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Shamor LAmour guide seeks shalom in the home
Talking about domestic violence may
not seem like the most romantic way to

celebrate Valentines Day, or the most
joyous way to celebrate Purim.
Nonetheless, Jewish Women
International timed the release of
a new guide aimed at combating
domestic abuse and fostering healthy
relationships to coincide with the
February 14 holiday.
Called both Rethinking Shabbat
and Shamor LAmour (which roughly
translates from Hebrew and French to
observe the love), the guide presents
Jewish texts as a starting point for
discussions about healthy relationships.
Like its three predecessors, which
relate to Sukkot, Shavuot, and
Purim, this guide is composed of
prayers, songs, and other Jewish
texts accompanied by rabbinical
commentary and discussion questions.
An additional Sermon Sparks
guide offers talking points for clergy
sermons on the topic through a similar

combination of Jewish themes and
modern domestic abuse contexts.
Rabbi Ari Lorge of New Yorks Central
Synagogue, who is a co-chair of JWIs
Clergy Task Force To End Domestic
Abuse in the Jewish Community, and
Deborah Rosenbloom, who is JWIs
vice president of programs and a coeditor of the Rethinking guide series,
both emphasized that their campaign
is more focused on promoting positive
relationships than addressing abusive
ones.
The media brim with stories
and analyses of unhealthy, and
often dangerous, relationships, an
introduction to the guide reads. Where
are the conversations about how to
create images and expectations of
health and safety between intimate
partners now, in our own time?
According to a Centers for Disease
Control study from 2010, more than 12
million Americans are victims of some

form of domestic violence every year.
Rabbi Lorge said that Jews historically
have not been vocal enough on
this issue.
For a while some of us
thought that it wasnt an issue
in the Jewish community,
Rabbi Lorge said. Of course it
is, and always has been. Theres
a misconception that were
somehow immune to it.
Rabbi Lorge is optimistic
about the guides potential but
acknowledges that there is a long way
to go in addressing domestic violence.
Its been a really good effort, but
the sad reality is that the issue doesnt
go away, he said. Talking about
relationships for one weekend a year,
while its great, doesnt really address
the issue. Well want to evaluate and
hear from synagogues.
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Norwegian good
The latest rebuke to anti-Semitic terror comes from Norway. There, a group
of Muslims plan to form what they are
calling a peace ring around an Oslo
synagogue after Shabbat services.
More than 800 people have signed
up on a Facebook page called
Frendens Ring, or Friendship Ring, to
participate in the gesture on Saturday.
The human ring is being undertaken
in the wake of the deadly attack on a
synagogue in neighboring Denmark.
We think that after the terrorist
attacks in Copenhagen, it is the
perfect time for us Muslims to distance
ourselves from the harassment of
Jews that is happening, organizer
Hajrad Arshad, 17, told Norways state

broadcaster NRK, the Local Norway
website reported.
Oslos Jewish community welcomed
the initiative, but a representative
said it wanted at least 30 Muslims
participating so that it would not be
counterproductive.
Islam is about protecting our
brothers and sisters, regardless of
which religion they belong to, the
Friendship Ring Facebook page said.
Islam is about rising above hate and
never sinking to the same level as the
haters.
Islam is about defending each
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A classic of public transportation

Pity the riders of the Metropoline Bus Lines line #48, whose
commute between Raanana
and Tel Aviv takes an hour and
twenty minutes. The cities are
barely a dozen miles apart, but
as New Jersey commuters know
too well, traffic and 56 scheduled stops add up. (By contrast,
a flight from Israel to Turkey
takes only 12 minutes longer.)
To help speed things up,
the bus line decided to prod
passengers to the exit doors by
playing a 15 second interlude
of classical music before
announcing the upcoming stop.
Snippets from Mozart, Bach,
Tchaikovsky, and Mendelssohn
were recorded by Raananas
symphony for this purpose.
The initiative was designed

not only to enhance the
commuter experience but to
attract new subscribers for
the Raanana Symphonette
Orchestras concerts. It
was kicked off with a live
performance on the bus by
musicians from the orchestra.
If feedback is good,
musical signatures for each
stop along the route will be
expanded to other bus lines.
And if the feedback is
profoundly good, who
knows? Maybe buses, like
trains, will have their own
conductors to beat the
commuting blues.
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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ................................................ 18
COVER STORY .................................... 22
HEALTHY LIVING
& ADULT LIFESTYLES ...................... 38
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 47
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ....................48
ARTS & CULTURE ..............................49
CALENDAR ..........................................50
GALLERY .............................................. 53
OBITUARIES ........................................ 55
CLASSIFIEDS ...................................... 56
REAL ESTATE...................................... 57
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The hotel staff panicked and inappropriately

responded by serving him a non-kosher
meal that was made to appear kosher.
From a lawsuit claiming the Trump Soho, a Manhattan hotel, passed off a treif
turkey sandwich as a $146 kosher meal.
MIXED REVIEW:
All About Sex

not bad, not great
I recently
watched the first
two episodes of
a new TLC series, All
About Sex. Its not bad
and its not great.
(New episodes air
Saturdays at 11 p.m.) The
cast is certainly diverse.
The host is Dr. Tiffanie
Davis Henry, an AfricanAmerican therapist. The
celeb panel includes
Korean-American
comedian Margaret Cho,
who has been very open
about her bisexual past,
but is long married to a
guy. The granddaughter
of a Korean Protestant
minister, Cho was raised
in a religious home.
Comedian Heather
MacDonald (Chelsea
Lately), a practicing
Catholic and mother of
three, and MARISSA
JARET WINOKUR, 42, a
pudgy but oh-so-cute
actress who is the shyest
about talking about sex,
also are on the panel.
Henry and the panel
take video calls from regular folks and sometimes
bring in their personal
lives. Having seen Cho
and MacDonald speak
about sex in other forums I can kind of tell
that they are both selfcensoring themselves
on this basic cable
network. That saps some
energy from the show.
Winokur still is best
known for winning a
2003 Tony for the lead

role in the stage musical
version of Hairspray.
Since then, she has kept
in the public eye via
TV guest shots, a short
stint on The Talk, and
by being on Dancing
with the Stars. She and
her Jewish husband are
synagogue members
and they have a son. By
the way, Cho wrote the
funniest and most moving account of JOAN
RIVERS funeral Ive read.
Just google Margaret
Cho: her official website comes up first. Then
click on the blog section.
Among other things, Cho
notes that one of the
biggest criers at Rivers
funeral was John Waters,
the irreverent creator of
Hairspray.
The trailer is pretty
wild and the series may
end up offending some.
But I think its worth
checking out the new
Lifetime reality series,
Kosher Soul, for at
least a couple of episodes. (Starts Wednesday, February 25, at
10 p.m.) Its about the
real life engagement of
African-American comedian ONEAL KNIGHT
and (white) Jewish
fashion stylist MIRIAM
STERNOFF. They are
both thirtysomething.
Knights name is in caps
because, as we learn
early on, he recently has
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Joan Rivers
Bob Simons
Jersey connection
Sarah Jessica Parker
Talia Balsam
converted to Judaism. As
a matter of fact, we even
see (in non-super-graphic
detail) his symbolic bris,
wherein just a drop of
blood is drawn. (He was
already circumcised.)
Heres part of the official description: Despite
doubts and concerns
from their loved ones,
recently engaged Miriam
and ONeal are preparing
to marry and begin their
lives in a Jewish home.
Madly in love, ONeal is
ready to prove his dedication to Miriam by converting to Judaism in order to
be accepted by her mother, Nancy, who wants
her future grandchildren
to be raised Jewish. At
the same time, Miriam is
trying to blend ONeals
southern upbringing and
traditions into her life.

What results is a hilarious
and touching peek into
the love and affection
between two soul mates,
whose deep and emotional connection overcomes cultural barriers.
SARAH JESSICA
PARKER is
filming an HBO
pilot about a woman
involved in a long divorce.
Thomas Haden Church
plays her husband, and
TALIA BALSAM, 55, plays
a friend of Parkers. (Shes
the daughter of the late
actor MARTIN BALSAM
as well as being the first
Mrs. George Clooney.) Its
likely, but not certain, that
HBO will turn the pilot
into a series.
A teen comedy, The
Duff, opens on Friday,
When BOB SIMON of 60 Minutes was killed in a

car crash on February 11, I noticed that his daughters
name was TANYA SIMON GARFEIN. Tanya, his only
child, is about 40, and is a 60 Minutes producer. Long
story short: I found out that her husband, Dr. EVAN
GARFEIN, grew up in Tenafly. His sister, Dr. JENNIFER
GARFEIN ASHTON, 45, is a pretty famous TV doctor
(The Doctors, ABC News, Fox News, etc.) and is a
N.B.
practicing OB-GYN in Bergen County.
February 20. Basic plot:

Bianca (Mae Whitman), a
happy high school senior,
is destroyed when she
learns that her whole
class calls her the Duff
(Designated Ugly Fat
Friend) for her prettier,
more popular friends
(Skyler Samuels and Bianca Santos). She enlists
a slick but charming jock
(Robbie Ansell) to help
re-invent herself. The director, ARI SANDEL, 40,
won a 2007 Oscar for his

short musical film, West
Bank Story. It was about
a Jewish man and a Palestinian woman who run
adjoining food stands
and fall in love despite
their families opposition.
Its a Hollywood tradition
to give directors of Oscar-winning shorts a shot
at helming a light feature
film. If its a hit, they oft
go on to big things.
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When rabbis wont speak about Israel
AJR panel to offer tips for starting a conversation
LOIS GOLDRICH
ronically, what should be a unifying topic for Jews often

spurs such heated discussion that rabbis tend to avoid
it, said Ora Horn Prouser, executive vice president and
dean of the Academy for Jewish Religion.
Dr. Prouser, who lives in Franklin Lakes and is married
to Temple Emanuel of North Jerseys Rabbi Joseph Prouser,
said that she heard a lot over the summer from rabbis and
other spiritual leaders. They said that they were unable or
not comfortable talking about Israel in their synagogues, she
reported.
It didnt come from a lack of love, Dr. Horn said. Theyre
deeply invested in Israel, and yet they felt they could not get
into a conversation without deeply offending other parts of
their community.
To help these rabbis, and the entire community, deal with
this situation, Dr. Prousers seminary has organized an intensive three-day program, co-sponsored by the New York Board
of Rabbis, for its students and alumni. On February 22, that
program Israel: The Conversation will be open to the
public.
The idea for this program is based in the struggles that
spiritual leaders feel in how to speak to their communities
about Israel, Dr. Prouser said. This has led to many of them
simply not speaking about Israel. This does not feel like a legitimate response to us at AJR, so we are running this program.
The problem has been worsening over the years, she said,
and only congregations filled with like-minded congregants
have escaped its reach.
She noted that some rabbis feel the need to consistently
defend Israel in face of outside criticism, while others feel that
the way they express their love of Israel is to criticize it for
what they see as its shortcomings.
But it comes from the love of Israel, she stressed. That
is a really important element to keep in mind. There can be
people taking many different opposing views, each one acting
out of a sincere connection to Israel.
Its hard, given the climate in America, where many people have such deep feelings and are [so] defensive about their
feelings, Dr. Prouser said. Indeed, she added, there have
been instances where the issue engendered such tremendous
conflict within synagogues that people left their seats on the
shuls board, eventually leaving the synagogues entirely.
Its not simply that they were uncomfortable, Dr.
Prouser said. It led to deep issues of people asking, Do
I belong there?
The issue is front and center for her school, she said,
explaining why she has organized the program.
Were a pluralistic institution, full of diversity. Rather than
thinking we need to be kept in separate boxes, the students
can develop their own skills for dealing with difficult conversations. As much as none of us like it when others put us in a
box, were quick to put others in one.
What: Israel: The Conversation
When: Sunday, February 22, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Academy of Jewish Religion,
28 Wells Avenue, N.Y.
For more information or to register: Go to ARJs
website, www.ajrsem.org, and click on the link at the
bottom for Israel: The Conversation.
Dr. Ora Horn Prouser
Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky
Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
Rabbi Alana Suskin
Rabbi Asher Lopatin
We work with students to show them that even when

someone has a specific point of view, you dont put them in
a box. They may be richer in their thoughts than you give
them credit for.
Dr. Prouser said that students will be asked to use what
they learn when they go back out into their communities.
She called it part of the academys commitment to handson learning. Its part of our training to help our students
really be prepared to serve the Jewish community in many
different ways, she said.
There are many times where conversations are difficult,
Dr. Prouser continued. Communal leaders should be able
to have such conversations in an intelligent and thoughtful
way, understanding that others cherish different beliefs and
that just because you feel differently doesnt mean you have
to dig in your heels. You can find ways to learn from each
other while sometimes disagreeing yet continue to love
klal Yisrael.
Dr. Prouser hopes that the program will yield spirited
dialogue.
Weve got wonderful presenters, with a wide range of
opinions, she said. I expect we will learn from each other
and really hear things we didnt hear before. Perhaps well
be open to hearing things we hadnt been open to before.
The program will begin with a panel including Rabbi
David Seth Kirshner of Closter, spiritual leader of Temple
Emanu-El there and president of the New York Board of
Rabbis; Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu of Teaneck, director of Rabbis
Without Borders at CLAL; Rabbi Asher Lopatin, president of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in Riverdale, N.Y., and Rabbi Alana
Suskin, director of strategic communications for Americans

for Peace Now. It will be moderated by Rabbi Michael Pitkowsky, AJRs rabbinics curriculum coordinator, who grew
up in Fair Lawn.
This will be followed by text study that reinforces and further explores the issues raised in the panel.
We invited people who we know have strong feelings but
also who we consider deep thinkers, seriously committed to
Israel and the Jewish community, Dr. Prouser said. She is
in no doubt that each one of us will agree more with one
person than with the others.
I hope and expect that people will see deep thinking,
emotional caring, and the internal struggles that each of our
speakers is feeling, and [will see] that each one wants to do
right by Israel and their own Jewish community, she said.
She also is pleased that each speaker has experience with
a synagogue or with groups of rabbis.
I didnt bring in people who dont understand what it
means to serve a community, she said.
Rabbi Pitkowsky noted that when discussing Israel, we
have to find the balance between knowing when and how to
talk, and when and how to listen. Sometimes there is a lot of
talking going on, but not much listening, while at other times
people do not even know how to talk with one another.
At the Academy for Jewish Religion, we value finding
the balance between the two, and understand that they are
both essential components of a vibrant and diverse Jewish
community. We hope that this panel discussion will help
contribute to creating a fruitful and honest discussion about
Israel within our communities.
Local
While Closters Rabbi Kirshner will be
a panelist, still, he said that personally,
I dont think it is so difficult to talk about
Israel.
I dont know why my colleagues seem
to find this a challenge. I talk about it perhaps more than I should, all the time, in my
congregation.
He noted that although a Conservative
congregation like his includes members at
all levels of observance including some
who are shomer Shabbat and some who
emphatically are not the major common
denominator is a love for Israel.
Its a conversation that has to be had,
Rabbi Kirshner said. People are more
engaged in Jewish communal life when
they are stockholders.
I say anything and everything Im not
so shy about my beliefs, he added, pointing to his February 4 op-ed in this newspaper, suggesting that Prime Minister Netanyahu should refuse the U.S. Congresss
invitation to speak before it.
I dont hesitate to share, he said.
He noted, however, that there are some
ground rules in his congregation.
We disagree with kindness, he said.
Thats the beauty of Judaism.
Its mission critical to lend our voice to
discussions on major issues, Rabbi Kirshner continued, and to debate such topics
as whether French Jews should now make
aliyah. Rabbis who succumb to fear are
lost, as are their communities. Were hired
to share our views, not to be fearful.
Suggesting that he may be an anomaly
in the rabbinic world, Rabbi Kirshner
dismissed the idea that a rabbi cant, for
example, talk about AIPAC or JStreet, just
because supporters of the other group are
in the audience.
However, he acknowledged, many
future rabbis are scared about talking about
Israel. Its a loaded issue.
Being a good rabbi means you want to
be precise, thoughtful, and respectful, he
said. Accepting the premise that Israel is
the nation-state of the Jewish people, You
cant say theres one view of that and then
70 faces of Torah.
People respond differently to Israel,
depending on how old they are, Rabbi Kirshner posited. More people are living longer than ever before, so 20-year-olds are
sitting down with 80-year-olds. And while
some 75-year-olds may be thinking about
where to put their money if the next Holocaust is coming, some 25-year-olds dont
understand the need for the ADL.
According to Rabbi Kirshner, portals
connecting older people to Israel are less
effective with younger people, who may
not have the time or money, for example,
to attend AIPAC conferences, visit Israel,
or engage with Israeli leaders. Perhaps the
only time the two groups come together is
when tragedies occur. Oppression is galvanizing, Rabbi Kirshner said.
He agreed with the contention that antiIsrael sentiment is often used as a smokescreen for anti-Semitism, but he said that
does not mean that being critical of Israels

policies necessarily means that the critic is
an anti-Semite.
Fellow panelist Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu said
that in her job as director of CLALs Rabbis
without Borders, I help rabbis be more
clear in their outlook.
Not having a pulpit herself, I am not
being challenged by a congregation to
take a clear stand on Israel, she said. Im
training rabbis to look at Israel from multiple sides, so they can both express their
own views and leave space for others to
disagree.
Rabbis without Borders, which has more
than 150 rabbis in its cross-denominational
international network, strives to train rabbis to serve anyone, anywhere, Rabbi
Sirbu said. To do that in todays increasingly diverse, multicultural, and politically
polarized world, a lot of what we do is help
rabbis be able to meet people wherever
they are.
They also help rabbis approach polarizing issues including Israel from a perspective where they know where they are
grounded whatever their position but
can speak out to people where they are.
Were hoping to avoid situations where
rabbis are alienating people because of
what their position may be, she said. We
encourage them to give their own views but
to say that people can fully disagree.
Rabbis across the country need to learn
this skill, she added. Israel right now is the
third rail theyre scared to touch it. They
dont want to alienate or inflame some portion of their congregation.
Rabbi Sirbu said that the narrative about
Israel that people believe has changed over
the years. The older generation, who lived
through the founding of Israel or the Six
Day War, have a far different belief system
than those who grew up in the 1990s. For
one group, the main message is that Israel
is constantly at risk and must be supported.
The other group sees a nation that has conquered territories and does not let Palestinians have certain rights.
People who adhere to the narrative that
Israel must be kept powerful tend to line
up around AIPAC and Jewish federations,
she said. The other group may gravitate to
JStreet or Americans for Peace Now.
Its very complicated, Rabbi Sirbu said,
noting that some people call others antiIsrael because they disagree with the dominant narrative. You have to be very careful when you start throwing those [terms]
around. Its different than whats happening in Europe.
Rabbi Sirbu said she learned from rabbis
at several professional gatherings that they
dont talk about Israel because they find it
too divisive.
I find that sad, she said. Regardless
of where you are on the spectrum of Israel
and policies, its part and parcel of who we
are as American Jews.
Its really important for rabbis to open
up the conversation so that everyone can
participate.
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New Soloveitchik Torah commentary to launch in Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON
orty years ago, Rabbi

Joseph B. Soloveitchik,
the head of Yeshiva
Universitys rabbinical seminary, made a rare trip to
Philadelphia to speak at the University of Pennsylvania.
That began a chain of events
that will culminate on Sunday night in a book launch for
the second volume of a Torah
commentary collecting Rabbi
Soloveitchiks teachings.
The author and editor of
the commentary, Dr. Arnold
Lustiger, was a student at Drexel
University in Philadelphia in
1975. Intrigued by the chance
to hear the famous rabbi, he
attended the lecture.
It was a tour de force, he
remembered this week, I had
never heard anything remotely
like this in my life. Here was
someone who speaks the language of halacha of Jewish law
but at the same time has the
ability to place it in a philosophical and homiletical context.
Save the date

What: Chumash Mesoras
HaRav Sefer Shemos
book launch
Who: Rabbi Steven Weil,
Orthodox Union senior
managing director; Rabbi
Yosef Adler, dean of the
Torah Academy of Bergen
County and rabbi of
Congregation Rinat Yisrael;
and Dr. Arnold Lustiger.
When: Sunday, February
22, at 8 p.m.
Where: Congregation
Rinat Yisrael, 389 West Englewood Avenue, Teaneck
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HAPPY
PURIM
Dr. Lustiger was a graduate of

the Philadelphia Yeshiva, where
rabbis and students wore black
hats and Rabbi Soloveitchik was
viewed with cognitive dissonance. The rabbis at the Philadelphia Yeshiva had to admit
that Rabbi Soloveitchik was a
brilliant Torah scholar but
where they generally counseled
avoidance of non-Jewish studies,
Rabbi Soloveitchik embraced the
encounter with the non-Jewish
world.
So too did Dr. Lustiger, whose
academic studies would lead him
to a doctorate in materials engineering and his present position
as a senior research scientist for
Exxon. (He lives in Edison and his
research specialty is polymer science in other words, plastics.)
I resolved to find out everything I could about the Rav, he
said, using the Hebrew word for
rabbi. Thats how Rabbi Soloveitchik was referred to by his disciples including more or less
all the rabbinical students who
passed through Yeshiva University, some 2,000, for the 43 years
until his retirement in 1985 and
in turn by their disciples.
In Philadelphia in the 1970s,
there werent a lot of ways to
learn more about Rabbi Soloveitchik. Dr. Lustiger did travel to
New York a handful of times, to
go to one of Rabbi Soloveitchiks
weekly public lectures, and he
even sat in on Rabbi Soloveitchiks Talmud class at Yeshiva
University for a couple of days.
Little trace of Rabbi Soloveitchik
could be found on the printed
page. Rabbi Soloveitchik, for
all his prodigious teaching and
speaking, famously was a perfectionist when it came to publishing. By 1975, only a couple
of carefully crafted essays had
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was a charismatic lecturer.

appeared in the journal of the
Rabbinic Council of America, and
there was a thin volume summarizing some lectures written and
published by students at Yeshiva.
Over the years, though, a
stream of publishing began.
Then, following Rabbi Soloveitchiks death in 1993, the floodgates opened. Tapes of his lectures began to be distributed.
When Dr. Lustiger discovered
that a man in Queens was selling
copies of 100 different recordings
of Rabbi Soloveitchik, I bought
up his entire collection.
And Dr. Lustiger discovered
that the books that had come out
in the intervening decades represented only a fraction of Rabbi
Soloveitchiks thought.
So he began to transcribe and
edit lectures into books.
In 1998, his first project

Before Hashem You Shall
Be Purified : Rabbi Joseph B.
Soloveitchik on the Days of Awe
brought a cease-and-desist
order from lawyers representing Rabbi Soloveitchiks family.
The letter arrived after the books
were printed but before they
were distributed to bookstores.
Dr. Lustiger argued back that his
adaptation of the lectures were
justified under the legal doctrine
of fair use. He never heard back
from the attorneys, and the book
was distributed.
Then he started preparing a
commentary for the Yom Kippur
Machzor, which was published
by the OU Press. In 2013, the OU
Press published the first of his
planned five volumes of commentary on the Torah.
Now, the second volume, on

Exodus, has been published. On
Sunday night, its release will be
marked by an event in Teaneck
that will feature, in addition to
Dr. Lustiger, Rabbi Steven Weil of
the Orthodox Union and Rabbi
Yossi Adler of Congregation
Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck. Rabbi
Adler is a noted disciple of Rabbi
Soloveitchik and author of a Passover haggadah collecting Rabbi
Soloveitchiks teachings.
The new Torah commentary was not written by Rabbi
Soloveitchik, of course. Instead,
it brings together remarks from
Rabbi Soloveitchik on the Torah
collated from hundreds of
recorded lectures. Most of the
lectures focused on Talmud and
halacha, but many included a few
minute discussion of the weekly
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Torah portion. Other times a verse would be explained

on the way to making a larger point. Dr. Lustiger has
extracted such comments and brought them to the
verse to which they refer. The result is some verses
have many notes, from many talks, highlighting the
different perspectives that Rabbi Soloveitchik would
bring to the Torah.
All of the approaches to the text are in the commentary at one point or another, Dr. Lustiger said.
I wanted to give people an idea of the breadth of the
Rav.
The comments on the opening verses of this weeks
portion, Terumah, illustrate this, with references to
Some verses have

many notes, from
many talks,
highlighting
the different
perspectives that
Rabbi Soloveitchik
would bring to
the Torah.
the Talmud, Maimonides Guide to the Perplexed, and
one of Rabbi Soloveitchiks 18th century ancestors,
Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin.
With 300 tapes spanning 20 years, almost every
Torah passage shows up in Dr. Lustigers Soloveitchik
library at least once (though Dr. Lustiger has yet to
find a reference to the leprosy of houses, a topic that
shows up in the Leviticus volume on which he is now
at work).
For other passages of the Torah, the Rav had a
great deal to say about very few words. Few people
pay attention to the verse that precedes the Ten Commandments in Exodus: And God spoke all these
words, saying: (Exodus 20:1). In June 1972, however,
Rabbi Soloveitchik gave a lecture explaining those
seven Hebrew words. It comes to 10 pages in the book,
placed in the back as an appendix.
One of the recurring themes in the commentary, Dr.
Lustiger said, is the philosophical paradox of how an
infinite God can reside among finite men. Why does
God command the building of a tabernacle? How is
prayer possible? How does God choose a people and
decide that this nation has the merit to build his house
for him?
Dr. Lustiger hopes to some small extent to duplicate for readers the sense of awe and discovery he felt
when he first heard Rabbi Soloveitchik speak all those
years ago with the strong caveat that to write about
and summarize the Rav is absolutely nothing like hearing him and the charisma that he had.
But to his satisfaction, he has found that the experience gets through.
I just heard of a shul in Flatbush, a yeshivish
shtiebel, where they sold off all of their ArtScroll
machzorim and theyre using the Rav machzor, he
said. They read it and they said we have got to have
it.
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LOIS GOLDRICH
hy cant we all just get

along?
The rabbi s have
been asking that question for years, particularly in late summer, around the time of Tisha BAv,
when sermons inevitably wrap around
the themes of baseless hatred and
intolerance.
But our secular community especially as political discourse turns ever
more hostile and bullying pervades
both our schools and our social media
has been asking that as well, and at
least one town has decided to do something about it.
According to Ridgewoods Mayor Paul
Aronsohn, the town began its civility
initiative last year. With a core group
including Rabbi David Fine of the towns
Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center, Councilwoman Gwenn Hauck,
the Rev. Jan Phillips of the Religious
Society of Friends, and Mr. Aronsohn,
the town already has held two roundtable discussions on the issue, seeking to
identify the problem and locate the line
between disagreement and incivility.
Its not only what you say, but how
you say it, Mr. Aronsohn said, noting
Its good and fine

to disagree, but
we should be
able to disagree
without being
disagreeable.
MAYOR PAUL ARONSOHN
that any discussion must include both

content and attitude. Its good and fine
to disagree, but we should be able to
disagree without being disagreeable.
The mayor told participants at the
first meeting which drew a crosssection of the Ridgewood community
that during his more than six years
in municipal government, he has seen
people berate experts who testify at
public meetings and has met with parents who have encountered coarse
behavior on athletic fields. He also has
seen an increase of incivility in online
comments.
In a December 2014 op-ed for the
Record, the mayor urged that civility
should become the new normal.
Although incivility is nothing new,
he wrote, it seems that 2009 was a pivotal year that began a steady decline.
That year, a congressman from South
Carolina broke tradition and yelled out
during a presidential address to a joint
session of Congress effectively calling
the president of the United States a liar.
It was also in that year that New Jersey
elected a governor who felt it was fine
to vilify public workers, talk down to
reporters, and shout down residents at
town meetings. Now, five years later,
it is time for us to declare that enough
is enough.
To continue this discussion, the
mayor has organized a program, slated
for February 24, to provide a platform
for a variety of perspectives. Panelists
will include Englewood Councilwoman
Lynne Algrant, North Jersey Media
Group Publisher/President Stephen
Borg, Ridgewood Police Department
Captain Jacqueline Luthcke, public
affairs executive and Jersey City official
Robert Sommer, and Bergen County
Executive James Tedesco. Rabbi Fine
will facilitate the discussion.
Mr. Aronsohn said that he selected
the panelists and the facilitator with an
eye toward generating good, thoughtful discussion one that adds to our
ongoing community-wide conversation
about civility. By bringing our community together around this topic, my
hope is to raise the level of public discourse and encourage respect for differing points of view.
Panelist Robert Sommer noted that
public participation in government
policy-making is vital but we shouldnt
confuse participation with wanton disrespect of adversaries. Policy-making
should mean working to accommodate
various views. Disagreement is a valuable part of the process. Disrespect
never should be.
This panel will explore how to
improve public discourse.
In an email from Berlin, Rabbi Fine
noted that he has been happy to assist
Mayor Aronsohn lead our village in a
public discourse on civility. Our country was founded on the ideal of the right
to engage in government, a right that is
rooted in the ability of the citizenry to
engage itself through the deliberative
process. We have to know how to do
that.
It is very difficult, when people get
passionate about their concerns to
speak against their opponents in a measured way, Rabbi Fine continued. We
too often allow our disagreements to
become personal, when we ought to be
debating an issue rather than the people who hold different opinions on that
Mayor Paul Aronsohn
Rabbi David Fine
What: Panel discussion on Civility in Public Discourse

When: Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Ridgewood Public Library
issue.
In Judaism, this is included under
what we call lashon hara, which translates literally as evil speech. There are
so many rules about lashon hara in Judaism because it happens all the time. It is
the easiest mitzvah to transgress, but
it can also be so harmful. While some-
Ridgewood has
begun a public
discourse about
public discourse,
an exploration of
the ways we can
be more civil.
RABBI DAVID FINE
times the motivations are sinister, usually that is not the case.
He added that people argue with
each other at meetings, whether they
be public village meetings or synagogue
committees, because they care deeply
and are invested in the community and
the question at hand
We are blessed with the very clear
model offered by Roberts Rules the
parliamentarians bible, which details
the protocol that attends public speaking that when one speaks at a meeting, one should not address anyone
in particular at the meeting except
the chair. By addressing the chair, the
speaker is forced to address the issue,
not any other person in an adversarial

ad hominem way. Ridgewood has begun
a public discourse about public discourse, an exploration of the ways we
can be more civil in public and communal discussion. I hope this process can
serve as a model that can inspire others.
Civility is important, not only for our
village, but for society in general, the
police departments Captain Jacqueline
Luthcke wrote in an email.
Just the simple please and thank
you are rarely heard anymore, and they
are words we all learned to say as children. We also learned as children that
sticks and stones may break my bones,
but names will never hurt me. Unfortunately, we have seen that names can, in
fact, lead to hurt.
That said, civility and common
courtesy may help prevent fights, road
rage, suicides, and any manner of disagreements. It is much easier to speak
your mind without expecting someone
to insult you, providing you dont use
insults when speaking. Many people
take the anonymous route to speak
their mind both to be able to use insults
freely and to protect themselves from
being insulted. Using anonymity is the
equivalent of talking behind someones
back, then lying to their face, without
actually having to say the lie.
Civility does not stifle disagreement
or progress, but allows people to feel
heard without the sting of personal negativity. Just because I disagree with your
idea, does not mean I find you to be a
disagreeable person.
I was fortunate to take place in the
first civility discussion, and I found
it very soothing. Many people had
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Using anonymity is
the equivalent of
talking behind
someones back, then
lying to their face,
without actually
having to say the lie.
CAPTAIN JACQUELINE LUTHCKE
similar thoughts, that civility was missing from

many places in society. I am hopeful this next discussion will open the dialog more and start to bring
about a change.
As a police officer, I find that we are the ones
that tend to bring civility to incidents. Yes, there
are times we must come in strong to break up a
fight or control an out-of-control person. But many
times we have gone to a scene, such as a domestic
violence. Here you have two people who originally
fell in love, married, and had children who at
that moment cant stand to be in the same room at
the same time. Tempers have flared, name calling
is rampant and violence is brewing.
The police arrive and separate the parties to
give them time to explain what is going on and see
what kind of help is needed. Although some scenes
may end in arrest, there are many times that both
parties realized they said things they shouldnt
have, apologize to each other, and are able to work
through their differences.
The more personal the relationship, the more
important civility becomes, she concluded.
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ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
ince January 4, Noah Stein

and Adi Haruni of Tenafly
and Charlie Spiegel of Paramus have been volunteering
in the Yemin Orde Youth Village in the
picturesque Carmel mountains near
Haifa.
The 19-year-olds chose this option
from among several offered to participants in the Young Judaea Year
Course, a gap year program that combines classroom studies for college
credit, traveling, and volunteering
across Israel.
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the opportunity
to interact with
so many people
from different
cultures and
backgrounds.
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I felt I could have the greatest

impact at Yemin Orde, said Noah,
who graduated from Tenafly High
School in 2014. Ive never had the
opportunity to interact with so many
people from different cultures and
backgrounds: Ethiopian, Russian, and
French kids. I thought I could really
learn from them, and I could offer

them something to learn as well.
Yemin Orde, originally founded to
shelter orphaned Holocaust survivors,
now houses more than 400 mostly
teenage immigrants from France, North
Africa, Iran, India, Yemen, Eastern
Europe, and South America. Each of
them has suffered some sort of trauma.
About 20 percent of them are orphans,
while the rest have family here or
abroad who cannot care for them.
Noah volunteers on the villages
farm each weekday morning. Theres
a wood shop and a greenhouse, and
some livestock mostly goats and
chickens, he said. Every day is different. Sometimes Im shepherding
goats; other days Im building a roof
or potting plants.
Many of the kids come to the farm
and you see a whole new side to them
as they connect in different ways
other than traditional educational
methods, he said.
The experience is not only altruistic. You get to see the products of
your work, which I find very gratifying, he added. Ive never worked
with power tools before or built anything from scratch, and its also really
nice being outside.
Charlie, who graduated from Paramus High School in 2014, volunteers
in the villages school, teaching English to teenagers in small groups or in
a class of 15.
Some of them are only a couple of
months younger than me, and it was
pretty rough at the beginning, he
said, recalling that his first assignment
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was to drill students on the proper use of was

and were.
That was a bad lesson, but I gradually got better
and better at making the lessons fun and interesting, he said. Everyone said it would be hard to get
through to these kids, but now they like me and I
like them. One guy who arrived four months ago
from Russia calls me achi, my brother, and that
was my best moment, knowing he felt that comfortable with me.
Charlie said that the language barrier does not
keep him from talking with the teens about whatever is going on in their lives. He uses a combination of English, rudimentary Russian, and
Hebrew, hand signs, and pictures basically five
languages.
He said that one of the reasons he chose Yemin
Orde was the location. Its a very wholesome lifestyle, very meditative, and that gives you a lot of
time to think, he said
Noah agreed. Yemin Orde is on a mountain, so
you have a great view of the Mediterranean and the
surrounding villages, he said. Its really beautiful,
and pretty much isolated.
Its nice not having outside distractions and just
focusing on what were doing there, he added.
Out of 150 participants on the Young Judaea Year
Course in Israel this year, 11 are from New Jersey.
During the current portion of the program, Tali Ron
of Fair Lawn, Khassy Kotliar of Teaneck, and Gabe
Rubin of Englewood opted to take part in the IDFs
Marva boot camp experience. Others have joined
a first-response team or other volunteer ventures in
the coastal city of Bat Yam, where many Year Course
participants now use as their home base.
Five of the Yemin Orde contingent of 12 departed
earlier this week for three weeks of volunteering at
Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, which
was modeled after Yemin Orde.
The Year Course participants previously spent
a few months in Jerusalem, where one of their
classes focused on effective ways to counter antiIsrael activity on college campuses.
But just being in Israel has had a profound effect.
Im so ridiculously pro-Israel now, Noah said,
with a laugh. I feel a deep, deep connection to
the places that Ive lived here. When people go on
10-day Birthright trips, they dont even know the
half of it.
Come fall, Noah will head to Columbia, while
Charlie will go to Rutgers. The two friends met as
first-graders at the Solomon Schechter Day School
of Bergen County, and they have been best buddies
since third grade.
Not many of my friends took a year off before
college, says Noah. I know college will be there
waiting for me when I get back. Taking this year getting to know myself, building friendships, exploring Israel, new cultures and a new language, I feel
Ive learned so much I couldnt get otherwise.
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ers (88), Lauren Pruzansky (03), Rebecca
terms, and joined the executive commitRauch (03), Racheli Schwartz (05),
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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University,
will celebrate some of the Jewish communitys dedicated leaders and educators at its annual gala evening of tribute on Sunday, March 8, at the Grand
Hyatt in New York City. The dinner will
honor the memory of Herb Smilowitz
and honor Rabbi Menachem Genack
of Englewood, CEO of the Orthodox
Union Kosher Division, and Rabbi Ronald Schwarzberg, director of the Morris
and Gertrude Bienenfeld Department
of Jewish Career Development and
Placement at YUs Center for the Jewish Future.
Mr. Smilowitz served on the RIETS
board for more than 20 years, including most recently as vice chairman. He
and his wife, Marilyn, were Yeshiva
University benefactors. Mr. Smilowitz
was chair of the board at Congregation
Ahawas Achim Bnai Jacob & David of
West Orange, where the couple dedicated a beit midrash, and was president of the Jewish Education Center
of Elizabeth. He was a leader in the
New Jersey MetroWest Federation
and received the RIETS Heritage and
Eitz Chaim awards. Together with his
son, Rabbi Mark Smilowitz of Israel,
he received the inaugural Father/Son
Israel America award.

Rabbi Genack, a RIETS musmach
and Rosh Yeshiva, will receive the
Harav Yosef Dov Halevi Soloveitchik
zl Aluf Torah award in recognition
of the impact he has made on Torah
Judaism worldwide. As CEO of OU
Kosher, he oversees the kosher certification of more than 600,000 products in 10,500 facilities in more than
80 countries, and he has published
volumes on many topics as founder
and general editor of OU Press. Rabbi
Ronald Schwarzberg will receive the
Distinguished Rabbinic Leadership
award. He was director of the Morris
and Gertrude Bienenfeld Department
of Jewish Career Development and
Placement for Yeshiva Universitys
Center for the Jewish Future, placing
hundreds of rabbis. He was a pulpit
rabbi at Congregation Ahavas Achim
in Highland Park and held positions
on the Community Relations Council
of the Jewish Federation of Greater
Middlesex County and the National
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National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section, represented by
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of a Senate joint resolution to proclaim
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Sponsored by Senate Majority Leader
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Hannah Solomons role as a pioneer of
womens rights within the Jewish community, and society as a whole, makes it
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Hannah G. Solomon was a trailblazer,
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Original music compositions sought
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a living memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Established
in 2005 to honor the memory of Abe
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Tanzman Foundation dedicates

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Acclaimed Holocaust scholar and
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Ahavat Achim plans

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The Ahavat Achim Orthodox Congregation of Fair Lawn will hold its 32nd annual
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The Kors joined Ahavat Achim in 1990;
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Local among winners of immunization

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Gavriel Epstein of the Torah Academy of
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Gavriels submission was a video. The contest was sponsored by the Partnership for
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The Chabad Center of Passiac
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dining hall for Shabbat and holiday meals,

and also will host special programing,
films, and cultural presentations.
Rutgers Hillels board president, Roy
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Construction of the new building is underway at 70 College Ave. It is expected to be
finished in the spring of 2016.
Rutgers Hillel is a beneficiary agency of
many Jewish federations, including the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
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Ahavath Torah dinner in March

Congregation Ahavath Torah of Englewood will hold its annual dinner in the
shuls Parker Family Ballroom on Saturday, March 14, at 9 p.m. Francine and
Aaron Stein are the guests of honor,
Rachael and Dov Eisenberger will
receive the Young Leadership award,
and Shoshanna and Rabbi Mordechai Gershon are the Harbatzat Torah
award-recipients. An ad journal will
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The Steins have been members of
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services committee for nine years. He
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The Eisenbergers moved to Englewood in 2007. Dov Eisenberger is a regular morning minyan attendee and has
been on the shuls security team for five
years. He is also a member of its board.
Rabbi Mordechai Gershon is Ahavath
Torahs assistant rabbi and the rabbi of
its Benaroya Sephardic Center. He also
teaches at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of
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Listening to Shimon Peres
n Sunday, the Times of Israel had

a gala dinner to begin its fourth
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the absolutely ludicrous cold outside made
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The room was packed, and so was the roster of speakers. Each was impressive.
Among them was Shimon Peres, the
recently retired president of Israel, who is
also a former prime minister and the holder
of many other positions and winner of many
prizes. He was ushered to a chair on stage,
and spoke in conversation with David Horovitz, the Times of Israels founder and editor.
Shimon Peres, it is fair to say, is old. He was
born in Poland in 1923 and moved to what
was then Palestine in 1934. His story and the
states are intimately entwined.
That is why it was so moving to listen to
him talk about the future. Despite all he has
lived through, all the sorrow and death hes
seen, Mr. Peres still is an optimist. He could
see no reason for French Jews to leave France
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he told the crowd, that although Alfred Dreyfus was degraded and exiled, he came back,
exonerated and reinstated into the French
army, the plot against him unmasked by the
non-Jewish writer and fighter for justice Emile
Zola. Remember, Mr. Peres said, that in the
Dreyfus story, it was Zola who won.
Israel must remain a land of hope, not a
land of fear, he said. Dont be pessimistic.
Dont think that everything that is bad now
will be bad forever. Evil passes, he said, and
that is aided by the truth that every generation is a little better than the preceding one
was.
He had two pieces of advice for the audience: Keep your children Jewish, he said.
And lets continue to construct. To build.
Whether you think that Mr. Peress optimism is the fruit of his long experience or
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Not quite kicking the bucket
Taking the northern lights off my list
eturning from Europe,

where I spoke to the
Amsterdam Jewish community and participated in
promoting an extraordinary new theatrical production of Anne Franks life
on the 70 anniversary of her murder,
I thought I would indulge my life-long
dream of seeing the northern lights.
Iceland Air was cheaper on the
return trip, and charged nothing for
stopping in Reykjavik. Yes, free ice!
I loved Iceland when I traveled
around the beautiful
country with my family a few years back. But
that was in summer. The
difference between Iceland in summer and winter is like the difference
between having root
canal with an anesthetic
versus without.
Rabbi
Disembarking from the
Shmuley
plane in winter, I was hit
Boteach
by such a ferocious wind
that it sent my yarmulke
flying. Oh, and my head
was attached to it. It was like being in
the ring with Muhammad Ali. Icelandic weather, the rental car agent said.
That was just the appetizer.
Over the next two days my desire
to see the Aurora Borealis became a
simple battle for survival. Screw the
northern lights. If I got out alive, Id be
happy.
Driving to Reykjavik through the
blinding snow and howling wind, I
asked myself if I had been possessed by
a malevolent spirit. Did I really choose
to go to Iceland in winter? Was I out of
my mind? Did the sulfuric fumes of the
Blue Lagoon fry my circuits?
I drove through the ice and snow not
knowing if I would plow right into the
volcanic rock that surrounded us on
both sides.
But to the Icelanders the weather

was the Bahamas. Only 30 below zero?
Time for a tan! We were in a fourwheel drive SUV, driving slowly and
cautiously. I was now being overtaken
by tiny cars beeping and honking for
me to get out of the way. Youve got to
be kidding. They drive these little putput vehicles in Icelandic winter? Heck,
they even sell these cars in Iceland?
Soon kids on bicycles were overtaking me. Moms pushing carriages were
calling me a dumb American. Infants
were crawling past us.
Stationary trees were
overtaking us. It seems
that everyone who has
survived an Icelandic
winter is rendered into
Thor, god of lightning.
We had a tour booked
to take us to see the
northern lights on the
first night. I called the
hotel. Ah, this is Jorgen
Bjorgenson at reception. Hey hey. Tak tak.
Ah, your tour has been
canceled.
Does that mean that we wont see
the northern lights tonight?
Ah, well, between the blizzard,
thick cloud cover, howling wind, hail,
locusts, earthquakes, shooting volcanic ash, and asteroid strikes you
have as much chance of seeing the
northern lights as you do in being able
to pronounce our volcanos name.
Eyjafjallajkull.
We got to the hotel and decided to
go for a walk on the main street, famed
for its bars and nightlife. We didnt
need to walk. The wind picked us up
like wings of the eagles. Only this eagle
then smashed us down on ice sheets
the size of Greenland.
Returning to the hotel, it suddenly
struck me that I had left my nose at a
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And snow it goes

The snows of then and the snows of now
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bar, which had fallen off without my noticing.

I braved the storm to retrieve it.
The next day I got up early, wanting to
maximize our time and see as much as we
can. What no one told us is that the sun
doesnt come up until 10 a.m. So here I was,
with hours to burn and absolutely nothing
to do. I practiced saying Eyjafjallajkull.
Then I decided to take a long, hot shower.
The water was all geothermal, with the constant smell of sulfur. I was in hell after all.
We got into the car and left about 11. Miraculously, it did not snow for the first hour. But
what opened before me was a snow-white
landscape of endless bleakness. Youve got
to be kidding. Were we supposed to drive
on these roads? And how the heck am I supposed to focus on driving, when those tiny
little cars are always honking behind me to
overtake me?
I felt emasculated.
It started to snow. No, correction. The
entirety of the earth suddenly turned white.
We arrived at Thingvellir, where the
continental plates of North America and
Eurasia are pulling apart, leaving a visible
crack in the earth where you can go hiking.
The howling wind and snow felt like someone putting a thousand needles in my face.
My wife laughed at me. Look, your beard
looks like Santa Claus, she said. Its a curious phenomenon when the person married
to you for 26 years makes fun of your imminent demise.
I walked through the fissure of the earth.
My phone rang. It was a Jewish leader calling about something regarding Israel. My
fingers were turning to marble. I could not
move them. Less so could I move my lips.
Yes, Israel is under threat. But one sinking ship cannot save another. Uhh, amma
gonnna have to call you beccckk. Im kinda
nutt really able to tuuckk right now.
Then it happened. My mouth froze on the
word now. I could not close it. I had to get
to warmth quickly or the body part I most
use to feed my children would be left in Iceland. I ran to the visitor center. I did not
look human. A frozen, white barely mobile
human popsicle entered.

Duh yah sell cuffee heeah? I tried articulating the words. My lips would not move.
He told me no, but there was a place a short
fifteen kilometer hike away that does. The
Icelandic school children do it all the time.
I stared in disbelief, then walked to the
bathroom and put the hot water on until I
felt my fingers again. Then I splashed some
hot water on my face. Fortunately for the
future of the human race, my mouth began
to move again.
For the next three hours, we drove back
to Reykjavik through blinding snow that gave
us perhaps 3 feet of visibility. We were overtaken by perhaps 700 tiny Icelandic cars.
We made it back, got on our knees, and
thanked God for allowing us to live another
day. The man at reception looked at me. Your
tour company called. They cancelled the
northern lights tour because. I cut him off.
Yes, they canceled because it I cant see
my fingers in front of me so Im assuming,
bud, that the chances of seeing the northern
lights are just a wee bit diminished, wouldnt
you say?
We went up to our room, giving up all hope
of seeing the northern lights. The focus now
was simply to get out of Iceland before we
died or went mad.
The next day we woke up early, waited
three hours for some light outside, and left
at 11 a.m. for the airport. And behold, a miracle overtook the island. The sun came out.
I heard the heavenly host of angels singing.
Hallelluka, Halleluka. Never have I loved
the sun as much as that day. I adopted it as
my religion and began to worship it.
We began to drive under bright blue skies.
And then, just as soon as we left Reykjaviks
small city limits, a blizzard of epic proportions came out of nowhere and dumped so
much snow on us that I could hardly even
see the 21 tiny Icelandic cars which overtook
me. Get me out of here, I screamed in the
car. Driving at a snails pace, we made it to
the airport. The skies are expected to be
clear tonight, the same rental agent from
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now days, when I was a kid,

were the best thing ever.
Especially those that were
called on the morning of.
My brothers and I would sit in my
parents bedroom as we listened to the
radio, faces both excited and intense
as we waited for our school to be listed
next. My mom, a teacher at our school,
would await the chain phone call that
school had been cancelled. For some
reason, the good news just seemed
more joyful those mornings than at
times when school was called the day
before. Maybe the anticipation leading
up to the day was already some kind
of cheap thrill, that paid off when we
heard the actual good
news.
On snow days when I
was a kid, we would help
our mom make stovetop
chocolate pudding that
created the most beautiful plastic-like film
on top, sealing in the
creamy warm deliciousness underneath. The
Dena
Croog
best time to eat it wasnt
once it solidified in the
fridge, but when it cooled
down to just the right temperature so
that it wouldnt scorch the roofs of our
mouths.
On snow days when I was a kid, I
would take out the arts and crafts toys
and sit for hours making projects out
of modeling clay, paint, and pipe cleaners. I would make shrinky dinks in the
oven, play Lego with my brothers,
make clothing for my little teddy bear
out of cut up socks and random pieces
of ribbon, and read on the couch, waiting for the snow to stop falling.
And once it did, we would layer ourselves in pairs of leggings, jeans, and
snow pants, three top layers beneath
our winter coats, two pairs of gloves,
and moon boots stuffed with two pairs
of socks and plastic baggies to make
the feet slide in more easily. If we were
able to make it out the door in our
Eskimo gear, we would go in the backyard and build forts and have snowball
fights. My favorite tradition on such
days was making snow angels on fresh,
untouched snow. Sometimes, if the
timing was right, we would trek over
to the hill where everyone went sledding. Well, more likely we would sit
ourselves down on a sled and my mom
would pull us to the appropriate spot.
Once home, our ridiculous wardrobe

stripped off, we would warm ourselves
with hot chocolate and sit in front of
the television to watch cartoons for
just a little while.
Snow days have lost their magic
glow now that Ive become a parent
who must occupy her children and
save them from boredom. Snow itself
has lost its magic more and more with
every single time I have to go outside
to shovel the walkway. And the driveway. And the side path. At least we
dont have a front sidewalk.
This is how it usually goes:
First snowfall: Wow, how beautiful! and All this shoveling is so
refreshing and a great
workout!
Second snowfall:
Man, how my back is
starting to give.
Third snowfall: How
much should we pay the
guys who come around
to shovel?
Fo u r t h s n ow f a l l :
Those guys didnt do
such a good jobhave
someone else do it this
time and Heck no am I
paying that much for this shoveling!
and Fine, Ill do it myself and Darn
it, my back just gave out!
And to think, the hardest snow day
workout I had as a kid was not from
shoveling, but rather from slowly mixing the thickening stovetop pudding
until it reached the right consistency.
So then my back hurts too much to
take the kids sledding, nor do I feel up
to it as my month-long cold is getting
worse and worse and every pharmacy
in the world is out of Tamiflu. I love
spending time with my kids, but Im
not really in the mood to make arts and
crafts projects with them. Im too lethargic to make homemade pizza and chocolate chip cookies (though we did make
Bisquick pancakes for breakfast on the
first snow day). No, on this last snow
day, while I walked around with a tissue
box everywhere I went, I did the ultimate no-no. After making sure all reading and homework was finished, I stuck
the kids right smack in front of the TV
and called it a day. Terrible parenting
compared to my moms involvement in
our days fun activities, but honestly, on
that day, I did not feel bad about my terrible parenting one single bit.
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Write it down?
Remember the past, look to the future and live in the present
ow much energy and time do

you want to devote to creating
and preserving memories, and
how much just to living?
We treasure family photos, letters, journals, scrapbooks, and genealogies. Yet family life is sometimes more disrupted than
it is enhanced when we spend our time
capturing it in old-fashioned formats or on
Facebook, YouTube, or ancestry.com.
Recently, I was given a fabulous gift.
Rabbi Ilana Grinblat contacted me to ask
permission to mention my children in her
forthcoming book. Putting my kids names
in print? Fine. Retrieving a story about
them? Priceless.
In her essay, Ilana reflected on the tendency, especially among adults who feel
overloaded, to focus on finishing things
more than enjoying them. Children, by
contrast, tend to be fully present in each
moment rather than always thinking about
what needs to be done next. I would caution that we spend a lot of time socializing kids out of that mindset principally
through overscheduling and excessive
planning.
By way of illustration, Ilana recalled a
meal that our families enjoyed together.
My son, Jeremy, his friend, Emmett, and
Emmetts sister, Hannah Mathilda, each ate
a cookie for dessert. Jeremy commented:
Emmett, you won because you ate your
cookie faster than your sister. Emmett

replied, No, Hannah Mathilda won because
she enjoyed it more.
My point is not just to schep nachas from
my daughters eating meditation or my sons
observation of it. (Thats a bonus.) My point
is: I had completely forgotten this episode! I
am sure that I enjoyed the moment because
Ilanas recollection rings a distant and pleasant bell. But I let go of it. It would have been
irretrievable to me had Ilana not devoted
some of her enjoyment in that moment to
planning for future enjoyment. She divided
her focus between present and future, and
eventually captured the memory by writing
it down.
Of course, you could argue (as my kids
well might) that Rabbi Grinblat has a better
memory than I do. But memory is complex
and unpredictable, even fickle. Its possible
that this event stuck in her mind, while some
other experience we shared stuck in mine.
Nevertheless, Ilana wrote it down, and
I didnt. Her (imperfect) memory was preserved, and my (at least equally imperfect)
memory didnt stand a chance.
This past Presidents Day weekend,
I enjoyed a girls stay-cation with my
daughter, while my husband and son took
a trip. Hannah Mathilda (the cookie-eating
guru, now 8) made a spa for us in our family room. She set up ottomans that are low
to the floor to create a massage table. After
she completed my fabulous

To record or not to record,
massage, I asked her to help
that is the question.
me up. She gave me a fauxRabbi Lenny Mandel, who
sour look and replied, This is
serves as cantor at Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson,
a spa, not assisted living. So
tells a beautiful and heartmuch for indulgence.
rending story about preservWhat might seem rude in
ing family history. His paterwriting was hilarious in person. (She also did help me
nal grandmother was one
Rabbi
up.) Between Ilanas essay and
of 13 siblings from Sokol,
Debra
H.M.s zinger, I was inspired to
Poland. Her birth name was
Orenstein
open the file labeled nachas
Bracha Bilt, and Lenny had
on my computer and record
seen reports of a Hirsh Bilt
this episode. Imagine my chaof Sokol, who brought food
grin when I saw that my last entry had been
to fellow Jews imprisoned by the Nazis.
August, 2012! How many memories have I
Might Hirsh have been a relative? Lenny
lost by being only in the moment?
called an older cousin, Moishe Kelman, to
My husband, Craig, is a filmmaker. It is
discuss the family tree. He reported in our
both his profession and his passion. Some
synagogue newsletter: I asked the woman
of his fondest childhood memories are of
who answered the phone if I could speak to
making family films with his dad and editcousin Moishe. She was his half-sister, and
ing the football reels for his high school.
she told me they had just gotten up from
Yet Craig has recorded very little of our
shiva for him. I was devastated.
children on film. This is not just a case
Rabbi/Cantor Mandel was lucky enough
of the cobblers children going shoeless.
to find travel papers and photographs that
Its a conscious choice on his part. When
confirmed that Hirsh Bilt was his greatI ask Craig to capture the latest perforgrandfather. However, Moishes stories
mance at the JCC or in our living room, he
could not be recovered. Their loss comsometimes agrees. But usually he replies:
pounded the essential loss of Moishes
I want to be present. I dont want to live
death and hit Lenny hard. He issued a plea
to our congregation that is worth sharing:
with my head behind a camera. He opts
I have been imploring you for some time
for the unencumbered and fleeting beauty
now to reach out to your older relatives:
of the moment.
Language lessons
The need for clear speech to fight clear enemies
ith electrifying passion

and fury, French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls
vehemently denounced
anti-Semitism before the French National
Assembly last Friday, offering a blistering
reproach to his countrymen for showing
insufficient outrage at the unacceptable, intolerable, shameful targeting
of Jews.
History has taught us that the awakening
of anti-Semitism is the symptom of a crisis
for democracy and of a crisis for the Republic, he exhorted. There is a historical
anti-Semitism that goes back centuries, but
there is also a new anti-Semitism against
the backdrop of the loathing of the State of
Israel, and which advocates hatred of the
Jews and all the Jews. It has to be spelled
out, the right words must be used to fight
this unacceptable anti-Semitism.
Spelling out the problem. Using the right
words. Recognizing that loathing the State
of Israel leads to violence against Jews and a
crisis for democracy. When will we see such
clarity from our own leaders?

Instead, as the worldwide incidence and
incendiary power of threats to Jews rises,
the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, say-no-evil
White House and State Department have
descended into dissembling, obfuscation,
and outright lies.
Why? Because, as anyone who can read
a headline knows, the rise in anti-Semitism
and terror is intimately connected with the
spread of radical Islam in all its forms: ISIS,
Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and
the ayatollahs of Iran. And for reasons only
guessed at by others, the president affirmatively refuses to acknowledge this plain
truth.
The Obama administration long has suppressed all references to Islam in the context of terror or jihad. FBI, CIA, DHS, and
DOD manuals have been rewritten, wiped
of terminology deemed anathema to the
presidents revisionist view of Islam. The
result has been the absence of a coherent
policy to stop these threats, and a surreal
misuse of language, such as when the Fort
Hood terror attack was mislabeled an instance of workplace violence.

The absurdity of this policy has become ever more
obvious in recent months.
In his creepily calm reaction
to video of an allys captive
being burned alive in a cage,
Laura
Obama would not identify
Fein
the perpetrators as radical
Islamists, referring to whatever ideology theyre operating off of, as though it has no name. Then
last week, Obama created a media firestorm
by referring to the Jewish Hyper Cacher victims as a bunch of folks in a deli shot at
randomly, erasing both the identity of the
murdered and motive of the murderer.
Obama might have dialed back when so
many in the media questioned his choice of
words, but instead he doubled down, sending both the White House and State Department spokespersons into press briefings
where they insulted our intelligence with
their dishonest and illogical

attempts to explain that no,
it was not Jews who were targeted. They were not all victims of one background or one
nationality, said Jen Psaki, as
though the victims shared
Jewish heritage was irrelevant.
Asked if this was anti-Jewish
violence, she deferred to the
French authorities, knowing
that the French long since had
recognized the Jew-hatred
that motivated the attack. (Perhaps if she
had seen the Je Suis Juif signs at the Paris
march and across the media, she might
have realized.) Josh Earnest was no better,
saying There were people other than just
Jews who were in that deli, as if that held
any relevance to the attackers ambition. As
more Jews perish in targeted jihadi-fueled
terror, including last weekend in Copenhagen, we can expect more fatuous squirming
to pursue the impossible: explain events
without identifying the role of radical Islam
Letters
Vaccinate your kid!
your grandparents, great-aunts and

-uncles, great-great ones if theyre
alive too. Sit them down, ask questions, and either know shorthand or
bring a recorder (most of your cell
phones can record hours of talk).
Learn where youre from, what your
ancestors did, and how they survived
whatever they had to survive. Theres
going to come a day when your kids
will have questions, and even though
you wont be able to answer them all,
hopefully youll be able to answer
enough.
Enough is exactly the right, inexact word. We need to be purely in
the moment enough to enjoy our
relatives in real time, and we need to
record enough of our history and
theirs to leave a legacy.
Finding the right balance is just
about as personal and fluid as memory itself.
Karen Golden, a professional storyteller and a friend, is one of six
siblings. Her mother was an obstetrician/gynecologist in the days when
female physicians were rare. In addition to raising kids, practicing medicine, volunteering at her synagogue
and Hadassah, and roller-skating
daily, she kept a daily diary for each
of her children, not missing a single
day, until they reached 18. On that

birthday, she gave each child the gift
of a journal that recorded all their
special and everyday moments.
Karen has only the warmest memories of her mom. She experienced
her as fully and lovingly present. (She
wrote the diaries at night, after all the
kids were asleep.) Its an astonishing
and intimidating legacy. Perhaps
thats why the story of those journals
has stayed with me. I didnt even
need to write it down.
In Einsteins Dreams, Alan
Lightman imagines time functioning in a variety of ways. One
chapter describes a world without
memory, in which people record
what they most want or need to
know about themselves in a Book
of Life. With time, each persons
Book of Life thickens until it cannot be read in its entirety. Then
comes a choice. Elderly men and
women may read the early pages,
to know themselves as youths; or
they may read the end, to know
themselves in later years. Some
have stopped reading altogether.
They have abandoned the past.
They have decided that it matters
not if yesterday they were rich or
poor, educated or ignorant, proud
or humble, in love or emptyheaded Such people look you

directly in the eye and grip your
hand firmly. Such people walk with
the limber stride of their youth.
Lightman reminds us that there
is virtue in honoring the past, the
future, and the present and that
in any given moment, we are likely
forced to choose among them.
As a rabbi and an author, I believe
in the written word. But I believe
even more in what cant be recorded.
So, if you are interested in advice
from a mom who last memorialized her kids bon mots in 2012,
here is my best shot: By all means,
put pen to paper and hit the record
button more often than you have in
the past for yourself and for the
generations.
And then snuggle up on the couch,
give someone you love a kiss, and
just hang out together. Share a cookie
or a forgettable joke. Thats love, too.
or Islamic anti-Semitism.
These deliberate attempts to mislead, mislabel, and mischaracterize
events apply equally to the administrations treatment of Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahus
planned address to Congress. The
White Houses nonsense objections
on issues of protocol and timing
(for example its claim to have been
blindsided was revealed to be false)
were calculated to divert attention
from the core issue: the current US
courtship of Iran.
And what a courtship it has been.
Promising little and doing less,
Iran has managed to transform its
nuclear program from internationally outlawed to legally recognized
in a few short years, thanks to our
presidents unwavering advocacy.
With sanctions partially lifted, the
goals of negotiations have drifted
from broad elimination of Irans
nuclear capability to narrow details
of containment and breakout

period. In his meticulous article in
Mosaic, Michael Doran identifies
Obamas obscuring of his intent and
evasion of an honest debate [that]
would force him to come clean with
the American people on his ideological commitment to detente with
Iran.
The decision to invite Netanyahu is a belated effort by Congress
to forcefully challenge the Presidents spurious strategy, whose
grim results, writes Doran, are
multiplying by the day. Netanyahus voice will bring what Obamas
words lack: honesty, clarity, and an
unshakeable commitment to the
original goal of ending Irans military nuclear program. Netanyahu
understands the existential threat a
nuclear armed Iran poses not only
to Israel but to all free nations, and
he wont hesitate to say so.
It is the content of that speech
that the world needs to hear, and

that the president so desperately
wants to suppress.
Let us not fall for the specious,
often risible attacks on Netanyahus intentions (such as the Congressional Black Caucus attempting to frame this as a race issue).
Let us recognize the value Netanyahu brings to achieving the goal
Israel shares with Congress and
the American people of all parties.
And let us not allow the silencing of
this critical speech on why and how
Iran must be stopped. As P.M. Valls
reminded us all, what cannot be
said will not be done.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein, spiritual

leader of Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson, is working with
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about contemporary slavery at
Passover seders, including yours.
Learn more at RabbiDebra.com.
Laura Fein is the executive director

of ZOA-NJ, sponsor of the February
24 showing of Body and Soul in
Teaneck and a March 8th speech
by ZOA President Mort Klein in
Englewood. She welcomes your
feedback at ZOANJ@zoa.org.
I just wanted to congratulate you on your story pertaining to

vaccines (Vaccinate your kid!, February 13). As someone old
enough to remember the horrible consequences of vaccine-preventable diseases, it is unfathomable to me that anyone would
allow their children to be unprotected not to mention putting
other peoples children at risk.
We feel so strongly about this that as a practice we will not
allow our patients who are too young or too sick to be immunized to be exposed to unvaccinated children.
It takes a lot of education and effort to undo the misinformation circulating about vaccines. I applaud your efforts to dispel
some of those myths so we can make all our children safer and
healthier
David Wisotsky, MD
Tenafly Pediatrics
Tenafly
Nuclear proliferation and Iran
On the subject of Iran, Rabbi Benjamin Shull writes that the

United States is leading the world down a dangerous path
(Speaking Truth to Power, February 13). I respectfully disagree.
First of all, it is not clear that the United States is leading any
coalition or effort in the world these days. The Europeans, led
by Angela Merkel, are now at least equal partners, and probably more, in NATO. Iranian nuclear proliferation poses greater
risks for Europe than America, so long as Iran does not possess
ICBM capability.
Secondly, the present policy, developed with western European consent, may be risky, but it falls short of being truly dangerous. Limits exist. Sanctions are in place. The noose is getting
tighter. This is not Chamberlain-ian appeasement redux, except
to someone who is living on Mars and has ignored world nuclear
policy of the past 70 years.
I was involved in the nuclear industry for about half a century,
predominantly on Eisenhowers Atoms for Peace side. The
AEC, NRC, and IAEA are all familiar to me. In the 2000 presidential election debates, Al Gore said that nuclear proliferation was
the biggest problem facing humanity. Whether it is North Korea
or Iran, little has changed in 15 years. The genie is still mostly in
the bottle, but the cork always is ready to pop out.
The way to stop nuclear proliferation is to maintain global
consensus, reduce stockpiles, empower the IAEA, and isolate
the likes of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea. Thats
been the course of three or more American administrations. Its
what the Europeans are doing, despite opposition from Russia,
which is playing its own dangerous game. If Iran crosses a uranium enrichment threshold or prevents inspections, as dictated
by current policy, the Western powers will act.
Why is this certain? Because the West cannot afford another
arms race. The Indian/Pakistani nuclear standoff is bad enough,
but it is limited to South Asia. North Korea may force the Japanese back into their historic militaristic tradition, and drag
China into regional conflict. In the Middle East, a nuclear Iran
would set off an arms race with the Gulf states. Oil prices would
skyrocket. The global economy would be shattered. The reaction of oil consuming nations might then lead to regional war,
one that Iran could not win, but one that could easily slide into
world war.
Present global policy is our best chance to avoid a greater conflagration. America, Canada, Europe, and the Gulf states all are
aligned. Now is not the time to challenge this agreement, and
risk fracturing the coalition that already exists.
Whats the real policy issue lurking in the background? It is
how to deal with Russia, a nation with imperialist superpower
pretensions and a seriously weakened economy. Those are precisely the conditions that set Germany down its catastrophic
path in the 1930s. A new axis, between Russia and Iran, is not
inconceivable.
Eric Weis
Wayne
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In which we announce
and describe our new
online partnership
with the Times of Israel
JOANNE PALMER
he Jewish Standard is excited and

pleased to announce our online
partnership with the Times of Israel.
What does that mean to us, and
to you?
It means that our hard copy version will stay
as it is, but in the next two months or so our
web presence will change entirely.
To explain, first we have to go backward.
Not really so very long ago, the world was so
much more black and white.
Take newspapers. To begin with, they actually were black and white (and no matter what
color your fingers were when you started to
read, theyd be black by the time you were
The Jewish Standards and Times of

Israels websites as they are today.
Coming soon: A website for the Jews of
northern New Jersey that combines their
design, our stories, and your voices.
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done. Ink didnt stick on newsprint very well).

Newspapers were paper. Duh. Of course they
were. They were the news. On paper. Newspapers. Get it?
And photographs showed exactly what really
was there, and you bought books in bookstores
(remember them?) or borrowed them from the
library, and if you wanted to know a random
fact, youd look it up in the encyclopedia.
Now well, thats all so embarrassingly last
century.
We at the Jewish Standard put out a print
newspaper every week. We have done that
well, not exactly us, todays staff but our predecessors almost every week since December 13, 1931.
Much has changed since then. A subscription
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to the Jersey City-based publication cost

$2 a year; an advertisement for a New
Years Eve party at the Hotel Plaza in
Journal Square shows that the party was
$6 per person, the president was Herbert
Hoover, two dancing schools advertised
on the same page, a new novel by Joseph
Roth was reviewed, there was an ad for
cigarettes (Murad, which used Turkish
tobacco), and a filler on the front page
(the front page!) informed readers that
[t]here are about twenty species of elms
known. None are found on the Pacific
slope of North America, it added.
Ominously, on page 3, the Jewish Telegraph Agencys anonymous reporter
quoted the acting president of the Central Verein of German Jewry, Ernest Wallach, as saying that the Nazi movement
has not yet reached its zenith in Germany, and predicted even more sweeping victories for the National Socialists.
The Jewish Standard has forged ahead
since those early days. The paper has
grown and shrunk with the economy.
Typefaces change, mirroring changes in
fashion. Photographs appear, become

more focused, get sharper and sharper,
and eventually sprout color. Women go
from being identified only by their husbands names, first and last, and their
Newspapers
cant just be
news on paper.
They also have to
be news on
electrons.
marital status, to being granted their own
first names, and being stripped, like their
men, of their honorifics. (Weve recently
restored them, by the way; now not only
rabbis and physicians get titles. Life, we
have decided, should not resemble a high
school locker room.)
So now, we have a beautifully designed,

well-written (and yes, we do say so ourselves) newspaper, covering our community and the Jewish world beyond it. As it
always has, it comes out once a week.
Now, however, newspapers arent all
on paper, and news is something that
changes and demands updating far more
than weekly.
Newspapers cant just be news on
paper. They also have to be news on electrons. News that wafts through the air
with an invisible buzz and lands on your
fingertips. Newspapers have to be online.
The Jewish Standard has had a website
for a decade or so now.
When we first created it, it was just
fine. It was marvelously up to date, every
bell crisp, every whistle buffed until the
brass shone. But its become increasingly
arthritic and creaky. It is no longer up to
the job we need done.
That is why we are absolutely thrilled to
announce our new partnership with the
Times of Israel.
This move will not affect our print
version at all, but it will revolutionize our

online presence.
The Times of Israel, founded three
years ago, is an entirely online publication. Its goal is to be nonpolitical. Reporting on a wide range of views tethering
itself to none except the most basic it
exists to fairly represent and therefore to
defend Israel.
We will be our online readers portal
into the Times of Israel. Our local website,
which we hope to unveil within the next
two months, will look and feel like TOIs,
although the two will not be identical.
Our new site will be streamlined,
uncluttered, and gorgeous. It will include
the cutting-edge technological advances
that the Israeli tech company that supports TOI already has and will continue to
develop. We will be able to include many
photos, embed videos, create slideshows,
and give you Google maps as we explore
todays Jewish world.
Online, we will be able to update our
stories as they change. When news
breaks, well have it.
Grig Davidowitz shows the Jewish

Standards staff how to use the
Times of Israels web technology.
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When users in our catchment area go to
is a vast reservoir of talent. We plan to dip
the Times of Israel, through the magic of
into it.
geolocation the internets ability to know
We are honored that the Times of Israel
where you are through your IP address
chose us as its first North American partthey will see a display of our stories along
ner. We know that it is a compliment not
with TOIs. That will expand our reach
only to us at the Standard but to the larger
to more people than the
community about which we
ones on our subscription
write. Northern New Jersey is
lists. And our readers will
one of the centers of 21st cenbe exposed to more news
tury Jewish life. Passion, comabout Israel, about the Jewmitment, education, joy, love
ish world, and about our
for our heritage and our future
own community than was
these all are features of our
possible on our website.
shared Jewish landscape.
Our new site, like the
We are energized by the
Times of Israels, will include
opportunity to expand our web
David Horovitz
many blogs; the technolpresence as we continue to work
ogy makes it easy. Some
to cover the community.
of the blogs will be by our op ed writers,
Meet the staff at TOI
who represent our community with wit,
The Times of Israel, which first was pubinsight, and skill; others will come from
lished just about exactly three years ago,
local leaders, representatives of local instiwas created by the British-born Israeli
tutions, and just plain local people. There
journalist David Horovitz, whose career

I felt that it was time to move on, he said.
path led him in retrospect, it is tempting
I was working incredibly hard, and I
to say that it led him inexorably to creatthought that if I was going to be working
ing this new, exclusively online, local-andthis hard, I would like to be running the
global, story-and-blog model.
show myself.
Mr. Horovitz, who is 52, was born in LonI thought that there was room and a
don, as were his parents. His great grandneed for a website that could try to cover
father, Rabbi Marcus Horovitz, founded
Israel, the region, and Jewish news, all
Brneplatz, one of Frankfurts great
without a partisan affiliation, he continOrthodox synagogues; it was destroyed
ued. I thought that there was a gap in
during Kristallnacht, and the family fled
the middle between the ultra-partisan
to England.
right- and left-wing media outlets that
Mr. Horovitzs affect is deeply British
abound in Israel and can give the unwary
not only his accent but his coloring, bearreader a sense that the middle does not
ing, and manner, a sort of lowexist, and that the other side
key diffidence all seem to
is composed entirely of monhint at deep English roots. But
sters and dim-wits.
thats skin-deep, it turns out;
He does not disapprove of
he went to Jewish day schools,
partisan journalism, he said,
went first to Israel on a school
but I think that Israel needs
trip, and fell in love with it.
at least one outlet that tries to
Instead of the conventional
be fair-minded.
university program that would
We dont take sides to
have given him a degree in
endorse candidates; we hope
Miriam Herschlag
economics and no great sense
that we present people with
of purpose, I saw an ad for a
enough information to engenjournalism school, and I dont know why I
der debate and let them make their own
went and got a place there, he said. It was
decisions.
in Wales, and I loved it from the start.
It is impossible to be entirely objective,
I thought I was good at math and physbut we can try.
ics, but I really wasnt, he said. And I
The one area in which he proudly
never really studied hard at school. But
rejects any pursuit of objectivity is in his
the journalism course really engaged me.
publications strong defense of Israel. It
It got me going.
is a Zionist publication, Mr. Horovitz said.
The course took just a year; when he was
Its called the Times of Israel! I love this
finished, he took his new degree, made
country.
aliyah, and walked into the offices of the
So he found a partner and backer Seth
Jerusalem Post. They were very polite,
Klarman, an American investor whose pasand said come back in a few months, when
sion matched his own, and whose pockets
you have more Hebrew, he said. He did,
are far deeper.
and they hired him. That was my first job
The Times of Israel does not exist only
in Israel, Mr. Horovitz said. I was about
online because he scorns print, Mr. Horo21.
vitz said. Instead, it is economically
He did earn an undergraduate degree,
impossible in the parameters Im working
from the Hebrew University; he also met
in that is, with a near-global reach to
and married his wife, Lisa, who was born
print. It would lose us money.
in Dallas, the fourth of four daughters, all
There are differences between print
and online publishing, he said. Part of it
has to do with the sense of completion.
You come out with a paper, and you say
to yourself, I am done. We have closed the
paper.
You know that it is not perfect but so
its not perfect. It is finished. You have put
your heart and soul into it. Even when its
a daily, there still is a cycle. You have done
your best for that day. The next day, you
start again.
Its not the same online. There, the presof whom came to Israel for one program
sure of events and the need to describe
or other. Two of them stayed.
them is constant, or at any rate not subSince then, Mr. Horovitzs career has
ject to external deadlines. On the interbeen straightforward and impressive.
net, you are constantly balancing the
From the Jerusalem Post which he calls
twin imperatives of speed and accuracy,
an incredibly resonant historical brand,
Mr. Horovitz said. You can be first, but if
and also very good on the Internet he
you are first and you have checked insufwent to the Jerusalem Report, and then
ficiently, you have failed your readers. And
back to the Jerusalem Post, where he was
if you are accurate but slow, you also have
editor from 2004 to 2011. Both of those
failed your readers.
publications, like the Times of Israel, are
Although at first he said that the sense
written in English.
of cycle is missing from his online work,
I had been editor for seven years, and
Mr. Horovitz reconsidered as he spoke.
We are honored
that the Times of
Israel chose us
as its rst North
American partner.
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We are working for two audiences,
ago, edits the Times of Israels op eds
he said. Primarily there are Israelis who
and its blogs. In that position, she preread in English of whom there are a
sides over a teeming ecosystem, where
lot. There is a lot more traffic in Israel
the fittest rise to the top and the less fit
than I thought there would be.
well, they dont.
And then there are the American
It is a very plastic medium, Ms. Herreaders. Times of Israel readers come
schlag said. Our bloggers will do whatfrom around the world, he added, but
ever they want to do they will write
about 60 percent of them are American,
reflections or poetry or fiction or about
so they represent his biggest single auditheir army experiences.
ence, and aside from Israelis they are his
They can be as creative as they want
largest single concern.
to be and as we let them be.
There are certainly articles that we
Until last summer, the blog section
put online when we know that America
was entirely open; once a blogger was
is watching, and others that are more
accepted, his or her work was posted
relevant for an Israeli audience, he said.
unchecked. Last summers war in Gaza
And some people read on Shabbat and
brought the Times of Israel a deluge of
others dont, so some stories will be
readers, commenters, and bloggers,
held for that audience. (To add to the
though, and one of those bloggers pubcomplications, of course, the 25 hours of
lished a post that seemed, when given a
Shabbat stagger across the continents.)
cursory look, to be calling for the genoBut we know that people are reading
cide of Israels enemies.
us and looking at us and relying on us at
Although the post really did not say
all hours of the day and night.
that, and although it was taken down
Because the Times of Israel offers
very quickly, the episode shook the
so many readers a chance to blog, and
Times of Israels editors. Soon a new
because like many other online publicapolicy, demanding that someone at
tions it has an open comments section,
the Times of Israel look over each post
users relationship with the site is in
before it is published, was put into effect.
many ways unlike readers relationship
The Times of Israel has almost 3,000
with their print publications.
bloggers. Even with the new rules, they
Just the terminology is
run the gamut of possible
revealing. Readers, by defbeliefs and they display a
inition, read. Users read,
huge range of writing styles
yes, but they also react
and talents. I dont worry
and interact. If they want
about alienating readers, and
to comment, they can do
I push against the limits, Ms.
it immediately. They do
Herschlag said. I am internot have to write a letter to
ested in going against the
the editor and wait to see
echo chamber, and the Times
if it ends up in print. And
of Israel reflects this plurality
Jamie Janoff
because electrons are far
of ideas.
cheaper than paper and
As a result, this is a noisy
ink, there are fewer gatekeepers barring
place, she said, a bit ruefully. But it is
their access. You can just post your
a platform that reflects community, and
comment, engage with other readers,
our need to talk to each other, and to lisand go wherever that conversation takes
ten, and to argue.
you, Mr. Horovitz said. People get very
That sounds like democracy in action,
passionate about Israel, and about the
doesnt it? Not really, she said. Instead,
Jews. And it was ever thus.
she is called the queen of the blogs. It
That forms a virtual but also very real
is not a democracy, it is a monarchy.
community.
She controls the blogs. Like in so much
Mr. Horovitz is excited about the Jewof Jewish life like in so much of just
ish Standards partnership with the
plain life competing needs must be
Times of Israel. We think its benefibalanced. But in my kingdom, I want to
cial for all sides, he said. It fulfills one
hear someone who makes me uncomof our goals, which is building bridges
fortable, she said.
between Israel and the diaspora. It
Judaism is argumentative by nature,
enables the Jewish Standard to bring its
she added. We have the idea of argucontent to the attention of readers in its
ments for their own sake, for the sake of
area, and beyond, who are looking at
heaven. Blogs are a perfect platform for
The Times of Israel.
a quarrelsome people.
The Times of Israel doesnt cover
Grig Davidovitz, an Israeli who immilocal communities with the focus and
grated from Romania as a child, is a jourfamiliarity of papers such as the Jewnalist and digital media specialist. He
ish Standard, and the Standard doesnt
does not work directly for the Times of
cover Israel and the wider Jewish world
Israel but his company, RGB Media, has
with TOIs immediacy and resources, so
produced the technology and design
this strikes us as good news for everythat both power TOI from behind the
one, and first and foremost the readers.
scenes and provide its public face. He is
Miriam Herschlag, who grew up in
working closely with the Jewish Standard
Montclair and made aliyah many years
as well, as we move to our new platform.
We are moving into a win-win economy

of cooperation between different agents that
benefits all the participants, and this is a
prime example, he said of the partnership.
From the Times of Israels perspective,
when local users go to the Times of Israels
website and see prominently displayed links
to local stories, it is able to add another layer
of coverage that is very relevant to users.
That way, local users can get the global perspective on so-called Jewish issues, and they
also get the local perspective from their
own Jewish community. This cooperation
enables us to add this layer.
From the Jewish Standards perspective, you get the synergy, with a lot of traffic coming from the Times of Israel, which
is a high-traffic outlet. The Times of Israel
gets approximately three million unique
users and more than 25 million page views a
month. The Jewish Standards content will
be promoted aggressively on the Times of
Israel. And the Jewish Standard will be able
to use the sophisticated platform and the
journalistic methodologies that are part of
the reason for the Times of Israels success
over its three years of life.
Weve been looking at the proper fit
for our internet component for some time
now, the Standards publisher, Jamie Janoff,
said. There was a reason why the Jewish
Standards site has remained unchanged for

so long. We just werent sure which direction we wanted to take. We were going to
redesign our site many times, and we asked
ourselves whether it made sense to do that.
And then, when we had the opportunity
to speak to the people at the Times of Israel
a product we had tremendous respect for
our answer was simple. This made perfect
sense.
There was no reason to reinvent the
wheel when we they already owned a fantastic racing car, that purred with perfection. Not only does TOIs site look good, it
addresses the audience we want to reach on
a national, even an international level. But
our main focus with our new venture will
be to create a platform providing northern
New Jersey with local news, insight, and
connection.
To be the Times of Israels first partner is
truly an honor. We have worked hard to produce one of the finest Jewish newspapers in
the country. To have TOI recognize our work
is beyond wonderful.
Our company is constantly evolving. I am
not one for sitting still. The Standard already
has one of the largest Facebook communities in the world when it comes to Jewish
weeklies. This is the logical next step in our
continued growth.
to the Jewish Standard,

its publisher, Jamie Janoff,
and the entire staff
on partnering with
the Times of Israel
for the betterment of
our community and Israel.
You are the glue that holds us together.

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From the Oval Office, President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on September 27, 2013.
PETE SOUZA/WHITE HOUSE
Obama and J Street trading on lies
n his book on politics in the Arab world, Cruelty and

by an irresponsible media. Whats the famous saying about
Silence, the Iraqi intellectual Kanan Makiya made a
local newscasts, right? If it bleeds, it leads, right? Obama
telling point about the opposition to the first Gulf war
joked, clearly warming to his theme.
of 1991, when a U.S.-led coalition ejected Saddam
As Obama sees it, there are a bunch of crazy zealots out
Husseins brutal regime from Kuwait.
there who just wanna kill people. Thats it, thats all. All this
A principled opposition to the Gulf war does not
stuff about a specific assault on Western values and free
require, Makiya wrote, (a) denying that the Iraqi regime
speech and womens rights emanating from the Islamic
gassed its own citizens; (b) inventing dates to prove that the
world is wide of the mark.
United States not only started the fighting on the ground
So when you think like Obama, you inevitably get to a
(which it did) but that it sent Iraq into Kuwait (which it
gem like this one: It is entirely legitimate for the American
didnt); or (c) generally imputing a reasonpeople to be deeply concerned when youve
ableness to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait which
got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who
it never possessed.
behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of
Sadly, it is an ingrained feature of Midfolks in a deli in Paris.
dle Eastern politics that myths, distorThis is a view of international affairs as a
tions, errors, and downright lies disfigure
slasher movie. Theres no need to explain
our attempts to hold a rational, fact-based
why Islamic State beheads and enslaves
exchange. We expect dictators Saddam
its captives, no need to point out that its
then, Bashar al-Assad now to trade in disbecause the victims are the wrong religion,
honesty, and we recognize, too, that there is
or the wrong gender, or they are thought of
Ben Cohen
not much we can do about that, other than
as puppets of some grandiose Jewish conspircontradicting them at every turn. But we like
acy. After all, the Islamic State guys theyre
to think we hold our own elected leaders, and
just crazy.
more generally, political bodies and institutions working in
And there certainly is no need to examine why a kosher
the democratic world, to higher standards.
supermarket was chosen, out of thousands of places in
Its not just that we expect rectitude and transparency.
Paris, as the location for a massacre. No need to say that
We also believe that politicians understand that its in their
the folks killed were Jews. After all, they were randomly
interest not to lie, for the sake of their own credibility. Our
selected. It could have happened anywhere; inconvenient
acceptance of the moral norms of a democratic society and
details, like the fact that this atrocity occurred at a Jewour desire for self-preservation is, you might say, what keeps
ish store at precisely the time, a Friday afternoon, that
us honest.
folks would be doing their Shabbat shopping, are just a
This week, however, Ive seen two examples of behavdistraction.
ior suggesting that we in the West are not above trafficking
Example number two concerns the J Street lobby, an
in the kinds of lies that have made the Middle East such a
organization that has established lying as its basic currency
wretched place for nearly a century.
ever since it determined that its mission, as expressed by
Let me begin with the first example: no less than Presiits clownishly pompous leader Jeremy Ben-Ami, was to
dent Obama, who told the Vox magazine that our fear of
be Obamas blocking back. But even by their standards,
Islamist terrorism (even at this point, Im paraphrasing,
J Street has now done something extraordinary, claiming,
since Obama refuses to use the word Islamist) is stoked
with no evidence, that 84 percent of American Jews support
Opinion
Obama over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
when it comes to Irans nukes!
After being called out, J Street trotted out a three-month
poll it conducted, in which 84 percent of respondents said
they would support a deal that would prevent Iran from
weaponizing its nuclear program. Frankly, so would I but
that is not the deal that Obama is negotiating, and to claim
that people who genuinely dont want to see an Iranian
nuclear weapon are supporting the president over Israels
prime minister, even as he makes concession after concession to the mullahs, is an outright, willful lie.
What both the Obama and the J Street episodes represent
is an Orwellian inversion of reality lies become truth, truth
becomes a lie. According to Obama, we are not at war with
the jihadis, who are more properly understood as sociopaths. According to J Street, the U.S. administration is not
creating the foundations for Iran to become the dominant
power in the Middle East; instead, it is negotiating a reasonable solution to the nuclear question. In J Streets view, we
should all see plainly if only troublemakers like Netanyahu
would quiet down that the diplomatic track with Iran is
the only show in town.
Now look at where this dangerous nonsense leads us.
A significant number of Democrats are threatening to
boycott Netanyahus forthcoming speech on Iran to Congress, thereby allowing themselves to be co-opted by the
anti-Semites of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

movement. Europe is bewildered and scared; after all, the
French, British, and German leaders have clearly identified both Islamism and anti-Semitism as civilizational
threats, and now the American president is telling them
otherwise. Dissidents and democracy activists fighting
Islamism in the Arab and wider Islamic worlds have been
abandoned, after being told, in effect, that they dont
know what theyre talking about. And resentment toward
Americas current leadership continues to grow among its
allies: not just the Israelis, but the conservative Arab states
like Saudi Arabia, too.
I have no words of comfort at this point. When I speak to
friends and colleagues, I am struck by how often the figure
of Winston Churchill, who spent much of the 1930s warning
about the Nazi threat in splendid isolation, is mentioned as
a reason for us to steel ourselves now. And then they will
remark, regretfully, that one of Obamas first decisions was
to remove the bust of Churchill from the Oval Office.
Perhaps there was a deeper meaning to that single act
JNS.ORG
than we realized at the time.
Iceland
elf that is believed to inhabit this island came forward

and bestowed on me magical powers that gave me infinite might, I would only use them to get off his island
rather than stay to see the northern lights.
He got the message. There was a tiny break in the
weather. The pilot took advantage of the momentary
drop from 55 below zero to 53, and the plane miraculously took off.
The northern lights remain on my bucket list. But better that they remain there instead of my having to kick
the bucket just to get them off my list.
FROM PAGE 19
two days before told us. Why dont you delay so that
you can see the northern lights?
I grabbed him by his lapel. If you gave me this car
as a gift I would not stay to see the northern lights.
If you dragged my body behind Icelandic ponies you
could not get me to stay to see the northern lights.
If Santa put me in a first-class cabin on his sleigh I
would not stay to see the northern lights. And if every
Snow
FROM PAGE 19
Snow days are difficult, especially when the forecast

warns you to stock up on water, food essentials, flashlights, and batteries, and then you are met with a slight
frost. When the weathermen overestimate the damage
and all the prep is for naught. Or when the snow hits
harder than expected, and Im left there digging out
my frozen car.
For all these reasons, I cant enjoy snow days as I
had as a kid. To be completely honest, its a struggle to
parent through them. Yes, I know, I dont even come
close to the podium where the best parents are honored for rising to the occasion. But maybe for the next
snow day Ill promise to do otherwise. Ill try to parent better and emulate my mom as much as possible.
Maybe Ill even dare to replace the iPad with a board
Ben Cohens writing on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern

politics has been published in Commentary, the New
York Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other
publications.
game. I wonder how many other parents feel the same

way as I do about these snow day situations, or at least
how many parents are honest enough to declare so
out loud.
As for me, as an adult, snow days arent the worst
thing ever, but they are certainly a challenge. Im not
a kid anymore and theyve lost their charm.
But maybe, just maybe, theres still room for a little
magical nostalgia. Like the other day, when I snuck
out into the backyard with no one else around and fell
straight back into the fresh, untouched snow. I guess
no matter your age, youre never too old to make
secret snow angels.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck whose
work has focused primarily on psychiatry, mental
health, and the book publishing industry. More
information is available at www.denacroog.com.
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killed last Saturday night.
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Denmark synagogue attack

seen as wake-up call
Cnaan Liphshiz
rom the window of the Jewish

Community of Copenhagens
crisis center, Finn Schwarz can
see his country changing before
his eyes.
Hours after the murder of a guard outside the Danish capitals main synagogue
early Sunday morning, two police officers
toting machine guns were on patrol outside the center. Thats a common sight in
France, Belgium, and other trouble spots
for Jews, but resistant authorities in Denmark had considered such an assignment
both excessive and unpalatable.
I think this attack was a wake-up call,
said Schwarz, a former community chairman who has lobbied the authorities for
years, often in vain, for greater security.
What we have long feared happened, and
we will now see a changed Denmark. We
have never seen this much security and
guns before.
The deployment of armed officers at
Jewish institutions came within hours of
a shooting at a Copenhagen cafe where a
caricaturist who had lampooned Islam was
speaking. One person was killed at the caf,
in what Prime Minister Helle ThorningSchmidt called a terrorist attack.
Later that night, Dan Uzan, a 37-yearold volunteer security guard, was with
two police officers at the Great Synagogue
when a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon, killing Uzan and wounding
the officers. The trio were standing guard
over approximately 80 people who had
gathered for a bat mitzvah celebration in
a building behind the synagogue. Guests
reportedly took shelter in the basement
after the shooting, and later were escorted
out under heavy guard.
On Sunday morning, Danish police killed
a 22-year-old man in a shootout. They said

that the dead man was a Muslim extremist who was responsible for both shootings.
The shooter later was identified as Omar
El-Hussein.
Throughout the day on Sunday, heavily
armed police officers remained deployed
across the capital and beyond as authorities hunted for accomplices.
The attack comes amid an escalation in
anti-Semitic incidents in Denmark, including one this summer in which several people broke into a Jewish school just weeks
after the conclusion of Israels seven-week
conflict with Hamas in Gaza. No one was
hurt in the incident, but some weeks earlier
Jewish educators had instructed students
not to wear kippot or other identifying garments to school.
This reality and the attack hurt the Jewish community both by encouraging emigration and by forcing people to distance
their children, for security reasons, from
the Jewish community, its schools and institutions, Schwarz said.
Yet Danish authorities often resisted
requests for greater security measures, an
issue that Rabbi Andrew Baker raised last
September during a visit to Denmark in his
capacity as the representative for combating anti-Semitism from the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Noticing the absence of the sort of security arrangements familiar in Paris and
Brussels, Baker asked Danish officials
whether they were worried about an attack
on Jewish institutions.
The officials I met recognized the risks
but said that Denmark had a relaxed
approach to security, as one interlocutor
put it, and that having armed police in front
of buildings would be too disturbing to the
population at large, said Baker, who also is
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the director of international Jewish affairs

for the American Jewish Committee.
I was taken aback because I never
encountered in other countries this argument of rejecting security measures while
fully acknowledging the threat, he said.
I left knowing it was only a matter of time
before I got the call.
Schwarz said authorities had improved
security around Jewish institutions after
the murder of four Jews at a kosher market near Paris last month. But he said there
remains a gap of tens of thousands of dollars between the security funding sought
by the community and what the government is offering.
I think the heavy security is good, but
Im also sad to see it because a Denmark
where armed officers stand outside [the]
synagogue doesnt seem like the peaceful
country I know and love, Schwarz said.
But its necessary.
Denmark has approximately 8,000
Jews, according to the European Jewish
Congress.
EJC officials stressed that the problem of Jewish security is not Denmarks
alone. They called for continent-wide
countermeasures, including legislation

that provides national governments with
improved tools to counter the threat.
We are dealing with a pan-European
problem which is being dealt with individually instead of on a pan-European basis, said
Arie Zuckerman, a senior EJC official who
oversees the groups Security and Crisis Centre. This is part of the reason our enemies
are the ones that have the initiative.
EJC President Moshe Kantor called on
the European Union to establish an agency
devoted to fighting anti-Semitism.
European governments and leaders
who in the name of upholding liberties
refrain from acting effectively against terrorists are endangering those very freedoms because they are exposing them to
the terrorists attacks, Kantor said.
Back in Copenhagen, Dr. Ilan Raymond,
a Jewish physician and father of two, spoke
of an uncertain road ahead.
What happened Sunday is a shock that
will stay with us for a long time, said Raymond, who learned of the attack while on
vacation abroad when his 16-year-old son
sent him a text message that read I am
alright.
The attack will have a profound effect
and may cause some to leave, Raymond
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said. Its early days.
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Argentine prosecutor to continue probe

into presidents alleged Iran cover-up
An Argentine prosecutor vowed to continue the investigation into Argentine
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchners alleged cover-up of Irans involvement in the 1994 Argentine-Israeli
Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish center
bombing, a probe launched by late prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
An investigation will be initiated with
an eye toward substantiating... the accusations and whether those responsible
can be held criminally responsible, said
a document published by state prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita, who will take on
the case, Reuters reported.
A report by Nisman revealed that
he had accused Kirchner of secretly
negotiating with Iran to avoid punishments for those behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA center in Buenos Aires.
The bombing killed 85 people and
injured 300. In 2013, Nisman, who was
investigating the bombing after Iran and
Argentina reached a widely criticized
deal to establish a joint truth commission to investigate the attack, released
an indictment blaming Iran and Hezbollah for the attack.
In January, just days before Nisman
was scheduled to testify on his findings,
he was discovered dead in his apartments
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Despite Speechgate drama,

U.S.-Israel defense relations stay solid
Cruz (R-Texas) on the danger posed by a
nuclear-armed Iran.
WASHINGTON American-Israeli relaWell, if you take at face value what
tions may be enduring a challenging
they say, they have the ambition to wipe
period as a result of the political drama
off the map other states in the region,
surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Bennamely Israel, Carter said. They have
jamin Netanyahus upcoming speech
a long history of behaving in a disruptive
to Congress, but youd never know it
way, of supporting terrorism, of trying
from the recent confirmation hearing
to undermine other governments operating around the world. So I think they
for defense secretary nominee Ashton
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FROM PAGE 31
acceptance of the invitation by House Speaker John Boehner,

a Republican, to address Congress next month without first
consulting the White House. But dont expect that tension to
intrude on defense collaboration, said Aaron David Miller,
a former State Department official and now a scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson Center.
Along with the Saudis, the Israelis constitute the closest
American ally in this entire region, said Miller, who for years
was a senior Middle East peace negotiator under Republican
and Democratic presidents. Whatever the drama and the
soap opera of the Bibi-Obama relationship, its just a fact.
The relationship between the defense establishments is
too close to be affected by diplomatic disputes, said Rep.
Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who blames Obama for the current state of relations with Israel. In fact, Franks said, close
defense ties may help alleviate some of the stress on the
political level.
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Defense Department officials understand perhaps

more than anyone how critical our alliance with Israel
truly is, he said. The Pentagon understands how
important Israel is to America, and I think thats why
theyre going to do everything they can to mollify or
at least ameliorate this presidents what I think has
become an obvious sort of resentment toward Israel.
Aram Nerguizian, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said there is increasing
depth tied into U.S.-Israel coordination, cooperation
and co-budgeting on things like missile defense. In
parallel to any development within the bilateral political arena, there has been a pretty steady sense of continuity on military affairs.
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of
foreign aid from the United States since World War II.
In 2007, under President George W. Bush, the United
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perhaps more
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States and Israel signed a 10-year agreement through

which Israel receives a total of $30 billion in U.S. aid,
the vast majority of it defense assistance.
Additionally, there is U.S. funding for the joint development of anti-missile systems. In 2014 alone, according to the Congressional Research Service, the Arrow
and Arrow II mid-altitude ballistic missile defense
system projects researched and jointly developed
by Boeing and Israel Aerospace Industries received
$44.3 million, while $74.7 million went to aid research
and development of the new Arrow III high-altitude
anti-ballistic system. Another joint missile defense
project, Davids Sling, was budgeted for $149.7 million.
The Iron Dome missile defense system, which successfully intercepted hundreds of Hamas rockets during last summers war in Gaza, initially received $235
million in the congressional budget. After the 2014
conflict, funding was bolstered by another $225 million to assist Israel in replenishing its Iron Dome missile stockpile.
A lot of systems like Davids Sling, the Iron Dome,
funding and planning for the Arrow II and Arrow III
ballistic missile defense systems these wouldnt be
possible if you didnt have a sense of expanding scale
and depth in the military-to-military partnership,
Nerguizian said.
Meanwhile, joint military exercises such as the 2012
Austere Challenge, which brought 1,000 American
personnel to Israel for three weeks of drills, also help
signal to Iran and others in the region that the alliance
remains solid.
When you get to where we are now, in this decade,
its not because of any development in the last one,
two or three years, its tied to decades of systemic
focus, and youre not going to have a dramatic shift
either in the positive or negative, Nerguizian said.
Its just a steady state.
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For Netanyahu, urgency trumps niceties

RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may
be running for office in Israel,
but this week he had plenty of
strong messages for Jews in the
United States and Europe.
Speaking Monday in Jerusalem to leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations,
Netanyahu said he would press
ahead with plans to speak to the
U.S. Congress on March 3, even
though the speech has roiled the
U.S. capital.
I think the real question that
should be asked is how could
any responsible Israeli prime
minister refuse to speak to Congress on a matter so important
to Israels survival? Netanyahu
said. How could anyone refuse
an invitation to speak on a matter that could affect our very
existence when such an invitation is offered?

Netanyahu also sparked controversy with his comments
after the weekend attacks that
killed two people, including a
synagogue security guard, in
Copenhagen.
To the Jews of Europe and to
the Jews of the world, I say that
Israel is waiting for you with
open arms, he said.
In both cases, Netanyahu
stuck with highly charged messages along with his repeated
insistence that his top responsibility even more than pleasing allies is to speak out when
Israeli security and Jewish safety
are at stake.
Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio),
the speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, added fuel to
the controversy about Netanyahus speech over the weekend,
when he told Fox News that he
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
in Jerusalem on February 16.
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purposely kept President Barack

Obama out of the loop regarding the invitation to the Israeli
prime minister.
It is no secret here in Washington about the animosity
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this White House has for Prime

Minister Netanyahu, Boehner
said. I simply didnt want them
getting in the way and quashing what I thought was a real
opportunity.
Boehner issued Netanyahu
the invitation without consulting with the White House, notifying it just an hour or so before
he issued the announcement on
January 21. Boehner also did not
notify Democrats, and much of
the pro-Israel community was
kept out of the loop, too.
Top Obama administration
officials have said they will not
meet with Netanyahu in part
because he is speaking just two
weeks before Israels election,
and appearing with him then
would be inappropriate.
Netanyahu said that the
looming March 24 deadline
for an outline of an agreement
between Iran and the major
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world powers trumped any other timing issue. That date is what drives the
speech, he told U.S. Jewish leaders.
Now is the time for Israel to make its
case, Netanyahu said. Now before its
too late. Would it be better to complain
about a deal that threatens the security
of Israel after its signed?
U.S. officials, including Obama, have
said that any likely deal will leave Iran
with the capacity to enrich uranium,
albeit at a civilian scale. Netanyahu insists
that even at minimum levels, that ability
to enrich uranium leaves Iran with breakout capacity.
Details of what minimum enrichment
would look like have been leaked to the
Israeli media, and the Washington Post
reported Monday that this has led infuriated U.S. negotiators to limit what they
convey to the Israelis after each session
with the Iranians.
Netanyahus response, again, has been
to intimate that the urgency of keeping Iran from going nuclear outweighs
the niceties of keeping secret briefings
from what both sides have agreed is an
extraordinarily close defense and intelligence relationship.

Just as Iran knows what kind of agreement is being offered, its only natural that
Now is the time

for Israel to
make its case.
Now before
its too late.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
Israel should know the details of the deal

being formulated, he told Haaretz as he
headed into the meeting with the Presidents Conference. But if there are those
who think this is a good agreement, why
must it be hidden?
Officials on both sides have taken pains
to assert that the strength of the relationship persists.
After news of U.S. plans to withhold
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Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz issued
a statement noting that he recently met
with the top two U.S. officials consulting
on the Iran talks Wendy Sherman, the
undersecretary of state leading the U.S.
side in the talks, and Phillip Gordon of the
National Security Council.
The sides had differences, Steinitz said
in his statement, but the Monday meeting
with Gordon was in a good and friendly
atmosphere and another one with Sherman a week earlier included a lengthy
one-on-one session. That is code, meant
to convey that the United States was still
sharing sensitive information.
Dan Shapiro, the U.S. ambassador to
Israel, also was at pains to say that the
defense and intelligence-sharing relationship persisted at full strength.
Whether it be in the intelligence
sphere, where we have reached new
heights of intelligence sharing and cooperation, or with respect to joint training
and readiness, our two defense establishments and our two fighting forces have
never been closer, Shapiro said at the
annual conference of Israels Institute for

National Security Studies.
He acknowledged that there were hotbutton issues defining this election season, but deferred to others at the conference to address them.
After his 2012 reelection, Obama said he
would be tougher on Israel, one of his top
advisers, David Axelrod, wrote in a book
published this month, called Believer: My
Forty Years In Politics.
Axelrod, who is Jewish, said that Obama
was a strong supporter of Israel, but he
felt he had pulled his punches with
Netanyahu to avoid antagonizing elements
of the American Jewish community. CNN
reported on the Israel sections of the book.
At the same time that the debate over
Netanyahus speech to Congress raged
on, the Israeli prime minister also found
himself on the receiving end of criticism
regarding his call for European Jews to
consider making aliyah after the attacks in
Copenhagen.
Of course, Jews deserve protection in
every country, but we say to Jews, to our
brothers and sisters: Israel is your home,
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Netanyahu said. We are preparing and
calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe. I would like to tell
all European Jews and all Jews wherever
they are, Israel is the home of every Jew.
Netanyahu made the statement on
Sunday morning, before Israels Cabinet
approved a $46 million plan to encourage
immigration and adapt the absorption
process for Jews from France, Belgium,
and Ukraine.
In response, Denmark Chief Rabbi Jair
Melchior said, Terror is not a reason to
move to Israel.
Israels former president, Shimon Peres,

sounded a similar note, telling more than
1,000 attendees at the Times of Israel gala
in New York on Sunday that Jews should
come to Israel because you want to live
in Israel.
Danish Prime Minister Helle ThorningSchmidt visited the synagogue late Sunday morning, laying a bouquet of flowers
at its gate and vowing that Denmark will
do everything it can to protect its Jewish
community.
Jews are a very important part of Danish society, she said earlier at a news
conference. I say to the Jewish community, you are not alone.

Netanyahu has pushed forward with
such calls for aliyah, even as he works to
cultivate close ties with European leaders
in his bid to head off what he sees as a bad
Iran deal, and also to limit the influence
of those in Europe calling for boycotts of
Israel because of its policies regarding the
Palestinians.
One of Israels main allies in both
spheres is France, perhaps the most
hawkish of the six major powers negotiating with Iran. Still, Netanyahu has irked
the French with the immigration plan

passed Sunday, budgeting for an expected
surge in aliyah from France in the wake
of terrorist attacks in Paris last month.
The attacks included the siege of a kosher
supermarket in which a terrorist killed
four Jews.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
rejected Netanyahus call for European
immigration to Israel, saying, My message to French Jews is the following:
France is wounded with you and France
does not want you to leave.

JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Israeli economy grew by 7.2%

in last quarter
Israels economy has recovered from the relative slowdown that followed last summers Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, generating 7.2-percent growth in the
fourth quarter of 2014, the Israeli Central Bureau of
Statistics said Monday.
The third quarter of 2014 saw growth dip to 0.6
percent due to the Gaza campaign. The latest report
pegged the gross domestic product of the business
sector, the main growth engine for the Israeli economy, at 8.2 percent, and said that overall, the bleak
predictions of negative economic growthto the tune
of negative 0.4 percent in 2014s third fiscal quarter
were proved wrong.
The enhanced market performance of the fourth
quarter of 2014 has been attributed to the rise in dollar
rates and to Israeli government assistance for exporters, industrialists, and farmers, among other factors.

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Uri Orbach, Israels senior

citizens minister, dies at 54
Israeli Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach of the
Habayit Hayehudi party, 54, died on Monday at the
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where he
had been hospitalized for more than a month.
Orbach had suffered from a serious blood disorder
for years and was hospitalized in January after his condition worsened. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said: Uri won the hearts of everyone with his charm
and wisdom. He was incredibly sensitive to people, a
sensitivity he brought with him to the Senior Citizens
Ministry, and to anything he took interest in.
Before he entered politics, Orbach was a journalist, publicist, and author. In the 1980s, he was one of
the founders of the religious childrens newspaper Otiyot (Letters). Orbach also co-founded the Kol Chai
charedi radio station, was a political columnist for the
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, and wrote several childrens books. He became a Knesset member in 2009.
I have lost my elder brother, a man of integrity and
wisdom There was no one else like him in the cynical world of politics, said Economy Minister Naftali
Bennett, head of Habayit Hayehudi.

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New ways of thinking about politics transform Israels political landscape
Ben SaleS
RAANANA, Israel ( JTA) Chani Lerner-Mors political
activism began on a street corner here in 1993.
The landmark Oslo Accords had been signed recently,
ceding parts of the West Bank to Yassir Arafats Palestine
Liberation Organization. The daughter of a Likud Party
activist, Lerner-Mor, then just 9 years old, helped set up a
local street protest against the agreement. By 18 she had
joined Likud; she has voted for its candidate in every subsequent election.
When this years campaign began, Lerner-Mor again
hit the streets of Raanana. But this time she was handing
out fliers for the right-wing religious Zionist Jewish Home
party and its leader, Naftali Bennett.
I was very disappointed and I said maybe Ill look in
other places, Lerner-Mor said. I went to Bennett, read
his platform. I was very impressed.
Longtime Likud and Labor loyalists also are feeling the

change. Their ideological commitments have stayed constant, but the adult children of these staunch Likud and
Labor voters often choose newer parties to represent their
interests. Here are stories of three families that exemplify

this generational shift reweaving the countrys political
tapestry.
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Theres a drop overall

in trust in parties, and
its directed generally
at the old parties.
Young, new politicians
offer a new politics.
Gideon Rahat
Israels first three decades were controlled by one party

David Ben-Gurions Mapai, a precursor to Labor. It won
every election. For the next 30 years, Labor and the rightwing Likud dominated the polls, together accounting for
about two-thirds of the vote in five straight elections.
But in recent years, Israel has seen a dramatic increase
in the success of newer parties. Now, polls predict that
three parties that didnt even exist three years ago
Kulanu, Yesh Atid, and Yachad together will take about
20 percent of the vote, or approximately 24 of the Knessets 120 seats, in elections scheduled for March 17. Likud,
the party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and
Labor would see their total share drop to just over onethird, the polls show.
The shift stems partly from a kind of personality politics
unseen until now in Israel. In 2013, Yesh Atid, running in
its first Knesset election, finished second overall with 19
seats. That victory was driven in large part by the appeal
of its charismatic leader, Yair Lapid.
Israelis now talk about voting for party leaders, not
slates or platforms. Jewish Home ads urge voters to vote
Bennett, while Netanyahu tells Israelis that the choice is
between him or Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, the leaders
of the center-left slate calling itself the Zionist Union. And
Herzog and Livni have rallied under the banner Its us or
him, referring to Netanyahu.
People deal with parties in Israel as if its a choice
between individual people, said Hebrew University
political science professor Gideon Rahat. Theres a
drop overall in trust in parties, and its directed generally at the old parties. Young, new politicians offer
a new politics.
salute
Sandra and Joey Greenberg

on receiving Congregation Rinat Yisraels
Sruli Guttman Service Award

Mazal tov on this well-deserved honor.
With best wishes,

Zvi S. Marans, MD
Jason M. Shames
Chief Executive Officer
President
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Living the sweet life
with diabetes
AbigAil Klein leichmAn
Jessica Apple and Michael Aviad.
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Eric Goldman teaches JCCUs
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received critical accolades
and awards but didnt receive
wide distribution. Engage
in academic analysis and
appraisal of the movie.
Eric Goldman is adjunct
professor of cinema at Yeshiva
University and film reviewer
for The Jewish Standard. He
received his Ph.D. in Cinema
Studies from NYU and was a
fellow at Columbia University
and at the University of
Pennsylvania. Professor
Goldman recently joined
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n American girl and an Israeli

guy meet in a Jerusalem bar,
fall in love, get married and
later each develops type 1 diabetes. What are the odds?
Pretty slim, acknowledges Michael
Aviad, cofounder of the popular diabetes
e-zine ASweetLife with his wife, Jessica
Apple.
Its statistically impossible that we
both have it, says Aviad, a 44-year-old
marathon runner with degrees in law and
finance. No one in Jesss family has type 1,
and in mine I didnt know anyone did until
I met some long lost relatives and found
out my aunt had type 1.
Each month, about 200,000 unique
visitors click on ASweetLife.org, frequently

cited as one of the best online resources
for people with diabetes. Many readers,
like Michael and Jessica, have type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease affecting
the production of insulin, the hormone
that guides sugar (glucose) into the cells to
produce energy.
When they met, Apple was an 18-yearold Texas girl on the Young Judaea Year
Course, and Aviad was a 22-year-old IDF
soldier, born in California and raised in
Jerusalem. Apple moved to Israel in 1997;
the couple married in 1998. He worked as
an economist while she built a successful
writing career. Apples essays and fiction
have appeared in such publications as the
New York Times Magazine and the Financial Times Magazine.
FilM sCheDUle:
April 9: In his film In Bruges (2008),
Martin McDonagh examines how two Irish

hit-men find meaning as they temporarily
escape their life with a foray in Belgium.
Incredible performances by Colin Farrell and
Brendan Gleeson make this British comic
crime film unforgettable.
April 23: Zaytoun (2012) is Israeli
director Eran Rikliss portrayal of the
friendship that develops between a downed
Israeli pilot in Lebanon and a Palestinian
youth who befriends him. A beautifully
told story about difference and hope. With
Stephen Dorff.
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(2007) is a beautiful film from New Zealand

by director Taika Waititi, about two socially
awkward misfits and the strange ways they
try to find love.
MAy 21: In Holy Smoke (1999), academy
award winning writer, Jane Campion,
explores the spiritual awakening of a young
Australian woman who joins a cult in India.
Upon learning of their daughters choice,
her parents hire a de-programmer to bring
her back to her senses and to them. With
fine performances by Kate Winslet and
Harvey Keitel.
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Diabetes was not on their radar when Aviad was
diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2002, just 18 months
after the birth of their first son.
He learned how to monitor his blood sugar and use
insulin, which is necessary for anyone with type 1 to
survive. He improved his diabetes management with
a low-carb diet and exercise. He started long-distance
running to prove to himself and others that diabetes
would not keep him down.
During her pregnancy, Apple had been misdiagnosed with gestational diabetes, a transient condition.
During her third pregnancy in 2008, she was properly diagnosed with a slow-progressing form of type 1
called LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes in adults).
Creating community
Living in Tel Aviv with their sons, now 14, 11, and almost
6, Aviad and Apple do not own a car and walk everywhere.
ASweetLife is our message that life with diabetes can
be sweet, says Apple. This disease doesnt mean youre
going to be sick and die early, but that you will have to
work harder to be healthy. People say, Thank you for
showing me that people with diabetes can live normal,
healthy lives. Theyve found inspiration, and that is what
keeps us going.
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The double diagnoses sent the couple to- the Internet

. concluded
searching for resources and peers. They
a
that they could offer something more fun
and comprehensive than the medical and personal blogs they
r
found, and more attuned to healthful living
and nutrition than diabetes organizations websites.
While ASweetLife publishes the latestt information
about diabetes research and technology, its also a
place for emotional support. It is a community rather
than a forum.
It was a big deal to us to create something where
people could communicate, sharing tips and information, Aviad says.
Its not enough to know about the latest insulin
pump or new drug. Having a good emotional support
.
system is key to dealing with any chronic illness, -espe.
cially for us because of the need to monitor every
bite
a
of food you eat. Its important to understand that
a
person who restricts their diet doesnt have a lower
r
.
quality of life. Its just a little harder.
ASweetLife is a nonprofit program of the Diabetes
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Media Foundation, with a board in New York and- a
pool of freelance writers including professional jourr
nalists such as Katie Bacon, a former editor for The
t
Atlantic whose daughter has type 1; and Catherine
Price, whose newest book is Vitamania.
Our writers dont necessarily agree with one
another, but theyre all in control of their diabetes and
they convey the emotional and inspirational aspects of
living with diabetes, Aviad says.
Readers want inspirational stories about people
succeeding with diabetes, whether raising a child or
running a marathon, adds Apple. Type 1 is a challenge every day, and those who dont have it cant
understand living from one glucose measurement to
the next, and how your mood and how much you get
done depend on that. People want to know its not
always terrible and when it is terrible, how you get
up and go on.
Readers are also in need of laughs. For a good percentage of our readers, dark humor is really a way to
commiserate, says Apple. We have an article up now
called I speak diabetes about the terminology and
acronyms we use that nobody else knows.
As writer Jacquie Wojcik points out in the piece, the
question Are you high? has a different meaning to a
diabetic than to a recreational drug user.
Inspiration found
your weight in the normal range and move somewhat, youll

probably be fine.
ASweetLife has featured stories on some of the improved
medications and monitoring systems coming out of Israeli
research labs.
We are very interested in Beta-O2, an implantable bioartificial pancreas now going into clinical trials. And I interviewed a company that has a noninvasive glucose monitor
for the nighttime. We want good products to succeed if we
believe in what theyre doing, Apple says.
ASweetLife appeals mainly to readers who take a proactive approach to their (or their kids) type 1 or type
2 diabetes.
Says Apple, You can read the scary stuff elsewhere
and think diabetes is just a countdown till bad things
happen. But if you take good care of yourself and keep
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ext month, you may find you

feel a little more tired than
usual as you adjust to the
start of daylight saving time,
which begins at 2 a.m on Sunday, March
8.
An hour seems like a minor change,
but moving the clock ahead one hour
can be very stressful or disruptive for
some people, particularly for those
who are already sleep deprived, says
Dr. Jeffrey P. Barasch, medical director
of the Valley Hospital Center for Sleep
Medicine.
The problem goes beyond just the
loss of a single hour of sleep on the night
of the clock change, Dr. Barasch says,
The time change also plays havoc with
the bodys circadian rhythm, or biological clock.
This biological clock, located within a
part of the brain behind the eyes, determines when we feel alert and when we
are sleepy. The internal clock keeps our
bodies synchronized with the daily lightdark cycle of the outside world. The biologic clock is set or fixed to the time of
day by two factors: the time we regularly
wake up in the morning and our exposure to sunlight during the day. It can be
reset, but (as anyone who has traveled
by airplane across several time zones has
experienced), the biological clock cannot be adjusted too quickly.
When we move the time clock one
hour earlier for daylight savings time,
our bodies remain partly on the prior
schedule (known as jetlag in plane
travel). The result: 7 a.m. in daylight savings time is equivalent to 6 a.m. standard
time. Also, your typically sunlit mornings
will now be dark, and that lack of morning light makes it even more difficult for
your internal clock to adjust. So not only
are we losing an hour of sleep, but since
it can take some time to readjust, were
left feeling tired for more than the one

day on which the clocks change.
People who normally sleep well can
usually adjust to the time shift with relatively little difficulty. However, if someone has been barely coping with an
undiagnosed and untreated sleep disorder, daylight saving time can exacerbate
and therefore unmask problems such as
sleep apnea, insomnia or periodic limb
movement disorder.
The following tips from Dr. Barasch
can help you get a good nights sleep:
On the nights after the time change,
go to bed at your usual time. You may
experience some difficulty falling asleep,
because your bodys clock has not yet
adjusted.
Get up at your usual time regularly.
Although you may find this a bit difficult,
it will help you adjust to the time change.
Avoid sunlight or bright light in the first
few evenings after the time change, as this
will tend to keep you awake later and prevent adjustment of your bodys clock.
Try to get sunlight exposure soon after
awakening in the first few mornings after
the time change, as this will help you
adjust to the new time.
A short nap can help make up for
less sleep, but wont help you acclimate
to the new schedule. Dont nap within
a few hours of your regular bedtime to
avoid disrupting nighttime sleep.
Create a sleep-friendly environment
that is dark, cool, comfortable and quiet.
Have a relaxing routine before bedtime, such as soaking in a hot bath, reading or listening to soothing music.
Avoid caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol
for several hours prior to bedtime, as
they can disrupt sleep.
If you regularly experience daytime
drowsiness, fatigue or disturbed sleep,
speak to your doctor or consult with a
sleep medicine specialist.
Why you need a

professional fitness trainer
to get in shape
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rainers work with their clients

by educating them, being positive examples, and helping
them uncover the problems
and then finding positive solutions
that will fix their problems in fitness
and health. Working side-by-side with
a fitness professional is one sure way to
achieve fitness success.
When you hire a personal trainer, you
are hiring an experienced, highly educated, and knowledgeable person that
will make your fitness journey easier,
safer, and more rewarding. Fitness trainers can cut out all the fluff, the unnecessary and meaningless exercises that
could put a stop or stagger your fitness
progress. Once a fitness trainer figures
out what you need, it is very easy for
them to recommend, show, and implement exercises to a faster fitness level.
Even fitness trainers hire other fitness
professionals to help them reach their
goals. We can all use outside help. Thats
why in professional sports even the pros
have coaches watching them, moderating them, and critiquing their performance all to help enable the athlete
to move at a faster and safer level of
athleticism.
As a personal trainer with a lifetime of
experience, Ive seen hundreds of people trying to reach their fitness goals in
gyms and fitness centers whether they
want to lose weight, firm and tone special areas, increase their energy, or just
get stronger and more physically fit. All
these goals are great for your health and
self-esteem.
The problem is that it is very hard to
accomplish these goals if you have no
knowledge on how to start a program.
In my experience, when someone says
they have joined a gym and have started
eating properly, this may last one to two
weeks at most. Then they will stop. The
main reason they stop is they dont have
a program a map that starts out slowly
and progresses to high levels of success
in fitness and health.
This is where a personal trainer comes
in. Whether you are working in a studio
or at home, personal trainers are educated into holding the client accountable
for their actions outside the gym. We are

trained to safely help the client reach
their fitness goals.
Look at weight loss. In weight loss
its better to have the client exercise at
a very slow and comfortable pace as
they are educated on how to choose
the proper foods to eat so that they may
reach their weight loss goals.
A knowledgeable trainer gives their clients options. Everybodys different. No
two bodies respond the same way to exercise and nutrition. Trainers can map out a
safe program that will make it easy for the
client to follow, and then follow through
so that they make the right choices.
Personal trainers are educated to
design a program that is complete for
the client, balanced in the progression to
reach their fitness goals. My five-way fitness program enables the client to have
a complete program where they concentrate on:
1. cardiovascular fitness
2. muscular strength
3. muscular endurance
4. flexibility and balance
5. body composition (nutrition)
A program designed with three out
of these five components is a complete
program. An example of an incomplete
program is only doing aerobic exercise
like a treadmill, bicycle, or an elliptical
machine.
It is very important to hire someone
that is a good fit as a personal trainer.
There must be chemistry between the
client and the trainer.
It takes years for a personal trainer
to gain the experience, knowledge, and
dedication to be at a highest level.
The most important question for
a client is: are you getting the results
for which you hired that fitness
professional?
Michael Metchikian, NASM, CPT, CES,
CNS, is a corrective exercise specialist
who see clients in his private fitness
studio in Cliffside Park or at homes
in Bergen County. He is dedicated to
working with his clients one-on-one in a
private atmosphere. His passion is to help
adults reach their fitness goals. For more
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Happy Passover
ife is a struggle. And as we age,

that struggle intensifies, especially for the human body.
After all, we are but bone and
muscle that years of use sorely test.
If that human vessel is not physically
challenged, it will humbly accept times
verdict and quietly acquiesce to a weakened and fragile state. It is an enigma:
Our bodies, this mass of bone and muscle, were created to remain strong and
agile no matter what the age; yet we have
allowed modern lifestyle to keep us soft
and live extended lives no matter the
condition of that human vessel.
Homo sapiens were created to be
powerful animals, able to track their
prey for days on end and then, when
that prey was exhausted, have enough
energy and strength to end the hunt and
return to the clan with food, pelts, bone,
and sinewthe necessities for survival.
And our bodies have not changed over
the last 200,000 years. We still display
tremendous potential for aerobic and
anaerobic strength; we have retained the
bodies of hunters.
Today as we age, the power of our bodies can still be harnessed and strengthened. In fact, it is the aged amongst us
who have the greatest need to test the
potential of their bodies; and that potential is greatest when we age!
A senior who exercises can double their strength within six weeks.
Why? Because muscle fiber grows and
strengthens when stressed; our heart

and lungs become more efficient when
stressed. This is true no matter what
your age. The human body reacts to
exercise. And greater strength harbingers stronger bones and a greater ability to remain independent. If we do not
challenge our muscles, they will simply
atrophy and weaken. Our muscles want
to hunt!
Those seniors who are infirm know
this unequivocally to be true: those suffering from strokes, Parkinsons, MS,
dementia, arthritis, and a myriad of
other afflictions exercise both aerobically and anaerobically to maintain their
independence and perform activities
of daily living efficiently; doctors know
this to be true for they constantly recommend exercise for their patients;
and those healthy seniors who do exercise know this to be true: for they are
far better able to cope, both financially
and emotionally, in a society which
places a premium on independence and
self-reliance.
As you age, take control of your future;
take control of your life; take control of
your body; as you ageexercise!
Richard Portugal is the founder and
owner of Fitness Senior Style, which
exercises seniors for balance, strength,
and cognitive fitness in their own
homes. He has been certified as a senior
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Association. For further information, call
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Wishing you a
Happy Passover
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The series features presentations
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please keep in mind that it
sitting long hours at work,
takes more time to warm
let alone after our workup, and even more time
out. Thats the benefit of a
to recover from physical
having a good massage as
exercise.
part of your recovery rouI want to draw your
tine. Massage will increase
attention to the calf musdeep circulation to allow
cles, the powerful gasthe muscles to become
tronomies, and the deeper
looser and regain energy
soleus that lies underneath. We use these musresources function. It will
Nir Davidov
cles in many types of workreconnect your attention
outs, including running,
and mind into these physical tension which will help you learn how
cycling and walking, as they serve as shock
to avoid these tensions in the future.
absorbers before the impact coming from
Warm up properly with longer
when the feet reach the knee. When these
stretches, and recover smartly with a
strong muscles are tight and restricted, we
good massage.
need the weaker muscles all around them
to step in and support to compensate.
Nir Davidov is a massage therapist at The
These weaker muscles, like the knee or the
Spa @ THE GYM, 20 Nordhoff, Englewood.
ankle joints, are more likely to get injuries
(201) 567-9399.
when we run or jump suddenly without
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Arthritis presentation at YJCC

Is joint pain interfering with your daily
life? Learn more from Arthritis: A
Joint Effort, presented by the Valley
Hospital at the Bergen County YJCC on
Thursday, February 26 at 7 p.m. The
presentation will be led by Dr. Douglas
Holden, an orthopedic surgeon. Topics covered include the causes of joint
pain, arthritis, and the newest trends
in treatment options, including knee
and hip joint replacement. The medical process, from diagnosis through
surgery and rehabilitation, will also be
discussed.
The Bergen County YJCC is located at
605 Pascack Road, Township of Washington. This program is free. However,
pre-registration is appreciated at www.
valleyhealth.com/events or by calling
1-800-VALLEY1.
Sunday brunch
at Prospect Heights Care Center
Prospect Heights Care Center in Hackensack recognizes the importance of
family support and its impact on the
healing process. As a way to embrace
this significance, Prospect Heights Care
Center hosts a monthly Sunday Brunch
for its residents, their families, and the
local community. The centers executive chef Michael Cooper, trained by
Culinary Institute of America, provides
a buffet that includes omelets made to
order, bagels and lox, breakfast pastries,

a carving station, waffles, fresh fruit platters, and grilled veggie platters.
From the elaborate buffet to the
skilled care of the facilitys nurses and
therapists, Prospect Heights Care Center should be your rehabilitation destination. The Sunday brunch takes place
the third Sunday of every month. For
further information and RSVP contact
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Healthy Living
Alzheimers
Association
offers education
program
Is it normal aging
or is it Alzheimers disease?
The Alzheimers Association is sponsoring a community education program on dementia, entitled,
Know the 10 Signs: Early Detection Matters. The
program will be held on Wednesday, March 11, from
12:00 to 1:00 p.m., at the YMCA of Wayne, One Pike
Drive, Wayne. The program is free but registration is
required. RSVP to (973) 586-4300 by March 10.
The warning signs of Alzheimers disease are often
dismissed as side effects of normal aging. If you or
someone you know is experiencing memory loss or
changes in behavior or thinking skills, early detection,
diagnosis and intervention are vital because they provide the best opportunities for treatment, support and
planning for the future.
The interactive workshop will work to separate
myth from reality and address commonly held fears
about Alzheimers disease.
The Alzheimers Association supports research,
care and support. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimers disease through the advancement of research; to
provide and enhance care and support for all affected;
and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Visit alz.org/nj or call (800)
272-3900.
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have lost a child.
Many people experiencing the loss of a loved one
find comfort in sharing their feelings with one another.
This bereavement group is part of the Sharing the
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The support group will run for 10 weeks beginning
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an informational presentation on the topic of End-ofLife Doula on February 25 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in
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volunteers in End-of-Life Doula in collaboration with
Mr. Fersko-Weiss. Training will begin on March 27. At
the informational presentation potential volunteers can
learn more about the free training program and register.
For information or to participate, call Jamie Anderson (551) 404-8446), the hospice programs volunteer
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hands
Michelle Blumenstyk of Hand Therapy Solutions will
give a presentation Protecting Your Hands at the
Tenafly Senior Center Thursday, February 26, at 1 p.m.
Ms. Blumenstyle has practiced occupational therapy
for over 33 years and is a certified hand therapist. She
specializes in the treatment of problems in the upper
extremities such as carpal tunnel, arthritis, and injuries from the hand to shoulder.
She will discuss treatments and simple techniques
to prevent common hand problems. Audience participation and questions are encouraged. Complimentary
products and information will be provided.
A phone that
sniffs out cancer
AbigAil Klein leichmAn
Can your smartphone screen your breath to detect
cancer? That could happen someday soon, if the SniffPhone project from Israel comes to fruition.
The Sniff-Phone is the latest low-cost nanotech
diagnostic tool proposed by Technion-Israel Institute
of Technology Prof. Hossam Haick, developer of the
Na-Nose breathalyzer technology now heading toward
commercialization for detecting diseases including
lung cancer.
The Sniff-Phone would link the same technology to
a smartphone to provide non-invasive, fast, and cheap
disease detection. Embedded micro- and nano-sensors would read exhaled breath and then transfer
the information through the attached mobile phone
to an information-processing system for interpretation
and assessment.
A research consortium headed by Haick recently
received a $7 million European Commission grant
to develop the product. The award-winning nanotechnologist said it will be tinier and cheaper than
disease-detection solutions currently, consume little
power, and most importantly, it will enable immediate and early diagnosis that is both accurate and noninvasive. Early diagnosis can save lives, particularly in
life-threatening diseases such as cancer.
Consortium members include Siemens; universities
and research institutes from Germany, Austria, Finland, Ireland and Latvia; and Israeli company NanoVation-GS Israel, a Technion spinoff headed by graduates
of Haicks laboratory that is focused on using nanotechnology to diagnose pneumonia in low-resource
regions of the world.
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Terumah: Everyone whose heart is so moved.
ur Torah portion this week contains the first capital campaign

in Jewish history. God gives
Moses the directions to build
the Tabernacle, the mobile sanctuary that the
Israelites traveled with as they wandered in
the wilderness. To finance this project, Moses
is told, Tell the Israelites to bring Me gifts;
you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart is so moved. And let them
make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among
them (btocham) (Ex. 25:2, 8). Its a voluntary campaign, based on the free will offering
of those who choose to give. As a congregational rabbi, I have to wonder if Moses was
concerned about a fundraising effort based
only on voluntary gifts: Would the people
give enough to support the campaign?
Turns out Moses didnt need to worry if
the offerings of all whose hearts moved them
would be sufficient for the building of the
Tabernacle. A few chapters later, the Torah
tells us that the Israelites freely brought so
much material to create the Tabernacle that
Moses actually has to ask them to stop bringing things. There was sufficient material
to complete all the work, and more than

enough (Ex. 36:7). (We should all have such
problems in our capital campaigns!)
Our sages wonder about the meaning of
such a surplus, what it might represent, and
what we might learn from it. I attribute it to
the meaningful connections the Israelites felt
for one another. Though all shared the same
inclination to give, perhaps those with the
means to give more did so with the knowledge that there were others who could not.
Then their less wealthy kinsfolks would not
feel ashamed about their smaller contributions, as the Tabernacle would still be completed. Viewed in this light, the Tabernacle
is a sign of the overwhelming bonds of community among the Israelites. The fundraising
was successful because of the connectedness
of the community.
The same lesson applies to our modern
setting. The question of financing for synagogues is very much in the air these days. In
an era of decreasing congregational affiliation and funding, many are wondering what
to do. One model that has been adopted by
a small number of congregations is a system
values and joy and purpose to

of voluntary dues, like the Israelites contributions to the Tablife. Then todays generation of
ernacle. No longer based on a
Jews will connect, regardless
familys or individuals finanof the financial model. Like
cial means, or part of a scaled
the Israelites in the wilderness
system of dues, these congrewhose hearts moved them to
gations have a pay what you
donate more than their share
want model, as a recent New
to take care of their neighbors,
York Times article described
its the sense of community
Rabbi David
it. A just-released report from
that truly gives meaning to a
S. Widzer
UJA-Federation of New York
congregation.
Temple Beth El of
describes this phenomenon
Taking btocham to
Northern Valley,
and provides a roadmap for
mean
within them (instead
Closter, Reform
congregations contemplating
of the usual among them),
a change to this system. Many
the 19th century commentator Malbim observes that the text doesnt
communities that have tried this model
say and I will dwell in it, meaning the
report increases in both donations and
Tabernacle, but rather, I will dwell in
membership.
them, meaning the Israelites. We are, MalBut a new dues structure, even one based
bim says, to each build a Tabernacle in our
on Biblical antecedents, isnt the only key to
own hearts for God to dwell in. Hearts that
reversing affiliation trends. Nina Badzin, in
are open to the concerns of others, hearts
an influential posting on Kveller.com, argues
that compel us to care for others, hearts
that it cant be just about the money; its also
that create a community of meaning and
about the relationships. We need to make
bonds of connection these are truly the
a community of real meaning, that demonstrates to people how Judaism provides
hearts where God can dwell.
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Across
Down
1. Full, as from brisket

6. Tzaraat, e.g. (See Exodus 4:6)
10. Tref flying mammals
14. One from an Arab country with few
Jews
15. Comment from a Freudian analyst, perhaps
16. Mitch Millers woodwind
17. 2014 film about someone watching
Geraldo Riveras news network?
19. Those were the days?
20. Israels in it
21. Isaac, to Abraham
22. Norris who starred in Menahem Golans
The Delta Force
23. West without much tzniut
25. Sands, say, as a shofar
27. 2014 film about a Biblical punishment?
32. Moses had little
33. Amulet seen on jewelry, often
34. React to a Jackie Mason line
36. Novel in a Wiesel trilogy
40. American st. whose legislature was the
first to support a Jewish homeland in
Palestine
41. ISIS, by many
44. Telushkins Rebbe, e.g.
45. Maarat Hamachpela in Hebron is one
47. Level in Golders Green?
48. Prophetic signs
50. 47th Street fare
52. 2014 film about Gideon or Deborah?
54. Inner Jerusalem
58. Sleep locale at a crowded Shabbat
house
59. Newman who scored Toy Story
60. Seder plate, e.g.
63. Lieberman, presidential -___ ran
67. Paddan ___ (whence Rebecca)
68. Best ___ Actor, category this puzzles
movies are nominated for in the 2015
Oscars
70. Brent Spiner robot role
71. Torah talk?
72. The Torah commands shooing a mother
bird from one
73. Like 1948?
74. Lay ___ Lay (Dylan tune)
75. Modern meeting
1. Shabbat crash location, perhaps

2. Book after Joel
3. Kaufmans sitcom
4. Makes like the Jews by Sinai
5. ___ Internacional del Ladino (Sephardi
occasion)
6. Sephardi Passover perk
7. Rav who compiled much of the Talmud
8. Samuel and Elijah
9. Joaquin Phoenix sci-fi flick
10. 2014 film about pre-Bar Mitzvah days?
11. Circa BCE
12. What Samson tied to foxes tails
13. Something one does for chametz before
Pesach
18. Abbr. for a college department that
might teach some Sondheim
22. Lowly bureaucrat in the Misrad Hapnim
24. Dont spray this on apples... Adams or
otherwise
26. With out, something for the Sanhedrin
to do with punishments
27. When tripled, a catch-phrase for Sheila
Broflowski
28. Michael or Raphael might have one
29. Not exactly a rabbi
30. Two dots, in Hebrew
31. Raise, as a blue-and-white flag
35. New Israeli
37. Schluffing
38. Item on the IAF logo
39. Job for a JAP?
42. Before Rosh Hashana
43. Where one might learn Krav Maga
46. 2014 film about Noah, the dove, and
the raven?
49. Like Magnetos genes
51. Like a yenta trying not to divulge a
secret
53. Sound in a Negev machtesh
54. Peddlers activity
55. Mercaz follower
56. Matrilineal
57. Para ___ (red heifer in the Book of
Numbers)
61. Some people use it to daven, nowadays
62. Like Aly Raisman
64. Former currency in the land of the first
ghetto
65. A chutzpadik person may get into one
66. Arch atop some old shuls
68. Character in Lumets Dog Day
Afternoon
69. Howards best friend on The Big Bang
Theory
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 57.
Arts & Culture

The tribe on the red carpet:
Oscars 2015
nATE BLooM
he 87th Academy Awards

are being presented on
Sunday, February 22, at
8:30 p.m. on ABC. Here
are the Jewish nominees in all but
the technical categories.
Best supporting actress: Patricia
Arquette, 46, for Boyhood. Heres
a little insight into Arquettes background, as reported in 2011, by the
British paper, The Telegraph: The
classic middle child, the mother hen,
was brought up to question authority, to believe that anything was possible, even religious harmony: her
father was Muslim [by conversion],
her mother Jewish, and she was sent
to a Catholic school. She was harshly
disabused of that idea when, at the
age of five or six, a teacher told her
that she couldnt take communion
because your mother is Jewish and
shes going to hell. You know what,
responded the young Arquette, who

until that moment had wanted to be
a nun, I think your Jesus and my
Jesus are different. (While sincerely
religious/spiritual, Arquette doesnt
follow any organized religion. Her
sister, Rosanna, 55, who had her
only child with a Jewish husband
and is now married to another Jewish guy, is the most Jewishly affiliated of the Arquette acting family. )
Best director: Bennett Miller, 48,
Foxcatcher; Best original screenplay: Dan Futterman, 47, Foxcatcher (with E. Max Frye, who
isnt Jewish). Futtermans wife, Anya
Epstein, 44, is the granddaughter
of the late Philip Epstein, who was
a co-winner of the 1943 screenplay
Oscar for Casablanca, and her
brother, Theo Epstein, 42, is a baseball executive who turned the Red
Sox into champions and is now trying to turn around the Chicago Cubs;
Best adapted screenplay: Graham
Moore, 32, The Imitation Game.

Moores mother, Susan Sher, 68,
was Michelle Obamas chief of staff
and she also was White House liaison to the Jewish community. Moore
recently said, My Judaism has felt
more and more important to me,
and more and more of a social identifier. My grandparents passed away
a few years ago, and I was very close
to them, and for their generation,
their Jewish identity was extremely
important. And after they passed
away, this notion that me and my
mother would become the keepers
of this tradition became very apparent and very important.
Best documentary, feature length:
John Maloof, who is Lebanese-American and not Jewish, and Charlie
Siskel, 44, who is Jewish hes the
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Calendar
Friday
february 20
Shabbat for seniors:
The Bergen County
YJCC in Washington
Township continues
Kabbalat Shabbat, a
monthly program, with
lunch and a talk by
Cantor Eric Wasser of
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel, noon-2 p.m.
Partially subsidized by
a grant from the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Congregation Beth
Sholom in Teaneck
welcomes musician/
award-winning journalist
Rahel Musleah as
scholar-in-residence for
a weekend of music,
prayer, discussion, and
food inspired by the
scenturies old BaghdadiIndian community.
Tonight, after an
Indian-inspired dinner
at 6:30 p.m., which is
preceded by Maariv,
the discussion is Jewish
Calcutta Through
Music and Memory. On
Shabbat morning during
services that begin at
9 a.m., Musleah will lead
the Torah service, chant
Torah and haftarah in
the Baghdadi-Indian
nusah, and give a dvar
Torah, The Power of
Prayer to Recreate
Community. Shabbat
afternoon, after a dairy
Kiddush lunch, she will
lead a discussion, Chai
& Chat. 354 Maitland
Ave. Meal reservations,
(201) 833-2620 or
office@cbsteaneck.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
musical service led by
Rabbi Steven Sirbu and
Cantor Ellen Tilem, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Saturday
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers family
bingo with make-yourown sundaes, 7 p.m.
Prizes and refreshments.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Sunday
february 22
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds MazelTots
for 3-year-olds and their
parents/grandparents,
10 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801,
ext. 12.
The Jewish Theological Seminary presents Jazz and the

Jewish American Songbook, featuring the Juilliard Jazz
Ensemble with Ted Rosenthal, on Wednesday, February 25,
at 7:30 p.m. The ensemble will perform standards from the
Great American Songbook, written by prolific Jewish composers including
Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers, and George Gershwin. JTS
is at 3080 Broadway (corner 122nd Street) in Manhattan. www.jtsa.edu/
JuilliardSpring2015.
FEB.
25
Authors in Hoboken:
The United Synagogue
of Hoboken offers What
Do Kids Eat? What
Should Kids Eat? the
Philip & Claire Meistrich
Speaker program/
brunch. USH members
Rachel Meltzer, author of
The Smart Girls Guide
to Going Vegetarian,
and Dina Rose, author
of Its Not About the
Broccoli: Three Habits
to Reach Your Kids for
a Lifetime of Healthy
Eating, are the speakers,
10:30 a.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or www.
hobokensynagogue.org.
february 21
HaNeshamah offers a
brunch and discussion
on this years book
selection, The Golem
and the Jinni by Helene
Wecker, 11 a.m. Location
information, Rebecca
Ivry, rivry@hotmail.com,
or visit www.khnj.org.
Childrens program in
Wayne: Kids in Action,
for 6- to-12-year-olds,
meets at the Chabad
Center of Passaic County
for a trip to Persia
including hamentashen
baking, face painting, and
packing Purim treats for
local seniors, 12:45 p.m.
Lunch served. 194 Razter
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers A Shabbat
Experience Meditation
Shabbat, a morning
service led by Rabbi
Debra Orenstein, 10 a.m.
Learn about and enjoy
Jewish meditation
techniques. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Bingo/ice cream:
The Parent Teacher
Association of the Jewish
of teens in 10th to 12th

grade, at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
1 p.m. She is director of
Personalized College
Consulting, LLC.
(201) 408-1469 or
mgreenbaum@jccotp.
org.
Movie in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah screens The
Good Earth, 3 p.m.
304 E. Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Challah baking: The
Book and brunch:

As part of the One
Book One Community
project, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
Congregation Kol
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Abbie Rabin
Genine Esposito
College admission
workshop in Tenafly:
Abbie Rabin discusses
Navigating the College
Process with parents
Chabad Center of Passaic

County offers challah
baking for women and
girls, 8 and older, from
Passaic County, at the
Chabad Center of Passaic
County in Wayne, 7 p.m.
$18. 194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274 or
jewishwayne.com.
Monday
february 23
Hadassah meets in Fair
Lawn: Danielle Cennante
and Kathy Smolen from
Valley Hospital discuss
All the Things You Did
Not Know About the
Heart for Fair Lawn
Hadassah at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
1 p.m. Refreshments.
10-10 Norma Ave. (201)
791-0327.
Womens forum on
fitness: Sisterhood of
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel supports the
Professional Womens
Network with Strategies
for Personal Success
by Christine McKinney
Pfeiffer, a work-life
certified professional,
at the shul, 8 p.m. Open
to all working women.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Wednesday
Tuesday
february 25
february 24
Purim playgroup in
Oakland: Shalom
Film in Englewood:
Congregation Ahavath
Torah screens Beneath
the Helmet, 7:30 p.m.
Followed by panel
discussion with lone IDF
soldiers who are now
in U.S. colleges, and
with the films producer
discussing how Jewish
pride sustains Jewish life
on the college campus.
$10 donation; proceeds
benefit Jerusalem U, the
organization that made
the film. 240 Broad Ave.
(201) 568-1315.
Baby, a project of
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
holds a playgroup for
newborns to 3-yearolds and their parents,
with songs, stories,
crafts, and playtime, at
Gerrard Berman Day
School, 9:30 a.m. 45
Spruce St. www.jfnnj.
org/shalombaby or
JessicaK@jfnnj.org.
Hadassah meets in
Paramus: TriBoro
Hadassah meets to hear
Diana Brown of the
Bergen County Division
Calendar
of Senior Services
discuss Emergency
Readiness For
Seniors at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 1 p.m.
Refreshments. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Cooking club in Wayne:

The Chabad Center
of Passaic County
celebrates Purim at a
session of Mini Chefs,
a childrens culinary
club, at Chabad,
4:30 p.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
www.jewishwayne.com.
Thursday
february 26
Violin music in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades offers Music
of the Movies with
violinist David Podles
and lunch, 11:15 a.m. 411
E. Clinton Ave. Helene,
(201) 408-1451.
Joint pain: Dr. Douglas

Holden, an orthopedic
surgeon at the Valley
Hospital in Ridgewood,
offers a talk, Arthritis:
A Joint Effort, at the
Bergen County YJCC,
7 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610,
(800) Valley1, or www.
valleyhealth.com/events.
a family-friendly service
at 7:30. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center
offers family services
for 4 to 13-year-olds,
led by Cantor Caitlin
Bromberg on her guitar,
7 p.m. Oneg Shabbat
follows. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
Saturday
February 28
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
Shir Appeal, a Jewish
a cappella group from
Tufts University, will
perform at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center during
the service at 9 a.m.,
and at the kiddush
lunch. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center
offers tot Shabbat,
led by Cantor Caitlin
Bromberg on her guitar,
11 a.m. Youngsters, with
their families, join the
service in the sanctuary
for concluding hymns,
followed by kiddush
lunch. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Yehudah Katz
Israeli music in
Rockland: Yehudah Katz,
representing a new wave
of Israeli musical artists,
the founder and leader of
the popular Israeli Jewish
rock and soul band
Reva Lsheva, performs
at a private home
in Rockland County,
7:30 p.m. Email dsloyer@
jewishrockland.org or call
(845) 362-4200, ext. 133.
Friday
february 27
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El hosts an
informal tot Shabbat,
focusing on Purim led by
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman,
5:15 p.m., and a familyfriendly service at 6:45.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds its monthly
family program with the
Esther Extravaganza,
in celebration of Purim,
6:30 p.m., followed by
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
offers Club Shabbat for
second to sixth graders,
and Torah Tots for
3- to 6-year-olds with
their parents, 11 a.m.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Springsteen and
scripture: Dr. Azzan
Yadin-Israel of Rutgers
discusses Salvation,
Redemption, And
Raising Cain the
Lyrics of Bruce
Springsteen and the
Bible at Congregation
Beth Sholom in
Teaneck, 7:30 p.m.
Hors doeuvres and
beverages. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620 or
office@cbsteaneck.org.
violinists Amelia Feiner

and Sylvia Rubin, pianist
Ella Feiner, and guitarist
Andrew Mester. Also,
a memorial tribute by
the congregations
rock band, Jimmy and
the Templetones, to a
band member, Irwin
Tessler, who died last
year. Members include
vocalist Gale Bindelglass,
drummer Jimmy Cohen,
lead guitarist Adam
Friedlander, keyboardist/
flutist Jane Koch,
guitarist/harpist Ilan
Mamber, bass guitarist
Jack Seidenberg, and
saxophonist Jeff Wilson.
Cheeses, hors doeuvres,
fruit, and desserts.
BYOB. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
cantor@bethrishon.org.
february 26
Commemorating the
Holocaust: The Museum
of Jewish HeritageA
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust marks Holocaust
Remembrance Day and
the 70th anniversary of the
liberation of AuschwitzBirkenau, with children
of Holocaust survivors
sharing their stories of
regeneration, 7 p.m. The
event was rescheduled.
36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202.
Sunday
Singles
march 1
Sunday
february 22
Singles meet in Caldwell:
New Jersey Jewish
Singles 45+ meet to
play an original group
game with prizes, at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12:45 p.m. $10. 20
Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.
Singles mixer
in Bergenfield:
Congregation Beth
Abraham offers a singles
mixer, Back to the 80s,
7:30 p.m. Food, trivia,
music, light dinner. Prizes
for best 80s costume.
396 New Bridge Road.
Facilitators present.
(201) 522-4776.
Trivia in Paramus:
Congregation Beth
Tefillah offers Twisted
Trivia, 8 p. m. Dinner,
raffles, spinning wheel,
and trivia. Tickets
available online at
cbtparamus.org/
store. 452 Forest Ave.
(201) 265-4100.
In New York
Saturday
february 21
Networking in NYC:
Meet, mingle, and
network with other
young professionals at
Sharsherets NYC Young
Professionals Networking
Night at Slate in the
Flatiron District, 8 p.m.
Open bar, food, billiards,
and ping-pong. 54 W.
21st St. www.sharsheret.
org/ypcslate.
Sunday
february 22
Cabaret in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers cabaret-style
music, including classical,
Broadway stage and
opera, contemporary
compositions, jazz,
classic rock, and a
performance by the
Syncopated Seniors Tap
Dance Troupe, 7:30 p.m.
Cabaret singers include
the shuls students
with accompaniment
by pianist Judy
Kessler. Instrumental
performances by
Thursday
Family concert: Vered

and the Babes are in
concert at the Jewish
Museum, 11:30 a.m. 1109
Fifth Avenue at 92nd
Street. (212) 423-3337 or
theJewishMuseum.org.
5K race supports organ donation

The fourth annual Halachic Organ
Donor Society 5K Race will be on Sunday, March 1, at 10 a.m. in Central Park
in Manhattan. Last year hundreds of runners, walkers, and onlookers will participate, including local rabbis, physicians,
living kidney donors, organ donor families, and organ recipients.
A free round-trip ticket to Israel will
be awarded to the person who raises the
most money for the HOD Society. iPhones

will be awarded to the first place male
and female winners and to everyone raising at least $1,000 for the HOD Society.
The HOD Society raises awareness of
halachic ( Jewish legal) support for organ
donation, and provides a unique halachic organ donor card. For more information, go to www.hods.org/race, email
jb@hods.org, or call (212) 213-5087.
Chair yoga
at YJCC
The YJCC in Washington Township will
begin an eight-week chair yoga class on
Monday, February 23, at 11:15 a.m. Chair
yoga, a gentle form of yoga that is practiced as you sit on a chair or standing
using a chair for support, deepens flexibility and strengthens body awareness
with poses adapted from traditional
Danielle Aldouby demonstrates a
yoga postures. Yoga instructors Danielle
chair yoga pose.
Aldouby and Lisa Goldstein will lead the
class. For information, call (201) 6666610 or go to www.yjcc.org. The YJCC is at 605 Pascack Road.
Study and create

in Teaneck
The Artists Beit Midrash of Congregation Beth Sholom is offering The Book
of Ruth: Are Your People My People?
Exploring Identity, Leadership, Justice, or Who Might Be Sleeping On the
Threshing Floor? The program, led by

artist Harriet Finck and Rabbi Gary Karlin, will meet for six Sundays beginning
Sunday, February 22, at 10 a.m.
The synagogue is at 354 Maitland Ave.
For information, email Carol Weinstein
Karlin at suesuebird@aol.com or call
(201) 833-2620.
Calendar
Soulfarm performing in NYC
Seeking
choir singers
Camp Ramah in the Berkshires hosts a concert by

Soulfarm on Sunday, February 22, at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in
Manhattan. Doors open
at 12:15 p.m.; the concert
begins at 1.
Soulfarm was founded in
Israel by Grammy Awardwinning lead guitarist C.
Lanzbom and guitarist and
lead singer Noah Solomon
Chase. Soulfarm has a wide range of influences, from rock and Latin, to Hebrew
and Celtic folk music. JTS is at 3080 Broadway. For more information, go to www.
RamahBerkshires.org/Soulfarm.
The Teaneck Boys Choir is looking for

new members in grades one to seven,
from Teaneck, Bergenfield, Paramus,
Fair Lawn, Fort Lee , Washington
Heights, and Rockland County. Yehiel
Levy and Hillel Kapnick are the groups
directors. There are two 90-minute
practices a month. For information,
email teaneckboyschoir@gmail.com.
Announce
your events
Lani Hall and Herb Alpert
Ramapo College offers

Brahms festival
Herb Alpert, Lani Hall

at bergenPAC
Pianist Itay Goren, who was born in Haifa, offers a series,

Open Door Concert A Brahms Festival, at Ramapo College in Mahwah. Concerts are set for February 28, April 1,
and April 29, all at 7 p.m., in the York Room at the Birch Mansion. Refreshments will be served.
For information, call (201) 684 7844 or e-mail igoren@
ramapo.edu.
Music legends Herb Alpert and Lani Hall

will perform at the Bergen Performing
Arts Center in Englewood on Wednesday,
March 25, at 8 p.m. Tickets are available
at www.ticketmaster.com or www.
bergenpac.org or from the box office,
(201) 227- 1030.
Oscars
FrOM PaGe 49
nephew of the late film critic Gene Siskel

for Finding Vivian Maier. Best Live
Action Short Film: Oded Binnum and
Mihal Brezis, who are both Israeli, for the
French-Israeli film Aya, a story about
a young woman, waiting in an airport,
who has an unexpected encounter with
an arriving passenger. Reports say the
filmmakers are now working on a feature
length version of Aya.
Best original score: Hans Zimmer, 57,
Interstellar his 9th original score
nomination (he won for The Lion
King)and Gary Yershon, 60, Mr.
Turner. Yershon, an English Jewish
composer, often works with Mike Leigh,
71, the English Jewish director/writer of
Mr. Turner. Yershon wrote a klezmerinfused score for Leighs 2005 play about
Jewish family life, Two Thousand Years.
Best original song: Diane Warren, 58,
Grateful from Beyond the Lights.
This is the 7th best song Oscar nomination for Warren, a top selling pop/rock
sonwriter who first was nominated in
1987. One of her biggest hits, I Dont
Want To Miss a Thing (1998), also got an
Oscar nomination.
Best cinematography: Emanuel
Lubezki, 51, Birdman. Born and raised
in Mexico, Lubezki now lives mostly in
the States. This is his 6th Oscar nomination. He won last year for Gravity.
Another Latin-American Jew, Argentine
Itay Goren
Damin Szifrn, 39, is the director and

writer of Wild Tales, a Spanish-language Argentine film that is a best foreign
film nominee. Tales is a black comedy
consisting of six discrete shorts that all
have violent, O. Henry-like plot twists.
The last short takes place at a Jewish wedding. Tales is not only a critical hit, it
is a worldwide box-office smash, and Szifrn has been signed by a major American talent agency. Also worthy of note:
Ida, a Polish-language best-foreign-film
nominee about a novice nun who discovers her parents were Jewish and died in
the Holocaust and sets out to learn more.
This isnt the first year that more than
one Latin-American Jew got an Oscar
nomination. In 1986, three were up for
Oscars: the late Aida Bortnik, Susana
Blaustein Muoz, and Hector Babenco,
now 68. Bortnik, an Argentine, was nominated for her screenplay for The Official Story, the first Argentine film to win
the best foreign film Oscar. It was about
the brutal Argentine military dictatorship (1976-83) which persecuted Jews disproportionately. Munozs documentary
(The Mothers of Plaza DeMayo) was
about mothers whose adult children disappeared during the same dictatorship
and Babenco, a Brazilian whose father
was Argentine, was up for best director
for Kiss of the Spider Woman (about
Brazils military junta). I will note, with
sadness, that the brutality and high-level
corruption that was the subject of these
now 30-year-old films obviously has

never been rooted out of Argentina. Metaphorically, it seems as though the same
movie, with the players slightly changed,
but always with Jew-bashing a theme
plays each decade down Argentine way.
The best picture Oscar goes to the
films principal producers. Out of the
eight films nominated for best picture,
I am sure that at least four have Jewish
producers: Scott Rudin, 56, The Grand
Budapest Hotel; Eric Fellner, 55, The
Theory of Everything; Ido Ostrowsky,
35, and Nora Grossman, 31, The Imitation Game; and Andrew Lazar, 48,
American Sniper. Its worth noting that
although Grand Budapest was written
by Wes Anderson, it was heavily inspired
by the fiction of Stefan Zweig, the late
Austrian Jewish writer.
Some Jersey connections: Susan Sher
grew up in West Orange. Her father, Dr.
Charles Steiner, was a prominent local
physician with offices in South Orange.
Also: Damian Chazelle, a nominee for
best adapted screenplay, grew up in
Princeton, where his professor father
teaches computer science. While his parents are Catholics, they enrolled Chazzelle at a Hebrew school at a nearby
liberal Reform synagogue when they
became dissatisfied with a conservative
Christian Sunday school. He went for
four years and still retains some Hebrew.
A young Jewish musician is one of two
main characters in Whiplash.
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n 1 Torah Academy of Bergen County students marked
Sharsherets Pink Day by dressing for the occasion.
The event raises awareness about breast cancer and
Sharsherets vital programs and services. COURTESY TABC
n 2 Students at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah created a school newsletter as an elective choice. Children wrote about Judaism, the Hebrew school, and about
their friends enjoying elective classes. COURTESY JCCP/CBT
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n 3 More than 200 people attended Sweet Tastes of
Torah, the North Jersey Board of Rabbis recent community night of learning. Rabbi Gerald Friedman, center left,
and Rabbi Benjamin Shull, an NJBR past president, were
among the teachers. They are surrounded by attendees at
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
n 4 Yeshivat Noam students celebrated Tu BShevat
the birthday of the trees. COURTESY YN
n 5 Carol Bierman, author of Journey to Ellis Island, spoke to Moriah School sixth graders about
family heirlooms. This was the kickoff for Moriahs sixth grade Heritage Fair. COURTESY MORIAH
n 6 Religious school students in the drama club at
Temple Emeth in Teaneck rehearse for a Purim skit that
will be presented on March 1. COURTESY TEMPLE EMETH
Jewish World
that showed him Likuds
breadth.
FROM PAGE 37
The Likud is neutral terThe Lerner family
ritory, Lerner said. No one
It was a night of fear that
has the right to impinge on
made Lerner-Mor a Jewish
another persons religious
nationalist.
standing.
She was only 5, months
Such diversity, he added,
away from moving back
is why Likud always will be
to her native Israel from
the right-wings standardChani Lerner-Mor
Detroit, where her parents
bearer. He dismisses sugvoted for the Likud
gestions that the party has
had moved for work. She
Party in every Israel
drifted leftward, saying that
remembers her drunken
election until this
Netanyahus declaration of
next-door neighbor trashing
year, when she
support for Palestinian statehis house after his wife left
threw her support
hood comes with the subtext
him, then charging across
to Jewish Home.
if pigs could fly.
their lawn with a pistol, bang
BEN SALES
ing on their front door and
Netanyahu paid his dues
shouting, You dirty Jews!
and delineated conditions on
You destroyed my house!
a Palestinian state that are either unacceptable to the Palestinians or are such that
Lerner-Mor already felt out of place in
you dont actually have a sovereign state,
America, uncomfortable when Christmas
he said. I have my misgivings about the
music played in the mall. But that night,
tactic, but I dont see Netanyahu as somewhen her family had to jump in their car
one who supports a sovereign Palestinian
and flee to her grandmothers house,
state.
underscored the importance of a Jewish
While father and daughter disagree,
state.
Lerner-Mor says she doesnt shoot
This is our home, Lerner-Mor said.
friendly fire. They both hope Netanyahu
We have nowhere else to go, so we need
will win another term as prime minister
to keep it.
and lead a right-wing coalition governLerner-Mor, 30, who spent her teenment. And Bennett?
age years attending protests against the
Maybe next time, Lerner-Mor said.
peace process, says that same philosophy
used to animate the Likud. But she feels
The Nahum family
the party has lost its conviction in recent
The year before Israel was founded, Rafael
years, especially as Netanyahu has voiced
Nahums father already was thinking about
support for a Palestinian state and agreed
aliyah. A shepherd in Libya, he came to Britto negotiate with the Palestinian Authority.
ish Mandate Palestine as a tourist, where he
Her turning point came in 2012, when
managed to meet David Ben-Gurion and get
Netanyahu ended eight days of airstrikes
a permit to return with his flock.
on Hamas in Gaza without launching a
The family arrived in 1951 as part of a masground invasion. In the next round of
sive immigration of 30,000 Libyan Jews to
fighting two years later, Bennett took a
the Holy Land. Like other immigrants, they
harder line. Lerner-Mor appreciated that
lived in a tent in the newly founded developBennett opposed the release of Palestinian
ment town of Or Yehuda, braving floods and
prisoners to jump-start peace talks in 2013
subsisting on government rations.
and vehemently rejects territorial compromise in the West Bank.
Bennett is the one who represents the
nationalist camp, Lerner-Mor said. People are going to Jewish Home. Theres a
clear voice coming out that we dont apologize. With the Likud, we know what they
say, but they stutter sometimes.
Lerner-Mor, now a voice instructor who
has remained in Raanana, was raised by a
religious father and nonreligious mother.
She calls herself traditional and appreciates Jewish Homes emphasis on Jewish
Rafael and Doris Nahum are loyal
Labor Party voters. But their son,
values and history. Her mother, brother,
Momi, supports Yesh Atid, a relatively
and husband also have thought of switchnew centrist party with a charismatic
ing to Jewish Home, she said.
leader.
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But Lerner-Mors father is sticking
with Likud. Aaron Lerner also became
More than 60 years later, Nahum, 72, still
involved in politics after the Oslo
lives in Or Yehuda, now a middle-class subAccords. He organized local protests and
urb of Tel Aviv. He remains grateful to Benran for the Likud Central Committee,
Gurion for allowing the family to bring over
the partys governing body, whose meetings he found to be a cross-section of
its flock and for absorbing waves of new
Israeli society. He describes one in which
immigrants in the states early years.
a woman in a short skirt argued policy
Maarach started this state, it built it,
with a charedi Orthodox man a scene
said Nahum, who works for the Or Yehuda
Voters
municipality, using the name for another

precursor to the Labor Party. Ben-Gurion
established this state, and everyone who
accompanied him thought about what
would be in 50 years. The governments
today dont think about what will be in 50
years.
Like many Israelis, the Nahums are skeptical about the chances for peace and accuse
the Palestinian leadership of intransigence.
But Rafael approaches the Palestinian
issue with pragmatism. After so much war,
he says, maybe its time to move toward
compromise.
From the creation of the world there
was war, he said. At a certain point there
needs to be an end. You need to come talk
to them.
The Nahums passed on their center-left
politics to their son, Momi, 47, who works
in Israels high-tech industry and like his
parents once was loyal to Labor. Momi still
places a premium on party leadership, but
this year the leader he finds most appealing
is Lapid, head of the 3-year-old centrist Yesh
Atid party.
Lapid is making courageous decisions,
Momi said. He had rare courage to assign
the hardest ministries [to his party members]. The fact that he didnt give up and
kept going is a badge of honor.
Momi says his shift has little to do with
ideology. Everyone from Likud leftward,
after all, has declared support for Palestinian statehood.
The borders have blurred, he said. The
choice is more personal because everyone is
saying the same thing. Theres no reason for
this scattering of so many parties.
The Simantov family

One month before Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin was assassinated in November 1995,
Danny Simantov already could sense trouble. Ever since the Oslo Accords had been
signed, tensions had been on the rise.
Though he was only 10 years old, Simantov, now 29 and a developer in a computer
programming firm, remembers the October rally in Jerusalems Zion Square showing a poster of Rabin in a Nazi uniform.
In the 90s, the state broke up in general, he said. The extreme right was
there. I saw it as a kid. You walk around
Zion Square, you see these things, and that
gives you a political direction.
Though his mother was a staunch
Likudnik, Simantov became a Labor activist, hoping that the party could restore
the countrys social cohesion. For the
1999 election campaign, Simantov tried
to expand the partys base, canvassing
streets in poor neighborhoods and setting
up booths at busy intersections.
Labor won that election, but it has lost
every one since. By 2013, Simantov felt
that his mission had failed.
This party has a problem, he said. It
cant bring voices that arent from its own
camp. To make a real change, you need to
draw the nationalist people who vote for
Jewish Home and Likud.
Danny Simantov, 29, was a staunch

Labor voter until this year, when he
became an activist for the new centrist party Kulanu. His mother, Esther,
is a longtime Likud voter.
BEN SALES
Simantov, a traditional Jew, believes

that Kulanu, a new party founded by former Likud minister Moshe Kachlon, is better poised to attract low-income voters
Labor cant reach. Kulanu has eschewed
talk of peace and war in favor of economic
reforms to benefit low-income Israelis.
Kachlon grew up poor, which Simantov thinks will enhance his appeal among
Israelis of limited means.
Its a party that will work for the
weaker classes, he said. The idea of
social mobility, to move from a low class
to a high class, thats how I see the party
a party that can talk to regular people, that
can lower cost of living, that can support
education in development towns, that can
attract that population.
Simantovs shift to Kulanu pleases his
mother, a longtime Likud voter who appreciates Kachlon for the same reasons that
her son does. But Esther Simantov is sticking with her old party. Raised in charedi
schools, Esther grew up in a traditional
home and was inspired by former Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin when his
Likud beat Labor in 1977 by drawing the
votes of Sephardic and religious Jews.
Esther Simantov worked in Begins
office after his victory and was in charge
of his mail. She remembers his modest
demeanor and his habit of greeting whomever he met in the elevator.
He really helped people, she said.
He cared about the little guy. He cared
about the whole people, not just one
population.
Esther Simantov shares Netanyahus
skepticism of the Palestinian leadership
and believes that Likud has maintained
Begins mantle of caring for the lower
classes. In supporting Kachlon, she says
her son is embracing similar principles,
especially because Kachlon once was a
Likud member.
After the ballots are cast, Esther Simantov expects Kachlon to partner with his old
party again.
Kachlon is the Likud, she said. Theyll
go together in the end. I dont think you
can break that connection. I appreciate
what he did, and I think he needs to go
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Obituaries
Roman Gent
Roman Gent, 87, of Fair Lawn, formerly of Paterson, died February 11.
Born in Poland, he was a Holocaust survivor, coming to America
in 1958. He was a former member of
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center.
He is survived by his wife, Esther;
daughters, Miriam (Michael),
and Shirley ( John); and two
grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Alzheimers Association.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Abraham Reiner
Abraham Reiner, 96, of Teaneck,

died February 13.
He was an Army World War II
veteran serving as a major. Before
retiring, he was a dentist in Queens.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth,
ne Bruckner; children, Sharon
Sack of Wanaque, Miles of Demarest,
and Dan and Mark of New York; and
11 grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Barbara Weinstein
Barbara Lynn Weinstein, ne

Gershon, of Chicago, formerly of
Teaneck and Rye Brook, N.Y., died
February 7.
She was a Penn State University
graduate.
She is survived by her life
partner, Steve Matthews; children, Andrew and Jaime; and
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the
American Cancer Society.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.
Frank Weiss
Frank Weiss, 99, of Fort Lee, died

February 15.
Predeceased by his wife, Lottie, in
2005, he is survived by his children,
Eric of Fort Lee and Lauren of
Monroe, N.Y.
An Army World War II veteran,
he was a member of the Jewish War
Veterans in Fort Lee and Central
Synagogue in New York City. Before
retiring, he worked in sales for Bee
Textiles in Manhattan.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
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Touro College graduate school of social work
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Students, faculty, administrators and
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The evening marked the sixth consecutive year the graduate school
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American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the
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The fund was formally launched on Sunday, February
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I am deeply touched by Maxs story his determination to join one of Israels elite army units, and his love
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During Operation Protective Edge, more than 2,000 BGU
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YU Global is an important evolutionary step for Yeshiva, offering a new,
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