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David Bowie was into kabbalah and other Jewish facts about the late icon
l It was clear long before the Inter-

2. His first manager

was Jewish.
Les Conn, born to a Jewish
family in Stamford Hill, a traditionally Jewish part of London,
failed to make much headway
in the music business before
meeting the 17-year-old Bowie
then still going by his birth
name, David Robert Jones in
1964 through a mutual acquaintance, washing machine magnate John Bloom. Conn managed to get Jones first band
some gigs, but he couldnt sell
his talent to the Beatles publisher, Dick James. When Conns
contract with Jones expired,
the rocker left for a new band
and changed his name to Bowie
and the rest is history.

net swelled with heartfelt tributes to

David Bowie that the late musician
was an artistic legend. The Englishman-turned-New-Yorker, who died
on Sunday after an 18-month battle
with cancer, reinvented himself
countless times in a music career
that spanned more than five decades. There were stints, too, as a
Broadway and Hollywood actor.
From his Ziggy Stardust alter
ego to his latest album a jazzy,
avant-garde rock release called
Blackstar and released on his
69th birthday, just two days before
his death Bowie racked up some
interesting Jewish connections.
Here are five of them.
1. He was into kabbalah,
and sang about it.
Here are we, one magical movement from kether to malkuth, Bowie
sang in his 1976 song Station to
Station. Kether and malkuth
are two of the 10 elements of the
kabbalistic tree of life the highest
and lowest parts, respectively. Despite
being high on cocaine for most of the
time that Station to Station was being
recording and describing it years later
as the work of an entirely different

person, Bowie was fascinated with kabbalah during this period (decades before Madonna made it cool). The back
cover of the Station to Station album
features Bowie drawing the kabbalistic
tree of life in chalk.

3. He was close to Jewish

rockers Lou Reed and Marc
Bolan (in different ways).
Bowie connected with Lou
Reed, of the Velvet Underground, and pop artist Andy
Warhol on a trip to the United States
in 1971. He later produced Reeds
breakthrough solo album, Transformer, in 1972. When Reed died in
2013, Bowie called him a master.
Marc Bolan, lead singer of the
glam rock band T-Rex, had a more
complicated and competitive
relationship with Bowie. The two
teenagers became close friends
early on in their careers, when they
were both managed by Conn.
Tension ensued when Bolan
(who was born Mark Feld and
sometimes would eat chicken
soup and chopped liver after
concerts) found success years
before Bowie did. But Bolans
producer, Tony Visconti, eventually
began devoting more of his time

and energy to Bowies albums,

which began climbing the charts
as Bolan went downhill into alcohol
and drug addiction. Nevertheless,
according to the Daily Mail, after
Bolan died in a 1977 car crash at
29, Bowie quietly gave financial
support to Bolans wife and son.
4. He went through
a bit of a Nazi phase.
In a drug-induced state leading up
to the release of Station to Station,
Bowie was criticized for saying in an
interview that Adolf Hitler was one
of the first rock stars. In the same
month, he said Britain could benefit from a fascist leader.
Bowie later assumed a persona
he called the Thin White Duke,
described as an emotionless
Aryan superman. In 1976, he drove
up to Londons Victoria Station in
a Mercedes convertible and gave
what was reported to be a Nazi
salute. Bowie denied the reports
and later attributed his behavior to
the copious amounts of drugs he
was taking at the time.
5. He performed in Israel
during one of the happiest
stages of his life.
I think I would have to be
squeezed real hard to be happier,
Bowie said in 1996, fresh off a performance at Hayarkon Park in Tel
Aviv. In a series of videos, Bowie
said he and his band were in the
midst of one of the best tours of
his life. He had recently released
the experimental album Outside
and had several other creative projects in the works. Ive been trying
to go here for years, he said in one
of the videos with a smile shortly
after getting off his plane.
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l Perhaps the most unusual Jew-

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was this chart, generated by a Torah
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of characters in the Torah and
Bowie-linked phrases bohemian,

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amazing, and contrary appearing
nearby.
While Torah codes have been
dismissed by mathematicians
similar patterns have been found
in Hebrew translations of Moby
Dick we cant help but think that
David Bowie might have found this
intriguing with or without cocaine.
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Ashkenazim are so so boring

and serious.
Moroccan-Jewish-French comedian Gad Elmaleh, as quoted
in a Forward profile

NEW LOOKS:

Animation, action
dominate openings
Anomalisa, a
stop-action animated film directed and
written by CHARLIE
KAUFMAN, 57, is about
Michael Stone, a husband
and father who is crippled
by the mundanity of his
life. On a business trip,
Stone checks into a hotel
and meets Lisa (voiced by
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH,
53), who may or may not
be the love of his life. The
reviews are great for this
film, which got a Golden
Globe nomination (best
animated film) and
probably will get an
Oscar nomination, too. It
opened in very limited
release on December 30
and opens wide today,
January 15.
The action films The
5th Wave and 13 Hours:
The Secret Soldiers of
Benghazi are very different. Wave is another
film based on a young
adult novel about a dystopian future. This time
the world is suffering
from a series of attacks
by the others and
Cassie, our young heroine, is on the run with her
young brother, hoping
to survive the lethal 5th
wave. LIEV SCHREIBER,
48, co-stars as the nasty
commander of a refugee
camp who may not be
what he seems. Meanwhile, there is true horror
depicted in Benghazi,
which purports to tell us
the real story of the 2012

attack on the American

consulate in Benghazi,
Libya. Its directed by MICHAEL BAY, 50, whose
best known for frothy
fantasy fare like Transformers.
Heres one I should
have clued you into
before now: a Fox
comedy series, Cooper
Barretts Guide to
Surviving Life, started
on January 3 (new
episodes air Sundays at
8:30 p.m.). The title
character is a young man
in search of his first job
after college. JUSTIN
BARTHA, 37 (National
Treasure flicks), plays
Coopers 40-year-old
married brother, who has
two kids.
The sci-fi action
series Second
Chance premiered
on Fox on Wednesday,
January 13, at 9 p.m. It
was created by RAND
RAVICH (The Astronauts Wife), 53, a
Solomon Schechter day
school grad, and stars
British Jewish actor
ROBERT KAZINSKY, 32,
in his first really big
American role. Kazinsky,
a very toned and handsome guy, plays Jimmy
Pritchard, a reborn
Seattle-area police
detective who died at
age 75 after a corruption
scandal forced him to
retire. Billionaire twins
bring him back to life as
a 32-year-old with a new

Charlie Kaufman

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Liev Schreiber

Justin Bartha

Peter Jacobson

Josh Radnor

purpose. But Pritchard is

still haunted by the old
temptations. (Heres two
reasons to like Kazinsky,
sight unseen: His original
last name is Appleby,
but he took a more
Jewish name, Kazinsky,
his grandfathers middle
name, as his stage name
that might be a first.
Also, he speaks Hebrew
and has appeared in
Israeli TV ads.)
In many ways, a new
USA network series,
Colony, mines the
same ground as The 5th

Wave. Again, we are in

a horrible future and the
Earth has been invaded
by baddies from outer
space. The action is set
in Los Angeles, where
the alien occupiers, who
appear in human form,
have walled off the city
and are culling out the
physically unfit. The
series centers on Katie
Bowman (Sarah Wayne
Callies, whose paternal
grandpa was Jewish)
and Will Bowman (Josh
Holloway), secret members of the resistance

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movement, and their

two children. Bowman is
supposed to be a former
Army Ranger. There are
many human collaborators, including Alan Snyder, who is the governor
of the Los Angeles area
and a total tool of the
invaders. Veteran character actor PETER JACOBSON, 50, who played Dr.
Chris Taub for five years
on House, plays Snyder.
I am not sure I like the
idea of Jacobson, who
looks very stereotypically Jewish, playing the

bad guy. But it continues

the movie/film fiction
that resistance fighters
are handsome, blond allAmerican types like Holloway, and collaborators
are something other than
blond and handsome.
The documentary
The Sorrow and
the Pity, which is
about France during the
Nazi occupation, makes
the point that regular
folks mostly went along
with the occupation. The
French Resistance was
mostly made up of
oddballs, including
working-class Communists and Socialists who
usually werent screenidol handsome; a very
large number of Jews,
and one I remember
well an effeminate gay
Englishman who became
a secret British agent
aiding the Resistance. He
did so, he said, to prove
to himself that he was a
man.
Mercy Street, a
six-episode medical
drama set during
the Civil War, starts on
PBS on Sunday evening,
January 17. The action
takes place in hospital in
Virginia, where two
volunteer nurses from
opposite sides work.
JOSH How I Met Your
Mother RADNOR, 41,
plays the lead physician,
a Union loyalist whose
Maryland family owned
N.B.
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Bullying? Freedom of speech? And whos Jewish?
Fair Lawn High School garners support, criticism for investigation of student tweets
LOIS GOLDRICH

ts complicated and according to

people monitoring the situation, the
media have distorted the circumstances and even misrepresented
the facts.
The controversy in question involves
an investigation of alleged online bullying, perpetrated by one Fair Lawn High
School student against another. The subject behind the controversy is Israel.
Was it, in fact, bullying? Is the investigation politically motivated as claimed by
the writer of the tweets in question? Is the
school trying to curtail her First Amendment rights?
For that matter, is she, as the New York
Times reported, an Israeli Jew?
The writer, 16-year-old high school
junior Bethany Koval who has written
thousands of anti-Israel comments on
Twitter was called in by school administrators after they were notified of a particular Twitter posting. There, Bethany celebrated the fact that a pro-Israel student
had defriended her, later offering to send
that girls name to a third person. In later
communications, Bethany suggested that
school administrators were targeting her
for her anti-Israel views.
Bethany also recorded her meeting
with school administrators and posted the
audio on Twitter.
Thousands of people commented online
in her defense, and the school has received
many phone calls questioning its actions.
Many of her supporters have been using
the hashtag #IStandWithBenny.
The Fair Lawn police department has
said that the school received no specific
threats. Still, at least one video, from the
group calling itself Anonymous, seems to
be a bit ominous, a Fair Lawn parent said.
Pointing out that he cant say very much
the confidential investigation, led by a
state-mandated anti-bullying specialist
and a supporting team, is ongoing Fair
Lawn School Superintendent Bruce Watson told this reporter that in his opinion,
the media has reported a lot of misinformation. Were carefully following the state
anti-bullying law and doing an investigation of bullying not of the personal or
political positions of anyone.
Its important to know that the Fair
Lawn school district and administration
respects everyones rights and doesnt do
censorship or judgment. Were dedicated
to protecting students who bring up the
claim of bullying.
In a statement issued by his office on January 7, Superintendent Watson affirmed
that The Fair Lawn School District
6 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 15, 2016

Adi Vaxman is interviewed about the Fair Lawn controversy.

recognizes and respects individuals First

Amendment rights to free speech.
Rabbi Uri Goldstein of Ahavat Achim
Orthodox Congregation of Fair Lawn also
has questioned the medias role in this
situation. The real culprit here is the
media, he said. The school is being very
vigilant about what appeared to be bullying, and the student who, like many
teenagers, has strong opinions and puts
them on Twitter wants to see it as being
oppressed for her ideology.
But the media, he said, accepted the
idea that she was being oppressed, rather
than looking at it in a more balanced way.
In fact, he said, the issue focuses on specific tweets in which she appeared to be
alluding to fellow students.
The school may have been overly vigilant, but what really struck me was reading
actual statements by the girl, who seems to
be admitting that the schools interest is in
tweets against fellow students. She as an
overzealous teen turns that into censorship and ideological oppression, and news
outlets uncritically picked up on that.
Adi Vaxman of Fair Lawn, a parent who
organized a rally on Sunday in support of
the schools right and in fact its responsibility to pursue an alleged case of bullying, said that more than 100 people came
to the gathering. It was advertised on a
special Facebook event page and drew
mainly Fair Lawn residents.
It was a quiet and respectful gathering,
she said. That assessment was echoed by
Sergeant Paul Scott of the Fair Lawn police
department, who said that it was peaceful and quiet.
The media is what caused this whole

Bethany Koval

thing to blow out of proportion, Ms. Vaxman said. Its not about politics or freedom of speech. [Bethany] is just a child.
She was crying wolf and she caused a ripple effect. Im sure she didnt know that
or mean it.
The problem is that while the teen was
not malicious, shes not educated well on
how dangerous the Internet can be, Ms.
Vaxman continued. I dont blame her for
the ripple effect. The rally was not just
about that girl. Shes just a kid.
What the school did was to protect the
other kids, and protect her as well. It can
turn around and hurt her too.
We created the rally to support the
school administration, because theyre
getting a lot of criticism and heat and
media attention for the wrong reasons.
While some media claim theyre reprimanding her because of her opinions, they
called her in because she shared [someones] personal information with someone
on the Internet. The other girl felt scared.
Ms. Vaxman said the topic of the

correspondence, Israel, contributed to

the storm because a lot of activists involved
in the chain of messages are scary people.
She added that some students definitely
felt and continue to feel intimidated.
The school is getting criticism for doing
the right thing, she said. I keep thinking
if this was my child, whether the one who
did the posting or was the subject of it, I
would want the school to be involved. I
dont want them to get negative attention
or threats. Its insane.
Ms. Vaxman wants to show the school
that the families in town support their
authority and ability to deal with bullying,
harassment, and especially cyber-bullying.
Its dangerous to share personal information over the Internet.
She cited one online video that caused
her particular concern was posted by
Anonymous, a well-known cyber-terrorism group. This was not some kid posting
a video. Its scary. It threatens the principal and vice principal, she said. Theyre
people who live in this town, with families. Its the job of the school to protect our
kids. I dont want them to be scared to do
that. They shouldnt be targeted for doing
their job.
Ms. Vaxman said that several parents
have challenged Bethanys claims that she
is Jewish, Israeli, or an Israeli Jew claims
that were picked up by the New York
Times and other media outlets.
A parent at the march told her that he
knew Bethanys mother in high school;
although she was brought up Jewish, she
converted to Catholicism. Bethanys father
is Catholic as well. Bethany was brought
up in a Catholic household, not in a Jewish home, and not as a Jew, he said. Other
people who know the family told Ms. Vaxman that they do not know of any connection between the family and Israel. (This
reporter also was given the same information from another source, who wishes to
remain anonymous.)
Ms. Vaxman said that from what she
can tell, all the students are really upset.
I spoke with one student who was scared
to go to school. Even her own children are
asking her about the situation, even the
youngest one.
I hope the school will complete the
investigation and do what they need to do
to make sure this doesnt happen again,
she said. I hope they will feel empowered
to deal with this situation, and that the
administration and educators will use this
as an opportunity to educate our children
about the dangers of the Internet and how
quickly things can grow out of proportion.
No one got hurt, but it could have ended
another way.

Fair Lawn High School students at the Bergen County High School of Jewish
Studies told a school assembly about their experiences with anti-Israel bullying.

Rabbi Ronald Roth of the Conservative Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel also has heard claims that
Bethany is not an Israeli Jew.
If this is true, it does bring up questions

of her credibility, he said. Not her political views or if she is a bully but its just
odd. Why would she describe herself in
terms that are not corroborated? It leads
to questions about her general credibility.

Rabbi Roth said that after reading a

statement on the website of the Anti-Defamation League, he had a long conversation with ADLs New Jersey director, Josh
Cohen.
The ADL, he said, believes that the matter should be based solely on law and
facts, leaving it to the school to fully investigate and apply the law justly. After his
discussion with Mr. Cohen, he endorsed
the statement and read it to his congregation on Shabbat. It got a positive
response, he said.
Pointing out that his congregation
includes a large number of high school
families, Rabbi Roth said, If the school
thinks shes bullying, let them investigate.
The ADLs Mr. Cohen said that when he
saw stories about the controversy in the
media, he reached out to Superintendent
Watson. My understanding from our brief
conversation is that there are a lot of issues
at play here, he said.
It must be treated seriously. The district
followed the law, and that must be allowed
to take its course based solely on the law
and facts of the case and not on public
opinion. I couldnt disagree more strongly
with the anti-Israel views expressed in the
tweets, but I recognize her First Amendment rights.

She had the right to put her views

online. At issue is the tweet that threatened to expose personal information.
Rabbi Jeremy Donath of the Orthodox
Congregation Darchei Noam in Fair Lawn
reported having spoken about the situation
on Shabbat. My overall message is that we
should be grateful to live in a state in which
the safety of its students comes first, he
said. I applaud the efforts of the school
administration to do their due diligence,
to let the authorities look into the bullying
matter, to ensure that the safety concerns
of all of their students are prioritized.
I shared the following Torah thought
from Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, the
19th century German intellectual, who
has an idea that he develops about the
measure of justice in ancient Egyptian
society as witnessed in the Exodus story.
He says that the measure of justice in
a society is deemed not by the way the
society protects the natural citizens, the
wealthy, or the well connected, but by the
way the law looks out for the weakest and
most vulnerable elements of society.
I am proud that we have very strong
anti-bullying laws in New Jersey, in an
effort to look out for all persons who are
made to feel unsafe, and all victims of
bullying.

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Jewish leadership in the 21st century

Hartman Institute head Yehuda Kurtzer talks revolution, transformation in Closter
JOANNE PALMER

hats with Jewish leaders?

Certainly there are
m a ny Jews wh o a re
pleased with their congregational rabbis who feel inspired,
moved, challenged, instructed, and even
led by them. And there are many others
who feel that the heads of their own federations and other beloved Jewish nonprofits are absolutely all they should be.
But there is a sense that something is
not quite right in the institutional Jewish
world, that somehow the aging generation of leaders we have in place now is
not making way for a new generation of
leaders, who dont actually seem to be
there anyway.
The notorious October 2013 Pew
Report, with its bad news for Jews, fed
into that understanding, with its glum
assessment of falling demographics.
So whats going on?
Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America,
a Harvard-educated historian, will tackle
that huge question during Shabbat next
weekend at Temple Emanu-El of Closter.
The unsettling mood engulfing much of
the American Jewish community when it
considers its leadership is a result of the
massive transformation and revolution
Who: Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, president of
the Shalom Hartman Institute of North
America
What: Will be scholar in residence
When: On Friday, January 22, at
Kabbalat Shabbat services at 7 p.m.,
and on Saturday, January 23, at
services beginning at 9
Where: At Temple Emanu-El of Closter,
180 Piermont Road
Why: To talk about 21st Century
Judaism: Leadership and Change in
Jewish Life.
How: Made possible in part by Dr.
Mark and Eva Horn, shul members
interested in creating fertile ground for
tomorrows leaders.

There is no such
thing as a Jewish
consensus any
more. Im not
sure if there ever
really was but
now its lack is
becoming ugly
and public.
that we have been undergoing for the last
30 years in the Jewish community, some
of which has been unacknowledged, Dr.
Kurtzer said.
Three interlocking transformations
have affected us most, he said.
The first change is our understanding
of ethnicity. It used to be easy if you
were Jewish, the chances were that you
were white and of eastern European
descent. Now, through intermarriage
and conversion, that is changing, particularly in Israel. Our core narrative that
we are one ethnic group is much more
challenged.
The second change is political, Dr.
Kurtzer continued. There is no such
thing as a Jewish consensus any more.
Im not sure if there ever really was but
now its lack is becoming ugly and public.
Its become very uncomfortable as we air
our dirty laundry in public.
I think its mostly related to the success of assimilation our feeling that
we made it work here. The less you feel
yourself bound to a particular narrative
of an oppressed minority, the more you
see yourself comfortable in the public
square. You spread out politically.
The third is that the institutional
makeup of the Jewish community in the
20th century no longer seems to serve
the Jews of the 21st. The role of the federation still can be strong, but it is no

Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, left, and Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner at the Shalom Hartman
Institute in Jerusalem.

longer seen as a tax that is owed by all

Jews. Synagogues are challenged completely differently than they used to be,
and all the alphabet soup of Jewish organizations no longer have membership
bases that they can take for granted.
All of these phenomena are forcing
us to ask what would be the institutional
makeup that the Jewish community of
the 21st century actually would need.
At an even more basic level, Dr. Kurtzer

suggests that we take advantage of the

transformational changes all around to
rethink our basic organizational assumptions. We talk about the manifestations
of the revolution around us by talking
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affiliations are changing, he said. I want
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changes coming from massive geopolitical events
like the Holocaust and the creation of the State of
Israel.
Dr. Kurtzers doctorate is in ancient Jewish history, and he has written about the early diaspora
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Especially for special needs

Friendship Circle at Frisch School partners student volunteers with campers
By Abigail Klein Leichman
For the parents of 400 Jewish specialneeds children, the week-long Friendship
Circle Camp hosted at the Frisch School
in Paramus was a godsend during publicschool winter recess.
For the 400 Frisch sophomores, juniors,
and seniors who all were assigned shifts as
camp counselors during their school day,
the program was a hands-on exercise in
chesed in kindness.
For the campers, it was a fun week of
outings and activities geared to their abilities and interests.
The Friendship Circle, an international Chabad-Lubavitch initiative, brings
together an estimated 11,000 teenage volunteers and 5,000 children with special
needs in several countries.
Zeesy Grossbaum of Paramus, the
Friendship Circle coordinator in Bergen
County, said that more than 200 children with special needs, ranging from

The camp was

amazing because
it ran from 10
to 3, similar
to her school
day, and the
counselors made
it so much fun.
newborns through 21-year-olds, take part
in different aspects of the local program.
About 700 teens volunteer over the course
of the year, including 125 who visit the children at home every week.
Every program we start is on a needs
basis to fill voids that the parents express,
Ms. Grossbaum said. A few years ago, parents told us that their kids are off the whole
week of winter break and they wanted a
camp. We had eight children the first year
in a camp run at Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls in Teaneck.
There is now a mini-camp during Presidents Week as well, and the program
moved to Frisch about five years ago.
Rabbi Joshua Schulman, Frischs director of chesed programming, said that the
school arranges the volunteers in shifts,
so we can get all the kids involved and
exposed to this program. Freshmen are
given an opportunity to observe the camp
first; so that they know what to expect
when they are old enough to become
counselors.
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Leora Barkai, who will graduate from Frish in 2018, works with a camper. 

photos courtesy Frisch

Sophomores Shoshana Jeselsohn and

Sarah Elimeliah with a camper.

Frisch juniors Joshua Dukas, Daniel Elbaum, and Yaron Schneider stand with a
camper. 

Zeesy and her staff pair up the kids and

our students one on one, and our students
are told everything they need to know
about the children they will be paired
with, Rabbi Schulman said. Staff members are available if they have questions or
concerns. It is a learning experience, and
its amazing to see how quickly they jump
in and form relationships.
Gabi Moskowitz of Teaneck said that her
daughter Meira, 13, goes to a public special-needs school in Ho-Ho-Kus and had

two full weeks off for the Christmas-New

Years break.
She is not a child who can amuse herself, and down time is not good for her,
Ms. Moskowitz said. The camp was amazing because it ran from 10 to 3, similar to
her school day, and the counselors made it
so much fun. I have two kids at Frisch, so
they were able to spend time with her, and
it gave their friends an opportunity to get
to know Meira. I think the Frisch kids got a
lot out of it as well.

Frisch junior Zachary Comet and a

camper have fun together.

Sigal Levine, a 12th-grader from

Teaneck, already had volunteered in the
Friendship Circles Friends @ Home program. Every year I look forward to the

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in assisting those who need it.
The Friendship Circle also sponsors the weekly evening Teen Scene Club at Frisch and at Torah Academy
of Bergen County and a once-a-month Cooking Circle at
Maayanot, among other offerings for special-needs children and teenagers. This year, a Friendship Circle Sunday
school program began at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North
Jersey in River Edge.
Sara Taragin of Teaneck said that her son Hillel, 16, loves
the Teen Scene. He was happy to go to camp at Frisch,
where one of his favorite Friendship Circle volunteers,

Frisch sophomore Evan Chesner works with a

camper.

Friendship Circle Camp in school, and seeing some of

the kids again, she said.
Among the activities she helped with all led by
professional teachers were yoga, sports and challah-baking. The camp schedule also includes daily
field trips to places including LEGOLAND Discovery
Center, Pump It Up recreation center, and a bowling
alley.
I think the children really see the love at Frisch,
Sigal said. They got to experience a more normalized
and free environment and had the ability to express
themselves in a whole new way.
Speaking for herself, she continued, I gained an
understanding about the everyday struggle these children endure. I gained a sense of pride, knowing I gave
these kids an amazing week. I had the benefit of seeing
how truly special and amazing these kids are.
Rabbi Schulman said that the high schools teachers dont object to students missing some classes that
week. They understand it has a major impact on
the culture and environment in the school, and how
important it is for the students overall growth, he
said.
He added that being involved in the Friendship
Circle Camp deepens the kids sensitivity not only to
children with special needs but to people in general. It
opens their eyes to different life circumstances, makes
them grateful for all the things they have in their lives,
and hopefully inspires them to become more involved

Sara Gdanski, is a student. She doesnt talk to him like

a special-needs teenager; she is warm and attentive and
friendly, and he views her as a friend, she said.
Ms. Taragin said that if not for the camp, she would have
had to take time from work while Hillel was home during
winter vacation. He does very well in a structured routine, and the Friendship Circle is very well organized, she
said. He can read the schedule and know what to expect.
He told me he looked forward to seeing the Frisch students because theyre teenagers like him, and he enjoys
their company.

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More than just music

Soul to Soul highlights African American-Jewish connections, local director says
LOIS GOLDRICH

almen Mlotek of Teaneck, the

artistic director of the 101-yearold National Yiddish Theatre
Folksbiene, had a rare opportunity several years ago to teach Yiddish to
Elmore James, a prominent African American singer.
He was interested in the music of
Paul Robeson, who recorded some Yiddish songs, Mr. Mlotek said. He has an
extraordinary voice, and was looking for
someone to help him learn Yiddish.
Later, when actor/singer Tony Perry was
cast in a Murray Schisgal show calling for
an African American who spoke Yiddish,
Mr. Mlotek was pressed into service once
again. His efforts paid off. He did it very
well, the director said.
Those two experiences planted an idea
in Mr. Mloteks mind, inspiring him to
develop a program focusing on the connections between soul music and Yiddish
soul music. His new work, Soul to Soul,
will be presented at the Museum of Jewish
Heritage on January 17 in honor of Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, which falls on January
18 this year.
The museum has become the new
home of the National Yiddish Theatre,
Mr. Mlotek said; the group premiered The
Golden Bride there. We had an enormous success, he said.
Soul to Soul brings James and Perry
together with Golden Bride star Lisa
Fishman and Israeli Cantor Magda Fishman. (The two women are not related
to each other.) The show has been performed at universities across the country,
Mr. Mlotek said, although not in New York.
The January 17 concert will be presented
in English and Yiddish, with English and

Tony Perry, Magda Fishman, and Elmore James perform in Soul to Soul.

Russian supertitles. The singers will be

accompanied by a four-piece band.
We hope it will build community, Mr.
Mlotek said. We live in such a fractured
world, and its important that a program
like this be done. He pointed out that
communities like Teaneck where things
sometimes get heated might especially

Zalmen and Debby Mlotek at the gala December performance of

The Golden Bride.
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benefit from such events. Well be celebrating connections between the cultures.
Its more than just music.
Recalling the active role of the Jewish
community in the civil rights movement,
Mr. Mlotek said that his work hearkens
back to that period.
As a young kid, I did voter registration in African American communities.
On some level, I felt it was poignant to
be singing and talking about that today.
I bring music sung during the civil rights
movement and Yiddish songs about the
struggle for equality and human rights
and blend them in various ways. The singers are phenomenal performers, and bring
their hearts and souls to it.
The program which will include spirituals, songs from Broadway, jazz, and Nat
King Cole favorites is co-sponsored by
the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in
collaboration with the Museum of Jewish
Heritage and by the Foundation for Ethnic
Understanding.
In a statement, the Folksbienes executive director, Bryna Wasserman, noted
that from its influence in shaping Broadway to its role in the rise of musical genres
like jazz, Yiddish has intersected and collaborated openly with many other cultures
in ways few others have to create some of

NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE FOLKSBIENE

Who: The National Yiddish Theatre

Folksbiene presents
What: Soul to Soul, a cross-cultural
exploration of African American and
Yiddish music
When: On January 17 at 2 p.m.
Where: At the Edmond J. Safra
Theatre, Museum of Jewish Heritage,
36 Battery Place, New York City
Cost: Tickets are $20 general
admission and $15 for MJH and NYTF
members. Call (212) 213-2120, ext. 204,
or go to https://web.ovationtix.com/
trs/pr/954367.
For more information about the
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene,
call (212) 213-2120 or go to nytf.org.

the worlds most familiar and beautiful art

forms. It is with joy we present the history
behind these collaborations.
What Ive learned is that the audience
doesnt care about language, Mr. Mlotek
said. Its the power of the music that
brings audiences in and inspires them,
whatever the language. Passionate performances are attractive no matter what.
Were hoping for a nice turnout. The
organizers chose a Sunday for the event to
make that easier, he added.

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Kulanu NNJ
Area religious schools unite to teach teachers tech
LARRY YUDELSON

en area synagogue religious

schools are getting a nudge into
the 21st century.
The Covenant Foundation
has awarded $20,000 to the schools to
train teachers in using technology in their
religious school classrooms.
Were creating this network to learn
from each other and support each other,
Rabbi Paula Feldstein said. Rabbi Feldstein heads the religious school at Temple
Avodath Shalom in River Edge and is the
author of the grant proposal, along with
Rabbi Shelley Kniaz of Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
This grant is exciting because of what
its going to accomplish, but whats really
exciting is that we managed to pull ten
Reform and Conservative synagogues
together to do something we all need,
Rabbi Feldstein said.
For the purpose of the grant, the schools
formed a new umbrella body: Kulanu NNJ.

Kulanu is Hebrew for all of us.

The core of the program is a ten-week
course in educational technology, taught
by Jerusalem EdTech Solutions, an Israeli
provider of Jewish educational and professional development online courses.
Rabbi Feldstein had taken the course
when the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey provided IT to religious school
principals. That experience made her realize that it was the teachers, not the administrators, who needed the training.
Under the grant, ten religious school
teachers one from each school will
take the course over the summer, and they
will be paid for their time.
When the fall comes, they will be
implementing what they learned in their
classrooms, Rabbi Feldstein said.
The grant also will cover the services of
a consultant for the teachers as well as for
interns from the Jewish Theological Seminarys education school.
Its one thing to learn how to do something; another thing to really implement

Rabbis Paula Feldstein and Shelley Kniaz

it in the classroom, Rabbi Feldstein said.

There will be a couple more workshops
along the way toward the spring. Then
the plan is for all those teachers who have
been trained to start to work with other
teachers and have them learn those skills
as well.

The grant grew out of the religious

school principals council, convened by the
federation. It had really been jelling as a
group, she added.
Rabbi Feldstein said that some of her
religious school teachers are not so
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Documenting terror
Tenafly woman photographs aftermath of Tel Aviv New Year shooting
JOANNE PALMER

usan Seed of Tenafly and her

18-year-old twins, Nesya and Cam
Schroeder, were in Israel on a
long-planned trip; it had been 30
years since Ms. Seed had been there, and
it was Cams first trip.
We arrived on December 28, spent four
days in Jerusalem, and then, on the morning of Friday, January 1, we took a bus to
Tel Aviv, Ms. Seed said. We checked into
our hotel, on the corner of Dizengoff and
Gordon, and then we got sushi, and then
we took a bus to Jaffa. We spent a couple
of hours there.
We took a taxi back, told the driver
where we wanted to go. He said The corner of Dizengoff and Gordon? What are
you talking about? I said What do you
mean? Thats where our hotel is! He said
There was a shooting there. I must have
said WHAT? five times.
He put the radio on, and I understand
enough Hebrew to be able to understand
it. He took us to the parallel street, Ben
Yehuda, and we walked down, and thats
when I started to take pictures.
A man, later found to be Nashaat Melhem, later shot by the police as he opened
fire on them, shot and killed three Israelis. It was an unprecedented attack in a
city widely thought to be safe; it remains
unclear if Melhem was a terrorist,
deranged, or both.
We had been at Jaffa Gate in the Old
City in Jerusalem we knew that there had
been a stabbing there the week before, but
we felt completely safe. We saw a couple
of police officers, and there probably were
others we didnt see, and some military,
but everyone was so happy. So relaxed. So
when we went to Tel Aviv, we said okay,
Jerusalem is totally chill, so we will go shopping and sit at a caf and be cosmopolitan.
What happened didnt make us afraid,
she added. In fact, no one seemed to be
afraid.
I thought about the Boston Marathon
bombing, about when the two terrorists
were running around and they closed
down Boston. In Tel Aviv, people were
walking around. People were shocked but
they kept going.
On Saturday, the memorials grew. You
could walk right past it. There was a police
presence no one knew where the killer
was but no one was stopping anyone
from going anywhere, except for Saturday
night, when Netanyahu came. People were
not so happy they said that he should
come to Tel Aviv to eat, not to stop traffic
and keep people from living their lives.
Ms. Seed is not a professional photographer she is the coordinator of student
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Right after the shooting, the ground is covered in shattered glass.

PHOTOS BY SUSAN SEED

Two bullet holes break the glass on

the bus stop.

advisement for the College of Engineering and Computer Science on Fairleigh

Dickinsons Teaneck campus but she
had her phone, and I want to document
it, she said.
These photographs are what Susan Seed
saw.
Read more about Tel Avivs reaction on
page 19.

On Saturday night, candles glowed. Above them, posters remind passersby of

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Postal service previews
2016 Chanukah stamp
The U.S. Postal Service has released information
on its 2016 Chanukah stamp. The stamp will feature an illustration of a menorah in a window. Artist
William Low added visual interest to the scene by
highlighting the contrast between the hot candle
flames and the cool snow, the vertical candles and
the horizontal window frame, and the dark menorah and its brightly lit candles. Ethel
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NORPAC will host

Senator Rob Portman

Zur takes oath as vice chair

of Bergen freeholder board

On Sunday, January 24, at 7:30 p.m., Irene and Robert

Gottesman will host a NORPAC meeting for Senator Rob
Portman (R-Ohio) in Englewood. For information, email
Avi@NORPAC.net or call (201) 788-5133.

Freeholder Tracy Silna Zur was sworn in

on January 6 as vice chairwoman of the
Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders. The Honorable Bonnie J. Mizdol, Bergen County assignment judge,
right, administered the oath. Zur was also
sworn-in for her second three-year term

on the board.
Pictured are, from left, Ms. Zurs sister, Amy Shafron Soukas, parents Daniel
and Joan Silna, daughter Kayla, and son
Coby. Her daughter Logan and husband
Bobby hold the Bible.

Senator Rob Portman

Jewish Home receives honors

for its Linking the Generations
The Jewish Home at
Rockleigh was awarded
the Jewish Programming award by the
Association of Jewish
Aging Services for its
Linking the Generations program, which
brings young people
together with seniors to
learn about leadership.
The Jewish Home,
which runs several programs uniting young
and old with technology and shared knowlYavneh students participated in the Linking the
Generations program this week at the Jewish
edge, partnered with
Home at Rockleigh.
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the Frisch School for
Linking the Generations: Training the Next Generation of
which fought with the British in 1915
Jewish Communal Leaders. The proto liberate Palestine from the Ottoman
gram grew out of a meeting between
Empire. Mr. Hantgan said that when he
six student council representatives
was president of the student council
from Frisch and three Jewish Home
at Brooklyn College, he wrote to First
residents, the late George Hantgan,
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt about the lack
founder of the Jewish Federation of
of jobs for students, and thereby had
Northern New Jersey and the Englea hand in the passage of the National
wood JCC (now the Kaplen JCC on the
Youth Act.
Jessica Adler of Teaneck, then a
Palisades in Tenafly); Lillian Marion, a
12th-grader and one of the heads of
long-time member of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, and Allen
the Frisch Chesed (Kindness) Society,
Nydick, former director of major gifts
said that Mr. Hantgan, who was 98,
at the Jewish Federation.
added that he played an indirect role
Mr. Nydick recalled how the Bergen
in the founding of the Frisch School
County community raised $1.6 million
in 1972 by encouraging philanthropist
in the 1980s to help bring Ethiopian
Alfred Frisch to build a school. The
Jews to Israel. Ms. Marion talked about
school was built on land donated by
her fathers role in the Jewish Legion,
Mr. Frisch.

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New officers for Hadassah group

Fair Lawn Hadassah will meet on Monday, January 25, at 1 p.m. at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/CBI to install new
officers and celebrate Tu bShvat.
Incoming officers include co-presidents Esther Rubinstein and Leslie
Felner, programming co-vice presidents Varda Grinspan and Liz Gelstein,

fundraising co-vice presidents Leslie Felner and Beth Levin, treasurer

Gwenn Parnes, education coordinator
Tova Miller, recording secretary Gerry
Stein, social secretary Jean Cooper, corresponding secretary Sima Zilberg, and
membership retention and integration
coordinator, Joan Goldfarb.

Bris Avrohom community gala

Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn will host its
second annual community gala on January 24 to celebrate Northern New Jerseys Jewish Russian community.
The gala at the Terrace in Paramus
begins at 5 p.m. with cocktails, followed
by dinner at 6:30, and entertainment by
Modi the comedian.
Eva Yagyaev of Allendale, Sarah
Shevchuk and Jeffrey Rotenberg of Fair
Lawn, and Sophie Sklyar of Ridgewood
are among the role models celebrated
at the gala.

Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn serves

thousands of families in northern New
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all ages. They include Holidays with
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Kaballah classes, Shabbat, daily, and
holiday services, bar and bat mitzvah
classes, and the Fair Lawn Jewish Day
Camp, which attracts more than 375
children from more 30 towns every year.
For information, call (201) 791-7200 or
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Freedom Shabbat in Emerson

Congregation Bnai Israel and the Westwood Area Clergy Council invite people
of all faiths to join them for the Freedom Shabbat service to honor the lives
and messages of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel, tonight, Friday, January 16, at
7:30 p.m. Reverend JerQuentin Sutton
of the Lebanon Baptist Church in Westwood will give the sermon and Rabbi
Debra Orenstein and Cantor Lenny

Mandel will lead the service; other

local clergy will join them. Some melodies and words from Negro spirituals
will be incorporated into parts of the
traditional service. An interfaith choir,
composed of clergy and members of
participating congregations and led by
Cantor Mandel, will sing.
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Editorial
An Israeli Jew?

s the ugly, disheartening,

and ultimately unwinnable
fight in Fair Lawn between
free-speech advocates and
anti-bullying activists continues (and
of course we are all in favor of free
speech and against bullying, its just
the balance that shifts), we are most
struck by one claim.
A Fair Lawn High School student,
Bethany Koval, who is vociferously
anti-Israel, tweeted her loathing of the
Jewish state. As we know, that loathing
is shared by many people around the
world, some of them no doubt motivated by genuine distaste at the Israeli
governments actions, many of them
clearly acting on a primal anti-Semitism that is liberated as soon as it can
latch onto even semi-respectability.
It is therefore no surprise that Ms.
Kovals tweets became popular. When
she was accused of bullying other
students and decided to tape her
schools administrations discussions
on the question with her, and then to
post the audio it went viral.
Why?
Because, as the New York Times put
it, she is an Israeli Jew.
Why might the Times and as far as
we can tell, in our far-from-exhaustive
search, all the other media outlets that
covered the story have said that?
Because, as Mondoweiss, a proudly
anti-Israel website that traffics in
hate and was one of the first to break
the story, reported, Ms. Koval said
so. When Zionists expect me to
be in favor of the Palestinian genocide because Im an Israeli Jew, she
tweeted.
Its such a good story! An Israeli Jew
who hates Israel so much that she can
tweet that Israel is a terrorist force:
Hamas is not extreme: Hamas is just
painted that way Hateful rhetoric
against Hamas is what allowed the
Gaza bombing.
Ms. Koval, of course, is 16. Listening
to the story and being really glad that
no matter what else life might bring
to any of us, it will not make us live

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through being 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 again,

once weve passed that awkward, selfconscious, not-quite-adult-but-dontyou-dare-call-me-a-child age its hard
not to feel bad for her. Those tweets
will never go away. They will dog her
for life. Those of us who grew up before
the Internet way before the Internet!
are far less likely to have our unfortunate adolescences resurrected to the
snickers of strangers.
It also was hard not to listen to Ms.
Kovals story and invent a backstory.
Difficulties with parents, over-identification with parents, friction at home,
Oedipus or Electra or some other misbegotten mythological figure hovering
in the background.
But no. As our reporter, Lois Goldrich, has learned, according to people
who know her family, Bethany Koval
in fact is not Jewish. Her mother was
born Jewish but converted to Catholicism. Her father is Catholic. Halachah
might make her potentially Jewish in
theory, but nothing in her life makes
her Jewish in practice.
As for the Israeli part well, according to everyone who knows the family, she might have some distant connection to some Israeli, but nobody
knows what that connection might be.
She is not Israeli, all sources say.
So what does all this mean?
The tension between free speech
and bullying is real. Teenagers are
particularly vulnerable to bullying;
their free speech often is curtailed,
because they are minors and it can be,
but freedom of speech is one of this
countrys signal achievements. High
school principals have to tinker with
that balance all the time. It is a central
part of the job.
But when stories go viral, when narratives get formed and harden and
then ossify, when facts seem to fit a
pattern so they are shoehorned in so
they cannot be wedged out, its not
only truth that suffers. Its all of us.
If Bethany Koval is not an Israeli
Jew, then her story is not the one we
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A tale of two cities:

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

am writing this column in order to pro- Arab population in East Jerusalem and the
vide greater understanding about the
Jews in West Jerusalem, there is frequent
differences in feeling between Israels
interaction between the two populations.
two largest cities when the harsh reali- Often Jerusalem Arabs and Jews work in the
ties of the unsettled Israeli-Palestinian conflict
same places, pass each other in the Arab Muslim Quarter souk, or meet each other in buses
show their face.
and on the light rail. It is a place where Jews
The column, however, most definitely
pray in great numbers at the Western Wall,
should not be construed as encouragement
Muslim Arabs pray in great numbers at Alto people who are planning to go to Israel or
might make such plans to change their minds. Aqsa mosque, and crowds of Arab Christians
pray at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. All
Visitors go to New York, Paris, and Madrid, for
of those places are within the
example, despite the fact that
tight confines of the Old City.
those cities all have their dangerous neighborhoods and
The potential for friendships
violent people. Israel is at least
between Jews and Arabs in the
as fascinating and exciting as
city of Jerusalem is great, and
those places, perhaps even
there are more of them than
more interesting than many of
you would imagine. Nevertheless, Palestinian anger, espethem, and given recent events
cially young Palestinians anger
here and abroad it is in many
over the failure to resolve the
ways safer.
Rabbi Dr.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict fuels
Since the High Holidays until
Michael
violence. Further, anger over
now, knifings of civilians and
Chernick
increasing Jewish settlement
members of the Israel Defense
in overwhelmingly Arab East
Force and Israel Police Force
Jerusalem also has created an
and premeditated car collisions into transportation vehicles and the
atmosphere in which violent protest can
people waiting for them have become familiar
break out. This violence breeds fear and a
occurrences. But that hasnt been true every- sense of being under siege among Jerusawhere in Israel.
lems Israelis. In turn, that fuels anger and
The centers of these activities overwhelm- even hatred of those who are the source of
ingly have been in the West Bank, notably in
that fear, whether they are perpetrators or
Hebron and near West Bank Jewish settle- not. The Jerusalem I visited recently was nerments and Palestinian villages and cities. vous, and its streets were not crowded with
Many Israelis who do not live in or near these
its citizens, Jews or Arabs, where West Jeruareas often have a psychologically self-protec- salem meets East.
tive sense that they are distant. Sometimes
Tel Aviv, on the other hand, was the caf
that bubble is burst, as when an attack occurs
society it usually is. No one including me
in a place like Raanana, a suburban commu- was looking over his or her shoulder for
nity about half an hour from Tel Aviv. But a
attackers as far as I could see. Perhaps the
few days go by, at most a week, and people
first time my wife and I sat down to wait for a
stop looking nervously over their shoulders.
bus we were a bit edgy, since knifing and car
The one city that is not distant in the
attacks often take place at bus stops, but that
Israeli mind is Jerusalem. It is the center of
was after our weeks stay in Jerusalem. True,
Israels holy places and major government
there was a knifing attack in a Tel Aviv office
institutions, and it is home to approximately
complex while we were there, but its effect
800,000 people. Sixty-four percent of these
came and went.
residents are Jewish, and thirty-six percent
Why is Jerusalem tense and Tel Aviv almost
are Arab. Despite the concentration of the
blas?
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First, there is the demographic reality I mentioned
above. The mere number of Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem increases the possibility of friction and violence. But
more essentially, Jerusalem is not just another city in
Israel. It is the epicenter of conflicting narratives about
who owns what in this much-contested piece of land in
the Middle East. In many ways, it is less a place than a
symbol. After the Six Day War, Israel declared Jerusalem
to be its united and eternal capital. In a sense, this declaration was not only about Jerusalem. It was about the
assertion of Jewish historical claims, about millennial
Jewish hopes and yearnings, and about Israels claim
to sovereignty in the State of Israel. For some Israelis it
was a statement about possession of the entire Land of
Israel, from the Jordan to the Sea a united and eternal
Jewish State of Israel, which would be built beyond the
1967 borders.
Neither the minimalist nor maximalist narrative was
one that the Palestinian Arab population was ready to
validate, let alone accept.
The present-day Palestinian Arab narrative is the
hope for a Jerusalem that will be the capital of the State
of Palestine. After all, for Muslims, Jerusalem is Islams
third most holy site, and for Christian Arabs, it is the site
of Jesus last days and his resurrection.
The Dome of the Rock dominates Jerusalems landscape and symbolically makes a statement about the
potential for Arab dominion over Jerusalem and a state
of Palestine. This narrative of Arab sovereignty begins
with Mohammeds Night Journey to Jerusalem as
memorialized by Abu Malik, who built this monument
between 689 and 691. The narrative continues through
the era of Saladin and down to Arab stewardship and
control over the mosques on the place that we would
like to think is our Temple Mount today.
That history is long, and for Palestinians overshadows the historically few years since the Jewish return
to modern Israel. Given enough time, according to this
narrative, Palestinian refugees will return to Jaffa, Haifa,
and the other places their grandparents and greatgrandparents called home. This maximalist narrative is
not one that Israelis are ready to legitimate. And even
the minimalist one two states for two peoples makes
many Israelis nervous, though they believe that this
solution is inevitable.
In contrast, Tel Aviv is the first Jewish and Hebrewspeaking city Jews have created since the Exiles beginning. It was built to replicate a European city in order to
house a European-style high society but a European
high society from which Jews could not be excluded.
It also was built on barren sand dunes. Consequently,
Arab presence was virtually nonexistent. Tel Avivs narrative about itself was clear from the start: it was Zionist,
Jewish, secular, and liberal, and it saw itself as poised to
become a major cosmopolitan city in a state that would
be a normal member of the world community.
Tel Aviv still views itself as a cosmopolitan city, the
majority of whose residents consider provincial ethnic
conflicts as primitive. This is the city where the majority of the population reads Haaretz, the newspaper that
always has supported the two-state solution and has
been critical of right-wing governments, their policies,
and their support of settlements. It does not expect
hostility in its environs from Palestinian Arabs, because
overall Tel Aviv is not hostile to them.
Why should the citizens of Tel Aviv be afraid of Palestinian terror when there is no reason for the Palestinians
to be angry at the residents of Tel Aviv? Why look over
your shoulder for a terrorist when there is no good reason to expect one? Of course, that is easier when only 4
percent of your population is Arab, and many of them
are transient university students.

Fun with
Dick and Jane

The corner of Dizengoff and Gordon streets in

downtown Tel Aviv on Yom Haatzmaut Israels
independence day in 1964. For more on the
shooting there, go to page 14.


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The beach in Tel Aviv.

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This is the tale of two cities, and their distinct identities and narratives. Where the potential for friction
and anger is greater, dangerous behavior is more
likely. Where the potential for friction and anger is
less, the sense rightly or wrongly is that there
is greater safety. Jerusalem is nervous and rightly
so, given its recent experiences. Yet in the main, life
goes on. After all when you run out of milk or have to
prepare for Shabbat, you go shopping. Indeed, Machaneh Yehudah, the Jewish market, was jammed on
erev Shabbat when we were there. On the other hand,
some of our friends thought twice about walking to a
theater or restaurant.
In Tel Aviv, however, the cafes were full as ever. It is
the city that never stops, because it didnt feel particularly threatened. The people of Tel Aviv are either the
mythic brave Israelis who will not cower in their own
homes or Tel Aviv bon vivants who will not forego the
pleasures of their citys bars, restaurants, cafes, and
many interesting cultural institutions.
As I said at the outset, this column was written to foster understanding of the feelings that prevail in times
of tension in Israels iconic cities. If you really want to
understand the real Israel in all its complexity, go there.
If you want to see an Israel that offers you three thousand years of archeological wonders, incredibly beautiful landscapes, and amazing accomplishments in a modern Jewish state, go there.
Take a great guide who will show you around and
make sure youre safe. Id be happy to give you some
names. Youll come to understand this fascinating and,
yes, edgy place better. You will be proud of yourself for
having gone, thereby supporting your brethren, and
you will be proud of your people for accomplishing what
they have in the face of great challenges.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for the joyousness
of Tel Aviv.

f my mother is to be believed, I spontaneously began reading when I was three and a half.
I use the word spontaneous purposefully; in the way
spontaneous combustion comes from nowhere, so did
this magical ability to read.
In my immigrant family, this was pretty much a miracle. For the
most part, my parents educations were suspended in 1939, their
childhoods canceled by the great planet-spanning conflagration
that was World War II. My mothers English was limited, and my
father worked until late, often coming home after we were asleep.
I pronounced the word Wednesday as VED-niz-day until I was
in kindergarten.
Enter Dick and Jane. The characters in Fun With Dick and Jane were
my introduction to American life. The
cheery 1950s artwork looms large
inside my psyche, the boys all wellgroomed, with crisp, nicely pressed
shirts tucked into their crisp, nicely
pressed pants, the girls in frocks with
white lace collars, their hair helmets
Helen
of perfect golden waves.
Maryles
Oh, how I admired Janes poofy
Shankman
dresses and ankle socks! See Janes
parents sitting on the grass and smiling as the kids turn somersaults! See
Father juggle! See Dick and Father throw a football around! See
Dick and Jane visit the State Fair and ride the cotton-candy-colored horses around the carousel! Everyone smiled a lot. They
had a smart cocker spaniel named Spot, and a fluffy orange kitten called Puff. Best of all, their grandparents lived on a farm! My
immigrant grandparents lived in an apartment. (See Helen turn
green with envy.)
Dick and Jane clashed wildly with my American experience.
Where were the mother and father who spoke Yiddish when they
didnt want their children to understand? Where were the grandparents with beards and babushkas, the plastic covers on the
couches, the cutting sarcasm, the adults shouting at each other
across the dining room table in thick accents or foreign languages,
the plates of gefilte fish?
I pored over those illustrations, seeking clues to the way real
Americans lived. I began trying to mold my parents into the correct pattern.
Me: Can I have a dog?
Them: No. What you need is friends. Go out and make some
friends.
Me: Look at this picture, Dick and Janes family are camping
out in the forest.
Them: We spent enough time in forests during The War.
And that was pretty much that. I didnt understand what my
Holocaust survivor parents found important, and they couldnt
fathom why their American-born daughter cared about such silly
things. I turned to books for the life my parents couldnt give me.
In the year that I was seven, Moms hip younger sister came to
visit us, and she stayed for six months. In that span of time, she
bought paperback novels. When she returned to Montreal, she left
them in the bookcase.
Yes, reader, I was too young, and yes, I read them anyway.
Some of them I understood completely, some only a bit. (Slaughterhouse Five, Im looking at you.) Reviewing the list, I can see
that they shaped the way I still think today, and by extension, the
way I write. I must have read To Kill A Mockingbird a hundred
times, captivated by its descriptions of a free-range childhood and
its uncompromising sense of decency and social justice. Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest educated me about Rebelling Against The System; The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,
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Opinion

Extradition
The Palestinian Authoritys dirty little secret

ts that dirty little secret that

nobody wants to talk about,
because it makes everybody
uncomfortable.
It hovers in the background, its hidden
in the closet, and it lingers in the recesses
of our minds. But its there, written in black
and white in the Oslo Accords, and it cant
be erased: the Palestinian Authority is obligated to surrender to Israel any terrorist
whose extradition the Israelis request.
Which is what makes the
ongoing standoff in Bulgaria
such an inconvenience!
A Palestinian terrorist
who escaped from an Israeli
prison 25 years ago is now
being given shelter in the
PAs consulate in Sofia, the
capital of Bulgaria.
The terrorist is Omar
Stephen
Nayef Zayed, who was conFlatow
victed in 1986 of murdering
an Israeli yeshiva student.
He started a hunger strike in
1990, which resulted in the Israeli authorities admitting him to a hospital in Bethlehem. He escaped from the hospital,
slipped out of the country, and made his
way to Bulgaria.
Israel has asked the PA to hand him
over, in accordance with Annex IV, Article 2, Par.7(f )(1) of the Oslo II agreement
that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the
PA signed in 1995. That clause specifically
obliges the PA to comply with every Israeli
request for extradition.
During 1995-96, Israel submitted 36
extradition requests. Additional requests
were made in later years. Not one of them
has ever been honored.
Over the years, State Department officials became expert at coming up with
excuses for the PAs non-compliance on
extradition. The classic example involved
diplomat Dennis Ross. In May 1997, Ross
was invited to speak at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan. An audience member asked him why the United
States was not demanding that the PA
hand over Nafez Sabih, a Palestinian terrorist involved in the murder of JTS student Matthew Eisenfeld. Ross said that
Sabih had not been extradited to Israel
because the Palestinians are required to
extradite terrorists to Israel only if they
havent imprisoned these people, and
he would not be extradited to the United
States because the United States does not
have an extradition treaty with the Palestinian Authority.
Both of Rosss claims were false. The
Oslo agreement does not say the PA can
refuse extradition requests if it imprisons
the terrorists in its own jails; the accord
obligates the PA to extradite terrorists to
Israel, period. And the United States does

not need an extradition treaty in order to

bring a terrorist to America for trial; the
United States frequently pressures countries with which it has no such treaties to
surrender the suspects voluntarily.
But Rosss falsehoods worked they
ended the discussion. And that, of course,
was his goal: to keep the issue out of the
spotlight, to keep the Jewish community from focusing on the problem and
demanding action.
In the midst of the 2002
standoff over terrorists being
sheltered inside Yasser Arafats compound in Ramallah,
journalists asked PA cabinet
minister Nabil Shaath about
Israels extradition requests.
According to the Jerusalem
Post, he replied: We will
never agree to hand over
M.
the wanted men or a list of
names of those inside the
compound. If this is the subject, we prefer not to talk.
We prefer not to talk. Precisely! PA
officials prefer not to talk about it, because
they know they are in gross violation of the
agreement that they signed.
The Obama administration likewise prefers not to talk about it. The administrations entire policy regarding Israel and the
Palestinians is to never talk about Palestinian violations. Because that would make it
harder to get a Palestinian state created.
American Jewish leaders, too, seem to
prefer not to talk about it presumably
because they dont want to upset the White
House and the State Department.
And as long as Jewish organizations dont
talk about it, the news media will bury it,
too. Getting the news media to take an
interest is important, because if just one
reporter at the daily State Department
briefing would ask a question about the
standoff in Bulgaria, the administration
would make clear that it does not have a
coherent answer. It cant defend sheltering a terrorist but it wont criticize the
PA for sheltering a terrorist. Asking a question opens up a can of worms that has to
be opened.
And members of Congress certainly
would be willing to talk about the extradition issue but they need to hear from Jewish leaders that this is an issue of concern to
the Jewish community.
Silence is the enemy of justice. As long
as friends of Israel remain silent, the murderer Omar Nayef Zayed will continue to
escape justice.
Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange, an
attorney with a practice in Fairfield, is the
father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in
an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist
attack in 1995.

Opinion
Dick and Jane
FROM PAGE 19

by John LeCarre, taught me about

bad guys who are actually good,
and good guys who are actually
bad, and the duplicitous nature
of governments; and Dune and
The Hobbit taught me that it was
okay to make up stories that take
place long ago and far away, or at some time in the distant future, and that
these stories can actually be about real things going on right here and right
now. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious taught me that under the hood,
America was not all Dick and Jane.
As I grew older, the truth slowly began to reveal itself. No ones lives
were like Dick and Janes, even those that on the outside seem golden
and blessed. Dick and Jane were a dangerous fiction. Everyone has their
peckel, their secret burden of woe.
Eventually, I discovered that the children of Holocaust survivors had a
great deal in common, and that I could find comfort and healing in talking
with them. Eventually, I discovered that my experiences as the child of
Holocaust survivors were strikingly similar to the experiences of children
of other immigrants. Eventually, I discovered that even the descendants of
pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower dont have Dick-and-Jane lives.
Life has a way of cracking us open. It is the cracks that make us who we
are, and it is the cracks that bring us all together.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is an artist and writer. Her work
appears in many journals, including The Kenyon Review, Gargoyle,
Jewishfiction.net, and Cream City Review. Her second novel, In The
Land of Armadillos, will be published by Scribner this spring.

Letter
Becoming the worlds policeman

Does the world need a policeman?

Anyone tuned in to world events over the last few
years will acknowledge that the political climate
around the world has become rather dismal.
Almost every day news reports seem to get more
and more troubling. We hear about ISIS executing
anyone who does not adhere to their beliefs, Iran testing long range missiles and threatening countries with
annihilation, Russia taking over Crimea and parts of
Ukraine, North Korea testing nuclear bombs, China
creating islands in international waters with military
bases.
There are frequent terrorist attacks around the
world killing innocent civilians everywhere. There
are two wars being fought in Syria, one war in Iraq,
and one in Yemen; add to these the unresolved Israel/
Palestinian situation. In addition, countries are attacking each other with cybertechnology to steal information, either for commercial reasons or in preparation
for expected future conflicts, or just to disrupt operations. Unfortunately, we do not have a very promising
outlook. It is so disturbing that some believe that we
are heading toward World War III.
One can try to analyze how things became so bad,
but it is hard to find the reasons. One thing that we do
know is that the United States has far less influence
around the world than it did just a few years ago. Possessing overwhelming military power and our strong
belief in equal human rights for all, we did have the
respect of many countries, but this definitely has

changed. Having recently conveyed to the world that

we wish to be less involved in various areas has left a
void for the bad guys to take over.
One could say that it is the job of the United Nations
to be the worlds policeman and keep order. Unfortunately, this organization has some major flaws. Its
Security Council can act only if the five permanent
members agree on an issue and even then it has no
enforcement capability. Its General Assembly is badly
biased in all its decisions, so those decisions are practically meaningless.
In the absence of a policeman, when countries find
behavior to be unacceptable they have to form coalitions in order to deal with it. This is usually a very
difficult task, and for a coalition to succeed in practice it needs a very strong leader who handles most
of the load.
The major problem with being the worlds policeman is that it could lead to fatalities and injuries to
the precious military young men and women fighting in distant, remote places. Unfortunately, with
the advancement of technology remotely located
conflicts do not remain remote for long. History also
has shown that if low-level conflicts are not dealt with
decisively, then later they become major conflicts that
require far greater sacrifices.
Considering all of the above, I am beginning to
think that the world needs a policeman. It is not an
attractive or desirable role, but to keep peace around
the world it may be required.
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Israel and the four powers

he rulers of the Arab Gulf states

what the officer called moderate states
are, it seems, increasingly attenwith which Israel has a common lantive to what Israel has to say
guage Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf counabout the balance of power in
tries. The third power, one that obviously
the region.
is waning, is represented in the form of the
As a rising Shiite Iran faces off against
Muslim Brotherhood, now vanquished in
a Sunni coalition led by Saudi Arabia, the
its Egyptian heartland but still reigning
core shared interest between
in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Israels democracy and these
Finally, the fourth power is
conservative theocracies
another non-state actor, the
countering Irans bid to
combined forces of jihadi
become the dominant power
barbarism like al Qaeda and
and influence in the Islamic
Islamic State.
world rarely has been as
Israels goal in this situaapparent.
tion is a modest one. As the
Hence the interview given
IDF officer put it, There is
by a senior IDF officer to a
a danger that the strife will
Ben Cohen
Saudi weekly, Elaph, which
reach us as well if the instalaid out how Israel analyzes
bility in the region continues
the present wretched state of
for a long time. Therefore,
the Middle East. In the Israeli view, there
we need to take advantage of the opportuare, the officer said, four powers that have
nity and work together with the moderate
coalesced in the region. The first power
states to renew quiet in the region.
centers on Iran and its allies and proxies,
The key phrase here, it seems to me, is
such as the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship
renew quiet. Foremost for the Israelis,
in Syria, Shiite rebels in Yemen and Iraq,
that means counteracting Iran and espeand most pertinently for Israel, Hezbollah
cially its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, and
in Lebanon. The second power contains
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military dimension as well to all this is
entirely conceivable. And for the time
being, it seems that neither side wants
to expand or contract on their public ties
with each other; Israel has had embassies
in Cairo and Amman for a long time, but
that doesnt mean therell be an Israeli
ambassador in Riyadh anytime soon,
much less a film festival or trade expo.
Theres another factor that has accelerated the formation of this undeclared,
look-the-other-way alliance: the shift
in American Middle East policy under
President Barack Obama. Some readers will remember that back in 1991, the
first Bush administration pointedly left
Israel out of the coalition to expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, so as not to
antagonize the Gulf states. Now, frustration with Obama has compelled these
very same states to recognize that they

have an existential interest in cooperating with Israel.

You might say that the president
deserves credit for bringing about a situation, in the wake of the nuclear deal
with Iran, that has compelled the Gulf
states to grasp the reality and permanence of Israel as never before. Still, the
visions and prophecies of a Middle Eastern equivalent of the European Union,
much indulged during the Oslo Accords
years in the late 1990s, are not now in
evidence, and thats welcome. For their
own reasons, neither Israel nor the Arab
states feel obliged to articulate a sense of
what their region should look like if the
Iranian threat is overcome.
Indeed, theres a case that doing so
would be counterproductive it would
impose political pressures upon a discreet yet strategically vital relationship

that above all requires, in the parlance

of the IDF officer, the moderate states
to remain as moderate states. With the
reorientation of American policy toward
a rapprochement with Tehran, along
with Russias active involvement in the
Tehran-Damascus axis, Israel is the nearest reliable, not to say formidable, power
to which these countries can turn.
In the present Middle Eastern context,
then, the realism and discretion that has
always underwritten Israeli foreign policy
continues to prevail. That realism presumably extends to recognizing that regimes
like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain eventually
might succumb to their internal instabilities, which already are exacerbated by the
further collapse of the price of oil.
When you consider the alternatives,
the regions architecture could be much
worse for Israel than it is now. Long an

anomaly as the only open society in the

region, the target of Arab military and
economic warfare throughout the latter half of the last century, Israel in this
century is now a partner in a regional
bloc. To be sure, this is a bloc based
upon interests, not common values, and
therefore necessarily is limited in scope.
But in the present storm, and amidst the
appalling human suffering generated by
the clash of these rival interests in Syria,
its the closest thing we have to progress.
JNS.ORG

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Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
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A flutist in Kabul
Tenafly JCC teacher brings music to Afghanistan,
videoconferences home, reflects on experience
JOANNE PALMER

Noelle Perrin teaches flute to a high school student at the Afghan National Institute of Music.

Right, Ms. Perrin

taught these
teachers to teach
flute; at far right,
she hugs two
students and
Benson the
Suzuki Flute Bear.

24 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 15, 2016

here are some things

that you cant really
prepare for.
Yo u c a n b e
briefed, and read more, and
ponder, and pack, and think
that you have some idea of
whats coming, but then youre
there and theres no way you
could have imagined what its
really like.
There was very little she
could have learned during her
19 years as a flute teacher at
the Thurnauer School of Music
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly (and as the
founder of the JCCs FluteStar
summer camp, among many
other things) that could have
prepared Noelle Perrin of Fort
Lee for her 18-day stint at a
music school in Ka bul.
The school itself is a bit of a
miracle, both the only music
school and the only coed
school in all Afghanistan, Ms.
Perrin said. It is a new boarding schooling, open for about
six years, created once the

music-banning, art-destroying Taliban and its maleficent

echoes left Kabul.
Ms. Perrin is an international
Suzuki teacher trainer; its a
high rank within the Suzuki
music-education world, attainable only with a great deal of
experience. She was invited to
go to the school the Afghan
National Institute of Music
because the school had no flute
teachers; she trained 12 in the
time she was there.
The school is an unusual
institution, she said. It is an
academic school, with a concentration in music; it has
counterparts that specialize in
math or science. It draws children from across the country.
I dont know how students
get into the school, she said.
Its not on musical aptitude,
because most of the kids dont
play any instruments until
after they get there. They do
take aptitude tests, but its hard
to score musical aptitude in a
child who has had no musical
training, she said.
What does distinguish these

Cover Story

I think that the road to peace

is teaching a child to play a
musical instrument. Its more
muscular than an arms treaty.
children who range from fourth-graders
to high school seniors is that most of
them are from very dangerous places,
and their parents needed to get them out.
Many of them come from around Jalalabad, and that is a very unsafe place to live,
she said.
Their parents are interested in any
school, Ms. Perrin said. They are lucky to
get them into any school. The music institute is fully supported by the Afghan government and by the American embassy,
she continued. The American embassy
contributed to my being flown over there
and paid to teach. The school has both a
permanent staff and a large rota of people
from around the world who teach elsewhere most of the time but dedicate some
time to the institutes students. Those
teachers are funded by their own countries, through their embassies in Kabul,
according to Ms. Perrin. There are teachers from Hong Kong, from Europe, from
Australia, she added.
The schools challenge, then, is to take
children who grew up in real danger, separate them from their parents, put them in
a place that is far safer than where theyd
come from (but safety, as we will see, is a
relative term), and then try to teach them
the universal language that is music a
language whose vocabulary and grammar
some of them might know, some might
have heard, and some know nothing about.
There were challenges, as well, with the
students varying cultural assumptions.
Theyre all Muslim, Ms. Perrin said, but
they do not share all their traditions. For
example, what to do about head coverings for women and girls? Often, they are
not worn at school, because the school is
single-sex, so the prohibition against men
seeing womens hair is irrelevant. There
are no men. Here, there are women and
men, girls and boys, the school is new, and

cultural, tribal, and religious strictures are

being redefined. Many people wanted
girls to wear the headscarf all the time,
but there was a disagreement about that,
and it hasnt been resolved yet, Ms. Perrin said. Some of the girls wear them, and
some dont. Some of the teachers do but
at least half of them are not Afghan and

Ms. Perrin stands outside the school with three of her students.

At the Gardens of Babar "one of the most beautiful spots in Kabul," Ms. Perrin says a strand of hair escapes her scarf.
JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 15, 2016 25

Cover Story
some of them dont.
Outside the school, there was no question of whether women should wear headscarves. The only possible answer is yes.
There are many words that apply to
Noelle Perrins time in Afghanistan. Inspiring, challenging, thrilling, profoundly
moving. And also, she said, terrifying. The
world outside the school was terrifying.
I had to be so closely protected that I
didnt see a lot, she said. I was basically
shuttled from one locked gate to the next.
Although I was completely covered, I
still looked different. My skin is very light,
and my hair is blonde. I had to cover my
hair so that you couldnt see any of it.
And that was a problem in itself, because
thats not the style of headscarf that the
Afghans wear.
They tend to wear looser ones, where
you can see a little of their hair. There are
many variants of that, too, and some of
them are just at the back of the head, more
like a thought of a head covering.
And then there are burqas the fullbody covering. Wearing that really was a
possibility but to be discovered impersonating a Muslim would really have been
dangerous. That was not recommended.
I did feel unsafe, she continued. It is
a war zone. It is not like any other place I
ever have been.
It is scary but I knew it was going to
be scary.
Most of the Afghans she met did not
seem particularly well organized, Ms. Perrin said; she got the strong idea that the
culture did not stress western-style planning. Her visit, though, was meticulously
planned. There were two people who
handle the schools international guests,
and they started talking to me and conditioning me for what I needed to do and
know before I came.
After I got there, there was a phone
that I could use to get in touch with them
right away. I stayed in a guesthouse, and
they changed the one I was staying at right
at the last minute, so that no one would
know. There was a lot of expertise at work
there, and I felt very well taken care of.
It was hard to describe exactly what
the little she saw of Kabul looked like, she
added, but the television show Homeland is pretty accurate, she said. Its
visually very similar.
The people are just so warm, she
added. The population of the country is
not militant Muslims. There are some, but
thats a very small group.
Although she spent by far most of her
time in the school, she did get to go shopping once I covered up completely, she
said and just before her trip home, Ms.
Perrin played at a surprise concert at the
United States embassy.
It was unbelievable how many checkpoints we had to get through, she said.
They didnt tell us about the concert until
the night before, and we had to send the
instruments over the night before. And
Atthere still was a bomb scare while I was
26 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 15, 2016

Ms. Perrin with fourth- and fifth-graders. One student holds Benson the Suzuki Flute Bear, who has traveled the world with
Ms. Perrin and some of her friends, and has his own Facebook page to document his adventures.

Ms. Perrin playing piccolo at a recording session for the Afghanistan

National Children's Anthem sponsored
by Save the Children. It was interrupted by an earthquake.

Part of Ms. Perrin's teaching assignment was to introduce music theory.

at the embassy.
Because the countrys president and
first lady were to be at the concert, security was particularly tight. The instruments that had been sent over the night
before werent the performers own instruments but the schools. And the schools
instruments, which its not-yet-well-trained
students use, are not of the same caliber
as the teachers instruments. The teachers, after all, are highly experienced
professionals.
I said I need my flute, and they said
We put a flute there for you, Ms. Perrin said. So I get there, and yes theres a

flute but its not my flute. Its the schools

flute. Its not even solid silver. It doesnt
look like a flute that I could actually play
anything on. It is important to keep in
mind that a musicians instrument is her
tool, her art, her inseparable companion.
Its not just a random clump of metal and
holes and valves. It was one step above
asking her to step onstage and play a plastic flute from a toddlers toy chest.
But I thought, Okay. I went there to
do things that were hard, and that just was
okay. I will do it.
But then, despite all the searches and
checkpoints, there was the bomb scare.

We had to leave the stage, and the security dogs came in to make another search.
The dogs came up and licked all the
instruments.
And I was like, okay. I am going to play
this flute anyway.
I didnt even have an alcohol wipe, but
I was like Yes I can do this. Yes, I can. And
yes I did.
Later, she learned that dogs routinely
search for explosives using two of their
senses, smell and taste. They sniff and
lick for explosives, she said.
Ms. Perrin and other teachers at the
school made a recording, a new childrens anthem, funded by Save the Children. The video to the soundtrack that
includes her flute is beautiful, she said.
They had a helicopter taking views from

Cover Story
above; it was made at the Paghman Palace, a recording studio thats part of a
concert venue in the lush, lovely Hindu
Kush mountains near Kabul.
But as if the world wanted to make clear
to her that the idea of safety is illusory, not
only is Afghanistan an ongoing war zone, it
is also prey to natures nasty little jokes. A
big earthquake shook the Paghman Palace
as they recorded there on October 26 a
magnitude 7.5 shake that had its epicenter in Afghanistan and is reported to have
killed about 400 people, most of them in
neighboring Pakistan. Thats the only
earthquake Ive ever felt, Ms. Perrin said.
Do the children feel safe at school? She
hesitated. Its hard to tell, she said. Its
all they know.
During her time at the school, Ms. Perrin decided to introduce her students back
home at the JCC to her new charges in
Kabul. I arranged a Skype call, she said.
Carey White the Thurnauer schools
director of violin groups arranged it
on this end. She led it. We had some violin students, and a cellist, and my flute
students.
Although the connection was not all she
had hoped for, it would be from Afghanistan, and a few times the video connection
died. Still it was a wonderful experience
for everyone on both ends.
Ms. White, who lives in Englewood,
agreed. I was very excited about connecting to a very foreign country through
children and through music, she said. She
is an Orthodox Jew, belongs to Kehillat Kesher, am very involved with Israel, have
been there countless times, and spent a
year there, she said. That information is
central to who she is as a person, but I
put every kind of politics aside when it
comes to children and to music, she said.
That is because every kind of human
connection that can be forged is meaningful. It helps to break down barriers and
preconceptions.
The morning of the Skype call, 19 children and teenagers, accompanied by at
least one parent, and three music teachers
gathered at the JCC at 5:30. We decided
to wear rainbow colors, to bring color and
brightness to our interaction, Ms. White
said. We learned some words of Dari
the most commonly spoken Afghan language and we said hello and thank
you and good job. There was a lot of
laughter that could be heard over cyberspace when we said them. And they said
berry gooood to us, and we said thank
you in our own accent, and everyone was
smiling.
Ms. White said that she told the older
students that we are very lucky, going
home to our warm houses and clean
clothes. These students are all away from
home, and some of their parents were
given stipends to send them to school.
Otherwise, theyd be at work, out on the
street, selling plastic bags.
Her own 7-year-old daughter, Talia
Miller, who plays violin, was among the

The students and teachers in front, in Tenafly, videoconferenced a workshop with their counterparts in Kabul, who are visible
on the screen behind them.

participants, although she is not old

enough to understand the dangers the
children on the other side of the screen,
on the other side of the world, face. She
thought it was cool, her mother said.
Shelley Cekirge of Tenafly is the mother
of two of those young musicians; Sienna, 5,
plays the flute, and Eliza, 7, is a cellist; they
are Jewish. Her daughters are not quite old
enough to understand why the Skype conference was so unusual, although they
were interested in the fact that they were
so far away, Ms. Cekirge said. For me, I
wanted to see mostly what the womens
behavior and attire would be. And you
wouldnt have known that there was any
difference between our situation here and
theirs there.
None of the girls were covered. None
of them wore scarves. Everyone was
together, women and men were teaching boys and girls. It was a very similar
dynamic to what you would see in any
other school.
I wasnt sure what we would see; my
daughters couldnt understand what I was
talking about because they just looked like
us. Thats what they said They look just
like us.
Olivia Martin, 16, is an 11th-grader from
Englewood who found that the Skype session made clear some ideas shed already
assumed to be true. The video conference
with Noelle and her students in Afghanistan was really eye opening, she said. It
allowed me to see how progressive and

eager to learn the students in Afghanistan

were. Their progress was really incredible,
and their sound quality was so consistent
and clear. The conference allowed me to
realize that although we are so different,
communities so far apart can come together
to celebrate such simple things as music.
The kids were amazing, Ms. Perrin
said. So receptive. So eager to learn. So
hungry for everything that I had to teach
them. I worked with the recorder student
a tiny little bit, and with the three flute
students. They dont have a teacher, so I
taught them, and they learned everything.
I couldnt give out the information quickly
enough.
She also trained 12 music teachers while
she was in Kabul. That was the main
reason I was there, she said. It is very
important work. The society has been
pretty devastated, because most of its citizens are just trying not to die every day.
To rebuild there is very important work.
When it was time for her to leave
Afghanistan, Ms. Perrin had another
adventure, which ended just fine but made
obvious yet again how tricky life there is.
No matter where she went, she had to go
through checkpoints, usually more than
one. Checkpoint searches were done in
tents, strictly segregated by gender. She
also always was accompanied by security
guards and a driver, but they had to separate for the checkpoints.
That was a problem, but usually there
were other women, Ms. Perrin said. A

woman is never supposed to be alone. In

fact, a woman is supposed to stay home
whenever possible.
There were some unexpected checkpoints on the way to the airport, and two
different times I had to be separated from
my guards and driver, she said The car
went one place with my baggage, and I
went the other way. Because there were so
many men and so few women, they had
to stand in line and I didnt. I just had to
stand there and wait and be exposed. That
was unplanned, and it was scary.
Despite such glitches, the trip was transformative for her. It had not been a spurof-the-moment jaunt not that a trip that
requires as much training and preparation
as hers possibly could be but a mission
she had desired for years to make. I have
been following the school since it started,
Ms. Perrin said. I think that the road to
peace is teaching a child to play a musical instrument. Its more muscular than
an arms treaty. Im glad that we have people working on treaties, but this is more
powerful.
We talk about music being the universal language, but it is so much more powerful than that. Music is vibration. It is
sound. It is more powerful than an earthquake. It is a vibration of expression and
harmony and joy. To teach a child to create
that kind of beauty enhances not only that
childs life but the whole communitys life.
I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to do that very important work.
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Elyssa Toomey
After gradu ating
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and educate yourself about the benefits of standing:

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If sitting kills, standing saves. Thats why stand-up desks

are quickly rising in popularity, in offices, in homes, and
especially at my home, where Im happily standing now,
in front of my new Varidesk, a clever, affordable design
in the $350 range that Ive been showing off to friends
like a new puppy.
Other stand-ups I researched looked too corporate and would have meant replacing my beloved old
wooden desk. The Varidesk sits on top and has an easy,
spring-assisted lift that takes me from sitting to standing
in a couple of seconds. I love it ... and Im pretty sure it
loves me.
It comes with an app for stand-up alerts, but Im just
using my own body awareness gradually standing longer and longer until my legs tire, then sitting for 30 minutes or so before I rise again.
I found a ton of anecdotal evidence online about
stand-up desks some with treadmills curing back
pain, insomnia, fatigue and more, and Im not surprised. But too much standing can also create health
problems (varicose veins, for instance) so stay tuned
into your body and rest in your chair when you need to.

Move more

One sure cure for too much sitting is getting up every

hour and moving for 10 minutes or so. Is that so hard?
Apparently, yes. So do what you have to do an app,
a phone alert, a kitchen timer to remind yourself to
stand, to stretch, to do neck rolls, air squats, and other
energizing movements. Theres also walking to the water
cooler, jumping rope, practicing your tango moves. Mercola.com is an excellent source for videos demonstrating the kind of intermittent exercises you should be
doing, standing up and moving at least once every hour.
I was able to reduce my normal 12 to 14 hours of sitting to under one hour, Dr. Joe Mercola reports. And I
noticed one amazing thing the back pain Ive struggled
with for many years, simply disappeared.

Read this book

If you want to understand the science behind sitting

no, standing yes, moving more, read Dr. James Levines
recent book, Get Up! Why Your Chair Is Killing You
and What You Can Do About It. Hes the Mayo Clinic
endocrinologist and pioneering researcher who documented the perils of too much sitting in 2000, way
before it was accepted as true. And now hes a leading
voice for change in the work place, at home, and very
importantly, in schools, where prolonged sitting hurts
kids and stifles creativity.
I hope youre convinced. Stand more; sit less! Now its
time for me to lower my desk and rest my case.

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It boils down to exercise

Richard Portugal
We live our lives within extraordinary
vessels. They are vessels bequeathed
to us by our ancestors. And like any
antique, they need care.
We have the bodies of hunters; they
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thereby insured our presence on earth
today) by following game like antelope,
rabbits, and those really big mammoths
for three days, tiring and dehydrating
their prey and then ending the hunt.
They required tremendous aerobic and
anaerobic resources to feed themselves
and their clan. Their heart, lungs, skeleton, and muscles had evolved to give
them these capabilities. Combined with
their efficient heat regulating system (its
why we perspire) and superior brains,
our ancestors allowed us to be sustainable through the centuries.
Our bodies have remained the same,
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has dramatically changed. As a species,
we no longer hunt as a primary source
for our food. Rather, we drive to a food
store and push a shopping cart along
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we hunt is the expiration date. What
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Have a daily plan, but dont be too
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Starting and sticking to a healthy
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While theres no set timeline for each
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to a new routine, studies suggest meaningful change takes time.
Research based on cosmetic surgeon
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Chances are the people around
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Share your health and fitness
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Track your routine

Keeping track of your efforts to

develop healthy habits can keep
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Visualize success

Snooze

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will become.

Mix things up

Routines are like relationships,

says DeRose. You need to spice
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For healthy success, you need
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Exercise well and with the proper equipment.

a core workout. That way, your
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After a few weeks of one routine, change things up. Mix up

meals, too. DeRose suggests

adding one or two new recipes

a week to your healthy meal
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A regular sleep schedule is a

great healthy habit too. Track
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companies using virtual-reality gaming
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into physical therapy exercises.
For all of the digital and mobile innovations in the healthcare space, physiotherapy has been a bit left out, he adds.
If telemedicine is enabling more costeffective, convenient and connected
healthcare, then BioGaming is the equivalent for rehab. Our platform takes it a
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In November, the Tel Aviv-based
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applications to facilitate communication
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The BioGaming home platform uses
patented motion-detection algorithms
to power a Microsoft Kinect 3D motioncapture camera. The camera can be connected to Microsoft Windows for computers or paired with a provided Xbox
One for use with a television.
Physiotherapists can rent BioGaming
systems on a month-to-month basis. The
app allows them to can create personalized routines for patients and upload
them to the cloud for the patient. All
the captured data from the Kinect camera during the sessions is transmitted
back to the cloud, so physiotherapists

and patients can track progress

automatically.
Were taking the proven physiotherapy routines, real-time biofeedback, and
personal encouragement of sessions in
the hospital or clinic and bringing it
home, says Klein.
BioGamings patent-pending solution for creating and delivering gamified exercise routines earned the company the Innovation Award at Medica,
the worlds largest medical trade fair, in
2014. BioGaming is now awaiting FDA
approval in the United States.

More PT fun-makers

Other Israeli companies are also putting high-tech fun and convenience into
physiotherapy.
Motorika Medical, founded in 2004,
makes and markets robotic systems for
physical therapy, one for neurological
and the other for orthopedic rehab.
The ReoGo three-dimensional robotic
system for upper-limb therapy facilitates
repetitive arm movements through the
use of a motorized robotic arm. The neuromuscular retraining device, primarily
for patients in stroke recovery, enhances
motivation through interactive games
that imitate natural hand movements.
The system has been clinically proved
to improve recovery and treatment outcome by providing up to 10 times more
repetitions per session than an average
non-robotic treatment.
The second Motorika product, the
ReoAmbulator robotic gait-training
device, combines body weight support
with an advanced virtual-reality environment to help rehabilitate children
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or stamina.
Both systems include Enhanced Learning Intelligent Technology (ELITE), an
adaptive personalized therapy technology
to accelerate neurological and orthopedic
rehab based on patient-specific data and
instant verbal, audio and visual feedback.
Based in Caesarea with offices in the
United States, China and Hong Kong,
Motorika was founded by medical technology serial entrepreneur Dr. Shlomo BenHaim, formerly a professor of medicine,
physiology and biophysics at both Harvard University and the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology.
Video Therapy of Yehud offers a platform enabling physiotherapists anywhere
to create personalized interactive training
videos and evaluate and monitor patients
remotely, overcoming barriers to one-onone therapy such as cost, distance, time,
and accessibility.
Video Therapy was developed by Tel
Aviv rehab physiotherapist Roy Shteren
four years ago. We realized a lot of
patients could have a great influence on
their rehab outcomes if they had the right
compliance solutions to overcome barriers, he says. Our vision is to change the
way therapy is delivered and consumed.
The company also builds on-site training
zones for healthcare providers, using the
Video Therapy platform. The first installation, in the Ramat Gan municipality,

enables the treatment of seven different

patients in one room with one physical
therapist. In 2016, up to 10 more training zones will be built all over Israel, says
Shteren.
So far, some 3,500 Israeli patients and
200 therapists are using Video Therapy in
rehab and medical centers, private clinics
and adult day care centers. We also market it as a full service to partners without
their own rehab clinics, says Shteren.
A Kinect application and smartphone
application are in development, and Video
Therapy has initiated its first pilot in the
United States, with the University of Dayton in Ohio.
Also in the rehab space with a gaming
twist is iFeel Labs of Yavneh, maker of a
game system using a wearable biosensor to
help people with asthma and COPD learn
how to breathe effectively and improve
lung function.
Our mobile games are favorite and popular games (like Candy Crush) which have
been converted to even more exciting biosense games, according to the company,
which recently was a finalist in the Medica
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We know that isolation is the most
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researcher Guy Shakhar, author of the
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The problem is that today, for example, with flu, many do not realize how
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Symptoms discourage
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The scientists describe how common

symptoms of illness seem to support the
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us away from others.
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Change Your Life

Feeling ill
from page 47

changes in body language say: Im sick! Dont come

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The idea that sickness behavior reduces transmission has been proposed before, but was never recognized as a major organizing principle in vertebrates,
the authors say.
We name this theory the Eyam hypothesis after
the English mining community that isolated itself to

contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1666. Three-quarters of the villagers reportedly died, but the surrounding
communities were saved, they write.
The scientists have proposed several ways of testing their
hypothesis. In the meantime, they urge all of us to take the
hint from our bodies and stay home when we feel ill.
They point out that sickness behavior can be observed in
such social insects as bees, which typically abandon the hive
to die elsewhere when they are sick.
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behavior and reflect reprioritization of motivations during

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Jewish World

Shimon Peres is 92
Hes very much alive, as busy as ever, and hopeful about peace
YARDENA SCHWARTZ
TEL AVIV Last month, rumors flooded
the Internet that former Israeli President
Shimon Peres was dead.
True to form, the man who tirelessly
trumpets his countrys high-tech sector
took to Facebook to clear the air.
I wish to thank the citizens of Israel for
the support, concern and interest, and
wish to clarify that the rumors are false,
wrote Peres, a Nobel Prize winner. Im
continuing with my daily schedule as usual
to do whatever I can to assist The State of
Israel and its citizens.
Having fought for Israel before the state
even existed, leading its military through
its formative years and founding two of the
nations first kibbutzim, Peres, now 92, is
the last man standing from the generation that built Israel. Appointed director
general of the Defense Ministry in 1953,
when he was 29, Peres political career has
spanned seven decades, ending just over a
year ago with the conclusion of his sevenyear stint as president.
Yet when Peres announced he was still
alive, he meant very much alive and very
much still in action. On a typical day, he
is up at 4:30 to read and do sport (he
walks on the treadmill). By 8:30 he is at
his office, and he often works until 11 p.m.
In an interview from the Peres Center
for Peace, the nonprofit he founded in
1996 to promote coexistence, Peres discussed why hes busier than ever and
why he still hasnt given up on peace.
JTA: Its been over a year since you left
politics. How do you fill your days now?
Peres: The Peres Center for Peace is
working for peace and innovation all over
the world. The center is already 20 years
old, and it has a brilliant record. One of
our programs is called Saving Children. I
found out that there were 2,000 Palestinian children wounded during the intifada.
We decided to bring all of them to Jerusalem and all of them were cured. Once that
was done, other parents of Palestinian
children came to us and said, My child
wasnt wounded in the war, but he has a
problem with his heart or his brain. Please
help us. So our record now is 11,000 children cured in hospitals in Jerusalem on
our account.
JTA: Two months ago it was 20 years
since the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. If you
could speak to him now, what do you
think he would say about the state of Israel
today?
Peres: We would continue to do what
we did. We started making peace. We
started with Jordan, made peace with Jordan. We made peace with the Egyptians,
and we started with the Palestinians. It
wasnt completed, but we must continue
50 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 15, 2016

Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv on November 30, 2015.

In spite of the
terror attacks,
we shouldnt
lower our efforts
to make peace.
You cannot
answer a knife
with a knife.
to do the same thing. I think that our security, our well-being, and our Jewish character demands peace. If we will not achieve
peace, we will always be engaged in war
and terror. And I think its possible. I think
we can achieve peace.
In spite of the terror attacks, we
shouldnt lower our efforts to make peace.
You cannot answer a knife with a knife. I
dont think we can live if we continue just
trying to destroy each other. Many Arabs
understand this, too, and we see it now.
For many years the Arab attitude was
reflected in the Khartoum Resolution,
naming three laws: not to recognize Israel,
not to negotiate with Israel, and not to
make peace with Israel. Thats over. Now
there are Arab peace projects. Theres a

Saudi project, theres an Arab League project. Theyre talking about peace and thats
a major change. Maybe their plans are not
exactly what we are seeking, but its a big
difference from being an organized refusal
to making peace with Israel, to an attempt
to see how to bridge the divide.
JTA: Does Israel have a partner for
peace?
Peres: We do have a partner. But we
have to decide do we want a partner for
peace or a partner for war? Im speaking
about Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas]. He talks
about peace, he talks against terror. He
doesnt talk the Zionist language, but I
dont expect him to. He has in his police
force 15,000 people, and they in fact are
fighting against terror.
JTA: Do you think Israel hasnt done
enough to take advantage of this partner
for peace?
Peres: Im not going to look at who to
blame. Im not interested in this. Im more
interested in seeing who to moralize for
peace. I know peace is hard to achieve.
I speak from experience. People come
to me and say, Youre right, we need to
make peace. Youre right, we need to pay
a price. But, they say, Why are you paying so much? Why are you so naive to trust
them so much?
There are two things in life that if you
really want to achieve, you have to close

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your eyes a bit, and that is peace and love.

With eyes wide open, Im not sure anybody would fall in love, and Im not sure
anybody would make peace. But when you
compare what is better, living in peace and
living in love, even if its not perfect, is by
far the right choice.
JTA: What do you think the rise in
attacks by Arab-Israelis says about Israel
today?
Peres: They have equal rights. There
is no apartheid in Israel. But they feel
discriminated against because the standard of living for Israelis is higher than
the standard of living for Arabs. What we
have to do is promote their standard of
living. I think we can do it and we should
do it, and thats what we are doing at our
center.
JTA: Israel was once a clear bipartisan
issue in the United States, but there is
some evidence today that Republicans
are more likely to support Israel when its
interests diverge from Americas. What
could be done to change that?
Peres: I think we have to stick to the
bipartisan support. We shouldnt take
sides in internal American issues. We
have to appreciate that the U.S. friendship with Israel is bipartisan, so we cannot show an involvement in American
politics, just as Americans are careful not
to show involvement in Israeli politics.

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Jewish World

Turkey reaches out to Israel

Jewish groups move to embrace its rival, Greece
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Less than a month after Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled a readiness
to mend ties with Israel after years of antipathy, a delegation of American Jewish leaders has embarked on
a mission to embrace Turkeys longtime rival, Greece.
Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations are in the midst of a
weeklong trip that will take them to Israel, Greece,
and Cyprus, the disputed Mediterranean island that
has been a source of contention between Greece and
Turkey for decades. The trip, which includes leaders
of the Greek-American community, will meet with
political and religious leaders in all three countries.
Malcolm Hoenlein, the Presidents Conferences
executive vice chairman, said that the trip was
planned six months ago well before December
13, when Erdogan told a Turkish newspaper that he
hoped to re-establish ties with Israel. Those ties have
deteriorated badly over the past decade. Within days
of the interview, reports said that Israel and Turkey
already had struck a preliminary agreement to normalize relations.
A news release announcing the trip indicated it
would address the strategic relationship between
Israel and the two Mediterranean nations and include
visits to military facilities. But Hoenlein dismissed suggestions that the choice of destination was a way to
rebuff Turkey.
Having relations with one country does not diminish anyone else, Hoenlein said. We want Israel to
have as many relationships as possible.
Israel and Turkey shared a close alliance in the
1990s, when trade, tourism, and military cooperation increased. But relations began to cool with Erdogans rise to power in 2002, and broke dramatically
after Israels deadly 2010 raid on the Mavi Marmara,
a Turkish-flagged ship aiming to break Israels Gaza
blockade, in which 10 Turks, including an American
citizen, were killed. In 2011, Turkey expelled the Israeli
ambassador.
At the same time, ties between Israel and Greece
were warming. The two countries carried out joint
military exercises and launched efforts to boost cooperation in various areas. But it was the discovery of
natural gas deposits in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
that gave major impetus to the relationship.
In November, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of
Greece and Prime Minister Nicos Anastasiades of
Cyprus met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and Netanyahu is scheduled
to meet both leaders again in Cyprus later this month
to advance agreement on a natural gas deal.
Meanwhile, shared concern over Erdogans rise
has led to more frequent official outings to Greece by
American Jewish groups, which have begun to pivot
away from decades of defending Turkeys interests in
Washington. Last year, several Jewish groups backed
off their longstanding reluctance to call the World War
I-era massacre of Armenians a genocide, a position
they had adopted largely to avoid offending Turkey.
In 2013, a congressional caucus was launched to further cooperation among Israel, Greece, and Cypress.
There already has been a lot of local work between
organizations, said Daniel Mariaschin, the executive

vice president of Bnai Brith, referring to the new closeness

with American Greeks.
The inclusion of Cyprus in the tour itinerary is sure to be
noticed in Turkey, which has occupied the northern third
of the island since 1974, an action condemned by many U.N.
Security Council resolutions. The Jewish delegation will not
visit northern Cyprus, which declared itself independent of
the Cypriot republic in 1983, a declaration recognized only
by Turkey.
The strategic relationship between Greece, Cyprus, and
Israel has evolved, helping to lend stability to the region
with broader implications, the Presidents Conference said
in a statement. The delegation of American Hellenic and
American Jewish community leaders plans to explore the
major policy issues and concerns as well as ways to foster
ties between the people of the three countries. They will
also visit military installations to study the security challenges in the area.
Whether the embrace of Greece and Cyprus will complicate Turkeys overtures to Israel has yet to be seen. Developments in Syria, which have empowered enemies of both
Turkey (the PYD Kurdish militia) and Israel (Hezbollah),
have created a convergence of interests between the countries. The Obama administration also has pushed hard for a
reconciliation, preferring that its two closest military allies
in the Middle East get along. And Israels security establishment misses its close cooperation with the regions other
major military power.
Turkish-Greek ties have come a long way, said Soner
Cagaptay, a Turkey expert at the Washington Institute for
Near East Policy. But once ties between Israel and Turkey are normalized, eventually Greeces utility as an ally
to Israel will be overshadowed by Turkeys economic and
military might.

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, left, meets Israeli

President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on November
26, 2015.
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Hoenlein said it was too early to determine whether Turkeys pivot would be long-lasting. Its a mercurial situation, he said.
Jason Isaacson, the American Jewish Committees director
of policy, said Erdogan should still be viewed with caution
not only because of his past hostility to Israel, but because of
rhetoric blaming Turkeys woes on outside interests, rhetoric that has veered close to anti-Semitism.
Given the proclivities of the president of Turkey, given
actions and statements regarding Israel as well as regarding
the connection he has alleged between the Jewish people
and unrelated political issues in Turkey, [restoring ties with
Turkey] cannot substitute for the relationship Israel enjoys
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Jewish World

Jewish life in a poor Parisian suburb

Crime, extremism, fear spur internal exodus
Cnaan Liphshiz
LA COURNEUVE, France At this Paris
suburbs only Jewish facility, Rabbi Prosper
Abenaim serves sweet tea to his synagogues
most frequent and reliable guests: machinegun-toting troops of the French Legion.
Six soldiers, posted here to defend Jews
in this heavily Muslim and crime-stricken
municipality, which borders the capital, are
the first new faces seen in years in this dwindling community, which has lost thousands
of congregants over the past two decades to
Israel and safer areas of Paris. On some mornings, the troops outnumber worshippers.
That wasnt the case when Abenaim first
arrived at La Courneuves Ahavat Chalom
synagogue in 1992. There were more than
4,000 Jews in the neighborhood then, and
it was a struggle to fit them all into the synagogue on Yom Kippur.
The shul overflowed onto the street, Abenaim recalled.
Since then, improved economic fortunes
and repeated anti-Semitic attacks have
driven all but 100 Jewish families from the
neighborhood, where drug dealers operate
openly on streets that residents say police
are too afraid to patrol. The remaining Jews
are mostly a graying bunch, stuck here for
financial reasons.
We have two big problems, extremism and criminality, and they often mix,
said Abenaim, who lives in Paris affluent
and heavily Jewish 17th arrondisement
and has encouraged his congregants to
leave for Israel. I understand why people
dont want to raise children here. Im here
myself only because of my duties. Otherwise, Id be in Israel.
La Courneuves reputation for criminality is well established and reflected in
the security measures at Ahavat Chalom,
which resembles a fortress with its heavy
metal doors, multitude of security cameras, and three armed soldiers in military
camouflage at the entrance. For years, the
city has ranked among the most violent in
France, with 19 assaults per 1,000 residents
recorded in 2013.

On street corners near the city center,

gangs of young men openly exchange drugs
for cash. By noon, prostitutes are soliciting
clients on Pasteur Boulevard, a main traffic
artery.
Near the synagogue, a group of men wearing colorful sports clothes stand around
smoking cigarettes and marijuana on a Monday morning. One of them, a native of the
Caribbean island of Saint Martin who identified himself only as Degree, said he felt safe
to do whatever here because police wont
come here, theyre too scared. If they come,
we just kill them.
Religious extremism is more difficult to
measure, but its effects nonetheless are evident. Last month, La Courneuve became the
final resting place of Samy Amimour, one of
the suicide bombers who killed 130 people
in multiple coordinated attacks in Paris in
November and whose family lives nearby.
Security around the synagogue was beefed
up after those attacks, but the soldiers already
were in place. Their presence is part of Operation Sentinel, launched in response to the
January 2015 murder of four Jews at a kosher
supermarket in Paris. Ahavat Chalom, which
survived a fire sparked by four firebombs in
2002, is considered especially at risk.
Over the past 15 years, such attacks have
spurred many Jews to leave poor Parisian suburbs like La Courneuve in favor of
safer neighborhoods, according to Bernard
Edinger, a Paris-based former senior correspondent for Reuters.
Tens of thousands changed neighborhoods, pushed by the hostility of their Arab
neighbors or drawn elsewhere through social
mobility, Edinger wrote last month in the
Jerusalem Post.
Aubervilliers, a municipality adjacent to La
Courneuve, once had three synagogues and
many kosher shops. Today there is one synagogue and kosher food is available on one
shelf at a regular supermarket, according to
the Tribune Juive weekly.
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of the National
Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism,
a nongovernmental watchdog group, said
that while immigration from France to Israel

The City of 4,000,

a housing project
in La Courneuve,
was named for the
influx of Jews who
made their way
there in 1962.

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An anti-Israel demonstration at the Aubervilliers-La Courneuve market east of

Paris on January 18, 2015.
Courtesy of Alliance France

French police conduct an operation in La Courneuve, near Paris, on August 27,

2015.
Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

has reached record levels, it accounts for only

about 15,000 people over the past decade.
Many more French Jews have been internally
displaced, Ghozlan said, as they moved farther from Paris or into the citys wealthier
neighborhoods.
Abenaim said he has seen this happening
before his eyes. Congregants from La Courneuve have left the area and settled near
Abenaims home in the 17th arrondissement,
which had no synagogues 30 years ago and
now boasts no fewer than eight.
Meanwhile, La Courneuve has seen a
proliferation of Islamic schools and apartment-size mosques located deep in the
maze of drab public housing projects.
One of the mosques was a synagogue in
the 1960s, when the first Jews arrived here
as refugees fleeing the war in Algeria. The
1962 arrival of 4,000 French Jews gave the
name to one of La Courneuves main projects, now known as the City of 4,000.

Alain Felous, a French Jewish photographer, moved to La Courneuve in 1996 for

the low rent and proximity to his workplace
and his children, who live with their mother
in Paris. To protect himself, he has adopted
a tough attitude and taken to wearing bulky
coats in all weather to signal that he might be
armed.
Of course Id rather live in the 17th, or
someplace nicer, Felous said. Im not here
to make a point. Living here as a Jew isnt for
everyone.
On a trip to the supermarket, Felous
paid for the apples of a fellow shopper,
an elderly Arab woman with whom he
cracked a few jokes. But he was also on
guard, kicking the shopping cart of a fellow shopper who had cut him in line while
delivering a juicy curse.
You have to respond immediately here, or
they will eat you alive, Felous said.


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Jewish World

RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Just months after the conclusion of a
nuclear deal with Iran that the Obama administration
hoped would help defuse a volatile region, the Middle
East seems ready to spiral out of control.
Protests erupted across the region last week in the wake
of Saudi Arabias execution of a leading Shiite cleric. In
response, rioters torched the Saudi Embassy in Tehran,
prompting Saudi Arabia and a handful of Gulf states to
break diplomatic ties. Next, Iran accused Saudi Arabia
of bombing its embassy in Yemen, though the New York
Times reported that the bomb fell on a nearby building.
The rivalry between the nations goes back decades,
if not centuries, and the nuclear deal reached with Iran
last year is, at best, one of many factors driving the recent
conflagration. But the emerging consensus among Middle
East hands is that any hope that the nuclear deal would
tamp down tensions in the region and enhance stability
is quickly evaporating.
The Iranians were going to look for opportunities
to demonstrate to their own constituents they are not
cowed and contained, said Tamara Cofman Wittes, a
senior State Department official during President Barack
Obamas first term and now the director of the Center for
Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. They
were going to look for ways to make that point to the rest
of the world and to their competitors.
The latest tensions date to January 2, when Saudi Arabia executed Nimr al-Nimr, a leading Shiite cleric, along
with 47 other opponents of the regime, most of them
Sunni extremists. The move prompted outrage in Iran,
where rioters overran the Saudi embassy, prompting the
Gulf monarchy to withdraw its ambassador. Several other
smaller Gulf nations followed suit.
The tensions between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran are the modern manifestations of a schism that
dates nearly to the dawn of Islam. But critics of the Obama
administration also see them as the product of a larger
pattern of Iranian assertiveness, enabled by the nuclear
deal reached over the summer.
In December, Iran fired rockets that passed within
1,500 yards of an American aircraft carrier in the Straits
of Hormuz, an act described as highly provocative by
the U.S. military. In October, Iran tested a ballistic missile
capable of carrying nuclear warheads, in contravention
of Security Council resolutions. In Syria, Iran continues
to prop up the embattled Assad regime.
The nuclear deal has emboldened Iran to become an
even more malign force in the Middle East, said Mark
Dubowitz, the director of the Foundation for the Defense
of Democracies, a hawkish think tank that has consulted
with Congress in shaping Iran sanctions. Multiple U.N.
sanctions-violating missile tests, the trashing of the Saudi
embassy in Tehran, continued military support for
Assads killing machine [in Syria] and the Houthi insurgents in Yemen, and a sharp increase in executions of its
own citizens.
U.S. lawmakers from both parties have introduced an
array of bills in recent days to punish Iran for the missile
tests. Some of the top Jewish Democrats in Congress
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the
chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee; Representative Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on
the House Foreign Affairs, and Representative Nita Lowey
(D-N.Y.), the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations
Committee were among seven signatories to a letter to
Obama urging him to reintroduce sanctions against Iran.

We understand the administration is preparing sanctions

against individuals and entities involved in Irans ballistic missile
program, and we urge you to announce such sanctions without
further delay, said the letter.
The Obama administration has not counted out new sanctions, but for now prefers to pressure Iran through the United
Nations. Existing sanctions against Iran are due to be eased in
the coming weeks under the terms of the nuclear deal. Last
Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Iran was days
away from complying with its obligations under the deal.
The Saudis, meanwhile, are feeling skittish, buffeted by falling oil prices and Americas determination to reach an accord
with its archrival.
The Saudis had been concerned about the United States
and the Middle East for a long time, and theyve become worse
under Obama, said Danielle Pletka, the vice president of the
conservative American Enterprise Institute, noting Obamas
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 and his very, very
aggressive rapprochement with Iran.

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Saudi-Iran crisis latest reality check

for supporters of nuclear deal

Iranian men burn Israeli and American flags during a

demonstration against the execution of prominent Shiite
cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities on January 2.

Writing on his blog last week, Alon Ben-Meir, a fellow at New

York Universitys Center for Global Affairs, said Secretary Kerry
should fly to Riyadh to reassure the Saudis of the American commitment to its security.
His visit would allay the Gulf states concerns that the U.S. is
being more critical of Saudi Arabia than Iran, a perception that
could further reduce U.S. influence, especially in Riyadh when
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Adina Porat freed from

chained marriage
after 8-year struggle
MARSHALL WEISS
DAYTON, OHIO After more than eight
years of waiting, an Israeli woman was freed
from her marriage after an unprecedented
campaign to pressure her husband to grant
her a Jewish writ of divorce, or get.
Adina Porats former husband, now known
as Eli Shur (he went by David Porat when the
couple were married), signed the get in late
December, nearly two months after the New
York-based Organization for the Resolution
of Agunot, or ORA, held a rally near Shurs
Dayton-area home to ramp up the pressure.
The divorce became official on January 7.
Agunot is the Hebrew term for so-called

chained women, wives whose husbands

refuse to grant them a religious divorce.
ORA, which pressures husbands who
refuse to grant their wives religious divorces,
launched a website featuring a video about
Porat that was viewed more than 68,000
times. More than 80 demonstrators primarily from Orthodox communities across
Ohio and Michigan showed up for the
November 8 rally near Shurs home in Kettering, Ohio.
Though ORA has staged rallies and social
media campaigns in the past, its executive
director, Rabbi Jeremy Stern, said that this
was the first time the organization has produced a video as part of its strategy.

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Adina Porat secured a Jewish religious divorce, or get, as the result of an

unprecedented campaign to pressure her husband.
YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT

The video that we created went viral

on Facebook and YouTube, followed up
by the rally, and all the publicity of the
rally, Stern said. All of that pressure led
to the issuance of the get.
Stern said that as part of the settlement, the group took down the website
and the video and promised not to rally
against Shur.
In my life, Im stuck in a prison,
Adina Porat said in the video. I cant
move on, I cant continue. The kids
never had a chance to have a stepfather,
a new family, and to continue on with
their lives.
According to ORA, Shur and Porat
were married in Israel in 1990. He
left her and their children in 2007 but
refused to provide a get. He left Israel for
the United States a year later.
In 2009, the Israeli chief rabbinate
ruled that Shur was required to give
his wife a get. The following year, Shur
arrived in Dayton to become the ritual
director of Beth Jacob Congregation. He
had presented himself as a single man
with no children.
Nearly six months into his work at
Beth Jacob, ORA volunteers showed up
at one of his evening classes there and
urged him to sign a get for his wife. He

refused. In short order, Shur no longer

was employed by the synagogue. He
reportedly now works as a life coach in
the Dayton area.
After Shur left Beth Jacob, the Chicago
Rabbinical Council confirmed the Israeli
rabbinates ruling that Shur was obligated to provide his wife with a get.
ORA now has 70 active cases, Stern
said. The group has held rallies since
its founding in 2002, but began using
social media a few years ago. Stern said
he thinks that ORA will employ the video
tactic again.
We usually resolve about 25 cases
every year and take on about 25 new
cases every year, Stern said.
The Porat case, Stern said, is the
253rd the group has resolved since its
founding.
We are elated, he said. And we are
tremendously grateful to the hundreds,
if not thousands, of people who became
active in this case those who came to
the rally and all the people who were
involved in promoting this case.
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correspondent Marcy Oster contributed
to this story.

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BREIFS

First F-35 fighter jet for Israel is unveiled in Texas

Report: 660,000 in Israel

cannot legally marry
A new report by the Israeli NGO Hiddush For Religious
Freedom and Equality says that 660,000 Israelis including 364,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union,
284,000 in the LGBT community, 13,000 non-Orthodox
converts to Judaism, among others cannot legally marry
in Israel because laws prohibit civil and non-Orthodox religious weddings there.
The Hiddush report is based on findings from opinion
polls and data from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics.
While marriage in Israel is administered by the countrys Orthodox chief rabbinate, the Jewish state does recognize civil marriages conducted abroad and, as a result,
20 percent of weddings registered in Israel take place
overseas. Seventy percent of secular Israelis say they
would like to marry in a civil ceremony in Israel if the law
would allow it, the report said.
The [Israeli chief] rabbinates monopoly not only fails
to contribute to preserving Judaism; it is a cause for the
publics hatred of Judaism, identifying [the religion] with
dark zealotry, said the head of Hiddush, Rabbi Uri Regev.


The body of Israels first F-35 joint strike fighter plane was
unveiled at a festive ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas. The
plane, named Adir, will now enter the advanced production
stage, which is set to last until June.
Officials from U.S. aerospace company Lockheed Martin,
which produces the F-35, and Israels Defense Ministry were
at the ceremony.

Israel has ordered 33 F-35s at an average cost of $110 million per plane. The first two F-35s are scheduled to arrive in
Israel in December, and the rest will be delivered by 2021.
At the ceremony, the head of the Israeli delegation, Aharon Marmarosh, signed the frame of the first Israeli F-35,
writing, Onward and upward. May you succeed in your
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Russia supplying Hezbollah

with heavy weapons
Russia is directly providing the Lebanese terror group
Hezbollah with heavy weapons, Hezbollah field commanders told the Daily Beast.
We are strategic allies in the Middle East right now
the Russians are our allies and give us weapons, one Hezbollah commander was quoted as saying.
The commander said Russian airstrikes have changed
the situation on the ground in Syria in recent months.
As an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assads regime,
Hezbollah has sent many fighters to Syria to battle rebel
groups in the civil war raging there since 2011. The intervention of the Russians made it much easier, the Hezbollah commander said.
Another Hezbollah commander said Russia has not
imposed any restrictions on how Hezbollah can use Russian weapons. This means the arms could be used against
Israel.
When it comes to Israel, Hezbollah doesnt take directions from anyone, he said.
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World Sailing to implement

sanctions after Israelis are
excluded in Malaysia
World Sailing plans to sanction any host nations that do
not grant equal participation in competitions. Thats the
result of an investigation into the actions of Malaysia,
which restricted Israeli windsurfers from competing in
the Youth World Sailing Championship earlier this month.
In [the] future, the organizers of all international sailing competitions will be required to comply with specific
conditions to ensure that all competitors from all countries can participate equally, said Gary Jobson, World
Sailings vice president, in a statement. If these conditions are not met, specific sanctions will be applied to
any future international sailing competitions held in that
country.
The Israel Sailing Association told World Sailing last
month that Israeli windsurfers Yoav Omer and Noy Drihan and their coach, Meir Yaniv, could not compete under
the Israeli flag in Malaysia nor use any symbols affiliated
with Israel. The Israeli team also did not receive its visas
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Jewish World

Why U.S. lawmakers want Germany

to take another look in its museums
JAS CHANA
In a letter emblazoned with the insignia of
the U.S. House of Representatives, 29 members of Congress reprimanded the German
state of Bavaria for neglecting its historical
responsibility to victims of the Nazis.
The Free State of Bavaria has yet to
fully honor its pledge regarding restitution or compensation for Holocaustrelated confiscations of property, including artwork, made under duress, read the
November 9 letter, which was addressed
to Bavarias governor, Horst Seehofer.
The importance of these issues to Holocaust survivors and their families cannot
be overstated.
Why would members of Congress send
such a sharply worded if diplomatic
missive to the largest state in Germany, a
major U.S. ally, some 70 years after the end
of World War II?
In the preceding months, retired American-British physician Michael Hulton,
69, had met with members of Congress
throughout the United States to deliver
an impassioned presentation about his
great-uncle Alfred Flechtheim, a flamboyant German Jewish art dealer destroyed by
the rise of the Nazis.
German institutions, Hulton told the
lawmakers, are failing in their responsibility to secure justice for Flechtheim and
other early victims of the Nazis. He asked
for their help.
In an interview at his lawyers Manhattan law firm, Hulton said he was heartened
by how receptive the lawmakers were to
his message. And not the obvious ones,
he said. Not the Jewish ones.
Germany is widely acknowledged to be
a leader in Holocaust restitution. The state
has paid nearly $70 billion to Nazi victims
since 1953, according to Wesley Fisher,
director of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
And although any statutes of limitation
expired on cases of Nazi-looted art long
ago, Germany is among 44 nations that
committed themselves in the Washington
Principles of 1998 to voluntary restitution
of art stolen by the Nazis or sold under
duress they caused.
But Hulton said that Germany has not
fulfilled its commitments under the agreement, not to mention its historical obligations. He noted that state authorities set
the bar very high for claimants of restitution, requiring them to prove that Nazi
oppression directly contributed to the loss
of the art in question.
That can be difficult, especially where
records are lacking.
For example, early in 2015, the Limbach
Commission a state-established panel
that advises on requests for restitution for
art lost due to Nazi oppression rejected
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Visitors look at Max Beckmanns 1925 Portrait Quappi Beckmann at the Hypo-Kunsthalle in Munich, Germany, in 2014.

JOERG KOCH/GETTY IMAGES

Michael Hulton, right, with attorney Mel Urbach in New York, has gone to Congress in his bid for the restitution of Nazi-looted art.
JAS CHANA

a claim on A Weekday in Paris, a painting by German artist Adolph von Menzel.

The heirs of the artworks one-time owner,
George Behrens, argued that the Jewish
banker sold the work to the city of Dusseldorf in 1935 because of Nazi persecution.
The commission pointed out that Behrens was paid 30,000 Reichmarks for the
painting, which was in line with the market
price of the day. Further, the commission
said, the bank Behrens owned was still in
good economic order in 1935, which suggested that he was not in financial duress.
But its worth remembering the pervasiveness of Nazi influence, even when it
cannot be pinpointed.
One should ask: Why did Behrens sell?
said Marc Masurovsky, an art historian and

co-founder of the Holocaust Art Restitution Project. If it was to finance his exit
from Germany, then we are within the
reach of a forced sale. If it was to pay for
lunches and dinner, clearly not.
Flechtheim probably wasnt eating out
much by 1932, when he is said to have sold
the most valuable works in his collection:
six paintings by the famed German Expressionist Max Beckmann.
After a roaring 1920s spent hobnobbing
with artistic elites from Paris to Berlin, in
1932 Flechtheim became the literal cover
boy for the Jewish problem. A sketch of
his face in profile was published on the
cover of the Nazi magazine Illustrierter
Beobachter, alongside the headline The
Race Question is the Key to World History.

The persecution worsened after that,

with the Nazis breaking up a 1933 auction
he was participating in. Later that year,
Flechtheim fled Germany. He died in London in 1937, destitute and miserable.
In 2008, using photographs of the art
in Flechtheims Berlin apartment, Hulton began claiming 17 paintings and other
works that were once in Flechtheims collection as his inheritance. That included
pieces by Beckmann, Pablo Picasso, and
Paul Klee. German museums now own the
works. Hulton and his lawyers value the
estate at some $124 million.
Since then, Hulton has settled claims with
only two museums about eight of the works.
The state-owned Pinakothek der Moderne
museum in Munich has been uncooperative about the Beckmann paintings it owns
and will no longer even discuss the matter,
he said. Pinakothek der Moderne did not
respond to requests for comment.
It was frustration with the museum that
led Hulton to seek help from members of
Congress. But another letter may turn out to
be more decisive in his campaign for justice.
Pinakothek der Moderne contends that
Flechtheim sold the Beckmann paintings
to an art dealer in New York in 1932. When
Flechtheim was later offered a fraction of
the agreed sum, he responded with a letter
protesting in French: Tant pis!
Whether Flechtheim was turning down
a sale that had not yet happened or regretting a sale he had already agreed on is up
for debate. But the meaning of his protest
is not: The situation is regrettable!
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Dvar Torah
Parshat Bo: Unto the light

n this weeks Torah Portion, Bo, we finally see

the first few days of the Creation. Rabbi Yitzchak identifies that light, anachronistically, with Torah and mitzvot,
Torah come together. There is narrative (the final
but it certainly is not a stretch to realize that giving light
three plagues), commandments (to the Israelites of the time), and law (for future generations,
in the midst of darkness is quite different from the strategy of deciding who are your favorites
regarding Passover, redemption of the first
and removing the darkness from them.
born, and more). As we Jews understand
In this view, darkness has a palpable
it, Torah, from the word lhorot, to demonstrate, is something that speaks not only to
reality other than the mere absence of
its time of origin, but continues to speak to
light. But it is not all-powerful. Light can
us thousands of years later, guiding us, teachdispel darkness, and a mass of strategiing us, showing us how to live in a sometimes
cally-placed light can penetrate much
untenable world.
darkness as the Israelite nation and the
The penultimate plague seems, at first
Jews share that light the light of knowledge, civility, goodness, humanity (in the
glance, to be quite a wimpy occurrence:
Rabbi David
highest sense of the term).
three days of darkness to cover the land of
Bockman
This Monday, we will once again celEgypt. After destroying the sources of water,
Congregation
ebrate a shard of light amid the darksickening animals and humans, and then
Beth Shalom,
ness as we remember Dr. Martin Luther
battering almost all plant life with hail and
Pompton Lakes,
King and his (and our) struggle against
locusts, whats a few days of darkness? Especially since the tenth plague, the death of the
Conservative
the darkness. Today, perhaps, some of
firstborn, will be so very destructive, why
the forces of darkness are new: ISIS, Al
does a short-lived darkness belong in the
Qaeda, and more. Sometimes we see
escalating plague repertoire?
darkness cover the entire face of the world. But even
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev, in his discussion of
though the darkness is real, we can be assured that the
this plague, points out that the Torah does not say (as it
light we carry separates us to realize and come into our
might have) that for all the Israelites there was no darkdestiny freedom that presages a greater and brighter
ness but rather says and for all the Israelites there was
future that we need to share with all. It may be a daunting prospect, but its neither new nor impossible. We are
light in their dwellings. It was not that God removed the
somewhere along the path, and we need to move the
darkness from our ancestors, but that God returned or
light forward.
revealed some of the primordial light locked away since

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Maintaining Jewish life

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extra $18K per family

Ten days after Arab Israeli terrorist Nashat Milhem murdered two Jews in central Tel Aviv and allegedly murdering an Arab cab driver during his escape, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government would
introduce a series of measures to boost law enforcement
activities in Arab communities.
Among the steps being considered are building more
police stations and extending their hours of operation, confiscating unlicensed firearms, and reducing
illegal construction. Netanyahu met with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and asked him to report back
with a comprehensive plan. Israel Police Commissioner Inspector General Roni Alsheikh, Shin Bet security agency chief Yoram Cohen, and Eli Groner, director of the prime ministers office, also took part in the
meeting. It was decided that Groner would oversee the
resources and budgets to implement the plan.
Israel will enforce its laws and its sovereignty over
all parts of the state the Galilee, the Negev, the [predominantly Arab northern area known as] the Triangle,
and everywhere else, Netanyahu said. We will build
new police stations, recruit more police officers. We will
enter every community and demand adherence to the
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A study by the London Jewish Chronicle has

revealed that maintaining a Jewish life in the United
Kingdom adds about 12,700 ($18,432) per family
per year. The figure was reached through a Kosher
Chicken Index a comparison of goods that Jews
are likely to buy to maintain their Jewish lives versus
equivalent mainstream products.
A comparison of prices in a kosher store versus
the British Tesco supermarket chain for five food
groups found that kosher meat on average is double the price of non-kosher meat. When dining out,
prices at kosher Indian or Chinese restaurants are
70 percent higher than at equivalent non-kosher
restaurants.
Another large extra cost incurred by Jews in the
U.K. involves real estate. One-fifth of British Jews
live in the north London borough of Barnet, where
property prices are 157 percent higher than average
prices in England and Wales.
Membership at a typical synagogue in Britain
costs about $870-$1,161 per household, and Jewish
state schools charge an annual premium of as much
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Crossword
INNER PORTIONS BY DAVID BENKOF

EDITED BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM

Across
1. Bit of gossip?
5. Tzedakah
9. Iron ___ (version of Iron Dome for
Gaza tunnels)
14. Popular city for Yemenite Jews
15. Gershwins ___ Again
16. Hank Greenberg, once
17. ___ of Horror (Simpsons episode
co-written by Sam Simon and Edgar
Allen Poe)
19. Body part Ashkenazi Jews often use to
pronounce a resh
20. Eco-friendly cars driven by Spielberg
and Wozniak
21. Jerusalem Post comic strip since 1973
23. ___ Laughing (1967 Carl Reiner film)
24. Prefix for Jewish theism
25. Liverpool museum with a 2013 Chagall
exhibit
26. Her autobiography is entitled The
Facts of Life
27. West being portrayed by Bette for
HBO
29. New Left student grp. less Jewish than
similar groups
31. Rams, not ewes at the Temple
32. Vehicle for Alaskas Frozen Chosen
34. Tasted forbidden fruit
36. Corn unit in Josephs dream
38. Israels is called Yom Hazikaron
42. Org. for Noah Cantor of the Toronto
Argonauts
43. With out, another phrase for just
making a parnassah
44. It can ruin your tallis if youre not
careful
47. Disease found most commonly among
Ashkenazi Jews
50. Part of HIAS
52. Words at an intermarriage
54. Helgenberger TV show
55. She knew the identity of her husband
Carls Deep Throat
57. Bind them as a ___ upon your hand...
59. She protected Jewish spies long ago
61. One of the original hosts of Barbara
Walters The View
63. Massive Jewish compendium
64. Hold it with your palm in your palm
65. Tech giant once criticized for electronic maps that did not include Israel
67. Followed the chasidic practice of
devekut
68. Oklahoma city whose first Jews came
from Holland in the 19th century
69. Like Pinchas
70. Looks after a kever
71. Israels 1 and 6, e.g.
72. Kind of Zionism popular on many
college campuses

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Down
1. Shtreimel-makers
2. Gland that can give you shpilkes
3. Make like Hollywood toward Robert
Downey Jr.s career after Iron Man
4. Anoint, old-style
5. Brouhahas
6. Grant played by Ed Asner
7. Write Hebrew from left to right, e.g.
8. Howard and Isaac
9. Souvenir from an Alex Clare concert,
perhaps
10. Cry by Ross in a classic Friends
couch scene
11. Hotly debated Jewish crisis
12. Arab maps often do it to the word
Israel
13. Wipes away, as sin
18. Subject of the Mishnah known as
Nezikin (damages)
22. Sang The Lonely Goatherd from
Ernest Lehmans The Sound of
Music
24. Eshkols successor
28. What Rabbi David Einhorn wanted to
do to slavery
30. The Pianist, e.g.
33. Kislev mo.
35. Shabbat garb more common in
America than Israel
37. Spiritual teacher Dass
39. James Francos degree from
Columbia U.
40. chasidim and the Amish, from afar
41. A Maccabee brother
45. One kind of Russian anti-Semitism
46. ___ Steakhouse (kosher Japanese eatery in Tel Aviv)
47. Deliver Salks vaccine
48. Act like Itai Kriss with his instrument
49. Practice routine for some IDF soldiers
51. Red ___ baby (one subset of 20th
century Jews)
53. Contents of Solomons mines
56. ...or sweareth an oath to bind his soul
with ___... (Numbers 30:2)
58. Something given by the Schusterman
Foundation
60. Resh Lakish, e.g.
62. Jews may check them for blood
63. Belonging to a particular tribe
66. Never, to Freud

The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 67.

Arts & Culture

The first 25 years a look at the
New York Jewish Film Festival
ERIC A. GOLDMAN

t has been 25 years since the Jewish

Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center began a collaboration
that resulted in the New York Jewish
Film Festival.
Before the collaboration, the Film Society had drawn criticism for screening not
even one Israeli film and for rarely selecting a film of Jewish interest as part of its
New York Film Festival a festival set in a
city with a population that is one quarter
Jewish. The shiduch between the society
and the museum, though, was perfect. As
a result, criticism of the Film Society was
muted, and the Jewish Museum had the
opportunity to expand its constituency
beyond its physical space.
Jews are funny creatures. A Jewish event
held at a secular cultural organization has
special appeal; it gets a kind of heksher,
an imprimatur, a sign that it is an event
worth attending. Suffice it to say that a few
decades ago few viewers would have ventured out to watch a 1930s Yiddish film,
but when such a film was shown at Lincoln
Center, it was one of the first to sell out.
Looking at the collaboration from this
side of the Hudson, it appears that it has
been successful. The film showings tend
to be well attended, post-screening discussions have been lively, attention has been
given to important filmmakers who are
often otherwise ignored, and a community of committed filmgoers has emerged.
A great deal of credit for that accomplishment goes to festival director Aviva Weintraub, who has been at its helm since 1998.
Sociologists have noted that the Jewish
film festival phenomenon has provided a
new way to identify as a Jew. Most festivals
are held at secular institutions; when it is
sponsored by Jewish organizations, much
effort is made to host it outside a Jewish
venue. That is a large part of the draw of
the New York Jewish Film Festival an
opportunity to see films at Lincoln Center.
The Pew Study found that while synagogue
affiliation may have dramatically dropped,
participation in Jewish cultural events, like
film festivals, has increased greatly. Such
Jewish organizations as Big Tent Judaism
have seized on the fact that the Jewish
film festival, open to anyone who might
be interested, offers a great opportunity
for outreach. In Bergen County, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
Eric Goldman teaches film studies at
Yeshiva University and writes and lectures
about Jewish cinema.

Andrzej Wajdas 1995 Holy Week, a Polish film, is featured in the retrospective.

Isaiah Sheffer, the founder of Manhattans Symphony

Space, is the subject of Art and Heart.

sponsors a community-wide Israel film festival each year; in Rockland County, a fine
Jewish film festival takes place each spring.
As the New York Jewish Film Festival
passes the quarter-century mark, it has
had to struggle with what kind of Jewish
film to chooses to screen. What makes a
film appropriate for inclusion in a Jewish
film festival often has been an open question. Last year, with new leadership at the
Film Society, the festival chose to include a
full range of films that had little or no connection with anything Jewish, and I, along
with others, had strong objection to the

Natalie Portman directed and stars in A Tale of Love and

Darkness.

choices it made. The selection committee

seems to have listened to us. This years
films seem to be far more appropriate. The
films have Jewish themes or Jewish characters, or they raise appropriate Jewish
questions. Each year the committee turns
to a noted filmmaker, shows one or more
of that persons films, and has him or her
choose important motion pictures to be
screened. In my view, the filmmaker chosen should be someone who has struggled
with Jewish issues in his or her work. Last
years choice made little sense. This years
pick, Todd Solondz, is a fine one his

sometimes controversial work often deals

with issues related to Jewish identity. In
a 2010 Jewish Chronicle interview, the
filmmaker, who spent a few early years
studying at a yeshiva, talked about how the
Shoah affected him. It was like a cloud
that permeated my whole youth, he said.
He chose Alain Resnaiss ground-breaking
1955 short film, Night and Fog, which
for many of us was our introduction to the
Holocaust, to be screened.
This years festival is notable in that
an Ethiopian film, Lamb, directed by
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Calendar
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

Theater group, 7:30 p.m.

The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100 or www.
wayneymca.org.

Wednesday
JANUARY 20
Baseball lecture in
Tenafly: Dumont
historian Dick Burnon
gives a video/lecture
Baseball During World
War II, at a meeting
of the Senior Activity
Center at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades, 11:15
a.m. More than 500 Major
Leaguers served their
country during World
War II. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900, ext.
235 or www.jccotp.org.

Teen Idol in Teaneck:

The 9th annual Teaneck
Teen Idol contest is at
Teaneck High School,
8 p.m. Contestants
are from public,
private, and religious
schools. Go to www.
teaneckcommunitychorus.
org or call
(201) 836-2934. A
discount for advance
tickets is available at the
website.

Arts weekend for

women: Atara, the Arts
and Torah Association for
Religious Artists, offers
Partners in Creation, a
weekend with womens
events in Passaic and
New York City, including
performances, seminars,
concerts, discussions,
and dance. Text ATARA
to (917) 686-1211 or www.
artsandtorah.org.

Paramus Yiddish club:

Khaverim Far Yidish
(Friends for Yiddish) of
the JCCP/Congregation
Beth Tikvah meets to
celebrate Tu bShvat,
2 p.m. Program in Yiddish
and English. Group meets
the third Wednesday
of the month. $10
yearly dues. East 304
Midland Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.

Friday
Phyllis Chapell
Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel and Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
PHOTO COURTESY CBI

Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
continues its Freedom
Shabbat with a Torah
Town Hall, 10-11:30 a.m.,
an exploration of race
and racism in the United
States in honor of Martin
Luther King Jr. Services
include a participatory
Torah discussion and
talk back with Rabbi
Debra Orenstein about
the weekly Torah
portion. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.

Matt Cooper
Mentalist in Fair Lawn:
Matt Cooper offers
an evening of mental
magic at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI,
8 p.m. Cocktail party,
live music, dessert,
and a chance to meet
Mr. Cooper before and
after the performance.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040 or email
Francy77@optonline.net.

Sunday
JANUARY 17

Comedy in Wayne:
Congregation Shomrei
Torah offers a night
of laughs featuring
critically acclaimed
crowd-pleasing
comedians. Cocktails at
7:30 p.m.; show begins
at 8. Tickets include
show, hors doeuvres, and
dessert. 30 Hinchman
Ave. (973) 696-2500
or adminassist@
shomreitorahwcc.org.

Lost in Yonkers: Tickets

are available for Neil
Simons Lost in Yonkers
at the Wayne YMCAs
Rosen PAC, performed
by its Community

Rabbi Ari Sytner

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.

Monday
JANUARY 18
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood

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Pianist Steven Masi

will present an
Evening of Chamber
Music, featuring
the work of Franz Schubert, on
Saturday, January 16, at 7 p.m.,
in the Eric Brown Theater at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly. Soprano Pamela Jones,
clarinetist Diana Petrella, violinist
Sharon Roffman, violist Debra
Shufelt-Dine, cellist Barbara
Mallow, and bassist Kingsley
Wood will join him. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. jccotp.org/Thurnauer or (201)
408-1465. Reception to follow the
concert.
PHOTO BY MATT DINE

JAN.

16

drive with New Jersey

Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Tuesday
JANUARY 19
Learning about
Alzheimers: Alzheimers
New Jersey presents
Coping with Behavior
Changes in Alzheimers
Disease, aimed at
caregivers for someone
with Alzheimers disease
or a related dementia,
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
11:30 a.m. (201) 408-1409,
(973) 586-4300, or www.
jccotp.org.

Caf Europa in Teaneck:

Caf Europa, a social
program sponsored by
Jewish Family Service
of Bergen and North
Hudson for Holocaust
survivors, funded in part
by the Claims Conference
on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany and
the Jewish Federation
of North Jersey, meets
at Congregation Beth
Sholom, 11:30 a.m.
Music by Phyllis Chapell
and kosher lunch. 354
Maitland Ave. Shari
Brodsky, (201) 837-9090,
ext. 237 or sharib@
jfsbergen.org.

JANUARY 22
Study group in Closter:
Womens study group
in Closter: Rabbi DavidSeth Kirshner leads a
study group at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter,
10:30 am. 180 Piermont
Ave. (201) 750-9997.

Health fair in
Hackensack: Senior
Source offers a senior
health fair with about
40 vendors who work
in Bergen County,
11 a.m.-2 p.m., at the
Shops at Riverside
Square Mall, second floor,
outside Bloomingdales
Furniture. 201) 342-0962
or www.seniorsourcellc.
com.

Womens beauty/
spirituality: The
Chabad Womens Circle
in Teaneck presents
Spa for the Soul with
Chanie Krasnianski, codirector of Chabad of
the Upper East Side,
discussing Chava and
the Forbidden Fruit,
fruit carving with artist
Esther Zafrani, spa and
beauty treatments, and
a health and beauty
boutique, at Chabad of
Teaneck, 7 p.m. Gourmet
desserts. Program in
memory of Rivkah
Kantor. 513 Kenwood
Place. (201) 907-0686
or chabadlubavitch.org/
SpafortheSoul.

Rabbi Debra Orenstein

Jewish wills/life
inventory: Rabbi
Debra Orenstein of
Congregation Bnai Israel
in Emerson talks about
Jewish Ethical Wills and
Carol Kaufman, CEO of
Carebinders, discusses
Inventory Your Life,
for The Conversation
Project: Live, a program
of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jerseys
Endowment Foundation,
noon-2 p.m. Kosher
lunch. At JFNNJs office,
50 Eisenhower Drive in
Paramus. (201) 820-3900
or jfnnj.org.

Barbara Allen
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El invites
the community to its
guest artist Shabbat
service, led by Cantor
Rica Timman and
featuring harpist
Barbara Allen, 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.

Saturday
JANUARY 23
Zumba in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades hosts a
Zumba party with exotic
rhythms, high-energy
Latin and international

Calendar
beats, and easy-to-follow
moves, for everyone 12
and older, led by a team
of skilled JCC Zumba
instructors, 7:30 p.m. 411
East Clinton Ave. Roberto
Santiago, (201) 408-1481
or email rsantiago@
jccotp.org.

Cantorial concert in
Washington Township:
Join Cantor Sarah
Silverberg for an evening
featuring an eclectic mix
of Yiddish, Israeli, Jewish
folk, and Broadway
music, at Temple Beth
Or, 7 p.m., 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422 or
www.templebethornj.org.

Sunday
JANUARY 24
Tu bShvat in Fort Lee:
Celebrate at a communal
intergenerational seder
at the JCC of Fort
Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom,
10 a.m. 1449 Anderson
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 947-1735, ext. 316.

Toddler program in
Washington Township:
As part of the shuls
Holiday Happenings
program, the sisterhood
of Temple Beth Or offers
music and creative
crafts for 2- to 6-yearolds with parents and
grandparents, 10:15 a.m.
56 Ridgewood Road.
(201) 694-1616 or www.
templebethornj.org.

Tu bShvat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
hosts a Tu bShvat
seder led by its
songleader-in-residence,
Jacob Kraus, along
with Cantor Charles
Romalis, 10:30 a.m.
Readings, stories, dance,
songs, fruit, juice, and
bagels. 950 Preakness
Ave. Reservations,
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.

Book brunch: The

United Synagogue
of Hoboken hosts a
Book Brunch about
The Vilna Vegetarian
Cookbook: Garden-Fresh
Recipes Rediscovered
and Adapted for
Todays Kitchen. The
book rediscovers 400
vegetarian recipes
that were popularized
in Fania Lewando, a
restaurant that thrived
in Lithuania in the 1930s.
Barbara Mazur and
Wendy Waxman, the
books producers, will
discuss how they found
and translated the text
from Yiddish to English.
10:30 a.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.

Teaneck concert: The

Teaneck Community
Chorus hosts We
Shall Shine: A Concert
for Women Of the
World, at Teaneck High
School, 3 p.m. Concert
is inspired by the song
One Woman, written
for the 2013 United
Nations International
Womens Day. With
songs about family, work,
and resilience, women
share feelings through
music, whether they live
in Jerusalem, Jamaica,
or Jakarta. www.
teaneckcommunitychorus.
org or (201) 836-2934.

Tu bShvat in
Ridgewood: Temple
Israel and Jewish
Community Center
celebrates with a seder
and program led by
Rabbi Jacob Lieberman
of the synagogues
Reconstructionist
congregation, 4:30 p.m.
Samplings of foods
associated with the
holiday, a celebration
of all that trees provide,
and teachings on Jewish
values around protecting
the environment.
Reservations, (201)
444-9320 or office@
synagogue.org.

Film in Woodcliff
Lake: As part of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jerseys One Book,
One Community,
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley shows
the film Refusenik,
7 p.m. This years book
is A Backpack, a Bear,
and Eight Crates of
Vodka, by Lev Golinkin.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or
www.jfnnj.org/calendar.

Arlene Hirschfelders
book includes a
daguerreotype portrait
of Solomon Carvalho.

Singles
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
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.

Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meets
at Congregation Agudath
Israel for food, fun, and
mingling, 12:45 p.m. 20
Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.

Monday
JANUARY 18
Game show night in
Teaneck: Street Smart
Game Shows hosts an
evening for Orthodox
singles at Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun. Doors
open at 8 p.m. Attendees
answer trivia questions,
participate in physical
challenges, and perhaps
meet their match. Light
refreshments. 641 W.
Englewood Ave. Tickets
available at www.
eventbrite.com; search
for game show night for
Orthodox singles.

Music in Paterson
The Passaic County Historical Society
will host the newly formed Hobart Trio in
concert on Sunday, January 17, at 5 p.m.,
in Lambert Castle, 3 Valley Road, Paterson. There also will be performances by
members of William Paterson Universitys
music department, including cellist Joseph
Kimura, pianist Iris Perry, and violinist
Kathleen Butler-Hopkins. Doors open at
4:15 pm. For information go to lambertcastle.org or call (973) 247-0085.

New documentary focuses spotlight

on trailblazing Jewish photographer
CHARLES ZUSMAN
While the West was still wild, a portrait
artist and photographer who was more
used to the refined ways of the city
than to the rigors of the trail, signed
on for a grueling outdoor assignment.
His task was to photograph the odyssey of explorer John C. Fremont as he
attempted to map a railroad route to
the West Coast from 1853 to 1854.
The photographer, Solomon Nunes
Carvalho, was an observant Sephardic
Jew, who was born in Charleston, S.C.,
but traced his roots to Portugal. With
the help of horses and balky pack
mules, he lugged his photographic
chemicals and daguerreotype equipment through blizzards and up and
down frigid mountains, all the while
striving to keep kosher on the trail.
Carvalhos saga was chronicled by
Teaneck author Arlene Hirschfelder in
a book for young readers, Photo Odyssey: Solomon Carvalhos Remarkable
Western Adventure. She and her husband, Dennis, contacted documentary
producer/director Steve Rivo, suggesting that Carvalhos story was a natural
for film. Rivo ran with idea, turning to
Carvalhos own memoir, Incidents of
Travel and Adventure in the Far West,
as a key source of information.
The documentary blends digital
and film cinematography with period
artwork and photography, and also
features interviews with present-day
artists and scholars, including Ms.
Hirschfelder. Actor Michael Stuhlbarg
is the narrator.
Following a premier in San Francisco
and with showings in cities around the

A daguerreotype from the period.

country, the film will be screened as

part of the Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center on Monday, January 25, at
1 and 6 p.m. The festival is a collaboration of the Jewish Museum and the Film
Society of Lincoln Center.
Im Jewish and Ive spent my whole
life writing about American Indians,
Ms. Hirschfelder said, explaining that
she became aware of Carvalhos journey while researching the Indian
guides helping to lead the way for the
explorers. Im always looking for Jewish-Native American connections, she
said.
The journey, the fifth and final of
Fremonts failed efforts to map the railroad route, made it through the Rocky
Mountains as far as Colorado and Utah.
Later, after recovering from the effects
of the arduous journey, Carvalho traveled to the West Coast on his own
before returning to his comfortable
home in Baltimore.
For more information, go to
carvalhosjourney.com or nyjff.org.

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Art therapy night planned for those
with developmental disabilities
The Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities ( J-ADD), a nonprofit
agency that serves people with special
needs, is hosting Therapy Through
Art for participants who are 16 or older.
There will be two sessions, Tuesdays

January 26 and February 23, at the

Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
The cost includes all materials and dinner. For information, call Stephanie at
(201) 457-0058, ext. 18, or email ezeifman@mail.yu.edu.

Community Chorus dedicates

concert to womens issues
We Shall Shine: A Concert for Women
of the World, the Teaneck Community
Chorus winter concert, is set for Sunday,
January 24, at 3 p.m., at Teaneck High
School. The concert was inspired by the
song One Woman, which was written
for the 2013 United Nations International
Womens Day.
According to Steven Bell, the chorus
artistic director, These songs reflect a
wide range of womens concerns and
passions. Wes Matsui, the chorus music

committee chair, added, You can hear

that women share the same feelings,
whether they live in Jamaica, Jerusalem,
or Jakarta. The Teaneck High School Concert Choir also will perform, and so will
Kayla Harvey, Teanecks 2015 Teen Idol.
The concert is funded in part by a grant
from the Puffin Foundation.
For information, go to www.teaneckcommunitychorus.org or call (201) 8362934. A ticket discount is available on the
website.

The cast for Once Upon a Mattress rehearses.

COURTESY JCCOTP

A trifecta of plays in Tenafly

Students at the School of Performing Arts
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades are
adapting three famous Broadway plays to
present to the community.
The first, Once Upon a Mattress will
be performed by the Stage Right Workshop on Tuesday, January 19, at 6:30 p.m.,
under the guidance of the performing arts
director, Deb Roberts; Aziza KhasanovaMadanski is the musical director. The cast
includes Juliana Baeza, Ella Baraket, Noga

Danai, Roni Feldman, Noa Lavi, Jeselynn

Nunez, Gili Parag, Avia Paz, Naama Schuster, Neta Segal, and Jaden Todd.
The other upcoming shows include
Guys and Dolls on Wednesday, February 3, and Wicked on Monday, February
8, both at 6:30 p.m.
For information and tickets, which are
free, go to the JCC website, www.jccotp.
org, or call (201) 408-1493.

David Cross at bergen PAC

Michael Ochs and Alaa Alshaham perform as the musical duo Pursuit
of Harmony.

Jewish-Palestinian music at temple

Barnert Temple, a Reform synagogue in
Franklin Lakes, offers music by Pursuit
of Harmony during Shabbat services
on Friday, January 22, at 7:30 p.m. The
group is the duo of Michael Ochs, a Jewish American songwriter/producer, and
Alaa Alshaham, a Palestinian Muslim
songwriter/commentator, who found
a common bond through music. They
have performed together at the United
Nations.

The two will share their experiences

and will bring photographs and videos
and will sing in English, Hebrew, and
Arabic.
The program is in observance of Shabbat Shirah, the Torah portion that celebrates the Israelite women singing and
dancing after their escape from Egypt.
For information, call Vicky Farhi at
(201) 848-1800 or go to barnerttemple.
org.

Calling all Fair Lawn brunchies

At one time, the brunchies were an
active group of seniors who met at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center. At the request
of some former members, Fred Levine of
Fair Lawn is trying to revitalize the group,
and maybe even to grow it, to give other

brunchies the chance to meet and socialize. A gathering is set for Thursday, January 21, at 12:30 p.m., at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center. For information, call Fred
Levine at (201) 797-3014 and leave your
name, email address, and phone number.

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Bergen Performing Arts Center and AM Productions present

an evening with Emmy Award-winner and Grammy Awardnominee David Cross on Tuesday, March 22, at 8 p.m.
Cross was named one of the Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians of All Time by Comedy Central. He is best known for
creating memorable characters on television, including
writing and starring in Mr. Show, and particularly for his
turn as Dr. Tobias Fnke on Arrested Development.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or at the
box office, (201) 227-1030.

David Cross

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n 1 Bris Avrohom recently celebrated a milestone with its 30th

gala wedding; eight couples from the former Soviet Union were
married according to Jewish tradition. The couples were denied
a religious ceremony in their native countries. So far, Bris Avrohom has married nearly 900 couples. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 2 A delegation of 11 American students who participated
in the yearlong Young Leadership course, sponsored by
Partnership2Gether and hosted at the Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies, just returned from a weeklong
mission to Israel where they met with their young leadership counterparts from the federations sister city, Nahariya. They combined to give presentations at Nahariya high
schools, met with children from the Tapuz Absorption Center,
heard IDF soldiers speak about their experiences, visited
Tel Aviv, and spent Shabbat in Jerusalem. COURTESY BCHSJS
n 3 Mentalist Oz Pearlman performed at the JCC of Fort
Lee/Congregation Gesher Shalom last month. The event
featured a VIP cocktail reception with a chance to meet
Oz and see his magic close-up. COURTESY JCC FORT LEE

n 4 Chabad Center of Passaic County held its three-day winter

camp. Along with games, trips, and learning about mitzvot,
there was a carnival with craft activities. COURTESY CHABAD

n 5 On New Years Eve, representatives of Temple Beth Tikvah

in Wayne went to St. Pauls Shelter in Paterson to help serve
dinner to the residents. Under the leadership of Sue Weisberger of TBTs Women of Chai group, several congregants cooked
and others spent time with the residents. Jay and Sue Kolpon,
Andrew Paul, and Steve and Sue Weisberger are pictured
here. TBT visits the shelter several times a year. COURTESY TBT
n 6 Last month, Sgt. Maj. Eric Sheffler gave a video presentation on the musical history of West Point to participants of the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center. He
is the director of the Hellcats Drum and Bugle Corps at
West Point. Among the Gallen participants were Joe Missale and Chris Vetere. COURTESY JEWISH HOME FAMILY

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Local/Arts & Culture/Jewish World

Kulanu

Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.

The federation has given grants to individual
schools for their technology training and to
upgrade the classroom technology.
The thing Im most excited about is how
closely the synagogues are working together
on this, she said. This is something you
wouldnt find in other communities.
She said that the grant is an outgrowth
of the federations 2012 reassessment of
its services for Jewish education. We
realized professional development around
technology was a core part of what we
wanted to do, she said. It has had a
tremendous result for our schools.
Its amazing how far some of these
principals and teachers have come in terms
of their comfort with technology. Things
they didnt have any knowledge of, like
using Google Docs, have now become such a
normal part of how they operate, she said.
Now this grant makes teaching others a
more focal part of what were doing.
If Rabbi Feldstein has her way, the new
grant will be just the beginning of a new
era of cooperation among local religious
schools.
We hope this is just the first of many
projects that Kulanu NNJ will tackle
together, she said.

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technology savvy. I have teachers who have

just been teaching a certain way for a long
time. Making any change is challenging, but
if you can empower someone within your
staff and get them excited and comfortable,
that will move things along.
The bottom line is that kids all use the
technology. They love it. Its part of their
lives. Then they come to religious school
and its like theyve entered the dark ages.
We need to use some of these great creative
tools to enhance what were doing, to make
learning more enticing, more fun, more
engaging.
Rabbi Feldstein experienced the value
that technology can add to a lesson when
she prepared her final project for the online
education course.
I took a lesson on teaching Torah and
asking questions of the texts that I had done
a million times, and then tried to use some
different technology tools to make it more
fun, she said. It really added a lot. I saw
how fun and creative it could be for both the
students and teachers.
Stephanie Hausner has worked with
the religious school principals as head of
the Synagogue Leadership Initiative of the

Film Festival
FROM PAGE 59

Yared Zeleke, was chosen as the opening-night offering, and Natalie Portmans
Israeli-made adaptation of Amos Ozs A
Tale of Love and Darkness will close it.
This years festival also includes a retrospective of some of the more important
films screened over the past 25 years.
They include Andrzej Wajdas 1995 Polish Holy Week, Jeroen Krabbes 1998
Dutch-Belgian Left Luggage (a personal favorite), and Daniel Burmans
Argentine 2004 Lost Embrace. As in
previous years, there will be a master
class offered by a distinguished filmmaker. This years excellent choice is
Alan Berliner; several of his films are
being shown.
In all, 15 new feature-length films will
be screened most of them documentaries along with a wide array of shorts.
Two important biodocs to consider are
Catherine Tambinis Art and Heart: The
World of Isaiah Sheffer and Marianne
Lamberts I Dont Belong Anywhere:
The Cinema of Chantal Akerman. Isaiah Sheffer, a Yiddish theater child
actor, playwright, and cultural icon,
left an indelible mark on New York life.

Chantal Akerman, the child of Holocaust

survivors, set new directions in moviemaking before taking her life just days
before the New York Film Festival premiere of her last film. Screenings of two
largely Russian-language films David
Bezmozgiss Canadian-made Natasha,
about a Toronto Jewish family of Russian migrs, and Eva Neymanns Ukrainian Song of Songs, about a childhood
romance set in a 1905 shtetl also are
worthy of note. Festival favorite Amos
Gitai will offer a preview of his latest
film, Rabin, the Last Day, just a few
weeks before its New York opening.
The New York Jewish Film Festival is
an important Jewish cultural event, and
for many people it is a way of identifying
as Jewish. Many audience members have
their calendars marked well in advance.
Many people who do not get preferential treatment, as members of either the
Film Society or the Jewish Museum, often
end up frustrated, because many of the
screenings are sold out before tickets go
on sale to the general public. Expect that
to be the case again this year. The festival, which began on Wednesday, runs
through January 26. For more information, go to www.nyjff.org.

BRIEFS

Democratic senators who backed Iran deal meet with Netanyahu

WASHINGTON A delegation of eight
Democratic U.S. senators who backed
the Iran nuclear deal met with Israeli
leaders and discussed oversight of the
deal.
The trip last week included Senators
Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kirsten
Gillibrand of New York, Chris Coons
of Delaware, Heidi Heitkamp of North
Dakota, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Tammy
Baldwin of Wisconsin, Mazie Hirono of
Hawaii, and Gary Peters of Michigan.
In statements, the senators echoed
pledges President Barack Obama and
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
made last year to overcome the acrimony between the two countries created by the debate over the sanctions
relief for the nuclear restrictions deal
and to work together to enforce it.
The eight senators were among
the 42 who favored the deal reached
between Iran and six major powers
and blocked bids by Republicans,
backed by Netanyahu and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
to kill it.
Gillibrand said in her statement
that in meetings with Netanyahu and
other Israeli leaders, the senators discussed the ongoing threats from Iran
and its proxies, terrorism and violent
extremism in the region, the future
of Israel, and how the United States
can continue to work with Israel to

ensure its security.

The senators also toured Palestinian
areas as well as Turkey, where they
met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called recently for reconciliation between Turkey and Israel.
The delegation also traveled to
Vienna to meet with officials of the
International Atomic Energy Agency,
the U.N. body monitoring Iranian compliance with the deal.
In his statement, Kaine said in the
Vienna meeting he emphasized that
the IAEAs credibility is on the line with
the nuclear deals implementation
and monitoring and that it would be a
destructive blow to the organization if
it does not quickly catch any attempts
by Iran to undermine or cheat on the
deal and immediately report those
findings.
Anthony Blinken, the deputy U.S.
secretary of state, also was in Jerusalem this week. He met there with Dore
Gold, the director-general of Israels
Foreign Ministry.
In face of unprecedented regional
threats, affirmed ironclad US support
for Isr. security, Blinken said Tuesday
on Twitter, attaching photos of himself
and Gold greeting each other warmly.
Separately, the White House said in
a statement that Obama would veto
any attempt in Congress to roll back
the deal.

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The statement from the Office of

Management and Budget referred to a
bill approved along partisan lines last
week by the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee that
would restrict the presidents power
to waive Iran sanctions. Obama is set
to waive some sanctions once Iran has
complied with nuclear rollbacks in the
deal, something that could happen as
soon as next month.
Republicans advancing the bill said
they were spurred by recent ballistic
missile tests by Iran, which do not
technically violate the deal but apparently violate U.N. Security Council resolutions cited in the deal. The Office of
Management and Budget said it would
resist any effort to sanction Iran for
activities unrelated to the nuclear deal.
The Administration has consistently made clear that the purpose
of the nuclear negotiations, and ultimately the JCPOA, was to address one
issue only the international communitys concerns over Irans nuclear
program and to verifiably prevent Iran
from acquiring a nuclear weapon, it
said, using the acronym for the Joint
Comprehensive Plan of Action. The
JCPOA is the mechanism through
which the United States was able to
garner international support for our
sanctions and achieve a diplomatic
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resolution. 

Iranian official
denies Arak nuclear
reactor is offline
An Iranian nuclear official denied a report that
Iran has dismantled the core of its heavy water
nuclear reactor as part of its deal reached with the
world powers.
Irans deputy nuclear chief, Ali Asghar Zarean, told Irans state television on Tuesday that it
will not change the core of the Arak heavy water
nuclear reactor until it reaches a final agreement with China to modify the reactor, Reuters
reported.
However, the reactor is expected to be decommissioned in the coming days, the official state
news agency IRNA reported, citing the Atomic
Energy Agency of Iran.
The statements were in response to a report by
the state-sponsored Fars News Agency that Iran
finished taking out the core of its heavy water
nuclear reactor in Arak and filling it with cement
on Monday, thus fulfilling its responsibility under
the nuclear agreement reached over the summer
with six countries, including the United States.
Under the agreement, Iran is required to redesign the Arak reactor so it cannot produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Iran claims it needs
the heavy water reactor for production of medical
isotopes.
The deal, vehemently opposed by Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Republicans in the
U.S. Congress and many American Jewish organizations, lifts economic sanctions in exchange for
Iran curbing its nuclear program.


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Obituaries
Sophie Barkin

Sophie Barkin, 91, of Fort Lee died on January 7.

Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Stanley Diamond

Stanley Diamond of Saddle River died on January 10.

Born in the Bronx, he was an Army veteran of World
War II. Before retiring he was a contract administrator for
Fairchild Republic.
He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Phyllis, ne
Katz, daughters, Susan Joy Romer (Leonard) and Beth
Ann Terada (the late Kozo); four grandchildren, and five
great- grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

Helen Hartoch

Helen Hartoch, ne Gundell, 85, of Teaneck died on

January 9.
She left Germany in 1939 and was cared for by Jewish
families in England for 4 1/2 years during World War II
before being reunited with her parents in Newark. She
earned a masters degree and before retiring was a special
education and home instruction teacher. She volunteered
for organizations including Flat Rock Brook Nature Center
and Meals on Wheels.
She is survived by her husband of 60 years, Kenneth,
her children, Dr. Richard (Catherine) of Oregon and Janice
Hartoch Taylor of California; a sister, Lorrane Dellheim of
Massachusetts, and a grandson, nieces, and nephews.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

Sara Heskins

Sara L. Heskins, 80, of Emerson, formerly of Upper Saddle

River, died on January 8.
She was a special education teacher in Ramsey.
Predeceased by her husband of 37 years, Dr. David,
in 1994, she is survived by daughters Laurie Edelstein
(Howie) of River Edge, Barbara Davis (Glenn) of Randolph,
Susan Lazar (Howard) of Teaneck, and Randi Paul-Heskins
(Dan) of Fair Lawn; a sister, Beatrice Citron of Texas, and
grandchildren, Frances and Joshua Benjamin, Samantha
Paul-Heskins and John Fletcher, Shira and Yair Lazar, Seth,
Albert, Matthew Davis and Rachel Sparr, Mark Dylan, and
Miriam Edelstein.
Donations can be sent to Voices Against Brain Cancer.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.

Kitty Kallen

Kitty Kallen of Cuernavaca, Mexico, 94, who sang with top

bandleaders including Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, and
Artie Shaw, died on January 7. She maintained a home in
Englewood and was born and raised in Philadelphia.
Predeceased by her husband, Budd Granoff, in 1996, she
is survived by a son, Jonathan Granoff, her companion,
Sonny Shiell, and three grandsons.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

David Levy

David Levy, 96, of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of Fair Lawn,

died on December 25.
An Army World War II veteran, he was a foreman at
Grand City Container Corp., North Bergen, before retiring.
He was a member of Congregation Bnai Israel and its
mens club in Fair Lawn.

Predeceased by his wife of 72 years, Bertha, and a son,

Richard, he is survived by his children, Larry (Maureen)
of Florida and Debra Pinkas (Ivan) of Wayne; a daughterin-law, Cornelia Levy; nine grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Mary Lindner

Mary Lindner, who lived in Jersey City, Weehawken,

Passaic, and Cliffside Park, died on January 10. She was
born in Poland.
Predeceased by her husband, Sol, a son, Mitchel, and
siblings Philip Winik, Shirley Kushner, Sylvia Kushner, Ida
Weiner, and Sonia Lindner, she is survived by a daughter,
Sharyn Rosler (Marvin); three grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to the Chabad of Fort Lee or
Community Food Bank of Hillside. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.

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Predeceased by a brother, Robert Simon, she is survived
by her husband, Harry, children, Arlene of New York City,
Richard of River Edge, and Karen of Dumont; a sister,
Barbara Van Heest (Peter); two grandchildren, and nieces,
nephews, great-nieces, and great-nephews.
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Howard M. Siskind, 76, of Fair Lawn, formerly of the

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He is survived by his wife, Elaine, children, Beth Daus
(Steven) and Helene Siskind ( Jack Sedaka); brothers, Bruce
(Ruth) and Scott (Andrew), and one grandson.
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Ronald J. Stromfeld of Colombus, Ohio, died on January 7.

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Vietnam War. In the Midwest, he was a bowling champion,
operated a bowling pro shop, and gave lessons. His career
highlight was bowling 12 perfect games in documented
competition.
He is survived by nieces, Debbie Krouse of Rockaway
and Donna Zweigbaum of East Hanover; a brother-in-law,
Warren Goldfein of Randolph, and cousins.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

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The hype around Israeli technologies at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas was more
than justified when two blue-and-white companies
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Tech experts and gadget geeks voted the Ripple
Maker Steam CCs 3D printing system that draws
coffee-extract pictures on foamy drinks as the Last
Gadget Standing Online winner.
Latte art is one of the most shared images on social
media. Were taking latte art to a whole new level,
said CEO Yossi Meshulam. When you put something
beautiful in someones hands, they want to share it.
Thats how were making a ripple on the world.
The Ripples technology originated at Dr. Shlomo
Magdassis lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
was licensed-out by Yissum, the technology transfer
company of the Hebrew University, and was brought
to market with seed funding from Landa Ventures.
3D printing is cool; 3D printed lattes even cooler.
Take any image and The Ripple Maker prints the image
in your latte foam, made from coffee extracts. Starbucks will still probably spell your name wrong but itll
sure look amazing to see your face in foam, the judges
wrote about the Ripple Maker.
Last years Online winner, Consumer Physics, is also
Israeli.

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for birthdays and memorials remarked,

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video recording werent able to combine as the technology, cost and skills
required to create virtual reality video
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show of its kind, CES 2016 drew more
than 170,000 people to ogle, touch and
try technologies and devices at displays
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representatives of 500 consumer-electronics and digital-media companies.
In addition to Steam CC and HumanEyes, Israeli startups including IceTron,
UpRight, Digisense, Kidoz, Nua Robotics,
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The UpRight wearable training device

to keep you sitting or standing up
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Digisense, whose wearable real-time
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Israeli companies in mobile, smart
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age-appropriate content they love. Highlighted by Forbes as a company to keep
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offerings themselves; and the Kidoz network promoting child-friendly content.
NUA Robotics hands-free robotic suitcase that follows its owner around garnered numerous headlines from international media. Asked what impressed him
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