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like to improve
yourself?
Reboot boosts New Year review

Lets face it: High Holy Day services
dont measure up to best practices

for an annual review.
Sure, God has recorded all of our
deeds.
But are we consulted? Asked
to explain our decisions? Given a
chance to speak in our defense?
And for that matter a book?
Shouldnt this all be recorded in a
database, or at least a spreadsheet?
While not claiming to replace
your synagogue, a nonprofit called
Reboot is offering a more interactive,
personal, and confidential review
timed to the new Jewish year.
Reboots annual 10Q project is an
online reflection portal that asks
participants deep questions and
sends back their responses one year
later.
On Wednesday, nearly 31,000
people began the review as their
responses from last year arrived in
their inboxes.
This year, on September 13, erev
Rosh Hashanah, the first in a series
of 10 questions will be emailed
to participants. For the next nine
days, those who have signed up will
receive a question a day, such as,
What is a fear that you have and
how has it limited you? How do you
plan on letting it go or overcoming
it in the coming year? and How
would you like to improve yourself
and your life in the coming year? Is
there a piece of advice or counsel
you received in the past year that
could guide you?
The project is free and open to all
at doyou10q.com.
Its a spin on the traditional Days
of Awe, according to Reboots
associate director, Amelia Klein . The

essence really is thinking about the
year that passed and the year thats
about to start. Who were you? What
will you be in the future?
Throughout the holiday period,
participants can revisit the questions
and revise their answers. But a few
days after Yom Kippur, the vault
closes and the answers arent seen
again until the following year. Each
year, the answers to the questions
are stored in a secure digital archive
participants can opt to share their
anonymous responses, or not and
are sent back just before the start of
the High Holy Days.
By design, questions are the same
every year. People can watch and
measure over time their responses,
Ms. Klein said. Whats changed?
Whats stayed the same? Its almost
a snapshot, a diary of that particular
point in time.
The project first launched in 2008,
the result of a brainstorm shared
by Ms. Klein, New Yorker writer
Ben Greenman, and playwright
Nicola Behrman, and it has grown
incrementally each year, Ms. Klein
said. Interest continues to rise
and increase as digital media takes
over peoples lives, she added. Its
important to have the space and the
place to do this reflective memory
work; thinking about who you are.
I think people, more and more,
need that personal space; theyre
so consumed by whats going on
around them, she said. 10Q is
asking you to pause, reflect, and
prepare for the New Year.
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Sandy day, sweeping the sun away

Israelis like to say
that they live in a

rough neighborhood.
This week, they were
reminded that their
neighborhood is also
sandy, as a sandstorm
swept in from Syria
and Iraq.
The sky turned
yellow, and breathing
turned perilous.
Israelis were warned
to stay indoors and
hundreds sought
medical treatment.
The clearest sign
that sand respects no international
boundaries could be found in a
breathtaking photo of the region taken
in space by NASA.
Meanwhile, some wag superimposed
a picture of traffic in the yellow sandy air
with the caption tzulam beyom chol. Its
a Hebrew joke thats worth unpacking.
Sometimes chol means sand, and
sometimes it means not holy. So, the
Hebrew phrase tzulam beyom chol
generally means that a photograph was
CONTENTS
NOSHES ...............................................................4
OPINION ...........................................................20
COVER STORY ................................................ 28
HOLIDAY GREETINGS..................................48
TORAH COMMENTARY ................................61
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................ 62
CALENDAR ...................................................... 63
OBITUARIES ....................................................66
CLASSIFIEDS .................................................. 68
REAL ESTATE..................................................70
taken on a weekday a caption used to

reassure Orthodox viewers that a picture
of, say, a Shabbat meal was staged rather
than an act of Sabbath desecration. But
yom chol means not only weekday; it can
also mean sandy day.
Of course, chol hamoed the
intermediate days of a holiday like
Sukkot can also mean the sand of the
holiday. Fortunately, the sandstorm is
not expected to last that long.
LARRY YUDELSON
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Gefilte fish will usher me out of

this life, as it ushered me into it.
Oliver Sacks, in an essay, Filter Fish, published posthumously
in the New Yorker.
TIGHT COLLABORATORS:
Schumer and
Lawrence, oh my
As I noted in a
recent column,
AMY SCHUMER,
34, is so hot after the
success of her summer
movie, Trainwreck, that
shes a premiere week
guest on the Late Show
with Stephen Colbert.
(Shell be on Friday,
September 11). But the
big buzz now around her
is her new friendship
with Jennifer Lawrence,
25 (Silver Linings
Playbook, Hunger
Games). Lawrence told
the New York Times that
a few months ago she
emailed Schumer after
seeing Trainwreck and
said, I dont know where
to get started. I guess I
should just say it: Im in
love with you.
Emails and texting
led to Lawrence being
invited to join Schumer
and her high school
female buddies on their
annual outing, boating
off Long Island. Photos
of that event lit up the
Internet. Then, on August
25, Lawrence casually told reporters that
she and Schumer had
almost finished a comedy screenplay they had
written together. Their
screenplay has the two
playing sisters. Lawrence
says, Amy and I were
creatively made for each

other. We have different flavors. Its been the
most fun experience of
my life.
On August 27, the pair
looked very happy as
they attended a Chicago
BILLY JOEL concert and
danced barefoot together on top of Joels piano.
As they danced, Joel
sang his famous song
Uptown Girl (which
was prominently used in
Trainwreck). Another
musical star, BETTE
MIDLER, 69, nominated
herself to play their movie mother in a September
1 tweet.
American Pastoral, a 1997 novel
by PHILLIP ROTH,
now 82, won the Pulitzer
Prize and generally is
ranked as one of his best.
It was included in Time
magazines list of the
100 greatest novels.
The central character,
Seymour Swede Levov,
is, like Roth, a Jewish guy
who was born in Newark
in the late 1920s. The son
of a successful manufacturer, Seymour is a
superstar high school
athlete in several sports
and becomes the idol of
thousands of young
Jews. His fair complexion
and Nordic good looks
Amy Schumer
Billy Joel
Bette Midler
Philip Roth
Jennifer Connelly
Jon Rudnitsky
earns him the nickname

Swede.
The Swede goes on to
marry a former (not Jewish) beauty queen and
inherits his fathers business. His seemingly perfect life shatters when his
daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary
and committing a deadly
act of political terrorism
during the Vietnam War.
Swedes life story is told
by Nathan Zuckerman,
a recurring character
in Roths fiction who in
many ways is Roths alter
ego.
There have been attempts to make a film
version of Pastoral
since 2003. Now it is

finally a definite go, with
filming set for next summer. Ewan McGregor is
directing and starring
as the Swede. (McGregors wife is Jewish
and his kids are being
raised Jewish.) JENNIFER CONNELLY, 44,
whose mother is Jewish, will, ironically, play
the Swedes wife, and
Dakota Fanning will play
his daughter. Last week,
it was announced that
David Strathairn will play
Zuckerman. Strathairn is
an excellent actor who
plays Jews very well even
though he isnt a tribe
member.
Saturday Night
Live has announced that just
one new member, JON
RUDNITSKY, will be
added to the cast for the
2015-2016 season, which
starts October 3. Rudnitsky, 25, who grew up
in Harrington Park, is a
relatively unknown
stand-up comedian and
digital (Internet) comedic short filmmaker. I can
see why SNL hired him.
Hes fairly good looking
in a regular-guy kind of
way, he has youthful
energy, and the stand-up
routines he chose to post
on YouTube featured
millennial-heavy humor
(lots of stuff about

Facebook, etc.), and he
turns out parody shorts
that are very much in the
Saturday Night mode.
On the other hand,
the stand-up routines he
chose to post on YouTube
werent all that funny.
Hes not this generations
Richard Pryor or Louis
C.K. Moreover, while his
parodies arent bad, they
arent great either. A case
in point is one called The
Jewish Hunger Games:
Kvetching Fire. The look
and editing of this Yom
Kippur-themed short
(styled as a trailer) is first
class it really captures
the sensibility of the original movie. Some parody
jokes score and one or
two others seem stupidly
offensive. Ive seen better
High Holy Days themed
comedic shorts.
My sense that hes not
a first-rate comedian
was confirmed last week,
when various sources
dug out oldish Rudnitsky
tweets that were unfunny, nasty remarks about
women and gays (even
though one was supposed to be a joke). Offensive and funny is one
thing offensive and unfunny is a major comedic
sin that Jon should atone
N.B.
for on Yom Kippur.
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Goldberg Prize Winners Yehuda Stolov and Salah Alladin of the Interfaith Encounter Association shake hands.
NOAM MOSKOWITZ
Growing peace
Jewish and Muslim Israelis
some local meet, talk, share
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
asin Abu-Ateek, a factory manager and father of three, is

beaming as he walks into a
meeting room in a Jerusalem
co-working space. Hes holding a box of
pastries in celebration of the birth of his
week-old son.
Shelley Goodman Brinn, a tourism
entrepreneur and mother of four who
grew up in Fair Lawn, also is smiling.
Just half an hour ago, her IDF soldier son
arrived home safely for the weekend. As
Mr. Abu-Ateek hands out plates with the
little cakes, Ms. Brinn starts clapping and
singing the traditional Jewish Siman tov
u-mazal tov.
Mr. Abu-Ateek and Ms. Brinn live quite
near one another in Jerusalem suburbs
over the virtual Green Line, he in the Palestinian village of Azariya and she in the
city of Maaleh Adumim. They may have
brushed shoulders in the supermarket, in
the mall, and on the roads, but if not for

these meetings sponsored by the Interfaith
Encounter Association, they might never
have exchanged a word. Certainly they
wouldnt be Facebook friends.
This evening, Ms. Brinn kicks off a discussion of Jewish and Islamic teachings
about ecology and animal welfare. Politics is never on the table; the IEA assigns
topics designed to help participating Jews,
Muslims, and Christians learn more about
the religion and culture of the other. In
some groups the conversations flow easily in English or Hebrew. In others, Arabic
translation is necessary.
The associations founder, Yehuda Stolov of Jerusalem, and its assistant director,
Salah Alladin, recently shared the $10,000
annual Victor J. Goldberg Prize for Peace
in the Middle East from the Institute of
International Education. Since 2001, Dr.
Stolov, 58, who has advanced degrees in
both physics and Jewish thought, has built
a network of 71 IEA discussion groups
Yasin Abu-Ateek pours a glass of water for David Brinn at an IAE meeting.

across Israel. About half of them are active

on a monthly basis.
Altogether, we touch more than
10,000 people, Dr. Stolov said. Five or
six research studies all concluded that
these conversations are effective in changing the attitudes of participants, most of
whom have never had other experiences

like this.
IEA participants include, among others,
rabbis, sheikhs, midwives, young adults,
pre-army yeshiva students, Palestinian
villagers, and ultra-Orthodox Jews. There
are groups for medical students, mothers
Local
and daughters, and college students. Some

focus on a specific subject, such as prayer
or literature. Most groups have both Jewish and Muslim co-chairs; some also have
Christian co-chairs.
Several current or former Bergen
County residents are active in IEA.
Growing up in Teaneck very much
shaped my worldview as far as appreciating and celebrating diversity, said Karen
Eichinger Feuer of Maaleh Adumim, one
of the coordinators of the Maaleh Adumim-Azariya group. The Teaneck public
schools were extremely diverse ethnically,
and it very much shaped who I am today.
Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill of Teaneck, the
Seton Hall University professor of JewishChristian studies, is on the IEA International Advisory Council. Rabbi Dr. Bob
Carroll, who grew up in Oakland and made
aliyah from Bergenfield in late 2005, is
director of development and communications. He also co-chairs an IEA group
called the Circle of Light & Hope, which
meets in a hotel between the mostly Christian Arab village Beit Jalla and the mostly
Jewish Jerusalem neighborhood Gilo. Muslims from the Hebron area join them.
The Circle of Light & Hope has taken day

trips together, for example to the beach in
Tel Aviv. Members have toured a mosque
and a synagogue.
Someone moderate politically could
feel very comfortable in this organization
because its philosophy is that everybody
from the whole range of political opinion
should be interested in meeting the other,
Rabbi Carroll said. In most peace organizations you have to buy into a political ideology to take part, and that excludes too
many people and is self-defeating.
Inevitably, however, prickly subjects
come up. As they walked around Tel AvivJaffa, one of the Muslim regulars asked
if Jews in the group consider Dr. Baruch
Goldstein who was beaten to death after
killing 29 Arabs in the Cave of the Patriarchs in 1994 to be a martyr. We all
looked at him and said emphatically not;
we believe he was an evil murderer, Rabbi
Carroll said. Because wed spent so much
time building up trust, he felt he could ask
us and we were able to hear it without getting defensive or uptight. Thats an example of the kind of interaction we have in
the group.
Shelley Brinn and Tanya Gusovsky of Maaleh Adumim sit with Muhammad Zarhaf at a recent IEA meeting.
One time, a new Muslim participant

showed up during a discussion led by a
spokesman of IEAs study project dubbed
Gods Holy Mountain, whose purpose is

to encourage Jews and Muslims to turn the
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Booker holds meetings for Jersey Jewish leaders

Many spurn olive branch after senators support for Iran deal
JOANNE PALMER AND
LARRY YUDELSON
ast Thursday, Cory Booker, New

Jerseys junior Democratic senator who had maintained a Hamletlike state of indecision, at least in
public, on his eventual vote on the Iran deal,
declared himself.
He would vote for it, he said.
The next day, he invited New Jersey Jewish leaders to one of two meetings, one in
Livingston, the other in Newark, both set for
Tuesday, the day after Labor Day. He asked
Adam Szubin, who (coincidentally) grew up
in Teaneck and is now the undersecretary for
terrorism and financial crimes at the Department of the Treasury, to help him explain
why he decided as he did.
Mr. Booker also posted a long essay on his
website, www.booker.senate.gov, explaining
his decision.
That did not placate his would-be guests,
who included Rabbi Menachem Genack of
Englewood, who heads the Orthodox Unions
kashrut division; Dr. Ben Chouake of Englewood, the founder and head of the lobbying organization Norpac; and Laura Fein,
the New Jersey region director of the Zionist
Organization of America.
Strikingly, the guest list did not include
his longtime, mutually acknowledged best
friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood, who has been vocal first about his
fervent hope that his friend reject the deal,
and then in his disappointment, despite his
enduring friendship, at Mr. Bookers decision.
Two of the local invitees, Dr. Chouake and
Ms. Fein, decided not to go to the meeting.
Given the level of detail in Mr. Bookers
posted explanation, and because I think its
gathering Jewish leaders together to give an
explanation for the vote, I dont think that it
is a proper message for the Jewish community to do this at this point, Dr. Chouake said.
The senator has decided to cast his vote in
favor of an agreement that is bad for Americas security and contrary to the wishes of his
constituents.
The right message from us would be to
take a step back, let him rethink this, and
maybe make the right decision.
I disagree with the senators decision, and
Senator Cory Booker and Adam Szubin talked to two groups of mostly disgruntled Jewish leaders.
From left, Dr. Ben Chouake of Norpac, Rabbi Menachem Genack of the OU, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and Laura Fein, the
ZOAs New Jersey regional director, all were invited to the meeting.
I dont feel comfortable being part of a leadership meeting explaining it or lobbying for it.
The agreement is what the agreement is.
You can twist the definition of things only
so much. It will bring us closer to war the
only option to stop a breakout is the military
option. This will enable the worst country on
earth to become more wealthy, more powerful, more aggressive, and it wont stop it from
getting nuclear weapons.
Senator Booker knows our position. He
made a decision, people are very upset, and I
dont see this is the time or place for this kind
of forum. It is important for the community
to show that they are upset with the senators
decision. As good a relationship as we have
had with him, this affects the relationship and
our confidence in his decision.

Frankly, I think it is a morally challenged
decision, Dr. Chouake continued. Look
at some of the people who are opposing it.
Ben Cardin Senator Benjamin Cardin, a
Democrat, represents Maryland theres
a guy who says that we have to intervene
in Syria because its simple, they are using
chemical weapons on their own people, its a
moral imperative. Everyone else was running
away from it, and he said that it was a moral
imperative.
Then youve got a guy like Menendez,
New Jerseys Robert Menendez, another
Democrat who is going to face prosecution on corruption charges, and Chuck
Schumer New Yorks senior senator
who is willing to risk his position as the

leader of the Senate hes in line to become
the next Democratic minority leader. You
know what? Thats courage. Its conviction.
I had hoped that more people would stand
up and say, regardless of anything else, that
the agreement is bad and we shouldnt support it.
When you think about Cory Booker, you
think about someone who is very charismatic, brilliant, athletic, gifted, good looking, a natural leader one of his greatest
strengths has always been his moral clarity.
I think he dropped the ball on this one.
Ms. Feins reaction to Mr. Bookers decision
was blistering. Senator Bookers shameful
decision to support a deal that furthers Irans
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nuclear and terror ambitions while he
acknowledges the risks it poses to Americans and our ally Israel is a catastrophic
mistake and a complete betrayal of all
he purported to stand for, she said. His
chutzpah in attempting to sanitize his craven choice by reaching out to Jewish leaders just hours after he sold out has further
angered all who once thought him a leader
of principle. Only a reversal of his decision
could restore any shred of credibility.
Given the strength of her reaction
which was seconded by the ZOAs national
leadership she saw no point in going to
the meeting.
Rabbi Genack did go to the meeting.
I had what to say and I wanted to say
it, he said. I wanted to express for myself
and the community our position, our disappointment in the senators decision to
support the Iran deal, and why we think
thats a disastrous approach.
The senator said he knows he has lost a
lot of credibility within our community and
that hell have to work hard to get it back,
Rabbi Genack said.
About 15 people were there.
Rabbi Genack described Mr. Szubin from
the Treasury, who described how continued oversight on sanctions would work,
as very bright. Hes frum. Nonetheless,
Rabbi Genack was not swayed by Mr. Szubins presentation.
Rabbi Genack said hes known Mr.
Booker for 20 years and that he was
among those who advised the senator
to come out against the deal before he
reached his decision.
Cory Booker himself, in his statement,
eviscerates the deal and said its a terrible
deal. Given that he thought its a terrible
deal, I would have thought he would have
voted against it, Rabbi Genack said.
We know from history that when
people say they mean to do us ill, Rabbi
Genack said, referring to the Iranians,
they mean to do us ill.
The Iran deal, he said, came about
because there was never a military option
that was serious. It was never credible.
America, with its economic power and military power, should have led the world to
put the sanction regime back.
On Wednesday, the Orthodox Union was
scheduled to rally in Washington with the
Rabbinic Council of America which represents Orthodox rabbis against the deal.
Rabbi Genack explained that the rally
was important even though the Iran vote
appeared a foregone conclusion. This
decision and this deal is an inflection point
in history, he said. History doesnt end
with this. The challenge we have now will
be more difficult in terms of containing
Iran.
The rally is both to lobby against the
deal, for people to understand the historic
negative consequences of the deal, and to
look toward the future. The group will
work with AIPAC to meet with members of
Congress.
Rabbi Genack is a long-time Democrat.
Im also disappointed that Secretary Clinton supported the deal, he said.

But he said the deal reflects the policy
beliefs of President Obama beliefs that
were debated during the 2008 Democratic
primaries.
We came to the wrong conclusion
because the president has a flawed perspective, he said. When Clinton ran
against Obama, one of the big issues was
about how we deal with Iran. Senator
Obama said we should be talking with Iranian leaders. She said the president of the
United States should not be talking with
them. I was told that David Axelrod one
of the presidents former top advisers
told Obama he should walk the statement
back, but Obama said no, thats my policy.
You saw there the genesis for this policy of the nuclear deal, and this appeasement. You saw it in his speech in Cairo
when he talked about having a new relationship with Iran, Rabbi Genack said.
Perhaps the most explosive reaction to
the meeting came from Rabbi Boteach,
whose long friendship with Mr. Booker
a friendship that he insists is not at risk,
despite Mr. Bookers decision makes his
stakes in the issue inextricably personal as
well as political.
Still, he said, his options were starkly limited; in fact, only one was possible. One
cannot play politics with the survival of
the state of Israel and the Jewish people,
he said. This vote on the Iran deal is the
pivotal issue of our time. We in the Jewish community can give no sanctuary to
elected officials who chose Iran and terror
funding over Israels security.
People are well aware of my quartercentury friendship with Cory it transcends friendship, he is part of my family but in the face of a promised second
Holocaust I was never going to be silent,
and it was unrealistic for Cory to expect
my silence.
He did not expect to be invited to this
meeting, he continued, but he thinks those
invitees who chose to go are making a big
mistake, trading access for integrity.
Those Jewish leaders in New Jersey who
grant Cory their silence in return for access
are not Corys true friends, he said. They
have abrogated their responsibility as Jewish leaders. Powerful leaders always attract
sycophants, but they never benefit from
the counsel of sycophants.
It was shocking that Cory planned this
meeting, so soon after he announced his
vote. It allows him to demonstrate that
there has been no damage to his standing
in the Jewish community. Those Jewish
leaders who chose to attend this meeting,
to listen to Adam Szubins sales pitch he
is the administrations Jewish salesman
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officials.
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A shuls new approach to outsiders

Temple Emanu-El of Closter enacts series of changes
to accommodate intermarried families, gay marriages
JOANNE PALMER
ts one thing to pay lip

service to being warm
and welcoming. After
all, what synagogue
doesnt? Some really are
and even the ones that offer
newcomers the most frigid of
greetings believe themselves
paragons of hospitality.
From left, Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner, Howard Lavin, Andi Wolfer, and Lee Igel
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
of Temple Emanu-El in Closter believes that it is no longer acceptRabbi Kirshner said. A wedding could
he will suggest a brit milah leshem gerut
able to act with disdain or even with dishave happened here before, but now
a traditional circumcision ceremony,
interest to people who are not exactly
were being openly welcoming.
done as the first step to complete conversion. If that brit is done, a child has up
like ourselves (however, that is, we define
To that end, the shuls membership
until the time when he would become bar
ourselves as being). Therefore, with the
forms no longer will ask for husbands
mitzvah to choose to convert without havfull support of his board and congregaand wives names. Instead, it will include
tion, and acting entirely within the dicing the circumcision symbolically redone,
space for partners 1 and 2.
tates of halachah Jewish law as deteralthough the goal would be to continue
The actual change, though, will come
mined by the Conservative movements
the conversion immediately. If not, or if
in the shuls approach to intermarried
Committee on Jewish Law and Standards,
the baby is a girl, there are other ways to
families. We are opening up a portal to
he has decided to work to include people
strengthen the Jewish connection without
the intermarried, so there are a lot more
who often others have been content if
crossing any halachic barriers.
opportunities for them to be involved
not actually happy to ignore.
This is not compromising halacha but
ritually, Rabbi Kirshner said. We have
exercising its elasticity, Rabbi Kirshner
simchas almost every week, and there is
said.
almost always someone there who is not
The shul is instituting these changes
of the Jewish faith. We are allowing them
out of strength, he said. Although it is
to open the ark, and to offer readings in
true that many liberal synagogues are
English.
withering as the Pew study and other
If there is going to be a wedding, and
commentaries have pointed out at great
one of the spouses is Jewish and the other
length and as anecdotal evidence conis not, and they are committing to having
firms Emanu-El is strong and growing.
a Jewish home, although the rabbis here
cannot officiate at the wedding, we will
announce it at the shul. There cannot
be an aufruf, where the pair is called to
the Torah for an aliyah, since the nonJewish partner cannot do that How
can someone who is not Jewish thank
God for choosing us, Rabbi Kirshner
said and no one will throw candies at
RABBI DAVID-SETH KIRSHNER
the happy couple, but the wedding will
be acknowledged. That will replace the
The Torah and rabbinic law go to great
stony silence that used to meet the news
lengths to remind us that all humans are
of a mixed marriage.
created in Gods image, Rabbi Kirshner
When a baby who is not halachically
wrote in the explanatory email he sent to
Jewish is born to parents who want to
the congregation last week.
construct and maintain a relationship to
Some of the changes he plans to instithe Jewish world, and to Emanu-El, that
tute are incremental, Rabbi Kirshner said.
birth will be acknowledged with a ceremony, although that ceremony will not
Those changes mainly involve the religious school and pre-bnai mitzvah probe the same as the one used to welcome
ANDI WOLFER
gramming the shul offers to non-typical
a new Jew.
learners. It has obtained additional fundThese situations are the difference
ing and plans to continue and intensify
It now has 800 family units, and all indibetween butchers and surgeons, Rabbi
cations show it to be flourishing. This is
its work with Matan, an organization that
Kirshner said. You have to be very precise, and approach everything on a casenot being done as a gimmick, Rabbi Kirworks with those learners.
shner said. It is a culture shift.
by-case basis. There is no such thing as a
Next, the shul, whose catering facilities,
Howard Lavin of Tenafly is the presiblanket approach.
open to all members, frequently attract
dent of Emanu-El. These changes are
There is nothing that we are doing to
newly engaged couples and their parents, will extend itself to appeal to samesomething that had been discussed with
discourage or replace conversion, he
sex couples. Its not a change in policy,
the prior executive committee as well
continued. If the parents are amenable,
We are opening
up a portal to
the intermarried,
so there are a
lot more
opportunities
for them to
be involved
ritually.
Its what the 21st

century looks
like. I very much
recall my father
saying If you
marry someone
who is not
Jewish, I will not
come to your
wedding.
as with the current one,

he said. It was discussed
at the board and executive
board levels, and during the
last year Rabbi Kirshner discussed it in some of the adult
education and study groups
he runs. In May and June, he
invited the entire congregation to two parlor meetings.
At the meetings, based
on the questions and comments, it was clear that the
overwhelming sentiment of
those who attended was positive. There
were some who disagreed, but I believe
that any time you have change, some people will embrace and celebrate it and others will be disappointed by it. He compared it to the Conservative movements
1973 decision to count women in the
minyan. I assume that at that time, too,
there were individuals who embraced it
and others who opposed it vociferously,
and others who just shrugged it off, he
said.
All the responses hes gotten since the
decision was announced have been positive, some of them exuberantly so, he
added.
What was fascinating was that the
people who embraced this most were
people who have skin in the game, Mr.
Lavin said. People who were incredibly affiliated, led Jewish lives, and then
had a child who married a non-Jew. You
could see and feel the angst they felt. On
the other hand, people who had no skin
in the game, people whose children had
married Jews and lived very affiliated lives
they were supportive, too.
That isnt to say that there werent
some who made the slippery slope argument that if you do this, if you make this
easy, then whats next?
Mr. Lavin is 58. Andi Wolfer of Cresskill,
the shuls first vice president and chair
of its board of education, is in her 40s.
She, too, was struck by how many older
people approved of the shuls decision. I
was very concerned that they would be
against it, based on tradition, but it was
the opposite, and it makes sense, she
said.
They have had so much life experience they have a cousin, a niece or
nephew, a grandchild they all know
someone who has married outside the
Jewish faith, so for them, the concept is
based on reality.
Its what the 21st century looks like. I
very much recall my father saying If you
marry someone who is not Jewish, I will
not come to your wedding. I very much
want my children to marry Jews and so
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the shul to go on JDate. I dont want anyone to misconstrue this as his condoning intermarriage.
Its just that this is based on the reality of the 21st
century.
Lee Igel of Haworth, in his 30s, also sits on the
shuls board. I think that history shows us that the
Jewish people are enlightened and evolving, he
said. Values always matter. The strong things about
the Jewish people really are all about this sense of
values and awareness and knowledge of the world.
People evolve based on this.
This decision is an evolution, he added.
That might be but the question is not new. Rabbi
Kirshner unearthed a letter that Dr. Milton Steinberg, the Conservative rabbi who went on to lead the
Park Avenue Synagogue and wrote the popular historical novel As a Driven Leaf, wrote to his teacher,
Mordecai Kaplan who grew up Orthodox, held a
professorship at the Jewish Theological Seminary,
and went on to found the Reconstructionist movement. Rabbi Steinberg then held a pulpit in Indiana.
The letter was dated 1929.
Rabbi Kaplans response is lost to us, but the questions posed to him remain vital. As it happens, my
congregation is growing rather rapidly, and while
the phenomenon as a whole is a pleasing one it has
created a rather difficult situation, Rabbi Steinberg
wrote. Among our applicants for membership are
several who have married Gentile women. There
were two basic responses to that fact, he continued.
One group argued that to refuse membership to
men who have intermarried is to quarantine their
complete assimilation as well as that of their children. Keeping them out is punishing them forever
for one mistake; accepting them might lead to their
wives and childrens eventual conversion.
On the other hand, Rabbi Steinberg went on, others say that while all of this is quite true, should
we admit such men to membership, we permanently
remove the opprobation [sic] and ostracism associated with intermarriage. With that gone, why would
anyone think twice about intermarrying?
Although he was asking for an opinion from his
teacher, Rabbi Steinbergs own view which his
board had accepted at once was to allow those
men to join his shul.
We dont know what Rabbi Kaplan would have
said and in fact, intermarried Jews are allowed to
join Conservative shuls, although their spouses are
not but now Temple Emanu-El has joined the onlyslightly-changed debate. Moreover, its vote is clear.
The congregation has decided that in order to be
warm and welcoming, it is necessary actually to welcome strangers. It will try to do so.
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Indian Jew from Teaneck visits two very different Jewish locales during the Three Weeks
MEYLEKH VISWANATH
his year, I spent the Seventeenth

of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av,
the two fast days that bookend
the Three Weeks of mourning
(Beyn haMetsarim, literally, between the
straits) in two very different communities
on two different continents.
The first one was in a nascent Jewish
community in Gathundia in rural Kenya,
and the second one was in Kochi (formerly
Cochin), India, in a very old but vanishing
Jewish neighborhood.
I arrived in Gathundia a small village
about 100 miles from Nairobi on Friday
night. The community is a group of some
20-plus families who live within five miles
or so of a makeshift synagogue. At this
point, it would be difficult to call it a Jewish community. A few of the members of
the group have been converted by Rabbi
Gershom Sizomu of the Abayudaya Jewish community in Uganda, which consists
mostly of converts from the Conservative
movement; Rabbi Sizomu was ordained
at the Zeigler School of Rabbinic Studies,
a Conservative seminary in Los Angeles.
What unites the members of the Gathundia community is a shared background of
Pentecostal and messianic Christianity and
enthusiasm for a Jewish future. Like most
Africans I have met, they are traditional
and quite serious about issues of faith.
Mostly farmers, their approach to religion
is a combination of the natural faith of a
people tied to land and a learned faith
absorbed from translated African understandings of the Jewish Bible.
The community feels close to Israel, and
many members want to make aliyah. Still,
during my limited interaction with them,
this connection to Israel felt more like a
formalized, ritualized connection. This, in
many ways, is similar to how most Orthodox Jews relate to the Beth Hamikdash. Visiting Israel and the Jewish quarter makes
the Temple a bit more concrete, but even
so, Jewish life in Temple times is not very
real, even to most frum-from-birth Jews.
Imagine, then, how new Jews like those
of Gathundia might view the Temple. As a
result, commemorating the destruction of
the Temple sitting in Gathundia was certainly a more detached experience for me
than it usually is in my Orthodox shul in
Teaneck.
Even though the fast of the seventeenth
of Tammuz does not have the austerity of
Tisha BAv, in my Teaneck shul we do feel
the sorrowful and almost physical presence of the destruction of the Temple that
day, introducing as it does the three week
period leading up to Tisha bAv. Even when
I am in India for the Three Weeks, the
synagogue experience in the Sephardic
Meylekh Viswanath, at right, with members of the Jewish community in Gathundia, a village in rural Kenya, in front of
their makeshift synagogue.
As a result, commemorating
the destruction of the Temple
sitting in Gathundia was
certainly a more detached
experience for me than it
usually is in my Orthodox
shul in Teaneck.
community there brings the sadness of the
day home to me.
In Gathundia, however, I had no external reminders of the melancholy that I
can feel palpably in Teaneck. Whatever
fast-day emotions I experienced I had to
dredge out of my own self. While almost
smack on the Equator, Gathundia is 8,400
meters high, and July is winter in southern-hemisphere Kenya. The morning was
a balmy 70 degrees Fahrenheit. So the
usual dreary and often sticky heat that I
would experience in Teaneck or in Bombay and that added to the feeling of forlornness were missing.
The Shabbes service in the synagogue
was something of a makeshift affair. There
was a lot of skipping. There were only
about five men and five women, and about
seven or eight children. On Sunday morning, the day of the actual fast, there were
no services at all. My hosts had called a
meeting, however, to provide me with
an opportunity to meet four or five other

members of the community who live too
far away to walk to Gathundia for Shabbos.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how the community might improve
its economic circumstances. Because I
have worked in microfinance, which concerns itself mostly with providing financial services, including microloans to
asset-poor people in rural communities,
I thought I might be able to help the community improve its situation. During this
encounter, I had a chance to talk to some
community members about their daily
life. While the discussion was fascinating, a 17th of Tamuz discussion it wasnt.
On the other hand, Jewish post-Temple life could be described for the most
part as a series of efforts to cope with difficulties; particularly after the Bar Koch
revolts, the Romans wanted to make sure
that there would not be another Jewish
nationalist insurrection. Against such a
background, you could argue that a discussion about rural livelihoods in a Jewish context is nothing less than a continuation of the Jewish existential struggle.
Three weeks later, ere Shabbes before
Tisha BAv, I found myself in a very different place. This time I was in southern
India, in the city of Kochi, in the state of
Kerala. Kerala is a place where Jews have
lived for more than 2,000 years. There
has been a documented Jewish community in Kerala for at least 1,200 years
and in Kochi itself for about 600. The
Parades synagogue, which still stands on
Jew Street in the Mattancherry or Jewtown neighborhood, was completed in
1568. Nearby Fort Cochin, another Jewish neighborhood, was built by the Portuguese in 1503, then fell to the Dutch and
was ultimately captured by the British
and held by them until Indian Independence in 1947.
While Mattancherry and Fort Cochin
have had a Jewish presence for more than
500 years, the Kerala Jewish community
that moved to this area actually pre-dates
this settlement. That community was
from Cranganore (present-day Kodungallur), further up the coast, and eventually moved to Cochin, driven first by the
silting-up of the port in Cranganore and
then by attacks of the Portuguese.
If the Gathundia community is barely
born, the Kochi Jewtown community is
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almost dead. I have been visiting Jewtown since 1987. I was very friendly with
Sammy Hallegua, the patriarch of the Kochi
White Jewish community. Sammy always
invited me to Shabbat meals at his house
after prayers. Friday night and Saturday
night, after Shabbat, Sammy would hold
court before a dozen Jewish and non-Jewish guests, the whisky flowing freely. With
time, however, the Jewish presence on Jew
Street palpably decreased, and the number
of Kashmiri Muslim tradesmen who set up
shop on Jew Street increased. Selling Jewish and non-Jewish merchandise, they have
become, oddly enough, the face of Jewry on
Jew Street.
Still, as long as Sammy was around, there
generally was a minyan on Shabbat. After
Sammys death, it grew more and more difficult to get a minyan. Even though Sammy
was a White Jew, he always had good relations with the other local Jewish group,
the Malabaris; his departure robbed Jew
Street of its majesty as well as the Malabari
Jews already fleeting connection with Jewtown. A couple of Chabad rabbis tried to
revive Jewish life in Mattancherry, but they
were unsuccessful it would have to be an
unusual Chabad rabbi who could appreciate
the special character of Cochin Jewry and
integrate it with Chabad enthusiasm. There
were no such rabbis.
There might have been a prayer for some
sort of Jewish revival on Jew Street 10 years
ago, but it is impossible today.
Last year, my son, Arun Viswanath, spent
Simchat Torah in Jewtown. Sammys son
David also was visiting. With the help of Jewish visitors and some locals, they made up a
minyan and conducted services using some
of the traditional prayer tunes and piyyutim. The bimah and the Aron Hakodesh
were decorated with traditional silken goldbrocaded South Indian silk decorations.
But this was a rare event. In 2013, just a
year before, I had visited Jewtown for Shavuot. In contrast to my sons Simchat Torah
experience, I davened by myself in an
entirely empty synagogue. Tisha BAv, this
year, I was going to be in India again and
Sammys widow, Queenie Hallegua invited
me to Jewtown for the preceding Shabbat.
Just as it had been for Shavuot in 2013, the
synagogue was deserted. On Friday night
there was one other person; for Shabbat
morning prayers there was just me. Going
out for a walk in the afternoon, I overheard
some young Frenchwomen discussing a
visit to the synagogue. They didnt seem to
know that it was closed on Sabbaths and
Jewish holidays. When I told them so, one
of the women replied that she was Jewish.
I told her that if she wanted to, she could
come to participate in the Tisha BAv prayers
later than evening.
Sunset in Kochi in late July is around 7
p.m., and Shabbes ends about an hour
later. Although I wouldnt be saying the
evening prayer until after 8, I went in to the
synagogue a bit early. The young woman,

whose name was Telma, was waiting for
me. She accompanied me into the synagogue and we chatted for a while. By then
it was 8, and I davened Maariv while she
waited. Once I was done, she sat down
cross-legged on the floor beside me and I
read from Eicha, Lamentations, which contains five different dirges for the destruction of Jerusalem. She followed the English
translation in my ArtScroll copy, along with
my brief explanations in French. Then she
listened to me read the kinot, the Tisha BAv
elegies that were composed over centuries
to reflect sorrow over the continuing loss of
Jerusalem.
In the Paradesi synagogue, the tradition
is for the ornate decorations of the Aron
Hakodesh, the Torah ark, to be replaced
by somber black coverings. Black cloth is
hung over the chandeliers, the lights are
extinguished, and candles are lit. This year,
though, the change of coverings was symbolic. There were just a few black cloths
hanging from the chandeliers. Even without
the customary elaborate funereal drapings,
the atmosphere was sorrowful perhaps
even more than in a Teaneck synagogue,
where the commemoration of the destroyed
Temple is balanced by the crowded synagogue, full of life.
Here in Kochi, though, the historic synagogue was empty completely devoid
of life except for a 60-year-old Indian Jew
and a barely-20 year-old French Jewess.
The presence of the young Jewish woman
was a reflection of what might have been. It
underscored the lack of vitality in the Kochi
community.
I will never forget this Tisha bAv, Telma
told me. For me, too, our presence there
was full of meaning; a displaced older Jew
from India and a younger Jew from a European Jewish community under threat
together in a forlorn, darkened, dwindling
community, on a night commemorating the
burning and obliteration of a way of life.
The next day, I prayed by myself in
Queenies house, since the synagogue was
closed. The caretaker would be back around
ten oclock to perform the ritual of the ari
vitharal the strewing of the rice even
though normally this would be done in the
afternoon. The rituals significance was
not clear to me. Although the fast continues until sunset of the Ninth, several of the
stringencies of the day cease at noon; hence
it is possible that the strewing of the rice is
a symbol of the future rebuilding of the
Temple and the prosperity to come. Unfortunately, by the time I got to the synagogue,
the rice already had been strewn. I could
see grains of rice all over the steps in front
of the wooden doors. I went in, recited a
few psalms, kissed the Aron Hakodesh, and
went back out.
I started the three weeks in a very new,
small community of people who very much
want to be Jewish, though they have hardly
begun their Jewish experience. They live in
a part of the African continent where Jews
have lived for no longer than a century at
Meylekh Viswanath in the Paradesi synagogue.
I ended the three weeks in one

of the oldest continuous Jewish
communities outside the Middle
East, a place that used to be
full of ritual and tradition and
where now there are fewer than
10 Jews, most of whom simply
are waiting out their days.
most, and whose connections and ties to the
land of Israel are tenuous. I ended the three
weeks in one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities outside the Middle East, a
place that used to be full of ritual and tradition and where now there are fewer than 10
Jews, most of whom simply are waiting out
their days.
The period of the Three Weeks commemorates some of the greatest misfortunes and upheavals of the Jewish people, and it represents the uncertainty
of Jewish life. We end the period of the
Three Weeks with a promise of renewal.
The seven Sabbaths between Tisha BAv
and Rosh haShana are called Sheva De

Nechamata or the Seven of Comfort.
During these seven Sabbaths, we read
messages of consolation and promises of
redemption from the prophet Isaiah.
Even as some Jewish communities
decline, the concomitant rise of new communities is part of Gods promise of the ultimate redemption of the Jewish people.
Meylekh (P.V.) Viswanath of Teaneck
teaches finance at Pace University, where
hes now involved in research innvolving
strategies for bottom-of-the pyrmidcommunities in India and East Africa.
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LARRY YUDELSON
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Gu ard Auxiliar y c rashlanded his Cessna airplane
in Cresskill on Thursday
after encountering engine trouble,
bringing it down in a recreational field
and suffering serious injuries.
The pilot, Jack Rosenberg, also
known as Yaakov, was doing routine
patrols over the Hudson River along
with co-pilot Erik Pearson when the
engine on his Cessna 172 apparently
failed. Authorities hailed Mr. Rosenberg
for avoiding injuries on the ground
when he crashed in the soccer field in
Bergen County.
If you see where they landed on the
very edge of the field, my opinion, they
did a damn good job of averting a tragedy by getting over there, an official
told NBC.
Mr. Rosenberg, 44, a father of seven
from Spring Valley, N.Y., is a member
of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, a volunteer organization that helps the Coast
Guards efforts to promote recreational
boating safety.
He made headlines in 2006 when he
petitioned the Coast Guard to make an
exception to rules barring the wearing
of visible non-military headgear so that
he could wear his kippah during his
volunteer work. After New York State
Assemblyman Dov Hikind took up Mr.
Rosenbergs cause and then-Senator
John Kerry wrote a letter on his behalf,
the Coast Guard eventually was persuaded to allow him to wear a kippah.
After Thursdays crash, Mr. Hikind
hailed Mr. Rosenbergs performance in
the air.
Mr. Rosenberg broke both legs and

was in surgery for more than nine
hours, according to Mr. Hikind. It will
be three months until he can begin
walking again. As of Monday, Mr. Pearson was reported still sedated because
of his injuries.
According to the preliminary findings of a Federal Aviation Administration investigation, Mr. Rosenberg had
reported a rough-running engine and
sought to land at Teterboro Airport. He
then tried to make an emergency landing in Tenafly but decided against that
because the field was full of people,
Cresskill Police Chief Ed Wrixon told the
Record. In Cresskill, he first sought to
land in a baseball field but it too was full
of people.
In the end, Mr. Rosenberg crashed
near Regan Field behind the Cresskill
Swim Club. It happened just hours
before youth sports teams were due to
practice there.
If it was another hour from now, this
place would have been packed, Mr.
Wrixon said.
Mr. Rosenberg is a member of the
Viznitz chasidic sect. He is known for
going out of his way to help others.
All his good deeds came back to
him, said Rabbi Mayer Berger, operations director for Chesed Shel Emes, a
Brooklyn-based group that dispatches
planes and helicopters to help Jewish
families retrieve sick or injured relatives
and comply with religious burial laws,
speaking to Rockland Countys Journal
News. Its a miracle.
Mr. Rosenberg, who has a tire business, is a certified pilot and volunteers for Chesed Shel Emes, which was
founded by his brother Mendy. He won
wide praise in 2011 when he flew a helicopter to take food and medicine to a
group of observant Jews stranded in
Killington, Vermont, after roads were
washed away by Hurricane Irene.
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NORPAC welcomed Congressman Ted
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Editorial
Politics and opera
s it unfolds, the saga

of the Wests possible
deal with Iran is beginning to resemble opera
as much as it does political theater.
It is impossible to imagine
the pressure under which Cory
Booker, like many other senators
who have to face complex choices
and whose political ambitions
and constituencies internal complexities make darkest mud out
of already murky situations, must
have labored.
Now that he made his decision which is tremendously
unpopular here but far less so in
the upper levels of his party the
aftereffects would be almost funny
were the entire situation less dire.
He appears to be scrabbling desperately to retain the support he
seems to have cast away, while his
keeping the faith
spurned constituents are unwilling to give him what he wants.

But underneath this surface
although still above the unknowable terrors of the future that lurk
further below is the personal
theater that reminds us that even
powerful politicians and superstar
rabbis are human.
In the faceoff between Senator
Booker and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach we see two real people, genuine friends, fighting hurt feelings
that are entangled with policy disagreements. Its a striking image.
Theres Cory Booker, charismatic,
tall, lean, bald, intense, darkskinned, with striking, surprising
green eyes. Theres Shmuley Boteach, charismatic, short, compact,
bushy-bearded, intense, lightskinned, with striking, surprising
light eyes. So similar, so different.
Despite his differences with

Mr. Booker, Rabbi Boteach tells
us that their friendship in fact,
their love is so deep that it will
survive even this huge and terrible
disruption.
There are lessons for all of us
here that bypass the deal and go
straight to our lives as social beings.
We each must do what we
believe we must in order to make
the world a better place. We must
fight against the deal with Iran, or
for it, or learn more about it, or
keep silent if all we have to contribute is babble and noise. But
we also must remember that each
of us is human sounds obvious,
no? but its so easy to forget and
that when we vilify each other for
our beliefs we add nothing to the
light that we need in this world.
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The new year
s time a straight line, moving from one year to the next

from 2014 to 2015 to 2016,
say, or from 5775 to 5776? Do
history and biology move us inexorably from one stage of life to the
next and through until it ends? Until
we end?
Or is it a circle, moving from Rosh
Hashanah to Rosh Hashanah, from
Pesach to Pesach, always coming
back from where it started? Thats
what our liturgy seems to imply; we
confess to the same failings, make
the same promises, offer the same
praises year after year, pledge that
everything will be different even as
we know that the words we say will
tell us that everything is the same.
Last week, we included a story
about a calendar, the Misaviv, that
shows time as a circle.
Or is it perhaps a spiral, coming back close to where it had
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landmarks are clear, but not so
close that we cant also feel the
differences?
Last year, we quoted a piyyut,
a liturgical hymn, words set to
a lovely, sinuous Middle Eastern melody, that we often sing at
this time of year. The little sister her prayers she prepares
and proclaims her praises. O God,
please, heal now her ailments, we
sing. Let the year and its curses
conclude!
And in fact the assumption in
this song is correct. Although individually we might have wonderful
years, full of love and life and joy,
as a people we tend not to. This
year, like so many years, we look
back at with dismay.
Last year, we were glad to see
the back of a year that included
the deaths of Israeli teenagers and
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then the devastating war in Gaza.

It was a year of naked terror.
This year we have been spared
much but not all of that violence,
although we must remember the
Arab toddler, Ali Saad Dawabsha,
burned to death by Jewish extremists, and Shira Banki, the 16-yearold Israeli killed by a deranged Jew
outraged by the LGBT parade in
which she marched.
This year, we worry about the
deal with Iran and watch as anger
over that deal, coming from both
sides, eats away at the civility with
which we try to treat each other.
But next year will start soon, and
it will be fresh and new. We rejoice
in the last line of the piyyut: Let
the year and its blessings begin.
We wish all of our readers a
new year full of blessings, of
safety and health and wisdom
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Bordering on
bad practices
n last weeks Torah portion, Ki Tavo, Moses sets out a covenant

renewal ceremony for Israel to observe after it crosses over to
the west bank of the Jordan.
Blessings were to be recited from Mount Gerizim, and curses
from Mount Ebal. Most of these blessings and curses were general in
nature, but the first 12 curses involved specific prohibitions, including
against idol worship, hitting a parent, ambushing someone, taking a
bribe to cause someone harm, and so forth. The third of the 12 was this
one: Cursed be the one who moves his neighbors landmark.
How sad it is that some synagogues, the very institutions in which
this verse was read last Shabbat and in which Torah is taught, ignore
the law that prompted this curse. Deuteronomy 19:14 states: You shall
not move your neighbors landmark, which was established by an earlier generation. Equally sad is that some kashrut certification agencies,
which were designed to insure proper observance of a body of Torah
law, also ignore this law, known as hasagat gvul.
As readers of this column are aware, hasagat gvul goes way beyond
moving your fence a couple of feet onto an adjacent property. The
Torah does not work that way. Its laws are
more like categories, or chapter headings.
We need to understand the intent of each
law, and then create the legislation that
matches the intent.
Obviously, the person moving a neighbors landmark wants to increase his
property holdings at his neighbors
expense. In an agrarian society, that
would mean seeking more arable land to
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cultivate. The person moving the landEngelmayer
mark thus would be adding farmland by
stealing it from the farmer next door.
In other words, he would be diminishing his neighbors ability to make a living. The principle of hasagat
gvul, then, is less about moving landmarks and more about protecting
an individuals right to earn a decent living.
Job cites removing landmarks as one reason to question whether
God punishes evildoers. People remove landmarks, he complains,
but seem to get away with it. (See Job 24.2.) The prophet Hosea (5:10)
accuses the officers of [the kingdom of] Judah of acting like shifters
of landmarks, by which he probably meant they planned to seize land
belonging to the breakaway kingdom of Israel.
Moving landmarks was a very serious crime, which is why Moses
included it as one of the 12 specific curses.
The Sages of Blessed Memory began the process of evolving hasagat gvul into an entire code of business law, although very cautiously.
Specifically, they included encroaching on the rights of the poor
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under this commandment (see Mishnah Pe-ah, 5:6), and
they opened the door to hasagat gvul protecting intellectual property.
Thus, in Section 188 of the extra-talmudic commentary to Deuteronomy, the Sifre, we are told that merely
attributing an opinion or ruling to the wrong person
is considered hasagat gvul. From where do we learn
that if one substitutes Rabbi Joshuas view for Rabbi
Eliezers, he is violating a negative commandment?
From You shall not move your neighbors landmark.
By the medieval period, hasagat gvul was fully protective of intellectual property.
Hasagat gvul for a time also moved into the area of
tenancy rights. This is an example of Torah law evolving
to fit unique social circumstances. Because Jews often
were restricted to ghettoes of one type or another, the
availability of apartments and homes were deemed precious commodities.
When it came to business, the Sages and the decisors who followed them were more cautious, probably
because the Torah itself seems to favor a free market
economy. It took a while, therefore, for hasagat gvul to
fully evolve into a strict prohibition of unfair competitive practices.
In his book With All Your Possessions, Meir Tamari,
a leading authority on Jewish business law and a former chief economist for the Bank of Israel, cited a 1955
responsum from Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Weiss, known
as the Minchat Yitzchak. Weiss was confronted with a
case in which a salesman (Shimon) who worked for a
vendor (Reuven) took his customer contact list with
him when he changed jobs. The Minchat Yitzchak was
willing to prohibit the new employer from fulfilling Shimons orders obtained from those customers, but only
for a limited time, in order not to prevent Shimons
economic advancement permanently.
On the other hand, Weiss described Shimon as being
like one who takes his [Reuvens] very soul.
How does any of this apply to synagogues and kashrut
certification?
Regarding synagogues, that is easy to answer. If the
synagogue attempts to attract members away from
a neighboring synagogue, that violates hasagat gvul.
Inevitably, some synagogues do engage in this practice
around the High Holy Days. They send out mass mailings, arguing that they bought lists but had no way of
distinguishing between members of other synagogues
and the unaffiliated. That excuse is valid in their own
towns, but not when they also buy lists of names from
adjacent and not-so-adjacent towns that also have synagogues. A relatively new practice is for a synagogue to
run programs not just outside its own building, but outside their own communities, which have synagogues of
their own.
Regarding the certification agencies, an explanation
is needed. Torah law is not a series of unrelated laws. It
is a complete set, to be taken as a whole. That is why, for
example, Shabbat and kashrut rules must stand aside
when a persons health is at serious risk; we are to live
by the law, not to die by it.
In the case of kashrut, it is not enough to make certain
the foods and their preparation meet halachic standards.
Included in the mix must be whether someones livelihood will be adversely affected by allowing a competitor to open nearby. Is there enough consumer demand
for kosher pizza to allow for more than one vendor in,
say, a four-square-block area? That is a classic example
of hasagat gvul.
How sad that such violations occur. How much sadder
that we allow them to occur.
When the time is ripe

Navigating seasonal change
used to hate the end of summer.

It didnt have to do with dreading the beginning
of the new school year though I did, indeed,
often dread the beginning of the school year. I
would equate the end of the summer with the end of
the weekend, though on a larger scale. On Sunday nights
I used to get that uneasy feeling while watching The
Simpsons you know, that sinking feeling in the pit
of the stomach that a person gets when dreading the
inevitable new week of school or work. When she was
growing up, my mothers family used to call it The Gentle Ben Blues, in reference to the show about the bear,
Gentle Ben, which was, like The Simpsons, on television on Sunday nights. It was the last hurrah before
turning the lights out on another weekend.
Likewise, so it was with that last Labor Day barbecue,
sizzling out with the fizzling out of summer. And yet still,
this was not why I used to hate this time of year.
Hating the end of summer didnt have to do with the
intimidation of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur either,
though I did, indeed, find these holidays intimidating
(and still do). No, the end of summer meant the coming
of autumn, which then meant the onslaught
of winter. In essence, I would basically disregard an entire season autumn for fear
of what was to come after it: winters doom.
The anticipation of winters approach, even
if a whole season away, was enough to ruin
three months out of the year for me. Three
months when I could not fully enjoy the
more comfortable climate; when I could
not fully appreciate the leaves changing
Dena
from green to brilliant shades of yellow,
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orange and red; when I couldnt be as
thankful on Thanksgiving as I would have
liked all this because of the anticipation
of another dreary winter.
While I did enjoy winter when I was a child, late adolescence kind of ruined it for me, when the seasonal
nature of my moods started to take shape. Winter blues,
winter blahs, seasonal affective disorder, and it was all
downhill from there. Even if a particular winter ended
up being an uneventful blip on the mood spectrum
scale, it was the not knowing what was to come during that season the nervous anticipation that was
the worst of it. Winter was one big fat question mark.
Unpredictable. In essence, I spent autumn psyching
myself out. Its unfortunate, though, to skip an entire
season when that season has so much beauty and positivity to offer.
At some point that dread that accompanied autumn
fell by the wayside, if you will, and for the first time I
didnt see it as merely a precursor to winter. This probably occurred out of necessity its not healthy to miss
out on 25 percent of your year (autumn) for fear of the
next 25 percent (winter), which may or may not turn out
to be as bad as you fear it to be. So at some point autumn
began to take on a life of its own.
This started with the apples and honey of Rosh Hashanah, which signified not just sweet wishes for the new
year; to me at least, it signified ripeness as well. This
time of year, when the apples are ripe for the picking, is
the beginning of the harvest season, when we celebrate
change. The end of an apples growth becomes a sweet
beginning to our new year.
The festive nature of the season continues throughout Sukkot one of my favorite Jewish holidays, despite
Autumn foliage in Duke Farms in Hillsborough.

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the time of year being as unpredictable as you can get

weather-wise. (I recall warm nights in the sukkah as well
as nights requiring winter coats.) Theres something
about Sukkot that makes me feel close to nature, to our
roots, and to the harvest, much in the same way that
Thanksgiving, some weeks later, celebrates
the harvest. Autumn, with its earthy charm,
is a time when we use nature to celebrate
our holidays, religious or not. Whether
symbolized by corn hanging in the corner
of a bamboo sukkah, palm leaves and citrus
from the lulav and etrog, or the cornucopia centerpiece at the Thanksgiving table,
autumn is a time that celebrates ripeness.
But then what happens once all those
ripe fruits and vegetables are plucked from
the earth and all the beautiful, colorful
leaves transform into crunchy brown dust?
Winter, thats what.
And in years past its been the bareness of winter
or, rather, anticipating that bareness that has ruined
the wonderment of autumn for me. I think, though, that
the year I decided (by necessity) not to bypass autumn
was the year I also started to make my annual chop-upevery-vegetable-I-can-find-and-throw-it-into-one-hugepot of soup. Maybe thats been my own way of celebrating the earth before the arrival of a harsher climate. My
own way of harvesting the season in the form of a hearty
vegetable soup.
My secret ingredient (which in five seconds will be a
secret no more)? One beet. A little throwback to Rosh
Hashanahs traditional borscht, some sweetness added
to the pot. This soup has become something to savor
and carry me through the months that follow.
This year I plan to enjoy autumn, but I also plan to
appreciate the coming winter as well. Not just because
of all the positive vibes that will have been stored up
like acorns for the winter, but also because winter is
beautiful, too. Despite the cold. And the colds. And the
dangerous driving conditions. And the shoveling. Yes,
winter is beautiful, too and maybe Ill even figure out
some positive things to say about it before this next 25
percent of the year is up. Maybe. Ill have to get back to
you on that.
Dena Croog of Teaneck, a writer and editor, is the founder
of Refaenu, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mood
disorder awareness and support. More information about
the organization and its support is at www.refaenu.org.
Reach her at dena@refaenu.org.
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Dayenu!
Strate is certaintly sane
(And yes, I know its Rosh Hashanah)
osh Hashanah preparations are well under

way in my house.
H av e b e e n f o r
weeks. Cooking (and freezing),
studying Torah portions, learning
new choir music, designing the
seating arrangements and place
cards (dont judge me), and placing bakery and butcher orders; all
Lisa
Harris
executed in an effort to have an
enjoyable (and organized) holiday
celebration.
Im good at planning. It is, after all, how I make
my living. Years spent trying to anticipate needs
before they arise have honed my analytical and
research skills. They have made me a good predictor of what is to come.
So it is natural that I find myself ruminating
about that which is the hardest thing to predict
human behavior.
There are a quite a number of people at my
Rosh Hashanah dinner table. Twenty-three are
expected this year. The gathering spans four generations, careers from rabbi to lawyer to retail
management (with several Jewish communal
professionals thrown in for good measure), and
a broad spectrum of political leanings.
The opinions of the people around the table
are diverse. The conversation is always robust
and usually cordial. There have been a few tense
moments over the years, when widely disparate
social views became the topic of dinner conversation that rendered the nicest, most gracious
amongst us into loudly spoken, fist-banging-onthe-table disruptors of my carefully crafted holiday experience.
Dayenu!
The political atmosphere of late has been
intense. Even those who never seem to think
about what is going on in the world are discussing political debates, world politics, and economics. Some of these issues have become so polarizing that they enable some people to conduct
themselves without civility, relegating minority
or unpopular opinion holders to whisper their
positions rather than risking the harsh criticism
that might accompany giving full voice to them.
They are afraid of being judged and denigrated.
They are tired of fending off disgust.
Dayenu!
It is good to care. It is good to advocate. It is
the responsibility of every citizen to pay attention and to be heard. Amen. But when such discourse bumps civility dayenu! Moreover, to
have this behavior at a holiday table is simply
unacceptable.
This year I am banning certain topics at my
holiday table. Among them: the Republican presidential candidates, the pros and cons of Hillary
Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the Iran deal, and
border control. Health care, labor unions, and
lashon hara also are on the no-fly list.
With my list of banned topics, I realize that I
might need to provide some conversation starters for those around the table. I was inspired to
do this in July while visiting a Ben and Jerrys
ice cream parlor on Cape Cod. A

three sided, self-standing table
topper with questions you might
ask of your companion was placed
on each table. (Because I did not
have the forethought to write the
questions down and now I am
unable to find them on the Internet, I am drawing from memory.)
The questions were of this kind:
Glass
If you could have one superpower, what would it be and why
would you choose it? If you
could invite three people to dinner (dead or
alive), who would it be, and why? They seemed
to be basic questions, but I realized that I did not
know how anyone in my family would answer
them. Not my husband, my kids, my mother or
mother-in-law, my sister and sisters-in-law, my
brothers-in-law. Not one of them.
I also realized that I wanted to know the
answers.
Perhaps these questions are not quite as holiday appropriate (or holiday specific) as asking
about hopes and dreams for the coming year,
or about the greatest triumphs and defeats
from the year that is coming to a close. To me
they are less contrived. (Although if I were
forced to pick a holiday specific or appropriate question, Id go with What is your favorite
Rosh Hashanah memory?)
So here are my conversation starter questions
for Rosh Hashanah. They will appear on threesided table toppers at appropriate intervals along
my table.
Side one the superpower and dinner companion questions Ive already discussed.
Side two:
1. What are three things that are fun for you?
(One of mine is canasta. Yes, canasta.)
2. What quirky things are you interested in that
I might not know about?
(My own consist of an insatiable curiosity about
Tristan daCunha and avid watching of survivalist/
subsistence living reality shows such as Life Below
Zero and Alone.)
Side three:
1. (From TheFamilyDinnerProject.org) Gertrude Stein said, Silent gratitude isnt very much
to anyone. Describe the most creative way youve
ever expressed thanks to someone, or someone
has expressed thanks to you.
2. Eleanor Roosevelt said, Do one thing
every day that scares you. What is something
you recently did that scared you that required
courage?
I am putting these questions on my holiday
table because I want to create a an oasis from
the political, the angst-filled, the opinionated.
Moreover, I want to know these things about the
people I care about, and I want the people I care
about to know these things about one another.
And to that, there will never be dayenu.
Lisa Harris Glass is the managing director of
community planning and impact for the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Kudos for publishing Dr. Lance

Strates courageous essay, In
defense of uncertainty (September
4). It is a breath of fresh air that contrasts with the hurricane of hot air
swirling around us. How many people who look inside themselves realize that what they spout is a product
of groupthink, conformity, the herd
mentality? The louder they yell, the
more insecure they appear. If they
really tried to get to the bottom of
any issue, they would discover it to
be a bottomless well. How rare to
meet a sane person.
Manfred Weidhorn, Fair Lawn
Emeritus Guterman Professor of
English, Yeshiva University
Disappointed in
Cory Booker
I was very disappointed when

I read and heard about Senator Bookers decision to support
the deal worked out by President
Obama and his aides but I was
not surprised. It seems now that
the policy of this administration
and its supporters is any deal is
better than no deal.
Senator Booker and others who
have pledged to vote for the deal
have not been overwhelming in
explaining how good it is. The Democrats seem to be looking more to
guarantee the legacy of Obamas
foreign policy toward Iran than to
consider the future of the United
States and the rest of the world.
There has only been one Democratic senator who has been honest
and sincere in his objections to the
deal, Senator Menendez.
Much has been made of Sen.
Schumer, but if he were really
against the deal, he would have
worked to convince others to vote it
down. He didnt because he is more
interested in becoming the leader
of the Senate Democrats. It would
have been very interesting to know
if Obama did not get enough senators to vote to protect his veto, if
Sen. Schumer would have voted for
the override.
If you read the deal and listened
to interviews with negotiators, you
would be surprised with the inconsistencies. How can the Congress
vote on it if it doesnt know all the
facts? Would you sign a contract if
you know it contains sections you
cant see?
The vote has not yet been taken.
Hopefully those members who
have pledged to vote for the agreement will put their loyalty for the
future of our nation before their
loyalty to the Democratic party and
the president.
It is important for us to hear the

reasoning behind our elected officials decision on the deal.
Howard J. Cohn, New Milford
Men talking
about bikinis
I found Rabbi Zahavys bikini

answer on August 7 to be both courageous and honest (Dear Rabbi,
August 7).
While his statement that he has
no idea where his colleagues got the
notion that wearing a bikini at the
beach is a bad thing probably represents the employment of hyperbole, the fact of the matter is that
what little support one can find in
Dat Moshe for modesty in female
dress comes from Bimidbar 5:18 and
involves the loosening or uncovering of a married womans hair in
the presence of a Kohen after an
accusation of adultery. From this
the rather tenuous conclusion is
reached that the hair is normally
covered, and the rest, as they say,
is history.
Granted, there are other arguments in rabbinic literature, but all
are extremely weak in my opinion.
But who am I to have an opinion?
Well, as Rabbi Zahavy knows, I am
sympathetic with the Karaite belief
that only the Tanach is law and that
each of us should draw our own
well-considered conclusions of what
the plain meaning of the Tanach is.
The Talmud and other rabbinic
opinions are certainly worthy of
consideration, but do not, and
should not rise to the level of law.
And, this is especially true, in my
opinion, when it is all men telling
women how to live.
Barry Obut, Teaneck
Fact and fiction on Iran
Several points are in order about

Charlie Bernhauts snide nonresponse to Professor Arthur
Lermans letter about the Iran
nuclear deal (Iran and Death
to Israel, September 4). We
infer clearly that Mr. Bernhaut
opposes that deal. We can also
see that he would bundle those
who support it among them
nuclear physicists, astute policy
analysts (including some thoughtful Republicans), and the majority of landsmen with Lerman as
wishful thinkers and bleedingheart leftist Jews.
Setting such sneering aside,
your readers should focus instead
on the issues of substance, and
sort out realities from splenetic
fantasies:
Fantasy #1: Handing them [the
Iranians] 150 billion dollars to
See Letters page 24
As the years pass and

my knowledge of each
vineyard deepens, tending
to the vines turns more
personal and intimate.
I am certain that this
roots one of our secrets
of success.
Golan Flam,
Winemaker
Product of Israel
Letters
Letters
from page 22
further their goals makes no sense.

Fact: No expert knows the exact amount
of impounded Iranian assets that would be
released, but the best estimates begin at
10 billion. Given the parlous state of the
Iranian economy, one can surely envision
domestic needs for released funds.
Fantasy #2: Im not so sure if it [Israel]
can survive a nuclear Iran, with its Death
to Israel goal.
Fact: The whole point of the deal is to
stave off and forestall a nuclear Iran. For
example, Dr. Sadegh Zibakalam, a prominent dissident, who held and still holds a
chair in political science at the University
of Tehran, publicly advocates recognition
of Israel.
Fantasy #3: The letter postulates the
reality of Irans full support of terrorist
groups throughout the world.
Fact: Even after the hot air has been let
out of this rhetorical balloon, the political
reality remains that such groups are constantly at war with each other, and that
Iran opposes many of the same ones we
oppose, such as the ISIS caliphate, Al
Qaeda, and the Taliban. Islamic politics
cannot be reduced to simplistic posturing.
Fantasy #4: Israel can take care of the
Palestinians.
Fact: Smug but false. One can only speculate on what that means. Despite all its
military advantages, despite the horrendous bloodshed and endless skirmishing
and worse, Israel has been unable to establish a basis for dialogue. However, Rabin
and Peres came closer than the Likud
regime in its current and prior manifestations. Nor will the irredentists on the West
Bank, the territory that Yuval Diskin former chief of the Shin Bet calls the State
of Judea, relent in their ideological claims.
If that is wishful thinking, we need more
of it.
Richard Koffler, Teaneck
Civility and disagreement
In Iran and Death to Israel (Letters,

September 4th), the author criticizes
my August 21 letter for supporting the
accord negotiated to prevent Iran from
obtaining nuclear weapons. He argues
that the accord will actually allow Iran to
go nuclear. He wonder[s] which part of
Death to America and Death to Israel
Mr. Lerman does not understand.
But clearly both his side and my side do
understand. We simply disagree over the
best way to keep Iran from going nuclear.
Some supporting the accord have
accused the opposition of being warmongers. That is wrong. Some against the
accord accuse the supporters of not understanding the Death to America/Death to
Israel threats. That too is wrong. Why the
overheated rhetoric? (The answer calls for
a serious study of all our political psychologies.) What is certain is that the rhetoric
does not help any of us think about Iran,
the accord, and nuclear weapons clearly.
Cant we return to that great Jewish tradition of respecting one another, though
disagreeing for the sake of heaven as
well as for the sake of Israel, America, the
Middle East, and the world at large?
The author also writes that my wishful thinkingignores the reality of Irans
full support of terrorist groups Actually, his statement is inaccurate. Since my
wishful thinking was directly focused on
the reality of Irans support of terrorist
groups, the wish was that we use the 10 to
15 years of the agreement to nurture those
in Iran who hope to bring their country
away from terrorism, away from nuclear
weapons, and into the modern, democratic world. In other words, that Iran is
not just one solid, unchangeable block of
terrorism and nuclear weapons ambitions.
But maybe its unfair to call this wishful
thinking, since the idea of using the time
for supporting change in Iran goes beyond
just wishing. Its a plan, and a wish plus a
plan may be better termed a hard-headed
strategy.
The author also objects to [h]anding
them 150 billion dollars... But Iran doesnt
get the money until it demonstrates compliance with the accord. And upon release,
most of the money is committed to nonterrorist related debts and projects. And
the U.S., its negotiating partners, and
Israel are all committed to monitoring and
countering whatever of this money ends
up in a terrorist pipeline.
I am also criticized for commenting on
Netanyahus pro-settlement policies
especially because they are totally irrelevant to the Iran Issue. But I was responding to the complaint that Obama was
criticizing Netanyahu for helping Israel. I
just added that his settlement policy was
not helping.
The authors rejoinder was that the
Arabs demand all the land, so the settlements (comprising only a small part of the
land) dont matter.
But they matter a lot. An Israel occupying land until it could be handed over to a
non-threatening regime would be understood by the rest of the world even if that
occupying has to be for a very long time.
An Israel trying to squeeze land out of the
little area that the Palestinians have to create a non-threatening regime would not be
so understood.
And, as with Iran, the Arabs, including the Palestinians, are not simply a
solid, unchangeable block. They dont all
demand all the land. There are those who
want to reach out, live in peace and concentrate on bringing their societies into
the modern democratic word. The settlements are not helping their cause.
Finally, Im attacked for being a bleeding-heart leftist Jew. Thats a lot of modifiers, but is any of them bad? Sounds to me
like a direct reference to what we say in
synagogue: lift up the fallen, clothe the
naked and heal the sick. And doesnt that
translate into such things as Social Security, civil and voting rights, Medicare and
Medicaid which have benefited so many

Americans? And how about applying these
modifiers to foreign policy, that is, my wishful thinking with a plan Rabbi Natans
striving to make ones enemy a friend?
Arthur J. Lerman, Teaneck
Feckless Booker
I dont doubt that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is sincere when he says his good
friend Cory Booker is a fine, upstanding
citizen, who showed his devotion to the
Jewish cause by presiding over the college
LChaim Society (Senator Booker and the
Iran deal, September 4).
But first and foremost Cory Booker is
a politician, who, like most others of his
ilk, is fundamentally risk averse, especially when it comes to making decisions
or sticking his neck out. By all accounts
Booker was a huge disappointment as
Newark mayor, speaking passionately but
doing little to help move that troubled
city forward in any discernible direction.
That his successor, the far less-polished
and more controversial Ras Baraka, has
won wide praise from Newarks business
community, police, and minorities says as
much about the new mayors decisiveness
as it does the former mayors timidity.
To those who have observed Bookers
rapid New Jersey political ascension for little other reason than hes a relatively articulate, attractive Democrat, it was no surprise that he waited till after the deciding
vote was cast finally to declare his support
for the Obama Iran deal. His vote meant
nothing, won him points in the party, and
was totally consistent with his history of
fecklessness.
Fraser P. Seitel, Fort Lee
Dont preach, AJC
In response to Mayors decry anti-Semitism

(September 4), here is an open letter to
European leaders.
I am an American Jew whose ancestors, like so many others, come from the
Old World, your continent. I have had the
good fortune to spend time living, traveling, and working in Europe since the
1960s. I visited France last spring.
Recently, I learned that the American
Jewish Committee has launched an initiative to bring its concerns to your attention.
The AJC feels that you may not be aware of
the threat to European culture and values
posed by modern Muslim extremism. John
Rosen, AJCs New Jersey regional director,
said, Europeans dont know how to deal
with their Muslim populations.
I wish to apologize for Mr. Rosens comments and for the AJC position that it
knows better than Europeans how to deal
with this issue. America has no monopoly
on moral virtue, nor does America lack its
fair share of anti-Semitism. The AJC should
not be preaching to Europeans.
I am sure that European leaders are very
well aware of these difficulties. I applaud
the efforts made by European governments to pursue and punish criminals
who violate your laws. I recognize European efforts to legislate Holocaust education curricula and to protect the rights of
all minorities. Europe clearly is acting.
It is true that anti-Semitic incidents are
on the rise all over the world. It is also true
that pro-Semitic awareness is now at an alltime high. The response of Europe to the
Hebdo attacks last summer bears witness
to this truth. My friends in France and elsewhere tell me that they are concerned, but
that their lives continue as before.
If there is anything that I might wish for,
it would be for Americans and Europeans to join together even more closely in
teaching tolerance and integrating minority populations into their mainstream cultures. Here in America, the issue of race
relations has caused increasing violence,
the worst period in over 40 years.
In spite of current tensions, I remain
confident that Western civilization values, born on your continent, will triumph
over the forces of religious insularity and
tribalism.
Eric Weis, Wayne
No more name-calling
With more than 34 senators now committed to supporting the Iran nuclear deal, it
is time to move past the destructive battle
that much of the pro-Israel community has
waged against this agreement. If we are to
maintain the bipartisan consensus that the
security of Israel is of vital importance to
America, we must turn down the rhetoric.
In particular, we must immediately stop the
name calling that has appeared in Jewish
publications, including, unfortunately, the
Jewish Standard, where proponents of the
deal have been called morally weak, intellectually dishonest, ignorant of history, and
especially, poor friends of Israel.
The upcoming congressional vote
never was a litmus test of support for
Israel. That vote, as crafted, is a judgment call between whether or not it is
better for the U.S. to participate in an
agreement that has already been signed
by six other countries. Further, President
Obama has made it very clear that he has
neither the desire nor the ability to negotiate a better deal. With that in mind,
how do we justify calling Democrats who
will uphold his veto morally weak?
The pro-Israel community needs to
wake up to the fact that we need the Democratic party more than it needs us. Ethnic
groups that are aligned with Democrats
but are, at best, neutral to Israel are the
fastest growing groups in America. Meanwhile, nothing has changed for Israel. We
cannot afford to lose even one war. If a
Democratic party with no emotional ties
to Israel and at odds with the pro-Israel
community is in charge the next time we
need an airlift, the dream that is the state
of Israel will come to an end.
We cant let that happen. Lets mend
our fences with Democrats now before
its too late.
David Teitelbaum, Fair Lawn
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Claims that Yasser Arafat was murdered have been disproved by both
Russian and French investigations.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Why Arafat murder myth

will stay alive indefinitely
ike a mini-series
Will the French announcestaggering to the
ment mean that there will
end of its 10th
finally be an end to the chatseason, the latter about Arafats murder?
est probe into the alleged
Regrettably, there are good
murder of Yasser Arafat,
reasons to think not.
the former Palestine LibIf Suha were the only
eration Organization leader
person still convinced that
who died in Paris in 2004,
Arafat was murdered, it
Ben Cohen
recently passed an entirely
wouldnt really matter,
p re d i c t a b l e m i l e s to n e
because her credibility
when French investigators
already has been irreparaannounced that they were closing the case
bly battered by her habit of flinging false
without bringing any charges.
accusations for example, that Israel used
In their ruling, the investigative judges
poison gas against Palestinians in the West
said that there was not sufficient evidence
Bank without a shred of evidence. Nor
of an intervention by a third party who
are Palestinians themselves particularly
could have attempted to take [Arafats]
fond of her. Claims that Suha had inherited
life. Nor were there any grounds to believe
millions of dollars in bank accounts prethat Arafat was poisoned by polonium-210,
viously controlled by Arafat were widely
a highly radioactive isotope, as Arafats
reported in the Arab press in 2007, and
widow, Suha, alleged when she filed murher more recent attacks on Hamas for
der charges in 2012 at the district court in
Islamizing Gaza havent done her any
the Nanterre suburb of Paris. Directly as a
favors either. Ditto for her admission that
result of Suhas insistence that her husband
Arafat apparently told her that he planned
was murdered, Arafats body was briefly
the second Palestinian intifada in 2000,
exhumed from its burial spot in the West
thereby undermining the impression that
Bank city of Ramallah, in order for French,
Palestinians rose up spontaneously against
Russian, and Swiss investigators to gather
the Israeli occupation.
samples.
Bus the Palestinian Authority broadly
What a waste of time and money.
shares Suhas bizarre opinions on AraThe French conclusion that there was
fats death. I say broadly because Suha,
nothing to underpin the Arafat murder
at least, concedes that the Israelis are not
claim came almost two years after the
the only party who could have murdered
Russians arrived at the same determinaher husband; dissident Palestinians, she
tion. In December 2013, after having conadmits, also might have been responducted the requisite tests, Vladimir Uiba,
sible. The PA, though, says that Arafat
the head of the Russian Federal Medical
was murdered and that the Israelis and
and Biological Agency, declared that the
no one other than the Israelis were
PLO leader had died of natural causes.
responsible.
(The Russians, incidentally, know a good
Indeed, Gen. Tawfik Terawi, the head
deal about the deadly impact of poloof the PAs investigative committee into
nium, having allegedly used it in the 2006
Arafats death, is adamant about this
assassination in London of Alexander Litpoint. After the Russians concluded that
vinenko, a former Russian intelligence
there was no basis for further investigaofficer and stalwart critic of President
tion in 2013, Terawi angrily declared, It is
Vladimir Putin.)
not important that I say here that he was
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In common with many

of the conspiracy
theories that prevail in
the Arab world, the
appeal of the Arafatwas-murdered theme
hasnt been weakened
by the availability of
overwhelming evidence
to the contrary.
killed by polonium. But I say, with all the details available about Yasser Arafats death, that he was killed and
that Israel killed him. We say that Israel is the prime,
fundamental, and only suspect in the case of Yasser Arafats assassination, and we will continue to carry out a
thorough investigation to find out and confirm all the
details and all elements of the case.
Neither did the French announcement cause Terawi
to change his tune. Well continue our investigation to
reach the killer of Arafat until we know how Arafat was
killed, he told the French news agency AFP. For Terawi, there is no question that Arafat was killed, and that
Israel, in his unforgettable phrase, is the prime, fundamental, and only suspect for the crime.
In common with many of the conspiracy theories
that prevail in the Arab world, the appeal of the Arafat-was-murdered theme hasnt been weakened by the
availability of overwhelming evidence to the contrary
even though that evidence comes in the main from
the French and the Russians, two countries that have
always supported the PLO and the Palestinian cause.
This is because evidence doesnt come into it: What we
are dealing with here, instead, is yet another manifestation of the Palestinian political strategy of demonizing
Israel as a serial killer.
In this narrative, Israels killing of Arafat is
another link in the long chain of murder and atrocity
that was inaugurated during the Jewish states War of
Independence in 1948-49. The PA stubbornly clings to
the Arafat myth because it sees an acknowledgment of
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sin, Jews have no basis to claim a connection to the
land, and so forth the Arafat myth is a convenient
reminder of the racism and violence in Israels very
DNA. And how can you make peace with an enemy
like that?
You can make the case that the real losers in all this
are the Palestinians themselves. At a time when Israelis
on left and right are becoming more concerned by the
so-called price tag attacks carried out by radical Jews
living in the West Bank, the PA could demonstrate that
it is a responsible peace partner by officially exonerating Israel of responsibility for a murder that wasnt, in
fact, a murder, and by calling for renewed peace talks
at the same time.
Needless to say, the PA doesnt have the courage or
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Looking back at
September 2014
At the annual U.N. General Assembly, President
Barack Obama focuses his speech on the ISIS
threat, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
likens Iran to ISIS, and Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani blames the Wests blunders for fomenting the terrorists of ISIS. Meanwhile, Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issues a
scathing attack against Israel for its conduct in the
summers war with Hamas in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and

President Barack Obama meeting at the White
House on May 20, 2011. Alex Wong/Getty Images
October 2014
Rabbi Barry Freundel, the longtime spiritual leader of the Kesher Israel synagogue
in Washington, D.C., is arrested and
charged with voyeurism following the discovery of hidden cameras that recorded
women undressing in the Orthodox synagogues mikvah. The following February,
Freundel pleads guilty to 52 counts of voyeurism. The case roils the Orthodox world.
Rabbi Avi Weiss, an ardent political
activist who espouses a liberal brand of
Orthodoxy, announces his planned retirement from the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York. Weiss is the founder
of the Yeshivat Chovevei Torah rabbinical school for men and Yeshivat Maharat
school for female Orthodox clergy.
The Death of Klinghoffer an opera

based on the true story of an elderly
American Jewish man in a wheelchair
killed by terrorists aboard an Italian cruise
ship opens at the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York amid protests that the
production is anti-Semitic and sympathetic to terrorists. Former New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and two former
New York governors, David Paterson and
George Pataki, are among those who protest the New York revival of an opera that
had its worldwide debut in 1991.
Chaya Zissel Braun, a 3-month-old
American citizen, is killed when a Hamas

terrorist crashes a car into a Jerusalem
rail station. A second victim, a 22-year-old
tourist from Ecuador, dies several days
later from injuries sustained in the attack.
Relations between the Obama White
House and Prime Minister Netanyahu
reach a new low after an anonymous
American official calls the Israeli leader a
chickenshit in an interview with Jeffrey
Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine. U.S.
officials condemn the remark and Secretary of State John Kerry calls Netanyahu to
apologize.
Open Hillel, the movement launched to
counter the campus organizations regulations on Israel programming, holds its
first national conference, at Harvard University. The two-day gathering, titled If
Not Now, When?, draws some 350 participants hoping to push back against Hillel
International rules prohibiting programs
that feature groups or individuals who
delegitimize Israel or support the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against the Jewish state.
Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the senior rabbi at a

large Conservative congregation in Washington, D.C., announces he is gay. The
announcement is received positively by
the leadership of his synagogue, Adas
Israel.
Protesters demonstrate against The Death of Klinghoffer outside the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan on October 20.
Raffi Wineburg
SodaStream, the Israeli company that

manufactures home seltzer makers,
announces that it will close its West Bank
factory and move the facilitys operations
to southern Israel in 2015. The company
says the move out of the Jewish settlement
of Mishor Adumim is unrelated to boycott
threats.
The core exhibit of the POLIN Museum
of the History of Polish Jews, a more than
$100 million complex first conceived over
20 years ago, is inaugurated with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on hand.
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As 5775 winds to a close, heres a look back on the highs

and lows (and everything in between) of the year that was.
November 2014
The post, titled Dealing with SavAs Republicans retake the Senages, draws a strong rebuke from
ate in midterm elections, a state
the Orthodox Union, which calls it
senator from New Yorks Long
anathema to the Jewish religious
Island, Lee Zeldin, is elected to
tradition.
the U.S. House of RepresentaAs the Ebola epidemic spreads
tives, becoming the sole Jewish
in three countries in Africa,
Republican in Congress.
IsraAid becomes the sole Israeli
or Jewish organization on the

Four Jewish immigrants and a
ground in the hot zone.
Druze policeman are killed durA state monitor slams the East
ing morning prayer services in
Ramapo Central School District
a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem
in New Yorks Rockland County
synagogue, Bnei Torah Kehillat
for giving preferential treatment
Yaakov in the Har Nof neighborto Orthodox schoolchildren who
hood. The victims include Rabbi
do not attend public schools. The
Mosheh Twersky, the dean of
school board, which is majority
the Torat Moshe Yeshiva and
Orthodox, has been under fire for
the grandson of Rabbi Joseph
years for allegedly diverting pubB. Soloveitchik, the founder of
lic funds to religious schools.
modern Orthodoxy.
The mayor of Ashkelon is

Jonathan Greenblatt, a forroundly criticized for laying off
mer special assistant to Presicity Arab workers in the afterdent Obama, is named the next
math of the deadly synagogue
national director of the Anti-Defattack in Jerusalem.
amation League. Greenblatt is
Israels Cabinet grants initial
slated to replace Abraham Foxpassage to a controversial bill
man of Bergen County, the ADLs
that would identify Israel as the
leader since 1987.
nation-state of the Jewish people,
World powers, led by the
prompting concern at home and
United States, extend the deadamong some American Jews that
line in negotiations over Irans
Israeli first responders at the scene of the terrorist attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem on
it will prioritize Israels Jewish
nuclear program to June 30, 2015,
November 18, 2014.
yonatan sindel/flash90
character over its democracy.
prompting a call by AIPAC for new
Acrimony over the bill sparks a
sanctions against the Islamic Repubcoalition crisis that ends up dissolving the
following March.
rhetoric, is widely criticized for publishlic. Ultimately, additional sanctions are not
Knesset in early December and sending
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, a Teaneck
ing a blog post saying that Arabs in Israel
levied during the negotiations, which last
Israel to early elections scheduled for the
Orthodox rabbi known for his incendiary
are an enemy that must be vanquished.
until a deal is struck in early July 2015.
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Alan Gross, freed

from a Cuban
prison earlier in
the day, waves
after concluding
his remarks with
his wife, Judy, at a
news conference
in Washington
shortly after
arriving in the
United States on
December 17, 2014.
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Frances parliament, the National Assembly, votes

339-151 to urge the French government to recognize
the state of Palestine. The vote follows similar motions
passed the previous month by parliaments in Britain
and Ireland.
An oil pipeline ruptures near the southern Israeli
resort city of Eilat, causing a spill that is called one of
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The United Auto Workers Local 2865, which represents more than 13,000 teaching assistants, tutors and
other student workers in the University of California system, approves a resolution to join the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel, becoming
the first major U.S. labor union to hold a membership
vote on Israel and BDS.
Paris. The events, which prompt a massive anti-terrorism demonstration in Paris, stoke fears of French Jews
about their future in the country.
Actor Michael Douglas is named the winner of the Genesis Prize. The $1 million award, given by a consortium of
philanthropists from the former Soviet Union, is meant
to recognize accomplished Jews who demonstrate commitment to Jewish values.
Alberto Nisman the indefatigable Argentine prosecutor collecting evidence of culpability in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires is found
shot to death in his apartment, just hours before he is
to present evidence to Argentinas congress that he said
implicated his countrys president and Jewish foreign
minister in a scheme to cover up Irans role in the bombing. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
first calls the death a suicide, then a murder, while protesters hold rallies in Buenos Aires demanding justice in the Nisman case. Months on,
the mysterious circumstances surrounding
Nismans death remain unresolved.
New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is arrested on federal corruption charges. One of the states most powerful politicians and high-profile Orthodox
Jews, Silver soon steps down as speaker but
retains his Assembly seat while the investigation is ongoing.
House Speaker John Boehner invites
Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint
session of Congress on Irans nuclear program. The move sparks a showdown with
the Obama administration, which says the
invitation breaks protocol by circumventAt the Streits factory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan,
ing the White House and is inappropriate,
matzah was broken into pieces and sent to be packaged in the
because the Israeli leader is in the midst of
same way as it has been for over half a century.
Gabe Friedman
an election campaign. American Jews are
Streits announces it is closing its historic, six-story matzah factory on New Yorks Lower East Side, where the
company produced the Passover staple for 90 years. It
will relocate operations to New Jersey.
Bess Myerson, the only Jewish woman to win the Miss
America pageant, dies at 90. Myerson won the competition in 1945.
Four Jewish men are killed by an Islamic gunman during

a hostage siege at a kosher supermarket in Paris two days
after a pair of Islamic gunmen storm the Paris offices
of a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, killing 11. The
supermarket gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, is killed when
police storm the Hyper Cacher market. Almost simultaneously, police kill the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo
attack brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who were
friends with Coulibaly at a printing plant just outside
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The New Republics longtime literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, and editor
Franklin Foer quit the 100-year-old magazine to protest its new direction under
new owner Chris Hughes, a Facebook
co-founder. The magazine has a long
history of Jewish editors and coverage of
Jewish issues.
The European Parliament passes a resolution that supports, in principle, recognition of a Palestinian state as part of
peace talks with Israel, in a 498-88 vote
with 111 abstentions. Meanwhile, the
General Court of the European Union
annuls Hamas inclusion on a blacklist
of terrorist groups, saying the 2001 decision was based on press reports and not
legal reasoning.
Alan Gross, a Jewish-American contractor for the U.S. government who

had spent five years in a Cuban prison
for helping connect Cuban Jews to the
Internet, is released and returned to the
United States as part of a sweeping deal
to restore diplomatic ties between Washington and Havana. Gross subsequently
thanks the American Jewish community
for helping secure his freedom.
Jewish immigration from France to

Israel reaches an all-time record of nearly
7,000 in 2014, more than doubling the
French aliyah rate in 2013 and far outstripping immigration to Israel from
the United States. Overall, immigration
to Israel hits a 10-year high in 2014 with
approximately 26,500 new immigrants.
The Conservative movement youth
group USY votes to relax rules barring
teenage board members from dating
non-Jews. The change, adopted at the
groups annual convention in Atlanta,
affects the 100 or so teen officers who
serve on USYs national board.
President Obama signs the 2014
United States-Israel Strategic Partnership
Act. The law, which unanimously passed
the House and Senate, declares Israel a
major strategic partner, upgrades the
value of American weapons stockpiles
in Israel, and grants the Jewish state
improved trade status.
As 2014 draws to a close, Israels Central Bureau of Statistics announces that
the countrys population grew by 2 percent in 2014, to 8.3 million. Of them, 74.9
percent are counted as Jews, 20.7 percent as Arabs and 4.3 percent as others.
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Brandeis University President Frederick Lawrence announces he will step

down at the end of the academic year.
Lawrence led the historically nonsectarian, Jewish-sponsored university for five
years and was the institutions eighth
president.
Comedian Jon Stewart announces he

is leaving The Daily Show, the mock
news program he anchored for 16 years
and built into a political and cultural
touchstone.
Europes Jewish population is pegged
at 1.4 million, down from 2 million in
1991 and 3.2 million in 1960, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Overall, European Jews account for
about 10 percent of the world Jewish
population, compared to 57 percent in
1939, the eve of the Holocaust.
CBS News reporter Bob Simon, an
Emmy Award-winning correspondent who was held captive in Iraq for
40 days while covering the Gulf War
in 1991, is killed in a car crash in New
York. He was 73.
A gunman attacks the main synagogue

in Copenhagen, killing a security guard.
The attack comes just hours after a gunman kills one person at a cafe in the city,
where a caricaturist who had lampooned
Islam was speaking. The attacks are seen
as a wake-up call for Danish Jews to the
threat of Islamic terrorism. As a gesture

of solidarity, Muslims in neighboring
Norway form a peace ring around an
Oslo synagogue.
The Oscar for Best Foreign Language

Film goes to Ida, a Polish movie about
a Catholic novitiate who learns she is the
daughter of Jewish parents killed by the
Nazis. But Israels losing streak at the
Oscars continues as Aya fails to win for
Best Short Film.
More than half of U.S. Jewish college
students witnessed or experienced antiSemitism, an online survey conducted by
two professors at Trinity College finds.
In a landmark case, a New York jury
orders the PLO and the Palestinian
Authority to pay more than $218 million in damages to American victims of
six terrorist attacks that took place in
Israel between 2002 and 2004 and were
attributed to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
and Hamas. The Palestinian Authority
pledges to appeal.
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the iconic character Spock on
Star Trek for over four decades on
television and in film, dies at 83. Born
in Boston to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox parents, Nimoy had said he derived
Spocks trademark split-finger salute
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March 2015
Rabbi Denise
Eger, center,
reads Torah at
her installation

David A.M.
Wilensky
Amid lingering controversy, Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress to warn of the emerging Iran nuclear deal. Several Jewish
lawmakers skip the address. Obama
says the speech offers nothing new,
and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calls
it an insult to the intelligence of the
United States.
The Reform movements rabbinic
group, the Central Conference of American Rabbis,

installs Denise Eger as its first openly gay president.
The Swarthmore Hillel votes to disaffiliate from Hillel International to protest the Jewish campus groups
rules on Israel programming. In 2013, the Pennsylvania colleges Hillel ignited a national debate on Hillel
Internationals Israel policies, which restrict programs
with speakers who support boycotting the Jewish
state.
Netanyahu wins a fourth term, his third in a row, as

Israels prime minister, roundly defeating his main
challenger, Isaac Herzog of the Zionist Union. Netanyahus remarks in the days before the election prove
highly controversial, as he says a Palestinian state will
not be established under his watch and warns on Election Day about Arab-Israelis turning out to vote in
droves. The comments are condemned in the United
States by the Reform and Conservative movements
and by President Obama. Netanyahu later apologizes
to Israels Arabs and insists he still backs a two-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Seven children, ages 5 to 16, are killed in a Brooklyn
house fire reportedly caused by a malfunctioning Sabbath hot plate. The childrens mother, Gayle Sassoon,
and her daughter Tziporah sustain injuries in the blaze
but survive; the father was out of town at a religious
conference. The children are buried in Israel.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is found

guilty of fraud under aggravating circumstances and
breach of trust for accepting cash-filled envelopes
from U.S. Jewish businessman Morris Talansky and
using it for personal gain. Olmerts lawyers later
appeal the verdict.
Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog at the Western

Wall in Jerusalem.
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Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seen in the

courtroom of the District Court in Tel Aviv.

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Negotiators for the United States, five
other world powers, and Iran reach a
framework accord for a deal to limit Irans
nuclear program and set June 30 as the
deadline for a final, comprehensive deal.
Women of the Wall, a group that promotes

womens religious rights at the Western
Wall, reads from a full-size Torah scroll
during its monthly prayer service at the
Kotel, contravening regulations there.
The Torah was passed across the barrier
between the mens and womens sections by male supporters. The following
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Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a head of
the Har Etzion Yeshiva in the West Bank
and a prominent modern Orthodox
scholar, dies at 81.
The White House acknowledges that a
U.S. drone strike in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area in January accidentally
killed Warren Weinstein, the Jewish-American government contractor who had been
held hostage by al-Qaida since 2011. An
Italian hostage, Giovanni Lo Porto, who
was held captive since 2012, also was
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The American Jewish Reconstructionist movement is roiled by debate about
whether to drop its longstanding ban
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students. Some synagogues threaten to
quit the movement if the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College becomes the first
of Americas four major Jewish religious
denominations to ordain intermarried rabbis; the debate continues.
Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, announces that he intends to run

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services at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on April 20.
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running as a Democrat, is considered a
long shot to defeat the partys front-runner, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ethiopian-Israeli protesters clash with
police during demonstrations throughout

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the Chief Rabbinates governing body on
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progressive on womens issues and conversion, Riskin vows not to go, suspecting
the Chief Rabbinate is looking for a pretext to dismiss him. The Rabbinate later
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leader of the shul. In August, the synagogue board announces that Rosenblatt
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Jerusalem as their place of birth. The
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parents sought the passport listing not
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Iran and six world powers led by the United States reach
a historic agreement to curb Irans nuclear program in
exchange for the easing of sanctions. President Obama says
the deal cuts off all of Irans pathways to a nuclear bomb.
Prime Minister Netanyahu calls the deal a stunning historic mistake. AIPAC quickly launches an all-out effort to
have Congress scuttle the deal.
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard, Oskar Groening,
is sentenced by a German court to four years in prison for
his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in the
concentration camp.
Theodore Bikel, the actor and folk singer who won fame
playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, dies at 91.
The apparent suicide of an ex-chasid, Faigy Mayer, 30,
who jumped to her death from a rooftop bar in Manhattan,
prompts intense discussion in the Jewish community about
how the chasidic community treats those who leave it.
A federal parole panel unanimously grants parole to Jonathan Pollard, the civilian U.S. Navy analyst sentenced to life
in prison for spying for Israel. Pollard is to be freed Nov. 20
after serving 30 years of a life sentence. Its not clear whether
Pollard, who became an Israeli citizen during his incarceration, will be able to travel to Israel.
Yishai Schlissel, a charedi Orthodox Israeli recently
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parade. One victim, 16-year-old Shira Banki, later dies of her
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An arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma kills
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leaves his parents and brother critically injured. Jewish
extremists are suspected, prompting handwringing in Israeli
circles about Israels failure to rein in extremist Jews. Police
arrest no suspects in the attack, and several days later the
babys father dies and, after more than a month in the hospital, the babys mother.
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In the raucous first debate of the Republican presidential race, primary rivals, including front-runner Donald Trump, agree on opposing the Iran nuclear deal.
Meanwhile, the Senates third-ranking Democrat and
the most influential Jewish voice in the body, Charles
Schumer of New York, comes out against the deal
favored by President Obama.
American Jewish reggae star Matisyahu is disinvited

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that he endorse Palestinian statehood. Matisyahu calls
the cancellation appalling and offensive, commentators say

the conflation of Jews and Israel is anti-Semitic, and festival organizers eventually backtrack, apologize and reinvite
Matisyahu to perform, which he does.
J Street U, the campus arm of the left-wing pro-Israel, propeace lobby group J Street, elects a Muslim student, University of Maryland senior Amna Farooqi, as president.
American Airlines announces it is canceling its flights to
Israel, saying its Philadelphia-Israel route has lost $20 million over the last year. In June, El Al inaugurated a new route
between Boston and Israel.
Frazier Glenn Miller, the white supremacist who killed
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Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) becomes the 34th
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deal, effectively ensuring that Congress cannot overturn it and handing President Obama a major victory.
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TEL AVIV With hundreds of thousands of refugees pouring across the
borders of the European Union, German
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Germany would begin to accept Syrian
refugees, no matter how they got there.
Four days later, Israeli Interior Minister Silvan Shalom made a statement
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I continue to fight, with all my effort,
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days and hours, Shalom wrote on Facebook on August 28, using the governments term for migrants. I will not
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As Europe struggles to handle the
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In 2012, Israel built a border fence
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pushed EU officials to address the issue
and re-examine the EUs immigration
laws, which say migrants can claim asylum only in the first EU country they
enter.
Advocates for asylum seekers in
Israel long have called on the Jewish
state to adopt the approach Germany
is taking. Aid groups want the Israeli
government to determine migrants
status and allow them to live and work
in Israel as long as they face danger in
their home states.
In Europe, they understand the
difference between migrants and refugees, said Sigal Rozen, the public
policy coordinator for the aid group
Hotline for Refugees and Migrants. In
Israel, they just define refugees as labor
infiltrators. As soon as that term was
established, not just with [government]
decision makers but with the court system, its hard to convince the public
that we should give room to all these
labor infiltrators.
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it technically has been at war for decades. On Saturday, Knesset opposition leader Isaac Herzog called on
Israel to take in Syrian refugees. But speaking to his
Cabinet on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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the refugees from Syria and Africa, Netanyahu said.
But Israel is a small country, a very small country,
that lacks demographic and geographic depth. Therefore, we must control our borders, against both illegal
migrants and terrorism.
Israel has set up a field hospital on the Syrian border
whose staff has treated some 1,000 Syrian wounded.
Israelis agree with their prime minister, according to polls. In 2012, some 86 percent of Israelis said
they viewed African migrants as a danger to Israel.
European citizens, too, dont appear to have much
appetite for absorbing asylum seekers. A 2014 Pew
Research Center poll showed that vast majorities in
Italy, Greece, France, the United Kingdom, Spain,
Poland, and Germany want immigration to decrease
or stay the same.
Migrants draw little support in Israel because of
Israels concern with maintaining an overwhelmingly
Jewish majority and because of security concerns.
Although they are less than 1 percent of Israels population, migrants are portrayed as adding to the demographic problem.
Anti-migrant protests have been especially strong in
south Tel Aviv, where many migrants live and where
longtime residents often poor themselves say
their way of life has been upset. And Israelis fear that
a porous border could bring terrorists as well as asylum seekers.
Amit of the Ruppin Center says that as the European
Union continues to struggle with migrant absorption,
it may move closer to Israels approach. On Thursday,
Israeli news sites reported that Hungary and Bulgaria
were in talks with an Israeli company about possibly
building a border fence like Israels, though Amit says
she doubts that countries four times Israels size can
hermetically seal their borders.
Now theres a feeling of a flood, Amit said. There
are voices in Europe of If we let them in, more will
come.
But she said a cultural difference may separate the
German response from Israels. While Israel, born
after the Holocaust, has remained vigilant about
maintaining a Jewish majority, Germany may see the
Holocaust as a reason to open its borders to victims
of tragedy.
Theres a desire to atone for what had been done,
she said. Because of what happened before, they feel
that theyre repaying a debt and they can take in foreigners. Israeli immigration policy is for people with
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RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON As U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Rodham
Clinton spent plenty of time in daunting foreign territory.
No, Im not talking about Myanmar here. Im speaking of
the mind of Benjamin Netanyahu.
A batch of emails released this week as part of the trove
related to the controversy over Clintons use of a personal
email address while serving as secretary of state includes the

solicitation of advice on how to deal not just with the Israeli
prime ministers policies, but also with his personality.
Some of her interlocutors advise embracing him. Others
suggest slapping him down. No one likes him very much.
The advice at least what was solicited on her personal
email comes from associates who were not in government
when they wrote to her. Sidney Blumenthal, Martin Indyk,
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All three are Jewish. All three worked for President
Bill Clinton when he had his own difficult relationship with Netanyahu during his first term as prime
minister, from 1996 to 1999. Blumenthal was a political adviser, Berger was national security adviser, and
Indyk was ambassador to Israel.
All three were in the private sector or the think tank
world when they sent their notes to Hillary Clinton.
(Indyk later returned to the State Department as an
Israeli-Palestinian peace broker in 2013-14, after she
left office.) And all three are likely to play a role in her
administration should Clinton be elected president.
In a memo dated Sept. 30 2010, when the Obama
administration was hoping to extend peace talks with
the Palestinians past a period of a settlement freeze,
Indyk argues for the importance of assuaging Netanyahus insecurities.
The reason for dwelling on Bibis psychology
rather than his politics is that the latter all point in
favor of making a deal, Indyk writes. One of the key
obstacles to advancing the talks, according to Indyks
email: Netanyahu seems to lack a generosity of spirit.
This combines with his legendary fear of being a
freier (sucker) in front of his people.
His counsel: Put your arms around Bibi: he still
thinks we are out to bring him down. There is no substitute for working with him, even though he makes it
such a frustrating process.
Berger, similarly, describes the difficulties of Netanyahus personality and the need to coddle him in a
memo dated Aug. 24, 2010, when direct talks between
Israelis and Palestinians resumed for a short period.
Arab interlocutors are difficult, Berger says, but at
least make clear what they will and will not accept.
Netanyahu, he says, either does not know himself or
is not prepared to share.
Again, while Berger says that Clinton at times will
have to be tough and push back against Netanyahus
most extreme demands, he sees value in cultivating
Netanyahu as a friend and confidante.
You are ideally suited to begin a series of in-depth
conversations aimed at understanding his key con-
Put your arms

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cerns, how they can be met, what he would need from

us and others, Berger writes.
Blumenthal peppers Clinton with advice frequently
throughout her 2009-13 term as secretary of state,
much of it examining polls. One from March 23, 2010
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Netanyahu at his Jerusalem office in November
2012.
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includes two polls of Israelis and American Jews on

how each regards President Barack Obama.
The institutional U.S. Jewish position backing Bibi
and against the administration does not have majority
support among Jews, he says, referring to a poll by
the liberal pro-Israel Middle East lobby group J Street.
Blumenthal plumbs the media for evidence of
Netanyahus duplicity, sending along a July 15, 2010,
Tablet Magazine account of a 2001 video in which
Netanyahu boasts to a group of settlers of his first-term
maneuvers contra Bill Clinton: America is a thing you
can move very easily.
In a March 21, 2010, memo, Blumenthal refers Clinton to an article by left-wing journalist Uri Avnery that
praises the U.S. administration Clinton included
for dealing toughly with Netanyahu after the fiasco
involving the announcement of new building in eastern Jerusalem during a visit Vice President Joe Biden
made to Israel.
Clinton apparently contemplated using some of
Avnerys arguments in a speech she was about to
deliver to the American Israel Public Affairs Committees annual policy conference.
How and should I use this? she asks Blumenthal, referring to her AIPAC address the next day. He
promises her a follow-up memo, and she nudges him
as evening approaches: Are you sending? He promises yes, in 15 minutes. Whether Blumenthal sent a
memo is not clear. Clinton did not directly cite Avnery
in her speech. But Netanyahus psyche was never far
from her mind.
On May 31, 2010, after the Israeli commando raid on
a Turkish ship attempting to breach Israels Gaza Strip
blockade resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish nationals and a severe rupture in Turkey-Israel relations, she
forwards Blumenthals thoughts to Jake Sullivan, the
State Departments director of policy planning.
Bibis Entebbe in reverse, Blumenthal muses,
referring to the triumphant 1976 Israeli commando
raid on a plane held hostage in Uganda that killed
Netanyahus older brother, Yoni.
The father, Benzion, 100 years old, secretary to
[Revisionist Zionist pioneer Zeev] Jabotinsky, and
denounced as too radical by [ Jabotinsky heir and
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem] Begin, adored his
son Yoni, heroically killed at Entebbe, Blumenthal
writes. Benjamin has never measured up.
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Ron Kampeas
WasHInGTon If youre an American who likes Iranian caviar and pistachios, youre in for a treat.
Once the nuclear deal with Iran is implemented, the
U.S. sanctions that have blocked the export of those
Iranian foodstuffs into the United States until now will
be lifted.
Bon appetit.
But if youre planning on packing a suitcase and
making Iran your next vacation destination or seeking investment opportunities in the Islamic Republic
keep your excitement in check: Those activities will
continue to be forbidden under the deal.
Iran and six world powers led by the United States
reached an agreement in mid-July to lift some sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits on the countrys
nuclear program. Though the deal, known formally as
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, has yet to be
adopted formally, it looks increasingly likely.
Thanks to his veto power, President Barack Obama
has enough votes of support in the U.S. Congress to
overcome any vote to disapprove the deal, and possibly even thwart a vote if Senate Democrats filibuster.
(Irans parliament, while yet to vote on the agreement,
is expected to approve it.)
But Obama administration officials also are taking
pains to make clear that non-nuclear sanctions on Iran
will stay in place once the International Atomic Energy
Agency verifies Iranian compliance with the nuclear
restrictions, probably in about six months to a year.
The motivation is partly to assuage deep concerns
among Americans about the deal and partly to warn
Iran against bad behavior.
The U.S. Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control, which enforces Iran sanctions, says its already
stepping up enforcement of non-nuclear sanctions
restrictions in place for human rights abuses and for
backing terror, which are not tied to the JCPOA.
We have no illusions that Iran is a state sponsor
of terrorism and is continuing to engage in these bad
activities, a Treasury official, who spoke on condition
of not being identified, said.
There are several areas where sanctions still remain
in force. The U.S. governments primary sanctions,
which have been in place since the 1990s and ban any
U.S. residents or businesses from dealing with Iran,
will stay, with only a few exceptions.
General prohibitions include: investment in Iran;
importing Iranian-origin goods or services; and exporting goods or services to Iran, including clearing U.S.
dollars, the Treasury Department said in the sanctions outline it provided to JTA.
More than 200 Iranian individuals and groups targeted with secondary sanctions, which penalize nonU.S. entities for its dealings with Iran, also will remain
in place. Among the groups targeted is the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls substantial portions of Irans economy, including the construction, energy, and shipbuilding sectors.
Long lists of individuals and groups designated as
terrorist by the United States remain sanctioned, as
do any U.S. or non-U.S. parties that deal with them.
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That includes Ghasem Soleimani,

the commander of the Revolutionary
Guards elite Qods Force. Soleimani
had been singled out because he is
on a list of people to be delisted from
nuclear-related sanctions, but U.S. officials say he remains sanctioned for the
Revolutionary Guards backing of terrorist acts.
Other areas where the United States
will keep in place sanctions on parties
who deal with Iran include transfers of
weapons of mass destruction technology to Iran, including missile delivery
systems.
Using technology to track and oppress
ones citizens, such as software that
allowed Iran to spy on activists or to disrupt communication among Iranians, is
also still banned, the Treasury official
said. U.S. sanctions targeting persons
providing information technology to
Iran or Syria that could be used by those
governments to commit serious human
rights abuses stay in place.
But the United States no longer will
sanction non-U.S. entities that deal with
Irans financial sector most importantly, with its central bank. Until now,
the U.S. government has thwarted dealings by third parties with Iran by threatening to ban those parties from any
dealings with the huge and lucrative U.S.
market if they also dealt with Tehran.
Also lifted are U.S. sanctions on insurers who underwrite Iranian businesses,
on software developers, and on those
dealing with Irans carmakers. Iranians will be able to download the latest
software updates to their devices and
expect a return of French Peugeots to
their streets.
Some sanctions will remain in the

United States but be lifted elsewhere.
For example, gas stations in Beijing,
Brussels, and London may be dispensing
petrol that started out as Iranian crude,
but no such crude will reach the United
States. An oil importer in London or
Delhi wanting to transfer funds to an Iranian bank account to import goods will
be able to do so.
Irans shipping sector will be free
to deliver goods and invite foreign
investment.
In fact, under the deal the European
Union will lift virtually all of its sanctions on financial dealings with Iran
and on trade with its energy sector. The
U.N. Security Council also will remove
bans on dealing with Irans financial
institutions.
U.S. companies, while banned from
dealing directly with Iran, will be able
to license their services to non-U.S. entities. For example, Iranian airlines will
be able to buy airplane parts manufactured under U.S. license. Iran has
blamed airline crashes on its inability
to get replacement parts for U.S.-made
planes in service since before the 1979
revolution.
But not all Iranian airlines will see the
bans lifted. Mahan Air, which the U.S.
government says has secretly ferried
Iranian Revolutionary Guards fighters
and weapons on its flights, will remain
sanctioned.
The few areas where direct trade
between Iran and the United States will
resume include pistachios and caviar,
a nod to Iranian-Americans who have
imported these luxury goods in the past.
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Genack in particular, that they are inadvertently greasing the wheels for Corys choice
to embrace the deal.
Rabbi Boteach detoured from his main
message to talk about Rabbi Genack. Hes
one of my dearest friends, Rabbi Boteach
said. I go to him for halachic opinions.
And I introduced him to Cory about a
decade ago, in my house, on Shabbat, and
I brought them together multiple times
thereafter, in the hope that they would
become friends.
Now, he believes, the Orthodox Union is
falling into a trap. They organized a conference call two weeks before the vote, so
Cory could explain his position.
That call should have had one purpose the Jewish community should have
voiced their outrage that he was even
But Corys
statement
destroys the deal.
It demolishes it.
When he said he
would vote for
it, the speech
he gave was
the best speech
against it that
any politician in
the country ever
has given.
SCHMULEY BOTEACH
considering voting for the deal. And now

Rabbi Genack is helping to orchestrate this
meeting to minimize the damage to Corys
standing in the community. Really, Rabbi
Genack and the OU should be putting Israels security first.
Was Rabbi Boteach really saying that a
principled decision to vote for the arms
deal, or to think that it would be correct to
vote for it, is not possible? No, of course
I understand that people genuinely disagree with me, and of course this is a
democracy. It would be one thing if it I
were a political figure who said there is a
deal, and I agree with it.
But Corys statement destroys the deal.
It demolishes it. When he said he would
vote for it, the speech he gave was the
best speech against it that any politician
in the country ever has given. Republicans
have been quoting it as the best statement
against the deal.
Cory said that the deal shouldnt have
been negotiated. He said that it was awful.
He said that it is certain that Iran will cheat.
He said that Iran will have another $150

billion to use to kill people. He said that
Iran seeks to annihilate both Israel and the
United States and only Cory has said that.
And then, after giving the best argument
against the deal that I have ever heard, he
shockingly said yes, I will vote for it. Until
that moment I thought that there was a real
possibility that he would vote against it.
Reasonable people can disagree, but
Cory now has staked his career on this deal,
and he is the one who made the best argument against it.
Rabbi Boteach said that his friendship
with Mr. Booker is so strong that it will
persist, even though it has taken some hits
and will need some time to recover. It
will endure, he said. Our love always will
endure. I will always be close to Cory.
He understands that too. If he is upset
with me, he will get over it. Our public campaign put our relationship on the line, but
I think I am doing him an enormous favor,
because this will be a stain on his senatorial
record forever. The communitys relationship with Cory will heal, but we cant minimize the gravity of his decision.
The Jewish leaders who still say we
love you no matter what, youre still taking our phone calls, are doing him an
enormous disservice by saying that conviction doesnt matter.
I think that the Orthodox Union is
out of its depth. It has a constituency
probably 95 percent against the deal. It
is against their interest to help organize
this meeting and not take a strong public
stance against Corys choice. Even if he
wouldnt return their calls for a while, it is
their job to show courage, to let the community come before their own personal
interest, Rabbi Boteach said.
Mr. Bookers press office issued a statement in the senators name. Today, I
had the opportunity to engage with leaders in the New Jersey Jewish community
alongside Adam Szubin, undersecretary
for terrorism and financial crimes at the
department of the treasury, the statement
read. Regardless of where you stand on
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,
we are united in our commitment to the
shared goals of protecting both American
national security interests and the safety of
our ally, Israel, from the threat of Iranian
aggressions, both nuclear and non-nuclear.
Todays conversations highlighted the
necessity of many of the strategic security
initiatives that I outlined when I announced
my decision on the Iran deal last week. I
will continue to fight for greater American
leadership in bolstering Israels Qualitative
Military Edge [sic], as well as stronger commitments on behalf of our European allies
to establish coordinated responses to Iranian cheating and destabilization efforts.
As I said last week, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action can by no means be
a final act in our diplomatic dealings with
Iran, but must rather be a beginning of an
era of increased vigilance, strict accountability, and rigid oversight.
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The meaning of Rosh Hashanah:
Celebration or challenge?
he Talmud in
How can we resolve this
Rosh Hashanah
apparent contradiction?
10b describes a
What is the appropriate
dispute between
date for the celebration
two sages about the date of
of the Jewish New Year?
creation. Rabbi Eliezer insists
Is it the month of Tishrei
that God created the world in
or Nisan? The thirteenth
the month of Tishrei, while
century commentator
Rabbi Yehoshua contends that
Ramban offers an insightRachel
the world was created in the
ful resolution. The JewFriedman
month of Nisan.
ish calendar really has
Dean of Lamdeinu
What is the significance of
two beginnings. The
(lamdeinu.org), the
this dispute? Is it simply an
year begins in Tishrei
center for adult
Torah learning in
argument about when the
because that is when the
Teaneck.
world was created or does
world was created. But
it have a more profound
the months are counted
relevance?
from Nisan because that is
A partial answer is that the arguwhen the nation of Israel was born. Nisan
ment between Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi
is the first month for the Israelites because
Yehoshua over the month of creation had
it was then that Israel became a free and
very important practical ramifications for
independent nation.
the Jewish calendar. Each rabbi assumed
The sages ultimately accepted the opinthat Rosh Hashanah the New Year
ion of Rabbi Eliezer that the world was
would be celebrated on the anniversary
created in Tishrei and that Rosh Hashaof the creation of the world and human
nah should be celebrated at this time.
beings. Isnt it logical for human beings
This idea is mentioned many times in the
to acknowledge Gods sovereignty on the
Rosh Hashanah prayer service. Every time
anniversary of their creation? It was therewe hear the sound of the shofar during
fore necessary to establish when humanthe musaf service, we respond with the
ity was created, in order to set the day of
words: Hayom harat olam on this day
Rosh Hashanah.
the world was created. The rabbis also
There is, however, a deeper issue at
emphasized that as the anniversary of
the heart of the dispute between Rabbi
creation, Rosh Hashanah is a day of judgEliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua. In the Torah,
ment for every human being. As the Mishthere is no reference to a New Year celenah in Rosh Hashanah 1:2 states: On Rosh
bration on the first day of Tishrei. What
Hashanah all the earths inhabitants pass
we celebrate today as Rosh Hashanah
before God like a flock of sheep. On the
is described as a holy day commemoanniversary of creation, no human being
rated with long blasts of the shofar to be
gets a free pass. Every human being gets
observed on the first day of the seventh
a moment with God to determine if he or
month. Based on the Torah, the more
she will merit another year.
likely candidate for a New Year celebraWhat lesson can we learn from the fact
tion would be the month of Nisan which is
that Judaism recognizes two beginnings
proclaimed in the twelfth chapter of ExoRosh Hashanah in Tishrei, commemoratdus as the head month of the year. Immeing humankinds creation and the month
diately before the Israelites leave Egypt,
of Nisan, commemorating the birth of
God commands: This month is for you
the nation of Israel? The celebration of
the head of the months; it is for you the
two beginnings of time in the Jewish calfirst month of the year!
endar teaches us that in Judaism national
identity and individual humanity are important values that go hand in hand.
At the same time, the existence of two
Roshei Shanah two New Years is also a
metaphor for the great challenge of every
Jew. It represents the complexity of blending
a religious life with a life in the wider world.
The twentieth century Torah luminary, Rabbi
Joseph Dov Soloveitchik, described this challenge with extraordinary eloquence in a comment on the statement of Abraham to the Hittites after the death of his wife Sarah:
[Abraham remarks]: I am at once a
stranger and a resident among you What
do we say to the Jew from America? You
are a stranger and a resident. You can participate fully in all political, cultural, and
economic activities. You may feel yourself
a resident at the university, in the laboratory, in financial circles, in the press, in
Congress but this is not all. You possess a
world that is entirely your own, a world of

sanctity and chesed, of Torah, of the Shabbat and of education. Despite your participation in all spheres of social and political
life, you must also remain a stranger, a Jew
living a different life
Rosh Hashanah is the season of introspection and resolution for every Jew. It is the
season to reflect on the year that has passed
and to set priorities for the future. If so, as
we make our New Year resolutions, each of
us must consider our dual role as human
beings and as Jews. We must seek to harmonize our universal destiny as part of Gods creation with our unique identity as members of
the Jewish nation.
As we celebrate the anniversary of creation,
we must challenge ourselves to be the best
human beings and the best Jews that we can
possibly be.
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5. Hits, like Greenberg
9. ___ ___ your request
14. Big simchas
15. Kind of Torah
16. Minim number
17. Partake in Magid at a seder
18. Beget
19. Rosh Hashanah staple
20. Part I of the greeting
23. ___ up (say Vidui on Yom Kippur)
24. Weather woe
25. Take the wheel
27. Etrog Citron cover
30. George Burns, with his cigar
34. Shekel machine
37. Author Ayn
40. Life is Beautiful country
41. They may be cast in a Sheldon
Adelson building
42. Part III of the greeting
44. Casspis org.
45. (Pray) speedily
47. International teen letters
48. Sit out in Eilat
49. Eating a lambs head on Rosh
Hashanah, e.g.
51. Observe (the Sabbath)
54. Reacted to the opening of the ark
57. Cook a Passover bone
61. Make a roof for a room
64. Part II of the greeting
67. Tosses
69. Like the Jews at Sinai
70. Angers
71. Batshevas first husband
72. Atlantic City attraction
73. Shalom to Luigi
74. Prophet who lived to 120
75. Where a 55-Down spoke
76. Possible cat toy
The solution to last weeks puzzle

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Down
1. Rubs an Ahava bar
2. Rebeccas view of Isaac
3. Figure out
4. Like Sisra when Yael killed him
5. Chris who plays on Micky Arisons
team
6. Solo for Dudu Fisher
7. Sukkah coverings, at times
8. ___ in (missed minyan)
9. Pre 9 Av item
10. Part of services during Rosh Hashanah
11. Plain ___ box
12. Days before
13. They emit from Han Solos blaster
21. Had some new fruit on the second
night, e.g.
22. ___I Can: The Story of Sammy
Davis Jr.
26. Arab leader
28. Able was I ___...
29. Front or back home locale
31. Mendelssohn rival
32. Exile location in a well-known palindrome
33. Brewer Braun
34. First name?
35. Native American tent (alt. spelling)
36. Like Haman
38. Home letters for many American
Jews
39. Kind of job
42. Ramat Gan to Petah Tikva, e.g.
43. Correct, to a pirate
46. Round new years item
50. Kosher animal whose horn could be
made into a Shofar
52. Koufax had a low one
53. Guiding principle
55. See 75-Across
56. Nosed (out)
58. Places in the heart
59. Shave a sheep
60. Mike who appeared in a Todd
Phillips mega hit comedy
61. Chabibi
62. Currency used in Les Marais, Paris
63. Fashion icon Apfel
65. Sharpen
66. Notable role for Harold (Ramis)
68. Sarah or Leah
Calendar
Friday
SEPTEMBER 11
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley has an
outdoor family service
and ice-cream social,
6:45 p.m.; tot Shabbat at
5:15. 221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in New City:

The Nanuet Hebrew
Center offers a family
service with special
tribute to victims of
the September 11 terror
attacks, 7 p.m. 411 South
Little Tor Road, off Exit
10, Palisades Interstate
Parkway. (845) 708-9181
or www.nanuethc.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds
family services,
7:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 13
Erev Rosh Hashanah
in Rockleigh: The
Jewish Home at
Rockleigh welcomes
the community to join
residents for services,
4 p.m. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 784-1414.
Erev Rosh Hashanah

in Ridgewood:
Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth
Israel hosts an erev
Rosh Hashanah dinner,
5 p.m., before the service
at 6:30. Meet Rabbi
Jacob Lieberman and
RCBI members. Seating
is limited; reservation
required. Free seats for
High Holy Day services
are available to first-time
attendees. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320,
www.synagogue.org, or
carynstarr@yahoo.com.
Erev Rosh Hashanah in

Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley offers a special
community service,
6 p.m. 87 Overlook Drive.
Free; call for reservations,
(201) 391-0801.

Montclair: The Jewish
Cultural School & Society
offers secular humanistic
readings, songs, shofar
blowing, and candle
lighting, held in the
Unitarian Universalist
Congregation, 67 Church
St., 7 p.m. www.jcss-nj.
org or (951) 527-7651.

Closter: Temple Beth
El of Northern Valley
invites the community
to services, 7:30 p.m.
No tickets required. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
blowing service, starting

at 4:45 p.m., followed
by Mincha at 5 and
tashlich at Pier A Park,
1st Street & Sinatra
Drive, at 5:30. No tickets
required. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.

Emerson: Congregation
Rosh Hashanah in
Bayonne: Temple
Bnai Israel of Emerson

to open services,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Emanu-El offers
community tashlich at
Hudson County Park,
42nd Street & Kennedy
Boulevard, 5 p.m. Varda,
(201) 437-4481.
Monday
SEPTEMBER 14
Tuesday
Rosh Hashanah
in Englewood:
SEPTEMBER 15
Congregation Kol
HaNeshamah offers
services beginning at
8:45 a.m., with youth
services at 10:30. Also
Tuesday at 8:45 a.m.,
with Tashlich and
Tales at 1:15 p.m. On the
premises of St. Pauls, 113
Engle St. (201) 816-1611 or
www.KHNJ.org.
Rosh Hashanah
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob invites the
community to the Big
Tent Day 1 Rosh
Hashanah, 9 a.m. No
tickets. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
www.bnaijacobjc.org.
Rosh Hashanah
in Rockleigh: The
Rosh Hashanah in
Emerson: Congregation
The Bergen
Performing Arts
Center in Englewood
presents Israeli born
violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman
on Sunday, October 11 at 7 p.m.,
as part of the Wilmington Trust
Cultural Arts Series. 30 North
Van Brunt St. (201) 227-1030
or www.bergenpac.org or
www.ticketmaster.com.
OCT.
11
Jewish Home at
Rockleigh welcomes
10 a.m. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 784-1414.
David Pietruszka,
(201) 966-4498 or www.
jle.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
Englewood: The Torah
Rosh Hashanah in
Links Center for Jewish

Identity of NNJ offers
family friendly services
at Congregation Ahavath
Torah, 10 a.m. Kiddush
follows. 240 Broad Ave.
(484) 620-6187 or yw@
torahlinks.org.
Rosh Hashanah
in Fair Lawn: Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds a special
service for families with
young children, 10 a.m.
All children there will
receive a gift from
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: The Jewish
Learning Experience
has free explanatory
services at Maayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls, 10 a.m.,
followed by Kiddush
and refreshments. 1650
Palisade Ave. Rabbi

community family service
for parents and children
8 and younger, 12:45 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive. Free;
call for reservations,
(201) 391-0801.
Rosh Hashanah in
Leonia: Congregation
Adas Emuno offers
community family
services, 2 p.m. 254
Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712
or www.adasemuno.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
Mahwah: Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom offers
family services, 2:45 p.m.
280 Ramapo Valley Road.
(201) 512-1983 or www.
bethhaverimshirshalom.
org.
Rosh Hashanah
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob invites the
Tent Down by the
Riverside: Tashlich on the

Hudson, 3 p.m. Foot of
Washington Street just
past the Korean War
Monument in Paulus
Hook. Free parking.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
has High Holy Day
family services for
young children, 3:15 p.m.
Tashlich at Demarest
Duck Pond at 4:30.
No tickets required.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. Information,
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Rosh Hashanah in Glen

Rock: The Glen Rock
Jewish Center offers a
community apples and
honey service, 4 p.m.,
and tashlich at the Duck
Pond off Prospect Street
at 6. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
Hoboken: United
Synagogue of Hoboken
holds a public shofar
Bnai Israel of
Emerson invites the
community to open
streamlined services,
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Short
story in lieu of sermon.
Junior congregation
at 10. 53 Palisade
Ave. Information,
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Rosh Hashanah
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob invites the
Tent Day 2 Rosh
Hashanah, 9 a.m. No
tickets. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
www.bnaijacobjc.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
Jersey City: Temple
Beth-El offers services
without a charge, 10 a.m.
2419 Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229 or www.
betheljc.org.
Rosh Hashanah in River

Edge: Temple Avodat
Shalom offers services at
no charge, 10:15 a.m., and
childrens services at the
same time. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463 or
www.avodatshalom.net.
Rosh Hashanah in
to services, 10:30 a.m.
No tickets required.
Information, 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
community family service
for parents and children
8 and younger, 12:30 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive. Free;
call for reservations,
(201) 391-0801.
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 16
Rosh Hashanah in
West New York: Shaare
Zedek offers services
at no charge, 9 a.m.
5308 Palisade Ave. Dan,
(201) 873-7886.
Rosh Hashanah in
Englewood: The Torah
Links Center for Jewish
Identity of NNJ offers
family friendly services,
at Congregation Ahavath
Torah, 10 a.m. Kiddush
follows. 240 Broad Ave.
(484) 620-6187 or yw@
torahlinks.org.
Concert in Rockleigh:
The Leonora Messer
Summer Concert Series
concludes outside
on the patio, weather
permitting, at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh,
6:30 p.m., with a
performance by Ed
Goldberg & the Odessa
Klezmer Band. 10 Link
Drive. (201) 784-1414.
Rosh Hashanah
in Rockleigh: The
Jewish Home at
Rockleigh welcomes
10 a.m. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 784-1414.
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: The Jewish
Learning Experience
has free explanatory
services at Maayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls, 10 a.m.,
followed by Kiddush
and refreshments. 1650
Palisade Ave. Rabbi
David Pietruszka,
(201) 966-4498 or www.
jle.org.
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the Nazis during World
War II. Kosher lunch.
10 Link Drive. Shari,
(201) 837-9090, or ext.
237 sharib@jfsbergen.
org.
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 17
Friday
SEPTEMBER 18
Shabbat in Hoboken:
Harry Ettlinger
Holocaust survivor
group in Rockleigh:
Cafe Europa, a social
program sponsored by
Jewish Family Service
of Bergen and North
Hudson for Holocaust
survivors, funded in part
by the Claims on Jewish
Material Claims Against
Germany, the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, and private
donations, meets at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 11:30 a.m.
Harry Ettlinger, the last of
the original Monuments
Men, is the guest speaker.
The Monuments Men
recovered precious art
and artifacts stolen by
The United Synagogue

of Hoboken holds
Shabbat Shuvah services,
7 p.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or
hobokensynagogue.org.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 20
Pre-k/kindergarten
school: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah begins a
weekly pre-kindergarten/
kindergarten Sunday
School, 9:30-11:30 a.m.,
for 4- to 6-year-olds.
Learn about the holidays,
Shabbat, Jewish cooking
and crafts, and the alefbet. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.
org.
Family program in
New Milford: Solomon
Schechter Day School
of Bergen County offers
Sundays @ Schechter, a
community-wide Jewish
themed interactive family
series, with an outdoor
kids concert featuring
Joanie Leeds and the
Nightlights, 10 a.m. Rain
or shine. 295 McKinley
Ave. (201) 262-9898, ext.
213 or ssdsbergen.org.
Charity walk in
Teaneck: The Friendship
Circle holds its annual
friendship walk at Votee
Park. Registration and
pre-walk activities,
10 a.m.; 1-mile walk at 11,
end-of-walk celebration
and carnival run to
1 p.m. Games, rides,
concessions, comedic
and stunt performance
by the Harlem Wizards.
All pre-registrants receive
a NJ Friendship Walk
T-shirt. Event supports
families with special
needs children. Queen
Anne Road and Court
Street. (201) 262-7172 or
www.NJFriendshipWalk.
com.
Celebrating
grandparents in
Rockleigh: The Jewish
Home at Rockleigh
holds its Centennial
Grandparents Day
Carnival, 10 a.m.-noon.
Sponsored by JHRs
Young Leadership
Initiative. Entertainment,
train rides, face painting,
petting zoo, carnival
characters, moon walk,
crafts, games, square
dancing, antique cars,
motorcycles, and
refreshments. Rain or
shine. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 784-1414, ext. 5524.
Fun with trucks in West

Nyack: The PJ Library of
the Jewish Federation of
Rockland offers Touch
A Truck, where children
can explore a variety
of construction trucks,
cars, and community
vehicles, at the Rockland
Jewish Community
Campus, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
In conjunction with JCC
Rocklands Rock the
Block community event.
450 West Nyack Road.
(845) 362-4200 or www.
jewishrockland.org.
Teen choir open

house/auditions:
The Rockland County
chapter of HaZamir: The
International Jewish High
School Choir, conducted
by Cantor Marcy Kadin,
holds a first rehearsal and
auditions for teens at Beth
Am Temple in Pearl River,
1 p.m., working toward a
concert at Carnegie Hall
on April 3. (973) 202-0118
or hazamirrockland@
gmail.com.
Teaneck boutique: Sinai

Schools holds its annual
fall Yom Tov boutique
at Teaneck Marriott at
Glenpointe, 5-9 p.m. 100
Frank W Burr Boulevard.
(201) 213-5701 or
blgopin@verizon.net.
Monday
SEPTEMBER 21
Sukkot class: Chabad
of Hoboken offers a
Sukkot class, The Corfu
Etrog A Search for
the Authentic Citron,
8 p.m. 80 Park Ave.,
Newark Street entrance.
(201) 386-5222.
Singles
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 23
Yom Kippur in Clifton:
Singles meet at the
Clifton Jewish Center, 18
Delaware St., for Neilah
services, 6:15 p.m., then
go to the Park West
Diner, 1400 Route 46 in
Little Falls to break the
fast at 7:45. Reservations,
(973) 772-3131.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 27
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social gettogether at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties.
450 West Nyack Road.
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tours, classes, and activities
In celebration of the new
membership season, the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly will hold a community open house on Sunday, September 20, from 1
to 4 p.m. JCC staff will provide guided facility tours,
where members and guests
will be able to enjoy JCC
gyms, outside pools, and
the water park, try sample
classes, and use the adult
and youth fitness centers. There also
will be special activities for children,
including a moon bounce, face painting, a balloonologist, nursery school
playgrounds, and tumble room.
JCC representatives will be on
hand to talk about their programs
and about membership in general, and

to help people register for classes. The
JCC is also offering a
special promotion in
connection with the
event. New members will save $150 if
they join by October
31; if they join at the
open house, they will
receive an extra $50
in JCC cash.
Call the membership office at (201)
408-1448 or email join@jccotp.org.
Go to www.jccotp.org for a schedule
of classes that day. Membership will
be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
open house.
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Flowers for the holidays by J-ADD
The Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities ( J-ADD), a
nonprofit agency that serves people with special needs, offers flowers for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.
You pick up the flowers at
Chabad of Tenafly, the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center, the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades, the Moriah School,
and the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County in New
Milford. Centerpieces cost $40 and
A sample arrangement
$54; bouquets cost $18 and $36. To
order, call Stephanie at (201) 4570058, ext. 18, or email flowersbyjadd@j-add.org.
Local artist
to display work
in Whippany
Sculptor Milton Ohring of Teaneck is
among six contemporary Jewish artists
whose work is displayed in Judaism: A
Visual Conversation at the JCC MetroWest in Whippany.
Art, including photography, graphics,
fiber, painting, and woodblock prints,
will be on display from September 17 to
November 8. An artists reception is set
for Sunday, September 27, from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m.
The MetroWest JCC Gaelen Gallery West
is at the Lautenberg Family Center-Aidekman Campus, 901 Route 10 East in Whippany. For information, call (973) 929-3167.
Manicure
decals add
to seasonal
festivities
You can start the new year
in style by adding a shofar,
pomegranate, apples, or
honey decals from Midrash
Manicures High Holiday line.
A set of holiday nail decals
costs $11.99 and includes 44
decals that will be appropriate
through the High Holy Days,
Sukkot, and Simchat Torah.
Jewish Standard readers can
take 15 percent off an order
through September 30 by
using coupon code Rimon15 at
checkout.
For information, call (347)
201-1948 or email info@
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bergenPAC arts school registration
Lots Wife by Milton Ohring.

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Registration is open for fall classes at the

Performing Arts School at bergenPAC
in Englewood. Classes are available in
dance, theater, music, musical theater,
Music Speaks, Limitless Arts, studio
rental, and private instruction. Korean
percussion and dance and Indian dance
are new this year.

Options are available for all age ranges
and ability levels. Registration is ongoing at bergenpac.org/education, or by
calling Luisa at (201) 482-8194, or emailing @bergenpac.org.
New kosher wines for the New Year

JAY BUCHSBAUM
5776 is almost here. And so is a bevy of
new wines from around the world.
When it comes to wine, tastes vary
greatly so weve expanded our selection of new arrivals. This coming New
Year brings a fresh array of offerings, giving wine lovers an opportunity to not only
enjoy the latest vintage of their tried and
true favorites, but to also to discover something new.
Washington is the second largest wine
producing state after California. Washington wines are known for their bright fruit
flavors and crisp acidity, as well as for the
unique terroir (a French wine term that
loosely translates as a sense of place and
refers to the sum of the interactive effects
on the final wine of the unique local growing conditions of its vineyards).
Climates of individual Washington wine
regions differ dramatically, and are cut
across from north to south by the Cascade
Mountains, resulting in diversity. In general, Washington wine regions rely upon
drip irrigation, enjoy consistent temperatures, and benefit from an extra two hours
of daylight over California during the

growing season. All this contributes
to amazingly vibrant grapes. With
more than a dozen different wine
regions in Washington, some find
this diversity confusing, but the terroir shines through and lends itself
to exceptional, rich, sometimes wonderfully subtle and complex wine.
New from Pacifica, the sister winery to Goose Bay in New Zealand
and the first all-kosher winery in the
Pacific Northwest, is the Columbia Gorge
Ros. Made from a blend of Pinot Noir,
Tempranillo, Merlot, and a touch of Zinfandel grapes all grown along the Columbia River on Underwood Mountain, this
fabulous ros is a luscious, higher acid vintage made in a dry style with just a touch
of sweetness, crisp and flavorful.
France is perhaps the most prestigious
and well know growing region. It is said
that Rashi grew grapes and produced wine
in France, and some of the most prestigious
French vineyards can trace their wine growing lineage back more than 500 years. Today
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet
Franc, among other classic grape varieties, are
predominantly grown around the Bordeaux

area; Burgundy and Southern France grow
primarily Pinot Noir and Chardonnay; and the
Rhone Valley grows varieties such as Mouvedre, Grenache and others that have been ideally matched to the local regional terroir over
the centuries.
Israel, which started popping up on the
radars of many wine connoisseurs only
recently, is arguably the oldest wine producing region in the world. The varied terroir with cooler weather and volcanic soil
in the north and generally warmer weather
and red, clay and loam soils in the central
and south part of the country allows for
a wide variety of flavors and tastes in wine.
Couple the diverse growing conditions

with the most up to date winemaking techniques and Israeli ingenuity (for example,
drip irrigation was pioneered in Israel),
and you have a recipe for some of the
finest wines available today. Some exciting new releases for the holiday season
from Tabor Winery are Tabor Gewurztraminer an off dry white wine, perfect for
a Rosh Hashanah lunch or a warm day in
the sukkah. Another new release is Tabor
562, a delightful sparkling wine made with
fine early harvested Chardonnay for richness and French Colombard for structure
and lively fruit flavors; perfect for celebrating the Jewish new year.
From the Tulip Winery comes Tulip Espero.
Espero (hope in the international auxiliary language of Esperanto) is homage to the winerys
special relationship with Kfar Tikvah (village
of hope), a unique community that is home
to emotionally and developmentally disabled
adults. The Tulip winery is not only located
in Kfar Tikvah, but also employs many of the
residents. Blended from Syrah, Merlot, and
Cabernet Franc, Tulip Espero is at once complex but inviting, round, soft and flavorful. It
is limited in production.
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Temple Mount into a symbol of reconciliation and cooperation, respecting the rights of the other.
When the newcomer saw an Israeli man with a kippah
talking about the contentious holy site, Rabbi Carroll
reported, he freaked out and launched into a speech
about how we must never allow a Jewish temple there;
it would lead to bloodshed. An Italian Christian intern
who was there that night was very distraught to hear
what he said. Our Muslim co-chair was very embarrassed, and he took the guy aside to talk to him privately.
One of the Jews in our group said to me, How do
you know what hes saying to that guy in Arabic? I told
him, I dont, but I have a high degree of trust. And we
wont change that guy unless we encourage him to keep
showing up.
I dont live in a fantasy land, but I believe we are
making a real difference. If each population group isnt
willing to live with the other, the conflict will remain
unsolvable. A political solution has to have grassroots
underneath it.
This is now my fifth

meeting here. I
believe its good for
people to understand
other religions, and I
learn even more about
my own religion from
the discussions.
MUHAMMAD ZARHAF
Still, Rabbi Carroll noted that his Muslim co-chair is

afraid to be identified in print. Ever since Fatah made
it their official policy to disrupt and prevent any sort of
meetings between Israelis and Palestinians, there have
been concerns about personal safety and some reluctance on the part of some of our Palestinian coordinators and members to have their names be publicly
known, he said. Its a reminder that they take real risks
in doing what they do, and makes me respect their commitment even more than I did already.
In the Maaleh Adumim-Azariya group, 47-year-old
bus driver Muhammad Zarhaf said that hes not afraid
to use his full name and is not scared of repercussions.
I fear only Hashem, he declares, speaking in Hebrew
and using a commonly used Jewish term for God. This
is now my fifth meeting here. I believe its good for people to understand other religions, and I learn even more
about my own religion from the discussions. The main
reason I come is that its an opportunity to strengthen
peace between us.
Ms. Brinn and her husband, David, got involved
about a year and a half ago. We felt it was something
we should be doing. You have two communities living
side by side Maaleh Adumim and Azariya and you
have very little, if any, interaction. I always felt that
even if we cant agree on politics, the least we can do
is learn how to get along with each other on a human
basis. This group is about fostering friendships, and I
think weve come to have a mutual respect and fondness for each other. Maybe at this point in time thats
the best we can do.
Ms. Feuer relates that she first heard about IEA more
than five years ago at a Shabbat table discussion, and not
in a positive way.
Some of the other guests were complaining about
a post on the local email group about the interfaith
encounter, which was meeting in our city at that time,
she said. They were afraid it was allowing in terrorists.
My ears perked up. Later I looked into it, and I went to
the next meeting.
To her surprise, she saw half a dozen familiar faces
there from her modern Orthodox neighborhood. Its
been a learning experience not only about meeting my
Muslim neighbors but also about getting past stereotypes I had about my Jewish neighbors, she says. And
when I invite people from my neighborhood to come,
theyve been really open to it.
She said that this particular group mainly native
English-speakers and Arabic-speakers has so much
difficulty communicating that the IEA sends a translator.
Its really inspiring that people are taking time to just
sit in the same room together, even if theyre not understanding one another, said Ms. Feuer, a mother in her
late 30s who is assistant to the dean at Pardes Institute of
Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. If we want to build a society of peace and justice thats a light unto the nations,
we cannot do that if our neighbors are invisible. So its
enough for me to sit in the room with them.
Still, she hopes that someday the group will have
more meaningful conversations and even move beyond
comfortable topics. Over refreshments at the end,
weve talked politics, and that has been fascinating, she
said. A 22-year-old student from Nablus once joined our
meeting. Because of all the checkpoints, he had to drive
three hours to get to us. He seemed very liberal, and he
spoke great English.
But afterward, I was talking to him about honor
killings and he said there was no question he would
approve of that if his sister shamed his family. That was
eye-opening. We need to know about our differences
and not stay in a happy space all the time.
David Egyes of Jerusalem, 48, prefers steering clear of
political discussions. The Rockland County native began
attending the Circle of Light & Hope about six months
ago.
I was long interested in religion-based encounters
with Arabs and Muslims, as distinct from attempts at
political reconciliation, he said. The first meeting was
quite enjoyable, with cordial interaction. On the Muslim
side, the participants in our group are almost exclusively
men and mostly of middle age. Bob and the Muslim coordinator start by describing the topic of that evenings
meeting, and we talk about it over a meal of pita bread
and salads. We sit together as children of Abraham.
Mr. Egyes said that this is not an idealistic approach,
but a practical approach that speaks to my deep-seated
belief that whatever the right and wrong of Zionism and
Palestinian nationalism, in an ultimate sense were going
to have to learn how to live together or were going to
die together.
Father Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac,
who become deeply estranged and their descendants
are deeply estranged. I feel we must sit together not as
Palestinians and Israelis but rather as Muslims and Jews
who share a common origin.
Or as Dr. Stolov put it, As long as we dont learn how
to interact positively, we interact negatively. When the
process is advanced enough, it will be possible to think
about political models. Right now all are equally unrealistic but theyll be equally realistic if we succeed.
For more information, go to http://interfaithencounter.org
Ruth Ayal
Ruth Daphne Goldberg Eyal, 70, of Passaic died on

August 28.
Predeceased by her husband Chanoch Eyal, and
a granddaughter, Chavie Stein, she is survived by
daughters, Elisheva Stein (Barry), Mori Sokal (Shlomo),
and Yarona Boster (Carl), and grandchildren, Isaac and
Sara Ayelet Stein, and Alex, Azi, and Shani Sokal.
Arrangements were by Jewish Memorial Chapel,
Clifton.
Dr. Walter Jacobowitz
Dr. Walter E. Jacobowitz, 82, of Morristown died on

September 3.
Born and raised in Jersey City, he practiced
obstetrics and gynecology for 40 years at Morristown
Memorial Hospital, serving as chair of the ob/gyn
department and president of the medical staff.
He is survived by children, Glenn (Marilyn), Karen
Mayerson ( Jeff ), and Dana Yormark (Michael); a sister,
Elaine Rubenstein, and five grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the Center for Jewish Life,
Hillel at Princeton University. Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
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Sylvia Katz
Sylvia Katz, ne Dorogusker, 87,

formerly of North Bergen, died on
September 4.
A Brooklyn College graduate, she
earned a masters from Montclair
State College and worked for the State
of New Jersey. She was a member of
Temple Beth El of North Bergen, Bnai
Brith, and Hadassah. After retiring, she
volunteered at Meadowlands Hospital
and for Kosher Meals on Wheels.
Predeceased by her husband, Phillip,
and siblings, Frieda Jacobson (Seymour)
and Stanley Dorogusker, she is survived

by her children, Asher, and Laura Jacobs
(Edward); a brother, Ben Dorogusker
(Claire); seven grandchildren, and a
great- granddaughter.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
Eleanor Morris
Eleanor Morris of Fair Lawn died on

September 3.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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loving south florida!
FDA has approved the Israeli

companys device for treating brain
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VIVA SARAH PRESS
NovoCure the company known for its novel approach
to treating solid tumors using electric fields has filed
for an IPO to raise up to $300 million. The Israeli medical device pioneer received FDA approval in 2011 for its
TTFields product, designed to treat glioblastoma brain
cancer.
JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Evercore are the
issues chief underwriters, and the secondary underwriters are Wells Fargo, JMP, and Wedbush PacGro.
The commercial stage oncoloy company now is taking part in the 16th World Conference on Lung Cancer,
where it is presenting ongoing and future clinical trial
designs in lung cancer.
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metastases, we are committed to developing TTFields
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which unfortunately cause the highest number of cancer-related deaths worldwide.
For now, the FDA approval is limited to treatment
of glioblastoma, but Novocure has filed a request for
approval of the device for use in combination with chemotherapy, following a successful trial.
Novocures non-invasive treatment was developed
by Technion Israel Institute of Technoloys Professor
Yoram Palti, and includes a helmet that broadcasts electric fields to slow the growth of cancerous glioblastoma
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Teaneck Fire Department turns 100

The Teaneck Fire Department is celebrating its 100th Anniversary of protecting and serving the residents of
Teaneck.
On Sunday, October 4, the fire department will host an open house from 10
a.m.2 p.m. at its headquarters at at 1231
Teaneck Road.
The Fire Prevention Trailer will have

interactive demonstrations with an educational focus on staying safe in a fire.
There will be an area for kids to use a fire
hose and other activities.
A tower ladder and rescue truck will
be on display.
There will be tours of the fire house.
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Happy New Year
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