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Vigil in Park Ridge remembers Orlando victims, includes calls for reform
JOANNE PALMER
When a gunman murdered 49 people and
wounded another 53, some of them grievously, at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in
Orlando, on June 12, it is fair to say that the
whole nation went into shock.
What was behind the murderers
spree? People immediately came out
with a wide range of possible motives and
explanations, ranging from homophobia
to mental illness to Islamic terrorism to
anti-Latino bias to the lack of proper gun
control. Because the murderer attacked
an LGBTQ club on Latin night, because
he had pledged allegiance to ISIS in the
midst of his attack, because he had a
semi-automatic attack rifle, and because
it was clear both from his actions and
then from his history that he was mentally unbalanced, there was evidence for
every single one of those theories, and
probably he was motivated by more than
one of them.
So, given the horror, and given the lack
of clarity, most officials responded immediately with platitudes rather than action;
to be fair, there were not many actions that
suggested themselves immediately. But a
week or so after the carnage, it seemed to
many local religious leaders, thoughts and
prayers by themselves were not enough.
The Upper Pascack Valley Clergy Council decided to respond with a prayer
vigil last Wednesday night at the Pascack
Reformed Church in Park Ridge. During
the vigil, the dead victims were named,
one by one, and then participants were
asked to call their U.S. representative,
Scott Garret (R- 5th District) and the two
New Jersey senators, Bob Menendez and
Cory Booker, asking for help on passing
laws on background checks for would-be
gun buyers.
Because the crime was so complex, so
was the response to it, Rabbi Debra Orenstein of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson said. There were a number of different impulses. Obviously people wanted to
pray for the victims, to get together and
make a statement of solidarity and peace
in the face of violence. Solidarity with the
LGBT community and with all people of
faith. Thats how it started and thats
where it became interesting.
First, she said, the group was troubled
by the fact that all the council members
are Jewish or Christian. Thats not because
local Muslims refuse to join, but because
there are no mosques or other Islamic
organizations in the councils catchment
area. So we reached beyond our borders
to three Muslim groups we had worked
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Young Israeli LGBT equality activists lighting candles at Zion Square in Jerusalem in solidarity with the victims of the
shooting attack in Orlando on June 12.
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community is so excluded by
everyone, to make it the center.
To say that its not about terror,
not about guns, not about the
Latino community.
My initial impulse was for
greater inclusivity, she continued. The more the better, and
I saw no conflict between these
things. I have a tendency to
think about the worst-case scenario from a congregants perRabbis Deborah Orenstein and Noah Fabricant
spective. If you were the parent of an adult schizophrenic,
and your greatest fear is that one day your
with before, she said. Because it was
child will acquire a gun and commit a simiRamadan, and because there was less than
lar act, and you walk in and are told that
a weeks notice, none of them could join in
this has nothing to do with guns or mental
the evening, but it was a good thing to have
illness, its only about the LBGT commudone, she said.
nity, then we have just alienated someone
Next, there was the question of what
we didnt need to alienate.
do we mean when we say we stand with
There were other clergy who looked at
the victims, Rabbi Orenstein continued.
the same situation and said, Yes, but given
What community? Does it mean the LGBT
that the violence was directed at the LGBT
community? The Latino community? Are
community, given that it is the last comwe standing with victims of gun violence?
munity that it is safe to hate publicly, dont
It led to a good conversation among the
they need us to make them the center?
clergy. Obviously its not either/or. We want
The solution to that dilemma emerged
to stand with all these people. But there
organically; the LGBT community was at
was a felt need, perhaps because the LGBT
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Haskel Lookstein, who has retired from
both the pulpit of Congregation Kehilath
Jeshurun, the prominent Upper East Side
Orthodox synagogue, and as the head of
the Ramaz School.
Five of those distinguished people
served as judges, and Ingrid and I made the
presentation, alongside the other two, Ms.
Gafni said. Then, energized, excited, hopeful, and humbled by the breadth of wisdom
and skill theyd seen, the two educators
came home, and they waited.
I got the phone call on Tuesday night,
and I screamed so loud that they probably could hear me in Florida without the
phone, Ms. Gafni said. And then, more
soberly, she added, The main thing is
thinking about how we can make our
students and our graduates and the kids
who are going through our system really
love what they are learning, and stick to it
through their lifetimes.
It is about teaching our children with
love and compassion and understanding,
and about understanding as well that going
through the Jewish educational system is a
privilege that brings with it the added value
of truly connected kids who live authentic
Jewish lives.
The JEIC is a project of the Mayberg Family Foundation; Rabbi Shmuel Feld is the
JEICs managing director. We designed
this process to be different, Rabbi Feld
said. We figured that everyone else has
done the standard grant-giving; what we
really want to do is create a movement of
people who really know each other and
feel connected to each other. Even if they
do not get grants, they will have had a tremendous experience together.
That was our bet four years ago, and it
worked really well, so ever since, we put
a small group of intellectual, innovative,
creative, and dedicated people together,
in a place where they can only gain from
working together. We havent had a bad
year yet.
Although the process of being awarded
a JEIC is competitive, each competitor
school really is challenging and competing with itself. There is no fixed number of
finalists; similarly, there is no fixed number
of grantees. Although we have told them
several times, our finalists always are surprised to hear it directly everyone has
the opportunity to win a grant, Rabbi Feld
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Celebrating its 42nd commencement, Touro awarded
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others took that speech apart line by line; they
found that the overwhelming majority of his claims
were untrue, and others had only a modicum of
truth in them.
In a speech a few days earlier, this one to evangelical Christians, he warned against godless Hillary, saying we dont know anything about Hillary
in terms of religion.
Religion News Service has reported on Clintons
faith several times this year alone, noting that she
was, is and likely always will be, a social-justicefocused Methodist, and this has been evident
across her decades as a lawyer, first lady, senator
and secretary of state.
Time Magazine in 2014 ran an article headlined,
Hillary Clinton: Anchored by Faith.
Clinton, of course, has her own list of lies,
although not as many as her opponents claim. Still,
a lie is a lie (such as ducking under fire in Bosnia in
1994, which reportedly had Secret Service agents
laughing their faces off because they knew that
was a flat-out lie, according to one former agent).
Clintons newfound attack dog in the race is
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a possible vice presidential choice. On the stump with
Clinton this week, Warren unashamedly distorted
Trumps positions on a number of issues (which is
hard to do, considering that it is often hard to know
what Trumps positions are).
Politicians on both sides of the aisle lie routinely.
The real problem is that we seem not to care that
they do.
The Torah warns against putting a stumbling
block before the blind (see Leviticus 19.14), which,
as readers know by now, includes politicians telling
untruths in order to mislead voters.
The Torah and Oral Law, however, in their various warnings against lashon hara (bad speech),
say the one who lies is not the only one who sins.
According to the Babylonian Talmud, tractate
Pesachim 118a, Whoever relates slander, and whoever accepts slander, and whoever gives false testimony against his neighbor deserve to be thrown
to the dogs.
Halachically, then, it is as forbidden to encourage
verbal wrongs as it is to practice them.
In the case of political rhetoric, such encouragement can include voting for a candidate who lies
with impunity, and even passing along the lies to
others in order to influence them to accept the lies.
Not to vote for a candidate who lies is a tall order,
and not one that is easily filled.
There is another standard we could use in evaluating candidates, though. It is found in its original
form in Isaiah, Chapter 58. Only vote for those candidates who help you fulfill your responsibility to
loose the chains of wickedness, to undo the bands
of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and
to break every yoke; to share your bread with the
hungry[and cover] the naked....
We may not be able to avoid violating halachah
when we vote, but at least the choices we will make
will be better informed and soundly based.
Forget about taking back our country. It is time
for us to take back our politics.
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Purpose-driven work
Despite the assertion that America has a
value-less educational system, we have
data that show that millennials, some of
the most recent graduates of our schooling system, are highly purpose-driven
and want meaning in their lives. In a Fast
Company blog post written about a year
ago, Adam Smiley Poswolsky tells us that
millennials are not motivated by money.
Rather, they aim to make the world more
compassionate, innovative, and sustainable. He adds, More than 50 percent of
millennials say they would take a pay cut
to find work that matches their values,
while 90 percent want to use their skills
for good.
Poswolsky also notes that IBMs February 2015 millennial study found that
millennial career goals dont differ that
much from older generations. Baby
boomers, gen-Xers, and millennials all
want to make a positive impact on their
organization and help solve social and
environmental challenges.
In fact, not only do millennials want to
Social entrepreneurship
Perhaps one of the best paradigms of the
kind of company Poswolsky describes
and millennials seek is Toms Shoes.
Toms made social entrepreneurship
hip and cool by donating a pair of shoes
every time someone bought one of theirs.
After he made this model of buying and
giving wildly successful, Toms founder,
Blake Mycoskie, wanted to do something
new. He took a gap year and returned to
Toms not with a creative shoe idea, but
with new ideas for buying and giving:
Toms now sells coffee whose purchase
goes to providing safe access to drinking
water and eyeglasses whose purchase
goes to help those who need eyeglasses,
sight-saving surgery, or ophthalmological
care. The company also works to provide
safe births and prevent bullying. When
I browse the companys website, I keep
having to remind myself that Im not
reading the mission statement of a nonprofit organization.
Problem-based learning
One of the reasons I advocate for ProjectBased or Problem-Based Learning is that
it also steeps students in an environment
thats meaningful and contextualized. Just
as an employee at Toms knows the value of
what s/he is providing to others throughout the work day, so too in a PBL classroom students know theyre engaged in
solving a real-world problem and creating
something thats valuable in the world. At
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We were in Fort
Worth for 11 years,
and I think I was
the rst rabbi to
become president
of a Rotary Club in
the state of Texas.
Rabbi Meyer led an influential synagogue,
Communidad Bet El, in Buenos Aires, and
he also founded the Seminario Rabnico Latinoamericano, which provided Conservative
rabbis with their first two years of schooling. Rabbi Zeilicovich finished his studies and
was ordained at the Schechter Institute in
Jerusalem.
And then he, his wife, and their two young
children, Daniel, now 26, and Ruth, now 24,
went from the frying pan of Argentina to
what soon became the fire. He took a pulpit
in Medellin, Colombia, which soon became
the headquarters of Pablo Escobars drug cartel. Rabbi Zeilicovich tells stories of how dead
bodies were left in ways that conveyed messages (bound hands and a bullet to the head
meant that the police did it; a body riddled
with holes was the work of Escobars guys).
The family stayed there for six years, but it
is an understatement to say that it was not a
place to raise children. Soon the Zeilicoviches
made their way to Puerto Rico, and after three
years at a shul there, when the children were
old enough to need a bigger Jewish community, to Fort Worth, Texas.
We were in Fort Worth for 11 years,
and I think I was the first rabbi to become
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Innessa Fatakhov
Innessa Fatakhov of Fair Lawn was born in
1980, and she was 11 when she came to the
United States with her parents, her older
sister, her younger brother, and her grandmother. Thats young enough to grow up
as an American but old enough to remember where she came from.
The Fatakhovs came from Uzbekistan
in the former Soviet Union. Three of her
grandparents were from Uzbekistan they
were Bukharian Jews; her paternal grandmother was from Ukraine. There were
many Jews in Uzbekistan, but the community was fairly insular. We spoke Russian,
and theres a version of a Sephardic language, Bukharian, that my parents spoke
we kids didnt, she said. We didnt speak
Uzbek at home. We werent really considered Uzbeks, because we were Jewish.
The dispassionate sense of not belonging went both ways.
There was a trickle of Jewish immigration to Israel beginning in the early 1980s,
and anyone who could leave then did,
she said. We werent ready then, and in
the late 80s immigration was closed, so
we couldnt leave.
Ms. Fatakhovs mother, Blor Maya, was
the head obstetric nurse at the one hospital in Kokand, the small city where they
lived, and her father, Boris, managed a
factory there. The family was prosperous. We had a huge house. My mom had
the kind of job where there was a lot of
money under the table. People would
pass money and say, Please be sure to
take care of my wife.
So leaving was hard and then it was
impossible.
Her parents prepared for the time
when things would change, though. You
were allowed I believe it was 12 huge containers, that could be shipped to you in
America. For a few years, they were just
getting the containers ready. I remember them being in the house. And then,
as soon as immigration opened up again,
we were ready.
That happened in 1991, with the breakup
of the Soviet Union. Jews werent welcomed anymore, and so a lot of Jews who
had positions of authority had a hard time
keeping their jobs, Ms. Fatakhov said.
They were forced to step down. It wasnt
that they were encouraged to step down;
they were forced to do it.
The next question was where to go.
Some family members had left with the
earlier wave of immigration. My moms
family went to Israel, and my uncle went
to America, she said. He moved to Forest Hills, in Queens, which is at the center of a Bukharian community. (If you
want to sample Bukharian food, just trying wandering on Queens Boulevard.) He
said that if we came here, and we brought
money, we could open a jewelry store, so
we came here because work was kind of
guaranteed for my father, and my mother
could get her medical degree back.
She did go back to school, but she no
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The extended Fatakhov family gathers for Thanksgiving in Forest Hills. In tribute
to their dinner, they wear turkey legs a new family tradition.
And of course it
was exciting, the
idea of a new
life. Our parents
presented it to
us like it was
heaven here.
she thinks is much prettier. And she degendered her last name, taking away the
final a that told Russians that its bearer
is a woman.
She didnt feel very different once she
became a citizen, Ms. Fatakhov said. Our
lives had already evolved so much that it
really didnt make a difference. Having a
green card allows you to do everything
you want to do anyway, except vote.
Ms. Fatakhov earned a computer science degree at St. Johns University and
now works as a business analyst. She has a
10-year-old son, Alan, who goes to school
in Fair Lawn. Theyre not particularly
affiliated with the Jewish community, but
Shabbat dinner at her parents house is a
constant in their lives. My mother always
made sure that we would sit down as a
family, with all the kids, significant others,
and grandkids, she said.
Being an American, with all the rights
we have, its great. It was a great challenge
to my parents, going through immigration
Im surprised theyre still married! but
they were able to get back on their feet
and build a good life here. We all got good
educations, and knock on wood, we all do
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the police would raid domestics living
quarters at night to round up and take
away the relatives who snuck in to visit
them. I remember that theyd come
to take them away in vans with bars on
the back window, she said. Ms. Lewittes
doesnt remember any such police raids
at her house, she said, but their domestics lived in a separate building, at the
back of their garden, and recently her
mother told her that there had been at
least one such raid on their property. It
was really terrible, she said.
The public school system was absolutely fantastic, Ms. Lewittes continued;
thats where she was educated. When
I turned 18 and finished high school, I
went to the University of Witwatersrand.
The country had something like 3
million whites and 8 million blacks.
Everything was segregated, and lots of
the blacks were not educated, or had a
subpar education, so only a small perAndi, right with her daughters, Farrah, left, and Tamar.
centage of the population went to college but it was a large segment of the
affluent population.
Andi Lewittes
Witwatersrand was the liberal university, and I
Andi Jacobson Lewittes of Closter had a idyllic childjoined the social work school, which was the most libhood except for the base of human misery it was
eral of the schools on campus; I was there from 1979
built on, a base she knew nothing about for many
to 1984. Because it was a very liberal department, a
years. When she found out, of course, everything
lot of our lecturers were the people fighting against
changed.
apartheid. I would get to class and they would tell us,
Thats a roundabout way of saying that Ms. Lewittes,
Sorry, your lecturer cant come to class today. Your
who now is the director of the leadership network at
lecturer was detained.
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, was
I came from a very sheltered community, and the
born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1962, when
fieldwork that I did was in the townships. I saw things
apartheid was flourishing.
then that I hadnt known. There was censorship of the
Her parents, Mavis and Sidney, also were born in
South Africa; Ms. Lewittes knows that her fathers
mother was British and her other three grandparents
were from Lithuania, but she knows little more about
their stories.
We that would be Andi and her sister, Elyse,
who died of breast cancer in 2007 had wonderful
childhoods. We thought that we lived in a beautiful
country and aesthetically it is beautiful and we
had domestics helping us. We all turned a blind eye
to the terrible situation for black people.
The Jewish community was very, very strong,
very tight, she continued. It was really successful.
It was made up of three groups of people. One group
was really fighting for freedom and against apartheid; they joined some of the underground movements, and a lot of them were jailed or imprisoned.
Then there was the group who supported the nationalist party, the one in power, because it protected
their interests. And then there were a lot of Jews
who felt that the situation was wrong, but did nothing about it. People had very very good lives and
in fact, the Jewish community was the most affluent
one in the country.
It was a ridiculous situation. This didnt happen
in my family, but in some families you would have
domestic workers who were really part of the family, looked after the kids from morning until night,
bathed the kids, fed the kids, loved the kids, the parents had no problem leaving their kids with them
but they locked up their cupboards, lest they take an
extra cup of sugar.
Domestic workers had to have special passbooks
Rabbi Adina, left, and Andi Lewittes on a hike in
that allowed them into the white neighborhoods that
Israel last summer.
otherwise would have been off limits to them. Often
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newspapers, and the government owned
the TV station. In other words, what the
government didnt own, it censored.
You guys saw more here, on television
here, of what was going on there than we
did, she said.
Against recommendations, Ms.
Lewittes drove herself to her fieldwork.
I never went to Soweto, the black township where the anti-apartheid movement
began and where the evils of apartheid
were most visible. I went to a colored
township. In South Africas objectively
demented system, so-called colored people were of mixed racial heritage, or came
from backgrounds that were labeled neither black nor white. My parents were
not happy with it, but I went and did my
thing. I was not radicalized, but I was sensitized, and my eyes were opened to the
total inequality.
It was outrageous.
Once she graduated, a fledgling social
worker, Ms. Lewittes got a job working for
Kelly Personnel. I took it because I was
I was not
radicalized, but I
was sensitized,
and my eyes
were opened to
the total
inequality.
going to help people find jobs but it was
all sales, and I never went back to social
work. Instead, she became a headhunter,
and enjoyed her work immensely.
Ms. Lewittes then was married to a
computer programmer. Y2K was coming up, and Americans started to panic
that all their computer systems were
going to crash, she said. Y2K was the
shorthand for the turn of the millennium, the year 2000. Because computers had been programmed, 30 or 40
years earlier, without any thought to
what would happen when 19 turned to
20, if nothing were done to fix the problem, chaos would have ensued.
Luckily, it was a problem that could be
solved if enough money and brainpower
was thrown at it, and thats what happened. The brainpower came from people like Andi Lewittes and her husband,
and the money was thrown at them.
Many South Africans, it turns out,
specialized in the kind of mainframe
programming that Y2K work needed,
and many went to the United States. A
recruiter called Ms. Lewittes and offered
jobs, H1B visa sponsorship, and eventual green cards to both her and her
husband should they go to the United
States to work on Y2K. Hed program
computers, and she would recruit other
26 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 1, 2016
programmers.
It was a timely invitation. It was 1989,
she was 25, apartheid wasnt going to end
although of course she could not know
this until 1994. I was thinking of starting a family, and crime rates were starting
to rise, she said. Home break-ins were
on the rise, and so were carjackings. Life
became very cheap.
You would go to a shopping center
with your kids, and you would be panicking at the time it took to get your child
out of the shopping cart and into the car
seat and close the car door. You could be
hijacked. Or you could maybe be stopped
at a traffic light by someone with a gun,
who would take your car, and maybe
shoot you and maybe shoot your family.
High walls started going up around
peoples homes, with barbed wire and
electronic fences and panic buttons. People started hiring guards and stationing
them in booths at the end of the street.
People lived wonderfully inside their
walls, but there was no going to the park,
no jogging around Johannesburg. Life
started diminishing.
I knew I did not want to start a family in South Africa. I did not want to raise
kids in that environment.
When they came to America, the
recruiter who brought them over absolutely kept his word. Ms. Lewittes and her
husband became permanent residents,
and their daughters, Farrah, now 25, and
Tamar, 19, were born here.
You have to renounce your South African citizenship to get American citizenship, and life with a green card was easy,
but eventually I realized that I wanted
the same citizenship as my kids, Ms.
Lewittes said. And also, I was very grateful to the United States.
I am grateful for the opportunities
I have here. I was able to put my kids
through day school, and they availed
themselves of all sorts of opportunities in
the United States, and were able to travel
extensively.
Once she finally decided that it was
time to become an American citizen, she
had to face the paperwork. There are a
lot of forms, Ms. Lewittes said. A friend
who practices immigration law offered to
help, and when I got there an administrative assistant who was helping with the
paperwork handed me forms with boxes
that she had checked off on my behalf.
There were questions like have you ever
been a prostitute? Carried arms? Been a
terrorist? And instead of checking no no
no, she checked yes yes yes. I said, Do
you think I will get citizenship like that?
and she said, Thats why I gave it to you
to check.
You also have to document every
single time you went out of the country.
I had to sit with my passports and document everything.
I went for my interview about four
years ago, in Hackensack, and the official
calls me in to take the test. Before you
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BDS
FROM PAGE 7
The bill stifles constitutionally protected speech by punishing unpopular political beliefs, they wrote. The government cannot institute regulations based on the desire
to punish First Amendment activities intended to influence
public opinion or public policy.
The legislation, they wrote, requires the government to
differentiate between those companies that do not do business with Israel for political reasons and those that do not do
business with Israel for all other reasons. Where two similar
companies do not invest in Israel, only the one whose leaders or employees have been outspoken about their motivations will be punished.
But Ms. Huttle defended the bill. I felt it was not a freedom-of-speech issue, she said. It was a business decision.
She said that when she went to Israel in February with
18 other legislators, We saw first that it really is the sole
democracy in that region.
The bill itself explains that Nationality-based boycott
actions are often veiled discrimination, and it is against
the public policy of New Jersey to support such discrimination. Boycotts, such as those against Israel, do not make
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Ms. Sandrof found out that many years ago, the uncle of
one of the synagogues members was the director of Daughters of Jacob. She remembers visiting her uncle there, Ms.
Sandrof said.
Nate Goldman, the Daughters of Jacobs administrator,
said that the home was founded in 1896 as the first Jewish
nursing home in New York City. It first opened on Manhattans Lower East Side. When it moved to the Bronx, it had
a synagogue, a study hall, and kosher kitchens, for a largely
Orthodox population. In fact, Dr. Carr worked as a weekend
kosher supervisor there while he was in podiatry school.
Unfortunately it has not been a Jewish facility in years,
Mr. Goldman said.
But thanks to the Bergen County Jewish community, it
still benefits from the Jewish value of giving.
My philosophy is that there are two types of mitzvahs:
between man and man, and between man and God, Dr.
Carr said. I think the mitzvahs between man and man are
the most important of all.
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problem by trying to hide it, the community also can offer stronger support
once the problem is acknowledged.
Fifteen years ago it was very much
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much not spoken about. Now a lot of
the rabbis are more familiar with it.
Everybody knows someone. You cant
say anymore that it doesnt exist in our
community.
Some of the Jewish counselors add a
Jewish tint to the recovery process. Lipsker has Jewish patients at his home each
week for Friday night dinner, and he provides observant patients with kosher food.
Borovitz relates the weekly Torah portion
to recovery in his weekly sermon, drawing a connection, for example, between
Gods encounter with Adam in the Garden
of Eden and an addict acknowledging he
has a problem.
One of the things addicts do is they
isolate, disconnect from family and
friends, lose whatever they have in
terms of their spirituality, Lipsker said.
In an institution, you can bring it back
to them with the warmth of a Jewish
home.
Eve Goldberg hopes to grow BigVision to the point where she can open
a permanent community center for
recovering addicts in New York City.
Her group is open to Jews and non-Jews
alike, but she said that Jewish parents
of addicts have to be more open about
acknowledging opioid addiction and
seeking help for their children.
Jewish parents, parents who come
from a good socioeconomic background, people like that want everything to look perfect, so they dont talk
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apart, splitting it into centrist and radical
factions, he added.
The concern over a split in the Labour
Party into a radical and a moderate wing
also exists for the Conservative Party,
which also is divided on the Brexit issue.
If radical Conservatives prevail, it will be
at the expense of Camerons camp, which
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But first of all, please remember that for proper enjoyment, white wines must be served well-chilled. It is also
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Shlach Lcha:
Seeing ourself through our own eyes
us.
grasshoppers was not
In parashat Shlach Lcha,
enough, the scouts then
we read the story about how
ascribed the feelings of others towards them, claiming
twelve scouts were sent to the
that just as they looked like
land of Canaan to see what
grasshoppers to themselves,
kind of country it is. Are the
they must have also looked
people who dwell in it strong
like grasshoppers to othor weak, few or many? Is the
ers. Its funny how we never
country in which they dwell
Rabbi
hear the voice of the Canaangood or bad? Are the towns
Jennifer
ites, but apparently we
they live in open or fortified?
Schlosberg
understand what they were
Is the soil rich or poor? Is it
Glen Rock
thinking.
wooded or not? (Numbers
Jewish Center,
In our own lives, I wonder
13:18-20). Suffice it to say
Conservative
to what extent working on
that these scouts had a lot of
these two aspects of our lives
responsibility on their hands.
could lead us to greater happiness.
And just what did they say in their report
First, can we rid ourselves of the burwhen they went back to Moses, Aaron, and
den of letting others opinions affect us?
the Israelite people?
Instead of dressing, talking, working for
We cannot attack that people, for it is
others, how about we just do it for ourstronger than weAll the people that we
selves or the greater good of humanity?
saw in it are men of great sizewe looked
Instead of worrying or wondering how our
like grasshoppers to ourselves, and so we
decisions will be perceived by others, let
must have looked to them. (Numbers
us focus instead on how our actions can
13:31-33).
bring about good in the world. Rabbi MenThere are two parts of this report that
achem Mendel of Kotzk said it best by writI find interesting. First, let us take note
ing what Gods response to the scouts must
of the lack of confidence declared by the
have been:
scouts and how they judged themselves
Why are you so concerned about how
(in this case, their size) in relationship to
you look in the eyes of the Canaanites, to
the Canaanites, who they perceived as bigger. What prevented the scouts from being
the point that it distracts you from your
confident with who they were? What presacred task?
vented them from being hopeful and faithSecond, much like the scouts, we often
ful that all would be okay?
think we can predict what others think
Second, as if calling themselves
about us. Or, we ascribe a reason why
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swears he is Kafkas son and then also disappears, and the enigmatic Mr. Klein, who
does not disappear.
Mr. Klein becomes a companion, but
raises additional questions. His very
high energy level and obvious old age is
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JULY 8
Shabbat in Cliffside
Park: Congregation Beth
Shabbat in Tenafly:
Rabbi Levy Wineberg is
the guest for a special
Shabbaton hosted
by Lubavitch on the
Palisades in honor of
Gimmel Tammuz, the
22nd yahrzeit of the
Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi
Menachem Mendel
Schneersohn. Rabbi
Wineberg, an author,
teacher, and shliach to
Johannesburg, South
Africa, since 1983, will
speak on different topics
throughout Shabbat,
including Brain and
Soul Their Interface,
Nature vs. Nurture
or via Nurture? and
Happy with a Pebble,
Dissatisfied with a
Mountain. Special
childrens program and
dinner on Friday night.
(201) 871-1152.
Sunday
JULY 3
Sunday
Monday
JULY 4
BBQ in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah hosts an
Independence Day
barbecue, 12:30 p.m.
$5 per person. 304
E. Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Tuesday
JULY 5
Jewish learning in
Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
a center for Jewish
learning that meets
at Congregation Beth
Aaron, begins summer
classes today. They
include Midrash
as a Response to
Destruction by Dr.
Tammy Jacobowitz,
10:15 a.m.; Advanced
Talmud for Women by R.
David Nachbar; Eichah
Rabbah: Midrash as a
Response to Destruction
by Dr. Jacobowitz,
July 6, 9:30 a.m., then
Parashat HaShavua
by Rachel Friedman at
10:15; Unsung Heroes in
the Bible by R. Hayyim
Angel, July 7 at 10:15;
JULY 10
Atlantic City trip: Fair
JULY
Wednesday
JULY 6
Alzheimers support in
Rockleigh: Alzheimers
New Jersey offers a
support group for those
caring for a relative or
a friend diagnosed with
Alzheimers disease or
other forms of dementia
at the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10 a.m. Topics
can include long-term
care, financial planning,
legal concerns, and the
personal challenges of
caregiving. 10 Link Drive.
(973) 586-4300 or go to
www.alznj.org.
Dudu Fisher in
Englewood: Chabad
of Bergen County
hosts its Unity Concert
with Dudu Fisher, the
voice of Jerusalem
and Broadway, at the
Bergen Performing Arts
Center in Englewood
on Wednesday, July 6,
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz,
at 7:30 p.m.; doors
Rummage sale in
Closter: The sisterhood
of Temple Beth El of
Singles
Sunday
JULY 10
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
if you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
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bergenPAC
The Bergen Performing
Arts Center in Englewood
offers tickets for Bret
Michaels: The Party Starts
Now, set for Wednesday,
October 5, and presented
by Westfield Garden State
Plaza and Overstock.com.
The Australian Bee Gees
The Maccabeats
Show: A Tribute to the Bee
Gees will be on Thursday, October 27, and stand-up comedian
eclectic array of Jewish, American, and
Israeli songs on Wednesday, December
DL Hughley will perform on Thursday,
November 10. All four shows are at 8
14, at 7:30 p.m.
p.m. The Maccabeats, originally formed
For tickets, go to www.ticketmaster.
in 2007 as Yeshiva Universitys stucom or call the box office, (201) 227-1030.
dent vocal group, are set to perform an
Across
1. Shalom ___ (Bill Clinton)
6. Snakes in Raiders of the Lost Ark
10. Israeli sign with a hand
14. Sam behind The Evil Dead
15. Supermans mother played by Ayelet
Zurer
16. Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
equipment
17. Fuller House grandpa Bob
18. Second plague animal
19. Chevron alternative?
20. Fiddler who played Beethovens
Minuet in G on Sesame Street
23. Tefillat ____ (dew prayer)
25. Troop grp. The Marx Brothers
performed for
26. States assuredly (before a beth din)
27. Designer who had a hit collection for
Target
32. Woody Allens Hall
33. Its equal to 10
34. Syringe 38-Down at Einstein
37. What Judah Maccabee refused to do
in his last battle
40. Izevel tried to have this prophet killed
43. Unclean though we ___... (Numbers
9:7)
44. Some YU degs.
46. Job for Mickey Cohen
47. Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Israel
51. Its last flight to Israel was in 1991
54. Hast thou not heard long ___ how I
have done it... (2 Kings 19:25)
55. Levy collector56. Co-star of The
Mindy Project and Neighbors
movies
61. Many (but not a majority) in Israel
62. Prophet believed to have anointed
Yehu king
63. Bathshebas Hittite husband
66. Theres often one (or more) in the
margins of the Talmud
67. Grandson of Eve
68. Notable work of Rav Shneur Zalman
of Liadi
69. Are we ___ not? (Possible
pre-shidduch date question)
70. Dispatched (like angels)
71. Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
equipment
Down
1. Greenberg hit a lot of them: Abbr.
2. Israeli bond rating
3. Moon Knight or The Punisher, e.g.
4. Its the truth
5. Puttin on the ___ (Young
Frankenstein number)
6. Last name of The Rif
7. Frances Nicolas whos against
boycotting Israel
8. Stage accessory in Fiddler
9. 6-Across, for one
10. Educator Alice who won the Israel
Prize in 2007
11. The Velvet Fog
12. One of three for Daniel Day-Lewis
13. Some kibbutz workers
21. Sing a niggun
22. Levis Stadium sound
23. Gadots Wonder Woman wears one
24. Ed of Up
28. El Al planes are up in it
29. Start of a chodesh?
30. Feel like Haman at the end of Esther
31. Anti-hate org.
34. Upending (making like some inflatable
boats in Eilat)
35. Kraft Stadium sound
36. Hangs ten in Bat Galim
38. See 34-Across (Abbr.)
39. Devil voiced by Mel Blanc
41. Like some cold Aroma drinks
42. Ming who David Stern announced as
the #1 pick of the 2002 draft
45. Tweed married to Gene Simmons
47. Lashon hara chatter, Down Under
48. Mother, to Matan
49. Like many who visit Yad Vashem
50. Rock and Roll, Hoochie ___ (song
David Lee Roth sang in 1975)
51. Joels instrument
52. Ohio sister city of Kiryat Ekron
53. Sababa, in 50s U.S. slang
57. Jewish deli staples
58. Actress Skye of Say Anything
59. King David might have strummed one
60. Many a Jewish practice: Abbr.
64. Scottys Yes, to Kirk
65. Herzl or Sinai
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