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TEAM FRANK PREPS FOR RUBIN RUN page 6
REMEMBERING THE SPIRIT OF '68 page 10

YAVNEH'S FIELD OF DREAMS page 12
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Two different herring compa-
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visages of such rabbis as Men-
achem Mendel of Kotzk.
Yes, you can order the Honey
Mustard Sriracha Herring from the
Rebbe’s Choice line of premium cer-
tified kosher herring. “This sharp and
fiery herring is inspired” by the “fiery
truth and sharp wit of the rebbe of
Kotzk,” according to the Rebbe’s
Choice website. Kotzk is only one packaging borrows the analytical
of six herring flavors in the Rebbe’s terminology of Rav Chaim’s talmu-
Choice product line, which also in- dic lectures in a way that makes
cludes such favorite chasidic masters surprisingly little sense, even by the
as Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev low standard of food marketing: “A
and Reb Zusha, available at kosher Herring that is Gavra and Cheftza —
supermarkets, including Teaneck’s uniting subject and object — with
Cedar Market. the analytical prowess of Volozhin.”
Most of the 4,000 words on the An analytical herring?
Kotzker-inspired herring product’s What would the Kotzker rebbe
webpage are devoted to the biog- have made of all this?
raphy and teachings of the Kotzker There’s a line in Dr. Joseph Fox’s
rebbe, though it does list the ingredi- 1988 biography that seems relevant.
ents: pickled herring, onions, mayon- Commenting on Genesis 43:20, de-
naise, sriracha, mustard, sugar, and scribing how the sons of Jacob went
spices. The Rebbe’s Choice brand down to Egypt for food, the rebbe is
of herring was inspired by a magical said to have asked, in all seriousness:
encounter with flavorful herring that “Is food that important?”
yeshiva student Naftali Engel experi- And indeed, Rabbi Abraham Josh-
enced in the holy city of Tzfat. ua Heschel titled his study of the
Does naming a herring flavor after Kotzker “A Passion for Truth,” not “A
Sounds like fun

a chasidic rebbe work in the kosher Passion for Herring.”
marketplace? Apparently yes, be- Yet another saying attributed to
cause one of the old masters of her- the Kotzker is more ambiguous: “You
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Noshes
“I would like to thank all the
celebrities for choosing not
to wear tefillin to the #MetGala.”
— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on Twitter
FAST FORWARD:
‘New Girl’ finis,

with a flourish
The last (ever) epi- er’s and her mental state site, says she asked Wolf
sode of “New Girl,” the brings her allegation if she was Jewish by
hit Fox series, will air on into question. Linden messaging her via Insta-
Tuesday, May 15, at 8 plays a mysterious man gram last year, and Wolf
p.m. This special one- from her past. replied that she isn’t
hour episode will be set Linden, the star of the Jewish. Do google Larisa
three years after the hit series “Barney Miller,” Klebe and Michelle Wolf
previous one, and it will recently was given a and you’ll find two ar-
catch us up with chang- major award by the Los ticles Klebe wrote about
es in the lives of the Angeles Jewish film fes- Wolf. The most recent
main characters. Suffice tival. His new indie film, one is a smart explora-
it to say that all the main “The Samuel Project,” tion of how the criticism
characters are happy, was shown at the festi- of Wolf often veers into
including Jess (played val. Linden plays a Ger- Max Greenfield Hal Linden Ruth Bader Ginsburg anti-Semitic tropes.
by series’ title star Zoe man Jewish refugee who
Deschanel) and Schmidt tells his grandson about The Orthodox Zayat
(MAX GREENFIELD, the Holocaust. Linden family of Teaneck had a
37). Guest stars include has been a spokesman horse, Solomoni, in this
ROB REINER, 71, and for the Jewish Nation- year’s Kentucky Derby.
JAMIE LEE CURTIS, 59, al Fund for 20 years, He had a big win go-
as Jess’s parents, and raised money for Jewish ing into the race, but he
ZOE LISTER-JONES, 35, charities throughout his drew a poor start posi-
as Schmidt’s former par- career, and has visited tion and finished 10th. In
amour, Fawn Moscato. Israel many times. 2015, the Zayats’ horse,
In 2015, Deschanel American Pharoah, was
wed a Jewish guy in At the movies the first horse in 37
what the press de- The documentary years to win the Triple
scribed as a “secret “RBG” and the dramatic Crown. As I write this, I
ceremony,” and they film “Disobedience” are Naomi Alderman Larisa Klebe Gary Barber don’t know if Solomoni
now have two kids. “US opening in many cities will run in the Preakness
Weekly,” not a great on May 11. “RGB” is about wife, mother, law pro- 66, who was Qyburn shows she’s interested Stakes on May 18 — it’s
source, said she convert- the life and career of fessor, groundbreaking on “Game of Thrones”). in a physical relationship the second leg of the
ed to Judaism before Supreme Court Justice litigator, and judge. (This His rebellious daughter, with Ronit, who already Triple Crown. Solomoni is
the wedding, but didn’t RUTH BADER GINS- documentary will have Ronit (RACHEL WEISZ, is out as a lesbian. named after SOLOMON,
provide any details. This BURG, 85. While Gins- only a short theater run, 48), returns from New a toddler in the extended
2015 story has been re- burg has become a pop so look for it soon on York for his funeral. She Something heavy, Zayat family.
peated all over the inter- culture icon, relatively streaming services). soon gets re-acquaint- something light But GARY BARBER,
net, but there’s been no few people know either “Disobedience,” which ed with the two best Now-famous come- 60, a former MGM CEO,
confirmation since 2015. about the tremendous has earned universally friends from her youth: dian Michelle Wolf is had a better day with
HAL LINDEN, 87, will legal legacy she created great reviews, is based Esti (Rachel McAdams), not Jewish. The Times his filly Wonder Gadot
guest-star in an episode even before she joined on a novel by Brit NAOMI and Dovid (Alessandro of Israel, while mention- (named after— well, you
of “Law & Order: SVU” the Supreme Court or ALDERMAN, 44, that Nivola, who had a Jewish ing her tour of Israel know). Wonder Gadot
that will air on Wednes- about the details of her centers on the London paternal grandmother). a few years back, said finished a surprising
day, May 16, at 9 p.m. personal life. “RBG” Orthodox community. Esti and Dovid are mar- she is not Jewish. Also, second in the Kentucky
A woman living in an explores how through The film opens with the ried, and Dovid is a kind, LARISA KLEBE, the Oaks, the Derby for fil-
assisted living facility pure grit, and the aid of death of an Orthodox much-admired Orthodox deputy director of the lies. The Oaks is held at
claims that she has been a great husband, she was rabbi after a fiery ser- rabbi. Huge complica- Jewish Women’s Ar- Churchill Downs, the day
raped. She has Alzheim- able to balance being a mon (ANTON LESSER, tions ensue when Esti chive, a quite good web- before the Derby. –N.B.
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A unique family reunion
‘Team Frank’ prepares for the Rubin Run at the JCC
LOIS GOLDRICH
F
or the past 37 years, people from
all over the country — and, it
seems, from beyond our borders
as well — have been participating
in the Rubin Run, a fundraiser for special
needs programming at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly that draws more
than 1,500 runners.
While its many participants all have their
own reasons to run — whether for exercise,
a commitment to special needs program-
ming, or just the need to do something dif-
ferent — runner Kimmy Chedel, who lives in Team Frank in front of the Kaplen JCC.
Montreal, has perhaps the most compelling
reason of all. has just been accepted there. It was a tough
Ms. Kimmy Chedel met Frank Doyle on time, she said, although partially eased by
an evening cruise of New York Harbor for the help of close friends. “We were a young
college alumni from both his school, Bow- couple with babies,” she said. “He was 39.”
doin College in Maine, and hers, Middle- The run, she said, is a way to honor
bury College in Vermont. His name tag fell Frank “and gather everyone who loved him
off and stuck to her shoe. around his children. They’re surrounded by
“I said, ‘Who is Frank Doyle?’ He came people who cared about their dad.”
over when he heard his name. It was love Ms. Chedel has come back to Tenafly to
at first sight.” participate in 18 runs. Last year, she gath-
The couple married and moved to Engle- ered a crew of 45 friends and family mem-
wood in January 2000. “My best friend bers, all wearing their distinctive “Team
Anna Stein (now Merker) lived in Engle- Frank” tee-shirts. This year, there will be
wood and belonged to the JCC,” Ms. Chedel 20. “My daughter is flying up,” she said. Garrett Doyle, left, and Canadian Anna Stein, left, and Kimmy Chedel at
said. “Frank and I decided we wanted to “Friends from Maine and Boston are com- world triathlete Matt Posh at the Start the start of the 5k last year. They are
raise children here.” The couple joined the ing. People are coming from across Canada of the Rubin Run last year. childhood friends.
JCC, and with several friends, they took part and New England.”
in the 2001 Rubin Run. Other friends from around the New York recently hiked up our biggest mountain,” year, has a three-pronged significance. The
Now most of that group is gone. Frank metropolitan area come out the day of the this year she and several from her group will first is the fact that it is held on Mother’s Day
and his friends were killed on September 11, race to cheer the runners on. She is espe- walk, rather than run, in Tenafly. as a celebration of family togetherness, where
2001, at the World Trade Center. cially pleased that this year the race will Several years ago, Ms. Chedel, who said the parents and other adult role models can set
“He worked at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, include an 8K trail run, “which will make it family gets together to do other activities as an example for healthy lifestyles for children.
KBW, a bank boutique at 2 World Trade Cen- more interesting for people like my son. It’s well — some have climbed Kilimanjaro and All participating moms receive a rose as they
ter,” Ms. Chedel, who also worked in finance, a good event to add.” done several Iron Man events — took her chil- cross the finish line and there are all kinds
said. “He worked there for 16 years as head of Frank, she said, “was a tremendous ath- dren to Africa. “I worked in emerging banks of outdoor activities for kids, as well as light
the equity desk. It’s funny. We were both in lete. He and Neal Merker” — a close friend for Chase so I traveled there frequently,” she bites and beverages, and free babysitting and
the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.” and active member of the JCC — “would run said. “I decided to bring the kids to see the DJ entertainment.
Ms. Chedel, left with two children — a at night on the hills of Englewood. A lawyer animals.” On that trip, she decided to create “Second, it allows people to set personal
daughter, Zoe, then 2, and a son, Garrett, and a guy from Wall Street. the non-profit Team Frank Africa, which will fitness goals for themselves and their fami-
1 — moved back to Canada, where she was “After he died, I decided we had to do build schools there, she hopes at the rate of lies. To prepare people for the race, the
born. Today, Zoe, 19, is a student at Elon events to honor him. He would have wanted one a year. She already has held a fundraiser fitness staff at the JCC provides extensive
University in North Carolina, and Garrett, 18 us to be together and stay active and healthy.” for her first project, a school in South Africa. training options. And last, it allows people
The weekend, she said, has become “It’s so nice when we come” to the JCC, to make a difference in their community,
Who: The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades somewhat ritualized. “Every Thursday of she said. “They hug all of us and thank us for as proceeds from the event support social
What: Will sponsor its annual Rubin race week, people fly in and stop at Lake coming. They take pictures. Now the children services, life skills classes, and vocational
Run, featuring an 8K run, 10K run, and George, at the same diner. Then we shop at are bringing all their friends. Last year there training for people with special needs. The
5K run/walk Woodbury Commons. We stay in the Clin- were 12 teens from Canada.” goal each year is to help this special popula-
When: On May 13, from 7:30 a.m. to ton Inn, and then we all go to New York. We Participating in the Rubin Run, Ms. Che- tion live more productive, meaningful lives
12 p.m. always spend several hours at the World del said, is one way to remember Frank and this is a great community motivator.
Where: Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Trade Center Museum. each year. In a perfect trifecta, it unites fam- Many people commit to this run in particu-
411 East Clinton Ave., Tenafly “Then we go to Carmines on the upper ily, it encourages the people he loved to be lar because it fulfills an important personal
For information: Go to west side for a carb dinner and then to Ben active, and it marks Mother’s Day. “The kids and JCC mission at the same time.”
http://www.jccotp.org/rubinrun. and Jerry’s. When we wake up at the Clinton are grown, the cousins are grown, but we Ms. Lazarus pointed out that the run is
How much: Fees range from $30 to $45; Inn, we order a big picnic lunch for after the use this as a kind of annual family reunion,” named for the late Leonard Rubin, a past
register at the JCC early that day. There race.” Ms. Chedel said. president and founder of the JCC, who estab-
is more detailed information online. Ms. Chedel said while she has participated Rochelle Lazarus, the JCC’s public relations lished this community-wide athletic event to
in a local triathlon for the past 16 years “and director, said “The Rubin Run, now in its 37th encourage and promote healthy living.

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Torah at Citi Field

Rabbi Menachem Genack of Englewood recalls
his conversation with Joe Lieberman at the OU’s day of study
J
JOANNE PALMER Shaer, and Naftali Frenkel, were kidnapped; about three
weeks later, their bodies were found. They had been
oseph Lieberman of Connecticut retired from the murdered. “Rabbi Rimon is a rav in Eretz Yisrael” — he is
United States Senate in 2013. an Israeli rabbi and scholar — “and he was one of the pos-
Since then, he’s been in and out of the news, kim” — the halachic decisors — “involved in finding their
both locally and nationally. Locally, Mr. Lieber- bodies,” he said. “The question was whether you are
man, a Democrat-turned-Independent (who caucused allowed to search for them on Shabbat, and the answer
with the Democrats) who ran for vice president on was yes.” If the search had not been allowed, he said, it
the Democratic ticket in 2000 and has endorsed both is likely that their bodies would not have been found.
Republican and Democratic presidential candidates He also talked about listening to Sivan Rahav-Meir, a
( John McCain in 2008, Hillary Clinton in 2012,) and popular anchor on Israel’s Channel 2 who is a baalat tes-
endorsed Josh Gottheimer, the freshman Democrat who huva, someone who had been just Jewish but returned
represents the state’s Fifth Congressional district. — or just simply turned — to rigorous Orthodox practice.
Like Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Lieberman feels strongly that Ms. Rahav-Meir talked about interviewing Natan and
compromise is necessary; he’s a founder of the group Avital Sharansky, about how inspirational that is, and
called No Labels, which advocates bridge-building about how Mr. Sharansky said that in many ways “what
rather than burning. people have to do now is more difficult than what he
Nationally, Mr. Lieberman was on the New York had to do then.” That, Rabbi Genack said, is because for
Times’ and the Washington Post’s front pages last week- him, “everything was black and white; he was fighting
end. That’s when his good friend Senator John McCain to leave a totalitarian regime, to be free.” Today, he said,
of Arizona, the Republican who is dying of brain cancer often choices are not quite as stark, which makes them
and looking back at his life with the freedom impend- that much more difficult to make.
ing death gives him, said that he wishes he’d listened to In his own session, Rabbi Genack and Mr. Lieberman
his own heart and chosen Mr. Lieberman as his running talked about “With Liberty and Justice,” a book of 50
mate in 2008. short chapters tracing the Israelites’ 50-day journey
Rabbi Menachem Genack of Englewood, who heads from Pesach to Sinai. It followed Mr. Lieberman’s “The
the Orthodox Union’s kashrut division, is another good Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath.”
friend of Mr. Lieberman’s; in fact, the two men study Joseph Lieberman, left, with Rabbi Menachem Genack. “That book was very well received,” Rabbi Genack said.
together every week, usually but not always by phone, “I asked him why he didn’t write about Passover next,
and have done so for the last 25 years. Rabbi Genack interviewed Mr. Lieberman about his new given that about 85 percent of American Jews make
In fact, Rabbi Genack said, he has been in Mr. Lieber- book, “With Liberty and Justice.” some kind of seder.
man’s office when Mr. McCain has called; although Torah in the City, now two years old, is a full-day pro- “He said no, he wanted to write about Shavuot, the
much of their conversations are serious, they also joke gram of plenaries and (slightly, but still very big) con- most obscure, least observed of the holidays. He wanted
with each other, the way friends do. He remembers Mr. current shiurim, taught by Orthodox luminaries for the to write about the links between the freedom of Pesach
McCain joking with Mr. Lieberman about a ride in a Orthodox Union, starting with daf yomi at 8:45 in the and the law at Shavuot, and about the journey from one
Shabbes elevator they took together. They were going to morning and concluding at 6. Citi Field is an easy place to the other.” (Pesach is when the Israelites were liber-
a penthouse. It was a tall building, and a very long ride. to get to — it’s the center of a tangle of subways, trains, ated, and Shavuot is when God gave them the 10 Com-
Mr. McCain “said that it was an expletive-deleted funny and highways — and there’s enough parking for a sta- mandments and the rest of the law.) “He said he wanted
experience,” Rabbi Genack reported. He also remem- dium full of fans (or students). to write about how the journey from Pesach to Shavuot,
bers an autographed picture that Mr. McCain sent Mr. The program is all indoors, Rabbi Genack said; but from freedom to law, has inspired the basic foundation
Lieberman; on it, he’d scrawled “Joe, I miss you in the “you are looking out over the field.” of our democracy.
Senate — but I don’t miss the salmon!” (That’s what Mr. The day is a project of OU’s president, Mark Bane, “The principles behind our Declaration of Indepen-
Lieberman would eat.) “who is very focused on getting people to study Torah,” dence are biblical principles,” Rabbi Genack said.
On Sunday, April 29, Rabbi Genack and Mr. Lieber- Rabbi Genack said. To that end, “many of the issues dis- “We also talked about the corrosive environment nowa-
man were among the 2,000 or so Orthodox Jews who cussed were contemporary issues. days, and what can be done about it,” he continued. “Joe
went to Citi Field, the Mets’ home stadium in Flushing “I went to hear Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon talk about represented bridge-building across the aisle, and in his last
Meadows, Queens, to listen to speakers and learn Torah. “The responsa that led to finding the three kidnapped years in the Senate he was criticized for doing that.”
Rabbi Genack and Mr. Lieberman were learners, but boys from Gush Etzion,” Rabbi Genack said. Still, both he and Mr. Lieberman have hope that the
they also were teachers; they shared a session where In 2014, three Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrah, Gilad situation will change.
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Looking at 1968, 50 years later

JCC U speaker explores that explosive period through history’s hindsight
Joanne Palmer
T
ime seems to move in
a logical way; one year
follows the next in neat
chronological order;
2016 is followed by 2017 is followed
by 2018.
History doesn’t work that
neatly. It moves in fits and starts.
Everything seems placid, turmoil
remains under the surface — and
then boom! Everything explodes,
or at least so it seems to people liv-
ing through it.
We could make the case that we
are living through such a period
right now, although we lack the dis-
tance to be sure. But certainly we
can look back 50 years — to 1968
— and absolutely know that it was
such a year. A year of explosions,
turmoil, hope, and bitter despair. Robert F. Kennedy Martin Luther King Jr.
L awyer and historian Jess
Velona will talk about that year Velona said. “He wrote his own speeches. I want to ask what would have happened if Martin Luther King had
in a two-part talk for the JCC U at be clear — I had many duties there, and occasion- lived? If Bobby Kennedy had lived? Would things have
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in ally I wrote a speech for him, and occasionally he’d been different?
Tenafly; the first part will be this use part of what I wrote in a speech. “A change in a very few inches, in the course of a bullet,
Thursday. (See box.) “Remember,” Mr. Velona continued. “Someone could have changed history in the years to come,” he said.
Mr. Velona’s interest in 1968 said about him” — according to Google, that some- In the course of making these four points, Mr. Velona
was piqued in 1968; he was 7, liv- one was Mr. Moynihan’s close friend, the columnist will touch on such issues as the Columbia uprising in
ing in Manhattan with his mother, George F. Will — “that he wrote more books than April, as well as the movements of students and workers
who was very politically attuned most senators read.” in France that year; he might talk as well about the Prague
in a year when politics was on the Mr. Velona is fascinated by good American politi- spring.
radar of even the most apolitical, cal oratory, and 1968 was a peak year for it. He Why did all this happen in one year? “I can’t say,” he
and the excitement and rage in the teaches a course called “Great Modern Speeches,” said. “But clearly social tensions were building within
air was impossible to miss. In par- Jess Velona he said, and it relies heavily on 1968. “There were various countries. And then there was the generation
ticular, “my mother loved the Ken- so many incredible speeches that year,” he said. gap” — a term coined by Grayson Kirk, Columbia’s presi-
nedys,” he said. “Bobby Kennedy was like a member of “Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech, Bobby Kennedy’s dent, just before it proved his prescience as students took
our family. So when he died, it was like a member of the eulogy for Dr. King, Teddy Kennedy’s eulogy for Bobby.” over the campus.
family died.” Mr. Velona went on to clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsberg, to “The problem, I think, was that the political systems
Mr. Velona went to Harvard as an undergraduate, and practice law for 25 years, and now to teach. were not open enough to handle the protests and the ten-
then to Columbia Law School, where he teaches today; he His JCC course “is fast-paced, and has four goals,” sion that were building.”
also has a master’s in history from NYU. But between col- he said. “The first is to recreate what it was like to live In the United States, Mr. Velona said, that led to reforms
lege and law school — still practically a baby — he became a through the incredible ups and downs of that year. I use that have made a difference. “The political system was
speechwriter for the legendary writer, public intellectual, video and audio and power points to bring it to life.” changed in the wake of 1968 to make sure that the del-
U.S. senator, sociologist, and all-around Democratic icon The second goal is “to bring in a lot of the behind-the- egates to the convention are elected by the people. That
Daniel Patrick Moynihan. “I drafted some speeches for scenes stories, things that we didn’t know about at the means that it is very hard to get a situation like in the Dem-
Senator Moynihan, but the key word there is drafted,” Mr. time we were living through them.” Examples? “There was ocratic party in 1968, where you got a pro-war candidate
a meeting between Gene McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy, in an anti-war party.
Who: Jess Velona to discuss possibly working out a way to coordinate their “Today, I think that we get the candidates we want,”
What: Will talk about “1968: The Year That Shook Our campaigns against Lyndon Johnson,” he said. “I also talk he said.
History” about the meetings that were perpetuations of the feud And yes, of course Vietnam was central to everything
between Bobby Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. We now that happened in 1968, Mr. Velona said. The Tet offensive
Where: At the JCC U at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave., Tenafly can fill in what we didn’t know then. happened during 1968 too; “we don’t always remem-
“Third, we talk about perspective. A lot of the drama ber this, but it was during Tet that we heard the phrase
When: On Thursday, May 17, at 10:30 a.m.
that year was on the political left, but in 1968 there was ‘We had to destroy the village in order to save it.,’” Mr.
And also: For the second JCC U session that day, after a quiet reaction building on the political right, among Velona said. “Tet exposed the illusion that the war effort
a break, a Whitney Museum teaching fellow, Janine
the people who Nixon later would call the ‘silent major- was going well, and that we could win it. That’s true even
DeFeo, will talk about “Grant Wood: American Gothic
ity.’ Throughout the course, I show how different people though Tet was a technical victory; it leads to McCarthy’s
and Other Fables.” The painter is the subject of the
Whitney’s current exhibit. — on the left and on the right — interpreted the same victory in Vermont, and Johnson’s defeat.”
events differently. His two classes are generally chronological, Mr. Velona
How much: $35 for JCC members, $42 for everyone else
“And of course, for all the drama on the left, the right said; the first one “ends on a moment of hope in late May
For more information: Call Kathy Graff at (201) ends up winning the presidential election.” 1968.” After that, it’s all downhill.
408-1454, email her at [email protected], or go to
The last point, Mr. Velona said, “is to assess what But it’s also revealing and fascinating, and if we’re lucky
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‘Like Yogi Berra on
Old-Timers’ Day’
Yavneh recognizes the
Gordon family with new
baseball field of dreams
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
The new red-and-white illuminated scoreboard dedicated

at the renovated Yavneh Academy ball field on May 3 is
inscribed “Rebecca and Herb Gordon Field of Dreams.”
In the movie “Field of Dreams,” an Iowa farmer played
by Kevin Costner tears up his cornfield to build a baseball From top, Yavneh’s cheerleaders added
diamond. He is spurred by a voice telling him “If you build even more spirit to the dedication;
it, he will come,” referring to the ghost of the late great Yavneh’s choir sang as the baseball field
player “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. was dedicated; the field of dreams was
The field of dreams at the Paramus day school was named in memory of Herbert Gordon
spurred by the exact opposite situation. Nearly 800 lively and in honor of his wife, Rebecca; here,
pre-kindergartners to eighth-graders already were there; Rebecca Gordon thanks the school and
what was lacking was a field they could play on even in its supporters
wet weather.
“Over the last couple of years we took one of our fields field improvement project, they decided to
and created a gym,” Yavneh’s executive director, Joel raise money to pay for the upgrade and dedi-
Kirschner, said. “So all the kids have been playing on one cate it in memory of her late husband, Herb,
ball field and it gets pretty beaten up pretty quickly. an avid Yankees fan, and in honor of her long-
“Last summer we decided to put down AstroTurf and time devotion to the school.
it’s been an incredible hit. Kids can go out and play imme- Ms. Gordon has worked in the principal’s
diately after it rains or snows. They used to have to wait office at Yavneh since 1977, but her involve-
days or weeks for the grass to dry. Now they all use the ment goes back much farther.
field from 10 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, for “This September will be 53 years since we
outdoor play and scheduled sports.” enrolled our son Eric at Yavneh, and almost
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All of the above, reasoned the Gordons’ friends and
family, was more than enough reason to pay tribute to
the couple in a tangible and appropriate way.
Ms. Gordon will not soon forget the grand entrance
arranged for her by event chairwomen Barbara
Frohlich and Joanne Zayat of Teaneck at the dedica-
tion ceremony on May 3. That was the Jewish holiday
of Lag B’Omer, when day schools traditionally offer
outdoor games and activities.
“They put me in a convertible so I could wave to
people,” she said. “We had a police escort from the
Yavneh parking lot to the field. It was like I was Yogi
Berra at Old-Timers’ Day! It was really nice.”
That afternoon, the entire school body took part in
the ceremony and a celebratory parade — complete
with a choral performance and little cheerleaders — at
the Rebecca and Herb Gordon Field of Dreams.
Out on the field, which measures 125 by 150 feet,
Joyce Heller of Fair Lawn made a formal presentation
to the Gordon family. Then the piece de resistance, the
lighted scoreboard, was unveiled by Richard Baum of
Montvale, Meyer Berkowitz of Fair Lawn, and David
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worked tirelessly on the project.
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Sky-high bar mitzvah

Ringwood man, Holocaust survivor celebrate war-stopped rite of passage, 30,000 feet up
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN Mr. Steinberg and his sister were born
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in Romania after the war. The family emi-
n the day that should have grated in 1959 after getting governmental
been Aharon Steinberg’s bar permission, leaving on very short notice,
mitzvah, he was in a bomb carrying only one small suitcase.
shelter in the Tel Aviv suburb “We spent three months on the road
of Ramat Gan. from Bucharest,” Mr. Steinberg said. “In
He turned 13 in 1967, during the Six-Day Naples, we waited for the Theodor Herzl
War. All the men in town had been called vessel to take us to Israel. When we arrived
up for reserve duty. Young Aharon never with other new immigrants, we were put
got to chant his bar mitzvah portion, in Upper Nazareth and lived there for two
Baha’alotecha. The party that had been years.
planned was cancelled. “During that time I was lucky enough to
Nearly 61 years later, Mr. Steinberg, a be in the filming of ‘Exodus’ along with the
long-time resident of Ringwood, unexpect- other kids in my kindergarten. It’s easy to
edly had his long-overdue bar mitzvah cer- spot me in the movie; I’m the boy on the
SHAHAR AZRAN
emony aboard an El Al plane. The plane shoulders of Paul Newman!”
was en route from Poland to Israel, carry- The family moved several times before
ing 150 members of the Friends of the Israel settling in Ramat Gan in 1964. After high
Defense Forces’ “From Holocaust to Inde- school and service in the air force, Mr.
pendence” mission, as well as 50 IDF sol- Aharon Steinberg of Ridgewood, at left, and Holocaust survivor Leon Shear cel- Steinberg worked for Israel Aircraft Indus-
diers and officers. ebrate their bar mitzvah on the FIDF flight from Poland to Israel on April 16. tries; he was on the team that designed the
As they boarded the plane in Poland first Israeli drone in 1974. In 1977, he took
on April 16, the participants’ mood was Rabbi Weintraub, who then tried to make a two-year leave of absence and came to
somber. They had toured tragic land- an announcement on the loudspeaker, New York to earn an engineering degree
marks, including Krakow, once home to a “but nobody listened because they were at Brooklyn Polytechnic.
flourishing Jewish community of 60,000 Think about it: still singing and dancing,” Mr. Steinberg Just before he was to go back to Israel, he
souls; the Buczyna forest, where the recalled. met his future wife, Orly, and they decided
Nazis executed more than 800 children; 30,000 feet Finally Rabbi Weintraub got everyone’s to remain in the United States. They have
and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentra- above ground is attention and invited them to the back of lived in Ringwood since 1982 and have three
tion and extermination camps. the plane, where an IDF soldier was pre- daughters — Monica, Tara, and Jaymee —
Polish-born Leon Shear, 91, of Beach- the closest you paring to chant the day’s Torah portion. and two grandchildren. Monica Steinberg
wood, Ohio, was one of three Holocaust sur- can be to God For the fourth and final aliyah — the call- is the FIDF development associate for New
vivors on the trip. He was accompanied by ing up of a member of the minyan to say Jersey.
his son, Howard, and his grandson, Jeremy. unless you’re a blessing over the scroll at set points in The Steinbergs have been active in the
“Listening to Leon’s stories when we aboard Gemini or the reading — both Mr. Steinberg and Mr. Solomon Schechter School of Oakland and
visited Auschwitz, it dawned on the mem- Shear were summoned. other Jewish and Israeli organizations, and
bers of our mission that he never had a bar Apollo. What’s the “As soon as we were done, everyone belong to Chabad Jewish Center of Upper
mitzvah,” Mr. Steinberg said. “He was lib- probability that started throwing the candies at us,” Mr. Passaic County.
erated at age 14.” Steinberg said. “We all sang again, and it For the last 33 years, Mr. Steinberg has
Rabbi Peter Weintraub, FIDF’s national an opportunity was a joyous moment. been in the travel business. It is therefore
president, wanted to do something special like this would “Think about it: 30,000 feet above quite fitting that his belated bar mitzvah
for Mr. Shear, Mr. Steinberg said, but the ground is the closest you can be to God was a spontaneous in-flight ceremony as
schedule was too tight to allow for it. “The come along? unless you’re aboard Gemini or Apollo. part of a mission symbolizing the journey
only time we had would be on the four-and- You couldn’t What’s the probability that an opportunity of the Jewish people from Holocaust to
a-half-hour flight to Israel,” he said. like this would come along? You couldn’t independence.
Before the flight Mr. Steinberg went with duplicate it. duplicate it. After landing in Israel, the delegation vis-
Rabbi Weintraub’s wife, Ellen, to browse AHARON STEINBERG “I will send a letter to Guinness World ited military bases, commemorated Yom
in the Katowice Airport duty-free shop. He Records to see if anyone has ever had a bar Hazikaron — Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen
soon sensed that she was trying to get rid After takeoff, FIDF National Direc- mitzvah at that altitude.” soldiers and victims of terror — and cele-
of him. “Later I understood she was buy- tor Major General (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir More than six decades after the Six-Day brated Israel’s 70th Independence Day. They
ing the candies to throw at Leon and she came to Mr. Steinberg’s row to share the War, Mr. Steinberg doesn’t recall how he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
wanted to keep it a secret.” news that they had decided to make an felt about his “real” bar mitzvah being can- Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin.
Little did either of them know that those impromptu bar mitzvah for Mr. Shear. celled. The trauma of the sirens and the “This mission comes at a crucial time,
candies would shower him too. Everything they needed already was shelter, the blackouts and the existential and is one of the last opportunities for
But first the mission members experi- onboard: rabbi and cantor, prayer shawl worry during that tense time overpowered survivors to return to Auschwitz and tell
enced another highly emotional scene. and Torah scroll. It was a Monday, one his emotions, he explained. of its horrors,” Rabbi Weintraub said. “We
Before takeoff, El Al Captain Ofer Aloni of the three days of the week when the He still has the recording of the Torah passed through the gates of hell, ignoring
announced that he had requested to pilot Torah is read publicly, so all the condi- portion that his bar mitzvah teacher the false promise that ‘work will set you
this mission because all four of his grand- tions were perfect. made for him. As to why the ceremony free,’ where countless Jews suffered from
parents had perished at Auschwitz. The “My wife said to General Klifi, ‘You didn’t take place once the war was over unimaginable cold, hunger, and despair.
captain then took out a guitar and led the know, Aharon didn’t have a bar mitzvah and miraculously won, he only can guess We were surrounded by those who sur-
passengers in singing classic Jewish songs. because the Six-Day War broke out that it had something to do with his parents’ vived within the camps’ walls, and also by
A flight attendant caught the moment on a day,’” Mr. Steinberg said. “So he said, earlier trauma of surviving the Holo- those who make sure their stories are not
video that soon went viral in Israel. (To find ‘Okay, we’ll do two bar mitzvahs.’” caust, a period of their lives they never forgotten — the brave soldiers who protect
it, google “Facebook FIDF pilot singing.”) The general cleared the idea with talked about. their legacy.”

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A birthday party for Israel, in Paramus

LARRY YUDELSON Ms. Abrams grew up in Woodcliff Lake. She now lives
T
in Montvale. At 52, she not only doesn’t remember Ben
o celebrate Israel’s 70th birthday, the Jewish Gurion declaring the State of Israel’s independence, she
Federation of Northern New Jersey is throwing doesn’t even remember the Six Day War.
a house party. “I have no memory of Jerusalem not being whole,”
Actually, it’s a yard party — the entire cul-de- she said. “It’s like the George Washington Bridge hav-
sac in Paramus where the federation has its offices will ing only one level” — something she heard stories about,
be closed off from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 10, for the that happened before she was old enough to notice.
celebrations. There will be a bouncy house and arts and She was 13 when she first visited Israel. “It was a UJA
crafts for children, as well as the opportunity to write let- mission,” she said. “A friend of mine was
ters to lone soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces. (Federa- having his bar mitzvah in Israel. They had
tion leaders plan on sending at least 500 of them.) The two buses: one for the adults, and one for
Maccabeats will sing, there will be Israeli dancing and the kids. The Maccabeats
food, and Silvio Berlfein, the popular and charismatic “It was such a perfect time to experience
program director of the New Jersey Y Camps, will oversee Israel. We had Passover at an army base. to be there. To me that’s what becom-
the afternoon. We went up to the top of Masada in the ing a bat mitzvah was about.”
“We want to celebrate in our community, with our com- morning.” And that’s why Ms. Abrams, who
munity,” Roberta Abrams said. Ms. Abrams is the incoming Ms. Abrams was offered the chance went to Israel three times last year, is so
president of the federation (she takes office on July 1) and to celebrate her bat mitzvah there on excited about celebrating Israel’s mile-
has been involved in the planning of the Israel at 70 event. Masada. Her best friend chose to do so, but stone anniversary outdoors, on a closed-
That’s why it’s a community event, not just a federa- she made the opposite choice. “I felt that Silvio Berlfein off Paramus street.
tion event. The federation has reached out to its agencies as meaningful as it is to have your bat mitz- “That’s what so beautiful about cel-
and the community’s synagogues and day schools to par- vah and read from the Torah on Masada, I wanted to celebrating Israel at 70 in New Jersey,” she said. “We can cel-
ticipate “and make this really special,” Ms. Abrams said. ebrate my bat mitzvah at home,” she said. “I wanted my ebrate it in the streets. We can literally shout our pride and
“We’re not doing this alone.” grandmothers and my friends and my extended family love for Israel. I’m so grateful that we can do it.”
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‘Measure
of a Man’
CURT SCHLEIER
B
obby Marks’s religion isn’t spe-
cifically mentioned in either
the film “Measure of a Man”
or the 1977 young adult novel,
“One Fat Summer,” on which it is based.
But he certainly was Jewish in author
Robert Lipsyte’s mind.
Mr. Lipsyte, who lived in Closter for 20
years, and whose children went through
the town’s public school system and then
on to the regional Northern Valley High
School in Demarest, elaborated. “I don’t
think it comes through in the film, but I
always thought of him as Jewish,” he said.
“And his parents are Marty and Lenore
Marks, and that sounds Jewish to me.”
More to the point, the book is auto-
biographical. It’s based on, well, one fat
summer in Mr. Lipsyte’s life.
In the book, Bobby (Blake Cooper) and
his family spend the summer at a cabin
at fictional Lake Rumsen. One of Bobby’s
few pleasures there is his relationship Blake Cooper plays Robert Lipsyte’s more-or-less alter ego in “Measure of a Man.” PHOTOS COURTESY GREAT POINT MEDIA
with Joanie Williams (Danielle Rose Rus-

sell). But the pair are mercilessly picked
on by local teens, she because of her
large nose and he because of his weight.
What Bobby, particularly, goes through
is familiar to anyone who ever has been
bullied: he is constantly on the lookout
for tormentors. He never knows where or
when they will appear or what they will
do when they do show up. It is almost
claustrophobic.
Bobby takes a job caring for the estate of
Dr. Kahn (Donald Sutherland), who in the
film (though not the book) is a concentra-
tion camp survivor. Over the course of the
summer, the young boy learns responsibil-
ity and to stand up for himself.
Mr. Lipsyte, 80, grew up in Rego Park, New York Times writer Robert Lipsyte lived
Queens, and did all the things Jewish kids in Closter for 20 years. Donald Sutherland plays a concentration camp survivor in the film.
his age in Queens did. He went to Hebrew
school, was a bar mitzvah, and even con- should rename the area “Lake Wop or lose weight. But Mr. Lipsyte did, some 40 “I loved the idea of journalism as a call-
tinued on toward a confirmation until his Lake Kike,” he added. pounds, that changed his life. He joined ing and being part of something other
beloved rabbi died unexpectedly. “That Mr. Lipsyte got a job mowing lawns a traveling softball team in Monroe and than yourself. I guess if the job had been
really tested my faith and turned me off,” and generally caring for the estate of a even went out for his college tennis team. in the art department, that’s what I
he said. Jewish man, but here real life and the “I tried to make up for lost time,” he said. would have wound up doing — art.”
He was the son of two New York City film diverge. Mr. Sutherland’s Dr. Kahn His life in the sports world continued. Mr. Lipsyte never made it to Califor-
school teachers, and the family had a sec- “was much nicer than the character in the If his name is familiar now, it may be nia. Ironically, at a time when there were
ond home in Monroe, N.Y. “We” — par- book,” he said. “I thought he was a ter- because in addition to being a respected three baseball teams in town, Mr. Lipsyte
ents and children — “had the same vaca- rible man.” and award-winning author, he also was a had been to only two games his entire
tions,” he said. “We went up there every In the film, too, the townies are far sports columnist for the New York Times, life — and found them disappointing.
weekend, every holiday, every summer.” more violent than those with whom Mr. a job he landed “totally by accident. “I’d listened to baseball on the radio,
Like Bobby, young Robert Lipsyte was Lipsyte dealt. “There was a long walk “I’d just graduated from college and and by the time I got to Yankee Stadium
overweight. “I didn’t play any sports,” he from my house to the house where I needed a summer job before I left for with my dad I’d expected something big-
recalls. “I was good at underwater swim- worked, and I really had to keep my grad school in California,” Mr. Lipsyte ger and much more beautiful,” he said.
ming,” which plays a key role in the film and eye out,” he said. “But they just kind said. “I saw an ad in the New York Times “Mel Allen was a great announcer and he
book. And like Bobby, Mr. Lipsyte also had of harassed me and pushed me around, that the paper was looking for an edito- painted a picture that really impacted my
to put up with bullies. It was the townies but they never did any real damage,” as rial assistant. The job turned out to be imagination, and made me believe it was
against the summer people, he said. “There they do in the film. “As the summer pro- a copy boy in the sports department. I much more than it was.”
was a lot of anti-Semitism up there.” gressed and I became stronger, I became hated the job and wasn’t all that inter- But obviously that changed. He did go
Many of the locals resented the wealth- less and less afraid of them.” ested in sports, but I kind of loved the back to baseball. His third game was as a
ier summer people and wondered if they Ironically, in the film Bobby doesn’t Times. reporter for the Times.

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Jewish Federation celebrates 25 years of women’s
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Lucille J. Amster Angelica Berrie Nancy G. Brown Geri Cantor Mariam Davis Eleanor Epstein
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Throughout the month of May, we pay special tribute to 88 women from
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Irene Reiss Janice Greenberg Albert Nahum Helga Bodeen Lotte Buff
Henry and Lola Weber
JCC of Paramus/CBT plans celebration to mark 60 years since groundbreaking

This year, the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah’s annual journal dinner dance The new synagogue quickly became a meeting place for newly organized chapters
— the shul’s 36th dinner dance — will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ground- of Jewish organizations, as well as a place for morning and evening minyanim. Contin-
breaking ceremony for what then was called the Jewish Community Center of Para- ued growth added a religious school and a few years later the building was expanded.
mus. It is set for Sunday, June 10, at 4:30 p.m., at the synagogue. Several members have Members of seven of the synagogue’s founding families still belong to it. Above,
been at the shul from the beginning. It started in 1951 when 14 families came together Henry and Lola Weber, Irene Reiss, Janice Greenberg, Albert Nahum, Helga Bodeen,
to realize their dream of building a shul. That dream was realized and a ground break- and Lotte Buff will be at the celebration; founding member Leon Klein, not pictured,
ing ceremony was held on May 4, 1958, on the southwest corner of East Midland Ave- will join them.
nue and Spring Valley Road in Paramus. A building campaign was launched; within The gala includes a cocktail hour, dinner, and dancing; an ad journal will be pub-
three years the building was a reality and dedication ceremonies were held. At the lished in conjunction with it. For more information, call (201) 262-7691 or go to
time, Henry Weber, pictured above, was the shul president. JCCParamus.org.
NORPAC hosts Senator Cardin

Last week, the Kazmir family of Closter
hosted a Norpac pro-Israel private dinner
for the pro-Israel lobby group Norpac to
support Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
Ben Cardin is a senior member and for-
mer ranking member of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee. He was one of four
members of his party in the Senate to vote
against the Iran deal in 2015. Last year, he
and Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced
the bipartisan Israel Anti-Boycott Act leg-
islation to combat the anti-Israel boycott, Senator Ben Cardin, left, with Dr. Munr
divestment and sanctions movement. Kazmir COURTESY NORPAC
Mr. Cardin is completing his second

term in the Senate and is running for re-election this year. The primary will be in June.
BCHSJS board president Sy Blechman, left, stands with Alla Fine, Rabbi Dr.
David Fine, Deborah Lesnoy, Heidi and Seth Seigel-Laddy, and Fred Nagler,
BCHSJS’s principal and director. JO ROSEN PHOTOGRAPHY.
BCHSJS enjoys gala dinner

Rabbi Mordechai
and Shterney The Bergen County High School of Jew- the inaugural Walter Ramsfelder Exem-
Kanelsky flank ish Studies recently held its annual gala plary Service award. Temple Israel’s
Lt. Governor at Temple Israel and JCC in Ridgewood. Rabbi Fine is the president of the New
Sheila Oliver. Fred Nagler was the emcee and Rabbi Jersey Rabbinical Assembly and is the
COURTESY
Dr. Wallace Greene gave the d’var Torah. BCHSJS treasurer. Ms. Fine is on several
BRIS AVROHOM Heidi and Seth Seigel-Laddy were the committees at Temple Israel and on the
Parent Honorees. They have three chil- BCHSJS dinner committee. The recently
dren — Alyssa, who is a BCHSJS alumna; named service award is in memory of
Kayla, a BCHSJS senior, and Spencer, Walter Ramsfelder, a BCHSJS founder
a freshman. who served the school in various capaci-
Debora Lesnoy, the director of the ties for more than four decades.
Russian Jewish community Helen Troum Nursery School at Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn and a teacher
BCHSJS’s graduating seniors were
honored with a video presentation
highlights its programs at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI, and senior Kayla Seigel-Laddy spoke.
Rabbi Mordechai and Shterney Kanelsky of Bris Avrohom recently met with Sheila Oliver, was honored as BCHSJS’ Educator of For more information, go to www.
New Jersey’s lieutenant governor, to discuss different programs for the Russian Jewish the Year. bchsjs.org.
community in the state, focusing on BA’s educational programs for teens. They also pre- Alla and Rabbi Dr. David Fine received
sented her with a tzedakah box from Israel.

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From left, Chaim

Kiss, Michael Roth,
Len Grunstein,
Rabbi Steven
Pruzansky, and
Jack Forgash, all
of Bnai Yeshurun,
with Mottie
Dan of Ateret
Cohanim, on the
roof of the Aish
HaTorah center,
overlooking the
Kotel, on Yom
Ha’atzmaut.
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Bnai Yeshurun goes to Israel

About two dozen members of Teaneck’s Congregation Bnai Yeshurun recently trav-
The Bnai Yeshurun group stands together at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and eled to Israel together to celebrate its 70th anniversary. The trip spanned Yom HaS-
Matriarchs; the shul went there on a trip led by One Israel Fund. hoah, Yom Ha’zikaron, and Yom Ha’atzmaut. Other CBY families joined in the pro-
gram there, including members who live in Israel for part of the year.
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Dancing together
Unlikely partners
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JOANNE PALMER Palestine, in 1944. His mother, Georgetta 12,” Pierre said. He was unhappy. He did
Safadi, was Palestinian, and his father, Eric not fit in. “I was bullied,” he said. “I had an
bring the civility hat do you think of Alexandre Heney, was from northern Ire- accent. I didn’t speak the British way. I had
and grace of when you think of

ballroom dancing?
land, a Protestant, from a family of Prot-
estant ministers. Georgetta and Eric met
a broken tooth, so I never smiled.
“But when I was 14, one of the girls in
ballrooms to Fo r m a l i t y t h a t
sometimes sparks
and married in Jaffa, and Pierre grew up
Catholic, like his mother.
the class was going to a local dance studio,
and she invited me to go with her.” He did.
classrooms in and catches and turns into magic? History intruded. “In 1948 the state of He loved it. “My personality changed,” he
That’s what the dancer and dance Israel was created, and we had to leave,” said. And so I stayed with it.” This was still
Israel, screens teacher Pierre Dulaine thinks. Pierre said. The family moved to Amman, pretty immediately post-war, definitely
in Closter And then there is the dance that is Pierre

Dulaine’s own life, less a formal ballroom
Jordan, where he grew up; his education
came from the College des Frères. Pierre
pre-Beatles, pre-rock ‘n’ roll.
“Eventually, at the age of 20, I went to
performance than a sinuous chase after grew up speaking “Arabic on the street, live in London, and I started teaching at the
dreams, through worlds, ending up in French at school, and English — only Eng- Arthur Murray dance studio in Leicester
some ways where he had begun, but in lish — at home. We had to make sure that Square,” Pierre said. He changed his name
other ways not at all. we knew we were British,” he said. And to Pierre Dulaine — it sounded ever so
He ended up creating Dancing Class- the Pierre part? The French name? That much more like a dancer than Peter Heney.
rooms, a program that brings the com- story comes later; back then, his name His name might be assumed, but his accent
bination of creativity and technique that was Peter Heney. is not, and he picked the perfect name for
ballroom dancing — in fact that all art, to And then history hit again. “On Novem- it; when he says Pierre, the double rr in its
varying degrees — entails to children. He ber 2, 1956, we lost our home and we had center sounds as if it’s made up of at least
brings them both discipline and delight. to flee, because of the Suez Canal cri- 18 rs. It rolls lusciously off his tongue. It is
Wait. What? sis,” Pierre said. “We were British, so we hard to tease apart the elements of Pierre’s
Okay. Here’s the straightforward version couldn’t hang around there.” accent, but it is a lovely combination of all
of his life. The family went to England, and estab- his languages and influences.
Pierre Dulaine was born in Jaffa, lished themselves in Birmingham. “I was So — Pierre Dulaine is in London, and

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Left, Pierre Dulaine teaches in Jaffa; above, students pair up in another class in Israel.
In a series of 20 classes, they learn

the courtesies, craft, partnership
skills, and musicality that ballroom
dancing demands. It is not accidental
that many — most — of those skills
are transferable to the rest of life.
“I become famous there,” he said. He had matinees notwithstanding. “So I volun-
a dance partner; together, “we danced at teered; I taught ballroom dancing at the
the Royal Albert Hall.” There was a dance Performing Arts School on 48th Street.
competition that pitted two couples “That was the seed of what became
against each other there; the audience Dancing Classrooms.”
chose the winners. “We won that in 1967 From there, Pierre expanded to other Pierre Dulaine in London years ago, and with his partner, Yvonne
and in 1969,” he said. From there, Pierre schools; the program now is in more than Marceau, in “Grand Hotel.”
started performing on cruises, and then 30 cities and five countries around the
became a cruise director. “I had never world, Including Israel.
done anything like that before — but I’m Dancing Classrooms is a program,
good with people,” he said. His home base mainly for fifth graders — that magic win-
remained London. dow when girls and boys can sometimes
After some time, he decided to take “a touch each other without fearing that
two-week holiday in New York,” he said. they’ll get cooties, but their hormones
“I went to visit the Arthur Murray stu- have not yet started to rage — where, in a
dio in Columbus Circle, they offered me series of 20 classes, they learn the courte-
a job and I said ‘Fine, I’ll stay for three sies, craft, partnership skills, and musical-
months,’ and then they offered me a ity that ballroom dancing demands. It is
work permit. That was in 1971, and I have not accidental that many — most — of those
been here ever since.” skills are transferable to the rest of life.
Pierre and his dance partner, Yvonne “At the heart of the Dulaine method
Marceau, won four world championships of teaching dance there are elements”
in dance, and they were both on Broadway demanded of the teacher, Pierre said.
and in London’s East End with a musical “Respect and compassion, to be able to
called “Grand Hotel.” They also formed control the children, to teach with humor
the American Ballroom Theater, a traveling and joy, to give the children a safe space
company that they took around the world. so they can really enjoy themselves and
When he was performing, Pierre found be free to express themselves.” He knows
himself with a lot of free time during the that many of the children don’t want to
day; most Broadway shows play at night, be there when they begin; it is up to the Pierre Dulaine began his Dancing Classrooms program in Manhattan.

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it. The talk is called “May I Have This Dance,

Please”; that’s the formula a boy asks of a
girl before they begin to dance. The neces-
sary response is “With pleasure,” he added.
In 2005, a documentary filmmaker made
“Red Hot Ballroom,” a look at the program
from the kids’ perspective as well as Pierre’s.
The documentary, which was well received,
linked Pierre to his next adventure.
In 2006, Miri Shahaf-Levi saw the film.
Miri, who since has retired, then was
“in charge of all the cultural managers in
Israel,” she said; she’d begun her career
managing the cultural center in Netanya.
Her husband, Yossi Levi, was in charge of
the country’s informal education. “Twelve
years ago, we watched ‘Mad Hot Ballroom’
in Tel Aviv, and I told my husband I had to
find this wonderful person, Pierre Dulaine.
“We’d already booked tickets to New
York to visit my brother” — that’s Moshe
Golomb, who lives in Tenafly — “so I called
Drs. Kenny and Sharon Fried visited Israeli schools using Dancing Classrooms and photographed what they saw. my brother and said we have to find Pierre.”
They did — his studio was just a block away
teacher to thaw those children out until kids to dance school. The program itself styles in 20 lessons. The last lesson is a per- from her brother’s Manhattan office.
they can feel the joy inherent in the dance. is 10 weeks long, and we visit the schools formance. We call it a ballroom breakfast. “Miri was surprised to find out that I was
“What is great about Dancing Classrooms twice a week. The kids learn merengue, Parents are invited, and the kids demon- Palestinian,” Pierre said. “Her ears opened
is that we go to the schools, and so many of foxtrot, rumba, tango, swing, waltz, heel- strate what they have learned.” up.” She asked him if he could bring Danc-
the kids are underprivileged. Their parents toe polka, and some fun line dances. So Pierre explains his method in a Ted talk; ing Classroom to Israel, and “I said that I
would never have the money to send their they learn a lot; about 10 different musical just google Ted Talk Pierre Dulaine to find would go there only if I could work with
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VA L L E Y C H A B A D I N V I T E S Y O U
T O A N I G H T O F C E L E B R AT I O N
A G A L A D I N N E R C E L E B R AT I N G
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COMMUNITY. EDUCATION. OUTREACH.
JUNE 5, 2018
PIerre Dulaine, surrounded by Jewish and Arab Israeli kids in Jaffa, shows his joy. 6:30PM
both Arab and Jewish Israelis.” okay for them to allow their children screened. That’s because longtime
It couldn’t happen right away —
both Miri and Pierre had other obli-
gations — “but in February 2011, I
to dance with a boy or a girl who is
the enemy, but what do you say to
your family? To your neighbors? And
congregants Drs. Kenny and Sharon
Fried of Demarest stumbled across
Dancing Classrooms and fell in love
Honorees
stepped in the first school in Jaffa.” then, even more, it was being made with it, just as Miri Shahaf-Levi had.
They worked with five schools there, into a film, for the whole world to The Frieds are sponsoring the eve-
in the city where he was born — two know. What do you say?” ning because of Sharon’s Uncle Wil-
Jewish, two Arab, “and the Weiz- That film is called “Dancing in lie, her father’s brother, a Holocaust
mann School, which had both Jewish Jaffa.” “It has a wonderful ending,” survivor who recently died, at 97.
and Palestinian children under the Pierre said. “You see Jewish par- Uncle Willie — more formally,
same roof, learning together. ents and Palestinian parents sitting Vilem Zelovic — “had a passion for
“I have to say that this was one together. dancing,” Kenny said. “He was in the C H A I L I F E AWA R D
of the hardest — if not actually THE “When you see the film, you see a jewelry business on 47th Street, and Bernice &
hardest — projects I have ever done. Jewish woman with her arms com- worked till he died. He left money, Bernie Gola
“You are teaching children to pletely bare, and sitting next to he didn’t say what to do with it, and
dance with the enemy. In the her you see a completely covered we wanted to honor him.
streets, it’s Jews on one side, Pales- woman in black, wearing a hijab. “He was on the cover of Lincoln
tinians on the other.” Both are smiling. Both are cheering Center’s brochure, he taught three
There were other objections to their children on. It is very powerful. generations to dance — this is how
overcome as well. “It was hard for “I am so proud of the film! But he faced life.
us to convince the Muslim commu- what I am most proud of is how “Uncle Willie loved Israel, but he
nity that it was okay for their kids Miri has developed the program in never went there. But we thought
to dance,” Pierre said. “But because Israel. She’s become the site direc- that his heart always was there.” S H E M TO V YO U N G L E A D E R S H I P
I speak Arabic with a Palestinian tor of Dancing Classrooms Israel.” So — dance and Israel, and how to AWA R D AWA R D
accent, I could overcome that. “I have taken on this wonderful honor Uncle Willie? Esther & Elana &
“And then there was a father in one program as my life’s work,” Miri Sharon is a dermatologist; one
of the Arab schools who did not want said. “I now have a wonderful team of her patients told her about “Red
Warren Feldman Lawrence Bibi
his daughter to dance with a boy.” of 15 teaching artists, who are work- Hot Ballroom,” Kenny said. “So we
(Pierre would have encountered a ing from the north of Israel, from the looked into it. It is amazing.
similar problem had he worked in border of Lebanon, until Dimona, in “We just got back from Ma’alot, TEENS
an Israeli religious school, but so the south. We have 100 schools, Jew- where there is a program that we
far all the Israeli schools have been ish and Arab and mixed.” funded there and in a neighboring
secular, although Miri now is begin- The program teaches dance, but Arab town. We thought it was a great
ning to talk to religious ones.) “I told — and? — it goes deeply into chil- opportunity, because in this town,
the father that it would be good for dren’s souls. that tried fostering respect between
her to learn discipline, that it would “You know, step by step, the kids the communities, we thought that it Maddy Gold Mitchell Bloom
be good for her education, that her become friends,” Miri said. “They might work.
TEEN VOLUNTEER “OUR FUTURE” AWARD
grades would be that much better. come for breakfast with each other “So we saw it in action. We had an
“I convinced him, and later he and look each other in the eye. amazing experience. We saw the kids
became one of my best spokesmen. Something happens between them. performing; they are planning an
“With the Jewish schools, they Dancing Classrooms has run pro- end-of-semester joint program where
wanted it — they liked that it was grams in Israel for five years now, they all will dance hand in hand.”
free — and they didn’t mind letting and it has reached about 7,000 It’s not as if a bunch of fifth-grad- ROCKLEIGH COUNTRY CLUB
their children dance, but they didn’t students. ers rumba-ing together, boys and
want them to dance with Arabs. It Temple Emanu-El of Closter girls, Jews and Arabs, will bring 2 0 1. 4 7 6. 0 1 5 7
was awkward. But they liked me a showed “Dancing in Jaffa” last peace, or even civility, to the world C E L E B R AT I O N 1 8 . C 0 M
lot. We were convincing to them. Wednesday; Pierre and Miri were — but you have to start somewhere.
“It was hard for both sides. It was there to answer questions after it was So why not start with magic?

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targeting its missile testing, and then com- Additionally, the Trump administration
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Iran deal another promise in ending catastrophic Iran Deal which
fleischman FROM PAGE25

clear in his announcement he was not going to be spar-
I believe Obama instituted to strengthen Iran’s ability to
harm Israel. We urge Trump to make clear if Iran doesn’t
furs OUR
70th
ing in his sanctions.
“We will be instituting the highest level of economic
sanction,” he said. “Any nation that helps Iran in its
end their nuke program, US & Israel will be forced to
consider military action.”
“A regime that serially celebrates the denial of the
…for only the finest YEAR! quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanc- Nazi Holocaust — history’s most documented genocide —
tioned by the United States.” ever took place, can be relied upon to lie about its com-
FUR STORAGE Speaking to reporters afterward, John Bolton, mitments to the international community,” said Rabbis
in our secure, modern Trump’s national security adviser, said there would be Marvin Hier, founder and dean and Abraham Cooper,
climate and humidity 90- to 180-day “wind down” periods for companies that associate dean, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in a
controlled vaults. Protect have existing contracts in Iran. statement. “Lying is the national anthem and magna
your valuable furs If those sanctions kick in for European companies, it carta of the Ayatollah’s regime.”
and shearlings during
could poison the atmosphere between the United States And former President Barack Obama, who considered
warm weather from heat,
and those allies, making coordination on a reconfigured the JCPOA a hallmark of his presidency, offered a rare
humidity, moths and
deal less likely. response to a move by Trump, saying his successor had
other crawling insects.
The other circumstance clouding the prospect of a scrapped a deal that was working.
new deal was tensions between Israel and Iran in Syria. “Without the JCPOA, the United States could eventu-
For years, Iran has assisted the Assad regime in quell- ally be left with a losing choice between a nuclear-armed
Free Pick Up ing the civil war in that country, and in recent months Iran or another war in the Middle East,” Obama wrote
Israel has said that it cannot tolerate a permanent Ira- on Facebook. “We all know the dangers of Iran obtain-
& Delivery nian presence there. ing a nuclear weapon. It could embolden an already
On Tuesday, shortly after Trump’s announcement, dangerous regime; threaten our friends with destruc-
Israel’s military increased its readiness on the northern tion; pose unacceptable dangers to America’s own secu-
Call Now border in the Golan Heights in response to what it is call- rity; and trigger an arms race in the world’s most danger-
201-568-2242 ing “unusual movements of Iranian forces in Syria.” ous region. If the constraints on Iran’s nuclear program
Trump’s announcement also revived old tensions and under the JCPOA are lost, we could be hastening the day
heated rhetoric that preceded the JCPOA’s adoption. when we are faced with the choice between living with
Morton Klein, the hawkish head of the Zionist Organiza- that threat, or going to war to prevent it.”
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Rod Rosenstein speaks at the Anti-Defamation League’s annual conference

in Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2018. RON KAMPEAS
Rod Rosenstein praises

Trump — and extols those
who defend the rule of law
RON KAMPEAS deter discrimination is to prosecute hate
crime violations,” said Rosenstein, who
WASHINGTON — Rod Rosenstein came is Jewish. “When victims are attacked
to the annual conference of the Anti-Def- because of their race, religion, gender,
amation League with plaudits for Donald or sexual orientation, there are laws that
Trump, despite being at the center of empower us to respond. Enforcing those
the president’s contentious relationship laws is important to President Trump
with his Justice Department. and Attorney General Sessions, and we
He extolled Trump’s call for unity in enforce them aggressively.”
the wake of the Charlottesville white Rosenstein quoted Trump speaking
supremacist rally in August that turned after the violence in Charlottesville,
deadly, and compared Trump to Abra- when a marcher rammed his car into a
ham Lincoln.
Rosenstein’s speech to the group,
which itself has an adversarial relation-
ship with the Trump administration,
depicted Trump and his attorney gen- The importance
eral, Jeff Sessions, as fellow warriors with
the ADL in the battle against bias crimes.
of enforcing the
But it was also a strident defense of rule of law is a
adhering to the rule of law, with a long
aside about the merits of resisting a rul-
central lesson of
er’s illegal orders. the Holocaust.
“We study the Holocaust not only to
understand the depths of depravity group of counterprotesters, killing one
that people can perpetrate, but also as and injuring at least 20.
a reminder to guard against the risk of “President Trump recognized last
moral corruption in our own time,” he August that ‘no matter the color of our
told the ADL crowd on Sunday night. skin, we all live under the same laws, we
“The importance of enforcing the rule of all salute the same great flag, and we are
law is a central lesson of the Holocaust.” all made by the same almighty God’,”
The centerpiece of the address was Rosenstein said, quoting the president.
Rosenstein’s praise for the plea for “‘We must love each other, show affec-
unity that Trump delivered in the after- tion for each other, and unite together
math of the Virginia rally last summer. in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and
Trump, notably, later retreated from violence. We must rediscover the bonds
those remarks, much to the chagrin of of love and loyalty that bring us together
Jewish groups. as Americans.’”
“One way that the Department of Jus- Rosenstein went on to compare
tice helps to enforce the rule of law and Trump to President Lincoln and his bid

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to unite Americans in divisive times. However, the president stirred outrage again the very next his role overseeing the special counsel, Robert Muel-
He quoted remarks Trump delivered on August 14, after day, when he told reporters in an impromptu news confer- ler, who is investigating a wide-ranging case stemming
the president said on the day of the August 12 violence in ence that there was “blame on both sides” and “fine people” from allegations that Trump’s campaign and presi-
Charlottesville that “many sides” were responsible. Trump’s among the white supremacists. dency have colluded with Russia, and then obstructed
equating the neo-Nazi and white supremacist marchers to Trump subsequently has stood by the characterization justice. Sessions has recused himself from the investiga-
the counterprotesters prompted rebukes from across the that there are good and bad people on both sides, but tion, making Rosenstein the only person authorized to
political spectrum, including the gamut of Jewish groups. Rosenstein seemed so taken with Trump’s August 14 plea for fire Mueller — unless Trump does. Trump has called for
The prepared remarks of August 14 — reportedly pre- “the bonds of love and loyalty” that he quoted the passage the case to be shut down many times, and as recently
sented at the behest of his Jewish daughter, Ivanka, and twice, at the beginning and again at the end of his speech. as last month he criticized Rosenstein as “conflicted.”
her husband, Jared Kushner — assuaged concerns for a day. Rosenstein has been under intense pressure because of For the most part, Rosenstein had resisted firing back
at Trump and indeed has praised him many times. Last
week, in an appearance at Washington’s Newseum,
Rosenstein said “there have been people that have been
making threats, publicly and privately, against me for
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
invites you to
There have been
a moderated conversation with Author and people that have
Chef Michael Solomonov been making threats,
and Michal Levison, local cookbook author publicly and privately,
against me for quite
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extorted.” The impromptu outburst was widely seen as
directed at Trump and his congressional allies.
Rosenstein’s ADL remarks, delivered to an attentive
if mostly silent crowd, did not refer to his difficult sta-
of Israeli
tus within the administration. But notably, a chunk of
his speech was about Thomas More, the 16th-century
Lord High Chancellor who preferred beheading to car-
Cooking
rying out King Henry VIII’s illegal requests.
“The point is that we must defend the rule of law at
all times, even when it is difficult, so it will be there for
us when we need it,” he said.
Rosenstein praised the ADL for its work in educating
law enforcement about the Holocaust.
CHEF MICHAEL SOLOMONOV is the Executive He repeatedly credited Trump for the Justice
Chef/Co-owner at Zahav, a modern Israeli Department’s focus on bias crimes. Rosenstein noted
restaurant that brings the authentic flavors of the recent U.S. indictment of a 19-year-old American-
Israeli's culture to Philadelphia. He is known for his Israeli citizen believed to be responsible for a spate
extraordinary skill at transforming simple foods of bomb threats on Jewish institutions in 2017, and
into artful culinary masterpieces and is widely the prosecution of bias crimes against Muslims and
regarded as one of the country's top chefs and LGBTQ people.
entrepreneurs. He is the recipient of the 2017 The ADL, a leading advocate of encouraging police
Outstanding Chef award by the James Beard departments to identify and prosecute hate crimes,
Foundation. has had its run-ins with the Trump administration
and has been particularly active in opposing the presi-
dent’s efforts to ban travel from a number of Muslim
majority countries.
The group’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, appeared
after Rosenstein and talked about the price exacted
on the ADL for its confrontations with the left and
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“So when there is a nominee for high office that has
spouted anti-Muslim bigotry or homophobic beliefs,
ONE BOOK, ONE COMMUNITY
ADL will speak out even if it means we may not be
a project of the Synagogue Leadership Initiative, is sponsored
by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation. invited to their holiday party,” Greenblatt said. “When
they try to put in place a Muslim ban, we will take a
stand and fight them in court.” JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Julius Kahn’s
efforts helped
extend the
discriminatory
Chinese
Exclusion Act.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
This Jewish lawmaker wanted

to keep Chinese immigrants out
Should a park remain named after him?
JOE ESKENAZI Chinese immigration permanently illegal
and legally enshrined anti-Chinese senti-
SAN FRANCISCO — Julius Kahn III grew ment until its repeal in 1943.
up in San Francisco, playing in Julius On April 24, Supervisor Norman Yee
Kahn Playground, which was named for introduced a resolution calling for the
his grandfather. city’s Recreation and Park Commission
The view from this clearing in the to change the facility’s name.
opulent Presidio Heights neighborhood “We don’t want to send him, as a per-
is among the best in the city, meaning son, to the dustbin of history,” explained
that it’s among the best in any city. That Hoyt Zia, the president of the board of
won’t change anytime soon — but the the city’s Chinese Historical Society of
name of the park soon may. America. “But we’ve got a park in a city
Several Chinese American groups, with one of the largest Asian popula-
working with the city’s Recreation and tions in the country. Do we want to have
Parks Department, and two Chinese things named after people who hated
American members of the San Francisco Asians? We use the park every day.”
Board of Supervisors have moved to strip At least one local Jewish organization
Kahn’s name from this playground and understands Zia’s perspective.
its adjoining ball field and sports courts “We were contacted a few weeks ago
— all with the blessing of the San Fran- by Recreation and Park Commission
cisco-based Jewish Community Relations Vice President Allan Low on behalf of
Council. The rationale: The elder Kahn, the Chinese Historical Society’s coali-
a Republican from San Francisco who tion and asked to support this resolution
served 12 terms in Congress between to rename the park,” Jessica Trubowitch,
1899 and his death in 1924, championed the JCRC’s director of public policy and
an extension of the Chinese Exclusion community building, said in a statement
Act in 1902. The act prohibited immigra- on May 2.
tion by Chinese laborers. “When we were contacted, we had
While doing so, Kahn approvingly no hesitation in supporting the reso-
read to Congress excerpts from a travel lution,” the statement continued. “It’s
writer’s 1853 journey to the Far East, time to right a wrong, and to ensure that
describing the Chinese as “morally, the our civic institutions and public spaces
most debased people on the face of the celebrate our contemporary values. We
[E]arth.” Kahn personally endorsed share an understanding that immigrants
these views, saying they are “undoubt- have and will continue to be an integral
edly equally applicable to any Chinese part of this city.”
community in our country.” On April 30, Trubowitch went to a
A tremendously influential legislator, press conference on behalf of JCRC.
Kahn was successful in getting the votes There, Zia called Kahn “anti-immigrant”
for the act’s extension, which made SEE LAWMAKER PAGE 30

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and said he would “fit right in with this [presidential] admin-
istration,” according to the San Francisco Examiner. “The
names of places should reflect the city as it is now,” he
added, according to the paper.
Reached at his San Ramon home, 86-year-old Julius Kahn
III was unaware of the developments surrounding the play-
ground, but he was not surprised by them.
“I figured they were going to do something like that,” he
said. “If they want to raise that issue, there’s not a hell of a
lot I can do about it. It’s the height of stupidity. I think it’s a
damn crime to hang something on him for one instance in
a career that I know he regretted doing but went along with
the party at that time.”
Whether Kahn felt remorse for championing the Chi-
nese Exclusion Act, a federal law signed in 1882 by Presi-
dent Chester A. Arthur, is difficult to know. That’s the fam-
ily’s claim, and Kahn III says it’s true, but he never knew
his grandfather — he was born seven years after the older
Kahn died.
What certainly is true is that the anti-Chinese immigration
stand was the party line of the day. And, Bay Area Jewish his-
torians say, virulently anti-Chinese sentiment also was par
for the course among Kahn’s fellow San Francisco German
Jewish gentry. A view of the Julius Kahn playground in San Francisco. OMUNENE/FLICKR COMMONS
“They were a civilizing influence on a kind of boomtown

of young men running wild,” said Fred Rosenbaum, the racism. They really were leading participants in the persecu- literacy test for immigrants. So he was not anti-immigrant.
founder of Berkeley-based Lehrhaus Judaica and the author tion of the Chinese in California.” He was anti-Asian immigrant.”
of many books about San Francisco Jewry. “But they did Historian Ava Kahn — no relation to Julius — added, “Julius So was Jacob Voorsanger, the famed rabbi of the city’s
have a giant blind spot. And that had to do with anti-Asian Kahn was one of the few Congresspeople who was against a Congregation Emanu-El (and founder of the local Jewish
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newspaper that became J.), who described In fact, the name of the Julius Kahn
the Chinese as a “non-assimilative race” Playground — which presents breathtak-
who were “unable to mix with cauca- ing views of the Golden Gate Bridge, Pre-
sians” in the pages of J.’s predecessor, the sidio, and Marin Headlands — already has
Emanu-El. been changed. The actual playground
Levi Strauss summarily dismissed 180 portion of the facility was renamed for
Chinese workers from his famous blue the late Jewish philanthropist Helen Diller
jeans factory after thugs targeted the Chi- after her foundation paid for its extensive
nese in riots in 1877. Adolph Sutro, a social and innovative renovation in 2003. The
liberal and one of the city’s greatest indus- basketball and tennis courts, the green
trialists and philanthropists, who became space, and the baseball/softball diamond,
the first Jew to be elected mayor of a major however, still are named for Julius Kahn.
U.S. city in 1894, boasted about having What name will be used next is not
never hired “a chinaman.” He wrote that known. But both Julius Kahn III and his
“the very worst emigrants from Europe son, Steve, are pushing for Julius’ wife,
are a hundred times more desirable than Florence Prag Kahn, who took his seat in
these Asiatics.” Congress after he died and served for six
Rosenbaum’s research has revealed that terms, from 1925 to 1937.
Jewish communities on the East Coast and Her grandson rattles off the accom-
in the Midwest, where there were few Chi- plishments of the woman he used to
nese, were confused and horrified at San ride streetcars with on the way to the
Francisco Jews’ peculiar animus — which, movies: “She got the enabling legislation
to be fair, they shared with much of the for the Golden Gate Bridge; she was the
city’s white establishment. Many worried first woman on the Military Affairs Com-
that the fanatical drive to limit Asian immi- mittee; she got the legislation and fund-
gration eventually would boomerang on ing for Moffett [Federal Airfield] and the
Jews — and, with the Immigration Act of Alameda Naval Station; she got the fund-
1924, it did: Jews from much of Europe ing for Alcatraz as a federal prison,” he
were barred from entry, intensifying the said. “In a sense, my grandmother did
magnitude of the Holocaust. more for the city than my grandfather.”
When asked if the names Sutro, Strauss, In fact, when todays’ Kahns talk about
and others should be stripped off San their family history, they spend a lot more
Francisco’s map, Allan Low said that’s a time on Florence than they do on Julius,
discussion for later. said Steve, 60.
“Racism and dark history surrounds He, too, played in Julius Kahn Play-
us,” said Low, pro bono attorney for the ground as a kid growing up in San Fran-
groups looking to change the name of the cisco. “It was serene,” he recalled.
playground and one of seven commis- Unlike his father, grandfather and great-
sioners appointed by the mayor to govern grandfather, Steve Kahn is not a lawyer.
the San Francisco Recreation and Parks He’s a mechanic in El Cerrito.
Department. “But in my view, we can only He specializes in Asian imports.
take name changes one at a time.” J. THE JEWISH NEWS OF
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Flavor-maker Frutarom is sold

in second-largest ‘exit’ in Israeli history
In the second largest sale, or “exit,” of an “We have long admired Frutarom, and
Israeli company to date, the American have a great deal of respect for its team and
firm International Flavors & Fragrances all of its dedicated and talented employees
Inc. is acquiring Israeli flavor and ingre- around the globe,” said IFF Chairman and
dient producer Frutarom in a deal worth CEO Andreas Fibig. “We look forward to
approximately $7.1 billion. welcoming Frutarom to the IFF family.”
Only one deal in Israel’s history sur- Frutarom shareholders will each
passes the Frutarom exit — the sale of receive cash and shares of IFF common
Israel’s Mobileye, makers of vision-based stock valued at $106.25 per share. IFF
advanced driver-assistance systems, for said it intends to maintain an operating
$15.3 billion in 2017. base in Israel, but the headquarters will
Frutarom, based in the coastal city of remain in New York.
Haifa, primarily develops and manufac- “Today marks the culmination of a
tures natural food, flavor, fragrance, phar- decades-long vision to become a global
maceutical, and cosmetic ingredients. It leader in taste and health,” said Ori
has 2,700 employees around the world and Yehudai, president and CEO of Fruta-
sells more than 70,000 products to 30,000- rom. “Frutarom and IFF are committed
plus clients in more than 150 countries. to maintaining a presence in Israel, and
The company anticipates topping I look forward to working with Andreas
$1.6 billion in sales in 2018, with that and the team to ensure a seamless inte-
number expected to increase to $2.25 gration of these two terrific companies.”
billion by 2020. JNS.ORG

Shavuot
Turkish coffee ice cream

According to the authors, “The best ice
cream is coffee ice cream. It is a perfect
balance of bitter and sweet. Our version
uses Turkish-style coffee and a bit of
cardamom to add Arabic flavor. Be-
cause the coffee is so finely ground, we
don’t strain it all out before we freeze it,
which gives the finished ice cream a nice
speckled look and texture.”
STEVE LEGATO
The ingredient cardamom, native to

India, comes from the cardamom plant,
which produces tapered pods that con-
tain intensely flavored black seeds. By
Michael Solomonov Michal Levison weight, it is an expensive spice, although MICHAEL PERSICO WITH
you don’t need much of it to make an PERMISSION BY RUX
MARTIN BOOKS/HOUGHTON
impact, and it will keep for a long time in
Two cooking authorities join forces MIFFLIN HARCOURT. ALL
pod form. Of the several varieties of carda- RIGHTS RESERVED.
mom, green is the most widely available. On
for ‘One Book One Community’ panel its own, cardamom’s sweet, resinous flavor can be overpowering.
But as an accent to things as different as the peppery condiment
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE finished products by looking at them. According to schug or Turkish coffee ice cream, cardamom is a flavor enhancer
Mr. Solomonov, who was born in Israel but grew that can make the flavors around it sparkle.
To culminate the Jewish Federation of North- up in Pittsburgh, “I want to get you as close as a
ern New Jersey’s “One Book One Community” book can get you to the true experience of cooking Yield: 1 quart
community-wide program, chef Michael Solo- this food.” A James Beard Award-winner for best 2 cups heavy cream
2⁄3 cup milk
monov, who wrote the book, will take part in a chef, Mid-Atlantic, along with his business partner,
1/4 cup ground Turkish coffee
moderated discussion on Steven Cook, Mr. Solomonov opened the 5 cardamom pods
Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m., modern Israeli restaurant “Zahav” (gold 6 large egg yolks
at Temple Israel & JCC in in Hebrew) in Philadelphia in 2008. The 3/4 cup sugar
Ridgewood. Mr. Solomonov book is a compilation of some of his reci- 1. Combine the cream, milk, coffee, and cardamom in a medium
is the author of “Zahav — A pes and a wonderful flowing storybook to
PHOTOS COURTESY JFNNJ
saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Remove the

World of Israeli Cooking,” read and savor. saucepan from the heat and let the mixture steep for 10 minutes.
this year’s book selection. Just in time for Shavuot, the author 2. Combine the egg yolks and sugar in a large heatproof bowl set
He will talk with local cook- gives his recipe for Turkish Coffee Ice over a pot of simmering water. (The bottom of the bowl shouldn’t
book author Michal Levi- Cream (you’ll need an ice cream maker touch the water.) Whisk until the sugar is dissolved and the mix-
son, who is the founder of for it). Of course some people might ture falls from the whisk in ribbons when you lift it out of the bowl,
“Seasoned Moments” and a love that ice cream as a main dish — but about 2 minutes. Add the cream mixture and stir with a rubber
board member at the Acad- another nice choice might be the feta, spatula, scraping the sides to prevent coagulation, until the mix-
ture reaches 180 degrees.
emies @ Gerrard Berman Day School in Oakland. potato, kale, and mushroom borekas (inspired
The evening will include a book signing and a by Solomonov’s grandmother). Or how about 3. Strain out some of the coffee grounds, pour into a container,
dessert reception as well as the opportunity to twice-cooked eggplant? For after Shavuot, there cover, and refrigerate overnight. Churn in an ice cream maker ac-
cording to the manufacturer’s instructions.
meet the author, hear his story, and also hear an are also many recipes that include meat.
interesting talk between him and Ms. Levison. For information or to register for the evening,
The book has beautiful photographs accom- call Elisa Hirsch at JFNNJ at (201) 820-3918 or go The recipe is excerpted from “Zahav,” with permission from Rux Martin
panying the recipes. You can almost taste the to www.jfnnj.org/oboc. Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Tnuva shares yummy Shavuot recipe

Cheese tart - pecan pie
This recipe offers a great festive spin on classic pecan pie –
according to Tnuva, and it’s crunchy, and yet it melts in your
mouth… and they guarantee that your family will love the DECORATIONS:
instant classic as much as they do! 1 and 1/4 cup pecans, halved
Difficulty level: easy, Preparation time: 45 minutes. 2 tablespoons silan (date syrup)
10 – 12 servings. 9 inch pie tin PREPARATION:
Dust the surface with flour and gently roll out the dough
CRUST INGREDIENTS: to 1/4 inch thick, put it in the baking pan, cut the excess
1/2 pack of frozen Rolled Short Dough for Sweet Pastries by dough from the edges of the pan, pierce the bottom with
Tnuva, thawed according to the manufacturer’s instructions a fork, and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to
CHEESE FILLING: 350 degrees .
11 oz of Tnuva Original Cheese Spread (28%) CHEESE FILLING:
1/2 cup powdered sugar Mix all of the ingredients of the filling, except for the beaten
1 tablespoon flour egg. Add the egg last, and stir until smooth and even. Pour
1 tablespoon vanilla extract into the pan on top of the crust.
1 medium egg, beaten
PECAN AND THE SILAN FILLING:
PECAN AND SILAN (DATE SYRUP) FILLING: Mix all the ingredients together and gently pour over the
1/4 cup and 1 tablespoon silan (try maple syrup instead) cheese filling. Arrange the pecans on top of the pie. Bake for
1 and 1/2 tablespoon brown sugar 40-45 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from the oven.
1/4 cup Tnuva butter, melted and chilled Cool. Mix 2 tablespoons of silan with a teaspoon of boiling
1 medium egg water and brush the pie with the mixture. Cover with a plas-
Pinch of salt tic wrap and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

Shavuot
Six warm weather wines that pair

perfectly with Shavuout menus
W
ine expert sour cream that showcase
Gabriel Geller fresh tropical fruit aromas.
says Shavuot is • Domaine Les Marronniers
the ideal time Chablis 2016 is also a Chardon-
to explore the lighter family of nay, but in the style of wines
wines — whites and rosés. “Just from Burgundy ’s Chabli s
because you’re not tucking appellation in France - much
into a hearty steak or burger, leaner and more mineral than
it doesn’t mean you have to its rich, buttery California
leave out the wine. To the con- counterparts. Gellar character-
trary, dairy- or fish-forward izes it as “a light yet complex
dishes showcase many wines wine with notes of lemon pith,
beautifully.” fresh almonds, and pears” that
As director of public rela-
tions for Royal Wine Corp., the
largest producer and distribu-
tor of kosher wines and spirits
in the United States, Geller’s Just because
expertise is kosher wines. And
the upcoming Jewish festival of you’re not
Shavuot (May 19-21) — the “hol- tucking into
iday of the first fruits” —means
spring and summer wines are a hearty
on his mind. steak or
So, in the runup to Shavuot,
the conversation on Geller’s burger, it
blog – which has loyal follow- doesn’t
ers not just in the Jewish com-
munity but among wine-lov- mean you
ers everywhere – has been all have to
about fruity, refreshing new
white and rosé wines that can leave out
accompany a wide array of the wine.
dairy and fish delicacies. Here GABRIEL GELLER
are his picks.
• Elvi Vina Encina Rosado
2017 is a Spanish rosé with a would marry well with pasta
beautiful, cherry pink color dishes or flounder almondine.
and a mouthful of fruits such as • G e l l e r ’s l i s t o f wa r m
strawberries, raspberries, and weather go-withs also includes
cantaloupe. (“It sounds like a a spicy, earthy red wine: Chi-
fruit salad!” Geller quips.) In anti Classico Riserva 2012 from
fact, it’s great with fresh fruit Terra di Seta, which recently
or a fruit salad as well as soft earned impressive 93 and 92
cheeses; think goat cheese and scores from the prestigious
mozzarella. Wine Spectator and Decanter
• Of the three different types magazines. “This amazing
of Reisling made by Hagafen wine boasts aromas and fla-
winery in Napa Valley – dry, vors of ripe cherries, baking
semi-sweet, and off-dry – spices, and Mediterranean
Geller’s current favorite is the herbs, plus a juicy texture”
Dry Riesling 2016. “I love its that would beautifully comple-
versatility. With core acidity ment a Caprese salad or pizza
and green apple and lime aro- topped with mozzarella, sun-
mas, it is sublime with either dried tomatoes, and basil.
savory flavors like smoked • Last but not least, des-
trout or with a full-flavored sert: the Herzog Late Harvest
cheese such as aged, sharp Chenin Blanc 2016 is delicious
cheddar.” on its own but would be even
• The new Chardonnay 2016 more delicious with a piece of
from Herzog’s Lineage series classic New York cheesecake.
is similarly versatile. “While Says Geller, “The pleasant
its compatibility with chicken sweetness, together with the
is undeniable, it will take a classic aromas of peach, apri-
simple toast topped with Brie cot, table grapes, and orange
cheese to the next level.” It zest, will upgrade your Sha-
has a medium body with light, vuot dessert more than you
creamy notes of butter and could ever imagine!”

Editorial
Substance abuse,
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Poland and Jersey City:

courage, and follow-up Not quite perfect together
A I
few weeks ago, we had a public and be open about something as
cover story about a Teaneck innately terrifying as substance abuse. t might seem incredible that the Polish people suffered horribly under the
family going public with sub- The idea of losing your child or partner Polish people and press, thousands Germans and that large numbers of individ-
stance abuse. or sibling or parent to a yearning that of miles away from New Jersey, are ual Poles participated in atrocities against
The next week, we reported on the takes over their brains and threatens focused on a statue in Jersey City Jews, albeit never in an official capacity.
meeting they put together, a meet- their souls is terrifying. To go public commemorating a Soviet massacre of Pol- Poland, unlike France, never created a col-
ing that saw a crowd estimated to be in a close community, where everyone ish soldiers and officers during the war. laborationist regime alongside the Nazis.
between 600 and 700 people sitting in knows someone, where the idea of six But the news that Jersey City is — tempo- The Polish government in exile, and the
dead silence as they listened to social degrees of separation sounds impossibly rarily — relocating the statue has generated Polish Home Army of partisans, always
workers, rabbis, and a recovering addict distant, takes a vast amount of strength. considerable news in Poland and a growing resisted the Nazis. Still, Polish atrocities
tell stories of fear and hope, of hitting But once you’ve gone public, you rift between the mayor of Jersey City and against Jews, most famously in Jedwabne
bottom and sometimes — not always, have far less to lose. Nothing to cover the Polish government. during the war, and in Kielce after the war,
but sometimes, with support and under- up. No smile to plaster on your face. No The United States has many memorials to never can be whitewashed.
standing — coming up again for fresh air. scream to throttle. No more secrets. You the Holocaust, as it should. The Holocaust But amid the need to acknowledge the
Coming up and staying up. can tell your story. is the greatest crime in the history of the extent of Polish suffering under the Nazis
Now, we can report that the family The Formans know, through their world and must be remem- and Polish resistance of Ger-
— Lianne and Etial Forman — have no own experience, about the support that bered always. Only the Jews man occupation, the Holo-
intention of allowing that meeting to be family members need, both for them- experienced genocide in the caust law has backfired com-
a one-off. selves, so they can talk to people who Second World War, making pletely, and Poland now finds
They learned that there is a real need, understand them, who get their short- their suffering and the mar- itself on the defensive in inter-
and they will follow up. hand, who can laugh at their dark jokes, tyrdom of six million victims national forums, accused of
That need is right here. In the Jewish and so that they can help the people incomparable and unique. trying to whitewash its war
community. they love who are in addiction’s grasp But millions of non-Jews lost history. Repealing the law
We don’t often think about substance and maw. their lives in the Second World is the only way to do justice
abuse in the Jewish community — but Their courage in telling their story — War, many of them civilian both to Jewish victims and to
when we don’t think about it, we simply and of course the story of their daugh- non-combatants. Estimates are Rabbi an honest sense of dialogue.
fool ourselves. In some ways we are dif- ter Elana, who has fought her way from that nearly two million Poles Shmuley Which brings me to Jer-
ferent from other groups, but in many abuse through rehab and 12 steps and were murdered during the war, Boteach sey City and the necessary
ways we are not. pain and fear and relapse to a state of and the Poles, of course, rose response of the Jewish com-
There are universal truths about drug hard-won freedom from drugs — has put up against the Germans in the munity to the temporary
abuse — the biology and psychology of them in a position to hear stories from autumn of 1944 in Warsaw, only to see their removal of the statue. The Jersey City
addiction, the lure of self-medication, other people. They want to help. uprising brutally crushed and 95 percent of monument commemorates the Katyn For-
the way some conditions co-occur. Working with Amudim, the New York- Warsaw reduced to rubble. est massacre, in which, it is believed, some
And then there are the particulars, as based group that works both inside and Ever since the Polish government passed 22,000 Polish citizens were murdered by
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs tells us; there outside the charedi community, the For- its calamitous Holocaust law, making it a the Soviets, a crime they tried to blame on
is something about the Jewish com- mans are offering a support group. crime to accuse Poland of having partici- the Nazis. This memorial is a reminder of
munity’s demand for perfection that It will meet in Teaneck every other pated in Holocaust atrocities alongside the horrors of war and the atrocities perpe-
makes admitting to imperfection even Wednesday, beginning this coming the Germans, the sentiment in the Jewish trated by the Communists. The Poles were
more difficult than it otherwise would Wednesday, May 16. It’s free and open community is that the law is proof positive marched into the woods, many with their
be. And it always would be difficult, that to everyone who needs it; it’s not that the Poles are, and have remained, anti- hands tied behind their backs, shot in the
is clear; it’s also hard for other commu- restricted only to Jews, and certainly not Semitic. But having discussed the law with back of the neck and buried in mass graves.
nities, for their own particular — and only to Orthodox Jews. Substance abuse a large number of Poles, including those in Jews also were murdered at Katyn, includ-
sometimes similar, sometimes entirely is nondenominational, and so is support government, it seems that their intention ing Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army Baruch
idiosyncratic — reasons. in fighting it. A licensed clinician who was to stop the world from equating them Steinberg, who was murdered alongside
Another truth about talking about specializes in addiction counseling will with the Nazis and to have history finally Jewish servicemen of the Polish armed
substance abuse is courage. The cour- facilitate the group. For more informa- recognize the extent of Polish suffering forces.
age to be different, to say what has to be tion, email Time2TalkAddiction@gmail. during the war. Jersey City now is moving the monument
said (or at least what you, the speaker, com. There can be no question both that the because of a waterfront redevelopment
have to say unless you want to explode. We wish everyone who is at the begin-
And you don’t.) ning of that hard road hope and love Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the author of 31 books, including his most recent work, The Israel
It must always require courage to go and a drug-free life at its other end. —JP Warrior. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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Opinion
project. Mayor Steven Fulop has prom- even where they are not directly Holo-
ised that the monument will be re- caust-related, such as Katyn, are critical
erected in a fitting location. But the for that educational process, especially
people of Poland are concerned that the as the last survivors pass away and Holo-
redevelopment is being used as an excuse caust deniers try to convince today’s
to remove a monument that some con- social media generation that stories
sider gory, and that the monument lacks about the crimes of the Nazis and Soviets
defenders because the Polish-American are fake news. Yes, the Soviets liberated
- community in Jersey City has diminished. Auschwitz and fought the Germans tooth
t I believe the Jewish community should and nail, losing millions of soldiers in the
. do its utmost to respectfully prevail on process. But before Hitler’s sudden inva-
- Jersey City to re-erect the statue as soon sion of the USSR in Operation Barbarossa
. as humanly possible. on June 22, 1941, Stalin had agreed with
The Polish people are the guardians of Hitler to carve up Poland.
memory for millions of Jews who were Polish Jewish leaders agree that
murdered in the Holocaust. Those who the Katyn monument should be pre-
have had the privilege of participating in served. My friend, Chief Rabbi Michael
, March of the Living, or visited the exter- Schudrich, who has led the community
mination camps in a private capacity, can of Poland for 30 years, Anna Chipczyn-
bear witness to the admirable job the gov- ska, president of the Jewish Community
ernment of Poland is doing to preserve the of Warsaw, and Leslaw Piszewski, presi- Sharon Kaplan learns that yes, you can go home again.
- camps and tell the story of the genocide of dent of the Union of Jewish Communi-
- the Jewish people. We have come a long ties, said they “don’t understand, and I’VE BEEN THINKING
- way from the Carmelite nunnery days of
the late 1980s. Let us not forget that it was
disagree with, the plans to remove the
monument dedicated to Katyn victims.” You can go home again
T
- a son of Poland, Pope John Paul II, a great In their statement, they added, they
f lover of the Jewish people, who ordered “consider it a moral obligation to com- om Wolfe clearly never ate at from Chabad World Headquarters until
r the Carmelite nuns out of Auschwitz in memorate all the victims of this crime in Izzy’s Brooklyn Smokehouse. her family moved to Washington Heights.
w 1993. Auschwitz-Birkenau today empha- Poland and around the world, including OK, let me back up a bit and She remembered the building number, so
sizes constantly that of the 1.1 million peo- Jersey City.” Jonny Daniels of From the explain. we decided to take the service road. That
ple murdered at Auschwitz, approximately Depths, who brought a majority of the Brooklyn is very far from Teaneck. Very. would allow us to slow down as we passed
one million were Jews. The Poles have done Knesset to Auschwitz in 2014 and contin- Far. But when wedding chores demand it, the old homestead.
- a similarly admirable job at Treblinka, Maj- ues to do admirable work on Holocaust to Brooklyn one must go. About a block away she said: “There
y danek, and throughout Warsaw, where the memory in Poland, has written publicly So, one bridge, one tunnel, a few tolls, it is! I’m sure that’s it.” We had planned
- Jewish ghetto is prominently remembered. of the need to preserve the monument. many highways and streets, lots of traffic, just to slow down when we reached it, but
y It behooves us Jews to reciprocate and It is especially important to demon- and countless construction projects later, instead we saw that rarity in Brooklyn — a
y always remember the suffering of the strate our commitment to remember- my wife, Sharon, and I found ourselves large, legal parking spot, directly in front
- Polish people where it is in our power, ing Polish victims in the war as many on Coney Island Avenue of the apartment building.
especially mass murder like the Katyn of us protest the Polish government’s one recent Monday morn- Some things are simply
y forest massacre. If Jews living in New Jer- “Holocaust Law,” which threatens pun- ing. After a mother-of-the- bashert, so we parked and
sey can make a different, then we must. ishment for anyone who suggests that bride gown fitting, picking decided to explore.
f Remembering the horrors of the Sec- Poles played any role in the crimes up our future son-in-law’s We took pictures of the
- ond World War is vital amid shocking committed by the Nazis. When I met tallit, and too many stops building, the front awning,
and growing levels of ignorance about with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz at bencher vendors (includ- the gilded ceiling, the beau-
r the world’s most deadly conflict. A recent Morawiecki, I urged him to repeal this ing one whose name and tiful lighting fixtures in the
study by the Claims Conference, for regrettable law, which undermines address we didn’t know — lobby, and all sorts of other
. example, showed some disturbing find- Poland’s commitment to fully educating thank you Google and the odds and ends. We then
- ings regarding Americans’ knowledge of people about the Holocaust. I thanked man in the flower shop), we Joseph C. decided we needed a picture
the Holocaust: the prime minister publicly for listening discovered it was already Kaplan of Sharon in front of the door
• 70 percent of Americans say fewer to me and my colleagues over a kosher 4 p.m. So although we had to her former apartment. But
people seem to care about the Holocaust dinner in Warsaw. ended up in Boro Park, we what was its number? Sha-
than they used to. It is important that we show equal decided to treat ourselves to an early din- ron was only 3 when she moved. Luckily,
t • 31 percent of all Americans and 41 per- determination to ensure that our own ner in Crown Heights at Izzy’s, which had she was able to text and then call her sis-
t cent of millennials believe that substan- government officials understand the come with rave reviews from my daughter ter Andrea, who is eight years older and
tially fewer than six million Jews were importance of symbols, such as monu- and her fiancé. has a much sharper memory of living in
killed (two million or fewer) during the ments to victims of wartime atrocities, It was a great choice. Crown Heights.
Holocaust. and preserve them for future generations. Re-energized, we girded ourselves for She told us the apartment number, and
• 45 percent of all Americans and 49 I trust that Mayor Fulop of Jersey City the long drive back (same bridge, tunnel, into the elevator we went.
percent of millennials cannot name a is in full agreement about the need to tolls, and highways, and even more traf- We shared the elevator with a Chabad-
single one of the 40,000 concentration remember the victims of the Katyn For- fic and some new streets and construction nik, who asked who we were going to see
camps and ghettos. est massacre. I have every confidence projects), and asked Google Maps for the before he got off. When we told him our
• 80 percent of Americans have not vis- that he and his city council will do the best route home. (How did we ever live mission and destination, he said, “Can’t
ited a Holocaust museum. right thing and protect the memorial, before Google?) be. There’s no such apartment, though
• 58 percent believe something like the using this controversy as a teachable When we looked at the route we noticed there are two with that letter on that floor;
Holocaust could happen again. moment to educate New Jersey resi- that it took us down Eastern Parkway, a number 1 and a 2.”
In the above cited survey, 80 percent of dents about the war crimes committed where Sharon had lived directly across SEE HOME PAGE 38
Americans say that it is important to keep by the Soviets against the Polish people
teaching about the Holocaust so it does and the unspeakable horrors visited by The opinions expressed in this section are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the newspaper’s editors,
not happen again. Memorials to victims the Nazis on the Jewish nation in Poland publishers, or other staffers. We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to [email protected].
of massacres in the Second World War, and beyond.

Opinion
Israel at 70 — Zionism when the child is grown
I
t used to be so easy to be a Zionist…. recorded in the Torah at this time of the year. offering is brought not for a sin that has
Years ago, things were clear. Those were the At the beginning of parashat Tazria, occurred in the past but for one that is
heady days of Israel’s miraculous birth in the the Torah mandates that two offerings be bound to occur in the future.
shadow of the Holocaust, of decisive victories in brought to the Temple by a woman upon the The moment of childbirth is a moment
its battles for survival, of the draining of the swamps birth of a child. One is an olah, a burnt offer- of rarefied personal perspective. In that
and the planting of the Negev. Those were the days of ing, and the other is a hatat, a sin offering. instant, you recognize with unerring clarity
our pride in a citizen army that could do no wrong, of The troubling question is obvious imme- that nothing in the world is more important
the Jewish David battling the Arab Goliath, of the kibbut- diately. Why must a yoledet, a childbearing to you than this child, this precious gift that
zim, and of each farmer in his or her kova tembel — an woman, offer a sin offering? Wherein lies God has bestowed upon you.
Israeli hat. the sin in childbirth? The creation of a new Rabbi But then — three months later, at two
The moral lines were clear. Heroic figures abounded. life marks the greatest act of partnership Shmuel o’clock in the morning, when you are more
Right was on our side without equivocation. between man and God. It is a fulfillment of Goldin tired than you have ever been in your life,
For the first time in thousands of years, God had God’s first blessing and directive to mankind, you are changing the diaper of a screaming
granted us the miraculous gift of our Jewish home, and to be “fruitful and multiply.” The suggestion infant; when, three years later, you are run-
nothing seemed more important than that. that a yoledet should offer a hatat on the birth of her child ning in circles after a recalcitrant toddler; when, 15 years
But now things have become more complicated. seems not only puzzling, but offensive. later, your teenage son or daughter rolls his or her eyes at
Israel, a mature state, reflects the imperfections of all Perhaps the Torah itself hints at an explanation. you in that frustrating way, as only a teenager can…
mature states. Not all of its leaders always behave ethi- Whenever the Torah mandates the sacrificial combi- At those moments, somehow, that child doesn’t seem
cally, its society wrestles with moral dilemmas, its lead- nation of an olah and a hatat, the order is clear and con- quite so precious. You lose sight of the clear instant
ership makes religious and social decisions that antag- stant. The hatat, the sin offering, is listed first, and the when you held a new life in your hands, when nothing
onize elements of world Jewry. Sometimes it stumbles olah is second. was more important than the life and welfare of that
as it balances newfound power over others with the This sequence stands to reason. A burnt offering, sym- newborn child.
responsibility of keeping its own citizenry safe. bolic of a renewed relationship with God, can be offered The sin offering of the yoledet, we are suggesting, pro-
In some quarters, diaspora Jews have begun to ask: only after past misdeeds first are cleared through the sin actively addresses all of the inevitable moments when the
How can our support for Israel continue to be unwavering offering ritual. crystal perspective accompanying childbirth will be lost,
if we find ourselves questioning its policies, practices, or There is only one exception to this rule. all the times when this precious life will not be as dearly
politicians? What happens when we and Israel disagree, In the case of the yoledet, the order of these sacrifices is appreciated as it was at the moment of its arrival. And if
whether about the peace process, immigration, egali- reversed in the text. The Torah lists the burnt offering first the hatat does its job, the memory of this sacrifice will
tarian prayer at the Western Wall, or a plethora of other and the sin offering second. Why invert the listing of these resurface during those difficult future moments, remind-
issues? Do we even have a voice from the diaspora? What offerings only in the case of the childbearing mother, espe- ing each parent that the apparent distance developing
are the boundaries of our partnership from afar? cially if this reversal exists, as the Talmud later explains, between them and their growing child may not be so
An answer to these questions might emerge from a solely in the text and not in practice? great, after all.
totally unexpected source — from a mysterious ritual Perhaps because in the case of the yoledet, the sin The parallel is clear. The hatat of the yoledet reminds us
A VIEW FROM THE PEW
A call to action on the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide
T
he State of Israel and I both turned 70 on 2. Write your own letter to Secretary Department of State that currently are vacant.
April 19 this year. Pompeo. The Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor
Israel’s birth 70 years ago was due in part 3. Post this call to action on social media. Anti-Semitism is of utmost importance among
to the unified voice of American Jewry being 4. Reach out to your congressional repre- them, particularly today given the precipitous
heard in the halls of Congress and the White House. After sentatives and ask them to join in this effort rise in anti-Semitism during the past year.
the Nazis heard the sounds of silence a decade earlier as to lobby Secretary Pompeo to fill the State The responsibilities of the Special Envoy are
permission to commit genocide against Jews, America led Department position. defined by the U.S. Department of State Global
the world in a campaign to combat the societal cancer You can address the hardcopy letter to Sec- Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004. This act
of anti-Semitism. Like biological cancers, if they are left retary of State Michael Pompeo, Department passed by an overwhelming bi-partisan vote in
untreated and unmonitored, the diseases of anti-Semitism of State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington DC Rabbi Neal I. Congress, has served in both Republican and
and racism often reoccur in even more virulent modes. 20521, or you can send email through the offi- Borovitz Democratic Administrations as a deterrent to
The lesson of the Holocaust and the birth of the State of cial website, www.state.gov/secretary/2018 over anti-Semitism around the world. Since its
Israel is that there are no innocent bystanders to acts of Here is the text of the letter I sent to Secre- creation in 2004, individuals holding ambas-
hatred and bigotry. tary of State Pompeo: sador status have headed the Office of the Special Envoy.
The confirmation of Michael Pompeo as our new secre- Under their direction during both Democratic and Republi-
tary of state gives you and me both an opportunity and a Dear Secretary Pompeo, can administrations, the Office to Combat and Monitor Anti-
responsibility to have an impact upon American response Congratulations on your confirmation as the 70th Secre- Semitism worked tirelessly to both (a) monitor and address
to the growing threats posed by the rise in anti-Semitism tary of State of the United States of America. You are assum- anti-Semitism around the world and (b) hold other nations
worldwide as well as across America. I am therefore using ing your office at a time of great danger for our nation and responsible for doing the same. Data collected by the United
this monthly column to share with you a letter that I the world. Among these dangers is the dramatic rise in anti- States government and outside organizations demonstrate
recently sent to Secretary of State Pompeo. I ask each of Semitism. I am therefore writing to you today, Secretary that anti-Semitic activity and incidents actually declined
you to take action in one of the following ways: Pompeo, to ask you to speedily fill the now vacant position of from 2004 through 2016.
1. Sign on to the American Jewish Committee statement Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-Semitism. The post of Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Anti-
calling for filling the position of special envoy to combat Two weeks ago, during your hearing before the Senate For- Semitism has remained vacant since July 2017, leaving the
and monitor anti-Semitism by going to www.global.ajc.org eign Relations Committee, you said that one of your priori- vital task of monitoring and fighting against the scourge of
and adding your name to their petition effort. ties will be to fill the large number of diplomatic posts in the aggressive and non-aggressive anti-Semitic activity solely to

Opinion
Israel as the nation-state

that Zionism today should not be so complicated, after all. of the Jewish people
Just as our grown children still are the children whom we
celebrated in their infancy, the State of Israel still is, at its Why the proposed basic law is a radical shift away
core, the miracle we once keenly felt it to be.
It is still the Jewish homeland for which Jews longed from a Zionist vision of an inclusive and democratic entity
A
over centuries; still the one place in the world where Jew-
ish destiny is in Jewish hands; still a home to which we n article in the Hebrew weekly guarantees citizenship to Jews. It reduces
can move voluntarily to be with our family; still a refuge Makor Rishon, written by two the status of Arabic from official language
to which any Jew can return from across the globe; still eminent scholars of Israeli law to some sort of special status.
a country built by Jews. It is still the most precious gift and democracy, opened with a And where does the proposed law leave
granted to us by God in millennia. quote by the founder of Revisionist Zionism, the non-Jewish citizens of Israel? The bill
Just as our enduring love for our children must tran- Ze’ev Jabotinsky: affirms personal rights to all citizens but
scend the frustrations they may bring, so too our enduring “I do not believe that the constitution communal rights only to Jews. As a result,
Zionism must transcend specific politicians, policies, and of any state should contain special clauses Israeli Arabs will be marginalized further.
problems. Transient issues will pass, but our cherished, explicitly guaranteeing its ‘national’ charac- But the founding document of Israeli inde-
essential relationship with Israel will remain. ter. I believe it is a good sign if a constitution Rabbi Aryeh pendence, the megilat ha’atzmaut, says that
At this time of the year, as Israeli citizens mark their contains few such clauses. The natural and Meir “Israel is to be a nation that grants equality
annual series of national commemorations, culminat- best way is for the ‘national’ character of a on all of its citizens without regard to ethnic-
ing with Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem Day — on May state to be ensured by the very fact that it ity, religion, or gender.”
13, true Zionists across the globe should celebrate with has a particular majority.” The proposed law seems to establish a system in
them. There will be time enough to return to the discus- Remember that Jabotinsky is considered the intellec- which not all citizens have equal rights. The law also
sions and debates. Now is the time for the perspective tual and spiritual antecedent to Menachem Begin, Ben- would allow Jewish tradition and religious law to influ-
and clarity of childbirth. Now is the time to simply rec- jamin Netanyahu, and today’s Likud Party. It is the Likud ence Israel’s legal structure, raising grave concerns
ognize, appreciate, and cherish the wondrous, greatest and Naftali Bennet’s National Home party that have been about the influence of the Orthodox and charedi author-
miracle of our times. promoting various versions of the nation-state bill, which, ities over Israel’s civil life.
in the words of an editorial in Haaretz “is an attempt to It should be remembered that the Knesset passed the
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin and his wife, Barbara, made Basic Law of Human Dignity in 1994. For the first time,
aliyah this year after he spent more than 40 years in the Israel guaranteed the protection of life, body, dignity,
American rabbinate (33 of them as rabbi of Congregation property, privacy, and intimacy to all citizens. According
Ahavath Torah in Englewood). They now live in Jerusalem to Bernard Avishai, the proposed basic law defining the
where Rabbi Goldin continues to serve as rabbi emeritus The proposal would nation-state of the Jewish people “will be seen to expand
of CAT, is senior scholar at Nefesh B’Nefesh, and on the meaning of Jewish and democratic in a way that
continues to write and teach in various settings. reduce Israeli democracy justifies the tyranny of the majority: discrimination as
to a ‘democratic regime’ a national right, the imposition of archaic Jewish law
entrenching rabbinic courts, and religious command-
and thus sap its ments as state institutions.
essence as a way of Bottom line: the purpose of this law is to change
Israel’s self-understanding as a Jewish and democratic
life, as a culture, and as state radically by diminishing the democratic character
a moral system based of the state in favor of its Jewish-national character. To
quote Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer and attorney
on equality among all Amir Fuchs of the Israel Democracy Institute, “The pro-
residents with regard to posal would reduce Israeli democracy to a ‘democratic
outside agencies during a year of virulent anti-Semitic activ- regime’ and thus sap its essence as a way of life, as a cul-
ity in the United States and abroad. The urgent need to fill their rights to life, liberty, ture, and as a moral system based on equality among all
the position of Special Envoy is underscored by the recent and human dignity. residents with regard to their rights to life, liberty, and
laws passed in Poland and Lithuania, denying their involve- human dignity.”
ment in the Holocaust. These policies both seek to rewrite Israel’s Arab minority is left out of the proposed
history and evoke malice toward the Jewish people. This is enshrine in a Basic Law the preeminence of the Jewish ele- law, except that the law further marginalizes them by
but one example. Secretary of State Pompeo, by speedily fill- ment of the state over the democratic element.” enshrining the Jewish character and symbols of the state
ing the position of the Special Envoy to Combat and Monitor Why this law, and what is a basic law? and reducing the status of Arabic.
Anti-Semitism, you will be making it clear to the world that Because Israel lacks a constitution, there is a category Israel’s founders wanted a state that would grant full
America stands firm against all forms of racial and religious of law called hok yesod — foundational or basic laws that equality to all its citizens. (Again, read the Declaration
bigotry, including anti-Semitism. deal with the principal institutions of the state and protect of Independence.) This law makes it almost impos-
Again, I congratulate you on your appointment and I civil rights and similar core values upon which Israel was sible for non-Jewish citizens of Israel to identify with
thank you for taking on the awesome responsibilities of Secre- founded. Those basic laws act as a de facto constitution in the state. Perhaps that is its purpose — to further mar-
tary of State in these difficult days. I look forward to hearing the absence of a formal, written one. ginalize and discriminate against Arab Israelis, thus
soon of your nomination for Special Envoy to Combat and This proposed new basic law from the Likud Party strengthening nationalistic and xenophobic trends
Monitor Anti-Semitism. gives primacy to the Jewish aspect of Israel’s existence within Israeli society.
Sincerely yours, over the idea that Israel is a democracy, so that when- Israel must not become a state that has citizens with
Rabbi Neal I Borovitz ever there is tension between the Jewish character of the different levels of rights: first-class citizens ( Jews, as
Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Avodat Shalom River Edge NJ state and its democratic character, Jewishness wins out. defined by the Orthodox rabbinate), and second-class
National Vice Chair, Jewish Council for Public Affairs The law defines Israel as “the nation-state of the Jew- citizens (all others). This will create an Israel that would
ish people,” not of its citizens, 20 percent of whom are be less Jewish, in my understanding of Jewish values,
Neal Borovitz, rabbi emeritus of Temple Avodat Shalom Arabs. It enshrines as “constitutional” aspects of Isra- and less democratic.
in River Edge, is a past chair of the Jewish Community el’s Jewishness that we have all taken for granted: the
Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern Star of David on the flag; the anthem “Hatikvah,” with Rabbi Aryeh Meir of Teaneck is on the faculty of the
New Jersey and the national vice chair of the Jewish its Jewish-centered lyrics; the Jewish Sabbath and holi- Academy for Jewish Religion and he is the chairperson of
Council for Public Affairs. days as national holidays, and the Law of Return, which the Teaneck Environmental Commission.

Opinion
Time to abandon the ‘original sin’ theory
A
s welcome as the for a foreign people with no historical connection to the
remarkably diverse land. This precisely is the “original sin,” as Abbas sees it,
condemnations of that eventually resulted in the naqba, or “catastrophe,” of
Mahmoud Abbas’s Israel’s creation in 1948.
latest anti-Semitic speech have This also is the image of Israel that informs Abbas in his
been over the last few days — periodic negotiations with Israeli officials and American
with UNESCO’s new director- envoys. This same conviction that Israel is the product of
general, the New York Times, a grand deceit purveyed by Jewish impostors who manipu-
J Street, and the German-Pal- lated and exaggerated the Holocaust pretty much explains
estinian Association all joining Ben Cohen why those negotiations invariably fail. From Abbas’s point
FLASH90
the list — there’s a deeper point of view, it’s impossible to negotiate in good faith with people
about the Palestinian Authority who exhibit the same traits of deceit and dishonesty in their
leader’s remarks to the Palestinian National Council that is dealings with the Palestinians that they employed in Europe Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas
still to be grasped. — and got them chased out of there. speaks with members of the Central Committee in
Abbas, the world finally has begun to realize, has an abid- The newfound international consensus that these opin- Ramallah on January 14, 2018.
ing attachment to conspiracy theories about the Jews, their ions are outlandish and offensive will be on firmer ground
origins, and their unnatural powers. He has demonstrated once it looks beyond the open anti-Semitism expressed by The main assumption concerns far more than Abbas him-
these proclivities time and again during his 13 years in power Abbas. His insistence that Israel bears sole responsibility for self, or indeed his eventual successor. If the peace negotia-
(nine of which, by the current count, are the result of his the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 War of Independence is tions that the Trump administration clearly desire are to
term as president being extended indefinitely in 2009). no less outlandish and offensive than his view that Zionist bear fruit, then what is required is a new vision for Palestin-
Abbas’s mealy-mouthed apology last Friday for his PNC leaders bear greater responsibility for the Holocaust than ian politics in a post-Abbas era that could yet dawn before
speech made no mention of that attachment, because doing the Nazis themselves do. President Donald Trump’s first term expires.
so would fatally undermine his claim that he “didn’t mean” And yet, when Abbas speaks about the “right of return” The United States has signaled that profound changes —
to offend anyone with his remarks, and that he respects for the five million descendants of the 1948 refugees — at for example, ending the policy of spending foreign aid on
Judaism as he does all monotheistic religions. the price of Israel’s sovereign existence — all of a sudden he welfare payments to convicted terrorists — are expected. But
Of course, the fact that a gerontocrat like Abbas actually becomes a statesman again. that can only happen if the Palestinian leadership learns to
apologized for his nasty little speech — now there’s a break When he accuses Israel of seeking the elimination of the see Israel differently, chiefly by abandoning the “original
with tradition — is of huge significance. But that shouldn’t Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, his comments are reported sin” theory.
obscure something more fundamental — that it is simply faithfully and without comment by the vast majority of That doesn’t mean the Palestinians have to stop regarding
not possible to separate Abbas’s grotesque views about sup- media outlets. Israel as an adversary. It might even mean that Palestinian
posed Jewish culpability for the Holocaust from his equally All that feeds the impression that whenever Abbas says demands on such tangible matters as territory and state-
grotesque views about the origins of the State of Israel. The something outrageous about the Holocaust, he merely is hood will be viewed with greater sympathy once they are
demonology that is painfully visible in his views about the expressing political exasperation — the sort of unfortunate finally stripped of their doctrinaire, anti-Semitic baggage.
Holocaust is the same demonology that grounds his visceral outburst, in other words, that can be fixed with the appro- The sooner the world ends its indulgence of the “original
objection to Zionism. priate apology. As for the rest of his statements, we carry on sin” theory, the sooner they will get there. JNS.ORG
Abbas perhaps is the best-known exponent of the origi- taking them seriously.
nal sin theory of how Israel came into being. As expressed This transparent inconsistency has troubled many sup- Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS on Jewish affairs
in the PLO’s founding covenant, this holds that Zionist set- porters of Israel for a very long time; in the wake of Abbas’s and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
tlers “invaded” Palestine a century ago. Their purpose was PNC speech, perhaps that’s finally starting to unravel. If so, Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
to extinguish its Arab national character so as to make way then perhaps the right lessons will be drawn as well. Journal, and many other publications.
experience in Far Rockaway a number of years ago, visiting adjustment to a new land, new language, new schools, new
Home the house I grew up in). But more important than the nostal- friends. I’d love to know how my mother’s (and grandmoth-
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gia we felt was the fact that we shared the entire experience er’s) hometown of Seilush looked. Was it a shtetl or modern
We had come so far that we decided to look for ourselves. via email and pictures with Sharon’s siblings in Manhattan city? Who were her friends? What was school like? What
(Before we continued up we also played a little Jewish geog- and Jerusalem, who likewise shared Crown Heights experi- modern conveniences, if any, did they have? And there are
raphy, and discovered that his cousin married my cousin. ences they remembered. And then we shared all this with so much more questions.
Of course.) our children. I had many opportunities to ask, but I guess at the time I
When we got off, we understood that both Andrea and the This was more than nostalgia; it was sharing and passing didn’t think it was important. I was busy being young and
Chabadnik were correct. As was clear from the door mold- down family lore that otherwise would be lost. active. Now I know how so very important it was — but the
ings, the old single apartment had been divided in two. After It also reminded me of something that happened at our opportunities are gone.
taking some pictures at the front door, Sharon, game and seder this year that I did not mention in my recent column So for those of you still blessed with similar opportunities,
curious woman that she is, rang the bell. A lovely Chabad (“The only constant in life,” 4/19/18). At our first small, inti- don’t let them pass unused. Ask questions, find out facts and
girl, about 14 or 15 years old, opened the door, and when mate seder, our kids asked us to tell them about our sedarim family lore about your parents, grandparents, and larger
we explained why we were there she graciously invited us when we were children. And we did, trying to pluck from family before you discover there’s no one left to ask. You
in to look around. our memories who was present, what songs we sang, and can’t pass down family history you don’t know.
As we strolled around the apartment, she told us that she whether we too came prepared with reams of divrei Torah You can’t go home again if you don’t know where — and
was one of 10 children (living in half of an apartment that from school. Nostalgic for sure, but also the sharing of family what — home was.
had housed four children once upon a time). As we chatted, memories and traditions with another generation.
she continued to express amazement at the number of years Unfortunately, I learned the lesson of the importance Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist, is a longtime
that had passed since Sharon moved from that apartment. of doing this too late. I often and deeply regret not asking resident of Teaneck. His work also has appeared in various
We were pretty amazed too. my parents, both of whom were born and lived in Europe, publications including Sh’ma magazine, the New York Jewish
And so we had a warm nostalgic experience, Sha- about their lives there, their daily routines, what Shabbat Week, the Baltimore Jewish Times, and, as letters to the editor,
ron directly and me vicariously (although I had a similar and chaggim were like, the family they left behind, their the New York Times.

Jewish World
Remembering the Holocaust

Interfaith project in Albany will create outdoor memorial
Lois Goldrich
Perhaps because he has spent so many

years working to restore abandoned Jew-
ish cemeteries in Eastern Europe, Michael
Lozman of Albany, N.Y., has come to
believe that the lessons of the Holocaust
must be disseminated as widely as possi-
ble. And perhaps because the many years
he has spent doing this work have given
him the credibility to be an advocate for
a Holocaust memorial, he now is actively
engaged in that work.
“It all comes together,” he said. “I spent
the past 16 years restoring cemeteries in
Eastern Europe” — bringing students there
to stay with village families and learn more
about the Shoah — “and when I came back
home, I realized that this was a project I
wanted to do. Albany does not have an
appropriate Holocaust memorial.”
Dr. Lozman, an orthodon-
tist whose father came from a
small village in Belarus and later
emigrated to the United States, This artist’s rendering shows an aerial view of the proposed Holocaust
said his interest in restoring memorial.
cemeteries began when he vis-
ited his father’s village and saw to help educate against hatred
the deplorable condition of the and express hope for a better
cemeteries. With the Jews killed tomorrow. “
and most synagogues burned, Dr. Lozman noted that this
without an effort to fence in and might be the first time in the
restore the cemeteries, “there United States that a Catholic
would be no physical evidence diocese has joined with the
that the Jews were there,” he Jewish community to develop
said. “This is a way to preserve a Holocaust memorial. “It’s
Jewish history.” an extremely important step
His proposed outdoor memo- forward,” he said. “It shows a
rial, here in the United States has Dr. Lozman and Bishop Scharfenberger go over plans. great deal of sensitivity to the
the added benefit of being an effects of the Holocaust. The
interfaith project. “I approached Bishop boxcars, and sent to the gas chambers,” bishop is to be commended for his willing-
Edward Scharfenberger, the bishop of our he continued. “I wanted a railroad box- ness and enthusiasm.”
area, last summer and suggested this as car, railroad tracks, a large wall that rep- While, inevitably, there has been some
an interfaith project that speaks against resented the gas chamber, all enclosed by pushback against the project, “most peo- A team raises a fallen gravestone in a
hatred and teaches what bigotry and prej- a wire fence, so that, similar to visiting the ple overwhelmingly see the bigger, long- Jewish cemetery in Belarus.
udice can lead to if left to grow.” Bishop Vietnam Memorial, one would be drawn term picture,” Dr. Lozman said. “This is
Scharfenberger heads the Roman Catho- into the memorial, to be changed by the educational, so that when one goes there, visitors can sit to meditate and pray.
lic Diocese of Albany. “I also noted that hard truth of what they are seeing. It is not they have the sense, the feeling, of what Dr. Lozman said he anticipates that stu-
Albany should have an appropriate Holo- designed to be shocking, but by symbol- the Jews went through. We are going to dents who visit the memorial will have
caust memorial. He totally agreed and was ism, to portray a shocking history.” have kiosks along the pathway with sig- learned about the Holocaust in their
very excited about it.” The proposed memorial will be in Nis- nage explaining the symbolism of the schools, and that teachers will accompany
Not only was the bishop receptive, he also kayuna, New York, a suburb that is both items used in the memorial. It will also them to the site to offer further instruc-
offered to provide a newly acquired piece of close to Albany and on a major highway. provide a historical perspective of what tion. He hopes that school buses will make
church property next to the Catholic ceme- The memorial will be buffered by trees the Holocaust was all about and informa- their first stop at the Jewish Federation
tery. “Since it had not yet been consecrated, and have its own entrance onto the high- tion on how many others were killed in the building, where they will receive addi-
he could deed this to our foundation,” Dr. way. According to Dr. Lozman, the Niska- Shoah as well.” tional information about the Shoah.
Lozman said. (Realizing that he needed a yuna planning board has given its unani- The boxcar will be closed to the public. Dr. Lozman has worked hard to spread
foundation so that people who contributed mous approval. He now is waiting for the “It’s enough to see it,” Dr. Lozman said. his message, but, he said, “If there was no
to the project could get a tax deduction, he town board to approve the project as well. The names of survivors who live in sur- Holocaust, none of this work would be
established one several years ago.) “Niskayuna is an excellent location,” he rounding communities will be behind necessary. I’m doing it for the victims of
“Essentially, I wanted a memorial that said. “The town has a great school system, the wall representing the gas chamber. the Holocaust. What else can you do for
would be educational in design and give high employment, and is a model commu- Handprints of their children will be next them? They deserve to have their family
the viewers a sense of what cruelty the nity. In years to come, this memorial will to it. Dr. Lozman is not concerned about cemeteries preserved and their family
Jews were subjected to,” Dr. Lozman said. become an important landmark that the the difficulty of locating these families. names preserved.
“It has been estimated that four million community will be proud of because it will He is confident that “they will contact “It’s for the victims, but it’s also preserv-
Jews were transported by rail, stuffed into be an expression of people caring enough me.” There also will be benches where ing our Jewish heritage.”

Jewish World
Rabbi Aaron Panken recalled

as the joyful president of HUC
Josefin Dolsten
R
abbi Andrea Weiss, an associate professor
of Bible at the New York campus of Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and
its incoming provost, remembered the joy that
Rabbi Aaron Panken brought to his work.
Weiss recalled how Panken would pop into his col-
leagues’ offices asking if they were having fun. “He had
this very serious position as president of a very large insti-
tution, and he approached it with such joy and with kind
of a boyish enthusiasm. He really loved his work,” she said.
Panken, the president of HUC, died in a plane crash last
Saturday. His friends and colleagues remembered him as
a strong leader who was passionate about Israel, and who
loved what he did as the leader of the Reform movement’s
flagship seminary and its campuses in New York, Jerusa-
lem, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles.
Jean Bloch Rosensaft, the school’s assistant vice presi-
dent for communications and public affairs, said Pan-
ken embodied “the best of the Reform movement.” “The
college was his whole life. He was a real product of the
Reform movement, and he was proud of it,” she said.
Panken, who had led HUC since 2014, was killed as he
piloted a small aircraft near Wawayanda, New York, close
to the New Jersey border. A passenger, flight instructor
Frank Reiss, was injured in the crash. The cause of the
crash is not yet known; the Federal Aviation Administra-
tion and the National Transportation Safety Board are Rabbi Aaron Panken teaches a Talmud class to Hebrew Union College students. Courtesy of HUC
investigating. Panken was a licensed pilot.

Before he became HUC’s president, the native New Provost Michael Marmur said the school had not yet was struck by Panken’s engaging teaching style and mas-
Yorker held senior positions at the school, including vice made succession plans but would have an announce- tery of rabbinic literature. “His love of the Talmud and
president for strategic initiatives, dean of the New York ment about the issue in the coming days. HUC is holding the rabbinic texts was unusual for someone who grew
campus, and dean of students. memorial services on all of its campuses this week, and up in the Reform movement, where unlike in Ortho-
livestreaming Panken’s funeral on Tuesday. doxy, where young people are trained in those texts
Rosensaft said Panken was passionate about Israel, from a very young age, we aren’t,” he said.
working to improve ties between American Jews and Skloot said Panken was able to convey that passion for
the Jewish state, and strengthen Reform Judaism there. the Talmud to his students.
“This was the mission of his life, and he really lived it “He was able to take students of different levels and
with every fiber of his being,” she said. backgrounds and show them the technical complexity,
Panken worked to expand HUC’s rabbinical program the inspirational wisdom at the heart of a basic sugya
in Israel and its Jerusalem campus; he recently ordained [passage] of the Talmud,” he said.
its 100th graduate. “He was so full of pride and excite- Marmur, who worked with Panken for some 20 years,
ment about what these men and women are trying to said Panken had a talent for making others excited about
achieve in Israel,” Marmur said. what was happening at HUC. “He was one of those rare
Panken started several Israel-related programs, people who could really get people on board and get
including one that brings Israeli rabbinical students them excited about a vision for this place. He was tire-
and graduates to visit the United States to learn more less,” Marmur said.
about Jewish life here. Another program, in partnership Weiss said Panken was dedicated to supporting the
with Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, strengthens ties HUC faculty. She recalled speaking to him about an idea
between young Reform Jewish leaders and Israeli politi- for a project to have 100 religious leaders write letters
cal and key cultural figures. Panken also created a pro- about American core values to President Trump to be
gram that brings Jewish, Christian, and Muslim school- delivered on the first 100 days of the new administra-
teachers in Israel to the HUC Jerusalem campus to learn tion. He wholeheartedly threw his support behind it.
about tolerance. “He was the kind of person who really helped nurture
“He was creating change and working toward positive people to be their best and helped people grow profes-
change in Israeli society in order to strengthen Israel,” sionally,” Weiss said.
Rosensaft said. Marmur also remembered Panken as “a very devoted
Rabbi Joseph Skloot, an assistant professor of mod- friend and incredibly devoted family man.” Panken lived
ern Jewish intellectual history at HUC, remembered how with his family in Scarsdale, New York, and was a mem-
friendly Panken was on their first meeting, when Skloot ber of the Westchester Reform Temple, where he had
was 18 and a counselor at the Union for Reform Judaism been a rabbinic intern.
Eisner Camp. “Aaron had a gigantic heart and no arti- He is survived by his wife, Lisa Messinger; his children,
fice, and he was curious and engaged and wanted to get Eli and Samantha; his parents, Beverly and Peter; and
Rabbi Aaron Panken leads a Torah procession at the to know you,” Skloot said. his sister, Rabbi Melinda Panken of Congregation Shaari
Western Wall in Jerusalem. Courtesy of HUC Later, when Skloot was in HUC’s rabbinical school, he Emeth in Manalapan. JTA Wire Service

D’var Torah
Shavuot: The month for Torah
A
lthough the be fully complemented. Torah was not given in Iyar. We have the opportunity on Shavuot to
date for the He suggested instead that The Torah was given, as we know, in Sivan. recall how our forebears accepted the gift
holiday is never she ride on a horse, well Gemini, the twins, which is Sivan’s astrologi- of all gifts, the Torah. They accepted it as a
explicitly stated groomed, muscular, and cal sign, represents the people carrying the unified nation. They accorded it the honur,
in the Torah, Shavuot dignified. A third adviser princess in the analogy. The twins, as peo- respect and dignity due to such an exalted
occurs on the 6th (and in chimed in. He observed ple, have the ability to praise, show respect gift. The offer and acceptance of this gift
the diaspora on the 7th) that while an elephant and give honor. The ultimate respect for the firmly cemented the special relationship,
day of the month of Sivan. may be tall, and a horse Torah comes from us. We, creatures of flesh the unity of heart and soul, so to speak,
Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Spira may be majestic, neither and blood, were endowed with the ability to that existed and continues to exist between
(1783-1841) explains in his Rabbi Ilan of these beasts has the comprehend and respond. It is with these Hashem and the Nation of Israel. Let the
work Bnai Yisascher that Acoca ability to expound on the powers that Hashem wanted the praise of lessons of Gemini not be lost on us.
the astrological sign of the Sephardic beauty of the princess, nor the Torah to be expressed. It is from people
Congregation of
month of Sivan is Gemini, Fort Lee, Orthodox
the ability to demonstrate who can see the Torah, appreciate the Torah Rabbi Ilan Acoca leads the Sephardic
the twins. This sign relates their respect for her, nor for what it is and express that appreciation. Congregation of Fort Lee, and is rabbi-in-
to dual aspects of the holi- to bring her the joy befit- Therefore, Sivan was the month chosen for resident at Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day
day of Shavuot. We all know that when ting a bride with antics and entertain- the giving of the Torah. School in Paramus.
Israel left its enslavement in Egypt, it ment. He therefore suggested that she
emerged as a nation that would now be be carried upon the shoulders of men.
free to serve the only master, the Master In that way her beauty would be seen,
of the World. and she would be properly honored.
When Hashem gave Israel the Torah The month of Nissan is the first in the
shortly thereafter, unity of purpose, Jewish calendar. Accordingly, the astro- Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
holiness and love were evident between logical sign of that month, Aries, the
Hashem and the nation. Those siblings ram, is the highest ranking, so to speak, is pleased to launch the
who are developed and born together — of the astrological signs. Each astrologi-
twins — symbolize this kind of unity. Just cal sign brings with it certain attributes Lion of Judah Memorial Fund
as a special bond exists between twins, and characteristics that are imparted,
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Hashem and the nation of Israel. ing that month. The Nation of Israel This Mother’s Day,
The special unity experienced and evi- left the land of Egypt in Nissan. How-
denced by the giving of the Torah was
not only between God and His people. It
ever, Hashem did not choose to give the
Torah in Nissan. Just as the elephant sig-
honor the memory of a
existed amongst the people in the nation nifies an elevation above, so too does
of Israel as well. There was harmony Aries. Hashem did not want to give the loved one by making a
and unanimity of purpose. The feelings mistaken impression that the respect or
of camaraderie were so great that the
Torah refers to the encampment of the
honor for Torah had to be bolstered or
enhanced, which could occur by hav-
LION OF JUDAH
nation of Israel at Mt. Sinai in the singu- ing it associated with the “highest” of
lar, “And he (Israel) camped there.” This astrological signs. The Torah was to be gift in her name.
unity is also alluded to by the sign of the respected in and of itself, and therefore
month of Sivan, the twins. Nissan was not the month chosen for Through a one time gift of $5,000,
There is additional significance to presentation of this gift.
the sign of the month as it relates to the The sign for the next month, Iyar, is
you can perpetuate tzedakah in her name.
giving of the Torah. The Bnai Yisaschar Taurus, the bull. The bull, like the horse
quotes a parable. A king was preparing in the parable, signifies a powerful physi-
for the wedding of his daughter and
wanted to display her beauty and splen-
cal presence and beauty. We know that
during the month of Iyar the trees begin
Her memory will be
dor in a manner befitting a princess. to blossom and plants begin to grow after for a blessing, forever.
One of the king’s advisers suggested their long wintry slumber. The beauty of
that she rides on an elephant. She spring is truly one of G-d’s wonders. Yet
would be elevated above the throngs Hashem did not want to convey the mis-
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beauty of the princess bride would not praised if it stood alone. Therefore, the
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Confessions at an airport
W
hen your flight is delayed mother, and saying things like “If you
for four hours, you can ever want to have kids, you probably
choose to be annoyed should start sooner rather than later
and aggravated, or you because you never know how long it will
can use it to gain valuable material for a take…” and “If you don’t know about
newspaper column. Though I am usually marrying scrubs-boy after being together
a student of the school of annoyed and for four years, maybe he isn’t for you.”
aggravated, there was so much good sub- And my personal favorite, “Just wait until
ject matter happening all around me, it your kids are old enough to find out what
was hard to stay negative. I also learned nursing means…”
that four hours goes by very She met scrubs-boy on
quickly when you have so the PATH train and she
much fodder to absorb. And couldn’t believe that hus-
that some people get really, band #1 and I met when we
really annoyed when their were 13 years old. And that
flight is delayed, and they he had a full head of hair
spend their time yelling at when we met. And that
the people at customer ser- I was thin when we met
vice and using really bad ( Just kidding. I never told
words. No, this was not her that.)
me. I was too busy eaves- Banji Now let’s change chan-
dropping on everyone’s Ganchrow nels to the man sitting
conversations. behind us. And you can’t
Let’s begin with the make this stuff up. “So
young man who wore scrubs to the air- where are you off to?” the man sitting next
port. Only someone who wants everyone to the man behind us asked. “Well, my job
to know that he is a doctor wears scrubs is sending me to a rehab in Florida for my
to the airport. Please do not tell me that alcohol addiction.” Apparently this man
Across Down you didn’t have two minutes to put on a has been working for the same company
1. “‫”חבר‬ 1. “The Five People You Meet pair of pants and a t-shirt. I know, first- for 30 years. He was married once, has
6. Coffee carriers in Heaven” author Mitch hand, that it takes less than two minutes some older children, and then he remar-
10. Makes a scene? 2. Reddish- purple
to get dressed when you are putting in ried and has an 8-year-old and a 5-year-
14. Took on, as freight 3. Brainstorms
15. ___about (approximately) 4. Two before Lev. no effort whatsoever. By the time we old. He wants to start setting a good exam-
16. In need of ice, maybe 5. Foot problem, perhaps
17. “‫”בוקר טוב‬ 6. “Family” or Orthodox
20. Eggs, biologically 7. Ally with
21. Butler at Tara
22. Ann and Cod, e.g.
8. Animal acronym for
a sensational athlete
Though I am usually a student of the
23. Child’s room, often
25. Lead or copper, e.g.
9. Many Jews in Fl.
10. Battery’s partner in crime
school of annoyed and aggravated,
26. Bit of slander 11. “?‫”מבין‬ there was so much good subject
27. “Be a pal!”
29. Ski lodges
12. Wayne’s “___ Grit”
13. Tennis units matter happening all around me, it
32. Funny Baron Cohen
35. Tree or roasted snack
18. “Get lost!”
22. MIT sessions was hard to stay negative.
36. “Don’t Bring Me Down” rockers, 24. MIT, e.g.
familiarly 26. Where magic happened
37. “‫”תודה‬ in October of ‘86 boarded the plane, almost five hours after ple for them, so he is looking forward to
40. “Black-ish” protagonist 28. “Spider-Man” star
first seeing this doctor in his scrubs, we starting over. “The rehab is sending a limo
41. Dell, e.g. 29. Windy City, for short
43. Media attraction 30. Become inedible learned from his girlfriend of four years to the airport to pick me up.” “What do
45. Fables 31. “Do not change,” to an editor (who also is a doctor and was not wear- you do for a living?” The man sitting next
46. Jewish leader, once 32. Parts of a min. ing scrubs) that she also felt that he only to the man sitting behind us then asked.
48. Audio receivers 33. Loads wears the scrubs for attention. “I am an iron worker,” he said. “I build
49. Escape from Ford, e.g. 34. “?‫”מה שלומך‬
We also learned, from the girlfriend, bridges.” “It must be hard to do that kind
50. Commits a faux pas 35. “Fortunate Son” band, for short
54. Cotton thread used for gloves 38. 1 and 95, e.g. that she is going to make partner in her of work drunk,” responded the man sit-
56. Covered, as a song 39. He lost to DDE, twice medical practice in four months, and ting next to the man sitting behind us.
58. “You’ve Got Mail!” co. 42. Nut candy scrubs-boy has another six years before Hey, that is just what I was thinking!!!!
59. It means “against’ 44. Go for, as a prize he accomplishes the same goal in his prac- And then it was time to board the
60. “‫”ברוכים הבאים‬ 46. One might drive you meshuga
tice. And that he wants to get married and plane and all my fun ended. Will scrubs-
62. Marvel’s Sebastian or Lee 47. Second part of Israel’s
63. “The King ___” second largest city have kids and she still is not ready. And boy marry his girlfriend? Will the man in
64. Cleanser brand 49. Planters needs that she went to medical school on a full rehab overcome his drinking problem?
65. Drench, in a way 51. He directed 28-Across scholarship. And that she and her boy- Will husband #1 and I ever spend four
66. Washing the dishes, e.g. 52. Ritzy street, out west friend went hiking in Vietnam and slept in nights sleeping in a cave? At least I can
67. “‫”שלום‬ 53. Where much change is lost
a cave for four nights as part of the hike. answer one of those questions….
54. Whip unit
55. Interested in She told me that is the coolest experience
56. Jewish girl of song? ever and that I should put it on my bucket Banji Ganchrow was on a plane because
57. Prefix for “ten” list. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that she and husband #1 attended a family
60. Dracula, at times the only thing on my bucket list, currently, bar mitzvah. It was very lovely and they
61. Silent “yes”
is, “Get out of bed every morning.” had a wonderful time. (In case you were
My contribution to this conversation wondering….) And their flight home was
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 49. was sounding like a really old Jewish not delayed.

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Bergen County rabbis 950 Queen Anne Road.
talk to their congregants Register at lamdeinu.org.
about the mitzvah of
bikur cholim and the
valuable services that
Bikur Cholim Bergen
County provides.
(201) 579-3066 or
bikurcholimbergencounty.
org.
Monday
may 14
Loretta Weinberg,
State Senate
majority leader
Charlie Harary
Inspiration in Teaneck: James Tedesco, III,
To commemorate the Bergen County
first yahrzeit of Joseph
executive
Appel, Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun, the Photos courtesy NCJWBCS
may The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly hosts its annual Appel family, and Jewish
Diversity in Bergen
USATF-authorized Rubin Run, a family-friendly community race Journeys/JInspire-Bergen
13 present Charlie Harary County: The Bergen

with a new 8K trail run, 10k run, and 5k walk/run, on Sunday, May discussing “Climbing County section of the
13. Race day registration is available beginning at 6:30 a.m. and the Mountain: How the National Council of
Jewish Women offers a
until 30 minutes before each race starts. There will be snacks, giveaways, Counting of the Omer
diverse panel of experts
Can Change Your Life,”
free babysitting, warm-ups, and trophies. All participating mothers receive 7:45 p.m., at the shul, at its general meeting
a rose in honor of Mother’s Day as they cross the finish line. Lead sponsors 641 West Englewood to discuss “Diversity:
Expanding Awareness
include Maggie Kaplen-The Kaplen Foundation, Englewood Hospital & Ave. Book signing/sale
and Appreciation of
follows. (201) 836-8916
Medical Center, the Rubin and Rubach families, the Jewish Standard, Tenafly or www.bnaiyeshurun. Our Unique Bergen
Nature Center, and the North Jersey Media Group. 411 E. Clinton Ave. (201) org/events. County Community,”
12:30 p.m. Keynote
408-1412, [email protected], or www.jccotp.org/rubinrun. Courtesy JCCOTP speaker: James Tedesco
Tuesday III, Bergen County
May 15 executive; moderator,
at Congregation Rinat Loretta Weinberg, State
Friday Saturday Yisrael, 6:30 p.m.,
as part of the shul’s
Senate majority leader,
at Temple Emeth in
may 11 may 12 “Rambam and Moreh Teaneck, 1666 Windsor
Nevuchim: Innovation Road. (201) 385-4847 or
Shabbat in Closter: Shabbat in Paterson: and Controversy” shiurim www.ncjwbcs.org.
Temple Beth El and its The Paterson Shul at in memory of Rabbi
sisterhood celebrate the Federation Apartments Ozer Glickman. Shiurim
role of women in Jewish honors the Israel Defense continue through June 9.
life during services led Forces veteran who lives 389 W. Englewood Ave.
by Rabbi Beth Kramer- in the apartments at a (201) 837-2795 or Rinat.
Mazer, student cantor kiddush following Yom org.
Rabbi Tully Harcsztark
Julie Staple, and the Yerushalayim Shabbat Dr. Elana Stein Hain
sisterhood, 7:30 p.m. 221 services that begin at Shabbat in Teaneck: Melava malka in
Schraalenburgh Road, 9 a.m. 510 E. 27th Street Rabbi Tully Harcsztark, Teaneck: Bikur Cholim Rosh chodesh in
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or (corner of 12th Avenue). the principal of Bergen County hosts its Teaneck: Dr. Elana
www.tbenv.org. www.PatersonShul.com SAR Academy High second annual melava Stein Hain discusses
or email JerrySchranz@ School, discusses malka at a private home “On God, Humanity &
gmail.com. “Politics, Practice, and in Teaneck, 9:30 p.m. Torah: Between Rabbis Book talk in Fort Lee:
Pedagogy: Mitzvot in It’s the culmination of Akiva and Yishmael,” for The sisterhood of JCC of
Maimonidean Thought” the annual “Shabbat Lamdeinu in Teaneck, Fort Lee/Congregation

Calendar
Gesher Shalom’s Book Road. (201) 833-1322 or School of Jewish
Shavuot for women in
Club meets to discuss
Christina Baker Kline’s, Fair Lawn: Bris Avrohom
www.Emeth.org. Studies, discusses
“Creation, Revelation, Singles Sunday
of Fair Lawn invites may 20
“ A Piece of the World,”
1 p.m. Refreshments. women to a night out to Saturday and Prophecy” at
Congregation Rinat Thursday
1449 Anderson Ave. paint a nature-themed may 19 Yisrael, 6:55 p.m., as part Lunch in Nyack: Singles
(201) 947-1735. canvas, arrange fresh of the shul’s “Rambam
may 17 65+ from the JCC
flowers, and have a Rockland meet for lunch
Shabbat in Jersey City: and Moreh Nevuchim:
Seniors meet in Wayne: buffet with wine, cheese,
Congregation B’nai Innovation and Widows and widowers at the Golden Mushroom
Marian Kleinman, and desserts, 8 p.m.
Jacob holds a family Controversy” shiurim meet: Movin’ On, a in Nyack, N.Y., 12:30 p.m.
Temple Beth Tikvah’s 30-02 Fair Lawn Ave. in memory of Rabbi monthly luncheon Individual checks. 425
service, 10:30 a.m.-noon,
administrator/educator, (201) 791-7200 or www. Ozer Glickman. Shiurim group for widows and North Route 59. Gene,
followed by a kiddush,
speaks at a seniors’ JewishFairLawn.org. continue through June widowers, meets at (845) 356-5525.
at Hamilton House. 255
meeting at the shul Brunswick St.; building 9. 389 W. Englewood the Glen Rock Jewish
about her mother’s
memoir about her work
Thursday entrance on 10th Street Ave. (201) 837-2795 or Center, 12:30 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for
where free parking is Rinat.org.
in the Belgian resistance. may 17 available. rabbiaaron1@ lunch. (201) 652-6624 or
1 p.m. 950 Preakness Ave. gmail.com, or go to email [email protected].
(973) 595-6565 bnaijacobjc.com.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Erev Shavuot in Closter:
Wednesday Temple Beth El has
services led by Rabbis
may 16 David S. Wizder and
Beth Kramer-Mazer and
Women’s lunch in student cantor Julie
Rockleigh: Jewish Staple, 7:30 pm. 221
Federation of Northern Schraalenburgh Road.
New Jersey will hold Community book (201) 768-5112.
its annual Women’s celebration in
Philanthropy Spring Ridgewood: One Shavuot in Franklin
Luncheon at the Book, One Community, Lakes: The Chabad
Rockleigh Country a community-wide Jewish Center holds
Club, 10:15 a.m.-2 p.m. program from the Jewish “TED Talks,” short
Honorees include Joan Federation of Northern power talks showcasing
Krieger, Women’s New Jersey, designed important, inspiring
Philanthropy board to enhance adult Jewish ideas found
member; Stacey Weiss, Jewish learning through on the internet, 9 p.m.
this year’s Shining Star; shared conversations, Blintzes and cheesecake.
and Barbara Joyce, discussions, and events, Participants welcome Inside the synagogue at Cavaillon. Photo provided
director, women’s culminates with a to submit 10-minute

philanthropy, on her 25th
year. Jenna Bush Hager
discussion with chef
Michael Solomonov,
Torah “TED Talk” to
rabbi@chabadplace. Jewish heritage tour of Provence
is the keynote speaker. author of “A World of org. 375 Pulis Ave.
26 Paris Ave., Rockleigh. Israeli Cooking,” this (201) 848-0449 or www. Chandri Barat, co-founder and direc- to Provence to “bring to life over 1,000
Melina, (201) 820-3906 year’s selection, and chabadplace.org/ted. tor of the Barat Foundation in Newark, years of Jewish history.”
local cookbook author
or www.jfnnj.org/SL. who was named one of this year’s NJ The trip is set for July 12 to 19. All are
Michal Levison, at Temple Shavuot in Teaneck:
Tour Brooklyn: JCC of Israel & JCC, 7 p.m. 475 The Jewish Center of Best Women in Business, has created welcome. For more information, go to
Fort Lee/Congregation Grove St. Reservations, Teaneck offers Tikkun a Jewish heritage tour in Provence for www.discoverprovence.org; 20 per-
Gesher Shalom hosts “On (201) 820-3918 or www. Leil Shavuot with themed adults. She has been taking students to cent of program fees are tax deductible,
the Road with the Rabbi: jfnnj.org/oboc. learning focusing on
“Communal Leadership the south of France for cultural immer- supporting arts education in under-
Walking Tour of chasidic
Williamsburg,” noon. Fee Musicale in Closter: The
sisterhood of Temple
in the 21st Century,” sion programs for the last 20 years;
this summer, in response to many
served communities. For information,
go to www.discoverprovence.org or call
S
o
includes a late lunch and 11:15 p.m. Speakers will
Emanu-El in Closter be CB Neugroschl,
bakery nosh. Information, requests, she will take a group of adults (973) 353-0003.
(201) 947-1735 or email hosts its Torah Fund head of school, Yeshiva
Musicale honoring Laura University High School A
[email protected].
Freedman, Dori Kirshner, for Girls, who will talk n
Be prepared: Tri Boro and Bruria Singer with about female leadership a
Hadassah meets at the
JCC of Paramus/CBT for
the Woman of Valor
awards, 7:30 p.m.
through the lens of
Megillat Ruth; Mechi Photographs on canvas in Tenafly r
p
a program on emergency Entertainment by the Jenkelowitz, who will
preparedness by the Avi Maza Orchestra, discuss lay leadership; The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades’ Waltuch m
Bergen County Division accompanied by Cantor and Rabbi Daniel Art Gallery presents “Up Close Through a a
of Senior Services, Israel Singer. Dessert Fridman, who will
reception. Proceeds Designer’s Lens,” an exhibition of limited-
1 p.m. East 304 Midland speak about rabbinic
Ave., Paramus. Email benefit the Women’s leadership. 70 Sterling edition photographs on canvas by Rona
[email protected]. League for Conservative Place. (201) 833-0515 or Spiegel. The show will be on display until
Judaism’s Torah Fund www.jcot.org. May 31.
projects. Reservations,
(201) 750-9997 or Rona Spiegel is an award-winning interior
templeemanu-el.com. Monday designer and a former president of the New
may 21 Jersey chapter of the American Society of
Friday Shavuot Yizkor/lunch
Interior Designers. She also is a professional
may 18 and learn: Rabbi Aaron photographer.
Katz leads a Yizkor Ms. Spiegel and her family have lived in
Shabbat in Woodcliff service, noon, followed Englewood Cliffs for more than 30 years.
Lake: Temple Emanuel by lunch and current They have been JCC members for many
Ina Cohen-Harris of the Pascack Valley topics, at Congregation
Courtesy JCCOTP
hosts Shabbat Yachad, B’nai Jacob in Jersey years, and her daughter and grandchildren
Honorary dinner in Hebrew prayers set to City. 176 West Side Ave. have attended programs, classes, school,
Franklin Lakes: The easy-to-sing melodies, (201) 435-5725 or Info@ and camp at the JCC over the years.
Jewish Historical Society 8 p.m. 87 Overlook Drive. bnaijacobjc.com.
of North Jersey honors (201) 391-0801 or www.
All artwork is for sale, and a portion of the
Ina Cohen-Harris at its tepv.org. Shavuot in Teaneck: Dr. proceeds support invaluable cultural arts
gala dinner at Barnert Daniel Rynhold, Jewish programming at the JCC. Ms. Spiegel’s work A photograph by Rona Spiegel.
Temple, 6 p.m. 747 Shabbat in Teaneck: philosophy professor is online at www.red-zebra.net.
Route 208 South. Temple Emeth offers and coordinator of the
(201) 300-6590. klezmer musical services, Ph.D. program at YU’s For more information on gallery exhibitions, call Nina Bachrach at (201) 408-1406
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor Bernard Revel Graduate or email her at [email protected].

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Celebrating Israel at 70
In commemoration of the 26th yahrzeit of Rabbi Isaac L.
Swift, who was the founding rabbi and rabbi emeritus of
Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, Rabbi Yosef
Adler of Teaneck’s Congregation Rinat Yisrael and the
Torah Academy of Bergen County will discuss “The Sanc-
Sinai students tity of the Flag: A Tribute to Israel on its 70th Birthday” on
rehearse for Thursday, May 24. The lecture, co-sponsored by Ahavath
the upcoming Torah and the Rabbi Isaac L. Swift Chair of Judaic Stud-
production of ies at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, is at the
“October Sky.” Englewood shul, 240 Broad Ave., after Mincha at 8:15 p.m.
Courtesy Sinai
For more information, call (201) 568-1315.
Rabbi Yosef Adler
Sinbad coming to Englewood in June

Actor/comedian Sinbad performs on Saturday, June 2, at
8 p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Engle-
‘October Sky’ plays in May wood with Talent the Comedian as the opening act. Sin-
bad is ranked by Comedy Central as one of the “100 great-
Students at the Sinai Schools’ Karasick Sinai works with children with spe- est standups of all Time.” Tickets are available at www.
Shalem High School at the Torah Acad- cial needs, tailoring their programs to ticketmaster.com; at bergenPAC’s box office, (201) 227-
emy of Bergen County will perform an those needs. The school’s production 1030, or www.bergenpac.org.
original production of “October Sky” of “October Sky” is a culmination of a
on May 15, at 6:30 p.m., at Ma’ayanot yearlong therapeutic drama program.
Yeshiva High School for Girls in Work begins in September, when Sinai
Teaneck. Sinai teachers will direct the teachers begin adapting scripts and
performance. roles to match each student’s strengths. Sinbad
“October Sky” is based on a movie Teachers emphasize skills including
about a West Virginia coal miner’s son, expressive language, organization, and
who is expected to follow his father into collaboration. The unique program is
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Support group forms for families

of those with substance problems
As a result of the recent Teaneck aware- The group will meet in Teaneck every
ness meeting on addiction and substance other Wednesday at 8 p.m., beginning
abuse and the feedback its sponsors on May 16. A licensed clinician special-
received, they plan to begin a peer-to- izing in addiction counseling will facili-
peer family support group for any family tate the group, which is available at
member with a loved one suffering from no cost. For more information, email
addiction and substance abuse issues. [email protected].
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Briefs Obituaries
Trump team hired Israeli firm Ira Afromsky She did volunteer work City Board of Education
to dig up dirt on Obama officials Ira Howard Afromsky, 59, of at Englewood Hospital and for many years.
Ridgewood died May 1. Medical Center for more Predeceased by her hus-
Aides to U.S. President Donald Trump MSNBC, and Haaretz. Predeceased by his than 30 years. band of 58 years, Harold,
hired an Israeli private intelligence com- The Guardian quoted former U.K. For- mother, Dolores Afrom- Born in Germany, in 2002, she is survived
pany, Black Cube, to dig up dirt on offi- eign Secretary Jack Straw, who character- sky, he is survived by his she is survived by her by children, Lewis (Lorie),
cials serving in the administration of for- ized the allegations as “extraordinary” wife, Susan Evans, father, husband, Curt, daugh- David (Chuck), and Ruth
mer U.S. President Barack Obama, who and “appalling,” as saying that Trump Jerald Afromsky, children, ters, Audrey DeJonge of (Frank); grandchildren, Jef-
were involved in negotiating the 2015 Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Jonathan (Kerri), Ashleigh, Fort Lee and Ellen Ozeri frey (Amy), Amanda, Elyse
nuclear deal, according to documents Netanyahu were desperately trying to Sarah, and Jordan; siblings, of New York City; four (Dan), Jessica (Kevin), and
obtained by Britain’s Observer newspaper “discredit” officials involved in negotiat- Evelyn Brooks (Wayne), and grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, Har-
and published first in the Guardian. ing the agreement. David (Melanie), and grand- great-grandchildren. rison and Clara.
According to the report, Trump staff- According to unnamed sources, U.S. sons, Jake and Luke. Arrangements were by Arrangements were by
ers hired the company in May 2017 to find officials with links to Trump reached out Donations can be made Eden Memorial Chapels, Robert Schoem’s Menorah
material to use against Ben Rhodes and to Black Cube several days after Trump to Autism Speaks. Arrange- Fort Lee. Chapel, Paramus.
Colin Kahl. paid his first presidential visit to Israel last ments were by Louis Subur-
The investigators reportedly were year. Trump made a promise to Netan- ban Chapel, Fair Lawn. Harriet Fischer Gerda Lehrer
instructed to probe Rhodes’ and Kahl’s yahu that Iran would not attain nuclear Harriet Fischer, née Rubin, Gerda Lehrer, 97,
private and public affairs to see if they weapons and expressed his disdain for Marion DeJonge 93, of Teaneck, formerly of died May 3.
had any links to lobbyists who were posi- the 2015 agreement, which he has repeat- Marion DeJonge, née the Bronx, died May 4. Predeceased by her
tively disposed toward Iran or were in a edly castigated as the “worst deal ever.” Mahler, 91, of Fort Lee She was a principal’s husband, Samuel, she is
position to personally benefit from the The Guardian report confirmed contact died May 5. secretary for the New York survived by sons, Mark and
nuclear deal. They also tried to get infor- between the Trump aides and the intel-
mation from the two men’s wives. ligence company, but it is still unknown
In addition, investigators were how much if any material was discovered
instructed to investigate media per- and what use, if any, was made of it.
sonalities who had spoken out in favor The White House declined to comment
of the deal in the New York Times, on the report. JNS.ORG
Channel named for Hamas military wing

posts messages in bin Laden’s memory
on the seventh anniversary of his death
In memory of
Gail Markowitz Jenny
On May 2, 2018, the seventh anniversary that day, May 2, 2011, the nation lost its
of the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama lion, its educator, its jihadi, its innova-
bin Laden, a Telegram channel named tive imam, its martyr and its courageous
for Hamas’s military wing, “The Martyr
Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades,” pub-
[son].”
The message accompanied a poster
The best mom and
lished several messages about the late
Al-Qaeda leader.
published in 2011 on the above-men-
tioned Hamas forum showing bin Laden,
grandmother ever!
On Mother’s Day and every day,
Along with these messages, the chan- a map of Greater Palestine and a quote
nel, which has some 3,000 members, by the Al-Qaeda leader: “… The U.S. and
reposted eulogies issued by Hamas after
bin Laden’s death in 2011 that were cir-
its people will have no security as long as
there is no security in Palestine.” you are loved, cherished
culated at that time on a Hamas forum.
One of the messages posted by the
Also posted was a message addressed
to bin Laden: “Our beloved sheikh, you
and missed!
Telegram channel, under the hashtag promised us that we will live in security,
“Sheikh Osama bin Laden, May Allah and we, the people of Hamas, are com- The Gersh Family
Take Him to His Bosom,” stated: “On pletely loyal to you.”
Kellie, Paul, Gary, Ali & Andrew
JNS.ORG
Woman soldier’s remains indentified

from 1948 War of Independence
The remains of Private Livka Shefer, Shefer was born in Poland in 1914
who fell during Israel’s 1948 War of
Independence battles near Kibbutz Yad
and made aliyah in 1939, joining the
group that ended up founding Yad
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extensive army investigation, according in 1948.
to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. Until now, Shefer was the only
The investigation was headed by female Israeli soldier casualty whose Barry Wien - NJ Lic. No. 2885
the IDF’s Missing In Action Account- remains was unaccounted for.
ing Unit, a section of the Casualty and A cenotaph in her memory was
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enemy bombings and infantry inva- A tombstone unveiling will take
sion, Shefer was a liaison between place in a few weeks, where She-
Israeli defensive positions, and she was fer’s name will be added to the mass 327 Main St, Fort Lee, NJ
killed overnight on May 24, 1948, while grave at Kibbutz Nitanim, where her
trying to evacuate a wounded soldier. remains were found. JNS.ORG
201-947-3336 · 888-700-EDEN
She was 34 years old.
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Ronald; grandchildren, Barbara Tirschwell

Allison and Brian, and great- Barbara Tirschwell, 79,
The Christopher Family
grandchildren, Max and formerly of New City, N.Y., serving the Jewish community Obituaries are prepared with
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Stacey K. Orden, director of the Jewish Home Family’s to offer peace of mind to aging adults who want to remain home modifications, repairs and renovations in con-
Safely@Home program, is now one of the select group of in their own homes as they enter a more senior stage of life. junction with BRAD-CORE Property Management.
professionals nationwide to earn the Certified Aging-in- The program offers services including a home safety analy- Safely@Home believes that this program will ensure
Place Specialist (CAPS) designation, identifying her as pos- sis, regularly scheduled home maintenance visits, and rou- the comfort and confidence many aging adults
sessing the skills and knowledge necessary to remodel or tine check-in calls. require to maintain their current lifestyle.
modify a home to meet the unique needs of the older popu- “Studies have shown that minimal investments in home CAPS graduates include remodelers, builders,
lation, disabled homeowners, or their visitors. modifications and repairs, coupled with coordinated vis- designers, architects, occupational therapists and
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), in its by supportive services such as occupational therapists, others who help homeowners remain in their homes
partnership with the AARP and NAHB Research Center, cre- nurses and handymen, reduce health risks such as falls and safely, independently and comfortably as they age.
ated the CAPS program, which includes training and educa- enable the elderly to remain in their homes for a much lon- In three days of coursework, the CAPS curriculum
tion on the technical, business management and customer ger period of time,” explained Orden. “The Safely@Home incorporates market demographics, communication
service skills essential to compete in the fastest-growing seg- annual membership program enables older adults to ‘age techniques, marketing, common barriers and solu-
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Investors Bank is celebrating the grand open- are continuing and the grand prize will be a rely on team-work, our positive culture Clients and prospective customers can
ing of its retail branch in Hackensack. The vacation cruise worth $2,000. The drawing and a deep commitment to serving our contact Manager Maricela Martin or the
branch has formed an alliance with the Ber- for the cruise is scheduled for May 18. See customers. The branch actively serves branch team by calling (201) 881-0190.
gen Volunteer Center, and Investors Bank contest rules at the branch for details. the community by participating in the Investors Bank, headquartered in
will make contributions to this local not-for- Investors Bank Senior Vice President and Hackensack Chamber of Commerce and Short Hills, is a full-service community
profit organization when individuals or com- Market Executive MaryRose Genovese said, assisting local nonprofit groups. We look bank that has been serving custom-
panies open new promotional accounts. The “We have an exceptional banking team led forward particularly to helping small ers since 1926. With over $25 billion in
branch is located at 70 Hackensack Avenue. by Maricela Martin, who manages the Hack- businesses, which are the backbone of assets and a network of more than 150
During the more than month-long grand ensack location. The team serves our cus- the city’s economy.” retail branches, Investors Bank deliv-
opening celebrations at the branch, Inves- tomers, builds relationships and supports The Hackensack branch offers a full- ers personalized services and products
tors Bank is conducting weekly drawings for community-based not-for-profits. You’ll find service lobby and drive-up banking lanes tailored to the needs of its custom-
sensational prizes. Community members a welcoming environment with experienced that are open Monday to Thursday from ers. Investors Bank’s banking services
who are 21 years of age or older are invited bankers who are eager and able to help con- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 include complete deposit, loan and cash
to come to the new Hackensack branch, sumers and businesses develop strategies p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. management products for consumers
where they can enter a drawing to win such for achieving their financial goals.” The vehicle-accessible ATM is open 24/7. and businesses.
valuable prizes as an Apple iPad 32 GB or Ms. Martin, who has expertise in work-
an Apple iPhone X. The weekly drawings ing with diverse groups of clients, said, “We
Black Box musical program for teens
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for teens with a serious interest in the be ‘Rent’ (School Edition). (Note: Some
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season from Monday, July 2, 2018 until cated, and content warnings for audi-
Sunday, August 12, weekdays from 9:30 ences are displayed on all performance
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (The six show dates/ publicity materials whenever deemed
times will fall between 8/2 and 8/12.) necessary by the artistic director.)
Auditions are starting on a first come, Those students who are interested in
first served basis. what goes on behind the scenes — set
In the collaborative Rock Musical design, lighting, costume design, special
Theater Intensive program, students effects, stage management, etc. — are also
aged 13-19 spend a month working on a encouraged to join. Black Box also seek
Broadway-style musical that culminates one student director (a 12th grade gradu-
in a fully-staged production for family, ate) and, sometimes, one older student
friends, the community, and industry stage manager for the program. To apply,
professionals. contact [email protected].
In this total-immersion, collaborative RMTI is limited to the first 25 perform-
theater experience created and run by ers; other slots are available for behind-
BBS/BBPAC Artistic Director Matt Okin the-scenes participants. For those under
and other trained professional teach- 13 and over 19 (or otherwise not entering
ing artists, participants receive hands- Grade 6 through 12 in September 2018),
on instruction in acting, improvisation, exceptions may be made on a case-by-
voice, dance, stage combat, audition case basis. When it becomes necessary,
technique and more. Students also a waiting list will be formed and any
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