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Hebrew language academy
approves 1,400 new words
l The Academy of the Hebrew Language has
published a list of 1,400 new words and phrases
it recently approved. Many of them formalized
legal terms that used to rely on English.
Among the phrases approved was the Hebrew
“hatara lefee hahok” meaning “permitted under
law” instead of the English word “legalization,”
and the Hebrew for “illegally obtained evidence,”
“rayaa habaa b’avera.” That Talmud-inspired
phrase replaces a Bible-inspired phrase meaning
“fruit of the poisonous tree,” an idiom borrowed
from American law.
For the last 30 years, the academy’s Commit-
tee for Legal Terms has worked on the dictionary
to which these new words were added. The com-
mittee includes legal experts, including Supreme
Court justices.
Other phrases approved for use were the He-
brew for “temporary fees” — “s’char tirha iti” — in-
stead of the English word “retainer,” which looks
odd when it’s written out in Hebrew. The Hebrew
term “ta’agid hakuk” — literally, “corporate body”
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— replaces the clumsy “tagid statutory.” (Tagid
is the Hebrew word for corporation.)
The academy also endorsed some new He-
brew phrases, such as words for a legal state-
ment (“amara”), a train-turning device (“sove-
van”), a vending machine (“mehonat mimkar”),
and an ecosystem (“ma’arechet gomlin”), the
Hebrew for “reciprocal system.”
There also was a specific phrase added, at
the request of environment activists, for the
waste product of the process of extracting oil
from olives, which has been polluting rivers in
the central region of the country. The new term,
“mohal,” has its origins in talmudic texts.
The academy also approved new names for
various scorpions and spiders, among them
some species of opiliones, commonly known as
“daddy long legs.” STUART WINER/TIMES OF ISRAEL

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Candlelighting: In October, for example, a Palestinian reporter
Friday, June 21, 8:13 p.m. speaking on the official Palestinian Authority TV the fried balls made out of fava beans, and then spread
Shabbat ends: claimed that Israel has launched a “brutal attack on to the eastern Mediterranean. Its name derives from a
Saturday, June 22, 9:22 p.m. Palestinian heritage, including Palestinian foods,” cit- Levantine Arabic word. Most Middle Eastern countries
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On the cover: From left, Rabbi David Google notes that “falafel has been enjoyed for cen- The world’s largest falafel, according to Guinness
Wizder; Leigh Nacht, carrying a turies in many different cultures,” and adds that “Israel
Torah; past Beth El president Marty
World Records, weighing in at 164.8 pounds and mea-
has a song to celebrate its love affair with the tried- suring 59.8 inches tall, was fried for 25 minutes at the
Kasdan, wearing a yellow vest; and and-true treat, entitled ‘And We Have Falafel.’”
Jarred Cohen, carrying another Torah. Landmark Hotel in Amman, Jordan, in 2012.
Falafel is believed to have originated in Egypt, with LARRY YUDELSON
They’re all from Beth El, on their way
to the future at Kol Dorot.

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Noshes “The Bahrain gathering has

been downgraded from a
conference to a workshop to a
course at Trump University.”
— Haaretz reporter Allison K. Sommer on Twitter

THE FOURTH VERSION:

Tom Hanks still

toying around…
The animated Potato Head’s voice. would write about her string of hit Day
film “Toy Story She’s best known Jewish connections. comedy movies that
4” opened in theaters as Mrs. Costanza in Here goes: Born Doris lasted until 1965.
on Friday, June 21. “Seinfeld.” The late Kapelhoff, Day was the In 1951, Day mar-
Tom Hanks again DON RICKLES voices granddaughter of ried her agent, Mar-
voices Woody, the Mr. Potato Head. In his German Catholic ty Melcher, who was
cowboy toy who is the memoir, Rickles said immigrants. Biogra- born into an Orthodox
star and hero of the that his young grand- phers report that her Jewish family. Both
whole series. Woody children, ETHAN and parents’ frequent Day and Melcher knew
has many new adven- HARRISON MANN, anti-Semitic remarks that they were drink-
tures, including taking were more impressed upset her. Their bigoted ing and smoking too
the whole toy gang on by his role as Mr. attitudes weren’t hers. much. Not long after
a long family road trip. Potato Head than by Rashida Jones Randy Newman Day first became they wed they took the
There’s also a sweet anything else he ever famous as a singer. now-strange decision
side-story about did. The screen credits From 1945 through the to become Christian
Woody meeting up of “Toy Story 4” dedi- early ’60s she had a Scientists and use
with his long-lost cate the film to Rickles. number of chart-top- the religion to give
friend Bo Peep, a MEL BROOKS, 92, as ping hits that were up these bad habits.
porcelain figurine. the voice of Melephant written or co-written by Today, there are many
RASHIDA JONES, 43, Brooks. CARL REINER, Jewish songwriters. therapy options for
is billed above all but 97, as the voice of Carl (They included “Senti- bad habits. But back
one of the movie’s Reineroceros. And mental Journey,” then, Christian Science
eight credited writers. JEFF GARLIN, 57, as “Embraceable You,” was one of the few
That indicates that she the voice of a unicorn “It’s Magic,” “Secret places that seemed
had a big hand in called Buttercup. I Love,” and “Que Sera, to offer answers for
writing this film. can’t think of another Sera.”) From 1948 to addicts. However, the
RANDY NEWMAN, 75, film, animated or not, Wallace Shawn Harvey Keitel 1958, Day appeared faith comes with a
wrote the musical in which three Jewish mostly in musical films, price: Believers basical-
score and songs. He actors over 90 appear. gangster BENJAMIN Gangsters” (2000). but she was able to ly are instructed not to
has written the music HARVEY KEITEL, (BUGSY)” SIEGEL, a The new film is direct- remake her screen go to medical doctors.
for all four “Toy Story” 80, will play MEYER close friend of Lansky’s. ed by Robert’s son, image when musicals’ Day and Melcher paid
movies and won an LANSKY (1902-1982) The new film will cover EYTAN, 30ish, who was popularity faded. She that price. Day waited
Oscar in 2011 for a in a biopic about the the latter part of Lan- born in New York, grew got the lead in “Pillow so long to see a doctor
“Toy Story 3” song. famous Jewish gang- sky’s life and is based, up in Israel, served in Talk” (1958), a clever hit for what turned out to
The large voice cast ster that begins filming in part, on interviews the IDF, and then went comedy that was a bit be a benign tumor that
includes these Jewish in August. Lansky is a he gave in 1973 to to New York University, risqué for its time. It she had to have a hys-
thespians: WALLACE familiar screen char- ROBERT ROCKAWAY, where he got a degree was co-written by terectomy when she
SHAWN, 75, as the acter. The gangster now 80. Rockaway in filmmaking. STANLEY SHAPIRO was 33. Melcher waited
voice of a dinosaur character Hyman Roth is professor emeritus and directed by so long to see a doctor
named Rex. Shawn in “The Godfather, Part at Tel Aviv Universi- The Doris Day MICHAEL GORDON that his heart became
now has a regular role II” was based on him, ty, and the author of connection (the grandfather of so oversized that there
on “Young Sheldon” as and he was a promi- “But He Was Good to Shortly after actor JOSEPH was no treatment,
Dr. Sturgis. ESTELLE nent character in the His Mother: The Lives Doris Day died GORDON-LEVITT, 38). then, to help him. He
HARRIS, 91, as Mrs. film “Bugsy,” about and Crimes of Jewish last month at 97, I said I “Pillow Talk” began a died in 1968 at 52. –N.B.

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‘Not vaccinating is not a Torah value’
As measles outbreak continues, community works
to understand and counter anti-vaxxer arguments
Joanne Palmer

A
s of last week, there were 266 confirmed
cases of measles in Rockland County.
According to the county’s health depart-
ment, they’re “presently clustered in east-
ern Ramapo (New Square, Spring Valley, Monsey).”
Those are chasidic enclaves.
Although it is not only fair but also necessary to say
that most right-wing Orthodox Jews — and even most
chasidic and charedi Jews — vaccinate their children,
just as most other Jews, from the centrist Orthodox to
the farthest left Reform Jews do — and just like most
other Americans do.
It is also not only fair but also necessary to say that
parents who decide not to vaccinate their children love
their children and work to provide them with what they
think they need. Their decision not to vaccinate their
children is not based on lack of care or love.
But it still can lead them to disaster. Because it’s
been so long since the disease was almost eradicated,
people forget how deadly it could be. Most people sur-
vive unharmed, but some are gravely affected, and
some die.
And it’s back.
Dr. Alan Kadish of Teaneck, the president of Touro
College, worries that although the number of cases
sounds low, it continues to rise. “It seems to be con-
tained, in that it is not yet reaching epidemic propor-
tions,” he said. “We hope it won’t reach that level. The
efforts that have been underway have managed to con-
trol it to some extent.
“That is good news. Nonetheless, there still remains
a stubborn anti-vaccine movement that is continuing to
try to discourage people from vaccination.”
An anti-vaxx rally in Monsey on May 13 drew a large
crowd; another, in Brooklyn, on June 4, drew fewer
people. Both rallies featured big names in the anti-vac-
cination movement; the one in Monsey included a
Skyped interview with Andrew Wakefield, the Brit-
ish ex-doctor whose medical license was revoked in
response to his paper, which purported to show that
the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine given to young
children caused autism but later was proven to be not
only incorrect but also fraudulent. Del Bigtree, another
famous anti-vaxxer who is a film and television pro-
ducer by trade, spoke in Brooklyn.
Although there were some notable charedi and cha-
sidic anti-vaxx speakers in Monsey, neither Wakefield
nor Bigtree is Jewish.
“The rally in Brooklyn supposedly attracted few peo-
ple, partly because there was an aggressive campaign
to discredit the speakers,” Dr. Kadish said. “There also
were ads taken out in some outlets read by the com-
munity saying that if you attend the rally, you will be
photographed, and the pictures will be placed online.”
This is doxxing — putting someone’s private informa-
tion online, thus allowing opponents to harass him or
her not only virtually but offline as well. It is evidence of
Dr. Ira Bedzow Rabbi Larry Rothwachs
There still remains a
stubborn anti-vaccine
movement that is
continuing to try to
discourage people
from vaccination.
how the question of vaccination has roiled the charedi
and chassidic communities, Dr. Kadish suggested. “This
shows how strongly people feel that this anti-vaccina-
tion movement is dangerous, and could possibly lead
both to severe illness and to a negative effect on the
community, particularly in a city where the number of
anti-Semitic episodes are increasing,” he said.
The rally was strong medicine for the anti-vaxx
crowd, he said. “I was not at the rally, but I heard
about it.
“What I heard was that there were a lot of crazy
things discussed, including alleging that the measles
outbreak is a Nazi plot by Bayer and Merck,” the drug
companies. “And then there was Del Bigtree, who said
crazy stuff, including the debunked idea that vaccines
cause autism and diabetes, that they are harmful, and
that doctors are untrustworthy and unreliable.”
Dr. Kadish pointed to a study released earlier this
year, and online on the Annals of Internal Medicine,
that looked at “657,461 children born in Denmark from
1999 through 31 December 2010, with follow-up from 1
year of age and through 31 August 2013.”
Its conclusion, like the conclusion of other, simi-
lar, but smaller studies, should be definitive, he said.
This is how it reads: “The study strongly supports
Dr. Alan Kadish
that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for
autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible chil-
dren, and is not associated with clustering of autism
cases after vaccination. It adds to previous studies
through significant additional statistical power and
by addressing hypotheses of susceptible subgroups
and clustering of cases.”
“This unequivocally shows that this crazy idea” —
that MMR vaccines cause autism — “clearly is not true,”
Dr. Kadish said. “The analogy I use is that probably 250
million Americans were in a car yesterday, and today a
few dozen people were diagnosed with brain cancer.
That doesn’t mean that the car caused the cancer.”
In fact, he added, as just about everyone who knows
about the relationship between autism and vaccination
does, autism usually manifests in young children coin-
cidentally at the time when they are vaccinated. Cor-
relation is no causation.
But he worries about the effect of so many people
who are so visibly Jewish refusing vaccinations. “The
Jewish community is being blamed for the measles out-
break,” he said. “This is clearly a dangerous time, and
while I see the outbreak of measles being contained, I
think that it will be harder to contain the outbreak of
anti-Semitism.”
Ira Bedzow is an assistant professor of medicine at
New York College, which is part of the Touro College
and University System, and he’s the director of its
medical ethics program. His academic credentials —
a Ph.D. in religion from Emory, a master’s degree in
Jewish studies from Touro and another master’s, this
one in humanities, from the University of Chicago,
all built on the B.A. in political science he earned at
Princeton, as well as Orthodox ordination in Israel
— leave him well if not uniquely situated to under-
stand why the ultra-Orthodox communities include
so many anti-vaxxers.
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Local

‘Mikvah the Musical’

Israeli women’s theater troupe to play in Teaneck … no men allowed
LARRY YUDELSON “The Mikvah Monologues,” a collec-

“
L
et’s put on a play, so we
won’t sit around think-
ing about people being
killed on the roads,”
Toby Klein Greenwald remembers say-
ing, back in 2001
It was the height of the Second Inti-
fada, and Ms. Greenwald, who lives in
the West Bank town of Efrat, set out
licensing, casting, and directing per-
formances of “Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat” in the Gush
Etzion community center.
Thus was born Raise Your Spirits The-
ater, which followed up “Joseph” with
original Bible-based musicals that Ms.
Greenwald wrote. They had titles like
“Esther and the Secrets in the King’s
Court” and “Ruth and Naomi in the
Fields of Bethlehem.”
Members of Raise Your Spirits Theater during a recent performance of
“Mikvah the Musical.”
The theater’s newest play, “Mikvah
the Musical,” which breaks that mold, is
playing in Teaneck next week for women
only. (See box.) The show started off as
tion of stories about Orthodox wom-
en’s experiences using the ritual bath
to mark both the end of their menstrual
cycles and the monthly halachically
mandated abstinence from sexual rela-
tions. Ms. Greenwald’s co-producer,
Myra Gutterman, started the project,
and they worked on it together, off and
on, for more than a dozen years.
“We were sitting in a coffee shop and
she said something and I looked at her
and said, ‘This sounds like a lyric.’ I had
just gotten a CD of ‘Menopause: The
Musical.’ I looked at her and said: ‘Mik-
vah: The Musical.’
“We added songs. ‘Popular’ from
‘Wicked’ became ‘Purify. I’m going to
teach you to get purified.’ We integrated
the songs. It’s not a cohesive play. It’s a
collection of stories and songs.”
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from page 11
The chasidim and charedim who do
not vaccinate their children do not do
so because of a conflict of values, but
because they do not believe that vaccina-
tions will protect their children. “They
suspect the evidence that vaccines are
good,” Dr. Bedzow said. “It speaks to a
larger issue in terms of their trust in the
reliability of science and the scientific
community. You see this not only with
vaccination, but also with the increase
in the use of alternative and complemen-
tary medicine in those communities.”
What? Really? There is?
“Yes,” Dr. Bedzow said. “There have
been a number of books that came out
recently both in support of and in crit-
icism of complementary medicine. A
book came out about two years ago
called ‘Alternative Medicine and Hala-
cha.’” (It’s by Rabbi Rephoel Szmerla of
Lakewood, and it’s generally in favor of
some alternative practices.)
There are always complicated ques-
tions “about the efficacy of medicine
in general, and about the source of
medical intervention.” In the Jewish
world, the Talmud and rabbinic deci-
sors offered ways to look at them. There
are three basic principles, Dr. Bedzow
said. You cannot go to a spiritual healer
who is idolatrous; “that would rule out
non-Jewish healers working in the name
of their god or gods.” Next, if you do go
to a healer who is not Jewish, but “says
nothing about religion and is not doing
anything in the name of his god, and if
the healing works,” no problem. “You
consider it as medicine.” And “if the
procedure is natural, and there is cause
and effect” — if it makes sense — “you
don’t have to worry about what the
healer says or does, because the healing
will be attributed to general causes. So
it doesn’t matter if an idolater is heal-
ing you, because the patient knows
the healing is based on science, but if
you don’t know why it works, and you
can’t attribute it to science, then there
is a concern that you can be drawn
into improper beliefs through spiri-
tual healing.”
So it’s complicated. You can trust
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So in today’s complicated
medical environment, when
people have to defer
to experts in general, then okay,
do we trust that expert
in explaining facts and
causation, or do we not?
natural and therefore acceptable, or you
cannot. You can attribute something to
science — or not. First you might have
to define science. If you can’t, then the
entire thing is off limits.
“So in today’s complicated medi-
cal environment, when people have to
defer to experts in general, then okay,
do we trust that expert in explaining
facts and causation, or do we not?” Dr.
Bedzow asked rhetorically. “That’s why
the politics of vaccination has gone the
way it has.”
Members of the charedi and chasidic
community are against vaccinations, in
other words, because they find the val-
ues of the scientists who provide them
to be antithetical to Torah values. “Indi-
viduals and communities hold their
own truths, where empirical data is
understood given the value-lens through
which people interpret it,” Dr. Bedzow
wrote in an email. “Because it is per-
ceived by certain charedi groups that
the values held by those with a scientific
worldview to be antithetical to a Torah
outlook, even scientific findings, and not
simply policies or treatments based on
those findings, are seen by them to be
contrary to a Torah outlook.
“It is, therefore, not the case that they
are simply misinformed. Rather, it is a sit-
uation where the information cannot be
trusted due to ad hominem concerns.”
So why does the community listen to
people like Wakefield and Bigtree, who
are absolute outsiders? “When they
bring non-Jews who do not have the
same core worldview, they are not trust-
ing the positive part of what they are say-
ing,” Dr. Bedzow said. “They are saying
that we both agree not to trust the other
guy.” The enemy of my enemy is my
friend. “But once you say that, you real-
ize that vaccinations now have become
a litmus test.”
How do you fix this?
“It’s not useful to approach it by say-
ing ‘I am right and you are wrong,’” Dr.
Bedzow said; that’s an approach that’s
rarely useful anywhere. “People become
defensive. But if you can understand the
source of the disagreement, then it’s eas-
ier to get to that source. If the disagree-
ment is about trusting the source of the
authorities providing the evidence, that
has to be a part of the conversation.”
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs talked about
vaccination in his Shavuot sermon at
his shul, Congregation Beth Aaron in
Teaneck. “I started with the conclu-
sion and worked my way back to it,”
he said. “And the conclusion is that the
concept of a religious exception from
vaccination for someone who is claim-
ing to represent a Torah perspective is
an oxymoron.
“There is no halachic argument that
can be made that an otherwise healthy
child somehow should not be vacci-
nated. That was where we started.”
Of course, the argument is compli-
cated. “When it comes to any Torah dis-
cussion, there are a range of views, and
matters are complex,” Rabbi Rothwachs
said. “We focused on different angles
— the importance of maintaining your
health, from a Torah perspective, and
what to do in a situation with potential
conflicts. If someone has to to undergo
a treatment where there are risks, Torah
law addresses how we are to determine
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what those risks are, and how a person
is required to act.
“In this case, though, the conversa-
tion is more theoretical, because the
overwhelming consensus is that the risk
of vaccinating a child is relatively minor
— sometimes some swelling, rashes,
maybe a fever — and the benefits both to
the child and to the whole community
are extraordinary.”
Doctors are experts in this field, Rabbi
Rothwachs said, and their counsel is to
be followed. “The Torah says we are to
take care of ourselves. How do we define
that? It’s what the doctors tell us to do.
“My understanding is that over 99
percent of Western doctors vaccinate.
There are people who claim to be sci-
entists who say that the earth is flat, or
that the moon landing was a hoax. There
are people with a history in the defense
department who say that 9/11 was an
internal job. There always are people
who despite their experience and knowl-
edge may be prone to conspiracy theo-
ries, but you would be hard pressed to
find more than a handful of doctors who
are against vaccination, even if you were
to spend many days driving from one
community to the next. We have moved
beyond that as a community.”
Anti-vaxxers are not a problem in
Beth Aaron, Rabbi Rothwachs said. “If
there are any members of my commu-
nity who have made the decision not to
vaccinate their children, I am entirely
unaware of it, and it would surprise me.
“But I spoke about it on Shavuot
because I wanted to make it absolutely
clear, despite what you hear, that there is
no basis in Torah law to say that vaccina-
tion is anything other than a good thing.
And it’s not just a good thing, it is one of
the most consequential medical develop-
ments in modern times. So I want to reas-
sure anybody who needs reassurance that
despite the fact that there are some Jews
who are carrying the banner of Torah law,
tradition, and halacha to say that vaccina-
tion is wrong, and we don’t do it, there
are no reputable poseks who maintains
this position. None.
“A rabbi can have a long beard and
payes and he can say whatever he wants,
but his long beard and his payes do not
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Who decides?
Medical ethicists will meet at Hackensack Chabad
LARRY YUDELSON
H
ow do you make the tough decisions when
it comes to medical care?
That’s the question that’s at the heart of
the field of medical ethics. Next Thursday,
the Hackensack University Medical Center is holding a
discussion of medical ethics at the Chabad of Hacken-
sack. (See box.)
Among the participants: Dr. Hannah I. Lipman, the
director of bioethics at Hackensack University Medical
Center, and Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman, an emergency
room physician at Montefiore Medical Center in the
Bronx and a teacher of Jewish bioethics at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University.
For Rabbi Reichman, the field of medical eth-
ics allows him to combine his medical and rabbinic
interests.
He is not, he said, a posek, someone who decides
difficult questions of Jewish law. But he consults with
rabbis who do make those decisions.
“I’ll get calls from rabbis who say they have a patient
with a particular issue,” he said. “They might want me
to clarify the medical situation for them, or they could
want me to clarify the halachic issues. Not every local
Orthodox rabbi is familiar with medical halacha in a
rapidly evolving field.”
When patients call looking for rabbinic guidance,
he’ll tell them “what Jewish law has to say in general
about the issue. Sometimes I’ll be the go-between for
the patient and the posek.”
Sometimes, he said, Jewish law will demand a differ-
ent course of action than standard medical practice in
the hospital.
“At the end of life, disconnecting respirators is not
uncommon,” he said. “That is something I would not
personally be involved in, due to religious objections
to such a procedure. There are scenarios where Jewish
law might require treatment in theory for patients with
a particular disease who have no specific terminal prog-
nosis but would prefer to die.”
Not that Jewish law speaks with one voice.
“Whether brain death is an acceptable definition of
death in the eye of halacha remains an international
debate,” Rabbi Reichman said.
DNA sequencing has sparked new halachic discus-
sions, he said.
“The use of DNA for identifying people came to the
forefront with 9/11,” he said. “Is DNA evidence sufficient
in halacha, which works on testimony? There were a
number of men who tragically died in the World Trade
Center. The only evidence of their deaths was a small
remnant of the body from which DNA could be identi-
fied. Does a halachic court accept that DNA as sufficient
What: “From Before Life Until After Death:
Medical Ethics and Jewish Law in Conversation”
When: Thursday, June 27, 5:30-7 p.m.
Where: Chabad of Hackensack, 280 Summit Ave.,
Hackensack
How much: Free, but advance registration at
EthicsConversation.com required.
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Dr. Hannah Lipman Rabbi Dr. Edward
Reichman
evidence that the individual died for their widow to
remarry? It had never been discussed in Jewish history.”
The acceptance of DNA evidence to help widows
remarry carries a flip side. “If a DNA test reveals a man
is not the father of his child, is that sufficient to ren-
der the child a mamzer,” unable to marry other Jews?
“The questions have different answers under different
scenarios.”
If much of Rabbi Reichman’s job as a Jewish medical
ethicist involves connecting patients to Jewish religious
authorities, Dr. Lipman sees her task as a hospital eth-
icist as helping connect doctors and caregivers to the
values of their patients.
The classic foundational principals of medical ethics,
she said, include “the obligation to act for the benefit
of the patient. The obligation to minimize harm to the
patient. The obligation to honor the choices of a capa-
ble patient.” Sometimes, a patient needs help thinking
through the choices.
“When somebody is hospitalized, the expectation is
that whatever they have can be cured or stabilized and
their symptoms can be made better,” she said. “People
are looking for a cure or life prolongation. The ethical
issues may arise when those outcomes are not achiev-
able. Then you have to start weighing competing goals.
That’s where people’s values impact what medical
choices they would make.
“Given the diagnosis of an illness, one patient
might choose to undergo treatment to prolong his
life, and another patient might look at the burden of
the treatment and say that’s too much, it’s not worth
it. Both might be medically reasonable decisions. It’s
the patient’s choice on how to prioritize what’s most
important. Ethics may help patients sort through their
values.”
But, too often, the patient isn’t able to directly com-
municate his or her choices. In those cases, the eth-
ics consultation has to help figure out what the patient
would want.
“I would promote dialogue and empathy for the peo-
ple involved,” Dr. Lipman said. “Often a dilemma arises
when communication is not open or complete. I would
look to fill out the features of the patient’s story, and also
the story of their family, the people who love the patient.
“What is the story of how this problem has evolved?
How has it come to a place where people aren’t sure
what is the right thing to do?
“Looking at the features of an unfolding story is a
useful lens. During a hospitalization we only see one
small snapshot of a person’s whole life and illness expe-
rience. We need to broaden the lens to understand the
context of an illness to a patient. It’s important to know
the framework people come from. The religious frame-
work, and not only religious. Also their spiritual frame
and what’s meaningful to them.”
While there’s no way to guarantee that you’ll be con-
scious and competent throughout your hospital stay,
you can make the decision-making process on your
behalf much easier by setting up an advance directive,
Dr. Lipman said.
There are two types of directives. One is an instruc-
tion directive, sometimes called a living will, that indi-
cates what kind of treatments you’d want under what
circumstances. Dr. Lipman recommends that people
with a serious illness consider an instruction directive.
For most people, though, it’s more important to com-
plete a proxy directive, which appoints a person and
perhaps an alternate to make the medical decisions.
“Everyone can face a sudden illness, where they
can’t make their own decisions,” she said. “It’s import-
ant for clinicians to know who should speak on their
behalf. Without a proxy directive, a decision-maker is
usually designated based on the assumption that most
people want their closest family members, spouses, or
children or siblings to make decisions. But many people
want somebody who is different than who we think is
the spokesperson. In those cases, they definitely should
formalize their choice in a proxy directive. Telling the
doctors who to speak to for you means the person can
respond to the facts as they become available, and can
work with the clinical team in making decisions on
their behalf.
“An ethics consultation may be scheduled when
it’s not clear who is the ethically appropriate deci-
sion-maker within disagreeing families. Many families
make their decisions by consensus. Sometimes there
may be a disagreement among the patient’s loved ones.
Differing perspectives on what the right thing to do is
an ethicist’s bread and butter. We also get called when
there’s a disagreement between the clinical team and
the patient’s family about what the right thing to do
is. We seek to understand what underlies those differ-
ences in order to reach consensus. It’s really important
to be able to help people over their crisis points and
make decisions,” she said.
“Where Hannah and I would differ is in how much of
a role does an individual’s wishes have to play in end-
of-life decision making,” Rabbi Reichman said. “In the
secular world, the patient’s wishes are paramount, and
will in most cases be respected. In the world of halacha,
there would be cases where the patient would request
something and the halacha wouldn’t be able to accept
the request. Like assisted suicide, which is forbidden.”
That said, while Jewish law wants the final word in its
adherents’ decision, there is no singular Jewish law on
many of medical issues.
“There is a landscape of positions,” Rabbi Reichman
said. “You ask a different posek, you’ll get a different
answer. Different people rule differently.
“At the end of life, you have poskim who would allow
you to sign a Do Not Resuscitate order and allow the
withholding of certain treatments. Other poskim main-
tain that all treatments should be given at all times.”
For that reason, some Orthodox Jews put the name of
their rabbis on the proxy document. “The other option
is that family members be your health care proxy, and
either tell them specifically on the proxy or tell them
orally which rabbi you want to make the decisions,”
Rabbi Reichman said.
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Guardian of Zion Natan Sharansky, center, and Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein, right, join former Soviet refuseniks and their families. 
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
From Prisoner of Zion to Guardian of Zion
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
T
he evening began with fine
wine, itty-bitty hors d’oeu-
vres, and t wo religious
women playing harp and flute
on the back patio of Jerusalem’s legend-
ary King David Hotel.
Below us, hotel guests swam languid
laps in a cool blue pool, surrounded by
lush lawns.
Crunching on crudités, I scanned the
gathering crowd for the guest of honor,
Natan Sharansky, and his wife, Avital,
two of my personal heroes. Warm and
unassuming as ever, the Sharanskys cir-
culated around the patio, greeting one
and all. Even those guests, like us, whom
they barely knew.
My invitation to this gala event, in cel-
ebration of Mr. Sharansky receiving the
2019 Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-
Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Cen-
ter for Jerusalem Studies, was bestowed
as a press privilege.
What can anyone write about the Sha-
ranskys that hasn’t been written before?
I was struck most by the contrasts.
The contrast between the Soviet
prison cells where Anatoly Sharansky
endured nearly nine years of mental
and physical suffering and the opulent
landmark hotel where about 300 peo-
ple, including Mayor Moshe Lion and
Speaker of the Knesset Yuli Edelstein
— a fellow former refusenik — came to
honor Natan Sharansky while enjoying
gourmet kosher cuisine beneath glitter-
ing chandeliers.
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From left, Professor Joshua Schwartz, the director of the Ingeborg Rennert
Center for Jerusalem Studies; Natan Sharansky; Ingeborg Rennert, founder
of the Ingeborg Rennert Center; and Bar-Ilan University president Professor
Arie Zaban.
The contrast between that moment
when Mr. Sharansky crossed the
Glienicke Bridge on February 11, 1986,
walking to freedom and to the embrace
of the shy bride who had left for Israel
the day after their wedding in 1974 and
spent almost 12 years moving heaven
and earth to effect his release and this
moment, when the singularly modest
Avital watched her husband accept the
latest in a string of well-deserved prizes
for having devoted himself to serving
the State of Israel and the people of
Israel everywhere.
And, yes, even the contrast between
this year’s honoree and former recip-
ients of the Guardian of Zion Award,
given annually since 1997 to a person
showing remarkable dedication to
the perpetuation and strengthening
of Jerusalem.
It’s not just Mr. Sharansky’s diminutive
stature and Russian accent that make
him stand out from previous recipients,
including Ronald S. Lauder, Senator Joe
Lieberman, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks,
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Cynthia Ozick, Malcolm Hoenlein, Her-
man Wouk, and Elie Wiesel. He stands
out for the simple reason that he is one
of the few Guardian of Zion awardees
who live in the city that is the focus of
the prize.
Jerusalem is not only where Mr. Sha-
ransky and his wife raised their two
daughters, and it is not only where he
served in the Knesset for many years
as a legislator and minister. It is the city
whose reunification during the Six-Day
War inspired him, and many others
behind the Iron Curtain, to dig up their
long-buried Jewish heritage, to learn
Hebrew even though they risked arrest
for that study, and to dare to demand
the right to emigrate to their ances-
tral homeland.
“On the 14th of July, 1978, when the
judge asked me what I wanted to say”
— before being sentenced to 13 years of
hard labor for the supposed crimes of
treason and spying — “I made the short-
est speech of my life,” this most famous
refusenik related in his Distinguished
Rennert Lecture, dedicated to the mem-
ory of his recently deceased friend Hil-
lel Butman, founder of the first Zionist
youth movement in Leningrad.
“I knew these were the last words I’d
be permitted to say before disappearing
for many years — maybe for my whole
life,” Mr. Sharansky continued. “So I
said, ‘For 2,000 years, our people, the
Jewish people, were spread all over
the world, without any hope and with-
out any reason to say to one another,
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The Holocaust Museum and Center for Tolerance and Education hosted talk Tenafly, and chapter co-president Joan Oppenheimer of Cliffside Park
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of her latest book, “Anti-Semitism: Here and Now.”
Jewish National Fund
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installed officers for the 2019- Women,” its first annual
2020 year. They are co-presidents Women for Israel meeting
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Holocaust survivor Dr. Mor-
Friedman. The board of trustees, chaired decai Paldiel of Fort Lee.
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Nowack, Elliott Melnick, Helen Ruben- strong and vibrant — from
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rabbi, Alberto (Baruch) Zeilicovich, pre- Be’er Sheva that they helped pave; will continue to blossom, and lives will
sided over the installation and thanked the work of this wonderful organi- continue to flourish,” Jacqueline Yehu-
Ira Kastrinsky, who served as shul presi- zation is second to none and I am so diel, the director of JFI’s northern New
dent for the last four years. grateful to be here experiencing the Jersey chapter, said.
energy of Jewish National Fund for May was JNF’s Women’s Month and
myself,” Ms. Flicker said. all gifts to the Women for Israel cam-
“We are so proud of the breadth paign were matched, up to $1 million,
and depth of our work. With our by donors Shelly Shor Gerson and
strong leadership, we hope to con- Lynne Merriam. For more informa-
tinue making a difference and grow- tion, call Jacqueline Yehudiel at (973)
ing our Women for Israel division in 593-0095, ext. 823, or email her at jye-
northern New Jersey and Rockland hudiel@jnf.org.
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Shelly’s marks BCHSJS honors five at dinner

a tasty 25th
anniversary
Noam and Shelly Sokolow, the own-
ers of two Teaneck restaurants,
Shelly’s and Noah’s Ark, are shown
with their daughter, Darbie, in front
of a street sign marking “Shelly’s
Way” on the corner of Cedar Lane
and Garrison Avenue. The vegetar-
ian restaurant, also known for its
catering, is celebrating its 25th anni-
versary this month. A celebration
with refreshments and cocktails
marking the street naming was held
on June 17 at Shelly’s, which is at 482
Cedar Lane in Teaneck. For more
information, call (201) 692-0001 or
go to ShellysCafe.net.
The Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies held its annual gala din-
ner and largest fundraiser on June 5 at
Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck.
The school’s principal, Fred Nagler,
was emcee; Rabbi Kenneth Stern of
the JCC of Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom gave the d’var Torah;
board president Sy Blechman offered
greetings, and graduating senior Miri
Goodman led the national anthems.
Susan Tuchman of Tenafly, the
director of the Zionist Organization of
America’s Center for Law and Justice,
received the L’Dor V’Dor award, which
recognizes people who further Jewish
continuity by supporting programs
for Jewish teens. Drs. Lia Tsveniashvili
and David Pichkadze of Fort Lee were
the parent honorees, and Dr. Daniel
Rynhold of Teaneck, a longtime
BCHSJS teacher, was Educator of the
Year. Moshe Kinderlehrer, the Jew-
ish Link of New Jersey’s co-founder
and publisher, accepted the Walter
Ramsfelder Exemplary Service award
on behalf of the paper.
The 22 BCHSJS graduating seniors
were honored with a video presenta-
tion, and seniors Brianna Leopold and
Leo Strizhevsky spoke.
Elayne Kalina, a BCHSJS imme-
diate past president, chaired the
dinner committee, which included
Shari Haber, Marcia Kagedan, Heidi
Seigel-Laddy, and Connie Stack.
The Bergen County High School
of Jewish Studies is Bergen County’s
only community Hebrew high school
for eighth- through 12th-graders. For
more information, call (201) 488-0834
or go to bchsjs.org.

Touro College’s NYSCAS conducts

two commencement ceremonies
The New York School of Career and
Applied Studies, a division of Touro
College, honored 465 students at the
Brooklyn commencement ceremony
at the Ford Amphitheater in Coney
Island on June 6, and 456 students at
the Manhattan ceremony at Lincoln
Center on June 12, as a crowd of thou-
sands, including family and friends of
the graduates and Touro faculty and
staff, watched.
“You are graduating from an insti-
tution that is handing you not just a
diploma, but the keys to the city,” NYC
comptroller and NYSCAS commence-
ment speaker Scott Stringer said
during the Brooklyn ceremony. “You
come from so many different places,
including Israel, Haiti, China, Russia,
all five boroughs, and more, repre-
senting the diversity of New York City.
“You all speak different languages
and have different backgrounds yet
today, you’re all gathered together to
celebrate 465 winding paths to diplo-
mas in everything from biology to
information technology to early child-
hood education.”
In Manhattan, David Paterson,
former New York governor and a dis-
tinguished professor of health care
and public policy at Touro College of
Osteopathic Medicine, who is blind,
spoke about achieving key goals in
Woodcliff Lake adult ed grads
spite of the obstacles he faced. He Elaine Padva, left, Irwin Grace, Saige Barry Blecher, participated in “The
encouraged graduates to move ahead Soskin, Lorraine Spivak, Sybil Grace, Siddur: Content and Structure,” a
despite the odds against them. Fran Hury, Florence Gosdin, Jill Strass- year-long adult education program at
In Brooklyn, Dilorom Akhmed- berg, Karen Albert, Deborah Barcan, Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
janova, an accounting major, was teacher Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, and led by Rabbi Kniaz.
valedictorian, and Brooklyn-based
Meshulam Twerksi, a biology major,
was salutatorian.
Nafatali Gross of Lakewood, bache-
lor’s degree valedictorian, spoke at the
Manhattan ceremony. Drs. Esther
Speaking at the Manhattan cere- and Mort
mony were Dr. Alan Kadish, presi- Fridman, flank
dent of the Touro College and Univer- Senator Ben
sity System; executive vice president Sasse.
Rabbi Moshe D. Krupka; Dr. Judah Courtesy Norpac
Weinberger, NYSCAS dean and asso-
ciate vice president of undergraduate
education; Timothy Taylor, associate
dean of students; Dr. Stanley Boylan,
vice president and dean of faculties; Norpac hosts Nebraska senator
NYSCAS associate dean Ella Tsirul- Drs. Esther and Mort Fridman hosted their second Norpac meeting with
nik; and Dr. Avery Horowitz, dean of Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) at their Teaneck home. Mr. Sasse sits on the
advisement and counseling. Judiciary, Intelligence, Joint Economic, and Banking, Housing and Urban
Affairs committees. At the meeting, Senator Sasse was questioned about
the U.S.-Israel relationship. He is up for re-election in November.

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Briefly Local/Local
Rockland Federation honors 2 for service
and offers a vision at its annual meeting
On Monday, an overflow crowd
attended Jewish Federation and
Foundation of Rockland Coun-
ty’s annual meeting. It was
made up of federation support-
ers and families and friends of
the honorees. Lisa Green, who
completed her tenure as federa-
tion co-president, was feted for
her philanthropic and volunteer
support and her vision. Speak-
ers talked about Ms. Green’s
efforts to strengthen synagogue
life by launching the Rockland
Jewish Initiative, which led to
more than 300 families and
individuals joining one of Rock-
land’s 11 Conservative, Reform,
and unaffiliated congregations.
Ms. Green also was among the
earliest backers of Gary Sieps-
er’s Community Weaving initia-
tive, which broke down institu-
tional silos and expanded the
role of the Rockland Federation.
“Lisa is quiet, in some ways
unassuming, but you would be New Rockland Federation and Foundation co-presidents Steve Gold and
making a mistake to think that Stephen Cohn address the annual meeting.
Lisa shy,” Mr. Siepser, the feder-
ation’s CEO, said. “With her thought-
ful insight into how to deal with issues
that impact Rockland County’s Jewish
community, Lisa has been a force in
molding federation response. She’s
the one who grasped the potential
that community weaving could build
on and expand RJI, and it could trans-
form institutional relationships. She
just got it, and she kept the focus on
collaboration and innovation.
“Lisa was a great partner. In her
quiet way, she has had a very big
impact. While Lisa will join the ranks
of the federation’s past presidents,
I know I’ll still be calling on her for
advice and guidance.”
Roberta Seitzman, who has run fed-
eration’s very successful series of adult
education program for years and is
about to retire, also was honored. She
taught nearly 100 adults in a typical
year. “There’s no question that she
will leave a void” Rabbi Paula Mack
Drill of the Orangetown Jewish Center
said. (Rabbi Drill is one of 11 teachers
who also were honored that night.)
“Roberta has a passion for adult Jew-
ish education. You see it in how she
has pursued a range of teachers, pul-
pit rabbis, and lay teachers alike. You
see it in the classes that are offered.”
This year, some of the more intrigu-
ing classes included “Hollywood and
the Holocaust” and “Marc Chagall, the
poet of Vitebsk.” As her last initiative,
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Ms. Seitzman launched a new arrange-
ment with the Florence Melton School
of Adult Learning. Classes will be
offered at the Jewish Community Cam-
pus in the fall.
Mr. Siepser offered his vision of fed- ing to combine their buildings, a new PJ
eration in 2020. “Yes, federation will
remain a model of a compassionate
and caring community. It will do the
work that federation has tradition-
ally done: provide for those who are
most vulnerable, be a strong advocate
for Israel, and bring the community
together for collective action. Federa-
tion, through its Community Relations
Council, will continue the fight against
anti-Semitism by nurturing partner-
ships in the broader community with
those who share the values of mutual
respect and fair treatment of all. How-
ever, in 2020, federation will go fur-
ther in its initiatives to strengthen the
affiliated congregations and agencies.
Because federation believes the future
health of the Jewish community lies
in a sound financial foundation, it
will continue to make a very signifi-
cant investment with the Harold Grin-
spoon Foundation and its Life & Leg-
acy program.”
At the annual meeting, federation
celebrated the 31 people or families
who have signed letters of intent prom-
ising to remember federation in their
estate plan. The federation will actively
encourage inter- organizational
collaborations that will benefit both the
participating organizations and the com-
munity. By way of example, Siepser noted
federation provided third party consulta-
tion to two congregations that are look-
Prisoner
FROM PAGE 12
“L’shana haba’ah b’Yerushalayim,”
“Next year in Jerusalem.” And today I say
to my people and my wife, “Next year
in Jerusalem!”’
“Why did I have to use these words
when there were so many other great
slogans like ‘Let my people go’ and
‘Never again’? Well, because our discov-
ery of Judaism started from Jerusalem.
The first time we felt Jewish was when
we saw the picture of the soldiers at the
Kotel in 1967.”
He was then 19, the same age as those
paratroopers who recaptured the West-
ern Wall — the Kotel. “We started read-
ing about ourselves and suddenly dis-
covered we have an unbelievable story,”
he said.
“Jerusalem is the center of our story.…
And we wanted to be part of it.”
The Kotel would figure prominently
in Mr. Sharansky’s tenure as chairman of
the Jewish Agency for Israel from June
2009 through August 2018. He led three
and a half years of intense negotiations
Library platform in partnership with
the Rockland JCC to expand connec-
tions to young families, and a new
leadership development program.
All initiates are designed to help the
participants more effectively deliver
on their missions which are in align-
ment with federation’s purposes.
While the federation always has
supported Israel initiatives — it allo-
cates funds to the Jewish Agency for
Israel and American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee — it recently
launched a new initiative with the
ORT school at K’far Silver, in the
shadow of rocket fire from Gaza.
(The school was evacuated recently
COURTESY ROCKLAND FEDERATION
when rockets landed near the cam-
pus.) The federation funded the ren-
ovation of class space and is now
planning more personalized con-
nections. At the Rockland meeting,
Dr. Conrad Giles, World ORT pres-
ident, in a video message, thanked
the community for its investment in
the students at K’far Silver and the
future of Israel.
The meeting closed with federa-
tion’s new co-presidents, Stephen
Cohn and Steve Gold, taking the podium
and noting “that this is a time of transi-
tion for the Jewish world and federation,
and we are fortunate to be able to build
on the solid foundation that has been
handed to us.”
to craft a compromise — ultimately
shelved — “to reimagine our people’s
holiest site in a way that would be inclu-
sive and respectful of all” by means of
a separately administered, egalitarian
prayer space alongside the traditional
one, united by a single entrance.
He touched on this topic in his speech.
“I was so happy when the government
accepted this compromise, and I was so
upset when the decision was made to
freeze it,” he said.
I recently read that Mr. Sharansky is
upset about something else, too: the fail-
ure of both American and Israeli Jews to
teach the next generation about what
the Prisoners of Zion endured and the
remarkable movement for Soviet Jewry
that secured their freedom.
So please take your kids to see the
2007 documentary “Refusenik” or the
new documentary “From Slavery To
Freedom,” which follows the Sharanskys
on a trip back to the Moscow prison and
the Glienicke Bridge.
And please take them to Jerusalem, the
city that is the center of the whole story.
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Local

Philanthropy
the centerpiece
at JFNNJ lunch
More than 450 people attended the Jewish Feder-
ation of Northern New Jersey’s annual Woman’s
Philanthropy Spring Luncheon on May 29. The lun-
cheon honored Rita Merendino, Rena Klosk, Carole
Newman, and Sara Nanus. Alan Zweibel, a five-time
Emmy Award-winner and best-selling author, was
the entertainer. Funds raised will support JFNNJ
programs.

JFNNJ Women’s Philanthropy co-presidents Karen Farber, left, and Joan Kreiger, right, flank Spring
Luncheon honorees, from left, Rita Merendino, Rena Klosk, Carole Newman, and Sarah Nanus.

Allyn Michaelson, Hilda Schwartz, and

Lisa Marcus Roni Katz, Emily Katz, Sophia Levinson, and Sara Levinson Wendy Ward and Leslie Smith

Lauren Newman, Shirley Sullum, and

Carole Newman

Lauri Bader, Donna Weintraub, Karen Farber, Stacey Weiss, Shelley Gershon, Joan Krieger,
Geri Cantor, and Alison Teicher

Rita Merendino and Jana Golden Susan Greenbaum, Suzette Diamond, and Dana Adler Susan Benkel and Roberta Abrams
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Jewish Home
supporters
enjoy tennis, golf,
cards outing
On June 3, the the Jewish Home Family
celebrated its 25th annual Golf, Tennis and
Card Outing at Montammy Golf Club. Nearly
300 golfers, tennis and card players, volun-
teers, and dinner attendees came together to
honor Howard Chernin of Woodcliff Lake, a
long-time event co-chair, and to support the
work of the Jewish Home Family.

More than 35 tennis players participated in an afternoon of round-robin matches.

 PHOTOS COURTESY JEWISH HOME FAMILY

More than 70 men

and women played
bridge, mahjong and
canasta, including,
from left, Nancy
Eichenbaum, Lauri
Bader, Joan Krieger,
and Joelle Halperin.

Jewish Home Family

president and CEO
Carol Silver Elliott
addresses the crowd
of more than 200
supporters at dinner.

Honoree Howard Chernin and Jewish Home Family Men’s foursome, from left, Larry Raimen, Larry Ad- Ladies foursome, from left, Esther Feldman, Dr.
board chair Carol K. Silberstein and president and ler, Michael DenBlaker, and Alan Levy. Terri Katz, Beth Shiffman, and Cynthia Low.
CEO Carol Silver Elliott

From left, Suzanne

Nathin, Donna
Kissler, Eve Tucker,
Joanne Siegel

The Chernin
family, from left,
Jenna, Cara,
honoree and
co-chair Howard,
Amanda, and
Taran Chernin
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Jewish Family & Children’s Services

of Northern New Jersey holds annual meeting
Jewish Family & Children’s Services
of Northern New Jersey’s staff, board
members, and supporters gathered to
mingle, nosh, and celebrate JFCS at its
annual meeting on June 11 at Congrega-
tion Beth Sholom in Teaneck.
Susan Greenbaum, JFCS’s CEO,
spoke about courage and the agen-
cy’s many accomplishments. Its board
president, Debbie Harris, discussed the
agency’s strategic planning process and
its vision for the future as it continues
to build.
Iris Bornstein and Rich Feldman
were honored as volunteers of the year.
Both have volunteered with JFCS for
many years, delivering Kosher Meals on
Wheels, helping Holocaust survivors,
and leading the Ride to Fight Hunger
bike committee. This year’s JFCS Ride to
Fight Hunger, set for June 23, will raise
funds to support JFCS’s food assistance
programs, including Kosher Meals on
Wheels and food pantries in Teaneck
and Fair Lawn.
Jewish Family & Children’s Services
of Northern New Jersey, an agency of
the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey, is a nonprofit organization pro-
viding a full range of integrated social
services through licensed therapists
for all the members of a family, includ-
ing adults, children, teens, and seniors.
Programs and services include mental
health counseling, senior care manage-
ment, emergency services including
food pantries, information and referrals,
and career, after-school, and support
group programs. For more information, Board member Sheryl Sarnak, Susan Greenbaum, and board member
go to jfcsnnj.org. Helen Graf  PHOTOS COURTESY JFCS

JFCS’s president, Debbie Harris; the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
sey’s chief planning officer, Lisa Harris Glass, and the federation’s president, Board members Gail Loewenstein, Sue Ann Levin, Sue Feldman, and
Roberta Abrams Sue Nagler 

JFCS board member Barry Feigenbaum and its secretary, Volunteer Rich Feldman, JFCS volunteer coordinator Patrick Kidd, and volunteer
Ron Rosensweig Iris Bornstein
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Cover Story
Rabbi Noah Fabricant holds his daughter Lorry’s
hand and talks to Rabbi David Widzer as the
groups from the two communities come together.
From T
Joanne Palmer
here’s something irrepressi-
bly American about moving
forward with optimism and
kodesh
joy, and there is something
essentially Jewish about keep-
ing the link with the past and
melding it into the future.
So when American Jews see that the post-
l’kodesh
war suburban structures and assumptions
they’ve been holding on to no longer work
as well as they used to, they don’t keep hang-
ing on to them, and they don’t give them up.
They transform them into something new,
and they remember and honor and carry
them forward.
Or, as Rabbi David Widzer of Temple Beth
El of Northern Valley in Closter put it, “The
Temple Beth El Jewish community today is not what the Jew-
ish community once was. If synagogues want
of Northern Valley and to continue to be the central address for the
Jewish community, we can’t keep doing what
we have been doing since World War II.
Temple Beth Or join “The suburban synagogue model was
absolutely right for its time and place, but
to become Kol Dorot the Jewish community todays looks, acts,
feels, and connects differently than it used
22 Jewish Standard JUNE 21, 2019
to, and it is important for the community to
respond to that.
“There is very little else in our world that
we keep doing now exactly as we did in the
1950s. Congregations can’t do that. They
can’t be stuck in that mold.”
Last Shabbat, two Reform congregations
— Rabbi Widzer’s Temple Beth El and Tem-
ple Beth Or of Washington Township — came
together to form the brand-new Kol Dorot:
A Reform Jewish Community. Even its new
name — the Voice of Generations, in English
— looks both forward and back, linking past,
present, and future.
“A number of years ago, the president of
Beth El at the time, Jeff Silver, and I had been
talking about it for a while, and he came to
me and said that a switch had flipped in his
head.” The two had been talking about the
changing demographics that combined with
changing assumptions and had hit the syna-
gogue hard.
“Jeff had gone, he told me, from ‘Oh woe is
us, how will we survive’ to the realization that
65 years ago, our founding families had cre-
ated Jewish life in northern Bergen County.
And we are the new founders now.
“We will find ways to make Judaism

Above, the new name covers the old one. Right,
Alan and Joan Landesman leave Temple Beth El.
meaningful, relevant, and inspiring to
this generation, in this time, in this place,
and we also can be founders today. So it
isn’t about how we survive, but it’s how
we will engage with the Jewish commu-
nity today, to continue to make a mean-
ingful home for our community.”
That shared vision of Reform Juda-
ism in northern Bergen County is what
brought the two synagogues together.
Last weekend, the coming together
was entirely literal. After Friday eve-
nings at both the Closter and Washing-
ton Township synagogues where mem-
ories were aired and honored, and after
separate Shabbat morning services,
members of Beth El gathered up two
of their sifrei Torah, symbolically trans-
ferred the light in their ner tamid — their
eternal light, that hangs over the ark in
every shul — and walked the seven miles
to Beth Or.
Except that by the time they got there,
the building no longer belonged to Beth
Or but had been transformed, through
newly erected signs, into the temporary
home of Kol Dorot.
Work on the merger began about two
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years ago, and very little about it was left
to chance. Experts worked with syna-
gogue leaders on how to combine mem-
bership and finances, and how to help
congregants deal with their possible fears
and resentments and feelings of loss, as
well as creating the feeling of excitement
and new possibilities. Many meetings and
shared activities allowed members of the
two communities to get to know each
other in a variety of contexts. The prepa-
ration was deliberate and intense.
And then it was time to move.
“From the Beth El side, we’ve had a
series of events, of services, of opportu-
nities to celebrate the legacy of our con-
gregation,” Rabbi Widzer said. “A num-
ber of weeks ago, we had a special Friday
night service dedicated to celebrating the
legacy of music at Beth El. Music always
has played a fundamental role in the
community — we have a synagogue band
and a youth choir, and we have world-
class musicians join us two, three, some-
times four times a year for worship.
“And yes,” he added, “we will bring Beth El’s co-president Joel Rubin, center, and past president Dr. Victor
that to Kol Dorot. Beth Or also has a Borden carry Torah scrolls and Rabbi David Widzer holds the symbolic ner
vibrant musical history, and we are tamid as they begin the walk.
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excited about being able to continue it.

Music has a special role in crafting and
shaping religious experiences.”
Back to the special Friday night ser-
vices, “We had one about our legacy of
learning, both for adults and in our reli-
gious school. Our students put up a liv-
ing museum after services, like a science
fair; each identified the favorite thing
they had learned.
“And then this past Friday night was
dedicated to the celebration of commu-
nity. It included the participation of our
rabbi emeritus, Fredric Pomerantz, and
our cantor emeritus, Cantor Shlomo
Bar-Nissim. Both of them were present
with us.
“During the service, we did a roll call
of membership, celebrating the mem-
bers dating all the way back to 1951,
when we were founded. We had a few
of our founding families still in atten-
dance; we had them rise, and then we From left, former Beth El co-president David Fischer, Carolyn Fischer, and other Beth El members approach Beth Or.
went decade by decade until everybody
was standing in celebration of our gen- education directors. memories, the stories, the history. We us in a musical setting by Dan Nichols
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read from the bimah, by 11 past clergy have everyone turn to the people next to throughout the years. V’nitchazeik.’
and staff, people who had served as rab- them to share memories. The sanctuary “And then the final song. We had our “We took that as the theme for the
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From left, at Kol Dorot, Rabbi David Widzer, Kol Dorot co-presidents Joel
Rubin and Donna Selby, Cantor Sarah Silverberg, and Rabbi Noah Fabricant.
you finish one book and turn to the
next book in Torah. We are strong.
We are strong. Let us strengthen each
other. We are starting a new chapter.”
Inevitably, there was a bittersweet
feeling to the evening. “There was the
opportunity to feel a lot of the sadness,
the loss, the regret at what was being
concluded, but we were able to rec-
ognize that we are not leaving those
memories behind. We are bringing
them with us.”
Similarly, Beth Or’s rabbi, Noah Fab-
ricant, led Friday night services that
looked both behind, at the 60 years
since the synagogue was founded, and
forward. “Services were in honor of our
longest-time members,” Rabbi Fabricant
said. “We heard reflections and memo-
ries from a dozen of them, and we heard
from our rabbi emeritus, Phil Berkow-
itz. He’s retired now, and he lives in
Maine, but he was live via satellite.
“One of the things we’ve learned is
that we can’t move forward without
properly honoring our past.”
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Meanwhile, in Beth Or, “we had a bat
mitzvah,” Rabbi Fabricant said. It was
more or less a regular Shabbat morning
in the building.
Back at Beth El, “at the conclusion of
the service, the past presidents lined
the center aisle of the sanctuary, our
current co-presidents came up on the
bimah, and the two Torah scrolls that
we were going to march with were
handed to them.
“We extinguished our ner tamid and
transferred the light symbolically into
an electric lantern” — a big flashlight —
“and we began singing, and marched
out of the building.
“We were joined by many members
of our community, and we began our

From left, Caroline Silver, Ellen Lutvak, and Wendy Weiss show off their
Torahs — one real, two plush — as they walk.
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seven-mile procession to our new home.”
The walk was carefully planned and organized, Rabbi
Widzer said. “We are tremendously grateful to the Ber-
gen County Sheriff ’s Department They had two cars
with us the whole way, accompanying us, stopping traf-
fic. They were fantastic.
“We rented a pickup truck.” It carried musicians, so
“we were able to have live music, Jewish music, klezmer
music, on the entire route. It was fabulous.”
It also was a stunningly beautiful day, something the
organizers could not have arranged but for which they
were grateful.
The walk was organized so that different synagogue
groups were responsible for different parts of it, and the
ner tamid and Torah scrolls were handed off. Overall,
about 100 people carried a Torah; some for longer dis-
tances than others. “And I also had a backpack of plush
Torah scrolls,” toys that children or people who didn’t
feel comfortable carrying an actual Torah could heft,
Rabbi Widzer said.
The last carriers were the last child to become bar
mitzvah and the last to be confirmed at Beth El.
The walk took about three hours.
“And when we arrived, we were met by a wild crowd,
with such a rush of excitement and such great joy!”
Rabbi Widzer said.
“We met them with people holding streamers, and
our baal tekiah” — the shofar blower — “blew the shofar
as the Torahs entered the parking lot. And we had set
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Fredric Pomerantz.
up an ice cream truck, a waffle truck, and a there was “When we entered the sanctuary together, as one
a live band,” Rabbi Fabricant said; bodies need suste- community, as Kol Dorot, we sang “Hinei Ma Tov” —
nance, just as souls do. how good it is when brothers and sisters sit together,
“And there were two people carrying two of Beth Rabbi Widzer said. “Everyone pressed all the way to the
Or’s scrolls, and so we had four. We entered the syna- front, and I climbed up a ladder and symbolically trans-
gogue together.” ferred the light of our ner tamid into the one there.
By that time, the building the group entered no lon- And God’s presence, which had accompanied us as we
ger was Beth Or. The signs had been changed, so it had walked, was with us as we installed the Torah scrolls in
become Kol Dorot. the ark. And then we joined in the Shema, and then in
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Shehecheyanu,” the blessing for something new. “It congregation.” It’s just plain Kol Dorot: A Reform Jew- meaning. To find connection. To find a spiritual home.
was such a wondrous feeling of joy, of community, ish Community. “It’s not about a building. It’s not about To find opportunities to repair our world. To find ways of
of vibrancy, of the excitement of a new beginning.” physical space. doing Jewish in the 21st century.
There was another celebration for Beth Or on “It’s about community. It’s about relationships. We “Kol Dorot is looking forward to being a partner in the
Saturday evening, “even as we welcomed our wanted to start from the beginning, and to emphasize broader Jewish community, to continuing our engage-
future as Kol Dorot,” Rabbi Fabricant said. “We that ideological point. ment, as Beth El and Beth Or both did, to being part of
brought out all of our archives, thousands of pho- “Our future is tremendously bright,” he continued. the vibrant life of northern New Jersey, and to being a
tographs, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia “Kol Dorot has as its vision modeling a center of Jew- spiritual home and center of Jewish living and learning
from the time Beth Or was founded, when it rented ish living and learning. It’s going to be a place to find for everyone in the Jewish community.”
space at the firehouse on Midland Avenue in Para-
mus. We brought our every temple bulletin, and all
the ritual objects, all the silver — Torah crowns and
breastplates and candlesticks and kiddush cups. We
asked people to share stories; a lot of the people in
the room knew a lot more about the objects than I
did, so we passed around the microphone.
“And then we concluded with the Havdalah ser-
vice, to transition not only from Shabbat to the
week, but from Temple Beth Or to Kol Dorot.”
Not only from kodesh l’chol, that is, but also from
kodesh l’kodesh. From holy to holy.
It’s not all feel-good abstractions. There are some
specifics in the near future. Kol Dorot will remain

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the Holocaust. In 2016, for example, the
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‘Mikvah’
FROM PAGE 7
The songs’ melodies come from other composers’
show tunes, and the words parody those songs’ lyrics.
The troupe performs only for women, choosing to
follow a strict approach to the prohibition against men
hearing women’s voices. That allows its cast and audi-
ence to include charedi as well as modern Orthodox
women.
“Some of the women only sing in front of women,”
Ms. Greenwald said. “It’s more important to us that all
women feel comfortable, including women who take
a stricter halachic approach, than that that it be open
to men as well.”
She said this policy has proven particularly fruitful
for this performance about women’s experiences.
“Part of the message is that mikvah is something
that’s not just for one kind of woman,” she said. “It’s
something that should unite all different kinds of Jew-
ish women.
“There’s something so special about the sisterhood
that is created in the course of the evening. It would
lose something if it were before a mixed audience.
And I think some of the topics and some of the details
are things that women feel more comfortable talking
about only among other women. The sharing that goes
on afterward would be more inhibited if there were
men in the audience.”
Which is not to say that the troupe doesn’t get
requests to perform to men. The Orthodox rabbi
who heads the Alon Shvut religious council asked the
troupe to perform the play, in Hebrew, for students
in a course he runs that trains men to teach grooms
before their wedding. “He heard about it from some
of the yoetzot halacha,” female halachic advisers, in
the community.
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songs, with the requirement that the translation
fit the original melody and include rhymes, is tak-
ing longer.
The play first was performed last August.
“Baruch Hashem, it was a huge success,” Ms.
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lem. It sold out. Then another one in Efrat.”
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Editorial
Seasons, beauty, JFCS
S T
ummer starts today.
It’s always such a mixed
day; summer might mean
freedom from heavy coats
and closed shoes and dark dank eve-
nings, but it’s also when the days start
getting shorter again. It’s glorious and
melancholy all at once, and how grim a
way is that to start a golden new season?
Because also, by the way, it’s
summer. (Okay, so a little internal
dialogue spilled out on the page.
Whatever…)
It comes after an oddly unspring-
like spring, despite a few wildly excit-
ing days, those days when you go out-
side and you can swear that you feel
the green plants surfacing through
the last layer of soil, like a swimmer
just popping up through the surface,
and you can see the flowers strain to
push open the buds that hold them
back. Those days when the smell of
mulch is like the smell of perfume.
But there haven’t been that many
of those days, although Shavuot,
with its picnics, was one of those
days, perfect for sitting on a blanket
and eating, and then shaking off the
crumbs and going for a walk. Last
Shabbat was another one of those
days, perfect for the seven-mile walk
that Temple Beth El took up to Tem-
ple Beth Or as they joined to become
Kol Dorot.
But there has been so much rain. So
many puddles. So many broken, aban-
doned umbrellas. So very much mud.
But now it’s over.
Now it’s summer, with all its sunny
promises.
In this community, there’s the
promise of this Sunday’s Wheels For
Meals bike rides and hikes to support
the Jewish Family and Children’s Ser-
vices of Northern New Jersey. (To be
clear, JFCS of Northern New Jersey
is an agency of the Jewish Federa-
tion of Northern New Jersey, which
covers Bergen, Hudson, and parts of
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Passaic counties.) Everything starts at
Temple Emanuel of Closter. The lon-
gest ride, 50 miles, goes up through
Rockland to High Tor State Park, just
south of Haverstraw. The 25-mile
ride goes up almost to Nyack, and
the 10-mile route stays in New Jersey,
cycling through Rockleigh. Each goes
through spectacularly beautiful ter-
rain, letting riders bask in beauty as
they raise money and do active good.
Even the hikes, which are much less
ambitious, are beautiful.
The JFCS, like all Jewish Family
and Children’s Service organizations
(which use various creative combi-
nations of the key words, in the plu-
ral or the singular. In Rockland, it’s
Rockland Jewish Family Service),
does massively important work for a
clientele that needs it desperately but
manages largely to be invisible to the
surrounding community.
For example, one of JFCS’s pro-
grams is Kosher Meals on Wheels. It
delivers food to elderly and home-
bound people, including Holocaust
survivors, who have suffered unimag-
inably and deserve everything we can
give them, and more. It also provides
a social life and entertainment to
those survivors, through Café Europa,
and it offers a support group for their
children, whose parents’ nightmares
have affected them deeply. JFCS has a
kosher food pantry, which allows it to
give food to people who need it while
respecting their dignity and privacy.
It offers therapy to people who oth-
erwise might not be able to afford it.
Riders and walkers who find them-
selves in Closter (after having regis-
tered, of course) on Sunday — a day
that we hope also lives up to its bright
promise as this summer’s first Sun-
day — can help JFCS while also hav-
ing a wonderful day surrounded by
beauty. Everyone can help their own
local JFCS agencies every day, and all
of us will be better for it. —JP
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
And hate the sinner too
his is the age of liberalism. We distinguish between the petty grievances
want to show our love, to see all Jesus was referring to and mass murder.
people as equal, and to perfect Jesus did not mean to equate the person
the world. who stole your parking space with a mass
How then could it be that on our watch murderer. He said to love your enemies,
six million Jews were murdered in the not God’s enemies, such as Neo-Nazis
Holocaust, that Pol Pot killed more than chanting “Jews will not replace us” in
1.5 million of his people, and that 800,000 Charlottesville.
people were slaughtered in the Rwandan A man whose father was killed by the
genocide? IRA solely because he was a Protestant
Have we learned any lessons from these told me that as a Christian, he was com-
example of ultimate evil? pelled to love and forgive his father’s
The liberal answer is that we do not murderers.
love enough. They lovingly excuse the But no human being can confer such
evildoers and seek to understand rather forgiveness. The act of taking a human life
than resist evil. They justify is a crime against God who
murderous actions based created life and endowed
on poverty, persecution, or it with infinite worth. Indi-
gullibility. We are often told viduals who have erased
the killers of Israeli Jews the image of God from their
were humiliated at check- countenance through sav-
points, were unemployed age acts of brutality have
in Gaza, or felt their only removed themselves from
option was to engage in the human family. Our love
terrorism. must be directed toward
Is it any wonder that Rabbi Shmuley the victims of violence, not
today we are witnessing Boteach the victimizers.
Bashar Assad using chem- The Bible teaches in
ical weapons against Arab Psalm 97, “Let those who
children in Syria, Saudi planes bombing love the Lord hate evil.” Proverbs Chapter
civilians in Yemen, Hamas terrorists indis- 8 tells us: “The fear of the Lord is to hate
criminately bombarding Israel with rock- evil.” And, in Ecclesiastes, King Solomon
ets, radical Muslims turning themselves says, “there is a time to love and a time
into suicide bombs, and extremists mur- to hate.”
dering worshippers in mosques, churches, Elie Wiesel, with whom I never dis-
and synagogues? agreed on any issue under the sun save
The failure of liberalism, and the reason this, used to say to me, “We can’t hate our
for its repudiation in the political arena enemies. It seeps into our blood and poi-
where now it has to use the new name sons us.”
“progressivism,” is rooted in the unwill- But what else can we do when we are
ingness to hate evil. Many learned this talking about the enemies of human-
from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, when ity? And without despising their cruelty,
he said, “If anyone slaps you on the right where will we muster the resolve to truly
cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” fight them?
This noble sentiment is often misin- And spare me the argument that
terpreted, however, by those who fail to once you start hating Ilhan Omar’s
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the author of 32 books, including “The Israel
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anti-Semitism it can spill over into
hating innocents as well. Firstly, the
same argument can be made against
love, that once you embrace it you
may end up loving the wrong peo-
ple, like a husband or wife having an
affair. Please. We discerning adults
are plenty capable of controlling
our emotions and directing them to
legitimate targets. We hate Hamas for
its genocidal charter against Israel
and its attempts to carry it out with
thousands of rocket launched against
Israeli civilians.
There was a reason that Franklin
Roosevelt forced Winston Churchill
to accept the American insistence
on the “unconditional surrender”
of Germany, when both were at the
Casablanca Conference. Churchill
was sure it was a mistake, and made
Germany fight to the last man, which
it did. But for Roosevelt, Nazism was
something repulsive and odious, and
an armistice would never be offered.
How are we supposed to demon-
strate our moral resolve to fight
extremists — right-wing, left-wing or
religious — who wish to exterminate
Jews, Christians, or Muslims if we
don’t loathe them?
How are we supposed to react to
terrorists who indiscriminately bomb
civilian areas, who use children as
human shields against the defenders
of the innocent, and who indoctri-
nate their youth with the belief they
will reach a heavenly paradise by
blowing themselves up along with as
many bystanders as possible?
The greatest foreign policy fail-
ure of our time, and the reason that
genocides continue to happen, is our
refusal to hate evil.
Abraham Lincoln did not suf-
fer from the same ambivalence as
today’s liberals. He recognized slav-
ery as an abomination and said in
1854, “I cannot but hate slavery. I hate
it because of its monstrous injustice.”
And while Churchill challenged
the American policy of unconditional
surrender, he did not equivocate on
his own hatred of the German Nazis.
He said openly that “I hate no man
but Hitler.” And because he hated
the beast, he inspired a nation to
fight him. Surrounded by appeasers
that included even the royal family
in the form of ex-King Edward VIII,
who was his close friend, Churchill
never countenanced making peace
with Hitler because he hated the evil
he embodied. The French, who did
not hate Hitler, collaborated with
him instead, and sent 80,000 Jewish
French citizens to the gas chambers.
Is not every stain of genocide upon
the human timeline accompanied
by a larger, darker mark of global
indifference? The mass murder of
Jews only began in 1941, with German
invasion of Soviet Russia and the Ein-
satzgruppen death squads. By July 20,
1942, it would, in the aftermath of the
Wannsee Conference, lead to the gas
chambers and the murder of 10,000
Jews per day for the next three years.
Yes, the Jews endured three 9/11s per
day for four years! But these crimes
could not have occurred without
rampant anti-Semitism legislated
in Germany for eight years before,
nor without the world excusing Nazi
anti-Semitism as a benign phenome-
non that would ultimately pass.
The world refused to hate Hitler.
Gandhi, the most respected man in
the world, said of Hitler, “I do not
believe him to be as bad as he is
portrayed.” A 1939 letter written to
Hitler by Gandhi was apologetically
passed off as a “mere impertinence”
and included the following sign-
off: “I anticipate your forgiveness if
I have erred in writing to you.” And
George Bernard Shaw infamously
said, “The Nazi movement is in many
respects one which has my warmest
sympathy.”
There are others who make the
mistake of believing that we need not
hate anti-Semites. Many of the main-
line Protestant denominations, like
the Lutherans, have even joined the
anti-Semitic BDS movement. Why? A
large part of it involves errant Chris-
tian ideas of loving our adversaries.
The appropriate response to
today’s evil was expressed by French
President François Hollande follow-
ing a horrific terrorist attack in Paris.
“I despise these terrorists with every
fiber of my being,” he said. “I hate
them and everything they stand for.
And I will fight them to the last man.”
We must passionately hate
anti-Semitism and other forms of big-
otry to summon the determination to
fight them fervently.
And we cannot wait for the evildo-
ers to act before taking steps to stop
them. The threat of genocide today
becomes the reality of mass murder
tomorrow.
Dr. King summed it up best: “He
who passively accepts evil is as much
involved in it as he who helps to
perpetrate it. He who accepts evil
without protesting against it is really
cooperating with it.”
Love alone doesn’t work. In fact,
darkness is spreading around the
world because we sometimes love
evildoers too much. We have forgot-
ten that hate can be kosher, solely
when it is directed at the truly wicked.
Only by hating evildoers can we stop
them.
Opinion
Reporting anti-Semitism
should not be a choice
A
couple of weeks ago, the But the less we report, the more this
school district in which I behavior becomes acceptable, which is
live announced that anti-Se- why reporting anti-Semitism should not be
mitic graffiti, in the form of a a choice. It should be a requirement.
swastika, was found in a bathroom that People often shrug this off as care-
is shared by the middle school and high less behavior. Many speculated that “it
school. Just days later, another swastika was probably just some kid who wasn’t
was reported, and then another. thinking, or didn’t know better.” The
The Jewish community organized truth is, even if that was the case, we still
quickly to address this issue and voice need to treat these incidents in a serious
concern. Members of the community manner. We have to report them to the
were encouraged to attend a school local authorities and notify any relevant
board meeting, and then a town council stakeholders.
meeting. Behind the scenes, as the rabbi Even if such an act were done in igno-
in town, I juggled various conversations rance or even if it were not done mali-
with school stakeholders, Jewish com- ciously, the impact is significant. One
munity leaders, public officials, anti-bias swastika in my town means that on my day
volunteer groups, and faith off, while I am shopping at
leaders from other houses Target, everyone stops me in
of worship, all while trying the aisles to share their con-
to articulate a clear message cerns and seek advice. One
and support members of my swastika means that I don’t
own synagogue community. get to tuck my kids into bed
Through this all, here some nights, because I’m
is what I have confirmed: meeting with community
Reporting anti-Semitism leaders and petitioning the
should not be a choice. It school board to address this
should be a requirement. Rabbi Jennifer issue head-on. And that’s
When I say that reporting Schlosberg just how it affects me, one
should be a requirement, I person. Multiply that impact
mean this across the board. by the number of residents
Schools should notify parents, teachers, in our community and beyond.
and students. Towns should report it to One swastika instills deep concern in
constituents. Teachers should inform parents, who worry about sending their
principals. Students and their parents children to school in a safe environment.
should have a safe reporting mecha- One swastika in town leads to children
nism when they are targeted by peers or calling their parents to pick them up from
friends. We all are responsible for saying school because the pain of the news or dis-
something. cussions around it is too great to bear, and
But this is easier said than done. There distracts them from learning.
is a temptation, on many levels, to not One swastika could put an entire commu-
share these incidents for various reasons. nity, justifiably, into an emotional tailspin.
Reporting anti-Semitism — or any hate Reporting should be a requirement,
crime, for that matter — is difficult because and yet the challenge is that our com-
the reporter fears the consequences of the munities are not equipped with support
reporting and any related retaliation. No around reporting. We don’t know how
town or school district wants this as part of to share the message with our constit-
their reputation. Children who are targets uents. Protocols are not in place about
of anti-Semitism fear getting their friends who, how, and when people should be
in trouble, or even worse — ending their informed. Many teachers are unequipped
friendships completely. I’ve spoken with to handle these conversations, even when
parents whose children have been targets incidents happen in front of their eyes.
of anti-Semitic bullying and I can tell you Parents and their children have no idea
that they are truly at a loss as they wrestle where to begin.
with these choices. Therefore, I urge schools, community
organizations, and public officials to
Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg is the rabbi of examine the protocols around reporting
the Glen Rock Jewish Center and on the all hate crimes, and to involve all stake-
executive board of the North Jersey Board of holders in the discussion, so there is a
Rabbis. She received her rabbinic ordination deep investment in the process. That
and an M.A. in Jewish education from the would send the strong message that this
Jewish Theological Seminary. She seeks to behavior is demoralizing and unaccept-
make Judaism accessible and meaningful to able. Further, everyone needs to under-
others through her writing, teaching, and stand the legal consequences.
community organizing efforts. SEE ANTI-SEMITISM PAGE 34
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Opinion
Israel and American Jews need synchronization
T
his week, a couple who belong
to my congregation returned
from a trip to Israel.
In itself, this is not an
extraordinary event, traveling to Israel
in our day, but it always is an extraor-
dinary experience. I find it exhilarating
to hear from congregants and friends
about their experiences in Israel, and
this time was no different. The tales of
this couple’s travels, what they saw, who
Rabbi Joshua
S. Finkelstein
they met, what they did, and what they
learned, was so wonderful that I asked
them to share some thoughts with the congregation.
Among all they told us, they pointed out that in Israel, able opinion of the president, and 71 percent disap-
the weekly Torah reading was different than ours in
America. While they had heard the Torah portion Naso
last week in Israel, we were reading it this week in our
synagogue in Rockland County. In America, we were a
week behind. They knew some things would be different
for them in Israel, but what they expected to be uniform
was not. Israel and America are out of sync.
With the weekly Torah reading, this dissonance is a
temporary phenomenon, a result of the eighth day of
Passover falling on Shabbat this year. That means that
although it still was a holiday for us in America, it was
a normal Shabbat in Israel. While we in America were
reading the parashah for the eighth day of Passover,
in Israel they were continuing with the yearly cycle.
From then on, in Israel they were a week ahead of us.
The divide continues until this summer, when we in
America read the double portion of Matot and Massei,
while in Israel they will read a single portion, Massei.
The following week, the week before the fast of Tisha
B’Av, we will be united, on the same page so to speak,
as we both read Parashat D’varim.
This lack of uniformity between the Torah readings
in Israel and America struck me as a metaphor for the
larger relationship between the Israeli and American
Jewish communities. We are not on the same page.
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net-
anyahu and the Israeli Cabinet formally approved the
inauguration of a new community in the Golan named
after President Donald Trump. This new community,
Ramat Trump — Trump Heights in English — was estab-
lished and named for the president as a gesture of grat-
itude for the United States’ recognition of Israeli sov-
ereignty over the Golan Heights. Israel captured the
Golan in the Six-Day War and annexed it. Since its cap-
ture, the Golan has been treated as occupied territory
by the United States and the international community,
Anti-Semitism
FROM PAGE 33
But clearly, reporting these incidents is only the first
step. We must use an incident like this to improve our
schools and our communities across the board. We must
educate our children in and outside of school, and incor-
porate these lessons into the curriculum. School staff,
administration, advisers, and coaches must be trained
on how to handle hate crimes.
Further, community leaders need to find mechanisms
to educate religious leaders, public officials, and other
34 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 21, 2019
even though Israel had formally annexed
it. A few months ago, President Trump
formally recognized Israeli claims to the
Golan Heights, a move that was widely
hailed throughout Israel. This policy
shift, on top of the move of the United
States embassy to Jerusalem, has given
President Trump nearly unprecedented
popularity in Israel. A Pew Poll taken
in late 2018 showed that 69 percent of
Israelis expressed confidence in him.
Meanwhile, among American Jews,
President Trump has low approval rat-
ings. Twenty-six percent of American Jews have a favor-
prove of his job as president. Though President Trump
retains popularity in some Orthodox and charedi
communities, he has highly negative polling numbers
among the overall American Jewish community.
Whatever respondents think of the president, the
most striking aspects of these polls is how out of sync
the Israeli and American Jewish communities are. It
underscores the different realities we live in, and the
different concerns we have. Statistically, the major-
ity of the American Jewish community is more likely
to focus on domestic concerns and social issues than
on the location of the American embassy and the sta-
tus of the Golan Heights. For Israelis, these issues are
existential, much in the same way most Israelis saw
the nuclear deal with Iran that the Obama adminis-
tration negotiated.
One issue that American and Israeli Jews may share
is the role of religion in Israeli society. For example,
while many American Jews focus on the exclusion of
non-Orthodox prayer space at the Kotel and feel it is
intolerable and unacceptable, Israelis are concerned
about the role the charedi community plays in the
government of Israel. They are likely more concerned
about IDF exemption for charedi Jews and the govern-
ment spending on yeshivot. Even when Israelis and
Americans have similar concerns, they focus on dif-
ferent issues.
On so many issues, the American and Israeli Jewish
communities seem to be out of sync. There is much
cause for concern. A new generation is coming of age
without the memory of Israel’s wars for survival, and
see it not as a besieged country but as a start-up nation,
a world power. It would seem that in some ways, Israel
is a victim of its own success. But where once Israel
was dependent on the American Jewish community
for support, now the American Jewish community is
community members, so the surrounding environment
in which students live also sends a message of non-toler-
ance for these hate crimes.
And let’s not forget the impact that a parent could have
on their children, teaching them to lead and act in ways
that are welcoming to all.
Finally, what best practices are in place so that the vic-
tims will have access to the practical, emotional, and spir-
itual support that they need?
As we do all this, we must rely on experts in this field,
and on professionals who could use lessons about the
Holocaust and other historical tragedies rooted in hate
Being out of sync on
the weekly Torah
cycle is something
the calendar will
correct. By August,
we all will be on the
same page for Torah
reading. The larger
issues that dominate
the divide between
our two Jewish
communities will not
fix themselves.
shrinking, and the vitality of Jewish identity among its
majority is waning. It seems likely that in the coming
generation, Israel will continue to be increasingly more
important for American Jewish identity.
Each year thousands of young people are sent to
Israel on a free trip through Birthright. The efforts and
expense are borne by the American Jewish community,
because we know the impact a trip to Israel can have in
strengthening Jewish identity in America. Over the past
generation, the strong bond between the American and
Israeli Jewish communities has allowed both commu-
nities to flourish. If Israel and America are out of sync,
both Jewish communities will suffer.
Being out of sync on the weekly Torah cycle is some-
thing the calendar will correct. By August, we all will be
on the same page for Torah reading. The larger issues
that dominate the divide between our two Jewish com-
munities will not fix themselves. We must do all we can
to encourage discussion, dialogue, and debate, which
can lead to harmony between the Israeli and Ameri-
can Jewish communities. We must focus on bridging
the divide for all our sakes, for the love and support of
Israel, and for the future of American Judaism.
Joshua S. Finkelstein is the rabbi of Montebello Jewish
Center, an egalitarian Conservative synagogue in
Rockland County.
crimes to inform how we educate, report, train, and sup-
port all of those impacted.
Finally, I urge community leaders to see any efforts to
combat these problems as efforts that would benefit from
collaboration. In the aftermath of this anti-Semitic occur-
rence, I experienced the level of mistrust, finger-point-
ing, and shaming among various leaders, all of whom had
the same goal — to condemn the hate and set standards
for the future. Perhaps our tone or our anger was behind
some of those choices.
But now our responsibility is to channel that anger into
methods of creating a safer world for all our children.

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hile the other seasons each bring their own
sense of charm and whimsy, it seems that
summer has a far more permanent hold on
the human pysche. The reminders that sum-
mer is America’s obsession are everywhere: Corona commer-
cials on TV, multi-color bathing suits in the stores, and count-
less other bright, sunny things bombard the senses. Summer
images are care-free and fun-loving for the most part, but if
you ask me, the most iconic summer image involves pushing
my trusty Toro, because as my father always said, “The grass
doesn’t mow itself.”
Now I want to clarify, I don’t hate mowing. In fact, I enjoy it.
I find it meditative, even therapeutic. The thing is yardwork,
though therapeutic, often leads people to physical therapy.
Operating a mower is more hazardous to your health than one
would think. Attach a razor-sharp spinning blade on the bot-
tom of a small combustion engine, and serious bodily harm
has the potential to occur. Fortunately, the worst injuries are
mostly summer blockbuster horror movie fodder. The real
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issues, however, come from the basic things.
On a weekly basis, I see patients that have injured their body
from yardwork. Symmetrical movements are usually painless,
but add the slightest improvisation, and it’s a recipe for trou-
ble. Mowing is primarily symmetrical; it is in the fine details,
however, where injury can occur. Starting a mower puts a
great deal of force on the hip and shoulders, not to mention
the back. This pressure could contribute to rotator cuff trauma
or lumbar disc herniation. The potential for developing injury
goes on and on. What is the solution? Do we just say “forget it”
and let our yard grow to resemble the Amazon rainfor-
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the pool area clean? The choice is yours. After
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you will have new tissue formed and the
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I work with this good inflammation
when I treat injured tissue in the body.
When muscles are injured, they gener-
ally heal fairly quickly. Even if a muscle
is torn, it will generally heal in a mat-
ter of weeks. That is because muscles
get ample blood flow, hence their red
color. Tendons and ligaments do not
get much blood flow so when they are
injured, they heal very slowly, if at all.
This lack of blood flow is reflected in
their whitish-yellow color. Those with
tendonitis often experience longstand-
ing pain that is unresponsive to many
types of treatments.
Fortunately, there are treatments
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treatments for stimulating this heathy
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Prolotherapy is not a quick fix.
Rather, the treatment stimulates long-
term healing. The body has the ability
to heal itself but for tendons and liga-
ments this is very challenging for two
reasons. One challenge for tendons and
ligaments is the decreased blood flow
to these tissues, as described above.
The other challenge is that these tis-
sues are often injured due to repetitive
biomechanic stress that wears away at
the tendon. This stress is often persist-
ing because you continue the irritating
activity. Thus, it becomes hard to heal
the tissue when the causative stress
continues. A potential third factor is
the use of anti-inflammatory medica-
tion such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin,
Aleve). This impedes the body’s own
healing mechanisms by preventing the
increased blood flow and migration of
growth factors that lead to resolution of
the localized injury. In other words, by
using anti-inflammatory medication for
an injury, you are blocking the “good
inflammation” that can potentially
heal the injury. On the other hand, pro-
lotherapy stimulates this good inflam-
mation that nurtures healing of ten-
dons, ligaments and arthritic pain.
Now let’s talk about bad inflam-
mation. The inflammation that is
unhealthy is systemic inflammation,
which circulates throughout the body.
A key driver of systemic inflammation
is the presence of visceral fat. This is
the fat that encases the internal organs
such as the liver and intestines. This fat
secretes inflammatory cytokines which
leads to diseases. Within the blood ves-
sels, these cytokines lead to clot forma-
tion. When clots occur in the heart’s
blood vessels this can lead to a heart
attack. When the clots occur in the
arteries to the brain, this can lead to a
stroke. Also, the increased cytokines
in other organs can create an environ-
ment for cancer formation.
The good news is that you can reduce
your systemic inflammation with life-
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day may indicate irregular fluid intake.
• Staying cool is critical to “beating the
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ods of time. It is best to go outside before
10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. when it is usu-
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should stay in doors with access to air
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public places with air conditioning, such
as local libraries, the movies, the mall or
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles
Holy Name Medical Center
one of few U.S. hospitals to launch
student loan repayment assistance
Holy Name Medical Center has launched
its student loan repayment program,
becoming one of just 4 percent of U.S.
employers to offer this type of benefit to
employees. According to data from the
Federal Reserve, one in four Americans
have student loans, totaling an estimated
$1.5 trillion in the U.S.
Holy Name’s Student Loan Repay-
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2016. It provides a company-funded con-
tribution of up to $5,000 annually to the
employee’s qualified higher education
student loan, depending on the individ-
ual’s years of service.
“Instead of just offering the tradi-
tional loan reimbursement program to
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and other movement disorders.
LaughActive is a moderate-intensity
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sperses endurance-enhancing laughter
exercises within a dedicated strength,
balance and flexibility program for
older adults.
The Jewish Home has been steadily
adding therapies and programs to
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include boxing, Speak Out, Big and
Loud, Dance for Parkinson’s, Tai Chi,
and Yoga. The Jewish Home Family’s
Parkinson’s Center also offers ongoing
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Are you looking to increase the high
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employees who want to pursue continu-
ing education, we also wanted to give
back to employees who are currently
using their degree to care for our com-
munity every day,” said Manny Gonza-
lez, vice president of Human Resources
at Holy Name. “It’s great to be able to
help lift that financial burden.”
The contribution from Holy Name is
an additional payment designed to help
pay off student loans faster and to save
on interest. It does not replace regular
monthly payments.
“We are thrilled to offer this chance
to help reduce student loan debt for our FIND A WAY TO
employees and will continue to come up
with innovative ways to support the staff
who support our mission. It’s one of the
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many reasons why this place is differ-
ent,” said Gonzalez. HNMC FOR YOU.
community education and support Let us help you find the best fit for your
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“We believe that adding a program budget. Make a safe investment with as
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• Blueberries — Contain antioxidants
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Dr. Gerald Portman brings his urology expertise
to Englewood Health Physician Network and Englewood Hospital
D
r. Gerald Portman, a urologist, has joined
the Englewood Health Physician Network
and Englewood Hospital. Dr. Portman’s pri-
mary clinical interests are urologic oncology,
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including cancers of the bladder, kidney, prostate, and tes- as in MRI-ultrasound fusion-guided prostate biopsy.
tis; benign prostatic hyperplasia; kidney stone disease; and “It is an honor and privilege to be able to help
men’s health. He has expertise in endourology, including patients, both medically and surgically, in a diverse
laparoscopic and robotic urologic oncologic surgery, as well and important field such as urology,” says Dr. Port-
man. “I am dedicated to helping patients understand
and evaluate their treatment options and choose the
treatment that is right for them.”
“Being part of the Englewood Health Physician
Network allows me to contribute to the broad range
of specialists that Englewood Health offers its com-
munity. In treating patients with complex conditions
of the urinary system, I collaborate with physicians
across the network through enhanced communica-
tion and a shared electronic medical record, for the
benefit of our patients.”
“I am very excited to welcome Dr. Portman to
our growing team of renowned specialists and pro-
viders,” said Dr. Steven Brower, medical director of
The Lefcourt Family Cancer Treatment and Well-
ness Center at Englewood Health. “With his addi-
tion, the Englewood Health Physician Network has
established a full-service division of both men’s and
women’s urology, with a special emphasis on pros-
tate cancer.”
Dr. Portman is board certified in urology. He
received his M.D. from SUNY Downstate College of
Medicine. He did a urology residency at Yale New
Haven Hospital, followed by a robotics and laparos-
copy fellowship at Hackensack University Medical
Center. In addition to English, he is fluent in Russian.
“The addition of Dr. Gerald Portman to our grow-
ing network expands the expertise that our organi-
zation can offer to our patients, explains Dr. Stephen
Brunnquell, president of the Englewood Health Phy-
sician Network. “As our network continues to grow,
we remain focused on ensuring that our patients
have access to leading care right here, in their own
backyard.”
Dr. Portman joins Englewood Health from Yale
To find out how Daughters of Miriam Center New Haven Hospital, where he was an assistant
may care for your loved one suffering from professor of urology. He has presented research
dementia, or for a tour of the pavilion, please on robotic and laparoscopic urologic surgery at the
contact the Admissions Department at 973-253- World Congress of Endourology in Canada and in
5358. South Africa.
No entry fee is required for admission into any To reach Dr. Portman or to find a physician at
Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute Englewood Hospital, visit englewoodhealth.org or
program or facility.
call (833) 234-2234. Englewood Hospital
We are pleased to accept Medicaid, Medicare,
private pay and managed care.
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Englewood Hospital achieves Healthgrades 2019

Patient Safety Excellence Award in critical areas

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nglewood Hospital has received the 2019 care at any Englewood Health location, and we are the occurrence of serious, potentially avoidable compli-
Patient Safety Excellence Award from delighted to receive this award,” said Warren Geller, pres- cations for patients during their hospital stay,” said Dr.
Healthgrades, placing it among the top ident and CEO of Englewood Health. Brad Bowman, chief medical officer of Healthgrades.
10 percent of hospitals in the nation for “We are proud to recognize the recipients of the 2019 “We applaud these hospitals and their commitment to
patient safety. Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award, which providing the best possible care for every patient.”
“Receiving the Patient Safety Excellence Award shines a spotlight on the hospitals that are preventing Englewood Health
from Healthgrades speaks to the unwavering
commitment of our entire staff to ensure that our
patients receive the safest and most patient-cen-
tered medical care,” said Kathleen Kaminsky,
senior vice president of patient care services and
chief nursing officer at Englewood Health. “Engle-
wood Health is committed to being a leader in
providing high-quality patient care with great out-
comes. We focus on ensuring safety in the care we
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During the study period (2015 to 2017), Health-
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(risk-adjusted patient safety indicator rates) for 14
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Healthgrades found that patients treated in hos-
pitals receiving the Patient Safety Excellence Award
were, as compared to patients at non-recipient hos-
pitals, on average:
• 55.9 percent less likely to experience an acci-
dental cut, puncture, perforation, or hemor-
rhage during medical care.
• 50.9 percent less likely to experience a col-
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• 64.4 percent less likely to experience pressure
sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital.
• 57 percent less likely to experience cathe-
ter-related bloodstream infections acquired at
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In addition, if all hospitals in the country per-

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of the 14 Patient Safety Indicators, 127,667 patient
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“Our staff are dedicated to ensuring that patients
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Until this new development, central sleep apnea has
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therapy and unresponsive to CPAP, the usual therapy
for obstructive sleep apnea.
“Treatment for this particular type of sleep apnea
has been a significant challenge over the years,” said
Dr. Barasch. “We believe that this new technology is
a major step forward that will enable us to treat these
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D’var Torah
Beha’alotcha: Final boarding call
I
am leaving.
Wait a minute. What did you say?
Yes, you heard me correctly.
The synagogue has hired a new
rabbi, my family and I are leaving New
Jersey to return to Australia, and this
d’var Torah will be my last one printed
in the Jewish Standard as rabbi of Tem-
ple Avodat Shalom.
In my own congregation, my exit, my
“leaving” has been a bittersweet process.
But for many people reading this article,
the impact of my departure will be min-
imal to non-existent. Rabbis come and
go. People get promoted, change jobs,
and sadly, lose and search for employ-
ment every single day. Some readers have
never and will never meet me.
Nevertheless, just the usage of the
word “leaving” can cause a surge of
emotions and memories. According to
William Bridges in his book “Managing
Transitions: Making the Most of Change,”
“When endings take place, people get
angry, sad, frightened, depressed, and
confused. These emotional states can
be mistaken for bad morale, but they
aren’t. They are the signs of grieving, the
natural sequence of emotions people go
through when they lose something that
matters to them” (Kindle Locations 644-
46). Moses struggles with these very
emotions — his own, those of the Isra-
elites, and God’s — in this week’s Torah
portion, Parashat Beha’alotcha.
Continuing their quest
from Egypt to the Prom-
ised Land, the Israelites
appear to turn against God
and Moses. Yet in chapter
11 of the book of Numbers,
the Torah provides signals
that the Israelites are not
engaged in any evil or vin-
dictive behaviour. Rather, Rabbi Paul
they are exceptionally sad. Jacobson
First, the Torah explains Temple Avodat
va-yitzak ha-am, the peo- Shalom, River
ple “were distressed” or Edge, Reform
“cried out” (Numbers 11:2).
By verse 4, the Israelites
are sitting and crying, by verse 5 they
are lamenting their memories of the
food that they used to eat in Egypt, and
in verse 6 they confess v’ata nafsheinu
y’veisha, “and now our souls have dried
up.” Each of these statements is an
expression of grief, longing, and nostal-
gia for what they once had and do not
possess in the present moment in the
wilderness.
Separate to the Israelites’ sadness,
Moses expresses his grief through
anger. He accuses God directly of lay-
ing the burden of the people upon him.
He doesn’t understand why he alone
must carry this people, “as a nursing-fa-
ther carries the sucking child” and why
leadership is his responsibility and his
responsibility alone. He is infuriated by
the weight of his obliga-
tions (11:11-14).
Neither Moses nor God
seem to show any com-
passion for the Israelites
in their emotional out-
burst. Moses wishes that
he could be relieved of
his duties and God goes
into “solve-it fix-it” mode,
by providing more than
enough food for the Isra-
elites to eat, as a means
of chastising them for
even suggesting that they
did not possess sufficient
rations (11:18-20). Apparently, the peo-
ple’s outpouring of grief is wholly prob-
lematic for both Moses and God!
But it needn’t be. The people want
Moses to listen to them. Moses wants
God to listen to him. And God, well,
maybe God wants someone to listen to
God. Not react. Not solve. Not fix. Not
change. Not meet with an overabun-
dance of food. And certainly not meet
with anger or punishment. Just listen.
Just accept. Meet with empathy. Meet
without judgment and let it be.
Leaving Egypt and leading the people
out of Egypt provide their own moments
of transition and present their own chal-
lenges that must be met effectively. As
Bridges writes, “The single biggest rea-
son organizational changes fail is that
no one has thought about endings or
planned to manage their impact on
people. Naturally concerned about the
future, planners and implementers all
too often forget that people have to let
go of the present first. They forget that
while the first task of change manage-
ment is to understand the desired out-
come and how to get there, the first task
of transition management is to convince
people to leave home” (Kindle Locations
835-39). It would appear that Moses and
God needed to help the Israelites leave
Egypt emotionally before the people
would ever be ready to wander in the
wilderness or even arrive into the Prom-
ised Land.
Grieving is a natural part of leaving.
People have stopped to ask me, “What
are you going to do next?” And I have
responded with a few of my career
goals, my acknowledgment that life in
Australia will be different than it is here
in New Jersey, and that as I begin to put
feelers out for further employment,
that I plan to sit with my feelings too
and grieve that I am no longer a rabbi
in this community, which I can only do
when I no longer hold the identity of “a
rabbi in this community.”
Leaving.
It is not just the people whom we leave
who are impacted. We are affected as
well and we need to meet our emotions
too, rather than leave them behind.

Father of Jewish Sandy Hook victim Jersey Jewish

wins lawsuit against denial authors
MARCY OSTER
The father of a Sandy Hook Elementary School
massacre victim won a defamation lawsuit
against the authors of a book that denied the
2012 shooting took place.
Lenny Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah
was the youngest victim in the attack by a lone
gunman at the Connecticut school, filed the suit
against the publisher Moon Rock Books and the
authors of “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook.” The
publisher said it would no longer sell the book.
It is one of at least nine cases with Pozner,
who is Jewish, as the lead plaintiff against those
who deny the school massacre took place. The
suits have been filed in federal and state courts
in Connecticut, Florida, Texas and Wisconsin,
according to the Associated Press.
A Wisconsin judge ruled Monday that Pozner
had been defamed by authors James Fetzer and
gay conversion group
Mike Palacek. A trial to decide damages has
been set for October.
ordered shut
The book claimed, for example, that Noah’s A New Jersey judge ordered an according to NJ.com.
death certificate had been faked, and the child old Jersey City-based Jewish A r t hu r G o l d b e r g a n d
in fact never existed, and that Pozner and the gay conversion therapy orga- Elaine Berk, the organiza-
parents of the other victims were what they call nization using a new name to tion’s co-founders, have been
“crisis actors.” shut down permanently. collecting fees to refer clients
“My face-to-face interactions with Mr. Jews Offering New Alter- to other groups that offer gay
Pozner have led me to believe that Mr. Pozner natives to Homosexuality, or conversion therapy. Bari-
is telling the truth about the death of his son,” JONAH, settled with former sio ordered them to refund
Dave Gahary, the principal officer at Moon clients in a 2015 lawsuit and any money they have made
Rock Books, said in a statement. “I extend agreed to stop its discredited through JIFGA and cease all
my most heartfelt and sincere apology to the gay conversion counseling. operations within 30 days.
Pozner family.” But it has since been oper- According to court testi-
Pozner, joined by other parents of Sandy Hook ating under a new name — mony, JONAH told clients to
victims, filed a lawsuit last year against radio talk Jewish Institute for Global undress in front of each and
show host Alex Jones, the backer of the conspira- Awareness, or JIFGA — Hud- beat effigies of their mothers
cy-driven website called Infowars, for continuing son County Superior Court to overcome sexual urges,
to insist that the attack never occurred.  Assignment Judge Peter NJ.com reported.
 JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY Barisio said in his ruling,  JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY

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 The Frazzled Housewife
It is all about dad
I
am ashamed to admit that
Father’s day was a total bust this
year. And if you would like some
proof, I can show you the bag
filled with unsigned Father’s Day cards.
Extremely poor showing — we might
possibly be switched to another family.
Wouldn’t it be nice if that would be the
“punishment”? Your family misses an
important and relevant life event, you
call social services, and they come and
place you with a family whose parents
also had to go away for doing some-
thing ridiculous. Probably something
like making them choose to study for
a test, when Central Park is right in
their backyard.
This is how I see this holiday. Please cards are usually spot on, because he is
forgive me if I offend anything that is
part of your belief system.
Every day of the week is
Father’s Day. Why, you
might ask. Well, let’s just
figure this out. In most
homes (and I am referring
to most homes in the area
I live in. This isn’t based on
anything specific, anything
I know about, or really any-
thing at all, so everyone Banji
just take a deep breath and Ganchrow
remain calm.) the dad goes
to work. He works very
hard to earn money to pay the bills, do
nice special treats for his family (and
his wife if he is smart). He gets his rou- #1. We ordered him a pair of socks with
tine down, meeting new friends, etc.
He comes home from work and his wife
who “doesn’t work” has cleaned and
ironed all of his shirts and pants. She
also has gone to four different super-
markets to find certain things that her
husband likes. She has cleaned all of the waiting room? And asking questions is
bathrooms, made the beds, made din-
ner, made extra dinner for any unex-
pected guests…. You get the point.
He is fed three meals a day. One or
two are at work, and the rest are sup-
plied by Wife #1. Who also has his robe
and slippers waiting for him every day
when he gets home. I also bring him the
paper and a lovely Cuban cigar. Wait, is
this Father’s Day or April Fool’s Day??
But I really am good with taking care of
him, because he takes care of me by let-
ting me do the things I need to do. And
never making fun of me to my face.
Truth is, I am Wonder Woman, just
with really large arms. We call them
batwings, and it is just another beauti-
ful term for “Hey lady, are you hiding
small children under your arms?” Ya,
the comments are really heartwarming,
but who really cares?
So when actual Father’s Day arrives, I meaning of life really is…
Kosher Crossword
“GOING LOONEY” BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
I also bring him
the paper and
a lovely Cuban
cigar. Wait, is
this Father’s
Day or April
Fool’s Day??
feel the only thing that is different is that
we need to give Husband #1 cards. The
a really great dad, and the jokes about
fixing things around the
house are hysterical,
because as smart as he
is, he has little aptitude
for household situa-
tions. Ya, whatever. We
will cross those bridges
when we come to them. Across Down
So, Father’s Day. I did 1. iPhone carrier, initially 1. European high point
not get my own father a 4. Unlikely clothes for Bezos 2. “The Way,” to the Chinese
present this year, but his 8. Goes in head first 3. Terrapins
unsigned cards also are 14. Chief Rabbi of Israel
15. False god
4. Made steak with Jake, perhaps
5. Jewish frat
in the bag. And I will just
16. Life is one 6. There’s one on this page
have to hope that my 17. He could be served at a seder, but 7. Droop
charm and wit will win him over. In any hopefully not served at a seder? 8. “Peanuts” cartoonist
case, we did get a present for Husband 19. “Transformers” brand 9. Be ahead
20. Bashful 10. Taxing abbreviation?
the kids’ pictures on them. Yes, when 21. Coffee 11. The Talmud is full of them
22. A year in Brazil 12. Deeply serious
you go to google and type in “socks with
23. “Blue Chips” star 13. John B of song
kids pictures on them,” it is absolutely 25. Sacred name at Camden Yards 18. Toy with a tail
amazing what you will find. You could 26. Put one’s foot down? 21. Peace Nobelist Nelson
be sitting in a waiting room, waiting. 27. The impatient might want him to 23. Org. concerned about leaks
(What are our other choices to do in a lead a High Holiday service? 24. Back (out)
31. @@@ 25. Chills
32. ESPN commentator, familiarly 26. BBQ plate side
just annoying…)
33. They make a scene 28. Trap to shut?
In any event, the day is over. Hus- 34. He might counteract besamim? 29. 2009 AL Cy Young winner Zack
band#1 did love the socks and wore 37. Kind of Torah 30. Kind of bandage
them on Shabbos. I am sure he will 39. Bit of land 34. Make like Mahomes
like his cards if they ever get signed — 40. “Children ___ Lesser God” 35. Lumber tree
and that we will be having the boys all 43. Satan in Hobart? 36. What the confident use for puz-
47. When trains are due: Abbr. zles
together for this coming weekend. I
48. B’way buy 37. Former Empire
know he will really like that, because 49. A Silver one might pop up on your 38. City just north of Tel Aviv
those events are few and far between, phone 40. Do too much on stage
and they are more precious than any 50. End to para or poly 41. Needled tree
gift. And if you are a sleep-deprived 51. 1973 Court decision alias 42. ___-rock
young mother reading this, who is 52. Israeli juice chain 44. Makes amends
54. Bezos’s river? 45. Do a little of this, a little of that
thinking that she will never be able to
56. Jew who voiced 17, 27, 34, & 46. It has two lameds in its name
go to the bathroom, for as long as she 43-Across 47. “Gadzooks!”
wants, ever again — well, don’t even 59. River that Vienna and Budapest 51. The High Priest wore one
blink, because that just goes by way too are on 52. More than modify
fast. I mean waaayy too fast! 60. Kind of statue 53. Mr. Musk
61. Barbecue leftover 55. Cozbi’s father, in the Bible
62. Catches 56. Harvard Univ. neighbor
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is sleep-
63. Coloring 57. Nomination
deprived because she lays in bed with her 64. NFL goals 58. Letterman’s letters, once
eyes open, trying to figure out what the
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 50.
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and after the 8:05 and August. Popcorn
Mincha, his topic will and ice cream. 558
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Search of a Meaningful (201) 560-0200 or
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chamber musician,
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23 25th anniversary with a gala concert, “Honoring Our

Founders,” at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
Charity bike ride/
hike: Jewish Family
& Children’s Services
for the for the Passaic
County Historical
Society’s Lambert
at 7 p.m. The concert will celebrate the people who worked together of Northern New Castle Concert series,
to create the Shirah Choir and to enable it to thrive — visionary Jersey sponsors at Lambert Castle,
JFCS Wheels-for- 5 p.m. 3 Valley Road,.
donors Bernie and Ruth Weinflash (z”l), founding conductor Matthew Meals — Ride to Fight Limited seating;
Lazar, and the JCC’s former CEO, Avi A. Lewinson. The program will Hunger, beginning doors open at 4:30.
feature the world premiere of “Do Justice” by Benjie Ellen Schiller, and ending at Temple (973) 247-0085 or
Emanu-El of Closter, lambertcastle.org.
commissioned in memory of Bernie and Ruth Weinflash to honor this 180 Piermont Road.
anniversary. A post-concert dessert reception, underwritten by the This year also features
Tuesday 
a 2.4-mile hike. Bike
Weinflash family, follows. Go to jccotp.org/Thurnauer, call (201) 408- rentals available, JUNE 25
1465, or stop by the JCC’s front desk. (201) 568-9372.
(201) 837-9090 or Survivor webinar:
RidetoFightHunger. Sharsheret presents
Report and is Israel and Tiferet Seminary com. “Get Personal: Body
Friday  editor for Moment
Magazine. 115 Park Ave.
in Beit Shemesh is the
scholar-in-residence Old Jewish radio
Image, Sexuality
and the Impact of
JUNE 21 Dinner reservations, at Congregation Beth broadcast in Franklin Cancer,” a national
(201) 659-4000 or Aaron. At 9 p.m., Lakes: Temple webinar featuring
Shabbat in Hoboken: hobokensynagogue. 11th-grade to college- Emanuel of North psychotherapist
Journalist Eetta Prince- org. aged girls are invited Jersey plays some of Rachel Hercman,
Gibson discusses to a special oneg the surviving 1930s plastic surgeon Dr.
“Dilemmas of a Jewish Shabbat in Teaneck: Shabbat with Rabbi and 1940s Jewish B. Aviva Preminger,
Journalist in Israel” at Temple Emeth offers Landau at the home radio broadcast and a Sharsheret peer
the United Synagogue musical services with of Chaviva and Rabbi recordings of Yiddish supporter who will
of Hoboken, during the Temple Emeth Rabbi Yehoshua Larry Rothwachs, playwright, actor, tell her story. 8 p.m.;
services, 7 p.m. Band, Cantor Ellen 288 Schley Place. On and linguist Nahum Q&A session follows.
Shabbat dinner and Tilem, and Rabbi
Landau Stutchkoff, 2 p.m.
Shabbat in the shul, Transcript and audio
Q&A follows. Ms. Steven Sirbu, 8 p.m. at 7:05 p.m., he will Temple Emanuel’s recording available
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Prince-Gibson is the 1666 Windsor Road. discuss “Happy Are archivist Charlie Sokol afterward. sharsheret.
Rabbi Yehoshua
former editor-in-chief (201) 833-1322 or We! How goodly is Our added a descriptive org.
Landau of Yeshivat
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Wednesday
JUNE 26
Prearranging a
funeral: Gutterman
and Musicant, Jewish
funeral directors in
Hackensack, presents
a seminar, “Your Life.
Your Legacy – Plan to
Make it Right,” at the
Westwood Woman’s
Club, 6 p.m. Dinner.
205 Kinderkamack
Road, Westwood.
Reservations,
Patrick Biondo,
(201) 489-3800, ext.
111.
Thursday
JUNE 27
Medical ethics
and Jewish law in
Hackensack: The
Rabbi Meeka Simerly
Morning study in
Wayne: Rabbi Meeka
Simerly holds a study
session “The Writings
– Megillot, Song of
Songs, Psalms,” at
Temple Beth Tikvah,
11 a.m. Coffee. 950
Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or
templebethtikvahnj.
org.
Friday
JUNE 28
Shabbat in Mahwah:
Rabbi David J. Fine
American Jewish
history: The CSI
Scholar Fund of the
JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom presents
Entertainer Nick Kroll
will play bergenPAC
Actor, writer, and producer Nick Kroll performs at
bergenPAC on Sunday, July 14, at 8 p.m. For tickets, go
to ticketmaster.com or call bergenPAC’s box office at
(201) 227-1030.
visiting scholar Rabbi
David J. Fine of
Temple Israel & JCC
in Ridgewood, with a
new series, “American
Jewish History.”
Refreshments at
12:30 p.m., program at
12:45. Series continues
July 11, 18, 25, and
August 1. Each self-
contained lecture
focuses on a chapter
of Jonathan D. Sarna’s
book “American
Judaism.” The series
begins with “American
Judaism Matures in the
Nineteenth Century,
Facing Challenges of
Unity and Disunity in
the Nation and Its Own
Ranks” (chapter 3).
1449 Anderson Ave.,
Fort Lee. (201) 947
1735 or geshershalom.
org.
Center for Bioethics
and the Department
of Academic Affairs at
Hackensack Meridian
Health – Hackensack
University Medical
Center offer a program,
“From Before Life Until
After Death: Medical
Ethics and Jewish Law
in Conversation,” with
Dr. Hannah I. Lipman,
Rabbi Dr. Edward
Reichman, and Dr.
Michael Stifelman, at
Chabad of Hackensack.
CME accredited.
Registration/
refreshments,
5:30 p.m.; program
at 6. 280 Summit
Ave. Reservations,
EthicsConversation.
com.
Temple Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom holds its
second annual Pride
Shabbat service,
themed “Sanctuary
For All,” and dedicated
to the LGBTQ+
Calendar
community, 7:30 p.m.
Oneg Shabbat follows. Broadway songs in New City
280 Ramapo Valley
Road. (201) 512-1983 or The New City Jewish Center offers American musical theater songbook.
bethhaverimshirshalom. “Broadway Sings America” on Sun- A dessert reception will following
org.
day, June 30, at 2 p.m.; doors open at the performance. For more informa-
1:30. The performance is presented by tion email the event organizer, Fran
Sunday congregant Nancy Feldman and the Satran, at fransatran@gmail.com. The
JUNE 30 award-winning Bergen County Players, New City Jewish Center is at 47 Old
a repertory company based in Oradell. Schoolhouse Road, New City, N.Y. For
Garage sale in New
It’s a celebration of Independence more information, call (845) 638-9600
City: The Nanuet
Hebrew Center has a Day and will include classics from the or go to NewCityJC.org.
multi-family garage
sale, rain or shine,
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Rent
a space for $25.
Tables available to
rent, $5. Also July French-Israeli billionaire
Patrick Drahi buys Sotheby’s
28 and August 18.
411 South Little Tor
Road, off Palisades
Interstate Parkway,
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exit 10, New City, N.Y. i24 News network.
(845) 708-9181 or French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi Drahi will take Sotheby’s private
nanuethc.org. is buying Sotheby’s auction house for after 31 years as a public company.
$2.7 billion. Between 1983 and 1988 it was owned
Drahi, who also will take on the by Michigan shopping-mall tycoon A.
Singles company’s $1 billion Alfred Taubman, who
debt, is an avid art col- was convicted in 2001
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Sunday lector, and “a long- and jailed for nearly
JUNE 23 time client and lifetime a year for his role in
admirer” of Sotheby’s, a price-fixing scheme
Seniors meet in West the French news agency with the Christie’s auc-
Nyack: Singles 65+
AFP reported. tion house.
meets for a social
get-together at Drahi, 55, who lives in Last year, the New
the JCC Rockland, Switzerland, also holds York-based Sotheby’s
11 a.m. Everyone Portuguese citizenship. sold $6.4 billion in art,
welcome, particularly Forbes magazine esti- up 16 percent from the
from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or mates his fortune at $9.1 Patrick Drahi previous year; $220.4
Rockland counties. billion. million of that was sold
Refreshments. 450 Drahi was born in Casablanca, online, the Wall Street Journal reported.
West Nyack Road. Morocco, to Jewish parents. He Drahi reportedly collects works
Gene, (845) 356-5525.
moved to France when he was by 19th and 20th century artists and
15, made his fortune in cable and admires Impressionist art. Accord-
Sunday mobile phones, and owns 75 per- ing to the Wall Street Journal, he sees
JUNE 30 cent of Numericable, France’s larg- art as a refuge from the day-to-day
est cable operator, as well as the stresses of corporate battle.
Dance in Clifton:
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Center, hosts a dance
with DJ entertainment, Israeli fencer makes history with
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a short lesson on European championship win
Israeli folk dancing, Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich, 24, took
6:30-9:30 p.m. 18
the gold medal in the European Fencing
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Yuval Freilich, ranked 40th in the
world, beat out Italy’s Andrea Santarelli,
who is ranked at 13, to take first place at
the elite competition.
“It’s the most incredible feeling,” the
24 year-old said in an interview posted to Yuval Freilich, 24, won the
Facebook by the European Fencing Con-
federation. “Really a fantastic day. Every-
European Fencing Championship
on June 18, 2019, becoming the
thing connected, the fencing, the energy, first Israeli to do so.
the feeling. It just all came together and
this is what came out. Amazing, really unbelievable feeling.”
A son of Australian Jewish immigrants to Israel, Freilich grew up in Neve Daniel
and has been fencing since he was five years old.
In 2014 and 2015, Freilich won gold medals in teen championships, and he won a
silver medal in the under-23 category in 2016. JNS.ORG
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Obituaries/World News
Gertrude Hecht
Gertrude Hecht of New Milford, NJ, died on June
4, 2019. Gertrude, 97 ½, passed away peacefully at
home surrounded by her loving family. Gertrude was
an amazing, principled woman who was loved and
respected by many. The daughter of the late Blanche
Fassler Taub and Benjamin David Fassler, Gertrude
was married to the late Murray Hecht for 44 years.
Together, they were founding members of the New
Milford Jewish Center and Gertrude remained an
involved member of its community for over 50 years.
Gertrude was also a founding member of Tri-Boro
Hadassah and proudly served on the boards of both the
YJCC of Washington Township and Bergen County
Board of Senior Services. As demonstrated through her
lifetime of volunteerism and philanthropy, Gertrude
made it her purpose to always support, acknowledge,
and uplift those in need.
While fulfilled by her work, faith, and volunteerism,
Gertrude’s proudest role in life was being mother to
“her girls,” Belinda Hecht (Howard Youngman) and
Sisalee Hecht (Stephen Cosloy). She and her husband,
Murray, were the best parents any daughters could
have wished for. Gertrude was also loved by her
adoring grandchildren Gillian, Asher, Jaime, Seth,
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Michael Eckstein
Michael Eckstein, 74, of Hopatcong, formerly of the
Bronx, died June 11.
A U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, he was
active in the Vietnam Veterans of America and worked
at Kulite Semiconductor for over 40 years, retiring as
CFO.
He is survived by his wife, Susan, née Segal, children,
Craig (Tricia), Matt ( Jim), and Cindi; a brother, Stanley;
four grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair
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Andrew, Shiran, Glenn, Jenna, and Gregg and great-
granddaughters, Mazal (Mimi) and Dalia. She took
great pride in all and instilled a sense of integrity and
responsibility in each of them. She was a formidable
presence in their lives and stressed accountability for
one’s actions, kindness to others, and a strong sense of
Jewish faith.
Gertrude is also survived by sister, Rita Elmer,
loving nephews, Benn, Shaw and Matthew and nieces
Devorah, Dale and Dawn and their families, and dear
friend Wendy McCoy. Gertrude was predeceased by
her sister Claire Meistrich (Phil).
The family wishes to extend heartfelt thanks for
the loving care given to Mom by Comfort Owasu,
Mary Marshall, Jennifer Bour, Fanny Guevara and to
Vitas Hospice for their continued support and gentle
and loving care. The family also wishes to extend
deep appreciation to Rabbi Debra Orenstein for
the friendship, love, and spiritual guidance that she
provided to Mom and our family.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
Funeral Home, Hackensack. Donations can be made
to Congregation B’nai Israel, Emerson, NJ 07630 or a
charity of your choice.
Selma Gould
Selma Vera Gould, 93, of Fair Lawn died June 17.
She was a clerk for the New Jersey Division of
Taxation in Fair Lawn for 31 years and a former member
of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center.
Predeceased by her husband, Alvin, she is survived
by children, April Judge (Patrick) of Fair Lawn,
Ira (Danielle) and Joel (Irmina), of Illinois; seven
grandchildren, and two great- grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Life Source Hospice,
Oradell. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
FBI brings Muslim, Jewish, Christian leaders
together to share security information
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — The FBI
convened a round table meet- A session was dedicated to
ing of leaders of Muslim, Jew-
ish and Christian groups to
identifying potential attackers.
discuss means of preventing bias-based attacks on
religious institutions.
The meeting at FBI headquarters in Washington
appeared to be the first of its kind; the FBI has con-
vened similar forums for Jewish groups. There has
been broader awareness of the danger facing faith
groups with the deadly attacks over the last year on
synagogues in the United States, mosques in New Zea-
land, and churches in Sri Lanka.
A session was dedicated to identifying potential
attackers. A special agent broke down data analyzing
63 recent active shooting incidents. There was no sin-
gle warning sign, although a number of factors were
shared by a majority of the attackers, including being
male (94 percent), single (57 percent), and having
mental health issues (62 percent).
In the session where participants shared tips,
Gerald Greenblatt
Gerald “Jerry” Greenblatt, 86, of Fair Lawn, died June
17.
A Rutgers College graduate, he was an active member
of the Benjamin N. Cardozo Knights of Pythias Lodge
#163 in Fair Lawn.
Predeceased by his wife, Ruth, he is survived by
children, Susanne and Kenneth; a brother, Milton
(Phyllis), and two grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Valley Hospital
Hospice, Paramus. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Evelyn Holt
Evelyn Ruth Blankenstein Holt, 87, of Ormond
Beach, Fla., died June 16.
She worked for Mart Department Store and Air
Brook Limo Service, both in Paterson, and was
active
in Congregation B’nai Torah, Ormond Beach.
Predeceased by sisters, Frances Basen
(Seymour), Ileane Lockwood (Clifford), and
Bernice Germain, she is survived by brothers,
Jerome Rubin (Helene) and Philip Rubin (Nancy);
nephews and nieces, and grand-nephews and
nieces.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
David Pacheco
David Pacheco, 36, of Belleville, formerly of
Bloomfield, died June 13.
A computer programmer, he is survived by
his parents, Moises and Sigrid, brother, Daniel;
grandmother, Mercedes Valencia; aunt, Betty Corina
Carrasco, and cousin, Sarah Vasquez.
Donations can be sent to the American Cancer
Society. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
differences of approach emerged. Whereas Michael
Masters, who heads the Secure Community Network,
the security umbrella for national and regional Jew-
ish groups, emphasized the benefits of information
sharing with police, Salam Al-Marayati, the president
of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said Muslims
tended to still be wary of law enforcement because
of perceptions that police profiled Muslims after the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Kerry Sleeper, the FBI’s assistant director for part-
ner development, advised participants to watch the
news for developments that could portend threats; he
noted, for instance, with rising tensions in the Persian
Gulf between the United States and Iran, the likeli-
hood of attacks stateside by Hezbollah, a Lebanese
terrorist group aligned with Iran, was increasing.
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HOUSE CALLS
No broker involved
EDITH LANK
Ms. Lank: I have a family member
who would like to buy my senior par-
ents’ home in a closed sale (without
a real estate agent) to avoid commis-
sions. What are the pros and cons
of such an arrangement? I’m a lit-
tle wary of not including an experi-
enced professional. Thank you.  - W.
Answer: Both parties can take
appropriate precautions, and there’s
no reason why they can’t settle the
matter without employing real estate
agents. While brokers are skilled in
bringing the parties to agreement,
their main job is to help find the
desired house and the desired buy-
ers — both of which you already have.
The big agreement, of course, will
be on purchase price. Agents arrive
at a suggested figure by analyzing
recent nearby sales, which your
relatives can do on the internet.
Understand that an oral agreement
is not binding, but it can be used as
basis for a written purchase and sale
document.
You live in a state where it’s cus-
tomary to use lawyers for real estate
closings. If your folks live there — or
even if they don’t — your family mem-
ber can obtain a blank offer form from
his or her attorney, and advice, before
signing and presenting the offer. Your
parents should have their own law-
yer’s opinion on the document before
accepting it — which would be done,
again, in writing.
Older Homes
Dear Edith: My wife and I hope to
buy an older home, maybe even
more than a century old. Is there
anything special we should watch
out for? We’ll appreciate anything
you can tell us. 
 - F. D.
Answer: Many homes built around
1900 didn’t have any electric ser-
vice. If the home hasn’t been
updated since the service was later
installed, it can be inadequate for
much beyond the light bulbs, refrig-
erator and flatiron it was originally
designed for.
The proliferation of appliances
these days call for lots of available
service and plenty of outlets. You’ll
want 220-volt outlets for electric
stoves, some clothes dryers and air
conditioning.
Small rooms should have at least
one outlet on each wall. On longer
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walls, look for an outlet at least every
12 feet so that any six-foot cord can
be plugged in without using an
extension cord. Be alert for any tan-
gle of extension cords, which can sig-
nal inadequate outlets.
If you find circuit breakers in the
fuse box, you’ll know the service was
updated at some point.
More expensive to remedy than
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354 Maple Street
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develop hardening of the arteries, as houses of worship, transportation and shopping. $1,499,000
deposits build up on the inside until
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This happens first with the hor-
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checking outward from the hot water
heater. What you don’t want to see
is a patch job, where a single emer-
gency was solved by putting a length
of copper pipe into old galvanized
tubing. Such a joint signals a serious
chemical reaction ahead. Eventu-
ally, someone will have to rip out the
whole line and replace it with cop-
per, and that someone might be you.
If the house you eventually hope
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The other side of the cork: Flam Winery: A family affair
YAEL E. GELLER
The foundation of the Flam
family business and culture
are not an anomaly when it
comes to the typical picture
of a family business.
It’s the same old story of
a man, his wife, and chil-
dren following in his foot-
steps to establish a success-
ful lucrative business, which
provides a service or prod-
uct to the world in enough
demand to continue to suc-
cessfully create and fulfill
the demand. Sounds totally
wonderful and typically bor-
ing, except the story of the Flam fam-
ily winery is not one that is boring or
typical at all.
Most people don’t do anything for
more than 10-20 years in their lives,
but the Flam family patriarch has
been working with vines for over 50
years. Israel Flam graduated as the
first Israeli to attend UC Davis’s Viti-
culture and Oenolo�y school in 1968.
In the 1970s, Israel left California
and was appointed as the head wine-
maker at Carmel Winery, the largest
winery in Israel. In subsequent years,
he met his wife Kami and his two
sons and daughter were born. Golan,
Gilad, and Gefen all played respective
roles in the eventual establishment of
Flam winery. The idea for the winery
was a dream Golan had during his
first winemaking gig in the Tuscany
region of Italy. His brother Gilad had
come for a visit to see how his brother
was getting along making wine at one
of the most prestigious wine houses
in the world. Everywhere the broth-
ers turned there were breathtaking
views of vineyards, which they kept
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drinking in until they realized their
own dream.
Gilad is meticulous with his vine-
yards with an intimate knowledge of
each region’s vines. Winemaking is
not just about crushing some grapes,
throwing them in a barrel and hop-
ing for the best. The involvement of
the winemaker in every minuscule
nuance is key to creating a memora-
ble bottle of wine, according to Gilad.
It starts with the soil then caring for
each and every vine with precision,
utilizing technolo�y, learn skill, just
plain old intuition observing the
region’s climate.
Locating and selecting the per-
fect region and soil for planting the
vineyards was tasked to Golan. He
spent many months scouring Israel
from north to south and east to west
looking for the best plots to make
his vision a reality. Finding the right
plots and establishing an understand-
ing with the vine-grower, deciding
on which particular species to plant
and hope that you made all the right
decision along the way, is something
that is unique to Israeli wineries. In
old world European wineries, the
vines are hundreds of years old
with the perfect soil and climate
to cultivate the species of grapes
renown to that region.
The traditions of this fam-
ily run thicker than blood, or
wine. Each member of the fam-
ily has their respective areas of
expertise. Israel assists in the
winemaking operations, Kami is
in charge of the finances as the
CFO, Gilad is the CEO who over-
ROYAL WINE
sees the entire project, Golan is
the head winemaker, and Gefen
takes care of the marketing as the
brand manager. In 2010, the Flam
winery located in the Judean
Hills became kosher certified and began
exporting their European style Israeli
wines all around the world.
Looking ahead to the future for the
Flam winery, we look at the past and con-
tinue building on the foundations estab-
lished by European styled wineries. Six
NEW CONSTRUCTION
hundred acres of new vines have been
planted in the Even Sapir region stretch-
ing from the Judean Hills to the moun-
tains of Jerusalem and are in the works
for the next several years. We will also be
seeing a new premium oaked white wine
named Camellia this summer.
The winery itself, located in Eshtaol,
has vineyards surrounding a beautiful
decked in area which is perfect for a pic-
nic or small reception. Flam has offer-
ings for every palate. The wines are lush
and balanced with the perfect amounts
of acidity and structure. It takes many
years to establish vines and create excel-
lent wines and finally after nearly 20
years in 2008, the flagship wine Flam
Noble was born.
The Noble 2013 made history when
the most well-known wine critics in the
world rated the wine as good as or bet-
ter than the most prestigious wines of
Bordeaux. Noble is a wine with an Israeli
heart and a noble spirit much like the
Flam family. L’chaim!
2 NEW HOMES
5 Bedroom, 4 Bath on 100 x 150 lot
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Spring, summer, and then

Presentation of check to Bergen Family Center’s HIPPY Program. From left,
Steve Wiessner, executive director of Flat Rock Brook Nature Center and chair
of the Englewood Rotary Grants Committee; Mitch Schonfeld, CEO of Bergen
Family Center; and Janet Sharma, President of the Englewood Rotary Club.
Englewood Rotary awards grants
The Rotary Club of Englewood has
awarded grants to several organizations
that provide important services to resi-
dents of Englewood.
Utilizing funds donated and raised
through its annual Community Awards
Dinner, which this March honored 15
Englewood civic leaders in their 90s,
Rotary has presented the following local
grants:
Bergen Family Center’s HIPPY Pro-
gram (Home Instruction for Parents of
Pre-School Youngsters), in Englewood:
$5,250 to help parents help their young
children with school readiness.
in Mackay Park, in Englewood: $2,980
for the Skating Scholars program, which
provides after-school skating sessions
and lessons for middle school students.
JCC on the Palisades Thurnauer Music
School, in Tenafly: $3,000 to support
Englewood students’ participation in
music programming.
“The motto of Rotary is ‘service above
self,” says Janet Sharma, president of
Englewood Rotary for the 2018-19 year
ending June 30. “And we are proud to
support local organizations as well as
important international projects. Funds
that we raise in the community are
the
Teaneck International Film Fest
Plans are beginning to firm up for the
14th annual Teaneck International
Film Festival, November 14 through 17.
“It will again address vital issues
related to the theme, ‘Activism: Mak-
ing Change,’ said Jeremy Lentz, the
festival’s executive director. “As we
face threats to women’s rights, equal
justice for all, the environment,
health care, and to the very future of
our democracy, we will present films
and talkbacks that inspire discussion,
involvement, and action.”
TIFF has a new partnership with
HBO, which has signed on as a major
sponsor, joining many local institu-
tions and businesses who are also
supporting the TIFF at that level:
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Holy
Name Medical Center, The Jew-
ish Standard, J and J Pharmacy ,
NJTV, Teaneck Public Schools, The
Vine, Davis, Saperstein & Salomon,
Crowne Plaza / Englewood, Teaneck
Cinemas, and the angel behind TIFF
from its first day, The Puffin Foun-
dation. Matt Latten, who saved the
Teaneck Cinemas, is also behind the
Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance
Corps to hold car wash on Sunday
O n S u n d a y, t h e
Teaneck Volunteer
Ambulance Corps
revitalization of Bergenfield Cinemas,
which will be added as a TIFF venue
in November.
The National Council of Jewish
Women, Bergen County Section, and
WOW (an association of Wise Older
Women) are co-sponsoring the fea-
ture, “Ask for Jane,” about the amaz-
ing University of Chicago coeds who
began a referral service for women
seeking safe abortions in the 60s and
70s, before Roe vs. Wade legalized a
woman’s right to choose. The film is
particularly relevant at a time when
that Supreme Court decision is under
attack.
Visit www.teaneckfilmfestival.org
for a history of what has been done,
updates about November, and oppor-
tunities for individual donations and
business sponsorships. Sign up for
emails so you don’t miss anything
about films and talkbacks, special
guests, venues, tickets, and every-
thing you need to know when, for
four days, Teaneck is the center of
the film world. 
 TIFF

Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps

Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative,
in Hackensack: $3,000 to support free
medical services to low-income, working
Englewood residents who lack health
insurance.
Community Chest of Eastern Bergen
County, in Englewood: $3,000 to sup-
port a series of professional develop-
ment workshops for staff of local non-
profit organizations.
Friends of the John T. Wright Arena
returned to the community.” will hold a car wash.
Englewood Rotary is part of Rotary It will cost $5 for cars
International, a service organization and $10 for vans and
with 1.2 million members worldwide. sports utility vehi-
Englewood Rotary meets every Tuesday cles. The wash will
at 12:15 PM at the Crowne Plaza on South run from 10 a.m. to 4
Van Brunt, near Route 4. Those inter- p.m. The Corps and
ested in learning more are welcome to the wash are located
come to a meeting. Call 201-591-5162 or at 855 Windsor Road,
email englewoodnjrotary@gmail.com Teaneck.
for more information.

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