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n the Washington Heights
campus of Yeshiva University,
much excitement surrounded
Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman’s arrival
from Israel; in June 2017, Rabbi Berman
became the fifth president of the 132-year-
old Jewish institution.
Taking up residence in Teaneck — a
strong community of YU alumni and fac-
ulty — Rabbi Berman already has expanded
enrollment and course offerings across the
11 affiliated undergraduate and graduate
schools on four New York City campuses.
“One of his main charges to the YU com-
munity is to use their talents and heroic
qualities to build the Jewish world,” Alyssa
Herman, YU’s vice president for institu-
tional advancement, said.
Accordingly, “YU Hero” was chosen as
the rallying theme of the Yeshiva Univer-
sity 2018 Giving Day, to be held from noon Rabbi Ari Berman is inaugurated as president of Yeshiva University in June 2017.
April 25 to noon April 26.
The university aims to raise $1.5 mil- support for Rabbi Dr. Berman as he leads
lion from at least 3,000 donors via online Yeshiva University into the next chapter in
crowdfunding. Every contribution made its great history,” Mark Wilf said; a mem-
during the designated time period will ber of YU’s board of trustees, he grew up
be matched by several benefactors for a in Hillside and lives in Livingston.
total of up to $3 million. This amount is in The first chapter of that history began
addition to more than $10 million donors with the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-
already had pledged in honor of Rabbi Ber- cal Seminary; RIETS was founded in 1896
man’s inaugural year. on the Lower East Side as the first yeshiva
“The YU Hero theme will highlight the for advanced Talmudic study in America.
heroic character of Yeshiva University’s stu- In 1928, Yeshiva College was launched, in
O
ne of Bergen County’s oldest
synagogues is becoming its
newest Chabad outpost.
Shortly before Passover,
Temple Beth El, founded in 1908 as the
Hackensack Hebrew Institute and down
to barely 45 members, transferred own-
ership of its building to the newly formed
Chabad of Hackensack.
“We’re able to keep it a Jewish institu-
tion in Hackensack,” Pam Hecht, secretary
of Beth El’s board of directors, said. “I’m
very happy to have Chabad come in.” Temple Beth El on Summit Avenue in Hackensack. Chabad has acquired the building from the Conservative congregation.
For at least three years, the congrega-
tion, which is Conservative, will continue programming in Hackensack. “Our goal is synagogue in downtown Hackensack all “We are very excited about the future
to hold services in the sanctuary, with its that anyone from the Jewish community the way up here,” she remembered. there,” Rabbi Simon said. “We will be
striking stained glass windows. “Our main in Hackensack in the present or in the Then, there were 250 member fami- able to reach out to thousands of Jews in
concern has been to see to it that there’s a past can look at what Chabad is doing in lies. Now, with the membership so much Hackensack. There are elderly Jews who
continued Jewish presence here, as there the building and be really proud,” Rabbi smaller, “it is not possible to continue,” are there, young professionals who are
has been since at least 1908,” said Rabbi Kaminker said. she said. there, there are young families who are
Dr. Robert Schumeister, who has led the Carolyn Kristal’s family joined the Ms. Kristal lives in Fort Lee. She had there as well. For the most part, it’s not
congregation since 1980. congregation in the 1930s. She remem- seen that town’s Conservative congrega- an affiliated community — but for Chabad
This summer, Rabbi Mendy Kaminker bers her father raising money to buy the tion — Gesher Shalom, which once had that’s irrelevant. Every Jew is a Jew. That’s
will move from Cherry Hill with his wife present building on Summit Avenue. 700 member families — sell its building to our job: to find every Jew, to reach out to
and five children to start running Chabad “They marched the Torahs from the old a Korean church. them and love them and bring them Jew-
“I didn’t want that to happen” to Beth ish programming.
El, she said. So she called up the head “I get calls from Hackensack to put up
of the Chabad of Fort Lee, who passed mezuzas and kasher homes and the peo-
the conversation to the head of Chabad ple tell me how many more Jews are in
Teaneck, Rabbi Ephraim Simon. their buildings. From that I get that picture
Rabbi Simon was interested. that there are thousands of Jews there.
“We thought for a long time that there “If you put a pin on a map, you couldn’t
could be a Chabad presence in Hacken- have a better a location for a Jewish cen-
sack,” which is across the Hackensack ter,” he said. “It’s a block off Prospect, half
River from Teaneck, he said. “There are a mile from the hospital.”
thousands of Jews living on Prospect Ave- Ms. Kristal remembers when Temple
nue. There’s always a myriad of Jews in Beth El was still called the Hebrew Insti-
the hospital at any point in time. Every tute — it adopted the Beth El name when it
Shabbat or yom tov there are Jews walk- moved to its new building in 1971.
ing from Hackensack Hospital to our “It was more like an Orthodox syna-
Chabad house because we’re the closest gogue,” she said. “My mother sat on the
Orthodox synagogue.” back, on the right, with all the women.
Rabbi Simon said he gives the leaders of My father sat on the front on the left side
Beth El “a tremendous amount of credit. with my uncle and all the men. I was 5 and
For all intents and purposes, they donated used to stay with my father.” That was in
their building. We paid, but it wasn’t like the 1940s.
a purchase — it was more to cover their “That was not the case once we moved
expenses and repairs of the building that up to Summit Avenue,” she continued.
needed to be done.” This includes fixing “Then it was Conservative.”
Rabbi Mendy Kaminker, his wife Shterna, and their family will move from Cherry roof damage not covered by insurance Hackensack is the county seat of Bergen
Hill to Hackensack to head the newly formed Chabad. under its “acts of God” clause. County. Back then, it was a big deal. “The
Is it Tony or Ozer?
Rinat Yisrael remembers Rabbi Glickman with a series of shiurim about the Rambam
JOANNE PALMER became part of the roster. It wasn’t like
T
a one-off, either; he gave multiple six- to
here is something about peo- eight-part shiurim. They were informal
ple who live in more than one conversations, but it wasn’t as if it was
world. What do you call them? just him coming in and speaking off the
The name that works in one top of his head. He worked at them. And
world might not be entirely natural in everyone was welcome.”
the other. Rabbi Glickman was unusual in that
To draw examples from vastly different he was deeply involved in the worlds of
times and places — say 12th century Spain Orthodoxy and business and academia; he
and Egypt — was Moshe ben Maimon Mai- was a musician, an active online presence,
monides? Or was he Rambam? and a mentor to a wide range of younger
He was both. He was all three. scholars and thinkers and students and
Then jump to the 20th and 21st cen- people with compelling stories or pres-
turies, and move a continent and a half ences or talents. He was, among other
over, to the metropolitan New York area. things, a rosh yeshiva in Yeshiva Univer-
Was the man born Anthony Scott Glick- sity’s Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon Theo-
man 67 years ago Rabbi Ozer Glickman? logical Seminary, and he was vice presi-
Was he Tony Glickman? dent of strategic risk management at the
He was both. He was all three. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
The two men — Maimonides, who died He drew on all that as he taught.
in 1204 CE, and Rabbi Glickman, who “He gave talks about business ethics,
died on March 19 — had much in common and about the halacha of being a kohen,”
in their breadth of knowledge and their of the priestly caste, Mr. Hochman said. Rabbi Ozer Glickman’s breadth of knowledge will be recognized with a series
ability to live intensely in both the Jewish “He gave a 10-part series on modern of lectures at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck.
and outside worlds. Although of course Orthodox thought, going back to Des-
it is a huge stretch to compare even the cartes and Hume. — that’s the Guide. “Students of Jewish lit-
most brilliant and accomplished of mod- “We have a concept of legal fiction in erature have been puzzling over centuries,
ern Americans with a figure whose repu- halacha. Coming from his unique per- trying to figure out which is the genuine
tation has been burnished both by time spective of scholarship and business Rabbi Glickman Maimonides.”
and even by controversy. background and rabbinic background, he Maimonides also was a physician; he
That’s why Congregation Rinat Yisrael taught about legal fiction — what is legiti- respected the worked not only in his head but also in the
in Teaneck, which had been Rabbi Glick- mate and what is illegitimate, and what integrity of both very real physical world, and did so among
man’s shul, is offering a series of shiurim is pushing the envelope. He would talk non-Jews as well as Jews.
— lectures — in Rabbi Glickman’s memory, about economics in halacha, about how systems, the “In a certain sense, you could ask the
called “Rambam and Moreh Nevuchim: it is treated in the Torah and about the Jewish and the same questions about Rav Glickman. He
Innovation and Controversy.” (“Moreh evolution from an agrarian economy to a was a businessman, and one of the great
Nevumchim” is the title of one of Mai- currency-based on. American. He teachers at YU, and he taught at Cardozo
monides’ three major works; it’s known “And as soon as he’d finish one series, talked a lot Law School, and he trained rabbis. Which
in English as “Guide of the Perplexed.”) he’d say, ‘What can we do for the next one was the real Rabbi Glickman?”
Jeffrey Hochman of Teaneck is a law- one?’” about the need “They both stand for synthesis. We
yer. He is also a longtime Rinat member, Rabbi Glickman and Mr. Hochman for synthesis diminish the importance of Maimonides
a member of its board, and its imme- had come up with an answer to that if we think of him as just one thing or the
diate past president. He is one of the question. The next one was to be about and coherence. other. The same is true of Rabbi Glickman.”
organizers of the shiurim. (See box for Maimonides. “I had just read a book by Dr. Mermelstein met Rabbi Glickman at
schedule details.) Moshe Halberthal on the Rambam and I Rabbi Glickman died that Monday. “And Cardozo; Rabbi Glickman was a scholar
These shiurim grew out of a series that liked it, but I don’t know enough about it my son Ariel said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if in residence at the school’s Center for
Rabbi Glickman had agreed to teach. to read it critically,” Mr. Hochman said. we could do what we would have wanted Jewish Law, and Dr. Mermelstein is its
“Our shul is blessed to have so many “But I thought it would be right up Rabbi to do, and do it in his memory?’ assistant director. (Cardozo is part of
scholars, world-class scholars,” Mr. Hoch- Glickman’s alley, so I suggested it. And on “We can’t reproduce what he had in Yeshiva University.)
man said. Many of them teach there, and the Sunday and Monday before he passed mind, but we have a great lineup of schol- “Rabbi Glickman taught about Jewish
“even before Rabbi Glickman joined, he away we were in email contact about it.” ars and experts and we can replicate at law to non-Jewish students, and to Jewish
least some of it,” Mr. Hochman said. students who had no prior engagement
What: “Rambam and Moreh Nevuchim: Innovation and Controversy” — Ari Mermelstein of Teaneck, an assistant with the Jewish legal tradition. He had
a series of lectures in memory of Rabbi Ozer Glickman professor of Bible at Yeshiva College, also read widely in American legal theory,
When: On Shabbat, April 28, Dr. David Shatz will speak on “Rambam, Maimonides, is a member of Rinat, and he worked with and he offered a entry point into Jewish
or Both?” at 6 p.m.; he’ll speak again, on “What Is Perplexing About the Guide Mr. Hochman in organizing the series. legal tradition.
of the Perplexed?” at 7:20. On Sunday, May 6, Dr. Moshe Sokol will address “I don’t think that we could think of “He wasn’t someone who thought that
“Providence, Evil, and Human Suffering” at 8 p.m.. On Shabbat, May 12, Rabbi another personality from Jewish history only the Jewish legal tradition had some-
Tully Harcsztark will talk about “Politics, Practice, and Pedagogy: Mitzvot in who would be more appropriate to pay thing enriching to offer. He thought that
Maimonidean Thought” at 6:30 p.m. On Shavuot, Monday, May 21, Dr. Daniel
tribute to Rav Glickman,” Dr. Mermelstein the outside world also had something
Rynhold will talk about “Creation, Revelation, and Prophecy” at 6:55 p.m., and on
said. “Maimonides is such a complex fig- of value to contribute, and he brought
Shabbat, June 9, Rabbi Dr. Michael Shmidman will take on “The Messiah, Messianic
Age, and Olam Baha” at 6:50 p.m. ure. He authors one of the most important that with him. His lectures were pep-
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Where: At Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Ave., Teaneck
his Mishneh Torah — “and maybe the most American jurists, because he wanted to
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Where bluegrass
meets klezmer
Andy Statman Trio will perform at JCC Paramus/CBT
LARRY YUDELSON decidedly un-Nashville title of “East Flatbush Blues.” Were
there a category of best performance of a traditional chas-
The world’s foremost bluegrass klezmer musician will be sidic niggun, he likely would have been nominated for some
performing with his trio in Paramus next week. of the albums where he collected and interpreted the tradi-
Admittedly, Andy Statman is one of the few musicians tional melodies of Breslov and Chabad.
whose compositions, performance, and collaborations “I come from a musical family,” he said. “I heard all sorts
include both American and Eastern European Jewish folk of different types of music my whole life.”
music — genres sufficiently distinct that Mr. Statman gen- He began playing in 1960, when a folk music revival was in
erally plays a different instrument (mandolin or clarinet) the air. His older brother was a banjo player in an amateur
depending on the kind of music he is playing. jug band and brought folk and bluegrass music home. “I got
But Mr. Statman’s technical skills and compositional cre- more and more into bluegrass,” Mr. Statman said. “It became
ativity put him in the top tier of each genre. He has recorded the focus of my life.”
with both David Bromberg and Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker. That wasn’t a weird choice for a Jewish boy growing up in
He was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “best Jackson Heights, Queens, he said. “When I grew up, they had
Andy Statman LARRY EAGLE country instrumental” — for a piece on an album with the square dancing in the public schools.” (This was in part due to
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efforts by noted automaker and anti-Semite Henry Ford, His colleagues in the Andy Statman Trio are bassist
who saw jazz as too black and too Jewish, and wanted to Jim Whitney and percussionist Larry Eagle. They have
distract listeners in other, whiter directions.) “You heard been together for 18 years. “That’s sort of an anomaly
all this old fiddle music. The old cartoons had different these days,” Mr. Statman said. “You rarely have a group
types of American instrumental music.” of musicians working together for such a long period of
Young Andy started out playing the guitar, quickly fol- time. We understand what to do. It’s like a three-way
lowed his brother’s lead and learned the banjo, and then conversation between the members of the band. Every-
switched to the mandolin. “The sound of the mandolin thing is very improvisationally oriented.”
moved me,” he said. “I was intrigued by the sound and He stresses that the trio is not a klezmer band. “I’ve
the style of playing I heard and I wanted to do it. Plus been fortunate to study with a lot of great people and
there were a lot of banjo players and not a lot of mando- play a lot of different styles professionally,” he said.
lin players as well.” “We’re not so concerned with categories.
Then his musical interest expanded to include jazz “Klezmer is just one of the things we do. Half the
and he learned to play the saxophone. music we play is Jewish, chasidic melodies and klezmer,
Jazz was incorporating “all different types of world mainly on the clarinet. The other half is more jazz, blue-
music, and rekindled my interest in traditional Jewish grass, blues, rock-influenced.
instrumental music,” he said. “We usually play what we feel like playing in the
In the 1970s, he studied clarinet with Dave Tarras, moment. We try to be receptive with what’s happening
who had played in the czar’s army during World War I in the audience and move along with that. Nothing is
before coming to the United States and becoming one of really carved in stone. We might open up with a certain
New York City’s top Jewish music performers. Mr. Stat- one or two songs and then take it from there.”
man went on to produce Mr. Tarras’ last album.
Klezmer became one of Mr. Statman’s calling cards, Who: The Andy Statman Trio
but it was not his only one. You can see the diversity of
When: 3:30 p.m., Sunday, April 29
his musical interests in the titles of his earliest albums:
“Jewish Klezmer Music,” “Flatbush Waltz,” and “Mando- Where: JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah,
lin Abstractions.”
304 East Midland Ave., Paramus Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
While some of his recordings collect and interpret How much: $40 at the door
the songs of others, he has and continues to write new Advance ticket info: jccparamus.org Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
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Schumeister. In Cherry Hill, his focus has been on pro- gave it their all,” he said. “We have a responsibility to
gramming for the Israeli community. all of this sweat and tears of the Jewish community. We
“We are really looking forward to this challenge,” he have to preserve it and enhance it.”
A
duced a moderate, bipartisan bill repre-
s it has done before Passover senting both the needs of agriculture and
for the last nine years, Mazon: the anti-hunger community.”
A Jewish Response to Hunger But that did not happen this year.
hosted its National Hunger “We guessed this was coming,” she said.
Seder in the U.S. Capitol. The seder, which “We were seeing signals in this direction.
drew some 35 attendees, Jews and non- It’s becoming very partisan. The chair
Jews, was led by Mazon’s president, Abby didn’t share the language of the bill with
J. Leibman, and Joel Pitkowsky, the rabbi minority members, who were becom-
of Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck. ing very frustrated.” When some of the
“We provide traditional ritual food — language was released to the ranking
matzah, charoset, horseradish, and grape member, he was outraged by “crazy cuts
juice,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. For the past to SNAP. All the Democrats wrote a let-
few years, the seder has taken place at the ter to [ranking member Collin] Peterson
United States Capitol Visitors Center and its asking him not to negotiate on this. Fast
staff has catered it. “There are vegetarian forward to last Thursday, when the chair-
meals for everyone,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. man released the partisan bill, the House
Participants were invited to read from Republicans’ bill. It’s the first time ever
Mazon’s adapted Passover Haggadah; this that it wasn’t a bipartisan bill.”
year, the seder’s fifth question was about Among the policies Mazon finds most
veterans. “We asked, ‘How can we not take concerning is the growing emphasis on
care of veterans, who put their lives on the Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky of Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck co-leads the work requirements for people in the
line?’” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. “What kind National Hunger Seder at the Capitol with Abby J. Leibman of Mazon. SNAP program (formerly known as the
of moral statement is that? The key issue is food stamp program). “It’s a concerning
that as a matter of mathematics, it is abun- programs fail to keep pace with families’ under the Agriculture Committee, Rabbi trend,” Ms. Lieberman said. “Cutting ben-
dantly clear that it is impossible for private needs, yet face continued funding threats.” Pitkowsky said, adding that Mr. McGovern, efits is not a motivator to get people back
anti-hunger organizations to solve this The group also included people who “a wonderful advocate for the anti-hunger to work, nor is it a real solution to helping
problem. The only organization that can wanted to take part in the conversation movement,” has told him how “profoundly them get and maintain meaningful work.
deal with this is the federal government.” but did not necessarily agree with Mazon moving he finds the ritual every year. As an “They’re just losing assistance that lets
The Haggadah provides “an educa- on the issue of taking responsibility for Irish Catholic, he finds it one of the most them put food on the table.”
tional opportunity to bring one of the those in need. “They don’t believe the gov- moving rituals he takes part in. He’s thrilled One provision of the House commit-
most enriching, powerful Jewish rituals of ernment should play a robust role,” Rabbi to have the opportunity to be with his Jew- tee bill will require that recipients show
year into the social justice realm,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. In his brief d’var Torah, ish friends and with people who share his that they are working 20 hours a week.
Pitkowsky said. “It gives us an opportunity he spoke about the impact the story of feelings about the world and about what There always has been such a provision,
to speak about Jewish values as we under- the Exodus had on the world. In a sym- religion and government can do.” targeting people between the ages of 18
stand them through the lens of the holi- bolically important section, we learn that Rabbi Pitkowsky, who was co-leading and 49. Now, however, the age has been
day, and also to address an issue we are neither Pharaoh nor his wise men could the national seder for the second time, extended to 59.
passionate about. interpret the leader’s dreams, “because said “the vibes at the seder were very While it is troubled by the age require-
“The seder itself, the traditional words they couldn’t understand how the weak positive,” and there was a great sense of ment in general, Mazon is especially con-
of the seder, have a tremendous amount could overpower the mighty.” The idea camaraderie among those gathered for it. cerned by that change, Ms. Lieberman said.
to teach us about hunger, welcoming the that people who were less well-off also Still, he said, he detected “a greater sense Some people — veterans, residents of rural
stranger, and our responsibility for one have a place in the world literally was of urgency and deep concern about the areas, or people laid off from their jobs —
another,” he said, adding that in Mazon’s beyond their understanding, he said. That fundamental idea that government should “can’t just find a job.” Rather than helping
Haggadah, statements about hunger are idea — that people in need have a voice — take care of those in need. There’s a great veterans, or military families who are on
interspersed with the traditional language. is important for members of Congress to deal of concern about what the govern- food stamps, despite that ongoing military
It also includes quotations from people remember, he added. ment wants to do with the food safety net, service, the new age requirement worsens
who are hungry — one in eight Americans, Seder guests included members of Con- in terms of radically altering it. We’re very an already bad situation. The new bill, with
according to the organization — as well as gress and their staffs, as well as represen- afraid of what may be coming and feel we that proposed changed, is likely to pass the
from those involved in advocacy. tatives of other advocacy organizations. need to stand up and fight for those who House, she said. But the Senate is working
“We go around the room and ask people Several congressional speakers hammered cannot fight for themselves.” (He noted on its own bill — which is likely to remain
to read,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said, noting that home the theme that hunger in America is that the seder took place at a critical time, bipartisan, as it historically had been.
some visitors are not able to stay for the a decision. while negotiations on the 2018 farm bill “It might be more moderate,” Ms.
whole time, “so when they come in, we Representative Jan Schakowsky, Demo- were stalled.) Lieberman said. “And even if the House
usually ask them to read right away. We crat of Illinois, said, “We live in the richest As it happens, those fears proved justi- bill passes, it probably won’t pass the
also ask what prompted them to come, country in the world at the richest time in fied, said Liza Lieberman, Mazon’s direc- Senate.”
and what the issue means to them.” our history. No American should ever have tor of public policy. Indeed, she said, refer- Whatever the outcome, hunger seders
One Jewish member of Congress spoke to go hungry, especially not our nation’s ring to the farm bill recently released by will continue. Josh Protas, Mazon’s vice
about her own Jewish values and how they children, seniors, and veterans.” the House committee, “we’re deeply con- president of public policy, described this
fuel her views on the issue of hunger. “Hunger is a political decision,” declared cerned and troubled. It’s not the direction year’s seder as “respectful and spirited,
“The values of the Jewish faith instruct Representative Jim McGovern, the Democrat we want the country to go — at all.” with shared expressions about the impor-
us to care for our neighbors and feed from Massachusetts who is the ranking mem- Ms. Lieberman explained that the farm tance of taking care of the most vulnerable
the hungry,” said Representative Deb- ber of the House Agriculture Committee’s bill must be reauthorized every three and supporting SNAP and other programs
bie Wasserman Schultz, a Florida Demo- nutrition subcommittee. “There are a lot of years. “It funds the agricultural commu- that do this effectively. Based on the House
crat. “Mazon puts these fundamental problems that I don’t know how to solve, but nity in a big way and sets nutrition poli- Republican proposal for the farm bill, there
values into practice, and their efforts are not hunger — this is a solvable problem.” cies,” she said. “It’s always been biparti- are clearly different perspectives on how we
more vital than ever, as federal nutrition Most hunger entitlement programs are san. The chair and the ranking member fulfill this important responsibility.”
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joins advisory board at Touro John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center on his induction as a Distinguished Member
Steven Rothman of Engle- of the Civil Affairs Regiment. The Jewish Chapel at West Point has been designated as
wood, the Democrat who the place of honor where the plaque and medallion will be displayed.
represented northern New There will be an exhibition portraying “Aliyah Bet,” the clandestine immigration
Jersey in the House of Rep- that defied British authorities and regulations, and a photo display showing refugees
resentatives for eight terms, the British caught and shipped to internment camps on Cyprus.
has joined the professional The day begins at 10 a.m. with coffee in the chapel social hall. From 11 a.m. to 12:15
advisory board of Touro p.m., chaplains and the choir lead a service in the chapel with Jewish War Veterans-
College Graduate School of Rockland/Orange district presenting the colors. Chaplain David Ruderman (USMA)
Social Work, the school’s and guest rabbis will officiate. At 12:45, there will be a wreath-ceremony honoring Col.
dean, Steven Huberman of Marcus at the West Point military cemetery, including a firing salute, and taps by the
Teaneck, said. West Point Honor Guard. Security requires a government-issued photo ID.
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be very helpful to us in affecting change to 2013. He was a member of the House
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survivors Inge Roman of Poland, under Nazi rule. Chorus and Interfaith Adult Choir.
Teaneck, Jenny Sommer of The ceremony included readings by
Hackensack, Isaac York of
Fair Lawn, Jerry Reuter of
Cliffside Park, and Arkadiy T h e s i s te rh o o d o f
Fridman of Fair Lawn were Temple Emanuel of
read by Miri Goodman of Inge Roman and her granddaughter, Erica, light a the Pascack Valley and
Paramus, Julia Holzsager of candle during the service as Isaak Mester looks on. Pascack Valley/North-
Fair Lawn, Miles Cutler of ern Valley Hadassah
Fair Lawn, Dennis Vink of Fair Lawn, and that now are housed at Barnert Temple, sponsored a commu-
Robert Trosten of Franklin Lakes. (Miles Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI, the Glen nity Holocaust com-
Cutler is Isaac York’s grandson.) Survivor Rock Jewish Center, Shomrei Torah in memoration program
Elizabeth Lorber of Fair Lawn was unable Wayne, and Temple Beth El of Northern on April 11 at Temple
to attend. Another survivor, David Libes- Valley. Children carrying yahrzeit candles Emanuel in Wood-
kind of Fair Lawn, led the Kaddish. Hadas- followed them. Musical accompaniment cliff Lake. Erwin Ganz
sah Lieberman, whose parents were survi- was by Cantor Ilan Mamber and Gale S. talked about being a
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vors, was the keynote speaker. Bindelglass. The federation’s president, young boy in Nazi Ger-
The commemoration featured an Stephanie Goldman, addressed the gath- many, before, during,
exhibit by an Israeli Holocaust survivor, ering. Rosalind Melzer and Allyn Michael- and after Kristallnacht.
artist Shmuel Leitner. Several rabbis led a son chair the federation’s Holocaust Com- Students participated
procession carrying rescued Czech Torahs memoration Committee. in a candle-lighting At Temple Emanuel, Erwin Ganz tells of his
ceremony. experiences as a boy in Nazi Germany.
T
Joanne Palmer or chunk of stone or piece of metal or fab- That’s what Ahuva Winslow, who now Wulkan, a physician who also is a lay chaz-
ric or digital device. is 38, has been doing at the Frisch School zan at the family shul, Congregation Aha-
o a visual artist, the ability An art teacher has to be able to teach in Paramus for the last 13 years. As she vath Torah. She went to the Ramaz School
to make art is the combina- both the technical skills and the openness has clarified her vision for the school’s in Manhattan for high school, and then to
tion of very different skills. of vision. art program, it has grown in both scope Michlalah, a seminary for girls in Israel.
An artist has to be able to An art teacher at a Jewish day school has and sophistication. Recently, her stu- “Thank God, I always identified as an
consider the world with to be able to teach those things, and ide- dents exhibited their work; this week, she artist from childhood,” she said. “My par-
an open mind and heart, ally also to situate them in a Jewish angle talked about it. ents encouraged it. They never said that
filtered through education and worldview of vision that retains its openness and flex- Ms. Winslow — who was Ahuva Mantell this is not the right path for you.”
and talent and knowledge. The artist also ibility while being informed by Jewish val- for much of her tenure at Frisch — grew up In fact, her mother said, it was because
has to have the skills of hand and eye nec- ues and guided by Jewish experience and in Englewood, the daughter of artist and Ahuva had artistic talent and interests that
essary to translate the vision onto a page understanding. art curator Reba Wulkan and Dr. Akiva were clear all her life, her parents chose
I think it is hard Mika Ben-Arbon’s painting, for the biblical portraits class, is about
the moral evolution of Rahav.
to escape who
you are as a stop seeing the world through the eyes of
an artist, because those are the only eyes
Ms. Winslow was not the
first art teacher at Frisch,
person. The art you’ve got — sometimes you stop produc- but when she got there,
the foundation for the class has remained.” “That gave me the opportunity to arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts grow,” she said.
When she first got to Frisch, the school increase the programming. I took a year in Rutgers, and we teach together now.” It Frisch now has an arts track and a music
was in its old building. There was not a to research what I wanted a four-year cur- is thrillingly gratifying for Ms. Winslow to track (and an engineering track as well);
dedicated art room, so she had to keep riculum to look like.” be able to say that. students apply for acceptance to them.
her materials packed up before class It is now four years since the art pro- And the school’s principal, Rabbi Eli “In the fine arts track we do everything
and whisk them out of sight quickly as it gram took the shape it’s in now; this Ciner, “used to be a colleague of mine.” — drawing and painting and sculpture
ended. “When we moved into the new year’s seniors are the first to have begun She has found him supportive all along, and silk screening and sewing and ceram-
building, the administration asked me to it in ninth grade. Ms. Winslow now has an “and when he became principal, the seed ics and jewelry design,” she said. And
design my own art room, and asked me assistant teacher, Mira Levy, “who was my that would build the arts program, and there’s more. “We do 2-D and 3-D art.”
what I wanted in it. student, and now she has a degree in fine make it unique to the school, was able to They do installation art and experiential
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Carly Rosenblatt created this piece for the unit on altered books, where
students make flat objects multidimensional.
art and virtual reality art and multisen- In the arts electives, “The goal is to do
sory art. If it’s art, they do it. “The pro- more fine-art related work one semes-
gram has really expanded,” Ms. Winslow ter, and more mixed media the second
understated. semester,” she said. That’s for the first
Frisch offers arts electives for stu- two years. “Then by junior year, they
dents who are not in the arts track; often know what they like and what they don’t
; the musicians and the visual artists are like. If they had never had a chance to
talented in both areas. This way, their try, they never would have known.”
choice of one over the other is made The fact that Frisch is a Jewish school,
e less stark. Also, “we do have an overlap and its students live in a Jewish world,
- between artists and poets and writers,” with Jewish values and references, is an
d she said. “We do a lot of interdisciplinary integral part of the art program.
stuff in Judaic and secular studies. That Ms. Winslow’s newest class — “it is my
is the beauty of working together.” baby, and I love it,” she said — draws on
Lavi Friedman’s piece for the biblical portraits class, made of cardboard,
fabric, and yarn, is another look at Rahav’s transition from sinner to savior.
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making graphic novels of Samson’s life. and draw something so you know what it
“We are analyzing his character,” Ms. looks like.” It does not demand only lin-
Winslow said. “He is complex. We have ear, sequential thinking, but allows mul-
open discussions, and with Samson I tidirectional connections to be made.
had so many students questioning why “It means that they already are think-
he was a judge to begin with. What does ing visually,” Ms. Winslow said. “They
it mean?” are thinking about the analysis in a dif-
One of the ways the students puz- ferent way. It means that often they go
zle through the characters is through back to the text to rethink it, because
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own,” Klagsbrun said. Orthodox rabbi who controls the site.
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Meir had refused even to meet with me. regarded as an American import.
Hostile Israeli women leaders, like so “The issue of religious courts, of
many male Jewish leaders in the United divorce, of agunot, still thousands of
States, considered ‘women’s lib’ a threat them here, that’s far more important
to the Jewish family.” than praying at the Kotel,” said Alice
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say. Elana Sztokman, a writer focused Women’s Network. “I’m expressing the
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Israel in 1993. She lives in Modiin and estranged husbands refuse to grant them
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a grassroots organization that brings There are areas in which Israeli
together women from every sector of women are ahead of their U.S. counter-
Israeli life — religious and secular, con- parts, interviewees said.
servative and progressive, Arab and Israel has a higher percentage of
Jewish — to press for a settlement to the women elected to its national legislature,
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. the Knesset, than do America’s Senate or
“In my experience, Israelis aren’t House of Representatives, according to
really interested in influencing Amer- a new report on the state of women’s
ica or being influenced by America,” issues in Israel. It was commissioned by
Sztokman said. “There is a resistance of Israel’s Dafna Fund and the New York-
native-born Israelis to impact by Ameri- based National Council of Jewish Women
can-born women.” By way of example, and released in late March.
she noted a distinct lack of interest by It has been two decades since Israel’s
the Hebrew-language media in covering High Court granted a woman the right
events spurred by American issues, like to become a combat pilot. Today more
a March for Our Lives in Tel Aviv. than 90 percent of the Israeli military’s
“There’s a common sentiment here positions are open to enlisted women,
that Americans come here, stay in including selected combat roles. All
expensive hotels,1 and have a lot of U.S. military combat positions opened
money to spend without really under- up to women in 2015. A third of Israel’s
standing the nuances of Israeli life,” she military personnel are women, com-
said. “Israel is also preoccupied with its pared with about 14 percent in the U.S.
own issues,” like terrorism and security. armed forces.
Nevertheless, “We the feminist move- “Israel’s Declaration of Independence
ment, the social change movement, mentions women, unlike ours,” said
have learned a tremendous amount Kaufman, adding that Israelis are more
from American Jewish activists,” said adept at using the legal system to further
Hamutal Gouri, a founding leader of women’s rights. In Israel there is univer-
Women Wage Peace. “Especially when sal paid maternity leave and women
Israel started building its civil society can also obtain safe, legal abortions,
and social change movements, so much unlike growing swaths of America. And
was influenced by theories and prac- Israeli law requires at least one woman
tices of Jewish American organizers.” to be on each public company’s board
Women of the Wall, which advocates of directors.
for women to pray as they wish at the But in other ways, Americans take
Western Wall, embodies the influence a lead. Hoffman said there is a certain
and limits of largely American feminist expectation of being treated fairly that
ideas in Israel. Americans launched the American Jewish women have — and
group in 1988. They were in Israel for Israelis do not.
the First International Feminist Jewish “It was bred out of us as very young
Conference when Rivka Haut organized girls,” she said. “I’m so grateful for ecol-
a group of 70 to pray together at the ogy, feminism, itemized bills. Americans
Kotel. Klagsbrun headed the procession have a sense of fairness from your Con-
while carrying a Torah scroll, making stitution or Bill of Rights. They expect
her the first woman in history to bring some things that Israelis can’t even
one to the Western Wall. dream of.”
“There is a lot of cross-fertilization” between the two com- a Talmud scholar and future rabbi, and Arlene Agus, who was the first time I had seen a Torah scroll up close,” she
munities, said Nancy Kaufman, CEO of the National Coun- revived the ancient custom of celebrating rosh chodesh (the said. “I was 53 years old and thought if I’d been a boy,
cil of Jewish Women. Her organization convened a sympo- start of each month) as a women’s holiday. They told her I would have done this 40 years earlier. The unfairness
sium in Israel in March that brought together 260 Israeli and about Ezrat Nashim, a group advocating for greater ritual and injustice of it struck me so.”
American women. We are constantly engaging with Israelis roles for women, Shalvi said. At the time she was princi- Since then there has been enormous growth in the
when they come to the U.S., and we would love to formalize pal of Jerusalem’s Pelech school for Orthodox girls, which number of women seriously engaged in Torah scholar-
an exchange program.” from its founding included Talmud study. Yet she had never ship, from the plethora of post-high school seminary
Shalvi, a longtime Jewish educator, described how she thought of women leading worship. programs for girls in Israel to graduate programs in
was influenced by religious feminists in America. On her On her second visit to the U.S., in 1979, Shalvi was first Talmud for women in the United States, including at
first visit to New York, in 1977, she met Judith Hauptman, called to the Torah. And she burst into tears. “I realized it the Orthodox Yeshiva University, and in Israel at Bar-
Ilan University.
Despite the cross-fertilization of ideas, a mystique
about Israeli women still has a hold on American Jews,
said Galit Peleg, Israel’s consul for public diplomacy
in New York. It has been revived by Wonder Woman
herself. Since portraying the superhero in the 2017 film,
Israeli actress Gal Gadot has since been nearly ubiqui-
tous in American media, charming late night talk show
hosts and audiences alike with her confidence and
warm candor.
“She’s not a Woody Allen,” said Peleg, meaning a
neurotic, weak, diaspora-type Jew. “She’s the Israeli
woman that kicks ass.”
Peleg recently spoke to a group of Americans at a
pre-Passover event and mentioned, in passing, hav-
ing served in Israel’s military. From that moment on,
that’s all the American Jewish women wanted to hear
about, she said.
It seems that the Wonder Woman effect — the image
of Israeli women as strong, confident, funny and warm
— clings to the way American Jewish women think of
their Israeli sisters. Yet there are challenges unique to
Israeli women, experts say. “The state of constant con-
flict and a divisive political landscape is a reality that
especially marginalizes women’s voices,” according
to the NCJW/Dafna Fund report. “Rising nationalism
and religious fundamentalism that is increasingly part
of the political atmosphere is further preventing the
inclusion of women’s voices in public debate.”
There are also ways in which Israeli women are try-
ing to bring their confidence to American Jews.
Take Supersonos. The organization was created in
Israel by advertising executive Hana Rado three years
ago. Its goal is to increase women’s visibility as speak-
ers on panels and at conferences, and on boards of
directors. Supersonos has grown rapidly in Israel and
in newer outposts in Berlin, London, and New York,
said Keren Kay, a co-founder. Three years ago it had
100 women in its network of professionals. Now it has
more than 2,000, said Kay, who lives in New York.
“We’re taking already-empowered women and
putting them at influential junctions — conferences,
media, seminars, board members and manage-
ment,” she said. “The ‘men’s club’ is going out to
drinks after work. We are trying to create the same
network for women.”
But the culture gap has an impact: Supersonos holds
networking events in New York. And though there
have been powerful women working on the same
issues in the American Jewish community for years,
Kay was unaware of them.
“It’s a dialogue,” said Women Wage Peace’s Gouri.
“I wish there was more of a dialogue and that there
was more of an exchange. There is so much for us on
both sides to learn. We need to come together in more
meaningful ways to leverage our collective impact.”
NCJW’s Kaufman said: “We have a lot to learn from
the Israelis and we have a lot to offer them in build-
ing civil society. There’s learning back and forth from
both sides. We’re going to try to build this woman-to-
woman relationship over the next 70 years.”
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she was inspired to organize the vigil complicity in the genocide. Zuroff, the
after seeing the mobilization of Ukraini- Eastern Europe director of the Simon
ans around the 75th commemorations in Wiesenthal Center, co-authored “Our
2015 of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine. People” with the popular author Ruta
Guests of Honor
“It was moving to see ordinary Ukrai- Vanagaite.
RABBI ZVI SOBOLOFSKY nians lighting candles,” she said. “It was In recent weeks, though, a Lithuanian
Rosh Yeshiva, RIETS all over the news in Ukraine.” Cabinet minister submitted legislation
But in Latvia, commemorations of the that would outlaw the sale of material
Rav, Congregation Ohr HaTorah
Rumbula massacre held at the woods that “distorts historical facts” about his
Bergenfield, New Jersey
where the killings occurred “were a country — an echo of a similar and con-
mostly Jewish affair,” said Tomsone, who troversial bill recently passed in Poland.
DR. EFRAT SOBOLOFSKY had lived in Israel for 14 years and stud- Vanagaite has left Lithuania amid a smear
Director, YUConnects ied religion there. campaign against her: After she dared
“I wanted to make something that criticize a Lithuanian nationalist hero,
would reflect how the people who were her publishing house recalled and shred-
Tribute to the Memory of murdered were a loss to the whole of Lat- ded all of her books.
via,” she said. “In the Baltics, the local population
RABBI MEYER KRAMER Z”L Tomsone, 43, insists that she did not set was heavily complicit in the near anni-
up the vigil with the intention of reclaim- hilation of the Jewish community, so
ing Freedom Monument from the nation- there’s particularly strong resistance to
alists who have made it infamous. But she facing that reality,” Zuroff said. “But the
acknowledged that her actions can be actions of ultranationalists are generating
Parent Honorees seen as having achieved exactly that. resistance. It’s a pendulum effect and it’s
DR. BARRY AND “It’s kind of this sacred monument and not clear how it all will turn out, but for
there’s this notion of what you’re allowed sure there’s resistance and scrutiny that
MRS. MARCIA LEVINSON to do there, so that’s good to break that weren’t there just a few years ago.”
stereotype,” she said. Ilya Lensky, director of the Jews in
Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff said Latvia Museum here, said he regarded
the vigil in Riga is part of a recent devel- the candle-lighting memorial for Holo-
Parent Honorees opment in the Baltic states of Lithuania caust victims as “significant.” But he also
and Latvia. In Lithuania, he said, “we said that the march by the SS veterans
DR. DANIEL AND are seeing the first signs of acceptance was “greatly inflated in Russian media”
MRS. MICHELLE BERMAN of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust and that Jews in Latvia generally do not
as an integral part of Lithuanian society, encounter discrimination or intimidation
and acknowledgement of the highly sig- by the Latvian far right.
nificant role of all strata of Lithuanian “Holocaust denial is pretty much non-
society in Holocaust crimes.” existent,” Lensky said. “Latvia has always
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call 212.960.5400 x6133, or caust — often with government support lighting vigil, attending also was an act of
email rietsgala@yu.edu or indifference. protest against the veneration of SS veter-
In Lithuania, hundreds of nationalists ans on the site.
march each year with swastikas and ban- “This memorial event near the monu-
ners carrying portraits of collaborators ment I think not only counterbalances
the SS march, but helps strengthen human- Legionnaires are buried, rather than at
ist foundations of society,” Gersons Bre- the Freedom Monument, she stipulated.
slavs, a Latvian Jewish psychologist who Her approach, she said, is informed by
attended last year’s Holocaust vigil, said. her own family’s story.
Some in Riga seek more confrontational Local authorities under German occu-
manners of expressing their disapproval of pation locked up her great-uncle and
the march. grandfather for three days until one of
Joseph Koren, founder of Latvia Without them, the great-uncle, Eduards Liepa-
Fascism, regularly pickets the march, along jnieks, agreed to “volunteer” — part of
with some 20 protesters who demonstrate the strategy of coercion that local author-
even though police won’t give them per- ities under Nazi occupation in Latvia
mission for a counter rally. used to conscript young men who did not
“It’s a disgrace for this country, which volunteer to serve in the SS. Eduards was
is increasingly behaving like a police state, killed fighting the Russians as a member
and it’s a disgrace for the European Union of the German army. Tomsone’s grandfa-
that it allows a member state to have SS ther, Fricis, withstood the pressure and
veterans march through the streets to be was released shortly after his brother
received as heroes,” he said. acquiesced, she said.
Several protesters are arrested each “To this day, my grandfather is angry at
year, despite the fact that Latvian law his brother’s weakness,” Tomsone said.
allows individuals to protest anything with- “He talks about it all the time, how his
out a permit as long as they don’t incite to brother would still be alive if he had more
violence or advertise the demonstration in of a spine.”
the media. The story, she said, shows the nuances
Like Koren, Tomsone says she dislikes about collaboration in Latvia.
the SS march at Freedom Monument. But “No, they did not all join under the
unlike him, she accepts the moral right of threat of execution, as some argue,” she
Latvians to commemorate soldiers who said. “But they didn’t all join because they
died fighting for Adolf Hitler’s army, she were bloodthirsty fascists, either. As usual,
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hand in hand with all other forms of physical and I’VE BEEN THINKING
mental abuse, so the halachah sought to get at the
broader problem by attacking it at its most basic The only constant in life
L
level. Men have no power over women, whether
those women are their wives or not. et me try to keep some of the Pesach spirit alive often many more boisterous relatives (necessitating us to
It is that simple, and our law codes are that blunt. by beginning this column with a multiple choice move our sideboard to our living room for the duration),
Spousal abuse, which should not be a problem question: Change is (a) good, (b) bad, (c) scary, our single table (with the sideboard in its usual place) was
in the Jewish community — and should never have (d) difficult, (e) all of the above, or (f ) all of the surrounded by just the five immediate family members liv-
been tolerated by us precisely because our rules above plus some more adjectives I want to save for use later ing in the area. (My Toronto daughter, son-in-law, and three
from day one have been so strict — is as serious a in this column grandchildren didn’t join us until chol hamoed.)
problem with us as it is everywhere else. While there is, of course, no one correct answer to this It was a very different seder. We missed the loud sing-
The dirty little secret has to stop being a secret. question (as was true of the LSAT questions in my day, when ing, cajoling the youngest child to say the Mah Nishtana
We need to talk about it. We need to deal with it. they used to tell us to pick the best one), my answer is, to in Hebrew, and having the questions then repeated in
We need to eliminate it. no surprise, (f ). And for me, it’s not simply that different French, Yiddish, Japanese, American Sign Language, and
One way to help do so is to support the work changes have different answers. More interestingly, it’s that any other tongue someone knew or just learned. This year
of Project Sarah through our donations and/or the very same change can have different, and perhaps con- it simply was ASL signed by our daughter, who is a teacher
our volunteerism. Among other steps we can tradictory, answers. of the deaf, and Hebrew recited by the youngest child —
take are these: So, for example, as I sat with my wife and daughter at our 27-year-old daughter. We also missed hearing the vari-
• Ask our synagogue boards or ritual committees this year’s Teaneck Yom HaShoah commemoration (deeply ous divrei Torah the children had learned in school, and
to dedicate one Shabbat annually to this topic. meaningful and moving, as always, though a bit too long), I we missed laughing as our nephew entertained us with his
• Urge our pulpit rabbis to make the issues noticed that when the survivors in the audience were asked revised version of a seder story I taught him, a story that
involved the theme of a sermon at least twice a year to rise, their numbers had diminished dramatically from my grandfather told every year when I was a child.
previous years. Also, when the six three-generational fami- But together with what we lost there was much we
lies (survivor, child, and grandchild) slowly gained. The lovely, sweet, intimate atmo-
ascended to the stage to light candles in mem- sphere allowed all to participate actively and
ory of the six million we lost, there were now remain engaged with one another, kept side
The The dirty little six chairs, so each of the survivors could sit. I
remembered, though, that in past years there
discussions to a bare minimum, and elimi-
nated disruptive political arguments. And
secret has to stop had been no chairs or only one or two were we still sang all the traditional songs (“tra-
being a secret. We necessary. We were confronted visually with
the sad change that time often brings.
ditional” includes “frogs here, frogs there”
even without younger children present, and
need to talk about And yet, I also noticed that some of the a Yiddish version of Adir Hu taught to me by
it. We need to deal six families are now four-generational, with
great-grandchildren of survivors also partici- Joseph C.
my grandfather) and ate all the traditional
foods (“traditional” includes chicken mar-
with it. We need pating — a sign of the ultimate Jewish victory Kaplan bella at dinner after the matzah and marror)
to eliminate it. over the Nazis, albeit at far too great a cost.
And so this change also represents survival,
— all with gusto. Magid was faster, we cut out
the dessert course at the first seder (helping
endurance, pride, and hope. us to hopefully meet our goal of fitting into our wedding
(and especially during the High Holy Days, when My family also has experienced change in yom tov cel- attire at the end of June), my afikoman was still where I
the most people will be in shul to hear it). ebrations. In the first years of our marriage, we would placed it when we reached Nirtza at the second seder, and
• Ask our men’s clubs and sisterhoods to sched- spend the yomim tovim at our parents’ homes, always no one conked out in the middle, because we finished by
ule a study session with the rabbi in which he or being careful, of course, to alternate the venue. But as midnight rather than our usual 2 a.m.
she will teach what Jewish law has to say about such our family grew and the pull to create our own chag grew We also were honest enough to realize that the aging
abusive behavior, and how to identify abuse. (If a stronger, we began sharing Pesach and Sukkot with my process meant that without the help of our wonderful chil-
synagogue has an adult education director, he or wife’s sister and family who lived a short and pleasant dren we could not do all the physical labor required to
she also should be encouraged to plan an appropri- (when the wind off the river wasn’t howling) five-block prepare and turn over the kitchen twice and set up and
ate program, preferably on an annual basis.) walk down Riverside Drive. Pesach sedarim and meals break down all the boxes in our garage, where we stack
• Also ask the men’s clubs and sisterhoods to were in Andrea and David’s apartment, with its larger many of our Pesach pots, pans, and utensils on tables dur-
schedule separate open forums for their members dining room and kitchen, while Sukkot meals were in ing the holiday, retrieving them as we need them, replac-
to discuss the issues in a group setting, and invite the sukkah in our building courtyard, which was quite ing them when we’re finished. (Our kitchen is small!) And
Project Sarah to provide someone to facilitate those roomy and thus could accommodate our growing fami- while that’s a difficult fact to confront, it came along with
discussions. lies more easily. (Note: both families shared the shop- the realization that our children are perfectly capable of
• Place ads in our synagogue bulletins to alert con- ping, cooking, and cleaning-up chores, no matter the carrying out the traditions and hard work that go into
gregants about the existence of Project Sarah, the holiday or location of meals.) making a family yom tov and thankfully have absorbed
services it offers, and the phone number for victims And when we moved to Teaneck, we kept up this hol- the values that make all that work worthwhile
to call: (973) 777-7638. iday-sharing practice, though it all moved to our house, Our seder and Pesach preparations certainly have
May the day come when we have no need for a where accommodations were easier to find for the visi- changed, but these changes had both sad and heartwarm-
Project Sarah. Until then, Project Sarah needs us. Its tors and we had our own private sukkah. This wonderful ing elements at the same time.
work must be our work. family tradition thus continued, with the addition of chil- One adjective I did not use in my question at the top
You can find information about Project Sarah’s dren-in-law and grandchildren, for 33 years. At some point of this column but will add now is “inevitable,” since as
breakfast online at jfsclifton.org/projectsarah/ during that time, our parents and some other siblings and long as we breathe and think we will continue to experi-
projectsarahbreakfast families began joining us. ence change in many forms and be affected by it in dif-
Starting this Jewish year, however, it became too difficult ferent ways; we are never, as the saying goes, able to step
for our Manhattan relatives to spend the holidays with us. into the same river twice. And that’s one more thing that
We didn’t feel this change too much at Sukkot (other than makes life and change — and here’s my final adjective —
my wife taking on all the preparation duties, aided by our so very exciting.
The opinions expressed in this section
daughters), because our new sukkah, which we bought
are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the
about seven years ago, is far more spacious than our dining Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist, is a long-time
newspaper’s editors, publishers, or other staffers.
room, allowing us to fill it with guests for each meal. resident of Teaneck. His work also has appeared in various
We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to
But when we sat down to the first Pesach seder, the publications including Sh’ma magazine, the New York Jewish
jstandardletters@gmail.com.
change was palpable. Instead of the two tables we previ- Week, the Baltimore Jewish Times, and, as letters to the
ously crammed into our dining room to fit in at least 15 and editor, the New York Times.
I
am inside the world’s most famous roommate. “Look. They all got their hair the awning, the carpet, the dress? You don’t even know
bridal store, navigating a sea of done. And their makeup is perfect.” tiny lights in the chande- her! And I fret: Will she
women. Women everywhere, only I had forgotten about the show that liers. White are the mold- remember to tell the atten-
women, of every shape and height made the store a household name, “Say ing and trim, the flowers in dant that we have a limited
and size and color and ethnic group, rang- Yes to the Dress.” To me, Kleinfeld is still urns and vases, the smiles budget? That her dress needs
ing in age from perhaps eight to seventy. a scruffy bridal boutique in Bay Ridge, of the attendants. White are sleeves, can’t be backless or
My daughter’s friends arrived early, and Brooklyn, where you can buy a sample the gowns hanging on white strapless or plunge too low?
they call me over, grinning and waving dress for $500 dollars, or a designer gown hangers and white racks, and In the distance, I see a
their arms. I try to check in with the exqui- for $10,000. white is the color of the light vision, a spectacular Bot-
sitely beautiful girl behind the counter — Finally, my daughter strides through the in the cupboards behind the Helen ticelli Venus of a girl with
Kleinfeld will charge you a hundred dollars double doors, her mane of curls stream- dresses. White are the brides, Maryles long tawny hair making her
if you miss your appointment, and we are ing behind her. She checks in and we are pivoting on little round plat- Shankman way across the room. People
running late — but the beautiful girl hap- assigned an attendant. Brandy is a cheer- forms in front of their fami- at other stations turn their
pily informs me that my daughter is the ful girl with bobbed blonde hair, crimson lies. I’ve never seen so many heads to stare. The vision
only one allowed to check in. So I wend my lipstick, and a club-kid white complexion. shades of white in one place; creamy comes closer. My daughter approaches
way through the rising and falling waves of Like all the attendants, she is dressed in white, pearly white, transparent white, us, in a perfect lace gown that makes
women to my daughter’s friends, and we black from head to toe. ivory white, silver white, champagne her look like a princess in a fairy tale. My
exchange excited greetings. We follow Brandy from the packed white, diamond white, a white with tones daughter, the bride.
A bouncy party of ladies at the ban- reception area into the bridal salon, a of pink, a white that is nearly gold; white My heart beats so hard I think it’s going
quette next to ours is called to meet their blindingly bright room approximately as the feathers of an angel’s wing. to jump out of my chest. I’m literally shak-
bridal attendant. They are wearing identi- the size of an airplane hangar. Massive Brandy deposits us at a couch near the ing. She steps up on the little round plat- B
cal black t-shirts declaring their relation- chandeliers are suspended from the ceil- wall of tiaras, hands us bottles of water form as the attendant poofs out her train. p
ships to the bride in curly red script: “I’m ing twenty feet above our heads. The with “Kleinfeld” printed on the labels. She looks at herself in the mirror.
Her Grandmother!!!” “I’m Her Aunt!!!” rows of track lights make me feel like I’m We stand in a circle, my daughter’s col- “What do you think, Mom?” she says.
“I’m Her Mom!!!” in an art gallery, or a theater. lege friends and me, as she leads my lit- What do I think? A minute ago, it was
Drifting languidly toward the door like As my eyes adjust, I see a vast, airy space tle girl away to the dressing rooms. “The me trying on wedding dresses, with my
so many gazelles is a herd of lanky, tanned punctuated by sofas and chairs. The seat- next time you see her, she’ll be wearing mother smiling through her tears. A min-
blondes. They stand out from the crowd in ing arrangements divide the room into a wedding dress,” Brandy promises as ute ago, it was me and my best friends
their coordinating peach summer dresses. smaller areas that are both private and she departs. clowning around at Kleinfeld, snapping
I notice a little girl in a short spaghetti completely visible to everyone else, all at I feel a little abandoned. Hey, what pictures of the dresses when the attendant
strap dress. It is 40 degrees outside. the same time. Did I mention it was white? about me? I want to shout at Brandy. I’m wasn’t looking. A minute ago, I was shop-
“They must hope they’re going to be White are the walls, the woodwork, the the mommy! Shouldn’t I be back there ping for her dresses at Baby Gap, and she
filmed for the show,” says my daughter’s columns holding up the ceiling. White is too, helping my baby choose her wedding thought the clowns rotating slowly around
I
n late 2001, America bore witness The Bush administration provisions for a $2 billion
to 9/11 and the aftermath of Presi- decided to leave the Israel grant and $9 billion in loan
dent Bush preparing to intervene piece out and address it at guarantees for Israel, and
in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was The educational a later time, which could Israel was able to complete
around that time that the Second Intifada have meant never. The the security perimeter and
was at its peak. Yasir Arafat had rejected process for Jewish advocacy commu- largely halt the terrorism
the proposed peace deal that President members of nity, realizing the situa- and hemorrhage. Many Jew-
Clinton tried to broker, and instead tion was grave, turned to a ish lives were saved. Israel
moved toward a violent confrontation. Congress about great friend — then-Majority moved to a more secure sit-
There was no effective border sepa- the dangers of Leader Congressman Tom Dr. Ben uation, physically and eco-
rating the Palestinian Authorities terri- DeLay (R-Texas) — for help. Chouake nomically. We were able to
tories and Israel. The Israeli economy Iran, militant The majority leader called solicit this help at a crucial
was affected by both the general 9/11 Islam, BDS, and Condoleezza Rice, Bush’s point in time. One phone
downturn and uncontrolled terrorism national security advisor, and advised call made the difference, because we had
in the country. Tourism was drastically other issues is an her that Congress wanted the funding relationships to make our case for better
down, the streets of Jerusalem largely ongoing process. for Israel in this adviser supplemental American policy.
vacant, and there even were rumors appropriations bill and that he personally An important message of Passover
that Israel bonds were not secure. The would do everything he could to include is that we must remember that we are
number of casualties and deaths, while were funds to help some of our Arab it. He concluded that it would be better a vulnerable people. The Jews lived in
less than during the Yom Kippur War, allies offset some of their costs for sup- that the president get credit and input Egypt for many years in prosperity and
almost were comparable. porting the effort to overthrow Saddam into the specifics for the supplemental peace, and in the blink of an eye they
The Bush administration was submit- Hussein. Israel had made a request for a appropriations for our ally and asked that were subscribed into involuntary servi-
ting a request to Congress for a supple- $3 billion grant and $12 billion in Ameri- the administration include these provi- tude. So has been our fate as a people
mental appropriations bill in the amount can loan guarantees, which were worth sions for Israel in the submitted request. for thousands of years, having to flee
of about $81 billion dollars for the war even more than the grant due to saved The administration did make the one country after another, until now
effort. In that appropriations request interest costs and the ability to borrow. requested change, and the bill included that we have our homeland, Israel. Jews
W
bottles of Kleinfeld water. She tries on
four more dresses. We take lots of pic- e seem to be a generation about where our principles and pas-
tures. She looks gorgeous in all of them. obsessed with recording sions reside.
But to me, only the first one matters, the our life stories. This month is ripe with opportunities
one that finally made me understand that Everyone is con- for us to demonstrate our collective sup-
my daughter really is getting married. stantly trying to capture the moment in port for the state of Israel and for keep-
It’s not about me making choices for her. selfies, on Instagram and Facebook, so ing the memory of the six million alive
She is stepping into her adult life, the one that we can share our personal journeys through our actions and not just our
where I am not in charge. with friends and family, near and far. It’s words. By attending these events, our
By the end of our session, she has the age of techno-storytelling. words and our deeds truly are aligned.
decided she likes two of the dresses. Yet haven’t Jews always been storytell- As we count the days of the Omer until
Brandy slips us her card and advises us ers? Only the method has changed over Shavuot, when we accept the Torah,
that if we want either one, we’d better time. We just finished retelling the story of we make a choice that only free people
order it by Tuesday. We smile and nod. our ancestors through the Haggadah and can make. The Torah is our blueprint
The wedding is six months away. We have we continue to share our present-day sto- for a lifetime of freedom, granted to us
an appointment at another, more afford- ries through the medium of technology. after taking our collective and personal
able store later this week. During Passover we recount journeys. But we all know
We have a group hug with the brides- where we came from liter- that true freedom doesn’t
maids, and then my daughter and I leave ally, and counting the Omer happen in an instant.
Bottles of privately-labeled water are the store. On the way out, I impulsively points us in the direction of Rather, attaining freedom
part of the Kleinfeld experience. take her hand. For a while, we walk down where we need to be going is a long and laborious
Fifth Avenue like that—as if she is still a lit- figuratively. With the sed- process. As the Slonimer
her mobile were the greatest show on tle girl, and I am afraid she will get lost in ers behind us, we’re now rebbe teaches, while God
earth. How did the years pass so quickly? the crowd if I let go. embarked on a 49-day spiri- brought us physically out
“You look like a goddess!” I blurt. Her tual journey that takes us of the land of Egypt, it is
friends chorus their agreement. She looks Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is from Egypt to Mount Sinai, now up to each of us indi-
incredible. It’s like the dress was created an artist and writer. Her work appears in from the hardship of slavery Dr. Tani vidually to embark on our
just for her. many fine journals, including The Kenyon to receiving the Torah and Foger own personal inner jour-
Today, we do not say yes to the dress. Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and our religious freedom. neys towards freedom,
We came here for the full Kleinfeld Cream City Review. Scribner recently It is said that you can’t both spiritual and religious.
experience. We take frequent breaks to published her second novel, “In The Land know where you are going unless you This period of the counting of the
admire or critique the gowns that girls of Armadillos.” know where you have come from. The Omer is an awesome time of potential for
importance of telling our story never inner growth. Each day brings us a step
has been more crucial than now, on closer in the right direction as we strive
each Holocaust Memorial Day, as we to improve ourselves through introspec-
recall the darkest period in our recent tion, reflection, and the development of
history, when our very existence was our best attributes.
almost obliterated. With every passing
Yom HaShoah v’Hagevura it becomes
more and more essential that we tell
and retell the stories of survivors, of
their heroism and their indomitable The Torah is our
have a sanctuary and the pride of a
nation built with the help of God.
The extra effort is highly leveraged,
which is why we put in so much work to
spirit. We must remember the lives
they rebuilt when all was taken from
blueprint for a
As with most of our battles for the sur- make it possible. Norpac leadership is them. We must share their stories so lifetime of
vival of our people and homeland, we are arranging meetings with 90 percent of that the world cannot minimize or
expected to be active participants, to be Congress. We are all busy. But ask your- deny them.
freedom, granted
willing to fend for ourselves, and to earn the self: Is there anything you must do this It is now our job to carry forth to us after taking
help of the Almighty. April 25th that is more important than the their mantle so that the world will
The educational process for members of opportunity to make the case for Israel always remember.
our collective
Congress about the dangers of Iran, militant personally to the receptive leaders of the Pirkei Avot instructs us: Lo hamidrash and personal
Islam, BDS, and other issues is an ongoing world’s most powerful nation? ha-ikkar. Elah hama’aseh — “Words are
process. The legislators you meet in Wash- There are 52 Wednesdays every year. not the essence. Actions are.” This is
journeys.
ington on the Norpac mission likely will How many of them do you remember? such a powerful lesson to use to remind
learn more from your exchange on these Come on the Norpac mission to Washing- ourselves and to model for our children May we all continue to learn how to
issues and pending related legislation than ton on April 25. If possible, bring a fam- — that our actions speak to what our val- make our lives more meaningful by
from any other source all year. ily member, a child, or a grandchild who ues and our core beliefs are, and that we focusing on our deeds and on being our
While it is fine to say how much you care is 12 or older. It will be a Wednesday that are judged by what we do rather than by best selves. And may we all strive to con-
about Israel to yourself, your friends, and you and those with you will remember for what we say. We all know that our chil- tinue to model good deeds to our chil-
your children, you demonstrate your inten- a lifetime. dren learn by watching us and that they dren and to each other, so that we can
tions and commitment to our nation’s lead- emulate our behavior. lead by example, as we continue to share
ers by showing up. Members of Congress Dr. Ben Chouake, M.D., of Englewood is the The month of Iyar is filled with mean- our stories.
take note of actual citizen activity. Every national president of Norpac, the largest ingful commemorations, created to mark
email you send to our representatives is the pro-Israel political action committee in the seminal events in our recent history; Tani Foger, Ed.D, LPC of Englewood, is a
equivalent of 10 votes, each phone call is the United States. He runs a medical practice Yom HaShoah, Yom Hazikaron, Yom psychologist and educational consultant.
same as 100 votes. Showing up in D.C. per- in Cliffside Park and is a board member of Ha’atzmaut. While many events demand She is the founder of “Let’s Talk”
sonally is the equivalent of 10,000 voters. It several Jewish organizations on the local and our attention, showing up to attend these Guidance Workshops: Conquering the
may seem like a lot, and it is. national level. important ceremonies speaks volumes Challenges in Our Lives.
I
t’s hard to say for sure
whether the following
fable was really told in
the Warsaw Ghetto, but
it’s grimly funny enough to
warrant repeating.
The story goes that at the
height of World War II, Win-
ston Churchill consulted with
the chasidic rabbi of Gur about Ben Cohen
the best way of bringing down
Nazi Germany. The rabbi told
the British wartime leader that there were two ways he
could think of — one natural, the other supernatural.
“The natural way would be if one million angels with
flaming swords descended on Germany and destroyed
it,” explained the rabbi. “The supernatural way would
be if one million British paratroopers descended on Ger-
many and did the same thing.”
“Supernatural” may be too weak a word to describe
how the very idea of outside military assistance must
have seemed to the approximately 70,000 Jews who
remained in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 19, 1943 — the
first night of Passover — as Nazi troops launched their
final liquidation. But by the time they finished that
operation on May 16 — with the symbolic burning of the
Warsaw Great Synagogue and the deportation of the
surviving inhabitants to death camps — hundreds of the
invaders lay dead or wounded after nearly a month of
savage fighting with the poorly armed, impossibly brave
Jewish fighters in the ghetto.
As the 75th anniversary of the uprising approaches The Mordechai Anielewicz statue at the Yad Mordechai kibbutz in southern Israel. Anielewicz was the
this week, there will be a great deal of solemn commem- young leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from April
oration of its heroes and victims. We think, for good rea- into May of 1943. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
not saying that we should unthinkingly apply the slogan ever has recorded Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS on Jewish
“Celebrate Resistance” to our commemorations of the
uprising; anyone with any knowledge of the starvation
in the general struggle affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
and humiliation visited upon the ghetto will understand for liberty. the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
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CannRx also develops unique drug-deliv- improving ASD symptoms; however, long-
ery products for the cannabis molecule term effects should be evaluated in large-
such as a novel vapor capture technology scale studies,” the study authors concluded.
(VCT) method to extract the oil of the plant Regarding other medical conditions,
for the most beneficial medical effects. scientists from Tel Aviv University and the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem showed
Autism, epilepsy, that CBD significantly enhanced healing
r fractures, diabetes in lab rats with thigh bone fractures; and
n Dr. Adi Aran, director of neuropediatrics at Ananda Scientific is investigating how CBD
r Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem may control and even prevent diabetes.
and a consultant to the Health Ministry for
d medical cannabis, explores the effects of Pain, PTSD, asthma
- medical cannabis on epilepsy and autism The opioid addiction crisis is driving
k spectrum disorder (ASD). increased interest in medical cannabis as an
- “The dramatic clinical effect seen in some alternative to other pain-relief medications.
cases has led me to further explore the poten- Israeli research published in the March
t tial benefits, and possible risks, of cannabi- 2018 issue of European Journal of Internal
h noids, particularly in children,” said Aran. Medicine showed the effectiveness and safety
. In 2016, he led the world’s first open-label of a six-month regimen of cannabis treatment
e trial studying the effect of cannabidiol (CBD) for pain in 2,736 patients aged 65 and older. Saturday, April 21st
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- said their previously uncommunicative “Gathering more evidence-based data, TOPIC: “I Want to Go Home”
d children started speaking or communicat- including data from double-blind random- What elopement and wandering mean for individuals with
e ing nonverbally — including one who said ized-controlled trials, in this special popula- dementia. How people who say they wanna go home are
“I love you” to his mother for the first time. tion is imperative,” concluded the authors, really expressing a need for security and safety.
h Encouraged by those results, Aran led who include Ran Abuhasira, Victor Novack
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A letter to Crane’s Mill
- My name is Margo Adelsberg and my Aunt Mill and then come home and eat a full meal.
g Elaine Lieb lives at Crane’s Mill. I would like I decided to bring a box of matzah that we
m to relay my extreme thanks for helping my could nibble on throughout dinner.
, twelve year old son (and me) to easily keep When we arrived to dine with my aunt,
to our Passover traditions while dining at Sapna came over and greeted us. I asked
x Crane’s Mill last night. what options were a possibility to eat dur-
e I had called earlier in the day and spoke ing dinner. I inquired about matzah pizza.
d with Meredith at the front desk about kosher Sapna was so amazing that she took our box
r options available for us in the evening while of matzah to the kitchen and prepared mat- 187-189 Paramus Road, Paramus
g we visited with my aunt. She offered that the zah pizza for all of us. It was so delicious!
chef would go shopping to purchase kosher Big thanks to Meredith, Sapna and the chef Learn more about Bergen County’s only
r meat and prepare it for us. I declined due to for helping us feel comfortable and maintain assisted living memory care center by visiting
s my son being a vegetarian, but was so appre- our Passover traditions while at Crane’s Mill.
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eat whatever we could while dining at Crane’s Margo Adelsberg
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his week I discovered that I philosophy — illuminates this time consuming and frus- wearer alone. Sadly, in a world chiefly pro-
was the victim of identity theft. idea by explaining that the trating. But with this thought pelled by superficial values, representing
Numerous accounts of various nature of leprosy challenges of Rabbi Schneur Zalman in oneself with two faces sounded reasonable
types were opened in my name us to reorient our percep- mind, I didn’t quite feel like to him. (I convinced him in the end, but he
and merchandise had been ordered from tions by contextualizing the my identity had been stolen. asked me not to share the idea since it was
online vendors which were then swiped disease in a positive spiritual On the contrary, rather than bad for business!)
from my mailbox and doorstep. It became light. He proceeds to explain a loss of personhood, I felt Identity theft can also take on a more
clear that my most sensitive and personal that Moshiach personifies the liberated from some aspects subtle yet even more egregious form
information had been compromised and powerful Divine revelation of my acquired, superficial where others attempt to modify your own
were floating around somewhere on the of the future Messianic era. Rabbi identity brought on by living identity while you are wearing it.
dark web. Someone out there was gallivant- As we stand at the threshold Chanoch in a world filled with false In the recent Mahwah Township eruv bat-
ing around using my identity as a Purim cos- of this great period we are Kaplan representation, virtual ava- tle which fueled a wave of anti-Semitic senti-
tume and representing themselves as me. I challenged to look past the Chabad Jewish tars, fake news, and innu- ment, some Mahwah (and Bergen County)
quickly went to work countering the breach world’s superficial ugliness Center of NW endo. I had been stripped residents pushed back against the attacks,
Bergen County,
by filing a police report, closing down fake and partake in the global Franklin Lakes, of material appendages recognizing a darker side of the issue that
accounts, proving my identity over and effort to unveil the Divine Orthodox sapping me with their dead was being masked by seemingly innocuous
over again by providing an ocean of arcane energy attempting to break weight, freeing me to take opposition to the eruv boundary.
details from my past, and finally working to through its surface, just as closer notice and appreciate I am fortunate to be closely acquainted
freeze and seal my credit. one must look past the Moshiach’s skin- what now remained: my soul, my mitz- with a Mahwah resident at the heart of
The experience made me think about deep ailment to see the redeemer within. vot, my life’s mission — my real and true the clash who determined not to give
Parshat Metzorah — the second of two Inasmuch as the surface affliction focuses identity. the haters a victory by allowing them to
Torah portions we read this Shabbat — in us on the issue and motivates us to look This thought reminded me of the time define and control his Jewish identity with
which we are treated to an elaborate and deeper, it may be re-interpreted as a hid- I was conversing with an optician who their vitriol and anti-Semitism. Instead,
detailed analysis of tzara’at, a spiritual den blessing. Similarly, when tzara’at posited that everyone should have mul- he peered deeply into his own soul and
affliction from Biblical times resembling afflicts an individual, they should view it tiple pairs of eyeglasses just as they have embarked on a process of Jewish self-
leprosy. The sages of the Talmud teach as a hidden blessing impelling and rallying many sets of clothing to suit their mood, discovery and empowerment. Today, he
(Sanhedrin 98b) that Moshiach — the Jew- the ailing person to see past their super- weather, and setting. After considering his studies Torah, attends Shabbat services,
ish redeemer — is called a metzorah, some- ficial, bodily façade to reveal and more viewpoint I countered that they are not at and has begun to define his own Jewish
one who has tzara’at, or, more colloquially deeply identify with their inner truth, their all comparable since we use our face to identity from within our historic Jewish
if less medically accurately, a leper. But holy soul within. manifest our innermost self — our singular, framework.
why is Moshiach specifically described as To be sure, the process of critical self- true identity — to others and this should Sometimes having your identity chal-
having leprosy and not any other illness? analysis and introspection which leads to be done in a consistent, unchanging man- lenged or stolen is, like tzara’at, a gift that
Rabbi Schneur Zalman — the author of this mindset is not a quick fix — just as the ner, whereas articles of clothing are worn prods us to discover the depth of character
the Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad process of cleaning up one’s my credit was on superficial body parts relating to the within.
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ne of my recurring themes is $5 cans of soda. And the Maccabeats.
tooting my horn about what Though, for all we know, all men
a great mother I am. a capella groups could have started back
I feel this way because in biblical times…
of the baseball road trips, toilet train- The Marlins were playing the Boston
ing members of the opposite sex (only Red Sox, so I knew I was in for a real
my own children, of course), living in treat. (That was to be read with a sarcas-
a house with all boys, and only seeing tic tone.) Play ball.
that there are girl-colored Legos for the Son #3 and I went to get food. We
first time two weeks ago. Who knew brought back the food. We ate the food.
there was a whole world of pink and And the game went on. I wasn’t really
purple Legos? I thought they only built paying attention, but then I realized we
cars and trains, came in red/green/blue/ were in the ninth inning (which is the
black, and to their main purpose was to last inning of the game, for those of you
teach you not to curse your still paying attention) and
head off in front of your chil- the score was tied. “Hey
dren when you stepped on guys, “ I said, “Since we
them without shoes. Sorry, aren’t really fans of either
I went off track there for team, and they have run
a bit. (And I only started out of kosher food, we
cursing in front of my kids aren’t staying for extra
recently. Am I supposed to innings, right?” Silly,
admit that? And recently is silly mom. “Of course we
a loose term, if I am being are staying!”
totally honest.) Banji This is when my
The baseball road trips Ganchrow thoughts go dark. I was
stopped the year of son #3’s eyeing the police officer
bar mitzvah. We couldn’t who was standing guard Across Down
go that summer, and then the follow- over the stadium of Jews, wondering 1. Prepare for surgery 1. Groundskeeper’s supply
ing summer, husband #1 took the boys what minor crime I could commit in 6. Flu symptoms 2. “Brain” of a computer
to Texas alone. I guess I am really only a order to be asked to leave the stadium. 11. “Mean Girls” screenwriter and costar 3. Portman’s “V for Vendetta” co-star
good mother. I would be a great mother Or what would happen if I jumped into 14. “La Bohème,” e.g. 4. Bookmarked thing
15. 9-Down, in Hebrew 5. Retreat
if I went with them on that trip. But, the net that protects the fans from foul
16. Game whose name is said near it’s 6. Follow, as a suggestion
have no fear, when they called me in a balls? Would I bounce like I was on end 7. Sound after “cha”
panic because they couldn’t find a place a trampoline, or would I go crashing 17. Status for one splitting time between 8. “Prince of Egypt” singer Ofra
to pray the evening services, I quickly through and injure someone? What Israel and America 9. First palindromic name in the Bible
went on Facebook and posted, “Hous- would happen If I went to the lost and 19. City close to Ben-Gurion Airport 10. An Israeli might wear one instead of
20. Basic monetary unit of Sweden a loafer
ton, we have a problem,” and I got them found and told them I lost my goldfish?
21. “La ___ Vita” (1960 film) 11. Complete ride, to Brandeis
a minyan. That changes my status back Clearly I had too much time on 23. Fighting back 12. Son of Cain
to great. Give me a second while I pat my hands. 27. Weekly reading 13. “Echad Mi ___”
myself on the back. The 10th inning, I did a Facebook 28. Gives a new lease 18. Purple blossom
Anyway, while we were in Florida live knowing that I was using up pre- 29. Lavender bloom 22. “....___ I like to call it...”
30. Not ___ in the world 23. Captivate a crowd, perhaps
for the Passover holiday, husband #1 cious data. The 11th inning, I went from
31. Like the Zohar, to some 24. Pie choice
informed me that we were going to 2000 steps to 8000 steps on my phone’s 33. Lose weight 25. Synagogues and temples
“Jew night” at Marlins Park. That is activity tracker. 12th inning, where is a 36. Part of a breath mint 26. “___ the ramparts ...”
where the Miami Marlins baseball team good cocktail when you need one? 13th 37. Ben (Cohen) & Jerry (Greenfield), 27. Line or dream
plays. Now, I have been to Marlins Park inning, that’s it, if it doesn’t end now, e.g. 29. Catholic observance
40. “Good Grips” kitchenware brand 31. ___ Yikra (Shabbat song)
on one of our road trips. In fact, I am I am just walking home. And then the
41. 6’11” Kanter of the Knicks 32. “Independence Day” assailants,
sure you all are interested to know that sky opened and the Lord answered my 43. Have guests for Shabbat briefly
it was the only game we ever went to prayers and the game ended and now so 44. Five-pillared faith 34. Aggrandize
that was rained out. And someone stole has this column… (The Red Sox won, in 46. Spice’s partner 35. Features of some stadiums
son #2’s fan, and I threatened husband case you were wondering.) 48. Clinton claimed he didn’t do it 38. King before Hezekiah
49. Israeli novelist of “A Perfect Peace” 39. Some salon activities
#1 with divorce. But that was the old
51. Bobka and meltaway cake, often 42. City of the Purim story
stadium, and they have since built this Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is still hoping 53. Dietetic, on packages 45. Word for a female
new stadium, so sad yada yada, I had to that this will be the year the Mets win 54. Majority of those that observe 47. Did really well on a test
go with them. the pennant. And that she finds Keith 44-Across 48. “That ___ longer an option”
The scene at Jew night is probably Hernandez’s head from his Starting 55. The Dead Sea, compared to every- 49. Kind of wrench
where else 50. “This Is Us” star
similar to that of when God split the Lineup action figure that she bought back
56. Words you don’t want to hear from 51. Fool
Red Sea, only with $13 turkey legs and in the ’80s… a captain... or a hint to solving 17 52. He got “Game”?
and 37-Across and 11 and 25-Down 54. Competed on “The Voice”
62. Brave one, Cockney style 57. Bar
63. Larry whose son Larry is now on the 58. Lanka land
Cavs 59. It’s not on a kosher menu
The scene at Jew night is 64. Mark papers
65. Biblical father of Abner
60. Courtroom affirmation
61. Signature piece?
probably similar to that of when 66. Kind of management
God split the Red Sea, only with 67. David who created “The Wire”
$13 turkey legs and $5 cans of The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 63.
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rowing up as a Jewish youngster in interwar
Germany could be idyllic — until, suddenly, it
wasn’t.
For thousands of unlucky, un-chosen, and
most decidedly un-Aryan youths, the joys of innocence, of
doting parents, sibling rivalry, and a serene feeling about
their tiny slice of the world, were snatched away and for-
ever upended on January 30, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler
came to power and began dismantling the Weimar Repub-
lic’s fragile democratic underpinnings.
Whether in cosmopolitan Berlin, a remote farming vil-
lage, or an industrial center, these youths paid an incal-
culable price. Classmates turned on them, teachers were
emboldened into shaming hostility, SA troopers attacked
them on the way to yeshiva or sat menacingly in the rear American soldiers dressed as German troops add realism to the training GIs undergo at Fort Ritchie, Maryland,
of the synagogue during services, sports leagues booted for their roles as interrogators and interpreters during World War II. U.S. ARMY SIGNAL CORPS
COURTESY JCCOTP
of the Palisades holds Concert in Paterson: Film in Teaneck:
a blood drive with the The Passaic County APRIL 27 Temple Emeth’s adult
American Red Cross, 10 Historical Society education group screens
a.m.-3 p.m. 1585 Center welcomes Blue Valley, a Shabbat in Wyckoff: a movie, 7 p.m., as part
Ave. (201) 945-7310, red Clifton-based acoustic Jane L. Rosen Temple Beth Rishon of its “Movies That
crossblood.org, or rock band, at Lambert offers the chance to Matter” series. Wendy
cbiotp.org. Castle, 5 p.m. 3 Valley Yochai Maital and Mishy meet its new rabbi, Winograd, clinical social
Road. (973) 247-0085 or Harman onstage. Beni Wajnberg, after worker and certified
Historic Israeli films in lambertcastle.org. Celebrating Israel in services, where he will psychoanalyst, will
Franklin Lakes: Temple Tenafly: Israel Story give a sermon, 7:30 p.m. analyze the film through
Emanuel of North Jersey presents “Mixtape: The Anyone interested in a Jewish lens and
screens four original Stories Behind Israel’s joining is welcome. from a psychoanalytic
films that follow Israel Ultimate Playlist,” a 585 Russell Ave. perspective.
from the years leading community event to (201) 891-4466 or www. Refreshments. 1666
to its birth to more celebrate Israel’s 70th bethrishon.org. Windsor Road.
recent times, 2 p.m. Ice birthday, at the Kaplen (201) 833-1322 or
cream and popcorn. 558 JCC on the Palisades, Shabbat in Closter: www.emeth.org.
High Mountain Road. 7:30 p.m. Live Temple Beth El holds
(201) 560-0200 or www. Israeli cuisine in
tenjfl.org. Pompton Lakes: performance with
storytelling, music,
a service led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
sunday
Congregation Beth student cantor Julie APRIL 29
Author in Paramus: singing, and multimedia
Klezmer in Bergenfield: Shalom’s book club Staple, with organ
Jane Rosen, an from Israel’s popular
T-Klez performs a screens “In Search of accompaniment,
author, screenwriter, podcast/award-winning
klezmer concert at Israeli Cuisine” and 7:30 p.m. 221
and Huffington Post radio show, about Israel’s
the Bergenfield Public offers Israeli snacks and Schraalenburgh Road.
contributor, discusses 70 years. 411 E. Clinton
Library, 2-3 p.m. The trio desserts prepared by (201) 768-5112.
her book “Nine Women, Ave. (201) 408-1456 or
includes percussionist book club members
One Dress” for Women’s JCCOTP.org/israel-story.
David Licht of from recipes of “Zahav,”
Bergenfield, a founding this year’s JFFNJ One Philanthropy of Jewish
member of the Book, One Community Federation of Northern
Klezmatics; accordionist Selection, 7 p.m. 21 New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.
Psachya Septimus, who Passaic Ave. www. Admission includes book,
has played with Avrohom bethshalomnj.org. kosher wine, cheese, and
dessert. 50 Eisenhower Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Fried, diaspora Yeshiva
Band, Yehuda Green, and Addressing addiction: Drive. www.jfnnj.org/
Breakfast for Israel:
Soulfarm; and clarinetist Amudim, a not-for- bookandauthor.
Jewish National Fund
Dena Ressler, who has profit organization that
hosts its Breakfast for
taught at KlezKamp
and the New England
supports individuals
and families dealing Tuesday Robert Jan Van Pelt Israel at the Rockleigh.
APRIL 24 featuring Rabbi Joseph
Conservatory of Music’s with substance abuse Rabbi Mordechai Shain PHOTO PROVIDED
Telushkin, lecturer and
summer Klezmer and addiction, hosts
Shabbat in Parsippany: bestselling author of
Institute. 50 West Clinton a program about American Jewish Rethinking our more than 15 books
Ave. (201) 387-4040 or awareness and education politicians: Shirley Laiks universe: Lubavitch Award-winning author
and Holocaust scholar on Jewish ethics and
www.TKlez.com. at Torah Academy of looks at “Prominent on the Palisades in
Robert Jan Van Pelt literacy. 9:30 a.m.,
Bergen County, Teaneck, American Jewish Tenafly offers a six-
gives the annual Joseph (973) 593-0095 or jnf.
8 p.m. Speakers include Political Figures” for session Rohr Jewish
Gotthelf Holocaust org/breakfastnnj.
Amudim director Rabbi Temple Beth Tikvah’s Learning Institute class,
Zvi Gluck, social worker Senior Daytime group, “What Is? Rethinking memorial lecture at
Spring boutique in
Avi Shteingart, Beth 1 p.m. 940 Preakness Everything We Know Temple Beth Am,
Tenafly: The Kaplen
Aaron’s Rabbi Larry Ave. (973)595-6565 or About Our Universe,” 7:30 p.m. He has studied
JCC on the Palisades
Rothwachs, a local templebethtikvahnj.org. led by Rabbi Mordechai Holocaust denial and
offers a boutique with
parent, and a recovering Shain, 8 p.m. 11 Harold St. testified for the defense
more than 50 vendors,
addict. 1600 Queen Anne (201) 871-1152, ext. 501, or in Deborah Lipstadt’s
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on
Road. (201) 837-7696, or chabadlubavitch.org. civil libel suit; that story
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
TABC.org. is in the 2016 movie
Gilad Paz Proceeds benefit the
“Denial.” 879 Beverwyck
Monday Wednesday Road. (917) 940-7876.
JCC Leonard and Syril
Rubin Nursery School.
APRIL 25 411 E. Clinton Ave.
APRIL 23 Saturday (201) 408-1412 or
APRIL 28 mkleiman@jccotp.org.
Shy Kedmi
Teaneck: Joseph
Rotenberg, an author,
Stanton professor of
philosophy, ethics, and
immigration, the ICE
detention system, the
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lawyer, and financial religious thought, is immigration legal system,
Israeli concert in adviser, discusses scholar-in-residence T
and the mission of First
Ridgewood: Temple “Timeless Travels: at Congregation Rinat Friends at Temple Emeth t
Israel & JCC and the A Humorous Look Tuvia Zimber
Dara Horn Yisrael. He will give the at Teaneck’s B’yachad 2
Jewish Federation of at the Mysterious, drasha at the 9 a.m.
Intriguing, Enchanting Café Europa in breakfast, 10:30 a.m. p
Northern New Jersey Author in Fort Lee: Dara minyan. At 6 p.m., as 1666 Windsor Road.
host Israeli vocalist World Around Us” at Paramus: Café Europa, part of the shul’s s
Horn reads from her a social program Breakfast reservations,
Gilad Paz and pianist bestselling new novel, the Teaneck Public “Rambam and Moreh (201) 833-1322 or www. i
Shy Kedmi in concert Library, 7 p.m. He sponsored by Jewish Nevuchim: Innovation
“Eternal Life,” at the Fort Family & Children’s emeth.org. f
at the shul as the Lee Public Library, 7 p.m. will sign copies of his and Controversy,” shiurim
America-Israel Cultural new book, “Timeless Services of Northern NJ in memory of Rabbi Ozer
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She is a National Jewish Documentary
Foundation honors Book award-winner. 320 Travels,” a collection of for Holocaust survivors, Glickman, he will discuss in Montebello: i
with funding from the
Israel’s 70th anniversary, Main St. (201) 592-3615, short stories based on “Rambam, Maimonides, Congregation Shaarey p
3 p.m. Sponsored by the American Jewish Claims Conference, or Both? The Perennial
or fortleelibrary.org. meets at the JCC of
Israel screens “Hate i
congregant Richard experience. 840 Teaneck Controversy About Spaces,” a documentary
Schnaittacher. Festive Road. (201) 837-4171 or Paramus/Congregation Interpreting the Man.” p
about anti-Semitism
reception with Israeli teaneck.org. Beth Tikvah, After Mincha, his talk is s
and intimidation on
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
appetizers prepared
Kosher lunch and musical
on “What Is Perplexing college campuses, s
Cellist/improviser
Rockland meet for dinner
at Hogan’s Diner in Think Rubin Run for Mother’s Day
concert: Bang on a Can Orangeburg, N.Y., 6 p.m.
and the Jewish Museum’s Individual checks. 17 The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades has group training, one-on-one personal
concert season, which Dutch Hill Road. Gene, opened registration for its 37th annual training, and a 5K training program for
focuses on pioneering (845) 356-5525.
Rubin Run, which will be on Mother’s 6- to 13-year-olds.
Day, Sunday, May 13. This year, the run Adding to the fun, the day will include
— sanctioned by USA Track and Field — outdoor activities for kids, light snacks
Slots for NYC marathon available features a new 8k trail through the Lost
Brook Preserve, which is maintained by
and beverages, free babysitting, pre-
race stretches and warmups, CompuS-
through the Blue Card Team the Tenafly Nature Center, along with a core race-recording, trophies for the
10k run, and 5k run/walk. Last year, the top three male and female winners in
Now that the official race lottery run drew more than 1,500 people. each age category, and a medal for all
for the New York City Marathon The Rubin Run celebrates family and children under 10 who finish the race.
has closed and slots for the run fitness as it raises funds that provide a In honor of Mother’s Day, all participat-
have been assigned, local runners great deal of support for programs that ing moms receive a rose as they cross the
who still want to run in the mara- improve the quality of life for people finish line.
thon on November 4 can join Team with special needs in the community. Participants are encouraged to fund-
Blue Card. That way, they can run “The Rubin Run exemplifies every- raise, either individually or as part of a
the marathon and also raise money thing we stand for at the JCC,” the JCC’s team. Register online at www.jccotp.org/
for Holocaust survivors in need. CEO, Jordan Shenker, said. “It brings our rubinrun. Online registration is until May
The Blue Card, named an offi- community together to share in some- 9; after that, registration is at the JCC.
cial charity partner of the race, is thing meaningful; it celebrates family The run’s lead sponsors include Mag-
the only U.S. organization with the togetherness — and on a very special gie Kaplen and the Kaplen Foundation,
sole mission of providing ongoing day; it acknowledges the importance Englewood Hospital and Medical Center,
direct aid to Holocaust survivors in of fitness and healthy lifestyles; and it the Rubin family, the Rubach family, the
need. It assists many survivors in raises significant funds for one of the Jewish Standard; the North Jersey Media
New Jersey. Of over 100,000 Holo- JCC’s core missions, which is to provide Group, and the Tenafly Nature Center.
caust survivors living in the coun- meaningful programs to people with For sponsorship opportunities and
try, an estimated one-third live at special needs that allow them to flourish more information, call Michal Kleiman
or below the poverty line, and it Josh Lipowsky of Teaneck, a former Jewish to their best potential and become pro- at (201) 408-1412, or email her at mklei-
is hard for them to afford proper Standard associate editor, ran the NYC ductive, healthy, and engaged members man@jccotp.org.
medical care, mental health care, Marathon on the Blue Card Team a few of our community.” The Rubin Run is named for the late
food, and other basic necessities. years ago. PHOTO COURTESY JOSH LIPOWSKY In preparation for the race, partici- Leonard Rubin, a past president and
Members of Team Blue Card pants can train under the skilled guid- founder of the JCC, who established
have raised more than $1,000,000 since 2009 at endurance sporting events in New York, ance of experienced JCC fitness staff. the community-wide athletic event to
Miami, and around the world. For more information, go to www.bluecardfund.org. Options include independent training, encourage and promote healthy living.
running clubs for people interested in
is known for its well organized shelves, concerts, and other programs. and Lani Hall, the original lead singer
friendly staff, and more than 50,000 books. On Friday, all books, adult, young adult, for Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, will
The books are sorted into categories, which and children’s books will be $2 each (3 for perform at the Bergen Performing Arts
include fiction, Judaica, art, history, biogra- $5), and mass-market paperbacks will be Center in Englewood on Wednesday,
phy, cookbooks, children’s, African-Amer- 5 for $1. On Bag Day Sunday, you can fill April 25, at 8 p.m. For tickets, call ber-
ican studies, foreign language, gardening, a grocery bag for $5, but no specials or genPAC’s box office at (201) 227-1030,
poetry, nature, science, sports, psychology, DVDs will be included. Call (201) 568- 2215 or go to www.bergenpac.org or www. Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
self-help, business, and Americana. The or email librarybooksale@hotmail.com for ticketmaster.com.
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Boston in a deeply religious
rom his birthplace near Boston to family, and was influenced
New York, Berlin, South Africa, by the music he heard at
China, and Israel, Leonard Congregation Mishkan Tefila.
Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger- At Congregation Mishkan Tefila, his fam-
than-life conductor, pianist, composer, ily’s synagogue, the young Bernstein
educator and bon vivant, is being celebrated came under the influence of Solomon
in a two-year bonanza of concerts, stage Braslavsky, a Viennese composer who
productions and programs marking the became the synagogue’s music director
centennial of his birth. and led its choir. On Oct. 10, 1946, Bern-
The American-born son of Ukrainian stein wrote to Braslavsky, shortly after
Jewish immigrants, Bernstein’s influence Yom Kippur: “I have come to realize what
spanned the musical world, from classical a debt I really owe to you ... for the marvel-
music to Broadway. ous music at Mishkan Tefila services. They
Thousands of events are featured as a surpass any that I have ever heard.”
part of #Bernsteinat100, including “Leon- Bernstein had a strained relationship
ard Bernstein: The Power of Music,” with his father, a successful business
an exhibit that opened recently at the owner, whose life was guided by talmu-
National Museum of American Jewish His- dic learning. Although he described his
tory in Philadelphia. father as being authoritarian, he admired
Last week, the Library of Congress got his depth of knowledge of Jewish texts and
in on the act, making available online thought.
for the first time free access to more
than 3,700 items including letters, pho- Leonard Bernstein at the opening of “West Side Story” at the National Theater 2. Bernstein’s Harvard years
tographs, audio recordings, and other in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 12, 1957. PHOTOS COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, MUSIC DIVISION were instrumental in shaping
material from its vast Leonard Bernstein his music.
Collection. The release nearly tripled the library’s digital and look through volumes of scrapbooks in the Library’s A page in a blue book dated Jan. 25, 1937, during Bern-
offerings. collection that were meticulously compiled by Helen stein’s sophomore year at Harvard University, displays
Curious fans with time on their hands can cue up “West Coates, his piano teacher who later became his career- “handwriting thoroughly familiar to a Bernstein scholar,”
Side Story,” “On the Town,” or the “Chichester Psalms,” long secretary. according to Carol Oja, a professor at Harvard’s music
“Bernstein arguably was the most promi- department. In the exam book, Bernstein described
nent music figure in America in the second Baroque-era toccatas, a musical notation for virtuosic
half of the 20th century,” according to Mark keyboard, as “dramatic, brilliant, ... and very technical,
Horowitz, the collection’s curator, who has difficult, effective.” These descriptions “would later char-
been immersed in the details of the mae- acterize his own compositions,” Oja wrote in an email.
stro’s life for a quarter century. He described
Bernstein as a “polymath, a Renaissance 3. Bernstein was smitten by Israel and
man who wanted to do it all,” from music to became a devoted and influential supporter
education to social activism. of the Israel Philharmonic.
Born on Aug. 28, 1918, in Lawrence, Mas- In November 1948, during Israel’s War of Independence,
sachusetts, to Jennie and Samuel Bernstein, amid fighting between the Israeli and Arab armies, Bern-
the young musician famously catapulted stein made his second conducting tour of Israel. He wrote
onto the world stage in November 1943, a nine-page letter to his mother, Jennie, that glows with
when he filled in on short notice as conduc- colorful, playful illustrations by Yossi Stern, a Hungarian
tor for the New York Philharmonic for an refugee who became known as the “painter of Jerusalem.”
ailing Bruno Walter, in a concert broadcast “You can see his passion for the young state of Israel, its
on national television. land, the people and the culture,” according to Ivy Wein-
Five years later, with his 1958 appoint- gram, curator of the exhibit at the NMAJH, where visitors
ment as music director of the New York can see one page of the original letter, on loan from the
Philharmonic, Bernstein became the first Library of Congress.
American-born and educated conductor — Over his career, Bernstein conducted the Israel Philhar-
and the first American Jewish conductor — monic in 25 different seasons, in Israel, Europe and the U.S.
to lead a major American orchestra.
With an estimated 400,000 items, the 4. After the Six-Dar War, Bernstein
Bernstein Collection is one of the largest performed a concert in Israel.
and most varied in the Library’s music divi- The July 1967 concert, with violinist Isaac Stern and the
sion, Horowitz said. The archives fill 1,723 Israel Philharmonic, included Hatikvah, Israel’s national
boxes that measure 710 linear feet. anthem; Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and the final
Here are seven treasures from the movement of Mahler’s Second Symphony, known as the
Library of Congress collection: “Resurrection Symphony.”
In his speech at the performance, handwritten on sta-
tionery from Jerusalem’s Shemesh Oriental Restaurant,
A handwritten speech Bernstein wrote Bernstein recalled his exhilaration conducting the Mahler
for a concert in Israel in July 1967. symphony 19 years earlier, during Israel’s War of Indepen-
dence. He marveled at the recent unification of Jerusalem,
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