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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...............................................................4
OPINION ...........................................................20
COVER STORY ................................................ 26
HOME DESIGN ................................................40
GALLERY .......................................................... 42
DVAR TORAH ................................................ 43
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................44
ARTS & CULTURE .......................................... 45
CALENDAR ......................................................46
OBITUARIES ....................................................49
CLASSIFIEDS ..................................................50
REAL ESTATE.................................................. 53
Noshes
Jewish athletes
of the year
I asked my friend
SHEL WALLMAN,
the editor of Jewish
Sports Review, to draw
up a short-ish list of the
outstanding Jewish
professional and college
athletes of 2015. (Please
subscribe to the Review,
a great print publication
Jewishsportsreview.
com.) Heres his list:
NHL: MIKE CAMMALLERI, 33, New Jersey
Devils, left wing after
slowing down the past
couple of seasons, Mike
is off to a particularly
fast start this season,
and JASON ZUCKER,
23, left wing, Minnesota
Wild a star in the making, and this could be his
break-out season. NFL:
MITCHELL SCHWARTZ,
26, Cleveland, offensive
lineman Mitchell is in
his fourth NFL season
with the Browns and
has started every game
during that period, and
ALI MARPET, 22, Tampa
Bay offensive lineman who was drafted in
the second-round from
Hobart, a Division 3 college, and has been the
starter in every game.
MLB: KEVIN PILLAR, 26,
Toronto, center fielder
his third year of MLB
and his first as a starter,
Kevin has been called a
human highlight film
by SPORTSNET because
of his great fielding skills
and pretty good bat,
and IAN KINSLER, 33
Detroit, second baseman
Mike Cammalleri
Daniel Berger
Camila Giorgi
Arielle Ship
Hank Azaria
Emmanuel Lubezki
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bad time to be a human being in Europe. Life
was nasty, brutish, and short for everyone
ric Mayer of Wayne does not want
then, although arguable even nastier, more
to talk about himself.
brutish, and shorter if you were Jewish.)
A courtly, modest, even selfUntil he was 11, Mr. Mayer grew up safe and
effacing man, all he wants to talk
happy in Worms, ensconced in a family of formidable accomplishments. His mother, Irma,
about, from the conference room of his Manhattan office overlooking Central Park, is Bill
came from a family with deep and traceable
and Hillary Clintons visit to Worms, Gerroots in Western Europe. His grandmothers
many, 20 years ago.
name was Marie Weil, but that family name
But the reason the Clintons visited Worms
once, generations earlier, had been Valle; the
is inextricably connected to Eric Mayer, who
family had been expelled from Spain. For
began life as Eric Mayer not of Wayne but of
centuries, the family lived and flourished in
Worms.
Italy, gaining wealth and power; Mr. Mayers
Here, then, is the story.
own branch, in Germany, was an offshoot
Mr. Mayer was born in 1928. His birth city is
from the Italian trunk of his maternal family tree. Another branch was established in
one of the oldest Jewish communities in Germany. It is a city drenched with history, and
France. His grandmothers brothers were
with blood; by legend, the descendants of the
the founders of Italys largest bank, Banca
tribes of Benjamin found their way there, and
Commerciale Italiano, Mr. Mayer said.
there were Jews there during the Roman era.
His father, Moritz, was the son of a German-Jewish family that was as impressive
History picks up Jewish traces there in about
as his mothers. My father had ten broth1034, when the great commentator Rashi is
ers and sisters, Mr. Mayer said. Six of them
said to have studied in the yeshiva there; by
settled in Italy, two of them were married in
1086 the Crusaders murdered all the Jews
France to the same man, serially. Modeling
who hadnt killed themselves first. After that,
themselves after Rashi, who by legend was a
Jews moved back and were slaughtered,
vintner, and by local legend was a vintner in
moved back and were slaughtered, except
Worms, my father ran my grandfathers winfor the period when the Black Death killed
ery, he added.
almost everyone, and then the remaining
The family, like all Jewish families in
townspeople killed the few surviving Jews.
Worms, in Germany, and in Europe as a
(To be fair, not only were the Dark Ages a
whole, was damaged and partially destroyed
bad time to be a Jew in Europe, they were a
by the Holocaust and World War
II.
His father had fought bravely
for Germany in World War I, his
son said. Moritz Mayer refused
to be denied his identity as a German, putting on his World War
I uniform with an Iron Cross
pinned to it, daring the Nazis
to arrest him, according to an
account of Holocaust-era Worms,
The Destruction of the Jewish
Community of Worms 1933-1945
by Henry R. Huttenbach. On that
occasion, they retreated.
According to documentation
in Dr. Huttenbachs book, Lieutenant Moritz Meyer, who volunteered for duty, was in the Germany army for four years, served
on the western front, and won
four medals, including the Iron
Cross. But that faithfully executed
act of patriotism bought him
nothing but a little bit of time. He
was shipped to a Polish ghetto and
was murdered in Sobibor in 1943.
A door of the medieval cathe dral in Worms,
As Mr. Mayer put it, My
which was built by the same builders and made
father was semi-crazy. In 1937, he
of the same sandstone as the synagogue.
donned his World War I uniform,
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Worms Jewish quarter, destroyed during the war and then rebuilt, had been
home to the citys leftists and artists.
helping the Mayers and other Jewish children
put the villagers, still they kept the children
safe. I have an inordinate feeling of indebtedness to them that I can never repay, even
if I live to be the age of Moses, Mr. Mayer
added.
To pay back that debt, Mr. Mayer devotes
himself to activism, advocacy for the remaining heroes and victims of the Holocaust and
This cluster of placques commemorates the two interconnected Jewish families who lived in nearby houses and were murdered by the Nazis. Martin Weis
was a Warld War I hero and the shuls shamas.
Only one survived.
According to a history, The Destruction of
the Jewish Community of Worms 1933-1945
by native son Dr. Henry R. Huttenbach, who
escaped as a small child in 1936 and went on
to be a historian at New Yorks City College,
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Bullying and
the special
needs child
JCC will host
interactive workshop
LOIS GOLDRICH
hile bullying is a growing problem for children in the general population, people
with special needs have even more reason
to be concerned.
Stephanie Shapiro program coordinator at J-ADD and
a clinical social worker/therapist at the Psychotherapy
Center of New Jersey in West Orange notes that bullying
rates for children with disabilities are two to three times
higher than those for other children.
Sixty percent of people with disabilities whether
physical or mental report being bullied on a regular
basis, Ms. Shapiro said.
Add to that the fact that people with disabilities are
already coming to the table with challenges. Its harder for
them across the board. They may not know how to act and
may feel more peer pressure to fit in. And when theres a
physical aspect to the disability, people, especially those
who are younger, may make fun of that.
New Jerseys Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights defines harassment, intimidation, or bullying as any gesture, any written, verbal or physical act, or any electronic communication, whether it be a single incident or series of incidents,
that is reasonably perceived as being motivated either by
any actual or perceived characteristic and requires that
all school employees and contracted service providers
are required to report such incidents.
I hear that it is making somewhat of a difference,
Ms. Shapiro said, citing the state law. Schools are mandated to pay attention. And if schools do not follow up
as required, parents are advised to go higher and higher.
They want you to take action. Keep calling. In addition,
she said, research shows that more than half the incidents stop when other peers intervene. Help your friends.
This is something you need to know now and throughout
your entire life.
On February 2 and February 9, the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades will host a program addressing this issue. Working directly with special needs children and acquainting
their parents with resources available to them, staff members from the Psychotherapy Center will offer an interactive bullying workshop to teach special needs children
the skills they need to deal with and prevent bullying.
for help.
The program, she said, is in response to requests by parents of special needs children who report that bullying is
very prevalent. Participants will be paired up with other
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attendees and therapists according to their needs
and category of disability. Organizers will take into
account, for example, whether an attendee can write,
or requires special accommodations. The workshops
will adopt an intimate approach, not lecture-style,
Ms. Shapiro said. They will be interactive, taking
place in small groups. They will share experiences;
other group members may say something that will
help. Its a total group [situation], to show youre not
alone. Everyone has felt similar at some point.
Well talk to the families that sign up so were prepared for them to come, she added, noting that the
first program will be directed either to bullies or
those bullied.
She explained that bullying is a learned behavior.
When we experience things, we may find an
opportunity to do the same thing without realizing it.
We may transfer it in other ways. We want people to
know this is wrong. Well remind them of how they felt
[when they were bullied] and remind them that this is
not something they should be doing.
Special needs participants also will be told how to
take action and who to go to for help. By making them
more aware whether they are being actively bullied
or suspect they might be Ms. Shapiro hopes not
only to prevent this type of behavior but to forestall
its lifelong emotional effects victims often come to
avoid social situations or to hate school.
Part 2 of the program will focus on supplying families with pre-printed materials, such as notices to fill
out to send to schools or group homes. Theyre formal notifications, Ms. Shapiro said. Families dont
have to think of what to say. They can take action
now.
What: An interactive bullying workshop will take
place
When: February 2 and February 9, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 E
Clinton Ave, Tenafly
Cost: $50 per person, including refreshments.
Registration is required and space is limited. Enroll
online by Jan. 26 at www.psychoterapycenterofnj.
com.
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Rabbi Shmuel Maybruch of Passaic, seated, designed the webinar with Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda, director of online rabbinic
programming at YUs Center for the Jewish Future.
Rabbi Maybruch is a licensed social worker, psychotherapist, relationship coach, and faculty member in YUs Stone Beit
Midrash Program.
every level.
In Rabbi Blacks estimation, the biggest
challenge for young engaged men of any
denomination is making space in their
private world for another human being;
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relationship with a partner.
Though Orthodox Judaism does not condone sex outside of marriage, the course
acknowledged that given the broad range
of course participants constituencies and
the influence of a sexually open society,
some couples in the Orthodox community
might be sexually active before the wedding. Accordingly, one session touched on
the potential halachic, psychological, and
emotional impact such experience could
have on the couples relationship.
Rabbi Shmuel Maybruch of Passaic said
that many of the young men he teaches
before their weddings harbor misconceptions about both the halachic and the intimate aspects of marriage.
Correcting misinformation is one of
our most worthwhile jobs as teachers,
said Rabbi Maybruch, who is a licensed
social worker, psychotherapist, relationship coach, and faculty member in YUs
Stone Beit Midrash Program. He designed
the webinar with Rabbi Naphtali Lavenda,
the director of online rabbinic programming at YUs Center for the Jewish Future.
Rabbi Maybruch explained that the
webinar arose from a need to provide
a more unified body of knowledge to
teachers of brides and grooms. Usually
people offer their own courses and there
is no regulation or certification, but at least
we can empower them to teach a notch
higher, he said, adding that students who
finished the course were offered optional
certification.
Rabbi Maybruch said that he wants rabbis to be able to impart a set of relationship-building tools to their premarital students. He cited findings from the 75-year
Harvard Study of Adult Development,
which indicate that the single most important predictor of happiness and health
is the quality of a persons interpersonal
relationships.
Thats really phenomenal, and corroborates a lot of the ideas we have in Judaism, Rabbi Maybruch said. Given the
importance of the husband-and-wife relationship, wed be remiss to focus only on
the legal perspectives. We must help them
harness research-based suggestions for
improving their lives through their marriage relationship.
Rabbi Michael Bashist of Clifton, seniorgrade dean at the Frisch School of Paramus, has been giving marriage-prep
classes to grooms since his first students
began getting married around eight years
ago.
The topics are very personal, and having a relationship with a student for many
years is invaluable, especially when discussing intimate aspects of life, he said.
While most webinar participants were
community pulpit rabbis or rabbis working with grooms of college age and older,
Frischs principal, Rabbi Eli Ciner, considered Rabbi Bashists participation as part
of teacher development and continuing
education. Our greatest goal and privilege is to develop life-long relationships
The future is
in your hands.
Meet Shlomo Anapolle of Edison, New Jersey. When it comes to
a love of Israel, few college students can match the Sabra passion
of this Yeshiva University junior. A pre-med, biology major with
plans to attend an Israeli medical school, Shlomo balances his time
between neo-natal diagnostic research, intensive shiurim and a
commitment to Israel advocacy.
Whether its planning lobbying missions to Washington, D.C.
with YUPAC or teaching English to teens in the Negev through
Counterpoint Israel, Shlomo brings to bear his leadership skills for
the sake of the Jewish people and homeland. He is proud to invite
Israeli diplomats to YU to help his peers contextualize current
events. Shlomo chose YU because, to him, Torah Umadda isnt
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University, it is the formula for a values-driven preparation for life.
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HIAS director to speak on
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Mark Hetfield
different choice.
In his case, something strange happened. They stayed in Vienna, and
never went to Rome. Thats exceptional,
and there are theories in the book about
that.
HIAS was founded in 1881 to help Jews
from Russia who were fleeing tsarist
pogroms.
We focused mostly on Jewish refugees and migrants for the first 120 years,
including Levs time, Mr. Hetfield said.
We resettled tens of thousands during
that period, including some 400,000
between 1970 and 2000. Many were
resettled between 1979 and 1980, and
again from 1989 to 1993, he added.
Today, while the agency still helps
Jews, particularly from Iran, the vast
majority of those served by the agency
are of all ethnicities: Congolese, Burmese, Bhutanese, Eritrean, Iraqi, Iranian, and some Syrians.
Of the latter, Mr. Hetfield noted that
while the government is resettling a few
Syrians, they take a long time to be processed. Iranian Jews still go to Vienna,
he said, and we help them at all stages
of the process. But with Syrians, we help
them once they get to the U.S. airport
then we take over.
Mr. Hetfield said that HIAS works
through partnerships with Jewish Family Service Agencies around the nation.
The future is
in your hands.
Meet Rachel Mirsky from White Plains, New York. A biology major on
a pre-med track, and captain of the YU softball and basketball teams,
Rachel chose YU to allow her to explore and develop her unique talents
and interests.
Rachel loves YU because it enables her to engage in her extracurricular
passions and prepare for her career while remaining true to her
religious commitments. An exceptional athlete, Rachel was recently
named to the Capital One Academic All-District team. Whether in
an Israeli laboratory conducting research on the properties of red
blood cells, or authoring a medical ethics paper on eating disorders
and the Biblical matriarchs, Rachel can find the perfect balance at
YU. This is the essence of Torah Umadda and what sets YU apart.
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ts a numbers game.
But should it be?
For more than two decades, from
the 1990 National Jewish Population
Survey to the 2013 Pew Report, much of the
conversation around American Jewish life
has centered around numbers. How many
Jews are there, what are they doing, and
the key question for so many op-eds and sermons how many are marrying other Jews?
Yet while the headline numbers scream
meaning, looking at them closely can raise
more questions. You might say that with one
Jewish dataset, there are at least two opinions. And then theres the fact that every
survey returns data that are different in their
own way.
Some of the resulting issues were discussed in a panel at last months convention
of the Association of Jewish Studies, held in
Boston. The session, called The Numbers
Controversy and American Jewry: Discerning the Trends and Their Meaning, was set
at the point where Jewish studies converge
with Jewish current affairs.
The panel, which drew only about 30
people to the large ballroom where optimistic organizations had set it, featured Dr.
Deborah Dash Moore, a historian from the
University of Michigan, and two sociologists,
Dr. Steven M. Cohen of New Yorks Hebrew
and prescribing norms, naming a crisis, publicizing it, and promoting its solution seems
to encounter relatively little friction when
activist scholars fall into symbiotic relationships with congenial institutional benefactors and beneficiaries.
The varieties of Jewish American relationships, activities, sentiments, and expressions
are not simple, nor two-dimensional.
Finally, she said she is not convinced that
the ambitious, expensive agenda advocated
by my fellow scholars such as the continued expansion of Jewish day schools can
achieve its subjective objectives.
That last was an apparent reference to a
statement, Strategic Directions for Jewish
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major shift.
We cant predict what the future will
be by looking at the entire population.
Those who grew up in the 40s and 50s
and 60s may be very different than those
who grew up in the 80s and 90s. We cant
even estimate fertility from those now 45
and above. Those now deciding may be
very different.
The message of universalism was the
ethos an entire generation grew up with in
the 60s and 70s. The uniqueness, the chosenness of Judaism was foreign to that generation. What were discovering is that if
you love everyone, you dont love anyone.
Groupiness and particularism and belonging to a community is important, he said.
Addressing the problems of synagogues
and other Jewish organizations to which
Dr. Cohen alluded, Dr. Saxe said, There is
no question our institutions have failed us.
The traditional organizations have failed in
the sense that theyre not attracting people in the same way, with the same level of
intensity, as they did before. We may simply need to rethink how people connect
institutionally.
Even some of the old ways we characterized people as one thing or another
Jews by religion, Jews not by religion,
Jewish by background may not be terminology that fits with the current ethos.
There was a time when the only choice was
to be Jewish or not to be Jewish. The only
choice of the child of intermarriage was to
be Jewish or not to be Jewish, to accept the
religion of their Jewish parent or to reject
it. Now we find people are proud that they
have multiple heritages, he said.
Dr. Saxe said that by nature he is a pessimist but he is hopeful when it comes to
the future of American Jewry.
One of the reasons for his optimism,
he said, is his experience studying the
effect of the Birthright Israel program,
which produced extraordinary results in
changes in engagements and involvements
with Judaism.
My bottom line comment is lets stop
thinking there isnt any hope and lets
not treat demography as destiny.
Then Dr. Moore got a chance to
respond.
One of the things that differentiates
a historian from a sociologist, particularly a quantitative sociologist, is that
historians tend to approach the study
of Jews where Jews are, she said. We
dont necessarily place a higher value
on particular types of behavior or particular beliefs or particular organizational structures.
One of the things one finds in the
early history of New York is that Jews
dont join synagogues. They may go for
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. That is
it. Starting from the 1830s, the number
of synagogues that existed in New York
could never accommodate the number of Jews in the city if they actually
showed up there.
Not only that, but Jews dont observe
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Immigrant stories
Thats where
dreams come
from being
able to imagine
being someone
else, or
something else,
and working
toward it.
And just as exile and immigration
and rebuilding are Jewish stories, in
very different but dovetailing ways
they are profoundly American stories
as well.
The stories this week are immigrants
stories. Eric Mayer fled Germany in the
1930s and came to this country soon
after the war, when he was a young
man. Margie Gelbwasser left the Soviet
Union in 1979, when she was barely a
toddler. He remembers his early life in
poignant detail, and the long-drawnout drama of his exile with crystalline
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clarity. She recalls only tiny visual snippets of her time in Minsk.
Both of them have lived through historical earthquakes Mr. Mayer the
pure evil of the Nazi period and Ms.
Gelbwasser the rumblings that led to
the downfall of the Soviet Union. Both
lived through times when being Jewish
was dangerous although in very different ways and both carry the scars.
Both of them understand the feeling of being an outsider. Mr. Mayer has
devoted his life to ensuring that the
memory of the victims of the Nazis
be kept alive and because he is in
no way parochial, he uses the terrible
truths he knows about the Holocaust
to work to keep others from suffering
terrible injustice and genocide too. He
is a deeply modest man, who does not
want to be held up as an example of
goodness, but he is that example, and
the work he does matters greatly.
Ms. Gelbwasser filters her experience through the lens of a writer, making art from it. Because she knows what
it feels like to be an outsider, she can
take the very specific facts of her life
and make them universal. As a young
adult and middle-school novelist, she
has undertaken another great responsibility trying to help young people
learn and hold onto the joy of reading,
the wonder that comes from immersing yourself so much in someone elses
life that you can imagine being someone else.
Thats where dreams come from
being able to imagine being someone
else, or something else, and working
toward it.
In a third story, Mark Hetfield, the
CEO of HIAS the onetime Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, which helped
so many Jews leave oppression and
restart new lives here talks about the
work the organization does, no longer working with Jews very much but
working out Jewish values. It is a useful
addendum to the two personal stories.
Those of us lucky enough not to have
to uproot themselves can benefit from
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Mizrachis reasoning, of course, is
He claims to know why people get
easily refuted garbage.
cancer and why accidents happen.
In 1933 there were approximately Mixed parties bring tragedies to our
522,000 Jews living under the Reich. children. Theres more accidents,
Beginning in January of that year, theres more cancer, every minute
the Jews experienced public beat- theres a new Jew who gets cancer in
ings and humiliations. Businesses the world, every minute, and thats
were boycotted and synagogues because of the way the women dress,
desecrated. In 1935 the Nuremberg and thats because of the sins that
race laws were enacted, followed guys and girls make together. Thats
by the 1938 horrors of Kristalnacht. because of all the dirty phone calls,
During this entire time, the Jews thats because of the Facebook conof Germany tried to get out. They nections, and all the drugs and the
could see with their own eyes that alcohol and all the problems around,
if they didnt leave, they would be that brings all these tragedies to us.
Call me a cynic, but Im always
doomed. At the start of the Second World War, 304,000 of them just a little suspicious of religious
had emigrated. And though most leaders who obsess over other peonations of the world refused to ples sexual sins.
Mizrachi also has divined that
accept them, a majority finally were
intermingling of the sexes at wedable to escape.
The Jews who did not escape Hit- dings is the culprit for the rise in
lers ovens were, among so many the divorce rate. All the blessing is
other millions, the chasidim and ultra- gone. Dont be surprised why 70%
religious Jews of Poland. They had no of these mixed weddings ended up
idea about Hitlers plan to invade via with divorce within four years. Why,
blitzkrieg on September 1, 1939.
because theres a curse there.
Are we to believe that these devout
Mizrachi and rabbis like him are
and pious Jews, who observed the a menace. Just think about how
smallest details of Jewish law in keep- many people who might otherwise
ing the Sabbath and keeping kosher embrace Jewish tradition are absoand who prayed three times a day, lutely revolted by this cruel twadwere punished with death? And if dle that is fraudulently passed as
so, then why did a majority of their authentic Judaism.
I ask Rabbi Mizrachi to take heed
German Jewish brothers and sisters,
whom Mizrachi sees as far more sin- of the teachings of the Lubavitcher
ful, survive?
rebbe, who said of the Holocaust,
Mizrachi also states with confidence To say that those very people
that the reason Sephardic Jewry was were deserving of what transpired,
spared the Holocaust is due to their that it was a punishment for their
continued observance of Jewish ritual, sins, heaven forbid, is unthinkable.
just as the Ashkenazi Jews historically There is absolutely no explanation
had been accustomed to do until the or understanding for the Holocaust.
years leading up to the Second World
As for those rabbis who say that
War.
the Holocaust was a punishment,
Hmmm.
the rebbe said accurately, No
Rabbi Mizrachi, what about the scales of judgment could ever con1190 Massacre of the Jews in York, demn a people to such horrors.
When viewing human sufferthe Rindfleisch massacres of 1298,
the Chimielnicki massacres of ing we must look to Moses actions
1648-1657, and the countless other toward the enslaved Israelites in
pogroms and murders of Jews Egypt, as we read in last weeks
across Europe and Russia? And lets Torah portion. Moses did not return
also remember the more than 40 to God with his head bowed low,
major massacres against the reli- accepting the brutality inflicted on
giously protected Sephardic Jews his people as the Divine will. Why
living in Muslim lands over the last have you acted so wickedly to this
1,300 years.
people? he asks the Creator of the
Mizrachi has said in the past that Universe. From the time you have
children with Down Syndrome, sent me you have done nothing to
autistic, and any other problem is a save this nation.
punishment as a result of a previous
Jews are now being murdered
lifeThats pure punishment, those in Israel almost every day. Diaskind of people dont have a test any- pora communities should be shakmore, its punishment 100%.
ing the foundations of the heavens,
Mizrachi also claims to know why demanding from God that they be
children are born blind. A person protected, demanding of our State
is born blind, poor kid, was born Department that it stop the balderblind, why? God? What do you dash of both sides needing to deknow? Did you know how many escalate, and demanding of rabbis
dirty movies he was watching in his that they lead the charge in defending Jewish life.0
previous life? Now hes blind.
Reflecting and
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Is he good?
So how does Trump compare to his fellow contenders? A December 11th New York Times op-ed
by the editor of PolitiFact revealed that fully 76
percent of his statements were mostly/totally
false. Only Ben Carson, at 84 percent, was higher.
Another organization, FactCheck.org, said about
Trumps falsehoods In the 12 years of FactCheck.
orgs existence, weve never seen his match.
Grade F
Modesty: I once read a quote from a rabbinic
figure who said that the only thing he really
knew about God is that He doesnt like haughty
people. Countless biblical references support
this thought. In Proverbs, written by King Solomon, there is a
list of six things that God hates in man, with haughty eyes
mentioned first, followed by a lying tongue. Haughty eyes is
defined as having an arrogant demeanor and an overall attitude in the heart that causes a person to scorn or look down
on others.
As for Trump, his statements include Everything Ive done
virtually has been a tremendous success, The beauty of me is
that Im very rich, Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one
of the highest and you all know it, and I have instructed my
long-time doctor to issue a full medical report. It will show perfection. Enough said. Grade F
Family Values: If Judaism is nothing else, its about passing traditions, values, and beliefs onto the next generation and maintaining a righteous path. Donald Trump has five children. The
three oldest, with his first wife Ivana, are in their 30s and doing
quite well by all accounts. All three have prominent positions
in the Trump organization. In a January 2015 People article,
they lavish praise on their father for the values he instilled
No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes was drummed into them
every day, Donald Jr. said. Ivanka noted: We were surrounded
by great privilege and we had amazing opportunity, but it was
incredibly warm and I think the values were the right ones. Eric
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Henry Clay might have been Abraham Lincolns beau ideal but according to
rival John Randolph he was as corrupt as a rotten mackerel by moonlight.
Although todays invective is far less poetic, it is dangerous, Rabbi Prouser says.
ormer Florida
in Courage, President John
G ove r n o r Je b
F. Kennedy referred to this
Bush observed
statement as perhaps the
during the last
most memorable and malignant sentence in the history
Republican debate and
of personal abuse. That hisrepeatedly since that You
tory, the ad hominem derocant insult your way to the
gation of politicians in the
presidency.
pursuit of personal advanThe wisdom of his
tage and advancement, is
remark, alas, has not been
Rabbi Joseph
long and unsavory, if at times
H. Prouser
embraced by the competitor
colorful and entertaining. In
candidate to whom it was
Randolphs defense, his vermost immediately directed.
bal assault on his colleague was considerThe governors remark is true enough.
ably more evocative and poetic than the
Also indisputable, however, is the fact that
crass execrations and vulgar vocabulary
attack ads, insults, and ad hominem invective do not preclude election. Nor are any
of the current crop of candidates for the
of these unfortunate dynamics new to the
nations highest office.
political stage or the current election cycle.
Senator Edmund G. Ross, also of Kansas,
Political mudslinging finds both its figuvoted against conviction in the Senates
rative and literal origins in the Hebrew
impeachment trial of President Andrew
Bible. King David was reviled by fellow
Johnson, who also was the object of countless insults both graphic and grievous. Ross
Israelite and political detractor Shimei
cast the deciding vote for acquittal, despite
ben Gera, who threw dirt and rocks at the
the opposition of the defining majority of
king and, according to modern translators,
his constituents. According to JFKs semicalled him a criminal, a villain, and a
nal book on political courage and prinblood-stained fiend of Hell! It is clear that
ciple, a Kansas editorial attacked Senator
these insults wounded David, as the most
Ross in no uncertain terms, calling him a
beloved monarch in Jewish history recalled
poor, pitiful, shriveled wretch, with a soul
them from his deathbed, instructing his
so small that a little pelf would outweigh
son and successor, Solomon, to avenge the
all things [therein] that dignify or ennoble
offense: He insulted me outrageously Do
mankind.
not let him go unpunished (I Kings 2:8-9).
Senator William Pitt Fessendon of Maine
Only after these final, vindictive words was
ended his political career by voting for
David able to die in relative peace.
Johnsons acquittal together with his KanAn early American expression of this
sas colleague. Some time earlier, he had
phenomenon is to be found in the political
written about the Senate and public service
career of Henry Clay, who served the state
in terms approaching the prophetic:
of Kentucky as senator from 1849 until his
When a man becomes a member
death in 1852, having earlier been a congressman, Speaker of the House, and Secof this body, he cannot even dream of
retary of State. He ran unsuccessfully for
the ordeal to which he cannot fail to be
president three times. Abraham Lincoln
exposed of the load of injustice he must
so admired Senator Clay that he referred to
be content to bear, even from those who
him as his beau ideal.
should be his friends; the imputations of his
John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia,
motives; the sneers and sarcasms of ignorance and malice; all the manifold injuries
however who had served in the House
which partisan or private malignity, disapand Senate and as minister (we would say
pointed of its objects, may shower upon his
ambassador) to Russia described Senator
unprotected head.
Clay as a being, so brilliant yet so corrupt,
The litany of libelous political barbs
which like a rotten mackerel by moonlight,
is extensive, and did not spare even the
shines and stinks.
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Freedman (Conservative movement
models success, Jan. 1): The modernOrthodox and non-affiliated Jewish day
schools are the offspring of the Solomon Schechter Day School success and
Since Ramahs inception, countless
camps, some Orthodox, others Reform,
and others nominally Jewish have followed suit. All of these camps are based
on the Ramah model that the Conservative movement gave birth to as well.
The truth is that the Conservative
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after seeing the success of other such
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elementary school was founded in 1886
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as a toddler in Minsk,
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Shabbatons. My mom got nervous and
worried. It was a very mixed message.
In Russia, my moms mom always
found matzah on the black market. It
was dangerous, but she always got it.
Here, matzah is on the shelf. When
you dont have to work for a connection, when it just offers itself to you,
perhaps it appears to be less valuable,
she suggested.
I felt that I always was searching for
a connection, she continued. Now,
she feels that shes found it. Her family belongs to Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge. I feel like its what weve
been looking for for a long time. I feel
really connected.
Margie always knew that she wanted
to be a writer. She always wanted to
tell stories, she wanted other people
to read them, and she wanted to spend
all day doing it. She went to the College of New Jersey it was called Trenton State College then and then got a
masters in English at William Paterson
University. She taught language arts at a
middle school for 10 years; now, as the
mother of an 8-year-old, she teaches
writing classes and workshops, gets jobs
as writer-in-residence in schools, and, of
course, she writes.
How do you break into writing? Well,
for most people, it helps to be good at
it (although sometimes it also helps to
be lucky, to be brazen, and to catch the
zeitgeist. How many Shades of Grey are
there?). Margie began as a magazine
writer, publishing pieces in Self, Ladies
Home Journal, Scholastic, and Writers
Digest, among others. She had majored
not only in English but also in education, at her parents insistence, so when
she had to pick a specialty as a magazine
writer, that was easy. I wrote a lot of
stories about teaching and education,
she said. Also, because my sister is a
doctor, I wrote a lot about health. I can
tell you a lot about what your nails say
about your health.
She also began to work on what was
an ambitious novel about Russian-Jewish-American life, loosely based on her
family, in 2005. I thought of it as being
like a Jewish Joy Luck Club, she said. I
wrote 320 pages of it, but it just wasnt
working. I couldnt figure out how to fix
it, so I shelved the whole thing.
There was one part of it, that was
written from a teen girls perspective,
that seemed to flow better than anything else. When she showed the novel
to other people, they agreed that the
section had life. She took another writing class, wrote another 120 pages, and
then I scrapped that too. But there
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Eventually, all those ideas and trashed
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TEL AVIV When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the site of a
deadly attack here the night after the
shooting, his words were perceived by
some as more offensive than comforting.
After expressing condolences to the
families of the victims and welcoming
condemnations from the Arab-Israeli
community, the prime minister turned
to a familiar theme.
Among Israels Muslim citizens there
are many elements that have come out
against the violence and wish for full
law enforcement in their communities,
Netanyahu said on Saturday night in central Tel Aviv. However, we all know that
there is wild radical Islamic incitement
against the State of Israel in the Arab sector. There is incitement in mosques, in the
educational system and in social media.
Netanyahu went on to outline his
plans to enforce the law in Arabmajority areas and to eliminate the two
states of Israel one peaceful and lawabiding, the other rife with extremism
and crime.
One cannot say I am an Israeli in
rights and a Palestinian in obligations,
Netanyahu said. Whoever wants to be
Israeli should be an Israeli all the way,
both in rights and in obligations, and the
first and highest obligation is to obey the
laws of the state.
Some viewed the remarks as hypocritical whatever lawlessness might exist
in Arab-Israeli communities is a result
of the governments failure to direct
adequate resources to law enforcement
there, they say. Others saw his comments
as an attempt to blame all Arab-Israelis for the actions of the alleged killer,
Nashat Melhem, who may have suffered
from drug and mental problems.
You cant take one crazy person and
use him to paint an entire population
in the colors of ISIS, just like you cant
blame the whole Jewish population for
the burning of children in Duma, said
Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya, co-director of
the Israeli Democracy Institutes Project
for Arab-Jewish Relations, referring to the
West Bank town where Jewish extremists
are suspected of killing three members of
a Palestinian family over the summer.
Inequities between Jewish and Arab
citizens are an issue of longstanding
grievance in Israel. According to government figures, the average Arab municipal budget is 10 percent lower than that
of the weakest Jewish municipalities.
Arab-Israelis also lag in educational
achievement, income and various other
socioeconomic metrics.
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If the ratings for CWs newest show, Crazy
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know that youre missing out.
Now that creator and star Rachel Bloom
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actress in a TV series fingers crossed for
her on Sunday! its time to tune in. Crazy
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it happens, it addresses Jewish identity in
unexpectedly profound ways.
The series is the story of Rebecca Bunch,
a successful New York lawyer who follows
her summer camp ex-boyfriend to smalltown California. Never mind that hes in
a serious relationship with someone else.
The musical comedy features lots of singing and dancing, the campy products of
Rebeccas wild imagination. These arent
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the show features the talents of stage veterans Santino Fontana and Donna Lynne
Champlin.
Rebeccas Jewishness is a huge part of
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and subtle. Few other shows Amazons
Transparent excepted deal with Jewish
identity this deeply.
Typically, Judaism is little more than
a plot device on TV like on Friends,
where the Jewishness of Ross and Monica
Geller is most likely to come up with a
token Christmastime mention of Chanukah. Or characters like Schmidt, on New
Girl, who uses Jewish phrases all the time,
but typically just plays them for laughs.
On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Judaism is
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boat from Europe to America in 1901.
I know we are fleeing, a mother tells
her daughter, but you couldnt comb your
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on television here and there, but name
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entire day at the Rashi museum, at the synagogue, and with the city archivist, talking about Jewish history, Mr. Mayer said.
They also visited the cathedral and other
places, but most of the day was spent at
Jewish sites.
He is not talking about the Clintons visit
to Worms as a way to campaign for Hillary,
he stressed. Its that I want to give credit to
them. After all, he was governor of Arkansas
then, and you dont get votes in Arkansas by
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He is a super intelligent person, he is
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Across
1. Brother of Gad
6. Rodriguez in Steven Levitans Modern
Family
10. Make like a mohel
14. Decided on schnitzel over cholent, e.g.
15. Doubled month
16. Foreign currency often exchanged in
Israel
17. Hanging hand
18. Like the Negev
19. Ruler in Fiddler on the Roof
20. Minister of Defense during the 1982
Lebanon War
23. Insect for Paul Rudd
24. Many a gap year student in Israel
25. Need a refuah
26. Joan of ___, 1999 Leelee Sobieski
role
28. Gefilte fish alternative to carp
30. Like Abrams Star Wars Episode VII:
The Force Awakens
34. What strong security can do
37. Slapper Seinfeld might cause
39. Walk through the Jordan
40. Go, Maccabi!
41. Sister to those in this puzzle?
44. Some Kosher caviar
45. ___ The Light, Mandy Moore song in
Tangled
47. Like a hand-me-down pair of tefillin
48. What some Jews hope to do over the
green line
50. Bamba ingredient
52. What Garfield and Goldlum do
53. Classic alt-rock band whose only show
in Israel was in 1995
54. Sara, to Bibi
56. Sound that epitomizes tref
60. Arm of Israel
62. Great 20th century lion Rav and
author?
66. What can be visible in the distance
from the Pico- Robertson area
68. Berra elected to the Hall of Fame the
same year as Koufax
69. City that seems overrun with jews in
late January
70. Kind of law
71. Dershowitz of note
72. What IDF soldiers are trained not to
do in tense situations
73. Balak of Chukas-Balak, e.g.
74. Like bread on Passover, e.g.
75. Like some Lewis Black comments
Down
1. 1
2. Perform hachnasat orchim, essentially
3. Chabibi, in the US
4. The Torah, to Judaism
5. Unlike many a Chagall in peoples
homes
6. Great rabbinic vintner
7. Like the olympic performance of Sarah
Hughes
8. Quarterback Derek on Mark Davis team
9. Cookie that has an OU-D, but isnt technically dairy
10. Prepare a Shabbat table
11. Style of prayer started by 36-Down
12. Hezbollah funder
13. Haifa has one
21. Like Eicha
22. Be a nudnik
27. Like new IDF soldiers
29. Moshav southwest of Jerusalem
30. Vulcan mind ___
31. Slippery swimmer
32. Baal, e.g.
33. Started a drive, like Corey Pavin
34. IV item from Magen David Adom
35. ___ on Down the Road (song in
Lumets The Wiz)
36. Mystical 16th century rabbi
37. Paul Stanleys band
38. Golda Meir ___ Mabovitch
42. In a ___ (working the same job six
days a week)
43. Airer of the anti-Israel show
Quantico
46. Sderot to Beit Shemesh dir.
49. Society in the days of King Solomon,
perhaps
51. She played Ulla in 2005s The
Producers
52. Make like a child at a Seder
54. Shias Transformers co-star
55. Kind of charger? (for short)
57. Comic Glazer of Broad City
58. Former Tel-Aviv mayor Mordechai
59. Amare Stoudamire was one, once
60. Oy, were in trouble
61. Avodah ___
63. Title character in a Spielberg film
64. The motto, according to a 2011 song
by Drake
65. Equipment for 37-Down
67. 2003 Jon Favreau directed family film
Film nominees
L e ad a c t re s s , c o m e dy: A M Y
SCHUMER, 34, Trainwreck. This
megahit film has turned Schumer
from a minor celeb into the comedy It Girl of 2015. Best supporting
actress: JENNIFER JASON LEIGH,
53, The Hateful 8. (As in Noshes on
page 4, all Jewish nominees names
are in capital letters the first time
they appear in this article.)
Best director: TODD HAYNES,
54 (Carol); Best screenplay: JOSH
SINGER, 43 (Spotlight, with Tom
McCarthy); also AARON SORKIN,
54 (Steve Jobs). Singers highly
lauded script almost certainly will
get an Oscar nom, too. Every year,
the Globes have a few quirky nominations, and Sorkins screenplay, which
got more pans than raves, is a Globe
quirk. Best Original Song: See You
Again (from Furious 7), co-written
by CHARLIE PUTH, 24, who also is
a Grammy nominee this year. After
recently finding out Puths mother is
Jewish, I watched his videos on Youtube (he sings, too). Hes a charming,
nice young man, whose other hit,
Marvin Gaye, is a peppy pop song
that could play on Broadway. Best
animated film: Anomalisa, which
was directed and written by CHARLIE KAUFMAN, 57. Hes best known
for his quasi-fantasy films like Being
John Malkovich. By the way, Jennifer
TV nominees
Best actor, drama: JEFFREY TAMBOR, 71 (Transparent, on Amazon); He plays a Jewish man, with a
Amy Schumer
Liev Schreiber
Jeffrey Tambor
Rachel Bloom
Sarah Silverman
Michael Stuhlbarg
SAG Awards
Unlike the Globes or the Oscars, the
SAG Awards honors only actors.
Uniquely, an award goes to the whole
acting cast or ensemble.
SARAH SILVERMAN, 45 (I
Smile Back), is the only Jewish
actor or actress to be nominated for
an individual film acting award. Her
Julia Wolfe
Mark Ronson
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Wednesday
JANUARY 13
Dan Abraham
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Debbie Weisman
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the Babies? and reproductive
endocrinologist Dr. Stephanie
Thompson offer a program for
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Friday
JANUARY 8
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
The Glen Rock Jewish
Center holds its family
Shabbat Club service,
5:30 p.m., followed by
dinner and dessert,
crafts, and activities at
6. 682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
family services, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Saturday
JANUARY 9
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers its monthly
Sephardic minyan, in
addition to its regular
Shabbat minyan, 9 a.m.
The monthly Simchah
Kiddush for both follows.
70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515.
As part of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jerseys One
Book, One Community
programming,
Temple Emeth offers
a Shabbaton on this
years selection, Lev
Golinkins A Backpack,
a Bear, and Eight Crates
of Vodka. At 9 a.m.,
Rabbi Steven Sirbu
leads Torah study using
ancient and modern
sources on Bullying
and the Treatment of
the Stranger. During
services at 10:30, he will
incorporate key themes
from the book as part
of the liturgy. Kiddush
lunch at noon will be
followed by a talk, A
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Todays Refugees, by
Mark Hetfield, president/
CEO of HIAS. Samuel
Golinkin, Levs father,
will talk about What
I think about when I
see pictures of todays
refugees. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
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temple-emeth.
Fundamentals of
Judaism: Anshei
Lubavitch offers a
course, Fundamentals
of Judaism Through
the Prism of Chabad
Chassidic Doctrine,
8 p.m. Also Jan. 16.
10-10 Plaza Road, Fair
Lawn. Rabbi Bergstein,
(201) 362-2712.
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Cabaret night in
Ridgewood: Temple
Israel in Ridgewood holds
its Cabaret Night, with
performers including the
Ridgewood Irish Dance
title-winning dancers,
jazz/pop pianist Sarah
Diamonds, comedian
Dan Abraham, singer/
songwriter Ariana
Gates, Taiko drummers
Manhattan Taiko, pop
singer Caitlin Bromberg
(Temple Israels cantor),
Macaroon 5 (the house
band of the Glen Rock
Jewish Center playing
hits from the 50s to the
80s), storyteller Pam
Grant, and 60s-90s folk/
rock band Two and A
Half Mensch, 8-11 p.m.
Admission includes
entertainment, hors
doeuvres, wine, beer, and
dessert. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or email
cabaret@synagogue.org.
Marty Schneit
Book discussion/
lecture in Washington
Township: As part
of Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jerseys One Book,
One Community
programming, Temple
Beth Or offers a
discussion with Marty
Schneit, a licensed New
York City tour guide, on
Jewish Emigration from
Russia to the Lower East
Side, in conjunction
with this years book
selection, Lev Golinkins
A Backpack, a Bear, and
Eight Crates of Vodka,
1 p.m. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422 or
www.jfnnj.org/calendar/
Temple-Beth Or.
Tuesday
JANUARY 12
Sunday
JANUARY 10
Early childhood
program in Pearl
River: Yaldeinu, an early
childhood program at
Beth Am Temple, meets
at 9:30 a.m. Parents
join their children for a
free age-appropriate
introduction to Judaism.
Activities include music,
visual arts, snack, dance,
yoga, and drama. 60
East Madison Ave.
(845) 735-5858 or www.
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Leading a life of
meaning: Rabbi Daniel
Cohen of Congregation
Agudath Sholom in
Stamford, Conn., offers
an interactive and
inspirational seminar,
Leading a Life of Impact
and Meaning for The
Conversation Project:
Live, a program of
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys
Endowment Foundation,
from noon-2 p.m. Lunch
with all dietary laws
observed. Next program,
Jan. 20. At Federation,
50 Eisenhower Drive in
Paramus. (201) 820-3900
or jfnnj.org.
Intro to Judaism:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center in
Ridgewood continues a
three-part Introduction
to Judaism class led by
Rabbi Jacob Lieberman
of Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth Israel,
7:30 p.m. Class continues
Feb. 17. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320.
Friday
JANUARY 15
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
musical Shabbat service
led by Rabbi Steven
Sirbu and Cantor Ellen
Tilem with the Temple
Emeth band, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Saturday
JANUARY 16
Comedy in Wayne:
Congregation Shomrei
Torah offers a night of
laughs featuring critically
acclaimed crowdpleasing comedians.
Cocktails at 7:30 p.m.,
show begins at 8. Tickets
include show, hors
doeuvres, and dessert.
Payments received by
Thursday, January 14,
include one beverage per
admission. 30 Hinchman
Ave. (973) 696-2500
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Sunday
JANUARY 17
Jewish giving: Rabbi
Ari Sytner discusses
Donating a Dollar or a
Kidney: The Beauty of
Jewish Giving at Temple
Emeth in Teanecks
Byachad breakfast,
10:30 a.m. Rabbi
Sytner is the director of
Community Initiatives
at Yeshiva Universitys
Center for Jewish Future.
1666 Windsor Road.
Breakfast reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Singles
Sunday
JANUARY 10
Dinner and
entertainment in
Clifton: North Jersey
Jewish Singles 45-60s, a
group sponsored by the
Clifton Jewish Center,
hosts a Jewish singles
New Year celebration
dance and dinner with
entertainment by Nate
Tiffe,4:30 p.m. 18 Delaware
St. (973) 772-3131 or
www.meetup.com.
Sunday
JANUARY 17
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social gettogether at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly if
you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Singles meet in
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COURTESY BERGENPAC
Obituaries
for the ensemble prize is MANDY
PATINKIN, 63. He plays the Jewish
character Saul Berenson in Homeland, on Showtime.
Grammys
There are more than 100 Grammy
categories, but only about 25
awards are presented at the televised ceremony. I will only cover
those awards I believe will be given
at that ceremony. Whole big categories, like classical music, are relegated to a non-televised awards
ceremony. A notable no TV nominee is JULIA WOLFE, 57, a Pennsylvania native who studied music
at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Shes is the composer of the
Grammy-nominated Anthracite
Fields (contemporary classical
music composition category). This
work already has won the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for music.
The most nominated Hebrew is
DRAKE, 29, aka Aubrey Drake Graham. The son of a Canadian Jewish
mother and an African-American
father, he was raised in his mothers faith. He isnt shy about flying
his Jewish flag, as he did in his 2014
SNL hosting gig, where he played
himself as a bar mitzvah boy in a
skit that included a Drake rap song
that begun: Im black, Im Jewishits a mitzvah! Drake is nominated for best rap performance (2x)
(Back to Back, a solo performance,
and Truffle Butter, with other artists); best rap/sung collaboration
(Only, with other artists); best
rap song (Energy, which he wrote
and sung); and best rap album (If
Youre Reading This Its Too Late).
After Drake comes MARK RONSON, 40, an Anglo-American Jew
who had a big year, with three
nominations: Uptown Funk, a
song he wrote with Bruno Mars
(who does the vocals with Ronson), is nominated for record of the
year and for best pop duo performance. The album it appeared on,
Uptown Special, is nominated
for album of the year. Funk has
been a global smash, with staggering stats, like being #1 for fourteen
consecutive weeks on the US Billboard magazine charts and earning
about $3 million in writing royalties
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Arabs could mean for local Jews and
Germanys relationship with Israel.
European countries already are
taking steps to make it more difficult for migrants to enter or settle in
Europe, and law-enforcement agencies are stepping up their counterterrorism measures. But nobody
expects a quick or easy salve to either
of these challenges.
Jewish extremism in Israel
With the new year bringing news of
the arrests of two Jewish suspects in
the case of the deadly firebombing
of a Palestinian home last July in the
West Bank village of Duma, it seems
the problem of Jewish extremism is
no longer being swept under the rug.
For years, critics have lamented
the lax response by Israeli authorities
to Jewish extremism, with fewer than
RealEstate&Business
Friedberg agents attend
fundraiser
A fundraiser was recently held at the Closter home of
Tamara and Gary Segal for the expansion of the neonatal care department at the Soroka Medical Center in
Beersheba, Negev, which serves the one million residents of the Negev in Israel. In attendance were Marlyn
Friedberg, broker-owner of Friedberg Properties, Nasrin Zahedi from the Tenafly office and Rebecca Schub
from the Englewood Cliffs office.
They learned that the neonatal medical team at
Soroka has pioneered a unique model of family-centered
care that allows premature and other babies needing
special care to start life in an atmosphere that increases
both the probability and the quality of survival.
The staff is made up of eight senior neonatologists,
five pediatricians-in-training and 80 nursing and support personnel. The units guiding principles are to
place emphasis on the infants health and safety, engage
parents maximum involvement, and ensure proper
preparation of the family to assume responsibility for
the care of their infant.
Because the physical conditions of the neonatal
department are no longer sufficient, babies in need of
neonatal intensive care must sometimes be sent to other
parts of the country.
The money raised was donated to the American
Friends of Soroka Medical Center. For further information, go to www.soroka.org or call/e-mail Nasrin Zahedi,
201-446-0095, nasrinzahedi@msm.com.
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