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this weeks newspaper, and went to her mothers house.
Then mother and daughter spent all night editing
the paper. And the next day, as the waters rose and
they were evacuated to a neighbors house, they had
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We want to help each other as family members,
then we have to stop and do things for the paper,
Vicki, the papers CEO, said. I couldnt leave to go to
my mothers home before I checked all these pages.
Her mother, Jeanne Samuels, is also the owner and
editor of the Jewish Herald-Voice. Vickis husband,
Lawrence Levy, runs its circulation, and her son, Mi-
chael Duke, is its associate editor and news reporter.
Her nephew, Matt Samuels, writes sports and helps
with production.
And this week, despite the storm waters deluging the
city, the family is determined to keep the paper pub-
lishing. Founded in 1908, it has never skipped an issue.
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contingency plan in place, Michael said. We havent
missed a print issue for 109 years. Were hoping this
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Jack Antonoff and Nev Schulman wear A monkey and a chicken have become
Jewish stars at the MTV Video Music Awards best friends at an Israeli zoo
l Friendly and peaceful coexistence
l How often do you tonoff has been wearing is a recurring theme in Israel even
see pop culture fixtures the Star of David in pub- at the zoo.
wearing very visible lic since Nazis became
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Over the past week, an Indone-

Stars of David on a big
stage?
Two stars wore them
at the MTV Video Mu-
sic Awards on Sunday
night.
Jack Antonoff, pop
musics it producer
and songwriter who
is also Lena Dunhams
boyfriend, head of the
band Bleachers, former Jack Antonoff
guitarist in the band
Fun., and a graduate of the Solomon
Schechter Day School of Bergen
County in New Milford wore his in
necklace form.
Antonoff, who has become a go-to
collaborator for the likes of Taylor
Swift and Lorde, has worn a Star of
David while performing before, in-
cluding at a recent concert in Califor- across the country in the last few
nia. He performed during the VMAs
pre-show and introduced Lorde
later that night. He also accepted
the award for best collaboration on
behalf of Swift and Zayn Malik, the
former One Direction member, as
a co-writer for their song I Dont
Wanna Live Forever.
Dunham said on Twitter that An-
a mainstream thing sian black macaque named Niv has
again. become a close friend of a chicken at
Meanwhile, Nev Schul- the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel
man, star of MTVs Aviv, Agence France-Presse reported.
Catfish, wore a yellow Niv has had trouble finding a
Star of David on his suit mate, a zoo spokesman told the
jacket to protest the French news agency, so that prob-
hatred on display at the ably is why she has taken the bird
white supremacist rally under her, um, wing. The Asian mon-
in Charlottesville, Vir- key has been hanging out with the
ginia, earlier this month. chicken on a regular basis holding
Billy Joel made headlines it, caressing it, and sleeping next to
for wearing an identical it at night.
yellow star, an allusion to the stars Niv had tried to adopt a differ- typically form with some help from
Jews were forced to wear under the ent chicken a few months ago, but human caretakers who introduce
Nazis, while performing in New York the bird wasnt interested. The new the animals to each other. But it isnt
last week. adoptee could easily slip out of Nivs clear where Nivs chicken came from.
Since the unbelievable display of cage, AFP points out, but chooses What is clear is that these two
anti-Semitism and also with the white to stay. buddies are inseparable and irresist-
supremacy in Charlottesville, theres These interspecies relationships ibly cute. Gabe Friedman/JTA Wire Service
been an alarming rise of anti-Semitism
weeks, Schulman told the New York
Post. Its one thing to condemn the
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HE TOOK NO GUFF:

Jerry Lewis punched

a bigoted principal
As you know, Lewis was only 17 in
JERRY LEWIS 1944, when he met an
died on Sunday, Italian American singer,
August 20, at 91. Here Patti Palmer, then 23.
are a few Jewish Jerry She was Catholic. Lewis
things not in the many biographer SHAWN
obits you can find online LEVY, 56, describes the
or elsewhere. A 1982 course of their mar-
Washington Post profile riage. Palmer (born
and interview tells this Esther Calonica) made
story: At the age of some gestures toward
15 1/2, Joseph Levitch, 5 converting to Judaism
feet 8 inches tall, 115 when they got engaged,
pounds, was called to the and the couple was
office of the principal of wed by a rabbi in 1945.
his high school in (She was six months
Irvington, N.J. He had pregnant.) However, by
disrupted a chemistry 1952 Patti had returned
lab. In the office, he to her Catholic faith
punched the principal in and eventually all their
the mouth. I did punch children six sons
him Lewis told the Post. were confirmed in the
And was expelled for it. church. She sought the
It wasnt meant to be comfort of Catholicism
that violent, but it really in response to Jerrys
did some damage. And it increasing emotional
was wonderful! distance, some verbal
In the office, the prin- abuse, and his many
cipal first called Lewis extramarital affairs. In
a wise guy. Then the 1982, Patti consented to
principal said: Why is a divorce because it was
it only the Jews? That clear that Jerry, then
last remark prompted 56, was set on marrying
the punch. In Lewiss SANDEE PITNICK, then
words: POW! I hit 31, a dancer he met in
him. Mr. Herter was his Las Vegas. The couple
name. Sweet Pea, we had a traditional Jew-
called him. If Id been a ish wedding in 1983, and
white Aryan Protestant after two miscarriages,
everything would have adopted a daughter in
been okay. But I was the 1992. They named her
gutsiest little schmuck. I DANIELLE. Lewis has
took on anybody. I was been quoted as saying,
knocked on my a more I adore my daughter. with superstar actress
times than you had hair Last year, he tearfully
on your head. But I kept told Inside Edition that
coming. the worst thing about
Jerry Lewis Darren Aronofsky
Rachel Weisz Eddie Fisher
dying would be leaving Mother, a psychological ing father.... Ive been in
his wife and daughter. horror thriller directed
and written by Aronofsky
I dont usually that opens on Septem-
note it when a ber. 17. Lawrence, who
Jewish celeb plays the films lead,
starts dating a non-Jew- opened up about their
ish one. But I have to romance in the Septem-
mention that the direc- ber 2017 issue of Vogue.
tor/screenwriter She said they started
DARREN ARONOFSKY, seeing each other after
48, is now in an open filming was over in
romantic relationship August 2016: I [then]
had energy for him. For moved his then-partner,
Jennifer Lawrence, 27. the past year, Ive been
They got to know each dealing with him just as a
other while making human hes an amaz- once as a real man. He
elicited similar praise
from Mickey Rourke, the
star of The Wrestler,
another Aronofsky film.
Weisz and Aronofsky
had one child, a son now
11 the only child either
of them has during
their nine years together.
The couple ended their
relationship in Novem-
ber 2010 and Weisz
started openly dating
Woody Allen Daniel James Bond
Craig, now 49, the next
month. (She married him
in 2012.) I dont know if
Weisz left Aronofsky for
Craig. But I kind of think
that most men maybe
not Aronofsky would
be weirded out when
the mother of his child,
a real man fan, takes
up with arguably the
most macho man on the
planet.
Well, dating Jenni-
Elizabeth Taylor fer Lawrence is quite a
rejoinder (even if not
intended that way). Shes
relationships before beautiful, smart, very tal-
where I am just confused. ented, and young. Imag-
And Im never confused ine if Debbie Reynolds
with him. had responded to EDDIE
Aronofsky is an FISHER leaving her for
average-looking guy. ELIZABETH TAYLOR
He looks Jewish, if not by taking up with Sean
in the same frail way as James Bond Connery.
WOODY ALLEN. Hes The poor Debbie com-
an intellectual Harvard ments would have ended
grad, but hes got a pretty quickly. By the
certain gritty core that way, in a 2014 interview,
Jerry Lewis praised Jen-
actress RACHEL WEISZ, nifer Lawrence as his fa-
now 47, to praise him vorite recent performer.
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Propaganda and fascism
Yale professor, at JCC U in Tenafly, talks about grim trends in public life
JOANNE PALMER
Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale
and before that, at Rutgers, and he held named
chairs in both schools has taken an academic
approach as he studies the linguistic and social
and political underpinnings of propaganda and
how fascists can flourish when they use it to their
advantage. Hes written a book about it How
Propaganda Works and hes now finishing up
his next work, on fascism, which is due out soon.
Its a subject that he knows personally, through
family history, as well as academically, he said.
Dr. Stanley, who will speak at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades on September 14 (see the box
for more information), is the descendant of Holo-
caust refugees; like all Holocaust refugees, they
have stories.
Dr. Stanley is 47 years old. His father, Man-
fred, was 6 1/2 when his parents got the family
out of Berlin in August 1939, where they Dr. Jason Stanley teaches philosophy at Yale.
had gone into hiding right after Kristall-
nacht. His mother, Sara, literally came
from a family that had lived in the town
of Chelm, but she was born in Siberia,
where her parents had fled. After the war,
the family returned to Poland, where they
experienced the horror of anti-Semitism
in postwar Poland before they were able
to get out of there, across the ocean, and
into the United States. They came into
New York Harbor past the Statue of Lib-
erty, Dr. Stanley said. Thats why attacks
on the statue are personal for me.
Hes talking about the comments Pres-
ident Donald Trumps adviser, Steven
Miller, made as he tried to decouple the
Statue of Liberty from its welcome to
new immigrants. Emma Lazaruss poem,
with the lines Bring me your tired, your
poor/Your huddled masses yearning to
be free came later, Mr. Miller said.
But lets first return to his family,
because its fight against fascism, in the
form of national socialism, was both
intense and successful. His grandmother,
Ilsa Stanley, who accompanied her young
son to America, had been an actress; in
fact, shed been in Fritz Langs Metropo- Clockwise from above, Ilsa Stanley with her parents,
lis, the 1927 German Expressionist silent Henriette Frhlich and Magnus Davidsohn; Ilsa as a
film classic. young woman, and in a still from Fritz Langs enor-
After work dried up for Jewish mously influential silent film, Metropolis.
actresses in Germany, and the screws
were tightening on German Jews, Ms. Stanley played her
greatest part. She pretended to be an Aryan social worker,
and using that persona and fake papers, over the course
of two years she rescued 412 people from a concentration
camp, Sachsenhausen.
Then Kristallnacht put an end to that extraordinarily
brave effort, and soon she and her son got out. Ms. Stan-
ley wrote a memoir, The Unforgotten, thought to be one
of the first Holocaust memoirs written in English.
Ilsa Stanley had yichus as well as accomplishments.
6 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Her father, Magnus Davidsohn, was the
cantor of the largest synagogue in Ber-
lin, a liberal institution whose rabbi was
Leo Baeck. Her uncle, Max Dawison, was
a world-class tenor and the first Jew to sing Wagner at
Bayreuth.
All of this is inherently fascinating. Dr. Stanleys fam-
ily history is also, to a dramatically great extent, the his-
tory of 20th century European and American Jewish life.
And if you look him up on Google, youll see that he has
not been shy about taking public positions on
current issues, and hes been both praised and
excoriated for them. Hes a Jew, an academic,
an occasional New York Times op ed writer, a
man of deep beliefs and opinions, the grandson
of Holocaust refugees, the proud husband of an
African-American cardiologist who also teaches
at Yale, and the loving father of two small sons.
And that brings us back to his study of propa-
ganda and fascism.
Propaganda is a very old problem, Dr. Stanley
said, and is inextricably tied to democracy, in
which it can flourish and to which it is poison.
He begins his book with a discussion of Platos
Republic, which told the ancient world that
democracy will never work, and with a quote
from Joseph Goebbels, Hitlers propaganda
minister. This will always remain one of the
best jokes of democracy that it gave its deadly
enemies the means by which it was destroyed,
Goebbels is reported to have said.
In other words, democracy
requires that you allow people to
say what they want to say. That
they have the right to free speech.
But that means that a dema-
gogue, who like everyone else
is free to say what he wants to
say, can get people to set people
against each other, Dr. Stanley
said. Plato spells it all out. A dem-
agogue will define an enemy, and
set the majority against that enemy.
He will create fear and represent
himself as the protector, and then
seize power. And then, of course,
democracy ends.
It is the built-in, inescapable para-
dox of democracy.
To have a democracy, you need a
well-formed state, Dr. Stanley said.
You cant have groups that resent
other groups. You cant build a state
on racism or sexism. If you do, then
democracy doesnt work.
We have a country riven by
indeed, a country based upon rac-
ism and inequality, that we never
have addressed, he continued. The
inequalities upon which the United
States was built were not addressed
and resolved, but they largely have
been forced underground, where
they flow as a fetid river. So of
course we face this problem of
democracy, he said.
In his book on propaganda, Dr.
Stanley continued, he looked at the Republican partys
so-called southern strategy, which Richard Nixon cham-
pioned and which the Clintons adopted, demonizing
welfare and connecting welfare and race, and demoniz-
ing black America using law-and-order talk, linking black
Americans to violence and laziness. And that was the

justification of slavery. Many southern
antebellum slave owners defended slavery,
he said, by arguing that their slaves were
of such weak character that the rigors of
slavery would ennoble them, that their
suffering would make them better. In fact,
we have seen Robert E. Lees arguments,
claiming exactly that reason for the moral
goodness of slavery, as theyve resurfaced
over the debate about statues in Lees
memory and honor.
For many decades, these arguments
burrowed further and further under-
ground, surfaced by the code words that
are called dog whistles, those words that
signal common cause to people who know
them but whose true meaning remains
inaudible to everyone else.
In a 1981 interview, Lee Atwater the
Republican strategist who was responsible
for much of George H.W. Bushs successful
presidential run said that in the 1950s it
was easy. You could just say n-, n-, n-.
By the 60s you have to be more abstract,
and talk about desegregation and bus-
ing. And up till now it has become more
abstract. You have to talk about cutting
taxes and social spending, about inner cit-
ies and illegals.
Now, though, things are changing again.
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works is because he is being explicit, Dr.
Stanley said. Hes heard someone he
cant remember who say that theyre
no longer dog whistles anymore. Theyre
people whistles. And some people like
that, because they hear that lack of coding
as honesty.
Then there is the question of politi-
cal correctness. Thats the foundation
of democracy, Dr. Stanley said. Thats
because political correctness is basic
decency. But his voters see Trump as
strong for ripping apart norms, and they
reward him for it.
But of course the fault really lies with
both parties, because they both tapped
racism and kept it alive by putting every-
thing in code, instead of confronting it.
And now, with all that ugliness out in the
open, all the raw sewage running in the
streets, it will take decades to fix the dam-
age to the basic culture, Dr. Stanley said.
He will talk about that, and also will talk
about the work he now is doing on fas-
cism. My new book will be more about
the international links between far right
ultranationalist movements, he said.
Hungary, Poland, Russia, Austria, among
others.
How should we understand everything
thats going on in the world now, all these
Members of
8/24/17 10:35 AM
Local
old hatreds suddenly becoming new? I blood and soil. We should read the Pro-
have come to think it is vitally important tocols to remind ourselves what European
that everyone read the Protocols of the anti-Semitism sounds like. It sounds a lot
Elders of Zion, Dr. Stanley said. That is like the rhetoric we hear now.
what is happening, and people dont know It is hard to live up to the values of
about it anymore. democracy, Dr. Stanley acknowledged.
It isnt clear what anti-Semitism means Democracy runs in opposition to all the
anymore, he continued. Anti-Israel sen- things that we want as natural beings. We
timent, anti-Zionism, and anti-Semitism naturally are tribal, we naturally value our
become conflated and entangled. Anti- own children over everybody elses, we
Semitism often is blamed on a hatred for naturally want more and more and more,
Israel, but even aside from anyones feel- far more than we need. Thats not all bad,
ings about Israel, there was no Israel dur- but we must be vigilant. Democracy is
ing the Nazi era, and there still was anti- fragile, Dr. Stanley said.
Semitism. There still were people shouting But it also is well worth fighting for.
Information
Who: Dr. Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale
What: Will speak at the opening session of the JCC U
When: On Thursday, September 14, at 10:30 a.m.
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave., Tenafly
For more information: Go to www.jccotp.org or call (201) 569-7900
AND ALSO AT THE JCC U ON SEPTEMBER 14, AT 12:45
Who: Alan Zweibel, who has won five Emmy awards and wrote for the original Satur-
day Night Live
What: Will ask For This We Left Egypt? as he recounts his 40-year-long comedy
career.
And: Hell also talk about his new book, a parody of the Passover Haggadah.
JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 7
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Keeping teens engaged
Wayne Hebrew High program brings two shuls closer together
LOIS GOLDRICH
It all began when the lay leaders of two
Wayne synagogues were looking for a way
to hold on to their post bnai mitzvah teens.
Describing the genesis of the new Wayne
Hebrew High program, Rabbi Randall
Mark, religious leader of Waynes Shom-
rei Torah, said, It started with lay lead-
ers from both Shomrei Torah and Temple
Beth Tikvah discussing ways to bring our
teens together, since every congregation
struggles to keep students engaged post-
bar/bat mitzvah.
True, Shomrei Torah is Conservative
and Beth Tikvah is Reform, but that differ-
ence didnt seem to make a difference.
It was felt that the benefit to the teens
outweighed any differences we might
have as congregations from two different
denominations, Rabbi Mark said. The lay
leaders worked out a proposal that was
then presented to and approved by the
boards of both congregations.
Rabbi Meeka Simerly, who heads Tem-
ple Beth Tikvah, said that we here at Tem-
ple Beth Tikvah are really looking forward
to studying together with the students and
teachers of Shomrei Torah, as we all feel
that bringing both schools together will
enrich everyones Jewish life in more ways
that we can probably anticipate at the
moment. And thats whats exciting for us
the possibilities.
For her own part, she said, I am look-
ing forward to getting to know more Jew-
ish youth from our community at large, as
I feel that their knowledge is a blessing to
my own growth as a rabbi. Rabbi Mark is
excited about it as well. I look forward to
seeing what questions the teens will ask,
he said. They ask the best questions,
sometimes very challenging ones! Also,
I love that I can learn as much from our
teens as I seem to impart to them.
He noted that while the schools leaders
are actively working on its curriculum now,
he already knows that our focus will be
on contemporary issues, and how Judaism
can inform our decisions and our actions
as Jews living in 21st-century America.
The two rabbis will teach the 10th
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graders as a confirmation class, and we
will do a joint confirmation service, which
this year will be at Temple Beth Tikvah and
next year at Shomrei Torah, he said. We
will also have a 12th-grade graduation that
will be in the opposite location, truly mak-
ing this a joint venture. Educators from
the two congregations will teach as well.
Both synagogues will share in the
costs of running the school, and organiz-
ers hope that this, together with tuition
income, will cover their expenses. Right
now, the congregations are talking to teens
and their parents, Rabbi Mark said, and
we are cautiously optimistic that the par-
ents and teens will be as excited about this
joint venture as those of us involved are at
this time.
Wayne Hebrew High will begin on Sep-
tember 12. The joint congregational high
school program, for grades eight to 12, will
meet on Tuesday evenings for two hours
and include dinner. For the first semester,
classes will meet at Shomrei Torah; theyll
meet at Temple Beth Tikvah for the sec-
ond part of the year. The first class will be
an open house, where parents and Jewish
teens in the Wayne area will be invited to
come and try it out, Marian Kleinman,
the schools head, said.
According to Ms. Kleinman, connect-
ing teens to their synagogues will connect
them with the greater Jewish community
as well. One of the most inspiring expe-
riences in my field is to see Jewish teens
gathering, networking, and studying Juda-
ism together after bar mitzvah, she said.
She cited the findings of a recent Pew
report, which indicated that children
who stay involved in their synagogue until
they graduate high school are much more
likely to stay Jewishly connected through-
out their lives.
Before coming to Wayne in July to
become the education director of Temple
Beth Tikvah, Ms. Kleinman enjoyed a var-
ied career as an educator, Hebrew school
principal, and cantorial soloist. She now is
working toward cantorial ordination.
She grew up in Rockland County, where
her parents were founding members of
Temple Beth Sholom in New City. She
We didnt...
For more information please call 201-837-9090
Marian Kleinman
holds two masters degrees one in cre-
ative writing from the City College of New
York and a second, in Jewish studies, from
Gratz College, where she also received an
award for academic achievement in the
field of liturgy. She worked for nine years
as the cantorial soloist at Congregation
Agudas Achim in Livingston Manor, N.Y.,
and for seven years as the religious school
principal at Beth Am Temple in Pearl
River, N.Y. She has also worked in North
Carolina, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
She lives in Wayne and has a daughter in
high school.
While she will serve as the Hebrew high
schools coordinator, I probably will
do some teaching, Ms. Kleinman said.
I want to get to know the students. Ive involved in the Jewish community in
taught Hebrew High before and have some
engaging lessons. Some are fun, some
have more history. The new school, she
said, is all about Judaism, but informal.
Theyre not doing preparation for their
bnai mitzvah any more.
One of our goals is to prepare them for
the Jewish world and the world outside,
letting them know, for example, what
they are likely to experience on the college
campus, she continued. The curriculum
is likely to include Israel advocacy, Torah/
Talmud, Holocaust studies, and other
subjects suggested by the students them-
selves. We want to engage them to help us
plan, to find out what theyd like to learn,
Ms. Kleinman said.
We want our Jewish teens to know that
tikkun olam is a Jewish ethic and we want
them to become active, involved members
of the world by engaging in social action,
she added. There is so much in our text
urging us to do things for others. Hillel, for
example, said that Where people are act-
ing inhuman, we must strive to be human.
Ms. Kleinman also cited the Talmud pas-
sage that tells us Whoever is able to pro-
test against the transgressions of the entire
world and does not do so is punished for
the transgressions of the entire world.
Referring once again to the Pew study,
Ms. Kleinman noted that her uncle, the
late Daniel Isaacman, a former president
of Gratz College, did his doctoral thesis on
the subject of Jewish continuity. According
to Dr. Isaacmans niece, he showed that
children who go to Jewish summer camp,
or stay involved in the Jewish commu-
nity through organizations such as youth
groups, are more likely to stay connected
to the Jewish community for the rest of
their lives. With this in mind, Ms. Klein-
man wants religious school to be as much
fun as camp with content.
Judaism has always been a key part of
my life, she said, adding that her mother
is a Holocaust survivor. She attended Jew-
ish summer camp for many years and is a
passionate Zionist. Judaism is an impor-
tant part of my identity, she said.
I feel so blessed and delighted to be
Wayne and see this wonderful collabora-
tion between the two shuls, she contin-
ued. I really feel that way. I could have
another career, but I was called to this.
Having worked as a cantor for a dozen
years in various congregations, This is the
first time in 12 years that Im not preparing
for the High Holidays.
Interested parents and teens are invited
to talk to Ms. Kleinman to find out more
about the program. Call her at (973) 595-
6565 ext. 16, or email her at mariantb-
texec@optonline.net.

On Instagram, no one knows
the pundit is a high school freshman
Ridgewoods Laurence Fine rallies Democrats online
LARRY YUDELSON
Laurence Fine is 14. He finished eigth
grade at the Solomon Schechter of West-
chester and is entering ninth grade at
Ridgewood High School, where he will
be on the cross-country team.
And he runs a politically themed Ins-
tagram account, @Democrats_for_2020,
which doesnt mention his age or name,
and bills itself as This liberal news
feed supports Democrats for 2020 and
resisting GOP agenda. Together, we
can take back the House, Senate, and
presidency!
The account has 5,765 followers. That
is more than 70 percent as many follow-
ers as the official account of the House
Democratic caucus.
Not bad for someone who has been
politically aware for less than two years.
All these candidates were running,
Laurence says of the primary season
that kicked off the 2016 presidential elec-
tions. I was wondering what the differ-
ences were between them. When the pri-
maries came around, I was checking the
polls while I was doing my homework.
All the pieces of the puzzle, the win-
nowing of the candidates, the differ-
ences between the states, fascinated
him. He started studying the issues, and
those fascinated him too.
From there, he became fascinated in
the general election.
Not only was it a very interesting
presidential election, it was the first one
I was really into and following, Lau-
rence said. Note: he was not quite 18
months old when George W. Bush was
re-elected president in 2004.
And then there was the election in
November of last year, and Laurence
found his interest in politics didnt
wither away. I had a lot to say, and I
needed to communicate my ideas and
thoughts, he said.
So he created his Instagram account.
He already had a personal Instagram
account that one is private, has only
195 followers, and identifies its owner as
Proud Democrat Jets fan. (It doesnt The response is great, he said. Im
mention his original public affiliation
hes the son of Rabbi David Fine of Tem-
ple Israel and JCC in Ridgewood. His
mother, Alla Fine, is a global conference
and event planning consultant.)
Why Instagram? The younger gen-
eration is much more involved in Insta-
gram, Laurence said. I want to connect
with the younger generation, millen-
nials. (Keep in mind that Laurence is
Local
CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, Laurence sees politics in his future,
MSNBC many every day. whether being a social media expert or
His most popular feature are the polls of strategist or running for office.
potential presidential candidates he runs Meanwhile, he has advice for the Demo-
every few months. His followers vote by com- cratic party.
menting or by direct messages. I think what the Democrats need to focus
His most recent poll was in June. Senator on are the economic issues facing our coun-
Kamala Harris of California won, with 27 try, he said. They need to talk about taxes,
percent of the decidedly unscientific poll. health care, college, wages. Not Trump, not
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren the Republicans. They need to get people to
came in second, former Vice President Joe vote for them because they want to vote for
Biden third, and Vermont Senator Bernie them, not because they dont like the other
Sanders fourth. guys.
This summer, Laurence put his political He doesnt have a favorite candidate for
interest to work offline, with a part-time 2020. All the potential candidates in my
internship at Democratic Congressman Josh polls seem like great candidates to me,
Laurence Fine Gottheimers Glen Rock office. He didnt get he said. I think we have great options for
to spend time with Mr. Gottheimer, though 2020.
barely a millennial; the boundaries are he did discuss an issue with him at a cam- Not that he will be voting in the 2020 elec-
controversial but seem to range from paign event last year. tions. He wont turn 18 until 2021.
between 1976 and 1980 and end between
1998 and 2004. He was born in 2003.)
He does not use Facebook or Twitter at
all. Those are for old people. (Fear not
for Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg,
however: Facebook bought Instagram
five years ago.)
Laurence posts every few days.
I talk about the current administra-
tion, things that are going on, he said.
His most recent post is a picture of the
president with this comment: The pres-
ident is threatening a government shut-
down in order to get money for a point-
less wall he promised hed get Mexico to
pay. A government shutdown would be Naomi is an internationally renowned,
a disaster, throwing our country in even multi-skilled talent - a musician,
greater turmoil #trump #trumppresi- facilitator, and educator
dency #wall #governmentshutdown
#threat #stopthis.
The post received 20 comments.
Some are from people who agree, and
some are from people who come to
argue. @dreams_of_our_founders, who
regularly shows up to argue, wrote:
Its hilarious to see how you Demo-
crats react when we finally have a pres-
ident who is trying to give the American
people what they want. Your true col-
ors are showing.
Laurence loves the back-and-forth.
able to speak with people and really
learn what other people think about
an issue. Im able to have really nice Sponsored by the Religious Committee
discussions. JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
While it is unclear whether it is a cause 304 East Midland Ave., Paramus, NJ
or an effect of the Instagram account, (201) 262-7691 or www.JCCParamus.org
it is clear that Laurence has become a
news junkie. I always make sure to keep
myself in touch with whats going on,
he said. On my phone I get news alerts
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FIRST PERSON

On the road again

Traveling to Moonachie with the Center for Food Action
LOIS GOLDRICH Not only does it have one of its own, but Ms. Oliff said
they receive thousands of pounds of produce from
Last month I wrote about a trip to Washington, D.C., with other gardens.
Planned Parenthood, during an unforgiving heat wave. Mr. Vogelman has established partnerships with other
Today I stayed closer to home no marching, advocating, food providers, like the Community Food Bank, which
or meeting with important people but it was almost provided much of the food we distributed in Moonachie.
as hot! He also gets bulk donations from supermarkets such as
The people I met this time probably wouldnt be labeled Shoprite and Trader Joes, as well as from big-box stores
important when compared with those I visited in July. like Costco, where damaged packaging recently got the
But the day was all about real people old, young, male, group a large supply of fresh mangoes.
female, white, black, Hispanic, and more. For nearly five According to a recent study, more than 1 million resi-
hours, I helped distribute food in Moonachie to people dents in New Jersey, or about 11.8 percent of the states
who need it, for themselves and for their families. Work- population, are food insecure, the term used by the
ing with the Center for Food Action, I met dozens of lovely USDA to refer to people who lack access to enough food
folks, both fellow volunteers and those we came to help. to live healthy lives. (In affluent Bergen County, the rate
I learned a lot. is 10 percent.)
For example, everyone (except one sour-faced lady) Even more unsettling, the rate of food insecurity among
smiled and said thank you. Some spoke English well, children is 16.8 percent.
others did not; some brought their school-age children To help meet this need, CFA, through its site locations
as translators. People took what they needed, despite in Englewood, Fairview, Hackensack, Mahwah, Ridgefield,
how many packs of tomatoes, say, they were offered. Oh Ringwood, Saddle Brook, and Bergen Community College
no, said one. If I take too much, it will go bad. One man Student XChange Center, dis-
refused orange peppers because he said they were bad for tributes more than 70,000
his arthritis. (Who knew?) One woman, child in hand, car- emergency food and holiday
ried her groceries home on her head. packages to local families
Perhaps most surprising for me, as a synagogue-going and individuals each year.
Jew I learned that while food collections at synagogues Top, volunteers with the Last year, the organization
and churches still are useful, people now are being urged Center for Food Action arrive also provided 30,000 week-
to look beyond the bag. CFAs director of operations, at a distribution site. Right, end snack packs to local
Irwin Vogelman, said that food drives are no longer what bags of potatoes unloaded children who participate in
they used to be perhaps because of the dwindling size from one of the CFAs trucks. the federal school meals pro-
of many once-vibrant but now declining congregations. gram during the school week
Lori Oliff, the Centers Snack Pack coordinator, said of cans of yams and cranberry but who might go hungry
that money donations and supermarket gift cards actu- sauce, as well as boxes of stuffing on weekends.
ally are preferable to food donations, because the CFA mix. While community members Yes, it was hot, and in
can make a dollar go much further with our ability to generously emptied their cabi- all honesty it was some-
purchase at great discounts. With money and gift cards, nets after Thanksgiving, little of what physically challeng-
CFA can buy the most-needed foods from peanut butter that donated food contributed to ing. But in the words of
and canned tuna to low-sugar cereal and baby food and a healthy diet.) Lori Oliff: Watching a little
also supply eggs, cheese, and fresh produce. CFA also is taking increased boys face light up when he
(I remember volunteering at the Englewood center one advantage of the resurgent received a banana made it all
year and finding that there were an inordinate number interest in community gardens. worthwhile.

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At the Rehab Hotel

Jewish Home in River Vale provides a safe haven to recover
Banji Ganchrow
We are living in a time of medical
miracles.
Billions of dollars are being spent on
research and pharmaceuticals. Doctors
are super-specializing in highly specific
fields, trying to find cures and ways to
make people who are sick live longer
and in the best way possible.
And yet, with all the advancements,
people still have to have procedures
done, and then to recover from them.
There still is work being done to help
make recovering from a hip or knee
replacement or an extended hospital
stay as relaxing and pain-free as possible.
Where are these advances offered?
You can find them at places like the
rehab hotel within the Jewish Home
Assisted Living in River Vale.
What is the rehab hotel? It first
opened in early 2017. It is a converted
studio apartment within the assisted liv-
CONGREGATION KOL HANESHAMAH PRESENTS
ing facility in River Vale; if there is need
for more space, it can become available.
insurance.
People can stay for as long or as short
a time as they have to. It all depends on
what they feel comfortable with. And the
amenities make it very appealing. They
get twenty-four hour nursing care, aide
assistance, medication administration,
three meals a day, activity programs,
transportation all the services that are
available to any resident of Jewish Home
Assisted Living, Ms. Elliott said.
Still, you might wonder why people
would want to check themselves into
the rehab hotel straight from a hospital.
Doesnt the hospital take care of them?
Its not that simple, Ms. Elliott said. If
someone has surgery or an illness or
injury, goes to the hospital and then to
rehab, they may feel, in todays world,
that their rehab stay is not long enough.
People are being discharged sooner and
sooner, and some feel they are not ready
to go home.
Medicare covers only a certain num-
ber of days. Beyond that, it becomes
patients responsibility. They arent nec-
the rehab hotel.
Or someone could be living in the com-
munity and feel that they need help to
regain function, get back on their feet, build
strength and they, too, can be potential
users of the rehab hotel.
They can get all those services at the rehab
hotel, with none of the aggravation of trying
to find family members or friends to do it, or
trying to do it themselves.
The rehab hotel is such a great idea that
physicians, hospitals, and rehab centers have
begun to tell their clients about it. They see
the need for a continuance of care and this,
many feel, is the perfect solution.
Margi Hirshberg of Cresskill is an 82-year-
old ball of energy. She had outpatient sur-
gery, a partial knee replacement, done at
the Hospital for Special Surgery in New
York in April. That evening, she checked
herself into the rehab hotel. I knew that
because my husband was ill at the time,
that I wouldnt have anyone to take care
of me, so this seemed like the perfect
option, Ms. Hirshberg said. She started
physical therapy as soon as the doctors
said she could start and she has never
looked back. Doing the best I could to
get as strong as I could was motivated by
my desire to get back to taking care of my
husband. Sadly, her husband, Irwin, died
in May. Ms. Hirshberg now is back on the
tennis court and continuing her volunteer
work in the community.
I knew about the rehab hotel because I
used to volunteer at the Jewish Home, Ms.
Hirshberg said. It was a beautiful room, and
my grandson the doctor couldnt believe that
it wasnt a real hotel! She couldnt thank the
staff enough for how they took care of her. I
wore a button in case I needed any help, but
the staff always knew where I was supposed
to be, she said. So if I showed up late for
lunch, someone would come and check on
me. I felt very safe and well taken care of.
And you cannot ask for more than that!
For more information and availability, call
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Minyan under
the blue sky
The Sunday Morning Minyanaires of
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack/Saddle
River Valleys gathered at 9 a.m. last
week for services in the Rabbi Andre
Ungar Amphitheater, in front of the
shul, at the top of the hill overlooking
the Pascack Valley. The community is
welcome to attend services every Sun-
day morning. Rabbi Shelley Kniaz plans
to hold an ethics seminar at 8 a.m. this
fall, before services. For information,
call (201) 391-0801.

Chabad BBQ in
Woodcliff Lake
Valley Chabad held its annual summer
barbecue at a home in Woodcliff Lake.
Its a chance for the community to come
together and enjoy an evening of camara-
derie and great kosher food and drinks.

Above, Debbie
and Jack
Kaufman. Left,
Mark Alberti,
standing,
left, with Lori
JHAL residents pack supplies Gottheim,
Leslie Alberti,
for needy students in Paterson Roberta
Horowitz, and
Residents of the Jewish Home Assisted Northern New Jersey. Patrica and
Living in River Vale packed 48 back- On August 16, JFNNJ collected nearly Allen Fischer.
packs filled with school supplies. They 1,400 backpacks filled by volunteers PHOTOS BY
DESAI HENDESRON
will be donated to OASIS of Paterson with donated items for underprivileged
via Supplies for Success, a program students in the area.
sponsored by the Jewish Federation of

Team Yachad Miami Marathon

Sukkah building help for seniors puts out a call for registrations
Jewish Home at Homes Registration is open for
Safely@Home, formerly the ninth annual Team
Bonim Builders, a project Yachad Miami Marathon
of the Jewish Home Fam- and Half Marathon on Jan-
ily, offers help to seniors or uary 28. Last year, almost
physically challenged peo- three-quarters of the run-
COURTESY JEWISH HOME FAMILY

ple who needs assistance ners were from New Jer-

building their sukkahs. Vol- sey and New York.
unteers are available to help Funds raised will ben-
assemble a sukkah in time efit people with disabili-
for the holidays. Volunteers ties and enable them to
will be building sukkahs on attend Shabbatonim,
Sundays, September 17 and summer programs, and
MYRIAM ENCAOUA

24, at 10 a.m.; on Sunday, an array of inclusive

October 15, they will help Safely@Home volunteers help erect a sukkah. activities. Training for
take them down. the race generally takes
Volunteers for all these dates are needed; a participating adult must accompany three months. For more
volunteers under 16. High school students can get community service letters for this information, go to miami. Gabriella and Daniel Herrmann of Teaneck ran in the
volunteer work. Call Stacey Orden at (201) 518-1175 or email her at sorden@jewish- teamyachad.com, call January 2017 Team Yachad race in Miami, Fla.
homefamily.org to reserve a building date or to volunteer. (212) 613-8301, or email
TeamYachad@ou.org.

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Cantor David Perper
www.bethhaverimshirshalom.org
14 Jewish Standard SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Cliffside Park
Congregation Beth
Israel of the Palisades
Congregation Beth Israel of the
Palisades invites you to join its
rabbi, Jewish Standard columnist
Shammai Engelmayer, for ser-
vices on the High Holy Days and
all year round. We are a Conser-
vative egalitarian congregation
located at 207 Edgewater Road
in Cliffside Park. We enjoy being
together at services, socials, or
adult ed classes. We care about
each other; we are there for each
other. We do not claim to be
warm and fuzzy; we just are. Our
informal style has won us a rep-
utation for actually being what
other congregations only claim to
be: warm, friendly, and caring.
Even on the High Holy Days,
when intimacy seems impossible,
no one is treated as a stranger
because a stranger to us is just
a long-lost relative who found her
or his way home. Among other
things, people no one recog-
nizes are given honors. The rabbi
makes several forays during each
service into the pews to greet
as many people as possible, es-
pecially those who are new to the
synagogue. Many of our officers
sit among the throng, as well. But
dont take our word for it; come
see for yourself. For information,
call (201) 945-7310.
Emerson
Congregation
Bnai Israel
Congregation Bnai Israel is an
innovative, Conservative egalitar-
ian synagogue at 53 Palisade Ave.
Its members hail from through-
out the Pascack Valley area and
neighboring towns in Bergen
County.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is a
seventh-generation rabbi who
embodies a combination of in-
tellect, warmth, spirituality, and
charm. Cantor Lenny Mandel is a
rabbi and cantor whose passion
for music brings additional beau-
ty and creativity to our services.
Together, they are changing the
synagogue experience and creat-
ing a new approach to Jewish life
and community.
In addition to traditional servic-
es, the synagogue offers monthly
Shabbat programs and services
for families. Its popular Ca-
sual Shabbat services have had
themes such as Beatles Shab-
bat (prayers sung to Beatles
tunes) and Fiddler on the Roof
Shabbat that uplift, inspire, and
entertain congregants of all ages.
A pre-Hebrew School program
is conducted on Sunday morn-
ings for children who are in kin-
dergarten through second grade
in public school. The regular
Hebrew School program is for
children in third through seventh
grades. Adult education course
topics have included: Insights
into the Torah, Approaches to
Self-Care, and Jewish Life in the
Twenty-first Century. The syna-
gogue has many committees and
clubs including Sisterhood, Mens
Club, Significant Seniors, and
Social-Action.
The new member promotion
offers half-off first-year dues. The
synagogues Genesis Membership
rates for qualifying young couples
($360) and singles ($180) will
even generate a dues credit when
transitioning to traditional mem-
ber status. High Holy Days tickets
are included with all levels of
membership. Nonmembers who
buy High Holy Days tickets may
apply the cost to their first year
dues if they decide to join after
the holidays.
Call (201) 265-2272, e-mail of-
fice@bisrael.com or visit www.
bisrael.com.
Englewood
Center for Jewish
Identity - Explanatory
Service presented
by Congregation
Ahavath Torah
The Center for Jewish Identity
strives to present a relevant,
modern, and practical approach
to traditional Torah Judaism. Our
Short and Sweet High Holy
Days services are an abridged
service/discussion featuring sev-
eral selected prayers. We discuss,
read, and sing meaningful selec-
tions in our one-and-a-half hour
service. Kids and adults partici-
pate side by side in the service,
which is followed by a sumptuous
kiddush.
The services are held in conjunc-
tion with Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood, the larg-
est Orthodox synagogue in New
Jersey which has been featuring
such user-friendly, explanatory
services for the High Holy Days
for almost two decades.
The services will be led by Rabbi
Yitzchok Weinberger, a dynamic
and engaging educator who fos-
ters a warm and welcoming syna-
gogue atmosphere. Year round,
CJIDs Torah classes, discussion
groups, social action programs,
and monthly explanatory Shab-
bat services offer opportunities
for every Jew to expand their un-
derstanding of and involvement
in Jewish tradition.
The High Holy Days services will
be Thursday, September 21, and
Friday, September 22, from 10 to
11:30 a.m. Kol Nidre services will
be Friday night at 6:15 p.m. Yom
Kippur services will be Satur-
day, September 30, from 10:15 to
11:45a.m. in Congregation Aha-
vath Torah, 240 Broad Avenue in
Englewood. There is no charge
for attending. Please register at
cjid.org or at http://bit.ly/aha-
vathtorahlinks.
Congregation Kol
HaNeshamah
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah
(Voice of the Soul) is the only
Conservative synagogue serving
the Englewood/Tenafly commu-
nity. We are a Havurah style egali-
tarian shul. Shabbat and holiday
services are highly participatory
and musical, as lay leaders along
with visiting rabbis and scholars
lead prayers, leyn (chant from
the Torah), and offer divrai Torah
(teaching). Discussion during
services is encouraged. Kol HaNe-
shamah is deeply committed to
tikkun olam (healing the world).
Members and their children par-
ticipate in a number of commu-
nity projects such as staffing a
homeless shelter, leading holiday
services for hospital patients, and
visiting nursing homes.
Hebrew school for grades K-7
and Hebrew High School are
available through our affiliate
community schools. Adult Talmud
and synagogue skills classes are
led by our members and visit-
ing scholars. Community events
and celebrations such as Chanu-
kah and Purim parties, Shabbat
luncheons, Friday night dinners,
book club, sports teams, and the-
ater trips provide opportunities
to share the joy of Jewish living
in an atmosphere that is warm
and respectful of the diversity of
observance.
High Holy Days tickets are free,
but reservations are required.
Call (201) 816-1611 or e-mail Info@
KHNJ.org. Shabbat morning and
holiday services are held weekly
on the premises of St Pauls Epis-
copal Church, 113 Engle St., Engle-
wood. Services begin at 9:45 a.m.
Childrens services at 10:30 a.m.
Visit our website at: www.KHNJ.
org.
Fair Lawn
Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel invites
you to join our welcoming, egali-
tarian Conservative congregation.
Spiritually uplifting, educationally
inspiring, socially vibrant, we cre-
ate community and connection
through prayer, education and
social offerings for all ages.
The FLJC is strengthened by
its diverse membership, includ-
ing families, couples, singles,
Jews by Choice, interfaith fami-
lies, and members of the LGBT
community. By enabling all to
worship, learn, celebrate and
find support, the FLJC creates
an openhearted atmosphere in
which to live Jewishly.

The FLJC includes dynamic auxiliary
groups. Sisterhood and Mens Progress
Club provide myriad activities, includ-
ing educational and social events like
concerts, comedy nights and game
nights. Our synagogue community
shares a commitment to righteous-
ness and justice through social action.
Support for the State of Israel is cen-
tral, with connections created through
study, and speakers. Opportunities for
adult learning are plentiful, with weekly
classes, special events and a scholar-in-
residence program.
Our Religious School for grades
K-7, the Howard and Joshua Herman
Educational Center, nurtures Jewish
identity and learning. The school meets
two days a week, utilizing innovative
curriculum, including extensive use of
technology. A specially trained faculty
member helps enable students with
learning differences or disabilities to
succeed. For information, contact Judy
Gutin, principal, at (201) 796-7884 or
principal@fljc.com.
Join us at our Back to Shul BBQ on
Sunday, September 10, 12-3 p.m., spon-
sored by Sisterhood and Mens Progress
Club. Call (201) 796-5040 to reserve.
10-10 Norma Ave., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410.
Call (201) 796-5040, or follow us on
Facebook www.facebook.com/Fair-
LawnJewishCenter
Website: www.fljc.com
Temple Beth Sholom
Celebrating its 60th anniversary, Tem-
ple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn invites
the community to feel the warmth of
its friendly congregation and inspiring
services. The synagogue offers a vari-
ety of adult education programs, family
programming, and activities sponsored
by our Sisterhood, Mens Club, Social
Action Committee, and youth groups
(USY, Kadima). TBS offers daily morn-
ing and evening minyans, junior con-
gregation, and a Shabbat Torah study
group.
Led by Rabbi Alberto (Baruch) Zeili-
covich and Cantor Ted Prosnitz, Temple
Beth Sholom is a traditional Conserva-
tive congregation affiliated with United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It
serves the religious, cultural, and social
needs of 150 households in the Fair
Lawn, Glen Rock, Paramus, and Ridge-
wood areas.
Temple Beth Sholom is a founding
member of the Northern New Jersey
Jewish Academy, a consortium school
with programs from pre-K to seventh
grade.
The state-licensed Helen Troum Nurs-
ery School and Kindergarten provides a
You Are Cordially Invited
developmentally appropriate program
for children ages 2 to 5, after-school
enrichment, early care, a Mommy and
Me program, and a summer camp. The
school welcomes families with children
from other congregations and unaf-
filiated families. For information, call
Debora Lesnoy at (201) 797-2865 or
email dlesnoytbs@yahoo.com.
Temple Beth Sholom is offering an
introductory first year rate for first time
members of $436. Call the office for de-
tails at (201) 797-9321. Visit our website
www.tbsfl.org and like us on Facebook.
The synagogue is located at 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. at Saddle River Road.
Fort Lee
The Jewish Community
Center of Fort Lee /
Congregation
Gesher Shalom
The Jewish Community Center of Fort
Lee / Congregation Gesher Shalom is
a warm, family-friendly, Conservative
synagogue which respects traditional
values and incorporates both tradition-
al and innovative High Holiday services.
We are completely egalitarian and
inclusive in all aspects of synagogue
life. Our many programs serve a multi-
generational congregation and include
many opportunities for worship of
God, as well as adult and family-based
education. We ensure a positive Jewish
experience and home in which every
member matters.
Why join? You will enjoy festive Shab-
bat dinners, inspiring lectures, family-
friendly holiday celebrations, social
activities and more!
We are also the only Conservative
Synagogue in the area to hold a minyan
twice each day.
Our thriving Hebrew School has an
innovative curriculum, utilizing technol-
ogy and emphasizing love of our Jew-
ish heritage, Torah, and Israel. We offer
many learning/registration options.
Want to learn more about our com-
munity?
Visit our website at www.geshersha-
lom.org to find out all about us and
see a list of current events and service
times, or feel free to call the office (201)
947-1735 and schedule an appointment
to get acquainted with our vibrant
synagogue community.

Family
Apples and Honey Service
Thursday, September 21
4:00 pm
Led by Rabbi Jennifer Schlosberg
and Cantor Shaul Praver

GRJC 682 Harristown Road Glen Rock, NJ

Songs, Blessings, Cake,

Apples and Honey
for a Sweet New Year!

FREE and OPEN to the Entire Community!

RSVP to 201-652-6624 or office@grjc.org
Additional Free Community Activities:
Erev Rosh Hashanah service -- September 20 at 8:00 pm
Tashlich -- September 21 at 5:30 pm

(Duck Pond off Prospect Street)

Yizkor -- September 30 approximately 1:15 pm

Neilah -- September 30 approximately 6:00 pm

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We built many memories together and now we need your help in welcoming, vibrant, egalitarian con-
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There is always something happen- bi Aaron Katz, offers a meaningful,
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Jersey City, NJ 07305 best lessons of modern culture. We community, and also to the history,
are proud of our participatory ser- traditions, and values we share with
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Rabbi Aaron Katz RabbiAaron1@gmail.com action and social programming. Our Our services are unique, contem-
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Mahwah for body and soul. Beyond an em-

Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, at 280
Ramapo Valley Road, is a warm and
welcoming Reform congregation serv-
ing Rockland and Bergen counties.
Its more than 435 families are led by
enthusiastic lay leaders in cooperation
with Rabbi Barry Diamond and Cantor
David Perper. In addition to inviting and
spiritual services, it offers an outstand-
ing one-day-a-week religious school,
including a unique family school, junior-
senior youth groups, vibrant lifelong
learning, junior and adult choirs, and
brotherhood, sisterhood, and social
action groups. Friday evening Shab-
bat services are held at 6 p.m. on the
first Friday of the month and 7:30 p.m
the remaining Fridays. We offer a fam-
ily service on the first Friday of each
month. For more information please
call (201) 512-1983 or go to www.beth-
haverimshirshalom.org
Old Tappan
Chabad of Old Tappan
The Chabad of Old Tappan family wel-
comes you for the High Holy Days.
To join Chabad of Old Tappan is to
enjoy an inspiring synthesis of delights
phasis on prayers and rituals, Chabad
OT provides a familial atmosphere
where you will feel an intuitive sense
of community altruism, at once joy-
fully celebrating one anothers simchas
and providing heartfelt support during
times of adversity.
Chabad OT is spearheaded by Rabbi
Mendy and Devora Lewis, a warm, car-
ing and energetic couple who are loved
and admired by all who meet them.
With a welcoming spirit and judgment-
free approach, we allow for Jewish
traditions and the teachings of Torah
to be experienced in a modern and
relevant context, an experience harmo-
niously shared by Jews of any and all
backgrounds.
Chabad OT serves as the nerve center
for spiritual, educational, and social
development, offering a wide range of
programming tailored to differing age
groups. Our current programs include
courses from the Rohr Jewish Learning
Institute, a flourishing Sunday Hebrew
school, teen educational and humani-
tarian programs, Shabbat and holiday
services, dinners and luncheons, a fam-
ily fun day, a community menorah light-
ing and festival, and many services and
programs for seniors.
We welcome you to join our fam-
ily, to spend a Shabbat with us and
to enhance our community by adding
your own unique imprint. To learn more
about Chabad OT call (201) 767-4008
or visit us on the web at www.chaba-
dOT.org.
Paramus
Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth Tikvah
The Jewish Community Center of Para-
mus/Congregation Beth Tikvah is a spir-
ited and engaging Conservative congre-
gation located in the center of Bergen
County. JCCP/CBT offers daily minya-
nim and both traditional and egalitarian
Shabbat and holiday services.
Our progressive Hebrew School pro-
vides a dynamic Jewish education from
ages 4 through bar/bat mitzvah. The
synagogue offers a unique family bar/
bat mitzvah program that helps prepare
not only the child but also parents to
participate in their childs simcha.
Our vibrant and multi-talented rabbi
and cantor help encourage reverence
for Torah, the observance of mitzvot,
and Jewish tradition. Shabbat services
regularly begin at 8 p.m. Friday eve-
nings, and 9 a.m. Shabbat mornings.
Our active committees include Sister-
hood, Mens Club, Community Affairs,
and Israel Affairs. Come by and meet
Rabbi Arthur Weiner who would wel-
come the opportunity to talk with you.
We encourage the participation of our
members who call the JCCP/CBT their
second home and we invite you to
make it your second home as well. See
why Community is our middle name.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Visit our synagogue Facebook page
at http://tinyurl.com/FacebookJCCP-
CBT
304 E. Midland Ave.
Paramus, NJ 07652
(201) 262-7691
www.jccparamus.org
Rabbi Arthur Weiner
Cantor Samuel Weiss
Operations Manager - Rita Greenberg
office@jccparamus.org
Park Ridge
Temple Beth Sholom
of Pascack Valley
Temple Beth Sholom is an egalitarian
and traditional Conservative syna-
gogue. We are a small shul with our
wonderful Cantor Joel Leibowitz and
incredible social events.
Our holiday calendar is typically full,
but there are always other exciting
events.
Shabbat services continue to be en-

Jewish Community Center of Paramus/

Congregation Beth Tikvah
Come see why COMMUNITY is part of our name!

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A Modern Orthodox Community Welcoming to All
Shabbat and Weekday Services Happy, Healthy
Extensive Youth Programming for Shabbat and More
Adult Education Classes from Beginner to Advanced
New Year
Vibrant Sisterhood and Social Programming from our
family to yours
Two Free High Holiday Tickets for Members High Holy Day seats available
Please Contact Us
201-833-0515 304 East Midland Avenue, Paramus
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gaging. High Holy Days services are
Hear the Call thought provoking, with the right mix
of spirituality and reflection.
TBS has been serving the Pascack
Valley for 90-plus years. Join with us
when you want to experience a warm,
caring, and Jewish family.
Call Cathy in our office for High Holy
Days information, membership, and
programming calendar or to receive
our monthly Kol Sholom newsletter.
(201) 391-4620.
Temple Beth Sholom is located at 32
Park Ave. in Park Ridge. Our web site
is at www.temple-beth-sholom.org.
Ridgewood
JOIN US FOR THE HIGH HOLY DAYS
Everyone is welcome to our warm, music-filled services, led by Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center:
Rabbi Steven Sirbu and Cantor Ellen Tilem. And with FREE
two congregations,
services for tots and families, plus our new
one community
voluntary commitment model for membership,
Temple Israel and Jewish Community
we make it easy for you to hear the call. Center (TI-JCC) offers two worship
alternatives: egalitarian Conservative
at Temple Israel (TI) and Reconstruc-
tionist at Reconstructionist Congrega-
A REFORM CONGREGATION tion Beth Israel (RCBI). The congre-
1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666 www.emeth.org 201-833-1322 gations share space at TI-JCC and
participate jointly in programs and
Temple Emeth is supported by members voluntary pledges.
synagogue life. Each congregation
You choose your contribution. holds its own religious services, open
to all, and members join together for
various services and observances
throughout the year. Rabbi David Fine
is the communitys senior rabbi.
We are an inclusive community that
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River Edge
Temple Avodat Shalom
Temple Avodat Shalom is a vibrant
Reform Jewish congregation located
in River Edge. The synagogue main-
tains genuine, warm, and friendly
connections with its membership
more than 1,000 individuals of differ-
ent ages and backgrounds. Temple
BlendingtradionalandprogressiveaspectsofJudaism,ourclergy,staandleaderscollaboratetofoster
Avodat Shalom offers programs for
inspiringworship,fesveholidaycelebraons,lifelonglearningandacommitmenttocommunityoutreach.
young families, seniors, adult couples,
brotherhood, sisterhood, youth group,
OneEngleStreet,Tenay 2015683035 templesinaibc.org and community service opportunities ing our Jewish knowledge and, con-
NaonallyaccreditedEarlyChildhoodCenterfacebook.com/templesinaibc for all ages. We help our members, comitantly, our spiritual identities.
including more than 150 students who
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are registered for our religious school
in grades pre-K through 12, to culti-
vate an appreciation of our timeless
Jewish heritage and celebrate the
joys of Jewish life.
Come join our temple family for the
holidays. Our rabbi, Paul Jacobson,
and cantor, Maria Dubinsky, in con-
junction with our dedicated leader-
ship, delight in welcoming you to our
congregation. Services on second day
Rosh Hashanah (Friday, September
22) and Yom Kippur afternoon (Satur-
day, September 30, including Yizkor)
are free and open to the public.
Ask us about our $360 introductory
rate for all new members. For more
information, please call Barbara Her-
man Hoff, our administrator at (201)
489-2463 ext. 203, email director@
avodatshalom.net. For school reg-
istration information, call Barbara
Haber, educational director, at (201)
489-2463, ext. 204. Visit us on our
website: www.avodatshalom.net
Teaneck
The Jewish Center
of Teaneck
As the High Holy Days rapidly ap-
proach, we all consider where we
might most meaningfully spend these
Days of Awe.
The Jewish Center of Teaneck, our
townships first synagogue with an
illustrious and august history, is a
Modern Orthodox community wel-
coming to all. We are an intergenera-
tional synagogue that proudly serves
as a spiritual home for families and
individuals at every life stage, from
infancy and early childhood into older
adulthood.
Our synagogue community is built
on four pillars.
First, we are a center for heartfelt
tefillah, meaningful prayer. Featur-
ing our daily Shacharit and Mincha/
Maariv services, our main Shabbat
service, a sephardic congregation,
and a youth minyan, we are com-
mitted to providing a sacred space
for each of us, as individuals and as
members of an eternal covenantal
community, to commune with our
Creator. Our childrens groups, from
infancy and up, are equally nurturing
spaces for our children to develop
warm and positive associations with
their synagogue, that plant the seeds
which will blossom in the years and
decades to come.
Second, we are a Center for Torah
learning. With a recognition that a
meaningful spiritual life rests on the
foundation of a Jewish education, we
provide classes, both on Shabbat and
weeknights, for all levels of learners.
With weekly classes in Rambam, Navi,
and Parshah for children, a monthly
book-club which synthesizes the fin-
est of Western literature with rabbinic
texts, in addition to a new womens
Tehillim group which we will be form-
ing this year, we seek to provide the
sacred spaces so critical for deepen-
Third, we are a center for chesed
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and social programming. To be a member of our
synagogue community is to be enmeshed in a car-
ing network in which no one has to encounter lifes
hardest challenges alone. Our Sisterhood is con-
stantly engaged in creating wonderful programs
which are equal parts enjoyable and meaningful.
Together, we foster an environment which recog-
nizes the intrinsic sanctity and humanity of every
single member of our synagogue community.
Finally, we are a center for support for the State
of Israel. We recognize our sacred obligation to
support our brothers and sisters in Israel, and the
unique, historical gift that the Almighty has be-
stowed upon His people in restoring Jewish sover- See hobokensynagogue.org for our activities,
Rachelle Grossman, Director classes and services for adults and children of all ages Grace Gurman-Chan, Director
eignty to our ancestral homeland.
201-653-8666 115 Park Ave., Hoboken, NJ 201-659-4000 201-659-4000
We welcome you to join our synagogue commu- ushpreschool@gmail.com lc@hobokensynagogue.org
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg office@hobokensynagogue.org
nity. For more information regarding membership,
including two free tickets for the High Holy Days,
please visit us at www.jcot.org, e-mail us at of-
fice@jcot.org, or call us at (201) 833-0515.

Temple Emeth
Temple Emeth is a congregation where the values
and practices of Reform Judaism are embraced
every day. We at Temple Emeth take pride in
our programming both spiritual and secular and,
most importantly, our wonderful people tradi- Temple Avodat Shalom is a vibrant Reform Jewish congregation located in River Edge. The synagogue maintains
tional and nontraditional families and individuals genuine, warm, and friendly connections with its membership more than 1,000 individuals of different ages
at all stages of life. Temple Emeth is supported by and backgrounds. Temple Avodat Shalom offers programs for young families, seniors, adult couples, brotherhood,
the voluntary contributions of its members. You sisterhood, youth group, and community service opportunities for all ages. We help our members, including more than
choose your contribution. 150 students who are registered for our religious school in grades pre-K through 12, to cultivate an appreciation of our
timeless Jewish heritage and celebrate the joys of Jewish life.
Rabbi Steven Sirbu writes, I believe each one of
us is on a Jewish journey which involves wrestling Come join our temple family for the holidays. Our rabbi, Paul Jacobson, and our Cantor, Maria Dubinsky, in
with our tradition and shaping a relationship with conjunction with our dedicated leadership, delight in welcoming you to our congregation. Services on second day
Rosh Hashanah (Friday, September 22) and Yom Kippur afternoon (Saturday, September 30, including Yizkor) are
God. Temple Emeth offers the resources and the free and open to the public.
support to help every journeyer find what he or
We are a participating congregation of the EZ Key program supported and run by Federation of Northern New Jersey.
she seeks. Along the way we have a lot of fun, with
This program may enable you to receive free High Holy Day tickets if you are new to the community. To apply for tickets
lively and stimulating classes, services that engage through the EZ Key, please use this link: https://www.jfnnj.org/holidaytickets/#respond
and inspire, and social events where we are re-
We are hosting an Open House on 9/8/17 for the community. We begin at 6:00 with a Tot Shabbat, followed by a BBQ
minded how many wonderful people have chosen
from 6:30-7:30. We will then have a Family Shabbat Service at 7:30 and conclude with an Oneg Shabbat. Please
to affiliate here. come and join us.
Cantor Ellen Tilem is involved in every facet of
We welcome you to take advantage of our Introductory Membership Rate $360.00 for all new members. For more
temple life. With her beautiful voice, she brings us information about membership contact Barbara Herman Hoff, Administrator, at (201) 489-2463 ext. 203 or email her at
new melodies while also celebrating our Jewish director@avodatshalom.net. For our Religious School call Barbara Haber, Educational Director, at (201) 489-2463 ext.
musical heritage. She also works with our three 204 or email her at educator@avodatshalom.net . Please visit us on our website: avodatshalom.net
incredible choirs (junior, teen, and adult) and our
amazing Temple Emeth Band.
We invite you to visit us online at www.emeth.
org, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/
TempleEmeth or www.facebook.com/EmethRe-
ligiousSchool. Or, call us at (201) 833-1322 to find
out more. We are located at 1666 Windsor Road.

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Temple Sinai of Bergen County Enriching your life
Temple Sinai of Bergen County strives to be the through prayer, celebration,
center of a vibrant, caring community. Our mem-
bers celebrate Jewish living through their religious, education and social action
educational, and social experiences. We nurture

High Holidays
a warm and stimulating environment in which
each member engages in a meaningful Jewish life.
Blending traditional and progressive aspects of
Judaism, our clergy, staff, and leaders collaborate begin Sept. 20
to foster inspiring worship, festive holiday celebra-
tions, lifelong learning, and a commitment to com-
munity outreach.
Be inspired by our
With varied backgrounds, we come together
to discover our connection to prayer, spiritual
meaningful services!
renewal, and the establishment of a progressive Free Rosh Hashanah service for
Jewish community in eastern Bergen County. Join
with us to deepen each journey and our shared ex-
Religious School - 2 Days a Week families with young children
perience. We affirm the central tenets of Judaism Free 1 month trial for new students September 21 at 10 a.m.
God, Torah, and Israel and, consistent with the
principles of Reform Judaism, we accept diversity
Children K-2 may attend religious school Babysitting and programs
within our beliefs and prayers. with no synagogue membership required for children & teens
Feel our moving worship. Discover our weekly
Torah study. Listen to a guest speaker. Work with 201-796-5040 10-10 Norma Ave. Fair Lawn, NJ 07410
us to help repair our communities. Come dis-
cover meaningful Jewish experiences in a place www.FLJC.com www.Facebook.com/FairLawnJewishCenter
where people join together to celebrate and find
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strength. We are an inclusive and
dynamic temple family engaged in
strengthening a Jewish legacy for
todays generation and those of the
future; come visit us!
Temple Sinai is located at 1 Engle St.
Call (201) 568-3035 or visit
www.templesinaibc.org.
60th Anniversary
Wayne
Temple Beth Tikvah
Temple Beth Tikvah (House of Hope),
950 Preakness Ave., Wayne, NJ
07470 is a Reform Jewish congrega-
tion which has conducted its wor-
ship, study, and celebrations since
Nursery School, Religious School and a full Calendar of its founding in 1956 in a religiously
Religious, Educational, and Social Activities for Children, traditional way. Beginning her second
year with us, Rabbi/Cantor Meeka
Teens and Adults Simerly, ordained as a rabbi after 10
Daily Morning & Evening Minyans years as a cantor in California, brings
not only a genuine warm personal-
Spiritual Leaders Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich
ity and sweet musical talent, but also
and Cantor Ted Prosnitz a wealth of knowledge and a deep
201-797-9321 ~ www.tbsfl.org love for Judaism, the Jewish people,
40-25 Fair Lawn Avenue, Fair Lawn (corner of Saddle River Rd.) and Israel, her country of birth. Rabbi
Simerly especially loves engaging
Special introductory rate for first time, with the youth in our community and
first year members is $436 they respond eagerly to her genu-
ine interest. Cantor Emeritus Charles
Romalis, will be leading the musical
service with Rabbi Simerly in perfect
harmony for Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur. This years High Holy Days
services will be special as we wel-
come our new Temple Administrator/
Education, Marian Kleinman. Marian is
also a gifted singer and has become
an active participant in every aspect
of Temple life.
Marian has made some up-to-date
changes to enhance TBT Religious
School which starts on Thursday,
September 14. This year we will see
an online component required with a
one day per week in-school schedule
for our grades 4-6. In addition the re-
ligious school offers programs for the
preschoolers and Kindergarteners. We
are now creating greater educational
synergy by joining with Congrega-
tion Shomrei Torah for Wayne Hebrew
High School. Both Temples will enable
Wayne and surrounding communities
teens to mingle and learn Jewishly as
they do in public school.
This year, in addition to our regular
traditional early morning service on
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Tem-
ple Beth Tikvah introduces a Family
Friendly Service with a new, concise,
interactive and meaningful prayer
book to involve all participants. This
service will be spiritually fulfilling for
adults and children; filled with prayer,
music and story telling.
Temple Beth Tikvah is a warm, spirit-

Rosh Hashanah
EVENING SERVICE Wednesday, September 20 - 6:30 PM
FIRST DAY Thursday, September 21 - 8:45 AM *
SECOND DAY Friday ,September 22 - 8:45 AM *
SHABBAT SHUVAH Saturday, September 23 - 9:45 AM Wishing our585 Community a
Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
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Yom Kippur
585 Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
Sweet & Healthy Preschool
Newat The Year as we
Andrew Friedland
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celebrate RoshEarly Hashanah &

Childhood Learning Center
Preschool at The Andrew Friedland
Early Childhood Learning Center
KOL NIDRE Friday, September 29 - 6:20 PM
SERVICES Saturday, September 30 - 9:00 AM * Yom Kippur
The Addison M. &5778
Jewish studies at Jewish studies at
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Elizabeth Opper Religious School
YIZKOR - 11:30 AM (approx.)
MINHA-NEILAH 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Welcome to Wishing
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Beth Rishon...a
Wishing our Community a
Sweet & Healthy New Year
High Holy Days
A High Energy, Participatory Worship Services
Sweet & Healthy New Year
as we
A Preschool, Mom & Tot Programs celebrateCamp
& Summer
A Religious School, Hebrew High & Youth Group
with CONGREGATION Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
as we celebrate
A Bar & Bat Mitzvah Preparation
KOL HANESHAMAH A Adult Education Programs & Speakers
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Warm community. Engaging services. Year round
Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
A Jewish Musical Concerts, Theatre Trips & Much More!

5777
585 Russell Avenue, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
youth and adult social events. Partnership with Israel. 201-891-4466 www.bethrishon.org
Commitment to social justiceand so much more!
Preschool at The Andrew Friedland
*Youth services begin at 10:30 AM Early Childhood Learning Center
Jewish studies at
Services are open to all and tickets are free of charge, but The Addison M. & Elizabeth Opper Religious School
RSVP is required. Please email rsvp@khnj.org
to let us know who will be joining us. Wishing our Community
585 Russell a NJ 07481
Avenue, Wyckoff,
201-891-4466 www.bethrishon.org
Services are on St. Pauls campus, Sweet & Healthy New Year
For information about our High Holy Day services and
113 Engle Street, Englewood, NJ Membershipas we celebrate
at Temple Beth Rishon, please contact us
www.khnj.org | info@khnj.org
at 201-891-4466 or templeoffice@bethrishon.org.
Rosh Hashanah
Welcome & Yom KippurBeth Rishon...
to Temple
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Adult Education Programs & Speakers
Social Action Committee & Caring Committee
Sisterhood & Mens Club
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SAVE THE DATES SEPTEMBER 2017
ROSH HASHANAH SERVICES
Wednesday, September 20, 7:15 pm
Thursday, September 21 9:00 am
Tashlich following services 1:30 pm
Friday, September 22 9:00 am
YOM KIPPUR SERVICES
Kol Nidre: Friday, September 29 6:15 pm
Saturday, September 30 9:00 am
Mincha 5:00 pm Neilah 6:00 pm
Break-the-Fast 7:15 pm
SUKKOT
Erev Sukkot: Wednesday, October 4
SHEMINI ATZERET
Thursday, October 12 7:30 am (Yizkor)
SIMCHAT TORAH
Thursday, October 12 7:30 pm
Come dance with us!
We would love to have you join us but tickets are required.
For more information please call Cathy
in the ofce on (201) 391-4620
Temple Beth Sholom of Pascack Valley
32 Park Avenue Park Ridge, NJ
22 Jewish standard sePteMBer 1, 2017
ed, and welcoming community which
offers various membership packages,
customized for young families, sin-
gles, religious school families, seniors,
snowbirds, and more. For information
about joining the temple or how to
obtain tickets for our high holy days
services, contact membership chair
Lisa (973) 696-3587 or tbtmembers@
aol.com.
Woodcliff Lake
Temple Emanuel Care where each child gives back to
of the Pascack Valley
new format and new times for our
high holy days services for adults,
families, children, and teens. some-
thing for everyone!
temple emanuel of the Pascack Val-
ley is constantly evolving and moving
forward.
we are a Conservative egalitarian
congregation. we believe in respect-
ing the wisdom of our sages and the
torah, and teaching it diligently to our
children by living it daily.
we believe education is a lifelong
journey that takes us from cradle to
grave. to that end, every activity is
social, educational, and religious, all
wrapped into one. these include su-
shi in the sukkah, themed shabbat
dinners throughout the year, cultural
excursions into nYC, and childrens
shabbat service. Our members par-
ticipate in sisterhood and Mens Club.
Our Keruv initiative reaches out to
interfaith families. Our Community of
Caring assists those in our congrega-
tion in their time of need. we foster
love of israel with special programs
and trips to israel.
Our award winning religious school
uses the state-of-the-art smart boards
and tablets in the classroom. Our
students each participate in Kids who
the community by selecting a project
of their choice. Our early Childhood
Program has small classes where each
child feels special. Our teens partner
with Bnai Brith Youth Organization.
Call (201) 391-0801 or email us:
execdir@tepv.org
Wyckoff
Temple Beth Rishon
temple Beth rishon is a warm and vi-
brant community made up of individ-
uals and families from diverse Jewish
backgrounds. whether families seek
to continue a spiritually strong foun-
dation in faith or desire to feel more
culturally connected to their Jewish
traditions, tBrs egalitarian approach
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leadership. Participation is encouraged in well-loved
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traditional and contemporary approaches to prayer.
Our passion for Jewish learning and connection is
evident in our socially active adult and youth pro-
grams many of which are open to the communi-
on national israeli holidays. Our social action and
Caring Committees provide members with active
opportunities for tikkun olam such as food and
clothing drives and projects targeting community
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Cover Story
God is in the
needlework
Betty Samuels creativity on display
at Jewish Center of Teaneck posthumous show
JOANNE PALMER
Y
ou dont usually think of some-
one with a nearly unstoppable
supply of natural energy as
doing needlework, a craft that
demands a huge amount of patience and
close attention to minute detail.
One of the many magical things about
Betty Winter Samuels is that both those
things were true of her. She had a nearly
unstoppable supply of natural energy, and
her needlework which she not only exe-
cuted but also designed was so beautiful
that it will be going on display in the lobby
of her shul, the Jewish Center of Teaneck.
(See box for details.)
Ms. Samuels died on January 16, 2016,
a loss thats still reverberating in her com-
munity; this show gives people another
chance to engage with her art, talk about
her, and remember her.
The memories are vivid.
Betty Winter, born in 1924, grew up in
Flatbush. Her identification with the Jew-
ish community always defined her; in fact,
her daughter, Judi Tischler said, when she
was young, she wanted to be a rabbi, but
at that time women were not allowed to be
rabbis. So she expressed herself in other
ways. The word that Ms. Tischler applied
to her mother was learned. She was
extraordinarily learned, she said.
Ms. Samuels went to New York City
public schools; she graduated from high
school when she was 15, and then went
to Hunter College. At the same time, she
took graduate courses at the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary. She also had a career at
Bloch Publishing, which was a very impor-
tant Jewish publishing house in the 1950s Betty Samuels holds one of her works, which spells out some of her beliefs.
and 60s, her daughter said. She was in
charge of a lot of the Hebrew books. Probably her most
important client was a young upstart named David Ben-
Gurion, who would come to New York to do fundraising
for the Jewish state. He would ask to work only with her, cation, was the principal of the Rego Park Jewish Center, When he left his job, her husband got a severance pack-
and theyd go out to lunch together.
24 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
During that time she met Ruben Samuels, who also was
from Brooklyn, and they married and moved to Queens.
Mr. Samuels, who spent his whole career in Jewish edu-
and the Samuels and their growing family Judi, Michael, age, Betty and Rubens daughter-in-law, Julie Salwen of
and David lived in neighboring For-
est Hills.
Ms. Samuels undergraduate degree
was in drama and speech. She was a
speech pathologist, working in River-
dale the ritzy part of the Bronx
for the marvelously named Bureau
of Speech Improvement, part of the
New York City public school system,
and she also taught Hebrew to deaf
children out of the familys Queens
apartment, and of course she was the
mother of three children. But her real
interest always was in Jewish life, Ms.
Tischler said.
To that end, she also (did we men-
tion her extraordinary energy?) helped
her husband and volunteered at the
synagogue. Her Hebrew and this
was at a time when people were not
getting good educations in Hebrew
was amazing, and so therefore was
her ability to go into the sources. There
was not a large cohort of people who
could do that then, Ms. Tischler said.
In 1968, the Samuels Betty, Ruben,
Michael and David, because Judi
already was in college moved to
Englewood, where Ruben became the
education director at Temple Emanu-
El, working with Rabbi Arthur Hertz-
berg. In the late 1980s, Ruben was diag-
nosed with early onset Alzheimers. He
retired, and so did Betty, taking advan-
tage of an early retirement package the
school system conveniently offered just
then. Betty devoted the next 18 years
of her life to taking care of Ruben, to
working tirelessly for the Alzheimers
Association New Jersey, to doing a huge
range of other volunteer work and
to creating the kind of work that she
had not had the time to do when her responsibilities also
included young children and a full-time job.
Before we get to that, though the energy thing.
 Cover Story

Teaneck, said. It wasnt so much money.

But she listened to experts on the radio
about how to invest in the stock market,
and she managed to parlay that into a
significant among of money. As in, from
the low five figures to the mid six. Did she
know that was remarkable? No, Ms. Sal-
wen said. She just took those things about
herself for granted.
And then the art.
The whole artist part of her just blos-
somed, Ms. Tischler said. It was how she
occupied herself in those long silent years,
taking care of a spouse with Alzheimers.
This collection of challah covers graced
Her mother often displayed her art but
tables on Shabbat and holidays.
created it more to be used or displayed
by her family than to be sold. So soon her
daughters house began to look like a craft
museum, devoted to the art of one particu-
lar and particularly gifted artist.
The process of becoming an artist for
my mother was one of love, Ms. Tischler
said. She really felt that she was express-
ing her soul through her art.
Her Hebrew name was Batya, which
means daughter of God, and her middle
name was Gloria, which was Hadar in
Hebrew. That was who she was.
She had a very personal, intimate, and
constant relationship with God. I really
feel that her art was a way of express-
ing her relationship with God. It was
extraordinary.
One of the most prized objects that Ms.
Samuels made was a huge chuppah; all her
married grandchildren have stood under
it. My mother spent a full year making
it, Ms. Tischler said. It is a huge square,
made of 32 tiles, 8 by 11 inches. Each one is that is the favorite of newlyweds across the There were many things that Ms. Sam- She had the worst voice in the world.
a completely different pasuk or idea from Jewish world. uels could do well, her daughter said But when the family gathered on Shab-
the Torah. The outside is green, to repre- The chuppah is so heavy that it must among them, of course, was art and a bat and holidays, they would sing. My
sent life, fulfillment, spring, and the inside travel with its own poles, because it is too few things at which she did not excel. mother would sing so loudly that she
is red, with two doves intertwined. If you hard to scrounge up any that are strong Among that second category was singing. would drown us out, Ms. Tischler said. I
stare at the doves for long enough, you can enough to keep it upright. It takes up an But that clashed with Ms. Samuels love for think thats because she felt so stimulated
see that they spell out Ani ldodi vdodi li entire closet of her house, Ms. Tischler God, her daughter said. by the words. My father had the voice of an
I am my beloveds, and my beloved is added. It will not be at the show at the My whole family are good singers, angel, but my mother would scream, as if
mine the quote from the Song of Songs Teaneck Jewish Center; its simply too big. except my mother, Ms. Tischler said. she had to make sure that God could hear

JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 25

Cover Story
her voice.
Ms. Samuels adored chazzanut, Ms.
Salwen said. She was a bit of a cantorial
groupie. She would travel to hear can-
tors. She was totally into it.
Another of the skills Ms. Samuels did
not have was cooking. She had no inter-
est in it, Ms. Tischler said. She thought
it was stupid. You just could boil some-
thing and take it out of the pot and eat
it. Cooking, Ms. Samuels thought, was a
waste of time.
But her Passover seder, which centers,
after all, around a table, at which song,
prayer, and story are woven together, but
also on which actual food is served and
from which it is eaten was her master-
piece, Ms. Tischler said. It was not for
the food. No one ever came for the food.
But people would call her a year in
advance to ask if they could come. That
was because the singing was so good,
and because at the end of the seder my
mother would sing Chad Gadya in Yid-
dish. (In 2010, her family made a video
of Ms. Samuels, sitting on a couch
in a lovely black dress covered with
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colorful embroidered flowers, singing it.
Its on YouTube and easily googleable;
the charm clearly comes through.)
So at the end of the seder, nobody
would leave, Ms. Tischler continued.
They would hold their breath and
wait. And she would sing it with com-
plete gusto.
Judi Samuels Tischler lives near Bos-
ton, and the Samuels youngest child,
David, lives in Cincinnati. Michael Sam-
uels and his wife, Ms. Salwen, live in
Teaneck; Ms. Salwen knew Ms. Samuels
since the mid 1970s, when she first began
dating her son.
Ms. Salwen does not agree entirely
with her sister-in-law about Ms. Samuels
musical ability. The sisters-in-law agree
that Ms. Samuels could not carry a tune,
but Ms. Salwen said that because of her
background as a speech teacher, Ms.
Samuels production was beautiful. Its
just that her pitch was not so good. She
was aware of that when I first met her,
but then she got involved in the Teaneck
Jewish Center. There was a chorus there
for a while, and she got involved with it.
Somehow I think that until that point she
was a little embarrassed to sing loudly,
but at that point she had the enthusiasm
 Cover Story

to sing full out.
Hence, Chad Gadya.
Ms. Salwen loved her mother-in-law.
She had a remarkable generosity in how
she welcomed her childrens spouses into
the family, she said. She also was struck
by Ms. Samuels energy. She considered
sleeping to be a waste of time, she said.
My husband remembers her getting up at
5:30 in the morning and vacuuming.
Ms. Samuels also sat on a number of
boards. Those were positions she earned
not because she was a major donor she
did not have the income that would have
allowed her to be but because she did
so much work, with so much enthusiasm
and creativity.
She devoted herself to mitzvot and
good works, Ms. Salwen said. She initi-
ated the shuls Project Isaiah drive. She
used to gather huge amounts of food, and
we would all sort it. She would try to give
half of it to Shelter Our Sisters, and half to
a more Jewish charity.
She organized coat drives. She orga-
nized mishloach manot, where people
from the shul would go to hospitals to
deliver them. I remember particularly
going to the psychiatric unit at Englewood
Hospital. The people there were so grateful
This quote from Psalm 118 is part of the Hallel service.
to have someone come to visit them.
Ms. Salwen rec alls that at her
mother-in-laws funeral, a woman of
great standing in the community told her
that We all knew that Betty was brilliant.
And that made me feel so sad, because
I know that Betty would always tell me
how brilliant this woman was, and how
honored Betty felt to be on the board
with her. How amazing it was that she
could be on the board with someone so
brilliant. And here was this woman, pay-
ing this compliment back wholeheartedly
but too late for Betty.
Among many other honors, Betty Samu-
els is the only person who ever became a
life member of the board of the Teaneck
Jewish Center, Ms. Salwen said.
Ms. Samuels also had a talent for pub-
lic speaking, she added. When she was in
elementary school, she won an award
for reading an Emma Lazarus poem. It
was the most famous one, the one on the
Statue of Liberty that begins Give me
your tired, your poor
She kind of wanted to be an actress,
Ms. Salwen added. But of course you
cant really be an actress and be shomer
Shabbes. Ms. Samuels desire for a Jewish
life outweighed her desire for a public one.
Her involvement with Jewish life took
Ms. Samuels from the Conservative world
to the Orthodox world, but that journey
was neither straightforward nor definitive.

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because she and Ruby were the first
people I knew who really believe in Con-
servatism, Ms. Salwen said. It wasnt a
compromise at all.
But when she got older, she felt
HONORING that the movement had changed. She
thought that it became less focused on
KENT M. SWIG
halacha. Her biggest concern was that it
would cause more peoples children to
intermarry, and not follow the religion.
2017 Visionary Award Recipient But she was very concerned with hala-
cha about feminism, so actually for a cou-
ELIE Y. & ESTHER KATZ
ple of years she had the Teaneck Jewish
Center have a shira chadasha minyan.
2017 Young Professional Leadership Award Recipients Thats a partnership minyan, where men
and women sit separately but women are
allowed to read from the Torah and to
Special greetings by lead the parts of the service that do not
AMBASSADOR DANI DAYAN require a minyan, in which women con-
tinue not to count. She believed strongly
Consul General of Israel in stretching the limits, where she could,
of womens rights within halachic Juda-
ism, Ms. Salwen said.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017 The Teaneck Jewish Center went
through some very challenging times;
6:30 PM
Ms. Samuels was there through all of
them, hoping for the brighter future that
seems to have arrived, although she died
before the most dramatic of them, the
Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers arrival of Rabbi Daniel Fridman. She
spent tremendous amounts of time try-
23rd Street and West Side Highway ing to think of creative ways to keep the
shul going, Ms. Salwen said.
Business attire. Dietary laws observed. Ms. Salwen summed up her mother-
in-law. She was a very kind person,
she said. She is one of the few people I
For tickets, table reservations, journal ad rates, know who I dont think every intention-
or more information, please contact Adi Ben-Ezra at ally hurt anybody ever. Most people get
angry and try to lash out, but she didnt.
NY-Gala@afmda.org or 646.388.7508. She never did.
Or register online at www.afmda.org/NY-Gala. She took care of three unmarried
great aunts, she added. One of them
was at the Hebrew Home for the Aged,
and she would go there twice a week to
check up on her. And she also led a Yid-
dish class there.
She saved an aunt. She used to call
her every day. Once she was in Boston,
Magen David Adom is Israels national ambulance, blood-services, and disaster-relief and her aunt didnt answer. She got
organization,serving as emergency medical first-responders for the states more than nervous and drove back down to New
8.5 million people. MDA is the only organization mandated by the Israeli governmentto
York. Her aunt had fallen and broken
serve in this role, but its not a government agency, so it relies on people like you for
her hip. If Betty hadnt been on top of
funding. Through your gift, youre saving lives.
this, who knows what would have hap-
pened to her.
28 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
Betty Samuels
threw herself into
every activity that
could benefit the
shul she loved,
the Jewish Center
of Teaneck.
And Betty never let pain stop her
from doing anything. I remember when
she broke a rib she was 85 at the time
and a week later, you would ask her
about it and she would say it was noth-
ing. She would brush it aside.
Betty Samuels won many awards. She
was honored repeatedly. She was really
well known in the local Jewish commu-
nity, Ms. Salwen said. She was a local
celebrity. It was like everyone knew
Betty. And I think that says a lot, given
the size of the local Jewish community.
Ahrona Ohring of Teaneck, another
longtime Teaneck Jewish Center mem-
ber, and Ms. Samuels were good friends.
In fact, she is behind the display at the
shul, although she says that it was her
husband, Milton, himself an artist and
sculptor, who came up with the idea. I
started out with the idea of doing some-
thing much smaller, and he started mak-
ing suggestions, and it just grew like
Topsy, she said. Its the first such exhibit
at the shul.
She grows wistful when she talks about
Betty Samuels. She was a wonderful
friend, Ms. Ohring said. She was open
and frank, and she had a sense of humor.
She was imaginative, sometimes to the
point of being nutty she would run an
idea past me, and sometimes I would say
That ones just nuts, although most of
the ideas were good ones.
We had one long-running conversa-
tion. It was always about what was going
on in the Jewish world. We both had an
endless interest in it local, in Israel,
wherever. Of course wed talk about
other things too, family, but that really
was the basis for it.
It was an intense friendship, Ms.
Ohring said. And now I really miss her.
Who: Betty Samuels of Teaneck
What: Her needlework art will be on
display
Where: At the Jewish Center of Te-
aneck, 70 Sterling Place
When: From September 18 through
October 13
For more information:
Call (201) 833-0515.
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Jewish summer camps reopening to host Houston victims
Ben Sales
Three weeks ago, Lauren Laderman left Camp Young
Judaea-Texas after serving as the unit head for 14-year-olds
this summer.
Then Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast, and Lader-
man was back at camp, this time preparing the cabins for
evacuees who needed a place to live.
30 Jewish Standard SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
On Tuesday, families began moving into the 180-acre facil-
ity outside of Austin.
I want to keep the families in high hopes, knowing that
theyre going to go back to Houston and [have to] figure
things out, said Laderman, 23, a recent college graduate
who grew up in Houston. But we can give them a few days
of relaxation knowing theyll have somewhere to sleep and
good food.
As Tropical Storm Harvey rakeed the Texas coast
deluging the Houston area, destroying property,
and filling convention centers with evacuees Jewish
summer camps mobilized to aid families by sheltering
them or supervising their children.
At least 30 people have died as a result of the storm,
a number that is expected to rise, and so far more than
3,000 have had to be rescued.
Young Judaea emailed parents and alumni on Mon-
day evening, three days into the storm, opening its
doors to families that have evacuated Houston, about
a three-hour drive away. Ten families arrived on Tues-
day, and more are anticipated once families are able
to leave the flooded city, where the roads are closed.
We dont have a lot of money but we have a great
staff, so we said, Lets open it up, said camp direc-
tor Frank Silberlicht, who had evacuated his Houston
home this week after living there for two days without
power. For people to have some kind of normalcy,
thats what camp provides.
Greene Family Camp, a Reform overnight camp
north of Austin, also offered space for families to stay.
But staff realized that families would be better served
by an impromptu day camp for kids in Houston, free-
ing up their parents to go back home and survey
property damage. The camp also is providing canned
goods and clothes to those in need, and a few families
have taken shelter at the overnight camp, where there
is staff to care for them.
Were going to do everything we can to support
them emotionally as well as physically, keep them
occupied and try to take their minds off of whats
going on, said Loui Dobin, the Greene Family Camps
executive director.
In both cases, the camps hope to recreate the fun,
relaxed atmosphere they provide each summer.
Dobin expects a few hundred kids to attend the day
camp, where they will receive meals and do activities
like relay races or movie time. He hopes to arrange a
pickup point for families so they dont all have to fig-
ure out how to maneuver to get to the camp.
Young Judaea will house families in private guest
rooms that usually serve as space for retreats or con-
ventions. The camp has bed linens, towels, and about a
week of food for 100 people its far enough from the
flooding to buy more. In addition to beds, the camp also
is providing the families three meals a day and snacks.
Camp staff also has been meeting families special
requests, from portable cribs to a few sets of dry cloth-
ing, and is planning to open a business center with
computers and an internet connection. When fami-
lies are not eating or sleeping, counselors like Lader-
man will put on programing for kids and adults, from
sports and trivia games to swimming and given the
right instructor a ropes course.
Families will be there, but they can come and go,
Silberlicht said. People there, they want to partici-
pate. So people can help set the table, clear the tables,
help in the kitchen. People want to feel useful as well.
Jewish institutions have been damaged by the flood-
ing, and the Houston Jewish federation estimated that
the vast majority of local Jews live in affected areas.
The federation is raising relief funds and coordinating
Jewish service agencies.
Meanwhile, Chabad is importing certain kosher
foods that have become scarce due to the flooding and
IsraAid, an Israeli relief agency, is preparing teams to
deploy to the area. A few families have taken shelter at
the Robert M. Beren Academy, a local Orthodox Jewish
 Jewish World

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The Bar-Ilan University President, Rector and
School of Graduate Studies thank our dear friends,
Above, rescuers and volunteers
help people make their way Dr. Mordecai Katz
Courtesy of Young Judaea-Texas

out of a flooded neighborhood

following Hurricane Harvey
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
in Houston on August 29.
Left, campers at Camp Young and Dr. Monique Katz
Judaea-Texas, shown during for encouraging the advancement of
the regular season, before
Hurricane Harvey. scientific research at the University.

day school.
Both the Greene and Young Judaea
camps have sheltered families in ear-
lier floods and storms, and they expect
to remain open at least until September
5, the earliest date that Houston schools
may reopen. (Before the storm, school
had been slated to begin on August 28.)
Neither camp knows how many people
will need help, but they hope to We join the Katz family in proudly congratulating
provide a safe haven, physically
and emotionally, at least for a few days.
the outstanding doctoral students chosen for
It was hard for us to watch it from
afar, so now we can be proactive and
help families, said Julia Paeglis, the The Mozes S. Schupf Graduate
director of year-round programs for Fellowship Program:
Young Judaea-Texas. We want to pro-
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American Muslims turn to Jewish experts

for help with security at their mosques
BEN SALES coaching them on everything from forming relation- years later. Jewish institutions nationwide have received

W
ith Islamophobic hate crimes on the rise, Mus-
lim leaders are working harder to secure their
mosques and institutions. Some are turning
to Jewish experts for assistance.
A few Jewish organizations have partnered with local and
national Muslim groups to advise them on best security prac-
tices and advocate jointly for stronger hate crime legislation.
Cooperation between the two communities, which was grow-
ing late last year, is turning toward the particulars of staying
safe in a nervous climate how to prevent attacks and handle
hate crimes.
When people start to feel unsafe in Sabbath or Sunday or
Friday services, that can make for a very complicated and
challenging set of circumstances, said Paul Goldenberg,
director of the Secure Community Network, which advises
Jewish groups and institutions on security and has worked
with Muslim, Sikh, and Christian institutions on composing
security plans. Extremist groups have come to realize our
houses of worship are an Achilles heel.
Goldenberg has worked with Muslim groups for years,
ships with local law enforcement to receiving grants
from the Department of Homeland Security to making
sure staffers know what to do if there is an attack or a
threat. The ADL and American Jewish Committee also
have worked with Muslim leaders and institutions on
reporting, preventing, responding to, and prosecuting
hate crimes.
Muslims and Jews appear to have good reason to be
vigilant. The Anti-Defamation League reported a 34
percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2016 ver-
sus 2015. Islamophobic attacks went up 67 percent from
2014 to 2015, according to the latest FBI statistics, and
the number of anti-Muslim hate groups has nearly tri-
pled in the last year, according to the Southern Poverty
Law Center.
Both communities have suffered high-profile hate inci-
dents in the past few weeks. A Minnesota mosque was
bombed in early August, and the recent white suprema-
cist rally in Charlottesville targeted Jews with neo-Nazi
slogans. Brandeis University, a nonsectarian Jewish
school, received a bomb threat last week, though its
unclear whether the threat was explicitly anti-Semitic.
Some Jewish institutions began forming security plans
after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and SCN was founded three
more than 100 bomb threats in 2017, most of which
came in waves early in the year. The identity of the main
The ADL and American
Jewish Committee also
have worked with
Muslim leaders and
institutions on...
hate crimes.
hoaxer in those threats, a 19-year-old Israeli-American
man, wasnt known for months, leading the institutions
to beef up security, and some hired guards or restricted
entry to their buildings.
Muslims now hope to do the same for their mosques
and other facilities.
Salam Al-Marayati, the president of the Muslim Pub-
lic Affairs Council, has been consulting with Goldenberg
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picked up since the presidential election
in November. This year, Goldenberg pro-
vided the Los Angeles-based council with
a plan to secure area mosques, including
best practices on coordinating with law
enforcement and procedures to follow
during an emergency.
All of that was unknown to the com-
munity, and with the help of Paul it
became known, Al-Marayati said.
Thats my goal in life: to find Pauls
practices, the school briefing introduced
administrators at the six participating
schools and local law enforcement offi-
cers to each other.
Jewish institutions will spend a little
more time on specific things that might
happen on special holidays, but any
religious institution can be a target,
said Dena Marks, associate director of
the Houston office. So a lot of what we
would tell the leaders of Jewish institu-
Theres underreporting across the
board, said Jarvis, who said that if commu-
nities make sure to report incidents, law
enforcement are able to respond and iden-
tify those behind hate crimes.
The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, a
group of religious and communal leaders
formed around the time of the presidential
election by the American Jewish Committee
and the Islamic Society of North America,
has been pushing for stronger hate crimes
happened in Charlottesville on the day of the
far-right rally. The chapter hopes to advance
legislation or regulations that would discour-
age such behavior.
Silverman said that a law increasing
punishments for hate crimes would deter
bigots from moving from intimidation to
violence. The advisory council supports
federal legislation to define attacks or
threats on religious communal institutions
as hate crimes.

n counterpart in the Muslim community.

Hes served that role for the lack of a
o security specialist.
The ADLs regional offices also pro-
vide local mosques with consulting simi-
lar to SCNs how to build relationships
with law enforcement, how to monitor
who enters and exits buildings, and the
tions we would tell the leaders of Muslim
institutions, Christian institutions.
Elise Jarvis, who heads the ADLs com-
munity security efforts, said that one of
the best ways to improve security would
be for Muslim communities to increase
reporting of hate crimes to police. Jews
now are the target of more hate crimes
legislation federally and at the local level.
Robert Silverman, U.S. director of Muslim-
Jewish Relations for the AJC, said the advi-
sory councils newly formed Dallas chapter
will be examining how to oppose members
of private militias who regularly stand out-
side synagogues and mosques brandish-
ing their weapons something that also
If you go vandalize the synagogue,
and instead of a misdemeanor, that will
become a five-year prison sentence, that
will send a strong message that people will
take this more seriously, Silverman said.
We dont all consider ourselves victims.
Were organizing.
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best ways to spread information about a
threat or attack.
Over the past year, the ADLs Hous-
ton office has held two briefings with
the local Muslim community one for
schools, the other for community insti-
tutions. In addition to security best
than any other religious group in the
United States, according to the FBI,
but Jarvis said that Muslims may avoid
reporting hate crimes due to a lack of
trust in law enforcement. Al-Marayati
said many Muslims resent being treated
as suspects.

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The Charles E. increase security with
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students.
Then the school was hit with a bomb threat in
February.
So this year Aleph Bet is upping the ante, adding
monthly evacuation drills to the fire drills.
The bomb threat necessitated more practice with
the kids and the staff, going over who was respon-
sible for what, said Sarah White, Aleph Bets head

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The Secure Community Network, a Jewish group
that advises synagogues, schools, and other institu-
tions on security, long has recommended keeping a
plan for emergency notification and evacuation, moni-
toring buildings entrances, and maintaining relations
with local law enforcement
The reality is that we all anticipate there will be
more problems in the future, said Paul Bernstein, the
CEO of Prizmah, a consortium of Jewish day schools.
sent an email to parents denouncing white supremacy fol- on sound reasoning, sound thinking, and Jewish values.
lowing the rally. But administrators said they expect to fold Administrators are also wary of creating a climate of fear
discussion of anti-Semitism into their existing classes on through security measures. While schools want to keep
prejudice, Jewish history, and the Holocaust. their doors guarded, theres also the danger of intimidating
Were not changing our curriculum based on any one the students.
event, said Marc Lindner, Charles E. Smiths high school When kids are coming and going, we are always aware of
principal. We will be teaching our students to be aware of that, Sokol said. But we dont make them feel really con-
the dangers of things like this, as we always do, and to be scious about, Oh, get in quickly because we have to close
able to process and think through and make decisions based the door. JTA Wire Service

The state of the world, the state of uncertainty and

attacks that happen generally and against Jews in
many parts of the world, the risks of our own national
political environment, create situations where threats
and attacks can happen.
Effective and frequent communication with parents

KNOWLEDGE
is key, Bernstein said. That way, threats are not over-
stated or misconstrued. Amid the bomb threats this
year, some administrators said, interacting with par-
ents was one of the more stressful aspects of handling

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the threat.
How you communicate with the families in those
schools is a crucial part of the success of that, Bern-
stein said, noting how social media spreads informa-
tion quickly and often without context.
Bernstein said some parents might panic upon hear-
ing from their child that there was a lockdown going on
in the school and didnt know it was a lockdown drill.
Prizmah is working with the Secure Community
Network to offer security best practices to affiliated
schools and to help them share relevant experience
with each other.
The wave of bomb threats, meanwhile, convinced
many school officials that their facilities were secure,
and that they already had been doing the right things.
We have the highest level of security for our build-
ing, and there was not a need to intensify it because
its already at the point where theyre happy with
the arrangements, said Jennifer Rosenberg, head of
school at the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor, refer-
ring to her students parents. The school, which has 48
students, was the target of a bomb threat in February.
Reports of a rise in anti-Semitism or the white
supremacist rally in Charlottesville arent forcing
a radical shift at these schools, either. Some have
reviewed how teachers should respond to questions
about anti-Semitism, and the Charles E. Smith School

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Israelis again debate the price of a kidnapped soldiers body
Andrew Tobin
JERUSALEM Israels defense minister reignited the emo-
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willing to pay for the return of kidnapped soldiers, particu-
larly the bodies of soldiers who have been killed.
Avigdor Liberman said that Israel must not repeat the
mistake of the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal, in which it released
more than 1,000 Palestinian security prisoners in exchange
for the return of its one soldier, who had been held
by Hamas.
The argument, which never really ends here, was on.
Some Israelis responded that the government simply
should force concessions from the terrorist group, which
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that limitations be placed on prisoner exchanges amounted
to abandoning captured soldiers.
The defense ministers comments came in a statement
responding to two recent developments. Earlier that day,
Simha Goldin, the father of a missing soldier, Hadar Goldin,
held a news conference in which he called Liberman weak
and cowardly for failing to bring home the remains of sol-
diers, including his son, whose body was never returned by
Hamas after Israels 2014 Gaza war.
Last week, Lior Lotan resigned from his position over-
seeing Israels efforts to retrieve the remains of Goldin and
another soldier, Oron Shaul, from Hamas as well as three
citizens believed still to be alive.
Liberman said he understands and accepts Goldins criti-
cism, and that the return of the soldiers remains still is a
top priority.
I consider this to be of the utmost moral and ethi-
cal import, first and foremost to the families and to the
IDF and the State of Israel, he said.
However, he argued that Israel could not afford
another Shalit deal, which he said saw the release of
1,027 murderers and their agents, including Mah-
moud Kawasme and Yahya Sinwar. Kawasme helped
fund the 2014 kidnapping and killing of three Israeli
teenagers. Sinwar recently was elected to head Hamas
in Gaza.
Liberman said that 202 of the released prisoners
since have been rearrested for alleged involvement in
terror, resulting in the deaths of seven Israelis. He said
111 of those rearrested are still in prison.
Hamas has been holding the remains of Goldin and
Shaul since the two were killed in the Gaza Strip dur-
ing Israels Operation Protective Edge. The three living
Israelis being held are said to have entered Gaza freely.
Israel reportedly has been conducting indirect talks
with Hamas about a possible prisoner exchange. As
opposed to the Shalit family, which demanded that
the government comply with Hamas demands, the
Goldin and Shaul families have urged Israel to punish
Hamas in the belief it could help win the release of the
remains. They have urged Israel to stop returning the
bodies of Hamas attackers, downgrade the conditions
of Hamas prisoners held in Israel, and intensify the
siege on Gaza.
But many Israelis, including political and military
leaders, have argued that such tactics likely would
bring Israel into another war with Hamas and also
result in increased international opprobrium. They
are among those Israelis who criticize Liberman for
taking too hardline a position on captured soldiers
and say that mass prisoner swaps, like the Shalit deal,
are the only realistic way to rescue captured soldiers.
Housing Minister Yoav Galant criticized Liberman
for supporting the Shamgar Commission, which in
2012 recommended severely limiting the concessions
that Israel can make to free a captured soldier. Among
other things, the report opposed releasing security
prisoners in exchange for the bodies of Israeli soldiers.
The adoption of the Shamgar report would sen-
tence a captured soldier to death, Galant told
Israel Radio.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed the
commission but never brought its findings to a gov-
ernment vote that would make them binding. He has
yet to weigh in on the recent debate.
Attorney Liron Libman, a former director of the
Israeli armys international law department, came out
last week with specific recommendations for the kind
of restrictions Israel could place on prisoner releases.
Libman, now a researcher at the Israel Democracy
Institute think tank, said the government should con-
sider freeing only prisoners who have not violated the
law of war, for instance by killing civilians as opposed
to soldiers.
Firstly, it will help to create a combat environment
of combatants fighting one another, Libman said in a
statement. Secondly, it is meant to lower the motiva-
tion of terrorists to carry out terrorist attacks against
civilians. And lastly, it will bring us international legiti-
macy and also bring international pressure on terror-
ist organizations to engage in negotiations, and will aid
Israels international image.
Most Israelis do not make such distinctions. But
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And if you decide to wait, what are you saying
about the lives of your potential rescuers? If the
waters rise, is it right to make people come back
to get you, and risk their lives again, and even
more, because sentimentality made you dither?
What would you do?
In the meantime, there are things that we can
do here to help people who, unlike us, actually
faced that real-life choice.
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
sey is part of the Jewish Federations of North
America. The JFNNJ is raising money locally,
and working with the JFNA, which is running
its own fundraising appeal; all the money the
federations collect will be pooled (perhaps an
unfortunate word in this context) and sent to
Houston. It often is hard for people far away
from a disaster to know how to help. The people
there know what is needed and how to get those
supplies to the right people, and to do it in time
to have it matter. The federation system has the
kind of local connections that help direct your
money to where it can do the most good.
We urge our readers to go to the federations
website, at www.jfnnj.org, and to click on the
link to the donations page. Youll find it on the
federations homepage.
And although our hearts go out first and most
to the people whose footing has gone from
familiar solid ground to a weird watery miasma,
filled with the corpses of dead cars that sur-
face occasionally, whose futures right now are
as unchartable as their streets, we worry also
about the beloved pets they might not have
been able to rescue. There are organizations
here that help with pets too. To learn more, go
to Pet Rescues Facebook page, www.facebook.
com/PetResQIncNJ. The need is dire, but there
are people who are willing and able to help.
Meanwhile, during most of the storm in the
Southwest a storm, we must point out, that
was not caused by climate change but was made
worse because of the higher sea levels and wet-
ter air climate change has ushered in we glo-
ried in blue skies, white puffy clouds, and baby-
bear-just-right temperatures. We have been
incredibly lucky; the weathers shown us little
glimpses of perfection, right here on earth.
But the lights changing and the weather after
all is changing and the season is changing and
the calendar is changing too. This weekend is
Labor Day, and the High Holy Days will be here
soon too. We will move from cotton to wool,
from sandals to boots, from endless hours bask-
ing outside to shivering bursts from home to car.
Things are about to change.
We wish all our readers a happy, dry, friends-
and-family-filled Labor Day weekend. 
 JP
fter the horrific attacks in Barcelona, the chief rabbi said that
there was no future for the Jews in the city.
The next day, the leader of the Jewish community in that
same city rebuked the rabbi and asserted that Jewish life in Bar-
celona was thriving, that Jews were not afraid and would not be driven
from their homes by fear stoked by Islamist fanatics. Having just returned
from a Holocaust educational tour of Europe with my children, which
was followed by large numbers on social media and during which we vis-
ited the scenes of the greatest horrors that have befallen my people, my
views have come down firmly on the side of the community leaders posi-
tion. Not only is he correct that we require robust Jewish communities in
Europe, but Europe, for all its historical horrors, remains essential to the
future of the Jewish people.
The terror in Barcelona was only the most recent manifestation of the
danger posed by radical Islam. The rabbis words echoed those of Jewish
leaders in other parts of Europe who have similarly argued that the rise in
anti-Semitism has made life, especially in Europe, intolerable. Israeli lead-
ers have reinforced this sentiment and encour-
aged European Jews to make aliyah.
Should Jews stay or should they leave their
homes in Europe?
Two of the greatest Jewish leaders of the
20th century had opposing views on the sub-
ject. Theodor Herzl concluded that anti-Sem-
itism was ineradicable, and the only hope for
Jewish survival was the establishment of an
independent Jewish state. He insisted on the
Rabbi necessity of using diplomacy to persuade the
Shmuley world that Jews have the right to self-determi-
Boteach nation in their homeland, Israel, and helped
turn the centuries-old dream of returning to
Zion into reality.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, affectionately known as the
rebbe, believed that Jews should have no fear, and communities should
be expanded to all parts of the globe. To assist in this goal, the rebbe
sent emissaries around the world to establish and strengthen Jew-
ish communities.
Paradoxically, my trip to Hitlers birthplace in Austria, Braunau-am-Inn;
to Wannsee, where the Final Solution was plotted; to Warsaw, Krakow
and Lodz, where Jews were confined to ghettos; and to the concentra-
tion camps where Jews were exterminated have convinced me the rebbe
was correct.
How can I say this? Doesnt the fact that six million Jews were killed
while the world watched prove Herzls point? No Jew was spared. Even the
most assimilated Jew, and non-Jew with only a distant Jewish relative, was
Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of the World Values Network
and the author of 30 books, including Judaism for Everyone. Follow him
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sentenced to death. The worlds leaders shut
the gates to their countries, offering few Jews
an opportunity to escape.
If Israel had existed at that time, Jews would
have had a safe haven and they would have had
a government that would have done everything
in its power to save them. In fact, even without
a state, Jews in Palestine did what they could
to rescue their brethren. The Mossad was first
created to organize illegal immigration to Pal-
estine, bringing Jews to their homeland despite
the objections of the British mandatory govern-
ment. Heroic figures such as Hannah Senesh,
whose torture dungeon we visited, put their
lives on the line to fight the Nazis.
In many of the towns my family visited,
including Lomza, Poland, where my grandfa-
ther was born, few if any Jews remained. Hitler
won. He eradicated whole Jewish communities.
When we walked through these places, with
me wearing my yarmulke and tzitzis, we were
stared at by some as though we were unicorns.
If synagogues survived, they often were muse-
ums rather than places of worship, because no
one was left to pray in them. Is this what we
really want? I thought. For Jews to be histori-
cal oddities like the dinosaurs?
And then there were the Israeli tourists,
extremely numerous in cities like Venice, Rome,
Warsaw, and even Munich, and especially Ber-
lin. Did we want Israelis, and especially former
IDF soldiers doing a year abroad, to arrive in a
continent bereft of Jews? No shuls to visit and
feel at home? No Chabad houses? No mikvehs
to use, no kosher restaurants to eat at?
I absolutely believe that every Jew who
wants to live in Israel should go there and be
encouraged to do so. It is our eternal home-
land. Despite terrorism and the threats of
radical Islam in the region, Israel is strong and
safe. Israelis are defended by a powerful army
comprised mostly of courageous Jews with a
fighting spirit. The government is a flourishing
democracy, and all citizens enjoy the freedoms
we often take for granted in the United States.
Many Jews, however, will not make aliyah,
and they should not be made to feel lesser Jews
for doing so. Rather, they must be encouraged,
inspired, and obligated to build Jewish life in
their cities, and to support Israel vocally and
publicly from their respective countries.
The world Jewish community, as well as
the State of Israel, should be investing in their
welfare. Philanthropists should participate in
reinvigorating Jewish communities in Eastern
Europe, providing educational opportunities
to build Jewish identity, and restoring syna-
gogues and other Jewish institutions. Similarly,
Israel should invest in these communities, just
as it has committed millions of dollars to assist
American organizations to strengthen Jew-
ish education in the United States and to sup-
port Birthright. I want to see living, flourishing
communities throughout Europe where Jews
are proud, strong, and committed to Israel
and Judaism.
An example is the recent tension between
the local Jewish community of Hungary num-
bering 100,000 strong and the visit of Prime
Minister Netanyahu this past July. The local
community expected the prime minister to
speak out forcefully at what is perceived to be
an anti-Semitic campaign labeling George Soros
a Jewish banking manipulator out of New York
who is trying to influence Hungarian immigra-
tion policy. When it comes to support for Israel,
Soros is a jerk. Still, he is a fellow Jew, and an
attack against him as some sort of Jewish elder
straight out of the Protocols is obviously unac-
ceptable. Bibi did address it, but clearly he also
felt the need to build a strong bilateral rela-
tionship between Hungary and Israel, one that
would have been impeded had he arrived as a
guest in the country lecturing them about anti-
Semitism. But there is arguably no Jew alive
more eloquent and more passionate in defense
of his people than Bibi, and he should rise to
the occasion. Israel should always see its own
interests aligned with that of world Jewry.
A political argument also can be made for
strengthening diaspora communities. In the
United States especially, the Jewish commu-
nitys support for Israel is vital to ensuring
the U.S.-Israel alliance endures. Jewish com-
munities elsewhere may have much less influ-
ence, but how much will government officials
care about Israel if they no longer have Jew-
ish constituents?
I can understand the fear many Jews feel,
especially in countries such as Sweden, where
anti-Semitism has surged and the Jewish com-
munity is small and lacks the infrastructure to
defend itself or to be politically influential.
The recent poll indicating that one-third of
British Jews are thinking about emigrating dem-
onstrates how serious the problem has become
in Europe. If a large, prosperous, and relatively
powerful Jewish community feels so threat-
ened, what hope is there for Jews in places
such as Barcelona, let alone towns in Eastern
Europe, where remnants of prewar communi-
ties are struggling to survive?
The rebbes message was not to give in to
fear. Instead of hiding their Judaism, as so many
European Jews do today by taking off their
yarmulkes and concealing their Star of David
necklaces, we must walk openly and proudly as
Jews. It is up to the leaders of Europe to ensure
that no Jew is endangered because they identify
as Jews.
The rebbes and Herzls outlooks now inter-
sect. This is not the 1940s. Today there is a Jew-
ish state, and as the representative of the Jew-
ish people everywhere, the Israeli government
must say to the leaders of Europe: If you do
not defend the Jewish people within your bor-
ders, we will take steps to ensure they are safe.
I understand the Israeli government has eco-
nomic, political, and security interests, and it
must take those into account in its international
relations. There can be no compromise, how-
ever, when it comes to Jewish welfare. Secur-
ing the well-being of Jews must supersede bilat-
eral ties.
The Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim
formulated a 614th commandment we should
not give Hitler a posthumous victory. Aban-
doning the Jews of Europe, especially those
who survived Hitlers genocidal war, is unac-
ceptable. Allowing or encouraging Europe
to become Judenrein would violate that com-
mandment and betray the ideals of the two
towering visionaries of 20th century Jewry,
Herzl and the rebbe.
Opinion
A parallax view
of intersectionality
and the clash of values
I
am Jewish.
I am a feminist.
I believe in free speech.
I support gay marriage.
I am a Zionist.
I believe in conservative financial planning. I am adamant about protecting
free speech, no matter how uncomfortable it makes us. I pray for access for
all to great health care and education. I know that black lives matter and blue
lives matter, and that there is no contradiction in believing both.
I am a stay-at-home mom, a community leader, and an aspiring elected
official. I am an individual, with an appropriately complicated set of values,
the combination of which surely is unique to me.
There has been much discussion recently of intersectionality, the concept
that certain social identities can overlap in surprising and sometimes discor-
dant ways, such as when progressive, pride-minded Jews were banned from
the Dyke march in Chicago this summer for wearing the Israeli flag. There
are times, it seems, when we are told that as individuals we are not allowed
to believe in two separate overarching values that certain member-groups
have decided clash with one another.
So how do we, as passionate, committed citi-
zens of society, navigate these communal divides
while staying true to our foundational beliefs and
creating positive change in the world?
As a political candidate in a local race, I have
STEFANIE DIAMOND
seen many of these seemingly broad-stroke issues
boiled down to very specific divides in my own
neighborhood. As a white, observant Jewish
woman who also is strongly committed to progres-
sive Democratic social values like diversity, toler-
Cheryl ance, community resources, and social action, I
Rosenberg often have been questioned as a true believer in
any of my ideals. Though I view myself as living
in both worlds (the Orthodox community and the
world of progressive Democrats), there are some who have argued that I
cant possibly appreciate everyones needs. Whereas I believe we should
always seek to build bridges, I find that all too often our communities, like
our current president, look to build walls.
Unfortunately, in todays world, you dont have to look too far to find
examples of where we quickly reach the limits of our own values systems. In
parts of Bergen County, like Mahwah and Upper Saddle River, the residents
are shouting about the need to maintain the diversity in their towns while
failing to extend their welcome to certain types of Jews. From Charlottesville,
we can see just how hard it is for even the most staunch believers in free
speech to apply that strict constitutional standard to a group who is spread-
ing hate. From the Dyke March, it became painfully apparent that sometimes
expressing love for all humans regardless of their sexuality leaves no room
for welcoming other parts of our collective identity that is controversial in
a different way.
As challenging as these complex identities and value systems can be for an
individual, they are even more difficult to navigate for community leaders
and elected officials, who have to balance their own (very strong) beliefs with
the communities they serve.
We live in a time where leaders are expected to publicly comment on
incredibly significant events moments after they happen, and these state-
ments have the power to unite or divide, to build bridges or erect walls. I will
admit that there are important elected officials and large organizations that I
have relied on to express or promote values that I hold dear that occasionally
have let me down with their reactions, or lack thereof, to current events,
but I constantly try to remind myself that they are individuals, like I am, with
sometimes competing values.
In certain cases they are representing a diverse set of constituents. In other
cases, they may feel that what is right and what is good are at odds. Whatever
the case, I cannot assume for one second that they didnt struggle to do the
best that they could with the tools they had at the time.
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Opinion

The shameless and the shamed

L
ets play a game of word associa- He argued that the introduction of steam-
tion. Ill say a word and you say powered printing presses in the early 19th
the first thing that comes into century made possible the publication
your mind. Ready? of daily newspapers, but there were not
The word is shameless. enough actual events, train wrecks, hur-
If you answered Trump, then please feel ricanes, elections, armed conflicts, to fill
free to continue reading. If not, then you their pages. It therefore became neces-
may want to stop right here. sary to create pseudo-events that would
To be frank, I have no desire to bother not have happened except for the pres-
trying to make a case for why Trumps ence of the news media, such as inter-
behavior ought to be described as shame- views, publicity stunts, press releases,
less. If you cant see it by now, then what- press conferences, and leaks. This is what
ever proof I might muster wont make Boorstin wrote about McCarthy in his
a difference to you. I could easily fill book The Image:
this entire column with evidence, but it It is possible to build a political career
wouldnt matter. And if I merely cited the almost entirely on pseudo-events. Such
most recent examples as of this writing, was that of the late Joseph R. McCarthy,
by the time it is published theyll already Senator from Wisconsin from 1947-1957.
be fading from awareness, displaced by His career might have been impossible
newer instances. without the elaborate, perpetually grind-
In sum, I have no patience left for those ing machinery of information.... And he
who would deny a truth that is so very was a natural genius at creating report-
self-evident. able happenings that had an
As I was writing this, the interestingly ambiguous rela-
words have you no shame, tion to underlying reality.
sir, popped into my head, Richard Rovere, a reporter
but a quick Google search i n Wa sh i n g t o n d u r i n g Roy Cohn, left, confers with Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCar-
showed that I had misre- McCarthys heyday recalls: thy hearings in 1954.
membered the quote. It was He knew how to get into
during the Army-McCarthy the news even on those never seen anything like this, and this is Shame is about relationships. It is felt
Senate hearings in 1954 that rate occasions when inven- going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. most acutely in regard to the people clos-
the chief consul for the U.S. tion failed him and he had Its a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, est to us, but it also can extend to the
Army, Joseph N. Welch, said Dr. Lance no unfacts to give out. For Donald. Keep going. larger entity known as the public. If you
to Senator Joseph McCar- Strate example, he invented the Shameless pursuit of profit. Shameless follow the HBO series Game of Thrones,
thy, Have you no sense of morning press conference self-promotion. Shameless exercise of you no doubt will recall from the sea-
decency, sir, at long last? called for the purpose of power. The common denominator is clear. son 5 finale how Cersei, then the Queen
Have you no decency? announcing an afternoon press confer- But what does it mean to be shameless? Mother, was forced to undergo a walk of
With those words, both the Republican ence. The reporters would come in they The experience of shame comes from a atonement. She was stripped naked and
senator from Wisconsin and the Com- were beginning, in this period, to respond concern over how others see us. We feel led through the city, as crowds threw
munist witch hunt that bore his name to his summonses like Pavlovs dogs at shame over something because we fear insults and garbage at her, and a priest-
McCarthyism were fatally shamed. the clang of a bell and McCarthy would that it will cause others to think poorly ess cried out repeatedly, Shame! Shame!
Television played an instrumental role in say that he just wanted to give them the of us. Adam and Eve were shamelessly Shame! And if you grew up in the United
this, because the hearings were broadcast word that he expected to be ready with a unclothed until they ate the forbidden States, chances are you read National Haw-
on the ABC and Dumont networks. It also shattering announcement later in the day, fruit, and the eyes of both of them were thornes The Scarlet Letter. That books
followed two See It Now exposs pro- for use in the papers the following morn- opened, and they knew that they were title refers to the public shaming of its
duced by the legendary broadcast journal- ing. This would gain him a headline in the naked (Genesis 3:7). This doesnt mean main character, Hester Prynne.
ist Edward R. Murrow. afternoon papers: New McCarthy Revela- that they had been blind, but rather that Television transforms the public of the
McCarthys chief counsel, who was a key tions Awaited in Capital. Afternoon would they had become ashamed in the sight of city square and agora, as well as the read-
participant in the exchange that prompted come, and if McCarthy had something, each other, and God. ing public made possible by the printing
Welchs denunciation of McCarthy, was he would give it out, but often enough We are not only ashamed of something, press, into something at once broader and
attorney Roy Cohn. Two decades later, he had nothing, and this was a matter of we are ashamed before someone. Some- more diffuse. For more than two decades,
Cohn would represent a young Donald slight concern. He would simply say that one whose opinion of us is important investigative reporter Arnold Diaz gave us
Trump, and he become something of a he wasnt quite ready, that he was hav- to us. local news stories on WCBS-TV Channel 2
mentor to the real estate developer. Cohn ing difficulty in getting some of the docu- The Torah tells us that Adam and Eve felt called Shame on You. (I still recall the jin-
is also credited with introducing Trump to ments he needed or that a witness was shame because they were naked. It does gle that preceded the segments: Shame,
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who proving elusive. not say that they felt guilt because they shame, shame shame on you!)
gave us the scandal-ridden Fox News cable Morning headlines: Delay Seen had eaten the fruit. Shame is a more basic, More recently, social media has ampli-
channel, whose claim to be fair and bal- in McCarthy Case Mystery Witness primal experience than guilt, based as it is fied both the process of shaming and our
anced also is delivered without shame. Being Sought. on the fear of what others may think of us. sensitivity to it, with many references to
The connection between Trump and There is no denying that the reporters Guilt is shame internalized. We can have a body-shaming, fat-shaming, and slut-
McCarthy is not confined to scapegoating, who covered McCarthy also were shame- guilty conscience even if we have no fear shaming. Critics decry the decline of civil-
but also extends to manipulation of the less in their pursuit of content, and the of discovery. A guilty verdict is intended ity that leads to indiscriminate shaming
news media. The conservative historian same can be said of the news media cov- to be an objective statement about the on one hand. But on the other, we have a
and former Librarian of Congress Daniel ering the 2016 election. Recall the com- defendant who is on trial, not about how desire to silence all forms of criticism that
J. Boorstin coined the term pseudo-event ment CBS head Les Moonves made that others feel about that person. And guilt is lead to the accusation that any negative
to describe news that is manufactured February about the coverage that Trump separate from punishment. Shame signi- comment is a form of shaming.
by journalists and publicists, rather than was generating: It may not be good for fies its own consequences to be shamed We find ourselves in the midst of a series
gathered based on real world occurrences. America, but its damn good for CBS. Ive before others. of shame wars.

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Television shamed McCarthy, and more impor-
tantly, it shamed reporters so that they stopped cov-
ering him. The televised Watergate Senate hearings
shamed Richard Nixon into resigning the presidency.
But CNNs and MSNBCs unrelenting shaming of the
president do not seem to have the same effect. Per-
haps the contrary messages coming from Fox News
and Trumps Twitter feed the president is notori-
ous for blocking anyone who tweets anything negative
about him insulate him from any sense of shame.
Another possible explanation stems from Trumps
narcissism. Psychologists tell us that narcissism is a
defense against powerful, at times nearly unbear-
able feelings of shame. Shame leads to blame, so that
not only does a narcissistic person seek praise and
approval, that person also responds in a highly defen-
sive manner to any perceived criticism or slight.
Whatever the reason, a president who has no shame
is a recipe for disaster. By way of contrast, consider the
American remake of a British working class family TV
series called Shameless. Our version, launched on
the Showtime cable channel series in 2011, features
a family living in extreme poverty, a family that is not
working class but instead is part of an underclass.
And while the subject of shame is not discussed much
in the program, we recognize and even applaud the
young familys skirting of conventional legality and
morality in their efforts to survive.
The fear of being shamed is a luxury they can-
not afford.
Indeed, a sense of shame is directly proportional to
honor, a somewhat archaic yet still significant notion,
as well as status, something still very much with us.
There is little or no shame possible for those on the
lowest rungs of the social order, for example the beg-
gar, while the greatest potential for shame is held by
people of the highest status once upon a time the
aristocracy and nobility, today the rich and famous
anyone in a position of leadership at any time.
Honor served as a check against shameful behav-
ior, preserving reputation and privilege, and therefore
the leaders legitimacy. A person being dishonored
requires that he or she must retreat from public life.
A leader without honor, a shameless leader, is a
tyrant. And tyrants do not have a good track record in
the United States.
When we talk about the shameless and the shamed,
another word comes to our minds. Its the Yiddish
word for shame shande. We speak of shande not
just as individuals, but as a people. Its the shame we
feel collectively when one of our number behaves
badly. And it is in this sense that I feel ashamed of
our president.
Not guilt, because I didnt vote for him, but shame as
an American, before my friends and colleagues from
other nations, shame before the rest of the world, and
shame before history, posterity, the generations yet to
come, and yes, before God.
In being shameless in his conduct, Trump has
shamed all of us, and put our collective honor and
status as a nation at risk.
It is a shande, plain and simple. And how shall
we respond?
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a professor
of communication and media studies at Fordham
University in the Bronx, and the president of his
synagogue, Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia.
Billy Joel wears a yellow star on his jacket during a concert at Madison Square Garden.
Leave symbols
of Nazi cruelty
alone, Billy Joel
B
illy Joels decision
to sport a yellow
star on the front
and back of his
jacket during a concert this
week was a nod to history
about which the singer may
not have been aware.
The venue for the concert,
New York Citys Madison Ben Cohen
Square Garden, was the site
of pro- and anti-Nazi rallies
during the World War II.
In February 1939, as Europe teetered on the edge of
war, 22,000 Nazi sympathizers gathered at the Garden
for a rally organized by the German American Bund,
during which swastika flags flew alongside a portrait of
George Washington. Stop Jewish Domination of Chris-
tian Americans! was typical of the signs at the rally.
In July 1942, American Jews and their friends
packed the Garden for an angry, emotional
protest against the ravages of the Nazis.
In addition to the rallying cries of
leaders and attendees, there was
a solemn commemoration and
chant for the thousands of Jew-
ish men, women, and children
who have already been slaugh-
tered since the Third Reich took
power in Germany, read one report
of the event.
But in other, more important ways,
there is a vast gulf between what those two rallies
represented, and what Billy Joels wardrobe adjust-
ment signified.
The German rally was a demonstration that the men-
ace of Nazism had penetrated the United States, and
particularly its universities, more deeply than many
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BILLY JOEL VIA TWITTER
Billy Joel wore a
yellow Jewish star
Thanks, but the trend
should stop there
F
ew artifacts of the
Holocaust move me
like the yellow star.
Homely and
seemingly innocuous, they
sit in museum cases either by
themselves or still attached to
a jacket or blouse, the stitch-
ing rough and the lettering
surprisingly crude. They are Andrew
almost comically, cartoon- Silow-Carroll
ishly blunt, a childs idea of
how to single out and shame
an enemy. And in their bluntness and homeliness they
make vivid the obscenity that was Nazism, the way a
single bloodstained feather on the sidewalk conjures a
vision of the violence that produced it.
So it was more than a little shocking to see Billy
Joel wear a yellow star on his jacket dur-
ing a concert a week after the violent
white supremacist rallies in Char-
lottesville. After all, Joel is not the
first artist who comes to mind
when you think of bold or pro-
vocative political gestures. Its
been his luck and his curse to
be wildly popular while rarely
courting controversy or inspiring
deep critical analysis or respect. The
critic Chuck Klosterman wrote famously
that Joel has no extrinsic coolness. If cool were a
color, it would be black and Joel would be kind of a
burnt orange.
So Joels wearing the star should have been the wrong
thing to do in so many ways. Jewish groups are always
worried about appropriations of the Holocaust and
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Symbols
FROM PAGE 41
Americans still realize. The Jewish rally
was one more piece of evidence to keep
the world from being able to say We
didnt know. But both rallies highlighted
the same real, grave, tangible problem:
that a major world power was just then
in the grip of a totalitarian party and its
totalitarian leader, a party whose laws
assigned subhuman status to the Jews, and
whose blood-soaked military aggressions
brought down genocidal slaughter upon
six million Jews as well as on other belea-
guered minorities.
In other words, it was a pretty distinct
situation. Jews never have been in a com-
parable situation since, and we have no
serious reason to believe that will change.
And that gets to the heart of why I find
Joels gesture for that is how it should be
seen so objectionable.
Nazism was about a hell of a lot more
than rallies. Nazi Germany was not Char-
lottesville, and by the violent standards
of German Nazi rallies, Charlottesville
was pretty tame. That is not to denigrate
the ghastly experience of Charlottesville
simply to say that it is not necessary to
invoke the historic symbols of state and
church-sponsored anti-Semitic persecu-
tion in order to condemn the spectacle of
swastikas in an American city, along with
an American president who refuses to call
the Nazis out for the violence.
It is not necessary because here in Amer-
ica, there are no Nuremberg race laws to
discriminate between Jews and Aryans.
It is not necessary because in America,
Billy Joel is celebrated for standing up
to the far right surge by voluntarily and
ostentatiously wearing the yellow star.
That symbol of inferiority was not forced
upon him, as it was on Jews in Christian
and Muslim countries for 1,000 years.
It is not necessary because in America,
Joel faces no sanction for being a Jew-
ish performer. In Nazi Germany, Jewish
musicians and artists were systematically
Intersectionality
FROM PAGE 38
This is an era where everything is pub-
lic what we eat, where we go, what we
watch, and when we last viewed our social
media accounts. There is no hiding from
the reality of our individual beliefs or pri-
orities as people or as leaders, so we may
as well embrace the fact that we live in a
country where we are allowed to be who
we are. We are allowed to hold many com-
plicated questions with no good answers
within our souls. We are allowed to love
who we love and express it freely with-
out fear of punishment or exclusion. We
have the freedom, in America, to exist
42 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
purged in the early days of Hitlers rule, and
all Jewish art was deemed degenerate.
Some people might object. Well, these
are just details his intentions were
good, they might say. If intentions are
all that count, then granted, there proba-
bly is no argument. But if basic standards
of truth dare I add decency, too are
brought into consideration, then I can
only look with alarm at the way that his-
toric symbols that should be treated with
respect are raided, like so many items
on pizza menu, just to score points with
the progressive consensus that President
Donald Trump is a proto-Nazi.
A cynic might take that point further,
and accuse Joel of engaging in just the
kind of free media marketing that Trump
employed during his election campaign.
After all, it landed the singer plenty of
headlines. And now we have reached
a time when celebrities are jostling for
the attention of the 41 percent of Ameri-
cans who believe the president should
be impeached.
But I dont think a conclusion like
that would be entirely fair. Maybe Joel
thought he was honoring the victims
of the Holocaust. Maybe it was his way
of saying never again. Maybe it was
his way of asking Can you imagine an
America like this? But even if we can all
imagine that, there is nothing happening
to suggest that a Fourth Reich is around
the corner.
Many liberal Jews acknowledge they are
privileged compared to other minorities
in America. They also should acknowledge
they are much more privileged than their
forebears were. Say, then, what you wish,
but leave the yellow star alone.
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on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern
politics. His work has been published
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other publications.
a freedom that through all of the fight-
ing and fear and hatred we must be grate-
ful for every second of every day, because
without this freedom the silence would be
deafening.
Cheryl Rosenberg of Englewood is a
member of Kehilat Kesher Synagogue and
the immediate past president of Ben Porat
Yosef. She is an executive board member of
Teach NJS, a recent graduate of the Berrie
Fellows Leadership Program, and a long-
time activist in the areas of civil liberties,
equality, and womens rights. Cheryl is the
Democratic candidate for city council in
Ward 1 in Englewood.
Star
FROM PAGE 41
carefully designate the boundaries of
acceptable Holocaust analogies. (That is,
there are none.) The same week that Joel
wore his yellow star during the encore at
one of his regular Madison Square Gar-
den gigs, the fashion house Miu Miu dis-
continued a clothing line that featured
a yellow star that was only mildly remi-
niscent of what the Jews were forced to
wear. (The World Jewish Congress had
complained.) Earlier this month, the
Donald Trump mouthpiece Jeffrey Lord
lost his commentary job on CNN essen-
tially for calling one of Trumps liberal
critics a Nazi (and presumably casting
Trumps defenders in the role of the
Nazis victims).
But if any Jewish group had a com-
plaint about Joels gesture, I havent
heard it. The singers gesture came across
as sincere and pointed, not tasteless.
Although he didnt say why he wore
the star, his ex-wife, model Christie Brin-
kley, took to social media to write that
the star symbolized the painful, no
excruciating, memories of loved ones
who wore that star to their death.
Thank you, Billy for reminding peo-
ple what was ... so it may never ever be
again, she added.
Although Joel has never made much
of his Jewish background, he has talked
about his father, a German-born Jew
who, according to Joels biographer,
had vivid memories of the Hitler Youth
and the SS training near his childhood
home in Bavaria, and who lost relatives
in the Shoah.
Joels gesture might have been espe-
cially meaningful because his Jewishness,
as he once put it, stopped at his bris. The
star seemed to be saying to the neo-Nazis
who gathered in Charlottesville and
the political figures, ahem, who seemed
unable to fully condemn them that even
he, a secular celebrity and multimillion-
aire, still would have been a victim of their
perverse ideology. The Nazis made the
Jews wear the yellow star so they couldnt
hide. The stars on Joels lapel and back
seemed to say Im not hiding. I cant
hide. Come and get me.
Contrast that with another celebri-
tys decision to wear the star this week.
When Nev Schulman, star of MTVs sort-
of-reality-show Catfish, wore a yellow
Star of David at MTVs video awards
show on Sunday, the gesture, while well
meaning, seemed forced. I dont think
anybody wants the yellow star to become
this years AIDS ribbon or Livestrong
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bracelet. Wearing the yellow star seems
the kind of gesture that can be made
once, or sparingly, lest you diminish its
shock value or begin to insult the experi-
ences and memory of the people you are
purporting to identify with and honor.
But at least Schulman, like Joel, is Jew-
ish. I cant think of a non-Jewish celeb-
rity who could get away with wearing the
star. Theyd be accused, rightly, of appro-
priation, the way the artist Dana Schutz
was excoriated by black people after her
painting of the mutilated face of Emmett
Till the 14-year-old who was lynched by
white men in Mississippi in 1955 was
shown at the Whitney Biennial in March.
Critics of Schutzs painting said the cir-
cumstances and symbolism of the black
teenagers death still are too raw to be
translated into art by a white woman.
Thats not to say (or at least I wouldnt
say) that only members of a particular
ethnic group or religion can depict their
own suffering. (What is widely consid-
ered the most powerful anti-lynching
song, Strange Fruit, was written by a
Jew, Abel Meeropol, although it was Bil-
lie Holiday who sang it most famously.)
But certain gestures of interethnic soli-
darity Anne Frank, cest moi are
landmines. Writers from William Sty-
ron to Yann Martel have been accused
of cheapening the Holocaust through
allegory or by universalizing the Jews
suffering. Jewish artists like Art Spiegel-
man or Agnieszka Holland are given the
latitude to depict the Holocaust in ways
that might seem misguided or offensive
if done similarly by a non-Jew. Authen-
ticity can be earned, although its a lot
easier to be born with it.
Historys most famous appropriation
of the yellow star, meanwhile, turns out
to be a myth. The U.S. Holocaust Memo-
rial Museum states flatly that there is no
truth to the story that Denmarks King
Christian X wore a yellow star in solidar-
ity with the Jews. Instead, the museum
tells us, the king was heard to say to his
finance minister, Perhaps we should all
wear it.
If this were 1941, the answer would be
yes everyone should wear it. In 2017,
everyone should at least imagine what it
would be like to be persecuted because
of their race, religion or nationality,
and what it might feel like to be literally
marked for death. I think thats the kind
of empathy Joel tried to inspire.
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editor-in-chief.

Chef wants to make vegan cooking the new kosher
ELISA SPUNGEN BILDNER
With the temperature in the mid-80s, it
was not the night to kick off Shabbat din-
ner with chicken soup, or rather, given
our familys eating mishegas, vegan
chicken soup (yes, there is such a dish). So
where or whom do I turn to for a seasonal
alternative?
Answer: Chef Mark Reinfeld, who as the
30-Minute Vegan has a series of books
filled with recipes that Ive found are sure
to come out right and always taste great.
(Reinfeld most recently wrote Healing the
Vegan Way: Plant-Based Eating for Optimal
Health and Wellness.) When vegetarian
and vegan newbie friends ask me to rec-
ommend fail-safe cook books, Reinfelds
are at the top of the list.
So for this sultry Shabbat, I chose
Raw Peaches and Cream Soup (dont get
fatootzed about the word raw), which
turned out to be a hit with a Friday night
dinner crowd that included rabbis, an
Episcopal priest, and their spouses.
I was lucky to meet up with Reinfeld on
a very un-summer night in February near
Boulder, Colorado, where he lives. There
he told me about growing up in a tradi-
tional Jewish family in Stony Brook, Long
Island, that kept kosher and ate chicken
every Friday night.
After Reinfeld spent his junior year at
the London School of Economics, which
he followed with a backpacking trip across
Europe, he found he just couldnt embark
immediately on his plan A, attending law
school right after college.
After his acceptance into New York
University Law School, Reinfeld deferred
his admission and decamped one more
time to Europe. In Paris, he worked as
an au pair. In the mornings, he helped
his charges with their homework. But he
spent his afternoons walking the streets of
the French capital holding a baguette and
bottle of wine, as he likes to put it.
From there he traveled to Amsterdam
and Berlin. Forrest Gump-ishly, he wit-
nessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, then
managed to hit Prague in time for the Vel-
vet Revolution that brought down the rul-
ing Czech Communist Party. His next stop:
Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek in Israel, where
he worked with (and then ate) chicken five
and sometimes seven days a week.
Reinfeld remembers the kibbutzniks
chasing and catching the chickens in vast
shed-like coops, then handing them over
to the volunteers.
Wed have to take them out to a truck,
he recalls. The chickens were scream-
ing and their legs were breaking in your
hands. That is precisely when I realized
that I couldnt do this, and I couldnt eat
them. So I gave up chicken cold turkey.
Reinfeld laughs before describing
another I-cant-eat-animals-anymore
epiphany: It happened when he bonded
Keeping Kosher
Cauliflower and mushroom tacos, left, and watermelon gazpacho
landed a kitchen job at the natural foods animals, with Genesis 1:29: God said,
grocer Jimbos. From there he quickly Behold, I give you every seed-bearing
became a meatless entrepreneur, starting plant that is upon all the earth, and every
Blossoming Lotus Personal Chef Service in tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they
Malibu, California, and ending up, with the shall be yours for food, and urges Jews
help of angel investor Bo Rinaldi, as the co- to make the compassionate choice.
owner and chef of the award-winning Blos- The reality is that factory farm-pro-
Mark Reinfeld PHOTOS BY MARK REINFELD soming Lotus restaurant in Kauai, Hawaii. duced meat, eggs, and dairy (whether
With Rinaldi, Reinfeld wrote Vegan kosher or non-kosher) are raised and
with cows in the field next to the kibbutz. World Fusion Cuisine, garnering honors treated in a way that is a blatant violation
Back in America, Reinfeld started law including a Gourmand World Cookbook of the principle of tzaar baalei chayim,
school, dropping out after the first semes- Award for best vegetarian cookbook in Reinfeld writes.
ter when he realized this wasnt the direc- the USA. A philosophy major as an undergradu-
tion he wanted his career to take. By this time, Reinfeld also was a prac- ate, Reinfeld says he understands that ani-
I didnt have a plan B, he notes. titioner of Vipassana, a type of Buddhist mals kill and eat animals, and that some
Somehow the spirit of his maternal meditation, and actually started his restau- people eat animals out of necessity.
grandfather, Ben Bimstein, a caterer who rant while observing an 18-month period If you saw a lion pouncing on a gazelle,
Reinfeld describes as a culinary genius of silence. (I could type very fast in those you may wince, but you know its part
and a renowned ice carver, guided his days, he says, laughing.) That didnt take of nature and youre not going to sit the
next move. him away from Judaism, and in a 2013 arti- lion down and say I think you have anger
Until his dying day, Reinfeld says cle for ReformJudaism.org titled Vegan is issues, why dont you try tofu? he says.
of Bimstein, he was still carving ice in the New Kosher, he outlined the Jewish Inhabitants of remote fishing villages in
his wheelchair with his oxygen tank and basis for a plant-based diet. Alaska or isolated tribes with limited access
something like a chainsaw. Reinfeld couples the Talmudic prin- to adequate protein must fish or hunt.
Reinfeld loaded his possessions into his ciple of tzaar baalei chayim (Bava Where theres necessity, there is a
car, drove west until he hit San Diego, and Metzia 32), which prohibits cruelty to SEE VEGAN PAGE 55
Raw Peaches and Cream Soup
Serves 4 cashews overnight.)
Ingredients: Meanwhile, place all of the peach soup ingredients, except
SWEET CASHEW CREAM: the mint, in a strong blender and blend until creamy. Transfer
3/4 cup chopped raw cashews
to a bowl.
3/4 cup water
1 1/2 tablespoons raw coconut or agave nectar or Place the cashews in the blender with the water and the
sweetener of choice, or to taste (I used agave) coconut nectar (or whichever sweetener youre using) and
blend until very creamy. Transfer to a small bowl.
RAW PEACH SOUP:
7 ripe peaches, pitted and chopped (5 cups)
Garnish each bowl of soup with a drizzle of cashew cream
and top with fresh mint before serving.
1 1/2 cups fruit juice (try apple)
2 tablespoons raw coconut nectar, agave nectar or pure Variations:
maple syrup (which I used), or to taste It would be a raw foodists call to 911 yes, this is how Re-
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice infeld writes but you can grill the peaches until char marks
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice appear, about 5 minutes, lightly basting with melted coconut
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon oil before blending.
Pinch of sea salt Replace the peaches with nectarines, mangoes, blueberries
2 teaspoons mirin (Reinfeld says this is optional, but Id
or papayas. (I tried several batches with blueberries, which
recommend it as well. Mirin is a Japanese sweet rice also worked well, although less sweet than the peach. You
wine that is easy to find.) might try to prepare two versions, and delicately place them
2 tablespoons chiffonaded fresh mint, for garnish side by side in each soup bowl, in a yin/yang design.)
Preparation: Replace the apple juice with orange, pineapple or mango
juice, or a combination of your favorites.
Place the cashews in a small bowl with ample water
to cover. Allow them to sit for 20 minutes. Drain and Create differently flavored Sweet Cashew Creams by
adding 1/2 cup of fruit, such as blueberries, strawberries
rinse well. (This is why Reinfeld is such a practical
vegan chef: Most vegan recipes instruct you to soak or mango.
JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 43
Keeping Kosher

Wholesome Pantry products debut

across the shelves at ShopRites
ShopRite Supermarkets, a registered trade-
mark of Wakefern Food Corp., known for its
everyday low prices and shopper-friendly
format, is helping customers to find afford-
able, organic, and nutritious products.
Their stores have added Wholesome Pantry,
a new private-label line of free-from prod-
ucts, including a variety of USDA-certified
organic products, available at many New
Jersey ShopRite stores.
Wholesome Pantry, an organic product,
offers many OU, KVH Pareve, Star K, and
OK certified kosher. Categories include
bread/rolls, butter, milk/milk products,
yogurt, waffles, applesauce, hot and cold
cereal, coffee/tea, cranberry sauce, dried
beans and fruit, granola, juice/drinks,
nuts/trail mix, oil, peanut butter/nut but-
ter, popcorn, rice, syrup, canned beans
and vegetables, and produce items.
The Wholesome Pantry line features
foods made with simple, clean ingredi-
ents without artificial additives, flavors,
colors, and preservatives, and packaged
with easy-to-read labels. Wholesome Pan-
try includes organic foods that comply
with standards set by the USDA National
Organic Program.
From snacks to frozen foods to pantry
staples, Wholesome Pantry extends across
Dietitian plays the dating game
with healthier Rosh Hashanah treat
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
Christina Kamilaris the in-
house dietician at ShopRite
of Paramus, sent us this
yummy, easy, and healthy
recipe for Rosh Hashanah.
She reminds us that eating
healthy foods and mak-
ing sensible substitutions
are important and easy to
do. Look in the ShopRite
kosher department for some Chocolate Crunch Bites
of her other recipes.
Ingredients:
Medjool dates are full 1 1/4 cup almonds
of vitamins, minerals, and 1 1/4 cup walnuts
fiber. These edible sweet 1 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
fruits of the date palm tree split into 2, 1/2 cup portions
2 tablespoons 100% cacao unsweetened
are delicious and make great
22 Medjool dates
natural sweeteners and
Place all ingredients in food processor. Re-
sugar alternatives.
serve 1/2 cup of coconut flakes until end.
Try these sweet treats Blend all ingredients until smooth. Take 1
the store, with over 100 products now
and write me at Beth@Jew- tablespoon of mix and form into ball. Roll into
available, including almond butter, peanut
ishMediaGroup.com and let reserved coconut flakes. Enjoy immediately or
butter, milk, and a variety of frozen fruit
me know your thoughts. after refrigeration or freezing.
and leafy greens. More products are slated
Christina can be reached at
to be introduced over the course of this
(201) 638-8514 or email her
year. For more information, go to www.
at Christina.Kamilaris@Wakefern.com.
shoprite.com/wholesomepantry.
Happy Rosh Hashanah!

Pereg provides just the right natural ingredients
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
I know, I know, summer isnt quite over
yet after all Labor Day isnt until Mon-
day, September 4. However, it is time
to change focus, and somewhere in the
back of your mind to think about Rosh
Hashanah, which begins Wednesday,
September 20, with candle lighting
about 6:30 p.m. So Ive included one
of Peregs great recipes for a gluten-free
honey cake below. Next month, look for
quinoa and salmon recipes, which will
work nicely for Sukkot.
Pereg Natural Foods offers a fresh take
on the holiday with farm-to-table and
clean food recipes. Everyone wants to eat
healthier these days, but with the Jewish
holidays approaching, it can be difficult to
stay on course. Pereg suggests that even
small changes in traditional holiday foods
can add up to big benefits for your heart,
help you lose weight, manage your cho-
lesterol and blood pressure, and give you
energy to get through the festival days
with family and friends. Dietitians and
nutritionists recommend eating unpro-
cessed foods with no artificial ingredients
or preservatives, like whole grains, qui-
noa, fish, and vegetables.
The company is famous for its 60+
varieties of pure and natural gourmet
spices, a complete line of 100 percent
natural ancient grains (farro, teff, rice,
lentils, freekeh, and couscous), quinoa
(baby quinoa, plain quinoa, quinoa with
spinach, quinoa with lemon and herb,
and new quinoa flakes), breadcrumbs
and panko, as well as gluten-free alterna-
tives, including gluten-free 100 percent
quinoa pasta, and six varieties of gluten-
free flour. All Pereg products are dairy-
free and kosher certified.
Heres a nice recipe to try for a sweet
and healthy happy new year!
Cooking demo
scheduled at
Chabad Center
Sylvia Fallas, a cooking instructor and rec-
ipe developer from New York City will be
at the Chabad Center of Passaic County in
Wayne for a High Holy Day healthy dinner
cooking demonstration and tasting. She
is also among the chefs featured on the
Kosher.com website.
The event is Monday, September 18, at
7 p.m. The menu includes starters/salads,
main dish, and dessert, and recipes will
be distributed. Reservations are required.
Call (973) 694-6274 or go to jewishwayne.
com. The center is at 194 Ratzer Road in
Wayne.

Gluten-free honey cake Prep: 25 m, Cook 45 m, Ready in 1 h 10 m, 12 servings, 360 cals

Ingredients:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9x13 inch
pan. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt
Rosh Hashanah
1 cup white sugar
1 cup honey
and cinnamon. Set aside. In a large bowl, combine sugar,
honey, oil, eggs, and orange zest. Beat in the flour mixture al-
dinner planned
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
ternately with the orange juice, mixing just until incorporated. in Jersey City
Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 40
2 teaspoons grated orange zest
to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of Congregation Bnai Jacob in Jersey City
1 cup orange juice
1 cup Pereg Natural Foods gluten-free almond flour
the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool. hosts an erev Rosh Hashanah dinner on
1 1/2 cups Pereg Natural Foods gluten-free coconut flour RECIPE: PEREG NATURAL FOODS Wednesday, September 20, at 7 p.m. Tradi-
OR gluten free banana flour Find more recipes at www.pereg-gourmet.com/blogs/recipes. tional Rosh Hashanah foods will be served
3 teaspoons baking powder as Rabbi Aaron Katz leads the welcome of
1/2 teaspoon baking soda the new year. Reservations are due Mon-
1/2 teaspoon salt day, September 11. For information, call
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
(201) 435-5725.

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New products make for interesting treats
From Tuscanini, maker of brick wood-oven personal
pizzas, authentic home-style sauces, and hand-
crafted biscotti, comes Tuscanini Parchment Crack-
ers, kosher paper-thin treats imported from the
island of Sardinia off the sunny Italian coast. These
handcrafted crackers bring Italy to your table. They
are baked, not fried, and offer a nice change from
flatbread, chips, or heavy snack crackers. The crack-
ers are made of five simple ingredients and have 120
calories per serving. All three varieties olive oil,
olive oil with rosemary, and olive oil with oregano
are made from an authentic Italian recipe, and they
are also GMO free.
Consumers are looking for simple yet sophisti-
cated snack options, said Kimberly Cassar, Kaycos
vice president of marketing. (Tuscanini is a Kayco
product.) We know that crackers are found in 77
percent of U.S. households, and the demand by con-
sumers is trending toward thinner, more healthy,
and yet delicious crackers. Tuscanini Parchment
Crackers are made with re-milled durum wheat
semolina, which is superior to other ground wheat
products. Thats what gives the cracker its unique
flavor and crunch.
Imported from Italy, Tuscanini Parchment Crack-
ers, certified OU kosher, are sold in the cracker
category, as well as to upscale restaurants. Go to
Beety Bloody Mary
4 ounces Beetology Beet + Veggie
1/2 teaspoon grated horseradish
2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1 dash hot sauce (more if you want it extra spicy!)
2 ounces vodka
Celery stalks for garnish
In a tall glass, add Beetology, horseradish,
Worcestershire sauce, and hot sauce, stir to com-
bine. Add ice to fill the glass, vodka, and stir. Gar-
nish with celery stalk.
Cedar Market fourth anniversary features
a Sale-A-Bration of events and items
Cedar Market in Teaneck will hold a spectacular Sale-
A-Bration to mark its fourth anniversary the week of
September 3. Be sure to sign up for their emails and
watch for details. Monitor their Facebook and Instagram
pages for flash deals, giveaways, contests, and more.
You can find some of their amazing super deals on this
weeks Jewish Standards back page ad in honor of the
Sale-A-Bration.
Danny Fried of Cedar Market says, These deals are
huge! We pushed our vendors to the limits in order to
ww.tuscaninifoods.com.
We sampled the Tuscanini crackers and Beetology
juices here at the office on a busy Wednesday pro-
duction day when appetites and snacking are at
a peak.
Comments for the Tuscanini crackers ranged
from light and delicious, reminds me of matzah but
much better, to nice and crunchy, like the tex-
ture but a little salty, and great for dipping, but so
thin it might fall apart with a spread on it. Everyone
overwhelmingly preferred the seasoned ones to the
plain ones and felt the crackers were extremely thin
and perfect for dipping or just eating.
To wash down the crackers, we tried Beetology
healthy and refreshing summer coolers, in a vari-
ety of flavor blends in 8.45 ounce bottles, including
Beet + Lemon + Ginger, Beet + Veggie, Beet + Tropical
Fruit, Beet + Berry, and Beet + Cherry. I am a fan of
beets, a new superfood, but more of my co-work-
ers gravitated to the crackers. Somehow, beets still
made some peoples lips curl; pleasant no-thank-
yous were abundant.
Honestly, the 100 percent natural drinks are deli-
cious and refreshing. One staffer said she wanted
to add sour cream and crumbled matzah, because
the drink reminded her of a sweet borscht that her
mother served. Another thought it was refreshing,
Tropical Beet-a-Colada
4 ounces Beetology Beet + Tropical Fruit
2 ounces coconut cream
2 ounces dark rum
2 ounces coconut rum
1/2 cup ice
Pineapple slice for garnish
Put the ice, Beetology, coconut cream and rums
into a blender. Blend until smooth and frosty. Pour
the drink into 2 glasses and garnish with pineap-
ple slices. Makes 2 drinks.
bring some amazing deals to our customers for our anni-
versary week. You can follow them on social media via
@thecedarmarket. If you dont follow them yet, start
now and thank us later for the savings.
Cedar Market delivers your orders. Let the friendly
staff shop it and deliver it for you. For information, email
orders@thecedarmarket.com.
Cedar Market is located at 646 Cedar Lane in Teaneck.
For more information, call (201) 855-8500 or go to www.
thecedarmarket.com.
Keeping Kosher
with a thick but not overwhelming consistency. Everyone who
tried the drinks agreed they should be served over ice. I person-
ally would welcome the Beetology mix in a nice cold cocktail.
Beetology harvests and cold-presses the best-tasting organic
beets from around the world, blends them with just a hand-
ful of good-for-you products like fruit, veggies, and ginger, and
sends them straight to the grocers refrigerator in convenient,
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Dvar Torah
Ki Tetzei: Listen to the shofar
during deeply troubled times
W
ith the arrival last week
of Rosh Chodesh Elul, we
resumed one of our peo-
ples most cherished, and
certainly most poignant traditions, the
sounding of the shofar. Without a doubt,
words cannot fully capture that annual
experience of hearing the shofar for the
first time in nearly a year, and the feelings
of anxiety and trepidation it elicits, signal-
ing the impending arrival of the Days of
Awe. As the prophet Amos inquired, rhe-
torically, will the shofar be sounded in
the city, and the people not tremble?
Yet, these powerful emotions notwith-
standing, what is the conceptual basis of
this most cherished custom? Would it not
be more effective to wait until the day of
Rosh Hashanah itself to hear the shofar for
the first time?
True, according to the Midrash, the
practice is rooted in an event which
occurred some 3,340 years ago: As Moshe
ascended the mountain on the first of Elul
to receive the second set of tablets, a sho-
far was sounded throughout the Jewish
encampment, to help avert any relapse
into the calamitous behavior surrounding
the Golden Calf.
Still, one cannot help but wonder why
the Sages saw fit to memorialize annually
what appears to be a highly contextual
one-time practice, deeply rooted in a par-
ticular historical moment.
It seems to me that the answer lies in the
very nature of the mitzvah of shofar itself, While we are enjoined to blow the shofar reconciliation can be found only through
and may even provide some direction in during the jubilee year, on Rosh Hashanah, rediscovering the importance of engaged,
these deeply troubled times in which we by contrast, we are commanded to hear empathetic listening.
are living. the shofar. If the sounding of the shofar Let us remember, as our Sages taught in
The Torah is famously during the jubilee year is the context of shofar, one who hears an
terse when it comes to the a declarative gesture, pro- echo has not fulfilled the mitzvah. One
celebrated commandment claiming the emancipation must hear the actual sound of the shofar:
of shofar. Nowhere does the of the indentured bonds- its timbre, its pitch, its actual voice. The
Torah explicitly state that men and return of the same must maintain with respect to hear-
one blows the shofar on Rosh ancestral homestead, Rosh ing the voices of those around us, espe-
Hashanah, restricting itself to Hashanah, apparently, is cially those with whom we disagree. It
obliquely referring to the day about listening. simply cannot be done virtually, or digi-
as zikhron teruah, and later, If this is true, we can well tally, with the social media platforms that
yom teruah, a remembrance understand, from this alter- decouple the capacity to make public dec-
of the teruah, or day of teruah, Rabbi Daniel native point of view, the larations from the responsibility of truly
respectively. Even once the Fridman custom which developed to listening in response.
Sages derived from verses con- Jewish Center of sound the shofar the entire The modern day echoes which our
cerning the jubilee year that Teaneck, Orthodox month of Elul. Learning Sages taught us were invalid in the con-
a shofar was to be utilized on to listen is a skill. To train text of shofar are the emails, blogs, texts,
Rosh Hashanah to produce the ourselves to properly hear tweets, and Facebook posts which are
aforementioned teruah sound (itself quite the voice of the shofar demands intention- equally impotent when it comes to healing
ambiguous), the Sages of the Mishnah and ality and considerable exertion. Thus, to our deeply broken polity. This will only be
Talmud did not explicitly characterize the truly hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh achieved by listening to the actual voice of
nature of the commandment. Are we com- Hashanah, to internalize its message, to the other, in all of its distinctiveness, with
manded to blow the shofar, or perhaps, arise from our sleep and to wake from our all of its vulnerability. And, as is the case
are we commanded to hear the blowing slumber as Maimonides inimitably wrote, to fulfill the mitzvah of shofar, this listen-
of the shofar? to move towards our Creator and in His ing must be done with deep intentionality,
Maimonides view of this topic is at light to discover our best selves, a month of with kavanah1, with a recognition of our
once highly counterintuitive and deeply preparation in the art and science of listen- mutual humanity, and an aspiration to
illuminating. While conceding that the ing seems more than appropriate. honor that which is Divine in each of us.
very basis of the use of the shofar on Rosh In our deeply troubled times, when the
Hashanah is the derivation from the jubi- ever-present embers of racial and reli- Editors note: This Dvar Torah
lee year, Maimonides maintained that the gious hatred have been stoked to a tem- accidentally ran last week, a week early.
nature of the commandment was qualita- perature unseen in generations, we would We are repeating it this week for the
tively different in these two different cases. do well to remember that the pathway to proper parasha.

BRIEFS

Israeli aid group sends emergency experts
to help flood-ravaged Texans heal
IsraAID, an Israeli international humani-
tarian organization, says its sending a
team of experts from Israel and the U.S.
to assist Texas residents dealing with the
after-effects of Tropical Storm Harvey.
IsraAID, which is coordinating with local
Jewish communities, local government in
Texas, and the Israeli consul general, plans
to deploy five to seven experts to provide
two-stage response to the disaster, first
focusing on removing debris and cleaning
homes, then offering psychosocial trauma
support to residents.
In crises with large-scale destruction,
national and international aid efforts typi-
cally focus on practical, physical support,
mental and emotional rehabilitation of
affected populations, said Yotam Polizer,
co-CEO of IsraAID.
For the most vulnerable groups, nota-
bly children and the elderly, time is of crit-
ical importance; the longer these groups
are forced to remain in shelters, the higher
the chance of long-term mental health
problems such as post traumatic stress
disorder, a disorder that can have a debili-
tating and long-term impact.
Meanwhile, the American Jewish Com-
mittee announced a $34,000 grant of aid
to the victims of flooding in Texas. This
grant will be provided to the American
Red Cross, IsraAID and the Jewish Family
New kayak unit to help protect
Israels maritime nature reserves
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority
has trained its rangers in the use of kay-
aks to patrol and enforce environmen-
tal protection in the countrys maritime
nature reserves.
As part of its initiative to improve its
maritime oversight, the INPA bought sev-
eral kayaks.
Yigal Ben-Ari, the director of the
INPAs maritime affairs, noted, Kay-
aks, unlike motorized boats which we
will also use, have obvious and signifi-
cant advantages in that they are quiet,
nonpolluting, more economical and
essentially more ecological. In addi-
tion, they are also good for coming into
contact with fisherman and divers in a
far safer manner.
The INPA noted that while the general
public is forbidden from using motorized
boats at the countrys maritime reserves,
kayaks are allowed to be used for super-
vision and enforcement purposes.
The kayak program is still in the pilot
phase and will be expanded in accor-
dance with its success.
Among the threats posed to Israels
maritime nature reserves are overfish-
ing, pollution, the construction of mari-
time infrastructure, the introduction of
invasive species, and global atmospheric
changes.  JNS.ORG

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 Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Your Talmudic Advice Column

Dear Rabbi Zahavy, Talmud as a sort of Jewish success gos- book. (Ive already written most of it.) But processes. You made mistakes, now you
I read that every South Korean child studies pel. And you rightly may ask, how did the it will be hard for any writer on this topic need to feel remorse and fix your life.
Talmud in school. I cant imagine that is the words of Talmud get to Korea? The coun- not to cross over the line from description Although I cannot glibly give you a dis-
case. Should I believe rumors like that? Why try is so far away, both geographically and analysis to what sounds like and pensation to eat because you want to or
would the Koreans do that? and culturally, from the centers of Jewish what truly is bragging about how great need to, I can suggest you speak to your
Wondering in Weehawken learning in the West. we Jews are. And thats not the best kind doctor. If he or she thinks that you ought
about the Seoul Talmud The main apostle of the Talmud to Korea of cultural sportsmanship. to refrain from fasting due to a health
has been a Great Neck rabbi named Mar- issue, then rabbis agree that you must eat
Dear Wondering, vin Tokayer, who wrote a quick popular Dear Rabbi Zahavy, and drink, even on Yom Kippur. And like-
To the point, yes, it is true that Talmud is book about Talmud when he was living in Im not a fan of fasting. I like eating regu- wise, even if you are healthy enough and
popular in Korea, but the why is compli- Japan in the late 1960s. It was published in larly every day. I dont like pangs of hunger. do fast, and during the day you suddenly
cated. (To be clear, we arent talking about Japanese in 1971 and became a hit. Tokayer I have found that a full day fast often gives feel ill or as if you are going to faint, then
North Korea here, for sure.) published 20 more books about Judaism me headaches or worse. This time of year, I the taboo is suspended and you must eat.
To confirm a rumor like this use a rule of in Japanese. face a big issue Yom Kippur. Can you give When younger, I did once faint on Yom
thumb: If it sounds sketchy, it probably is The Koreans are highly competitive me a dispensation so that I can eat on that Kippur in the synagogue and I immedi-
false. You should research the question. In with the Japanese and quick to glom onto day? And can you explain to me why fasting ately was given water and food. Fortu-
this case, the report is true, Tokayers books and publish is such an important religious act? nately, it was a passing spell and nothing
though maybe not entirely versions of them in Korean. Always Hungry in Hackensack medically serious.
what you think. By about 2005, adaptations Now, if fasting is prescribed for you
A 2015 New Yorker arti- of his books were big hits in Dear Hungry, in your community, and I do believe all
cle spelled out nicely how Korea, probably in large part I can tell you that fasting on Yom Kippur denominations prescribe it, there is to be
this cross-cultural scenario because Koreans wanted an is an old and venerable and widespread no cheating no secret nibbling or sip-
unfolded. (The story is How edge over their neighboring practice going back to a biblical source in ping to restore your comfort. Since these
the Talmud Became a Best- Japanese competitors. Leviticus 23:27: Also on the tenth day of are the Holy Days of Awe, we dont take
Seller in South Korea, by I suspect that Koreans this seventh month there shall be a day of quickly or lightly to compromising our
Ross Arbes.) Check out the grabbed on to a set of vaguely atonement: it shall be a holy convocation ancient taboos and practices.
essay. You will find that it is Rabbi Tzvee Talmudic principles, con- to you; and you shall afflict your souls, and We generally are not a religion with high
true in part. In part, it is not Zahavy tents, and exercises that are offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. profile practices of physical self-flagella-
true that the Koreans study popular in their education Other translations render the Hebrew, tion (though we are hypercritical of each
Talmud. system and pop culture. And practice self-denial or humble your- other at times we beat ourselves up with
They study Jewish sources that come in part it is connected to their competitive- selves. Note that the language doesnt chastisements, not whips). We make the
from the Talmud, which is a massive 1,500- ness with the Japanese. specify a prohibition against eating, but exception for Yom Kippur, and practice
year-old book of Jewish laws, stories, folk- Bottom line, large numbers of Koreans that is how it has been interpreted for ages. the self-denial of fasting for this and a few
lore, argumentation, and interpretations. believe that Talmud study improves their Please recall that in this column I do not other days through the year.
Korean teachers engage their children in IQ and even helps students become more offer dispensations, nor do I render deci- Fasting is not fun. It is not easy. And it
debating and analysis exercises that they confident, develop chutzpah, and even- sions of Jewish law. may not be your thing. But I hope some
call talmudic. But their version of the Tal- tually will help Koreans win more Nobel But I do discuss and offer advice. All of these observations will help you under-
mud is highly popularized and adapted prizes. denominations practice fasting on the stand why its prescribed and meaningful
for their cultural context. Many Koreans Now you may ask, is this dissemination assumption that God commanded us to in our religion.
also learn parts of basic Jewish rituals, like of Talmud in Korea good for the Jews? Many torture our souls in that way, to engender And you may find it comforting to recall
reciting the Shema. rabbis speak against teaching Talmud to our repentance. that part of the fasting includes eating a
But here is the rub. Koreans are not non-Jews. Some deride Tokayers popu- But you want to know the religious special pre-fast meal. And keep in mind
doing this to become Jewish, nor is this a larizations as crude, lacking the depth and meaning of the Yom Kippur fast. This that many Jews eat a festive break-fast
particularly spiritual quest for them. They nuance of the real Talmud, while others atonement fast, by the way, is not akin to together with family and friends, to ring
are engaging with Talmud to become suc- worry about promoting Jewish stereotypes. the purifying fasting Moses did on Mount in the blessed year after the fast. So, your
cessful and to get rich. For me, the issues also cross into an Sinai before receiving the revelation of the post fasting experience can be an enjoy-
One Ko re an Chr i stian mini ster area that I call cultural sportsmanship. Torah for all our people, or the prepara- able repast to launch again the fresh and
explained, The Jews have thrived for so By that I mean what most golfers and tive fasting Esther did before asking for now, sin-free, New Year.
many years because of certain educational other competitive sports players know, the king to save our entire nation from Finally, if you do fast on Yom Kippur,
and cultural practices. Such benefits can that bragging and boasting about your destruction. This fast is personal and pri- according to our custom, I wish you an
be unlocked for Christians if those prac- game is not tasteful. Many people con- vate devotion for individual people. easy one.
tices are taught to their children. sider it socially wrong to engage in any In this regard, it helps us to know the Wait, wait. Indeed, I agree, it is talmudi-
More down to earth, the New Yorker form of grandiosity. You quickly learn, mechanism of a fast and the physiological cally ironic that I wish you an easy afflic-
piece explains why Christian Korean par- for instance, as you become a proficient effects of food denial. tion of your soul, an easy day of self-denial,
ents want their children to have a Jew- golfer, not to proclaim loudly to others, Psychologists and biologists say that and an easy humbling of the essence of
ish education, Twenty-three per cent of Did you see that great shot I just hit? fasting can lead to changed or heightened your being. Ah well, so be it.
Nobel Prize winners are Jewish people. At times, I have been tempted to publish state of consciousness that can open your
Korean women want to know the secret. a book that reveals the secrets of Jewish spiritual experiences. Fasting may help a Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from Brown
They found the secret in this book. success rooted in Judaism and the Talmud. person feel weaker, allowing for a sense of University and his rabbinic ordination
And the Talmud textbooks used in As a people, we certainly have hit many compassion for himself and others and from Yeshiva University. He is a prolific
Korea extol the utilitarian view of the great shots. And I just may publish that that is a centerpiece of our atonement pro- author and has published numerous
cess for sins. books about Judaism and Jewish texts. He
Fasting highlights for us our human fra- teaches advanced Talmud and Jewish law
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers mindful advice based on Talmudic
gility how much we depend on regular codes at the Academy for Jewish Religion
reasoning and wisdom. It aspires to be equally open and meaningful to all the
varieties and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Fri- eating as you cite in your own question. in New York. He also is CEO of Halakhah.
day of the month. Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or email Fasting thus is an opportunity to con- com, a site that distributes worldwide over
them to zahavy@gmail.com nect the body, the mind, and the soul. It 600.000 English translations of the Talmud
can assist your fixing and spiritual healing and other Judaic books for free every year.

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The Frazzled Housewife
Natural Disasters
F
or months, people were talking
about the eclipse. On August
21, 2017, the moon was going to
cover the sun. Or the sun was
going to cover the moon I am still not
really sure. The sky was going to darken,
the leaves were going to shake, and the
world was going to come to an
end. Apparently aliens were
going to make an appearance
Big Foot could be seen in your
local neighborhood and the
Loch Ness monster was com-
ing into full selfie mode.
You could get a really good
view of this phenomenon in
South Carolina, Oregon, and
other assorted locations. But Banji
if you even looked at the sun, Ganchrow
you could seriously damage
your eyes. Sunburn of the
retina, they were calling it. But the results knew that if you wore a shower cap, the
werent immediate. It could take a few
days before you would realize the kind of
permanent damage that you did. Compa-
nies were making a fortune on eclipse
glasses, which looked just like 3-D glasses.
Eye care professionals every-
where were getting ready for calls
and emergency appointments. It
Do I ever look at the
was like New Years Eve 1999 all
over again!
Parents who had kids in camp sun? I dont think so.
went a little nuts, and thousands
of phone calls were made. What
are you going to do to protect my someone not to do
kids eyes? Some camps opted to
invest in the eclipse glasses and
something, arent
let the cute guys run free. Some they automatically
camps chose to put a movie on
and keep the kids inside and as
safe as possible. I chose to take
son #3 out for pizza, and we remained
indoors until it was safe to go out. I have
no idea what time that was. I just told him
to keep his head down.
Do I ever look at the sun? I dont think
so. But if you tell someone not to do some-
thing, arent they automatically going to
do it?
In any event, this natural phenomena
got me thinking about other phenomena
that we are privy to. I still remember Hal-
leys Comet, and how my dad went out
and bought a telescope for us to witness
astronomical history. The telescope is
still in my parents living room. And then
another phenomena occurred last week,
while I was on the Island of Long. (Yes, I
am taking you back there, but fortunately,
you dont have to pay any tolls!)
I was walking to shul and I noticed a
young woman in front of me wearing a
lovely blue strapless dress and sneakers.
Now I am not the epitome of fashion, but I
knew that she was wearing the sneakers to
keep her feet comfortable on the long walk
48 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
to her destination. Inside her fashionable
LuLuLemon tote (you know, the store for
people who have less than 5 percent body
fat) was probably a pair of very expensive
and very uncomfortable high heels. I got
that, and so far I was following along.
But then I noticed that on her head was
a shower cap. One of those
big, old-fashioned caps that
had flowers or butterflies
on it.
T h i s wa s n ew. Had
she just come out of the
shower? After some inves-
tigating, I discovered that
she was wearing the shower
cap to keep her hair from
frizzing. This is a natural
phenomena hair that
frizzes even with a ton of
ant-frizz product in it. Who
hair would defy nature and remain straight
and smooth? Who needs the eclipse when
you can go to the Island of Long and learn
about such advancements in science?
When we finally got to shul, I couldnt
But if you tell
going to do it?
wait to see what her hair looked liked. I
had visions of one of those shampoo com-
mercials when she flips her head up and
her perfectly coiffed hair comes down
around her shoulders.
Needless to say, I was a little disap-
pointed. And if you think about it, the cap
probably traps heat and adds to the frizz,
but I am not a scientist, nor do I work for
the hair care industry, so I really have no
idea. She looked fine before the cap, she
looked fine after the cap, and I am just
going to stick to risking the frizz. Because I
just dont think that wearing a shower cap
would go well with the fashionable fake
crocs that I wear.
As for other phenomena? Feel free to
submit any that I can further investigate
for you. I would love to help!
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck cannot believe
that her baby is turning 17 this week. She
hopes that all of his wishes come true and
that God protects him and all of the other
drivers on the road
Crossword
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Across
1. ___ Yomi (daily page of Gemara)
4. Leader after Moses, for short
8. Common construction need
14. ___ Mae Brown (Oscar-winning role
for 44-Across)
15. Ideal status for a service
16. Many a flick produced by Roger
Corman or David F. Friedman
17. Long time TV talk show host
19. Cut film, like the Coens
20. Sefirat Ha___ (Jewish counting time)
21. 13, 40, 120, e.g.
23. Loafs
24. Karenina or a daughter of Freud
26. Israeli port city that can also be a
plot of land
28. Long time TV talk show host
34. Tennis star Monica who once
appeared on The Nanny
35. Puts on YES or 8-Down
36. I ___ Rock (Simon and Garfunkel
song)
37. ___etz (left-wing Israeli newspaper)
38. Passover month
40. Yom ___ (fast day)
41. Dough machine?
42. Achshav!, in a hospital
43. Battier who played for Arisons Heat
44. Long time TV talk show host
48. Attraction at Superland or
Disneyland
49. Heavenly bear
50. Famous Gertrude
53. QB Tony that Marc Cuban made a
Maverick for a day
55. (The) Old City
59. Los Angeles suburb named for a
false goddess of fruit
61. 17, 28, and 44-Across, despite their
names
63. Jewelry that would get in the way
of tefillin
64. Waze suggestions (Abbr.)
65. Stat. for Scott Feldman or Clayton
Kershaw
66. Seth who would also work with this
puzzles theme
67. ___ Einai
68. Sinai in Torah
The solution to last weeks
puzzle is on page 55.
Down
1. Where krav maga might be taught
2. Magen David ___
3. Dunaway who announced the wrong
Best Picture winner
4. Jacobs 11th son, for short
5. Available to help
6. Martial arts actor Steven
7. Hopper with only one sign of kashrut
8. Longtime eye network of 28-Across
9. Persian and Greek
10. One shaping clay menorahs, maybe
11. Like Haman
12. Yafeh
13. Glatt need?
18. David, compared to those who didnt
face Goliath
22. Standardized test that might be
taken at MTA or SAR
25. Holy Land money letters
27. PC corner key
28. End that some say never befell Elijah
29. Ben Gurion car rental option
30. Turn a deaf ___
31. Actress Debi
32. A Stranger ___ Us
33. Abraham, Isaac or Jacob, e.g.
34. Robert in Spielbergs Jaws
38. Yesh ___ (party)
39. Beeping device for an Einstein doc-
tor
40. AKA for great kabbalist Rabbi
Yitchak Luria
42. Dreidel, for one
43. Baseball stats. that violate the
Eighth Commandment?
45. One who played for Eli Jacobs
Baltimore baseball team
46. Belonging to legendary director
Sydney
47. Some flying Israeli spies
50. Canned treif or junk email
51. Did kriah to a garment
52. 17-Across has won one out of sixteen
nominations
54. Shrek is one
56. New Jew in Israel
57. Designer Wang who married Arthur
Becker
58. Trei ___ (minor prophets)
60. @@@
62. US security org. whose reputation
isnt as good as El Als
 Arts & Culture
Menashe presents rare authentic
onscreen view of chasidic Jews
JANE HANSER

I
n Menashe, which opened at the end
of July, director Joshua Z Weinstein has
delicately crafted a work that emanates a
rarely seen authenticity, tenderness, and
depth all characteristics sadly lacking in other
mainstream films about chasidic Jews and their
communities.
A chasidic father named Menashe, who works
long hours in a small grocery store in Brooklyn,
struggling to make ends meet, has lost his young
wife Lea to illness. Their only child, Rieven, an
adolescent, also is suffering from the death of his
beloved mother. Aizek, Menashes former brother-
in-law and Rievens uncle, is battling the father
and son. Aizek is a successful, arrogant property
owner who seeks custody of the boy. He wants to
raise him in his own family.
This heart-wrenching triangulated scenario
could play out anywhere. But this is Borough
Park, home to many chasidic groups. It is a world
unknown to and also misunderstood and mis-

judged by many. Filmed on location, this film,
an engrossing exploration of love, grief and devo-
tion pulses to the heartbeat of the chasidic com-
munity and its many nuances.
In Menashes specific community, children
must be brought up in a home with a mother. That
means that after his wifes death, Menashe faces
some choices. He must find a wife, or give up his
son, or violate the communitys tradition.
In the film, spoken almost entirely in Yiddish
(with English subtitles), Weinstein sheds layer
after layer, and reveals a profound humanity.
The real-life story of the unpretentious Menashe
Lustig, who loosely portrays himself in the film,
inspired this main character. Lustig is a grocer
from New Square, in New Yorks Rockland County.
All the actors except Menashes Hispanic co-work-
ers are chasidim, most of whom have chosen to
remain unnamed in the credits. Rieven is played
by a boy from London who was in this country
learning in an American yeshiva. The casting
choices are instrumental to the authenticity.
FEDERICA VALABREGA
Menashe Lustig and Ruben Niborski play father and son in Menashe.
cameras deft touch pulls us into story after story.
Weinstein calls these micro-moments.
I think the whole film is like that, the director
said. How does a small moment tell a big story?
The many local characters emanate genuine-
ness and a strong on-screen presence. Aware of
the challenges chasidim face today, Weinstein
says he understands that when problems hap-
pen, its so easy to leave. I wanted to make a
character that by definition never even thought
about leaving.
Weinstein said that the goal of the actor who
plays Rieven, Ruben Niborski, wasnt to be an
actor. He was just a regular boy who was humble,
ABRAHAM RIESMAN

In the film, as Leas first yahrzeit approaches,
the conflict over custody heats up. Its at the same
time as Lag BOmer and is framed by the swirling,
towering flames of the nights holidays street bon-
fires, around which the chasidim have gathered to
celebrate, dance, and sing. Actor Menashe Lustig sits with director Joshua Z Weinstein.
Menashe is defiant. He feels that he can be
responsible for his son. But the harder he tries to prove
his worthiness, the more things go wrong, and the more
rebuke and humiliation the principled Menashe is sub-
jected to. We empathize with him.
Rievens simple affection for his father provides
Menashe with some respite from all these pressures,
and his adoring sons candor and innocence may be all
the struggling father needs to be able to reflect, and to
become the parent for which his son is longing.
Menashes humble walk-up apartment, where Rieven,
the ruv (the communal religious leader), Aizek, and
polite and nice, and had no pretenses.
Lustig and Niborski didnt know each other
when the filming began, so bridging that emo-
tional distance within the films storyline comes
across as real. I told [Weinstein] that if you put
the clothes of my son on [Niborski], he looks
like my son! Lustig said. The child feels to me
several other men have come to share in the yahrzeit very close.
meal, complete with bachelor-proof kugel, provides the Soulful music by Zusha, the New York-based, Teaneck-
setting for the dramatic climactic scene. Shot up close and rooted chasidic folk and jazz band, vitalizes Menashe
personal, and crisply edited, the scene masterfully evokes with modern wordless niggunim. The searing melody of
the tension and high stakes of this meal. With humor a solo violin, scored by Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist,
and drama, the community has its proudest moment. adds color and commentary throughout the film and
From the brilliant opening scene a dispute over heightens the mesmerizing closing scene.
the sale of a head of lettuce in the grocery store where When I ask how Weinstein chose the ending, Lustig
Menashe works to the faint sunrays illuminating the doesnt hesitate to chime in. My answer is simple that
early morning netilas yadayim (ritual hand-washing), to a thats a real story, he said. And the story will continue.
wordless sunset shared by father and son in the park, the  JNS.ORG

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Friday Temple Beth Sholom in
Fair Lawn, 7:30 p.m. 40-
SEPTEMBER 1 25 Fair Lawn Ave. Sheila,
(201) 794-0970 or Ruth,
Shabbat in Jersey City: (201) 791-1096.
Temple Beth-El sponsors
Eat, Pray, Shabbat, Garage sale in Teaneck:
with potluck dinner, Friday
6:30 p.m., followed by SEPTEMBER 8
services with September
birthday blessings and Shabbat in Hoboken:
oneg Shabbat, 7:30. 2419 The United Synagogue of
Kennedy Boulevard. Hoboken hosts a Shabbat
(201) 333-4229 or program for children
office@betheljc.org. and adults of all ages,
especially with young
Monday children, at the Kaplan
Preschool, 5:30 p.m.
SEPTEMBER 4 Regular services at the
shul at 7. 115 Park Ave.
Lunch and learn: Rabbi ushpreschool@gmail.
Aaron Katz leads a com.
discussion over lunch
on current topics at
Congregation Bnai Sunday
Jacob in Jersey City, SEPTEMBER 10
noon. 176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www. Run/walk in Teaneck:
bnaijacobjc.com.
Young Israel of Teaneck
and the Teaneck
Tuesday Volunteer Ambulance
Corps join for YIOTs
SEPTEMBER 5
second annual 5K Run/
Walk, 9-11 a.m. Family
Hot topics in Bayonne: run for children. Go to
Temple Beth Am www.TeaneckAmbulance.
continues a Point/
Counterpoint series,
org, click on donate, and
follow links to the 5K
a Jewish take on
current events, led
page.
by Rabbi Cathy Felix, JCC open house in
1:30 p.m. 111 Avenue B.
(201) 858-2020.
Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades holds a
community open house,
Mitzvah Day projects, Rindner and Rabbi Daniel
9 a.m.-3 p.m., followed by
a Welcome Back BBQ,
Fridman. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515 or
3-6 p.m. 115 Park Ave. sisterhood@jcot.org.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org. Secrets of the
mikvah: The Sephardic
Congregation of Fort
Temple Emeth will hold Lee holds a womens
an indoor garage sale meeting in honor of
with items including the re-inauguration of
toys, books, housewares, the community mikvah.
movies, and more, 11 a.m. Rabbanit Dina Acoca
-2 p.m. Annual bazaar set discusses The Waters
for December 10. 1666 of Eden The Secrets
Windsor Road. Rain or Behind the Mikvah,
shine. (201) 833-1322 or 8 p.m. The class is in
www.emeth.org. memory of Rabbi Shimon
Abergel. Refreshments.
Barbecue in Emerson: 313 Tom Hunter Ave. Rav Mayer Twersky Rav Hershel Schachter
Congregation Bnai Israel (201) 543-9459.
hosts a welcome back
barbecue with vegetarian SEPT. Everyone is welcome
Tuesday to TorahWeb at
4
options, 11:30 a.m. Rabbi
Debra Orenstein, Cantor SEPTEMBER 12 Congregation Beth
Lenny Mandel, Hebrew
Aaron in Teaneck
school principal Karen Book club in Paramus:
Weiss, Hebrew school Belle Rosenbloom on Monday, September 4. Rav
families, and congregants
will attend. Membership
facilitates a discussion Mayer Twersky will discuss Yiras
on Lilac Girls by Martha
promotions. 53 Palisade Hall Kelly at the JCC of
Shomayim: Balancing Love and
Ave. Reservations, Paramus/Congregation Fear in a Feel-Good Society at
(201) 265-2272 or www. Beth Tikvah, 7 p.m. 8 p.m., and at 8:45, Rav Hershel
bisrael.com. Refreshments. East
304 Midland Ave.
Schachter will talk about Torah
Meet and greet/ (201) 262-7691 or Learning After the Year in Israel:
Israeli dancing/crafts
in Orangeburg: The
jccparamus.org. Prioritizing Torah and Secular
Orangetown Jewish Education in College. 950 Queen
Center hosts a Happy Anne Road. (201) 836-6210 or
New Year Meet & Greet,
an opportunity to meet
In New York www.bethaaron.org.
the rabbis, hear about
upcoming programs, Sunday
and learn Israels hottest SEPTEMBER 10 annual pool party for

Thursday 1-4 p.m. JCC staff will

provide guided facility
SEPTEMBER 7
tours; members and
guests can enjoy JCC
gyms, chair massages,
outside pools, and the
water park, sample
classes, and use the
adult and youth fitness
centers. There also will
be activities for children,
including a moon
bounce, tumble room,
face painting, glitter
Seffi Kogen tattoos, Thurnauer Music
schools instrumental
Talking BDS in Fair petting zoo, giveaways,
Lawn: Seffi Kogen,
and special membership
director of campus promotions. 411 E. Clinton
affairs for the American
Ave. (201) 408-1448,
Jewish Committee, email join@jccotp.org, or
discusses BDS the Knitting Night, 7-8 p.m.
boycott, divestment, and
www.jccotp.org.
sanctions movement of Faith Book Club will
Mitzvah Day in
on college campuses for Hoboken: United
the Jersey Hills section Synagogue of
of the National Council Hoboken offers
dance, YOYA, 4 p.m.
Special holiday story
Singles singles 35+ at a private
home in Teaneck. Glatt
kosher barbecue, dessert
and crafts for kids. 8
Independence Ave., Friday buffet, basketball,
Orangeburg, N.Y. (845) volleyball, and swimming
SEPTEMBER 1 in a heated pool, 4
359-5920, ext. 2, or
p.m. Bring towels. Rain
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Shabbaton: Sharon date, September 4.
Ganz & Friends host a Reservations, Ronnie,
Shabbaton for Jewish (718) 219-5219 or email
singles from their late singlechevra@yahoo.
20s through their 40s at com.
Walking Tour in Congregation Bais Tefilah
Williamsburg: of Woodmere, N.Y.,
The Lower East
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through Saturday night. Sunday
Fee includes Shabbat
sponsors Land of the SEPTEMBER 10
meals, Woodmere tour,
Chasidim: A Walking and Saturday night
Knitting/book club in Tour in Williamsburg, Senior singles meet in
Teaneck: The sisterhood party. 409 Edward West Nyack: Singles 65+
Brooklyn with Rabbi Ave. (646) 529-8748 or
of the Jewish Center David Kalb, 10:45 a.m. meets for a social get-
of Teaneck hosts (718) 575-3962. together over bagels and
Also, Bialystoker the
Beautiful, a tour of the lox, at the JCC Rockland,
Afterward, the Leaves Bialystoker Synagogue, sunday 11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
on September 13. Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
discuss C.S. Lewis novel
SEPTEMBER 3 (845) 356-5525.
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The Screwtape Letters nycjewishtours.org.
with Professor Sarah Pool party in Teaneck:
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Open house activities abound at Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly holds a community open house
on Sunday, September 10, from 1 to 4
p.m. Guests and members can sam-
ple classes, take part in the Thurnauer
School of Musics instrumental petting
zoo, go on a moon bounce, and use the
nursery school playgrounds and tumble
room. There will also be a balloonolo-
gist, face painter, glitter tattoos, roam-
ing entertainers, giveaways, and special
one-day-only discounts. Current and
prospective members also can enjoy the
water park, gym, pools, and the adult
and youth fitness centers.
Sample classes for children will
include creative ballet, hip hop, pop-
up stories, Broadway prep, CMEK
(basketball) workshops, Stavri Tennis
Register for Mark Samitt Run
in Washington Township
Registration is open for the first annual
Mark Samitt 5K Run on Sunday, October
29, at 9 a.m. The USATF-certified, family-
friendly race will be held rain or shine
and is open to runners and walkers of
all ages. It will begin and end at Temple
Beth Or, 56 Ridgewood Road, Washing-
ton Township.
Proceeds from the run will benefit two
of Mark Samitts passions Temple Beth
Or and the Melanoma Research Founda-
tion, a nonprofit where Mr. Samitt cre-
ated the melanoma awareness campaign
called Mark the SPOT!
Mark Samitt was a beloved family
man, devoted friend, Temple Beth Or
board member, runner, and successful
business professional who died at 52 in
May 2015 after a long and valiant fight
with melanoma, the deadliest form of
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Academy workshops, art, kitchen sci- Special offers for personal trainings and and tennis courts, teen fitness center for
ence, Lego space adventures, youth Pilates will also be available. 6- to 13-year-olds, early childhood center
yoga, music for youngsters, catch- Programs and facilities available to JCC and nursery school, day camps, Thurnauer
ball, performance training, and more. members include two state-of-the-art fit- School of Music, School of Theater Arts,
Sample classes and demonstrations ness centers, outdoor water park, and pools, dance school, and cultural and learning pro-
for adults will include Zumba, Pilates, year-round indoor pools, more than 80 free gramming for adults.
demonstrations in the new perfor- group exercise classes, CPR-trained swim For a full schedule of sample classes, go to
mance lab, mini chair and table mas- instructors offering lessons for people of all www.jccotp.org/community. For information,
sage, and facial evaluations. ages, a luxurious spa, free orientation and call the membership office at (201) 408-1448
JCC representatives will be on hand to fitness assessment, basketball, racquetball or email join@jccotp.org.
speak about JCC programs and member-
ship, give guided tours of the facilities,
and help with class registration.
The JCC also offers special promotion
in connection with the open house. New
members who join by October 31 will get
$150 off membership; as an added incen-
tive, if they join at the open house, they
will receive an extra $50 in JCC cash.
skin cancer. In the midst of his battle,
he created Mark the SPOT!, a campaign
affiliated with the MRF aimed at creating
awareness among the hairstylist com-
munity about spotting unusual moles or
lesions during the routine styling pro-
cess. The campaign urged stylists, If
you SPOT something, say something!
Many times melanoma is silent, you
dont feel it as its going through your
body, Mr. Samitt said just a few months
before he died. But it sometimes shows
itself by having marks on the skin, and
thats where we have the chance of early
detection. That is why this program is so
impactful.
To register or for donation/sponsor-
ship opportunities, go to www.marksa-
mittrun.org, call (201) 664-7422, or email
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William Packard
William Packard, 92 , of Boca Raton, Fla.,
and Fair Lawn died July 29.
A naval officer, he graduated from
Cornell University and Stevens Institute
of Technology. He was an electrical engi-
neer at Bendix and Singer Kearfot where
he worked on the U.S. space program,
specializing in gyroscopes.
Predeceased by his wife, Sarah, he is
survived by his children, Jeffrey (Kathi)
and Jacquelyn Gold (Robert); sister, Ruth
Waller; grandchildren, Adam ( Jessica),
Rebecca Tenzer ( Joshua), and Samantha,
and four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Obituaries are prepared with information provided by funeral homes.
Correcting errors is the responsibility of the funeral home.
Arnold Raabe
Arnold Raabe, 68, of Maywood, formerly
of Fair Lawn, died August 23.
He was a member of Bris Avrohom in
Fair Lawn.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years,
Diane, ne Greenstein, children, Ben
(Ella), Barbara, Barry, Amy Cullins (Leo),
and Ellen; a brother, Perry (Lenora), and
grandchildren, Leland, Isabella, Rocco,
and Collin.
Donations can be made to Camp Acorn
in Paramus. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Obituaries
Arnold Steinberg
Arnold Steinberg, 91, of West Milford,
formerly of Cranford, and Paterson, died
August 24.
He graduated from New York Uni-
versitys Stern School of Business and
owned and operated Cranford Knitting
and Fabric with his wife for 30 years. He
supported the State of Israel and many
Jewish charities.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years,
Phyllis, ne Lawrence, children, Stephen
(Barbara ) and Cathy Windt (Lee), and
grandchildren, Randi Windt, Josh Windt,
Michael Steinberg, Rebecca Steinberg,
David Steinberg (Kelly Sweeney), and Jay
Steinberg.
Donations can be sent to a charity ben-
efiting Israel. Arrangements were by Rob-
ert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Eleanor Zucker
Eleanor Zucker, ne Nelson, 91, of Engle-
wood Cliffs, died August 25.
Predeceased by her husband, Leo, and
sisters, Rose, Florence, and Jeannette,
she is survived by children, Lauren Kleeb-
latt (Robert), Mark ( Jane), Donald (Lynn),
and Cindy Rogers (Brian); a brother, Rob-
ert Nelson; eight grandchildren, and 14
great-grandchildren.
To fund charities across the country,
including Englewood Hospital & Medical
Center and the Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
she and her husband founded the Leo
and Eleanor Zucker Family Foundation
Inc., where donations can be sent, in care
of Robert Lee Realty, 254 South Main St.,
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