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AT THE MOVIES:
Catching up with
one worth catching
“BlackKkKlans- to infiltrate the Klan.
man” opened last However, in real life he
week in theaters to great was not Jewish. Like-
reviews, and it’s being wise, the militant black
heralded as the best woman is a composite of
David Rabinowitz Charlie Wachtel
Spike Lee movie in many several women. Howev-
years. I didn’t write about er, the real-life, actually
the film sooner because pretty funny interaction
brief advance descrip- between Stallworth and
tions didn’t mention that Duke is quite accurate
one of the two most (won’t spoil it for you).
Sheldon Moldoff
important police officers The credited screen-
in the film is supposed to writers are Lee, African
be Jewish. American comedian
The film is based on
a 2014 memoir, “Black
Kevin Willmott, and two
white Jewish guys from Batwoman making
Klansman,” by Ron Stall-
worth, the first African-
East Brunswick, DAVID
RABINOWITZ and
a TV comeback
American hired as a CHARLIE WACHTEL, ● Ruby Rose, an openly lesbian Australian actress, has
detective by the Colo- both 31. They gave their Gal Gadot Sarah Treem been cast in the title role in “Batwoman,” an upcom-
rado Springs police de- first in-depth interview ing CW cable channel series. Batwoman, aka Katherine
partment. Stallworth, as about the Jewishness of that, we’re both Jew- actress and inventor Kane, was co-created in 1956 by SHELDON MOLDOF.
depicted in the book and of the film to the online ish, so it just makes sense HEDY LAMARR (1914-
The character’s introduction was motivated, in part, to
the film, is assigned to the magazine Filmmaker on writing something a little 2000). Variety says that
department’s intelligence August 9. First, the duo allay whispers that Batman was gay — she was the caped
bit more from our per- Gadot was intrigued by
division, and in that ca- optioned the rights to spective; it was our way an interesting take on crusader’s part-time love interest. The Batwoman char-
pacity he starts to investi- Stallworth’s book. Then into the story.” Lamarr’s life presented acter was phased out in 1966.
gate the local Klan chap- they began writing a Wachtel and Rabinow- to her by SARAH In light of Batwoman’s backstory, it was ironic when
ter. Obviously, he can’t go screenplay. Rabinowitz itz reworked the script for TREEM, 38. Treem is a the comic book Batwoman was revived in 2006 as a les-
undercover to infiltrate told the magazine that a a couple of years and sold critically acclaimed bian character (who also is Jewish). We know that Ruby
the Klan, so he recruits a pivotal moment in their it to Lee. Wachtel and playwright who also has Rose will play a lesbian Batwoman. However, there’s no
Jewish (in the film) police writing was when they Rabinowitz told “Film- a lot of TV cred — she
officer, Flip Zimmerman, decided to make the news on whether her TV Batwoman will remain Jewish.
maker” that Lee and Will- co-created and often
to pretend to be a white white cop Jewish. Wach- mott actually enhanced wrote the HBO series “In There have been many fictional Jewish characters that
racist and get info on the tel said, “I think it was just their script’s Jewish Treatment”; she helped ceased being identified as Jewish when the character was
Klan. Adam Driver, who a practical decision. If content, and anti-Semi- launch “House of Cards” transferred from print to screen. –N.B.
isn’t Jewish, plays Zim- you’re going to be living tism (as well as racism) on Netflix; and she
merman, and John David with this character who remained a big part of created and often writes
Washington, Denzel is going to infiltrate the the film. (In other words, the Showtime hit “An
Washington’s son, plays Klan, you may as well up good work all around.) Affair.”
Stallworth. There are sub- the stakes by giving him Netflix is still showing plain weird that even an how Treem will address
plots and scenes involv- some sort of personal On the horizon “Bombshell,” an excel- ordinary viewer of this Lamarr’s relationship to
ing Stallworth’s relation- attachment.” Rabinowitz Variety reports lent documentary about documentary can appre- her Jewishness. (By the
ship with a militant black then added: “It’s already that GAL Lamarr. (See my June ciate that it would take way, the “Wonder Wom-
woman and with then high stakes that he’s go- “Wonder Woman” 15 column.) If you watch an extraordinary writer, an” sequel will not open
Klan leader David Duke. ing undercover. Making GADOT, 33, is likely to “Bombshell,” you’ll see like Treem, to drama- until November, 2019)
Stallworth really did him Jewish just makes it star in a Showtime that Lamarr’s life was tize it accurately. I am –N.B.
enlist a white detective that much more. On top limited series about so multifaceted and just especially interested in
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opposed to the more permanent emissar-
t’s not at all surprising that the ies who we have in place, these bring in
iconic object that Rabbi Dr. Ken- a surge of energy. They bring that energy
neth Brander brought with him on in, and then they leave, and then they go
the Nefesh b’Nefesh flight that he, back. And then they leave, and then they
his wife, Ruchie, and their youngest son, go back.”
Yitzchak, took together last month was a Amiel BaKehila is not aimed just at the
suitcase. Orthodox community, Rabbi Brander said.
The case is battered, heavy, oversized, “We are working with the entire commu-
defiantly unwheeled, and old, probably nity, and although most of our shlichim
more accurately less a suitcase than a are Orthodox, they aren’t all. Our goal is
valise. It went with Kenneth Brander’s to reach out to all the schools and syna-
father, Rabbi Aaron Brander, when the gogues and federations and supplemental
then 12-year-old Holocaust survivor left the schools.” The goal, he said, is to build Jew-
DP camp in Europe for New York. ish identity, in the way that works best for
We’ll get back to the valise itself, but each community and each Jew.
first, let’s consider what you use one for. Therefore, he continued, Amiel BaKe-
Traveling. hilah is not like the traditional keruv pro-
NEFESH B’NEFESH
Rabbi Brander is the new head of Ohr grams. It’s not standard outreach. “Our
Torah Stone, the Israeli-based modern agenda is not to make people Orthodox,”
Orthodox network of schools, he said. “It is to inform them, and help
programs, and initiatives that them find a spiritual wave, and catch it,
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who had At the airport, Rabbi Kenneth, Ruchie, and take it wherever it takes them. It cre-
headed Lincoln Square Syna- and Yitzchak Brander are ready to ates multiple portals of connection. For
gogue on Manhattan’s Upper board Nefesh B’Nefesh’s flight to some it will be traditional classes. For
West Side before he made Israel, and Rabbi Aaron Brander hands some it will be the Israeli component. For
aliyah, created 35 years ago. the suitcase he carried out of Europe some it will be music and art.
Rabbi Brander, who spent to his son, Rabbi Kenneth. “To the credit of the Israeli Ministry of
many years in many capacities diaspora Affairs, its agenda is not to make
at Yeshiva University, and who go to Ottawa, Ontario; West Hartford, Con- Zionists, but to educate Jews about Juda-
made aliyah from Teaneck, necticut; and Buffalo, New York. Another ism. Not to educate them about Ortho-
went back and forth between will go to New Orleans; Charleston, South doxy, but about Judaism.
Israel and the United States Carolina; and Cherry Hill. Other trios will “It is the Israeli government’s way of giv-
repeatedly as he transitioned go to South America —one Spanish-speak- ing back.”
into his new job, and he plans ing group to Uruguay and two cities in Rabbi Brander also talked a bit about his
to continue traveling. Argentina, another to Peru, Ecuador, and own aliyah. “It’s wonderful, exciting, and
Among the many programs Colombia, and a Portuguese-speaking scary, all at the same time,” he said; it also
that he’ll oversee is one that group will go to three communities in Bra- was so new that he did not feel qualified to
involves almost constant traveling. It’s for a year or two at a time. But there’s zil. Another group will go to Central Amer- offer retrospective wisdom. “We were at a
a new initiative from Ohr Torah Stone’s more. “The Ministry of diaspora Affairs ica — Guatemala City, Mexico City, and wedding tonight,” he said. “It took place
Beren-Amiel and Straus-Amiel foundation came to us and said, ‘You are doing such a Cancun. In Europe, one will go to three overlooking a pathway from the Judean
programs. (The Straus-Amiel initiative is great job that we want you to expand your cities in Poland, and another to Denmark, Hills to Jerusalem. Knowing that in that
sponsored by Daniel and Moshael Straus, portfolio,’” Rabbi Brander reported. “‘We Norway, and Finland. That means having valley, 2,000 years ago, there were Jews
both of Englewood, and their families.) want there to be 25 communities across a group of three people, all able to speak who used that pathway as a walkway to
“There are 200 couples from Ohr Torah the globe where you send delegations of Danish, Norwegian, and the (entirely dif- Jerusalem… Knowing that when the Jewish
Stone institutions who serve diaspora three people seven times. We want you to ferent) Finnish. How is that possible? “Wel- people were banished from Jerusalem they
communities all over the world, from do Jewish identity education, Israel educa- come to the state of Israel,” Rabbi Brander probably also used that pathway…
Teaneck to Warsaw to Tblisi, and every tion, and Jewish art and music.’” said in explanation. “There are a few moments when it just
place in between,” Rabbi Brander said. Do the math. That’s a lot of trips. Each trio offers about 10 or so programs hits you.”
“From Latin America to North America The senior educator will stay the same at each stop. Did he think, at that wedding, that he
to Australia. We have 45 rabbinic couples for each of the seven trips, Rabbi Brander “We have just started this program, wasn’t just going to a hotel, but going
who are taking on new positions” — the said; the other two will vary, depending on and already we have had 258 identity pro- home? No, not really, he said. “Maybe I’ll
husbands are rabbis and the wives are the content. grams, and we have had 7,881 participants think about that more the next time, but
educators. “Two of them are in Teaneck It’s a logistically complicated program to come to the 25 communities. And this is now it is too new.”
— the Waks family, who are going to Ben run. Each community must have an active literally just the first 35 days.” On the other hand, “We were at a
Porat Yosef, and the Fish family, going to core of Jews, but no more than 10,000 of The visitors work with the on-site emis- concert, at the artists colony by Yemin
Yeshivat He’Atid. The Straus and Amiel them. The visitors — they’re called emis- saries, who can give them a good sense Moshe, and the mayor, Mayor Barkat,
foundations produce rabbis and educa- saries, or shlichim — will try to stay in a of the community, and allow them to tai- introduces it, and says by a show of
tors for the diaspora.” geographic region, if you define region lor the programs to the people they want hands, how many people in the audience
Those families largely stay put, at least broadly; In the United States, one set will to attract. “We are calling the program are Jerusalemites?
“So we look at each other, and we real- you to ask you about the suitcase.”
ize that we actually fit that category, and It had gone viral.
we raise our hands, and all of a sudden There are two vitally and equally impor-
we realize that we don’t live on Winthrop tant messages to the suitcase story, Rabbi
Road anymore.” Brander said.
Then there’s the story of the suitcase, First, “You realize that the story of the
which his father lugged to America and suitcase isn’t a personal story. It’s a national
he took on to Israel. story. You are making a statement.
It became a bit of an Israeli phenomenon, “For so many years the Jewish people
Rabbi Brander said. Because it’s too big to fit have had to pack up their belongings in the
in an airplane overhead bin, or under a seat, places where they resided. That suitcase
he had to explain its history to the airline had been touched by people who saw the
employees who were checking in luggage. most horrific things. And now it gets to a
They didn’t want to let him bring it on the place where that won’t happen.
plane. “So you tell them, and all of a sud- “Now it is a vehicle of redemption, in a
den there is no question that you can bring place where it doesn’t have to be used in
it on, and they even call over a few people that same way again.”
to show it to them, and then you take it with But don’t forget the second meaning of
you when you go through the TSA check this iconic object, Rabbi Brander said. Amiel BaKehila emissaries visit Jewish children in Poland. OHR TORAH STONE
and then you get onto the plane, and you “Because of the beauty and freedom of
have to explain it to the flight attendants, the United States, we are not running away “That can’t be ignored and shouldn’t be And we used to live in Florida before we
and then all of a sudden they are bringing from anything,” he said. “We were the first whitewashed or understated or dismissed. moved to Teaneck, and we lived in Boca
over all their friends, and finding the right holders of that suitcase who were not run- It is critically important.” Raton, the hanging chad district.” (He
place for it, and talking about it as they bring ning from something, but to something. He recalls that he saw Joseph Lieber- was talking about the infamous paper bal-
it back to find room for it in the closet.” “That is a blessing that every Jew, man, the retired Democratic and then lots, with their dangling bits of paper, that
This was a Nefesh B’Nefesh flight, so whether they live in the United States of Independent senator from Connecticut, at decided the perilously close 2000 presi-
there was press attention. “I didn’t plan America or anywhere else in the world, the airport, with his wife, Hadassah. Their dential election for Bush and Cheney — and
to make it a media thing,” Rabbi Brander has to realize,” Rabbi Brander said. “The daughter was making aliyah. “I showed against Gore and Lieberman.)
said. “But I got interviewed on television United States of America represents a dif- them the suitcase,” Rabbi Brander said. “That’s not the typical history of the Jew-
and in the national media. And then peo- ferent paradigm of what it means to live “So here was Senator Lieberman, an ish people in the diaspora,” Rabbi Brander
ple stop you in the street who don’t know outside the land of Israel. observant Jew who ran for vice president. said. “That can’t be lost on us.”
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Rabbi David Fine and his wife, Alla Fine, stand in front of the Kremlin during a sightseeing break from a conference on Jewish law at Moscow State University.
Halacha in Russia
Ridgewood rabbi talks about Israel-sponsored conference on Jewish law in Moscow
JOANNE PALMER from when they were young.
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“So there we were, talking about our
t took a 30-page visa application to small New England college in a museum
get him there, but in July Rabbi Dr. in Moscow. It shows the connections of
David J. Fine of Temple Israel and the Jewish world.”
JCC of Ridgewood found himself Moscow State University is Russia’s
sitting with a group of academics — most Harvard, Rabbi Fine said, and its host-
of them Israeli — at Moscow State Univer- ing a conference on Jewish law with Tel
sity, at an academic conference about the Aviv University is a big deal. The primary
relationship between Jewish and secular language was English, as is the case at
Israeli law. (That’s Moscow, as in Russia, most international conferences; the sec-
not as in Idaho, by the way.) ond language was Hebrew. Russian was
He was at the conference less as Rabbi a distant third, although there was some
Fine than as Dr. Fine, in his capacity as translation provided. “There was a way
professor at Abraham Geiger College, the for Russian law students to participate,”
rabbinical seminary at the University of Rabbi Fine said.
Potsdam in Germany. “So there I was, in The conference was about mishpat
Moscow, an American rabbi, represent- Ivri — halacha, Israeli law, and values and
ing a German seminary at an Israeli con- concepts that flow from one to the other.
ference in Russia,” he said. “It’s the kind “It’s the study of Jewish law through an
of thing you really can’t make up. academic lens as the cultural and legal
“It was a conference of the Jewish Law heritage for Israeli law,” Rabbi Fine said.
Association, an international association David and Alla Fine meet with Vadim Polyansky, president of the Masorti Jewish “There were times, when the state of
for academics who teach Jewish law in an Community Center in Saint Petersburg. Israel was being established, that people
academic setting,” he continued. “Mos- looked to the canons of Jewish law as
cow State has been committed to increas- “It is very easy for Israelis to go to Rus- together Jewish life. precedent for Israeli law.
ing its Jewish studies offerings through- sia,” Rabbi Fine said. “They don’t need “There was a professor there, another “The idea of Jewish law as a foundation
out the whole university. They’ve made a visa, it’s the same time zone, and it is American, who teaches at the Univer- for a secular system of law was first imag-
efforts in other areas beyond this one. both close and cheap.” sity of Texas in Austin,” Rabbi Fine said. ined 100 years ago by secular Zionists in
“The conference was organized by the To get to Russia from the United States, “I had never met him before, but I sat Moscow. So the idea of the conference —
law school at the University of Tel Aviv, in on the other hand, it takes filling out a next to him at dinner at the new Jewish its theme — was to go back to Moscow to
conjunction with the law faculty at Mos- long, detailed questionnaire in order museum in Moscow. He grew up in Scars- celebrate 100 years of mishpat Ivri.
cow State. And by the way,” he added to get a visa; once you’ve gotten it, of dale — where I was the rabbi for seven “After all the years of the Soviet Union,
helpfully, “in Europe, school divisions course, the flight is long and expensive. years, before I came to Ridgewood. And when Judaism was suppressed, when all
are called faculties.” That probably is why there were so few we both went to Wesleyan; he graduated religion was suppressed — to have a con-
The relationship between Israel and other American academics at this confer- in the 70s and I graduated in the 90s, ference sponsored by Moscow State Uni-
Russia is unlike the one between Russia ence, Rabbi Fine said. so we knew the same Jewish professors versity, to have a celebration of Jewish
and the United States, and that differ- In its unlikely details, the conference there, but I knew them from when they law, makes a powerful statement in terms
ence affects Israelis; so does geography. also exhibited the connections that bind were about to retire and he knew them of the perseverance of Judaism, and of the
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for language deficiencies.
o you and I move our wrists in Ms. Esral explained that their interest
the same way? Is there a stan- in this work was sparked by two interns
dard way to move your wrists? from the previous summer who had done
Or are human wrist move- research in the same lab. “The internship
ments completely random? And does it has enabled me to learn about speech
matter one way or the other? pathology and linguistics from a differ-
College students Mark Kaplan of Wood- ent angle through taking an active role in
cliff Lake and Chana Tropp of Teaneck research,” she said. “I gained tools that I
spent seven weeks of their summer vaca- can use as a practicing clinician.”
tion in an Israeli physics lab, working Ms. Levine said she is interested in
on a project that will help answer those working with cancer patients with speech
questions impairments. Her experience this summer
They were among 28 undergradu- at Bar-Ilan “has given me an appreciation
ate science majors participating in the for the research that is necessary for devel-
eighth annual Summer Science Research oping treatment methods that clinicians
Internship program, a program spon- use on a regular basis.”
sored jointly by Israel’s Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity in Ramat Gan and Yeshiva University
in New York. Bar-Ilan University summer lab partners Mark Kaplan of Woodcliff Lake and
This year’s interns hailed from Yeshiva Chana Tropp of Teaneck work together.
University (Yeshiva College for men and It was rewarding
Stern College for Women), Princeton Uni- different levels of treatment to see how lab. The 20-year-old Stern College psy-
versity, UCLA, SUNY Binghamton, Barry random or not random the movements chology/neuroscience major assisted in a to be able to
University, Cooper Union, Queens Col- are. Today it’s mainly guesswork.” study on facial recognition and memory be in Israel and
lege, and City College. Ms. Tropp said the BIU-YU summer pro- from behavioral and electrophysiological
Mr. Kaplan, a 22-year-old YU phys- gram enabled her “to develop valuable standpoints. She was involved in design- take advantage
ics major, and Ms. Tropp, a 21-year-old programming skills and apply statistical ing the experiment, recruiting and testing of living in this
applied mathematics major at Queens, physics methods to real-world problems. participants, analyzing data, and planning
were placed in Dr. Ronny Bartsch’s phys- It was rewarding to be able to be in Israel future steps. incredible country,
ics lab. and take advantage of living in this incred- “By providing me the opportunity to while also having
“The goal of their project was to investi- ible country, while also having the oppor- gain profound experience in both the field
gate statistical physics measures that char- tunity to give back to the Israeli scientific and country that engage my passions, this the opportunity to
acterize the properties of actigraphy — a community in my own small way.” program has humbled, empowered, and give back to the
non-invasive method of tracking human Devorah Saffern of Bergenfield, a chem- aided me in contemplating my own future
rest and activity cycles — fluctuations in ical and biological engineering major at in contributing to the world of brain sci- Israeli scientific
order to monitor the rehabilitation of Princeton, worked in Prof. Yitzhak Mas- ence and the land and people of Israel,” community in my
patients with traumatic brain injury,” Dr. tai’s chemistry lab. Her project involved Ms. Schiff said.
Bartsch said. coaxing amino acids to form spherical Stern College speech pathology and own small way.
Putting it in plainer English, Mr. Kaplan crystal structures that have potential use audiology majors Nurit Esral and Moreet
explained that if you track wrist move- in the design of pharmaceutical tablets, Levine of Teaneck interned at Bar-Ilan’s Prof. Arlene Wilson-Gordon of Bar-
ments of healthy people via an actimetry and trying to understand the mechanism Language Acquisition Lab in the univer- Ilan’s chemistry department directed this
sensor worn like a watch for a week or by which these structures form. sity’s Multidisciplinary Brain Research year’s program. Based on the students’
10 days, you’ll find that their wrist move- “This research program has allowed Center. academic background and interests, she
ments are surprisingly similar and corre- me to explore my interest in chemistry Working with Prof. Sharon Armon- paired them with Bar-Ilan faculty mem-
lated. And that’s true, moreover, whether research, apply my coursework to inter- Lotem of the department of English litera- bers and research assignments. “We hope
the subjects are asleep or awake. esting and applicable experiments, and ture and linguistics and Dr. Carmit Altman that some of them will return to Bar-Ilan
“What that means we don’t know,” Mr. engage in the scientific community in of the Churgin School of Education, their for their graduate studies and make their
Kaplan said. “There is something in our Israel,” Ms. Saffern said. research focused on bilingual Israelis from homes in Israel,” she said.
brain or autonomous nervous system Zvi Goldstein of Passaic, now going English-speaking homes. The students were housed at Yeshiva
that’s the same in every healthy human into his second year as a physics major They examined clinical language assess- University’s Jerusalem campus and were
being, regardless of activity level. We’re at Yeshiva, worked with Israeli Ph.D. stu- ments collected over the last 15 years in treated to half-day trips around the coun-
trying to give this a medical application dent Sagie Asraf in Prof. Zeev Zalevsky’s Israel to determine whether sociocultural try, including to Israel Aerospace Indus-
for patients with traumatic brain injury.” engineering lab. They experimented with differences among bilingual Israelis affect tries, the Volcani Center Agricultural
Actigraphy, he said, could help thera- a laser-based imaging system to sense the clinical language-evaluation test results. Research Organization, Sheba Medical
pists assess how far from normal such interaction of light and material waves They also were involved in a pilot Center, Teperberg Winery, and the Tel es-
patients are at the start and then measure within fibers. (In physics-speak, this is project transcribing and coding stories Safi/Gath archeological excavation site.
their progress in therapy by comparing called Brillouin scattering.) Theoretically, told by bilingual children, some of them They also heard lectures by BIU scholars
their wrist movement patterns to those of fibers could be inserted into construction diagnosed with developmental language and took part in nighttime activities, Torah
healthy people. materials and the waves within them mea- disorder, to test the effect on narrative learning, and Shabbat programming.
“In Israel they’ve developed a way to sured by the imaging system as a way of skills and vocabulary of an intervention The Summer Science Research Intern-
help stroke patients by injecting Botox in checking the structural integrity of a build- administered in the home language. And ship Program is supported by Dr. Mordecai
the arm muscles to help control spasms,” ing or bridge. they coded narratives of bilingual adults D. Katz, honorary chairman of the Bar-Ilan
Mr. Kaplan said. “In Dr. Bartsch’s lab we Talia Schiff of Teaneck interned in Dr. with aphasia to look for patterns indicat- Board of Trustees, and the J. Samuel Harwit
developed a potential method to measure David Anaki’s cognitive neuropsychology ing whether mistakes in their speech are Z’L and Manya Harwit-Aviv Charitable Trust.
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orty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
That was the warning presented by the
prophet Jonah, according to the biblical book
that bears his name.
Forty days, and it shall be Yom Kippur.
That is the warning presented by the coming of the
month of Elul last Sunday.
Yes, the season of repentance has begun, even if the
season of August vacations has not passed, and it seems
a propitious time to speak with Teaneck’s Rabbi Chaim
Jachter about his new book, “The Depths of Yonah:
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DIRECTORY
You Are Cordially Invited…
• Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Fair Lawn classes, special events, and a scholar-in- covich and Cantor Andrew Schultz,
residence program. Temple Beth Sholom is a traditional
Youn
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ Our religious school for grades K-7, Conservative congregation affiliated
the Howard and Joshua Herman Educa- with United Synagogue of Conservative
Congregation B’nai Israel
tional Center, nurtures Jewish identity Judaism. It serves the religious, cultural,
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congre- and learning. The school meets two and social needs of 150 households in
gation B’nai Israel invites you to join days a week, utilizing innovative cur- the Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Paramus, and
our welcoming, egalitarian Conserva- riculum, including extensive use of Ridgewood areas.
tive congregation. Spiritually uplifting, technology. A specially trained faculty Temple Beth Sholom is a founding
educationally inspiring, socially vibrant, member helps enable students with member of the Northern New Jersey
we create community and connection learning differences or disabilities to Jewish Academy, a consortium school
Early
through prayer, education and social of- succeed. For information, contact Rab- with programs from pre-K to seventh
ferings for all ages. bi Keven Friedman, Principal, at (201) grade.
The FLJC is strengthened by its 796-7884 or principal@fljc.com. The state-licensed Helen Troum Nurs-
diverse membership, including fami- 10-10 Norma Ave., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410. ery School and Kindergarten provides a
lies, couples, singles, Jews by Choice, (201) 796-5040. www.fljc.com. developmentally appropriate program
interfaith families, and members of the Follow us on Facebook at www.face- for children ages 2 to 5, after-school
Relig
atmosphere in which to live Jewishly. For over 60 years, Temple Beth Sholom from other congregations and unaf-
The FLJC includes dynamic auxiliary of Fair Lawn has been inviting the com- filiated families. For information, call
hard Tannenbaum,
groups. Sisterhood and Men’s Progress munity to feel the warmth of its friendly Debora Lesnoy at (201) 797-2865 or
Club provide myriad activities, includ- congregation and inspiring services. email dlesnoytbs@yahoo.com.
ing educational and social events like The synagogue offers a variety of adult Temple Beth Sholom is offering an
concerts, comedy nights, and game education programs, family program- introductory first year rate for first time
nights. Our synagogue community ming, and activities sponsored by our members of $436. Call the office for
xecutive Director at
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ness and justice through social action. Committee, and youth groups (USY, tbsfl.org and like us on Facebook. The
Adul
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tral, with connections created through and evening minyans, and a Shabbat Lawn Ave., near the intersection of Fair
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Want to learn more? Visit our web-
ROSH HASHANAH Congregation Beth Israel site atwww.geshershalom.org to
find out all about us and check out
Sun. Sept. 9 – 7:15 pm
of the Palisades
our calendar of events and services,
Congregation Beth Israel of the Pali- or call the office (201/947-1735) to
Mon. Sept. 10 – 9:00 am followed by
sades, now at the New Synagogue of schedule a visit.
Tashlikh Water Service at 1:30 pm Fort Lee, invites you to join its rabbi, We would love to meet you!
Tue. Sept. 11 – 9:00 am Jewish Standard columnist Shammai
Engelmayer, for services on the High
YOM KIPPUR Holy Days at the Fort Lee High School Franklin Lakes
Tue. Sept. 18 – 6:15 pm (Kol Nidre) auditorium, along with Cantor Eric Temple Emanuel
Wed. Sept. 19 – 9:00 am Wasser, and all year round in our sanc-
tuary, 1585 Center Avenue. We are a of North Jersey
Wed. Sept. 19 - Mincha 5:00 pm & Neilah 6:00 pm Conservative egalitarian congregation. Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in
Wed. Sept. 19 - Break the Fast – 7:30 pm We enjoy being together — at services, Franklin Lakes is thrilled to open our
socials, or adult ed classes. We care doors for a new year. We invite every-
SUKKOT about each other; we are there for each one from the surrounding area to join
Erev Sukkot: Sunday, September 23rd other. We do not claim to be warm and and build a community that embraces
fuzzy; we just are. Our informal “style” friendship, spiritual growth, commu-
SHEMINI ATZERET has won us a reputation for actually nal connections, and a loving, creative
Monday, October 1st - 7:30 am (Yizkor) being what other congregations only approach to traditional Judaism.
claim to be: warm, friendly, and caring. Today, as our congregation has
SIMCHAT TORAH Even on the High Holy Days, when inti- evolved and aged, we seek a new infu-
Monday, October 1st - 7:30 pm macy seems impossible, no one is treat- sion of people to grow and serve our
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to us is just a long-lost relative who grounds and ages to be a part of an
We would love to have you join us but tickets are required. found her or his way home. Among emerging new movement to embrace
For more information please call Cathy at (201) 391-4620 other things, people no one recognizes individual and community values to
are given honors. The rabbi makes make our lives and involvement in
Temple Beth Sholom of Pascack Valley several forays during each service into Jewish values more meaningful. At the
heart of our congregation is a deep
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site, www.cbiotp.org. new traditions that will weave the
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Glen Rock Hoboken teer projects help us to engage with Judaism through our
minds, our hearts, and our hands. Find out more about
Glen Rock Jewish Center The United Synagogue of Hoboken our congregation, and about Jewish life in hoboken, at
www.hobokensynagogue.org or www.facebook.com/
the Glen rock Jewish Center is a welcoming, vi- the United synagogue of hoboken is hoboken’s
hobokensynagogue.
brant, egalitarian congregation with a strong com- vibrant, inclusive, and participatory Jewish com-
mitment to purposeful Jewish living. we also know munity, serving hudson County. we have revived a
how to have fun. Our social hall comes alive with historic synagogue building and century-old Jewish
weekly events and activities that are sure to appeal. community, and we strive to nurture and renew the
there is always something happening at GrJC. Our spark of Judaism in each individual.
synagogue blends and balances the rich teachings rabbi robert scheinberg has led the community
of our Jewish heritage with the very best lessons with sensitivity and wisdom since 1997 (see www.
of modern culture. we are proud of our participa- rabbischeinberg.blogspot.com). educational pro-
tory services, and our commitment to social action grams for all ages, led by early Childhood director
and social programming. Our adult education, Men’s rachelle Grossman and Learning Center director
Club and sisterhood events offer something for Grace Gurman-Chan, help our children to embark on
everyone, along with our flourishing nursery school, the adventure of Jewish life and experiential Jewish
and hebrew school. learning. Our partnerships with organizations like
the great rabbi hillel taught: “Become a part of Moishe house hoboken and Jewish Young adults
your community” (Pirke avot 2:5). it is our hope that of hoboken help Jewish young adults in our area
you will become part of our community, and that we to forge connections with the Jewish community.
may all grow together. Make your family part of our For over a decade we have hosted the introduction
family! to Judaism program of the rabbinical assembly of
we would be happy to answer any questions you new Jersey, drawing adults from around the state
have about our programs and services. Come meet to explore Judaism in a comfortable and validating
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one of the most contentious issues in the in the United States to help his wife, Yoko in wait for him outside the Dakota, his
he zeitgeist really does seem country. Ono, find her daughter, whose father had looming, foreboding Central Park West
to have an eye out for Michael Michael’s father, Leon Wildes, was John kidnapped her. But Lennon had been vocal apartment building.
Wildes. Lennon’s immigration lawyer, at a time about his disgust with the then-raging war The Wildes still are in touch with Yoko
For one thing, he’s running for when the Beatles were among the most in Vietnam, and with Richard Nixon, the Ono.
mayor of Englewood, or to be more accu- famous musicians — to be realistic, among president who was pursuing it. The noto- So that’s Michael Wildes’ patrimony.
rate, he’s re-running. Mr. Wildes was Engle- the most famous people, musicians or not riously thin-skinned Nixon was not happy Probably, given that history, once
wood’s mayor from 2004 to 2010; he won — in the country. Probably in the world. with the situation. Nixon was able to use he decided to become a lawyer, it was
the Democratic primary in June and is hop- Although John Lennon had said, in 1966, his power to get immigration authorities to almost unavoidable that Michael would
ing to recapture the seat come November. that the Beatles were “more popular than try to deport Lennon, who had been con- become an immigration lawyer, and work
For another, longer-term thing, Mr. Wil- Jesus,” the modern Orthodox, early-mid- victed of possessing marijuana. with his father.
des is a prominent immigration lawyer. dle-aged Leon Wildes had never heard of Leon Wildes fought John Lennon’s Michael Wildes has had a long, visible
For a third thing, he has just published them in 1972, when he was hired to keep deportation, and he won; it was that vic- career; he specializes in immigration work
a book about immigration, “Safe Haven Mr. Lennon in the country. But his wife tory, Michael Wildes writes, that under- with clients who have escaped terrorism,
in America: Battles to Open the Golden had. According to Michael Wildes, his lies President Barack Obama’s Deferred are accused of terrorism, are somehow
Door,” which chronicles some dramatic mother, Ruth, was astounded by her hus- Action for Childhood Arrivals program. tainted with terrorism.
stories. Some have happy endings, some band’s lack of knowledge. “My father, bless That’s DACA, which President Trump has His latest, most zeitgeisty work, though,
do not, and some, realistically, end him, was not exactly tuned into the rock declared to be over, and whose recipients culminated just this week, when perhaps
ambivalently. music scene,” Michael writes. His father have lived in unresolved fear and longing his second most famous clients were sworn
It is not surprising that Mr. Wildes chose told his mother that his new clients were for the last year and a half. in as American citizens, and Michael was
immigration as the focus of his practice. “Jack Lemmon and Yoko Motor.” John Lennon won his fight to stay in the all over the American airwaves.
He is the son of a prominent immigra- But Leon Wildes turned to out to be a United States — or perhaps more accu- The newly American pair — Viktor and
tion lawyer — who is his legal partner, in quick study. It didn’t take him long to find rately, Leon Wildes won that fight for Amalija Knavs, the parents of Melania
Wildes & Weinberg P.C. — at a time when out who his new clients really were. him. But then the Beatle was murdered, Knauss Trump (she was born Melanija
Knavs in Slovenia, and Anglicized her system, which has become sclerotic with
name before she changed it more defini- bureaucratic over-reach, and the threat
tively through marriage) — were able to of terrorist infiltration cannot be ignored,
become citizens because their daughter Mr. Wildes said; in fact, he’s said that for
sponsored them, through what is called years. But he also believes that both the
“family reunification.” country’s promise, in the abstract, and
That puts Mr. Wildes squarely in the its need for the energy and intellect and
middle of the national debate over immi- drive of people who care enough about the
gration. His clients’ daughter’s husband future to make their way here, are fueled
has been loudly bellowing his loathing of by immigrants.
people who come to this country through “Every president has recognized that
what he calls “chain migration.” And one the system is broken, and every presi-
politician’s chain migration is another dent has put a band-aid on it,” he said.
immigration lawyer’s family reunification. “This time, a president has been able to
Michael Wildes was not Melania Trump’s get away with scaring people, because of
lawyer when she got her green card, or a weak and fractured Congress. That is
when she became an American citizen, unacceptable.”
but he has worked with her more recently, He thinks that although the administra-
looking at her path to citizenship and tion is talking about terrorism as it works
declaring it to have been properly laid out to stop immigration, “it’s an excuse. They
and dutifully trodden. Ms. Trump came to
the United States using a B-1/B-2 visitor visa
in 1996, and later that year, and for years
later, she got an annual H1-B visa, made
for working visitors, popularly considered Immigration has
to be for geniuses but also aimed at star
models, Mr. Wildes told the Jewish Stan-
become a very
dard in December 2016. Ms. Knauss next comfortable
sponsored herself for a green card “based
on her extraordinary ability,” Mr. Wildes
thing to play
said then; as a model, her talents, at least ping pong with,
as far as we media-consuming masses have
seen them, seem to lie in semi-nude, pro-
but this is about
vocatively posed photographs (semi-nude, people’s lives.
that is, if a hat counts as clothing), duckbill
pouts, and moody glares at the camera.
We can’t afford
But apparently, at least in some quarters, Leon Wildes stands by as John Lennon flashes a peace sign on the steps of the to get it wrong.
that counts as extraordinary ability, and federal courthouse in Manhattan.
it got her a visa, a green card, and really are doing it to scare people, to get
eventually naturalization. a boot. That’s because he first the results they want in the election booth.
Next, she worked with her immi- suffered from bone spurs — “Immigration has become a very com-
gration lawyer, Mr. Wildes — who a result, Mr. Wildes said, of fortable thing to play ping pong with, but
extols her talents, and believes the constant walking he’s this is about people’s lives. We can’t afford
strongly that she earned and been doing in pursuit of votes to get it wrong. We have several stains on
deserved her H1-B visa — to get her across Englewood. Next, his our nation’s history that we need to move
parents their green cards and then oldest daughter got married, away from. We cannot return to racism, to
citizenship. just a few weeks ago; in his slavery, to the exploitation of people who
Mr. Wildes has strong feelings joy, Mr. Wildes jumped up are less fortunate, to the separation of fam-
about immigration. “Our wonder- and down so enthusiastically ilies. We haven’t separated families since
ful experiment in democracy is in front of the couple as he we did it on the slave block.
made stronger with its main ingre- danced to honor and please “And in our own history, we saw how
dient, immigration,” he said. “But them that he tore his Achil- families were separated in the Holocaust,”
that only works if we get it right. les tendon. (Ouch!) So he had he added. “We have to be supersensitive
I don’t see this administration as the bone spur removed and to that.”
steering us in the right direction. the tendon repaired; at this As he makes clear in his book, Mr. Wil-
They’re scaring everyone into point, the look is dramatic. des is a strong supporter of law enforce-
believing that we can keep safe by This is not the first time ment; he does not think that evincing
changing the very content of what he’s been in the public eye; unhappiness at ICE’s actions now is in
has made America excel among Mr. Wildes has testified before any way an attack on ICE. “I am formally a
the nations.” Congress, and he’s been a fre- member of the law enforcement commu-
He is wary about being seen as quent commentator on both nity,” he said. That’s because he’s a lawyer,
working with Republicans, because broadcast and cable net- but he also is a former auxiliary member
he has been a Democrat through- works. He’s used publicity to of the New York Police Department, which
out his life; he feels that his work MIchael and Leon Wildes flank long-time client Yoko Ono. keep clients safe — it’s harder he joined when he was 18. “I had the privi-
for prominent Republicans, as apo- to kill an enemy, if you are the lege of donning an NYPD uniform and
litical as it is, opens him up to be misun- discussing immigration more generally as agent of a foreign government intent on being introduced to my first bulletproof
derstood. But his work for the Trumps and recently as last month.) shutting up dissident voices, if that person vest as a gift from my parents,” he wrote.
Knavs has given him a platform; at least for Perhaps luckily for him, most of his time shows up on television or in the tabloids. He walked a beat in Queens, where he and
the week, he’s been omnipresent on cable on camera this go-around has him sitting But this is a new level of attention, and Mr. his family lived.
news. (Although not on Fox, Mr. Wildes down, or focusing on his face, talking-head Wildes is using it to make the points that Mr. Wildes interned in Congress for
said, which has ignored the whole Knav style. Otherwise, viewers would be treated he feels must be made. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and then
story, although he has appeared on Fox to shots of him hobbling, on crutches, in There are very real problems with our for Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic
congresswoman who ran for vice presi- carried out by Americans, in the name of
dent. “My time in Washington was a for- an incoherent but American ideology.
mative experience,” he wrote. “I never September 11 marked the start of a new
took for granted the liberties and freedoms balance between freedom and safety, Mr.
our founding fathers sought on our shores Wildes said, and he takes the need to be
and the extraordinary sacrifices made safe very seriously. You cannot be free if
by so many to see that the United States you are in danger, or if you are terrified.
remains a safe haven for those at risk and But we must be smart about the balance,
those at need.” he says.
Next, Mr. Wildes became an assistant “As a former federal prosecutor, I want
United States attorney for New York’s our borders protected,” he said. “I want
eastern district; there, he saw firsthand “a them safe. But I am reminded that our
system that was not uniform, and that dis- founding fathers never lost their moral
criminated against people based on their compass when they fought pirates on the
national origins,” he wrote. high seas — and neither should we, in 2018.
All of this gave him insight into the prob- “We are always at risk at our borders.
lems and promises of immigration; that, Our homeland is always at risk. But we
combined with his father’s example, pro- never threw away the recognition of our
pelled him into immigration law. distinction, that among all the lands of the
He is appalled by what he sees. One anec- world, America is the land of liberty.”
dote of many — “there are kids in the court There also is a real risk in turning peo-
system who are given lists of lawyers — and ple away, Mr. Wildes added. “I lecture
they are coloring on the back of the list. Michael Wildes with new Americans Viktor and Amalija Knavs. frequently at universities throughout the
“That is an atrocity. nation, and I meet foreign students who
as family reunification.
“It is a fallacy to think that we approach cannot onboard in companies because
any sense of humanity in the way that we “In general, people will work they are deemed to be a security risk.”
are treating these children. harder and make America stronger That is, students who once would have
“Hachnasat orchim” — welcoming when they have their loved ones been courted for their intellectual, entre-
guests — “is in our DNA as Jews. We shouldaround them,” he continued. “The preneurial, and creative skills, but who
be opening America’s golden doors as hap- president misspoke in public when come from the wrong countries, are not
pily as in the Bible Abraham ran to wash he said that uncles and nieces and allowed to work here. Instead, they return
the feet of the Arab visitors who came to nephews can be brought in. The home, taking their newly learned skills
see him, just 24 hours after he was cir- law does not allow for that. and inherent drive with them.
cumcised. We should be willing not only As for the argument that there are Despite what he’s seen as an immigra-
to invest in their happiness, to remove the
not enough jobs for new immigrants tion lawyer — and perhaps also because of
risks that they are facing, but also to make
— “There are enough blueberries what he’s seen as an immigration lawyer
them part of the stock of citizens we havethat need to be picked in Georgia, — Mr. Wildes is guardedly optimistic about
for the next generation, so that they willenough grass to be mowed in the the future. Personally, he’s got many bless-
pledge allegiance to our flag and pay it for-
suburbs, enough beds to be made in ings. His father, at 85, still comes to the
ward another generation into the future.” the hospitality industry across our MIchael Wildes takes a selfie with Melania office. “We get to sit through client intakes
Mr. Wildes feels very strongly that words
country,” he said. There are plenty Trump. together,” he said. “I have some very deep
matter. “The people who have hijacked of jobs that native-born Americans footprints to fill.”
the immigration dialogue have come up simply do not want, and do not take. “We families, because they understand that it He met his wife, Amy, at law school;
with the worst terminology,” he said. For need all hands on deck. is those workers who work with extraordi- they both went to Cardozo, Yeshiva Uni-
example, “anchor babies. “I deal with the owners of major com- nary enthusiasm. versity’s law school, and took a class that
“I have never seen a woman come to my panies, with major industrialists through- “And right now there is a deafening his father taught together. Now, Amy man-
out the nation, who swear by their immi-
office and wait for 21 years so her child can silence in Washington from our congres- ages the firm’s New Jersey offices, one of
sponsor her,” he said. “And chain migra- grant workforces,” he added. “I work with sional leaders.” four around the country, and Mr. Wildes is
tion is a very derogatory term for a bed- restaurateurs who treat their immigrant In his book, Mr. Wildes tells us that there continuing his family connection with Car-
rock of immigration law and policy known labor as if they were members of their own is no such thing as a typical immigration dozo. His two older children, Raquel and
case — or for that matter a typical immi- Joshua, both are students there, his next
grant. Each would-be American is unique, daughter, Lauren Ruth, just finished col-
he says. lege, and Jacqueline still is in high school.
If he had to point to one event that Mr. Wildes’ mother died when she was
changed the practice of immigration law 56. The Wildes miss her, but her memory
in his lifetime, Mr. Wildes writes, it was permeates their experience at Cardozo.
the September 11, 2001, attacks on the “My father dedicated a room to her mem-
World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He ory, and I made my class schedule so that
knows what that nightmare looked like; he I can daven mincha in that room and then
was with Hatzalah, the Jewish ambulance teach the class in her honor while I’m
corps for which he has volunteered for there,” he said.
most of his adult life; in that capacity, he Michael Wildes is confident that eventu-
was at the smoking heap on September 12. ally the immigration system will be fixed,
The terrorist murderers, who killed even if will take a great deal of time and
almost 3,000 people, were not Americans, much so-far-nonexistent goodwill. That’s
and the cause for which they killed was not the promise of this country, he said; as the
American. That led to a suspicion of peo- descendant of immigrants who came here
ple who were not Americans in general, looking for a better life, and whose chil-
and of Muslims in particular; this despite dren and grandchildren and great-grand-
the fact that so many acts of mass murder children found that life, he thinks that the
in the United States, including such atroci- promise will be fulfilled for the next gen-
During his college years, Michael Wildes was an auxiliary officer in the NYPD. ties as the Oklahoma City bombing, were eration of new immigrants.
I
respects every human being. So when mem-
t’s gotta hurt when the guy who used bers of Israel’s current government uninten-
to fund your political career writes tionally undermine the covenant between
two op-eds criticizing you in The New Judaism and enlightenment, they crush the
York Times. core of contemporary Jewish existence.”
Benjamin Netanyahu would know. That’s It’s the second time Lauder has taken to
what’s happening to him right now. the pages of the Times to lambaste Netan-
On Monday, Netanyahu was the target of yahu’s agenda. In March, he lamented both
a scathing column by Ronald Lauder, the the demise of the two-state solution under
cosmetics heir who heads the World Jewish Netanyahu and the power of Orthodox par-
Congress. Lauder lamented Israel’s recent ties in Israel. He warned that by “submit-
nation-state law, which Netanyahu defends ting to the pressures exerted by a minority
as a safeguard of Israel’s Jewish character in Israel, the Jewish state is alienating a large
but critics see as a slap in the face to the segment of the Jewish people.”
country’s minorities. Lauder may fear Netanyahu’s policies
Lauder wrote that Israel’s turn to the now. But without Lauder’s support, it’s pos-
nationalist right is betraying its commitment sible Netanyahu never would have been
to democratic, humanistic ideals — and it’s prime minister at all.
betraying the Jewish people’s commitment In 1996, the first time Netanyahu ran for
to those ideals as well. the office, he was a major underdog fac- Ronald Lauder speaks next to a lit menorah at a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto
“The Jews of the new era have fused our ing a 30-point deficit to incumbent Shimon Uprising in Poland on April 19, 2018. SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES
national pride and religious affiliation with Peres. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime minis-
a dedication to human progress, worldly ter, had been assassinated months earlier by Beyond the national sympathy for assassination. A month beforehand, he par-
culture and morality,” Lauder wrote. “Con- a right-wing Jewish extremist opposed to the Rabin’s Labor Party, some saw Netanyahu ticipated in an anti-Rabin rally where some
servatives and liberals, we all believe in a Israeli-Palestinian peace process. as complicit in the incitement that led to the SEE RONALD LAUDER PAGE 32
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Immigration
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
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1930s are incredibly lucky. similar to the reasons that drive immigrants
With all the stories about immi- to our borders now. ory Booker served as my though it empowered a regime that
gration in the news, it’s impossible not to Often they had to leave children or parents student president at the repeatedly called for Israel’s annihi-
think about the family stories that float behind. To immigrate was to risk never seeing University of Oxford. At the lation and actively sought the means
around for many of us, untethered to specif- your family again. It was to leave behind all time, the Oxford L’Chaim to see it through. What most disap-
ics, full of emotion, full of gratitude. the risks you knew, in favor of the risks you Society was the second largest stu- pointed me is that Cory did not once
My husband has vague stories of his grand- didn’t know. dent group in Oxford’s history. When take to the floor of the Senate to con-
father escaping Russian conscription under It’s the same thing for immigrants now. Yes, we both returned to the United States, demn Iran’s repeated promise to anni-
the bottom of a cart, later getting to Canada some of them are criminals. (Some of the I introduced him to the American hilate Israel.
and then crossing from the north to make his ones who came over with our ancestors were Jewish community, who would later Then, this past April, the Senate For-
illegal way to Chicago. We don’t know how criminals too.) Some will be a burden on the make him the single largest recipient eign Relations Committee — of which
true they are, but we do know that he ended state. (So were some of ours.) But most of of pro-Israel political support in the Cory is a member — held a vote to halt
up a doctor in a Catholic hospital, wearing them are looking for a better life. For hope. nation. But now he has U.S. taxpayer funding for
two pair of glasses when the first one didn’t Maybe, if they dare think so grandly, for a shocked the pro-Israel the Palestinian Author-
help him see well enough to drive. We do chance at happiness, whose pursuit Jefferson and Jewish communi- ity’s “pay-to-slay” pol-
know that he was eternally grateful to this had said is a self-evident right. ties with his cratering icy that granted terror-
country, and to the nuns who hired him when The idea that now, instead of welcoming support for Israel. ist murderers and their
the Protestant hospital told him that they had immigrants, instead of screening them and For years he was seen families actual salaries
too many Jews already. letting the ones whose futures seem likely to as one of the great pro- for the Israelis they’d
My husband also has vague memories of benefit all of us, instead of looking at them Israel voices in Ameri- killed. The Taylor Force
his grandmother talking about how her par- as people, we now not only turn them away can politics. During his Act, named after a heroic
ents were divorced, at a time when divorce but separate parents from children, is both campaign for and tenure former U.S. Army offi-
was rare, and how she came to this coun- wrong and devastating. as the mayor of Newark, Rabbi cer murdered by a Pal-
try as a child to escape both the shame and In the last few weeks, we’ve been hearing Cory would electrify Shmuley estinian terrorist, would
the even-more-grinding-than-normal pov- and seeing and reading about (unless we are Jewish crowds through- Boteach merely stop American
erty that were meted out to the children of able to turn the radio or the podcast or the out the country with taxpayer money from
divorce. She ended up married to a lawyer television off quickly enough, or turn the his knowledge of the being used to fund mur-
and an active Labor Zionist, in an apartment page adroitly enough so that we don’t see the Torah, which he and I regularly stud- der. It was nothing but a clear and cru-
high above Lake Shore Drive. full story but only ghost images) what hap- ied together. Then there was his sin- cial sign of America’s deep respect for
I remember my great-aunt tearing up as pens to children put in camps or shelters or cere love for Israel, which I arranged human life.
she looked at photographs of the Hungarian other facilities, sometimes medicated, some- for him to visit for the first time in 1994. Unbelievably, Cory voted against it in
countryside. It was so beautiful, she said in times separated so thoroughly from their par- In return, Cory received enormous the Foreign Relations Committee.
her luscious accent, all rolling consonants, as ents that like Humpty Dumpty the relation- Jewish political and financial support, Cory then condemned President
rich as the country looked in those pictures. ships can’t be put together again. Parents are becoming, arguably, the single biggest Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as
She hung them up in her kitchen — but she deported without their kids, record-keeping recipient of financial contributions the capital of Israel and moving the
never went back, and never wanted to. is so abysmal that the system can’t find the from the Jewish community. Even as embassy.
I remember stories of my grandfather, a kids. It goes devastatingly on and on. he rose in stature and launched a cam- Last week, Cory would take his
brilliant student, fluent, as so many of his Those of us who are here now are lucky. As paign for the Senate in 2013, no one increasingly deteriorating relation-
contemporaries were, in seven or eight lan- Rabbi Kenneth Brander reminds us, for the doubted Cory’s kinship with the Jew- ship with the pro-Israel community
guages — he learned Italian when he got here first time in history, Jews who make aliyah from ish community and Israel. to a new low.
because it was so close to Romanian, and the United States are going toward something. When he reached the Senate, how- The junior senator from New Jersey
much more useful — who never got to become They are not running away from anything. ever, things would quickly begin to flew to New Orleans to address the pro-
the scholar murky family lore said he would We are a nation of immigrants. It is those devolve, creating friction between gressive mega-event Netroots Nation
have been, but who started a business that immigrants’ drive and hunger and energy Cory and the pro-Israel commu- 2018. The conference brought together
allowed his family to be comfortable during and curiosity and unstoppable need to move nity and immense pressure on our almost all of the candidates expected
the Depression. forward that made this country grow. friendship. to seek the Democratic nomination
I remember stories of horses and wagons in Of course we cannot be stupid or senti- First, Cory voted for President in 2020, including Senators Elizabeth
Brooklyn, and about my very young mother mental about immigration, but we cannot Obama’s catastrophic deal with Iran, Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Kamala
correcting her grandparents’ Hungarian. forget what made America what it is if we
Those generations of immigrants left mainly want it to keep it as a beacon of freedom, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the author of 32 books, including “The Israel Warrior.”
for economic opportunity, to escape poverty liberty, and light. —JP Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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gubernatorial candidate Cynthia funded by the NRA and the pharma-
Nixon, and many others. ceutical industry and once contrib- ryan Stevenson deserves our
New Orleans was teeming with uted to the legal defense of Rasmeah attention even if he doesn’t speak
t politicians and pundits who are Odeh, a PFLP terrorist convicted in directly to our concerns as Jews.
- viewed as unsympathetic to Israel. 1969 for blowing up an Israeli super- Stevenson runs an organization
And yet, it would be Cory — my market, killing two young students out of Montgomery, Alabama, called Equal
- soul friend, Torah study partner, and maiming nine others. Justice Initiative. It is an NGO legal services
attendee at untold numbers of my Cory’s claim that he did not know campaign dedicated to representing convicted
- Shabbat dinners, who rose to power what the sign said is being hotly blacks, some on death row, whose incarcera-
- vowing the staunchest support of disputed by the same BDS leaders tion often is the result of racial discrimination.
Israel — who would shock American who claim that Cory was speaking Stevenson makes the compelling case for a
- Jewry with a photo with BDS lead- to them for quite a while before the through-line from slavery to Jim Crow segre-
ers condemning the Israeli security photo was taken. But I, of course, gation to mass imprisonment, and not only in
t fence that has saved an incalculable believe Cory and not BDS. the South.
r number of Israeli lives. So we’ll take Cory’s explanation at I recently returned from an eight-day vaca-
- Cory was photographed with Pal- face value. Even with all the visible tion-with-a-purpose — the goal was to trace
- estinian BDS activists holding a sign markings of an anti-Israel crowd try- the modern civil rights evolution from the
- that read “From Palestine to Mexico, ing to get him to take a photo con- 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision
r All the Walls Must Go,” alongside an demning Israel, I understand that in overturning legal segregation to the 1964
image of a crumbling brick wall. The the rush of a major event he might Civil Rights Act. Joined by my wife and two
photograph was uploaded to Twitter have been careless. But having been still-good friends, I mainly visited museums
by the sign’s creators, the US Cam- duped into supporting the ideas of of conscience — a relatively new repository
paign for Palestinian Rights, and radical Israel-haters, one might have development — in Memphis, Birmingham, This section of the National Memorial for
- from there it went viral. expected Cory to condemn their Montgomery, Tuskegee, and three towns in Peace and Justice reminds viewers of
- To be sure, the crude compari- deception, both their means and Mississippi — Philadelphia (the scene where the lynchings that targeted members of
son being made by the sign is a lie their ends. voter-registration activists James Chaney, minority groups in the United States.
peddled by only the most unsympa- He did not. Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner DENNIS B. KLEIN
thetic to Israel’s cause. Israel’s secu- In fact, despite having confused were murdered), Money (where
- rity barrier was not erected to protect and disheartened the very com- scholars believe the 1955 mur- belligerence. It helps to recall
- an economy or to stem immigration. munity that supported his political der of Emmett Till launched the that the civil rights movement a
r It was a last resort taken by Israel to campaigns for decades, Cory has modern grassroots civil rights half-century ago was set against
stop the river of innocent blood being refused to address the incident per- movement), and Oxford, the the background of the Cold War.
shed after more than 1,000 Israeli sonally at all. home of Ole Miss, the University What inspired bystanders across
civilians were murdered in a five-year This follows AIPAC’s unsuccessful of Mississippi, where James Mer- the political spectrum to notice
t campaign of Palestinian terror. Until attempts to lobby Cory to support edith dramatically broke that uni- racial injustice and take action on
then, Palestinian terrorists carrying an anti-BDS measure known as the versity’s color line. the street and in Washington was
weapons and explosives were infil- Israel Anti-Boycott Act and the Com- The Equal Justice Initiative’s the shame of our undemocratic,
trating Israel with terrifying ease. Only bating BDS Act of 2017. BDS seeks the National Memorial for Peace and Dennis B. racist behavior, and the hypoc-
after the barrier was made would the economic destruction of the State of Justice, an interactive counter- Klein risy it exposed in our struggle
- bloodshed finally be dramatically Israel. That Cory has not joined his memorial in Montgomery com- against the worldwide commu-
y reduced. The Israeli security barrier pro-Israel Senate colleagues in sign- memorating documented cases nist threat. It was as if our Cold-
is there solely to save lives. ing on is disheartening and deeply of public lynching, reminded me of a survey War survival as a democracy depended in
y To compare it to the hotly dis- disappointing. my synagogue, Congregation Beth Sholom in good part on our commitment to racial justice
- puted Mexican border wall is to Time is running out for Cory to Teaneck, conducted some three years ago. The at home. Many who benefited from social and
signal willful ignorance and malice come out and strongly support Israel survey revealed that limitations on members’ economic privileges were willing to accommo-
r toward Israel. To call for Israel to and condemn its enemies, especially disposable time kept them from attending our date them to a higher or competing purpose.
tear down a bulwark against every- BDS. Every day I receive messages programs. It was puzzling, then, that many of Nothing substantial has taken the place of
day safety is to proclaim a cold and from people all over the country them reported an interest in social justice con- the Cold War to inspire our faith in a transcen-
callous disregard for Jewish life. expressing deep anger at me at hav- cerns, suggesting a growing interest within the dent good cause. It appears that we again are
a And yet, there was someone who ing brought Cory to the Jewish com- Jewish community in matters that influence concerned if not anxious about number one,
was like a brother to me for 26 years, munity. They feel he is abandoning our American as well as our Jewish lives. indifferent to if not suspicious of others. It
one of the Jewish community’s most Israel in order to impress extreme We four travelers, who are Jewish, observed would be reassuring if the human rights and
cherished friends, holding up a leftist elements of the Democratic and commented on the historical and spiritual transitional justice movements fired our imagi-
radical anti-Israel sign and smiling party, when support for Israel must civil rights and Jewish intersections. We were nations and galvanized us to principled action.
for a photo with radical anti-Israel remain bipartisan. In the end, the aware that we were more than spectators. There is hope that social-justice work is
activists. American Jewish community sup- We also were aware that we were revisiting emerging as a cutting edge in Jewish life. I
Cory’s spokesman claimed that ported Cory not only with votes and an era whose legacy is unraveling. When we love Bryan Stevenson. But nothing, for now,
“amid the rush…he didn’t have time contribution but with our trust. talk about polarization in American society, shames us and our fellow citizens daily into
to read the sign” and that “from his It is a trust he can regain not by we are referring to a process that is redirecting taking decisive, persistent steps to protect a
cursory glance he thought it was quoting to Jewish audiences the our multicultural aspirations to culture-war SEE PROTEST PAGE 37
talking about Mexico.” Cory, in the Torah ideas that he and I have studied
end, would claim that “he didn’t together over the decades — impor-
realize [the sign] had anything to do tant as they are — but only with clear The opinions expressed in this section are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the
with Israel.” and unequivocal steps to support the newspaper’s editors, publishers, or other staffers. We welcome letters to the editor.
It’s an odd thing for Cory to say, world’s only Jewish state against those Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
considering the second word on the intent on its destruction.
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unday, August 12, 2018, in the country. Yet they were verbally abused with obsceni-
marked the first anni- ties and epithets shouted at them; they were called racists,
versary of the horrible Nazis, and Fascists. They even were pelted with projectiles.
events in Charlottes- Reporters were not immune; some reportedly even were
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he first mention of “There is … no single authority that coordinates and undermined. You wouldn’t know about BDS if celebri-
the Hebrew word supervises these various activities,” complains Michael ties didn’t regularly include Israel on their world tours.
“hasbarah” in JTA Oren, who is (wait for it) Israel’s deputy minister in The charge of “pinkwashing” — that Israel touts its
was in 1988, at the charge of public diplomacy. relatively progressive record on LGBT rights to distract
height of the first intifada. The critics, however, don’t make a convincing case the world from the occupation — targets what the BDS
The article focused on Israelis about why any of this matters. folk think is a positive and effective means of hasbarah.
and American Jews and their Complaints about Israel’s hasbarah efforts are as Otherwise, why would they bother? And paradoxically,
deep concern that the media regular and ritualistic as the Jewish holidays. Without every charge of pinkwashing only reminds the casual
were distorting the unrest and answers from a strong PR campaign, the theory goes, reader of Israel’s strong LGBT record.
showing the Israeli military in Andrew the litany of anti-Israel charges gains traction. Two kinds of critics, often overlapping, criticize Isra-
a bad light. Silow-Carroll But among whom? el’s hasbarah.
The answer, interviewees Israel remains hugely popular among the American The first is convinced that the media have it in for
agreed, was better “hasbarah” public. According to Gallup, 64 percent of the U.S. popu- Israel. Such critics also hold the mistaken notion that
— a Hebrew word, explained the author (OK, it was me), lation sympathizes with the Israelis over the Palestin- the media’s role is to tell a story as they would have it
“whose meaning falls somewhere between information ians, and only 19 percent say they sympathize more with told. Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hardly
and propaganda.” the Palestinians. Congress remains firmly pro-Israel. perfect, and examples abound of stories becoming sto-
“Israel has never actually looked at hasbarah as an Yes, a Pew survey in January showed a wide partisan ries only when Palestinians are the victims, or headlines
integral part of policymaking,” Dan Pattir, a former divide over Israel, with 79 percent of Republicans and that ignore cause (a terror attack) for effect (the Israelis’
press secretary to prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and only 27 percent of Democrats sympathizing more with response). In general, however, Palestinians have a point
Menachem Begin, said then. Israel than with the Palestinians. when they complain that the media often shape the nar-
Fast forward 30 years. But the poll questions forced respondents to choose rative according to an Israeli point of view, depicting
Writing last week in the Los Angeles Times, Noga between Israelis and Palestinians (why not both?), and Palestinian life with an Israeli gaze. If you want to see
Tarnapolsky makes a convincing case that Israel’s pub- the results may have reflected only the deeply partisan what coverage of the conflict would look like otherwise,
lic diplomacy efforts are flawed, unprofessional, scat- nature of American politics — and that is not anything read a pro-Palestinian website like Electronic Intifada or
tershot, and out of touch. Critics tell her that Prime you can hasbarah away. a far-left Israeli site like +972. It’s nothing like the Israel
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relies too much on Despite wide publicity and Jewish consternation, the coverage you see in the mainstream media.
social-media videos to defend Israel. They say its mili- Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement hasn’t The other kind of critic blames unpopular policy on
tary spokespeople are ill prepared to answer questions taken root outside the far left. As of June, 25 states bad hasbarah. Good hasbarah, they insist, presumably
about controversial events, like May’s deadly riots on have enacted anti-BDS laws. In fact, the whole point of could have forestalled the brouhaha over the Israeli
the border with Gaza. BDS is that Israel has a positive image that needs to be nation-state law (a brouhaha, I’d wager, that most
Revolution was their creed. The government lacked the will or It’s time to demand that mayors and police do their jobs. People have
resources to restrain the violence. the right to protest, but not to hurt people and destroy property.
Protest
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Old guard right wing elites, who also despised the democratically Violent protestors should not be able to mask their identity. It is
elected government, reacted to the threat posed by the Spartacists. reported that the ranks of the white supremacists marchers were culture of uncompromising mutual
They formed so-called Freikorps (private militias), recruited from thinned out because neighbors, employers, and victims knew who respect. We possess good intentions
the ranks of demobilized veterans of WWI, to combat the Sparta- they were and could sue or react with appropriate outrage. Why and our donations of time and treasure
cists. Unlike law enforcement, they acted without legal and govern- should the alt-left be immune? The videos of masked Antifa thugs are surely important, but the cause so
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mental restraints. Their efforts did not end the violence but only lawlessly breaking windows evoke images of Kristallnacht. I can’t far is piecemeal. We are floundering.
begat more uncontrollable violence. help but view them with revulsion. Disregard for people’s property We are a people whose tradition is
Indeed, the ensuing turmoil supercharged the process of under- rights very quickly devolves into disregard for people, as well. replete with begetting. Short of Cold
mining trust in the existing government and eventually ushered in The beauty of our system of governance is not just our constitu- War II, we can rediscover our prin-
the Nazi regime. tion and bill of rights; it is our respect for the law. To have a society ciples in small steps that might beget
Sound familiar? The alt-right wishes to change things back to con- based on laws, we must enforce them. As the Bible commands in change-making movements. The
form to its mythical and absurd vision of the ways things were. The this week’s Torah reading, Shoftim, judges and law enforcement Equal Justice Initiative offers an idea:
alt-left wishes to change things by forcibly imposing its own odious authorities must be appointed. They are required to govern righ- Counties or perhaps entire regions
vision of a society it controls. Each is pursuing its extreme program teously. Laws can be unjust, but the solution is to challenge them in which lynching occurred can col-
outside our norms of legitimate discourse and proper behavior. in court or elect legislators to change them. Lawlessness, however, laborate with EJI to remember the
Our answer to change is at the voting booth. There is no force cannot be tolerated. It only leads to increasing levels of lawlessness,
permitted. It’s about winning the day with better ideas and policies. including violence. We cannot accept this as the new norm.
This, though, is not the regular means chosen by groups on the alt- We have so much that is beautiful and worth treasuring in this
left and alt-right. wonderful country of America. Make no mistake about it; we are the
Creating the image of a government out of control is their weapon envy of the rest of the world for good reason. Not everything may It appears that
of choice. Hence, the recent events, in Portland, when government be perfect; but we are free to strive for perfection. Our tradition is
offices were shut down forcibly and employees were intimidated to live and let live, exercise our right to free speech peacefully and we again are
physically. But it usually doesn’t end there, because there is the vote at the ballot box. concerned if
inevitable reaction — and all too often it’s an over-reaction. Thus, There is no excuse or justification for violence, and it cannot be
Portland since has experienced violent confrontations between alt- condoned. It’s time for all of us to condemn it, no matter who the not anxious
right groups and Antifa and its cohorts. perpetrator, and without qualification. about number
Whenever government doesn’t act to stop the violence and hold
the wrongdoers accountable, it is complicit. To onlookers, it appears Leon Grunstein of Teaneck, a retired attorney and banker, founded one, indifferent
as if society is crumbling. We can’t allow anarchy to prevail. Proper and was chairman of the Metropolitan National Bank and then to if not
policing is a part of the solution, as demonstrated in Washington, Israel Discount Bank of NY. He also founded He also founded
D.C., on Sunday. Project Ezrah and serves on the board of Revel at Yeshiva University suspicious of
We also have to do our part. We have got to rain on their parade. and the AIPAC National Council. others.
event by requesting a replica of a rep-
resentative part of its memorial for
local installation. One documented
from having children through surro- case of lynching occurred in central
gacy. More broadly, Netanyahu’s close New Jersey — surely there were oth-
ties with President Donald Trump ers throughout the state. Let’s bring
may be understandable and justifi- the story back home. We can explore
able, as his outreach to European installing it among the twin memorials
nationalists may be, but there is a to the Holocaust and U.S. slavery now
political and PR price to be paid for under development in Teaneck. (Bruce
such embraces. Prince, one of my traveling compan-
Netanyahu has good instincts for ions, is a co-organizer.) Even if Bergen
English-speaking audiences, and County doesn’t qualify, we can start a
sometimes he realizes that a posi- conversation leading to joint projects
tive pitch can get you only so far. In with our neighbors.
the past few weeks, left-wing activ- It’s an isolated idea for sure, but
ists have complained that Israeli air- maybe it will lock into other isolated
port security has detained them and events — many showing consider-
asked specifically about their activ- able promise — against a background
ism and their political beliefs. whose features we need to divine.
On Monday, after the liberal Zion- Referring to his participation in the
ist writer Peter Beinart said he was march from Selma to Montgomery,
stopped and interrogated, Netan- Abraham Joshua Heschel believed
yahu issued a statement saying it was that “our march was worship.” It was
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu understands that Israel’s hasbarah can get the an “administrative mistake,” adding “protest and prayer” that I believe can
country only so far. ILLUSTRATION BY CHARLES DUNST/JTA; PHOTO: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/GETTY that “Israel is the only country in the and must crystallize a renewed, other-
Middle East where people voice their directed social climate we Jews and all
Americans never even heard about). That story has legs not opinions freely and robustly.” Americans can cherish.
because of a bad marketing rollout, but because the law was a The latter statement is a staple of pro-Israel hasbarah. It’s a
policy decision that fed directly into a perception that Israel’s terrific policy, as long as it has the added benefit of being true. Dennis Klein of Teaneck, a professor
right-wing government was growing less democratic and more But when actions prove unpopular, PR won’t save you. The root of history at Kean University and
nationalistic. meaning of hasbarah is “explanation,” not “alchemy.” the director of its master of arts in
Passage of the law capped a week in which the Knesset allowed JTA WIRE SERVICE Holocaust and genocide studies and
the education minister to bar groups critical of government poli- Jewish studies programs, is co-chair
cies from speaking in public schools, made it harder for Palestin- Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the editor in chief of JTA of Congregation Beth Sholom’s Adult
ians to win land disputes, and blocked single men and gay couples Wire Service. Education Committee.
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unable to experience the here-and-now.
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family gatherings. Additionally, there are but they are often able to share stories
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seniors being at risk of depression and shared memories are important for the they are included. The noise and confu- or setting a table. Everybody likes to feel
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ne in five people suffer from autoimmune diseases who had lived a very healthy lifestyle. “That was my
— lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid “a-ha” moment — when I realized that maybe there
arthritis and ulcerative colitis. Women are more was a holistic approach to healing myself,” she said.
likely than men to be affected. “One that involved not only my diet, but acknowl-
When one goes to the doctor, you expect her to prescribe edging the stress in my life and doing something
some sort of medication as the panacea to what ails you. But about it.”
what happens if the medicine doesn’t work or stops working? Ms. Freidbauer decided to take control of her
What happens when you feel like there is more you can be health. She began by consulting with Gila Guzman,
doing to help heal your body? Those are some of the questions a well-known health coach in Teaneck. “At first, I
that Teaneck resident Jill Freidbauer asked herself when she was very skeptical,” she said.
found herself suffering from ulcerative colitis. But then, with the help of an elimination diet,
Her journey began more than 14 years ago when she was and really figuring out what made her feel better,
16 weeks pregnant with her first child. Ms. Freidbauer started she ultimately went into remission from her UC.
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diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and put on steroids. She had has on the gut, as it houses 70 percent of your
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and she was told no. Her son was born early and with some Ms. Freidbauer knows that this approach
complications that have since resolved themselves, but over doesn’t work for everyone and that, “if you don’t
the next few years, Freidbauer endured many stressors. also address the stress in your life, you can never get very simple dietary and lifestyle changes.”
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daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder that occurs She also still believes in seeing her doctor every six able to “heal herself.”
in-utero, and her ulcerative colitis continued to plague her months to make sure everything is ok. “Doctors, over “As I learned myself through my own health journey,
daily functioning. the years, have come to see that the holistic approach all the healthy food in the world will never heal us since
“The doctors said that diet and stress did not cause my UC, can work for some of their patients. There are some doc- health encompasses much more than just food,” she
but I really had stopped taking care of myself,” Ms. Freidbauer tors that practice Functional Medicine — which means said. “The integrative nutrition approach, created by
they are conventionally trained doctors, but they recog- Joshua Rosenthal, explains that in our lives we have pri-
nize the effect that food has on the body. It is a marrying mary food and secondary food. Primary foods are all the
of the two worlds.” As for the word “holistic,” it really things that feed and nourish our lives such as our rela-
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Husband #1 and
the magical bus ride
S
o I had this great idea for my about? Does anyone really want to hear
summer columns. I was going about why my parents’ summer was so
to try new and fun things with utterly miserable? No! And that is why
husband #1 and then I would we have to keep dragging husband #1
write about them. into the spotlight…
The one I was most excited about was When he finally woke up and realized
taking ballroom dancing classes with where he was — of course it took him a
him in that Cedar Lane promenade area few minutes trying to figure out where
— wow, that sounds really fancy, a prom- everybody went — he stood up, walked
enade. As I recall, for a few Thursdays up to the driver and asked, “Why didn’t
in the summer, Teaneck offers dance you wake me up?” The driver looked at
classes, and I wanted husband #1 and I husband #1 and said, “Hey buddy, I ain’t
to learn the rumba. Don’t ask me why. your mommy. It’s not my job to make
It sounded like it would get the funniest sure that you are awake!”
column, but since it didn’t come to pass, Husband #1 was at a loss. He still had
it doesn’t really matter. Now, it almost to get to work, and he had no idea where
happened — like we ate dinner across he was or what to do. The mean bus
the street, with me hoping that when we driver was kind enough to instruct him
walked outside husband #1 would hear to take one of those jitneys. Long story
the music and see all of the dancers and short, he made it to work before the
get inspired. But, alas, what work day was over, and
we saw were a few cute old when he came home and
couples, and husband #1 ran told me that story I had a
back to his car. COWARD! really, really good laugh.
And he didn’t really run, he But why was I even
just walked briskly. But, still reminded of this tale of
a COWARD. woe? Well, I went into the
So, since he knew I now city on Thursday to see
had no column idea, he gave Broadway in Bryant Park,
me permission to tell the which is something I love
Across Down
following story about him. Banji to do every summer, and
1. Cadillac model that debuted in 2012
4. Nest sound
1. 1s, in Hebrew
2. Additionally
This was my reward for him Ganchrow when I was getting off
9. Menu, at upscale eateries 3. Bring under control not wanting to learn how to the bus, I noticed that a
14. Murderer’s Row teammate of Babe 4. File locale, nowadays dance the rumba. friend of mine was still
15. “Why?” in Ashdod 5. It’s best to stay out of its way Now we must go back in time to when fast asleep with headphones on. He was
16. Eyes wantonly 6. Apple debut of 1998 husband #1 was commuting to work by really, really asleep. So I started tapping
17. Recede, at the beach 7. Like a poor decision, perhaps
bus. The heavenly New Jersey Transit. him on the shoulder until he woke up,
18. “...___ I like to call it....” (start of many 8. Non- Arab resident in Gaza, long ago
a punchline) 9. One on a massive expedition I believe the year was 1998, and it was which actually did take a while because
19. Sleep issue 10. Frat letters, for many a Jew his first foray into commuting life. He he was really sleeping.
20. Solid bema for a salty cantor? 11. Delivered formally, as a verdict found a legal place to park, he had his Now, I could have let him sleep,
23. Toon Huckleberry 12. Forest border new briefcase in hand, I packed him his because, well, that would have been
24. Annoy 13. “___ Einai”
lunch and snacks ( just kidding, I never the funny thing to do, but, because it
25. Mason alternative, perhaps 21. “Midnight ___” (Allen’s biggest finan-
27. Word before and after by cial hit) did that…yes, I am just awful and how is now the month of Elul, and I knew it
28. ___ of mistaken identity 22. Homophone of 37-Down does he live with me — blah blah blah). was approaching quickly on Thursday
31. Like Rush 26. Ornamental carp He was all ready for his trip to work. when this happened, I decided to ele-
32. Showing skill 28. Parseghian of Notre Dame Because he had stayed up late with vate my spirituality and wake the poor
34. “If you don’t, ___ will!” 29. Make holy
his babies, he was so very tired (he was guy up. Can you actually elevate your
35. Sacrificial poisonous gas? 30. Gave a hand
38. Calf neighbor 31. Hood’s group probably tired because there was a Yan- spirituality by doing that? I will have to
39. 100-seat site 33. AKA, before a company name kee game on, I was tired because of the ask my local rabbi. Or one of my rabbi-
40. Nile bird 34. Alternative to .doc babies, but whatever). The poor guy fell like sons…
41. Meal that occurs once (or twice) a year 35. Puts an end to asleep on the bus. When he woke up, he In any event, I hope he had a great day
42. Border crosser’s stamp 36. Passing notice
realized the bus was back on the New at work, I hope you enjoyed my story
46. Coffee holder 37. Boat tool
47. Purveyor of AMC Stubs A-List 38. 5%, if you’re a miser Jersey side of the tunnel. That’s correct, about husband #1, and I hope that now
48. Pavarotti, notably 41. Campus in Dallas, TX my husband #1, who you all think I am that we are in the month of Elul — the
49. Liquid burning Lubavitcher? 43. Magazine ad, at times so mean to, that all I do is make fun of month before Rosh Hashanah — you can
54. ___ HaMelech, first king of Israel 44. Shindig him, fell asleep on the bus, went through take stock of the stories in your life and
55. Can’t stand 45. Impassioned, as a plea
the Lincoln Tunnel, stopped at the Port see if there are any changes you would
56. Poetic conjunction 47. G sharp, alternatively
57. Bedroom label 48. Counterweights Authority, let a whole bus full of people like to make.
58. Pick on 50. Mandolin relative off, went back through the Lincoln Tun- And there you go — a teeny tiny d’var
59. Half a cartoon duo 51. Animal that provides large shofars nel, and then was back in New Jersey, Torah. My boys will be so proud.
60. Heretofore 52. Word on many a Jewish necklace heading for the bus depot. All that hap-
61. Escape routes 53. Have shabbat guests
pened whilst my spouse was sleeping Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is so excited
62. 9, in Hebrew 54. 987-65-4321 org.
like a baby. to use her “sanitize” cycle on her washing
Listen, folks, if he didn’t give me such machine when her boys come home from
great material, what else could I write camp!!!!!
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 55.
ARTS & CULTURE is Marguerite Duras in “Memoir of War.” MUSIC BOX FILMS
‘Memoir of War’
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
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Antelme, whom the Nazis had found to be father would share with his son his amaze- postwar French narrative, which largely
n 1996, a French filmmaker audi- a member of the Resistance, had been tor- ment that in the weeks after Allied troops had ignored Jews.
tioned several elderly Yiddish-speak- tured and sent off to a concentration camp. marched into Paris, the same people who Mrs. Katz sings Yiddish songs while wait-
ing people in Paris for a short film The novel, part autobiography, part fiction, had come out onto the streets to applaud ing to see if her dear ones have survived
that he was preparing. At the time, delves into Duras’ deep emotions as she the speeches of Vichy leaders weeks and will return from the camps. The hope
he spoke to me about his attachment tried to gather information about Robert, before were now matter-of-factly laud- for return that she maintains seems even
to Yiddish culture, his fear that it might sometimes flirting with a French Gestapo ing Charles de Gaulle. Liberation in 1945 more important than the actual return. In
be lost, and the special vitality that he collaborator, while attempting to cope called attention to the resistance and mar- a conversation with me in March, Finkiel
believed the Yiddish language held. with the separation from her husband and tyrdom of the French people, disregarded reflected on how some survivors, including
His short film, “Madame Jacques on her very precarious situation. Marguerite’s French complicity, and ignored the singu- his own father, continued to wait long after
the Croisette,” was released in 1996 as a relationship with her husband is revealed larity of Jewish genocide. Duras did not learning the news of a loved one’s death. Is
celebration of a Holocaust survivor gen- as complex; she had another lover long write much about Jews in her work. it the same in the film for Marguerite?
eration that he knew would never again before Antelme was deported, and that It was not until the early 1970s that the Mélanie Thierry is exceptional as Mar-
be. Several of the actors would be cast in lover, Dionys, is there with her in Paris. real story of Vichy’s collaboration began to guerite Duras. Benoît Magimel, as French
his first feature film, “Voyages,” a largely Would Robert return home alive after the be told, and France’s role in the round-ups collaborator Rabier, does a fine job of
Yiddish-language narrative film with war ended? If so, in what condition? Dio- and expulsion of Jews was acknowledged. getting us to hate him. Resistance fighter
three intersecting stories about Holocaust nys goes to search for him. In 1995, Jacques Chirac finally officially Robert Antelme’s deportation and journey
survivors; it would be made three years Filmmaker Finkiel explores how rather acknowledged the French government’s was like that of French Jews, and Emman-
later. The filmmaker, Emmanuel Finkiel, than distancing herself emotionally from responsibility in the deportation of Jews. uel Finkiel, the child of survivors, provides
who in actuality speaks no Yiddish, has her husband during the months of sepa- Finkiel introduces an Eastern European, us with a powerful film about those who
returned to a Jewish-related theme with ration, Duras actually might have been Yiddish-speaking Mrs. Katz into the story. anxiously waited, hoped, and prayed for
“Memoir of War,” based on two chapters drawn closer to Robert. She is played beautifully by Shulamit Adar, the safe return of loved ones. “Memoir of
from French writer Marguerite Duras’ Finkiel, whose grandparents and uncle whose performance in both “Madame War” opens today at the Film Forum in
memoir “La douleur.” were murdered at Auschwitz, approaches Jacques” and “Voyages” is so memora- New York.
In large part drawing on her own story, the material with a unique perspective. In ble. Duras’ Mrs. Kats, spelled differently,
after the war Duras had written about her the France of his youth, the French laid was classic French, but the filmmaker Eric Goldman is a film historian
experiences as a woman in occupied Paris blame for French-Nazi collaboration on wanted a character reflective of his own and professor and host of “Jewish
in 1944 to 1945, waiting for her husband, the Vichy government. They were far from grandparents. The character is Finkiel’s Cinematheque,” seen on the Jewish
Robert Antelme, to return from Dachau. ready to acknowledge any guilt. Finkiel’s effort to introduce a Jewish story into the Broadcasting Service.
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The free Bergen County
and set up supplies on Monday AUGUST 18 Film in Teaneck: Summer Music concert
Rabbi Aaron Katz Temple Emeth’s adult series at the Wortendyke
and then fill up backpacks on Shabbat in Jersey City: education group screens Barn Museum, a county
Wednesday for the Jewish Congregation B’nai Lunch and learn: Rabbi a Jewish-themed movie, historic site in Park
Jacob has Shabbat study, Aaron Katz leads a lunch as part of its “Movies Ridge, supported by
Federation of Northern New 10:30 a.m. 176 West Side discussion on current That Matter” series, Bergen County Executive
Jersey’s Supplies for Success Ave. (201) 435-5725. topics at Congregation 7:30 p.m. Refreshments. Jim Tedesco and
drive. Volunteers fill brand-new B’nai Jacob in Jersey 1666 Windsor Road. the Board of Chosen
Women’s song circle in City, noon. $10. 176 West (201) 833-1322 or emeth. Freeholders, continues
backpacks with supplies for Teaneck: Join a z’mirot Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 org. with the Charlie Jones
hundreds of disadvantaged kids song circle, for women or Info@bnaijacobjc.org. Group (blues/jazz/
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sponsored by Genesis Foundation, and during intermission.
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series continues Sunday,
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chair the project. Call Beth Figman Marty Schneit
Kootz Rock Band the Reggie Pittman/
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Medicare recipients Shabbaton: Sharon collection. The mural, by artist Stefan
of all ages, 11 a.m. ASL-interpreted Ganz & Friends hosts Knapp, was installed on the Alexander’s
a Labor Day Weekend
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(201) 666-2370 or & Village Synagogue in Shabbaton for Jewish
singles at Young Israel is an example of postwar expressionism.
JewishHomeFamily.org. Manhattan holds an ASL
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through Saturday Knapp’s unique firing technique; the pan-
Tuesday service, with full
readings from the Torah night. Fee includes
els were assembled and painted with com- Knapp worked with Rothko, Dali, Pol-
AUGUST 28 and haftorah, 10 a.m. three Shabbat meals,
binations of transparent, opal, and opaque lock, and architects including Denys Las-
Kiddush will follow. 334 Flatbush tour, guest
Blood drive in East 14th St., between speakers, and Saturday patented enamels of vibrant colors. dun. His works are in many museums
Teaneck: Holy Name First and Second night party. Home Stefan Knapp, a Polish Holocaust sur- including MOMA, Dallas museum, and
hospitality. 1721 Avenue
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“This became my home, my real home,” I’m not the only one.”
Regimov said of the Jewish House, a crum- The Jewish House, at 13,000 square feet, considered neither Sephardic nor Ashke- available cash. The group’s assets dropped
bling building on a busy street bordering includes an auditorium, workshop rooms, nazi, and whose members have their own gradually from $711 million in 2014 to
the Baku Railway Station. “I come here classrooms, and space for exhibitions. JDC manner of singing scripture and songs. $644 million last year; that a 10 percent
first thing in the morning and I stay to said that the new space is about five times About half of Azerbaijan’s Jews are Moun- decrease. And expenditures dropped
close the place.” smaller, but it will have space for activities tain Jews. The rest are Ashkenazim who accordingly, from $336 million to $311 mil-
Since she started volunteering, Regi- and a day center for seniors. came here before 1991, when Russia still lion, over that same period, according to
mov has come to depend on the center Still, Shaul Davidov, who has headed ruled what is now Azerbaijan. its annual reports.
for social interaction, a sense of purpose, the Jewish House since its opening, said Fading and lacking an agreed-upon As needs increase elsewhere, they
and even exercise. She walks at least two the change means the “end of an era” for alphabet — the few Juhuri books in exis- shrink in places like Baku.
miles a day to the center and back to her his community. tence are divided into volumes using At the Jewish House, the number of peo-
home in Baku’s old Jewish quarter. In the The organizations that run Jewish com- Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin — the ple receiving services, or clients, declined
summer, she walks briskly to minimize her munal activities in Baku will find a new pensioners’ native tongue is no use for by half since 2005, according to JDC. There
exposure to the scorching sun, slowing address there, he said, but “it means a communicating with grandchildren in now are some 900 elderly clients there.
down only under the shade of the build- painful loss” for Regimov and dozens of Israel and beyond over Skype, and that Few younger Jews apply for aid.
ings, which showcase the city’s ubiquitous elderly Jews who come to the Jewish House requires them to study Hebrew. But none This depletion is not unique to Azer-
beige sandstone tiles. daily to play cards, participate in arts and of them is thinking seriously about moving baijan. It is being seen across the former
But this month, Regimov and dozens crafts lessons, and study Hebrew. to Israel as long as they are in good health, Soviet region, where ailing economies and
of other elderly Jews in Baku will have to “I don’t think they’ll come. It will not be Zeligman said. the erosion of democratic standards are
leave the building that houses the city’s the same,” he said. Michal Frank, the executive director of prompting many Jews who resisted earlier
only Jewish community center. JDC has Arnold Zeligman, an 86-year-old volun- JDC in the former Soviet Union, said she waves of emigration finally to leave.
sold it, to streamline its expenses in a city teer Hebrew teacher at the Jewish House, “understands that it can be upsetting” to In the Russian Siberian city of Che-
with a dwindling Jewish community. is determined to resume his activity in the some in the community. “We’re very atten- lyabinsk, the JDC Hesed office has seen
The sale is part of a broader effort by new space. tive to their needs, but we need to adjust to a decrease of 51 percent in the number
“But where will we have concerts? demographic shifts and decreasing budgets of its clients from 2004. In Krasnoyarsk,
Where will we have a festive kabbalat for the good of all JDC clients,” she said. another Russian city in Siberia, a 63
Shabbat?” he asked. “I don’t see it happen- In 2017, JDC spent more than $120 mil- percent decrease in clients since 2004
ing, and it’s a very big shame.” lion — slightly over one-third of its bud- resulted in JDC merging that city’s Hesed
The Jewish House’s annual upkeep costs get — on supporting Jewish communities operations, serving its 219 remaining cli-
about $60,000, Davidov said. in the former Soviet Union. This included ents, with the one in Novosibirsk.
Baku has two active synagogues in the funding for the Hesed program; that year In Belarus, after the number of clients
old Jewish quarter. Both are small in com- the program provided support to some fell by half, Hesed offices in Polotsk and
parison to the Jewish House, and “our 110,000 people from the neediest seg- Vitebsk merged.
people don’t really feel like it’s their space ments of the community. Israel certainly is seeing the impact of
there,” said Zeligman, whose only son lives JDC has had to direct extra resources to this trend. Russia and Ukraine alone pro-
in Israel. Russia and Ukraine, where most of the for- vided Israel with most of its immigrants in
His students are a dozen or so pension- mer Soviet Jews live, in order to meet grow- 2017 — the first calendar year in more than
ers, who enjoyed the unplanned study ing needs there. Since 2013, JDC has seen at a decade when this has happened.
break they were given last month while least 6,500 Jews apply for its welfare pro- Many Jews leave Azerbaijan for Moscow,
Zeligman spoke to this reporter. Watching grams in Ukraine, in one of the most dra- where they can easily get work visas and
him wrap his tongue around some of the matic increases in reliance on JDC aid since where many wealthy Azeri Jews can help
best Hebrew-language words in his vocab- Ukraine gained independence in 1991. It was them put down roots.
ulary, they crack jokes at his expense in part of JDC’s response to a financial crisis Davidov, the head of the Jewish House,
Juhuri, the dying dialect spoken here by that hit the economies of both Russia and says he is aware of the bigger picture.
many Jews. Ukraine in 2014, in connection with those “We’ll soon be gone anyway,” he said. “Is
Shaul Davidov greets regulars at the A mix of Farsi and Hebrew, Juhuri is countries’ territorial conflict. saving a few thousand dollars a year really
entrance to the Jewish Home in Baku, the centuries-old language of the Moun- These socioeconomic developments worth tearing all this down?”
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