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Pickles provide Passover
sandwich solution
● Good news for sandwich addicts. Do you dread
Passover, which deprives you of your regular bread fix?
Do crumbly and crumby matzah sandwiches leave you
unsatisfied, feeling like unleavened bread puts the sand
into sandwiches?
Just in time for the holiday, a South Jersey deli has an
innovative solution.
Elsie’s Deli in Haddon Township did not have the feast
A new low in Israeli politics
● An obscure political party, Brit Olam, broke a record
by receiving the fewest votes a party ever has gotten
in any Israeli election. Just 216 people voted for it, ac-
cording to the final results the Central Elections Com-
mittee released last week.
Of the 39 parties that competed in the election, Brit
Olam, which means Eternal Covenant, was the only
one to have just one candidate on its slate. That was
party leader Ofer Lifshitz.
Until then, the record had been held by the Social
Leadership party, headed by unsuccessful Knesset
candidate Ilan Meshicha. In the 2015 election, Meshi-
cha’s party won 223 votes. That broke the party’s own
record — in 2013 Meshicha got 461 votes, running on
the the now-defunct Tradition of the Fathers line.
In last week’s race, Meshicha’s party came fifth to
last, in 35th place, with 385 votes.
The Union of Bnei Habrith, a Christian Israeli party
Bible-era chicken egg reconstructed in Israel
● A historical mystery has been cracked, with the
reconstruction of chicken eggshells found in excavations
at Jerusalem’s City of David. The shells, dating from the
end of the First Temple era (c.1000-586 BCE), have been
analyzed using 21st-century technology.
The eggs confirm the place of domesticated chickens
on the dinner plates of Jerusalem’s upper class in bibli-
cal times, according to a study led Dr. Zohar Amar of
Bar-Ilan University. The study analyzed several hundred
eggshell fragments that archeologist Eliot Mizar found
in refuse and ash during excavations he did about a
decade ago.
Dr. Amar examined all the fragments using a unique
new algorithm developed by Dr. Absalom Kurashiki of
the Israel Antiquities Authority for the reconstruction of
pottery vessels. He found enough large pieces to recon-
struct one full egg.
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of unleavened bread in mind when it invented its pickle
sandwiches, which feature deli meats and cheeses be-
tween the halves of an extra-large pickle.
But if you can find an extra-large kosher-for-Pesach
pickle — or are willing to settle for finger-sized sand-
wiches that fit the finger-sized kosher-for-Pesach pick-
les imported from Kibbutz Yavneh — your post-seder
sandwich hunger can be satiated. LARRY YUDELSON
chaired by ship captain Bashara Shalian of Nazareth,
came in next to last, with 265 votes.
The Bible Bloc, or Gush Hatanachi, which presented
itself as the first Jewish-Christian slate to run for the
120-member Knesset, was third from the bottom, with
353 votes.
The party vowed to preserve the “Judeo-Christian
values” that it said are under threat from radical Islam
and vowed to fight for the underrepresented Christian
population in Israel, including non-Jewish Russian im-
migrants from the former Soviet Union.
It was followed by the Ani V’Ata (Me and You) party,
which called for the creation of a platform where the
public would be able to contribute more directly to
the democratic process, “in order to break the illicit
bond between politics and money that has taken over
our democracy.”
It received the support of 368 people. TIMES OF ISRAEL
The reconstruction shows that the height was about
50 mm, its diameter 40 mm, and its total volume 61 cc —
similar to the size and volume of modern chicken eggs.
This finding has important implications in the field of
Jewish law, which makes use of a measurement called
“kibitz,” or egg-sized.
Dr. Amar noted that eggshells are rarely found in
archaeological digs because they are so fragile. This
discovery is especially significant because it’s the earliest
evidence of chicken eggs found thus far in the Near East.
Until now, the only chicken-related archaeological
finds from the biblical period in Jerusalem were a few
bones and several seals of the royal house bearing the
image of a fighting rooster.
Dr. Amar will share the finding of the study at a Bar-
Ilan conference next month on agriculture and nature in
ancient Israel. ISRAEL21C.ORG
These pickle
sandwiches
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are not kosher
for Passover
or the rest of
the year.
CONTENTS
NOSHES .........................................................4
PASSOVER ................................................. 20
BRIEFLY LOCAL ........................................22
COVER STORY ...........................................26
JEWISH WORLD .......................................39
OPINION .....................................................40
HEALTHY LIVING &
ADULT LIFESTYLES................................ 44
PASSOVER GREETINGS .........................57
D’VAR TORAH .......................................... 68
THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE ............. 69
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .......................... 69
CALENDAR ................................................ 70
OBITUARIES ...............................................72
CLASSIFIED ADS ......................................74
REAL ESTATE.............................................76
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Noshes “Enjoy an ice-cold glass of Tropicana OJ

with a slice of matzah.”
— From an advertisement on Facebook from Tropicana,
as part of its “Made to go with matzah” campaign.

FOSSE/VERDON:

All those great

Jewish friends
Fosse/Verdon,” an now 91, is played by Temple Ner Tamid in election of isolationist
eight-episode FX EVAN HANDLER, 58, Bloomfield.) In 2018, Charles Lindbergh in
series, began (“Californication”). he released a track he 1940. The Roths are
airing on Tuesday, April Prince directed and wrote called “Hatzi played by John
9. You can easily catch produced the original Kaddish” (also a You- Turturro and WINONA
up via repeat showings 1966 Broadway version Tube video). The mel- RYDER, 47.
or on-demand. The of “Cabaret.” Fosse ody follows the tradi- DAN ROBBINS, the
series is about the directed and choreo- tional Kaddish hymn inventor of paint-by-
relationship of Bob graphed the 1972 film. as it is sung in the syn- numbers, died on April
Fosse (1927-1987), the JOEL GREY, now 86, agogue. But, as one 7. He was 93, and is
famous film and was the stage and reviewer noted, Cohen survived by two sons
Broadway choreogra- film co-star of “Cab- somehow trans- and his wife ESTELLE
pher and director, and aret.” He’s played by forms that melody SHAPIRO ROBBINS,
Gwen Verdon (1925- Broadway star ETHAN Aya Cash Evan Handler into something both 94. Dan Robbins got
2000), the famous SLATER, 26. CY FEUER deeply Jewish and the idea while working
Broadway singer and (1911-2006), the universally spiritual. as a package design-
dancer who was Fosse’s prominent compos- The tune was inspired er for a Detroit paint
third wife and his er and producer who by Cohen’s collabo- company in the late
widow. They are played produced the “Caba- rations with the great 1940s. He was in-
by Sam Rockwell and ret” film, is played by African-American bass spired by the fact that
Michelle Williams. PAUL REISER, 63. And player Ron Carter, and Leonardo DaVinci left
Fosse and Verdon PADDY CHAYEFSKY Carter, 81, plays on numbered background
had many Jewish cre- (1923-81), the famous Hatzi Kaddish. Car- parts of his paint-
ative partners, many of four-time Oscar-win- ter’s middle name is ings to be filled in by
whom also were close ning writer (“Marty,” Levin. Levin was the apprentices. Robbins’
friends. The friends “Network”). Chayef- last name of a Jew- company released
who show up in the se- sky was Fosse’s best ish pharmacist who the first kits in the late
ries include playwright friend. The two made a Paul Reiser Emmet Cohen gave free medicine to ‘40s and by 1955 it was
NEIL SIMON (1927- pact: Chayefsky would Carter’s parents, who selling 20 million kits a
2018); Simon wrote the give the eulogy at has played with some placed second. were quite poor. year. Robbins did the
story for the musical Fosse’s funeral if Fosse of jazz’s greatest stars, Winning this competi- first 35 kits himself, and
“Sweet Charity,” and died before him. If competed with four tion is akin to winning Upcoming and then farmed out the
Fosse directed and Chayefsky died before other pianists in the a Pulitzer or an Oscar. worth noting work to others. A 2002
choreographed the Fosse, Fosse would competition’s finals. Cohen grew up in an Filming has begun Smithsonian exhibition
film version. JOAN dance at his funeral — His award prizes observant Montclair on “The Plot about paint-by-num-
BAIM SIMON, Neil’s which he did. include a $50K check, family and he’s well Against America,” bers drew big crowds.
first wife and the a recording contract, aware that his first a six-part HBO series. It Robbins once said: “I
mother of his children, A big hand and two years of name means “truth” is based on the never claim that paint-
was a professional for great hands professional services in Hebrew. He often “alternative history” ing by number is art.
dancer who was close On April 6, it was worth $100K. The plays a special pro- novel of the same But it is the experience
friends with Verdon. announced that competition takes gram at synagogues name by the late of art, and it brings
Joan died of cancer EMMET COHEN, place every other year, featuring popular PHILIP ROTH. The that experience to the
in 1973, at 41. She’s 28, was the winner of with classical pianists tunes written by book and series trace individual who would
played by AYA CASH, the American Pianists alternating with jazz Jewish composers. the effect of rising normally not pick up
36, the star of the Association 2019 Cole pianists. In the last (One of his first such anti-Semitism on the a brush, not dip it in
FX series “You’re the Porter Fellowship. jazz pianist competi- appearances was at New Jersey-based paint. That’s what it
Worst.” HAL PRINCE, Cohen, who already tion, in 2015, Cohen his family synagogue, Roth family after the does.” –N.B.

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‘A desecration of memory’
Bergen and Rockland leaders talk about vaccination, anti-vaxxers’ Holocaust imagery
JOANNE PALMER

T
he measles outbreak, both here
and across the country, contin-
ues; it’s been particularly viru-
lent in Rockland County.
It’s particularly evident in some parts
of the charedi world, even though over-
whelmingly most Jews, including the
charedim, vaccinate their children,
most schools demand vaccination, and
most anti-vaxxers across the country are
not Jewish.
The anti-vaxxing campaign has taken
an odd twist, though, as some ardent
opponents of mandatory vaccination
have taken to calling such vaccination
Nazi-like, and have begun to call the
representatives of state and local gov-
ernments that call for vaccination Nazis.
Some Jews have started to make those
arguments as well, at least given the
evidence of phone calls we’ve received
here at the Jewish Standard.
Dr. Kenneth Prager of Englewood is Measles cases have been clustered in parts of Rockland County including New Square, an all-chasidic village. URIEL HEILMAN
a pulmonologist, a professor of clinical
medicine, the director of clinical ethics, vague enough to be translated in quite a
and the chair of the medical ethics com- few ways, including “That you shall be
mittee at Columbia University Medical very watchful of yourselves.” No mat-
Center. He’s also a modern Orthodox ter how it is translated, however, the
Jew, a member of Congregation Ahavath word “meod” — very — stands out. It’s
Torah in Englewood. an unusual emphasis.
As a doctor, a medical ethicist, and a “It means that you have to watch
Jew, Dr. Prager has strong feelings about your health,” Rabbi Fink said. “We don’t
vaccination. “Vaccines have been one of take any chances with our health. Nor
the greatest scientific achievements in should we.”
the history of humankind,” he said. “We At Ateret Bais Yaakov Rockland that
have eradicated smallpox, thanks to vac- means, among other things, that “we
cination. We have almost eradicated the Dr. Helene Sinnreich Dr. Kenneth Prager Rabbi Aaron J. Fink don’t take chances with our health,
scourge of polio, although there still are because we have to protect not only the
small pockets of it. kosher “is absurd,” Dr. Prager said. “Not What about the comparison to the students, but also the unborn children
“I do not understand how anybody only does it fly in the face of evidence, Nazis? “That is obscene,” Dr. Prager said. of our staff. The staff are mostly women,
cannot understand the benefits to but it is unethical, in the sense that a “Obscene, with a capital O. many of them in their childbearing years.”
humankind of vaccinations. It requires person’s refusal to vaccinate their chil- “It is obscene because it equates one What if parents feel that their children
willful ignorance.” dren puts other children at risk and that of the greatest goods of humanity with should not be vaccinated? “Those par-
Now that the idea that measles vac- is immoral. The risk to their children is one of the greatest evils. ents can either shop for another school
cines cause autism has been debunked trivial to nonexistent when they vacci- “Can I be more clear?” he concluded. or vaccinate their children,” Rabbi Fink
— in fact, autism often manifests, coinci- nate, but not when they do not. “It is a chillul haShem.” A desecration of said unyieldingly. “There is no shortage
dentally and unfortunately, at the same “Some children cannot get vaccinated God’s name. of options in our community.”
time as vaccinations often are given — because they are immunocompromised. Rabbi Aaron J. Fink is the dean Are there any halachic reasons not
the arguments against vaccination have They can get sick. It is a major health of Ateres Bais Yaakov Rockland in to vaccinate? “No,” he said. “I am not
moved on. concern, not just to you and your family New Hempstead; it’s a kindergar- aware of any halachic reasons.”
Newspapers have reported that the but to the health of other people’s chil- ten-through-12th-grade centrist Ortho- He cites Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the
charedi community sometimes is told dren as well. dox all-girls day school. It has a strict chief rabbi of the Orthodox rabbinical
that “the vaccine has pig DNA in it,” Dr. “We are not asking you to sacrifice vaccination policy and “a 100 percent” courts in Jerusalem, who wrote a letter
Prager said; in fact, vaccines are grown your children to protect other people’s vaccination rate, Rabbi Fink said. to Rabbi Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, the rosh
in a mixture of substances but are puri- children, but to protect your children “We believe vaccination is important, yeshiva at Lakewood. The letter, written
fied to the point that most charedi rab- and other people’s children,” he contin- because the Torah demands from us last fall and posted on the Yeshiva World’s
bis find them kosher for use. Plus, they ued. Refusal to do so “is based on igno- ‘Venishmartem meod lenafshtechem,’” website (and easily googleable), is clear
point out, vaccines are not eaten. rance, and the people who propagate it he continued. about parents’ need to vaccinate their
The argument that vaccines are not have an almost cult-like mentality.” That quote from Deuteronomy 4:15 is children. The principle behind the letter
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is pikuach nefesh, the need to save a life.
In suggesting that Rabbi Sternbuch’s
letter would explain his position, Rabbi
Fink positioned the rabbi in the Jewish
world by saying “You can’t get much
more right wing than Rabbi Sternbach.”
He did want to make another point,
though. “Whether it is in the Orthodox
community, the chasidic community, or
the secular community, anti-vaxxers are
a fringe group,” Rabbi Fink said. “The
entire group should not be judged by the
actions of these few people.
“Normative halacha and normative
behavior is pro-vaccination, and the
overwhelming majority of the entire
Jewish community, from right to left, is
adhering to that.” Do not judge any part
of the Jewish community by the actions
of these fringe members, he stressed.
Dr. Helene Sinnreich is an associate
professor of religious studies and the
director of the Fern and Manfred Stein-
feld program in Judaic studies at the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville;
she’s also the co-editor of the Journal of
Jewish Identities. (She also grew up in
North Brunswick, because apparently
everything and everyone traces back
Opponents of vaccination have begun wearing yellow Jewish stars, evoking
comparisons to Nazi crimes.
somehow or other to New Jersey.)
Last week, Dr. Sinnreich wrote an op
ed in the Washington Post, reacting to the
comparison of laws about vaccinations to
Nazi crimes. On a later phone interview,
she said that references to the Nazis had
begun to creep into anti-vaxxers’ argu-
ments as long as four years ago, “but a
few weeks ago they started wearing the
yellow Jewish stars that said ‘No Vax.’”
She blames some of the anti-vaxxers’
success on the general societal mistrust
of government, and of expertise, that
has risen greatly in the last few years.
“I have a friend who is a historian,
who said that in the 1950s, when they
first came out with the experimental
polio vaccination, the government put
out a call saying ‘We have an experi-
mental vaccine for polio, and we need
children to be our test subjects,’ and 97
percent of parents showed up with their
kids, with the hope of getting this exper-
imental vaccine.”
That was then, which was very differ-
ent from now.
“We have had an incredible forget-
ting,” Dr. Sinnreich said. “We forget how
terrible the measles were, and how des-
perate parents were. We forget that it
wasn’t that long ago when lots of people
died from measles.
“We used to believe in science. Back in
the 1950s and 60s we believed in science,
we believed that we had the most pow-
erful government in the world, and that
we had all the solutions, that we would
win the space race and that science was
advancing.” (We were right about most of
those things, but not quite enough, and
we hadn’t factored in complacency.)
Now, though, Dr. Sinnreich said, “We
don’t believe in science.”
There used to be far more communi-
cable diseases floating around the world.
“We forget that there were all these
public health measures on the books,
back when tuberculosis was a rampant
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‘It’s fun winning!’

Teaneck’s TABC first again at Science Olympiad
hosted by Touro’s Lander College for Men
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

W
hat is the secret ingre-
dient that has made
Torah Academy of Ber-
gen County victorious
in six of the last 10 Science Olympiads
for yeshiva high schools in the New York
and New Jersey area?
According to co-captain Avraham
Kahan, a senior from Teaneck, the all-
boys’ atmosphere in the school fosters
a friendly competitive spirit. “We’re all
guys, and we’re always pushing each
other to be better,” he said. “We work
hard and we play hard.”
TABC’s team took first place in the
most recent Olympiad, held March 31.
Science Olympiad competitions
are like academic track meets, where
teams from schools in many parts of the
country and abroad compete in events
designed to spark their interest in genet-
ics, earth science, chemistry, anatomy,
physics, geology, mechanical engineer-
ing, and technology.
The meets typically are held on Sat-
urdays, however, making it difficult or TABC’s winning Science Olympiad team and faculty advisers.
impossible for Sabbath-observers to
participate. In conjunction with the New an edge,” he explained. TABC’s vehicle “The biggest draw of the Science
York-based Jewish Education Project, coasted to second place, behind North Olympiad was the competitive spirit,”
Touro College’s Lander College for Men Shore Hebrew Academy. Mr. Dietz said. “It provided a chance
has hosted an annual Science Olympiad
on Sundays since 2011.
We’re all guys, “It was very satisfying to win the com-
petition again,” Nathanael added. “We
to show off a talent that you normally
wouldn’t get to express.”
The most recent competition drew and we’re had lost some core members who grad- Dr. Ann Shinnar of Teaneck, a chem-
15-member teams from 13 local Jewish
schools, including the Frisch School of
always pushing uated last year, and I was nervous about
how we would do.”
istry professor at Lander College and
liaison to the competition, said that all
Paramus and Yeshivat Heichal Hatorah each other to Ephraim Helfgot, a Teaneck junior, par- 195 contestants benefited from the Sci-
of Teaneck.
“Science is transforming the world
be better, We ticipated in Road Scholar, one of the seven
Olympiad events in which TABC bested
ence Olympiad experience regardless of
whether they took home prizes.
around us, and we hope that Ortho- work hard and all other competitors. In this classic Sci- “It’s an opportunity for students to
dox Jewish men and women will be at
the forefront of those changes, for the we play hard. ence Olympiad contest, participants must
interpret, collect data from, and answer
gain confidence as well as skills, and we
are proud to bring this program to the
good,” Dr. Moshe Sokol, dean of Lander questions about topographical GPS maps. Jewish community,” she said.
College for Men, said. “We seek to The team included students from all “The award ceremony at the end Dr. Shinnar ensures that contestants
inspire amongst students a love for the four grades, but most were juniors and was great. We went crazy cheering for have all the equipment they need, and
sciences, and an understanding of how seniors who had participated before. each other,” Ephraim said. His favorite she recruits volunteers from the college
science works.” This was the third consecutive win for aspects of the Olympiad were “the feel- to help out at the competition. She also
The 12 events on March 31 were titled the Teaneck school. ing of community, the competitiveness, invites a different scientist each year to
Write-It-Do-It, Road Scholar, Mousetrap Co-captain Nathanael Vinar, a senior and being part of a team — and, look, it’s talk about his or her training and career
Vehicle, Herpetology, Fermi Questions, from Teaneck, won his 12th career fun winning!” path. The goal is to inspire the high
Dynamic Planet, Designer Genes, Code medal that Sunday, setting a record for Although some of the categories cover school generation.
Busters, Circuit Lab, Chemistry Lab, the most medals won in the history of subjects taught in school, others — such This year’s speaker was Dr. John
Boomilever, and Anatomy and Physiol- the Jewish Education Project-Lander Sci- as herpetology, the study of amphibians Loike, who joined the faculty of
ogy. TABC placed first in seven of these ence Olympiad. — do not, necessitating what Mr. Dietz Lander College of Arts & Sciences in
events, and second in three others. “His name is legend,” co-captain Avra- calls “a lot of self-study.” the fall of 2017, after serving as the
Two team members usually participate ham said admiringly. At meetings after school, the team- co-director for graduate studies in the
in each challenge. “At the beginning of the Nathanael’s challenge this year was mates worked on projects that required department of physiology and cellular
school year, the boys decide who will rep- building a foam-board and balsa-wood building. One was the boomilever, a biophysics and the director of special
resent the school in each of the contests,” car powered only by two spring-loaded structure intended to support the most programs in the Center for Bioethics
faculty adviser Kenneth Dietz, a TABC mousetraps. “I had done the Mousetrap load with the least possible weight. at Columbia University College of Phy-
biology and chemistry teacher, explained. Vehicle event last year, so that gave us TABC won that event, too. sicians and Surgeons.
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‘Part theater, part cause’

Fort Lee’s Gesher Shalom to mark Yom HaShoah
with original play about doomed Holocaust diarist
LARRY YUDELSON

When Susan Stein saw the book for 50

cents at the yard sale, she remembered
the recommendation from her friend’s
mother. She was a woman who read a
lot of books — and recommended few of
them. Ms. Stein trusted her recommen-
dation even as she found the first pages
tough slogging.
The book was a translation of the dia-
ries of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jew. Ms.
Hillesum was 26 when the Nazis con-
quered Holland. At 27, she began keep-
ing a diary, at the suggestion of her Jung-
ian analyst.
At first, “I didn’t like her,” Ms.
Stein said.
But as she kept reading, “something

changed. I felt like she was speaking inti-
mately to me, almost whispering in my
ear. Her sensibility felt remarkable and
incredible and unique and disarming
and embarrassing and funny and sad.”
The diaries describe Ms. Hillesum’s
experiences and feelings as the Nazi
restrictions on the Jews of Amsterdam
increase, and then she finds herself at
the Westerbork transit camp. The pub-
lished diaries conclude before she is
deported to Auschwitz in September
1943, where she dies two months later.
When Ms. Stein finished reading the
book, she didn’t want to let Ms. Hillesum
go. So she set out to write a play based
on the diaries, and on her letters, which
also had been collected and published.
The result, “Etty,” is
a one-woman perfor-
mance culled from
the diaries, in which
Ms. Stein becomes
Ms. Hillesum.
Ms. Stein will per-
form at Congrega-
tion Gesher Shalom,
the Jewish Commu-
nity Center of Fort
Lee, before Yizkor
services on Shabbat,
April 27, the eighth
day of Passover.
Gesher Shalom’s Susan Stein
Rabbi, Kenneth
Stern, explained that with dwindling
attendance at his congregation’s Yom
HaShoah observances, and with aging
congregants reluctant to travel to Fair
Lawn for the regional observance spon-
sored by the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey, he has moved his con-
gregation’s Yom HaShoah observance to
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RICARDO BARROS
Susan Stein plays Etty Hillesum. Inset, Etty Hillesum
the eighth day of Passover and Yizkor. becomes herself in this set of circum-
Rabbi Stern said that the story of Etty stances. It’s pretty remarkable.
Hillesum “personalizes Yom HaShoah “It upsets some people and confuses
in a different way than when we hear them because she’s not trying to save
survivors speak. This is someone who herself. It’s not that story.
didn’t have the privilege of surviving, “She has a keen sense of what’s hap-
whose story of atrocity pening. On July 3, 1942, she writes that
won’t be described, but ‘They’re out to destroy us completely.’
whose normal anxieties That’s insight. That’s pretty early for
of life remain in view.” Dutch Jews. That said, my interpretation
Ms. Stein said that she is that she believes and hopes she’ll sur-
had no idea “how hard vive. She says in a letter in 1943, ‘Some
it would be” to turn Ms. people will have to survive to be the
Hillesum’s words into chroniclers. Why can’t I be one of them?’
a play. Yet she felt an “I believe she understands she’s in a
intense desire to “give genocide. I’m not sure she can hold on was addressed to her seventh-grade
something back” to Ms. to that understanding at every minute of Latin teacher, a colleague of her father.
Hillesum. “She feels like every day. I’m not sure anyone can. She They were sending food supplies. Etty
giving you a lot in the has access to a radio. She writes in her said not to send any more. And she says,
diaries. She is a truth- diary that the English radio announced ‘We left the camp singing.’ We can inter-
seeker, and she does that 700,000 Jews have been mur- pret that as her asking, ‘Remember us
that right on the page. I dered in Poland. She’s aware of some- this way.’
wanted to keep her with thing other Jews might not have been “I don’t think she’s surprised she
me. I want to get her to as many people aware of.” doesn’t come back. She’s not naive.
as possible. I want her name on politi- The last word received from Ms. “The play to a certain extent is also
cian’s lips. I think it’s her words we need. Hillesum was a postcard she pushed a prayer. She has a spiritual transfor-
“This is part theater and part cause.” through the broken planks of the freight mation through her diary-keeping. She
Ms. Stein said the focus of the play is train that took her and her family from refers to God as the deepest part within
on Ms. Hillesum’s “sensibility. Her want- the Westerbork camp in Holland to Aus- herself. She has an Abraham-like con-
ing to be a writer. Her spiritual transfor- chwitz in Poland. versation with God. There’s a Jewish
mation. Her spiritual yearning. How she “A few days later a farmer finds it. It SEE PART THEATER PAGE 19
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Jack Attack
New City boy with rare genetic disease finds ways to live with gusto
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
From the moment she typed her infant
son’s symptoms into a Google search
and correctly guessed that he had a rare
genetic disease called familial dysau-
tonomia (FD), Robin Fiddle Posnack of
New City has poured her heart and soul
into providing her child not only with
physical care but also with socialization.
Friends are not a given for a 13-year-
old boy who, despite his sunny disposi-
tion and normal intellect, cannot run,
eats and drinks through a tube, and
copes with myriad symptoms of the
progressive neurogenetic disorder that
causes malfunction of his autonomic
and sensory nervous systems.
“There are only 350 people alive in
the world with this disease, and only
three others in Rockland County,” Ms.
Posnack said.
Every summer since he was 6, Jack
has spent two weeks at Camp Simcha.
It’s a kosher sleepaway camp run by
Chai Lifeline, an international nonprofit
organization that provides services for
Jewish children with life-threatening and
chronic illness.
Counselors there lovingly nicknamed
the little boy “Jack Attack,” and made
him a member of the camp band, where
he plays guitar. Ms. Posnack always
sends her son to camp with a pile of Jack
Attack T-shirts printed in different col-
ors. She still chokes up when she recalls
how one counselor called to tell them he
was wearing his Jack Attack T-shirt on a
visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
So Jack has his camp friends. But his
social circle widened exponentially
about three years ago, when he started
playing online games; his favorites now
are Fortnite and Madden NFL. Gaming
turned out to be an effective vehicle for
leveling the playing field and enabling
Jack to forge friendships near and far.
“Every Sunday, local kids he’s met in
the virtual world come over to have game
night with him,” Ms. Posnack reported.
“That includes groups from the Jewish
Community Center, Boy Scouts, football
and tennis players; people of all ages,
colors, and orientations. We had an
autistic girl come over, and her mother
was crying, because this child has never
been part of any group before.”
As part of the celebration of his bar
mitzvah in January, Jack decided to
raise money to give a gaming system to
a child with disabilities who was suffer-
ing from social exclusion. Children can
send in their stories for consideration
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CHRIS HERDER PHOTOGRAPHY
Jack Posnack is surrounded by his mother, Robin Fiddle Posnack, and his
siblings, Hunter, 11, left, Cody, 18, and Charlotte, 11, at his bar mitzvah at Tem-
ple Beth Sholom in New City.
(They also can email letters to jackat-
tackltpf@gmail.com)
“One little boy wrote to us that he
can’t go outside without a mask, and he
gets bullied,” Ms. Posnack said.
“In August, just before camp, Jack
and I will decide on which child to buy a
gaming system for, and if possible, Jack
will hand deliver it.”
The prize includes a gaming console,
microphone, and green screen, which
costs around $5,000.
Ms. Posnack has formed a board and
co-founded a nonprofit organization,
soon to get 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status,
in order to accept donations and spon-
sorships to help Jack achieve this not-in-
expensive goal. She and her son hope to
raise enough money to buy gaming sys-
tems for more than one winner.
This was not the only channel through
which the seventh grader marked his
religious coming of age. He had two syn-
agogue ceremonies, as well as a party at
Jack Posnack plays guitar at Camp Space in Englewood.
Simcha. “We live in both a religious and a secu-
lar world,” Ms. Posnack explained. “Jack
via a website Ms. Posnack set up: Jack- even has chasidic friends because of
AttackLTPF (www.jackattackltpf.com/). Camp Simcha. Camp Simcha and Chai
LTPF stands for “level the playing field.” Lifeline are a big part of our lives.”
CHRIS HERDER PHOTOGRAPHY
Jack Posnack holds the Torah at his
bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Sholom
in New City.
Jack was treated to an Orthodox bar
mitzvah in Monsey courtesy of Chai Life-
line. Two weeks later, on January 18, he
was called to the Torah before a stand-
ing-room-only crowd at Temple Beth Sho-
lom, a Reform congregation in New City.
“The rabbi, Brian Leiken, came to our
house every week to work with Jack until
he had memorized his whole reading,”
Ms. Posnack said.
His 11-year-old twin brother and sis-
ter, Hunter and Charlotte, surrounded
Jack at these special occasions, and so
did his 18-year-old brother, Cody. Tragi-
cally, his father, Adam, died in July 2014.
He was 47.
Still, Ms. Posnack said, “I have faith in
God. I’m not sure why He took Adam but
now I have to be a strong advocate for
my son. Before, I was the softie.”
Although a nurse accompanied
Jack to Felix Festa Middle School, and
he has home nursing care for several
more hours on weekdays, his mother
is his caregiver the rest of the time. In
between, she runs her own business,
Twin Computer Training.
Ms. Posnack also finds opportuni-
ties to speak to Jewish groups about the
importance of genetic testing for FD,
which affects primarily Ashkenazi Jews
when both parents are carriers. She
had a genetic screening in 2000 but FD
wasn’t added to the test panel until 2001.
“You need to retest before each preg-
nancy because there are always things
added to the Ashkenazi panel,” she
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Local
First person
Venezuela, Israel, and Aruba:
An irregular triangulation
Jonathan E. Lazarus
Whatever happened to the Venezuela
crisis? It went from simmer to low boil
to high heat to something beyond the
back burner, emitting occasional blips
and producing some op-ed pieces now
and then.
Crises — real, proclaimed, or imag-
ined — possess a shelf-life of their own,
aided and abetted by the 24-hour news
cycle, but this one seems more stealth
than usual. Perhaps it’s a prolonged
lull before the storm. And after three
months of festering, one thing is abun-
dantly clear: Venezuela contains all the
moving parts needed to suddenly rear
itself into something combustible. But
will it?
As we know from the full weight of
two years of Trumpian rhetoric (as in
weight around one’s neck), initial bursts
of sound and fury often signify noth-
ing and are followed up by lack of fol-
low-up. Are we at a red-line moment
with Venezuela or is there just another
empty broadside coming from the White
House? Will we reflexively threaten mil-
itary action again without a Plan B or
ratchet up sanctions, or try to wait out
the dictator, or offer him a buyout and
14 Jewish Standard APRIL 19, 2019
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Beth Israel Synagogue occupies a modern building
in downtown Oranjestad, the capital of Aruba.
safe passage to a cushy retirement?
My heightened interest in these pos-
sibilities (or none of the above) stems
from the vacations my wife and I take in
Aruba, a speck of a Caribbean island just
18 miles off the Venezuela coast, and one
we recently visited for the second time
in as many months. Aruba qualifies as
an autonomous state of the Netherlands
and reaps the full benefits and protec-
tions of the kingdom. As Venezuela
plunges deeper into despair and dark-
ness — quite literally now, with country-
wide power failures adding to the dys-
topia — Aruba prospers in its shadow,
mainly from a boomlet in tourism.
Nonetheless, islanders are feeling the
tug of events beyond their control as a
deal with Caracas to reopen their giant
oil refinery collapsed as a result of U.S. Nicolás Maduro Juan Guaidó
sanctions, and an increasing number of
Venezuelan refugees began arriving on havoc (remember when Nixon’s good- invested in a messy confrontation with
their shores. In typically understated will caravan was besieged by mobs in Cold War overtones.
fashion, Dutch marines have increased Caracas decades ago?) ranks right up This time it’s a proxy fight between
their patrols — but you don’t see them — there with the contras in Nicaragua, the the U.S. and 50 allies, including Israel,
and Arubans are willing to talk about the assassination of Allende in Chile, and pitted against Russia, China, Cuba, Iran,
situation — but only if prompted. Aruba possibly the granddaddy of them all, the Nicaragua, and North Korea. The latter
has petitioned the European Union for Cuban missile crisis. The U.S. record for support strongman Nicolás Maduro, the
funds in case a center is needed to pro- ham-handedness and intervention in twice questionably elected successor
cess asylum seekers. South America speaks, all too sadly, for to the charismatic Hugo Chavez (char-
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Just flip it!

Tenafly entrepreneur pitches simple solution to annoying problem on ‘Shark Tank’
JOANNE PALMER

Y
ou know how hard
it is to get the last bit
of product — food,
or soap, or hair
stuff, or just about anything
else — out of the bottle?
It’s not a burning problem,
but it is a nagging irritant.
It’s bothered Steven Epstein
of Tenafly since the time he
“got out of the shower, and
went to use some Lubriderm,
and the bottle just hissed and
spat at me, and nothing came
out, but I could see that there
was product in it.
“So I turned it upside down,
and put it in a corner and
wedged it in, and that already
was a nuisance. And then the
next night, my wife turned it
right-side up. And then the
next time I turned it over and
squirreled it away at the back
of the medicine chest.”
He was able to retrieve the
bottle, but he had to take the
pump out to get the lotion that
had pooled around the cap, Steven Epstein, right, pitches his invention on “Shark Tank.”
and that was a messy nuisance,
and then when he put the pump down, they are throwing out.” the chair of the JCC’s house commit- So he tried.
he made another mess. And when you try it at home, “you tee for a period of time.” His parents It wasn’t easy getting on the show,
A first-world problem still is a prob- save time, too; instead of shaking and also founded a vocational high school he said. “I tried three times, and the
lem — we do live in the first world. prodding you are getting every drop in Tel Aviv, and were instrumental in third time was the charm. I attended an
Mr. Epstein thought about the situ- that you paid for.” founding a JCC in a suburb of Haifa open call in New York last May, almost
ation, and then “I had my light bulb You also have to buy less and thus called Neve Joseph. a year ago. I must have made a favor-
moment,” he said. to recycle less. “The cat’s out of the Mr. Epstein also has done charita- able impression. I was given two min-
“I invented a sustainable bag now,” he said. “Recycling is not ble work of his own. He’s a helicop- utes to pitch the Flip It to one of their
problem-solver.” working.” (He’s talking about a raft ter pilot; he’s flown planes full of sup- casting agents.
His Flip-It screws into a bottle and of news stories reporting how China plies to such disaster areas as Haiti, in “In July, I received a phone call that
allows the user to turn it over, rest the has stopped buying materials to recy- response to the devastating earthquake I was slated to move on in the process.
bottle on the gadget’s flat surface, and cle, and that means that much of the there in 2010. In September, I went to Los Angeles to
then to flip up the top to squeeze the market for recycling is gone; it often Last Sunday, Mr. Epstein presented tape it.”
product out. It’s washable, reusable, and costs more to recycle than simply to Flip-It to the panel of investors on Mr. Epstein was not allowed to talk
also reduces waste. throw stuff out in landfills.) “Munici- “Shark Tank.” The show offers expo- about the outcome until after the show
“The cap takes advantage of the palities are abandoning their curbside sure. “Consumers never have had as aired. He knew that he did not come
fact that bottle threads are standard, pickups. So the less you have to recy- much choice as we have today,” he away from the program with a deal,
with very few exceptions, all around cle, the more time and money every- said. “The choice of how we entertain but he did not know that the part of
the world,” Mr. Epstein said. “You can one saves.” ourselves, where, what, and on which his pitch — “the message about sav-
use it on pretty much any bottle in The idea of the Flip-It cap came natu- device.” That’s why it’s getting so hard ing time and saving money and being
your home, from the bathroom to the rally to Mr. Epstein, he said, because he to reach consumers. “They’re scattered sustainable — was left on the cutting
kitchen to the garage.” is “in the contract packaging business. across the universe, on cell phones, room floor”— until he saw it, he said.
The device is useful in some work- That’s why I am so familiar with bot- tablets, with Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, “They film for however long it is, and
places too; it’s a big hit in hair salons, tle threads.” so many other places. How do you find then they chop it down to 10 minutes,”
he said. “Salons typically have one-liter Mr. Epstein’s family has been prom- the customer? he said. “Unfortunately, I can’t control
pump bottles on the back bar behind inent in Bergen County for a long “Shark Tank” is a great way. I knew the script.
the shampoo bowls,” he said. “What we time; his parents, Edward and Elaine I had to get on there. Getting a deal “But the exposure was great, and
are finding is that there are two or three Epstein, were among the founders of with one of those celebrities is always sales have spiked, which is good. The
treatments worth of product left there. the JCC on the Palisades. “My mom helpful. They get doors open faster and market will be the final arbiter of how
It could be $100 of revenue to the salon. was the the JCC’s first president, wider and for longer than anyone can good the product is. It is growing, and
They are amazed when they see what back in the 70s, he said. “And I was do on their own.” it is all good.

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Encountering the ‘other’
Two Teaneck men visit Israel, this time just to listen and to learn
LOIS GOLDRICH
F
ounded in 2005 on the prem-
ise that listening and learning
are in short supply in encoun-
ters between Israel’s support-
ers and Palestinians, Encounter — with
a capital E — so far has brought nearly
2,700 American Jewish leaders to visit
Palestinian communities in Israel to lis-
ten to, and learn from, each other.
Its most recent cohort included Rabbi
Joel Pitkowsky, the religious leader of
Congregation Beth Sholom, and Andrew
Silow-Carroll, the editor in chief of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Both live in
Teaneck. Both found the trip a positive
experience, and both came back with a
deeper understanding of the nuances
that mark and complicate relations
between the two communities.
It was an intensive several-day visit,
Rabbi Pitkowsky said, which took place
April 8 through April 11. Encounter
invited him to participate — all expenses
paid. This was his second such experi-
ence, though “the first time I attended as
a regular participant, and this time I was a
facilitator, helping to run parts of the pro-
gram,” he said. Participants are selected
by the organization, based on referrals.
Rabbi Pitkowsky stressed that
Encounter does not posit a specific polit-
ical viewpoint, nor is it affiliated with
any political party. Rather, as described
on its website, the nonprofit educational
institution “invites Jewish leaders to
expand their view of the Israeli-Palestin-
ian conflict and to be a positive force for
communal change.”
“They believe that it is important
for American Jewish leaders to inter-
act with Palestinians, and to hear their
stories, their narratives,” Rabbi Pitkow-
sky said. “We may not agree with them.
But whatever our beliefs are, we should
speak to people deeply affected” by the
current situation.
“I think the goal is to broaden the
participants’ perspective of an issue in
which they are deeply invested,” Mr.
Silow-Carroll said. “I think most Jewish
leaders know a lot about the many Jew-
ish sides of the conflict, and much less
about any of the Palestinian sides.
“For me, it was definitely valuable,” he
added. “You can’t write credibly about
the Other until you walk a bit in their
shoes, no matter how briefly. Getting to
understand the Palestinians’ perspec-
tive isn’t subversive, and it shouldn’t be
seen as courageous. It is what you have
to do if you are to contribute anything,
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Andy Silow-Carroll, left, and Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky, both of Teaneck, went on
an Encounter trip together.
however small, to a better future for the
Jews and the Arabs.”
Encounter hopes that these
exchanges will further the cause of
peace. “Where Israel was once a unify-
ing Jewish communal force, the subject
of the conflict is now one of the most
divisive and polarizing in American
Jewish life,” the group has posted on its
website. “Our community needs leaders
who can engage differently.”
“I have faith that knowledge is power,”
Mr. Silow-Carroll said. “But it is really
up to the individuals who take part to
decide how they want to use the infor-
mation they gathered in the work they
do as Jewish leaders and influentials.”
“Participants were not mostly rabbis,
but all Jewish leaders,” Rabbi Pitkow-
sky said. “Encounter retooled its earlier
program, so that instead of bringing the
average civilian Jew for a one-day pro-
gram, it now focuses on Jewish leaders,
lay and professional, from Hillels, feder-
ations, JCRCs, etc., as a way to get at the
people who are the opinion makers and
who set the tone for the community.
“The goal is for these American Jewish
leaders, whom Encounter has invested
in, to bring the complexity and nuance of
these conversations back to the American
Jewish community, in whatever way we
have and whatever our political views.”
He could not name the other partic-
ipants. “Encounter rules are that we
are not allowed to identify anyone else
who came with us,” he said. “You need
explicit permission.” This, he explained,
is because some communal leaders fear
they would be fired or blacklisted for
participating in the program.
He noted also that the meetings did
not include interactions with settlers
because “it is Encounter’s belief that
most of us have grown up with that nar-
rative, and we would be able to meet
with the settlers on our own to hear
their perspective.” On the other hand,
“most of us would not feel comfortable
going to Ramallah on our own.”
It was not always easy to sit back and
listen to the Palestinian views, Rabbi Pit-
kowsky said. “Some found it hard not
to immediately react. Some hard things
Getting to
understand the
Palestinians’
perspective
isn’t subversive,
and it shouldn’t
be seen as
courageous.
were said.” His group spent a fair amount
of time around Bethlehem, attending
meetings in a small village outside the
Gush Etzion bloc and at the Aida refu-
gee camp, he said. They also went to
Ramallah and various neighborhoods in
east Jerusalem. Their Palestinian coun-
terparts were diverse, ranging from the
head of a village to people known for
their postings on social media or for their
organizational affiliations.
“We met with people from Combat-
ants for Peace, an organization of peo-
ple who formerly believed in violence
but now believe that violence is not the
answer,” he said. But, he added, they
also met with several members of orga-
nizations who believe that violent resis-
tance may be warranted.
“The guidelines were that we could
ask speakers any personal questions
we wanted. For example, ‘What do you
think about what I just said?’ We were
not supposed to ask them to represent
all Palestinians. We were not to engage in
a debate. This is not a dialogue program.
We were there to hear their narrative.”
For his part, Mr. Silow-Carroll was
comfortable with those guidelines. “I’m
a journalist,” he said. “It is my job to lis-
ten and to probe for information and
clarification. If you go into an interview
looking to win a debate, you are not
going to learn anything.”
Rabbi Pitkowsky said he also was able
to function within the guidelines, “let-
ting them say what they want to say”
and understanding the notion of “trying
to feel for a few moments what it must
be like” to live in their situation. He did
note, however, that some of what he
heard made him uncomfortable.
Still, he said, he was able “to take it in
and decompress later.” In that regard,
participants were aided by small group
meetings each day to process the day’s
events. He facilitated one of those groups.

Rabbi Pitkowsky is not yet sure how
he will share his experiences with his
own congregation. After his last trip,
about a year and a half ago, he both
spoke from the bima and presented an
educational program to interested con-
gregants on a Sunday morning.
For Rabbi Pitkowsky, the Encoun-
ter trip was positive in two ways. First,
“There was a wonderful group of some
35 Jewish leaders from all over the coun-
try and the denominational divide,” he
said. “We spent time together, which
happens rarely.
“Second, we were exposed to voices
and narratives we would never hear,” he
continued. You see things in a different
way, even near places you think you know
well. And that, he said, “is powerful.”
Did anything surprise him? “It was
surprising to learn how little the Palestin-
ians we met cared about the Israeli elec-
tion, which was going on at that time,”
he said. “They explained that the people
who would probably get a lot of votes
didn’t differ much on the Palestinian
issue and they had no hope that things
would change. They did care about the
Knesset, but didn’t think the people they
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Mr. Silow-Carroll said he was sur-
prised “by the size and relative sophisti-
cation of Ramallah, which reminded me
a lot of what Tel Aviv looked like 30 years
ago. If your sole exposure to the city is
‘Fauda,’ you’d think it was a maze of ter-
rorists’ nests and ominous allies. And
who knows, it may be. But you could
also see people going about their lives
and livelihoods, trying to make the best
of a challenging situation and do what’s
best for their families.”
“Speaking personally, I felt my hori-
zons broaden. sometimes narrowly,
sometimes expansively, and in one case
literally,” he added. “For example, I
consider myself well-versed in the issue
and the region, but by visiting Ramallah
and Bethlehem and Kufr Aqab I gained
an understanding of the geography
along the 1967 Green Line that I had
not quite grasped, mostly seeing it from
the Israeli side or drawn on a map. That
won’t determine what I consider a just
resolution to the conflict, but it opened
my eyes to the complexities of trying
to share the land between two peoples
who live cheek by jowl.”
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Passover
From left, New Jersey State Police Chaplain Rabbi Abe Friedman, Bergen
County Executive Jim Tedesco, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton,
Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Chaplain Rabbi Joel Friedman, and Rabbi
Mendy Kaminker from Chabad of Hackensack.
Top Bergen law officials
brief community leaders
on Passover security measures
Last week, Sheriff Anthony Cureton
and Prosecutor Dennis Calo invited
law enforcement and community lead-
ers to a pre-Passover briefing, where
they discussed public safety. The
Bergen County Sheriff ’s Office plans
on deploying additional resources to
synagogues, neighborhoods where
many Jews live, and other potentially
sensitive place during the holiday.
As on many major holidays, there is
likely to be more traffic on the roads
and law enforcement officers are on
heightened alert for acts of bias and
anti-Semitism.
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Jersey City
Passover
exchange
Steven Fulop, Jersey City’s
mayor, center, received
matzahs from Rabbi Mor-
dechai Kanelsky, left,
and Rabbi Baruch Lep-
kivker of Bris Avrohom.
The mayor also sold his
chometz and the chometz
of Jersey City’s municipal
building to the rabbis.
 Courtesy Bris Avrohom
“The safety and security of all
Bergen County residents is of the
utmost importance,” Sheriff Cure-
ton said. “Even in the absence of
a threat, it is the job of the Bergen
County Sheriff ’s Office to remain
vigilant and dedicate additional
resources for religious high holy
days. Bergen County is a welcoming
place for everyone and it is essential
residents feel safe practicing their
respective creeds and faiths. On
behalf of the Bergen County Sheriff ’s
Office, I wish all in observance next
week a very Happy Passover!”
In preparation for Passover, students from the Valley Chabad
Hebrew school decorated their own ceramic Elijah’s cups to use at
their upcoming seders.
Manischewitz adds a new look
to its expanded products line
The Manischewitz Company, the larg-
est marketer of kosher foods in North
America, has new additions to its
lineup of products.
Birthday cake macaroons, which
have classic birthday-cake flavor and
are gluten free, have been added to
grocery store shelves. Manischewitz
has also extended its line of 100 per-
cent natural nut butters to include
Preparing
for Pesach
Shannon Sarna, the editor of
“The Nosher” and author of
“The Modern Jewish Baker,”
made a return visit to the Glen
Rock Jewish Center to lead a
hands-on Passover cooking
demo. Here, the shul’s rabbi, Jen-
nifer Schlosberg, left, prepares
Ms. Sarna’s coconut macaroons.
 Courtesy GRJC
Valley Chabad
cashew and hazelnut butters. Like the
company’s almond butter, the new
nut butters are pure, with nothing
added, and are great on matzah and
for baking.
Finally, Manischewitz recently
announced new visual identity, which
includes new products, themes, and
more, with a fresh new feel for the
iconic brand.
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Passover

A rebbetzin’s demonstration yields yummy holiday dishes

Rebbetzin Graciela Zeilicovich led a Passover cooking demonstration for the sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn. Iona Friedman, Harriet Silber, Cheryl
Nowack, Arlene Ostern, Liz Schwarz, and Sue Riff were among the participants. Rebbetzin Graciela, right, shares the dishes she prepared using Marina Michan’s recipes.
Marina is a Mexican-born friend of Graciela’s who lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

Marina Michan’s Almond Chicken

Ingredients: or in bite-size pieces. Cover and cook
plum tomatoes using the same
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pan. Cook about 15 minutes,
1 cup raw almonds sit for 30 minutes. Serve with spaghetti
turning on each side. Remove the
2 tablespoons oil squash or quinoa.
tomato stem and peel. Place the
6 plum tomatoes
almonds, garlic cloves and toma-
1/2 can tomato sauce
toes into the blender and puree
1 onion
until smooth.
10 cloves garlic
kosher salt, pepper to taste Remove the chicken from the pot
chicken bouillon (optional)
bay leaves (optional)
and take off the skin. Wine Poached Pears
In a large saucepan, sauté 1/4 cup Bartlett pears, peeled and quartered
In a large pot, boil the chicken onions in 1 tablespoon of oil for sweet wine
with 6 cloves of garlic, 1/2 onion, about 5 minutes. Add the almond, 1 tablespoon sugar per pear
and kosher salt about 40 minutes garlic, tomato mixture and cook
or until tender. While the chicken for another 5 minutes. If it is too In a 4-quart saucepan, combine the
is cooking, sauté the almonds in thick, add liquid from the chicken wine and sugar. Add the pears making
1 tablespoon of oil until golden. pot. Add tomato sauce, salt and sure they are covered with wine. Bring

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same pan sauté the remaining desired. (A salt alternative is no- thicker and slightly syrupy. Then reduce
garlic cloves for about 5 minutes. salt chicken bouillon.) Add chicken heat and cook about 30 minutes. Turn
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iCAN teens trade topics with STEM Israeli delegation
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey’s iCAN Leadership stu-
dents and the Scott Pazer STEM dele-
gation from Israel met last week to dis-
cuss their strong Jewish identities and
commitments.
BCHSJS students aim higher
For the last 19 years the Bergen County
High School of Jewish Studies, work-
ing with Fairleigh Dickinson Univer-
sity, has offered a college credit class
for juniors and seniors. The credits
transfer to most colleges. This year’s
Remembering
Henrietta Szold
Last week, the Paramus-Bat Sheva
Players performed an original skit,
“What’s Best for Henrietta?,” at the
chapter’s general membership meet-
ing. The show is about what might
have happened if Henrietta Szold
lived in the time of dating apps and
social media. The original script was
written by chapter members Miriam
Aron and Debra Mazon.
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JFNNJ director Ariella Noveck led the
group through a conversation about
how challenging it can be when you step
outside your comfort zone and experi-
ence something new. Charlotte Korchak,
StandWithUs’s director of international
class, “Judaism in the Modern World,”
was led by BCHSJS faculty member
Dr. Daniel Rynhold, pictured teaching
outdoors. Dr. Rynhold will be honored
as Educator of the Year at this year’s
BCHSJS annual gala dinner.
student programs, discussed how media
influences the way Americans see Israel,
and how that differs from Israelis’ view
of their country.
For more information, email Ms.
Noveck at AriellaN@jfnnj.org.
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NCJW members join shul
for special Shabbat service
Members of the Bergen County sec- on March 22. After a dinner, they par-
tion of the National Council of Jewish ticipated in a unique Shabbat musical
Women and Temple Emeth congre- service led by Rabbi Steven Sirbu and
gants participated in a special Council Cantor Ellen Tilem in the sanctuary.
Shabbat evening at the Teaneck shul
Chana Yahalom,
left, Janie Horowitz,
Miriam Aron, Paula
Gellis, Martha
Shemin, and Sharon
Gross perform in
“What’s Best for
Henrietta.”
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Richard Polton to receive honors
at Jewish Historical Society gala
The Jewish Historical Society
of North Jersey will hold its
annual gala tribute dinner at
Barnert Temple in Franklin
Lakes on May 15 at 6 p.m.
Richard Polton will be hon-
ored for his outstanding
leadership, generosity, and
commitment to the pres-
ervation and promotion of
Jewish history in Northern
Richard Polton
New Jersey.
Richard Polton, a Paterson-born his-
torian, is a six-year president of the Jew-
ish Historical Society of North Jersey, a
fundraiser, and a donor. He is also a local said, “Richard has been a key person
history enthusiast, author, and lecturer,
particularly about Jewish, Paterson, and
New Jersey industrial, urban and archi-
tectural history.
The Paterson Museum’s director, Jack
DeStefano, describes Mr. Polton as “A
gentleman scholar in pursuit of truth
and promotion of his hometown whose
mission is to educate and provide peo-
ple with another reason to proud to say
that they come from Paterson.”
“He is a renaissance man,” Joy S. Kur-
land, JHSNJ’s executive director, said. “He Harold, and, years later, Richard, both
loves so many things. I witnessed his pre-
sentation about Fred Wesley Wentworth
and was amazed at how he weaved civic,
Judaic, architectural, and popular history
into a wonderful story.”
Mr. Polton wrote “The Life and Times
of Fred Wesley Wentworth: The Architect
Who Shaped Paterson, NJ and Its People”
(2012, distributed by Rutgers University
Press). Wentworth designed the iconic
art-deco Temple Emanuel and the Fabian
Theater. In partnership with a Jewish
entrepreneur, Jacob Fabian, he designed
local homes and buildings, among them
recognized landmarks in Paterson and
the Atwood-Blauvelt mansion in Oradell.
Mr. Polton’s parents were educated
Paramus Relay for Life
Paramus will hold its seventh annual
American Cancer Society Relay for Life
— a celebration of the yearlong effort to
raise funds for the nonprofit organiza-
tion — on the weekend of June 14 and
15 at Paramus High School. An open-
ing ceremony will feature Paramus Boy
Scouts presenting the colors, followed
by welcoming remarks. The Sparks
Special Needs Cheerleaders are making
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in Wentworth-designed
schools and Richard and
his brothers all were born
in Barnert Hospital, also a
Wentworth design. Work-
ing with a consortium, Mr.
Polton spearheaded the
Mill Mile, now a free audio
walking tour of Paterson
available at www.millmile.
org. He also leads guided
BARBARA BALKIN
tours of the historic Pater-
son neighborhoods several times a year.
Darren Boch, the superintendent of
the Great Falls National Historic Park,
on the team between the National Park Celebrating Morah Dora
Service, the architects, and the Hamilton Temple Emeth of Teaneck marked Dora Geld Friedman’s 18th anniversary as its
Partnership for Paterson, to help envi- director of education last month. Congregants of all ages attended the event hon-
sion a new visitor center at the park.” oring Morah Dora, as she is affectionately known. Mrs. Friedman, above, was
Mr. Polton is a trustee of the nonprofit surrounded by family at the celebration.
and is part of a team dedicated to maxi-
mize the public benefits of the new Pat-
erson Great Falls National Historic Park.
Ina Cohen Harris, a JHSNJ board mem-
ber and city history expert, knew the
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munity, where he sat on the boards of
many community organizations and was
treasurer of B’nai Keshet Synagogue.
Richard Polton and his wife, Bobbie,
live in Glen Ridge. He has three daughters,
Maya, Madeline, and Rachael; two sons-
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Cover Story
first person
How I almost
ruined my first
Passover seder
S
Brian D. Johnson
omewhere, there’s a photograph.
My future father-in-law is sitting at the head
of the table. My future mother-in-law is sitting
to his left and I’m sitting on his right, wearing
a suit, tie, and kippah. My stunningly beautiful
fiancée is next to me, and then there are three
grandparents, one uncle, and two next-door
neighbors. The photo is about 30 years old,
and six of the 10 people seated at the table now are dead.
It was my first Passover, and I very nearly screwed it up.
My fiancée and I had been engaged for just a few months, and
I was slowly being accepted into her family after a very rocky
introduction as the goy who wanted to marry their first-born
daughter. It had taken Henry Kissinger-level diplomatic skills
for me to end up seated next to my future father-in-
law. There had been a very real possibility that my
in-laws would sit shiva for their wayward daugh-
ter instead. It may not have been peace in the
Middle East, but there was definitely a truce
between a large Brooklyn Jewish family and this
Arkansas boy.
I felt that all eyes were on me because this was
my first seder — and it was a seder under very difficult
circumstances. I decided to adopt a role model during
the seder, someone to follow move for move, and I
decided to select my future uncle-in-law.
I knew that he was more religiously observant than
my fiancée’s dad, and because he was almost
directly opposite me, I would need only to
glance up at him to learn the moves. It
seemed like a good choice at the time.
I made it through the first couple of
hours OK. I didn’t have any trouble with
the English passages my father-in-law
assigned me, though the names of the
rabbis got stuck in my mouth. I made it
through the egg, the hand washings, the
four sons, the 10 plagues, the parsley dipped
in salt water, the Hillel sandwich, and the three
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cups of Manischewitz Extra Heavy Malaga.
Now, about the wine.
I was following the uncle’s lead. And when the Haggadah said
to drink the cup of wine, he drank a full cup of wine.
I noticed that my fiancée was only sipping her wine, but I
figured that this was one of those male/female things in Juda-
ism that I had heard about and seen with my own eyes in Bor-
ough Park and Crown Heights. The Malaga went down nice
and smooth.
Then came the dinner. My mother-in-law had prepared a
sumptuous four- or five-course spread. I even enjoyed the tzim-
mes. The gefilte fish was trickier, but with an ample application
of maror, it was OK.
My father-in-law, who was becoming a wine connoisseur, had
found some kosher-for-Passover wine that was decidedly better
than the Malaga we had consumed before dinner. There were
three different types of wine, and at his insistence, I had a full
glass of all three types with the festive meal.
I wasn’t exactly a lightweight. As a graduate of both public and
Ivy League universities, I had completed all my coursework in
inebriation, and by the end of the meal, I had that certain feeling
that I had had enough for the evening, and that any more might
prove to be an embarrassment. I certainly was glad that I wasn’t
the one driving home.
After dinner, we had scattered to the couches and Eames
chairs in the living room, and I started checking my watch. I had
a sense of victory — not only had I made it through the seder, but
I had passed with flying colors. I found the afikomen and ran-
somed it for Yiddishkeit lessons from my father-in-law. I opened
my mouth when I was supposed to and kept it shut otherwise.
All was well indeed.
Until my future father-in-law announced: “OK everybody, time
for the second half of the seder,” and the Haggadot were redis-
tributed around the table.
Wait — what? There’s more?
All I was fit for was to pay my hosts a “zeisen Pesach” and enjoy
the view from the Verrazzano Bridge on my way back home.
Second half? No, this must be a joke.
But it was worse than I had feared. A fresh bottle of Malaga
was set on the table, and I learned that there were two more
glasses of wine to drink. Under slightly different circumstances,

the musical cue for that moment would
have been, “One Toke Over the Line.”
But it was even worse than that. At
the close of the service, we had to sing
songs, including “Who Knows One?”
and “Had Gadya.”
You’ve got to be kidding me, right?
After seven glasses of wine, I was barely
fit to sing “Row, row, row your boat,”
much less two songs with about 13 verses
each. And here I am trying to keep up
in transliteration and understand the
English at the same time! I almost cried.
But my suffering was far from over.
The dinner dishes and glasses had to
be washed, and as I was the one trying
to brown-nose my way into the family,
I was committed to helping my future
mother-in-law wash and put away the
fleishig Passover china. I was the unof-
ficial Shabbos goy while she smoked
Benson & Hedges, drank the leftover
wine out of the glasses, and told me all
the bad things about her daughter she
thought I should know.
I remember feeling that I was the
victim of an immense practical joke. I
thought about how some families would
be doing this same ritual tomorrow
night, and my mind quailed at the idea.
This was one of those many moments
during my journey to Judaism where I
thought, “I have no idea what I’m getting
into and I am completely unprepared.”
Christmas dinner? Amateur hour,
dear. It’s the eight-hour seder that tests
the mettle of family love.
As for my future uncle-in-law, he had
been training for the Passover seder his
entire life. The seven — or more — glasses
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of wine bowed his posture but didn’t
seem to slow him down at all. Clearly, I
was the novice in so many ways.
There have been decades of Passover
seders since then, and I’ve led a few
myself. But the first one was the most
fraught with opportunities to screw up.
This year, I’ll be leading my syna-
gogue’s community seder, and I want
to emphasize love. We spill the wine
when we recite the plagues out of sor-
row: Though it may have been neces-
sary for our redemption, we need to feel
sorrow that the Egyptians had to suffer
through the plagues. There is no joy in
their plight.
Since that first seder, I have become
a Jew. It took a while for me to commit
my Christian apostasy, but I did it, and
that freed me to make what was a better
choice for me. In some of our ancient
texts, it is debated whether humans are
higher or lower than animals. One line of
thought is that we’re lower than animals
because animals can’t sin and humans
not only sin, we choose to sin.
Well, we can also make good choices,
too. For me, one good choice was to give
up drinking altogether. There are other
good choices, such as unshackling our-
selves from what’s holding us back from
embracing mitzvot, the greatest gift
Hashem has given us.
At the seder, we are reminded that we
have been given freedom. Let’s make the
most of it. Jewish telegraphiC agenCy
Brian D. Johnson is a writer in
Madison, Wisconsin, and a member of
Congregation Shaarei Shamayim.
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Cnaan liphshiz
aMsterDaM — Anywhere else in
Europe, a muscular cartoon character
named Max the Matzah would have
amounted to little more than an inside
Jewish joke.
But in the Netherlands, where
matzah is a household item year-
round for many non-Jews, Max
became an unlikely hit with the gen-
eral population. Since his creation
about 15 years ago as the unofficial
mascot of the Children’s Museum of
Amsterdam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter,
Max has proven popular beyond the
country’s 40,000 Jews.
Max is a frog-eyed figure whose head,
rising straight from the waist of a pair
of green trousers, is a round matzah.
His beefy bear arms wouldn’t look out
of place on a Marvel superhero.
He was born in the early 2000s as
a drawing designed by the Israeli art-
ist Ram Katzir and Petra Katzenstein,
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the manager of the Jewish children’s
museum, which is the only one of its
kind in Europe.
Since then, the museum has made
Max into thousands of puppets. He
stars and acts as a guide in the animated
films accompanying the displays at the
children’s museum, which receives
about 20,000 visitors each year.
He has been featured on taxicabs as
part of the museum’s advertising cam-
paign and on tens of thousands of boxes
of Hollandia, the matzah factory in the
the eastern Dutch city of Enschede. (It
is largely thanks to that factory, which
used to be owned by Jews, that matzah
became so popular here.)
In 2010, Max received his own
comic book, published by the museum
and now available in children’s librar-
ies across the country.
In 2017, on the 10th anniversary of
the children’s museum, Max made
appearances with the Netherlands’
best-known children’s television show

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host, Siemon de Jong. The museum also made a
Max rap video that year, cementing the cartoon’s
status as Dutch Jewry’s undisputed ambassador
to children.
Max would not have resonated with large num-
bers of children anywhere else in Europe, accord-
ing to Katzenstein.
“If you don’t know what a matzah is, then you
just don’t get it,” she said. In the Netherlands,
however, “on Easter, everyone eats matzah,
even though they don’t really know what matzah
means for us Jews.”
Katzenstein said this makes matzah — and Max
— a good place to start teaching about the Jewish
tradition and history.
That is why Max has an elaborate backstory.
He lives in a dollhouse in the attic of a Dutch
Jewish family called the Hollanders with other
members of his multicultural family of pastries,
including one chocolate chip variety. Max is
related to Benny the Bagel, Ayalah the Challah,
and Gita the Pita, among others.
The family’s story, told in animated videos at the
museum, “actually tells the story of the Jewish dias-
pora,” Katzenstein said.
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bility of Jews throughout the ages as well as their
determination, though Zionism, to limit it by
returning to their ancestral home.
“He’s brittle and vulnerable on the one hand,
but strong and robust on the other,” Katzenstein
said.
In one of the rap songs composed for Max,
he sings: “Don’t want to end up in chunks, I got
boxing trunks, I added some kicks and I’m now
good and fit.”
The boxing reference is no coincidence.
Before the Holocaust, Jews like Max Baer, Dan-
iel Mendoza, and Samuel Elias were among the
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sport’s star athletes in Europe.
The Dutch author Piet Mooren, in his 2002
book “The Narrow Margins of the Multicultural
Society,” wrote that Max the Matzah reminded
A Max the Matzah relaxes at a park in Amsterdam. him specifically of Ben Bril, a Dutch Jewish box-
ing champion who survived the Holocaust.
Not surprisingly, Max is a smashing success with “This modern-day David underwent a multi-
Jewish families here, many of which have the puppets cultural transformation in the prominent comic book
at home. Max features annually in the Passover display figure Max the Matzah,” Mooren wrote.
of this city’s main Jewish kindergarten, Simcha. Max’s many layers — metaphorically speaking —
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and the museum’s visitors. institutions comprising Amster-

In 2017 de Jong, who hosts the dam’s Jewish Cultural Quarter. The
long-running children’s show “Abel’s complex receives about 380,000 vis-
Cakes,” appeared with Max in a billboard itors annually and includes the Por-
and matzah box campaign celebrating tuguese Synagogue and the National
the museum’s 10th anniversary. De Jong, Holocaust Museum.
whose partner is Israeli, also hosted a “The girl was shocked to discover
matzah decoration contest at the small I was Jewish,” Katzenstein recalled.
kitchen of the children’s museum, where “When I asked her why, she told me,
visitors can make challah and matzah. ‘I thought all the Jews had died.’”
On his show, de Jong bakes a cake Katzenstein’s young interlocutor
with a child as they discuss dilemmas in wasn’t that far off. The Nazis and
the child’s life. One guest told about his their collaborators killed 75 percent
father coming out of the closet. Another of the Netherlands’ 140,000 Jews —
was an orphan whose mother commit- the highest death rate in Nazi-occu-
ted suicide. pied Western Europe.
“The conversations can get pretty That meant that outside Amster-

Cnaan Liphshiz
deep,” de Jong said. dam, “Dutch non-Jewish children
In one episode, de Jong hosted an no longer can visit the homes of Jew-
Arab child who declined to eat from the ish ones,” Katzenstein said. “This is
challah they just baked because “that’s part of the reason we designed the
how the Jews poisoned Arafat,” de Jong Petra Katzenstein holds a Max the Matzah puppet near the dollhouse of children’s museum to resemble a
recalled. Amsterdam’s Jewish children’s museum. Jewish home, so it would serve that
“It showed me that there is a lot of purpose.”
work that needs to be done,” he said. museum she now runs. But, she added, “we needed to
Katzenstein said an equally shocking conver- She was working at the time as a guide in the main find a host. And I think Max does a great job.”
sation with a child prompted her to create the Jewish museum, which is now one of five adjacent Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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Haggadahs are a trip

through Jewish history
From 1600s Europe to the Soviet Union,
these four offer the widest-angle view
Josefin Dolsten The fact that the Passover seder usually takes

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place at home creates a market for Haggadahs
rom graphic novel Haggadahs to tailored to each family’s needs or interests. In
a Donald Trump-themed one, if contrast, prayer books are often standardized
you’re looking for a certain kind of by denominations or geographic location, said
guide to the Passover seder, chances Jacob Wisse, the director of the Yeshiva Univer-
h history

are it’s out there. sity Museum at the Center for Jewish History.
Recent years have seen a proliferation of “The intimacy of the context — in other
political, environmental, family-friendly, or words that this is a celebration that we carry
leo BaeCK institute/Center for Jewis

just plain irreverent Haggadahs, but the urge
to make Passover speak to contemporary
times isn’t a new one.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency took a look
at four unique Haggadahs, from as early as
1687 to as late as 1990, each of which reflects
in some ways the zeitgeist of its time. The
seder texts, all housed at the Center for Jew-
ish History in Manhattan, feature production
techniques popular at the time and touch on
relevant topics ranging from the Holocaust to
the LGBTQ rights movement.
A 1687 woodcut Haggadah from Prague
on usually in the home, not in the synagogue
— that might lend itself to a kind of broader,
richer degree of visual adaptation,” Wisse
said. “Communities really are charged with —
they’re not merely allowed to — really seeing
themselves in the context of this text.”
Here are four Haggadahs that show just that.
A 17th-century printed Hagaddah was seen
as modern in its time
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what is now the Czech Republic. At that time, the
use of woodcutting, a printing technique using
carved wooden blocks, was a popular way to pro-
duce Haggadahs. Black-and-white images show rich
details and the space alongside the text is decorated
with flower-like symbols.
“We now take for granted of course how things
are prominently illustrated and it’s the easiest thing
to integrate imagery and text,” Wisse said. But the
invention of modern printing “was fairly recent in
terms of relative history, so a decorative Haggadah
like this, with woodcut borders on the title page
and surrounding text on other pages with woodcut
illustrations, would’ve been experienced as a spe-
cial thing to have.”
The Haggadah later belonged to the family of
Rabbi Heinrich Lemle, a Frankfurt-based rabbi who
fled with his family to Rio de Janeiro in 1941. There
Lemle went on to found a liberal Jewish commu-
of a series of feminist seder booklets from the 1970s and
‘80s, was published as the gay rights movement contin-
ued to gain steam but LGBTQ people still faced barriers
in society, including in the Jewish community.
In the introduction, author Judith Stein greats readers
with “Shalom Chaverot!” using the female plural form of
the Hebrew word for friends. Stein writes that she seeks
a balance between preserving the traditional order of the
seder and adapting it to values that fit her community,
such as by getting rid of language she viewed as sexist and
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finding ways “to reflect Jewish lesbian culture positively.”
Stein saw it not only as a Haggadah for her and her
friends but also as “a base for the evolution of Haggadot
which fully incorporate Jewish lesbian sensibilities.”
“I think it’s interesting that here you have an especially
personal reflection because it’s written by one person,
but also again channeling with respect towards tradition
but updating it within this new context,” Wisse said.
A Haggadah celebrates the Soviet Jewry movement
This seder guide was created in 1990, when nearly

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nity. The pages show wear and tear, Wisse noted,
which points to the fact that it was actually put to
use and not just displayed.
A children’s Haggadah draws parallels between
the Exodus and the Holocaust
“The Children’s Passover Haggadah,” first pub-
lished in 1945, was designed by Siegmund Forst,
a Jewish artist born and trained in Vienna. Forst
fled to the United States in 1939 but he didn’t for-
get about the fate of Europe’s Jews. In this chil-
dren’s Haggadah, Forst uses simple but powerful
black-and-white illustrations to draw parallels
between the Exodus narrative and more recent
instances of anti-Semitic persecution, most nota-
bly the Holocaust.
“This was done as one of first attempts both to
channel recent Holocaust history into the context
of a decorated Haggadah but also to present this Professor Avi Gilboa
within the context of what’s known as a children’s
Haggadah,” Wisse said.
A striking two-page spread, which reads “This

year [we are] slaves” in English and Aramaic, shows
Jews being whipped, beaten, and shot by a range
of perpetrators, starting with an Egyptian taskmas-
ter and ending with Nazis. The comparison draws
on the Passover commandment that each person
should imagine him or herself as if he or she were a
slave in Egypt, Wisse said.
“This idea of communicating to the younger
generation is one of the key aspects of that, using
recent history as a way of putting things in context
about both what things have recently happened but
also communicating the way that we participate in
an ongoing tradition,” he said.
A Jewish lesbian seder from 1984 celebrates pride
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narrative and the Holocaust; Above, the
lesbian Hagaddah from 1984

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decades, Soviet Jews had been wanting to leave the “There is a really celebratory aspect of this Hagga-
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reflected in the triumphal tone of the Haggadah, text of the Passover Seder,” Wisse said.
titled “The Exodus Haggadah, From Tyranny to But the Haggadah, which was created by the United

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Passover “Fifty Question” sponds with the Passover holiday. This gave the Jew-
Bulletin for Youth is ish students an opportunity to return to their homes
for the holiday. This year the two do not coincide.
Issued by Welfare Board The Jewish population in Ithaca is too small to pro-
The traditional four questions of the Seder service vide for the 500 Jewish students at Cornell.
Tilapia were supplemented in a bulletin issued by the Jew-
Florentine ish Welfare Board for circulation among junior and March 30, 1928
intermediate groups of Y.M.H.A.’s and Jewish Com-
munity Centers.
Communist Youth to Wage
In accordance with current interest in question- Fight Against Passover
ing, the Jewish Welfare Board has issued the bulle- Detailed instructions to the Jewish members of
tin under the title “Fifty Questions” on Passover.” the Comsomol, the Communist youth organiza-
The questions aim at familiarizing the youth with tion, were issued outlining the program of crusade
the facts concerning the historical significance and against the celebration of Passover by Jews in Russia.
Home of the Handmade Milkshake the observance of the Passover festival. The Central Executive Committee of the Comso-
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A Soviet Jewry Haggadah from 1990

Jewish Appeal Rabbinic Cabinet and the National

Conference on Soviet Jewry, also reminds the reader
that there was still work to be done. It even included
an appeal from UJA-Federation and a donation form
for readers to fill out and send in.
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on the Seder nights. No public demonstrations,

however, against the holiday are to be arranged.
The radio will be utilized for broadcasting
anti-Passover propaganda.

April 3, 1930
Says Jews on Passover
Will Ask God’s Wrath
on Soviet Rather Than
on Jews’ Foes
Jews throughout the world who on the eve of
Passover each year call on God to “pour out thy
wrath” on the enemies of the Jews, will this year
call on Him to pour out His wrath on the Bol-
sheviks, says today’s anti-Passover editorial in
the “Emes,” Jewish Communist daily in Moscow.
“This Passover,” says the “Emes,” “will be a
continuation of the partnership between the
Catholic cross and the Jewish Torah against the
Soviet. The Pope will collect holiday charity for
Soviet Jewry, Pilsudski’s headquarters will bake
matzoth for them, while the Gerar Rebbe will
collect funds for ikons, thus internationalizing
the Jewish Passover as a united anti-Soviet front.”
Pointing out that even last year, Ameri-
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matzoth campaign for anti-Soviet agitation,
the “Emes” continues: “Passover is a com-
plete swindle, because the Jews did not leave
Suzanne Egypt and did not cross the sea. Passover is
only a trick utilized by Jewish capital, Zion-
Zisfein ism and the so-called Jewish Socialists for
reactionary world Jewish interests.”

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and attended by Nahum Sokolow, president
of the World Zionist Organization, Prof. Selig
Brodetsky and other members of the World

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The High Commissioner of Palestine vis-
ited the Samaritans and witnessed their
Passover ceremony of sacrificing a lamb on
Mount Gerisim, in accordance with the Bible.
The Samaritan High Priest offered a special
prayer. The High Commissioner was asked
by the Samaritans for government assistance
to build a Samaritan Synagogue.
All the stores in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
were overcrowded with Jews doing their
Passover shopping.

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Thank you to our honorees:
Tonight from
DR. EPHRAIM & DR. CHAVA CASPER Germany to Iwo Jima
RABBI MENACHEM & MRS. SARAH GENACK America’s fourth war-time Passover will be
observed beginning tomorrow evening in
MRS. MANDY RICHMAN German towns which have not heard the
and keynote speaker, SARANNE ROTHBERG sound of Jewish prayers in over a decade,
on volcanic Pacific islands that never saw
a Jew until last month and in thousands of
homes where an empty chair at the seder
table will serve as a proxy for a fighting man
or woman engaged in more pressing busi-
ness in Europe or Asia.
So that American servicemen and women
may be assured of participating in tradi-
tional Passover observance if they so desire,
the National Jewish Welfare Board has sent
350,000 boxes of matzohs, 5,000 gallons of
sacramental wine and 115,000 Haggadahs to
virtually every corner of the world. Jewish
chaplains who landed on Iwo Jima with the
Marines carried with them ritual supplies
and Passover food. In Germany, Jewish chap-
lains have already made all arrangements
for the seders, as have chaplains in France,
Belgium and Holland. Religious soldiers
have been sent kosher food packages by the
Agudas Israel Youth Council of America.
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In Italy, soldiers of the Jewish Brigade,

which went into action against the Germans
this month, will take part in seders and other
ceremonies. In a Passover message to the Jews
of the world, on behalf of the officers and
men of the Brigade, Brigadier Ernest F. Benja-
min declared: “I want the Jews everywhere to
know that soldiers of my Brigade are firm and
resolved in their struggle against the Germans.
I know that they will, through their heroism
and sacrifice, be a source of pride to the Jewish
people. No soldier can have a better reason for
standing firm under German fire than the sol-
diers of the Jewish Brigade.”

Liberated European Jews

Provided With Passover Food
Europe’s Jews, hundreds of thousands of
whom will be observing their first free Passover
in more than five years, have been provided
with essential supplies by the Joint Distribution
Committee. Thousands of pounds of matzohs
and matzoh products were shipped to France,

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Italy, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Russia and Lith-
uania. In Rumania and other Balkan countries,
where direct shipments from the United States

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the purchase and baking of Passover foods.
Refugees residing in Latin-American countries
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American Jewry in the JKF’s land acquisition
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A Passover gift of $300,000 was cabled
today by Hadassah to the Jewish Agency for
Palestine to provide for the maintenance
and education of 1,138 Jewish refugee chil-
dren who arrived in Palestine within the last
four months, and who are being settled there
under the auspices of the youth Aliyah.
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Passover is not far distant. The armies
of liberation are on the march. The
tyrants of our own time will be hum-
bled as was Pharaoh of old and man-
kind will be freed from the fear of
future aggression.”
April 15, 1946
Jews Throughout
World Mark
Passover Tonight;
Many Celebrating for
First Time in Decade
Passover will be ushered in tomorrow
night by millions of Jews throughout
the world, including tens of thousands
of refugees and DP’s for whom this
will be the first Passover celebration in
over a decade.
The Joint Distribution Committee
has announced that over 2,000,000
pounds of Passover supplies have
already been distributed to refugee
and displaced Jews in Europe, North
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Africa, the Near East, and Shanghai.
More than 1,600,000 of this total
was shipped directly from the United
States, and the remainder was pur-
chased with American funds.
American serviceman will observe
traditional Passover services and
will be provided with Passover food
due to efforts by the Jewish Welfare
Board. The organization prepared and
shipped cases of Passover food, hag-
gadist, greeting cards, leaflets, and
recorded greetings, which will be dis-
tributed by Army and Navy chaplains
and by J.W.B. field representatives. In
addition to matzohs and wine the ser-
vicemen will receive canned gefilte
fish, canned chicken, matzoh meal,
salami, cheese, borscht, potato pan-
cake flour, and macaroons.
In a special Passover message to
the Jews in DP camps in Germany and
Austria, which will be broadcast tomor-
row morning, Dr. Israel Goldstein, in
behalf of the American Jewish Confer-
ence, will pledge the determination of
American Jewry “to do everything in
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Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, president dom in recorded history, American
of the Zionist Organization of Amer- Jews must rededicate themselves” to
ica, has issued a Passover message this task, he declared.
to American Jewry saying: “Not for
decades has the great commemoration April 2, 1950
of our escape from the house of bond-
age in Mizrayim been so profound a
35,000 Displaced
personal experience of every true Jew Jews to Celebrate
still alive in the world as in this year.”
Their First
The Synagogue Council of America
in a Passover message emphasized that Passover in U.S.;
“this year we have good reason to be Many Public Seders
thankful for the victory of the Allies
Thirty-five thousand former Jewish
over the Nazi beast who defied human
displaced persons will start celebrat-
decency, challenged the laws of God
ing their first Passover in the United
and men, and endeavored to revive the
States Saturday evening while in Israel
most degrading practices of savagery
scores of thousands of newly-arrived
and paganism.”
immigrants from all parts of the world
American participation in the Jew-
will usher in the Feast of Liberation,
ish National Fund, which is expected
secure in the knowledge that the
to amount to $24,000,000 in invest-
ancient dream — recited at the con-
ments in Palestine lands this year, was
clusion of the Seder service — of “Next
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years been fulfilled.
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Public Seders for more than 1,000 newly-ar-
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the United Service for New Americans at the
Hotel Marseilles in New York. Similar Seders
Passover celebrates freedom.
will be held in other cities. A mass Seder for But not all of us are free.
several hundred newly-arrived displaced Jews
has also been arranged by the HIAS at its shel-
ter in New York.
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The National Jewi sh Welfare B oard
announced that Passover arrangements have Financial distress
been completed for Jewish armed services
personnel and hospitalized veterans at even Anxiety and depression
the most remote military and navy instal-
lations, in veterans hospitals in the United
Social isolation
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Africa, the Caribbean and the North Atlan-
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will conduct Passover services at 250 military
posts and veterans hospitals. Hunger
The Synagogue Council of America, repre-
senting Orthodox, Conservative and Reform
Jewish religious bodies in this country, today
issued a call to American Jewry to observe
Passover “in the spirit of Israel’s ancient tra-
dition by dedication themselves to the contin-
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The Rabbinical Council of America on behalf
of its membership of 400 Orthodox rabbis,
issued a Passover call urging American Jewry
to “persevere in the spirit of freedom and
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democracy for advancing the cause of reli-

HAPPY gion.” A similar message was issued by the

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of

PASSOVER!
America which represents 2,500 Orthodox
synagogues in this country.
Passover messages to the community were
also issued by Jacob Blaustein, president of
the American Jewish Committee; Benjamin G.
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Nearly 20,000 tourists joined Israelis last
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Office, all first-class and second-class hotels
in the country were filled beyond capacity,
while hundreds of tourists had fanned out to

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join friends, relatives and acquaintances at
sedorim in kibbutzim, moshavim and other
settlements throughout the country.
More than 500 persons attended sedorim
conducted at the Zionist Organization of
WITH JACK CURRY America House at Tel Aviv. During the ritual
services there, special blessings were recited
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bidden to obtain matzohs through a Soviet
Government ruling banning the baking of mat-
zohs in state factories.
All of Israel’s army and other military instal-
lations conducted sedorim for personnel in the
armed services. Field kitchens had been made
kosher for Passover under the supervision of
THURS, MAY 2 • TIME: 6PM chaplains. A special Haggadah had been pre-

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pared by the office of the Army’s Chief Chap-

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lain, incorporating both ancient texts and
special versions of the Passover narrative
employed by various Jewish communities.

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Israel did not forget those citizens who are
on duty atop Mount Scopus, an Israeli enclave
inside Jordanian jurisdiction. A special con-
voy had been sent up to the mountain, car-
,M.D. rying Passover foods for the personnel there.
A rabbi accompanied the convoy, so that he
WED., MAY 8TH • 7PM WED., JUNE 5TH • 7PM could preside at the seder on Mt. Scopus.
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Dermer lauds Trump at White House

event that excludes all but Orthodox leaders
WASHINGTON — Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassa- American Zionist Movement, the Foundation for Defense Jexodus, the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, or
dor to Washington, the keynote speaker at a White of Democracies, the Hudson Institute, Hadassah, the the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
House reception for Jewish leaders on Tuesday, lav- National Council of Young Israel, the American Jewish Organizations make the cut.
ished praise on the Trump administration. Committee, the Jewish Federations of North America, A number of Jewish Trump administration officials
The meeting was notable because leaders of three the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Zionist Organiza- attended, including Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck, for-
of the four major streams of American Judaism were tion of America, the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, the Coa- merly of the Trump Organization, the lead Middle East
kept off the invitation list. Only leaders of Orthodox lition for Jewish Values, the Republican Jewish Coalition, peace negotiator. JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Jewish groups were present, although there was one
Washington, D.C., area Conservative rabbi.
Dermer praised the Trump administration and its
Israel policy; its accomplishments, he said, included
moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, withdrawing
from the Iran deal, defending Israel at the United
Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Nations, and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the
Golan Heights, attendees said.
Remembering those who perished in the Shoah
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who directs American
Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad), talked about Passover
Paying tribute to those who Survived
at the reception in the Indian Treaty Room in the
Please join us as we hear from Hanne and Max Liebmann
Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which adjoins and their amazing story of resilience.
the White House. Elan Carr, the State Department’s
anti-Semitism envoy, briefed the guests on combating
anti-Semitism overseas.
Jared Kushner had been expected but was a
no-show. He was mentioned, though, as Rabbi Shem-
tov praised the president’s son-in-law for what he said
was “a flawless Megillah reading” on Purim and men-
tioned his alma mater, the Frisch School in Paramus.
Kushner is leading a group putting together an
Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Jewish Insider quoted
Dermer as seeking to reassure those present about
the peace plan. “I know a lot of people are concerned Wednesday, May 1, 2019
that the peace plan is going to be coming out soon,”
Dermer said. “But I have to say, as Israel’s ambassa-
dor, I am confident that this administration — given Doors open
its support for Israel — will take Israel’s vital concerns 5:30-7:30 Gallery Viewing
into account in any plan they will put forward.”
The Reform, Reconstructionist, and Conserva-
6:30 Learning Mishnayot in memory of
tive movements, whose leaders were not invited, 525 Holocaust victims and survivors who have passed away
have clashed with the White House on a range of 7:30 Commemoration begins
policies, including immigration and President
Donald Trump’s rhetoric, seen as fueling hate. The
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Other groups not on the guest list included the
Anti-Defamation League, the country’s leading Jew-
This is a community-wide event, free and open to the public.
ish civil rights group. Nor was J Street, the liberal Jew-
ish Middle East policy group; HIAS, the lead Jewish This remembrance is co-sponsored by
immigration advocacy group, or the Israel Policy Congregation Ahavath Torah, East Hill Synagogue
Forum, a group dedicated to a two-state outcome to Kehillat Kesher and Kol HaNeshamah
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Simon Wiesen-
thal Center, another anti-defamation group, also was
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Editorial
A landmark burns . . .
and Pesach finally is here
Y F
ou don’t have to be Catholic
to be devastated by the fire
that ravaged Notre Dame
Cathedral in Paris this week.
You just have to be human to look
at the videos of the savage orange
tongues of flame — still oddly, upset-
tingly beautiful — and the unambigu-
ously hideous squat clouds of black
smoke that smothered the sky above
them to mourn the destruction of
beauty and creativity and human
ingenuity and feats of engineering that
those tongues were licking to death.
I’ve seen the cathedral called a
palimpsest, a marvelous word that
describes something on which some-
thing new has been written or drawn
or otherwise imposed on something
older; the older writing or drawing
or trace of culture mostly has been
erased, but it’s still there, ready to be
found, telling stories. Eventually, the
palimpsest holds layer after layer of
history. It’s a kind of time-onion.
Many of the layers of the more-
than-800-year-old building were
destroyed, the 19th-century roman-
tic spire most obvious among them.
The fire seems to have come from
the tools used by the restorers who
were working on bringing it back to
an earlier condition; the flames over-
shot that mark by centuries.
It’s hard to be from this area and not
think about September 11. It’s hard to
watch people on their knees, sobbing,
and not remember that nightmare day,
with its perfect blue sky so unmoved
by the terror below, in the buildings
that reached up to it.
But it’s not at all the same. The Twin
Towers were taken down by murder-
ers who wanted to destroy them, and
the people who were inside them.
Almost 3,000 people died on Septem-
ber 11, 2001. Amazingly and wonder-
fully, no one died in Notre Dame. The
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fire seems to have been pure accident,
the disastrous combination of very old
wood and attempted repairs.
When we think about the fire, we
think not about purposeful destruc-
tion but the raging power of nature,
and how terrifyingly quickly every-
thing can change. How something that
has stood for 800 years can be demol-
ished in almost no time, and how
it will take decades, at least, for it to
be rebuilt, and even then it won’t — it
can’t — be the same. That’s true for far
more than just the majestic cathedral.
It’s also hard, at least for me, not to
think about Jerusalem. It’s because of
the stone.
We’re told that the wood that made
up the cathedral’s roof and spires
was destroyed, but it’s far harder to
destroy stone. An inferno can weaken
it, I’ve read, but it can’t destroy it.
Jerusalem is made of stone. It
looks ageless, in that it’s hard for an
untrained person, like, say, me, to
look at any building there and have
any idea how old it is. It might be
ancient, a millennium old, or it might
be a cleverly constructed new build-
ing. Stone lasts. Jerusalem has lasted.
It can’t be destroyed by fire.
Meanwhile, it’s Pesach. The holiday
commemorating the Israelites’ lib-
eration from slavery and the begin-
ning of their long stay in the wilder-
ness, where they received the Torah
and were forged into a people, begins
tonight with a seder. Pesach marks
the exodus from the narrow place that
was Egypt, into the vastness of the wil-
derness and the uncertainty of life as
the sons and daughters of freedom.
We hope that all our readers have
seders full of conversation and
thought and laughter, good food and
good wine and friendship and love.
We wish all of you a chag kasher
v’sameach. —JP
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keeping the faith
Of measles and Jewish law
rom the moment our ancestors Oregon, and Texas.
set foot out of Egypt, two of the Europe, too, is experiencing a measles
fundamental directives they epidemic. In 2018, according to the World
were taught in so many ways Health Organization, 82,596 people there
were to “stay healthy” and to “protect the contracted measles — three times the
health of everyone else.” number in 2017 and 15 times higher than
As Pesach neared, however, those two 2016 — resulting in the deaths of 72 chil-
directives seem to have vanished from dren and adults.
certain charedi-dominated communities The main reason for the measles out-
in New York — in Willliamsburg, Brook- break here and overseas is a virulent mis-
lyn, and in Rockland County — and in information campaign by the so-called
Ocean County, New Jersey. The result anti-vax movement. The MMR vaccine
is the worst outbreak of measles in our successfully protects against measles,
area in at least 30 years, mumps, and rubella (hence
with 298 cases reported MMR). Before it came along
as of this writing and in 1963, according to the
undoubtedly many more CDC, “as many as 4 million
by the time you read this. people [in the United States]
Not only are the people became infected every year.
who live in these commu- Nearly 50,000 were hospi-
nities at risk, but they are talized and up to 500 peo-
spreading it outside their ple died annually.” By 2000,
enclaves. Westchester the MMR vaccine had virtu-
County, for example, began Shammai ally eliminated measles in
to see measles cases more Engelmayer the United States.
than a week ago among The anti-vax movement
people who recently visited is not swayed by that fact.
either Williamsburg or Rockland County. It uses made-up “science” concocted by
A measles outbreak in one home in Mon- a British physician — since discredited
mouth County is directly related to the — who fraudulently claimed that MMR,
Ocean County cases, according to New among other things, is a leading cause
Jersey health officials. of autism. Ten of his colleagues who
To be sure, measles is not restricted to attached their names to his “study” sub-
charedi communities. Between January 1 sequently disavowed its findings. The phy-
and April 4, according to the Centers for sician himself lost his license to practice.
Disease Control, there were 465 cases In Washington state, the anti-vaxers who
reported nationwide, compared to a total rely on the study are found among many
of 349 cases in all of 2018. Hardest hit liberal communities. In Texas and parts
(outside our area) are states in the Pacific of the Bible Belt, the anti-vaxers are found
Northwest, notably Washington and Ore- in conservative communities, spurred
gon. Others states reporting outbreaks on especially by a number of evangelical
include Arizona, California, Colorado, Christian churches.
Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Charedi communities, however, do
Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mich- not often follow the goings-on in Chris-
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therefore, decided to appeal to them in terms
that would catch their attention. Anti-MMR lit-
erature designed just for those communities
began to appear. One charedi anti-vaxer, for
example, was quoted by the New York Times
as saying, “Vaccines contain monkey, rat and
pig DNA, as well as cow-serum blood, all of
which are forbidden for consumption accord-
ing to kosher dietary law.”
The person making that statement, either
ignoring halacha on the subject of a vaccine’s
kosher status or deliberately misstating it, is a
contributing editor to a charedi-targeted anti-
vax publication. For the record, the medical
use of substances forbidden for eating undergo
many changes in their nature before becom-
ing part of a vaccine, and so lose their original
identity in the eyes of Jewish law. In any case,
being injected with a substance is not consid-
ered ingesting that substance. For that reason,
IV nutrition drips on Yom Kippur are permitted
by many authorities for seriously ill patients,
while caffeine addicts in Williamsburg and else-
where have relied on caffeine-laden supposito-
ries to get them through their fasts.
There also is this claim now circulating in
the charedi communities: “Childhood dis-
eases, like measles and chickenpox … are
not a legitimate public health menace….”
The 72 deaths in Europe in 2018, and the up
to 500 deaths in the United States annually
before MMR came along in 1963, testify to
the absurdity of that claim.
To be clear, Orthodox authorities of all
stripes are horrified at what is going on in
the charedi communities. They are working
overtime to dispel the anti-vax propaganda,
especially on religious grounds. “[I]nfecting
other people is totally unacceptable,” said
Rabbi David Niederman, a Satmar chasid
who is president and executive director of
the United Jewish Organizations of Williams-
burg and North Brooklyn.
There are many religious grounds to choose
from. Above all others is Genesis 1:26-27, which
says that humankind was created in God’s
image, thus putting on us the obligation to pro-
tect that image. The midrash tells us of the sage
Hillel the Elder. When he “finished with his stu-
dents {for the day], he would walk with them.
They asked him, ‘Our teacher, where are you
going?’ ‘To fulfill a mitzvah,’ he said to them.
‘And what is this mitzvah?’ they asked. Said
he to them, ‘To bathe in the bathhouse.’ ‘But
is this really a mitzvah?’ they asked. ‘Yes,’ he
said to them: ‘It is just like the icons [images]
of kings that are found in theaters and circuses.
The person responsible for [caring for] them
must [constantly] wash them thoroughly….
How much more so must I [bathe], who was
created in God’s image?’” (See Leviticus Rab-
bah 34:3.)
Rabbinic authorities from the Talmud on
also have focused on a statement in Deuteron-
omy 4:15: “For your own sake, therefore, be
most careful.” Based on that, Maimonides, the
Rambam, ruled in his Mishneh Torah, the Laws
of Personal Development (4:1), that “maintain-
ing a healthy and sound body is among the
ways of God.”
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The rest of the verse has nothing to do with
health, but that is irrelevant, the authorities say.
“The implication of these verses,” wrote the
16th century halachist Rabbi Mordechai Jaffee
(the Levush) “is that a person needs to guard
himself, that he does not bring himself to any
type of danger. Even though the simple reading
of the text may not mean this, nevertheless our
sages used these verses as a support to forbid a
person anything that brings him to any danger.”
(See his Levush Malchut, Yoreh Deah 116.)
The late 19th-century authority Rabbi Sam-
son Raphael Hirsch was more expansive.
“God’s word calls to us: ‘Do not commit suicide!’
‘Do not injure yourself…!’ ‘Preserve yourself…!’
Therefore you should avoid everything which
might possibly impair your health... And the
law asks you to be even more circumspect in
avoiding danger to life and limb than in the
avoidance of other transgressions.
(See Chapters 62:427-428 in his voluminous
commentary Horeb.)
There are other verses the authorities rely on,
as well. Deuteronomy 7:15, for example, states,
“The Lord will ward off from you all sickness.” A
midrash quotes the sage Rabbi Acha as saying
that it “depends on man himself that diseases
should not come upon him.” He based that on
the words “from you.” Said he, “What is the
proof? [The verse] means it is from you [mean-
ing it is dependent on you] that disease should
not come upon you.” In the ensuing discussion,
we are told that “Rabbi Sh’muel bar Nachman
said in the name of Rabbi Natan: ‘Ninety-nine
die of heat to one by the hand of heaven.’ The
Sages said: ‘Ninety-nine die through [their
own] neglect to one [who dies] by the hand of
heaven.” (See Leviticus Rabbah 16:8.)
Beginning with the Torah, as well, it is clear
that we have just as much responsibility to pro-
tect the health of others, which also means we
cannot subject others to possible contagion.
We saw this explicitly in the Torah portions
we read over the last two weeks, Tazria and
M’tzora. A person with a potentially infectious
ailment must be separated from the commu-
nity — not for that person’s sake, but for the
community’s. (See Leviticus 13:2-4 and suc-
ceeding texts.) It follows that a person may not
knowingly risk getting a potentially infectious
disease which would then spread to others. It
also follows that a person may not mislead oth-
ers into avoiding being protected from those
infectious diseases. For that, we also have
Leviticus 19:14’s admonition not to put “a stum-
bling block before the blind.”
God Himself made clear that He gave per-
mission to physicians to heal, based on Exo-
dus 21:19, which states that if a person injures
another “he must pay for his…cure.” (See the
Babylonian Talmud tractate B’rachot 60a.)
Standing in the way of physicians doing that is
thus another violation of Jewish law.
Beginning tonight, we mark the Exodus
from Egypt. As the Torah makes clear over
and again, because “I, the Lord, am your God
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,” the
Exodus is meaningless without the ethical and
moral laws that are based on it.
A chag kasher v’sameach to all.
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Telling our children
the story — and
letting them tell us too
P
assover, a holiday traditionally
celebrated in homes, is an incred-
ible opportunity to engage all
generations.
The storytelling component and the loca-
tion allows for experiential education to blos-
som. Passover brings Judaism to the home,
where many participants feel very comfort-
able. Parents often decide to which audience
they will tailor their Passover seder. They are Rabbi
forced to choose whether to read the Hagga- Ariel Russo
dah from cover to cover or to start at 5 p.m.
with kids’ songs. The nostalgia of reading the
Maxwell House Haggadah in its entirety with different versions around
the table may seem counterintuitive when combined with Passover songs
sung to the tunes of music from “Frozen.” Early bedtimes, limited atten-
tion spans, and teenagers who would rather be somewhere else all can
put restraints on the seder.
It is not easy to create a seder that will appeal to seder-goers of all ages,
yet with a few thoughtful additions, it is possible. The Haggadah teaches
us, “In every generation, one is obligated to see oneself as one who per-
sonally went out from Egypt. Just as it says in the Torah: ‘You shall tell
your child on that very day: This is done because of that which the Lord
did for me when I went out of Egypt.’” (Exodus 13:8)
How do we balance telling the stories, with all of their mathematical
equations and details, while also engaging our kids? We want our kids to
have fond memories of real seders while also acknowledging that every-
one — including kids — learns differently. By engaging multiple intelli-
gences, the seder is a wonderful opportunity for intergenerational learn-
ing. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences asserts that people
learn through different modalities, such as music, visual-linguistic, bodi-
ly-kinesthetic, inter- and intrapersonal, and so on.
Creating an experience at home where all participants can learn and
have fun makes Passover so special. With the recognition that your seder
is likely to be starting in a few hours, here are a few ideas that you can
add at the last minute to be mindful of a traditional seder with children:
1. Games. There are so many creative games that you can use to keep
young participants busy and engaged. Bingo is a prime example. The chil-
dren listen to the words of the seder because they have a task — to hear
words for the Bingo board. Empowering people with tasks and providing
a focus is a fun way to encourage active listening. Bring out some Legos,
and suddenly you have a visual image of a pyramid or the parting of the
Red Sea. Asking kids to build scenes with Legos or Tinkertoys or Lincoln
Logs sparks their imagination and as a visual aid helps them to reimagine
the scene.
Keeping little fingers busy, like fidget toys, can actually help to keep kids
focused. Games, puzzles, and scavenger hunts are multisensory activities
that can complement the traditional reading of the Haggadot. You can
download Bingo boards from the internet or dig out a Lego set and sud-
denly the traditional seder becomes more accessible to young participants.
See Children page 72
Ariel Russo, the rabbi of CSI Nyack, was educated by the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America and inspired by Camp Ramah. In her
spare time she wrangles her kids into car seats and explores the lower
Hudson region with her husband.
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Opinion

The journey to freedom

W
ith Pesach upon us, the Jewish commu-
nity is focused on our national journey
out of bondage to freedom.
This is a special holiday, not just
because we recline, not only because it signifies the
birth of the people of Israel as a nation, and not just
because (rare amongst the world) we claim our ances-
try not from gods or rulers but from slaves. Though all
those reasons are important and symbolic in and of
themselves, Pesach is special also because unlike other
holidays there is a ritual obligation to ensure the next
generation is imbued with a sense and knowledge of
the history of the holiday.
Pesach both is and is more than our national struggle
out of slavery. At the heart of Pesach also is the trans-
mission of that very story. It is important because it is
about communicating our identity and values to those
who will continue the Jewish story. This demands that
we ask the next question. What are those values?
On the surface level we can easily gleam the idea that
freedom is a principle value of Pesach. On the personal
level and in Judaism in general, free will and our innate
freedom to choose the right (or wrong) way and to live
with the results or consequences is emphasized heavily.
Our actions determine who we are, they are reflected
in what (fleeting) memory we leave behind, and in the
religious sense they impact our place in Olam haBa (the
world to come).
But freedom on the individual level
is not the end of freedoms value embed-
ded in Pesach. Rather, we can also see the
idea of the freedom for the Jewish people
— national self-freedom or self-determi-
nation. It was not just the Jewish slaves as
individuals who were being persecuted
that Moses was fighting for; he also was
advocating for them as a national collective
with a different language, culture, and reli- Joshua
gion than the nation keeping them captive. Einstein
On a deeper level, the story of Pesach
reminds us of the values not only of free-
dom (both individual and national), but also of life. Pha-
raoh tried to eliminate the Jewish people by ruling that
all Jewish male babies be murdered. Yet, as Pharaoh’s
daughter and family knew, there was no reason a ran-
dom male baby would be abandoned in a basket in the
river if the child were not Jewish. Life, when given half a
chance, often finds a way.
Moreover, Moses’s mother, Yoheved, made the choice
not to take part in approving the the murder of her baby,
even passively. Instead, she sought a way to try to offer
her baby a better life by floating him down the Nile in
an attempt to get an Egyptian family to adopt him. She
chose life.
Befitting Pesach’s level of importance to Jewish
national identity and our national creation narrative,
an almost literally big tent of tangen-
tially Jewish organizations continue to
attempt to hijack the holiday for their
own ends. Glomming their momentary
cause célèbre on, like a bad skin graft,
most have been purely superficially con-
nected to the holiday. Unlike one of the
few great exceptions, the deep connec-
tion of Pesach and the movement to free
Soviet Jewry (who were being denied the
individual freedom to practice Judaism,
their collective national identity, and
often their very lives), most of the large
pile of passing niche issue Haggadahs are forgotten
each subsequent Pesach.
What remains every Pesach are the values we must
pass down to each coming generation, that after suf-
fering in exile under the hard bondage of slavery we
underwent an amazing exodus out of Egypt in which
we chose life, freedom, and national redemption. This
year in exile, next year as free men!
Joshua Einstein is a founding member of the Hudson
County Regional Jewish Council, an elected member
of the New Jersey Republican State Committee, sits
on the executive board of the New Jersey State Young
Republicans, and has been published in more than 14
newspapers and websites on Jewish and political topics.

Women just don’t understand

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“ he’s surprisingly good with numbers.”
“She’s actually very well-spoken.”
“She’s new, but we can teach her.”
These are just some of the seemingly
harmless but incredibly undermining phrases that I
have heard throughout my life — always about women,
and always with that one word that flips a seemingly
harmless statement on its head to make it incredibly
damaging.
I have thick skin, and while I often am quick to form
an opinion, I love to be challenged, questioned, and
pushed to think through an issue from a different per-
spective. I appreciate when others are able to have an
honest debate on a sticky issue and either agree to dis-
agree, or change my mind, or change theirs. I am heart-
ened when I see brilliant minds and passionate souls
debating a subject on social media, challenging the very
core of each other’s assumptions, yet never stooping to
name-calling or dismissal of each other.
Many people have written about the decline of this
kind of honest debate in recent times, but I am most
troubled by a different phenomenon — the subversive
ways in which some people attempt to seed doubt
about another person’s intelligence or integrity, while
never actually addressing the issue at hand.
Each of the statements I described above are exam-
ples of how a simple sentence can serve to undermine
the person in question — while not really saying much
at all. I wonder how many times I have heard some-
one say something like this and filled in the blanks
on my own to the subject’s detriment like a perfectly
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choreographed MadLibs story. Probably
more than I want to admit.
After a recent letter I wrote about the
Englewood budget, I started hearing the
same trope coming from a select few
about me. “She doesn’t understand bud-
gets,” they said. Or, even better was “she’s
just not understanding the numbers
behind this.” This was particularly com-
ical coming from men who have never Cheryl
managed a multimillion-dollar organiza- Weiner
tion or spent more than a few minutes Rosenberg
studying a municipal budget. However,
even if these men had been experienced
financial professionals, the message was clear — they
lacked the sophistication to address or challenge the
issues at hand, so instead they stooped to the level of
seeding doubt in my abilities while avoiding having to all of the painful and charged accessories to which we
engage meaningfully with the issue at all.
Underscoring the words is the subtle but present
belief that, of course, women can’t really understand
numbers as well as men — that’s just how we are made!
Most of us have little time to pick apart seemingly
innocent statements about others to evaluate bias,
but when the narrative is purposeful and targeted at
you, it’s obviously crystal clear. I have decided that a member of Kehilat Kesher Synagogue. She’s the
I want no part in discrediting anyone else based on
my own rhetoric and bias — and we all have biases,
whether we know it or not — because it’s cheap and
unsophisticated and doesn’t ever actually solve the
issues at hand.
On the eve of Passover, I am thinking
about the idea of doing things differ-
ently, and not just for a night or a week
— but forever. I am learning about my
own biases, and trying hard to catch
myself before I use them to discredit
someone else unintentionally.
In the world of politics, when people
have lived in and loved in a city for 40,
50, or 60-plus years, they inevitably
have attached an unbelievable amount
of baggage to issues, to people (and peo-
ples), and even to places. If we want to
move forward, sometimes we need to
check that baggage at the door while we sort out solu-
tions that bring people together.
Sure, the suitcase will be unpacked eventually, with
are sometimes too attached, but if we cling too tightly
to our comfort zone right from the start of a conver-
sation, we can never think freely to better the world
for our children.
Cheryl Weiner Rosenberg lives in Englewood, where
she is a council member representing Ward 1 and
senior director of marketing and communications for
Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools, the immediate
past president of Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus, and
a long-time activist in the areas of civil liberties,
equality, and women’s rights.

Four questions for the seder
Are we focused on ourselves or on others or on the Jewish family?
P
assover is often experienced as a holiday of
pity — not only for our ancestors who suffered
in Egypt, but for ourselves.
Indeed, there is much to be concerned
about. What will we eat? Will we stay or go? How will we
clean? It’s easy to forget that from the Torah itself to the text
of the Haggadah, we know that the holiday actually is sup-
posed to involve concern for our needy neighbors and for
the continuity of the Jewish nation as a whole. In the spirit
of the four questions, here are several thoughts concerning
priorities that are easy to overlook.
First, while we plan for ourselves, do we provide for
others? When we begin the recitation of the Haggadah, we
declare that all who are hungry should come, eat, and cel-
ebrate Passover with us. Well, what preparations have we
made so that we don’t feel guilty reciting those words? The
Talmud considers charity before Passover to be even more
important than charity at other times of the year. It goes so
far as to say, whether literally or figuratively, that people
are required to sell the clothes off their backs in order to
purchase four cups of wine for the seder. This is supposed
to emphasize that rather than focusing on our preferences,
we should be concerned with doing our part to help those
who are struggling.
It’s easy to check off that box, whether with a large
donation or by providing for someone who could use our
help in a direct manner. But this leads us to a second
question: what have we done for those who need friend-
ship? Our society has become more and more isolated
over time, to the point where in the U.K. the government
even discussed assigning a government minister the task
of dealing with loneliness.
Yet while everyone issues the call to strangers to come
and eat on the night of Passover itself, too many times we
shirk away from inviting others into our family circles.
We shouldn’t. It’s easy to get caught up in the allure of
quiet time with family, to the point where we feel that
Letters
Chabad school requires vaccination
This is in response to the recent article that was been
published regarding Lubavitch on the Palisades Pre-
school, Tenafly Chabad Academy, Gan Or Daycare and
Camp Gan Israel (“Resistance to measles vaccine per-
sists in the local charedi communities,” JTA, April 5).
We want to reiterate and clearly state that we are firmly
committed to our schools’ and camp policy regarding
vaccinations as listed below.
Safety will always be our number one concern and we
will do everything to protect those that come to our school
and camp each day, knowing they can feel safe and secure.
We firmly stand by our immunization policy 100 per-
cent, which remains as follows:
· We do not accept religious exemptions for MMR for the
current 2018-2019 school year.
· Beginning June 24, 2019, we will not accept any reli-
gious exemptions. We require ALL OUR STUDENTS, CAMP-
ERS AND FACULTY to show proof of vaccination.
· According to the State of New Jersey, Department of
Health in Trenton, by law we must accept medical exemp-
tions. A medical exemption MUST be based upon valid
medical reasons as enumerated by the Advisory Commit-
tee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) or the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines.
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guests at our Seders are an intrusion. This
is not something to dismiss lightly, insofar
as every family ought to focus on quality
time alone. At the same time, part of being
a Jew means that we ought to expand our
sense of family to include those further
from us who lack the bonds that we might
be privileged to enjoy. That is why, for
the Torah, we cannot celebrate a holiday
unless we help those who are less fortu- Rabbi
nate to celebrate along with us. Mitchell
A third question concerns our attitude at Rocklin Ph.D.
the Seder: to what extent does our Passover
celebration focus on the survival of the Jew-
ish people, which of course was central to the holiday in
the first place? How does that impact what we discuss at
the table? There is, after all, always a temptation to lose
sight of the connection we have with the living history that
characterizes our people. This is especially true when wait-
ing for a delicious dinner! But do we pause to think about
the deprivation that has so often been our lot as Jews?
And for that matter, where do we spend Passover? Is it
a vacation for us? Or an opportunity to work hard to pre-
pare for a holiday that involves hard work? And do we feel
deprived when it comes to the lack of variety of foods? We
ought to — matzah is, after all, the “bread of affliction.” Is cause us to redouble our efforts as Jews to do what we can
our conversation over the course of the evening suitable for
giving thanks for being saved from slavery?
Finally, are we focused on the continuity of the Jewish
people? We often forget that the story of Passover began
with decisive decisions on the part of heroic Jewish women
who sought to perpetuate the growth of Jewish families.
The story of the Exodus starts with Shifra and Puah, the
Jews’ chief midwives, disobeying a direct order from the
Pharaoh and deciding to save newborn Jewish baby boys
from death. Moses’s mother and sister, Yocheved and
Miriam, saved him from the same end. There is even a
Each medical exemption will be reviewed imme-
diately by our school nurse who works in conjunc-
tion with the state, Department of Health to receive
an approval.
Currently, we do not have any children in our school
or camp with medical exemptions.
We look forward to welcoming all children to our
school and camp in safety and good health.
If you have any further questions or concerns, we
will gladly address and answer them. Please feel free to
call us at (201) 871-1152, ext. 500.
Rabbi Mordechai Shain
Executive Director, Lubavitch on the Palisades
Boteach’s anger at Booker: Pure ego
The term “egotist” can be defined the following ways:
1. An inflated sense of one’s importance; 2. Excessive
use of the first person singular personal pronoun; and,
3. The practice of talking about oneself too much.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach fulfills each definition for
egotist in his column about “The truth about my friend-
ship with Cory Booker” (April 12).
The rabbi uses the word “I” 16 times during his vitri-
olic verbal assault against Senator Booker, making the
diagnosis that he is an egotist certain.
Rabbi Boteach focuses on one issue and one issue
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midrash, drawing on the Book of Exodus’s
description of the Israelites having many
children despite their suffering, that it was
countless heroic Jewish wives who saved
the nation by convincing their hopeless hus-
bands to have children.
The question we face is whether we are
doing enough to help promote the Jewish
family. There are so many ways to help.
There are organizations like EFRAT and In
Shifra’s Arms that assist pregnant women
in crisis. There are others that help cou-
ples struggling with infertility who cannot
afford treatments. Do we support them?
Do we try to have more children of our own? Do we adopt
if we are unable to? These questions may seem removed
from the holiday, but they are central to the life of a Jew.
In 110 C.E., the Roman consul Tacitus noted with disap-
proval that the Jews, unlike Romans, were interested in
having as many children as possible. This is a phenome-
non that has characterized the Jewish people for centu-
ries, although it is now in danger in the diaspora, with
non-Orthodox Jews in the United States having one of the
lowest birthrates in the nation.
May this Passover holiday, and our preparation for it,
for those who are in need, for those in need of friendship,
and for the Jewish people as a whole. In this manner, may
our celebration be one of joyous song, both for our nation
and for each one of us.
Rabbi Dr. Mitchell Rocklin is a postdoctoral research
fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison program.
He is also a chaplain in the Army National Guard
and has served as a pulpit rabbi and on the executive
committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. He lives
in Teaneck with his wife and two daughters.
alone — Israel. As an Israeli immigrant to the United
States, that issue is extremely important to me as well.
However, as an American citizen, I know that there are
many issues and problems that need to be dealt with in
our country — women’s rights, gun control, health care,
the federal deficit, the high cost of medications, immi-
gration, and more. Apparently, Rabbi Shmuley cares
little if at all about these matters or Senator Booker’s
stands on these issues.
Cory Booker was a classmate of one on my daughters
at Northern Valley of Old Tappan High School. Besides
being a stellar student and an accomplished athlete, he
was a great classmate to all. Our daughter would often
extol him as a friend and fellow student. She knew Cory
could become president well before the rabbi had ever
met him. And the fact that Senator Booker is a progres-
sive about so many issue that mean a lot to me is vital in
considering whether or not I will vote for him.
Friendship with someone does not imply that both
people in that relationship must hold identical feelings
about everything. Rejecting being someone’s friend
because he or she believes in something differently
from you helps support my belief that Rabbi Shmuley
Boteach fulfills the requirements of being an egotist.
Victor Borden, M.D.,
Old Tappan
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Whether it is that first backyard bar-
becue or toiling in the garden, some-
thing about spring makes me want to be outside.
Perhaps my favorite thing about April is the
return of baseball. There may be no more authen-
tic slice of springtime than going to the ballpark.
Alexander Pope once penned “Hope springs eter-
nal in the human breast” in An Essay on Man; and
it alludes to the fact that it is human nature to seek
fresh causes of optimism.
Now, I don’t know if he was a baseball fan but
the phrase has become synonymous with opening
day in Major League Baseball. The slate of the pre-
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are filled with aspirations of future success. Don’t
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in late March and tell me this isn’t true.
I’ve always looked to find metaphors in the basic
to explain the bigger picture, and hope springing
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some time. If it is in our nature to be optimistic
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As a physical therapist, I encounter people on
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Reconnecting with family
Signs an aging loved one
may need additional help
increase the risk of falling — a major
cause of disability among the elderly.
Failure to keep up with daily rou-
tines: If a relative who usually dresses
especially after age 60. In other cases, ill-
ness or medication contributes to loss of
taste or smell. The person might not be
interested in eating if food doesn’t taste
or smell as good as it used to.
• Underlying conditions. Sometimes
weight loss is a sign of a more serious
appointments.
• Unusual purchases such as buy-
ing more than one magazine subscrip-
tion of the same magazine, entering an
unusual amount of contests, purchasing
an increased amount of items from tele-
vision advertisements.

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or many, Passover is a time for
the family, from the young-
est to the oldest, to gather
together in one place. The
holiday is a time for celebration but
also serves as a marker in time — a time
to reflect on the changes over the past
year. These changes tend to be more
pronounced in the youngest and old-
est members of the family and tend to
be noticed by those guests who are not
present on a regular basis.
If you notice the following issues in an
aging family member or friend it may be
time to consider additional support.
Changes in mobility and increased
falls: If you observe that a relative is
having difficulty walking and moving
around, they may be suffering from mus-
cle weakness, joint problems or other
age-related changes. These difficulties
for the holidays and is well-groomed
arrives unkempt and sloppy, they may
be unable or unwilling to handle activ-
ities of daily living — such as bathing,
dental hygiene, and other basic groom-
ing. This could indicate health problems
such as dementia, depression, or physi-
cal impairments.
Weight loss: If your older relative
appears to have lost significant weight
since you saw them last it could be a sign
that something is wrong. For the elderly,
weight loss can be related to many fac-
tors, including:
• Difficulty cooking. The person could
be having difficulty finding the energy
to cook, grasping the tools necessary
to cook, reading labels or directions on
food products, or getting groceries into
the home.
• Loss of taste or smell. Some loss of
taste and smell is natural with aging,
underlying condition, such as malnutri-
tion, dementia, depression, or cancer.
If the family gathering is spent at an
aging relative’s home you may notice
their inability to maintain the home or
property. Big changes in the way things
are done around the house can provide
clues to health. For example, scorched
pots could mean forgetting about food
cooking on the stove. Neglected house-
work could be a sign of depression,
dementia, or other issues.
Other changes in behavior that may
indicate the need for further investiga-
tion are:
• Increased forgetfulness or inappro-
priate behavior
• Mishandling finances such as not
paying bills, paying bills twice, hiding
money or losing money.
• Unopened mail, piling newspa-
pers, unfilled prescriptions, or missed
The holiday may provide an oppor-
tunity to begin a discussion with the
older adult about current challenges.
These concerns should also be brought
to the attention of a physician. The
doctor can assess what may be causing
these changes and make suggestions
for addressing them. Suggestions may
include further assessment, physical or
occupational therapy, or the hiring of a
home health aide.
Aveanna Concierge Services, located
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles
Englewood Health Physician
Network opens multi-specialty
practice in Cliffside Park
The Englewood Health Physician Net-
work recently marked the opening of
its first multi-specialty practice, bring-
ing primary care and specialty care
to residents of Cliffside Park and the
neighboring community.
Englewood Health Physician Net-
work–Cliffside Park offers both primary
care and a broad range of commonly
accessed specialists to patients in one
convenient location. The new practice
is at 695 Anderson Ave., part of the
Towne Centre in Cliffside Park, and is
now accepting patients.
“Our goal is to provide primary care
and multi-specialty care in the same
place for the benefit of our patients,”
said Dr. Stephen Brunnquell, president
of the Englewood Health Physician
Network. “Now when a physician sees
a patient and their condition requires
a referral to a specialist, the physician
can make that immediate connection
and maybe even an introduction. It’s
ultimately better for patient care.”
In addition to internal medicine
and family medicine, many common
specialties are available at Englewood
Health Physician Network–Cliffside
Park, including cardiology, endocrinol-
ogy, pulmonary medicine, and gastro-
enterology. Other services, including
infectious disease, orthopedics, and
rheumatology, will be coming soon.
Selected because of its accessibility
by both car and public transportation,
the 6,000-square-foot facility, located
inside the Towne Centre, includes 12
exam rooms, all new lab and imag-
ing equipment, and modern, well-ap-
pointed physician consult offices.
At Englewood Health Physician Net-
work — Cliffside Park, patients can
access primary care for acute, chronic,
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and routine medical care, school or
occupational physicals, immuniza-
tions, and travel medicine, as well as
onsite testing such as laboratory and
imaging studies, EKGs, stress testing,
and pulmonary function tests. Soon,
the practice will offer early morning
and evening hours, as well as Saturday
appointments.
“This is equally about convenience
and improving patient care,” said Dr.
Brunnquell. “Patients are more likely to
follow through when the office is famil-
iar to them. Because the specialists
are co-located with their primary care
physicians, it’s easy. They already know
the staff, the building, and the parking.
It feels familiar and, therefore, more
comfortable. reassuring for patients.”
By choosing a doctor who is a mem-
ber of the Englewood Health Physi-
cian Network, patients benefit from a
shared electronic health record system,
which helps improve timely communi-
cation between physicians, as well as
between physicians and Englewood
Hospital. With this medical record
system, doctors can access all of their
patients’ medical information, read
other specialists’ notes, see prior imag-
ing studies and laboratory results, and
communicate electronically with other
providers throughout the network.
“Our research indic ated that
Cliffside Park was in need of greater
availability of primary care,” said
Dr. Brunnquell. “More than ever,
convenience is important to patients,
and primary and specialty care need to
be available where patients can access
it. The addition of Englewood Health
Physician Network–Cliffside Park is one
more way we are meeting the needs of
our community.”
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What sets Dr. Kalishman apart is her philosophy
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Dr. Kalishman understands that some patients’
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In her infectious disease practice, Dr. Kalishman
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Holy Name is collaborating with Merck in three
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Dr. Lewin has been engaged with assessing new
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because you will look healthier. The
main reason I get excited when my
patients lose weight is that they become
much healthier. That extra fat is asso-
ciated with many diseases including
heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. By
losing weight, you feel great and you
dramatically improve your health. One
of the great things to hear is “Did you
lose weight? You look great!” On the
inside you can feel great that you have
increased your life expectancy and your
health expectancy, which is the interval
of years of good health you can expect
from your healthy approach to life.
The two most concerning aspects
and leads to insulin resistance. The
increased inflammation leads to heart
disease and clogged arteries while the
insulin resistance could lead to diabe-
tes. The decreased bone density leads
to osteoporosis.
A great way to reduce the visceral
fat is by taking estrogen. That is part of
the reason that estrogen is so effective
at reducing heart disease. Women who
replace bioidentical estrogen (estra-
diol) have a 50-60 percent reduction
in heart disease and cardiac events. In
addition to reducing visceral fat, estra-
diol improves the lipid profile. Estra-
diol reduces total cholesterol and LDL
cholesterol. This is the ‘bad’ cholesterol
that increases the risks of heart disease.
Also, estradiol increases HDL choles-
terol, which is the ‘good’ cholesterol.
Having a high HDL reduces the risk of
heart disease. Estrogen and progester-
one have both been shown to raise HDL
cholesterol. The most commonly used
conventional treatment for lowering
cholesterol is with statin drugs. How-
ever, reducing the cholesterol with a
statin drug does not reduce the risk of
heart disease or a cardiac event except
for a mild reduction in risk for those at
very high risk for heart disease. Also,
there are numerous side effects of sta-
tin including muscle pain and tiredness.
On the other hand, women who take
estradiol feel more energy and vitality

STYLE of menopause are that visceral fat

is increased, and bone density is
decreased. The increase in visceral fat
is very dangerous because it leads to
while losing weight.
Osteoporosis has a very high prev-
alence among menopausal women.
During menopause, there is a

Englewood Hospital receives

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ensure that bariatric surgical patients
receive a multidisciplinary program —
not just a surgical procedure — which
improves patient outcomes and long-
term success. The accredited center
offers preoperative and postoperative
care designed specifically for their
severely obese patients.
Englewood Health’s commitment to
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precipitous decline in bone density for many women.
Osteoporosis is painless unless a fracture results.
Unfortunately, a hip fracture has a high mortality rate
for women (18 percent in first year) and can be very
disabling for the survivor, leading to nursing home
placement. The most common treatment for osteo-
porosis is alendronate (Fosamax). This does not help
grow bone. Rather, it slows the decline of bone. In
contrast, estradiol actually helps grow bone. That
is, those who take estradiol actually see their bone
density increase. Thus, taking estradiol is one of the
most effective ways to significantly reduce the risk of
hip fracture.
Dementia deprives many from enjoying life and as
it progresses, can lead to total dependency and even
death. There are no effective treatments for demen-
include irritability, depression and insomnia. Bioidentical
estradiol significantly reduces the risk of disease while Pre-
marin can dislodge clots in women who have plaque in
their arteries. Despite these stark differences, many physi-
cians and even many review studies, conflate Provera and
progesterone. This confusion harms women by depriving
them of accurate information that would help them clearly
see the benefits of bioidentical hormones.
With bioidentical hormone replacement, women have
improved mood and sleep better. They also feel more
energy and vitality. Sexual health is also improved with
increased libido and improved lubrication. In other
words, women who take bioidentical hormones feel
great while losing weight. That is awesome but from
my perspective, what is even better is that you will have
greatly reduced risk of heart disease, greatly reduced
risk of a life-threatening hip fracture and reduced risk of
dementia. It is my hope that women take advantage of
this opportunity to feel great while losing weight and to
improve their overall health!
Dr. Slaten is a wellness physician specializing in
regenerative pain treatments and lifestyle counseling. He is
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women start estrogen early in menopause the risk
for Alzheimer’s dementia decreases between 30 and
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showing benefit. The protective benefit of estrogen
for dementia when starting estrogen later is less dra-
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and heart disease. Progesterone is a mood enhancer
and great for sleep while the side effects of Provera

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ularity among people of all ages and
walks of life. Mindfulness is all about
truly being in the moment, maintaining
a full awareness and non-judgmental
acceptance of one’s thoughts, feelings,
bodily sensations, and surroundings,
often accessed through the practice
of meditation. There have been many
studies documenting the physical and
mental health benefits of mindfulness.
Seniors who practice meditation may
find some of these benefits conferred
to them, through a few minutes of quiet
relaxation.
What is meditation?
Meditation provides a time of quiet
reflection and a short respite from daily
cares.
It uses mindfulness and breathing
techniques to focus the mind on a
particular thought, object, or activity.
It helps train one’s attention and can
help achieve greater mental clarity and
emotional calm. You can start with just
a few minutes a day and work your way
up to 20 or 30 minutes. All you need
is a comfortable straight-backed chair
and a quiet room.
Benefits of meditation
for seniors
1 — Sharper mind, better memory:
Studies by neuroscientists have con-
firmed a link between practicing med-
itation and improving one’s memory.
Regular meditation increases blood
flow to the brain, creating a stronger
network of blood vessels in the cere-
bral cortex — the region that deals with
learning, concentration and mem-
ory. Beneficial effects may be seen in
(Resident, Lillian Grunfeld with her daughter, both short-term and long-term mem-
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shown to actually change the brain’s
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physical structure, increasing the areas
responsible for personality, self-aware-
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region associated with negative emo-
tion or anxiety. This leads to improved
focus and cognitive function.
2 — Slow down dementia’s pro-
gression: Meditation and breathing
exercises can also slow down demen-
tia-related conditions and help the per-
son deal with the anxiety or depression
that may accompany memory loss. At
Lester Senior Living, all residents can
take weekly balance and mindfulness
classes to help them enhance their
mental acuity and mobility, and pre-
vent falls.
3 — Enhance digestion: The deeper
breathing associated with meditation
improves circulation, thereby increas-
ing oxygen levels in the blood which
can aid in digestion.
4 — Improve mood: As we age,
many of us find our moods change
unexpectedly; changes in lifestyle or
personal loss may also affect mood.
Since meditation focuses on mindful-
ness — that non-judgmental acceptance
of the moment — the practice can help
us observe and accept emotions rather
than react to them.
5 — Promote relaxation/calm:
Meditation is a chance to take a break
from daily life, make time for connect-
ing to yourself, organize your thoughts,
and take those cleansing deep breaths
that have a calming effect.
In addition to balance & mindful-
ness, residents at Lester Senior Living
in Whippany may take yoga or Zumba
classes, or work out in our fitness cen-
ter — part of the Lester lifestyle that also
includes a full range of creative arts,
cultural, and educational programs.
For more information, contact David
Rozen at (973) 929-2725 or davidr@jch-
corp.org. You can also follow the com-
munity on Facebook at https://www.
facebook.com/LesterSeniorLiving/.
morbidity and mortality because of the
diseases and conditions commonly asso-
ciated with it, such as type II diabetes,
hypertension, and cardiovascular dis-
ease, among other health risks.
Metabolic and bariatric surgical pro-
cedures have proven to be effective in
the reduction of comorbid conditions
related to severe obesity. Working with
ASMBS, the ACS expanded this quality
program for bariatric surgery centers
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D’var Torah
Liberating the Egypt inside our own backyard
T
he man knows that his neighbor is not at
home. Brown towel draped over his shoul-
der, he enters the backyard through the
gate and eyes the pristine swimming pool
before him. Casting aside the towel, he jumps into
the refreshingly cool water and starts swimming laps.
After a while, the man reaches the edge of the pool,
only to find his neighbor standing at the steps, look-
ing at him perplexedly.
“Again?” the neighbor wonders. “That’s the
third time this week. I thought we already had this
conversation.”
An embarrassed look passes across the man’s face.
“You keep your pool so clean though. The tempera-
ture is just right. The water feels great.”
Looking over the fence, into the man’s backyard,
the neighbor points to the man’s yard, “I don’t get it.
You have a swimming pool of your own. It looks nice
and clean to me, perfectly maintained.”
The neighbor turns and pauses, looks at their own
pool, and sighs heavily, for in their eyes, the pool
before them looks greenish in color and there are lots
of insects swimming on the surface. The neighbor
doesn’t understand why the man would want to go
swimming in this pool, when his own pool appears
so enticing.
“But I’d rather swim here,” the man admits, shrug-
ging his shoulders. He glances over the fence at his
own pool and he doesn’t see what his neighbor sees.
There is algae growing on the walls of his swimming
pool and he knows he hasn’t checked the chlorine
levels or vacuumed in quite some time. The pH bal-
ance of the water is probably off. The man murmurs
something under his breath, shakes his head shame-
fully from side to side, and tries to avoid eye contact
with his neighbor.
Vaccination
FROM PAGE 7
problem,” she continued. “We had rules on the books
saying you can’t spit on the street. That wasn’t politeness.
It was sanitation. It was trying not to spread disease.
“We also have rules about people who work in the
food industry having to wash their hands. These are
things that we accept, and if we stopped doing them,
there would be rampant spread of disease. We accept
the fact that there are laws that protect us.”
But sometimes the protections have been so suc-
cessful that we forget the dangers from which they
safeguard us.
The situation hasn’t been helped, although it also
hasn’t been caused, “by a president who distrusts
experts and who supports anti-vaxxers,” Dr. Sinnre-
ich added.
In Jewish terms, “we have an obligation to protect
our children, and not to harm other people,” she said.
“You don’t have a right to put your life at risk and you
do not have a right to put your children’s lives at risk.
So when you take these steps, when you refuse to
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“Look,” the neighbor says firmly.
“I hate to do this, but I have my pool
and you have yours, and that’s that.”
The neighbor very gently motions for
the man to leave by the gate, and then
takes a piece of paper, and a permanent
black marker, writes the words, “NO
TRESPASSING,” and posts the sign on
the fence.
No matter how beautiful his neighbor’s Rabbi Paul
swimming pool seems, or how “perfectly Jacobson
maintained” his swimming pool appears Temple Avodat
to his neighbor, the man must go swim- Shalom, River
ming in his own backyard, the neighbor Edge, Reform
in theirs. In Pirkei Avot, we are taught,
“There are four character traits among
people. Some say, “Mine is mine and yours is yours;
this is the average trait...[Some say] yours is mine and
mine is mine; this is the trait of a scoundrel’” (5:12).
Both people need to clean their own pool and learn to
swim in it, that is, unless our neighbors welcome us
into their lives and into their backyards, which is their
choice, not ours, and then, even then, there are still
boundaries which must be maintained. Facebook and
other social media platforms provide us with a notori-
ously false sense of entrance, a distorted perspective
on the lives of others, and a way of manipulating our
appearance to the wider world.
But no one else truly understands what we see
behind our own eyes. We alone know what is swim-
ming inside our own pools — whether they are pris-
tine, a cesspool, or most likely, somewhere in-be-
tween. In the twelfth chapter of Exodus, the Torah
portion for the first day of Pesach, we read, “The Isra-
elites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children,”
vaccinate, you are putting your children’s lives at risk.
“That is not okay.”
Then she turned to the history of the Holocaust that
some anti-vaxxers are evoking.
“One of the biggest killers of Jews during the Holo-
caust was disease,” she said. “Anne Frank didn’t die
in a gas chamber. She died of typhus. If you read the
tragic story of Elie Wiesel’s father dying, it’s a story of
him succumbing to disease, not of his being separated
from his son and being put in a gas chamber.
“There was an extremely high mortality rate in the
ghetto, and a lot of it was from communicable dis-
ease. They were living in very tight quarters, in hor-
rible conditions, with no soap and no easy access to
water.”
She paraphrased a quote from a doctor’s wife,
reporting from the ghetto. “She said, ‘Before I was in
the ghetto, I used to think that all you had to do to be
clean was to want to be clean. But then I discovered
that you have to find the water, you have to get the
water, you have to find a way to heat it, you have to
find soap — which is impossible.’”
In fact, Dr. Sinnreich said, “many vaccines were
which The Torah: A Women’s Commen-
tary enhances by offering, “If taken liter-
ally, the estimates for the total number
of people leaving Egypt range between
two and three million, assuming each
man as accompanied by a wife and
between two and three children” (p.
368). If there were between two and
three million people leaving Egypt,
imagine the depth of stories, the pro-
foundly striking nature of the individual
witnessing of the experience. The jour-
ney itself would be remarkably different
from person to person; no two stories
would be the same. Some on the journey
would be looking forward to the Prom-
ised Land, some would wish to go back to Egypt, and
some would just be in the moment, putting one foot
in front of the other. Maybe someone has a small child
in tow behind her or someone is complaining about
the heat or an aching back. Maybe someone is sing-
ing, and others are joining in and another person just
needs to bask in the silence of the moment.
Yet the only story we know is our own. We can
imagine. We can wonder. We can think we have a
right to go swimming in our neighbor’s backyard. But
we don’t. Pesach, our season of freedom, is a time
to remain present with ourselves, with our own nar-
rative, and to find freedom from our own Egypt, to
find liberation from whatever enslaves us. As Rab-
ban Gamliel taught in the Mishnah, “In every genera-
tion, a person is obligated to see themselves as if they
themselves went forth from Egypt” (Pesachim 10:5).
Amidst family and communal gatherings for
Pesach, may you also find the time to swim in your
own backyard. Chag Sameach.
new and experimental and not yet in widespread use”
when Jews started being herded into ghettos. “They
had invented a vaccine for diphtheria, but it wasn’t
in wide use yet. They were still experimental with
typhus. There was literally a laboratory in the ghetto
in Lvov, and a famous bacteriologist from that time,
a Jew” — his name was Ludwig Fleck, as she wrote in
the Washington Post — “was creating vaccines out of
urine. He inoculated first himself and then his family,
and then 30 volunteers, and then 500 volunteers in
the Lvov ghetto.”
Did those vaccines work? No one he inoculated
died of typhus, she said. “But they were deported
and sent to camps, so that didn’t provide a test of the
efficacy of the vaccines.”
Dr. Sinnreich is not amused by the irony inherent
in anti-vaxxers co-opting Holocaust imagery. As she
wrote in the Washington Post, “For Jews of the ghetto,
vaccines were precious protection and symbolized a
belief in their own future.
“It is a desecration of their memory to equate refus-
ing medical treatment with the Holocaust or vaccine
injuries with the vast tragedy of the Holocaust.”

The Frazzled Housewife
Are you kidding me?
BANJI GANCHROW
R
eligion is a touchy subject. I first year we went away, we were young
imagine that if you were to
ask 10 Jews the same ques-
tion, you probably would
get 10 different responses. The same
thing can happen when you ask a rabbi
a question. Something simple like, “Can
I use my warming drawer on shabbes?”
That seems simple enough. But alas, no,
it is not. Three different
rabbis hold three differ-
ent ways. And that is OK.
I always know that if I ask
my rabbi a question, I will
follow his answer and not
look for a better answer —
but that is just me.
I thought I was raised
Or thodox — modern
Orthodox more specifi- Banji
cally. I keep shabbes, I eat Ganchrow
kosher, I celebrate all of
the holidays. Growing up,
there were plenty of modern Orthodox
men who did not wear yarmulkas all the
time. There were even folks who would
eat in nonkosher restaurants, limiting
their consumption to tuna fish or baked
goods. Again, there were plenty of peo-
ple who didn’t do this, didn’t agree with
it, didn’t think you were really kosher if #1 was on the hunt for grandma flippy,
you did it — we are an interesting people
— but still fundamentally people.
We judge, we question, we judge
some more. I am sure that there are
folks who practice other religions who
feel the same way. As I said in the begin- dated dumb phones on the kitchen
ning — religion is a touchy subject. Just
like Jews look askew at Jews who aren’t
like them, I am sure there are Catholics
like that, or Episcopalians like that… It
is called human nature.
In any event, there has been quite
the metamorphosis going on in my
cozy little family. I have written about
my “oreos” before. Sons #1 and 2 wear
only black and white. It makes shopping
really really simple. In getting ready for group. Yes, Son #3 still used his smart
the Passover holiday, we received an
email from the program where we are
going, telling us to bring white clothes
because there will be a “white night.”
Husband #1 and I looked at each other
and could not stop laughing. Who knew
my boys were so fashion forward? They
already have their white clothes ready
to go. But it got me thinking about when
they were all little. I loved dressing them celebrate.
alike. Dorky, of course but, oh, so ador-
able. Of course son #3 got the raw end of
the deal, because he ended up wearing
the same outfit for like six years, until
he outgrew all of them. Poor kid.
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“GETTING READY FOR PASSOVER”
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Anyway, when they were little, I
loved getting them dressed up. The
and inexperienced parents at a hotel
for Passover and I didn’t realize how
much grape juice doesn’t actually make
it into your child’s mouth. Those cute
little outfits were stained beyond recog-
nition. The following year, I thought I
would outsmart the stains and I brought
spray-n-wash to put on the stains so they
would come out in the
laundry. Unfortunately, I
put all of those clothes in
a bag without air flow, and
all of their cute little out-
fits got moldy. Live and
learn, kids, live and learn.
And now, here we are,
all excited that our boys
have white shirts for white
night because they can
wear white shirts with-
out getting them dirty. I
am really so proud. Back
Across Down
to the oreos. You all know how much I
1. Distrusting sort 1. Partner of van.
love my boys. I really and truly do. But 6. Luxury Swiss watch 2. What annoying fans may do
every time they decide to incorporate 10. Charoset ingredient 3. Wall St. fixture
something new into our “Orthodoxy” 14. Chant in the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg 4. “___ Huckabees”
I scratch my head and wonder what Bop” 5. Get in touch
planet I really live on. 15. The first “A” of A.A. Milne 6. Reckless
16. Aseret ___ Teshuvah (repentance 7. Burn balm
It started a few weeks ago when son
time) 8. Actress Zuniga of “Spaceballs”
17. Elizabeth or Ashley 9. Where one might hear elevator
which was the beloved flip phone that I 18. Jr. preceder music off an elevator
used before my family upgraded me to 19. What many do at a Seder 10. Noah of “The Librarian”
the 21st century and got me an iPhone. 20. What many do before Passover 11. The Beatles’ “___ Mine”
I had no idea why, when I came home 23. Portman’s “V for Vendetta” co-star 12. PBS funder
after a long day, there was a pile of out- 24. Marlins’ locale, briefly 13. Karem or Gedi
25. CBS show produced by Jerry 21. Lake ___, Nevada
Bruckheimer 22. She said “Don’t be humble... you’re
counter. Well kids, I will tell you why. 28. What many do before Passover not that great.”
Son #1 and Son #2 decided that they 34. Sinai or Habayit preceder 25. Many an overseas contact, for
were giving up their smart phones for 35. Lahren of Fox News Jews
the Hebrew month of Nissan. Yes, the 36. Ring advantage 26. Impervious to bugs
whole month. No, I don’t know why. Yes, 37. Above 27. 1987 Beatty- Hoffman bomb
39. Amazon voice-activated assistants 28. Relatives of flats
it is hard to get in touch with them. No,
42. Lie adjacent 29. Weak, as a brew
they don’t seem phased by it. Yes, we 43. Buy more Time? 30. Pressed
are wondering how we survived so long 45. “It’s the end of the world ___...” 31. Alternative to HBO
without smart phones. No, we no lon- 47. Parseghian of Notre Dame 32. Drum kit part
ger can text them in our family watsapp 48. What many do before Passover 33. Yam, in Hebrew
52. “Danny and the Dinosaur” author 38. Invigorate, with “up”
Hoff 40. ___ Kosh B’Gosh
phone and no, I don’t think he will be
53. Trigonometry abbr. 41. Alfred Nobel, for one
using his smartphone next Nissan. 54. 610, to Caesar 44. 1993 standoff site
But it is all good. I am so looking for- 55. What many do before Passover... 46. Forgoes
ward to being with my monkeys for this as an alternative to 20, 28 and 49. Cheered (for)
upcoming holiday — with their phones, 48-Across 50. Word preceding dog or pie
without their phones, white shirts, col- 61. When many a seder ends 51. Like some birds
64. What many do during the course 55. Stein and Stiller
ored shirts — it doesn’t really matter.
of a seder 56. A gait
Hope you all have a happy and healthy 65. Pianist’s practice piece 57. What “poh” means
holiday with whomever you choose to 66. Abba of Israel 58. Ahi, e.g.
67. Parsha Kedoshim follower 59. Another name for Esau
68. Those who have more than four 60. Take away
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck misses the cups at a seder, maybe 61. Football’s Dawson
69. Charoset ingredient 62. Disney simian
Concord Hotel every single Passover, but
70. Make like a bubbie to a grandchild 63. Ink
is grateful she met her friend Deva there 71. Bamboozles
in 1985.
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 75.
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at the JCC of Fort
Tuesday  Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom, for its
APRIL 23 CSI Scholar Fund and
Sisterhood. The first
Jews and baseball program focuses on
talk in Tenafly: films made through
Dumont historian Dick 1990; series continues
Burnon gives a talk, “ May 1 with films after
Jews and Baseball: An 1990. Refreshments at
American Love Story,” 12:30 p.m.; program at
at a meeting of REAP 1. 1449 Anderson Ave.,
(Retired Executives Fort Lee. (201) 947
and Professionals) at 1735.
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 10:45 a.m.
411 East Clinton Ave. Thursday 
(201) 569-7900 or APRIL 25
www.jccotp.org.
Morning study in
Wayne: Rabbi Meeka
Simerly holds a study
session “The Writings –
Megillot, Song of Songs,
Psalms,” at Temple Beth
Tikvah, 11 a.m. Coffee.
Also May 30 and June
27. 950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Film in Teaneck: The Jewish Museum presents “Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything,”
Temple Emeth’s adult
education group a contemporary art exhibition inspired by Leonard Cohen, the conie
screens “Keeping Canadian singer/songwriter. It includes commissioned works by a
Up with the Steins,” range of international artists who have been inspired by Cohen’s life,
7:30 p.m., as part
of its “Movies That work, and legacy, including Kara Blake, Candice Breitz, Janet Cardiff
Mattered” series & George Bures Miller, Christophe Chassol, Daily tous les jours, Tacita
of Jewish-themed
films. Refreshments.
Dean, Kota Ezawa, George Fok, Ari Folman, Jon Rafman, and Taryn
1666 Windsor Road. Simon. The exhibition also includes a video projection showcasing
(201) 833-1322 or Dr. Victor Borden Cohen’s own drawings, and a multimedia gallery where visitors can
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Son of Holocaust hear covers of Cohen’s songs by musicians such as Lou Doillon, Feist,
survivors in Mahwah: Moby, the National with Sufjan Stevens, Ragnar Kjartansson, and
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Richard Reed Parry, among others. The exhibit runs through September
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Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Moshiach meal in
Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Saturday  Tenafly: Lubavitch
chabadlubavitch.org. Hate,” a discussion
about anti-Semitism
Paterson,” for Ramapo APRIL 27 on the Palisades
College’s Gross Center hosts its moshiach Sunday  with Rabbi Ilana
Schwartzman. Based
for Holocaust and Shabbat in Closter: meal at the Chabad APRIL 28 on this year’s book
Genocide Studies, in Temple Emanu- House, 6:30 p.m. It selection, “Among
the H-Wing Auditorium El’s Men’s Club will was the Baal Shem
Dr. Eric Goldman Book talk in Mahwah: the Living”” by
(H-129), noon. participate during Tov’s custom to eat
As part of the “One Jonathan Rabb,”
505 Ramapo Valley this special Passover three meals on the
Holocaust cinema: Book One Community” 1 p.m. 280 Ramapo
Road. (201) 684-7409. service with Yizkor, last day of Passover;
Visiting scholar Dr. project, sponsored by Valley Road. Dessert.
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the Jewish Federation
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Englewood book
launch party: The
Rockland community
Yom HaShoah Singles Spring meditation retreat
Englewood Historical commemoration: Mark Van Buren, a yoga, meditation
Society hosts a book
launch party for its
Historian Peter Hayes,
who specializes
Sunday  and mindful-living trainer, leads a
new publication, in Nazi Germany APRIL 28 meditation retreat, in partnership
“Extraordinary and focuses on the with Graf Center for Integrative Med-
Englewood” by conduct of the nation’s Singles meet in icine at Englewood Health, at the
Hillary Viders, at largest corporations Clifton: North Jersey Kaplen JCC on the Palisades on Sun-
the Englewood during the Third Jewish Singles at
Library, 4:30-6 p.m. Reich, speaks at the the Clifton Jewish day, April 28, from 12:30 to 5 p.m.
Book signing and Rockland community Center meet for speed The guided silent retreat teaches
refreshments. 31 Engle Yom HaShoah dating for two age how to incorporate meditation into a
St. (201) 568-2215 or commemoration at groups, 45 to 55 and daily routine, including sitting, walk-
englewoodlibrary.org. the New City Jewish 55 to 60+, 4-6 p.m. 18
Center, 5 p.m. 47 Delaware St. Register, ing, journaling, meditative dance,
Old Schoolhouse (973) 772-3131 or join and lying quietly on the floor. He will
Road, New City, N.Y. the group at www. also share the core teachings of this
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com.
“Meditation provides a way to
find deep inner peace, mindful-
ness, and calm,” Mr. Van Buren
said. “It also helps people develop Mark Van Buren COURTESY JCCOTP
concentration, clarity, and a sense
of emotional positivity — something we can all benefit from.”
For more information, call Hagit Tal at (201) 408-1477, email her at htal@jccotp.
org, or go to jccotp.org/meditation. Pre-registration is required.

Night of comedy and conversation

Sandra Bernhard, the comedian,
actress, singer, and author, will per-
form at the Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades in Tenafly on Sunday, May 5, at
4 p.m., for a JCC Patron of the Arts and
COURTESY BERGENPAC

the Kaplen Foundation evening.

bergenPAC and Englewood Health
team up for ‘Rent’ production
The Performing Arts School at bergen-
PAC in Englewood has partnered with
Englewood Health to present free pro-
ductions of “Rent — The Musical: Con-
cert Version” in recognition of National
Mental Health Awareness Month.
“Rent,” which won a Tony award for
best musical and the Pulitzer Prize for
drama, is a pop cultural phenomenon
with songs that rock and a story that
resonates with audiences. Set in Man-
hattan’s East Village, the show is about
falling in love, finding your voice, and
living for today.
Directed by Alexander Diaz, with
musical direction by Ben Boecker, the
performances feature local actors and
will be held at Englewood Health, 350
Engle St., Englewood, May 17 and May
18 at 7 p.m., and May 19 at 2 p.m.
Audiences also will get to hear from
Englewood Health’s behavioral health
experts about addiction and men-
tal health issues facing our commu-
nity today, the support and treatment
resources available, and how everyone
can work together to reduce the stigma
associated with these important issues.
As a designated stigma-free zone,
Englewood Health is dedicated to edu-
cating the community and offering
resources that help combat discrimina-
tion and negative perceptions toward
people with mental illness. At the end
of 2018, Englewood Health opened
the Gregory P. Shadek Behavioral Care
Center, headquartered at 25 Rockwood
Place and featuring a dedicated care
team of psychiatrists, licensed clinical
social workers, an addiction specialist,
and associated health care profession-
als. Collaborating with existing non-
profit and governmental agencies, the
team is creating education and preven-
tion programs to promote healthy life-
styles for children and adults in the local
community.
For more information, call (201) 482-
8194 or email education@bergenpac.
org. For more information about behav-
ioral health services at Englewood
Health, call (201) 292-1400.
Stand-up comic Karen Bergreen
will emcee and there will be a Q&A
session. VIP tickets will include both
seats in the VIP section and a post-
show private dessert reception with a
photo opportunity with Ms. Bernhard.
Her appearance is one in a series of
events in the JCC’s Patron of the Arts
program, providing subscribers with
access to cultural arts at the JCC in new
and innovative ways. Programs will
include performances, films, art exhibi-
tions, and literary events and subscrib-
ers will receive special benefits includ-
ing concierge service, VIP ticket access,
reserved parking, and more.
“We are delighted to have a celeb-
rity comedian of Sandra Bernhard’s
caliber appearing at the JCC,” said
Jordan Shenker, the JCC’s CEO. “Our
Patron of the Arts initiative is success-
fully drawing nationally known celeb-
rities to our stage and allowing us to
take our commitment to high-level
programming to new heights.”
Ms. Bernhard first gained attention
in the late 1970s with stand-up comedy
routines and later became best-known
for her role as Nancy Barlett Thomas
on the hit sitcom “Roseanne.” She was
a frequent guest on David Letterman,
appeared in Madonna’s film “Truth
or Dare,” and won Best Supporting
Actress from the National Society
of Film Critics for her role in Martin
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Sandra Bernhard
Scorsese’s “King of Comedy,” starring
Robert De Niro. She also performs
classic pop music, jazz, and blues
tunes, and has written three books,
including an autobiography, “Confes-
sions of a Pretty Lady.” Ms. Bernhard
is starring in the Gracie Award-win-
ning daily radio show “Sandyland” on
Sirius XM’s Radio Andy, and as Nurse
Judy Katz on FX’s “Pose.” She also has
placed on Comedy Central’s list of the
100 greatest stand-ups of all time.
Karen Bergreen has appeared on
many shows, including the “Jim Gaf-
figan Show,” “The View,” “House
Hunters,” the “Joy Behar Show,” and
“Law & Order.”
To buy tickets, go to jccotp.org/
Sandra. For more information on
the event or the Patron of the Arts
program, call Nina Bachrach at (201)
408-1406 or email her at nbachrach@
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drives through Oranjestad, the capital and seat of par-
liament, and continues beyond burgeoning beach-
front hotels, casinos, and time shares — with more on
the way. Dutch is spoken, of course, but the lingua
franca is English, with liberal helpings of Spanish and
Creole-derived Papiamento.
And did I mention that Oranjestad is home to
Beth Israel Synagogue, which offers Conserva-
tive-leaning worship for approximately 75 local
Ashkenazic and Sephardic members and 150 con-
gregants from overseas? Jews from Poland migrated
here in the 1920s and were joined by brethren from
Suriname, a Dutch colony at the time. Their num-
bers were augmented by Holocaust survivors and
the shul came into being in the mid-1940s. Visitors
are Sabbath-welcome and holidays are celebrated in
the modern, inviting structure.
My intent here is not so much to present a Baede-
ker of Aruba’s charms, of which there are many, as to
describe a mini-state transitioning via tourism while
belatedly trying to preserve and enhance its environ-
ment, cope with more traf�ic, modernize its infra-
structure, and deal with an uptick in crime and drugs.
All all in the shadow of Venezuela. Development
Children
FROM PAGE 41
2. Ask open-ended questions. I am constantly
amazed by children’s insights. They often are spiritual
virtuosos, who have so much to add. Big questions
based on themes of slavery and freedom, the mean-
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thoughtful responses. Giving others the opportunity
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help all of your participants to think more deeply about
the subtle underlying meaning of the Passover narra-
tive. The Haggadah teaches, “The one who does not
know how to ask — you shall open [the discussion] for
him, as it is said, ‘And you shall tell your son on that day,
saying, this is done because of that which Adonai did to
me when I came forth out of E�ypt’” (Ex. 13:8). Adults
can ask the questions and learn from the answers of the
children. Teens can lead the questions.
3. Role-playing. Children of all ages can act out
scenes from the Haggadah. It is amazing what cos-
tumes, forts, tents, and props can do to set the scene
and engage everyone. There are ready-made skits
online, and participants can use improv games or just
improvise wonderful skits to make the Maggid sec-
tion more relatable and tangible. It does not have to
replace the entire reading, or it can replace a section
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