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LEARNING GERMAN IN GERMANY: A STUDENTS DIARY page 6
A CONVERSATION WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN page 10

REFLECTIONS FROM A JERUSALEM FUNERAL page 14
PRIME MINISTERS: THE NEXT GENERATION page 37
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Israeli team leads

Googles race to the moon
A while back we reported on
SpaceIL, the Israeli project that aims

to put a lander on the moon and
claim a $20 million prize. Google has
offered the prize for the first spaceship to land on the moon, explore at
least 1500 feet of the lunar surface,
and send back photos and videos.
This week, the Israeli team had a
big announcement: SpaceIL is the
first of the 16 competing teams to
book space in a rocket ship. It has
signed for passage in a SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket, set to blast off in the

second half of 2017.
To date, only the United States,
the former Soviet Union, and China
have landed a rover on the moon.
To compete in the Google contest,
entrants can receive no more
than a tenth of their funding from
government sources. The two major
contributors to SpaceIL are the Dr.
Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson
Family Foundation and Morris Kahns
LARRY YUDELSON
Kahn Foundation.
About that rolling sukkah

Last week we reported on a sukkah in
Teaneck that was on the flatbed of a giant truck. It caught our photographers
attention and captivated local children,
but what was its story? We promised to
investigate, and investigate we did.
We spoke to Robert Grunstein, the
man behind the sukkah.
It began innocently enough, with the
decision to this year erect a militarythemed sukkah resembling a barracks
in his back yard. He first discovered
creative sukkah design when he was on
kibbutz in Israel after high school, when
he saw a sukkah made from a stack of
giant bales of hay with tractor wheels as
windows.
That got me thinking, he said,
and he adopted Sukkot as his favorite
holiday. Over the years, his sukkot have
ranged from Oz-themed to a mylarwalled spaceship to, in a year when
Sukkot fell in November on the eve of
Election Day, a polling booth. This years
barracks would have been no big deal,
except he happened to visit a friend
a couple of weeks before the holiday
Hilarious Hebrew
makes vocabulary
a pun-ishing affair
Sometimes, bold educational efforts
require ridiculous measures.
What could be bolder than learning
a foreign language? How to keep all
the new vocabulary words in mind?
How to juggle new nouns, verbs, and
adjectives in an already-brimming
brain?
For those looking to boost
their Hebrew skills, a recent book,
Hilarious Hebrew, has come the
rescue.
It pairs 235 Hebrew words with
bad puns tying together their English
meaning, often illustrated with a
cartoon.
For example: DUDE!!! You totally
fixed my BOILER teaches that the
Hebrew word for boiler is dood.
Or: What a lovely HOUSE! I think
Im going to BUY IT, reminds us that
the Hebrew word for house is bayit.
It was created by two Israelis living
in Brighton, England: Eyal Shavit and
Yael Breuer. The illustrations are by a
non-Israeli Brit, Aubrey Smith.
who happened to own a surplus military

troop carrier. He realized that it could
easily be converted into a sukkah, so
he borrowed it, removed the canvas
top, put up a bamboo roof, and built a
staircase to climb into it.
He did drive it around town a little
for the sake of his children, but found
it difficult to drive. There is a reason
that while Chabad occasionally drives
sukkah-mobiles through New York City,
they dont use troop carriers.
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Where is the NEWSPAPER? I left IT
ON the table elides the short O of on
with the long O of the Hebrew iton.
So sure, when it comes to being
proper on Hebrew pronunciation, you
might find a safer book. But you wont
find a funnier one. Recommended for
anyone willing to risk some groaners
in the quest to boost Hebrew
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Noshes
What is with Roger Waters and the Jews?

Radio personality Howard Stern, launching a seven-minute attack on Roger Waters,
the founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd, for his support of the boycott Israel
movement.
SORT-OF-STEVE:
New Jobs biopic

suggests the truth
Steve Jobs is the
third bio-pic about
the co-creator of
Apple since he died in
2011, and critics all agree
that its by far the best
one. It was directed by
Danny Boyle (Slumdog
Millionaire). The screenplay, by AARON SORKIN, 54 (The Social
Network), drew on a
Jobs biography by
WALTER ISAACSON, 62.
The film centers on the
launch of three iconic
Apple products, ending
with the iMac intro in
1998. Michael Fassbender
plays Jobs, with SETH
ROGEN, 33, as Apple
co-founder Steve
Wozniak (who isnt
Jewish).
Other major reallife characters in the
film include two tribe
members. Kate Winslet
plays JOANNA HOFFMAN, now 60. Hoffman
was the brilliant marketing chief of both Apple
MacIntosh and Next (the
company Jobs founded
after being ousted from
Apple in 1985. He returned to helm Apple in
1997). Hoffman was born
in Europe, the daughter
of an Armenian mother
and a Jewish father. (Her
father, JERZY HOFFMAN, now 82, is a stillactive film director who
stayed in Poland after
WWII.)
Winslet had long
meetings with Hoffman
before filming began.

She says, Hoffman was
an extraordinary, feisty
Eastern European person
who was pretty much the
only person who could
actually knock sense
into Steve, and she was
also kind of an emotional
compass. She came to
America as a young woman and achieved a great
deal. One thing that was
unique about her as a figure in Steves life was that
she didnt need anything
from him. She just needed
for him to be the best version of himself.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG, 47 (ARNOLD
ROTHSTEIN in Boardwalk Empire) plays
ANDY HERTZFELD, now
62. Hertzfeld wrote much
of the code for the original Apple Mac operating
system, including many
elements of its signature
graphical user interface. He has often been
referred to as the soul
of the original Apple
software development
team. Hertzfeld had long
discussions with Sorkin
about Jobs and Apple.
He recently spoke about
the completed film at
a tech website. He said
that he came to accept
Sorkins position that an
impressionistic biography was valid. About
the film, Hertzfeld says:
It deviates from reality everywhere almost
nothing in it is like it
Aaron Sorkin
Walter Isaacson
Adi Ezra and Bar Refaeli
Seth Rogan
Michael Stuhlbarg
really happened but

ultimately that doesnt
matter that much. It
exposes a deeper truth.
The purpose of the film
is to entertain, inspire
and move the audience,
not to portray reality. It is
cavalier about the facts
but aspires to explore
and expose the deeper
truths behind Steves
unusual personality and
behavior, and it often but
not always succeeds at
that. (Wozniak takes a
similar view of the film,
which opens on Friday,
October 9.)
If you get Netflixs
streaming service,
or can watch
someone elses, heres a
couple of juicy Jewish
nuggets. It comes with a
mea culpa: last month,
many PBS stations aired

Hava Nagila: The Movie
but I missed that fact
and didnt alert you. I
caught part of the
documentary during its
last PBS showing and
was pleasantly surprised
to find it is available on
Netflix. It is everything a
documentary should be
it informs while
entertaining you. Yes, the
song is overplayed, but it
has a fascinating history.
It originated in a chasidic
sect in the Ukraine, was
finished in Israel, and
became a hit worldwide.
The song, as explained, is
a window into centuries
of the Jewish experience.
I cant remember
enjoying a Jewish
documentary as much as
this one, and theres a lot
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of funny stuff in it, too.

(Also available through
Vimeo-on-Demand.)
Check out the pretty
good (but straight-toNetflix) movie 6 Years,
a strong drama about
a romantic relationship
co-starring the talented,
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Book of Days
Cresskill student Dan Ackerman learns nuances and omissions of spoken German
DAN ACKERMAN
Its a question you get asked a lot, here as
much as back home. For a while, I just told
the story of how I came to study German
in order to jump over the why altogether. I
explained about my having taken only Latin
in high school, about my urge to learn a living
language and study in Europe, about the relative ease with which I imagined an Englishspeaker could pick up German. I explained
about the teacher who inspired me to go further and blamed it all on my universitys German department. I caught myself saying that
Chicago has a historically significant German
population, so the school has really built on
that. Recently, Ive tried answering the question honestly. I read Don DeLillo and decided
I had to learn German before I died.
In German, Anne Frank never wrote
a diary. A diary is a luxury of idle civilization. Its sound is a foreign one that comes
to us from Rome through way of France,
cloaked in connotations of intimacy, privacy, secrecy, of class and frivolity. In German, Anne Frank wrote a Tagebuch. A Tagebuch is a book of days.
July 19, 2013, a reply email from my
mother: Its interesting what you say about
it being sad. I havent been, but how would
you compare it to London, which has more
of that resiliency and keep calm, carry on
thing. Of course, they won.
Of course, its not just that they won.
There is a sense in London that the horror came from without. Paris has the
same sense, whether justified or not, that
outsiders were the danger to be repelled.
The They-tried-to-kill-Us narrative goes
down fairly smoothly. In Berlin, there is an
acknowledgment that the worst destruction
came from within the city, within the country, within the highest levels of the German
cultural establishment. The most depressing chapter in the history of Humboldt
University does not open with the Allied
bombing. It reaches its climax on the 10th
of May, 1933, when professors and students
gather in the foyer of the university, each
with a banned book under his arm, and
march across the street to Franz-Josef-Platz
to hold the largest public book-burning in
Nazi history.
Berlin is full of empty spaces. Wounds
pried open. My tour guide refers to the great
hole in the city center where the Kaiser used
to live as Das Haus, das nicht existiert. I meet
up with my German teacher, my first German teacher from back in Chicago, the one
Dan Ackerman toured the sites of some of National Socialisms darkest moments during his studies in Germany.
Left, a plate of glass covers the spot where 20,000 books were burned in 1933 by professors and students. Right, a memorial to the murdered Jews of the Holocaust.
who inspired me, and he takes me on my

first night here to Tempelhofer Feld, the public park that used to be a military training
ground, the fallow land that stretches behind
where the airport that hosted the American
airlift used to be. A lot of areas are places
where something used to be. A hall at Humboldt is where Albert Einstein used to hold
public lectures.
A plate of glass now covers the spot
where the twenty thousand books were
burned. By day, the glare of the sun makes
it almost impossible to see the five-meterdeep room thats been dug under the
glass, let alone the empty bookshelves for
twenty thousand volumes.
Thursday, July 25: Ive been in Berlin not

quite two weeks, taking language classes
at Humboldt University. My friend Lynn
swings by on her way home from Paris.
We walk along the East Side Gallery, lingering, like everyone else, in front of Der
Bruderkuss, The Fraternal Kiss. In this
summer season, the tourists are thick
enough, they clot in front of the mural.
Because being loved is enough reason to be
ruined, Brezhnev and Honecker are veiled
by second-generation, unsubsidized graffiti.
This consists overwhelmingly of obscenities
in various languages and lazy representations of genitals. The piece toward the end
of the wall, Vaterland, with the Israeli blue
stripes and Star of David superimposed on

the contemporary German flag, receives
mercifully less attention.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013, our German
teacher, Knuth, tells the class that the word
Kristallnacht is no longer considered PC
in Germany. It is too euphemistic, even
too sweet-sounding, he says, to communicate the horror and shame of the event. Of
course, he does not say horror and shame.
He says schrecken und schande.
Native English speakers may, as I did and
do, find it hard to believe that Kristallnacht
could ring sweetly in anyones ears. Maybe
we owe that knee-jerk skepticism to years of
cultural work that have hammered the word
Local
into a verbal Iron Cross, so inextricably associated with Naziism that any tone of innocence is impossible to imagine. Maybe English-attuned ears are simply predisposed to
hear a sinister clang in the bristle of those
jagged consonants against the unfamiliarly
long as. Maybe we would be more sympathetic if Crystal Night were the preferred
English designation.
A professor who taught me Spanish and
Portuguese history asks rhetorically why the
Spanish loan-words with any staying power
in the English language tend to be those
connoting threatening masculinity: guerilla,
machismo, junta.
My mother visits me in Berlin for the
week of my birthday, February 18, 2015.
As the U-Bahn doors close, the automated
warning sounds to please stay back: zurckbleiben, bitte. An episode of Law & Order
flashes through my mothers brain, a Naziin-hiding on trial, a witness, survivor, who
remembers the accused as the kindest guard
on work detail, always says bitte, bitte, until
someone doesnt move fast enough, and its
bitte, bitte and a gunshot. Why the Nazi went
into hiding in the New York County District
is beyond me.
There is no Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. What guidebooks and travel sites refer
to as Berlins Holocaust Memorial is in fact
the Denkmal fr die ermordeten Juden Europas, literally the Memorial for the Murdered
Jews of Europe. The very word Holocaust is
too euphemistic. Of course, the Holocaust
means more than the murders of European
Jews, and the exclusive dedication of this
Americans, I think,
and Jews, and
American Jews,
have a comfort
with irony that
we apply to
great effect in
appropriating the
language of
the Nazis.
main monument to the Jews necessitates the
irregular erection of subsequent mourning
sites for the various other victim groups. Just
past the statue of Goethe in Tiergarten, you
find the Memorial for the Homosexuals Persecuted under National-Socialism. The most
A Taste of Israel
direct route between the Brandenburg Gate

and the Reichstag Building pulls you past
the Memorial for the Roma and Sinti Murdered under National-Socialism. The Memorial and Information Site for the Victims of
the National-Socialist Euthanasia Murders
only opened 2 September 2014, three days
after I landed in Berlin for a second time.
Monday, 3 November: this is the first
time in Berlin for many people in the yearlong exchange program, so I go with them
to see the East Side Gallery. Der Bruderkuss
has been restored since last summer, the
minor obscenities painted over to allow
the great obscenity on the base layer to
come to fuller unhindered expression.
Der Bruderkuss is now barely marred. The
Israeli-German mashup flag, on the other
hand, has a lot more written on it now
than last summer.
The Latin heritage of the word literally is so foreign to the most basic daily
needs of an English-speaker, that there is
common confusion over its meaning. The
most common German words for literally
are buchstblich, by the letter, or wrtlich,
word for word.
What Knuth neglects to mention is that
the word Kristallnacht is a creation of Nazi
propaganda. The tendency toward the
explicit in the way Germans speak about
the Holocaust may have much to do with

an ancient and inexplicable strain of literal
thinking in German culture, but it may just
as easily reflect an understandable caution
toward the kind of euphemisms that characterized Nazi culture. Nothing in that dictatorship was called what it actually was. So
they name 9 November, 1938,Reichspogromnacht, word for word, Night of the Reichs
Pogrom. They pull the black magic and the
broken glass out of the phrase and leave
behind the murdered Jews of Europe.
Americans, I think, and Jews, and American Jews, have a comfort with irony that
we apply to great effect in appropriating
the language of the Nazis. No one today
can say or write the words final solution
in English without thinking twice. Every
time we use the phrase, we build a common consciousness, a collective judgment
not only against the deed itself, the action,
the murder, but against the vocabulary of
authoritarianism and of genocide. We dedicate, consecrate, a portion of our words,
we mourn the deformed and shamed and
devalued section of our vocabulary, of our
culture, of our collective humanity. We say,
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Join our residents traveling to Israel with a festive sendo

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invite the community to submit a prayer to be hand-delivered by our
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Combatting anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism

IDF sergeant to talk about U.S. campus situation during Englewood shul lectures
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
srael Defense Forces Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, 35,

has spoken on more than 350 college campuses.
So it is with some authority that he warns American Jews to wake up and smell the stench of escalating anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiment among the
future leaders of the U.S.
Mr. Anthony, founder of the nonprofit Our Soldiers
Speak (www.oursoldiersspeak.org), will kick off this
years adult-education Shabbat series at Englewoods
Congregation Ahavath Torah on Friday and Saturday,
October 9 and 10. On Saturday night, the congregations
Israel Engagement Committee will sponsor a screening
of Nancy Spielbergs Above and Beyond, a documentary about the World War II pilots who volunteered to
fight for Israel in the 1948 War of Independence.
Israel is facing challenges on so many fronts political, BDS, militarily, internally, and more, said Lee
Lasher, a synagogue trustee and an organizer of the
weekend event.
Ahavat Torah and the Englewood community recognize that Israels battles and challenges are our battles
and challenges, and we must be informed, engaged and
committed to the security of the state of Israel, Mr.
Lasher continued. In light of the debate about the Iran
nuclear deal, the challenges in the U.N., geopolitical
changes in the Middle East and beyond, and our youth
back at universities across America after the holidays,
Benjamin Anthony is the ideal choice to inform and
energize our community about these commitments and
what we in northern New Jersey can do to help. Benjamin is a highly engaging, dynamic, and terrific speaker.
A native Englishman who made aliyah after university and fought in three of Israels wars, Mr. Anthony
started Our Soldiers Speak to bring English-speaking
Israelis from the literal to the figurative frontlines high
schools, colleges, synagogues, churches, and Jewish federations in the United States, Canada, South Africa, and
the United Kingdom. He has spoken at AIPAC and on
Capitol Hill.
Who: Sgt. Benjamin Anthony of Our Soldiers Speak
What: Three adult-education lectures and
screening of Above and Beyond documentary
8:30 p.m. Saturday night
When: Friday evening, October 9, through
Saturday night, October 10
Where: Cong. Ahavath Torah, 240 Broad Ave.,
Englewood
For more information: Call Ahavath Torah at
(201) 568-1315
One of the greatest

challenges in battling
back in combat or on
campus is that
people arent
sufficiently clear
what the dangers
are, and I bring
information from
being in those
environments.
Sgt. Benjamin Anthony feels Jewish schools in

America need to improve their teaching of Israels
history.
One of the greatest challenges in battling back in combat
or on campus is that people arent sufficiently clear what
the dangers are, and I bring information from being in those
environments that you cant know from the media, Mr.
Anthony said. You have to be there to understand whats
transpiring.
He and his handpicked speakers have become used to
hostility on international college campuses since beginning
the lectures in 2008, but he says the situation in the United
States is the most worrisome. The deterioration is rapid
and marked, he said. Today we have to have uniformed
police and a security detail accompanying us because we
face an inordinate number of protests.
While in the past those students with dissenting views
took an active part in the dialogue, he continued, now the
liberal advocacy group J Street does the talking for them,
and they have no interest in learning the facts. He said the
effects of J Street on campus are not being challenged sufficiently by the greater Jewish community.
Mr. Anthony further charged that Americans are
reluctant to acknowledge that Israel hatred actually is a
cover for hatred of Jews.
Jews in America oftentimes fail to recognize antiSemitism when they see it, he said. They blame antiIsrael sentiment on the Israeli government or the settlement policy, and it really has nothing to do with that. On
most of the campuses, protesters cant name the prime
minister or find settlements on a map.
I believe American Jewry is far ahead of the curve in
pro-Jewish feeling but behind the curve when it comes
to recognizing anti-Semitism in anti-Israel sentiment. It
matters, because the students of today will be the policymakers of tomorrow, and we arent finding pro-Israel
voices on campus.
He asserted that Jewish schools are not equipping
students to be that pro-Israel voice, and in fact some of
the most outspoken and misinformed, he would add
critics of Israel are themselves day-school graduates.
There is very little Israeli history being taught in Jewish
high schools. Yeshiva day schools and high schools, and
even Yeshiva University, must immediately implement
rigorous Israeli history classes as distinct from Jewish
history classes in the core curriculum, and not just
advocacy courses.
Our Soldiers Speak offers a curriculum called Israel
in World Relations that is not taught locally now but is
under review by Torah Academy of Bergen County and
SAR High School in Riverdale, N.Y.
Mr. Anthony will speak on Friday night at a dessert
oneg Shabbat at a private home, on Shabbat morning
after main services, and again at the third meal on Shabbat afternoon at the synagogue. He also will introduce
the documentary that night.
Among his other topics will be describing how Israeli
high school graduates prepare mentally and physically
for military service, and analyzing Israeli and diaspora
Jewrys attitudes toward the state of Israel.
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Itzhak Perlman feels at home in klezmer and classical.
The cognito violinist

Jewish Tradition and Values
Itzhak Perlman on klezmer,

Jewish music, and Billy Joel
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Itzhak Perlman is a violin virtuoso, a brilliant and beloved ambassador for classical music.
His artistry is universally acknowledged, and his personal warmth and
inspirational story the Israeli-born
musician contracted polio when he
was 4, and has overcome it has done
a great deal to make his art form more
accessible.
Mr. Perlman turned 70 in August,
and he is celebrating his birthday (more
accurately, he is being celebrated for
being himself, and his birthday provides
as good an excuse as any) in a series of
concerts and other events.
He will bring his music to bergenPAC
on Sunday, October 11. (There is more
information about the concert in the box
on this page.)
But Mr. Perlman also has done a great
deal for klezmer, the music that eastern
European Jews played and brought out
with them as they scattered around the
world. Twenty years ago, he played violin on In the Fiddlers House, a CD that
was a crucial part of the klezmer revival,
and this March, to mark that anniversary, he will be part of a tour playing its
music around the country.
The klezmer part of my experience
really came accidentally, Mr. Perlman
Who: Classical violinist Itzhak Perlman
What: In concert
When: Sunday, October 11, at 7 p.m.
Where: Bergen Performing Arts
Center, 30 North Van Brunt St.,
Englewood
For tickets or more information:
(201) 816-8160 or www.bergenpac.org
Itzhak Perlman joins Billy Joel in

concert.
said. There were a few klezmer groups

that were filming something I think it
was a PBS special and for some reason
they asked me if I would sit in with them
for a couple of minutes and just jam with
them.
I never was associated with klezmer
music, and I dont know why they asked
me, but simply because I was born in
Israel and Im Jewish it was in my ears.
There was everything in Israel, all
kinds of music, he continued. It was
before television, so everything was
on the radio. Everything. Klezmer, big
band, cantorial, classical, rock and roll
everything. How else would we be
entertained?
So, armed with this almost preconscious knowledge, I sort of sat in with
some of the groups the Klezmer Conservatory Band, the Klezmatics. I started
to jam with them a little bit, by ear, and
I felt that I was quite at home with the
sound. I liked it very much.
One thing led to another, and all of a
sudden I was in it. Instead of being there
they are, it was here we are.
SEE PERLMAN PAGE 43
Local
Abe Foxman unretires

Longtime ADL head to become think tank consultant
JOANNE PALMER
When Abraham Foxman of Bergen County
retired as head of the Anti-Defamation
League in July, 50 years after he began he
work there, is seemed unlikely that hed
stay retired for long.
He didnt.
Mr. Foxman is about to begin his next
act although not as a full-time employee.
He will be a distinguished nonresident fellow at a think tank, the Tel-Aviv-based
Institute for National Security Studies.
Hes excited. It will afford me not only
an opportunity to go to Israel more frequently, but to do so for purposes of interaction with Israeli personalities scholars,
opinion molders and share ideas about
issues, he said.
Exactly what does the new job entail?
I dont know yet! Mr. Foxman said. Ill
find out!
I will be speaking,
writing, and working
on research with some
of their scholars, he
added. He will be a
presence at an upcoming conference, both
as a presenter and as a
participant; hell also
take part in INSS conferences in the United
Abe Foxman
States.
The institute is a
think tank, founded in 2006. According
to its website, it launches and engages in
innovative, relevant, high-quality research
that shapes the public discourse of issues
on Israels national security agenda, and
provides policy analysis and recommendations to decision makers, public leaders, and the strategic community, both in
Israel and abroad.
Osirak nuclear reactor, which an Israeli

strike, called Operation Opera, destroyed
in 1981.
I am looking forward to working with
him, Mr. Foxman said. It will be a special
treat.
Mr. Yadlin returned the compliment.
Ive always seen Abe as an undeclared
leader of the American Jewish community,
and a leading global figure on matters of
human dignity and moral conduct, he
said. His broad array of relationships,
which includes senior government officials
in the United States, senior religious officials a the Vatican, and heads of state from
around the world, will greatly strengthen
our ability to engage in and promote
vital public policy. He brings to INSS a
battle-tested toolbox for countering antiSemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israeli
organizations.
It is focused primarily on security issues in Israel and on international security issues, Mr. Foxman said. Part of Israels security
issues is the global Jewish community, the diaspora community, and
particularly the American Jewish
community, because we are such
a large part of Israels security
assets.
Israel also believes and legitimately so that as the Jewish state
it has a responsibility to stand
against anti-Semitism around the world.
These are also issues we will be dealing
with.
The organization is headed by Amos
Yadlin, who is one of the most respected
strategic thinkers in Israel, Mr. Foxman
said. Mr. Yadlin is a retired IDF major general. He was one of the guys who flew to
the Iraqi nuclear reactor. That was the
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The eclectic portfolio

of Jeffrey Packard
Fair Lawn shul to showcase
the works of local artist
LOIS GOLDRICH
Some artists work in one medium, focus
on one place, or highlight one theme.
Fair Lawn artist Jeffrey Packard who
calls the upcoming display of his artwork
a group show and more is not one
of them.
Mr. Packard, who is known in the Jewish world for his work in shul beautification designing, among other items,
stained glass windows and more than
one aron, ner tamid, and Holocaust
memorial is known outside that world
as well for his paintings, prints, and
watercolors.
Among his Jewish works are a Holocaust memorial in Glen Rock, a display
for the Talmudic Research Center in Passaic, and the bimah at Shomrei Torah:
The Wayne Conservative Congregation.
Shomrei Torahs sanctuary is the
jewel in our crown, reads the congregations website, noting that Mr. Packard
designed and built the structure in 1987.
The artist also has a number of pieces in
Teaneck and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
In Fair Lawn, the artists own synagogue also named Shomrei Torah, but
Orthodox and under the helm of Rabbi

Benjamin and Shevi Yudin bears witness to Mr. Packards talent and passion
for Jewish themes. Asked to create all the
artwork in the synagogue, he designed
the shuls stained glass windows as well
as the ark, eternal light, and lectern.
He also worked on the synagogues
Local
made the journey with him and he had chosen to return.
The couple have three children: Adam, 35, Rebecca, 32, and
Samantha, 29. While he spent some of his time in Israel making art, I made my living there doing phone connections.
On his return, he went back to work at a yeshiva in West
Hempstead where he had taught previously.
Then, six years ago, he had a stroke. I can still make art,
he said, noting that he now paints with his left hand. While
most of his work was done before the stroke, theres much
more to come, he said. Ive been reborn with my left hand
and can do just about everything.
While his work has been wide-ranging, Mr. Packard
said his art generally has been distinguished by his use of
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Holocaust memorial, dedication plaque, and mikvah

mosaic.
Among his favorite projects are on-site installations.
I love them and have done many of them, he said,
noting that he made a few miniature golf courses, 2
feet by 2 feet, for his Hebrew school classes.
In addition to working with art media, Mr. Packard
also worked with children, teaching all through the
years from 1994 until fairly recently. Working in a
Reform synagogue in Washington Township and Conservative shuls in Park Ridge and Woodcliff Lake, the
Orthodox artist has shared his passion for art with students all over Bergen County.
Perhaps most meaningful to him was an installation
he made to be displayed at the gate to Auschwitz.
I used blown neon tubing made in a factory and
transported to Poland, he said, adding that he was
accompanied by an older gentleman, a survivor and a
videographer. At the top of the tubing were the words
Thou Art, a constant refrain in Mr. Packards work.
The Fair Lawn artist started painting when he was
2, and my mother put a brush in my hand, he said.
She was a great artist and guided me in all ways. I do
everything to applaud and thank her, may she rest in
peace, for the love and guidance she afforded me.
I couldnt help making art I was driven to it,
he said, recalling that painting outdoor scenes and
scenes of the Alamo were a love of mine.
He thinks that his desire to make Jewish art arose
when I was inspired and deeply moved by the
Lubavitcher rebbe. After having met him, I began to
feel that I had something to say.
Mr. Packard was born in Passaic. He and his family moved to Fair Lawn when he was 5; and after he
graduated from high school there he went to Cornell
University. He and his wife, Kathi, married in 1976, and
he began to sell textile designs. It was a living, Mr.
Packard said. After about three years, he was done
with that. I felt that I had to try and make a living
doing artwork, he said.
In fact, he had never given up his art. While at Cornell, he made the first in his series of illustrations for
weekly Torah readings. I would read the parsha and
make a piece of artwork, he said. He is now finishing
his third series of parshat hashavua works.
Mr. Packard made aliyah in 2007. After six months,
he came back to the United States. It was a trying
time, he said, noting that his wife and children hadnt
symbolism and a sky motif often, literally, making pictures of a sky. About two years ago, he decided to focus
solely on Jewish themes. Still, his upcoming exhibit at Fair
Lawns Shomrei Torah is likely to feature many of his earlier, non-Jewish paintings and installations, as well as his
Jewish work.
What: The art of Jeffrey Packard
When: October 18, 2015, from 7 to 10 p.m.
Where: Congregation Shomrei Torah, 19-10 Morlot Ave,
Fair Lawn
Free to view; all artwork is for sale
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Letter from Israel

Reflecting on the funeral of Eitam and Naama Henkin
Rabbanit Chana Henkin began the eulogy
for her son Eitam with an apology.
She was sorry, she told thousands of
us standing in the parking lot of the Har
Hamenuchot cemetery, that we had
waited an hour in the broiling sun until
two big blue burial society vans arrived,
bearing the shrouded bodies of her child
and his wife.
She was sorry, she said in her beautiful American-accented Hebrew, for the
hot delay especially on a Friday, when
everyone had to get home to prepare for
Shabbat.
Just 15 hours earlier, Rabbi Eitam and
Naama Henkin had been driving home
from a reunion sukkah party when Arab
terrorists shot them dead. The young
couples four sons Matan, 9, Nitzan,
7, Neta, 4, and baby Itamar watched
in horror from the back of the car.
Rabbanit Henkin, an internationally
respected pioneer of higher learning
for Jewish women, did not scream to
the heavens for revenge. She did not
mention the monsters who took the
lives of her beloved son and daughter-in-law for the crime of being
Jews in the Jewish homeland. She did
not mention the celebratory parades
taking place in Arab towns and
neighborhoods.
Her gentle voice tinged with grief,
she observed that Eitam should one
day have eulogized her, not the other
way around. She vowed to help raise
her freshly orphaned grandsons, adding after Itamars name, who is still
nursing.
I know we all wondered, Who will
Israelis mourn at Naama and Eitam Henkins grave.
YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90
nurse Itamar now? as we listened to
the heartbreaking words of the rabbanit, as she is known respectfully, and those
womens medical conditions.
funeral at 11 on Friday morning. At 10:30, I
of her husband, Rabbi Yehuda Henkin,
From 2009 to 2014, my daughter-in-law
boarded a No. 54 bus to Har Hamenuchot
and of Naamas parents, Chanan and Hila
coordinated Nishmats post-high-school
outside the Jerusalem Central Bus Station.
Armoni. We marveled at the steadiness of
program for English-speakers. She and
I was not surprised to recognize other
their voices. Only Rabbi Henkin repeatedly
my son lived on campus in a two-bedroom
passengers, including the young woman
broke down during his loving tribute. And
apartment previously occupied by the
boarding behind me. Wed been introwhen the sweet little-boy voice of Matan
dorm parents, Eitam and Naama Henkin.
duced at various friends-of-friends occabegan reciting the kaddish, all of us standWe often ran into the rabbanit when we
sions and recognized one another right
ing in the parking lot broke down too.
came to visit or babysit our grandchildren.
away. She sat across from me as the bus
Regrettably I never met Eitam and
Always smiling, always with a kind word
filled to beyond capacity.
Naama Henkin described by Hila Armoni
about our son and daughter-in-law, she
Youre going to the funeral? I guessed.
as inseparable in life as in death but I felt
and Rabbi Henkin several times graciously
She nodded. I think most of the people
a connection.
let us stay over Shabbat in the little camon this bus are going, too, she noted, corA quarter century ago, Rabbanit Henkin
pus apartment they use during the week.
rectly as it turned out. She had worked
founded Nishmat, the Center for Advanced
Last June, on assignment from the Jeruand studied at Nishmat. Several years ago
Torah Study for Women in Jerusalem. In
salem Post, I came to their home in the
she lost a baby in infancy, and the rabba1999, she founded Nishmats groundbreakKiryat Moshe neighborhood to interview
nit was there for her, so she wanted to be
ing Yoatzot Halacha Program, a two-year
them on the occasion of Nishmats silver
there for the rabbanit today.
course certifying female advisers on the
anniversary.
I saw many other familiar faces at the
intricacies of Jewish laws pertaining to
So when I heard the unspeakably tragic
funeral, including that of Nishmat faculty
fertility, sexuality, family planning, and
news, I immediately decided to go to the
member Racheli Fraenkel, whose son
Mourners wait outside Har Hamenuchot during the funeral of Naama and
Eitam Henkin last Friday.
Naftali and two friends were killed by Arab

terrorists in June 2014. The rabbanit had
been there for her, too.
She also had been there for the Flatow
family of West Orange. Stephen Flatow
wrote in the Times of Israel on the day of
the funeral: It was Chana Henkin who
met me outside the intensive care unit
of Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva a
little over 20 years ago when I arrived to
see my daughter Alisa, who lay dying from
her injury in a Palestinian terror attack
that had taken place the day before. Alisa
had been a student at Nishmat; now the
campus and the international post-college
program are named in her memory.
Now it is our turn to be there for her and
the Henkin and Armoni families. We cannot nurse baby Itamar. We cannot comfort the older children every morning as
they awake and remember that they will
never see their parents again. But we can
let them know we care with a hug, a compassionate look, a squeeze of the hand, a
kind word or deed.
As I write this on Sunday morning, there
are more funerals in Jerusalem, more
orphans, more shattered lives. We need to
be there for them, too.
Abigail Klein Leichman, our Israel
correspondent, lived in Teaneck before
she made aliyah, and sends us occasional
reports on her experiences in Israel.
upcoming at
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JCC on the Palisades

Film: The Lives of Others
Film School Series

Professor Eric Goldman teaches JCC Us film
appreciation course. This term we will focus on
Oscar-winning foreign films from the last decade.
Films include: Barbarian Invasions (Canada), The
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Learn about child development, behavioral

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DOMCs 35th annual golf classic scores success at new locale
For 35 years, supporters have played in the
annual Daughters of Miriam Center Golf
Classic to raise money for the long-term
care and rehabilitation facility. This year
brought a new focus on raising money for
Alzheimers and dementia care at DOMC/
Gallen Institute in Clifton. In addition, the
August 31 event was at a new venue, the
newly renovated Essex County Country
Club.
In addition to a million dollar shootout sponsored by the Lewis Family Trust,
prizes for four par-three holes, bulls-eye
contest, and holes-in-one included cars,

vacations, jewelry, and cash. Route 23
Auto Mall of Butler, Franks Truck Center
of Lyndhurst, Fette Ford of Clifton, and
Yanina & Co. of Cedar Grove donated holein-one prizes. Participants received a variety of gifts when they registered. The day
included brunch, a cocktail hour on the
new patio, and dinner. In addition, there
were silent and live auctions
The event was staffed by many volunteers and overseen by chairs Karen Altman, Leslie Levine, and Gail Yamner.
Pat Mucci Jr., left, selects the ticket for a 2015 Ford Mustang won by
Gerard Donnelly at the Daughters of Miriam Golf Classic. Event co-chairs
Andrew Kanter, Alex Fleysher, and Leslie Levine watch. COURTESY DOMC
French Jewish woman to recount her exploits as wartime spy

Valley Chabad and Eternal
Flame Present Behind
Enemy Lines, a lecture
by Holocaust survivor
Marthe Cohn, on October 19 at Pascack Valley
High School. Doors open
at 6:30 p.m.; the program
begins at 7:15.
Ms. Cohn will talk
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Editorial
Terror in the fall
o, finally, the year is starting for real.

We have gone from reverence and awe to living in
huts open to the gray threat of rain
to zman simchatenu, our time of
joy. We have danced and whirled
ourselves dizzy and sung till our
throats are sore.
We are full of hope and the clean
crisp feeling of a fresh start.
And now its the fall but the
leaves are turning brown and falling
down without their usual glorious
blaze of bright colors. Apparently
the summers drought has dulled
them.
It seems like a bad omen.
The worlds going crazy around
us. Everything seems mad, bad, and
dangerous to know.
Here at home, more and more
evil men with guns shoot more and
more innocent people.
We say men because overwhelmingly the people who walk
into their rooms and use their
guns to kill or maim strangers are
men. We say evil because selfevidently anyone who massacres
other human beings is nothing less
than evil. Some of the killers might
be suffering from diagnosable mental illnesses, but most people who
suffer from mental illnesses are not
violent, and most mass murderers
have not been diagnosed with a
mental illnesses. Clearly anyone
who shoots up a roomful of strangers or even of acquaintances is
a psychopath, but not even most
psychopaths do that.
The Second Amendment to the
Constitution apparently makes
it possible for misfits who live at
home with their mothers and have
as their only occupations snarling at their neighbors and posting rants online to amass arsenals.
Why? Well, of course, its because
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and
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KEEPING THE FAITH
The hospital airstrike

and rules of engagement
It seems like a
bad omen. The
worlds going
crazy around
us. Everything
seems mad,
bad, and
dangerous
to know.
bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
That part about the well regulated Militia? Clearly a rhetorical
flourish. If the murderer in Oregon
had not had 14 weapons, without
any question the jackbooted black
helmeted thugs in their black helicopters would have been right over
the horizon.
And then theres what seems to
be an explosion of danger and terror in Israel (and some of it is done
with guns, although some murderers use knives, a far more retail
method). Glorification of murder
and evil seems to have led to the
production of men who can shoot
parents dead in the front seat of a
car as their children look on from
the backseat.
Were those gunmen psychotic
because of some flaw in their neurochemistry, or did the culture
in which they grew up somehow
rewire their circuits? Or was it a
combination of those things?
We hope that the latest round of
horror in Israel does not become
a third intifada pundits seem to
think, on the whole, that it will not.
It will just be terror as usual, they
think.
Given the alternative, we hope
that they are right.
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ast Saturday, in the Afghan city of go to war in your land against an enemy who
Kunduz, a hospital run by Doc- oppresses you [in your land]. The second is
tors Without Borders was partially
the commandment not to stand idly by the
destroyed by a U.S. airstrike. Nine- blood of your neighbor (see Leviticus 19:16).
teen people were killed, reportedly including
Since an enemy who oppresses is threatening deadly physical harm to the citizens
three children and 12 hospital personnel. The
of that land, the Rambam apparently sees
hospital since has been abandoned.
According to U.S. and Afghan spokesmen, defending against that enemy as an obligatory war.
the Taliban was using the hospital to fire on
Then again, he simply may have been comAfghan soldiers on the streets outside. Doctors Without Borders, however, denied this. It
ing down on one side of a talmudic debate
called the airstrike a grave violation of inter- regarding whether pre-emptive wars are disnational humanitarian law.
cretionary or obligatory (see
When and where to attack a
BT Sotah 44b). A pre-emptive
civilian target confront all who
war presumably is one in which
engage in war, and especially
there is reasonable certainty the
Israel, which faces an enemy
enemy plans to attack.
that uses civilian targets, includThe Rambam, however, does
ing hospitals and ambulances,
recognize that there is a difference between the Conquest/
as shields for their attacks.
Amalek obligations on the one
This raises the question of
hand and defending against
what Jewish law has to say about
Rabbi
attack on the other. Thus, elsethe rules of engagement.
Shammai
where he describes the defenTo answer this, we first must
sive war as a commanded one
understand the halachic atti- Engelmayer
tude to war in general.
(milchemet mitzvah), and the
Jewish law recognizes two
other two as obligatory (milchamot chovah). Other decisors since then
kinds of legal war: an obligatory one, and
one that is discretionary but has divine sanc- also have made this distinction.
tion. Obviously, this implies a third category
Israel, of course, has a long history of terrorist attacks against it. The United States,
a discretionary war that has no sanction (an
however, had no history of terrorism to speak
illegal war). Deaths that occur in the course
of until the 9/11 attacks, and has never been
of an illegal war are considered murders.
According to the Talmud (see the Babylo- attacked by the Taliban itself, although the
nian Talmud tractate Sotah 44b), Israels con- Talibans ties to Al Qaida are undeniable. It
quest of Canaan was obligatory, while most of
could be argued, then, that halachah would
King Davids wars were discretionary. (At least
insist the U.S. response to terrorism does not
one of his wars, though, may have been ille- include a sanctioned war, but must be limgal. See Sifre to Deuteronomy, Piska 51.)
ited to the laws of the pursuer, namely that
The war against Amalek also was obligatory. one who seeks to cause the death of another
Maimonides, however, expands the category
may be pursued and even killed in order to
to include wars fought to assist Israel from
prevent the planned murder. (See BT Sanhean enemy that attacks it (see Mishneh Torah, drin 73a-74b for a discussion of the pursuer
laws.)
The Laws of Kings and Their Wars, 5:1). He
Collateral damage, in the case of a pursuer,
does not explain his reasoning, but he seems
must be held to the barest minimum, includto have based it on two Torah verses. The
ing the death of noncombatants. Someone
first, Numbers 10:9, recognizes the need to
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades in Cliffside Park
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who is providing direct help to the
pursuer, even if that someone is a
minor, may be killed, but innocent
casualties are not permitted. Some
property damage may be permitted;
most probably not. This puts the hospital bombing in a negative halachic
light.
However, there is another way of
looking at this. The prophet Ovadiah said this regarding Edom (1:1011): For your violence against your
brother Jacob, shame shall cover you,
and you shall be cut off forever. On
the day that you stood aloof, on the
day that strangers carried away his
wealth, and foreigners entered his
gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.
In other words, Ovadiah said,
Edom was as guilty as the sackers
of the Kingdom of Israel because it
stood idly by as its neighbors blood
was being shed. Since ISIS, al Qaida,
the Taliban, Hamas, and their ilk are
terrorists, have killed in the past, are
killing now, and clearly intend to continue to kill in the future, they would
be legitimate targets of an obligatory
defensive war, even if the nation conducting such a war was not a direct
target. This may put the hospital
bombing in a different light.
That brings us to the terms of
engagement.
First, the enemy must be offered
a chance to make peace, based on
Deuteronomy 20:10. The Rambam
(MT, Kings, 6:1) rules that this applies
to both obligatory and discretionary
wars, a position that has some support
among talmudic sages (see Leviticus
Rabbah, Parashat Tzav 9), although
most decisors argue it applies only to
discretionary wars.
Second, according to Maimonides,
once an enemy is surrounded, there
must be a way for innocent civilians
and even faint-hearted combatants to
escape. (See MT, Kings, 6:7.) He offers
no suggestion, however, on how such
a rule can be made practical.
Finally, based on Deuteronomy
20:19, there must be a legitimate
reason for any destruction. (See MT
Kings 8 and 10.) Blowing up a building
violates this rule unless it was used as
a staging area for terrorist attacks.
The evidence suggests the hospital was the only building targeted by
the U.S. airstrike. The Afghans insist
the attack was needed because the
hospital was being used to attack
its soldiers. Then again, they may
simply have been wanted the hospital attacked because Taliban fighters were among the patients being
treated.
In war, the first casualty is certainty.
Decency and morality place a close
second.
37th World Zionist

Congress to open
with crucial agenda
ho cares?
We do, and we hope both for the future of the
American Jewish community and for the secure
future of Israel as a Jewish democratic state that
you do as well.
And thats because the World Zionist Congress is the only worldwide
parliament of the Jewish people where representation is determined
by neither wealth nor spheres of influence. Even as more and more
pressure is placed on decision makers by those who hold the purse
strings, the World Zionist Congress remains truly representative of
world Jewrys relationship with Israel.
Some considered the first Zionist Congress, which was held in 1897
in Basel, Switzerland, to be no more than a fringe group at the edge of
the organized Jewish world. Others, however, perceived it as the Jewish government in exile. The Congress was where
the Zionist vision was formalized into a
radical solution to the crisis confronting
Jewish life: territorial concentration of the
Jewish people in their historical homeland (the ingathering of the exiles) and
the creation of the Jewish state. That first
Zionist Congress hammered together the
Dr. Mark
Zionist platform, created the Zionist OrgaGold
nization (later renamed the World Zionist
Organization) and elected Theodor Herzl
as its president. It declared Hatikvah as the
Zionist anthem and unfurled the first Zionist flag.
With the First Zionist Congress, Herzls
dream began to turn into reality. Three
days after the Congress closed, he wrote
in his diary,
Were I to sum up the Congress in a
word which I shall guard against proHiam
nouncing publicly it would be this: At
Simon
Basel I founded the Jewish state. If I said
this out loud today I would be greeted by
universal laughter. In five years perhaps
and certainly within fifty, everyone will perceive it.
Fifty years plus eight months later, on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel
was declared.
A long line of foundational decisions was made by Zionist Congresses that followed. The Jewish Colonial Bank (later Bank Leumi)
was a creation of the Second Congress, the Jewish National Fund
of the Fifth. Later the Zionist Commission was created; eventually
it morphed into the Jewish Agency, the self-governing body of the
Jews in Palestine under the British Mandate. After independence,
it became an organization supported and governed by Jews worldwide, performing quasi-governmental services including immigration, absorption, and settlement.
There is a direct line between that hall in Basel in 1897 and Jerusalems International Convention Center in 2015. There were 200 delegates from 16 countries at the First Zionist Congress. On October 20,
2015, 500 elected delegates will assemble when the gavel opens the
37th Congress: 145 from the United States, 190 from Israel, and the rest
from around the world. The delegates will take part in the continuing
conversation, whose debates and resolutions are no less crucial today
than they were 118 years ago.
The congress, which created the World Zionist Organization, is the
WZOs highest decision-making body, overseeing hundreds of millions
of dollars. The WZO has sole authority over a $30 million yearly budget,
and it has joint authority over the Jewish Agencys $475 million budget.
Resolutions presented and voted on at the congress decide how that

money is spent and how much of it will affect the American Jewish
community directly.
How much of those budget dollars will be spent by the department for activities in Israel and countering anti-Semitism? How
much money will go to support Jewish religious pluralism, which
the government does not support? How much will be designated for
settlement activities, whether in the Negev or on the other side of
the green line? What proportion of this budget will be allocated to
the department for diaspora activities? What about Israel programs
like Birthright? Will there continue to be money to support shlichim
(emissaries from Israel) to Jewish communities and movements
around the world?
Who are the representatives to this congress? How did they get
there?
Elections for the U.S. delegation to the 37th Congress ran from January through April this year, and closed with a total of 56,737 votes cast.
There were 11 organizational slates that ran in the election, and the
145 delegates were divided according to the votes each slate received.
It looks like this:
Slate Number of Votes
Number of Delegates
ARZA Representing Reform Judaism 21,766 56

Mercaz USA: Zionist Arm of the Conservative Movement 9,890 25
Vote Torah: Religious Zionists 9,594 ........................................................................ 24
American Forum for Israel 3,773 10
HATIKVAH The Progressive Zionist Voice 3,148 ........................................... 8
ZOA Defend Jews & Israeli Rights 2,738 ............................................................ 7
Zionist Spring: Restoring Vision to World Zionism 2,697 ........................... 7
World Sephardic Organization Ohavei Tsion 1,650 4
Alliance for New Zionist Vision 735 2
Green Israel: Aytzim/Green Zionist Alliance/Jewcology 443 1
Herut North America The Jabotinsky Movement 304 1
There is a representative voice for every flavor of Zionism here.

Some people say that the Jewish state has been established; 67 years
after independence, what is the point of Zionism?
We answer: True, the great task the First Congress set for itself long
has been realized. True, the daunting challenges of postwar settlement
of European refugees and the ingathering of masses from the Muslim
world were taken up long ago. Even the waves of immigration from the
Soviet Union and Ethiopia are events from a past that grows distant.
But Israels creation was not ever intended as an end but as a beginning. Israel constantly presents itself new challenges, as a work that is
permanently unfinished. And while the creation of Israel altered the
diaspora, it did not end it. Today there is a new task, the nurturing of
a two-way relationship between Israel and Jews in the diaspora. It is in
this context that the Zionist Congress remains relevant.
By definition and design, Zionism, born in the diaspora, reflected
the concern of Jewish self-determination with the involvement of Jews
around the world. Basel laid the political foundation for a modern Jewish state. Today Israel will continue to thrive as a Jewish state only in
partnership with the world Jewish community.
To those who would dilute and disavow world Jewrys stake in Israels future, the World Zionist Congress calls out to Jews around the
world that not only is it our right to voice our opinion about the direction and vision of the Jewish state, it is our responsibility to do so.
Dr. Mark Gold holds a Ph.D. in economics from NYU. He serves on
the executive board of Partners for Progressive Israel, a member
organization of the American Zionist Movement and an affiliate of the
World Union of Meretz.
Hiam Simon of Englewood is the chief operating officer of Ameinu, the
leading progressive Zionist membership organization, in the United
States. He lived in Israel for many years, where he was the dean of
students for what is now the Alexander Muss High School, and he served
in the IDF as a sergeant in the artillery.
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What we do matters
A reflection on the long month of holidays
homas Cahill wrote a book over

a decade ago called The Gift of
the Jews.
His thesis was that because
Judaism affirms the past and postulates
the future, we have given the world the gift
of the present. Cahill understood Judaism
as a belief system that affirms that what
you or I or they or we do actually
matters. As the month of Tishrei, filled
with holy days of reflection, renewal, and
thanksgiving, comes to a conclusion, and
we begin again the cycle of Torah readings, with the story of creation this week,
Cahills thesis haunts me.
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur focus
us upon the opportunity for human
change. Judaism sees history as the unfolding story of the journey from creation to
redemption. Yet the reality of our personal, communal, national, and international lives, seems to affirm the opposite;
nothing really changes.
Exodus 34:6 and 7 lists the 13 attributes of God. Those words, which provide the introduction to the Yom Kippur
confessionals and an introduction to the

reading of Torah on Sukkot and Simchat
Torah, affirm that God is the source of
both justice and mercy. These verses also
are included in the Torah reading for the
Shabbat of Sukkot, where they are heard
in the context of Mosess second ascent of
Mount Sinai.
In the annual cycle of Torah reading that
we begin this week, the passage containing the 13 attributes is found in Parshat Ki
Tissa, following the story of the golden calf
and the subsequent shattering of the first
set of the Ten Commandments. Perhaps
the rabbinic decision to use an edited version of this text liturgically on Yom Kippur and the three pilgrimage festivals is
a reminder that Judaism challenges us to
risk using our hearts and our souls, not
just our eyes and ears, to see and hear
what can be, instead of merely accepting
the video of life perceived by our senses.
Our rabbis teach that Moses second
ascent, as described in Exodus 34, took
place on the first of Elul. Therefore, by
counting 40 days, Yom Kippur is the day
there are no mulligans in life.

when our ancestors actually received Torah. As our
What I have done or will do
month of Holy Days reaches
has consequences; consequences that affect not only
its conclusion, I believe that
me or us but future generathis recollection of the second ascent of Sinai gives
tions as well.
us an opportunity to see
Yes, it is extremely rare
ourselves at a metaphoric
for any of us to change our
Sinai, ready and willing to
nature dramatically. Are
Rabbi Neal
see and hear Torah with
there not times, however,
Borovitz
our souls, and truly answer
when a slight turn can make
as our ancestors did at Sinai
a real difference? I thought
naaseh vnishma. We will
of this as I gazed at the awesome full moon on the first night of Sukkot,
act and we will listen
as its color changed from white to bronze,
On Yom Kippur , as we prayed for divine
and I knew that people all over the world
forgiveness, sought forgiveness from those
were looking at it too. The lunar eclipse
we wronged, and granted forgiveness to
reminded me that just the slightest degree
those who hurt us in the year past, did we
of movement could have an impact. It also
not all realize that despite our intentions,
left me with a sense of awe in the God who
we are destined to transgress in the year
is, I believe, both that spark of the divine
ahead? Therefore, for me, reading Exodus 34 as we come to the end of month
within each of us and the eternal light of
of Holy Days reminds me that despite the
the universe.
divine forgiveness we seek, Gods giving us
The story of Moses second ascent
a second chance is not the same as being
of Sinai lacks the sound and light show
SEE HOLIDAYS PAGE 31
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Booker and the filibuster
In his opinion column, It wasnt Republican to

oppose the Iran deal (October 2), Rabbi Shmuley
Boteach writes that at Temple Bnai Abraham in Livingston, he [Senator Booker] pledged to oppose the
Democratic filibuster so that at least a vote on this
monumental issue would go ahead. But he twice voted
to uphold the filibuster.
Rabbi Boteachs criticism of the senator is, at least in
this case, inaccurate. I was present at the meeting at
Temple Bnai Abraham, held on September 8. When
asked about the filibuster, the senator responded very
clearly that while he thought there should be a vote,
he had not heard any discussion of a filibuster and had
yet to hear an argument as to the merits of a filibuster.
He was quite careful not to pledge how he would vote
on a filibuster before he could discuss that with his colleagues in the Senate. I heard that loud and clear from
the senators mouth.
In this case, the filibuster was used essentially to
bring closure to a debate on a topic that had been discussed and examined by all sides in great detail, with
no view unheard or position unarticulated. A continued debate on the floor of the Congress would have
served no constructive purpose. I was glad to hear in
Livingston that Senator Booker was open to the idea
of bringing this debate forward to a conclusion, one
way or another.
Rabbi David J. Fine, Ph.D.
Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center
Ridgewood
Reality, the deal, and war
Rabbi Genacks assertion that Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are our traditional allies ignores
reality (The Iran deal, September 25).
Notwithstanding Israeli peace agreements with
Egypt and Jordan, neither the United States nor Israel
has friends in the Middle East. Some of the same arguments presented for the disastrous misadventure in
Iraq are being repeated for the Iran problem.
War should not be the solution.
Elisha Gurfein
Englewood
Poisonous speech
I certainly appreciated Mark Friedmans letter (A voice

from the seats, September 25).
Sadly, Ive also heard Jews using the word schvartze
when referring to African American elected officials,
whether local politicians, members of Congress, or the
President of the United States.
We, of all people, should understand the poisonous
power of hateful speech. God help us if weve forgotten the difference between disagreeing with someones
opinions or actions, and name-calling based on religious, ethnic, or racial identity.
While I dont agree with Mr. Friedman that national
and world events have no place in a sermon, I do hope
that every rabbi knows his or her own community well
enough to anticipate an emotionally charged response to
remarks from the pulpit. I believe that our spiritual leaders have a responsibility to remind their congregants
that each of them must strive to contribute to civilized

political discourse. Banishing the word schvartze from
the public vocabulary is a crucial first step.
Barbara Blumenthal
Englewood
Interfaith questions
I was happy to read your two articles about Temple

Emanu-El in Closter regarding its change of direction
and its decision to become warm and welcoming to
interfaith families (A shuls new approach to outsiders, September 10). I am on the board of the other
Temple Emanuel, in Woodcliff Lake. Our keruv committee has been reaching out to our interfaith families
for several years, and our programs have been very
successful and a resource for all congregants.
What I did not see addressed in your article was the
question, How do we treat the spouses or significant
other partner of the Jewish member of an interfaith
family/relationship ? Can the non-Jewish partner/
spouse become a member? Can they vote on both secular and nonsecular issues?
These are two of the issues that I struggle with personally and I would love to know how the new Temple Emanu-El is dealing with it.
Simone Wilker
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Englewood
1:00-3:00pm
HISTORIC NEW BRIDGE LANDING

River Edge
10:00 am 12:00 pm
Join members of Congregation Ahavath Torah

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Meet at the Nature Center building.
Remove trash, plant spring owering bulbs, and

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an American Revolutionary War site.
GREAT OAK PARK
PATERSON GREAT FALLS NATIONAL

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Oakland
10:00 11:30 am
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Clean up trash around this beautiful national park.
VAN SAUN MILL BROOK
CLARENCE W BRETT PARK
Paramus
12:00 -3:00 pm
Clean debris and clear invasive species under the

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Work with Hackensack Riverkeeper and help

clear out debris from Van Saun Mill Brook, located
behind Yeshivat Ben Porat Yosef on Frisch Court.
Kosher pizza will be served.
Teaneck
1:00 3:00 pm
NOVEMBER 1
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Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel

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Make no-sew blankets for children here and in
Israel.
ASSEMBLE PACKAGES FOR AMERICAN

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Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Cong. Bnai Israel
10:00 am 12:00 pm
Prepare packages for American soldiers serving

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FAMILY FUN PROJECTS
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Tenay

Check www.jfnnj.org/mitzvahday for time and
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Craft activities for all ages families, children,
teens, seniors. Participate in craft projects that
will then be donated to the needy.
ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES (IDF)

LONE SOLDIER PROJECT
NEW
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,

Paramus | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Bring your family to decorate a pillowcase for

American Lone Soldiers serving in the IDF.
Please bring a new pillowcase for the project.

Markers and extra pillowcases will be provided.
Volunteers also needed to sort and pack donated
items which will be shipped to Israel for the
soldiers. Great for families.
centered around life cycle milestones from birth to

bereavement. Create hand-made baby blankets
and work on other service projects; take part in fun,
cell-phone games.
JOIN A HUNGER WALK
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Shepherd Lake State Park, Ringwood

1:00- 3:00 pm
Join members of Temple Beth Rishon on the
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of the Center for Food Action. For information
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KIDS WHO CARE - SHARE

Temple Sinai, Tenay
10:00 am 12:00 pm
Make cards for soldiers, blood donors and seniors.

Good for all ages.
NEW
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AND WOMEN
Congregation Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn
10:00 am 1:00 pm
Lets treat our service men and women by making

chocolate chip cookies packed in decorated tins
for local police, re department, veterans and their
families.
MAKE GIFTS AND CARDS
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

10:00 am 12:00 pm
Make cards and art projects to cheer up patients.
ORGANIZE SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND

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Congregation Ahavat Achim, Fair Lawn
9:30 am 12:30 pm
Assemble backpacks and school supplies to

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NEW
HONORING LIFECYCLES
Temple Beth Or, Washington Township

9:30 -11:30 am
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congregation members and take part in activities
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for low income homeowners, the elderly, the
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SORT AND BAG FOOD
CUMAC Center of United Methodist Aid to the

Community, Paterson
9:30 am 12:30 pm
Join the Wayne Interfaith Network and bag food
in this warehouse that serves as a supply center
for other area food pantries and also for families.
Additional opportunities to help may be available
with a Community Closet project (thrift shop/
disaster relief). Ages 12 +.
SORT AND DISTRIBUTE
Hoboken Emergency Food Pantry

1:00 4:00 pm
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SORT AND PACK CLOTHING FOR ISRAEL

Temple Beth Rishon, Wycko
1:00 - 3:00 pm
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Purim costumes (adult and children) to be sent to
low-income communities in Israel.
SORT AND PACK CLOTHING FOR KIDS AT

OASIS
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah
1:00 - 3:00 pm
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at Oasis, a haven for women and children in
Paterson.
NEW
HELP PACK MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Emerson Health & Rehabilitation Center

2:00 3:00 pm
Jewish Home Assisted Living, River Vale

10:00 11:30 am
All friendly pets (no birds, please) are invited to

meet the residents. Share a funny story or two
about your pet with them.
Join residents in packing medical supplies for the

AFYA Foundation which supports ongoing health
initiatives by supplying critically needed surplus
medical supplies to partner organizations.
CRAFTS & GAMES
Buckingham at Norwood
2:00 4:00 pm
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and games with residents in the rehabilitation
center.
HELP AT CRAFT FAIR AND GAMES

Jewish Home at Rockleigh
Session One: 11:00 am 12:00 pm
Session Two: 1:30 4:00 pm
Assist residents to Jewish Homes Main Street

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Daughters of Miriam/The Gallen Institute, Clifton

8:45 10:00 am
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Torah of Fair Lawn in morning prayers with the
residents, followed by breakfast and visitation.
RUN A CARNIVAL
Daughters of Miriam/The Gallen Institute, Clifton

1:00 3:00 pm
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students and Temple Beth Tikvah of Wayne Youth
Group to run booths and escort residents to the
various games and activities.
SING-A-LONG & MUSIC REVIEW

Brightview Assisted Living, Tenay
2:00 3:00 pm
Socialize with residents as young members of

Kol Haneshama put on a music review and lead a
sing-a-long.
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CareOne at Teaneck
2:00 3:00 pm
Enjoy these fun activities with the residents and

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Collections & Drives

Adult Briefs
Arts and Crafts Kits and Supplies
Baby Basics
Baby Clothing for Israel
Baby Clothing for Oasis
Baby equipment
Blankets and Towels
Cell Phones
Chanukah Toys
Childrens Coat Drive
Coat Drive
Disposable items for Safely@Home
Emergency Care Kits
Eyeglasses
Food
Musical instruments
New Books
New scarves, hats and gloves
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Paper Goods and Cleaning Supplies

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Ramapo Readers
School Supplies
New Socks
Used Socks
Soda Can Tops
Supplies for Lone Soldiers in Israel
Supplies for Soldiers
Toiletries and toothbrushes
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SOCIALIZE AND BRING SMILES TO

SENIORS
Sunrise Assisted Living of Wayne
1:00 2:00 pm
Care One at Wayne
2:00 3:00 pm
Local Teens are invited to join members of the

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SOCIALIZE AND PLAY GAMES
Brookdale Wayne (formerly Emeritus of Wayne)

1:00 4:00 pm
Join members of Shomrei Torah, the Wayne
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with residents.
TIDY UP THE YARD
J-ADD Gordon Home, Washington Township 1:00

2:30 pm
Socialize, spruce up and plant fall bulbs in the
yard of this Jewish Association for Developmental
Disabilities home.
NEW VISIT VETERANS WITH

CONGREGATION BNAI ISRAEL, EMERSON
Veterans Home, Paramus

2:00 3:00 pm
Congregation Bnai Israel will bring smiles to

veterans in this home. Get your smiles in gear
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Seniors & Special Needs
BRING YOUR PET
BLOOD DRIVES
Appointment preferred, walk-ins welcome.
Ages 16 (with parental consent) - 75.
ID required.
Glen Rock Jewish Center*
8:30 am 1:30 pm
JCCP/Congregation Beth Tikvah* Paramus
8:30 am 1:30 pm
Temple Israel & Jewish Community Center**
Ridgewood
8:45 am2:00 pm
Temple Sinai of Bergen County & Kesher
Community Synagogue* at Temple Sinai
8:30 am1:30 pm
*ARC = American Red Cross
** CBS = Community Blood Services
BONE MARROW DRIVE
Temple Avodat Shalom, River Edge
9:00 am 2:00 pm
Donors must be between ages 18-45 who have
not yet joined a bone marrow registry. All it takes
is a simple cheek swab and less than 2 minutes
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Organized Groups
Jewish Federation also thanks the following participating groups.

Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School,
Oakland choir will perform at Federation Apts.
and socialize with residents.
Congregation Gesher Shalom Hebrew School
students will write Thanksgiving cards and
create bookmarks for seniors, and assemble
emergency care kits.
the Joseph M. Sanzari Childrens Hospital at

Hackensack University Medical Center
Temple Avodat Shalom Junior and Senior
choirs will sing and socialize with residents at
Bergen Regional Medical Center, Paramus
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Cong. Bnai Israel

Choir will perform at Oradell Health Care Center
Tikkun 4 Kids of Congregation Beth Sholom,

Teaneck will collect, sort, and stock the food
pantry at Jewish Family Service of Bergen &
North Hudson
Hillel college students along with Rosenbaum

Yeshiva of North Jersey and Yavneh Academy
middle school students will spend time with the
Friendship Circle in sports and art activities
Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck will

assemble emergency care kits for senior clients
of Jewish Family Service agencies and collect
clothing for children in Israel.
JCCP/Beth Tikvah Hebrew School students

will bake and deliver treats to local Paramus
Police, Fire and EMS
Yavneh Academy students will sort and stock

shelves at the Center for Food Action, Saddle
Brook
JCCP/Beth Tikvah Singers will perform at

Jewish Home Assisted Living, River Vale
Yeshivat Noam students will play games and

socialize with residents of Prospect Heights Care
Center, Hackensack
Jewish Youth Encounter Program students

will clean up the NJ Palisades Interstate Park
Lubavitch on the Palisades Hebrew School
children will assemble gifts to benet children
with cancer, Lubavitch on the Palisades, Tenay
National Council of Synagogue Youth will
coordinate a carnival for children at Institute
for Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders at
Temple Emanu-El, Closter Hebrew School

students will make sandwiches to be distributed
to OASIS and Closter Food Pantry.
Temple Beth Rishon religious school students
will make holiday cards and crafts for senior
residents in facilities and homes.
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n November 1974,
In visual terms at least,
the late Pale stine
the contrast between Arafat
Liberation Organiin November 1974 and Paleszation leader Yasser
tinian Authoritys President
Arafat addressed the entire
Mahmoud Abbas on Sepworld from the rostrum of
tember 30, 2015, couldnt
the United Nations General
have been greater. At the
Assembly.
General Assembly rostrum,
Always a master of specthe portly, drab Abbas delivBen Cohen
tacle, Arafat cut an arresting
ered a speech so rhetorically
figure as he strode toward
labored and dull that I found
the podium in a tieless black
myself wondering whether
shirt and flowing cream jacket, with a perhed had second thoughts about dropping
fectly-coiffed keffiyeh wrapped around his
the much-vaunted bombshell everyone
head. A holster without its gun firearms
had been talking about. (In the end, he
are forbidden in the General Assembly
delivered on that one.)
Hall was draped by his side pocket, comIn between thanking Norway, Sweden,
pleting the aesthetic effect of a Palestinian
the Arab League, the Obama administraChe Guevara.
tion, and Russia apologies if I left anyArafat, however, wasnt going to let U.N.
one out there were strands of sheer nasprotocol ruin the dramatic impact of his
tiness running through Abbass speech.
speech.
Referring to Palestine as the land of
Today I have come bearing an olive
holiness, he spoke reverentially of Jesus
branch and a freedom-fighters gun, he
and Mohammed, but deliberately omitted
told the U.N. delegates at the end of his
any mention of the deep and historic Jewspeech. Do not let the olive branch fall
ish ties to the land: the Davidic and Hasfrom my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive
monean kingdoms that reigned there, for
branch fall from my hand.
example, or the jewel in the crown that
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was the Temple in Jerusalem.

Then, going through a litany of alleged
Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, he
closed by talking about the killings of Palestinians in the village of Deir Yassin by
Revisionist Zionist militias in April 1948
a death toll that represented a fraction of
1 percent of the Arab population of British
Palestine, but is widely regarded by Palestinian apologists as a defining moment in
the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians.
By speaking of Deir Yassin, Abbass purpose was to reinforce the ugly myth that
Israel is a colonial state formed in original sin.
Yet what will excite interest in Abbass
speech is not his jaundiced view of the
past Arafat made many similar false
claims before the U.N. but his plans
for the future. Palestine would achieve
internationally recognized sovereignty
with eastern Jerusalem as its capital, he
asserted, and it would do so without Israels consent.
As a result, the Palestinians no longer
consider themselves bound by the 1993
Oslo Accords that created the PA. Thats
because Israel has stopped abiding by
HOUSE
CALLS
Palestinian Authority President

Mahmoud Abbas addresses the U.N.
General Assembly on September 30.
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them, Abbas said. Instead, he went on,

Israel has created a system of apartheid in the West Bank and has continued its rapacious construction of Jewish
settlements.
As he spoke, all the refutations came
to mind: the 10-month settlement freeze
that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu secured in 2009, following a
bruising battle with right-wing government ministers who opposed him; the
lack of any distinction between natural
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Freeing the Jews

Rabbi brings mission of reforming Israeli chief rabbinate to Teaneck shul
Larry Yudelson
n the map of the world that Uri

Regev has prepared, Israel lies in
the middle of a sea of black that
extends from Algeria in the west to
Pakistan in the east. Beyond the countries
labeled in black are the countries in gray,
from Namibia through Vietnam. America,
Europe, Russia, Australia, and most of
South America are white.
By the logic of rhetorical cartography we have become accustomed to, we
would expect Israel, the lone democracy
and American ally in the Middle East, to
What: Rabbi Uri Regev delivers the
Rabbi Joshua Trachtenberg Memorial Lecture: Magic, Superstition, and
the Challenge of Religious Freedom in
Israel.
Where: Temple Emeth, 1600 Windsor
Road, Teaneck
When: Friday night, October 9, 8 p.m.
Admission: Free
The Israeli Supreme Court

building, where Rabbi Uri Regev
has been fighting battles for
religious freedom for decades.
28 Jewish Standard OCTOBER 9, 2015
be in white.
It is not.
This map ranks countries based on freedom to marry, and Israel, like most Muslim
countries, gets a zero.
Israel, like many of its neighbors, has
inherited its system of marriage from
the Turkish empire that ruled it for centuries before the First World War. In that
system, marriage is delegated to the official religious bodies. For Jews, that means
the rabbinate, headed by the chief rabbis.
(Muslims have their parallel religious officialdom.) Marriages between people of
different religions cannot be performed
in Israel. There are 300,000 Israelis registered without a religion, and they cannot
marry at all in their country.
Thats one of the things that Rabbi Regev
wants to change about Israel. He is founder
and director of Hiddush, a Hebrew acronym for Hofesh dat vshivyon, religious
freedom and equality, and also the Hebrew
word meaning innovation and renewal.
He shares the desire to change Israels
balance of religion and state with most
Rabbi Uri Regev
of his compatriots. Hiddush recently

released its annual survey of Israeli attitudes toward religion and state and found
that an overwhelming majority supports
freedom of choice in marriage, including
recognizing civil marriage and Reform

and Conservative rabbis conducting marriages, Rabbi Regev said.
In 1986, Rabbi Regev was one of the
first Israelis to be ordained by the Reform
movement in Israel. But in recent years,
Rabbi Regev has found himself with
Orthodox allies. These include Rabbi
Shlomo Riskin, the former leader of Manhattans Lincoln Square Synagogue and
now chief rabbi of Efrat in Israel, who
has helped found Tzohar, an Israeli liberal Orthodox rabbinic association, and
with Rabbi Seth Farber, who founded the
organization Itim to help Israelis navigate
the rabbinates bureaucracy. The organization, funded in part by the Russell Berrie Foundation, recently reported that the
Israeli rabbinate had rejected an Orthodox conversion conducted by a Chabad
rabbi (whose earlier brush with fame was
putting tefillin on Sandy Koufax after his
historic Yom Kippur non-game 50 years
ago) and certified by Rabbi Gedalia Dov
Schwartz, the head of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of Americas rabbinical
court. This apparent violation of an agreement between the RCA and the Israeli rabbinate was resolved following publicity
but it was a reminder of how little the chief
rabbinate feels compelled to answer to any
other authorities.
In America, the American Jewish Committee has formed the Jewish Religious
Equality Coalition, which includes Reform,
Conservative, and modern Orthodox rabbis and organizations, as well as Hiddush.
The chief rabbinate has clearly become
an object of derision, even scorn, in many
quarters, both in Israel and the diaspora, said the coalitions Orthodox leaders, Dov Zakheim and Steven Bayme, in a
statement.
For the AJC, the issue of the chief rabbinates monopoly on marriage and conversion is an issue for diaspora concern.
Rabbi Regev agrees with that assessment.
Israel will not be the home for all Jews if
it does not relate to all Jews with dignity,
equality, and acceptance, he said.
Of course, who is a Jew is a matter of
dispute. Is a convert a Jew? From an ultraOrthodox perspective, someone who converts and is not Orthodox is not a Jew.
And someone who is not ultra-Orthodox
is not Orthodox. And while Jewish law has
been rather clear over the centuries that
once converted, always a Jew, in recent
years the chief rabbinate, or at least some
of its officials, has not hesitated to undo
conversions.
All of which makes me wonder about
two young women I know who now live
in Israel, daughters of friends of mine
The Hiddush freedom of marriage map ranks countries according to three levels of marriage freedom. Black represents
severe restrictions, gray represents partial restrictions, and white represents full heterosexual freedom of marriage.
who attended my seders when they were

younger. Both were born non-Jewish,
adopted as infants, converted as infants,
and raised as Jews. There was no question that they are Jewish. Except that now
that theyre in Israel, under the present
regime, their conversion always is up for
question. One grew up in a Conservative
home. Is she Jewish enough? The other
might no longer be observing Shabbat. Is
she Jewish enough?
Some might say, its a price worthwhile
to pay to keep Israel Jewish, said Rabbi
Regev of the chief rabbinates scrutiny of
converts and control over marriage. But
the question is can we afford, under the
guise of keeping Israel Jewish, to turn
Israel into the only Western democracy in
the world that restricts the right of citizens

to marry?
The majority of children growing up
in the Jewish community in American
today will find that they will be dealt with
by Israel as either not Jewish or not Jewish enough if were not able to work
together to change it. They will be told
they will not be able to legally marry in
Israel if they ever choose to leave their life
in America. Thats not a prescription for
solidarity between Israel and world Jewry.
If Israel-diaspora relations are part of
Rabbi Regevs pitch for why American
Jews should be concerned about this
issue, theyre also what got him started
on this path. Back in 1967, when he was
16, his high school principal selected him
From folklore to politics: Revisiting Jewish magic and superstition

Rabbi Joshua Trachteberg published his
groundbreaking work, Jewish Magic and
Superstition: a Study in Folk Religion, in
1939. The shadow darkening Europe, which
soon would destroy the remains of the centuries of ashkenazic Jewish life that are at
the center of the book, is evidenced in the
works very first paragraph.
Rabbi Trachtenberg went on to become
rabbi at Temple Emeth in Teaneck, and his
book went on to become a classic. Rabbi
Uri Regev read it in rabbinical school. and
yet, whether in the 1930s, when it was written, in the 1950s, when Rabbi Trachtenberg
led Jews in Teaneck, or in the 1960s, when it
was brought out in paperback by the Jewish
Publication Society, the book seemed to be notes from a
buried world. It was a world filled with angels and demons,
charms and amulets, that Rabbi Trachtenberg no doubt
would have assumed to be doomed by progress, even had
the 20th century not taken its murderous turn.
By the time Rabbi Regev read the book, it was clear that
in the modern State of Israel, folk religion, with its magic
and superstition, had not vanished but he still viewed the
work as scholarly research of the past, he

said.
now, however, when he delivers his Rabbi
Joshua Trachtenberg Memorial Lecture, Rabbi
Regevs topic will be Magic, Superstition,
and Religious Freedom in Israel, and he will
investigate magic and superstition as a contemporary phenomenon and a contemporary
source of concern.
In large measure, this folk religion has taken
a Sephardi form. But the folk involved are not
simply peasants; they include Israels financial tycoons, who attend rituals of tzadikim,
where thousands of candles are thrown into
fire pits, and they include a senior police official who committed suicide because of his
involvement with an allegedly miracle-working rabbi.
Yet this folk religion reflects an even more dangerous
religious turn, Rabbi Regev believes.
When these beliefs have to do with the need to exclude
women from the public sphere, when they have to do with
excluding non-Jews, when it takes the form of torching
churches, we realize we have a much more serious challenge than throwing candles into pits, he said.
for an exchange program that had him living among American Jews for six months.
He had grown up in a secular family in
Tel Aviv. He was the prototypical sabra,
born in the earliest years of the state. In
America, he lived with a Reform Jewish
family in southern California, and then
spent the summer at two Reform camps,
Camp Kutz in New York and Camp Swig
in California.
This was my first exposure to religious
pluralism, he said.
Can we afford to
turn Israel into
the only Western
democracy in
the world that
restricts the
right of citizens
to marry?
It was a time when the Reform movements commitment to social action was
focused on the civil rights movement. It
had only been a handful of years, after
all, since major civil rights laws had
been drafted around the table at the
movements Religious Action Center in
Washington.
The combination of exposure to religious diversity on the one hand the struggle for civil liberties on the other have had
a profound impact on my personality,
Rabbi Regev said. I attribute a lot of what
transpired in subsequent decades to that
period.
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Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein
On his return to Israel, he took a path

that placed him in law school before
his army service. His law school papers
focused on issues of religion and state.
After he earned his law degree and completed his army service, while my late
mother would have rather seen me settle
in a comfortable law practice and being
able to provide comfortably for my family, I chose to pursue rabbinic studies. He
studied at the Hebrew Union College in
Jerusalem.
In 1988, he combined his Jewish and
legal interests by founding the Israel Religious Action Center of the Reform movement, which fought in the Israeli court
systems for religious pluralism, equitable
funding of non-Orthodox Jewish institutions, and the recognition of non-Orthodox converts. In 2001 he headed the movements global division, the World Union for
Progressive Judaism. And six years ago he
started Hiddush, which fights many of the
battles he fought with the Religious Action
Center but is a transdenominational body.
Hiddush is unique by having Orthodox,
Conservative, Reform, and secular individuals and groups working with us, and by
focusing solely on religious freedom and
equality, he said. This sharp focus enables
it to find allies on the political right as well
as the political left.
The battle is supported by the overwhelming majority of Israelis, he said. It
isnt about non-Orthodox Jews in America
trying to tell Israelis how to run our lives.
This is about a genuine desire of the majority of Israelis to see Israel live up to the notyet-fully-fulfilled promise of Israels Declaration of Independence, the promise of
religious freedom and equality.
He points to his surveys finding that
Israeli politicians are not representing
their constituencies when they pursue
policies that do not reflect Israels founding commitment to religious freedom
and equality. On some key issues, such as
financial concessions to the charedi parties, military service for yeshiva students,
public transportation on Shabbat, and
other key elements of the Chief Rabbinate
Rabbi Uri Regev with a client who was excommunicated by her charedi community for using the Israeli legal system.
Israeli charedim protest the wicked Zionist regime for efforts to draft them in
the Israeli army.
and the rabbinical establishment monopoly, even a majority of the voters of some
of the coalition parties like Likud oppose
the current situation.
As Hiddush conducts its surveys from
year to year, support for its positions
increases. It seems that the chief rabbinates monopoly on marriage is no more
lovable than those of the phone company
in Lily Tomlins time or cable companies
now.
Given their druthers, Seventy percent
of Israeli secular Jews say that had it been
up to them, they would not marry through
the rabbinate, he said.
When he comes to New Jersey this weekend and asks for American Jewish support,
he will be coming to a receptive audience.
Rabbi Regev cited a finding from the
recent AJC annual study of American Jewish views, which showed two thirds saying that there should be less connection
between state and religion in Israel.
This is what Israelis desire, and what
American Jewry stands for, he said.
In America, Hiddush is reaching out to
boards of rabbis and asking them to take a

stand. Recently, the North Jersey Board of
Rabbis endorsed such a resolution to support a pluralistic approach to marriage in
Israel.
But as a lawyer, litigation and negotiation under the threat of litigation is a key
strategy for Rabbi Regev.
One case Hiddush is involved in has
potentially wide ramifications. In it, the
organization is representing an ultraOrthodox family in the ultra-Orthodox
town of Elad who had a problem with its
upstairs neighbor. The upstairs neighbors,
it seems, built an illegal addition on their
porch, extending over the familys patio
and making it impossible for the family to
put up a sukkah.
So why does a Reform rabbi running
a religious freedom organization get
involved in a zoning dispute with a sukkah
at its heart? Because the woman whose
patio was impinged on went to a civil court
to get an injunction against the neighbor.
And for the crime of going to a civil court,
she received a ktav seruv, a statement from
the religious court saying she was ignoring

its authority. Such a statement is tantamount to excommunication.
This case in a nutshell represents the
conflict of religion and state in Israel,
Rabbi Regev said. Here is a charedi
woman being assaulted by a charedi hoodlum who couldnt care less about legal
rights or the due process of zoning and getting a permit. She is getting the penalty of
excommunication for daring to turn to the
courts of the state to enjoy the protection
of the law of the state, he said.
As far as the charedi courts are concerned, neither the civil courts nor the
Israeli laws are considered legitimate, he
said. They call them gentile courts and
gentile laws.
The charedi court meets at the municipal building and the towns chief rabbi presides, he said. That added an official aura
to this.
This is not only a moral outrage; it is also
a violation of Israeli law, Rabbi Regev said.
Its criminal, because in essence it represents interference to her access to the law.
There are specific criminal prohibitions to
what the charedi court did, having to do
with extortion and interference with due
process.
In response to our taking the case, the
attorney general has issued guidelines that
spelled out his strong view that such conduct constitutes potentially criminal acts.
We asked the court to declare this ktav
seruv as null and void. We also submitted
complaints to the police demanding criminal steps be taken against the rabbis who
signed it.
Almost 70 years after the founding of
the State of Israel, we are still confronting
the ABCs of our identity as a Jewish and
democratic state, with some elements
refusing to accept the notion of democracy and the procedures associated with
democracy, he said.
Earlier this year, Hiddush reported a
victory in reining in the chief rabbinates
control of venues it certifies as kosher. For
decades, the rabbinate had threatened to
remove certification from hotels where
video and photography was allowed on
Shabbat, and where such non-Jewish symbols as Christmas trees were displayed,
even if Christian pilgrims were staying
there. Hotels had told visiting Reform
and Conservative groups they could not
use musical instruments at their Shabbat
services, for fear they would lose their
certification.
Following a yearlong correspondence
between Hiddush, the attorney general,
and the rabbinate, They have changed
criteria and removed those clauses, he
said. Now we have to make sure they live
up to the changed criteria.
Its an exciting period where quite a
number of things that in previous decades
were seen as part of the elements, that
there was nothing you could do about it,
are now eroding and hopefully will collapse, he said.
Opinion
Holidays
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described in Exodus 19 and 24. I see in

our less dramatic version of revelation
a sobering challenge that repairing the
holes of the Sukkat Shalom, the Sukkah
of Peace we pray for each night in the
Hashkiveinu prayer, will not be achieved
by divine proclamation, but through a
partnership between God and humanity.
From genocidal wars to global warming, from gridlock in Congress to stalemate in the Middle East, from a lack of
will in our country to provide adequate
childcare or eldercare, it seems that our
Sukkat Shalom has more holes in it than
usual. Therefore, it is in need of our
repair through our prayer and action.
So, in the spirit of chol hamoed Passover
another time when we read Exodus 34
I want to pose four questions for each
of us to consider in the year ahead.
1. How can we in the spirit of Sukkot
be more grateful for the many blessings
we have as Americans and as Jews?
2. How can we turn from our worship
of our own golden calves and become
Abbas
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growth within existing settlements and

the construction of new ones (there
havent actually been any new ones
since the Oslo Accords were signed); the
total and unilateral Israeli withdrawal
from Gaza in 2005, generating a vacuum
filled by Hamas two years later; the continued declarations of Netanyahu that he
is ready for direct talks with the Palestinians without preconditions.
More bothersome than the matter of
refuting Abbass dubious claims, though,
is where his vision of the West Banks
future will lead. (Gaza already has spent
nearly a decade under the boot of the
Hamas terrorists.) For half of his speech,
he regaled his audience with encomiums
to the development of the PA under his
watch, with its sophisticated institutions
and respect for the rule of law a definition that, in this case, apparently permits the pilfering of billions of dollars in
aid money by PA cronies. For the other
half of the speech, he declared his readiness to abandon all of that by compelling
Israel to fully assume all its responsibilities as an occupying power.
Without the PA as a go-between
the Palestinians and the Israeli military, Abbas reasons, the world will be
reminded of the stark brutality of Israels occupation, as well as its universal
rejection by the Palestinians. His strategy is to undermine Israel through legal
means joining international treaties
and organizations, charging Israel with
war crimes at the International Criminal Court and peaceful protest. Like
Arafat in 1974, Abbas wants us to believe
Gods messengers of compassion and

mercy in the world?
3. Can we, in the spirit of the ushpitzin, the guests we invite into our sukkot, make our own communities, as well
as both America and Israel, more welcoming to the stranger ?
4. Can we this year build a Sukkat Shalom, a Sukkah of Peace, where all the
children of Noah, including the Children
of Ishmael and the children of Israel, can
dwell side by side in peace?
Change is difficult, and except in fairy
tales it is never instantaneous. Cahill
taught that the gift of the Jews is that
what each of us does matters. David
Ben-Gurion once said, Time works both
for us and against us, depending on how
we use it.
May we each use 5776 as a time to
make positive changes in our personal,
communal, national, and global spheres.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz is rabbi emeritus
of Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge
and past chair of the Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey.
that he is extending the olive branch, not

pointing the gun.
The problem is that Abbas has little
control over how events pan out. Many
Palestinians resent him and his corrupt, nepotistic rule, while quite a few
openly detest him. As Abbas weakens in
the West Bank, Hamas with whom he
fought a bitter civil war in Gaza in 2007
becomes strengthened. And thats
not to mention the terrorist groups in
the wider region, like Islamic State and
al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, who are salivating at the prospect of the West Bank
turning into Afghanistan. Nor can we
ignore the machinations of the Iranian
regime, which now exercises supreme
control in Syria and Iraq.
Ironically, the first victims of a collapse along these lines would be Abbas
and his regime, as well the growing Palestinian middle class in Ramallah and
its environs. They may not like Israels
presence, but how many Palestinians in
Jenin, say, would swap places with their
brethren in Syria now facing Assads
barrel bombs? By reneging on his agreements with Israel, Abbas has brought
this regional nightmare one step closer
to the territory whose interests he claims
to represent.
In the final analysis, there is no olive
branch here. Just a gun. And this time its
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Netanyahus U.N. glare

Everyones talking ISIS at the General Assembly
RON KAMPEAS
Still, Netanyahu had reason to be concerned

that the Obama administration was preparing
to pivot toward a gentler accommodation of Iranian ambitions in the region, precisely because of
shared interests in confronting the Sunni extremist ISIS.
Before the formal opening of the General
Assembly, Secretary of State John Kerry met in
New York with his Iranian counterpart, Javad
Zarif, for the first time since the July deal was
announced and made clear that the United
States had more to discuss with Iran than just
nuclear compliance.
We have a lot of issues to talk about, Kerry
said on his way into the meeting. I view this week
as a major opportunity for any number of countries to play an important role in trying to resolve
some of the very difficult issues of the Middle
East. We need to achieve peace and a way forward
in Syria, in Yemen, in the region itself.
The success of ISIS, and the wave of Europebound refugees it has created, preoccupied many
of the speakers, chief among them Obama and
Russias President Vladimir Putin, who sparred
over best practice: Targeting ISIS while seeking the ouster of the Iran-backed Bashar Assad
regime in Syria, as Obama counseled, or embracing Assad as a useful partner in defeating ISIS, as
Putin advised.
The United States is prepared to work with any
nation, including Russia and Iran, to resolve the
conflict, Obama said.
But we must recognize that there cannot be,
after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a
return to the prewar status quo, he said in his
General Assembly address. Lets remember
how this started: Assad reacted to peaceful protests by escalating repression and killing that, in
turn, created the environment for the current
strife.
Putin, speaking soon thereafter, likened
Obamas insistence on Assads ouster to his
Soviet predecessors notorious interference in
smaller states. We should all remember what
our past has taught us, Putin said. Social
experiments for export, attempts to push for
changes within other countries based on ideological preferences, often led to tragic consequences and to degradation rather than
progress.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, speaking on
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Iran continues to deploy violent proxies to

advance its interests, Obama said. These efforts
may appear to give Iran leverage in disputes with
neighbors, but they fuel sectarian conflict that
endangers the entire region, and isolates Iran
from the promise of trade and commerce.
Obama called on Iran to choose a different
path.
Chanting Death to America does not create
jobs or make Iran more secure, he said. If Iran
chose a different path, that would be good for the
security of the region, good for the Iranian people
and good for the world.
BARACK OBAMA
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
If Iran chose a
different path, that
would be good for
the security of the
region, good for the
Iranian people and
good for the world.
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The response from

this body, the
response from
nearly every one of
the governments
represented here,
has been absolute
silence, utter silence,
deafening silence.
ANDREW BURTON/GETTY IMAGES
ll anyone at the opening of the United

Nations General Assembly seemed
to want to talk about was the threat
that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
posed to the world.
That was much to the consternation of Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who argued
in his speech before that body on Thursday that
Iran, beyond the benefits accrued to it because of
the sanctions relief for the nuclear restrictions deal,
was benefiting from the intensified focus on ISIS.
When your enemies fight each other, dont
strengthen either one, weaken both! he said.
In one of the most dramatic moments of the
week of speeches, Netanyahu charged the assembled world leaders with silence in the wake of Iranian provocations, including calls for Israels disappearance, both before and after it reached the
deal in July with six major powers.
He held up what he said was a 400-page tome
by Irans supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
that anticipated Israels demise.
The response from this body, the response
from nearly every one of the governments represented here, has been absolute silence, utter
silence, deafening silence, the Israeli leader said.
Netanyahu then glared, silent, his eyes moving back and forth across the chamber, for 44
seconds.
President Barack Obama, speaking on Monday,
did focus on Irans perpetuation of mischief even
in the wake of the deal.
Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, from top, Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Barack Obama, Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani, and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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Tuesday, also dedicated much of his

speech to the threat that he said ISIS
posed.
The gravest and most important
threat to the world today is for terrorist organizations to become terrorist
states, for the destiny of nations to be
determined by arms and terror rather
than the ballot box, he said. No country should be allowed to use terrorism
for the purpose of intervention in the
affairs of another country.
As if anticipating Netanyahus direst warnings, Rouhani welcomed the
nuclear deal as an entree into the international community while continuing
Irans tradition of lobbing anti-Israel
rhetorical bombs at the United Nations.
The agreed-upon deal is not the
final objective but a development
which should be the basis of further
agreements to come, he said.
Rouhani warned the assembled leaders not to allow the Zionist regime to
remain the only impediment in the way
of realizing this important precedent.
Having failed to stop the nuclear
deal, Netanyahu appeared to realize
that his best bet is to encourage its close
supervision. He made clear that keeping a close eye on Iran would be high on
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Palestinian protesters in the West Bank throw stones and burn tires during clashes with Israeli security
forces over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on September 30.
Flash90
Why Israelis fear a third intifada

Ben Sales
TEL AVIV First it was clashes on the Temple Mount.
Then a mother and father were shot in front of their
four children. Then two men were killed in a stabbing
attack in Jerusalems Old City.
Now Israelis fear the wave of conflict will only rise.
Heres why the violence began, how its escalated and
what might be next.
Four Israelis have died in two terror attacks over
three days.
The slow-burning Israeli-Palestinian conflict has
flamed up in the past week with a series of terrorist
attacks. On Thursday night, militants from the AlAqsa Martyrs Brigades the armed wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party
shot and killed a young Jewish-Israeli husband and
wife, Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin.
At the time, the Henkins, both in their early 30s,
were driving through the northern West Bank to their
home in the settlement of Neria. The couples four
children, from 4 months to 9 years old, were in the
car and saw the attack. They survived and were evacuated to a hospital.
Two days later, after Shabbat ended, a terrorist
killed two men in the Old City of Jerusalem. Aharon
Bennett, a 22-year-old Israeli soldier, was on the way to
the Western Wall when he, his wife, and their two sons
were attacked. He was off duty and out of uniform. His
wife, Adele, 21, was seriously wounded and underwent
emergency surgery.
The two attacks

followed weeks of
tension over access to
Jerusalems Temple
Mount, the holy site
known to Muslims as
Haram al-Sharif.
The second victim, Nehemia Lavi, 41, was stabbed
and killed when he tried to fend off the terrorist with
a gun. Police shot and killed the terrorist, a 19-year-old
law student.
And on Sunday, a Jewish teenager was wounded in a
stabbing attack in Jerusalems Old City. He was rushed
to the hospital, and police officers killed his attacker.
Tensions have been high over conflict at the Temple
Mount.
The two attacks followed weeks of tension over
access to Jerusalems Temple Mount, the holy site
known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif. Israel barred
a violent Islamic protest group from the mount in
early September, setting off demonstrations, stone
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Israeli police uncovered a stockpile of
pipe bombs, firebombs, and rocks that
they feared would be aimed at Jewish
worshippers.
In response to the unrest, Israel heightened police presence in Jerusalems Old
City. The government also passed a law
that allows police to fire more quickly
on Palestinian stone throwers, as well as
increasing prison sentences and fines for
the stone throwers.
Violence at the Temple Mount has
since died down, but the rhetoric around
it remains tense. Arab Knesset member
Jamal Zahalka was shown in a video
shouting epithets at Jewish visitors to
the mount on Tuesday. And in dueling
speeches to the United Nations last week,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas each accused the other
side of upsetting the delicate balance at
the site.
In response, Israeli leaders are talking
tough and clamping down.
Israeli rhetoric has intensified in the
aftermath the attacks. Following the killing of the Henkins, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz wrote Friday on Facebook: The government will take every
necessary step to strengthen security
and settlement, and the Palestinians
will pay a heavy price. Whoever wants

to cross a line will realize he is on the
losing side.
On Sunday, Katz, who filled in for
Netanyahu during the prime ministers
trip to the U.N., wrote on Facebook
that he supports heightened steps
against Palestinian terror following the
attacks, including destroying the terrorists homes and placing a curfew on their
neighborhoods.
The attacks even prompted harsh
words from the normally conciliatory
Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin. At a
eulogy at Lavis funeral on Sunday, Rivlin said Israeli would find and punish
terrorists.
Our enemies know how to hurt us,
but will not defeat us, he said. The
fight against terrorism requires determination and inner fortitude. We will reach
the killers of the innocent and pure, and
we will reach their inciters and their dispatchers, and will deliver them a stinging
blow.
Israel took action, too. After the Saturday-night attack, the police barred
most Palestinians from Jerusalems Old
City for Sunday and Monday. Access was
restricted to Israeli citizens, tourists, students, Old City residents and those doing
business in the Old City. In addition, all
The fight against terrorism

requires determination and
inner fortitude. We will reach
the killers of the innocent and
pure, and we will reach their
inciters and their dispatchers,
and will deliver them a
stinging blow.
REUVEN RIVLIN
accustomed since the second intifada

ended a decade ago.
But though violence has r i sen
recently, it wont necessarily worsen.
Previous bouts have made Israelis concerned about an intifada and then
they waned after a few weeks. Last year
saw a string of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem that did not spark wider unrest.
And a wave of riots across the West
Bank, prompted by the death of a Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody, led to
the same fears in 2013, but the protests
fizzled.
Israelis and Palestinians can only hope
that this time will be similar.

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Muslim men under age 50 were barred

from the Temple Mount for Sunday and
Monday.
But this has happened before, only to
fade.
The past weeks events have dominated the news and gotten Israelis fearing the outbreak of broader Palestinian violence. On Saturday night, Israeli
Knesset opposition leader Isaac Herzog
wrote on Facebook that were at the
opening of a third intifada. The first
two violent Palestinian uprisings, in the
late 1980s and early 2000s, left thousands of Israelis and Palestinians dead.
A third wave would destroy the relative calm to which Israelis have become
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1. Fixes a torn kittel
5. Joins a Seder
9. Billy Crystal might do this when hosting
14. Dreyfus made one
15. Rabbinic contemporary of Ravina
16. Who opposed Joshua leading the
Jews after Moses died?
17. Uncle of Judah
18. Author often taught in high school
20. Abraham gets into a dispute over
them
22. They make (kosher) waffles
23. High Holiday time: Abbr.
24. Lift to the top of Hermon
26. Before Einstein was Doktor
28. Geoff Schwartz and others: Abbr.
29. Plots, like Haman
32. What Marty calls Emmett Brown
34. ___ Myself (The Producers song)
35. ___flot, cheaper way to get to Israel,
often
38. Levi to Leah
42. Slash called her A shot in the arm
for music.
44. Dreidel
45. Jake Gyllenhaal wears one on his
wrist sometimes
46. Murderous Judean king
47. 25th ___, David Benioff novel and
film
49. Make smooth for Shabbat
50. Oy
52. Bring to a total, as Dershowitz might
do at the end of an arguement
54. ___ La-La (1964 Manfred Mann hit)
57. Many a Jewish custom: Abbr.
60. Say lo
61. Quaker thats Kosher
63. Rages, likes Moses after the golden
calf incident
65. Bear that must have traveled a long
way to get to Noahs Ark
68. Author often taught in college
71. Magazine that called Netanyahu
King Bibi
72. Locale for doing the mitzvah of shiluach hakan
73. One of a plague in Egypt
74. Singer Day in Landiss Animal
House
75. Kill, biblically
76. Heaven-___
77. Clark created by Siegel and Shuster
Down
1. Gush forth, like a rock did in the Torah
2. Anything ___ (2003 Woody Allen
film)
3. Bloomberg, compared to millionaires
4. Author often taught in grad school
5. A fan may send one to get Ryan
Brauns autograph: Abbr.
6. Main setting of a Helen Hunt-Tom
Hanks film
7. Sciatic nerve local
8. One started on 10 Tevet
9. ___ Maamin
10. Kosher forest animals
11. Schlemiel
12. Like a schlemiel
13. Zets (Yiddish)
19. Amen, in slang
21. Shortened name of two Judges
25. Portmans V for Vendetta co-star
27. Campus military org. not at YU
29. Iran ruler, once
30. Make like Egypt in 67
31. Third son
33. Author often taught in middle school
36. Hopper in novelist Elliot Perlmans
homeland
37. The Mishneh Torah, e.g.
39. Dweller in Judah, once
40. Mel Brooks, to many
41. A ready challah in the oven
43. Nusach ___ Hamizrach
48. Go up against Bibi
51. ___ Lehnsherr (Magneto)
53. Howard Sterns hair
54. Shabbat crashing items
55. Ladies locale in Esther
56. Video game name once owned by
Jack Tramiel
58. Some Israeli citizens
59. He played Elias in Stones Platoon
62. Mashugana fit
64. Very little of it is asked to be shown
in Meah Shearim
66. Ugandan madman
67. Its what Shabbat is for
69. Zayin counterpart
70. El Al plane reading: Abbr.
The solution to last weeks puzzle

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Arts & Culture

The Prime Ministers: A film journey continues
Eric A. Goldman
iven that Jews make up a major

segment of the producers and
writers in the film industry in
this country, it might seem odd
that for a long time there wasnt a major
English-language Jewish film-producing
unit here.
Christian groups make documentary
films. They even make narrative films
with powerful religious themes. The Mormons have LDS Films, out of Salt Lake
City, producing as many as eight feature
narrative films a year. So why had it taken
Jews so long to establish a film producing
organization?
I guess it was not a priority, particularly at a time in the 20th century when
most Hollywood Jews did not want to call
attention to themselves. Instead, they just
wanted to blend in and be seen as good
Americans. Fortunately, that changed in
1980, when the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles created a subdivision,
Moriah Films, with the mandate to create
documentaries concerning human rights
and the major events and personalities of
3,500 years of Jewish history. Its latest
production, The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers, is its 14th production, and one worthy of our attention.
Kudos to the center. We hope that others
to join them!
The Wiesenthal Center turned to major
personalities in Hollywood and asked them
to help in any way they could. That assistance came in the form of both financial aid
and professional services. Finally, the center was able to make its first film, Genocide, with narration by Orson Welles and
Elizabeth Taylor and music by Elmer Bernstein. The film, which began as a multimedia project, finally was completed in
December 1981. Three months later, Wiesenthal Center director Marvin Hier and
documentarian Arnold Schwartzman were
on stage to receive the Academy Award for
Best Documentary Feature. Since then,
Moriah Films has made a variety of productions, some stronger than others, along the
way picking up another Oscar for its 1997
film, The Long Way Home.
The Wiesenthal Center decided to adapt
Yehuda Avners 2010 memoir, The Prime
Ministers, about Avners time working in
the Israel Foreign Service and the Prime
Ministers office, for film. The British-born
Avner had been secretary and speechwriter to prime ministers Levi Eshkol and
Golda Meir and adviser to prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and
Shimon Peres. He also had been Israels
ambassador to Great Britain and Australia.
Avner was right there at many of the key
moments in Israeli history and he was privy
to many of the backroom dealings that take

place in political life. He recounted much
of it in his memoir, and now it is in the
films produced from the book. The Prime
Ministers: The Pioneers, about Golda
Meir and Levi Eshkol, played in theaters
in 2013, and The Prime Minister: Soldiers
and Peacemakers will open today at AMC
Empire Theater in New York.
The Prime Minister: Soldiers and
Peacemakers begins where the previous film ended, in 1974, the aftermath of
the Yom Kippur War, with Golda stepping
down as prime minister and Yitzhak Rabin
becoming Israels first Israeli-born leader.
Avner is the narrator of this epic story.
Many of us know some of it, but it is greatly
enhanced by his wonderful storytelling
talents and wit. Avner takes us behind the
scenes and places some of the human elements that affected the work of these two
great leaders, their strengths and their
weaknesses, into context.
Above, Prime Minister Menachem
Begin meets at the White House with
President Jimmy Carter. Left, Yitzhak
Rabin and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger.
He talks about Rabins uncanny ability

to size up difficult situations and Begins
Jewish heart, which affected every decision he made. Avner reflects insightfully
on the relationship between Rabin and
Begin and the incredible respect that
each man had for the other. Director
Richard Trank highlights it by beginning
the film with the story of the Altalena, a
ship that the Irgun brought into the new
Jewish State in 1948. The Irguns leader
was Menachem Begin. At the time, David
Ben-Gurion had demanded that with creation of the new state, there be only one
Israeli armed force the Haganah not
the diverse armies that existed before. So
when the Irgun, still operating as its own
military entity in Jerusalem, brought in
guns and ammunition by ship, there was

a lengthy negotiation about who would
receive the material. This ended with misunderstanding and mistrust, and Haganah
troops fired on the Altalena.
Yitzhak Rabin was one of the command
group on the beach and Menachem Begin
was on the ship as it was shelled. Sixteen
members of the Irgun and three members
of the Haganah died that day. Despite that
history, the two men, always on opposite
poles of Zionist ideology, grew to respect
each other. Begin even took Rabins advice
and kept Yehuda Avner on as an aide when
he took over as prime minister.
Richard Trank does an excellent job
putting Avners incredible story onto film.
Michael Douglas voices Yitzhak Rabin and
Christoph Waltz does the same for Menachem Begine. In the film, we gain a real
sense of Yitzhak Rabins character and
integrity, which forced him to resign in
1977 and brought him back to the prime
ministers office in 1992. We get a genuine
feel for Menachem Begins Jewish flavoring, which gave him a tidal wave of Sephardic support in 1977, sweeping him into
power. We also see his unique relationship
with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. In
between there are treaties, a war in Lebanon, Sabra and Shatila, Camp David,
Entebbe, newly elected U.S. presidents,
an intifada, and historic negotiations.
Trank uses precious film footage and photographs and crafts an amazing documentary. The near total absence of Prime Minister Shimon Peres is puzzling, however.
Ambassador Yehuda Avner was a passionate and devoted Israeli public servant.
Before he died in March at the age of 86,
he told The Times of Israel, Only after I
finished my book did I realize that I was
living the first 50 years of Israeli history.
Now we get to experience those amazing
years through the medium of cinema.
We are so thankful for his insights, and to
Moriah Films for putting them onto film.
Eric Goldman writes and lectures on Jewish
cinema and will be teaching a film miniseries beginning next month at the JCC on
the Palisades. He is adjunct professor of
cinema at Yeshiva University.
Calendar
up to 7, on October 12
at 4:30 p.m. Dinner and
jam session included.
375 Pulis Ave. (201)
848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org.
Friday
OCTOBER 9
Tuesday
author and associate

professor of history at
the College of Staten
Island, will discuss The
Birth of the New Justice
at Ramapo College of
New Jersey, examining
the development of an
international judicial
system for genocide
and war crimes, 1 p.m.
Sponsored by Ramapos
Gross Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies. 505 Ramapo
Valley Road, Mahwah.
(201) 684-7409.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth hosts a
festive kosher Shabbat
dinner at 6 p.m., followed
by services and the
annual Rabbi Joshua
Trachtenberg Memorial
lecture. Rabbi Uri Regev
will discuss Magic,
Superstition, and the
Challenge of Religious
Freedom in Israel. 1666
Windsor Road. Dinner
reservations, (201) 8331322 or www.emeth.org.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center offers
family services for 4
to 13-year-olds, led by
Cantor Caitlin Bromberg
on her guitar, 7 p.m.
Oneg Shabbat follows.
475 Grove St. (201) 4449320 or www.synagogue.
org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
hosts Shabbat Yachad,
Hebrew prayers set to
easy-to-sing melodies,
accompanied by
keyboardist Jonathan
Hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Sunday
OCTOBER 11
Dilemmas of faith:
The Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel begins an
adult education series,
Dilemmas of Faith,
led by Rabbi Ronald
Roth, 9 a.m. Repeated
OCTOBER 13
Wednesday
Remembering Dracula:
OCTOBER 14
Dumont historian Dick

Burnon presents a
video/lecture Drac
Is Back! The Origin
of Dracula, Featuring
Vlad The Impaler, at
a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
10:30 a.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.
Genocide and war

crimes: Dr. Mark Lewis,
To mark Jewish Book Month at the Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, Arlene
Alda, the award-winning photographer,
author, and wife of actor Alan Alda,
discusses her new book, Just Kids From the Bronx,
on Thursday, October 15, at 1 p.m. www.jccotp.org or
(201) 569-7900.
OCT.
15
Istvan Deak
Resistance and
retribution in WWII:
on Tuesday, October 27,

8 p.m. Class runs through
November. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040 or
rabbi@fljc.com.
A taste of Israel in River

Vale: The Jewish Home
Family sees off a trip to
Israel with Israeli food,
including falafel, and the
opportunity to place a
special prayer or note in
a Western Wall replica
that residents will take
with them at the Jewish
Home Assisted Living,
685 Westwood Ave.,
River Vale, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
(201) 666-2370.
Bagels/lox/science
in Jersey City: ORT
Americas tristate region
holds its first annual
multigenerational
Bagels, Lox & Science
Talks at Liberty
Science Center,
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Highlights
include educational
activities for children, a
brunch, the presentation
of ORT Americas
Outstanding STEM
(Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math)
Educator Award, and a
silent auction. Guests are
welcome to explore the
Liberty Science Center
exhibits and visit the
IMAX Theater. 222 Jersey
City Blvd. (212) 247-9129,
email: jbenshalom@
ORTamerica.org, or
ORTamerica.org/
sciencetalks.
Book sale in Teaneck:

Temple Emeth holds a
book sale, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
The shuls annual bazaar
is on Sunday, December
6. 1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Connection, noon. 10-10

Norma Ave. (201) 7965040 or www.fljc.com.
Opera in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus /
Congregation Beth
Tikvah welcomes
the Opera Theater
of Montclair for a
performance of Mozarts
The Magic Flute, 3 p.m.
Doors open at 2:30. All
ages welcome; audience
participation. 304 East
Midland Ave. Reserve
tickets at jccpcbtopera@
aol.com or call (201) 2627691.
Monday
OCTOBER 12
Book discussion: The

Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
begins its Book and
Lunch program as Edith
Sobel discusses Saul
Bellows The Bellarosa
Professor Istvan Deak of

Columbia University will
discuss Collaboration,
Resistance, and
Retribution in World War
II at Ramapo College
of New Jersey, 1 p.m.
Sponsored by Ramapos
Gross Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies. 505 Ramapo
Valley Road, Mahwah.
(201) 684-7409.
Jewish Center of NWBC

begins its week J.A.M.
(Jewish Action Music)
session with childrens
entertainer Bobby
DooWah for children
Author/child Holocaust
survivor in Franklin
Lakes: The Jewish
Womens Circle of NWBC
offers a presentation
by Judith Kallman of
Greenwich, Conn., a
Holocaust survivor and
author of the memoir
A Candle in the Heart,
7:30 p.m. 375 Pulis Ave.
(201) 560-2502 or www.
chabadplace.org/JWC.
Thursday
OCTOBER 15
El screens Nickys
Family: Story of Nicholas
Winton, 10 a.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Jokes in West Orange:

Author/prosecutor in
Fort Lee: Richard Muti,
award-winning author of
The Charmer, speaks
to Englewood & Cliff
Chapter of ORT America
at JCC/Congregation
Gesher Shalom, 1 p.m.
Refreshments. 1449
Anderson Ave. Naomi,
(201) 568-9274.
Kids music in Franklin

Lakes: The Chabad
Judith Alter Kallman
Morning movie in
Closter: Temple Beth
Author in Teaneck:
Teaneck-Hackensack
Hadassah meets at
Congregation Beth
Sholom to hear bestselling author Nicole
Dweck discuss her book,
The Debt of Tamar,
1 p.m. Books available for
sale. 354 Maitland Ave.
Refreshments. Minette,
(201) 837-8157.
You Do So Your Vision

Comes True, by Christine
Clifton, author, speaker,
motivator, and coach, at
the shul, 8 p.m. Open to
all working women. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 7965040.
Womens forum on
motivation: Sisterhood
of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel supports the
Professional Womens
Network with Your Spirit
at Work: Bring More
of You Through What
Still Laughing After All

These Years presents
the first Senior JokeA-Thon in the Tepper
Conference Room at the
JCC MetroWest in West
Orange, 12:30 p.m. More
than 100 seniors will tell
jokes. Free. Donations
support the JCC Senior
Nutrition Site/Meals On
Wheels. 760 Northfield
Ave. (973) 219-5757 or
stilllaughing.org.
Yiddish in Wayne: The

Wayne YMCA offers the
Yiddish Vinkle, led by
Ray Fishler, sponsored
by Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
1 p.m. 1 Pike Drive. (973)
595-0100, ext. 236.
Calendar
Friday
OCTOBER 16
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, 1-7 p.m. 718
Teaneck Road. (800)
933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
lead services with
guest jazz violinist Joe
Deninzon, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Sunday
OCTOBER 18
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip
to the Resort and Spa
Casino. A bus leaves the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
at 8:30 a.m. $30; includes
$25 slot play money.
Bring ID. Checks payable
to Hadassah. 10-10
Norma Ave. Varda, (201)
791-0327.
School open house in

Teaneck: Maayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls holds an open
house. Registration,
9 a.m.; program, 9:45.
1650 Palisade Ave. Nina
Bieler, (201) 833-4307,
ext. 255, or admissions@
maayanot.org.
Film in Teaneck: Back

to the Future, now
30 years old, is at the
Teaneck Cinemas, 10 a.m.,
for Holy Name Medical
Center in conjunction
with Team Fox and the
DebbieLou Charitable
Fund. Proceeds benefit
Parkinsons research.
Debbie, (551) 486-5756,
louflancbaum@aol.com,
or backtoafuture.com.
Modern physics in
Ridgewood: Dr. Joshua
Holden begins an adult
education course,
Modern Physics: The
Jewish Science Who
Knew? at Temple Israel
& JCC, 10:30 a.m. Topics
include atoms, quarks,

lasers, GPS, light bulbs,
and exploding stars. 475
Grove St. (201) 444-9320
or www.synagogue.org .
Military bridge in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center hosts military
bridge with lunch,
refreshments, and
prizes, noon. 195 West
Clarkstown Road, New
City, N.Y. (845) 352-0017.
Film in Franklin Lakes:

Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey offers Be
Yourself, a light comedydrama about Fanny Brice
and the Roaring 20s,
1:30 p.m. Popcorn and ice
cream served. 558 High
Mountain Road. (201)
560-0200 or www.tenjfl.
org.
Awareness walk in
Westwood: The social
action committee of
in Emerson co-sponsors
a Walk for Water with
the Westwood Area
Clergy Council to raise
awareness for the women
of Rwanda at Westvale
Park on Sand Road,
1:30 p.m. (201) 666-8998
or www.bisrael.com.
Entertainment in
Suffern: The Chabad
Jewish Center of Suffern
hosts Hanging by a
Thread, an evening
with Martin Greenfield,
5:30 p.m., at the
Lafayette Theater
in Suffern, N.Y. Mr.
Greenfield, a Brooklyn
tailor who dressed
celebrities and
presidents, wrote a
memoir, Measure of a
Man. (845) 368-1889 or
www.JewishSuffern.com.
Refreshments. 1925 Lake

Ave. (908) 889-4900 or
www.sholomnj.org.
In New York
Sunday
OCTOBER 11
SAR open house:
SAR High School
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 503
W. 259th St in Riverdale,
N.Y. Nancy Lerea or Gila
Kolb, (718) 548-2727,
ext. 1576, admissions@
sarhighschool.org, or
www.sarhighschool.org/
hsopenhouse.
Tuesday
OCTOBER 13
Whisky tasting:
American Friends of
Leket Israel hosts an
evening of fine whiskey
tasting, 7:30 p.m., at
the Museum of Jewish
Heritage A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust. Features
tasting of limited and
vintage single malt
scotches, bourbons,
ryes, and other whiskies;
gourmet glatt kosher
dinner; professional
cooking demonstrations;
celebrity mixologists,
and fine whisky auction.
Proceeds benefit Leket,
Israels food rescue
programs. 36 Battery
Place. whisky.leket.org
or email Carol at carol@
leket.us.
Wednesday
OCTOBER 14
Art in Fair Lawn: Artist

Jeffrey Packard has an
art show at Congregation
Shomrei Torah, 7-10 p.m.
19-10 Morlot Ave. (201)
791-7910.
Singles
Sunday
OCTOBER 11
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. $8
with reservations, $10 at
door. Gene Arkin, (845)
356-5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+
meets for lunch and to
mingle at Congregation
Agudath Israel, 1 p.m. $10.
20 Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.
Widows and widowers

meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a monthly
luncheon group for
widows and widowers,
meets at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center, 12:30 p.m.
682 Harristown Road. $5
for lunch. (201) 652-6624
or email Binny, arbgr@
aol.com.
Support group in
Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC
COURTESY DAVID KRAKAUER
Cinematic concert:
The Museum of
Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to
the Holocaust hosts a
concert with Grammy-
Three Dog Night at bergenPAC

The legendary pop group Three Dog Night celebrates its fourth
decade at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on Thursday, November 5, at 8 p.m. Their songs include Mama Told Me (Not
To Come), Joy to the World, Black and White, and Shambala.
Tickets for the Grammy Award-nominated band are available at
www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org or at the box office,
(201) 227 1030.
The Jewish Home Family is holding pink events to

mark breast Cancer Awareness Month, including hosting Pink Shabbat, October 10.
The Pink Shabbat for seniors and their loved ones
is a collaboration between Sharsheret, a national nonprofit organization that offers community and support
to women and their families as they face breast or ovarian cancer, and the Jewish Home Family in Rockleigh.
Pink events at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh
included a speech from a breast cancer survivor and
a grand pink community kiddush on October 10, after
10 a.m. services. Along with members of the Gallen
Adult Medical Day Care program, residents baked
pink challahs, made pink centerpieces, and did pink
Dancercize.
The Jewish Home also invited senior residences
across the country to join in holding Sharsheret Pink
Shabbats, take action in the fight against breast cancer,
share information, and support others. Daughters of
Miriam Center in Clifton also is participating.
When representatives of Sharsheret which
means chain in Hebrew told us of their Pink Shabbat programs across America, we lit up with the idea
of hosting such a program here at the Jewish Home,
Sunni Herman, the Jewish Home at Rockleighs executive vice president, said. Our residents, several of
whom are breast cancer survivors, will take a stance
against breast cancer by participating in a weekend
of events, culminating in a special intergenerational
Shabbat service and kiddush where breast cancer
awareness can be discussed.
OCTOBER 13
OCTOBER 19
David Krakauer
Jewish Home hosting

series of pink events
Thursday
Monday
Author in Scotch Plains:

Dr. Michael Curtis, a
Middle East expert and
distinguished professor
emeritus of political
science at Rutgers
University, discusses
his book, Jews, AntiSemitism, and the Middle
East, at Temple Sholom
of Scotch Plains, 7 p.m.
nominated clarinetist
David Krakauer, 7 p.m.,
and again on Sunday,
October 18, at 2. Krakauer
adds his contemporary
style to songs from films
ranging from Funny Girl
and Fiddler on the Roof
to Sophies Choice and
The Pianist. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.
on the Palisades begins a

seven-session group with
therapist Judy Brauner:
Widows and Widowers:
You Are Not Alone,
6:15 p.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1456.
Couples group
seeks members
Maccabees a Jewish social group that draws from
the Passaic/Bergen county area is looking for new
member couples, 60 and older, who are interested in
meeting new friends, participating in dinners at local
restaurants, and socializing.
The group meets the first Sunday morning of the
month for brunch in members homes. Dinners are
held on the third Saturday night of the month, and
special events are planned. For information, call the
groups president, Judi Margolis, at (973) 628-5248.
Intro to Judaism classes

beginning in Hoboken
The New Jersey Rabbinical Assembly offers a comprehensive Introduction to Judaism class in Hoboken,
beginning on Wednesday, October 14, at 7 p.m. Rabbi
Robert Scheinberg will teach it.
The course, which includes basic Hebrew reading,
will be interesting to anyone who wants to learn more
about Judaism. It also provides a basic education for
someone considering conversion to Judaism.
For information or to register, call Ellen Nesson at
(973) 285-9772, email her at ellen.nesson@gmail.com,
or go to www.IntroJudaismNJ.com.
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n 1 Residents and staff at the Jewish Home for Assisted Living in River Vale celebrated with ice cream and entertainment
by DJ Rafael. On October 11, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., JHAL will offer
an Israel fair as a send-off for residents embarking on the Jewish Home Familys centennial mission to Israel. JEWISH HOME FAMILY
n 5 Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake

celebrated Sukkot at its annual Sukkah Social, with games,
a bounce house, dancing, hamburgers and hot dogs, and information on the holiday. Here, items that symbolize the High
Holy Day season are held by attendees. COURTESY TEPV
n 2 Temple Emanu-El of Closter had a family Lego

event for Sukkot. COURTESY TEMPLE EMANU-EL
n 6 Glen Rock Jewish Center members helped construct and decorate the shuls sukkah. COURTESY GRJC
n 3 Ben Porat Yosef sixth graders celebrated Sukkot with their

friends by eating together in the sukkah. COURTESY BPY
n 7 The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies kicked off

its first day of classes with a Sukkot celebration. Students created
edible sukkahs, shook the lulav, and made decorations for the sukkah at CareOne in Teaneck. www.bchsjs.org. COURTESY BCHSJS
n 4 Kyra Hischfeld, Gabby Fishgrund, and Isaac Gotian, students in Shomrei Torah of Waynes religious school and
its TAST-e/USY program, sorted 160 bags collected for
the less fortunate for Operation Isaiah. COURTESY ST
Obituaries
Raymond Cohen
Raymond H. Cohen, 84, of

Paterson died on October 4.
An Army veteran of the
Korean War, he worked for
the Wayne Board of Education before retiring.
Predeceased by a sister,
Edythe Ratowe, he is
survived by his wife, Reba
(ne Silber), children, Ellen
Baker (Terry), Judith DeYoung (the late Thomas),
and Ronald (Carolyn); a
sister, Thelma Cohen (Ty),
and seven grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to
St. Jude Childrens Research
Hospital or Wounded Warriors Project. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Sophie Filker
Sophie Filker, ne Kwanica,

94, of Jersey City died on
October 5.
She was member of
Friends of Liberty State
Park, a founder and
executive board member
of Friends of Music and
Art of Hudson County,
and an honorary member of AFSCME Council
#52, where she presented
the Milton Filker Scholarship award, named for her
husband.
Predeceased by her
husband Milton in 1990,
she is survived by daughters Elaine Sheffler of North
Bergen and Judith Carluccio of Island Heights; four
grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Klara Kozinets
Klara Kozinets, 89, of Paterson died on October 4.

Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Richard Levine
Richard J. Levine of River

Vale, formerly of Paterson,
died on September 30.
He graduated cum laude
from Tufts University and
retired after a long career
in construction. He volunteered at Temple Beth Or
in Washington Township
and delivered Meals On
Wheels.
He is survived by his wife
of 55 years, Joanne, his
children Sherri Beth Adler
( John), and Lawrence Todd;
brothers Arthur (Marilyn),
and Robert (Myra); two
Predeceased by her siblings, Norman Glazer and

Florence Soerower, she is
survived by her husband
of 65 years, Jack, children,
Marcy Goodman (Bill) and
Steven (Debra); siblings,
Helen Katz, Myrna Siegel,
Harriet Greene (Stanley),
grandchildren, and nieces,

nephews, and cousins.
Memorial contributions
can be sent to Meals on
Wheels or Temple Beth
Or. Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Evelyn Pattner
Evelyn Pattner, 100, died on

September 26.
She is survived by her
children, Austin (Reina),
Emily, and Marge Barten;
grandchildren, Jocelyn and
Jonathan Wagner, and Justin
and Brittany Pattner, and
great-grandchild, Harper
Alexandra Wagner.
Contributions can be
sent to Englewood Hospital Medical Foundation,
National Kidney Foundation, or Temple Emanu-El of
Closter. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Shirley Weinberg
Shirley Weinberg, ne
Glazer, 88, of Clifton, formerly of Fair Lawn, died on
October 2.
and Joni Ehrlich (Stanley);

six grandchildren; two
great-grandchildren, and
sisters-and brothers-in-law.
Donations can be made
to the Daughters of Miriam
Center, Clifton. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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of ironys powers. Or maybe it is the luxury

of distance.
Thursday, 11 September: I am struck
by the strange images that bleed down
my newsfeed. I ask my Tagebuch why it
took my coming to Europe for me to see
these photos from the World Trade Center
attack. I tell myself, you can understand
why Thomas Hpker is better known in
Germany, but how is his shot from the
bank of the East River not the burning
Thich Quang Duc of my childhood? I wonder momentarily if that self-immolation in
Saigon is as iconic in Vietnam. I wonder if
a certain degree of removal is required to
appreciate the drama in a tragedy, in other
words, to gawk. I might have known the
Falling Man picture, had I read more Don
DeLillo before coming here.
For some reason, I also take this day,
11 September, to enter in my Tagebuch a
record of an exchange with a fellow student in my language class, an exchange
that definitely occurred at an earlier date.
My self-translation, with the name of the
student changed:
Eric does something weird. I mean, he
does a lot thats weird, but in particular,
he always speaks with an inclusive we
when he speaks about the Germans. I first
noticed it during a conversation about
the memorial for the murdered Jews,
when Eric said something about our
guilt [unsere Schuld], and I asked Whose
guilt? [Wessen Schuld?]
Sorry? Bitte?
Whose guilt? Because you said our
guilt. Wessen Schuld? Weil du ,unsere
Schuld gesagt hast.
Eric is of the opinion that we, as
exchange students or whatever, somehow
take on a German identity. He spoke again
with the inclusive we today, as we spoke
about German history. He is like a child,
freshly come into the country and always
asking about himself. Who am I? What
have I already done?
Er ist wie ein Kind, frisch ins Land gekommen und immer ber sich selbst fragend.
Wer bin ich? Was habe ich schon getan?
Saturday, 25 October: I arrive at the
Dachau train station. While planning the
weekend trip, I had worried that I would
need to sacrifice one of my Munich days
to make the trips to and from the concentration camp site. Of course, the Dachau
station is twenty minutes by train from
Munichs city center. I will visit museums
and markets and the most beautiful church
I have seen in Germany later this afternoon. I walk the path, now lined with information plaques, along which the prisoners
were marched to the camp, Spring Street,
Peace Street, Street of the Concentration
Camp Victims, which until the liberation
were named Adolf Hitler Street, Peace
Street, and Street of the SS. The former
Camp Street is now named after Theodor
Heuss, and the onetime SS parade-ground
is now John-F.-Kennedy-Platz. Camp Street,
Lagerstrae, was a main drag, by the looks

of it. German words are notorious for their
relentless conglomeration, their piling up
of syllables into unwieldy heaps. Germans
therefore often use abbreviations to help
alleviate the weight of these verbal masses.
The vocabulary of National-Socialism
is no exception. Nationalsozialismus itself
becomes NS. The word for concentration
camp, Konzentrationslager, becomes KZ.
The proper single word for concentration camp victims is the octosyllabic compound Konzentrationslager-Opfer. The sign
marking the street dedicated to these victims reads Strae der KZ.-Opfer. No doubt,
Strae der Konzentrationslager-Opfer would
hardly fit on an Autobahn billboard, let
alone a suburban street sign. I do not care.
I become enraged at this sign. I want to
write a letter to the municipality of Dachau.
I want to demand that the words be written
out in full. Let the street signs be six meters
long. Let the names of these streets become
sentences, paragraphs. Let every surface
swarm with the story of the Americans
come to liberate Dachau who found 23,000
starved and diseased corpses lying in the
Todeszug aus Buchenwald, the Death Train
from Buchenwald. Let the town drown
in an explanation as to why the phrase
Dachau-Massaker refers today to the reprisals of disgusted Americans and freed camp
prisoners against fewer than a hundred SS
men. Let these people suffocate under the
weight of German compound nouns.
The tour guide explains the incongruence of a certain word in the camp,
Brausebad, written over the door to the
gas chambers. This used to be the common word for shower, he explains. That
comes as a surprise to me, since I had
always learned Dusche for shower. The
guide explains how surprised he was, too,
when he first came to the camp. According to this young man, Brausebad was the
word in use until 1945. After that, after
Brausebad had been the last word that so
many people had seen before being murdered, it became so uncomfortable for
Germans to refer to a shower in everyday
conversation, that they switched over to
the French loanword Dusche.
Wednesday, 10 December: Im visiting
the apartment in which I will spend the
next six months to make sure I and the
potential roommates are a good fit. Paula
asks me why I decided to learn German. I
repeat a saying I heard some weeks ago,
one of those expressions that people mistake for clever, because it rhymes. You
know what they say: English is a must,
German is a plus. Englisch ist ein Muss,
Deutsch ist ein Plus. This gets a giggle, as it
always does.
Dan Ackerman, who grew up in Creskill
and is expected to graduate from the
University of Chicago this spring, studied at
the Freie Universitt Berlin for the 2014-15
academic year. This essay took first place
in the schools 2014-15 Why We Travel
writing contest.
Solution to last weeks puzzle. This weeks puzzle is on page 36.
Perlman
FROM PAGE 10
It is fun for me. It is emotional and

expressive. Im very happy that it happened, Mr. Perlman said.
He has learned a great deal about
klezmer since then; Hankus Netzky of
the Klezmer Conservatory Band is like a
walking encyclopedia, he said. Because
it is an improvisational form, like jazz, it
is constantly changing, and it is possible
to hear a players influences in his work.
My preference is the old-fashioned eastern European kind of klezmer, he said.
Klezmer is a Jewish expression, but
you have to remember that a lot of if it
has to do with history. Its easy to hear
gypsy music in it, he said, along with
many other influences. In fact, Its
a little like Yiddish. When somebody
speaks Yiddish in the United States, a lot
of little English words come in. In South
America, theres more Spanish. Yiddish
absorbs the geography. Its the same
thing with klezmer.
Israelis love music, he added. He and
his wife, Toby Perlman, run the Perlman Music Institute, which is based on
Shelter Island, in between Long Islands
north and south forks at its eastern end.
The institute runs programs in Israel.
Beyond that, It seems that in Israel
there is an orchestra on every corner,
he said. When things dont go well
politically, people always seem to go to
concerts. When people get worried, the
concert halls are full.
Israel is full of all kinds of ethnic

music, and he thinks thats glorious, but
for me, one thing about classical music is
that its an international language, Mr.
Perlman said. Anybody, from any place,
can relate to classical music, and it has
been like that forever.
But Mr. Perlman is not a snob about
music. One of his good friends is Billy
Joel, who he occasionally joins, unheralded, on stage. Billy Joel is a fantastic
artist, Mr. Perlman said. He is wonderful. He is one of those people who writes
his own stuff, and sings it. He creates it
and then recreates it. He also supports
the Perlman Music Institute, he added.
His first appearance with Mr. Joel
came when he approached me and
wanted me to play a little part in a song
he recorded in his album Storm Front.
There was a violin part in Downeaster
Alexa.
That was a long time ago. And then
we started to see each other socially,
and I said we should do it again, play
together again. He plays at Madison
Square Garden basically every month,
and he said Great! Why dont we recreate the record?
The record didnt have my name on
it, Mr. Perlman added. I was an incognito violinist. But now I am cognito.
But anyone who wants to see Itzhak
Perlman and Billy Joel on stage together
has to rely on luck. Mr. Perlmans
appearances are not announced. It is a
total surprise, Mr. Perlman said.
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Center for Hope and Safety joins foundations Purple Purse Challenge
Bergen residents can provide
life-changing aid for survivors
of domestic violence
On an average day, nearly 11,000 requests for emergency
shelter, child care and other services go unanswered due
to a lack of funding at domestic violence nonprofits around
the country. Even as demand for services increases, these
programs continue to operate with limited resources.
Allstate Foundations Purple Purse is trying to change
those numbers, and the Center For Hope And Safety
has been selected as one of more than 160 participating
nonprofits across the country to be a part of the Purple

Purse Challenge, which raises funds for nonprofits serving
domestic violence victims.
The Center For Hope And Safety, Bergen Countys only
nonprofit agency that offers a diversified continuum of
services including emergency shelter and transitional
housing for victims, was chosen for its commitment to
providing financial empowerment services to domestic
violence survivors.
Through the foundations challenge, each participating
organization can raise funds. And to encourage public
donations, the Allstate Foundation is investing $500,000 in
challenge sweepstakes and contests. In addition to donating
through the challenge, Purple Purse charms can be

purchased for $10 at PurplePurse.com, with proceeds
benefiting challenge nonprofits.
One in four women will experience domestic
violence in their lifetime. In 98 percent of cases,
victims will suffer from financial abuse, which means
abusers will deny them access to money and financial
resources. Without resources of their own, victims are
often unable to care for themselves and their families,
find employment and housing, or save for the future.
They often become homeless.
The Center for Hope and Safety (formerly Shelter
Our Sisters) is dedicated to assisting victims of
Dovi Meyer
Torah donated
in memory of
slain Druze hero
Bringing together Jewish and Druze leaders in a time
of increased tensions and violence in Israel, ChileanJewish philanthropist Leonardo Farkash donated a
Torah scroll in memory of Master Sgt. Zidan Sayif, the
Israeli-Druze policeman murdered in last years massacre at the Har Nof synagogue. The Torah scroll was
donated to the Haifa Police Headquarters.
Attendants to the ceremony included Sayifs family;
Ayood Kara, a Druze Knesset member; Minister of Religious Affairs David Azoulay; and commanders of the
Israeli Police Coastal Region. Many police and Druze
dignitaries also celebrated the memory of Sayif.
Farkash was inspired to memorialize Sayif for his
heroism and lifesaving efforts by Eli Beer, president
and founder of United Hatzalah of Israel. United Hatzalah of Israel stands on the principle of unity, bringing together Arabs, Jews, Christians and Druze as volunteers in providing a community-based emergency
medical response program throughout Israel, servicing all populations at no cost.
United Hatzalahs network of over 2,500 medically
trained and certified volunteers works around the
clock to provide a response time of less than three
minutes.
It is very exciting to see the continuous cooperation between Jews and non-Jews to maintain the safety
of Israelis, said Beer. The contribution by Mr. Farkash indicates our gratitude to officers of Israel from
all religions and ethnic groups.
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into safety, helplessness into strength, and isolation
into hope. Its mission is to help people heal and
grow through a wide range of services that offers the
tools needed to leave the violence and to make new
beginnings possible.
For this challenge the center has partnered with
Dan Corsaro of the Fort Lee Allstate office. For
additional information, contact Jean Kirch, director
of development at the Center for Hope and Safety, at
(201) 498-9247 or jean@hopeandsafetynj.org .
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness
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Supporters can donate at www.crowdrise.com/
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