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JEWISH
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STANDARD MARCH 3, 2017 3
MARCH 17,
Noshes
That much-loved grease ball wrapped in
yesterdays newspaper is less Etonian
and more Estonian.
Thats historian Denise Phillips on a BBC show, explaining how the Jews brought
fish and chips, an iconic British food, to England with them.
KICKER:
B&B returns;
this time its live!
The tale as old as man at the end of the than most of his prior
time returns to film which Gad says film work. The setting is
theaters in a new is subtle, but incredibly the Austin, Texas, music
live-action film. This effective in showing scene. We follow two
Beauty and the Beast hes gay. The Variety entangled couples as
is not an adaptation of reviewer differed: Josh they chase success. One
the hit 1994 Broadway Gad plays Gastons wor- couple (Ryan Gosling
stage version, but a new shipful stooge as maxi- and Rooney Mara) are
re-imagining of the mally silly and fawning, struggling songwriters.
story as told in the but I must have missed The other couple is a
beloved 1991 animated the memo where that music mogul (Michael
film musical. Advance spells gay. Fassbender) and the
reviews say its quite The great original waitress he ensnares
good, but some parts of film songs, all of which Josh Gad Alan Menken Howard Ashman (NATALIE PORTMAN,
the story and some appear in this version, 35). The impressive cast
songs had more magic were written by com- includes Cate Blanchett,
in the animated version. poser ALAN MENKEN, Iggy Pop, and Patti
(Opens Friday, March now 67, and lyricist Smith. (Opens March 17.)
17.) HOWARD ASHMAN No doubt the cinema-
The title characters (1950-1991). Four new tography will be gor-
(Belle and the Beast) songs, written just for geous since the cinema-
are played by Emma this film, are by Menken tographer is the great
Watson and Dan Ste- and lyricist Tim Rice. EMMANUEL LUBEZKI,
vens. Kevin Kline plays Meanwhile, Menken has 52. He won three best
Maurice, Belles eccen- another hit now running cinematography Os-
tric but lovable father. on Broadway a musi- cars in a row, from 2013
(Klines father was Jew- cal version of the film to 2015, with Gravity,
ish, but he was raised A Bronx Tale (1993), Birdman, and The
in his mothers Catholic which opened in No- Natalie Portman Emmanuel Lubezki June Squibb Revenant. He is the
faith.) Other major sup- vember to glowing re- only person to have
porting actors include views. Its score is much although he was not a perceptively have point- and your wives, well achieved this.
Emma Thompson and more rock and roll than credited screenwriter ed out, a Beauty song, save our village and our JUNE SQUIBB, 87,
Ewan McGregor (whose the Beauty score. on Beauty, everyone Kill the Beast, has a lives. and Hal Holbrook,
children are being raised As an editorial note agrees that he vastly poignant AIDS subtext In other words, given 92, will guest star
in his wifes Jewish I dont think that the gay improved the original in the lyrics that refer- the constraints of work- as a married couple in
faith). community gains much scriptwith comedy ences the AIDS hysteria ing within the plot of a an episode of Greys
JOSH GAD, 36, plays from an arguably gay and with the shaping of of the 1980s and 90s. fairy tale, and given the Anatomy that will first
LeFou, the flunky of character who, as Va- the Beasts tragedy. Gaston sings about the politics of 1991, Ashman air on Thursday, March
Belles other suitor, riety says, is silly and Like the Beast Ash- need to end the Beasts subtly made a strong 23 (at 8:30 p.m., on
Gaston. Disney says fawning and the stooge man was afflicted with life despite his igno- point. I wish Disney had NBC). Squibb was
that LeFou is an explic- of Gaston, a handsome a curse AIDS that rance of his condition. found another way, in Oscar-nominated for
itly gay character in the idiot. Howard Ashman, drastically altered his Here are two apt lines: 2017, to celebrate in- best supporting actress
new film, and of course who was gay, was no physical appearance. We dont like what clusiveness other than for Nebraska. By the
that has attracted some LeFou. He and Men- But he worked coura- we dont understand making a foolish charac- way, Holbrook is still
controversy. However, ken revived the Disney geously to get every and in fact it scares us, ter sort of gay. touring his one-man
like beauty, explicit animated musical with film detail right even and this monster is mys- Word is that stage show, Mark Twain
appears to be in the eye The Little Mermaid as his death neared terious at least / Bring Terence Malicks Tonight! He began
of the beholder. LeFou and Beauty. He also he died just before the your guns, bring your new film, Song to touring in it in 1954.
dances with another was a playwright, and films opening. As many knives, save children Song, is much lighter N.B.
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degree in Jewish history; he is now a doc-
hen Alvin Reinstein of toral student.
Teaneck had to borrow I worked in administration for YU for
class notes, find a study a couple of years and then had the oppor-
buddy, or get advice on tunity to work with students on campus,
courses toward ordination at Yeshiva Uni- something I never thought Id be doing,
versitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi- he said. Once I started, it really spoke
cal Seminary RIETS he turned to a to me. Theres something very powerful
classmate two years ahead of him: his son, about the ability to be there as a resource
Sam. for people.
The Reinsteins were the first father- Rabbi Michael Taubes said he didnt
son pair simultaneously studying for the expect Yaakov, his middle child, to become
rabbinate in the history of the 121-year- a rabbi. This opportunity at JLIC almost
old RIETS. fell into his lap, and I hope he enjoys being
On March 19, they will be among 130 a rabbi as much as I have over the years,
rabbis from the classes of 2014-2017 he said.
celebrating their ordination (semi- Rabbi Taubes added that he and his
cha, or semikhah as YU transliterates wife, Bassie, made their household a place
the Hebrew word) at the Chag HaSe- where their five childrens needs and feel-
mikhah convocation on YUs Washington Rabbi Kenneth, left, and Rabbi Tuvia Brander. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ings were prioritized above all. We rarely
Heights campus. if ever discussed matters relating to shul or
If the triennial event were held every 32-year career in administration at the Being in classes with my father was school at the table, he said.
four years in other words, in 2018 it New York City Housing Authority, he a little weird but very special, he said. Teanecks Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the
would also include Alvins son-in-law and had the opportunity for serious Torah Especially with Torah topics, transmis- vice president of University and Com-
Sams brother-in-law, Josh Botwinick, hus- study but encountered many distrac- sion usually flows downward from father munity Life at YU, similarly said that he
band of Margot Reinstein Botwinick, now tions. Seeking a structured framework, to son, and with us it went the other way and his wife, Ruchie, always made sure
in his fourth year at RIETS. he registered for RIETS in January 2012 because I was advising him which classes there was a healthy balance in the house
Nevertheless, the Reinsteins achieve- two years after Sam began the program to take and sharing my notes with him. It between engaging in the community and
ment is unusual enough that YU has inter- with the strong encouragement of his was great. being there for our children.
viewed them for a special video. wife, Esther Lauber. The convocation also will include sev- Rabbi Tuvia Brander, 29 (RIETS class
The Chag HaSemikhah is about the That year, at the class of 1972s 40th eral Bergen County residents whose of 2015), now leads the Young Israel of
passing of the mesorah [tradition], and the reunion, YU President Richard Joel noted fathers and in some cases, their grand- West Hartford, Connecticut, and is vice
meeting of the generations, RIETSs dean, that Alvin Reinstein was the only class fathers are RIETS alumni. president of the Greater Hartford Rab-
Rabbi Menachem Penner, said. A father member now enrolled as a student in any Rabbi Yaakov Taubes (class of 2014) binic Association.
and son completing semicha at the same of the universitys various schools. is the son of Rabbi Michael Taubes, the He hopes to attend the Chag HaSe-
time, in the same yeshiva, exemplifies the It was a case of the father following the leader of Teanecks Zichron Mordechai mikhah convocation not only with his
beauty of that never-ending chain. It is also son, he said. It wasnt my intention to get synagogue, a RIETS Rosh Yeshiva and father but also with his grandfather, Rabbi
a testament to the vitality of our yeshiva a job as a rabbi; I just wanted to study. And instructor, and Rosh Yeshiva at MTA. Aaron Brander, a RIETS-ordained rabbi
and yeshiva campus, with students of all my son Sam was an inspiration for me. Yaakov Taubes and his wife, Racheli, who was formerly the principal of the
ages learning side by side. We took many courses together and stud- are in their third year teaching and men- Yeshiva of Central Queens and now splits
Alvin Reinstein, now 66, is the son of ied together. When he was going through toring University of Pennsylvania students his time between Far Rockaway, New York,
Holocaust survivors who raised their three Yavneh Academy and Torah Academy of through the Orthodox Unions Seif Jewish and Deerfield Beach, Florida.
boys in the Bronx. He graduated from Bergen County, I would learn with him Learning Initiative on Campus. They have Rabbi Kenneth Brander started his
MTA, YUs high school for boys, in 1968, but now it was on a peer basis. two children. career in 1986 as assistant rabbi of Man-
and from Yeshiva College, with a bach- Rabbi Sam Reinstein, 27, is an actuary I grew up in a rabbinic home, going to hattans Lincoln Square Synagogue. From
elors degree in math, in 1972. I always at Prudential and has a weekend pulpit shul with my father and learning Torah 1991 to 2005, he was the senior rabbi of the
wanted to learn Torah, he said. I feel it as the assistant rabbi of Congregation Kol with him my entire life, Rabbi Taubes Boca Raton Synagogue in Florida, and was
is our primary duty to achieve spiritual Torah, a 90-year-old synagogue in Brook- said. I dont recall having rabbis son syn- involved in founding and leading several
growth by learning Torah and doing mitz- lyns Prospect Heights neighborhood. He, drome. I was very proud that my father communal institutions.
vot, he said. his wife, Hannah Dreyfus, and their six- was a rabbi, and it felt natural to me. I tried to make sure that during
After his 2010 retirement from a month-old son, Leon, live in Brooklyn. He enrolled in RIETS after finishing the more than 20 years I spent in the
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Bridging worlds
Franklin Lakes rabbi is new head Jewish Boy Scout chaplain
JOANNE PALMER During college, Rabbi Prouser was in the College Scout-
ing Reserves, a program created largely to keep young
It is a safe bet that when Lieutenant General Robert Ste- men connected; he lost most of that connection in rabbini-
phenson Smyth Baden-Powell, the first Baron Baden- cal school and then picked it up at the local level when he
Powell, first came up with the idea of Boy Scouts, it didnt and his young family moved to Connecticut when he took
occur to him that just a little over a century later, his move- a pulpit there. But then, in 1997, I got a call, out of the
ment, transplanted to the United States, would include a blue, from a member of the National Jewish Committee
National Jewish Committee on Scouting. on Scouting, saying that there was a need for a chaplain at
Baron Baden-Powell was a consummate Victorian mili- a National Jamboree.
tary man; if he hadnt been born, Rudyard Kipling would The Boy Scouts of America holds a national jambo-
have invented him. He of course was Christian, but as it ree every four years. The international scouting organi-
soon became clear, his emphasis was more on religion in zation holds one every four years as well. The dates are
general than his in particular. Religion is very important staggered, so there is a Boy Scout Jamboree to which an
in scouting. American Boy Scout can go held every other summer.
Hence the many official Boy Scout national chaplains in Rabbi Prouser had never been to one before, though; as
this country, representing, among other faiths, Catholics, soon as he was old enough for a summer job, hed worked
Baptists, and Presbyterians. The Jewish chaplaincy has at a Boy Scout camp. One of my first paid jobs was as a
existed since 1927, a surprising 90 years ago. cooking merit badge instructor, he said; in that capacity
This is relevant here and now because the committees I taught kids how to cook over an open fire. It is a skill
new head is Joseph Prouser, Conservative rabbi and Eagle he retains, he added.
Scout. Rabbi Prouser went to the jamboree, and despite being
Rabbi Prouser, who leads Temple Emanuel of North geographically illogical, he became the scouting move-
Jersey in Franklin Lakes, has been a Scout ever since I ments Jewish chaplain for the western region, where he
was a little kid, for almost as long as I can remember, he did not live. But he spent some time in Utah, and devel-
said. He grew up in Northampton, Mass.; his troop was oped what have become strong, long-lasting relationships
sponsored by the First Church of Christ. That was never with Mormon Scout leaders.
an issue, he said. The troop drew boys from all over the Now, Rabbi Prouser is one of four Boy Scout Jewish
area, although none from that church. Very few of them chaplains; he replaces his mentor, Rabbi Peter Hyman,
were Jewish it was not an overwhelmingly Jewish area, who remains as senior Jewish chaplain but is giving up
although because its home to many academics, there In the International Jamboree in Japan, an Indone- his chairmanship after 30 years. Another of the rabbis is
always are some. It was never a problem being Jewish, sian scout is flanked by Joseph Prouser, left, and a former Eagle Scout.
Rabbi Prouser said. Religious devotion what Scouts Archpriest Eric Tosi, national chaplain for Christian There are many Jewish Boy Scouts, Rabbi Prouser said.
call reverence is very much a part of it. Orthodox scouts. At the Jamboree, there is a sizeable contin-
Everyone was urged to grapple with their gent of shomer Shabbes Scouts, who have
own religious identity, and that work was their own synagogue tent. And there are
rewarded, no matter what religious iden- many other Jews who are not part of that
tity you claimed as your own. organized effort.
Rabbi Prouser began his Scouting career This is a National Jamboree summer; its
as a Cub Scout, and then moved steadily set for ten mid-July days, in West Virginia.
through the ranks until he reached the They are major undertakings; the last one
highest, most difficult to attain level, Eagle drew about 35,000 boys and about 10,00
Scout. To become an Eagle Scout, a boy staff members, Rabbi Prouser said. Among
has to plan and execute a major project, them are many Jews and many Muslims.
and direct other Scouts as they help him. Were planning a joint meal for the Jew-
Rabbi Prousers was with the Northamp- ish and Muslim Scouts, Rabbi Prouser said.
ton Historical Society. The town was Some Muslim Scouts will be from overseas,
founded in the 17th century, and the his- he added. Foreign delegations can come to
torical society had a barn where they U.S. jamborees; one will come from Egypt
had been keeping all sort of artifacts for this year, and maybe from other majority
decades, or maybe even for centuries. Muslim countries as well. We are going to be
I took a group of boys into the barn doing some joint programming, and I think
and we did almost an archeological dig. Two summers ago, Rabbi Prouser went to the International Jamboree in Ja- its for the first time, he added. There have
We sorted through the stuff there, and pan. Here, he stands with the Bangladeshi contingent. (Girls are welcomed in been smaller-scale efforts to get us together,
catalogued it, and provided suggestions Boy Scout troops overseas.) but this is the first time en masse.
for its use or display. We found paintings, Although the plans are not yet firm, he
we found 19th century farm equipment. We found some was in 1976 the bicentennial year so it was even more hopes to break the ice between the Jewish and Muslim
tombstones from the founding fathers of Northampton. relevant. scouts spectacularly, with what are called social circus
Those tombstones provided one possible answer to the A candidate becomes an Eagle Scout at what is called a coaches. (Thats circus coaches who use the circus arts
age-old question what do you do when you have a typo Court of Honor, an individual ceremony with great emo- they teach to bring disparate students together, not peo-
etched in stone? Obviously you cant erase it. So, at least in tional weight for the boy and his family and friends. Joe ple who think of social relationships as a metaphoric cir-
Northampton, you redo it on another stone, and you keep Prousers was at his shul, Congregation Bnai Israel. He cus.) The program is specially designed to bring together
the old one around, to use to pave a road or hold down a remembers its Hebrew school as being extraordinarily groups separated by culture of circumstance, he said. It
weight or whatever else it could be handy for. And until good so good, in fact, that when his rabbi, Asher Bar- should be fun.
then, you store it, so an Eagle Scout can uncover it hun- Zev, spoke at the ceremony, he addressed me in Hebrew, Rabbi Prouser believes that scouting has widened his
dreds of years later. and I remember feeling a bit surprised, both because he world, increased his understanding of the many people
It happened that Rabbi Prousers Eagle Scout project chose to do that and because I could understand him. with whom he shares it, and given him the freedom and
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A Passover windfall
Stop and Shop to donate two tons of food to JFCS food pantry
Larry Yudelson the pantrys busiest time of year.
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Food costs can quadruple, Ms. Finkelstein said. For
ts not news that Passover is expensive. many families, its impossible to put adequate Passover
It demands more food. Special food. Special food on the table. More people struggle than do during
kosher food. the rest of the year.
There is good news for hard-strapped local fami- The food bank is open to anyone in the Jewish Feder-
lies this year, however. ation of Northern New Jerseys catchment area. Thats
The food pantry of the Jewish Family and Childrens Ser- Bergen, Hudson, and parts of Passaic County. Eighty-two
vices of Northern New Jersey will be getting a donation of percent of those who use the pantry are from the Jew-
two tons of food from Stop and Shop. ish community.
Every year, probably for more than the last dozen Who is eligible for assistance?
years or so, weve partnered with a local Jewish organi- People are able to come for the food pantry help if
zation in our market area, Jim Keenoy explained. Mr. their family is having a difficult time putting food on the
Keenoy is Stop & Shops director of marketing and exter- table, Ms. Finkelstein said.
nal communication. Its part of our bigger and broader It starts with a meeting with Faith OConnor, the JFCS
objective of being a better neighbor. employee who handles referrals. Shell ask about a fam-
That includes turkey donations before Thanksgiving, ilys situation and look for other ways that the agency
and ham donations before Easter as well as ongoing sup- might be able to help.
port for local charities and food banks. With the Stop and Shop donation, we are putting word
The list of food being donated was drawn up by JFCS. out in the community that this year we have help available
The vast majority is shelf stable. Some components are for all those families who have a very difficult time mak-
frozen or fresh, Mr. Keenoy said. ing ends meet, Ms. Finkelstein said. This contribution
Throughout the year, the food pantry stocks shelf sta- from Stop and Shop is putting us in a unique situation,
ble, fresh and frozen foods, according to Ellen Finkelstein, The food pantrys stocked for Passover. so we can provide kosher for Passover food for a much
the marketing director for Jewish Family and Childrens greater community.
Services. We support just shy of 1500 people a year, all of it. We know that one in five children in New Jersey The food will be delivered on March 28. The gift will
she said. go to bed hungry each night, she said. reflect a wish list drawn up by JFCS, and it will include
She knows that the need is so great that JFCS cannot fix Because it serves so many Jewish families, Passover is canned tuna, grape juice, chicken soup, matzah ball mix,
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can strengthen ourselves at the Bergen County Prosecutors Office, technical companies and institutions,
his year, you by standing together and will discuss these issues at the briefing. their incredible advances in so many areas
dont have to go taking purposeful action. The second issue to be discussed will be of science and technology, Ms. Fein said.
to Trenton to Security and anti-Sem- senior and disability services. Federation One such area is the advances made in
speak to state itism tops the list of four is one of the largest funding organizations water preservation, water conservation,
legislators about the Jewish issues the JCRC has put for senior services, Ms. Fein said. and water resources. In a short period
communitys concerns on on the agenda for the The third issue is educational funding of time, Israel has gone from drought
behalf of the Jewish Com- meetings, Ms. Fein said. parity state aid for Jewish day schools and water shortages to become a water
munity Relations Com- Concretely, the state gov- she continued. To the extent that the exporter. Its exporting not just water but
mittee of the Jewish Fed- ernment administers the state can fund completely secular areas water technology as well.
eration of Northern New Stan Goodman federal Nonprofit Security of the school, we advocate for it. We were Many specific advances are things that
Jersey. Grant Program, which has successful last year in getting allocations to could have important implications for
This Tuesday, March 21, the JCRC will helped many local institutions including increase. We hope to do it again. New Jersey, which has some overlap and
hold its state legislative advocacy day, synagogues and schools beef up their Maurie Litwack, director of state politi- some differences in its water problems.
starting with a breakfast and a briefing security. cal affairs for the Orthodox Union, will Theres a chance to build something
on key issues at the federations Paramus The JCRC also is asking for the state to explain the details at the briefing.
office. Then participants will fan out to supplement the federal grants, because Support for Israel among elected offi- What: JCRC State Legislative Advo-
the offices of state senators and assem- they are targeted at urban areas. Those cials is the fourth item on the agenda, Ms. cacy Day
bly members throughout the federations areas include the federations catchment Fein said. Last year we were successful. When: Tuesday, March 21, 8:30 a.m.
North Jersey catchment area. area but excludes some of the states We had an anti-BDS bill that was passed 3 p.m.
This is an opportunity to stand firmly remote Jewish communities. with almost unanimous support by the Where: Jewish Federation of North-
with your community, JCRCs director, The JCRC also will ask the legislators to legislature, preventing the state from con- ern New Jersey, 50 Eisenhower Drive,
Lori Fein, said. Our community feels allocate funds to help institutions pay for tracting with companies that support a Paramus
itself under attack and very vulnerable, security guards. The federal grants can boycott of Israel. More information: Call David Silver-
she added, referring to the repeated bomb be used only for specific items of security This year weve decided to highlight a man at (201) 820-3944, email him at
threats sent to the Kaplen JCC on the Pali- infrastructure, such as cameras and bullet- potential area for partnership with Israel, Davids@jfnnj.org, or go to www.jfnnj.
sades in Tenafly along with other JCCs proof window coatings. she said. That area is water. org/advocacy.
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pantry with that kind of ability going into Passover is any one item $25 or more
unheard of, she said. In normal years, JFCS cant be so
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Rabbi Mark and Esther Bauman of
Teaneck were honored as parents Rabbi Arthur Weiner of the JCC of Rabbi Alberto (Baruch) Zeilicovich of Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn,
of the year at Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Paramus/Congregation Beth Tefillah. with his wife, Graciela, and children, Daniel and Ruth.
Raphael Hirsch. The school is in Wash-
ington Heights, in northern Manhat-
tan, the dinner was at the Teaneck
Marriott at Glenpointe, and the couple
and their 12 children all are alumni or
students of the school. Rabbi Bauman
is a Judaic studies teacher at the Rosen-
baum Yeshiva of North Jersey.
The school, also known as Breuers,
was named for its founder, Rabbi
Joseph Breuer, and is run according
to the philosophy of Rabbi Breuers
grandfather, Rabbi Samson Raphael
Hirsch.
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left, and Rabbi Lori
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ADL programs
for adults and teens
Joshua Cohen, Anti Defamation Leagues New Jersey
regional director, talks about the rise of anti-Semitism
around the world, in the U.S., and locally, for Ramapo Col-
lege of New Jerseys Gross Center for Holocaust and Geno-
cide Studies and the colleges Hillel, on Monday, March
20, at 1 p.m. The college is at 505 Ramapo Valley Road in
Richard and Phyllis Rosen Fran Gordon Mahwah. Call (201) 684-7409.
HaZamir gala honorary concert Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne offers a session of the ADLs
Words to Action program for all high school teens and
Joshua Cohen
Hundreds of teen singers from the the United States and Israel, in Hebrew their parents on Tuesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. The interactive program is designed to com-
United States and Israel will perform and English. It features the world pre- bat anti-Semitism and prejudice on college campuses and in our lives. The temple is at
on the stage of New Yorks Metropolitan miere of Fanfare for Jerusalem by 950 Preakness Ave. For information, call Rabbi Meeka Simerly at (973) 595-6565 or email
Opera House when HaZamir: the Inter- award-winning New York pianist and her at rabbimeekatbt@optonline.net.
national Jewish High School Choir, holds composer Randy Klein. His composition
its gala concert on Sunday, March 26, at is based on excerpts from the Psalms of
4 p.m. Conductors from 35 HaZamir David.
chapters are expected to be on stage, During the gala, the Zamir Choral
along with about 400 singers.
HaZamir, a project of the Zamir Cho-
Foundation will present the Kinor David
award, which honors people who have
The theologies of Bruce Springsteen
ral Foundation, is the only international made a meaningful contribution to Azzan Yadin-Israel, Rutgers University Jewish Studies pro-
organization dedicated to fostering Jew- HaZamir. Francine M. Gordon brought fessor and author of The Grace of God and the Grace of
ish identity across generational, denom- the HaZamir program to the Jewish Fed- Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen, discusses his
inational, and geographic lines through eration in Cleveland, creating the first book with Dr. William Storrar, director of the Center of
Jewish choral music. To perform at the HaZamir sister-city Partnership in Israel. Theological Inquiry in Princeton, on Thursday, March 23.
Met is a great honor. I know I speak for Phyllis and Richard Rosen helped create The 7 p.m. talk will be at the centers Luce Hall, 50 Stock-
all of the singers, musicians and con- and sustain the HaZamir Jerusalem chap- ton St. For more information, call (609) 924-8144, ext. 113.
ductors, when I say this is a day we will ter she is a Zamir Chorale Foundation
always treasure, said Matthew Lazar, board member, and both have sung in
the founder and director of the Zamir Zamir.
Choral Foundation. For more information on the gala, go
This years gala program includes tra- to www.hazamirgalaconcert.org. Azzan Yadin-Israel
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Cover Story
How to talk
about
Israel
iCan makes college-bound students more
comfortable with what they might find on campus
I
JOANNE PALMER Jews on college campuses, and
to have fun being together.
srael is a real place, with The conferences topic was
sidewalks and traffic lights broad, and that was on pur-
and lakes and streams and pose. Created from a grant
wild hills; with sunlight from the Russell Berrie Foun-
and weather and storm dation, with the mission to
sewers and beaches; with create something to educate
restaurants and museums and fac- kids about what theyll find on
tories and apartment buildings and campus, I saw it as the oppor-
nursing homes. tunity to take on issues of con-
It is also a place of huge symbolic cern to a broad range of people
meaning, ancient, haunting, sweet, in our community and bring
threatening. Ever-changing. them together, Lori Fein, the
For millennia, for Jews, it was a director of the federations
place fervently longed for. Then it Jewish Community Relations
became real, and almost all Jews Council, said.
looked toward it with reverence. So we brought in various
But things change. Now, Israel youth groups, day schools,
has become a divisive issue for religious schools, synagogues,
many people. Some, including and nonprofits that were oper-
much of the Jewish community, ating either with teens or in the
love the Jewish state, with a love Israel space, she said. The
based in reality. Others, both inside federations the organization
and outside the Jewish commu- in which all local Jewish groups
nity, do not. Some argue politics or can feel comfortable, because
specific policies, but others react From left, teen council members Briana Gotian, Elizabeth Maline, and Zachary Zimmer. its mission, at its core, is to
negatively, dismissively, or even strengthen the community by
hatefully. Some use their dislike of students? We already know that col- for them? becoming home to all of them.
Israel, whatever that dislike may spring lege students are facing a reality unlike On Sunday, March 5, the Jewish Federa- iCan, as a federation project, set as part of
from, as either a pathway to anti-Semitism the one their parents knew. What about tion of Northern New Jersey sponsored its mission its ability to provide a welcome
or a mask for it. their slightly younger peers? How can the what it hopes will be the first rather than to all local Jewish high school students as
Why thats happened is a long, sad story, local Jewish community support them, the only iCan conference; 218 high school they look toward college.
outside the scope of this one. But that its and send them out in the world open to students, mostly from the federations And how to talk about Israel? There
happened is a fact, a truth that must be new experiences and new ideas but able catchment area but also from Essex and was a sense that just addressing the nega-
navigated. to decide for themselves what to believe, Rockland counties, showed up to learn tives the Boycott Divestment and Sanc-
Where does that leave high school which beliefs to retain, and how to argue about Israel, to learn what to expect as tion movement that flourishes on some
In green, JFNNJs Elise Hirsch and Lori Fein stand on either side of the teen advisory task
force; comedian Jon Rudnitzky, who performed, is in the middle. Students look at materials at registration.
campuses, the mock apartheid walls and to give them a sense of whats out there, learn, they also were invaluable in con- community outreach and engagement,
faux border checks and eviction notices of the knowledge base they might want vincing their friends to show up for the who worked on the conference with Ms.
and other drastic tactics that kids may to access, even if we couldnt deliver all conference. Not only did they use their Fein, reported, the fire alarm went off,
encounter is misrepresenting what that information in the four or five hours already well-honed social-media skills because the cotton candy machine set it
Jewish life on campus is, Ms. Fein said. that we had. to that end, they also had the chance to off. But the kids just didnt want to leave.
We wanted to give students a fuller sense The conference was many months in the learn from a marketing professional who We told them they had to and eventually
of what they will face, and the support net- making, and it was put together in large worked with them. they did but they just didnt want to.
works that are available to them. part by the teens themselves. A teen advi- The conference included speakers, a That was nothing new, Ms. Fein added.
It came out that there was a lot of igno- sory task force met once a month; not only panel of college students, breakout ses- After the teen council meeting, which ran
rance about Israel, even among Jewish did its 18 members provide a great deal of sions, and a resource fair. At the end, from 7 to 9 in the evening, wed clean
teenagers, Ms. Fein said. So we wanted insight on what theyd want to discuss and Elisa Hirsch, the federations manager of up and go out and wed see them in the
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am trying to come into this landscape and create hip hop. theyve learned and of course first to anti-Semitism, although it did not get in
The type of language you use, the type of clothing learn. A message for students is that if the way of his friendship with Jacobson.
you wear, the attitude you convey Im trying to change you, as a student, as an interested party, When delegates of Jewish leaders came to
all that. go to your school or to your community see him, he said no. He was not interested.
Shahar Azani, the executive director of Stand With Uss to try to bring in someone important, The answer was no.
northeast office and before that the spokesman for Isra- something important, a speaker, a pro- He turned down a visit from Chaim
els consulate general in New York also spoke at iCan. gram, you have a better chance of get- Weizmann, the scientist who became Isra-
Spending that day in Hasbrouck Heights was a surpris- ting it than if a professional tries to do els first president. But then Harry Jacob-
ingly easy decision for him, although really it shouldnt it, Mr. Azani said. son, Harry Trumans old friend, came to
have been. Stand With Us was holding its annual anti-BDS I think that students have a real visit, and to plead, and according to some
conference that same weekend, he said. The conference thirst to know, to answer questions for accounts to confront his friends anti-Sem-
is very focused; professionals in the field of Israel educa- themselves. It is crucial. We want them itism for the first time.
tion come to brainstorm how to promote Israel. to ask questions; we need to be able to And then Truman said yes, and that was
So which is more important to study or to do? The answer the questions within the fam- a turning point, and soon Israel was born.
Stand With Us conference was so important but to stand ily before they go out to the campus, to Shahar Azani Obviously the story is a very complicated
before hundreds of students, in an actual educational set- the workplace, into general society. We one, but this is part of it.
ting that was even more important to me. Thats how want them to answer those questions honestly. When I shared that story, suddenly they realized that
excited I was about it. One of the students wanted to know why we should Israel wasnt a given, Mr. Azani said. It could have gone
Thats what we are trying to achieve. To bring these care about Israel, Mr. Azani said, so he told the story of the other way. When you understand where we are com-
students together to galvanize their thinking about Israel, President Harry S Truman and his old friend, Harry Jacob- ing from, you understand what we have, he added.
and not only them but the people surrounding them. son. The two men had met when Jacobson was 14 and I loved the meeting, Mr. Azani concluded. It echoed
Then we all can play a role in bridging the gap and the Truman was 20, found themselves in the same unit when our core mission, which is nurturing our leaders of tomor-
gap is ignorance about Israel. they both fought in World War I, and eventually went in row, fostering the younger generation, making sure that
Were not even talking about disagreements about pol- business together as co-owners of a haberdashery store in Israel and the Jewish community continue to have conti-
icy, because the ignorance about Israel is so deep, about Kansas City. (The store did well at first, and then it failed.) nuity, not only for the next few years but for the next few
what Israel is, about what it stands for. And we know that Truman did not want to recognize the state of Israel decades.
ignorance is the most dangerous thing of all, because it as World War II drew close to its bloody close. He was Donna Weintraub of Haworth, who sits on the federa-
allows lies to bloom and to flourish. annoyed at the effrontery of the Jews who tried to push tions board, was instrumental in putting together the
But individual people have the power to affect their it on him; as was not surprising (but still is dismaying) iCan conference. I saw a roomful of kids, public school
communities, to bring in speakers, to talk about what in a man of his time and place, he was not free from kids, private school kids, day school kids, Orthodox kids,
NIGHT
anything, the school reported, and the
administration assured students that the
culprit didnt go to Dwight-Englewood.
But then, right after the presidential
election, a student in the Young Repub-
lican Club sent out an email with a photo
AT T E M P L E B E T H S H O LO M of a flag and a swastika from the alter-
COMEDIENNE BEER, nate reality show The Man in the High
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
pus today, and how much happened at their school,
Jewish life there is, and theyd feel more alone,
how much there is to look she said. At my school, a
forward to. lot of people were speak-
We had a chance that ing up, and that was a good
day to write the next nar- feeling.
rative, about where we are I want to be part of the
going to be. Chloe Valdary Elizabeth Maline solution, so I am on the
was talking to them about council, she added.
the beauty of Judaism, Brianna Gotian of Wayne
and you just watched also is on the council. A
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1 P.M. MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1 P.M. these kids watching and junior at Wayne Hills High
Imagine A World Without Hate: An Epiphany in Lilacs: listening. She has a beau- School, she is just begin-
the Current State of International In the Aftermath of the Camps
tiful way of speaking, and ning the active part of the
and Local Anti-Semitism Iris Dorbian, Author
Joshua Cohen, New Jersey Regional Director, Fair Lawn, New Jersey it set a beautiful tone for college search process. A
Anti Defamation League In Cooperation with the Hillel of Ramapo College the rest of the day. One of lot of the universities that
In Cooperation with the Hillel of Ramapo College Commemorating Yom HaShoah my friends, who also was I have been looking at are
Ramapo College, Robert A. Scott Student Center (Holocaust Remembrance Day) volunteering that day, very large, she said. Often
(Alumni Lounges, SC157-58) Ramapo College, Robert A. Scott Student Center showed me her arm, and you may encounter stu-
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 7 P.M. (Alumni Lounges, SC157-58) said, Look. Shes giving dents there from the BDS
East West Street: Personal Origins of WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 9 A.M-3 P.M. me goose bumps. Brianna Gotian movement, and I just felt
Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Gumpert Teachers Workshop The conference didnt like Id be more comfort-
Philippe Sands, QC The Exploitation of Women in happen by accident, she added. The able and more ready to attend college
Matrix Chambers, Grays Inn, London Genocide: How to Bring a Delicate
federation is positioned to be the one having this information that could help
Professor of Law and Director of Subject into the Classroom
the Centre on International Courts and In cooperation with and supported by the N.J. thing that can bring the entire commu- me with BDSers.
Tribunals at University College London State Commission on Holocaust Education nity together. We live in a great place to She knows that it could be a problem
Ramapo College, Birch Mansion, The York Room Ramapo College, Trustees Pavilion be Jewish, and I have never been prouder because I recently have heard a lot
of my federation than I was last Sunday. about it on the news, and I have friends
For Information and to request
disability-related accommodations All Programs Free and Open Elizabeth Maline of Tenafly is a senior who have gone to schools where they
please contact: holgen@ramapo.edu
to the Public at the Dwight-Englewood School, a pri- have encountered problems like that.
or 201.684.7409
vate high school in Englewood. She She feels better armed to confront
heard about iCan from her mother, but anti-Israel accusations now because
SALAMENO SCHOOL she was impelled to join the teen task iCan gave us more understanding of
OF HUMANITIES force because of two incidents not whats going on than were hearing in
AND GLOBAL STUDIES major, she said, but still of anti-Semi- the news. It helped me a lot in creating
505 Ramapo Valley Rd Mahwah, NJ tism shed experienced at school. my own opinions rather than just being
The first was when someone no one influenced by what I was hearing.
knows who drew a swastika on the I learned what these anti-Israel move-
schools soccer field. It was backward, ments really stand for, and it helped me
More than 407,000 likes
and it just said Jews! and no one in my to know what I can do to not be afraid. It
Like us on Facebook school confessed to doing it, Elizabeth
said. The security cameras didnt show
put it into context for me, so I can under-
stand it better.
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Jewish World
NEWS ANALYSIS
critics from her support for the Boycott, to Palestine, the platform continues.
Sanctions, and Divestment movement (It is important to note that Palestine of 49 nations that dont criminalize mari- This week, Sarsour responded to a critic
that many Jewish groups see as nothing is mentioned twice in the brief platform; tal rape; not Pakistan, where just one- who asked why activists need to check
less than an effort to delegitimize and dis- no other country or people is specifically quarter of women are in the labor force; their Zionism at the door when signing on
mantle Israel. singled out as a cause to be embraced or a not Mali, where adult womens literacy is to a feminist platform.
A basic principal of coalition building target for activism not India or any one only 29 percent.) I identify as a Zionist because I support
Israels right to exist as a Jewish state, Emily Shire wrote in In her remarks, Sarsour also alleged that Palestinian-Amer-
the New York Times. I am happy to debate Middle East pol- ican women hesitate to get involved in social justice causes
itics or listen to critiques of Israeli policies. But why should because they fear becoming an immediate target of the right
criticism of Israel be key to feminism in 2017? wing and right-wing Zionists. Indeed, she has often been In the name of
Asked by The Nation to respond to Shire, Sarsour was accused of having ties to Hamas, on fairly wispy evidence.
unequivocal: If by Zionist you mean someone who doesnt But Sarsour also focuses on right-wing Zionists at the intersectionality, she is
accept the platforms singular focus on Israel, then no, you exclusion of all others. She doesnt leave room for Israelis willing to lose useful
can be a Zionist or a feminist, but you cant be both. who might share her social justice agenda, not only when it
It just doesnt make any sense for someone to say, Is comes to feminism but to Palestinian women as well. First allies who cannot sign
there room for people who support the state of Israel and she raises Palestine as literally the only global cause worth on to every plank
do not criticize it in the movement? There cant be in femi- mentioning. Then she offers a false choice between support-
nism, Sarsour said. You either stand up for the rights of ing Israel and feminism. of her platform.
all women, including Palestinians, or none. Theres just no Such thinking seems infectious. Writing about the Shire-
way around it. Sarsour debate in New York magazine, Eric Levitz explained, movement has no choice but to represent one woman,
Sarsour cant seem to imagine a movement in which To a Palestinian woman in the West Bank, no issue may and not the other.
activists might disagree on certain issues but can work appear more central to her liberation than the end of the Really? No choice? Because I can point to Israeli
together on others. In the name of intersectionality, she Israeli occupation. To a Zionist woman in Tel Aviv whose women who have lost family members in the Holo-
is willing to lose useful allies who cannot sign on to every family tree lost branches to Hitler and then to Hamas no caust and to terrorism, and who care deeply about
plank of her platform. issue may seem less relevant to her interests. The feminist womens and all peoples rights in both countries.
Like members of the Parents Circle, a group of Pal-
estinian and Israeli families who have lost relatives to
terror and violence but still work together on coexis-
tence. Or the Coalition of Women for Peace, an Israeli
feminist organization founded in 2000 following the
outbreak of the second intifada. The women who
belong are committed to ending the occupation and
creating a more just society, while enhancing womens
inclusion and participation in the public discourse,
according to its mission statement.
Or Women Wage Peace, who two years ago led a
protest march from northern Israel to Jerusalem to
demand that Israel restart the peace process with the
Palestinians. WWP describes itself as above the politi-
cal and religious divide, seeking to do something that
Sarsour insists doesnt make any sense: creating
allies among people who disagree.
Members of all three groups might happily sign on
to the Womens Strike platform or they might bris-
tle at how the platform aims to alienate Israelis and
their supporters by making Palestine its only specific
nationalist cause.
The Womens Strike platform is not just asking fol-
lowers to criticize Israel, but to do so in the terms
Sarsour and the BDS movement insist upon: Israel as
a colonialist and racist enterprise. Theres no men-
tion of peace, only of a de-colonization of a Pales-
tine whose borders are never specified because, it
seems, the BDS movement cannot bring itself to rec-
ognize Israels right to exist. There is no room in the
coalition for the Israeli left, right or center who
wants women on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian
divide to enjoy full rights, but who believes with good
reason that the platforms framing of the conflict is a
recipe for eternal violence.
According to the Womens Strike platform, We
celebrate the diversity of the many social groups that
have come together for the International Womens
Strike. We come from many political traditions but
are united around the following common principles.
Like the Black Lives Matter platform issued last
year, however, the Womens Strike version seems
engineered to specifically exclude one social group:
supporters of Israel who do not buy into a one-sided
condemnation of Israel, who believe it doesnt deserve
to be singled out among all the conflicts in which men
and women have been oppressed, marginalized or
exploited and who dont accept that the only solu-
tion worthy of discussion is the one that leaves no
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FROM PAGE 29 We wanted to focus on, yes, this is happening in our world, ancient Persia in the face of an enemys threat. This, Naditch
fifth-graders in several schools were told there was a but lets take a look at everyone trying to support us. told her sons, is sort of like a modern version of that story.
threat, they were safe, and little more. Middle school- As the wave of bomb threats rolled on, the Anti-Defama- He really wants to know why, Naditch said of one of her
ers and high schoolers, many of whom read the news tion League put out a list of 5 Tips for Talking with Children boys. Why would anybody want to hurt us just because
on their own, were given a fuller picture. about Bomb Threats at Jewish Community Centers. Like were Jewish? And its a hard thing to answer.
But every school has placed limits on its communi- Oakes, the ADL urged adults to focus on the helpers who Weve tried to connect it to Jewish history. I cant say to
cation. At MetroWest, Sokol asked students and par- supported the community after a threat. them everythings going to be fine. I cant say to them you
ents not to post about the threat on social media. At And some parents and teachers have tried to explain the dont have to worry because they do have to worry.
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day following a brief evacuation. At MetroWest, kids
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IMMIGRATION Devin Naars family in Salonika, Greece, in the early 1920s, before the family
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Ladino child being taught to speak Ladino.
FROM PAGE 30 Theres no community that uses
that heritage not only for personal and it daily. Its very challenging, to put it
family reasons but for political reasons, mildly, to actually pass on the language
Naar said. in the way that a person like me grew up
Ladino emerged following the expul- in, said Bortnick, who learned Ladino
sion of Jews from Spain in 1492, when as a child in her native Turkey.
the community dispersed throughout Naars interest in the language goes
the Ottoman Empire and came in con- back to his family history. He grew up
tact with local languages as well as dif- hearing his grandfather and older rela-
A PROVOCATIVE NEW PLAY WITH MUSIC ferent Iberian dialects. At its height, in
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But by the time he started college in
CELEBRATING JEWISH CULTURE language had about half a million speak-
ers, Naar estimated.
2001, he had learned only a few words:
greetings, curses, food-related words,
Estimates of Ladino speakers today and liturgical passages. Questions from
vary widely, from between 160,000 classmates about his last name, which
to 300,000 people who have some did not sound like the Ashkenazi Jew-
familiarity with the language to around ish names they were familiar with, moti-
50,000 to 100,000 speakers. Most of vated him to dig deeper into his heritage.
the population today is elderly, but He started studying Sephardi history
there is renewed interest in the lan- and asked his grandfather to teach him
guage in some universities in the United Ladino.
States and Israel, as well as among Sep- A year later, Naar was able to read let-
hardi Jews. ters detailing the fate of family members
Teaching Vidal Ladino has its chal- who had died in Auschwitz. The letters,
lenges. There is no complete English- written in Ladino by a family friend after
Ladino dictionary and most speakers World War II, had been tucked away in a
are elderly. Naar recently read Vidal a closet, and some of Naars family mem-
childrens book about a dinosaur with bers had been unaware of their exis-
slippery flippers and found himself at tence and the details they provided of
a loss for how to translate that expres- the deaths of family members.
sion into Ladino. He consulted a scholar The older generation, they couldnt
in Israel and a local Ladino speaker to believe it, Naar said. They hadnt
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Tapper it matter what I think if the person across from me thinks reality, it is much, much, much more messy and compli-
FROM PAGE 35 that theyre a Jew? Their identity is critical to them and has cated than that.
choosing to be Jewish or at least have the luxury to do everything to do with their meaning as a person. Ultimately Theory one day will meet practice, he realizes, especially
so in the 21st century in a process Hahn Tapper and I am not making institutional decisions, so I can be open- as a father raising two Jewish children. He and his wife,
sociologists call social identity performance, which minded about that stuff. Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper, the director of Jewish studies
depends on the behaviors and choices they present to Hahn Tapper knows that such open-mindedness can be and school rabbi at the Yavneh Day School in Los Gatos,
each other and the outside world. frustrating and even threatening to those who prefer strict Calif., have two children, 6 and 9.
Most of us cant trace ourselves back that many criteria for belonging. Just putting an S at the end of Juda- When my kids want to pair off thats when I would
generations, Hahn Tapper said. Theres a certain ism can be very disruptive for people because they do have have to answer, would I accept so and so as really Jewish?
acceptance that whatever were told by our parents some sort of concrete notion of what a Jew is, he said. In Hahn Tapper said. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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FROM PAGE 40 among Dutch Jews owes to fear rather than to his cre- itate the racist image of the party founded by her father,
financial sanctions. dentials within that community, according to Hayut, the Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has been convicted many times for
All in all, a good show for Dutch Prime Minister filmmaker. Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred against Jews. And
Mark Rutte, who wants to flex muscles ahead of the In France, too, the far-right National Front party under while she lacks Wilders pro-Israel and philo-Semitic creden-
election to avoid hemorrhaging votes to the far right, Marine Le Pen has made inroads into the Jewish commu- tials, her message resonates with some Jews who hope she
said Maurice Hayut, a Morocco-born Jewish-Israeli nity. In a poll from 2014 among 1,095 French Jews, her will shield their community from attacks by Muslims.
filmmaker who lives in Amsterdam. party enjoyed the support of 13.5 percent of respondents. When you are afraid, you look around to see who will
Also a great show for Erdogan, who is portraying She now is the leading candidate in polls before the first protect you, especially in a community scarred by the Holo-
himself at home as the champion of the Turkish and round of the presidential election next month, with approx- caust, Hayut said. And like the French Jewish community,
Muslim causes against the hostile West, added Hayut, imately 25 percent of all voters. the Dutch one is afraid of Muslims. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Islam lawmaker who was convicted last year of inciting
discrimination for promising, during a 2014 speech,
to make sure the Netherlands has fewer Moroccans.
Wilders party, which opposes the construction of
mosques and seeks to end immigration from Muslim
countries, is now the third largest in the Dutch parlia-
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advertisements. Thats where we are today with how
we portray older people.
The tragedy of ageist beliefs is that ageism is a prej-
udice against all of us, our future, and older selves.
Concealing or disavowing our age gives the number of
years we have been alive a power it does not deserve.
Ageist beliefs significantly strip us of our confidence
AT to be and do as we age. The truth is that chronological
age is an increasingly unreliable benchmark of pretty
much anything about a person. The sooner we stop
dreading growing older, the better equipped we will
be to benefit from countless ways in which we can
enrich ourselves.
Trust the team that knows your needs The Torah considers getting older a virtue and
a blessing. The Torah commands us to respect all
Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute has provided care to the seniors of elders simply because the many trials and experi-
ences that each additional year of life brings with
our community since 1921. Who better then to understand their specialized needs? Our
it wisdom and experience that the most accom-
experienced postacute care team uses the latest advances in therapies to provide the plished young person cannot equal. As we get older
highest quality care. Individualized care plans are designed for each patient. Whether we know this is true. Most of us would not want to
getting back on your feet after a fracture or recovering from surgery or a stroke, DMC has be 20 again. Most of us like who we have become
the most experienced staff to help seniors achieve the best results. because of age and experiences. This is in marked
contrast with how most of us speak and live our
lives. We consider 50 plus to be over the hill. We
The rehabilitation team at Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute make fun of ourselves and others, prescribing any-
is here to bring you the best in rehabilitation and subacute care. thing negative to age. We all look for younger peo-
ple to fill positions, reinforcing that young is better
Our interdisciplinary team of physicians, therapists, nurses than old.
Instead of being fearful of getting older, we should
and social workers can meet all of your rehabilitation needs.
change our thinking and all get into training for lon-
gevity. What we really want is to live life in a way that
We offer intense short-term rehabilitation for: ensures us the best overall health and wealth for the
hip and knee replacements long haul.
hip and knee fractures Be conscious of ageist views and dont allow them
amputations to hold you back. I recently have been pointing out
post stroke recovery ageist comments when they occur to my family,
friends, and acquaintances, and I should say I am
Our team can also provide you with not gaining in popularity. Many people believe the
medically complex services such as: stereotypes and argue that of course it is no fun to
cardiac rehabilitation get older and making jokes at the expense of older
comprehensive wound care people is funny.
enteral nutritional therapy The senior living industry is not immune from
extended IV therapy ageist thinking. Often when you visit a community,
nutritional diabetic counseling youll be asked your age before you are asked what
pain management your needs and wants are. Ageist compliments such
PICC line management as you are doing so well for your age are used all
post surgical stabilization the time. Accomplishments are labeled cute and
pulmonary rehabilitation sweet.
total parenteral nutrition (TPN) No matter what your biological age is, start bring-
orthopedic surgery care ing an awareness regarding the prejudice of ageism.
urology/ostomy care THERAPY IS PROVIDED/AVAILABLE Reflect on your own beliefs and join me in creating
UP TO 7 DAYS A WEEK dialogue that questions ageist views. Remember, we
all want to get older every year. This is a good thing.
Daughters of Contact us at
Miriam Center/
The Gallen Institute 973-253-5358 Robin Granat, LCSW, CALA, is executive director of Five
is a Glatt Kosher www.daughtersofmiriamcenter.org Star Premier Residences of Teaneck
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l fter a rigorous on-site review, Engle- excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest organization, the Joint Commission is the nations old-
e wood Hospital and Medical Center has quality and value. The Joint Commission accredits and est and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in
s earned the Joint Commissions Gold Seal certifies more than 21,000 health care organizations and health care. Learn more about the Joint Commission at
t of Approval for Spinal Fusion certification programs in the United States. An independent, nonprofit www.jointcommission.org.
for the third consecutive time since 2012. It is the only
hospital in New Jersey to receive a Gold Seal for spi-
nal fusion, a symbol of quality that reflects an organi-
zations commitment to providing safe and effective
- patient care.
. Englewood Hospital was also recertified with the
Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification for
. Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement and with the
Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification for John Goncalves, Jr., M.D.,
Primary Stroke Centers. Surgeon
y The Joint Commissions recertification of our hip/
knee, stroke, and spinal fusion programs is a strong Director of Cardiac Surgery
testament to our ongoing efforts to bring the safest, Surgical Director of
n highest quality, and most technologically advanced Transcatheter Aortic Valve
care to our community, said Warren Geller, president Replacement Program
and CEO of Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
We thank our doctors, nurses, and other staff for Leader in aortic valve surgery
- their tireless efforts to make us who we are and con-
Pioneer of innovative
gratulate them on this recognition of excellence by the
treatments
- Joint Commission.
At Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, the
spinal surgery team includes neurosurgeons and
orthopedic surgeons, as well as anesthesiologists,
d pain management specialists, registered nurses,
r physician assistants and advanced practice nurses,
e rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals
- dedicated to restoring patients to a state of optimal
- health and well-being.
r In addition to being the only hospital in New Jer-
sey to receive this Joint Commission certification
d in spinal fusion, Englewood Hospital and Medical
- Center is ranked No. 1 in the state and among the
t top 10 percent in the nation by CareChex/Quan-
e tros for both medical excellence and patient safety
in spinal fusion, and has been a 5-Star recipient
m for spinal fusion surgery for five years in a row by
t Healthgrades.
, Being the only New Jersey hospital certified by
the Joint Commission for spinal fusion is an honor
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At Arbor Terrace Teaneck, were doing away with all of the traditional In her role, Ms. OHerlihy is proud to support indi-
stereotypes of senior living. We offer a maintenance-free lifestyle viduals on their journey to a healthier life. Prior to
with numerous amenities and luxury services to fit your every need. surgery, patients are in pain, limited in their activities,
and feeling uncertain about the future. After their sur-
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gery and recovery, it is truly fulfilling to learn how they
and inspiring lifestyle. Kosher meals available.
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summer change into the golden hues of the date with our last breath is preor-
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it is all in our perspective! of seasons that will ultimately define the
When we hear of a person dying seasons of our lives.
in their late fifties or early sixties, a
seniors initial reaction is that they were Richard Portugal is the founder and
so young; so many years abandoned and owner of Fitness Senior Style, which
cut short; so much left to be done and exercises seniors for balance, strength,
now no time to perform. And yet when and cognitive fitness in their own
we celebrate our sixtieth birthday, we homes. He has been certified as a senior
feel old, the bulk of our lives behind, the trainer by the American Senior Fitness
age of slow decay ahead. It does seem to Association. For further information, call
be all in the perception. Do we focus on (201) 937-4722.
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mans disease. Research indicates that
heart disease is the number one killer
of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each
year, but can also present differently
than in men.
Heart specialists are encouraging
women to learn more about the miscon-
ceptions about heart disease and take
steps to reduce their risks. Dr. Sarah Kaplan
Many people dont realize that while
women certainly may experience the physical activity like a meeting or an
classic symptoms of a heart attack such appointment.Think of it like anything
as chest pain and heaviness, they also else you have to do during your day.
can encounter more subtle symptoms Choose activities you really like and
such as back or jaw pain, fatigue, short- want to do and youre more likely to
ness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and stick with it. Try also grabbing a friend
dizziness. As a result, women may not or family member for a walk around the
realize they are experiencing cardiac park to help keep each other motivated.
symptoms, says Dr. Sarah Kaplan, car- And dont forget that portion size and
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he Jewish Standard goes into pro- time itself even though its only been four negotiator for international affairs and In the mid 1990s, while I was serving
duction on Tuesday. By the time months since we went through the same mis- is currently in the Middle East begin- as rabbi at Oxford, the student presi-
you get your physical copy of this erable exercise in reverse. As if we can trick ning a new effort for peace between dent of our Oxford LChaim Society
newspaper, dear reader, Tues- time. As if time has anything to do with what Israel and its neighbors. Its the worlds was a young man from Miami Beach,
days storm will be just a distant, vaguely we decide to call it. toughest job. Jason has a skill set that where I had grown up, who was doing
embarrassing memory, but for us, right now, Its still winter. Yes, the crocuses are up. Yes, might just fit the requirements. a graduate degree in international
it is all too real. there is green fuzz on some trees, and yes, In my professional years I have met relations. Brilliant and eloquent, he
Or perhaps all too unreal. there are buds. But its still winter. For another few who walk with greater humil- became a force for our organization
We all are scrabbling away in our own week! But no! We have to spring ahead. ity. Jason is as far from being a grand- in fighting Israels battles in public
homes right now, using a sprawling network And then it gets bitterly cold, soul-chillingly stander as I have met. He wears the debates. But he also befriended lead-
of our own computers, hauled-home work cold, crocus-slaying cold. If rough winds do vast responsibilities placed upon ing Arab and Muslim students at the
computers, cobbled together slow networks, shake the darling buds of May, what, then, of him by the president without showi- university who respected him greatly
ebbing patience, and sheer disbelief to get the foolhardy buds of March? Gone! And then, ness or arrogance. He is patient to a because of his Jewish observance and
the paper out. with Daylight Savings Time making the early fault, an excellent listener, and utterly commitment. He would bring them
Storm of the century! Ten inches of snow an mornings dim, it snows! unflappable. every Friday night sons of ambas-
hour! A blizzard of epic proportions! Or, well, And then it doesnt snow! Or at least not as And in a region that respects peo- sadors of Arab states and scions of
not. Not so much. Not at all. much as it was predicted, and here we are, feel- ple of faith, Jason is an observant Jew important Muslim families to our
So heres the irony. First, we are told to turn ing foolish, with stockpiled reserves of food and
our clocks forward an hour on erev Purim, Pesach on its way. We plan, and God laughs? Shmuley Boteach is the author of 30 books, including his most recent, The Israel
of course, as if were masking or unmasking Maybe one last Purim jest after all? JP Warrior. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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ish tradition of family and community and by the
American values of liberty, democracy, and personal hat kind of America would we have if we
responsibility. allowed Speaker Paul Ryans Obamacare
The New York Times reported that Jason was cho- repeal plan to pass?
sen almost arbitrarily by candidate Trump to discuss According to the AARP, the Ryan plan
Israel and the Middle East when he was in the mid- to repeal Obamacare would increase healthcare costs for
dle of an interview with a Jewish newspaper. Such seniors dramatically. Seniors would pay more for their
nonsense belies the relationship that the president healthcare, while getting less.
- had with Jason for two decades when he watched his Standard and Poors says that between 6 and 10 million
attorney leave early on Friday to honor Gods day and American non-seniors would lose their health coverage
- saw in Jason a brilliant negotiator and honest broker entirely under the Ryan plan.
) who might just bring two opposing sides together. For Ryan, who has long advocated for the privatization of
? good measure, Jason has always related how absurd Social Security, now fights for an Obamacare repeal plan
the accusations against Trump as being insensitive to that also takes billions from Medicare. Among the many
Jewish concerns is, given how utterly accommodat- ways Ryan does this is by removing taxes on our wealthi-
- ing the real-estate mogul always was to his observant est that Obamacare used, for example, to close the donut
- Orthodox employees and their spiritual obligations, hole in the prescription drug program for seniors. Under Speaker Paul Ryan
like not working on the Sabbath and Jewish festivals Ryans plan, that hole in coverage for
and observing prayer times during the day. seniors prescription drugs comes back. provide for its poorest, most vulnerable citi-
Now, Donald Trump is president of the United The speakers plan also eliminates the zens, and how much should be taken from
States and he has said that peace in the Middle East Obamacare expansion of Medicaid to 14 mil- the rich and powerful to do it?
is among his highest priorities. He has chosen well lion of our poorest citizens. That includes Under Ryans plan, Americas richest one
with Jason Greenblatt as his chief negotiator and money used to treat the drug addicted, the percent get a $600 billion tax break over 10
David Friedman as his ambassador to Israel. Both mentally ill, and the working poor. years. The other 99 percent share less than 1
. men have the confidence of the President, are skilled It also ends Medicaids guaranteed cover- percent of that amount.
negotiators, and have the absolute trust of the pro- age for those lucky enough to keep it. The Republican economic historian Bruce
- Israel community and in the United States, a group In his first address to a joint session of Con- Bartlett, who served in both the Ronald Rea-
, whose support is vital to American initiatives that gress, and during his presidential campaign, Steven R. gan and George W. Bush administrations,
pertain to the Jewish state. Both have shown, as Donald Trump said that he would not cut Rothman says that the Ryan Republicans are not only
proud Americans, a vital commitment to Americas Medicare or Medicaid, that he would only rejecting the merit of a social safety net, but
f most important ally, Israel. And both live by the Jew- repeal and replace Obamacare if it would of any kind of social insurance at all: [They]
y ish biblical values of seeing all of Gods children provide cheaper coverage to all Americans, and that he argue that redistribution is inherently immoral without
Jew, Arab, Christian, Hindu, atheist, and agnostic would expand the treatment of opioid addiction. acknowledging that the very nature of insurance is per se
as equals, endowed with a spark of the divine that We willlower the cost of health insurance, President redistributive. Youre taking money from people whose
- lends them infinite dignity and value. Trump said. houses dont burn down to give it to the people whose
y There is one more thing about Jason that has The Ryan plan that President Trump presently endorses houses do burn down.
, always impressed me. He has absolutely not a vindic- reneges on each and every one of those promises. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare
tive bone in his body. When he came to our annual Firstly, it doesnt lower the cost of healthcare insur- operate under this social insurance model. They are man-
l Champions of Jewish Values International Awards ance. That is one of the reasons why the very conservative datory programs requiring all to participate, in one form
Gala last year at the Marriott Marquis in New York Republican House Freedom Caucus opposes Ryans plan. or another. These programs help achieve the dream of
City (this years gala on 21 May at Cipriani in New Just ask its chairman, Mark Meadows (R-NC), who admit- our nations founders and our Constitutions framers, who
York City honors the memory of Elie Wiesel and fea- ted to Fox News on March 7 that if Ryans plan passes, sought, among several other righteous goals for our gov-
- tures President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Martin healthcare insurance premium prices go up. ernment, to promote the general Welfare.
Luther King III), not all ran to greet him, seeing as Just ask the AARP, the Joint Policy Center, the Ameri- In 2009 and 2010, the Republicans in Congress
y he had not yet attained the high office in which he can Medical Association, the American Hospital Associa- insisted that the Democrats take their time in crafting
is now installed. The picture of Jason at the gala has tion, the American Nurses Association, and many others Obamacare. There were 12 months of debate, input from
now gone viral. Its the one being used by the New that should know about caring for seniors and Ameri- Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, hundreds
- York Times. I have seen some of those same people cans who need healthcare. They all vehemently oppose of witnesses before the bill-writing committees, and
f now eager to make his acquaintance. He has treated the Ryan plan. thousands of town hall meetings before the Congress
r all with respect, cordiality, and warmth, reminding Speaking of Ryan bills extremely damaging effect on passed and the president signed the Affordable Health
me that for all his brilliance what truly makes Jason Americas social safety net, Nancy Altman, the director of Care Act. The first vote on the House bill did not even
special is that he has earned what we Jews regard as Social Security Works, said: While Donald Trump and his occur until seven months after the House committees of
the highest accolade: he is a mensch. fellow Republicans campaigned on undoing the Afford- jurisdiction began discussion of the bill.
able Care Act, no one ran on undermining Medicare or Ryan and his House Republicans first presented their
Medicaid. No one ran on undermining the health security plan on March 6, 2017. As of this writing, their committees
of seniors. But the so-called repeal and replacement of the of jurisdiction have heard from no witnesses, and have yet
ACA would do just that. to receive a price tag from Ryan or anyone else.
Should Ryan and his Republican cohorts succeed in They have threatened to vote on it within four weeks.
The opinions expressed in this section are those their harsh and cruel efforts, America would be a colder, When Obamacare was being crafted, Republicans
of the authors, not necessarily those of the more difficult country. That is a reality that most Ameri- insisted on process, precedent, and prudence. Now they
newspapers editors, publishers, or other staffers. cans would not want. say we should just trust them and President Trump.
We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post correctly You remember President Trump. Hes the presidential
jstandardletters@gmail.com describes the core of this debate as a bedrock philosoph- candidate and president who said that he would have
ical and ideological question that has always been in the health care for everyone, that he would never cut
background of any argument about the governments role Medicare or Medicaid.
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torms a-comin, Jon warns day long, percolating murkily beneath my holding their breath, hunker- vanilla. Only green bananas
me, in his best Southern other thoughts as I drive Son #3 and his ing down, waiting. remain on the banana dis-
accent. The way he says it Purim costume to school, loop around and On a Monday night, our play. All over the store,
makes me think of Doro- drive to Party City to buy balloons to com- local Stop and Shop should shelves are emptied, picked
thy and Toto, and the twister that roars plete Son #2s costume, then loop around be deserted. Theres barely through, in sloppy disarray.
through her farmhouse in Kansas and again to deliver them to his school, where anyone there at the busiest Its like people are preparing
drops her in Oz. he is waiting for them. of times. But not tonight. for war.
A blizzard is barreling toward us. Win- In the afternoon, I drive to the Farmers The parking lot is packed As for the potatoes I came
ter Storm Stella will blow into Teaneck in Market. I feel an inexplicable urge to buy and buzzing. I hardly rec- for, theres nothing but bare
a few hours, and I dont know what kind potatoes. Right away, I notice it is busy. To ognize the place. Cars idle Helen crates. If I want to buy a five
of world we will wake up to tomorrow. Do my astonishment, I realize that the check- near the sliding doors. More Maryles pound bag of squishy, ludi-
we have enough heating oil to get through out line snakes all the way to the back of cars prowl through the lot, Shankman crously expensive organic
the next few days? Will it be the kind of the store. I walk out without buying any- pouncing on parking spaces spuds, there still are a couple
storm where cold air whistles in through thing. I tell myself I will go later, after the close to the entrance. Inside, available.
the air conditioner units and loose window boys come home from school. its a madhouse. Frantic shoppers rocket Fear rises into my throat. My heart
frames, making us shiver no matter how But first I have to teach, then I have their carts through the aisles, or stand pounds. Beads of sweat break out on my
high the thermostat is turned up? Will we to pick up Son #3 and his costume from impatiently in long lines to check out. brow. I fight the urge to drive to three
lose electricity and heat, wi-fi and cable? school, and then I have to make dinner. Panic crackles in the air. Passing through more stores, ten more stores, desperately
What about our pipes? Will they freeze? One thing leads to another, and suddenly, the water aisle, I halt, astonished. The seeking potatoes.
When is the next time the garbage men the sun goes down, its already night time, water aisle is stripped clean. Its a strange I tell myself that the storm will likely be
will be able to get to our cans? When is the the storm is coming, and I worry we wont sight. Curious now, I walk down other over by tomorrow night. I tell myself that
next time Ill be able to get the recycling be able to get out of the house until Fri- aisles to see what else is gone the streets will be plowed. I tell myself that
to the curb? day. I convince Jon that we need a trip to Boxed oatmeal has been ravaged. So has I will likely be back in a grocery store by
I fret further. Will the grocery stores the grocery store. We fire up the minivan breakfast cereal. Milk. Bread. Bags of let- Wednesday afternoon. I tell myself that I
lose power? The gas stations? The storm and trek to the store. The streets are eerily tuce. Its slim pickings on the canned food have Amazon Prime. I tell myself that it
weighs heavy on my mind. Ive felt it all quiet. Its like the trees and houses are shelves. The lone La Yogurt flavor left is was just Purim, and that every counter and
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he purely righteous do not I moved to the United States
complain of the dark, but and I became a citizen because
increase the light; they do I believe in the principles of this
not complain of evil, but country.
increase justice; they do not complain I moved to America because
of heresy, but increase faith; they do not it was the only place that could
complain of ignorance, but increase wis- accept me and let me do my pro-
dom Rabbi Abraham Kook. fessional work without reference
This was my first Purim celebration with to my religion, beliefs, and sexual
my community, Bnai Jacob, in Jersey City. orientation. It was the country that
It was a celebration with costumes, hap- saved my future.
piness, food, and drinks. A time to remem- I learned the history of our fore-
ber the story from the book of Esther, fathers and of the United States
when Haman, the minister of the Persian Constitution. It amazes me that
empire, persuaded the king the principles of equal-
to issue a decree to annihi- ity, liberty, respect, A little boy, Rabbi Katz, and Gloria Langer, all in costume, celebrated Purim at Bnai
late all Jews, young and old, and freedom were a Jacob in Jersey City. (Ms. Langer is among the shuls founders.)
men, women, and children, fundamental pillar to
all on one day. them. As a Jew, it amazes me Personally, I dont see how we as rabbis, No human race is superior, no religious
In the last few months, to see that these principles are leaders of communities, can be quiet or pas- faith is inferior. All collective judgments
we have seen a rise in anti- exactly the same ones that our sive. It is not a question about the political are wrong. Only racists make them Elie
Semitism in our country. religion is based on. party we belong to. It is a question of values Wiesel.
It reminds me of my Now, though, we are wit- of Jewish values. We cant fight anti-Semitism alone! The
childhood. I grew up in nessing the birth of a new My rabbi taught me that our voices must victim cannot cure the crime. We expect
Argentina. There, it was Rabbi politics, a politics of fear and be heard when our values are threatened. and demand that the government of the
common for people to be Aaron Katz anger. It is very dangerous. Our communities must be places where United States will do everything to combat
judgmental and disrespect- Anger is a mood, not a strat- each of us will know were not alone. this noxious weed.
ful of peoples differences. egy. It can only make things The only sane response to anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is an assault not only on
Anti-Semitism was a fact of life. The gov- worse. It cannot make anything better. is to monitor it, to fight it but never to let Jews, but on the human condition. Lets
ernment was quiet at best; sometimes it Fear and anger never solve problems. it affect our idea of who we are. remember the past to build our future.
took an active part of this discrimination. They merely inflame. They are the start Pride is always a healthier response than Thanks to Mordechai, and to the courage
William Howard Taft said, Anti-Semi- of a demand for authoritarian leadership, shame. of Esther, the decree was not carried out.
tism is a noxious weed that should be cut and that is the beginning of the end of the I see how important the Jewish federa- Purim teaches us that we defeat fear by joy,
out. It has no place in America. free society. tion is, particularly in these days. It is an and that we conquer terror by collective cel-
Albert Einstein said, Those who believe umbrella to all the Jewish communities. ebration. With our happiness, we deny our
Aaron Katz is the rabbi of Congregation Bnai that politics and religion do not mix, We need the voice of our leaders in every enemies a victory.
Jacob in Jersey City. understand neither. aspect of our lives. To be a Jew is to refuse to be terrified!
tabletop is covered with shalach manot me to something, and then had to reverse
bags stuffed with candy, cookies, and myself and say, Im sorry, I wasnt think-
hamentaschen. I have gas in the car, and ing. Im in avel.
a case of Poland Spring sitting in my base- In April, my year of mourning will be
ment. So why am I giving in to panic? Is it over. Im already grieving, just thinking
instinct, this need to fill the pantry before about it. Each time Im prohibited from
snow comes? Or are my parents speaking doing something fun, my loss is fresh
to me from somewhere far away? all over again. The year of avel is my last
My dad passed away last April. Its been active connection with him. I know I will
almost a year, but I still expect his phone miss it when its gone.
calls at 9:30 at night, or a few minutes But right now, I can hear his voice in my
before Shabbat. And now, the night before head, instructing me to get potatoes, and
a big storm, he would have been watching I smile. I dont really need potatoes. I can
the news, knowing the snow was heading go home and watch the news. The house
our way. Do you have food in the house? is warm, theres food in the refrigerator,
he would have asked urgently. Do you more in the freezer, and its almost spring.
have milk? Bread? Potatoes? Good night, Dad, I think. Were okay. But
The official emergency lists suggest bat- thanks for reminding me.
teries and water for three days. My dad
would have laughed at that. You dont Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is
need to buy water. I have news for you. an artist and writer. Her work appears in
Snow is made of water. But you need pota- many fine journals, including The Kenyon
toes. As long as you have potatoes, you avel. During the year of mourning, Im not I cant wear new clothes. I dont listen to Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and
have something to eat. allowed to go to parties, to celebrations, or music. I can easily think of five times in Cream City Review. Scribner recently
Its funny, the things that remind me of to events with live performances. No wed- the past few months where I automati- published her second novel, In The Land
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To be a Jew in Cuba
Stories of valor, resilience, and hope
We want to see Cuba before it changes. According to the Torah, we are a stiff- memory at all. There were people ranging in age from 16
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necked, stubborn people. When it comes some old Jews who had some to their twenties. At the end
hat phrase suddenly has made to Cuban Jewry this is a compliment, not Jewish knowledge, and who a choir of about 50 young
Cuba a tourist Mecca. If Raul a criticism. We can look down on what could not or did not want to people led us in Adon Olam.
Castro sticks to his word and is left of Cuban Jewry and deny they are leave Cuba but that meant You could tell that this
leaves the presidency of Cuba even Jewish, if traditional Jewish law is the Judaism would die out as cadre was tight, deeply
in 2018, what Cuba will become is any- determining factor. We can blame them soon as they did. bound to each other. They
ones guess. So, before whatever the for a sky-high 90 percent intermarriage Enter the American were very clearly Jewish in
future brings, everyone wants to see the rate, if we choose. We can deny they have Jewish Joint Distribution their identity and knowledge-
colorful antique cars that have been ren- a future because of their numbers. Committee. Rabbi able about Jewish history
ovated countless times since the United We who went to visit them, however, The JDC came to Cuba and Dr. Michael and religious observance,
States embargo. They want to see the came away humbled and moved by Cuban took on not only the physi- Chernick and they are dedicated to
crumbling, colorfully painted facades of Jewrys stiff-necked unwillingness to give cal support of the remnants Israel, which they visit on
what an observer can tell was stunning up their heritage, their identity, and their of the Cuban Jewish commu- Birthright.
Old and New Havana, a city meant to faith in the face of all the discouraging nity, but also undertook the creation of a But were they Jewish?
house 600,000 people but is now home facts and figures that surround them. religious school led by teachers from the Adela told us that once the JDC reor-
to two million. As odd as it may sound to us in flush- Conservative Seminario Rabbinico Latino- ganized the Cuban Jewish community, a
My wife, Miriam, and I went to see the with-Judaism Bergen County, Cuban Jews americano in Argentina. The Joint refur- rabbi from Chile visited regularly. Through
Jews and the amazing array of arts that are far more heroic than we are. One thou- bished the crumbling El Patronato Ash- him, those who identified as Jews, but
Cubas government supports, despite its sand two hundred in number, the effort kenazi synagogue. The synagogue soon whose mothers were not Jewish, could
being bankrupt. that they expend to remain Jewish and sus- turned into the offices of the Havana and convert formally to Judaism if they chose.
The trip to Cuba we went on actu- tain Jewish life and organizations makes national Cuban Jewish community. Adela At present, 60 percent of the Cuban Jewish
ally was a mission to the Jews of Cuba, us privileged American Jews many of Dworin is the yiddishe mama Jewish community who were born to non-Jewish
sponsored by the Museum of the Jewish us who get our Judaism on a silver platter community president; she has the best mothers have converted to Judaism, and
Heritage in New York. We chose this trip and others of us who dont bother to take fundraising (read: schnorring) skills Ive many who identify as Jews see this as the
because it offered far more than sightsee- whats on that platter look like midgets ever experienced. She pointed out that final step in the full reclamation of their
ing and a passing engagement with Cuban compared to these giants of Jewish loyalty. young Cuban Jews know much more than Jewish identity. Imagine what it takes for
Jews. The trip was accompanied by schol- What do these Cuban Jews actually do their parents about Judaism. Come to an 18-year-old man to be circumcised in
ars of the Jewish Cuban communitys past that leads me not only to praise them but services erev Shabbat, and youll see, she order to fulfill one of the aspects of the
and present, and specialists in the indig- to revere them? said. Its our youth who know how to lead conversion process!
enous Cuban music and visual arts. Differ- When the 1991 constitutional changes them. So we went. There also were men who had not
ent representatives of the Cubans we met, that allowed for serious religious freedom El Patronato was filled with about 200 been circumcised during the time before
whether Jewish or not, had one thing to in Cuba were issued, only a decimated people. Yes, some were Jewish tourists religious freedom was restored. Adela
say about the relationship between non- Jewish community remained. The greater who had El Patronato on their must-see described a mass brit milah event, where
Jewish Cubans and Jewish Cubans: there part of the Jewish community had fled; the list, but there were many Cuban Jews boys and men, ranging from toddlers to
is no anti-Semitism in Cuba. And its true. Jews who stayed had virtually no Jewish there as well, and the service was led by 60 year olds, underwent ritual circumci-
sion with the help of several Argentinian
mohalim. Unbelievably, after the surgery,
and I assume before the anesthetic wore
off, the older participants in this ritual
formed a circle and danced, singing Am
Yisrael Chai.
Soon after the El Patronato was turned
back into a synagogue, the school, com-
munity center, and offices of the Cuban
Jewish community, El Centro Sefardi, the
Sephardic synagogue, were repaired. That
community, descendants of Turkish and
Syrian Jews, soon created a senior center
and Holocaust memorial and museum. On
Shabbat morning several shomer Shabbat
members of the mission went there. It
should be noted that out of the five syna-
gogues that existed in Havana, only three
continue to operate: El Patronato (Ash-
kenazi, Conservative), El Centro Sefardi
(Sephardi, Conservative), and Adath Israel
(Ashkenazi, Orthodox).
El Centros service is interesting, to say
the least. What the Sephardim remember
of their forebears chants and melodies
they sing as they once did. As is typical
among Sephardic Jews, the entire ser-
vice is recited out loud. When, however,
no one remembers how a section of the
service used to be sung, they use pres-
Adela Dworin is the yiddishe mama of the Cuban Jewish community. JOSH TAPPERW ent-day Israeli or Ashkenazi melodies
El Patronato is Cubas largest synagogue, with a 300-seat sanctuary, social hall, library, pharmacy and Sunday school. JOSH TAPPER
instead. Actually, many people who older, knowledgeable Jew, is rabbi, we work for. Today. people to celebrate the event. Since the
attend Shabbat services, and the com- teacher, and arranger of all Jewish special On Santa Claras Communidad Hatik- early 90s Rebecca has worked to bring
munal dinners and lunches that fol- events. His son has made aliyah because vahs roof is a lovely mural of Jerusa- Jewish practice back to Cienfuegos. David
low them, attend both El Patronato and he wanted to marry a Jewish woman, lem, done in a somewhat Cuban style. and Danny are bnei mitzvah and have
Centro Sefardi at various times, because and there were not too many choices When David Tacher showed it to us, our visited Israel. David also went on March
Havanas Jewish community sees itself as left in Santa Clara, or in Cuba in general. group was so moved by the whole expe- of the Living and has won prizes for Cuba
a single community. Ashkenazi and Sep- Tachers son still lives in Israel, and his rience we had with him that we sponta- in the Israeli Maccabiah. He is a photog-
hardi refer to origins. A Jew in Cuba is father visits him regularly. neously and appropriately began to sing rapher, and of course, we bought his art.
anyone who identifies with the commu- When we were with Adela and repre- Hatikvah. In Cienfuegos the community prays
nity and has Jewish ancestors, and they sentatives of Centro Sefardi, it was clear He joined in. And why not? He is hope and shares Shabbat meals, and holds on
all have learned to support one another. to us that they needed money and medi- personified. to its Jewish life like the caper bushes
(I wish we could say the same for Ameri- cal supplies to support the services that Moving deeper into Cuba, we visited hold onto the stones of the Kotel.
can Jewry.) they were offering the Jewish commu- the Cienfuegos Jewish communitys This travelogue could go on, but it
For all that Havanas Jews were amaz- nity in Havana and throughout Cuba, leader, Rebeca Langus, the daughter of could not add to the praise and admira-
ing in terms of their services to the aged, and we gave. a Sephardi family. Rebeca has made her tion my fellow travelers and I feel for the
to the education of the young and old, We asked David Tacher what his com- living room into a room of living Judaism Cuban Jews we met. Having met them,
and to the sense of organized community munity needed, obviously meaning for the fivethats right, fiveCienfuegos my greatest hope for American Jews is
they have created, nothing compares to financially. He replied, Today a group Jewish families. They hold services that we should merit to be as dedicated
the valor of David Tacher, the head of the like yours comes, and tomorrow another weekly and on the yamim tovim, without and determined as they are in keeping
Santa Clara Jewish community. group will come. That is what we need. benefit of a rabbi or even a sefer Torah. the flame of our Jewish identity alive.
Singlehandedly, Tacher holds his To know that Jews are thinking about us But there is a library of Jewish books in
tiny community of 22 Jewish families just as we think about them. To know we Spanish, a variety of siddurim, and the Professor Michael Chernick of Teaneck
together. Tacher saw to reorganizing Jew- are not alone. We do not need your pres- necessary Jewish artifacts for observing holds the Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish
ish life for the Santa Clara Jewish families ents; we need your presence. the special days in the Jewish calendar. Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the
he knew, once religious freedom became When we asked him to speculate about We spent an hour with her and her son, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
a reality. Together they built a small syna- the future of a community of 22 families, David. Her other son, Danny, now 16, was Religion in New York; his area of expertise
gogue, bet midrash and library, and com- he responded, We do not think about in school. Danny had his bar mitzvah cel- is the Talmud. He received his doctorate
munity center. Soon, other Jews started the past here, nor do we think about the ebration in Santa Clara because the Lan- from the Bernard Revel Graduate School
to surface. Services are held every Shab- future. We think about what we can do to gus family felt that a bar mitzvah should and rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi
bat and yom tov, and Tacher, who is an preserve our heritage today. That is what include a real Torah and more than 18 Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
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ith Passover on the hori- many families have hired workers who Enforcement Agency, and time to get out the extra pair
zon, many Jewish families lack employment authorization because state and local police depart- of rubber gloves to do your
elect to spend their time of their immigration status. Not knowing ments. Since the inaugura- own dishes, employ local
away from home. this status can have serious consequences tion of President Trump, legal help if you can find it,
These Pesach vacations add travel to a for both the worker and for your family. major media outlets have or hire your friends high
holiday already imbued with many chores To be clear: it is illegal to employ any- reported several instances school-age daughter to baby-
getting to be machmir often can require one without valid immigration status. All where immigration officials sit at night.
hours of labor. With the added cleaning, employers even of household workers have verified domestic pas- I strongly support the con-
travel, food preparation, and family com- must complete a Form I-9 to verify the sengers immigration status. tributions immigrants con-
mitments, some will rely even more on employees immigration status. Failure Recently, an Indian diplo- Michael J. tinue to make to our coun-
their trusted housekeepers and/or domes- to comply with the I-9 rules can result in mat, Devyani Khobragade, Wildes try, but until our system of
tic workers, even bringing them along for substantial civil fines or criminal charges was accused of committing immigration is reformed it
the vacation. But before you buy his or for recruiting, employing, and harboring visa fraud and providing is important to stay on the
her flight to Florida, however, its critical illegal aliens. Your need for a clean house false statements in order to gain entry to right side of the law. If you do happen
to know the workers immigration status. during Pesach certainly will not be a via- the United States for her domestic worker. to employ an undocumented nanny or
With a new presidential administration ble defense to a charge of knowingly trans- Our nation was built on the backs of housekeeper, he or she certainly should
now in charge, even domestic travel may porting an illegal alien across state lines immigrants; many Jewish Standard read- not be part of your out-of-state Pesach
buy her a one-way ticket back to her home by plane or other conveyance, and your ers are the children and grandchildren vacation. Try to remember, when you
country. beloved worker will be subject to deporta- of people who came to this country with hear of a congressional debate about an
To be sure, domestic workers play an tion proceedings. little more than the clothing they wore. It anticipated act that will fix our broken
integral role in many Jewish families. They Your workers risk of deportation is was their hard work that laid the founda- immigration system, to participate in
perform child care, household tasks, and/ increased substantially if he or she trav- tion for our families secure futures. At convincing your congressperson of the
or upkeep of a home or surrounding yard els, even domestically. Whenever anyone the same time, our nation is growing, and need to enable sponsorship of foreign
on a regular basis in return for wages or travels, whether by air or on ground, the the threat of terrorism and illegal entry domestic workers who are so needed
other benefits. Many are entrusted with Transportation Security Administration into the country is also expanding. As a here. Lets hope that by next Pesach you
the most important people in our lives is present to oversee operations. Nan- result, increasingly strict laws have been will be able to include your household
our children and even more are trusted nies, housekeepers, and other undocu- put into place to protect our nations bor- help in your plans for the holiday.
with our very homes and our prized mented people should be wary as they ders and our economy. This article is based on information
belongings. Given deep-seated reliance, pass through airports, bus terminals, train Your nanny or housekeeper, though available as of its publication and is not
families may treat home workers as mem- stations, or other crowded areas where an integral contributor to your family, is intended to be all-inclusive or to fur-
bers of our extended family. authorities may require documentation. not afforded the same freedom of travel nish advice in a particular case. We are
Despite families affinity and indeed love In addition to the TSA checking identi- as a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resi- not responsible for any changes in regu-
for their domestic workers, the reality is fication, there are many other agencies dent, or a noncitizen with work autho- lations that may occur subsequent to
that those workers often lack immigra- charged with seeking out unauthorized rization. Homeland Security and other publication.
tion status. Many of my clients are unfa- noncitizens, including Customs and Bor- federal agencies are looking for illegal
miliar with employment authorization der Protection, the U.S. Coast Guard, aliens on commercial airliners and pri- Michael J. Wildes of Engelwood, a former
rules or presume that they apply only to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce- vate planes, on trains or buses, particu- city mayor, is the managing partner of
corporations. Regardless of the reasons, ment, the U.S. Secret Service, the Drug larly in light of recent events. It may be Wildes and Weinberg, P.C.
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he prospect of all-out
conflict between the
United States and
the North Korean
regime has loomed large over
the last fortnight, as a conse-
quence of the latest round of
provocations from Pyongyang.
Its always a competition
between the worlds rogue Ben Cohen
states as to which one of them
can pose the greatest threat to
global peace and order at any given moment. Since 2011,
the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, backed by Russian
and Iranian military power in the air and on the ground,
has wreaked havoc in the Middle East, annihilating
around 500,000 people and transforming millions more
into an endless column of refugees streaming across the
countrys borders. Iran, Assads lifeline, is itself a persis-
tent and urgent threat, temporarily held in check by the
flimsy nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administra-
tion, which at its most generous interpretation allows the
conditions for Tehran to weaponize its nuclear program
within a decade.
But it is outside the Middle East, on the Korean pen-
insula, that the most present threat to the United States
and its regional allies manifests. How we deal now with
an angry, nuclear-enabled North Korean regime, and
whether we can avoid a perilous confrontation with it,
will be decisive when it comes to facing similar flashes of
belligerence from Tehran or Damascus.
It was the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-
brother of Kim Jong Un, at Kuala Lumpur Airport on Feb- On this satellite image, South Korea (bottom) sparkles brightly, North Korea (center) is shrouded in pitch black
ruary 13 that set off this new series of tensions with North darkness. The small glimmer is around Pyongyang, the capital, where the officials of the ruling party live. NASA
Korea. The manner of the elder Kims deathsprayed with
a VX nerve agent by two women who appear to have been The best visual illustration of the nature of Kims regime children, while children know that the state can seize
unwittingly recruited by North Korean agentswas an act can be found in a satellite image of the Korean peninsula them from their parents at any time, for any reason.
of pure terrorism, and one more piece of evidence that at night. South Korea sparkles brightly, while North Korea There are other features that North Korea shares with
North Koreas dictator, like his father and grandfather is shrouded in pitch black darknesssave for a small glim- similarly blood-drenched regimes. For all its talk of social-
before him, has only contempt for the sovereignty of for- mer around Pyongyang, the capital, where the officials of ism, North Korea functions like an unopposed hereditary
eign countries. Nothing has changed on that score: The the ruling party are quartered, and which is spared, rela- monarchy, much as Iraq did under Saddam Hussein, and
North Korea that carried out kidnappings in Japan in the tively speaking, from the famine and electricity shortages as Syria has done under Hafez and Bashar al-Assad. Like
1970s is the same North Korea carrying out assassinations that prevail in the rest of the country. those countries, North Korea has pursued weapons of mass
in Malaysia decades later. To look upon that image is to be reminded that North destruction on the biological and nuclear frontsonly with
The grisly murder in Kuala Lumpur quickly was followed Korea isnt a normal country so much as it is a concen- the success that eluded Saddam and the Assads, and for
by the launch of four ballistic missiles, three of which landed tration camp with a seat at the U.N. Indeed, large tracts which Iran eagerly awaits.
in Japans exclusive economic area 200 miles from its coast- of the country to the north of Pyongyang are given over The old policy on North Korea, which involved alternately
line. Fifty-four thousand American troops remain stationed to North Koreas very own gulag system. They are penal dangling tempting rewards in front of the Kims and then
in Japanone of several reasons why Kim is aggressively colonies where up to 150,000 people are incarcerated, hitting the regime with tough sanctions, has failed to slow
baiting his neighbor across the sea. and are subjected to forced labor, starvation rations, North Koreas military development. The songun doctrine
As the crisis has escalated, China, which supposedly harsh beatings, rape, torture, exposure to extreme suggests that Kim Jong Uns sacred duty now is to accelerate
wields the greatest outside influence on the North Kore- weather, disease, and repulsive acts of sadism by guards that process even further. As Korea analyst Robert E. McCoy
ans, has been powerless to rein in Kim Jong Un. Bei- who just as easily could have served in the death camps explains, The ultimate goal remains one Korea ruled by the
jings proposal that North Korea end its missile tests in of the Nazis. Kim dynasty. What remains unknown is how and when Kim
exchange for the cancellation of joint American-South As is always the case with totalitarian states, there is Jong Un would attempt to achieve that.
Korean military exercises fell flat, with the U.S. ambas- a ruling ideology that glorifies the fusion of war com- The answer may lie in the speed with which Kim devel-
sador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, subsequently munism and medieval bloodlust that North Korea repre- ops intercontinental ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear
announcing that all options are on the tablea phrase sents. In Iran, they call it velayat-e faqihthe concept warheads toward Hawaii or the U.S. mainland. When and
that is familiar from the Iranian contextin dealing with that only Islamic jurists can rule legitimately on Earth. In how we prevent him from reaching that point could turn
the unbelievable, irresponsible arrogance of the Kim North Korea, the total concentration of power in the Kim out to be the most fateful foreign policy decision since Octo-
family dynastys current figurehead. dynasty is expressed in the doctrines of juche, mean- ber 1962, when U.S. aerial photographs revealed the deploy-
At times like these, we should be under no illusions ing self-reliance, and songun, putting the military first ment of Soviet missiles in Cuba. And nobody will be cheer-
about the character of the enemy. North Koreas rulers, in terms of resource allocation and placing the armed ing on the North Koreans more than Iran. JNS.ORG
in that regard, are first of all an abomination, both in forces at the heart of the state. These dogmas celebrate
the manner in which they treat their own people, and in cruelty and ideological fanaticism. By the same token, Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org and the Tower
the mortal danger they pose to outsiders. We are duty- they scorn those very thingslike family ties, friendship magazine, writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
bound to do everything in our power to bring down the and independent thoughtthat give value to the lives of Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
Kim dynasty, and we should apologize to nobody for Westerners. In North Korea, fear dressed as ideology Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
declaring this our ambition. penetrates so deeply that parents cannot trust their own Journal, and many other publications.
I
humming the theme song to
have been married to My Three Sons.
husband #1 for almost So there you are, with three
22 years. (For those kids, and life passes you by,
of you new to my col- both slowly and at the speed
umn, I refer to him as hus- of light. But with all of the
band #1 because, so far, he things I can say about hus-
has been it. Will there be a band #1, he is a really, really
husband #2? Statistically, Banji good dad. Enough about that.
maybe, but for now he is Ganchrow So we have been through
still #1.) good things and bad things.
We have been through a We have laughed, we have
lot together, as married couples usually cried, I have threatened him with a ham-
have. Childbirth was lots of fun. There mer ( just kidding). Usual married stuff.
I was, in labor for 22 hours and 30 min- But the other night, he came home and
utes with son #1, listening to the relaxing was sort of hunched over like the guy from
Lamaze cassette tape that I made (hey Beauty and the Beast, and I decided to
kids, a cassette tape is what came before show some compassion and ask what was
the iPod, I think. There could have been wrong. Well, if you really want to know,
compact discs before that. Who knows? It as I was getting up from my chair, I heard a
is hard to keep up with technology when snap and now my back really hurts. Hmm.
you still think that the 80s were last week.) Pain becomes more of an issue for hus-
In any event, I am in labor with our first- band #1 because he doesnt swallow pills.
born, and husband #1 is watching Yankee (Insert gasp noise here.) And our doctor,
playoff games. Really, what else was he who is also our neighbor and friend, is out Across Down
supposed to be doing? When your wife of town. I decided to text his urologist. He 1. Many homes near YU 1. Citrus drink
attempts to have a drug-free, natural labor, is familiar with husband #1 because of his 5. She follows 45-Down to 48-Down 2. Anti-Semitic attacks in 21-Across
10. LA sight that can make it hard to see 3. Tevyes eldest
they have her sitting on a rocking chair, kidney stone issues. Hi Dr. XXX, husband the stars? 4. Gainsbourg or Ibaka
sitting on the floor, head down on a chair, #1 hurt his back and he is in a lot of pain, 14. Take a (Shabbat) nap 5. (False) god queen
on her back, on her side, screaming her anything you can do to help us? And dont 15. Place for Napoleon or Moses 6. Goring animals, in the Bible
brains outthe only natural thing to do is forget, he doesnt take pills. 16. One helping Chuck Schumer 7. Midler and Carey
17. Rabbi Akiva from the 18th century 8. Extract (like chemist Fritz Haber)
to have her spouse watching baseball. After the doctor stopped laughing, 18. Get an engine (or a simcha) going 9. One with a skin disease dating back
Then I am in labor with son #2, and hus- because what 46-year-old doesnt take 19. Street ___ (Mickey Cohen had it) to Biblical times
band #1 is watching Days of Our Lives pills? (The same 46-year-old who doesnt 20. Fix (like Rothstein supposedly did 10. What the tired look forward to hit-
with the World Series) ting on Shabbat
while my OB yells at him to get up and know how to open a can of tuna fish, but I
21. Setting for this puzzle 11. Word repeatedly sung by Motel
help me give birth to his child. (At least I digress.) The doctor is kind enough to offer 23. On a scale of one ___ 12. Work by Keats or Lazarus
wasnt the one yelling at him, for a change. to make a house call and give poor hus- 25. Like the Negev 13. Deg. received by Fran Leibowitz and
Hey ladies, am I right?) As for son #3, I band #1 a shot of some sort of anti-inflam- 26. Ear piece? Paris Hilton
29. ___ Mine (Beatles song produced 22. Chill on the couch
couldnt tell you. It was 1:30 on a Friday matory. At least that is what he said it was.
by Spector) 23. Black ___ (simcha)
We will never know. 30. Make like Portman 24. CNN journalist Octavia fired for sup-
What we do know is that when the doc- 33. Mrs. Tevye porting Hezbolah
tor came over, our friends from the Island 35. Alien subj.? 27. Some camp counselors at night
36. Aleichem who wrote Tevye the (abbrv.)
So we have of Long were over, son #3 had a friend
or two over, and the house was hopping.
Milkman
40. Michael Crichtons ___world
28. Gimmel preceder
31. Son of Noach
been through Then the doc walked in and said, Um, I 41. The theme of this puzzles theme
43. Deal (with running a stressful Seder)
32. Well-___ (one with kesef)
34. Posess
good things and need you to pull your pants down. Oooh,
thats where the shot goes.. I couldnt
46. Actor who first played Tevye 37. Fleur de ___ (flower in Le Marais)
T
acters when necessary. The four span the with Holocaust survivors, a process sparked four characters, but it is not a deep exami-
o run or not to run? social and economic strata of Europes pre- when he moved next door to a particularly nation of human character under unimagi-
Thats the question that tor- war Jews. Simon, the son of a poor peddler, chatty man in the 1980s. That neighbor nable duress.
ments all people trapped in coun- recognizing the danger when his neighbor probably inspired the character of Simon, Peter (Alex Dmitriev) adjusts to life in
tries sliding into war or already casually said that he couldnt wait until the who announces early in the play, I knew America, only to be drafted and end up in
embroiled in military conflicts. It tortured Germans arrived to kill the Jews, set out when to run. As acted by Robert Meskin, a POW camp. There his fluency in German
the Jews in 1930s Germany, just as it haunts on a long journey that took him to Belarus Simon is the most fully developed of the puts him in greater danger than the other
Syrians today. Should we try to escape or and then deep into Russia, all the way to four, and the one who adds some humor prisoners are in. Clara (Tracy Newirth)
are we better off hanging on? Three of the Siberia. Clara, another Polish Jew, had the to the narrative. Young and strong, he survives thanks to the kindness and pro-
four characters in Alan Breindels new play, good fortune to be blonde and blue-eyed; moves from collective farm to hideout and tection of people she meets on her journey.
Through the Darkness, now at the Work- passing as a Christian, she also escaped eventually to the Polish army in an almost The Russians were especially good to her,
shop Theater on West 36th Street, chose to to the Soviet Union. Helen, the daughter picaresque series of events. Helen (Emily she notes; not the Ukrainians or the Belar-
run and kept running, staying a few steps of a comfortably middle-class family in Zacharias) survives the ghetto and then Aus- usians, though. That sentiment echoes
ahead of the Nazis till the end of the war. Lodz, was sent to the Lodz ghetto with chwitz through grit and perhaps her good many survivors feelings.
The fourth hung on and got lucky. And as her mother, where she remained for most looks. She hints at her mothers urging to Directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby,
we know from all the Holocaust survivor of the war. Peter is the son of a wealthy get more food through her charms: Did Through the Darkness benefits from its
stories weve heard, luck matters just as German manufacturer, who managed to Mama know the cost of the bread? Helen fine cast and from the directness of its
much as anything. get his two sons to England and then the seems the most psychologically damaged of presentation. Although we have all heard
In his first play, Breindel, who lives in whole family to the United States. His story the group, acknowledging that some part of many of these stories before, each one is
New Jersey, allows the two men and two is a reminder that the rich have resources her died and cannot be revived. unique and memorable, even when they
women to tell their stories, with only min- in any circumstance that are unavailable Breindel treats these stories with the have been condensed, combined, and dra-
imal interruption from a fifth figure, the to others. respect they deserve, but his delicacy matized. The least we can do for the survi-
Writer ( Jeff Dickson), who acts as narrator Breindel formed these composite reminds us that survivor stories are often vors left among us is to listen.
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its annual cocktail Columbia Universitys
from Arizona, said This brought back need to play a role to make the world as and were redeemed by God to reach a
Mazon many memories. I was one of these peo- it should be. point of national and personal fulfillment
from page 6
ple struggling with hunger and health. I Happily, Rabbi Pitkowsky said, in and success. These mitzvot that we lov-
Not surprising, some of those people became disabled. Many years later, I real- Teaneck the Mazon project has gar- ingly and carefully practice each and every
are Jews. ized I wasnt at fault.... Food should be a nered the participation of several Jewish year are not simply theatre and customs.
Ive definitely seen hunger in the Jew- right as a human being, and one should streams. Beth Sholom is Conservative, They go to the heart of our [belief ] that the
ish community, Rabbi Pitkowsky said. never go hungry here in America. Temple Emeth is Reform, and Congre- human being, created in the image of God,
We have members of the community Rabbi Pitkowsky said that people who gation Netivot Shalom whose religious should not be harmed or degraded in any
who come and ask for help because they see the exhibit will have a greater under- leader, Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, will talk way. The Torah constantly makes reference
cant afford food on a weekly basis, espe- standing of the serious situation in our about hunger at Temple Emeth on April to our historical experience so that we will
cially for the holidays. I also volunteer for country in regard to hunger and food 3 is Orthodox. Rabbi Helfgot, who also treat others properly and with dignity.
Tomchei Shabbos. Theres a tremendous insecurity, realizing that people who are chairs of the departments of Bible and One of the modern examples of the
amount of need out there. Those who desperate to rise out of their current situ- Jewish thought at Yeshivat Chovevei degradation of the human being and spirit
think that hunger doesnt affect Jews are ation are relying on our help and support Torah in New York City, and teaches is the cold harsh reality that many people
mistaken. to live a better life. Judaic studies at the citys SAR High in our blessed country go to sleep hungry,
Rabbi Pitkowsky said the exhibit In these days leading up to Passover, School, will offer a public lecture, Let and rise in the morning not knowing if
clearly has had a strong effect on people when we sit around the seder table, All Who Are Hungry Come and Eat: Mov- they will have enough food to feed them-
who have seen it. Asked for reflections grateful for freedom, and lift up the mat- ing from the Particular to the Universal in selves and their family. This year before
after viewing the project, one viewer zah, the bread of affliction, and say, Let Eradicating Hunger. Pesach, we have the opportunity to take
from Texas said, When I was unem- all who are hungry come and eat, we Rabbi Helfgot said in an email, On a bit of time from the hectic preparations
ployed for 15 months, I made $9 a month should mean it. Part of the message is Pesach night, we as Jews engage in elabo- and cleaning for Pesach to educate our-
too much for food stamps. It shocked me that the world we see around us is not rate and meaningful rituals to recollect the selves and friends about the realities of
that I even had to consider it. Another, the world as it is supposed to be. We each past when we were slaves and oppressed hunger in the United States of America.
Briefs
The report was later confirmed by White House Press
North-African Arab Secretary Sean Spicer.
Abu Rdainah said that in his phone conversation
journalists call Israel with Trump, Abbas stressed the commitment to
Western and free peace as a strategic choice to establish a Palestinian
Following an invitation from Hassan Kaabiya, Israels state alongside the state of Israel. The PA spokesman
deputy spokesman for Arab media, a group of six said that Trump stressed his commitment to a peace
North African journalists and bloggers is visiting Israel process that would lead to real peace between Pales-
this week as guests of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. tinians and Israelis.
During their trip, the Algerian and Tunisian jour- During his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
nalists are meeting with senior Israeli officials at the min Netanyahu at the White House in February, Trump
Foreign Ministry, the Supreme Court, and the Knes- broke with long-held U.S. policy by saying that he was Teanecks Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trumps
set. Members of the delegation Monday visited the open to alternative resolutions to the Israeli-Palestinian international negotiations adviser meets with Israeli Prime
Old City of Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and the Yad conflict, rather than exclusively a two-state solution. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum. JNS.ORG
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the blog- Trump special adviser visits Israel
gers described their first impressions of Israel as Intel acquires Israels in effort to restart talks
appearing Western and free.
This is the sixth time that a delegation of North Afri- Mobileye for $15.3 billion President Donald Trumps international negotiations adviser, Jason
Greenblatt of Teaneck, arrived in Israel this week for meetings with
can journalists has visited the Jewish state as part of in largest-ever tech buyout Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Pales-
an initiative by Israels Arab media representatives. The American high-tech giant Intel Corp. announced tinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
Most recently, in November 2016, seven Moroccan that it has agreed to buy Israeli vision technology For 20 years before going to work at the White House, Green-
journalists participated in a weeklong trip to Israel developer Mobileye for $15.3 billion, in the largest blatt was Trumps lawyer. The stated purpose of his trip is to
sponsored by the Foreign Ministry. The Palestinian acquisition of an Israeli technology company. jumpstart negotiations between Israel and the PA, and to explore
terror group Hamas condemned the Moroccan del- As automakers around the world compete to new strategies for advancing Middle East peace.
egations visit, calling it a crime against our people. develop cutting edge self-driving car technology, Greenblatt and Netanyahu met for more than five hours Monday
JNS.ORG
Intels purchase of Mobileye, a global leader in the night and reaffirmed the joint commitment of both Israel and
development of vision technology for Advanced the United States to advance a genuine and lasting peace between
Trump invites Abbas to White Driver Assistance Systems, places the U.S. computer Israel and the Palestinians that strengthens the security of Israel
chip company at the forefront of the expanding and enhances stability in the region, according to the Prime Min-
House to discuss peace process autonomous vehicle market. isters Office.
President Donald Trump invited Palestinian Author- After the deal was announced, Israeli Prime Minis- The Israeli leader told Greenblatt that he believes that under
ity President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the White ter Netanyahu tweeted, Congratulations to Mobileye! President Trumps leadership, it is possible to advance peace
House following their first phone conversation since Israeli genius, Israeli pride. between Israel and all its neighbors, Netanyahus office added,
Trump took office in late January. Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis while Greenblatt similarly reaffirmed President Trumps commit-
President Trump has extended an official invitation also spoke proudly of Israels hi-tech industry fol- ment to Israels security and to the effort to help Israelis and Pales-
to President Abbas to visit the White House soon to dis- lowing the announcement, saying, The fact that tinians achieve a lasting peace through direct negotiations.
cuss ways to resume the political process, stressing his large international companies see potential in During his visit, Greenblatt was also scheduled to meet with
commitment to a peace process that will lead to a real Israel and are seeking to acquire Israeli compa- Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, opposition leader Isaac Herzog,
peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis, said nies that lead their prospective fields is a source of acting National Security Council head Yaakov Nagel and Coordi-
Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah, the official PA national pride for our technological strength. nator of Government Activities in the Territories head Maj.-Gen.
news agency WAFA reported. JNS.ORG Yoav Mordechai. JNS.ORG
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