the fight against online
hate, we believe that the best antidote to hate speech is
counter-speech.
Foxman also encouraged Twitter and other social me-
dia companies to protect readers from harmful, hateful
content.
The French lawsuit centers on thousands of tweets
organized under the hashtag #unbonjuif (a good Jew).
Hashtags are labels used to index tweets on a particular
topic.
In October, a competition of anti-Semitic and
Holocaust jokes was indexed with the #unbonjuif hashtag.
A similar phenomenon developed this month in Spanish
with the hashtag #esdeJudios, or just like Jews.
In meetings with Twitter attorneys, the union de-
manded the removal of thousands of anti-Semitic tweets.
Twitter agreed to block access to the tweets only in France.
It also refused to delete the tweets entirely, set up a flag-
ging system, or hand over details about users who were
seen by UEJF as inciting hatred against Jews.
The union and other groups filed a complaint with the
Paris court on October 23.
Of the social networks, Twitter were the only ones to
reject that they bear any responsibility for content put on
their site, said Mike Whine of the Community Security
Trust, British Jewrys security unit. You have to remember
that the social networks were started 10 years ago by col-
lege kids, sometimes from their parents garages, who are
only now beginning to accept their social responsibilities.
Its a journey.
Last year, Whine attended talks in San Francisco be-
tween social media companies and representatives of
European anti-racism organizations to discuss how social
networks could address hate speech requirements in
Europe. The last round of talks, which have not been made
public, was held four months ago at Stanford University.
The representatives of Twitter silently walked out
when the time came to agree on something, said Ronald
Eissens, co-founder of the Dutch anti-racism group
Magenta and director of Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet,
a watchdog on cyber hate.
Subsequently, Twitter agreed to block German users
from gaining access to the account of a banned neo-Nazi
group in the first application of a company policy known
as country-withheld content, the New York Times
reported.
A spokesperson for Twitter declined JTAs request for
comment about the meetings and would say only that
Twitter was currently reviewing the courts decision.
In Europe, anti-racism activists see the ruling as a
failure of such negotiations toward a modus vivendi
that could bridge European hate-speech legislation and
American constitutional protections.
The ruling is important, as social networks
are the main vehicle for hate speech today, said
Valentin Gonzalez, co-founder of the Movement against
Intolerance in Spain, where a new law outlawing
Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic speech is about to go
into effect. But its regrettable that an agreement could
not be reached instead of litigation, which is the last re-
sort. Litigation creates a bad atmosphere, but we will also
sue only if we feel we are getting no cooperation.
Others believe that imposing any domestic legislative
limits on international online platforms is a step backward
from the freedom of information they enable.
Paul da Silva, a French computer journalist, said the
Paris ruling was excessive and would hide hate speech
instead of addressing it. And Benjamin Bayart, president
of the French Data Network a nonprofit promoting the
online accessibility of academic research said French
prosecutors should not hold the medium responsible for
the content.
But European judges and legislators are more atten-
tive to European history and the lessons of the Holocaust,
according to Ronny Naftaniel, the executive vice chairper-
son of CEJI, a Brussels-based Jewish organization promot-
ing tolerance through education.
We have experienced what incitement can do and
countering it is part of our commitment to the concept of
never again, Naftaniel said.
Nowhere are societies more open to both arguments
than in Eastern Europe, according to Rafal Pankowski of
the Polish group Never Again. Poland has resisted ratifying
the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, fearing
the censorship of online expression.
Pankowski argues that curbing online incitement is
inevitable if the regions young democracies are to retain
their commitments to human rights and pluralism.
There are hardly any Jews in Poland, so populists cant
even use them as scapegoats, Pankowski said. Yet there
is anti-Semitism that is kept alive and being transmitted to
younger generations through social networks. Ideally this
would be stopped through dialogue with the social media,
but they largely ignore our requests. So sometimes suing is
the only way.
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In two Oscar-nominated
documentaries, Israel takes
hits and helps pays for it
Tom Tugend
LOS ANGELES Its hard to imagine two
more divergent perspectives on Israeli-
Palestinian relations: that of a Palestinian
farmer whose village is resisting the
encroachment of a nearby Jewish settle-
ment and of the security service chiefs
responsible for maintaining order in the
Palestinian territories.
Surprisingly, however, these protago-
nists in two documentaries vying for an
Academy Award in the best documentary
feature category come to much the same
conclusion: that military force alone will
neither solve the conflict nor assure the
Jewish states survival.
The Gatekeepers presents the per-
spectives of six men who headed Israels
Shin Bet security agency over the past
three decades. They are tough men, who
oversaw such operations as the targeted
assassinations of Hamas and other terror-
ist leaders.
In 5 Broken Cameras, a Palestinian
farmer chronicles his villages resistance
to the construction of an Israeli settlement
and to the soldiers who try to squelch their
protests.
The tone of 5 Broken Cameras is
more emotional and Gatekeepers more
intellectual, but both show that Israelis will
accept a level of criticism too daunting for
most Americans to stomach or for main-
stream Hollywood to depict. And if that
werent enough, the Israeli government
actually helped pay for the production of
both films.
We Jews are masters of self-criticism,
Dror Moreh, the director of Gatekeepers,
said in an interview at a Los Angeles hotel.
Its in our genes.
The six Shin Bet heads featured in
Gatekeepers vary as much as the prime
ministers who appointed them, but they
share a hard-headed intellect and a dis-
dain for most of Israels politicians, past
and present.
Avraham Shalom, who headed the Shin
Bet from 1980 to 1986, is the oldest of the
six. He helped track down and kidnap the
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and pursued both
the Arab perpetrators of the 1972 Munich
Olympics massacre and extremist Jewish
west bank settlers.
Dressed in plaid shirt and red suspend-
ers, the avuncular Shalom sets much of
the tone for his successors, who generally
agree that despite the rebuffs and failures,
Israel must try to negotiate with the
Palestinians and take some tentative steps
on the path to peace.
Negotiate with anyone? Moreh asks
somewhat incredulously in the film.
Yes, anyone, Shalom answers, even
Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Yaakov Peri, who took the post in 1988,
was the key figure in battling the second
intifada, setting up a vast network of
Palestinian informers and collaborators,
and allegedly authorizing exceptional
practices during Shin Bet interrogations.
Yet Peri reflects in the film on the memo-
ries etched deep inside you when you
retire, you become a bit of a leftist.
Moreh said his most surprising mo-
ment came when interviewing Yuval
Diskin, who served as Shin Bet head from
2005 to 2011. Moreh asked for Diskins re-
action to a quote by Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
a left-wing academic who asserted that
Israels control over the west bank would
lead to the Jewish states inexorable moral
corruption.
To Morehs astonishment, Diskin nod-
ded in agreement, saying, Every word is
[written] in stone.
Emad Burnat, the cameraman, nar-
rator, and co-director of 5 Broken
Cameras, is a world removed from the
well-educated, commanding Shin Bet
chiefs of Gatekeepers.
A Palestinian farmer, his family has cul-
tivated the land of Bilin, a village of 1,900
just east of where Israel separates from the
west bank. When his fourth son, Gibreel,
is born in 2005, he gets a video camera to
record the boys infancy and childhood, as
well as the surrounding village life.
At about the same time, the religious
settlement of Modiin Illit is established
nearby, protected by a fence that bars
the village farmers from much of their
land and their olive groves. The villagers
respond with weekly demonstrations.
Israeli soldiers are called in to prevent the
villagers from marching on the settlement,
escalating the confrontation.
A self-taught photographer, Burnat
and his camera capture the events, to the
annoyance of the soldiers. Although some
blood is spilled later on, the initial casual-
ties are the cameras, which are smashed,
replaced, and smashed again.
Five cameras go down, but the sixth
is still doing duty today, Burnat says by
phone from Bilin.
Among the Israeli sympathizers who
join the Bilin protesters is Guy Davidi, a
Tel Aviv filmmaker who befriends Burnat
and his family.
Two years ago, Burnat showed Davidi
his huge cache of video footage, with the
idea of fashioning it into a documentary.
Davidi signed on as co-director and pro-
ducer, raising $334,000, including $50,000
from government-funded Israel Film
Council.
Though it sounds like an unalloyed
success story, the films road to Oscar con-
tention became a little bumpy after initial
media reports in Israel and the United
States trumpeted the unprecedented feat
by two Israeli films. The claim justifiably
angered Burnat, opened him to criticism
from his Palestinian compatriots, and led
to a boycott of the film in Arab countries.
This is a Palestinian film, Burnat said.
Its about my village, and mine is the ma-
jor contribution.
Under Academy Awards rules, docu-
mentaries are not entered by countries
(as is the case for foreign-language feature
movies) but by individual filmmakers and
their distributors. So 5 Broken Cameras
is officially labeled as a Palestinian-Israeli-
French co-production.
The film illustrates one other point, too.
As in most films by Palestinians, Israeli
characters may be shown as unwelcome
interlopers, but they are not made into
monsters or Nazis.
Many of the west bank Palestinians
have worked in Israel as construction
workers, gardeners, and so forth, Davidi
said. They speak our language and know
more about us than we know about them.
Even if they hate us, they understand
something about the complexity of our
society.
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As part of the sisterhood
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Torah in Englewoods
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with its executive chef,
Donny Rogoff.
Rogoff was trained in
Israel under top Israeli
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chef of the Israeli National Soccer team and worked in
major Israeli and American hotels and restaurants.
Five Star is a cutting edge, glatt kosher full-service
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venues in the tristate area, including Manhattan. The
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to full catering.
Among the dishes prepared was veal osso buco; the
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Veal Osso Buco
2 pounds veal osso buco**
4 white onions
6 garlic cloves
4 plum tomatoes
1 pound brussels sprouts, halved
1/2 pound haricots verts
1 bunch parsley
1/2 cup white wine
salt
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons black pepper
1 to 2 teaspoons turmeric
2 teaspoons paprika
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People started coming here from everywhere,
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other parts of the country. Our biggest disappointment
was that we had to turn away kids the program
was unable to accommodate children with physical
disabilities. It was heartbreaking, but we could only
handle people within a certain range.
As news of the program spread through word of
mouth, it took off like wildfire. And not only did it
benefit the special needs population, but it had a
tremendous effect on the population of the school itself.
While some HYA children teased the newcomers
at first, in very short order the school became an
example of chesed in action. The older children became
protective of the younger children. It changed the tenor
of school even affecting the teachers and custodians.
Greene said that his original dream was to have a Sinai
school in every yeshiva. At the very least, he longed to see
the program spread to Bergen County.
Despite having doors slammed in my face, the
program did indeed take root in a number of local
schools, at both the elementary and the high school level.
Greene said the biggest challenge to the program
is the high cost of tuition, which is why these dinners
are so important. The problem is especially acute for
parents who have more than one child in the program.
We have overcome the reticence of parents to
acknowledge that their kids have a problem, he
said. Originally, that was a major obstacle. But now
fundraising is the major problem because the services
Sinai offers are second to none, but it costs to have highly
trained people in both general and Jewish studies.
Still, he said, Sinai has exceeded my original goals. Its
far beyond what I could have imagined when I started
the little program in my school. He pointed out that
when he left HYA, he, in effect, left Sinai, though he has
remained unofficially involved.
Im very proud of the establishment of this program
and the help it has brought to families, he said. You
cant imagine the joy it has brought to parents and
grandparents. You cant measure that.
Sinai honoree From page 6
A growing number of shuls are thinking about the
kind of food theyre serving. Does the fact that a two-
liter bottle of soda has a hekhsher, a kosher certification,
mean we should serve it if the rates of diabetes are going
up and the plastic takes a thousand years to decompose?
Lets ask some of these questions for real, and through a
Jewish lens, he said.
What does it mean to eat sustainably?
It may mean eating a balanced diet. For most of us
today, it means partly unlearning how we grew up and
eating less saturated fat, less meat, less tuna fish, more
vegetables, more greens. Generally eating a diet thats
healthier for us as human beings. Thats a diet that will
help us to lose weight, and to die less of the diseases of
contemporary society like heart disease and cancers and
diabetes.
In terms of the land, it probably means using fewer
pesticides and putting a lot more thought into soil qual-
ity. The quality of the soil in the U.S. has been depleted
because were not treating the land properly.
Healthy and sustainable in relationship to the atmo-
sphere means putting out less methane and carbon di-
oxide. That means having fewer cows, because methane
has a significant impact on climate change.
The Jewish rhythms around eating turn out to be
healthy, Savage said. When I worked on the English
version of Wall Street, I ate great meals five days a week.
Our grandparents ate well on Shabbat but the rest of the
week ate much more simply. The rabbis of the Talmud
fasted on Monday and Thursday.
If the whole world ate like the rabbis of the Talmud,
the whole world would be a healthier place.
Nigel Savage From page 12
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Rabbi Cathy L. FeLix
Jewish chaplain, Holy Name Medical Center
T
his week we read the magnif-
icent verses known in English
as The Ten Commandments.
Commandments two through ten are
similar: do this, dont do that. But the
First Commandment is different. I am
Adonai your God, who brought you out
of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Our rabbis understood that this com-
mand is the foundation of them all: a
statement of belief in God. Only after
one has made a firm commitment to
the reality of God would one be ready
to serve the Divine through observing
the remainder of the commandments,
and indeed, the entire Torah. Yet, if you
want a statement making the best case
for the existence of God, wouldnt it be
more persuasive to say, I am the Creator
of the universe? After all, many people
find a sense of transcendence by experi-
encing the wonders of the natural world.
Why start with the Exodus from slavery,
instead of the creation?
Our rabbis teach that we could look
at a Creator of the universe as something
vast and impersonal, too far away to
touch us as individuals. But the image of
God who frees us from slavery is a God
that is personal. More than that: God
wants us to underline the miracles in our
lives and to cultivate our gratitude for
all the wonders in our day. The miracle
of freedom is the prime example of the
many Divine blessings we experience, all
of which lead us to gratitude.
This concept of focusing on our bless-
ings and strengthening our sense of grat-
itude is the theme of the prayer called
the Modim, which we say in every prayer
service, three times a day. We give
thanks to You for all the miracles that
are with us, morning, noon and night.
Judaism teaches us to become re-sensi-
tized to all the goodness in our lives that
we might take for granted: a comfy place
to live, indoor plumbing, ample food
and clean water, a familiar bed, family
and friends, freedom from slavery. The
First Commandment presents us with
the image of God freeing us from slavery
as a reminder to cultivate our gratitude
for all the blessings we experience in the
course of our days.
As the Jewish chaplain at Holy Name
Medical Center, I meet people when they
are in pain. Last week, I met a woman,
Mrs. Green, who was an inspiration.
Though she was unable to rise from
her bed and in obvious discomfort, she
was calm. She told me how every morn-
ing she counted her blessings, and this
morning she had a long list. She was
thankful for all the technology that was
supporting her. She spoke with gratitude
of the clean sheets and the bolster that
eased her neck. She spoke with great
fondness for the people who interacted
with her: the busy nurses who took the
time to schmooze with her as they made
their rounds, her family and friends who
were sending their good wishes, the doc-
tors and therapists who were working on
her medical problems, the many support
staff in the hospital who kept the place
running so smoothly. She explained that
through her gratitude, she was able to
feel the Divine Presence accompanying
her, a relationship which brought her
strength. Through her own good cheer,
Mrs. Green brought a sparkle to the
eyes of those who interacted with her,
making them feel appreciated, brighten-
ing their day. Mrs. Green understood
the secret of the First Commandment,
that the foundation of Torah is feeling
gratitude for the Divine miracles of daily
life.
The secret of the
First Commandment
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Arts & culture
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JEWISH STANDARD FEBRUARY 1, 2013 40
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
A
nyone who has ever met Ed
Koch remembers the moment.
The 88-year-old former New York
City mayor is a large and unforgettable
presence, whether you met him on the
street, doing what he does best poli-
ticking or watched him give his opin-
ion on something Ed Koch always has
an opinion.
Koch once attended a film screening
about French Jews at the Center for
Jewish History in Manhattan. I was there
too. From the audience, I watched as
Koch, a very proud Jew, went on to rail for
a full three minutes about how all French
people are anti-Semitic.
Now, finally, a filmmaker has taken on
New Yorks three-time mayor he served
from 1978 to 1989 and captured this
larger-than-life man on film.
Koch is Wall Street Journal reporter
and hedge fund manager Neil Barskys
first film. He does a masterful job
following the iconic mayors daily
activities.
Koch almost never stops. Despite
three hospitalizations this year, he
does not like sitting idly by. He still
stomps for candidates, and his political
endorsements, never tied to one party or
ideology, still carry a great deal of weight.
In the last election, Koch supported
Barack Obama, and Democratic Party
operatives saw Jewish Florida voting
heavily Democratic. A Koch endorsement
still holds that kind of sway.
Barsky follows Koch around the city
in order to provide a framework for his
look back at a career that began with a
failed run for State Assembly. He then
shows how this little-known liberal
congressman from Greenwich Village
went on to wrestle with Mayor Abe
Beame, Mario Cuomo, and three other
well-established candidates, win the
Democratic nomination, and become
mayor. This was as New York City was on
the edge of bankruptcy. Barsky looks at
that fateful 1977 mayoral campaign, when
accusations that Koch was gay almost put
him out of contention. He shows how
media guru David Garth brought in Bess
Meyerson, the former Miss America, to
join him on the campaign trail, often
holding Kochs hand, to mute the rumors
and help him win.
Barsky amasses an amazing amount of
footage to show us the combative figure
who ferociously took on his critics, fought
to keep New York solvent, and went to
Washington to secure financial backing as
President Ford indicated that the federal
government would not bail out the city.
One of the more interesting moments
that the filmmaker inserts is the exchange
between then U.S. Senate Banking
Committee chairman William Proxmire
and the combative mayor about why New
York should or should not get assistance.
Koch loves his city and he made sure that
the senators at the hearing understood
that the nations well-being was tied
closely to New Yorks health. As we know,
the city got the aid it needed and emerged
from the crisis a stronger, better, and
more fiscally responsible entity.
If you love contemporary history
and are fascinated by how one person
can make a difference, then you will
thoroughly enjoy this movie. Barsky treats
his subject not simply as the citys 1970s
Koch
Eric Goldman teaches cinema at Yeshiva
Universitys Stern College and is president of
Teaneck-based DVD distributor Ergo Media.
savior, which in many ways he was, but
as the combative and feisty person who
made and continues to make as many
enemies as he does friends. This comes
through clearly as we sit in on the 2011
New York City Council vote that was to
determine whether the Queensborough
Bridge was to be renamed the Ed Koch
Bridge. The votes in favor are far from
unanimous. Some cite betrayals, others
scandals in Kochs third term that reached
the highest levels of his administration.
Yet, all in all, this mayor comes out of each
and every fight as an honest and decent
person. He remains unusually blunt, a
characteristic generally missing in todays
politics. Koch talks about his decision to
finally close Harlems Sydenham Hospital.
The facility cost the city millions of dollars
each year, but previous administrations
saw the move as politically not feasible.
He laments the decision as having cost
him dearly as a politician, but sees it
as the right thing to have done at a
time when the city was fighting serious
financial woes.
One of the segments touches on the
election of Andrew Cuomo as governor.
At one point in the campaign, Koch,
having endorsed him, joins the junior
Cuomo on stage, the two sharing warm
words in a show of solidarity. But the
animus between Koch and the Cuomos,
which dates back to Mario Cuomos
defeat in the mayoral primary and Kochs
loss to Cuomo five years later in the
gubernatorial primary, is clear. Barsky
catches a classic Koch moment as the
mayor, waiting at the hotel where the
newly elected Cuomo is to speak on the
eve of his 2010 election victory, is told
that Cuomo will not receive him until
after he has spoken. Koch, leaving the
hall disgusted at what he sees as a rebuff,
simply calls the newly elected governor a
schmuck.
There are moments that baffle us
but add to our understanding of this
unique person. Why does this man, so
comfortable as an American Jew, choose
Trinity Churchs cemetery as his final
resting place? With typical Kochian logic,
he explains that he cannot fathom being
buried anywhere but in Manhattan. To be
buried in some gated and locked Jewish
cemetery that nobody can reach? No.
Etched on the memorial stone, already
prepared and ready, are a Jewish star and
the Shema. Also on the stone, borrowing
the last words uttered by journalist Daniel
Pearl just before he was murdered by
terrorists in 2002, is this proud Jews
epitaph: My Father is Jewish. My Mother
is Jewish. I am Jewish!
The film ends with The Mayor
standing at the entrance to the bridge
that will now bear his name. Whatever
you want to say about Ed Koch, he truly
bridged the gap and again made New
York the Big Apple, cultural capital of the
world. Michael Bloomberg may run New
York today, but Ed Koch will always be
The Mayor. May he reign till 120!!!
Koch opens in New York today at
Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and the Angelika
Film Center.
Ed Koch and
Bess Meyerson
ride the bus
during the
1977 mayoral
campaign.
New Yorks
mayor!
Calendar
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friday [february 1]
Rabbi Moshe
Stepansky
Courtesy JCt
Shabbat in Teaneck Rabbi Moshe
Stepansky, an associate of Rabbi Shlomo
Carlebach, returns to the Jewish Center of
Teaneck for Shabbat Yitro. During services
at 4:55 p.m., he will discuss One People.
On Shabbat afternoon, after Minchah,
which starts at 4:45 p.m, the topic will be
Unity: from the Cosmic to the Personal.
70 Sterling Place. (201) 833-0515.
Tot Shabbat Temple Sinai of Bergen
Countys Early Childhood Center hosts Tot
Shabbat for families with young children.
Services at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner. 1
Engle St. (201) 568-6867 or SAidekman@
templesinaibc.org.
Shabbat in Paramus The Young Jewish
Families club of the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus hosts a service and
program for young families and children, 13
and younger, 7:30 p.m. Oneg/playtime in
the gym follow. East 304 Midland Ave. (201)
262-7691 or yjf@jccparamus.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck Temple Emeth offers
family services, 7:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El offers
Ruach Shabbat, an informal/interactive
evening with a choice of Shabbat
experiences, including a healing prayer,
7:30 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201)
768-5112.
Shabbat in Jersey City Cong. Bnai Jacob
offers Friday Night Live! services with
wednesday [february 6]
Caregiver support A support group for
those caring for the physically frail or
suffering from Alzheimers disease meets
at the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center
at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, 10-11:30
a.m. Topics include long-term care options,
financial planning, legal concerns, and the
personal toll of caregiving. Amy Matthews
of the Alzheimers Association will discuss
Communication: A Key to Understanding
Behavior. Shelley Steiner, (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5340.
Help for the modern Jewish woman The
Rosh Chodesh Society, an international
Chabad-sponsored Jewish sisterhood with
350 chapters, which recently launched its
newest chapter for NW Bergen County,
offers Self-Help and Spirituality for the
Modern Jewish Woman, 11 a.m., and on
Monday nights at 8 p.m., through June 10.
It is part of RSCs newest course, Its About
Time: Kabbalistic Insights for Taking Charge
of Your Life. Sponsored by the Chabad
Jewish Center in Franklin Lakes. 375 Pulis
Ave. Mimi Kaplan, (201) 560-2640 or www.
chabadplace.org.
Take care of your back Isaak Gorelov,
director of health and wellness at the
Bergen County YJCC, and Alison
Witzmann, kinesiology professor at William
Paterson University, offer a discussion/
demonstration of effective exercise and
stretching techniques to help alleviate back
problems at the YJCC, 1 p.m. Sponsored
by the Valley Hospital. 605 Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610, ext. 5710, or igorelov@yjcc.
org.
Movie in Fair Lawn The sisterhood of
Temple Beth Sholom screens Welcome to
Kutshers: The Last Catskills Resort, 7 p.m.
$5 donation for Superstorm Sandy Relief
Fund. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.
thursday [february 7]
Discussing the prophet Isaiah Rabbi
Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-
residence at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly, asks Why Is Isaiah
the Most Oft-Cited Biblical Prophet? at the
JCC, 10:30 a.m. (201) 408-1429 or www.
jccotp.org.
Introduction to Judaism Temple Beth El
in Closter offers a 16-week educational
class sponsored by the Union for Reform
Judaism, 7 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Healthy bones Orthopedic surgeon Dr.
David Feldman discusses Healthy Bones
and Joints for ETC Hadassah at a private
home in Cresskill, 7:30 p.m. (201) 768-2374
or yoyojanet@aol.com.
Cooking for women Chef Jack Silverstein of
Jacks Gourmet in Brooklyn demonstrates
How to Prepare Shabbos in One Hour,
with menus, recipes, and tastings, at
Chabad of Teaneck, 8 p.m. 513 Kenwood
Place. (917) 907-0686 ext. 11 or rivkygee@
aol.com.
friday [february 8]
Shabbat in Teaneck Carlebach-style
davening is at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck, 5 p.m. On Saturday Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler discusses The Green
Torah: Judaism and the Environment at
a wine-pairing seminar with the executive
chef from Teanecks ETC Steakhouse.
240 Broad Ave. (201) 568-1315 or www.
ahavathtorah.org.
sunday [february 3]
Tefillin event/bone marrow drive Temple
Emanu-El of Closter participates in the
Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs World
Wide Wrap to spread the mitzvah of tefillin,
9 a.m. Breakfast served. Bone marrow
donor drive until 11:30 for Smiles for Shira,
a mother of three who needs a donor
match. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997.
Tefillin event in Fair Lawn Temple Beth
Sholom participates in the World Wide
Wrap, 9 a.m. Bagel breakfast. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.
Pre-K program in Ridgewood The
Northern New Jersey Jewish Academy, a
collaborative Hebrew school with Temple
Israel and JCC, Ridgewood; Congregation
Beth Sholom, Teaneck; Kol Haneshama,
Englewood; Temple Beth Sholom, Fair
Lawn; and Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey, Franklin Lakes, offers a free monthly
pre-K program at Temple Israel, 9:30 a.m.
475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320 or slitwin@
synagogue.org.
War veterans meet in Teaneck The
Teaneck/New Milford Post #498 Jewish
War Veterans meets for breakfast at the
American Legion Building, 9:30 a.m.
Prospective members welcome. 650
American Legion Drive. Past Commander
Stan Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.
Bagels/preschool class The JCC of
Paramus Young Families Club offers a
bagel and schmooze breakfast at 9:30
a.m. and the Candle Club, a monthly pre-K
holiday class with stories, music, arts and
crafts, and nut-free snacks, at 9:45. (201)
262-7733 or edudirector@jccparamus.org.
Tefillin event in Cliffside Park Temple Israel
Community Center/Congregation Heichal
Yisrael participates in the World Wide Wrap,
10 a.m. Open to all. Bagels served. 207
Edgewater Road. (201) 945-7310.
monday [february 4]
Hebrew Etia Segall teaches Understanding
the Hebrew of the Torah through May 20 at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly,
9:30 a.m., and advanced beginner Hebrew
reading at 11:30. Hebrew reading classes
are made possible in part by the Henry
and Beate Voremberg Institute for Jewish
Studies Endowment Fund. (201) 408-1429
or www.jccotp.org.
Blood drive in Teaneck Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood drive with New
Jersey Blood Services in the bloodmobile
in the hospital parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718
Teaneck Road. (800) 933-BLOOD or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
tuesday [february 5]
Canasta The YJCC in Washington Township
begins a six-week canasta class with
Andrea Hershan, 7:30 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. Jill, (201) 666-6610 ext. 5812 or
jbrown@yjcc.org.
Hebrew prayers Cantor Sam Weiss begins
a six-session course, Penetrating Our
Hebrew Prayers, at the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus, 8:15 p.m. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691.
Cantor Marsha Dubrow, 8 p.m. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.
org.
Shabbat in Emerson Congregation Bnai
Israel offers its casual Catskill Shabbat
service; Rabbi Debra Orenstein and Cantor
Lenny Mandel share memories, history,
and humor of summers in the Catskill
Mountains borscht belt, 7:30 p.m. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
saturday [february 2]
Shabbat in Teaneck Rabbi Jeffrey
Beinenfeld of Jerusalem is the scholar-in-
residence at Congregation Arzei Darom
for Parashat Yitro. After Adon Olam, at
approximately 11:15 a.m., he will discuss
Of Blessing & Miracles: Heroism in the
Everyday. After seudat shilishit at 5 p.m.,
he will discuss Kibud Av vEm & the 10th
Commandment. Collations sponsored by
the Bienenfeld and Distenfeld families. 725
Queen Anne Road. (201) 836-1035 or www.
arzeidarom.org.
Havdalah in Closter Temple Beth El invites
families with children, 2 to 5, to Pajama
Havdalah, with Tu Bi-Shvat stories, songs,
and crafts, followed by pizza, 4 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Community Torah learning Sweet Tastes
of Torah, a community night of study,
discussion, music, and fun, presented
by the North Jersey Board of Rabbis
with support from the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey and local
synagogues, is at Temple Emeth in Teaneck.
Registration, 6:30 p.m.; musical Havdalah,
6:50. Snow date February 9. (201) 652-1687
or www.jfnnj.org/sweettorah.
Wine sale/seminar The sisterhood and
Road Scholars of Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood host a pre-Passover
wine sale, with more than 200 wines to
sample, including Scotch and kosher-for-
Passover liquors. Discount for purchases.
Sale begin at 8 p.m., at 8:30 there will be
Louis Kosma ,Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra music director and Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra bassist, leads the ensemble in a concert. Courtesy JCCotP
The JCC Thurnauer School of Music will hold its Winter Orchestra Concert, Wednesday,
February 6, 7 p.m., in the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades Taub Auditorium, 411 East
Clinton Ave. Performances by The Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra, String Camerata,
and Philharmonia. (201) 408-1465 or jccotp.org/thurnauer.
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The Life of Leonard Cohen, discusses
her new book with Tablet Magazines Liel
Leibovitz. 36 Battery Place. (646) 437-4202
or www.mjhnyc.org.
si nGLes
sunday [february 10]
Brunch in Caldwell New Jersey Jewish
Singles 45+ meets for brunch and games at
Congregation Agudath Israel, 11:30 a.m. 20
Academy Road. (973) 226-3600, meetup.
com (use group name) or singles@agudath.
org.
tuesday [february 19]
The dating world The Orthodox Union
Singles Connection with Congregation
Shearith Israel of Manhattan present
Text, Email, Phone, or [Gasp] In-Person
Conversation: Matching the Medium to
the Message in the Dating World, for
singles 22-35, 7 p.m. Moderators include
Marc Goldmann, founder of Saw You at
Sinai; social worker Naomi Mark; Helen
Greenfield, Saw You at Sinai matchmaker;
Sandy Weiner, dating coach; Baila Sebrow,
matchmaker; and Michael Feldstein,
member of the Singles Task Force
Committee, YU Connects. Refreshments.
2 West 70th St. (212) 613-8300 or www.
oucommunity.org.
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sunday [february 3]
Tefillin event in Orangeburg The
Orangetown Jewish Center participates
in the Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs
World Wide Wrap to spread the mitzvah of
tefillin, 8:45 a.m. 8 Independence Ave. (845)
359-5920 or office@theojc.org.
Courtesy JeWIsH MuseuM
Family concert The Jewish Museum
presents the Grammy Award-nominated
Pop Ups performing songs from its
new album, Radio Jungle, 2 p.m. on
Sunday, February 3 at 2:00 pm. 1109 Fifth
Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.
Sylvie Simmons
ALIssA ANDersoN
Leonard Cohen Journalists uncover the life
and times of Leonard Cohen at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust, 7 p.m. Music journalist
Sylvie Simmons, author of Im Your Man:
his tisch with participants after the 9 a.m.
service. Kinder Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend services, 10:30. (201)
833-0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Closter Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman of Temple Beth
El lead a Purim-themed tot Shabbat,
5:15 p.m., with songs, stories, and crafts.
Chinese dinner at 5:45. 221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Paramus The JCC of Paramus
hosts a catered Shabbat dinner, 6:45 p.m.;
services at 8:30. East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or office@jccparamus.org.
Shabbat in Emerson Congregation Bnai
Israels monthly intergenerational drumming
circle celebrates Purim, 8 p.m. Drums
provided; attendees can bring a percussion
instrument. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
saturday [february 9]
Comedy in Wayne Congregation Shomrei
Torah offers a comedy event with
monologist Jon Fisch, Sherry Davey, who
recently was named one of the Top 10
Comedians in NYC by Improper Magazine,
and Moody McCarthy, 7:30 p.m. Hors
doeuvres, dessert, and beer and wine for
purchase. 30 Hinchman Ave. (973) 696-
2500.
Toni Braxton and David Julian Hirsh
Courtesy A&e NetWorK
Movie Toni Braxton stars in Twist of Faith,
on Lifetime, 8 p.m.
sunday [february 10]
Film in Leonia Congregation Adas
Emuno offers Bagels and Boxing, with
a screening of Impact: Jewish Boxers
in America, 9:30 a.m. Producer/director
James Ford Nussbaum will discuss his film,
which offers a behind-the-scenes look at
some of Americas great Jewish boxers.
Bagels and coffee. 254 Broad Ave. (201)
592-1712 or www.adasemuno.org.
Benefit spinning Ride to Provide to raise
money for local food pantries and family
service organizations, sponsored by Temple
Emanu-El of Closter, is at CORE Fitness,
Closter, 9:45-11:45 a.m. Water, Gatorade,
healthy snacks, and goodie bag with shirt
for each rider. 91 Ruckman Road. (201) 750-
9997 or Corrubia@templeemanu-el.com.
Responding to anti-Israel rhetoric
Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in
Teaneck hosts a program for Jewish high
school juniors and seniors on learning how
to respond to anti-Israel rhetoric on college
campuses, 10:15 a.m. Co-sponsored
by Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jerseys Jewish Community Relations
Council, Stand Up For Israel, the Bergen
County High School of Jewish Studies, and
the New Jersey Anti-Defamation League.
Light lunch served; dietary laws observed.
1650 Palisade Ave. www.jfnnj.org/jcrc.
Toddler program in Tenafly As part of
the shuls Holiday Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen County offers a
Purim-themed event, with music, stories,
crafts, and snacks, for 4-year-olds and their
parents, 10:45 a.m. 1 Engle St. (201) 568-
6867 or SAidekman@templesiniabc.org.
Toddler program in Washington Township
As part of the shuls Holiday Happenings
program, the sisterhood of Temple Beth Or
offers a Purim-themed event with music,
stories, crafts, and snacks, for 2- to 6-year-
olds and their parents, 11:15 a.m. 56
Ridgewood Road. (201) 664-7422 or www.
templebethornj.org.
David Broza in Closter The New York
Board of Rabbis presents David Broza in
concert at Temple Emanu-El, 6 p.m. The
Jewish Standard is among the sponsors.
Proceeds benefit New Jersey Superstorm
Sandy victims. 180 Piermont Road. Jessica
DiPaolo, (212) 983-3521 or jdipaolo@nybr.
org.
Caregiver support A support group for
those caring for the physically frail or
suffering from Alzheimers disease meets
at the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center
at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, 10-11:30
a.m. Topics include long-term care options,
financial planning, legal concerns, and the
personal toll of caregiving. Amy Matthews
of the Alzheimers Association will discuss
Communication: A Key to Understanding
Behavior. Shelley Steiner, (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5340.
Help for the modern Jewish woman The
Rosh Chodesh Society, an international
Chabad-sponsored Jewish sisterhood with
350 chapters, which recently launched its
newest chapter for NW Bergen County,
offers Self-Help and Spirituality for the
Modern Jewish Woman, 11 a.m., and on
Monday nights at 8 p.m., through June 10.
It is part of RSCs newest course, Its About
Time: Kabbalistic Insights for Taking Charge
of Your Life. Sponsored by the Chabad
Jewish Center in Franklin Lakes. 375 Pulis
Ave. Mimi Kaplan, (201) 560-2640 or www.
chabadplace.org.
Take care of your back Isaak Gorelov,
director of health and wellness at the
Bergen County YJCC, and Alison
Witzmann, kinesiology professor at William
Paterson University, offer a discussion/
demonstration of effective exercise and
stretching techniques to help alleviate back
problems at the YJCC, 1 p.m. Sponsored
by the Valley Hospital. 605 Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610, ext. 5710, or igorelov@yjcc.
org.
Movie in Fair Lawn The sisterhood of
Temple Beth Sholom screens Welcome to
Kutshers: The Last Catskills Resort, 7 p.m.
$5 donation for Superstorm Sandy Relief
Fund. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.
thursday [february 7]
Discussing the prophet Isaiah Rabbi
Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-
residence at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly, asks Why Is Isaiah
the Most Oft-Cited Biblical Prophet? at the
JCC, 10:30 a.m. (201) 408-1429 or www.
jccotp.org.
Introduction to Judaism Temple Beth El
in Closter offers a 16-week educational
class sponsored by the Union for Reform
Judaism, 7 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Healthy bones Orthopedic surgeon Dr.
David Feldman discusses Healthy Bones
and Joints for ETC Hadassah at a private
home in Cresskill, 7:30 p.m. (201) 768-2374
or yoyojanet@aol.com.
Cooking for women Chef Jack Silverstein of
Jacks Gourmet in Brooklyn demonstrates
How to Prepare Shabbos in One Hour,
with menus, recipes, and tastings, at
Chabad of Teaneck, 8 p.m. 513 Kenwood
Place. (917) 907-0686 ext. 11 or rivkygee@
aol.com.
friday [february 8]
Shabbat in Teaneck Carlebach-style
davening is at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck, 5 p.m. On Saturday Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler discusses The Green
Torah: Judaism and the Environment at
Broadway performer teaching at JCC
Tim Connell, a Broadway star
from Nick and Nora, is joining
the drama faculty at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades to teach
teens and adults. Connell also
was featured in the Mystery
of Edwin Drood, West Side
Story, and Monty Pythons
Spamalot.
He has directed all levels
of theater in New York City
and has been a featured teaching artist for high-level
workshops for at least 15 years. He recently became the
director of Urban Stages, a summer program for skilled
young actors that performs in a major off-Off-Broadway
theater.
At the JCC, he will teach the Comedy and Drama
Workshop to 11- to 14-year-olds from 6:40 to 7:40 p.m.
on Thursdays for 12 weeks. He also will teach a course
for adults, Advanced Scene Study Workshop, from 7:45
to 9:15 pm on Thursdays for 10 weeks. Both classes begin
February 7. For information, call Deborah Roberts at
(201) 408-1492 or register online at www.jccotp.org.
Local charities offer Purim cards
Offices: One Pike Drive, Wayne ~ 973-595-0111 and 17-10 River Road, Fair Lawn ~ 201-796-5151
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Courtesy JFsNJ
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey is selling Purim
cards. (This year, Purim begins on the evening of
Saturday, February 23.) The proceeds will support
JFSNJs professional services, which work to strengthen
family life and enhance the welfare of the North Jersey
community. A packet of 10 cards costs $18. To order, call
JFSNJ at (973) 595-0111. Cards also are available at the
Image Gallery, 1160 Hamburg Turnpike, in Wayne.
Museum trip planned
Temple Beth Or in Washington Township
is hosting a trip to the Museum of Jewish
Heritage in New York City on Sunday,
March 3, leaving the shul at noon. The
trip includes a guided tour of Meeting
Hate with Humanity, which will
focus on the Holocaust in Poland. For
information call (201) 664-7422 or go to
www.templebethornj.org.
Tim Connell
Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization sup-
porting young women and their families of all Jewish
backgrounds facing breast cancer, offers Purim cards. A
package of 12 costs $36, with an additional $3 per order
charge for shipping and handling. Shipping orders are
due February 15; call (201) 833-2341 for orders larger
than 10 packages. The cards also can be picked up in
Sharsherets Teaneck office, 1086 Teaneck Road, Suite 3A,
through February 21. Call (201) 833-2341 or go to www.
sharsheret.org.
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Anxiety expert speaks in Tenafly
Daniel Smith offers advice from his
best-selling new book, Monkey
Mind, A Memoir of Anxiety, on
Thursday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly. Smith is a featured
author for the JCCs annual James
H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish
Book Month.
Describing anxiety as a state
of being that colors the way a
person thinks, feels, and acts, Smith
writes about how it is like to live with
the kind of anxiety that permeates
every waking moment, affecting your
body and mind, your friendships and
relationships, your work and your will.
A book signing and sale will take
place after the presentation. Call (201)
408-1409 or go to www.jccotp.org/
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Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization sup-
porting young women and their families of all Jewish
backgrounds facing breast cancer, offers Purim cards. A
package of 12 costs $36, with an additional $3 per order
charge for shipping and handling. Shipping orders are
due February 15; call (201) 833-2341 for orders larger
than 10 packages. The cards also can be picked up in
Sharsherets Teaneck office, 1086 Teaneck Road, Suite 3A,
through February 21. Call (201) 833-2341 or go to www.
sharsheret.org.
Cast members rehearse for The Little Mermaid. Courtesy yMCA
Little Mermaid
in Wayne
Tickets are on sale for the
upcoming performances of
Disneys The Little Mermaid,
Jr. at the Wayne YMCA.
Children who live in Wayne
and the surrounding area will
perform the show on Saturday,
February 9 at 7 p.m., and
February 10 at 2 p.m.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of The
YM-YWHA of North Jersey. The
Y is located at 1 Pike Drive in
Wayne. Call (973) 595-0100.
History of Jews in New York
The Museum of Jewish
Heritage-A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust welcomes
co-authors Annie
Polland and Daniel
Soyer for a discus-
sion of their book,
Emerging Metropolis:
New York Jews in the
Age of Immigration,
1840-1920, on Sunday,
February 3, 1 p.m., 36
Battery Place. (646)
437-4202 or www.mjh-
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Get a jump start on your Purim festivities. Celebrate Rosh Chodesh Adar
with a night of comedy at Chai Ko Tapas at 515 Cedar Lane on Saturday,
February 9, at 8.
Performers include Josh Rabinowitz, who was named one of Comedy
Centrals 2011 Comics to Watch at the New York Comedy Festival in
July. He also has been featured on Comedy Centrals Live On Campus
Tour and College Humor Live. Eli Lebowicz also will perform. In 2009,
he won Yeshiva Universitys Last Comic Standing, and in 2010 he was
runner-up. He performs at comedy clubs in New York City and at colleges
around the country.
The cost, which includes dinner and the show, is $36 per person in ad-
vance and $40 at the door. For information, call (201) 530-5665.
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University of Jerusalem are deeply saddened by the passing of
Bernadette Dukas, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and a hidden
child. Bernadette and her beloved husband Max (zl) built a
successful business together. The couple was devoted to Israel, the
Jewish people and to the Jewish communities of Delray Beach,
Florida, New York City, and Teaneck, New Jersey. Their wonderful
children and grandchildren were the center of their shared lives.
We extend our sympathies to Richard and Gail Dukas, to their
children, Benjamin, Joshua and Eitan, to Debbie and Robert Lesser,
and their sons Eric and Jeffrey, and to George Alland, Bernadettes
brother. May the families be comforted among the mourners of Zion
and Jerusalem.
The family has requested that donations in memory of Bernadette
Dukas may be sent to American Friends of The Hebrew University in
support of cancer research at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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ter, Adi Batya. She is the sister of Tali and Gabi; granddaughter of Fern and Steve
Roth of Passaic, and Susan and Uri Weinstock of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and the great-
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memory of her maternal great-great grandmother, Betty Dauer.
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Jessica Lauren Engel, daughter of Valerie
and Sam Engel of New York City, and
Ryan Matthew Bressler, son of Marcia and
Robert Bressler of River Vale are engaged.
The future bride, a graduate of
Stamford High School and New York
University, received a masters at Bank
Street College of Education. She is an
assistant director and teacher at Kaplan
Nursery School in Manhattan.
The future groom, a graduate
of Pascack Valley High School and
Pennsylvania State University, is an un-
derwriting manager at Merchant Cash &
Capital in New York City.
A June wedding is planned.
Bnai Mitzvah
Lindsay Haber
Lindsay Haber, daughter of Erica and
Howard Haber of Woodcliff Lake and sis-
ter of Julia, celebrated becoming a bat
mitzvah on January 26 at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake.
Hunter
Kupersmith
Hunter Kupersmith, son of
Cara and Scott Kupersmith of
Cresskill and brother of Jordan,
celebrated becoming a bar mitz-
vah on January 26 at Temple
Emanu-El in Closter.
oBituariEs
Steve Abramovici
Steve Abramovici, 78, of Fort Lee, for-
merly of West New York, died on January
17 at home.
Born in Europe, he was a Holocaust
survivor and an engineer for Block
Drugs in Jersey City. He was a member of
Talmud Torah of West New York.
Cousins survive him.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Izrail Grinberg
Izrail Grinberg, 76, of Los Angeles, for-
merly of Fair Lawn, died on January 21.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Pearl Richter
Pearl Richter, 97, of Fair Lawn, formerly
of Bronx, N.Y., Ridgewood, and Elmwood
Park, died on January 22.
A graduate of Hunter College in New
York City, she taught English as a second
language for the New York City Board of
Education.
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Predeceased by brothers, Abraham and Edward,
she is survived by children, Benjamin Gruberg (Jane
Schaffer) and Paul Gruberg (Eva Seid); grandchildren,
Julia and Laura; and a niece, Arlene Millman.
Donations can be sent to the United Jewish Appeal
Campaign Fund. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Ilse Rothschild and
Rabbi Max Rothschild
Ilse and Max Rothschild of River Edge and Fort Lee died
on January 10 and January 18 respectively and were
buried in Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Together for 75 years, they were active in the Dutch
Resistance against the Nazis. Max Rothschild taught
midrash at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Ilse
Rothschild, a special education teacher, worked at
Mountainside Hospital. Contributions can be sent to the
Anne Frank Center in New York City. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
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January 24, 2013 Fair Lawn, new Jersey
Arthur Minuskin, who served in his early thirties
as Fair Lawns Borough Magistrate, and then as a
Superior Court judge in Bergen, Essex, and Morris
Counties for twenty-fve years, has died after a long
illness. He was 88.
Mr. Minuskin was appointed to the Superior Court
bench in 1977. Prior to his distinguished career as
a judge, Mr. Minuskin practiced law for twenty-
eight years while engaging energetically in political,
community and charitable affairs in Bergen County,
particularly in Fair Lawn where he resided from 1951
until his death.
Born in Paterson, Mr. Minuskin graduated at
the top of his Eastside High School class in 1942.
He attended Harvard College, served in the U.S.
Army Air Corps, and then earned his law degree at
Harvard Law School in 1948. As a young lawyer
he challenged the constitutionality of a vague
municipal ordinance that imposed a criminal penalty
on a person who could not give a good account of
himself. He won that case and many signifcant
others as he built a successful general law practice in
Fair Lawn, the town he loved. Mr. Minuskin applied
his Ivy League education to a lifetime of public
service and securing justice for others, serving frst as
the towns Borough Attorney from 1955 to 1958, and
then as its Magistrate from 1958 to 1961.
As a judge, Mr. Minuskin demonstrated and
expected from others high standards of performance
in practice and dedication to justice. A perfectionist
by nature, he earned a reputation as a tough but fair
judge, who was able to manage and resolve unusually
complex cases gracefully and with the universal
respect of those who appeared before him. An
uncommonly high number of his opinions were
accepted for publication because of the thoroughness
and eloquence of his analyses of cutting-edge
legal questions in both civil and criminal arenas.
Many of those decisions received mass media
attention because of their boldness and his judicial
foresight. Occasionally his decisions risked popular
criticism because his thinking was ahead of the times.
Early in his judicial tenure, he ordered that as a last
resort a woman in the advanced stages of terminal
cancer be permitted to be treated with laetrile, a then
experimental drug that had been denied her. Shortly
thereafter, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill
approving laetrile treatment for desperate cancer
patients. Judge Minuskin was among the frst jurists in
the country to rule that the terms of a Jewish marriage
contract created binding civil legal obligations
between marriage partners; he ruled that a husband
could not, on frst amendment grounds, prevent his
ex-wife from remarrying. In 2001, Judge Minuskin
ruled that the City of Newark had standing to sue
the countrys largest gun manufacturers for money
damages resulting from gun violence on the citys
streets. In that decision he disagreed with a federal
judicial panels opinion that had gone the other way
in a similar case. Twice in 2002, his fnal year on
the bench, decisions he made that were reversed by
the Appellate Division of the Superior Court were
reinstated by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Mr. Minuskin served on the board of directors of
numerous civic and business organizations including
the Fair Lawn Mental Health Center, the Fair Lawn
Jewish Community Center, the Lawyers Division
of the United Jewish Appeal (as Chair in 1965), the
Preakness Hills Country Club, and the Interchange
State Bank. He was president of the Fair Lawn
Kiwanis Club and maintained membership in local
posts of both the American Legion and the Jewish
War Veterans. He also participated in numerous
charitable efforts on behalf of various organizations
including the Fair Lawn-East Paterson Charities
Fund, Barnert Memorial Hospital Center, United
Jewish Appeal, and Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Mr. Minuskins frst wife Barbara (Levine)
predeceased him. He is survived by his wife
Jacqueline (Mancini), three children, Alan Minuskin
and wife Eve Minkoff, Marcia Minuskin and husband
Jeffrey Zonenshine, and Jeffrey Minuskin and wife
Betty Minuskin, and four grandchildren, Sarah, Lily,
Bradford, and Joshua.
Mr. Minuskins family asks that donations in lieu
of fowers be made to Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey, One Pike Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470.
Allen lArry FergAng
Allen Larry Fergang, 80, of Monroe Township,
N.J., died Saturday, January 26, (Tu Bishvat).
Born in Culver City, Calif., he lived in Teaneck
and Paramus before moving to Monroe Township
18 years ago.
He was a Marine serving in the Korean Confict
and received three Purple Hearts. He worked in
restaurant management for many years. He was
a member of Knights of Pythias, Monroe Town-
ship, Bnai Brith, Volunteer AARP in Princeton,
N.J., and a member of Temple Shaari Emeth,
Manalapan, N.J.
He is survived by his beloved wife: Madlyn, ne
Weigner, his devoted children: Michael (Claudia)
of Columbus, Ohio, Brian (Leslie) of Weston,
Fla., and Scott (Cantor Barbra Lieberstein) of
Ramsey, N.J. He is also survived by his dear
brother Howard of Stamford, Conn., grandchil-
dren: Nicole, Carly, Hannah, Luke, Sara, Joshua,
and Jordana; and a great-grandchild, Jordan.
Donations can be made to Temple Beth Ris-
hon, Wyckoff, N.J., or The Jewish National
Fund. Services were at Bloomfeld-Cooper
Jewish Chapels, Manalapan, on January 28.
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The dalet class of the Glen Rock Jewish Centers
religious school held its Shtetl, Sephardic,
and Yemenite Jewish Fair. Attendees could visit
townspeople and sample Eastern European, Sephardic,
and Yemenite foods. Here, students act the roles of
pickle and meat vendors. Courtesy GrJC
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Leah Kaufman, the executive director of Jewish
Family Service of North Jersey, introduced the
Sam and Nina Wolff Caregivers Support Center to an
audience of 100 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff. Alex
Witchel, New York Times Magazine writer and author of
All Gone: A Memoir of My Mothers Dementia, talked
to the audience and answered questions by Skype.
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Daniella Brunetti and Caroline Gharibian conduct
density testing during a YMCA MLK Vacation Camp
program. Liquids tested included maple syrup, glue,
soapy water, and canola oil. The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey.
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Rabbi Ely Allen, director of Hillel of Northern New
Jersey, discussed Kabbalah with participants of
Jewish Family Service of North Jerseys Cafe Europa.
The program for Holocaust survivors meets monthly at
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel.
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Second-graders at the Jewish Community Center
of Paramus Hebrew School participated in a Shema
prayer workshop with Rabbi Arthur Weiner. Students
came dressed in pajamas and had breakfast together.
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National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County
Section members, from left, Peggy Kabakow,
Gloria Lieberstein, NCJW BCS co-presidents Carole
Benson and Elaine Pollack, and members Roselyn
Altman and Phyllis Betancourt, participated in a rally
in Trenton to advocate against human trafficking and
to support legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman
Valerie Huttle. Naomi Cramer and Judy Liebman are not
pictured. Courtesy NCJW BCs
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Rob and Jake Ween were among the fathers
and children participating in Temple Emanu-El in
Closters Daddy/Child Sports Day. The event included
relay races and drills. Courtesy eMANu-el
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Sandy Haft, left, co-chair of the Temple Beth
Sholom of Fair Lawns social action committee,
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Haft delivered lunches provided by shul members to
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Jerusalem train landmark reviving as culture and cuisine attraction
When The First Station opens this spring, it wont be for
railroad passengers but for shoppers, diners and tourists
AbigAil Klein leichmAn
In the late 1800s, the introduction of the Jaffa-to-Jerusalem
rail line revolutionized travel in the Holy Land. And from
1892 to 1998, the solid stone Ottoman structure at the
junction of Jerusalems German Colony, Baka, and Abu Tor
neighborhoods served as its eastern station house.
But when the trains stopped running to downtown
Jerusalem, the building fell into disrepair and the rail yard
behind it was left to the weeds. Several ideas for repurpos-
ing this prime location were floated over the years, and
finally the venerable venue will be getting a new life this
spring.
Renamed The First Station, the 130-year-old Israel
Railways property is to be a new culture and culinary hub
in the capital city.
Vintage locomotives will dot the wood-decked,
4,000-square-meter former rail yard filled with food stalls,
caf tables, benches, and umbrella-topped vendor carts.
Inside, black-and-white photos from the stations past will
line the refurbished walls encompassing three gourmet
restaurants, a pub, and exhibition spaces for musical, liter-
ary, and artistic events.
There will be an adjacent bike path linking The First
Station with Train-Track Park, a walking and cycling
promenade under construction by Israel Railways and the
Jerusalem municipality.
Just like its Jaffa twin
The $9.3 million train station refurbishment is financed
by the municipality through its Jerusalem Development
Authority in addition to business owners and the same pri-
vate investment group that transformed the station house
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second annual Taste of Teaneck. This showcase of foods
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evening of celebration of Teanecks community spirit. The
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wasnt for me. So I did the other two
the top image shows the pinwheel in mo-
tion, not yet casting a shadow, and the last
one has the pinwheel again moving and
the shadow still visible. Time picks up
again, but the swastika shadow is still on
the boys face, Lebovic said.
Im not going for easy answers, even if
a rabbi gives them to me.
The second theme is the idea of
religion being able to deal with the
Holocaust, Lebovic said. Its taking things
from the Bible and asking if it makes
sense to us.
Although he feared that he might not
be happy with the results of his search,
I found, to my relief, that Judaism really
does seem to be a very reality-based
religion, without the idea that everything
will work out.
It was refreshing. It was what I needed
to see. The Torah has the ability to be
viewed in a number of different ways, but
once I put that lens on the stories I saw
that many were telling the story of the
Holocaust that reality is very difficult,
and Judaism understands the human
condition.
He uses the story of the goats on Yom
Kippur. There are two identical goats;
one is chosen by lot for slaughter, and the
other, laden with the communitys sins,
is sent off to the wilderness, to Azazel.
Which choice is better? The one chosen
for God will be lucky enough to have its
throat slit. The other goat, the unlucky
one, will live, Lebovic said, and it all is
done in public, on the holiest day of the
year.
It is so arbitrary, so unjust, that you
would think the rabbis would come in
and explain, but they dont, Lebovic said.
It is an enigma. On this holy day, you see
Judaism accept such an injustice. Life is
unjust. You must accept it, because life
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is random and unfair but you must
accept it because you have faith.
When I look at the goat that goes
to Azazel, that gives me the right to say
that its okay that I dont get it. I thought I
was missing something, but the goat for
Azazel shows me that even at the Temple,
even with everybody watching, nobody
gets it. Thats reality. Judaism says that yes,
this is life, and faith is beyond.
I dont have to have answers. Its
not about the answers. Its about asking
questions.
The third section of Lebovics book is
about how Jews dealt with the Holocaust.
I compare it to coming out of Egypt, he
said. Its that important. The Holocaust is
a new marker the Jewish people can use
in the way we shape how we look at God
and each other.
To his surprise, Lebovic found that he
ended his project with more hope than
he had thought possible when he began.
Just as Egypt is about how God is good,
the Holocaust is about how good the
Jewish people are. It was a tremendously
uplifting feeling.
We have a relationship with God.
It doesnt diminish God to say that the
Jewish people now are on a higher level
in our relationship with God. That is what
we have to focus on.
Lebovic is not planning on returning
to his career as a technical illustrator.
Instead, he is touring with Black Is a
Color, speaking at synagogues, schools,
and universities. He will be speaking at
Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck
on February 9. (He has many local
connections; three of his four children
live in Teaneck.) He also has begun to
write a Haggadah.
I came to this because I had issues of
faith, he said. A lot of people are turned
off to Judaism because of evil in the
world, and now Im able to bring it into a
context where people can talk about it. Its
not taboo. There might not be answers,
but we can talk about it.
at the other end of the line Tel Aviv-
Jaffas Hatachana into a chic complex of
cafs and restaurants, designer shops and
art galleries.
Both buildings were designed in clas-
sic 19th century European and German
Templer style, the Jerusalem one of
limestone and the Jaffa one of sandstone
because those were the local materials
available.
As they did in Jaffa, the investors have
pledged to work with preservation archi-
tects to retain the faade and footprint of
the original building. According to their
agreement with Israel Railways, they will
operate The First Station for 10 years and
then it will revert to the company.
But its a good bet that the venture will
be successful enough to continue as is, be-
cause it provides another anchor for the al-
ready rich cultural offerings in this historic
area of Jerusalem not far from the Old City.
Right across David Remez Square
is the Khan Theater; down the road is
the Jerusalem Cinemateque and the
Menachem Begin Heritage Center; the
Jerusalem Theater is a 10-minute walk; and
the Sherover Cultural Center is now being
built in Abu Tor.
Mayor Nir Barkat is banking on this
new site to shore up Jerusalems reputa-
tion in the non-religious sphere. Except
for kosher eateries that are branches of
national chains, everything in The First
Station will be open on Saturday as is
the Cinemateque but not much else in the
capital city.
The mayor made this decision a long
time ago after considering all sides, and
he does not want to hurt or offend any-
one, project spokeswoman Gili Katz says.
Barkats intention, she adds, is to give
secular and non-Jewish residents and tour-
ists in Jerusalem something attractive to do
on Friday nights and Saturdays.
It goes without saying that the mayor
and the investors also intend for The
First Station to become a popular new des-
tination for all of Jerusalems diverse popu-
lations of culture-seekers, whether they
are residents or visitors. And it is not only
meant for adults; childrens activities are to
be part of the regular schedule of events at
The First Station.
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