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Poetic shekels bring
rabbinic opposition
In Israel, its hard to be a bill.
Take, for example, the new
50 shekel bill that entered cir-
culation last week. It has come
under attack from some Ortho-
dox Jews, because the Hebrew
poet it sports was married to a
Christian.
Not that the 20 or 100 shekel
bills issued last month had it
much easier. They were report-
edly greeted with dismay by
some Orthodox Jews because
the Hebrew poets they portray
are female.
Benzion Mutzafi, an influential
Sephardic rabbi, laid down the
law with a demonstration. As the
ultra-Orthodox news site Kikar
HaShabat reported, Rabbi Mut-
zafi pulled a 50 shekel bill from
his pocket, and showed his stu-
dents how he had folded it to obscure
the visage of Shaul Tchernichovsky.
After one of his students asked for a
fuller explanation for the ban, the rabbi
a senior adjudicator of Jewish law
in the Sephardic community wrote,
As regards the illustrated image: It is
known he [Tchernichovsky] was mar-
ried to a devout Christian woman who
every Sunday would pray in church.
They say that at the time, the late
Rabbi [Abraham Isaac] Kook the
first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British
Mandatory Palestine pleaded with
him, requested of him and tried to con-
vince him that she convert to Judaism.
And he refused.
Tchernichovsky was married to
Russian-born Christian Melania Karlova,
with whom he had a daughter, Isolda.
He was one of four poets chosen in
2011 to appear on Israeli banknotes,
together with Nathan Alterman, Leah
Goldberg, and Rachel Bluwstein. His
inclusion was met with anger when the
50 shekel note was unveiled.
Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi, brother of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahus wife,
Sara, said that the use of the Russian-
born poets image on the bill was an
outrage.
Shaul Tchernichovsky has become
a symbol of assimilation, of assimila-
tion ideology, he said at the time,
according to Israel National News. It
is inconceivable that such a person, as
important a poet as he may be, should
become a symbol in the State of Israel.
Tchernichovsky was born in 1875, in
what is now Ukraine, and immigrated
to Palestine in 1931. He was a physician,
worked for the Tel Aviv school system,
was active in writers organizations, and
died in 1943. Some of his poems were
popularized by singers like Shlomo Art-
zi, who composed a tune for Omrim
Yeshna Eretz, and Miki Gavrielov, who
did the same for Hoy Eretz Moladedi.
When the Tchernichovsky 50 shekel
note first was announced, Bentzi Gop-
stein, director of the violent anti-mis-
cegenation group Lehava, told Kikar
HaShabat that he would like to lead a
boycott, but the idea was unrealistic.
I could say that but no one would do
it, he said. We should learn who the
real role models are.
Tchernichovsky was indeed an
incredibly talented author and poet,
and is tied to the people of Israel, but
a terrible dishonor was deeply imprint-
ed on his life, as he was married to a
gentile woman, a very religious Chris-
tian, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, head of the
Ateret Cohanim yeshiva in the Muslim
Quarter of Jerusalems Old City, said,
adding that it was unthinkable that an
intermarried poet should be glorified
on the nations banknote.
Neither Rachel Bluwstein, featured
on the 20 shekel bill, nor Leah Gold-
berg, featured on the 100 shekel bill,
ever married.
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Charedi singer hides his straying eyes
An ultra-Orthodox singer perform-
ing before a women-only audience
covered his eyes with masking tape in
the middle of his concert in order not
to see audience members who were
dancing in front of the stage.
Yonatan Razel was playing his
keyboard and singing at Jerusalems
International Conference Center on
Sunday night when he put the tape
over his eyes during one song. Video
of the eye-taping was played on Ha-
dashot television news.
Razel is an American-born musi-
cian, and one of the most popular
ultra-Orthodox performers in Israel.
He recently released his third album.
An organizer of the concert, which
was part of a festival of ultra-Or-
thodox music for women, said that
Razel covered his eyes for a few
minutes.
The scene in which he is seen to
be covering his eyes took place for
only a few minutes, when there were
circles of women dancing at the foot
of the stage, the spokesman told the
Ynet news site. It was his personal
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decision, so as not to sit with his eyes
open in front of the dancing women.
Then he removed the tape and con-
tinued the concert normally.
The act was considered unusual,
even among the ultra-Orthodox who
practice strict adherence to mod-
esty laws. There have not been other
incidents of charedi singers covering
their eyes in this way in front of the
all-female crowd.
Galia Wolloch, president of Israeli
womens rights organization Naamat,
slammed the singer for his extreme
behavior.
How far will this ostensibly reli-
gious extremism go? she wrote on
Facebook. And who are the religious
authorities who encourage this bi-
zarre behavior?
Razels representative downplayed
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appeared regularly for years before
women and respects them, and his
actions yesterday should not be given
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Noshes
No matter how much money hes got, hes still
going to the same place that people who
dont recognize God and morality and accept his
salvation are going. And thats not a good place.
Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican candidate for
Senate, about Jewish philanthropist George Soros.

THE GOLDBERGS:

New episode to
focus on Chanukah
The title family of abdicated. This episode
The Goldbergs uses recently released
TV show didnt official papers that show
come out as Jewish until how deeply Edward and
a Chanukah episode in Wallis were connected to George Segal Peter Morgan
2015 the series 57th the Nazis and how
episode. It was sort of disparaging Edward was
worth the wait, because of his brother, Elizabeths
this well-written episode father, who had to take Dave Franco and James Franco in a scene from
cogently explored the the throne a position The Disaster Artist
problems of being for which he was ill-pre-
Jewish during the pared when Ed-
Christmas season.
Chanukah is at the center
ward abdicated.
Knowing all this, you A pretty good movie
of the new Goldbergs
episode, airing at 8 p.m.
can understand why
the rest of the British
about a bad movie
on Wednesday, Dec. 13, royal family was so cold
The Disaster Artist depicts the early friendship of
on ABC. Main plot: A toward Edward and Wal-
competition about who lis for decades after the Greg Sestero and Tommy Wiseau, the actors behind
will throw the best abdication. Their anger Glenn Thrush Matt Lauer the 2003 cult film The Room, which often is hailed
Chanukah party. Theres was about much more as the Citizen Kane of bad movies. Disaster follows
a subplot involving Pops than an inappropriate The Crown shows him smart and funny. Cohen the troubled making of The Room, and Sestero and
(GEORGE SEGAL, 83) marriage. By the way, leaving her nasty notes, grew up in Millburn. Wiseaus careers after its surprising success. (Opens
advising his grandson to Edward frequently made including one that read: Well, even the New December 8.)
become popular by anti-Semitic remarks and You look like a Jew- York Times and
JAMES FRANCO, 39, directed Artist, and he plays
entering a school talent blamed the war on Roo- ish manicurist and I USA Today fell for
show and then realizing sevelt and the Jews. (In hate you. widespread internet Wiseau. His brother, DAVE FRANCO, 32, plays Sestero.
the boy cant sing. depth: watch Edward: This years Jeop- misinformation that SETH ROGEN, 35, ALISON BRIE, 34 (Dave Francos
The second season The Nazi King docu- ardy! Tournament Meghan Markle, now the real-life wife), and ARI GRAYNOR, 34 (Im Dying up
of The Crown will mentary on Netflix). of Champions fiance of Prince Harry, Here on HBO) are in supporting roles. Advance reviews
begin streaming on I suspected that ended with a very has a Jewish father. The are mostly very positive. Still, this is a quirky movie
Friday, December 8, on Crown creator PETER exciting finale on Novem- Times corrected itself about a quirky movie, so its not for everyone. N.B.
Netflix. Some people MORGAN, 54, who writes ber 17 as AUSTIN (Nov. 28) the same day
criticized the first season most of the scripts, Buzzy COHEN, 32, as it made its mistake.
for showing Edward VIII, wouldnt let Edward off won, coming from way This is Markles back-
who abdicated in 1936 to the hook. His late father, behind in the second half ground, according to the Her mother is African- a few of the celebs
marry American divorcee ARTHUR MORGEN- of the show. He is a Times: born Protestant American. I suspect the recently fired or sus-
Wallis Simpson, as a rath- THAU, was a German music company execu- (but not baptized), she Jewish story originated pended for sexual
er benign figure. In Jew who fled the Nazis. tive and his father-in-law went to a Catholic girls in the fact that her harassment: Charlie Rose
October, British history (His mother was a Pol- is MOSHE LEVIN, a school and intends to be ex-husband, TREVOR isnt Jewish; NY Times
experts who had seen ish Catholic woman who beloved, recently retired baptized into the Church ENGELSON, is Jewish, reporter GLENN
season 2 held a panel fled the Soviets.) San Francisco rabbi. of England before and their wedding, THRUSH is, and MATT
discussion, where they Sad to say: Princess Levin told the San marrying Harry. Her reports said, contained LAUER is the son of a
disclosed that a second Margarets husband, Francisco Jewish paper: father is of varied Jewish elements. Jewish father and a
season episode will focus Anthony Armstrong- I always knew he was European ancestry, Readers wonder, I non-Jewish mother. He
on Edwards dealings Jones, is revealed to be smart and funny, but including German and know: so heres the wasnt raised in any faith.
with the Nazis after he a bigoted, cruel bully. didnt know he was that Irish (but not Jewish). background of just N.B.

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Hate has a home here
Anti-Semitism from faculty members leaves Rutgers students uneasy
LARRY YUDELSON
T
alia Schabes of Englewood is
a junior at Rutgers University,
where she is studying nutrition
and Jewish studies. She hopes
to go to medical school.
She worries about a friend of hers who
is majoring in food science there.
What if the friend wants to register
for a course in food microbiology next
semester?
That friend would have to spend Tues-
day and Thursday afternoons in the class-
room of Dr. Michael Chikindas, one of the
experts in microbiology in the food sci-
ence department at Rutgers School of
Environmental and Biological Science
and founder of the journal Probiotics and
Antimicrobial Proteins.
Professor Chikindas also has a Jewish
problem.
In October, the Israellycool blog discov-
ered that Dr. Chikindas repeatedly posted
anti-Semitic content to Facebook. There
was a cartoon with a hook-nosed Jew
proclaiming I am Gods chosen people
you filthy goyim. There was a cartoon
in which hook-nosed Jews are blamed
for the Federal Reserve, Internet spying,
cancer, and sex trafficking, among other
things. There were anti-gay posts, and a
post questioning whether six million Jews
were killed in the Holocaust. Dr. Chikin-
das even managed to blame Jews for the
Armenian genocide.
After his posts first were reported,
Dr. Chikindas denied that he was anti-
Semitic. He told Algemeiner that he once
was married to a Jewish woman and that
one quarter of his ancestry was Jewish.
He then told reporters that his Facebook
page had been hacked. He then deleted
the page.
He insisted to a radio station, NJ 101.5,
that he is anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic.
6 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
Dr. Michael Chikindas
Should I knew [sic] that sharing these
freely available pictures questioning
Zionism on possible racist actions can
be seen as anti-Semitic, I would never
do it, Dr. Chikindas said. I strictly sep-
arate anti-Semitism from intolerance to
Zionism.
Rutgers University responded with
a statement condemning all acts and
statements of bigotry, racism, anti-Sem-
itism and white supremacy, which have
no place in our society or on campus.
All of the members of our community,
including faculty and staff, are free to
express their viewpoints in public forums
as private citizens, the statement contin-
ued. Yet at Rutgers University we must
also foster an environment free from dis-
crimination, as articulated in our policy
prohibiting discrimination.
The university announced an investi-
gation into whether Dr. Chikindas had
crossed the line. So far, there has been
no word on the investigation. A student
Dr. Mazen Adi Dr. Jasbir Puar
petition asking that he be fired garnered
more than 5,000 signatures.
Meanwhile, Ms. Schabes worries what
would happen if her friend were to take
Dr. Chikindas course.
Im nervous for her, Ms. Schabes
said. Its nerve racking for Jewish stu-
dents to enter a classroom and worry
about being discriminated against.
But Dr. Chikindas is not the only one of
Rutgers 8,000 faculty members who is
making Jewish students there uncomfort-
able. The school has nearly 70,000 stu-
dents, and Jewish groups estimate that
about 7,000 are Jewish. Most of them
are at the schools main campus in New
Brunswick.
Dr. Jasbir Puar is an associate profes-
sor of womens and gender studies at
Rutgers School of Arts and Science. She
already had come into the Jewish public
eye for her anti-Israel positions, deliv-
ered in academic venues. They include
a talk in Vassar College in 2016, where render it visible through containment in
she put forward the idea that a comparative frame, but to understand
young Palestinian men were intensifications of biopolitical modes of
mined for organs for scientific control that are continuous and reso-
research. nant with historical modes and, indeed,
She has now come under across contemporary geopolitical spaces.
renewed focus; last month her Palestine in this sense provides an epis-
third book, The Right to Maim: temological blueprint, one that opens up
Debility, Capacity, Disability, the connective tissue between regions,
was published by the respected regimes of power, sites of knowledge pro-
Duke University Press. The book duction, historical excavations, and soli-
brings together theories of dis- darity struggles for liberation.
ability studies with a pro-Pales- And along the way she charges Israel
tinian perspective on the 2014 with a deliberate policy of debilitating
war in Gaza. The book describes and crippling Palestinians.
her project as an anti-Zionist Yet it is a third faculty member who has
hermeneutic that seeks neither Ms. Schabes putting up flyers on campus
to exceptionalize Palestine nor to SEE RUTGERS PAGE 8
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FROM PAGE 6
on behalf of the American Union of Jew-
ish Students. (She also is an active par-
ticipant in Rutgers Hillel and an intern for
the David Project, forging connections
between the campus Jewish and vegetar-
ian communities with programs such as
Tu Bshvat seders.)
That third faculty member is an
adjunct, Mazen Adi, who served as a
spokesman and legal advisor to the Syr-
ian delegation at the United Nations
from 2007 to 2014. He teaches in Rut-
gers masters program in United Nations
and Global Policy Studies, offering such
courses as International Criminal Law
and Anti-Corruption; Extremism, Vio-
lence and Political Change; and Theories
of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism. Rut-
gers faculty website does not mention
that his diplomatic experience was with
the Syrian government.
The organization UN Watch called for
his firing.
Mr. Adi systematically acted as an
apologist for the mass murder committed
by the Assad regime against his own peo-
ple, helping Syria to win impunity at the
UN to conduct continued war crimes,
UN Watch said.
Rutgers defended the hiring.
Rutgers will not defend the content of
every opinion expressed by every member
of our academic community, but the Uni-
versity will defend their rights to academic
freedom and to speak freely, the school
said in a statement to Algemeiner.
Among the opinions Dr. Adi delivered
while speaking for Syria at the United
Nations was that international gangs
led by some Israeli officials are now traf-
ficking childrens organs, as he told the
Security Council.
I dont get where people get these
ideas, Ms. Schabes said. Were working
on a campaign to put up flyers to stand
in solidarity with the Syrian community,
to make sure they know that this profes-
sors actions are reprehensible and are
not being tolerated, she said.
She hopes to meet with University
President Robert Barchi next semester.
She is not impressed with Dr. Barchis
responses to the situation so far. He just
published another condemnation, but
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he didnt address Professor Adi at all,
she said. The latest remarks addressed
only Michael Chikindas and quite quickly
diverted and started speaking about Pres-
ident Trump and Islamophobia.
If Ms. Schabes isnt satisfied with the
universitys response, well, neither is the
Anti-Defamation League.
In the universitys fervent defense
of academic freedom, they also have an
opportunity to communicate their per-
sonal distaste for anti-Semitism and other
hateful ideologies, Joshua Cohen, ADLs
New Jersey regional director, said. He
doesnt believe the university has taken
adequate advantage of that opportunity.
We have reached out to Rutgers to
take concrete steps to effectively address
anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli bias on cam-
pus and ensure that Jewish and pro-Israel
students do not feel isolated and margin-
alized, he said. The ADL stands ready
to work with Rutgers University to com-
bat anti-Semitism, hate, and bigotry.
At the Jewish Federation of Northern
Federation, CEO Jason Shames said he
too is unsatisfied with the university
response.
As to what to do thats now under
discussion with other New Jersey federa-
tions. This is a bigger issue than just any
one community, he said.
He has reached out to the Israel Action
Network of the Jewish Federations of
North America for their expertise. He
said that Dr. Chikindas, whether he
is tenured or not, is unequivocally In the universitys fervent
unacceptable.
We have to figure out new tactics and
defense of academic freedom,
thats what were talking about now, he they also have an opportunity
said.
Dr. Leonard Cole of Ridgewood is an
to communicate their personal
adjunct professor at Rutgers and a mem- distaste for anti-Semitism and
ber of the Rutgers Hillel board. He too is
unhappy with Rutgers stance.
other hateful ideologies.
JOSHUA COHEN, ADL REGIONAL DIRECTOR
He wants a much stronger response
than we have gotten so far from the uni-
versity administration not only from count. We didnt hear the right words from said a word about Israel in any of his
the president, but from the entire leader- the administration yet, he said. lectures, but at the same time, how
ship structure, including the appropriate Dr. Cole said that there will be a stain many Jewish kids would feel comfort-
boards, he said. on the university as long as these pro- able about taking a course with this
The leadership of the university ought fessors continue to hold their positions. guy, knowing what he had portrayed
to be using words like repugnant or dis- I understand free speech and the on Facebook that are among the most
gusting or hateful instead of the pabu- importance of tenure. At the same time, outrageous absurd descriptions of Jew-
lum theyve been using, he added. It also free speech doesnt mean whatever, ish behavior that come right out of the
needs to come out specifically addressing whenever you want to say is okay. Free Hitler playbook? Who wouldnt be wor-
these specific situations anti-Israel, anti- speech is fine but intimidation is not. ried or nervous about somebody who
Semitic and name them as such. Words Michael Chikindas may have never has got these ideas?
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May all our dreams and prayers come true

Sinai Schools video shows way forward for each child as it looks to February gala
Joanne Palmer

I
ts all about the honesty of faces.
At its beginning, the children in
the Sinai Schools new music video,
Prayers From My Heart, stare out
at us, reproachfully, angrily, with frustra-
tion. They are open, honest, vulnerable,
and shinily wide-eyed. Always wide-eyed.
Over the course of the not-quite-three-
and-a-half-minute video, we see those
children look at us again with dawning
glimmers of hope, and then again, at the
end, with glistening, eye-moistening joy.
Some of their teachers and parents and
mentors are with them, the adults mir-
roring the childrens nearly palpable
emotions as they too look directly at
the camera, or instead at the children,
clearly pouring their entire beings their
love, their help, their hope into those
children.
And the thing is that its real. You look
at it and you see that artistry has gone
into allowing these children and adults to
show us their truth.
How do they do that?
At its core, even deeper than the art
and the craft that have gone into the (To watch it, click on Prayers From My
video, there is the truth that Sinais Heart, and then click on the word Vimeo
approach to special education, which so you can see it full size.)
remains entirely unmentioned in the The song is the collaboration of three
video, permeates it. Sinai parents, Sam Fishman, the schools
Sinai places its students, who have a managing director said. Hes one of
range of special needs, in six schools, five them; Abigail Hepner Gross, its commu-
of them in Bergen County and one in Liv- nications director, is the second, and C
ingston; the next academic year will see Lanzbom, the musician and composer
the opening of another high school, this who works with composer and singer
one in Riverdale, N.Y. Each Sinai student Noah Solomon on this video the pair
is given a personally tailored range of worked together for years as Soulfarm
services and therapies that helps him or is the third.
her develop to the fullest extent possible. Mr. Fishman and Ms. Gross worked
The school begins in first grade; some together on the lyrics.
students remain with Sinai until theyre My sweet child, its hard to watch you
21; others go on to a mainstream college struggle, they begin. I worry about you
career after they graduate high school. every day. I want to do much to ease your
The experience offered to each Sinai pain and trouble. I wish I knew what to
student is as unique as each of the faces do or say. the lyrics, Mr. Fishman and Ms. Gross sent from despair to hope then there is a
we see in the video. Sheyimalu mishalot libeynu, it con- them to Mr. Lanzbom. Mr. Fishman also full bar of pause, when we come to I am
Every year, Sinai offers the gala eve- tinues; may the prayers of our hearts sent songs that had the mood he wanted. so proud of you, Mr. Fishman said. The
ning that is a cornerstone of its fund- be answered. Prayers from my aching There were about six of them, classical, image onscreen is of a father and son.
raising, and every year for the last many heart. I want so much for you. And then pop, that captured in different ways the You see the dad, his heart rings out, he
years that evening has included a video. that section ends, as all three sections elements I wanted, he said. That unlikely added. Its true. His face radiates joy.
This year, this video is an appetizer for do, with May all our dreams and prayers group include Pachelbels Canon in D, the It was cathartic for them to create this
the gala; its available online now, at come true. theme from Chariots of Fire, Crosby Stills video, Mr. Fishman said of his and Ms.
Sinais website, www.sinaischools.org. After they finished a preliminary draft of and Nash, and some country music. Mr. Grosss experience.
Fishman went to Mr. Lanzboms studio. Although he is in charge of the schools
What: Sinai Schools holds its annual benefit dinner It was a hoot, he said. business side, he works with parents con-
When: On February 25; the buffet opens at 4:45 p.m. and the program begins Each measure of music is carefully stantly, Mr. Fishman said. The school
promptly at 6:30. matched to every shot in the film; each accepts every student its administrators
childs face moves us because the emo- feel it can serve, and then undertakes
Where: At the Marriott Glenpointe Hotel, 100 Frank W. Burr Blvd. in Teaneck
tion it shows is mirrored in the music. the monumental task of figuring out how
How much: $300 per person (The photography is by Jamestown to pay for it. It is expensive to educate a
Why: To benefit Sinai Schools for children with special needs. Associates.) student with special needs, and it also is
For more information and reservations: Call (201) 833-1134, ext. 105, email As the song moves from the second expensive to provide a uniquely tailored
info@sinaischools.org, or go to www.sinaidinner.org. section to the third its already gone education to help that student grow.

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I know.
Our purpose in creating this song is
community first and foremost, he con-
tinued. When I talk to parents who are
just starting out considering Sinai, or
who live in other parts of the world but
have children with special needs, Abigail
and I can say that weve been there.
We get it.
We get the ache in a parents heart.
You just dont know how to help your
child. We have a community, a staff, a
mission to help families, to show them
that there is hope, to show that when it
works you go from a feeling of being lost,
from a lot of pain, to a feeling of hope, to
seeing progress.
We speak about parents seeing a
spark in their children. I see the spark,
and I know that if we reach that poten-
tial, we can be happy.
His child is older than Ms. Grosss and
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Mr. Lanzboms, and were at the point
where it really has worked out, he said.
My son, Mike, has a masters degree in
special education.
He is a brilliant young man with a lot of
social issues, he continued. I think that
today he would be classified as having
Aspergers, but that was not a term that
was used then. His problems largely were
social, and to me the most meaningful
thing is how empathetic he has become.
Of my four kids, hes the one who
always remembers my birthday. My wife
and I have been blessed to go to four col-
lege graduations, and when I think of
the arc from ache and despair to joy, I
have hope.
My son is at Kushner, in 11th grade,
and thinking about college, Ms. Gross
said; in fact, hes actively engaged in that
often overwhelming process. Hes also a
gifted artist. His life is ahead of him.
Mr. Lanzboms child is married, a
mother, and a teacher.
Ms. Gross points out, however, that
there are children with a wide range of dis-
abilities at Sinai, as the video makes clear.
In fact, there is a wide range of children
at Sinai period. There are boys and girls;
some you could tell by looking are disabled
and some you cant, she said. There are
some children of color. Many come from
Orthodox families but many others do not.
All of this is clear on the video.
There is no one Sinai student, Ms.
Gross said. Thats what we are trying to
get across.
And there is no one measure of suc-
cess, Mr. Fishman added. Some will
never go to college. Some will never live
independently. But just as each child is
taught individually, each has his or her
own measure of success.
And I dont think the journey ever
ends, Ms. Gross said. Thats always
true, but its more true when you have a
child who struggles.
We know, she said. Weve been
there. And thats what makes what were
doing worth doing every day.
C Lanzbom (thats how he spells his
first name, with no period; just call him
C) is profoundly moved by Sinai; it saved
my childs life, he said. He was thrilled to
be able to write and then perform on the
video, as he is every time he can contrib-
ute to the school.
My child is brilliant, but my childs
learning was different from regular kids,
he said. Sinai was able to understand
the right path for her, and she was able to
get on it and succeed. In my opinion, and
in my wifes, it saved her, and she had a
beautiful experience. So I will do anything
for Sinai.
When Mr. Fishman and Ms. Gross gave
him the songs lyrics and the inspirations,
he and Mr. Solomon were able to come up
with music that they felt worked quickly.
As luck or fate had it, we came up with
something naturally and quickly, he said.
It was a matter of experience and being
lucky; we felt we nailed it.
You get together, he said, talking
about the way he and Mr. Solomon col-
laborate. And you have done it year after
year, and its hit or miss, and sometimes
its not right, but we have our skills. And
we get up to the plate, and we were able to
hit it out of the park.
Of course when you write something,
you dont know how it will be accepted.
And you also can write something and be a
real fan of it, even though you wrote it, but
still you dont really know the full impact it
will have. Thats more a social thing.
The musicians aside from Mr. Lanz-
bom, whose solo guitar work begins the
video, and Mr. Solomon, they are Dave
Eggar on cello, Joel Diamond on piano,
and Ben Antellis on drums percussion
tell the story of the childrens move from
despair through hope to joy.
It tells a universal story, Ms. Gross
said. It is the story of success. What that
success means is up to you to interpret.
Sheyimalu mishalot libeynu
Prayers from a joyful heart,
I see such change in you.
Sheyimalu misha lot libeynu.
May all our dreams and prayers come true.
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Activist helps indigenous communities

adapt to changing climate
Survivors
granddaughter
pursues a personal
commitment to
human rights
LOIS GOLDRICH

G
rowing up in Paramus, Victoria
Herrmann heard a lot of sto-
ries from her grandfather, Fair
Lawns Siegfried Herrmann.
He would tell me stories about his
time in the camps, she said; Mr. Her-
rmann was imprisoned at Auschwitz.
This time of year, she thinks particularly
of his story about how inmates used pea-
nut shells for a Chanukah menorah.
What the 27-year-old now an accom-
plished climate researcher and the
founder and director of the Arctic Insti-
tute had not known about her grand-
father, she learned from his three-hour
interview for the Shoah Foundations
oral history project. There were a lot of
details he had spared me, she said.
But there was more. She learned her
grandfathers deepest thoughts about what
he considered most important from that
interview. His experiences, and these reflec-
tions, helped guide the younger Herrmann
into her future career.
A lot of my initial inspiration came from
my grandparents experience in the Holo-
caust, she said, noting that her grandmother,
Ann Herrmann, who had been sent to Eng-
land on a Kindertransport, was the sole sur-
vivor of her extended family. When I was an
undergraduate, I decided to major in inter-
national relations, Ms. Herrmann said. Her
ultimate goal was to work in human rights,
to make sure that within the international
arena, minorities werent being hurt.
Ms. Herrmann notes that indigenous groups are unique victims of climate
change.
Victoria Herrmann looks out over a bleak Arctic seascape.
As she got deeper into her studies, Ms.
Herrmann found that one of the biggest
injustices was climate change, so I continued
that work in my masters. I went to Canada
on a Fulbright scholarship and continued to
study international affairs but concentrated
on indigenous rights, particularly how they fit
into climate change policy and negotiations.
At the time, she said, Canadas prime min-
ister was less inclined to act than the current
prime minister, something our own country
is facing now. Her focus, she said, was on
how minority groups, particularly native
groups, could have their voices heard.
Ms. Herrmanns biography is a bit intimi-
dating. As president and managing director of
the Arctic Institute, her research and writing
focus on climate change, community adap-
tation, human development, and resource
economies, with a particular focus on Arctic
oil and gas. In addition, she is a Gates Scholar
at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the
University of Cambridge, where she is work-
ing toward a Ph.D. in the political geography
of the Arctic.
In 2016, she traveled across the United
States for a National Geographic-funded
book on climate change stories, Americas
Eroding Edges. Before that, she worked at
the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peaces Energy and Climate Program as a
junior fellow and was awarded a Eureka!
prize from the Baker Institute for Entrepre-
neurship in 2012 and a Fulbright Scholar-
ship to Canada to pursue Arctic research in
2013. She is the author of Arctic Melt: Turn-
ing Resource Extraction into Human Devel-
opment, published in 2015, and has been
published in many peer-review journals and
quoted widely in the media.
Ms. Herrmann, who grew up in Paramus
her parents are Marc and Patty Herrmann
holds a masters degree from the Norman
Paterson School of International Affairs at
Carleton University in Ottawa and a bache-
lors degree in international relations and art
history from Lehigh University in Pennsylva-
nia. (And remember, shes not even 30.)
According to this remarkable young
woman, there are four main reasons why
indigenous groups face a bigger injustice in
the climate equation.
The first is culture. They live much closer
to the land, and have a stronger spiritual con-
nection to the landscape around them, she
said. This tie extends both back and forward
in time, she added, equating the concept to
the Jewish understanding of ldor va-dor,
from generation to generation. The indig-
enous peoples use the same land for fishing
and hunting as well as for spiritual and ritual
concerns, something city residents cannot
understand.
The second reason is economic. Faced
with quick-onset natural disasters, for which
you need a lot of money to prepare for and
rebound from something that destroys every-
thing, these communities have particularly
high unemployment rates, with 30 percent
living under the poverty line, many of them
children. There is little ability to rebound.
The third reason is political. It is very dif-
ficult for these communities to have their
voices heard in the political process, she
said. Theres not a huge lobby for ensuring
that American Indians or Alaskan native com-
munities are included in any way. So, effec-
tively, they get lost.
The fourth reason is geography. Many
indigenous communities live in remote areas,
so Theyre ecologically more vulnerable,
Ms. Herrmann said. In the Arctic, were
witnessing warming at twice the rate of the
global average. The more immediate effect is

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that ice that was there for their ancestors is
too thin to hunt on and the ground they built
houses on is beginning to fall.
Her first job out of college was working on
the impact of climate change on cities, she
said. But I began to realize that while cit-
ies are very important to the solution, the
most immediate needs are in more remote
places. She noted that when people think
of the Arctic regions, they picture an envi-
ronment. Pictures of ice melting and polar
bears is what captures peoples imagination
and emotion, but it doesnt factor in the com-
munities on the edges of the ice. There are
more extreme storms, and ice cant buffer the
waves. There are also fewer bears to hunt.
So Ms. Herrmann jumped ship and used
her Fulbright grant to focus on the Arctic, to
explore the gaps and see what was needed.
Then, with help from National Geographic,
she began to visit American coastline com-
munities across the country, interviewing
300 local leaders about what was needed to
adapt to climate change.
If, for political reasons, she could not
always use the term climate change, she still
found a lot of commonality in the needs of
the various communities. One of the biggest
responses we heard was that people dont
have the basic resources to know what to pri-
oritize. They dont have time or money.
Her next project, set to begin in January,
is building a platform where pro bono work,
with professional organizations and other
associations, will provide that assistance to
community leaders. Given the current polit-
ical situation, the federal resources wont
be there, she said. But the hope is that as a
short-term fix, the 2018 project will provide
more immediate assistance, expertise, guid-
ance, and resources for the communities to
adapt.
The work will be done with the help of
the JM Kaplan Funds Innovation Prize for
Rising Tides, which, says the organization,
will create a new online matchmaking plat- Ms. Herrmann on her Arctic travels.
form that connects pro bono experts with
climate-affected communities. Ultimately communitys remote location, it pays twice she said, We can come together on issues
Rising Tides will help communities adapt as much for diesel fuel as do communities in of safety, as the world is changing at a
their important sites and places in response the continental United States. rapid place. Working with different com-
to quick and slow onset disasters related to We work across the Arctic region, but munity leaders, I get a real appreciation
climate change. not in Russia, Ms. Herrmann said. Work is for different ways of knowing the world.
The Arctic Institute a Washington, D.C.- done in Canada, Alaska, Norway where But all community leaders, she said, are
based nonprofit incorporated in 2016 the institute holds an annual conference committed to keeping their communities
looks at the many security issues the Arctic Greenland, and Denmark. The groups safe from such dangers as flooding and
region faces. Composed of researchers who funding comes from grants, with some erosion.
meet with government decision makers to money coming from the Canadian govern- At the end of the day, Its all about cli-
relay their findings, it also runs workshops ment and from partnerships with universi- mate adaptation. Making a community
and does community-oriented capacity- ties, many in Norway. safer, you dont need to believe in man-
building work. For example, Ms. Herrmann Ms. Herrmann said that today, in the made climate change. Her job is to help
said, it recently ran a workshop on renew- U.S., theres a lot of divisiveness and peo- keep things moving without entering into
able energy in northern Canada. Given that ple not seeing eye to eye, not talking. But, a debate on what causes climate change.

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The Hungarian Jewish girl
who became Indian almost-royalty
Our correspondent tells the remarkable story of Shobha Nehru
MEYLEKH VISWANATH
On the warm morning of May 21, 2017,
my friend Bindu Bhamba took me to visit
Anil Nehru in a spacious, modern, sun-
filled bungalow in a quiet neighborhood
of Chandigarh.
Anils mother, Shobha Nehru, aka Fori,
the little-known 108-year old Hungarian
Jewish woman who had married into the
legendary Nehru family, had just died on
April 25. I had recently read about her
death in the New York Times. This was
soon after I wrote an article on Ashkenazi
World War II refugees in India.
I was intrigued to learn that her youngest
son, Anil, lived in Chandigarh, where seren-
dipitously I happened to be visiting a friend.
I was born not long after Indias indepen-
dence, so the India of my early years was
full of the larger-than-life Jawaharlal Nehru,
our first prime minister. The Nehru family,
consisting of famous statesmen and writers
such as Vijayalakshmi Pandit and Nayantara
Sehgal and many others, captivated Indias
attention for many decades. I could not pass
by the opportunity to make contact with
that almost mythological family.
When we knocked at the Nehru resi-
dence, we were expected; Anil himself
opened the door and invited us in. Anil
and his wife, Chand, also of Kashmiri heri-
tage, soon put me at my ease. Over a cup
of spicy masala chai, they answered my
questions frankly and without reserva-
tion. Although I was out looking for a Jew-
ish story, it was quite clear that this was an
Indian story.
From time immemorial, India has been
visited and even invaded by different
groups of people Greeks, Mongols, Jews,
Armenians, Persians most of whom
Anil and Chand Nehru talked about Anils mother, Fori Nehru.
16 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
Shobha Nehru was born as Magdolna Friedmann; in Budapest, her nickname was
Fori. She died in India, where she had lived for most of her life, at 108. YOUTUBE
stayed and became part of the culture
of Bharatvarsha ancient India. Anils
mother was such a one; she had come to
India as a Hungarian Jew and soon became
indistinguishably Indian, always dressed in
a sari and passing as another fair-skinned
Kashmiri in a family of Kashmiri Pandits. I
suppose I was hardly the first interviewer
who mistakenly sought to find out more
about the Jewish Nehru, the refugee from
Hitlers Holocaust.
But though Anil noted that there was
very little Jewish about his mother, he
was more than willing to respond to my
queries. The story that he told, supple-
mented by information provided by his
brother Ashok, was indeed fascinating;
MEYLEKH VISWANATH
and for all that Shobha Nehru had become
undeniably and completely Indian, there
was still enough of the Jewish Fori about
her to interest the diligent inquirer.
Fori was born Magdolna Friedmann to
Regina and Armin Friedmann in Buda-
pest, Hungary, on December 5, 1908. The
family name had been changed several
times, from the original Forman to Fried-
mann and later, after anti-Semitic feelings
increased, to a more Hungarian Forbath.
The family, however, did not hide its Jew-
ishness, although there was not much
Jewish practice in the home, particularly
among the younger members. Foris father,
Armin Friedmann, did go to the synagogue
on the High Holidays, but Anil said his
mother told him that Armins two daugh-
ters, who also didnt believe in all this reli-
gious stuff, used to stand outside the syna-
gogue, stamping our feet in the cold.
According to an article published online
by the GandhiServe Foundation, Foris
parents had a family business in toys and
furniture. The Jewish quotas imposed by
Hungarys universities meant that Fori
could not continue her studies at home.
Her parents sent her to France in 1932,
when she was 24 years old, and then she
went to Oxford for further education. She
was studying English when she first met
her husband-to-be, BK (Braj Kumar), at a
dance at the London School of Economics,
where he was studying. She had already
seen him in the school library and had
asked a friend about the good-looking
guy in the corner.
BK and Fori fell in love and decided to
get married but BKs family had two
conditions that had to be met before they
would allow the match. It was not that they
were against their son marrying a Euro-
pean Jew but they wanted to be sure that
Fori knew what she was getting into and
that BK would be able to provide for her.
The conditions were that BK had to pass
his Indian Civil Service exams and that
Fori had to live in India for a year with-
out BK to see if she could manage to live
in such a different environment, and if she
could be happy there. The Nehru family
did all they could to welcome her when
she moved to India in 1934 for that trial
year. Anil Nehru reports that his mother
recalled that she was overwhelmed by the
love that I received.
The family enveloped me in love, she
told her son. They dealt with me very gen-
tly and magnanimously. Fori stayed with
her fiancs family in Lahore, Allahabad,
Kashmir as the family moved around the
country, she moved with them. During this
time, BKs father taught her Hindi, which
Fori was a
remarkable
woman, who
completely
remade herself as
an Indian while
never forgetting
her Jewish past.
she mastered; shed already learned some
written and spoken Hindi from a Hungar-
ian scholar back in Budapest. Learning the
language helped her to get used to her new
surroundings. She also studied the Bhaga-
vad Gita and learned yoga; she later would
say that her hair remained black for a long
time because of her yoga.
Once BK had completed his exams and
Fori had finished her internship, they
were ready to be married but there was
another obstacle to be overcome first.
The Nehrus wanted a Hindu wedding,
but the priests would not agree to per-
form a religious ceremony. The Nehrus
were Kashmiri Brahmins, but the bride
was not a high-caste Hindu. The approval
of Mahatma Gandhi, however, tipped the
balance, and couple finally were married
in Lahore in 1935, according to Hindu rites.
Gandhis approval was remarkable.
Later, when another Nehru Jawahar-
lal Nehrus daughter, Indira, who later
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another non-Hindu, Feroze Gandhi, a Zoroastrian
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tively quiet, and Feroze was a political firebrand.
In contrast to Feroze Gandhi, who remained a Zoro-
astrian, Fori made every effort to fit in. Her marriage For a totally new look using
ceremony was Hindu, and her three children Ashok,
Aditya, and Anil were brought up as Hindus, not your furniture or starting anew.
as half-Hungarian-Jewish kids, as Foris oldest son,
Ashok, puts it. The Nehrus were not big on ritual,
though, and as Ashok recalls, the family celebrated
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the time that our grandparents had to migrate from
Lahore to Delhi after Partition in 1947 until 1949, when
Pa was deputed to the U.S. the first time.
Almost from the beginning, Fori always wore a sari.
An exception to that rule was when she wore a lotha
At Magen David Adom, were often saving
a tribal Naga skirt. That was when BK was governor
of five separate north eastern Indian states Assam,
lives before our ambulances even arrive.
Meghalaya, Tripura, Manipur, and Nagaland.
Fori probably was more of a practicing Hindu than
her husband and sons. Ashok said, In our immedi-
ate family, my father was an atheist, we three sons
were non-temple-going Hindus we can do that in
the Hindu way of life, theres no compulsion and my
mother was perhaps the only practicing Hindu, pray-
ing in the morning and at night to the beautiful dancing
bronze Ganesh at my brother Anils home in Chandi-
garh. She also visited the temple at Tirupati, Andhra
Pradesh, with its central image of Vishnu (Balaji), per-
haps four times, and had a photo of the Balaji image
along with several small images of Ganesh in a small
puja shrine at her home in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh.
Although Fori was Hindu, that didnt mean that
her kids had no exposure to Jewish practices. Foris
mother, Regina, followed her daughter to India and
lived with her in the late 1930s. Though technically
an enemy alien during the war, Regina was never
interned, as were many of her fellow Jews of German
origin, because the Nehrus vouched for her. She spent
the war years in India, then went to the United States
and finally joined her son in Australia, living there
until she died. But while she was in India, staying with
her daughters family, her grandson Anil remembers
that she used to light Shabbat candles and talk to them
about Jewish things. Ashok remembers snippets of
a Hungarian nursery rhyme, but comments that the
words probably wouldnt make sense to a Hungarian!
Shobha Nehru did not forget that she also was Fori.
And even if she didnt speak much of her European At Magen David Adom, Israels national EMS service, help begins the moment the phone is answered.
experiences, neither did she shut them out. Anil Because EMTs handle the calls, they can provide lifesaving instructions while dispatching ambulances
recalls an anecdote that his mother recounted that and first-responders on Medicycles. And now, with 15,000 CPR-certified civilian Life Guardians
happened during World War I, when she was barely joining our team, help can be just seconds away.
six year old. The family was taking a train on holiday in
northern Italy, when her father got off at a station and As we celebrate Chanukah, please give the gift of life, and make your year-end
came back with the news that the Archduke Ferdinand tax-deductible donation today.
had been assassinated and that he thought it would
lead to a world war. Fori also talked about growing up
in Budapest and going to school with her friends. She AFMDA Northeast Region
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Local
Volunteers from across the Jewish communities pause during their work in Mahwah warehouse.
If we dont send it they dont have it
Koshertroops volunteers from across the Jewish community
send packages to U.S. service members around the world
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
S
ara Fuerst had no inkling that her daughters bat
mitzvah project sending Purim goodies and per-
sonal letters to 150 Jewish soldiers would turn
into a volunteer program of massive proportions.
But the feedback from those Purim packages nine years
ago alerted her to an unmet need and motivated her to fill
it on a regular basis.
We had a beautiful response, Ms. Fuerst said. She
and her neighbor and partner in Koshertroops, Ava Avi-
dar Hamburger, spoke over Skype from Ms. Fuersts
home in New Hempstead, N.Y. The troops were happy
to know that the Jewish community still remembered
them, she added.
The need was larger than the women might have imag-
ined, they learned as they began their work. There are
approximately 10,000 Jews in the American military,
spread across the world. People are surprised when we
tell them that, said Ms. Fuerst, an Israeli-born realtor,
mother of three, and grandmother of five.
Koshertroops became an official 501(c)3 nonprofit orga-
nization seven years ago. Using mostly donated items,
packed with the help of volunteers from many local Jewish
schools, camps, and synagogues, the organization ships
Jewish holiday packages to U.S. troops five times a year
and also sends Shabbat packages each week to a few sol-
diers on a rotating basis upon request.
18 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
Ava Hamburger, left, and Sara Fuerst stand together
in Koshertroops warehouse in Mahwah.
The Shabbat boxes contain such items as challah, grape
juice, gefilte fish and horseradish, matzah ball soup, and
dessert, accompanied by letters from children, candles,
havdalah kits, and an NCSY booklet containing the Grace
after Meals in Hebrew, English, and transliterated Hebrew.
Weve sent packages to places such as Afghanistan,
Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Africa, Germany, Italy, Korea, Japan,
Micronesia, Pakistan, and even one time to a Jewish mem-
ber of an NGO in Vanuatu whod heard about us, Ms.
Fuerst said.
What keeps me going is the incredible feedback we
get, Ms. Hamburger said. She is a school psychologist, art
therapist, and the mother of five. We see the impact that
Koshertroops has. The soldiers tell us that sometimes the
only Jewish items they have are from us.
If we dont send it, they wont have it.
Despite the nonprofits name, the packages of kosher
foods are sent to all service people identifying as Jew-
ish, whether or not they keep to a kosher diet. However,
Koshertroops has a special package of heat-and-serve
meals and other items for Orthodox or chasidic service
people stationed in places where they cannot get strictly
kosher food.
I lived for awhile in the Caribbean islands with no
kosher food, so I know what its like not being able to
go to a kosher supermarket or kosher pizza place, Ms.
Fuerst said. Sometimes we insist on chaplains telling us
what these soldiers would like to receive. Its not spoil-
ing them because theyre so far from home and all they
have is their MREs. (MREs are meals ready to eat, or
field rations.)
The Chanukah packages that Koshertroops sent out
to 800 service people several weeks before the holiday
included donuts, decorations, snacks, dreidels, and choc-
olate gelt. The items were donated by Amazing Savings,
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Participants, however, dont have to be in the
immediate area. The childrens letters in every care
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The kudos go both ways. Koshertroops gets many
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We had an incredible showing for both Seder dinners
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Local
Letter from Israel
A paean to public transportation
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
B
efore making aliyah in 2007,
we sold our two Subarus
and decided to try living in
Israel without a car. This was
almost as radical a decision as was ali-
yah itself.
But we reasoned that the high price
of the car, gas, maintenance, and insur-
ance in Israel didnt make sense for our
shrinking household. A bus to Jerusalem
stopped every 20 minutes outside our
new home. We could take taxis, hitch
rides, even rent a car when necessary,
and still come out way ahead.
Its been more than 10 years, and we
are happier than ever with our car-free
existence. In fact, it has only gotten
easier.
Buses now come more frequently and
cost less per ride than they did when
we first arrived. The Rav Kav electronic
card introduced a few years ago allows
us to pay our fare on any bus in Israel
with a fast swipe, as well as receive free
transfers to other buses or the light rail
within 90 minutes. New dynamic solar-
powered signs at bus stops take the
guesswork out of when the next bus will
arrive.
We are spared the headache of navi-
gating through traffic and searching
(and paying) for parking. We dont have
to deal with fender-benders, flat tires,
or road rage. A few times a year, we rent
a car for vacations or when we host spe-
cial visitors. After returning the vehicle
we always breathe a little sigh of relief;
its not our responsibility anymore.
One of the delights of Israeli life is to
see electronic Jewish holiday greetings
flashing from the front of public buses.
Drivers, whether Jewish or Arab, often
wish passengers Shabbat shalom on
Fridays as they disembark. Last Octo-
ber, an Arab driver in Jerusalem made
the news for decorating his bus for
Sukkot.
Of course, reaching any destination
usually takes longer by mass transit
than by car. For example, the trip to our
sons home takes about an hour via two
buses or about half an hour by car. So
if were pressed for time or toting large
packages, we contact our favorite taxi
driver, Eyal, or use our Gett app to hail
a cab if Eyal isnt available.
And how do we handle grocery shop-
ping? We have several good alternatives.
One, we walk to the neighborhood gro-
cery with a granny cart for day-to-day
shopping. Two, I have a standing offer
to join friends who drive to a nearby
supermarket every Thursday morn-
ing. Three, I place our larger grocery
20 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
orders online. The delivery man
schleps the bags right into the
kitchen. This time- and labor-
saving convenience costs about
the same as it would have cost
in gas.
There are two big non-mon-
etary reasons I prefer pub-
lic transportation, too. First,
not having a car dramatically
reduces our carbon footprint.
Second, the experience is pow-
erfully democratizing.
Think about it: In a private
car you have no occasion to
observe, much less interact
with, the masses. Admittedly,
Life in Israel a bus, a rifle, a phone, and a flower.
that can be a good thing; its not pleas-
ant to be a straphanger on a crowded
bus or share a seat with someone giving
their deodorant a run for its money. You
sometimes have to put up with crying
babies and rude passengers or drivers.
And yet Ive never felt so very much
a part of greater society as I have on
Israeli buses and trains. I have abun-
dant opportunities to observe a wide
swath of cultures, to help fellow pas-
sengers struggling with packages or
baby carriages, or even to choose a seat
beside a woman in a hijab reading the
Koran. I am proud to say that our public
transportation is an equal-opportunity
carrier.
Regarding that last scenario, I under-
stand why many people, especially
tourists, get nervous in the presence of
Arabs on public transit.
Between 2001 and 2004, 27 terrorist
This bus to Maaleh Adumim displays a Chanukah greeting.
bombs were detonated
at Israeli bus stops or on
Israeli buses. In addition
to physical trauma, these
horrific incidents caused
psychological trauma that
persisted even after such
attacks finally waned.
As newcomers in 2007,
we discovered that many
students arriving for gap-
JACOB RICHMAN
year studies in Israel still
had to promise their par-
ents theyd never take
a public bus. Occasion-
ally I ran into children of
friends or relatives at bus
stops who begged me not to rat them
out. They didnt want to act like spoiled
Americans, they preferred to use their
taxi allowance for other expenditures,
and they realized that the vast majority
of Arab passengers, like themselves, are
just trying to get from point A to point
B on a safe and convenient mode of
transportation.
They didnt have to convince me.
When all is said and done, the chances
of arriving at a destination in one piece
are much higher in a bus than in a car.
Besides, you almost always have
armed escorts. Uniformed soldiers ride
public transportation for free, so its
not unusual to have several rifle-toting
IDF service members along for the ride.
And if your bus goes through a military
checkpoint, a few young soldiers come
aboard to scan the scene quickly for
anything (or anyone) suspicious.
We are spared
the headache
of navigating
through traffic
and searching
(and paying) for
parking. We dont
have to deal with
fender-benders.
Last Friday, as my bus reached a
checkpoint, I didnt pay much atten-
tion as several teens climbed aboard
in matching t-shirts until I saw they
werent soldiers with rifles but rather
youth group members with flowers.
They handed out single stems to
every passenger and wished us all Shab-
bat shalom. I couldnt help but take a
surreptitious snapshot of a soldier in the
seat ahead of me with a rifle on his lap,
a phone in one hand and that colorful
blossom in the other. It was one of those
precious sights I would have missed had
I been alone behind the wheel of a car.
Abigail Klein Leichman, a Jewish
Standard correspondent, made aliyah
from Teaneck more than a decade ago
and sometimes sends us letters from
Israel.
upcoming at Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
Chanukah Science Circus!
Celebrate the holiday of miracles with over a dozen
mind-blowing experiments brought to us by scientists
from Liberty Science Center. Well explore the positives
and negatives of static electricity, the sub-zero
temperatures of liquid nitrogen, the states of matter
and the immense pressure of air.
Sun, Dec 17, 11 am-12 pm, $10/$12 per person
(children under 2 years, free)

Monday Morning at the Movies

gate of hell

Join Harold Chapler to screen top film picks and then

engage in lively discussion.
This beautiful, honest Japanese movie by Teinosuke
Kunigasa tells the story of a courageous, loyal
samurai (Kazuo Hasegawa) who tries to marry
a woman he rescues, only to discover that she is
married. (1954, 1hr 29m, English subtitles)
N
Mon, Dec 18, 10:30 am, $8/$10 H O C

Red Cross Lifeguard Training

Become a lifeguard and learn the skills you need
to work in water safety. This course combines
online training with on-site skill sessions. Course
completion provides a 2-year American Red Cross
certificate for Lifeguard Training/First Aid/CPR/
AED. Visit jccotp.org/aquatics-teens to register for
swim test and information on requirements.
Ages 15+
swim test: Sunday, Dec 10 OR Dec 17, 2 pm, $10
course: Tue-Fri, Dec 26-29, 12-4 pm & Sun, Jan 7,
2 pm, $399/$499, plus $35 paid to Red Cross

kids community family

Winter Break Vacation Camps
When school is out let the JCC fill your childs
day with fun!
ages 2-4: Build fundamental skills across a
variety of sports.
grades K-5 : Trips to the Ice House, Space
Odyssey, the movies, Tenafly Police and
Fire Departments followed by sports, art,
and swimming fun at the J. Extended care
available till 6 pm Tue-Thur. (Trip locations
subject to change)
Tue-Fri, Dec 26-29, 9 am4 pm,
$85 per day by Dec 15, $100 after
Member Registration Opens
December 11
classes begin on January 28
We have a great season lined up including
classes in art, science, cooking, sports,
dance, drama, music and more. Try our
classfinder tool at jccotp.org/classfinder to
get personalized recommendations based on
your childs interest, age and availability.
Visit jccotp.org for a full list of programs.
SIGN UP TODAY!
Registration for the public opens Dec 18.
Family Fun, December 25!
Join award-winning author Karen Rostoker-Gruber for a
playful reading of Maddie the Mitzvah Clown; a book about a
girl who, despite her shyness, becomes a Mitzvah Clown to
make her grandmother and friends smile. Enjoy a morning
of fun and laughs with a real life Mitzvah Clown, balloon
making, juggling, singing and dancing just like in the book!
Book sale and signing.
Mon, Dec 25, 11 am-12 pm, $10/$12 per person
(children under 2 years, free)
to register or for more info
visit jccotp.org
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 May all our dreams and prayers come true

Sunday Evening
February 25, 2018
ANNUAL
BENEFIT DINNER
Marriott Glenpointe Hotel, Teaneck, NJ
Honoring

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Special tribute in
memory of our beloved
Associate Director

Yaakov Guttman Shimmy Stein


SINAI alumnus & star of this Shomer She'erit Yisrael
year's feature documentary

Jacob Weinstein, A"H

Lawrence R. Inserra, Jr., CEO
and Inserra Family
Inserra Supermarkets, Inc.
Community Partnership Award
It is only through
your compassion and generosity
that our vital work can continue.
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SHATTERING STEREOTYPES ABOUT CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

OVERCOMING
DISABILITIES AND
PAINFUL LOSS,
HE ROSE TO CREATE
HIS OWN DESTINY

SINAI SCHOOLS PRESENTS

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Briefly Local

New Jersey Yachad gala honors three local families Y

The New Jersey Yachad
Gala Melava Malka recep-
tion was held on Novem-
ber 18 at Congregation
Keter Torah in Teaneck.
Ne arly 500 people
attended the reception,
which honored three
Yachad families from
New Jersey and benefitted
the New Jersey chapter of
Yachad, the National Jew-
ish Council for Disabilities.
The global organization Scott and Shira Sheps
addresses the needs of all
Jews with disabilities and
ensures their inclusion in every aspect of integration program mainstreams camp-
Jewish life.
Local honorees included guests of
honor Ari and Deena Katz of Bergenfield,
Young Leadership awardees Scott and
Shira Sheps of Fair Lawn, and Shlomo,
Debbie, and Avi Tsadok of Englewood,
who received the Yachad Family award.
Ari Katz is the owner and director of
Camp Mesorah, and his wife, Deena, is
the camps administrator. Camp Meso-
rah partners with Yachad to offer camper
integration and vocational programs. The
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Yachad activities. The gala was a tremendous oppor-
ers with disabilities, so campers from Avi Tsadok has been involved with tunity to honor these three special fami- c
Yachad participate in the full sleepaway Yachad since he was 8, and his par- lies, Ms. Herrmann said. Every year the C
experience. The camps vocational pro- ents, Shlomo and Debbie Tsadok, have gala keeps getting better and better and F
gram allows young adults to work in culi- become role models for Yachad in the turnout increases, which speaks vol- C
nary, sports, the day camp, and the camp Englewood community. From their sons umes about how the community has R
office. The entire Katz family is involved time at the Mendel Balk Center, to fam- embraced Yachad. Yachad is funded by d
with the Yachad chapter. ily shabbatons and Camp Mesorah, Avi is the Orthodox Union, led by its president, P
Shira Sheps began her work at Yachad as an active and lively member of Yachad. Moishe Bane. a
an intern working for the NJ Yachad direc- He attends Yachads vocational training To support the gala and NJ Yachad, i
tor, Chani Herrmann. Shira photographs program, and also works at the Rosen- go to www.ou.org/giving/new-jer- w
various events for Yachad; she, her hus- baum Yeshiva of North Jersey and Camp sey-yachad- gala-melave-malka- 5
band, and their children are immersed in Mesorah. reception-2017. i
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Pictured, from left, the NNJ chapters Women of Valor Diane Reidenberg of Caldwell, Geraldine Stein of Fair Lawn, Helen Mandel of Hillside/Union, Estelle
Glucksman of Livingston, Brenda Gold of Millburn/Short Hills/Tziona, Rita Levin of Paramus Bat Sheva, Karen Albert of Pascack and Northern Valley, Alice
Solomon of South Orange/Maplewood, Leona Crystal of West Orange, and Stephanie Z. Bonder, Woman of Valor chair.

Hadassah Myrtle Wreath awards

On Sunday, November 12, Hadassah
Northern New Jersey held its annual
Myrtle Wreath award celebration. The
award, one of the most prestigious the
organization gives, is given to people
who have made significant contributions
to Jewish life in the United States or in
Israel in politics, diplomacy, science,
the arts, or organization work.
Ruth Grossberg of Fair Lawn, this
years honoree, was cited for her dedica-
tion to the Jewish people as Hadassahs
United Nations deputy chair and as a
past Northern NJ Region president.
The celebration, at Bnai Shalom of
West Orange, also honored the chapters
Women of Valor for their dedication to
Hadassah.

Hadassah vice president Geri Lipschitz, left, 2017 Myrtle Wreath honoree,
Ruth Grossberg, and Hadassah Northern NJ president Gail Black.  RUTH GROSSBERG

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Yiddish and
klezmer
tonight
in Wyckoff
Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff
offers a pre-Chanukah Shabbat
service as Yiddish diva Eleanor
Reissa and the Klezmatics Frank
London join Cantor Ilan Mam-
ber, rabbis Stephen Wylen and
Lois Ruderman, and TBRs adult
choir, Kol Rishon, with Itay Goren
on piano, Jacob Niederman on
clarinet, and Jimmy Cohen on
percussion, tonight, December 8,
at 7 p.m.
A Yiddish and klezmer con-
cert, supported by the Arthur &
Channa Mamber Memorial Music
Fund, follows at 7:45, led by TBRs
Cantor Ilan Mamber, intern Naomi
Rogin, Cantor Emeritus Mark Bid-
delman of Temple Emanuel of
Pascack Valley, and rabbis Wylen
and Ruderman, with percussion-
ist Jimmy Cohen. Refreshments
will be served. The temple is at
585 Russell Ave., in Wyckoff. For
information, call (201) 891-4466 or
go to bethrishon.org.
Local artist talks about her work
Englewood artist Rachelle Weis-
bergers piece is part of a group
show, Art as Sanctuary, spon-
sored by the New York Society
of Women Artists, a professional
association of painters, sculptors,
and graphic artists. Ms. Weisberger
is a member of the groups board.
Her work has been exhibited in
leading galleries in the tristate
area and is represented in private
collections.
The exhibit is in Living Room
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and Modern Solutions. She is a
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Torah in Englewood. A lifelong
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Museum plans Chanukah party for
young professionals
Young Friends of the Museum of Jew-
ish Heritage A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust in Battery Park City in lower
Manhattan meets to celebrate Chanu-
kah. Young Friends Light Up the Night,
a party for the areas young profession-
als, 21 to 39, is set for Thursday, Dec.
14, at 8 p.m. The annual party typically
draws about 500 young professionals.
Held in the museums Events Hall,
Frank London and Eleanor Reissa NCJW increases community grants
The Bergen County section of the
National Council of Jewish Women, a
nonprofit organization that has been at
the forefront of social change in Bergen
County, is celebrating its 95th anniver-
sary. It will award more than $70,000 in
grants to Bergen County organizations
that support women, children, and fam-
ilies. Inspired by Jewish values, NCJW
strives for social justice by improving the
quality of life for women, children, and
families and by safeguarding individual
rights and freedoms.
The grants represent a major increase
in funding over last year. The organiza-
tion attributes this increase to the gen-
erosity of the sections members and
donors, and to increased revenue from
the Council Thrift Shop in Bergenfield.
NCJW provides recipient agencies with
both funding and volunteers. The grants
support a wide range of vital programs
and services to the local community.
At Bergen Family Center, two grants
will support a social day care program
Rachelle Weisberger of Englewood discusses for visually impaired adults and other
her painting Sarah at an Artists Talk meet- seniors and programming for the 100
ing sponsored by the New York Society of children enrolled in HIPPY (Home
Instruction for Parents of Preschool
Youngsters), whose parents are trained
to be their childrens first teachers. The
Center for Food Action provides emer-
gency food, rent, and utility assistance to
people in need, and the Center for Hope
and Safety provides counseling, support
services, safe shelter, transitional hous-
ing, and community outreach to women
and children who are victims of domes-
tic violence. NCJW supports programs at
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Congressman Smith, left, with Rena
and David Schlussel.  COURTESY NORPAC
which has a panoramic view of New York
Harbor, the black- tie-optional evening
will include dancing, a premium open
bar, and dinner. Dietary laws observed.
Proceeds support the museums edu-
cation programs. For information, call
(646) 437-4252, email youngfriends@
mjhnyc.org, or go to www.mjhnyc.org/
events/light-up-the-night.
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, provides
volunteers to run the gift shop, and
hosts parties for residents throughout
the year. At Project Sarah (Stop Abusive
Relationships at Home), funding from
NCJW supports the organizations pro-
gram of domestic violence and sexual
abuse counseling, treatment, and com-
munity education, with unique empha-
sis on the Orthodox community. A grant
to the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initia-
tive helps the facility provide free medi-
cal care for working, low-income Bergen
County residents who have no health
insurance. Financing and volunteers
for the Swim-In program, co-sponsored
with the National Multiple Sclerosis Soci-
ety, support a therapeutic water exercise
program for people with multiple scle-
rosis. Funding will also help the Wom-
ens Rights Information Center provide
a warm environment for women facing
economic and social barriers in their
lives. Shared housing, career service,
and computer training are among the
many programs it offers. Two grants to
the Youth Consultation Service support
YCS Holley Child Care and Development
Center, a residential treatment facility
for emotionally and/or physically abused
children in crisis, and YCS Kilbarchan, a
residential treatment home for adoles-
cents. Summer Campership, which also
received support from NCJW, provides
funds for scholarships for low-income
children in Bergen County.
NCJW receives no government fund-
ing. For more information, go to www.
ncjwbcs.org.
Chanukah
The czars soldier
A Chanukah tale
Curt Leviant
T
his is the story my father, Yaakov,
told me. He had heard it from
his grandfather, Chaim, who was
there in the Russian shtetl when it
happened, during the reign of the czar.
One snowless early winters day, at the
end of November, just before Chanukah, a
solidly built man he seemed to be in his
mid-thirties appeared in our shtetl, Kari-
ukovke. He wore a khaki-colored greatcoat
and a peasants hat with earflaps, and he had
a knapsack on his back. It was obviously an
army uniform but it lacked any insignias or
markings.
The man spoke a rough-edged Yiddish
with an equally rough Russian accent. To the
first groups of Jews he met, he said he had
just finished his obligatory 25 years of service
in the Czars army, and that he was returning
home.
He said his name was Dovid.
Given the way he spoke, people looked at
him skeptically.
Are you a Jew?
He laughed bitterly. What? You think Im
a goy? In the army they sure didnt treat me
like a goy. Ikh bin a Yid, he added in Yid-
dish. I am a Jew.
But people werent convinced. Out of
range of his hearing, they murmured that
he was a Russky trying to get money before
Chanukah, or perhaps find lodging in the
old age home, which always welcomed Jew-
ish travelers.
Why did you come to Kariukovke?
Where else should I go? This is where I
was born, where my family lived, and it is
from here the Czars abductors took me. I
was not yet 13.
It was true. Years ago, the abductors, snatchers, khap-
pers they were called in Yiddish, were active, taking even
little children. But Kariukovke had suffered a rare pogrom
about a dozen years back and many Jews left the shtetl.
Other Jews, fleeing incidents in their villages, sought ref-
uge in Kariukovke. Jews evidently put into practice the old
Hebrew expression: change your place, change your luck.
In any case, no one in town remembered such an abduc-
tion from 25 years ago. Indeed, throughout the years
Curt Leviant is the author of two recent novels, King of
Yiddish and Kafkas Son.
26 Jewish Standard DECEMBER 8, 2017
some youngsters left of their own accord to try their luck
in America.
Take me to my father Motls house.
Motl who? There are and there were lots of Motls here.
Motl the carpenter.
The men looked at one another. One of them, the old-
est of the group, a man in his seventies, nodded his head
slowly.
There actually were three by that name. But none are
alive.
None? Not one? My father dead?
We had a pogrom here about 12 years ago, which you showed it to Dovid.
obviously didnt know about. And people die
just like that too.
The newcomer, who said his name was
Dovid, covered his face with his hands and
began sobbing like a baby.
And whats your mothers name?
Rivke.
Do you know how many Rivkes we have
here?
But married to Motl the carpenter?
The men looked at one another and
shrugged.
Whats your family name?
We hardly ever used our family name,
Dovid said. They called my father Motl the
Carpenter and I was Motls son. And in the
army they didnt use last names. They always
called me Motl Yid.
Wait a minute, the older man said. Now
I remember. There was a Rivke married to a
Motl the carpenter. I think the family name
was Shatsky.
Dovid, was your family name Shatsky? I
asked.
Maybe.
What do you mean, maybe. How can a
man forget his family name?
Like I said, they never called you by
your family name. Anyway, do we use fam-
ily names here in the shtetl? Youre called by
your first name and what line of work you
do. Like Motl shneider, the tailor. And Avrom
shuster, the shoemaker. And if youve been in
the czars army for 25 years, and your child-
hood and youth and many of your precious
grownup years are wasted, you forget a lot
of things. Its a miracle I remember what I
remember.
We all stared at him. He looked like a goy
but he spoke Yiddish. He threw in lots of Rus-
sian words, and at times it seemed he was
translating from Russian into Yiddish. Had you heard him
from a distance, his language would not have sounded
Yiddish. His speech had the rhythms and cadences of Rus-
sian. And it should be said that speaking Yiddish did not
automatically identify a person as a Jew. We had a number
of goyim in town who worked for Jews and spoke Yiddish
fluently.
The ex-soldier, Dovid, claimed that he had spoken only
Russian for 25 years. That probably was why the Slavic
overwhelmed his Yiddish.
Then someone in our group took out a little siddur and

Can you read?
I havent looked at a siddur in 25 years. I forgot how to
read.
How can a Jew forget to read?
Dovid came up to the man and looked him in the face. The
man, apparently frightened, backed off.
Have you ever been in the czars army? Have you been in
the army for 25 years? Anything, everything, is possible... But
I still remember the Shma Yisroel. That they couldnt wipe
away from me. I said it to myself every night. Every night. I
didnt miss a night. And he brought the palm of his right hand
to his eyes, covered them, and recited the Shma fervently.
But even this did not persuade the group of men. They said
that they had known Russkies who could imitate those words
and that gesture too.
But why should a Russian want to pass himself off as a Jew
in a land where there was lots of anti-Semitism, both popular
and official? The answer is that the Jewish community was
known for caring for its own.
The man who claimed to be Dovid no doubt was hoping
for a bed in the poorhouse or in the old age home, or a place
in someones house until he found a job. He was still a young
man and likely would find work as a carpenter.
Ikh bin a Yid, he kept saying, at times declaring it forth-
rightly, at times in a tone of complaint. They snatched me
away when I was only 12, a year before my bar mitzvah,
and forced me into the army. They wanted to break me, all
the anti-Semites, but they didnt. They couldnt make me a
Christian.
Im still a Jew. Ikh bin a Yid.
We exchanged glances. He was sounding more and more
like a Jew. But what Jew didnt know his family name? What
Jew cant read from the siddur? What Jew has the gruff look
of a goy? And what Jew speaks Yiddish like it comes out of the
mouth of a muzhhik? A peasant?
Because of the turmoil that Kariukovke had experienced,
and because Dovids parents no longer were alive, there was
no one who could remember his kidnapping into the czars
army.
I was looking for my fathers little house before I met you,
but I couldnt find it, Dovid told us. The town has changed.
Weve had turmoil here, I said. Pogromists. Fires. New
construction ordered by the authorities.
Dovid looked down. I thought I would be able to return to
my parents house.
We didnt know what to say. I felt sorry for the man. Should
I invite him to stay with our family?
Meanwhile, Dovid stood there silently, shifting his weight
from one leg to another.
One of the men near me ran into a house and came out with
a glass of water for Dovid, which he drank eagerly.
Are you hungry? another man asked.
see SOLDIER PaGe 29
Chanukah Dilemma
How many presents are enough?
Dr. tani FoGer
F
amily traditions of gift-giving
help shape our childrens val-
ues and potential for apprecia-
tion. While the holiday season
floods us with marketing and merchan-
dizing, and many of us get caught up in
the buying frenzy, this can also be an
opportunity to teach our children about
mindful giving and generosity.
Lets face it, as soon as Thanksgiving is
over our kids begin angling for what they will be get-
ting for Chanukah. As much as we like to emphasize
the Maccabees, dreidels, and latkes, for most children
really its all about the presents!
So how can we give them eight nights of gifts while
still preserving an attitude of gratitude?
Parshat Vayetze, sandwiched between Black Friday
and Chanukah, guides us into the holiday shopping
season with a powerful message for us as consumers.
As Yaakov awakens from his dream and sets out on his
life-altering journey, he asks only for bread to eat and
clothes to wear. Just the bare necessities.
So how, amid all the Chanukah gift shopping for
family members and co-workers, do we impart this
important value to our children? How do we teach
them to appreciate what we have, and to understand
the difference between what we want and what we
need?
Here are some tips for reasonable gift-giving that
will satisfy the gift-a-night custom without creating
the spoiled-child syndrome.
Clothes. Kids are always losing hats, scarves, and
gloves, so nows a great time to stock up on some fun
and trendy pairs. Also, now is a perfect time to buy
those clothes that your child will need in the next few
months anyway, and that you know you will be buying
at some point in the near future.
Replenished art supplies. If art supplies crayons,
glitter, markers, colored paper, and so on and other
household staples are rapidly dwindling, now is the
perfect time to buy a new supply and wrap it up as a
gift. Kids will appreciate them.
Puzzles and board games. Make Chanukah the time
to update your toy and game inventory. Remove board
games that your kids have outgrown or that have too
many missing pieces, and buy some new skill- and
age-appropriate games that will facilitate great family-
fun time and awesome game-nights.
Books. Help encourage your childs love of
reading by giving him or her a book on a
favorite topic. After all, reading, more than
any other academic activity, is directly corre-
lated with higher achievement scores in high
school.
Tzedaka. Giving a donation for one night can
be a very meaningful family Chanukah expe-
rience. Discuss with your children how they
would like to help others, and then together, as
a family, choose a charity something that reso-
nates with them and donate to that charity the
money that would have gone toward one nights
present.
Spreading light through an act of kindness. On
Chanukah
each night of Chanukah, we light an
additional candle so we can increase
light over darkness with each day of
the holiday. Spreading light is a power-
ful message in the Chanukah story. We
can teach our children to increase their
light as well by empowering them to do
an act of kindness on each day of Chanu-
kah, thereby concretizing the theme of
the triumph of light over darkness. For
example, make a drawing or project and
bring it to a senior center to brighten up
someones day. Or give cookies or latkes to an elderly
neighbor, or bring winter coats to homeless people.
Mindful giving. This is my personal favorite. Let the
kids use one night to exchange gifts with siblings, and
to make a gift for their parents as well. Mindful giv-
ing focuses our thoughts on the important people in
our lives who will be receiving a gift, and helps our
children experience the joy of giving, rather than just
being on the receiving end. In many families only
the children receive gifts, and nothing is expected
from them in return. As parents, very often we say,
I dont need anything. Please dont get me any gifts.
We think were doing our children a favor by remov-
ing this formality from their to-do list, but in fact we
are missing an opportunity to teach kids the internal
reward of gift-giving that they can make someone
feel good and they can make a positive difference in
other peoples lives.
Homemade gifts. Encourage your kids to get cre-
ative. Poems, stories, and drawings can be the best
presents and they can last a lifetime. Homemade gifts,
or offering to help with projects around the house,
can be more appreciated than store-bought items.
These suggestions cover seven nights. That still
leaves a night for that one special Chanukah gift of
your childs choosing!
I wish everyone a joyous, mindful, and light-filled
Chanukah.
Dr. Tani Foger of Englewood is a psychologist and
educational consultant.
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Chanukah
Stepping up your latke game
Three new twists on the Chanukah classic
Michal Levinson
Carrot Ginger Latkes
Ingredients
1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes
1 pound carrots
2 medium onions
3 eggs
1/4 cup flour (or GF flour)
2 tablespoons minced ginger
1 tablespoon tamari (or regular soy
sauce)
1 tablespoon sesame oil
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
sunflower oil for frying
Instructions
Grate the potatoes, onions and carrots.
Honestly, I find the food processor to
be the best and fastest way to go.
Place the grated veggies in a large
bowl and cover with cold water. Let
them sit for 5 minutes. Then, taking
handfuls of the vegs, squeeze out all
the liquid and lay on a towel (or 3 layers
of paper towels). Roll up the towel and
twist it to get rid of the excess mois-
ture. Discard the water in the bowl, but
leave a little bit of the starch that has
pooled at the bottom. Put the grated
vegs in the bowl.
Stir in the remaining ingredients.
Heat up 1/4 cup of oil in a large, heavy
skillet over a medium high flame, until
hot but not smoking. Work in batches
and fry up your latkes. Depending on
the size of latkes you are making, spoon
the batter into the pan in mounds, then
press down with a spatula. Turn the
heat down to medium. Once you notice
the edges turning brown, flip the latkes.
Brown the other side (around 3 min-
utes). Drain the latkes on a paper towel
lined baking sheet.and sprinkle lightly
with salt. To keep them warm, place
the latkes on a wire rack set in a shal-
low baking pan in the oven set to 300
degrees.
Note: To make ahead lay the latkes
on a baking sheet, cover with foil and
then plastic wrap. Place in the freezer.
Then, heat them up in a 425 degree
oven for 15 minutes before serving.
28 Jewish Standard DECEMBER 8, 2017
Tamari scallion sauce
Ingredients
1/2 cup tamari (or use regular soy
sauce)
1/4 cup water
3 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons sliced scallion
Instructions
Stir together the tamari/soy sauce,
water, rice vinegar and sugar until the
sugar dissolves. Stir in the scallions
right before serving.
Note: You can make the sauce (with-
out the scallions) three days ahead
of time and keep it chilled and cov-
ered. Add the scallions in after youve
brought it up to room temperature.
Curried Latkes
Ingredients
1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes
1 pound carrots
2 medium onions
1 15 oz can chickpeas, mashed by hand
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
2 eggs
1/4 cup flour (or GF flour)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper.
Sunflower oil for frying
Instructions
Grate the potatoes, onions and carrots.
Place the grated veggies in a large bowl
and cover with cold water. Let them
sit for 5 minutes. Then, taking handfuls
of the vegs, squeeze out all the liquid
and lay on a towel (or 3 layers of paper
towels). Roll up the towel and twist it to
get rid of the excess moisture. Discard
the water in the bowl, but leave a little
bit of the starch that has pooled at
the bottom. Put the grated vegs in the
bowl.
Stir in the remaining ingredients.
Heat up 1/4 cup of oil in a large, heavy
skillet over a medium high flame, until
hot but not smoking. Work in batches
and fry up your latkes. Depending on
the size of latkes you are making, spoon
the batter into the pan in mounds, then
press down with a spatula. Turn the
heat down to medium. Once you notice
the edges turning brown, flip the latkes.
Brown the other side (around 3 min-
utes). Drain the latkes on a paper towel
lined baking sheet.and sprinkle lightly
with salt. To keep them warm, place
the latkes on a wire rack set in a shal-
low baking pan in the oven set to 300
degrees.
Note: To make ahead lay the latkes
on a baking sheet, cover with foil and
then plastic wrap. Place in the freezer.
Then, heat them up in a 425 degree
oven for 15 minutes before serving.
Cucumber raita
Ingredients
2 Persian cucumbers, diced
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 cups plain, whole-milk yogurt
1 clove garlic, peeled and minced
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
Instructions
Blot off moisture from cucumbers with
paper towels.
Toast cumin seeds for a few seconds
in a small, heavy frying pan over high
heat. In a bowl, stir yogurt until it is
smooth. Mix it with the cumin, garlic
and cilantro. Combine mixture with cu-
cumber and chill before serving.
Falatkes
the most Israeli
way to eat latkes!
Ingredients
Falafel:
2 medium onions
6 cloves of garlic
1 cup veggie chips
2 15 oz cans chickpeas, drained
2 tbsp ground coriander
1 cup fresh parsley
1 cup fresh cilantro
1/2 cup fresh mint
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cardamom
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
Latke:
1 lb potatoes
2 medium onions
1 large egg
1/2 tsp salt
Both:
Sunflower oil for frying
Instructions
Make the falafel batter: Put all the ingre-
dients in the bowl of a food processor.
Pulse until the chickpeas are pulverized
but not pastey. But, since were stuff-
ing these into latkes, if you get pastey,
dont worry!
Next, make the latke batter: Peel the
potatoes and be grateful that youre
not outside on KP duty somewhere in
the frozen tundra! Grate the potatoes
and onions separately, whether by hand
or by food processor. Place grated po-
tatoes in a bowl with cold water. Let sit
for two minutes, then drain.
Place potatoes and onions in a
towel (or triple thick paper towels) and
squeeze all the liquid out. Place back
into a bowl and mix in the egg and salt.
Put it all together: Heat 1/4 cup of
sunflower oil in a large pan over me-
dium high heat.
Using a teaspoon, take a bit of falafel
batter and coat on both sides with the
latke batter. Using the spoon, delicately
place the falatke in the pan. Reduce
heat to medium. Cook until undersides
are browned (around 4 minutes) then
flip. Cook another four minutes until
both sides are done. Transfer to paper
towels to drain.
Fresh tchina
Ingredients
1 cup sesame seeds, toasted
3 tablespoons sunflower oil
pinch of salt
1 clove garlic
Juice of a lemon
Instructions
In a pan over medium heat, toast the
sesame seeds until fragrant but not
browned.
When the sesame seeds have cooled,
pulse them in a food processor until a
paste forms. Add the oil, salt, garlic and
lemon juice and puree until smooth.
If the mixture is too thick, add water
until you reach the desired consistency.
Michal Levison, who is Israeli-American,
lives in Franklin Lakes with her husband
and two daughters. She is the owner of a
home-based business, Seasoned Moments,
and gives cooking lessons, both privately
and to groups. She was inspired to create the
Japanese-style latke and the curried latke
as a result of her travels to the Far East and
India. Because one of her daughters loves
falafel and the other latkes, she decided to
create the falatka, which incorporates both.

Soldier
from page 27
Dovid shook his head. Then he said in
an upbeat voice, Is Avrom the teacher still
alive?
We looked at him, bewildered. How did
he know the old teacher?
Why do you ask?
Is he alive?
Yes. But hes very old.
I know. He wasnt young years ago.
Where is he?
Why do you want to know?
Why dont you answer me? Stop asking
me why. Where does he live?
In the old age home.
Is he well?
For a man in his late eighties, maybe
nineties, he is quite well and alert.
Take me to him. I want to see him.
We all walked through the quiet streets
to the two-story community old age home.
Inside, a few residents sat in the living
room..
We walked up to Reb Avroms room,
knocked on the door, and opened it.
Reb Avrom was sitting at his table, study-
ing a text. He was no doubt surprised to
see so many people, including one who
looked like a soldier. Avrom was a short,
thin man, with a wispy white beard and
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a black yarmulke on his head. He looked
calmly at all of us, but stared intently at the
ex-soldier.
As soon as Dovid saw the old man he ran
up to him and cried out, his voice choking,
Rebbe, its me, your student, Dovid. Do
you remember me?
Avrom rose, and with an agility that
belied his years, he gave us that heartfelt
broad smile that was an ingrained part of
his personality.
Dovid. Dovid. Avrom shook his head,
a sort of rocking motion that did not quite
indicate yes or no.
Rebbe, you were my teacher. I was 12
years old. Studying with you. It was a few
days before Chanukah, just like right now,
when the czars men came in suddenly
and snatched me away.
How many years ago?
Twenty-five.
Now Reb Avrom was nodding. Yes. It
sounds familiar. A long time ago.
Twenty-five years, rebbe, Dovid said
with a tear in his voice. Twenty-five long
years with them. They tried, but they
couldnt break me. Ikh bin a Yid. Ikh bin
geblibn a Yid. I remained a Jew.
Reb Avrom clapped his hands. They
burst in. I pleaded with them. Hes an only
child, I said. Its against the czars law to
take an only child. But they didnt listen.
They didnt care. It was a cold day. A few
days before Chanukah.
I asked the soldiers, let me at least say
goodbye to my father and mother. But
they didnt.
Dovids eyes widened and a glow spread
over his dusky face as if he was having a
revelation. He looked at Reb Avroms face
as though he wanted to absorb its essence.
We were studying the laws of Chanu-
kah when they barged in.
Reb Avrom interrupted. Yes, yes. Thats
what I was going over with you. From
Joseph Caros the Shulchan Orukh. The
Code of Law.
You were reading what happens if a
person doesnt have enough money to
buy both Shabbes candles and Chanukah
candles.
Reb Avrom began in a singsong voice,
reciting in Hebrew. Its from Chapter 678
from the Shulchan Orukh. If one has insuf-
ficient means to purchase both Chanukah
candles and Shabbes candles....
Dovid closed his eyes and contin-
ued chanting in Hebrew with his rebbe.
Now both their voices rang out. As if in a
rehearsed duet, their two voices joined in
song:
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minister, he wants you to know he loves
American Jews.
Gabbay, the latest head of Israels Labor
Party, was in New York on a series of meet-
and-greets with American Jewish leaders.
The former business executive, who took
the helm of the center-left party in July,
reclined in the corner of a French cafe in
Midtown Manhattan, his tie draping across
his suit.
He would expand a plaza for non-Ortho-
dox Jews at the Western Wall, he said. He
religious freedom.
These promises are a gimme for Gabbay
(pronounced gah-BYE), who hopes to win
the next election and unseat Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahu something no
Labor leader has done since 1999. Netan-
yahus government has had a growing pile
of spats with American Jews: This year, it
reneged on an agreement to expand the
Western Walls non-Orthodox plaza and
introduced a bill that would further mar-
ginalize non-Orthodox conversions.
Last month, Deputy Foreign Minister
Tzipi Hotovely suggested that American Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay leads a meeting at the Israeli parliament on
Jews cannot understand Israels challenges Nov. 20, 2017. YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90

would require schoolchildren to learn
about diaspora Judaism. He would make
sure that his ministers did not insult Amer-
ican Jewry.
We need to teach our kids to know
world Jewry, American Jewry, Gabbay
said. I believe in pluralism. We need to
focus on the values we share liberal,
pluralistic values that promise everyone
because they dont serve in the military,
and unlike Israelis they lead quite com-
fortable lives. Netanyahu condemned her
remarks but did not heed calls to fire her.
Gabbay says he would have heeded
those calls.
We need to embrace American Jews,
to thank them for all their long years of
support and not to relate to them in these
contexts, he said, referring to Hotovelys
comment. The prime minister should
have fired her.
But that was one of the few concrete
promises Gabbay made during the half-
hour interview last week. And that was by
design. Past Labor leaders, he said, have
lost elections because they have appealed
only to the left-wing secular base. Gabbays
strategy is to win the next vote, which is set
for late 2019, by appealing to Israelis of all
stripes and staying light on the specifics.
So while Gabbay said he wanted to
restart negotiations with the Palestinians,
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lier suggestion that West Bank settle-
ments could remain in place under a
peace agreement.
I dont see another solution that will
keep Israel with a Jewish majority and
keep it democratic, so its clear to me the
basis is two states, but I cant say what
we will do in all the parameters, he said.
Thats exactly what you need to figure
out in negotiations.
Gabbay also did not comment on the
forthcoming peace plan from the Donald
Trump administration because no one
knows what the plan is.
Likewise, he promised to implement
the Western Wall agreement and push
for public transit on Shabbat. But he
declined to say how he would address
the debates over Jewish marriage and
conversion in Israel, both of which are
controlled by Israels charedi Orthodox
chief rabbinate.
I seek practical solutions, he said.
Im not getting into it. I have a lot of
ideas and the moment I say the ideas,
only some of them can be expressed.
Gabbay looks like a modern Israeli
politician. Gone are the unbuttoned
shirt collars and chest hair, replaced by
suits, ties, and coiffed hair. His English,
punctuated by long ehhhhs, isnt bad,
though it isnt as natural as Netanyahus.
Unlike the current prime minister, Gab-
bay never has lived in the United States.
But his persona is a study in contra-
dictions. A former CEO of Bezeq, Isra-
els telecom giant, he now is the head
of a historically socialist party. Before
becoming the standard-bearer of Isra-
els center-left, he co-founded Kulanu,
a center-right party, and served as envi-
ronmental protection minister under
Netanyahu. He grew up in a poor Jeru-
salem neighborhood but now lives in an
elite neighborhood in northern Tel Aviv.
He believes in God, usually carries a
kippah in his pocket, and hopes to win
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Jewish Democrats boosted by Trump remarks
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON The Republican Jewish Coalition sent out
a fundraising email this week accusing Jewish Democrats of
unfairly linking the party to anti-Semites.
The pitch, with the subject line Democrat anti-Semitism
hypocrisy, reads as follows:
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Have you heard what Democrats are doing? Demo-
crat groups are accusing Republicans of anti-Semitism in
a hypocritical move to fundraise. Democrats are using the
actions of a group of radicals who have no affiliation with
the national Republican party to distract us from the blatant
anti-semitism in their own ranks.
More on what the RJC means by anti-Semitism in their
This summer, we went to Israel for our
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own ranks in a moment. Is it true that Democratic
groups are accusing Republicans of anti-Semitism in
order to fundraise?
I asked Matt Brooks, the RJCs CEO, what fundrais-
ing appeal he was referring to. He cited a pitch by
the newly established Jewish Democratic Council of
America, which was established recently to effec-
tively replace the National Jewish Democratic Council,
which is defunct in all but name.
This is that appeal, signed by the JDCA chairman,
Ron Klein:
Since President Trumps election, now more than
ever, we cant afford to be complacent as American
Jews. Anti-Semitism has roared back to life with sur-
The idea that anti-
Semitism has roared
back to life since
Trumps election has
become a talking
point among a number
of Jewish groups,
although the statistical
evidence is ambiguous.
prising ferocity, as neo-Nazis march in Charlottes-
ville and the president refuses to condemn them. We
American Jews have to be on the front-lines of fighting
for justice and equality. [There follows a description
of the JDCA mission.] President Trump must be held
accountable. Show them where the Jewish community
stands by supporting the Jewish Democratic Council of
America this #GivingTuesday.
Send a message to President Trump and his sup-
porters in our community: You dont speak for us!
#NotInOurName
The idea that anti-Semitism has roared back to life
since Trumps election has become a talking point
among a number of Jewish groups, although the sta-
tistical evidence is ambiguous. On the other hand, ask
the actual neo-Nazis and white supremacists whats
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Coalitions spring leadership meeting at the Ve-
netian in Las Vegas, March 29, 2014.
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making them bolder, and they will say its Trumps
election and his embrace of an insular nationalism.
Plenty of MAGA hats were visible at Charlottesville.
Trump did condemn the Charlottesville marchers,
but only after a 24-hour firestorm following his ini-
tial remarks blaming violence on many sides. Many
centrist Jewish groups regarded that as too little, too
late, especially after a news conference the next day in
which the president again blamed the counterprotest-
and most Jewish groups regard as the dismantling of Israel as
a Jewish state.
The RJC fundraising appeal continues:
Meanwhile, Republicans continue to steadfastly support
the Jewish community and forcefully combat anti-Semi-
tism. New York lawmakers urged President Obamas Justice
Department for years to deport Nazi Trawniki death camp
guard Jakiw Palij, to no avail. Just last week, the Trump
Administration vowed to act to deport Palij so he can stand
trial for his crimes during the Holocaust.
The George W. Bush and then the Obama administra-
tion tried to deport Palij; no country would take him. The
Trump administration this month pledged to deport him
after a bipartisan appeal from the states congressional del-
egation; whether it succeeds where Bush and Obama did
not is not yet clear. The Obama administration was not shy
about deporting Nazis: John Demjanjuk, most prominently,
was sent to Germany on Obamas watch. JTA WIRE SERVICE

ers, as well as right-wing extremists, for that Saturdays

violence. The largest nonpartisan Jewish groups didnt
accuse Trump of anti-Semitism, but it did chide him
for not using his bully pulpit to forcefully and consis-
tently condemn the kind of racism and anti-Semitism

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Brooks, in a follow-up email, said J Street also was
guilty of unfair guilt by association. A pitch by the lib-
eral Mideast policy groups director, Jeremy Ben-Ami,
was sent after the Zionist Organization of America
held a gala last month featuring Trumps former top
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d envoy to Israel, David Friedman. Ben-Ami wrote:

Eighty percent of the community didnt vote for
e Donald Trump, it fears and opposes most of his pol-

s icy agenda, and it abhors the white nationalist hatred

spread by the likes of Steve Bannon and Breitbart.
g On the other side, theres the extreme and vocal

r minority that embraces Islamophobes, racists and

even anti-Semites as long as they call themselves
, pro-Israel, defend the settlement movement and

l attack liberals.
This minority is small, but its dangerous and its
. influence is clearly growing. Thats because, incred-
ibly, it has the full support of the prime minister of
Israel and the president of the United States, as well
as the full financial backing of their shared favorite
donor, Sheldon Adelson.
Bannon does not embrace anti-Semites and has said
he doesnt welcome their support, although Breitbart
News seems happy to flirt with them occasionally. And
Adelson (and for that matter Brooks) have made clear
that while they do not regard Bannon as an anti-Semite,
they are not allied with him. The caveat: J Street is not
the Democratic Party. The RJCs pitch made it sound like
these accusations were a Democratic phenomenon.
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Womens March in January. The blurb made no men-
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the movement to boycott Israel, and believes in a one-
state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, which Israel

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Dermer: War on northern If Iran is not rolled back in Syria, then the chances presence and establish another terror front against
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The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba report-
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A Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit scheduled to take place
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cancelled after the German government refused
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property.
According to the German daily newspaper Frank-
furter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German government
has not issued a legally binding restitution guaran-
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What Michael Flynns plea

could mean for Jared Kushner and Israel
RON KAMPEAS
Why does the timing matter? that it would allow through the Security
WASHINGTON Michael Flynn, President The 1799 Logan Act calls for the prosecu- Council resolution a move that would

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Donald Trumps former national security tion of any U.S. person who directly or indi- enrage Israel and its American supporters. It
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vering with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian government or any officer or agent thereof, in Trump teams request not to impose sanc-
ambassador to the United States, during the relation to any disputes or controversies with tions, however.)
presidential transition. the United States, or to defeat the measures Flynns actions could suggest that he car-
That last word is key: Flynn twice talked to of the United States. ried on intercourse ... in relation to another
Kislyak in December 2016 when Trump was Neither Flynn nor Trump were yet in countrys controversies with the United
president-elect. He was not president. That government. States, as its defined in the Logan Act. In the
was still Barack Obamas job. What did Flynn do? case of the Obama administrations decision Michael Flynn leaves his plea hearing
One of the things Flynn and Kislyak According to court papers released Friday, to allow the U.N. Security Council resolution at the federal courthouse in Washing-
talked about was Israel. Flynn says that was Flynn on Dec. 29 asked Kislyak for assurances to advance, his action, had it been successful, ton, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2017.
at the behest of Trumps son-in-law and that Russia would not retaliate against the would have defeated a U.S. measure.
adviser Jared Kushner, who has longstand- United States for sanctions Obama had just So this is about the Logan Act? his foreign policy during a transition is not
ing ties with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin imposed for Russias alleged interference in Maybe not. There has not been a successful unprecedented. President-elect Dwight
Netanyahu. the 2016 U.S. election. On Dec. 22 he asked prosecution under the act since 1799; there Eisenhower visited South Korea in Novem-
What does that mean for special pros- Kislyak to keep a U.N. Security Council reso- seems to have been only two indictments. ber 1952 to lay the ground for his plan to end
ecutor Robert Muellers investigation of ties lution condemning Israels settlement policy One concern is the laws First Amendment the war. During the 1968 transition Richard
between the Trump campaign and transition from advancing. He lied about those conver- implications. The Logan Act, were it ever Nixon, through a top adviser, Henry Kiss-
team and Russia? What are the implications sations in a Jan. 24 interview with FBI agents. to be applied broadly, would inhibit politi- inger, secretly reached out to North Vietnam
for Kushner and for Israel? The Obama administration was signaling cal speech. And a president-elect launching in a bid to restart peace talks.

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So if its not about the Logan Act, what
is it about?
Maybe it is about the Logan Act.
Although the act seems unprosecutable,
the threat of its invocation almost since its
inception has been a potent political cud-
gel. Even absent a prosecution, the notion
that a political rival is actively undermining
U.S. policy, and particularly with an adver-
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sary of the United States, can damage a rep-
utation. Flynn may have lied to the FBI on
Jan. 24 not because he feared prosecution,
but because he feared for the credibility of
the 4-day-old presidency he was serving.
Vice President Dick Cheney intimated
that Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives, was in viola-
tion of the act in 2007 when she met with
Syrian President Bashar Assad. Pelosi vig-
orously denied Cheneys charges that she
was undercutting the Bush administrations
isolation of Syria. She said the meeting was
at Israels behest, a bid by then-Prime Min-
ister Ehud Olmert to tamp down tensions.
Carter administration officials have said
Ronald Reagans campaign persuaded Iran
to delay the release of Iranian hostages until
after the 1980 election to wound incum-
bent President Jimmy Carter a charge
that Reagans aides hotly denied. Reagan in
1984 accused then presidential candidate
Jesse Jackson of violating the Logan Act
when he visited Syria and returned with an
American airman who had been captured.
Lyndon Johnson considered invoking
the Logan Act just before the 1968 election
when he learned that Nixon was secretly
working with the South Vietnamese to scut-
tle peace talks in order not to give the Dem-
ocratic candidate, Johnsons vice president,
Hubert Humphrey, a pre-election boost.
(Saigon wanted Nixon to win.) Johnson in
the end kept Nixons secret.
So its the cover-up, not the crime?
Perhaps. If Mueller establishes that
the Trump transition team was intent on
undercutting steps Obama had taken to
protect American interests, the lying would
become more consequential, even if the
underlying act is not illegal.
So isnt it a wrap? Muellers got Flynns
guilty plea, right?
Mueller has another game in mind, and
Flynn apparently is cooperating. In his
plea, Flynn said a very senior member of
the presidential transition team directed
Flynn to contact officials from foreign gov-
ernments, including Russia, to learn where
each government stood on the [U.N. Secu-
rity Council] resolution and to influence
those governments to delay the vote and
defeat the resolution. That very senior
member, Bloomberg News reported over
the weekend and other media have con-
firmed is Kushner. (Flynns subsequent
appeal to Russia not to retaliate for Obamas
sanctions was reportedly at the behest of
another transition official, K.T. McFarland.)
So thats Kushners role. What about
Israel?
On the same day that Flynn was ask-
ing Kislyak to stop the resolution, Dec. 22,
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Trumps presidency, but to Kushners per-
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OBrien, a Trump biographer, said Kush-
ners interests with Russia and Israel may
extend well beyond his father-in-laws
foreign policy considerations. Kushners
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has also partnered with one of Israels
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Theres more: Kushner reportedly
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How a kids book on Palestine ensnared
this Manhattan store in a political crossfire
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When Chris Doeblin agreed to buy 100 copies of a chil-
drens book to help an author friend, he didnt expect to
become enmeshed in a controversy over international
relations and free speech.
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But thats what happened after Doeblin, the co-owner of
Book Culture, a chain of independent bookstores in New York
City, bought and held a reading of P is for Palestine, which
came out last month. Written by Golbarg Bashi, an Iranian-born
author who has held Persian-language readings of childrens
books at Book Culture for three years, it is subtitled A Palestine
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ABC Book. The bookstore chain also donated $650 to a
crowdfunding campaign for P is for Palestine.
But that angered another partner of Book Cultures: the
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. This week, Book Culture
is set to provide books and toys for a book fair at the large
Reform congregation in Manhattan. But after discovering
the bookstores work with Bashi, the synagogue threat-
ened to pull out, charging that the book especially a
page on intifada glorifies violence against Israelis.
In the end, the synagogue withdrew the threat, but
not before putting an independent bookstore chain
in the unusual position of having to make a string of
statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict includ-
ing supporting Israels right to exist and opposing the
boycott movement against it.
So many people were incensed and took offense and
were hurt by this books publication, Doeblin said. I can
honestly say Im sorry. As we try and reach out to people,
we have to do it with enough respect so that we dont hurt
and cause these violent reactions.
This is just the latest ripple effect of controversy that
has surrounded P is for Palestine since it was published
on Nov. 11. The picture book dedicates pages to each letter
of the alphabet, along with a corresponding word A is
for Arabic, for example.
The main reason for the conflict wasnt the books title
or concept. Instead, it was the two-page spread featur-
ing the letter I, which says I is for Intifada, Intifada is
Arabic for rising up for what is right, if you are a kid or a
grownup! The accompanying illustration shows a father
and child waving peace signs next to barbed wire.
The synagogue, along with plenty of other critics,
charged that the book obscured the violent nature of the
two Palestinian intifadas, or uprisings, which occurred
over a span of years in the late 1980s and again in the
early 2000s. More than 1,000 Israelis died in attacks per-
petrated by Palestinian terror groups that targeted civil-
ians. Thousands of Palestinians died in clashes with Israeli
security forces.
Of particular concern to me is the glorification of the
Palestinian intifada a cruel, murderous and terroris-
tic campaign that purposely targeted innocent Israe-
lis, including children, in restaurants, buses, hospitals,
schools and shopping malls, Ammiel Hirsch, the Stephen
Wise Free Synagogues senior rabbi, said in a statement.
The cover of P is For Palestine, a book that has
stirred controversy since it was published in mid-
November. COURTESY OF GOLBARG BASHI
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The intifada was not a rising up for what is right. It was

a mass descent into immorality.
Bashi, however, says intifada encompasses a broader
and largely nonviolent Palestinian cultural resistance.
P is for Palestine has sold out its initial print run of
2,000 copies. And the controversies have continued: Last
month, a 28,000-member Facebook group for mothers
on the Upper East Side of Manhattan was wracked by vit-
riolic debate over the book.
The dust-up between the synagogue and Book Cul-
ture began on Nov. 21, when Hirsch put out a statement
demanding Book Culture publicly rescind their support
of P Is for Palestine, a book by Golbarg Bashi that glorifies
the Palestinian intifada or Stephen Wise will cancel its
upcoming book fair featuring Book Culture.
Since then, the synagogue and bookstore have come A view of Book Culture, a bookstore on Manhattans Upper West Side. COURTESY OF BOOK CULTURE

to an agreement: Book Cultures owners have publicly

repudiated Bashis views but will keep selling her
book. Hirsch said that the synagogue is happy to part-

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RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Staring at a massive defeat, Jew-
ish groups dealing with social safety net issues
are looking at the tax plan about to reach its final
stages in Congress and hoping they can snatch a
few small victories.
The hope is when they reconcile the bills that
passed the House and the Senate, lawmakers will
preserve a number of elements of the Senate bill,
particularly deductions for medical expenses.
Bnai Brith International, which advocates for
elderly care, cited the nonpartisan Congressional
Budget Offices estimate that the slashed taxes in the
Senate and House bills would increase the deficit to
$1 trillion. The measures ostensibly compensate for
tax cuts by removing loopholes and deductions, but
overall there will be massive losses in revenue.
The hope is when they
reconcile the bills that
passed the House and
the Senate, lawmakers
will preserve a number
of elements of the
Senate bill, particularly
deductions for
medical expenses.
That could encourage lawmakers to slash medical
coverage entitlements like Medicare for older Amer-
icans and Medicaid for the poor, according to Bnai
Brith, the largest national Jewish sponsor of low-
income housing for seniors.
Many seniors would be at severe risk to not have
the funds to cover basic housing, medical and food
costs were Medicare subsidies cut, the group said in
its statement.
The House of Representatives passed its bill a month
ago, while the Senate advanced its version over the
weekend. This week, the chambers are likely to go into
conference to reconcile the bills, which President Don-
ald Trump wants on his desk before Christmas.
Jewish groups said they hoped the Senate version pre-
vails for a number of reasons:
It preserves deductions for medical expenses. Most
Americans who apply for the deductions, which apply
if your medical expenses exceed 10 percent of your
income, are older than 65.
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Tax-free withdrawals
will include private
school tuition and
could help some
parents in the
community better
afford the high cost
of Jewish education.
ABBA COHEN

It has more expansive allowances for item-

izing deductions for charitable giving, a practice
that Jewish groups say is critical to their fundrais-
ing. As more taxpayers continue to itemize, there
will be less negative impact on charitable giving,
the Jewish Federations of North America said in a
memo Monday to its constituent federations.
The Senate version also does not touch current
reporting for donor-advised funds, the system of allow-
ing donors to determine where a federation spends the
money it parks in planned-giving vehicles. Its a key way
for federations to expand their donor base.
In sum, the Senate version of HR 1 is more favor-
able than the House-passed bill to the charitable
sector in general and federations in particular, the
JFNA memo said.
It does not remove the so-called Johnson
Amendment, which blocks houses of worship from
directly campaigning for political candidates. An
array of centrist and liberal groups oppose remov-
ing the amendment; conservative Christian groups
want it gone. Trump campaigned last year for the
removal of the amendment, named for Lyndon
Johnson, who led its passage as a Texas senator in
the 1950s. The House version removes it.
The Senate version includes an amendment that
would allow $10,000 a year in tax-exempt student
savings plans to go toward private school tuition.
Now, the monies are dedicated almost solely to uni-
versity tuition. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, introduced
the amendment, which is favored by Orthodox Jew- Lighting the way.

ish groups, and it passed by a 51-50 margin. Vice

President Mike Pence cast the deciding vote.
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tion savings accounts to the K-12 level, said Abba
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Chanukah on ice in Budapest

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

BUDAPEST The outdoor ice skating rink the largest in

Central Europe in Budapests city center has been part of
Hungarys Christmas tradition for nearly 150 years.
Stretching across 3.5 acres between Heroes Square
and Vajdahunyad Castle, the Budapest City Park Ice Rink
draws hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the
country each winter. They come for the Christmas mar-
ket, the winter festival, and the promise of smooth ice and
affordable skate rentals.
Its an enormous and enormously popular attraction, so
City Park Ice Rink is filled with Christmas revelers nearly
every day.
Except on the first night of Chanukah.
On that evening, the rink is populated with hundreds of
Jews. They gather to sing Chanukah songs as they watch rab-
bis on skates light a large menorah built by EMIH, the local
branch of Chabad. With help from a donor in Budapest, they
rent the rink for $12,000, and distribute sufganiyot and tea to
holiday revelers who have pre-purchased tickets.
The City Park Chanukah celebration started just over
a decade ago, and it is unusual in that its one of just a few
places in Europe where the North American Chanukah on

ice tradition has taken root. In the United States, Chabad rab-
bis organize dozens of Chanukah on ice events each year, fea-
turing the ceremonial candle lighting, deep-fried Chanukah
delicacies, and ice skating, with games for children and train-
ing for the inexperienced.
But in Budapest, the event is part of a broader coming out
of Jewish communities in the former communist bloc, where,
after years of practicing their religion underground, Jews are
now celebrating Chanukah in very public ways.
Chanukah used to be low key in Budapest, as was every-
thing else connected to Judaism during socialism, said Rabbi
Boruch Oberlander, one of the early organizers of Buda-
pests Chanukah on ice tradition. Back then, Jews feared that
practicing any religion and Judaism especially invited
persecution.
But its not good for Judaism when things are low key,
he added, because it made people leave the tradition.
Throughout the Soviet sphere of influence, decades of
religious persecution compounded the Nazi-caused dev-
astation. Unaware or ashamed of their Jewish identity,
countless Jews in that part of the world assimilated, dis-
tanced themselves from Judaism, and produced children
who no longer saw themselves as Jewish.
Against this background, Chanukah has a special sig-
nificance in the post-communist world, said Oberlander, a
Brooklyn-born rabbi who settled in Budapest 28 years ago
as a Chabad emissary.
Oberlander isnt just talking about public events at ice
skating rinks theres also the longstanding practice of
placing Chanukah menorahs on the windowsill, specifi-
cally for all to see.
Meaning, dont be low key! he said.
Oberlander, 53, does not skate himself, he said, explaining
hes not very good at it. But in his community, the event is
one of the most popular because of how it combines seasonal
amenities, sports, and religious ceremony in a fun, family-
friendly setting.
His interpretation of how Jews should celebrate Chanukah
is shared by many rabbis all over the world Chabad rabbis,
in particular who stage large, public menorah lightings in
central squares of major cities. New York, for example, boasts
two such massive events: The Grand Army Plazas in both Man-
hattan and Brooklyn have been in competition over which
holds the title of Worlds Largest Menorah.
Rabbi Slomo Koves lights a menorah at Chabad Hungarys 2015 Chanukah on Ice at Budapests City Park Ice Rink.
Rabbi Slomo Koves, right, and a participant at Chabad Hungarys
2015 Chanukah on Ice take a selfie at Budapests City Park Ice Rink
in December 2015.
Such displays inspired Jews to think big in Western Europe,
ending decades in which communities traumatized by the
Holocaust had shunned initiatives that advertise Judaism.
Since 2013 in the Netherlands, for example, the chief
rabbi and the Israeli ambassador had been lifted by crane
to light the first candle of a 36-foot menorah built for
the Jewish community by Christian Zionists who say it is
Europes largest. In Berlin, a giant menorah is lit at the
Brandenburg Gate monument.
Like the massive menorah lightings, Europes growing
Chanukah-on-ice trend which this year can be observed
in Budapest, Moscow, and London also started in the
United States, where it is occurring this year in locations
from Wollman Rink in New Yorks Central Park, to Hous-
ton, to San Mateo, California.
In Moscow, the popular Chanukah-on-ice event,
which began in 2012, is eclipsed by what may well be
COURTESY OF EMIH
the largest celebration of Chanukah in
Europe: the annual gathering of 6,000
Jews at the State Kremlin Palace for an
evening of dance and performances, as
well as the bestowing of awards to com-
munal VIPs. Organizers say the venue is
important to them for symbolic reasons,
because it produced some of the worlds
worst anti-Semitic policies after the fall of
Nazi Germany.
In Budapest, the citys summertime Jew-
ish cultural festival also is an example of Jews
reclaiming their place in society. Judafest,
which was held for the 10th consecutive year,
draws thousands of Jews and non-Jews to the
historically Jewish 7th district for sessions,
activities, and exhibitions connected to Jew-
ish cooking, dancing, and Yiddish.
But theres something special about the
COURTESY OF EMIH Chanukah-on-ice event, which is held at an
iconic location with strong ties to the holiday
period for all Hungarians.
I think it indicates a generational difference in which
young people our age dont think twice about participat-
ing in an event that celebrates, publicly, our Jewish iden-
tity, Eszter Fabriczki, 30, a regular at the event, said.
Holocaust survivors passed the fear element to their chil-
dren, but not to their grandchildren.
Against this background, Fabriczki said, her father is freak-
ing out over my wanting to give my son a circumcision, if I
have a son, because then he could be identified as Jewish.
She has no children, adding: I have no thoughts of this kind,
living a pretty comfortable Jewish life.
Despite the generational gap it exposes, Fabriczki said
she and her mother have bonded over the City Park Ice
Rink Chanukah event.
Im quite religious but my mother is not, so the Chanu-
kah on ice event is something we can share because she

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likes to ice skate and its important for me to observe
all the Jewish holidays, Fabriczki said.
But for 16-year-old Sara Szalai, Budapests Chanukah
on ice means quality time with her dad, Kalman, who
is the managing director of the Jewish communitys
Action and Protection Foundation, the local equiva-
lent of the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors
anti-Semitic incidents.
Neither are particularly concerned about self-iden-
tifying as Jews at the event. Maybe there are people
who think this way, but for us its not a big issue, she
said; shes a pretty good skater, she added. Its usu-
ally pretty crowded there, so its a rare opportunity to
really skate properly on Chanukah without worrying
about bumping into people.
The event typically unites Jews across the religious-
secular divide. Chanukah has fewer restrictions than
other Jewish observances, such as Shabbat or Yom Kip-
pur, when observant Jews are not allowed to operate
machines, travel, or perform any action classified as work.
In Hungarys fractious Jewish community where
interdenominational tensions are rising amid polariz-
ing policies undertaken by the nationalist government
Chanukah on ice offers a rare armistice in which the
secular, religious, local, and Israeli Jews put aside their
differences for a night of fun.
Its also, Fabriczki noted, a chance to see rabbis on
skates.
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Nehru
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on Varsnyi Irn utca and she and her sister used to go
around the city in a horse carriage although later her
father lost much of his wealth in the financial crash of
1928. Fori remembered being given hot toast with butter
and grated garlic to ward off the cold, after coming home
from a morning of ice-skating.
She remembered her childhood as a happy time,
Although neither Fori nor her mother, safely in India, were
directly affected by the Second World War, other members
of her family were not so fortunate, though most survived. herself as an Indian while never forgetting her Jewish past.
Her father was lucky. He remained in Hungary through-
out the war; a fierce German housekeeper took care of him
and would not allow anybody to come into the house to
ask any questions. He felt secure enough to go out of the
house to have a shave every day. Foris uncle Joszef, her
mothers brother, also survived the Nazis. He was a good
bridge player, and a Hungarian commandant who played
with him kept him alive during the war. After the war Joszef
stayed on, but he left before the Communists came into
power. Foris sister and her husband moved to Australia.
Another cousin escaped the communists by jumping into
the Danube and feigning death.
After the war, Fori went back to Hungary for a couple of
visits. In 1949, on the way to Washington, where BK had
been posted to the Indian Embassy, she took her three
sons to meet their grandfather and stayed in Budapest for
a couple of months. She would go to catch up with old
friends each evening and often would return in tears. So
many of them had disappeared during the war or had suf-
fered from the German occupation and later from the Rus-
sian invasion.
Fori also revisited Budapest in the early 1960s, going
again to see her father, and once again, much later, went
back with her husband. She never forgot her native Hun-
garian she also spoke French, Italian, and German, and
of course English but she never learned Yiddish.
Fori was a remarkable woman, who completely remade
In fact, late in her life, when she met the British Jewish his-
torian Martin Gilbert, a classmate of her sons, she asked
him for reading material on the history of the Jews. She
felt her ignorance of that subject keenly. In response, Gil-
bert wrote a book, Letters to Auntie Fori: The 5,000-Year
History of the Jewish People and Their Faith, published in
2002, based on his correspondence with her.
Being Jewish is, first and foremost, being a part of the
Jewish people, and Fori felt this kinship until the end. As
she told Martin Gilbert, I have a feeling of guilt. I wasnt
there. I was safe. The guilt feeling is still with me. Why
should I not have suffered?
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at Pace University. His research intersects economics,
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Honoring social service agencies
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

Jerusalem awaits
A its proper recognition
t the dinner celebrating the first tax bill is made law, they will try to balance it
year of the fledgling Jewish Family by reforming entitlement programs, including

and Childrens Service of Northern
New Jersey an organization so
new that some of its honorees stumbled over
the very many initials in its obligatory alpha-
bet-jumble name, the JFCS of NNJ (how hard
it would be for our community if the letter J
were rationed!) its executive director, Susan
Greenbaum, told a story.
There have been quite a few highly and
oddly specific donations showing up in the
office, she said.
There was a gym membership for a teenage
girl, a therapy client who couldnt afford to
pay for the exercise she needed get her blood
flowing and her brain unfogged. The gym was
exactly what she needed.
A piece of medical equipment a shower
chair showed up in the food pantry, labeled
with a specific therapy clients name. The
chair was exactly what he needed.
There was a check on a desk; the note said
that it was to register a client in the agencys
school-based system for the schools basket-
ball team. The amount was exact, and being
on the team was exactly what he needed.
As we reported last week, needs are going
up. We are living through a particularly tense,
unsettled time; norms of civility are broken
so quickly that their sharp shards have begun
to litter our minds. More and more children
need therapy. So do their parents. In immi-
grant communities, fear is rising; in the Jew-
ish community, divisiveness, anger, disbelief,
and a feeling of general unease have settled in,
unsettling us all.
The new tax bills that House and Senate
Republicans passed and that have to be rec-
onciled before they become law (and before
that the handwritten bits of the Senates version
have to be typed) is likely to affect charitable
donations. (It has to do with doubling the stan-
dard deduction, which makes it less likely that
people will itemize their deductions. Accord-
ing to National Public Radio, citing the Indiana
School of Philanthropy, 82 percent of all chari-
table giving comes from people who itemize
their tax return. And the estimate is that char-
itable giving will go down $13 billion with the
changes in both these pieces of legislation.)
Beyond that, Republican leaders have said
that once the deficit balloons, as it will if their
Medicare and Medicaid.
So these are hard times for charities.
But then there were those gifts that showed
up in the JFCS offices.
Clearly, Ms. Greenbaum said, very few peo-
ple knew exactly what specific clients needed,
down to the dollar amount those needs would
cost. Who could know that, she asked rhetori-
cally. Its the social workers and other therapists
who work with the clients.
So lets stop and think about the people who
work for social service agencies like JFCS. Lets
think, for that matter, for people like the ones
who work at Sinai Schools, whom we write
about this week, or at Yachad, whom we wrote
about a few weeks ago.
What all these people have in a common is
a love for their work, which is helping people.
They are lucky; theyve found a passion that
provides them with both a livelihood and a
reason for being. They have an overwhelming
empathy for the people with whom they work,
and it lifts them.
There is no small irony in the many gifts that
these selfless people give. It is generally well
known that if you want a lucrative job and
that job easily could also be intellectually stimu-
lating, even actively exciting you dont go into
social services. When it comes to emotional
gratification, those jobs pay. When it comes to
actual, you know, money, the stuff you pay your
bills with not so much.
In fact, in at least some versions of the
new tax bill, there was a direct hit at teach-
ers, another group of people who often are
motivated more by love than by practicality.
In poor school districts, teachers often have
to pay for their own school supplies; if they
want their rooms decorated or their students
to have paper or pens, they have to buy them
with their own money. The tax code honored
that outlay, at least symbolically, by allowing
them to deduct the first $250. That deduction
most likely will go away.
As a community, and as individual people, we
honor social workers and teachers and school
administrators who are propelled by love and
empathy. We are moved by their stories. We
wish that the need for them to sacrifice finan-
cially would go away, although we realize that
is unlikely to happen, and we honor them. JP
D
uring the presiden-
tial campaign, Donald
Trump pledged that he
would recognize Jeru-
salem as Israels capital and move
the U.S. embassy there from Tel
Aviv. He is reportedly preparing an
announcement this week, and I trust
that he will make good on his cam-
paign promise. Recognition of reality
is long overdue.
The usual sus-
pects, the Palestin-
ians and their sup-
porters, certain Arab
governments, and the
obstructionists in the
State Department are
howling, as they do
each time the issue is
raised. The Palestin- Rabbi
ians say they will not Shmuley
negotiate, the Arabs Boteach
say the Muslim world
will revolt against us,
and the State Department says U.S.
interests will be threatened and the
peace process will end. I hope the
president ignores these doomsayers.
First, the Palestinians have refused
to negotiate with Israel for eight
years. They would not talk after Pres-
ident Obama coerced Prime Minister
Netanyahu to freeze settlement con-
struction for 10 months. They have
made excuses ever since. During the
summer, Mahmoud Abbas reached
a reconciliation agreement with
Hamas, joining hands with the orga-
nization whose raison dtre is the
annihilation of Israel.
It is possible that some Muslims
will be angry with the United States
if it recognizes the obvious fact that
Jerusalem is, and has been since
1948, Israels capital. Radical Mus-
lims dont need any new reasons to
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the author of 31 books, most recently
The Israel Warrior. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
attack us; they already view Amer-
icans as decadent infidels who
deserve death. We cannot allow our
foreign policy to be held hostage by
people who despise our democratic
and religious values. If we based all
our policies on whether they might
upset Muslim extremists, we would
be totally paralyzed.
To those who say moving the
embassy will kill the
peace process, I have a
simple question: What
peace process?
I understand that
the president is pre-
paring his own initia-
tive and does not want
to lose the opportunity
to make the ultimate
deal. Despite this,
however, the prospects
for reaching a deal will
be enhanced by recog-
nizing Jerusalem and
moving the embassy. The reason
is that one of the prerequisites to a
deal is disabusing the Palestinians
of the notion that Jerusalem will be
divided or that Israel will give up
sovereignty over the holiest sites of
Judaism. The fact that the Western
Wall is in occupied East Jerusalem
is irrelevant as the Jewish history of
the entire city dates to the time of
King David, centuries before Jordan
divided the city, expelled the Jews,
and became an occupying power.
Lets also be clear: The Palestin-
ians have no claim to Jerusalem, not
a weaker claim, no claim whatsoever.
The Palestinian demand to establish
a state with a capital in Jerusalem is
based on one thing and one thing
only, a desire to control the holy city.
The Palestinians never have had a
state in recorded history, let alone a

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capital in Jerusalem. The majority of the population
in Jerusalem has been Jewish since at least 1844. For
most of history under the Muslim empire, Jerusalem
was a backwater of no significance, and never served
as a provincial capital or a Muslim cultural center.
As for religious significance, Jerusalem is no holier
to Palestinians than to any other Muslim. While the
entirety of Jerusalem is holy to Jews, Muslims revere
only the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Palestinians have the right
- under Israeli law to worship at the mosque, a right
we should always protect. But they have no legal
r right to political sovereignty over the mosque or any
y other part of the city.
To those who are immediately thinking: What
about the two-state solution? Is it not the case that
t the Palestinians will never accept a state without
Jerusalem as their capital?
Well, Abbas once engaged in talks with Israeli
Labor Party member Yossi Beilin that envisioned a
Palestinian state with its capital in Abu Dis. In fact,
the Palestinians even built a building for their future
t parliament in the town. Abu Dis is technically part of
Jerusalem and was included in the corpus separatum
t of Jerusalem in the partition decision.
- The notion of a compromise is moot, however, so
- long as the Palestinians remain obdurate and refuse
t to recognize Israel as a Jewish state within any
y boundaries, or to engage in face-to-face talks. That
is even more reason for the president to act now.
, The Palestinians need to be shown that Israels capi-
tal will remain united and that the most powerful
country in the world will not allow the Palestinians
- to divide it. Hopefully, once America acts, the rest of
the worlds leaders will follow suit. In fact, for those
who fear violence because of a change in policy, the
best way to send a message to the extremists that
they cannot intimidate us is for every country to
move its embassy to Jerusalem.
On a personal note, in my sons bedroom there is
f a photograph of my great-grandfather from Iran. He
n sports a long white beard and crushed hat. He was
called Hajji Chaim because more than 100 years ago,
f family tradition has it, he traveled by foot more than
f 2,000 kilometers from Isfahan, Iran, all the way to
the holy city of Jerusalem. His dream was to plant
, his eyes upon the last fragments of the Holy Temple,
destroyed 2000 years earlier by the Romans. He was
- renowned in the Iranian Jewish community for hav-
t ing made the great pilgrimage, and acquired the title
. Hajji for completing a form of a Jewish hajj.
I have heard this story from my father from the
time I was a boy. This story of my ancestor indicates
both what Jerusalem means to the Jewish people why
. we must never forfeit any part of it today.
President Trump, electrify the world with official
American recognition of the eternal Jewish connec-
tion to the holy city of Jerusalem and as the capital
of Israel.
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Opinion
Much pain for the many,
to benefit the richest few
T
he tax bills just passed by the House and the
Senate are each an historically catastrophic
disaster for most Americans in general, and for
most New Jerseyans in particular.
These bills still need to be reconciled and voted on by
the same Republican-controlled houses of Congress that
wrote them. But what is obvious now is that no amount of
tinkering around the edges can save our country from the
impact of this titanically callous, unfair, and destructive
legislation if it is passed.
Here is the fundamental question: Is this the best use
of the $1 to $3 trillion that these tax bills will add to our
national debt?
To put this question in context, lets consider just a
few examples of the many terrible provi-
sions and effects of this legislation: It (i)
adds between $1 trillion to $3 trillion to our
national debt; (ii) cuts hundreds of billions
needed to meet the obligations of Medicare
and Medicaid to our nations baby boomers
and retirees; (iii) raises taxes on 78 million
middle class households; (iv) results in 13
million Americans losing health insurance;
(v) provides no money for the rebuilding of
Americas crumbling roads, sewers, bridges, Steven R.
and tunnels; (vi) gives no money for research Rothman
and development for cures of diseases or for
technological breakthroughs in engineering,
industry, or science; (vii) taxes graduate students if they
have been given a tuition grant or waiver; and (viii) ends
or caps the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes.
As for the tax bills effect on our nations economy in gen-
eral, there is no dispute that this bill will add to our national sion in place. That allows someone to exclude $101,300
debt. In a party-line vote, the Republican-majority House
and Senate conceded as much.
As for the harm to New
Jerseyans in particular,
the House and Senate
bills either eliminate
or cap the deduction
for state and local
property and income
taxes, costing New
Jerseyans more than
$130 million dollars.
Just a few weeks ago, Republican senators and repre-
sentatives voted to allow $1.5 trillion in debt to be added
to their budget authority. The most conservative esti-
mates show that these tax bills use up at least $1 trillion
of that amount. Most economists, however, believe that
this legislation will cause as much as $2 trillion or $3 tril-
lion dollars to be added to the national debt.
According to the Federal Reserve, 1 percent of Ameri-
cans now own nearly 40 percent of our nations wealth,
and that disparity increases every year. These new tax
cuts, which disproportionately benefit the richest of
Americans, will make that already indefensible and
growing chasm even bigger.
If past is prologue (and by the actual admission of many
CEOs) we can expect that our very wealthiest individuals
and corporations will hold onto their newly gotten tax cuts,
enhance their lifestyles, buy back their stock, and give their
executives and shareholders greater returns, but they will
not markedly invest in any additional employees, capital
plant, infrastructure, or research and development.
These new Trump tax cuts also will fail to provide real
tax relief to the vast majority of Americans.
For example, the nonpartisan congressional Joint Com-
mittee on Taxation estimates that as a direct result of these
debt-increasing tax cut bills, by 2027, 84 percent of U.S.
households will face either a tax increase or a tax cut that
is smaller than $100. The nonpartisan Tax
Policy Center calculates that half the tax sav-
ings would go to the top 1 percent people
who earn more than $732,800. The center
adds that after 10 years, nearly 80 percent of
the savings would go to the top 1 percent of
earners.
As for the harm to New Jerseyans in particu-
lar, the House and Senate bills either eliminate
or cap the deduction for state and local prop-
erty and income taxes, costing New Jerseyans
more than $130 million dollars. It has been esti-
mated that this provision will reduce the value
of New Jersey homes, make home ownership
here more expensive to maintain, and seriously hurt many
homeowners ability to sell their houses.
To make matters even more unfair and unreasonable,
these tax bills keep the Foreign Earned Income Exclu-
in income earned outside of the United States, if taxes
were paid on that money in the foreign country. The
notion that taxes paid to a foreign government can be
deducted, but taxes paid to an American state or local
government cannot be, is simply unfair and discrimina-
tory against those earning their incomes in America. This
is yet another example of how these tax cut bills help a
very few wealthy people at the expense of a far greater
number of Americans.
Now is not the time to double down on a failed trickle-
down theory that disproportionately benefits only the rich-
est among us, makes our countrys economic situation
worse, puts off addressing our nations real problems, adds
to the suffering of tens of millions of Americans, and fur-
ther burdens our children with paying off a greater national
debt, leaving them to fix those problems that will have got-
ten worse and more expensive to address and making them
less competitive in the global economy.
If President Trump signs these bills, they will under-
mine the American economy, while the vast majority of
Americans either will get nothing out of it or will lose a lot.
These tax cuts will make most Americans economic lives
more insecure, unfair, and unstable.
Reach out to as many House and Senate Republican
members as you can to get them to vote down these disas-
trous bills.
And while youre at it, encourage President Trump to
start his tax reform effort again. This time, demand that
he incorporate the priorities and wellbeing of the vast
majority of Americans, not only his chosen few.
Steven R. Rothman of Englewood, a Democrat, is the former
U.S. Congressman who represented New Jerseys 9th
Congressional District from 1997 to 2013.
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Opinion
Being Hillel
Rethinking a position on welcoming intermarried Jews
T
en years later, Ive
changed my mind
about intermarried
families
Like so many college stu-
dents, my roommate and I
engaged in late-night conver-
sations about world-changing
ideas. Unlike some other dorm
rooms, however, ours always Rabbi Alex
revolved around Jewish topics. Freedman
We both became rabbis, to
nobodys surprise.
I remember returning to one question in particular sev-
eral times: Does a Jew who marries a non-Jew opt out of
being Jewish? I always said yes, while Aaron Weininger
said no.
To me it was simple: logically, if someone isnt commit-
ted enough to marry another Jew, why would he or she
have a Jewish home and raise Jewish kids? Out-marriage
marks a stepping out of the Jewish community. The data
bore out this fact.
Aaron, for his part, pointed to people who bucked the
trend, who married someone who was not Jewish but still
remained involved in the Jewish community, for whatever
reason. They were the exceptions but still they were
very real. He reminded me that the world had changed.
Unconvinced by each others argument, we called
it a night.
More joy. Less oy.
A
Muslim resident of
the East Jerusalem
neighborhood of
Ras-al-Amud was
widely and enthusiastically cel-
ebrated by Jewish media out-
lets this fall.
Ihab, a bus driver, decorated
the Egged bus that he drives to
look like a succah, in celebra- Rabbi Joseph
tion of the joyous Jewish har- H. Prouser
vest festival. He adorned the
bus ceiling with bamboo mats
(skhakh) and hanging plastic fruit and colorful garlands.
Before that, on Passover, he decorated his bus to look like
a seder table. My goal is to improve relations with my
commuters, in light of the fact that theyre oftentimes
strained, doubly so in Jerusalem, Ihab said. Ihabs passen-
gers, he reported, were delighted, wishing him yasher
koach (more power to you!) and chag sameach
(happy holiday!). Ihab has indicated his intention once
again to find creative ways to decorate his bus to mark
Jewish holidays.
A number of friends and colleagues approvingly called
my attention to this story, welcoming the friendly and
open-minded spirit of this charming East Jerusalemite,
and identifying Ihabs actions as a hopeful sign for a future
of peaceful coexistence and reconciliation. My response
to each correspondent who forwarded me articles on
Ihabs Succah-bus was the same: Would that American
Jews could demonstrate the same sincere enthusiasm and
46 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
Ten years later, I think Aaron is correct. Jews who
marry out dont actively end their Jewish involvement.
What has happened in the past decade to change my
position?
First, the theoretical became practical. In college,
none of my friends had gotten married yet. Now, how-
ever, my peers have families with kids. I see that even
those who married out still go to Shabbat dinners, sed-
ers, and services, often with their spouses. I know these
people.
Second, I realize that while marrying Jewish still
remains the logical thing for Jews to do, logic doesnt
govern everybodys choices. And when love enters the
picture, its heat sometimes melts cold logic.
Third, I shifted my focus from the rule to the exception,
to those Jews who marry out but still remain involved. The
overwhelming odds still maintain that marrying out of the
faith lowers or eliminates the markers of Jewish identifica-
tion in those Jews, their children, and their grandchildren.
The rule remains. But without question, there are plenty
of exceptions. Not most, to be sure, but plenty. And if I as
a rabbi and the Jewish community can increase the odds
of these exceptions remaining committed by reaching out
to them, then lets do it.
A really interesting case study is Mark Zuckerberg of
Facebook. Though he married a non-Jewish woman,
here is someone who publicly celebrates his Judaism. It
seems that the birth of his first daughter brought about
this strengthened public connection to his faith.
big-hearted graciousness in response to the religious holi-
day observances of the majority culture in which we live!
All too often, Jews react to the Christmas season and its
ubiquitous and particularist greetings with unnecessary
discomfort, at times approaching a hostile siege mentality.
The subject how to relate to non-Jews and their holi-
days, and what appropriate greetings may be, occupied
the rabbis of the Talmud. The Mishnah (Gittin 5:9) says
that Jews may lend support to heathens who are work-
ing the land of Israel during the sabbatical year, when
such agricultural activity is forbidden for Jews. A number
of sages explain that the support in question is the practice
of offering non-Jewish neighbors suitable greetings.
Achzuku! (Strength to you!) is one such greet- might respond appropriately to the religious holidays of
ing identified by the accompanying talmudic text (Gittin
62A). This was Rabbi Yehudahs preferred greeting; Rabbi
Sheshet would say Asharta! (Yasher koach! More his Christian neighbors when he said: There is the risk of
power to you!). Rabbi Chisda, the Talmud reports, always
would be sure to offer greetings to non-Jews, even before
they greeted him. Rabbi Kahana would say Shalom ness with them all year long. Therefore, if we come into a
lMar! (Peace to you, sir!). community and we find them rejoicing on their holiday,
The talmudic discussion concludes with a logical puz-
zlement: If the Mishnah says we may lend support to
non-Jews engaged in behavior which Jewish law forbids
to Jews, is it even necessary to say that we may offer them
verbal greetings, as the Mishnah also stipulates? (Shouldnt
that simply be inferred as obvious, using a fortiori reason-
ing)? Rabbi Yeba provides a telling and instructive con-
clusion: It is necessary to say so to say that we may
offer appropriate greetings specifically in reference to
their holiday.
Consider that in May, Zuckerberg told Harvard gradu-
ates at commencement that at his daughters bedtime,
he sings her an adaptation of Debbie Friedmans Mishe-
berach prayer; after Yom Kippur he posted on Facebook
about forgiveness; and in September he posted pictures
of his family celebrating Shabbat with lit candles, home-
made challah, and a kiddush cup thats been in the fam-
ily for 100 years. (To read more, Google Ben Sales story;
use keywords JTA Ben Sales Mark Zuckerberg Judaism)
Im captured especially by that kiddush cup. I dont
know the story, but somebody in his family saw that one
day Mark might want to use that kiddush cup for Shabbat,
even though he was married to a non-Jewish woman. That
person saw potential that I, as my college self, certainly
did not. Im so grateful that whoever it was took a chance
and passed down that cup.
What kiddush cups, real or metaphorical, do we have
that we can pass on to somebody close to us?
To be clear, I will officiate only at weddings between
two Jews, because I believe in-marriage is ideal. But that
doesnt mean that I shouldnt welcome intermarried fami-
lies. Each of us should reach out to families that have inter-
married, in the realistic hope that some of them can be
the exception and stay connected. If not the other parent,
then certainly the children.
Of course Im not the first to suggest Being welcoming,
but that doesnt make the call to do so less true or less
urgent. The Talmud records an amazing sequence of three
stories of three people who want to convert to Judaism.
In the twelfth century, Maimonides (Hilchot Avodah
Zarah 10:5) codified Rabbi Yebas insight as law: We offer
non-Jews appropriate greetings, even on their holiday,
in the interests of communal amity (mipnei darkhei sha-
lom). Or as a thoughtful Muslim bus driver put it in Jeru-
salem: My goal is to improve relations with my commut-
ers. Whether Ihab ever actually studied Maimonides is
not clear. That he instinctively understood the spirit of the
great sage is beyond dispute.
In his profoundly authoritative glosses to the Shulchan
Arukh (Yoreh Deah 148:12), Rabbi Moshe Isserles (the
Rema) of sixteenth century Cracow (and a defining pio-
neer of Ashkenazi jurisprudence) also considers how Jews
the majority culture.
Isserles, of course, could have been referring only to
generating ill will if we separate ourselves from them on
their holiday, insofar as we live among them and do busi-
we should rejoice with them! This will prevent ill will. We
(and our friendliness in pursuing commerce the rest of the
year) would otherwise appear hypocritical (and, we might
add, mercenary and self-serving).
The argument has been asserted in some Jewish quar-
ters that Christmas is essentially a secular holiday, primar-
ily celebrated as such, and that the customary greeting
therefore is halachically unobjectionable. This reasoning
should be soundly rejected as demeaning to Christianity,
its holy day, and its sancta. During the Christmas season,
 Opinion

First they approach Shammai with an unfair request

the best known is Teach me the whole Torah while
standing on one foot! Then Shammai shoos them
away, because Judaism rightly maintains standards.
Next they approach Hillel with the same absurd condi-
tion. Hillel quickly agrees, converts them, and teaches
them the tradition in a way that leads them to embrace
it all, which is more than they expected. Hillel doesnt
do this because he has lax standards; rather, he sees
the potential in each of them to meet those standards
eventually.
At the storys end, the three converts gather together
and praise Hillels humility for bringing them under
the wings of Gods presence (Shabbat 31a). The Talmud
here gives Hillel its overwhelming approval.
Very soon, Chanukah will see us gather in the pres-
ence of family, friends, and community. Singing the
blessings and songs by the flickering flames, we rightly
will feel the warmth of community and Gods pres-
ence. We use the shammash candle to kindle the other

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candles.
Lets each be a shammash candle and spread the
light of joyful Jewish living. We cant all be Mark Zuck-
erberg, with 99 million followers. But to our friends
and family who married non-Jewish spouses and their
kids, we can all be Hillel.

Alex Freedman is the associate rabbi at Temple Emanu-El

in Closter. Mark Zuckerberg delivers a commencement speech at Harvard University on May 25, 2017.

we ought to greet the Christians among whom we live in
unprecedented peace and amity (and graciously, indeed,
gratefully accept their greetings) not because we applaud
the secularization of their faith (our own traditions daugh-
ter faith, it might be added) but because we value their
friendship.
During the Christmas season, we ought to greet our
Christian neighbors and gratefully accept their greetings
on principle, because we sincerely value the religious
expression of the majority culture over the deceptive and
destructive allure of secularism and nihilism, with which
the religious enterprise (including our own) competes for
attention and influence. During the Christmas season,
we ought to greet our Christian neighbors and gratefully
accept their greetings even on their holiday because
such a pattern of courteous social interaction was pre-
scribed by the giants of rabbinic leadership from the very
founding of our tradition.
We should rejoice with them, the Rema ruled some
450 years ago, all but explicitly instructing us to be
merry on Christmas! At the very least, the Rema made
clear that greetings conducive to the merriness of those
celebrating Christmas are in no way contraindicated, pro-
hibited, or discouraged by normative and authentic Jewish
practice.
In the next few days, I will be reprising my annual cus-
tom of sending Christmas cards with personal notes and
greetings to a long list of Christian clergy and lay lead-
ers with whom I have been privileged to work coopera-
tively (many of these through my role as the Boy Scouts
of Americas national Jewish chaplain). Among them are
Roman Catholics, Mormons, Eastern Orthodox Christians,
and a variety of Protestants: Methodists, Presbyterians,
Disciples of Christ, Baptists, Salvation Army, Anglicans,
Lutherans, etc.
Each year I select my Christmas cards with great care
(and, I must confess, a significant measure of joy!). Neither
the design nor the printed greeting is to be theologically
wrought (no nativity scenes, no saints, no churches). Yet
neither the design nor the printed greeting is to convey a
secular approach to the Holy Day so treasured by my cor-
respondents (no Santa Claus, no sleigh and reindeer, no
Frosty the Snowman). Furthermore, neither the design
nor the printed greeting is to suggest a syncretistic confla-
tion of Christmas and Chanukah. All these requirements
make my card shopping a daunting challenge.
Thus my joy upon successful identification of a vehicle
for my Christmas greetings!
This year, I selected a simple card, depicting on its cover
two cardinals (of the avian not the ecclesial variety). The
greeting printed on the interior reads, in gold lettering,
Peace and Joy. To the printed message I will add my own ricane Harvey), sent me a colorful Rosh Hashanah card
handwritten Merry Christmas, as well as a full report
on my work, my family, my children and grandson, along
with inquiries about the similar concerns of the friends
and colleagues being addressed.
The goodwill generated by this annual correspondence,
which I have faithfully carried out for 20 years and more,
has been immeasurable. The year I dispatched Christmas
cards from Jerusalem while on a family vacation made a
particularly profound impact. (Card shopping was unusu-
ally difficult that Christmas!)
Peace and Joy, it should be understood, is not simply a
pareve or theologically neutral holiday greeting. It is (at
least from my rabbinic perspective) an artful literary allu-
sion to our own sacred texts. Shoalin bshloman, mipnei
darkhei shalom, Mishnah Gittin reads: We offer them
suitable greetings (literally, We ask after their peace), in
the interests of peace. Similarly, Rabbi Moshe Isserles:
Yismach imahem One should rejoice with them.
Thus, Peace and Joy. Imagine: a (non-syncretistic)
Christmas card quoting both the Mishnah and the Rema.
What a wonderful country! In some ways given the lack
of such amity throughout much of the Jewish peoples his-
toric experience it truly is the most wonderful time of
the year!
It should be surprising to report that my Christmas
cards and the friendship they represent have generated
reciprocated expressions of greeting in anticipation of
the High Holy Days. This year, a dear friend serving as a
United Methodist pastor in Corpus Christi, Texas (with
whom I stayed in close communication throughout Hur-
with a warm personal message. The card is now framed
and displayed in my home, showing the printed sentiment
on the front cover: More Joy. Less Oy!
Achzuku, pastor! Yasher koach! Merry Christmas!
More Joy. Less Oy! The Rema couldnt have said it
better himself. May that sentiment guide us in the Jewish
community throughout the days and weeks ahead.
Joseph Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes.

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Opinion
Speaking up, sovereignty, Frank Galvin, and Balfour
M
ickey: The case is
over. You know,
you broke the
first rule I ever
taught you in law school. Never
ask a question unless you have
the answer to it. Even your own
expert witness said there was
no negligence.There will be
other cases. Martha
Frank: There are no other Cohen
cases, this is the case. There are
NO other cases. This is the case.
- The Verdict
The Verdict, a 1982 film starring Paul Newman, written
by David Mamet and directed by Sidney Lumet, is the story
of Newmans Frank Galvin, once an up-and-coming attor-
ney who became an alcoholic after trying to do the right
thing early in his career. The attempt resulted in his losing
everything being fired from a prestigious law firm, losing
his wife, and barely escaping disbarment. Now an ambulance
chaser, Galvin is handed a medical malpractice suit by Mickey,
his supportive, now-retired partner, a former law professor,
played by Jack Warden. He is asked to settle with a hospital
operated by the Archdiocese of Boston. But once Galvin sees
his client, a young woman who was left in a vegetative state as
a result of gross negligence, he makes the ethical decision to
fight. He is set against a corrupt judge, a win-at-any-cost law
firm representing the powerful Church, and nefarious events
that leave him desperate.
Despite all this, even at his lowest point Galvin knows that
he must fight through, because there will be no other cases for
him if he cant win and put his life back on track.
This November marked the 100th anniversary of the Bal-
four Declaration. On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Sec-
retary Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, head
of the Zionist Federation. In the letter, he recognized the
re-establishment of the Jewish national homeland in bibli-
cal Israel, a land that had been renamed Palaestina by the
Romans after they defeated Shimon Bar Kokhba and his fol-
lowers in the second century. This name change was done
deliberately, to obfuscate any connection between the land
and its indigenous Jewish inhabitants for future generations.
But the Jewish people never forgot Israel or their eternal capi-
tal, Jerusalem, which the Romans renamed Aelia Capitolina.
At the time of the Balfour Declaration, the Ottomans
ruled the area, and the word Palestine was used to
describe a region, not an official entity. In fact, many Otto-
mans and Arabs considered the area to be southern Syria.
The Ottoman rule, which lasted for 400 years, ended with
the end of World War I in 1918. Then the area became
British Mandatory Palestine, encompassing present-day
Israel, Jordan, and the Gaza Strip.
The Balfour Declarations one-sentence statement was the
first official recognition of Jewish national rights by a signifi-
cant world power. That was something for which Theodor
Herzl had labored since the first Zionist Congress in 1897,
which declared, Zionism seeks to establish a home for the
Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.
Herzl was secular, but he became committed to the re-
establishment of Israel after he covered the Dreyfus trial in
France. He saw that Captain Dreyfus was prosecuted not
based on evidence, but because he was a Jew. If this could hap-
pen in France, Herzl thought, it could happen anywhere. And
so political Zionism the Jewish peoples right to self-determi-
nation was born. Herzl understood that only the sovereign
powers of the day could grant the Jews the right of sovereign
power. Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally
secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people, he said.
48 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
Paul Newman, in front, and Jack Warden, to his right, in The Verdict.
Our first objective is the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by
international law.
And this is what Britain, one of the sovereign powers of that
time, did with the Balfour Declaration. His Majestys govern-
ment views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best
endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being
clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prej-
udice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish com-
munities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed
by Jews in any other country, it said. To be clear, the Balfour
Declaration did not create the modern State of Israel, but it
confirmed the pre-existing right of Jews to live in their ances-
tral home, now referred to as Palestine.
The declaration led to endorsements around the globe,
including from President Woodrow Wilson. It was submit-
ted to and approved by the Council of the League of Nations
in 1922; then it was incorporated into the Mandate and ulti-
mately codified into international law. As Alan Dershowitz
points out, The State of Israel was established by the pen
and the law, and defended by the sword, in contrast to most
other countries that were established by the sword.
At the American Zionist Movements conference in Wash-
ington, D.C., last month, Israels ambassador to the United
States, Ron Dermer, talked about what sovereignty means to
the Jewish people. First, it offers the blessing of a shield and a
sword. After centuries of being a powerless people, we no lon-
ger have to beg others to protect us. Many at the conference
could not help thinking about the plight of the Kurds today.
Second, it offers the blessing of Israel as a refuge. Israel is
the answer for Jews around the world who are in danger.
Third, sovereignty restores Israels voice among the
nations. Israel can and will have its say but, the ambas-
sador reminded us, along with the right to speak comes the
responsibility to speak when necessary. He talked about
Prime Minister Netanyahus speech to Congress about the
JCPOA, aka the Iran deal. Though there were those people
who painted the speech to Congress and the American peo-
ple as a partisan move, the ambassador made the point that
especially in times of existential threat, it is incumbent upon
any sovereign state to raise its voice. And that is what it did
and will continue to do whenever the future of Israel or Jews
around the world are in danger.
Dermer referenced the delegates from 32 countries who
met at the Evian Conference in 1938 to discuss the urgent
plight of the Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria. The Nazis said
they were willing to allow the Jews to go to any country that
would take them. It was a disaster for the Jews, because only
the Dominican Republic allowed any significant increase in
Jewish immigration, and it sent a clear message to Hitler that
there would be no consequences for his treatment of the Jews.
Golda Meir and Chaim Weizmann were in Evian as observ-
ers, but they were not permitted to talk. Meir wrote in her
autobiography that she was not even seated with the del-
egates, although the refugees under discussion were my own
people. She told the press after the conference: There is
only one thing I hope to see before I die and that is that my
people should not need expressions of sympathy any more.
After Evian, Weizmann said, The world seemed to be divided
into two parts those places where the Jews could not live
and those where they could not enter.
So what does sovereignty have to do with Frank Galvin?
Frank understood that without fighting for justice without
fighting to give a comatose patient a voice in bringing the
powerful to justice he would never be able to believe in
himself and be complete.
No fully sovereign nation can be denied its capital. For
those who pretend this doesnt matter, last weeks UNGA vote
should be sobering. On Thursday, Nov 30, the UN General
Assembly passed six anti-Israel resolutions, including one
that denied Israels ties to Jerusalem, saying that Israels rights
in Jerusalem have no validity whatsoever and calling for
respect for the historic status quo at the holy places of Jeru-
salem, including the Haram al-Sharif, in word and practice.
No mention of the Temple Mount, in essence erasing any Jew-
ish connection, for the only indigenous nation of the area. The
vote passed 151 to 6, with 9 abstentions.
Like Frank Galvin, we must acknowledge that if we do not
raise our voices, justice will not be done. Without world recog-
nition of our ancient historical claim to Jerusalem as the eter-
nal capital of the Jewish people, Israel cannot be complete.
We know the right thing to do, the only course of action, is
to move the American embassy to Jerusalem. If we dont do
it now, 151 nations out of a total of 193 will continue working
hard to erase Jerusalem, the heart of the Jewish people, from
the land of Israel.
The Jewish land cannot survive without its heart. As Frank
Galvin said in his closing argument, We need only to believe
in ourselves and act in justice.
Martha Cohen is an award-winning producer and creative
executive. She lives in Fort Lee with her husband and son.
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Dvar Torah
Vayeshev: Stories of our ancestors
P
arashat Vayeshev brings a series
of controversial stories. First,
Jacob, the father, shows favor-
itism for one of his children,
Joseph. Jacob does this in front of the
others! And as a result, the brothers hate
Joseph, instead of confronting Jacob for his
unjust behavior.
Joseph, disregarding the humiliation
he was causing to his brothers, tells his
dreams about how they will one day pros-
trate in front of him.
Josephs brothers sell him as a slave and
he ends up in Egypt. His brothers deceive
Jacob by soaking in blood the colorful
dress his father gave him. They let Jacob
grieve for Josephs death knowing he was
still alive!
In the meantime, two sons of Judah
were killed by God. Er, his firstborn for
misconduct; the second, Onan, for refus-
ing to procreate with his brothers child-
less widow, Tamar, to build his deceaseds
brothers house and name.
Judah didnt want to give her
his third son, fearing that she
is a black widow or bad
luck. Tamar takes a risk for
the Law to be fulfilled and
dresses like a harlot and gets
Judah (who saw her in the
middle of the road and didnt
recognize she was his daugh- Rabbi
ter-in-law) to impregnate her. Alberto
Judah left some items with (Baruch)
her as security for payment. Zeilicovich
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that she be killed by fire. She
shows him the items he left
with her as security and he acknowledges
his wrongdoings while praising her for
her rightness.
Joseph, now at the house of a high-
ranked officer of the kingdom, is accused
of sexual misconduct towards the lady of
the house and ends up in
jail were he learns the value
of humility and the danger
of arrogance.
After this brief introduc-
tion to the stories of our
Torah portion, I can only say:
What a family! Are these my
ancestors? And is there any-
thing positive to learn from
this parasha?
The Torah is not a book
of history. It is a book about
life according to a set of val-
ues and regulations, with the
intention of building a just
and moral society. The sto-
ries in our parasha teach us the good and
the bad: how to behave justly and how to
avoid behavior that is wrong.
Jacobs favoritism for Joseph initiated a
chain of events ending with the Israelites
enslaved in Egypt. We learn that hate and
jealousy can lead to murder, torture, and
the violation of human rights.
On the other hand , Tamars righteous-
ness and love for justice initiated the fam-
ily that later (and thanks to another great
woman, Ruth) became King Davids dynasty,
bringing the Mashiach to the world.
And Judah, accepting the responsibil-
ity of his actions and praising Tamar for
her bravery, becomes the father of one
of the tribes that will pass his name to
the entire Hebrew nation: Jews ( JUDos
in Spanish). Its no wonder that the Jews
were and will be the first ones to support
every cause that fights for human rights
around the world.
When we understand that the Torah
doesnt have saints and that our ancestors
were human beings, with their flaws and
grandeur, we can enjoy the stories that
shape us, and through us the culture of the
Western World in the pursuit to build a just
and better society every day.

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 The Frazzled Housewife
Circle of life stuff
H
i. I am sitting at my com-
puter trying to come up
with a column that will blow
your mind. That will make
you laugh AND cry AND contemplate
the world around you. Well, the world
around us has a great deal going on. That
whole gosh-darn circle of life.
I went to visit my aunt tonight I
havent seen her since shiva
was over. I mean I have spo-
ken to her at least two times
a week since my uncle died,
but being in the apartment
for the first time in three
months was weird and sad,
and it must be even weirder
and sadder for my aunt.
And then, to make matters
more depressing, one of Banji
my good friends is sitting Ganchrow
shiva for his mother. Like
my uncles sickness, it went
really fast. Too fast. Everyone thought
that they might get better, but they
didnt. And though you think there are
those moments of clarity, when every-
thing would be okay, those havent come
yet, and it is sad and daunting.
Cant anyone admit that it is just really girl who has just moved to the suburbs
depressing? People are born and people
die and the one constant is that they
leave behind people who love them. And
then hopefully, all will move on, and all
will find some kind of happiness again..
But really this is getting too depress-
ing, and I wanted to write about some-
thing else. So here we go. Last week, I
spoke to a very large crowd of woman at
my parents shul. It was their sisterhood
event and they were kind enough to ask
me to be a part of the celebration. I was
very excited because I was speaking
only to woman, not to men, and I could
choose any topic. It seemed appropriate
that I pick a topic that was appropriate
only for women. So much so, that the
title of the topic was Mammograms,
Menopause and Other Unmentionables
Things You Dont Talk About When
You Only Have Boys. It was brilliant!
Do you know how many topics you can
never talk about when you only have
boys? Well, I do, because, as you know, I
only have boys.
Boys only like to talk about sports, well, roses and appreciate where you are in
mine do anyway. And not just real sports,
like why the manager of the Giants was
fired (or why it took so long for him to be
fired.) Like who the new Yankee manager
is. (And why I thought it was Aaron Judge
When we finally grow up and realize
what life is really like, we wish we
were an 11-year-old girl again!
Football Phraseology
Crossword
By Yoni Glatt, koshercrosswords@gmail.com
Difficulty Level: Easy
the player, not Aaron Somebody Else who
used to be a playerI am a girl, give me a
break.) In my house, we also talk about
the Yeshiva League sports, which are pri-
marily hockey and basketball, played by
students who go to Yeshiva.
Son #1 is the assistant coach for Moriah
middle school hockey, which is only
ironic, because when he was goalie for
his middle school, which
was Yeshivat Noam in
Paramus, his big gest
win was against Moriah.
But now that he coaches
Moriah, we hope that they
win and not Noam. That is
the lesson you learn from
sports you cheer for the
team that you are person-
ally invested in.
Back to my speech.
One of the topics that I
spoke about was the Judy
Blume classic, Are You There God, Its
Me, Margaret. If you are a girl who was
born in the 1970s you probably read this
book, mainly because it taught you all
of the joys of womanhood. Margaret,
Across Down
when we first meet her, is an 11-year-old
1. Buona ___ (Layla tov) 1. Expedition where one might see unique
5. Judges (to be) kosher animals
from Manhattan. Fortunately for her, 10. Chutzpah 2. Removed, as chalk
she makes a whole bunch of new friends 14. Mars, to the Greeks 3. Alleviation, to one on shpilkes
and they enjoy the trials and tribula- 15. (Knesset) topic 4. Syrian leader
tions of womanhood together. Of course 16. Cookie once labeled OU-DE 5. Disrespect verbally, in slang
17. Begin minyan with only nine? 6. UWS time zone
there is drama, because there is always
19. One finished with Hebrew U. 7. Carlebachs ___ Einai
drama when you are dealing with girls. 20. Chinese and Thai, e.g. 8. Bill of Groundhog Day
Even when those girls grow up, there is 21. Like one hurrying to make it to shul 9. Shidduch arrangement
a drama. 23. Lou and Willis 10. Vincent van ___
In my speech I talked about the 24. Went into the air 11. 52-Across, essentially
26. End of yom tov? 12. Most skinny (like a cow in Pharaohs
where is she now about Margaret. Did
27. Maybe the most important letters in dream)
they stick their beloved grandmother in Israel 13. Skiers cottages
a nursing home? Did her parents move 28. Like venison, some say 18. Naval rank: Abbr.
to Florida? Is Margaret happily married? 29. Make like Joseph with Egypts grain 22. Fuller House actor John
But my question is does she still ask 31. Grape liquid some use for kiddush 24. Shoestring
33. Refine, as metal 25. Rises to prominence
God questions about life ? And when are
34. They create new Jews 28. ___ tzedakah
things finally going to happen to her? 36. These puzzles always have one 30. Synagogue section
It seems that all we want to do is grow 37. Jewish wedding fragments 31. One of the Ramones
up when we are younger, and then, 38. Rebbetzin ___ Mushka Schneerson 32. Expose, as a superhero
when we finally grow up and realize 39. Paper purchase 33. Where Anna met a king, in a musical
40. Dough machine? 34. ___ teams (34-Across, essentially)
what life is really like, we wish we were
43. Unlikely locale for Jewish remains 35. Grand hit for Ian Kinsler
an 11-year-old girl again! Yup, back to 44. Involuntary wink, for example 36. ___ in Manila (Ali/Frazier bout)
the circle of life. So if you are a young 46. (Jason) Schwartzmans mom Talia 38. Coffee measure
reader, and all you want to do is grow up 48. Outer layer of notable tref 39. Didnt have enough (oil for the
and drive and do adult things put on 50. Those born in Israel Menorah)
51. Go upside down, like Aly Raisman 40. Windpipe, e.g.
the brakes, kiddo! Take time to smell the
52. Ben-Gurion landings 41. Prophetic state, perhaps
55. Tefillin area bone 42. Neatniks banes
life. Trust me! 56. Angelic glows 45. Israeli breads
57. Defensive spray 46. Like the tragic story of Chana and her
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck doesnt want 58. Is far behind during services seven sons
59. Its ___ Rock and Roll to Me (Billy 47. Mushroom cloud former, for short
to be 11 years old again. She would rather
Joel) 49. Some Dead Sea resorts
be 16. That was a good year for her. 60. Shaloms 50. The Giving Tree author Silverstein
53. Mind Medicine author Geller
54. Baseball legend Ripken
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 66.
Jewish Standard DECEMBER 8, 2017 59
Arts & Culture
Foxtrot
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
T
he worst possible thing that can happen to
the parents of a child in the army is to see
a cadre of army officers, about to knock
on their door or ring their doorbell.
Shmuel Maozs brilliant Israeli film, Foxtrot,
begins in this way, as we arrive, on the backs of these
carriers of dreadful news, at an Israeli couples apartment.
Most Americans can relate to this only from a handful of
films or television shows that show such scenarios, but
for Israelis, tragically, it not such a farfetched reality. Over
the years, it has been all too common. Most Israelis know
firsthand someone who died during a terrorist attack or
military service.
In Foxtrot, Michael and Dafna open the door to their
home. Immediately, without a word uttered, they under-
stand why these people are there. Dafna faints and the
media immediately drugs her and takes her away to her
room. Over the next several minutes, in what seems an
infinite amount of time, we watch Michael struggling with
his grief. Writer-director Maoz does not spare us for one
moment, as Michael, in extreme close-up and presented
from a multitude of camera angles, tries to make sense of
the loss of a child.
Maoz wants us to delve into the psyche of this wounded
parent, a child of Holocaust survivors, who has grown up
in the pressure cooker we know as Israel. In his childhood,
Michael learned early on that he could not complain, that
he had to repress his emotions, because his parents life
had been hell and he had it so much better. Compounding
this intergenerational transmission of suffering and anx-
iety, he had fought in wars, experienced the horrors of
those encounters, and had his own post-traumatic stress
60 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
disorder. With this tumultuous history, who can face the
worst of all life horrors, the loss of a child?
I had an opportunity to talk to Shmuel Maoz at the
Toronto International Film Festival in September. The
55-year-old director had served in I.D.F.s Tank Corps
during the First Lebanon War. Shortly after the hostili-
ties began, his commander ordered him to fire on a sus-
picious vehicle. The enemy in that war did not wear a
uniform; it was never quite clear whether the man Maoz
killed in the car was a bad guy. He has struggled with
that ever since.
Then, years later, as a parent, one morning he told his
eldest daughter that he no longer would pay for her to take
a taxi to school when she overslept, and he sent her off to
take Bus #5. Half an hour later, he learned that the bus
had been a terrorist target and that dozens of riders had
been killed. With the citys cellular circuits overloaded, he
waited for more than an hour for news. Then his daugh-
ter walked in the door, telling her dad that she had just
missed catching that very bus. How do I deal with such
moments? he told me. That hour was the impetus for
this film.
It seems that with each new film, the acting of Lior
Ashkenazi, who plays Michael, only gets better. Begin-
ning with his breakout role as a young Georgian bachelor
in the 2001 film Late Marriage, opposite the late Ronit
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Elkabetz, he had starred in such films as Walk on Water,
Footnote, and last years Norman with Richard Gere.
His acting is absolutely mesmerizing. Joining him
in a standout performance is Sarah Adler as Dafna,
who after waking up from her drug-induced sleep,
also must contend with the harrowing news.
But this film is not just about the encounter in
the apartment. There are two more acts in this
classically crafted film. In Act Two, in flashback,
we get to learn about Jonathan, their soldier son,
and his tour of duty. We get a sense of what it is like
for a soldier on a remote Israeli border to have to
check passing cars, an act that could bring about
his imminent death. Act Three is far more complex, as we
are forced to confront a situation where issues that possi-
bly should be out in the open are repressed and kept from
being discussed and debated. In many ways, this is Maozs
allegory, his call-out for a more open society.
Foxtrot is an exceptional work of art that transcends
politics and psychology. Though laced with humor, not
everyone will feel good watching a film that can be seen as
challenging aspects of Israeli society. Miri Regev, Israels
Minister of Culture and Sport, took direct aim at the movie,
which was supported in part with Israeli tax dollars. With-
out even seeing it, she claimed it to be offensive and
denounced it as contributing to the anti-Israel narrative.
Foxtrot is a film made by an Israeli, in a society
that not only allows for but actively encourages artistic
expression. Foxtrot, the winner of the Grand Jury prize
at the Venice Film Festival and Israels submission for the
Oscar for best foreign language film, is passionate and
insightful and should be a must for anyone who loves
Israel. The film opens today for a brief one-week theatri-
cal run in New York City. It should reach neighborhood
theaters in late winter.
Eric Goldman teaches at Yeshiva University and is host of
the new film interview program, Jewish Cinematheque,
televised on the Jewish Broadcasting Service.
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Chanukah at Home the recipes to bake annual bazaar and food to 5 years-old, at the
Depot: Chabad of everything again at court, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Westwood Community
Paramus and Friendship home. Dinner included. Early birds welcome at Center, 10 a.m. 55
Circle partner with Home Reservations, Leron, 9 with a $10 donation; Jefferson Ave. (201) 666-
Depot in Paramus for (201) 408-1467 or www. free after that. Tricky 6610 or RuthB@JCCNNJ.
a Chanukah menorah jccotp.org. tray auction, hot dog Dr. Ira Spar org.
workshop, 6:30 p.m. cart, and bake sale. A
Build a wooden menorah, Chanukah for young new Facebook page Ancient Israel in
get a workers apron, professionals in lets you preview some Ridgewood: Dr. Ira Spar,
and Chanukah treats. Hoboken: JNFuture of the available items. professor of history
Recommended for North/Central NJ Young 1666 Windsor Road. and ancient studies
those 5 and older. The Professionals group (201) 833-1322 or www. at Ramapo College,
Home Depot, 520 Route meet for Light Up the emeth.org. discusses Biblical
Rabbi Ron Hoffberg 17 North, Paramus. Night Chanukah, a Archaeology: From
Reservations, Zeesy@ party with a DJ, open School open house Camels to Kings at
Barbara Balkin
BCFriendship.com. bar, and refreshment, at in Livingston: Joseph Temple Israel & Jewish
Shabbat in Teaneck: Birch Bar, 8-11 p.m. For Kushner Hebrew Community Center, A cappella in Wayne:
Rabbi Ron Hoffberg Childrens cookie swap: professionals in their Academy holds an open 10:30 a.m. The lecture The premier a cappella
discusses Czech Files: The Kaplen JCC on the 20s and 30s who share house, 10 a.m. 110 South concludes his three-part singing group the
Inspirational Stories Palisades in Tenafly a passion for Israel. 93 Orange Ave. Allison series, Revealing the Maccabeats, originally
of Jews Returning to hosts the Cookie Swap River St., Hoboken. Anna, Lyons, (862) 437-8050, Past: Archaeology & the formed in 2007 as
Judaism at Temple for second to sixth (973) 593-0095, ext. 826, alyons@jkha.org, Bible. 475 Grove St. Yeshiva Universitys
Emeth, 8 p.m. Rabbi graders, 7:30-9:30 p.m. or arichlin@jnf.org. or www.jkha.org/ (201) 444-9320 or www. student vocal group,
Hoffberg, an American Children will break into JKHAopenhouse. synagogue.org. performs in the Rosen

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Performing Arts Center
at the YMCA of Wayne, Chanukah in Wyckoff:
2 p.m. The Metro YMCAs The Chabad Jewish
of the Oranges is a Center of NW Bergen
partner of the YM-YWHA County hosts a menorah
of North Jersey. 1 Pike lighting and celebration
Drive. (973) 595-0100 or at Wyckoff Town Hall,
www.metroYMCAS.org/ 4:30 p.m., featuring the
RosenPac. participation of the mayor
and local officials, Judah
Maccabee & the Dreidel
Man, live music, hot
Chanukah refreshments,
a dreidel-fidget building
set, sand-art crafts,
glow giveaways, a
dreidel bounce house,
and a grand raffle.
(201) 848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org/wyckoff.
Chanukah in Westwood:
Dr. Shalom Fisch Valley Chabad holds
a menorah lighting
TV and comic books
featuring the mayor and
for kids: Dr. Shalom
local officials, music, hot
Fisch discusses Big
Chanukah refreshments,
Bird, Batman, and Bnai
crafts, glow giveaways,
Torah: Using TV and
and a grand raffle, at
Comic Books to Educate
and Inspire Children at
the Westwood Train
Station, Broadway and
Congregation Beth Aaron
Westwood Avenue,
in Teaneck, 7:30 p.m.
5 p.m. (201) 476-0157 or
950 Queen Anne Road.
www.valleychabad.org/
(201) 836-6210 or www.
chanukah.
bethaaron.org.
Chanukah in
Tuesday Ridgewood: The
Jewish community of
DECEMBER 12 Ridgewood, Temple Israel
& JCC, and the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey hold the
fifth annual Chanukah
menorah lighting
party with music and
traditional refreshments
at Memorial Park in Van
Neste Square, 5:30 p.m.
The public menorah
lighting continues
Wednesday and
Tuvia Zimber
Thursday, 4:30, Friday
at 4, Saturday at 5:30,
Caf Europa in Fair refreshments, crafts,
and Sunday, Monday,
Lawn: Caf Europa, glow giveaways, and a
and Tuesday at 4:30.
a social program
(201) 444-9320 or www.
sponsored by Jewish
synagogue.org.
Family & Childrens Road. (201) 476-0157 or
Services of Northern Chanukah in Fort Lee:
New Jersey for Holocaust
Chabad of Fort Lee
survivors, funded in part
celebrates Chanukah with
by the Claims Conference
comedy/ventriloquism/
and the Jewish magic by John Pizzi,
Federation of Northern grand menorah lighting,
New Jersey, meets at the latkes, donuts, dinner,
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ dreidels, chocolate gelt,
CBI for a Chanukah party
face painting, and arts
with kosher lunch and
and crafts, 5:30 p.m.
musical performance
808 Abbott Boulevard.
by Tuvia Zimber,
(201) 886-1238 or
11 a.m.-1 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Chabadfortlee.com.
Ave. (201) 837-9090, ext.
237, or sharib@jfcsnnj. Chanukah in Paramus:
org. Chabad of Paramus lights
a menorah, the Ben Porat
Lens on America: The
Yosef Choir will sing, and
CSI Scholar Fund of
there will be donuts and
the JCC of Fort Lee/
chocolate gelt inside
Congregation Gesher
Paramus Borough Hall,
Shalom presents Dr. Eric
6 p.m. 1 West Jockish
Goldman of Ergo Media
concluding a series,
Square. (201) 262-7172 or
zeesy@bcfriendship.com.
The American Jewish DECEMBER 14
Experience through Chanukah in River
Cinema. Refreshments Vale: Valley Chabad Chanukah in
at 12:30 p.m.; lecture, holds a menorah lighting
Coming of Age:
Jews Have Found an
featuring the mayor
and local officials,
Unprecedented Comfort music, hot Chanukah
Level in America, at 1. refreshments, crafts,
1449 Anderson Ave., Fort glow giveaways, and a
Lee. (201) 947 1735. grand raffle at the River
1 62 Jewish Standard DECEMBER 8, 2017
Vale Community Center, YJCC Foundation and
6 p.m. A childrens show Schmidt Endowment.
by Caser the Magician Entertainment and
will follow. 628 Rivervale kosher lunch. 56
Road. (201) 476-0157 or Ridgewood Road. (201)
www.valleychabad.org/ 666-6610 or RuthB@
chanukah. JCCNNJ.org.
Chanukah in Chanukah in Woodcliff
Englewood: The Lake: Valley Chabad
Englewood Chamber of
holds a menorah lighting
Commerce and Friends
featuring the mayor and
of Lubavitch of Bergen
local officials, music, hot
County host the 13th
Chanukah refreshments,
menorah lighting in front
crafts, glow giveaways,
of City Hall, with latkes
and a grand raffle in
from Hummus Elite,
front of the Gap store
donuts, and dreidels,
at Tices Mall, 5 p.m.
and music by a childrens
423 Chestnut Ridge
choir from the Kaplen
Road. (201) 476-0157 or
JCC on the Palisades. www.valleychabad.org/
6 p.m. To encourage
chanukah.
shopping in downtown
Englewood, parking is Chanukah in Paramus:
free through December Chabad of Paramus
30. 2-10 N Van Brunt St.
lights a menorah and
(201) 567-2381.
offers donuts and gelt,
and Yeshivat Noams
Wednesday choir will sing, inside the
Bergen Town Center near
DECEMBER 13
the Whole Foods Court,
6 p.m. (201) 262-7172 or
Book club in Tenafly: zeesy@bcfriendship.com.
The Kaplen JCC on the
Chanukah in Allendale:
Palisades continues a
monthly book club with Valley Chabad holds
a menorah lighting
Ben Nelson, professor
emeritus of English and featuring the mayor and
comparative literature local officials, music, hot
at Fairleigh Dickinson Chanukah refreshments,
University, 1:30 p.m. crafts, glow giveaways,
Season concludes with and a grand raffle in
Nutshell by Ian front of the Allendale
McEwan. 411 E. Clinton Library, 6 p.m. 500
West Crescent Ave.
Ave. (201) 408-1496 or
jccotp.org. (201) 476-0157 or www.
valleychabad.org/
Chanukah in Woodcliff chanukah.
Lake: Valley Chabad
Chanukah in Glen Rock:
holds a menorah lighting
Glen Rocks townwide
featuring the mayor
inaugural menorah
and local officials,
lighting is outside Kilroys
music, hot Chanukah
Wonder Market, 6 p.m.
Jewish families of Glen
Rock, residents, the
grand raffle, at Old Mill
Chabad Jewish Center
Pond, 6 p.m. 1 Werimus
of Northwest Bergen
www.valleychabad.org/ County, and the Glen
chanukah. Rock Jewish Center
host a celebration,
Chanukah in Franklin Rock the Lights with
Lakes: The Chabad
Jewish Center has a
live music, food, and
childrens activities
menorah lighting and
celebration on the front
Privately funded
event. 288 Rock Road.
lawn of Franklin Lakes jewishfamiliesofglenrock@
Borough Hall, featuring gmail.com, www.
Mayor Frank Bivona and chabadplace.org or www.
local officials, Judah grjc.org.
Maccabee, the Dreidel
Chanukah in Scotch
Man, glow giveaways,
live music, hot Chanukah Plains: Temple Sholom
refreshments, a dreidel- of Scotch Plains will host
fidget building set, sand- its annual Chanukah-
art crafts, and a dreidel themed version of Lego
bounce house. 5:30 p.m. Night, 6-7:30 p.m. Along
(201) 848-0449 or www. with building creations,
chabadplace.org. there will be dreidel
games, music and songs,
donuts, latkes, chocolate
Thursday gelt, and drawings for
Lego menorahs. 1925
Lake Ave. (917) 710-8444
or www.sholomnj.org.
Washington Township:
To celebrate the holiday,
the JCC of Northern NJs
Friday
DECEMBER 15
Active Adult program
meets at Temple Beth
Or, noon. Sponsored Shabbat in Washington
by the Bergen County Township: Temple
Calendar
Beth Or offers Lots when he was 21. There
of Light Chanukah he created a new family
Shabbat, beginning with the London Gay
with a community latke Mens Chorus and
dinner, 6:30 p.m. Bring after 19 years, reached
menorah and candles to out for reconciliation.
light; services at 7:30. Viewpoints, a shul
56 Ridgewood Road. committee that was
(201) 664-7422 or www. formed to celebrate the
templebethornj.org . diversity of the Jewish
community, includes
Shabbat in Closter: programs that highlight
Temple Beth El invites the interfaith, interracial,
the community to 101 and LGBT communities.
Menorahs, a family- 1666 Windsor Road.
friendly Shabbat/ (201) 833-1322 or www.
Chanukah service led emeth.org.
by Rabbis David Widzer
and Beth Kramer-Mazer Chanukah in Glen
and student cantor Rock: The Glen Rock
Julie Staple, 6:45 p.m. Jewish Center hosts a
Bring a menorah and community menorah
seven candles. Latkes lighting, with fire baton
after the service. 221 twirling by Rabbi
Schraalenburgh Road. Jennifer Schlosberg,
(201) 768-5112 or www. hot cocoa, donuts,
tbenv.org. dreidels, chocolate
gelt, arts and crafts for
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
children, 5:30-7 p.m.
682 Harristown Road.
Jacob has a Chanukah (201) 652-6624 or
Shabbat, 7 p.m. 176 West office@grjc.org.
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725
or info@bnaijacobjc.org. Chanukah in
Ridgewood: Temple
Shabbat in Woodcliff Israel & JCC invites
Lake: Temple Emanuel the community to
of the Pascack Valley bring a menorah and
offers Chanukah family
candles to a community
services and a concert, celebration, 6: 30 p.m.
8 p.m. 87 Overlook Drive. Evening includes a dance
(201) 391-0801 or www. party by Arthur Murray
tepv.org. dance instructors, latke
bar, salads, childrens
Shabbat in Teaneck: movie, and activities.
Temple Emeth hosts
Bring unopened
a Chanukah Shabbat cleaning supplies or
dinner at 6 p.m., followed
toiletries to be donated
by the annual community
to Ridgewood Social
family Chanukah Services. 475 Grove
service featuring the St. Reservations,
Temple Emeth Band (201) 444-9320 or www.
at 8. Bring menorahs, synagogue.org.
candles, friends, and
a nonperishable food Chanukah in Fort Lee:
item to donate to the Chabad of Fort Lee
Center for Food Action. holds its annual menorah
1666 Windsor Road. lighting, with music,
Dinner reservations, donuts, latkes, and gifts
(201) 833-1322 or www.
for the children, at the
emeth.org. entrance of Horizon Road
in Fort Lee, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday (201) 886-1238.
DECEMBER 16
Sunday
DECEMBER 17
Chanukah in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck hosts a chagigah
for 6- to 12-year-olds,
with a scavenger
hunt and crafts for
younger children,
9:30-11 a.m. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515.
Chanukah in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley offers
Shabbat in Teaneck: Chanukah Alive With
Temple Emeth s
Viewpoints group
Music, a celebration
featuring Sheldon Low,
screens Barak and Tomer 10:45 a.m. 87 Overlook
Heymanns Israeli/ Ave. Reservations,
English documentary
Whos Gonna Love Me
(201) 391-0801 or
Margie@tepv.org
Now, 3 p.m. The film
follows the life of Saar,
Chanukah science in
who was expelled from
Tenafly: The Kaplen
his religious kibbutz
JCC on the Palisades in
and fled to Great Britain
r Calendar
Tenafly celebrates the the Holocaust joins
holiday of miracles with the National Yiddish
science experiments Theatre Folksbiene
led by Liberty Science and Workmens Circle
Center scientists, 11 a.m.- for the family-oriented
noon. Reservations, Latkapalooza!
Leron, (201) 408-1467 or including food, music,
www.jccotp.org. and hands-on activities.
Recommended for
Chanukah in Franklin children from 3 to
Lakes: Temple Emanuel 10. 36 Battery Place.
of North Jersey screens (646) 437-4202 or www.
a video of the Folksbiene mjhnyc.org/events/
Yiddish Theatre latkapalooza/.
Chanukah magic
performing old and
in Closter: Temple
new Chanukah songs
Emanu-El invites the
in English, Hebrew, and
Ladino, 1 p.m. Ice cream
community to celebrate
Chanukah with its clergy
Singles
and popcorn. Canceled if
and congregants with
the weather is bad. 558
High Mountain Road.
a catered dinner by Sunday
Northern Valley Affairs DECEMBER 10 Paul Katz
(201) 560-0200 or www. Courtesy JCCOTP
and extreme magic
tenjfl.org.
by Eric Wilzig, 5 p.m.
Chanukah in Wayne: 180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or
Chanukah in Clifton:
The North Jersey Thurnauer hosting
Architect/Lego guru
Stephen Schwartz guides templeemanu-el.com.
Jewish Singles at the
CJC Meetup group, renowned cellist and teacher
participants in creating 50s-60s, at the Clifton The JCC Thurnauer School of Music at members of the Thurnauer cello faculty.
the largest and tallest Jewish Center, meets for
menorah made from
Legos followed by dinner
In New York lunch and a tricky tray,
12:15 p.m. Participants
the JCC on the Palisades will host world-
renowned cellist Paul Katz, a professor
The class is open to the public; admis-
sion is free.
at Temple Beth Tikvah, can bring a gender- of cello at the New England Conserva- As cellist for the legendary Cleveland
4 p.m. 950 Preakness Sunday neutral wrapped gift tory and founding member of the Cleve- Quartet for 26 years, Mr. Katz made
Ave. Reservations, DECEMBER 10 ($10 value) to participate
(973) 595-6565 or www. in the grab bag land Quartet, in a three-day residency. more than 70 recordings, received
templebethtikvahnj.org. Chanukah in NYC: game. 18 Delaware St. The program, from December 10 to 12, is many distinctions including Best of the
The Museum of (973) 772-3131 or www. on the Art of Teaching and Performing Year awards from Time Magazine and
Jewish Heritage A meetup.com (use group and includes a film screening, a master Stereo Review, 11 Grammy-Award nomi-
Living Memorial to name).
class, and a round-table discussion. nations, and two Grammy Awards. The
Talent Has Hunger will be screened master class is presented as part of the
on Sunday, December 10, at 7 p.m. The Thurnauer School of Musics Sylvia and
film features Mr. Katz and several of his Jacob Handler Master Class series, and
Maccabi basketball tryouts this weekend Conservatory students. On Monday,
December 11, at 4 p.m., Mr. Katz will
will be the 73rd master class offered at
the Thurnauer school since 1996. Each
In preparation for the annual JCC Mac- and 12-year-olds, with over 700 athletes teach a master class of pre-college stu- has featured renowned artists, including
cabi games at the JCC of Greater Baltimore from 15 JCCs competing. The tournaments dents, selected by audition. The class is violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Ste-
on Sunday, May 6, the Kaplen JCC on the help prepare young athletes for the annual open to the public; admission is free. ven Isserlis. The series is funded by Drs.
Palisades will hold basketball tryouts for Maccabi games when they turn 13. On Tuesday, December 12 at 10 a.m., Joan and Alan Handler. For information,
Junior and Mini Maccabi games for Team Minis must be Jewish boys and girls, ages a round-table discussion on the Art call (201) 408-1465.
Palisades on Sunday, Dec 10, from 5 to 7 9 to 10 by May 1, 2018; juniors need to be 11 of Teaching will feature Mr. Katz and
p.m. Girls will try out from 5 to 6; boys to 12 by that date.
from 6 to 7. The 2018 basketball team will Once the team is assembled, partici-
be led by CMEK, a basketball program that pants will begin a weekly practice in
offers specialized training and skills clinics March and compete in two or three week-
to children at the JCC. end tournaments leading up to the games. New Hungarian film
Mini Maccabi is a one-day tournament
for Jewish athletes, 9 and 10-years-old,
There will also be an optional Maccabi
skills clinic.
debuting in Rockland
with more than 400 athletes from eight For information, call Keri Thoren, JCC Distributor Neil Friedmans new film, 1945,
Mid-Atlantic JCCs competing. Junior Mac- youth director, at (201) 408-1476 or go to by Menemsha Films opened for a three-
cabi, also a one-day tournament, is for 11 www.jccotp.org. week run December 1 in New City, N.Y., at
the Bow Tie Theater. Directed by Ferenc
Trk, the film is in Hungarian and has Eng-
lish subtitles.
The film is set in 1945, when an Orthodox
Latke eating Drop off toys for man and his grown son return to a village
in Hungary as the villagers prepare for the
contest Sunday Marine collection wedding of the town clerks son. The towns-
Maadan hosts the annual latke eat- Many Cedar Lane merchants are collect- people suspicious, remorseful, and fearful
ing contest sponsored by Cedar Lane ing toys through December 20 for the U.S. expect the worst and behave accordingly.
Management on Sunday, December 10, Marine Corps Toys for Tots program. The The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of
at 10 a.m., in Cedar Lanes Pedestrian Marines will be on hand to accept dona- the villages deported Jews and expects them
Plaza. Age groups are 12 to 15, 16 to 17, tions on December 15, from 1 to 4 p.m., in to demand their illegally acquired property
and 18 and older. There will be prizes. Cedar Lanes Pedestrian Plaza. Everyone is back.
For information, call Maadan at welcome to drop off new, unwrapped toys, Friedman will be featuring 10 of his fea-
(201) 692-0192 or go to www.cedar- which will be distributed to local, under- ture and documentary films in the JCC Rock-
lane.net. privileged children. For information go to lands upcoming 15th annual International
www.cedarlane.net. Jewish Film Festival, set for April 3 to 30.
For show times and information, call (845) 634-5100. The theater is at 202 South
Main St. in New City.

Jewish Standard DECEMBER 8, 2017 63

Jewish World

Recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital

is naked aggression, Islamic nations warn Trump
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Recognizing Jerusa-
lem as Israels capital would be an act of
naked aggression that would cause the
United States to lose its mediating role
in the Middle East, the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation said.
The statement by the group, represent-
ing 57 countries, came as President Don-
ald Trump delayed a waiver on moving the
U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Presidents have issued that waiver rou-
tinely since 1995, when Congress passed a
law mandating the move.
The resolution, issued on Monday after
an emergency meeting at the OIC headquar-
ters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, warns against
recognizing Al-Quds as the capital of Israel,
the occupying power, or establishing or
transferring any diplomatic mission to Al-
Trumps deadline for issuing the waiver,
which according to the law must be issued
every six months, was Friday. On Monday
evening, the White House said it would be
delayed.
No action will be taken on the waiver
today, an official said. We will share a deci-
sion on the waiver in the coming days.
Trump, who campaigned on a prom-
ise of moving the embassy, walked it back
after assuming the presidency. Recent
reports say that he was unhappy with his
first waiver issued in June and wants to go
ahead and recognize Jerusalem as Israels
capital as early as Wednesday. There have
been conflicting details of what such a rec-
ognition would encompass, and whether it
would involve moving the embassy.
On Tuesday, a day before a rumored
announcement of a change in U.S. policy on
the status of Jerusalem, Trump scheduled
stability and the peace process.
Palestinian officials have said that moving
the embassy would scuttle attempts to revive
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks led by Jared
Kushner, Trumps son-in-law. Kushner, in a
rare public appearance last weekend, said he
was optimistic about restarting the talks.
Significantly, on Monday Saudi Arabia
also warned against recognizing Jerusalem
as Israels capital. Kushner has become
close to the Saudi crown prince, Muham-
mad bin Sultan, and has sought his help in
advancing the peace process.
Any U.S. announcement on the status
of Jerusalem prior to a final settlement
would have a detrimental impact on the
peace process and would heighten tensions
in the region, Saudi Ambassador Prince President Donald Trump speaks at the
Khalid bin Salman, Mohammeds brother, rotunda of the Utah State Capitol in
was quoted by Reuters as saying. The Salt Lake City on Dec. 4, 2017.
kingdoms policy has been and remains  GEORGE FREY/GETTY IMAGES

Quds, given that this is considered a naked calls with the leaders of Israel, Jordan, and in support of the Palestinian people, and
aggression not only on the Arab and Islamic the Palestinian territories. this has been communicated to the U.S. recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital
Ummah, but also on the rights of Muslims The President has calls scheduled this administration. would erode American credibility as an
and Christians alike, and on the Palestinian morning with Prime Minister [Benjamin] French President Emmanuel Macron unbiased mediator, alienate us from our
peoples national rights, including their right Netanyahu, King Abdullah of Jordan and also warned Trump against the move in international partners such as Jordan
to self-determination. Palestinian Authority President [Mahmoud] a phone call. and undermine any remaining hope for a
Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Abbas, the White House said in a state- Mr. Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed that two-state solution.
The Islamic Ummah refers to the worldwide ment. We will have a readout on these calls the question of Jerusalems status had to Jordans King Abdullah persuaded
Muslim community. later today. be dealt with in the framework of peace Trump to walk back from his campaign
Recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital Abbas office said Trump told the Pal- negotiations between Israelis and Palestin- promise soon after Trump assumed office.
would cause the United States to lose the estinian leader he intended to move the ians, with the aim in particular to establish Under an arrangement, Jordan maintains
legal and moral ground and its mediating embassy to Jerusalem. There was no two countries, Israel and Palestine, living some control of the Muslim holy sites in
role, and turning it into a biased party to the report as to when, but Abbas told Trump in peace and security side by side with Israels Old City.
conflict, the resolution said. that such a move would threaten regional Jerusalem as capital, Reuters quoted the Israel has made clear it would welcome
French presidents office as saying after the move. Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambas-
the call on Monday. sador to Washington, told Politico on Mon-
The White Houses readout of the call said day that recognizing Jerusalem as Israels
only that Macron and Trump discussed the capital would convey to Palestinians a
path to peace in the Middle East. message of Hey, wake up. Understand
Chevra Kadisha Taharath Jacob Isaac President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Tur- that Jerusalem is Israels capital. You have
key said that U.S. recognition of Jerusalem to deal with that reality.
Serving the needs of the Jewish community for 35 years as Israels capital was a red line for Mus- Jerusalems mayor, Nir Barkat, meeting
with respect, dignity and strict adherence to halacha lims. He said he would cut relations with with the American Jewish Committee in New
through many funeral homes in the tri-state area. Israel, renewed only recently after years of York, urged Trump to go with your heart.
Family operated for three generations. tensions between the two traditional allies. I pray and hope the president will do the
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in a right thing this time, he said.
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 Obituaries

Marsha Blecher
Marsha Sondra Blecher, 73, of Paramus,
died November 30.
She graduated Bronx High School of
Science, Syracuse University, Bergen
Community College, earned a masters at
Columbia University, taught high school,
middle school, and community college,
and mentored teachers.
She is survived by her husband of
50 years, Stanley; sons, Howard of San
Francisco, and Neil (Suzanne) and their
children, Nathan and Sloane, of Hobo-
ken; and a brother-in-law, Barry Blecher
of Park Ridge.
Donations can be made to American
Cancer Society, or JCC of Paramus/Con-
gregation Beth Tikvah, Paramus. Arrange-
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December 5.
He was an Army Vietnam War veteran,
former member of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center, coach for Fair Lawn All Sports, and
before retiring, a corporate logistics man-
ager at Becton Dickinson Company.
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vived by a son, Jason ( Jessica) of Nashville; a
sister, Barbara Shannon (David) of Los Ange-
les; and two grandchildren.
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ris Post #36 Jewish War Veterans ladies
auxiliary in Paterson, North Jersey
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ter, Randy, he is survived by his wife, Myra,
ne Hollman, and a son, Robert of Glen
Head, N.Y.
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Chapel, Fort Lee.
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Jewish World
Is Auschwitz ready for a peace center?
A Vermont woman thinks so
JON KALISH
A Vermont educator whose grandparents
died in Auschwitz is working to create a
humanitarian institute next to the infa-
mous concentration camp, and some Jewish
observers arent happy.
Nina Meyerhof, 75, sees what she is calling
the City of Hope as a counterbalance to the
grim experience of visiting the Nazi concen-
tration camp, which includes one of the most
visited museums in Europe.
You can imagine that walking through
that horror show, where youre going
through gas chambers, etc., and then com-
ing to a place thats really calm and beauti-
ful and a little cafe and being able to sit and
think about your experience, Meyerhof
said. After youve had that experience, you
dont know what to do with it. Well, what
were saying is you can transform that expe-
rience and carry it forward and make a dif-
ference in life.
Meyerhof hopes to establish the City of
Hope in 11 former Nazi barracks that the Pol-
ish military used after World War II. A newly
formed nonprofit, the One Humanity Insti-
tute, would provide space there for educa-
tion, research, conferences, NGO offices, a
museum, a villa, a garden, and a restaurant.
According to the institutes website, the
Auschwitz center will aim to translate, in
formal and non-formal environments, the
values of understanding, freedom, equal
dignity, justice, equity, harmony, compas-
sion and forgiveness into knowledge, skills,
actions, and projects for communities
across the world.
Asked if she thought Holocaust scholars
and Jewish organizations might object to her
plans, Meyerhof replied, In no way do we
want to take away from the experience of
what people learn and viscerally experience
when they go there.
But Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon
Wiesenthal Centers Israel office and the
organizations point man on Eastern Europe
affairs, called the proposed City of Hope a
terrible idea. Absolutely terrible.
I can appreciate her intentions, but this
is really misconceived, Zuroff said. You
dont want to soften the blow of the expe-
rience of visiting the concentration camp.
People should leave Auschwitz very dis-
turbed. Auschwitz stands alone, and thats
exactly as it should be.
Michael Berenbaum, who served as the
project director during the creation of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Wash-
ington, D.C., and played a key role in the
establishment of Steven Spielbergs oral his-
tory project on the Shoah, also questions the
project. Now a consultant on the creation of
museums and memorials around the world,
Berenbaum said the City of Hope is not the
best use of the former SS barracks.
Auschwitz is a paradox, he said.
68 JEWISH STANDARD DECEMBER 8, 2017
In an email sent Sunday, Meyerhof wrote
that she was hoping to meet directly with
Polands president or prime minister this
week before returning to Vermont.
Were doing a lot of relationship build-
ing, Meyerhof said of the several trips
she and Kocevar have made to Oswiecim.
Part of our design is that financially the
town would benefit from our work, that
there would be a percentage [of proceeds]
that would go to them, thered be jobs,
CHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES
thered be taxes.
The projects website, which does not
contain a single reference to Jews, fea-
tures videos of diplomats and celebrities
expressing their support for the City of
Hope; they include the violinist Scarlet
Rivera and the primatologist Jane Goodall.
There is no more fitting place for cre-
ating a center ... where people can be
The main gate of the former Auschwitz extermination camp in Oswiecim, inspired with a vision of a world where we
Poland, with the infamous sign reading Work sets you free. live together with respect for each other,
Goodall said in a video urging support for
II Birkenau extermination camp be removed. the One Humanity Institute.
Zuroff said that putting the One Humanity Meyerhof is partnering with Robert
SCREENSHOT FROM ONE HUMANITY INSTITUTE
Institute within the Nazi barracks amounted Smith, a former Wall Street trader who
to replacing reality with fantasy. He dis- now runs a network of wealthy families
missed Meyerhof s plans to establish a and institutional investors committed to
research center dedicated to world peace. social change. Smith and Meyerhof met
That research is already being done all in February at the World Summit of Nobel
over the world, he said. Peace Laureates in Bogota, Colombia.
The 11 buildings planned for the humani- She is one of the most tenacious indi-
tarian institute are two- and three-story viduals Ive ever met, Smith said. I could
structures adjacent to the entrance of the see that there was a chance that she could
concentration camp. Meyerhof said the Pol- pull this off.
ish military still has a claim to the buildings. Smith said he intends to raise $3 million
Nina Meyerhof wants to Meyerhof said shes been to war zones as seed money for the City of Hope from
counterbalance the grim experience around the globe, but she did not visit Aus- philanthropists affiliated with Investment
of visiting Auschwitz by building the chwitz until 2014. Her grandparents and Community Visibility, his company. The
City of Hope there. nearly 20 other relatives were killed there. total cost of building the City of Hope is
I had no intention of getting involved pegged at $250 million.
Auschwitz is the single most sacred anti- there. None whatsoever, said Meyerhof, My goal with this is that there be light
sacred site in the world. It is so anti-sacred who ran school programs and a summer that comes into this place of darkness, and
that it has become sacred. I have a problem camp in Vermont, and founded Children of then that light is carried out to other peo-
using it for anything other than telling the the Earth, an organization that encourages ple, said Smith, who raises funds for the
story of the crime that was committed there. spirituality and activism. Permanent Secretariat of the World Sum-
One always has to ask in such a situation, Since then, she said, shes made 10 trips to mit of Nobel Peace Laureates, a nongov-
Is this the most worthy use of so an impor- Oswiecim, the town in Poland on whose out- ernmental organization based in Rome.
tant site? The staff who were part of this skirts the Nazi death camp is located. Meyerhof said the proposal to build
scheme of massive murder where they Meyerhof, a descendant of German Jews, her City of Hope at Auschwitz could be
were housed probably should be used as part said members of her family were deported approved next year and that programs
of the site to tell the story of the men and the from Berlin to Auschwitz. Her mother, who could begin in 2019.
women who lived in these barracks. told Meyerhof that her grandmother was After visiting the One Humanity Insti-
Jewish scholars and activists have fought gassed on the day Nina was born, once tutes newly launched website, Zuroff said
in the past against what they saw as misuses remarked that every person who ever gave the money needed to build the proposed
of Auschwitz and its environs, especially her a piece of candy was taken away. City of Hope would be better spent on the
attempts to universalize or de-Judaize a Meyerhof lived in Israel for a year and said physical preservation of the existing por-
site where, according to the U.S. Holocaust she identifies with Jewish ethnicity more than tion of the former concentration camp,
Memorial Museum, 960,000 Jews were the Jewish religion. I dont have a deep iden- now maintained as a historic site, so that
killed, along with approximately 125,000 tification as a suffering Jew, she added. it doesnt disintegrate physically.
non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and members of Meyerhof and her partner, the Slovenian  JTA WIRE SERVICE
other ethnic groups. theologist Domen Kocevar, have met with
In 1984, a Carmelite convent was estab- both the mayor of Oswiecim and the gover- Manhattan-based radio journalist Jon
lished on the grounds of Auschwitz; Pope nor of its province. According to Meyerhof Kalish [@kalishjon] has reported for NPR
John Paul closed it in 1993, after years of pro- and Kocevar, the governor has discussed the since 1980. His newspaper articles, radio
tests. Activists also have asked for that Catho- City of Hope project with Polish Prime Minis- docs, podcasts and NPR stories are at
lic church built in the 1980s at the Auschwitz ter Beata Szydlo, an Oswiecim native. kalish.nyc.
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Call today at 201-816-2800, ext. 1233,

or apply online at nvebank.com

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*APR = Annual Percentage Rate. APR is accurate as of 10/23/17 and may vary based on loan amounts. WE CLEAN OUT:
Loans are for 1-4 family New Jersey owner-occupied properties only. Rates and terms are subject to
change without notice. The 7-year loan at the stated APR would have 84 monthly payments of $13.12
Basements Baseme
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per thousand borrowed based on a 20% down payment or equity for loan amounts up to $500,000. The Construction Debris Hoarding Specialists
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15-year loan at the stated APR would have 180 monthly payments of $7.03 per thousand borrowed based
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on a 20% down payment or equity for loan amounts up to $500,000. The 25-year loan at the stated APR
would have 300 monthly payments of $5.21 per thousand borrowed based on a 20% down payment or
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