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CONTENTS
Move over SpongeBob,
Winnie the Pooh, and
any number of beloved
childrens characters who
have lent themselves
to product licensing.
Israeli supermarket chain
Super-Sol last week
stocked its shelves with a
line of products featuring
some of the best-loved
characters from Israeli
childrens books.
The line includes back-
to-school backpacks and
wall stickers, as well
as the launch of baby
care products: sham-
poo and wet wipes in
a package that is, in
fact, labeled The Wet
Wipes Library.
Israeli literati greeted
this product with the
calm equanimity for
which Israelis are fa-
mous.
Journalist Noa Os-
terreicher posted on
Facebook: As of today, your children
can wipe their butts with the finest
of HaKibbutz Hameuchad Publishing
Houses classics! Miriam Roth, Leah
Goldberg and Tirza Atar are rolling in
their graves.
A harsh verdict? Not compared
to that of Amir Ben-David, econom-
ics editor for I24news, who posted:
Every time we get to the bottom
and it seems we can go no lower, the
sounds of digging are heard and to
our horror it turns out that another
cultural terror tunnel has been dug
directly below us.
Some of the strong words can be ex-
plained because these characters have
not been commercialized until now.
The closest they came to exploitation
if you could call it that has been
Holons Story Garden, a lovely and
award-winning project of sculptures
of beloved childrens book characters,
including some from Tiras Ham (Hot
Corn) and Maase bHamisha Balonim
(A Tale of Five Balloons), the lost dog
from Ayeh Pluto? (Where is Pluto?)
and many others.
Time Out reporter Guy Farchi was
slightly more forgiving, pointing out
that You cant expect much from
a corporation like Super-Sol but
before rushing to lash out at Hakib-
butz Hameuchad, you must take into
account the difficult situation of the
book market in recent years. Al-
though childrens literature is actually
considered the more lucrative side of
the industry, didnt all this start with
contempt for authors and their work
that forced publishers to market their
books at the lowest prices, leaving no
choice but to be drawn into this kind
of cooperation? Either way, it is inter-
esting that the publisher chose to sell
the rights of authors no longer among
the living. Leah Goldberg, Tirza Atar
and Miriam Roth will not be able to
rise up and object.
Noa Epstein, deputy editor of
Haaretz, came to the defense of com-
mercialization.
You all keep repeating Wipe their
bottoms like its such a bad thing
compared to all the other things one
does with children. Wet wipes, as any
parent knows, arent just for wip-
ing bottoms, they are a world unto
themselves and make up 90% of most
toddler activities. I would gladly give
up Hello Kitty and the Princesses in
favor of Pluto-branded toilet paper,
she wrote.
Super-Sol confirmed that the
branding was done in cooperation
with the publishing house while the
publishers parent body, the United
Kibbutz Movement, declined to com-
ment on the issue.
In the end, the consumer will deter-
mine whether or not these products
stay on the shelves. Oddly enough,
one of the pantheon of beloved char-
acters was missing. Surely HaKina
Nehama (Nehama the Louse) belongs
on shampoo bottles!
RACHEL NEIMAN / ISRAEL21C.ORG
Tenaflys high-octane Israel supporter
Theres no question where the Valero
gas station in Tenafly stands on the
Middle East.
We support Israels quest for peace,
declares the sign standing in front. On
the flagpole, an Israeli flag flies beneath
the American flag.
It helps get dialogue going, says
station owner Robert Obernauer about
his proud and public support for Israel.
He said he was moved to take a stand
after seeing people protesting in sup-
port of Hamas around the world.
I take it very personally, he said.
His grandfather, imprisoned in a con-
centration camp before World War II,
was released and made his way to the
United States in 1938, with his 6-year-
old son, Mr. Obernauers father; they
found a sponsor in this country at the
last minute. Americans in general dont
realize the importance of Israel, Mr.
Obernauer said.
The sign has sparked many conversa-
tions. Lots of people dont understand
why Israel is there and what theyre
fighting for, Mr. Obernauer said. His
customers have been split about 50-50
between agreeing and disagreeing with
his support for Israel, he added.
Mr. Obernauer has owned the station,
on Tenafly Road at West Clinton Av-
enue, for about 15 years. Hes proud to
affiliate with Valero, which is an Ameri-
can-based gas refinery.
Israel has pretty much become the
51st state, so the Israeli flag should
always be flown under the American
flag, he said. Theyre fighting the
same war weve been fighting for years
against Al Qaeda.
LARRY YUDELSON
Israeli childrens book stars
sell out to mixed reviews
Correction
Some caption and photocredit information for Au-
gust 8s cover story, To Israel, with love, were not
included in the story.
The cover shows Fran Hirmes, chair of the board
of Emunah of America, standing with a soldier who
holds a letter; the group brought many such mis-
sives, written by children, to distribute to the IDF.
Both that photograph and all others used to illus-
trate the story were taken by Lee Weinblatt.

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My father said Im chosen / My mother said Im not.
I listened to their story / Of the Gypsies and the Jews.
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Heart (written by Larry
Kramer) and Muham-
mad Alis Greatest Fight,
by SHAWN SLOVO, 64.
Tune in next week when
I think I will have
completed my re-
search and will be
able to tell you if the late
LAUREN BACALL and
Israeli President SHIMON
PERES really are related,
as many sources claim.
When you read this, it
will be almost two
weeks since the
shocking death of
Robin Williams. Here are
just a couple of things
about his Jewish con-
nections. Williams was
born into an upper-class
Episcopalian family,
but he often referred to
himself as an honorary
Jew. I think its fair to say
that his comedic streak
was nurtured by grow-
ing up in Bloomfield Hills,
a heavily Jewish Detroit
suburb. Last February,
he tweeted: When I was
in 8th grade in Detroit, I
went to 13 Bar Mitzvahs
in one year.
Williams often used
Jewish or Yiddish ex-
pressions, and always
correctly. He didnt throw
them out to just show
that he knew them. Most-
ly, he employed them
to advance his clever
comedy. An example is
found in a tribute piece
that the publisher of the
Jewish Journal of Los
Angeles wrote last week.
He recalled that Williams
spoke at a 2005 benefit
for the USC Survivors of
the Shoah Visual Foun-
Lizzy Caplan
EMMY TIME:
Whos in line for
primetime honors
Julianna Margulies
Mayim Bialik Mandy Patinkin
The Primetime
Emmy awards
for excellence in
television are being pre-
sented, live, on Sunday,
at 8 p.m. on NBC. Seth
Meyers is hosting. Here
are the confirmed Jew-
ish nominees in most of
the categories. ACT-
ING: LENA DUNHAM,
28, lead actress, comedy
series, Girls; LIZZY CA-
PLAN, 32, lead actress,
drama series, Masters
of Sex; also in this
categoryJULIANNA
MARGULIES, 48, lead
actress, drama series,
The Good Wife; MAYIM
BIALIK, 38, supporting
actress, comedy series,
The Big Bang Theory;
JOSH CHARLES, 42,
supporting actor, drama
series, The Good Wife;
MANDY PATINKIN, 61,
supporting actor, drama
series, Homeland.
WRITING Emmys: DA-
VID CRANE, 57, comedy
series, Episodes; JENJI
KOHAN, 48, comedy
series, Orange is the
New Black (yes, Or-
ange, a prison drama,
is classed as a comedy);
DAVID BENIOFF and
D.B. WEISS, both 43,
drama series, Game of
Thrones; BRAD FAL-
CHUK, 42, mini-series
or TV movie, American
Horror Story: Coven;
LARRY KRAMER, 79,
mini-series or TV movie,
The Normal Heart.
Note: the Emmy for writ-
ing a variety series in-
cludes the whole, usually
large, writing staff. Three
of the six nominated va-
riety series have a Jewish
star who also co-writes
the show: JON STEW-
ART, 51, The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart; CAR-
RIE BROWNSTEIN, 39,
Portlandia; and AMY
SCHUMER, 33, Inside
Amy Schumer.
BEST OF Emmys:
The Emmy for outstand-
ing series in an individual
category goes to the
series many producers
(the shows creator is al-
most always a producer,
too). Here are the series
nominated for outstand-
ing (best) Emmy with
a Jewish creator or co-
creator. BEST COMEDY
series: CHUCK LORRE,
66, and BILL PRADY, 54,
The Big Bang Theory;
and also Jenji Kohan,
Orange is the New
Black; BEST DRAMA se-
ries: Games of Thrones,
Benioff and Weiss; and
also MATTHEW WEINER,
49, Mad Men; BEST VA-
RIETY series: The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart;
BEST MINI-SERIES: Brad
Falchuk, American Hor-
ror Story: Coven; and
also DAVID SIMON,53,
Treme.
Finally, theres BEST
TV MOVIE. Two of the
nominees have Jew-
ish writers: The Normal
TV to movies new role
for Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner (see above), of Mad Men fame, is
debuting as a feature ilm director with Are You Here,
a comedy that he also wrote; it opens today Friday,
August 22. Steve (Owen Wilson) and Ben (Zach Galiian-
kis) co-star as close friends who return to Bens home-
town after Bens estranged father dies. Ben, kind of a
loser, is shocked to discover that hes inherited the fam-
ily fortune. Bens sister (Amy Poehler) and Bens fathers
gorgeous young widow (Laura Ramsey) are equally
shocked. They plan to vie with Ben for the moolah. N.B.
Matthew Weiner, center, on the set of Are You Here
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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foundation, was the ben-
efit host. Williams was
called upon to provide
the guests with a little
comedy. As the publisher
pointed out, humor at a
Shoah-related event is
hard, but Williams rose
to the occasion. He be-
gan his speech this way:
Ladies and gentlemen,
[Williams said in a Yid-
dish accent], Welcome
to Temple Beth Prada.
This evenings meal will
be milchidik, fleishadik,
and sushidik. In the
same tribute piece, the
publisher recalled that
most celebrities duck out
of benefits early. Not so
Williams he was at the
Shoah benefit until the
end. When the publisher
asked him, as the benefit
ended, about staying to
the end, Williams told
him, This means a lot to
me. Of course. N.B.
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Interactive program uses testimonies to give Schechter students
a new understanding
JOANNE PALMER
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Is there any way to turn that around? To
make any miniscule amount of good come
out of great evil?
The Holocaust as living memory soon
will flicker out. Survivors who can tell their
stories are growing old. Soon it will be just
images, photographs, videos, written and
spoken words.
The Holocaust was pure evil, the
unleashing of the worst human fears and
instincts. There was nothing at all good
about it. But in a soul-affirming act of
reversal, it now is possible, almost 70 years
after it ended, to use it to teach students
how to become better people.
The first steps in that process are never
to forget it, to honor its victims, and to lis-
ten to its survivors.
The Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County in New Milford has been
chosen to partner with the University of
Southern Californias Shoah Foundation,
which is dedicated to that process, in a
program that uses some of the founda-
tions more than 107,000 hours of video
testimony and its highly sophisticated,
searchable database to teach about worlds
lost to genocide and lives lived before, dur-
ing, after, and despite it. It also teaches tol-
erance and decency.
We are the first Jewish day school to be
part of the Shoah Foundation, Schech-
ters head of school, Ruth Gafni, said. It
introduces teachers to methods of teach-
ing using testimonies, and we incorporate
the foundations educational materials
into our school curriculum.
The students from Schechter, which
goes from preschool to 8th grade, will join
about 21,000 other students, mainly in
public high schools, and about 5,000 edu-
cators in 58 countries around the world.
The program is unique in the way that
it allows the school access to the vast
resources the Shoah Foundation has
amassed, Ms. Gafni said. Her schools com-
mitment to it took many years, culminat-
ing in last years trip to Rwanda.
We were able to pull testimonies from
the foundation from Rwandan citizens
who have gone through genocide, and
testimonies from people who have come
through the Shoah, she said. We were
able to see commonalities of behavior
among the predators, and the notion of
the Other. We could see the uniqueness
and magnitude of the Shoah and its impact
on us and on Israel today.
We became partners with the foun-
dation in order to do that you have to
commit to training with their materi-
als, through professional development
and visits to our school from USC profes-
sors, she continued. That takes time and
resources, and it also takes a decision from
our leadership that the Shoah is a subject
that is key to understanding and unlocking
historical events, and to our understand-
ing of the importance of tolerance.
Half of the schools funding for the pro-
gram comes from the Shoah Foundation,
and the other half is from the school, Ms.
Gafni said. The foundations own resources
come from donors around the world.
It also aligns with the inauguration
of our new Shoah resource center, she
said. We have the vision of serving as
a resource to Hebrew schools, public
schools, and other day schools in the area.
For us, the uniqueness is in our ability
to teach the material in a way that is alive
because you are interacting. The testimo-
nies are very personal, and you can focus
on a word or subject. You can teach with
more accuracy. Sometimes, when you talk
to someone, you hope that the person will
say the right thing. Here, you have more
control over the content.
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Hands-on learning for local rabbis
Jerusalems Hartman Institute teaches about war as rockets fall
LOIS GOLDRICH
If local rabbis attend the Shalom Hartman
Institute in Jerusalem to take advantage of
what Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner calls great
learning and great people, this year they got
more than they bargained for.
Rabbi Kirshner, religious leader of Temple
Emanu-El in Closter, who this year spent his
fifth summer at Hartman, said that ironi-
cally, the topic was war and peace in Jew-
ish texts. Little did we know it would be so
relevant.
A lot of rabbis in the diaspora talk about
Israel from a distance, he said. But to be
there, to attend the funerals of the three
boys Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and
Eyal Yifrah, whose abduction and murder
were the catalyst for the ongoing situation in
Israel and Gaza to be familiar with bomb
shelters, makes a big difference.
And, to intensify the situation even further,
he had his family with him.
My youngest didnt quite grasp what was
going on, Rabbi Kirshner said, adding that
the childs conception of securityis looking
both ways before you cross the street. His
older child, however, fully comprehended
it. While she was with him in Tel Aviv, she
was visibly nervous when she heard about
the sirens in Jerusalem, where the rest of the
family remained.
But I told her about Iron Dome and she lit-
erally saw it at work when the rockets started
to fall. She was incredibly relieved to know
that its there.
While his children have been to Israel
many times and are deeply Zionistic, I
would say that for them to have this experi-
ence gives them a different depth and differ-
ent angle on what that means.
Not surprisingly, Rabbi Kirshner said the
conflict was a major focus of conversation
among the rabbis at Hartman.
Its one of those safe spaces for all view-
points, he said. The ethos there fosters
dialogue and mutual respect. He noted that
many who saw rockets falling indiscrimi-
nately became somewhat more hawkish,
pointing out that even such left-of-center
writers as Ari Shavit and Amos Oz drew a
line between a two-state solution and protect-
ing your loved ones. It doesnt mean that they
didnt feel pain knowing the civilian casualty
toll, but it was understandable.
Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky of Teanecks Congre-
gation Beth Sholom also was at Hartman this
year. It was his second summer at the groups
Rabbinic Leadership Institute.
At Hartman, Rabbi Pitkowsky said, we
delve much deeper into an understanding
of what it means to be a leader in the Jewish
community today. But to do it in real time,
not just through texts. We were confronted
with serious questions about the role of the
Jewish state in the world today and the role
of the American Jewish community vis-a-vis
the Jewish state when it is in conflict.
How can we help? Are we in the way? Is
there anything we can do? To be presented
with these questions almost in our faces
meant we had to deal with it on a different
kind of level. Ive been to Israel many times,
but I never had to go into a bomb shelter. Or
have discussions with my children about why
we were changing plans or what it means to
stay, despite the hostilities.
I think they really understood that we
were doing what we could to support the
State of Israel, he said, adding that it was
easier for his children to relate to the concept
of Israel as a home for family and friends.
We care about them and love them,
Rabbi Pitkowsky told his children. Being
here helps us feel closer to them. We tried to
be honest, but present it in a way that was
understandable.
He said that one of the most difficult and
fascinating aspects of the experience was
being in Jerusalem, where most of the time
its very easy to just go about your day as if
theres nothing going on.
Still, he said, whatever they did during the
day, the family would watch the news at night
and talk about it.
Its easy in the incredible Israeli way to go
about regular life, he said. But for the kids,
the disconnect between the news and [their
experience] was very hard to understand.
Discussions among rabbis were spirited,
Rabbi Pitkowsky said. There were definitely
some people who felt that their assumptions
about what the conflict was about were com-
ing under fire, just as their bodies were. Now
they were experiencing a small taste of what
Sderot and Ashkelon were feeling, and ques-
tioning their assumptions about how, and if,
the conflict could be solved.
One of the casualties of the summer was
a sense on the part of many that the solution
is just around the corner if only the groups
would reach an understanding about what
we know is so clear.
The rabbis also discussed their role as
American Jewish leaders. This just accentu-
ated the difference in the lives of Jews in both
countries, Rabbi Pitkowsky said. We were
going to go home.
Rabbi Pitkowsky said he wonders where
those of us there this summer will be in six
months. Now that were back in our home
environment with the usual group of people
living in safety, will those experiences per-
manently mark us, or will they be temporary
glitches? I wonder what well say on the High
Holidays. What is the message? Im honestly
not sure.
Rabbi Ziona Zelazo, a local synagogue edu-
cator, chaplain, and leader of religious ser-
vices, has spent six summers at the Hartman
Institute.
Pointing out that the topic of war and peace
had been prepared a year in advance, she
said that this summer it was not academic,
not theory but very real and emotional.
Rabbi Zelazo, who spends part of every
summer in Israel, said that as an Israeli, I
have experienced three big wars and served
in the army. No way can I say that I feel unsafe
in Israel. Theres turmoil year after year.
But if she did not experience concern for
her safety, she did feel a sense of sadness, of
dj vu I felt it in the kishkes.
The sessions themselves were amaz-
ing, she said, adding that she will never
forget the opening session with Rabbi
Donniel Hartman, the centers president,
where he talked about the challenges of
One of the
casualties of the
summer was a
sense on the part
of many that the
solution is just
around the corner.
RABBI JOEL PITKOWSKY
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the Jewish narrative of peace.
When people talk about peace, they think
about it in different ways, she said. Are we
talking about Isaiah, or about utopia, or about
the Messiah? Are we waiting for God to do the
work for us, or do we need to take action and
look at it as something we need to pursue and
not wait for? How relevant that was.
She also became emotionally involved in
a session on modern poetry, the kind of
poems I grew up with. All those poets were
talking about war. A lot of poems show the
vulnerability of Jews in Israel but say do not
lose hope, keep singing.
She was especially moved by the poem
The Last War, sung by Yehoram Gaon.
I was sobbing at that session, when [the
lecturer] put on those songs. I took it more
personally because I lived through it. I left the
room because I couldnt stop sobbing.
She said that she still is struggling with the
question, Is this the last war? She said she
plans to read that poem when she speaks at
an upcoming fundraising event for Israel.
Rabbi Zelazo said that when the sirens
went off in Jerusalem, there were rabbis
in the middle of the street. They had been
out eating dinner. They didnt know what
to do with themselves.
Afterwards, they met to discuss what had
happened.
I chose not to hear it, she said. I needed
to deal with my own dj vu. As it turned
out, however, she spent the evening comfort-
ing a colleague from California who pan-
icked so much I had to be her chaplain for
the whole night.
Rabbi Zelazo said she is careful to keep the
resource booklets handed out at Hartman
in good condition, because they provide so
much good material for her to use with stu-
dents here.
Its all there, she said, adding that it pro-
vides a good two weeks of intensive study.
Rabbi Neil Tow, religious leader of the Glen
Rock Jewish Center, attended his first pro-
gram at Hartman this summer.
I taught the iEngage curriculm in Bergen
County, so I was familiar with the culture,
approach, and thinking of the institute, he
said. Also, Donniel Hartman had come here
to encourage the use of curriculum. I was
certainly expecting something intellectually
stimulating.
The experience of being on the ground in
Jerusalem with over 100 mostly Conservative
and Reform colleagues was energizing, Rabbi
Tow continued. There were colleagues from
all over the world. It was a great opportunity
to meet people of all backgrounds.
His take-away, he said, was the sense of
chevra, partnership, and sharing that all
the rabbis who came from Israel, North
America, or other nations reported feeling.
It expanded the network of people I know
and will learn with again.
Despite the conflict the program for the
most part went forward without a hitch
from start to finish, Rabbi Tow said although
the institute had to adjust some of the field
trips. And there was a sense that the choice
of the topic war and peace was kind of
prophetic; but at the same time, looking
back, Israel has basically been in a state of
conflict since it was founded.
What was different this year was being
there at a time when the conflict was more
active, he said. In terms of my own experi-
ence, this was the first time I experienced air
raid sirens and going down into the basement
of the hotel.
Tow said he developed a much more
broad and diverse view and acquired many
new resources for teaching about war and
peace in Jewish tradition.
For example, he used some of the mod-
ern Hebrew poetry introduced at Hartman
on Tisha BAv. Seeing some of these issues
through the eyes of modern Israeli poets pro-
vides an interesting and compelling lens, he
said. I brought back great material.
Rabbi Tow said that there was something
strengthening for him about being in Israel
at this particular time to show his support.
Not only did he reflect once again on
how small Israel is, he said, but when the
sirens in Jerusalem went off, he realized
how people down south must feel, hearing
that on a regular basis.
He also received an education in practical-
ities, as he watched tourism, which is so vital
to the Israeli economy, begin to slow down.
Store owners said the business they
hoped for was not showing up, he said. It
was reassuring to see that Birthright and USY
trips were on.
Israel cant make it alone. It needs our
help and support. Part of me was excited to
go home, but I would like to go back.
I feel like I can take the spirit of what I
learned and share it. It gave me some good
energy before the High Holiday season.
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Teanecks Orthodox community raises money for area mikvaot
JOSH LIPOWSKY
The sages say that before a Jewish commu-
nity builds a synagogue or buys a Torah, it
should build a mikvah, the ritual bath used
to observe laws of family purity and com-
plete conversions.
The Teaneck mikvah on Windsor Road,
next to Temple Emeth, was built in the
1970s, and the townships mikvah asso-
ciation opened a second ritual bath this
spring. Set across the street from the Jewish
Center of Teaneck, it is positioned to better
serve families on the south side of town.
The two mikvaot serve about 1,000 people
each month, but rely solely on donations
to cover operating costs. Now, many of
Teanecks Orthodox synagogues are creat-
ing a new kehilla fund fee in their member-
ship dues to help support the mikvah.
Certain things are communal respon-
sibilities, said Michael Rogovin, president
of Teanecks Netivot Shalom. The eruv
and the mivkah are really critical to our
functioning as an Orthodox community.
Its really not a charity, its a religious
obligation the community has taken upon
itself, said Miriam Greenspan, president
of the Teaneck Mikvah. Its said that
before one gives money to their shul, the
first obligation of the community is to build
a mikvah. Its a good message to us to send
to the community and also to our children
that this is a basic part of our Judaism. Its
something we value and support.
The mikvah holds an annual appeal
on Shabbat Parshat Noach the Torah
portion that includes the story of the flood
and Noahs ark because of the tie-in with
water, but it was not particularly success-
ful, she said.
The shul presidents from most of the
synagogues in the Teaneck/Bergenfield
area meet periodically through the year
to provide support and best practices for
incoming presidents, said Jonathan Gellis,
president of Keter Torah and co-president
and co-founder of the presidents group
with Shimmy Tennenbaum, past president
of Bnai Yeshurun.
One of the committees first decisions
was to institute a community-wide $18 fee
per family, which the shuls would collect
to support the maintenance of Teanecks
eruv. After that program proved success-
ful, the mikvah association approached
the council. A majority of Teanecks 17
Orthodox shuls have signed on to the mik-
vah fund, and Mr. Gellis expects to have
full participation by the end of the year.
The shul fee wont solve all of the mikvahs
fundraising issues, but it will help, he said.
Its almost unfair to just rely on volun-
teers to raise all of the money to operate
such a cornerstone of the community, he
said. Were trying to give everyone the
A grandmother lives face to face with terrorism
LESLIE NASSAU
The face of terrorism in the Middle East is
a 60ish grandmother and her 9-year-old
grandson.
Before I left on my first trip to Israel with
the Washington Township YJCC in 2008,
my son said, Youll be surprised at your
response to the trip. It will change you.
Many readers of this newspaper have
grown up with an ingrained sense of
responsibility to aid Israel, both financially
and in spirit. We regularly read about the
terror of the rockets and the suffering of
the border cities. As a Jew, I feel that as
long as Israel exists, we are safe here. That
is the big picture.
But I am not a big-picture person. I am
a microcosm person, most involved with
my immediate family, than my larger fam-
ily. My involvement ripples out from the
family, like the ripples from a rock thrown
into a pool of water. Eventually the ripples
touch the entire pond. Thats where Roni
and her 9-year-old grandson come in.
They are now part of my small picture.
Our groups visit with Roni was one of
the home hospitalities that were an inte-
gral part of the YJCC trip. Although I kept it
to myself, I didnt see the point of 20 Amer-
icans drinking coffee with an Israeli. My
mistake. This stranger opened her home
and her life to strangers from New Jersey.
We nibbled cakes and coffee in Ronis
living room while she talked about her life
in Netiv Haasara. It is a moshav, a cooper-
ative community, composed of small farm
units, about 400 residents. Two of her five
children and their families live there, too.
In the 1970s, Roni and her husband
lived in the Sinai. He was an agricultural-
ist, teaching Israelis and Egyptians how
to grow bigger and better crops. When
Israel withdrew from the Sinai, Roni and
her family left their home voluntarily, and
they resettled in Israel in 1982. This was
the price of peace, she said.
Their new home of 27 years is
only 30 miles north of the old one, but the
weather is cooler, the soil sandier, and the
water supply more limited, all major chal-
lenges for farmers. Her husband continued
to teach agriculture. There was only sand
when we came, she said. Now, trees.
In 2001 the missiles started falling. Her
moshav, her resettled home of 27 years,
is located on todays Israel-Gaza border,
approximately 300 feet from the northern
border. You can see the separation wall
and the barbed-wire fence at one end of
the community. You cant see them from
Ronis house because trees block the view.
You can see her safe room. Its rein-
forced concrete, about the size of a large
laundry room in your home. When there
is a signal of a rocket attack, you have 20
One of the pools in the Windsor Road mikvah.
Leslie Nassau, at left, approaches the separation wall.
Is this the face of terrorism? Ronit
lives in Netiv Haasara.
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opportunity to participate to alleviate the burden on
the volunteers.
Netivot Shalom alerted its members about the
new fee last week, and so far the response has been
positive.
We see it as our communal obligation, Mr. Rog-
ovin said. Of course, with the tough economy, some
members may have difficulty meeting all of their obli-
gations, and we work with them to accommodate their
needs. But the addition of a kehilla fee has not gener-
ated any opposition.
The mikvah is something for which everybody in
the Jewish community should feel responsible, Netivot
Shaloms Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot said.
In Europe, that was the model and everybody
contributed because everybody recognized the sig-
nificance, he said. Like in America, we pay taxes for
things we dont immediately use but we recognize the
importance of them for a flourishing society. Even if
Im 70 years old and my children have finished public
school, I pay taxes because its important for my com-
munity. Were all in this together.
Asked if the kehillah fund could become a model
for additional fundraising for the day schools, Rabbi
Helfgot said it is the ideal structure. Mr. Rogovin,
speaking for himself and not on behalf of the shul, is
open to exploring the creation of a similar fund for
day schools and making it a communal obligation just
like in the public school system, where the majority of
people who pay do not have kids in the school system
because its not tuition its a communal obligation to
provide education.
For now, though, the shuls are collecting for only
the eruv and the mikvah, which are very important
parts of observant Jewish life, Rabbi Helfgot said.
One of the pillars of Jewish law is taharat mishpacha,
keeping the laws of family purity and ensuring people who
are observant have access to a normal healthy married life,
he continued. Whenever Jews came to a new community
they ensured there was a synagogue, a mikvah, a cemetery,
and a school. These are the touchstones of life to have a
normal healthy family and healthy marital relations and to
sustain our holiness, including in the sexual realm.
In addition to money, the fee also can help raise aware-
ness. For women, going to the mikvah is a private matter,
and so children do not learn as much about it, Ms. Greens-
pan said. Creating communal support for the mikvah is a
good message to give our future generations. Its just a good
message in general for all communities to see that Bergen
County believes this is a responsibility.
To learn more about Teanecks mikvaot, go to www.
teaneckmikvah.com.
seconds 20 SECONDS to get into their safe room.
Even when Roni is walking outside, she says that a
small part of her consciousness is always calculating
the location of the nearest safe room.
Her grandson is 9 years old. He also lives on the
moshav. When he watches TV, someone has to sit on
the couch next to him. When he goes to the bathroom,
someone has to walk with him and wait outside the
door until he comes out.
I also have a grandson. I have seen him when he is
frightened. His face contorts and his body stiffens. To
make his fear vanish, he needs only a hug.
How do we stop the rockets.? How do we reach indi-
vidual Palestinians and start talking? Not at them but
with them. I dont know. Maybe you do. Or you could
tell this story to someone who does know. Then we
can begin to create ripples of change without the harm
of the rocks.
Before I left for Israel an acquaintance gave me a
dollar. Its for charity, he said. Its only a dollar, but
its a symbol. You give it and then you come home
safe. When you return, you have to tell the story.
At Passover we read the Haggadah every year to tell
the story of the Jewish people and our quest for free-
dom. We read it to make us feel as if each of us had been
redeemed from Mitzrayim, from a place of narrowness.
This is another story about Jewish people and freedom.
I am asking you to tell it so that we can create a different
future and not need to retell this story next year.
Then this 9-year-old boy can come home safe.
Leslie Nassaus published writing includes both fiction
and non-fiction. She lives in Hillsdale.
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The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey visits Israel
LARRY YUDELSON
T
hey didnt want to sit on the
sidelines.
So last week, they went to
Israel on a mission with the Jew-
ish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Instead of sitting in my family room
with my iPad reading the news in Israel
and feeling bereft, I was standing shoulder
to shoulder with the families in the south
who are suffering, said Nina Kampler of
Teaneck, who helped organize the trip as
its volunteer chair.
The group spent most of its time in the
south, but ventured north to visit the fed-
erations sister city, Nahariya, at the end of
the trip. The visit combined meeting with
Israelis, including the wounded and the
mourning, and hearing from experts.
We were able to witness a society just
beginning to emerge from the depth of
the war but still reeling from its enormous
impact, while directly infusing the people
we met with support and love, said Ms.
Kampler, whose husband, Dr. Zvi Marans,
is president of the federation.
We helped our brothers and sisters in
Israel not feel as isolated and neglected. It
made them feel stronger and more con-
nected. And in turn, it made us not feel
distant from Israels trauma, she said.
The trip was Israel Blums first involve-
ment with the Jewish federation. Mr.
Blum, who lives in Englewood, had given
the organization his email address when
he attended last months pro-Israel rally
there. As soon we got the information
theyre going to Israel on the mission, I
said book me, he said.
Everyone should have gone. Israel
needs our support. When you go and meet
people in places like Sderot and Netivot
two cities that are near Gaza and among
those most affected by rocket fire from
Hamas theyre waiting to see people
come and visit them.
The most moving part of the trip for him
was visiting wounded soldiers in the hos-
pitals. He met a soldier wounded in Khan
Yunis in the Gaza Strip, and gave him
money to renovate his apartment.
Hopefully he will make full recovery,
Mr. Blum said.
The participants on the trip raised some
money for federation to fund specific proj-
ects, including supporting a tank battalion
and providing air conditioning for a shel-
ter, said Jason Shames, the federations
CEO, who led the trip.
The main goal of the trip was to show
support for our family in Israel through
thick and thin, and to send the message to
the rest of the world that Israel matters,
and the double standard is unacceptable,
Mr. Shames said.
Israel is extremely relevant to our com-
munity and a common fiber for all of us,
he added.
Over the last two months, the federation
raised more than $570,000 for its Stop
the Sirens campaign to help Israelis cope
with the crisis. That amount came from
more than 1,200 people, and exceeded the
amount expected. Israel is the common
denominator, Mr. Shames said.
Fred Fish of Englewood said he found
the morale of the Israeli population as
high as I ever remember in the two dozen
plus times Ive been to Israel the first
being back in 1962.
The high morale came from a cross-sec-
tion of Israeli society, including the uni-
versity professor and the cab driver, the
waiter and the doctor.
He said that for him the most mov-
ing moments of the trip were visits with
wounded Israeli soldiers and a dinner
with lone soldiers, including one who was
a native of Englewood.
The group also visited an Iron Dome
anti-rocket installation.
On a physical basis, its very unimpres-
sive. Its two batteries, a couple of pieces
of equipment, a Quonset hut. Its like two
tanks, Mr. Fish said.
In view of its small size, Its incom-
prehensible how effective they are. Nine
protect the entire country, he said with
amazement.
Ms. Kampler said that more than any
other trip Ive taken since my first trip in
1977, this validated the living miracle that
is Israel.
We had the opportunity to play with
kids in an absorption center, who were
actually drawing pictures of the war, of the
good guys vs. the bad guys, as children are
wont to do. We visited with families who
had lost a husband or son in the war, and
extended our deep condolences.
We climbed hilltops overlooking Gaza
and really understood just how close the
danger. We spent time at a kibbutz that
was empty of residents, because of the
proximity of the tunnels, and was hosting
a celebration for 300 soldiers back from
Gaza, she said.
The group also received briefings,
including from staff at the U.S. embassy,
members of Knesset, national security offi-
cers, and the head of the IDF department
dealing with kidnapped soldiers and those
missing in action.
The group also visited Nahariya. As
Israels most northernmost city, it had not
been threatened from the rockets from the
south. But its boys went off to war, and the
federation group met with the family of a
soldier who had been killed in Gaza.
Ms. Kampler said it was a privilege
to help the people in Nahariya feel
connected and validated during these
stressful times. Its a beautiful, bilateral
relationship. These connections are grow-
ing deeper and theyre broadening.
The final event on the trips schedule
was a buffet dinner in Nahariya hosted
by a group of women. After the dinner,
the Nahariya residents turned to us and
said, when youre ready to come, and
if God forbid America becomes another
France, our homes are your home, Ms.
Kampler said.
Scenes from the
federations mission of
support for Israel.
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New COO at Bergen YJCC
Abby Leipsner has been named
chief operating officer at the Bergen
County YJCC in Washington Town-
ship. In this newly created position,
she serves as the YJCCs chief pro-
gram officer, directly responsible for
leading all aspects of program devel-
opment and growth.
Ms. Leipsner has a strong back-
ground in programming as well as
managerial experience in both the
Jewish and secular not-for-profit sectors.
She was head of childrens services at the
JCC of Greater Baltimore
and then program direc-
tor at the Jewish Federa-
tion of Greater MetroW-
est, N.J. Next, she was the
director of special events
for the American Cancer
Society of New Jersey. At
the YJCC, she has been
outreach coordinator for
PJ Library and director of
the Open Hearts, Open Homes program
for Israeli teens.
Abby Leipsner
Sen. Booker keynoter at Fort Lee gala
The New Synagogue of
Fort Lee held its annual
gala dinner dance at the
Rockleigh Country Club to
celebrate its 25th anniver-
sary. More than 160 people
came to the dinner, which
honored Fort Lees Mayor
Mark Sokolich; its police
chief, Keith Bendul; its
deputy police chief, Tim-
othy Ford; and Detective
Keith Kosuda, president of
the Fort Lee PBA. Special
honors also were given to
the synagogues founder,
the late David Ehrenpreis,
its first president, and to
Steven Sakin, its first vice
president.
Fort Lee Deputy Police Timothy Ford, Police Chief Keith Bendul, Mayor
Mark Sokolich, Detective Kevin Kosuda, Senator Loretta Weinberg,
Assemblyman Gordon Johnson, and Rabbi Meir Berger. PHOTOS COURTESY NSFL
Mayor Mark Sokolich, with back to photo,
Senator Cory Booker, and Rabbi Meir Berger.
IDF captain speaks
at Shaarei Orah
Captain Oded Cohen, a commando in the
IDFs elite Egozi unit, spoke earlier this
month to a crowd of nearly 100 people at
Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation
of Teaneck. He discussed his experiences
in Gaza and the situation in Israel.
Afterward, Tehillim (psalms) were
recited and the prayer for the Israel
Defense Forces was led by Shaarei Orah
member Ezra Douek, a retired IDF offi-
cer who fought in three of Israels wars.
Rabbi Haim Jachter, Shaarei Orahs rabbi,
concluded the evening with a call for
increased love among the Jewish people.
Captain Oded Cohen and Rabbi Haim
Jachter.
Local named to post
at American Academy
for Jewish Research
Professor Ephraim Kanarfogel of Teaneck, an E. Billi Ivry Univer-
sity professor of Jewish history, literature, and law at Yeshiva Uni-
versity, has been named to the executive committee of the Ameri-
can Academy for Jewish Research, where he joins colleagues from
Columbia and Princeton universities, and the universities of Michi-
gan, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. The American Academy for Jew-
ish Research represents the oldest organization of Judaic scholars
in North America. Fellows are nominated and elected by their
peers and thus constitute the most distinguished and most senior
scholars teaching Judaic studies at American universities.
Professor
Ephraim
Kanarfogel
Harman appointed to YU post
Yeshiva University President Richard M.
Joel recently announced the appointment
of Jacob Harman as the new vice president
of business affairs and chief financial officer.
We are excited to make this announce-
ment as Jake brings to YU a deep skill-set
with more than 35 years of experience
and expertise as a seasoned well-rounded
financial executive, Mr. Joel said. We
are confident that Jake will provide new
energy, focus, and commitment to YUs
finance operations at this important junc-
ture in the Universitys development of a
long-term sustainable business model.
Mr. Harman will lead the universitys
finance functions and help develop and
implement financial and operational plans
to support and meet the strategic goals
set by the university. He will serve on the
executive cabinet and work closely with
senior vice president Josh Joseph on stra-
tegic initiatives.
Before joining YU, Mr. Harman spent
his career at KPMG, where most recently
he was a senior audit partner in the firms
Office of General Counsel. Previously, he
was a partner in several areas of KPMGs
activities, including its assurance, forensic,
and mergers and acquisition practices. He
also is a certified public accountant.
NYC 5K to benefit
the Lone Soldier Center
This Sunday, August 24, the Lone Sol-
dier Center will host Run With Israel,
a 5K run/walk in Central Park. Race
time is 10 a.m. Afterward, there will
be a post-race event at Ramaz Middle
School, 114 E. 85th St., between Park
and Lexington avenues.
It costs $36 to register. Sign up online
at goo.gl/2b9bQf. The event benefits
the Lone Soldier Center. For questions,
email RunWithIsrael5K@gmail.com or
visit www.LoneSoldierCenter.com.
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Whats up with the Times?
A
few weeks ago, one of our op
ed columnists, Helen Maryles
Shankman, wrote about her
agonized split with the New
York Times, the broadsheet that won her
heart when she was young.
Because she is a wonderful writer,
Helen effortlessly made clear the fact that
she is a liberal, and so the break was hard,
but still her allegiance not only to Israel
but to fairness made it necessary and
inevitable.
We here have not reached Helens level
of resolve, but once again the Times has
proved her point.
Last Sunday, two related stories,
beginning on the front page of the whole
massive rubber-banded bundle, delved
into the horrors of Israeli organ dona-
tions and transplants. Under the head-
lines Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure
Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica
and A Clash of Religion and Bioethics
Complicates Organ Donation in Israel,
the stories, both by reporter Kevin Sack,
showed Israelis to be ensnared both by
what he sketched as archaic religious
law and by pernicious, soul-deadening
selfishness. They are unwilling to allow
their own organs to be donated, he
wrote. Instead, he implied, they prey on
the poor; what they are not willing to
give themselves they are willing to buy,
for next to nothing, from desperately
poor people. The Israeli thugs profiled
are sinister wily and dodging law
enforcement; they have nimbly shifted
operations and in return have pock-
eted enormous sums.
Does that sound familiar to you? Maybe
it sounds like the Jewish villains who have
disgraced the pages of Western classics for
centuries?
The main Times story is almost unread-
ably long, a detailed, emotionally charged
piece of writing with unmistakable vil-
lains theyre the Jews with the tattoos
and misled, misused victims.
It is probably true. There is no reason
to doubt the reporting.
It is also true, as the sidebar story
points out, that traditional Jewish stric-
tures against organ donation have made
Israeli families, like Jewish families
around the world, less willing to donate
their organs when beloved relatives die.
(Often that decision has to be made in
the first shock of sudden death, because
when people die slowly their organs tend
to be unusable.)
In this country, rabbis from across the
Jewish spectrum, including the Ortho-
dox world, have stressed the importance
of organ donation. They say that it is an
active mitzvah, because it saves lives.
It is true that not enough Jews are
comfortable enough with organ dona-
tion, and many organizations, includ-
ing the Halachic Organ Donor Soci-
ety, which is Orthodox, are trying to
change that. It is also true that rab-
bis are finding it to be a harder sell in
Israel, where there still is a great deal
of rabbinic opposition that combines
with a natural distaste, than it is in this
country.
But it is impossible not to think about
the storys placement and timing and
wonder what the Times editors possibly
might have been thinking. Although its
front-page placement blared its impor-
tance, it was not particularly timely; it
was based on information and interviews
carried out over the course of the last
few years. But it did come on the heels
of inflammatory story after inflammatory
headline after inflammatory photograph
about Israel and Gaza.
So, New York Times, whats up? Was
Helen prescient? Why was this story
placed when and where it was? What can
you possibly be thinking? And what are
we to think about you? JP
A Fein life
I
t would be hard to overestimate the
impact of Leonard Fein on Ameri-
can Jewry and on this writer.
Leonard Leibel as he was
known to intimates, which sadly I was
not died last week at 80.
He was an example of how one man
could, again and again, create some-
thing to meet an obvious need in the
Jewish community that nobody else had
noticed with an innovation no one else
had thought to invent.
It was nearly 40 years ago that, together
with Elie Wiesel, he launched Moment
Magazine. His hope was to bring the
New Yorkers literary sensibility to Jew-
ish affairs. He generated a communal
conversation while cultivating fine Jew-
ish journalism and casting a spotlight
on important Israeli writers and thinkers.
More than I could have realized at the
time, my parents subscription to Leon-
ard Feins Moment, which I read as an
adolescent, shaped my notion of what it
means to be an American Jew and to be
part of the American Jewish conversation.
In 1987, Leibel sold the never-profit-
able magazine to another entrepreneur
and we all have missed the old Moment
ever since.
Leibel picked up his pen again regularly
in 1990, when he became a columnist for
the revived Forward, and he was writing
until the end.
But all his editing and writing was just
one piece in a life that included teaching
political science at Boston universities
and writing books on American Jewry.
He created Mazon, the Jewish food
charity to which we regularly and
proudly donate advertising space.
That was in 1985. He had just turned 50.
In 1996 he created the National Jew-
ish Coalition for Literacy. Our own
Bergen Reads is part of that effort. So
while Leibels memory will inspire us
in many ways, the most public and
appropriate would be this: Think about
volunteering for Bergen Reads. Just an
hour a week of tutoring can change the
life of child and yours as well.
Now is the perfect time to volunteer
and make plans for the soon to begin
school year.
Call Beth Figman at (201) 820-3947, or
email her at bethf@jfnnj.org.
Tell her Leibel sent you. - LY
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Mystifying
optimism
A report on Israels
wounded warriors
T
he most jolting thing about visiting
wounded Israeli soldiers from Operation
Protective Edge at Tel Hashomer Hospital
near Tel Aviv is how upbeat they are.
One soldier, 19 years old, was shot in the back of the
head. The bullet shattered the bones in his skull, per-
manently ripped out his hearing, and exited through
his right eye. After six weeks in the hospital he is just
beginning to recover. But that did not stop him from
springing out of his bed, hugging me and my family,
and thanking us profusely for visiting.
Another soldier, a 22-year-old commander, had
his entire right arm shattered by shrapnel and lost
his thumb. The doctors
planned to amputate, but
a courageous surgeon
undertook a 5-hour oper-
ation to reconstruct what
he could. The soldier
faces two grueling years
of physiotherapy and the
possible restoration of 70
percent of his arm. But
still he joked and laughed
with us the entire time. I
asked him if he was sleep-
ing and he said, No. I get
night terrors about the battle and all the pills they
give me cant stop them. So I try and stay awake. A
moment later he was back to his jovial self.
Yet another soldier had his leg shattered by a gre-
nade. Bones were taken from the right leg to save
the left. With great effort, he hopped from his wheel-
chair to jump into the bed of an even more seriously
injured soldier to take a picture with him.
Then there was the soldier who experienced severe
head trauma when a missile was fired at his tank.
Long lines of stiches covered his shaven head. He said,
Look at this, and showed us a printed sheet of paper
on the door of his hospital room that read, Bar Refa-
eli. Please visit. The soldiers need you. Refaeli appar-
ently saw a picture of the poster on her Facebook wall.
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Mystifying
optimism
A report on Israels
wounded warriors
T
he most jolting thing about visiting
wounded Israeli soldiers from Operation
Protective Edge at Tel Hashomer Hospital
near Tel Aviv is how upbeat they are.
One soldier, 19 years old, was shot in the back of the
head. The bullet shattered the bones in his skull, per-
manently ripped out his hearing, and exited through
his right eye. After six weeks in the hospital he is just
beginning to recover. But that did not stop him from
springing out of his bed, hugging me and my family,
and thanking us profusely for visiting.
Another soldier, a 22-year-old commander, had
his entire right arm shattered by shrapnel and lost
his thumb. The doctors
planned to amputate, but
a courageous surgeon
undertook a 5-hour oper-
ation to reconstruct what
he could. The soldier
faces two grueling years
of physiotherapy and the
possible restoration of 70
percent of his arm. But
still he joked and laughed
with us the entire time. I
asked him if he was sleep-
ing and he said, No. I get
night terrors about the battle and all the pills they
give me cant stop them. So I try and stay awake. A
moment later he was back to his jovial self.
Yet another soldier had his leg shattered by a gre-
nade. Bones were taken from the right leg to save
the left. With great effort, he hopped from his wheel-
chair to jump into the bed of an even more seriously
injured soldier to take a picture with him.
Then there was the soldier who experienced severe
head trauma when a missile was fired at his tank.
Long lines of stiches covered his shaven head. He said,
Look at this, and showed us a printed sheet of paper
on the door of his hospital room that read, Bar Refa-
eli. Please visit. The soldiers need you. Refaeli appar-
ently saw a picture of the poster on her Facebook wall.
Opinion
She came and visited. The soldier showed
us the picture. He was elated.
The battle between Israel and Hamas is
not one between Jews and Muslims, Israe-
lis and Palestinians. It is, rather, a battle of
values between those who glorify life and
those who celebrate death. That much
always has been clear. Hamas is nothing
but a gay-hating, women-honor-killing,
Jew-murdering, freedom-crushing, child-
sacrificing fundamentalist death cult. But
I saw the contrast between the Hamas
murderers who aspire to die and encour-
age children to offer their shoulders and
chests in martyrdom against Israel and
Israelis in my visits with Israelis who had
lost children in terror attacks or who had
been severely wounded in battle.
A few days before visiting the hospital,
we traveled to the West Bank home of
Ofir and Bat Galim Shaer. Their son Gilad,
16, was one of the three Israeli teenagers
whose kidnapping and brutal murder pre-
cipitated Israels third Gaza war.
What do you say to the parents of a
child murdered in one of the most grue-
some terror attacks in memory?
I shared that a famous rabbi had writ-
ten a column that said that had the three
teens not died, Israel never would have
known about the extensive Hamas tun-
nels. Hundreds would have died. The
terror attack was a hidden blessing. I
was shocked by the comment and even
responded with a column of my own.
This kind of justification minimizes the
tragedy, I wrote. We Jews are supposed
to protest to God these seeming divine
miscarriages of justice, not find silver lin-
ings in murder.
But Bat Galim disagreed with me. We
miss our child every moment, she said.
But we also want to know he did not just
die in vain. If his horrible death can pre-
serve life, then we have to give it meaning.
She continued, In the wake of our
sons murder, and the Hamas rocket bar-
rage against civilians, the world is now
seeing Hamas for what it is. Theyre
becoming more understanding of Isra-
els position. The European nations and
especially the Americans know that today
its Israel, tomorrow it will be them.
This is an attitude we hear constantly.
Israelis love life. But they acknowledge
that protecting their land comes with
a cost that we in the United States farm
out to just two percent of the population
our brave military whom we almost
never meet.
Nancy Grace may be the only American
TV host who regularly reads the names of
American servicemen killed in Afghani-
stan. Even on days when our country will
bury some 10 soldiers killed in wars in the
Middle East, the United States barely even
feels our loss. We have become so accus-
tomed to freedom that we are almost
unaware of its price. We have forgotten
Jeffersons famous declaration that the
tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time by the blood of patriots
In Israel, however, its a national
mantra.
I spoke to a father who had lost two
sons in the two previous Gaza wars. The
IDF was keeping his third and last son out
of combat so that the family would not
bury its final child. Even so, the father
had lobbied the Army to allow him to
fight because his son was so disturbed
to be left out while his friends went to
war. This land demands taxes, he said
to me, sending a chill running down my
spine. I have had to pay the tax. It hurts.
But its the only way to live here. And we
Jews have no place else to go. Israel is our
only home.
As for me and as a parent of a child
who served in the IDF I cannot under-
stand how Israeli families can accept so
much death and horror surrounding
them. I cannot accept that there is any
blessing whatsoever in the death of a
teen boy. Surely Israel could have found
out about the tunnels through intelli-
gence or informers. I am not a Christian,
and I reject the idea that death can be
redemptive.
Still, I sit in awe at the bravery, courage,
and majesty of the Israeli people. They
are glorious in every way.
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Reboot 2014
The abandonment
of the Jews
I
n an article last week that made my jaw
drop, the Wall Street Journal reported a
profound change in U.S. policy that has
the potential to do long-term damage
not only to the U.S.-Israel relationship, but to
Israels very existence.
And in an equally jaw-dropping reaction,
nearly every major Jewish organization ZOA
proudly excepted failed to make a statement
condemning this change.
Long-standing U.S. policy and law allows
munitions transfers to Israel to go through a
bureaucratic Defense Department approval
process. Reversing that policy last week, the
administration stopped an already approved
transfer, castigated Israel for blindsiding it
by having made the request through routine
channels, and instituted an onerous new
policy to scrutinize future transfers at the
highest levels.
In other words, the adminis-
tration is changing the terms of
our military alliance with Israel.
Now everything is political.
Never mind that the administra-
tions accusations are inconsis-
tent with the words of its own
Defense Department officials,
who repeatedly confirmed that
the process for the transfer pre-
cisely followed existing proce-
dures. This was a routine trans-
fer of munitions that already
were stored at a pre-positioned weapons
stockpile in Israel.
Never mind that Israel is battling for its life
against a terrorist entity that has shot thou-
sands of rockets at Israels civilian population
centers and diverted international aid money
to build a labyrinth of attack tunnels. We
would expect the administration to approve
any resupply of an ally in the midst of such a
war. The fact that it interceded to stop a pre-
approved transfer under such circumstances
is beyond alarming.
Make no mistake, these actions were taken
explicitly to punish Israel for what the admin-
istration perceives as a lack of cooperation or,
perhaps, obedience something not required
of other allies or aid recipients. The anony-
mous senior Obama administration official
last week told the WSJ that the United States
has many, many friends around the world
but the United States is Israels strongest
friend, and that the notion that they [Israel]
are playing the United States, or that theyre
manipulating us publicly, completely mis-
calculates their place in the world. Playing
us? Miscalculates their place? Sounds like
a threat from the bully in my junior high: Im
stronger, so do what I say, or else. These state-
ments make clear the administrations hostil-
ity to Israel. And the resulting action, a power
grab from the Defense Department and a slap
in the face of Congressional intent, indicates
a fundamental change in the nature of the
U.S.-Israel relationship a change that should
concern us deeply.
Once again, this administration has shown
itself willing to play dirty, to use every admin-
istrative power at its disposal to demand
acquiescence or extract a price. We saw it last
month, with the swift and unprecedented FAA
ban on all U.S. flights to and from Israel coinci-
dental to Kerrys arrival in the region to press
for concessions to Hamas. The FAA usually
issues warnings or changes flight paths (as it
did, for example, in areas of the Ukraine after
a commercial jet was shot down); a complete
ban is virtually unheard of. The ban took place
at the height of Israels tourist season, inflict-
ing economic harm on top of reputation and
diplomatic damage. This, too, was done to
teach Israel a lesson that the administration
expects Israel to obey or pay, and that Israels
friends in Congress cant always help.
Given Israels unfortunate location in the
midst of the worlds most dangerous region,
where order is unraveling by the minute, we
cannot take its security, or even its existence,
for granted. A hostile U.S. administration that
will withhold military support, intentionally
inflict harm, or force conces-
sions to Israels enemies, poses
an existential threat to Israel. If
the United States stops exercis-
ing its Security Council power to
block anti-Zionist initiatives (as
it has already hinted it might),
greater physical and economic
harm to Israel, and indeed to
Jews everywhere, could result.
It is a dangerous situation that
will only get worse if nothing is
done to stop it now.
Which raises the question: Where are
the large national Jewish organizations that
should be condemning this serious diversion
from existing policy? As of this writing, among
major Jewish organizations, only the Zionist
Organization of America has publicly con-
demned the recent policy changes. Why arent
more Jewish leaders calling out the adminis-
tration on its bullying and betrayal? Will Amer-
ican Jews again stay silent while other Jews pay
the price?
In The Abandonment of the Jews, David
Wyman documents the U.S. policies that pur-
posefully obstructed the rescue of European
Jews from the Holocaust, and the concurrent
failure of the American Jewish community to
press for policy changes that could have saved
hundreds of thousands of lives without imped-
ing the war effort.
While the mass murder of Jews during the
Gaza war has been more attempted than suc-
cessful, Hamas is no less genocidal than Hit-
ler in its intent or efforts. Yet the White House
actions directly harm Israels ability to fight
this scourge. It is yet to be seen whether the
American Jewish community will speak out
against these policies, or whether we will bear
the guilt of previous generations for failing to
speak up before it is once again too late.
Laura Fein is the executive director of ZOA-NJ,
the Zionist Organization of Americas New
Jersey region.
Laura
Fein
Rabbi Boteach and his family stand with a wounded soldier.
Opinion
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For all we are worth
How much does it cost to free a slave?
W
hat does a person cost?
When I was a kid,
science teachers were
fond of telling their stu-
dents (if they wanted to shock or hum-
ble us) the chemical value of a human
body. It amounted then to about $1.78.
With inflation, today you may be worth
as much as $4.50.
Now, I dont want you to get a swelled
head (because well be needing it at
its regular size), but if you sell off the
components of your body, according to
a 2011 story in Wired, then your heirs
could get $45 million today, according
to Inside the Business of Selling Human
Body Parts. Thats because we live in
the West. Blood, organs, and DNA are
cheaper in the developing world.
The phrase human values normally
has a very different connotation, but I
have a morbid fascination these days
about the price of a person. As I have
mentioned before in the Standard, I
made a commitment last Rosh Hasha-
nah to take an active role in freeing
slaves.
The most recent estimates put the
number of slaves in the world today at
30 million. Federal officials report that
about 60,000 slaves are now captive in
the United States.
The price of a slave is shockingly
low $40 in some parts of the world.
In hard currency and in percentage
terms, the price for slaves actually has
gone down in the United States since the
Civil War. Across the world, life literally
is counted as cheap.
I set a goal to free 100 slaves in a year.
I wasnt sure how I would go about
it, but I committed to finding out. My
first partners were my family and
synagogue. Later, I collaborated with
and learned from local federations,
the New Jersey Commission Against
Human Trafficking, Truah, Breaking
the Chain Through Education, JChoice,
the Rabbinical Assembly,
the Religious Action Center,
and Free the Slaves.
How much money does it
take to free 100 slaves?
More than you might
think, given the cost of
buying a slave on the open
market. You cant just buy
a slaves freedom outright.
It might be dangerous. It
probably would encour-
age the kidnapping of more
slaves. It certainly would require par-
ticipating in the slave economy. And it
doesnt prevent re-enslavement.
Many factors can affect the cost of
liberation. Among them: What are the
local economic and social conditions?
Were the slaves transported, and will
they be far from home when rescued?
What equipment and staff are needed
to secure their freedom? Are police or
government officials likely to help, or
do they side with or fear slavehold-
ers? What immediate medical care will
be required?
It is not enough to pluck slaves from
their environment. They must gain the
resources to maintain their freedom.
Insufficiencies in food, work, housing,
education, and/or the rule of law keep
people vulnerable to trafficking. Most
immediately, those who have access to
schools, health care, and credit are far
less likely to be exploited.
If you have the choice of watching
all your children starve or receiving
payment for the oldest to be taken to a
farm or factory for a good job (even if
you know what that really means), then
you might sell one child in order to save
the others. Ensuring that people have
a viable way to feed their families pro-
tects parents and children from such a
Sophies Choice.
People regularly fall into debt bond-
age, although it is either altogether ille-
gal or practiced with illegal excess. A
man who owes less than $100 dollars
to an employer might be forced to work
it off over decades, and the bondage
commonly is extended to his children,
as well. Workers are charged both inter-
est on the debt and rental fees for the
equipment they use in their labor, so
that backbreaking work over many
years never lowers the pay-off amount.
Bullied and often beaten, these slaves
typically do not know that the law is on
their side. Public education campaigns,
along with community organizing, have
ended debt bondage in many regions
by empowering people to claim their
freedom.
Sometimes you have to improve the
lives of desperate people
who resort to enslaving
other human beings in
order to feed themselves.
Along the Volta River in
Ghana, pol l ut i on and
over-fishing have created
an environmental crisis
for the region and an eco-
nomic crisis for the local
fishermen, who no lon-
ger can make a living. For
some, the solution is to
kidnap children to work as slaves on
their boats. Breaking the Chain Through
Education (btcte.org) helps fishermen
to succeed without slaves, thereby aid-
ing would-be and former captors, even
as they rescue and provide schooling for
enslaved children.
I n Endi ng Sl aver y, Kevi n
Bales, founder of Free the Slaves
(freetheslaves.net), estimates that the
cost for securing long-term freedom
for a single slave in the developing
world varies between $400 and $1,200.
Assuming a cost of $800 per slave, my
partners and I must raise $80,000 in
order to free 100 slaves. That is why
you will see a prominent donate but-
ton at RabbiDebra.com and an account
at jchoice.org for Jews Freeing Slaves.
Its commonplace to assert that you
cant just throw money at a problem.
Well, you cant just throw money at
the problem of slavery, but even small
amounts of well-placed money can
do astonishing amounts of good. Its
worth repeating: with the help of vetted
organizations on the ground, you can
liberate a human being for about 800
bucks.
Not only your tzedakah, but also
your grocery money and clothes bud-
get can be deployed to help end slav-
ery. Fair-trade foods and clothing cost
only a little more in the short run than
the cheapest (slave labor?) goods. In the
long run, your purchasing power can
help change industries and buy peoples
freedom.
Giving of your time also can help to
free slaves. Last January, anticipating
the Super Bowl and the prostitutes it
brings to town, the NJ Coalition Against
Human Trafficking, including Jewish
Federations, the National Council of
Jewish Women, and synagogues, edu-
cated local hotel managers and the
broader community about forced pros-
titution. Hundreds of volunteers dis-
tributed 85,000 bars of hotel soap with
wrappers that featured the Human Traf-
ficking Resource Center hotline. I cant
say that it was that the advocacy and
the soap that led directly to the libera-
tion of 16 minors and 54 adults and the
arrest of 45 sex traffickers. I am confi-
dent, however, that this kind of public
involvement encourages and puts
positive pressure on law enforcement.
Equally important, it helps to change
our culture.
On Friday, September 19, at 7:30 pm,
Maurice Middleberg, executive director
of Free the Slaves, will speak at Congre-
gation Bnai Israel, 53 Palisade Avenue
in Emerson, during Shabbat services.
The pubic is invited. Mr. Middleberg
will discuss Jewish perspectives on
slaves and the practical, concrete steps
that each of us can take to help end
slavery.
We ask in the morning liturgy: What
are we? What are our lives? What is our
piety? What is our righteousness? As
Elul, the month of preparation for the
High Holidays, approaches, those ques-
tions become more urgent. What, really,
is the measure of a person? How are we
measuring up, by Gods standards and
our own?
These questions circle back to the
question with which I began: What
does a person cost? Thats a heretical
question. A better one is: What is a per-
son worth? In particular, what are you
worth? And what is the worth of a slave
you may never meet, but just might be
able to save?
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is spiritual leader
of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson
and a scholar-in-residence around the
country. To learn more about freeing
slaves, go to RabbiDebra.com.
Rabbi Debra
Orenstein
Ensuring that
people have a
viable way to
feed their
families protects
parents and
children from
such a Sophies
Choice.
Fair-trade foods
and clothing cost
only a little more
in the short
run than the
cheapest (slave
labor?) goods. In
the long run,
your purchasing
power can
help change
industries and
buy peoples
freedom.
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Cost of Jewish living
I must reply to Bigger problems than a
kosher bar (Letters, August 1), in which
the writers complaint boils down to its
expensive to be a Jew because of the cost
of synagogue affiliation and the cost of
kosher food.
With all due respect, this is a spurious
argument. Membership dues at most
synagogues are reasonable and in some
cases do not cover the cost of member-
ship and synagogues will work with
members who have legitimate hardship
issues. Kosher food has always cost more
than non-kosher due to costs involved in
ritual slaughter and maintaining kosher
certification.
Fortunately we live in Bergen County,
with a multitude of kosher stores that
keeps prices competitive. There is
an expense involved with affiliation
and keeping kosher but what is the
alternative?
Dropping out and non-affiliation is not
the answer! Bad-mouthing Jewish insti-
tutions is counter-productive! There is a
steep price we will pay if we discard our
observances to save a few bucks.
Other faiths impose tithes and other
financial obligations on their members as
well. I suggest the writer look around at
our Jewish community and see the many
positive things going on, instead of dwell-
ing on the perceived negatives.
Charles Cohen
Fair Lawn
Dead people
cant fire rockets
Seventy years ago I lost most of my
maternal and some of my paternal fam-
ily to the German monsters that carried
out a genocide that they had threatened
years prior.
Now my children and grandchildren
who live in Israel are threatened by a
religion that will not countenance any-
one elses beliefs but their own.
I am sick and tired of hearing people
like Shmuley Boteach say that Islam is
not the reason that the world is on fire,
and that its just a few miscreants who
have hijacked the religion. And I ask
Shmuley and Elie Wiesel why they spent
so much money running full-page ads,
thereby financially supporting left-lean-
ing newspapers that are anti-Israel?
We are the people of the Torah, or at
least we are supposed to be. The Torah
commands that if someone comes to kill
you, you are obligated to kill them first.
Why dont Shmuley and Elie encour-
age the Israeli government to act in a
normal way when rockets are being
indiscriminately fired at their popu-
lace? America and England did what
was normal in trying to obliterate their
enemies during the Second World War.
They did not drop leaflets, they did not
make cell phone calls telling their ene-
mies to escape they did what normal
people do.
The standing policy should be simply
stated. If you shoot rockets at us, the
place where the rockets are shot from
will be destroyed. It makes no differ-
ence where the rockets are launched.
It doesnt matter if its a mosque, a pri-
vate home, a school, a hospital, or a U.N.
installation.
Who cares what the world thinks?
The anti-Semites are coming out of their
holes anyway. Do Shmuley and Elie really
think that their costly ads are going to
make much of a difference? The sad fact
is that the anti-Jews just cannot abide
Jews being successful, having their own
country, building a democracy, or being
the chosen people.
It is very difficult for people who want
to hobnob with the intellectually chal-
lenged Hollywood elites and be wel-
comed into the White House to espouse
such a take-no-prisoners policy. They
would rather make rational arguments
in the face of insanity and barbarism.
In circumstances that the Jewish peo-
ple are faced with today being reasonable
and rational doesnt work. Its a delusion.
How many wars is it going take? How
many dead soldiers are enough? How
many broken families will satisfy the
world? How much misery do families
who have lost loved ones to terror have
to endure? How many destructions,
pogroms, Holocausts, and massacres is
it going to take?
We have it set before us in the Torah
from the mouth of God. Isnt that
enough? If someone comes to kill you,
kill them. Dead people cannot fire rock-
ets at you.
Arthur Aaron
Sarasota, Florida
Safe in New Jersey
Just a word or three concerning Andrew
Silow-Carrolls op-ed (The abstracting of
Israel, August 15). I certainly appreciate
that he understand[s] people ... are
upset with the enormous loss of life in
the latest Gaza operation. But he failed
to answer the question why he appears
to blame this on the Jews. Sorry, but this
great loss of life belongs squarely on the
backs of Hamas. I know it, you know it,
and the rest of the world knows it as well,
but you and the world just plain choose
to ignore it.
You want less loss of life? Tell Hamas
to stop committing war crimes by trying
to kill Israeli citizens by shooting rockets
into Israel. You want human rights for
the Palestinians? Why not human rights
for everyone even Israelis? What soci-
ety knowingly allows terrorists to use
its citizens as human shields? Even wild
animals dont. Sitting in a comfortable
office in New Jersey, not where its kill or
be killed, its easy to intellectualize about
the Israelis actions.
David Neubart
Chandler, Ariz.
Cover Story
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JOANNE PALMER
W
hat exactly is a garmento?
Is it a cringe-making label or a
badge of honor?
Does the stereotypical garmento
embody traditional Jewish values? Or does he (or far
less often she) defy or deny them?
Why did so many Jews go into the rag trade anyway?
And Sam, really, why did you make the pants so
long?
Steven Fischler of Teaneck and his business part-
ner, Joel Sucher of Hartsdale, N.Y., examine these
questions well, at least some of them and simi-
lar ones in a documentary, Dressing America: Tales
From the Garment Center. Created in 2009, it will be
broadcast a number of times on Channel 13 and on
WLIW, beginning on September 2, to mark Fashion
Jews in the
Garment Center
Local documentary maker
looks at Jewish garmentos,
anarchists, musicians, and
other unusual Americans
Andrew Kozinn, the owner of St. Laurie Merchant Tailors, and his son,
Jacob, are interviewed in Dressing America. KATSUMI FUNAHASHI, 2010
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Week in New York City.
The film looks at two things, Mr. Fis-
chler said. It talks about the Jewish immi-
grant roots of todays garment industry.
Some of the Jewish immigrants who came
over didnt have a lot of money, but they
had the skills certainly sewing and
clothes-making was something that Jews
did in Europe. They brought their skills
to this country, and they helped create
the billion-dollar fashion industry that we
have today.
Much of that history is shown through
old photographs and film snippets, and
excerpts from both English- and Yiddish-
language movies.
The other aspect is a little bit of a slice
of life, he said. There are some recurrent
characters, who have been in the industry
for a long time, and reflect the golden age
of the garment industry, before every-
thing got outsourced when people didnt
have 90-page contracts but cut deals on a
handshake.
Of course, he added, the garment
center was much smaller then; much more
of a small town than it is today.
The garment center wasnt all Jewish,
he added; like many of the New York City
neighborhoods where its workers lived,
it also was Italian. But it had a very large
and strong Jewish aspect, and much of
the documentary focuses on it.
Not only did some Jews come to New
York with sewing skills as they came to
Paterson they also brought an entrepre-
neurial orientation and a quick-witted will-
ingness to take chances.
The garment center in New York City
really is womens wear, Mr. Fischler said.
Mens wear is mainly in the Midwest,
particularly in Chicago, with big compa-
nies like Hart Schaffner and Marx. Thats
because mens styles change slowly the
lapel might wax and wane so it is far eas-
ier and safer to produce large numbers of
basic items, and to charge more for them.
But womens fashion changes every year,
and it affects the nature of the business.
Womens fashion companies were much
smaller and more highly specialized, and
it was a more difficult business.
If you picked the right dress, you made
a lot of money. If you picked the wrong
one if, say, you went for a long skirt in
a year when the style was short you
were going to go bankrupt. Bankruptcy is
never pleasant, but it looms less for some-
one who already has left home, crossed a
continent using his wits and then steamed
across an ocean in stomach-turning steer-
age, started a new life from scratch, and
learned that it is almost always possible to
start all over yet again.
There is always a great deal of creativity
in the fashion business, and it is not all con-
fined to the designers (who, by the way,
were not known by name in the ready-to-
wear trade until Anne Klein came along).
In the film, youll see an interview with
John Pomerantz, the son of Fred Pomer-
antz, who founded Leslie Fay, a large,
well-known womens wear manufacturer.
He tells the story of how, during the war
World War II he was asked to make
uniforms for the WACs the Womens
Army Corps. The Army had given Mr.
Pomerantz the sizes they wanted, and told
him that they wanted real clothes for real
people.
After the war, in a test, Mr. Pomerantz
made two batches of clothing, one with
the sizes the WACs gave him, and the other
in the traditional sizing the industry had
been using. He sent both to Filenes Base-
ment in Boston, and the ones with the
smaller sizes the more realistic, WAC-
driven sizes sold out like crazy.
Mr. Pomerantz had created petite sizes.
He ended up running an extremely
profitable business, Mr. Fishler said.
(There is some irony in this. Womens
wear since has gone in the other direction,
with so-called vanity sizing acknowledging
the truth that in the last few decades, most
Pacific Street Film Collective members Howard Blatt, Joel Sucher, and Steven Fischler on location for a WNBC documen-
tary series, Connecticut Illustrated. ED GUILBAUD, 1975
Business partners Steve Fischler, left, and Joel Sucher, shown in 2010, were
childhood friends. LAYLA MORGAN WILDE, 2010
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Americans, men and women both, have
grown larger. The smallest petite sizes Mr.
Pomerantz made mostly likely look Lillipu-
tian now.)
Anne Klein, he added, made that name
for herself by creating the idea of sports-
wear, selling women separates, pieces that
they could match as they chose, and wear
from year to year, perhaps with changing
accessories.
Mr. Fischler, who has lived in Teaneck
since 1990, in many ways is a throwback to
the town as it used to be, when its Jewish-
ness was expressed more through progres-
sive political action than religion.
He comes by his activism naturally. He
grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a mother
from a family of union organizers and
a father who descended from entrepre-
neurs. Both sides of the picket line, he
joked; those two groups also provided
many of the Garment Center stars.
Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher, who met
when they both were 9, have been making
documentaries since they were in college,
working toward undergraduate degrees in
film at NYU. Their first film together, Red
Squad, was a look at police and FBI intel-
ligence gathering in New York during the
anti-Vietnam War movement, Mr. Fischler
said. When we started to make the film,
they started to investigate us, so we filmed
them investigating us. It was inadver-
tently and blackly funny.
We were harassed by the New York City
police, he continued. They didnt like us
filming them. They tried to intimidate us
I was arrested but never charged. We
wrote letters to all the newspapers, detail-
ing the police harassment.
This was in 1970. In 1971, Nat Hent-
off a longtime investigative reporter
at the then provocative and influential
downtown weekly Village Voice (and also
a jazz critic, among many other things)
published the letter on the front page of
the Village Voice. That started a series of
articles that he wrote about us. Immedi-
ately after this coverage started, with the
police getting such negative publicity in
the press, they started to leave us alone.
The two men were not willing to leave
it alone, though. So Joel Sucher and
I became named plaintiffs in 1972, in
Hanschu vs. Special Services Division. That
lawsuit is probably one of the longest class-
action lawsuits in New York State history.
After 14 years, the suit was settled sort
of. There was a settlement with the city,
which set guidelines; there was a window
where everyone could get their records,
and the judge set limits on how under-
cover agents could be used. It was consid-
ered a big victory for civil liberties. It also
was complicated because both federal and
state governments were involved.
And its still not over, Mr. Fischler said.
More recently, after 9/11, the police
department went back to court, and said
that the terrorists are such a threat that we
have to throw out this ruling. The judge
allowed it, but only under his supervision.
The fact that the city had settled under
federal law means that the federal court
has oversight.
Through their production company,
Pacific Street Films, Mr. Fischler and Mr.
Sucher have made about 100 films. Some
are independent documentaries and some
are commissioned; some are biographies
of actors, including Nick Nolte, and others
are more socially conscious and hard-hit-
ting. As is true of artists in just about any
medium unlucky enough to be born with-
out trust funds or rich uncles in Australia,
much of their work is fundraising, particu-
larly for their dream projects.
They also did crew work for domestic
and foreign broadcasters after they gradu-
ated from film school; among their credits
is Saturday Night Live, where they worked,
among other things, on John Belushis
famous Dont Look Back in Anger
segment.
Dressing America is Mr. Fischler and
Mr. Suchers third documentary to focus
on Jews. The first, Free Voice of Labor:
The Jewish Anarchists, made in 1980, was
followed by 1983s Anarchism in America.
Free Voice of Labor looked at the elderly
anarchists as they finally folded their news-
paper, the Fraye Arbeter Shtime.
The Jewish anarchists were anti-reli-
gious, but they approached anarchy with
the religious zeal that would not be unfa-
miliar to religious Jews, Mr. Fischler said.
Their idea of religion was mutual aid.
The second documentary on anarchism
took the filmmakers on a trip across the
United States. We were exploring an idea
that was being discussed at the time are
the ideas of anarchism in some way syn-
onymous with what we think of as Ameri-
can ideas self-reliance, distrust of gov-
ernment, decentralism, a do-it-yourself
ethic, Mr. Fischler said. It included inter-
views with some of the Jewish radicals fea-
tured in the first film as well. Perhaps iron-
ically and perhaps not that film was
funded in part by the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities.
From Swastika to Jim Crow, aired on
PBS in 2001, tells the story of the Ger-
man Jewish academics who escaped the
Holocaust only to find themselves virtu-
ally unemployable in their haven, the
United States. Many of them were able
to get jobs at historically black colleges
in the South, where they developed close
In 1977, Steven Fischler was the soundman for a famous John Belushi Saturday
Night Live segment, Dont Look Back in Anger. TOM SCHILLER, 1977
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Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher now are working on a
project they are calling Music and the Mob, which
grew out of a 1983 documentary called I Promise to
Remember: Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. Frankie
Lymon, one of the first black singers to cross racial bar-
riers, was first the beneficiary and then the cast-aside
victim of Morris Levy, who was Jewish and the godfa-
ther of the music industry in the 1950s and 60s, Mr.
Fischler said.
Mr. Levy died about 10 years ago, and people are
still afraid to talk about him, Mr. Fischler said. He
was a heavy hitter. When he was pressed, Mr. Fischler
defined heavy hitter not as someone powerful, but as
a tough guy. A gangster.
There were allegations of Morriss relationships with
the Gambino family, one of the Mafia families that ruled
this area, Mr. Fischler said. What is interesting is with
the rock and roll industry, black music crossed over to
white audiences.
Stories are legion about black artists who never got
paid their royalties thats why Morris Levy is listed as
the songwriter for Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Young
singers so desperately wanted their songs on the radio
that they overlooked the importance of the copyright. So
in some ways gangsters were responsible for the integra-
tion of the music industry, Mr. Fishler said. Its ironic,
of course. They ripped off the artists, and exploited them,
but they allowed the music industry to change.
Before that, it pretty much had been black artists
writing songs covered by white teenagers in V-neck
sweaters.
Next up? Probably a film about Jersey City, based on a
well-reviewed memoir by Helene Stepinski called Five
Finger Discount. No, she is not Jewish, but among the
books supporters is perhaps Jersey Citys most powerful
Jew, Mayor Steve Fulop.
Who: Steven Fischler of Teaneck and his business
partner, Joel Sucher
What: Their documentary Dressing America:
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These Garment Center pressing machines sit, waiting to be used again.
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REBECCA SPENCE
PETALUMA, CALIF. On a cool Sunday evening, Jew-
ish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage one
by one to perform poems they had composed on the
theme of identity.
One girl riffed on being taunted for having fuzzy eye-
brows and bushy hair. Another rhymed about being
told You dont look Jewish too many times to count.
If this doesnt sound like your typical summer camp
fare, its because Camp Bechol Lashon has a markedly
different mandate than most Jewish camps.
Nestled in the misty hills of Marin County, the north-
ern California camp is the countrys only Jewish sleep-
away camp geared to Jews of color.
Part of the goal is to make these kids feel normal in a
Jewish context, said Diane Tobin, the founder and exec-
utive director of the camps parent organization, the San
Francisco-based nonprofit Bechol Lashon, which pro-
motes racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in Jewish life.
Tobin, 61, and her late husband, the eminent Jew-
ish demographer Gary Tobin, founded the nonprofit in
2000, three years after adopting an African-American
son. Now entering its sixth season, the organizations
camp integrates traditional Jewish practice with educa-
tional activities that speak to the diversity of Jewish life
around the globe.
Each morning, after the more typical fare of Wiffle
ball and field sports, campers gather clues about the
country they will travel to that day before going
through Customs and having their makeshift pass-
ports stamped. Throughout the day, between kayak-
ing and swimming in the pond, campers make food
and crafts inspired by the particular country they are
visiting.
On a recent day, campers spent an afternoon writ-
ing poems in an art room decorated with cultural items
they had made, including woven baskets from Mexico
and feathered raffia masks from Colombia. Aaron Levy
Samuels, a New York-based black-Jewish performance
poet, had flown in for the day to facilitate the poetry
workshop.
Samuels, 25, whose first poetry collection, Yar-
mulkes & Fitted Caps, was published last fall by Write
Bloody Publishing, said that growing up in Rhode Island,
he and his brother were the only two black kids at their
local synagogue. The son of an African-American, Sam-
uels said he identified with the struggles that Bechol
Lashon campers were going through and wished he
could have attended such a camp.
Maia Campbell, 14, of San Francisco, who has gone
to Bechol Lashon since its founding, echoed that
sentiment.
Its been really cool because my synagogue is basi-
cally all white people, said Maia, whose mother is Afri-
can-American. So I saw that there are other people like
me.
The camp is not just for Jews of color, as evinced by
one white campers poem about her identity as a nerdy
Jewish girl. Its also very much a family affair. Tobins
son, Jonah, is a junior counselor and her daughter,
Sarah Spencer, serves as the camps co-director.
The kids all come with very different stories about
who they are and where theyve come to be, said Ms.
Spencer, 38, a marriage and family therapist who also
is the mother of two biracial children. Here they get to
practice explaining who they are to one another and we
help them to feel good about whatever that is.
Savannah Henry, a 21-year-old counselor whose father
Where Jews of color go to feel normal at summer camp
is African-American, said that before her rabbi at Congregation
Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, Calif., told her about Bechol Lashon,
she had spent a miserable summer at a more mainstream Jew-
ish camp.
I was the only Jew of color, she said of her experience at a
Reform Jewish summer camp in Santa Rosa. I just didnt con-
nect that well.
When she discovered Bechol Lashon four years ago, Ms. Hen-
rys outlook changed completely.
If I had been a camper here, I would have fit in perfectly,
she said. Its definitely made me more of a proud Jew.
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Sarah Spencer, right, the co-director of Camp
Bechol Lashon, with counselors Andrea Pressman
and Reece Pressman. REBECCA SPENCE
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Grand strategy for the Middle East?
As always we have to say that we dont know what that has inclueded
S
t rol l i ng through
Jerusalems historic
Yemin Moshe quar-
ter on a pleasant
August morning, my ears
caught a ringing, melodic
sound emanati ng from
within the walls of the Old
City, perhaps half a mile
from where I stood. This
being a Sunday, the sound
I heard was the chiming of
church bells, welcoming Christian wor-
shippers to morning services.
Normally, there is something joyous
about the sound of those bells, particularly
in a city that contains the key holy sites of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But on
this day, I felt a profound sadness upon
hearing them. For Jerusalem, the capital of
Israel, is one of the few places in the Mid-
dle East where despite what malicious
anti-Zionist propagandists will tell you
Christians can practice their faith freely.
In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul,
about one days drive from here, only a
minuscule handful of terriied Christians
remain. The vast majority was driven out
by the savage terrorists of the Islamic State
jihadist group. The ethnic cleansing of
Mosuls Christians was accompanied by
the destruction of many holy sites, includ-
ing an 1,800-year-old church and the tomb
of the prophet Jonah. As Mosuls Patriarch
Louis Sako mournfully observed at the
end of July, For the irst time in the his-
tory of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Chris-
tians. On no Sunday morning in that
beleaguered city will you hear the sound
of church bells.
The Islamic States onslaught has raged
for several months now. Having spread
from Syria into Iraq, the terrorist organiza-
tions aim is to set up an Islamic caliphate
in all the territories it conquers. Its a mis-
take to believe that the national borders
that we in the West recognize as sacrosanct
are in any way respected by these modern-
day barbarians. As far as the Islamic State
is concerned, there certainly is no place
called Israel, and no place called Kurdis-
tan, but there also is no Syria, no Iraq, no
Lebanon, no Jordan. All these states are
regarded as a contiguous territory where
Islamic sharia lawas interpreted by a
group of criminals, rapists,
and torturerswill remain
eternally supreme.
Unless, of course, we in the
West wake up to the threat
and understand that the only
way to roll back the Islamic
State is to pulverize it with-
out mercy, killing as many
of its ighters as we can, and
seizing back some of the crit-
ical locations now under its
control.
There are, thankfully, signs that this
process now is underway. After months of
ignoring a worsening situation, despite the
persistent pleas of our Kurdish allieswho
along with Israel are the best, most loyal,
and most reliable friends the United States
has in the Middle East the Obama admin-
istration now is gingerly offering sorely
needed military and logistical support.
Important European allies, like France
and Britain, are following suit, sending
weapons and advisors to assist the Kurdish
soldiers, the peshmerga, who are the irst
line of defense against the Islamic State.
Backed by U.S. air strikes, the peshmerga
have retaken the key Mosul dam.
There was a horrendous irony in the fact
that while much bien-pensant opinion in
the West was bemoaning a fake genocide
in Gaza, a real one was taking place with
ferocious rapidity in Iraq, beginning with
the Christians and then extending to the
Yazidis, an ancient faith of some 500,000
people who are ethnically Kurdish. And
had it not been for the astonishing cour-
age of a female Iraqi parliamentarian, Vian
Dakhil of the Kurdistan Democratic Party,
the world may well have remained stuck
in its myopia.
Earlier this month, Dakhil took to the
floor of the Iraqi parliament, delivering an
impassioned speech on behalf of her peo-
ple that ended with her breaking down
and sobbing. Many of those who watched
the speech also were in tears as she
choked out those desperate, inal words;
as I listened to Dakhil, my irst thoughts
were of the Polish resistance ighter Jan
Karski and the Jewish Bund international
representative Szmuel Zygielbojm, both
of whom attempted to alert the Allied
powers to the Holocaust befalling Jews
under Nazi occupation.
Then, a few days later, when I learned
that Dakhil had been injured in a helicop-
ter crash while delivering aid to Yazidis
trapped on Mount Sinjar, my heart sank
even more. Thankfully, however, Dakhil
is alive, and continuing to raise her voice
against this grotesque genocide.
The horrors of northern Iraq have com-
pelled the Obama administration both to
quell its isolationist instincts and to delay
the much-vaunted policy pivot from the
Middle East to East Asia. However much
we try, the Middle East will not let us go.
And yet we still have no grand stratey for
the region, no sense of how we want it to
evolve, no doctrine to bring stability to
its suffering peoples. Do we want to pre-
serve Iraqs integrity as a state? We dont
know. Do we want to encourage Kurdish
independence? We dont know. How far
are we prepared to go to prevent the cru-
ciixions, beheadings, and enslavement of
women that have become the hallmarks of
the Islamic State? We dont know.
If we are bombing the Islamic State in
Iraq, albeit cautiously, then why are we
allowing the atrocities in Syria, carried
out by both the Islamic State and by the
Iranian-backed Assad regime, to continue?
No one, apparently, has an answer.
Ive heard it said many times that one
of the reasons President Barack Obama
doesnt like foreign intervention is that he
believes political change can come only
from the people whom intervention is
intended to beneit. Obama is not alone;
the great British political philosopher John
Stuart Mill argued much the same against
the background of the Crimean War of the
late 1850s.
Very well, then let us reframe the con-
cept of intervention in defense of human
rights so that the liberators themselves are
those who otherwise would be liberated
by outsiders.
Within these parameters, we would not
send in troops. But we can provide air sup-
port, military training, and weapons, and
the expertise to create and sustain post-
war democratic institutions by working
with politicians like Vian Dakhil.
Such a stratey will mean staying in
the Middle East a while longer. It will also
mean that when we inally are able take
a back seat, we will have left this region
a much healthier and happier place than
when we found it.
JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen is a contributor to the Wall
Street Journal, Commentary, Haaretz, and
other publications. His book, Some Of My
Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-
First Century Antisemitism, is available
through Amazon.
Ben Cohen
In July 2009, light-armored vehicles with U.S. Marine Corps Task Force 3rd
Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 8, traverse
the rocky terrain of the Sinjar Mountains while deployed to the Nineveh province
in Iraq. The persecuted Yazidis historically have used the Sinjar Mountains as a
place of refuge and escape during periods of conflict.
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ANTHONY WEISS
The streets of North Miami Beach look different since
the murder of Rabbi Joseph Raksin. At Northeast 175th
Street and 8th Court, in the heavily Orthodox neigh-
borhood where he was killed, a memorial of candles is
arranged in a Star of David that the community keeps
lit. Police officers have stepped up their patrols, filling
the streets at all hours.
Rabbi Raksin, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch
chasidic sect who was in town from Brooklyn to visit
his grandchildren, was shot on the morning of Sat-
urday, August 9, as he walked to synagogue. Though
police say no evidence has emerged that anti-Semi-
tism was a motive in the crime, or that the killing was
linked to several other recent hate crimes, Rabbi Rak-
sins murder has raised unsettling questions about
security in the Miami Jewish community.
It also has the community contemplating secu-
rity measures already common at Jewish institutions
throughout Europe and South America.
We dont know if Rabbi Raksins murder was a hate
crime or not, said Jacob Solomon, president and chief
executive officer of the Greater Miami Jewish Federa-
tion. We do know that it followed local anti-Semitic
incidents. We do know that it happened in a climate of
a worldwide dramatic increase in anti-Semitic behav-
ior. It happened in a climate of peak concern about
anti-Semitism.
About two weeks before Rabbi Raksin was killed,
a North Miami Beach synagogue was spray-painted
with swastikas and the word Hamas. Cars in nearby
Miami Beach were smeared with Jew and Hamas
in cream cheese. The day after Rabbi Raksins murder,
a vandal scratched a swastika and an iron cross on the
door of a car parked for his memorial service.
The incidents raised the specter that anti-Semitism,
which has been on the upswing worldwide since the
start of hostilities in Israel and Gaza, is a growing risk
on the sunny streets of southern Florida.
The Miami-Dade Police Department has said that
all indications in its investigation point to the killing
as being an armed robbery gone wrong, and Jewish
communal officials have praised the police handling
of the matter. Still, the murder has placed the Jewish
community on edge.
A lot of people are convinced that this is a hate
crime, said Mark Rosenberg, a local resident and a
chaplain for the Florida Highway Patrol.
As a result, local Jewish organizations have inten-
sified their focus on security. In a joint statement by
the Anti-Defamation League, the Greater Miami Jew-
ish Federation, the American Jewish Committee, the
Greater Miami Rabbinical Association, and Chabad,
local leaders said they were refocusing on coordinat-
ing security with police, increasing security training
and greater public awareness. A spokesman for the
Chabad community of North Miami Beach also said
that local institutions were hiring more armed security
guards and planning to install more security cameras.
For decades, institutions in South America and
Europe have been hardened, meaning bollards in
front of their doors or large cement planters or guards
or volunteer groups that provide neighborhood watch
services, the federations Mr. Solomon said. Climati-
cally, we are definitely moving in that direction.
Response to rabbis murder
Miami Jews fretting over security
Mr. Solomon also noted that while there were anti-Semitic
overtones to some local protests of Israels military actions
in Gaza, the protests generally were small, isolated events.
Crime also is nothing new to the residents of North
Miami Beach. North Miami Beach in particular is open
to neighborhoods that are not good neighborhoods, said
Rabbi Phineas Weberman, a chaplain with the Miami-Dade
Police Department.
According to statistics compiled on City-Data.com, the
rate of rapes, assaults, and robberies in the city of North
Miami Beach, which covers part of the areas heavily Jew-
ish neighborhood, all have been significantly higher than the
national average for more than a decade. Alvaro Zabaleta,
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Alleging U.N. bias, Israel again
keeping distance from Gaza probe
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV The United Nations probe into
the Gaza conflict hasnt even begun, but
Israel already is convinced that it wont
end well.
In a resolution adopted by a vote of 29-1
with 17 abstentions, the U.N. Human Rights
Council moved last month to establish a
commission of inquiry to investigate all
violations of international humanitarian
law and international human rights law in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The
United States cast the sole vote against it.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu criticized the council for
choosing to investigate Israel rather than
nearby crisis zones such as Iraq or Syria,
and implied he would not cooperate with
U.N. investigators.
The report of this committee has
already been written, Mr. Netanyahu said,
after a meeting with visiting New Yorks
Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The committee
chairman has already decided that Hamas
is not a terrorist organization. Therefore,
they have nothing to look for here. They
should visit Damascus, Baghdad, and
Tripoli. They should go see ISIS, the Syr-
ian army, and Hamas. There they will find
war crimes, not here.
Israel has been down this road before.
After the end of the last Gaza conflict, in
early 2009, its government refused to
cooperate with a U.N. investigation led
by the South African jurist Richard Gold-
stone. The probe, dubbed the Goldstone
Report, alleged that Israel had targeted
civilians intentionally, though Mr. Gold-
stone later personally retracted that alle-
gation. Israel rejected the original report
as inaccurate and biased.
This time, the commission will be
chaired by William Schabas, a Canadian-
born professor of international law at
Middlesex University in London. Mr.
Schabas said in an August 12 interview
with Israels Channel 2 that it would be
inappropriate to assert that Hamas is
a terrorist organization. Last year, Mr.
Schabas said that Mr. Netanyahu would
be his favorite leader to see tried at the
International Criminal Court.
Mr. Schabas father is Jewish, and he sits
on the advisory board of the Israel Law
Review. In the Channel 2 interview, he
said he would not let his personal opinions
affect his investigation.
What someone who sits on a commission
or a judge has to be able to do is to put these
things behind them and start fresh, and this
is of course what I intend to do, Mr. Schabas
said. Its in Israels interest to be there in
that discussion and give its version of events.
If it doesnt, then that leaves an unfortunate
one-sided picture of it.
Israeli cooperation could have softened
his reports conclusions, Mr. Goldstone
wrote in the 2011 Washington Post Op-Ed
in which he backed down from the reports
most scathing criticism of Israel. Mr. Gold-
stone noted that subsequent investigations
by the Israeli military indicated that it was
not Israels intent to target civilians.
Although the Israeli evidence that has
emerged since publication of our report
doesnt negate the tragic loss of civilian life,
I regret that our fact-finding mission did not
have such evidence explaining the circum-
stances in which we said civilians in Gaza
were targeted, because it probably would
have influenced our findings about inten-
tionality and war crimes, Mr. Goldstone
wrote. Israels lack of cooperation with our
investigation meant that we were not able to
corroborate how many Gazans killed were
civilians and how many were combatants.
Among Israeli legal experts, there is
broad agreement that Israel must do its
part to present its version of events, even
while disagreeing about how best to do
that. Only Israels state comptroller has
indicated that he will be investigating the
Gaza conflict.
Amichai Cohen, an international law
expert at the Israel Democracy Institute,
said the comptrollers probe is insufficient
and that Israel should launch an investiga-
tion by experts.
The comptroller himself doesnt have
knowledge in international law, in crimi-
nal law, in military law. Thats not his spe-
cialty, Dr. Cohen said. You need some-
thing independent and transparent.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the
Geneva-based NGO UN Watch and a vocal
critic of the Human Rights Councils treat-
ment of Israel, said that Israel should do
what it did in 2009: Publish accounts from
the conflict that show its side of the story
without directly cooperating with the
investigation.
If the U.N. decides to have a one-
sided inquiry, they will write a one-sided
report, Mr. Neuer said. Im confident
Israel will make sure that the commission
will have no excuse to say they didnt have
the information.
Shlomy Zachary, an Israeli human rights
lawyer, urged Israel to cooperate with the
United Nations, noting that its decision to
work with a 2010 U.N. investigation of the
so-called flotilla incident helped mitigate
criticism of Israel.
That probe, known as the Palmer Com-
mission, was charged with investigating
the storming of a Turkish boat aimed at
breaking Israels naval blockade of Gaza.
The report ultimately condemned the
raid, but it also criticized the conduct of
protesters on board the ship and deter-
mined that the Gaza blockade was legal.
When Israel cooperated with interna-
tional bodies, the results were in favor of
Israel, Mr. Zachary said. When Israel is
not willing to cooperate, it creates the sus-
picion it has something to hide.
Mr. Neuer agreed that the 2010 probe
was a good model for U.N. investigations,
but he noted that it was supervised by the
U.N. secretary-general, not the Human
Rights Council. Mr. Neuer said that given
the commissions record of bias, Israels
options are more limited.
Ultimately, the latest investigations
conclusions will not be legally binding
on Israel. But if its conclusions are harsh,
it could further ratchet up international
criticism. Dr. Cohen said that could put
added pressure on Israel to exercise
restraint should another round of con-
flict take place.
The point in these commissions isnt
just to research the past, its to tell the
future, Dr. Cohen said. The main prob-
lem is that a commission will say from now
on, this or that should be prohibited. This
is very problematic for Israel. That will
make it harder next time.
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Sabras and slap shots
North Americans bring hockey know-how to Israel
HILLEL KUTTLER
BALTIMORE Drew Koike knew
a bit about Israel: its capital, loca-
tion, climate and biblical roots.
But it never dawned on the
14-year-old Washingtonian that
hockey existed in the country.
That was until earlier this year,
when the coach of his hometown
hockey program invited Drew
and two other young charges on
a summer trip to Israel to play
and teach the sport.
The quartet spent 11 days there,
mostly at the ice rink inside Can-
ada Centre, a sports facility in the
northern town of Metulla.
Four Canadians joined them.
They included Laurie Boschman,
a former National Hockey League
veteran, and Tessa Bonhomme,
who played for the Canadian
womens gold medal-winning
team at the 2010 Olympics, as
well as two teenage goalies.
For the eight North Americans,
mostly non-Jews, venturing to
the Middle East meant sharing
their wisdom with more than 50
Israeli children who are devoted
to the sport, despite living in a
country with almost no hockey
consciousness.
The visit grew out of the trip to
Washington, D.C., four months
earlier by 24 kids from the Can-
ada Israel Hockey School, a pro-
gram based at the Metulla rink.
The visit to Metulla reprised
the hockey camps run there
nearly two decades ago by the
late Roger Neilson, a longtime
NHL coach and observant Chris-
tian who loved Israel. Return-
ing to Canada, Neilson would
rave about each summers
experience.
His programs are credited
with having planted the seeds of
hockey in Israel.
Our plan from Day 1 was to
start up the camp the way Roger
Neilson used to do bring kids
here from North America from
different backgrounds, said
Mitch Miller of Ottawa, who
assembled and accompanied
this summers group. He plans to
make the camp an annual event.
Mr. Miller and fellow Canadian
Zach Springer were the only Jew-
ish members of the North Ameri-
can delegation. And of the five
teenagers, only Drew had been
abroad before.
I wasnt really sure what to
expect, but Ive had a great time,
Drew said during the trip. The
idea of hockey in Israel sounded
like two cool things put together.
Mr. Boschman, who had
scored 229 goals for five teams
in a 14-year NHL career, had run
hockey clinics for youths in four
European countries while work-
ing for a Christian group, Hockey
Ministries International but
never in Israel.
In Metulla, he and Ms. Bon-
homme, a defenseman who
starred at Ohio State, led morn-
ing and afternoon on-ice drills
along with midday training ses-
sions that included running the
rinks steps and weight and car-
diovascular exercises.
Zach Springer and his friend,
Jack Moore, both 15 and from
Kingston, Ontario, taught their
Israeli peers about being goal-
ies. By weeks end, Zach said, the
two were particularly gratified by
the progress shown by one of the
Israelis.
Teaching in the program was
one of the main reasons I went,
Zach said.
All the while, the Washing-
ton coach, Tom Newberry, was
instructing two dozen Israeli
coaches seeking certification by
U.S.A. Hockey, the Colorado-
based organization that pro-
motes youth hockey and over-
sees coaching. Mr. Newberry
is U.S.A. Hockeys Southeast
director.
The Ice Hockey Federation
of Israel will honor the certifi-
cations, he said, with a goal of
developing an indigenous certifi-
cation program.
Mr. Newberry said the aim this
summer was to use this group
of Israeli coaches as guinea pigs,
and see what works.
Mr. Newberrys 12 hours of
classroom instruction and some
on-ice work centered on what he
called the science behind ath-
lete-development. That included
training coaches to teach such
fundamentals as skating and
stickhandling at age-appropriate
levels, along with helping the
adults fashion a coaching phi-
losophy that includes a positive
approach and recognizing when
kids arent grasping a skill, then
re-teaching it.
Its extremely positive to be
in a room with a bunch of peo-
ple who are eager to learn, Mr.
Newberry said. Theyre fully
engaged, taking copious notes.
Its exciting to know that. These
gentlemen are really more than
coaches; theyre students of the
game.
With only three ice hockey
rinks in Israel the others are in
Maalot and Holon most of the
participating coaches came from
in-line hockey programs.
These are people who are
quite passionate about hockey,
Mr. Boschman said. Thats really
fun to see in a non-traditional
hockey market.
Throughout the program, Mr.
Newberry updated the parents of
the three Washingtonians on the
Hamas bombings of Israel, which
happened far from Metulla.
Were not letting it bother
us, he said. Were completely
safe, enjoying the country, the
friendships and the incredible
food.
Before the hockey program
started, the visitors spent several
days touring. From Metulla, they
also took side trips to the Sea of
Galilee, the old city of Acre, and
the kibbutz and Druse village
where several of the Israeli play-
ers live.
The mother of one Israeli
player told them shed moved
the family to Metulla to be closer
to the rink.
It warms my heart to hear
those kinds of stories, Mr. Miller
said.
Of the Israeli players, Drew
said, Theyre fun to be with
and fun to play hockey with.
Theyre really talented and work
hard. You can tell that just by
watching.
When a U.S.-born soldier the
group ran into asked about Ms.
Bonhommes gold medal, she
took it from her pocket, draped
it around his neck, and took his
photograph.
Mr. Miller called the experience
a great first step in deepening
hockeys presence in Israel. By
next summer, he hopes to bring
so many American and Canadian
teen players that the numbers will
demand a second program.
The North American and
Israeli players and coaches plan
to remain in touch by Skype and
Facebook.
Mr. Miller said, Theyre not
saying Next year in Jerusalem
but Next year in Metulla.
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Above, Ex-NHLer Laurie Bos-
chman instructs young Israeli
hockey players at the Canada
Centre in Metulla in July. Inset
right, Mr. Boschman and
Tessa Bonhomme, who won a
gold medal with the Canadian
womens team at the 2010
Olympics, were members
of the eight-person North
American delegation.
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Reeh: Searching for Gods place
T
he name Yerusha-
layim Jerusalem
appears 667
times in the Bible.
Yet, Moshe never refers to
it by that name. Indeed, he
never even identifies the
precise location of our holy
city and the future Temple.
Instead, beginning in our
parsha, whenever referenc-
ing the national and reli-
gious center of the Jewish
people, he refers to it with
the mysterious designation:
The place God will choose
to dwell His Name (or presence) there.
What is more surprising is that Moshe
expects us to find this place by ourselves!
You shall seek out His Presence and
come there (Devarim 12:5). How are we
supposed to find it? If God chooses the
location, doesnt He need to let us in on
the secret? It seems as if God and Moshe
are setting us up for failure.
The Midrash Sifre on Devarim explains
as follows: You should
inquire it by means of a
prophet. Perhaps you should
wait until the prophet tells
you (the location)? Says the
verse: You shall seek out His
Presence and come there.
Seek it out and find it and
afterward the prophet will
confirm it for you.
In fact, continues the
Midrash, this is exactly how
Yerushalayim was ultimately
located. As King David states
in Tehillim (132:1-5): God,
remember unto David all
his suffering. How he swore to God, and
vowed to the Strong One of Jacob. If I enter
the tent of my home, if I go upon the bed
that is spread for me. If I allow sleep to my
eyes, slumber to my eyelids. Before I find a
place for God, resting places for the strong
one of Jacob.
David went out and found Yerusha-
layim. He lost sleep and refused to enjoy
the comforts available to him until he
was able to locate the place God will
choose. His initiative was met with
Divine providence and only then does
the prophet Natan confirm the selection
of Yerushalayim.
Finding Gods presence in the world
requires human initiative and effort. This
choreographed narrative of mans search
to discover the location for Gods Temple
teaches us this truth. We could not just
ask the prophet; we could not simply
wait for God to reveal it to us. We had to
seek it out first.
In truth, this idea is not just about geog-
raphy. A robust and intimate relationship
with God cannot occur in a vacuum or
be developed when a person remains
passive. We need to prepare ourselves
and look for Divine inspiration and not
just wait for it to hit us. As Maimonides
writes, love for God is achieved through
action and effort through experiencing
and contemplating the wonders of Gods
world and through learning His Torah
(See Rambam, Sefer Hamitzvot, Mitz-
vat Aseh #3 and Mishnah Torah, Hilchot
Yesodei HaTorah 2:2).
There is a story (told by Dr. David Pelco-
vitz in the forthcoming Koren Ani Tefilla
siddur) of a deeply religious man who had
suffered such horrible losses in his per-
sonal life that he could not bring himself to
pray. His sadness was too great. Distraught
over what seemed to be an end to his life-
time of prayer and communication with
God, he travels to visit a rabbi in whom he
could confide. Start small, the rabbi told
him. Just say one thing, but say it every
day. Following the advice of the rabbi,
he begins reciting every day the morn-
ing prayer, Blessed are You who gives
strength to the weary. In time, he regains
faith in prayer and rekindles his connec-
tion to God.
One of my rabbis, Rav Yehuda Amital,
zl, used to say, ein patentim, there are
no quick fixes in Judaism. If we want a
relationship with God, we need to put in
the effort to develop that relationship.
Rabbi Moshe Stavsky teaches Talmud at
the Ramaz Upper School.
Rabbi Moshe
Stavsky
Bais Medrash
of Bergenfield,
Orthodox
BRIEFS
Start of Israeli school
year dedicated to
Operation Protective
Edges aftermath
The Israeli Education Ministry has decided
to dedicate the first two weeks of this
school year, which begins September
1, to Operation Protective Edge and its
aftermath.
Schools and kindergartens nationwide
have been instructed to incorporate vari-
ous activities aimed at addressing the stu-
dents emotional needs, with the hope of
easing them back into the school year after
a war-marred summer.
In particular, schools in communities
adjacent to the Israel-Gaza border have
been instructed to pay special attention
to the psychological impact the fighting
has had on children, many of whom were
forced to leave their homes for the dura-
tion of the military campaign.
Meanwhile, Kibbutz Nahal Oz has
decided to fortify the two kindergartens
with security walls.
When we considered the events of
the recent weeks and the things that hap-
pened during the fighting, especially the
fact that almost everyone had to leave
Nahal Oz, fortifying these two kindergar-
tens became our primary concern, a resi-
dent of the kibbutz told Israel Hayom.
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Netanyahu to Sderot
teens: your resilience
gives us strength
The publics resilience, and yours, gives
us considerable strength, Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told teen-
age representatives of Sderot youth groups
on Monday in a meeting supporting the
southern citys residents, who are under
near-constant threat from rockets.
We are in the midst of a diplomatic
campaign and in a diplomatic campaign...
one needs much strength, patience, per-
sistence and wisdom as well, Netanyahu
said, according to Israel Hayom.
The youth group leaders told Netan-
yahu about the social and educational
initiatives they had undertaken to bring
the community together and to support
Sderot residents. They also spoke of the
efforts they organized to deliver packages
to soldiers in Gaza and to visit injured
soldiers, women and families with hus-
bands and fathers on reserve duty, and
bereaved families. JNS.ORG
British supermarket
apologizes for removal
of kosher food
The British supermarket chain Sainsburys
apologized Monday for removing kosher
food from the shelves of a London store
over the weekend.
A manager at the Sainsburys Holborn
branch in central London initially made
the decision because he feared looting and
violence by anti-Israel protesters. But not
all the kosher foods sold at the store were
made in Israel, and the decision attracted
backlash.
Former Tory party MP Louise Mench
tweeted, Dear @Sainsburys kosher is
JEWISH food. Israel is a COUNTRY. How
DARE YOU equate Jews food to ISRAEL,
how dare you #EverydayAntisemitism.
Sainsburys said on its website that it
would like to apologize for any inconve-
nience or offense caused by the kosher
food removal.
The decision was taken in one store
only to move these chilled products to
cold storage elsewhere in that store for a
short period on Saturday as a precaution-
ary measure during a demonstration close
by, the chain said, adding that as a non-
political organization, Sainsburys would
never take such a decision on grounds
other than ensuring the quality or safety
of our products.
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1. Black Sabbath alternative
5. Resident of Hendon
9. Abba alternative
14. Leopolds co-defendant
15. Ashkenazi Jews affix mezuzahs ___
angle
16. ___ corned beef sandwich, please
(deli order)
17. Member of Malcolm Hoenleins organi-
zation
19. Benefits of working for Facebook or
Google
20. Payroll co. founded by philanthropist
Henry Taub
21. Word Meg Ryan repeated six times in
a row in a famous When Harry Met
Sally... scene
22. Bacall known for The Look
23. Diane Keaton to Woody Allen, often
25. Part of ZBT
27. Golden Calf Torah portion Ki ___
28. Build-___ (St. Louis-based chain that
lets children create their own rabbi
dolls)
29. Some kosher dishes
31. Spielberg, e.g.
32. Romanian city ___ Mare that produced
the Satmar chasidim
33. Far-right Knesset member of note
35. It might help catch a carp for gefilte
fish
37. ___-Tough (1978 football film written
by Walter Bernstein)
38. Traditionalist Hungarian rabbi
42. Abe Vigoda role on Barney Miller
46. Cry of frustration for Freud
47. City in the Jezreel Valley
48. Homophone for a Reform youth group
49. Etrog part
51. Levin or Gershwin
52. Behaved like public opinion expert
Frank Luntz
53. Einsteinium alternative
55. ___ Hasharon (city not far from Tel
Aviv)
56. Noahs pitch, basically
57. Possible tools for calculating gematria
58. Dreyfus Affair accuser
61. Chronic ___ Disease (kidney malady
faced by many Israelis of North African
descent)
62. Kohns kosher ___, the home of the
killer pastrami
63. Janis Ian album Working Without ___
64. Yinglish, e.g.
65. Baron of Columbia University?
66. Abba alternative
Down
1. Mammals like camels
2. Important city during the Golden Age
of Spain
3. Kind of anti-Semitism discussed in
Hitlers Willing Executioners
4. Network that broadcasts actress Mayim
Bialiks show The Big Bang Theory
5. Ginsburg, well before she was a judge
6. Israels no. 2 and no. 6
7. Ziering or Kinsler
8. Network that aired Kyra Sedgwicks The
Closer
9. ___, Can You Hear Me? (song from
Yentl)
10. Neighbor to some of the Frozen
Chosen
11. Philosopher Jacques
12. Gathers shekels
13. Act like the khappers who grabbed
Jewish children for the Russian army
18. Nisan, ___, Sivan
22. One who audits a Jewish Studies
course
24. Bay Area philanthropist Tad
25. ___ chi (krav maga alternative)
26. Kind of strikes against Gaza in early
July 2014
29. Undesirable way from Tel Aviv to Haifa
30. ___ Suf (body of water that God split)
33. Joseph, among his brothers
34. Hebrew causative construction
36. King of Judah whose name means
healer
38. Lift up your head; wash off your ___
(Little Shop of Horrors lyric)
39. Sukkot month, often
40. Alternative to megillah in the phrase
The whole ___
41. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(D-___)
43. Journalist who wrote The Trial of
Socrates
44. Gonif
45. What one must do constantly in the
Negev
48. Like Michelangelos David
50. Location of Sheldon Adelsons Venetian
casino that opened in 2007
52. Salks conquest
54. Accent for Joyce character Leopold
Bloom of Dublin
55. Steven Bochcos ___ Street Blues
58. Some employees of the Jewish Journal
of Southern Calif.
59. Tillie Olsen novella Tell ___ Riddle
60. Fighting word for Bob Kanes Batman
The solution for last weeks puzzle
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Showbiz meets shtetl
Helping Hollywood get chasidim right
MIRIAM MOSTER
W
hen it comes to chasidic
characters in movies,
film consultant Elli Meyer
believes that the real deal
trumps a random actor in costume.
But that approach isnt without its
challenges.
Mr. Meyer, a New York-based Lubavit-
cher chasid, recounted one occasion when
he was hired to cast extras for a film but
refused upon learning that shooting would
take place on Yom Kippur.
Who told you to hire Jews? one of the
producers said, according to Mr. Meyer,
though ultimately the shooting was
postponed.
Mr. Meyer is among a handful of Jews
from charedi Orthodox backgrounds who
have carved out an unusual niche in show
business as occasional consultants on films
and TV shows aiming to depict chasidic life
authentically.
These consultants often find themselves
having to dispel misconceptions about cha-
sidim as they advise on language, costum-
ing, and plot, sometimes even stepping into
rabbinic roles as explainers of Jewish law.
Mr. Meyer, 59, has been doing this kind
of work for a decade. In 2014 alone he has
acted in, consulted on, or done casting
work for more than half a dozen TV shows
or movies.
He said he was motivated to get into
the consulting business because he was
appalled by the sloppiness of many charac-
terizations of chasidic Jews.
They think they can slap on an Amish
hat and a long black robe, and theyve cre-
ated a chasid, he said of directors and pro-
ducers in general.
Isaac Schonfeld, an Orthodox Jew who
graduated from Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah high
school in Queens, has consulted on several
independent films.
Most recently, Mr. Schonfeld consulted
for the 2013 comedy Fading Gigolo,
directed by John Turturro, who stars as
a novice prostitute being pimped out to
female clients by a friend, who is played
by Woody Allen. One of the major plot
lines focuses on a budding romance that
develops between Mr. Turturros charac-
ter and a lonely chasidic widow who hires
him as a masseur.
Mr. Schonfeld brought Mr. Turturro and
several crew members to Chulent, a social
gathering he runs in New York, that is popu-
lar among many former chasidim and oth-
ers on the margins of the charedi world.
Mr. Schonfeld has other acquaintances
who also helped with the film. One, Malky
Lipshitz, contributed religious artwork and
consulted with Vanessa Paradis, the French
actress who played the chasidic woman in
the film. Others submitted voice recordings
for actor Liev Schreiber to use to practice
his inflection in his role as a member of a
chasidic community patrol vying for the
widows affections.
Mr. Schonfeld pointed to one significant
change that resulted from his advice. He
said that Mr. Turturro had planned to name
the chasidic widow Avital, wrongly believ-
ing it to be an authentic-sounding chasidic
name. Mr. Schonfeld noted that some peo-
ple have a tendency to believe that Israeli
and charedi names are interchangeable.
Mr. Schonfeld recommended similar
alternative names that would be more
plausibly chasidic but would still accom-
modate Mr. Turturros attachments and
artistic considerations. In the end Avital
was renamed Avigal.
But the naming of characters was a minor
challenge compared to another conun-
drum: finding a Yiddish word for pimp, to
be used in a scene before a rabbinic court,
where Mr. Allens character is accused of
providing a male prostitute for a chasidic
woman. Finding the one word, alfons,
which is rarely if ever used in contemporary
chasidic parlance, required a significant
amount of research on Mr. Schonfelds part.
When it comes to meticulousness, Fad-
ing Gigolo does not stand alone. Felix and
Meira, a forthcoming independent Cana-
dian film that follows a chasidic woman
from Montreal who engages in an extra-
marital affair with a non-Jewish man, also
required significant research, consultation,
and visits to the charedi community.
Several former chasidim consulted for
the film in varying capacities. Rivka Katz,
formerly a Lubavitcher chasid, consulted
on the script, while Luzer Twersky and
Melissa Weisz, who studied at Satmar cha-
sidic schools growing up, both acted and
consulted. Mr. Twersky plays the protago-
nists husband and Ms. Weisz has the part
of a chasidic woman, a minor character
in the film.
They pointed to the verisimilitude of a
scene set during a Shabbat meal.
The shtreimel fur hat was real,
the bekeshe frock coat was real, the
chicken soup was real, Mr. Twersky said.
Even though it was not actually shot on
Shabbat, the scene seemed so authentic
that Ms. Weisz, who acted in the scene,
said that on a visceral level it felt wrong
to be engaging in un-Shabbat-like activity
like filmmaking.
Afterward, when conversation turned to
the movie, I got mad, Ms. Weisz recalled,
because they shouldnt be talking about
that on Shabbos.
But film consultants do not always agree
with one another on what makes for the
most authentic depiction of chasidim.
On Twitter, Mr. Twersky had criticized
the 2010 movie Holy Rollers, starring
Jesse Eisenberg as a drug-running yeshiva
student, for its costuming choices and other
issues. He tweeted: guys with peyos dont
wear short suits and fedora hats.
Mr. Meyer, who worked on the film, says
he advises a mish-mosh look, piecing
together the hat from one chasidic sect and
the side curls of another, unless the director
has a particular sect in mind.
To Mr. Twersky, that was one of several of
the films failings.
But he acknowledges that departures
from authentic portrayals of chasidic life
are not always such a bad thing.
We need to get over the fact that we
dont own the story of chasidic Jews, Mr.
Twersky said.
He noted that artistic considerations
often result in departures from reality.
Nobody wants to see regular people
doing regular things, Mr. Twersky said.
Thats not a movie. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Luzer Twersky, right, consulted on and plays a chasidic character in the forthcoming film Felix and Meira. JULIE LANDREVILLE
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Friday
AUGUST 22
Shabbat outdoors:
Temple Beth El of
Closter and Temple
Emeth of Teaneck invite
the community to an
informal Prayers on the
Palisades service at
6:30 p.m., at the State
Line Lookout off the
Palisades Parkway. All
are welcome; bring a
lawn chair and bug spray.
In case of inclement
weather, services
will be at TBE, 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers Carlebach-style
davening, 7 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Temple Beth-El offers
services with guest
speaker Jim Nelson,
executive director of St.
Paul Lutheran Churchs
food pantry, who will
discuss Hunger in
Our City, 8 p.m. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard. (201)
333-4229 or office@
betheljc.org.
Saturday
AUGUST 23
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
then Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler discusses
Journalism as Religion:
Religious Disgraces
Recounted and Dissected
on the Broadsheet, as
part of the Three Cs
Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation. Kinder
Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend
services, 10:30-11:45. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Wednesday
AUGUST 27
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, in the hospital
parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718
Teaneck Road. (800)
933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Thursday
AUGUST 28
Summer concert in
Wayne: The Summer
Concert series at the
YM-YWHA of North
Jersey concludes with
a performance by a
klezmer band, the Big
Galut(e), headed by
violinist Sasha Margolis,
7 p.m. $12. (973) 595-
0100, ext. 237.
Tuesday
SEPTEMBER 2
History lecture in
Tenafly: Dumont
historian Dick Burnon
gives a lecture, with
video, on the 1886
Chicago Haymarket
Affair at a meeting
of the REAP (Retired
Executives and Active
Professionals) at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 11 a.m. All are
welcome. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900, ext.
235 or www.jccotp.org.
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 3
Remembering the
Borscht Belt: Marty
Schneit offers a
presentation, The
Borscht Belt, reliving
memories about old
Route 17, the Big Apple
Rest, bungalow colonies,
Grossingers, the Concord,
Kutshers, Red Buttons,
Myron Cohen, Buddy
Hackett, Sid Caesar,
Henny Youngman, Milton
Berle, and Joan Rivers,
at JCC Rockland in
West Nyack, N.Y., 1 p.m.
Refreshments. Sponsored
by Friedwald Center. $5.
450 West Nyack Road.
Bonnie, BonnieW@
jccrockland.org, or (845)
362-4400, ext. 109.
Singles
Sunday
AUGUST 24
Water park: West of
the Hudson, a Jewish
young professionals
group from their 20s to
their early 40s, is going
to Camelbeach Water
Park in the Poconos. To
register, go to http://bit.
ly/UGaGot or email west.
huds@gmail.com.
The Leonora Messer
2014 Summer Concert
Series continues
outside on the
patio, weather permitting, at the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh on
Tuesday, August 26, at 6:30 p.m.,
with a performance by George
Tuzzeo. Series concludes with Ed
Goldberg & the Odessa Klezmer
Band on September 16. 10 Link
Drive. (201) 784-1414.
AUG.
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Belz School publishes journal,
releases double album
The 32nd edition of the annual Jour-
nal of Jewish Music and Liturgy, edited
by Cantor Bernard Beer, director of
Yeshiva Universitys Philip and Sarah
Belz School of Jewish Music, has been
published, and the school also has
released its first album in the Nusah
Legacy Recordings Project.
The Journal of Jewish Music and Lit-
urgy offers essays on Jewish music and
prayer written by distinguished rabbis,
cantors, musicologists, physicians, psy-
chologists, and educators. The Nusah
Legacy Recordings Project captures the
yearly Jewish prayer cycle as it is taught
in academic coursework at Belz. The first
album, a CD set featuring Cantor Beer,
offers the liturgy for the Rosh Hashanah
Musaf service.
Yiddish-language audio book library
accessible online
An extensive collection of Yiddish-lan-
guage audio books is available for free
listening and downloading through a
project of the Yiddish Book Center in
Amherst, Mass.
The Sami Rohr Library of Recorded
Yiddish Books, which features about
150 titles, includes novels, short stories,
non-fiction works, memoirs, essays, and
poetry, by major and lesser-known Yid-
dish writers.
The recordings were made at the
Jewish Public Library of Montreal in
the 1980s and 1990s, after a patron
requested Yiddish audio books for his
wife, whose failing eyesight prevented
her from reading the literature she
loved. The collection grew over the years
thanks to dedicated volunteerssome
of them professional actors, many of
them laymen, all of them native Yiddish
speakerswho devoted hours of their
time to reading and recording the books
in a makeshift studio in the librarys
basement.
The Yiddish Book Center, in partner-
ship with the Jewish Public Library, digi-
tally remastered those recordings and
previously released a number of titles
from the Sami Rohr Library on CD. Now
the entire collection is accessible on the
Centers website (www.yiddishbookcen-
ter.org/sami-rohr-library).
Library highlights include works by
such well-known Yiddish writers as nov-
elists I.J. Singer, I.L. Peretz, and Sholem
Asch, and poets Chaim Nachman Bialik
and Avrom Sutzkever. The collection also
includes works by Sholem Aleichem,
including his Tevye der Milkhiker (Teyve
the Dairyman), read by renowned actor
Shmuel Atzmon, founder and director
of Yiddishpiel Theater in Tel Aviv. Dora
Wasserman, founder of an eponymous
Yiddish theater in Montreal, reads a col-
lection of short stories.
Free concert at
bergenPAC
Allison Strong, a former Performing Arts
School singer, songwriter, and multi-
instrumentalist, performs at the Bergen
Performing Arts Center in Englewood on
Sunday, August 31, at 7 p.m. The event
is free and open to the public. Refresh-
ments are available for purchase. Call
(201) 227-1030. Allison Strong
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Ex-WNBA chief Donna Orender looks back
Sees NBA breakthrough for women as a show of respect
HILLEL KUTTLER
BALTIMORE As a former WNBA presi-
dent who played in what is considered the
first U.S. professional basketball league
for women, Donna Orender has been
eager for a trailblazing female to join the
National Basketball Association in a promi-
nent role.
So she was plenty pleased last week
when the world champion San Antonio
Spurs hired Becky Hammon, a point guard
with the WNBAs Stars of the Texas city,
as a paid assistant coach a first in NBA
history.
Beckys a special woman, a great
player, a student of the game, Ms. Oren-
der said last week of the veteran back-
court ace. I always thought that the real
breakthrough would be a woman coach-
ing in the NBA because it would indicate
a real level of respect. I was always wait-
ing for it.
Waiting and helping to pave the way.
Ms. Orender, an All-America guard
at Queens College, was one of the few
women to play in all three seasons of the
Womens Professional Basketball League,
which lasted from 1978 to 1981. She led the
Womens NBA from 2006 to 2011, enjoying
incredible respect amongst those of us in
the business, recently retired NBA Com-
missioner David Stern said.
Now leading a nonprofit organization,
Generation W, she is mentoring girls and
young women, including by hosting an
annual forum of experts in politics, philan-
thropy, business, and self-improvement.
The group also provides guidance on get-
ting into college and making a difference in
the world through voluntarism.
Ms. Orender, 57, serves on the boards
of Maccabi USA and the V Foundation for
Cancer Research, which was established
in memory of collegiate basketball coach
Jim Valvano, and she was co-chair of the
Sports for Youth committee of the UJA-
Federation of New York.
During Mr. Orenders eight-year ten-
ure, Sports for Youth more than tripled its
annual fundraising, to $450,000 annually,
said its director, Danielle Zalaznick.
Shes an amazing leader. She has very
creative ideas, Ms. Zalaznick said.
Ms. Orender puts those ideas to use
now as the principal of Orender Unlim-
ited, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based firm that
conducts strategic planning and market-
ing for companies.
Sports, however, remain central to her
life. It was in that arena that Ms. Orender
made her professional mark, despite set-
ting out to be a social worker or sociologist.
After doing research at ABC for such
sportscasters as Jim Lampley and the ven-
erable Jim McKay, Ms. Orender worked for
17 years as an executive for the PGA Tour,
the main organizer of professional golf
tournaments primarily for men, before
taking the reins of the WNBA. Estab-
lished by the NBA nearly two decades ago,
the WNBA remains the most prominent
female sports league in the country.
It was her track record from the playing
and financial sides that appealed to Mr.
Stern when he hired Ms. Orender for the
post. She understood basketball from the
ground up, he said.
She was a great basketball player. She
was an early player in a league back then
and has a passion for the game, Mr. Stern
added. She was a ranking person in the
PGA, who got to know everything about
our sponsorship and our business, and
had an understanding of production and
production values.
Ann Meyers Drysdale, a longtime friend
with whom Ms. Orender starred in the
backcourt of the WBLs New Jersey Gems,
says she and Ms. Orender still talk about
the WNBA and its role in further advancing
womens athletics. Ms. Meyers Drysdale, a
member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of
Fame, is an executive with both the NBAs
Phoenix Suns and the WNBAs Phoenix
Mercury.
For Ms. Orender, basketball also holds
importance for her family and its Jewish
identity through involvement in the Mac-
cabi movement.
I love the game, she said. Its a pas-
sion of mine. It helps me stay close to
youth, Judaism and also connect with my
own kids.
Ms. Orender accompanied her 17-year-
old twins, Zachary and Jacob, and their
Maccabi USA youth team on a nine-
game, 12-day trip earlier this summer to
play Maccabi and club teams in London,
Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. Their itinerary
included Jewish heritage sites and a game
against a Dutch team of wheelchair-using
athletes, with the able-bodied Americans
also using wheelchairs.
Basketball was a means of spreading
good will, developing relationships and
meeting some of our Maccabi brethren
overseas, said Ms. Orender, who also has
two stepchildren.
Last summer, the Orender twins played
in Israel in the Maccabiah, a quadren-
nial international sports festival, just as
their mother had in 1985. As they entered
Jerusalems Teddy Kollek Stadium for the
opening ceremony, her sons grabbed Ms.
Orenders hand and said, This must be a
dream for you.
It absolutely is, she said.
Ms. Hammon, whose 15-year WNBA
career will conclude this summer, was
one of my kids favorite players, Ms.
Orender said, and they saw Ms. Hammon
in action many times when Ms. Orender
led the WNBA.
Mother and sons often shoot baskets
and break down game film. Ms. Orender
concedes that its very hard to keep
mum during games and let the boys
coaches do their jobs. Shell offer help if
they ask, and they do, often seeking tips
on in-game strategy, shooting and mak-
ing decisions on passing in the flow of a
game, she said.
She seems to revel in the entire sports
experience. Ms. Orender recalls an Indi-
ana Fever home playoff while serving as
WNBA president, when she climbed to
the top rows and gazed upon the sold-
out arena.
It was a very proud moment that really
showcased the fans passion, the ability to
grow a business, the athletes, she said.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Donna Orender says she was always
waiting for a woman to be hired for a
prominent role in the NBA.
COURTESY DONNA ORENDER
Response to rabbis murder
Miami Jews fretting over security
a spokesman for the Miami-Dade police, said the
district had been an active area for shootings in
2014.
For now, daily life has resumed, but with a fear-
ful edge. CBS 4 Miami reported that on the most
recent Shabbat, residents walked to synagogue
in clusters for safety. The local community has
offered a $50,000 reward for information leading
to the arrest of Rabbi Raksins two assailants, who
remain at large.
From a Jewish perspective, from a moral per-
spective, of course a hate crime makes a huge dif-
ference, Mr. Rosenberg said. But from a safety
perspective, for a residential neighborhood, it
doesnt really matter. You dont want to live in a
neighborhood where people get shot.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Murder
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Ancient coins from
time of Jewish
revolt against Rome
unearthed
Ancient bronze coins dating back
to 69/70 C.E., the time of the Jewish
revolt against Rome, were discovered
in an archeological excavation of an
ancient village in Israel. The village
itself was discovered by construction
workers expanding a highway between
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The 114 coins contain an image of a
lulav and two etrogimtwo of the four
species of the Sukkot holidayand
the Hebrew inscription Year Four,
in reference to the fourth year of the
revolt. On the other side of the coins
another inscription reads, For the
redemption of Zion.
They are not referring to religious
redemption, but to salvation. In other
words, the minters of the coins were
expressing a hope that the revolt
would end well, said Dr. Donald Zvi
Ariel, head of the coins division at the
Israel Antiquities Authority. JNS.ORG
Indians march
in pro-Israel rally
Nearly 20,000 participants gathered
at a pro-Israel rally in Kolkata, India,
Saturday, marching with banners and
giving speeches against the terrorist
group Hamas.
The destiny of both India and Israel
as thriving democracies are inter-
twined. We both share the same val-
ues, said rally organizer Tapan Ghosh,
according to the Times of Israel.
The rally was organized by an Indian
political movement, the Hindu Sam-
hati, which commemorates Gopal
Mukhopadhyay, a local hero who
saved many innocent lives during the
Great Calcutta Killing. The Great Cal-
cutta Killing refers to a week of Hindu-
Muslim rioting that took place in 1946.
India and Israel are both sur-
rounded by very tough neighbors and
are united by peace, Ghosh said.
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the Cedar Lane Management Groups market manager,
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of easy summer recipes designed by the vendors. To
try the recipes at home, go to the markets Facebook
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The market continues to collect non-perishable food
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give their families some nourishing meals.
Upcoming events include a blood drive on Thursday,
September 4, from 2 to 6 p.m.
Dr. Henry Abramson
appointed dean of Lander
College of Arts & Sciences
Touro College has appointed Dr. Henry (Hillel) Abramson as
academic dean of the Lander College of Arts & Sciences in
Flatbush. Dr. Abramson has been dean of academic affairs
and student services for Touro College South in Miami, Fla.,
since 2006.
Over the last eight years Dr. Abramson has demonstrated
his ability to improve the student experience while
strengthening the academic quality at Touro College South,
said Dr. Alan Kadish, president and CEO of the Touro
College and University System. We look forward to seeing
Dr. Abramson bring those same talents to LAS.
In his new role, Dr. Abramson will be tasked with
improving the overall educational product at LAS. Initially
he will concentrate on academic issues, in particular faculty
development and training, working closely with Dr. Robert
Goldschmidt, executive dean of LAS and Touros vice
president for planning and assessment.
I welcome Dr. Abramson to our leadership team and
look forward to his assistance in expanding our programs
and introducing new honors options at our campus,
Dean Goldschmidt said. LAS has transformed the lives
of thousands of men and women over the past 38 years,
enabling graduates to support Torah families with dignity.
Together with Dr. Abramson, we look forward to extending
our reach and continuing to serve the educational needs of
the Jewish community.
Dr. Abramson will remain at Touro College South through
the 2014-15 academic year and assume the position of dean
at LAS in July 2015. As well as tending to his responsibilities
at Touro College South, he will use the year to learn more
about LAS and ensure a smooth transition.
Dr. Abramson earned his Ph.D. in history from the
University of Toronto in 1995, writing a dissertation on the
Jews of Ukraine. Before joining Touro College as the dean of
the Miami Beach campus, Dr. Abramson held post-doctoral
and visiting appointments at Harvard, Cornell, Oxford, and
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a tenured
associate professor of history and university scholar of
Judaica at Florida Atlantic University of Boca Raton.
He has published several books on Jewish history and
thought, including A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians
and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (Harvard, 1999);
Reading the Talmud: Developing Independence in Gemara
Learning (Feldheim, 2006); and the forthcoming The
Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy
in Rabbi Moshe Cordoveros Date Palm of Devorah. Dr.
Abramson has received many distinguished awards for his
research and teaching, including fellowships from the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and he received the Excellence in the
Academy Award from the National Education Association.
The only child of the last Jewish family in a small milling
town in northern Ontario, Dr. Abramson has been married
to Ilana Abramson for more than 25 years. They will be
moving to New York with their six children: Raphaela, Danit
Malka (both Touro graduates), Aliza, Alexander, Boaz, and
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YUs Sy Syms School of Business
debuts new curriculum and major
Yeshiva Universitys Sy Syms School of
Business will launch a new curriculum
and a new major in business intelligence
and marketing analytics this fall.
I ncorporat i ng st at e- of- t heart
technique in modern business education
philosophy, the new curriculum is
designed to grant students the flexibility
and options to create a customized,
unique educational experience perfectly
tailored to suit their career interests.
Theres a recognition now that
we are all entrepreneurs of our own
careers, said Dr. Moses Pava, dean
of Sy Syms. We believe that this new
and exciting curriculum, with its
continued emphasis on communications
skills, critical thinking, functional
skills, entrepreneurial leadership,
professionalism, social responsibility,
and ethics, will be attractive to both
current and prospective students, and
will provide them with the education
necessary to succeed both professionally
and personally in todays fast-changing,
interconnected global economy.
Students can focus intensely on one
functional area if they so wish or ground
themselves in fields across the breadth of
the business world, said Dr. Avi Giloni,
associate dean at Sy Syms. They could
also easily have a major and minor, an
area of expertise and an additional focus,
and if they really want to differentiate
themselves, it becomes much easier to
have a double major. Were giving them
the tools to shape their education and
sculpt their own careers.
Changes i ncl ude maki ng t wo
exi sting operations management
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interchangeable with any two liberal
arts or business electives, in addition
to fewer required courses and more
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Reflecting one of the fastest-growing
career paths in the modern business
world, the school i s also rolling
out a newly designed management
concentration and a new major in
business intelligence and marketing
anal yt i cs, whi ch wi l l combi ne
coursework in computer programming,
statistics, and data science with a solid
foundation in marketing strategy and
consumer insights.
This will make our students very
marketable when they graduate because
they will have the skillset so many firms
are looking for, Dr. Giloni said. Theyll
be able to better market a firms current
services and goods and help them
determine what products to create
next.
The benefits of these changes
include providing students with more
flexibility and better choices, thus
meeting the needs of a diverse student
population and enabling more efficient
course scheduling, more relevant
concentrations for todays data-
driven and entrepreneurial business
environment, and greater opportunity
to integrate liberal arts and business,
Dr. Pava said.
Several new courses will be offered in
the fall, including business analytics and
programming, systematic and inventive
thinking, social media, and business
intelligence and consumer insights. In
addition, all Sy Syms students will be
required to take business and halacha,
a course that provides an overview of
Jewish ethics as applied to the business
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business school at Yeshiva University,
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Cedar Market
celebrating first birthday
Teanecks Cedar Market is planning a
celebration in honor of its first birth-
day on Labor Day, September 1. The
event by Gershy Moskowitz Produc-
tions will include rides, clowns, cari-
cature artists, face painting, magic
shows, balloon sculptures, and live
music including a concert with a sur-
prise guest. There will also be pop-
corn, cotton candy, sno cones, give-
aways, prizes, and raffles.
Stay tuned for event details.
The market is at 646 Cedar Lane. (201) 855-8500. www.thecedarmarket.com, info@
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ENGLEWOOD
0.45 acre. 4 BR/2.5 BTH. $699,000
ENGLEWOOD
Beautiful 4 BR Center Hall Colonial.
ENGLEWOOD
4 BR/3.5 BTH Colonial. $689,8000
ENGLEWOOD
Classic East Hill Colonial. Half acre.
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Sprawling Ranch. Great 1 acre property.
TENAFLY
Beautiful Contemp. Picturesque cul-de-sac.
TENAFLY
Unique 4 BR/3 BTH property.
TENAFLY
Stunning home on a cul-de-sac. $2.1M
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Renovated 3 BR/1.5 BTH condo. $999,000
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Spacious 2 BR pre-war condo. Granite kitchen.
EAST VILLAGE
Sleek one-of-a-kind brownstone penthouse.
MURRAY HILL
Condo bldg. w/doorman, elevator & gym.
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CHELSEA
Spacious ex 1 BR. Doorman building.
GREENWICH VILLAGE
Gorgeous alcove studio. Doorman bldg.
GREENPOINT
Gorgeous 2-family. 3 BR & 1 BR. $1,895K
WILLIAMSBURG
Sleek penthouse duplex. City views.
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Jeffrey Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results.
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
Cedar Market
celebrating first birthday
Teanecks Cedar Market is planning a
celebration in honor of its first birth-
day on Labor Day, September 1. The
event by Gershy Moskowitz Produc-
tions will include rides, clowns, cari-
cature artists, face painting, magic
shows, balloon sculptures, and live
music including a concert with a sur-
prise guest. There will also be pop-
corn, cotton candy, sno cones, give-
aways, prizes, and raffles.
Stay tuned for event details.
The market is at 646 Cedar Lane. (201) 855-8500. www.thecedarmarket.com, info@
thecedarmarket.com.
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