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WHY IS THIS HAGGADAH
DIFFERENT THAN
ALL OTHER HAGGADOT?
A couple of months ago, we met cartoon-
ist Jordan Gorfinkel, the former Batman

editor whose endeavors now include workshops at Jewish day schools. At the time, he
mentioned that he was working on a new
Haggadah, where traditional text was translated into the vernacular of comic books.
Now, The Passover Haggadah Graphic
Novel has launched on Indiegogo.com.
One might think the Haggadah would
feature Batmans nemesis the Riddler
asking the Four Questions, but Mr. Gorfinkel
tells us that the work is fully original, and
it does not feature licensed characters.
Instead, the illustrations by Israeli artist
Erez Zadok focus on the familiar seder
characters ancient Israelites, reclining
rabbis, and, in the original what-if scenario,
we and our children and our childrens
children as slaves in modern Egypt had God
not redeemed our ancestors.
Mr. Gorfinkels campaign promises that
he will use every tool in the comics kit,
including humor a staple of Jewish
tradition to make even the most esoteric
and/or non-linear sections engaging, as we
bring history alive, making it relevant with
the action, drama and excitement thats
always been inherent.
Donors to the campaign, which seeks
to raise $36,000, will get the first copies
of the book to be printed next year
and the possibility of tax deductions for
contributions above the $25 cost of the
finished Haggadah, since the Haggadah
is being published by a certified nonprofit
organization. If you donate $1000 or more,
you can have your face appear in a scene
in the Haggadah. What better way to
see yourself as having personally
come out from Egypt?
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Losing a name
Last week, we published a dvar Torah
focusing on the memorial season on
our American Jewish calendar, spanning Yom Hashoah to Memorial Day.
So it is quite ironic, as well as
deeply unfortunate, that in a
production error, the authors byline,

synagogue affiliation, and photo was
left off the page.
We apologize to Rabbi Alberto
(Baruch) Zeilicovich of Fair Lawns
Temple Beth Sholom, for the error,
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provoking essay.
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KEEPING KOSHER.........................................49
DEAR RABBI ZAHAVY.................................50
ARTS & CULTURE ........................................... 51
CALENDAR ...................................................... 52
GALLERY ..........................................................54
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................ 55
OBITUARIES .................................................... 57
CLASSIFIEDS .................................................. 58
REAL ESTATE..................................................60
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I cant imagine my life without

jalapeno gruyre challah.
Elina Tilipman, a baker and one of the two partners in Challah
Hub, a Jewish holy bread and social media project, according
to Jessica Ritz in Tablet.
GOOD WIFE FINALE:
Harmony reigns
as hit bows out
The series finale
of the hit CBS
show The Good
Wife will air on Sunday,
May 8, at 9 p.m. The
creators of the show,
MICHELLE KING, 70ish,
and her husband, Robert
King, always planned to
leave after seven
seasons but they
thought that the network would continue to
make new episodes. In a
press conference last
February, Michelle
detailed what happened
when they told CBS and
the cast of their plan to
depart: There was a
conversation with the
network, studio and
Julianna. Thats JULIANNA MARGULIES, 49,
who played the title
character. Everybody
came to the same
decision, that to be able
to go out together is
really what we all
wanted. We felt very
fortunate and flattered
that we were being
allowed to end the show
together with the writers
and producers, in the
way we would hope it
would end.
The Kings did give
rabid fans a ray of hope
when asked about a
possible spin-off series:
Nothing is off the table,
said Michelle. Nothing
is formal but we are
not saying no to anything. Added Robert
King, What would be
appealing is if we could
find a way to spin off an

ensemble. We wished we
had more time to explore
other lives of their supporting characters.
Meanwhile, Margulies, who won two best
lead actress Emmys for
playing the title character, Alicia Florrick, told
Entertainment Weekly:
The Kings always said it
should end after year 7,
and I think theyre right.
[Still] its going to be
very hard to let go of a
character and this family. By the way, reliable
reports are that JOSH
CHARLES, 44, who
played the lead character Will Gardner (killed at
the end of season 5), will
appear in the finale in a
flashback scene.
The season finale
of Big Bang
Theory airs on
CBS on Thursday, May 12,
at 8 p.m. JUDD HIRSCH,
81, will guest-star as the
never-before-seen
anthropologist father of
Leonard (Johnny Galecki). Last month, Galecki
told an industry audience
that he recruited Hirsch
last January, when both
were at an NBC tribute to
JIM BURROWS, 75.
(Burrows directed Hirsch
in Taxi as well as
directing Big Bang.)
Galecki told the same
audience that he drew
elements from Alex
Reiger, Hirschs Taxi
character, in molding the
Leonard character. Both
Michelle King
Julianna Margulies
Judd Hirsch
Ali Weinberg
Josh Rogin
Phil Kives
Alex and Leonard, he said,

acted as the voice of
reason in their group
while actually they were
as confused as their
friends.
Galecki has a sort of
Jewish persona, but he
isnt Jewish in real life.
Likewise, his character, Leonard Hofstader,
seems Jewish but all
the biographical clues
in the series, to date,
indicate that he isnt. Still,
I think theres a chance
that we will learn, at
some point, that Leonards father is Jewish.
Judd Hirsch has the map

of Israel written on his
face, and such a map is a
terrible thing to waste.
Captain America:
Civil War has the
best advance buzz
of any comic-book based
spectacular coming out
this year. Maybe because
it has a real issue anchoring its plot one that has
echoes of the recent
Apple v. the federal
government hacking
dispute. Collateral
damage involving the
Avengers leads to calls
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A faction of the Avengers,
lead by Captain America/
Steve Rogers (Chris
Evans), wants no such
oversight. Another
Avenger faction, led by
Iron Man/Tony Stark
(Robert Downey Jr., who
is 3/8 Jewish), is willing
to accept oversight.
Co-starring tribe members include SCARLETT
JOHANSSON, 31, (Black
Widow) and PAUL
RUDD, 47, (Ant-Man).
A mazal tov to
MAX WEINBERG,
65 (most famous
as Bruce Springsteens
drummer). On April 16,
his daughter, ALI
WEINBERG, 30ish, wed
Bloomberg View/CNN
political analyst JOSH
ROGIN, 35ish. The bride
is a digital journalist for
ABC News. Perhaps
because Alis mother
isnt Jewish, a rabbi
didnt preside but the
couple married under a
chuppah and the
traditional Jewish
wedding blessings, etc.
were said by the officiant. Attendees included
most of the E Street
Band, NBC political
director CHUCK TODD,
44, and CNN anchors
WOLF BLITZER, 68, and
JAKE TAPPER, 47.
Remember K-Tel,
which flooded
the airwaves in
the 1970s and 80s with
ads for things like the
Miracle Brush and
album compilations of
hit single records? Well,
the founder of K-Tel,
PHIL KIVES, died on
April 27 at 87. He was
born in a Jewish farming
colony near Winnipeg,
Canada. He trapped furs
when he was 8 to pay for
his school clothes. He
was the first to realize
that the public wanted
big hit song compilation
records and he bought
the rights to those songs.
In the last ten years, he
made another fortune
licensing those old hits
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Wash your hands!
Dr. Miryam Wahrman of William Paterson University
writes a handbook on manual hygiene and ritual
JOANNE PALMER
whole book about washing

your hands?
That entirely basic bit of selfmaintenance that you learned
to do when you were a kid? And still do?
Most of the time?
Uh, most of the time
Yes, Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman of Teaneck,
a professor of biology at William Paterson
University (and also the Jewish Standards
science correspondent) has written an
entire book about hand washing. (And this
Thursday, May 5, was World Hand Hygiene
Day; to mark it, Dr. Wahrman organized a
forum on hand hygiene.)
The Handbook: Surviving in a GermFilled World is in some ways a scary piece
of work. Each of us, Dr. Wahrman says, is
surrounded by our own specific swarm of
microbes; were it visible, we each would
look like Peanuts Pigpen (a character she
finds not horrifying but oddly endearing).
But, she says, there is hope. Simply
washing our hands has made us safer
throughout human history; continuing
simply to wash our hands will continue to
make us safe.
And there is a Jewish component! Beginning with Gods mandate, in Exodus, that
Aaron and his sons wash their hands (and
their feet) before they enter the Tabernacle, lest they die, Jews have been washing their hands. Ritually, yes, but the relationship between ritual and health is both
real and fascinating, Dr. Wahrman says.
Lets start at the beginning.
Dr. Wahrman and her brothers, Rabbi
Tzvee Zahavy of Teaneck (yes, this papers
Dear Rabbi Zahavy) and Dr. Reuvain
Zahavy of Manhattan, a college math professor, grew up on Manhattans Upper
East Side. Their father, Rabbi Zev Zahavy,
headed Congregation Zichron Ephraim,
the prominent Orthodox synagogue now
better known as Park East.
Zev Zahavy, who was ordained at Yeshiva
University by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik,
was a man of wide-ranging interests. He
was a very public rabbi; in those days the
New York Times frequently reported on
sermons, and his often were featured. He
often showed up on Sunday morning religious TV programs. He earned a doctorate
when he was in his 50s, and after about
20 years left the pulpit to teach English at
Kingsborough Community College.
Eclectic minds ran in her family, Dr.
Wahrman said. Her fathers maternal
grandfather, Harris Epstein, an immigrant
Dr. Miriam Z. Wahrman will be honored at this years graduation for her
diverse work at William Paterson University.
from Russia, held patents for an extension

ladder and a folding umbrella. (Is there
something symbolic about an immigrant
to this huge, teeming country inventing devices that involve starting small
and then unfolding and occupying more
space?)
Rabbi Zahavy was brilliant and an
inspiration and a character, his daughter
said. He was glamorous the famous photographer Roman Vishniac took a matineeidol-like picture of him and a man of
consequence, she continued.
Dr. Wahrmans mother, Edith Medine
Zahavy, also was brilliant, her daughter
said. She taught in a public elementary
school; in her spare time, she founded
Park Easts nursery school. She ran it as
the rebbitzin, as a volunteer, as part of
her duties, Dr. Wahrman said. She really
loved to teach. It was the right profession
for her.
She developed a reading program in
the public school, using a reading laboratory, before anyone else anywhere did
that. She would take groups of students
out from the classroom to the reading lab.
She was ingenious. She also went back to
school, to Hunter, for a masters.
Both her parents taught us that we

should wash our hands, Dr. Wahrman
said. They would always say, whenever
we came home, in from outside, Wash
your hands with soap and water. Wash
them up to your elbows.
Part of it, she said, is that one of the
first rituals that observant Jewish children are taught is netilat yadayim literally, washing hands. And part of it
simply was her parents awareness of
the importance of cleanliness.
Ironically and terribly, her mother
probably died earlier than she would
have had she not been subject to infection. When my mother got sick, she went
to the hospital for cardiovascular issues,
Dr. Wahrman said. She had bypass surgery. She didnt die from that. But she was
in intensive care for 5 months, because
she contracted a hospital-acquired infection that ultimately took her life. That was
in 2000. Rabbi Zahavy died in 2012. He
had a full life. He went to all his grandchildrens weddings, and he enjoyed his four
great-grandchildren, Dr. Wahrman said.
So part of Dr. Wahrmans interest in germs was personal. Some was
professional.
This hand-washing cup, like most, is

double-handled.
Her doctorate, in biochemistry, is from

Cornell; her research, in the properties
of cancer cells compared to normal cells,
was mostly done at Sloan-Kettering, Dr.
Wahrman said. This started me out as
germ-aware. Thats because she worked
on cells grown outside the body; when
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you do that, you have to be scrupulous
about keeping them uncontaminated. You
learn all about aseptic techniques that
keep germs out of your petri dishes.
Next, in the early 1980s, very soon after
Louise Brown, the first so-called test-tube
baby, was born, Mount Sinai hired Dr.
Wahrman to set up the first in-vitro fertilization lab in New York State, she said.
Although that work was still new, and the
labs approach was rudimentary and not
highly successful, I did gain a very deep
respect for the principle of keeping everything as germ-free as possible, she said.
You really dont want embryos to be contaminated. Remember, these are human
embryos.
In 1984, Dr. Wahrman began her work at
William Paterson University. I was hired
to develop a program in biotechnology,
she said. At that time, it was brand new.
No one was teaching it. There were no
courses. There were no books. We had to
come up with our own.
We set up a masters program. A lot of
the faculty there had the insight that such
a program would be very important. We
were ahead of our time.
She was well situated for that job. She
had experience in biotechnology from the
in-vitro work, from her cancer research as
a graduate student, and from the recombinant DNA research she did as a post-doc.
Now, she could combine those things to
mold a new discipline.
In 1986, she and her husband, psychologist and more recently attorney and
administrative law judge Israel Wahrman,
There were
no courses on
bioethics, no
books about it, or
not many, and I
said that I had to
develop a course.
moved to Teaneck (Like Miryam, Israel is
Dr. Wahrman.) They have lived there ever
since. Its a great place to live and raise
kids, she said.
I also discovered that I loved to teach,
she said. In the 31 years since she joined
the faculty, she has reinvented her role on
campus many times. Once, when she studied marine biology, she and her husband,
poor souls, had to go to the Caribbean.

We collected specimens by scuba diving
for them, she said. My husband was my
unpaid assistant and my dive buddy. It was
a biologists dream.
She worked as an administrator as well
as a scientist and teacher; now, along with
her other work, she teaches a course in
bioethics. As she had done before, and as
her mother had done before her, she was
forging new ground. It was a brand new
discipline when I started teaching it, she
said. It was around 2003 or 2004. There
were no courses on bioethics, no books
about it, or not many, and I said that I had
to develop a course.
She did. It addresses a broad area of
bioethics, including health sciences, genetics, reproductive biology, and end-of-life
issues, she said. I teach bioethics as a
course where we ask more questions than
we answer. Frequently the questions have
multiple answers.
Not only did Dr. Wahrman write for the
Jewish Standard, but in 2002 she wrote
her first book. Brave New Judaism, published by Brandeis University, is, as its
name implies, a look at the way various
parts of the Jewish world approach scientific innovation.
This year, the university will honor Dr.
Wahrman with the William Paterson University Faculty Excellence in Scholarship/

Creative Expression. She will be given that
award at William Patersons main graduation ceremony, at the Prudential Center in
Newark, on May 20.
So hand washing.
On the one hand, germs are all around
us; that hand, of course, demonstrates
how hard it would be to live a hand-free
life. We touch everything. Most of the time,
its fine. Most of the time, weve evolved
ways to deal with the dangers we handle.
But sometimes we havent. On the other
hand, we have to be very careful.
Dr. Wahrman cites a British study that
sent three groups of volunteers to public
areas in London, where they touched different surfaces. When they returned to
their headquarters, one group washed
their hands with soap and water, one
with just water, and one did not wash at
all. When their hands were tested, unsurprisingly, the group that had not washed
was covered with bacteria. (Gross, no?)
The group that did wash had far less. The
surprising part was that the group that
washed just with water had half the number of bacteria as the unwashed group did.
A study in a rural, impoverished section
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Blue-and-white to fly again in Clifton

Israeli flag to rise in response to Palestinian ceremony
LARRY YUDELSON
After several years absence, an Israeli flag
will fly from the flagpole in front of Cliftons town hall. A flag-raising ceremony is
scheduled for Sunday, May 15.
The long-running practice had fallen
by the wayside after the shuttering of
the Jewish Federation of Greater CliftonPassaic, which had organized the annual
event, one of 20 or so such ceremonies
representing some of the towns ethnic
groups. According to the Clifton Board of
Education, some 81 languages are spoken
in homes throughout the city, which has
about 84,000 residents.
But after a Palestinian flag-raising ceremony at city hall last month, sponsored by
Cliftons Palestinian American Community
Center and the Arab American Civic Organization of Paterson, community activist
Steven Goldberg scheduled a ceremony to
raise the Israeli flag.
We should be doing at least as much as
the other side is doing, said Mr. Goldberg,
who has lived in Clifton for more than 20
years and has run, unsuccessfully, for the
city council.
On April 17, a Palestinian flag was raised
officially in Clifton, making the city the
third in the state to do so. Paterson was
the first; it held its fourth annual ceremony
last week. In March, North Bergen became
the second town to join the trend.
The raising of the flag should be understood as the concrete expression of our
serious and effective participation in our
civic duties, said Khader Ken Abuassab,
vice president of the Arab American Civic
Organization.
Raising the Palestinian flag in the
places you live and reside is something we
are proud of, Raed Odeh, a board director of the Palestinian American Community Center, told the Bergen Record before
the ceremony. We are thankful to the city
Steven Goldberg at the Clifton flagpole
of Clifton. This is something that really

means a lot to us.
The Palestinian flag-rising ceremony, in
front of hundreds of people, included folk
dancing by a troupe of teenage boys, a delegation of anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews
from Neturei Karta, the anti-Zionist Satmar

offshoot, and chants of Long live Palestine and Free, free, Palestine.
I believe we will raise this flag on the
minarets of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and
all Palestine, Sheik Mohammad Qatanani, imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, told the crowd. It is a real
hope for Palestinians that we have a very
just and fair and strong cause and all good
people are with us.
All of this upset Mr. Goldberg.
In the past, the only things that were
raised at city hall were the flags of countries, he said. Obviously, Palestine is not
a country. When I called at least three of
the town council people, they didnt know
that Palestine is not a country. It didnt
seem to matter.
We really have to a better job about
educating people about whats going on in
Israel, because the Palestinians are doing
an excellent job in getting their story out
there, he said.
At first, Rabbi Robert Mark of the Clifton
Jewish Center was uncertain about whether
an Israeli flag-raising ceremony was the
best response to the Palestinian move.
At first, my response was why call more
attention to it? Its over, he said. Then I

saw an Israeli flag ceremony as an opportunity to speak frankly to the public, to put
on the line exactly what Israel is and how
much good it does for the world.
Its time for us to be aggressive in telling our story. No more being soft-spoken,
he said. People have to be made aware
of the benefits of Israel and the risk of the
other side.
Rabbi Marks congregation is Conservative, and shrinking; the Jews moving into
Clifton and nearby Passaic in recent years
have been Orthodox. So Rabbi Mark has
reached out to Orthodox congregations in
Passaic, Short Hills, and even Livingston to
garner support for the May 15 ceremony.
This is not an issue of Orthodox or
Conservative or Reform or secular Jews,
he said. Every single Jew has to be interested in this.
He said he has gotten a good response
from Congregation Adas Israel, Ahavas
Israel, and Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton.
He also has approached public figures.
Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is planning on attending, Rabbi Mark said. This
is not a Clifton issue, he added. This is a
Jewish issue.
What: Israeli flag-raising ceremony

When: Sunday, May 15, at 11 a.m.
Where: Clifton City Hall, 900 Clifton Ave.
A crowd watches the Palestinian flag, inset, being raised in Clifton.
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Michelle Citrin works to build community, one note at a time
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ichelle Citrin who lives

in Brooklyn now but grew
up in Fair Lawn, where her
mom, Rachel Hanuka, still
lives is a singer/songwriter, composer,
and producer. Clearly, she has much to
talk about. Why, then, does she often focus
on her height?
At 51, the musician often hears comments on how short she is. Its a strange
thing I had to become comfortable with,
she said; the key is not letting what the
world thinks of you inform what you are.
Whether confronting the challenge of
height, or being a woman in a male-dominated music industry, music has been
my outlet to tap into something greater
than myself, she said. And with her large,
bluesy voice, Ms. Citrin said that people
are shocked by the sound that comes out.
Ms. Citrin, who is equally at home playing before an audience of thousands or in
a small, intimate venue, is also a composer
and producer.
My whole life Ive been into capturing
moments and reflecting the truths that I
see, she said, adding that her aim is to
produce the soundtrack of our lives.
She has always been active in some mode
of production. Now, she communicates
through music and video; when she was
a child, she used Legos, creating sets,
themes, and stories. I love storytelling,
and reflecting a perspective.
Nothing beats hands-on experience in
learning how to produce, she said. About
to release her first album, Left Brained,
Right Hearted which will launch formally on May 19 at the Bitter End in Manhattan she learned a great deal in the
studio working with producer Tim Bright.
Its like learning how to fly by jumping first and growing wings on your way
down, she said. She also learned a tremendous amount from working on YouTube projects with William Levin. Creator and star of the Internet sensations
20 Things to do with Matzah, Call Your
Zeyde, Rosh Hashanah Girl, and Hanukah Lovin which got millions of hits
from around the world Citrin said the
unexpectedly huge response to her work
impressed on her the power of the web.
While I was always into computers and
technology, in college she graduated
from Rutgers I started to see that music
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was being shared on a global network,
she said, citing music-focused services
such as Napster. It was a conversation
happening worldwide. When she posted
her YouTube videos, Here we were thinking it was just a platform for sharing video.
I didnt know it would spread like wildfire.
The truth is that its my job as an artist to
put the art out there, but you never know
what will resonate.
In fact, after the success of her YouTube
videos, she was, among other things, featured in the New York Times and asked to
score the music for a Broadway production of Sleepless in Seattle.
While music today increasingly is
streamed theres a whole new generation
of listeners who dont even have CD players Ms. Citrin said she still believes in the
CD, and her album will be available in that
form as well. The problem with streaming,
she said, is that artists arent fairly paid.
The technology is growing faster than the
law can keep up. Still, she said, she hopes
that well find a solution, pointing out that
in no other industry is it assumed that exposure is more important than income.
A primary goal of her work is to bring
people together, creating community,
finding connection points to our traditions wisdom and culture in an easily accessible way, Ms. Citrin said. Its
not just producing music and stories but
events that bring people together. She
now is traveling around the world with an

artist-in-residence program she created
called Eat. Pray. Sing.
I go to different communities on Friday night, lead services, introduce original liturgical melodies and alternative
readings, she said. After the service, we
have a communal dinner, followed by an
intimate singing circle. Food, prayer, and
song are three things that have been the
main components of our tribal connection
for thousands of years. Theres an amazing
energy that comes from being together,
and I believe more people are responding
positively to participating in tribal gatherings and immersive experiences.
The response to her events, she said,
has been amazing to watch. When a
group of strangers enter a space not knowing each other and then by the end after
we have shared a meal, gone deeply into
prayer and singing beloved songs the
whole room is glowing with warmth,
laughter and new friendship. What else
could one ask for on a Friday night?!
She was especially moved by her recent
experiences in Bulgaria. In that country
with a group called Gesher, which, she
said, is an organization for Jews in the 20s
and 30s to get together to explore and share
innovative ways to revitalize Jewish communities, she saw a resurgence of Jewish life.
Its an exciting time to be Jewish and to see
all these programs popping up, she said.
The grandkids of Holocaust survivors are

volunteering their time to make Jewish community possible. Its amazing.
Ms. Citrin, who has appeared with artists such Matisyahu, Achinoam Nini, David
Broza, and the Idan Raichel Project, said
that while people dont think of the synagogue as a tribal home, it is a place where
intergenerational gatherings are, or should
be, taking place. I believe the synagogue
should be a place of positive energy, inclusivity, and warmth, she said.
Quoting Hans Christian Andersen, who
is widely credited with having said Where
words fail, music speaks, Ms. Citrin added
that Music helps people connect to something larger than themselves. And, she
said, In this day and age, where we are so
isolated with screens in front of us 24/7, I
am seeing more and more people thirsty
for and welcoming an engagement in communal gatherings and immersive experiences. Im thrilled to be offering this program as a response to that need. Shabbat!
Ms. Citrin said that throughout her life,
she was pulled to both music and medicine. Now, however, she realizes that
the two fields are much closer than you
think. Theres something very healing
about these gatherings, about integrating
mind, body, and spirit, as they contribute
to holistic well-being.
Her aha moment in music, she said,
came when she was studying abroad in
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the idea that people were interested in what I had to
share, she added, noting that she had been composing since she was 14.
I was in a folk rock duo with my best friend, she
said. Folk music and Judaism have been my roots. Its
cool to see it all come together. In her mind, music is
synonymous with Jewish identity. Her grandmother,
Beba Wishnia, is a trained pianist who taught Michelle
to play piano when she was 3 years old chose Chag
Purim as the first song to learn. It was all one big
merging of worlds, Ms. Citrin said. It was fun to
watch it unfold.
Influenced by bands like the Doors, Queen, and
Cream, Ms. Citrin also has been surrounded by music
throughout her life, whether it is the songs of Ofra
Haza or the tunes of the chalutzim. You can hear the
early Israeli folk music influence in my arrangements;
thats where the world influence comes from, she
said. She also grew up loving Joni Mitchell and Joan
Baez, amazing singers and songwriters.
Ms. Citrin said she is impressed by the harmonies
of the Indigo Girls and especially by the Roches, three
sisters whose records really shaped my ear for harmony. I was especially thrilled when Terry Roche took
me on as a student.
She also was thrilled by the chance to sing the U.S.
national anthem at the recent AIPAC conference in
Washington, D.C. It was a conglomerate of people
who love Israel, she said. I was in front of 12,000
people and half of Congress. It was phenomenal. I
always love to say yes to new opportunities to learn
and grow, she said, noting that she is now enrolled in
a program with Rabbi Shefa Gold to learn more about
the art of sacred chanting.
We have more and more distractions in our lives,
she said. And here we have these sacred texts and
wisdom from our ancestors, who have graciously
offered us lessons and a map to make life meaningful.
Who are we to think we are the first to live life on this
planet? Why not learn from those who came before
us? We have a lot we can gain. We also have a lot to
offer with our own unique new perspectives.
Her new album has been a long time in the making,
she said. She began working on it in 2008, but it was
put on hold while she pursued the new opportunities
opened by her Internet success. The albums theme
is to explore the dance between head and heart.
Sometimes one wins, sometimes the other. The question is how to make them work together in a harmonious way. Several of the songs take place in Israel,
and one Someday was inspired by the words of
Rabbi Hillel, If not now, when? Excited about the
albums May 19 release, she said she always aims to
find a way to name moments through song.
I searched for a long time to find the right people
to make this album, she said, explaining that she has
collected a phenomenal group of musicians, who
have played with artists such as Suzanne Vega, Lisa
Loeb, and Dido. It turned out exactly how I wanted
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Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association to confront
unique challenges at meeting in Teaneck
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
LVIA WEISINGER
ou might expect that a daylong conference of the Orthodox Jewish Nurses Association
would be held on a Sunday.
Instead, its scheduled for Thursday, May
19, at the Jewish Center of Teaneck.
The choice to meet on a weeknight is
one clue to the very reason for the organizations existence. Their inability to work
on Saturdays often imperils Orthodox
nurses job prospects, and when they do
get hired they ordinarily compensate by
working on Sundays and legal holidays.
We have unique issues related to keeping Shabbos and getting jobs, said Lvia
Weisinger of Teaneck, who has been a registered nurse for 20 years. She is the vice
president of the national organization,
which now has 1,051 members on its Facebook forum.
Every nursing job in a hospital requires
working on Saturday, Ms. Weisinger said.
In the New York area, where lots of Orthodox nurses are looking for jobs, if a units
nurse manager hires one Orthodox nurse
she usually wont take another because
of the Saturday accommodation. Other
nurse managers wont even consider hiring someone who wont work on Saturday.
Its one of the biggest employment barriers to Orthodox nurses in hospitals, so
we often end up in clinics, doctors offices,
From left, OJNAs founding president, Rivka Pomerantz, Shera Dubitsky of

Sharsheret, who will speak at the conference, and ONJAs Lvia Weisinger.
schools and camps.

Chaim Book, an employment lawyer
from Teaneck, will address legal issues
related to employment discrimination at
the conference.
Different regions and hospitals treat it
differently, Ms. Weisinger said. But basically, if the requirements of a job include
working Saturday and you cant fulfill the
requirements, you dont get the job. Ms.
Remembering the soldiers

Yom Hazikaron at Ben Porat Yosef
LARRY YUDELSON
Zachor, remember, is the motto of Yom
Hashoah.
But the word actually shows up on the
Hebrew calendar a week later, in Yom
Hazikaron, memorial day, when Israel
remembers its fallen soldiers and victims of terror. It is the day before Yom
Haatzmaut, Israeli independence day.
In contrast to Americas Memorial
Day, a time of sales and barbecues, Israel
keeps the memory in memorial day.
It is a day marked most notably by
the two-minute sirens that sound at 8 at
night like all Jewish days, it begins at
sundown the night before and at 11 the
next morning. The siren brings the country to a halt. Traffic stops as drivers leave
their cars and stand at attention by the
side of the road.
And it is a day increasingly marked by

American Jews.
This year, on Tuesday night, May 10,
a Yom Hazikaron commemoration will
take place at the Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva
Day School in Paramus.
Cheryl Mandel, whose son David was
killed in 2003 as he led a raid on terrorists in Nablus, will speak.
The commemoration is co-sponsored
by the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, Yashar LaChayal, and the
One Family Fund, in addition to Ben
Porat Yosef.
Ben Porat Yosef has observed Yom
Hazikaron for many years.
We have a lot of Israelis and our
principal is Israeli, said Ruth Roth, the
schools director of admissions and public relations. Because we have this population, we as a school are profoundly
Weisinger, the mother of five, is a per-diem

postpartum nurse at Holy Name Medical
Center in Teaneck and a part-time school
nurse at Teaneck yeshiva high schools
Maayanot and Heichal HaTorah. She also
runs a lice-checking service and a lactation
consultancy called Mommy Juice.
Nursing students often are expected to
attend clinical sessions on Saturdays, she
adds, although here the law clearly states
affected by the day. We started doing a

commemoration years ago.
Then we realized we needed to offer
this up to the community, because its
something the entire Jewish community
should be aware of and sensitive to.
We only have Israel because of the
soldiers who are there on the front lines.
We have to understand how the country
is dependent on those young people.
Theres a lot of sacrifices for us all to be
able to have the Land of Israel.
The center of the evenings program
will be a talk by a mother whose son was
sacrificed to protect Israel.
Cheryl Mandel and her husband, David,
and their five children made aliyah from
Toronto. Daniel was 24 when he was killed
while leading his soldiers in an operation
to capture three wanted terrorists responsible for the deaths of at least 30 and the
injuries of more than 140 Israelis.
Ms. Mandel has since dedicated herself to telling his story, and trying to convey the lessons of that experience and
how she has maintained her belief, Ms.
that religious beliefs must be accommodated. Ive heard that outside of the New
York metro area, nursing students have
been kicked out of school for not showing
up for Shabbos clinicals, and there have
been some successful lawsuits, Ms. Weisinger said.
Sabbath observance may be a universal concern for observant hospital nurses
and student nurses, but it is hardly the
only one.
For instance, married Orthodox nurses
who wish to cover their hair in keeping with
tradition often are told they may wear a wig
but not a hat or a scarf. Yet many women
dont like wigs or cannot afford one.
I have to thank the Muslim nurses
because the growing acceptance of the
hijab has made it more acceptable for Jewish nurses to wear scarves and other types
of head coverings, Ms. Weisinger said.
Similarly, hospital rules about nurses
uniforms have become more accommodating because many Jamaican nurses also
prefer to wear skirts, Ms. Weisinger said.
Orthodox female nurses opting to wear a
skirted uniform for reasons of modesty,
however, must arrange with the hospital
to have their special attire laundered and
ready for them, unless they are allowed to
bring their own uniforms to work.
Head-covering also can be an issue for
male Orthodox nurses who want to wear
a kippah, Ms. Weisinger said. OJNAs membership includes a handful of men; that
number is likely to grow as more Orthodox
men go into nursing to fill a need for maleto-male care in religious communities.
Nurses in specific settings have their
own specific questions. For example,
Orthodox hospice nurses need guidance
about balancing official policies with
Roth said. She has really turned it into a

story of inspiration.
She is an incredible woman, said
Michelle Napell, head of the American office of the One Family Fund in
Teaneck. The strength she has shown
is beautiful.
I have heard her speak. How she
recovered from that loss and decided
not to let it define her and takes strength
from being part of an unfortunate group
of mothers who lost their sons as soldiers
and victims of terror is inspiring.
The evening also will include a brief,
moving dramatic presentation that speaks
to the sacrifices of the soldiers, Ms. Roth
said. It will be performed by students at
Ben Porat Yosefs junior high school.
What: Yom Hazikaron ceremony,
marking memorial day for Israeli
soldiers and victims of terror
Where: Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day
School, 243 Frisch Court, Paramus
When: Tuesday, May 10, 8 p.m.
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Jewish requirements regarding end-oflife care, ranging from hastening death
to handling a corpses bodily fluids to
leaving a dead body alone.
Rivka Pomerantz, a nurse in Maryland, started OJNA in 2008 as a Facebook and Yahoo forum where religious
nurses could network, pose questions,
and share solutions. I was less than a
year out of nursing school and I needed
people to talk to, she explained.
Among the recent posts is a query
from a nurse seeking tips on how to
make family time when you have to work
on Sundays, evenings, and legal holidays, and a rehab-center nurses question about how to deal with the prohibition against feeding non-kosher food to
Jewish patients.
Ms. Pomerantz, who will not be at the
conference because she is in her third
trimester of pregnancy, says she realized after moderating the forum for a
couple of years that it would be beneficial to have face-to-face meetings. So we
started with networking meetings at restaurants in Brooklyn and in Baltimore,
she said.
Ms. Weisinger helped Ms. Pomerantz
grow OJNA into a full nonprofit organization about two years ago.
The upcoming conference, OJNAs
first independent event, is attracting
nurses from across the country to listen
to experts discuss topics of relevance
to them and to their patients through a
Jewish lens: employment laws, handling
corpses, breast and ovarian cancer, the
healing power of laughter, care of the
special-needs population, perinatal loss
and bereavement, teens at risk for substance abuse or sexual abuse, and care
of Holocaust survivors.
These are general topics, but a lot
of Jewish nurses tend to work in Jewish
communities and they need to understand these issues from a Jewish perspective, Ms. Weisinger said.
We find we are very often called to
help out on a communal and neighborhood level, having nothing to do with
our jobs, because we have sensitivity
and medical knowledge and training that
helps us pick up on things like anorexic
behavior. Particular behaviors can manifest differently in the Orthodox population than in the general population. Also,
educating Orthodox nurses about the
resources within our own community
is vitally important. Youd be surprised
how many dont know whats available.
The conference is sponsored by Holy
Name, by NechamaComfort, a Teaneckbased Jewish nonprofit supporting parents and families following miscarriage,
pregnancy loss, stillborn babies or infant
loss, and by CareOne at Teaneck. Metropolitan Jewish Hospice Service will
recruit at the conference, where kosher
breakfast and lunch will be served. The
conference is open to the general public,
not only to Orthodox nurses.
Our observance creates several issues

on the job, and thats why its an Orthodox group, Ms. Weisinger said. However, we dont mean to be exclusionary.
Many of the topics relate to any Jewish
nurse.
We dont want to tell you how to
practice your Judaism, Ms. Pomerantz
added.
Holy Name Medical Centers chief
nursing officer, Sheryl Slonim, who also
is the centers executive vice president
for patient-care services, said that the
hospital agreed to sponsor the OJNA conference in keeping with its mission to
ensure that all patients coming through
our doors feel safe, welcome and confident that we will treat them within the
context of their personal, cultural and
religious needs.
Holy Names location in the midst of
Teanecks thriving Jewish community
positions us as the medical center of
choice for a large number of Orthodox
and traditional Jewish patients, she
added. Our nurses alert our Jewish liaisons whenever a patient requires use
of the Shabbos room or other religious
accommodations. As is evident by the
program for the OJNA conference, each
topic has relevance to concerns that
arise on a regular basis for our nurses
when treating this population.
Sometimes the concerns have an
amusing angle. Ms. Weisinger said many
Orthodox nurses must be sensitized
about the language they use on the job.
We need to leave the Yiddish colloquialisms at home and speak English instead
of Yinglish, she said. Avoiding syntax
such as Im staying by my friend for the
weekend or My son said over the lesson he learned in school helps convey
a more professional image.
In general, she said, Orthodox nurses
must learn to be effective nurses to all
our patients, no matter their religion,
and leave our religion at the door when
we care for them.
At times, however, standing out as Jewish has unexpectedly nice consequences.
On the OJNA Facebook group, several
nurses said that mothers have named
babies after Orthodox obstetrical nurses
who cared for them during labor. In my
pediatric clinical I met a Hispanic mom
who named her baby Malki, one nurse
wrote. All her kids have Jewish names.
Who: Orthodox Jewish Nurses
Association
What: Annual Conference
Where: Teaneck Jewish Center, 70
Sterling Place
When: Thursday, May 19, from
8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Register online at
ojnaconference2016.eventbrite.com
Email jewishnurses@gmail.com for
more information and sponsorship
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Helping children relax in tough times

i-Shine assists kids in families affected by illness
LOIS GOLDRICH
hen someone in a family is

ill, the whole family needs
help, social worker Andy
Lauber says.
Mr. Lauber is the director of the i-Shine
program, a project of Chai Lifeline. He
helped create the program in Long Islands
Five Towns in 2007, when he was a social
work intern at Chai Lifeline. Illness affects
everyone in the family, he said. We need to
provide services to everyone. This commitment and the help of Laubers Five-Towns
model has spurred the creation of similar
programs throughout the country, including
in Teaneck.
The afterschool program, which provides
homework help, snacks, dinner, and activities for Jewish children dealing with serious
illness or loss in the family, is created by and
for the community, Mr. Lauber said. Its
almost like a franchise. Every region is different. For example, some programs are coed
and some are not. Its tweaked to fit the needs
of each community. Still, he said, the basic
needs are the same, and so are the benefits.
Each program is run by volunteers, who,
Mr. Lauber said, gain as much from their participation as they contribute. Elementary and
middle school children are provided with free
transportation from local schools to a central
location that hosts the activities. In the Five
Towns, the host facility is the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway. In
Teaneck, its Yeshivat Noam. Parents, teachers, high school volunteers, social workers,
and psychologists provide onsite supervision.
Our staff members are experts in bringing
out smiles and laughter while offering homework assistance and exciting recreational
activities for children of all ages, Mr. Lauber
said. Volunteers are so involved with the students that even staff who get married still
keep up with the kids.
The organization is now working with
about 500 children; it has helped thousands
of families since it first was created. While the
home base for activities generally is a yeshiva,
the program is not just for Orthodox children, Mr. Lauber said, noting that some of the
students he serves come from public schools.
The challenge, he said, is to be able to organize carpools for those who request services.
In the Five Towns, its not difficult, because
most schools are within 10 to 15 minutes of
each other, he said but in Teaneck its more
complicated.
The Five Towns group was founded by several women, including Annette Kaufman and
Stacey Zrihen, who recognized the need for
such a program and approached Chai Lifeline
with the idea. They saw that in some families dealing with illness, the well child was
being neglected and looking for attention, he
said. They couldnt provide for their needs,
Students and volunteers take a break from activities at the i-Shine afterschool program.
so they asked us to figure out something here.
We were able to form this program.
Activities may be sports-related, focus on
arts and crafts projects or holidays, or they
may center on a particular childs birthday or
bnai mitzvah celebration. Were in constant
contact with families, Mr. Lauber said. We
intervene when necessary or assist in finding
outside programs. We have a social worker at
each program to monitor the kids behavior.
Were always looking for volunteers, drivers,
and people to get involved.
Teaneck volunteer Michal Zahtz, who
helped create the local i-Shine project
together with Deena Kaszovitz and Gila Weinstein, said she heard about the Five Towns
program from a friend. We tried to pitch
the idea here for a year, she said. Women
from the Five Towns came to explain how
it worked. Finding people to help run the
program locally Rachelle Margulies and
Michele Bardash volunteered to supervise
the driving the organizers decided to move
ahead. Now, Ms. Zahtz, Ms. Weinstein, and
Faigy Ort coordinate the program.
We heard how successful it is in the Five
Towns and we wanted to bring it here, Ms.
Zahtz said. A girl from the community, Ilana
Schwartz, had passed away, and her parents
decided to dedicate the program. We named
it after her, in her memory.
The volunteer-run program was based on
the Five Towns model but had to be tweaked
to fit Teaneck, Ms. Zahtz said. Its open to
kids from Teaneck, Englewood, and as far
as Tenafly, New Milford, and Fair Lawn, as
long as they can get a ride back home. Like
the Five Towns program, its for any Jewish child from kindergarten to eighth grade
who is affected by illness in their lives. This
generally means children whose parent or
sibling have died or are undergoing medical
treatment. The children in the program must

be healthy.
The Teaneck program, now in its fourth
year, got lucky, with wonderful women
in the community, Ms. Zahtz said. Among
other things, their responsibilities include
driving multiple carpools, picking up children from every local school, both early and
late. Since its inception, the program has
served some 20 families, with 50 children.
This years group includes 30 youngsters.
Ms. Zahtz said that about 15 women drive
on any given i-Shine day Mondays and
Wednesdays. Our main success is because of
our high school volunteers, she said. They
are the fun, the spirit. We have really wonderful girls from Maayanot and boys come from
MTA. Others come from Frisch. All the volunteers are seniors. She paid special tribute
to Yeshivat Noam, which hosts the students.
They so graciously offered us use of the
facility, she said. Theyre so wonderful, so
accommodating.
In addition, there are Noam teachers who
stay after school to help us out, she said.
Many different people come and donate
time to do activities. This helps to keep costs
down. While the group does some fundraising, We do have tremendous costs, providing both snacks and dinner at each i-Shine
session.
In addition to regular activities, Ms. Zahtz
said, for a special occasion, sometimes we
do something more elaborate. For example,
the group has had bar and bat mitzvah celebrations for some of its members. We go all
out with decorations.
The kids are so happy to come. They
come with smiles. Even new children, who
are sometimes anxious to attend for the first
time, always leave eager to come back again.
Ms. Zahtz said i-Shine Teaneck will
continue as long as theres a need. Its such

a privilege and a tremendous opportunity
to work with the program, to be able to be
involved and help out with such an important
need. Since the organization has no formal
staff, whatever happens is what volunteers
do. Still, she said, Everything is working
out great, crediting the high-schoolers with
much of the programs success. They come
week in and week out, playing ball, doing
homework, doing manicures, and bringing
smiles to the childrens faces.
Local businesses have been accommodating as well.
For every birthday, Butterflake donates
a beautiful birthday cake, and different local
restaurants give us a discount or donate food
to us, Ms. Zahtz said. The community really
helps out. Cedar Market gives us fresh fruit
and vegetables for healthy snacks, and Glatt
Express has given us sushi and snacks.
Hopefully, were helping by giving parents
a break and the kids a time to shine and enjoy
and develop bonds. Our program really gives
a sense of security and stability going through
rough times.
Volunteers often are in touch with teachers
and support staff at a childs school if any one
child has any specific need. For example, she
said, We will talk to teachers about homework and about any issues we need to know
so we can find the best way to help the kids.
We love them so much, we want them to have
fun.
Still, she said, I keep hoping that we wont
have enough kids to run the program. Id love
to have to close down, but as long as theres
a need, we will try our hardest to be there for
everybody.
For more information about i-Shine
Teaneck, go to www.chailifeline.org/events/
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Local
Torah Academy of Bergen repeats

as halachic competition winner
The Torah Academy of Bergen County in
Teaneck won the third annual Touro College Beis Medrash LTalmud-Lander College for Men competition. Students from
eight U.S. high schools went to the Lander
College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills,
Queens, to debate the ramifications of this
controversial halachic quandary: In Israel,
a father, who was his mentally impaired
sons caregiver, was diagnosed with kidney failure. All attempts to find a suitable
organ donor failed. His son was a near-perfect match, but incapable of providing any
reasonable form of consent. Under Israeli
law, can the son be allowed to donate a
kidney to save his fathers life?
Ultimately the Israeli Supreme Court
ruled that he could not, but was this ruling
consistent with Jewish law?

For the third consecutive year, TABCs
team won.
The high schools received the details of
the scenario in September, along with a
packet of relevant halachic sources to consider for their arguments. A rabbinic faculty member for each school served as an
adviser for their teams.
Because the matter is subject to debate,
the winners were chosen based on the
quality of the presentations and their
mastery of the different opinions and
talmudic sources, as well as on how well
they supported their findings, according
to Rabbi Aryeh Manheim, LCMs coordinator of admissions, who organized the
competition.
NORPAC hears
Congressman
Tom MacArthur
Last month, NORPAC sponsored
a meeting for Representive Tom
MacArthur (R-NJ) hosted by Dr.
Munr Kazmir in Closter. In 2014,
Mr. MacArthur was elected to
Congress from New Jerseys 3rd
District, which encompasses
parts of Ocean and Burlington
counties. He will be running for
re-election in November.
GBDS to unveil greenhouse

during environmental fair
On Sunday, May 15, from noon to 3
p.m., the Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School in Oakland will unveil
its new greenhouse at an environmental fair. Participants will have the
chance to plant seedlings in a raised
bed garden, use 3D design and printers
for creating hydroponic garden containers, and build mini greenhouses.
The fair celebrates GBDSs servicelearning project, which will beautify
the school grounds and grow vegetables in the garden. The project is part
of its Leader In Me culture, encouraging children to develop leadership and
life skills.
The schools Green Team is overseeing the environmental initiatives
and many subteams are handling various aspects of the project. One team
designed and built raised bed planters,
another identified plants for different
uses. The preschool and elementary
school team will help plant seeds, care
for all plants, and maintain earthworm
compost bins. There is also a team
committed to collecting such hard-torecycle items as snack wrappers and
electronic waste, and another team
is in charge of advertising all of Green
Teams hard work with fliers, press
releases, and T-shirts.
The Academies at GBDS is at 45
Spruce St. Admission is free but reservations are requested; to make a reservation, email GBDS@ssnj.org.
Joy Kurland to be honored May 17
Representative Tom MacArthur, left,

with Dr. Munr Kazmir
Scholarship for local students

The K-S Scholarship Foundation administered by Congregation Bnai Israel in
Emerson will award a $1,000 scholarship
to a Jewish high school senior. Students
from the Pascack Valley area or surrounding communities must meet eligibility
requirements that include demonstrating
academic achievement and financial need.
Applicants must be high school seniors
who graduated from the synagogues
Hebrew school, or attend the Bergen

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submitted by May 15; the recipient will be
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The Jewish Historical

contributed to enhancing
Society of North Jersey will
Jewish community relations.
honor Joy Kurland at its
Throughout her career,
annual tribute dinner on
she received many honors, awards, and recogniTuesday, May 17, at 6:30
tion for her contributions
p.m., for her contribution to
to the community from the
the Jewish community.
Anti-Defamation League,
The informal celebration
Bergen County NAACP, Jewat Temple Beth Rishon in
ish Federation of Northern
Wyckoff will be a night of
Joy Kurland
New Jersey, Drew University
celebration as we share our
Hillel, and Brotherhood/
memories over a haimish
Sisterhood Interfaith Coalition of Berdinner, according to the invitation. Ms.
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gen County Human Relations CommisJewish Historical Society of North Jersey
sion, was its immediate past chair, and
and the former director of the Jewish
is the immediate past president of the
Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
JCRC Directors Association of the Jewish
Ms. Kurlands work in northern New
Council for Public Affairs.
Jersey included fostering intergroup
Tickets are $60 per person and profits will benefit the Jewish Historical Socirelations, building coalitions, advocating for Israel, strengthening government
ety of North Jersey. For information, call
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YU professor named to board
studying world heritage site
UK chief rabbi to receive

Touro honorary degree
FDUs yeshiva
summer courses
Professor Ephraim
Rheinland-Pfalz
Kanarfogel of
as the leading
Teaneck, the E. Billi
authority in the
Ivry University Proworld today on
fessor of Jewish HisJe w i sh i n t e l tory, Literature and
lectual history
Law at Yeshiva Uniduring the High
versit y, has been
Middle Ages,
appointed to an interwill join other
national academic
academics from
Professor Ephraim
advisory board. The
Europe and
Kanarfogel
group will advise the
Israel in this
Rhineland region
project.
in Germany about designatThis is a striking and welling the Jewish communities of
deserved tribute to Professor
Speyer, Worms, and Mainz as
Kanarfogels stellar contribution to the study of medieval
a World Heritage site by the
Ashkenazic rabbinic culture
United Nations Educational,
and a demonstration of the
Scientific, and Cultural Organization World Heritage Center.
exceptional quality of YUs
The advisory board will
faculty and offerings in Jewish studies at both the underdocument the creativity and
graduate and graduate levels,
cultural heritage of medieval
said Dr. David Berger, the Ruth
Ashkenazim through their
and I. Lewis Gordon Professor
monuments, documents, and
of Jewish History and dean of
existing culture.
YUs Bernard Revel Graduate
Rabbi Kanarfogel, described
School of Jewish Studies.
by the Prime Minister of
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, chief

rabbi of the United Hebrew
Congregations of the Commonwealth of the United
Kingdom, will receive an
honorary degree at the 42nd
annual commencement exercises of Touros Lander Colleges. He will also address the
graduates at commencement
Rabbi Ephraim
exercises at David Geffen Hall
Mirvis
in Lincoln Center on May 30.
Rabbi Mirvis is the 11th chief
rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations; the post
was inaugurated in 1704. He was installed in 2013 and
Prince Charles was at that ceremony it was the first
time a member of the royal family had attended such
an installation. Rabbi Mirvis succeeded Chief Rabbi
Lord Jonathan Sacks.
At commencement, baccalaureate and associate
degree candidates from six of Touros schools will
be presented: Lander College of Arts and Sciences
Flatbush; Lander College for Men in Queens; Lander
College for WomenThe Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten
School in Manhattan; the School for Lifelong Education in Brooklyn; Machon LParnasaInstitute for Professional Studies, also in Brooklyn, and Touro College
Los Angeles.
This summer, FDU again offers its yeshiva

summer program. There will be six in-person classes during first session, all only for
men, running from May 8 to July 3 and meeting two days a week at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck. The classes will be in business, core
and other requirements for FDUs bachelor of
arts in individualized studies degree. One of
the classes is a career management seminar,
taught by Professor Ira Jaskoll, the programs
director, for men looking for job placement.
He will address such workplace issues as Shabbat, wearing a kippah, and eating in a nonkosher restaurant. The program also will offer
four online classes, open to both men and
women, during this session.
FDU also will offer four in-person and two
on-line courses from July 5 to August 11, and
will run another session, only in person, from
August 8 to September 1. All in-person courses
are only for men; in the fall, FDU plans to offer
in-person classes in a new seminary program
for women.
The three-credit courses, heavily subsidized
and costing 50 percent of regular FDU tuition,
are $1,750 each. For more information, email
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Editorial
Honoring survivors
hen our readers get

this paper, it will
be in between Yom
Hashoah, Holocaust
Memorial Day, which fell on Thursday, May 5, this year, and Yom
Hazikaron, Israels memorial day,
on May 11, which moves seamlessly
into Yom Haatzmaut, Israels independence day, on May 12.
The way those days relate to each
other is a short lesson on modern
Jewish history, with the unthinkable horror of the Holocaust leading to the more intentional sacrifice
as young people fought and many
died for their new state, declared
in 1948.
Israelis have experience in moving from the deep grief of Yom
Hazikaron to Yom Haatzmaut; for
those of us here the emotional
lability that it demands is impressive but hard to identity with. Perhaps the closest to the mental agility it demands comes from the shift
on holiday mornings when we go
from the joy of Hallel to the sadness of Yizkor, but in Israel, its all
entirely public.
First, though, there is Yom Hashoah, when our communal institutions remind us of the Holocaust.
That nightmare is receding from
living memory now; the survivors
who experienced it firsthand are
aging. Most of them still living are
old. Most of them have died.
Thats why it is so important for
us now to honor the Holocaust survivors who still are among us.
It can be hard talking to survivors
about their experiences. For years,
many of them did not want to talk
about it at all; as time went by,
more and more felt that they had
an obligation to let others know
of their experiences, as a way not
only of helping ensure that it not
happen again and also of honoring
the tortured, nameless, nearly forgotten dead.
For years, prevalent theories
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held that it was not healthy for

victims of any trauma to keep it
inside, not to talk about it, not to
acknowledge it. If it was held inside
it would grow and fester, many
people believed. Later, though,
the idea that if people could wall
off the toxic horror of their early
experiences strongly enough that
it would not leach out, they should
do so, began to gain some currency.
It is not for us the lucky ones,
born here, born after the war, born
into safety to tell survivors what
they should or should not talk
about. But it is our obligation to
listen to anyone who does want
to talk. The least we can give is an
audience.
It can be remarkably painful to
listen to survivors. We can bear witness to their stories, but we cannot
help them. Their memories are old,
and often they are faded, but they
are terrible. We cannot tell them
that everything will be all right. It
wasnt, and it wont be. Not ever.
Most of the survivors among us
now not all of them, but most of
them managed to rebuild their
lives here. They formed and maintained relationships, they had children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren, they held jobs,
started businesses, bought houses,
planted gardens, signed report
cards, went food shopping, went to
the movies, went to ball games, ate
pizza, ate doughnuts, voted. They
lived their lives.
We should be overwhelmed at
the grace and courage and faith in
life that such living took, and continues to take. We understand that
neither they nor their descendants,
for many generations, will ever be
able to look at the world with the
same hope and trust that the rest of
us have, and we should honor them.
If they do not want to talk, we
should respect that.
And whenever they want us to
listen, we should hear them. JP
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Torah study meets

the aha moment
or how it is accomplished. Syrian Jews, espes we count the 50 days between

cially, reject the validity of conversion because
Pesach and Shavuot, as we go from
Egypt to Sinai to receive the Torah, of this.
As I was studying one of the Torah readings
we should do more than just count.
during Pesach, I realized that the Torah does
We should study Torah each day, especially if
discuss conversion, does approve of it, and
that is not our normal practice. One can study
the weekly Torah portion (the complete portion, does tell us how to accomplish it. It does not do
so overtly, however, because it takes conversion
not the minimalist triennial version). There are
for granted. It accepts conversion as a given.
seven aliyot in each portion, so it is easy to use
This is what the Torah says in Exodus 12:43one aliyah a day for study.
48: The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is
Another way to study Torah is by delving into
the volumes of insights by Rabbi Lord Jona- the law of the Passover offering: No [non-Israelthan Sacks, or our own Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, ite] foreigner shall eat of it. But any [non-Israelor such volumes as the JPS Torah Commentary, ite] slave a person has bought may eat of it once
he has been circumcised. No [non-Israelite]
its Miqraot Gedolot series, and the late Rabbi
bound or hired laborer shall eat
W. Gunther Plauts Torah: A Modern Commentary. An excellent
of it....The whole community of
entry point to Torah study is the
Israel shall offer it. If a [non-Israelite] stranger who dwells with you
six-volume Studies In series by
would offer the Passover to the
Nehama Leibowitz.
Lord, all his males must be circumTrue, the Torah has been studied inside out for at least 3,000
cised; then he shall be admitted to
years. Yet, as our understanding
offer it; he shall then be as a citizen
of things grows, so too does our
of the country. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
understanding of the words of the
Rabbi
Put another way, only IsraelTorah.
Shammai
ites (meaning Jews) may bring
There always is something
Engelmayer
the Passover offering. This is not
new to be found in these ancient
discriminatory; it is simply comwords. That is how two words that
mon sense. The Passover offeropen Leviticus 19:11, lo tignovu,
ing recalls the night God passed over Israeldo not steal, become a law against copyright
ite homes, sparing their firstborn the fate of
infringement, or how lifnei iver, do not put a
all the other firstborn in Egypt, regardless of
stumbling block before the blind (Leviticus
19:14) becomes the Torahs freedom of informa- nationality. For a non-Jew to bring the Passtion act.
over offering is akin to thanking God for killing non-Jewish firstborns. If these non-Jews do
Then there is the exhilaration of the aha
moment, when a light bulb goes off above your want to make the offering, however, they must
head and you find in the words of Torah some- be circumcised first.
thing that has always been there (at least to the
In other words, they must convert first.
beholder), but no one seems to have noticed
When the Torah mentions circumcision, it
before.
refers only to brit milah, the covenant of circumcision, the means by which males become
As examples, let me give you my two recent
Jews. So when it says non-Jews can bring the
aha moments.
The first has to do with conversion to Israel- Passover offering once they are circumcised, it
ite religion (meaning Judaism). Supposedly, the
is talking about conversion and its method. It
Torah says absolutely nothing about conversion, also is saying that once converted, Israels past
becomes the converts past, as well. His or her
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of
firstborn also were saved. He or she, too, left
Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades
Egypt on the journey to Sinai and the Land of
in Cliffside Park.
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Couple this, say, with Deuteronomy 23:8-9,
which allows Edomites and Egyptians to enter
the congregation of the Lord in the third generation, and the activities of Abraham (Maimonides,
in Mishneh Torah Laws of Pagan Worship Chapter 1, has Abraham amassing converts 35 years
even before we encounter him in Genesis 12).
Clearly, the Torah assumes the propriety of conversion and details its method for men. (That
immersion in a mikvah is not mentioned in Exodus 12:43-48 probably is because, at that point,
there was yet no concept of purity.)
The second aha moment came on the last day
of Pesach, when the festival calendar was read
from Deuteronomy (verse 16:16). Here is the relevant text: Three times a year on the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on
the Feast of Booths all your males shall appear
before the Lord your God in the place that He
will choose.
Most everyone accepts that when God tells
Moses to speak to the Israelites, He almost
always means just the men. If so, why say all
your males shall here? Why not simply say you
Count the days

between now
and Shavuot, but
also study some
Torah and perhaps
experience an aha
moment or two
for yourself.
shall? I believe it is because you shall always
includes both men and women, unless the commandment involved is gender-specific. Here,
males are singled out because otherwise women,
too, would be obligated. Yet someone has to stay
home and mind the store, or the farm, or the
family. In those days, especially, it was a lot easier
for the men to leave for several days than it was
for the women to do so, and certainly not three
times a year.
I just had another aha moment. Could this be
what gave someone centuries later the idea to
exempt women from most positive time-bound
commandments an exemption the Torah
knows nothing about?
If so, this could have a profound effect on the
time-bound exemption, because it would limit it
to only the most extreme hardships, not merely
for such matters as donning tefillin, say.
Seriously, the aha moment is such a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Count the days
between now and Shavuot, but also study some
Torah and perhaps experience an aha moment or
two for yourself.
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Different flowers
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ve been getting some feedback on my columns, both

positive and negative (one reader called a column
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those who like to give feedback face-to-face in shul on Shabbat morning. Well, if that describes you, please wait until next
week because this Shabbat my wife and I will be celebrating
the bar mitzvah of our twin great nephews, Jamie and Daniel Chaikelson, at Congregation Ramath Orah on Manhattans
Upper West Side.
From left, Rabbi Moshe Grussgott of Ramath Orah
Now, even a twin bar mitzvah, while personally special to
stands with Steven, Jamie, and Daniel Chaikelson.
family and close friends, is usually nothing to write a column
about. Its like inviting friends over to see your vacation slides.
and social needs. Unfortunately, considering the already over(Translation for my younger readers its like posting all your
taxed (in all meanings of that word) nature of day schools, that
vacation photos on Facebook.) But this bar mitzvah truly is
is still an unobtainable dream. While inclusion is becoming
special because the twins are special. Jamie is autistic and
more standard in the Orthodox community, the end of the
Daniel has a nonverbal learning disability. And their celebration was carefully and thoughtfully designed to be meaningful
journey still is far off.
for both of them as well as for their parents and
And this true not only with respect to people who might not feel welcome in Orthodox
older brother.
venues or with whom the mainstream OrthoBut it wasnt simple. While their rabbi, Rabbi
dox community feels uncomfortable. It also
Moshe Grussgott of Ramath Orah, was extremely
true about unwelcome and uncomfortable
open to working with the family to tailor the two
ideas. To that end, a new organization,
days to the participants needs, Ramath Orah, a
PORAT (People for Orthodox Renaissance
relatively small Orthodox synagogue, does not
and Torah, and also the Hebrew word for
have the resources to develop an expertise in religious programing for special-needs children. But
fruitful) who but Rabbi Yitz Greenberg
Congregation Rodeph Shalom, a large Reform
could come with an acronym like that? has
Joseph C.
congregation about a mile downtown, does offer a
made both sides of inclusion an important
Kaplan
special-needs worship service called Shireinu (Our
part of its mission.
Songs). Shireinu, which is led by Rodeph Sholoms
PORAT is committed to a tolerant and
associate rabbi, Ben Spratt, provides families and
inclusive Modern Orthodox community
children, including Jamie and Daniel, with the opportunity to
and seeks to create a safe space to engage diverse perspectives on issues relating to religious Zionism, gender equalworship on certain holidays in an accessible, interactive, and
ity, conversion to Judaism, agunah, the synthesis of secular
sensitive environment.
culture and Jewish tradition, rabbinic authority, spiritualSo, in a wonderfully sweet example of interdenominational
ity, relations with other denominations and faiths, and the
friendship, understanding, and concern, Rabbi Spratt, working with Rabbi Grussgott, helped my niece, Amanda, and her
place of gay and lesbian individuals within our community
husband, Steven, adapt the Shireinu program for the boys
many of the hot button issues that bedevil the modern
bar mitzvah in an Orthodox setting. On Shabbat there will be a
Orthodox community today.
regular service, with Daniel chanting the maftir and haftarah,
In other words, PORATs goal is to incorporate and represent the diversity of people and ideas within the Orthoand on Sunday there will be a unique Rosh Chodesh service
dox community. Premised on the recognition that a deep
in which both Jamie and Daniel will participate, in the presence of family, friends, and their classmates, followed by a
commitment to halachah and Torah values does not always
reception for all.
imply a single, correct viewpoint ( just ask Hillel and
This is not, of course, the first special needs bar/bat mitzShammai), it will advocate for open dialogue on issues
vah program (though some parents who would like to have
around which controversy rages, with a goal of deepening
such a program for their special-needs children are so overhalachic observance and learning.
whelmed by the prospect of organizing one that this rite of
PORAT is offering its inaugural program on Modern Orthodoxy in the 21st Century: What Should it Look Like & How Do
passage passes without celebration). And there are Orthodox
We Get There? next Sunday, May 15, at Congregation Kehilath
shuls, including Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck, that
Jeshurun on Manhattans Upper East Side. The focus of the
have wonderful Shabbat and yom tov programming for special-needs children.
program, set to begin at 7 p.m., will be a panel discussion on
But it still is far from the norm, and opportunities for Jewish
that topic by Ms. Blu Greenberg, Rabbi Benny Lau, Ms. Ann
engagement and education for special-needs students remain
Pava, and Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz. The moderator will be Dr.
limited.
Steven Bayme, a founder of PORAT and one of its chief spokespeople. I hope to be there and to learn more about inclusion
Jamie and Daniel go to Matan, a one-day-a week program at
of ideas, just as I am sure I will learn more about the inclusion
a Conservative synagogue, Ansche Chesed on the Upper West
of people at Jamie and Daniels bar mitzvah.
Side, that allows students to engage in hands-on multisensory
Oh, and feel free to give me your feedback next Shabbat.
Jewish education using a curriculum that includes Bible stories, Jewish values, Jewish holidays, Shabbat, and Hebrew.
Just please dont call me completely anything.
The program builds on social skills and enables the children
to feel proud of their Jewish identity.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor who has lived in
But Amanda and Steven would love to have their boys
Teaneck for more than 30 years, is a frequent writer of essays
obtain a full Jewish day-school-type education, based on profor Jewish publications when he is not practicing law in
gramming that also would meet their sons special learning
Manhattan.
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Why do Israelis hate?

An examination into the roots of emotions that split American, Israeli Jews
merican and Israeli Jews dont

speak the same language
As we approach the State of
Israels 68th birthday on Thursday, May 12, there is cause for celebration.
Among its achievements, Israel is providing a home for harassed Jewish communities and managing a slow but generally successful integration of those communities
members into Israeli society.
Israel also has created a literary culture
that has gained appreciative readers for its
novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.
Its scientific, technological, and medical
research has improved everything from
computers to medications, and Israels findings and inventions are used worldwide.
And as the global business community well
knows, Israel is one of the largest and most
innovative start-up nations in the world.
But Yom Haatzmaut does not arouse
American Jewish pride as it once did. The
kind of unwavering support for Israel that
existed even a decade ago is no longer a
given in the American Jewish community
today. There is a divide in attitudes toward
Israel among American Jews themselves,
and between American Jews and their
Israeli counterparts.
American Jewry overwhelmingly supports a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Only 10 percent or less
of American Jewry, mostly modern and
centrist Orthodox or old-time dyed-in-thewool revisionist Zionists, counts itself out of
this consensus.
But American Jews and the Israeli leadership and people do not speak the same language when it comes to the hope for peace,
as a recent poll indicates.
The latest Pew poll, released on March 9,
shows that only 43 percent of Israelis think

a way can be found for Israel and an independent Palestinian state to coexist peacefully. That means that about 57 percent do
not think such a way exists.
Of the 37 percent of the population that
identifies with the right, 62 percent say a
two-state solution is not possible. Of those
who identify with the left, 86 percent say
the opposite: a two-state solution is not
only possible but desirable. But those who
self-identify as the Israeli left represent a
mere 8 percent of the population. Centrists,
who represent 55 percent of the Jewish
Israeli population, are divided. The majority, 51 percent, holds that a two-state solution will not lead to peaceful coexistence
except under special conditions, many of
which would be unacceptable to the Palestinians; 46 percent say the solution stands
some chance of bringing about peaceful
coexistence.
These poll results indicate a high degree
of Israeli hopelessness, rooted in a belief
that the enmity between Israelis and Palestinians will be ongoing and unending. It
therefore is not surprising that 48 percent
of Israelis expressed the opinion that there
was no room for Arabs in Israel and that
transferring the Arab population out of
Israel was desirable. Twenty-one percent of
the general population agreed; another 27
percent agreed strongly. Those subscribing
to a nationalist or Orthodox religious ideology agreed by 71 percent. The miniscule left
disagreed by 86 percent.
I would not be surprised if readers are
shocked by these figures. Is this not proof
that the present right-wing Israeli government and the people it governs combine to
form the horrible little racist state that the
supporters of BDS and other

of Israel. Individuals or families who fled from northern
critics of Israel say it is?
Israel, which was being heavThe answer is more complicated than a simple condemnily bombarded by Hezbollah
ing Yes or a blindly supportduring the second Lebanese
ive No. American Jews and
war, and were given shelter
many others do not underby their fellow citizens in the
stand the attitude shared by
south know exactly what I
many Israelis because they
mean. But few Americans,
Dr. Michael
do not really feel it. If they
other than soldiers, do.
Chernick
did, people would recognize
Now, knowing these facts,
that there are three elements
ask an Israeli what he or she
that produce it fear, which
thinks of the two-state solution. Why would you be surprised that the
engenders anger, which ultimately produces hatred.
response would be something along the
American Jews, like Americans in genlines of: You mean you want us to open a
eral, do not live with the fear of war on their
third front by negotiating a Palestinian state
territory breaking out annually, or biennion our eastern border, too? Such a state will
ally, or every four years.
be negotiated with the PLO, as was the disengagement in Gaza, and then the street
That is, however, the Israeli reality.
will vote in Hamas as it did there. ConseWe do not worry about tunnels being
quently, we will wind up with Hamastan on
dug under our homes or beneath our lawns
two borders, with closer reach to Jerusalem
by people who see the destruction of our
and Tel Aviv than ever before.
country as their ultimate goal. Israelis must
To live with this kind of fear and go on
worry about it. They have seen men come
with your life, as Israelis do, takes a toll.
out of the ground ready to kill them and
When things heat up, fear ramps up as well.
their children.
When you find that your life is severely cirAmerican Jews, like Americans in general, do not face missiles raining down on
cumscribed by that fear I ran out of milk.
them, landing in the center of their country.
Can I go shopping without being stabbed?
This is what has and does happen in Israel.
Ill have to pass on that concert I have tickets for. Its too dangerous to take the bus.
Thousands of missiles landed on Israeli territory, coming from the north (Hezbollah
How can I let my children go to school
in Lebanon) in 2006 and from the south
with all this happening? you get angry.
(Hamas in Gaza) in 2008, 2010, 2012, and
First, you get angry at ha-matzav, the
2014, along with attempted tunnel attacks,
so-called situation. Then you get angry at
in the last outbreak of violence.
the government for doing too little about
If Hezbollah and Hamas made common
ha-matzav. But after a while you get angry
cause with each other and started to fire at
at those who are the most immediately
the same time, there would be no hiding
noticeable cause of ha-matzav.
place for any Israeli anywhere in the Land
For the Israelis, thats the Arabs, whether
Making each day count ... literally and figuratively
nce again, we have entered

the period of marking time
between Pesach and Shavuot.
We count 49 days seven
weeks beginning after nightfall on the
second night of Passover and ending on
the night before Shavout. There are 49 days
between the Exodus from Egypt and receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai, between our liberation and our revelation.
The actual mitzvah of counting the omer
is tangible and accessible, providing us a
simple directive to count each day. After
making the blessing al sefirat haomer, we
cite the number for that day and we connect
it to its place in the number of weeks and
days. The challenge in fulfilling the mitzvah,
though, is to keep the count active for each

day of the full seven weeks, and to do it in a
methodical, consistent way.
This provides a compelling message for
us. The most important things in our lives
dont happen without effort. Counting the
omer takes work. You have to remember to
count each evening. In a deeper sense, the
disciplined counting allows us to keep track
of our lives, to appreciate our progress, and
to anticipate upcoming events.
In our family, we help remind each other
to count the omer each night. It gives us
a few moments to pause, put down our
phones, and connect with each other in a
different way. Admittedly, though, we have
been already actively engaged in another
For me, counting the omer

counting the days before
reminds me to count my blesscamp begins. We really dont
ings daily. Not only must we
know who among us is more
count each day, but we must
excited for this pending
truly make each day count.
event, parent or teen! This
We must be grateful for each
same excitement is taking
and every day, and for each
place in families across North
and every experience from
America, where in less than
which we learn and grow.
30 days, the first Jewish summer camps will open for sumJeremy J.
Perhaps it is no coincidence
Fingerman
mer 2016. More than 80,000
that we celebrate a number
campers and over 11,000
of significant modern-day
college-aged counselors will
countings related to the
embark on their own liberation, find their
State of Israel during the omer period. Next
own revelation and make new, meaningweek, we will celebrate Yom Hazikaron,
ful connections at camp (also without their
the national memorial day in tribute to the
phones and devices!)
more than 30,000 soldiers who have given
Opinion
they are Palestinian or Israeli.
When there is enough anger, then you
begin to hate the parties, individually and
as a group, that make you feel the visceral
discomfort that comes with fear and anger.
For many, the easiest answer is to uproot
the source of the fear and the anger and get
rid of the hated entity that is causing it.
As we think about this complex and terrible story, we have to look not only into the
not-so-pretty Jewish side, but about the Palestinian side, too.
Do most Palestinians really want Israel
next door? Not if maps of Palestine, which
do not show a country called Israel, are to
be believed.
Do most Palestinians really want a state
and the end of the occupation? If so, why
do they think that only death and martyrdom can make it happen? Where is the
Palestinian Mahatma Gandhi or Martin
Luther King, who defeated their oppressors
and gained their objectives in a few years
through nonviolent civil disobedience?
Do the Israeli Arab members of the Knesset indicate loyalty or support for the state
in which they were democratically elected
and of which they are citizens?
Most Israelis are forced by logic to deny
the possibility of such loyalty when those
MKs go to comfort the families of Palestinian martyrs who stabbed and killed their
fellow citizens. They then excuse those
visits by saying that the martyrs did not
act as criminals but as part of the necessary struggle against the oppressive Israeli
occupation. (This was said explicity in an
interview on Israels Arabic language TV
station, Hala, by an Arab Balad Party MK,
Bassel Ghattas.)
Is killing an 80-year-old woman or a
60-year-old lifelong peace advocate or
an infant ever not criminal? And I am not
excusing similar behavior toward Palestinians and Israeli Arabs on the Israeli side.
Still, the majority of Israelis are decent,
their lives to defend our homeland. Immediately following Yom Hazikaron, we will
celebrate Yom Haatzmaut, Israels Independence Day the state is now 68 years young.
Considering the historical context, what an
incredible miracle we are privileged to experience, celebrate, and support!
This week, we commemorated Yom Hashoah and the unfathomable loss of our six
million. No way can we count what was lost.
We are so grateful to the survivors who bear
witness and who compel us to never forget.
The survivors, their children, and their families who share their stories help teach the
world the most critical lessons of making
each day count.
Over Pesach, I was particularly reminded
good people, though every group has its

rotten apples. (In the case of Israel, most
of them are or were in the government or
are patriotic juvenile delinquents living
on hills like the Neanderthals they are.) But
Israelis now are frightened and angered
by what they have come to believe is their
eternal lot. And now they hate those whom
they believe have imposed that lot on them
the Arabs of Lebanon, Gaza, and the PA,
and those whose political leaders show
more allegiance to those forces than they
do to the state in which they live.
Not one line I have written justifies the
rising tide of ethnic hatred in Israel. If it
continues it will devour the Jewish soul,
undermine all decent Jewish values, and
ultimately do more to destroy the Jewish
state than all the wars the country ever
fought.
But I have become more empathetic
toward my Israeli relatives and friends,
some of them former supporters of every
effort toward peace, who have given up
hope and no longer believe that peace can
be achieved by any means. Concomitantly,
they have given in to the fear that the strife
will never end, and to the anger this makes
them feel when they see only violence as
they look at their childrens and grandchildrens futures. And they hate their situation and those they feel are to blame for
it, which sometimes is their own government, but as the polls show, more often is
the local Other.
A discerning reader of this article read
this column in an early draft and asked:
Where are the suggestions about what
American Jews can do about this? So, here
are a few.
First, stay informed about life and the
realities of it in Israel. Dont take the New
York Times or the Jerusalem Posts word for
it. If you have friends or relatives in Israel,
listen to their stories about their children
in the army, or about how they felt in 73,
The survivors,
their children,
and their families
who share their
stories help
teach the world
the most critical
lessons of making
each day count.
or how they lived through the 50-day Gaza

conflict of 2014. Ask them what their hopes
are. Ask them how they think all this will
end. Like me, you may disagree with them
Get to meet the

man and woman
in the street, Jew
and Arab. Only
meeting real
people helps you
to know what they
think and why
they think it.
about many things related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but you will understand
better those who think differently than you
do. And dont fight with them. Listen.
Second, if you have visited Israel before
and can visit there again, seek out a means
of meeting people rather than touring sites.
Stay away from missions that introduce you
to more politicians than most of us ever
would want to deal with. Get to meet the
man and woman in the street, Jew and Arab.
Only meeting real people helps you to know
what they think and why they think it.
Third, create or join forums in which
American Jews and their Israeli counterparts meet and get to know each other.
Force yourself and them not to talk past
one another other. Theres too much defensiveness about too many issues on both the
American Jewish and Israeli sides; it leads
to silence and evasion when honest talk is
whats necessary. Dont let yourself or them
off the hook.
of the great blessings of the United States of

America. We had the honor to visit with former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and his wife,
Hadassah. They inspired us with their stories
and with their optimism. Hadassah, born
to Holocaust survivors in a refugee camp in
Prague, Czechoslovakia, came to the United
States with her family, hoping to build a new
life of possibility. Joe made us all believe in
the possibility of America by breaking down
barriers and actually winning the popular
vote for the vice presidency in 2000. Their
message to all of us resonated with this theme
of counting our blessings.
Furthermore, they reminded us to make
each day count. Our participation in the
political process has been made possible by
Fourth, advocate for Israel, but not like

a sheep. Make whatever advocacy organization you join and you should join
one use its influence not only with U.S.
members of Congress but also with the
Israeli government. These organizations
have leverage and policies, some of which
are given only lip service by the Israeli government in order to gain American Jewish
support. Demand that your advocacy organization hold Israel to its publicly stated
policies.
Finally, find a way to celebrate Yom
Haatzmaut and Israel this year, especially
if you have not done so in the past. Remember that despite much of the despair
expressed in this op-ed, the Jewish peoples national anthem is Hatikvah The
Hope. Think like the young kibbutznik
with whom I worked side by side. Whenever the kibbutzs situation looked particularly grim he would say Yihyeh tovItll
be good.
Today the kibbutz still has its problems,
but it is not in existential danger. Nor is
Israel, except for those who prefer to see
the Jewish historical experience as a tragedy even when it is a triumph.
For all its warts and what nation is free
of them? Israel has a productive present
and is the best guarantor of a fruitful Jewish
future. Like all living organisms, Israel is a
work in progress.
We have the choice of participating in its
perfection or decrying its flaws. I continue
to choose the first option. What about you?
Professor Michael Chernick of Teaneck
holds the Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish
Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York; his area of expertise is
the Talmud. He received his doctorate from
the Bernard Revel Graduate School and
rabbinic ordination from R. Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary.
those who blazed the trail before us, and our

engagement continues to make a difference.
Especially as we once again confront a world
full of challenges, our voices must be heard.
Very appropriately during this omer
period, our family will travel to Washington
on May 18 to join this years Norpac mission.
Just as we count days, the political process
counts on us. We will participate and advocate. We will be counted. And we will make
sure each day counts.
Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the
Foundation for Jewish Camp. He lives in
Englewood with his family; he is vice president
of Congregation Ahavath Torah there. Contact
him at Jeremy@jewishcamp.org
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Anti-Semitism, Orwell,
and the U.K. Labour Party
t is generally admitted
him, but he is one of the most respected
that antisemitism is on
people in England [who] said to me
the increase, that it has
quite violently: We never asked these
been greatly exacerbated
people to come to this country. If they
by the war, and that humane and enlightchoose to come here, let them take the
ened people are not immune to it. It does
consequences.
not take violent forms (English people are
Sadly, not much has changed in the
almost invariably gentle and law-abiding),
Labour Party of today; if anything, the
but it is ill-natured enough, and in favourhabit of denying that anti-Semitism exists
able circumstances it could have political
in the first place, or charging that its maniresults.
festations somehow are understandable in
That was George Orwell in 1945, in an
the light of the ongoing Palestinian conflict
article for the Contemporary Jewish Record
with Israel, has gotten more pronounced
journal called Antisemitism in Britain. In
and much worse. Thats why, in examinthat short essay, Orwell related a series of
ing the latest scandal involving Labour and
personal encounters that demonstrated
the Jews, which resulted in the suspension
how seemingly rational people afflicted
from the party of one of its own members
with the neurosis of antiof parliament, Naz Shah,
Semitism suddenly discovI found myself wondering
ered an ability to believe
whether there is a direct link
stories that could not posbetween what Orwell saw at
sibly be true. For example,
the wars end and what we
one of the dark rumors that
are seeing now.
spread around wartime LonShahs suspension foldon was that a ghastly incilowed the discovery of a
dent on the Underground
two-year-old post on her
in 1942, in which about 100
Facebook page, in which she
Ben Cohen
people fleeing a German
endorsed a proposal to relobombing raid were crushed
cate Israel into United States
during a panic-stricken dash
(sic) dreamed up by two prointo the entrance of a train station, was the
Palestinian activists. Responding to their
responsibility of the Jews.
claim that doing so would save American
As Orwell pointed out, such beliefs were
taxpayers $3 billion in annual aid to Israel,
anchored in emotions that found fewer
Shah gushed, Problem solved and save u
opportunities for public expression in the
bank charges for 3BILLION you transfer
context of the fight against Hitler, but were
yearly! (Note well that 3 billion American
articulated privately nonetheless. And sigdollars became 3 billion British pounds in
nificantly, many of those who confessed
her translation.)
to anti-Semitic tendencies belonged to the
In isolation, Shahs offense would not
political left. There was, Orwell wrote, the
have been the huge story that it has become
young intellectual, Communist or nearin the British press. It has been presented
Communist: No, I do not like Jews. Ive
correctly, however, as belonging to a sysnever made any secret of that. I cant stick
temic pattern of anti-Semitism within the
them. Mind you, Im not antisemitic, of
political party that has governed the U.K.
course. There also was the very eminent
for long periods of the postwar era. Just a
figure in the Labour Party I wont name
day after Shahs suspension, the party also
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suspended another member, Ken Livingstone, the former
mayor of London, for telling BBC Radio in Shahs defense,
When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was
that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting
Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews.
Since the far-left MP Jeremy Corbyn was elected to the
party leadership last year, it seems that some new revelation of Labour anti-Semitism, in all cases packaged as
detestation of Israels sovereign existence, perpetually
lurks. Before Shah, there was the furor over the new president of the National Union of Students, a stalwart Corbyn
supporter, describing one university as a Zionist outpost
in British higher education and ranting about Zionistled media outlets. Before that, there was the resignation
of the head of Oxford Universitys Labour Club in order
to highlight the fact that many of his ostensible comrades
have some kind of problem with Jews. All within the last
few weeks!
But rather than admitting that there is a problem, Corbyns Labour Party is actively denying it instead. Perhaps
the most telling aspect of the Naz Shah episode was that
she had the courage to apologize and that her apology
then was censored by the unreconstructed Stalinists in
the partys publicity department. As the U.K. newspaper
Jewish News reported, Shahs admission that there is a
genuine problem on the left when it comes to spreading
toxic conspiracy theories, group-blame and stereotyping about Jews was deliberately removed from the final
version of her statement.
As long as Corbyn, a committed anti-Zionist, remains
leader of the Labour Party, the problem of anti-Semitism will continue to fester. (Some observers might be
tempted to quip that the biggest problem of all is Corbyns unelectability, but lets not tempt fate.) As the
political commentator Alan Johnson argued in Prospect
magazine, Its hard to imagine a worse person to sort
all this out than Jeremy Corbyn, who in 2012 said to the
Palestinian radical Islamist Raed Saleh: I look forward
to giving you tea on the terrace because you deserve it!
Many people pointed out that Salah incites violent antiSemitism.... But the problem is not that Corbyn agrees
with what these people say. It is that he agrees with who
they are: the resistance to empire. The apologies and
the contortions begin there.
Here we come back to George Orwell. Toward the
end of the essay I quoted above, Orwell suggested that
anti-Semitism was part of the wider sin of nationalism, which affects even its victims. His exact words
were, Many Zionist Jews seem to me to be merely antiSemites turned upside-down, just as many Indians and
Negroes display the normal colour prejudices in an
inverted form. But British society has changed dramatically since 1945. Those who occupy the nationalist
end of its political spectrum particularly those urging
withdrawal from the European Union by and large do
not succumb to the temptations of Jew-baiting, though
there are exceptions.
Rather, it is those who describe themselves as internationalists who are the most vulnerable to that temptation. This is the direct consequence of a doctrinaire antiimperialism that begins and ends with solidarity with
one (and only one) people the Palestinians and that
regards Jews as an integral component of the superstructure of white colonial privilege.
Consider, therefore, the following irony. By being
cast as the ultimate insiders, controlling everything
from the global economy to U.S. foreign policy, Jews
end up as the ultimate outsiders in the public imagination too suspect to benefit even from the niceties
of Britains generally anti-racist political culture, especially once their emotional, familial, or other ties with
the State of Israel are brought into play.

This is a problem that goes much deeper than just Jeremy Corbyn, and it certainly is not restricted to the U.K. Thats why, even
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Connect, Mandy
Actor/singer/adult-onset Yiddishist Mandy Patinkin
sings Yiddish, American songs for Mloteks, Folksbiene
Joanne Palmer
hen Mandy Patinkin,
the actor who got
his start in Evita
and probably is best
known for his work
in the movie The
Princess Bride
and the television series Homeland,
sings Yiddish songs songs from Eastern
Europe, from Second Avenue, even translated from English hes not indulging in
a polite experiment in nostalgia. He does
not drown in schmaltz, and there are no
ironic air quotes anywhere.
Hes singing these songs for real, simultaneously exploring his tribal history, that
historys engagement with the America
into which he was born and always has
lived, and the sense of universality that
plunging so deeply into the specific usually confers.
Thats a lot for an art that he just learned
a few years ago, as an adult, but when you
read about Mr. Patinkin and even more
when you get to talk to him you very
quickly realize that he might be funny (yes,
he is funny) but when it comes to issues
that touch him he is very deeply serious.
On May 23, Mr. Patinkin will sing at
Jazz at Lincoln Center at a concert that
the National Yiddish Theatre/Folksbiene
will present to honor Zalmen and Debra
Mlotek of Teaneck. (See the box for more
information.) Mr. Mlotek is the Folksbienes artistic director; he is also the reason why Mr. Patinkin sings in Yiddish as
he does.
It all began with Joseph Papp, from
the New York Shakespeare Festival, Mr.
Patinkin said. Mr. Papp, who was born as
Joseph Papirofsky and died in 1991, was a
theatrical presence of nearly mythic proportions, the developer of the New York
Public Theatre, the impetus behind huge
numbers of plays, musicals, performers,
and performances. Joe was like my dad,
Mr. Patinkin said. He signed the ketubah
at my wedding. I loved him.
One day, he called me and said that he
was doing a benefit for YIVO the YIVO
Institute for Jewish Research, home to
a trove of resources and treasures about
Jewish life in eastern Europe and beyond.

Joe says, I want you to sing a Yiddish
song. I said I dont know any, except a
little one that my father sang when I was
about 5 or so. He said Its about time you
learned one. And I said okay.
That first piece was a well-known folk
song called Yossel Yossel. That was what
started it.
Up till that point Id sung many songs in
shows Id been in shows since I was a kid
and Id even started singing solo stuff, in
my show but it was all American popular songs, Mr. Patinkin said. This song,
though. It had a profound effect on me,
and I couldnt even understand it.
Mr. Patinkin grew up in Hyde Park, on
Chicagos South Side, right around the
corner from Obamas house but not at
the time I was growing up, he said; his
family belonged to Congregation Rodfei
Zedek, a local Conservative shul. Like most
Jews of his age, the now 63-year-old actor
never heard Yiddish at home.

My grandma Celia would come over on
Wednesday nights for dinner, and she and
my father would go down to the basement
and do her business affairs. She never
really spoke English she never really got
off the boat but I never understood it.
So it wasnt like I grew up with Yiddish, or
that it moved me emotionally because I
had memories of it from when I was a kid.
After Mr. Patinkin learned Yossel Yossel, he played it with Don Byron, the brilliant African-American clarinetist who
played for years with the Klezmer Conservatory Band. And then Joe came over for
a Shabbes dinner one night, and I played
him that track, and then at dinner he said
You need to do this.
This needs to be your job. You need to
learn this music. There was a long line of
musicians, stretching way back, centuries
back, to Europe, who made that music.
You need to get at the end of that line,
Joe Papp told Mandy Patinkin.

Mr. Patinkin already knew that many of
the stalwarts of the Great American Songbook Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Steven Sondheim were
Jewish. So were many of the performers
who interpreted those composers work,
from Al Jolson to Paul Simon, who inherited that Yiddish tam and the Yiddish cry,
he said. And they also inherited that storytelling. Most of those songs were the
chronicles of peoples lives their births,
deaths, weddings, joys. The songs were
stories; they were Broadway songs. I think
thats where the Broadway musical came
from.
I can tell you for a fact that one of the
most famous songs the Gershwins wrote
was Aint Necessarily So, Mr. Patinkin
said, momentarily diverted from his own
story. Think about it. Its what you say
when you come up to the Torah for an
aliyah. Barechu et Adonai hamevorach.
Its the exact same tune. Note for note. I
got chills the first time someone laid that
on me.
Mr. Patinkin began his search for mentors in the Yiddish world. Eventually and
inevitably, through a chain that went, as
he recalls a bit mistily, through his friend,
Debbie Friedman, the songwriter to whose
work the Reform movement prays and
dances, to Moishe Rosenfeld, who is active
in just about all the Jewish performing arts,
to Zalmen Mlotek.
Zalmen Mloteks parents, Joseph and
Eleanor Chana, were famous and influential Yiddishists, musicologists, folklorists,
writers, and towering eminences in their
world. ( Joseph Mlotek died in 2000 and
Eleanor Mlotek died in 2013.) Mr. Patinkin
learned from them. He loved them, he
added. They were the parents you wish
were your parents. They were full of life
and spunk, and ohmigod they were alive.
They were really so alive.
Mr. Patinkin also learned from Henry
Sapoznik, another famous and influential
specialist in Yiddish music, but of his own
generation.
It was a five-year journey, making my
promise to Joe Papp good, Mr. Patinkin
said.
And then it was a few months before my
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Mamaloshen album his 1998 Yiddishlanguage recording, featuring not only
such Yiddish favorites as Belz, Rabbi
Elimeylehk, and Raisins and Almonds,
but also translated versions of Take Me
Out to the Ball Game and Maria from
West Side Story and I was in my studio
at home, ready to start recording in a few
days. And then I had what was basically
my college boards.
Remember, Mr. Patinkin said, that he
had not spoken Yiddish before he started
to sing it. I had to learn the language from
scratch. I understood every word that I
sang, and I understand a lot of it when I
hear it, but I wasnt fluent in it. It was a
new language for me.
So there he was in the studio with the
three Mloteks, Henry Sapoznik, and Moishe
Rosenfeld. Yosele thats Joseph Mlotek
was on his walker, and they sat down on
my couch, and I began singing the repertoire for them, so that they could approve
my pronunciation, Mr. Patinkin said.
I sang and then there was an argument, he continued. Chana says that
I should say a word this way, and Yosele
says no, no, I should pronounce it that
way, and then Henry says no, no, no, my
grandmother always says it this other way.
Moishe and Zalmen were quiet, but the
other three got into a heated discussion
over which way to pronounce it tomayto
or tomahto and it was very moving. It
became very clear to me that they were
fighting for the way their ancestors had
said that word, in their town, in their village, on their corner, on their stoop, in
their house.
That meant everything.
When he started performing Yiddish
Zalmen Mlotek and Mandy Patinkin in 2005.
songs, Mr. Patinkin added, people would

come backstage and theyd tell me No no
no, you shouldnt say that word that way.
Say it this way! It was amazing.
The emotional content of the Yiddish
songs he sings moves audiences of all
backgrounds, Mr. Patinkin said. When I
perform it, yes, Jews come backstage, but
so do non-Jews, priests, nuns, Catholics,
Protestants, theyd all come backstage.
When I recorded Mamaloshen, there
was a lot of pressure. It was a very complicated recording session, but it went more
smoothly than any other Id ever done in
my life, and that was a little wild. And then
the African-American and Asian musicians
who had been at all my other recording
sessions and also were at this one came up
to me collectively at the end, and they said
This was the most moving experience we
Zalmen Mlotek at work.
have ever had.

We couldnt understand a single word
of it, but we all felt it.
The image on the CDs cover was taken
by Richard Avedon. Its a black and white
of me, and I grew my beard, so Id look like
the quintessential shtetl guy, Mr. Patinkin
said. And I asked Avedon if he could put
my image in front of an American flag, and
he agreed. (The flags stripes are in red
and white; the stars are black on a graytoned field.)
Thats because its the story of an immigrant. Really, any immigrant.
One of the lessons is that whoever you
are, wherever you are from, take a walk
in your own heritage. In your culture.
Not just the food, not just the easy stuff,
but the sounds and smells and all of it.
Let it wash over you. You dont have to
The Folksbienes version of The Golden Bride will play at its home at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this summer.
understand it, you just have to go there

and let it wash over you, and it will do
something for you, no matter who you
are. Give yourself this gift of hearing what
your past sounded like.
Mr. Patinkin also starred as Georges and
George in the first Broadway production of
Stephen Sondheims Sunday in the Park
with George, in 1984. The most important word of my life is a word in that musical, Mr. Patinkin said. Connect. Its Connect, George. That connection means the
world to me.
It remains the quest of my life, to somehow connect to my own past, to the world
around me, to my family and my friends,
and to the people who dont have a voice.
Connect.
The Folksbiene is honoring Zalmen
Mlotek for his 18 years of work. Mandys
been a friend of the organization for many
years, and he agreed to do a mixture of
Yiddish songs and Broadway standards
for the annual gala, Mr. Mlotek said. I
am humbled by it; I also feel that its a nice
pairing because Mandys singing represents in some sense something that I have
tried to do from the get-go. That is, to bring
Yiddish out from the confines of the Yiddish-speaking audience and opening it up
to an audience that is interested to hear
it coming from the mouths of celebrities,
and of people who have a connection to
it.
Mr. Mlotek also remembers the time
when his family and Henry Sapoznik
argued about Mr. Patinkins pronunciation, because which pronunciation is
right depends on which part of Vilna you
came from, he said. Mandy took it very
seriously.
For someone who did not speak Yiddish as a kid, his Yiddish is pretty remarkable. It is so clear that it comes from his
heart, and that he puts his whole soul into
it. Its actually kind of thrilling.
He always had a soft spot for my
mother, and when we had a memorial for
her, right after she passed away, he sang
for her.
The Folksbienes honor to his wife is
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because although she is not involved in
the theater, she is a longtime Jewish educator and early childhood teacher. She
helped create some of the childrens programming in KlezKamp and KlezKanada,
he said. (KlezKamp, which ended after 30
summers in 2014, brought klezmer musicians and aficionados together for a week
of music in the Catskills; KlezKanada continues its summer week in the Laurentians.) And she mothered our three children, who are all performers now, each
one in their own way propagating this culture that is being honored here as well,
Mr. Mlotek said.
The Folksbiene plans on continuing
its program as it rounds out its first year
in its new home, the Museum of Jewish
Heritage, at Manhattans southern tip. The
company offered a concert version of the
The Golden Bride, a wildly popular Second Avenue production when it was first
played in the 1920s, at Rutgers last year,
and brought it back for a staged version
during the winter. It was wildly successful,
so We will present it again at the museum,
starting on July 4, to kick off the summer
season, Mr. Mlotek said. It will play six
times a week throughout the summer;
the production was crowdfunded through
RocketHub. And the May 23 concert will
be the start of this years KulturFestNYC.

Last year, the ventures first, was huge.
This year, Brynna Wasserman, Mr. Mloteks
partner at the Folksbiene, who thought up
KulturFest, and Mr. Mlotek are presenting a
more scaled-down version. Our big event
will be a SummerStage in Central Park on
June 15, Mr. Mlotek said. We are bringing
back leading cantorial and chasidic superstars, and this year we have added the Maccabeats, Zusha, and Dudu Fisher.
Last year it rained, and we still had
more than 35,000 people. It was not all in
Yiddish but it was a great public manifestation of Yiddishkeit.
Next year, if plans unfold properly, KulturFestNYC will be enormous, he added.
Why does he do it? People ask me
why Yiddish? Mr. Mlotek said. Why still
Yiddish?
And I say its because its speaking to
new generations. Its connecting new
generations to older generations. It
strengthens the whole fiber of Yiddishkeit. It also gives people who have no
connection to it whatsoever a sense of
what this rich culture has been, and how
it really has an effect on American popular culture as well.
In other words, with Yiddish, people
connect.
Mandy
Patinkin
plays Saul
Berenson in
Homeland.
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Who: Mandy Patinkin
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Where: At the Rose Theater in Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street,
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When: On Monday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m.
How much and how: Tickets start at $150; for information, call (212) 213-2120, ext. 204,
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands
After Yvonne van Gennep-Bouma
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used to live in what is now her
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That was in 2012, she recalled,
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It was also in 2012 that van Gennep-Bouma, a nurse in her 50s,
started to research the tragic story
of Barend Koekoek, who lived here
with his wife and son until they
were evicted and murdered in the
Holocaust.
In researching their story, van
Gennep-Bouma said she relied on
help from a historian who studied
the Hagues Jewish community.
Koekoek, she learned, joined the
Nazi-sponsored Jewish Council
through his friendship with the
controversial Friedrich Weinreb
a Jewish author accused and later
imprisoned for taking money from
other Jews whom he promised
falsely to protect. Koekoek eventually eschewed the privileges he
would have been extended as a
member of the council, instead
insisting on boarding a death transport to Auschwitz with his ailing
son, 5-year-old Henry Martin. His
wife, Goderta Frederika KoekoekMicheels, died in Auschwitz on
October 30, 1944, at the age of 33.
Though she has to hold back
tears while talking about certain parts of the story, van
Yvonne van Gennep-Bouma, left, telling visitors on May 1 about a Jewish family who once lived
at what is now her home in the Hague.
photos by Cnaan Liphshiz
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Gennep-Bouma said that knowing Koekoeks fate ultimately helped her find peace and learn to live with the
Koekoeks memory.
It brought closure and replaced the uncertainties
with facts, she said.
In February, van Gennep-Bouma completed a twoyear effort to have memorial cobblestones placed outside her home bearing the victims names. Now she
doesnt think about the Koekoeks as much as she once
did.
Yet van Gennep-Bouma wanted to do more than
merely know their story. On Sunday, she decided to
share it by joining Open Jewish Houses, a unique grassroots project featuring dozens of property owners and
renters of former Jewish homes. Each year, before Hollands national memorial day for its World War II victims, they open their homes to strangers for lectures
about the Jews who used to live there.
At a time when survivors are increasingly scarce,
she said, buildings can tell the story in a very powerful way, she said at her home on Sunday.
Taking place for the fifth consecutive year, the
Open Jewish Houses project was born in 2011 out of
a website, joodsmonument.nl, that lists the former
addresses of 104,000 Dutch Jews murdered in the
Holocaust. Once he found his own address in the database, advertising copywriter Frits Rijksbaron urged
other Amsterdam residents of former Jewish homes
to place a Jewish home poster on their windows.
The action created a small community in Amsterdam, which in 2012 saw the first Open Jewish Houses
event ever held in Europe. The next year, the project
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expected this year on May 4, the Netherlands day of
Remembrance of the Dead (which this year happens
to fall one day before Yom Hashoah, world Jewrys day
of Holocaust remembrance).
Danielle Citroen, who coordinates the project for
Amsterdams Jewish Historical Museum, attributes
the projects success to a number of coinciding factors that are specific to the Netherlands, including the
fact that unlike in Austria, Hungary and Poland, Jewish property issues were resolved vis--vis the Dutch
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completed a two-year
effort to have
memorial
cobblestones placed
outside her home
bearing the
victims names.
government shortly after World War II, meaning very
few homeowners have reasons to resist or fear the initiative. Most Jewish victims, she added, were renting
their residences.
In addition, information about Dutch Jewry was preserved thanks to meticulous archives.
And then theres a certain element of guilt, she
noted, for the murder of 70-75 percent of Dutch
Jewry during the Holocaust the highest death rate
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whereas this guilt would have prevented
earlier generations from talking about
the Holocaust in such an intimate setting, younger generations are sufficiently distant from the genocide to
speak about it without triggering questions about personal complicity, said
Citroen, who is Jewish.
The Netherlands also has Western
Europes highest number of non-Jews
who risked their lives to save Jews from
the Holocaust. With 5,516 Dutch rescuers designated as Righteous among the
Nations by the State of Israel, the Netherlands is second only to Polands 6,620. If
Poland had the Netherlands ratio of saviors per Jews in 1940, there would have
been nearly 120,000 Polish Righteous
among the Nations.
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Europes highest
number of nonJews who risked
their lives to
save Jews from
the Holocaust.
Hosts and guests often discuss the
broader context of World War II over coffee or tea, after the host is done telling
about the specific Holocaust victim who

lived at that Open Jewish House.
In Vught, an eastern town that is infamous for the nearby concentration camp
run by the Nazi SS, host Kees van den
Heuvel remarked on Saturday that the
story of the Frankenthals, Jewish refugees from Germany who lived in what is
now his home, is something very familiar to countless Syrians today. He also
said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
should take in more Syrian refugees. Not
everyone agreed.
Van den Heuvel and his wife, Bernadette, knew their house used to belong
to Jews a wine dealer and his brother,
who were killed, and a dentist who
avoided deportation thanks to his marriage to a non-Jewish woman because
they found little signs, he said. These
included special tiles Jews favored in the
1940s and a mural of a Jewish man. But
van den Heuvel learned the story from
local volunteers working with Citroen to
encourage participation in the Open Jewish Houses project.
I now know this space right here used
to be the waiting room for the dentists
clinic, he said at his home. His clinic
was upstairs. I can really see it before me.
For the volunteers, Googling and
researching on Yad Vashem archives till 3
a.m. is very normal in the days leading up
to May 4, said Robert Herbschleb, a Jewish businessman from Vught who helped
set up the towns first Open Jewish Homes
edition last year.
You know you need to go to sleep,
get ready for a days work but heres
this person, you only have three lines
about them and its up to you to do for
them the only thing you can do, he said.
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BRUSSELS I was feeling nervous
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Making the 130-mile trip there from
my home in Amsterdam meant taking
my 5-month-old son on a train that last
year saw an attempted jihadist attack,
and going into a city that is still reeling
and on alert from the March 22 Islamist
bombings that killed 32 people.
I wasnt worried about terrorism,
though. Having experienced two intifadas and the Gulf War missile attacks
in my native Israel by the time I turned
19, I was pretty much immune to terrorisms psychological effects.
No, I fretted over my familys violent and scary rendition of Echad Mi
Yodea the cumulative-verse Passover
song that they enjoy hollering, building
up to an ecstatic crescendo. By the 13th
and final verse, about 35 of them are
shrieking, red-faced and hoarse, while
pounding fists and cutlery on the table.
It looks like a prison riot scene.
I have grown immune to this traditions psychological effects, too, and
on occasion had even used it to test
the mental composure of unsuspecting
dates. But I feared it would all be too
much for little baby Ilai.
Yet as I waited for all hell to break
loose last week, I saw my worries were
unfounded. This year, my familys Echad
Mi Yodea was a shadow of what it used
to be, and suddenly I realized that it was

a vivid illustration of the absence of relatives from my age group. Like many Belgian Jews, they have left their native country because of anti-Semitism. With each
passing year, there are fewer of us around
the seder table.
My Belgian relatives have said goodbye to nine young seder rioters over the
past 15 years. Six enlisted in the Israel
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immigrated to the United States, and
one moved to London.
I came to Brussels this year because
this seder was the sendoff for a second
cousin and his wife, a physician and an
architect, who are moving to Florida.
His sister and her Belgian Jewish husband already live there.
This is my last seder as a European,
my cousin Mark (not his real name)
told me over the phone. We spoke in
Hebrew, a language that all my Belgian
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born to Holocaust survivors and who
always saw aliyah as a contingency plan
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I want you to be there to send me
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forced out of public schools because of
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Things are bad here and I want a

better future for my children, he told
me.
I asked Joel Rubinfeld, the founder
of the Belgian League Against AntiSemitism and a former president of the
CCOJB umbrella of group of Frenchspeaking Belgian Jewish communities,
whether my family was unusual when
it came to its emigration agenda.
Im afraid not, he said. There is
the beginning of an expedited emigration process. Our only statistical view
on it is through aliyah, which tells a
very partial story in a community with
highly educated members who can settle anywhere in Europe and have little
trouble getting visas to the U.S., Canada
and Australia.
In 2014, Rubinfeld warned that Belgian Jewry was seeing an exodus
because of anti-Semitism.
Last year, 287 Jews immigrated to
Israel from Belgium, which has a Jewish population of about 40,000. It was
the highest figure recorded in a decade.
From 2010 to 2015, an average of 234
Belgian Jews made aliyah annually
a 56 percent increase over the annual
average of 133 new arrivals from Belgium in 2005-2009, according to Israeli
government data.
Unlike French Jews, who tend to
speak only one native language, Belgian
Jews speak two and often three languages fluently. This could mean that
Belgian Jews have an easier time than
their French counterparts immigrating
to destinations that are not Israel.
Linda, Marks sister, moved to London and had two kids there with an
Israel-born husband. She wants to leave
Britain for Florida because she doesnt
feel safe in the United Kingdom either.
Europe is doomed, she said. The
bad guys won. Im not going to raise my
children in fear just to make a point.
Her father is a French-born lawyer
who was raised Catholic by his mother,
a Holocaust survivor, before reconnecting to his Jewish roots. He told me that
his feeling of personal safety in Brussels
was irreversibly shattered when robbers invaded his home a few years ago,
tied him and his wife up, and beat him
before they robbed the two of them.
We may have been singled out by
the robbers because were Jewish, but
at this point, does it matter? he said.
It completely changes how you feel
just walking down the street. He and
his wife are preparing to join their two
children in Florida.
Catching up with other relatives
between seder songs, I found myself
chatting in Hebrew to Sylvia, an aunt
whose three children are living in
Israel with their spouses. It took a while
before I realized that the last time we
spoke Hebrew, she was limited to basic

sentences like I have a yellow pencil.
Unbeknownst to me, she and her
husband have been attending ulpan,
Hebrew-language school, preparing
to join their children in Israel. They
bought a penthouse apartment in Tel
Aviv years ago.
Even before the eruption of antiSemitic Islamism in Europe 15 years
ago, Sylvia and her husband said they
would leave Belgium if the National
Front, the far-right party in neighboring France, ever came to power.
Another uncle, I learned during the
seder, had taken up Israeli citizenship
last year. That makes him like two of
his four children, who are serving in
the Israeli army, but he still is living
in Belgium. It hardly matters if I do it
Last year,
287 Jews
immigrated to
Israel from
Belgium, which
has a Jewish
population of
about 40,000. It
was the highest
figure recorded
in a decade.
now or in a few years when we actually
move to Israel, so I figured, why not?
he explained.
But I recalled the very different attitude held by his late mother, my greataunt, who was the matriarch of my
familys Belgian branch. A Polish-born,
steel-willed woman who survived the
Holocaust in hiding in Belgium, she
always was proud of her adopted country, where she and her husband survived and later prospered.
Though she raised her three children
to be very pro-Israel, she enrolled the
first two in a public school and strongly
encouraged all of them to stay in Belgium, where she mastered impeccable
French and integrated seamlessly.
I asked her daughter, the one preparing to follow her two children to
Florida, why she doesnt share her late
mothers attachment to Belgium.
My mother and her generation felt
gratitude to Belgium after coming from
Poland, where even before the Holocaust there were limits to a Jews social
advancement, said my aunt, a physician. Belgium was her America. It welcomed her with open arms. We have
had a different experience here.
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A screenshot
from the
11-minute
video that
shows a
chasidic
principal
holding a
young boy in
Kiryas Joel.
Screenshot
from YouTube
Undercover video of chasidic

principal handling boy
prompts sex abuse probe
Uriel Heilman
The story is an all-too-familiar horror
tale: An adult in a position of power
in this case a chasidic school principal
is accused of sexually abusing a child
in his care.
But one thing makes this episode very
different from most others. The encounter was captured on a hidden camera
and posted online this week for all to see.
Difficult to watch, the 11-minute clip
offers a rare glimpse of what an incident
of this sort actually looks like rather
than as it may be refracted through the
victims memory, days, weeks, or years
later in court, in the media, or in the privacy of a therapy session.
The video, which now is being probed
by police, first was widely circulated on
Saturday night on the messaging service
WhatsApp. Later, it was posted on Facebook in an abridged form before being
removed by administrators. It shows an
older, bearded chasidic man taking his
seat in a small office and then pulling a
young boy to sit between his legs.
Over the course of several minutes,
the bespectacled man, who is wearing a black hat, caresses the boy, jerks
him back and forth, appears to kiss him
repeatedly, and rub against him. At one
point the boy tries to escape the mans
clutches but is grabbed back. Both
remain fully clothed throughout the
encounter. A volume of Deuteronomy,
a book of Psalms, and other religious
tomes lie on the nearby desk.
Filmed from an overhead camera
without audio, the video shows neither
the mans nor the boys unobstructed
faces. The boy, who has a pot and whose
head is closely shaved under his black
velvet yarmulke, looks to be anywhere
from 5 to 9 years old.
Activists say the man is a principal at
the main yeshiva in Kiryas Joel, a Satmar
village in the town of Monroe in New
Yorks Orange County. The K-12 yeshiva,
United Talmudical Academy, has some

6,000 students, according to school
resource websites. A message left with
administrators at the school on Tuesday
was not returned.
State police are investigating the incident, according to the Journal News, the
local paper that first reported it.
Christopher Borek, the chief assistant district attorney for Orange County,
said his office had received a copy of the
video but declined to say whether or not
the incident is under investigation.
I can tell you that in general our office
treats all allegations of sexual abuse of
children as extremely serious, Borek
said, noting that a designated unit handles such allegations. We never comment on investigations even to confirm if
the investigation is ongoing or not unless
or until charges are filed.
The encounter at the Kiryas Joel
yeshiva allegedly took place before last
Yom Kippur and was filmed by someone
who planted the hidden camera because
he believed kids at the yeshiva were being
subjected to inappropriate behavior.
Boorey Deutsch, an activist against
sexual abuse in the charedi Orthodox
community who shared the video on
Facebook, said the person who made the
video whom Deutsch declined to identify decided to go public with it because
local authorities in Kiryas Joel who were
shown the recording declined to take any
action.
After posting a 36-second clip from
the video, which got some 27,000 views
before Facebook removed it, Deutsch
was inundated with comments, both
from supporters and from people who
questioned whether the video indeed
shows any sexual abuse. Skeptics said it
could be an innocent encounter between
an administrator who was showing affection for a student who required either
special attention or discipline.
Deutsch vehemently disagrees.
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Orthodox activists and victims press N.Y.

to change reporting laws on sex abuse
Other activists planning to
make the trip to Albany on May 3
Advocates for sexual abuse victims in the
included Hamilton; Meyer Seewald
Orthodox Jewish community planned on
of the Orthodox-run anti-sexual
going to New Yorks state capital on May
abuse organization Jewish Community Watch; Manny Waks, CEO of
3 to lobby the legislature to eliminate the
the advocacy group Kol vOz, and
statute of limitations for child sex abuse
Sara Kabakov, who wrote an artioffenses.
cle in the Forward earlier this year
A bill to change the statute of limitations has languished in a state legislative
describing the abuse she said she
committee for years, due in large part to
suffered as a child at the hands of
opposition from the Catholic Church and
the former rabbi Marc Gafni.
Agudath Israel of America.
Levin says that he expected the
The bill, known as the Child Victims
lobbying group to include 20 to 30
Act, would completely eliminate the civil
people. Advocates for charedi victims say that cultural prohibitions
statute of limitations for child sex abuse
against reporting abuse to police
offenses in the future, according to SOL
remain strong in their communiReform, an advocacy group that sponsored a series of panels and news conferties, where extended families often
ences on May 3 and 4.
are large and influential, and relaOrthodox activists, like these protesting outside a Brooklyn yeshiva, are asking institutionships are tightly knit.
The bill also would suspend the civil
tions to do more to report and investigate allegations of child sexual and physical abuse.
The lobbying push in Albany
statute of limitations for one year. During
came amid allegations of abuse levthat time, the accuser could bring a civil
Agudah, which represents charedi Orthodox schools
eled against charedi-run schools, including a March artilawsuit against a private educational organization, no matter
cle in Newsweek titled Child Abuse Allegations Plague
and synagogues, says the bill would open up instituhow far back the alleged abuse dates. While the bill passed
tions to ancient claims and capricious litigation, as
the Chasidic Community. The article alleged that a
the New York State Assembly, it has been blocked in the State
the group wrote in a 2009 statement it issued with the
prominent Chabad yeshiva, Oholei Torah in Crown
Senate in the decade since it was introduced.
charedi schools network Torah Umesorah.
Heights, had ignored or downplayed reports of physical
We do not oppose extending or even eliminating the
and sexual abuse against students.
criminal statute of limitations for cases of abuse, Rabbi
In response to the Newsweek report, Oholei Torahs
Avi Shafran, an Agudah spokesman, said. Our concern
top administrator, Rabbi Shlomo Rosenfeld, wrote a letter to parents saying, I can categorically assure you that
is simply protecting the economic viability of Jewish
there is absolutely no abuse taking place in Oholei Torah
schools. Yeshivas operate on shoestring budgets.
My goal is to preserve and enhance
that we know of neither sexual abuse, nor physical
Advocates
for
abuse
victims
say
opponents
of
the
legTeaneck for future generations.
islation are putting their institutions finances and repuabuse, nor verbal abuse.
Henry J. Pruitt, Jr.
tations ahead of justice for abuse victims.
Seewalds group, Jewish Community Watch, recently
They are most interested in keeping the civil lawsuits
posted a response to Rosenfelds letter.
from happening because that is where all of the secrets
Those at Oholei Torah have buried their heads in the
Committed to Teaneck. Dedicated to Progress.
and cover-ups come out, said Marci Hamilton, a professand and want all of us to do the same, Jewish Commusor at Yeshiva Universitys Cardozo School of Law and an
nity Watch wrote. There is willful disregard on the part
organizer of SOL Reform. It is about image and power.
of Oholei Torah directors and board members who possess factual knowledge of present and past physical and
Criminal cases focus narrowly on the perpetrators
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sexual abuse within the walls of Oholei Torah.
actions rather than institutions that may have protected
Administrators at Oholei Torah did not respond to
him, she said. Only through a civil case can you document an institutions negligence and the way it failed
many phone messages and emails.
(In the last Teaneck Township election
children, she added. The problem is that they wont
The increasing visibility of Jewish Community Watch,
only 26% of registered voters showed
fix their internal procedures unless there are civil
however, suggests that attitudes are changing within the
up at the polls!)
claims, because they dont have to.
Orthodox world itself.
Among those advocating for the New York law are
Last year, the Orthodox newspaper Algemeiner JourFor more information about Dr. Pruitt
nal honored Seewald, 27, as one of the 100 people posiChaim Levin of Crown Heights who won a $3.5 million
tively influencing Jewish life.
civil judgment against a cousin, Sholom Eichler, in 2013.
go to: www.pruittforteaneck.com
Among other activities, Jewish Community Watch
He accused Eichler, who then was 23, of abusing him
publishes the names of proven abusers and helps conwhen he was 8. Levin has not been able to collect any
nect victims with therapists. It is now paying fees for
part of the judgment because Eichler fled to Israel.
80 people, Seewald said. The organization holds awareLevins suit narrowly made it under the current statue
ness-raising events in Orthodox communities in such
of limitations for filing a civil lawsuit. According to Hamilton, studies show that most sex abuse victims do not
places as Miami, Baltimore, Montreal, and Israel.
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years ago, said Seewald, who grew up in Crown Heights and
now lives in Miami. As a young boy he was sexually molested by
a camp counselor, he said. And as a teen, a schoolmate at Oholei
Torah gave him a massage and put his hands down Seewalds
pants, he added.
People are 100 percent more willing to come forward, Seewald said. Four years ago we were attacked beyond everything
to show we werent credible. It was 10 percent of people supporting us. Now its 80 percent.
Leaders of the community have changed, he continued.
Now they realize there are so many kids at risk, problems with
marriage because of sexual abuse, they are supportive. Not yet
publicly, unfortunately, but behind the scenes they will support
the work we do.
Jewish Community Watch now has a benefactor. Miami businessman Eli Nash, 30, said that for three years, starting when
he was 8, he was sexually abused by a 14-year-old family friend.
He also was physically abused by his teachers in first and fourth
grades. When a teacher threw him against a wall it left bruises,
said Nash, who also grew up in Crown Heights.
He and his brother have given about $1 million to Jewish Community Watch over the past two years and have pledged ongoing support. The organization now has 11 employees in Miami
and Israel, and plans to open a Manhattan office soon.
Its not PC to say anymore you dont care about it, said Nash,
who owns a cellphone wholesale business. Its not acceptable
to say were not doing more, we dont take it seriously. Its not
even acceptable to say anymore you cant call the cops, which
was very accepted before. Thats what has changed.
In the abstract everythings changed, he said. But in the
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particulars, a lot more has to.
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Some people said: Thats how he showed love

and dedication to the children for many years. But
you do not show dedication and love to a child by
kissing him in the face and pulling him into your
body. This is inappropriate, Deutsch said. There
are still thousands of kids under his hands. He can
do it again because nobody is taking action again.
Its our job to stand up. If nobody else will stand up,
I will stand up. I will make it happen.
Deutsch, who grew up in the Satmar neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is a well-known figure in the chasidic community. Beginning when she
was 12 years old, his wife was abused by Nechemya
Weberman, an unlicensed Satmar therapist. The
abuse went on for three years. In 2012, Weberman
was convicted on 59 counts of sexual abuse, including oral sex, and sentenced to 103 years in prison.
Throughout the trial and after the verdict, Webermans supporters decried Deutschs wife as a slut
and made her and Deutsch the targets of vitriolic
attacks.
Deutsch said that many charedi Orthodox boys
who are subjected to encounters like the one shown
in the video only realize that they were inappropriate
years later, if they realize it at all. Some people are
still in the box and they dont want to say its sexual,
he said.
Nuchem Rosenberg, an outspoken chasidic advocate against sexual abuse who operates a hotline for
the chasidic community, says he has fielded 20 to 30

phone calls in the last few days from women in Kiryas
Joel. Theyre worried about their children attending
the yeshiva where the incident allegedly took place.
In 2012, a chasidic assailant angered by Rosenbergs activism attacked him with bleach.
When they saw this video, they are totally under
shock, Rosenberg said. These women said, Is this
where we are sending our children to learn and get
holy and learn the word of God?
Naftuli Moster, who advocates that the state intervene in charedi schools to compel them to offer statemandated grade-appropriate English and math, also
has been caught up in the firestorm over the video.
He was interviewed about it by a local TV station, and
before its public release he was involved in discussions with the person who filmed it about how make
that move.
Even those who argue that this is not a case of
sexual abuse should find it impossible to say that
the school administrators behavior is acceptable
in any way, Moster said.
Theres definitely a certain type of abuse taking
place, Moster said. Hes definitely doing something
wrong. Maybe decades ago people used to do this in
small yeshiva settings and thought it was OK. But hes
pinning this kid between his legs. Hes holding him
by the neck at one point. He seems to be kissing him.
The kid is visibly scared.
Whatever it is, its just wrong, Moster said. He
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in prestigious high school robotics contest
Israel to open office

at NATO headquarters
An Israeli high school team from Binyamina, near Haifa,

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Robotics Competition in St. Louis, Mo., from April 27-30.
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Israel took another important step toward becoming a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance.
The organization announced that it will allow Israel
to open an office at NATO headquarters in Brussels to
push forward a process that could ultimately lead to
full-fledged membership for Israel.
NATOs 28 members include the United States, Canada, European Union member states, and other European countries.
The alliance obligates all member states to aid a fellow member if it comes under attack.
I welcome NATOs announcement, it is an important step that helps Israels security, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said. It is further testament to
Israels standing and the desire of many to cooperate
with us in the field of security.
Israeli officials noted that NATOs announcement
came on the heels of a concerted diplomatic effort,
with the help of the United States, Canada, Germany
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inter-European flights
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Kuwait Airways, the national airline of Kuwait, has
halted all inter-European routes in order to avoid
further civil and criminal charges in Europe for its
refusal to allow Israeli citizens fly on its airline, according to the Lawfare Project, a U.S.-based nonprofit legal
think tank that has challenged the airlines policies in
European courts.
In mid-April, Lawfare Project Swiss Council Philippe
Grumbach filed an administrative complaint with the
Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation as well as a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor General against
Kuwait Airways Corporation on behalf of an Israeli
national living in Switzerland who was denied a ticket
on the Kuwait Airways flight from Geneva to Frankfurt,
Germany.
The complaint was based on the airlines violation
of the Swiss Penal Code as well as the Swiss constitution, which protects individuals from discrimination
based on race, religion and ethnicity, the Lawfare Project said.
Earlier this year Kuwait Airways dropped its route
between New York City and London rather than transport Israeli citizens between the two cities. That decision came after the U.S. Department of Transportation
found that the airlines refusal to allow Israeli citizens
to fly on the route amounted to unreasonable discrimination because Israeli passport holders have the
legal right to travel between the United States and the
United Kingdom.
Ironically, the Arab League boycott of Israel was
instituted with the stated goal of delegitimizing and
bankrupting the Jewish state, the Lawfare Project said
on its website.
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League governments and corporations that the legal
and financial risks of refusing to deal with Israelis will
be disproportionately painful for the boycotters, the
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scope of its original mission.
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Sides swap character attacks in trial

over Bay Areas Koret Foundation
Rob Gloster and Dan Pine
SAN FRANCISCO A civil trial focused on control of
the $500 million Koret Foundation is pitting its founders widow, Susan Koret, against its former president,
Tad Taube, who still sits on its board.
While the suit centers on the allocation of foundation grants and a series of real estate deals, the trial in
a courtroom here last month devolved into character
attacks by both sides.
Koret, whose late husband, Joseph, founded the
foundation and was its longtime chair, filed the suit in
2014, seeking to have Taube and San Francisco attorney Richard Greene, the foundations former general
counsel, removed from the Koret board.
The lawsuit demands the recovery of millions of dollars she claims were granted to projects outside the
scope of the foundations original mission, which was
to help the poor and aiding Jewish communities in
Northern Californias Bay Area and Israel.
According to the suit, Taube autocratically controlled the Koret Foundation as a personal piggy bank
to aggrandize his name and funnel millions of dollars
annually to favored causes.
The lawsuit accuses Taube, who also is the chairman of his own charitable organization, Taube Philanthropies, of diverting Koret Foundation funds to Jewish projects in his native Poland including the Polin
Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw as
well as to conservative groups in the United States,
such as Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution.
Taube, who was born in Poland, fled the Nazis and
went on to make a fortune in real estate and venture
capital in Northern California. He was the foundations president for 32 years until he stepped down
in June 2014.
Susan Koret met Joseph Koret when she was hired as
a caregiver for his first wife, Stephanie. They married
after Stephanie Koret died in 1978.
Both Susan Koret and Tad Taube have testified at the

trial, which opened April 18.
Taube, testifying in Superior Court on April 26,
noted that he had been suffering recently from shingles and an erosion of energy. Much of his testimony
centered on his history with the Koret Foundation
and involvement in real estate deals, in which Taube
earned commissions on the sales of Koret properties
he had co-owned with Joseph Koret.
Taube addressed questions about Koret grants to
the $45 million core exhibition of the Jewish museum
in Warsaw, saying he had made assurances to the
museum that he would cover any shortfall in funding
but had never asked the Koret Foundation to do so.
Taube also testified that he was aware of an investigation into allegations he had engaged in unwanted
hugging and kissing of women at the Hoover Institution. Lawyers had not pursued the issue further as of
midweek.
Koret also took the stand on April 26. Under questioning from defense attorney Susan Harriman, Koret,
a native of Korea who acknowledges having difficulties
with English, gave halting answers to basic questions,
such as defining her role on the board and how much
the foundation has given to various grantees.
Asked why she abstained or voted no on certain
proposals before the board, Koret said she could not
recall the reasons. She remembered voting no on one
real estate sale when the minutes showed she had
voted yes.
Asked why she emailed foundation staffers asking
for 14 changes to the minutes of an April 2014 board
meeting, Koret claimed they were inaccurate but could
not say how. She also could not remember writing the
email, which was in perfect English. Koret said her
niece sometimes helps her write.
Koret also denied that she is an officer of the foundation, even though, as its chair, she is indeed an officer.
Korets testimony took an awkward turn when she
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could not explain the meaning of Jewish peoplehood
(other than to say identity), describe the Holocaust, or
explain what was meant in an ad campaign touting her
lawsuit that the poor in the Bay Area are being shortchanged by the Koret Foundation.
Asked who was shortchanging the poor, Koret had no
answer. She acknowledged she did not know what the
term shortchange meant.
Koret said she was simply upholding the wishes of her
late husband, who had wanted the foundation to be a positive force. Asked why she voted to decline grant requests
by mainstream Jewish organizations that fight anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity, such as the Israel on Campus
Coalition and the Israel Project, she said they were too
political, too negative.
On April 22, Anita Friedman, a co-president of the Koret
board, testified that Koret was incapable of handling her
duties as a foundation board member. Koret was named
the foundations chairwoman for life in her husbands will
after Joseph Koret died in 1982.
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testified that she gave a presentation on the Holocaust to the foundations board and that Koret told
her: I didnt know about the Holocaust. Joe never
told me.
Also on April 22, a former foundation employee,
Kirsten Mickelwait, testified that she was fired after
rebuffing Taubes efforts to set her up romantically
Koret said she was

simply upholding the
wishes of her late
husband, who had
wanted the
foundation to be a
positive force.
with his friend, venture capitalist George Sarlo,
founder of the San Francisco-based Sarlo Foundation. When she told Taube that she was not interested, Mickelwait testified that Taube responded:
Honey, sex comes and goes, but money is forever.
In the lawsuit, Koret also accuses Taube and other
board members of blocking her from making former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown president
of the board. Instead, when Taube retired as president in 2014, Friedman and Michael Boskin became
co-presidents.
Koret also contends that the foundation had
losses of about $34 million because of actions taken
by Taube and other board members, including the
untimely sale of Bay Area real estate and expenses
related to the Hoover Institution and other causes.
That figure includes $93,000 for a mural at the foundations new home, which featured a portrait of
Taube with Joseph Koret.
Greene, the former Koret Foundation general
counsel, testified that the real estate deals were
proper, timely, and lucrative for the organization.
But Herbert Beller, a Northwestern University law
professor specializing in federal tax law who was
hired by Susan Koret to examine the foundations
real estate deals, testified last week that some of
those transactions raised serious tax risks and exposures and amounted to flat-footed self-dealing.
However, Beller did not testify that the deals were
financially unwise or not lucrative.
The Koret Foundation has issued $500 million in
grants since its founding in 1979, supporting education, hospitals, humanitarian groups, the arts, and
Jewish life in the Bay Area. It supports similar projects in Israel, and in recent years also has focused on
Jewish life in Poland.
Korets attorneys said in court that all funds given
to charity food programs by the Koret Foundation
over the years paled in comparison to what Taube
directed to the Hoover Institution, and that Koret
favored increasing food-aid donations in the Bay
Area instead of giving money to global Jewish causes
such as the museum in Warsaw.
But on the stand Friedman defended the
museum grants, saying they were appropriate and
worthwhile.
Poland is central to the Jewish story, Friedman testified. More than 80 percent of American Jews trace
their roots to Poland and that part of the world.
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Hamas man allegedly
got $2,000 a month for
running terror tunnel
Suspected Hamas terrorist operative Medhat Abu
Sneima was indicted in Beersheba last week for crimes
including plans to attack Israeli soldiers along the Gaza
border. Abu Sneima, 24, from Gaza, was arrested last
month. According to the indictment, which lists 18
charges, he joined Hamas in 2007.
In 2014, he allegedly paid $7,000 to become part
owner of a smuggling tunnel from Egypt to Gaza. As
such, he made $2,000 per month for operating the
tunnel, earning a total of about $50,000 a huge sum
in Gaza during the two years the tunnel was active.
The indictment stated that when Abu Sneima
became part owner, the tunnel was about 1,640 feet
long, but it was later doubled in length and ran under
both Egyptian and Israeli territory. Abu Sneima and
his partners are suspected of smuggling some 30
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The body of a missing 40-year-old Israeli man was
found in a forest in southern Hungary on Sunday. Ofir
Gross, a Jerusalem native who was studying biomedical engineering in Germany, had not been heard from
after last making contact with his family on April 21.
Hungarian police believe Gross was murdered, and
two local men were arrested in connection with the
case on Sunday. Israels Foreign Ministry on Sunday
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Suspect arrested
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bomb plot, FBI says
A man suspected of planning to bomb a South Florida synagogue has been arrested, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation announced Monday. Sources in the
bureau reported that a sting operation was orchestrated to thwart a terrorist attack at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center on Friday.
WSVN, a Florida news outlet, quoted law enforcement sources as saying that FBI agents posing as terrorists were able to prevent the attack and apprehend
the suspect, who had converted to Islam, they said.
According to the report, the suspect wanted to take
some kind of explosive device and chuck it over the
wall. Friday was the next-to-last day of Passover, and
the center was crowded with people observing the
holiday.
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Phil Lesh lights the candles as Jeannette Ferber sings the blessing and
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Rock legend Phil Lesh

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veggie burritos tonight? Will I be miracled? Will they play The Wheel? Will
Phil sing?
These four extra questions were
asked at a Passover seder this week
thats quickly becoming a new Bay Area
tradition.
Fans of the legendary psychedelic
band the Grateful Dead celebrated Passover for the third year in a row on the
Wednesday night of Passover at Terrapin Crossroads, the Marin County club
owned by the bands bassist, Phil Lesh.
This was the first year that seders were
held on consecutive nights, Tuesday
and Wednesday. Tickets for both sold
out within minutes; 150 guests attended
each night.
These seders were unlike many others in that after the reading of the Haggadah and a meal of matzah ball soup
and brisket, the tables were cleared to
make way for a dance floor, and guests
were treated to an hour-and-a-half set of
music by Lesh and friends, the Terrapin
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Lesh and his wife, Jill, opened Terrapin Crossroads in 2012, with community
building as part of its mission. Lesh, who
is not Jewish, had always noticed the disproportionate number of Jews among
the bands fans, known as Deadheads.
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in 2013 Lesh decided to hold a Chanukah
menorah lighting.
It was so popular that when it came
to a seder, we felt we had no choice,
James told the J. Weekly in 2014.
Enter Jeannette Ferber. A cantorial soloist at the Renewal synagogue
Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley, Calif., Ferber and her husband, Cory, were Terrapin regulars. Ferber offered to help with
the menorah lighting, which led to her
becoming the go-to person to form a
seder planning committee.
In 2014, she led the first seder, and
was invited to sing a song that night with
the band of Bay Area musicians in Leshs
post-Dead circle. (The surviving members of the Dead Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill
Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart have
performed in solo projects and bands
since the bands last major tour in 2009.)
At both seders this year, Ferber sang
many songs, including Bob Dylans
Knockin on Heavens Door, which for
years has been part of the High Holidays
liturgy at Chochmat HaLev, and Leonard
Cohens Hallelujah.
Most of the songs sung over the two
nights had some kind of connection to
Passover or the Bible, like the Deads
Samson and Delilah. In All New Minglewood Blues, James changed the lyric
from a couple shots of whiskey to a
couple shots of Manischewitz.
This year the seder was led for the
first time by Wendy Garf-Lipp, of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, who flew across
the country for the event. Garf-Lipp has
taught at Solomon Schechter day schools
in Jericho, New York, and Providence,
Rhode Island. Her son Ezra Lipp, an
alumnus of the Providence Schechter,
now is a frequent drummer for Lesh.
Im 60 and hes 32. Ldor vdor, said
Garf-Lipp of her son, using the Hebrew
phrase meaning from generation to
generation. To have this 30-year gap
between the two of us and share this
music that we both love is an incredible thing, she said. To see your child
taking the music you grew up with and
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spiritual.
Garf-Lipp has been a Deadhead since
1967 and was at their legendary concert at the Great Pyramid of Giza in
1978. She had been in Israel when it was
announced.
Ive always seen Judaism as this
fusion of fixity and flux, this continuum
of thought and idea and behavior, GarfLipp said. And Ive always seen being a
Deadhead in the same way.
As soon as her son began playing
at Terrapin Crossroads, she knew she
wanted to be involved with the seder.
She offered to revamp the Haggadah and
spent six months working on it.
Culled from a range of Haggadot
including ones produced by the Reform
movement, Chabad, and the JQ International Jewish LGBT group it includes
readings about contemporary social
issues like human trafficking and domestic violence.
Besides lighting the candles, Lesh narrated the Passover story and could be
seen singing his way through the four
questions along with the crowd.
Brian Markovitz, who runs a website called deadheadland and the Facebook group Jews for Jerry (as in Garcia,
the bands founding guitarist and guiding spirit, who died in 1995), has been
part of the seder planning committee all
three years.
This is my family, and who I spend
the most time with, so it makes sense
that this is how Id spend my Passover,
Markovitz said. Its so great that Phil
recognizes that.
Jerome Marcus, attending the seder
for the first time, was struck by watching the 76-year-old Lesh play with his
son Grahame and other musicians much
younger than Lesh.
Hes passing it through, Marcus said.
Ive brought my parents to Terrapin
Crossroads, and now Ive brought my
2-year-old son here.
As for Ferber, its been a dream come
true. Before she became a cantorial soloist six years ago, she hadnt sung in more
than 10 years.
Ferber, 38, grew up in Canton, Ohio,
attending the Reform Temple Israel. She
first discovered her love of singing at
Camp Wise outside of Cleveland. A data
analyst by day at Kaiser Permanente, she
found Chochmat HaLev after a period of
disconnection from Judaism and began
singing in the choir.
When its choir director moved away,
she succeeded her as cantorial soloist.
Since becoming Terrapins consultant
for all things Jewish, Ferber has been
asked to sing with Leshs band at other
gigs as well. One weekend last June,
when they re-created the Deads shows
from 1977 including one from Barton
Hall in Ithaca, New York, that many consider to be the Deads best performance
ever she sang the parts of Donna Jean
Godchaux, a former backup singer in the
band.
Grammy Award winner John Mayer
played with the band that weekend, and
an Instagram photo of her with Mayer
taken after the show caused a flurry of
speculation among his female fans as to
who his new lady friend was (the star has
dated everyone from Katy Perry to Jennifer Aniston, and many fans were relieved
to learn that the photo was taken by her
husband).
A video from the Barton Hall show,
thanks to Mayers appearance, has over
200,000 views on YouTube.
Whether shes singing at shul or at Terrapin, Ferber said, I try to open myself
up to be a channel for song and not
overthink things. So much of the Deads
music has a deep story or spiritual element to it, so that makes it the same.
For the longtime Deadhead, getting to
sing with someone from such an influential band is more than I ever could have
imagined, and I love the fact that it happened through singing in synagogue,
she said. Im so beyond grateful.
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first that it is important to
not have a clear problem to
Rabbi Tzvee
choose the appropriate kind
deal with. Perhaps that quick
Zahavy
of group. They vary, attractanalysis will calm your worries. There are psychologists
ing people of different ages,
and social workers who will agree with me
types of professions, and types of addictions, factors that may be important in
that you need not be overwrought, given
terms of peer support. He noted that some
these facts.
support meetings have more affluent,
On the other hand, there are professionals who would say that what your husolder and more stable attendees. Others
band is doing raises a red flag. A person
may have more blue-collar workers, single
who drinks daily at the level you describe
and divorced people, and unemployed
is using wine to self-medicate, perhaps to
workers.
deal with underlying depression, stress, or
He noted to me that many groups meet
tensions that can be treated better under
in churches, though usually in the social
the supervision of a qualified counselor.
halls, not the sanctuary. There are groups
You should know that if your husband is
all around our area, including in Ho-Hoadmitted to a hospital for any reason, he
Kus, Dumont, Englewood and Fort Lee,
is likely to be asked how much he drinks.
at lunch times and evenings, at beginners
At his level of consumption (if he is honest
level and advanced meetings. On a recent
with the interviewer) he will be tagged as
Sunday, the meeting locator on Alcoholics Anonymouss local website, www.
an alcoholic. This may not be something
nnjaa.org, listed 40 meetings taking place
he wants. But he should be clear in informing the staff, since his safe and proper
within 10 miles of Teaneck. Consider also
treatment with medications may depend
that family members of problem drinkers
on how much alcohol he has in his system.
may turn to Al-Anon meetings for support.
You may also be concerned about the
I hope this discussion helps and I urge
long-term impact of alcohol on your husyou and your husband to use your best
bands health. You dont want to be pasjudgment to decide, first, if there is a
sive, allow him to drink too much, and
problem, and second, if there is, how to
accordingly see him develop a serious
address it so that it can be resolved.
drinking-related disease like cirrhosis of
the liver.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
Periodically we read of studies that purWhen we visit Jerusalem, my wife immeport to show, for instance, that two drinks
diately wants to visit the Kotel, the Second
of wine a day are beneficial to a persons
Temples Western Wall. She insists that the
health. We ought to ask in your case: What
Temple site is especially sacred, and that she
about four glasses of wine? And more
must go there to make urgent prayers for
important, we ought to ask, with some
people who are ill, and to pray for success
skepticism: Who sponsors these studies?
and for other needs.
What of other medical conclusions that
I keep telling her that she can offer her
claim the long-term use of alcohol at these
prayers anywhere, and that running to the
levels can be detrimental to a persons
Kotel is unnecessary. What can I do to convince her that she need not do this?
health?
Husband of the Wall
So finally we ask, do you or your husband have a problem here or not? I suggest
Dear Husband,
that you be watchful of your husbands
The basic premise of your wifes actions is
wine habits, and that you talk to him from
the general notion that some spaces in our
time to time about them. But in my view
world are more sacred than others, hence
you do not need to be hypervigilant or to
they are better places to pray. And the
take any action at this time. As long as your
specific instance of her belief is the claim
husband appears to you to be safe and
made for the special holiness today of the
happy, you can relax.
Kotel plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem.
That said, if his drinking increases and
Lets look at her assumptions and at her
he becomes inebriated to the point of
application of them.
impairing his ability to function socially or
A space becomes sacred when people
say it is. Or sometimes, more specifically,
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers timely advice based on mindful Talmudic
when people say that a deity says that it
wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all varieties and
is sacred. Oftentimes a place can be holy
denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the month.
because faithful folks say that God dwells
Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or email to zahavy@gmail.com.
there, or that it is a portal to heaven.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,

I think that my husband drinks too much. He
has at least two glasses of wine every night at
dinnertime. He often drinks more later in the
evening. On Shabbat he has several drinks of
hard liquor with his buddies in shul before
lunch. Im worried that he is an alcoholic.
What should I do?
Wife of Wine Drinker
Dear Wife,
Wine plays a pervasive and positive role in
the rituals of our Jewish tradition, as you
doubtless know. Our Sabbaths and festivals
are inaugurated at dinner by blessing a cup
of wine and drinking it. We end the holy
days with wine at the Havdalah ceremony.
On Passover we make it through the stresses
of the holiday and of the Seder meal with
the help of four cups of wine, interspersed
throughout the evening. On Purim there is
a mitzvah that we must drink until we no
longer can differentiate between cursing
Haman and blessing Mordecai.
At a childs bris, we recite a blessing
and drink wine right after the circumcision. At a wedding, the bride and groom
drink wine before the groom places the
ring on his brides finger and recites the
formula of Kiddushin, and a second cup
is filled for the blessings that conclude
the ceremony.
The biblical books of Proverbs, Kohelet,
and Psalms, in our early Israelite wisdom
literature, advise us that wine makes a persons heart glad. And the Talmud adds that
happiness comes only through wine.
And yet, our heritage does not approve
of overdoing drink to the point of intoxication. The drunkenness of Noah is decried
in a narrative in Genesis, and the Torah
considers worthy the Nazirites vow to
abstain entirely from wine.
Even given the mainly positive attitudes
toward alcohol in our traditions, you are
worried about your husbands drinking
habits. Lets look more closely at your concerns. I will make some assumptions based
on what you asked.
You say your husband drinks at dinner.
Id worry if he were going to operate heavy
machinery or pilot a plane after drinking.
But if he spends his time at home, not driving or out in public, its less of an issue and
Im less concerned.
You also need to consider your husbands motives for drinking more than one
glass of wine. It may relax him and help
him unwind. His daily responsibilities may
burden him with anxiety and stress and
the wine then serves as his medication.
If he drinks enough to impair his reflexes
or judgment, that could still lead to trouble, however, even if he is home. Some
A scholar of religions, Rudolph Otto,

spoke in the early 20th century of the
inherent awesomeness, the mysterium
tremendum et fascinans the numinous
feelings of holy spaces, and their ability
to evoke powerful emotions.
No doubt, for many, the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem is an aesthetically and spiritually powerful location.
The stories attached to it tell us that God
chose that place for the sacrifice of Isaac,
that King David made it the center of his
city, and that God told Solomon to build
him a house on the hill.
In the broader narrative of Israelite culture, there are concentric circles of holiness
that surround this sacred point. Ranked in
increasing orders of holiness are the lands
near to Israel, Israel itself, the Judean Hills,
the city of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount,
the Temple courtyard, the inner chambers,
and the most sacred Holy of Holies.
This same mount, by the way, is sacred
to Islam, and it is a place of worship and
pilgrimage for Muslims based on a narrative of Mohammeds mystical physical
ascent to heaven from the rock on the
Temple Mount up to the presence of God.
So your wife has good reason to consider
the locale special. That said, it seems from
your question that you are hesitant. You
see your wife wanting to run off to talk to a
wall. True, it is a special structure, because
archaeologists say that the lower parts of
the wall may date back to the ancient time
of Solomons Temple.
But the Kotel is a barrier, a partition. As
many of us learned in elementary or high
school, the American poet Robert Frost
opines in his poem Mending Wall on his
neighbors sage advice: Good fences make
good neighbors. It seems that you put
more trust in the poets words Something there is that doesnt love a wall and
that you do not think that a wall makes for
a compelling religious symbol.
You doubtless ought to take into account
that at Orthodox synagogues all women
pray behind a divider. Those who do that
have no problem with the practice.
Finally, what should you do? Clearly,
a trip to the Old City of Jerusalem uplifts
your wife. If you can get yourself into a generous spirit, I suggest that you offer to drive
her over to the Kotel. You can wait, if you
wish, in the car outside the Old City wall,
while she goes in to visit and to pray at the
Temple wall. It does not take that long to
offer prayers at the Kotel. And by doing
this, youll be maintaining the harmony of
your marital relationship. That kind action
surely will make your life more holy.
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from Brown
University and rabbinic ordination from
Yeshiva University. He is the author of
several books including these e-books on
Amazon: The Book of Jewish Prayers in
English, Rashi: The Greatest Exegete,
Gods Favorite Prayers and Dear Rabbi
Zahavy which includes his past columns
from the Jewish Standard and other essays.
Arts & Culture

Two women bring three vibrant
female characters to life on stage
Miriam Rinn
riting for television and

writing for the stage
require different skills,
but Sharyn Rothstein has
done both successfully.
Now a co-writer on the USA network
drama Suits, she also has been preparing her newest play, All the Days, for its
opening tonight at the McCarter Theater
Center in Princeton. Thats a feat that
includes flying back and forth between
coasts.
When it comes to TV, I call it the story
factory, she said. You have a group of talented writers to do that with. Writing a play
is a much more solitary process, according
to Ms. Rothstein. Basically, You sit in a
room and bang your head against the wall.
Another unusual aspect to Ms. Rothsteins writing career is that she has a masters in public health as well as the more
conventional masters in fine arts. All the
Days started as a one-act play when she
was a graduate student, in fact. Bridging
her two fields of study, she wrote a short
play about a mother and daughter who are
dealing with the mothers diabetes and
food addiction, both serious public health
problems. Ms. Rothstein went back to the
play later, when she was a member of the
Ars Nova play group, a New York Citybased theater development organization.
Now, All the Days is getting a full production at McCarter, directed by Emily Mann,
the centers multi-award-winning artistic
director and resident playwright. Its a
beautiful family play, Ms. Mann said. The
need to be forgiven is a deep theme in the
play. Theres a lot of love.
All the Days centers on Ruth, a longdivorced Jewish woman battling diabetes
and obesity, and her fraught relationship
with her daughter Miranda, who has her
own issues with her gentile boyfriend.
Ruth has come back to Long Island for her
grandsons bar mitzvah, which brings her
into close contact with her sister, Monica.
The three women at the heart of the play
share funny and acerbic dialogue along
with powerful emotional revelations.
Strong, complicated women tend to be at
the center of what I write, Ms. Rothstein
said. I particularly love funny women.
What a joy it was to let [Ruth and Monica
and Miranda] talk.
I didnt know who would show up.
Director Mann felt a deep affinity for
the characters too, even though she grew
Caroline Aaron as Ruth is confronted about her food addiction by Stephanie Janssen as her daughter Miranda in Sharyn
Rothsteins All the Days at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton.
up in a different kind of Jewish family.

Sharyns created real characters and serious issues are being dealt with. I know
these people, but its not my people, Ms.
Mann said. She grew up in an academic
family in Northampton, Massachusetts,
and Chicago, and her family tied its identity to Jewish ethics rather than religious
observance. My parents are culturally
Jewish, Ms. Mann said. They werent
religious, but I decided I wanted to get
confirmed. I went to a Reform temple,
KAM Isaiah Israel in Hyde Park on Chicagos South Side, across the street from
where the Obamas lived. I wanted to find
a more spiritual life, Ms. Mann said. I
loved the service. KAM had a choir, and
Max Janowski, a renowned composer of
Jewish liturgical music, led it.
Ms. Manns father, Arthur Mann, a professor at the University of Chicago, was
deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. Prominent civil rights leaders often
were in their home, and John Hope Franklin, the eminent African American historian, was her fathers close friend. The
drive for social justice has inspired much
of Ms. Manns own work in the theater.

The plays she has written include the
Vietnam War drama Still Life; Execution of Justice, about the murder of San
Franciscos gay politician Harvey Milk; and
Greensboro: A Requiem. She probably is
best known for her Broadway production
of Having Our Say, a memoir play about
the Delaney sisters, two African-Americans who were successful businesswomen
and civil rights pioneers. Her first play,
Annulla, was based on her best friends
aunts Holocaust memories, interspersed
with her own grandmothers recollections
of her ancestral village.
Since both Ms. Rothstein and Ms. Mann
are interested in social problems, their
collaboration on All the Days has been
a natural. The cast has exceeded all my
expectations, said Ms. Rothstein, and it
has been a fabulous experience to develop
the play with McCarter. Social issues
intrigue her because I think of them as
questions you cant easily answer. Her
first play, Neglect, was based on a Chicago heat wave that caused many deaths.
The recent Manhattan Theater Club
production of By the Water was triggered by Superstorm Sandy.

Overeating is a complicated American
problem, which impacts women even
more than their male peers. There is so
much judgment and so much shame surrounding eating, Ms. Rothstein said. It is
an addiction, and unlike other addictions,
you must keep doing it to survive. Eating
is woven into life, love, and celebration,
she points out. Unlike other substances
that may be harmful, you cant eliminate it
from your life. Ruth and Miranda struggle
to find a way to love and forgive each other
despite Ruths self-destructiveness. Addiction always outsmarts you, Ms. Rothstein
said, no matter how smart you are.
Emily Mann is dedicated to bringing
plays about women three dimensional,
real women onto the stage. All the
Days fits that bill perfectly. The most
exciting work Im reading right now is by
women and people of color, she said, but
not much of it is getting produced. She
feels it is her responsibility to get the next
generation ready. Its fear, its not quality, that is standing in the way.
Calendar
Temple Beth-El holds its
annual benefit Night of
Comedy, hosted by Phil
Rivo, starring standup
comedian Judy Gold,
with local talent and
music by Lauren Shub, 8
p.m. Drinks, appetizers,
and desserts. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229.
Coffeehouse in Glen
Rock: The Glen Rock
Jewish Center hosts its
annual coffeehouse, with
music by Rabbi Jennifer
Schlosberg, 9 p.m.
Performers welcome.
Coffee and dessert. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
652-6624.
Sunday
may 8
Benefit run in Tenafly:
Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in

Closter welcomes Steven Lutvak, the
composer and co-lyricist of the Broadway
show A Gentlemans Guide To Love And
Murder, the 2014 Tony Award-winner for best musical.
The Saturday, May 14, evening begins with cocktails
at 6:30 p.m. It is sponsored by Leslie and Stephen
Jerome; proceeds will benefit the TBE Music Fund. 221
Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.
may
14
Friday
may 6
Rabbi Deborah Waxman

Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Rabbi Deborah
Waxman, president of
the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College and
Jewish Reconstructionist
Communities, is the
Adele Rebell Memorial
scholar-in-residence at
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center. The
weekend is themed
Reconstructionist
Judaism in the Age of
Invitation. Dinner is at
6:30 p.m. and services,
including teaching, at
8; Saturday morning
starts with text study,
9 a.m., and lunch and
learn at noon. TIJCC is
home of two worship
communities, egalitarian
Conservative and
Reconstructionist. 475
Grove St. (201) 4449320.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds its
sisterhood Shabbat, 7:30
p.m. Oneg follows. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers Town Hall, a
service with a discussion
on contemporary issues,
led by Rabbi Debra
Orenstein, 8 p.m. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 2652272 or www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Fair Lawn:

Writer, historian, and
advocate Edwin Black
is scholar in residence
at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel. At 8:15
p.m., hell talk about
The Farhud & ArabNazi Alliance in the
Holocaust. On Saturday
during 9 a.m. services
hell address Inside Irans
Nuclear Warhead; at
1 hell tackle IBM and
the Holocaust; and on
Sunday at 9:45 a.m., hell
look at Understanding
Israel and International
Law. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 797-3954.
Saturday
may 7
Comedy in Jersey City:
The Kaplen JCC on the

Palisades hosts its annual
Rubin Run, a familyfriendly community race.
Half marathon, 7:15 a.m.;
10K at 8:15; 5K at 10. Race
day registration available.
Breakfast, giveaways,
free babysitting, warmups, and trophies. Lead
sponsors include the
Kaplen Foundation,
Englewood Hospital
& Medical Center, the
Jewish Standard, and
Tenafly Suburbanite. 411
E. Clinton Ave. (201) 4081412, or www.jccotp.org/
rubinrun.
Family fun day in East

Rutherford: Meor hosts
the Ultimate On-Field
Family Fund Day at
MetLife Stadium, noon5 p.m. Activities all day,
meet NFL players, and
barbecue buffet. www.
meor.org/events.
Monday
may 9
Book discussion in
Fair Lawn: The Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
continues its Book and
Lunch program as Rabbi
David Fine of Temple
Israel in Ridgewood
discusses E.L. Doctorows
novel, The Book of
Daniel, noon. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 7965040 or www.fljc.com.
Mah jongg maven in

Fair Lawn: Karen Gooen,
author of Searching for
Bubbe Fischer and Small

World: A Mah Jongg
Table Talk Tale, is at a
mah jongg session hosted
by sisterhood of the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/CBI, 8
p.m. Bring mah jongg sets
and be prepared to play.
10-10 Norma Ave. (201)
796-5040.
Tuesday
may 10
Yom Hazikaron/
Haatzmaut in Wayne:
The Wayne Y and Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey mark
Israels Memorial and
Independence days at
the Y, 4 p.m. Josh Warhit,
an American from New
York who made aliyah
and enlisted in the
Israel Defense Forces
will speak. Games, arts
and crafts, and dancing
follow. Falafal and Israeli
salad served. The Wayne
Y is a branch of the
Metropolitan YMCA of
the Oranges, which is a
partner of the YM-YWHA
of North Jersey. 1 Pike
Drive. www.wayneymca.
org or Judy Weil, (973)
595-0100.
Cheryl Mandel
Yom Hazikaron in
Paramus: One Family
Fund, Ben Porat Yosef,
Yashar LaChayal, and
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
hold a Yom Hazikaron
commemoration at BPY,
8 p.m. Cheryl Mandel,
mother of Lt. Daniel
Mandel, zl, who was
killed in battle, is the
guest speaker. Program
with prayers including
Yizkor, conducted in
English and Hebrew. E.
243 Frisch Court. (201)
845-5007.
Wednesday
may 11
Lunch and book
discussion: As part
of Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jerseys One Book, One
Community events, the
Jewish Home Assisted
Living in River Vale
offers a discussion, with
lunch, on Lev Golinkins
book, A Backpack, A
Bear, and Eight Crates of
Vodka, 12:30 p.m. 685
Westwood Ave. (201)

820-3904 or www.jhalnj.
org.
Yom Hazikaron/
Haatzmaut in
Washington Township:
Cantors Mark Biddelman,
Phyllis Cole, Ilan
Mamber, David Perper,
Ted Prosnitz, Sarah
Silverberg, Alan Sokoloff,
Faith Steinsnyder, and
David Wallach and the
combined choirs of
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley, Temple
Beth Or, Temple Beth
Rishon, Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom, and
Temple Beth Sholom,
accompanied by Tom
Mustachio, perform a
community concert
at Beth Or, 7:30 p.m.
Supported by the
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey.
56 Ridgewood Road,
Township of Washington.
Refreshments. (201) 6647422.
Thursday
may 12
Prayer book: Rabbi
Debra Orenstein of
in Emerson continues an
ongoing monthly adult
education series, My
Prayer Book, focusing
on the Torah service, 1
p.m. Participants can
bring a brown bag dairy
or vegetarian lunch. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 2652272.
Alzheimers program
in Wayne: The Wayne
YMCA offers Alzheimers
Disease: A Conference
for Family Caregivers,
6:45 p.m. Sponsored
by Alzheimers New
Jersey, Wayne YMCA,
St. Josephs Healthcare
System, and Jewish
Family Service of
Northern New Jersey.
Refreshments. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the YMYWHA of North Jersey.
1 Pike Drive. (973) 5864300 or alz.org/nj.
Jewish dreams: Temple

Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake
continues its Keruv
series with a discussion,
Our Jewish Dreams
for Our Children and
Grandchildren, led by
Rabbi Leanna Moritt,
at a private home,
7:30 p.m. The program
was developed by the
Federation of Jewish
Mens Clubs to help
couples, parents,
extended families, and
synagogues deal with
interfaith relationships
Calendar
and marriage, (201) 3910801 or keruv@tepv.org.
Friday
may 13
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers a
family service with a Yom
Haatzmaut celebration
featuring award-winning
performer Shira Kline, aka
ShirLaLa, 7 p.m., and led
by Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman.
221 Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers a Celebrate
Israel service, 7:30 p.m.,
featuring choral pieces
and folk songs in honor
of Yom Haatzmaut and
Israels 68th anniversary.
Special Israeli desserts.
585 Russell Ave. (201)
891-4466.
Saturday
may 14
Fair Lawn Ave. Dr. Charlie

Knapp, (201) 791-4161 or
FL2THMAN@aol.com.
Early childhood open

house in Oakland:
Classical music in
Manalapan: The
Arcadian Chorale of
Matawan performs
LChaim to Life, a
spring concert in Hebrew
and Yiddish, at Temple
Shaari Emeths 50th
anniversary celebration,
8 p.m. 400 Craig Road.
(732) 462-7744.
Lillian Pravda
Sunday
may 15
Motorcycle ride: The
Chai Riders take their
first motorcycle ride of
the season. Registration
and bagels and lox, 8:3010 a.m., in the parking lot
of Temple Beth Sholom
of Fair Lawn. Includes
a poker run through
Bergen County, five stops
along a scenic route with
refreshments on the way,
barbecue after the ride,
raffles, and prizes. 40-25
West Englewood Ave.

(201) 244-6702 or www.
areyvut.org.
Jay Feinberg
Areyvut breakfast in
Teaneck: Areyvut holds
its annual breakfast, this
year honoring Lillian
Pravda with a Young
Leadership award and
Jay Feinberg with a
Community Leadership
award, at Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun, 9:30 a.m.;
presentation, 10:30. 641
Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School offer
an open house, May 15
and 16, 10-11 a.m., for
children from 21 months
to 5 years old. 45 Spruce
St. (201) 337-1111.
Blood drive in Leonia:

Congregation Adas
Emuno holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Donors, 16 and older,
must eat and drink
before donating. Photo
ID required. 254 Broad
Ave. Walk-ins welcome
or pre-register at
leoniablooddrive@gmail.
com. (201) 592-1712.
Times of Israel editor

in Paramus: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvahs Harold
Lerman Fund for
Israel Education and

Engagement marks
Yom Haatzmaut with a
discussion, Living in a
Rough Neighborhood:
Israels Challenges and
Opportunities in the
Middle East, by David
Horovitz, award-winning
journalist and Times of
Israel founding editor,
6:15 p.m. E. 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
www.jccparamus.org.
In New York
Monday
may 9
Religion and diplomacy:
Veteran diplomats
Archbishop Bernardito
Auza and Ambassador
Daniel Kurtzer discuss
Religion and Diplomacy,
for the annual John
Paul II Center Lecture
for Interreligious
Understanding; for
the Milstein Center for
Interreligious Dialogue
at Jewish Theological
Seminary; and for the
John Paul II Center for
Interreligious Dialogue at
the Angelicum in Rome,
at JTS, 7:30 p.m. Dr.
Azza Karam and Laurie
Goodstein will moderate.
JTS, 3080 Broadway
(at 122nd Street) in
Manhattan. Reservations
and photo ID required.
Email heguzman@
jtsa.edu to register.
Visit www.jtsa.edu/
religionanddiplomacy.
The lecture will also be
live streamed at www.
jtsa.edu/live.
Singles
Wednesday
may 18
Seniors meet to eat:
Singles 65+ of the JCC
Rockland meets for
dinner at State Line
Family Restaurant, 96 NY303, Tappan, N.Y., 6 p.m.
Gene, (845) 356-5525.
Documentary, discussions explore end-of-life issues

The Jewish Home Family and Temple
Emanu-El of Closter host a free screening
and discussion of the PBS Frontline documentary Being Mortal, based on the bestselling book by Dr. Atul Gawande. The film
explores the hopes of patients and families
as they face terminal illness, and on their
relationships with the doctors, nurses, and
family members who care for them.
The screening will be on May 9 at 7:30
p.m. at the shul, 180 Piermont Road in
Closter. A panel discussion with community experts, moderated by Carol Silver
Elliott, president and CEO of the Jewish
Home Family, will follow. Panelists include
Dr. Harvey Gross, the medical director of
Dr. Atul Gawande
Frontline
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh; Dr. Steven

Landers, president and CEO of the Visiting
Nurse Association Health Group; Linda

Farber Post, director of bioethics at Hackensack University Medical Center, and
Rabbi Alex Freedman, Temple Emanu-Els
assistant rabbi.
The film investigates the practice of
caring for the dying, and shows how doctors myself included are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited, and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and
death with their patients, Dr. Gawande
said.
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Mothers Day run

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Show spotlights
courage in wartime
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in

Tenafly hosts its annual benefit Rubin
Run, a family-friendly community race,
Sunday, May 8. The event has a 5K, 10K,
and half marathon, and includes a carnival, brunch, DJ, athletic warm-ups, medals, trophies, and roses for moms who
cross the finish line.
The event supports individuals with
special needs. Register today, May 6,
until 4 p.m., and on race day, May 8,
beginning at 6:30 a.m. For information
or to make a donation, call (201) 4081412, email mkleiman@jccotp.org, or go
to www.jccotp.org/rubinrun.
On May 10, ArtsPower National Touring Theatres production of My Heart

in a Suitcase, based on the autobiography written by Kindertransport
survivor Anne Lehmann Fox, will be
presented at Temple Beth Sholom in
Fair Lawn at 11 a.m. All are welcome
to the free performance, sponsored by
the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation and an anonymous foundation.
For information, call the shul at (201)
797-9321.
The Tutus are taking Tenafly once again to help support individuals with special
needs in the community! Spotted this weekend, they were raising some last-minute
funds for the Rubin Run, selling lemonade in their rainbow tutus. Suzette Josif,
Rubin Run co-chair, is standing with her two daughters and son by her side.
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1 More than 1,000 people were at the Jewish

Center of Teanecks ninth annual Joy Amsel
Memorial Community Biur Chametz the towns
ritual bread burning on April 22. The Teaneck
fire department was on hand with two trucks and
fire safety lessons, and Streits Matzos donated
kosher for Pesach lollipops. Co-sponsors included
Yeshiva Heichal HaTorah and Congregations
Beth Aaron, Bnai Yeshurun, Netivot Shalom,
Ohr Saadya, and Rinat Yisrael. The Big Burn
was made possible through a gift by the Rose
& Theodore Waldenberg Fund. MICHAEL LAVES
2 Shomrei Torah religious school students
decorated bags to donate to Leket Israel and talked
about hunger and food insecurity both here and
in Israel. Leket Israel is Israels largest food bank
and food rescue network. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
3 Valley Chabads Hebrew school class, with teacher

Chaviva Elharrar, front, took a field trip to a shmura
matzah factory in Spring Valley, N.Y. VALLEY CHABAD
4 More than 1,000 parents and children attended
Chai4evers Passover Chol Hamoed event at FunPlex in
Mount Laurel. The New Jersey nonprofit organization
offers care and support to families affected by a
parents long-term illness. COURTESY CHAI4EVER
5 The bet class at the Glen Rock Jewish Centers
Hebrew School held an interfaith seder with
children acting out the ten plagues. COURTESY GRJC
6 Congregants at Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake burned
chametz at a ceremony at the home of
Cantor Alan Sokoloff. COURTESY TEPV
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1. Like a red heifer
5. Actress Fisher
9. David beating Goliath, e.g.
14. Bills in America but not Israel
15. Like Haman
16. Optimus in Bays sci-fi films
17. Kinslers RBIs, e.g.
18. Locked (up), like those in
Buchenwald
19. Like the tale of the Golem
20. Part I of a helpful suggestion this
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23. Cousin of Seinfelds yadda-yaddayadda
24. Julias Veep co-star Chlumsky
25. Kilmer who played Moses
28. Go to (Bar Ilan)
31. Period at Bar Ilan
35. SodaStreams was $20 on the
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43. Mrs. Netanyahu
44. Name with mori?
45. Freudian concern
46. Divided land like Joshua
48. One on the court with Maccabi Tel
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51. Michal to Yonatan, for short
53. Part III (make sure to put this puzzle
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60. Puzo who created the character of
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63. Some West Bank locales
64. Indeed
65. A Jewish Friend
66. Was a ganef
67. Biblical plot
68. Source of Israeli news
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2. Chip that cant be kosher?
3. What Abraham did to young Lot
4. Makeups Lauder
5. Made like Iron Dome missiles
6. Samuel, for one
7. Lois created by Shuster and Siegel
8. Paul Rudd superhero
9. Donald and Ivankas alma mater
10. 1987 Joel Silver produced
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11. Kingly title not used for Jewish kings
12. Arab ruler
13. Sukkot requirement?
21. Big no-no for a synagogue
22. Like Bernie Sanders before he
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25. Needs to get into Israel
26. Strike ___ (what Rafaeli and
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27. Jonathan to David, e.g.
29. The ___ of Steve (2000 Jenniphr
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30. Dadaist Max hunted by the Nazis
32. First name of The Monkeys Paw
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33. Christopher in Donners Superman
34. Recurring theme for Gershwin or
Berlin
37. One of Matisyahus crew
39. Ron Dermer, ____ representative of
Israel
40. Forbidden ink, in Judaism
41. Many a new student at Stern College
46. Marys boss on The Mary Tyler
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47. Like many a synagogue on Shavuot
50. Kosher bird
52. Yom Kippur feeling, ideally
53. Like a pomegranate
54. Cookie that went kosher in 1998
55. Like many Jewish practices (Abbr.)
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Whos in the photos?

Newly discovered trove from Kovno ghetto is of Roskies family
URIEL HEILMAN
When documentary photographer Richard
Schofield stumbled upon a trove of unidentified prewar photographs in the storage
room of the Sugihara House museum in
Kaunas, Lithuania, in September 2013, he
knew he had found something special.
The photos, dating from about 1910
through 1940, were from a Lithuanian Jewish familys album. It had been smuggled
out of the citys wartime Jewish ghetto and
entrusted to a non-Jewish Lithuanian family for safekeeping. But nobody knew what
had happened to the people in the pictures.
Everyone assumed that they had not survived the war and could not reclaim their
photos.
Touched by the images and intrigued to
learn what had happened to their subjects,
Schofield set about trying to identify them.
He scanned the 112 photos, set up a Facebook page to showcase them, and commissioned a piece of music to accompany an
exhibition of the photographs that would
mark the 75th anniversary of the ghetto in
Kaunas, when had been known as Kovno
during the war.
People started helping us with the translations of the writings on the photographs,
and some things started to become clear,
said Schofield, the founder of the International Centre of Litvak Photography. We
worked out that the woman in many of the
photographs was called Anna or Anushka.
There were some strong musical connections in the family. We could see other
things, too. I was really falling in love with
these pictures.
Nyonya, who died in the 1918

influenza epidemic, was a favorite
brother of Anushka and her surviving
sister, Masha.
Anushka Warshawski, center, smuggled her photo album out of the Kovno ghetto
shortly before its liquidation and her death in 1943.
Then, in late March, by a twist of serendipity, a non-Jewish archivist who worked at

the Jewish museum in the Lithuanian capital city, Vilnius, noticed something. After
clicking through the photographs and doing
a bit of sleuthing, Saule Valiunaite realized
that one of the photos had appeared in a
Holocaust documentary film made in 1999.
It turns out the photos werent of some
obscure Jewish family but the family of
two of Americas best-known Yiddish
scholars: Ruth Wisse of Harvard and her
brother David Roskies of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Roskies had written a
memoir about his family, Yiddishlands,
in 2008. A third sibling, Eva Roskies Raby,
is a former director of the Montreal Jewish
Public Library.
American Yiddish scholar Ruth

Wisse, here probably at about 4,
appeared in her aunt Anushkas
photo album.
The album Schofield had found belonged

to Anushka Warshawski, the siblings aunt,
who had died during World War II, in October 1943, along with the rest of her family.
Saule got in touch with us, and sure
enough there is our aunts album, said
Wisse, who appears in one of the photos.
Many of these pictures are not only familiar to us but are the same ones as those in
our mothers album that she brought over in
1940. We grew up with these photographs.
Of Anushkas 10 siblings, only two survived the war. One had immigrated to
America decades before the Holocaust.
The other was Wisse and Roskies mother,
Masha, who fled Czernowitz (then part of
Romania) for Montreal in 1940. For her children, who grew up on their mothers stories
of life before the war, the albums discovery
offered some tantalizing new details about
family members they had been hearing
about their whole lives.
When I saw these pictures, it felt like
a huge piece of the puzzle had fallen into
place, Roskies said in an interview from
Jerusalem, where he is spending a semester
teaching at Hebrew University.
It was a huge family, and they all died,
Roskies said. My mother dedicated the rest
of her life to keeping the memory of that
family alive. She told stories about them
three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and
dinner. My mother believed that history
ended in 1940, that everything important
ended the moment she left Europe.
These stories were like her Bible, they
were the reference point for her whole subsequent life. We were constantly reminded
of these people we never met and would
never meet. They became our surrogate
family.
The newly discovered album confirms
the special bond between his mother and
After a documentary photographer

stumbled upon Anushka Warshawskis
photo album, it took some sleuthing
to figure out who she was.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF RICHARD SCHOFIELD
Anushka, Roskies said. The two sisters

(half-sisters, actually, since Masha was born
to her mothers second husband) corresponded and sent photos back and forth
during the years after they married and
lived apart Anushka in Kovno and Masha
in Vilna and then Czernowitz. They reunited
only once during those years, in Czernowitz in 1938. After that, they never saw each
other again.
Just as my mother was religiously saving these pictures of Anushka and her other
sisters and their children, Anushka was
doing the exact same thing in Kovno, said
Roskies, the Sol and Evelyn Henkind chair
in Yiddish literature and culture at JTS.
In one picture, theres a young Ruth
Wisse (then Roskies), probably about 4,
bundled up against the snow and venturing forth on ice skates. Ruth was one of two
children Masha had in Czernowitz before
the war; she had two more in Montreal.
David Roskies, now 68, is the youngest.
Wisse, recently retired from Harvard as its
Martin Peretz professor of Yiddish literature
and professor of comparative literature,
now lives in New York.
Another photograph is of Nyonya,
Mashas favorite brother, in his World War
I Red Army uniform. He died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Some photographs
feature Anushka with her second husband
at a lumberyard, suggesting that may have
been the source of his considerable wealth,
according to Roskies. There also are quite
a few photos of Anushkas first husband,
with whom she had a child who later disappeared into the Soviet gulag, and shots of
Anushka at an orphanage where she may
have worked.
Still fresh in the discovery stage, Mashas
three surviving children Roskies in Jerusalem, Wisse in New York, and Raby in
Jewish World
Montreal are trying to piece together many essential
details about the photographs.
Schofield, who still is recovering from the shock of the
discovery, is raising money for a piece of music hes calling the Kaunas Requiem that he hopes to stage at an
installation in September to mark the 75th anniversary
of the establishment of the Kaunas/Kovno ghetto. Hes
not yet sure how hell incorporate the new information
about the photographs.
When I found the photographs, I thought it would be
nice to put names to faces, said Schofield, a non-Jewish
Englishman who has lived in Lithuania for the past 15
years and says he is endlessly fascinated by the vanished
Jewish past of his adopted city. I never really thought
about what I would do if that happened. Its all pretty
incredible, really. Its been a bit of a roller coaster.
He credits Valiunaite, who works as a historian in the
Department of Righteous Gentiles at the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, with putting the pieces together.
Valiunaite says she figured out the connection to
Roskies by finding a match between a sanitorium
resort that appeared in the photographs and Lithuanian records showing the resort was owned by the
Warshawski family. She later discovered that Anushka
had something of a musical career a detail mentioned
in Roskies book and in a 45-minute documentary film
from 1999 called Daughter of Vilna: The Life in Song of
Masha Roskies. The final proof was a photo in the film
that matched one found in the trove.
Obituaries
Herbert Cohen
Herbert Cohen, 85, died April 22.

Born in Brooklyn, he was a Korean War veteran and
an entrepreneur and businessman.
Predeceased by his brothers, Sam, Ben, and Stanley,
he is survived by his wife of 63 years, Arlene, children,
Ken (Hilari) of Long Island, Dan of Manalapan,
and Amy Levine (Chuck) of Teaneck, and seven
grandchildren, Jonathan, David, Jordan, Jennifer, Jake,
Brett, and Eric.
Donations can be sent to the Alzheimers Association
or Friends of the IDF. Arrangements were by
Guttermans, Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Marilyn Houpt
Marilyn Houpt, 88, died April 21.

Born in Englewood, she was a New Jersey College for
Women (Douglass College) graduate. She worked as a
secretary in several import-export firms in New York
City.
After retiring, she volunteered at the Tenafly Senior
Center helping Spanish s peaking immigrants learn
English. She was a lifelong member of Temple Ahavath
Torah in Englewood.
A sister, Dolores Heinze of Aberdeen, and nephews,
Andrew, Peter, and Eric Heinze, and their families
survive her.
Donations can be sent to the Jewish Foundation for
the Righteous in New York City. Arrangements were by
Jewish Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
Sonia Ozaroff
Many of these pictures

are not only familiar
to us but are the same
ones as those in
our mothers album
that she brought
over in 1940.
Valiunaite got in touch with Wisse and Roskies immediately, about four weeks ago. Theyre quite famous, so
its easy to find them, she said.
The fact that Anushka went to the trouble of smuggling the album out of the Kovno ghetto speaks volumes,
Roskies said. By the time the ghetto was liquidated in
1943, it must have been clear to the Jews who remained
that they, too, soon would be headed to their deaths,
Roskies surmises.
Why would Anushka care about a photo album if she
was going to die? Roskies asked. She knew Masha had
escaped to Canada and survived. What must have been
going through Anushkas head was: We reached the end
of the line. The ghettos are being depleted. I want Masha
to have this album, so I have to find a way of getting it
to her.
Though Masha died in 1999 at 93, Roskies says the
photos discovery still is a homecoming. If we hadnt
been raised from childhood morning, noon, and night
on these stories, they would just be photographs, fading
pictures, he said. But its not like looking at artifacts.
We know who these people were, their disappointments, their lives, their aspirations and the extremely
complicated lives they all lived. And now this album
is being reunited with the family Anushka wanted to
have it.
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April 29.
Born in Manhattan, she was a member of Workmens
Circle Branch 59-504, Jersey City/Bayonne.
Nieces and nephews survive her. Arrangements were
by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Hilda Weitz
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Born in Poland, she was a Holocaust survivor and
a member of the Jewish Educational Association of
Elizabeth.
Predeceased by her husband, Kopel in 1996, she is
survived by children, Nettie Perry of Englewood and
Michael of Morganville; five grandchildren, and 11
great- grandchildren.
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Nomination period opens for second year
of Ruderman Best in Business Award
Recognizing 18 businesses from the U.S. and Canada
with a history of hiring and employing people with disabilities
The Ruderman Family Foundation
has opened the nomination period
for the second year of the Ruderman Best in Business Award, recognizing exemplary businesses that
have demonstrated a history of
employing people with disabilities,
training and supporting them, and
developing innovative approaches
to maximizing employees abilities.
Last year marked the inaugural year of the award, highlighting businesses selected through a
national nomination and review
process by judges from the business and disability communities,
including Richard E. Marriott,
chairman of Host Hotels & Resorts
and the Marriott Foundation for
People with Disabilities. This year,
18 businesses from the United
States and Canada will be honored.
People with disabilities are the
largest minority in our country,

yet they remain largely segregated
from our society and unemployed
at the rate of seventy percent. A
decent society would not stand
for this injustice and therefore the
Ruderman Family Foundation has
chosen to recognize those business leaders who have taken action
against injustice and excelled in
including people with disabilities
in their workforce, said Jay Ruderman, president of the Ruderman Family Foundation. I believe
these businesses will set the standard for all businesses to make
it a priority to hire people with
disabilities.
The Ruderman Best in Business initiative will raise awareness about the benefits of inclusive hiring for both employees and
employers. Whether the company
is a Fortune 500 company or a

grassroots local business, the recognition will showcase businesses
that have made an effort working
toward inclusion.
A few winners from last year
include: Wegmens Food Market
in Rochester, N.Y.; Rising Tide Car
Wash in Parkland, Fla; ULTRA Testing LLC in New York; and Words
Bookstore in Maplewood.
The winners of the award will
be featured in a special supplement in Jewish newspapers across
the country, including the Jewish
Standard, this fall, highlighting the
ever-important work of each.
For more information about
the Ruderman Best in Business
Awards and to nominate a business, visit www.thejewishweek.
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of Bangladesh where people had little access to water

and children often suffered and died from diarrhea
showed that if the adult serving food could rinse even one
of her hands with water, that rate would be cut drastically.
Of course, its far better to wash thoroughly, but not everyone has that luxury.
Thats where the Jewish hand washing ritual comes in.
It is a symbolic ritual, but the side benefits of the hygiene
should not be discounted, Dr. Wahrman said.
When Christianity flourished at Judaisms expense, ritual hand washing was considered one of the stringencies
that faith in Jesus superseded, she continued. It became
a test of a persons Christianity not to wash. Jesuss message of clean hands and a pure heart was a spiritual rather
than a literal obligation, she said. The disciples ate with
unwashed hands because it was one of the things that differentiated Jews from gentiles.
In The Handbook, Dr. Wahrman offers both the practical along with the more theoretical. She gives readers lists
of surfaces to avoid and stratagems to deal with having to
touch them, along with a history of such figures as Dr. Ignaz
Semmelweis, the (not Jewish, despite his Jewish-sounding
name) physician who ruined his own life but saved the lives
of countless women by his radical insistence that doctors
wash their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies. She looks not only at Jewish views on hand
washing, but at the Christian and Muslim takes on them as
well. She considers the science and leavens it with personal
reflection.
And in the end, if she leaves us, her readers, with anything
at all, it is the strong clear understanding that you owe it to
yourself, your family, and your community to just turn on the
water warm but not too hot lather on the soap, wash your
hands, with the soap, under that water, for about as long as it
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But the newest entrant to the smartphone arena, from Sirin Labs AG, is all
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phone set to be released at the end of May
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We knew there would be huge interest
because theres a gap in the marketplace
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our market research, so we knew theres
demand all around the world but the level
of exposure even exceeded what we anticipated, Sirin CEO Tal Cohen said.
Though the price tag of the phone
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stresses that its prospective clientele wont
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Unlike mainstream technology companies where price is paramount, Sirin
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tomorrows technology, today. Cost doesnt
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functionality and quality do, says Cohen.
Were making a phone with specific
technologies and were pricing it as it costs
us to build and distribute, he adds, noting
that its not the most expensive phone on
the market.
He says that the phone will be a priority for the business community and the
uber-wealthy.
The business community has very specific needs. If you look at the Fortune 500
companies or the FTSE 250, the heads of
these companies carry extremely sensitive
business information. So were looking at

thousands of business corporations that
have between half a dozen to a dozen
people who need to have very secure communication. This market would easily
reach hundreds of thousands of business
people with a clear need to protect their
information and would be happy to get
the right device to do that, says Cohen, a
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As for the uber-wealthy, There are 18
million millionaires in the world. Double
that number are people who are not millionaires but have consumption habits of
that category. So were looking at 60 million people who have the consumption
habits of buying the best product in each
category whether its the clothes they wear,
the watch they have, whatever. These are
also people looking at our product.
Sirin Labs, before it became known as
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to meet those needs.
Cohen set out to build an international team of engineers and mobile
professionals.
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from Russia, held patents for an extension

Both her parents taught us that we

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