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Crowdfunding is all the
rage these days, thanks to
Internet sites like Kickstart-
er and Indiegogo which
let people come together
to invest in a project. Their
small contributions com-
bine to make it all possible.
But long before the word
was coined and its new
crowdfunding was the
original Zionist business
model. Starting in the late
1890s, the Jewish National
Fund collected pennies to
buy land in Palestine.
Now, two separate
groups of entrepreneurs
are trying to launch their
own Jewish dreams on
Kickstarter.com.
Schapiros Sederade
has its roots in the 19th
century. Thats when
Sam Schapiro created
what would become
an iconic kosher brand,
Schapiros Wine. Now,
his great grandchildren
are trying to revive the name and its
place on the Passover palette with an
original, kosher-for-Passover, honey-
sweetened beverage available in
orange, black cherry, and lemonade
flavors.
The label features the iconic Lower
East Side intersection of Rivington
and Essex streets, and the proud
claim: Its Kosh!
The campaign hopes to raise
$10,000 by its close in early
December.
With a more ambitious funding
goal, the Zions Fiction campaign
also is looking into the future rather
than the past: It hopes to publish the
first-ever anthology of Israeli science
fiction translated into English.
A stellar collection of editors and
translators have
joined its editorial team.
The $65,000 it hopes to raise will
pay for the stories and commission
translations. Avi Katz, best known
as the illustrator for the Jerusalem
Report magazine, offers donors
posters based on art he created for
an Israeli science fiction magazine,
as well as a first-day cover of Israeli
stamps he designed honoring science
fiction pioneers Jules Verne, H.G.
Wells, and Isaac Asimov. The stamps
were issued in 2000.
Will this book be published? Will
Israeli science fiction writers be
translated into English?
In the words of the original
crowdfunder: If you will it, it is no
dream. LARRY YUDELSON
Candlelighting: Friday, October 24, 5:44 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, October 25, 6:43 p.m.
Kickstarters of future past
Six Israeli swimmers have claimed the
Guinness World Record for open-water
relay distance swimming after suc-
cessfully crossing the eastern Mediter-
ranean Sea from Cyprus to Israel. The
six, whose ages range from 42 to 66,
launched their 236-mile swim in a bid to
raise awareness about ocean pollution.
The sextet calls themselves the Sea
Defenders. They teamed up with Zalul,
an Israeli environmental organization
that is dedicated to protecting the
countrys seas and rivers. They collected
plastic bags and other garbage found
in the open waters during their record-
setting swim.
To swim through plastic bags is
humiliating and intolerable, they told
journalists in Israel. The sea should be a
sanctuary for all and conserved for all.
The six swimmers set up the website
Cyprus Israel Swim to keep followers of
their feat informed about their mission.
There you can find out a bit about the
athletes: Udi Erell, 66, served for 23
years in the Navy; Ori Sela is a former
professional swimmer and the owner
of Water World; Doron Amosi, 45, is
a family doctor and endurance sports
nut; Ben Enosh, is a proud vegan who
takes his inspiration from Mahatma
Gandhi; Oded Rahav, 48, another vegan,
is high-tech entrepreneur who takes his
inspiration from Martin Luther King; Luc
Chetboun, 46, is an Ironman, triathlon
athlete, and big fan of Woody Allen,
Bach, Escher ,and Monty Python.
This was the second time the group of
six set out to swim from Cyprus to Israel.
Last year, rough seas forced them to
abort the attempt.
The swimmers, who cite Diana Nyad
as an inspiration, wore special tracking
devices so the crew on their support
yacht could keep tabs on them. They
swam day and night in one-hour relays
and were joined by pods of dolphins
along their route.
The guys set out from Paphos on
October 5 and arrived at Rishon Lezion
on October 10, after swimming nonstop
for 123 hours and 10 minutes.
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Six Israelis set open-water record
swimming home from Cyprus
Hoops, hops, and Hatzalah
at Teanecks Doghouse
The New York Knicks Amare Stou-
demire has launched Amare Saves
to promote a campaign that encour-
ages youngsters to contribute to the
Israeli ambulance service he has ad-
opted as a cause.
The campaign urges pledges
by kids, individually or as a group,
notably by tying donations to every
point Stoudemire scores during the
2014-15 season.
Those raising the most funds will
qualify for such prizes as Knicks
tickets and a meet-and-greet with
Stoudemire.
Helping save lives is always a
beautiful thing, Stoudemire said.
The fact that United Hatzalah has a
much quicker rate for responding to
emergencies is also very important.
On Thursday night, October 30,
the campaign comes to Teaneck, as
the Doghouse, the new local kosher
sports bar, will host a viewing party
for the Knicks game against the
Cleveland Cavaliers.
A representative from United
Hatzalah will be on hand to explain
the organization, and the restaurant
will donate 10 percent of its proceeds
that night to the cause.
Stoudemire became involved in the
organization through his friendship
with New York financier David
Kleinhandler, like Stoudemire a co-
owner of HaPoel, a Jerusalem-based
basketball team.
Jonathan Gellis, one of the
Doghouses owners, said that he looks
at the restaurant as a community
space.
We want to make sure were not
only treating peoples physical needs,
but also raising awareness of as many
different organizations as we can, he
said.
Along those lines, on Tuesday,
October 28, he will be donating a
tithe of proceeds to Project Sarah, a
Jewish organization fighting domestic
violence. Again, a representative of
the organization will be on hand.
That initiative, which marks
Domestic Violence Awareness Month,
came from conversations Gellis had
with Project Sarah director Elke Stein
after football player Raymell Rice
was fired by the Baltimore Ravens for
beating his wife.
Other Teaneck kosher restaurants
that have joined the program and
will donate to Project Sarah that
night include Estihana, Gotham
Burger, Sababa Grill, Etc. Steakhouse,
Mochableu, and Shalom Bombay.
LARRY YUDELSON & HILLEL KUTLER/JTA
Michael Keaton as an
actor famous for play-
ing a movie superhero,
Birdman, but wants to be
respected as the star of a
Broadway show. I wish I
could say that Birdman,
which is already being
touted for many Oscars,
has many Jewish con-
nections. But theres only
one big one the cine-
matographer is the great
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI,
50, a six-time Oscar nom-
inee who won for Grav-
ity. Lubezki, born and
raised in Mexico, has lived
in America for a long
time. The films director,
Alejandro G. Irritu, also
is from Mexico.
Its rare for a reviewer
to single out a movies
cinematography, but
almost all reviews have
gushed about how Lu-
bezkis camera work and
editing make it seem as
if Birdman was filmed
in one continuous long
take. The New York Times
review says the following
about his work on Bird-
man: Mr. Irritu, who
has staged and shot the
movie so that it looks like
everything that happens,
from airborne beginning
to end, occurs during one
transporting continuous
take. The camera doesnt
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Margo Howard, daughter of advice columnist Ann Landers, praising her
fourth husband, who like two of the others is Jewish, in an interview with JTA.
Ms. Howard, 74, dispensed advice on Slate as Prudence. She just published a
memoir, Eat, Drink and Remarry: Confessions of a Serial Wife.
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Walter Isaacson
SO, SO SMART:
More than minyan
of innovators
Andrew Grove Joseph Cedar
Marilyn Wescoff
Meltzer
Ruth Lichterman
Teitelbaum
Mila Kunis
A new popular his-
tory, How a Group
of Hackers, Genius-
es, and Geeks Created
the Digital Revolution by
WALTER ISAACSON, 62,
already is a best-seller.
To his credit, Isaacson
does discuss the Jewish
backgrounds of five of
the most important inno-
vators. But it occurred to
me that you could write
another book just about
the unidentified-as-Jew-
ish innovators mentioned
in Isaacsons book. The
five biggies he notes as
Jewish are JOHN VON
NEUMANN (1903-1956),
a brilliant mathematician
who made essential con-
tributions to computer
programming and design;
ANDREW GROVE, 78,
the engineer who turned
Intel into the worlds larg-
est maker of micropro-
cessors; ARTHUR ROCK,
88, a founder of Davis
& Rock, a San Francisco
venture capital firm that
was one of the first such
firms in existence and
provided the seed money
for Apple and Intel,
among others; and SER-
GEY BRIN and LARRY
PAGE, both 41, Googles
co-founders. Here are a
few of the books bril-
liant Jews not identified
as Jewish in the text:
PAUL BARAN (1926-2011)
was a co-inventor of
packet switched network
computing; STEWART
BRAND, 75, is famous
as the creator of 1968s
Whole Earth Catalogue
(which Steve Jobs said
was incredible impor-
tant to young computer
geeks) and as a co-
founder in 1985 of The
Well, one of the first vir-
tual on-line communities;
and TERRY WINOGRAD,
62, a still-active Stan-
ford computer science
professor who has been a
mentor to many brilliant
students, including Larry
Page. Nice to note: one of
his daughters is a rabbi.
Isaacson doesnt over-
look the contribution of
women in this male-dom-
inated field. Theres a nice
section on the six women
who were recruited,
near the end of WWII, to
program the first elec-
tronic general-purpose
computer, ENIAC, for the
Army. Isaacson notes
that two of the six were
Jewish: RUTH LICH-
TERMAN TEITELBAUM
(1924-1986) and MARI-
LYN WESCOFF MELT-
ZER (1922-2008). As you
might have guessed, the
work of these six Rosie
the Programmer(s) was
not generally known for
decades.
Birdman opened
in a few theaters
last week and opens
in many more this Fri-
day, October 24. It stars
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
just move with the story
and characters, it also
ebbs and flows like wa-
ter, soars and swoops
like a bird, its movement
as fluid as a natural ele-
ment, as animated as a
living organism. Mr. Ir-
ritus partner in illusion-
ism is the director of
photography, Emmanuel
Lubezki, a Houdini of
fluid camera movements
whose genius is for keep-
ing you watching rather
than distractedly won-
dering. The camerawork
in Birdman is an aston-
ishment, and an argu-
ment that everything
flows together, which
in this movie means the
cinematography, the
story, the people, even
time and space.
There are credible
reports that Richard
Gere has signed to
play J. ROBERT OPPEN-
HEIMER, the so-called
father of the atom bomb.
The bio-pic is being di-
rected by Israeli JOSEPH
CEDAR, 46. Its definite
that EZRA MILLER, 22,
will play the title role in
a movie version of the
comic book charac-
ter The Flash. I think
Miller (Perks of Being a
Wallflower) is a brilliant
actor who raises the level
of everything hes in. So
this Flash may slow
down and show us his
colors.
You might have
caught a story in
the lesser gossip
press (that was re-re-
ported as fact in a few
Jewish media outlets)
that MILA KUNIS, 31, and
Ashton Kutcher had a
kabbalah welcoming
party for their newborn
daughter, WYATT. The
source of this story is
a Brit tabloid, the Sun.
Trust me, this party is just
another in the Suns long
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Because the Middle East is funny
American-born comedian Benji Lovitt to bring his unique point of view to area shuls
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
H
e hates to say so, but American-
Israeli comic Benji Lovitt must
admit that last summers war
was good for business.
It led to a 14-show cross-country tour that
will include stops at Temple Emanu-El of Clo-
ster on October 30 and at the United Syna-
gogue of Hoboken on November 11.
Since making aliyah from Texas eight years
ago, Mr. Lovitt has come back to perform in
the United States many times, using his immi-
grant experiences as fodder for his standup
routine. But his daily helpings of humor dur-
ing Operation Protective Edge in July and
August splashed his name across the social-
networking world like never before.
People are looking for really positive
Israel programming after the war, he said.
I spent a lot of the war expressing how a lot
of us in Israel were feeling, and many people
told me that when everybody was depressed
I was the one they looked to for a smile.
For some people, I was the only reason
they went on Facebook this summer.
Here are two jokes he posted on his Face-
book page and Times of Israel blog as Hamas
missiles were flying over half the country:
According to Egyptian daily al-Shorouk,
the Israeli and Palestinian delegations in
Cairo have agreed on 95% of the issues
necessary for a cease-fire. The outstand-
ing obstacles are Israels refusal to agree
to an airport and Hamass refusal to not
want us dead.
The IDF says it is continuing to let sup-
plies and fuel pass through Gazas crossings
with Israel, as long as Hamas doesnt fire
rockets at it. Seems reasonable. If I shoot
even one rocket at the Dominos guy, Im
pretty sure hes never coming to my neigh-
borhood again.
Mr. Lovitt said that the two New Jersey
gigs resulted from requests by Rabbi David-
Seth Kirshner of Temple Emanu-El and
from the Jersey Tribe, a social, volunteer,
and philanthropic group for young Jewish
adults across New Jersey.
Historically, the Jewish people have
had a long history of appreciating good
humor and using it to deal with sorrows,
Rabbi Kirshner said. Thats something
special and unique to us. Especially after
such a tense, stressful summer, having
the opportunity to relax, enjoy and even
poke some fun at ourselves is the best rem-
edy. The Babylonian Talmud says some of
most important people in the community
are the court jesters, because they bring
smiles to others faces.
Mr. Lovitt also took part in Rocket Shel-
ter Comedy, a late July tour led by Teaneck
native and standup comedian Ari Teman.
The comics performed in cities includ-
ing Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheva, and
Modiin for the benefit of the IDF Lone Sol-
dier Fund, and also visited army bases and
an Iron Dome control center to cheer and
thank the troops stationed there.
Mr. Lovitt had never performed for sol-
diers before, and he wasnt sure how his rou-
tine would go over with a Hebrew-speaking
audience. I dont want to offend them when
I talk about Israel, he says, but he need not
have worried. His jokes struck a chord, even
in English. When Israelis laugh, it is that
much more meaningful to me, said Mr. Lev-
itt, who recently turned 40.
He brings fresh material on tour, and leaves
out quips that Americans are not likely to get.
I may not joke about Bituach Leumi the
National Insurance Institute but things like
negotiating with Israelis, making embarrass-
ing Hebrew mistakes, going through security
checks most American Jews do get that. A
lot of them have been to Israel, and everyone
knows a few Israelis.
He emphasizes that the butt of his humor
ultimately is himself, not the Jewish state. I
would never bash or make fun of Israel, but
I joke about both Israelis and Americans, he
said. Its kind of educational and storytell-
ing. Israel is a complicated place, but at the
end of the day we love it.
After his shows, audience members typi-
cally want to talk to him. People always
come up and say my show reminds them of
their trip to Israel, or they have a friend in
Tel Aviv they want me to meet. And they talk
to me about aliyah or visiting Israel. I often
notice people in Israel who saw my shows.
Mr. Lovitt has performed for campus
Hillel groups, Birthright Israel tours, and
Jewish federations. His witty perspectives
on life in Israel have been featured in USA
Today, TIME magazine, the Jewish Daily
Forward, and the Jerusalem Post. He also
does serious advocacy work as a member
of the ROI Community (an international net-
work of activists and change makers try-
ing to redefine Jewish engagement for a new
generation), a certified trainer for Presen-
Tense (an organization that helps innova-
tors and entrepreneurs build new ideas into
social ventures), and a presenter at Limmud
conferences around the world.
What do his parents think of all this?
After making aliyah you can never shock
your parents anymore, he joked. They
came to see me in Dallas in August. My dad
came up afterward and said seeing my show
made them want to come and visit.
To inquire about future bookings, email
Mr. Lovitt at booking@benjilovitt.com.
Who: American-Israeli comic Benji
Lovitt
What: Appearing in concert
Where: Temple Emanu-El of Closter,
180 Piermont Road
When: Thursday, October 30, at
7:30 p.m.
How much: $18; please also bring a
donation for Meir Panim, an Israeli
poverty relief organization.
Information: templeemanu-el.com
Where: United Synagogue of
Hoboken, 115 Park Ave.
When: Tuesday, November 11, at
7:30 p.m.
How much: $15
Sponsored by: Moishe House,
Jersey Tribe, and Engage-NJ of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey
Information: www.
hobokensynagogue.org
Comic Benji Lovitt admits that I would never bash or make fun of Israel, but I joke about both Israelis and Americans.
Its kind of educational and storytelling. STEVEN WINSTON
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Project Ezra offers help to job seekers
Robert Hoenig of Teaneck takes over as its second director
JOANNE PALMER
T
his is a tough economy that we
live in.
It can be hard to find a job,
and hard to think straight when
you lose one. Its hard to figure out how
to reorient yourself, how to present your-
self, how to maintain at least the faade of
confidence.
And its also hard to figure out how to
pay your bills at the same time.
Project Ezra, founded in 2001, has pro-
vided help to local Jews ever since then.
It was the brainchild and really, by all
accounts, the heartchild and soulchild too
of Rabbi Yossi Stern of Teaneck, who
was its first director, and led it until he
died unexpectedly in February. His work
not only allowed many people to find
work, but also helped support them and
allowed them to maintain their dignity as
they searched.
Its new director, Robert Hoenig, just
began his work in earnest this week; with
the chaggim over he can concentrate on
learning the specifics of his new job. He
will learn as much as he can as quickly as
he can, and then begin to chart his own
direction, he said.
Mr. Hoenig comes to the job as a strong
manager; he had been in hospital admin-
istration for 39 years. Executive man-
agement, financial management, finan-
cial planning and development those
are important parts of hospital adminis-
tration, he said. I will be able to apply
those skills and experiences in this setting,
where there are an enormous amount of
great things going on.
One difference between his hospital work
and what he foresees his work in Project
Ezra will entail is that in his new job he will
be able to interact with people as well as to
deal with abstract issues of management.
Mr. Hoenig was born in Flatbush, grew
up in Monsey, N.Y., and lived in Riverdale,
N.Y., for a decade, but for the last 29 years
hes lived in Teaneck. Hes very active in
the Jewish community not only is he a
full member of Congregation Rinat Yis-
rael and an associate member of Congre-
gation Bnai Yeshurun, he is also a gabbai
at the Sweat Minyan, which draws about
100 men to Kaballat Shabbat most weeks.
(The minyan, whose name is a play on the
southwest Englewood area of Teaneck that
houses it, has been around for about 35
years. It is not a full-service shul. Instead,
it provides services at times when the peo-
ple who live near it do not want to take the
longer walk that would be necessary to get
them to their main communities.)
Mr. Hoenig also coaches basketball for
the Torah Academy of Bergen County.
Project Ezra has two major areas of
assistance, he said. One is employment,
and the other is financial assistance.
They interact with each other, he said
they couldnt not but they are equally
important. And it is fantastic to watch the
staff develop programs and initiatives in
those areas. He is enthusiastic about the
eight-person staff, and reports that he is
particularly impressed by the way they
conduct themselves. They are very digni-
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Roy Cho shows up
Democratic challenger in House race talks about Israel and more
LARRY YUDELSON
W
hat if the Jewish Community Relations
Council held a candidates forum and
one of the candidates never came?
That was the situation in Temple Israel
in Ridgewood on Monday night.
Joy Kurland, director of the Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, had
invited both candidates for Congress from the 5th district.
Roy Cho, 33, the Democratic challenger was there.
Scott Garrett, 55, the Republican incumbent, was not.
Mr. Garrett, in Congress since 2002, faced his unsuccess-
ful challenger under JCRC auspices in 2012. In 2008, how-
ever, he sent a surrogate to debate challenger Dennis Shul-
man, a blind rabbi.
Why didnt Mr. Garrett show up this year?
I dont know, Ms. Kurland said. Maybe because the
NAACP was a co-sponsor?
Ms. Kurland brought in the NAACP as a co-sponsor as part
of a broader JCRC initiative to reach out and form relation-
ships with the African American community relationships
that Ms. Kurland said will help build support for Israel.
African-Americans and others at Mondays forum heard
Mr. Cho make a strong case for U.S. support for Israel.
The evening was divided into timed segments. After four
minutes for an opening statement, Mr. Cho was given four
minutes to respond to each question. Faced with time lim-
its, he spoke fast.
Mr. Cho began by telling of growing up in New Jersey and
believing in governments power to do good. My family
came to this country in 1982 from South Korea, he said.
They believed in the American dream. My father was able
to start a business because of a loan secured by a stranger at
the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
The discussion about whether government is the solu-
tion or the problem isnt just a political science debate in a
classroom, he said. It affects peoples lives. We are facing
one of the least productive, least popular Congresses in U.S.
history. What Harry Truman called the do-nothing Con-
gress of 1948 sent 900 bills to the president. This Congress
barely cracked a hundred.
Mr. Cho, a corporate lawyer, said that when he first talked
of running, a lot of people rolled their eyes and said, Why
go to Washington when government is broken?
I was raised to be an optimist, he said.
Government has an obligation to serve the people. I
want to focus on how to create a common-sense, pragmatic
government that works for the middle and governs from the
center.
On the economy, he spoke for the need of improving
transportation and having an efficient infrastructure grid.
We have people who have been unemployed for long peri-
ods of time who fix roads and bridges for their living. If they
build an off-ramp, it stimulates the local economy. We live
in Bergen County. I happen to live in Hackensack. That is 12
miles from downtown Manhattan. It takes an hour, an hour
and a half, to get there. That doesnt make sense.
We need solutions, whether as ambitious as the Access
to the Regions Core tunnel the project to build a new rail
tunnel, nicknamed ARC, under the Hudson river that was
canceled by Governor Chris Christie or as simple as fix-
ing potholes, he said. I want to be able to focus on public-
private partnerships, on how we can get the private sector
engaged to make public infrastructure.
Asked about Israel and the Middle East, Mr. Cho said that
Israel is our most important ally in the Middle East. We
share the same values.
Mr. Cho recalled he spent three days in Israel this August.
He went with three Bergenfield Democrats, including Rabbi
Steven Burg, the eastern director of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center. It was an incredible country, Mr. Cho said. I want
to aggressively advocate for Israels interests because Israels
interests are Americas interests. People who do not believe
Israel has a right to exist do not believe American democ-
racy has a right to exist.
He spoke of going to Sderot, near Gaza, and seeing a
temporary bomb shelter that was built behind a familys
home. He contrasted the plight of children in Sderot, who
had 15 seconds to get to a bomb shelter, with his favorite
memories growing up in New Jersey, going off on his bicycle
and not coming home until dinner.
Regarding Iran, he said, we have to focus on how to
have Congressional input in the negotiations between the
United States and Iran and any resulting agreement that
might lift sanctions.
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He called Senator Robert Menendez, the New Jersey
Democrat who took a lead role in developing sanctions
against Iran, a great ally and mentor.
Sanctions have brought Iran to the table in the first
place, he said. We have to make sure Iran does not play
games with us.
He was asked about an American role in brokering
negotiations between Israel and Palestinians. We have
to take our cues from what is happening in Israel now,
he answered. We have to take their context into account,
and understand our democratic ally who shares our val-
ues. Its not our job to be dictating Israels foreign policy
right now.
As a 33-year-old first-time candidate, I would not have
the hubris to think I can solve problem of Mideast peace.
He called for America to continue providing muscu-
lar support for Israel. We have to continue providing the
funding they need, and noted that 75 percent of the
money we provide to Israel is spent here in the U.S., so it
helps us as well.
Elsewhere in the region, We have to focus on how to
stanch fundamentalism. We have to separate and divide
fundamentalism from Muslim people. Muslim people are
peace loving, but fundamentalism and ISIS are dangerous
to everyone. It cuts across all borders.
Asked about immigration, Mr. Cho said that it is frus-
trating for me that Congress refused to act after the Sen-
ate passed a bipartisan bill. My perspective, as a child
of immigrants and the editor in chief of the Georgetown
Immigration Law Journal, is that our country has to rec-
ognize two things: We are a nation of immigrants, and we
are also a nation of laws.
We need immigration reform. If you can have the head
of the AFL-CIO come together with the Chamber of Com-
merce to come to agreement, we have to also hope that
Congress can do the same.
On gun violence: It is very frustrating for me to again
see politics injected into the equation. We had an opportu-
nity to pass common-sense reform. I am in favor of federal
funding for states to implement background checks. The
head of the National Rifle Association initially favored this.
Later on he reneged.
In New Jersey, we had the entire Congressional del-
egation minus one who was in favor of background
checks, he said. That one representative was Mr. Garrett.
We have to focus on common-sense gun legislation.
On the environment: My opponent is a climate-change
denier. This is something we have to address as a society.
When we focus and invest in clean energy, were creating
jobs, cutting our dependence on foreign oil, and making
ourselves more globally competitive. We need to focus
on economic sanctions on polluters to address climate
change. If China continues to pollute the world, every-
body suffers.
On money in politics: Campaign finance reform is a
critical part of my platform. In this election, one of the
disheartening things is how much money is necessary
to show credibility and get your message out. Im proud
to be able to say at this stage weve raised tremendous
amounts of money, he said. As of September 30, he had
raised $940,869, less than the $1.8 million raised by Mr.
Garrett, who also had more than $3 million in cash on
hand.
Im running against one of the most well-funded mem-
bers of Congress, because he sits on the Financial Services
and Budget committees, Mr. Cho said. Scott Garrett is
tied to special interests that fund his re-election efforts.
We have to be talking about campaign finance reform
because we have a tiny population that is determining our
policies. Look at New York City for example. They have
laws that say contributions below $200 to campaigns will
be matched.
He said he supported raising the minimum wage. Seventy
percent of economic growth is based on consumer spending.
Our country as a whole has to grow. Trickle-down economics
has not pulled us out of the recession.
On womens issues: Women make up 53 percent of the dis-
trict. My opponent has a commercial that says he is a cham-
pion of womens rights. The Violence Against Women Act was
reauthorized with overwhelming bipartisan support. Out of 435
members, nine members of Congress voted no. He was one of
those nine.
Asked where he distinguished himself from the Demo-
cratic party platform, he said that on foreign policy, he
accepted former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons critique
of President Obama.
Dont do stupid stuff cannot be the guiding principal
for foreign policy. The reality is there has been an overcor-
rection in response to the Bush Administration, he said.
There has to be smart diplomacy between burying our
heads in the sand and putting our boots on the ground.
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Author to discuss intergenerational experiment
LOIS GOLDRICH
K
atie Hafner began her profes-
sional career writing for a small
newspaper in Lake Tahoe.
That didnt last for long,
though. I worked my way up, said Ms. Haf-
ner, who now writes on health care for the
New York Times.
A seasoned journalist, Ms. Hafner was
exceptionally well prepared to chronicle
an experience in her own life that she calls
both an experiment in intergenerational
living and a disaster. Inviting her 77-year-
old mother to live with her and her teenage
daughter, Zoe, in San Francisco, Ms. Hafner
learned that fairy-tale imaginings are no
match for emotional truths.
(In her book, Ms. Hafner calls her mother
Helen. That is not her real name; her mother
requested anonymity, and Ms. Hafner hon-
ored the request.)
Indeed, what was meant to be Ms. Hafner
and her mothers emotionally healing second
chance at family life turned into a six-month
fiasco, resulting in the 2014 memoir Mother,
Daughter, Me, which the sisterhood of Tem-
ple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley has been
reading as its fall book club selection. Ms. Haf-
ner will speak about the book, via Skype, at a
special program on October28.
Ms. Hafners is a story of survival and
growth; it manages to be both moving and at
times very and very surprisingly funny.
It is also, she said, a Jewish story; her fam-
ily might not have been stereotypically Jewish
but they were unmistakably Jewish nonethe-
less. The Jewish sensibility is never far from
the surface.
Katie and her sister, Sarah, were taken
away from Helen, an alcoholic, when Katie
was 10. Subsequently her father incorporated
them into his household, first in Rochester,
N.Y., and later in Amherst, Mass. Living with
her father, his new wife, and their children,
Ms. Hafner soon learned that staying under
the radar was the best way to fit in.
As Ms. Hafner writes, By the time I
entered sixth gradeI had attended seven
different schools in four different states, and
I had mastered the difficult art of being the
new kid, which means I had perfected the art
of ingratiation.
She met her future husband, Matt, as well
as his loving family, when she was still quite
young. When Matt died suddenly at 45, she
and their daughter, Zoe, were left really
wounded and adrift.
A few years later, I made some bad
choices, she said, referring to a failed second
marriage. But once that ended, and she and
Zoe succeeded in restoring and strengthen-
ing their mother-daughter bond, she decided
to take another gamble.
My mother went into a crisis and needed
to leave San Diego, Ms. Hafner said. In my
infinite optimism, I invited her to live in San
Francisco with Zoe and me. I had this fairy-
tale idea that we could have the amazing
nuclear family we never had.
As she subsequently learned, children
of alcoholic parents have almost an exag-
gerated sense of what life could have been.
I had decided that this was our chance to be
a happy family. She thought this might be
possible since her mother has an interest-
ing form of alcoholism and is able to drink
a little bit without going on a binge.
I thought it would work, she said. And
my mother bought into it too. We were both
optimistic. She called it our year in Provence.
So we started on this experiment. It was a
disaster from the beginning.
I had all that anger, she said, admitting
that she had not been fully aware of what was
pent up inside her. My poor mother. She
didnt know what hit her. It lasted six months
and then she moved out.
In fairness, the difficult behavior, lack of
understanding, and ability to inflict pain was
not one-sided. Her mother and Zoe were
not able to connect with each other, and the
proximity of the three generations strained
all their relationships.
I thought she and Zoe would have a great
relationship, Ms. Hafner said. But shes
terrible with children, a terrible narcissist.
There was no psychological room, for deal-
ing with her teenage granddaughter. Just as
her mother was unable to cope with her own
daughters, she was unable to develop a rela-
tionship with her daughters daughter.
Despite the difficulties, Ms. Hafner said she
learned a good deal from the experience. For
example, observing that her own daughter
carries my anger for me, she said that Zoe
got her to understand that her mother had
given her a raw deal.
This insight led to other questions: What
do you do, then, when you become a mother
yourself? What is our responsibility to our
parents, especially for those whove had a
less-than-stellar childhood?
Relationships with siblings also may
be problematic, she said, noting that
Sarah fared less well, becoming an alco-
holic when she was young, overcoming
the addiction, but dying at 55. Although
the two sisters had been close as chil-
dren, their fraught relationship with their
mother served to drive them apart. They
seldom talked to each other.
What: Katie Hafner, author of
memoir Mother, Daughter, Me,
speaks, via Skype
When: Oct. 28, 8:15 p.m.
Where: Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley, 87 Overlook Drive,
Woodcliff Lake
How much: Free and open to the
public
For information: email
2redheads@optonline.net)
Katie Hafner tried and failed
to live under the same roof as her
mother.
work with the employment division, Mr.
Hoenig said. They came to Ezra with expe-
rience in the field. The division director
came to us with a lot of experience with a
recruitment firm. He decided, though, that
he wanted to be a client advocate.
Thats why hes here.
When job-seekers get in touch with Ezra,
even before they come in to meet with our
people, they will be expected to do a cou-
ple of deliverables right away, Mr. Hoenig
continued. They are asked to send in their
paperwork, and also three professional ref-
erences. Thats really important.
And then they come in we schedule a
first appointment within a week, so we can
work together to map out a plan.
Its very different from working with a
private recruiter, he said. Although job
seekers might not always remember this,
private recruiters headhunters work
for prospective employers, not for them.
(Its very similar to working with a real
estate agent house hunters might think of
the agent as on their side, but really shes
not. Shes working for the owner, and even
more meaningfully, at base shes working
for herself.)
Our people really care, and they really
work for the job seeker, he said. We want
them to do well.
Even though he has not been on the job
for very long, Mr. Hoenig said, he already
has seen job seekers come for a first inter-
view. I have witnessed a person come in
very depressed and upset. They dont walk
out from that interview happy but they do
walk out with their heads up.
They know that there is a plan, and that
somebody is going to be working with them
and advocating for them.
Project Ezra is nonprofit. It does not
charge clients fees. Its counselors do not
work for commission, but because they
care. It takes a tremendous level of energy
and they have it.
When it comes to financial assistance, Mr.
Hoenig said, We know that people are at
what we hope is a temporary glitch in their
lives. Their finances are in trouble. They
need help.
We help them with a budget plan, and
sometimes with some financial assistance.
We have a very structured and formalized
set of criteria, and we go through it with
people very carefully.
We treat them with dignity. We dont
want them to feel lousy about it. Its not
their fault. We will help them.
And we have had some great success sto-
ries. People have come to us in serious finan-
cial trouble, and now theyre doing great.
Project Ezra is a resource for the entire
Jewish community, Mr. Hoenig said. Its offi-
cial catchment area covers Teaneck, Ber-
genfield, Englewood, Fair Lawn, Fort Lee,
New Milford, and Paramus the heart of
Bergen County but it turns no one away.
Although it was created and developed by
the Orthodox community, it is open to all
Jews. Everyone is welcome here and
everyone comes, Mr. Hoenig said.
Barry Sklar of Bergenfield sits on Project
Ezras board of trustees, and he was deeply
involved with the search process that found
Mr. Hoenig.
We engaged in a comprehensive search,
Mr. Sklar said. We saw a lot of resumes,
had a lot of interviews. Candidates ran the
gamut, he added; some had been deeply
immersed in the Jewish community but
had no experience outside it. Others knew
the nonprofit world but not the Jewish one.
Some were lay leaders who had the enthu-
siasm but not the expertise to move from
the volunteer to the professional side; oth-
ers were thoroughgoing professionals who
lacked the knowledge of the community or
of Yiddishkeit.
Mr. Sklar stressed Project Ezras unique
role in the community, and its mission of
providing confidence and dignity to all its
clients, and giving financial assistance to
those who need it. He is proud both of the
organizations goodness and of its rigor.
When families are most in need, they
turn their financial records over to Ezras
professional staff, he said. Those profession-
als delve deeply into the familys finances.
That way, not only do they know how much
the family actually needs sometimes the
aid is meaningful, Mr. Sklar said but they
also can work with the family to help them
develop and maintain a budget.
Its easy for families to develop prob-
lems, he added. They are often somewhat
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Ms. Hafner said she has no doubt that Helen loved her
and her sister, but that she didnt know how to express
it. Calling her a brilliant physicist and mathematician,
she said that her mother, who is also a dedicated pianist,
dropped out of Radcliffe at 19 to marry her father and
was stuck in Rochester with two little kids.
Alcoholism was her escape hatch. She didnt have any
coping mechanisms. My heart goes out to her on that
level.
Despite being anti-religion, her mother is very much a
cultural Jew, Ms. Hafner said. Matt was not Jewish, but Zoe
is the one who most embraced her Jewishness.
My mother had probably never set foot in a synagogue
but my daughter had a bat mitzvah.
Ms. Hafners second husband, Bob, comes from a
tight-knit Jewish family. They summer in Boca Raton.
They are a completely different set of Jews from the
ones I grew up with, Ms. Hafner said. My familys
ancestors were all academics. Bobs family was in
schmattas. She fell in love with the family, whose sta-
bility and pride in each other was so unmistakable.
Ms. Hafner said that while her mother has had a nega-
tive reaction to the book, she feels that she has written a
loving memoir. It is also, she said, about multigenera-
tional trauma, not passing on to the next generation what
was passed on to you by your parents in effect, breaking
the cycle.
Its a question of looking our families square in the eye
and coming to terms before its too late, Ms. Hafner said.
In addition, she noted, people talk a lot about learning to
set boundaries. Boundary-setting is a key element.
Despite the difficulties chronicled in the book, Ms. Haf-
ner and her mother have become closer now that they
live apart.
When I speak, some people come and say that it must
be great to have your mother live with you; others say they
cant be with their own mothers for more than 48 hours.
Whether such an arrangement can work very much
depends on the people involved, Ms. Hafner said.
Still, there are lessons to be drawn even from failed
attempts such as hers, and while her book is not a
work of self-help, it should be sold in the self-help
section.
burdened with significant day school tuitions those
numbers add up quickly. But the goal is for families
to become financially independent and graduate from
their need for aid.
The communitys rabbis are an important resource
for Project Ezra, Mr. Sklar said. They were involved
actively in the job search process; they vetted the lead-
ing candidates, Mr. Sklar said.
Project Ezra started out as an adjunct to Bnai Yeshu-
run, and it developed at the urging of a lot of the rab-
bis, he added. Many of the rabbis have been sounding
boards and consultants, on a regular if no-name basis.
Rabbi Yosef Adler, who heads both Rinat Yisrael and
the Torah Academy of Bergen County, is among those
rabbis.
He thinks that Mr. Hoenig is the right man for the Proj-
ect Ezra job.
I think its a wonderful appointment, Rabbi Adler
said. He is highly qualified, and he brings a lot of exu-
berance and enthusiasm to the position. He is well liked
in Teaneck. Both he and his wife, Donna, are always
willing to go out of their way to help people.
I think he will be able to bring a different face to Proj-
ect Ezra. I think hell be incredibly dedicated to the job,
and I hope it will continue to grow under his leadership.
To learn more about Project Ezra, to find out how to
get help, or to donate to help others, go to ezrah.org.
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JOANNE PALMER
What happened to the world when God
decided to put Noah, his family, and the
paired menagerie on the ark, and then
opened the heavens?
On that singularly disastrous
day, naturally occurring abyssal
fountains burst forth and an
unforgiving sky was as if a gaping
window, a flowing font, a colos-
sal cosmic chasm. For forty days
and forty nights, continuous
global rainfall: downpour follow-
ing driving squall; storm upon
cascading storm, a primordial
pluvious pounding!
Wait. That sounds familiar. It
sounds sort of like this: On the
same day were all the fountains
of the deep broken up, and the windows
of heaven were opened. Right? And the
rain was upon the earth 40 days and 40
nights?
Thats what were told in Genesis 7:11-
12 part of this weeks Torah portion,
parshat Noach but whats with the odd
translation?
That odd, flowing, word-drunk trans-
lation, made by Rabbi Joseph Prouser of
Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in Frank-
lin Lakes, is created using a formal liter-
ary structure called a lipogram, which
demands that the writer entirely omit a let-
ter of his or her choice, and work around
it. There is no particular challenge to a
refusal to use the letter Z, for example, and
it would be fairly easy to boycott Js, but
Rabbi Prouser has undertaken the task of
translating all of the Book of Genesis with-
out using the letter e, the most frequently
used letter in English.
The translation is called Initial Instruc-
tions a title that works on so many
levels, including its entire e-less-ness as
well as much of the contents, and Rabbi
Prouser is blogging it at initialinstruc-
tions.wordpress.com. He also is using it
in his own congregation, where, he said,
it is very well-received.
The challenge itself is very Jewish, he
said. The Torah has the freedom of the
Israelite nation and the Jewish people as
one of its major themes and story lines,
but another of its ongoing motifs is all
of the constraints and
restraints that the nation
has taken on itself in
order to realize its free-
dom and its ultimate
meaning and purpose.
So the translation is try-
ing to merge form and
content, and to express
the text accurately while
practicing principled
restraint.
Marriage is a good
example of willingly
accepted constraints, he said. You accept
an exclusive relationship, which means
that everyone else is off limits, but within
that exclusive mutual relationship you can
explore all kinds of creative avenues of
expression. Jewish life is full of such con-
straints kashrut, for example, or Shab-
bat. Someone said, We can accomplish
in six days what is impossible to achieve
in seven. You know that some options are
off the table; given that assumption and
those parameters, you are able to fully
achieve what you want, and to explore all
kinds of possibilities that wouldnt neces-
sarily occur to you or present themselves
otherwise.
In other words, accepting constraints
sharpens your mind and energizes your
senses; it allows you to see into the depths
of the familiar and see the strange, glowing
beauty there.
Rabbi Prousers immersion in words
and his equally deep immersion in Jew-
ish life both go back to his childhood in
Northampton, Mass. His father, Melvin
Prouser, was their synagogues gabbai
for 43 years; his son estimated that his
father called up about 25,000 people to
the Torah. His mother, Anne Goldberg
Prouser, was an unforgiving grammar-
ian, he said. She was admitted to Smith
College in 1936, although she was Jew-
ish; because she was from Northampton,
Smiths home, she was able to go there
tuition-free. In 1938, she was awarded
a fellowship to the University of Berlin,
which she had to decline, Rabbi Prouser
said. After all, it was 1938; not a good time
for Annie Goldberg to be in Germany.
Joe Prouser went off to the joint program
at Columbia University and the Jewish
Theological Seminary in 1979. Hed stud-
ied French and German since elementary
school; in college, he read George Perecs
La Disparition in its original French.
Thats where the idea of lipograming Gen-
esis began.
Georges Perec was the French-born son
of Polish Jews, surnamed Peretz, who died
during World War II. La Disparition, a
sort of parody noir thriller, written with-
out the letter e (except in the authors
name) was about the search for Anton
Vowl. (Yes, whimsy apparently is unavoid-
able in almost any art form.) It has been
translated into English, also without Es,
under the title A Void.
Rabbi Prouser decided to combine the
literary constraint of the lipogram with the
religious constraints of a Jewish life, and
to use them to look at Genesis freshly. The
form demands that each word be consid-
ered carefully before it can be used, and
that the obvious answer is unlikely to be
a usable one. Once youve accepted the
restrictions, you can revel in the flurry of
synonymous terms and phrases, he said.
The beauty of the restraint of the lipo-
gram is that you can consider what the text
is trying to say; you can look at the emo-
tional impact and the baggage behind it.
When God tells Abraham to sacriice
Isaac, the conversation is opened with He
said to him, Abraham, and he answered,
Here I am. And He said, Take your
son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you
love
In Rabbi Prousers translation: God said
Original
instructions
Local rabbi spins
Torah using
orthographic constraints
to him, Abraham! Abraham said: Any-
thing for you! And God said: If so, bring
your sonyour only sonyour darling
sonBring Isaac!
The meaning is the same. The words
whom you love in the well-known trans-
lation are devastating in their simplicity
and directness. But somehow your darling
son makes the horror of Gods demand
on Abraham even more explicit, because it
forces us to look at it as if for the irst time.
There are some words that demand
fancy footwork. Most of them are names.
If there are Es in the English name Ben-
jamin, say, or Rebecca, or Leah than
Rabbi Prouser uses the Hebrew Binya-
min, Rivka, and Laya. Eve is Chava. Eypt
is Mitzrayim. Alternate spellings can work
Ishmael becomes the Arabic Ishmail.
As for some of the others soon well see
what he does with Rachel, and Moses/
Moshe does not appear in Genesis.
Any translation, of course, is an inter-
pretation, inevitable of its time and place,
but also tethered to its original world.
Where Cain once asked Am I my broth-
ers keeper, his question here has become
Am I a watchman for all humanity? That
depends, of course, on our understanding
of how broad the word brother is, but
here it not only encompasses all but also
makes us think.
Rabbi Prouser has been working on and
off on this project for about a decade, and
although he constantly tweaks his work
until he publishes it, he has done most of
the work for the irst book of the Torah. He
will publish Genesis chapter by chapter on
his blog; posting at the rate of a chapter a
week, it will take about a year before it is
all up. He would like to attempt to trans-
late all of the Torah and to use a formal
constraining structure to do so, but he has
not yet decided which one. I am thinking
about how best to merge form and content
in Exodus, he said.
There is some risk to this project. There
are times when the poetic inevitably veers
into the pedantic; when the words are
less gentle rain and more sharp hail. But
those times are rare. Most of the time, it
is very good.
Rabbi Joseph Prouser
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Scott Thompson, a senior at Ramapo
College and co-chair of its student group,
Ramapo Readers, presented the Glen
Rock Jewish Center with an award for
being its biggest book donor. Ramapo
Readers has distributed over 99,000
books to students in Paterson and adults
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NORPAC meeting
features Booker
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a columnist for this newspa-
per, hosts a NORPAC meeting for Senator Cory Booker
(D-N.J.), the subject of the October 10 Jewish Standard
cover story, on Monday, October 27, at 7:30 p.m. in
Englewood. Rabbi Boteach, Raphael Benaroya, and
Ben Chouake are event chairs. For information, call
(201) 788-5133 or email Avi@NORPAC.net.
Senator Cory Booker
Kaplen JCC sponsors field day
for those with special needs
The Chuck Guttenberg Center for the
Physically Challenged at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly held
its annual Special Games-Special Peo-
ple: A Community Celebration, a field
day, on September 21. More than 250
athletes and volunteers from Bergen
County participated. James Thebery,
director of the Division of Disability
Services at the Bergen County Depart-
ment of Human Services, gave the wel-
coming remarks.
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Protecting ourselves in the digital age
Professor Dan Blumberg, the director of
the Homeland Security Institute at Ben-
Gurion University of the Negev, will dis-
cuss 21st Century Homeland Security:
Protecting Our World in the Digital Age.
The talk, set for Monday, October 27, at
8 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El of Closter,
is sponsored by American Associates
of Ben-Gurion University of the Negevs
greater New York region in partnership
with Emanu-Els leadership group.
Professor Blumberg also is BGUs vice
president and dean for research and
development. He heads the Earth and
Planetary Image Facility at BGU, an affil-
iate of NASAs Regional Planetary Image
Facilities network. The shul is at 180
Piermont Road. Advance registration is
requested. Call (201) 750-9997 or email
info@templeemanu-el.com.
Ohel plans November gala
Ohel Childrens and Family Services will
honor Abraham Banda and his Pome-
granate Supermarket at its 45th annual
gala on Sunday, November 23, at the
Marriott Marquis in Manhattan. Pome-
granate is an ultramodern kosher super-
market in Brooklyn.
Mr. Banda will receive Ohels Commu-
nity Partner award. Pomegranate part-
ners with Ohel to sponsor SibShops, a
program of companionship, recreation,
and support for the brothers and sisters
of people with developmental disabili-
ties. Pomegranate chefs volunteer their
time to offer kosher culinary instruction,
and Pomegranate is Ohels food vendor
for residences in Brooklyn, Long Island,
and the Lower East Side. The supermar-
ket also employs many Ohel clients with
developmental disabilities, including
from Ohel Bais Ezra residential facilities.
To make a reservation or place a jour-
nal ad, call (718) 972-9338 or email gala@
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Talk by Anne Franks stepsister
highlights Eternal Flame series
Eva Schloss, Anne Franks
stepsister, will speak at the
Woodcliff Lake Hilton on Mon-
day, October 27, at 7 p.m. Val-
ley Chabad of Woodcliff Lake
will co-host the talk as part of
its Eternal Flame Holocaust
Education Program. The Jew-
ish Home Assisted Living is
among the sponsors.
Ms. Schloss, 85, the stepsis-
ter of Anne and Margot Frank,
is an author and Holocaust survivor. She
will tell the story of her life, including her
time at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentra-
tion camp. Her father and brother did not
survive the war, but she and her mother
were freed by Russian troops in 1945. They
returned to Holland, where
her mother, Elfriede Geiringer,
married Otto Frank, Anne
Franks father, in November
1953. Eva married Zvi Schloss,
another Jewish refugee from
Germany, who had escaped to
Palestine before the war. The
couple had three daughters.
Valley Chabads Eternal
Flame program is sponsored
by the George and Martha
Rich Foundation, dedicated to Holocaust
education, genocide prevention, and the
elimination of intolerance toward any
minority group. Tickets are available
online at Eternalflame.org or by calling
(201) 476-0157.
Eva Schloss
Ridgewood shul begins social group
for 20- to 40-somethings
BYachad (together in Hebrew) is Temple
Israel & JCC in Ridgewoods new informal
social group for 20- to 40-somethings.
Members will enjoy monthly outings (with
and without children), potlucks, and get-
togethers. Two family-friendly afternoons
are planned for fall and children are
welcome.
On Sunday, October 26, at 1:30 p.m.,
BYachad and the congregations Brandeis
Mens Club co-sponsor a hike through
Ramapo Reservation in Mahwah. A party
focused on watching a Giants game is set
for Sunday, November 16, at 1 p.m. For
information and to join the groups email
list, email Erin Lindenberg at erinlinden-
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More on Mr. Klinghoffer
S
o its happened. Death of Kling-
hoffer opened, despite all the
protests.
First, lets deal with the title,
which is profoundly dishonest and disre-
spectful. Had it been called The Murder
of Leon Klinghoffer it still would have
been a startlingly poor choice for an opera,
particularly given that Mr. Klinghoffers
daughters, who are still very much alive,
object to it strongly and clearly.
But its not. Its called The Death of
Klinghoffer, a value-free termination for
a man undeserving of either a first name
or an honorific. There is a message in that.
It is hard to get a firm idea of Death of
Klinghoffers quality as a work of art. Our
reviewer, Warren Boroson, who saw an
earlier version, hated it, and so did many
other reviewers whom he quoted.
Some reviewers liked it. Speaking on
WNYCs broadcast of National Public
Radios Morning Edition, David Patrick
Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer and
WQXR made it clear, in a voice so dripping
with condescension that it was surprising
that the radio speaker didnt crack from
the whiplash of his scorn, that only Phi-
listines and other lowlives could not see
its greatness. (Oh, and that review was fol-
lowed immediately by the stations fund-
raising appeal. Just saying) In the New
York Times, Anthony Tommasini called
it a raw, penetrating, strangely mystical
work, and its opponents as misguided
well, yes, Philistines.
In the Times of Israel, on the other
hand, Jordan Hoffman wrote that he was
seconds away from falling asleep. With-
out opining on the controversy, he gave a
big thumbs down to the artistry.
And no, we werent there. We did not
have to be. This is not a question of artis-
tic merit, but of decency, of a rejection of
a moral equivalence that does not exist.
A few other points must be made. The
issue of artistic freedom and freedom
of speech always are brought up, with
a flourish of invisible horns. The truth,
however, is that although everyone is free
to say almost anything he or she wants to
say, up to yelling fire in a crowded the-
ater, the idea that every opera ever writ-
ten must be mounted is a totally different
matter. Most novels remain in manuscript,
most plays molder in attic trunks, most
symphonies decompose in silence, and
most operas are never produced much
less at the Metropolitan. There is neither
world enough nor time.
But there was a fascinating show on
display nonetheless. Its key actors were
New York Citys former mayor, Rudolph
Giuliani, and its current one, Bill de Bla-
sio. Mr. Giuliani is an operatic figure. In
fact, he is his own self-contained opera, in
which he frequently plays the part of vil-
lain and of buffoon, costumed generally
as a man but occasionally as a woman,
and in which he has been known, for at
least one bright shining moment, to be
the hero as well. Here, he was on the right
side. And Mr. de Blasio, a tall, bumbling
man who frequently finds his foot in his
mouth, said that he was fine with the
Mets choice, citing freedom of speech.
I think there is a serious problem
today in the world that has nothing to
do with this opera, he is quoted as say-
ing. Theres an anti-Semitism problem in
this world today, particularly in Western
Europe, that worries me greatly. Thats
where my focus is. I dont think an opera
is what the focal point should be right
now.
So here is the mayor of New York, say-
ing that his focus is not on a controversy
unfolding in New York but on something
happening across the ocean. Thanks, Bill.
JP
KEEPING THE FAITH
Pursuing ISIS: A
halachic perspective
T
he United States and its allies are
engaged in an aerial war, for now at
least, against the so-called Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria, the para-
military terrorist group better known as ISIS.
If the world ran according to halachah,
would attacking ISIS halfway across the
world be permissible? On the surface, the
answer would seem to be a resounding yes,
but where human life is concerned, there is
no such thing as an easy answer in Jewish law.
Obviously, a terrorist may be considered
a rodef, a pursuer who seeks to kill
another person. On this, the law is clear.
Based on Exodus 22:1, a talmudic sage,
Rabbi Shila, pronounced the general prin-
ciple, If he comes to kill you, arise and kill
him. (See the Babylonian Talmud tractate
Brachot 58a.)
If a third party can prevent the rodef from
committing the crime, this too is permis-
sible. In fact, the Talmud bends the law to
make it easier for someone to decide to be
a rescuer. It does so by absolving that per-
son from responsibility for any inadvertent
property damage resulting from the attempt.
(See BT Bava Kamma 117b.) This is not the
law, the Talmud declares, but if you did
not say this [that the rescuer was free from
liability for property damage], you wouldnt
[find] a man willing to rescue his fellow from
the pursuer.
Clearly, this has application in the case of
aerial attacks of all kinds (drone, missile, or
even a so-called smart bomb), because the
property of innocent parties may be dam-
aged, especially given the proclivity of such
terrorists to operate in the midst of innocent
civilians. Thus, the rescuer is free from
liability.
The Talmud is also willing to bend the law
regarding the need to warn the pursuer that
he is engaged in conduct that could lead to a
capital offense. (See BT Sanhedrin 72b.)
On the other hand, killing the rodef is
the last resort, not the first. If another,
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Voting for the candidate who shows up
T
he Jewish Standard is not in
the habit of making electoral
endorsements. Among other
reasons is our lack of specific
expertise. We pride ourselves on keeping
abreast of the local goings on the syna-
gogues, the schools, even, God forbid, the
occasional scandals.
But Washington and Trenton? Not so
much.
We read the same national and local
news sources as you do.
Every now and then, however, some-
thing happens in our community that we
think should have ramifications come
election day.
One such event took place this week.
For the past several election cycles,
Joy Kurland, director of the Jewish Com-
munity Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey, has
been organizing candidate forums, in
which opposing candidates take turns
answering questions posed by modera-
tors. It is a chance to increase the Jewish
communitys involvement and invest-
ment in the political process, and in
national and local election campaigns.
And this year, to help forge connections
beyond the Jewish community, the JCRC
is sponsoring the events together with
the Bergen County NAACP. Among the
co-sponsors, we are proud to say, is the
Jewish Standard.
This coming Monday night in Engle-
wood, for example, Rep. William Pas-
crell of New Jerseys 9th District and his
Republican opponent, Dr. Dierdre Paul,
will appear at the Community Baptist
Church of Englewood. Last Monday
night, however, Roy Cho, the Democrat
who is running for Congress from the 5th
District, stood alone.
Incumbent Rep. Scott Garrett did not
answer Joy Kurlands call.
He did not take questions from the Jew-
ish Community Relations Council, nor
from the hundreds of people who went to
Temple Israel in Ridgefield for the forum.
He did not show up.
Our report on the forum on page 8
accordingly is very one-sided.
Thats not our choice. Thats Congress-
man Garretts.
Given the chance to come to address
the Jewish community, Scott Garrett
declined. Those of us who live in the 5th
District will remember that on election
day. We hope you do too. -LY
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple
Israel Community Center | Congregation
Heichal Yisrael in Cliffside Park and Temple
Beth El of North Bergen.
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nonfatal method would
have worked, ki l l i ng
the pursuer can bring
harsh punishment on the
intended victim, accord-
ing to some authorities.
Thus, in BT Sanhedrin 57a-
b, we are told: If he pur-
sues his fellow to kill him,
and [the intended victim]
could have saved himself
by maiming a limb [of his
pursuer], and did not so
save himself [but killed him instead], he is executed
for [murdering his pursuer].
This is not a universally held opinion, but it does
show the extent to which human life is valued.
The principle of pikuach nefesh (threat to life)
looms large in Judaism. Virtually nothing not even
Shabbat or the laws of kashrut takes precedence
over it. In only three categories does pikuach nefesh
take a back seat: committing an act of apostasy, sexu-
ally violating another person, and committing mur-
der. If someone insists that you either commit such
an offense or be killed, you must allow yourself to
be killed. (See BT Ketubot 19a.) This is not absolute
in the case of idolatry, but it is absolute in the other
two instances.
The real problem, however, is not whether it is per-
missible to kill a pursuer, but in knowing whether the
person killed indeed was a pursuer. By definition, a
pursuer must be seen pursuing his intended victim
(but see the note that follows this paragraph). This is
not the case when terrorist bases are attacked, and
certainly not when the attack comes from the skies.
The attacks are based on circumstantial evidence
alone and that simply will not do when it comes to
committing an act of justifiable homicide. In capital
cases, we do not allow conjecture, the Talmud says.
(See BT Sanhedrin 37b.)
It is not enough to believe a particular base is filled
with terrorists who intend to take human life. The evi-
dence has to be irrefutable, and that is not possible in
such cases.
Even more to the point, while it is permissible to
pursue a pursuer and to kill him, if necessary, whole-
sale attacks on terrorist bases inevitably lead to the
shedding of innocent blood along with the guilty the
euphemistically titled collateral damage.
It would be comforting to be able to say without hes-
itation that it is not permissible to kill innocent people
in pursuit of a pursuer.
One cannot say that, however, because (as always)
halachah is not black and white. While it is protective
of human life, Jewish law accepts that there are times
when it cannot interfere. Instead, it bows to the kings
law. Thus, Maimonides explains in his Mishneh Torah,
The Law of Kings, 3:10:
A murderer against whom the evidence is not
totally conclusive..., the king has permission to kill
him and to repair society according to the needs of the
moment. He may kill many on a single day, hang them,
and leave them hanging for many days, so as to instill
fear and stay the hand of the wicked of the world.
There is no need for a trial; no need for witnesses;
no need for conclusive proof. The purpose is not
punishment, but deterrence, and if the hand of the
wicked of the world is stayed, collateral damage
could be seen as a fair price to pay.
Shammai
Engelmayer
Lord of the fruit flies
A
ll right, I confess. Some Jews have
Christmas envy.
Me, I have Halloween envy.
When it gets cool and the leaves
change color, I long for cornstalks on my door-
step, candy corn in my candy bowls, gourds
on my table, spider webs on my bushes, trick-
or-treaters ringing my bell. Sometimes I drive
to Bergenfield and Bogota to get my Hallow-
een fix. And, O.K., maybe I wrote a short story
that managed to incorporate both the Holo-
caust and a werewolf.
Still, I like to think I have it under control.
One brilliant fall day a couple of years ago,
on a day when the leaves were turning shades of chocolate,
wine, copper, and caramel, we took the kids apple picking.
We drove south for an hour, got lost, consulted the GPS, did
what it said, made some illegal turns, found the farm. The
crowds were huge; we had to park in a lot across the road.
Dutifully, we stood in line with several hundred other apple
tourists, chose our picking poles for reaching the fruit at
the tops of the trees, then hiked up the picturesque hills
that led to the orchards. We picked apples you rarely find in
stores, with enchanting names like Pink Lady, Mollie Deli-
cious, Ginger Gold, Black Arkansas, Ida Red. At the end of
our trip, as we waited to pay for our 25 pounds of apples, I
selected some colorful Carnival squashes at the farmstand,
which I planned to stuff for a Sukkot meal.
But then the pumpkins caught my eye.
Of course, they were everywhere. Tiny squat cuties, small
enough to hang in the sukkah. Orange pumpkins like canta-
loupes, piled high in wooden bins. Classic round pumpkins,
like the one Cinderella used for her carriage, set up in rows
on bales of hay. White pumpkins. Beige pumpkins. Gigantic
monstrous prize-winning pumpkins, the size and weight of
a Smartcar.
Its just a vegetable, I told myself. Its just a seasonal har-
vest decoration, I told myself. Ill make a pie with it, I told
myself.
So I bought one.
Of course, it was bound to happen. Upon bringing it into
the house, one of the kids (I wont name names) asked
if we could carve a face into it. I uttered the traditional
explanations for why Orthodox Jews dont cel-
ebrate Halloween. I suggested that as an alter-
native, we carve the words Shabbat Shalom
into it.
And then I caved.
With a short, sharp knife, I cut two cheery
triangles for eyes, a nose, a jagged smile. It
took me about 20 minutes. (Two years of man-
datory graduate-level sculpture classes, baby!)
When I was done, I left my creation on the
china cabinet in the dining room.
See? I told myself. Its a pumpkin, not a
pagan god.
Or was it?
Two days later, the fruit flies appeared. At first, there were
just a couple malingering around a bowl of ripe bananas in
the kitchen. I tossed the bananas into the fridge and ignored
the flies, assuming they would disappear on their own. But
by the end of Day Three, a full-blown swarm of tiny winged
critters was hovering around my Jewish jack-o-lantern. Mys-
teriously, they managed to avoid the strategically placed
coils of flypaper I hung around the house.
Coincidence? Or biblical scourge?
It was only then that I noticed; our pumpkin looked...
well...fiendish. Gray fuzzy mold had taken over the inte-
rior, and scowled malevolently at us from those glowering
triangular eyes.
After that, the pumpkin moved out to the deck.
Day after day, we watched the thing collapse, settling in
on itself like a demonic orange troll. Day after day, the fruit
flies increased their numbers, turning our friendly little
pumpkin into something that wouldnt be out of place in
Lord of the Flies. When I finally picked up the courage to
throw it away, raccoons rescued it from the garbage can
and deposited it on our front steps. At least, I hope it was
raccoons...
Perhaps I should have carved Shabbat Shalom into it,
after all.
Helen Maryles Shankmans short fiction has appeared in
many publications, including The Kenyon Review and
JewishFiction.net. Her debut novel, The Color of Light, is
available on Amazon. She lives in Teaneck.
Helen
Maryles
Shankman
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Remembering Regina Jonas
The first woman rabbi, she was murdered by the Nazis
C
onversion to Juda-
ism is very much in
the news today
and for all the wrong
reasons. But at the moment,
my interest is not in the his-
tory of conversion itself, but
in the way that it is read into
next weeks Torah reading,
parashat Lekh Lekha (Genesis
12-17).
The Torah reading opens
with God commanding Abra-
ham to set forth on a journey to a place unknown.
Abraham sets forth with his wife Sarah, his nephew, all
their possessions, and the souls that they had made in
Haran.
How does someone make souls? The midrashic col-
lection Genesis Rabbah, compiled some time in the fifth
through eighth centuries, interprets this strange clause
as referring to converts. Why did the text say made
instead of converted? To demonstrate that converting
someone to Judaism is like creating that person anew.
But why the plural? Doesnt it really mean that he, Abra-
ham, had made or converted those souls? No. Abraham
converted the men; Sarah converted the women (Gen-
esis Rabbah 39:14).
It strikes me as amazing that this midrash ascribes
conversion, particularly of women, to a woman. After
all, by the time of Genesis Rabbah, conversion had
become a legal ritual. Further, the conversion of women
was and remains more important than the conver-
sion of men because Judaism is passed on through the
maternal line. A womans flawed conversion could result
in generations of Jews whose Jewishness was suspect.
The participants in the discussion that is summa-
rized in this midrashic selection must have known that
they were not reflecting the plain meaning of the text.
As Rashi comments in the eleventh century, after first
repeating the midrash, the simple meaning of the text is
the slaves whom they had acquired. But Rashi does not
say that women had no right to be involved in making
converts, a task associated with rabbis.
How fitting it is to mark the yahrzeit of Rabbi Regina
Jonas (1902-1944), the first woman to be ordained as a
rabbi, the week before we read this verse. Rabbi Jonas
looks out at us from the surviving photos, this one prob-
ably taken after 1938 because the identification on the
back reads Rabbi Regina Sarah Jonas, reflecting the 1938
Nazi decree that all Jewish women take the name Sarah.
How ironic that she was linked forcibly to her biblical
predecessor. She looks straight at us, unsmiling, serious,
with appropriately regal bearing, cloaked in black, book
in hand.
For decades after her murder in Auschwitz 70 years
ago, Regina Jonas was forgotten. The survivors who
knew her, including Rabbi Leo Baeck and Viktor Frankl,
did not mention her. She nearly became one of the many
Jewish women lost to history. When the archives in East
Berlin and the materials in Theresienstadt became avail-
able, however, her story began to come alive.
Born in Berlin, she probably embarked on her Jew-
ish studies under the tutelage of her father, who died
in 1913. Her interest in the rabbinate dates at least to
her adolescence. A number of Orthodox rabbis in Berlin
supported her interest. One of them, Rabbi Max Weyl,
studied rabbinic texts with her weekly until he was
deported to Theresienstadt. By 1924 she had learned
enough to be certified to teach Jewish religion at schools
for girls in Berlin. That year she also entered the Hoch-
schule fr die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, the
great center of modern Orthodoxy, where there were
other women students. Unlike the others, however, who
studied to become teachers, she wanted to be a rabbi.
Regina Jonass pre-ordination thesis, called May a
woman hold rabbinic office? may be the first attempt
to engage that question from a halachic point of view.
Taking a position that is neither Orthodox nor Reform,
Jonas cites Jewish women who had performed rabbinic
tasks, including Beruriah and Rashis daughters. She
challenges the assumption that women could not serve
as rabbis by examining the reasons for the ban. Taking
an approach that today we would characterize as essen-
tialist, she argues that women are well suited to the rab-
binate as they are, by nature, caring and psychologically
astute. She, does, however, resolve what we would call
the life/work balance by saying that women should be
free to choose to become rabbis, but should they do so,
they should not marry.
Although Jonass thesis was deemed Good, she was
refused ordination, graduating not as a rabbi but as a
religious teacher. This was due in part to the unfortu-
nate death in 1930 of Rabbi Eduard Baneth, who been
in charge of ordination at the Hochshule. His successor,
Professor Hanokh Albeck, refused to ordain her. Other
members of the faculty did not challenge Albecks deci-
sion publicly.
Jonas went on to teach in Jewish schools, which were
becoming overcrowded because Jewish students no longer
were allowed into state schools, but at the same time she
continued to fight for ordination. In 1935 Rabbi Max Diene-
mann, executive director of the Liberaler Rabbinerverband
(Conference of Liberal Rabbis) ordained her on behalf of the
conference. Her diploma of ordination cites her devotion to
God and the people Israel and her knowledge of religious
law. It permits her to hold the rabbinic office.
In a newspaper article published in June 1938, Jonas
explains:
If I confess what motivated me, a woman, to become
a rabbi, two things come to mind. My belief in Gods
calling and my love of humans. God planted in our heart
skills and a vocation without asking about gender. There-
fore, it is the duty of men and women alike to work and
create according to the skills given by God.
Jonas worked as a rabbi, specializing in pastoral care
but also serving various communities in Germany as a
congregational rabbi. As other rabbis emigrated or were
imprisoned, Jonas became ever busier, trying to support
and care for Jews in communities spread across Ger-
many. She was known as a caring, inspiring, and helpful
rabbi in times that were unspeakably tragic. She also had
a sense of the significance of her contribution to Jewish
history. Before she was deported to Theresienstadt in
November 1942, she gave her documents to the Berlin
Jewish community for safekeeping. In Theresienstadt
she continued her work as a rabbi until October 1944,
when she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered.
Last summer, a group that included the four first
women to be ordained as rabbis by their respective
American denominations and was co-sponsored by
the Jewish Womens Archive and the American Jewish
Archives took a trip through Prague and Berlin, follow-
ing Regina Jonass footsteps. They also placed a memo-
rial in her memory at Theresienstadt.
As we reflect on the beginning of the journey of what
was to become the Jewish people and the role of Sarah
in that journey let us take strength and blessing from
these words of Rabbi Regina Jonas, found in the There-
sienstadt archives:
Our Jewish people was planted by God into history as
a blessed nation. Blessed by God means to offer bless-
ings, lovingkindness, and loyalty, regardless of place and
situation. Humility before God, selfless love for His crea-
tures, sustain the world. It is Israels task to build these
pillars of the world man and woman, woman and man
alike have taken this upon themselves in Jewish loyalty.
Our work in Theresienstadt, serious and full of trials as it
is, also serves this end: to be Gods servants and as such
to move from earthly spheres to eternal ones. May all
our work be a blessing for Israels future (and the future
of humanity) Upright Jewish men and brave, noble
women were always the sustainers of our people. May
we be found worthy by God to be numbered in the circle
of these women and men The reward of a mitzvah is
the recognition of the great deed by God.
Dr. Anne Lapidus Lerner is an emerita member of the
Jewish Theological Seminary faculty and was the first
woman to serve as vice chancellor there. She is also a
research associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at
Brandeis University. She and her husband, Rabbi Stephen
C. Lerner, are longtime Teaneck residents.
Dr. Anne
Lapidus Lerner
Rabbi Regina Jonas in the late 1930s.
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supports education
Last week, in Many ways to learn, I
was quoted as having said we went out
of almost every business we were in
synagogue-based religious schools, Jew-
ish early childhood programs and we
entered into new ones.
While that is true, it doesnt tell the
whole story.
To clarify, the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey continues to sup-
port synagogue-based religious schools
and Jewish early childhood programs,
but in different ways than we had in the
past. We have been working with syna-
gogue religious schools on introducing
technoloy into their classrooms and
curricula, as well as on innovation in
the schools design and structure via our
Atid (Addressing Transformative Innova-
tive Design) program. In the Jewish early
childhood arena, we have been working
with the schools on raising their profile
within the community. For example, we
will host the second annual Jewish Early
Childhood Fair open house at World
of Wings in Teaneck on November 16.
Lisa Harris Glass
Managing Director for Community
Planning and Impact
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,
Paramus
Thank you Rabbi Zierler
This is to convey our thanks to Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler for all the creative
enery and wisdom he brought to the
congregants of the Jewish Center of
Teaneck and to the community of Ber-
gen County (Teaneck Jewish Center
downsizes its rabbi, Oct. 10). He will
be greatly missed by many. He is among
the short list of great rabbis, Rabbi David
Feldman included, in the 80-year history
of the JCT.
Lori and Robert Rosner
Teaneck
Missing the sound
of the shofar
In An Americans Yom Kippur in Israel
(Oct. 10), Charles Ticho relates his won-
derful Yom Kippur journey, spanning
many decades, from the Shoah to this
year in Israel. Having spent Shavuot
bAretz (in the Land) this past year, I can
relate.
Sixty years ago, I spent Yom Kippur in
a different kind of galut. My family was
sent to the wilds of Appalachia. The near-
est synagogue, along with a supermarket,
was 35 miles away, down a winding two-
lane mountain road. On a good day, with-
out snow, it was a one-hour drive.
That year, my father fasted and dav-
enned alone in the living room of our
trailer park home. It was not the same
experience as being in his home shul in
Passaic. And in fact, the Day of Atone-
ment confessional prayers (Ashamnu)
are phrased in the plural. Prayer is not
the same in solitude. A minyan, a com-
munity, counts.
Mr. Tichos experience in Israel could
have been enhanced by finding a local
Masorti synagogue there are about 80
at last count. He might have felt more at
home in places with other Anglos. He
also noted that he missed the sound of
the shofar. So did every other Jew the
shofar is sounded on Rosh Hashanah,
otherwise known as Yom Truah, the
Day of Blowing.
On Yom Kippur, shofar is sounded
only at Neilah. This year, since Yom Kip-
pur fell on Shabbat, there was no sho-
far blowing. Next year, we will hear the
shofar again, starting in the month of
Elul leading up to the Yamim Noraim.
Whether you are in Israel or the dias-
pora, we will all have that opportunity
to wake up again.
It is wonderful that Mr. Ticho was able
to spend time in Israel, at this special
time of the year. Perhaps I, too, will one
day celebrate Rosh Hashanah in the land
of our ancestors. Listening to the shofar
at the Kotel, among thousands, must be
an extraordinary experience.
And this year, for the first time in his-
tory, a Masorti egalitarian kehillah was
able to conduct services there. Its home
away from home but will the real
home please stand up?
Lshanah tova no matter where we
live!
Eric Weis
Wayne
What about medical
marijuana?
In his column, The non-Jews who love
us, (Oct. 17) Shmuley Boteach writes
that in a recent speech in South Korea
the audience was galvanized by the
Jewish message that to achieve peace we
must hate and fight evil. I so wish that
he practiced what he preaches there.
This past winter, Rabbi Boteach gave
a guest of honor award to New Jersey
Governor Chris Christie, who has delib-
erately created policies that prevent sick
people, who are suffering from cancer,
severe pains, AIDS, and other illness,
from getting medical marijuana. There
are only about 1,500 active patients and
three dispensaries in the state. Other
states, like Michigan and Oregon, have
50,000 patients and smaller popula-
tions. What is evil, if not knowingly pre-
venting the suffering from being healed?
Rabbi Boteach continues to laud and
accept support from Sheldon Adelson,
who shares the Christie philosophy, and
has recently contributed $500,000 to a
group trying to prevent a medical mari-
juana law from passing in Florida.
Shouldnt he demand that they stop
this inhumane and evil policy, and dis-
associate himself from them, if he has
strong views on what is evil?
Roy Sutton
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I
n 1970, when Charles P. Berkow-
itz of Glen Rock became assistant
administrator at the Jewish Home
and Rehabilitation Center in Jersey
City, President Nixon was sending troops
to Cambodia, antiwar riots were roiling
college campuses, and the New York Mar-
athon was making its debut.
Chuck Berkowitz, just 29 at the time,
already had a vision far beyond that
decade. He anticipated and implemented
forward-thinking approaches to elder care
that have earned him many awards and
approbations in the past 44 years.
At the Jewish Homes annual gala dinner
last Sunday at the Rockleigh Country Club,
he was feted upon his retirement as pres-
ident and CEO of the Jewish Home Fam-
ily, a position he held since June 2009. He
became CEO of the Jersey City site in 1982.
The facility, founded in 1915 as the Hebrew
Orphans Home of Hudson County, moved
to Rockleigh in 2001 as Hudsons Jewish
population declined.
For almost half its history, the Jewish
Home has been fortunate to have Chuck
Berkowitz associated with it, Jewish
Home spokeswoman Melanie Cohen said.
He has been a critical part of the birth
of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh-Russ
Berrie Home for Jewish Living, the Jew-
ish Home Assisted Living-Kaplen Family
Senior Residence, the Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center, the Jewish Homes
Kosher-Meals-on-Wheels program, the
Jewish Home at Home, and the Jew-
ish Home Family, she continued. (All of
those organizations are part of the Jewish
Home Family.) In addition, he has given
his time and talents selflessly to local, state
and national professional elder care orga-
nizations, but also to a large number of our
communitys social-service organizations.
Mr. Berkowitz does not recall his parents
being involved in the Jewish community of
his native Newark, yet he always felt a pull
toward helping others, he said. During the
first year of his social-work masters pro-
gram at Yeshiva Universitys Wurzweiler
School, he did field work at the JCC on the
Palisades, then in Englewood, and the JCC
awarded him a scholarship for his second
year on the condition that he come to work
there after earning his degree in 1966.
The JCCs director, George Hantgan, later
recommended Mr. Berkowitz for the job at
the Jewish Home. George is currently a
resident of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
and I visit him daily, Mr. Berkowitz said.
He and his wife, Ida everyone calls her
Hon have always been good friends to me
and to my wife, Rachel.
Loyalty and friendship are hallmarks
of Mr. Berkowitzs approach to his per-
sonal and professional life. He notes with
pride that the Jewish Home Family enjoys
tremendous longevity among its 450
employees, which he feels contributes to
the quality of care.
How has he fostered employee reten-
tion? Doing the right thing in terms of
compensation, being there as a friend
when I can help them, and showing them
the respect that they deserve, he said.
The same can be said of his attitude
toward the clientele of the various ele-
ments that make up the Jewish Home.
Chuck is known on the national level
for being a strong advocate for compas-
sionate care for the elderly and infirm,
said Sunni Herman, executive vice presi-
dent of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
As a visionary, he shepherded the Jewish
Home to establish the place of prominence
that it holds today.
Indeed, Mr. Berkowi tz has won
many awards in recognition of his
The father of
Jewish Home retires
Charles Berkowitz, visionary creator of
compassionate services for the elderly, looks back
1915 1950s 1970S
Seeing a need, a group comes together
to buy a cottage in Jersey City that soon
houses Jewish children. It is incorporated
as the Hebrew Orphans Home of Hudson
County.
Hebrew Home and Hospital begins serving
needs of chronically ill from Bergen and
Hudson counties. Joseph Gross Hospital
Pavilion built with 150 beds largest
specialized hospital in state (total 325 beds).
First adult day care program in New Jersey
established at Jersey City facility.
Kosher nutrition site serves over 100 people
daily in Jersey City; Kosher Meals on Wheels
delivers 80 meals daily to homebound elderly.
Charles Berkowitz plants a tree as ground is broken for the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh.
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accomplishments. Years before he over-
saw the purchase, construction, and
opening of the Rockleigh facility, he
developed proposals and secured fund-
ing for New Jerseys first adult medical
day care program, in 1972, as well as the
Childrens Center for Special Needs and
a federal Senior Companion Program in
1982.
In June 2012, he received the Dr. Her-
bert Shore Award of Honor from the
Association of Jewish Aging Services of
North America. To mark that milestone,
the Berkowitz Gardens at the Rockleigh
campus were dedicated in his honor.
The five-year-old Jewish Home at
Home program is an especially strong
reflection of his personal vision. This
programs goal is to help seniors remain
at home, with appropriate care in place,
while maintaining the highest possible
level of independence and quality of life.
Mr. Berkowitz said that when the new
facility in Rockleigh was in the planning
stages, members of the board wanted
it to have 450 beds, just as the Jersey
City site did. But Mr. Berkowitz insisted
on scaling back the nursing facility to
180 beds. Seven years ago, the 124-bed
assisted-living program was opened.
I felt that in the future, more empha-
sis would be put on keeping people
at home, and clearly thats what hap-
pened, he said. My feeling is that
you need institutions, but I encourage
people to keep loved ones in non-insti-
tutional settings when possible, as long
as it doesnt cause an undue burden on
their family life.
Mr. Berkowitz has been involved in
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1994
2005
Relationship developed with Rockland
County Jewish Home for the Aged to
provide long-term care services for Jewish
elderly within Rockland County community.
Kosher Meals on Wheels expanded to
Bergen County sites.
The assisted living facilitys plans
are completed.
Expansion of outpatient services,
including medical, rehab, adult
day health care, and kosher meal
program. Increased services in
Rockland County.
16-acre site, including
a 160,000 square foot
building in Rockleigh,
purchased to be converted
into a state-of-the-art
long-term care center.
Construction begins on assisted
living project.
Nonsectarian congregational
nursing program established
with federal funding through the
Naturally Occurring Retirement
Community program of UJA-NNJ.
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organizations including the YJCC in Washington Town-
ship and sits on the boards of the Hackensack-based Jew-
ish Association for Developmental Disabilities and the
Adler Aphasia Center in Maywood.
Ive been very involved as a lay person in the com-
munity, Mr. Berkowitz said. I believe people should
give of themselves, and I always follow that rule myself.
Ruth Gafni, the head of the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County in New Milford, is among the
many people who have benefitted from Mr. Berkowitzs
expertise.
When Mrs. Gafni became head of school six years ago,
she asked the board to recommend someone who could
both mentor her and serve as a role model. It recom-
mended Mr. Berkowitz.
I learned a tremendous amount of wisdom and com-
passion from him, Mrs. Gafni said. We still meet on a
regular basis, and the mentoring has turned into friend-
ship. He is a leader who cares for Jewish people in Ber-
gen County and beyond.
Mrs. Gafni cited Mr. Berkowitzs swift response to a
Schechter crisis last year, when the schools agreement
with a food vendor fell apart two days before classes
were to begin. Mr. Berkowitz arranged lunches through
the Rockleigh Home and managed, by trial and error, to
produce menus that would appeal to both young stu-
dents and senior citizens.
Hes one of a kind and so delightful, she said.
Mr. Berkowitz jokes that his wife need not worry that
he will sit at home aimlessly after his retirement.
Over the next year, Ive committed myself to helping
the incoming Jewish Home CEO, Carol Silver-Elliot, land
on her feet, and also to help develop additional commu-
nity services. And Ive gotten a lot of phone calls regard-
ing continuing my volunteer roles and getting involved
in new ones. There are many opportunities for me.
The Berkowitzes three children are Scott of Washing-
ton, D.C., a publishing consultant whose volunteer work
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2009
2002
2010
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a 160,000 square foot
building in Rockleigh,
purchased to be converted
into a state-of-the-art
long-term care center.
Construction begins on assisted
living project.
Nonsectarian congregational
nursing program established
with federal funding through the
Naturally Occurring Retirement
Community program of UJA-NNJ.
Contracts signed for the Rockleigh
facility and construction begins.
Plans proceed for assisted living
facility on River Vale property. Market/
financial feasibility studies completed,
in cooperation with UJA Federation of
Bergen & North Hudson.
JHAL facility opens in
May 2007, expanding
services to elderly.
JHR completes $3 million
capital initiative.
JHR licensed and opened to its
first resident in November.
JHR takes over kosher meal
program in Bergen, Hudson,
Rockland and Passaic counties.
JH Family board approves
launching of new elder care
agency for the elderly living at
home Jewish Home at Home.
JHR awarded five-star status
by the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services.
JHR fully operational, providing
kosher meals to elderly in
their homes, and to facilities in
Bergen, Hudson, Rockland and
Passaic counties, and providing
subacute, hospice, long-term,
rehab care.
JHatH begins providing geriatric
care management services.
JH Family President & CEO
begins full-time oversight of all
facilities, programs, and services.
Chuck with Dr. Sandra Gold as the Charles P.
Berkowitz Gardens are dedicated.
Chuck meets with architects and board members
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An avid athlete all his life, Mr. Berkowitz undoubt-
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his five grandchildren, including two sets of twin girls.
But dont expect him to grab any spotlights. He prefers
listening to speaking.
I consider myself a quiet person, he said. I dont
have to be the center of attention.
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his week, The Death of Klinghoffer opened
in New York. Rightly castigated for its invoca-
tion of unpleasant Jewish stereotypes and its
apologia for the Palestinian terrorists murder
of an elderly Jewish tourist in a wheelchair, its staging
for the umpteenth time since it was first produced at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1991 has been inter-
preted by some in the Jewish community as signaling a
normalization of anti-Semitism.
Indeed, this was the focus of a recent panel, organized
by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and
Policy in New York, in which I was privileged to partici-
pate. Inevitably, our exchange wasnt simply restricted
to the content of Klinghoffer, but spanned a range of
issues from the perilous situation in the Middle East,
presently caught in the pincers of Islamic State atrocities
and rising Iranian power, to the explosion of anti-Semitic
violence in Europe over the summer.
Reflecting on what was said at the panel, its clear to
me that the issues that animate our side of the debate
are utterly removed from the concerns of the operas
defenders. Our awareness that the source of the sav-
age attacks on Israel is the same genocidal ideology
that has caused such appalling suffering to Christians,
Kurds, and Yazidis forces us to confront how anti-
Semitism is an integral element of the global assault
on human rights. By contrast, for the other side,
theres only one issue that matters, only one obses-
sion that imposes itself on all of us: Palestine and
the Palestinians.
Its an obsession that manifests itself far beyond the
hallowed halls of the Metropolitan Opera. Look at the
House of Commons, Britains parliament, which voted
overwhelmingly in favor of recognition of a Palestinian
state after a debate that kept the honorable members
up until the wee hours. I doubt that they would have
paid the same courtesy to the Yazidis, 10,000 of whom
remain stranded on Iraqs Mount Sinjar, surrounded
on all sides by Islamic State terrorists and without
food, clothing, or proper shelter. Similarly, not a single
British parliamentarian issued a word of condemna-
tion of Turkeys bombing of Kurdistan Workers Party
positions in Iraq, despite the enormous contribution
this socialist organization has made to the war against
Islamic State barbarism. Much the same can be said of
the U.S. State Department and the White House, both
of which go apoplectic whenever Israel builds so much
as a bathroom extension in eastern Jerusalem, but are
largely silent in the face of Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogans atrocities.
It seems as if our declining western civilization can
summon the courage to speak loudly on foreign policy
only if the policy question involves our ally, Israel, sup-
posedly punishing innocent Palestinians. But is this
anti-Semitism? In my view, yes, it is.
At the ISGAP panel, I made the point that what
attracts the western intelligentsia to the Palestinian
cause is the same dramatic point upon which Kling-
hoffer hangs. It used to be said by the anti-Semites
that the Jews are our misfortune. Now that has
Diaspora Jews are targets
Danger on all sides, from opera house to House of Commons
been twisted the Jews are the cause of their own misfor-
tune as well. Since they dispossessed the Palestinians
Im not quoting the historical record of the 1948 War of
Independence here, but one of its tenuous, yet dominant,
interpretations the Jews bring misery on themselves. Kling-
hoffer was killed because he was seen as a representative of
a people whose state was created at the expense of another.
On September 22, demonstrators protest the New York Metropolitan Operas production of The Death of
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confronting the shadowy Israel Lobby, the real
power behind the Middle East policies of western gov-
ernments far more influential than, I dont know,
the Qataris, who these days own half of London and
Paris yet somehow have no voice in policy formation.
What does this really mean? It means pick on the
Jews, stop them lobbying for Israel, stop them even
identifying with Israel. Its a reflection of the attitude
that led Arab regimes, after Israels creation, to turn
on their defenseless Jewish populations because they
were too cowardly and incompetent to win on the bat-
tlefield. And its the direction that the Palestine soli-
darity movement, as well as its Arab and Islamist back-
ers, is heading down. We must be prepared.
JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen, a regular contributor to JNS.org, also
has written for the Wall Street Journal, Commentary,
Haaretz, and other publications. His book, Some
Of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First
Century Antisemitism, is available through Amazon.
Similarly, the Jews attacked in Paris, Malmo, Manchester,
and other cities in the last few months were targeted for the
same reason. In other words, the purported victims arent
actually innocent, and thats as sexy a theme for a dramatist
as it is for a Palestine solidarity activist burning with hatred
for the Jewish state.
Heres my overriding point, though, and its a sad one to
make so soon after the Jewish festivals that come with the
celebration of the Jewish new year: we can expect much
more of the same in the coming months. In January, for
example, we will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation
of Auschwitz. I confidently predict that Twitter, Facebook,
and other social media platforms will be awash with com-
parisons between Gaza and the death camp crafted by the
Nazis, as well as missives from the less subtle Israel-haters
complaining that were weeping over dead Jews when we
should be helping live Palestinians (and nobody else).
Diaspora Jews are, when all is said and done, a soft tar-
get, and increasingly the Palestine solidarity movement
understands this. A recent article for Middle East Moni-
tor, a pro-Hamas website, made the point that because the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement cant hope
to eliminate the vibrant, multibilliondollar trade between
the west and Israel, its energies would be better spent on
Diaspora
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Geneva on Monday about the Jewish states compliance
with the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, including during Operation Protective Edge in
Gaza.
Along with Israeli ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva
Eviator Manor, Israeli Ministry of Justice Director-Gen-
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tional Law Roy S. Schondorf, and Col. Noam Neuma
who heads the IDFs International Law Department
defended Israels human rights record, particularly
with regards to the Palestinians.
At this stage it is the only U.N. forum to which Israel
will provide information with regard to Operation Pro-
tective Edge, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman said, the
Jerusalem Post reported.
The International Covenant is managed by the U.N.s
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and
its Human Rights Committee is a separate entity from
the better-known U.N. Human Rights Council, which
is holding its own investigation of Israels actions dur-
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probe is headed by Canadian human rights expert Wil-
liam Schabas, prompting Israel to refuse to cooperate
over Schabass history of making anti-Israel statements.
During Mondays questioning, when committee
member Cornelis Flinterman brought up the death
of about 2,000 Palestinians during this summers
war, Manor noted that Israel had to launch airstrikes
on Gaza in response to hundreds of rockets fired by
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Converts talk about Freundel
Say abuse of power extended beyond mikvah peeping
URIEL HEILMAN
W
hen Rabbi Barry Freundel
asked Bethany Mandel to
take a really long shower
before a practice dunk
in the mikvah before her formal conversion
to Judaism, the whole request seemed a bit
odd, she said.
For one thing, Freundel instructed Man-
del to skip the pre-mikvah checklist, which
includes things like cleaning out your
navel, trimming your nails, and getting rid
of excess hair and skin. For another, she
had never heard of practice dunking.
But Mandel eventually bought the rab-
bis explanation: that women performing
the ritual for the first time at their actual
conversions might, from an excess of ner-
vousness and confusion, turn around and
mistakenly expose themselves to the three
rabbis present. Mandel said that she, like
other women who took practice dunks,
actually found the trial run helpful.
But that was before last week, when
Freundel, a prominent Orthodox leader
and rabbi at Washingtons Kesher Israel
synagogue, was arrested for allegedly
installing a clock radio with a hidden
camera in the mikvahs shower room. He
is believed to have clandestinely filmed
women showering and undressing before
their practice dunks and the monthly
immersions that married Orthodox
women perform following menstruation.
Freundel has been charged with six
counts of misdemeanor voyeurism and
suspended without pay from his job.
Looking back, Mandel says, she now
sees that elements of the experience were
deeply suspect.
At first I was like, this was weird, but
when he was waiting in the waiting room
I thought this is just me being paranoid,
Mandel said. Now, she says, It makes me
ill.
Peeping was not the only form of
abuse that converts said they experi-
enced at Freundels hands. The rabbi also
demanded that conversion candidates
perform clerical duties on his behalf, and
that they donate money to the Washing-
ton Beit Din, or rabbinical court. These
candidates, practically all of them women,
would organize his files, open his mail, pay
his bills, take dictation, and respond to
emails on his behalf.
Many felt they had no recourse but to
comply with Freundels requests.
My entire conversion was doing office
work for him and teaching myself, said a
Maryland resident who converted in 2012
after working with Freundel for two years.
She spoke with JTA on the condition of
anonymity. I was so desperate to convert
and move on with my life that I was willing
to play along.
Mandel, too, had no idea when her
conversion would be complete. After her
practice dunk in October 2010, it took
eight months for Freundel to green-light
the real thing.
Youd meet with him and hed at some
point arbitrarily decide that you were
ready to go to the beit din, Mandel said.
There was no clear outline or timeline
or requirements. I didnt go to classes or
study.
The mikvah-peeping revelations, while
the most extraordinary of the allegations
against Freundel, have helped pull back
the curtain on what may be a far more
common problem in the Orthodox world:
the abuse of prospective converts by the
Barry Freundel was the rabbi at
Kesher Israel in Washington, D.C.
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rabbis who convert them. In Freundels case, the rabbi
allegedly abused his power both for sexual and non-
sexual purposes.
The Rabbinical Council of America, which rebuked
Freundel two years ago for misusing conversion can-
didates for clerical work, says it is reviewing its pro-
cedures to better safeguard against such exploitation.
For the women whose privacy was violated by
Freundels alleged actions, the revelations have been
shocking but in retrospect, they said, not out of
character with a man many deemed creepy.
One female candidate for conversion who declined
to be identified for fear that her 2012 conversion could
be challenged said that Freundel made her ride with
him to Towson University near Baltimore, where he
taught in the department of philosophy and religious
studies, to do secretarial work. The woman, who was
single at the time, said the rides were uncomfortable
and the work was onerous, particularly because she
worked nights and needed her days free to catch up
on sleep.
But she didnt dare say no to Freundel, because
he held the prerogative to declare her ready for
conversion.
When youre going through conversion, you dont
know the timeline of when youre going to finish, she
said. Theres so much power being wielded over you,
and in the interim youre in limbo. You cant move,
you cant switch jobs to another location, because you
have to live in the community where youre convert-
ing. I felt a great sense of desperation to get the pro-
cess over as fast as possible.
She said Freundel made comments that struck her
as strange and inappropriate.
He made a lot of comments that didnt sit right
for me about my appearance, about how attractive
he thought I was, about whether guys were pursuing
me, about my clothing, she recalled. I found it quite
uncomfortable to be around him for long periods of
time alone.
Mandel said that her own conversion process was
terribly disjointed, even though Freundel was part of
the committee that established conversion policies
and standards for the Rabbinical Council of America.
(Freundel was also known for being an advocate of
opening up certain leadership roles in Orthodoxy to
women, such as synagogue presidencies.)
The RCA, which suspended Freundels membership
following his October 14 arrest, says it has appointed
a committee to review its entire conversion system to
determine if and where changes are needed to pre-
vent rabbinic abuse. The organization, which serves as
the main rabbinical association for centrist Orthodox
rabbis in the United States, also said it would appoint
women to serve as ombudsmen for every rabbinical
conversion court in the country, to receive any con-
cerns of female candidates to conversion.
Rabbi Mark Dratch, the RCAs executive vice presi-
dent, said in an interview that its difficult for the RCA
to police its members closely.
Because they are scattered throughout the coun-
try, we dont have a lot of hands-on oversight, he said.
The appointment of female ombudsmen is meant to
address this problem, he said. We wanted to create
all kinds of opportunities for potential converts to feel
safe to share their discomforts and concerns. We want
to support a healthy conversion process.
Critics say the RCA is not up to the task, as dem-
onstrated by its failure to identify Freundels alleged
misdeeds despite at least two earlier complaints
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against him. One was about using prospective
converts for clerical tasks and soliciting the beit
din donations, as well as maintaining a joint bank
account with a conversion candidate. In the other,
Freundel was accused of sharing a sleeper compart-
ment on an overnight train with a woman who was
not his wife.
The RCA says it appointed a committee to investi-
gate the first complaint and concluded that while the
behavior was inappropriate, there was no malicious
intent. Dratch says Freundel asked many congre-
gants, not just converts, for clerical help and dona-
tions, and the joint checking account was intended
to help a prospective convert. Freundel was repri-
manded and agreed to stop.
As to the train incident, the RCA says Freundel was
confronted and provided a reasonable explanation,
and there was no evidence of inappropriate behavior,
but did not elaborate.
A delegation was sent to Washington to speak with
Freundel, Dratch recalled. They came back with a
recommendation that didnt rise to a level where he
had to be dismissed.
Among those tasked by the RCA and its affiliated
Beth Din of America with investigating Freundel were
two attorneys who now lead major Jewish organiza-
tions: Allen Fagin, now the chief professional at the
Orthodox Union, and Eric Goldstein, now CEO of the
UJA-Federation of New York. Goldstein declined to
comment to JTA; a representative for Fagin said he was
unavailable for comment.
A rabbinic critic interviewed by JTA said the RCAs
approach to Freundel was totally incompetent.
The organization should have seen a red flag and
they didnt, said the critic, who declined to be named
because he said he did not want to be a distraction.
This is a story of a Jewish institution missing the
warning signs because they answer to nobody.
The critic compared the RCAs handling of the
Freundel allegations to the failure by Yeshiva Uni-
versity to rein in the inappropriate behavior of Rabbi
George Finkelstein, a teacher and administrator at
YUs high school for boys, who over the course of
three decades allegedly wrestled and hugged boys
inappropriately, and the failure of the Orthodox Union
to put a stop to the decades-long abuse of minors by
Rabbi Baruch Lanner, who was exposed by reports in
the New York Jewish Week and eventually, in 2002,
was convicted of two counts of child sexual abuse.
Freundel, 62, has pleaded not guilty to the six
charges of misdemeanor voyeurism. His attorney,
Jeffrey Harris of the Washington firm Rubin, Win-
ston, Diercks, Harris & Cooke LLP, did not return a
call seeking comment. Freundels next court date is
November 12.
The RCA and the chief rabbinate of Israel have
affirmed that all the conversions Freundel oversaw
prior to his arrest remain valid.
Elanit Jakabovics, Kesher Israels board president,
declined to be interviewed for this story. But the
address she delivered to her congregation on October
15, on the holiday of Shemini Atzeret, the day after
Freundels arrest, was posted on the synagogues
website.
There are no words to describe the shock, dev-
astation, and heartbreak we are all feeling at this
moment, she said. Our trust has been violated.
Mikvah is an intensely sacred, private ritual space. It
is also supposed to be a sanctuary a space of invio-
lable intimacy and privacy, where we go to cleanse
ourselves and reckon with ourselves and our aspira-
tions to a right Jewish life. But these sacred spaces
our shul and our mikvah have now been tarnished.
Our inviolability has been violated. I am a woman; I know
it could have been me.
David Barak, a Kesher Israel congregant and a former
president of the mikvah, said Freundel long had been a
polarizing figure even within the congregation. But Barak,
who converted under Freundel in 1998 and teaches a prac-
tical Judaism class for converts, was one of Freundels
defenders.
Nobody came to me afterward and said, hey, the rabbis
being weird, Barak said. But clearly there was a whole
world I didnt see.
He says the synagogue is handling the scandal well, not-
ing that the Simchat Torah holiday last week was one of the
synagogues most spirited ever.
I think the sense at the shul is we were here before the
rabbi, and we will be here after the rabbi, Barak said.
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She rushes into the cafe a few minutes
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complains about high rents and an out-
of-touch government. Its hard, she says,
being the youngest woman in a workplace
full of older men.
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the Knesset, and Shaffir, 29, is the young-
est female lawmaker in Israels history.
The problem in my generation is we
were scared of politics, Shaffir said. We
said that everyone is corrupt and we cant
talk and we cant go into politics, but
thats what a corrupt system wants us to
think. They want us to believe theres no
chance.
A journalist turned activist turned politi-
cian, Shaffir first came to national promi-
nence as the voice of the 2011 social jus-
tice protests, which saw hundreds of
thousands of Israelis take to the streets
to demand a lower cost of living and a
broader social safety net.
Since entering the Knesset last year, she
has made fiscal transparency her crusade
and developed a reputation as a rabble-
rouser eager to shake up the way the gov-
ernment does business.
On October 6, Shaffir was dragged from
a Finance Committee meeting by a guard
while screaming The public doesnt know
what youre doing! at committee chair
Nissan Slomiansky. Shaffir was objecting
to a motion that would have moved money
between government departments with-
out a full Knesset vote.
Shaffir has held up committee meetings
repeatedly over such motions, which she
says result in a budget radically different
from the one passed by the Knesset at
the beginning of the year. Slomiansky has
kicked Shaffir out of meetings twice this
year.
If we dont fight for the state, it might
not be, said Shaffir, a Labor Party member
and alternate member of the Finance
Committee. Thats a big civic responsibil-
ity. This is our state, and the state needs
to take more responsibility for its people.
Shaffir is no quieter on her Facebook
page, where she posts near-daily polem-
ics railing against the governments finan-
cial decisions and budgetary procedures.
Many of the posts are accompanied by
shots of newspaper articles in which she is
featured, her bright red hair and indignant
facial expression filling the photo.
She has been so unyielding that even
some fellow lawmakers who share her
concerns fear Shaffirs theatrics might be
doing more harm than good.
Its important that she question every-
thing, but shes ready to hurt the state for
this noise she makes, said Boaz Toporo-
vsky, a fellow freshman lawmaker and
member of the centrist Yesh Atid party.
Like Shaffir, he supports greater financial
transparency. That crosses the line.
Raised in the coastal city of Netanya,
Shaffir did a year of service work with
the Society for the Protection of Nature
in Israel before joining the army. After her
discharge, she participated in an Israeli-
Palestinian study program at the City Uni-
versity of London.
By 2011 she had become a travel jour-
nalist, writing articles about tourist sites
around Israel as well as a series on hitch-
hiking around Europe on a budget. In July
of that year, when the protests broke out,
she wrote an article about Daphne Leef,
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one of the protest organizers.
Within two months, Shaffir had moved
from writing articles to being quoted in
them as one of the movements leaders.
A speech she gave at an August dem-
onstration was a fiery mix of passion
and indignation over the way a country
founded on socialist ideals had devolved
into a government run by narrow inter-
est groups jostling for power.
I didnt know that the day after I was
discharged [from the army], I would find
myself alone, she said in a 2011 speech.
I didnt know that the day after my dis-
charge I would find out that this place,
the ingathering of exiles, the national
home, was a poisonous group of sec-
tors that fight each other for power, for
money, for control.
Three years later, the high cost of liv-
ing remains a potent issue, again grab-
bing headlines this month when an
Israeli publicized that the German ver-
sion of a popular local pudding cost one-
third of the price in Berlin. But while the
protests have succeeded in putting the
issue on the public agenda, Shaffir says
that little has changed. For that, she had
to run for office.
Shaffir entered what she calls the
world of suits last year, part of a wave of
young legislators galvanized by the 2011
protests. Being the Knessets youngest
woman has been challenging. Some leg-
islators take her less seriously, she says.
But renting a room in a Tel Aviv apart-
ment also keeps her in touch with her
constituency.
Women who get to these places
always need to work harder, she said.
We need to prove ourselves more. If I
make a mistake theyll say, Shes young,
she doesnt understand.
Since being elected, Shaffir has fol-
lowed the money. She says showing the
public how funds are spent, and expos-
ing the small interest groups that seek
back-room changes to the budget, is the
silver bullet for any number of problems
including Israeli-Palestinian peace.
According to her office, nearly $250 mil-
lion has been transferred to Israeli West
Bank settlements over the past year.
At the beginning I thought my job
was to legislate, Shaffir said. When I
entered the system, I understood until
we change the mechanism, nothing will
change.
Because shes a member of the oppo-
sition, many of Shaffirs efforts have
been in vain, though she has made some
gains.
The Supreme Court has ordered the
Finance Ministry to work with her to
make budget transfers in the Finance
Committee more transparent, a process
she says is moving too slowly. And she
has drafted a wide coalition of opposi-
tion lawmakers to demand that Slomian-
sky not be allowed to preside over meet-
ings that transfer money to Israeli Jewish
settlements.
Earlier this year, a left-wing think tank
exposed that the money was winding up
with NGOs headed by officials from Slo-
mianskys rightist Jewish Home party,
which advocates increased Israeli build-
ing in the West Bank.
Its better to try and take a risk than
not to try, Shaffir says. I cant live here
without fighting every day until I can
change the state into a place where its
better to raise children, that realizes the
principles it was founded on.
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Holy texting!
Does new app make smartphone use permissible on Shabbat?
MAAYAN JAFFE
T
eens love texting.
Cell phones dont jive with Shabbat.
A new app seeks to address this uniquely Jew-
ish case of unstoppable force meets immov-
able object.
In 2012, teens sent an average of 60 texts per day,
according to a report by the Pew Internet & American
Life Project. That number was up from 50 in 2009, so it
is likely to be even higher in 2014. Orthodox teens are no
exception. In 2011, an article published in the New York
Jewish Week drew attention to the high percentage of
modern Orthodox teens for whom half Shabbos is a
way of life. Half Shabbos is when someone maintains all
of the 39 Shabbat prohibitions except for texting, which
falls under the prohibition of using electricity in nonemer-
gency situations.
Yossi Goldstein and a like-minded team of smartphone
app developers, however, think they have a solution to
half Shabbos, one that enables teens to text on Shabbat
without compromising halacha ( Jewish law).
Its to make life easier for Orthodox Jews, Goldstein, a
partner in the Shabbos App, said.
The companys website, shabbosapp.com, includes a
list of the halachic challenges related to texting, such as
muktzah (the device has no use on Shabbat), mavir (turn-
ing the screen on and off may be considered making a
fire), and koteiv (writing), among others. It also gives the
companys reasoning for why the Shabbos App technol-
ogy works around these challenges, making it possible for
teens (and anyone else) for $49.99 to text permissibly
on Shabbat.
The company, according to Goldstein, does not yet have
rabbinic support or approval but is working with several
rabbis.
Could the Jewish world see widespread smartphone use
in synagogue by next Rosh Hashanah? Its unlikely, say all
those who spoke with us about the app Orthodox and
non-Orthodox alike. Thats because the app goes against
what is commonly referred to as the spirit of Shabbat,
said Rabbi Daniel Rockoff, who received rabbinic ordina-
tion from Yeshivat Shaalvim in Israel.
The observant community wont go for it, he said.
Nonetheless, Rockoff isnt surprised that such a tech-
nology was invented. He said Jewish law develops with
the times and that technology is playing an ever-increasing
role in our lives. He said this fact is even more true for
teens, and that its the responsibility of the Jewish com-
munity to listen to, understand, and address the next gen-
erations concerns.
But we also need to keep it in perspective, and realize
the things we think are necessities may not be, and we
have to consider their place in relation to the whole idea
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of Shabbos and that Shabbos is a sanctu-
ary in time, he said. We need to show the
next generation Shabbos is something to
be preserved
Rockoff drew on a rabbinic dialogue
that dates back to 1917, around the time
when telephones were invented. He said
rabbis at the time examined telephones
from a scientific perspective to determine
whether they could be used on the Sab-
bath. By 1930, rabbis had determined that
while use of the telephone might work out
on a technical level the circuits are open
so by picking up the phone you are not
really doing anything substantial using
them was not something the Jewish people
chose to accept.
Just because something is O.K. in prin-
ciple, that doesnt mean it is something
that should be practiced. We dont use
electricity because of minhag Yisrael
tradition Rockoff said.
That doesnt mean that there havent
been inventions that have made keeping
Shabbat easier or have enabled people
with disabilities and other challenges to
keep Shabbat. Machon Tzomet, a com-
pany in Alon Shvut, Israel, has been at the
forefront of these developments, including
a Shabbat-permissible electric wheelchair
and stairlift as well as disappearing ink for
essential writing tasks.
Maish Latidus, chief engineer for
Machon Tzomet, said he thinks the Shab-
bos App might be something worth explor-
ing, but not for the reasons the company
is touting. He said that he does not like the
direction of the app.
When you look at the applications
Machon Tzomet works on, they are either
for essential services such as health or
security or they are for other services in
line with the spirit of Shabbat, said Lati-
dus, noting he could see such an app being
used to make a necessary map accessible,
perhaps for doctors who would have to use
smartphones anyway.
Elie Klein who served as an adviser for
NCSY, the youth movement of the Ortho-
dox Union from 1999 to 2003, and today is
raising his own two children in Jerusalem
said he was taught that a teacher of teens
should empower them, help them create
their own Jewish path, and meet them on
their level and at the places they like to fre-
quent. But you shouldnt water down faith
on their behalf, he said.
There has to be a point at which you
stop giving them all the power and hold a
little bit back, so they understand the way
tradition works and that to some extent
they have to fit into the framework of what
came before them, Klein said. They can
push it forward with their own voice and
in their own way, but it has to fit.
Klein said the Shabbos app should force
the Orthodox community to examine
itself and the way in which it conveys the
message of Shabbat observance to young
people. He said Jewish teens should be
taught to feel the beauty of Shabbat, and
to understand their history as well as the
depth of the religion and tradition.
Shabbat is the technology you can-
not get enough of once you get into it,
Klein said. I think it is really important to
model that.
Meredith Jacobs, the author of The
Modern Jewish Moms Guide to Shabbat,
expressed a similar sentiment. She said
that even for nonobservant families, Shab-
bat can and should be seen as a day that
we do things differently, where we spend
more time at dinner, where we have a dif-
ferent kind of meal, linger at synagogue
with friends spending time with each
other. The Shabbos app, she said, would
ruin Shabbat.
Jacobs thinks todays teens today are los-
ing the ability to communicate in person,
and that family celebrations of Shabbat
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Hoops guru David Thorpe connects
with players on and off the court
HILLEL KUTTLER
BALTIMORE Rodney Glasgow catches a
pass, pivots, takes one dribble, and lays the ball
in the basket.
David Thorpe, Glasgows coach and trainer
for a couple of weeks this summer, steps in to
offer some pointers, instructing the former Vir-
ginia Military Institute guard to look up after
making the catch and how to keep opponents
from stealing the ball.
Its what Thorpe has been doing for nearly
three decades out of his Clearwater, Fla., base:
identifying and correcting flaws in a basketball
players game in preparation for a season and,
he hopes, a pro career.
For some of his clients the NBA roster
includes Israelis Omri Casspi and Gal Mekel, as
well as Kevin Martin and Corey Brewer of the
Minnesota Timberwolves the relationship
extends well beyond the court.
Thorpe, Martin says, is my second father.
I get most of my pleasure by the maturing I
see among the young men Im helping, seeing
them grow, Thorpe says. It nourishes my soul
in a way that making a jump shot doesnt.
A stream of players flows each summer to
Thorpes consultancy, Pro Training Center, usu-
ally through referrals by their agents or teams.
Mekel, of the Dallas Mavericks, is coming
back from a knee injury suffered during his
rookie season.
Glasgow has come with an eye toward land-
ing a contract with a European team which
he would do, joining BBC Monthey based in
Switzerland. Its an achievement he credits
Thorpe with having a major part in.
Hes a great teacher and mentor, Glasgow
says. He has this presence about him that is
really outgoing. I could see that this person has
high character. He got to know me and was
really genuine.
Thorpe, who also provides basketball anal-
ysis on the ESPN-owned website TruHoops.
com, coached at Dixie Hollins High School in
St. Petersburg, Fla. a couple of hours from
his native Seminole before starting out on
his own in 1993.
I really consider myself a basketball
coach who just helps these guys get bet-
ter, he says.
After joining Maccabi Haifa two years
ago, Mekel was directed to Thorpe by
Casspi. Mekel, a guard, would lead the
team that season to Israels national cham-
pionship and secure league Most Valuable
Player honors.
Shortly after the Sacramento Kings
selected Casspi in the 2009 NBA draft
hes now back with the team a club offi-
cial sent him to Florida, wanting Thorpe
to help improve the forwards three-point
shooting.
Glasgows New Jersey-based agent, Jus-
tin Haynes, says Thorpe is the best at
improving a players skills and providing
after-care.
Haynes estimates that hes sent eight
players to train with Thorpe. With
Glasgow signing in Switzerland, all have
gone on to play professionally.
Every high-level player wants to be
trained by a highly skilled trainer, Haynes
says.
In one session, Thorpe corrects a prob-
lem with Glasgows shot more precisely
with his mechanics.
Thorpe was telling me certain tricks
so Id have a higher percentage of making
the shot, in so doing breaking the game
down at a pro level [in a way] that I never
received from coaches in college, says
Glasgow, a Washington-area resident.
That right away did it for me. I knew
I was in the right hands. It told me his IQ
level was so high.
By their second week together, the new
habit was second nature and I was shoot-
ing much better, Glasgow says.
He also watched Martin and Casspi
working out simultaneously, ingesting
every little thing.
David would say it and Kevin would
show it, Glasgow says.
Martin, a guard who first trained with
Thorpe as an incoming sophomore at
Western Carolina University, is now a
10-year NBA veteran and has returned
every summer.
Thorpe immediately broke his ten-
dency to settle for jump shots, stressing
the importance of getting to the hole and
drawing contact, Martin told JTA while
vacationing in Hawaii.
I think he knew my calling card was
going to be putting the ball in the basket,
says Martin, who has done just that, pos-
sessing a 17.9 points-per-game average in
the NBA. He believed in me and saw the
traits I have to be successful.
Thorpes work doesnt end in the sum-
mer. In season, slumping players will con-
tact him. After bad games, too.
When you need me, when you have a
bad game, you have to call me, Thorpe
says he tells them.
Thorpe and his assistant, Ryan Pan-
none, will review game film to isolate
mechanics and identify solutions.
I tell the guys, Im just going to be a
mirror, reflecting who you are. Im not
going to say you had a good day when you
didnt, Thorpe says.
He stays close to his charges person-
ally, too. Mekel and Martin attended the
recent bar mitzvah of Thorpes son Max-
well; Mekel received an aliyah during the
Torah reading.
Martin says of Thorpe, Hes just a guy I
could trust. With David I felt the trust and
loyalty would always be there.
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can serve a role in helping teens to
unplug and be present and for parents
to do the same.
The turning off of electronics lets
you have that time to communicate with
each other in a way I feel we lose oth-
erwise, Jacobs said, noting that parents
should set limits on texting and electron-
ics for themselves and their children.
Using Shabbat as an opportunity for this
will help teach teens that there is some-
thing deeper than their smartphones,
and there should be repercussions if a
parents limits are not adhered to.
You are the parent and no means
no, she said.
But what about outreach? The Chabad-
Lubavitch movement, for example, has
been at the forefront of creative use of
technology to meet people where they
are at, and to engage them in Jewish life
and learning. Could the Shabbos app
work in these instances?
Its a slippery slope, said Mendel
Segal, executive director of the Vaad
Hakashruth of Kansas City and a mem-
ber of the Chabad movement. What is
being done on the phone? Is it some-
thing necessary or is it just for personal
gratification? First youre texting, next
thing you could be watching a movie,
buying shoes.
Segal said Chabad takes Shabbat laws
very seriously, and cannot imagine the
app being encouraged.
But how about further down the road?
I dont know how technology will
evolve in the next five years, Rabbi
Rockoff said. Could I see even in 20
years that there is some way to read lit-
erature or learn on some type of elec-
tronic device on Shabbos? Yeah. The
Shabbos app is making waves and that
will lead to something at a minimum
the process of a good conversation.
JNS.ORG
Maayan Jaffe, a Kansas-based freelance
writer, is senior writer/editor at
Netsmart (www.ntst.com). Email her at
maayanjaffe@icloud.com.
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Israel wont allow Gaza
reconstruction
if tunnels are rebuilt
Israel will not allow the reconstruction
of the Gaza Strip if Hamas continues to
use construction materials to build terror
tunnels, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon
told U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-moon during a
meeting in New York on Monday.
Yaalon and Ban discussed the outcome
of Israels Operation Protective Edge in
Gaza and the continuing presence of U.N.
peacekeepers in volatile areas along the
Jewish states northern border.
We want the residents of Gaza to live
in dignity and prosperity, rebuild their
homes, and return to normal life, Yaalon
said. But, we are very worried. Just yes-
terday Hamas representatives said they
intend to reconstruct the infiltration tun-
nels, instead of rebuilding the homes of
Gazas residents.
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Hamas admits
it is rebuilding
terror tunnels
Hamass Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades
has openly stated that it is rebuilding
the terror tunnels that were destroyed
by the IDF during Operation Protec-
tive Edge this summer, according to a
reporter from the Gaza-based newspa-
per Al-Resalah, who witnessed diggers
at work during a visit to a tunnel site
on Sunday.
The repairs to the tunnel had started
during one of the humanitarian cease-
fires reached during the war, the com-
mander of the digging team told the
reporter.
Hamas did not wait a single
moment after the last round of fight-
ing, and began its rearmament in
anticipation of another round, a
senior Israeli diplomatic source said,
Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
JNS.ORG
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Federations Major Gifts Dinner is always
a time for celebration. But this year there
was an element of solemnity also. The tour
of the 9-11 Memorial and Museum was
followed by a special dinner at 7 World Trade
Center, overlooking the Freedom Tower
and the World Trade Center site. Our Major
Donors heard from Larry Silverstein, owner
of the World Trade Center. Mr. Silverstein
shared his personal experiences of
September 11, and the weeks and months
that followed. He emphasized the critical
role played by Federation in responding
to crisis and building Jewish community.
Jewish Federation
2015
major gifts
dinner
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Israeli Nobel laureate champions tech entrepreneurship
ALINA DAIN SHARON
CHICAGODan Shechtman,
winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in
chemistry and a candidate in last
Junes Israeli presidential elec-
tion, has championed techno-
logical entrepreneurship and its
potential to improve lives around
the world for a long time.
In our world today, in the
economic situation today, there
are many disenchanted people
because they cant find a job,
Shechtman said on October 20.
He was just about to give a lec-
ture on technological entrepre-
neurship at Northwestern Uni-
versitys McCormick School of
Engineering and Applied Science
in suburban Chicago.
On October 21, Shechtman
delivered a second, more sci-
entific lecture about his Nobel
Prize-winning research on quasi-
periodic crystals.
People need to think with an
entrepreneurial mind, he said.
Twent y- seven years ago,
Shechtman founded a course on
technological entrepreneurship
at the Technion Israel Insti-
tute of Technology in the north-
ern city of Haifa. To date, about
10,000 engineers have taken the
class. Many of the courses grad-
uates went on to launch start-up
ventures in Israel, a country that
has developed a reputation for
being the start-up nation.
Somehow, the Israeli char-
acter is susceptible to thinking
innovation, Shechtman said.
More specifically, Israelis tend
to lack a fear of failure when
compared with natives of other
countries. I see that [when] I
visit many countries, Shecht-
man said. I say failure is O.K.
Start again!
Entrepreneurship is particu-
larly important because peo-
ple have to think about caring
for themselves, not relying on
governments to provide jobs
but governments can provide
economic conditions that can
foster start-ups, according to
Shechtman.
For instance, a government
can encourage venture capital
funds or other financial entities
to invest in local start-ups. Over
time, the Israeli government has
committed to taking on part of
the investment burden by invit-
ing foreign entities to invest
locally, mainly in high-tech start-
ups. That move brought a lot of
money to Israel and created a
major, major difference, Shecht-
man said.
In addition, governments can
open advice centers to budding
entrepreneurs and business
incubators that provide train-
ing, other assistance, and shared
resources to emerging start-ups.
Private ventures also can help.
In Israel, a company called RAD
founded by brothers Yehuda
and Zohar Zisapel invests in
start-ups, offering workspace
and funds to innovators. If the
project is successful, the innova-
tors open their own companies,
becoming co-owners with RAD.
This creates a network of com-
panies that grows and turns
profits, enabling them to make
further investments and innovate
more, Shechtman said.
But when it comes to intra-
preneurship innovation that
takes place in the context of a
larger company, rather than
independently the process can
be stifled. Scientists take an idea
to their immediate supervisors,
who in turn will take the idea to
their own supervisors and pres-
ent it as their teams idea, and so
on. The idea goes up the chain
of command, but by the time
it gets to the top it is out of the
hands of the best scientists, said
Shechtman, who argued that the
bottom rungs on chains of com-
mand need access to the top in
every organization in order for
intrapreneurship to thrive.
In the 1980s, the Tel Aviv-born
Shechtman discovered the quasi-
periodic crystal, or a quasicrystal
in short. During 70 years of crys-
tallography research up to that
point, scientists believed that
crystals always were composed
of atoms arranged in a repeating
and orderly pattern. Other non-
repeating patterns were thought
to exist only on manmade struc-
tures, such as in the mosaics of
the Alhambra Palace in Spain,
but not in nature. The atoms in
the crystal Shechtman discov-
ered, however, had an orderly
pattern that did not repeat.
The discovery created a rev-
olution in our understanding of
the structure of matter, Shech-
tman said. It created a para-
digm shift in crystallography,
so much so that eventually the
International Union of Crystal-
lography changed its definition
of crystals. The practical appli-
cations for the finding involve
the creation of extremely strong
steel, which is especially bene-
ficial when it comes in contact
with the human body, including
in electric shavers and surgical
instruments.
But acceptance of Shecht-
mans discovery did not come
easily. For many years the sci-
entific community treated the
finding with great skepticism,
and often hostility. At one point,
Shechtman was asked to leave
a research group because his
insistence that his discovery was
real was thought to reflect badly
on the group.
The chief opponent of the idea
that a quasicrystal can exist was
Linus Pauling, who was argu-
ably the greatest chemist of
the 20th century, Shechtman
said. After Pauling died, Shech-
tmans idea gradually gained
more acceptance, and in 2011 he
was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry for his discovery.
More recently, in addition to
continuing his work with the
Technion course on technologi-
cal entrepreneurship, Shecht-
man has hosted a childrens
science program on Israeli state-
owned television, called Being
a Scientist with Professor Dan
(as translated from Hebrew). In
each episode, Shechtman con-
ducts science experiments with
a group of first-grade children.
Influencing the improvement
of science education, and Israeli
education in general, was one of
Shechtmans chief goals when he
decided to present his candidacy
for Israeli president earlier this
year.
Despite meeting or speaking
with about 90 of the 120 Israeli
Knesset members who voted in
the presidential election, Shech-
tman received only one Knesset
vote. Reuven Rivlin won the race
and replaced the retiring Shimon
Peres.
I didnt want to go into poli-
tics, Shechtman said. I wanted
to become the president of Israel.
I thought that the president
should be disconnected from
politics. This is of course not
what happened.
I wanted to influence the edu-
cation system in Israel I also
thought I could represent Israel
very well abroad, he said, add-
ing that politics and science are
so far apart. Science is objective.
It may take longer, but the truth
is accepted.
Yet Shechtman does see scien-
tific work as quasi-ambassadorial.
I think that what we should
do [in academia] is show the pos-
itive Israel, the democracy, the
good health care, the high edu-
cation, scientific achievements
innovations and inventions that
help the world, he said.
This is particularly important
given the wave of anti-Israel sen-
timent around the world, a sen-
timent that is not based on real
knowledge, Shechtman said.
Its based on feelings and
stories, he said. The fact that
we can protect ourselves bet-
ter against the shelling of cities
doesnt make us bad guys.
The media is prone to exag-
geration, giving viewers the
small picture but presenting it
as the big picture, according to
Shechtman.
Why is television called a
medium? he asked rhetorically,
before answering, Because it is
neither rare nor is it well-done.
JNS.ORG
Dr. Dan Shechtman, who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry, thinks
Israelis tend naturally to embrace innovation. ALINA DAIN SHARON
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Parashat Noach: Rise and shine
W
hen I was at summer camp, we used
to sing a few songs at every lunch. One
of the ones that we sang most often
was Rise and Shine, which was about
Noahs ark and the flood story. The first verse was:
Lord said to Noah: Theres gonna be a floody, floody
(X2) Get those children (Clap) Out of the muddy, muddy
Children of the Lord
The song went on to describe how Noah built the
arky, arky and put in all the animals by two-sies, two-
sies, how it rained and then the sun came out, the ani-
mals exited the ark and everything was hunky dory,
dory. (If I have put the mel-
ody indelibly back into your
mind, I am very sorry.) This
cutesy, cutesy picture of the
Flood story is one which we
are all familiar: we teach it to
preschoolers and there are
numerous childrens toys of
the ark and the animals.
But the Flood Story is not
a nice, adorable story if you
really think about it. The most
realistic depictions of the
Flood I have ever seen were
drawn by the French artist
Gustav Dor (1832-1883) for an
illustrated Bible that was published in 1866. The Fron-
tispiece to Dors illustrated edition of the Bible, called
The Deluge, shows humans on the top of a mountain
desperately trying to save themselves and their children
while the waters rage around them. On the very top
of the mountain is a tiger with one of her cubs in her
mouth. In the background, dimly in the darkness, the
ark is visible floating away. It is a chilling image, a power-
ful visual midrash and it portrays the real horror of the
Flood story which the biblical text only refers to in terse
and economical language:
And the waters surged most mightily over the earth,
and all the high mountains under the heavens were cov-
eredAnd all flesh that stirs on the earth perished the
fowl and the beasts and all swarming things that swarm
on the earth, and all humankind. (Genesis 7:19, 21)
What is the Flood story actually about? It is a story
trying to explain how humanity so perverted the very
Earth itself by violence and other corrupt behavior that
God found it necessary to start over Creation by wiping
the slate clean. The late Bible scholar Nahum M. Sarna
described the Flood as:
a cosmic catastrophe that is actually the undoing
of creation. But Gods chastisement and grace oper-
ate simultaneously, so that out of the disaster comes
renewal. ( JPS Commentary to Genesis, p. 48)
Sarna points out that the same verbs
(create and make) that are used in the
Creation story of Genesis 1 to describe Gods
creativity are used in the Flood story to des-
ignate the reversal of the process. There
are numerous other linguistic connections
between the Creation and Flood stories,
showing both the undoing of the world but
also its renewal.
The Flood story is, in many ways, a warn-
ing about the potential arrogance of human
behavior and the cost of corruption and
violence. When we allow this behavior to
permeate human society we are undoing
Creation, turning it back into the primordial
chaos from which it emerged.
We no longer consider floods, droughts,
hurricanes, and other natural events to be
direct punishments from God for our sins.
These natural evils are now seen as part
of the normal working of the environment
which can vary from year to year and from
decade to decade but have until recently
been relatively stable since the end of the
last Ice Age some 11,700 years ago. This
geological era is called the Holocene period
(from the Greek for entirely recent) and
is the age in which human civilization has
arisen.
However, many scientists are now sug-
gesting that the Holocene has ended and
we are entering a new geological era: the
Anthropocene (from the Greek for human
and new). This new period is one in which for the first
time human activity has had a major impact on the eco-
systems of planet Earth. This term was first suggested
in the 1980s, and is now being officially discussed as the
new name for the time period in which we live.
The Anthropocene is usually considered to have
started in the late 18th Century with the beginning of
the Industrial Revolution. The Anthropocene Working
Group, the scientific organization which is considering
this change, met in Berlin on October 16 to develop a
proposal for the designation of the term Anthropocene
as an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale
by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the
scientific organization that has the mandate to decide
on the name change.
The Anthropocene has been characterized primarily
by a massive increase in human-caused species extinc-
tion and a significant increase in carbon dioxide from
human industrial and agricultural activity which is
bringing about climate change. The Anthropocene will
be a period of increasing climate instability which will
have major impacts on human civilization such as the
rise of sea levels, increased droughts and forest fires,
and even greater rates of species extinction. The Pen-
tagon has responded to these potential threats by plan-
ning for an increase in international instability. In a
recent report, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel referred
to climate change as a threat multiplier, as it will likely
aggravate many of the problems that the United States
and other nations face.
If human civilization was created and flourished dur-
ing the Holocene, then the Anthropocene maybe the
actual undoing of Creation, not because of a divinely
sent deluge but because of human folly and a lack of
political will to change. We have been living off the fruits
of the Earth but we have also been uprooting the very
gifts that sustain us.
The Flood Story is not a cute tale for children; it is a
very adult allegory warning us of the potential disasters
of our unbridled arrogance and greed. But it also is a
story about hope and the possibility of human renewal.
How our story will end is now entirely up to us.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster is rabbinic scholar-in-residence
at GreenFaith, an interfaith environmental organization.
He lives in Teaneck.
Rabbi
Lawrence
Troster
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Across
1. He was the Ben-Gurion of India
6. Uzi need
10. The ___ experiment (psychological
measure of conformity)
14. The red heifer is a very rare one
15. Make aliyah, literally
16. On October 1, 2014, she and Ashton
had a baby girl
17. Broadcaster Howard Stern
18. Acknowledged that the ark was open
19. Nation of Esaus descendants
20. Katie Couric hosted it from 2006 to
2011
23. One of the Greats known as The
Jewish Lake
24. Larry Pages job at Google, Inc.
25. It helps Barry Scheck exonerate
convicts (abbr.)
26. Daniel Snyders Washington Redskins
grp.
29. ___ People (Gypsy song)
31. Year three decades before the Romans
destroyed the Temple
33. A bekishe is a long black one favored
by chasidic Jews
35. Triumph of the Will filmmaker
Riefenstahl
37. Derech ___ (common decency)
41. Biblical names for some disputed
territories
44. Closer to Yiddish-type humor
45. Spelling of nepotism?
46. Poison a well
47. We do it twice on Passover night
49. Member of a restricted country club
51. Dr. Mathilde Krim researched them
52. New Deal govt agency to which Henry
Morgenthau Jr. allocated money
55. Call for rescue from Gilligan and the
Skipper, too
57. He visited Buchenwald with Barack in
2009
59. It can include anywhere from 353 to
385 days
64. Dalet, in numerology
65. Spanish artist who made lithographs
called Aliyah, the Rebirth of Israel
66. Bar Refaeli weighs 58 of them
68. Actor Astin
69. How Herod said he was?
70. JDate successes
71. Direction Canadian Jews face when
they pray
72. Middle name of Sherie Scott, who
played Ursula in Broadways The
Little Mermaid
73. To nosh
Down
1. Amare Stoudemires sports org.
2. He succeeded Antonio as LAs mayor
3. Zaatar, for example
4. Its pieces became famous because of a
1982 Spielberg film
5. They help make milchigs
6. Anti-Semitism movie Gentlemens ___
7. Orb whose genesis is described in
Genesis 1:16
8. Chazzans specialty
9. Biloxi Blues did it on Broadway in
1985
10. Nice blessing!
11. Haman wore a three-___ hat
12. Krusty is a Jewish one
13. The hand of Miriam
21. Actress Davis who co-starred with
James Franco in Eat Pray Love
22. Mendys supernatural friend, in a
Lubavitch comic book
26. Hadassah alt.
27. Questions, cups, or sons at the seder
28. Lydia the Tattooed ___ (Groucho
favorite)
30. Create a Brandeis scholarship fund
32. Flatow and others
34. Angered by a nudnik
36. Neither a Cohen nor a Levi
38. Eve
39. Prepared the strings on a tallit
40. Microwaves a knish
42. Something to do while saying Modeh
Ani
43. Pew separator
48. 1995 Jeff Goldblum film about an
albino teen
50. One way to swear
52. Flaming baal teshuvah is one for
newly Orthodox Jews
53. If I ___ Rich Man (song about
Tevyes fantasy)
54. Fatahs Mahmoud
56. Something for a dybbuk to do to
people
58. Improves the Atlanta Jewish Times
60. Jeremiad
61. Freed of rock music?
62. Goldstar and others
63. Home for half of Italys 35,000 Jews
67. ID for the ego?
The solution for last weeks puzzle is
on page 49.
BRIEFS
Galilee boy issued
Israels first Aramean
birth certificate
Yaakov Halul doesnt know it, but on
Monday he made history. The 2-year-old
from the Galilee village of Jish became
Israels first Aramean citizen.
Yaakovs parents, Shadi and Oksana
Halul, arrived at the Israeli Interior Min-
istry in Safed on Monday and received
Yaakovs birth certificate, the first in
Israel that listed a babys ethnicity as
Aramean.
Some 130,000 Arameans live in Israel,
mainly in villages in the Galilee. Until
recently, when a long public campaign
ended in a decision by the Interior Min-
istry to recognize the Aramean people as
a separate ethnicity, they were listed as
Arabs on identification documents.
Since the baby was born, my wife and
I have refused to get him a birth certifi-
cate on which hed be listed as an Arab,
Shadi Halul said, according to Israel
Hayom. He was a kind of alien. No docu-
ment. No identity.
Shadi, 38, served as a captain in the
IDF Paratroopers Brigade and now
chairs the Aramean-Christian Associa-
tion in Israel. JNS.ORG
Toyota hackathon:
Israeli entrepreneurs,
Japanese executives
A group of Japanese executives from Toy-
ota will visit Israel this week to look for
technologies applicable for innovation in
Japanese smart cars.
Japan had been reluctant to cooperate
scientifically with Israel in the past, partly
out of fear of the response of the countrys
Arab oil suppliers. This weeks visit may
indicate a change in the Japanese attitude
on the issue.
The Japanese finally realized that there
is a Silicon Wadi in the Middle East that
rivals Californias Silicon Valley, and they
dont want to get left behind, said Vered
Farber, director of the Asian Institute in
Israel, according to the Times of Israel.
It took them awhile to realize it, but they
have finally begun to understand that
Israel may have what it takes to keep their
economy dynamic and growing.
Toyotas showcase event will be a hack-
athon on Thursday and Friday, in which
Israeli programmers will develop projects
for connected cars automobiles that
can upload and download data to and from
the cloud, which according to Toyota will
improve the driving experience and safety.
JNS.ORG
Arts & Culture
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MIRIAM RINN
T
he next month offers theatergo-
ers two chances to exercise their
Jewish funny bones.
The performances represent
different aspects of the Jewish humor tradi-
tion, but both succeed in making the audi-
ence laugh with delight. Brad Zimmermans
My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy
stands irmly in the Borscht Belt school of
stand-up, and I mean that as a compliment.
Although Zimmerman adds some poignant
reminiscences of his parents, this show
is built around jokes. Zimmerman has a
laconic, deadpan delivery, just right for his
story of moderate success, long delayed,
and the audience at the Triad Theater, 158
West 72nd St., lapped it up.
A native of Oradell, Zimmerman was a
star teen athlete at Camp Akiba, but my
adult life has not been nearly as glamor-
ous, he notes. When he decided to move
to New York City to make it as an actor, his
temporary job as a waiter lasted 29 years.
His experiences as a waiter at a series of
nondescript restaurants makes for some of
the funniest material in the show, although
Zimmerman gets a lot of mileage
out of his mother as well. Once
he began doing stand up at the
age of 42, Zimmerman started
to work with comedians such as
Joan Rivers, George Carlin, and
Brad Garrett. The show is pro-
duced by the same folks who
brought us Old Jews Telling
Jokes, and it runs through the
end of the year.
Farther downtown, the other
show represents contemporary
Israeli humor, which is based
on a more European sensibility.
Graduates of the renowned Nis-
san Nativ Acting Studio founded
the Israeli theater troupe Tzi-
porela nine years ago, and
they have been performing in
Israel and abroad ever since.
Now their merry mishmash has
landed at the Players Theatre in
Greenwich Village for an inau-
gural American ive-week run, offering a
fun-illed gift to local audiences. The Tel
Aviv-based troupe of nine ive women
and four men presents a wildly origi-
nal mix of comic sketches, dance, mime,
and music, poking fun at an assortment of
everyday situations. As a pleasant relief,
there are no politics in the show and
almost no commentary on Israels myriad
social conflicts. Instead there are 20 gen-
uinely funny skits about dating, mating,
job hunting, friendships both male and
female, long-term marriage, and other
such humble topics. The skits are marked
by a warmth and sweetness thats neither
cloying nor mawkish, despite the occa-
sional rough language.
Several of the performers are superior
acrobats, and all of them are experts at
split-second costume changes. Many of
the skits depend on exquisite timing and
the comic switcheroo. A standout comes
early in the show when two actors per-
form an Israeli melodrama while two
other actors translate. Soon the transla-
tors become involved in their own melo-
drama, and others have to translate. It
all happens fluidly and hilariously. Later
on, an actor taking off his clothes turns
this ordinary activity into an outrageous
laugh-illed striptease. Nothing to worry
about; it remains quite innocent.
The troupe has been planning its Off-
Broadway debut for two and a half years,
adapting some of the skits for American
audiences, performing them in English,
and giving themselves the temporary name
Odd Birdz to make it easier for English
speakers to pronounce. (Tziporela means
little bird.) They have already lined up
educational workshops at the Juilliard
Drama Division and Bereisheet, an after-
school program founded by Israeli immi-
grants in northern New Jersey.
Actors in the troupe are popular perform-
ers in Israel, and several are seen regularly
on Israeli television. Dance and movement
backgrounds give them great agility, which
they put to comic use on stage. A lot of
Tziporelas work in Israel is educational,
presenting workshops and street perfor-
mances, and the members of the group
get to work engaging the audience even
before the lights dim. Backgrounds on all
nine members of the troupe are available at
www.tziporela.com.
Part of the charm of the show is its Tel
Aviv style genial, tolerant, determinedly
carefree, so different from the dour, com-
bative tone many Americans associate with
Israel these days. That style may be decried
as frivolous or escapist, but everyone needs
to escape an insoluble situation at times.
Two opportunities to laugh
Stand-up comic, Israeli theater troupe perform in Manhattan
Above, members of the Israeli theater troupe Tziporela perform in Greenwich
Village. Left, Brad Zimmerman waited tables for decades before doing stand-
up comedy.
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Wallenberg lecture in
Montclair: As part of a
free series, Rescue in
Budapest, sponsored
by Montclair State
University, author and
journalist Alex Kershaw
discusses Missing Hero:
The Disappearance
of Raoul Wallenberg,
2 p.m., at Montclair
Public Library. An
exhibition, Waldsee:
1944 Art Exhibit and
Raoul Wallenberg
Poster Exhibit, will be
on display in MSUs
Life Hall through Dec.
18. 50 S. Fullerton Ave.
(973) 655-4185 or
montclair.edu/global-
education.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a family service, led by
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
and joined by Rinat Beth
El Junior Choir, 6:45 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes scholar-in-
residence Jonathan
Medved for Shabbat; he
will discuss Israels tech
industry. Medved will
speak tonight at 7 p.m.
and during Shabbat
morning services at
9 a.m. He is the founder/
CEO of OurCrowd, the
worlds largest equity
crowd funding platform
focused on Israeli start-
ups. 180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanu-el.com.
Shabbat in Tenafly:
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers rock
Shabbat, with free dinner
at 6:15 p.m., followed by
7:30 services featuring
singer/songwriter Dan
Nichols and the Temple
Sinai Rock Band. 1 Engle
St. Dinner reservations,
(201) 568-3035 or
ambennoun@verizon.net.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers Shabbat Tikvah,
a service of inspiration
and renewal, 8 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.
Saturday
OCTOBER 25
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers 9 a.m.
services to celebrate
Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan,
for a special celebration
of a new ritual, Bat
Yisrael, followed by
Kiddush lunch. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers its monthly family
Shabbat, with a focus
on the story of Noah;
separate groups for
different ages, 10:30 a.m.
Learning service for
adults at 10. Informal
lunch. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Comedy in Teaneck:
Professional comedians
Alex Barnett, Andrea
Mezvinsky, and Adam
Oliensis entertain
at Temple Emeth,
8 p.m. Wine, cheese
and crackers during the
show, and desserts after.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Sunday
OCTOBER 26
Walkathon: The
Jewish Association
for Developmental
Disabilities holds its
annual walkathon, rain or
shine, at the Englewood
Boat Basin recreational
area, 9 a.m. Special
appearance/autographs
by Joe Caramagna
from Marvel Comics.
(201) 457-0058, ext. 13.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten
in September 2015,
10:15 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Miriam Gray
Revisiting local roots:
Educator Miriam Gray
and Dorothy Greene,
president of the Jewish
Historical Society of
North Jersey, lead
a discussion about
the Jewish history of
Paterson, Hackensack,
and Passaic at Temple
Beth El in Hackensack,
10:30 a.m. Bring along
stories or memorabilia
of growing up in North
Jersey. 280 Summit Ave.
(201) 342-2045.
School open house in
Teaneck: Maayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls holds an open
house. Registration,
12:30 p.m.; program, 1-4.
1650 Palisade Ave. Nina
Bieler, (201) 833-4307,
ext. 255, or admissions@
maayanot.org.
Jewish values: Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn begins an adult
education series, A
Time for Peace, A Time
for War, led by Rabbi
Alberto Zeilicovich,
10:30 a.m. The first
lecture is Images of
God: A Man of War or a
Man of Peace. Sessions
continue Nov. 2, 9, and
16. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 797-9321, ext. 415.
Lunch and
entertainment in
River Edge: Jewish
musician Dan Nichols
performs at Temple
Avodat Shalom, noon.
Bagels and shmears at
11 a.m., sponsored by
the shuls brotherhood.
385 Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463.
Annual candidates
forum: The JCC
Rockland with Rockland
chapters of AARP,
Statewide Senior Action
Council, and American
Association of University
Women; Hadassah,
Nanuet Hebrew Center,
Rockland League
of Women Voters,
and National Council
of Jewish Women
Rockland Section, host
a candidates forum,
2-4 p.m. 450 West
Nyack Road. BonnieW@
jccrockland.org, or
(845) 362-4400, ext. 109.
Film in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah screens Avalon,
2 p.m. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691.
Film in Teaneck: The
Womens Interfaith
Initiative screens the
documentary Out of
Cordoba at Temple
Emeth, 3-6:30 p.m. The
film explores the lives
and writings of the two
most important thinkers
to emerge from medieval
Spain: Averroes, a
Muslim, and his Jewish
counterpart, Maimonides.
The Womens Interfaith
Initiative seeks to unite
women of the Abrahamic
faiths for relationship
building and supporting
harmony, better
understanding, and
acceptance of others.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Gary Rosenblatt
Jewish journalisms
challenges: The Jewish
Weeks culture editor,
Sandee Brawarsky,
interviews Gary
Rosenblatt, its editor
and publisher, on The
Challenges Of A Jewish
Journalist: Covering
Ones Community
From The Inside at
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael in Teaneck, 8 p.m.
389 West Englewood
Ave. (201) 837-2795.
Monday
OCTOBER 27
Team training in
Paramus: Team Yachad
offers a free workout/
training session at
Yeshivat Noam, 6:30 p.m.
Learn about marathon
training, meet team
runners and coaching
staff. 70 West Century
Road. Chani Herrmann,
(201) 633-1349, www.
teamyachad.com, or
Herrmann@ou.org.
Candidates forum: The
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys
Jewish Community
Relations Council and
Bergen County NAACP,
in partnership with the
Jewish Standard, North
Jersey Board of Rabbis,
National Council of
Jewish Women Bergen
County Section, Northern
New Jersey Region of
Hadassah, CRC of Jewish
Federation of Greater
MetroWest, Bergen
County African American
Voters Coalition, and
Black Clergy Council of
Teaneck, Englewood, and
Vicinity, co-sponsor a
forum for the candidates
for 9th congressional
Childrens theater in Tenafly: Theatreworks USA presents Fly
Guy & Other Stories A Musical for the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades Professional Childrens Theater series, 2 p.m. Group
rates; birthday parties arranged. 411 East Clinton Ave. (201) 408-
1493 or www.jccotp.org. PHOTO BY JOAN MARCUS
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district, including Rep.
William Pascrell (D),
and Dr. Diedre Paul (R),
at Community Baptist
Church of Englewood,
7 p.m. 224 First St.
(201) 820-3944.
Lecture on Raoul
Wallenberg: As part of
a free series Rescue in
Budapest, sponsored
by Montclair State
University, a panel
discussion, Martians of
Science: Five Jewish
Hungarian-American
Scientists Who Reshaped
the 20th Century,
with moderator Laurel
Leff (Northeastern
University), Michael
Gordin (Princeton
University), Tibor
Frank (Eotvos Lorand
University, Budapest),
and Alex Wellerstein,
American Institute
of Physics,, is set for
MSUs Cohen Lounge,
Dickson Hall, 7 p.m. An
exhibition, Waldsee:
1944 Art Exhibit and
Raoul Wallenberg
Poster Exhibit, will be
on display in MSUs Life
Hall through Dec. 18.
(973) 655-4185.
Feature film: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Crimes
and Misdemeanors,
7:30 p.m., as part of a
series, Top Films You
May Have Missed (or
want to see again).
The film was written
by Susan Dworkin with
filmmaker Liz Garbus
and narrated by Susan
Sarandon. Harold Chapler
introduces the film and
leads the discussion
afterward. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Customized adult ed
in Wayne: Rabbi
Randy Mark begins
Chai Mitzvah, a
monthly Monday
night study session
to enhance Jewish
growth and knowledge,
7:45 p.m. 30 Hinchman
Ave. (973) 696-2500 or
rabbi@shomreitorahwcc.
org.
Tuesday
OCTOBER 28
Painting party
in West Nyack: The
JCC Rockland offers
instructions and supplies
to create original
artwork. Bring wine;
snacks provided. 450
West Nyack Road.
(845) 362-4400 ext.
109 or BonnieW@
jccrockland.org.
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, in the hospital
parking lot, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
School open house
in Paramus: Yeshivat
Noam invites families
of prospective students
to an open house,
7:30 p.m. Meet the new
early childhood director
Kara Feldman, hear
about technology and
learning and innovative
teaching styles. 70
West Century Road.
(201) 261-1919, ext. 380,
or efeil@yeshivatnoam.
org, YeshivatNoam,org,
or www.Facebook.com/
YeshivatNoam.
Book discussion with
author in Woodcliff
Lake: The sisterhood of
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley meets
to discuss Mother,
Daughter, Me by Katie
Hafner, who will join the
discussion via Skype,
8:15 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Wednesday
OCTOBER 29
Caregiver support in
Fair Lawn: Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey
and the Sam and Nina
Wolf Caregiver Support
Center concludes a two-
part panel discussion on
caring for adults with
Alzheimers disease and
dementia at the Fair
Lawn Public Library,
6:30 p.m. Speakers
include JFSNJ social
worker Melanie Lester
and Shana Siegel, a
certified elder law
attorney. 10-01 Fair Lawn
Ave. (973) 595-0111 or
www.jfsnorthjersey.org.
Lecture on Hungary in
Montclair: As part of
a free series Rescue in
Budapest, sponsored
by Montclair State
University, Bnai Keshet
hosts a lecture, Double
Exile: The Exodus of
Hungarian-Jewish
Scholars, Artists, and
Professionals Through
Germany to the U.S.
(1919-1945), by Tibor
Frank (Eotvos Lorand
University, Budapest),
7 p.m. 99 S. Fullerton
Ave. An exhibition,
Waldsee: 1944 Art
Exhibit and Raoul
Wallenberg Poster
Exhibit, will be on
display in MSUs Life
Hall through Dec. 18.
(973) 655-4185 or
montclair.edu/global-
education.
Film in Orangeburg:
The Orangetown Jewish
Center begins a series
with speakers and
programs on fostering
educational, spiritual,
social, and cultural
aspects of all children,
including those with
exceptionalities. The
first session features
a screening of Bully,
7 p.m. 8 Independence
Ave., Orangeburg, N.Y.
(845) 359-5920 or
office@theojc.org.
Be a happy person: The
Chabad Jewish Center
of NW Bergen County
in Franklin Lakes, in
partnership with the
Jewish Learning Institute
and the Washington
School of Psychiatry,
begins a six-week course
How Happiness Thinks:
Jewish Perspectives on
Positive Psychology,
7:30 p.m. 75 Pulis Ave.
Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan,
(201) 848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org
Open house in
Englewood: The Moriah
School invites parents
of prospective students
to an open house,
8-9:30 p.m. Faculty
and administrators will
be on hand. Tours and
information about its
tuition affordability
program. 53 South
Woodland St. Erik
Kessler, (201) 567-0208
ext. 376, ekessler@
moriahschool.org or
www.moriahschool.org.
Thursday
OCTOBER 30
Morning movie in
Closter: Temple Beth
El screens 50 Children:
One Ordinary American
Couples Extraordinary
Rescue Mission into
the Heart of Nazi
Germany, 10 a.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Discussion on King
David in Washington
Township: CoNNect
J, a new adult Jewish
learning program
sponsored by the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, begins
with a panel discussion,
An Affair of the Heart:
King David and his
Intimate Relationships,
with Rabbis Noah
Fabricant, David Fine,
Nathaniel Helfgot, and
Debra Orenstein, at the
Bergen County YJCC,
7:30 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. Refreshments.
(201) 820-3902 or
SarahD@jfnnj.org.
Rabbi Simon Glustrom
Book review/signing:
Rabbi emeritus Simon
Glustrom discusses his
newest book, Unfinished
Journey: A Rabbis Bout
with Doubt, at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
8 p.m. Introductions by
Rabbis Joel Pitkowsky
and Ronald Roth;
commentary and
questions following the
presentation; and a book
signing. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Friday
OCTOBER 31
Shabbat in Hoboken:
Chabad of Hoboken
holds a community
Shabbat experience with
services followed by a
four-course gourmet
dinner, featuring
traditional Jewish foods
with a twist. 80 Park Ave.
(entrance on Newark
Street). Rabbi Moshe
Schapiro, (201) 386-5222,
rabbi@chabadhoboken.
com, or www.
Chabadhoboken.com.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 2
Mah jongg in West
Nyack: The JCC
Rockland hosts a mah
jongg tournament,
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Breakfast and cash
prizes. 450 West Nyack
Road. (845) 362-4400,
ext. 109, or BonnieW@
jccrockland.org.
Tickets on sale
for Jackie Mason
The Bergen Performing Arts
Center in Englewood is selling
tickets for a performance by
comedy legend Jackie Mason on
Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. For
information, call (201) 227-1030
or go to www.bergenpac.org or
www.ticketmaster.com.
Introduction to Judaism
Anyone interested in exploring Judaism is welcome to a
new 16-session course starting at Temple Avodat Shalom
in River Edge on Thursday, October 30. The program will
be at four different shuls and will run through March 20.
It is for interfaith couples, people considering conversion,
and Jews looking for more meaning. It is co-sponsored by
the Union for Reform Judaism and the congregations.
Each week the class will explore an aspect of Judaism,
including holidays and life-cycle ceremonies, concepts of
God, prayer, daily spiritual living, and ethics. Sources will
include Jewish texts. Attendance is also required at one
Shabbat or holiday program at each synagogue.
The instructors are Avodat Shaloms Rabbi Paul Jacob-
son, Rabbi Jordan Millstein of Temple Sinai of Bergen
County in Tenafly, David Widzer of Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley in Closter, and Steve Sirbu of Temple
Emeth in Teaneck.
School open house
in Teaneck: Torah
Academy of Bergen
Academy holds an open
house. Doors open at
9:15 a.m.; program at
10. 1600 Queen Anne
Road. Preregistration
at www.tabc.org/
admissions. Donna
Hoenig, (201) 837-7696
or admissions@tabc.org.
School open house in
Elizabeth: The Jewish
Educational Centers
Bruriah High School
for Girls holds an open
house, 9:30 a.m. 35 North
Ave. (908) 355-4850,
bruriah@theJEC.org, or
www.Bruriah.theJEC.org.
Holiday boutique in
Teaneck: Sisterhood
of Congregation Beth
Sholom holds a boutique
with over 25 vendors,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Kosher
refreshments to buy.
Items include books,
toys, games, gift items,
scarves, ties, tablecloths,
and Judaica. Cooking
class by Take A Break
Catering. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620.
Jewish values: Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn continues an adult
education series, A
Time for Peace, A Time
for War, led by Rabbi
Alberto Zeilicovich,
addressing Jewish values
in relation to peace and
war, 10:30 a.m. Based
on the theme of the
rabbinic seminar held
at Hartmann Institute in
Jerusalem this summer
that the rabbi attended.
Lecture, Apocalyptic
Wars in the Bible.
Sessions continue Nov. 9
and 16. 40-25 Fair Lawn
Ave. (201) 797-9321, ext.
415 or AdultEd@tbsfl.org.
Benefit comedy show:
Gildas Club Northern
New Jersey presents
Laugh Out Loud 5, an
all-star show featuring
nationally known
comedians, at the Bergen
County Academies
Auditorium, 7 p.m.
200 Hackensack Ave.
(201) 457-1670.
In New York
Sunday
OCTOBER 26
SAR School open
house: SAR High School
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
503 W. 259th St. Nancy
Lerea or Gila Kolb,
(718) 548-2727, ext.
1576, admissions@
sarhighschool.org, or
www.sarhighschool.org/
hsopenhouse.
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Museum of Jewish Heritage hosting
collaborative book discussions
The Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust joins with the
92nd Street Y to present books about Jew-
ish history and philosophy at the MJH in
lower Manhattan.
On Sunday, October 26, at 2:30 p.m.,
Charlotte Bonelli, who wrote Exit Ber-
lin: How One Woman Saved Her Family
from Nazi Germany, will talk with histo-
rian Susan Zuccotti. On Wednesday, Octo-
ber 29, at 7 p.m., Sarah Wildman, author
of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl
My Grandfather Left Behind, will speak
with June Thomas of the online maga-
zine Slate. On Sunday, November 9, at
2:30 p.m., Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
and author Eric Lichtblau will discuss his
book, The Nazis Next Door: How America
Became a Safe Haven for Hitlers Men. On
Wednesday, November 12, at 7 p.m., Lev
Golinkin will talk about his book, A Back-
pack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka,
and on Sunday, November 16, at 2:30 p.m.,
British novelist Martin Amis will discuss
his controversial new book, The Zone of
Interest: A Novel, with Ron Rosenbaum,
the author of Explaining Hitler.
The series concludes on Sunday, Novem-
ber 23, at 2:30 p.m., when Janna Gur, who
wrote Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to
Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable
Dishes Updated for Todays Kitchen, will
speak with Jayne Cohen, author of Jewish
Holiday Cooking.
The MJHNYC is at 36 Battery Place.
For tickets, call the museum box office at
(646) 437-4202, go to www.mjhnyc.org or
www.92Y.org,or call (212) 415-5500.
Coffee and composers program
is new at the Wayne YMCA
The Wayne YMCAs Rosen PAC offers its
new Coffee and Composers program,
beginning on Sunday, October 26, from
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., with The Works of
Stephen Sondheim with Brian Walters.
Broadway composer Sondheims
work includes Into the Woods, Com-
pany, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday in
the Park with George. Participants will
receive rare sheet music, hear special
guest performances, along with coffee.
The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a
partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jer-
sey. The Y is at 1 Pike Drive in Wayne. To
register, call (973) 595-0100.
Helena Rubinstein exhibit
accents beauty and power
Beginning October 31, the Jewish
Museum in New York City will pres-
ent Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is
Power, the first museum exhibi-
tion to explore the ideas, innova-
tions, and influence of the legend-
ary cosmetics entrepreneur Helena
Rubinstein (1872-1965). Rubinstein
rose from humble origins in a small
town in Poland to become a global
icon of female entrepreneurship
and a leader in art, fashion, design,
and philanthropy. The exhibit is on
view through March 22. Call (212)
423-3337 or go to TheJewishMu-
seum.org.
A salon portrait of
Helena Rubinstein.
COURTESY JEWISH MUSEUM
Carnival means fun in Paramus
Ben Porat Yosef holds its annual carnival,
including master illusionist Elliot Zimet as
seen on Americas Got Talent, petting
zoo, blow-up rides, carnival games, arts &
crafts, face painting, music, refreshments,
mitzvah opportunities, and flu shots for
adults by CVS, on Sunday, Oct. 26 from
11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. A blood drive is from
10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with free non-
fasting glucose and cholesterol tests with
every donation.
Bring a stuffed animal to donate to
Bears from Bergenfield. The event is rain
or shine. The school is at East 243 Frisch
Court. Call (201) 845-5007, ext. 16 or visit
benporatyosef.org.
Elliot Zimet COURTESY BPY
Abba Mania at bergenPAC
Abba Mania will perform at the Bergen
Performing Arts Center in Englewood,
on Wednesday, November 12, at 8 p.m.
The concert presentation celebrates
the music and style of Abba. Favor-
ites include Mamma Mia, Voulez
Vous, Dancing Queen, and Super
Trouper.
Tickets are available at www.bergen-
pac.org, www.ticketmaster.com, or at
the box office, (201) 227-1030.
Project S.A.R.A.H. dining benefit
To mark Domestic Violence Awareness
Month, local eateries will donate 10 per-
cent of proceeds on October 28 to Proj-
ect S.A.R.A.H. (Stop Abusive Relation-
ships at Home). To date, participating
Teaneck restaurants include Smokey
Joes Caf, ETC Steakhouse, Shalom
Bombay, Gotham Burger, Sababa Grill,
Mocha Bleu, and the Teaneck Doghouse.
Mention Project S.A.R.A.H. when dining.
In addition, informational brochures on
domestic violence will be distributed. For
information, call (973) 777-7638, ext. 154.
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How to grow enough food
as water, farmland dwindle
Farmers from California to China have a new Israeli tool in the
struggle to assure food security in coming decades
Why did the giant Chinese conglomerate Shenyang Yuanda
Enterprise Group buy the little Israeli agri-tech startup Auto-
Agronom for $20 million?
Two words: food security.
Food security is one of the most pressing issues in the
world as the population spikes upward, at the same time as
the amount of usable farmland and available water declines.
Commercial farmers everywhere, including in the worlds
most populous country, are seeking ways to grow more food
crops with fewer resources and less waste.
AutoAgronom seeks to fill this need by taking Israeli drip-
irrigation to the next level. Its Root Sense technology uses
sensors to examine a variety of soil and weather conditions
around the roots. After analyzing that data via advanced algo-
rithms, the systems controller provides automatic irrigation
and fertilization (fertigation) customized to each crop.
By tailoring our solution, we have been able to show tre-
mendous traction with over 70 types of crops, significantly
increasing crop yields while reducing the use of water up to
50 percent and fertilizers by 70 percent, Osher Perry, Auto-
Agronoms vice president for international marketing, said.
He spoke with ISRAEL21c from Boston, where AutoAgronom
is wrapping up a four-month accelera-
tor program for promising startups at
MassChallenge Israel.
In November, Perry will head to Cal-
ifornia to start marketing the Israeli
solution to drought-stricken farmers,
and to represent AutoAgronom at the
CleanTech Global Forum competition.
The company placed first, ahead of
Paulee CleanTec, BreezoMeter, EVR
Motors and GreenIQ, at the Israeli
CleanTech Open Global Ideas finals on
September 10.
AutoAgronom was launched in 2008, after a decade of
research and development by CEO Nissim Danieli, a farmer
with experience in controller systems, and CTO Shaya Redler,
an expert in technologies based on fuzzy logic, which deals
with approximate reasoning.
A single Root Sense system can cover 250 acres and con-
sists of seven sensors, a controller and software. Irrigation
is achieved through capillary movement of water through
non-drain drip lines, using less water than in regular drip
irrigation.
The rest of the systems available to growers today are deci-
sion support systems where you have sensors but the farmer
still has to make decisions. With our system, the decisions
are made automatically, while the software allows the
farmer to monitor the system and identify problems,
which can be very costly, Perry said.
Data on the performance of each system is uploaded
to the cloud daily. This allows AutoAgronom to compare
data from different farms and vegetation. Though the
focus is now on the U.S. and Chinese markets, the com-
panys technology is being used with 70 types of crops
in 13 countries, including Israel, England, Spain, Turkey,
Morocco, Peru, and Colombia.
At every farm where AutoAgronoms system is
installed, a control field allows for easy comparison
at eye level. In corn, the most significant crop in the
world, we see a 16 percent increase in yield and the
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Following its acquisition, AutoAgronom will maintain
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Shenyang Yuanda Enterprise Group Chairman Kang
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Perry said that AutoAgronom is now in discussions
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n 1 Care One at Teaneck held a commu-
nity Sukkot party. Entertainment included
magic by Simon Mandal and face paint-
ing by Snazzy Jazzy. COURTESY CARE ONE
n 2 Religious school students at Shomrei Torah in
Wayne helped fill 148 shopping bags of food to
contribute to the Wayne Interfaith Network. Mem-
ber Betty Singer coordinates the Project Isaiah
grocery drive at the shul. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
n 3 Children at Gan Aviv Bergenfield participated
in pre-Simchat Torah activities. COURTESY GAN AVIV
n 4 Sandra Alpern, Ken Glatzer, Gary Hutm-
acher, and Dr. Fred and Merle Harris delivered
bags of food to the Center for Food Action
Warehouse in Saddle Brook on behalf of the
Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Con-
gregation Beth Tikvah. Members donated
items to the 22nd Operation Isaiah Food Drive,
held on Yom Kippur eve. COURTESY JCCP/CBT
n 5 Students in Teaneck Chabads Preschool
celebrated during a mock Simchat Torah cel-
ebration in the playground. COURTESY CHABAD
n 6 Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley cel-
ebrated Sukkot with a sukkah social for congre-
gants of all ages. Students from the religious
school had fun masquerading. COURTESY TEPV
n 7 Miriam Lifshitz, center, a resident at the Jew-
ish Home Assisted Living in River Vale, is shown
with teen volunteers Caroline Cohen, Ashley
Trattner, and Jason Hines. They were among a
group from Valley Chabads Linking Hearts who
made holiday honey dishes and played games
with JHAL residents. COURTESY VALLEY CHABAD
n 8 The Bergen County YJCC held a yoga class
in the sukkah. Other special Sukkot activities
included a senior adult celebration and a family
party for the YJCCs David Rukin Early Child-
hood Center Nursery School. COURTESY YJCC
n 9 The social action committee of Temple Emeth
in Teaneck recently sponsored a food drive and
sorted the items for the Center for Food Ac-
tion in Englewood. COURTESY TEMPLE EMETH
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October 30 event will also accept
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On October 30, the Teaneck Chamber of Commerce
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6 p.m. at the Marriott-Glenpointe. This years sponsors
are Heritage Pointe-Teaneck, ACE Media Group, Davis,
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The honorees are: Robert Wilson, retired police chief;
Lt. David Barrett of the fire department; Richard Merz
of the department of public works; Melanie Rubio of
TVAC; Andrea Holmes Thompkins, woman of the year;
Loren Daniels, educator of the year; Steven Bell, direc-
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the Teaneck High School Interact Club, youth achieve-
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Mohammed Hameeduddin, humanitarian of the year;
Angelae Wilkerson, community achievement; Theodora
Lacey, lifetime achievement, and John McGilchrist, rep-
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cates for the business community, it is also mindful
of its residents and melds the two together to help
the community at large. The board is comprised of
volunteers who are proud of the community and all
that it has to offer.
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meet and greet with entertainment, cash bar, and
hors doevres. Mingle with local businesses, orga-
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friends, and neighbors.
Donations of food will be accepted by Teanecks own
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130 Walnut Street
$4,450,000
This East Hill hidden treasure is the height
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Elegant, large, formal entertainment rooms
with rich replaces and moldings throughout.
Outstanding family room, media/billiards
room for easy comfortable luxurious living.
Eat-in-kitchen with state of the art appliances
and granite countertops. First oor guest
suite, four car heated garage, heated outdoor
pool with cabana and tennis court with lights,
generator, surround sound throughout,
security cameras and more, make this a
perfect home. When you walk into this home,
you will not want to leave. Close to NYC and
the sophisticated downtown Englewood
restaurants, shopping and more. Close to all
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Dir: Lydecker or Hillside to Walnut
Englewood
296 Oakwood Road
$2,500,000
Superb quality new construction on the
desirable East Hill of Englewood. Move right
in to over 8,000 square feet of pure luxury.
high ceilings, high quality wood ooring and
a chefs kitchen with Quartz counters, stainless
steel state-of-the-art appliances, and Kuche-
Cucina cabinets. Master bedroom suite offers
his and her walk in closets, bathroom with
an over-sized soaking tub, double vanity and
separate stall shower. Six additional bedrooms
and magnicent bathrooms, home theater,
gym and huge play space are just a few of the
lower level features. Pre-approved for a pool.
Close to Houses of Worship, schools and more!
Dir: Thornton or Hillcrest to Oakwood
Tenay
36 Stonybrook Road
$1,595,000
High on the East Hill backing up to Tenay
Nature Center is this private paradise.
Soaring ceilings and open spaces have
expansive windows to appreciate the natural
surroundings. Skylights abound to bring in
natural light. Gourmet kitchen features huge
center cooking island with top of the line
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Israeli stone replace. Master suite features
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closet. Two additional bedrooms and a hall
bath complete the upper oor. Downstairs
features another bedroom/ofce, and massive
family room with replace, walk-in cedar
closet, and sliding glass doors to the patio,
as well as a separate wing with private entry,
guest suite, and laundry area. This home has a
generator large enough to power the entire
house!
Dir: Hudson to Stonybrook
Tenay
128 Kent Road
$3,299,000
This palatial East Hill 9,519 SF colonial was
custom designed with craftsmanship and
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natural beauty. Located in Tenays most
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proportioned at acre with room for pool
or tennis court, the thoughtfully designed
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southern facing exposure in kitchen, family
rm, and 3 en suite bedrooms, including the
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The interior ow is exceptional; whether for
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while special features such as french pocket
doors and back staircase providing superb
functionality and versatility. This magnicent 7
BR, 6 1/2 bath has everything youve dreamed
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Spectacular one-of-a-kind contemporary.
TEANECK
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TEANECK
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