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l We last checked in with Dick Tracys Jewish partner Sam Catchem a year and a half
ago, in a short piece about a siddur app for
the newly launched Apple Watch. The Apple
Watch proved to be a marketplace disappointment, but not as problematic as Dick
Tracys fictional wrist wizard, which had to be
recalled, in a comic strip twist modeled after
the recent Samsung fiasco.
But thats not all that is sick in the cartoon
world created by Chester Gould 85 years ago.
In the latest plot twist, Sam Catchems wife,
Margie, has cancer.
It started with a lump. Then a doctor visit
and a biopsy. Now its chemo, Sam said in
Tuesdays strip.
He was speaking to leisure-suit-wearing
Rabbi Marmelstein, who promised Sam that
God listens to prayer, Samuel, and then proceeded to recite a transliterated misheberach
prayer that filled a double-sized panel.
If that seems like a lot of Hebrew for the
funny pages, you must have forgotten the run
five years ago, in which Rabbi Marmelstein was
introduced as Sams old army buddy before
lighting a Chanukah menorah and reciting the
blessing over the Chanukah candle in both
transliteration and footnoted translation.
Who said comics arent educational?
Larry Yudelson
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BIG-TIME KUDOS:
La La Land headed
for an Oscar
The romantic
musical La La
Land has
received major kudos
from critics and is a
big-time Oscar contender. Its co-stars, Ryan
Gosling and Emma
Stone, seem well cast.
They had real romantic
chemistry in Crazy,
Stupid, Love (2011).
When their La La
characters meet, hes a
jazz musician working in
dives and shes an
aspiring actress/barista
trying to survive. They
fall in love, but as they
become successful, that
success starts tearing
them apart. JASON
FUCHS, 30, whose father
was raised chasidic, has a
smallish supporting role.
(Opens Friday, Dec. 16.)
The film was written
and directed by Damian
Chazelle, best known for
his 2014 film Whiplash.
It was about the relationship between a young
Jewish jazz student and
his hard-driving instructor. It was nominated
for five Oscars and won
three. In 2015, Chazelle
told the Jewish Journal
of Los Angeles that his
Catholic parents were
dissatisfied with his
church Sunday school
so instead they sent him
to Hebrew school for
four years. About those
four years, Chazelle said:
I was very, very into
Hebrew and then I went
with my class to Israel
when we were in the
sixth grade. I dont think
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Prada). Hes the son of
MAX FRANKEL, 86, the
former chief editor of the
New York Times. The film
was written by ALLAN
LOEB, 47, who has written hits and flops (hits
include 21, a film about
gambling, and Wall
Street: Money Never
Sleeps; flops include the
musical Rock of Ages).
Loeb began screenwriting in 1993, but nobody
would turn his scripts
into a movie until 2007.
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Maayanot shows students careers in science, engineering, and design
Larry Yudelson
he synagogue at Maayanot
Yeshiva High School for Girls in
Teaneck was made over into a
party space last Thursday, with
disco balls, loud music, glow lights, and
dancing.
All this was the setting for the schools
STEAM talks short presentations from
women working in the fields of science,
technology, engineering, the arts, or
mathematics.
Dance music.
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Then a video from one of the schools
alumnae.
Repeat.
It wasnt rocket science until Estelle
Anselmo took the stage.
Ms. Anselmo is chief engineer at Arde
Inc. in Carlstadt, which builds pressure
vessels for space craft. A pressure vessel is a container that holds high pressure
gas that provides fuel for a rocket, she
explained.
She pointed to a picture of a rocket projected on the screen behind her. That
part sitting up in the top of that spacecraft
is something I touched, something I built,
and now it is sitting on Mars, she said. It
was designed six miles from here.
Her message and the message of her
fellow speakers was simple: The young
women of Maayanot should dare to dream
of exciting, creative careers.
I wish something like this existed for
me when I was in high school, she said. I
had no idea what I was going to do. I didnt
even know what an engineer is.
After the talks, Maayanot students look at exhibits, including work by students
from the Bergen Academies.
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happiest and saddest
moments. I can fix problems. Im always learning,
always thinking, always
teaching, she said.
Jordie Gilbert-Honick
graduated Maayanot in
2008 and is a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins
University. My specialty
is making skeletal muscle
constructs, she said.
When people think
about science, very often they think about
what they learned in school and view it as
static and not changing, she said. In my
job I feel the fluid and dynamic nature of science. We will develop the science that will
be studied in school in the next generation.
Her Maayanot education helped her.
My first computer coding class was a
foreign language, and solving the problems was challenging, she said. My
first instinct was to give up. Then I realized I had faced similar challenges in high
school. I had learned Gemara, which
repeatedly challenged me to think creatively in a foreign language.
Remember you can do this, she told
the students. My best advice is to be
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Tenafly woman brings together furniture for new lives
So now they have apartments, and emotional and financial support, and they want
to start their lives again, but how can
you start fresh in a white box? Ms. Massarsky said. Thats where Making It Home
comes in. Technically people cant chose
their furniture that would be a logistical
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would like, and we try to accommodate.
Most people, with rare exceptions, are so
thrilled to have anything at all.
Basically, we walk into completely empty
apartments, with not even a square of toilet
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they are so thrilled to have somebody come
in and give them something to sit on.
AJ Luna is the director of veteran ser-
Joanne Palmer
There were two seemingly unconnected
problems that Cynthia Massarsky of
Tenafly addressed with one masterstroke.
The first is her understanding that it is
hard to make an empty room into a home.
It takes stuff tables, chairs, couches,
shelves to take a barren space and transform it into a place that can support, even
nourish, life. The people who find themselves in such bare spaces often are at
points in their lives where such support is
necessary if they are to make it, Ms. Massarsky learned.
The second was her need to take the
skill, drive, and ambition that had fueled
her career as a consultant into her new
post-retirement life and do something that
matters.
Making It Home, her new nonprofit venture, is the organization that grew out of
those two problems. Ms. Massarsky created it to bring furniture to low-income
disabled veterans and all sort of other folks
who are in need and dont have anything
to sleep in or eat on. Its a public/private
partnership, now part of the Bergen Volunteer Center in Hackensack.
Ms. Massarsky spent much of her career
at the intersection between public and private enterprises. Shes worked in marketing for nonprofits including Save the Children, Covenant House, and the National
Council for Jewish Women, to pick almost
at random from a very long list of very
good causes. She started her own firm,
CWM Marketing Group, in 1990; before
that, she worked in the profit sector at
Scholastic Books and even before that (in
a startling blast from the very sadly nearly
forgotten past), in the nonprofit world, on
Marlo Thomass Free To Be Foundation.
So when Hurricane Sandy hit, three
years ago, the not-yet-retired Ms. Massarsky decided that she had to do something
to help, and that she had the skills to tackle
a part of the problem that others had not
addressed. She was very good at putting
companies together with people who
could not afford their wares but needed
them desperately nonetheless. I got Bobs
Discount Furniture to provide free furniture to a family whose house was devastated by the storm, and who had two kids
with disabilities, she said.
From there, she helped furnish garden
apartments in Tenafly for people with disabilities. The neat aspect was that I created a gift registry, and people could go
online and order a piece of furniture,
she said. It was funded by donors. She got
word out about the project by blanketing
Tenafly the town where she has lived
for 35 years, and which she loves with
postcards describing the need and the
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muscles, they are community-service oriented, and they have days off.
So we find the volunteers, and we coordinate with them and get the furniture.
But what to do with it? Furniture is not
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New York. They give us complimentary
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of the warehouse.
Thats what makes it work.
Its not like what we do is such an
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cant handle either the logistics or the storage piece.
How did she do it? I just went in and
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Im not shy, she added, unnecessarily.
The other half of the equation is the people who will live with the new furniture.
On the client end, we work with the countys Housing Health and Human Services
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The center also helps clients get entitlements, Section 8 vouchers, all sorts of help
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completely peaceful movement, Ms. Berrie said. We were able to depose him. It
was grassroots, completely intuitive, with
nothing organized or rigid about it.
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world are poor, Ms. Berrie said, women in
the United States control 60 percent of private wealth. Although the words women
and power rarely are used together, she
continued, when women reach across
divides to work together, their power can
be palpable.
This election has galvanized the country, she said. Whether we do or do not like
the outcome, it has made activists of all of
us. Look at the success of the Trump campaign. And Trumps women opponents are
planning a huge march on Washington the
day after he is inaugurated; it has been put
together not by professional organizers but
by energized people, and it is planned to be
peaceful but highly visible.
We are all completely awake, and you
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up, and how we build coalitions.
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community has been so divided because
of Israel, which puts us at odds with other
communities that used to be our allies,
Ms. Berrie said. We marched in Selma
with the African American community, we
were allies with the gay community, but
now everyone sides with the Palestinians,
even if they know that the Palestinians
would kill gay people. It is so unnatural.
But now, we have shared values. They
will try to pull us apart, but we have to find
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power until they had to. Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace ended a civil war
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Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, who won a Nobel Peace Prize, addresses the crowd in Jerusalem after the
Women Wage Peace march.
we have is despair, she said. Hopelessness. The feeling that nothing can change. That nothing will change.
In October, Women Wage Peace held a march.
Twenty thousand people, most of them women,
walked from near Jericho to Jerusalem. 1,000 Palestinian women participated, Ms. Silver said. The
buses that brought the women there were funded by
the Palestinian Authority, and that is extraordinary,
at a time when any Palestinian doing any kind of outreach to the Israeli side is denigrated, and immediately
accused of normalization.
But as pleased as she was by the Palestinian womens
participation, we are not a joint Palestinian-Israeli
movement, she said. We are an Israeli movement. Our
target population is within Israel. We are not looking for
international support to pressure our government. We
want to work from within, and the only way to do that is
by growing our numbers.
We want Israeli Jews and Arabs and Druze, we want
people from the right and the left, we want the religious
The march, a nonpartisan call for peace, went from Jericho to Jerusalem in October.
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and the secular. We want those who live in Tel Aviv and
those who live in the periphery. We cross all traditional
ideological lines.
Of course, its easier to say this than to accomplish it.
It is a very slow process, Ms. Silver said. But they are
working with some settlers, and hope to attract more.
We use the movie Pray the Devil Back to Hell, she
said. Its a documentary by Abigail Disney that shows
the ways that Liberian women ended the civil war in
their country.
We screened that movie in parlor meetings all over
the country, she said; the more they showed it, the
more people they attracted. Eventually, the woman at
its heart, Leymah Gbowee, went to Israel and marched
with Women Wage Peace.
I have been a peace activist for 45 years, but I have
never experienced anything like I am experiencing now,
Ms. Silver concluded. Thats because we are not following the same pattern as the other movements.
We are not coming up with a particular solution and
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Companies often hire student ambassadors to spread the
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Unsurprisingly, given that the two recent college grads just
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some difficulties along the way. When we started out, our
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doing this full time, the challenge is totally different.
Keeping our brand ambassadors motivated is a challenge,
Mr. Avraham added. Weve refined the program many times
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Joanne Palmer
It used to be that Jewish parents brought
up Jewish children who grew up to marry
the children of other Jewish parents, and
then they went on to have Jewish children,
whom they brought up to marry Jews and
have Jewish children
It seemed as if that would go on forever,
in part because Jews wanted to marry
other Jews, and at least in part because
it was hard for Jews to find non-Jews who
wanted to marry them anyway.
Things have changed.
By now, statistics show that more than
half of American Jews intermarry. But we
also know that at least some of those nonJews are interested in Jewish life, are willing to be married by a rabbi, and bring
their children up as Jews.
The organized Jewish world has been
slow to figure out how to deal with this differently configured landscape, but many
institutions have begun to try.
In the Conservative movement, the
Federation of Jewish Mens Clubs has
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Jewish Center gave what it called a Recipe for Celebrating the December Holidays, aimed at interfaith couples, interfaith parents raising children, parents
of interfaith adult children, and grandparents. The ingredients necessary for
the recipe, the invitation said, included,
Knowledge, acceptance, and love; it is
to be served with a full heart.
Laurie and Mitchell Liner of Tappan
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They drew up a strategic management
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too important and too emotional for that.
They took the first step in their advocacy work by putting bookmarks in the
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about why we were doing it, and who
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Both Liners stressed that everything
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I had concerns about [Tillersons] closeness to Arab
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Steve Rosen, the former policy director for the
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Trump wants to reset relations with Russia, saying
it would be better to have the country alongside the
United States rather than its rival. The president-elect
has boasted of his mutual admiration for Putin. What
does that mean for Syria?
Like most of the world, Israel wants the carnage to
end. Unlike Russia, it does not want the outcome to
include the empowerment of Russias ally, the Assad
regime. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, for
one, says that Assad must go. Israel also does not want
Iran and Hezbollah Assads allies and, effectively,
Russias to come out of the deal strengthened.
Iran sanctions
Tillerson is on the record saying sanctions on Russia
were counterproductive. What about Iran?
Its not clear yet whether Trump is committed to
scrapping the Iran nuclear deal or enforcing it more
strictly than Obama did. And whatever anyones objections to the pact, which swapped sanctions relief for a
nuclear rollback by Iran, it is true that the Obama team has
enhanced sanctions in other sectors, with a special focus on
targeting Irans Lebanon proxy, Hezbollah.
Jewish groups will want to know if Tillersons opposition
to sanctions is a matter of principle, or if he is against them
because it affects his business now. Had he led Exxon Mobil
in the 1990s, would he have joined in the oil industrys fierce
opposition to Iran sanctions introduced at that time?
Two states?
Trump says he wants to broker a peace deal between Israel
and the Palestinians. In its convention platform, the Republican Party officially became agnostic about a two-state solution and said it would defer to Israel on whether this is the
preferred outcome. Trumps aides have said the same thing.
The mainstream and left-wing pro-Israel communities, meantime, remain committed to a two-state outcome.
We expect senators to question him vigorously to determine
whether his views are consistent with decades of bipartisan U.S.
support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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and with upholding our countrys international commitments,
such as the successful nuclear agreement with Iran, J Street,
the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, said in a statement.
(The centrist American Jewish Committee became the latest
mainstream group to reassert support for the two-state solution, issuing a statement calling it the only realistic resolution
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bilateral negotiations between the parties themselves.)
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elects domestic policies and appointees. And Jewish Voice for Peace, which
supports BDS, also has placed a new
emphasis on protesting his statements
and policies targeting minorities.
Its a new political world and well
have to figure it out, JVP Executive
Director Rebecca Vilkomerson said in
November. Were definitely in conversation on whats going to need to shift
given the Trump presidency.
IfNotNow activists say the fights
against the occupation and Jewish
communal acceptance of Trump are
one and the same. But beyond any particular issue, some say the group has
become a young, left-wing Jewish community for them. In their mission to
make the establishment Jewish community uncomfortable, theyve become
comfortable with one another.
For me, this is a space where I
found a home and I could say the
things I wanted to say, Horne said.
Its one of the most welcoming communities I have ever been a part of.
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Israeli defense chief vows to prevent sophisticated weapons from reaching Hezbollah
Israel does what is necessary to prevent game-changing
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As BDS resolutions
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students shift tactics
Ben Sales
When Northwestern Universitys student
senate passed a resolution in February
2015 asking the university to divest from
six corporations it said contributed to
the violation of Palestinians human
rights, freshman Ross Krasner was hurt
and surprised.
The rhetoric of the measure, portraying Israel as an oppressor, was more
extreme than what he had expected.
Krasner decided to become more
involved with the campus pro-Israel
group, Wildcats for Israel, and became
its president that May.
A year and a half later, Krasner feels
confident that the university wont heed
the resolutions divestment call, and he
has shifted his extracurricular focus on
campus. He is now a student senator; in
that forum he can advocate for a range
of causes he supports, including but not
limited to Israel.
We knew the whole time the university wasnt going to divest, said Krasner, now a junior. Because it passed,
its never going to be brought up again.
Anti-Israel activists, he said, have lost
their rallying cry. Theyve lost their thing
to mobilize around.
The vote by Northwesterns Associated
Student Government Senate was one
of three huge campus victories scored
by the BDS movement which aims to
boycott, divest from and sanction Israel
within two weeks in February 2015. It
was preceded by similar votes in the University of California Student Association,
representing all U.C. students across the
Of about a
dozen BDS
resolutions
passed since
November
2015, only two
or three have
come at major
universities.
business in the West Bank. After its college council passed a divestment resolution in April, the University of Chicago
released a statement saying an Israel
boycott would only diminish the Universitys distinctive contribution.
Hillel Internationals president,
Eric Fingerhut, said that the organization has reached out personally to
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BDS
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Hillel Internationals
president, Eric
Fingerhut, said that
the organization has
reached out personally
to university presidents
to lobby them against
BDS and has found
open ears.
Kenneth Waltzer, executive director of the Academic
Engagement Network, a 350-member group of university faculty who oppose BDS, said divestment is a nonstarter for many university boards of trustees because it
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Every day items found around the house
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Hebrew Bears
Dov Babies are bean bag bears. They are the only bears by Sally Winey (creator
of Beanie Babies) to be given Hebrew names. The Dov Babies are named Dov, Aish,
Fire; Shalom, Peace; and Emmes, Truth. They are available at LuLu Belle, 97 Vervalen
Street, Closter, 201-660-7880, lulubelleofcloster.com.
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Latke lovers, youre in for a treat!
Children up to 17 years old, and
adults 18 and over are invited to join
the Annual Latke Eating Contest on
Sunday, January 1, 2017. Sponsored
by the Cedar Lane Management
Group and Noahs Ark, the contest
will give potato eaters a chance to
sample some of the most creative
patties this latke-loving season.
Gourmand and entrepreneur,
Noam Sokolow, owner of Noahs
Ark and other food enterprises, said
that this years palatte of latkes is
sure to delight the palate.
In addition to the classic potato,
sweet potato and corn and zucchini
latke offerings, there will be Yukon Gold and Jerusalem artichoke
latkes, leek and porcini mushroom
latkes, zucchini and Mediterranean spiced latkes, cauliflower and
zaatar latkes, and Okinawan potato, asparagus and tarragon latkes.
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Grades N-8
30 West End Avenue
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Grades 9-12
20 West End Ave.
New York, NY 10023
212-595-7087
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Please see our ad on page 16.
45 Spruce Street
Oakland NJ 07436
201-337-1111
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Ages 214
Academies at Gerrard Berman
Day School offers a warm, nurturing environment for children ages
2-14. Through a focus in leadership, STEAM, and performing arts,
the Academies offers its students a
comprehensive Judaic and General
Studies education. We educate children to become successful leaders
and learners who will meet future
challenges and make the world a
better place. Please see our ad on
page 13.
70 Sterling Place
Teaneck, NJ 07666
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Functional academic high school
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Jewish Youth Encounter Program
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ENRICHMENT
Boy Scout Troop 226
70 Sterling Place
Teaneck, NJ 07666
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Ages: 1117
Boy Scout Troop 226Bergen Countys
only Jewish Boy Scout troop
offers
the opportunity for boys ages 1117 to
experience the outdoors while observing Shabbat and kashrut. Our activities
include hikes, overnight camping trips,
and summer camp. Please see our ad on
page 11.
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Black Box erforming Arts Centerk
teens,
dance, acting, art. Legos, fencing, pajama
parties, princess parties. Please see our
ad on page 14.
1 Depot Square
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www.bergenpac.org/educations
Ages: 3 months21 years.
The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC is northern New Jerseys premier
arts education program. Offering classes
in a variety of performing arts disciplines
and opportunities to participate in live
performances, the school provides students of all ages and backgrounds with
arts experiences that stimulate learning
and sparks creativity and imagination.
SPECIAL NEEDS
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31-11 Broadway
Fair Lawn, NJ 07601
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Ages: 18 months to 16 years
BLG provides a range of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services for children
with special needs. Our ABA programs
address cognitive, social-emotional, play,
and self-help skills, as well as language/
communication and behavioral challenges through a positive behavioral approach. Please see our ad on page 16.
We also offer classes for kids including social skills, yoga, mommy & me, &
sports skills. We bill insurance directly
so the client can focus on his/her childs
rehabilitation. We are currently offering
screenings with a therapist for only $30
by appointment only. Please see our ad
on page 19.
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The Ice Vault has various activities for
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very winter I get a fever cabin fever, that is. The cure?
Take my family on a winter
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bank. Following are a few tips to get
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Establish a Budget
The first step to planning a winter vacation is to determine how much you can
spend. While drawing up your budget,
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afford. Will you be able to fly to your destination, or will you drive? Can you budget
for a rental car and gas? Should you stay
in an all-inclusive resort, or opt for a hotel, condo, or rental property? How much
can you budget for activities? What about
meals, can you afford to dine out the entire time, or will you need to bring food
to eat in the room? Answering these and
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next step was to enroll her in a performing arts school so she could major in
voice and minor in theater.
Frank McIntosh, president of the local Junior Achievement, said its never
too early to start children on the goalsetting track. Whats most important,
though, is that the goals be self-directed.
If the child owns his goal, hes more
likely to embrace it and have the motivation and commitment to work toward
attaining it, says McIntosh. Its okay for
parents to give input and guidance but it
needs to be driven by the child.
This was the case with Dave Reslers daughter. From the time she was
in fourth grade, Stephanie had run short
distances in track. Upon entering high
school, she joined cross-country and so
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1. Thirty high school teens of Woodcliff Lake took
part in Valley Chabads C-Teen event to decorate
bags as gifts for the participants of the Friendship
Circle, which provides companionship for special
needs children and teens.
2. The sixth graders at Temple Emanu-El of Closter
learned about Kristallnacht from the personal
experience of a students grandmother.
3. Yeshiva University students reached out to
local police officers and firefighters to express
their appreciation for keeping New York City safe
through a campaign created by students in a social
media marketing class.
4. About two dozen members from Temple
Beth Tikvah in Wayne, both children and adults,
met at Daughters of Miriam in Clifton to help its
residents enjoy a carnival of games and prizes on
Federations annual Mitzvah Day.
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5. The Sunday morning Mitzvah Makers class of Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley decorated turkeys for Thanksgiving.
6. Upcoming bar and bat mitzvah students at Shomrei Torah in
Wayne don tefillin for the first time.
7. For the 19th Annual Mitzvah Day, the Chabad of Passaic County
sponsored a coat drive, as well as a C-Teen Group visit to senior
residents at Sunrise Assisted Living and Care One in Wayne.
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8. Five students of the JCCP/CBT Hebrew School in Paramus
received gifts for creating the most creative tzedakah boxes. From
left, competition winners, Gabrielle, Matt, Emily, Hili and Emma, with
Rabbi Arthur Weiner and Marcia Kagedan, education director.
9. The Kindergarten class of Temple Emanu-Els Religious School
learned about how God created the world, with each student
making their own Creation Wheel.
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Think Pink
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with Pinkalicious the Musical
Pinkalicious The Musical is coming to bergenPAC on Jan. 22, 2017. It is a
tale of Pinkalicious, a pink-loving girl who cant stop eating pink cupcakes
despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands her at the
doctors office with pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to
toe, for her, a dream come. But when the hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious
can figure out a way to get out of the predicament. Shows are scheduled for
1 and 3 p.m. bergenPAC, 30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood. 201-2271030, www.bergenpac.org.
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To Our Readers: This calendar is a day-by-day schedule of events. Although all information is as timely as we can make it, its a good idea to call to
verify details before you go.
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Friday, December 16
Pokemon Shabbat: An NNJJA Pokemon
Shabbat at Temple Israel & JCC. A dairy dinner is included. 6:15 p.m. 475 Grove St.,
Ridgewood. The NNJJA includes Temple Israel
& JCC, Ridgewood; Temple Beth Sholom, Fair
Lawn; Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck; Kol
HaNeshama, Englewood; and Temple Emmanuel
of North Jersey, Franklin Lakes.
Sunday, December 18
Family Chanukah Concert: The Pop Ups! From
10 a.m. to noon. at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly.
Home Depot Menorah Workshop: Home Depot
and Chabad of Upper Passaic host a Menorah
Workshop from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Children and
families are invited to build their own. The Home
Depot, 106 Route 23, Rivervale. 201-696-7609,
www.jewishhighlands.org.
Chanukah Fun Day at Temple Beth Rishon:
Fun-filled day to enjoy for all families and ages.
The day includes activities with a magician,
laser tag, game truck and arts & crafts. From 11
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Open to the community. 585
Russell Ave., Wyckoff. 201-891-4466, www.
bethrishon.org.
Celebrate Chanukah at the Jewish Museum:
From noon to 4 p.m. its a mother lode of
Chanukah activities. Build a sculptural Chanukah
lamp with funky found Dance to the tunes of
ShirLaLa and watch a unique Chanukah story
come to life through a drawing performance by
Jeff Hopkins and more. The Jewish Museum, 1109
Fifth Ave., at 92 St., Manhattan. 212-423-3200,
thejewishmuseum.org.
Chanukah Fun Day: Temple Beth Rishon 11 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m. Game truck, laser tag, arts & crafts,
magician, clown, and more. Temple Beth Rishon,
585 Russell Ave., Wyckoff. 201-891-4466,
support@bethrishon.org.
The Bossy Frog Ban at Temple Emanuel:
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley hosts a
pre-Chanukah celebration featuring The Bossy
Frog Band at 10:15 a.m. Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley, 87 Overlook Drive, Woodcliff
Lake. 201-391-0801, Margie@tepv.org.
Rocker Rick Recht in Hoboken: Kaplen
Cooperative Preschool and Learning Center of
the United Synagogue of Hoboken hosts musician
Rick Recht for Chanukah concerts at 11:15 a.m.
and 1:30 p.m. United Synagogue of Hoboken, 115
Park Ave., Hoboken. www.hobokensynagogue.org.
Hamilton Musical Theater Workshop: A Class
Act NY at the Wayne Y with a Andrew Chappelle,
star from the Broadway show, Hamilton and a
top NYC talent manager. Workshop 10 a.m. to
noon for 7 to adult. Part 2 is the audition technique workshop 1 to 3 p.m. for ages 7 to 20. Y at
1 Pike Drive, Wayne. 973-595-0100.
Chanukah Sing-A-Long: Join Cantor Israel
Singer and Temple Emanu-El at Jewish Home at
Rockleigh at 11:15 a.m. 201-750-9997 or visit
www.templemanu-el.com.
Tuesday, December 20
Tuesday, January 18
Wednesday,
December 21
Library Hour in Wayne: Join us for quality reading and story time accompanied
by creative crafts. These meetings are
free and open to the entire community
regardless of affiliation. Sponsored by
The Chabad Center. From 4 to 4:45 p.m.
461 Valley Road, Wayne.
Friday, December 23
Friday, January 20
See The Bossy Frog, Sunday, December 18.
Saturday, December 24
Chanukah and Chinese Food in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel & JCC invites the community to
the first night celebration at 6:15 p.m. Bring
menorahs. Chinese buffet dinner, dreidel spinning competitions, kids activities and movie. 475
Grove St., Ridgewood. Please bring unopened
cleaning supply or toiletry for donation to
Ridgewood Social Services. 201-444-9320,
www.synagogue.org.
Sunday, December 25
Holiday Vacation Week at The Jewish Museum:
Special family programs during vacation week
from December 25 to December 30, includes
a concert by Oran Etkin at 11:30 a.m. for youngsters 2 to 7 years old, and on other days, drop-in
art sessions, a simulated archaeological dig and
more. 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. For information, 212-423-3222, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Oran Etkin in Concert: Featuring klezmer, jazz,
and the music of Africa, Oran Etkins performances weave global melodies and rhythms
into a gumbo of goodness. Enjoy tunes from
Wake Up Clarinet! and Gathering Light in honor
of Chanukah in this musical world party. 11:30
a.m. 12:30 p.m. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth
Ave., at 92 St., Manhattan. 212-423-3200, www.
thejewishmuseum.org.
Chanukah Wonderland in Franklin Lakes:
Wonderland activities include latke making, sufganiyot making, crafts, entertainment and more.
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Chabad Jewish
Center, 375 Pulis Ave., Franklin Lakes. www.
chabadplace.org/Chanukahparty.
Monday, December 26
Zumba for youngsters: Zumba teacher Ginnine
Fried leads the fun from 10 to 11 a.m. 10 a.m. for
children 3 to 4; 10:30 geared for children 5 and
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Tuesday, December 27
Chanukah on Ice: Come skate away at in Central
Park in the midst of a huge ice sculpture menorah, with music and refreshments. Lasker Rink in
Central Park, 110 and Central Park North. From 4
to 7 p.m. www.chanukahonicenyc.com.
Friendship Circle Winter Break Mini Camp:
From 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. for children for special
needs. Also on Wednesday, Dec. 28, Thursday,
Dec. 29. Chani Gurkov, 973-694-6274, www.
fcpassaiccounty.com.
Friday, December 30
Musical Shabbat: Chanukah-themed musical
Shabbat service at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Beth Or,
56 Ridgewood Road, Township of Washington.
201-664-7422, www.templebethornj.org.
Friday, January 6
Family Worship at Temple Emeth: Join family services at Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor
Road, Teaneck. 7:30 p.m. 201-833-1322, www.
emeth.org.
Saturday, January 7
Zumba Party at JCC: Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades hosts a free Zumba party from 7:30 to
8:45. For folks 12 and older. JCC on the Palisades,
411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly. 212-408-1448, www.
jccotp.org.
Monday, January 9
Winter in Israel: Learn about winter in Israel, arts
and crafts and more. Free. JCC on the Palisades,
411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly. 201-408-1427, www.
jccotp.org.
Tuesday, January 11
Toddler Time in Glen Rock: Glen Rock Jewish
Center hosts groups for children 12 months
to 2 years for arts and crafts, music, free play
and more. 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. 682 Harristown
Road, Glen Rock. 201-652-6623, grjcnursery@
gmail.com.
Friday, January 13
Tot Shabbat at Temple Beth Or: Join Rabbi Noah
and Cantor Sarah and other families with young
children. 6 p.m. Temple Beth Or, 56 Ridgewood
Sunday, January 22
Friendship Circle Sports Series: Sports clinics for children with special needs. 1 to 2:30
p.m. The Chabad Center of Passaic County, 194
Ratzer Road, Wayne. 973-694-6274. www.
fcpassaiccounty.com.
Sunday, January 22
Tu BShevat at Temple Beth Or: Celebrate the
trees with a Tu BShevat program for 2 to 6 year
olds and their parents. 10:15 a.m. Temple Beth
Or, 56 Ridgewood Road, Township of Washington.
201-664-7422, www.templebethornj.org.
Tuesday, January 25
Toddler Time in Glen Rock: Glen Rock Jewish
Center hosts groups for children 12 months to
2 years for arts and crafts, music, free play and
more. 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. 682 Harristown Road,
Glen Rock. 201-652-6623, grjcnursery@gmail.
com.
Kids Cooking Class: A culinary trip around the
world for children ages 3 to 10. Each class is $8,
held from 4 to 4:45 p.m. The Chabad Center,
194 Ratzer Road, Wayne. 973-694-6274, www.
jewishwayne.com.
Sunday, January 29
Friendship Circle Sports Series: Sports clinics for children with special needs. 1 to 2:30
p.m. The Chabad Center of Passaic County, 194
Ratzer Road, Wayne. 973-694-6274. www.
fcpassaiccounty.com.
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at her parents Kansas City home, when all 40 people in her
extended family said they encountered hostility in recent
months, from bullying in schools, where younger relatives
were called terrorists, to a fire set on her parents porch,
to a bullet through the window of a male relatives home.
She blamed Trumps campaign, and his broadsides
against Muslims, which included what an aide described
as launching a database of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, a ban keeping all Muslims from entering
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synagogue twinnings, that began after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when there was more of a
national consensus that Muslims in America deserved
protection from counterattacks. But these initiatives had
been in place for years and had not prevented the acceleration of anti-Muslim sentiment in the country.
What went wrong? Participants seemed at a loss to
understand.
Rabbi David Shneyer said his progressive congregation, Kehila Chadasha, had a post-election meeting with a
strong turnout 50 members from a 100-family community and that one of its conclusions was to hold media
more accountable.
What does it mean, holding media more accountable? Seidel asked.
I cant explain at this point, Shneyer said.
Some participants said the rabbis, imams, and lay leaders needed to break out of their bubbles of mutual affection and travel to the America that had elected Trump.
We need to reach out to communities where the likelihood of a difference of opinion exists at a higher rate,
said Abdul Rashid Abdullah, representing the National
American Muslim Association on Scouting and sporting
a scoutmasters shirt.
Abdullah said he had been raised a Roman Catholic and
converted to Islam when he was 18.
I came from a household thats probably supporting
Trump, he said. By Gods will, Im not on that route
but I could have been.
Rabbi Sid Schwarz, a senior fellow at Clal: The National
Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, outlined
to the larger group what his lunch table came up with,
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break out of their
bubbles of mutual
affection and travel
to the America that
had elected Trump.
Trump make good on his campaign proposal to set up
a national Muslim registry. (The ADLs CEO, Jonathan
Greenblatt, proposed the same idea last month at his
organizations plenary in New York.)
But Schwarz also voiced a sense of helplessness that
permeated the discussion.
Theres got to be a more proactive agenda to counter the way Trump has characterized Islam as radical,
he said.
How do you get out of the vacuum? a participant
asked.
Reverse freedom rides, someone else said. We take
our bubble into the hinterlands.
Some practical ideas emerged, including synagogue
members appearing outside mosques during Friday
prayers bearing signs expressing support, and setting up
arrangements so volunteers would accompany children
to school if they had been subjected to harassment there.
Rabbi Jason Kimmelman-Block, the director of Bend
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Meir Barzilay was one of the lucky residents of Haifa during Israels recent wave of fires.
I live in a row of six houses, says the homeowner, who lives
on Shahar Street. Somehow, the fire magically jumped from
house number two directly to number four, sparing us.
Barzilay points to the gray and black hillsides, the burnt trees,
the plastic foil that protects his neighbors house from rain and
wind. The roof is gone. It was made out of wood, and the fire
swept it all away. The wind still carries the smell of ashes. Barzilays house lies in the district of Romema, the neighborhood
of Haifa hit hardest by the fires that had invaded central and
northern Israel starting Nov. 22. For eight days, firefighters
across Israel battled 90 fires in 1,773 locations. The largest blazes
were in Haifa. Eight hundred of the citys apartments have been
rendered uninhabitable, leaving about 1,700 people homeless.
The damage was so severe it will be necessary to demolish
about 100 houses in Haifa. They are beyond repair.
The municipality is doing a great job to help us, though.
We are grateful for the rapid support, Barzilay says, giving Haifas Mayor Yona Yahav a pat on the shoulder. Yahav
nods in agreement, adding, I am very impressed by the
efficient rescue and assistance the city was providing. The
Israelis inspect the damage to a burnt house in Haifa on November 25.
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fire department and military sent a positive message to the
citizens, a message of security.
The damage in Haifas public areas amounts to half a billion
take up to 30 years, officials say. Damages to private property
declared as terrorist acts, Yahav said. In cases of terror,
shekels (about $130 million), including damage to the citys
have yet to be assessed fully.
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under the purview of private insurance companies, and
in the case of people lacking insurance, the government
will cover all expenses, Yahav said.
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is no way to prove if any of this was intentional or not. And
I honestly do not care, said the mayor, who calls Haifa
the only sane city in Israel, and a place in which such
events will not destabilize the atmosphere of mutual Jewish and Arabic existence.
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some of the fires were intentional. They
broke out almost simultaneously at distinct
locations within the region, he said. And the
first one started at the fire department itself,
rendering immediate rescue and assistance
all the more difficult. The scorched hills of
Ramat Eshkol are visible behind him.
In Haifa alone, the blazes consumed 700
acres of vegetation. Surprisingly, no wild animals have been found dead. They must have
escaped in time, Waterman said. Despite
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus declaration that Israel will rebuild homes and rehabilitate forests 10-times-fold, full rehabilitation will be a long-term process because the
removal of burnt material alone can take up
to four years, Waterman argued. One of the
lessons learned from this natural catastrophe
is never again to plant pine trees in between
houses and in residential areas.
The pine cones were so dry and incredibly flammable that they exploded once they
caught fire, and thus carried it further and
further, Waterman said. This reality disappoints the city engineer, who describes Haifas charm as a place where city and nature
fuse organically, with forest penetrating residential areas.
Despite the damage, the city has started
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friendship, about trust and openness, about privacy and its lack.
They learn about their ties to their
own families; they learn about
homesickness and resilience.
If its a Jewish camp, they also
learn about the rhythms of a Jewish week, the magic of the sun as
it sets at the start of Shabbat and
then the magic of the havdalah
candles, 25 hours later, that
usher in the week. They learn
about Jewish art and music and
dance; they pound the tables to
Jewish melodies. They learn that
immersive Jewish life can bring
meaning and passion; it can give
them things to think about, argue
about, feel, and love.
It teaches them about being
Jewish, and it allows them to
learn about being Jewish while
having actual fun.
As the Federation for Jewish
Camp, which, as its name makes
clear, supports Jewish camping
(and whose executive director,
Jeremy Fingerman, lives in Englewood), it too makes the point
that Jewish camps offer the kind
of immersive experiences that
schools and shuls cannot; families can, of course, but camp is
different.
Weve seen firsthand how
remarkably transformative Jewish
camp can be. We wish for other
children what ours got.
So its cold and dark out now,
but camps are open for registration. Its a good time to start to
think about it carefully, to decide
what your own child would like
best. For ideas, and to learn
more about Jewish camping both
in general and in particular, take
a look at the FJCs website, www.
jewishcamp.org.
Sunny, blue-skied, cloudless
days await!
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JP
hen it comes to motives for murThose questions have been debated ever since
der, this one from the CBS series
the $350,000 hamburger.
Elementary takes the steak.
The debate is not exactly new, however. There
(Cake is the wrong word here.)
are two instances in the Babylonian Talmud tractate Sanhedrin where the matter is discussed
A scientific genius created a commercially
and ruled upon sort of. In the first instance,
viable (reasonably priced) in vitro meat meat
a midrash is cited that had heavens ministergrown in a test tube that the Food and Drug
ing angels roasting meat for the First Human,
Administration was going to classify as real
meat. This made the scientists boss unhappy. despite the fact that God had decreed that all
creatures had to be vegetarians. It was permitHe wanted the FDA to classify the product as
ted, the midrash stated, because this was meat
a meat substitute, so his company could get
that fell from heaven (literally from heaven, not
around halachic and sharia issues, thereby
just from the sky).
allowing him to tap into the lucrative pareve
Asked an anonymous questioner:
and halal markets. He had the
Is there really meat that falls from
research altered, then murdered
heaven?
the scientist to keep the truth from
Yes, came the answer, because
coming out.
Seriously, classifying a meat
meat that fell from heaven saved
product as pareve was the motive
the life of Rabbi Shimon ben
for murder and it took Sherlock
Chalafta, who had been beset
Holmes to figure it out. Holmes
upon by ravenous lions. When
even gathered what the script
the sage asked his colleagues
called the leading experts
whether the meat could be eaten,
Rabbi
among rabbis and imams, and
they ruled, No unclean thing
Shammai
had them debate the issues
falls from heaven. The meat was
Engelmayer
involved around his dining room
kosher.
Asked Rabbi Zera, but what if
table. The rabbis and imams then
conspired with Holmes to bring the murderer what fell for him looked like a donkey, which is
unclean? Snapped Rabbi Abbahu (after throwto justice.
In vitro meat that also is reasonably priced
ing an insult at him), They already said to him
has been in the works for several years. In 2013, nothing unclean falls from heaven. (See BT Sanhedrin 59b.)
a scientist in the Netherlands actually unveiled
The second discussion is found in BT Sanhea hamburger produced from lab-grown meat.
drin 65b. There we are told that two sages, Rav
That burger, however, cost $350,000. The price
Chanina and Rav Oshaya, created for themis around $10 today, meaning the commercial
selves a third-grown calf (whatever that is)
viability of lab-grown meat is just around the
using an incantation from the Sefer Ytzirah,
corner.
the mystical Book of Creation supposedly
It may be an Israeli corner, at that.
written by Abraham, and they ate it, even
An Israeli company, SuperMeat, recently
though it was neither halachically slaughtered
launched an internet campaign to raise money
to complete research and produce its not-so- or examined.
The 19th century commentator Rabbi Meir
faux chicken product, which is made from the
Leibush, the Malbim, even suggested Abraham
stem cells of a chicken. It took SuperMeat only
himself used the technique to serve milk and
eight days to raise all the money it needed, but
meat to his guests at the same meal (see Geneit will be about five years before the product hits
sis 18; Abraham supposedly observed Torah law
supermarket shelves.
even before it was given, according to Mishnah
Will it be pareve? Will it even be kosher?
Kiddushin 4:14).
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of Congregation
However you slice it, the Malbim was saying
Beth Israel of the Palisades in Cliffside Park.
the meat was kosher, and because it was not
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Opinion
Will it be pareve? Will
it even be kosher?
Those questions have
been debated ever
since the $350,000
hamburger.
produced in a natural way, it also was pareve.
The late 19th century decisor Rabbi Shlomo Hakohen of Vilna (the Cheshek Shlomo) went further, arguing the milk produced by a conjured calf also is pareve.
That brings us to in vitro meat: Is it meat meat, or is
it pareve meat? Is it even permitted meat?
There is no easy answer to any of these questions,
and the many others that arise from these.
Let us take the last one first: Is it even permitted
meat?
In vitro meat requires the live cells of the animal it
seeks to replicate. If the cells are considered limbs,
and if the animal they came from remained alive, the
cells and anything they produce may be prohibited as
an ever min hachai, a limb from a living animal. (The
prohibition derives from Genesis 9:3.)
If, on the other hand, the live cells were removed
from a freshly killed animal, was the animal killed in
a halachically acceptable manner, and did it undergo
the required post-mortem examination to determine
whether it was kosher? Does it even matter?
Most authorities, so far, dismiss the living limb question it is a stretch to call a cell a limb but there is
divided opinion regarding whether the freshly killed
animal must be ritually slaughtered and examined, or
whether the donating animal even has to be kosher.
That leads to whether the in vitro product is meat
meat, or is it pareve meat?
Part of the answer depends on the face you put
on the question. There is a halachic concept known
as panim chadashot, or new face. If something has
been so altered from its original state that it no longer is considered the same thing, it has a new face
and subject to different rules. (Think pareve gelatin
produced from the collagen taken from the crushed
bones of cows, or even non-kosher ones, as was once
the case; or the Flavr-Savr tomato, which is produced
using pig cells.)
After all the issues are resolved (assuming that is
possible), one issue remains: marat ayin (what the
eye can see). Jewish law forbids engaging in technically acceptable behavior if it appears that Jewish
law is being violated. Putting a piece of American
cheese on an in vitro hamburger is classic marat
ayin.
So, Sherlock, that motive for murder is not so clearcut after all. It definitely is not Elementary.
Opinion
Yes, our official policy has been a OneChina policy where Taiwan isnt officially
recognized, but anybody who does two
seconds worth of research can see that is
only on paper and probably needs to be
revisited.
Taiwan is our 9th largest trading partner
and we sell them billions of dollars worth
of weapons. We furthermore unofficially
but actually spread our own military network as a defense for Taiwan. Taiwan itself
is a major investor in mainland China and
there is much official or unofficial business
between them. This no official ties stuff
is paper thin for both the relationship of
Letters
No more doublespeak
America First
Opinion
dont have an independent state, you absolutely can get screwed over by your own
leaders, when those same leaders decide
to blame someone elses leaders for your
ongoing misfortune.
Im not, of course, overlooking the
polling data that shows that large numbers of Palestinians regard Israels leaders as their greatest enemies and remain
opposed to any compromise with Israel,
even tactically. The two-state solution,
which has been the foundation of international efforts to bring a solution to this
particular corner of the Middle East, has
been obstructed by many factors, most of
all Palestinian discomfort with the very
idea of a Jewish state in what Hamas and
others consider the Dar al Islam the
domain of Islam. That viewpoint, and not
the promise of peace based on economic
cooperation as envisaged by politicians as
varied as former Israeli President Shimon
Peres and former British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, has counted for far more.
But the most tangible result of this rejectionism has been to freeze negotiations
on Palestinian independence. The result
is that two other solutions, both of them
fraught with risk, now are in the mix.
The first solution involves elements of
both Palestinian unilateralism and international pressure on Israel; in essence, recognizing a Palestinian state without Israeli
consent, and pressuring Israel to concede
territory that it now controls. In the final
days of the Obama administration, its an
approach that again is being mooted in
the context of the United Nations Security
Council resolution that the United States,
in an absolute break with its policy of solidarity with Israel in U.N. forums, would
support.
Will this resolution be a gift of sorts to
the Palestinians from the departing administration of President Barack Obama?
Concern about that prospect has been
widespread, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, among others,
caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people both American and those
in the middle east to fight wars that were
not in the American interest while creating
more enemies abroad. In addition to leaving Iraq a mess we turned Libya into a chaotic war zone with migrants struggling for
their lives.
This is exactly why the American people elected Donald Trump in the first
place. They want a president who isnt
going to pretend to not have relations
with a country when we clearly do, he
isnt going to make terrible deals with
foreign governments and lie about them,
who isnt going to spend trillions of dollars and waste hundreds of thousands of
lives in unnecessary wars, and who most
certainly isnt going to let the United
States be anybodys doormat.
Peace through strength. No more politics as usual or shady politician speak.
America first.
It is about time somebody stood for
that in this country and our friends again
and I, for one, am proud as can be that
we finally have a leader at the top of our
government, Donald Trump, who feels
the same way.
Dr. Munr kazmir, Leonia
Cover Story
Looking back
at camp
Rabbi Paul Resnick of Teaneck reflects on
his three decades at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires
JOANNE PALMER
ost careers have their
own internal, specific, idiosyncratic
rhythms, and they
shape peoples lives.
Teachers start in
the early fall, when
the sun still is bright but the air starts
changing. They watch their students grow
for ten months longer than a pregnancy!
and then tumble into the summer
exhausted, ready to go limp and recharge
for the next year.
Rabbis aim toward the High Holy Days;
the rest of the year is intense too, with its
own weekly rhythms, but the sleepless
high theater comes in the fall.
Retailers know that their most profitable
season is right now, with its make-or-break
tensions.
So what about camp directors?
You prepare for ten months for two
months, Rabbi Paul Resnick of Teaneck
said. As a cook, you take raw ingredients, you cook them, you eat them, and
you move on. Thats not the way a camp
director lives.
The year can distill down to a few very
specific moments.
There is nothing more exciting for me
than running onto the buses on the first
day of camp and welcoming the campers,
Rabbi Resnick said.
Rabbi Resnick has been at Camp Ramah
in the Berkshires in Wingdale, N.Y., for 29
years; for most of that time hes been the
camps director. He has just stepped down
from that exhilarating but exhausting post
to become the camps first senior engagement and planning director.
He loves Camp Ramah.
The memory of those buses is sweet.
You have worked for 10 months for that
midnight because there is a sewage problem? No. But I will miss the buses.
Now, for the first time, Rabbi Resnick will sleep in his own bed most of the
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except for the two that bracketed his
year of study in Israel; the first he spent
studying, but for the second I wandered
around Europe with friends doing $10 a
day, he said. He rose through the ranks,
from counselor to rosh edah division
head. It was during one of those later
summers that he met Martha Ezor, who
was a counselor. The pair are about to
celebrate their 30th anniversary; Martha Resnick is a longtime teacher at the
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County in New Milford.
When I was a senior at rabbinical
school, Dr. Saul Shapiro, the longtime
chair of the camps board, approached
me and said that they wanted to hire me
as assistant camp director, Rabbi Resnick
said. That was very forward-thinking of
them no Ramah camp then had a fulltime assistant director. There hadnt been
a need. But he saw a transfer of leadership coming, and he wanted to make it
as smooth, seamless, and productive as
possible.
It worked. After two years as assistant director and another year as associate director, Paul Resnick took over the
directorship from the retiring Rabbi Jerry
Abrams, who had founded the camp.
And no, you dont have to be a rabbi to
be a camp director at Ramah. You do have
to be a Jewish educator, fluent in Hebrew,
personally observant within the tenets of
Conservative halacha, he said. And you
have to love working with children, and
you have to love the flow of the year.
The professionalism of being a camp
director has been strengthened over the
generations, Rabbi Resnick said. When he
started, it was not seen as much as a profession as a labor of love. Today its both.
There have been many changes in camping since he began to work at Ramah,
Rabbi Resnick said.
Social media and a turn toward transparency have made it far easier to continue relationships through the year; the
intense friendships forged during summers dont have to be packed away in the
camp trunk until next year.
We do year-round engagement, Rabbi
Resnick said. Apple picking before Sukkot. Ice skating at Chelsea Piers. We have
Shabbatons for particular edot. We have
a party at the seminary. Thats on a Saturday night in the winter, when Shabbat
ends early; often out-of-towners stay with
friends who live in the city. Its a new,
vibrant camp tradition.
Other things have changed as well.
We had a change in camp policy about
electronics last year, he said. We shared
the new policy again and again, so no one
could say they didnt know it, on social
media, in snail mail Im a strong believer
in snail mail, because I believe that it does
have a different effect.
Kids are not allowed to bring up any
electronic devices that could access the
web. They could bring mp3 players. We
were very black and white and very strong
Camp offers an immersive Jewish atmosphere. its also fun, as these photos show.
At the bottom right, Rabbi Resnick, in the
center, is surrounded by his family; from
left, son-in-law Elan Sherman and his
new bride, Rena; Martha; Dori; and
Alana Pellerito and her fiance, Joey.
binders, each with its own subject transportation, security, in-house medical care,
outside medical care, and so on. This has
become more and more complex.
This makes us a better camp.
The outside world has changed since
Rabbi Resnick first took over Camp
Ramah in the Berkshires. The market has
become much more challenging, he said.
There are more specialty Jewish camps,
largely inspired by the Foundation for Jewish Camp, and there also are many great
non-Jewish options that did not exist a generation ago.
Its also becoming harder to convince
some kids to come to camp. Often 15-yearolds have to build their resumes. We have
spoken to people in corporate America,
who often say that summers in camp provide much better learning experiences, and
we say that we give life-skills experiences
that will be good, no matter what you do in
life. Still, kids and their parents often think
that an internship or an exotic trip or volunteer work all of them genuinely valuable
experiences will do more for their children than camp on a college application.
Part of our mission is to grow Jewish
leadership, and so our two oldest edot
teenagers entering their sophomore or
junior years of high school do some of
their own planning and organizing, Rabbi
Resnick said. What better way could there
be to give them responsibility, while being
supervised by counselors they respect?
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Oliebollen are sold in stalls like this throughout Amsterdam this time of year.
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Museum of Amsterdam.
Like several other food historians in
the Netherlands, Freud believes that the
oliebollen tradition, which dates back to
the late Middle Ages, may be rooted in
the Jewish sufganiyah, which is likelier
an older dish and is mentioned in Jewish
sources even before the 13th century.
While it would be difficult to credit
with certainty any one cuisine for a basic
Jewish World
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15th century onward to escape religious
persecution in the Iberian peninsula.
Another indication: Dutch oliebol is often
made with raisins, an ingredient that does
not feature heavily in Dutch cuisine but
was commonly used by Portuguese Jews.
Many non-Jews in the Netherlands
believe oliebollen are originally a Sephardic or Portuguese dish a history
they regard as common knowledge, even
though it has never been proven.
I think it came from Portugal, Portuguese people brought it, said Jan van
Gelden, an Amsterdam entrepreneur who
bought eight oliebollen at a stall in Amsterdams Museum Square intended for the
construction workers who were wrapping
up renovations outside his office.
In Jewish circles, some oliebollen lovers here even insist they are superior to
sufganiyot and closer to the treats Sephardic origins.
If you consider Israeli store-bought sufganiyot original, then oliebollen are better
because theyre fresher and smaller, said
Gili Gurel, another Israel-born Jewish resident of the Netherlands.
But, she added, compared to her grandmothers recipe for homemade sufganiyot, everything is inferior.
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1. Biblical princess killed by Phinehas
6. Tell ___ (works often filled with
lashon hara)
10. Theyre often taken on Shabbat
14. Mideast rulers: Var.
15. Do You Love Me? from Fiddler...,
e.g.
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(Tehillim 118)
17. Where the opening of hope for a
Gold set)
42. Its next to the Kingdom of Jordan
Maimonides Synagogue
49. Opposite of Goliath
50. One might be given at the Temple
52. A melting pot for many immigrants
54. Take Fauda off the DVR
56. What Richard Simmons targets with
a 72-Across
57. Flick with a ship called The
Nebuchadnezzar (with The)
60. Prepare, for a Seder
62. ___Stream
66. My brother
67. Singapore and Sparta...or another
title for this puzzle
70. Where Billy Joels Last Play
occurred
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73. Rosenthal and Burns
74. Worshipped item in the Bible... and
Game of Thrones
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3. Tubular fare thats chametz
4. One is said on a rainbow or rain-
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(and others)
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10. Place for Cardinals and Cardinals
fans
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of Judah
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13. All of Gemara
18. Make like the state of Israel since
its inception
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27. Make a priest or a rabbi
28. Lchaim!, e.g.
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30. Notable name in international lend-
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in 2015
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38. Real estate gov. body in the
Holy Land
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
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64. Book before Josh.
65. Indiana Jones spends some time
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Calendar
Friday
December 16
Chanukah discussion:
The Bergen County YJCC
Senior Lunch program
meets to learn about
Chanukah with Rabbi
Bob Mark of the Clifton
Jewish Center at Temple
Beth Or in Washington
Township, noon. Kosher
lunch. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 666-6610.
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
offers Chanukah
dinner, childrens
crafts, and services,
6 p.m. 950 Preakness
Ave. Reservations,
(973) 595-6565.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
holds a Chanukah family
service, 7 p.m., with
Rabbi Loren Monosov,
Cantor Alan Sokoloff,
Cantor emeritus Mark
Biddelman, the TEPV
Swingin Singers, and
the fourth grade class.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
flamenco musical
ensemble, will perform
a concert celebrating
the diversity of Jewish
music at Temple Beth
Rishon. Evening begins
with a congregational
dinner, 6 p.m., followed
by Shabbat service
with pianist Itay
Goren, clarinetist
Jacob Niederman, and
percussionist Jimmy
Cohen, 7 p.m. Lyla Cante
joins Cantor Ilan Mamber,
rabbis Ken Emert and
Lois Ruderman, and the
Temple Beth Rishon
adult choir, Kol Rishon.
At 7:45, vocalist/band
leader Alty Weinreb and
his musical ensemble will
perform Jewish music
with an eclectic blend of
flamenco and rock & roll.
Oneg follows. 585 Russell
Ave. Dinner reservations,
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Saturday
December 17
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Dr. Michael Berger
of Emory University is
scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael. After Kabalat
Shabbat, he will give a
dvar halacha. During
the 8 p.m. oneg, he will
address Charedim in
the Coal Mine: What the
Ultra-Orthodox Teach Us
About Being Religious
in America. At the
9 a.m. Shabbat morning
service he will give the
sermon and after Mincha
on Shabbat afternoon
he will talk about Mai
Chanukah? Rav Yitzchak
Hutner on the Revolution
of Chanukah. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Jewish inclusiveness:
Temple Emeth of
Teaneck s Viewpoints
Committee screens
Nicole Oppers film,
Off and Running, the
story of an AfricanAmerican girl adopted by
a Jewish lesbian family,
2:30 p.m. Viewpoints, a
shul committee that was
formed to celebrate the
diversity of the Jewish
community, includes
programs that highlight
the interfaith, interracial,
and LGBT communities.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Chanukah in Hoboken:
Ammi/My People
Jews By Choice has its
pre-Chanukah dinner
and Havdalah at the
United Synagogue of
Hoboken, 5 p.m. The
group is for people
who have completed
an introduction to
Judaism course and
are looking for the next
step. Discussions by
USH rabbinic intern
Lindsey Healey-Pollack
and Rabbi Robert
Scheinberg. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.
Sunday
December 18
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Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Lyla Cante
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Lyla Cante, a Judeo-
for a pre-Chanukah
celebration featuring
the Bossy Frog Band,
10 a.m. 87 Overlook Ave.
(201) 391-0801 or email
Margie@tepv.org
Chanukah at Home
Depot: Chabad of
Upper Passaic County
partners with Home
Depot in Riverdale for
a Chanukah menorah
workshop, 10-11:30 a.m.
Build a wooden menorah,
get a workers apron
and Chanukah treats.
The Home Depot, 106
Route 23, Riverdale.
(201) 696-7609 or
JewishHighlands.org.
Chanukah in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers Chanukah Fun
Day with food and
drinks, and activities
including magic,
laser tag, game truck,
and arts & crafts,
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 585
Russell Ave. Refreshments.
(201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Rick Recht
Chanukah in Woodcliff
Lake: Join members
of Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
DEC.
17
Chanukah in Hoboken:
The Kaplan Cooperative
Preschool, the Learning
Center, and the United
Synagogue of Hoboken
present A Chanukah
Concert with Rick Recht,
a day of celebration,
11 a.m.-3 p.m. 115 Park
Ave. (201) 659-4000 or
hobokensynagogue.org.
Chanukah at ShopRite:
Chanukah in Tenafly:
Shabbat in Emerson:
The mens club of
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts its annual
Chanukah dinner,
6:30 p.m. Services
follow. 53 Palisade
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
chapter of Moms
Demand Action for Gun
Sense in America, will
talk about gun violence
and the need for public
involvement. Kiddush
lunch follows. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320 or
www.synagogue.org.
Chanukah at Home
Depot: Chabad of
Hoboken & Jersey City
holds its Chanukah
workshop at Home
Depot in Jersey City,
11:15 a.m. Build a holiday
toolbox and fill it with
your own Chanukah
candles and dreidel,
meet Bob the Builder,
eat Chanukah treats.
Parents must accompany
children. A project of
the Home Depot with
Chabad of Hoboken &
Chanukah in Rockleigh:
Cantor Israel Singer of
Temple Emanu-El in
Closter leads a Chanukah
singalong with residents
at the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh, 11:15 am.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templemanu-el.com.
Folksbiene Yiddish
Theater, 1 p.m. Popcorn
and ice cream. Cancelled
if weather is bad. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Chanukah in Jersey
City: Congregation Bnai
Jacob hosts LatkeFest
2016, 4 p.m. Its all about
cooking and eating
latkes with CBJ, Temple
Beth-El of Jersey City,
and Temple Emanu-El
of Bayonne. Cooking
demos by the shuls best
latke makers, followed
by a tasting. Take home
recipes. 176 West Side
Ave. bnaijacobjc.com.
Chanukah in Franklin
Lakes: Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey continues
the monthly program
Sundays With Sokol
by showing 20 crazy
television commercials
from the 1960s and
then the Yiddish
video My Yiddishe
Chanukah, featuring a
multi-language concert
with members of the
Calendar
Challenge of the TorahChochmah Synthesis
in Light of Chanukah
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 8 p.m. Rabbi
Fridman is also associate
rosh ha-yeshiva at Torah
Academy of Bergen
County. Lecture in
memory of Shelly Rudoff.
389 West Englewood
Ave. (201) 837-2795.
Monday
december 19
Chanukah in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
hosts its special Night
of Giving, 5:30 p.m.,
open to all school-aged
children. Attendees will
light candles, eat latkes,
and make a craft to be
sent to underprivileged
children to light up their
lives. Gift donations
welcome. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Wednesday
December 21
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Tuesday
December 20
Torah Academy of
Bergen County holds
a blood drive with
New Jersey Blood
Services, a division of
New York Blood Center,
10 a.m.-4 p.m. 1600
Queen Anne Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Hadassah meets in
Paramus: TriBoro
Hadassah meets to
celebrate Chanukah with
comedy, food, raffles,
and prizes, at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 12:30 p.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 384-8005.
Thursday
December 22
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 3-9 p.m.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Friday
december 23
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds its
annual family Shabbat
service for Chanukah,
8 p.m. Bring menorahs,
candles, and friends, and
a can of nonperishable
food item to donate
to the Center for Food
Action. 1666 Windsor
Road. Reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Chanukah in Ringwood:
Chabad of Upper
Passaic County holds
a menorah lighting
ceremony with local
officials, 5:30 p.m. Crafts,
glow giveaways, latkes,
donuts, and chocolate
gelt. 110 Skyline Drive,
in front of Wells Fargo
Bank. (201) 696-7609 or
jewishhighlands.org.
Chanukah in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob celebrates
with a movie, cookies,
and Chinese food. 176
West Side Ave. www.
bnaijacobjc.com.
Saturday
December 24
Singles comedy/magic
in NYC: The Place To
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Sunday
December 18
Seniors meet in
Blauvelt: Singles 65+
of the JCC Rockland
meet for lunch at the
Blauvelt Coach Diner,
Saturday
December 24
Chanukah in Glen
Rock: The Glen Rock
Jewish Center hosts a
community menorah
lighting, with hot
cocoa and jelly donuts,
5:30 p.m. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Chanukah in
Ridgewood: Temple
Israel & JCC invites the
community to its first
night of celebration,
6:15 p.m. Participants
should bring a menorah.
Evening includes
Chinese food buffet,
dreidel games, kids
activities, and a movie.
Bring unopened
cleaning supplies or
toiletries to be donated
to Ridgewood Social
Services. 475 Grove
St. Reservations,
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
Sunday
December 25
online at www.compuscore.com or
www.runsignup.com. Proceeds will
benefit Bikur Cholim of Passaic-Clifton,
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A combination of virtual reality and treadmill training may prove effective in preventing dangerous falls associated with aging,
Parkinsons disease, mild cognitive impairment or dementia, according to an Israeli
study published in The Lancet.
The intervention described in the study
combines the physical and cognitive
aspects of walking, and could be implemented in gyms, rehabilitation centers and
nursing homes to improve walking skills
and prevent the falls of older adults and
those with movement disorders.
Falls often start a vicious cycle with
many negative health consequences, said
co-lead author Dr. Anat Mirelman of Tel
Aviv Universitys Sackler School of Medicine and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centers
Center for the Study of Movement, Cognition and Mobility.
The ability of older people to negotiate
obstacles can be impaired because of agerelated decline in cognitive abilities like
motor planning, divided attention, executive control, and judgment, she said.
Current interventions typically focus
almost exclusively on improving muscle
strength, balance and gait. Our approach
helps improve both physical mobility and
cognitive aspects that are important for safe
walking, she continued.
We found that virtual reality plus treadmill training helped to reduce fall frequency and fall risk for at least six months
after training significantly more than
treadmill training alone. This suggests that
our use of virtual reality successfully targeted the cognitive aspects of safe ambulation to reduce the risk of falls.
Mirelman and Dr. Jeffrey Hausdorff
and their Israeli research team, in collaboration with partners across Europe,
collected data from 282 participants at
five clinical sites in Belgium, Israel, Italy,
the Netherlands and the UK between
2013 and 2015.
The participants, all aged 60 to 90, were
able to walk at least five minutes unassisted, were on stable medications and had
reported at least two falls in the six months
prior to the start of the study. Nearly half
of all participants had Parkinsons disease, and 43 of them had mild cognitive
impairment.
Participants were assigned to treadmill
training with virtual reality (146) or treadmill training alone (136). The virtual reality component consisted of a camera that
captured the movement of participants
feet and projected it onto a screen in front
of the treadmill, so that participants could
see their feet walking on the screen in
real time.
The game-like simulation was designed
to reduce the risk of falls in older adults by
including real-life challenges such as avoiding and stepping over obstacles like puddles or hurdles, and navigating pathways.
It also provided motivation by providing
feedback on performance and scores on
the game.
While the incidence of falls was similar
in the two groups prior to the intervention,
six months after training the rate of falls
dropped by almost 50 percent among those
who trained with VR. In contrast, there was
no significant reduction in fall rates among
subjects who did not train with the VR.
Interestingly, when we asked people
if they enjoyed the treatment program,
participants in the virtual reality group
reported higher scores on user satisfaction questionnaires and a greater desire to
continue to exercise with the game, said
Hausdorff.
This suggests that the virtual reality
not only led to fewer falls, it was also more
likely to be used in the long-term. Exercise
needs to be fun and effective if it is going to
be used continually.
Hausdorff said the biggest improvement was seen in participants with Parkinsons disease.
It was very exciting to see such improvement in the presence of a neurodegenerative disease, he said.
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