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NOSHES .........................................................4
One of the final YOM HASHOAH ..........................................12
pictures sent BRIEFLY LOCAL ........................................ 14
from the moon by DINING ..........................................................17
Beresheet before COVER STORY .......................................... 20
the Israeli craft JEWISH WORLD .......................................32
crashed. Above: OPINION ..................................................... 34
Some of the discs THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE .............. 41
sent to the moon. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ........................... 41
CALENDAR ................................................ 42
OBITUARIES .............................................. 45
CLASSIFIED ADS ..................................... 46
This week in Jewish Spider-Man news REAL ESTATE............................................ 49
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Meanwhile, a study by Israeli researchers suggests creased subjects’ respective phobias by 20 percent. the publisher. © 2019
that short exposure to Marvel superhero movies fea- The researchers found that looking at seven sec-
turing Spider-Man and Ant-Man can reduce arachno- onds from the film’s opening credits or a scene from Candlelighting:
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Friday, April 26, 7:29 p.m.
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University and Ariel Uni- not have the same effect.
versity sought to test the theory that exposure ther- According to Ben-Ezra and Hoffman, this suggests Shabbat ends:
apy to phobic stimuli can counteract irrational fears. that the observed decrease in phobia symptoms was Saturday, April 27, 8:32 p.m.
Until now, the effects of positive exposures have not due not to an overall calming or pleasing effect the
been tested in cognitive behavioral therapy. movies had on viewers, but to the specific exposure
Drs. Menachem Ben-Ezra and Yaakov Hoffman ex- to their phobia.
posed some 400 subjects to seven-second excerpts “Seven-second exposure to insect-specific stimuli For convenient
from Marvel’s Spider-Man and Ant-Man movies to see within a positive context, reduces the level of phobic home delivery,
what effect it had on those with spider and ant pho- symptoms,” the researchers wrote in the study, pub-
call 201-837-8818 or
bias. They found that watching a short clip from the lished in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry last week.
movies that contained images of ants and spiders de- LARRY YUDELSON & TIMES OF ISRAEL bit.ly/jsubscribe
Avengers and
Emily Dickenson
“Avengers: End- he comes off as a jerk Post reports, she dyed Cohen, a deeply
game,” which who can’t cope with a her sandy hair a “rich troubled and self-de-
opens on April 26, is a very smart woman. espresso color.” That luded guy. He flees his
direct sequel to last As you can tell, I “made me feel dif- family, his past, and the
year’s “Avengers: am not that happy ferent,” she said. But, SEC by getting on a
Infinity War.” In about the depiction of Levin told the Post, her cross-country bus,
“Endgame,” the Higginson. Nonethe- “transformation” wasn’t hoping to find his old
surviving members of less, advance reviews complete until she was college girlfriend and
the Avengers work to are good, and how fitted for an all-black, somehow also to
reverse the damage often does anyone body hugging costume: redemption. Shteyn-
caused by Thanos in make a movie about “I felt like a completely gart will co-write the
“Infinity War.” The Emily Dickinson? I different person. The script and co-
Jewish cast members am making a mental Scarlett Johansson Paul Rudd boots and the heels and head production.
are SCARLETT note to see it when it the corset — it’s like Meanwhile, Gyllen-
JOHANSSON, 34, as starts streaming. her armor, she’s going haal’s hit off-Broad-
the Black Widow; into battle.” Levin also way show, “Sea Wall/A
PAUL RUDD, 50, as Nice Jewish girl learned how to crack Life,” did well enough
Ant-Man; GWYNETH plays dominatrix a bullwhip. that it is moving to a
PALTROW, 46, as In “Bonding,” a As you can tell, this is much larger Broad-
Pepper Potts; and JON 7-episode not a show for every- way theater in July. It
FAVREAU, 52, as comedy series that one. The script, the Post is a two-actor show
Happy Hogan. begins streaming on reports, has Tiff “bark- (Gyllenhaal and Tom
“Wild Nights with Netflix on Wednesday, ing orders at submissive Sturridge) that consists
Emily,” opening the April 24, Peter, a young clients who pay to be of each actor, sepa-
same day in many cit- gay man, acts as a humiliated in all sorts rately, reciting long
ies, is a comic fictional bodyguard and of creative, surprising monologues about
take on the life of fa- assistant for a friend of Gwyneth Paltrow Jon Favreau and visually eye-pop- fatherhood, loss, and
mous poet Emily Dick- his, a grad student who ping scenarios.” resilience. The play, and
inson. It posits that moonlights as a coe, a heavily Jewish played the group’s By the way, is it Gyllenhaal, got a rave
Dickinson (Molly Shan- dominatrix. Tiff, the suburb, when she was mean girl. Just before kosher for a series New York Times review.
non) was a lesbian and dominatrix, is played 11, and she graduated the show premiered, starting during Pass- And in the absurd
had a long-time affair by ZOE LEVIN, 25. from New Trier High she was interviewed by over to have a star corner: Gyllenhaal’s
with her brother’s Levin was born in School, which has the Chicago Sun-Times. named Levin? (No, I agent laughed off a
wife (Amy Steinmetz). Chicago and attended produced an amazing The interview is full of am not serious). report on a silly gossip
Comic actor BRETT the city’s Anshe Emet number of famous per- quotes that foreshad- site that the actor plans
GELMAN, 42, appears Day School through formers. ow her “Bonding” role. Gyllenhaal stuff to co-start a group for
as Thomas Wentworth the fourth grade. She In 2014, Levin got Levin told the paper: JAKE GYLLEN- ex-boyfriends of singer
Higginson (1823-1911). began performing her first notable TV “I always get cast as HAAL, 38, is set Taylor Swift. Logistics
In real life, Higginson at the Skokie Jewish role, as a member of the mean girl. Maybe to star in “Lake would be hard if this
encouraged Dickin- Community Center the ensemble cast in a it’s something about Success,” an HBO report was true: Jake
son’s writing, edited when she was 8 — her short-lived Fox series, my face? Maybe I have limited series based on would need a Broad-
her poems for publi- mother would drive “Red Band Society.” It resting mean face?” the 2018 novel of the way theater to seat all
cation after her death, her from Chicago was about a group of “Bonding” is Levin’s same name by GARY the members of the
and was a strong north to suburban seriously ill teens who first starring role. To SHTEYNGART, 46. The Taylor Swift ex-boy-
advocate for gender Skokie. Her family are all hospitalized on get into the “right head story follows hedge friend club.
equality. In the film, re-located to Glen- the same ward. Levin space,” the New York fund manager Barry –N.B.
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What the money in those blue boxes bought
Alan Dershowitz and Jewish National Fund head
Russell Robinson speak at brunch at Rockleigh
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Y
ou can trace the history of
the State of Israel simply by
scrutinizing maps depicted
on the dozen or so Jewish
National Fund blue boxes in Alan M.
Dershowitz’s growing collection.
The JNF — Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael
in Hebrew — was established on Decem-
ber 29, 1901, and the tzedakah boxes fol-
lowed in 1912. The coins the Jewish fam-
ilies across the diaspora dropped into
these pushkes went toward buying and
developing land for Jews trickling back
to their ancient homeland.
“The front of each box from before
1948 shows the Jewish areas of what
was then Palestine,” Mr. Dershowitz,
a professor emeritus at Harvard Law
school, said. “The oldest one I have is
stamped ‘made in Palestine’ and shows
15 Jewish settlements.
“The modern state was founded
based on land purchases, largely by the
JNF. On the later boxes you see more and
more Jewish areas as the JNF buys more
land. Gradually you see the outlines of
the basic State of Israel that you don’t
see on the earlier ones.” Alan Dershowitz and JNF CEO Russell Robinson at a recent JNF talk. PERRY BINDELGLASS
While Mr. Dershowitz is best known as
a lawyer in the United States, and the example, he said, in general peo- research and development, histor-
JNF is best known for planting trees ple do not know about the Sderot ic-site preservation, forestry, commu-
in Israel — about 250 million since Indoor Recreation Center, “a shel- nity building (mainly in the Galilee and
1901 — they each have many other, tered playground that JNF built for Negev), education, and medical and
sometimes lesser-known, accom- children in the South that allows rehab services for people with disabili-
plishments and areas of interest that them to play while being pro- ties and special needs.
have several points of intersection. tected from Hamas rockets.” In the United States, JNF is said to
On May 5, Mr. Dershowitz and the Indeed, chapter co-presidents be the single largest provider of Zion-
Jewish National Fund’s CEO, Rus- Joan and Bob Oppenheimer of ist engagement programs and works to
sell F. Robinson, will discuss some Cliffside Park say the May 5 brunch counter anti-Israel activity on 57 col-
of those mutual points of interest is an opportunity for the commu- lege campuses.
as they engage in “an in-depth and nity to learn what JNF does with The latter topic is of great concern,
KEDEM AUCTION HOUSE
dynamic discussion” at a brunch the donations it collects. Mr. Dershowitz said. A prolific lecturer
sponsored by the JNF’s Northern “People know about the trees, and author, he has spoken on some
New Jersey chapter. (See box.) but it’s so much more than that,” 100 college campuses about Israel,
“I often talk about the way JNF Ms. Oppenheimer said. “JNF is an anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism.
has made a big impact on my life,” amazing multifaceted organiza- “On campuses, we’re seeing a new
Mr. Dershowitz said. “If you look at tion that together with collabora- movement called intersectionality,
one factor that unites Jews over the tive partners enhances the people which attempts to turn all oppressed
centuries it’s tzedakah. As a lawyer, and land of Israel in so many ways groups against Israel,” he said. “We
it is interesting to me that the root as well as educating people in the have to fight it, and we are fighting it by
of that Hebrew word is ‘tzedek,’ jus- United States and around the world.” going on campus and telling the truth
tice. Giving tzedakah is an obligation This JNF blue box from 1940s Italy “JNF is involved in so many different about what is really happening.”
of justice in Jewish law. The blue JNF was auctioned for $1,200. areas, something is sure to resonate with On some occasions, Mr. Dershowitz
tzedakah box, like the one we had in everybody,” Mr. Oppenheimer added. has needed armed guards for these
my house growing up, has always been He believes that most people are not Among the myriad KKL-JNF projects appearances. “There have been sev-
a very important part of Jewish giving familiar with JNF’s work “beyond the in Israel are water management and eral people who have attempted to
and Jewish Zionism.” important work of planting trees.” For conservation, ecological and technical disrupt my speeches. But I come from
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Brooklyn, so I just speak over them,” lifelong connection to JNF.” grandchildren — 24- and 26-year-old and Bruce Pomerantz; Mr. Pomerantz
he quipped. Ms. Oppenheimer stressed that JNF medical students — to Israel to show is chairman of the board of JNF North-
“Mostly I receive positive feedback. is a nonpartisan, apolitical organiza- them the work JNF does. ern NJ. Tracy and Karl Kaplan are
My speeches are effective because col- tion, and accordingly the conversation Coincidentally, the fastest-growing co-chairs.
lege students want to hear all sides of the between Mr. Dershowitz and Mr. Robin- donor demographic in the JNF is 25-
issue and they have not heard the liberal son will not be about politics but rather to 40-year-olds, Mr. Robinson said. He
What: Jewish National Fund
case for Israel, which is what I provide.” “a conversation between two dynamic became JNF’s chief executive officer
brunch featuring a discussion with
A Yale Law School graduate, Mr. human beings about JNF and the 20 years ago and has appeared many
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and
Dershowitz joined the Harvard Law growth of Israel, and how people can times on the Jerusalem Post’s interna- JNF CEO Russell F. Robinson
School faculty when he was 25. Three become more engaged and involved. It tional list of “50 Most Influential Jews.”
When: 10:00 — 11:30 a.m. Sunday,
years later he became a full profes- will be a fun and interesting morning of He said the organization counts
May 5, 2019. (Arrive at 9:30 am for
sor of law, and he retired only five coffee and friendship.” 600,000 donors and its fundrais-
registration and brunch.)
years ago, when he was 75. Among his Mr. Dershowitz said he never comes ing events in the United States reach
20 works of fiction and non-fiction with a prepared text but speaks gen- 12,000 people annually. JNF’s “Billion Where: The Rockleigh,
26 Paris Avenue, Rockleigh
are “The Case for Israel,” “The Case erally “about JNF and the future of Dollar Roadmap,” released five years
Against Israel’s Enemies,” and “The Israel, about the challenges Israel is ago, aims to raise $1 billion within a How much: $54. Walk-ins
Case Against BDS.” His next book, facing externally and internally. It’s all decade. So far, it has hit the $590 mil- accepted; advance reservations
preferred. Donations of $5,000
“Defending Israel: The Story of My about being responsive to the needs of lion mark.
or more in the JNF 2019 annual
Relationship with My Most Challeng- the audience.” “We’re focused on making sure Zion-
campaign come with invitations
ing Client,” is due out in September. He expects that some attendees will ism is part of the everyday conversa- to an intimate gathering with
“Alan is one of greatest Jewish lead- ask about the much-anticipated Amer- tion of Jewish people in the U.S.,” Mr. Professor Dershowitz immediately
ers we have,” Mr. Robinson said. “He’s ican peace plan for the Middle East Robinson said. “Israel is part of who we after the talk.
written books we use extensively on col- “because I’ve been consulting with the are as a Jewish people. We always say
For more information: Email
lege campuses. Nobody else talks about White House on that for a year and a that the Land of Israel is a country of Jacqueline Yehudiel, the director of
the concern of how to defend Israel on half. Mostly it’s confidential, but I’ll say almost 15 million Jews, only 7.5 million Northern NJ JNF, at jyehudiel@jnf.
college campuses better than Alan Der- what I can.” of whom are living within its borders. org or call her at (973) 593-0095,
showitz. And he’s been very amenable Mr. Dershowitz travels to Israel It’s for the Jewish people everywhere.” ext. 823
to appearing at our events because of his every year and recently took his The May 5 brunch is chaired by Ruth
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and unintimidating. (See box.) “The guidelines for the criteria are can do to cut down his or her risk of
his truth might be obvious, “I will be speaking about wellness and continuously evolving,” Dr. Lewin said. being diagnosed with those 11 cancers.
but still it doesn’t hurt to say cancer prevention, and also about hered- “People who might not have met the They are, first, “staying in an ideal body
it — the more we know about itary genetics,” Dr. Lewin said. “We will criteria in the past might meet it now. weight.” Dr. Lewin suggests using a chart
how to take care of ourselves, have the ability to do onsite genetic test- “Jewish women do not have to meet that shows suggested BMI.
the healthier we’ll be. ing for people if they meet national crite- a lot of criteria to be tested — just to be Second, she said, eat a healthy diet;
The more we learn about wellness — ria. They can have a panel for the BRCA Ashkenazi, and then have one other that and maintaining an appropriate
the art and craft of making ourselves as gene, as well as any of the other clinically criteria. If there is breast cancer in the weight “go hand in hand.” Third, exercise
healthy as possible — the better stewards actionable genetic mutations.” The morn- family, of someone of any age, then 150 minutes a week, which comes out to
of our bodies we will become. ing also features onsite counseling. they meet the criteria.” 30 minutes five times a week. Forth, don’t
The more we know about our bodies It is likely that many of the people who The tests are for everyone, of any age smoke; fifth, limit alcohol intake.
— not only how to keep them healthy, show up to listen to the panel already have or gender. These are not necessarily easy goals,
but also the genetic makeup that pre- been tested for specific genetic mutations, “One in three women and one in two Dr. Lewin acknowledged, but their
disposes us to some diseases — the more but Dr. Lewin thinks that many of them men will be diagnosed with cancer,” effect on a person’s life makes them
we’ll be able to fight the disease we can- should be tested again. “The guidelines Dr. Lewin said. “The data supports well worth the effort.
not help getting, including heart dis- put out by the National Comprehensive that half of all those cancers — which Dr. Lewin is enthusiastic about the
eases and cancer. Cancer Network says that panel testing is a huge number — could be pre- three speakers on the panel. They are
And the more relaxed and open the rather than testing for just a single syn- vented if people made some lifestyle Debbie Besson and Zankahana Raval of
venue in which we can hear about both the drome is the way to do it,” she said. The modifications. Holy Name; Ms. Besson is a nutritionist
science and the art behind wellness, the network is a nonprofit alliance of 28 can- “When you tell people that they have and Dr. Raval is a cardiologist. Dr. Lisa
more we can learn, incorporate, and do. cer centers across the country; its advice that risk, but they can modify it, that is Weinstock is a radiologist.
For the third year, Dr. Sharyn Lewin, is put out by experts, and other experts a powerful message. “We really have an all-star panel,” Dr.
the medical director of gynecological pay very real attention to it. “One of the leading causes of can- Lewin began. “Debbie Besson is a phe-
oncology at Holy Name Medical Center in The genetic testing at Temple Eman- cer now is obesity,” Dr. Lewin contin- nomenal nutritionist who has an exper-
Teaneck, is offering a panel, “Own Your uel will be done either by mouth swab or ued. “It’s been linked to about 11 dif- tise in cancer prevention and wellness.
Own Health,” that gives people the chance blood draw, Dr. Lewin said, and it will take ferent kinds of cancers. Losing weight She has spoken at many events, includ-
to listen to experts and then ask them ques- a few weeks for results to come back. The is difficult, but the impact of having ing our last two.”
tions. The morning —at Temple Emanuel of counseling that accompanies it is free; the a healthy body weight and eating a Among Ms. Besson’s skills are her apti-
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake — is testing itself will be paid by the insurance healthy diet is huge. And the data sup- tude at debunking. “There is a lot out
free, brunch and babysitting are included, policies of anyone who qualifies. ports that finding.” there on social media about which diets
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what we think they should do, but we “takes an interest in the issue of dense
explain why. breasts.
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Ellen DeGeneres, and the audience will when they go for screening,” she
have a lot of time to ask questions. continued. “The challenge is that
“In the past, we have had robust younger women tend to have more
discussions, bec ause people in dense breasts than older women
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by. They had the power to do something
t first, Rabbi Noam Marans and not enough of them did.”
didn’t think an interfaith David Fine, Temple Israel’s rabbi since
Holocaust commemoration 2009, agrees.
was a good idea. “I’ve occasionally had people asking,
This was 32 years ago — it was 1987 — and why do we say the El Malei prayer for the
Rabbi Marans led Temple Israel and JCC in martyrs in a church? I answer, what more
Ridgewood then. Today he is the director of meaningful way is there to go forward?”
interreligious and intergroup relations for This year, the commemorative service
the American Jewish Committee, and he will take place at West Side Presbyterian Rabbi Noam Marans
will be the featured speaker at this year’s Church. And Rabbi Marans was invited
commemoration. (See box.) to speak because of his harsh criticism doing. It’s not unfair to
“I was wary that undue universalization of the national Presbyterian church’s indicate that the Presby-
of the Shoah might dilute the particular- attacks on Israel — and his call for Jews to terian Church has been
ist Jewish understanding of that horrific strengthen their relations with local Pres- the most challenging of
event,” he said. “But I came to understand byterian churches. the liberal Protestant
that Holocaust remembrance is even more “As far as I’m concerned, this is a hijack- churches in this regard.”
important for non-Jews than it is for Jews. ing of the denomination,” Rabbi Marans The Ridgewood Holo-
“If we are trying to create a world where said. “I don’t believe the views that are caust commemoration
the Holocaust or other genocides don’t hap- pushed through their General Assem- has alternated between
pen, we need the entire world — not just the bly are representative of the people in Temple Israel and West Frank Schott speaking at a Ridgewood interfaith
Jewish world — to be on board. After all, the the pews. But at the end of the day, the Side Presbyterian in Holocaust commemoration.
Holocaust happened not only because of Presbyterian churches are accountable the last few years. The
the heinous perpetrators, but because of at some level for what their leadership is church has its own footnote in the warned that “by fanning prejudice and
annals of the Holocaust. It was the hate, a government can turn a populace
childhood church of the journalist into assault troops.”
Varian Fry, who grew up in Ridgewood. Dr. Schott is a member of West Side
In the 1930s, Mr. Fry reported from Presbyterian and frequently lights a sev-
On Yom HaShoah, we remember
Nazi Germany for the New York Times, enth candle at the Holocaust commem-
the victims of the Holocaust describing the brutality of anti-Jewish oration “that commemorates all the
riots in Berlin, during which “Nowhere other victims of the Nazis that are not
and pay tribute to our Survivors did the police seem to make any effort part of the six million Jews murdered,”
whatever to save the victims.” Rabbi Marans said.
JFCS supports Survivors In 1940, after France surrendered “Last year he read my strong criti-
to Germany, Mr. Fry organized the cism of the Presbyterian church and
in our community with Emergency Rescue Committee, which reached out to me,” Rabbi Marans said.
• Kosher Meals-on-Wheels set out to rescue anti-Nazi intellectuals “Interfaith relations are ultimately
• Cafe Europa Luncheons from France. Eleanor Roosevelt helped about our common humanity,” he con-
• Direct Assistance secure a special emergency immigra- tinued. “The core principle of interfaith
• Dental Services tion quota for their efforts. Among Holocaust remembrance is that we are
the nearly 2,000 people Mr. Fry res- all God’s creations, all God’s people,
cued were Marc Chagall and Max and that the demonization of any group
Ernst. He died in 1967 at 60. In 1994, is a demonization of all groups. We are
he became the first American honored only as safe as the least safe.”
by Yad Vashem. In 2005, thanks to the And so, despite Rabbi Marans’ initial
efforts of Temple Israel member Cath- opposition, “Lo and behold, we are now
erine Taub, the street where West Side at 32 years. It’s still a potent, central ele-
Presbyterian is located was renamed ment of the Ridgewood interfaith calen-
Varian Fry Way. dar. And for those of us who know a little
The other connection between bit of the history of Ridgewood, there’s
West Side Presbyterian and Holocaust an even greater poignancy. After all, as
remembrance is Francis H. Schott. Dr. late as the 1950s there were restrictive
Schott was born in Germany, the child covenants that prevented Jews from eas-
of a Jewish father who converted to ily owning homes in Ridgewood.”
Christianity and a Christian mother.
He was 11 years old in 1938, at Kristall-
What: Interfaith Holocaust
nacht, when Nazi storm troopers ran-
commemoration
sacked his family’s apartment. In 1944,
To learn more or to donate he was deported to a labor camp. He Where: West Side Presbyterian
and his immediate family made it to Church, West Ridgewood Avenue
please call 201-837-9090 and Varian Fry Way, Ridgewood
America, and he became a prominent
donate.jfcsnnj.org economist. On the 50th anniversary of When: Wednesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Kristallnacht, he detailed his memo- How much: Free
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Sunday have died at 6:30; commem- Manny Cantor Center travel to safety from Berlin, is
APRIL 28 oration begins at 7:30. 240 at the Educational the speaker. Denny was the
Broad Ave. (201) 568-1315 or Alliance in Manhattan first baby settler to arrive in
New York City: Yom
ahavathtorah.org. holds an ASL-interpreted Sosua in the Dominican Re-
HaShoah — The annual
commemoration, 7 p.m. 197 public in 1940 during the Ho-
Gathering of Remembrance
Fair Lawn: The Jewish Fed- East Broadway. (212) 677- locaust. 87 Overlook Drive.
at Congregation Emanu-El,
eration of Northern New 0368V, tandv.org, or email (201) 391-0801 or tepv.org.
co-chaired by Rita Lerner of
Jersey Holocaust commem- bramweiser@usa.net.
Englewood Cliffs, includes
oration is at the Fair Lawn Orangeburg, NY: The
her uncle Wolf Durmashkin’s
Jewish Center/CBI. “Letters Orangetown Jewish Cen-
long-lost song “Won’t Christine Keren From The Shoah” exhibit ter holds a Keepers of the
Be Silent,” performed by West Point, NY: The Center opens at 6 p.m.; program Flame daylong Yom Hasho-
the HaZamir Choir. Wolf for Holocaust & Genocide at 6:30. Six area Holocaust ah commemoration for 24
Dermashkin was a rising Studies and the U.S. Military survivors will be honored — hours, beginning at 8 p.m.,
star in the musical world; he Academy at West Point Renee Goldman of Paramus, through Thursday evening’s
wrote the song in Klooga, the screens “In Darkness” at Lev Sverdlov, Riva Erlich, minyan, which follows the
concentration camp where 3:30 and again at 7 p.m., and Rose Lieberman of Fair Closter: Photographer Brian Yom HaShoah program.
he was murdered, as a song in Bartlett Hall 454. Dan Lawn, Norbert Ripp of Te- Marcus helps commemorate Sanctuary is for candle
of resistance to the Nazis. 2 Paisner, co-author of “The aneck, and Ralph Gerber of Yom HaShoah with a lighting, quiet meditation,
p.m. Fifth Avenue and East Girl in the Green Sweater,” River Edge. Keynote speaker discussion and presentation and prayer. 8 Independence
65th Street. mjhnyc.org or will lead a discussion at 6. Gideon Taylor of the World of his book “Still Here” Ave., Orangeburg, N.Y. (845)
WontBeSilent.com. Survivor Christine Keren, the Jewish Restitution Organi- which features Holocaust 359-5920 or theojc.org.
subject of the film, will be zation discusses “Holocaust
New City, NY: Historian survivors and their families
Peter Hayes, who special-
there. Light refreshments.
Michael Arden, (845) 938-
Restitution: The Struggle at Temple Emanu-El, Thursday
For Justice.” Candle proces- 7:15 p.m. 180 Piermont
izes in Nazi Germany and 1181 or michael.arden@ sion with Torah scrolls that
MAY 2
focuses on the conduct of Road. (201) 750-9997 or
westpoint.edu. were hidden in Czechoslova- Teaneck: Samuel Judkiewicz
the nation’s largest corpora- templeemanu-el.com.
kia during World War II and Bradin tells his story at
tions during the Third Reich, Wayne: Holocaust survivor Torah Academy of Bergen
now are in local shuls. 10-10
speaks at the Rockland Erwin Ganz of Warren County, 10:15 a.m. He was
Norma Ave. (201) 873-3263.
community Yom HaShoah discusses “Growing Up his family’s only survivor;
commemoration at the New in Nazi Germany, Before, his story was dramatized
Mahwah: The Gross Center
City Jewish Center, 5 p.m. 47 During, and After the in “Bare Witness,” a TABC
for Holocaust and Genocide
Old Schoolhouse Road, New Holocaust” at a Wayne Holocaust studies class
Studies of Ramapo College
City, NY. (845) 574-4099 or community commemoration production. There will
joins Temple Beth Haverim
holocaustrcc@gmail.com. at Temple Beth Tikvah, 7 also be a candle-lighting
Shir Shalom for a joint Yom
p.m. Candle lighting, music, HaShoah commemoration, ceremony, poetry, a senior’s
readings by representatives 7 p.m. Service conducted by perspective on the Shoah,
of Chabad Center of Passaic Rabbi Illana Schwartzman and a musical performance.
County, Temple Beth Tikvah, Toby Levy The Yom HaShoah program
with a program of chorale
Shomrei Torah, and the music performed by the Teaneck: The Teaneck will be live-streamed on
Wayne YMCA, who are all adult choir of Temple Beth Holocaust Commemoration TABC-TV, at http://tabctv.
sponsors. 950 Preakness Haverim Shir Shalom, under Committee and the Jewish simdif.com. 1600 Queen
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or Cantor David Perper. 280 Community Council of Anne Road. (201) 837-7696
templebethtikvahnj.org. Ramapo Valley Road. (201) Teaneck hold the annual
Englewood: Flutist 794-1017 or bethhaverim- Holocaust commemoration New City, NY: The Justice
Barbara Siesel and singer, Wednesday shirshalom.org. at Teaneck High School,
7:30 p.m. Toby Levy is
Brandeis Law Society, Ho-
locaust Museum & Center
songwriter, and storyteller MAY 1
Keith Torgan present the keynote speaker. for Tolerance and Educa-
Fort Lee: Visiting scholar Dr. There will be a pre-event tion, and Rockland County
“Now We Can Sing,” music
Eric Goldman concludes a dessert/musical reception Bar Association have a Yom
banned to Jewish musicians
series, “Looking at the Ho- for survivors and families HaShoah commemoration, 3
by the Nazis in 1930s
locaust Through the Lens of at 6.100 Elizabeth Ave. p.m., in the Rockland County
Germany, at the Englewood
Cinema,” at the JCC of Fort teaneckyomhashoa.org. Courthouse, Jury Room, 2nd
Public Library, 7 p.m. 31
Lee/Congregation Gesher Floor, 1 South Main St., in
Engle St. (201) 568-2215 or
Shalom, for its CSI Schol- New City. Linda Christopher,
englewoodlibrary.org.
ar Fund and Sisterhood keynote speaker, discusses
Series, with films after 1990. “Rockland legal heroes de-
Refreshments at 12:30 p.m.; liver justice at Nuremberg.”
Tuesday program at 1. 1449 Ander- Alan Moskin Bring a photo ID. (845)
APRIL 30 son Ave., Fort Lee. (201) 947
Discovery Channel: Alan 574-4099, or holocaustrcc@
Suffern, NY: As part of 1735. gmail.com. Events are host-
Moskin of Rockland County,
Jewish Heritage Month and a Nazi camp liberator, is ed by the Holocaust Muse-
Holocaust commemorations Englewood: Congregation um & Center for Tolerance
featured prominently in
at Rockland Community Ahavath Torah, the East and Education in Suffern.
the film “Liberation Heroes: Denny Herzberg
College, Holocaust survivor Hill Synagogue, Kehillat
The Last Eye Witnesses,” Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Toby Levy, 86, tells her Kesher, and Congregation Orangeburg, NY: The Or-
on the Discovery Channel, Emanuel of the Pascack
story of survival in RCC’s Kol HaNeshamah present angetown Jewish Center’s
7 p.m. Directed by Vanessa Valley and the Hadassah
Ellipse Technology Center, “Remembering Those Who Holocaust committee and
Roth and produced by June chapters of the Pascack Val-
12:15 p.m. 145 College Perished in The Shoah, Pay- religious school hold a Yom
Beallor and Andy Friendly, ley and Northern Valley hold
Road. Rabbi Dov Oliver, ing Tribute to Those Who Hashoah commemoration
and in association with a Yom HaShoah commemo-
(845) 574-4422 or Survived” at Ahavath Torah. at 5:30 p.m. Brenda Weis-
Shoah; the documentary ration at the shul, 7:30 p.m.
doliver@sunyrockland.edu. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; man and Amy Edelstein, the
highlights heroic veterans as Denny Herzberg, who was
gallery viewing of artifacts, daughter and granddaugh-
they share their World War II carried in a suitcase with his
5:30– 7:30. Mishnayot in ter of the youngest Bielski
liberation mouth taped shut by his fa-
memory of 525 Holocaust brother, will discuss the
Yom HaShoah
family’s story as partisans City of Bayonne. Mayor Jim- caust memorial with a ser- research for his Vanity Fair
as portrayed in the movie my Davis is the honorary vice and musical narrative story about Nazi-plundered Wednesday
“Defiance.” 8 Independence chair. (201) 858-6033. program telling the story of literature during WWII and MAY 8
Ave., Orangeburg, N.Y. (845) Beth Am Temple’s second the attempt to return these
359-5920 or theojc.org. Paramus: The JCC of Para- Holocaust Torah. Rabbi publications to their rightful
mus/Congregation Beth Daniel Pernick will do the families. 53 Palisade Ave.
Bayonne: Bayonne’s an- Tikvah joins Temple Avodat narrative and the Yorktown (201) 265-2272 or bisrael.
nual Holocaust memorial Shalom of River Edge for a Heights Jewish Center choir com.
program features a vid- Holocaust memorial service, will perform Holocaust and
eo interview with Albert at the JCCP/CBT, 7 p.m. Eastern European songs Jersey City: Temple Beth
Hepner, a Jewish child hid- Julie Kohner, daughter of in Yiddish, 7:30 p.m. The El and Congregation B’nai
den in World War II, and the Holocaust survivor Han- memorial is menorah-styled Jacob of Jersey City and
author of a memoir, “Avru- na Bloch Kohner, presents with six branches repre- the United Synagogue of
mele.” He will also be at the “Voices of the Generations.” senting the six million lives Hoboken gather for a Yom
Dr. Michael Riff
program. Prayers and re- Hanna’s life story is in a lost and two cloud-shaped HaShoah program at Beth El,
flections will be offered by memoir, “Hanna and Walter: plaques etched with the 2:30 p.m. Holocaust survivor River Edge: River Dell Ha-
representatives of Jewish, A Love Story,” which will be names of Eastern Europe- Ernest Mathias will speak dassah, the Friends of the
Christian, and Islamic con- available at a book signing an villages and concentra- and show parts of the film River Edge Library, and the
gregations, candle-lighting after the program. E. 304 tion camps. 60 East Mad- “The Last Refuge,” about River Edge Cultural Cen-
ceremony, and presentation Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691. ison Ave., Pearl River, NY. the community of Jewish ter host a screening of “An
by Elizabeth Hanna, winner bethamtemple.org or (845) emigres who found refuge Apartment in Berlin” at the
of the Holocaust writing 735-5858. in Shanghai. Music by the River Edge Public Library,
contest at Bayonne High USH Choir. 2419 Kennedy 7-8:30 p.mm. Dr. Michael
Riff, director of the Gross
School, who will receive an Sunday Boulevard. (201) 333-4229 or
Center for Holocaust and
award. Service at 6 p.m., in hobokensynagogue.org.
the Dorothy Harrington City
MAY 5 Genocide Studies at Rama-
Council Chambers at 630 Emerson: Milton Esterow, po College in Mahwah, will
Avenue C. Sponsored by author of “The Art Stealers,” introduce the film and lead
the United Jewish Appeal speaks at Congregation a post screening discus-
One of the plaques on
Federation of Bayonne B’nai Israel’s Yom HaShoah sion. 685 Elm Ave. (201)
the memorial 261-1663, ext. 4.
and the Bayonne Interfaith program, 10:30 a.m. Mr.
Pearl River, NY: Beth Am Esterow will discuss his
Clergy, and is hosted by the
Temple dedicates a Holo-
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Pictured, from left, David and Judith Fox, Rabbi Steven Sirbu, Mimi Sigel,
Rabbi David Saperstein, and Kenneth and Deborah Rutz. BARBARA BALKIN
River Vale’s Jewish Home Assisted Living staff and residents visited the
town’s middle school to share the Kindness Rocks project at its career fair. Temple Emeth welcomes scholar
River Vale assisted living brings Temple Emeth Rabbi Louis J. Sigel
scholar-in-residence weekend with
The program at the Teaneck shul,
established in 1986, was named in
kindness to middle schoolers Rabbi David Saperstein was held April honor of Rabbi Louis J. Sigel in 2001.
Children at the George G. White Middle Rocks Project, where participants write 12 to 14, when Rabbi Saperstein dis- Rabbi Sigel led Temple Emeth from
School Career Con — the school’s career inspirational messages on decorated cussed “Being the Hands of God: Jew- 1960 until 1992 and then was rabbi
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care and took part in JHAL’s Kindness ness rock garden. Opportunity.”
Israel Bonds
and the New City
Jewish Center
Last month, Israel Bonds and the New
City Jewish Center held its annual tribute
breakfast honoring Eszter and Peter Fried-
man and Beth and Gary Israel. Hosted by
the New City Jewish Center, it netted more
than $800,000 in purchases and intentions
to invest. IDF Sgt. Benjamin Anthony, com-
bat veteran and founder of “Our Soldiers
Speak,” was the keynote speaker.
For more information, call Janice Wert-
heim at (845) 405-4029 or email her at Rabbi David Berkman, of the NCJC, left, with Beth and Rabbi Jeremy Ruberg, left, of the New City Jewish
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letters from her grandparents
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Joanne Palmer
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Her mother had brought it from the DP
ou know how you can never camp, over the Atlantic, to New York and
notice something that’s then to New Jersey, and she had never
always there? talked about it. Judy had never noticed it.
Like, say, a box at your The box was a bridge between her moth-
mother’s house? It’s just, like, always
mother’s er’s life in Germany and in America, but
there, never opened, never mentioned, now its planks were broken.
out of the way so you don’t trip over it. How did Judy feel when she opened
Not big, not colorful, not covered with the box? “I didn’t know how to feel,” she
exotic tags. Just, you know, there. said. “But I did think that I might throw
There was a box like that at Judy up.” It was that powerful, that unex-
Pitson’s mother’s apartment. It had pected, and that inexplicable.
been in the house where she grew up, Judy’s mother, Ruth Kahn Marx, was
in Teaneck before that. But it wasn’t one of four children of Leo Louis and
until her mother died, four years ago, Elfriede Baendel Kahn. All four of the
and she cleared out her mother’s children survived the war, each in a dif-
apartment that she actually realized ferent way, all came to the United States,
that the box actually was there. More- and each went on to live a different life.
over, there were things inside it. Leo and Elfriede died in Auschwitz.
Letters. The letters tell the story of the rela-
The box was a trove of documents tionship between Ruth and her parents,
These are some of the hundreds of letters Ruth
and letters. About 200 letters. Densely because, counterintuitively enough,
got from her parents and sister; at right, the
handwritten, in old German lettering, French internment camps had a func-
photo, taken in 1934, shows Max Kahn, above, and
they are lovely as objects but hard to tioning postal system.
his sister, Hermine, sitting at left, with their first
decipher even if you speak and read Leo and Elfriede, who married in 1922,
cousins, Marga, Solly, Paula, and Ruth Kahn.
German. Judy does not. lived in Sulzberg, a small German town
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in the Black Forest, near the Swiss bor- going,’” Judy said. Keep in mind, of
der; in the 1800s, reports said, it was course, that she was just 13 years old,
almost one-third Jewish. Leo was a cat- and the idea of a solo trip across the
tle broker and a German Army World continent and then the ocean would
War I veteran. “He got the Iron Cross,” be a formidable one.
Judy said. The next child down, Paula, born
The Kahns had a normal, happy life, in 1924, had no such qualms. She
until things started becoming abnor- went, and spent the entire war in
mal and unhappy. The Nazis came to safety but bothered by irrational
town in 1933; by 1936 Jews could not but still invasive feelings of guilt, her
swim in town pools. Judy remembers niece reports.
her mother telling her a story about During Kristallnacht, in 1938, the
a Nazi throwing her into a pool; until Kahns’ house was vandalized. The
then she could not swim but taught next day, Leo was sent to Dachau. “He
herself on the spot. was gone for maybe three months, and
They would hear Hitler on the then they released him,” Judy said.
radio, “but they’d tell themselves that “When they took him, he had black
he was just talking,” Judy said. Still, hair. When he got out, it was white.”
they remembered what he said. In 1939, Elfriede put Ruth and
That year, 1936, the Kahns decided the youngest child, Solly, born in
to send one of their four children to 1929, on a transport to Switzerland;
the United States, where they had Marga, born in 1927, for some reason
aunts. They hoped that not only stayed home. “In Switzerland, they
would that keep the child safe, but were separated,” Judy said. “Solly
also make it easier for the entire fam- was placed with an Orthodox fam-
ily to emigrate later. Ruth, born in ily who loved and wanted to adopt
1923, was the oldest, so she was the him, but he said no.” He hoped to go
logical choice, but she didn’t want to back to his parents, but he never saw
go. “My mother was so attached to them again.
her parents that she just said ‘I’m not Ruth was placed in an orphanage,
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and from there sent to a Jewish family “who treated her border they heard guards say “halt” and they thought
horribly, like a servant. She worked for them, cooked for that they were back in Germany, but they were in Swit-
them, mended for them. They had a son her age, named zerland, and the Swiss let them stay.
Robert, and they wanted her to call him Mr. Robert.” She Leo and Elfreida were murdered in Auschwitz in
refused. 1942.
“My mother cried and cried and cried,” Judy said. Eventually the three siblings were reunited, and
She was miserable. She missed her parents. She loved they made their way to New York, Ruth and Marga by
them overwhelmingly. She was terrified about what ship and Solly by plane because, family lore has it, he
would happen to them. refused to come by ship because it was scheduled to
In 1940, Leo, Elfriede, and Marga were deported to land in New York on Shabbat.
France. They were sent to a string of internment camps Once in the United States, Marga went to live in
— Gurs, Rives Salte, Camp de Milles, and Drancy. The Kiryas Joel, the Satmar enclave in Orange County, New
camps were gender-segregated — Camp de Milles was York. Solly also is chasidic; he lives in Brooklyn, where
only for men, and only Leo went there — and each he has eight children, 80 grandchildren, and so far
brought them closer to Auschwitz. 140 great grandchildren. Paula “went the other way,”
Marga developed jaundice while she was in Rives her niece said. “She became Reform, and she refused
Salte; she was sent to a hospital, although it seems that to speak German.” She also rid herself of her German
she had to forage leftovers to feed herself. Somehow, accent. She became a WAC — a member of the Women’s
the underground group called Oeuvre de Secours aux Air Corps — and like Marga and Ruth married and had
Enfants — known as OSE — smuggled her out of the kids. She lived in Cherry Hill, and died recently.
camp and into a convent, under an assumed name. “She regretted rarely writing to her parents,” Judy
“She was so devout,” Judy said. “She refused to kneel. said of Paula. Her mother had told her about the time
Somehow she kept track of the dates, and during Pass- that they got a very rare letter from Paula, who for some
over she would eat only potatoes. Judy Pitson with her granddaughters; from left, reason was in Iowa.
“Then the OSE heard that one of the Nazis groups Jessica and Danielle Lynn. The siblings didn’t see each other for many things
was coming for her, so they got her a ticket and put once they were in this country, “except at weddings,”
her and 10 other kids on a train heading for the Swiss should get off the train, hide in the high grass, watch Judy said. “Which was every other second.”
border. Some of the kids didn’t even have shoes. They the guards, and when they are asleep run run run RUN This story, though, mainly is about the letters.
were told that when the train stops at the border, they RUN RUN! Just keep running. When they crossed the When she was in Switzerland, “My mother saved
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every penny she made,” Judy said. “She sent her par- Pitsons had three daughters; Isaac died in 2016, at 66.
ents pre-addressed envelopes with cards inside, so they Soon after Judy discovered the letters and docu-
could write back.” The family was very close. ments, she gave most of them to the United States Holo-
She has no idea how her mother learned her par- caust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., although
ents’ addresses, which often changed, and she does she kept a few, because there is something so powerful
not know why the postal system operated as it did, but about them that you can feel it when you touch one.
she does know that in 1942, Ruth’s parents wrote to tell She decided to do that, she said, because she knows
her that they were “going away.” That was the last she that she would treasure them, and so would her daugh-
heard from them. ters, but it is hard to know what would happen to them
The box that held the letters and documents was after that. Some generation of descendants who had no
labeled “Parents Letters,” Judy said. “I opened it and memories of her, much less of her parents, might han-
saw hundreds of original handwritten letters, with dle them carelessly, or even decide that they had to go.
envelopes, for the most part in chronological order. That would be unbearable.
“She had periodically spoken to me about how she When the museum took Judy’s trove — it was the larg-
would read the letters from her parents, but as close est such collection its curators had seen, they told her
as we were, she never showed them to me. For that — they took high-quality, high-resolution photos, and
matter, I had assumed that she was talking about how gave them to her. But no one there has translated all
she read them while she was in Switzerland.” But no. of them yet — it’s a hard slog, given the density of the
Ruth had meant that she reread them in New York and writing, the ornate nature of the lettering, and some of
then in New Jersey, decades after her parents died. She the ink has faded.
treasured them because they were her last connection The small number of letters that have been rendered
to her parents, whom she had loved so much. in English are brave descriptions of increasingly difficult
Ruth Kahn went on to marry Gunther Marx, a Ger- situations, filled with love, at first scattered with hope
man Jew who had escaped to Switzerland. Her daugh- and with valiant attempts at stiff-upper-lip-ness, with
ter, Judy, married Isaac Pitson, a Greek Jew born in despair occasionally coming through, as well it might.
Salonica, which had been a thriving, overwhelmingly But Judy is hoping to get them all translated, so that
Jewish city until the Nazis took it over and killed almost she can read the messages that her grandparents sent Ruth Kahn Marx, sitting, celebrates her 90th
all of its Jews. “My father-in-law had the numbers on her mother as their world was devastated; the words birthday with her siblings; from left, Solly Kahn,
his arm, and he never talked about it,” Judy said. The that her mother took with her into her new life. Paula Kahn Finkelstein, and Marga Kahn Birnbaum.
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memory,” he said. “One of the challenges of restitution is
ou have been the victim of unimaginable that basically it translates something of deep moral sig-
malice. Most of your family has been killed, nificance into financial terms, but that translation is not
particularly the old people, the tired people, what is really most important about restitution.”
and the innocent, hopeful, big-eyed children. It’s not that money is not important. “Obviously,
They’ve been shot or gassed or died of disease caused funds can do tremendous good in helping Holocaust
by cruelty and unaddressed by medicine. survivors in need, and in furthering the lessons of the
You’ve survived. Holocaust through education, but at the end of the
Years later, your tormentors are going to offer you day, restitution is less about money,” Mr. Taylor said.
— money? “Restitution is more about justice. It’s about history.
Money will make up for what you’ve lost? It’s about understanding what happened, about recog-
On the other hand, what else can they give you? nition of what happened, and about acknowledgement
Because they can’t restore people to life. Dead is dead. of what happened.”
That is what Gideon Taylor deals with. Part of Mr. Taylor’s work with the WJR is to negotiate
Mr. Taylor, an Irish-born, Oxford-credentialed lawyer, settlements. “Many times over the years I have sat in a
has worked in the Jewish nonprofit world, either as a Gideon Taylor room with people who ask, ‘How much do you want?’”
professional or a lay leader, for most of his career. In his he said. “Sometimes journalists ask that too. My answer
late 20s, he worked for the American Jewish Joint Distri- too, and now is the chair of operations for the World is always that it is not a question of how much. It is a
bution Committee as the Joint’s man in Ethiopia — a task Jewish Restitution Organization. question of what and how.
for which he feared he had been ill prepared, for which Mr. Taylor, who lives in Manhattan, will be the key- “When the Swiss banks were asking how much, I
his youth, brains, quick wit, and the fearlessness that note speaker for the Jewish Federation of Northern answered that we have to understand what happened.
comes from being not only smart but also young, in fact New Jersey’s Yom haShoah commemoration at the Fair Let us have a historical report that will look into the
had readied him. He worked for the Claims Commission Lawn Jewish Center. (See box.) history of what the banks did. Let’s have an audit to
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immediately.” And the Swiss used the letter J that
the Germans stamped in Jews’ passports, to mark
them as such, to turn away many Jewish refugees,
returning them to die in Germany. “None of this
was part of the Swiss narrative,” Mr. Taylor said.
with
“Some of these national narratives are held as
strongly now as they were after the war,” he con- Nathan
Englander
tinued. Take Poland, which saw itself as a victim
during World War II, and it continues to do so.
“Poland is basically the only country among the
former communist bloc that hasn’t done any res-
titution, and although there also are other parts of Award-Winning
that story, in part it’s tied up in a national narrative Novelist
of Poland being a victim.”
Once again, he said, “the most lasting part of res-
titution will be telling the story.”
Please join us for a wide-ranging
Negotiations with the German government
conversation with Nathan Englander
over slave labor involved billions of dollars, “but
about his literary career and his
in many ways the most powerful element of the
latest work, Kaddish.com — a
whole negotiation was the statement of apology
novel about faith, atonement,
from the president of Germany on behalf of Ger-
conflicts between religious and
man industry.” At first, Mr. Taylor said, its lead-
secular, tradition and love — that is
ers just said that they’d done what the Nazis had
beautifully written and hilarious. This program is free and
demanded of them, but “it became clear that Ger-
open to the community.
man industry had been a willing partner with the Moderated by Sandee Brawarsky, culture editor
Nazis, across manufacturing, insurance, and bank- of The Jewish Week.
ing. They had been party to and involved with Nathan Englander is the author of several novels, story For more information, please
and engaging in taking Jewish property during the collections and the play The Twenty-Seventh Man. contact office@cbsteaneck.org
Holocaust, so having them acknowledge that was The winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, he was a
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“That acknowledgment is the lasting legacy. in Residence at New York University. www.cbsteaneck.org
“The billions of dollars helped thousands of peo-
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tangible things — food, shelter, medical care. That
muddies the issue.
So does history. “In a broad sense, many of these
INDEPENDENCE DAY
issues were frozen in Eastern Europe because of
communism,” Mr. Taylor said. “They were never
addressed during the communist era. That’s why
there has been a push to address them as countries
Yom Ha’atzmaut
have become more successful.” And, of course, as sur-
vivors age and die, and memories fade and vanish.
There are now negotiations over reparations in Ser-
bia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, and the Baltic states.
They are complicated. For example, “In Poland, there
is a law that provides for Jewish religious property to
be returned, so you have to define Jewish religious
property. Is a school or a chevra kadisha building reli-
Join Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey gious property? Was a Talmud Torah a religious prop-
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Money is symbolic, history is a story, negotia-
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things come together. Painfully, but really. And with
BERGEN COUNTY GUEST SPEAKER
ISRAEL NITZAN, Israel’s Deputy Consul General any luck, we can learn from them.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
PERFORMANCE
11:30am Who: Gideon Taylor of the World Jewish
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Where: At the Fair Lawn Jewish Center,
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GUEST SPEAKER
When: Wednesday, May 1, at 6:30 p.m.
JERSEY CITY ISRAEL NITZAN, Israel’s Deputy Consul General Why: It’s the Jewish Federation of Northern
Thursday, May 9, 2019 PERFORMANCE
New Jersey’s annual Yom haShoah
commemoration. The exhibit “Letters from
2:00pm SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL the Shoah” will be open starting at 6.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 ASSEMBLYMAN GARY SCHAER, 36 DISTRICT TH survivors, their descendants, and friends who
know their stories to post them on social media
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The campaign was to culminate on Yom haShoah,
when a gallery will be posted, but it’s not too
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impressive work at Northwestern University, which
hy the Jews? began in 1980 and where he was a professor of history
Why did the Germans target the and German and then, from 2000 until he retired in
Jews? Why did so many other people 2016, the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational
cheer them on, or at the very least get Foundation Professor, and including as well the chair-
out of the way, while the Nazis implemented their soul- manship of the academic committee of the United States
less genocide? Holocaust Memorial Museum — to study the Holocaust.
What was wrong with those people, the murderers His 2000 book, “Industry and Ideology,” looks at the
and their accomplices and silent enablers? economics of Nazism, focusing on the German compa-
What was going on? nies that paid for and profited from the Holocaust.
Those obviously are huge questions with many Last year, Dr. Hayes published “Why? Explaining the
answers. Historians have been trying to answer them Holocaust.”
almost since the camps were liberated, and that work He’ll talk about some of what he learned for that book
still is going on. at the New City Jewish Center.
Peter Hayes, who will speak at Rockland County’s There are both long-term and short-term reasons
Holocaust commemoration this Sunday at 5 p.m., is one that combined to cause the Shoah, Dr. Hayes said.
of those historians. (See box.) “The long-term causes have to do with 2,000 years of
Dr. Peter Hayes Dr. Hayes used his formidable education — including intensely cultivated hostility to the Jews.” They were
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Christ-killers, money-changers, dirty and the inflation of the currency, to the point area where the Nazis could exploit
rapacious, the devil’s spawn and working where it wasn’t worth it to print it.” And vast hostility to the Communists,
at his command, the impoverished Chris- then there was the depression that hit the and link the Jews to communism.
tians of Dark Ages Europe were taught, whole world, but was felt most strongly The Nazis could exploit desires for
and those teachings were passed down in the United States and Germany. “The national self-determination. Both WHY?
to their theoretically enlightened descen- global depression created massive unem- Ukraine and Belarus were part of
dants. So there was that. ployment,” Dr. Hayes said. “Thirty-three the Soviet Union, and Lithuania
“That laid the path for the animosity percent of the workforce was out of work. was occupied in 1940.
fueled by the crisis Germany faced after “This created an opportunity for the “When the Germans marched EXPLAINING
World War I, which created a mass audi- Nazis, who harped on it, and kept saying, into those areas in 1941, they
ence for people who thought that they had ‘This is not your fault. Somebody did this came as liberators. THE
found the key to solving the nation’s prob- to you. We know who did it. “The implied price of libera-
HOLOCAUST
lems. That was to eliminate an entire tar- “‘It was the Communists and the Jews.’ tion was, ‘You help us with the
get group.” That group was the Jews. “‘And they are allies, the Communists Jews.’ And in many cases, the
The crisis was “of morale and humil- and the Jews. You are not at all at fault. local population was only too
iation because they’d lost the war, and And we know how to fix it.’” happy to help.” P E T E R H AY E S
added to that the economic crises that In the meantime, outside Germany, “you That was based, Dr. Hayes said,
hit Germany in quick succession,” Dr. have a cauldron of ideological and nation- on the locals’ “history of hostility
Hayes said. That also was at least in part alistic elements that the Nazis were able to to the Jews, and the linking of
the result of the war — “the difficulty of play on,” Dr. Hayes said. “Most of the Jews Jews to communism, and also
coping with the expenses of the war, and in Europe lived in the Pale of Settlement to the implied promise of inde-
supporting the invalids and widows” it — Poland, Lithuania, what we now call pendence — although the Nazis
left in its bloody wake. “And there was Belarus and Ukraine — and that was also an had no intention of keeping that
promise, of ever making those nations trains in Holland. It is the Hungari-
independent.” ans and the Romanians and even a
And then there were the countries lot of people in places like Poland and
that the Nazis did not occupy directly, Ukraine and Belarus and Lithuania
“like Romania and Hungary. There who round up Jews. Who root them
was a lot of homegrown national- out of hiding. All of this happened in
ist anti-communist fervor, and that that fierce 20-month interval.”
was linked with anti-Semitism,” he Not everyone who lived in those
said. “This produced the Romanian places helped kill Jews, Dr. Hayes
regime’s willingness to carry out mas- added. Many did not. Many risked
sacres. When the Romanian army their lives to help; many lost their lives
invaded the USSR with the Germans, helping. But many did help kill Jews.
they killed hundreds of thousands of Why?
Jews in their path. And the Hungarians “People have a tremendous capac-
weren’t much better.” ity to rationalize,” he said. “They
All those forces “were harnessed can tell themselves that these were
together,” Dr. Hayes said. “That pro- extreme circumstances, and that they
duced a sort of mentality of massacre conformed to the needs of the time.
that the Nazis were able to use. Or that they were fighting for their
“We should remember — what peo- people, against other people. Or that
ple often overlook — is that we think they were fighting the Reds, and so on.
of the Holocaust as something that “In other cases, they just happily
occurred between 1933,” when Hitler pocketed the loot, and they happily
came to power, “or maybe 1938” — go on, with the benefit of what they
Kristallnacht — “and 1945, but three acquired during that time.
quarters of the victims of the Holo- “Don’t forget, where they lived
caust were killed in a very short period there were areas of great scarcity, Dr.
of time, between June 1941, when the Hayes continued. “People don’t have
Germans invaded the Soviet Union, much, and they steal from their neigh-
and the beginning of February 1943, bors when their neighbors are vulner-
when the Germans surrendered at able. They take their houses, their fur-
Stalingrad. Three quarters of the vic- niture, their bedding, and they just go
tims are killed while the Germans are on and say, ‘That’s what we have to do.
winning the war, and with the help of a We just did what we had to do.’
lot of collaborators, all around Europe. “Also,” he added, “some of those
“Remember that it is the French people really were haters. They envied
police who round up refugees in the Jews around them who seemed
France, and the Dutch police who to have more than they did, and that
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envy rapidly turned into hatred.”
Some of this — the hatred, the scape-
goating, the looking for easy answers to
complex questions, unscrupulous poli- This store in Zagreb,
ticians harnessing those forces for their Croatia, seen here in
own ends — sounds familiar to us now, 1941, was owned by
even as other parts of it do not. a Jewish man, Vilim
Does Dr. Hayes ever make those con- Weiss; his name is
nections between then and now in his over the door.
talks? Does he draw lessons from his United States
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Case closed:
Yom haShoah
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The Jews did not kill Jesus
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ewish life demands a and they have flourished, and it
great deal of emotional is marvelous to see them. aster Sunday fell this year on the sec- Jews held Jesus, they insulted him; the Jews bound
lability. This year, Judy Pitson’s story ond day of Passover. It was fascinating him; they crowned him with thorns, dishonored
The biggest one is of how her grandparents were to celebrate a day of Jewish liberation him by spitting on him; they scourged him; they
the shift from Yom HaZikaron, murdered at Auschwitz but their on a day historically representing so heaped abuse upon him; they hung him on a tree;
when Israelis remember the sol- children, Holocaust escapees, much pain for the Jewish community. they pierced him with a lance.” This quotation
diers, most of them young, each and their letters, testament to Of all the accusations leveled against Jews, argu- became popular in Easter sermons in churches,
of them cherished, who died in their love, survived, is amazing. ably none has created more pain and led to the and these very sermons often led to pogroms in
the fight to create the state of I find it particularly mov- murder of more Jewish men, women, and chil- Jewish communities.
Israel. The evening of that sol- ing to learn that Judy’s mother, dren than that they killed Jesus. But Augustine wasn’t finished yet.
emn day turns into Yom HaAzt- Ruth Kahn Marx, who wrote Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, the influential “The Church admits and avows the Jewish peo-
maut, Israel’s independence day. to her parents while they were 17th-century French orator and bishop, said of ple to be cursed because [of] killing Christ… So to
The movement from grief to joy in internment camps, and sent the death of Jesus: “I hear the Jews crying out, the end of the seven days of time, the continued
makes sense, but it demands a them self-addressed postcards, ‘His blood falls on us and our children’ (Matthew preservation of the Jews will be a proof to believ-
great deal of emotional fluidity. kept those letters they sent 27:25). There it shall be, a cursed ing Christians of the subjection
On a more intimate scale, back with her until she died four race! Your prayer will be answered merited by those who, in the pride
the shift between the upbeat, years ago. Judy said that when more than amply. His blood will of their kingdom, put the Lord to
grateful, graceful Hallel and the she was separated from her pursue you and your last off- death.” According to this vision, the
often searing Yizkor that follows parents, she “cried and cried.” spring until the Lord, grown tired Jews should not be killed so that
it three times a year — including It’s extraordinarily powerful of His vengeance, will remember, their presence can serve as testi-
this Shabbat, which also is the to realize that normal human at the end of time, your miserable mony to God’s disfavor.
last day of Pesach — asks for emotions — the love between remnants.…” But few were worse than Martin
rapid mood shifts that often are parents and children, children Bossuet’s brand of theological Luther. In his work “On the Jews
hard to navigate. missing their parents, home- justification for inflicting suffering and Their Lies,” he preached that
Now, we are faced with sickness, a sense of adventure and slaughter on Jews survived Rabbi Shmuley Christians should “set fire to their
another change of mood, — still exist, even in the face of into the modern era. It served as Boteach synagogues or schools and to bury
stretched over a slightly longer depravity and pure evil. the principal justification for the and cover with dirt whatever will
time but still challenging, as we As we move farther and far- Catholic church’s refusal to for- not burn, so that no man will ever
go from the end of Pesach, the ther away from the Holocaust, mally recognize the State of Israel until 1993. again see a stone or cinder of them.… I advise that
holiday of liberation, to Yom it’s good to know that scholars The church could not accept reconstituted Jew- [Jewish] houses also be razed and destroyed.”
haShoah, when we remem- continue to be obsessed by it, ish sovereignty because its worldview relied, By the time of Hitler’s Holocaust, 2,000 years
ber the hell that still is in living to try to figure out what caused even in the modern age, upon imagining the of Christian hatred toward Jews made it easy for
memory. it, and to retain a sense of right Jews to be cursed and replaced. Europeans to look the other way, or even actively
How do we do that? and wrong as they do so. It’s Ernest Renan, the French Orientalist and assist, as Nazis slaughtered the Jews en masse.
One way seems to be that the good to know that advocates author of “Life of Jesus,” wrote, “According to our Rabbi Michael Dov-Ber Weissmandel escaped
ceremonies that mark this day continue to fight for reparations, modern ideas, there is no transmission of moral from deportation to Auschwitz and approached
of ashes and pain often include and to understand how history demerit from father to son; no one is accountable the papal nuncio for help in stopping the extermi-
some hope. By now, the sur- and restitution combine. to human or divine justice except for that which nation of Slovakian Jews. The Catholic archbishop
vivors have lived full lives; no It is good to remember, as he himself has done.… But nations, like individu- replied, “There is no innocent blood of Jewish
matter where their own jour- we come out of Pesach, that we als, have their responsibilities, and if ever crime children in the world. All Jewish blood is guilty.
neys have taken them, by defi- were strangers once, dependent was the crime of a nation, it was the death of Jesus.” You have to die. This is the punishment that has
nition they’ve been long trips. on other people, hungry first for Ouch. been awaiting you because of that sin,” the mur-
Many of them married and had food and then for freedom. This line of thinking can be found most famously der of Jesus.
children, and now they are sur- We hope that the lessons of in the words of one of the greatest church fathers, Today, of course, everything has changed in a
rounded by grandchildren and the Shoah never go unlearned, Augustine of Hippo. In his poisonous words, “The way unimaginable. Evangelical Christians have
even great grandchildren. They and that we remember that we
have outlived their tormentors must never let it happen again. Rabbi Shmuley is the author of “Kosher Jesus” and has participated in many live and televised debates
and would-be executioners, Never again. —JP on the death of Jesus. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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one of the greatest friends the Jews ever
had in the Catholic church, who wrote in He hated and his is my 80th Passover disturbing, but they were not sur-
his 2011 book, “Jesus of Nazareth, Part II,”
that the Jews bare no responsibility for
rebelled against celebration in the United
States since my family and
prising. Sadly, he has been a presi-
dent who looks to shock the Amer-
the death of Christ. the Romans, I left Germany. ican people. What disturbed me
Evangelicals, by contrast, largely believe
that Jesus laid down his life as a sacrificial
not the Jews. I was just 3 years old when our
family lefty Germany. It was four
more was the clapping, cheering,
applause, and explosive sounds from
offering for the sins of mankind, and thus years after the Nuremberg laws and the mainly Jewish audience, assem-
no party can be said to be responsible for his ludicrous. The further idea that Pilate four months after Kristallnacht, and bled on Shabbat.
death. It was an act of self-sacrifice. would take orders from the Jews about who the synagogues in ruins foreshad- How can my brothers and sisters,
But in truth, the historical record absolved should live and who should die is not just owed for us that the worst was yet fellow Jews, be so cruel? Don’t they
the Jews of the death of Jesus millennia implausible but laughable. to come. The Jews of Europe were in remember “be kind to the widow,
before these developments. Don’t be surprised that the Jews were imminent peril. the orphan and the stranger”? Don’t
The argument that the Jews, rather than framed for the murder of Jesus. The same As a parent and grandparent, I they remember that “we were strang-
the Romans, killed Jesus, rests on one central, thing happens in a story told by the apostle now can start to appreciate how ers in the land of Egypt”? Do they not
absurd premise, namely that Pontius Pilate Paul, when he relates how the Syrian King difficult it must have remember that it was
tried to save Jesus’s life while the bloodthirsty Aretus, an ally of Rome, tried to kill him for been for my family their cousins who were
Jews brayed for his execution. proselytizing in Damascus and how he was to leave our town, on that boat that was
“Pilate said to [the Jews], ‘Then what shall saved by being lowered in a basket (II Corin- where our family had turned around? (More
I do with Jesus who is called Christ?’ They thians 11:32-33). Amazingly, when the exact lived for hundreds than two-thirds of its
all said, ‘Let him be crucified.’... so Pilate same story is retold in the book of Acts (9:22- of years, to go to the passengers were killed
took water and washed his hands before the 25), it is now the Jews, rather than the Syri- New Country, where during the Holocaust?)
crowd, saying, ‘I am innocent of this man’s ans, who are trying to murder Paul. we did not speak How can we cry out
blood; see to it yourselves.’ And all the peo- Jesus was never an enemy of his peo- the language, knew as victims and then
ple answered, ‘His blood be on us and on our ple. He hated and rebelled against the practically no one, become heartless
children’” (Matthew 27:22). Romans, not the Jews. He tried to over- and were taking the Justin victimizers?
These verses were almost certainly influ- throw the authority not of the rabbis — clothes in our few Wimpfheimer The night that I
enced by the Jewish defeat at the hands of among whose number he counted himself suitcases. heard the cruel and
the Romans 40 years after the death of Jesus. — but the Romans, whom he detested and The circumstances inhumane comments
After the Temple was destroyed, the Jews despised for their cruelty and paganism. left them no option, but it was not and acts of my fellow Jews, I had a
were a pariah nation, the sole nationality bra- While Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend easy. But I know that as refugees to nightmare. In my dream, as my par-
zen enough to take on the might of Rome. It may malign Vice President Mike Pence as the United States in 1938, my parents ents and I were walking down the
made sense for the early church to demonize a Pharisee, the truth is that Jesus himself were very lucky to enter the land of gangplank, we were stopped by uni-
the Jews so as to ingratiate themselves with was a Pharisee and lived by Pharisaic law. the free. Perhaps that is why I have formed guards and forced to turn
the victorious and vengeful Romans. It was the Sadducees, the assimilationist, been so bothered after watching and around and re-enter the ship. I woke
They cannot possibly be accurate, and pro-Roman party in ancient Rome, whose hearing the Republican Jewish Coa- up in a cold sweat. There but for the
no serious historian believes them to be High Priest, Caiaphas, is said to have lition’s convention in Las Vegas in grace of God and some good fortune
so. Pilate was known to be one of the cru- turned Jesus over to the Romans, who March, where they were cheering on went I. Today, my kids and grandkids
elest Roman proconsuls who ever lived. betrayed their people as they collaborated issues of immigration. The president are the beneficiaries of that plan and
He killed thousands of people on an abso- with Rome. Caiaphas acted as Roman of the United States was the speaker. fortune. How dare we not acknowl-
lute whim and was one of the great mass muscle, ensuring that Jews like Jesus, who He was quite definitive about closing edge that?
murderers of antiquity. Philo wrote that were devoted to the Torah and despised the borders and not permitting addi- I am one of the lucky ones in my
Pilate was an “unbending and recklessly Roman brutality and cruelty, would pay tional refugees to enter the United family. None of my father’s immedi-
hard character. Corruptibility, violence, for their rebellion. States. At various times in history ate family, including his sister and
robberies, ill treatment of the people, Once Jesus was turned over to Pilate, he our borders have been closed, not his brother, survived. They are now
grievances, continuous executions with- suffered the same form of capital punish- permitting those in need to enter. in the unmarked cemetery called
out even the form of a trial, endless and ment that was meted out to hundreds of The president even said “Our coun- Auschwitz.
intolerable cruelties” were all part of a thousands of other enemies of Rome, espe- try is full.” If the gates would have been
well-established reputation. cially Jewish rebels — death by crucifixion. This is what was said when the opened, perhaps their fate would be
So horrendous was the brutality of Pilate Tacitus, the celebrated Roman historian, nearly 1,000 passengers of the MS St. different. Let us not make that mis-
that in “Antiquities,” Josephus, the Jew- wrote clearly in his annals of 116 that the Louis were on the border between take again.
ish turncoat, relates that Pilate’s excessive Romans alone killed Jesus. “Christos, from the United States and Cuba. They
murders and brutality eventually got him whom the name had its origin, suffered the could see the lights of Miami, only to Justin Wimpfheimer moved to
recalled to Rome. God Almighty. How evil extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius hear from the leadership, “Our coun- Fort Lee after living in Tenafly for
do you have to be for the even the Romans at the hands of one of our procurators, Pon- try is full.” 42 years. Now, he says, “I am semi-
to think you’re overdoing it? tius Pilatus.” The words, tone, and message of retired, so I can spend more time
The idea that a monster like Pilate would It is time once and for all to put to death the president’s speech were very doing volunteer work.”
suddenly find a conscience and seek to one of the most horrendous and destructive
spare the life of Jesus, who allowed him- lies of history, that the Jews rather than the
self to be called King of the Jews (Matt. 27:11, Romans are solely, exclusively, and abso- The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, not necessarily those of
Mark 15:2, Luke 23:3), a capital offense in a lutely responsible for the death of Jesus, a the newspaper’s editors, publishers, or other staffers. We welcome letters to the editor.
Roman-occupied territory that recognized son of his people murdered by Rome for dar- Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
no royalty save the Emperor in Rome, is ing to challenge their brutal and bloody rule.
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ach year just as we are about to begin singing knowledge and skills that I lacked as a attention not on purpose? As someone who
Dayenu, my family looks toward me, awaiting first year human resource analyst. likes to plan next steps and maximize my
what has become an annual ritual. I do not Five years ago I became a mother, and time, my mind often feels like a compilation
know how this tradition started, but from a since then I have viewed my commentary of to-do lists, both professional and per-
young age until this very day, I read the same commen- through a completely different lens. I recall sonal. While accomplishing tasks is satisfy-
tary on our nation’s step-by-step exodus from Egypt to the the day I returned home from the hospital ing, it becomes exhausting to carry future
promised land from a children’s Artscroll Haggadah. Per- with two beautiful newborn baby girls bun- plans on my shoulders. Dayenu. Enough.
haps it is because I am the oldest of seven children and dled in blankets. I began to cry and laugh at With a lot of cognitive restructuring, I
craved my own personal tradition, as my younger siblings the same time. Where did they come from? slowly let go of my unrealistic goals and
had the Mah Nishtana, but this became my own moment. My life had changed in an instant. Immedi- Esther Genuth began to think about what would happen
The commentary starts with a simple question: How ately the pressure I felt to make the most of if I paused to truly appreciate each mile-
could it have been enough for the Jewish people to be each moment was unbearable. Strangers on stone for what it was without preparing for
at Mount Sinai without receiving the Torah? Why even the streets of Manhattan would feel it their right and duty the next one.
approach the holy mountain if not to receive this sacred to comment “Enjoy every moment! It goes by too fast.” And I started small. I began to notice brief moments;
blueprint for life? The commentary gives the analogy of I, exhausted from this sudden life change, wished I could the feeling of the first warm breeze on my skin after a
walking into a perfume store; if if you do not buy any- have screamed back “I’m trying, but I simply can’t!” cold winter, my son’s uncontrollable laugh, the silence
thing, the aroma still delivers an all-encompassing sensory I returned to work after feverishly googling articles on at night, the floral scent of perfume, and last of all, my
experience. Even if we had never received the Torah, the working parents and work/life balance. Almost all of them breath — the greatest gift of all.
Jewish nation experienced God in a moment of holiness recommended being truly present at each point in the I no longer feel the need to be present all the time, but
and connection that in itself was a worthwhile experience. day. Easier said than done. I would come home and ded- have learned to shut down wandering thoughts in certain
Until this year my yearly contribution to my fami- icate one straight hour for quality time. Nobody warned moments by taking a deep breath and simply noticing
ly’s seder was merely a tradition; a joke of some sort. me that 6 p.m. would be the crankiest time of day and that what is around me. And it is in those brief moments that
As a middle schooler I would read the text in a theat- reading books to crying toddlers simply was not realistic. I experience immense gratitude and presence for being
rical voice, emphasizing certain words for a dramatic This perfectionist model was not sustainable, and over the alive and having the ability to feel; my own mini-mindful-
effect. As the years passed by, my moment of pub- course of days, weeks, months, and years, I slowly began ness, which works for me.
lic speaking often would reflect how I felt in a given to let go. That is when I found the practice of mindfulness. My practice of mindfulness also has helped me in my
year. I recall rushing through the text in a low tone the Nancy Siegel, a mentor of mine, defines mindfulness as professional role as a college guidance counselor. The
year I graduated college and entered the workforce; “paying attention on purpose.” I remember first hearing high school experience is wrought with academic pres-
I was stressed out and intimidated by the wealth of this phrase and being utterly confused. How can you pay sure, the stress of emerging young adulthood, and social
A shortcut to knowledge
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ne thing I learned from thirty plus years of a married couple, Larry Krule and Susan As for the speakers, they’re as eclectic
commuting to New York City from Bergen Fader, with Larry continuing, as attend- as their topics. There are no rules regard-
County was that every carpool has its own ees all know, as its (benevolent) dictator. ing gender, age, profession, political lean-
rules governing driving responsibilities, Although there were some early stabs at ings, or denominational, or, indeed, faith
pickup times, lateness, drop offs, and expenses. My different formats, Davar’s primary mis- community affiliation. Rather, if they have
first carpool even had an intriguing rule (predating me) sion quickly evolved into inviting speak- something important and thoughtful to say
against speaking ill of another rider’s spouse! ers to Teaneck six or seven or eight times about some aspect of Judaism, and they
Try as I might, I never learned the back story on a year to deliver three lectures over Shab- can say it well, they are welcome at Davar.
that one. bat: a relatively short one after Kabba- And this broad spectrum of speakers
In addition to rules, every carpool also has a shortcut lat Shabbat on Friday night, a lengthier Joseph C. exists even though the davening is, as
to the George Washington Bridge (through Englewood/ one usually followed by a Q&A period Kaplan noted, Orthodox, as are most of the attend-
Fort Lee) or the Lincoln Tunnel (Weehawken/Hoboken). on Shabbat morning after a post leining ees. Indeed, a popular quip is that a basic
Since each carpool thinks its shortcut is the best, sharing kiddush and before musaf, and a third on qualification of a Davar speaker is that he
is not considered a virtue because too many people using Shabbat afternoon after mincha. or she is someone who would not be invited to speak in
the same shortcut quickly leads to overcrowding and loss The davening is mechitzah-down-the-middle, non-egal- any of Teaneck’s many Orthodox shuls. Now that’s not
of usefulness. In fact, a number of years ago there was an itarian, non-partnership-minyan-style modern Orthodox really true; some speakers have spoken in such shuls, a
article in the New York Times about the use of shortcuts (how do you like that retronym!), but to be frank, the ser- few are or were members, and others certainly would be
in commuting to the city over the GWB, and the reporter vices, though pleasant enough, with singing and highly welcome in many. Nonetheless, there’s more than an ele-
who personally made that daily commute discussed his competent ba’alei keri’ah, are not the draw. Nor is the kid- ment of truth lying beneath the surface of that wisecrack.
mixed feeling about whether to divulge his own. I guess dush, though the cholent and kugel are tasty and the social- To give you an idea of how eclectic the group of speak-
his editor made him do it, because there it was for all to izing amiable. (Don’t ask me about the single malt; I’m a ers is, here’s a partial listing of the professors, Talmudists,
see. Not a big deal to me; my carpool’s shortcut was better. Diet Coke person.) Rather, it’s really about the speakers. lawyers, journalists, writers, rabbis, activists, scholars,
But I feel very much like that reporter now. I’ve wanted If it’s of Jewish interest, someone has spoken about it artists, intellectuals, political scientists and politicians,
to write for some time about a program I’ve been attend- at Davar. There have been presentations, usually with communal and religious leaders, university presidents,
ing in Teaneck for almost two decades, but have hesitated detailed source material, on Talmud and Tanach (tradi- roshei yeshiva, scientists, and educators who have taught
because one of the many wonderful things about the pro- tional and academic), Israel and Israeli politics, literary us, some more than once. Many of the names may be
gram is its intimacy. Thus, singing its praises can result, analysis, poetry, midrash, theodicy, Maimonides, halacha familiar even without their honorifics, which I’m inten-
like publicized shortcuts, in overcrowding and a loss of and psak, sex, politics, belief, art, love, ethics, literature, tionally omitting, and for those you don’t recognize, well,
one aspect that makes it special. Nonetheless, its praises science, kedusha, archeology, agunot, chassidut, conver- that’s what Google’s for.
deserve to be sung, so I’ll just have to hope for the best. sion, communal and rabbinic authority, and on and on So: Menachem Ben Sasson, Avi Ravitzky, Josef Stern,
The program is the Davar Institute, the brainchild of and on. This list is truly just the tip of the iceberg. Susan Weiss, Menachem Kellner, Avi Weiss, Seth Farber,
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I recall one particular meeting with a driving test or trying out for an athletic team
young woman who was devastated by her or a part in the school play takes courage, enjamin Netayahu has is a further example of the extreme
SAT score. She kept repeating that she was and this alone should be celebrated and promised Israeli annex- nationalism of Netanyahu and his
a horrible test taker and wouldn’t get into acknowledged. They need to be given true ation of “settlement allies on the right.
college. After listening for a few moments responsibilities, recognizing that they abso- points” in the West Bank. Likud and Netanyahu won this
I noticed the background of her phone lutely will make mistakes, and they must be If that is approved by the new election with the help of the set-
was a beautiful drawing. I asked her more given the time to process failure and pain. right-wing Israeli government, that tlement movement and several
about it, and she told me she was sketching When our focus is only on the future we will put the final nail in the coffin extremist racist parties, who would
it for class. Then she showed me all of her simply are not paying attention. When we of the idea of a Palestinian state, like nothing better than the annex-
work. I was flabbergasted. Here was a young rush our adolescents rather than meeting and it will move Israel away from its ation of Jewish settlements. The
woman who was worrying about her future, them where they are, we are not paying democratic roots and toward a truly Trump administration has been
when in fact she was an artist with a true gift! attention to their needs. And if we aren’t apartheid state in which Jews are in a non-committal on the two-state
We started small, by discussing her art paying attention, how can we expect our minority and West Bank Palestinians solution and the question of Pales-
and the various types of intelligences, and students to? are stateless non-citizens of a nation- tinian statehood, preferring instead
what standardized testing in fact does not In our striving always to accomplish alist Jewish state. to throw its support behind Israel’s
measure. Only in later weeks did we discuss and move on to the next stage, have we Emboldened by his victory in a right-wing leadership.
possible careers and schools that would lost the appreciation of simple moments? close election, Netanyahu may finally In the election campaign, Net-
appreciate and cater to such a talented and There is beauty in the unknown and the realize the dream of the anyahu embraced the
brilliant student. undecided, and there is stillness and Greater Israel move- most extremist racist
Our teenagers are emerging adults and peace in simply being. ment: a Jewish state faction, Otzma Yehu-
must be reminded that happiness and self On this Passover holiday I knew what from the Mediterranean dit, the Jewish Power
love come from within. While getting a to tell my students, my own children, and Sea to the Jordan River. party, who are follow-
stamp of approval from a highly selective myself. You are loved. You are enough. The problem: there are ers of the racist Rabbi
school can feel fantastic (and is absolutely Dayenu. some two million non- Meir Kahane. The
a moment of celebration), it cannot be the Jews (Palestinian Arabs) leaders and followers
ultimate purpose of the process. We need Esther Genuth of Bergenfield is a college living in the occupied of this party are Arab
to slow down adolescence and begin cele- guidance counselor at the Frisch School and is West Bank who will not haters who would like
brating the moments that might not get the certified in children’s yoga and mindfulness. be a part of that dream. Rabbi Aryeh nothing better than
Their dream of a state Meir to see Arabs “trans-
of Palestine will be sac- ferred” out of what
rificed on the altar of they call Greater Israel
Chana Henkin, Herzl Hefter, Dina Najman, fellows program, a wine tasting, a Tanach radical Jewish nationalism. — Israel plus the West Bank.
Danny Gordis, Yossi Klein Halevi, Christine series, and Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur ser- Could this happen? I believe it To Netanyahu and his right-wing
Hayes, Marc Brettler, Ysoschar Katz, Shani vices. And helping to make Davar the com- could for several reasons: allies and enablers, Israel is a state
Tzoref, Simcha Krauss, Devorah Steinmetz, munity it is, an active email list keeps us Netanyahu is a true believer in for Jews who can prove their Jew-
Dov Linzer, Marc Shapiro, Jennie Rosen- up-to-date on the full gamut of lifecycle Greater Israel. He is an ideologi- ishness in a rabbinical court. To
feld, Peter Beinart, Judy Klitsner, Dovid Sil- events and Jewish (local and beyond) news. cal descendant of Zeev Jabotinsky, paraphrase Bernard Avishai from a
ber, Erin Leib Smolker, Michael Melchior, All of the latter functions are fine, but the founder of Revisionist Zionism. recent New Yorker article: As long
Saul Berman, Tobi Kahn, Chaim Seidler- quite frankly, my shul, which is a very According to historian Anita Sha- as Jews in Israel are a majority, Isra-
Feller, Eugene Korn, Matti Friedman, Alan important component of my Jewish spir- pira, Jabotinsky regarded the Arabs el’s democracy works. The ques-
Kadish, Michael (Buzzy) Fishbane, Susanne itual, intellectual, and social life, provides as “a problem standing in the way tion for all of us — is Israel a state
Last Stone, Moshe Halbertal, Daniel Sper- that to me. Yet, although my synagogue has of the Zionist movement.” While the for Jews or for all its citizens? We
ber, Judith Hauptman, James Kugel, Marty an outstanding adult education program (in founders of Labor Zionism felt con- American Jews must ask ourselves
Lockshin (don’t bother; all the jokes about which I’ve proudly been involved for many strained by international rules and this question.
the last two have already been made), Tova years), it simply can’t do what Davar does — norms governing relations between The political reality is that there is
Hartman, Jonathan Sarna, and Shai Held. put denomination and dogma aside to pro- peoples and nations, Jabotinsky and a structural majority on the political
And I could easily post another equally vide the widest possible array of thought- the Revisionists “felt right from the right made up of the Likud-nation-
long and impressive list without repeating ful, exciting, controversial, stimulating, and outset that [they] were not bound alist faithful, the settler movement,
a single name. informative lectures on any and all matters by such norms and their constraints. the charedim (both Ashkenazim
Note that this listing doesn’t include some that impact on our Jewish lives. “In 2018, the Knesset, led by Net- and Sefardim), and some Israelis
wife and husband teams like (again not all Davar not only teaches and informs, but anyahu’s Likud party, passed the of Russian descent. The Zionist left
inclusive) Blu and Yitz Greenberg, Yehu- also, at times, challenges some of our most Nation State Law, which stated that (Labor and Meretz) are barely sur-
dah Mirsky and Tamar Biale, and Tamar deeply held beliefs. But it usually does so in the State of Israel is the “nation-state viving. Blue and White, under the
and Ya’akov Ross, or the single-lecture and a gentle way, more to make us think rather of the Jewish people.” The law effec- leadership of Benny Gantz, pro-
sometimes non-Shabbat speakers like Mal- than to necessarily change what we believe. tively reduced the non-Jewish citi- vided a vehicle for the anti-Bibi vot-
colm Hoenlein, Hillel Halkin, Joseph Telush- If any of this speaks to you, try us out. zens of Israel to second-class status. ers but drained strength from the
kin, David Hartman, Ari Berman, Nahum But don’t all come at once; we don’t want The law now is being challenged in Zionist left.
Sarna, Stephen P. Cohen, David Ellenson, this shortcut to knowledge to become Israel’s Supreme Court (if the new The future does not look bright
and Chaim Brovender, among others. overly congested. Knesset allows that challenge). This for those who believe in Arab-Jew-
While the Shabbat speakers are the heart ish cooperation, the rule of law,
of what Davar does, it has tried other pro- Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist, is Rabbi Aryeh Meir is an active freedom of the press, and an inde-
gramming (some still in effect) like the eclec- a long-time resident of Teaneck. His work member of Congregation Beth pendent judiciary. Talk of annex-
tic (e.g., string ensemble and bluegrass eve- also has appeared in various publications Sholom in Teaneck, a member of ation of parts of the West Bank and
nings; remember, it’s Davar), non-Shabbat including Sh’ma magazine, the New York the New Israel Fund, the Teaneck the demise of the idea of a Pales-
music presentations), an author series and Jewish Week, the Baltimore Jewish Times, and, Environmental Commission, and tinian state leads to the possibility
book club, movies, a Joy of Text podcast, a as letters to the editor, the New York Times. the J Street Rabbinic Cabinet. SEE CHARACTER PAGE 39
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n the last day of Passover, we recite the merely being transported to another site You know what I am about to tell you
Yizkor prayers as pause on this holy day to to be used for labor. Sam was too smart for next.
remember our loved ones, those special that. He knew they would be murdered. Rabbi Blech was in an antique store
people in our lives who are no longer with He believed Hitler and understood that the and he recognized the seder plate, on
us: parents and grandparents, siblings, spouses, and chil- Nazis wanted to eliminate every Jew as well sale in the shop!
dren, who gave our lives so much meaning and helped as every reminder of their heritage. So he “‘Where was it from?’ he asked the
shape who we are and where we are going, and who did what he could to save some reminder store owner. ‘Oh, it was part of an estate
helped anchor us to our past, our history, and our roots. of his precious Jewish heritage. How he sale by the children.’
I want to tell you a true story. This story was told in a wanted to save Torah scrolls and the silver “‘You see,’ the store owner said, ‘he
recent book on Passover by a gifted Orthodox rabbi and from the holy ark. But he had so little time Rabbi Paul D. was religious but his children weren’t.’
teacher whom I have had the opportunity to meet and lis- and he could dig a hole only so big. Kerbel “These are the words of the store
ten to: Rabbi Benjamin Blech. Here is Rabbi Blech’s story: “Sam buried one item: his family’s Pass- owner — ‘they don’t really have any
“I was browsing for an item of Jewish interest in an over beautiful silver seder plate, passed need for items like these.’
antique store in lower Manhattan. What I found may me down from generation to generation. Fifty paces from “The buried treasure of the past had become the dis-
weep. But soon I realized that tears were not enough. his favorite tree in his back yard, Sam hid the seder plate. carded trash of the generation that followed.”
It was then that I vowed to tell this story, to ensure that He called the tree ‘his etz chaim,’ his tree of life. If he sur- How I wish that this story was rare. But I have seen too
nothing like it happens again. vived and could return to his home and find his seder often that we live in an age that doesn’t understand the
You see, I was a witness to a murder. Not the murder plate, he would have foiled the German plan to destroy meaning of memory. We live in an age of unsentimental
of a person. No, perhaps something more horrible. The every remnant of Judaism. disregard for the past. The sad truth is that we live in a
murder of memory. The callous, cruel indifference to the “Sam could never explain how he and all of his fam- throwaway world that gives equal weight to used clothes
most important message of our tradition and especially ily and friends survived. In his heart, he believed that and furniture, old cars and old family heirlooms.
the holiday of Passover. because of his buried seder plate and his tree of life, the How many prayer books and Bibles, some with yahr-
“What I spotted in that store was a seder plate that two things he thought about every day, that his holy mis- zeit dates and histories of families inscribed in them, have
I immediately recognized. How could I not? It was the sion was to save and cherish the traditions of our people, been dropped off in our synagogue office, and in syna-
focus of my eulogy for Sam, a survivor of Auschwitz. kept him alive. gogues all over America, because the people who inher-
What a tale it had been. The Germans rounded up “After the war, Sam went back to his town, returned to ited these siddurim and Bibles, menorahs and candle-
all the Jews in his little town for deportation. Oth- his home, dug up his seder plate and lived to celebrate sticks, had no use for them and no desire to clutter their
ers may have believed the grand lie that they were dozens of Passovers with his seder plate until he died.” homes with old dusty books and memorabilia.
I
am writing this column on April 16. Last night, anniversary of the declaration of inde- Unlike my year of kaddish for my dad
the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris caught pendence of the state of Israel. Both are or my brother, when I found myself in a
fire and was significantly damaged. Christian holy days that have been added to the familiar geographic and social space, in
Holy Week services could not take place is this Jewish liturgical calendar in my lifetime. these first two months I have been trav-
iconic house of worship, as they have for more than What is it that makes a time or a place eling to many places. Finding a minyan
800 years. The loss, evident to the masses of people holy? Judaism teaches us that it is the wherever I have gone has brought me
who came to mourn and to pray as the fire blazed and act of separation. Kadosh and its deriva- comfort and pride in the power of Jewish
consumed a large portion of the grand architectural tives, such as kiddush and kaddish, have community to say Hineni to a Jew in need.
monument, was an expression of the loss of holy space. a linguistic connection to an ancient Passover, and especially the seder,
This year, Christianity’s holy week coincided with Ugaritic word KDSH, which means sep- Rabbi Neal I. reminds me that real kedusha, real holi-
the week when Jews are busy — some, myself included, aration. Time and place, like human Borovitz ness, is not space- or time-bound, but
actually obsessed — with the minute and exacting rit- relationships, become holy when we instead manifest in the world when you
uals of preparation for Passover. These rituals are the separate them from both the mundane and I make time to separate ourselves
means through which Jews transform our homes from and the profane. from the mundaneness of everyday life and transform
ordinary mundane space into holy space. The seder is When I stood at the cemetery in Cleveland last what ever place we find ourselves into a mikdash, a
the central event of Passover. Unlike every other holy month as we buried my mother, I felt that the ground sanctuary, where we can make room in our lives to
moment on our Jewish calendar, which all are syna- was kadosh — holy — even though intellectually I welcome God into our midst, and to see the image of
gogue-centered, ever since the destruction of the Tem- know that it’s just a piece of land, and theologically God within ourselves and simultaneously in both our
ple in Jerusalem, some 1951 years ago, the Passover I believe that my mother’s soul is not buried there brothers and sisters, and in the others around us.
seder has been home-centered. Conversely, Chris- with her body. Yet for me , and I know for most other Our Passover seder table this year was filled with
tian Holy Week is church-centered, and Good Friday people, a cemetery is a makom kadosh. A holy place. family, friends, and some new people whom I met for
and especially Easter morning services, are the most Even destroyed cemeteries, as well as destroyed syn- the first time. At my children’s suggestion we used a
attended church services of the year. agogues and other peoples’ houses of worship, for new Haggadah, but we also included family traditions
The sadness that I felt hearing about the destruction me are kadosh, holy and separate, from other, mun- that have been passed down from generation to gen-
of Notre-Dame as I was preparing my home for Pass- dane places and pieces of land. What my mother’s eration, including our family custom of filling the cup
over made me think about how holy space and holy death has reconfirmed for me is the lesson I learned of Elijah with wine and grape juice from the cups of
time impact me. This week we will commemorate and 53 years ago when my dad died and 18 years ago when everyone at our seder table. It’s a ritual manifestation
mourn the destruction of six million Jews and thou- I lost my brother — that there is an amazing sense of of my belief that Elijah, whose name is an acronym
sands of their holy places. One week later, we will cel- God’s presence that I find in praying with a minyan, for the phrase Adonai Hu Ha Elohim; Adonai is The
ebrate the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty on the 71st wherever my life’s journey takes me. God, will come only to announce the coming of the
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“Unless we remember,” the English novelist shop or antique store, giving it instead to someone whom
Edward Morgan Foster put it so beautifully, “we can- he knew would use it and treasure it as long as they lived.
not understand.” Our possessions, whether they be So today, I ask us to treasure and value the mean-
books, furniture, or items of Judaica, possess the
unique ability to stir up memories that keep alive
The sad truth is ing of memories. Whether it is memorabilia like Sam’s
seder plate or Melissa’s kiddush cup or my afghan. Or
those whom we deeply loved. that we live in a more importantly, I ask you to treasure the memories
I have two of my favorite possessions with me now, an
afghan and a silver serving spoon.
throwaway world that of our loved ones, whom we remember today with
honor and respect. Each of our loved ones taught us,
My grandmother made the sweater for me. She knit- gives equal weight to nurtured us, sustained us. They gave us possessions;
ted me sweaters when I was a baby. I don’t have them
anymore. She knitted me sweaters when I was a tod-
used clothes and they gave us wisdom. They taught us how to play cards
and drive a car; they may have taught us how to ride a
dler. I don’t have them anymore. But when I was a teen- furniture, old cars and bike, cook a brisket or sing a song.
ager, maybe on my way to college, my grandmother
made me this afghan. I love this. When I used to watch
old family heirlooms. “Remember”, the Bible commands us, “because mem-
ory is the secret of eternal life.” It is why we have survived
TV at night in the colder climates I lived in, I would throughout the ages. It is how our parents and other
cover myself with something made just for me, the old- the only funds it received were for cultural aid; the United loved ones live on in us, even as we hope that we will live
est grandson of Mamie and Jules Kerbel. It was the last States supported numerous cultural institutions, such as on in the hearts of our children and descendants.
thing she would make for me. the Israel Museum and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The poet Yehudah Amichai wrote: “There are candles
The afghan and the spoon along with her vacuum The charismatic late mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, that remember for twenty-four hours, as the label says.
cleaner, are the possessions that I have that I never will mentions Bernie in his book, “For Jerusalem.” President And there are candles that remember for eight hours.
let go of. Because my grandmother, who now is gone 34 Eisenhower named Bernie to be a cultural ambassador of And there are eternal candles that promise the mem-
years, never will make me another one. Probably no one the United States to Israel. He made many trips to Israel ory of a man to his son.”
will ever make me another afghan. I hope the one she on behalf of our country. May we sharpen our ability to remember what is truly
made for me never ends up in a Goodwill drop box. This kiddush cup is now 60 years old. The Israel Phil- important, may we reclaim our lost possessions and hope
I also want to show you a kiddush cup, which was harmonic Orchestra gave it to Bernie in recognition that we too will live lives worthy of being remembered.
given to my wife, Melissa, by a friend. His name was Ber- of his efforts to provide cultural and academic aid to
nie Katzen. I show it to everyone who shows an interest support to the State of Israel. How meaningful it is to Rabbi Paul D. Kerbel is the associate rabbi of Temple
in our kiddush cup collection. Melissa and to me that Melissa now has the honor of Emanu-El in Closter. He is also the national rabbinic
When Bernie died he bequeathed this to Melissa. Ber- working for the American Friends of the Israel Philhar- campaign chair of the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem
nie had no children of his own. In the 1950s and 1960s, monic Orchestra! and Tel Aviv and is on the Global Jewish Communities
before the United States gave military assistance to Israel, How thankful am I that Bernie didn’t sell this to a pawn committee of UJA Federation of New York.
Messiah, when we all contribute to making the world synagogue in Berlin, or an old synagogue in a small the 71st anniversary of Israel, let us pray to God for
ready for redemption. American town, or in a magnificent modern sanctuary the strength to be God’s partners. In the words of the
I believe that God does not dwell in any specific in a thriving American Jewish community, or in a sanc- prayer for the State of Israel, in spreading a shelter of
place. I believe in the salience and eternality of the tuary at a Jewish camp set outdoors in the woods , or at peace under which Israel, like its ancestors Jacob and
message of our patriarch Jacob, who, upon waking a prayer service on the seashore of the Mediterranean Esau, and its neighbors can learn to dwell as neighbors
from his first dream, where he envisioned a ladder Sea or the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, or participating in peace.
in a minyan in a private home. I believe that we each
can find God and be found by God when we truly seek Neal Borovitz, rabbi emeritus of Temple Avodat
out the divine through study prayer and deeds of kind- Shalom in River Edge, is a former chair of Jewish
ness wherever we are physically, if we metaphysically Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation
These rituals are open ourselves to the opportunity. Moreover, we can
channel God’s presence for others and for ourselves by
of Northern New Jersey.
the means through being God’s voice and hands in the world.
which Jews Our Jewish calendar always has us on the move. As
we move from the month of Nisan to Iyar, counting the Character
transform our homes Omer, we are journeying from the liberation of Pass- FROM PAGE 37
holy space. The height of exhilaration of the creation of the the state of
Israel. To paraphrase our patriarch Jacob, I believe that
State of Israel must not give up hope. We must
continue to work towards an Israel we can believe
seder is the central God, who is ever present, was in both places. in and support. That means supporting organiza-
Passover delights
M
y boys had me watch Nishtana, the four questions. Every par-
some YouTube videos ent puffs up with pride when their child
that parodied the entire is the one to read the questions. Some-
holiday of Passover. times, you have a kid who does a great
At face value, they are funny because job. He sings loud. He sings proud. He
they are based on things that actually knows the words. He knows the tune.
happen. They become even funnier He does a great job. And then you have
when you watch them right after your the kid who has less than no desire to
seders are over. And when they make sing in front of family members who
fun of something that I do, I can point he barely knows. He hides behind the
out to my kids that I must not be the Hagaddah. He timidly starts to sing,
only one who does whatever it is they but then his father is the one who sings
are making fun of, because if someone the rest of it and the kid usually ends
on YouTube is making fun of that thing, up crying. Good times all around. I
whatever it may be, it means that lots am still in denial that I no longer have
and lots of people do the same thing kids who are eligible for ma nishtana
that I do. My kids think that I corner singing. When did that happen? Now I
the market on nutty behavior. My kids have the kids who have dvar Torahs —
think that I am the only one who asks and not even ones that are written for
questions about “who is going out with them. They are the ones who come up
who?” Or “Did you know that so and so with them and share them voluntarily!
did something or other?” They think When did that happen? I try to follow
that I am the only one that stalks peo- what they are saying. I really do. Some-
ple on Facebook, I am the only one who times I can ask an intelligent question
watches peoples’ instasto- based on their words,
ries, that I am the only one but sometimes I look at
who does anything ques- them and wonder who
tionable. They give me a their real parents are. Across Down
lot of power. Apparently Son #1 is a big fan 1. First group to get invites 1. Jacobson of “Broad City”
6. Big bang maker, informally 2. “Doctor Zhivago” lady
they need to get out more. of Passover, not only
11. Optic night activity 3. Celebrity couple, slangily
But they are adorable, and because of the dvar 14. They’re drawn 4. It’s said that it’s not the Jews that
I love them. Torahs, but because he 15. Gossip spreader keep it, but that it keeps the Jews
So we are watching these gets to eat his two favor- 16. Momentous period 5. Shaming sound
YouTube videos and they ite foods, flanken and 17. Converses, at a meal 6. Eco-car
are really, really funny. sponge cake. I am not 19. Noodge 7. Stern College campus name
20. A metrical unit 8. Total sons of Dan in the Torah
Matzah, for example. “It’s Banji really sure what part of
21. “Her ways ___ ways of pleasant- 9. HS north of 7-Down
too crunchy.” “It’s too Ganchrow the cow flanken is from, ness” (Prov. 3:17) 10. Boy Scouts’ rewards
soggy.” “This piece isn’t big but it is very popular 22. Maverick’s mate, in an 80’s classic 11. Upgrade (project by Herod)
enough.” “This piece is too among men in their 80’s. 24. Developing baby 12. Get rid of
big.” “You paid how much a pound?” Apparently, son #1 is an 85-year-old man 28. Major (Israeli) name at Marvel 13. David go-with
“They charge what a pound?” “When disguised as a 22-year-old. He could eat 31. Haman, e.g. 18. Yemen’s capital (Var.)
32. “___ a stinker?” (Bugs Bunny line) 23. Sounds of awe
was the last time you went to the bath- flanken and sponge cake all the time
33. Biblical talk: Abbr. 25. Kind of acid
room???” Drinking wine at the seder. It if he could. For some reason, though, 34. Cholov ___ 26. Jezabel might have worshipped
starts with how may ounces must the we save it for Passover. Not sure why it 37. Exclamation from Ebenezer one
wine cup hold. How do we know if it is works out that way but it does. 38. What some crave this time of year 27. Beau for a doe
four and a half ounces? What happens And there is nothing like coffee cake that can be found in 17, 24, 52, 28. Quatrain scheme, often
if the only cups available are 12 ounces? from the mix. Who cares that it is four and 62-Across 29. Small flask
42. Words before “a rock” or “the 30. Denizen
Or four and a quarter ounces? And times more expensive than a Dun-
walrus” 33. Not med.
then, if the only cup available is a water can Hines cake? Who cares if it takes 43. Not keep a secret 35. Texas ___ M
glass, which is probably 16 ounces, you two boxes to make one 9x13 cake? It 45. Not well 36. Fr. married women
have the question of what is “rove cos”? requires only eggs and water, and there 46. Observe Yom Kippur, perhaps 39. Do Half Dome
Rove cos meaning the greater amount is nothing easier than that. 48. Soaks (up) 40. Plus
of the cup. Is it a little more than half a But Passover, like all Jewish holidays, 50. What hungry people go for 41. Ace Greinke
52. “No problem!” 44. Joan of song
cup? Is it 3/4 of a cup? Is it all but a sip is about traditions and making memo-
55. What many Jews might be sick of 47. Like sandals
left in a cup? Well, if it is your kid drink- ries and not losing your temper. Hope at this point 49. Jerusalem Mount
ing it and they are drinking wine and you were able to do all three, and if not, 56. Screen sharpness, for short 50. Pleasant odors
not grape juice, you want them to drink hope you were able to do the first two. 57. V’Zot HaBerachah, e.g. 51. Direction of American prayers, for
as little as possible. Especially if you are Because there is nothing wrong with 61. “A Wrinkle in Time” director Jews
watching them turn slightly green from losing your temper and my kids think I DuVernay 52. Wow
62. Impractical prospect 53. Prepares
drinking too much. Because they are am the only one who loses it…
66. Variety of Buddhism 54. Doughnut need
drinking from a water glass. Because Happy healthy Passover to all! 67. Down 58. Part of ADA: Abbr.
they insist on drinking the whole cup. 68. Eppes preceder 59. Hard ball
Because, after all, your kids think they Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is a big fan of 69. NYC time zone 60. Tony winner Daly
know more that you do. matzah and cream cheese. And spending 70. Rises dramatically, as a price 63. March 2019 Lyft event, briefly
And then the innocence of the Ma quality time with her three boys. 71. Joseph Lauder’s wife 64. “___ Einai”
Calendar
Interfaith lunch in
Friday Park Ridge: The Julia Yang
april 26 faith leaders of
Congregation B’nai
Shabbat in Jersey Israel in Emerson,
City: Congregation and Temple Beth
B’nai Jacob offers Sholom, the First
“Liberation Shabbat,” Congregational
with music, storytelling, Church, Christ
Susan Wilson
food, and wine, led Lutheran Church, and
by its new rabbi, Pascack Reformed
Bronwen Mullin, 7 p.m. Church, all in Park
176 West Side Ave. Ridge, hold an Kobi Malkin
(201) 435-5725. interfaith “Genesis
and Stewardship”
lunch and learn at
Saturday Pascack Reformed MAY Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood
April 27 hosts its annual Israeli concert in
5
Church Fellowship Hall,
11:30 a.m. 65 Pascack honor of the America-Israel Cultural
Shabbat in Closter: Road. bisrael.com or
Temple Emanu- call (201) 391-4066.
Foundation. It features Israeli pianist
El’s Men’s Club will Shir Semmel, violinist Kobi Malkin, and cellist Julia
participate in the Yang, all students at the Julliard School of Music,
Passover service, that who will play works by Beethoven and Brahms at
includes Yizkor, 9 a.m.
180 Piermont Road. the shul, 3 p.m. AICF supports artistic life in Israel.
(201) 750-9997 or Sponsored by congregant Richard Schnaittacher.
templeemanu-el.com.
Dessert reception with the artists. 475 Grove St.
Moshiach meal in Shir (201) 444-9320 or www.synagogue.org.
Tenafly: Lubavitch on Semmel
the Palisades hosts its
moshiach meal — the
meets for a screening
third meal of the last Dancing in New City:
day, named by the The Nanuet Hebrew
of “A Wing and a
Prayer” followed by a
Thursday
Baal Shem Tov, whose Center Sisterhood discussion led by Boaz may 2
custom it was — at Mark Van Buren hosts and provides Chaim Dvir, 11:30 a.m.
the Chabad House, Courtesy JCCOTP instruction for square, 180 Piermont Road.
6:30 p.m. 11 Harold St. line, and circle dancing, Julia, (201) 750-9997
(201) 871-1152 or www. Meditation retreat 6 p.m. Also 50-50 or vazquez@
chabadlubavitch.org. in Tenafly: Mark raffle, silent auction, templeemanu-el.com.
Van Buren, a yoga, and refreshments.
Sunday meditation, and
mindful living trainer,
411 South Little Tor
Road, off exit 10 Wednesday
april 28 Rabbi Ilana
leads a meditation of the Palisades May 1
retreat, in partnership Schwartzman Parkway, New City,
Benefit walk in with the Graf Center NY. (845) 708-9181 or
Book talk in Mahwah: Challah bake in
Wyckoff: The for Integrative nanuethc.org. Michael Wildes
As part of the “One Hackensack: Chabad
Temple Beth Rishon Medicine at Englewood
Book One Community” of Hackensack
community hosts the
annual Murray Prawer
Health, at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
project sponsored by Tuesday welcomes participants Wildes launches his
book: Englewood’s
the Jewish Federation to bake a challah
Walk, honoring the 12:30-5 p.m. The
of Northern New
April 30 shaped like a key, Mayor Michael Wildes
memory of Cantor Ilan half-day guided launches his new
Jersey, Beth Haverim following a custom
Mamber z”l, during silent retreat teaches book, “Safe Haven in
Shir Shalom offers for the Shabbat after
the shul’s Mitzvah how to incorporate America,” at Salud
“Caught in a Web of Passover, so that the
Day. All funds raised meditation into a daily Café, 6-8 p.m. 23
Hate,” a discussion “gates of livelihood
benefit the NJ Sharing routine. Hagit Tal, W. Palisade Ave.,
about anti-Semitism, and abundance
Network. Registration (201) 408-1477, htal@ Englewood.
with Rabbi Ilana will be opened,”
begins at 9 a.m.; jccotp.org, or jccotp.
Schwartzman. It’s 6:30 p.m. 280 Summit
walk at 10. Breakfast org/meditation. Pre-
based on this year’s Ave. Shterna@
and activities follow. registration required.
book selection, ChabadHackensack.
585 Russell Ave.
“Among the Living” com or (201) 503-3770.
(201) 891-4466.
by Jonathan Rabb,”
1 p.m. 280 Ramapo Program for seniors
Valley Road. Dessert. in Closter: Hazak
(201) 794-1017. at Temple Emanu-El
Calendar
Be silent,” performed
Friday by the haZamir Choir.
wolf dermashkin
Singles
May 3 was a rising star
Sunday
begin at 7:15 p.m. a special education school and autism and clarinetist Diana Petrella. The free concert with
YCS is a leading provider of behavioral learning center, to an array of communi- music by Johannes Brahms, includesg the Trio for
health services for children with special ty-based programs aimed at promoting Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Sonatensatz for Violin
needs. The private, nonprofit organi- healthy parent-child relationships. For and Piano, and the Quintet for Piano and Strings.
zation’s diverse programs range from more information, go to ycs.org. A reception will follow. For more information, go to
jccotp.org/Thurnauer or call (201) 408-1465. Steven Masi
Wealthy Luxembourg
is Western Europe’s
last Holocaust deadbeat
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ employees. It consistently tops Europe’s
chart of gross domestic product per cap-
When Luxembourg assumed the chair- ita with $114,000. That’s four times the
manship of the world’s foremost interna- European average and 36 percent higher
tional Holocaust remembrance task force, than Switzerland, the list’s runner-up.
its government pledged energetic action. Banking secrecy and laws in Luxem-
“We have to act. We have to mobilize. bourg “make it impossible to know what
We have to go against” revisionism and we lost,” said Marcel Salomon, a native of
indifference, George Santer, Luxem- the country who survived the Holocaust
bourg’s ambassador to the International as a boy because his family obtained
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said visas to the Dominican Republic. Holocaust survivor Marcel Kahn plays the harmonica at a Holocaust com-
in a statement last month about his coun- The fact that Luxembourg is a major memoration in Luxembourg on January 27, 2016. JWH/WIKMEDIA COMMONS
try’s assumption of the rotating chair- banking hub seems to be connected to the
manship of that task force of 32 nations. country’s apparent difficulty in reforming government, and there’s a bill in parlia- Salomon, was a Polish immigrant who
Nearly two months on, though, Lux- its restitution laws, Artuso said. ment to resolve this,” Yazdgerdi told the opened a successful shoe repair shop in
embourg still makes it harder than any Luxembourg Times during his visit. Luxembourg after 1930. He was never
other Western European nation for The working group’s establishment naturalized “because becoming a citi-
Jews to reclaim property and assets lost is a “breakthrough,” said Taylor, the zen was impossible,” his son said. Before
under the Nazis. head of the world restitution group. He fleeing, the father managed to convert
Critics say the country’s laws make Luxembourg also said that Luxembourg was “a vic- much of the family’s cash into diamonds.
even applying for restitution impossi-
ble for most of the Jews who had lived
still makes it tim nation” of Nazi occupation, despite
some collaboration. For now, the res-
“But we have no idea what remained
in the banking and insurance companies,
there during World War II and their harder than any titution issue is “an ongoing injustice,” and the real estate,” Salomon, 84, said.
descendants.
The controversy is rooted in a 1950
other Western according to Karin Meyer, a member of
Luxembourg’s Jewish community whose
The Salomons fled Luxembourg soon
after the Nazis invaded in May 1940.
law that restricts restitution eligibility European open letter last year to her government They boarded a train to Portugal, but
to citizens and some “stateless persons”
who immigrated to the tiny country
nation for Jews triggered a parliamentary query. It did
not result in change, as the government
were detained in Spain and sent back to
France. At the age of 5, Salomon spent
before 1931. Unique in the continent’s to reclaim reiterated its position against reform. days on end in the train with his parents
west, Luxembourg’s restitution law But it focused the attention of local and dozens of other Jews, unable to exit
excludes about 75 percent of about property and media on the problem. a carriage that quickly became flooded
4,000 Jews who had lived there before
the Nazi invasion of 1940.
assets lost “Betrayed by a neighbor to the Nazis in
1940, my grandparents and great-grand-
with urine and excrement.
“A woman and her baby had died
“This law is certainly unusual among under the Nazis. parents lost everything: their painting during childbirth in the wagon,” he
Luxembourg’s neighbors,” said Vincent business, their apartment, their furni- recalled. “Their bodies were left in the
Artuso, a Paris-based historian. “The issue here is likely not about ture and equipment, their money and wagon for days until the Germans let us
In 2015, Artuso published a damn- returning the money and properties of possessions, and their dignity,” Meyer take it out.”
ing report on the collaboration of Lux- a few hundred Jews,” he said. “The con- wrote. Their money “remains stashed Salomon said the conditions aboard
embourg’s authorities with the Nazis. cern, I think, is that a review of what away in mysterious dormant accounts the train were so horrid that the Jews on
Whereas other Western European happened to Jewish property would in Luxembourg banks.” it were relieved to be taken from Spain
nations reformed their restitution laws open up to scrutiny the absorbing of Santer, the ambassador to the IHRA, into Nazi-occupied France.
by the 1990s, “Luxembourg’s remained funds from countless dormant accounts did not reply to the Jewish Telegraphic Trailing most other Western Euro-
the same,” he said. into the banking industry. It could start Agency’s request for comment on this pean nations by about two decades,
This means that Luxembourg “is the an avalanche.” issue, referring it to the Prime Minister’s Luxembourg in 2015 finally apologized
only country in Western Europe with That very reason led other banking Office, which did not respond. officially for its authorities’ collaboration
major, unaddressed restitution issues,” powers, including Belgium and Swit- Artuso said the amount of money in rounding up Jews to be murdered.
according to Gideon Taylor, the chair zerland, to resist scrutiny of their han- stolen from Jews and absorbed into It was part of a broader change that
of operations of the World Jewish Res- dling of Jewish-owned property for Luxembourg’s national wealth is followed the formation in 2013 of a
titution Organization. (Taylor will speak many years until they finally relented, unknown “because there is no political left-leaning coalition headed by Prime
locally for Yom haShoah; see the story incurring billions in losses. “Luxem- will to find out.” Minister Bettel (he’s also Luxembourg’s
on page 24.) bourg’s restitution laws will also have to Luxembourg’s 1950 law seems to have first openly gay head of state). It ended a
At stake are hundreds of real estate change,” Artuso said. been designed specifically to bar refu- decades-long hold on power by the cen-
properties in Luxembourg City, one of There are signs that the issue already gees from seeking restitution, he said. ter-right Social Democrat Party, “and
Europe’s most beautiful capitals and is changing. Specifically the stipulation that bars there was a feeling of wanting to do the
expensive cities. But even that may be In February, Luxembourg agreed to people who came to Luxembourg after right thing and speak the truth on the
dwarfed by the money locked in dormant set up a working group that would exam- 1930 from seeking restitution “speaks Holocaust,” the historian Artuso said.
or stolen funds lost in Luxembourg’s ine restitution issues following a meeting for itself,” Artuso said. Predating Adolf But, over time, “it became apparent
opaque banking sector — the leading between its prime minister, Xavier Bet- Hitler’s rise to power by two years, it that the good will extended to saying the
industry in this nation of 500,000 that’s tel, and the U.S. special envoy for Holo- excludes at least 2,000 Jews who fled right thing,” he said. “It was not enough
about the size of Rhode Island. caust issues, Tom Yazdgerdi. “There’s to Luxembourg after 1933, doubling the to carry over into action and material
Luxembourg has about 140 banks with specifically issues with dormant bank country’s Jewish population. compensation.”
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