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l It’s a TV show about nostal-
gia for a certain era of American
Jewish life.
And now it’s part of the most
nostalgic Jewish holiday.
Yes, the hit Amazon series
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” now
has a tie-in Haggadah.
Inevitably, it’s a Maxwell House
Haggadah.
The coffee company is offer-
ing a limited edition version of its
Haggadah featuring illustrations
and other shtick based on the
show about an aspiring Jew-
ish comedian and her extended
family of Jewish relatives in late
1950s New York.
The “Maisel” Haggadah is a
throwback to an earlier edition of
the Haggadah that the company
has been offering as a holiday
giveaway since 1932. Illustrations
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of Midge Maisel and other char-
acters are scattered throughout
the new version, which also has
handwritten notations by Rachel
Brosnahan’s character as well as
faux wine stains.
The limited-run Haggadahs are
available to people who order
Maxwell House coffee via Ama-
zon.com. Passover begins on the
evening of April 19.
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presidential candidate talked about how
he was raised by a Christian mother who
taught Sunday school. He said “Christ is
the center of my life.”
But then Booker said, “Can I quote
some Hebrew to you?
“I studied the Torah, too,” he said. “There’s a song
sung during the High Holidays: ‘Ki veiti beit t’fila yikareh
l’chol ha’amim’ — ‘May my house be a house of prayer
for many nations.’
“We are the United States of America. We were not
formed as a theocracy. We were formed on the ideal
that many of us in our diversity can come together and
create one strong whole. And if I am president of the
Roger Waters
gets April-fooled:
class. That same year Jeffrey Goldberg, now
the editor in chief of The Atlantic, said that
Booker knows more Torah than most of the
Senate’s Jewish members.
Booker’s love for Judaism can be traced
at least partially to the roots of his friend-
ship with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, whom he met while
he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. (The friendship has
since foundered.) Boteach was Chabad’s rabbi on cam-
pus at the time.
“I would give him Baldwin and DuBois,” Booker told
the New York Times in 2002, during his first run for
Newark mayor, describing his relationship with Boteach.
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ON THE COVER: The Temple Emeth
group walks in the footsteps of
the Bloody Sunday civil rights
protestors, who crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge and were
beaten by the police massed on the
other side. The bridge is a seminal
place in civil rights history.
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l An April Fools’ tweet by an Israeli government- Friday, April 5, 7:07 p.m.
sponsored Twitter account managed to boil the Shabbat ends:
blood of Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder
Saturday, April 6, 8:08 p.m.
known for his anti-Israel stance.
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Noshes “Hummus was one of the first prestige

grocery foods. Hummus was the
Sopranos of the grocery store.”
— Food scientist Ali Bouzari, quoted in an Atlantic article
“In the Future, Everything Will Be Made of Chickpeas”

‘SHAZAM’!:

Just say the word

for superhero-dom
“Shazam” is the says the words “Cap- Classic (WBC). RYAN biah Games in Israel.
first feature film tain Marvel.” The adult BRAUN, 35, outfielder/ He was in the majors
since 1941 to depict Freddie is played by first base, Milwaukee. for most of 2018, but
this famous D.C. ADAM BRODY, 39. This 6X All-Star and saw limited playing
comics hero. Of course, Brody still probably is Asher Angel Rachel Bloom the 2011 NL MVP isn’t time. IAN KINSLER,
he is a superhero who best known as a co- the dominant play- 36, second base, San
fights evil. In this star of the hit show er he once was and Diego. Like Braun, this
movie, he’s fighting the “The O.C.” his batting average 4x All-Star isn’t the
evil forces controlled dipped in 2018. Still he star he once was. Still,
by Dr. Sivana (Mark ‘Crazy’w comes hit 20 homers. ALEX he posts okay hitting
Strong). Shazam’s to an end BREGMAN, 24, short- stats and he won a
secret is that he The series finale of stop/ third base, Hous- Golden Glove in 2018
actually is a teen boy CW’s “My Crazy ton. Bregman signed a for his great fielding.
named Billy Batson Ex-Girlfriend” will six-year, $100M dollar JOC PEDERSON, 26,
who turns into a ripped air on April 5 at 8 p.m. contract extension in outfielder, Los Angeles
adult with many You don’t have to be a March. He’s now the Dodgers. Pederson,
superpowers by follower of the TV highest paid Jewish a streak power hitter
shouting the word show to tune in to the baseball player ever. who was frequently
“Shazam!” (Opens special that immedi- Robert Stock Rowdy Tellez This contract is a tes- injured, stayed healthy
April 5.) ately follows the finale tament to how well in 2018 and hit more
The adult Batson/ at 9 p.m. It’s called and an Oscar nomi- writer (“How I Met Your Bregman has played consistently. He played
Shazam is played by “Yes, It’s Really Us nee, was a founding Mother,” among oth- since mid-2016, when for Israel in the 2013
Zachary Levi, who isn’t Singing: The ‘Crazy member of the popular ers). Bloom’s cousin is he joined the “big WBC. KEVIN PILLAR,
Jewish. The teen Billy Ex-Girlfriend’ Concert band Fountains of a rabbi and performed club.” His hitting and 30, outfielder, Toronto.
Batson is played by Special!” Taped in Wayne. His credits in- their wedding. fielding led the Astros This former bar mitz-
ASHER ANGEL, 16. An- March, the concert clude writing the songs to their first World vah boy is a consis-
gel is a co-star of “Andi features “Crazy” star for the hit musical Play ball!: The Series championship tently good hitter and
Mack,” a current Disney RACHEL BLOOM, 31, movie “That Thing You Tribe on the big- in 2017. He repeated in base stealer. ROBERT
TV series for teens. and the cast of the Do” and co-writing the league diamond 2018, with great bat- STOCK, 29, relief
Angel comes from series performing live Fountains of Wayne The 2019 baseball ting stats that includ- pitcher, San Diego.
an observant Arizona versions of fan-favorite 2003 hit single “Sta- season began on ed 31 homers. He was After nine years in the
family and he had a bar songs. They are cy’s Mom.” He grew March 28. The a 2918 All-Star team minors, Stock made his
mitzvah. The role of accompanied by a up mostly in Montclair. following players have member — and, yes, he big league debut last
Freddie Freeman also band and an orchestra. Well-known actor JON at least one Jewish had a bar mitzvah. Fun June. His 100 mph fast-
is played by two peo- Bloom, ADAM BERENTHAL, 42, is his parent and identify as fact: His family went ball may keep him up.
ple. Freddie is Billy’s SCHLESINGER, 52, and first cousin. Jewish or secular. to the same Albuquer- And ROWDY TELLEZ,
foster brother, and he’s JACK DOLGEN, 50ish, By the way, Bloom, RICHARD BLEIER, que synagogue as the 24, first base, Toronto.
the only person who wrote 150 songs for unlike her TV charac- 31, relief pitcher, Bal- family of ALEXI ASHE, He was called up last
knows that Billy is Sha- the series, which have ter, has been happily timore. He has post- Seth Meyer’s wife. MAX September and was on
zam. The teen Fred- gotten them three married since 2015. ed great stats in the FRIED, 25, pitcher, At- a hitting tear for the
die becomes an adult Emmy nominations. Her husband, DAN last two seasons. He lanta. Fried had a bar rest of the season. Re-
superhero — Captain Schlesinger, an Emmy GREGOR, 39, is a played for Israel in the mitzvah and played member this guy.
Marvel Jr. — when he and Grammy winner successful TV sit-com 2013 World Baseball in the 2009 Macca- –N.B.

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From immigration debates to robotics, in one book
TABC students look at some of today’s political controversies
through the lens of a poor, gifted Mexican’s journey
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
I
n the snowy Mexican village where Oscar
Vazquez spent his childhood, kids had to carry
firewood to school if they wanted to keep warm.
Desperate to provide for his family, Oscar’s father
went off to toil in Idaho potato fields, got deported after
a year, and subsequently went back over the border to
find work in Phoenix. That was where he relocated his
family in 1998, when Oscar was 12.
Although Oscar was bright and motivated, and later
he would serve with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, his
illegal entry into the country proved a costly hardship.
Earlier this year, all 333 students at the Torah
Academy of Bergen County read a book about Oscar
Vazquez and his friends Cris-
tian, Luis, and Lorenzo. The
book, by Joshua Davis, is called
“Spare Parts: Four Undocu-
mented Teenagers, One Ugly
Robot, and The Battle for the
American Dream.”
On March 27, Mr. Vazquez
came to the Teaneck high
school for boys for its ninth
annual Book Day, an event
packed with activities related
to themes in the year’s chosen
book — in this case, immigra-
tion law, Mexican culture, and
robotics, among others.
“Spare Parts” describes what
led the four Mexican teenagers
who were in an elective high-
school marine-science class Oscar Vazquez tells TABC students
to enter the Marine Advanced about his immigrant experience.
Technology Education Robot-
ics at the University of California Competition in 2004.
Mentored by two dedicated teachers from their gritty
public school, the boys chose to compete not against
peers but against sophisticated college-level teams from
institutions including MIT.
The audience in the Teaneck yeshiva already knew
what happened next, but listened attentively as Mr.
Vazquez told them how, despite building their under-
water robot out of glued-together PVC pipes and wires
on a shoestring budget, the Mexican high-school
seniors won the competition. They also won the tech-
nical writing prize and a special award for finding an
ingenious solution — tampons — to contain a leak in
their project.
After writer and film producer Joshua Davis wrote
about the unlikely triumph of these undocumented
teenagers, Mr. Vazquez received a Fulbright scholar-
ship to Arizona State University. Two years later, new
state immigration regulations caused him to lose his
scholarship; nevertheless, he graduated with a degree
in mechanical engineering.
It wasn’t until Mr. Vazquez tried to join the military,
having completed the ROTC (Reserve Officer Training
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TABC students and faculty surround Oscar Vazquez after his speech.
Corps) program in high school,
that he realized the full impact
of not having a birth certificate,
passport, or citizenship papers.
His difficult path to citizen-
ALIZA FISCHMAN/TABC
ship required going back to live
in Mexico for a year, while his his women compile and input from volunteer student
wife and daughter stayed in the
United States. In June 2011 Mr.
Vazquez finally became a U.S.
citizen, served in the military for and providing a human side to an issue that they can
more than three years, and now
does business analytics for BNSF
Railway Company.
Mr. Vazquez has come a long way from that December
night when he was a terrified 12-year-old slipping across
the border into the American desert with his mom.
“I didn’t know what it meant to come through a hole
in the fence,” he told his TABC audience of students,
teachers, and administrators. “I just knew that I was
now in a different country.”
Eli Levine of Teaneck, a senior at TABC, said that
hearing about the hole in the fence and the critical lack
of official papers “gave me a whole different perspec-
tive about kids who came into the country illegally, not
by their own choice, and don’t understand what that
means.”
Eli got to explore that perspective further by attend-
ing a Book Day session titled “Is Empathy Really a Good
Thing?” led by Michael Atlas, a clinical psychologist
who is TABC’s director of student support.
Dr. Atlas explained that current research sheds doubt
on whether identifying with the pain of others actually
is helpful in terms of our own emotional well-being and
moral decision making.
“Even though everyone talks about how empathy is
so important, too much empathy is bad because it can
ALIZA FISCHMAN/TABC
cloud your judgment. It’s really compassion that’s more
important,” Eli learned.
TABC English department chair Carol Master orga-
nizes Book Day with former school librarian Leah
Moskovits. Over the summer, a faculty committee
chooses that year’s book, based on a short list the two
readers.
“It has to be a book that is appropriate for our students
and touches on a different culture, opening their world
relate to and that piques their interest,” Dr. Master said.
“Spare Parts” was especially topical this school year,
when the issue of funding for walls across the Mexican
border shut down the federal government for 35 days.
“I could see in our discussions in class that they felt
this book was relevant to their lives though it described
a very different culture than they’ve been exposed to,”
she said. “We tried to use it as a springboard to discuss
how America is a country of immigrants and how one
deals with immigrants. We hope that by learning about
what people go through as immigrants, our students
will understand the issues in a different way.”
While Book Day sessions ranged from Mexican cook-
ing to graphic novels to auto mechanics, immigration
was the central theme.
The keynote speaker was Englewood’s Mayor
Michael Wildes, who is the managing partner of immi-
gration law firm Wildes and Weinberg, an adjunct pro-
fessor of business immigration law at Cardozo School of
Law, and the author of “Safe Haven in America: Battles
to Open the Golden Door.”
Mr. Wildes’ firm, which his father, Leon, established
in 1960, has represented such clients as John Lennon,
Melania Trump, Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, Lionel
Richie, Boy George, and Pelé, along with plenty of reg-
ular people seeking a better life in the United States.

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Book Day co-chairs Dr. Carol Master, left, and
Leah Moskovits with presenter Oscar Vazquez.
Referring to American immigration policy, Mr. Wil-
des said, “Our door needs to be hinged open; no wall
is going to protect us … and we have to make sure that
we, the ‘people of the passport,’ set the standard” as
a light unto the nations. Mr. Wildes noted the Torah’s
emphasis on being kind to the stranger, detailing his
strong opposition to separating members of immi-
grant families.
Several breakout sessions dealt with immigration
from a variety of angles.
TABC’s Bible department chairman, Rabbi Howard
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Joshua Arrington talked to the students about
“Technology & Prosthetics.”
Jachter, presented Torah sources that could shape
a Jewish approach to today’s divisive debates about
immigration.
The head of school, Rabbi Asher Yablok, suggested
drawing inspiration from the Torah’s reference to the
exodus from Egypt as a cause for compassion to strang-
ers, and he led a discussion on how the modern Jew-
ish immigrant experience might affect our outlook on
immigration reform.
Rabbi Daniel Fridman, who heads the Jewish Cen-
ter of Teaneck and is a member of TABC’s academic
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and administrative staffs, proposed the Jewish legal
perspective on “ger toshav,” a gentile dwelling in
Jewish society, as a paradigm for Judaism’s attitude
toward the immigrant.
Delia Nagar, a Spanish teacher at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva
High School for Girls in Teaneck, told her personal
story as a Jewish Mexican immigrant.
TABC history teacher Marita Poline emceed a Jeop-
ardy-style game in which categories included famous
immigrants, contributions by Jewish immigrants to
American culture, and the places from which Jews emi-
grated and where they settled.
Debby Alter, the director of immigrant and refugee
services at the Jewish Family and Vocational Service of
Middlesex County, described the process required to
become a legal immigrant and then a U.S. citizen.
The robotics angle also was resonant, because the
school has a maker space with 3D printers.
With Mr. Vazquez there to give advice, TABC’s
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math-
ematics) coordinator Aryeh Tiefenbrunn helped stu-
dents design a waterproof housing for the electronic
components of an underwater robot like the one
described in “Spare Parts.”
“Our TABC robotics team is currently building a
robot that can shoot baskets on a mini basketball hoop
for an upcoming competition,” Mr. Tiefenbrunn said.
At Book Day, he led a discussion of how the human
body can inspire robotic designs, and what types of
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Fair Lawn celebrates Yudins
for a kinship of 50 years
Rebbetzin Shevi and Rabbi Benjamin Yudin look back at their community
— and it looks at them — with love and wonderment
Joanne Palmer
T
here seem to be different ways
of building a community.
It can develop entirely on
its own, sprawling organically
and uncontrollably, overspilling bound-
aries, sometimes going too far.
It can organize around a high-octane
charismatic leader, following rigid guide-
lines, growing but always facing inward,
back toward him. (Usually it’s a him.)
Or it can grow organically around
the nucleus of a charismatic leader (or
perhaps leaders, maybe a husband and
wife) who is so low-key that the idea of
charisma seems inappropriate until you
step far enough back to see clearly that
yes, it is charisma, that the growth is nei-
ther rigid nor uncontrolled.
And perhaps that central couple,
those two who are the nucleus of the
expanding, humming, vibrant bubble,
are so modest — modest for real — that
the thought of claiming any kind of
credit for the vitality around them is
borderline distasteful and makes them
genuinely uncomfortable.
That can’t be a very common situa-
tion — surely it is by far the least com-
mon of these three — but it’s what’s hap-
pened in Fair Lawn.
Rebbetzin Shevi and Rabbi Benjamin
Yudin of Shomrei Torah are at the cen-
ter of the Orthodox community that
they started to nurture when they first
moved there, at the behest of Yeshiva
University, exactly half a century ago.
Next Sunday, the community will cel-
ebrate those 50 years with them at a
gala (see box), as the Yudins move into
an active, still-to-be-defined retirement,
very much in place.
Their story begins even more than 50
years ago.
Shevi Werner and Benjamin Yudin
both grew up in Crown Heights, in
Brooklyn, back when Crown Heights
was deeply Orthodox but not yet over-
whelmingly Chabad. Shevi’s father,
Irving Werner, was born in Brooklyn,
from parents who came from Poland;
her mother, Sarah Kesten Werner, was
brought to the Lower East Side from
Russia when she was 3 years old. Her
father-in-law, Alexander Yudin, and her
mother-in-law, Adele Bernstein Yudin,
both were born in New York.
The families were friends, and their
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Rebbetzin Shevi and Rabbi Benjamin Yudin
children, who were the same age, grew
up together; they were members of
the same shul —Young Israel of Eastern
Parkway — and went to the same school.
“Our families walked home from syna-
gogue together,” Rebbetzin Yudin said.
“What started as close family ties and
friendship, and similar background and
beliefs, ended up in an engagement.”
Both of them were 20 years old when
they married. Both were in college — he
in YU, where he got an undergraduate
degree, a master’s degree in Jewish his-
tory, and smicha, rabbinic ordination,
and she first in Brooklyn College and
then in City. She also earned certifica-
tion from YU’s Teachers Institute for
Women.
At first, the young couple lived in
Washington Heights; she taught Hebrew
school and he taught at YU’s high school,
MTA.
This was in the late 1960s, the cusp of
the postwar and antiwar explosions. Peo-
ple were leaving cities; Jews, like their
neighbors, were considering the appeal
of grass and shrubs and single-family
houses and garages and bicycles left out-
side overnight; they also were propelled
by the increasing violence and poverty
that they saw in inner cities.
You can’t have a sustainable Ortho-
dox community without a minyan. YU
saw both a danger and an opportunity. It
started seeding new settlements, includ-
ing Shomrei Torah. “YU wanted to do
that so that kids going to YU from there
would have an Orthodox shul to go to.
Rabbi Robert Hirt of YU’s division of new
communities told my husband about a
fledgling congregation in Fair Lawn,”
Rebbetzin Yudin said. “There was an
opening for a weekend rabbi.”
Okay, sure, but New Jersey? “We were
city folks,” Rebbetzin Yudin said. “When
we were in Brooklyn, that seemed like
the country to our family who still was
in the Lower East Side. And then when
we moved to Washington Heights, that
really was the country.”
Still, “my husband tried out for it,”
she continued. “They offered him the
job that summer, right after that, and
we moved here three days before Rosh
Hashanah in 1969.”
“At first we thought that the biggest
perk living here would be not having to
drive around looking for parking.” They
already needed a car, she said, “so my
father gave us his ’55 Plymouth.”
When the Yudins moved to Fair Lawn,
the congregation, which was about two
years old, had 17 families; 10 were active,
Rebbetzin Yudin said, and the other
seven were supportive, although they
showed up far less regularly.
Soon, it became clear that the com-
munity needed a rabbi all week long.
Rabbi Yudin continued to teach, first
still at MTA and then at YU — in fact, he
still continues to teach at YU four days a
week, as well as in Fair Lawn — but the
job became full time, for both Yudins.
To be clear, it is ludicrously inac-
curate to call the work that Shevi and
Benjamin Yudin do a job. It’s a life. It’s
their lives. Their joint life. It is not melo-
dramatic to say that their two hearts,
together, have become the beating
heart of the community.
“My husband loves being able to com-
bine being a pulpit rabbi and a teacher,”
his wife said. “He never wastes any
time. His Shabbos table is a teaching
experience.” What about her? “When I
saw the amount of work he was doing, I
realized that it was better for me to join
his life, and to complement whatever
he does,” she said. “Basically, he leaves
every day and I am the one who is here
to answer the phone, to answer the
doorbell, to give him messages.” And
of course to counsel and to cook and to
listen and to give warmth. “My day is
never boring,” she said.
When they first came to Fair Lawn,
the Yudins — the two adults and their
oldest child, who was 2 1/2 then — lived
in a standard local house, above the
small space where the minyanim met.
“Our salary was $25 a week,” Rebbetzin
Yudin said. As the shul grew, so did the
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Yudins
from page 8
building; it moved to another part of the
house, which was joined by its neighbor,
doubling its size. Eventually, the com-
munity bought land across the street
and built a shul. There still is a parking
lot outside the Yudins’ house, which
makes sense, because the house, with
its perpetually unlocked door, is an irre-
sistible magnet, apparently to everyone
who’s ever met either Yudin. Really, any
Yudin. And that’s a lot of people.
“Because we were so small and so
insular in the beginning, age wasn’t a
factor,” Rebbetzin Yudin said. They did
not hold themselves back from relation-
ships. Often, back then, their friends
were older than they were; now, often
they’re young. It doesn’t matter. “There
isn’t a generation gap between someone
who is 20, or 10, or 90,” she said. “On
Friday mornings, my husband can sit
with the kids in the nursery school” — oh
yes, the synagogue has one of those too,
named after Leah Sokoloff. “He brings
the parsha to life.”
For decades, he’s gone on Nachum
Segal’s radio show, JM in the AM, where
he discusses the parashat hashavuah —
the weekly Torah reading. “His father
had died suddenly, and his mother was
sad,” Rebbetzin Yudin said. “He thought
it would be a good treat for his mother
if she could hear him on the radio.” It
was. It cheered her. “So that started as
a one-time thing — but it’s gone on for
30 years. Men from some of the founding families break ground for the new synagogue building in 1979.
“And then he goes to Daughters of
Miriam” — the nursing home in Clifton grandchildren, making Rabbi and Reb- Rebbetzin Yudin sees her choices as waves of emigration from the Soviet
— “every Friday afternoon.” betzin Yudin great-grandparents. Some obvious ones, pretty much no-brainers. Union and then later the former Soviet
He used to bring their children with of them live in Israel; the rest live either “Because we lived in such close proxim- Union. Most of them came with no Jew-
him to visit shut-ins on Friday after- in New Jersey or on Long Island. “We get ity to the shul, it would either be a closed ish background, but many of them found
noons, his wife said, and now he brings tremendous joy from our beautiful fam- door or an open one,” she said. “And for their way to Shomrei Torah, where the
his grandchildren to Daughters of Mir- ily,” Rebbetzin Yudin said. me, an open-house life style is just bet- Yudins welcomed them.
iam. “That’s how they spend time with Esther Schneider Sherizen lives in Oak ter. It was comfortable for me. And if I Laura Brook, who was born in Belarus
their grandfather. Park, a Detroit suburb, but she grew up had a shut door, all those people would and grew up in Riga, Latvia, is among
“My kids saw the whole life cycle in Fair Lawn. Her father, George Schnei- be shut out of my life.” that group. She moved to Fair Lawn in
growing up,” she continued. “They saw der, was Shomrei Torah’s first presi- “I saw all that, growing up, and when 1991. “I came with no religious back-
people in challenging times as well as in dent. “Esther was a little girl then, and I got married, I told my husband that the ground,” she said. “We knew about
happy times. They were able to realize now she’s a grandmother,” Rebbetzin one thing I really wanted in my home was Pesach but celebrated it with a family
that the sad times also were part of life. Yudin said. They’re still close, as was a guest room,” Ms. Sherizen said. She cre- dinner. I knew about Chanukah from my
And they saw people’s courage. They clear when Ms. Sherizen walked into ated one; she offered the same kind of grandmother, and I knew that on Yom
saw how some of them were able to pick the house, and the two women beamed hospitality the Yudins did. “I knew how Kippur you fast, but it was just when I
themselves up and go on living, how at each other and hugged tightly. “That’s to do that, I knew how to make our house got here that I learned anything about
their faith in God would give them some how it is with a lot of the kids who grew the Shabbat and yom tov home, because it.” Her teachers were the Yudins.
comfort. They weren’t afraid of funerals. up here, Rebbetzin Yudin said. “They I learned from Shevi. It’s a chain. One “The rabbi’s class is so interesting,” she
They weren’t afraid. move away, but the bond continues.” thing leads to anther, and you find your- said. “No matter how busy you are, you
“We shared our lives with our kids. “My dad and a couple of others met self knowing how to do it. run to it. If you skip it, you skip something
Not other people’s secrets, of course, in somebody’s living room” as they “Shevi has an incredible amount of very important. It is food for the soul.”
but they knew when Abba had a funeral. planned to open Shomrei Torah, Ms. patience, and the ability to give to others,” Elaine Reinheimer and her husband,
We would have a plan for a Sunday after- Sherizen said. “I think about the cour- Ms. Sherizen said. “That’s who she is.” Michael, moved to Fair Lawn 47 years ago,
noon with then, but invariably some- age it took for them to pull these first Lillie Mentzel and her husband, Stu, and joined Shomrei Torah immediately.
thing would come up.” meetings together. There were a lot of have been members of Shomrei Torah She’d known the Yudins even longer; she
They must have done something right, nay-sayers.” But the community took for 46 years. “Shevi was the first person was a secretary at YU when Rabbi Yudin
she added. “Four out of our five sons off. And “Shevi always welcomed people we met,” Ms. Mentzel said. “She isn’t just was a student there. “I got a sneak peek
have smicha, and so do our sons-in-law.” into her home. And into her life. a friend. She is a mother, a sister, a confi- at him, and that’s why I moved here,” she
The Yudins have seven children. “My mother always said that she dant, an everything.” said. “My children are who they are today
All their children are married, and wasn’t a Chevy,” Ms. Sherizen con- Many Russian-speaking Jews found because of Rabbi and Shevi. They both
all have children; some already have cluded. “She’s really a Cadillac.” their way to Fair Lawn in the various See Yudins page 12
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live in Israel. And we include Rabbi and
Shevi as part of our family.
“My mother moved to Daughters of
Miriam seven years ago, and Rabbi visits
her every Friday,” she added.
And then there’s Janusz Legutko,
Shomrei Torah’s custodian. He was
born in Poland, where he was a math
teacher — and a Roman Catholic. He
found his way to Shomrei Torah, where
he got a job. He did not think about con-
version, at least, not at first. But he was
drawn in by the Yudins’ warmth and
care, and also by the intellectual and
spiritual content of their lives. Now, he
lives in the Yudins’ house part of the
week, and also is a counselor at the
Sheli house for special needs kids. He
grew very close to Rebbetzin Yudin’s
father while the older man was getting
dialysis, and so he, too, has been incor-
porated into the Yudins’ family.
“Chesed” — acts of loving kindness
— “are a boomerang,” Rebbetzin Yudin
said. “The love that he had for my par-
ents, and the help that he gave to me —
there are no words.”
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, who leads
Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck, is
married to the Yudin’s older daughter,
Chaviva.
The Yudins’ is a “50-year-long story,”
Rabbi Rothwachs said. At the beginning,
“there are many stories, some of them
apocryphal, about how my father-in-law
would pull people off the street for a
minyan. Students of his would come for
a daily minyan, and he’d promise them a
home-cooked breakfast in return.
“It was very hands-on.
“And then, slowly but surely, it grew,
and people moved to Fair Lawn. It was
at one point probably the biggest or sec-
ond biggest established Jewish commu-
nity in Bergen County, after Teaneck,
and then the entire Jewish commu-
nity in Bergen County exploded, but it
became contagious. Today, there are
seven Orthodox shuls in Fair Lawn, and
the more options, the better.
“What makes my in-laws most unique
— there are several ways, really — but
it mostly is that they are known to be
completely selfless, in every way. There
is no way for them that the rabbinate is
a career. It’s not a job. It’s not really an
occupation, even. For anyone, even for
rabbis, there is a point of separation
between their professional public per-
sona and their personal one. My in-laws
feel such a genuine love and connection
for every person in the world, no matter
how important or unimportant, and their
home can become a second home — and
in many cases a first home — for people
who either were literally homeless or fac-
ing challenges. Their hands-on nurturing
of so many people continues to this day.
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In 2017, the family gathered for the wedding of Chanina and Rabbi Larry Rothwachs’ daughter Shani and Yisroel
Benovitz.
“They are retiring, but one really
knows what they are retiring from,” he
continued. “Their house operates like a
soup kitchen.” (Or, as Rebbetzin Yudin
puts it, “I don’t have furniture. I have
chairs.” And tables and a vast kitchen.
And a constantly ringing phone, silent
only on Shabbat, imperiously vibrating
all the rest of the time.)
“Hundreds of people walk in every
week. Nobody knocks. They just walk
in and take what they need. That can’t
change. That will continue for as long
as their hearts beat. They cannot retire
from that.”
The two work together seamlessly,
he added. “There is a real partner-
ship between them. There are very few
duties or tasks that they both do. There
is hardly any overlap. He goes out there
and brings people into the house, and
she takes over from there — feeds them,
clothes them, and loves them. He teaches
them. She sits with them and counsels
them. It is very natural and fluid. They
don’t review it. There is no official set of
policies and procedures. It is all 100 per-
cent real, and they are selfless.
“And the real miracle is that they and
their children and their grandchildren
are normal. They are very normal.” And
almost all the men have gone into the
family business, he added.
Rabbi Rothwachs is not alone in being
influenced by his in-laws, he said. “Many
young men who grew up in Fair Lawn
have become rabbis, and many young
women who grew up there have become
teachers and leaders in their communi-
ties. All of them will tell you that they are
inspired by the Yudins.”
Rabbi Yudin is almost too busy to talk,
but he makes time, not grudgingly, but
with a certain rushed patience. “I don’t
have time, but I’ll make time in the time
I don’t have,” he said.
“I’m going to the hospital now,” to
visit patients. “I don’t have a contract to
go there, but it has to be done,” he said.
“Personal involvement is the way I was
privileged to build a congregation, and
that has spilled over, thank God, to the
community,” he said. “Having a personal
rapport, one, one, one. Each person is
made to feel welcome in the community.
“Part of it comes from studying with
them. There is no greater bond that one
Jew can have with another than study-
ing Torah with them. There is something
about the Torah itself — it is eternal, it is
divine — that when you share that with
someone else, that person realizes that
you are not just sharing information but
you are sharing inspiration and destiny.
So I thank God that over the years I have
been privileged to share Torah with so
many different people.”
Over the years, the community has
grown and it has what it needs — kosher
food, a shul, an eruv, a mikvah, a char-
ity fund, he said. “Each family has their
needs, so at one given time we can have
a funeral and a wedding.
“The challenge is based on the third
book of the Torah, Leviticus, where we
are told to love your neighbor as your-
self, to feel with them. If they are going
through a loss, you have to be there with
them. And two hours later, you have to
switch modes and be ready to dance
with the next family at a wedding. You
can’t say, ‘Today I am not in the mood
to dance. I just came from a funeral. The
ability to focus on loving your neighbor
as yourself — that is a challenge.
“How do I do it? With great difficulty.
I am only human.”
When anyone talks about the Yudins,
they always use the word humility. The
Yudins’ modesty is bone-deep, they
say; their humility, their insistence on
being seen as just like everyone else,
Jerry Meyer Studios
their understanding of themselves as no
more giving, no more loving, no more
generous than anyone else in their posi-
tion would be, is a textbook illustration
of humility in action.
Of course, they don’t see it that way.
They see themselves as just part of the
community. But they do acknowledge
the community’s marvels.
“When you do a needlepoint, the back
is all knots,” Rebbitzin Yudin said. “On the
other side, you see, piece by piece, how it
all comes together.” The community’s like
that, she said; now, it’s full and bursting
with color, its shape visible on both sides.
The Yudins are more or less retiring,
they say, but they are so integrally part
of the community that their next chal-
lenge will be to withdraw from some
parts of the leadership, to leave its direc-
tion open to its next rabbi and new gen-
eration of leaders, but also to stay on in
a new role.
“This is our place,” Rebbetzin Yudin
said. “This is our home. So we won’t be
the parents of the shul any more. We’ll
be the grandparents. We are not looking
to end the life we love so much.”
Because when your job isn’t a job
but your life, then it changes when you
retire, but the love behind it doesn’t
ever change.
Who: The community of
Congregation Shomrei Torah
in Fair Lawn
What: Celebrate Shevi and
Benjamin Yudin as they retire
after 50 years
When: On Sunday, April 7, at 5 p.m.
Where: At the Atrium Plaza,
401 NY-59, in Monsey
For more information,
reservations, or donations:
Call (201)981-9201
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‘Shoelaces’
Israeli film is fiction but reflects director’s
relationship with his special-needs son
LARRY YUDELSON
S
“ hoelaces,” the 2018 Israeli film that will play
Wednesday night in Nanuet as part of the
Rockland Jewish Film Festival (see box), tells
the story of the complicated relationship
between an aging father and his special-needs adult son,
whom he abandoned while he was still a young boy. At
the center of the plot is the son’s desire to donate one
of his kidneys to help his ill father. When the transplant
committee rules that the son is not competent to make
the decision, and that his father, his legal guardian, does
not have the right to make it for him, the son sets out to
fight that decision.
The film won the audience awards at the Atlanta, Bos-
ton, and Los Angeles Jewish film festivals, and a best sup-
porting actor award at Israel’s Academy Awards, the Ophir.
But for years after hearing the true story that inspired
the film, director Jacob Goldwasser resisted making it.
The reason: The story cut too close to the bone.
“We have a son with special needs,” Mr. Goldwasser
said. “As part of a self-protection of my heart, I decided
not to do films about my tzuris, my problems. I felt much
more at ease dealing with other people’s problems.”
“For 12 years I ran away from the story.”
What changed?
Blame the film’s lead actor, Nevo Kimchi. Mr. Kim-
chi was a leading character in Mr. Goldwasser’s series
Hack it together!
Bergen, Rockland students compete in all-female coding challenge at Lander
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
S
ilvia Pan, an engineer at AMC Networks, often
is the only woman in the room when she is at
hackathons, intense coding events where teams
collaborate on building apps or websites, often
over the course of a sleepless weekend.
But as a judge at Hack It Together, an all-female
12-hour hackathon held at Lander College for Women in
Manhattan on March 3, Ms. Pan noted that she was sur-
rounded by 120 female student hackers and expressed
her wish that this experience would “encourage more
women to go into tech.”
Gender was not the only aspect that set Hack It
Together apart. Because Lander is a division of the Ortho-
dox-affiliated Touro College and University System, this
Sunday hackathon offered participants an atmosphere
that did not desecrate the Sabbath and where the meals
and energy-boosting snacks were strictly kosher.
“As a religious Jew, there aren’t so many of these
types of events I can participate in because they always
involve Shabbes,” Sarah Cohen of Wesley Hills said. “It
ends up being super annoying because these events
are a cornerstone of getting into the computer-science
industry; it’s a great way to network and gain expe-
rience.” Ms. Cohen, a computer-science major and
14 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
“Meorav Yerushalmi” — meaning
“Jerusalem mix” — that aired for three
seasons spread out between 2003 and
2010. He also played leading roles in
the Israeli series “Hostages,” which is
now available on Netflix, and “Prisoner
of War,” which inspired the Showtime
series “Homeland.”
Mr. Goldwasser saw him perform
in another project, a small role where
he played “a guy with intellectual dis-
abilities. That is how you say it in the “We worked together on every line in
cleaned-up slang,” he added, using a the script. We discussed his character. We
more direct word that we will not use built him from the ground up: How he
to make his subject fully clear. “It was a Jacob Goldwasser stands, how he talks, how he looks, how
very appealing, very touching charac- he laughs. Everything.”
ter. He really did a wonderful job. The script was honed through years of editing, until it
“I wrote to him a lot of compliments. And in a few was finally approved by the committee that allocates gov-
words I told him about the story that I am refusing to ernment investment for the Israeli film industry.
make for 12 years. “You have to be firm enough and strong enough not to
“Immediately he called me. He said, ‘it’s a great story, break down and not to give up,” he said. “Maybe those
do it!’ I said ‘no, I don’t have the psychological power.’ rejections did good for the film.”
He pushed me. He didn’t let me go until I considered to He believes the film does good for the world.
do it.” “I felt a responsibility to improve the image of those
Mr. Nevo, for his part, “did the research like a good unfortunate people in the eyes of the public,” he said.
actor does. He went for a week to live in the village [for “I’m sure that anybody who will watch this film — espe-
people with special needs] where our son is living. He cially young people — will go home a better person. I have
worked with them. He spent time with them. a very strong agenda in this film. More than the other
many other women are
involved in the field,”
Ms. Cohen said. “We
didn’t want the hack-
athon to be just cold and
competitive, but an edu-
cational and fun experi-
ence where people could
learn something new
and build a community
of women who want to
go forward in this field.”
Lander junior and
Student organizers of Hack It Together at Touro’s Dr. Alan Kadish of co-organizer Esther
Lander College for Women, from left, Sarah Bra- Teaneck, president of Gassner of Miami added,
cha Schuraytz, Sarah Cohen, and Esther Gassner. Touro College, speaks at “All too often women
PHOTOS BY DMITRIY KALININ Hack It Together. miss out on these incred-
ibly valuable learning
a senior at Lander, was among the organizers of this experiences, and recruiters miss out on reaching talented
fourth annual Hack It Together. women in computer sciences, because of the bro culture
The all-female environment is intended not only to that often permeates hackathons.”
support female students already interested in coding There was certainly no bro culture — with its all male,
but also to encourage more girls to try it, she added. high-testosterone affect — at Hack It Together.
Many high-tech companies are actively seeking qualified In addition to 35 Lander students, attendees came
women to diversify their staff. from nearly 40 universities and high schools, including
“We had a lot of beginners here, and they saw how Barnard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and
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Sandi M. Malkin, LL C
films I made, which I insisted on having no agendas,
only story. That gave me the courage and the power
Interior Designer
to do it.”
(former interior designer of model
But don’t think it’s a grim film, Etti Inbal says.
Dr. Inbal runs the IAC Cinematec, which brings
rooms for NY’s #1 Dept. Store)
Israeli films to North Jersey. Last week she screened
“Shoelaces” at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly, and brought Mr. Goldwasser in to discuss For a totally new look using
the film.
“He took this special topic and used humor and an your furniture or starting anew.
excellent actor to present it so that we can really fall
in love with someone with special needs,” Dr. Inbal
said. “You see the depth of his understanding of the
Staging also available
issue. People were touched, very touched.”
973-535-9192
What: “Shoelaces” at the Rockland Jewish
Film Festival
What’s it about: Nominated for eight Israeli
Academy Awards including Best Picture,
“Shoelaces” tells the gently comic story of the
heartfelt relationship between an aging father
and his exuberant, autistic adult son, whom he
abandoned while he was still a young boy and
rediscovers later.
When: Wednesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Regal Cinemas, 6201 Fashion Dr., Nanuet
How much: $14, $12 senior citizen/student
Advance tickets at: bit.ly/rjff-shoelaces
For a full schedule of films and to buy advance
tickets, go to: jccrockland.org/film-festival. The
Rockland Jewish Film Festival runs through
April 30. All films are shown at the Regal
Cinemas in Nanuet.

Bruriah High School for Girls in Elizabeth, as well

as organizations such as Women Who Code and
Girls Develop It.
The overall assignment was to create a product
that could solve a problem or address a need related
to entertainment and travel. Hackers had to write all
their own code but could consult professional coders
who served as mentors throughout the day. Hack It
Together sponsors AMC Networks and JetBlue Air-
ways also offered company-sponsored challenges
that participants could choose to do.
The JetBlue challenge was won by students from
the Flatiron School, an accelerated programming
school in Manhattan for job-seekers. They created an
interface for passengers to discover volunteer oppor-
tunities at their destination, tied to gaining bonus
miles from the airline. Their prize was round-trip Jet-
Blue tickets to any domestic destination.
For the AMC challenge, one student group pitched
a social viewing platform on which users could
review shows in real time, write recommendations,
and invite friends to watch with them. The students
were invited to AMC headquarters in Kansas to pres-
ent their idea to executives and explore internship
opportunities at the company.
Each team presented a three-minute demo of
its app. Judging was based on factors such as inno-
vation, usability, problem solving, and technical
achievement.
The first prize went to a project dubbed “Bound-
less,” created by a team of three Lander students and
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When devotion trumps age
99-year-old volunteer finds second home at NCJW thrift shop
LOIS GOLDRICH
What is it that keeps you going?
While many of us may spend some
time pondering the question, 99-year-
old volunteer Estelle Green will answer
immediately — the National Council of
Jewish Women’s Council Thrift Shop in
Bergenfield.
“I’m a people person,” explained Ms.
Green, who has worked in the shop for
decades. “You make friends with cus-
tomers. I could be here five days a week.”
And there’s more, she said. “The thrift
shop is nonprofit. Our money goes to
community services all over the county.
I could get on a soapbox to tell you how
fabulous it is and what we do for the
community.”
That accords well with the organiza-
tion’s self-description, as drawn from a
recent statement. “Inspired by Jewish
values, NCJW strives for social justice by
improving the quality of life for women,
children, and families and by safeguard-
ing individual rights and freedoms.”
Ms. Greene, who was born in Mas-
sachusetts on February 11, 1920 — and
Federation cop
Gerard Dargan brings 26 years of police experience to JFNNJ
LARRY YUDELSON
Gerard Dargan is the son of a police offi-
cer. He’s the husband of a police officer.
And for more than 26 years he was a
police officer, for the last 18 at the Ber-
gen County prosecutor’s office.
Now he has a new beat, and it has 80
synagogues.
Since March, Mr. Dargan has been
working at the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey as its community
security director.
“With the rise in anti-Semitic activ-
ity here in northern New Jersey, it is
imperative that we focus on the safety
and security of our 125,000 Jews,” Jason
Shames, the federation’s executive
director, said. “This position will ensure
Jewish communal safety by focusing on
incident response and developing indi-
vidual institution- and community-wide
plans through training, risk mitigation,
relationships with law enforcement, and
access to other government resources.”
Mr. Dargan is not Jewish, but he
knows a lot about the threats posed to
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whose mother was a life
member of NCJW — found
her way to New York to
work in the fashion indus-
try on Seventh Avenue.
“I was in the textile busi-
ness,” she said. “I was a
buyer for specialty stores
all over the country.” Her
late husband, Jule, also
was in fashion. Later, they
“moved across the bridge” Estelle Green
to Fort Lee, where she has
lived for some 60 years.
Although Ms. Greene and her hus-
band had no children, she said, she has
always been drawn to volunteer activi-
ties involving youngsters. For several
years she worked with Bergen Reads,
an initiative of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey.
“Some of the children were eager
to learn, and some weren’t,” she said.
“Some said, ‘Read to me,’ and I said,
‘You’re going to learn to read to me.’”
Reading is one of her own favorite activ-
ities. “I read a great deal, and I belong
to a book group.” She and her husband
synagogues.
As a sergeant in the Ber-
gen County Prosecutor’s
major crimes unit, he took
part in the investigation
of attacks on local syna-
gogues in late 2011 and
early 2012. He interviewed
Anthony Graziano, who
carried out the attacks
under the guidance of
Aakash Dalal. The two men Gerard Dargan
each received a 35-year
prison sentences for those crimes.
“It was all fueled by hate,” Mr. Dargan systems, access controls on doors, glass
said, to explain the motivations for the
Molotov cocktails thrown at Congrega-
tion Beth El in Rutherford and the graf-
fiti sprayed on several other synagogues
in the area. “That’s the simplest way to
say it.”
Mr. Dargan’s first order of business
on joining the Jewish federation was
to introduce himself to the roughly 80
synagogues in the federation’s catch-
ment area. “In the past two weeks, I’ve
already visited about 20,” he said. The
also enjoyed opera. “I have
many albums of opera,”
she said, adding that she
also enjoys the music of
Ella Fitzgerald. “I don’t like
rap,” she said. “I don’t even
like to look at it.” While it
may have a place, that place
is “not in my house.”
Ms. Greene has belonged
to the National Council
of Jewish Women since
the early 1960s. “I had
worked since I was out of college until
the early 60s,” she said. “I stopped and
thought, ‘I don’t know anyone. I need to
meet people.’” So she joined NCJW.
Ms. Green calls the thrift shop her
“home away from home. I go twice a
week, Monday and Friday, for 2 l/2 hour
stints. I’m the coordinator of volunteers,
always making sure someone is manning
the shop.
The number of NCJW volunteers is
dropping,” she added. “We’re an older
group.” To get volunteers, “I get on the
phone and plead.”
With only a cell phone — no computer
community’s schools are
next on his list.
At the synagogues, he
meets with the rabbi or
the administrator. He looks
over its security situation.
And he offers his services in
applying for federal home-
land security grants.
Many area congregations
have received the grants in
recent years, and in his visits
Mr. Dargan saw the impact
the grants made. He inspected camera
films on windows, and bollards in front
of buildings “to stop any kind of vehicular
attack,” he said. “Many of the synagogues
were able to implement safe rooms and
panic buttons and alarm systems.”
Not all of the synagogues he visited,
however, had brought their security to
this level. “Some were in desperate need
of upgrading,” he said.
Some of these had already received site
assessments from his former employer,
the county prosecutor’s office, and were
or email — “I keep telling people I’m not
in the 21st century. I live in the world of
today but not in this particular world.
I’m from the old school, and so far I’ve
been able to get along without them.
People have to call me.”
On her 99th birthday, her family threw
her “a big party,” she said. “Three gen-
erations.” At 4’10”, and with a variety of
minor ailments, “I expect to be standing
here next time,” she said. “I have good
eyesight,” she added. In fact, “my eye
doctor leaned over and asked if I was still
driving. He told me to keep it up. I said,
‘I will as long as you keep my eyes OK.’”
“I don’t use Uber,” she continued.
“Everyone always wants to pick me up. I
said to my friend, ‘Have you ever driven
with me and felt unsafe?’ But I don’t like
driving at night. I try not to go out then
because of the glare of newer cars.”
Ms. Greene said that she has seen
many changes over the course of her
lifetime. She doesn’t think the world is
in good shape at the moment. “I’m not
very happy when I read the newspaper
or turn on the TV,” she said.
According to Ms. Green, she’s older
“well on the road to taking the steps nec-
essary to secure their vulnerabilities.”
Part of that will be applying for the
next round of security grants. “There’s
a narrow window to turn it around, from
early to mid-April,” he said.
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey has long played a central role
in helping area nonprofits apply for the
grants, and this now has become part of
Mr. Dargan’s responsibilities. “We offer
assistance to help synagogue leaders
prepare the grants,” he said.
His advice to synagogue leaders:
“Make sure you take all the necessary
steps to make your synagogue secure,
from having a vulnerability assessment
done to find out where you’re deficient
in security, to applying for a grant and
moving to implement the security fea-
tures they’ve suggested. Security should
be on the top of everybody’s mind.”
His biggest surprise from this first
round of site visits: “Not everyone is as
security conscious as they should be.”
Mr. Dargan is naturally security-con-
scious, even in his private life.
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FIRST PERSON

Fulfilling a 40-year dream

Teaneck educator, on the verge of making aliyah, tells
why she’s doing it, what she’s leaving, where she’s going toward
LEAH V. HERZOG

I
am a passionate and unapologetic Zionist. My
aliyah dream was conceived with the outbreak
of the Yom Kippur War, and it was born, fully
formed, almost 40 years ago. If you nourish a
dream, it will live, and it will continue to nourish you.
I grew up in the leafy, quiet, integrated suburb
of Teaneck. Mine was the classic American Jewish
childhood: we didn’t eat pork but we didn’t keep
kosher, I went trick-or-treating and gave Valentine’s
Day cards to my classmates. The High Holy Days
meant many boring hours in synagogue; Chanukah
meant presents; and Passover meant taking matzah
and cream cheese to eat in the school cafeteria.
Being Jewish was my ethnic pride.
In 1973, I was a fourth grader enrolled in my syna-
gogue’s Hebrew school. As we watched the grainy tele-
vision footage, my teacher told us about the Yom Kippur
War and how Israel was in grave danger. I was infuriated
at the thought that MY country, my little country, was
imperiled. As the child of Holocaust survivors, I knew
from as early as I can remember that the only safe haven
for Jews was Israel. My mother, a fourth-generation
upper-middle-class Viennese who fled Austria in 1938
and landed with her sister and parents in Chile in 1941,
penniless but alive, and in America in 1961, instilled in
me the knowledge that Jews were really safe only in
Israel. We were immeasurably grateful to America, but
we were only truly secure in the country with a Jewish
government, Jewish police, and a Jewish army.
The child of two musicians, I learned piano from my
German grandmother when I was 5 and began flute
lessons at 9. The soundtrack of my house was classi-
cal music: live, on records, on the radio. As a child of
the late 1960s and early ’70s, I loved folk music, and I
taught myself to play guitar from a book. Along with
Simon and Garfunkel, John Denver, Billy Joel, and the
Beatles, I listened to the Israeli and Chassidic Song
Festival albums, learning words I didn’t really under-
stand. By ninth grade I was in day school, assiduously
trying to master Hebrew. Naomi Shemer was a won-
derful teacher, and I looked up almost every word to
every song. The first song I composed and wrote in
Hebrew was about my fervent desire to go to my land,
where my people were born, and which no longer was
just a dream.
As I became religious, history and Torah merged.
Israel was the place where the patriarchs walked
and the Haganah fought. As far as I was concerned,
every square inch of the land was holy. In my mind,
the sky was always Mediterranean blue, the air per-
fumed with citrus, and the people bristly but genu-
ine. When I finally arrived in Israel for the first time in
1981, I kissed the ground and fell deeply in love. I was
high with spiritual excitement, and even the steepest
and rockiest pre-dawn climb was bliss. The lone oak —
the alon — became my personal totem; I was the child
who was returning to my ancient borders. Six weeks
later, eyes puffy and nose red from crying, I had to be
pushed onto the plane.
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At left, Leah stands with her husband, Avi; at right, she’s flanked by her daughter, Eliana, and her
son, Reuven.
Getting back to Israel the second time was much
harder. My father felt that I had learned enough Jew-
ish texts, my mother did not want me so far away,
and so I began college. In the middle of my fresh-
man year, I was diagnosed with a progressive retinal
disease and told I could be blind before I was 23. My
parents relented.
For nine months, I swam in the sea of Torah at
Michlalah in Jerusalem, rode the sunflower-seed-littered
Egged busses, shopped in the dusty, loud Machane
Yehuda, and cherished every view from every hilltop. I
felt blessed; I was living Rav Kook’s dream: learning the
Torah of Israel in the Land of Israel among the people of
Israel. I finished off my year working on a moshav in the
Golan. They invited me to stay and to teach elementary
school. Getting back on the bus to Jerusalem felt physi-
cally wrenching. I desperately, hopelessly did not want
to return to America. But my rosh yeshiva and mentor,
Rabbi Yehudah Copperman ob”m, told me that because
my parents were survivors and I was a “bat z’kunim”
— the daughter of older parents — that I was more obli-
gated in kibbud horim than yishuv ha’aretz — that it was
more important that I fulfill the mitzvah of honoring my
parents than that of making aliyah to the land of Israel.
So I returned, and I graduated from college.
When my husband and I married in 1986, we made
a 10-year aliyah plan. We would have some children, I
would finish my Ph.D., and then we’d go.
Six years into the 10-year plan, my father died. Two
years after that, almost nine years after we were mar-
ried, we had our first child. My mother had only one
other grandchild from my three older siblings. I felt
strongly that it would be betraying my father’s mem-
ory and a travesty to move to Israel then, taking my
mother’s precious, named-for-my-father grandson
with us. When I asked if she would consider mov-
ing with us she said, “I have moved enough in my
life. I have started over and learned a new language
enough times. I am not moving again.” We moved to
New Jersey, raised our two children, and served our
COURTESY LEAH HERZOG
communities as Jewish educators. My mother passed
away at the age of 95, in 2016.
I can now, finally, fulfill a 45-year-old dream.
We plan to move to Givat Ze’ev, a small suburb
north of Yerushalayim. It is an inclusive community—
secular, religious, Ashkenaz, Sephard, yeshivish, and
chassidish all live there and get along. My son, now a
college graduate, will stay in the United States for now,
following his own path and deciding which dreams he
wants to fulfill when. This is the one thing that gives
When I finally arrived
in Israel for the first
time in 1981, I kissed
the ground and fell
deeply in love. I was
high with spiritual
excitement, and even
the steepest and
rockiest pre-dawn
climb was bliss.
me pause: the precious, named-for-my-father son will
stay in America, at least for now.
In Israel, we have close friends eagerly awaiting us,
who will help us with the socio-emotional and prac-
tical transition that we know awaits us. Our daughter
finished her IDF service as a lone soldier and lives
there. My husband’s parents, brother, sister and
brother-in-law, nieces and nephews, great-nieces and
great-nephews are there.
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Local
Resistance to measles vaccine
persists in local charedi communities
BEN SALES
R
abbi Mordechai Shain of Tena-
fly isn’t sure about vaccines.
Almost all of the 400 kids
in the school he runs, from
3 months old to eighth-grade teens, are
vaccinated. About eight or 10 are not.
But he’s skeptical that immunization
works at all.
“My doctor in shul says everyone
should take a flu shot, so a lot of people
went,” said Shain, the head of school at
the Tenafly Chabad Academy in North-
ern New Jersey. “Ninety percent that took
a flu shot got flus and the 10 percent didn’t
get the flu. … I speak to so many doctors
and they’re saying just the opposite, that
vaccines are good, but they put in the
vaccine different methods that give you
more danger than the vaccine is saving
you from.”
Later he added, “In the vaccine there
are things there that are putting you at
higher risk.”
(According to the Centers for Disease
Control, flu vaccinations reduce the
risk of contracting the illness by 40 to
60 percent.)
Rabbi Shain’s school is the only one
among about a dozen Orthodox schools
there that still accepts unvaccinated kids,
according to L’via Weisinger of Teaneck, a
school nurse who runs a group of nurses
at Bergen Jewish schools.
The vaccine issue has become espe-
cially urgent as measles has spread in
nearby charedi Orthodox communities
that have low vaccination rates. Last
week, Rockland County barred unvac-
cinated minors from public places. The
county has had 153 confirmed cases of
measles since October.
Despite institutional pressure, a strain
of opposition to vaccines has persisted
in charedi communities, which claims
that vaccines are ineffective at best and
harmful at worst. A pamphlet circulating
among Orthodox communities, published
by an Orthodox anti-vaccine group calling
itself Parents Educating and Advocating
for Children’s Health, falsely claims that
doctors obscure evidence that vaccines
are harmful, and links vaccines to brain
swelling, paralysis, and death. (In reality,
lasting negative effects from vaccines are
extremely rare.)
The group also hosts regular confer-
ence calls featuring anti-vaccine doctors,
according to the WNYC blog Gothamist.
“[S]ome of what we are told about
vaccines is simply untrue,” the pam-
phlet’s introduction reads. “From our
research (and, for some of us, from
20 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
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Rabbi Mordechai Shain
personal experience) many more than
‘one in a million’ lives have been ruined
by vaccines. We don’t want any more
people to be hurt needlessly.”
Ms. Weisinger, a former board mem-
ber of the Orthodox Jewish Nurses
Association, said the anti-vax move-
ment has taken hold among some
charedi Jews, a result of a lack of edu-
cation and distrust of authority.
“There’s a lack of trust in the govern-
ment that goes way back,” she said. “You
have others who really care about their
kids who are not educated.… They’re
not out in the real world hearing real
science. They’re not taught to discern
between conspiracy theories and real
science.”
In late February, Bergen County saw
one case of measles, which is highly con-
tagious and can stay in the air for hours
after an infected person coughs.
“We say our community is pro-vac-
cine, but then we let an anti-vaxxer into
our school and they have measles and
our immuno-compromised kids get
exposed and our pregnant women get
exposed,” Ms. Weisinger said. “Those
people are all susceptible to people
from Rockland County coming into our
community.”
Jewish institutions in the county have
urged their members to vaccinate. A
December statement signed by more than
40 Bergen County rabbis and Orthodox
school officials said Jewish law commands
vaccination.
“Vaccination is not only an obligation
to protect the health of our children and
ourselves, but a responsibility we have
towards others,” the statement said.
“Those who do not vaccinate can poten-
tially spread life-threatening diseases to
others who are vulnerable. We strongly
L’via Weisinger
urge all parents to vaccinate their children
as recommended by the American Acad-
emy of Pediatrics.”
Rabbi Shain’s school does not allow
parents to exempt their kids from vac-
cines for religious reasons. But it does
accept notes from doctors exempting
children from vaccines. Other schools
will run doctors’ notes by a local health
board for verification.
Those who do
not vaccinate
can potentially
spread life-
threatening
diseases to
others who are
vulnerable.
“I would always check with the board
of health before I would accept a med-
ical exemption, because they’re not all
legitimate,” Ms. Weisinger said. “Unfortu-
nately there are some rogue doctors out
there who are anti-vaccine and support
the anti-vaccine community, and there’s
a lot of pseudoscience out there.”
But Rabbi Shain says he accepts doc-
tors’ recommendations at face value.
“If they have a doctor and the doctor
can give a letter that for this child it’s
not good to do vaccines, then it’s under
medical guidance, so the Torah says you
follow the doctor,” he said. “The doc-
tor doesn’t have to tell me the reason.
The doctor can say I’m a licensed M.D.,
and according to my observation they
shouldn’t take the vaccine.”
Many schools in the area used to accept
religious exemptions to vaccines but no
longer do so. The Anshei Lubavitch Day
Care Center in Fair Lawn used to have one
unvaccinated child out of more than 300,
according to the organization’s executive
director, Rabbi Levi Neubort. But that
ended this year, because Rabbi Neubort
feared the school could become a magnet
for anti-vaxxers.
“I got a number of calls from parents
that want to place their children in a
school that still took a religious exemp-
tion,” he said. “God forbid we would
end up with a concentration of non-vac-
cinated kids, something I would not
allow.”
Children with legitimate medical
exemptions also depend on “herd immu-
nity” — that is, being in a population
where others are vaccinated.
Schools in charedi areas in Brooklyn
have taken measures to stem the mea-
sles outbreak. In December, the New
York City Department of Health banned
unvaccinated kids from Brooklyn yeshi-
vas after charedi neighborhoods in the
borough experienced 39 measles cases
within two months.
Schools also independently had barred
unvaccinated kids, leading in one case to
legal action. After their child was kept out
of Oholei Torah, a Brooklyn yeshiva, Sho-
lom and Esther Laine sought an injunc-
tion last year that would force the school
to accept their religious exemption to vac-
cines. Reached by phone last week, Mr.
Laine would not comment because the
legal battle is ongoing.
Joseph Aron, a Brooklyn attorney
focusing on religious and constitutional
issues, said that according to New York
state law, the school was well within its
rights. “There’s no obligation for a school
to accept a religious exemption,” he said.
“The school has total autonomy. The
school doesn’t have to bend backwards
and accept me if I have a medical reason
to not get vaccinated.”
In New Jersey, the state government is
advancing a bill to remove the religious
exemption. Rabbi Shain says most par-
ents are happy that the school no lon-
ger accepts religious exemptions. But he
says he hears from parents on the other
side as well.
“Most parents want that we don’t
accept religious [exemptions] and we
should be vaccinated,” he said. “Some
parents are saying why do we have to
vaccinate?”
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Local
March Mitzvah Madness
LAURA FREEMAN
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
sey’s March Mitzvah Madness month-
long campaign of doing good deeds
finished up with high scores. The cam-
paign challenged community members
and organizations to be mitzvah entre-
preneurs throughout the month. There
Michael Semegran and family
The Opper family hosted a smile kit pop-up
Representatives of the CUMAC/Echo, Inc., a recipient agency,
pick up donations.
22 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
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were over 40 pop-up stands that packed
and donated over 6,000 smile kits, activ-
ity books, and snack packs. At the mega
food drive, 8,000 lbs of food were sorted
and distributed to food pantries all over
PHOTOS COURTESY JFNNJ
northern New Jersey. At the Super Sun-
day phone-a-thon, almost $300,000 was
raised in just one day. Our community
really scored big!!
Making placemats at the arts and crafts table.
Gabby Marcus delivering to the Center for Event sponsor George Allen of GB
Food action after hosting a pop-up Allen and Associates
Event chairs Michael Semegran, Barbara Selman,
and Vicky Manaloy
The Halper family helps sort donations.
United
Synagogue
of Hoboken
participants
pack smile kits
Adrian Diaz and
Sarita Gross at
the March 31
food drive
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Briefly Local

Rabbi David and Alla Fine, center, with Temple Israel & JCC board members,
from left, financial secretary Merille Siegel, vice presidents Howard Schreiber
and Nadine Genet, president Robert Obeiter, treasurer Evan Weitz, and
recording secretary Manny Haber. ROBERT KERN
Alan Moskin, seated middle row, center, with teen participants.
Celebrating Rabbi Fine  CHANA LAINE

and family in Ridgewood Valley Chabad teens hear

Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood celebrated the
10th anniversary of Rabbi David and Alla
Fine’s arrival at the shul at the communi-
ty’s annual Ways and Means dinner last
month. The Fines were joined by their
family, friends, and members of the two
congregations within TI-JCC: Temple
Israel, an egalitarian Conservative con-
gregation and Reconstructionist Con-
gregation Beth Israel.
The evening began with Havdalah and
songs by the TI-JCC choir accompanied
by the shul’s Bimah Band, followed by
tributes and presentations from Rabbi
Fine’s brothers, sons, friends, Mayor
Raymond Hache of Ridgewood, and
shul president Robert Obeiter. Rabbi
Fine spoke about his family’s 10 years
with the community and sang a Hebrew
song that he had sung to his wife at their
wedding. The evening included a dinner,
a silent auction, and dancing.
a Nazi camp liberator’s story
Last month, nearly 150 partic-
ipants attended Valley Chabad
Eternal Flame’s program with with
Alan Moskin, an American soldier
who told his story of participating
in the liberation of a concentration
camp, Mauthausen, and the hor-
rors that he witnessed.
Alan Moskin was drafted into
military service when he was
18 and served in the U.S. Army
during World War II. A member
of the 66th Infantry, 71st Division,
and part of General George Pat-
ton’s Third Army, his outfit fought
through France, Germany, and
Austria, where he was promoted
from private to staff sergeant.
This was part of the Eternal
Flame 2019 Teen Fellowship pro-
gram, where teens learn about the
Holocaust firsthand through study,
discussion, and trips. The teens
also spent a weekend in Washing-
ton, visiting the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum and attending
a part of the AIPAC conference.
The Eternal Flame, a project of
Valley Chabad, is supported by a
grant from the George and Martha
Rich Foundation.

In conjunction with National Mitzvah Day and Good Deeds Day

sunday, apriL 7
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Chesed begins at home

Bring the whole family and participate
in a variety of projects to take home
or give to someone else including Woodcliff Lake meets AIPAC
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cork trivet and a Seder centerpiece. Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake went sky. Middle row, Scott Miller, Randy
Free event! | All ages welcome to the AIPAC 2019 Policy Conference Miller, Todd Stewart, Barry Blecher,
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Briefly Local

The candlelight vigil in Teaneck remembering
the victims of the massacres at New Zealand
mosques reflected solemnity and solidarity by
mourners of all ages. Rabbi Daniel Fridman, top
right, and Mayor Mohamed Hameedudin spoke.
 PHOTOS BY STEVE FOX
Teaneck organizations mourn
victims of mosque massacres
The Jewish Community Council of
Greater Teaneck, Teaneck Women
Together, and Muslim Women in Action
sponsored a candlelight vigil on the
Teaneck Township Green on Tuesday,
March 19, to show solidarity with the
Muslim community in light of the mas-
sacres in the Al-Noor Mosque and the
Linwood Islamic Center.
Speakers included Teaneck Mayor
Mohamed Hameedudin, Steve Fox, rep-
resenting the Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Greater Teaneck and the North-
ern NJ Holocaust Memorial Committee,
Rabbi Daniel Fridman of the Jewish
Center of Teaneck, Imam Moutaz Charaf
of the El-Zara Mosque in Midland Park,
and Yasmeen Al-Shaheeb, representing
Muslim Women in Action, and Teaneck
Women Together, who discussed the
importance of fighting hate wherever
it occurs and denounced racism and
anti-Semitism. The names of those killed
in the massacres were read by members
of the Muslim Women in Action includ-
ing Sumaira Yousufi, Farah Hassan,
Suada Catovic, and Zubaida Habibud-
din, and Teaneck Women Together, rep-
resented by Shana Dworken, Judi Samu-
els Ramos, and Jennifer Montag.
Eileen Pleva,
a Kaplen JCC
vice president
and event
sponsor;
author
Alexandra
Silber; event
chair Kim
Harrison, and
Kathy Graf, the
JCC’s director
of New
Initiatives.
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Nearly 100 people attended the March lunch, and book signings that allowed
24 “Sunday of Strong Women” pro- guests to socialize with the authors.
gram at the Kaplen JCC on the Pal- Event sponsors included Kim and
isades in Tenafly. The morning fea- Marc Harrison, Lisa Beth and Greg
tured three writers — Angela Himsel, Meisel, Eileen and Brian Pleva, and
author of “A River Could Be a Tree,” Julie Segal and Mark Warner. It also
Susie Orman Schnall, author of “The was supported by the James H. Gross-
Subway Girls,” and Alexandra Silber, mann Memorial Jewish Book Endow-
author of “White Hot Grief Parade.” ment Fund.
The program included a Q&A,
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Federation Scores Big with March Mitzvah Madness
Jewish Federation’s March
Mitzvah Madness campaign
spread throughout northern New
Jersey like wildfire, encouraging volunteer, witnesses firsthand
community members of all ages
to “do good”. There were three
opportunities to do a mitzvah
throughout the month – a Super
Sunday phone-a-thon, host or
attend a Mitzvah Pop-Up, and
donate or pack and distribute
food at the Mega Food Drive.
Each was a slam dunk in helping
our community members in
need.
At the March Mega Food
Drive, which was on March 31,
hundreds of people, young
and old, sorted, packed and
distributed a record 8,000
pounds of food to nine local food
shelters including Jewish Family
and Children’s Services, Center
for Food Action, Helping Hands
Food Pantry, CUMAC, Hoboken
Emergency Food Pantry, and
Wayne Interfaith Network.
“Even though our community is
considered to be more affluent,
it is staggering how many people,
right here in our own backyard,
have food insecurities,” said
Federation CEO, Jason Shames.
“Helping those in need is a
fundamental part of our mission The newest initiative of March
and what we accomplished this
month makes me very proud.”
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Vicki Monaloy, of Paramus, one
of the Mega Food Drive co-
chairs and an active Federation
the vital work Federation
does. She is involved with
other Federation sponsored
programs, including Bergen
Reads. Vicki, who recently
retired, sees these opportunities
as a meaningful way to give
back to the community. Vicki
was busy working at different
food collection sites all month
long and even enlisted her local
hairdresser in Fair Lawn to get in
on the action. “When the owner
of my hair salon heard about the
food drive, she wanted to be a
part of the giving and set up a
collection site at the store,” said
Vicki. In total, there were 50 food
collection sites all over northern
New Jersey.
Vicki sees the food drive as a real
learning opportunity. “We
often have parents who bring
along young kids to help pack,
and it becomes a teaching
experience,” she said. “We
all have fun and, at the same
time, feel proud that we are
helping others.”
Barbara Selman is also a
chair of the Mega Food
Drive and a volunteer who
is deeply committed to
Federation’s work. She is
especially connected to the
Jewish Community Relations
Committee which she believes
is an essential outlet for
Jewish advocacy. “The Jewish
people make it a priority to reach
out to other communities and, in
today’s climate, this is essential
to maintain positive interfaith
relationships,” said Barbara.
Jewish Federation’s work
mirrors her own personal value
system, so the work she does is
meaningful to her.
Mitzvah Madness was the
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The number of donations from
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activity books, all of which were
Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson
delivered to organizations
counties to organizations that
that need them. In total, over
help people in need. “The
6,000 packs were donated.
community really supported this
The recipient organizations
program,” said Figman. “When
were overwhelmed with the
we first started planning the
outpouring of donations.
mitzvah pop-up program, we
Ilana Picker, a teacher for the thought maybe we would have
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School, and her seven students over 40 — and it’s all because
hosted a mitzvah pop-up stand. our community is so supportive!
The girls geared up for the People really stepped up to the
challenge and created flyers and plate.”
posters requesting items to fill
Jewish Federation’s work to help
snack packs. Within two weeks,
the community will continue
the boxes they had placed at
throughout the year, but March
the front of the building were
Mitzvah Madness catapulted
overflowing with donations, and
efforts to a whole new level.
they had collected everything
Shames said, “As I always say,
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The group from Emeth gathers in Kelly Ingram Park in

Atlanta. The park was a major staging area for protests
during the struggle for civil rights. BARBARA BALKIN

Temple Emeth
looks at social justice
Fresh from a trip to the Deep South, the synagogue
welcomes former RAC head Rabbi David Saperstein Rabbi David Saperstein

Joanne Palmer their wedding for their honeymoon. She in February. there, and at times to eastern Europe

R
abbi David Saperstein, the
longtime head of the Reform
movement’s Religious Action
Committee — who resigned
that position to become President
Barack Obama’s ambassador at large for
international religious freedom — will
talk about many aspects of social justice
as the Rabbi Louis J. Sigel scholar in resi-
dence at Temple Emeth in Teaneck next
weekend. (See box.)
His is a macro vision.
Jackie Guttman of Englewood, a long-
time member of Temple Emeth, remem-
bers being at a New York airport with
her husband, Howard; they had just left
30 Jewish Standard APRIL 5, 2019
was 21, and it was 1964. The bodies of
the three murdered civil rights workers,
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and
Michael Schwerner, had just been found
in Mississippi. “I was talking to some
man in the airport, some man from Flor-
ida, about how horrible it was,” she said.
“And his response was, well, if they’d
only minded their own business…
“My jaw dropped,” she said. “I didn’t
know what to say. I wouldn’t forget it. I
didn’t forget it. I remember it now.”
That is a micro insight into the larger
phenomena that Rabbi Saperstein will
talk about, and it was evoked by a six-
day trip to civil rights sites in the Deep
South that a Temple Emeth group took
On both the macro and micro levels,
the passion for civil rights and social
justice is embedded in Temple Emeth’s
DNA, a combination of the guiding val-
ues of the Reform movement to which
it belongs and the passion of Rabbi
Sigel, its rabbi emeritus, who was vitally
important in Teaneck’s own struggle for
integration in the 1960s. (Again, macro
and micro, intertwined.)
Temple Emeth’s trip grew out a dis-
cussion that Lynn and Steve Chaiken
of Teaneck had with its rabbi, Steven
Sirbu. “The temple takes a trip every
two or three years, generally to Israel,”
Ms. Chaiken said. That stoked members’
interest not only in the regular trips
as well, but also in shorter, more afford-
able ones. Given the shul’s historic — and
ongoing — interest in civil rights, and
given also that the new Legacy Museum:
From Enslavement to Mass Incarcer-
ation had opened in Montgomery, it
seemed likely that a trip to that and
other civil rights landmarks would be
interesting to the handful of synagogue
members necessary for a trip.
“I’m also the chair of the social action
committee,” Ms. Chaiken said. “This
year, we looked at three huge areas — rac-
ism, the environment, and immigration.”
All those issues are connected. “Teaneck
is a very integrated town, it tries to be
diverse — and it all made sense.”

So they started planning the trip,
working with the Jackson, Mis-
sissippi-based nonprofit Gol-
dring/Woldenberg Institute of
Southern Jewish Life.
“We announced it on Rosh
Hashanah,” Ms. Chaiken said.
“We thought eventually we’d
hear from 25 people. Thirty at
most.” In three days, 50 peo-
ple signed up — more than they
thought they could manage,
and the number at which they
drew a line. The participants
ranged in age from the woman
who celebrated her 80th birth-
day on the trip to two women in
their 30s, but most were retir-
ees, the Chaikens said.
The group flew to Atlanta,
and then took a bus to Mont-
gomery, Birmingham, and
Selma. Their itinerary included
both museums and syna-
gogues. “We went to the last
Samuel Walker, who as a child walked in the Selma-to-Mont­
temple in Selma, Temple Mish-
gomery march in 1965, led the group through the National
kan Israel,” Ms. Chaiken said.
“It’s a beautiful building. If we
Voting Rights Museum. 
understood it properly, there
are only four Jews there. They’re trying
to maintain the building.” They were in
Birmingham on Shabbat, and had din-
ner and went to services at Temple Ema-
nu-El there.
“Emanu-El in Birmingham is where
Milton Grafman was the rabbi in the
1960s,” Rabbi Sirbu said. “He was one of
the eight clergymen who wrote to Mar-
tin Luther King, asking him not to come
to Birmingham. They told him that they
had their own plan. Of course, King did
go to Birmingham, and his ‘Letter from
Birmingham Jail’ is explicitly addressed
to them.”
Both Chaikens found the trip pro-
foundly moving. “I never really under-
stood the comparisons between the
Holocaust and the history of slav-
ery in our country until I saw all this
together,” Ms. Chaiken said. “It made
JS-31
me understand more about how com-
parable it is. We are talking about more
than four million people sold into slav-
ery, not allowed to have any kind of free-
dom, who died of slavery. I also started
looking not as much at reparations as at
reconciliations.
“We don’t own up to our past in
America,” Mr. Chaiken said. “Everyone
just blows it off. They say, ‘It’s been 100
years. Just get over yourselves.’ One of
the focuses of the Legacy Museum is the
subtitle, ‘From Slavery to Mass Incar-
ceration.’ The slavery is gone, but the
oppression is not.
“In Berlin, there is a Holocaust
museum in the middle of the city. That
doesn’t mean that everyone supports
it, but it is there. Here, in America, we
don’t talk about our sins.”
“We don’t teach enough about what
happened in the United States,” Ms.
Howard Lieberman looks at photographs at the the Center
for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta.
Chaiken said. Still, she
continued, “We didn’t
go any place that was
terribly preachy. You
just absorb all the
information, and you
put it together.
Ms. Guttman went
on the trip, she said,
BARBARA BALKIN
because she wanted
to learn more about
the civil rights movement than she had
known when she was living through it.
She’d gone to college in the early 1960s
in Pottsdam, way up in northernmost
New York State; in that way-pre-internet
and even-more-pre-social-media time,
she could learn about current events, as
they then were called, only on “the one
television set in the lounge in the dorm.
“When I look back at it now, it is
amazing how poorly informed we
were.” Then, later, as a young married
woman, “we were activist types, and
we sent donations, but we didn’t go to
demonstrations. We were too wrapped
up in our babies.” But now, looking at
these museums and streets where terri-
ble history had happened, “I think that
all of us on the trip were to one degree
or another overwhelmed with what we
were seeing and learning.”
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Ms. Guttman found that although
the bigger museums are powerful, at
times the smaller, more intimate ones
could penetrate her soul even more
deeply. She talked about the Legacy
I think that all
of us on the
trip were to
one degree or
another
overwhelmed
with what we
were seeing
and learning.
Museum and the National Memorial for
Peace and Justice; she found the garden
where a coffin-like shape hanging from
rafters overhead and sticking starkly up
from the ground represented victims of
lynching or other kinds of racially-tinged
murder breathtaking and terrifying.
There are more than 4,400 names, she
said, an almost unbearable number of
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names. But still she was if possible even more moved

by the smaller spaces. She talked about the Freedom
Riders Bus Museum in Montgomery, a “former Grey-
hound station,” she said. “It’s one room, and it is so
powerful that I was crying. All the headlines started
coming back to me.”
She saw “a picture of John Lewis as a young man.”
He’d been a civil rights worker then, beaten and jailed,
getting up and doing it again anyway. “I remembered
that at Barack Obama’s first inauguration, he was on
the platform, and the camera caught him, and he was
crying. I was so moved by the picture of him as a young
man, thinking about how far he has come. He’s been a
representative for 17 terms” — Mr. Lewis, a Democrat,
has represented Georgia’s fifth district in Congress
since 1987.
“The times haven’t changed enough — but they have
changed a lot,” she said.
She also has thought a great deal about how “we can
sit here smugly, thinking that the South has to keep
making apologies, but it’s only by virtue of the fact that
the North has a different climate that we didn’t have
slavery here too. If the climate were like the South’s,
we could have.
“Also, New Jersey was the last Northern state to out-
law slavery,” she added. (Slavery was abolished in the
state in 1804 but was phased out very gradually; the
The coffin-shaped stones in the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery memorialize last 13 slaves in New Jersey were freed in 1865.) “We
victims of racist violence by name. BARBARA BALKIN as a nation can’t just keep thinking of it as a Southern

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issue,” she said. “I would like to see historical markers

throughout the country.” They’d show where historical
events connected to slavery happened. “It would be a
modest way of acknowledging what happened here,”
she said.
“As we came back with a renewed commitment
to carrying on the unfinished work of the civil rights
movement, criminal justice reform is at the top of the
list,” Rabbi Sirbu said.
This leads logically to Rabbi Saperstein’s weekend at
Temple Emeth.
David Saperstein is a lawyer as well as a rabbi; “for 40
years, he has been the face of the Reform movement’s
social justice initiative,” Rabbi Sirbu said. Because of
Temple Emeth’s longstanding interest in social justice,
“it seemed like a perfect fit to invite him in 2015.” He
did, and “Rabbi Saperstein accepted the invitation —
but then he had to step away, when he was appointed
to the position of ambassador for religion by the Obama
administration.
“But we kept him in mind all this time, because he is
such a talented teacher, and now we are an even better
fit for him, because our politics have become so frac-
tured, and even though the RAC” — that’s the Reform
movement’s Religious Action Committee — “has a lib-
eral bent, it is committed to a nonpartisan mission.
“And even though Rabbi Saperstein is no longer its
director, he still speaks passionately about this message
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The overall title of Rabbi Saperstein’s
four talks, which will be delivered from
Friday night through Sunday morning,
is the formidable if hopeful “Being in
the Hands of God: Jewish Social Justice
at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity.”
“They asked me to cover a broad
range of issues of concern to the Jew-
ish community,” Rabbi Saperstein said.
“I am going to give an overview of a
number of issues that we confront both
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cussion, which will be in much greater
depth. “A lot has to do with the role of
the public sector. Conservatives believe
that there is an inherent justice at work
in the capitalist free market, and that
governmental intervention invariably
causes more harm than good. You
intervene only as a last resort. Liberals
tend to believe that there is no inherent
justice in the capitalist system, and that
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rights and religious freedom. I’ll go
into depth on some economic issues,
and on how one might use the Jewish
tradition to shape what our public pol-
icy positions ought to be. The Reform
movement derives its positions from
our tradition and applies it to some of
the issues in front of us,” he continued.
Specifically? “In the health care realm
and in terms of unemployment and of a
minimum versus a living wage,” he said.
One of his talks is about economic
justice. “Look at the fundamental dis-
tinction between conservative and
to a certain size, it had to develop funds
to help the poor and maintain schools,
at least for all the boys, and the local
government regulated the marketplace.
It is more akin to the liberals’ view.”
In another talk, he’ll consider cli-
mate change, an issue that is hugely
resonant with young people, Rabbi
Saperstein said. “We’ll explore what
the Jewish tradition has to say about
the obligation to protect the world, to
protect the poor and the vulnerable,
and we’ll look at the rules for protec-
tion that go back to biblical times, in
terms of air and water.
“There are a range of examples in our
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to protect God’s creation,” he contin-
ued. “We will look at the concept of bal
tashchit, the mandate not to waste, and
we’ll look at some of the facts on climate
change. The implications of that will be
particularly important for the younger
generation.”
Then there’s religious freedom. “The
issue is the clash between religious
freedom and civil rights claims,” Rabbi
Saperstein said. “The bakeshop case.”
(He’s talking about the recent case in
Colorado where a baker did not want
to make a wedding cake for a gay cou-
ple, claiming that he’d have to exercise
his artistic talent and therefore seem
to approve of an action he found unac-
ceptable according to the tenets of his
religion. The Supreme Court ruled in
favor of the baker on technical grounds,
leaving the issue alive.) “I don’t know
that there is a distinctive Jewish under-
standing because Jewish law protects
the civil rights and fundamental dignity
and equality of all people, and supports
the structure of law in our society, which
ensures that people may not be discrim-
inated against because of protected cat-
egories, which include ethnic identity,”
Rabbi Saperstein said. “There also is a
deep concern with the concept of reli-
gious freedom in Jewish law. So this is
not resolved by the tradition.” His dis-
cussion, therefore, “will be more about
helping people understand the legal
issues and what implications they have
in terms of the Jewish community.”
Different parts of the Jewish commu-
nity are likely to have different opin-
ions on the question, he added. “The
Orthodox tend to say that if you have to
balance the two” — that’s religious free-
dom and civil rights — “they’d come out
in favor of religious freedom, and we”
— that’s liberal Jews — “tend to say that
protecting civil rights is compelling.”
Does he look at these questions as a
rabbi or as a lawyer? “I don’t see any
bifurcation,” he said. “If you think about
the positions that the Jewish movements
and organizations take, we all take pub-
lic policy positions, and each decides
in our own way how to apply law and
history lessons we draw from the Jewish
tradition to contemporary issues.” It’s an
integrated process, he suggested.
He’ll also talk about how religion
has been used in American political
campaigns since the turn of this cen- freedom around the world; at anti-Sem-
tury. It’s certainly a target-rich subject. itism and Islamophobia and the per-
“I’ll look at how religion has been used, secution of particularly vulnerable
how candidates use it, what is and is not groups, minority Syrian populations, the
permitted, what is and is not appropri- Rohingya, the Uighurs, and I’ll talk about
ate, what is and is not wise,” he said. “I’ll how we can be effective in responding to
look at a range of examples, and then I’ll it.” In that talk in particular, Rabbi Saper-
open it up to discussion. stein will be able to draw on the experi-
“And finally, I’ll look at religious ence he had as ambassador.
Who: Rabbi David Saperstein
What: Will be the Louis J. Sigel Scholar in Residence
Where: At Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck
When: From April 12 to April 14
To be specific:
The whole program is called “Being in the Hands of God: Jewish Social Justice
at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity”
At Shabbat evening services at 8, Rabbi Saperstein will talk about “Tough
Choices: Jewish Perspectives on America’s Social Justice Challenge.”
On Saturday morning, at Torah study at 9, he will address “The Jewish Re-
sponse: Economic Justice: Testing the Morality of Our Nation.”
On Saturday afternoon, at 1, he’ll look at “Religious Persecution and Religious
Freedom Across the Globe.
On Sunday morning, he’ll take on “Racing with God: The Use and Abuse of Re-
ligion in American Elections.”
For more information, go to the synagogue’s website, www.emeth.org.

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Open during Passover April 22, 23, 24, 25 was walking along the street in Chel- me. “That said, random anti-Semi-
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experienced anti-Semitism aimed at front window of a synagogue in Bush-
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my first experience of anti-Semitism of beatings, and several incidents of
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homeless man’s words seemed a mation League, and asked him to run
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me through the procedure. He pointed
me to his organization’s online incident
reporting form.
On average, Rosemberg said, he
receives an average of 23 complaints a
week, not all of which end up being cat-
egorized as anti-Semitic or racist inci-
dents. After receiving a complaint, his
team investigates to determine if the
incident rises to the level of a hate crime.
The ADL also proactively monitors the
media to spot incidents, often contact-
ing the NYPD to check if they heard
about a specific occurrence.
In the case of Brooklyn, which has
“seen a marked increase in assaults,”
Rosemberg said that his organization
has found it “incredibly important to
respond when every single one of these
incidents occurs.”
In the early 1990s, the ADL was
harshly criticized by many chasidim for
what they saw as its failure to respond to
the Crown Heights riots, which featured
widespread attacks against Jews.
Late last year the FBI reported that
overall, hate crimes increased by 17
percent in 2017, with hate crimes
against Jews rising by more than a third
and accounting for 58 percent of all
religion-based hate crimes. However,
Rosemberg noted that the overall level
of anti-Semitic sentiment has remained
mostly flat, hovering between 12 and 15
percent for years.
“What has changed, he said, “is the
emboldenment of the people that think
that way to act out. People feel embold-
ened to act out because of the climate,
because of the way national rhetoric has
been shaped.”
Overall, he told me, the relatively
large number of anti-Semitic incidents
in New York compared to other regions
does stem from an increase in cases, but
also reflects both an increased willing-
ness to report and the fact that New York
has a larger concentration of Jews than
other parts of the country.
However, neither the ADL nor the
NYPD has been able to “see one marked
political or racial or ethnic or national
tendency in any of these incidents,” he
said, referring to the perpetrators. “It’s
really random. If you talk to the hate
crimes task force they will tell you the
same thing.”
In Crown Heights, which has seen a
significant uptick in violent anti-Semitic
incidents in recent months, some people
feel that their plight has not received
sufficient attention, with one prominent
community figure telling me that he
believed that this was because the vic-
tims were charedi Jews.
“There’s no question that it’s not
getting the same media attention as in
other places and I don’t know why,”
local activist Rabbi Yaacov Behrman
agreed. “I think that part of it’s because
when the victims are chasidic Jews, it’s
less important to some people. But more
importantly because it’s not part of the
overall agenda. If they can’t link it to the
far right, they are not as interested in
reporting it.”
Behrman likely was alluding to the fact
that many of the suspects arrested by the
police have been young men of color.
He said that part of the problem in
Crown Heights is gentrification, and that
low-income residents see the Orthodox
Jews and Jewish property owners as
vanguards of their displacement. “Peo-
ple can’t afford to live here anymore,”
he said. “Now there’s this lie being ped-
dled around that somehow the Jews are
being protected from gentrification and
are not affected and some of the devel-
opers are Jewish.
“Regardless if the developer and the
landowner is doing it legally or ille-
gally, if you go and beat an innocent Jew
because you feel that the person who
raised your rent is Jewish, you target an
innocent Jew. That’s the very definition
of anti-Semitism.”
However, despite the increase in inci-
dents, it’s important not to exagger-
ate the level of concern, said Rabbi Eli
Cohen, executive director of the Crown
Heights Jewish Community Council.
“We’ve seen more [anti-Semitism] in
Crown Heights because of the proxim-
ity of having a very mixed community,
but the old narrative of two communi-
ties facing off in Crown Heights isn’t
what’s happening,” he said. “We’re not
seeing that at all. The leadership level
[of the local] communities have a good
relationship. We don’t hear the same
rhetoric we heard in the ‘90s. From that
point of view, I think I see it more in the
context of the phenomenon we’ve seen
around the city, and certainly some of it
is better reporting of incidents not pre-
viously reported.
“I wouldn’t put it at the level of a com-
munity under siege.”
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Jewish groups appoint Lithuania’s genocide studies

co-chairs for task force
on anti-religious violence
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — Two former home-
land security secretaries will co-chair a
task force convened by national Jewish
organizations aimed at tracking anti-re-
ligious violence.
The task force, announced last week,
is a joint project of the Anti-Defamation
League and Secure Community Net-
work, a Jewish self-defense initiative.
Its co-chairs are Jeh Johnson, the
Homeland Security secretary under
President Barack Obama, and Michael
Chertoff, who held the job under Presi-
dent George W. Bush. Johnson is African
American, and Chertoff is Jewish.
The initiative arose after the attack on
a Pittsburgh synagogue complex in Octo-
ber that killed 11 Jewish worshippers, the
worst anti-Jewish attack in U.S. history.
“The task force will develop best
practices to increase coordination and
cooperation related to incident track-
ing, information sharing, reporting and
center engages in Holocaust
denial, local Jews say
addressing threats,” a joint ADL-SCN CNAAN LIPHSHIZ center’s claims, threatening to take
release said. legal action unless they are retracted.
The Trump administration’s Home- Lithuania’s state body for preserving The community said the text
land Security Department recently dis- the memory of the Holocaust broke “contains features which are crimes
banded an intelligence unit that tracked the country’s laws against denying that under the Lithuanian criminal code,
right-wing violence. The move drew genocide, local Jews said. namely, denial or gross belittlement
criticism from groups that track hate The controversy surrounding the of the Holocaust.”
crimes. The alleged Pittsburgh killer was Center for the Study of the Genocide The text was a defense of Jonas
a white supremacist who blamed Jews and Resistance of Residents of Lithu- Noreika, the wartime governor of the
for supporting what he called an “inva- ania is the latest in a series of actions Lithuanian Šiauliai district under the
sion” of migrants into the United States. that the country’s critics say is a gov- Nazis. Many historians believe he
“This move defies logic,” said Jon- ernment-sponsored campaign to oversaw and profited personally from
athan A. Greenblatt, ADL’s CEO and exculpate its people from its substan- the dispossession and murder of the
national director, about the closing of tial complicity in the murder of 85 district’s Jews.
the Homeland Security branch focused percent of the country’s 170,000 Jews. Last month, a Lithuanian judge
on domestic terrorism. “The current Last month, the center published dismissed as “ill-based” an Ameri-
administration has been chipping away a text claiming that “the Lithuanians can Jew’s lawsuit against the center,
at our nation’s ability to address a deadly operated against the will of the Ger- demanding it take down a plaque
serious national security threat: right- mans” during World War II and that commemorating Noreika.
wing extremism. To simply disregard “the residents of occupied Lithuania “Noreika belonged to the anti-
this threat, especially after what we wit- in 1941 didn’t understand ghettos as Nazi underground of Šiauliai which
nessed in Pittsburgh, Charlottesville, part of the Holocaust.” rescued Jews. Noreika helped those
Charleston, and even overseas in Christ- On March 28, the Jewish Commu- who rescued Jews,” the center’s text
church, New Zealand, could put lives at nity of Lithuania published on its also said.
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For Israelis abroad, elections start
with a scramble for flight tickets home
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
AMSTERDAM — Like many voters in democratic
national elections, I almost always hope that whoever is
elected will be able to serve out their full term — even if
they weren’t my pick.
This is especially true in my native Israel, whose infa-
mously brittle coalitions last on average only 2 1/2 years.
Early elections there cost billions in polarizing campaigns
and present a governance challenge that I see as far more
worrisome than having the country run by someone who
isn’t my cup of tea.
But if I’m honest, my desire for political stability in
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Israel is tainted by selfishness: I’m one of thousands of
Israelis living abroad who must fly home for every elec-
tion, on short notice and with high costs, because our
country won’t let us vote anywhere else.
In other words, I really wouldn’t mind limiting this
ordeal to once every four years.
Just as our desire to vote reflects an undying attach-
ment to the country that many of us perceive as an insur-
ance policy, Israel’s lack of absentee voting reflects a
country’s hang-ups about citizens who leave its borders
and the Zionist ethos of Israel’s founders.
The late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin famously
called leavers “wimpy debris” as late as 1976. The word
for leaving Israel in Hebrew is “yerida” — descend-
ing — as opposed to “aliyah” — ascending.
Whereas the United States, France, the Nether-
lands and many other democracies actively encour-
age expats to participate in elections — expats even
have their own constituencies and representatives
in the French parliament’s lower house — Israel
bars its approximately half a million citizens living
elsewhere from voting abroad. The only ones eligi-
ble to vote oversees in Israeli elections are several
thousand government envoys.
According to the International Institute for
Democracy and Electoral Assistance, about 60
percent of the world’s 193 countries allow their citi-
zens to vote abroad. Globalization is only helping to
increase this trend, with Belgium, Sweden, Mexico,
and Panama joining the list in the previous decade.
India did so this year.
Netanyahu’s is one of several Israeli governments
that have tried to promote voting abroad, but a
2015 bill on the matter failed. (Opponents of the
idea include Arab lawmakers and many on the left
and right of c enter.)
In Israel, the first
reaction to any
political statement
by an expat is
often not to
debate the expat’s
argument, but
their right to even
express an opinion.
In Israel, “the first reaction to any political state-
ment by an expat is often not to debate the expat’s
argument, but their right to even express an opin-
ion,” said Eldad Beck, an Israeli journalist based in
Berlin. “This mentality needs to go, whether the
prime minister stays or not.”
Why, then, are we prepared to travel thousands
of miles to vote in Israel, where we haven’t lived in
years? And why do some of us do this, then lazily
opt out of voting in the countries where we do
make our homes?
Maximillian Marco Katz, an Israeli citizen and
activist against anti-Semitism in his native Roma-
nia, said he wouldn’t make a special trip to vote
there, although he will for Israel. “The truth is, in
Romania I was told too often that I don’t belong,
even though I grew up here,” Katz said. “I served in
Israel, I fought in Israel. My children are there. I’m
a Zionist above all and it’s my home, so of course
I will vote.”
The relatively dramatic nature of just about any
Israeli election — it’s often a close race with serious
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Polish nationalists use anti-Semitic rhetoric

at N.Y. protest against Holocaust restitution bill
JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
In Manhattan, Polish nationalists protested against Polish nationalists
a bill designed to help Holocaust survivors and their hold a protest in
descendants reclaim lost property in Poland. New York’s Foley
Hundreds of people participated in the protest in Square against a
Foley Square last Sunday, and some used anti-Se- Holocaust restitu-
mitic rhetoric. One protester held a sign calling to tion law on March
“stop the Holocaust industry,” while others ques- 31, 2019.
tioned how many Polish Jews were killed during MOLLY CRABAPPLE

World War II, according to author Molly Crabapple,

who posted photos from the event on Twitter.
One protestor told Crabapple that the Jews of
Warsaw were “mostly killed by other Jews.”
They were protesting a law that President Don-
ald Trump signed last year, called the Justice for
Uncompensated Survivors Today Act.
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Liberal Orthodox yeshiva feels fallout
from decision not to ordain gay student
SHIRA HANAU
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ignaling a red line on how far
Modern Orthodoxy is prepared
to bend to adjust to societal
changes, a liberal New York City
seminary will not ordain an openly gay
student who is engaged to be married
and completing his fourth year of rab-
binical studies this spring.
In a statement to the New York Jewish
Week, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah student
Daniel Atwood, 27, wrote: “Four years
ago I came out as gay during my first
year at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rab-
binical School, and it was decided that
I would receive semicha [ordination]
as their first openly gay student. After
four years of study and my complet-
ing almost all of the program’s require-
ments, YCT decided not to give me
semicha, news delivered to me only a
few weeks ago, three months before my
graduation, without any prior conversa-
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and is living with his partner.
The decision marks a turning point
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an alternative to the more right-leaning
Yeshiva University, the school, in the
Riverdale section of the Bronx, ordained
its first class in 2004 and has ordained
more than 100 rabbis since then.
Since its founding, the yeshiva has
sought to balance its Orthodox creden-
tials with its progressive values. The
decision on Atwood is being perceived
by some as the yeshiva’s attempt to
ground itself more firmly in the tradi-
tional Orthodox world, which maintains
that Jewish law prohibits same-sex rela-
tions. While there has been a significant
increase in empathy for LGBT Jews in
recent years within the community,
inclusion has rarely reached the level
of communal leadership, and same-sex
marriage is universally prohibited.
“I always knew that being in the posi-
tion that I am in would be a difficult
served for nearly 20 years as the flagship process,” Atwood wrote. “I was always
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In his statement, Atwood said he is pursuing an inde-
pendent ordination.
Rabbi Dov Linzer, YCT’s president and rosh yeshiva,
declined to comment on the specifics of the case. “We
accept all students regardless of sexual orientation, pro-
vided that they are fully committed to Orthodox halachic
Tilapia observance,” he wrote in an email. “There have been
Florentine students in the past that did not receive semicha, each
one for reasons specific to his case. Out of respect for
all our students, the yeshiva does not discuss particular
students and why any student may or may not be receiv-
ing semicha.”
Linzer added that “the yeshiva could have handled the
process of informing Daniel, and coming to a timely deci-
sion, in a much better manner, and we are sorry for the
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“So it’s a real shameful moment,” continued
Lopatin, who headed the yeshiva when Atwood
was accepted as a student and stepped down last
year. “I hope that there will be dozens of Orthodox
rabbis that step forward and say that we want to
give this student semicha and not dozens that are
cowering behind closed doors.”
Seminarians at YCT who were interviewed
for reactions said that they were pained by
the decision.
“The last few weeks have been a very challenging
and painful time to be a student at YCT,” one stu-
dent, who asked to remain anonymous because of
the sensitivity of the situation, wrote in an emailed
statement. “We feel upset and angered about the
process that led to this decision. When Daniel
got engaged, I was excited because I thought YCT
would affirm his choice and still grant him semicha.
It was deeply saddening for me to learn that they
wouldn’t.”
Alumni of the school said they were informed
that Atwood would not be ordained last month
in a conference call. Several described feeling
distraught at the news; they’d been hopeful that
Atwood’s ordination would set a path for future
gay students.
Several graduates of the school said alumni are
divided over the school’s handling of this deci-
sion. “People look to Chovevei to be a beacon for
people who are trying to stay committed to the
Orthodox world and at the same time not have to
compromise their moral values,” said Rabbi Aaron
Potek, an alumnus and now the rabbi at GatherDC
in Washington, D.C. “If the leadership at Chovevei
can’t find a way to make space for gay Orthodox
rabbis, that sends a pretty devastating message
to that community and to the broader Orthodox
community about what is and is not possible to be
included in that world.”
Rabbi Avram Mlotek, who grew up in Teaneck
and is the founder of the Base Hillel outreach proj-
ect and also a graduate of YCT, said he felt “heart-
broken” for Atwood and his family.
Others defended the school, noting the require-
ment for YCT students to be fully committed to
Orthodox halacha and Atwood’s recent engage-
ment to his partner, with whom he lives. In 2010,
YCT faculty members issued a document urging
compassion and inclusion for LGBT members of
the Orthodox community, but also asserted that
“Halakhic Judaism cannot give its blessing and
imprimatur to Jewish religious same-sex commit-
ment ceremonies and weddings, and halakhic val-
ues proscribe individuals and communities from
encouraging practices that grant religious legiti-
macy to gay marriage and couplehood.”
“We’re living at a time when people are trying
to figure out how someone can be gay and keep
halacha at the same time,” said Rabbi Chai Posner,
a YCT graduate who is the associate rabbi of Beth
Tfiloh Congregation in Baltimore. “This would be
the first time an Orthodox rabbi would be granted
semicha while being openly gay, and fair or not,
that reality carries with it a certain level of expecta-
tions” in terms of adherence to halacha. “The bar
is certainly raised for someone who is going to be
a rabbi.”
YCT graduate Rabbi Aviad Bodner is the rabbi of
Stanton Street Synagogue on Manhattan’s Lower
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East Side. He said nearly one-third of his syna-

gogue’s leadership is LGBT. “The Orthodox com-
munity must do more and can do more to be more
welcoming to the LGBT community,” Bodner said.
Without addressing this specific case, he said that
YCT “must ensure that every one of its musmachim
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[ordained rabbis] is observant and follows halacha.”
Several alumni emphasized the constant ten-
sion YCT deals with in navigating between the
broader Jewish world and more traditional Ortho-
dox elements.
“Chovevei is being pulled in two directions,”
Potek said. “There’s a group of alumni and students
who want Chovevei to be taking these important
steps toward greater inclusivity, and then there are
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alumni who are paranoid about what right-wing
Orthodox Jews will think about their Orthodoxy.”
This is not the first time YCT’s actions have
sparked debate among its alumni. In 2016, several
graduates wrote an open letter opposing the prac-
tice of “partnership minyanim,” traditional-style
services in which women lead parts of the service
and a practice embraced by several YTC alumni.
In 2009, Rabbi Weiss privately ordained Sara
Hurwitz as “rabba,” in a controversial move that fur-
ther alienated the movement from the mainstream
modern Orthodox community. Weiss and Hurwitz
subsequently founded Yeshivat Maharat to ordain
women as Orthodox spiritual leaders.
Linzer, who has been the rosh yeshiva of YCT
since its founding and assumed the role of president
last fall, has long been an advocate for acceptance
of LGBT members of the Orthodox community.
In his email to the Jewish Week, he noted that the
yeshiva “regularly brings in members of Eshel, JQY
[two support groups for gay people from traditional
backgrounds], and the LGBTQ community, as well
as rabbis, poskim, and community leaders, so that
we can best chart a path forward that is rooted in
Torah, halacha, and responsible rabbinic leader-
ship, and that honors the inherent dignity of every
human being created in God’s image. We continue
to grapple with this issue and are always learning in
the process.”
In an online discussion organized by the Jew-
ish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Linzer discussed
the Jewish legal ramifications of two men living
together and wrote that “our focus has to be not
on halacha, but on communal acceptance and on
making gay men and women, and their spouses or
partners, as well as their children, fully welcome
and fully a part of our communities, synagogues,
and schools.”
He continued: “On a communal level, we should
be very wary of assuming that we know what goes
on behind closed doors. It also is none of our busi-
ness. We do not presume to know, or believe it our
business to know, which family is or is not keep-
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security implications — certainly helps attract the
devotion of some expat voters.
Merav Shtifman, an Israeli businessman from
Amsterdam, will travel to Israel for two days just to
vote. She cited her belief that Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu, who is implicated in several alleged
corruption scandals, is a danger to Israeli society.
“There is no alternative to replacing this ruler,”
wrote Shtifman, who will vote for Blue and White,
the newly formed center-left party led by Benny
Gantz and Yair Lapid, which is neck and neck with
Netanyahu’s Likud in the polls. “I don’t think he
cares about what’s good for the country, only about
his personal survivability” in power.
Katz, by contrast, says the allegations against Net-
anyahu have a minor influence on his decision mak-
One of them is my own father, Israel Lifshitz. When
elections come around, we often travel together.
Sometimes we vote for the same party, other times
we don’t, and sometimes, ridiculously, we travel to
effectively cancel each other’s vote by picking oppos-
ing candidates.
Looking up our designated ballots in Israel, I remem-
bered with a pang of guilt sitting out the 2017 Dutch
elections. I had the voting slip ready and then went gar-
dening or something and simply forgot all about it.
As for my dad, who is also a Dutch citizen, well, he
chivalrously donates his vote in the the Dutch elections
to his wife — she tells him who to vote for. (“We’re both
lefties, so whatever,” as he explains it.)
To my father, the stakes are compellingly higher in
Israel because of threats to its security. Yet this time
around, security played a marginal role in his electoral
choice, I reminded him. “You’re right,” he said. “I guess
it’s all about an emotional attachment that I have over
there, but not here.” The son of Polish Holocaust sur-
vivors, he also regards Israel as a contingency, he said.
As for me, my attachment to Israel is simple: Ris-
ing anti-Semitism and xenophobia here and through-
out Europe give me little reason to believe that our
two small children, whom my wife and I are raising
as pro-Israel, pro-American Jews, will feel at home in
the Netherlands when they come of age in about 20
years. This belief informs the importance I attach to
voting in Israel, a country they might someday call
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Editorial
Looking inward,
looking outward
T W
his area is remarkable for
the breadth and depth of
its Jewish life. This week,
we look at two commu-
nities, one Orthodox, one Reform,
both in Bergen County.
First, there are the Yudins.
It’s an interesting experience, try-
ing to interview Shevi and Benjamin
Yudin, the heart and soul of Shom-
rei Torah, the Orthodox shul that is
at the heart and soul of Orthodox
life in Fair Lawn.
It’s interesting because they really
don’t want to be interviewed.
It’s not that they don’t want to
talk. They’re proud of their work,
passionate about the Jewish com-
munity they’ve created, eager to
showcase their congregants, their
friends, their students, and the peo-
ple who will become their friends,
their congregants, and their stu-
dents as soon as they’ve met. They
love their work, and they love their
life, because their two lives are one
complementary life and their work
is their life, because it’s all one
seamless whole.
Before Shomrei Torah, there
was very little Orthodox life in Fair
Lawn. Now, there are seven Ortho-
dox shuls, as well as Conservative,
Reform, and Chabad ones. It’s not
clear how many of them — if any
of them — would have been there
without the Yudins.
But they don’t want to be
interviewed.
They will allow their story to be
in this newspaper, as it has been
in others, because they know
that their life is inspirational, that
the community they’ve created
is a model. They will talk to me,
with grace and good humor and
warmth and good will. They want
their community’s story told. But
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they want their own story some-
how not to be central to their story,
if that should be possible.
The thing is, the Yudins embody
modesty and humility in a way that
is hard for the rest of us to under-
stand. Those seem to be Victorian
words, traits that have gone the way
of the reticule and the settee for the
rest of us. But wait — a reticule is a
handbag, and a settee is a couch,
and modesty and humility really
still do exist.
Rabbi and Rebbetzin Yudin have
done extraordinary work. They
have brought community and Jew-
ish life to hundreds, possibly thou-
sands, of people. Thank you, both
of you, for what you have done for
the rest of us.
On the other end of the Jewish
spectrum, there is the work that
Temple Emeth in Teaneck does. It’s
outward facing; social justice work
is a logical outgrowth of the Reform
movement’s understanding of the
Jewish people’s mandate to pursue
justice. That the synagogue would
need only three days to convince 50
members to fly down to Atlanta and
then take a bus around the Deep
South, to immerse themselves in
the stories of slavery and racism that
the new museums there show, and
to come back home ready to work —
because racism, like anti-Semitism,
still is alive — because the Jewish
tradition demands that they do to —
that’s impressive.
There are many ways to be Jewish.
The more deeply immersed you are
in your own, at times the harder it is
to believe that there are other ways.
But the range of ways of being Jew-
ish here is wide, and we all benefit
from having them all here. We each
can chose only one, but we all are
enriched by having the choice. —JP
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KEEPING THE FAITH
A short-sighted approach
to guide dogs in shul
ith Pesach just two weeks vow, for both are abhorrent to the Lord your
away, one law I never thought God.” Kasher reasoned that since it is for-
would come to mind in con- bidden to use money from the sale of a dog
nection with it is this: “Do not to purchase a Temple sacrifice, it certainly
put a stumbling block before the blind.” (See must be forbidden to bring the dog itself
Leviticus 19:14; we will read it in synagogues into the Temple. Thus, he said, one can-
on May 11.) not bring a dog into a synagogue or other
As I often note here, the intent of this law sacred space. (See his comment to the verse
is to prohibit misleading people — but it also in his Torah Sh’lemah, Vol. 15.)
means exactly what it says, and it is in that There is much wrong with this ruling, not
literal context that it came to mind. the least of which is that “dog” in verse 19
A blind person with a guide dog recently may not refer to a real dog at all (although
was initially rebuffed when trying to make many commentators say it does). More
a reservation to attend a syna- likely, given the context, it is
gogue’s public seder because meant as a euphemism for
the guide dog was not allowed a male prostitute. If it does
in the synagogue. Fortunately, refer to real dogs, however, as
when the rabbi heard of it, he Nachmanides (the Ramban)
reversed the decision. Still, explains, it refers to “brazen
there are many synagogues dogs that harm the public.” In
that would not welcome guide that case, the Ramban contin-
dogs into their midst for any ued, “the owners vow [to con-
reason, especially including tribute] their value [to a cause
attending services, or partic- Shammai they consider sacred], as an
ipating in a religious event, Engelmayer atonement for their soul.” In
such as a seder. Ramban’s view, the reason
There is no direct discus- for the prohibition is that the
sion of this issue in the codes, meaning that money being used for a sacred purpose was
there is no direct prohibition against dogs of acquired “in a contemptible manner.” (The
any kind being admitted, much less guide citation as quoted is found in Rabbi Charles
dogs. Nevertheless, there are a few rabbinic Chavel’s translation.)
rulings referencing other laws to support A guide dog is not a vicious animal in any
this position. Perhaps the most notable one respect. We have had one coming to our ser-
was issued (ironically, for me) by the late vices for several years now, and no one has
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher, whose ever heard as much as a whimper from her.
Haggadah Sh’lemah I rely on each year in She just rests at the feet of her owner, even
preparing for Pesach. if someone pets her.
In his voluminous Torah Sh’lemah com- Kasher’s ruling received much criticism,
mentary, Kasher cites Deuteronomy 23:18- including from the late Lubavitcher Rebbe,
19 as his prooftext. The verses state: “No Menachem Mendel Schneerson. In corre-
Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute, spondence with Kasher, he referenced a
and no Israelite man shall be a cult prosti- principle put forth by Rabbi Moses Isserles
tute. You shall not bring the fee of a pros- (the Rema) regarding whether women in
titute, or the pay of a dog, into the house their state of impurity should be allowed
of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any into a synagogue. The Rema (in his gloss to
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades, now in Fort Lee.
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Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 88) ruled that they should be
admitted because not to do so would “cause them great pain
for while others are praying they must remain outside.” By
the same token, Schneerson wrote, to bar blind people with
guide dogs would “cause them great pain for while others
are praying they must remain outside.” (Schneerson’s com-
ments can be found at www.chabad.org.)
Both the late Rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Joseph Solove-
itchik — who usually are on opposite sides of the halachic
spectrum —also ruled positively on the issue.
Feinstein, in his ruling, referenced a comment in the
Jerusalem Talmud M’gillah 3:3 regarding a certain Rabbi
Imi, who would “permit even a marginal scholar to enter
the synagogue with his donkey and his tools,” and, presum-
ably, with his clothes, as well. If a donkey was permitted
in a synagogue, he ruled, certainly a guide dog should be
allowed inside.
Feinstein acknowledged that some would object to bring-
ing a dog into a synagogue because it could lead to creating
a somewhat frivolous atmosphere in an otherwise sacred
place. The Babylonian Talmud tractate M’gillah 28a, for
example, forbids frivolity in a sacred space. He dismissed
the objection, however. Instead, he cited the immediately
preceding discussion in JT M’gillah 3:3, which states that
“synagogues and study halls are built to be used by Talmud
scholars,” including to eat and drink there.
What is remarkable about Feinstein using that text to sup-
port his argument is that he chose the Jerusalem Talmud’s
opinion about eating and drinking over the Babylonian one,
which specifically bans both. The Babylonian text bluntly
states “one may not eat in them, nor may one drink in them.”
(See Igrot Moshe, Orach Chayim, 1:45.) It is as if he was bend-
ing over backwards to allow guide dogs into a synagogue.
As for Soloveitchik, we do not have a direct quote regard-
ing his ruling. As is often the case where he is concerned,
we must rely on hearsay, in this case from the recollection
of his son-in-law, the late Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein. This is
how he explained Soloveitchik’s ruling in a lecture cited by
Rabbi Howard Jachter in his Halachic Perspectives on Pets:
In BT B’rachot 63a, the Talmud offers a standard for
acceptable behavior in a synagogue: If a person would
allow that behavior in his or her home, it is acceptable in a
synagogue as well. According to Lichtenstein, says Jachter,
Soloveitchik applied that standard to the guide dog. Because
a person would allow a blind person with a guide dog into
his or her home, so may a synagogue do so.
There are other supports for this position, the most
important perhaps being that animals were allowed on the
Temple grounds — and not just animals required for sacri-
fices. Mishnah Shekalim 7 refers to “money that is found
[in the Temple precincts] in front of animal dealers,” which
tells us that Jerusalem entrepreneurs would bring animals
to that most sacred space to sell to those in need of sacrifices.
If animals for sale could be brought onto Temple grounds,
an animal required for a person’s well-being surely may be
brought into a synagogue.
Bringing a pet dog into a synagogue, on the other hand,
is another matter entirely. Although there really does not
exist any direct prohibition to doing so, guide dogs are well
trained in remaining calm and even respectful of others, but
such behavior cannot be assured of other pet dogs.
Frankly, though, there never should have been a debate
over allowing guide dogs into synagogues. Barring them
is nothing short of a chilul ha-Shem, a desecration of the
God who described Himself as being “compassionate and
gracious…, [and] abounding in kindness and faithfulness.”
(See Exodus 34:6.) We are commanded by Him to “walk in
My ways” (see Genesis 17:1). We fail to do so — and we fail
Him — if we ourselves are not compassionate and gracious,
abounding in kindness and faithfulness.
Opinion
This is why we should
immunize our children
R
ockland County is in the midst of a mea- The Rockland County measles outbreak is cen-
sles epidemic. As I write this, there are tered in an Orthodox Jewish community. As a rabbi,
at least 155 cases of measles — a disease I know that there is nothing in Judaism that would
that was eliminated from the United prohibit vaccination. On the contrary, the most
States in 2000. important precept in Judaism is pikuach nefesh,
I write this article as a mother and grandmother, saving a life. Even the laws of Shabbat may be sus-
as a pediatrician, as a part of a team that developed pended, if someone’s life is at risk. In Judaism, we
new vaccines, and as a rabbi. also have an obligation to heal. As it says in the Tal-
As a pediatrician, I took care of children who mud, “One who saves one life, it is as if he saves an
succumbed to diseases that we no longer worry entire world.” Prevention, too, is important. The
about today. I remember sitting with a mother as Torah tells us “You shall make a parapet for your
she struggled to understand why her beautiful little roof.” That is, we have an obligation to remove haz-
boy — who was fine until a few days before — had ards to public health and safety from our domain.
died of Hib disease so quickly that antibiotics did The Talmud also tells us that dina malchuta
not have time to act. A vaccine against Hib, which is dina. The law of the land is the law. Through-
recommended for all children today, was not avail- out Jewish history, we have understood the need
able back then. to comply with the just laws of the society in
Many years later, I met another which we live. The law requiring
mother. She, too, had a child who that our children be immunized is
died of Hib disease. But her story like other laws that govern how we
was different. There was a vaccine live together. We stop at red traffic
available, but she was overwhelmed lights to make life safer for drivers
with the responsibility of new moth- and pedestrians. We wear seat belts
erhood. There was so much infor- because they protect lives in case of
mation on the internet, and it was accident. Immunization protects us
scary. There was even talk of a gov- against deadly infectious diseases
ernment conspiracy. How could she and has the added effect of provid-
know what to do to best protect her Rabbi Dr. ing herd immunity. By reducing
child? Her pediatrician assured her Jill Hackell the spread of disease, it can protect
of the benefits of vaccination, but she babies who are too young to be fully
thought she’d just wait, and decide immunized, and it can protect peo-
later. When her toddler died, she learned, in a way ple, both young and old, who have medical con-
that no parent ever should have to learn, that mak- tra-indications to vaccination, or who have fragile
ing no decision was also a decision, and it had con- immune systems. When enough people say, “Let
sequences. Terrible consequences. someone else vaccinate their child — mine will be
As a vaccine researcher, I conducted trials of safe,” the herd immunity breaks down, and none
new vaccines in thousands of children, to make of us is safe from these deadly diseases.
sure that the vaccines were both safe and effective It is good public health policy to enforce immuni-
against the disease they were designed to protect. zation laws, to make sure that susceptible children
My team was testing a new vaccine against whoop- stay out of school, and, if necessary, other public
ing cough. Because there already was a whooping spaces, for the safety of all.
cough vaccine in the United States, there was not I am now savta — grandma — to four beautiful
enough disease here to test the new acellular vac- grandchildren, and I am proud and relieved that
cine to see if it worked. But to our surprise, we they are all up-to-date on their immunizations.
found that we could test this vaccine in the devel-
oped world. In what was then West Germany, the Jill Hackell is the rabbi at West Clarkstown Jewish
parental anti-vaccine movement was very strong, Center. She’s also a physician, who earned her
vaccine rates dropped, and a whooping cough medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of
epidemic was sweeping the country. Now, parents Medicine, where she also did her pediatric residency.
were willing to test a brand-new vaccine in their She practiced general pediatrics for several years
children, because they could see how devastating and then moved to the pharmaceutical industry,
this forgotten disease was. where she did clinical research on new vaccines
Both my children received all their vaccines on for more than 20 years, including vaccines against
time. As a pediatrician, I knew how serious these pertussis (whooping cough), Hib (Haemophilus
diseases were. The day that my son received his influenza b), and pneumococcal disease. She
routine measles vaccination, there was a pediatric has combined these two paths with an interest in
resident on a ventilator, in the hospital in which I bioethical issues, teaching Jewish bioethics at the
was working. She had contracted measles from a Academy for Jewish Religion, and graduate-level
patient, and was very, very ill. secular bioethics at Dominican College.
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Opinion

Barriers to participation: Poverty in the Jewish world

T
here is a persistent myth
about American Judaism that
has spread so deeply into our
community’s collective psy-
che that it may have harmed our ability
to take action.
I recently returned from San Fran-
cisco, where I attended the Jewish
Funders Network 2019 International
Conference. A large crowd from all over
the world descended on the Bay Area
for the conference, ready to gain new
understanding of trends and challenges
affecting our Jewish community.
In my role as CEO of the Foundation
for Jewish Camp, I regularly am involved
in conversations about increasing oppor-
tunities for positive Jewish experiences
and longstanding Jewish identity.
Of the myriad of significant issues
facing the Jewish community, how-
ever, I was particularly struck by one
that isn’t always at the forefront of our
communal agenda: the growing rate of
poverty in the American Jewish com-
munity. The myth of American Jews as
a “model minority” who have achieved
overwhelming and uniform financial
success in the 20th and 21st centuries is
firmly held by those within the Jewish
American world and anti-Semites alike
— but it simply isn’t true.
While I was in San Francisco, I partic-
ipated in a well-attended, illuminating
meeting that the Harry and Jeanette Wein-
berg Foundation presented on the state of
Jewish poverty in the United States. As I
listened and digested information shared
in several sessions mapping out the dire
state of ever-larger portions of our com-
munity, I was able to appreciate the grow-
ing plight of those struggling to make ends
meet more fully. The problem touches
people of all ages and backgrounds, from
aging Holocaust survivors to people with
disabilities to single-parent families.
Having gathered research from several
recent studies and more than 70 lead-
ers who have a connections to the cause
throughout the United States, the Wein-
berg Foundation’s findings were a distant
cry from common beliefs about uniform
and prevalent Jewish prosperity. Close to
20 percent of the U.S .Jewish population
is living in or near poverty, may be closer to us than
the research tells us. we’d think. The 2013 Pew
This population may Study tells us that “Jews
well be prevented from with household incomes
participating in some of less than $30,000 are con-
the most enriching aspects centrated among young
of communal life, includ- adults and those who have
ing the one about which I reached retirement age.”
am most passionate — Jew- Promising steps already
ish camp — purely due to Jeremy J. have been taken to make
financial reasons. Fingerman a difference. The Phila-
Jewish poverty is a sig- delphia-based Seed the
nificant issue that deserves Dream Foundation is offer-
our urgent attention, and there is so ing a new matching grant program to
much more we can do to uplift the most help meet the urgent needs of Holocaust
vulnerable members of our commu- survivors living in poverty. UJA-Federa-
nity. Part of this is raising awareness of tion of New York continues to find inno-
the issue. I believe that we must make vative ways to support the low-income
it a communal goal not only to shatter Jewish households, which are heavily
this myth for the next generation, but to concentrated in the region.
also instill in them the empathy to see it In my own work, I have seen Jewish
where it exists and the motivation to find camps step up to distribute several mil-
better solutions to the problem, for our lion dollars each summer to help fami-
future and theirs. lies in need provide life-changing Jewish
We should feel a sense of duty to edu- experiences for their kids.
cate our entire Jewish community about I continue to be inspired by a
Jewish poverty, especially as the issue unique program in Cleveland funded

Israel is so much more than our Plan B

A
few weeks ago, an Israeli
Ph.D. student studying
w i t h m e at C o l u m b i a
asked me why the major-
ity of American Jews support Israel so
unequivocally.
I’ve been thinking about that ques-
tion. It’s hard to answer, and my first
response, I soon felt, was inadequate.
I thought about it more, and this is
how I would answer that question.
Growing up in America, the quint-
essential melting pot, we were taught
to embrace our diversity and have
pride in our background. It’s part of
what’s wonderful about being a patri-
otic American, where we can equally
love our country and love where we
came from. I have fond memories of
elementary school, where my Greek,
Armenian, Italian, Indian, black, and
Korean friends would have their par-
ents bring delicious ethnic dishes to
school for International Day, which I
looked forward to every year.
But when I was a child, my par-
ents had no fond affiliations with the
countries of their heritage. My grand-
parents are primarily from Russia,
Hungary, and Austria, but I never
had much affiliation with those coun-
tries, and I didn’t feel proud of them.
52 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
My grandfather was a first-generation
immigrant who fled the Russian Czar
when he was merely 14 years old,
arriving alone in America in 1910.
His experience as a Jew was one of
pogroms and oppression. My Hun-
garian grandmother’s entire family,
with the exception of the uncle who
immigrated to Argentina, was mur-
dered in Auschwitz during the sum-
mer of 1944. It’s a horrifying thing to
see on the family tree.
So what does this have to do with
Jewish American identity and Israel?
The bottom line is that the future
of the Jewish people and Israel are
inexorably linked. Israel is our his-
torical homeland, Israel is in our lit-
urgy, Israel is where our matriarchs
and patriarchs are buried, Israel is
the only country in the world that
speaks our ancient language. Israel
is a miracle on earth, where medi-
cal and high technologies are discov-
ered at an unprecedented rate and
shared with the entire world. Israel
is the only place on earth where traf-
fic stops on Yom Kippur and where
all the Jewish holidays are celebrated
nationally. After two millennia of
being persecuted, expelled, and vio-
lated, and finally after the horrors
of the Holocaust, the
world realized that for
safet y, Jews need to
return to their national
homeland, which began
in 1881 and was born
against all odds in 1948
out of swamps, malaria,
desert, dust, toil, love,
and miracles. Dana Adler
I’ve had a love affair
with Israel since I was
a little girl. This love has continued, away of abortion rights, the immi-
and I have passed it onto my chil-
dren. I couldn’t be more proud of
my son, who served as a lone soldier
on the front line of democracy in
defense of our homeland, and who
now, as an American Jew, speaks
fluent Hebrew. I have spent most of
my adult life believing and fundrais-
ing for the Jewish people, and I am
proud to continue that journey by
serving on the board of governors of
the Jewish Agency and in my study of
human rights at Columbia.
I’m opening up my eyes to the
human rights abuses and violations
in Israel and the West Bank, as well
as Israel’s internal struggles regard- particularly because it holds over
ing the rights of women and religious
pluralism. I work hard to learn more
and to try to make con-
nections so as to ame-
liorate these i ssues.
However, I keep these
in mind in regard to the
global stage. The human
rights abuses in coun-
tries around the world
— including the United
States — are numerous.
What’s going on right
here, with the chipping
grant situation on our southern
border, the ongoing discrimination
against the black community, and the
decimation of the Indian community
are national embarrassments and
points of great contention.
However, other countries fare far
worse in regard to their human rights
abuses. You don’t need to look fur-
ther than Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Tur-
key, North Korea, Qatar, Pakistan,
Lebanon, South Sudan, China, Saudi
Arabia, Myanmar, and many, many
others. I believe that Israel’s right to
sovereignty and security supersedes
that of any human rights violations,
half of the global Jewish population.
I also firmly believe, however, that

so generously by the David and
Inez Myers Foundation, and run
collaboratively by Jewish Fam-
ily Service Association of Cleve-
land and the Jewish Federation
of Cleveland. The program not
only fully funds a Jewish summer
camp experience for many years,
but also provides each recipient
with a large duffle bag filled with
all the supplies necessary for the
summer. This holistic approach
to addressing the needs of unaffil-
iated low-income families allows
a child to truly be just another
camper. To ensure participation,
the program works with each fam-
ily to help identify the right camp,
complete the application, and
provide other needed assistance.
More than 120 Cleveland-area
kids attended Jewish camp last
summer thanks to this gener-
ous collaboration. Could this
special, sensitive approach be a
springboard for similar initiatives
throughout the country, helping
the Palestinian people have a
right to self-determination and
a claim to human rights.
Look what’s happening right
now in Gaza, where Hamas is gun-
ning down their own people in the
street. Palestinians have a right to
live in dignity, but their leader-
ship won’t allow it simply because
they hate Israel. I believe that both
Hamas and Hezbollah, which call
for the destruction of Israel, are
terrorist organizations. It’s truly
a shame that the Palestinians are
ruled by terrorists in Gaza and by
corruption in the West Bank. In
order for there to be peace, Israel
needs a peace partner.
In regard to loyalty, while
I might not agree with all the
United States’ policies, and I
might not like the current lead-
ership, I will never forsake her.
I love America, and I believe
that she is the best country in
the entire world allowing for the
most opportunity anywhere.
Although I would like to spend
time in other places, I could
never abandon her.
The same goes for Israel. I will
always love her as my historic
Opinion
Jewish communities comprehen-
sively address and overcome the
financial barriers to access and
participation?
We all should work toward a
day when we can say that the
existence of Jewish poverty in the
United States is a myth. Unfortu-
nately, the struggles many mem-
bers of our community face right
now are far too real.
By embracing our collective
values and tearing down financial
barriers to become more inclu-
sive, we can ensure every Jewish
American has the opportunity to
partake in the richness of Jewish
communal life.
Jeremy J. Fingerman has been the
CEO of Foundation for Jewish
Camp since 2010, and he is a vice
president of JPRO Network, the
network of North American Jewish
communal professionals. He lives in
Englewood with his family. Write to
him at Jeremy@jewishcamp.org.
homeland, no matter what her
policies and no matter who her
leader is. I will never abandon
her, and I will always fight for
her in every way I know how.
Israel’s future is linked to mine
and my children’s, just as it
is linked to my past and my
ancestors.
Far from being simply Plan B,
Israel is central to our identity as
Jewish Americans. It is incredibly
insulting to think that this special
place, where my cousin Hannah
just moved, where my son Har-
rison proudly served, and where
I return time and time again to
help improve policy, is some-
how a mere place to escape to in
case things look bleak. It is much,
much more than that.
As American Jews, it is our
spiritual home.
Dana Adler of Tenafly is a
graduate student in human rights
at Columbia University. She has
been a Jewish communal leader
for the better part of the last two
decades and now is a member
of the board of governors of the
Jewish Agency for Israel.
College scandal isn’t surprising
Some letters to the editor in the March 19th
paper revealed the shock and sense of
revulsion people felt upon learning of the
college admissions scandal. As a school
psychologist working for Bergen County
Special Services (providing child study
team services to private schools, both reli-
gious and secular), I am truly sorry to con-
fess that as horrible as the situation is, it is
not completely surprising to me.
Not only does my team come in contact
fairly regularly with parents who push to
have their child “classified” — even when
the child is not eligible — because they
want the child to get extra help, but school
personnel also often push to have ineligi-
ble students classified. The first “push” is
to have students who exhibit no legitimate
reason to be evaluated, be evaluated.
The most conspicuous perpetrators are
the parents of 10th and 11th graders who
make it obvious that they want the stu-
dent to get extended time on the SATs and
ACTs. And if it isn’t egregious enough that
the parents attempt to manipulate the sys-
tem, I came to understand that the person
in charge of special services at a particu-
lar high school, upon finding out that the
Bergen County evaluation determined the
Don’t divide, unify
The AIPAC conference has just concluded,
with 18,000 in attendance. It was another
demonstration of very broad American Jew-
ish support of Israel. As a card-carrying Zionist
(full disclosure, I am an officer of Mercaz USA),
that unity gladdens my heart.
On the other hand, the March 29 Jewish
Standard included pieces that stand out as
symbols for the disunity, discord, and division
in the Jewish world. A JTA story reported that
a charedi Orthodox rabbi in Israel recently
praised Nazis for creating separate living
quarters for men and women. You would
think that in the season of Purim, such a rabbi
would remember the injunction about Ama-
lek and refrain from referring to the perpetra-
tors of the greatest pogrom in history.
A letter writer takes Rabbi Shammai
Engelmayer to task for criticizing the current
U.S. president. He says that POTUS 45 “has
been the most supportive of Jews and Israel,
perhaps in American history.” This view-
point contributes to the partisan divide that
now afflicts Jews and supporters of Israel.
The horrifying rise in anti-Semitic incidents
and violence over the past two years reflects
this situation.
This divide is a recent phenomenon in
American history. Every American president
since Harry Truman has supported Israel.
Truman, Nixon, and Johnson did so under
more challenging circumstances than today.
They came from both sides of the aisle. The
partisan fissure may have begun under Pres-
ident Obama, but factually, his administra-
tion continued to support Israel with very
generous arms deals.
Letters
student ineligible for classification, would
refer the parents (those who could afford
it, of course) to a private evaluator who
would make sure that the student’s results
rendered them eligible!
What are parents and, at times, school
personnel teaching students about hon-
esty, integrity, playing fair and how one
should be rewarded for effort? Extra help
and extended time are meant as a means
of leveling the playing field for those who
legitimately are stymied by a learning dis-
ability (which, put simply, means that
the student has the necessary potential
but that there is some neural mechanism
that interferes with him or her being able
to put forth their full ability). If students
who don’t need these accommodations
are afforded them, then the whole system
should be abandoned as the purpose for
which it was intended is negated.
Sadly, this is a continuation of the pro-
cess that often starts in elementary school
in which parents who are large donors, and
administrators who are complicit, contrive
together to see that the students involved
receive higher grades than deserved.
Nancy Silberman Zwiebach,
Englewood
Before our era, two other presidents stand
out as the greatest supporters of Jews in Amer-
ican history. George Washington recognized
religious equality, in his letter to the Jews of
Newport, Rhode Island, written in an age
when Jews were few in number, strange, pow-
erless, and unassimilated. That letter remains
a key statement about religious tolerance in
the new young nation, and a huge departure
from European norms.
In the 19th century, Abraham Lincoln
rescinded General Order No. 11 in January
1863. The order had been issued by General
(later President) Ulysses S. Grant, expelling
Jews from three southern states. Lincoln
opposed his greatest general in the context
of a Union culture that resented Jews such
as Judah Benjamin for their active support
of the Confederacy.
Grant was in the mainstream of his era,
but Lincoln took the unpopular moral high
ground. Lincoln, just like George Washing-
ton, demonstrated support for the Jews in an
example of principled leadership, regardless
of political popularity. These two presidents
have rightful claims to the title as greatest sup-
porter of the Jews. They sought to unify, rather
than to divide. American Judaism stands on
the shoulders of these two giants.
In this age of increasing religious tension, is
it not time for Jews to finally stop bashing each
other? Let’s try to stop being our own worst
enemies. A united American Jewish commu-
nity, regardless of party affiliation, is the key
to the future survival of Israel. Am Yisrael chai!
Eric Weis,
Wayne
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Keeping Kosher
Manischewitz unveils new look
across its product line
The Manischewitz Com-
pany, the largest mar-
keter of kosher foods
in North America, has
unveiled a fresh new look
for its iconic brand. For
more than 130 years, its
mission has been to bring
families to the table and
reconnect with tradition
through food. The brand’s
new visual identity, which
includes new products, themes, and
more, continues to reflect an ongoing
commitment to these values.
Since the brand’s establishment
in 1888, the Manischewitz Company
has delivered a broad range of prod-
ucts. “We are so excited to unveil our
new brand image to our consumers,”
said David Sugarman, its president
and CEO. “Our new logo’s tagline,
Looking at the meal in a new way
The sisterhood at Temple Sinai of Bergen County in
Tenafly will host a “new and provocative” seder led by
Rabbi Jill Hammer on Tuesday, April 9, at 7 p.m. Rabbi
Hammer is the director of spiritual education at the
Academy for Jewish in Yonkers and the co-founder of
the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, a program in
spiritual leadership for Jewish women.
The sisterhood’s president, Franci Steinberg, and
a lay leader, Annice Benamy, invite everyone to enjoy
Passover foods, singing, learning, and connection to
community. Reservations, jsherman@templesinaibc.org.
Women’s seder in Woodcliff Lake
The sisterhood of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley offers a women’s Passover
seder with music and dancing led by Naomi Less, a musician, facilitator, and edu-
cator, on Sunday, April 14, at 5 p.m. For reservations, call (201) 391-0801 or tepv.org.
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Cedar Market embraces Passover
As Passover approaches, look to Cedar
‘Comfort Food for the Market in Teaneck, with its depart-
Soul,’ represents our ments fully stocked with kosher-for-
brand’s familiar place in Passover items. Aisles 1 and 2 are
the hearts and kitchens entirely filled with kosher-for-Passover
of the families that we products. The meat department is now
serve.” fully kosher for Passover, with a large
The new brand vision variety of chicken, American Black
not only will include Angus beef, turkey, and duck. Be sure
updated packaging to check out the expanded kosher-for-
designs but will also Passover selection in the dairy and fro-
extend to a redesign of zen departments. Cedar Market has a
the Manischewitz Com- large kitniyot selection as well. Look
pany’s website and advertising cam- for a variety of items that are new to
paigns. As part of its commitment the market this year, including Mikee
toward modernizing the Manischewitz barbecue Sauce, Gefen soft cookies,
brand while retaining its classic roots,
Manischewitz will several several new
products in the coming months.
For more information, go to man-
ischewitz.com or www.Facebook.com/
Manischewitz. It’s on Twitter and Insta-
gram @ManischewitzCo.
Rabbi Jill Hammer Kayco and Whole Foods team up
for a wider assortment of choices
Two brand leaders, Kayco and Whole
Foods, which offer natural, whole-
some, responsibly sourced food, have
teamed up to offer a wider selection of
trendy and traditional kosher choices
for Passover.
Harold Weiss, Kayco’s executive vice
president, said the company’s partner-
ship with America’s favorite purveyor
of natural foods began more than a
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PROMPT decade ago, in response to growing con-
SERVICE sumer demand for products that fit both
kosher and healthy lifestyles.
“Our palates have gravitated toward
creative cuisines and sophisticated
food trends,” Weiss said. “People today
• Full Kitchen Koshering
are genuinely interested in food — not
• Instructions/hands-on
just for the way it tastes, but for how
demonstrations it’s produced and what that means to
• Full toiveling service their overall health. They expect con-
• Can arrange kosher venience, and they no longer want to
affairs in hotel/
restaurant of choice
choose between delicious and healthy
• Party Planners
just because it’s Passover.”
• Available for groups,
As the premier distributor of kosher
seminars and schools food in the United States, Kayco stands
for variety, quality, and convenience.
That legacy goes hand in hand with
and many more on the shelves in every
department.
Cedar Market strives to go above
and beyond the needs of its custom-
ers and offers great customer service.
Fruit, vegetable, and cake platters are
available to order. Follow Cedar Mar-
ket on Facebook and Instagram to see
new items, tastings, flash sales, and
more. If you are not already signed
up for its weekly savings email, go
to www.thecedarmarket.com and
sign up today. Cedar Market is at 646
Cedar Lane, Teaneck. For more infor-
mation, email info@thecedarmarket.
com or call (201) 855-8500.
Whole Foods’ commitment to unique
products that meet the highest stan-
dards and fit a variety of dietary needs.
Shoppers can find a full array of organic,
fair trade, vegan, and natural options
that are free of gluten, GMOs, preserva-
tives, and artificial ingredients.
Whole Foods stores nationwide will
carry a diverse selection of Passover
favorites and new releases includ-
ing Kedem Biodynamic Grape Juice,
Yehuda Matzoh: organic whole wheat
and gluten-free varieties (everything,
original, cinnamon, unsalted); Yehuda
regular, panko-style, and gluten-free
matzoh meal; Kedem Gourmet Tilapia
Gefilte Fish; Sea Castle Seaweed Snacks;
Gefen Roasted Chestnuts; Glick’s Maca-
roons (regular and gluten-free varieties);
Eylon All-Natural Marshmallows (vanilla
and vanilla minis); and Harrison’s Bit-
tersweet Chocolate Chips, Fruit Smiles,
Jelly Rings, and Fruit Slices. In addition,
Gefen Gluten-Free Pastas (shells, wide
noodles, elbows, and lasagna) will be
available at Whole Foods markets in
many regions.
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Keeping Kosher

Kosher.com offers Passover recipes, Accessorize

many by noted cookbook authors the holiday
Naomi Nachman, aka the “Aussie Gourmet,” is a kosher food writer, personal Midrash Manicures is selling three
chef, and media personality. The recipe below is from her best-selling cookbook, unique seder accessories in time
“Perfect for Pesach” (Art Scroll). The book includes many easy recipes for meals for Passover — a matzah-inspired
or to enhance a seder table. More than 125 recipes include a photograph by hair scrunchie, matzah-printed leggings, and a three-
kosher blogger and cookbook author Miriam Pascal. The book includes appetiz- quarter-sleeve-length matzah print dress. The leggings
ers and starters, main dishes and desserts, gluten free and non-gebrochts rec- and dress, made of polyester and spandex, are machine
ipes, freezer tips, prep aheads, how-to information, and recommendations for washable.
basic kitchen equipment. To spark meaningful conversations, share the manu-
facturer’s modern “Ten Plagues” nail decals —including
the 10 biblical plagues with your seder attendees.
Holiday quinoa “hummus” Midrash Manicures aims to combine Jewish educa-
Ingredients: tion and creative art to make Torah more meaningful.
1 cup kosher for Passover Pereg Natural Foods Quinoa It also holds educational workshops at synagogues,
1/2 cup pine nuts day schools, and summer camps for creative religious
2 cloves garlic crushed
expression.
juice of 1 lemon (2-3 teaspoons)
Rabbi Yael Buechler, founder of Midrash Manicures,
1/2 teaspoon kosher for Passover Pereg Natural Foods Salt
1/2 teaspoon Kosher for Passover Pereg Natural Foods Cumin received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theo-
1 tablespoon olive oil logical Seminary and was named one of the Jewish
1/4 cup water Week’s 36 Under 36 Jewish visionaries for her work
1 tablespoon olive oil, for garnish with Midrash Manicures. She is the rabbi-in-residence
1 tablespoon parsley, finely chopped for garnish of the Lower School at the Solomon Schechter School
Kosher for Passover Pereg Natural Foods Paprika, for garnish of Westchester.
Pereg’s Kosher for Passover Zahtar, for garnish For more information, call (347) 201-1948 or go to
midrashmanicures.com.
Place quinoa and pine nuts into the bowl of a food processor
fitted with the “S” blade. Process until blended. Add remaining MIRIAM PASCAL
ingredients; continue to blend. Scrape down sides and blend again
for approximately 30 seconds. Do not over-blend or the mixture will become gummy. Transfer to a serving
bowl. Garnish with olive oil, parsley, zahtar and paprika. Store in an airtight container. Closter shul to host
Recipe shared by Naomi Nachman from “Perfect for Pesach” with permission from Art Scroll. the Cocktail Guru
Check kosher.com for other Passover recipes by Naomi Nachman and others. A mixologist from the Cocktail Guru of Manhattan
comes to Temple Emanu-El of Closter on Thursday,
April 11, at 7:30 p.m., for a “Tipsy Seder” program for
those 21 and older. The Cocktail Guru, who has been
featured on “The Today Show,” as well as NBC, ABC, and
Turkey and food drive in Paramus Fox, will prepare kosher for Passover cocktails that you
can serve at your seder. Admission includes drink sam-
The JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah col- Food will be donated to the Center for Food Action plings and hors d’oeuvres (recipes provided). For more
lects solidly frozen kosher and non-kosher turkeys in Mahwah. ShopRite gift cards or check donations information, go to templeemanu-el.com/tipsyseder.
and non-perishable packaged food (no glass) for its both are welcome.
Fran Leib Memorial Food Drive. It’s in the shul’s The shul is at East 304 Midland Ave. For more infor-
parking lot on Tuesday, April 16, from 7:15 to 9 a.m. mation, call (201) 262-7691 or go to www.jccparamus.org.

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Jewish Standard APRIL 5, 2019 55
Dear Rabbi Zahavy
Your talmudic advice column
Dear Rabbi,
I am the head administrator at a major
Jewish nonprofit in New Jersey. One of
our biggest donors has been charged
with a crime. We want to remove his
name from our building now. Do we
need to wait and see if he is convicted
or exonerated? It could be years and we
do not want to suffer embarrassment in
the interim.
Disheartened in New Jersey
Dear Disheartened,
You do not need to wait. But you may
not need to disown your disgraced
donor, even when he (or she) is con-
victed and sent to prison. Check with
your New Jersey colleagues in the non-
profit sector about the local customs in
this muddy swamp. It seems obvious
that where big money is involved, cre-
ative solutions abound.
For instance, I can recall several years
back, when a big-named donor of a New
Jersey Jewish school was sent to prison.
It was true that as a result, his name was
removed from the school. But resource-
fully, the school put up his mother’s
name as the replacement. And the fam-
ily continued supporting its cause.
Be aware that this issue has another
related side, now in the news in a major
way, that affects many charitable recipi-
ent organizations, Jewish and not.
It’s not clear where this will lead, but
cultural institutions have stopped taking
donations from a prominent Jewish fam-
ily, the Sacklers, and its foundations.
The Sacklers founded and are major
owners of Purdue Pharma, the notori-
ous maker of OxyContin, the opioid drug
that is most visibly involved in the addic-
tion crisis that has beset our nation. The
company has played a major role in the
opioid epidemic that killed more than
200,000 Americans over the last 20
years. In March, company officials set-
tled a lawsuit brought by the state of
Oklahoma, agreeing to pay $270 million
to avoid going to trial in state court.
More large settlements now are
expected with other states and a with a
consolidated collection of 1,600 individ-
ual lawsuits.
The family is the 19th richest in the
United States; in 2016 its wealth was
listed at $13 billion. The Sacklers have
a long record of philanthropy to scien-
tific, medical, educational, and arts insti-
tutions, mainly in the U.S. and the U.K.
Tzvee Zahavy of Teaneck is a prolific author who has published many books and
articles about Judaism and Jewish law. He has served as professor of world religions,
Talmud, Jewish law codes, Jewish liturgy, Jewish history, and Near Eastern and Jewish
studies at major U.S. research universities and seminaries. He received his Ph.D.from
Brown University and his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. Go to www.
tzvee.com for more details.
56 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
But museums and cultural
institutions around the
world now have stopped
accepting donations from
the Sacklers.
This brings to mind the
story of another Jewish
family involved in push-
ing addictive substances.
The prominent New York Rabbi Tzvee
Jewish philanthropic Tisch Zahavy
family suffered no social or
philanthropic rebuffs that I
can recall over the years for its owner-
ship stake in Lorillard, makers of New-
port cigarettes. The Tisch family ostensi- names of those who engaged in dis-
bly divested its holdings of that company reputable conduct from all of our edu-
in 2008.
The Tisches had bought the company
40 years earlier, when Laurence Tisch
and Preston Robert Tisch took advan-
tage of the expanding public health con-
cerns over the dangers of smoking. The
brothers bought the cigarette company
at a bargain basement price and made a
fortune over the next decades.
The Times reported in 2008, “Pub-
lic health experts say Lorillard’s New-
ports, which rank near the top in smok-
ing-machine tests of nicotine yield, may
be among the unhealthiest varieties
of cigarettes.”
Now, why do I so vividly recall this
particular sad saga? It’s personal. My
mother smoked those Newports for
decades. When I was in high school, she
used to send me out on Friday mornings
to do some Shabbes shopping for her —
to buy a challah, some gefilte fish, a jar draft obituary that condemned him for
of horseradish, and a pack of Newports.
She smoked those cigarettes right up to
her death in 2000, which was caused by
emphysema, heart disease, and vascular
disease, the multiple horrible illnesses
that her Newports inflicted on her.
Annually, cigarette smoking kills 7
million people worldwide; 480,000 of
them are in the United States. These
numbers have been comparable for the
past 50 years.
Owning a company that purveyed
death has had little effect on the repu-
tation of the Tisch family. To this day,
New York University’s undergraduate
performing, cinematic, and media arts
school is named the NYU Tisch School
of the Arts. And children happily visit
the Tisch Children’s Zoo at 65th Street
in Central Park. And many other places
of art and recreation bear their name.
There are many varia-
tions on stories like these,
but the common thread
that runs through them is
that philanthropy all too
often serves as the repu-
tation-laundering mech-
anism for people who
made fortunes out of the
suffering of others. And
no doubt it can serve as
a guilt-assuaging mecha-
nism as well.
Accordingly, my advice ought to be
that yes, you should take down the
cational, social, cultural, recreational,
and other institutions. No matter what
the cost, we should never allow the pur-
veyors of evil to use philanthropy to buy
themselves eminence.
Yet we know that is not how the world
works. Consider the case of the Nobel
prizes. There is no greater eminence
that a person can receive than one of
those prizes for accomplishments in the
arts or sciences.
Who was Mr. Nobel? He was the inven-
tor of dynamite and a manufacturer of
cannons and armaments. His fortunes
derived from war, death, and destruc-
tion. According to the Nobel commit-
tee, he made no attempt to hide that
he wanted to cleanse his reputation
through philanthropy. His biographers
say that he bequeathed his fortune to
institute the Nobel prizes after he read a
profiting from the sales of arms.
I’m sure it wasn’t just a come-to-
charity moment at the end of his life
that motivated this tycoon. Nobel
knew how the world works, and he
devised a plan to make his name synon-
ymous with positive academic and cul-
tural achievements.
Tellingly, I cannot recall ever read-
ing of a recipient who refused the
Nobel prize because its monies derived
from war.
And it’s not just charity work that can
redeem a person’s repute from the stains
of sin. It’s at the core of the world’s reli-
gions. It’s what religions do.
At the ancient Israelite Temple in
Jerusalem priests accepted sacrifices
from sinners every day — sin-offerings
and guilt-offerings, consisting of a bull-
ock, a goat, a lamb, doves, or fine flour,
depending on the offender’s status.
And I recall with some awe being a
child and listening to the announce-
ments of the pledges at the Yom Kip-
pur appeal at the Park East Synagogue,
where my father was rabbi. After my
dad’s inspiring Yom Kippur sermon,
the shammos would go around the shul.
Members would tell him their pledges
and he would report them aloud. For
instance, he would call out “Mr. Weil
pledges $5,000” as he announced the
amount he was told by the donor on
the spot. In the back of the synagogue
a non-Jewish man sat with a pencil and
paper and wrote down each pledge
so no one would dispute it later. And
the understanding was, as the prayers
assured, that these acts of charity
“mitigated the evil of the decree” of
Yom Kippur.
It was a simpler time decades ago.
Today we have the instantaneous inter-
net to inform us all about the wrong-
doings of our tycoons, from purveying
instruments of death and suffering,
to the various forms of illegal sexual
improprieties and offensive harass-
ing behaviors.
Would Mr. Nobel be able to establish
his prize program today? Perhaps not, if
a group started to circulate opposition
on the internet under the hashtag #@
nononobel. Or perhaps yes, since it’s
utterly critical to the balance of the uni-
verse that the fortunes of evil-doers be
directed back to do good for humanity.
My advice then is to mitigate your
embarrassment the best you can. Per-
haps remove the donor’s name from
your building.
But common sense, and all that I know
of the dynamics of religion and cul-
ture, tells me that you should continue
to accept funds for doing the deeds of
decency, no matter what their source is.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
I have celebrated Passover with a seder
for many years. Every year I leave the
table with the same question: Who wrote
the Haggadah? Nobody has ever given
me a good answer to this. Can you help?
Puzzled about Passover in Paramus
Dear Puzzled,
It is correct and sanctioned to say his-
torically, critically, and theologically that
many people over many epochs wrote
parts of the Haggadah.
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offers mindful advice based
on Talmudic reasoning and
wisdom. The author aspires to
be equally open and meaningful
to all the varieties and
denominations of Judaism. You
can find the column here usually
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Please mail your questions to
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them to zahavy@gmail.com

Parshat Tazria/Shabbat Ha-Chodesh:
Looking for a baguette tree before Pesach
I
f you were to glance with a jaded eye at the
subjects covered in this week’s Torah portion,
Tazria — childbirth, leprosy, impurity — you
might miss an inspired progression.
Last week’s reading (Shmini) took place on the
eighth day (bayom ha-shmini) of the priestly pre-
paratory initiation. After an entire week of purify-
ing themselves to serve as kohanim, two of Aaron’s
sons, Nadav and Avihu, are consumed by fire from
God right there in the sight of the entire nation, and
their corpses must be gingerly carried off by their
brother priests.
This week’s portion, by contrast, begins with
childbirth and its concomitant impurity, but on
the eighth day, the male child is circumcised —
removing the impurity.
The same eight-day period that begins in puri-
fication and ends in death (last week), begins in
impurity (at birth) but finally winds up in the
complete opposite, in purity, at the time of cir-
cumcision. Why this contradiction?
Rabbi Jacob Leiner of Ishbitz, in his Beit Ya’akov,
recalls the story from an early rabbinic collection
called Midrash Tanchuma, wherein the Roman sena-
tor Turnus Rufus (Quintus Tineius Rufus) argues with
Rabbi Akiva about the relative value of God and man.
Presenting Akiva with stalks of grain and a finished
loaf, Turnus Rufus tries to convince the sage that
while God made the grain grow, human beings were
superior, because they converted the inedible wheat
stalks into the yummy baguette!
Rabbi Akiva deftly turns the Roman’s argument
on its head by answering that God made the bread
in potential while allowing human beings the honor
of participating in the realization of the bread that
was hidden within the wheat.
So too, argues Rabbi Leiner (following other hala-
chic sources), the necessity for brit milah (covenant
of circumcision) after a week enables human beings
to participate in their own self-improvement — not
merely a commandment from God, but a gift of
agency in their own perfection.
In a similar vein, we read the special maftir
section, “Ha-Chodesh” [Exodus 12:1-20], where
God points out the new moon of the month of
Nisan, declaring that this shall be the “head of all
months for you,” becoming the new year for the
Torah and for all biblical texts.
Because we no longer have a Temple in Jerusa-
lem, nor the Sanhedrin (high court) that resided
there, and thus cannot declare the new month
based on witnesses testifying there, we must now
rely on calculations to declare the date of the new
month, squaring the lunar year with the solar,
and whether or not an extra month needs to be
added to create (as we have done this year) shana
me’uberet (a “pregnant” year of 13 lunar months).
This year’s month of Nisan thus follows the “isha
ki tazria” (a woman who becomes pregnant) of the
double Adar we’ve just concluded.
The Meshech Chochmah (Rabbi Simcha ha-Kohen
of Dvinsk) explains that we rely on calculations not
because we are better at math than our ances-
tors in Temple times, but because we (sadly)
lack vision, the ability to see the new emerg-
ing from the dried husk that surrounded it.
Rabbi Israel, the Ba’al Shem Tov, writes
about the beginning of parshat Tazria that
when the Torah says “Isha ki tazria ve-yalda
zachar (when a woman conceives and bears
a son),” it is not only talking about how the
biological process works, but that there is a Rabbi David
spiritual process that goes on, as well. Bockman,
After all, this verse speaks of the woman Congregation
conceiving (“giving forth seed”) before she Beth Shalom of
gives birth, a process that the Baal Shem Pompton Lakes,
Conservative
Tov sees as exemplifying “it’areruta de-le-
tata (initiation from below).”
In other words, what happens depends, in part, on
who started the ball rolling.
If the exodus from Egypt had been a totally divine
fiat, with initiation only from above in Heaven, the
result may have been different. But, as is so clearly por-
trayed in the Passover Haggadah, the Israelites groaned
under their heavy bondage and cried out to God, thus
initiating the process of the exodus from Egypt, from
which they left “be-yad ramah (with high hand).”
When we initiate the process of redemption, it hap-
pens in a strong and exalted manner.
The strands of our readings converge!
The process of Tazria, when initiated from among the
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we can have a profound and lasting effect.
We thus understand why the blessing we
make before eating bread (even matzah!)
is “Hamotzi lechem min ha-aretz — God
brings forth bread from the earth,” despite
what Turnus Rufus claimed.
It is through the yearning vision of our
hearts that we are somehow able to see the
baguettes and focaccias and bagels inher-
ent in the seeds and the stalks of wheat that
sprout from them. We are God’s partners,
ultimately, in bringing about the redemp-
tion, the purity, the holiness that lies hid-
den beneath an outer klippa (husk).
When our child is born, it’s the hopes
and aspirations we harbor for its future that bring about
the flowering of that life’s potential.
We have two weeks until the arrival of Passover to flip
destiny: We must shift our hearts’ focus from last week’s
inevitable descent toward entropy and encroaching
death that seemed to be what lay in store for us all, to
this week’s promise of purity, covenant and redemp-
tion, the grandeur hidden in re-experiencing the Exo-
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“STREET APPEAL”
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Across
1. Gertrude Stein’s repeated flower
5. Wife or daughter of 48-Across,
with “The”
9. Advil alternative
14. Arm bone
15. Poker starter
16. King before Solomon
17. Ideal street for Israeli soldiers
in mid-June of 1967?
19. “There you have it!” (in French)
20. Best-selling book of all-time
21. “And Still ___”
(Maya Angelou book)
23. “Solaris” author Stanislaw
24. Affirmative
25. Rand of note
27. Hooked with a horn
29. Ideal street for Wiesel and Wouk?
33. Close by
36. Black or green drink
37. Letter opener?
38. Converses
39. “In ___ beginning...”
40. 1938 Nobel-winning
physicist Enrico
41. Booze up
42. Tuna, at a sushi bar
43. Company heads
44. Ideal street for G-d?
47. Son two of eight for Abraham
48. Hank who was Ant-Man
49. ___-fi
52. It can come in a spray
54. Bearded garden dwarf
56. Fat king of Moab
58. Emulate Rickey Henderson
60. Ideal street for Braun and
Bregman?
62. Window alternative
63. Journey
64. Tennis serving whiz
65. Observes the Sabbath
66. “Your Majesty”
67. Tops
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Down
1. Football’s British relative
2. Comedic partner of Stan
3. Aloof ones
4. Aristocratic title
5. Vietnam or Six Day
6. Make king, perhaps
7. One getting a lead role, often
8. Purebred family tree
9. “-ly” word, usually
10. Language of Southeast Asia
11. Haman and Antiochus
12. Awful
13. Dutch cheese
18. Longs for
22. He hit 60+ home runs three times
26. Jew
28. Ishmael, to Abraham
29. Roger who isn’t exactly a Zionist
30. Behavior principle
31. Arrived
32. “A Star Is Born” star Kristofferson
33. Performs
34. “... wherefore art ___ Romeo?”
35. What Americans are entitled
to pursue
39. Indy team
40. Shaped
42. “How many roads must ___ walk
down...” (Bob Dylan lyric)
43. Purchase
45. Golf course “birds”
46. Concert starter
49. Bit of bread
50. Recesses along the shore
51. Like some gas
52. Russian ruler, once
53. End in ___ (come out even)
55. Regev of Israel
57. Take rudely
59. Comp. button
61. Just manage, with ‘out’
The solution to last week’s
puzzle is on page 67.
The Frazzled Housewife
Covering all the bases
BANJI GANCHROW
H
akarat hatov means “rec-
ognizing the good.” When
you go to a bar or bat mitz- pening. And for the past few months, I
vah, or any simcha for
that matter, folks usually give hakarat
hatov to God, thanking Him for all He
has done by bringing the
family to this happy occa-
sion. This tribute of grati-
tude usually comes before
the annoying “you are the
greatest husband/wife in
the whole world.” (Barf.)
“My life would be noth-
ing without you.” (Dou-
ble barf.) “And this party
would be in an empty Banji
room if it weren’t for you.” Ganchrow
(Triple barf.) In any event,
over a year or so ago, two
specific and significant incidents hap-
pened in my life. Son #1 totaled the car,
but walked away in one piece, thank
God, thank God. (Perhaps some of you
read that column. If not, that is OK.)
And a few weeks after the accident, my
mom fell, and, thank God, thank God,
didn’t break anything. (I didn’t write
about that one so you’re good if you
didn’t read it and if you read it, well,
you should get that checked out.)
I decided that I needed to show
hakarat hatov to God, to show Him
how much I appreciated the blessings
that He had given me. So I sat down
with son #1 to discuss my options. I
wanted to take something on — some-
thing good — a mitzvah or something
of that nature. Something to help me
toward becoming a better person. As
you can imagine, he had a whole list of
things that I could do to show God my
appreciation. Just a few, right off of the Amen,” are, “For salvation and conso-
top of his head (they started coming out
of his mouth, a tad too quickly if you
ask me but, whatever) — start covering
my hair, start wearing only skirts, stop
using inappropriate language… Yes, son
#1 was ready with many options. But
knowing it would need to be something
that I could actually follow, we settled
on going to synagogue once a month for
the blessing of the new month. So far, I
have gone every month, in snow, sleet,
hail — just like the postal service! I have
gone in Woodmere, in White Plains —
nothing has stopped me from going
back on my word.
Looking back, I remember I used to
go every month when I was pregnant;
saying the words with sincere intent
and focus. I would think about the little
person who was growing and develop-
ing inside of me and hoping that with
each month, everything that was sup-
posed to be happening, would be hap-
have been doing the same (without the
whole pregnancy element since I am
not currently with child. Or will ever
be again. Just to be clear.
Yes, it is just a little extra
weight, no I am not hav-
ing a child in my very
late 40s). I also try not
to make any eye contact
with anyone so I don’t
have any evil thoughts,
which defeats the pur-
pose of my going to syn-
agogue in the first place,
trying to be a better per-
son. Yes, I have issues.
This past month was
a little different. As some of you know,
my dad has been in the hospital and
rehab the past few weeks. What had
started as a simple procedure ended up
being a near disaster. It got me think-
ing about the words that you say in the
blessing of the new month. Please don’t
be alarmed, but I am about to quote
from the siddur. “May it be your will
that You inaugurate this month upon us
for goodness and for blessing. May You
give us long life, a life of peace, a life
of goodness, a life of blessing ... a life
of physical health.” All of these things
that we want for ourselves and for the
people we love.
But what about when the month
doesn’t turn out the way that we want
it? There is sadness, there is sickness,
there is death. And as I am reading the
words, I see that the last two words,
before it says, “now let us respond:
lation.” Consolation. Nechama. Com-
fort. It seems that God is covering all of
His bases. We all pray for it to be a good
month. For everything to go our way.
For miracles to happen. But in the event
that it doesn’t, that it isn’t in the plan,
we are offered comfort and consolation.
I guess it is good to read the English, and
it certainly is good to know that we are
all being watched out for, even if it isn’t
always what we want.
Wishing all of you blessings and com-
fort in this new month and all of those
to follow.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck has not
only learned where Emerson, New
Jersey, is, but that it only takes 90
minutes to walk there.
 Arts & Culture
Faith and Freedom
New Haggadah is a gateway to the insights of Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Berkovits
RABBI NATHANIEL HELFGOT
O
n the bookshelves of the contemporary
young and not-so-young college-edu-
cated modern Orthodox Jew, one most
often will find the theological works of
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and his esteemed son-
in-law, my revered teacher, Rabbi Aharon Lichten-
stein, both of blessed memory.
On another shelf one will probably find works
of Rabbi Norman Lamm, the former president of
Yeshiva University, as well as the increasingly pop-
ular (in both senses of the word) writings of Lord
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. On another shelf one also
may find some writings of Rav Kook and in some
instances the newly translated works of Rav Shagar.
These thinkers rightly occupy a pride of place in the
pantheon of modern Orthodox thought leaders. The
dominance of these voices, however, sometimes
has come at the price of relegating other significant
voices from the 1950s to the 1970s that contributed
significant ideas to our thinking about the engage-
ment of halachic Judaism and the modern world.
Leading thinkers of those decades, such as Drs.
Michael Wyschograd and Eliezar Goldman, and Rab-
bis Walter Wurzburger, David Shapiro of Milwaukee,
and Shubert Spero of Cleveland, all of blessed mem-
ory, and others, have not enjoyed the same fame
or study of their writings in the contemporary area as
they deserved. Chief among those who were significant
thinkers during those bygone decades and whose writ-
ings have done much to enrich our thinking is Rabbi Dr.
Eliezer Berkovits z”l.
R. Berkovits (1908-1992) was a profound philos-
opher, rabbinic scholar, and theologian, who was a
close student of the renowned Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov
Weinberg z”l at the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Sem-
inary in Berlin where he received his ordination,
while also earning a doctorate in philosophy at the
University of Berlin. He served in the rabbinate in Ber-
lin before escaping to England, where he served in
the pulpit in Leeds. He later served in congregations
in Australia and Boston before settling in Chicago in
1958, serving as chair of the department of philoso-
phy at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie.
In 1976 he made aliyah to Israel, continuing his
writing even as he settled into retirement. He was the
author of 19 books in areas of Jewish philosophy, eth-
ics, the Holocaust, halacha, and Zionism, as well as
hundreds of significant articles in all areas of Jewish
studies and life. To take one example, in my view, his
seminal essay on prayer, written in the mid 1960s, is
one of the best — if not the best — presentations on
Jewish prayer in the English language. His formula-
tion that “Halakha must once again reveal itself as the
wisdom of the feasible giving priority to the ethical”
(“Not in Heaven,” pg. 178) was a guidepost for much
of his writings since the early 1940s till his death in
Israel in 1992, and it serves as motto to many till today.
A number of years back, the Shalem Institute in
Israel reprinted a number of R. Berkovits’s writings,
reigniting interest in his work and introducing a new
generation to his stimulating and engaging thought.
This year, the Jewish world was blessed with the pub-
lication of another volume that I hope will encourage
even more study and engagement with this important
contemporary Jewish thinker. Reuven Mohl of Ber-
gen County, a dentist who grew up hearing his own
father discuss ideas formulated by R. Berkovits and
became intrigued by them, has compiled and edited
a commentary to the Passover Haggadah culled from
R. Berkovits’s work. The volume, titled “Faith and
Freedom,” includes the entire Passover Haggadah in
Hebrew, with an English translation, in a clear and
appealing font. It is prefaced with a moving introduc-
tion by his sons, themselves educators and rabbis. On
the bottom of the page, the editor has created a com-
mentary directly citing relevant selections from the
writings of R. Berkovits.
The Haggadah, of course, deals with major theolog-
ical themes of Judaism, such as God’s involvement in
history, suffering, redemption, and the covenantal his-
tory of the Jewish people. These are all themes that R.
Berkovits wrote about at length during his prodigious
career and so the Haggadah is an excellent springboard
to enter into his thoughts. The citations have been well
chosen, and in most cases are neither too short nor
too long, giving the reader the chance to digest a full
idea but not overwhelming her with a lengthy trea-
tise. A nice example of this is R. Berkovits’ insightful
reading of the section in the Haggadah describing the
rationale for the matzah as being bread that had not
leavened as the Israelites were being driven out of
Egypt and “could not delay” (Ex. 12:39). R. Berkovits
cites a comment of the Midrash Yalkut that interprets
the phrase in two ways: “the haste in which the Chil-
dren of Israel had to leave Egypt… Another opinion
the haste meant is that in which the glory of God left
the country.” Developing this dual theme, R. Berkov-
its suggests: “Redemption came before its time; the
people were not prepared for it.… Had the Egyptian
slavery lasted any longer, it would have completely
broken the nation and rendered them, for all time
to come, unfit for their mission for which they were
destined… “In haste,” remarks the Yalkut, is the haste
of God. Before the date originally intended, God had
to hasten their help…. Israel was saved from destruc-
tion; it was not yet mature for its mission. Hence fail-
ure followed upon failure. The nation even lost its
homeland and was sent into exile once more, to learn
the rest of the lesson.”
All the selections are cited with the exact source
and page number, so the interested reader can fur-
ther research R. Berkovits’ full treatment of the idea.
It is, however, critical to remember as you read this
volume that R. Berkovits did not write a commentary
on the text of the Haggadah. This is a compilation taken
from other works written with other purposes in mind.
This volume, then, is part of the growing genre of works
published in recent years that cull ideas from the writ-
ings of thinkers and append them into a running com-
mentary on this most popular of Jewish texts, which is
so central to the Jewish historical experience. As such,
it is no surprise that some readers may find some of the
citations only tangentially related to the specific text at
hand, feeling that it has taken them far afield from the
immediate context of the words of the Haggadah. At the
same time, the rabbis of old did praise those who speak
about the Exodus “at length.”
Expanding the contours of your discussion in new
and unexpected directions may fall under the rubric of
that rabbinic encouragement. “Faith and Freedom” is
a wonderful gateway into the thinking and writings of
a leading voice of Torah and ethics of the 20th century,
a man whose ideas should continue to resonate in the
ongoing conversations about modernity, Judaism, the
State of Israel, the role of women, and so many other
critical topics that continue to engage us all.
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot is rabbi of Congregation
Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, the chair of the department
of Torah SheBaal Peh at SAR High School in Riverdale,
and the author of a number of volumes on Jewish
studies, in both English and Hebrew, including “Mikra
and Meaning: Studies in Bible and Its Interpretation”
(Koren/Maggid, 2011).
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COURTESY HILLEL ROCKLAND
APRIL As part of Jewish Heritage Month and Holocaust
commemorations at Rockland Community College, Adina
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Sash, aka “Flatbush Girl,” discusses “Don’t Post That!
How to Use Social Media Correctly to Make Money and
Change the World,” in RCC’s Ellipse Technology Center at 12:15 p.m.
145 College Road, Suffern, NY. Rabbi Dov Oliver, (845) 574-4422 or
doliver@sunyrockland.edu.
Friday
APRIL 5
Women’s study group
in Closter: Rabbi
David-Seth Kirshner
leads a study group
at Temple Emanu-El
of Closter, 10:30 am.
180 Piermont Ave.
(201) 750-9997.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
hosts Shabbat Kulanu,
a new Shabbat
experience for all, on
the first Friday of each
month, at 6:13 p.m.,
in honor of the 613
mitzvot. Music and a
story will replace the
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(201) 750-9997,
templeemanu-el.
com/93queen.
Children’s Passover
program: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah hosts a
monthly preschool
program for 3- to
5-year-olds and their
caregivers, “Preparing
for Pesach,” 9:30 a.m.
Stories, projects, music,
cooking and activities.
East 304 Midland Ave.
Mayor Michael Wildes
Marcia, (201) 262-7733 Englewood mayor
or edudirector@ in Monsey: The
jccparamus.org. Community
Spring boutique in Synagogue of Monsey
Tenafly: The Kaplen and the Stern family
JCC on the Palisades offer the 22nd annual
offers a boutique with Israel and Pearl Stern
more than 50 vendors Memorial lecture and
selling gifts, home brunch, 10:15 a.m.
furnishings, jewelry, Mayor Michael Wildes
women’s fashions of Englewood, an
and accessories, immigration lawyer,
children’s clothing, and will discuss “Jews
summer camp items, and Immigration:
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on Lessons from Biblical
Joseph to the White
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
House.” 89 West
Proceeds support
Maple Ave., Monsey.
the JCC Leonard and
Syril Rubin Nursery (845) 356-2720 or
comsyn.org.
School. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1435 or Fundraiser for
fkoszer@jccotp.org. animals: START II,
Save the Animals
Rescue Team holds
its annual Spring
Fling fundraiser at
sermon. 585 Russell Vitales in Teaneck,
Comedy in Fair Lawn:
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 891-4466 or
Saturday The sisterhood of
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tricky
tray, 50/50, auction,
www.bethrishon.org. APRIL 6 the Fair Lawn Jewish gift certificates, brunch
Center/CBI presents with vegetarian
Shabbat in Closter: Murder mystery in “Howdy Stranger!” an options. 293 Queen
Temple Beth El of Ridgewood: Temple improv sketch comedy Anne Road. Joan,
show, 8:30 p.m. Rabbi Meeka Simerly
Northern Valley has its Israel & JCC host (201) 368-2743.
family friendly Hagigah “Totally ’80s, Totally Admission includes Learning about
Shabbat, 6:45 p.m., led Murder,” an adult show, appetizers, and Passover in Wayne: Camp open house
by Rabbi David Widzer professional interactive desserts. 10-10 Norma Rabbi Meeka Simerly in Haledon: Camp
and Cantor Elizabeth murder mystery Ave. (201) 796-5040 or offers a comprehensive Veritans will hold
Goldmann with the sponsored by the shul’s RFlanzman@aol.com. look at Passover — its its annual spring
junior choir, Rinat Brandeis Men’s Club, traditions, its rituals, open house at the
Beth El, and religious
school students. 221
8:15 p.m. 1980’s-style
dress optional.
Sunday the seders, and the camp, with family
fun activities, snacks,
food we eat during the
Schraalenburgh Road. Admission includes APRIL 7 festival —at Temple demonstrations, and
(201) 768-5112 or www. open bar, desserts, camp tours, 1- 4 p.m.
Beth Tikvah, 10 a.m.
tbenv.org. and prizes. 475 Grove Film in Closter: The Meet the leadership
Bagel breakfast. 950
St. (201) 444-9320 Sisterhood of Temple team. 225 Pompton
Preakness Ave.
or MensClubEvents@ Emanu-El screens Road. (973) 956-1220.
(973) 595-6565 or
Synagogue.org. “93 Queen,” 9 a.m. templebethtikvahnj. Wine/spirits/deli in
180 Piermont Ave. org. Hackensack: Temple
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Beth El and Chabad Congregation Beth continues its monthly Shalom. Refreshments the Hands of God:
of Hackensack have a Tikvah hosts the “Great Cafe Europa for at 12:30 p.m., program Jewish Social Justice
wine and spirit tasting Passover Recipe Holocaust survivors at 1. 1449 Anderson at a Time of Crisis and
and deli dinner, 4 p.m. Swap,” 7 p.m. Email at the Rockland JCC, Ave., Fort Lee. Opportunity.” After
Wines available to recipes to share to 2:30 p.m. John and (201) 947 1735 or musical services at
order. 280 Summit LJRwax@gmail.com. Amy Israel Pregulman, geshershalom.org. 8 p.m., he will discuss
Ave. (201) 342-2045 East 304 Midland Ave. the founders “Tough Choices:
or ChabadHackensack. (201) 262-7691. of KAVOD, will Tricky tray/fashions Jewish Perspectives
com. photograph survivors in Fair Lawn: The on America’s Social
there. KAVOD partners Pythian Sisters hold Justice Challenge.” At
Welcome to with Jewish Family a fashion show with Torah study, Shabbat
Englewood: Mayor Service and other clothing from Chico’s morning at 9 a.m., he
Michael Wildes holds organizations that and a tricky tray will talk about “The
a meeting for all new work with survivors. auction at the Fair Jewish Response:
Englewood residents Rabbi Chaim Poupko 450 West Nyack Lawn Community Economic Justice —
and their friends at Road, West Nyack, N.Y. Center, 6 p.m. Testing the Morality of
the newly renovated Lunch and learn: The Admission includes a
Dor L’Dor group at (845) 354-2121. our Nation,” followed
Crowne Plaza Hotel, sheet of tickets and by services at 10:30. At
7 p.m. 401 South Van Congregation Ahavath a door prize ticket
Torah in Englewood Jewish N.Y. in 1 p.m., his talk will be
Brunt St. For new Englewood: New for a 50-inch smart “Religious Persecution
residents and friends offers a pre-Passover TV, and refreshments.
lunch and learn, York City tour guide/ and Religious Freedom
to meet owners of historian Marty Gift cards include Across the Globe.” On
local businesses, “Haggadah Highlights,” upscale restaurants,
with Rabbi Chaim Schneit gives an Sunday at 10:30 a.m.,
restaurants, public illustrated lecture, department stores, he concludes with
officials, and nonprofit Poupko, the shul’s movie tickets, dinner,
senior rabbi, and a mini “Jewish New York,” “Racing with God:
organizations. Free gift at the Englewood and more. Proceeds The Use and Abuse
bag and refreshments. pre-Passover boutique, will benefit children’s
noon. 240 Broad Public Library, 7 p.m. of Religion in
Sponsored by 31 Engle St. www. charities. 10-10 20th St. American Elections.”
Englewood Chamber Ave. Reservations, Gayle, (201) 791-0737.
englewoodlibrary.org. Journalist/author Reservations required
of Commerce, Crowne Eileen, (201) 568-1315
in Tenafly: Sally for dinner, Kiddush
Plaza Hotel, and the or dorldor@
Kohn, a progressive lunch, and breakfast.
City of Englewood. ahavathtorah.org.
commentator on 1666 Windsor Road.
Reservations, Fox News and (201) 833-1322 or
(201) 567-2381 CNN, discusses her emeth.org.
or crauscher@ journalist experiences
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com.
and her new book,
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Hate: A Field Guide APRIL 14
Monday  to Repairing Our
Humanity,” at the Music in Paterson:
APRIL 8 Miriam Krupka Berger Kaplen JCC on the Rabbi Baruch Simon The Clifton-based
Palisades, 8 p.m. The acoustic rock band
Pre-Pesach shiur program, sponsored Pre-Pesach shiur
COURTESY HILLEL ROCKLAND Blue Valley plays
in Teaneck: Miriam in part by the James in Teaneck: Rabbi
music from its new
Krupka Berger gives Baruch Simon, rosh
Book talk in Suffern: H. Grossmann CD for the Lambert
a pre-Pesach shiur, Memorial Jewish Book yeshiva at RIETS,
As part of Jewish Castle Concert series
“The Four Loves of Endowment Fund, discusses “Haggadah
Heritage Month at Lambert Castle,
Shir ha-Shirim: Can concludes with a Q&A. Insights: Torah
and Holocaust 5 p.m. 3 Valley Road.
We Be Friends with (201) 569-7900 or for the Seder” at
commemorations at Limited seating.
God?” for Sisterhood JCCotp.org. Congregation Beth
Rockland Community (973) 247-0085 or
of Congregation Beth Aaron, 8:15 p.m. 950
College, Abigail lambertcastle.org.
Aaron and Lamdeinu, Queen Anne Road.
Miller, the educational
at Beth Aaron, Thursday  (201) 836-6210 or
Movie in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
director of the
Holocaust Museum & 8 p.m. All welcome. APRIL 11 bethaaron.org. Tuesday 
Northern Valley’s Center for Tolerance & Refreshments. 950 APRIL 16
membership Education, discusses Queen Anne Road.
(201) 836-6210 or
Parsha learning: Friday 
committee screens Heather Morris’ novel Temple Emanu-El APRIL 12
“93 Queen,” 10:15 a.m. “The Tattooist of www.bethaaron.org. in Closter offers
Refreshments. 221 Auschwitz,” in RCC’s “Parsha for Dummies,”
Hadassah meets exploring the weekly Shabbat in Closter:
Schraalenburgh Road. Ellipse Technology
in Paramus: The highlights of the Temple Beth El holds
(201) 768-5112 or www. Center, 12:15 p.m.
Hadassah Bat-Sheva services led by Rabbi
tbenv.org. 145 College Road. Torah reading, 11 a.m.
Players presents an David S. Widzer and
Rabbi Dov Oliver, 180 Piermont Road.
original skit, “What’s Cantor Elizabeth
Tuesday  (845) 574-4422 or
doliver@sunyrockland.
Best for Henrietta,”
(201) 750-9997 or
templeemanu-el.com. Goldmann and
about what might have featuring the Shabbat
APRIL 9 edu.
happened if Henrietta Unplugged Band with
Talking about Jewish Szold lived in the time music director Jim
Lunch and Learn of dating apps and
personalities in Rensink, clarinetist Book talk in Fort
in Teaneck: Rabbi social media, at at
Wayne: Seniors of Benjamin Baron, and Lee: The sisterhood
Zev Goldberg of the JCC of Paramus/ featuring congregants,
Temple Beth Tikvah of JCC of Fort Lee/
Young Israel of Fort CBT, 8 p.m., following 7:30 p.m. 221
are welcome to hear Congregation Gesher
Lee discusses “10 a meeting at 7:30. Schraalenburgh Road.
Shirley Laiks discuss a Shalom meets
Inspirational Ideas to Refreshments. E. (201) 768-5112.
potpourri of talented to discuss Ayelet
Share at Your Seder” 304 Midland Ave.
Jewish personalities, Gundar-Goshen’s
at Congregation Bnai laurajerrymenter@ Shabbat in
including Dr. Ruth “ Waking Lions,”
Yeshurun, for the yahoo.com. Teaneck: Rabbi
Westheimer, Steven Marty Schneit 1 p.m. Refreshments.
Teaneck Orthodox David Saperstein,
Spielberg, and Alan 1449 Anderson Ave.
Retiree Association former director of
(TORA). Lunch at Dershowitz, 1 p.m. 950
Preakness Ave. Barbara,
Wednesday  Irving Berlin: Marty
Schneit discusses the Religious Action
(201) 947-1735.
noon, talk at 12:45 APRIL 10 Center of Reform
(973) 694-7478 or “Irving Berlin: An
p.m. 1610 Parker Judaism, is the
templebethtikvahnj.org. American Institution”
Ave. Reservations, Rockland program Rabbi Louis J. Sigel
for the CSI Scholar
bnaiyeshurun.org/tora for Holocaust scholar-in-residence
Passover recipes in Fund and Sisterhood
or mkarlin@aol.com. survivors: Rockland at Temple Emeth.
Paramus: Sisterhood of the JCC of Fort Lee/
at the JCC of Paramus/ Jewish Family Service Congregation Gesher He’ll explore “Being

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Calendar

Singles
Singles meet in
Sunday
APRIL 7
Seniors meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a get-
together at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly
from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties.
Refreshments. 450
West Nyack Road.
Gene, (845) 356-5525.
Caldwell: New
Jersey Jewish Singles
45+ meets for food,
fun, mingling, and
a dessert buffet to
celebrate the group’s
eighth anniversary at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 2:30 p.m. 20
Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600,
ext. 145, or singles@
agudath.org.
Thursday Photographers to visit
APRIL 11 Rockland’s Cafe Europa
Widows and
On Wednesday, April 10, from 2:30 to survivors; their mission is to photo-
widowers meet: 4 p.m., the monthly Cafe Europa for graph as many Holocaust survivors as
Movin’ On, a monthly Holocaust survivors at the Rockland possible. Kavod partners with Jewish
luncheon group JCC, sponsored by the Rockland Jew- Family Service and other organiza-
for widows and ish Family Service and the Holocaust tions that work with survivors. The
widowers, meets at
the Glen Rock Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance and program is at 450 West Nyack Road,
Center, 12:30 p.m. Education, continues. in West Nyack, N.Y. For more infor-
682 Harristown Road. John and Amy Israel Pregulman, mation, call (845) 354-2121 or go to
(201) 652-6624 or the founders of Kavod, will visit the kavodensuringdignity.com.
arbgr@aol.com.
monthly social group to photograph

Areyvut chesed fair on Sunday

Holocaust survivors, students
collaborate on ‘Bare Witness’
On April 11, at 8 p.m., seniors at the
Torah Academy of Bergen County will
present “Bare Witness,” a play created
by two TABC teachers — Cary Reichardt,
the school’s coordinator of Holocaust
studies, and Rebecca Lopkin, its per-
forming arts director. Students, working
with Ms. Reichardt and Ms. Lopkin, met
with Holocaust survivors, learned their
stories, wrote them, and will perform
them. One student composed an original
score to accompany the vignettes, while
another created all the sets. TABC is at
1600 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck.
Areyvut will host a free community,
hands-on chesed fair at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI on Sunday, April 7,
from 2 to 4 p.m. It is in conjunction
with Good Deeds Day and its National
Mitzvah Day. The first 100 attendees
will receive a National Mitzvah Day
shirt courtesy of Areyvut
The family education program is
geared for all ages and will have a vari-
ety of projects around the theme of
“Chesed Begins at Home.” Projects
include preparing a challah to bake at
home, repurposing material to make
dog toys, creating friendship bracelets,
bookmarks, cork trivets, and a seder
centerpiece. All projects can be taken
home or given to a family member,
friend, or neighbor.
The shul is at 10-10 Norma Ave. For
information, call Daniel Rothner at
(201) 244-6702 or go to areyvut.org.

50 pupils from GBDS will star

in ‘Red Sea Blues’ at Wayne Y
The annual school musical produc-
tion is the highlight of the Academies
@ GBDS: Arts Academy’s programs.
This year, it presents “Red Sea Blues”
on Wednesday, April 10, at 7 p.m., at
the Wayne YMCA. The show is a come-
dic and poignant story of the Israel-
ites’ journey from slavery in E�ypt to
receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. Hit
musical numbers include “When you
Believe” from the movie “Prince of
E�ypt,” “It’s Raining Manna,” and the
title song, “Red Sea Blues.” The show
stars 50 GBDS students from kindergar-
ten through eighth grade, with special
appearances by parents and faculty
members. For more information, call
(201) 337-1111 or go to www.ssnj.org.

Program helps confront challenges

brought by early onset memory loss
The Senior Center at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly launches Mem-
ory Café, a new free program designed
for people with early-onset memory loss
as well as for their caregivers. An inaugu-
ral meeting is set for Wednesday, April 10,
11:30 a.m.; after that, the group will meet
on the third Wednesday of the month at
11:30 a.m. A light lunch will be included.
Typically, people who are diag-
nosed with memory loss when they are
younger face dramatically different chal-
lenges than those faced people by who
are affected when they are older. This
program is specifically geared to explor-
ing these challenges in a safe, support-
ive, and engaging environment, where
participants and caregivers can share,
laugh, cry, find support, and explore
their feelings and concerns without fear
of embarrassment.
62 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
The long-term goal is to promote social
engagement and greater independence
through activities and valuable interac-
tions with others who are experiencing
similar life-changing events. Changes
in memory, thinking, and behavior can
be signs of early stage memory loss; it is
important to ask a physician about them.
“Our hope is to provide people with
younger-onset memory loss with vital
activities and resources that keep them Book and author night
engaged and independent and to provide Lynda Loigman, author of “The Park Ridge, Temple Emanuel of the
continuity of care over time as symptoms Wartime Sisters,” discusses her Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake,
advance,” Judi Nahary, the JCC’s senior book for Jewish Federation of Temple Sinai of Bergen County
services director, said. Northern New Jersey Women’s in Tenafly, Temple Beth Rishon
Caregivers who attend this program will Philanthropy on Thursday, April 11, in Wyckoff, and Women of Chai
have an opportunity to form close bonds at 7:30 p.m., at JFNNJ headquarters of Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne.
and socialize outside the program. Regis- in Paramus. The night is co-spon- JFNNJ is at 50 Eisenhower Drive,
tration is required. For more information sored by sisterhoods of Temples Paramus. For more information, go
and to register, call (201) 408-1450 or email Beth Sholom of Pascack Valley in to www.jfnnj.org/bookandauthor.
Ms. Nahary at jnahary@jccotp.org.

Amy Kent, Stephanie Cohn, Karin Bevilacqua, and Jillian Somberg at last
year’s run.
Get your sneakers ready
for Kaplen JCC Rubin Run
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly has opened registration for
the 38th annual Rubin Run, which
will take place on Mother’s Day, Sun-
day, May 12. More than 1,000 people
participate in the annual USA Track
and Field-sanctioned event, which
aims to celebrate family and fitness
while raising funds for programs that
improve the quality of life for dif-
ferently abled children, teens, and
adults in our community.
Participation supports vital JCC pro-
grams and services that help more than
850 people each year to learn appro-
priate social interactions, increase
communication skills and self-expres-
sion, develop greater independence in
activities of daily living and self-help,
and become productive, healthy, and
engaged members of the community.
This year, for the first time, there
will be a Health Expo, which will be
open at the JCC on Thursday, May
9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and again
on Friday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. Rubin Run participants will be
able to pick up their packets there. It
also will feature local businesses and
resources for health and wellness, as
well as vendors who will sell products
and services. Many of the exhibitors
and vendors at the expo also will be
at race itself, adding to the fun.
The Rubin Run will feature three
race options — an 8K trail run through
the Lost Brook Preserve, maintained
by the Tenafly Nature Center, a 10K
run, and a 5K walk/run.
“The Rubin Run exemplifies every-
thing we stand for at the JCC,” the
JCC’s CEO, Jordan Shenker, said. “It
brings our community together on a
very special day, acknowledges the
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importance of fitness and healthy
lifestyles, and raises significant funds
to provide enrichment and profes-
sional guidance for people of all ages
who are differently abled so they can
attain the support and comfort they
deserve in an inclusive and accessible
environment.”
The Rubin Run includes outdoor
activities for kids, light snacks and
beverages, free babysitting, pre-race
stretches and warm-ups, CompuS-
core race-recording, trophies for the
top three male and female winners
in each age category, and a medal for
all children under 10 who finish the
race. And in honor of Mother’s Day,
all participating moms receive a rose
as they cross the finish line.
Participants are encouraged to
fundraise as individuals or as teams
and can register at jccotp.org/rubin-
run. Early bird registration runs
through April 14 and online until May
8. After that, registration is at the JCC.
The Rubin Run is made possible
by generous community sponsors.
The presenting sponsor is the Kaplen
Foundation. Diamond sponsors
include BSecure, Englewood Health,
and the Rubin and Rubach families.
Platinum sponsors include the Jew-
ish Standard, the North Jersey Media
Group, and Dr. Praeger’s Sensible
Foods.
The Rubin Run is named for the
late Leonard Rubin, a past president
and founder of the JCC, who estab-
lished this community-wide athletic
event to encourage and promote
healthy living.
For more information, c all
(201) 408-1404 or go to jccotp.org/
rubinrun.
Bicyclists and hikers gearing up
for JFCS Meals on Wheels benefit
Jewish Family & Children’s Services of
Northern New Jersey will hold its ninth
annual JFCS Wheels-for-Meals — Ride
to Fight Hunger ride and hike on Sun-
day, June 23. This year’s event, with 3,
10, 25, and 50-mile rides, will begin and
end at Temple Emanu-El in Closter. The
day, which is for the whole family, raises
awareness for the fight against hunger
A vendor at last year’s sale and her creations. 
Spring boutique in Tenafly
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers
a boutique with more than 50 vendors
selling gifts, home furnishings, jewelry,
women’s fashions and accessories,
children’s clothing, and summer camp
items, on Sunday, April 7, from 10 a.m.
Chamber music at Teaneck Library
The All Seasons Chamber Players
returns to the Teaneck Public Library to
perform “Indomitable Spirit: Beethoven
and Beyond,” a spring program of cham-
ber music featuring composers who
overcame major life challenges. The con-
cert, part of the library’s Music On a Sun-
day Afternoon series, sponsored by the
Friends of the Teaneck Public Library, is
on Sunday, April 7, at 2 p.m. Performers
Calendar
in the community. All proceeds support
JFCS food assistance programs, which
include Kosher Meals on Wheels and
the JFCS food pantries, serving nearly
200 families using the Teaneck and Fair
Lawn facilities.
Use promo code JSTAND for 30
percent off registration fees at Rideto-
FightHunger.com or call (201) 837-9090.
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to 5 p.m., and on Monday, April 8, from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds support the
JCC Leonard and Syril Rubin Nursery
School. The JCC is at 411 E. Clinton Ave.
For more information, call (201) 408-
1435 or go to jccotp.org.
The All
Seasons
Chamber
Players
PHOTO PROVIDED
include flutist Lisa Hansen of Leonia,
violinist Bob Lawrence, cellist E. Zoe
Hassman, and pianists Jean Strickholm
of Demarest and Jacqueline Schiller-Audi
of Paramus.
A reception will follow the concert.
The library is at 840 Teaneck Road, cor-
ner of Cedar Lane, and is handicapped
accessible. For information, call (201)
837-4171.
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Jewish World
An Orthodox organization’s gala dinner
is mostly a tribute to Donald Trump
BEN SALES
Bright red baseball hats emblazoned
with white capital letters freckled the
room among the crowd who had gath-
ered for the evening.
The co-chairman of the Republican
National Committee, Tommy Hicks Jr., rose
to speak after Representative Kevin McCa-
rthy, a California congressman and the
House minority leader, and before former
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a two-
time Republican presidential candidate.
To his side, a couple of women
cheered. They were waving Trump cam-
paign signs. Hicks kept his remarks short.
“Just come help us win in 2020. We
have the best president ever,” he said,
drowned out by loud cheers. “Wherever
you have friends, please come get them
working. We have to win in 2020. It’s the
most important thing in our life.”
Welcome to the gala dinner of the
National Council of Young Israel.
The dinner last Sunday night in mid-
town Manhattan, an annual fundraising
event for an Orthodox synagogue associ-
ation with more than 100 member con-
gregations, had the trappings of a tradi-
tional religious Jewish gathering. There
were Hebrew songs, rabbis and their
wives were honored, strictly kosher food
was served, and men peeled off for Min-
cha, the afternoon prayer.
But the theme of the night was support
for President Donald Trump, the Repub-
lican Party, and Israel’s West Bank settle-
ments. Conversely, speakers warned of
the dangers of Representatives Ilhan Omar
and Rashida Tlaib, two freshman Demo-
crats, both Muslims, who have endorsed
the movement to boycott Israel. Omar also
has made many statements perceived as
echoing anti-Semitic stereotypes.
“For the first time in our history, the
Jewish people have a real friend in the
White House,” Yechezkel Moskowitz, the
dinner chairman, told the crowd to loud
cheers. “President Trump is the most
benevolent leader the Jewish people
have ever known in their 2,000 years in
their diaspora, believe me.”
The gala was characteristic of a trend
among Orthodox Jews, who voted for
Trump in numbers opposite those of
America’s non-Orthodox Jewish major-
ity. Their growing affinity for the Repub-
lican Party paid off when Trump named
an Orthodox supporter of the settlement
movement as U.S. ambassador to Israel,
moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
from Tel Aviv, pulled the United States
out of the Iran nuclear deal, and last
month said he would recognize Israeli
sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
64 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 5, 2019
Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, speaks at the
gala dinner of the National Council of Young Israel in Manhattan on March 31.
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Zachary Silver, 25, believes that religious Judaism naturally leads to support-
ing President Trump. Each table at Young Israel’s gala dinner was decorated
by MAGA-style hats reading “Build Israel Great Again.”
Young Israel sparked a minor contro-
versy in February when it became the
first major American Jewish organiza-
tion to defend an agreement between
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net-
anyahu and Jewish Power, a far-right
political party. Jewish Power’s leaders
are former followers of the late Rabbi
Meir Kahane, who advocated expelling
Arabs from Israel. Nearly two dozen
Young Israel synagogues objected to the
National Council’s statement.
The National Council has a history
of supporting right-wing politics in the
United States and Israel. And Moskow-
itz, who runs a consultant and broker-
age business, is an outspoken opponent
of left-wing Jews on social media. About
a week ago, sparring with the left-wing
Orthodox group Torah Trumps Hate,
he wrote on Facebook that “The Pitts-
burgh shooting as horrifying as it was,
was in my opinion a sad but direct result
of their actions.” When you “weap-
onize a religion against the leader of
your country,” he wrote, referring to
Torah Trumps Hate’s opposition to the
who promoted the conspiracy that Hil-
lary Clinton was involved in a child sex
ring. Kalman Yeger, the New York City
councilman who recently tweeted that
“Palestine does not exist,” was cheered
by the crowd.
“They put fear into us, but they should
not,” McCarthy said in his speech, refer-
MICHAEL BROCHSTEIN/GETTY IMAGES
ring to Israel’s enemies. “I expect that
from Iran, I expect it from Syria, but I
should not expect it from the U.K. and
America, or in the halls of Congress.”
The table decorations were MAGA-
style hats reading “Build Israel Great
A gain.” Attendees gradually scooped
them up and wore them. Others wore
kippahs or other apparel emblazoned
with Trump’s name.
And Trump supporters at the dinner
praised the president for more than his
Israel policy.
“I got a whole wardrobe of Trump
stuff,” said Ayton Eller, wearing a tie and
kippah both reading “Trump 2020.” “I
got like 10 T-shirts, I got like four sweat-
shirts, I got five yarmulkes.”
He went on to say: “I’m an accountant,
so tax cuts, was like, historical. … The
stock market, since he got in, like, went
up — I made tons of money with that.”
And: “Everything else, Israel pol-
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icies, doing away with Obamacare,
Obamacare is a mess.”
Not everyone at the dinner came to
support Trump. Many on hand were
members of Young Israel synagogues,
and the group also honored a group of
Jewish World War II veterans.
president, “you are putting Jews at risk, Iris Maidenbaum, 60, is not a member
are you not aware that you are making of a local Young Israel congregation, but
people of that religion a target.” appreciates the group’s vocal support of
Speaking Sunday, Moskowitz said Israel. “We’re not signed up because of
“We’ve allowed Torah-true values to any particular political affiliation, but
come under question or worse. We’ve we’re in agreement with many of the
allowed them to be replaced with the policies, at this point probably most
leftist progressive tikkun olam ideology. of the policies, on Israel and on other
… Leftist progressivism, as great as you things,” she said. “But particularly, our
might think it is, is not Judaism.” concern is the security and the advance-
Upon mention of the “tikkun olam” ment of the State of Israel.”
agenda, the crowd booed. “Tikkun For others, the bond between Ortho-
olam,” Hebrew for “repairing the world,” dox Judaism and Trump hit home.
is a phrase often used by left-wing Jewish Zachary Silver, 25, a conservative
groups in particular to talk about social activist who managed the contingent
justice, which conservatives often dis- of about 125 young professionals at the
miss as liberal activism. dinner, believes that Jews who become
The lineup of marquee speakers Sun- more traditionally observant will gravi-
day — including Hicks, McCarthy, and tate toward the Republican Party. “The
Huckabee — was entirely Republican Republican Party right now and the con-
or otherwise right wing. The emcee servatives are the most pro-God move-
was Pete Hegseth, the co-host of “Fox & ment of my life, honestly,” said Silver,
Friends Weekend.” who also wore a Trump kippah. “The
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York liberal party, the leftist party, the Dem-
mayor and current Trump lawyer, was ocrats, especially here and in Israel,
in attendance. So was Jack Posobiec, they’re socialist, they’re anti-God, they
the right-wing pundit and provocateur don’t have true values.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

Paul Breslow
Paul Breslow, 94 of Fair Lawn, died March 27.
A U.S. Air Force photo reconnaissance pilot
during World War II, he was a New York University
graduate, served in the Korean War, and owned a
business-form company in Mamaroneck, NY.
Predecased by brothers, Irving and David, he is
Briefs
Pittsburgh City Council
approves gun-control
legislation introduced in
wake of synagogue attack
Marcy Oster
The Pittsburgh City Council gave final approval to gun-con-
trol legislation proposed in the wake of the deadly attack
on the Tree of Life synagogue building last October.
The council voted 6 to 3 to send a package of
gun-control and anti-violence bills to the desk of Mayor
Bill Peduto, who said he would sign it, the Pittsburgh Tri-
bune-Review reported.
Critics of the legislation and gun-rights advocates
have threatened lawsuits. Some argue that state law
prohibits municipalities from regulating guns.
The bills ban possession and use of certain
semi-automatic weapons, including assault rifles. The
Tree of Life gunman used an AR-15 assault-style rifle
in the attack on the synagogue that killed 11 worship-
pers on a Shabbat morning.
The measures also ban ammunition and acces-
sories, such as large capacity magazines, and allow
courts to remove guns temporarily from a person
deemed to be a public threat. A companion bill
passed by the council directs additional funding to
city anti-violence programs.
The guns and accessories outlined in the bills owned
by residents would be grandfathered. Violators of the
laws could be fined $1,000, or face up to 90 days in
prison for each offense.
Council members Erika Strassburger and Corey
O’Connor, whose districts encompass portions of Squir-
rel Hill, where the Tree of Life building is located, and
Peduto’s office introduced the three bills in December,
just seven weeks after the synagogue shooting, accord-
ing to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. JTA Wire Service
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FROM PAGE 7
machines are necessary to simulate how human
athletes throw balls.
Herschel Sauber, president of Orthocraft,
described how prosthetics are built. To show how
a person experiences wearing prosthetics, there
was a live demo featuring Josh Arrington, a former
basketball player who has a computer-controlled
prosthetic leg.
TABC Talmud and physics teacher Rabbi Shaya
First led a session on robotics, artificial intelligence,
and the way human minds develop intelligence.
Judaic studies instructor Rabbi Raphi Mandelstam’s
session, “Can Alexa Turn on the Lights on Shab-
bat?” explored the halachic ramifications of robots.
These and many other elements of Book Day pro-
vided much food for thought.
“I learned about the benefits of immigration,
Howard Gardner’s eight types of intelligence, what
my teachers do to make me want to learn, what it’s
like to grow up as a poor immigrant, and the hala-
chic reasoning and need for balance in the immi-
gration debate — all in one day,” Yakov Halstuch,
a student from Teaneck, said. “It really felt like a
unique learning opportunity.”
That was precisely the aim of organizers Dr. Mas-
ter and Ms. Moskovits, who said, “If our students
learned even one new thing at Book Day, we’ve
accomplished our goal.”
Hack it
FROM PAGE 15
a Rutgers student, which allowed air passengers to
select and explore locations to experience in virtual
reality as they fly over them.
Lander College for Women Dean Marian Stoltz-
Loike said she started Hack It Together four years ago
“to create a space for women who share a passion
for creating technology to work together in a warm,
collaborative environment.”
While the college hosts the event, a student com-
mittee handles all logistics, including sponsorships.
In addition to JetBlue and AMC, other corporate
sponsors the committee signed up were Balsamiq,
Grace Hopper Full Stack Academy, Motionden, Wol-
fram Language, and Lexmark. Kind and Herr’s con-
tributed snacks.
Ms. Cohen and her committee also arranged pre-
hack workshops led by engineers from JPMorgan
Chase and Amazon and a user experience designer
at 1010Data — all women — and by Yosef van Bemme-
len, a Teaneck native who co-founded Amazon Web
Services consulting partner firm Elementryx.
Dr. Alan Kadish of Teaneck, the president of
Touro College, said this year’s hackathon was the
largest ever.
“What we saw was well over 100 extraordinarily
talented women, some with more experience and
some with none, showing their talent and creativity,”
Dr. Kadish said. “They had a short time to produce a
fully refined app, and I thought they did an extraor-
dinary job in that period of time. We had some very
good industry collaboration and some great mentors,
including Touro graduates.”
He added that Hacking It Together teams retain
the intellectual property for their creations and may
choose to develop their products further.
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Dream
FROM PAGE 18
I vacillate between jumping for joy and jumping out
of my skin. I am more excited and more terrified than
I ever have been.
Naïve romantic illusions of what it means to live
the Zionist dream have dissolved under the weight of
Kafkaesque bureaucracy and scenarios more absurd
than Beckett’s plays. The wars between Israelis and
Palestinians, religious and secular, Ashkenazim and
Sephardim are different only in the amount of blood
that is spilled, not in the depth of trauma. The start-up
nation can’t run a fast train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
The incubator of medical breakthroughs makes a
mother clean up her child’s post-surgical vomit. Web-
sites don’t work, appointments aren’t kept, and driv-
ing is nightmarish.
And yet...
Every step I will take will mirror my ancestors’ foot-
falls. The Tanach that I love and teach will come alive
on every hill and valley, in every olive tree and date
palm. The national calendar is MY calendar. Lights are
strung in sukkot, costumes are worn on Purim, and
donuts are from the bakeries at Chanukah rather than
Dear Rabbi
FROM PAGE 56
Okay then, you may say to me, show me how that
works. Explain to me who wrote the various compos-
ite texts and when did they write them.
And concisely that is what the Polychrome Histor-
ical Haggadah sets out to do — in a brilliant way — by
color coding the layers of the text from the Biblical,
rabbinic (Mishnaic and Talmudic), geonic, medieval,
modern and contemporary periods — each in its own
color. Biblical verses are black. Mishnah passages
are red. And so on — until contemporary texts (that
some people add) like the Hatikvah, appropriately are
printed in Israeli-flag blue. And this marvelous work
provides critical notes to show the sources of the dis-
tinctive literary strata of the Haggadah and includes a
brilliant English translation.
In 2017 I reformatted and reissued the Polychrome
Historical Haggadah. It was originally published in
1974, the work of Rabbi Jacob Freedman of Springfield,
7 immigrants awarded prize for major contributions to Israel
MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM— A South African who flew combat mis-
sions in Israel’s War of Independence and the U.S.-born
founder of a pluralistic Orthodox school for girls were
among those recognized for making major contributions
as immigrants to Israel.
On Monday, Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that
helps diaspora Jews make aliyah, announced its 2019 Syl-
van Adams Bonei Zion Prize winners, which are awarded
to English-speaking immigrants.
The honorees are Ora Paltiel, director of the Hadassah
Center for Research in Clinical Epidemiology (Science);
Leah Abramowitz, co-founder of Melabev and coordi-
nator of the Institute for Studies in Aging (Community
& Non-Profit); Michael Dickson, executive director of
StandWithUs–Israel (Israel Advocacy); Beverly Gribetz,
from Dunkin’ every day. Even the Friday night television
lineup is referred to as “leil Shabbat.” Would Yirmiyahu
the prophet howl at the materialism and secularism,
or would he rejoice because the hills resonate with the
sound of Torah and the music of weddings?
One of my favorite sounds is the whroo-whroo of
the turtledoves, one of my favorite scents is the climb-
ing bougainvillea, one of my favorite colors is the spe-
cific shade of glowing mauve reflecting off of lime-
stone as the sun sets. The same woman who growls
at you on the bus will throw herself in front of your
child to protect her, the same swaggering and obnox-
ious adolescent with the rifle will lay down his life for
you. It is a very flawed place, but it is my place. It is a
dysfunctional family, but it is my family. It is a fraught
existence, but it is home.
It has been an evolving, delayed dream for too long.
With the help of Nefesh b’Nefesh, government agen-
cies and the Creator of All, it will soon be a dream
fulfilled.
Leah V. Herzog, M.Ed., of Teaneck is co-director of
Israel guidance and teaches Tanach at the Ma’ayanot
Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck.
Massachusetts. It is like a seven-hued rainbow.
So here is the answer to who wrote it. The Hagga-
dah evolved organically over millennia. It is the out-
put of many authors, mostly anonymous, assembled
by many editors and used throughout history by
nearly all Jews, every year.
Seeing the different sources of the Haggadah in
vibrant colors makes vivid the point that Rabbi Joseph
B. Soloveitchik always taught, that the Haggadah is
not simply the retelling of a story.
It’s an occasion of Talmud Torah, studying Torah
in the rabbinic manner. When you finish at the end of
the seder, you haven’t told the story of the Exodus in
a narrative way. You’ve told it in a kind of midrashic
pastiche. The color highlighting shows you the alter-
nating cadences of the work. It’s like an opera with
different arias. The Haggadah is the libretto.
You can order the book from Amazon. There’s
still plenty of time to get it for your seder this
year. I wish you and all our readers a happy and
kosher Passover.
principal of the Evelina de Rothschild-Tehilla Second-
ary School in Jerusalem (Education); and Danny Hakim,
founder and chairman of Budo for Peace and chairman of
Kids Kicking Cancer Israel (Culture, Art & Sports).
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Harold
“Smoky” Simon, who played a key role in founding
the Israeli Air Force and was acting chairman of World
Machal, an organization for overseas veterans of Israel’s
wars. The Young Leadership Prize went to Miriam Ballin,
founder of the United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Cri-
sis Response Unit.
Hundreds of immigrants from English-speaking coun-
tries were nominated for the prize, which “recognizes
outstanding Anglo olim who have helped Israel in a
meaningful way by encapsulating the spirit of mod-
ern-day Zionism and contributing in significant ways
towards the State of Israel.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

The freedom to choose a Passover favorite
GABRIEL GELLER
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assover is the holiday of the
matzah. People often ask
which wine pairs best with
matzah. There are two
answers to this question: Either no
wine pairs with matzah, or all wines
do. Passover is also Chag Ha’aviv,
the Holiday of the Spring, and Chag
Hage’ula, the Holiday of Freedom.
Trees are blossoming these days, the
weather is warming up, and a bounty
of freshly bottled rosé and white wines are popping
up on stores shelves.
Rosé and whites are the perfect wines to relax
with on a warm Passover afternoon, or with the
many fish, chicken, and salads to be served over
the course of the holiday. Rosé wines are also a
great alternative to the heavier red wines for the
Four Cups. They are typically light in body, rela-
tively low in alcohol, with refreshing acidity. A rosé
will go down more easily while drinking the proper
shiur required, whichever opinion you hold by.
The spring symbolizes renewal. Matar winery
from Israel’s Golan Heights has released a new
rosé. The Matar Rosé 2018 is a very pale pink in
color, with aromas and flavors of citrus blossom,
grapefruit, and cherries. A real pleasure to drink.
The Herzog Lineage Rosé 2018 is a great option as
well. Even more so if you need a mevushal rosé. It is
made from no fewer than 12 grape varieties grown
in the Herzog family’s Prince Vineyard in Clarks-
burg, California, including Tempranillo, Viognier,
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and Petite Sirah. Each contributes its unique
savors and characteristics.
A very pleasant and delightful white is the Or
Haganuz Amuka Blanc Blend 2018. It is a blend of Char-
donnay and Sauvignon Blanc, grown in Or Haganuz’s
estate vineyards in the Upper Galilee, which are some
of the most beautiful in Isarel. It is light to medium-bod-
ied, with amazing notes of Meyer lemon, pear, and
kiwi, with abundant acidity.
French wines, especially the red ones hailing from
Bordeaux, are usually considered heavy and bold. Not
all of them are like that. Château La Clare 2014, for
instance, has a silky texture and is medium in body. It is
neither too tannic nor concentrated, allowing for easy
sipping, and it pairs nicely with chicken. Being already
5 years old, it is not too young to enjoy now. Some have
the minhag to drink white wines at the Seder.
The Herzog Special Reserve Quartet 2015 is a wine to
drink preferably with the many other yom tov and chol
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of spices and dark chocolate. A real treat
with a slow-cooked, well-marbleized sec-
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Going back to the seder, why not have a
dessert wine for the fourth cup? Tzafona
Cellars from Canada have recently come
up with an unusual wine. The Tzafona Ice
Wine Cabernet Sauvignon 2016 is made,
as its name suggests, from grapes that
were late harvested frozen on the vines.
The temperatures drops well below 30
degrees Fahrenheit pretty early during the fall, causing
the remaining grapes in the vineyards to freeze naturally.
These grapes having reached a very level of ripeness with
a sky high amount of sugar will, when crushed, release a
very small amount of highly concentrated juice, very sweet
while however retaining the natural acidity which is nec-
essary to balance out that sweetness. This wine can either
replace dessert, or will complement a fruit salad, served
with almond and coconut macaroons.
Having read all of the aforementioned recommenda-
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my heart. ‘We have no food at home, my
belly is empty, and I haven’t eaten any-
thing since the slice of bread you gave
me yesterday.’
That night, Adi made a call to Meir
Panim and arranged for Benny and his
siblings to receive daily hot lunches, free
of charge.
Unfortunately, Benny is not the only
four year old in Israel that leaves for
school without lunch and goes to bed
hungry.
According to the Israel National
Insurance Institute’s latest report, 21.2
percent of the Israeli population lives in
poverty, 29.6 percent of Israeli children
are living in poverty, and two out of
every five children are victims of Israel’s
economic crises.
That is where Meir Panim steps in:
alleviating the harmful effects of pov-
erty on thousands of families across
Israel by supporting a wide range
of food and social service programs
aimed at helping needy people with
dignity and respect.
Over 110,000 children like Benny
receive a hot lunch from Meir Panim.
Meir Panim understands the enor-
mous stress Israeli families face. Work-
ing full-time jobs, Benny’s parents are
part of a growing segment of the Israeli
“working poor.”
“It is heartbreaking; both working and
unemployed adults have seen their sit-
uation plummet, largely due to massive
cuts in government spending, leaving
them and their entire families helpless,”
said Mimi Rozmaryn, director of global
development for Meir Panim. ”Meir
Panim provides food for the body and
nourishment for the soul.”
Meir Panim annually serves 490,000
hot meals to children, adults, and the
elderly at restaurant-style soup kitchens
across Israel.
This time of year, Doron Haloni of
Tzfat, one of Israel’s “working poor,”
feels more stressed than usual. He and
his wife are both employed full time, yet
struggle to put food on the table for their
four young children.
“While my children are looking for-
ward to Passover, my wife and I are
worried about the extra expenses
involved in preparing for Passover,”
said Haloni.
Like many of its restaurant-style
soup kitchen locations, the Meir Panim
restaurant in Tzfat is preparing to allevi-
ate this worry for families like Haloni’s.
Branch manager Benny Elgad is orga-
nizing a large Passover seder open to all
those in need.
To further enable disadvantaged
Israelis to enjoy the holiday, Meir Panim
will also be distributing prepaid food
shopping cards as well as food baskets
filled with traditional Passover foods to
more than 2,500 families.
Meir Panim is dedicated to easing the
year-round struggles facing many Israeli
families and their children through its
network of restaurant-style soup kitch-
ens in Tzfat, Tiberias, Or Akiva, Jerusa-
lem, and Dimona; meals-on-wheels for
the elderly, homebound, and disabled;
and after-school youth clubs for at-risk
children.
According to Knesset member
Michael Oren, “Meir Panim represents
the best of what this country is and rep-
resents the essence of the Jewish State
of Zionism and everything we stand
for.”
“We at Meir Panim feel that any-
thing we can do to ease the suffering of
impoverished Israelis is our mission,”
said Rozmaryn. “We are grateful to our
donors, who feel the same.”
To donate to Meir Panim, visit:
meirpanim.org/donate

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