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MAHWAH SHUL PUTS JACOB ON TRIAL page 14
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IDF backtracks on pork penalty
Send a salami to your boy in the
Israeli skins add flair

to cars around the world
Say goodbye to expensive custom
car shops and car painters: The day of

customizing your car by yourself has
arrived.
Two new Israeli companies are offering instant do-it-yourself automobile
personalization options that will have
you driving the coolest car in your
neighborhood in a matter of minutes
and without breaking the bank.
StickOut and Carta2 launched crowdfunding campaigns at almost the same
time for similar products that will dress
up your car in a custom-made skin.
Gera Waisbaum, a veteran entrepreneur and technology professional,
started StickOut in 2013. He says the
inspiration came to him while he was
stuck in traffic.
That day I had bought a designer
skin for my iPhone and I thought this
skin is a way to explain myself, Waisbaum, the former co-founder of a daily
deals website sold in 2010, said. I was
in a really big traffic jam, and I looked
at all the cars around me, and it was
clear that they all look the same. People
customize their phones, their laptops,
and their clothes. So, I thought, why not
cars?
Carta2 (pronounced car-tattoo) is
a youthful brother-sister operation that
launched in mid-2014.
It was important to give it a young
vibe, says co-CEO Mosh Lebovich, 25,
a car enthusiast who worked with his
sister Noa, 22, as an event organizer before launching Carta2. You give the car
something like a tattoo, even though
these stickers are not permanent. Were
hoping this will change the way people
see their cars.
He points out that people invest a
lot of money in how they look. We
dont see any reason why this wouldnt
translate to their cars as well. Cars are
the most expensive items people own.
You care about them; why wouldnt you
give them something personalized?
Indeed, consumers seem to be looking to personalize everything from
phones to laptops, dinnerware to clothing to jewelry, according to a website
called Trend Hunter. Israeli entrepreneur
Moran Nir brought the world FunkKit so
they could jazz up their sneakers, and
now it seems Israelis are going to dress

up the cars of the world.
StickOut says it offers the worlds
first online car graphics marketplace,
an innovative platform that allows car
owners to choose custom-fit art for
their vehicle.
Customers log on to StickOut Style
Lab on the web and choose their car
model, pick an artwork, and preview
how it will look. The easy-to-use platform took the company a year and a
half to perfect, says Yair Ida, co-founder
and marketing VP.
Car decals are already available, of
course, but theyre generic.
You can order stickers off eBay or
AliExpress but you have to cut them
yourself, Ida said. Also, every car is
different, and has different curves. You
dont know how it will look. We cut our
stickers to fit your car exactly.
Carta2 plans to build a similar site
with a 3D interface to show users how
the adhesive decals will look on their
cars, and to share their choices with
their friends and get feedback before
making a purchase. The crowdfunding campaign has already passed its
$60,000 goal, and Lebovich says the
site will launch soon.
People want to customize their cars
but its expensive and they dont know
what material to use or how to do it,
said Ida, the former head of business
development for Auto Group, Israels
largest automotive media firm. StickOuts Style Lab is not an app to play
with; it actually makes it easier for customers to see what theyre going to get
and how it will look on their cars.
The StickOut decals are made of
patented 3M material thats the vinyl
professional car-wrap companies use
for easy application and removal. Ida
says StickOuts pre-cut stickers can be
used even on leased cars because they
dont leave a mark on the car.
Its also a great way to hide scratches on your car, Noa Lebovich added.
If StickOut and Carta2 set into motion this new car skin personalization
trend, boring traffic jams could soon be
a thing of the past.
For more information, go to StickOut.
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army, went the slogan coined by

someone the record is not quite
clear affiliated with one of New
Yorks many Jewish, though not actually kosher, delicatessens during
World War II.
If your boy (or girl) is in the Israeli
army, however, you better make sure
the salami is certified kosher.
That long-standing policy came to
the fore this past week when a soldier,
originally from the United States,
brought a pork sausage sandwich
given him by his kibbutznik grandmother back to his base and shared
it with friends.
At first, the army sentenced him to
11 days in jail and ejected him from a
training course for commanders.
On her Facebook page, the lone soldiers mother wrote that she couldnt
believe that in Israel in 2015 my boy,
who chose to return to Israel to volunteer for combat service, will be sent to
military jail because he ate a non-kosher sausage.
A representative for the IDF
Spokespersons Unit told Israel Radio

that the soldier was given such a
harsh sentence because his actions
were unbecoming for a soldier in
commanders training school.
But after the story hit the airwaves,
the army lessened the penalty to loss
of a weekends leave and then canceled it altogether.
Bottom line, we were wrong, IDF
spokesman Moti Almoz wrote in a
Facebook post on Tuesday afternoon.
The IDF will continue to remain kosher, while not snooping in the sandwiches of its soldiers, Almoz wrote.
There are tensions in Israeli society,
and there are different positions and
opinions. In the IDF there is a place for
everyone.
It is against IDF rules to bring nonkosher food onto its bases. The soldier
reportedly told the army he was not
aware of the rule.
LARRY YUDELSON
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JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 5, 2015 3
Noshes
Best comment on the Manhattan shul bed

bug causing a frenzy: Make it a
member; itll only show up twice a year.
Tweet from Tablet, about the one bedbug that has forced Manhattans Central
Synagogue to be closed for five days for fumigation.
CURTAIN RAISERS:
Tony Awards
bow Sunday
The Tony
Awards, for
excellence in the
Broadway theater, are
being presented live on
CBS on Sunday, June 7,
at 8 p.m. Scheduled
presenters include
LARRY DAVID, 67,
JASON ALEXANDER, 55,
COREY STOLL, 39, and
DEBRA MESSING, 46.
Here are the Jewish
nominees I know of
(omitting technical
categories and longdead composers of
revival musicals): JUDY
KUHN, 57, best featured
actress in a musical, Fun
Home. This show is
adapted from a memoir
by Alison Bechdel about
coming out to her
mother as a lesbian. Fun
Home is nominated for
best new musical and
the shows co-author,
LISA KRON, 54, is
nominated for best
original lyrics. It competes for best musical
with An American in
Paris and The Visit.
The former is an adaptation of the famous 1951
film musical featuring
songs by GEORGE and
IRA GERSHWIN. It was
adapted for the stage by
nominee KEN LUDWIG,
65; The Visit was
staged in Chicago in
2001, but only opened
on Broadway this year.
The music and lyrics
were written by the late
FRED EBB and JOHN
KANDER, 88. (Their

works include Chicago
and Cabaret.)
The nominees for best
play revival include The
Elephant Man, This Is
Our Youth, and You
Cant Take It With You.
Elephant was written
by BERNARD POMERANCE, 75. His 1979 play
differs from the 1980
film of the same name,
but the two were close
enough that Pomerance
won a lawsuit against
the filmmakers. Youth
is a much-revived work
about three characters
two of them Jewish on
the cusp of adulthood
in Manhattan. It was written by KENNETH LONERGAN, 52, who, like
his lifelong best friend,
MATTHEW BRODERICK, 53, is the Jewishidentified son of an Irish
Catholic father and a
Jewish mother. You
Cant Take It With You,
a 1937 play, was written by the great team of
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN
and MOSS HART.
On May 28, the
mega-popular
rock band One
Republic played Tel
Aviv, despite pressure
from BDS groups not to
perform in Israel. The
five-member band from
Colorado Springs also
toured Jerusalem. The
band, which has been
Grammy-nominated, has
had great chart success
Larry David
Corey Stoll
Lisa Kron
Matthew Broderick
Selma Blair
Sarah Michelle Gellar
since forming in 2003. It

is probably now best
known for the hit song
Counting Stars, which
has sold more than 7 million copies since 2013.
The video has 800
million (!) views on
YouTube.
The induction ceremony for the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame took
place last April and HBO
premiered a film of the
ceremony on May 30
but re-showings will
be frequent this month,
and you also can catch it
on demand. The Jewish
inductees included the
legendary LOU REED,

who died in 2013 at 71,
as a solo act. In 1996, he
was inducted as a member of the Velvet Underground, the seminal 60s
rock band that strongly
influenced the punk and
alternative music of the
next several decades.
The Paul Butterfield
Blues Band, a Chicago
based interracial band
that played electric
blues, also was inducted.
Two original band
members (and Hall inductees) were/are Jewish: One is MIKE BLOOMFIELD (1943-1987), a
great guitarist who also

played with BOB DYLAN.
About his affinity for
the blues, Bloomfield
once said, Its a natural. Black people suffer
externally in this country. Jewish people suffer
internally. The sufferings
the mutual fulcrum for
the blues. The other
bluesy tribesman is
MARK NAFTALIN, 70,
the Butterfield Bands
organist. By the way, I
recently became aware
of the Jewish background of another Hall
inductee, CLIFF BURTON, the original bassist
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for the heavy metal band

Metallica. Burton, who
was born in 1962, died in
a tragic accident in 1986,
when the groups tour
bus overturned. He was
inducted into the Hall in
2009, along with other
Metallica members.
Voted the ninth best
bassist of all time by
Rolling Stone in 2011,
Burton was the son of
the late JANET MORGEN
BURTON, a San Francisco native whose Jewish
parents were descended
from German Jews who
settled in San Francisco
shortly after the Gold
Rush. The late bassists
father isnt Jewish.
SELMA BLAIR,
42, SARAH
MICHELLE
GELLAR, 38, and Reese
Witherspoon, the three
female stars of the hit
1999 movie Cruel
Intentions, reunited in
Los Angeles last week to
see a stage show called
Unauthorized Musical
Parody of Cruel Intentions. Its a comedy
featuring the hit pop
music of the 90s and
the plot of the original
movie. The trio reportedly sang along with the
stage songs, and this
being the second
decade of the 21st
century, they took a lot
of selfies and Instagrammed the whole
night long.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

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Jewish Standard JUNE 5, 2015 5
Local
The klezmer-rock band Golem

will be at Joes Pub on June 18
as part of KulturefestNYC.
Yiddish T
in the city
JOANNE PALMER
Folksbiene Theater, as it turns 100,

makes everything old new again.
(And its artistic director lives in Teaneck!)
6 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 5, 2015
he week is just so stuffed full of

everything that its hard to know
where to start.
A huge, bursting, ripe, aromatic, extravagantly sensual flowering of
Yiddish culture, backward and forward,
history and prophesy, will bloom on New
York City streets on the week from July 14
to July 21. Theater, music, dance, poetry,
academic analysis all will flourish up and
down Manhattan.
The festival, called KulturfestNYC, celebrating the Folksbiene Theaters first
hundred years and moving it into its second century, is the brainchild of the theaters artistic director, Zalmen Mlotek of
Teaneck.
As is true of so many things in life, the
festival, and the centennial it celebrates,
represent a balance. The obvious one, of
course, is the bridge between the old and
the new. Another one, which plays itself
out continuously during the week and
constantly for the staff at the Folksbiene
is the creative, energizing tension between
the general and the particular, the highly

specific Yiddish culture that nourishes the
Folksbiene and the emotional and artistic
connection it provides to people outside as
well as inside that culture.
As we approached our 100th anniversary, we started to think, okay, how do
we do it in a way that brings attention to
us and to our mission, which is to show
that Yiddish culture has a place in todays
mindset, and in the next generations?
Mr. Mlotek said.
Mr. Mlotek knows what he is talking
about when it comes to generations. He is
part of one of the most prominent families
in the Yiddish world. His mother, Chana
Mlotek, who died at 91 in 2013, was a seminal force in the collection of thousands
of Yiddish songs, thereby inspiring and
informing a whole cultural movement,
so soon before she turned 90, Mr. Mlotek
and his brother, Michael, came up with
the idea of an international festival. They
worked with Bryna Wasserman, who ran
a Yiddish festival in her native Montreal
before she moved to New York to become
the Folksbienes executive director.
Local
The Yiddish Theater of Israels Kishka Monologues will be at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on June 15 and 16.
Thats why, when the theaters centennial

loomed, the way to celebrate it came naturally to them.
There was a slight change in emphasis,
though. We broadened it, Mr. Mlotek
said. We dont call it just Yiddish, so that
there is more of a sense of how Yiddish
culture has informed Jewish culture. We
decided to call it the International Jewish
Performing Arts Festival, to broaden its
base.
The first thing that people say when
you talk about Yiddish culture is Sorry,
I dont understand Yiddish. Why should
I come? We are producing more than
100 events. Many of them are in Yiddish, of course, with supertitles, many
of them are in other languages that have
been informed by Jewish and Yiddish culture Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Hebrew,
Japanese, German, and of course English.
More than 24 countries are sending artists
(and they obviously are not all Jewish).
And music needs no translation.
The Folksbiene, on the cusp of a major
milestone, also is moving into a new
home, its first permanent one for some
Zalmen Mlotek
Frank London
time. In honor of our 100th

birthday, the Museum of Jewish
Heritage thats the way-downtown museum with extraordinary
views of New York Harbor and an
active schedule of talks and performances to supplement its permanent and temporary exhibits
has invited us to have a permanent space there, Mr. Mlotek
said.
Thats a huge big deal for us.
We have been wandering Jews for
Bryna Wasserman
Bruce Ratner
many years.
Some of the festivals programs
theater is the old HIAS building the
will be at the museum. Others will be at
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which was
the Jewish Museum, the Skirball Center
instrumental in helping immigrants) and
at Temple Emanuel on Fifth Avenue and
because of its connection to Joe Papp,
the Skirball Center at NYU. There will be
the wildly influential producer, director,
concerts at Joes Pub at the Public Theater (which is significant because the
public theater advocate, and son of Jewish
Joel Gray and Ron Rifkin
immigrants who never forgot his roots.

The festival will open officially with a
Klezmatics concert at the old Winter Garden theater and close with a free Summerstage concert in Central Park featuring
famous cantors.
Local
A concert at the JCC in Manhattan will
feature a Japanese klezmer clarinetist,
Ohkuma Wataru, and his band, Jinta-laMvta. Klezmer has been popular in Japan,
and Mr. Mlotek, a pianist, has toured
there. Mr. Wataru is a tremendous player,
with a fascinating style, a style that I hadnt
heard before, Mr. Mlotek said. The festival
is studded with performers like Mr. Wataru
and bands like Jinta-la-Mvta, people whom
Mr. Mlotek has met serendipitously and
whose talents he has recognized.
We specifically conceived this festival
to appeal to everyone, to have something
for every demographic, he said. From little kids were doing a klez for kids thing
to outdoor concerts with Josh Dolgin, a
Canadian who mixes hip-hop and klezmer.
We have a young peoples choir, who are
singing with a well-known Russian maestro. We have paper cutting for kids; we
have a food festival up on Madison Avenue.
We have a theater company from
Romania and one from Australia; we have
a one-woman show from a star of the South
African stage. We have a new play reading,
from a contest we sponsored this year in
honor of our anniversary, called When
Blood Ran Red. Its about Paul Robeson
and his experience going to Russia and
singing Yiddish songs. Bryna Wassermans
theater from Canada will do a new production of The Dybbuk. An Israeli company
is coming with an interesting theater piece
about Jewish food.
He paused for breath.
We want excellence; people who have
something important to say or something
beautiful to say or sing or present. It had to
be of top artistic or academic significance.
That guided all of our choices.
The Folksbiene has changed a great
deal since its founding, although it has
remained true to its mission, Mr. Mlotek
said. When it was created in 1915, Yiddish theater flourished, reigning over the
southern end of Second Avenue, where
The all-woman klezmer

sextet Isle of Klezbos
will be at Joes Pub
on June 19.
the Jews lived. The Folksbiene was not

among those companies. The people who
created it were not professional actors,
Mr. Mlotek said. They were workers.
There was a nurse among the leaders, and
a haberdasher, and tailors.
Second Avenue offered them lighter
fare, but the Folksbiene was created to
keep meatier, more solid fare available as
well. So it met two needs to keep serious Yiddish theater alive, and to provide
people who had to work at other jobs all
day with an outlet for their creativity and
a place to perform.
The other Yiddish theaters, of course,
are long gone, and the Folksbiene now
has become more of a performingarts center. Our mission is the same,
Mr. Mlotek said, but it necessarily has
expanded in scope. It is to bring the widest scope of Yiddish culture to the public.
We want excellence; people who

have something important to say
or something beautiful to say or
sing or present. It had to be of top
artistic or academic significance.
We will do comedy, light-hearted fare,

and more significant philosophical works.
There is something for everybody.
What we want to accomplish is to show
the contribution that Yiddish and Jewish
culture had, not only on the city, but on
North America, and ultimately on the
world, Bryna Wasserman said.
Also on the future, she added: I have a
really strong faith in the next generation,
who really are searching for a connectivity, and for their roots and what better
way than culture through excellence and
diversity to explore that heritage?
We are looking forward to the next generation being part of that culture and
thats what theater does. It gives access to
a culture.
The actor Ron Rifkin will sing Yiddish
songs during Kulturfest, accompanied by
Mr. Mlotek and joined by friends Joel Gray
and Debra Monk.
I come from a very Orthodox background, Mr. Rifkin said. The first time I
tasted treif, I was 32. I come from a large
family, I was born in Williamsburg, and
those are the sounds in my head. Thats
the music in my head. I still go to shul
I have always been on a spiritual quest, I
always have been searching for something;
I keep finding things that are different
from my world, and I keep going back to
the original.
So when Mr. Mlotek first ask Mr. Rifkin to
sing for a Folksbiene gala a few years ago,
he gave me a present of one of his parents books like his wife, Chana Mlotek,
Yosl Mlotek, who died in 2000, was a Yiddishist and musicologist, and they worked
together. I started exploring it, and I realized that this music was making me crazy.
These songs are so poetic, so elegant,
so filled with longing and humor.
When you think about where some
of these songs were written... His voice
trailed off, and then he began again. One
of these songs, Friling, which means
Springtime, was written in the Vilna
Ghetto in the 1940s. The writers wife had
just died. (That was Shmerke Kaczerginski
and his wife, Barbara.) The song was written in a tango rhythm, because thats the
music that was popular in the 40s. Really.
A tango. In the ghetto. It was about seeing
his beloved at the garden gate and sneaking a kiss. Seeing a green garden when
there was no garden. There was nothing
green. It is so eloquent and so beautiful,
and the music is so romantic.
It is music of the soul, he said, and
in its specificity it is general; it might
appeal particularly to Jews but reaches far
beyond us. Its music that comes from
your kishkes. It comes from history, from
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longing, from dreaming.
Frank London, the trumpeter who is
a founder of the influential Klezmatics,
has known Mr. Mlotek for a long time. He
traces his friends unusual blend of passion for Yiddishkeit, musical talent, and
administrative skills to his parents. We
have to start with Chana and Yosl, people
who were so passionately engaged in Yiddishkeit and Yiddish music, and who knew
more about it than anyone else, and who
published books of songs and preserved it.
Zalmen is a prodigious pianist, and
because he grew up in this world he is
entirely immersed in it. It was such a natural thing when he took over as the Folksbienes artistic director! Who else would
have the knowledge and range of ability?
In many ways his whole life embodies this
work, and his work embodies his life.
To be entirely practical, Mr. Mloteks status at the top of the Yiddish world makes
it easier for him to put together a festival
than it would be for anyone else. Zalmen can write a letter to anyone saying
Would you like to come? and they say Of
course, Mr. London said.
He believes firmly in the future of Yiddish culture. It is in a really interesting
point right now, he said. Because literacy
in the Yiddish language, at least outside
the
chasidic
world, is 5
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Jinta-la-Mvta, the Japanese klezmer

band, will play on June 15.
output of Yiddish culture is the highest its

been in 100 years. I dont know the statistics, but I think that there have been more
recordings of Yiddish music in the last 15
or 20 years than there had been in the 100
years before that. There is so much going
on, so much creativity in every art form.
Its in music, which became the biggest

driver of the Yiddish what word to use?
Not renaissance, because it never died
Yiddish cultural continuity.
Yiddish is not a spoken vernacular language almost anywhere outside the chasidic community, but it is a living, thriving
culture.
Why is that? Because the material is
really great. Because the culture has such
a particularity so that if you are, as I am, a
fourth-generation New York Jew, who grew
up entirely in English but you still feel the
pull of the beautiful ethnicity, this gorgeous way of seeing the world.
Its not only for Jews, though. The musicians in the Japanese klezmer band obviously are not exploring their own personal
roots. Instead, the pull they feel is the
beauty, energy, and wit of the music itself.
Generality and specificity. Its always that
mix, Mr. London said.
Yiddish is also so vital a strand in New
York life that it cannot be teased out, Mr.
London added. When I first moved to
New York, I was playing salsa gigs with
Puerto Rican and Dominican musicians,
and hanging out with them. They were telling jokes with Yiddish punchlines. Thats
our New York.
There would be no New York without Chinese food, without pickles, and
without Yiddish.
Bruce Ratner, the real-estate developer
and philanthropist, is the president of the
Museum of Jewish Heritage. He feels that
the museums mission is furthered by its
affiliation with the Folksbiene. Yiddish is
the language of our everyday speech, he
said. And Zalmen and Bryna are extraordinary people.
You dont get Zalmens every day. They
dont grow on trees. He gets things done,
he is energetic, and he has a humility and
Yiddishkeit to him that fits right into our
heritage and our Jewish values.
He also believes that Yiddish culture has
a future. There is an interest in Yiddish
music and theater and poetry, he said.
I wouldnt exactly call it an overwhelming resurgence, but it is a resurgence,
and I think that the Kulturfest will make
a difference.
People are beginning to understand
that much of Broadway theater derives
from Yiddish culture. Particularly in our
city, there is a tremendous opportunity to
be part of this resurgence.
I think that we can now say that there
will always be Yiddish, and there will
always be Yiddish theater and Yiddish culture. Thats the good news.
And a big piece of that happens to be
the Folksbiene.
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Put this at the top of our agenda

Federation and day schools join OU for state funding push
LARRY YUDELSON
new coalition that brings

together the Orthodox Union,
almost all local Jewish day
schools, both Orthodox and
Conservative, and the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey as well as their counterparts elsewhere in the state hopes to
ramp up efforts to maintain and increase
state funding for New Jersey day schools.
The new coalition, called Teach NJS,
was launched last week at a meeting in a
Teaneck synagogue that drew about 200
people on a rainy night.
One of the most important levers to
change the economics of Jewish education
is increased state funding, Sam Moed of
Englewood told the meeting. Mr. Moed is
president of Jewish Education for Generations, a local effort launched in 2009 to help
day school education. We need to put this
at the top of our agenda, and devote our
time and energy to the public policy agenda
where the allocation of resources is determined, he said.
Teach NJS took its name and game plan

from a similar OU-led coalition across the
Hudson, Teach NYS, according to Josh
Pruzansky, who heads the OUs four-yearold New Jersey public policy office. NYS is
short for New York Students, just as NJS
is short for New Jersey Students. The New
York version of the partnership of the OU,
schools, and federation partnership is only
two years old, but it can tout its impact following New York Governor Andrew Cuomos endorsement of a $150 million education tax credit program. While the bill may
still fail to become law, if it were to pass it
would give a major infusion of money to
New Yorks Jewish day schools. (More than
a third of the states private schools are Jewish day schools.)
Mr. Pruzasky said he brought the coalition idea to Mr. Moed and other JEFG leaders, who endorsed it. Then they brought the
schools on board. Then came the federation.
Were very honored that they thought
its an important enough agenda that they
feel its worthy of their funding, Mr. Pruzansky said.
Josh Pruzensky addresses a new coalition, Teach NJS, about lobbying to

increase state funding for day schools.
The federation is allocating funding to
JEFG, and that has allowed Teach NJS to hire
a field coordinator.
For its first legislative goal, Teach NJS is asking for a rather more modest sum than $150
million. Governor Chris Christies budget proposal cut technology and nursing assistance
to private schools. Assemblyman Gary Schaer
(D.-36th District) told last weeks gathering
that he will introduce bills to restore the cuts
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and add a further $25 per student in security
funding for private schools. These measures
would cost the state about $9 million and
must be approved by both the New Jersey
Senate and the New Jersey Assembly and
then it must escape the governors line item
veto which determines the final shape of the
budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Your voices may well make the difference as to whether this is successful or not,
Assemblyman Schaer said.
In order to be successful, its necessary to make a mark. We as a united community have not made a mark; these bills
give us an opportunity to make that mark.
And the opportunity to build on that next
year, so security aid is not $25, but $200 or
$300, he said.
Teach NJS is planning two missions
from our area to lobby for the day school
funding, tentatively scheduled for June 11
and June 15. (Other communities that are
part of the Teach NJS coalition include
the newly renamed Jewish Federation
in the Heart of New Jersey, which covers
Middlesex and Monmouth counties and is
a merger of the two local federations, its
affiliated day schools, and the day schools
of Cherry Hill and Voorhees.)
Mr. Pruzansky has led such missions in
the past. Whats different now, he said, is
the amount of support he expects from the

schools.
We will actively pursue every parent, he
said. Were going to work with the schools,
the lay leadership, to make sure every parent is participating, and not just rely on the
schools sending out an email. Every school
has a liaison to work with us and organize
in the school. The schools have been very
responsive and very involved. They feel
encouraged theres something for them to
participate in.
Teach NJS requires action, Mr. Moed
said. We are very good at voicing our concerns about the current state of affairs with
day schools and spending a lot of time talking
about the problems.
Now, day school supporters will be asked
to commit to voting, calling local officials,
making trips to Trenton making our voices
heard, he said.
We will measure the impact of Teach NJS
by the dollars allocated to our schools. That
will be our report card.
Rena Klein of Edison told last weeks gathering about a trip she took to Trenton last
year to ask to restore state nursing aid to private schools. When her daughter was diagnosed with diabetes, the fact that her day
school received enough funds from the state
for only a part-time nurse became a problem.
This made her story a great one for last years

lobbying effort to restore nursing funding
but Ms. Klein was reluctant to go when the
schools principal asked her.
I know very little about politics, senators, assemblymen, the things they do, she
said. I didnt want to waste my whole day
shlepping to and from Trenton talking to legislators I had never heard of. I didnt believe
there was anything I could say or do.
I did know it was unfair that the state
was providing students in public school with
$200 per student for nursing and only $77 for
private school nursing.
Despite my reservations, I thought it
was my responsibility to increase the funding for my school. I met with a number of
assemblymen who were very sympathetic.
They understood it was unfair. I was glad I
tried, though I didnt think it would change
anything.
A few weeks later, I heard that Governor
Christie signed the bill to increase the budget
for nursing services. With some shifting of
hours, this mean my daughters school went
from a three-day-a-week nurse to four days a
week. The legislators listened, she said.
Mr. Pruzansky called on the community to
change its relationship to local politics.
I went on the Norpac mission to Washington, he said. There were 1,500 foreign
policy experts. They know everyone in Washingtons voting records on Israel. Then I asked
them: Do you know who your mayor is? Who
your school board members are? Your state
senators? Your assemblymen?
Were foreign policy experts but were so
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not by a person in Wyoming you cant vote
for. Its important to know the congressman
from Wyomings record, but we have to do
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If we look at our voting records in our
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said. Turnout for local elections in heavily
Jewish sections of Teaneck and Englewood
are not significantly above average. If we
vote in the numbers we have that is, if the
turnout is significantly above normal that
will stand out to those who look at the voting
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week by sketching out a grand, New Yorksized vision of state aid for day schools.
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Gary Schaer for a thousand dollars a student in state aid, he said. Lets thank
Valerie Huttle a Democratic assemblywoman from the 37th district, who was at
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From four Hillels to Israel

Rabbi Ely Allen pulls up his deep local stakes to make aliyah
Joanne Palmer
ere are some possibly obscure

riddles, along with their
answers.
When is a Hillel director not
a Hillel director?
When he works for the local federation and
directs Hillels on four separate colleges.
When does a Hillel director get to interweave four local colleges and the community
into a real network?
When he works for the local federation and
directs Hillels on four separate colleges.
Who is that Hillel director and what Hillels
does he direct?
His name is Rabbi Ely Allen, and he oversees Hillels at William Paterson University
in Wayne, Fairleigh Dickinson University
in Teaneck, Ramapo College in Mahwah,
and Bergen Community College in Paramus
for the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey.
And when does this Hillel director say
goodbye to all those Hillels, as well as a school
for high school students, the Bergen County
High School of Jewish Studies, where he has
taught and whose board he has graced for
about 20 years?
This summer, when he and his family
move from their Bergenfield home and resettle in Israel.
Thats why its time to take a look at Rabbi
Allen and his work.
Ely Allen was born in Jersey City in 1970,
the oldest of four siblings. When he was 5, his
parents, Albert and Sarah Levy Allen, moved
the family to Englewood, where they still live.
The family is Sephardic. Both Albert and
Sarah Allen were both in Egypt; Alberts
father made his way there from Kirkuk, Iraq,
and married a woman born in Egypt; Sarahs
mother was from Syria and her father came
from Tunisia. They really adopted the Egyptian traditions, Rabbi Allen said. Its perhaps the longest-standing tradition in the
Middle East. It goes back to the First Temple
period.
On my mothers side, there are genealogical records going back six generations, he
added.
But the firmly rooted love affair between
Egypt and its Jews was pulled up and left to
wither as the world changed around them.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt
or, as it was called during part of that time,
the United Arab Republic from 1956 until
he died in 1970, made Jewish life there so
uncomfortable that most fled. Many went
to France, because it was the only country
that would accept them with a refugee status, Rabbi Allen said. Thats where Sarah
Levy went; Albert Allen, a salesman who
was involved in a number of different industries in Egypt, and was working with airplane
simulators and fighter pilots, went straight to
Rabbi Ely Allen in his home study;

with his family, clockwise from bottom left, Orah, Abraham, Sara, and
Neima, and his wife, Rebecca.
New York, where a job was waiting for him.
My father speaks fluent Arabic, and no
matter where in the Arab world he happens
to be, his Arabic is indistinguishable from the
locals, Rabbi Allen said. He loves to speak
Arabic.
Despite that exotic background, his parents were set up and met at a cousins bar
mitzvah, either in Jersey City or in Brooklyn,
their son said.
When the Allens moved from Jersey City
to Englewood, they were surrounded mainly
by Ashkenazim, but after about 10 years my
father started the Sephardic minyan there,
Rabbi Allen said. At first, it met in peoples
houses, but eventually Ahavath Torah was
kind enough to give us a home. It now has
its own elaborately and beautifully decorated
space in the Englewood shul.
Ely Allen, like his siblings, went to elementary school at what then was still the Yeshiva
of Hudson County now the Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey. Next, he went to
Yeshiva University High School for Boys
during what he carefully calls its tumultuous years the time when, it is forcefully
alleged, some of its faculty members were
physically and sexually abusing some of its
students. The end result was that I left high
school not wanting to be Jewishly observant,
Rabbi Allen said.
I had a very negative experience there,
he continued. I did some research. About
50 percent of my classmates are no longer
Shabbat observant. That is an ongoing issue,
according to Rabbi Allen, and not confined to
schools such as his, where abuse led to disengagement. That is an issue that none of
the yeshiva high schools want to address, he

said. It is true across the Jewish spectrum.
To return to his story: He did not take a
gap year to explore Israel. When I graduated from YHS, I didnt even consider going
to Israel, he said. I was thoroughly disinterested in anything Jewish.
He went straight to college. It is in his
choice of college that Rabbi Allens position as
the first-generation son of immigrants, not the
late 1980s teenager, comes clear. I wanted to
go to a school that was local. I didnt want to
travel. Until high school, I didnt even know
what the SATS were. My parents had no idea
that they existed. At school, they mentioned
them here and there, but I figured it out when
I took the PSAT.
That means that the he never undertook
the tortuous college search, a road littered
with tests and scores and games and recitals
and projects, and never had the vision of a
dorm room beckoning to him like a glittering
mirage at the end of that ordeal. Instead, I
went to Fairleigh Dickinson in Teaneck, and
he lived at home, he said matter-of-factly.
He majored in psychology, joined a
fraternity, became its pledge master, and

was a fairly crazy person, he said.
But he still was actively Jewish. I was
pretty much the only person there who wore
a kippah, he said. His relationship to religion was complicated. I was never embarrassed about being Jewish but I just didnt
like all those laws, and I didnt like being in an
oppressive environment.
So when he was approached by rabbis
from the local Chabad House and they asked
me if I would like to recruit Jewish students, I
pretty much said I dont know why you want
me to do that, but sure, Ill do it.
Very soon, I started learning with them,
learning chasidism and mysticism, and it
opened a new approach to
Judaism, which I had not been
exposed to before, Rabbi
Allen said. It was like Oh,
there are reasons why we do all
this stuff. Its not just all rules.
Its not all negative.
So I started to become a
little more observant, little by
little, and I ended up being
president of Hillel in my last
year, organizing things, and
bringing people to the Chabad
House, he continued. Often,
the relationship between Hillel chapters and local Chabad
groups are tense; both groups
are going after the same students. But We have a partnership with Chabad, Rabbi Allen
said. We are on the same side.
We are both trying to help
people.
His relationship with Chabad
is deep. When I was in college, I learned in
Morristown thats the movements Rabbinical College of America, possibly its flagship educational institution and I met the
Lubavitcher rebbe about eight times. It was
an intense experience, he said.
I was in the Chabad camp for some
time, but I had a desire to reconnect with
my Sephardic heritage, Rabbi Allen said.
Chabad, which began in the Russian town of
Lubavitch, has roots deep in Eastern Europe.
I also appreciate a number of Jewish philosophies outside Chabad; I agree with many of
Chabads principles but I didnt feel it necessary to become part of Lubavitch to live or
act according to those principles. I have more
of an eclectic perspective on Jewish learning,
and on how various perspectives complement each other.
When he graduated from college, Rabbi
Allen spent a year in Israel, studying at Yeshivat Machon Meir, There was no thought in
my mind of becoming a rabbi then, he said.
When he got back to the United States in
1993, Ely Allen married Rebecca Henteleff.
She came from Pittsburgh but moved to
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Englewood as a high school student, living with cousins,
because she was dissatisfied with the options available
to her in Pennsylvania. Then we moved to Englewood
and I started working with an accountant, drumming up
business for him, Rabbi Allen said. Through that job, he
met Ary Frenkel, who worked with Holocaust survivors
getting restitution from Germany. Rabbi Allen did some
of that work himself as well, making sure survivors were
not defrauded by any of the swindlers who saw them as
easy marks.
I did that for a few years, but I needed to make some
additional cash, and I had the opportunity to teach in the
Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, the local
Sunday Hebrew high school for public- and private-school
students.
It was a life-changing experience, Rabbi Allen said
simply.
I really love teaching, and the students loved learning.
From there, I started organizing classes for a group of
baalei teshuva newly observant Jews whose enthusiasm outpaced their knowledge. I would bring different
rabbis from the community to speak at different peoples
homes in Englewood. We had a network.
At the end of my first year of marriage, I was already
teaching and organizing. It just happened. I got thrown
into it. It wasnt anything I had in mind. And then I started
speaking from the pulpit at the Sephardic minyan we
didnt have a rabbi. And then I realized that I should know
a little bit more about what I was talking about
So I decided, with the advice of many friends, to go
back to school. To YU, of all places. I began my rabbinic
studies there in 1996.
Rabbi Allen never has been able to confine himself to
one job. As he studied for ordination, I was teaching, I
was involved in managing accounts in the stock market,
I became very interested in researching the video game
and independent film industries. In fact, it wasnt until
this period of his life that Rabbi Allen made the decision
that although he loved the world of finance, and had been
lured by it, I would much rather be involved in Jewish
engagement and teaching. But I do still dabble in the stock
market today, not professionally but just for fun.
(Now might be a good time to mention that although his
two sisters have made aliyah, and their parents split their
time between New Jersey and Israel, his brother, Michael,
who lives in Cresskill, works for Jay Z and Rihanna. Hes
our family outlier, Rabbi Allen said.)
Rabbi Allen has done a great deal of work in the
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Jacob, Rebecca to be charged with conspiracy

Mock trial in Mahwah will offer new perspectives on a biblical story
drama play out is just a different way to
teach the complexity of the story. When
here are many ways to teach
you look at any story, when you sit and
Torah. And, happily, people
read it on your own or with partner, you
learn in many different ways.
gain insight and knowledge and different
With that in mind, Mahwahs
perspectives. But when you see the characters acting it out, you can see that it is
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom plans to teach
even more complex.
an old story in a new way. On Sunday, June
The reason why this story is so reso7, the congregation will put some very
nant and ripe for being played out is
prominent biblical figures on trial.
because it is a family story, he continued.
During that trial the Jewish People
Showing favoritism, sibling rivalry, jealv. Rebecca and Jacob a jury of congregants, chosen by lottery before the hearously, desire, passion. These are all things
ing begins, will determine whether mother
people in 2015 still struggle with. It almost
and son were guilty of conspiracy.
doesnt matter how it plays out.
Did Jacob and Rebecca conspire to
And the people watching the trial each
deceive Isaac? Did Isaac really bless the
will relate to the story in his or her own
wrong son? Is Esau totally innocent in all of
way, he added.
The trials format is straightforward.
this? Opposing attorneys Barry Cassell and
The presiding judge will outline the
Jack Schulman, members of the congregation, will tackle those questions. Another
charges and instruct the jury about how
congregant, attorney Amy Littman who
they should adjudicate. There will also be
The Blessing of Jacob, a 1638 painting by Dutch master Govert Flinck
has, in her professional life, run mock
an opportunity for jurors to deliberate. During that time, everyone else
trials for law students will serve as
will have a chance to debate, dispresiding judge.
cuss, share, and ask questions, Rabbi
Back in the winter I saw an advertisement for a big congregation in
Mosbacher said. Everyone will get a
the city doing a mock trial, the synachance to participate. And if the progogues senior rabbi, Joel Mosbacher,
gram is a success which he expects
said. Over there, the attorneys were
it will be we will do it again in the
also members of the synagogue.
future. There are some great debate
Those attorneys were Eliot Spitzer and
possibilities, he said, suggesting, for
Alan Dershowitz.
example, Aarons role in building the
While the Mahwah shul cant claim
golden calf.
From left, Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, Rabbi Daniel Kirzane, Rebecca McVeigh, Ari Mosbacher
The Torah is full of complex charsuch famous ones, We have some
acters, he said. You would think that
pretty fantastic attorneys, Rabbi Mosbacher said. It sounded like a fun proin a sacred text, the personages would be
the evidence they need. Its a more compliresearch, he said, theyre making their
gram and a fun way to educate people
cated, more nuanced case than it seems on
perfect and morally pure but the peocase and not telling each other what they
ple in the Torah are far from that. That is
about these stories.
the face of it.
plan to present. (Thats why we cannot
the reason why we still read these stories,
Were borrowing the best ideas from
Rabbi Mosbacher said that each of the
give readers a preview of the arguments.)
Still, Rabbi Mosbacher said, on one
because we see ourselves in their strengths
other congregations, he added. I
four main characters will testify. Each has
side it seems very obvious that Rachel
and foibles, flaws and humanness.
reached out to one of the rabbis in New
written an affidavit. The attorneys also
We can relate to them, Rabbi Mosand Jacob colluded to steal the birthright.
York and he was very kind and generous.
have taken depositions, meeting with
bacher concluded. If they were perfect,
But on the other side, you might make
Still, were doing it on our own, just makclients to get a sense of how each would
ing it up as we go along.
we could hold them up as paragons but
the case that Isaac actually knew all along
answer particular questions.
While the New York mock trial charged
When it became obvious that this could
not relate to them. A parent can relate to
what was going on and was colluding with
Abraham with the attempted murder of
turn into a three- or four-hour program,
Isaac and Rebecca. A sibling can relate
the accused so its not so clear whos
Isaac, BHSS decided to consider other
we timed it out so that it will be fun, interto Jacob and Esau. Theyre very human
guilty and whos innocent. You might also
esting, and family-friendly, Rabbi Mosstories as well. Ultimately, Rabbi Moscharacters. And if the trial is not made
make the case that Jacob was convinced
bacher said, they chose the story about
bacher said. The attorneys and judge have
for TV, its certainly going to make for
or tricked by his mother or else he was
stealing the birthright because it had
come up with a minute-by-minute timeline.
drama in Mahwah.
so obedient that he simply did what she
more characters, more witnesses, and
Each of us will be on the stand 8 to 10 mintold him.
utes, including both testimony and crossAll arguments will be backed up by text.
gave congregants more of an ability to
What: Mock Trial: The Jewish People v.
examination. Were inviting members of
We made a decision to stay faithful to
participate.
Rebecca and Jacob
One of the fun things about this project
the congregation to serve as the jury.
the story and to the midrash written in our
When: Sunday, June 7; jury selection at
He explained that those congregants
is that we studied together, Rabbi Mostradition, he said. We could go way off
4:45 p.m., call to order at 5 p.m., verdict
bacher said. The group including Rabbi
who want to serve as jurors will have to
script but affidavits are hewing closely to
at 6:30.
Mosbacher as Isaac, Rabbi Daniel Kirzane
come 15 minutes before the program and
the Torah text and are informed by existWhere: Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, 280
ing midrashim.
as Esau, educator Rebecca McVeigh as
participate in a lottery. We didnt want it
Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah
I think there are so many modalities
Rebecca, and senior youth group viceto be just people who knew the story really
Free and open to the public. RSVP to
to teaching Torah, and the text speaks for
president Ari Mosbacher as Jacob, as well
well, he said. We wrote up the basic ver(201) 512-1983 by June 4. Attendees
sion to send out to congregants to learn
itself. This is so dramatic that we could
as the attorneys and judge studied the
are encouraged to bring a non-perishthe basic facts of the case. And the attorjust teach it straight or in a sermon. But
story as well as the midrashim and interable food item for donation to Mahpretations of the story.
neys are really working hard and taking it
after 18 years in the rabbinate, Ive learned
wahs Center for Food Action.
We studied for its own sake and
really seriously.
that people learn in all kinds of ways. An
For more information, go to www.
because we want to give the attorneys all
While they are engaged in serious
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Taking care of our seniors

Motivated group of older women watches out for elder abuse
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
n April 6, Elmwood Park

police discovered the bodies
of Michael Juskin, 100, and his
wife, Rosalia, 88. The man had
killed his sleeping wife with an ax and then
committed suicide.
To the women of the Bergen County
organization Saafe (Save Abused and Frail
Elderly), there was a tragedy within this
tragedy: Police had been called to the
Juskin home on previous occasions but
failed to alert the states Adult Protective
Services agency.
It really points up the need for communication, because any one discipline
cannot handle the problem alone, said
Saafe member Dorothy Kaplan of Fort Lee,
speaking ahead of United Nations-designated World Elder Abuse Day on June 15.
Greater coordination must be encouraged among all those who deal with the
elderly, from nurses and social workers to
police, Ms. Kaplan continued.
According to the latest figures available,
from 2012, people 60 or older accounted
for five percent of reported domestic-violence victims in New Jersey and 18 percent
of domestic murders seven out of 38 that
year.
It is more difficult to quantify the nonphysical abuse of the elderly.
There is a lot of education that needs
to be done to raise awareness and develop
new procedures, Ms. Kaplan said. When
we started about 10 years ago, there was
no communication between groups that
worked with seniors. Adult Protective
Services would get a call, but there was
a gap between them and legal services.
There was no law mandating professionals to report elder abuse, so we worked
with other groups to see that that law was
There was no law

mandating
professionals to
report elder
abuse, so we
worked with
other groups to
see that that law
was passed. But
its clear there
has to be more
networking.
The women of Saafe: standing, from left, Libby Berday, Meryle Keller, Ethel Matusow, Doris Koenig, Nina Hertzberg, Dorothy Kaplan, Rosalie Oloff, and Dian Gilmore. Seated, Etia Segall, Ria Sklar, Leah Richter, and Joan Alter.
passed. But its clear there has to be more

networking.
Because it grew out of a Torah-study
group led by Rabbi Adina Lewittes of
Shaar Communities, Saafe has a Jewish
neshama, a Jewish soul, Ms. Kaplan said.
At a certain point we wanted to actualize
what we were studying. Saafe is a group
of Jewish women and one Catholic woman
in our late 70s to 90 many of us retired
mental-health professionals, and a couple of lawyers and we have done some
remarkable things.
One accomplishment has been developing and presenting educational awareness
programs tailored to senior groups and to
professionals who have frequent contact
with the elderly, such as bank employees,
police officers, firefighters, and nursing
students. There is financial, emotional,
sexual, and physical abuse of seniors, and
we want to stress prevention before people become frail, Ms. Kaplan said.
Saafe also is supporting an effort to
establish the SeniorHaven for Elder Abuse
Prevention at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, set to open at the beginning of July.
The projects initiator, Jewish Home Family President and CEO Carol Silver Elliott,
explained that SeniorHaven will offer
community education as well as available
beds within the facility to shelter domestic-violence victims 60 and older on an asneeded basis.
Ms. Elliott is modeling the program
after the Weinberg Center for Elder Abuse
Prevention at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale. That Bronx-based institution houses

the nations first comprehensive regional
elder-abuse shelter, begun about a decade
ago. Before joining Jewish Home Family
last November, Ms. Elliott had replicated
the program at the Cedar Village Retirement Community in Ohio.
When I came to Rockleigh, I wanted
to find a way to continue to do this work
that we know is so important, she said.
Weve had a small task force working on
this, and well be working closely with our
partners at the Hebrew Home because we
frequently run quite full and might not
have space when someone is in crisis, so
our friends in Riverdale will shelter that
victim if needed. Referrals could come
from Adult Protective Services, hospital
emergency rooms, and other sources.
It makes sense to provide emergency
shelter in an existing facility for the
elderly, Ms. Elliott added. All the services
older adults need are available within our
walls, from medical to physical therapy,
social work, and pastoral care, to nutritional services.
Equally important to us is the opportunity to educate the community about
this issue, she continued. I hope well
work closely with Saafe to share in community education. Theyve done amazing
job helping to spread the word, and I hope
our efforts together will really raise awareness and create a safe place for our most
vulnerable citizens.
About every 18 months, Saafe sponsors

a conference on elder abuse in cooperation with the Bergen County Executive and
Board of Chosen Freeholders.
The four conferences held so far have
produced concrete and valuable results,
said Ria Sklar of Fort Lee, one of the
groups 15 or so active members. She is a
retired social worker who headed a schooldistrict program in special education.
Our second conference, in 2009,
focused on the prosecution of elder
abuse, and we had speakers from the
county prosecutors office, she said.
As a result, the heads of the police and
prosecutors office established a police
liaison with Adult Protective Services. He
has made a significant difference in bringing to court those who have perpetrated
elder abuse.
This is a very hidden problem; people
dont want to report it, and prosecution
becomes difficult without extremely close
communication between all professionals hospitals, social workers, and law
enforcers.
The next conference will be held in
spring 2016. Ms. Sklar hopes to push not
only for greater communication among
agencies but also for adding more caseworkers to Bergen Countys four-person
Adult Protective Services team. They
have to be there within 72 hours of a
report of possible abuse, and that is difficult because theyre understaffed, she
said.
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Welcoming an American Idol

This was a day that residents at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh had hoped would happen. Their very own American Idol had
come to visit them.
American Idol contestant

Jax addresses her many
fans at the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh last week.
For months this self-proclaimed Jax Pack,

most of them in their 70s, 80s, and 90s,
had watched their home-grown heroine
and followed her progression, even posting
notes and videos of encouragement on

Facebook. Jax, to their great joy (and eventual disappointment) made it almost all the
way through the 14th season of American
Idol, finishing in third place, and will tour
with the show. ( Jax, for the uninitiated,
is 19-year-old Jackie Cole Miskanic of East
Brunswick, who is Jewish and a former Surprise Lake camper.)
As it turned out, Jax also was following
the Jax Pack.
This is more exciting than American
Idol, she told the cheering crowd at Rockleigh. I love you guys so much and have
been following everything you have been

doing for me. Never forget always keep
music in your heart.
Although Jax lost in the final round, this
homecoming was about celebration and
moving ahead. You guys want to come
on tour with me? she smiled. And then,
proving that age is just a number, these
seniors joined her in song and dance.
The fact that she came meant the world
to us, said one resident. You could just
see that she really wanted to be here. We
couldnt be happier. Music truly unites and
heals.
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Taglit Birthright group returning

Northern New Jersey participants on
Taglit Birthright Bus #71 plan to return
today, June 5, from their trip to Israel
that left on May 26. This group was able
to experience something unique to Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
community Birthright trips: home hospitality. One evening last week, when they
were in Nahariya, federations sister city,
the participants split up into groups and
enjoyed dinner with Israeli families.
THE 8TH ANNUAL CONCERT EVENT
THURS. JUNE 11, 7 - 9 P.M.

ROBERT SAVETSKY OF TRIPLE S STUDIOS
A concert for cancer survivors, caregivers, family and friends by
BCHSJS graduates seniors

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies held its annual graduation at
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel.
This years graduates were Miranda
Alper, Julia Baer, Jason Baretz, Alexandra Castiel, Harold (Harry) Cohen, Elisa
Damari, Deborah Frank, Brian Graziano,
Jonathan Graziano, Carly Haber, Maya
Hanan, Samuel Jacobs, Marcelle Katri,
Leah Koretski, Scott Koszer, Brett Levine,
Danielle Shabi, Michael Sobelman, Bennett Susman, and Jonathan Swill.
Closing exercises for all other students
were held on the last day of school,
Sunday, May 17.

The president of the school board,
Elayne Kalina, joined its principal, Bess
Adler, and the students congregational
rabbis in presenting diplomas and gifts
to the graduates. Rabbi Ronald Roth of
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI gave the
dvar Torah.
Miranda Alper, Harold (Harry) Cohen,
Marcelle Katri, and Danielle Shabi won
excellence in participation awards.
The Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies is a regional Sunday
Hebrew high school program for students in eighth through twelfth grades.
The Worlds Greatest Journey Tribute Band
Chiang Auditorium, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Free event. Limited seating. RSVP: 866-980-3462 or englewoodhealth.org
Presented by
Local
NCJW Bergen installing officers
The National Council of Jewish Womens
Bergen County section will celebrate its
92nd annual installation of officers at a
luncheon on Tuesday, June 9 at 11 a.m.,
at Seasons in Washington Township.
The prestigious Hannah G. Solomon award will be presented to Elaine
K. Myerson, executive director of the
Paul and Randy Auerbach
Center for Hope and Safety (formerly

Shelter Our Sisters). Marian Kugelmass
will receive the Woman of the Section
award for her many years of dedication
to the organization.
Non-members are invited to attend.
For information, call (201) 383-4847 or
go to www.ncjybcs.org.
Nina and Russell Rothman
2 couples chosen for JCCP/CBT tribute

Randy and Paul Auerbach of Park Ridge,
formerly of Washington Township and
Oradell, and Nina and Russell Rothman
of Englewood, formerly of Oradell, will be
honored at the Jewish Community Center
of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvahs
annual journal dinner dance on Sunday,
June 14, at 4:30 p.m., at the shul. The couples will be lauded for their years of dedication to the congregation.
Randy Auerbach was involved in the
shuls nursery and religious schools, education and youth committees, and young
couples club. Paul Auerbach has served
on the board for 22 years. During that
time he has been the shuls treasurer and
chaired finance, search, negotiation, and
nominating committees. The couple has
three children, Amanda, Gregory, and
Josh, and daughter-in-law, Joshs wife,
Michelle, and a granddaughter, Lily.

Nina Rothman was involved in several JCCP ventures, including its nursery
school, young couples club, and religious
school, and she ran the community Purim
festival for many years. In the community,
she worked for Shelter Our Sisters. Russell Rothman was the shuls treasurer, vice
president, and president. He also is cochair of the American Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and a 15-year
board member of the New Jersey chapter
of the Alzheimers Association. The Rothmans have three children, Michael, Dana,
and Allison; two sons-in-law, Danas husband, Michael Weiss, and Allisons husband, Paul Strachman, and two grandchildren, Dana and Michaels twins, Jake and
Dylan.
Frisch students,
wearing red
T-shirts, presented
innovations and
observed the work
of their fellow
students.
COURTESY FRISCH
Frisch students excel

at engineering conference
Last week, the Frisch School of Paramus
sent a delegation to the annual Center
for Initiatives in Jewish Education Tech
High School Engineering Program Young
Engineers Conference. There were 80
Frisch students with 36 team projects
at the conference, held at the Hebrew
Academy of Five Towns and Rockaway
in Long Island. The Frisch students were
among nearly 700 ninth- and 10th-graders who presented projects to fellow students as part of the program designed to
solve real world problems based on electronic and biomedical concepts.
Shelley Goldman, an AT&T executive
and the latest woman at AT&T to cross
the 100-patent benchmark, addressed
the group.
JTS awards 103 degrees

at commencement ceremony
Honorees, from left, Barry and Stephanie Kissler, Barnett (Buzz)

Rukin, and Lisa and Adam Grossman.
CHRIS MARKSBURY
YJCC honors leaders at spring gala

The Bergen County YJCC recognized some
of its outstanding leaders at the organizations spring gala at Temple Emanu-El in
Closter. Couple of the Year Stephanie and
Barry Kissler, Community Builder Barnett
(Buzz) Rukin, and Young Leaders Lisa
and Adam Grossman were honored, and
an ad journal was published to mark the

celebration.
Funds raised help support YJCC programs and services to its members and
the community, including those that affect
the lives of senior adults and children and
adults with special needs.
The Jewish Theological Seminary conferred 103 degrees on 92 graduates at its

121st commencement exercises on May
21. The distinguished graduates are the
newest JTS cohort of professional and
lay leaders set to serve around the globe
as rabbis, educators, cantors, scholars,
and community leaders.
Professor Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor of JTS, delivered the commencement address. Father Patrick Desbois,
Blu Greenberg, Roberta Kaplan, Professor Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and
Nigel Savage were awarded honorary
degrees.
Thirty-three graduates received
bachelors degrees from JTSs Albert

A. List College of Jewish Studies; 22
including four who earned doctorates
completed their studies at the Gershon Kekst Graduate School; and 32
including two who earned doctorates
received degrees from the William
Davidson Graduate School of Jewish
Education.
Two cantors were invested by the H.
L. Miller Cantorial School and College of
Jewish Music, and 14 men and women
were ordained by the Rabbinical School.
Eleven students received more than
degrees from various JTS schools. For
more information, go to www.jtsa.edu.
upcoming at
Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
Creative Arts and

Crafts for Adults
Be inspired with one of our Creative Arts

Programs. Discover the amazing versatility and
ease of painting with acrylics, create delicate
shading with watercolors, or explore your inner
vision with charcoal and pencil. Learn to knit
gorgeous sweaters, sew dresses, jackets or pillows
and more! Classes start June 11.
Visit jccotp.org/adult-creative-arts for more info.
16th Annual Sandra O. Gold

Founders Day Concert
This years concert will feature the Holocaust-era

childrens opera, Brundibar, written by
Hans Krasa, and performed by members of the
Young Peoples Chorus @ Thurnauer. This
concert is made possible by the Sandra O. Gold
Music School Founder Endowment Fund
established by Russ and Angelica Berrie. For more
information or tickets call 201.408.1465 or email
[email protected]
Thur, Jun 18, 6:30 pm, $8/$10
Yoga on the Green
Enjoy a fun, one-hour, all level yoga class

with Brenda Blanco, expert yoga teacher,
trainer and wellness expert. Stretch out
on our beautiful lawn with your mat,
towel & water bottle. Please wear sun
screen. In case of inclement weather,
held in Kaplen gym. For more info, call
Barbara Marrott at 201.408.1475.
RSVP to [email protected].
Sun, Jun 14, 10 am, Free
music
film
Asbury Shorts
an evening of the
Worlds best short films
When the Best Short Film Oscar

nominations come out, do you find yourself
thinking Where are these films and why
havent I seen them? Theyre here! Join us
for the Bergen County premier of Asbury
Shorts, a nationally acclaimed short film
exhibition featuring award winning comedy,
drama, and animation curated from the top
global film festivals. To register call Kathy at
201.408.1454 or visit jccotp.org.
Tue, Jun 30, 7:30 pm, $12/$15
Kaplen
Master Class
with Violinist Almita Vamos
Gain insight into the music and the artistic
process in this intimate, public coaching
by Almita Vamos, professor of violin at
Northwestern University and the Music
Institute of Chicago. Part of the Thurnauer
School of Musics Sylvia and Jacob Handler
Master Class series.
Thur, Jun 11, 4-7 pm, Free, suggested
donation $10
film
top films you may have missed:
Women in Love
Join us with Harold Chapler, who will introduce this

award-winning romantic drama about best friends
who fall in love with a pair of sisters, until life takes
their relationships in markedly different directions.
Film followed by an optional discussion. Coffee and
light snacks provided.
Mon, Jun 22, 7:30 pm, $5/$7
to register or for more info, visit
jccotp.org or call 201.569.7900.
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Editorial
KEEPING THE FAITH
Unity Day and the three dead boys
lmost exactly a year

ago, three teenage
boys were kidnapped
in Israel. Although
they were murdered almost
immediately, their bodies were
not found for 18 days, causing
the Jewish world collectively to
hope, pray, and move from optimism to despair, as if those three
young men were the sons of each
one of us.
It seems likely that all of us
remember the mood swings and
growing grief of those days.
But somehow, when the bodies of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad
Shaar, and Eyal Yifrach were
found, amid the overwhelming
sadness there were sparks of
light. Astonishingly, those sparks
were brought into existence and
nourished into visibility by the
boys parents, and even more
particularly by their mothers,
who decided that darkness could

not lead to more dark but would
have somehow to move toward
the light.
Now, a year later, June 3 last
Wednesday was declared Unity
Day. The idea was introduced in
Jerusalem, created by the boys
parents; their new organization,
the Memorial Foundation for
the Three Boys; the citys mayor,
Nir Barkat, and a group called
Gesher.
The families and their supporters also created prizes and gave
them to four recipients, for their
work in the diaspora, in Israel,
for an institutional initiative,
and for individual work. All the
winners were honored for their
work in promoting unity.
The kidnappings of our boys
marks one of the more difficult
moments in Israels modern history, according to a statement
from the three families. But the

reality is that out of this bitter
tragedy came a spirit of unprecedented unity against the Jewish
people. Our commitment is to
ensure that this sense of unity
remains alive.
Twenty-four countries around
the world marked the day,
including this one, and an estimated one-million-plus people
are said to have joined in; locally
a commemoration was planned
by the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey.
It is inspiring and deeply moving to see how the murdered
teenagers families have been
able to bring some good from
nightmare pain. May we all
be able to reap some positive
motion from it; may it somehow
contribute, ironically, to making the world a somewhat better
JP
place.
Memories and blessings
ast weekend also

brought us news of
two terribly upsetting
deaths, one in our
community, one outside it.
Rochelle Shoretz of Teaneck
was an extraordinary person, a
unique combination of brains,
drive, creativity, courage, passion, compassion, and goodness. It is awful to know that
her light has gone out from the
world. We needed more of it.
She should not have died at 42.
But it is good to know that she
was able to share so much of
that light while she was here. As
Jewish
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we detail in the story on page 28,

her work will make a profound
and long-term difference in this
world.
Beau Biden, who died at 46,
was a good man, smart and dedicated and real, a politician of
genuine conviction, passionate
about his family, his country, and
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trauma the accident that killed
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high cost of Jewish education not just in dollar terms,
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our children today.
We need to be honest: The price of a Jewish education is out of
reach for many parents, to our detriment as a community. While day
schools and yeshivot have scholarship programs, these often do not
go far enough. Too often, they also involve dehumanizing interrogations by panels of skeptical strangers, a procedure some parents just
cannot put themselves through.
Parents in our area who want to provide their children with a
combined and well-rounded Jewish and secular high school education could find themselves paying upward of $26,000 per child, taking into account tuition and such mandatory additions as extracurricular fees to capital fund and building fund assessments. One area
school, for example, requires $7,500 to be paid over five years to its
building fund, in addition to tuition-plus
of more than $25,000.
Depending on grade and school, elementary school tuition-plus fees ranged
from $13,000 to more than $25,000 this
year.
Our area costs are slightly higher than
elsewhere, but not by that much. Jewish
education is costly.
Now consider household income
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for Jews in the United States. It is true
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$150,000 a year, but one in every five
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of the remaining 55 percent fall in the median rangeestimated
at $99,000 annually. Obviously, net income, meaning the actual
household income, is considerably lower in all categories, which
means that a family with two children to educate may have to allocate as much as half of its yearly gross income to do so.
As the saying goes, It takes a village to raise a child. Judaism
agrees.
To be sure, the buck starts with the parents And you shall teach
them to your children, and so forth.
The buck, however, does not stop there. A well-rounded Jewish
education is a communal responsibility as well. That is why Maimonides, in his code of Jewish law, says bluntly: If it does not
employ teachers, the [community] deserves to be destroyed.
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Midrash Rabbah to Lamentations, we read that Rabbi
Ammi and Rabbi Assi toured various communities, to
see how they handled the education of their children.
They came to a city and said to the people, Bring us the
guardians of the city. [The people] fetched the captain
of the guard and the magistrate. The rabbis exclaimed,
These [are not] the guardians of the city! They are its
destroyers!
The guardians of a town, the rabbis explained, are the
teachers of its young and the instructors of its elderly, as
it is written (Psalms 127:1), Except the Lord keep a city,
its watchmen rise in vain.
There are many reasons for why education is regarded
as a communal responsibility.
Do not stand idly by your neighbors blood..., the
Torah decrees in Leviticus 19. Reprove your neighbor,
but incur no guilt on his account..., [and] you shall love
your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord.
In Jewish law, Do not stand idly by your neighbors
blood means that we must be proactive in looking out
for the welfare of everyone in our community.
Reprove your neighbor, but incur no guilt on his
account means that when we see that something is
wrong next door, or down the street, or even across
town, we must not sit back and say it is someone
elses problem. It is our problem, for we may not
stand idly by.
[And] you shall love your neighbor as yourself
means that what we would do out of love for our own
family, we must do out of love for our neighbors
family.
Elsewhere (Leviticus 26:37), the Torah tells us, And
they shall fall one upon another. Explains the Talmud
(Babylonian Talmud tractate Shevuot 39a), this teaches
us that all Israel are responsible one for another!
Kol Yisrael aray-veen zeh la-zeh. Everyone in the
community is responsible for the morality, the ethics,
and the actions of the people of that community.
Elsewhere (BT Shabbat 54b), the Talmud says: Whoever can turn aside his household [from doing wrong]
but does not, is seized for [the crimes of ] his household.
[If he can prevent] his fellow citizens [from doing wrong,
but does not], he is seized for [the crimes of ] his fellow citizens. If [he can prevent] the whole world [from
doing wrong, but does not], he is seized for [the crimes
of ] the whole world.
In each instance, the community or the neighbor is
not being punished for what someone else did, but for
what it or he or she failed to do. This is not my concern
was an oft-heard refrain. Yet it is their concern; all Jews
are responsible one for the other.
That responsibility begins with educating children.
Newborn children are empty vessels waiting to be filled
with knowledge and understanding. They not only
acquire that knowledge and understanding from their
parents, but from the nature of the society around them,
and from the nature of the people who make up that
society.
That is why Jewish law requires collective, communal
responsibility when someone takes the wrong path. It
is because the community, which collectively shared in
the upbringing of that person, failed him or her.
For those of us concerned about the Jewish future,
educating our children is the most taxing problem of
the Jewish present.
What is desperately needed in our community right
now is a coming together of our two rabbinic organizations, in partnership with local educators, for a summit meeting on making a well-rounded Jewish education affordable across the board.
There is no room here for sectarian differences. If
we want a better Jewish tomorrow, we must act today.
Common sense
Or, what Ive learned from Shavuot, support groups, and Bono
e Jews are a sensible bunch.

That is, we use our senses to perceive
the material world. As has been the case
throughout our history, weve had to see
personally or tangentially. How can there be so much

silence behind what there is so much science behind? We
may not see the synapses or neurotransmitters or what
have you wreaking havoc in the brain, but they are there.
it to believe it.
People with depressive disorders are hurting inside. We
When we were in Egypt, it was the Ten Plagues, the hand
need to believe it.
of God, something physical, that persuaded us to follow
And when we believe it, and then see it, we need to use
Moses into the desert. As we the Hebrews at this point
our built-in sense of community that which we received
waited for our leader to come down from the mountaintop,
at Mount Sinai to help support those in need. Love your
we grew impatient and created the Golden Calf. This idol
neighbor as you would yourself. An important nugget of
was a physical manifestation of that in which we were trying
truth taken from the mountaintop.
to believe. In a word: God.
We may not be able to see depression physically, but we
We were so used to our senses leading the way that we
need to start believing it more. Because when we believe its
could not yet see what was going on behind the scenes.
there, that is when true support can be sought.
Again, we needed to see it to believe it. And then when
So then what might people who are hurting do to support
Moses did come down from Mount Sinai, when he saw this
themselves? And what might a loved one do to support the
idol worship he smashed the two tablets and they had to be
person who is hurting? Furthermore, how might a person
recreated.
whose loved one is faced with a depressive disorder help
I find it interesting that the tablets themselves were physihim or herself?
cal, as were the burnt offerings given during that time and
Answer: talking with one another. Sharing our experiences and supporting one another. Not being afraid of
throughout the Torah. I also find it interesting that in this
stigma anymore, especially among those who
day and age, when there is no Temple in
are in the same boat. And let me tell you,
which to sacrifice, we still maintain our religion via our senses:
there are many of us in that boat.
We wear tefillin each day; lein the Torah out
Mays Mental Health Awareness month may
loud; perform the brit milah; post mezzuzot
have passed, but awareness and support are
on the thresholds of our houses; perform the
important all 12 months of the year. Mental illnesses are something you cant physically see
Havdalah ritual at the end of Shabbat; blow
unless you know that theyre there. And they
the shofar and eat apples, honey, and new
are there. Once you understand and believe it
fruit on Rosh Hashanah; perform kapparot
to be true, you will see it all around youfaces
with coins or a chicken before we deprive ourDena Croog
selves of food on Yom Kippur; shake the lulav,
in pain, people, people with depression, bipolar disorder, OCD, anorexia, bulimia, ADHD,
smell the etrog, and build sukkot using very
PTSD, all needing your outreach and support.
detailed specifications; dance with the Torah;
We as individuals and we as a Jewish community can do just
dress up in costumes and hand out mishloach manot; eat
that. So lets do just that.
matzah, and everything else that Ive failed to mention here.
Again, yes, my own agenda Refaenus mood disorders
Sight, sound, taste, smell, touch. These are the senses that
support groups meet in Paramus on the first and third Tueswe use throughout the year while observing our religion.
day nights of every month; there is a group for people with a
We are a sensible people. It was only when the tablets
mood disorder (forms of depression and bipolar disorder),
were brought down as a physical manifestation of the law
and another group for family and friends. But I think it has
that our days as Hebrews became a new age that of Judaism, the Jewish people as a community, as a nation, and
much to do with one possible meaning behind this past holiday of Shavuot, which interestingly coincided with Mental
united by the laws of the Torah. As Jews, we are a religion
Health Awareness month. That is, to transform ourselves
and we are a community, and I find them both equally
from having to see in order to believe to having to believe
important. So the question is, do we still maintain the seein order to see.
it-to-believe-it mentality, or have we moved beyond that?
We, as Jews, are a sensible people, in that our rituals
In the words of Bono (yes, the lead singer of U2), have we
revolve around the five senses. Now lets be sensible and
arrived at a place that has to be believed to be seen? Do we
support one another as we would have others support
perform all these physical rituals because now we believe in
ourselves.
the words of the law, written down or otherwise?
The Torah came down to us with one major guiding prinI think that yes, we have reached a point where, in terms
ciple: Love your neighbor as you would yourself. I think
of Jewish custom and law, somewhere along the way see
now is the time for us to arise and honor that which we
it to believe it became believe it to see it. Thats a good
have been taught.
thing, I maintain. It means that we trust in a code of ethics
something invisible and intangible and carry out the
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck and the founder
physical religious traditions.
of Refaenu, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mood
So now heres the tie-in to my own agenda:
disorder awareness and support. More information about the
We need to do a better job at observing the inside of a
organization and its support groups can be found at www.
person who is hurting. We may not see it physically, but
refaenu.org. You can also email [email protected] with any
we need to understand that its there mentally mental
questions or comments.
illness, depression in particular, affects us all, whether
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Be prepared as best we can

Pondering and packing for a World Scout Jamboree without Israel
his summer, it will

anticipation of worshippers
be my great privifrom those countries that
lege to serve as
have the strongest scouting
chaplain, to conprograms for Jewish youth.
duct Shabbat services, and
It is fortuitous (or perhaps Providential) that the
to read the weekly Torah portion at the World Scout Jaminternational gathering will
boree in Kirara-Hama, Yamafall during Shabbat Parguchi, Japan.
shat Vaetchanan. That draRabbi Joseph
matic Torah portion not
I will bring a diminutive
H. Prouser
only includes the Shema,
Torah scroll with me in my
but repeats the Ten Comcarry-on luggage. Fifty thousand scouts from around the
mandments. The revelation
world, representing some 160 countries,
at Sinai recalled by Vaetchanan is first
are expected to participate in the quadrendescribed in the Book of Exodus. There,
nial gathering. I expect about 200 Jewish
Moses is repeatedly instructed by God to
scouts at my service, as well as a number
be prepared (see Exodus 19:11, 15; 34:2).
of curious adherents of other faiths. The
Be prepared, the famous motto of
booklets containing the Shabbat service
the international scouting movement, is
and Torah reading that I have prepared
tellingly represented on a scroll on scout
include, in addition to the traditional
emblems and badges, in subtle homage
Hebrew texts that will unite my diverse
to its scriptural origins. Israeli scouts cite
congregation, translations into English,
(and wear) this motto in the original biblical Hebrew: Heyei Nachon.
French, Spanish, and Swedish. That is in
While I am looking forward to my rabbinic role in Japan (I am already brushing

up on my college French), I was deeply
disappointed to learn that the World Scout
Jamboree will not include Tzofim. The
State of Israel, which boasts a strong and
celebrated scouting program, citing security concerns, will not send a contingent
to Kirara-hama.
I am saddened by this decision which
I am in no position to dispute or secondguess for a number of reasons. It is tragic
that Israelis not unreasonably view themselves as targets, both at home and abroad.
It is a sad truth that there are those who
would do Israeli children harm simply
because they are Israelis and Jews. The
perceived threat, it should be emphasized,
is not from fellow scouts, but from outside forces that might exploit a peaceful
international gathering conducted with
a remarkable spirit of amity for their
own hateful ends. (The specter of the 1972
Munich Olympics hangs ominously over
the absence of Israeli scouts this summer.)

It is doubly tragic that this reality will
keep young Israelis worthy and honorable representatives of their besieged
nation from mixing freely and meeting
young people from 160 other nations,
young people with whom by virtue of
the youth movement to which they are
all devoted and by which their values and
identities are all shaped they have so
very much in common.
The young Israelis who might have
attended the World Jamboree will miss
out on a memorable and defining experience. Even more critically, young people
from 160 nations will be deprived of the
opportunity to meet and to befriend, to
learn with and from representatives of
the Jewish State and about the Jewish
State. Scouts from Japan and Poland and
Costa Rica and Saudi Arabia and France
and Germany and Britain and the United
States and elsewhere will miss out on an
urgently needed encounter with among
Terrorist doubling as soccer official

points a bloody finger at Israel
ibril Rajoub, head of the

Palestine Football (to
us, thats soccer) Association, was all over
the news this past week, calling Israel various ugly names.
Ever the showman, you could
see him dramatically hurling
red penalty cards in front of
Stephen
eager television cameras at the
Flatow
65th Congress of FIFA, world
soccers governing body.
Most Americans and media
consumers around the world dont know the
names of individual Palestinian Authority
officials, so very few would have recognized
Rajoubs incredible hypocrisy. They had no
way of knowing that the man who was loudly
accusing Israel of being cruel and violent has
a resume filled with terrorism, torture, and
general thuggery. And for some reason, the
major American news media declined to
inform them.
Rajoub was one of the original child terrorists. In 1968, at age 15, he was convicted
of assisting fugitive terrorists and jailed for
four months. In 1970, he was arrested after
throwing a hand grenade at an Israeli bus.
Released in a 1985 prisoner exchange, he
immediately resumed his terrorist activities, and spent time in Israeli jails in 1986
and 1987. Rajoub played a major role in
the first wave of intifada violence in 1987,
and as a result, Israeli defense minister
Yitzhak Rabin deported him

to Lebanon.
When Yasir Arafat established the PA in early 1994, following the signing of the Oslo
Accords, he handed out senior
positions to many veteran terrorists. This should have been
a red flag. After all, if Arafat
M.
had truly reformed himself
and abandoned terrorism,
why would he reward terrorists with plum jobs?
One of the biggest beneficiaries was
Rajoub. He was appointed head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Services, a Palestinian equivalent of the KGB. And, no surprise here, Rajoub then turned around and
handed out jobs in his security force to members of the younger generation of terrorists.
Between 1996 and 1998, Israel submitted more than 30 requests to the PA for the
extradition of terrorists. The Oslo Accords
require the PA to honor such requests.
Instead, it ignored them and U.S. President Bill Clintons administration did nothing. But in making the requests, Israel
publicized some of the details of Rajoubs
protect-the-terrorists racket.
One was Bassam Issa, a suspect in the
February 1996 bus bombing in which my
daughter, Alisa, was murdered. After the
attack, Issa was hired by Rajoubs security
force. Three others whom Israel identified
as connected to that attack, Kamal Khalifa,

Yasser Khasin, and Mahmad Sanwar, were
also hired by Rajoub. So was Atef Hamadan, who had been involved the kidnapmurder of an Israeli soldier.
Rajoub also used the Preventive Security
Forces for thievery. The Jerusalem Report
revealed in 1997, at the height of the huge
wave of Palestinian thefts of Israeli cars, that
a thief named Hamad Hamadi, who was captured in Jerusalems Musrara neighborhood,
told police that he was acting on instructions
from Rajoub, who paid 1,000 shekels for
every stolen Israeli automobile.
Under Rajoubs regime, the Preventive
Security Forces also were used to settle personal scores. In 1997, a Palestinian journalist reported on a secret meeting between
Rajoub and an Israeli official. Big mistake.
Rajoub didnt want the meeting to be known.
He summoned the journalist to his headquarters in Jericho, and shouted, I can call Arafat myself and tell him that I want to kill you,
and the president will give his blessing. The
journalist got lucky; he got away with being
tortured for two days, according to the Jerusalem Report.
As a result of internal Palestinian Authority quarrels, Rajoub was ousted from the
Preventive Security Forces in 2002. As
consolation, he was put in charge of both
the Palestine Olympic Committee and the
Palestine Football Association. In the Olympics job, he is perhaps best known for his
Palestinian soccer official Jibril

Rajoub waives a symbolic red
penalty card at Israel during the
65th FIFA Congress.
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assertion in 2012 that Israels request for

one minute of silence to remember the 1972
Munich massacre was racist.
But it is as head of the soccer association
that he truly is leaving his mark. Beyond the
recent attempt to have Israel expelled from
FIFA, Rajoub has acted to ensure that every
young Palestinian soccer player reveres mass
murderers. In city after city under PA rule,
there are soccer fields, teams, tournaments
named after Palestinian terrorists, including
some who have murdered American citizens.
Long after this weeks FIFA controversy is
forgotten, long after Rajoub himself retires
from public office, young Palestinians will
continue to be reared in an environment
that glorifies terrorists, thanks to Rajoub
and his comrades. So much for co-existence
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and peace.
Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange, an
attorney who practices in Fairfield, is the
father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a
Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.
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the finest youth the State of Israel has produced. They are its likely future leaders.
Of course, I also am disappointed at the
Israelis absence for selfish reasons. I was
looking forward to interacting with Israeli
scouts and their leaders, and to counting
sar notata, perch il tuo posto sar vuoto

(Italian), Ze zullen je missen als je plaats aan
tafel leeg blijft (Dutch), and so on.
The verse is taken from 1 Samuel 20:18.
There, David, who is destined to rule over a
united Israel as its king, has absented himself
from King Sauls table. Saul has grown jealous of young Davids charisma and popularity, and intends to do him harm. Sauls son
Jonathan, Davids beloved and loyal friend,
warns him of his fathers violent designs. His
message, You will be missed, for the place
you were to occupy will be empty, is both a
strategic observation (the king will take note
of his absence) and a personal expression of
grief at the threat to his dear friend and compatriot (You will be missed).
The Israeli scouts, like David himself, will
be absent due to very real security threats.
Those Israel scouts, like David himself, will be
missed by those who genuinely have friendship and love in their hearts for their compatriots, fellow scouts from the Jewish State. It is
my intention to do all that I can to assure that
as occurred with David himself the fine
young people representing their 160 nations
will take note of the Israeli absence, and will
join me in the spirit of Jonathan in giving

voice to our pain at our shared loss.
At the Shabbat services I will conduct in
Kirara-hama, we will offer prayers for the
Jewish State, as congregations around the
world do each week. I am prepared to do
so in Hebrew, English, French, Spanish, and
Swedish though I hope for native speakers to take on those liturgical roles! Through
both word and attire, we will also recall Jonathans loving message to David: You will be
missed, for the place you were to occupy will
be empty. We will further recall the pledge
Jonathan made to his besieged companion:
Go in peace. In the name of the Lord we
have promised to be friends. We have said,
The Lord is a witness between you and me.
May He be witness to continued friendship
between your children and my children forever (1 Samuel 20:42).
The 24th World Scout Jamboree will be
held in West Virginia in 2019. In a more just
and peaceful world, may no one be excluded
from the table.
Joseph Prouser is rabbi of Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
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also in uniform.
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In a modest effort to call the depth of our
shared loss to the attention of my fellow
scouts in Japan and to foster a small measure of the amity and learning that an Israeli
presence would have effected I will be
producing special Jamboree neckerchiefs,
those distinctive, triangular scarves that
accompany the scouts uniform, generally
worn under the collar. While the neckerchief
is mostly for ceremonious wear, scouts also
are traditionally taught that they can serve
practical functions as, for example, an emergency bandage or arm sling. It is my hope
that the neckerchief I will distribute in Japan
will have its own, analogously healing power.
The neckerchief will feature the Israeli
scout logo, complete with Heyei Nachon on
its scroll. Beneath the logo of the Tzofim will
be 23rd World Scout Jamboree: Japan. Over
the emblem in Hebrew will be another
biblical verse: You will be missed, for the
place you were to occupy will be empty.
This verse will be featured on the body of
the neckerchief in as many languages as possible: On remarquera ton absence, car ta
place sera vide (French), La tua assenza
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twist. We know that other
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a campaign for boyobviously Saudi Arabia, are
cotts, divestment, and
similarly repressive. Unlike
sanctions.
the Saudi s, however,
The tiny Gulf emirthe Qatari royal family is
ate of Qatar is a far better
extremely skilled when it
candidate.
comes to public relations
Why Qatar? There are
Ben Cohen
and marketing, into which
many reasons. Lets start
theyve invested billions of
with its internal system of
dollars of revenue gleaned
governance. Although a smattering of
from their oil and natural gas exports.
ordinances inherited from the period of
As a result, many Westerners regard
British rule remain in place, Qatar is a
Qatar as an Arab version of Singapore:
state based on Islamic sharia law. Pracconservative and traditional, maybe, but
tically, that means you can be stoned to
also an economic powerhouse that fosdeath for blasphemy, apostasy, and of
ters an entrepreneurial business culture.
course the paramount crime of homoThat false image is reinforced by Qatars
sexuality. And if youre a non-Muslim
global economic profile, which befits the
about to fall in love with a Muslim in Qatar,
worlds richest country on a per capita
dont such illicit sexual relations will
basis. Qatars sovereign wealth fund,
result in your receiving several lashes.
with assets of $256 billion, has bought
About two million people live in Qatar,
up choice properties, companies, and
but only 10 percent of the population,
financial institutions across the world.
at most, possess the rights accorded to
If you buy a Volkswagen, if you shop at
full Qatari citizens. Theres a word for
the Sainsburys supermarket chain or at
that, and its frequently applied, deceitthe exclusive Harrods department store
fully and wrongly, to Israel. Im talking
in the U.K., if you attend a soccer match
about apartheid, of course. The term
involving the leading French club Paris
is far more accurate in the Qatari case,
St Germain, or if you bank with Credit
because, as in South Africa during the
Suisse, a good portion of your hardbad old days, a wealthy, privileged,
earned cash will be going into Qatari
and enfranchised minority rules over a
coffers.
downtrodden, disenfranchised majorIndeed, anyone who watches soccer
ity. The group that suffers most from this
will be struck by how many top clubs,
grotesque system are Qatars migrant
like Spains FC Barcelona, wear jerseys
workers, estimated at approximately 1.4
embossed with the Qatar Airways logo.
million, who come to the emirate to earn
Qatar also promotes itself through the
money for their families back in coungrandly named Qatar Foundation for
tries like Bangladesh and Nepal, and
Education, Science and Community
who end up, quite literally, as slaves in
Development, a non-profit that is
private houses or on construction sites.
entirely funded by the royal family. In
Opinion
America, the Qatar Foundation partners with the Weill-Cornell Medical College and has enabled several prominent
international universities, among them
Carnegie Mellon, Texas A&M, and University College London, to set up campuses in the Qatari capital, Doha.
But it is in the world of sport and soccer in particular that Qatar has established its dominance. Much of the slave
labor in the country is used to build the
stadiums for the 2022 World Cup that
Qatar, for the moment anyway, is hosting.
Like Russia, which hosts the World
Cup in 2018, Qatar was awarded the
2022 World Cup thanks to its bribery of
key officials at FIFA, world soccers governing body. This week, 14 FIFA officials
were indicted by the U.S. on corruption
charges, many of them related to Qatar.
Those officials will stand trial here,
because when they used American banks
to carry out these illegal transactions,
they broke American laws. [FIFA president Sepp Blatter announced his resignation Tuesday in the wake of the scandal.]
In the coming months, we can expect
an endless stream of stories that will
underline just how FIFA has become the
most corrupt organization in the world,
and many of those will have Qatar at the
center.
Now, therefore, is the time to say
loudly and clearly that Qatar should be
stripped of the 2022 World Cup. Other
countries that are far better suited to
hold such a competition, among them
England, the United States, and Australia, had their bids dismissed simply
because they are not in the bribery business. Handing the World Cup back to
one of these democracies isnt just the
right thing to do in terms of morality it
actually will save lives. The International
Trade Union Confederation, which diligently monitors the barbaric treatment
of Qatars slaves, predicts that 4,000
migrant workers will have died by the
time the first ball is kicked in 2022.
I love soccer, but the idea of watching
a competition built upon a foundation of
death and exploitation leaves me physically sick.
I love soccer,
but the idea of
watching a
competition
built upon a
foundation of
death and
exploitation
leaves me
physically sick.
Just as sickening is the news that the

callous Qataris refused to allow Nepalese migrant workers to return home
after the recent devastating earthquake.
Under the kafala labor system that
operates in Qatar, employers seize the
passports of their migrant workers, force
them to work more than 12 hours a day
Just as
sickening is the
news that the
callous Qataris
refused to allow
Nepalese
migrant workers
to return home
after the recent
devastating
earthquake.
in the searing heat, and then dump them
in the squalid, unsanitary camps that
pass for living quarters. Tek Bahadur
Gurung, Nepals labor minister, recently
revealed that his country had requested
all companies in Qatar to give their Nepalese workers special leave and pay for
their air fare home. While workers in
some sectors of the economy have been
given this, those on World Cup construction sites are not being allowed to leave
because of the pressure to complete
projects on time. They have lost relatives
and their homes and are enduring very
difficult conditions in Qatar. This is adding to their suffering.
You, dear readers, know what to do
with Qatar. Boycott. Divest. Sanction.
Tell your elected representatives that
this nasty and oppressive little emirate
should not be honored with sports most
popular and lucrative competition. Tell
Qatari representatives on social media
(the Qatar Foundations handle on
Twitter is @QF) exactly what you think
of their slavery policy, and ask them
whether their community development
programs apply to the migrant workers
living in that desert hell.
One final point of note: Qatar is the
main financial backer of the Palestinian Islamist terror organization, Hamas.
That truly is a match made in heaven.

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Remembering
Rochelle Shoretz
Sharsheret founder, dead of breast cancer at 42, recalled, through tears, with great love
In 2012, Ms. Shoretz wrote for Kveller:
Ive done a lot of amazing things in 40
short years I clerked for the Supreme
Court, learned how to kayak in class 4
white water, took an impromptu trip to
South Africa with friends when I was diagnosed, for the second time, with metastatic breast cancer. But as someone living with a sharpened sense of the value
of time, I appreciate that nothing has
given my life more meaning than sharing
Sharsherets unapologetically Jewish message worldwide.
Ms. Shoretz started by matching newly
diagnosed women with experienced
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
he skies were stormy last Sunday when Rochelle Shoretz, 42,

succumbed to complications
from breast cancer.
Rain continued falling Monday as more
than 500 people gathered at Gutterman
and Musicant in Hackensack to mourn and
eulogize the mother of two teenage sons,
who lived in Teaneck and was the founder
and executive director of Sharsheret, a
locally based national nonprofit organization providing health information and
support services for thousands of young
Jewish women living with breast or ovarian cancer.
Many of her friends and relatives said
that the rainy gray horizon seemed symbolic of the great light that was leaving this
world.
In his eulogy, Rabbi Shalom Baum of
Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck
noted that this Shabbats Torah portion
centers on the kindling of the eternal light
in the Temple sanctuary. It seems that,
ironically, our light Rochie Shoretz
has been extinguished, he said. But she
would reject that conclusion categorically.
Rochie, you are already a light to so
many.
Ms. Shoretz, a Brooklyn native and graduate of Columbia Law School, was only
28 when she was diagnosed with breast
cancer, about a year after she moved
to Teaneck after she completed a clerkship under Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg. She founded Sharsheret
(Hebrew for chain) in 2001 while undergoing chemotherapy, shifting her energies
to what she called Plan B in a 2003 interview with this reporter.
I dont see myself going back to Plan A,
she said at that time, though she did return
to her law career briefly while her cancer
was in remission until 2009. When I finished my clerkship I wondered if I would
find another job as exciting. The challenges that I face here in developing this
organization are equally as exciting.
In an interview with the Jewish
I really wanted
to speak to
another young
mom who was
going to have to
explain to her
kids that she was
going to lose her
hair to chemo.
Rochelle Shoretz pumps her fist while competing in the 2012 New York City
triathlon. She enjoyed athletic challenges.
Telegraphic Agency in 2003, Ms. Shoretz

explained that after her breast-cancer
diagnosis in July 2001, there were a lot
of offers to help with meals and transport
my kids, but I really wanted to speak to
another young mom who was going to
have to explain to her kids that she was
going to lose her hair to chemo.
Sharsheret is targeted specifically to

young Jewish women, addressing their
unique concerns and questions both
before and after a breast-cancer diagnosis.
One in 40 Ashkenazi Jewish women carries a mutation on the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2
gene, increasing their risk of breast cancer
by as much as 80 percent.
links, or peers. Sharsheret grew to

encompass a variety of programs for Jewish women with breast and ovarian cancer and those at genetic risk, and for their
families.
I started out as the first link in that
chain. I was the person there for the next
person down the pipe, Ms. Shoretz told
Medical Daily in 2013. The chain has
come full circle, so I get to draw on the
chain myself.
Ms. Shoretz was included in Brad Meltzers 2012 book Heroes for My Daughter.
She was named a 2003 Woman to Watch
by Jewish Women International and as a
Yoplait Champion in the Fight Against
Breast Cancer. She appeared on Jew in the
Citys 2012 list of Orthodox Jewish All-Stars
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and was honored by Susan G. Komen for

the Cure and the Israel Cancer Research
Foundation. She also was a member of the
Federal Advisory Committee on Breast
Cancer in Young Women.
Brilliant, passionate, compassionate,
visionary, strong, and electric are the
adjectives Elana Silber, Sharsherets director of operations, uses to describe Ms.
Shoretz. The two women worked together
closely for 12 years. There was something magnetic about her; she attracted so
many people to join her in her efforts. She
touched thousands of women and their
families and treated each one individually
with respect and professionalism.
Ms. Silber, who spoke at the funeral,
started volunteering at Sharsheret in late
2002 when the staff numbered just two.
Now the organization has 16 staffers and
a regional office in South Florida. It has
responded to tens of thousands of inquiries and only two weeks ago held its 13th
annual benefit gala at the Teaneck Marriott
at Glenpointe.
In April we finished developing a fiveyear strategic plan, and last October we
received a five-year grant from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, which
has recognized us as the premiere organization for culturally relevant support for
young Jewish women and families facing
breast cancer, Ms. Silber said. Today
Sharsheret is stronger than ever, and we
have a clear road map that Rochelle was
Rochelle Shoretz at work in the offices of Sharsheret, the locally based national
nonprofit organization she founded to help Jewish women living with breast or
ovarian cancer.
very much involved in charting. We are

sad that she will not be here to experience
this next stage of Sharsheret.
Sunni Herman, executive vice president
of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, grew up
with Ms. Shoretz in Brooklyn.
I remember Rochie as the coolest girl at
Shulamith High School, Ms. Herman said.

She was the star in our annual student
play, leaping higher than any of the other
dancers and delivering her lines with such
wit that the whole audience couldnt stop
laughing. She was editor-in-chief of the
school newspaper, and taught us how to
cut and paste columns (this was pre-computers) so the paper looked as professional
as possible. When she became a clerk in
the Supreme Court, so many of us oohed
and aahed from afar. She showed us that it
was possible to be religious and have amazing achievements at such a young age.
In his eulogy, Rabbi Baum said that he
had been learning one-on-one with Ms.
Shoretz for the past six months. We studied the text of the Shema as she was preparing for what she understood and called
Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment. She
was getting reading to meet her Creator.
After our sessions and after she offered
me another cup of tea or apologized
because she couldnt because she was in
the hospital or too weak I would sit in
my car, cry and laugh, and jot down some
notes of what I learned from her and then
sent her an email assignment for our next
meeting.
Rabbi Baum told the gathered mourners that in contemplating the concept of
echad, oneness, in the Shema prayer,
Ms. Shoretz shared her insight that oneness is not just about God, but as imitators
of God every human being is unique, and
thats what Rochie saw in front of her.
She loved the Shema. She recalled saying it
with her mom and could never fall asleep
without reciting it.
Other speakers at the funeral included
Ms. Shoretzs two sons, Shlomo Mirsky,
19, who recently returned from a gap year
Ms. Shoretz took both of her sons on celebratory bar mitzvah trips. At left, with Shlomo in Venice in 2008, and, right, with Dovid in Barcelona in 2010.
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in Israel, and Dovid Mirsky, 17, a junior at

Torah Academy of Bergen County; as well
as her ex-husband, Tani Mirsky, and his
wife, Sora Leah. In 2010, Ms. Shoretz told
the Jewish Week that she was grateful to
know that Sora Leah would help care for
Shlomo and Dovid when she was no longer alive.
Her sister, Dr. Dalia Shoretz Nagel, and
her close friends Marnie Rice and JenniMs. Shoretz with sons Dovid, left, and Shlomo at the Kotel last December.
She always
used to say
there are no
problems,only
solutions waiting
to happen.
TIKVAH WEINER
The poem The Roller Coaster by Rochelle Shoretz in her 1989 school literary
journal Serendipty. Inset, 11th-grader Rochie Shoretz is profiled in her
Shulamith High School student newspaper.
fer Miller recited the Shema with Ms.

Shoretz on the day she died. Ms. Miller
said that the bedside prayer book had a
bookmark on the appropriate page.
Ms. Miller gave a eulogy adapted
from a letter she wrote to Ms. Shoretz
in April, praising her friend as the
smartest, quickest, most insightful and
as a result often the funniest person I
know, and as the most present person
she knows. You embrace each moment
of every day purposefully. You are conscious of the fresh air you breathe when
you take a walk. You are the arrow on
the big map in lifes amusement park
with the caption I am here. Modeling for Shlomo and Dovid how to live
a life of purpose is something they
already appreciate.
Rabbi Chaim Hagler, principal of
Yeshivat Noam in Paramus, noted that Ms.
Shoretz was a founding parent and a longtime board member. As the mother of our
alumni Shlomo (class of 2010) and Dovid
(class of 2012), Rochie shared her many

talents with Yeshivat Noam, working on
developing our special-needs department,
public relations, open house, and development, to name a few.
Speaking on their way home from Cedar
Park Cemetery in Paramus on Monday,
Nina Kampler and Tikvah Wiener, both
of Teaneck, referred to their late friend as
a shining star and reflected how much
they would miss celebrating their summer
birthdays with Ms. Shoretz, as was their
custom for years.
Rochie never asked Why me? or felt
sorry for herself, Ms. Wiener said. She
was a source of life and light and fun, and
had a sense of humor that turned any situation, even as dire as cancer, into something that could be laughed at. She always
used to say there are no problems, only
solutions waiting to happen.
Ms. Kampler said it seemed to her that
Ms. Shoretz crammed 120 years of life
into the last 14 years. When I visited her
about five weeks ago she told me, Nina,
Ive had the most amazing life and Im at
peace.
Her mother, Sherry Tenenbaum, and
her father, Morris Shoretz, survive her,
along with her step-parents, five sisters,
and two brothers.
In a 2012 interview aired on Fox 5 News
NY, Ms. Shoretz is shown running around
preparing her sons on their first day of
school and snapping a picture, as she did
every September.
I might not be around to see them get
married or have children of their own,
but I really try to look at the children as
my impetus and my motivation to stay
strong and stay healthy, she told reporter
Rosanna Scotto. If I die tomorrow and I
dont want to die tomorrow I really feel
like I had a great life.
To make a donation in memory of
Rochelle Shoretz, go to www.sharsheret.
org/donate. To speak with a member of
the Sharsheret team, call (201) 833-2341,
or toll-free nationally, (866) 474-2774.
The Ocers, Board, and Sta of
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Courageous. Compassionate. Visionary. Friend.
She touched and changed thousands of lives, here and around the world.
We extend our deepest condolences to Rochies two children, Shlomo and
Dovid Mirsky, her mother, Sherry Tenenbaum, her father Morris Shoretz,
and her entire extended family.
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and may her memory be for a blessing.
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pleasantries as he mingles with other
members of the small congregation.
He needs to shout to be heard over the
deafening sound of a sudden downpour
hitting the blast-proof glass ceiling that
stretches over the synagogues spacious
yard. Installed after Istanbuls deadly
2003 synagogue bombings, the shield is
meant to prevent grenades from exploding in the complex should anyone hurl
them over its formidable walls and past
the guard post, where several armed
men stand watch under a Turkish flag.
Arslan, a real estate developer, says
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obstacle for communal life nor differs
greatly from other at-risk communities
say in France or Britain.
Turkeys government, he said, protects its Jews. His view reflects the party
line of Turkeys small Jewish community,
whose estimated 15,000 to 20,000 members generally have been careful not to
appear ungrateful to a government they
believe protects them from growing radicalism in a predominantly Muslim society.
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Erdogan and AKP use blatant antiIsrael rhetoric for votes, and this comes
back to us as anti-Semitic hatred, said
Denis Ojalvo, a Jewish expert on international relations, who lives in Istanbul.
Ordinary Turks are unable to make the
distinction between Israeli and Jew.
A report this year by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
noted that Turkish Jews are reporting
mounting harassment and are increasingly fearful of violence amid rising
anti-Semitism in society, in the media
and in occasional derogatory comments
by government officials.
Cefi Kamhi, a former lawmaker and
prominent Turkish Jew, accuses Erdogan
of pandering to populism at the Jewish communitys expense. As a result,
he said, young Turkish Jews are now
planning their future, teaching their children foreign languages, liquidating their
assets.
The shift is a marked change for Turkeys Jews, who historically have maintained a low profile, steered clear of conflicts, and stayed put, despite Turkeys
Islamic drift.
Erdogans rhetoric has changed that.
In 2013, Erdogan fulminated against
the interest rate lobby that believes it
can threaten Turkey with stock market
speculation an allusion seen by critics as referencing rich foreign Jews. In
2014, he accused protesters angered
by his handling of a mining tragedy of
being spawn of Israel, and the pro-government Yeni Akit newspaper criticized
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son-in-law.
Anti-Semitic rhetoric spiked last summer during Israels war with Hamas
in Gaza a conflict during which hundreds of Turkish protesters stormed the
Israeli embassy and the ambassadors
residence in Ankara. Erdogan accused
Israel of Hitler-like fascism and of perpetrating a systemic genocide every
Ramadan against Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Ankaras mayor, Melih
Gkek, who is a member of Erdogans
AKP, or Justice and Development Party,
praised an anti-Semitic statement by a
popular singer who wrote on Twitter:
God bless Hitler. If God allows, it will
again be Muslims who will bring the end
of those Jews.
In January, Gkek accused Israels
Mossad intelligence agency of orchestrating the Charlie Hebdo and kosher
supermarket attacks in Paris that left 16
dead and were perpetrated by Muslim
extremists.
These days in Turkey, classic antiSemitic motifs regularly surface in television shows and movies.
Many say the turning point came
after the May 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, when nine Turkish pro-Palestinian
activists were killed after Israeli troops
stormed the Gaza-bound ship with
which the activists were attempting to
break Israels Gaza blockade. The incident aboard the vessel poisoned Turkish-Israel relations and unleashed a flood
of anti-Semitic statements from officialdom that shocked many Turkish Jews.
Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric
for decades was firmly present in the
lexicon of Erdogans Islamic circles, but
became more pronounced after the Mavi
Mamara, said Rifat Bali, a historian and
author of several books on anti-Semitism
in Turkey.
Turkeys government also has made
some pro-Jewish moves, such as helping to fund the reopening of the Edirne
Great Synagogue in March and organizing Holocaust commemorations in Istanbul annually since 2011 and in Ankara
Yasemin and Cefi Kamhi in Istanbul

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commemoration organized by the
City of Istanbul for 781 Jewish refugees who drowned in the sinking of
the Struma in 1942.

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this year. In February, the City of Istanbul commemorated for the first time the
781 Jewish refugees who in 1942 drowned
off of Turkeys shores after their ship, the
MV Struma, was torpedoed on its way to
pre-state Israel.
But Kamhi, the Jewish former lawmaker, dismisses these actions as symbolism meant to deflect foreign criticism
over the creeping state anti-Semitism.
He said, They sound good on CNN and
have absolutely no coverage in Turkey.
For now, Turkeys Jews are not seeing
significant emigration. Turkish immigrants to Israel numbered only 204 in
the years 2012 to 2014. That was a 50
percent decrease from the 416 people
who came between 2009 and 2011.
A predominantly Sephardic community, Turkish Jews also have yet to avail
themselves of a new program that grants
Portuguese citizenship to descendants
of Portugals exiled Sephardim. An ad
campaign by the Jewish community in
Porto, Portugal, led to fewer than 100
Turkish applications, and even fewer
Turks applied in the Portuguese capital
of Lisbon.
Turkish Jews stay because they dont
fit anywhere else, said Sami Aker, a
journalist at the Salom Jewish paper who
returned to Turkey twice after attempting to emigrante, going once to Israel
and once to the United States. This is
not a post-Holocaust community where
emigration is part of the lexicon, Aker
said. Jews have lived here uninterrupted for over 2,000 years.
If theyre not leaving yet, however,
Turkish Jews seem to be readying for the
day the need to do so arrives.
Our bags are not packed, said Alin
Bardavit Arslan, the wife of Yusuf Arslan,
the real-estate developer. But these
days the suitcases are waiting under the
bed to be filled at a moments notice.

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Later, Turkey provided a safe passage for

at least 15,000 Jews fleeing the Nazis.
The loss of land following the Ottoman Empires defeat in World War I
halved the number of Jews living in Turkey. Most of those who remained in its
borders immigrated to Israel by 1950,
according to Arkadash The Turkish
Community in Israel.
Despite protection by Turkish authorities, the countrys modern Jewish community suffered two deadly attacks in
the past 30 years: A shooting in 1986 by
Palestinian terrorists that left 22 people
dead at Istanbuls Neve Shalom synagogue, and car bombings in 2003 that
left 27 dead most of them not Jewish
outside the same synagogue and the Bet
Israel synagogue.
Today, Turkish Jewry is estimated at
15,000 to 20,000. Almost all live in Istanbul, Turkeys largest city.
ISTANBUL For centuries, Turkey

served as a safe haven for Jews fleeing
anti-Semitism.
The earliest records of Jews in Turkey
date back to 220 BCE, but the area saw a
major Jewish influx in the early 14th century, when Jews expelled from Hungary,
France, Sicily, and elsewhere migrated
here. Their positive impact on trade
convinced the lands Ottoman rulers to
welcome more Jews.
When Spain and Portugal expelled
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refugees landed on Turkeys turquoise
shores. This displaced elite boosted
Ottoman diplomacy, finance, and literature. The Ottoman Empires first
printing shop was established in 1493
by David and Samuel ibn Nahmias of

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The immigrants arrival also
transformed Istanbul into one of
the Jewish worlds most important centers, thanks to a robust
community whose creativity and
diversity rivaled that of the Golden
Age of Spain. It was in Turkey that
Joseph Caro compiled the code of
Jewish law known as the Shulchan
Aruch. The Friday night Lecha
Dodi hymn was composed here
by Shlomo HaLevi Alkabes, as was
Jacob Culis Ladino biblical commentary Meam Loez.
At the end of the 19th century,
Turkey also absorbed thousands
of Jews fleeing pogroms in czarist
Russia.
Turkish Jewry reached its population zenith 200,000 members on the eve of World War
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WASHINGTON When David Axelrod, then a senior
adviser to President Barack Obama, first learned that
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly had
referred to him and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel as self-hating Jews, he remembers feeling stung.
For people to suggest that I would be anti-Israel or
worse, anti-Semitic it hurts, Axelrod recalled of the
2009 episode.
Robert Wexler, the former Florida congressman who
was Obamas Jewish community liaison in the 2008 and
2012 elections, remembers his own oh-no moment with
Netanyahu.
It was in May 2011, when Netanyahu, irritated by Obamas
call for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal based on the 1967
lines, decided to use an Oval Office photo opportunity to
lecture Obama publicly on Middle East history.
I was embarrassed, as an American, that an American president is forced to sit and listen to a reciting of a
point of view, Wexler said. Had Prime Minister Netanyahu been the prime minister of probably any other
nation on earth, the president would have gotten out of
his chair and walked away.
The interviews with Axelrod and Wexler are part of a
series of recent conversations with top figures in the Obama
camp, including the president himself, that offer new details
about the breakdown in the relationship between the U.S.
president and the Israeli prime minister and lay bare just
how troubled that relationship has become.
The interviews were conducted by Ilana Dayan, who
hosts the newsmagazine show Uvda, Israels version of
60 Minutes, and were organized in part by JTA, which
was present for most of the interviews. The first segment aired Monday on Israels Channel Two; the second, consisting of the interview with Obama, was scheduled for Tuesday evening.
The Uvda interviews included few Netanyahu defenders, and the program was devoted mostly to criticism of
Netanyahus approach to U.S.-Israel relations. The material
cited in this story includes both remarks that aired on the
program and parts of the interviews that did not make it
into the broadcast.
The trust is gone on both sides; theres too much
water under the bridge between those two leaders now,
said interviewee Martin Indyk, who served as the administrations special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace in
2013 and 2014.
Indyk, now a vice president at the Brookings Institution, said Netanyahu suffers similar dysfunctional relationships with other world leaders, citing tensions between
Netanyahu and European leaders otherwise seen as
Israel-friendly.
Its that mutual lack of trust which has poisoned the relationships, Indyk said.
Indyk did not lay all the blame on Netanyahu, saying
Obama committed the original sin by leaving Israel out of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets

with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on
May 20, 2011.
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his first trip to the Middle East as president, when he visited

Cairo and Saudi Arabia in June 2009.
He reached out to the Arab and Muslim world and
then he didnt go to Israel. That was the original miscalculation, Indyk said. He lost them there and he
never got them back. It sent a message that he didnt like
them that much, that he wanted to put some distance
between the United States and Israel.
For their part, Israeli government officials say Netanyahus stance toward Obama is all about policy, not
personality, and that his No. 1 concern is ensuring
Israels security even if it means ruffling the presidents feathers. They say Netanyahu will not hold back
about expressing his concerns with U.S. policies that he
believes do not account for the brutal realities of the
Middle East. That is particularly true of the looming deal
with Iran, which Netanyahu says will leave Israels most
strident enemy on the threshold of a nuclear weapon.
The bottom line is that the Obama administration
believes that the deal they are currently negotiating with
Iran blocks Irans path to the bomb, Ron Dermer, Israels
ambassador to the United States, said in a May 15 appearance at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Israel
believes that this deal paves Irans path to the bomb.
In his interview with Uvda, Obama said, The best way
to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable
tough agreement. A military solution will not fix it, even if
the United States participates.
He added, I can say to the Israeli people: I understand
your concerns and I understand your fears.
Indyk said Obama feels hurt by the way he is portrayed in Israel.
Hes deeply offended by the notion that hes anti-Israel
or anti-Semitic, Indyk said. Hes hurt by it now. Its finally
got to him, the ingratitude of Israelis to this president.
Other interviewees included media personalities such
as Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic and David Remnick of
the New Yorker; U.S.-Israeli businessman Haim Saban,
an Obama confidant; Alan Solow, a top Chicago backer of
Obama since the 1990s, when he chaired the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Rep.
Nita Lowey of New York, the top Democrat on the powerful U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, and Netanyahu confidant Dore Gold, who was recently
named the director general of Israels Foreign Ministry.
Saban described the relationship between Netanyahu
and Obama as like oil and water and said the crisis in
relations is not in the future; it is here already. In a recent
private meeting with the president, Saban noted, Obama
described the Palestinians as oppressed people in occupied territories.
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Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, rabbi of Efrat, conducts a pidyon haben ceremony for a
30-day-old firstborn son there last month.
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Riskin, a liberal on conversion practice,
to face rabbinate council scrutiny
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TEL AVIV Theres no shortage of Israelis who want to reform the office of the
chief rabbinate.
Ranging from advocates of religionstate separation to leaders of Israels
non-Orthodox movements to newspaper
columnists, some want to end the rabbinates monopoly over the countrys
religious services. Others want to dissolve it entirely.
But last week, the rabbinate appears
to have targeted a leader whose critique
of Israels religious status quo is subtler.
Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of the West
Bank settlement of Efrat, has been summoned to a hearing before the rabbinate
next month, where he believes his job
will be challenged.
Unlike many of the rabbinates critics,
Riskin is Orthodox, supports the rabbinate in its current form, and operates
within the bounds of Orthodox Jewish
law, or halachah. But he has called on
the rabbinate to condone his relatively
progressive policies, especially regarding
conversion and the ordination of women.
Im very much in favor of the chief
rabbinate, but there has to be a certain degree of pluralism for the rabbis,
Riskin, who draws a salary from the rabbinate, said. Its important for the chief
rabbinate to contain within itself a number of different halachic ways.
The Chief Rabbinical Council, the rabbinates governing body, summoned
Riskin to a June 29 hearing to discuss his
reappointment as rabbi of Efrat, a town
he co-founded in 1983. A spokesman for

the Religious Services Ministry, Daniel
Bar, said that the hearing is part of a process that all municipal rabbis who are 75
or older must undergo in order to review
their health. Riskin is 75.
But Riskin believes that the rabbinate
may use the hearing as a pretext to dismiss him.
An American immigrant originally
from New York, Riskin supports a government decision, made last November,
that allowed Israels municipal rabbis to
perform state-sanctioned conversions.
For years before the decision, Riskin had
performed conversions privately. The
rabbinate has come out publicly against
the government decision and has yet to
recognize Riskins conversions.
I remain very optimistic that the chief
rabbinate will understand that were facing a time bomb with this problem of
the Jews from the former Soviet Union,
Riskin said, referring to Israeli immigrants
from the Soviet Union who do not qualify
as Jewish according to traditional Jewish
law. We can do a wonderful job converting the children as well as the adults in a
warm and welcoming fashion.
Since he received rabbinic ordination more than 50 years ago, Riskin has
been a leader in pushing the limits of
Jewish law within the modern Orthodox community. He took over Manhattans Lincoln Square Synagogue in 1964,
transforming it into a modern Orthodox
hub focused on outreach. Two decades
later, he moved to Israel and co-founded
Efrat, today an 8,000-person bedroom
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community near Jerusalem with a mixed religious and
secular population.
Riskins network of educational institutions, Ohr
Torah Stone, runs modern Orthodox schools from
junior high through graduate programs. The network
includes the first school to train women as advocates in
Israeli rabbinical courts, as well as Midreshet Lindenbaum, a womens Jewish studies college in Jerusalem.
In addition to conversion, Riskin has been an outspoken advocate of womens Torah study. He created a five-year program to train women as Jewish
legal authorities on par with rabbis. In February, he
appointed Jennie Rosenfeld, who will graduate the
program next year, as Efrats first female manhiga
ruhanit, or spiritual leader.
Theres a moral conviction that he has to his vision
of Judaism, an imperative that he feels in bringing that
to the world, Rosenfeld said.
Riskin insists that his conversion process, while
more welcoming to converts than the rabbinates, is
still fully in compliance with Jewish law. That could be
part of the rabbinates problem, says Rabbi David Stav,
head of the modern Orthodox rabbinical organization
Tzohar, who says the rabbinate views halachic dissent
as a challenge greater even than the corruption scandals that have plagued the rabbinate.
They wont remove a rabbi from his position
because they saw him break Shabbat or because hes
suspected in some case, said Stav, who ran unsuccessfully as a reformist candidate for chief rabbi last
year. But a rabbi suspected, God forbid, of conversions different than those accepted in the chief rabbinate? Stav said sardonically, Thats a reason to take
him out.
Riskins allies have closed ranks behind him following the rabbinates summons. Avigdor Liberman, the
head of the Yisrael Beiteinu political party and a former Israeli foreign minister, weighed in on Riskins
behalf. From America, liberal Orthodox rabbis Avi
Weiss and Shmuel Herzfeld sent a letter to the Israeli
ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, protesting the summons.
In an email, the Rabbinical Council of Americas
executive vice president, Rabbi Mark Dratch, said,
While the RCA does not agree with every action of
the Chief Rabbinate, we support the Chief Rabbinate
as the official religious body of Israel. We are certain
that, together with Rabbi Riskin, they will find a way
to support his continued work as Chief Rabbi of Efrat.
Efrats local government council passed a unanimous resolution calling on the rabbinate to reappoint
Riskin. Neemanei Torah vAvodah, an Israeli modern Orthodox group that supports rabbinate reform,
is organizing a public demonstration of support for
Riskin in late June.
If the rabbinate dismisses Riskin, Tzohar will stop
cooperating with the rabbinate, Stav said.
I ask myself a lot, why do I still support this institution? Stav said. I still want to do everything for this
institution to improve and succeed, but not at any
price.
Riskin has remained defiant, saying that he will
continue as Efrats chief rabbi regardless of the chief
rabbinates decision. But he hopes the rabbinate will
recognize that his positions, while innovative, fall well
within the spectrum of Jewish law.
Throughout Jewish history, especially regarding conversion, there have been two schools the
lenient school and the more stringent school, Riskin
said. The people of Israel are crying out for the more
lenient school.
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sure that she was in her element.
A project manager for Limmud FSU, a
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events across the former Soviet Union,
Pashaeva is used to engaging with large
numbers of conference participants,
who are struggling to conduct conversations over the noise of their scampering
children.
As at every Limmud event, Pashaeva
was met with a range of choices presented
by a multitrack program whose trademark
diversity and high intellectual caliber
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to Jewish communities from Melbourne to
Malmo.
But Pashaeva was not at a Limmud conference. She was at Lsaran, a Limmudinspired spinoff aimed at Moscows community of ethnic Armenians. Limmud
officials say the Lsaran is the first adaptation of their formula by a non-Jewish
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British Education Secretary Nicky Morgan
called for an inquiry into the Belz chasidic
sects purported ban on female drivers.
In a letter to families last week, the sects
rabbis said female drivers go against the
traditional rules of modesty in our camp
and that children would be barred from
their schools if they are dropped off by
their mothers in cars.
If schools do not actively promote the
principle of respect for other people, they
are breaching the independent school standards, Morgan said. Where we are made
aware of such breaches we will investigate
and take any necessary action to address
the situation.
Ahron Klein, chief executive of Londons
Belz Boys School, wrote in a letter to Morgan that it was never our intention to stigmatize or discriminate against children or
their parents for the sole reason that either
of the parents drives a car, Londons Jewish Chronicle reported.
We accept that the choice of words was
unfortunate, and if a negative impression
was created by our letter, then we unreservedly apologize for that, Klein wrote, adding that his community has no intention
of changing its policy on female drivers.
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Tony Blair quits as Middle East Quartet envoy

Former British prime minister Tony Blair
will be stepping down from his position as
special envoy of the Middle East Quartet.
The quartet, comprised of the U.S.,
Russia, the U.N., and the EU, was established in 2002 during the height of the
second Palestinian intifada and has a
stated mission of working to support
the Palestinian people as they build
the institutions and economy of a viable
and peaceful state in Gaza and the West

Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Blair, who served as British prime
minister from 1997-2007, has served as
special envoy since stepping down as
the U.K.s leader. According to sources,
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only supporting the Palestinians and has
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An Israeli war volunteer remembers

For him and his friends, service was the most important act of their lives
TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES In May 1948, I was walking down Market Street in San Francisco
when I passed a small movie theater with a
marquee that announced The Jews Fight
for Their State.
For the first time, it fully hit me that
the Jews by the gentile consensus of the
time, mainly cowards and draft dodgers
actually were taking on five vastly superior
armies.
I took the train back to Berkeley but had
a hard time focusing on my studies at the
University of California. With the school
year nearing its end, I decided to go join
the fight.
I was among some 4,000 volunteers
from 57 countries who volunteered during Israels War of Independence, a group
collectively known as Machal, the Hebrew
acronym for volunteers from abroad.
Some of their stories are told in two recent
films focusing on the wartime contributions of the airmen who, to a large extent,
gave birth to the Israeli Air Force.
As far back as Melville Shavelsons
1966 Cast a Giant Shadow, movies have
rubbed layers of Hollywood gloss on this
history. The macho flyboys featured in
A Wing and a Prayer and Above and
Beyond are celebrated for their ingenuity and courage in smuggling the first combat planes to the nascent Jewish state, and
then using the aircraft to scare the wits out
of the surprised Arab forces.
But while these overseas volunteers
certainly played a role in Israels victory,
I believe that the major contribution of
these volunteers was to lift the morale of
the Israelis by showing them that their
diaspora brethren along with a fair number of non-Jewish volunteers were with
them, atoning in a small way for their
elders inaction during the Holocaust.
As with all men who go to war voluntarily, our motives were mixed and
not always idealistic. After the emotional
intensity of fighting as a U.S. infantryman
in France and Germany during World War
II, I found it hard to settle down. My early
exposure to Zionism in Berlin in the mid1930s also had left an imprint. And since a
new Jewish state is established only every
2,000 years or so, I figured I probably
wouldnt be around for the next one.
My first step was to figure out how to get
there. The U.S. State Department, which
did not share my enthusiasm for Israel,
stamped most passports Not good for
travel to Palestine, and warned that serving in a foreign army might well entail loss
of American citizenship.
My journey took me from the offices
of the butchers union in San Francisco,
whose business agent doubled as a secret
Tom Tugend volunteered to fight in Israels War of Independence in 1948.
recruiter, to Israels so-called Land and

Labor headquarters in Manhattan, and
then by ship across the Atlantic to the
French port of Le Havre. There we were
met by an Israeli contact who put us on a
train to Paris, and from there on to Marseilles. At the citys train station, another
contact conveyed us to Camp Grand Arenas, which served as a transit point for
North African Jews and European Holocaust survivors waiting for boats to take
them to Israel.
At the time, a temporary armistice
had been declared between Jewish and
Arab forces, supervised by a U.N. contingent that was to ensure that neither side
brought in reinforcements. Nevertheless,
we set out under tight security on the Pan
York, a creaky former banana carrier.
The ships hold had been reconfigured
with planks, stacked four levels high, that
served as beds an arrangement familiar
from concentration camp photos.
Nobody was allowed up on deck, and
the Israelis in charge, laboring under the
delusion that the English and American
volunteers represented a sane and stable
element, assigned us to keep order until
the ship cleared the harbor. When the
ship arrived in Haifa, the genuine refugees passed quickly through immigration
inspection, while we foreign volunteers
were taken by a circuitous route around
the U.N. inspectors who were enforcing
the armistice rules.

The Israeli manpower distribution system, as least for foreign volunteers, was
a throwback to feudal times, when the
local baron recruited troops by promising
certain bounties. My recruiter was Lester
Gorn, a Hollywood scriptwriter who had
served as a U.S. Army major during World
War II.
Gorn had persuaded Israels army command to let him organize something called
the 4th Anti-Tank Troop, which was to
consist solely of English-speaking volunteers, or Anglo-Saxim in local parlance.
The troop would be a democratic outfit,
Gorn said, with no ranks or saluting and
with all major decisions to be taken by
majority vote except in combat.
For a lowly ex-GI with little fondness for
military punctilio, the offer was too good
to turn down, and off I went in Gorns jeep.
We soon arrived at the units encampment
and I quickly noticed that something was
missing: There were no anti-tank guns
in sight, only one wooden replica of a
cannon.
When I pointed out the omission, Gorn
assured me that as soon as the Israeli
infantry captured a gun from the enemy,
we would be in business.
Indeed, within a short time the unit welcomed a 17-pound artillery piece that had
been seized from the Jordanian Legion. We
made do with this venerable weapon until
the battle of Faluja, where Israeli troops

surrounded a sizable Egyptian force under
the command of one Col. Abdel Nasser,
later to become president of Egypt.
The beleaguered Egyptians fought stubbornly, but one day our unit, part of the
encircling Israeli force, received a perfect
present a shipment of anti-tank guns
from Czechoslovakia that originally had
been destined for Germanys Wehrmacht.
The weapons were so new they were still
wrapped in the original oilcloth, which we
quickly ripped off to discover a curious
emblem stamped into the side of the gun
barrel a big, fat swastika.
Irony doesnt get much better than that
a bunch of Jewish guys firing a swastikaemblazoned gun at the enemy.
Our unit was a strange mixture of men,
all from English-speaking countries. The
youngest member was Jason Fenton, a
downy-cheeked 16-year-old Brit who later
became a professor of English in Southern California. The oldest guy, probably in
his mid-40s, was a Polish-born immigrant
to the United States who upon spying a
young female urged us to clean those
rusty pipes.
To get a little closer to the enemy, I
joined an Israeli infantry squad in a night
patrol to feel out the Egyptian defenses.
We got near enough to hear the voices
of the Egyptian guards. There was an
exchange of gunfire, but no casualties.
Jewish World
I am intensely alive and aware
of everything, I wrote of the experience a few weeks later. Every
movement or noise makes a sharp
impression. Everything I see, hear
and smell etches itself into my
memory.
On the way back, the mood was
quite different. After a few hundred meters, I wrote, my stomach muscles loosen, the tenseness
is slowly drained from my body
and in its place creeps a heavy
tiredness. The senses are dulled
and the box of ammunition gets
heavier with every step.
In what proved to be the last
major action of the war, our unit
drove down the eastern edge of the
Negev, along the Jordanian border,
heading for the Red Sea. Around 5
a.m. on March 11, 1949, we crested
the final hill. There, spread out
below us, was the village of Um
Rash Rash, consisting of two mud
huts and a flagpole. It was the site
of the future bustling city of Eilat.
On both sides of the bay, craggy
mountains flanking the waters of
the Red Sea were turning reddish
in the early sunlight. After weeks

of dirt and dust, we stripped off
our fatigues and jumped buff
naked into the sea.
After the war, historians largely
ignored the role foreign volunteers had played. Hollywood had
the opposite problem their renderings tended to exaggerate their
contribution. Make no mistake
the Israelis won their own war,
and paid the price in dead and
wounded.
Still, for most of us, our small
part in the creation and survival
of the Jewish state represents, I
believe, the most important act
of our lives. During World War
II, GIs scrawled on the shattered
walls of European battlefields the
words Kilroy Was Here. In a similar sense, the surviving volunteers
of the War of Independence can
affirm with some pride that we
were there.

JTA WIRE SERVICE
Tom Tugend is JTAs Los Angeles

correspondent.
Tom Tugend, fourth from left, and fellow foreign volunteers as they looked during Israels War
of Independence.
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Thousands of marchers joined in the
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Dear Rabbi
Your Talmudic Advice Column
at all in this mans behavior.
the prayer for the well-being
And above all, try not to let
of the State of Israel, was written by Rabbi Isaac Herzog in
it bother you. And if it still
1948. It expresses elements
does, try going to another
of the belief that the birth of
minyan.
the State is a miracle, and the
beginning of the promised
Dear Rabbi,
redemption of our people in
I found out recently that my
the messianic age. It boldly
sons were betting on sports.
Rabbi Tzvee
asks God to Bless the State
Im afraid that too much gamZahavy
bling will distract my kids
of Israel, the first flowering of
from their studies or get them
our redemption
involved with the wrong eleIts fair to interpret the act
Dear Proud,
ments. What can I do about this?
of the gentleman in your question sitting
Worried Over Wagering in Weehawken
There always has been diversity in the reliduring the prayer at the least as a denial
gious response to the Zionist movement.
of the claim of the special religious significance of the State, or as a protest against
Dear Worried,
And there often has been opposition in the
its politics or policies. And it is possible to
When my boys were younger, I was not
Jewish community of the diaspora to the
look at the sitting congregant as a denier of
happy when I found out that they were
methods and tactics of some Zionists.
all the validity and legitimacy of the Jewish
betting on sports. So I sat down with them
Nevertheless, you do know that the several different major streams of Zionists
State an act of Zionism denial, if you will.
and asked them not to do that. They asked
joined together over a period of decades
Im inclined, though, to assess this
why. And rather than appealing to their
to found a Jewish state. Among the streams
mans inaction with a bit of irony, and to
higher virtues, I cautioned them not to bet
were groups of political, social, cultural,
look at it in four ways that run parallel to
on games, saying, Because all sports are
and religious Zionists who worked
the four streams of Zionism that it seems
fixed.
sometimes independently and sometimes
to oppose. By sitting when everyone else
Naturally they pushed back and
together toward a common goal.
is standing, your fellow congregant makes
objected. Really? All sports? You arent
The state of Israel always has brought
a political statement, I disapprove of the
serious, Dad, are you?
together diverse contributions from the
politics of Israels government. By sitting,
So I thought a minute and admitted to
politics of the left and the right, from polihe makes a social statement, I remove
them, Yes, all sports are fixed, except for
cies and programs for society of secular
myself from the congregation to show my
one. Professional wrestling! And we had
socialists, from the creative artistic expresseparation from those who support Israel.
a good laugh.
sions of Jewish culture through art, music,
By sitting, he makes a cultural statement,
Since that time, year after year I hear
poetry, and fiction, and from the pracMy inner world of meaning and imaginaof scandal after scandal in one sport after
tices, devotions, and traditional learning
tion does not depend on, or have room
another. Baseball wagering and use of steroids, cycling and doping, soccer and bribof religious Jews.
for, the culture of the State of Israel. By
ery, deflated footballs. The list grows and
Back in the 1950s, my father was one of
sitting, he makes a religious statement, I
grows.
the few Orthodox rabbis who spoke and
deny the special religious significance or
Sure, sports have a great entertainment
wrote often about the significance of the
redemptive character of the State.
value in our culture. And we do harbor the
new State of Israel. In his sermons, he
My advice to you for what to do is this:
notion that when our children participate
voiced his view of the new state as a spiriIf you are comfortable enough, approach
tual and cultural center for world Jewry.
in team sports, it helps them become betthis person quietly and express to him how
ter team players in life.
He was quoted in the New York Times and
you feel that you find it rude or annoying for a person who is not ill to sit when
But corruption in sports indeed leads
elsewhere on many occasions. Im proud
all others in the congregation are standus to worry. Are the kids who play for a
of how he stood up and spoke out for Israel
ing. Do that, and you then can be satisfied
team going to learn to play the game fairly
while many of his rabbinical colleagues sat
that you have registered your displeasure.
and by the rules? Or are they going to learn
silently on the sidelines.
But alas, do not expect to see any change
how to cheat?
The beautiful prayer in your question,
In New Jersey, you can find legalized
gambling in local casinos, or via online
The Dear Rabbi column offers timely advice based on timeless Talmudic
sites, or even through lottery tickets at
wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all varieties
your corner newsstand. So if those are
and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the
places where your kids are going to gammonth. Send your questions to [email protected].
ble, at least you dont have to worry about
the lawfulness of their activities. And you
Dear Rabbi,
On Shabbat morning in the Orthodox synagogue that I attend the chazzan chants a
prayer for the State of Israel after the Torah
reading before the Musaf service. Everyone
in the shul stands up for this prayer except
for one man, who apparently makes a point
of sitting through the prayer to show his disapproval of the modern state.
His act of passive defiance toward Israel
annoys me and other people. What can I do?
Proud of Israel in Paramus
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may know that in our present time and

place, the wagering business has been
defended as part of a significant job-creating industry.
Its another thing if you worry about
the benefits of gambling for your children
as people, or for society at large. We all
know that the enticement of gambling is
a grasping at the hope of winning despite
the obvious odds that predict that you will
lose.
In the Talmud, dice players (a general
talmudic label for gamblers) officially are
treated with suspicion and distrust. They
are invalid as authorities in court. Daniel
Greenberg summed it up: The Talmud
(Sanhedrin 24b) disqualified gamblers from
being witnesses or judges on two grounds:
quasi-theft, and uselessness. Quasi-theft
because each side to a bet hopes to win,
and that hope taints their consent to the
transaction; taking peoples money by
exploiting their unrealistic expectations
is not so very far distanced ethically from
taking it from them by fraud (or even violence). And uselessness because Judaism
teaches the importance of each person
trying to earn a livelihood by contributing
something useful to the world; taking other
peoples money through gambling contributes nothing, and is at worst dishonest and
at best parasitic.
So you may want to tell your kids that
you disapprove of their gambling for any
or all of the reasons I have raised. However
you should keep in mind that gambling
can be an addiction, which means that it
is harder to treat and to beat.
Let me hope (and pray) that your good
advice to your kids and your wholesome
upbringing of your children can help deter
them from falling prey to the diversions of
betting activities or the ills of addictions to
gambling.
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from Brown
University and rabbinic ordination from
Yeshiva University. He is the author of
many books, including these Kindle Edition
books available at Amazon.com: The Book
of Jewish Prayers in English, Rashi: The
Greatest Exegete, Gods Favorite Prayers
and Dear Rabbi which includes his past
columns from the Jewish Standard and
other essays.
Dvar Torah
Parshat Behaalotcha: Healing light
ur Torah reading this week

opens with the command to
Moses: Speak to Aaron and
say to him: When you light
the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light
towards the body of the menorah; And
Aaron did so.
The Hebrew phrase Vyaas kayn followed by the phrase Ka-asher tziva Adonai is a common biblical idiom used to
express obedience by a person or the community to Gods command.
In contrast to this view of obedience,
the parsha ends with an act of rebellion
by Aaron and Miriam against their brother
Moses.
On the surface, the concluding narrative in this weeks Torah reading (Numbers 12) is a story of sibling rivalry and
jealousy. Aaron and Miriams true complaint against Moses is that God, the ultimate parent, appears to love Moses more.
They therefore try to raise themselves up
by putting Moses down, criticizing him
for marrying a Cushite woman. Cushite
refers to Ethiopian and the racist nature of
their comments is emphasized by the fact
that Miriams punishment is her skin turns
white with leprosy. (The sexism implicit in
the fact that Aaron seems to escape punishment is a drash for another year.)
When Miriam is stricken, Aaron comes
and pleads with Moses on their sisters
meant to be derogatory and

behalf. The natural human
defamatory may have been
response would have been
an exercise of their ability to
for Moses to send Aaron away
freely speak their mind, but
saying, Her punishment
it was a form of lashon hara,
was Gods will. Aaron, since
evil speech, and it did have
you claim to be a prophet
consequences. Another lesequal to me why dont you
son we can learn from using
plead her case yourself ?
the opening description of
Another response could have
Rabbi Neal
the menorah as a light in this
been, Aaron, she got what
Borovitz
story is that instead of always
she deserved. You should
Rabbi Emeritus
seeking to put ourselves in
be grateful that you were
Temple Avodat
the spotlight we should see
spared. Instead, we find here
Shalom, River Edge
that beauty often is enhanced
in Numbers 12 Moses uttering
Reform
by reflected light. If Miriam
a phrase that may be the oldest Jewish prayer for healing:
and Aaron had appreciated
El na rfa na la Please God, heal my sister.
the reflected divine light in which they
The biblical narrative here once again
stood and had done as God commanded
answers the question Cain posed to God
the story of their lives would have had a
in the opening chapters of Genesis: yes,
different ending.
we are our brothers keeper (and here it
We live in an age in America where all
clearly states our sisters as well). We also
public officials be they in government
see in this story that words matter; both
or the non-profit world are fairer game
words of slander and words of prayer have
for criticism than even poor Moses in this
impact.
weeks Torah reading. In part, it may be
In reading this familiar story once again
due to leaders seeking the spotlight. In
this week I see many clear messages
part, however, it is also a result of the same
directed to 21st century American Jews.
envy that drove Miriam and Aaron to badmouth Moses.
The first is that free speech is not a license
My questions to myself and to you this
to say anything we want. Miriam and Aarons ability to say whatever they wanted
Shabbat are:
including slandering their brother by makDoes our American right to free speech,
ing a statement that was factually true, but
which we so proudly and rightfully cherish,
not come with some responsibility?

When I disagree with others politics or
their religious views, do I have the right
to speak out against them in the way that
Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses?
Can we who hold leadership positions
learn that our role is to be a light, not to
seek out ways to stand in the spotlight?
Why are so many of us so quick to call
fellow Jews with whom we disagree on
issues concerning Israel either self-hating
Jews or right-wing fanatics?
My prayer for us on this Shabbat when
we are taught to stand in the reflected light
of the menorah is an emendation of the call
of Moses El na rfa na lanu. Please God,
heal US. May God heal the self-inflicted
wounds that our slander of each other have
left on the body of our people Israel. May
this story of sibling rivalry inspire each of us
to, in the words of the Talmudic sage Mara
bar Abba, guard my tongue from evil and
my lips from speaking guile; and to those
who slander me give no heed. May these
become the words of our mouths and the
meditations of our hearts. May the actions
commanded by these words be acceptable
to God and inspirational to each of us so
that we can choose to lower the volume
of our rhetoric and shine a light on a path
toward peace in our community; peace in
our homes; peace in our nation, and peace
in our world.
Palestinians drop bid

to have Israel
suspended from FIFA
Islamic State affiliate

threatens missile
attack on Eilat
The Palestinians on Friday dropped a

motion to have Israel suspended from
FIFA, world soccers governing body.
I decided to drop the suspension but
it does not mean that I give up the resistance, Palestinian soccer official Jibril
Rajoub told the 65th FIFA Congress.
A new Palestinian proposal that was
passed by the FIFA Congress calls for the
formation of a committee to look into the
freedom of movement of Palestinian soccer players and the status of Israeli soccer
teams located in the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
praised the efforts of Israels delegation
at the FIFA Congress, saying, Our international effort has proven itself and led to
the failure of the Palestinian Authoritys
attempt to oust us from FIFA.
Netanyahu added that continued unilateral steps by the Palestinians in international bodies will only push peace further
away instead of bringing it closer. JNS.ORG
A Sinai-based affiliate of the Islamic State

terror group warned Thursday that the
Israeli resort town of Eilat could expect a
barrage of missiles in the coming days.
The threat was issued on a Facebook
account associated with Wilayat Sina, previously known as Ansar Bait al-Maqdis,
which swore allegiance to Islamic State
last November. Most of its attacks have
been directed at Egyptian military forces
in Sinai, although it has repeatedly fired
rockets on Eilat and on the nearby Jordanian town of Aqaba.
On Thursday, the terror group called on
Egyptians to join its ranks and help it wrest
Sinai from the Egyptian regime. It also criticized the Hamas terror group for abandoning the fight against the Jews, and
warned that Islamic State would launch
attacks in Hamas-ruled Gaza. Wilayat Sina
considers Hamas too moderate and has
tried to undermine its legitimacy.
JNS.ORG
Increase forecast
in U.S. defense aid
to Israel topping $3.5
billion annually
BRIEFS
Iran report: Israeli

weapons intercepted
at Saudi embassy
in Yemen capital
A large shipment of Israeli weapons and
ammunition was intercepted inside the
Saudi embassy in the Yemenite capital of
Sanaa, Irans Fars news agency reported
Sunday.
According to the report, the weapons
were discovered when Iran-backed Houthi
rebel forces gained control of the compound, defeating the Yemenite security
forces guarding the embassy.
The Houthis claimed that they also
seized documents proving that the U.S.
planned to establish a military base in
Saudi Arabia to monitor the Bab el-Mandeb strait (between the Gulf of Aden and
the Red Sea) in order to protect American interests and protect Israel, the
report stated. The Houthis also claimed
that Saudi Arabia had asked Israel to send
advanced weapons to help forces loyal to
Yemens deposed president, Abed Rabbo
JNS.ORG
Mansour Hadi.
American defense aid to Israel is likely to

increase to more than $3.5 billion per year
after 2017, sources say.
An anonymous U.S. defense official
said ongoing negotiations would bring
the annual military aid package to Israel
to $3.6-$3.7 billion, up from the current
level of $3 billion, Reuters reported. An
Israeli official said the aid would likely be
between $3.5 and $4 billion.
The U.S. and Israel signed a $30 billion,
10-year defense deal in 2007 under thenpresident George W. Bush that allowed for
$3 billion in annual defense aid. A number
of additional military aid packages, including funding of Israels highly effective Iron
Dome missile defense system, have been
added over the years.
They (the United States) are trying to
douse the fires after our flare-up [with
Israel] about the Iran deal, an anonymous
U.S. defense official told Reuters. JNS.ORG
Jewish World
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WATERS OF BABYLON BY DAVID BENKOF
[email protected]
LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: EASY
Anahit Antoyan, a sociologist and a member of Lsarans organizing committee,

in May, at the groups first conference in Moscow.
ANNA AYVAZYAN/LSARAN
Limmud
FROM PAGE 38
I liked more than anything else, Teryan

said. How various parts of the Jewish
community come together religious
with secular, young with old, professors
with musicians with dreadlocks. We have
religious events. But we didnt have that.
At least 2 million ethnic Armenians are
believed to live in Russia, though estimates
vary widely. The community has produced a disproportionate number of scientists, artists, business leaders, and hightech innovators, but suffers from a lack of
robust communal life, according to Anahit
Antoyan, a sociologist and a member of
Lsarans organizing committee.
Moscow has no Armenian community
in the true sense of the word, namely one
that preserves culture, traditions and language, Antoyan told the news site www.
barev.today.
According to Teryan, Armenians exhibit
a communal emphasis on education,
which makes them prime Limmud material. And if attendance is any indication,
Like Limmud,
where at least
a few lectures
typically focus
on the Jewish
peoples darkest
hours, Lsaran
featured
several events
dealing with
the Armenian
genocide.
she may be right: More than 300 people showed up for Lsaran; organizers
expected 200.
A conference that uses intellectual
stimulation to build communities may not
be the best strategy for every ethnicity,
Teryan said in an interview conducted
in April at Limmud Moscow, which she
attended to get some last-minute pointers
ahead of Lsaran. But I believe it will be as
effective for Armenians as it is for Jews.
Lsaran featured lecturers such as Slava
Stepanian, an Armenia-born filmmaker
who founded the Moscow Armenian
Theater after moving here from Georgia,
and Karen Dashyan, who at 37 is the cofounder and managing director of a successful Russian investment bank in addition to being an award-winning triathlete.
Like Limmud, the conferences name
translates as learning. And like Limmud,
where at least a few lectures typically focus
on the Jewish peoples darkest hours, Lsaran featured several events dealing with
the Armenian genocide, whose centennial
anniversary was commemorated across
the world in April.
Where the two communities differ, however, is in the existence of a robust infrastructure that supports cultural activities
in the diaspora. Lsaran organizers paid
$4,600 from their own pockets to put on
the event because the donations they gathered from wealthy Armenians were not
enough to cover the costs.
But in other respects, Armenians have
stronger ethnic ties than Russian Jews, said
Pashaeva, the Limmud FSU project manager. Virtually everyone at Lsaran speaks
both Armenian and Russian, while command of Hebrew among Russian Jews is
far less common. When Lsaran ended,
she said, 100 people filled the hotel dance
floor to sing Armenian folk songs and perform traditional dances.
We dont really dance the hora at Limmud just yet, Pashaeva said.

JTA WIRE SERVICE
Across
1 160 meters, for Jerusalems Bridge of
Strings
5 Huevos haminados is the term for a
Sephardi way of preparing them
9 Kosher fork of a kind
13 Lashon ___ (gossip)
14 Oregon capital whose name is related to
a Hebrew greeting
16 2003 Woody Allen film Anything ___
17 Italian Mexican Jew Garcetti (LAs current mayor)
18 Feature of Israels Luna Gal water park
19 ___ should kiss him who gives a right
answer (Proverbs 24:26)
20 Director of the blockbuster
Transformers series
22 ___ in Show (2000 movie staring the
Christopher Guest troupe)
23 Mila Kuniss baby daddy Kutcher
24 Great Plains st. with seven synagogues
26 Her children included Reuben, Simeon,
Levi, and Judah
29 What some residents of Crown Heights
did in 1991
33 1993 book: Adult Children of Jewish
Parents: The Last Recovery Program
Youll ___ Need
37 Transport pulled by dogs on the
Burning Bush Adventures Jewish trip
to Maine
39 Danish pianist and comedian Victor
40 Kind of Isracard
42 Daniel Day-Lewiss country: Abbr.
43 Lchaim alternative
44 Birkat Hamazon is the one after meals
45 Corey Pavin plays it on greens
47 Auld Lang ___ (song for New Years
Erev?)
48 Ron Blomberg was one when he
became baseballs first designated
hitter
50 One could be kosher, another could be
vegan
52 Some kibbutzim have them for guests
54 Medina location
59 Lets Make a ___ (Monty Hall game
show)
62 Originator of the catchphrase Can we
talk?
65 With 35-Down, one of Israels most storied orators
66 Last name of the twins who starred
alongside Bob Saget in TVs Full
House
67 On May 22, 2015, Barack Obama told a
Jewish audience that a nuclear agreement with it would be good for Israel
68 Place to hang your tallit in shul
69 Site where a recent search for Jew
brought back more than 13 million hits
70 Prefix before -diluvian indicating a time
before Noahs flood
71 Financial inst. on which Muriel Siebert
was the first woman to own a seat
72 Israelis include their arnona tax when

they pay it every month
73 ___-do-well (schmendrick)
Down
1 ___ Yisrael (Jewish credo)
2 French city where Jean-Marie Lustiger
was Cardinal for more than 20 years
3 If I Were ___ Man
4 Die ___ zu begraben (German title of
the Holocaust book Night)
5 They formed a Dead Sea sect
6 Chutzpah
7 What Tom Cruise called Matt Lauer in a
2005 interview
8 One way to Ben Gurion Airport
9 Director of Young Frankenstein and
Blazing Saddles
10 Nobelist Wiesel
11 Pharaoh symbols in hieroglyphics
12 Check if someone has the Tay-Sachs
gene
15 Mobster Lansky
21 Judd Apatow still uses it for email
25 Funny ones say things like I lost it at
my bris and Mommys litle matzah
ball
27 Alternative persona for Borat and Bruno
28 ___ the Great (leader who built Masada
and expanded the Second Temple)
30 Gentile actor Gentile (The Goldbergs)
31 Susan who originated the role of Belle in
the Ashman/Menken musical Beauty
and the Beast
32 Mark from a Jerusalem Post editor
33 Like Sarah Silvermans humor
34 Fashion designer Wang who married
Arthur Becker in a Baptist-Jewish ceremony
35 See 65-Across
36 Talk show hostess who played a rabbi in
2009s TV movie Loving Leah
38 Place for a good nosh
41 Bar mitzvah boy, for one
46 Biblical words of reassurance
49 Savor, as a knish
51 ___-state area (part of North America
with the most Jews)
53 Alternative to the Hebrew calendar type
55 Kind of animals the Torah says to shoo
from a nest
56 Swiss capital where Chaim Weizmann
studied before World War I
57 Filled with righteous indignation
58 Ed of Up
59 Oy gevalt!
60 Site for buying everything from Bibles
to bagel-slicers
61 Aleph-bet alternative
63 Arthur ___ Stadium (location of a
20,000-strong chasidic rally denouncing the Internet)
64 Its a sign?
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 55.
Arts & Culture
Mount Masada shimmers in the night sky as the stage is set for Tosca.
Tosca, Carmina Burana take Masada

Fifth opera festival presents two masterpieces in the desert
iva Sarah Press

The Fifth Masada Opera
Festival the largest international cultural event in Israel
gets under way this week, as two masterpieces are staged at the foot of the majestic
UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Israeli Opera, which is celebrating its 30th season this year, will present
Tosca by Giacomo Puccini and Carmina
Burana by Carl Orff over the weekends of
June 4 to 6 and June 11 to 13. There will be
four performances of Tosca and two
performances of Carmina Burana.
Every year I remind myself that it all
started with a fantastic dream that was
hard to believe would come true, the
Israeli Operas general director, Hanna
Munitz, said. Now our festival takes shape
A copy of the festival program.
for the fifth year, and this time we are

privileged to stage not one, but two huge
productions that are totally different from
each other, on the same gigantic stage,
which is rebuilt every year especially for
the Opera Festival at the foot of Masada.
The Masada Opera Festival launched
in 2010. Since then it has become one of
the leading international opera festivals in
the world, and has positioned the Israeli
Opera as an important and significant
international opera house, Munitz said.
The stage measures 35 meters deep and
64 meters wide, and the Israeli Opera says
that it took about 2,500 people to help
build it.
The Masada Opera Festival, in the
Judean Desert, near the shores of the Dead
Sea, is a source of great pride, considering
the size and scope
of such a cultural
event, and in such
a setting, Dr. Uzi
L andau, Israels
outgoing minister
of tourism, said.
Last year, the
festival attracted
thousands of tourists, opera lovers who came in
order to enjoy the
unique production
An aerial view of the gigantic stage and bleachers for the opera festival.
at the foot of the ancient fortress of

courage, and thus were exposed to the
charms of the music, the history, and
nature in Israel.
This is a tremendous and unique experience, which captivates the audience
when the orchestra begins playing thunderously, the rainbow of lighting colors
blends in with Mount Masada, and the
opera singers take flight, said the head of

the Tamar regional council, Dov Litvinoff.
I invite you, all the residents of Israel
and citizens of the world, of all ages, to
come this year and enjoy the exceptional
combination in which the sopranos voice
shakes the desert silence, under the stars
in Mother Natures cultural hall.
ISRAEL 21C
Calendar
11:30 a.m. (201) 408-1409
or www.jccotp.org.
Friday
JUNE 5
Rachav of Jericho:
Cantorial concert:
Rabbi Ari Berman
Cantors Ilan Mamber

of Temple Beth Rishon
in Wyckoff and Mark
Biddelman of Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff
Lake are among the
performers at a concert
at 7 p.m. at Temple
Emanuel. It will celebrate
Cantor Biddelmans
48 years with Temple
Emanuel. Refreshments.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Ari Berman,
former rabbi of
the Jewish Center
in Manhattan and
Talmud teacher at
Yeshiva University, is
scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael. He will talk
tonight following
Minchah at 7 p.m. On
Shabbat morning he
will give a sermon in the
9 a.m. minyan, and at
6:50 p.m. he will discuss
Can a Traditional
Community Accept
an Untraditional Jew?
Toward Formulating
a Jewish Theory of
Tolerance. After
Minchah, his topic will
be New Tools and
Strategies
for Learning Gemara in
the 21st Century.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795 or www.
rinat.org.
Shabbat in Fort Lee:

JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom offers BBQ
Before Barechu and
a Shabbat Together
musical Shabbat service.
Dinner at 6 p.m.; service
at 7. 1449 Anderson
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers young family
services with Rabbi
Benjamin Shull and
Cantor Marc Biddelman,
6:45 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
www.tepv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
family services, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman,
with music by jazz/
classical guest artist
Bill Ware, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Monday
JUNE 8
Hadassah meets in
Teaneck: Teaneck-
LABA, the Laboratory for Jewish

Culture, and Yehuda Hyman/
Mystical Feet Company present the
world premiere of The Mar Vista
from June 11 to 14 as part of the National Yiddish
Theatre Folksbienes KulturfestNYC. The play will be
at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th St.,
in Manhattan. The Jewish Standard is among the
KulturfestNYC sponsors. For tickets call (646) 395-4310
or go to www.labajournal.com/2014/12/mar-vista/.
JUNE
11-14
Sunday
JUNE 7
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter goes to the
Taj Mahal casino. A
bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel at 8:30 a.m.;
breakfast onboard at 8.
$30; includes $30 slot
play money. Bring ID.
10-10 Norma Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
Play group in Emerson:

Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers
a Mommy-and-Mestyle class for family
members and other
caregivers with babies
and toddlers, to connect
with each other and
the Jewish community,

at Congregation
Bnai Israel,
9:30 a.m. Administered
by JFNNJs Synagogue
Leadership Initiative.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
will teach some key
words of summer in
baby sign language and
in Hebrew. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
[email protected].
Rummage sale in
Closter: The sisterhood
of Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley
holds its semi-annual
rummage sale, 10 a.m.noon, and 1-3 p.m. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Shul open house: The

Clifton Jewish Center
holds an open house
with a reception,
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Information on the
synagogues Hebrew
school, building tours,
and opportunity to meet
lay and religious leaders.
18 Delaware St. Karen,
(973) 772-3131.
Dinner/entertainment
in Franklin Lakes:
Chabad of NWBC
holds its annual benefit
dinner and evening
of entertainment,
celebrating 15 years
in the community, at
the Chabad Jewish
Center, 5 p.m. Cocktail
reception, auction, and
comedy by Johnny
Lampert. 375 Pulis Ave.
(201) 848-0449 or www.
galadinner.org.
Hackensack Hadassah
meets at Congregation
Beth Sholom, 1 p.m.
Avi Posnick, regional
director of StandWithUs,
a pro-Israel, pro-peace,
and anti-divestment
organization, is guest
speaker. 354 Maitland
Ave. Refreshments.
Rachel. (201) 836-9689.
Tuesday
JUNE 9
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Entertainment by Ed
Goldberg and The Odessa
Klezmer Band. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Being an Alzheimers
caregiver: The
Alzheimers Association
presents Caregiver:
Are Your Needs Being
Met? for those caring
for someone with
Alzheimers disease or
a related dementia, at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly,
Rachel Friedman
discusses Charting
Ones Own Destiny: The
Story of Rachav in Bible
and Midrash, at a lunch
and learn at Young Israel
of Fort Lee, noon. She is
the founder and dean of
Lamdeinu in Teaneck and
was associate dean and
chair of Tanakh at Drisha
Institute in New York
City. 1610 Parker Ave.
(201) 592-1518 or yiftlee.
org.
Borscht belt: Marty

Schneit, a licensed New
York City tour guide,
talks about the Borscht
Belt for the Englewood
& Cliffs Chapter of ORT
America at the JCC of
Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom,
12:30 p.m. Coffee and
cake. (201) 944-8257.
Wednesday
JUNE 10
Signs of dementia:
Vivian Green Korner,
a certified dementia
specialist, discusses
Caring for Our Parents,
a community talk
including warning signs
indicating dementia,
effects dementia has on
the family, and balancing
caregiving with other
responsibilities, at Stone
Center for Yoga, 1415
Queen Anne Road,
Suite 204, Teaneck,
7:30 p.m. Sponsored
by Wellness Wisdom.
[email protected] or
(917) 748-2956.
Thursday
JUNE 11
Community senior
health fair: More than
30 vendors will help to
promote healthy living
for seniors at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh,
12:30-4:30 p.m. Programs
and topics include
blood drive, audiology,
massage, chair yoga,
Tai Chi, blood pressure,
nutrition, emergency
preparedness,
dermatology, sleep
disorders, and breast
health. Door prizes and
giveaways. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 784-1414.
Calendar
Shabbat in Tenafly: The
Temple Sinai Rock Band
performs during services,
7:30 p.m. 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3035.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
Almita Vamos
MIKE CANALE
Violin master class in

Tenafly: Almita Vamos,
a professor of violin at
Northwestern University
and the Music Institute
of Chicago, leads a
master class at the JCC
Thurnauer School of
Music at the Kaplen
in Tenafly, 4 p.m.
(201) 408-1465 or jccotp.
org/Thurnauer.
of the Pascack Valleys

Cantor Mark Biddelman,
on guitar, hosts Shabbat
Yachad, Hebrew prayers
set to easy-to-sing
melodies, accompanied
by keyboardist Jonathan
Hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Sunday
JUNE 14
Charity bike ride: Jewish
Rabbi Israel Dresner

Civil rights lecture in
Wayne: Rabbi Israel
Dresner discusses The
Civil Rights Movement
and Me: My Memories of
Dr. Martin Luther King,
My First Incarceration,
and Selma, at the
Wayne YMCA, 7 p.m.
Also June 22 at noon.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 236,
or www.wayneymca.org.
Friday
JUNE 12
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
lead an informal tot
Shabbat, with songs,
stories, and crafts,
5:15 p.m., followed by a
family Shabbat service
including a blessing
for all high school
seniors and a send-off
for summer overnight
campers at 6:45. 221
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Family Service of Bergen

and North Hudson
sponsors JFS Wheels for
Meals Ride to Fight
Hunger, beginning and
ending at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh.
The Jewish Standard is
among the sponsors.
(201) 837-9090 or
RidetoFightHunger.com.
Installation/brunch in
Cliffside Park: Temple
Israel of Cliffside Park
and Temple Beth El
of North Bergen has a
congregational election
meeting, 11 a.m., followed
by an international
brunch with a Spanish
menu at Temple Israel,
207 Edgewater Road,
Cliffside Park, 1:30 p.m.
Reservations, (201) 9457310.
Military bridge in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center hosts military
bridge with lunch,
refreshments, and
prizes, noon. 195 West
Clarkstown Road, New
City, N.Y. (845) 352-0017.
Circus in Washington
Township: The Kelly
Miller Circus comes to
the Bergen County YJCC
for two shows, noon
and 4 p.m. Rain or shine.
Traditional tented circus
features elephants, tigers,
camels, ponies, and a
cast of international
circus including daring
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Choir concert in
Tenafly: Shirah performs
Jewish secular and
sacred songs to honor
the memory of Bernie
and Ruth Weinflash,
longtime supporters and
founders of the choir, at
the Thurnauer School of
Music at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades, 7 p.m.
Cantor Israel Singer of
Temple Emanu-El in
Closter is guest soloist,
under the direction
of founding director/
conductor Matthew Lazar
and associate conductor
Marsha Bryan Edelman.
Tickets subsidized by
the Weinflash family.
Post-concert dessert
and coffee reception.
(201) 408-1465 or jccotp.
org/Thurnauer.
Monday
JUNE 15
Hadassah meets in
Fair Lawn: Bernie Roth
discusses What our
grandparents knew,
but failed to tell us
Embracing Yiddish
culture and Yiddish
Values, Then and Now,
for Fair Lawn Hadassah
at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel, 1 p.m.
Refreshments. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 7910327.
Singles
Sunday
JUNE 28
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
bagels and lox brunch
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. All welcome from
Hudson, Passaic, Bergen,
and Rockland counties.
450 West Nyack
Road. $10. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
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aerialists, agile acrobats,

and cavorting clowns,
all under the big top.
Advance sales benefit
the YJCC. 605 Pascack
Road. Wendy Fox,
(201) 666-6610.
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Eva Kahn photography in Tenafly

Outdoor Photography: Near and
Far, photographic works by Eva
Kahn, will be on display at the Waltuch Art Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly through July
7. The exhibit includes photographs
taken around the world. Kahn, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, became interested in photography 27 years ago.
For information call Rochelle Lazarus at (201) 408-1409 or go to www.
jccotp.org.
A cappella in
Hackensack
Wide Variety, a seven-member a
cappella group, performs songs
from the 1960s to 1980s at Temple
Beth El, on Sunday, June 7, at 2 p.m.
The temple is 280 Summit Ave. For
information, call (201) 342-2045.
Literary fair/activities/sale in Fair Lawn

Congregation Darchei Noam is hosting
a Celebrate Authors Literary Fair and
Used Book Sale on Sunday, June 14,
from 10:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Items for sale include books and
DVDs, both secular and Jewish, in English and Hebrew, for adults and children.
At 10:30, there will be a puppet workshop based on the characters from
Shlemiel Crooks by Anna Olswanger.
Five- to 9-year-olds are invited make finger puppets with Madeleine Beresford,
co-founder of Galapagos Puppet Theater.
At noon, there will be a reading with
Ruchama King Feuerman, author of
In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist, a
National Jewish Book Award finalist and
Sophie Brody Medal of Honor winner.

At 1:30 p.m., an open mic will be available for people who have written a short
story or poem and want to read it; at 3,
a story hour for 2- to 6-year-olds will follow. Rabbi Dr. Abraham Kuperberg will
read from the book he edited, Memoirs
of a Holocaust Survivor: Icek Kuperberg, followed by q&a at 4. The book is
the chronicle of a concentration camp
prisoner.
Authors will sign their books, and all
unsold books will be donated to U.S.
Army soldiers families and other worthy causes. The shul is at 10-04 Alexander Ave. in Fair Lawn. For information,
go to www.darcheinoam.com.
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bergenPAC
to showcase
its talent
Musical auditions
The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC in Englewood will hold end-ofyear showcases for theater, music, and
beyond-DANCE. The PAC showcase features the students who have taken classes
in the programs.
The theater performance will be on
Wednesday, June 10, at 7 p.m., at the Black
Box Theater, 38 N. Van Brunt St., in Englewood. The music performance, sponsored
by Benzel-Busch, is on Friday, June 12, at 6
p.m., in the Drapkin Cabaret and Lounge,
30 N. Van Brunt St. Feeling Good... beyondDANCE celebrates 10 years on Sunday, June
14 at 3 p.m., on the bergenPAC main stage.
For information, call the box office at
(201) 227-1030 or (201) 482-8194, email
[email protected], or go to .com.
bergenPAC Performing Arts School is at 1
Depot Square in Englewood.
The JCC Thurnauer School of Music

at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades is
holding auditions for its two youth
orchestras, two youth choruses, jazz
ensembles, and chamber music groups
on June 7 and 14. Panels of faculty
members will evaluate prospective students of all ages and abilities.
On June 7, auditions are for the
award-winning Young Peoples Chorus
@ Thurnauer for ages 6 and older, the
Teen Town Jazz Big Band, combos for
ages 12 and older, and chamber music
ensembles based on skill level, not age.
On June 14, there will be auditions
for the Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra and String Camerata based on skill
level, not age.
For information, visit jccotp.org/
Thurnauer. All auditions are by
appointment only. To schedule an
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Annual Yoga on the Green in Tenafly

The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades will
host the third annual Yoga on the Green
with the JCCs master yoga instructor,
Brenda Blanco, on Sunday, June 14, at 10
a.m. It will feature a free one-hour yoga
class for people of all ages and levels.
Hundreds are expected to take part in
this one-of-a-kind fitness opportunity.
The first 100 participants will receive
swag bags with treats and educational
information from Shea Moisture, Now
Foods, Karma Organic, and Healthway
Natural Foods. Lulu Lemon Athletica,
an event partner, will display wearable
yoga and exercise apparel.
The JCC has a skilled, inspirational
team of certified fitness instructors
teaching yoga, pilates, barre, cycling,
zumba, and other specialized disciplines, as well as a roster of more than
90 free drop-in group exercise classes
Lisa Lampanelli
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Tickets are on sale at
the Bergen County
Performing Arts Center for Lisa Lampanelli
on Saturday, November 7, at 8 p.m. Lampanelli is a regular on
Howard Sterns Sirius Lisa Lampanelli
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and has appeared on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late
Show with David Letterman, Chelsea
Lately, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Dr. Oz
Show, and Good Morning America.
For information, call (201) 227-1030 or
go to www.bergenpac.org or www.ticketmaster.com.
each week. In an effort to encourage

members of the larger community to
engage in more healthful activities, and
to educate them to the wide variety of
fitness options open to them, the JCC
offers free community events of this
kind several times a year.
The JCC also offers members and
their families year-round health and
wellness programs in its Russ Berrie
Family Health & Recreation Complex.
The comprehensive, ultramodern recreation facility offers members the benefits of individualized instruction, all
the latest in state-of-the-art equipment,
and a caring and motivational staff that
assists people in achieving their fitness
goals. Programs are geared for people
of all ages and all fitness and skill levels.
For information, call Barbara Marrott at
(201) 408-1475.
Sunday games
and book signing
The Teaneck General Store and
Yachad offer a game day for all
ages with game maven Leora
Verbit at the TGS from 4 to 6 p.m.
The event is free and there will be
a 10 percent discount on games.
At 7, author Dr. Sam Menahem discusses and signs copies of his book
The Great Cosmic Lesson Plan.
The store is at 502a Cedar Lane.
For information, call (201) 5305046 or www.teaneckgeneralstore.com.
Gallery
1
n 1 The Friendship Circle of Passaic County held its Color

Run last month to spread awareness of people in the
community who have special needs. A barbecue and other
activities followed the run. COURTESY FC PASSAIC COUNTY
n 2 Ken Dashow, a Q104.3 disc jockey known for
his Breakfast with the Beatles program, left, and
Cantor Lenny Mandel donned festive Beatles attire
just before the start of Congregation Bnai Israel in
Emersons third Beatles Shabbat. COURTESY CBI
n 3 The film Honor Diaries was screened at the Teaneck
Cinemas last month. Attendees included, from left,
Joy Kurland, the director of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys Jewish Community Relations
Council; Barbara Joyce, the federations womens

philanthropy director; keynote speaker Zainab Khan,
and JCRCs chair, Gale S. Bindelglass. COURTESY JFNNJ
n 4 Children in the Emek program at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades celebrated Shavuot by sampling dairy
foods and the seven spices of the land of Israel. Emek is
an Israeli language and cultural afterschool program for
kindergarteners to fifth-graders that teaches modern
spoken Hebrew and Israeli culture in a fun, hands-on way.
It is for non-native Hebrew speakers and is approved
by the Israeli Ministry of Education. COURTESY JCCOTP
n 5 Second-graders in the Howard and Joshua
Herman Education Center at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation Bnai Israel celebrated the end

of their studies with a program and a presentation.
Rabbi Ron Roth, who blessed them, is pictured with
parents, family members, and faculty. COURTESY FLJC
n 6 From left, Hillel executive director Andrew Getraer,
outgoing student board president Seth Deneroff, and
senior associate director Rabbi Esther Reed, accept Hillels
recent award. The universitys student life group named
Hillel the outstanding large student organization of the year
for its service and leadership at the recent annual student
life Scarlets award ceremony. The group is a beneficiary
of Jewish federations, including the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, with support of the State
Association of Jewish Federations. COURTESY RUTGERS HILLEL
Jewish World
Why the NBA finals may become

a lose-lose situation for David Blatt
GABE FRIEDMAN
fter the last game of an impressive series sweep of the Atlanta

Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers
coach David Blatt talked with
broadcaster Ernie Johnson in front of an
arena of joyous hometown fans.
So lets be honest, Johnson said. This
hasnt always been easy this year, David. But
to be standing here, going to the finals, just
tell me how that feels to you tonight.
Well, were in Cleveland, Blatt said with
a smile. Nothing is easy here.
As candid as that sounds, its almost an
understatement when it comes to describing Blatts tumultuous first season as an NBA
coach. Somehow, despite parlaying a stellar
European coaching career into a trip to the
NBA finals in just one season, Blatt finds
himself on the hot seat, with something to
prove.
How does that happen?
The crazy ride started with Blatt, 56, a
four-time Coach of the Year in Israel, leading Maccabi Tel Aviv to an improbable Euroleague title in 2014.
Blatt, who played point guard at Princeton and professionally in Israels Super
League, initially thought hed transfer to
the NBA as an assistant to new Golden State
Warriors coach Steve Kerr whom hell
Two-thirds
through the
regular season
Ive become
a lot more
comfortable,
and a lot more
cognizant of the
things that are
necessary to
make a winning
situation on an
NBA team.
DAVID BLATT
now oppose in the finals. But the Cavaliers

took a chance. He was hired as head coach
in June 2014, and asked to helm a team with
modest expectations.
Quickly, however, things advanced to
another level.
Just weeks after Blatt was hired, LeBron James a northeastern Ohio native, a
Cavaliers coach David Blatt talks to the media before Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals in Cleveland against the
Atlanta Hawks on May 26.
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four-time MVP, and one of the best players

in NBA history announced that he was
leaving the Miami Heat, after two titles and
four straight trips to the finals, to return
to the Cavaliers, where he started his pro
career as a teenager. Overnight, the Cavaliers were draped with championship-size
expectations.
The preseason acquisition of All-Star
Kevin Love to join LeBron and Kyrie Irving,
among the top point guards in the league,
only added to the hype.
As the stars adjusted to playing together,
the season started slowly. The club was
19-20 in January and lost its starting center
to a year-ending injury. While the growing pains were predictable, Blatts job was
rumored to be in jeopardy. Rumors that
LeBron wanted Blatt fired swirled in the
media, which seemed eager to pounce on
the NBA newcomer.
After weathering the storm, Blatt
acknowledged that he had to make big
adjustments once he got to the NBA.
Ive gone through my own learning curve that Ive obviously worked
through, Blatt said in February, after the
Cavs started to turn around their season,
winning 18 of their last 21 games. Twothirds through the regular season Ive
become a lot more comfortable, and a
lot more cognizant of the things that are
necessary to make a winning situation on
an NBA team.
With the help of several crucial midseason acquisitions ( J.R. Smith, Iman Shumpert, and Timofey Mozgov), Blatts team
streaked into the playoffs as the Eastern
Conferences second seed and the leagues
hottest team. The Cavs lost Love to injury
amid their first-round sweep of the Boston
Celtics, then rallied to beat the Chicago
Bulls before dismantling the Hawks.
In the finals, which will start on Thursday, the Cavs will face a Warriors squad
with the best record in the league, as well
as its MVP, Stephen Curry.
Despite the turnaround and march to
the finals, the blows to Blatts reputation
have only intensified, with LeBrons dominance, game-winning shots, and customary confidence stealing the show and getting most of the credit. Blatt didnt help
himself by nearly costing the Cavs a crucial victory in the tough series against the
Bulls, calling a timeout the team didnt
have one of his assistants pulled him
back before the referees noticed. Making
matters worse, moments later LeBron
nailed a buzzer beater to win the game
and proceeded to tell the world that he
had called the play, overruling Blatt in the
process.
Looking back, LeBrons decision to
return to Cleveland may have doomed
Blatts NBA transition from the start, by
LeBrons decision
to return to
Cleveland may
have doomed
Blatts NBA
transition from
the start.
casting him as second fiddle to the games
best player, with his outsized personality
and extraordinary talent. That doesnt
take away anything from Blatts ability.
This week signals a potential shift in the
dynamic, as Blatts players, including LeBron, have praised him more than they have
in the past. And in theory, the finals offer a
chance for some face-saving redemption.
But in reality, the series is shaping up as a
lose-lose situation for Blatt: If the Cavs win,
its all about LeBron. If they lose even
though the Warriors have played at a historically high level all season Blatt will be
the obvious scapegoat.
At least Blatt has the support of Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
who told him recently that all of Israel is
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Obituaries
Santa Dennison
Santa Dennison, 55, of Paterson died

on May 22. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Yury Ekelov
Yury Ekelov, 75, of Fair Lawn died

on May 27. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Anne Factor
Anne R. Factor, ne Thum, of

Teaneck died on May 26. She is
survived by her sons, Jeffrey (Reena)
and Richard (Danica); siblings,
Ben Thum (Betty Ann), Carole
Joy, and Sheryl Spar (Teddy); two
grandchildren, and nieces and
nephews.
Donations can be made to the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Rosalind Goldstein
Rosalind Goldstein, ne Raff, 87, of

Fair Lawn, formerly of Paterson,
died on May 31.
Predeceased by her husband,

Reuben, she is survived by her
children, Lori Daugherty ( John),
Alan (Kathleen), and Mindy Sandler
(Steven), and six grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Temple
Avodat Shalom, River Edge, or
National Council of Jewish Women
Jersey Hills Section, Fair Lawn.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Lorraine Levine
Lorraine Levine, ne Luftig, of

Livingston, formerly of Wyckoff, died
on May 27.
Predeceasd by her husband, Murray,
she is survived by her children, Louis
(Bonnie), Dr. Richard (Robin), Bonnie
Yarsin (Al), and Jane Ruddock (Steven),
and nine grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Valley
Hospital, Ridgewood. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Susan Levine
Susan Levine, ne Roeder, of

Fort Lee died on May 30.
Born in New York, before

retiring she was an insurance
agent. She was a member of
the New Synagogue of Fort Lee
Congregation Kehilath Baruch.
Predeceased by her father,
Eric Roeder, she is survived by
her mother, Mildred Roeder, ne
Wallach, and daughters Robin and
Samantha. Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Anita Sardis
Anita Sardis, 91, of Brooklyn died

on May 26.
She is survived by a daughter,
Marilyn Kessler, three grandchildren, Jonathan, Chad, and Lisa; a
sister, Alice; four great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by Jewish
Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
Hedy Udin
Hedy B. Udin of Clifton died on May

25. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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and for many years was on the board of J-ADD (the Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities); he stayed
with the BCHSJS for 20 years (and was just honored by
that institution for that service, and the love he engendered there, last month). He also undertook short stints
as a pulpit rabbi, taught in many places, and even wrote
an occasional column for one of our publications, About
Our Children.
When the chance to work for the federation came up, it
made such undeniable sense to Rabbi Allen that he felt compelled to take it.
It is an unusual job. Although he directs four Hillel chapters, I never actually worked for Hillel, he said. His organization, called Hillel of Northern New Jersey, is an affiliate
of Hillel. It is an unusual alignment, he said. It has a far
broader reach than conventionally organized Hillels. We
provide services to all local college students, no matter
where they go to school, he said.
Funded through the federation, Hillel of Northern New
Jersey works with students on all four campuses and students who go to other schools but whose parents live in
the federations catchment area. All the events we have
are open to everyone. I dont know if its a unique model,
but I dont know of any others like it, he continued. Its
a result of the good will and generosity of the federation,
the fact that so many BHSJS alumni maintain strong ties
to him and to the area, and come back home for summers
during college, and the synergy that we have allows us
to do a lot of things that normally we wouldnt be able to
do, he said.
We have all the resources of the federation open to us,
and all the community contacts. There is a world of difference when you are living in the community. We have a
partnership.
Given this immersion in the community, it is clear that
the Allen familys decision to move to Israel could not have
been made lightly. But my family and I by now the family includes four children; Abraham, 18; Sara, 15; Orah, 7;
and Neima, 3 always had the dream of going to Israel,
but we always told ourselves that we couldnt afford it. We
couldnt imagine it. It didnt seem to make sense.
But then the reality of yeshiva tuition and health insurance and homeowners costs here it became very clear
that actually it is financially easier to live in Israel than here.

And of course my sisters moved to Israel a few years
ago, and a lot of close friends have made aliyah. That clearly
paved the way for us.
But then I was given an unbelievable opportunity to
work with Yeshivat Lev HaTorah, he said.
Yes, Rabbi Allen is moving to Israel to take his dream job.
I have been working with so many students, and it always
has been my dream to start some kind of yeshiva in Israel,
he said. Through a series of meetings, coincidences, chance
encounters, and the realization of shared ideals, he and his
good friend Rabbi Mordechai Gershon, who is leaving his
job as assistant rabbi at Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood to make aliyah, will work with Rabbi Boaz Mori
in his yeshiva.
It has a philosophy of openness and inclusiveness; a certain eclecticism in terms of learning, he said. What I love
about Lev HaTorah is its character orientation, its middot,
its values. They are polite and humble and respectful.
At Hillel, Rabbi Allen worked with students of all Jewish
backgrounds; it is a point of pride with him that he met each
one of them where he or she was. It is not a cookie-cutter
thing, he said. You have to put time and effort into listening to people. If you dont have your own agenda and want
to help them, it is much easier to guide them.
That is the approach he plans to take at Yeshivat Lev
HaTorah. He lists the three things that appeal to him most
about his new job.
There will be a Sephardic track, he said. There will be
a summer program for college students, and along with a
group of professionals I will teach them specific skills that
they can use when they come back to campus, everything
from being a gabbai to being a kashrut supervisor in a Hillel
kitchen to basic security training.
And there will be a gap-year program for someone who
is going to college, who is not necessarily observant, but has
decided that he wants a year in Israel. We have been tasked
with developing this kind of opportunity for someone who
would like to start being observant, or to have the skills to
learn on their own.
Given Rabbi Allens wide range of skills and interests, his
extensive and eclectic job history, the depth of his connections both here and in Israel, it is likely that we will hear
a great deal more from him as he develops Yeshivat Lev
HaTorah.
Like his students at Hillel and BCHSJS, we will miss him.
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from La Gioconda or Rigoletto.
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The klezmer-rock band Golem

Folksbiene Theater, as it turns 100,

6 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 5, 2015

he week is just so stuffed full of

the general and the particular, the highly

Thats why, when the theaters centennial

time. In honor of our 100th

Joel Gray and Ron Rifkin

immigrants who never forgot his roots.

The all-woman klezmer

the Jews lived. The Folksbiene was not

We want excellence; people who

We will do comedy, light-hearted fare,

Jinta-la-Mvta, the Japanese klezmer

output of Yiddish culture is the highest its

Its in music, which became the biggest

The Orthodox Unions Seif Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus presents

JUNE 12-13, 2015

Congregation Rinat Yisrael 389 W. Englewood Avenue, Teaneck, NJ