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and other must-try new kosher foods

At Kosherfest, the worlds largest kosher trade show, Yiddish and
Hebrew is heard alongside English.
Some 6,000 kosher-food insiders
packed the massive hall, chatting,
networking, and tasting.
The crowd skews male and Orthodox in fact, it may be one of
the only events where the mens
bathroom has a longer line than the
womens one.
The annual two-day expo, held this
week at the Meadowlands Exposition
Center in Secaucus, is a food mecca
for those who keep kosher.
Among the more than 325 exhibitors were vendors touting everything
from the kosher staples beef salami, latkes, and Israeli wines to new
and unexpected foods, such as a line
of Korean products.
Here are some exciting and unique
kosher products that are new to the
market or will be hitting stores soon.
We think theres going to be a lot

of adults with kids who are going to
be sneaking these items while their
kids are off at school, Sugarman said.
Faux-crab cakes
Dyna Sea is a pro in the world of

imitation shellfish surimi, as it is
called in Japanese. Its been in business for nearly 20 years. The kosher
food company even has Japanese
consumers buying its products, according to owner Daniel Berlin.
These imitation crab cakes, which
won Kosherfests best new product
award for frozen foods, are made with
imported Alaskan pollock. Berlin said
they taste very close to the real deal.
It has such a beautiful, rich, seafood flavor and a texture, a mouth
feel, that really simulates the real
thing, he said.
And though this reporter has never
had a real crab cake, she couldnt help
but go in for a second faux one.
Passover smores
and pizza kits
Manischewitz is launching a line of

matzah-fied treats that will make
Passover a bit more fun for kids
and maybe adults, too. Before Passover, which falls in April, the company
will introduce two do-it-yourself food
kits: matzah smores and matzah
pizza.
This year at Manischewitz, its all
about kids, the companys president
and CEO, David Sugarman, said. We
sat around and thought about what
fun items can we come up with for
Passover that would get kids engaged
in Passover.
The smores kit, which won Kosherfests award for best new kosher-forPassover product, comes with all the
necessary ingredients mini matzahs, chocolate, and marshmallows.
The pizza kit, however, contains just
triangle-shaped matzah and sauce;
moms and dads must provide the
cheese and any other toppings.
The kits are so appealingly designed that parents may be tempted
to share the goodies with their kids.
Birthday cake and

churro-flavored kettle corn
Highland Pops president, Kimberly Cohen, has a thing for popcorn.

In 2012, she opened a small popcorn
shop in suburban Chicago. Since then,
Cohen has developed nearly 100
flavors of the addictive snack,
which she is hoping to distribute nationally.
Kosherfest deemed Highland Pop the best new savory
snack. Cohens inventive varieties accurately evoke their namesakes: The birthday cake flavor is topped
with colorful sprinkles; theres a kick of
cinnamon on the crispy exterior of the
cinnamon churro kettle flavor.
Its my passion, she said. Coming up
with a new flavor makes me feel so good.
Churro kettle is my favorite one right
now, although next week Ill probably
have a different flavor that I like.
Marzipan rugelach
from Israel
For decades, the Marzipan Bakery in

Jerusalems Mahane Yehuda market has
been nearly as much of a tourist destination as the Western Wall.
Once youre in the shuk, the shop isnt
hard to find. Its rugelachs sweet, chocolatey scent wafts its way through the
market, enticing visitors to pay a visit and
buy a pastry or maybe 10 of them.
Now, Marzipans rugelach are available
in the United States. The chief marketing
officer for M Bakeries, its distributor in
America, said the company was inspired to get on board

after learning that Americans would
bring home suitcases full of the pastry
from Israel.
They got so addicted to this particular
rugelach that is considered the best in
the world, Milton Weinstock said.
The rugelach, which are made according to a secret family recipe, are best
served warm, according to someone at
the Marzipan booth.
This reporter agrees: Fresh out of the
oven, the chocolate filling and dough become irresistibly gooey.
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Jakobs sister is Orthodox, whenever

I come over, all the kids scream,
The non Jew is here!
Paige Dylan, Bobs daughter-in-law married to Jakob,
a screenwriter and unconverted Judeophile, in Tablet
AT THE MOVIES:
Spy plot tests

a husbands love
Allied stars Brad
Pitt as Max Vatan,
an intelligence
officer who meets
Marianne (Marion
Cotillard), a French
resistance fighter, in 1942
while on a secret North
African mission. Later in
the war, they reunite in
England, get married,
and have a child. Then
Vatan sees evidence that
Mariannes a German
sleeper spy and hes
under extreme pressure
to kill her or be killed
himself. He then sets out
on a dangerous mission
to clear her name. LIZZIE
CAPLAN, 34 (Masters of
Sex) has a big supporting role as Maxs sister.
The opening date
for Rules Dont
Apply was
changed at the last
minute. But before that
happened a lot of
important critics saw the
film and wrote reviews.
Nobody gave it a rave,
but a narrow majority of
reviews say it has a lot of
flaws but still is worth
seeing. Its probably the
last film to be directed
by Warren Beatty, now
79. He co-wrote the
script and co-stars as the
legendary businessman
Howard Hughes, who
owned RKO film studio
from 1948 to 1955.
Hughes was famously
weird; while his eccentricities are amusing,
they may have too big a
place in the film.
MATTHEW BRODERICK,
54, has a big supporting
role as a Hughes
top flunky.
The youth market is
served by centering the
story, at first, on Marla,
a pretty young actress
(Lily Collins). Marla is
signed by Hughes and
soon falls for Frank,
her RKO studio driver
(ALDEN EHRENREICH,
26). Frank and Marla
have a cute romance.
They are both virgins
and religious Christians. But their swooning puts them at risk
of being fired because
Hughes has an ironclad
rule barring driver/actress romances. Sadly,
most reviewers say the
Hughes story and the
young couples story
never really mesh, and
the couples story is not
resolved satisfactorily.
Ehrenreich, as Ive
reported, has been cast
to play Han Solo in the
upcoming Star Wars
re-boot film. Collins is the
daughter of famous musician Phil Collins. Her maternal grandfather, JACK
TAVELMAN, was Jewish
and owned a swank Beverly Hills clothing store
that be-suited many big
studio execs and some
stars, including GEORGE
BURNS. It was at its peak
during the period in
which Rules is set.
Voice actors
represented by the
SAG-AFTRA union
went on strike against
video game makers who
record dialogue on Oct.
21. SAG represents about
160,000 actors, broadcasters, and voice-over
Lizzie Caplan
Matthew Broderick
Alden Ehrenreich
Gabrielle Carteris
artists. This isnt a major

strike, since only about
5,000 actors record
dialogue for game
makers. Still, the fact that
the unions president,
GABRIELLE CARTERIS,
55, authorized a strike is
a surprise. She was
named president after
Ken Howard died last
March in the middle of
his term. Most studios,
the N.Y. Times writes, felt
that Carteris would
leave the sluggish union
on cruise control. But
the strike has put them
on notice that shes
feisty. Also she pushed
through a California law
in August that will help
with age discrimination
in the industry.
Those really familiar
with Carteris knew she
could push back. Shes
best known for playing
Andrea Zuckerman on
Beverly Hills 90210.
In 1990, the producers
didnt know her real age
29 or religion when
they hired her to play
a 16-year-old. However,
they did decide to make
Andrea the most explicitly Jewish character in the
series. So they shouldnt
have been shocked when
Carteris decided to wear
a star of David on set. A
Jewish executive asked
her to take it off, saying
Middle America doesnt
want to see this. Carteris, a practicing Jew, refused to remove the star
unless other cast members also were banned
from wearing religious
symbols like crosses.
The execs couldnt get
around this point, so they
banned wearing any reliN.B.
gious symbols.
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Nocturnal Animals won the Grand Jury prize at the
prestigious Venice Film Festival. Its really three movies
in one. JAKE GYLLENHAAL, 35, plays a novelist and
the main character in this novelists new book. He gives
the manuscript to his ex-wife (Amy Adams) to read. The
story of her failed marriage to him and the harrowing
tale told in the novel, both told in full cinematic form,
constitute the bulk of the film. ISLA FISHER, 40, costars as the wife of the novels main character.
The director, Tom Ford, is also a famous fashion
designer and he got Gyllenhaals permission to put out a
lipstick called Jake, saying Jake, every woman should
have you on her lips. There is also a Ford-line lipstick
called Drake, after the famous rapper, and Gyllenhaal
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Remembering Shirley Gralla
Bergen County philanthropist dead at 87
JOANNE PALMER
There were so many big gifts, of course, and they mattered tremendously. Shirley Gralla, who died last week at
87, and her husband, Milton, who died in 2012, gave very
big gifts.
The Grallas were among that generation of Bergen
County donors whose generosity shaped the Jewish community, and whose legacy is visible not only in the institutions they created, but also in the density of the Jewish population they attracted. There are, of course, many
forces that have gone into creating this areas unique and
flourishing Jewish community, but those philanthropists
are prominent among them.
Much of the Grallas philanthropy went to young people, across the country, in Israel, around the world, and
locally. They were major supporters of Birthright Israel,
and the prime underwriters of the Genesis program at
Brandeis. They supported Boys Town Jerusalem, and the
Solomon Schechter Day School in New Milford.
But they certainly did not neglect adults. They supported as in very heavily subsidized a UJA Federation
trip to Israel. (That was in 2004, before the organization
now known as the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey took on that name.) And the Shirley Gralla Rehabilitation Center has been a vital part of the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh for more than a decade now.
Thats far from an exhaustive list of the organizations
the Grallas supported, and that kind of list doesnt provide
a full picture of Ms. Grallas instinct for philanthropy, her
children say.
My mother was a giver, Dennis Gralla of Mahwah said.
If my father came to my mother and said that he wanted
to give to something, my mother would say, Thats great,
but give more. She always would give more. The word no
did not exist in her vocabulary when it came to helping
people out.
If she could give a dollar tip, shed give a five dollar tip,
Milton and Shirley Gralla in 1991.
he added. She tipped wait staff and people who supplied

personal services lavishly; it made the recipients feel valued and happy, and Ms. Gralla, in turn, valued that and
was made happy by it.
Ms. Grallas instinctive understanding of how it feels to
have very little, to need more, came from her childhood.
She was poor, her daughter, Karen Gralla Galinko of
Mahwah, said. Shirley Edelson grew up in East New York,
Brooklyn; the daughter of eastern European immigrants.
She was the second of four, and the oldest girl, so it was
her job to take care of her siblings.
She also learned about anti-Semitism in a way that made
her later support of Jewish organizations, in the service of
Jewish identity, logical.
Her father, Morris Edelman, was a union glazier, and
when Shirley was a teenager the whole
family moved to Essex, Connecticut,
where he got a job at a glider factory.
They moved to a place where people
didnt know what a Jew was, and they
were asked where their horns were,
Ms. Galinko said. There were some
Jews in town, she added, but those
were the merchants, who were far
wealthier than the Edelmans and did
not welcome them into their social
circle. So Shirley and her family were
isolated and unhappy.
Morris and Molly Edelman
approached Judaism very differently.
Morris was very much a socialist,
Dennis Gralla said. He did not relate
to Judaism or any other religion,
although of course being a socialist in
Brooklyn in those years was expressing the Jewish impulse to improve
the world. Molly, on the other hand
Shirley and Milton Gralla sponsored a flight that took Soviet Jews
kept a kosher home. In fact, Ms.
from Bucharest to Israel; the Grallas joined the flight.
Galinko added, she actually had carp
6 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 25, 2016
swimming around in her bathtub before she made gefilte

fish. She was a total balabuste. So Shirley grew up feeling
deeply Jewish, and with the knowledge that there were
many ways to live that Jewishness out
The Edelmans came back to Brooklyn after a year, but
Shirley did not go back to high school. It was too complicated, after a year in a very different academic setting, to
return. So she went to work as a bookkeeper.
That always rankled, though, her daughter said. When
Yeshiva University gave her an honorary degree it was
in 1998, and the degree was a an honorary doctorate in
humane letters she was overwhelmed. She told me
what a special night it was for her.
But life was going to surprise the young Brooklyn office
worker. Milton Gralla, who grew up the son of bakery
owners in Williamsburg my fathers family was poor,
but not as poor as my mothers family, Ms. Galinko said.
Because of the bakery, they were never hungry during
the Depression Milton Gralla, an aspiring journalist,
had gone to Oklahoma, moving from the Duncan Banner
to the big time the Tulsa World. (There, he covered the
quickly rising career of the young Mickey Mantle.)
Mr. Gralla often would drive home to see his parents; the
trip from Oklahoma to Brooklyn was grueling, but he was
dutiful. And he was looking to meet the right girl, his children including Ed, the oldest, who lives in Check, Virginia said. He was looking for a poor Jewish girl, Ms.
Galinko said. In Oklahoma, he had been set up with girls
from rich families, and he didnt like it. So he found a very
poor Jewish girl.
Poor but beautiful; and they met so cute that Cinderella
comes to mind. He was cruising around, and he saw a girl
kind of hobbling to the corner, Dennis Gralla said. The
story changes a little here either she had lost the heel to
her shoe, or it got stuck in the mud. He pulled over and
gave her a ride.
They were married less than a month later.
He had to go back to Oklahoma during that time, and
they had spent less than four days together. And, the brothers and sister added, their father had asked their mother,
by phone, to go meet his parents by herself. She did.
And the marriage worked.
Shirley and Milton Grallas first child was born about
a year after they married. They lived in Brooklyn, with
Mr. Grallas family, as Mr. Gralla and his brother pursued
the ambitions and dreams that would eventually become
Gralla Publications, a huge enterprise that produced 19
magazines, and made him and his family a fortune.
When Ms. Gralla became pregnant with her second
child, she and her husband realized that their living
arrangements had to change, but they did not yet have
the kind of money that would allow them to live comfortably. They bought a small, one-bathroom house in Spring
Valley, N.Y., and moved there with a brother, sister-in-law,
and their children. As soon as they could, they moved out.
Their next stop and the place the adult Grallas stayed
until their children grew up, when they bought a pieda-terre in Fort Lee and moved fulltime to Florida was
Teaneck. That was in 1954; the house cost $19,000, and
the family was right there as the Jewish community in
Teaneck changed and grew.
My father wanted us to be involved in Ethical Culture,
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and mom said absolutely not, Ms. Galinko
said. My kids will be raised Jewish. She
won that argument.
There was just one synagogue in town
then the Jewish Center of Teaneck. The
Grallas joined it, and soon it became one
of the centers of the familys life. The children went to Hebrew school there. Later,
when the Grallas became more prosperous, they moved from their smaller house
to a bigger one on the other side of town.
Dad always said that the hardest donation he ever made was to the Teaneck
Jewish Center, his children said. Thats
because they couldnt afford it, but they
did it anyway.
Over the years, as the business grew, giving became easier. The Grallas gave more
and more to the causes they supported.
Our parents realized that they had more
money than they needed, Ms. Galinko
said. They werent flashy. They still drove
Chevrolets. They were financially very
conservative. And Shirley Gralla, who
had joined Jewish organizations and had
seen from the inside how hard it could be
to raise money, knew that she could help.
She also gave to friends money, but
also time, attention, and love. One of her
grandchildren, Laura, reported that once
she brought a friend to her grandparents
The Grallas established a school at Boys Town Jerusalem in 1971, at the request
of Israels ministry of education. Its for both day and boarding students.
house in Florida. The friend was distraught because shed just broken up with
her boyfriend, so Shirley Gralla sent her
to a spa for a full day. And she barely knew
her! Similarly, but on a much larger scale,
when the parents of a 17-year-old boy Ms.
Gralla knew died, his mother took him in
and treated him like one of her own, Mr.
Gralla said.
There are too many of Ms. Grallas beneficiaries to list here, but strikingly among
them are the daughters of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer, Ilsa and Lisa. Leon Klinghoffer was the man who went on vacation on a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro,
in 1985, when he was 69. Members of the
Palestine Liberation Front invaded the

ship, killed Mr. Klinghoffer, who had been
in a wheelchair, and then threw his body,
still strapped into the chair, overboard.
Marilyn Klinghoffer, who had cancer,
died four months later.
Our mother worked for Milton Gralla,
the sisters said; shed started out in circulation but quickly rose to head human
resources. By the time she boarded the
Achille Lauro, Ms. Klinghoffer had worked
for Gralla Publications for more than a
decade, and had become close to both
Shirley and Milton.
When all this happened, Milt immediately reached out to us, and he stayed
with us throughout the whole thing, Ilsa
and Lisa said. We had the opportunity to
hear from our mother she was able to
get off the boat and tell us the sad news.
She didnt know that we knew. She didnt
know that the whole world knew.
She kept telling us that she had sad
news, and we kept trying to say We know.
We know, they continued. She said
Please call Milt to tell him I wont be able
to come to work, and I said Milt is standing right here, next to me.
When their mother got home, Shirley
and Milt Gralla were there; our mothers
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LOIS GOLDRICH
When three separate parts of a synagogue community work together on one
program, its a safe bet that it is something special.
And indeed, according to Susan Liebeskind, chair of the Community of Caring
committee at Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake, GrandPals is a special program.
Co-sponsored by the committee and the
synagogues sisterhood, working in conjunction with the shuls early childhood
program, the initiative brings together
longtime senior members of the congregation with 3- and 4-year-olds in the ECP.
Ms. Liebeskind said the plan took
shape six years ago, when Cari Brandon, then the sisterhoods president,
conceived the idea of inviting seniors
from the congregation who did not have
any grandchildren living nearby to the
early childhood classes. GrandPals gives
the seniors an opportunity to celebrate
Shabbat on Fridays with the children at
school, to sing songs with them in the
sanctuary, to listen to stories told by the
rabbi or cantor, and then to visit the childrens classrooms as honored guests.
GrandPal Karen Albert reads to children in the early childhood program at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley.
They help the kids with Shabbat
prayers and read them a story, Ms.
who lives in Old Tappan and joined the
Liebeskind said, noting that the children,
said of her visits to the synagogue school.
synagogue in 1978, said she participates
in turn, may make artwork to present to
I didnt get to read this year, she noted,
in the program because I just enjoy being
their visitors. They delight in watching
but she did get to join the children in reciting the blessings over the candles.
with little children. Ms. Dubnick who
the children do their thing, and its fun for
Its a wonderful program, she added.
spoke with us immediately after leading
the children to have an honored guest.
A GrandPals event on October 28 drew
It gives children an opportunity to see
a Hadassah book discussion described
about six seniors, although attendance
another generation. Some children have
herself as a young 93.
generally ranges from 12 to 14. It depends
grandparents who live far away or are no
Theyre so adorable, she said of the
on the weather and whos available, Ms.
longer living. And its wonderful for the
children. Just like sponges. This year, I
Liebeskind said. She calls each senior indigrandparents as well as for the children. I
saw some of the older 4s and was amazed
vidually to issue an invitation. Sisterhood
heartily recommend it for other temples.
at how they could count. Kids learn today
volunteers assist as well, making calls to
Simone Wilker, who lives in the Townwhat we learned in first grade. They could
ship of Washington and is on the board
potential attendees and helping to provide
teach us, she joked. Her own grandchildren are somewhat older than those she
of Temple Emanuel, said that while the
rides. We try to hold these events as frequently as possible, she said. Some peomeets in the ECP. The closest in age is a
GrandPals program has been around for
ple say theyre happy to visit their own chil15-year-old grandson who lives in New
some years, it has taken on a new meandren but have no interest in others, while
ing for me.
York City. Two other grandchildren, 21 and
some say they would come every week.
I recently became a grandmother,
24, live in Massachusetts.
Longtime GrandPal Selma Dubnick,
she said, adding that her fourth son and
Im a ham, I love to read to them, she
his family live in Atlanta. It is sad for me

that my two little granddaughters are far
away. I love being with the ECP children.
And it keeps me up-to-date on what 2-,
3-, and 4-year-olds are doing. Then when
I visit my granddaughters, I know what
clothes and toys kids their age like. And
as the mother of five, I really, really like
kids and I enjoy hanging out with the ECP
children. They are absolutely adorable.
It makes me smile. To me, being surrounded by children and smiling is what
the world is all about.
While, for obvious reasons, we were
not able to conduct interviews with the
children themselves, we did find a valuable source Rabbi Loren Monosov,
rabbi of the congregation whose 4-yearold daughter, Hannah, has enjoyed the
company of a GrandPal.
While Hannah didnt have much to
say, she did say that It was special to have
a GrandPal in our class, Rabbi Monosov
reported. The nice piece about it for me
was that her Shabbat GrandPal was someone that I spend every Friday night with
at Shabbat services. It was nice for Hannah to get to know someone that I enjoy
spending Shabbat with each week.
The early childhood programs director, Debbie Wanamaker, said that she
went into every classroom hosting a
GrandPal at the October 28 event. She said
that the school, which has three classes for
3-year-olds and two classes for 4-year-olds,
tries to cap the number of visitors so that
the children will not be overwhelmed.
The children became very comfortable
with them, she said. Some were sitting
on their laps. The connection between the
children and the GrandPals was fabulous,
and the two generations sang songs they
both knew.
It was wonderful, warm, and nurturing, she said. Theyre new bffs. The
instant connection, she said, was helped
by the fact that both the seniors and children know the synagogue building and are
comfortable in it.
Its a program every school should
have, Ms. Wanamaker said.
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Journalist to speak at Temple Beth Or

Joann Lublin will share leadership lessons from successful businesswomen
corporate women she has written about over the years, as
well as one woman she discovered on the internet. While
many faced similar challenges, their stories reflect different
experiences. Common to all of them, she said, are the character traits of resilience they did not allow setbacks to beat
them down and persistence in the face of problems or issues
that would seem intractable to the normal mortal.
She cited the wonderful Abbe Raven, who wanted to
break into the TV business and knew nothing. Wanting to
get a job interview at the startup company that ultimately
became A&E, she learned the name of the man she had to
talk to and called the guy five times a day for 10 days. On the
tenth day, she did the old trick of calling at 6:30 or 7 at night.
He answered. While Ms. Lublin said that you have to read her
book to get the full story, that woman ultimately became the
chief executive at A&E.
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By her own account, Joann Lublin of Ridgewood got into journalism in the fourth grade.
We decided to start a newspaper, said Ms. Lublin, the Wall
Street Journals management news editor, recalling her days
at an elementary school in Syosset, Long Island. We had a
contest and my name won: Walt Whitman News and Views.
While the work she has done since has had considerably
more impact in 2003, she was a member of a WSJ team that
was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a series exposing corporate
scandals she still remembers her first interview. I asked the
school nurse how she knew when to send a kid home. She
said, I take their temperature. If they have a fever, we call
their mothers. Now, she points out, the nurse might well call
their fathers instead.
A longtime member of Temple Beth Or in Washington
Township, Ms. Lublin will speak at a meet-the-author breakfast on December 4 about her recent book, Earning It: HardWon Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World, published by Harper Collins. The book includes
anecdotes from her own career as well as stories detailing the
experiences of 52 women at the highest rungs of the corporate
ladder. At the end of each chapter are leadership lessons
drawn from the narrative.
Ms. Lublin majored in journalism at Northwestern College and got her masters degree in communications from
Stanford University. During her college years, she landed
a job as a summer intern at the Wall Street Journal. I was
hired by the Journal straight out of college, she said. That
was 45 years ago.
She has since worked at various bureaus throughout and
outside the country. Starting as a reporter in San Francisco,
she transferred to Chicago in 1973 so that her husband, also
a journalist, could complete his graduate studies. From there
she moved to Washington, where she covered labor issues,
housing and urban affairs, and other beats. In 1987 she was
named news editor of the Journals London bureau, and
became its deputy bureau chief in 1988. She transferred to
New York in 1990.
One of the biggest issues

Ms. Lublin faced as a
business journalist was
that she had to cover
events at private clubs
that didnt admit women.
She and her husband, Michael, who have two grown children and two grandchildren, have lived in Ridgewood since
1990. Weve been members of Beth Or since we moved
here, she said. You know youre getting old when your
daughter went to sleep-away camp with your new rabbi,
Rabbi Noah Fabricant.
One of the first female reporters at the Wall Street Journal,
Ms. Lublin created its first career column more than 20 years
ago. Your Executive Career, the advice column she writes
now, appears every month. She also writes about issues such
as executive compensation, corporate governance, recruiting,
and management succession.
On the issue of executive

presence, readers
are advised to object
diplomatically when a
male colleague steals
credit for your ideas.
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When she first began working, There were about a dozen

women at that point, all reporters, she said. One woman was
a copy editor. That was the highest rank [for women] then.
But shortly afterwards, she married a guy at the paper. They
had a nepotism rule. One of them had to quit. It being the
1970s, the woman copy editor had to go. Today, however, that
rule has been greatly relaxed.
One of the biggest issues Ms. Lublin faced as a business
journalist was that she had to cover events at private clubs
that didnt admit women. To cover that, I had to go in
the back door, she said. Worse than that, one year later
I entered the press club journalism contest and won honorable mention. The other winners were men. They wanted
me to boycott the dinner, since it didnt admit women. But
my attitude was, No. I should go and prove that their policy is wrong. I felt proud to be honored and to be able to
show up. They changed their policy within a few years. She
recalls also that when she went to a luncheon at Washingtons National Press Club, I was told I had to sit in the ladys
gallery at the top of the building.
Her new book, which includes several chapters of her own
stories and grew out of an essay she wrote for an earlier WSJ
blog, contains many funny stories. Some, however, are
more serious, dealing with such issues as sexual harassment.
On December 4, Ill tell stories about what it was like when
I first joined [the WSJ], she said. On my first day in the San
Francisco bureau, I noticed that some of the men had pinup
calendars. Undaunted, she went out and bought her own calendar with male nudes. That lasted 24 hours. Somehow,
her calendar disappeared. But when she left the bureau to
move to Chicago, her colleagues presented her with a fold-up
card depicting a man in his birthday suit.
The other professionals cited in her book are high-ranking
The book is broken down by various topics, Ms. Lublin

said. There are stories about many different women and the
different ways they cope, whether with sexual harassment,
or managing men well, or in facing the career couple conundrum. Whose career takes priority?
Each chapter ends with leadership lessons drawn from the
chapter or from women whose stories have not been included.
One lesson, dealing with the career couple conundrum, suggests taking a tag team approach in deciding whose career
takes priority, with one partner pursuing a professional surge
for five years before deferring to the other.
On the issue of executive presence, readers are advised to
object diplomatically when a male colleague steals credit
for your ideas. It is also suggested that you are more likely
to be heeded if you sit in the middle of the conference table,
since you can look both left and right and can project your
voice better.
Ms. Lublin said that when she talks about the presidential election, the challenge she focuses on is how this will
affect working women. With the victory of a candidate who
does not have working women as a high priority, it is all
the more important for women who care about advancing
to read my book.
Who: Journalist/author Joann Lublin

What: Will speak about her book, Earning It: HardWon Lessons From Trailblazing Women at the Top of
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When: On December 4, at 9:15 a.m.
Where: At Temple Beth Or, 56 Ridgewood Road,
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Joyous days in smaller places

Local YU students bring Simchat Torah across the continent
something having to do with Halifax, both
the one in West Yorkshire, England, and
Simchat Torah closes out the High Holithe one in Nova Scotia, Canada.)
day season with circles of joyous dancing
Honestly, the mental preparation for
around the scrolls of the Five Books of
this trip was hardest for me, since I have
Moses. Its the day when the yearly cycle
never been away from my family and my
of readings ends and the new one begins.
hometown for an entire yom tov, Mr.
Many small or remote congregations
Avner said. He wasnt sure if the experience would be worth the sacrifice of missneed a few extra hands to put the simcha
ing the familiar warmth of his own home
the joy into Simchat Torah.
and shul.
Thats why, for more than 40 years,
At the end of our last day in Halifax, my
Yeshiva University students have participated in Torah Tours, spending two
teammates and I held a panel for the congregants of the shul, he said. The main
days in small synagogues as close as West
topic of discussion was whether any of us
Orange and as far away as Montreal and
would pick up and leave the comforts of
Palo Alto to assure that Simchat Torah
the large Jewish communities in which we
will be a true yom tov literally a good
live and move to a smaller, less religious
day, or religious holiday while at the
Jewish community such as Halifax.
same time broadening their Jewish cultural horizons.
It was very interesting to hear the
This year, more than 200 Torah Tours
perspective of the Haligonians, most
volunteers from the centrist Orthodox
of whom are not Sabbath observers,
university visited 48 communities across
yet drive to shul for minyan on Shabbos because of their deep connection to
North America; 81 young men and women
Judaism. They provided an interesting
from New Jersey were among them.
insight that one can be more religious in
We are so proud of our students who
Torah Tours participants in Halifax, Nova Scotia, included, in top row, from left,
a smaller community because of the need
spent their yom tov bringing their energy,
Judah Max Dobrinsky of Teaneck, Shmuel Wagner of Long Island, and Yehuda
to constantly be involved in the Jewish
spirit and Torah to Jewish communities all
Avner of Teaneck. In the bottom row, from left, are Deena Fuchs of Teaneck,
community, whereas in a larger commuover the United States and Canada, said
Tamar Landsman of Teaneck, and Tamar Fishweicher of Fair Lawn.
nity, one can get lost in the crowd withNaomi Kohl, who is the director of student
out a significant role in the community,
life on YUs midtown Manhattan Beren
and robotically perform the religious rituals without putthey received as well.
Campus and the coordinator of the Torah Tours missions.
ting in much thought.
Yehuda Avner of Teaneck, a 22-year-old YU junior, was
We have heard back from many of the communities
This was memorable because it made me think about
part of a group that went to Beth Israel Synagogue in Haliabout how thrilled they were with our students and how
fax, Nova Scotia. He spent a good deal of time beforehand
my own future and where I would want to live one day,
they went above and beyond in their roles, she continued. Our students have also expressed their appreciapreparing to lead services and deliver a few short talks to
which is a question I continue to ask myself.
tion for the amazing opportunity they had to share their
The takeaway message for Mr. Avner was a recognition
Haligonians, people hed never met. (In case youre wondering, yes, Haligonian is a word. It means someone or
knowledge and spirit, and for the wonderful hospitality
that not every town has a vibrant, in-town type of Jewish community similar to the one in which I grew up, in
Teaneck, with too many shuls for me to count; and that
there is life outside the bubble where I was raised. This
realization will help me in my future in Jewish education
because it enabled me to better understand where people
come from, since I was privileged to experience a taste of it.
Michael Hirt of Bergenfield, a 20-year-old sophomore,
participated in Torah Tours at the Westville Synagogue in
New Haven, Connecticut. He prepared a lesson on what
ideas you can take from Simchat Torah and bring to the
rest of the year. He also explained the songs traditionally
chosen to accompany the seven circuits danced around
the Torah scrolls.
One memorable moment I had in New Haven was
on the first night, when we had a meal with Rabbi Fred
Hyman, Mr. Hirt said. After the meal, the rabbi asked
the Torah Tour participants and a couple of community
members at the meal to stay at his house for some yom
tov singing.
We ended up singing for around an hour and a half.
This experience was a great way to begin the yom tov as
it really initiated a bond which we and the community
continued.
He reflected that with only about 50 people present,
an onlooker might have expected the simcha in Simchat
From left, Rachel Gozland of Riverdale, Malya Glatter of Teaneck, Esther Simchi of Fair Lawn, Leora Lasson
Torah to be absent. Instead, he said, he saw that the conof Baltimore, Jack Ganchrow of Teaneck, Avi Sebbag of Passaic, and David Lauer of Woodmere were the
gregations unity and spiritual aspirations were more
Torah Tours team in Toronto.
important than its size.
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change my outlook on Simchat Torah and Jewish unity
for the rest of my life, Mr. Hirt said.
Esther Simchi of Fair Lawn, a 21-year-old senior at
YUs Stern College for Women, went with her group
to the Forest Hill community of Toronto, Canada.
She and fellow volunteers Jack Ganchrow, Malya
Glatter, Rachel Gozland, David Lauer, Leora Lasson,
and Avi Sebbag prepared talks for adults as well as
educational programs for 3- to 8-year-olds at the Forest Hill Jewish Centre.
I was given the opportunity to prepare a Torah
lesson for the female congregants, Ms. Simchi said.
This was especially memorable for me, because I was
able to enhance the Simchat Torah experience for the
women of the community.
Ms. Simchi said her experience on Torah Tours
instilled a feeling of Jewish unity. Although I had
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Sports exchange
Wayne man runs, funds summer program for local athletes in Israel
In 1990, Israeli athletic coach Yuval
Higger sought local host families to
house an Israeli youth basketball
team he was accompanying to New
Jersey.
Larry Seidman of Wayne stepped
up to the plate, so to speak, making
all the arrangements.
The two men, who quickly
became close friends, saw the positive impact of this simple home
hospitality. They decided to establish the Israeli Sports Exchange, a
program that has evolved over the
years to focus almost exclusively
on tennis.
Were a very, very mini Birthright, said Mr. Seidman, a lawyer who runs an investment
partnership.
Birthright, a free 10-day heritage
trip to Israel underwritten mainly
by American philanthropists
and the Israeli government, has
brought about 40,000 young people to Israel every year since 1999.
ISE, underwritten by an endowment set up by Mr. Seidman and a
few friends, brings six to eight serious players to Israel each summer
after their junior or senior year of
high school for 20 days of tennis,
touring, and friendship-forming.
I love sports and I love Israel,
so I concentrate on both, Mr. Seidman said. I think its important to
have kids go to Israel and meet kids
their own age and become friends.
At the end of the three weeks, the
sport has become secondary to the
relationships.
Nevertheless, applicants have to
prove their mettle. Local teenagers
participate in tryouts on the last
Sunday in January to gauge their
level, while out-of-towners are
required to provide two references
from the tennis world.
A lot of these kids would never have
gone to Israel otherwise, because theyd
have to give up a whole summer of training, Mr. Seidman said.
He and Mr. Higger, who has coached
world-ranked Israeli tennis players Gillad
Blum, Harel Levy, and Shahar Peer, volunteer their time to the program.
Participants come from across the country. ISE has fielded campers from North
Jersey municipalities including Allendale,
Fair Lawn, Glen Rock, Mahwah, Ridgewood, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River,
Wayne, Woodcliff Lake, and Wyckoff. Mr.
Seidman would like to recruit even more
tennis team at Wayne Hills

High School. I would not
have been able to reach
my goal without the confidence and phenomenal tennis training that I
received while in Israel,
she said. Now I am able to
look back not only on a fabulous experience but also
how much my love for tennis and Israel have grown
over the years.
Her mother, Susan, said
she hoped that Danielle
would have the trip of a
lifetime and come home
filled with wonderful
memories of Israel; its
beautiful Jewish culture,
history, people, and land.
The trip surpassed those
expectations.
Danielle had so many
Above, Danielle Baron, sixth from right, with her
amazing experiences.
2012 Israel Sports Exchange cohort and their counEach day was packed with
selors and instructors. ISE founder Larry Seidman is
adventure and tennis. She
on the far left. At left, Haley Rosenwald during her
formed bonds with Israelis
Israel Sports Exchange trip in 2015.
her own age and lived in
their homes.
they didnt hesitate about sending Haley
The following year, the Barons returned
to Israel for the summer.
the favor when some of Danielles host
As parents we felt confident and compeers came to America. Thats the
fortable because Larry and his team took
exchange part of the program. Each
care of all the kids as if they were his own,
North American participant and their
she said. He wants to show the kids that
Israel isnt just a word in the newspaper.
He wants them to understand and connect
to Israel and its people.
Haley, a Glen Rock High School graduate now in a six-year doctoral program in
physical therapy at Ithaca College, went
to the Israel Open tennis tournament in
Raanana and played tennis every day, in
addition to activities such as a three-day
rafting trip. She learned, explored, and
connected, her mother said.
Danielle Baron of Wayne, now a
DANIELLE BARON
21-year-old senior at the University of
Hartford, participated in ISE during the
summer of 2012.
family will be asked to commit to hosting
There were many takeaways from the
Israeli athletes who come to the United
program, and it has lasted me far more
States to train or compete, the ISE website explains.
than just 20 days, she said. I made so
Sometimes we arrange for Israeli kids
many connections with both the Israelis and Americans who were on my trip.
to go to tennis camps here, Mr. Seidman
This was my first time going to Israel, and
said. But its not only tennis; its basketball, volleyball, whatever. Weve even
I had the opportunity to fall in love with
hosted Israeli ballerinas coming to study
the country. I also learned a lot about different cultures and places throughout my
for the summer. The sport is irrelevant.
trip. I even had the opportunity to visit
For more information about Israel
some of my friends and family while I was
Sports Exchange, go to www.israeliin Israel.
sports-exchange.com, email Mr. Seidman
As a result of those three weeks, she
at lbseidman@msn.com, or call him at
achieved her dream of making the varsity
(973)-952-0405.
This was my first

time going to
Israel, and I had
the opportunity
to fall in love
with the country.
teens from his home region, he said.

Ellen Rosenwald of Glen Rock described
her daughter Haleys 2015 experience at
ISE as an amazing, positive, wonderful,
life-changing event.
The level of tennis instruction, facilities
and instructors were top notch, and Haley
learned so much even though she started
as a very good player, Ms. Rosenwald said.
She just loved Or, the daughter of the first
family she stayed with, and they became
really close. She really felt like she was living in Israel, not like a tourist.
Ms. Rosenwald and her husband, Marc,
met on a teen tour to Israel in 1979, so
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Local food artist makes edible candidates; they go viral
If the presidential campaign left you wondering what is really inside the candidates
heads, Melissa Alt can tell you: A ball of
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Ms. Alt knows this because she put the
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Ms. Alt lives in Manhattan, but her yearand-a-half-old business, Melissa Alt Cakes,
is based in Teaneck, where she grew up.
Shes 24 years old, and graduated from the
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
The head is made of modeling chocolate sculpted around a ball of foil, with
chocolate on top, Ms. Alt said. It takes
15 hours just to sculpt the head. The body
is chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting
and fondant for the suit. Ms. Alts giant
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Though it was Ms. Alts Trump cake
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Melissa Alts bust cakes of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are both winners.
magazine her presidential cake-baking

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with Donald Trump Jr. He asked if Donald
Jr. wanted a Trump cake and he said yes,
although he didnt let us know till two days

before Election Day.
Fortunately, Ms. Alt optimistically had
started working on the creation before getting a definitive answer. Two days would
not have sufficed for all the work involved.
Most of it I did myself, but I had a friend
come for four hours to paint the hair and
accessories with edible paint, she said.
Delivering the cake to Trump Tower in

midtown Manhattan, on the other hand,
required a squad of helpers.
The cakes are heavy and I need help
carrying them, she said. You have to
make sure you know how to handle the
cake so it doesnt break. Sometimes we
transport them in parts and assemble
them at the destination.
The Trump cake presented extra
unusual challenges.
Between all the press and the protestors outside we couldnt get near the building, so eventually we wheeled the cake in
with two Secret Service men at our sides,
Ms. Alt reported.
Everyone we passed started taking pictures and posting them. Then, when we
brought the cake into Trump Tower, we
were told to bring it to the Hilton, where
the party was taking place that night. So
we wheeled it back outside and brought it
to the Hilton. We were there till like 3 a.m.
when the final results came in.
The cake remained intact throughout the
party. Everyone was taking selfies with it,
she said. The next day, she was told, her
creation was transported back to Trump
Tower and served to Trump employees.
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The JCC of Fort Lee/Congregation Gesher Shalom presents:
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Saturday, December 3rd - 7:00 pm

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Comedian Dave Goldstein
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Standing, from left, are presenter Adele Shafman, Bernice Fleischmann, Judith
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regional president Stephanie Z. Bonder, and presenter Lila Barsky. Abby Vine,
Marlene Markoff, Claire Rosenbaum, Miriam Adelsberg, Marilyn Ziemke, and
Irene Goldie-Petras are seated.
Hadassah Northern NJ
Myrtle Wreath brunch
Linda Scherzer, director of the CRC of
Greater Metrowest, a former Middle East
correspondent for CNN, and the founder
of the Write On For Israel program,
received Hadassah of Northern New Jersey
Regions Myrtle Wreath award on November 6. In addition, Women of Valor from
local chapters were honored at the annual
Myrtle Wreath brunch at Congregation
Bnai Shalom in West Orange.
The Myrtle Wreath is awarded to a community member who has demonstrated
strong support for the Jewish people and
the state of Israel, and has made a difference in the lives of people in the community at large.
Over 180 members and guests attended
the brunch, which focused on the achievements of Hadassah, the Womens Zionist
Organization of America. The regional
president, Stephanie Bonder, talked
about the ways in which Hadassah has
given Jewish women a voice for more than
100 years, and has empowered women to
make a difference through their support
of medical research at its hospitals, as well
as their advocacy for Israel and for causes
that affect women, such as reproductive
rights, human trafficking, gun safety, and
Honoree Linda Scherzer, with Stephanie Z. Bonder. PHOTOS COURTESY HADASSAH
LGBTQ rights.
Hadassahs past national president,
Deborah Kaplan, was at the brunch, along
with many former regional presidents,
including Lonye Rasch, Miriam Aron, and
Karen Goldman.
Local Region Women of Valor recipients
included Marlene Markoff of the Fair Lawn
chapter, Laura Menter of the Paramus Bat
Sheva chapter, Lauren Babus of the Pascack Valley chapter, and Claire Rosenbaum and Wendy Salkin of the River Dell
chapter.
Israel Bonds breakfast in Closter

Temple Beth El of Northern Valley hosts its first annual State of
Israel Bonds breakfast on Sunday, December 11, at 9:30. The program will honor Susan and Seth Schwinger and is co-chaired by
David Fischer and Stephen Verp.
Gil Tamary, the Washington bureau chief for Israels Channel
10 News, will be the guest speaker. Mr. Tamary has worked for
the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Israel Public Radio, and
ben been the anchor and chief editor of Good Morning Israel.
The shul is at 221 Schraalenburgh Road in Closter. The breakfast is free, and dietary laws will be observed. For information,
call (201) 768-5112 or email office@tbenv.org. For information on
Israel Bonds, email Marc Rosen at marc.rosen@israelbonds.com
or call (201) 881-1596.
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The JCCs president, JoJo Rubach; honoree Kelly Sptizley; Therapeutic Nursery director Lois Mendelson; honoree Amber Sabathia; the JCCs CEO, Sue
Gelsey, and its CEO, Jordan Shenker.
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Therapeutic Nursery at the

Kaplen JCC celebrates 20 years
Amber Sabathia and Kelly
Spitzley, local leaders and
longtime supporters of
the Therapeutic Nursery
at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, were honored
before a crowd of more
than 200 people at a celebration marking the programs 20th anniversary.
Lois Mendelson, PhD, the
schools co-founder and
director, also was honored with the Visionary in
Education award, which
recognized her contributions to this program. Nina
Geraldo Rivera, gala co-chair Erica Rivera, Lois
Pineda, anchor of EyewitMendelson, Jordan Shenker, and Sol Rivera, in
ness News 7 On Your Side,
the front. Sol is Geraldo and Ericas daughter,
was the evenings master of
who spoke at the event.
ceremonies.
The celebration, held at
All-Star and Cy Young award-winning
the JCC, included hors doeurves, wine,
pitcher for the New York Yankees, also
and food stations, and featured classical
co-founded the PitCCh In Foundation,
guitar music, as well as video and award
whose work is to enrich the lives of atpresentations. Proceeds from the night
risk youth in inner cities. Kelly Spitzley,
will support the newly established Doris
whose second son was diagnosed with
Allen and Lois Mendelson Therapeutic
autism when he was 2, is a passionate
Nursery Scholarship Fund.
autism activist. Grateful for the sucThis program has been providing
cessful assistance her son received at
children and their families with lifethe JCC Therapeutic Nursery over the
changing experiences for two decades
years, Kelly has supported the school
and serves as a national role model for
ardently and referred many families to
other institutions to emulate, the JCCs
it. Kelly also is the founder of her own
CEO, Jordan Shenker, said. Participants have relocated from as far away
company, KISS Kellys Interior Staging and Style which combines her
as California and Israel to attend, and
decorating and real estate skills.
we couldnt be more proud of what Lois
The Therapeutic Nursery is for bright
and her incredible staff have achieved
2- to 6-year-olds who have developfor these children many of whom
mental difficulties. The program is
have gone on to attend typical public
unique because of the extent to which
and private schools and earn advanced
it includes parents, who attend classes
degrees. Amber Sabathia is the creator
on a daily basis and play a central role
and designer of Candy ClothingTM, a
in their childs treatment. Students may
clothing line for children. As an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and published
enter the program any time during the
columnist, she is a staunch supporter
school year with directors approval. For
of the Therapeutic Nursery. Amber
information, call Gineen Weiss at (201)
and her husband CC Sabathia, six-time
408-1439 or email tn@jccotp.org.
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WASHINGTON In his first interviews since Donald Trump named him a top White House aide Stephen Bannon denied being anti-Semitic or a white
nationalist.
At the same time, he continued to advance a theory
of globalist conspiracy that echoes centuries-old
anti-Semitic libels, but without mentioning Jews.
Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United
States of America, Bannon told the Wall Street Journal in an interview posted last Friday. He was talking
about the conservative news site where he was CEO
until this summer, when he joined President-elect
Trumps campaign.
He dismissed as a joke claims that he was peddling
anti-Semitism, noting that he has Jewish colleagues
and hires.
There have been expressions of alarm from an
array of Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation
League and the Reform movement. Those groups
have not denied Breitbarts and Bannons pro-Israel
posture, but have focused on echoes of anti-Semitic
theory and cant found elsewhere on the site and in
Bannons messaging for the Trump campaign.
Some critics have called out Bannon for at least two
recent uses in Breitbart of Jews or Jewish that
some saw as pejorative, and for claims by his ex-wife
that he was hostile to Jews. Bannon has vigorously
denied his ex-wifes claims, and the writers of the articles denounced as anti-Jewish have noted they are Jewish and say their use of the terms was misconstrued.
More substantively, Bannon also has been criticized
for using Breitbart during the final weeks of the presidential campaign to advance conspiracy theories that
involve international bankers, secret meetings, and a
servile media. These all are elements of classic antiSemitic propaganda.

In the campaigns final days, a TV ad featured excerpts
of a Trump speech advancing theories of a secretive
conspiracy that seeks global control. The ad included
images of three prominent Jews.
Neither Bannon nor the campaign have blamed Jews
explicitly, as a class.
Bannons critics compared such messages to the
polite anti-Semitism of the post-Holocaust period,
which avoided pejorative anti-Jewish terminology and
at times embraced Israel as a means of divesting nonJewish societies of Jews.
That the anti-Semitism is unintentional on [Trumps]
part doesnt make it any less dangerous, Cheryl Greenberg, a historian at Trinity College, wrote in an Oct. 26
article discussing Trump and Bannons influence on
him. By invoking these conspiracy theories without
naming Jews, anti-Semitic ideas are introduced without
fanfare into the mainstream political conversation while
sending encouragement to those white nationalists who
fully understand their implications. And so anti-Semitic
sentiment and activity rises without anything explicit
being said.
At least according to their published interviews, neither the Wall Street Journal nor the Hollywood Reporter
pressed Bannon on these echoes of anti-Semitic propaganda at Breitbart, nor in the campaign.
Indeed, in both interviews Bannon doubled down on
his worldview, in which globalists are seeking control.
Once again, wittingly or unwittingly, he invoked echoes
of movements that have been hostile to Jews.
Im an economic nationalist, he told the Journal. I
am an America first guy.
America First was the World War II-era isolationist
movement that belittled mounting calls for Americas
Jewish World
involvement in the war as Jewish manipulation.
Bannon acknowledged, as he has in the past, that
the nationalists he admires have attracted anti-Semites
and racists to their ranks but also that he rejected
these expressions, and believed that these elements
soon would fall away.
I have admired nationalist movements throughout the world, have said repeatedly strong nations
make great neighbors, he told the Journal, apparently referring to movements led by Nigel Farage in
Britain and Marine LePen in France, both of whom
have celebrated Trumps victory. (Farage campaigned
with Trump and met the president-elect within days
of his win.) Ive also said repeatedly that the ethnonationalist movement, prominent in Europe, will
change over time. Ive never been a supporter of
ethno-nationalism.
While many European nationalist movements
have distanced themselves from explicit anti-Jewish
comments in recent years, racially charged theories
remain integral to their platforms, particularly those
targeting Middle Easterners and, in central Europe,
Roma. Jewish groups in those countries tend to be
skeptical of claims that the nationalist movements
have divested themselves of anti-Jewish hostility.
In the Journal interview, Bannon praised the altright movement, which he defines as younger people
who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly antiestablishment. He also acknowledged the alt-right has
some racial and anti-Semitic overtones. But he also
makes clear, according to the interviewer, that he
has zero tolerance for such views.
He also said, as he did describing European nationalists, that he believes the less savory elements of the
movement will fall away one day.
He also said that while Breitbart offers the alt-right a
platform, it is not the only outlook represented in the
publication. We provide an outlet for 10 or 12 or 15
lines of thought, Bannon said. We set it up that way.
In his interview with the Hollywood Reporter,
Bannon also tried to distinguish the nationalism he
embraces from white supremacism, but segued immediately into theories of globalists maintaining control
over the working class.
Im not a white nationalist, Im a nationalist, he
said. Im an economic nationalist. The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle
class in Asia. The issue now is about Americans looking to not get fed over.
Speaking to the Journal, Bannon outlined areas
where Breitbart has championed Israel.
I have Breitbart Jerusalem, which I have Aaron
Klein run with about 10 reporters there. Weve been
leaders in stopping this BDS movement boycott,
divestment and sanctions in the United States;
were a leader in the reporting of young Jewish students being harassed on American campuses; weve
been a leader on reporting on the terrible plight of the
Jews in Europe.
The Zionist Organization of America and the Republican Jewish Coalition both have defended Bannon
against charges of anti-Semitism, noting Breitbarts
pro-Israel content.
Peter Beinart, a liberal Jewish writer who is critical
of Israel but also has defended it from attacks from the
far left, said that backing Israel and Zionism is not necessarily mutually exclusive with anti-Semitism.
Beinart, speaking on CNN on Nov. 15 during a segment on Bannon, cited as an example the pre-World
War II Polish government, which encouraged Jewish emigration to pre-state Palestine as a means of
decreasing its Jewish population. For a hundred
conservatives who appeal [intentionally] or inadvertently to

people whose values they probably themselves dont agree
with.
In a new backgrounder on Bannon published on its website, the ADL concedes that we are not aware of any antiSemitic statements made by Bannon himself, despite the
allegations from his ex-wife. It also acknowledges that Breitbarts Jerusalem bureau was started under his tenure.
Nevertheless, the backgrounder continues, Bannon
essentially has established himself as the chief curator for
the alt right. Under his stewardship, Breitbart has emerged
as the leading source for the extreme views of a vocal minority who peddle bigotry and promote hate. JTA WIRE SERVICE
years, you could find example after example of people

who both trafficked in anti-Semitism and also support the
state of Israel.
Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a regular advocate for
Israel and Jewish causes, told Breitbart Jerusalem that
he saw no evidence of personal anti-Semitism on the
part of Bannon.
I think the larger problem and its a very complicated
one today is how you assess a person who himself might
not have negative characteristics, but who has widespread
appeal to people who do, Dershowitz continued, describing a problem he sees on the right and left. And I think
the same thing is probably true of some very right-wing
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uropean far-right politicians were quick to

hold up Donald Trumps victory in the U.S.
presidential election as a harbinger of their
own impending triumphs.
Marine Le Pen, head of Frances far-right party, said
that what Europeans call the Trump effect that is,
right-wing nationalism fueled by anger toward political
elites and mistrust of immigration heralds the upset
she is seeking in her own countrys presidential elections in May. She called Trumps election good news
for France.
Geert Wilders, a far-right Dutch politician whose
party is leading in the polls before Marchs general
elections, called Trumps victory a revolution that
will come to the Netherlands.
And Norbert Hofer, the far-right candidate many
believe will win Austrias Dec. 4 presidential election,
cited Trumps victory in predicting his own.
But nearly two weeks after Trumps success, little
evidence suggests that these statements are more than
posturing by career politicians eager to rebrand themselves as change-makers despite the fact that they are
viewed, even by many of their supporters, as obsolete
or deeply compromised.
In Le Pens case, polls conducted before and after
Trumps victory project that she will receive about 25
percent of the vote. And while this certainly would be
a new record for her National Front party, it is difficult
to tie such a result to Trumps victory.
Indeed, there is reason to believe that Le Pens solidarity with Trump is a double-edged sword. In an
Odoxa poll conducted among 1,004 French adults a
day after Trump was elected, 76 percent of respondents said they lamented his election. Even among
National Front voters, the poll found that only 54 percent supported him.
In the Netherlands and Austria, Trumps election
also revealed no discernible shift in polls. Wilders
party, which is running neck and neck with the center-right ruling party, dropped by one point after
Trumps victory in one poll (I&O Research), remained
unchanged in another (Politieke Barometer) and rose
by one point in a third poll (Maurice de Hond.)
As for Hofer, Wilders counterpart in Austria, he
rose by one point in the polls since Trumps election,
remaining within the margin of error in a race pollsters have said is too close to call.
The polls further show no correlation between the
popularity of far-right parties like National Front and
the Brexit referendum of last June, when British voters
supported leaving the European Union.
Undoubtedly, there are some similarities between
the message of Europes rising far right and Trumps
campaign strategy. Both leverage financial insecurity
while warning about Muslim immigration and jihadism
in campaigns themed around nostalgia, xenophobia
and popular resentment of the seemingly detached
ruling elite.
But there also are considerable differences.
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Both Wilders Party for Freedom and

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greater taxation on some earners than
the policy favored by the countries
ruling governments. Le Pen wants to
raise the income tax on high earners
as much as 46 percent. In this regard,
the European far right diverges significantly with Trump.
Additionally, Trump was an outsider
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French centrists,
worried about
the National
Front, have
rallied voters to
vote for other
candidates just
to keep that
party out
of power.
ated with the very political structures
they have been promising to tear down
for years.
In France, Le Pen has been trying to
mainstream her party and move it away
from the more radical anti-establishment message of her father, the partys
founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen. When she
kicked him out of the party last year for
saying the Holocaust was insignificant
a statement for which he was convicted
of genocide denial it caused a split
within the party, costing her the votes
of many supporters who now view her
as a sellout. As for Wilders, in 2010 he
agreed to briefly join a coalition led by
Hollands centrist ruling party a compromise that disappointed many of his
hard-core supporters.
Nevertheless, Trumps victory is
invigorating supporters of these farright parties who are finding themselves in the spotlight of left-wing
media that are now much more willing to listen to angry white voters, as
the Dutch NRC Handelsblad put it last
weekend.
If the Americans did it, so can we!
one National Front voter and activist, a former train conductor in his
fifties named Fredy Deguin-Dawson,
told Le Monde. The article surveyed
attitudes toward Trumps victory in
the Hauts-de-France region, which

is Frances rust belt, with 14 percent
unemployment.
Even he, however, recoiled from
some of Trumps xenophobic remarks.
That Trump called Mexicans thieves
and rapists No. I find it unacceptable, said Deguin-Dawson. His rejection of racism, typical of many Europeans with bitter memory and collective
guilt over the Holocaust, is another
social inhibitor for the far right.
Still, it is not difficult to see why
Europes far right, which is eager to
project an image of success, would like
to portray itself as a continuation of
the Trump effect. And the mainstream
European media is hesitant to bet on
the status quo after failing to foresee
both Brexit and Trumps victory.
Jewish community leaders, along
with leaders of other minorities, also
are wary about the meaning of Trumps
victory.
We are not the only ones. We hear
this all over Europe, Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, said last
week. Theres concern about the rise
of the extreme right on the coattails of
the Trump victory.
While such alarm is understandable
coming from vulnerable minorities,
centrist and left-wing politicians have
also warned about a Trump effect.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
shocked many of his citizens last week
during a visit to Berlin, when he said
that Le Pen could become president
in 2017. He injected Trump into the
equation by adding: Of course, Im not
comparing: Trump headed the Republican Party, which already controlled
Congress and numerous states, but of
course his rhetoric and proposals are
disturbing.
Valls, a Socialist, may have political reasons to establish a connection between Le Pen and the Trump
effect. After all, for decades French
centrists, worried about the National
Front, have rallied voters to vote for
other candidates just to keep that
party out of power. Its such a common strategy that it even has a name
the Republican Front and it has
allowed both the Socialists and their
center-right rivals to increase voting
participation and keep the National
Front in opposition.
Olivier Faye, Le Mondes expert on
the far right, says he does not recognize
any Trump effect in French politics
at this time.
Its difficult to draw conclusions
on any effect, negative or positive, of
Trumps victory on how Le Pen will
perform in the French presidential
elections, he wrote last week. What
is clear, he said, is that shell happily
use any populist victory abroad to her
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Ron Dermer calls Trump,

Pence true friends of Israel
Israels ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer,
met with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump
Tower in Manhattan.
Israel has no doubt that President-Elect Trump is a
true friend of Israel, Dermer told reporters after the
meeting.
Dermer also called Vice President-elect Mike Pence a
true friend of Israel and said that he looks forward to
working with the entire Trump administration.
Pence was one of Israels greatest friends in the Congress, one of the most pro-Israel governors in the country, and we look forward to working with the Trump
administration, with all of the members of the Trump
administration, including Steve Bannon, and making
the U.S.-Israel alliance stronger than ever, Dermer said.
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support of Hadassahs Emergency Preparedness Center
at its Jerusalem-based hospital.
NHCLC calls itself the worlds largest Hispanic Christian organization.
The two organizations support and engagement
will play a vital role in HMOs ability to continue to provide world-class medical care to the people of Israel and
beyond, Hadassahs national president, Ellen Hershkin,
said.
HILCs president, Pastor Mario Bramnick, said, We
are honored to support Hadassahs mission in caring for
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met in New Delhi with
the heads of Israels defense sector operations in India.
Rivlin, on an official state trip to the South Asian nation,
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impressions from his visit.
At the outset of a joint Israel-India Innovative Partnership seminar, Rivlin said Thursday, In the last two
years, trade relations between Israel and India have
increased remarkably.
The trade in our country is in a state of constant
growth, with revenue in excess of $2 billion each year.
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On community theater
and compromise
n Saturday night, my husband

and I went to see 1776 at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly.
It was wonderful.
There are many lessons in that very simple truth. First, its about the strength and
importance of community theater. It is both
exciting and saddening to realize that there
are far more genuinely talented performers
than there are venues where they can put on
a show, or audiences to watch them do it. It is
wonderful to know that the JCC, in its dedication to the arts and to excellence, can provide
some of these performers with the outlet they
need to keep their high-level skills burnished.
It also is good for those background players
whose skills arent nearly polished enough to
carry a show, but who benefit from the joy
of being on stage, and who can flesh out an
ambitiously staged show. And finally, it also
is good for us in the audience to know that
we can watch good theater without spending a fortune on it, and that by doing so we
are strengthening our community and its
performers.
And then, there are the specifics of the
show, 1776, cannily chosen for this election
year (even though it was picked before anyone could know exactly how wild and surreal
this year would become).
1776 is about the founding of this country. Its about the way that the obnoxious
and disliked firebrand John Adams and
his elderly but still vital sparkplug friend
Benjamin Franklin were able to push
through the cause of independency,
and about how young Thomas Jefferson
was able to write the brilliant Declaration
of Independence. Its details might not be
exactly right, but its general understanding of the humanity, fragility, and risk of
the project, of the heat, boredom, and discomfort of the setting and the seemingly
random pedantry of much of the proceedings gives the audience a sense of what
was at stake that summer in Philadelphia.
We realize that it all could have gone very
wrong, and if it had we probably would
not be here now. There is no reason to
think that the United States that cherishes
freedom and through much of its history
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come into existence.
But one of the most striking lessons in
1776 is about the triangle trade that supported slavery, the Norths hypocrisy about
its involvement. Even more deeply the lesson
is about compromise.
In the musical, Edward Rutledge, then
the youngest member of the Continental
Congress, who went on to be governor of
South Carolina (and was wonderfully played
by Kasey Yeargain), is an elegant, drawling, Mephistophelean character who tells
Adams (played by Doug Chitel, who shows
why Adams was disliked without making
him dislikable) that unless Thomas Jefferson
strikes an anti-slavery clause from the Declaration, the South will vote against it, and
against independence, and there will be no
new nation.
So there, in the most stark terms, is the
dilemma. Remove the anti-slavery language realize that you are bowing to evil,
and allowing human beings not only to be
treated but to be recognized legally as subhuman, permitting them to be beaten, raped,
and killed, to have their families broken up
at whim and you can have the new country
you yearn for. A country, moreover, whose
founding document asserts We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.
Theres a certain inherent conflict there,
no?
But if you do not remove the anti-slavery
language, you are left with nothing. Slavery
continues, and your fledgling country dies
unborn.
We often talk lightly about the importance
of compromising. We are half right. Compromise is important. But we have to remember
that it is not easy, and it comes with its own
moral price tag. Some compromises are necessary. Others are not. Wisdom lies in recognizing the difference.
As we look at the new political world we
face, we hope that our legislators have the
wisdom to know when to compromise and
JP
when to stand firm.
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Mendy Boteach hobbles to get his warrior pin.

TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Pride and pain in

parenting an IDF soldier
o parent ever wants a child to

face battle, God forbid. But
non-wartime injuries in the
military are not that much
fun either.
Our son Mendy was a summa cum
laude undergraduate at New York University when he abruptly informed us that he
was suspending his studies
to join the IDF. He already
was an accomplished Israel
fighter on campus, and
friends told him the battle
against Israel haters at Western universities was equally
if not more important. But
he would not be deterred.
Israel was facing genocidal
Rabbi
enemies, and he refused to
Shmuley
remain in the safety of WashBoteach
ington Square Park.
We live in Englewood and
we knew other parents from
North Jersey whose children had chosen
to serve. And we had already had a child
who served in the IDF, and we were very
proud of Mendys decision to follow, but
not as sure of his insistence on getting into

an elite combat unit at the age of 22. He
was practically ancient compared to the
18-year-old conscripts he would be competing against. I still remember my wife
screaming with delight on the phone
more than a year ago, when Mendy called
to say that he had gotten in.
When youre the parents
of a lone soldier serving in
Israel, your life changes substantially. Gone are a large
part of your plans for travel
over the next two years.
There are important ceremonies, like the swearing-in,
receiving the hat, and most
important, being pinned as
a fighter, that you try not to
miss. This is aside from doing
your utmost to visit your children as much as possible.
In the first year of training
you struggle just to stay in touch with your
son. The army takes away a soldiers phone
for up to two weeks at a time. Phone calls
are limited to 10 minutes. And if you want
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to see your child for Jewish holidays, youre taking the whole family to
Israel. Its by far the best experience, but it can be expensive.
Just listening to your son describing the grueling demands of training is itself mystifying. As a parent you can feel pretty useless offering
the platitudes across a vast sea: Bear with it. Youre going to get
through it. There are only six months left. And the ever-constant
Were so proud of you.
And you know your child is lonely. Yes, as are his comrades-inarms. But they were all younger than Mendy, and they all went home
every other weekend. His family was across the Atlantic.
So we felt considerable pride last week, on a cold mountain in the
Golan Heights, under a light drizzle, as Mendys unit celebrated the
completion of its army training. The ceremony can be described only
as moving and memorable. Mendy had finished some of the most
demanding military training in the world. He had done it alone, pushing his body to the limit, sleeping for months in the field, in the cold
and the rain, the mud and the dust, under freezing storms and the
scorching sun. We could not be more proud.
But the ceremony was bittersweet. Mendy had suffered a knee
injury just two weeks ago before the end of training, which forced
him to undergo surgery.
To get his pin, he pushed himself up Bental Mountain in the Golan
Heights with crutches, at the head of his unit, keeping a pace that
I could never hope to. I watched him arrive at the mountain summit with sweat dripping down his cheeks and in excruciating pain.
It struck me, three days before my 50th birthday, I had raised a son
who already had exceeded my sacrifice for the Jewish people.
I should mention that my son drew no attention to himself and
aspired only to be part of the famous picture his unit takes, machine
guns in the air, when they reach the mountaintop.
When Mendys name was skipped in the alphabetical order of
the warrior pin ceremony, given by his officers, I was disappointed.
Really? After all that he had suffered?
Until I noticed that all the gathered parents and notables understood that his unit had prepared a special honor for him. Mendys
name was kept last as his entire unit joined him in walking to his
commander to have his warrior pin affixed to his uniform. He literally
was surrounded by all his comrades-in-arms. It was a special privilege,
rarely accorded other soldiers. Veterans of the IDF say they had never
seen it. Im guessing that it was a token of his friends recognizing the
fact that he was the only lone soldier in his unit, and that despite having sustained a serious leg injury he still completed the training in
one of Israels premier and most storied units. And that amid all the
challenges he had never quit.
Mendy also is an ordained rabbi, with smicha from Chabad of
South Africa in Pretoria. It was not lost on his fellow soldiers how few
ordained rabbis complete this kind of training in the IDF.
And how did it feel, watching this as a parent? It felt as if I were
watching someone I did not recognize.
My wife and I raised this boy. We taught him to love freedom and
to be immensely proud of his Jewish identity. That might account for
the values that led him to the IDF. But how to explain his reserves of
perseverance and courage?
I never could have endured the rigors of the IDF training. Truth
be told, I used to get exhausted just listening to what they put Mendy
through: marching tens of kilometers through the searing heat with
impossibly heavy packs, going days with only tuna and crackers for
sustenance, being left in scorching deserts to navigate their way out
alone. And worst of all, being briefed by their commanders that they
were being readied to battle the monsters of Hamas and the battlehardened murderers of Hezbollah.
How did he survive it? How did he complete it? How did he flourish?
I honestly dont know.
But as I watched him rejoin the line formation of his unit with
the decoration that officially labeled him an IDF warrior, I was rendered silent as I watched a familiar face that somehow no longer was
familiar.
As a parent we go through three stages of raising our children.
The first is to sculpt and mold them in our image.
The second is to begin to let go as we allow their natural personalities to unfold.
And the third is simply to stand back in awe and behold.
Religious leaders
need to exhibit moral leadership
he election is over and a new president has

demonstrate the moral leadership that many crave. It
been elected.
was an opportunity that was sadly missed. I added
Now, his new administration must conin a later email that while many serious moral issues
front policy issues that have engrossed and
were raised in the campaign, and personal invective
embroiled the country for months, such as tax reform,
and insults had, in many cases, pushed aside civil discourse and disagreement, 160 Orthodox rabbis, intenfinancial regulation, global trade, and healthcare. Such
tionally or not, gave support to the canard (at least I
issues are best left to policy experts to discuss.
hope its a canard) that all we care about is Israel.
But other pressing issues go beyond policy and
One of the signers replied that he thought I was
have significant moral components about which
grossly overreacting, and added that I should recogJewish tradition provides guidance. How should our
nize that the thrust of the ad focused on the Israelcountry: Treat, and ease the fear felt by, immigrants,
America relationship and the special status of Yerusharefugees, or Muslims? Balance killing innocent civilians during warfare or torturing accused terrorists
layim. It did not focus on dozens of other significant
against security needs? Speak and think about our
issues which the new administration will confront. To
opponents, women, the LGBT community, the disaccuse 160 rabbis of lacking moral clarity based on one
abled, and minorities?
word not at all connected to the theme of the ad is
These issues are impacted by some of our most
patently unfair.
cherished religious moral values: That all of humanI also forwarded my comments to several non-signity was created in the image of God (Gen. 1:27); that
ers, one of whom wrote: I was invited to sign the ad,
we are enjoined to love the stranger (Deut. 10:19)
but could not in good conscience be quite that selfand seek justice, alleviate oppression,
centered, nor quite that subservient, nor
defend orphans, and plead for widows
quite that materialistic and vacuous and
(Isa. 1:17); that Hillel reduced the whole
devoid of spiritual vision.
Torah to the maxim that which is hateThe RCA issued a press release in
ful to you do not do to your neighbor
connection with the ad that included
(Shabbat 31a).
statements from several of its members.
I thought of this as I read, and was
One, by Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander, who
deeply disappointed by, the full-page
is the vice president for university and
ad the Rabbinical Council of America
community life at Yeshiva University
Joseph C.
placed in the New York Times. It was
and one of the ads organizers, caught
Kaplan
signed by 160 of its members; about 40
my eye. In addition to our grave concern about Jerusalem and Israel, this is
percent of the ad consisted of the rabbis
the time to heal our divided country and
individual names. The rest headlined
work together with our President-elect, he wrote. As
by one verse from Psalms (122:6-7) (. . . For my brethren and companions sake I will now speak out peace
religious leaders, we wish to make a statement protecting the rights of all and restoring unity and civil
be with you) and another from Isaiah (52:1) (For the
discourse in the United States. Not quite as detailed
sake of Zion I will not be still . . .) first congratulated
as I would have liked but, I thought, at least somePresident-elect Trump, wished him success in healing
one got it. Significantly, though, that statement did not
a divided country (an idea repeated at the end), and
appear in the ad.
noted that Jews will continue to recite as part of our
Rabbi Brander later sent an email calling the ad
liturgy the prayer to grant our countrys leaders the
nuanced, and arguing that his statement was a reflecstrength to lead all Americans to a prosperous and terror-free future.
tion of the RCAs concerns, and that the quote from
It then decried the recent UNESCO resolution about
Psalms and the double request for unity was sufficient
Jerusalem, and sought the president-elects support
to make his point. I didnt agree, and said so in an
in recognizing that city as Israels capital, standing
email. He responded by graciously offering to discuss
against hateful and discriminatory anti-Israel resoluthese issues on the telephone.
tions in the UN, and not changing U.S. support of and
And so, as the sun was about to set at the beginning of
policy vis--vis Israel.
last weeks very early Shabbat, Rabbi Brander answered
I agree with much of the substance of the ad, so why
his phone and generously gave of his precious time to
was I so very disappointed? Ill let an email I wrote to
honestly discuss this matter with a stranger. (While we
several rabbis who signed the ad, and whom I personboth live in Teaneck I dont know him personally, but
ally know and continue to admire and respect, speak
will be sure to introduce myself next time our paths
for itself: A prayer that the president lead all Americross.) Though we ended up continuing to disagree on
cans to a prosperous and terror-free future period?
several important points, I still think he gets it; unfortunately, many of his colleagues do not.
Thats it? 160 moral leaders and theyre concerned
We dont need religious leaders to make political
only with prosperity and lack of terror? Is that what
statements. We need them to be moral visionaries,
the Torah and the prophets concentrate on? .
whose public statements provide moral leadership.
What about loving the stranger? What about justice, charity, kindness, fairness? All were issues in the
This ad, political rather than religious in nature, didnt
campaign, and while people in our community might
do that.
have differed over the candidates, these moral issues
I reiterate, it was an opportunity that was tragically
should see no dissent from our rabbinic leadership.
missed.
Yet not a word about them. When Reb Chaim [Soloveitchik] said that the main job of a rabbi is to do chesed,
Joseph C. Kaplan, who has lived in Teaneck for more
I dont think he was referring to prosperity or even a
than 31 years, frequently contributes essays to Jewish
terror-free future. . . . . Unfortunately, [the ad] didnt
publications when he is not practicing law in Manhattan.
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Normalize Thanksgiving
f years were paintings, ours would

hang prominently in the Gallery of
the Grotesquely Not Normal.
But a few weeks still remain to the
year. As it draws to a close, Thanksgiving
may have arrived just in time to restore
some sorely needed normalcy to American life.
Beyond the festivities our community
is fortunate to have two annual harvest festivals, the first being Sukkot Thanksgiving stands for a set of values and norms. It
is the secular holiday that best represents
all that is right and good in America. I say
that both as an unhyphenated American
and even more as an American Jew.
While Thanksgivings colonial origins
and its institution as a national holiday
have an informal religious basis a day
of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty
God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of
the Universe, in the words of Lincolns
second Thanksgiving proclamation, in
1864 in its current form, Thanksgiving
is anything but Christian. By definition,
Americans of all
stripes can
exchange
enthusiastic
Happy
Thanksgiving
wishes without
the slightest
hesitation.
it is an inclusive celebration. And that is
precisely Thanksgivings special appeal
to members of all faiths and ethnicities,
including observant Jews. It is an American holiday with a universal spiritual
theme. You dont even have to be religious
to love Thanksgiving.
have to be thankful for,

The contrast to Christmas,
Thanksgiving is a reminder
for example, could not be
o f o t h e r qu i n te s s e n t i a l
clearer, and the differences
American values they hapbegin with holiday greetings.
pen also to be Jewish values
In December, most of us are
that may be even more
used to saying and hearing
fundamental than gratitude.
Happy Holidays. While
These are best illustrated
this expression successfully
by considering the Hebrew
avoids alienating its recipient, it also may seem artifiDavid S.
word for gratitude, hodaa.
Zinberg
cially neutral and ambiguThe word has multiple layous, even insipid a blurring
ers of meaning. First, and
of legitimate religious dismost essentially, le-hodot
tinctions between Americans. And that is
means to accept or acknowledge, as in
by design.
modeh al ha-emet admitting the truth
But late November is different. Ameriwhen you are shown to be mistaken. (That
cans of all stripes can exchange enthusiis one of the seven signs of a true scholar,
astic Happy Thanksgiving wishes withaccording to Mishna Avot.) Thanksgiving
out the slightest hesitation. (To be clear, I
is the appropriate time to celebrate honesty, intellectual humility, and trust a
would never trade in Happy Holidays for
function of honesty without which relaMerry Christmas. Lets hope that respect
tionships cannot last and civilized society
for religious pluralism remains a pillar of
is impossible.
American culture.)
Our age has been called post-factual
Aside from celebrating all that Americans, and American Jews in particular,
and our political culture described as
Trump on terrorism
onfounding the predictions of

pollsters and pundits, Donald
Trump won the presidential
election on November 8.
A variet y of reasons have been
ascribed to the surprise electoral outcome, including the flaws of Hillary
Clinton, his Democratic opponent.
Much of the public deemed her untrustworthy and believe that she had run a
weak campaign. Clinton herself blamed
confusing statements by FBI Director
James Comey about whether she was
still under investigation for improper
handling of classified email.
Another barely noticed contribution
to her loss was her sparse attention to
the threat of terrorism, compared to
the attention Trump paid to the issue.
In July, four months before the election, a Pew survey found that voters
considered terrorism more important
than almost any other issue. Eighty
percent of respondents ranked it very
important, a figure exceeded only by
the 84 percent who felt that way about
the economy.
Among the issues less important to
the public than terrorism were health
care, gun policy, immigration, and education. An analysis of Clinton campaign
promises that best defined her bid for
the presidency included the economy
Trump repeatedly
spoke of his
concerns about
terrorism and its
global and local
expansion, and
he proposed
actions to
counter the
threat.
and the lesser issues, though nothing about terrorism. Some surveys indicated a close divide among voters about
which candidate would better handle
the threat of terrorism. But a September
poll showed Trump far ahead, with 49
percent on this issue compared to Clintons 27 percent.
Trump repeatedly spoke of his concerns about terrorism and its global and
local expansion, and he proposed actions
to counter the threat. He presented an
extended overview of the subject in
August. There, he listed a dozen terror
attacks by radical Islamists

on American and European
soil in recent years. He noted
the concurrent expansion
of the Islamic State in the
Middle East and the growing
number of terrorist operatives in Western countries.
Not surprisingly, he blamed
Leonard
the Obama-Clinton poliCole
cies for these circumstances.
Whether or not his attribution was justified, the fact
of heightened terrorism is indisputable.
Trumps sense of urgency apparently had
an effect on the voting public.
In the aftermath of the election, questions remain about both some unsavory
Trump supporters and several of the
president-elects declared policies. NeoNazi David Duke and other white nationalists have celebrated Trumps victory
as a win for their cause. The presidentelect absolutely must repudiate their
loathsome, hate-driven efforts.
As for policy issues, Trump and
Republican congressional leaders have
promised to repeal and replace President Obamas Affordable Care Act.
Replace with what exactly, they dont
say. Trump has said that he will make
Mexico pay for the wall he intends to
build along Americas southern border.
Mexican President Enrique

Pena Nieto countered that
Mexico will not pay for any
such wall. We have yet to
hear Trumps response
to this.
Several of Trumps proposals about terrorism
also are unclear, though
A.
he offers some appealing observations on
this matter.
Trump has railed against
the Obama administrations nuclear
deal with Iran. Among the deals faults,
he contends, is the United States agreement to release as much as $150 billion
to Iran. The United States has designated Iran as the worlds top state sponsor of terrorism, and portions of that
money surely will go to promote terrorism. But anyone renegotiating the agreement would encounter major hurdles.
Signatories of the deal, including Russia
and China, and the European participants the United Kingdom, France,
and Germany are opposed to renegotiation. Trumps position appears admirable in principle, though its means of
enactment is not clear.
The near-hysterical reaction by some
to Trumps election is, on the issue
of terrorism, plainly overwrought.
Opinion
In addition to
providing a fixed
date to
contemplate and
express
gratitude,
Thanksgiving
enjoins us to
uphold the norms
of civil society.
post-truth politics. We have become
inured to a perpetual stream of manipulative talking points, fake news, disinformation, outright lies repeated over and
over, and disingenuous evasions (The
racist you keep asking about? Never met
him. Dont know him.), until the soul is

demoralized and the natural reflexes to
the red flags of an obvious scam are gradually degraded. (Might one of those robocalls actually be genuine? Maybe the IRS
really is after me?)
Thanksgiving should honor the normalcy of truth, and it could not get here
any sooner.
The most common usage of hodaa in
the Bible is a moral one. Hodu la-Shem, a
refrain that runs through the Psalms and
our prayers, is a combination of praise and
thanks to God. In that context, le-hodot is
to take a moral stance to praise what
is good, rather than what is true. On the
other side of the moral scale, vidui (confession), an admission of moral failure,
comes from the very same root.
But note the asymmetry between praise
and confession. You normally confess your
own sins, and laud others, rather than the
reverse. The heroes of our own community and of all civilized cultures do not
habitually confess other peoples private
shortcomings in public. They do not hold

themselves above the norms of law or tradition, they do not vilify vulnerable communities, they do not sing litanies to their
own dubious accomplishments, and they
do not pretend to know how to cure every
human ill. That sort of behavior would be,
of course, not normal.
This Thanksgiving, more than any other,
is the time to make or renew a commitment
never to normalize empty bombast, petty
retaliation, hate mongering, lewdness, religious or ethnic chauvinism, and racial suspicion. Instead, as Americans and as American
Jews, we must normalize integrity, dignity,
basic decency, humility, good manners, fairness, empathy, and respect for our neighbors
who may not look or pray like us.
In short, lets normalize the love of truth
and goodness that has made American
society in recent history so exceptional.
In addition to providing a fixed date
to contemplate and express gratitude,
Thanksgiving enjoins us to uphold the
norms of civil society to sanctify the
In one particular
area, Presidentelect Trumps
approach to
terrorism will
make more
sense than
Obamas.
Namely, calling
terrorism what
it is.
President-elect Trump gives a hand to his supporters.
Doomsday predictors are not credible.
Some, like CNBCs Nyshka Chandran,
reported that Trumps victory had
enraged Muslim militant groups, which
will fan the flames of global terrorism. The doubtful presumption here
is that terrorist groups are not already
trying their best to plan and execute
terror attacks.
In one particular area, Presidentelect Trumps approach to terrorism
will make more sense than Obamas.
Namely, calling terrorism what it is.
To the distress of many analysts, when
Obama took office he effectively banned
administration officials from using
certain terms, including jihad, Muslim extremism, and even terrorism.

Instead, as he instructed Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,
officials should refer to terror events
as man-made disasters or overseas
contingency operations. Still, attacks
by jihadi terrorist groups and the newly
established Islamic State continued
to proliferate.
During Obamas eight years as president, the administrations earlier
truth, reject lies no matter how often

and loudly they are shouted, identify and
model that which is praiseworthy, call out
the morally ugly, and be grateful for the
gifts of our fragile democracy.
The day after Thanksgiving, Ill be looking forward to a more normal 2017.
David S. Zinberg lives in Teaneck with his
wife and three sons. He works in financial
services.
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tongue twisters came into disuse and

largely were replaced by an equally
nonspecific term, violent extremism.
Obama and his team now occasionally
mention the word terrorism, but still
dissociate it from any ethnic, religious,
or ideological connotation. Even columnist Tom Friedman, an Obama loyalist,
agrees that the presidents verbal contortions have amounted to unselfconscious ridiculousness.
Trump appropriately contends that
Obamas generic descriptions obscure
the reality of what we are facing: radical Islamic terrorism.
Israels reality-based terminology is
instructive. In Israel, Jewish terrorism,
though extremely rare, is frankly named
and condemned as such. Israelis also
recognize that most Palestinians are not
terrorists, but when they refer to those
who are, Israelis call those perpetrators
Palestinian terrorists. At the least this
clarifies who the enemy is.
We may now hope that clarity of description by the United States also will lead to
more clear and effective American action.
Leonard A. Cole of Ridgewood is an
adjunct professor of emergency medicine
and director of the program on terror
medicine and security at the Rutgers
New Jersey Medical School.
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The illiberal world of Stephen Bannon
n considering the furor

around President-elect
Donald Trumps decision to appoint Stephen
Bannon, the CEO of the hardright news website Breitbart,
as his chief strategist, lets start
with the perspective of those
who have defended him.
Ben Cohen
On one important level, their
anger over the Bannon spat is
justified. It is galling to see the
behemoths of the liberal left, from MoveOn.org to the New
York Times, suddenly discover the threat of anti-Semitism
after showing general indifference to its resurgence in
public life during the last 16 years.
Simply put, their negative feelings toward Israel got in
the way of acknowledging that larger reality; but because
Israel isnt a factor in the case of Bannon, they can level
the accusation of anti-Semitism safely, untainted by any
association with the Jewish state or its occupation of Palestinian territories.
On top of that, there is no meaningful record of statements or actions on Bannons part to convict him of the
charge of being anti-Semitic on a personal level. And since
Americans tend to understand anti-Semitism as suggestive
of a character defect, it is not surprising that many people
also interpreted the attacks upon Bannon as a low blow
against his boss, the incoming president.
Its at precisely this juncture, however, that the Bannon
quarrel has gone awry. The issue never really was about
Bannons own sensibilities, and in fairness, that was never
the focus of the much-discussed Anti-Defamation League
statement on Bannon that the ADL released on Nov 13.
What the ADL said is that Bannon presides over the
premier website of the alt-right, which it then defined
as a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed
anti-Semites and racists.
This raised the legitimate question of whether a man
with such associations is suitable as one of the countys
top political appointments. The question is whether he
can be one of the unifying figures this country needs. But
that is not the discussion we have had these past days; its
all been about the personalities, not the politics.
David Hirsh, the British academic who has played a
key intellectual role in confronting the academic boycott
of Israel, put forward a better standard with which to
make a judgment at the ADLs Never is Now Summit on
Anti-Semitism, held in New York Nov. 17. Bannons case
reminds us, he said, that anti-Semitism is about politics,
not personal moral failure.
Our bitterly sectarian politics compromise the discussion of anti-Semitism, and more broadly racism and
prejudice, in America today. In the debate about Bannon,
there seems to be an assumption among his supporters
that nobody as implacably opposed as he is to the progressive leftpowerful elements of which have allied with
Islamists, and enabled the spread of anti-Semitic discourse
in the guise of anti-Zionismcould possibly share any of
its flaws.
As a result, Bannons defenders adopt many of the same
rhetorical tactics that left-wing anti-Zionists deploy when
confronted with the charge of anti-Semitism; listing their
Jewish political comrades or friends or relatives, decrying
reputational smears without foundation, asserting their
fondness for Jewish culture, and so on.
In rushing to Bannons aid, they overlook the deeper
historical truth that anti-Semitism always has been promiscuous, finding favor on right and left. Yet in their
Stephen Bannon
Our bitterly sectarian

politics compromise
the discussion of
anti-Semitism, and
more broadly racism
and prejudice, in
America today.
alternative imagining, anti-Semitism is solely a problem
of the political left.
Let me offer a brief explanation of why some aspects
of Bannons intellectual universe should be of concern to
anyone who cares about the basic social empathies that
are needed to sustain democracythe same empathies, I
would add, that have been badly damaged by the growth
of identity politics on left and right.
Take Bannons own ideas, insofar as they were set out in
a talk he gave to a group of European right-wingers gathered at the Vatican in 2014. In his address, he outlined a
vision of a world order based on strong countries with
strong nationalist movements.
Bannon does not explain what he means by strong
here, but the implications are disconcerting. Not least, it
begs the question of how to define and organize a nationalist politics in nations that have achieved independence.
In European nations, over the course of the last three
decades, the answer has crystallized in the twin resistance
against liberal immigration policies and the cross-border
institutions of the European Union. The corresponding political goal is for nation states to reign supreme on
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influence. In this climate, both liberal democracy and its
American example will cease to be posited as a system
superior to other forms of government.
As strong as these nationalist movements can hope to
be, they never will enjoy periods of harmony or consensus when in government unless of course they enforce
it. Democratic politics therefore will become an ugly confrontation marked by terse and coarse exchanges, character assassination, rewards for doctrinal orthodoxy, retribution for dissent, and dangerous polarization between
the races and ethnicities and religions that compose our
society.
Many of the worlds illiberal and authoritarian states will
become our friends and trading partners, and our newfound tolerance of their norms eventually will come into
conflict with the maintenance of our own. I have no doubt
that voices arguing that Russia tried democracy and it
didnt work now we should try it their way will grow
louder and less exotic.
Is it possible to conjure up a more benign vision of a
world in which the democracies are represented by Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and
perhaps future French President Marine Le Pen, at the
same time as authoritarians like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
become sustainedly more oppressive? Suffice to say, this
prospect is what girds the widespread apprehension over
what the next four years have in store. And there is perhaps no better emblem of that, for now, than Stephen
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Thank you,
Mr. Lincoln
Rabbi Menachem Genack explains
why Thanksgiving feels Jewish
JOANNE PALMER
hanksgiving is a very Jewish holiday.
It brings the whole
extended family around
one table, safe in a warm
room as the late November wind whips the last
valiant bright leaves off the trees and the
soggy piles of raked leaves yield underfoot.
The menus likely to be the same from
year to year, and from table to table, and
even some of the conversations likely to
flow along long-cemented channels before
it splashes out in new directions. There
might be new babies, or babies turned into
toddler; there might be adults who look,
for the first time, strikingly older, who are
moving more slowly, less steadily. There
might be talk of nursery school, or high
school, or college applications, or first
jobs, or midcareer changes, or retirement,
or organ recitals.
Wine will be poured, and most likely
wine will be spilled. And then, to moans
of oh-no-I-already-ate-too-much, dessert will appear. There will be the smells
of cinnamon and apples and pumpkins
and chocolate. And then small children
will be packed into warm layers of coats
and scarves and hats and mittens, tucked
into car seats, and taken home; theyll fall
asleep listening to the sounds of their parents voices as they murmur to each other
into the night.
Yes, this is an idealized version; not
every family is as intact or as civil as this
dream family, but dream families do
exist. And the Jewishness of it is clear
the extended, intergenerational family,
the traditions, the knowledge that across
a vast space, most members of the community are doing more or less what youre
doing, with enough variation to make it
personal, but not enough to keep it from
This portrait, by Scottish-born photographer Alexander Gardner, was taken on

February 5, 1865. Lincoln was dead two months later.
being entirely identifiable.

And for observant Jews, the fact that
they can drive to family, as they cannot
on Shabbat or holidays, adds a layer of
difference that allows them to relish the
similarities.
Just as Thanksgiving is arguably the
most Jewish of American civil holidays, it
was authorized by the American president

who was arguably the most Jewish in feel.
That was Abraham Lincoln Father
Abraham, as he often was called whose
powerful urge to justice, courage, and
generosity resembled those of his biblical namesake, and whose overwhelming
humility seems learned from Moshe, the
greatest of all the biblical prophets, Rabbi

Menachem Genack of Englewood said.
Rabbi Genack is the CEO of OU Kosher,
which means that he oversees a huge international business. He is the rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah. And he also is
an admirer of President Lincoln; hes collected some of the 16th presidents letters,
his house is full of prints and paintings of
Lincoln, and his own worldview is colored
by Lincolns words.
As a Jew, much about Abraham Lincoln
feels familiar to Menachem Genack.
Lincoln established Thanksgiving in
October 1863, as the fourth Thursday in
the month, a day of thanksgiving and
prayer, Rabbi Genack said. What does
prayer have to do with it, and what did
Lincoln have to do with prayer? I always
say that Lincoln was both our least and our
most religious president, he said.
His relationship with religion was complicated, he continued. In his youth I
wouldnt say he was an agnostic, but he
was a scoffer. When he first ran for Congress, he lost, and people said that he
wasnt a churchgoer. But when he got
older, he became much more religious.
It sounds almost contemporary; Lincoln
never became a churchgoer, but he grew
more and more spiritual, as people
today say.
He believed in a divine purpose, Rabbi
Genack said.
Lincoln had a hard and not atypical life.
His mother died when he was a child, and
so did a few siblings. His likely predisposition to melancholy was exacerbated by
the death of his son Willie, an extraordinarily talented child, who might have been
another Lincoln, Rabbi Genack said. His
death probably was because of typhoid,
which they got from the drinking water
taken from the Potomac. Of the four sons
he and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, had,
only one survived to adulthood.
Melancholia the poetic name for

depression, was a prime Victorian disease
in the first place, most likely because so
many children died young, and so many
adults died painfully and unexpected,
that death was a constant companion.
It drove Mrs. Lincoln a very gifted,
sophisticated woman from a prominent
Southern family, Rabbi Genack said
mad. People are unfair when they talk
about her, he added. They werent sympathetic enough to the burdens she was
carrying, especially during the war.
And melancholy, he said, is a Jewish
quality.
Rabbi Genack loves talking about Abraham Lincoln. He knew the Bible very
well, he said. He read it all the time, and
used it for solace. Lincoln had so assimilated the biblical text that you can hear
the biblical cadences in the great Second
Inaugural speech, the one thats carved
on the wall in the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington.
Its both the greatest and the most religious
American speech, Rabbi Genack said. If you
America created
the idea of all men
being created
equal and
Lincoln was the
best of America.
look at the speeches that preceded it, youll see
that theyre always triumphalist. This speech
shows Lincolns humility.
By the time Lincoln gave that speech, on
March 4, 1865, the war was essentially won. But
the speech is not about him, and it is not about
the triumph of the victory. It is about the war as
retribution for the sin of slavery. It asks how we
dare presume to know what the Almighty proposes. The Almighty has his own purposes.
Everything about Lincoln speaks about
humility.
Rabbi Genack moved on to the Gettysburg
Address, which he called the most important
speech in American history. Really, though, he
added, Lincoln was wrong in that speech. He
said, The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here. That was a very poor
prediction.
Lincoln was a skilled politician, and so he was
very good at presenting one face to the public
and another to his confidantes, Rabbi Genack
said. Thats what a politician does; thats what a
politician has to do, is supposed to do, and even
At left, Menachem Genack

at his wedding, looking at
his ketuba with mentors
including Rabbi Soloveitchik;
above, Rabbi Genack today.
should do. He quoted John F. Kennedy, who said

wryly, Every mother wants her son to grow up
to be president of the United States but not to
be a politician.
Lincoln was a politician. He knew how to earn
trust, how to gauge when the public was ready
to hear the deep truth and when it had to be
placated with half-truths, with the real truth
lying underneath, not quite in sight.
In response to a public letter from newspaper editor Horace Greeley, accusing
Lincoln of being insufficiently avid to end
slavery, Lincoln wrote, again publicly:
I would save the Union. If I could
save the Union without freeing any slave,
I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing
all the slaves, I would do it.
At the same time, Rabbi Genack said,
he already had drafted the Emancipation
Proclamation.
Lincoln is a man who wrote the greatest prose
in American history, yet he had very little formal
education, Rabbi Genack said. Hes not proposing that Americans in search of literary greatness drop out of school, though. Lincoln was a
genius. And his intellect did not stop at policy
and writing. He also applied for and was granted
a patent, for a device hed invented to help boats
float safely over shoals and other obstructions.
Hes the only American president so far to have
earned a patent.
Overall, Lincoln had a Jewish quality, he said.
Thanksgiving can be particularly important this
year, Rabbi Genack said, because the nation is so
torn, nerves are so raw, fear is so high, and the
triumphalism that Abraham Lincoln
decried is at fever pitch in some quarters. Thanksgiving, whose prime lobbyist for years was Sarah Hale, best
known as the author of Mary Had a
Little Lamb, was created as a vehicle for
healing the bloody wounds of the Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln got to celebrate two Thanksgiving, in 1863
and 1864. He was assassinated in
April of 1865.
So how did Menachem Genack,
an Orthodox rabbi, develop his
love for Abraham Lincoln?
Hes not exactly sure, he said,
although he can trace it all the way
back to his adolescence.
In 1940, Isaac and Rosa Matz
Genack fled Lithuania with their
son. The Genacks were in the diamond business, so they went first
to Antwerp, then to Casablanca,
then to Cuba, and then to New
York, where their other three children, including Menachem, the
Sarah Hale, who wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb,
advocated for the establishment of Thanksgiving.
youngest, was born.
Isaac Genack had been to Palesmeasure of politics, including internal Jewish world
tine in the 1920s; he was a fervent
politics so that makes it very interesting.
Zionist and tried to make aliyah
And what, again, about his love for Lincoln? I
but developed malaria and had
love American history, Rabbi Genack said. Im
to go back home. A cousin, Eliyahu Moshe Genachowski, who
not sure exactly where it came from, but to a family of survivors, America is the ideal. And for our
also went to Palestine and stayed,
people the Jews we wouldnt have survived
became a prominent Religious
without America. America created the idea of all
Zionist Knesset member.
men being created equal and Lincoln was the
The Genacks settled in Forest
best of America.
Hills, Queens, where Isaac Genack
Again, he said, I dont know when my love for
continued to work in the diamond
American history started, but when I was a boy John
trade, this time in Manhattan. Menachem went to the Yeshiva of CenKennedy was president and I was enamored of him.
tral Queens, on to MTA in WashingI would memorize his speeches. And then there
ton Heights, and then to Yeshiva
were the connections made between Kennedy and
University, where he became a
Lincoln, because they were both assassinated, and
Freeman Woodcock Thorp painted four portraits of Abraham Lincoln; one of
protg of the Rav, Rabbi Yosef
because both were proponents of civil rights.
them hangs in Rabbi Genacks home.
Dov Soloveitchik, working with
The American experience is important to Jews.
him to publish some of his work. I
Never in world history has there been a country as
boundaries and changed peoples idea of what is possiwas pretty close to Rabbi Soloveitchik; I took his class for
solicitous of Jews, and Jews never have risen to the heights
ble. We now have 9,000 plants in 80 different countries,
very many years, Rabbi Genack said. He was the greatest
in so many areas as we did here.
because the nature of the economy has changed, Rabbi
mind of his time.
I always tell my kids that if you want to read a book
Genack said. OU Kosher is now 40 times bigger than it
Next, he headed a kollel at Touro College; and in 1980
of mussar of moral discipline read a biography of
was when I took it over.
they asked me to head the Orthodox Unions kosher
Lincoln.
Lincoln was so extraordinary, in terms of his gifts
I didnt think that it would be very interesting when
department, Rabbi Genack said.
and his integrity, his intelligence. He didnt just blunder
I took it over, but because of the nexus of halacha, comOU Kosher is an organization that has changed tremendously as technology and globalization have reconfigured
merce, and food technology and there always is a
into things. He was always willing to admit a mistake, to
President LIncolns
patented invention
was to keep boats
from snagging on
obstacles in the water.
He realized the need
for such a device
because he often
traveled by boat.
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acknowledge that he was wrong and
someone else was right.
He is not the only person to be fascinated by Abraham Lincoln. There
have been about 18,000 books about
him, Rabbi Genack said. That is
more than have been written about
anyone else. International borders do
not restrain the love of Lincoln from
being felt overseas. My wife and I
were in London recently, and we went
to Parliament Square, he added. Its
lined with statues of great statesmen,
almost all British, including Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill. It
includes three foreigners; one of those
three is our Mr. Lincoln.
Through his passion for Abraham
Lincoln, Rabbi Genack met someone
else who perhaps surprisingly has
become a real friend. Its President Bill
Clinton.
I became friendly with Bill Clinton
at an event in New Jersey, when I introduced him, Rabbi Genack said. He
was then the governor of Arkansas;
hes a Southern Baptist, and very familiar with the Bible. I said that The Bible
tells us that when there is no vision,
the people will perish. (Its from
Proverbs 29.) He said, I like this line.
I will use it at my acceptance speech at
the convention.
I thought he was joking, but that
was his rhetorical pivot at his acceptance speech at the convention. When
there is no vision, the people perish.
(That was the speech Mr. Clinton gave
at Madison Square Garden in 1992,
soon after the strains of Fleetwood
Macs Dont Stop Thinking About
Tomorrow quieted.)
So we began a correspondence
about the presidency. Those letters
were published in 2013, in Letters to
President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on
Faith and Leadership.
One of the letters I wrote to him
ended up being prescient, Rabbi
Genack said. It was about why the
kingship goes through Judah, not
Joseph. Rabbi Soloveitchik asked this
question. The answer is that what we
look for is not perfection traditionally Joseph has come to be seen as perfect, while Judahs imperfections, particularly in his dalliance with Tamar,
are unmistakable. We look for the
ability to admit a mistake.
The tension between Joseph and
Judah is like a red thread through the
Bible, he added.
Rabbi Genack owns a few letters
from Lincoln one that he wrote, one
that he signed and it is extraordinary
to look at them. Theyre encased in
protective sleeves, so you dont actually touch them, but theyre there. A
piece of paper that once was on Lincolns desk, partially covered by his
arm as his hand scratched out his
signature, is now in front of you. It is
incredibly moving.
He also owns one of four portraits by
Freeman Woodcock Thorp, an artist who
actually had seen Lincoln twice once at a
whistle-stop, the other on the battlefield at
Gettysburg. The painting looks like the Lincoln we know and see in photographs, but
somehow, despite everything, a bit younger.
There is some debate in some part of the
Orthodox world about whether it is permissible for Jews to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Rabbi Soloveitchik gave classes on Thanksgiving, but I remember that once he said I
am giving an early class today because later
I have to fly to Boston for my Thanksgiving
dinner, Rabbi Genack said.
But there is a great deal about it that is
unequivocally Jewish, Rabbi Genack said.
The idea of giving thanks is Jewish. We

thank haShem, especially in times of joy.
We always say Tov lhodot laShem It is
good to give thanks to God, from Psalm 92
at hallel. We say it at times of redemption.
And do he and his family celebrate
Thanksgiving? Of course, Rabbi Genack
said. Who am I to disagree with Lincoln
and Rabbi Soloveitchik?
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Chayei Sarah: The power of love
uman beings were not created to be alone. God

created Eve to be an ezer knegdo, a helpmate
to Adam. In times of joy, we dance together, in
times of grief, we mourn together. And when we
are alone too long, we start to lose perspective, we arent able
to find comfort in our daily tasks, and we can question our
purpose in life.
I have always thought that the rabbis use of Rebecca
as the model of kindness, the one who brings perspective,
comfort, and purpose back into Isaacs life was a beautiful
idea. Rebecca makes a decision to leave her homeland and
her family to become Isaacs wife, and she does so hastily.
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purposeless because he did not know if
servant and his camels, she has led him to
he would ever find his ezer knegdo, his
meet her family and she consents to marry
helpmate? Was he depressed, as you or
based on the merits she hears about from
I might certainly be if any one of these
the servant, Eliezer. Rebecca, like Ruth,
things had happened to us in the recent
generations later, fulfills her destiny, and
past? What other kind of walk in the wilderness could he have been taking other
the national destiny, to be the mother of
than one in which he might have been
Jacob and Esau, and ultimately the mother
reaching out to God for solace, for comof all of the Children of Israel.
Rabbi Sharon
fort, for healing, for companionship?
Rebecca is easy to love and revere. But
Litwin
And then in that moment, he looked
what about Isaac?
Director of
up and saw camels in the distance. In
As Eliezer and Rebecca are returning to
congregational
that moment his prayer was heard, it was
Canaan, Isaac is out in the field, walking.
learning,
answered, and in some way, his aimless
The Talmud tells us that this walk was no
Congregation Bnai
Israel, Millburn
wandering in the field began to have a
walk, but actually Isaac was out in the field
purpose. He hears from his servant all that
praying. The sun was setting, and perhaps
he has done to bring Rebecca to be Isaacs
this was the first Mincha, or afternoon
wife. And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother
prayer. Of course in the time of Isaac, there were no
Sarah; he took Rebecca and she became his wife and he
fixed prayers, no Ashrei or Amida to recite from a wellloved her. Thus did Isaac take comfort after [the death
worn and beloved Siddur. So, what might his prayers
of ] his mother. (Gen. 24:67)
have been?
If he had no fixed prayer to say, what might Isaac
Though I know we dont all believe in the power of
have needed to say to God in that moment? Was his
prayer to end heartache and loneliness, nor do we know
sadness over the death of his mother overpowering?
for sure that a companion can bring comfort and purpose, this story gives me hope that all who search for
Was he still reeling from the last minute change of
love and comfort have a chance to find it and find a willheart of his father, who had placed him on an altar
ing companion, as Rebecca was to Isaac.
to offer up to God? Was he feeling so alone, so lost, so
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In one of his final acts on a weeklong state visit to

India, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin paid respects
to the victims of the bloody 2008 terrorist attacks in
Mumbai.
During a visit to the Mumbai Chabad House, where
six people were killed, Rivlin listened to stories about
the victims, including Chabad emissaries Rivka and
Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and toured the bedroom that
belonged to the Holtzbergs son, Moshe, who was rescued by the familys Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel.
Rivlin spoke about meeting Moshe, who is now 10.
When I saw Moshe, I could not help but think am
Yisrael chai the people of Israel live he said. And
today here too, in this Chabad House which offers a
warm welcome to Jews from around the world every

day without rest, I think the same thing again. The
people of Israel live. The free world lives, and we will
overcome terror.
Rivlin also laid a wreath at a memorial for the victims
of the 2008 terror attack at the Taj Palace Hotel. He
said that like Israelis, Indians are sadly no strangers to
the threat and the reality of modern global terrorism.
And let us be clear, terror is terror is terrorwherever
it strikes. Hatred, fundamentalism, extremism and
incitement, they equal one thingterror.
The November 2008 terror attacks were carried out
by an Islamic terrorist group from Pakistan. The terrorists killed 164 people.
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More than 70 FIDF supporters visit Israel

More than 70 leaders and supporters of the Friends
of the Israel Defense Forces nonprofit recently traveled to Israel on a weeklong mission for a firsthand
glimpse at the day-to-day impact their support has
on the IDF.
The visit included trips to FIDF-sponsored wellbeing and educational facilities on 11 IDF bases as
well as meeting with FIDF program beneficiaries,
including lone soldiersthose without immediate
family living in Israeland those supported by FIDF
scholarships.
The trip participants visited soldiers from the IDFs
Kfir Brigade near Israels border with the Gaza Strip,
where a ceremony was held to officially adopt a
brigadea program that provides financial assistance

to soldiers in need. The participants were also briefed
on the current situation in the Middle East by former
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and former IDF
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. (Res.) Gabi Ashkenazi.
For FIDF supporters, this was the best way to witness and experience the impact of their life-changing
contributions that build a better future for the state
of Israel, said FIDF National Director and CEO Maj.
Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir. It was also a chance for
us to personally thank the IDF soldiers for their service, and to learn more about how we can enhance
their well-being and stand by their sides at all times.
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Arts & Culture

Having as much fun as possible
Young Jewish comedian from Springfield makes millions laugh
LIZ POSNER
ot every 20something can say theyve

been shouted out by
Lin-Manuel Miranda
or flown across the
country to join the
c ircus. But Eit an
Levine, who grew up modern Orthodox in
Springfield, rightfully can say he has.
Mr. Levine is a writer and comedian
on the verge of what already has been
an eventful career. He performs standup
comedy regularly at the Peoples Improv
Theater and Magnet Theater in New
York, has several recurring internet
video projects in which he commentates
on pop culture, and has written for sites
including Mashable, Jewlicious, Heavy,
and BroBible. My parents, in general,
have no idea what I do, Mr. Levine said
of the online culture that has provided
creative millennials with limitless new
opportunity, but sometimes baffles baby
boomers. Everyones parents have no
idea what they do if they work in new
media or internet journalism.
Hes a busy man. At the moment, Mr.
Levine is based in Los Angeles, writing for
Hollywood Says, the number one Englishlanguage celebrity talk show in China.
The show hopes to be a bridge between
entertainment-obsessed Hollywood and
China. Levine also writes for Elite Daily, a
popular digital media platform that brings
in more than 40 million page views per
month. His writing career has brought
him several dynamic and interesting
opportunities. Ringling Brothers Circus
called me up and were like, Hey, want to
do an article about how we dont hit our
elephants anymore?, he said. So I got
to join the circus for a day. Ringling flew
him to Tampa to join circus training. In a
three-minute documentary on Elite Daily,
you can watch him don clown makeup
and attempt cartwheels.
Perhaps Mr. Levines most buzzedabout project to date is Hamiltoe, an
adult film parody of the hugely popular
hip-hop musical Hamilton. The film got
a lot of buzz last summer, after Mr. Levine
announced it in his Elite Daily column. It
was a boundary-pushing creative move,
and Mr. Levine credits his current success
in entertainment media to it. Thats how
I got my manager and agent, and how I got
the job I have now, he said. Even LinManuel Miranda is a huge fan.
Elite Daily is producing a three-part
video series showcasing Mr. Levines comedy, viewable on its website. I thought of
funny ideas and asked people if I could do
them, Mr. Levine said. In one, I tried to
become the mayor of a small town for a
day. They said no. In one video he joins
the paparazzi for a week in Los Angeles.
At 7:30 in the morning we waited outside Ariel Winters house, waiting for a
shot. (Ms. Winters stars in ABCs Modern
Family.) Five minutes in, I was almost
assaulted by a cameraman for getting in
the way of his shot. The next video, a
behind-the-scenes look at the making of
Hamiltoe, will be available soon.
Mr. Levines personal life, however, has
not been a ball of laughs. When I was 10
years old, I had cancer, he said. That led
to a lot of downtime. I started writing a
journal of jokes. A lot of it was boredom.
I was home with my thoughts during
years of surgery and recovery.
Disease, it seems, brought comedy into
Mr. Levines life. When I was 15, I had a
bunch of jokes, so I signed up for an open
mic night at Stress Factory in New Brunswick, he said. It was unlike anything Id
ever done.
Mr. Levine went to the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth, and lived in
Israel for a year before starting college at
Yeshiva University. I hated it with a passion, Levine said of his college years.
Standup, it seems, provided him with

comic relief from his Orthodox Jewish education. Jewish day school is very stifling,
he said. Standup was the first time I could
do anything creative.
According to Mr. Levine, his foray into
adult film, even through a comic lens, was
not received well in his modern Orthodox
northern Jersey community. They were
not happy, he said. I have a reputation.
A lot of people dont like me in the Jewish community, and this was a final nail on
the coffin. Mr. Levine describes his family
as typical of the community in the area:
Kosher, Shabbos, but were all Mets fans,
so were in the modern world.
I kept doing standup in high school.
There were times I told my parents I was
going to SAT class once I told them I was
going to celebrate Tisha BAv. Instead I did
a comedy set. It was a low-stakes rebellion,
but it was such a rush. They were aware I
was doing comedy, but three sets a week
was time I could spend doing homework.
Mr. Levine does think some of his comedic influence comes from his family. My
dad is very funny and analytic. My mom
is outlandish and outrageous. When I told
her I was going to Las Vegas to film Hamiltoe, she said, I would rather you join ISIS
than do this to the family.
His comic influences are all the usual
big names that 20somethings grew up
listening to on their iPods: Dane Cook,

Demetri Martin, Mitch Hedberg, Mike
Birbiglia. Mr. Levine was Israels Last
Comic Standing in 2008. I try to have as
much fun as possible, he said. He says this
often. It seems to be his mantra.
Outside the Jewish community and
on the internet at large, Mr. Levine has
pressed buttons in his writing on celebrity culture. Criticizing Taylor Swift, for
example, Got me more hate mail than
Ive ever seen.
He still writes trending and pop culture news for Elite Daily, two to three
Kardashian posts a day. I enjoy talking
like a 15-year-old girl in my articles when
Im talking about the Kardashians. Ive
become immersed in celebrity culture.
So what does the future hold for a funny,
creative young writer whos not afraid to
push the envelope? 40 children, Mr.
Levine joked when asked what hell be
doing in 20 years. I dont want to cover
celebrity culture forever. I want to make
a jump to TV, and not be in a cubicle
somewhere.
Two things drive me: I really want to
impress my 12-year-old self, and I want to
be happy. I want to have fun doing what
Im doing.
In other words, hell keep doing what
hes already been doing for years. Follow
Mr. Levines comedy at @eitanthegoalie.
Calendar
Friday
Sunday
NOVEMBER 25
DECEMBER 4
Interfaith Thanksgiving
in Jersey City: Temple
Bazaar in Teaneck:
Beth-El hosts the

citys annual Journal
Square area interfaith
Thanksgiving service,
7 p.m. Dessert follows.
2419 JFK Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229.
Monday
Tom DeLuca, Dave Goldstein, Cantor Paul Zim
NOVEMBER 28
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic
County continues its
Smile on Seniors
program with lunch
and a film at the center,
11:30 a.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Feature film: The Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Stephen
Spielbergs espionage
thriller Bridge of Spies,
7:30 p.m., in the series
Top Films You May Have
Missed. Commentary by
Andrew Lazarus, coffee,
and snacks. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493 or
www.jccotp.org.
The annual Cantors Concert at the JCC

of Fort Lee/Congregation Gesher Shalom
presents master comedy hypnotist Tom
DeLuca and performances by the shuls
own Cantor Paul Zim (a.k.a. The Jewish Music Man)
and stand-up comic Dave Goldstein, who has been on
NBCs Late Night With Conan OBrien. The concert is
on Saturday, December 3, at 7 p.m., with Doryne Davis as
master of ceremonies. 1449 Anderson Ave. For tickets,
go to geshershalom.org/show or call (201) 947-1735.
DEC.
Tuesday
NOVEMBER 29
legendary Sid Caesar

at Temple Beth Or in
Washington Township,
10:30 a.m. Kosher lunch
at noon followed by
mah jongg, canasta, and
dominoes. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 666-6610,
ext. 2.
Needlepoint a mezuzah
in Wayne: Join the
Rabbi David Eliezrie

Barbara Israel Bortniker
JNF speaker in Fair
Lawn: Barbara Israel
Bortniker of the Jewish
National Fund discusses
how countries around the
world use the water saving
techniques discovered
by JNF researchers, for
the Fair Lawn Chapter
of Hadassah, at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/CBI,
7:30 p.m. Refreshments.
10-10 Norma Ave. (201)
873-2476 or or L.Felner@
att.net.
Film in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah shows Enemies:
A Love Story, based
on an Isaac Bashevis
Singer story, as part of
a Jewish Film Festival,
hosted by Cantor Sam
Weiss, 8:15 p.m. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Author in Franklin
Lakes: Rabbi David
Eliezrie of Chabad in
Yorba Linda, Calif.,
discusses his new book,
The Secret of Chabad,
at the Chabad Jewish
Center, 7 p.m. 375 Pulis
Ave. www.chabadplace.
org/secret.
Women of Chai at
Temple Beth Tikvah to
create a needlepoint
mezuzah, 7 p.m.
Participants should bring
a food donation for
WIN-Wayne Interfaith
Network. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973) 595-6565.
Talmud class: Rabbi

Arthur Weiner teaches an
Introduction to Talmud
class at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 2:30 and
again at 8:15 p.m. Classes
continue December 7, 14,
and 21. 304 East Midland
Avenue, Paramus.
(201) 262-7691.
Thursday
DECEMBER 1
Sid Caesar: The Bergen
County YJCC Senior
Lunch program meets
to learn about the
Beth Shalom meets

to discuss The
Velvet Hours by
Alyson Richman,
7:30 p.m. 21 Passaic Ave.
(973) 835-3500.
Potato pancakes: Abbe

Estevez of Harmony
Lifestyles and Wellness
leads a cooking class
at the Womans Club of
Paramus, 7:30 p.m. No
walk-ins. Registration,
www.harmonylifestyle
andwellness.com.
Dina Stein facilitates

a discussion on Maria
Toorpakai s book,
A Different Kind of
Daughter, at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 10:30 a.m.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
cantor emeritus, Mark
Biddelman, hosts Shabbat
Yachad, Hebrew prayers
set to easy-to-sing
melodies, 8 p.m. Guest
Cantor Ilan Mamber
will be accompanied by
bassist Dave Richards and
percussionist Larry Eagle.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Book club in Pompton

Lakes: Congregation
Book club in Paramus:
DECEMBER 2
DECEMBER 3
NOVEMBER 30
sisterhood of the Fair

Lawn Jewish Center/CBI
hosts its annual holiday
boutique, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Items include handmade
Israeli jewelry, Kabyco,
Amy Karanek Designs,
handmade knits and
crafts, Pampered Chef,
Tupperware, Perfect
Posh skin care, Judaica,
and more. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Friday
Saturday
Wednesday
Temple Emeth holds

its annual bazaar,
with a food court,
9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Early
birds welcome at 9 with
a $10 donation; free after
that. Shoe-Tique with
shoes and accessories,
Clothing by the Bag
booth, Tricky Tray all
new this year. Check
Facebook to preview
some of the available
items. Food court.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Holiday boutique: The
Congregation Bnai Israel

continues its Torah
Town Hall, 10 a.m.,
about Christmas and
Chanukah. Participatory
Torah discussion and
talk back with Rabbi
Debra Orenstein about
the weekly Torah
portion. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Movie/Broadway
highlights: The Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/CBI
holds From Stage to
Screen a performance
with highlights of movie
and Broadway music,
8 p.m. Cast includes
Nancy Bach, Luisa
Fuentes, Lou Steele,
Evie Turner-Salerno, and
guests. 10-10 Norma Ave.
StageToScreen@FLJC.
com or (201) 796-5040.
Susan Eisen
Local artist displaying

work in museum
Susan Eisen of Upper Saddle River will show her
Meditations in Clay at the Hunterdon Art Museum
through January 8. Her work was inspired by the
ancient landscapes she encountered on the many
family trip she took in Israel, hiking and camping in
the Negev and Sinai. Her work reflects a response to
nature, to the effects of wind and water, and to the
imprints of past civilizations. With her hands in clay,
she says, she feels a connection with the earth and
something eternal.
When Susan and her husband, Julie, moved to
Upper Saddle River in 1962, there were not many
Jews there. The Eisens joined a small congregation
in Ramsey and eventually began a chavura that still
meets in their home. They were among a core group
of families who began the UJA in Ridgewood and the
YJCC in Washington Township.
The museum is at 7 Lower St., in Clinton. For information, call (908) 735-8415 or go to hunterdonartmuseum.org.
Calendar
Refreshments. 304
East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Singles
Sunday
Monday
DECEMBER 5
DECEMBER 4
Book discussion: The
Seniors meet in West

Nyack: Singles 65+
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/

Congregation Bnai Israel
continues its Book and
Lunch program as Rabbi
Ronald Roth discusses
Seth Siegels, Let There
Be Water, noon. 10-10
Norma Ave. Reservations,
(201) 796-5040 or www.
fljc.com.
meets for a social

get-together with
refreshments at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly if
you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.
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Benefit jewelry show in Englewood

Jewelry designer Norma Wellington will present her
latest collection at a holiday show and sale at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood to benefit
its Performing Arts School scholarship program. The
show is on December 10, from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.,
and will coincide with Melissa Etheridges Holiday
Trio, part of the Benzel Busch Concert Series, beginning at 8 p.m.
The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC is an
educational resource and has made the arts accessible to more than 35,000 children last year alone.
It offers classes in theater, music, and dance, and
has summer camp programs; it also offers Beyond
bergenPAC outreach programs. Ms. Wellington
will donate 25 percent of sales to the scholarship
Norma Wellington
program. When I was a high school student, I
was extremely shy, she said. Belonging to a little
theater group helped me with my self-esteem and
confidence. I want to give that opportunity to the
youngsters who cant afford to take classes at the
Performing Arts School at bergenPAC. I know how
important this can be for their future, and it is my
passion to be a part of this effort to change lives.
Her jewelry is made of precious metals and stones
and is carefully fashioned into exquisite pieces. Each
purchaser will be entered into a raffle to win one of
Ms. Wellingtons designs. Wine and cheese will be
served and live models will present the one-of-a-kind pieces.
The theater is at 30 North Van Brunt St. Tickets are available at www.bergenpac.
org, at www.ticketmaster.com, or via the box office, (201) 227-1030.
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named Aryeh?
20. Rolling Stones song or Paddy
Chayefsky character in Marty
22. Overseer on a flight from TLV to EWR
24. Merlins a part of his legend
27. Boteachs old pop star pal
31. Neighbor of Isr.
32. Slippery Eilat dweller
34. Troop group Louis Black performed
for: Abbr.
35. Not a rabbi
36. Observe (as the Sabbath)
38. Hockey movie with main character
Doug Glatt
40. Provide with uzis, again
42. Power above all... the italicized folk in
this puzzle
45. Co-star of Shatner and Kelley
47. And G-d ___ ...
48. Lubavitch landmark
51. ___ ledodi
52. Michael on Michaels Saturday
Night Live
54. The world isnt even this old, from a
literal Bible interpretation
56. Haifa to Damascus dir.
57. Carrie and Cujos creator
59. Clevelands savior
61. Theologians subj.
62. One not quick to give tzedakah
64. Tel Aviv-___
67. Goes to the Garden of Eden, perhaps
69. Yishais son
73. Awful African ruler, with 71-Down
74. Mountains in Borats land
75. Home of the founder of Chabad
76. RKOs ape
77. Brazils soccer legend
78. Priscillas husband
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Down
1. Moshav performance
2. U.N. working-conditions agcy. that has
condemned Israel. at times
3. Notable yeshiva, with The
4. Holy high place, in the Torah
5. Brooklyns O or J
6. Baba follower
7. Ahava ingredient
8. Matthews The Producers co-star
9. Shawarma wraps
10. Notable Navi scholar
11. Behind, to the Hebrew Free
Loan Society
12. Savage or Kingsley
13. Org. supported by Roger Waters
21. Three-time Red Auerbach Trophy
recipient Popovich
23. Squirrel nosh
24. Pose, like many a sage
25. Jewish bread
26. Fan of Spock
27. River Phoenix, e.g. (sadly)
28. Eli Roth kind of film
29. Blade or Marc Roberges band
30. Wilpons NLE team
33. Give a bound Torah some slack
37. Big Apple order
39. Scent ___ Woman (Brest film)
41. Freudian topic
43. Specialty
44. Biblical no-nos
45. YU helpers
46. One that might help Marvels
Scott Lang
49. Brian of ambient music, who is a big
13-Down supporter
50. Goodman of Dancing with the Stars
53. Robbed (a Bank Leumi)
55. Possible item for 27-Down
58. Projection on a Kosher Lamp
60. Prepare a shankbone for a Seder, perhaps
62. Shabbat dinner, e.g.
63. ___ of Man (World War II Jewish refugee site)
64. Kosher Himalayan animal
65. Yo te ___ (Ani ohev otach)
66. Half a kosher requirement
68. Moses displays it when seeing the
Golden Calf
70. Its equal to 6
71. See 73-Across
72. Bob Igers animated company, on
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Ruth Gruber, journalist who helped

Holocaust survivors, dies at 105
Ruth Gruber, an American journalist who escorted 1,000
Jewish Holocaust refugees from Europe to the United
States, has died. She was 105.
Gruber died in her Manhattan home on Thursday,
November 17, the Washington Post reported.
She was known for her 1944 journey from Italy to New
York aboard a ship carrying refugees from concentration
camps.
Despite the risk of sailing on waters patrolled by German submarines, then-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes
appointed Gruber to travel with the refugees to hold their
hand, as she recalled him telling her in Inside of Time,
a book she wrote about that journey.
Aboard the ship, the refugees, some of them too old to
walk, called Gruber, then 32, Mother Ruth, according to
the Posts obituary of her. Fluent in German and Yiddish,
she organized English lessons, cared for the seasick, and
taught at least one refugee her first English song You
Are My Sunshine the Boston Globe reported.
Together the passengers made the two-week journey
without attack, and the refugees arrived in the

United States safe beyond their most roseate
dreams, according to a New York Times account
at the time.
Until the end of her life, Gruber remained convinced that the United States could have saved
many more refugees.
Gruber worked as a photographer and reporter
for the New York Herald Tribune in 1947, when
she became the first Western journalist to visit the
Ruth Gruber was a photographer as well as a reporter.
Soviet Arctic and the gulag.
In 1947, she watched as a ship carrying 4,000
settled in Brooklyn, graduated from high school at 15 and
Holocaust survivors and displaced persons was turned
from New York University at 18. After earning a masters
away from Palestine. She photographed and later chronicled those events in a book that Leon Uris used to write
degree in German literature, she went to Germany, and
his best-selling novel Exodus.
earned a doctorate from the University of Cologne when
In her 70s, she was the only foreign correspondent to
she was 20 with a dissertation on Virginia Woolf.
The New York Times reported at the time that she was the
observe Operation Moses, the airlift of Ethiopian Jews to
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youngest German doctor of philosophy.
Israel during famine.
Gruber, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who
One Ruth Gruber says goodbye to another

confused identity.
Over the decades, I have received scores of
When you share a name with someone you
emails meant for Ruth, especially before she
respect and admire, you always try to live up to
had an email account.
the connection, because sometimes outsiders
A particular flood of them came after a twoarent aware of the difference.
part CBS mini-series based on Ruths book,
Thats how it was for decades with me
Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World
and Ruth Gruber, the noted photojournalist,
War II Refugees and How They Came to America, aired in February 2001.
reporter, and author who died last week at 105
Scores of viewers who were moved by the
after a remarkable life and career.
story of how, in 1944, Ruth escorted 982 refuFrom my first international byline, when I was
gees from 19 Nazi-occupied countries to safe
a young intern at the Associated Press in Rome
haven in Oswego, New York, poured out their
in the 1970s (and Ruth already was in her 60s),
hearts in sometimes very emotional terms.
right up to a Facebook comment just a couple
Even five years later, a non-Jewish viewer in
months ago, our names, and also our shared
Colorado wrote to Ruth at my email address:
focus on Jewish affairs, have led to confusion.
Shalom!! he began. There are no words to
It didnt matter that she was decades older
express how your story has impacted our lives!
than I was, or that she had written largely about
[] Do you have any suggestions as to how we
Israel and Holocaust matters and I write mainly
might embrace and love the Jewish population
about European Jewish affairs and Jewish heritage. Our biographies often have been conwhere we live? With all the hatred that has been
flated, and articles even ran with the picture of
afflicted on your beautiful people and culture
the wrong person.
there are so many obstacles to overcome. Any
Ruth received checks in the mail that actually
advice you could give would be priceless!!
were due to me, and a major Jewish organizaPerhaps the funniest example of our identity
tion once sent me an official letter announcing
mix-up took place in person, not in cyberspace.
The pioneering photojournalist Ruth Gruber, left, and the longan award except as I read through the letter I
At an American Jewish Committee annual
time JTA European correspondent Ruth Ellen Gruber met at a
realized that the award was meant for her, not
meeting in the late 1990s, I gave my name when
book launch party in 1992.
COURTESY OF RUTH ELLEN GRUBER
me.
I asked a question during one of the sessions. As
I tried to underscore my individuality by
I went back to my seat, a woman stopped me.
using my middle initial or middle name Ellen in my
returned to the United States briefly after my expulIts so good to see you again! she exclaimed. You
sion from Poland, or if our first meeting came nearly a
byline and in other professional dealings. But it hasnt
came to our house in the 40s!
decade later, in 1992, when, wearing a striking broadalways helped.
I stared at her for a few seconds before I could gather
brimmed hat, she attended the launch of my first book,
In January 1983, when, as a UPI correspondent, I was
myself to respond.
Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Central and Eastern
arrested on trumped-up accusations of espionage, jailed
Look at me, I finally told her. I know Im tired, but
Europe.
overnight, and expelled from communist Poland, Ruths
do you really think I could have come to your house in
But we stayed in touch over the years, and every time
answering machine ran out of space because of calls
the 40s?
we got together or spoke on the phone we laughed about
from anxious friends and family.
Farewell, Ruth! I hope I can continue to honor your
JTA WIRE SERVICE
our common if sometimes frustrating problem of
I frankly cant remember now if we met when I
example.
RUTH ELLEN GRUBER
Obituaries
Francie Feinberg
Francie Feinberg, ne Friedman, 86, of Riverdale, N.Y.,

formerly of Bayonne, died November 17.
She was a member of the Bayonne Hebrew Benevolent
Association.
Sons Michael of New York City, and Robert of Montclair, two grandchildren, and a sister, Seena Malinoff of
Cranbury, survive her.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort
Lee.
Rieva Greenwald
Rieva Greenwald, 88, of Pompton Plains, formerly of

Glen Rock, died November 16.
Her children, Shelly Greenwald (Larry Saftler), and
David (Beth), and four grandchildren, survive her.
Donations can be made to the Alzheimers Association. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Mark Rapoport
Mark Rapoport, 61, of Pennsylvania, formerly of New

Jersey, died November 19.
He earned BS and masters degrees from Pace University, and worked as a consultant in the pharmaceutical
industry.
He is survived by his wife, Wendy; children, Daniel,
Elana, and Lauren; and siblings, Janis and Ian.
Donations can be sent to JFS of the Lehigh Valley or
Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, Pa. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel.
Steve Rivkin
Steve Rivkin, 69, of Glen Rock, died November 16.

He was president of Rivkin & Associates, CEO of Estes
Park Institute for 20 years, co-author of six books, and a
speaker.
He was a University of Missouri School of Journalism
graduate and a board member of Volunteers in Medicine.
He is survived by his wife of 43 years, April.
Contributions can be sent to Pallative Care In-Patient
Services at Valley Hospital, Ridgewood. A memorial to
celebrate his life will be held at a later date. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel.
Harold Rosenzweig
Harold Rosy Rosenzweig, 86, of Elmwood Park, formerly of Paterson, died November 17.
A U.S. Army veteran, he was a self-employed painting and wallpaper contractor, and a member of Odd
Fellows Lodge #265 and Bnai Brith Lodge #143, both in
Paterson.
Predeceased by a brother, Benjamin, he is survived by
his wife of 62 years, Betty, ne Serene; children, Bonnie,
and Arlene Goldzweig (David); a sister-in-law, Mildred;
grandson, Joshua; nieces, nephews, grand-nieces, and
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One splendid view inspires 15 painters of Jerusalem

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Put 15 painters in an apartment with a
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Debbie Kampel set up her easel on one
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Sam Griffin chose to draw an Arab construction worker inside the penthouse.
Leah Silver and Hovav Landoy used colorful straws and connectors to build an
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Yoram Raanan took dozens of photos of the view at
different times of day before painting four interpretashowed her works incorporating
tions of the view.
Lenore Cohen with a work in which she placed a muted photo of herArabic-style calligraphy.
self and her father in the center.
Im here on an artist residency
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connection point between Jerusalem, Jewish
I take traditional Judeo-Arabic phrases from my community and translate them into visuals, usually in a way that
peoplehood and contemporary art.
adds new meaning and context, she said.
Institutions, artists groups and independent curators worldwide have until NovemSo with this show I took the same approach: I searched
ber 10 to submit proposals in keeping with
through the long list of phrases I have to find several that I
the theme watershed, using media includthought spoke to the nature of the Jerusalem skyline. The
ing photography, video art, installation and
three I chose were: What is sweeter than halva? Friendship after enmity, Distance yourself from quarrel and
performance.
sing and Patience is the key to success.
Ozeri described Jerusalem as a city where
I drew the landscape and then painted these phrases
so many watershed events have changed the
into the scene, looming large over everything like declaracourse of Jewish and world history.
Ari Maraches interpretation of the view.
tive clouds.
The 2015 biennale featured 10 exhibitions
Ozeri said that so far 140 artists from Israel and other
of nearly 200 Israeli and international professional artists at seven venues in the city center.
countries have expressed interest in exhibiting at the
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Cakes
FROM PAGE 15
She has no twinges of regret when her works of art disappear into peoples mouths.
One of my favorite parts is people cutting into my
cakes and eating them. I like that they enjoy the art and
then enjoy the eating.
Most of Ms. Alts sculpture cakes are commissioned for
big corporate events. Prices range from $1,500 to $10,000,
the latter yielding enough slices for 250 or 300 celebrants.
Most creations are one of a kind. She did a guitar-anddrum set cake for a bar mitzvah party, and someone once
ordered a cake made to look like a barrel of pickles.
Ms. Alt certainly has come a long way from her school
days at Yavneh Academy and the Frisch School in Paramus, when shed bake cakes from Duncan Hines mixes
for her friends birthdays. But even then she gussied them
up with elaborate decorations, ranging from Elmo to the
Louis Vuitton logo.
Intrigued by watching cake artists on TV, and with a
strong artistic bent, she began spending all her free time
learning about cake decorating. She had always enjoyed
painting and sculpting; why not employ these talents
toward something edible?
For her final project at Pratt, she sculpted a full-size
woman out of chocolate. After graduation in 2015 she
launched Melissa Alt Cakes.
These days, of course, she doesnt use Duncan Hines

mixes but rather recipes she found online and tweaks to
her satisfaction.
I can do any flavor Im asked for: chocolate, vanilla, red
velvet, marble, carrot. You name it.
Most of her orders are for sculpture cakes, but she also
wants to start doing more wedding cakes in the future.
Gralla
FROM PAGE 7
mission was to educate the world about what happened,

and they helped. They set up a foundation that later
merged into the Anti-Defamation League.
Shirley embraced us both, Ilsa and Lisa said. She
included us in so many family events and simchas. She
was always so warm. There was a bond between her and
us that never changed. That was 31 years ago, and that
bond is still there. It always feels like family.
The publicity surrounding the candidates bust cakes is

sending a lot of attention her way, and she hopes this will
translate into the ability to expand her business. People
are very creative and they have good ideas so Im usually
pretty happy with what they want me to do, she said. Its
hard work but I really enjoy it.
For more information, go to www.melissaaltcakes.com.
Shirley always just wanted to do more for us. Just to
do more.
Shirley was like a thread that held the quilt of our family together, Susan Gralla, Denniss wife, said. And that
includes extended family. Its like the immediate family
are squares, and then also the extended family, and then
all the lives she touched, all the people who come over to
you to share a Shirley story.
We all became part of the patchwork my parents and
my sister and her family, she added. She emanated goodness and light and love, and we were all its beneficiaries.
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