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No one in Israel
has sat in more lofty
perches than has
Shimon Peres. President, prime minister,
defense minister he
has a lot to show for
his 66-year career in
public service.
Which is why,
when he sat down
in the Iron Throne of
Westeros last week,
we couldnt help but
wonder what he was
thinking.
The Iron Throne is
the central symbol
in the HBO fantasy
series The Game
of Thrones, which portrays dynastic
scheming loosely based on the Wars of
the Roses. The popular series returns
for its fifth season this week. Last week,
an exhibit based on the show paid a
Passover visit to Israel. And before
it opened for the public, the British
ambassador and the president of the
Israeli video channel that imports The
Game of Thrones escorted Mr. Peres
for a special tour.
We dont know whether Mr. Peres is a
fan of the television show. Was he simply bemused to sit in a throne made of
swords? Its certainly more fancy than
the chairs from which he led cabinet
meetings. Or was he wondering how his

career would have played out had he
been a politician in the mythical world
of Westeros, rather than in real Israel?
You can read the statement he left
on his Facebook page and judge for
yourself:
The Passover holiday exemplifies
that we knew how to release ourselves
from the tyranny of foreign thrones
and liberate ourselves from slavery to
freedom, Mr. Peres wrote. Although in
Game of Thrones there are many sword
fights and beheadings, in the real world
it is the duty of leaders to seek any way
LARRY YUDELSON
towards peace.
Jews for Rand? Or Jewish?

Ah, for the good old days when
candidates looking for the Jewish

vote could simply eat a bagel and
didnt have to figure out how Jews
would prefer to describe themselves.
On Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul
(R-Ky.) launched his 2016 presidential
campaign, and promptly stepped into
a Jewish social media minefield. The
candidates website asked supporters
to adopt one of two dozen widgets,
such as African-American for Rand,
Iowan for Rand, and Christian for
Rand.
But one sounded clunky to a lot of
ears: Jew for Rand.

Some observers on Twitter quickly
suggested Jewish-American for
Rand.
The campaign, however, settled on
brevity rather than hyphenation, and
soon issued a revised icon: Jewish for
Rand.
Meanwhile, another page of interest
to Jews on RandPaul.com received a
first-day revision: Rand Paul stands
with Israel, it was decided on second
thought, was better illustrated with
an Israeli flag than with Jerusalems
- LY
Dome of the Rock.
$23,580.93
Shimon Peres, enthroned
The Chad Gadya Price Index

How much is that kid in the song?
Sure, it starts with a goat your father bought for two zuzim however
much that is. But what about the cat,
and the dog, and?
Not long before Pesach, Naomi Adland started to muse about the cost
of Chad Gadya.
For 31 years, as she noted in her
blog A Wandering Gnome, PNC Bank
has been calculating what it calls the
Christmas Price Index the cost of
all the gifts in the song The Twelve
Days of Christmas, from a partridge
in a pear tree to twelve drummers
drumming.
Now she offers the Chad Gadya
Price Index as a Jewish answer, at
http://bit.ly/js-chad.
The two zuzim themselves comes
to $3.86 worth of silver. Good luck
getting a kid for that: According to
the 2012 USDA Census of Agriculture,
the average price for a dairy goat in
New York is $185.
Then came a cat that ate the kid
What kind of a cat is big enough
to eat a goat? Ms. Adland wondered.
The answer would be a bobcat or
mountain lion. You can buy one for
$1,750. Warning: You cannot own one
LARRY YUDELSON
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The dog doesnt have to kill the
bobcat; it just has to bite it. You can
adopt a dog for $258.
A fire to burn the stick that beats
the dog: Sounds like a lightning
strike to me, writes Ms. Adland.
One average lightnings strike worth
of property damage comes to
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Quenching a typical fire, according
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or $103.45 at New York City water
and sewer rates.
You can buy an ox in New York for
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days work for the butcher, or about
$164.
Playing the angel of death, however, will at least cost your place in
the world to come and likely a few
thousand dollars in cash as well.
All in all, concludes Ms. Adland,
youre going to need to shell out
$23,580.93, the respect of your family and friends, and your place in the
world to come to purchase everything
mentioned in Chad Gadya.
And now we know.
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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ................................................ 18
COVER STORY .................................... 24
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 33
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .................... 34
ARTS & CULTURE .............................. 35
CALENDAR .......................................... 36
GALLERY .............................................. 39
OBITUARIES ......................................... 41
CLASSIFIEDS ...................................... 42
REAL ESTATE...................................... 45
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 10, 2015 3
Noshes
The goy is eating matzah.

Overheard in the DC Metro by David Sable, an observant Jew, as he ate shmura
matzah during chol hamoed Pesach, from a young chasid who thought he did not
look convincingly Jewish; as recounted in Tablet.
JEWS OF DIXIE:
Southern comfort
in Longest Ride
town, is the home of the
first synagogue in North
Carolina.
Sparks Levinson is
proud to be a Southerner
and proud to be Jewish. Ruths background is
much different: she came
to North Carolina as a
teen refugee from Nazioccupied Austria. The
film/novel follows Ira and
Ruth as they fall in love
almost the minute she
enters Iras fathers small
clothing store. Then we
see them court while
going to synagogue
together. Later, we follow them as they share
a passion for modern art
and weather the dark
days of World War II.
Oona Chaplin, Charlies
granddaughter, plays the
young Ruth, with Jack
Huston (grandson of
John Huston, nephew of
Angelica) as the young
Ira. By the way, Huston,
who played a disfigured
WWI vet on Boardwalk Empire, has some
remote Jewish ancestry:
his maternal grandfather
was the son of Marchioness Sybil Sassoon, of
the famously wealthy
and accomplished Iraqi
Jewish/British Sassoon family. Alan Alda,
79, plays the elderly Ira.
Alda, who is not Jewish,
has been married to a
Jewish woman, ARLENE
WEISS ALDA, 82, for 58
years, and their three
Noah Baumbach
Ben Stiller
Adam Horovitz
Peter Yarrow
Stan Lee
Ayelet Zurer
now-adult daughters
were raised Jewish.
Director and writer
NOAH BAUMBACH, 45,
has explored the lives of
sophisticated urbanites
in generally well-received
films, starting with The
Squid and the Whale
in 2005. Critics say that
his new film, While
Were Young, is his
most fully realized and
satisfying work to date.
BEN STILLER, 49 (who
starred in Baumbachs
2010 film, Greenberg),
plays Josh, a Brooklynite
who can never seem to

finish his documentary.
Cornelia (Naomi Watts),
his wife, is the daughter
of a legendary documentary maker (CHARLES
GRODIN, 79). Cornelia and Josh, who cant
have children, drift away
from their best friends, a
couple their age whove
just had a baby, and
become friends with an
energetic couple who are
twenty years younger
(Amanda Seyfried and
Adam Driver of Girls
fame). The contrast in
styles and world view of

these two age-disparate
couples is often amusing
and usually thought-provoking. ADAM Beastie
Boy HOROVITZ, 48, as
the male half of Joshs
old couple friends, and
PETER YARROW, 76, of
Peter, Paul, and Mary, as
a left-wing intellectual,
both are in the film as
well. (Opening dates vary
around the country. In
many cities, it is April 3
or April 10.)
Daredevil, a new
Netflix series, is set
PHIL KONSTANTIN
The Longest
Ride, which opens
on Friday, April 10, is
based on a 2013 novel of
the same name by
Nicholas The Notebook
Sparks. Basic plot: after
being trapped in an
isolated car crash, the life
of 91-year-old Jewish
widower, Ira Levinson,
becomes entwined with
that of young college
student, Sophia Danko
(Brit Robertson) and the
cowboy whom she loves,
named Luke (played by
Scott Eastwood, son of
Clint). Ira recalls his past
life with his Jewish wife,
Ruth, as he waits to be
rescued.
Ira and Ruth were the
first Jewish characters
that Sparks created. In
a 2013 interview, Sparks
said that as wrote his
novel, he drew from his
memories of the Jews,
some of whom were
his friends, who lived in
New Bern, North Carolina. He said that writing
Jewish characters was
something I hadnt done
before, and I thought
people would like it. Also,
not a lot of people know
there are Jewish people
in the South. We all know
there are a lot of Jewish
people in New York and
other big cities. Not a
lot of people realize how
prominent they are in
the history of the South.
New Bern, my home-
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to premiere on April 10,

and per Netflix practice,
the entire first season will
be released on that date.
Im pretty sure that most
of you interested in
watching it already know
that it is based on the
Marvel Comics character
first created by STAN
LEE, now 92, in 1964.
Heres the basic plot:
Lawyer-by-day Matt
Murdock (played by
Charlie Cox) becomes
Daredevil. He uses his
senses, heightened
because he was blinded
as a young boy, to fight
crime on the streets of
Manhattans Hells
Kitchen at night.
One of the Daredevils main adversaries
is Wilson Fisk, aka the
Kingpin. Hes a powerful businessman in the
same neighborhood.
Fisk is played by Vincent
DOnofrio (Goren on
Law and Order: Criminal Intent). Fisks love
interest, Vanessa Marianna, is played by Israeli
actress AYELET ZURER,
45. Her past co-starring
roles include Vittoria
Vetra in Angels and Demons and Lara, Supermans mother, in Man
of Steel (2013). Veteran
actor SCOTT GLENN,
74, has a recurring role
as Stick, a mysterious
marital arts expert who
is Murdocks mentor.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Kosher or not?
Fourth-graders in Woodcliff Lake learn about kashrut
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
hrimp, flounder, anchovy. Which

one isnt kosher?
How long do you have to wait
between eating dairy and meat?
What does the OU or OK symbol on
packaged food mean?
Rather than learning the Jewish dietary
laws only from books and lectures, the 28
fourth-graders at the religious school of
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake experience kashrut via an
active curriculum devised by Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, the shuls director of congregational education.
Whether Im teaching mitzvot that
apply between person and person or
between people and God, a hands-on
approach is most important because mitzvot are things that we do, Rabbi Kniaz
said. In synagogue school, on Sunday
mornings and weekday afternoons, youre
not eating. So I had to find another way to
make kashrut hands on and experiential.
The four-stage process begins with primary sources in English translation. Once
t h e c h i l d r e n h av e
learned which animals the Torah deems
kosher and and which
non-kosher, they sort
stuffed animals accordingly, one group sorting land animals and
the other water animals. (This fun innovation was introduced by Temple Emanuel
teacher Ira Brandwein a few years ago.)
Next, they examine how rabbinic law
developed based on Torah verses such
as the separation of milk and meat deriving from the prohibition against seething a
kid in its mothers milk, or how to slaughter an animal as painlessly as possible
and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of these rabbinic enactments. They
learn an aspect of kindness to animals,
being aware of their feelings and needs,
for example.
Focusing on the Torahs only stated reason for keeping kosher that it makes the
practitioner holy they discuss the benefits of self-discipline in other arenas, such
as training for a sport or learning to play
piano.
Finally, the children make a field trip to
the Woodcliff Lake A&P for a hechsher
hunt, finding kosher-certified ingredients
to use as they prepare a Sunday brunch
for their parents. The A&P has cooperated
Amy Fuchs of Upper Saddle River, a 4th-grade parent, looks at labels with some students from Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valleys religious school. Inset: Sam Shulman, at left, and Max Dryerman inspect
a package.
with the shul for six
years, making sure
there is a kosher version in stock for every
item on the grocery
list. Each group of kids
also buys a few items for the Jewish Federations food pantry.
The following Wednesday, the children
cook with parent volunteers, Rabbi Kniaz
said. They make blintz souffl, ziti, quiche,
brownies, and Rice Krispie treats, and on
Sunday they prepare a fresh salad nioise
and serve the brunch so they can enjoy the
fruits of their labors.
At the brunch, the kids teach their parents what they have learned through raps,
skits, and games such as Are You Smarter
Than a Fourth-Grader?
Robyn Reifman of Upper Saddle River has
had three children go through the curriculum. She said that they all have enjoyed it.
When I first heard about this program,
I thought it was a great way for the kids
to learn about keeping kosher and how to
identify kosher foods, she said. I think the
hands-on experience they had shopping for
food in the supermarket, and then cooking
it, really reinforced their learning in a fun
and practical way.
Like most of the synagogues member

families, the Reifmans do not observe the
Jewish dietary laws. Although we do not
keep kosher at home, this program was
wonderful in that it taught our children
a great deal about the practice of keeping
kosher and what it entails, Ms. Reifman
said.
Rabbi Kniaz said that some families opt
to follow up the curriculum with a kosher
week, during which they might eat out at
a kosher restaurant, buy kosher meat, or
separate meat and dairy. Over the years
she has been teaching the course, some
families even made a lasting commitment
to kashrut, though this is not the goal of
curriculum.
Were not telling families, You should
be doing this. The point is that were
doing what were supposed to do providing the children with a quality Jewish education. Theres no way to understand the
how and why of kashrut without doing it,
she says. I didnt grow up keeping kosher
and when I became observant I thought I
understood it intellectually, but you really
dont until you do it.
Also, the children will make choices of
their own as adults, and they should make
informed choices. Generally parents are
very open to that.

Rachel Rimland, whose daughter Leah
is a fourth-grader, says she was thrilled to
learn about the program, particularly the
interactive nature of the curriculum, and
adds that even though she does not intend
to make her kitchen kosher, the program
raised her familys level of awareness
about kashrut.
As a family, we found the notion of selfdiscipline to be very informative, says Ms.
Rimland, of Upper Saddle River. Even if
we chose not to apply it to our eating habits, it does resonate in many other aspects
of our lives. Leah is an animal lover so she
was particularly interested in learning
about how the animals are treated with
respect and minimizing their pain.
Rabbi Kniaz does similar hands-on
activities for other grades and other mitzvot. Throughout, we work a lot in pairs
classmates teaching classmates and in
many cases bringing parents in and teaching them what they learned.
Formerly, Rabbi Kniaz served as a writer
and trainer for Project ETGAR, a curriculum for Conservative synagogue schools
in use throughout the country, and as
assistant director of the United Synagogue
Department of Education.
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Eleven schools. One message.

Federation video highlights cornerstone role of area Jewish education
LARRY YUDELSON
his is where Jewish

community begins,
says a woman with a
broad smile, as children walk down a locker-lined school hallway behind her.
What follows is a video of many brief
scenes. Cuts follow fast and furious, as
children and adults recite lines that in less
than five minutes tell the story of the Jewish day schools of northern New Jersey.
The film is the latest product of an ongoing marketing collaboration between the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
and the areas 11 Jewish day schools.
There are two audiences for the
video, said Linda Scherzer, who leads the
day school marketing project and wrote
the videos script.
Theres the part of the community thats
very familiar with the day schools and
already sends its children there.
We want them to know the value we as
A gallery of students is featured in a video about the 11 day schools in the area
served by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
a federation place on these schools, Ms.
Scherzer said. Were saying to our day
school parents and our day school community that we understand you to be the
cornerstone of the community, where we

create the next generation of leaders.
The second audience is the non-day
school community. We want them to
understand what these schools are about.

Were trying to take the mystery out of the
schools for the wider community, she
said.
The goal is not recruiting new students
though if some parents of preschoolers
watch the video and consider day school
as an option, that would be nice, Mrs.
Scherzer said. Rather, we want the nonday school community to understand the
value of these schools, she continued.
That these are state-of-the-art institutions where Jewish values begin at morning meeting.
We want to lift the hood off of the day
schools and show the community their
overall academic excellence and social
impact, said Scott Leibowitz, the federations managing director of marketing and
communications.
The video talks of day schools as conveying Jewish values and continuity and
basketball. It spotlights students who have
won science, math, and stock-picking
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JFNNJ Holocaust commemoration

retains tradition, adds new insight
Keynote speaker will discuss biological implications of trauma
LOIS GOLDRICH
here is something particularly

meaningful about hearing the
stories of individual survivors.
Allyn Michaelson and Rosalind Melzer, longtime organizers of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys annual Holocaust commemoration
and this years co-chairs, have interviewed some 85 survivors, compiling
their stories for these events.
Finding survivors is getting harder,
Ms. Michaelson said, noting that as survivors age, its more difficult for them
to go through the interview process and
then show up at the programs. In addition, many have already told their stories, while others have chosen not to do
so.
Were also running into survivors who
were very young at the time of the Holocaust, she said. In fact, one of the people who will be honored at the April 16
ceremony was 2 years old when he was
placed on a kindertransport with his
brother and sister.
The stories of the survivors this
year including Gregory Abraizov of Fair
Lawn, Siegmar Silber of Paterson, Mali
Janower of Monsey, N.Y., Miryam Suserman of Hackensack, Bella Miller of
Wanaque, and Abe Citrin of Fair Lawn
vary widely. Mr. Abraizov fought in the
Russian army, while Ms. Suserman was
caught in the Paris Velodrome d Hiver,
a Nazi-directed raid and mass arrest of
Jews in Paris by the French police in July
1942.
She was then sent to a concentration
camp, where she lost her mother and
brother, Ms. Michaelson said. She went
What: JFNNJ Holocaust
Commemoration
Where: Beth Rishon, 585 Russell Ave.,
Wyckoff
When: April 16 at 6:30 p.m.
through the system herself.

As is customary, this years program,
marking the 72nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, will feature local
teenagers reading survivors stories. As
their stories are read, each survivor will
light a memorial candle.
While the program will follow the
order set in earlier years, Ms. Michaelson
believes each part of the ceremony has
a particular value. For example, a childrens candle procession with 72 yahrzeit candles borne aloft by children from
local schools and synagogues is not just
a decorative element, she said.
Jewish children are the survivors victory, she said, adding that this gives
them an opportunity to take part, not
just as spectators. She also pointed out
that the JFNNJ Holocaust commemoration embraces towns from Cliffside Park
to Kinnelon.
She pointed out that more than 500
people attend the event each year. Its
always so powerful to hear the narration, especially from young voices, she
said.
This year, program organizers have
added closed captioning. As survivors
age and their hearing declines, they
say that they cant hear and understand.
Its really hard to get good readers, she
added, even through program planners
choose the readers carefully. Since Wyckoff s Beth Rishon where the program
will be held has television screens, it
can include closed captions.
This is the first time were doing this,
Ms. Michaelson said.
The guest speaker for the evening,
psychologist/neurobiologist Dr. Rachel
Yehuda, has a special connection to one
of the survivors.
When I was interviewing Sig Silber,
his wife, Norma, showed us a flier from
a program where they heard Dr. Yehuda
speak, Ms. Michaelson said. Sigs sister,
Zilla, was a case study for Dr. Yehuda. He
discovered that only during the talk. He
difficult to make invisible

wanted that to be known.
wounds visible, she said.
Dr. Yehuda, director of
If you can look inside the
the traumatic stress studies division at Mt. Sinai
DNA and spot a physical
School of Medicine, will
change, it validates something most people have
discuss How the Trauma
suspected.
of the Holocaust is Genetically Transmitted from
For years, people who
Survivors to Subsequent
were exposed to trauma
Generations.
have said theyre not the
A professor of psychiasame person as before
try and neurobiology who
Dr. Rachel Yeduda
the event. We havent had
has written more than
stress biology to help us
300 papers and edited 10 volumes on
understand that. People generally say
biological studies of PTSD and the inter[about a trauma] that we get over things
generational transmission of trauma
and the body goes back to normal. This
and PTSD, Dr. Yehuda noted that recent
scientific breakthrough allows us to talk
research has found that adult children of
about what was transformed by the experience. And the effects can be transmitted to children.
This is not necessarily negative, she
said. Its meant to prepare the next generation somehow as best as they can be
prepared. The question is whether the
preparation is appropriate or not appropriate. It depends on the environmental
context.
Ms. Michaelson said that Dr. Yehudas
talk is not just relevant to survivors but
to second and third generations. This validates what theyve always felt.
The evening also will include a welcome from JFNNJs president, Dr. Zvi
Marans, and from Beth Rishons Rabbi
ALLYN MICHAELSON
Kenneth Emert. The shuls Cantor Ilan
Mamber and members of the Beth Rishon
Holocaust survivors appear to be more
choir will perform, as will Cantor David
susceptible to depression and anxiety,
Perper of Mahwahs Beth Haverim/Shir
but may also have more finely tuned
Shalom. Allen Zaks will offer the second
mechanisms for detecting and coping
generation response. Cantor Mamber will
with danger.
lead the prayer El Maleh Rachamim,
Ill make it easy, she said of her preand his father, who is 100 years old and
sentation. It wont be too scientific.
left Europe in the early 1930s for Israel,
She noted that children of Holocaust
will lead Kaddish.
survivors have been saying for years that
Before the program, a photo exhibit
they were affected by the Holocaust, a
curated by Rabbi Wallace Green that is
trauma experienced by their parents.
at the Fair Lawn Public Library, will be
She will speak about the intergeneraon display at Beth Rishon. The exhibits
tional effects of the Holocaust. Its
theme is liberation.
Jewish children
are the survivors
victory this
gives them an
opportunity to
take part,
not just as
spectators.
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It was really sweet to be in those schools and
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the film. The production took 15 days.
When you set up filming, generally youre going
to try to keep it as little work as possible. You want
everyone in one location. For this, however, we made
a big commitment to go to all the locations, he said.
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and community and the Jewish day schools being the
cornerstones of the Jewish community, he said.
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on the phone, after the wedding of one of his grandchildren, I got the impression of
an extremely sweet man with a wonderful demeanor who is thankful for all
that he has and was marveling in the
fact that another grandson, this one a
rabbi, had officiated at the wedding.
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Mr. Kleinbergs harrowing tale of surviving the Holocaust is filled with twists of
fate. As he says, a number of miracles
have brought him to where he is today.
Mr. Kleinberg was born in Starachowice, a small town in central Poland,
the youngest of 10 children. His first
encounter with fate came when he
was 3, in 1928, when an uncle tried to
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them to emigrate to the United States.
Unfortunately, the doors to the States
were closed, so he went to Toronto and
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to Warsaw, though, there had been an
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When: April 16, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.;
reception for survivors and their
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Where: Teaneck High School, 100
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immigrants for the disease. Because

Howards father was of slight build and
under the weight limit, they told his
mother that she could come with the
children, but that Mr. Kleinberg could
join them later. Not wanting to leave
her husband, Mrs. Kleinberg opted to
send the four oldest children by themselves. She would go later, with the rest
of the family, she thought. As fate had
it, Canada then closed its doors. Of the
remaining Kleinberg children and their
parents, Howard was the only one to
survive the war.
Anti-Semitism began to surface in
Poland in the 1920s, as the Christian
clergy, who controlled many of the
schools, painted Jews as Christ killers
and spread rumors of blood libel. As a
5-year-old, Howard looked forward to
his first day of school, and went in his
finest clothes only to be beaten and
bloodied there by a gang of older students. It was his first real taste of the
plague that would dominate the next 15
years of his life.
In 1938 as rumblings about atrocities in Germany began to circulate, the
local Poles took the cue and began beating Jews in the streets. When Germany
invaded Poland in 1939, the Jews were
forced into factory labor. Life as they
knew it ceased to exist. In the middle of
1941, the Germans created ghettos in the
center of the city and rounded up all of
the Jews, forcing them to live together,
sometimes 20 people in a one-bedroom
apartment. When they decided to empty
the ghettos and send the Jews to concentration camps, they began a selection
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Parents were
separated from
their children
and sent to
Treblinka. It was
the last time I
saw my parents.
process, choosing only the able-bodied
people to work in the factories. We
thought that we could stay together as
long we worked in the factory, but in
October of 1942, we were awoken to the
sounds of dogs barking and bullhorns
blaring telling everyone to get out of
their apartments with just the clothes on
their back, Mr. Kleinberg said. Parents
were separated from their children and
sent to Treblinka. It was the last time I
saw my parents.
As the younger ones were shepherded
to another factory, they were made
to run on the roads and witnessed the
local Poles applauding their misery.
They dehumanized you and took away
all of your self-esteem, he said. If you
didnt run fast enough, you were shot,
and to prove their point, they randomly
shot six people as we started to leave the
town. Mr. Kleinbergs group was sent to
a camp named after the notorious Hermann Goering. The Germans made
everyone line up every morning, and if
one person was missing or escaped, they
would kill 20 of us. We were given a tin
and a slice of bread with some water to
last us an entire day, and if you could
find a paper bag from the cement, that
became your insulation.
Due to pestilence and unsanitary
conditions, many people died of starvation, and others, like Mr. Kleinberg,
came down with typhus. It was January, 1943 and the commander was
doing a health inspection, he said.
I knew that if he saw me, I would be
killed, so I hid in the back in the snow,
and he passed me by. The next morning, miraculously, the typhus went
away. The SS finally took over the
camp. There were too many prisoners
dying, and they needed the manpower.
Mr. Kleinberg spent the last two
years of the war going from one concentration camp to another, including
Auschwitz and Mathausen, eventually
arriving in Bergen-Belsen. The war was
coming to an end, and even though
much of the work ceased in BergenBelsen, the prisoners were starved, and
many died out in the yards. One of Mr.
Kleinbergs jobs was to take blankets
and drag corpses into a pile. As his own
health deteriorated, he could no longer
stand. Instead, he lay down among the
bodies, waiting to die.
Then the next miracle occurred.
The British had liberated the camps.
A young woman, who had been in the
womens section of the camp, saw Howard lying there. She couldnt believe he
still was alive. She and a friend helped
nurse him to health; then a British
soldier took him to a hospital, where
he recuperated for six months. Both
he and the young woman independently made it to Toronto, where they
reunited. Howard Kleinberg married
Nechama Baum, the woman who saved
his life. Today Nancy, as she is now
called, and Howard Kleinberg have
been married for more than 65 years
and celebrate holidays with children
and grandchildren.
We, the members of the Teaneck
Holocaust Commemoration Committee, search each year to find survivors
to bear witness to the atrocities of the
Today Nancy
and Howard
Kleinberg have
been married
for more than
65 years and
celebrate
holidays with
children and
grandchildren.
Shoah and speak to the community, so
that their stories are never forgotten.
As the numbers of survivors diminish,
we count our blessings as we continue
to have survivors speak at our event,
which will take place this year on April
16 at Teaneck High School. It is a privilege that all in the community should
take advantage of.
Steve Fox is co-chair of the Teaneck
Holocaust Commemoration Committee
and of the Teaneck Holocaust Memorial
Committee. He can be reached at
foxy555@aol.com.
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Stephen Flatow remembers his murdered daughter Alisa
JOANNE PALMER
hen you ask attorney Stephen Flatow of

West Orange how many children he has,
his answer is immediate.
I have five children, he says.
Not surprising. What father doesnt know how many
children he has?
And how are they doing?
Four of them are flourishing; they are all married and all
parents. Mr. Flatow and his wife, Rosalyn, have 13 grandchildren, and another ones on the way. (And three of the
Flatows children live in Bergen County.)
But the fifth, his oldest, Alisa, was murdered by terrorists when she was 20; her 20th yahrzeit was last week. She
has been dead as long as she was alive.
Just because she isnt there now, that doesnt mean Im
not her father, he said. I just dont have any recent pictures of her to show.
It is her death that galvanized Mr. Flatow, 66, a warm,
rumpled, silver-haired, avuncular, direct man, to take on
Islamic Jihad, its sponsor, Iran, and even his own government. As he made the kinds of friends and gained the kind
of supporters he never would have known otherwise, he
came to learn more and more about how terrorism works.
Its all about the money, he said. Just as blood feeds a
tumor, money feeds the cancer that is terrorism. Figure
out a way to starve the flow of money, and youll begin to
starve the terrorists as well.
That is very hard-earned knowledge.
Alisa was blown up on a bus in 1995. A graduate of
the Frisch School in Paramus and a student at Brandeis
A much younger Stephen Flatow gives his

daughter Alisa a piggyback ride.
University, she was spending a year in Israel, and had

taken the bus to the beach in Gaza. Her parents had laid
down some rules for her no buses from place to place in
the city, no traveling alone and she had followed them.
But her murderers didnt care.
When Alisa was in the hospital, dying of her wounds,
her parents flew to Israel and donated her organs, thus
saving other peoples lives and also giving a huge boost to
cadaveric organ donation in the Jewish community.
When they returned home, though, they had to resume
their lives, with a huge smoldering sinkhole gaping at
them. It wasnt easy.
I dont subscribe to the theory that God only gives us
things we can handle, Mr. Flatow said. He had thought
about that idea often, because it was so often offered to
him in consolation. The mother of another victim had
killed herself, he said, so that truism clearly was not true
for her. But one of the things that we were lucky with
was the support we received from the community, both
in the immediate aftermath and in the weeks and months
thereafter.
He and his wife also tried a group called Compassionate
Friends; the meeting was at a synagogue, but the group
was not Jewish. They found it both moving and useful.
They listened to parents stories of losing their children
on the parkways, to cancer, to drug overdoses, to automobile accidents. And then they came to us, and I said,
Our daughter was murdered in a terrorist attack.
Everybody gasped. Then the meeting became all
about them, which he found helpful then but could not
do more than once. It drained too much attention away
from everyone else, and focused too much on them. So
that was our last meeting.
Still, he found the groups newsletter useful. Although
the holidays about which it gave practical advice tended to
be Christmas and Easter, still the advice was smart, practical, and easily transferable.
Once Alisa died, her father changed. First, he began a
volunteer career as a public speaker, flying all over the
country to talk to Jewish groups about Alisa. He and his
family endowed the Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship,
and they endowed a program in Alisas memory at Nishmat in Israel. He threw himself into fundraising for these
programs, and for Israel.
He also pursued legal remedies. Senator Frank Lautenberg, the Democrat who represented New Jersey, sponsored legislation that allowed American citizens to receive
punitive damages from foreign countries. At a trial in 1998,
we introduced evidence that established that Alisas murder was done by Islamic Jihad, and that Iran sponsored
Islamic Jihad, he said. Those financial connections, and
the fact that Alisa and her family both suffered, resulted
in the familys being awarded $247.5 million in damages,
most of them punitive. These people are not heroes.
They are not martyrs. They are traitors to the human
race, the New York Times quoted Mr. Flatow as saying
after the judgment was announced. We call upon the
people of the world who, like us, refuse to be intimidated
by what happened to Alisa. We call upon them to say
Enough blood shed such as this.
We saw 10 percent of money, Mr. Flatow said last
week. The other 90 percent of it is out there. We are still
trying to hold the Iranians feet to the fire, but it doesnt
look like well be successful.
Steve Flatow and his daughter Alisa.

In 1999, he and his allies identified an office building
in New York City that was owned by a charity, and we said
that it was actually a front for the Iranian government.
But the federal government fought us tooth and nail.
It wasnt in the U.S. governments interest to have private citizens, no matter how well intentioned and no matter how grotesquely aggrieved, fighting Iran in court. The
government felt that such private fights would curtail its
own options and disrupt necessary diplomacy. The Flatows lost that case; last year, though, a court in Brooklyn
disagreed. In the BNP Bank Paribas case, ownership of
the Manhattan building was traced to Iran, and the bank,
which had scrubbed that connection from its books, was
ordered to pay a $8.9 billion fine.
For most of us, thats an unbelievable amount of
money, Mr. Flatow said. For a bank, its not so much.
The banks interest is not in terrorism, he said. Its
profit.
He feels strongly that sanctions, such as the ones that
have been levied against Iran, and will be lifted if President Obamas deal with Iran is ratified which he does
not like work, but you have to be at it long enough.
Sanctions work because they cut off the flow of cash.
A country has to determine if it will improve its roads
and its schools and make its citizens lives better, or if it
will use it to kill innocent civilians to advance a different
purpose.
Mr. Flatow was born in Middle Village, Queens. My
father was a salesman, he said. He used to sell ice cream
cones, paper cups, and supplies to Dairy Queens, in stores
like that. Gil Flatows territory was northern New York
State, beginning in Westchester and Rockland counties,
some 40 miles away, so it made sense for the family to
move further north.
They ended up in Monsey.
He remembers the day that the family went to look at
the Rockland County town. It was 1959, I was 11, my parents were both smoking like chimneys. There was no ventilation in the car. My sister sat between my brother and
me and put her head in her lap. She was feeling very sick.
The trip ended in a development, where my father was
driving very slowly, and my mother had her head out the
window at a weird angle.
She was looking for mezuzahs.
There were many marked doorposts, so the family put
down a five percent deposit on the house, which cost
$21,000.
Then Fay Flatow had to learn to drive. Her car was a
Local
1949 Oldsmobile, with no power steering. She was
short and thin, my mother, but she was an ox, and she
had a cigarette in her mouth, with the ashes falling
down, grasping at the wheel of the car.
The family was Jewishly involved; once they moved,
they joined Temple Beth El in Spring Valley, which had
an excellent rabbi, Louis Frishman, who was influential in Mr. Flatows life. He also was the father of
Rabbi Elyse Frishman, who leads Barnert Temple in
Franklin Lakes.
The family did not become Orthodox until Alisa
prodded them into it. She always was strong-willed,
her father remembered fondly, and she always felt a
deep pull toward Judaism. When she was a small child,
she demanded to be sent to a Jewish kindergarten
rather than a public one, and her parents complied.
As she became more and more immersed in the Jewish
world, her family followed her there. Now, it is their
home.
Mr. Flatow went to Long Island University in Southampton, and then to Brooklyn Law School. He got
married in 1969 Rosalyn Packett, his bride, grew up
as a member of the Bergenfield Dumont Jewish Center
in Bergenfield. After graduation and after being designated as 4F undraftable by the Vietnam War-era
draft board for a condition that caused him to develop
infections in the nerve canals in the small of his back
Mr. Flatow went into the title insurance business. It
turned out that he liked it. I love what I do, he said.
I am very lucky.
I love the problem-solving part of it. You see a
problem, you figure out how to solve the problem. It
was that approach, in fact, that helped him as he dug
into the problem of how Islamic Jihad was financed,
and how Iran finances other terrorist groups.
Although he is a lawyer, he said, he did not function
as a lawyer during any of the trials. Its not his expertise. But he did use his skills as a researcher to follow
the money.
Mr. Flatow has used his strong understanding that
he still has that he always will have five children
to great rhetorical effect. During the trial against the
Iranian government, my attorney said, You were the
father of Alisa Flatow, and I said, No.
They looked at me, startled.
I said I am her father.
The judge, Royce Lamberth, looked away, and my
attorney, Stephen Perles his eyes welled up.
The day before, he had gone through questions
he might ask me. Not answers, just questions. But
he hadnt phrased the question in the same way that
he did at the trial, and he assumed that he knew the
answer.
That got the trial off to a good start, Mr. Flatow
said.
In the 20 years since Alisas death, Mr. Flatow has
learned to live with it. He smiles, he laughs, he is
warm. He is deeply connected to the Jewish world,
to Jews, and to Israel. He loves his work. He can be
happy.
Life goes on, he said. I still think about Alisa
every day. I dont say she is my driving force, but she
plays a big role in my life, along with my other four
kids, my 16 grandkids, my wife. She is present.
It is as if she is here.
He imagines her happy, wherever she is now. He
remembers the smile that seemed to be her permanent expression. I think that it is her job to accompany other souls, to make their transition easier, he
said. And he smiles too.
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At home in Beit Shean

Ridgewood woman on Israel Teaching Fellows program falls in love with the region
MELISSA J. CHARTOFF
f someone told me a year and a half ago that I would

move to Israel for 10 months, I am pretty confident I
would not believe them.
And if someone told me I would be living in a town
called Beit Shean, I am not even sure I would know what
language they were speaking.
The connection I developed with Israel started after a
Taglit-Birthright Israel trip in December 2013. Like so many
other young Jewish Americans, this was my first exposure
to Israel. However, I did not anticipate the effect this place
would have on me at all. In the trips 10 short days I fell in
love with so many aspects of the country: the landscapes
and natural beauty, the food, the culture, the lifestyle, and
the people.
After returning to New Jersey, I knew that I had to find
a way to get back to Israel for longer than ten days. With a
simple Google search of teaching English in Israel I came
across the Israel Teaching Fellows website. There are a lot
of subsidized programs available to get to Israel, but ITF was
by far the most intriguing to me. I submitted my first application and that was when the most exciting time of my life
began.
ITF works in eight cities around Israel, focusing in the
periphery and on areas with overcrowded schools. Applicants are free to choose the city they want to work in at the
beginning of the interview process. I was not very familiar
with any of the cities but I knew I wanted to be in the north.
I requested an interview with the coordinator in Netanya,
a beach city between Haifa and Tel Aviv, with not much
else to base my decision on other than location. By the end
of our Skype interview, we had talked mostly about Beit
Shean and how it would probably be a better fit for me.
Beit Shean was already on my radar because of its location,
so I switched gears and began the process of speaking with
the coordinator here. I cannot imagine how different my
experience would have been if I had ended up in Netanya.
In the months leading up to my departure, most people
I talked to usually had little to no knowledge of Beit Shean.
What I did hear over and over again was that it was hot. It
is a very small city with about 20,000 residents and I have
even come across Israelis who had never heard of it. Many
people asked, and still ask, why I would choose to come to
Beit Shean for 10 months.
At first, I didnt have much of an answer to this question except Why not? After living here for six and a half
months I truly feel at home in this city and could not be
happier with my decision.
When I arrived in Beit Shean in September I immediately
understood what everyone was talking about when they
said that this place was hot. Beit Shean is in the Valley of
Springs in Israels lower Galilee region, and it is surrounded
by about 40 natural springs. In my opinion, Gan HaShlosha National Park (Sachne) beats the beach any day. In the
winter, the hills in the area are green and lush and covered
with colorful wildflowers. The natural landscapes here are
just stunning.
When I decided to come to Israel, it was very important to
me to learn Hebrew. There are formal ulpan classes as part
of the ITF program but little did I know that living in Beit
Shean is basically a 24/7 ulpan. The city is not as Americanized as most of the bigger cities in Israel, and not a lot of
English is spoken here. I was forced into a Hebrew mindset
from the first week that I was here and it has been the best
A hilltop awash in wildflowers overlooks Beit Shean in the Valley of Springs in the lower Galilee, where
Melissa Chartoff, inset, is spending 10 months.
way to pick up the language. A trip to the supermarket during my first month here was quite an adventure, but now I
am (almost) as comfortable there as I am in any ShopRite!
The majority of my time is spent teaching English in elementary schools. I had never taught formally before, and
even after an intense introduction to the field, I really do
enjoy it. I work in three different elementary schools, so I
am lucky enough to know a lot of children around town. The
Israeli and American school systems are vastly different in
many ways but the children here are some of the sweetest,
most energetic and caring that I have ever met. There is

nothing better than the dozens of hugs I receive every day
and hearing my name called out on the street after school
hours. It is so gratifying to see genuine excitement from the
students when I work with them; it has really validated the
work I am doing and the impact I have on the community.
In addition to teaching, I spend some time volunteering
in town. I was thrilled to find out that there was an opportunity to volunteer at the citys biggest tourist attraction,
the Beit Shean National Park, as an English-speaking guide.
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There are Roman ruins in Beit Shean National Park.
I have a background in tourism so this

was a natural fit for me. It was not long
until I became acquainted with the organization Partnership2Gether (P2G) and
their offices have become like a second
home. P2G is a local organization that
works closely with the Jewish Federation
in Cleveland, Beit Sheans sister city.
When you live in Beit Shean, it does not
take very long to realize how strong the
connection between the two cities is. I
have had some amazing experiences and
opportunities at both volunteer locations and being able to work in the tourism field has really provided such a wellrounded experience.
Without a doubt, my time in Israel has
been the best and most exciting experience of my life. I have learned, grown
and changed so much from this amazing
country and the people here. Even on
my first trip to Israel, I felt completely at
home but the community of Beit Shean
has welcomed me in a way that I could
never have imagined. I am lucky enough
to have a host family that I have truly
bonded with, and I now have the little
sisters I never had but always wanted!
Some of the warmest hospitality I have
ever received has happened right here in
this city, and it has yet to falter. I wonder
if there is something in the water of these
natural springs that makes everyone so
sincerely generous. There is never a shortage of invitations to join a local family for
Shabbat and other holidays. I have had
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A pastorial, semi-tropical scene

from Gan HaShlosha National Park.
the best time making new friends, eating

amazing food and I truly have a feeling of
family here even though I am so far away
from my own. I look forward to the new
experiences that wait for me in the last
three months of the program, but it will
not be easy to say goodbye to this community that has become my second home
and the people have become family.
Melissa J. Chartoff is from Ridgefield, and a
graduate of Temple University.
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Barnett Buzz
Rukin
Stephanie and Barry Kissler
Lisa and Adam Grossman
YJCC spring gala to honor leaders

for service and volunteering
The Bergen County YJCC will hold its
annual spring gala on Thursday, April 30,
at Temple Emanu-el in Closter. The gala
begins at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails and will
be followed by the program, dinner and
dancing.
Stephanie and Barry Kissler will be
honored as Couple of the Year, Barnett
Buzz Rukin will be recognized with the
Community Builder award and Lisa and
Adam Grossman have been named the
years Young Leaders. An ad journal will
be published in conjunction with the dinner. Funds raised help support YJCC programs and services to its members and the
community.
Barry Kissler has served on the YJCC
board for many years and he has been its
secretary. He is also liaison to Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and co-chair
of the YJCCs capital campaign. Stephanie
Kissler is a regular volunteer, including
serving lunch to YJCC senior adults weekly.
They also are leaders and supporters of
other community organizations, including Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, Center for Hope and Safety (formerly
Shelter Our Sisters), Israel Bonds, Valley
Chabad, AIPAC, and the Jewish Home.
Barnett Buzz Rukin dates his connection to the YJCC back to his childhood,
when his parents were involved with
the YM-YWHA in Hackensack. The YJCC

Nursery School bears the Rukin name
the David Rukin Early Childhood Center as a tribute to his parents. Over the
past 35 years, he has held many positions
at the YJCC, including endowment and
search committee chair, board member
and president. He was Man of the Year in
1986. In the community, he has served as
a board member for the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, a member of the
Cornell University Council and vice chair
of the Valley Hospital Foundation. He is a
trustee of the Valley Hospital System and
a board member of Valley National Bank.
Lisa and Adam Grossman have been
active volunteers and fundraisers for the
YJCC since they moved to the area 10 years
ago. Lisa volunteered for fundraiser committees benefiting the nursery school and
YJCC and was chair of the Nursery School
Parent Association. She also was a member of the YJCC board. Adam Grossman
has been a member of special committees
and various fundraising campaigns. Lisa
recently concluded a two-year term on
the Wandell School Education Foundation
board of directors in Saddle River.
For information, call Ashley Warren at
(201) 666-6610, ext. 5832, or email her at
awarren@yjcc.org.
Israel Bonds dinner recognizes

the Jaffes and the Yagodas
State of Israel Bonds will honor Bunny
and Leon Jaffe, members of the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, and Shoshana and Will
Yagoda, members of Congregation Beth
Tefillah in Paramus, at the JCCP/CBT on

Sunday, April 19, at 5:15 p.m. There will be
a reception and dinner. For reservations,
email marc.rosen@israelbonds.com.
Motorcycle ride will be scenic

The Chai Riders will offer its first ride
of the season on Sunday, April 26. Registration, along with a bagel-and-lox
breakfast, is from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in the
parking lot of Temple Beth Sholom of
Fair Lawn. Events include a poker run
through Bergen County, five stops along
a scenic route with refreshments served
along the way, a barbecue lunch after the

ride, and raffles and prizes.
For information, call Dr. Charlie
Knapp at (201) 791-4161 or email him at
FL2THMAN@aol.com. The synagogue is
at 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave., corner of Saddle
River Road.
This years Lavish Lunch committee: Jennifer Schiffman, Michel Ross, Erica
Rivera, Lorin Cook, Dana Baumgarten, Lindsay Epstein, Alissa Epstein, Brandi
Rubin, Merle Fish and Amy Zagin.
COURTESY JCCOTP
Kaplen JCC fundraising event

proves to be a moveable feast
More than 300 women attended the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades culinary
adventure, Lavish Lunches, a program
that raises money to support essential
JCC programs and services for senior
adults in the community.
This years adventure began with a
light breakfast at the home of Lindsay
and Josh Epstein, where culinary expert
Franklin Becker shared tips on how to
use simple ingredients to create dishes
that are healthy and delicious. Participants sampled one of his favorite recipes.
At the breakfast, the son of a JCC
senior center participant spoke about
his fathers experience in the JCC Adult
Reach Center, a welcoming program
where his dad just celebrated his 105th
birthday.
Later, guests went on to enjoy an
appetizing Lavish Lunch, served in more
than a dozen local homes and venues,
where hosts and hostesses provided a

unique dining experience.
Event proceeds will support programs
that allow seniors to age in place successfully and remain engaged and connected
to their community. They include social
adult day care for people with Alzheimers disease and dementia; programming
for active retirees; door-to-door transportation in wheelchair accessible vehicles; breakfasts and hot kosher lunches;
programs for the arts; lectures and concerts; discussions on current affairs; gardening, music and exercise; sing-alongs
and dancing; birthday and holiday celebrations; and intergenerational programs with nursery school children.
Alissa Epstein and Michele Ross cochaired the program, and Artistic Tile,
Marcias Attic, Salon Pavel, SeeSaw,
and all the hosts and hostesses were
sponsors.
OU International Jewish Communities

schedules home and job relocation fair
The Orthodox Union will hold its fifth
International Jewish Communities
Home and Job Relocation Fair on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 6 p.m. at a
new and larger location, Metropolitan
West, 639 West 46th St., across from the
Intrepid, in Manhattan.
In addition to representation from a
record 45 communities from 22 states
coast to coast, the State of Israel will be
represented by OU Israel and Nefesh
bNefesh, to answer questions from people thinking of making aliyah.
The fair highlights growing and thriving
communities across the United States that
have the amenities of Orthodox life, at a
lower cost of living than in the New York
area, as well as substantial employment
opportunities for newcomers. Amenities
include Orthodox synagogues, yeshivot/
day schools, mikvaot, Judaica stores, and
easily available kosher food.
New Jersey communities represented
The OU fairs provide a wealth of

information.
at the fair include Paramus, Fair Lawn,

Cherry Hill, East Brunswick, Linden,
Long Branch, Manalapan, Springfield,
Twin Rivers, and West Orange.
For information, call Hannah Farkas,
the OUs assistant director of synagogue
and community services, at (212) 6138351, or email her at hannahf@ou.org.
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Yom Hashoah
esach falls when it falls on the 15th day

of Nisan, when the moon is full, hanging
low and seeming close to us.
We know that because the Bible tell us so.
Yom Hashoah, on the other hand, is not divinely
mandated in fact, you could make the strong argument that its origins come from the other direction,
the pits of hell. But in fact it was created to fall close
to the anniversary of the revolt of the Warsaw ghetto,
the evening of Passover 1943, and just a week before
Yom Hazikaron, when we remember Israels fallen
heroes, and Yom Haatzmaut, when we switch from
sorrow to joy as we celebrate Israels independence.
So this is a very complicated time for Jews. We
start counting the Omer on the second day of Passover, counting down toward Shavuot. That sequence
is biblically ordained, going from slavery to redemption to acceptance of the Torah, with a little bit of
agriculture thrown in too. And during that time, and
not at all accidentally, we recall our peoples darkest
hour, and then move from that darkness to another
kind of light.
We mark Yom Hashoah here in many ways, as the
calendar on page 36 shows. Many synagogues run
programs, either separately or in partnership with
other shuls. The JCC, the federation, local yeshivas,
and many other Jewish institutions acknowledge
the day.
The Upper West Side Jewish community will
acknowledge the Shoah by reading the names of
some of the murdered Jews. The somber reading
lasts all day; it begins at shul at 10 on Wednesday
night, moves to the JCC in Manhattan at 7 in the
morning, and ends there at 9 Thursday night. (There
is more information on page 37.) That allows enough
time for only a small percentage of the names to
be read, but it rescues each name from oblivion
for at least the number of seconds it takes to say it
out loud, to have that names syllables in a readers
mouth and then on his or her lips, and then released
to the hushed air.
Almost every shul on the Upper West Side takes
part in this reading. It is one of the few times each
year when ideological differences vanish. Orthodox,
Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, unaffiliated shuls all come together. That normally would
be a great good; here, in the face of huge evil, it still
is good, but it is almost tangential.
An unimaginable number of people were slaughtered. The reading of the names, one after another
after another, endlessly but incompletely, gives us a
tiny glimpse of the enormity of the crime.
KEEPING THE FAITH
We must remember but we must keep in mind

that we cannot remember what we did not know.
One of the many tragedies of the Shoah is that there
often was no one left to remember specific victims
because whole family, villages, towns were demolished. We who were not yet born, who were a con-
What we can
remember is that they
lived, and that they
died, and that they
died because they
were Jews, and that
they and we are part
of the same people.
tinent away, cannot remember anyone who died
in the Shoah. What we can remember is that they
lived, and that they died, and that they died because
they were Jews, and that they and we are part of the
same people.
Jews in this area are particularly aware of the
Shoah because so many survivors or their children
came here. We always have had a richness of stories. They are hard to listen to they are hard to tell,
many survivors tell us but we can find them. All we
have to do is pay attention and listen.
Survivors are aging. We must listen to their stories, and when they are no longer able to tell them,
we must tell them ourselves. Those of us who are
blessed not to have had those experiences still
must find within ourselves the strength to keep
telling them.
And at the same time, we must not let ourselves
be overwhelmed by them. Our elders survived the
Holocaust because they wanted to live. They had
felt joy before the plague years, and many of them,
heroically, astoundingly, were able to feel it again,
tempered as it was by memories, images, knowledge
of what real horror looks and smells and sounds like
that no one ever should have. We must live not only
for the evil, but for the good as well.
We cannot tell only Holocaust stories. We must tell
all our stories. The survivors wanted to keep living,
and so must we.
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schoolyard, a
bloody rehearsal
t was inevitable from the moment the Mandelbaum Gate

was brought down 48 years ago.
The it in question is the sacrificing of a lamb by kohanim dressed in supposed priestly garb, complete with the
sprinkling of blood on an altar. A crowd of hundreds watched the
ceremony, which was conducted in a west Jerusalem schoolyard
on the Monday before Passover.
To be sure, the ceremony said to have been a perfect recreation of the one held in the Temple until it was destroyed 1,945
years ago was meant as a rehearsal only, to demonstrate that
the priesthood is prepared to restart the sacrificial cult the minute the government approves prayer
on the Temple Mount, according to
the events spokesman, Arnon Segal.
Segal told reporters that his group,
the Temple Mount Institute in Jerusalems Old City, even had a portable
altar ready to be set up on the Temple
Mount within minutes of a government okay.
That the government will give a
Shammai
green light to prayer on the Temple
Engelmayer
Mount is a stronger possibility today
than ever, because Israels new cabinet coalition is expected to include
at least three ministers who actively favor it. Whether such a goahead would include offering sacrifices is not so certain, although
the Temple Mount Institute seems convinced of it.
What is reasonably certain is that any attempt to offer even just
the Passover sacrifice once a year (ignoring the slew of other offerings, including the daily ones) will likely set off an Arab-Israeli war
of an intensity not yet seen since Israel became a state. Anyone
who thinks otherwise is likely to see more Jewish blood flowing
from that act than lambs blood.
Seriously, how would any of us feel if someone came to the front
door of our synagogues, killed an animal there, and then roasted
it on an open fire? Like it or not, the Temple Mount is the site of
two mosques that are considered sacred to Islam. Muslims will not
take such sacrilege with any degree of equanimity.
This is why successive Israeli governments have banned nonMuslim prayer of any kind on the Temple Mount, not just Jewish
prayer, even though a Jerusalem magistrate court ruled in March
that Jews may pray there. Israels Supreme Court also holds that
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way, but maintains that security concerns outweigh that
right.
Beyond security, there is a religious component that is
not easily ignored. Almost from the moment the Temple
Mount was seized in the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli
chief rabbinate has warned repeatedly that praying on the
site was a serious violation of Jewish law. That decision
has been reaffirmed time and again by successive Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis, along with hundreds of
other rabbis. Only one Ashkenazic chief rabbi, the late
Shlomo Goren, and one Rishon LTzion, Mordechai Eliyahu, thought otherwise.
Nationalist elements within the rabbinate have become
increasingly vocal in opposing the rabbinates decision.
Behind the ruling, however, is the total lack of certainty
about where the Temple actually stood, what its exact
measurements were, and where the Holy of Holies was
situated.
Impure people are not allowed within the inner Temple precincts. Only the high priest is allowed to enter the
Holy of Holies, and only on Yom Kippur. We do not have
a high priest at the moment. Obviously, forbidden areas
may be roped off, but no one can say for certain where
those ropes should go. In fact, no one can outline with
exactness where anything stood on the mount.
Then there is the problem of measurement. The units of
measurement we have to go by are themselves the subject
of much dispute, and have been for almost 2,000 years.
Take the cubit, the main measurement of length. Its
length is determined by the distance from a persons
elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Only, whose forearm was used for determining the Temples cubit, and
what was its length? Not knowing this led to a rabbinic
debate over a cubits length, with opinions ranging from
17-18 inches on the low side to 23-24 inches on the high
side. The most commonly accepted length is around 19.7
inches (half a meter).
To complicate matters even further, the Temple Mount
as it exists today and the mount that existed in Temple
times are of two different dimensions.
There is a reason why tradition says all of this must
await the coming of the Messiah. Presumably, he will have
the answers we cannot possibly provide today.
Beyond prayer and access, there is the whole question
of sacrifices. We may pray for their return, but are they
supposed to return?
Maimonides (the Rambam) thought not. The early Israelites were primitive people raised amidst pagan beliefs,
he argued in Guide to the Perplexed 3:32. Because it is
not possible to suddenly go from one extreme to another,
and because it was the firmly established and universal
practice at the time to conduct religious worship with animal sacrifices in temples, and people were brought up
to accept that, God in His wisdom considered it imprudent to command us to reject such practices outright,
because...human nature inclines to habit.
God, Rambam wrote, did not want to [confuse]
peoples minds by banning a familiar mode of worship,
although He could do without them.
In saying this, Rambam seems to be echoing a teaching
from the Midrash (see Leviticus Rabba 22.7-8), which says
that the Israelites were passionate followers after idolatry in Egypt and used to bring their sacrifices to the goatdemons.... The sacrificial cult was created to wean Israel
away from pagan practices.
How could midrashic sages (in this case Rabbi Pinchas
in the name of Rabbi Levi), or Rambam say such things? In
my opinion, it is because sacrifices and other cultic practices were not part of Gods original plan for Israel, and
this is provable by the Torah itself. That discussion, however, must await a future column. I have run out of room.
Thank you,
Jon Stewart
Why most of us trust him,
and why well miss him
he most trusted man in America

The reality of Jon Stewarts February 10
announcement that after 17 years he would be
leaving as host of the Daily Show on the Comedy
Central cable network did not quite hit home until the March
30 announcement that his successor would be South African
comedian Trevor Noah.
Noah, who has some Jewish ancestry, in turn was quickly
the subject of controversy surrounding some offensive tweets
he made in the past, tweets that some consider anti-Semitic,
not to mention misogynistic, and perhaps worst of all, simply
not at all funny.
But more significant is the fact that Jon Stewarts replacement is, for all intents and purposes, a nobody. A Noah-body.
And this should come as no surprise, despite all the speculation about who might succeed
him, with suggestions as varied
as Daily Show alumni such
as John Oliver, Larry Wilmore,
and John Hodgman, and comics
Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, Amy
Poehler, Tina Fey, her former
co-star Alec Baldwin, and even
MSNBC political commentator
Rachel Maddow and disgraced
Dr. Lance
NBC news anchor Brian Williams.
Strate
The simple truth is that Jon
Stewart would be a hard act to
follow. Close to impossible, really,
no matter how big the name and reputation. No established
star in his or her right mind would risk the inevitable judgments about having failed to live up to Stewarts legacy, so the
only alternative was to find someone with nothing to lose to
serve as the sacrificial lamb. Only time will tell whether Noah
will be able to survive the flood of comparisons that surely
will come his way.
But the big question is how did a nice Jewish boy, born in
New York City and raised in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, grow
up to become the most trusted man in America? The most
trusted man in America is a citation that previously was
bestowed upon the longtime CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite. That Jon Stewart seems to have inherited the title
would no doubt strike the comedian, born Jon Stewart Leibowitz, as both an honor and a disturbing commentary on the
state of journalism today. It is consistent with Neil Postmans
observation, three decades ago, that the television medium
requires entertaining content, and that journalists on television news shows cannot help but become entertainers. By
the 1990s, it became a commonplace to note that most young
people got their news from the late night monologues of Jay
Leno and David Letterman.
What set Jon Stewart apart from Leno, Letterman, and
other talk show hosts, including his predecessor on the Daily
Show, Craig Kilborn, was the depth of Stewarts humor, his
intelligence, and the incisiveness of his critique of the news
media, and the subjects they report on, especially politics.
If the fourth estate is supposed to fulfill the function of the
watchdogs of society, Stewart provided the answer to the
question of who watches the watchmen, and he has done so
with dogged determination.
Jon Stewart wore a flag coat at the Rally to Restore

Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C., on October
30, 2010.
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To be sure, on the conservative side of the political spectrum, Stewart is not quite as well trusted as he is among liberal
viewers. His political leanings are well known. As much as he
has tried to be fair and balanced in his skewering of politicians and the media personalities who cover and comment
on them, he could not help but direct a significant portion
of ire and irony at Fox News, whose often blatant attempts at
propaganda have made it all too easy a target. No doubt, given
our current political polarization, we would be hard pressed
to name someone who is equally trusted by those on the left
and the right of the political spectrum, so it is enough to say
that Stewart has gained the confidence of Americas moderates and centrists. And we also might recall that Cronkite was
denounced as too liberal in his day, especially after coming
out against the Vietnam War in 1968.
We might also recall that Cronkite was considered seriously
as a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1972,
and was urged to run for president in 1980. So it should not
come as a great surprise that following his resignation from
the Daily Show, there have been calls for Jon Stewart to run
for the Democratic presidential nomination for 2016, as the
only viable alternative to Hillary Clinton. The calls have come
from a variety of sources, including longtime television critic
and biographer Marvin Kitman, who notes, Now I realize Jon
will have to talk to his mother in Teaneck first. But Im hoping
he will put his country ahead of the cheap overnight thrill of
making just another movie. Or a better chicken soup.
Stewart run for president? Why not? After all, his friend
and colleague Stephen Colbert did it in 2007. And the Rally to
Restore Sanity and/or Fear that they co-hosted at the National
Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2010, which was attended by
more than 200,000 people, demonstrated the strength of
his popular and populist appeal, and the foundational values
on which his comedy was built. The A Moment of Sincerity
address that he gave at the close of the event was as good as
any campaign speech made by any candidate now out on the
stump. Toward its end, he declared, We know instinctively
as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back
into the light we have to work together. And the truth is, there
will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end
of the tunnel isnt the promised land. Sometimes its just New
Jersey. But we do it anyway, together.
Whether he actually runs for office, in a serious campaign
along the lines of the one run by United States Senator Al
Franken, a Saturday Night Live alumnus, or as a form of satire, as Colbert did, remains to be seen. But what is quite clear
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Reminiscing about Pesachs past

Joy can be real. Tahiti maybe not so much
assover was really a joy in our

home, and my parents made
sure that all our friends and relatives who didnt make a seder
would be at ours.
I cant remember a seder in our apartment with less than 30 guests; a four-andone-half room apartment (I never figured
out which the half room was) with all those
people, and we had a seder each night for
two nights.
All the furniture in the living room was
either pushed to the side or moved into
my parents bedroom, and we lined tables
up end to end, all the way into the den.
Each table was not only a different shape
and size they were also all different
heights. The trick was not to put a place
setting near the abutting tables. The wine
glasses were even trickier.
The seders were wonderful, and they
got better every year. My dad sat at the
head of the tables and we went around
the table, with every person participating in the reading of the Haggadah. If
you couldnt read Hebrew, you read in
English. There were exceptions that broke

the order of going around the table, when
my dad did specific parts, and the kids did
specific parts. We had plenty of non-Jews
at our seders over the years, and they participated as well. There were no exceptions to the participation rule.
To this day, I can still smell the apartment: the soup, the roast, and all. I see the
candles burning bright and I can hear the
laughter and singing that continued way
into the night as well.
When I was very young, my father would
gently nudge the table so that the wine in
Elijahs cup would shake.
You see, hed say, Elijahs drinking.
I didnt understand how he wasnt blasted
silly after a dozen homes: forget about hundreds of thousands.
Passover is very different for us now. We
no longer make the seder in our home; we
go away. There came a time when it became
a chore for my folks to schlep the dishes,
and we decided that it would be more fun
to have someone else do the work. After all,
this is the holiday that celebrates freedom,
going from slavery to freethe oceans edge, scooping

dom; slaving in the kitchen
salt water from the sea with a
doesnt exactly fit the spirit of
conch shell, pure white.
the holiday. Heres what I told
At our seder we, the youngest from each family unit,
my congregation a dozen or
stand and recite the four
so years ago:
questions. Its an interesting
Well, its almost Pesach,
sight. My mom is the youngand I look forward to spending these eight days, as Im
est of five children, and at 86
Rabbi /
sure you all do, with my famshe stands, as do I, my son
Cantor Lenny
ily and extended family, I
Wayne, his friend Jeff (who
Mandel
said. This year we will be
is 6 feet 4 inches tall) and so
reveling on the white sand
on until we get to the youngest at our seder table who is
beaches of Tahiti, swimming
now about 17.
in the azure waters of the Pacific along with
We are 31 people, singing together and
the dolphins.
reciting different parts of the Haggadah
Picture it: a seder under the palm trees,
as we go around the table. Weve made
reading the Haggadah by the light of flaming torches, the dark night sparkling with
changes to our seder, adding stories and
the lights of its jewels, the stars and the
songs, making the experience more than
moon. The natives stand staring at us with
just tradition.
awe, and wonder at the strange language
The natives standing around, smiling
we are speaking, and the even stranger
as we sing Take Me Out To The Seder
rituals we follow.
(to the tune of Take Me Out To The Ball
We need salt water so that we can dip the
Game) and Theres No Seder Like Our
potatoes, and a bare-footed server runs to
Seder (to the tune of Theres No Business
Letter from Israel: Chowing down on plants

ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
was a vegetarian wannabe for most of

my life, and when we made aliyah in
August 2007, I grabbed the opportunity to take the plunge. Introducing
myself as a vegetarian from the get-go would
ease the dietary transition, I reasoned.
And I was right. Our new friends didnt
bat an eye; a fair number of them also
eschewed meat. Dining out was never a
problem, thanks to bountiful kosher dairy
and fish restaurants in Israel. My husband
supported my decision with the caveat that
we continue serving poultry at our Shabbat
table for those like himself who prefer it. So
far, so good.
A couple of years ago, after doing extensive reading and video viewing about the
cruelty and environmental damage involved
in the dairy, egg, and fish industries not to
mention mounting scientific evidence of the
dubious nutritional value of animal foods as
they are produced today I began a gradual
shift toward veganism.
Cows milk and eggs were the first items
to go, since I always found them repulsive
anyway. Banishing cheese, yogurt, and butter from our refrigerator took some effort
for me but it didnt bother Steve, who hasnt
touched dairy in 30 years.
Like most people, I did not understand
that animal-free cuisine encompasses a
whole lot more than tofu. With the help of
a nutritionist in my HMO and friends who
Vegan shakshuka at Israels Caf Greg
share my sensibilities, Ive learned to love

tasty, nourishing, and satisfying legumes,
grains, seeds, nuts, beans, and veggies that
Id barely heard of before. Millet was once
what we fed the parakeet; now its on my
plate along with amaranth, quinoa, bulgur,
lentils, kale, goji berries, and other nutritional superfoods.
Choosing a restaurant can be tricky now.
Most dairy establishments in Israel pile
cheese on everything. Ironically, more
plentiful vegan options are available in meat
restaurants.
However, it seems that my dietary direction is shared by an increasing number of
Israelis. Fed up with factory-farming horrors, unwilling to swallow the dairy lobbys
slick ad campaigns, some 200,000 Israeli
residents (out of a population of 8 million)
now identify as tivoni, or

vegan.
Per capita, Israel stands
at the forefront of a worldwide revolution toward a
plant-based diet. Grassroots
organizations such as Vegan
Friendly are having an enormous impact on raising Israelis consciousness about what
they put in their mouths.
As a result, amazing
changes are afoot. (Amouth?).
Due to popular demand, sevELAD GUTMAN
eral caf chains now offer
vegan dishes or even a separate vegan menu. The Israeli Dominos
Pizza chain was the first in the world to
offer vegan pizza. Ive enjoyed a delectable portobello mushroom burger at Caf
Greg in Beit Shean, roasted-vegetable
shakshuka (no eggs!) at Caf Landwer in
Jerusalems Cinema City, and a wonderful chickpea omelet at Aroma here in
Maaleh Adumim.
I havent been there yet, but the Vegan
Shawarma in downtown Jerusalem is a hit
with my likeminded friends. The venerable
vegetarian Village Green in Jerusalem has
not only beefed up (sorry, couldnt resist) its
dairy and eggfree options but also recently
opened an allvegan branch in Tel Aviv.
Tel Aviv, always on trend, is brimming
with vegan eateries. Unfortunately, most
of them are not under the supervision of
the Tel Aviv rabbinate, in part because few

kosher diners are among their patrons. I
hope that situation will improve as more
keepers of kashrut voice their preferences
for plant-based cuisine.
When were planning a trip, I phone
ahead to make sure our hotel dining room
will have tivoni options. Theyre always
happy to oblige, sometimes excessively so.
During a November stay at a kibbutz hotel,
for example, the chef insisted on making
a few dishes especially for me, and I was
plied with enough quinoa pilaf, tehina,
and crudit for a week of meals. Soy milk,
soy yogurts, legume and vegetable stews,
and of course hummus usually are on
hotel buffet tables.
A couple of weeks ago, a newfound
cousin invited me to dinner in Jerusalem. I
accepted her suggestion to meet at a sushi
place because I knew its menu would have
a variety of vegan options. When I walked
in, the first thing I noticed about my relative was the Vegan Friendly tote bag slung
across her chair. While munching miso
soup and veggie rolls, we formed a kinship
that goes beyond genetics.
The majority of Israelis will not be giving
up their turkey shawarma, chicken schnitzel, and barbecued beef any time soon, so
meat-eaters visiting Israel have no cause
for alarm. But if you prefer plant foods,
even for a meal or two, you have something yummy to look forward to next time
youre here.
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Like Show Business). Our sons and daughters, mostly grown, some already married
or engaged, one with four children of her
own, and all beautiful inside and out, create their own wonderful spirituality, with
the boisterous singing and laughter.
When we drink each glass of wine, and
we drink four (at least) full cups, one of the
boys will start by saying: All right, everybody leeeeeeean to the left.
It is joyous, and we notice that more
natives than are supposed to be there have
come onto the beach to watch these rituals.
Dressed to the nines, we are. Suits,
white shirts, and ties, beautiful dresses,
shined shoes, each man wearing a kippah, some sitting on pillows, all of this in
diametric opposition to the bare-chested,
barefoot natives who are now surrounding
our table.
Kol dichphin yetay vyechol. Kol ditzrich
yetay vyiphsach. All who are hungry come
and eat. All who are needy come and celebrate the Pesach. Hmmm, do we invite the
natives to our feast, to partake in our seder?
Now there are canoes; beautifully painted
outriggers paddled by a dozen men that

pull up and onto the beach. The man who
comes up to me is obviously the chief. Tattoos adorn his body, and, although they are
without bright colors, they speak volumes.
We invite him to join us and we explain
the symbols and the rituals that we are
enjoying. We talk about slavery, the exodus
from Egypt, the bitter herbs, the charoset,
the shank bone and the egg, and he nods as
if he understands.
We eat gefilte fish, and I explain about
this, the craftiest, most cunning and hardest fish to catch the Gefilte and why it
is such a delicacy. The kids have all heard
this story before (every time any one
comes up and asks me about gefilte fish)
and do their best to keep straight faces. I
explain that the Gefilte is easily spooked
when it is nervous, and if it sees a glimmer
of metal under the water it turns inside
itself, coming out on its own other side
(the head now emerging from where there
was a tail) and swims away.
The natives begin to dance, a chorus
of men around this huge fire, and we join
them, creating circles into circles into

circles, the sand as soft as talcum powder
under our now-bare feet.
We go back to the table, say Birkat
Hamazon and move steadily toward Chad
Gadya, the last song in the Haggadah. The
fire on the beach has diminished to glowing embers as we sing. It is getting very
late, and most of the natives are gone
already.
We look out over the calm, silent Pacific,
still glowing with the lights of the heavenly
bodies above, and we know that in the
morning, after shul, well be frolicking in
that beautiful blue sea, eating fresh coconuts and enjoying each other. We sit there
and recount stories of Pesachs past, and
talk about those of us who are no longer
with us to enjoy and be enjoyed. Theyre
there just the same.
Its the sharing. Its being part of a joyous, joyful time. Its families that have
grown together after spending 18 years
together each Pesach. Its watching our
kids grow and have kids of their own. Its
the singing and the laughter and the tears.
We are families from New York, New Jersey, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis and Chicago. We are one fabulous family although
we are not all related by blood.
All the feelings and emotions, the rituals and songs I speak about are all true.
Tahiti? Tahiti is a figment of my Pesach
imagination ( James Taylor was going to
Carolina in his mind), but then where
you are when you celebrate this glorious
time is only a state of mind: the one you
put yourself in when you create the mood
and surround yourself with those you
truly love.
Now thats what celebrating joyous occasions should be all about.
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J Street on Iran, Obama
In Ben Cohens Obama and J Street trading on lies (February 20) there were distortions about J Street that I would like to
rectify.
J Street was formed to create a pro-Israel
and pro-peace movement here in the United
States, and we have praised the Obama
administration in its efforts to prevent Iran
from developing a nuclear weapon.
J Street sees negotiations as the only way
to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear
weapon. We dont know the details of a
final agreement yet. How does Mr. Cohen
know such an agreement enables Iran to
develop a weapon? It seems like the alternative he advocates is attacking Iran militarily, which is liable to start another Middle East war.
Instead of focusing on the goal of negotiating a two-state solution and the prevention of a nuclear-armed Iran, Cohen seems
intent on bringing about a single Palestinian majority state and an Iran more committed than ever to attain nuclear weapons
in order to defend itself
Stuart Kaplan
Chair, North Jersey Chapter of J Street, Teaneck
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Allegations are just accusations and denunciations about a person. They do not need
to be substantiated. They are often slung
in a persons direction to tarnish character
and to point out transgressions, proven or
not.
Facts, on the other hand, are truths
backed by evidence which present indisputable data.
We always believe facts. Allegations,
however, are suspect and should not be
concluded upon until they have run their
due and fair course.
Thus, I cannot speak about allegations
against my senator, Bob Menendez. But, I
can speak to facts.
It is a fact that Senator Menendez has
led the efforts against Iran and its nuclear
ambitions way before others knew about
centrifuges. As former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and for decades
before, our senator has kept our eye on
the target of this evil regime and its hateful rhetoric to ensure that it never achieves
nuclear capability.
repeatedly been governed by his conscience and not his party, crossing lines
even when facing backlash to stand for
what he believes is in his constituents
and this countrys best interests. Senator
Menendez regularly co-sponsors legislation
with Republican colleagues if he believes
the issue is one of concern. He is married to
right over allegiance. I celebrate that ethic,
which he demonstrates daily, and I wish
more followed his example.
been a stalwart supporter of the victims
of Hurricane Sandy. While the storm has
passed, the suffering for countless families
has not. Bob Menendez keeps them in his
mind and his efforts to provide the necessary monetary and emotional relief, even
years after the storm. That is a sign of an
honest leader.
been a fierce advocate for people with
autism and non-typical learners. Additionally, he has used his leadership to support
all people, old and young, who have special needs. Senator Menendez has done this
throughout leadership roles he has filled
proudly.
It is a fact that Senator Menendez is an
unparalleled champion of the State of
Israel, the only democracy in the Middle
East. Israel and the United States share
values and technology, along with unprecedented military cooperation. Few have
stood taller and louder to support Israel
and its right to exist free of terror than Bob
Menendez.
The facts speak for themselves. The allegations, though, do not jibe with the facts
and the person I am blessed to know and
proud to call my senator. For now, until the
process has been exhausted, I am sticking
to the facts.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
Temple Emanu-El of Closter
Vice President, New Jersey Board of Rabbis
On gay marriage
A recent letter stated that Orthodox Judaism cannot accept gay marriage (Oy vey,
my child is gay, March 27).
But the issue is both communal and individual families, and this drives the practice.
At one time, if a child married out of the
faith, the parents sat shiva, and most had
no further contact, even with the grandchildren, who might be Jewish. Nowadays,
certainly the modern Orthodox do not hold
with this practice. They have changed,
evolved, come to see that this is not how
they really want to live.
Once women had a much reduced role in
the Orthodox leadership and learning. The
same should be applied to the gay married
couple. Do not try to force them to be hetero if they have no interest in this. If they
do, fine, they can try, its been done. But let
them marry, have children, and be counted
in the Orthodox community.
Paul Frazer, Fair Lawn
The coming cataclysm?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes in the April

3 issue of a coming cataclysm with Iran. He
may be right.
After all, how would any nation react if
it was accused of racist, genocidal intent,
ritualistic, orgiasticdemented worldview, murderous intent, annihilation,
carrying out a second holocaust, and
obvious brutality and beheadings? Those
are Rabbi Boteachs words, in just his first
five paragraphs. Obviously, this nation must
be none other than the devil incarnate.
But wait a minute. Lets focus on just
one of these claims, in regard to decapitation. The world is seeing the horror of this
method of killing again, thanks to ISIS and
Letters
its use of the Internet. But beheading has never stopped, and
it is possible to argue that beheading is a relatively humane
way of ending life. It is, of course, the mandated way that Jews
are required to slaughter animals for consumption.
As for who is beheading whom, Sunni ISIS is now reported
to have cut off the head of a Hamas leader in Al-Yarmouk,
Syria. The laws of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, and Iran permit
decapitation, but only Saudi Arabia continues to carry out the
practice of chopping off heads. In Iran, capital punishment
is legal, but the methods used are firing squad, hanging and
stoning.
Iran may be an unpleasant rogue state that is pushing to
extend its regional hegemony. The rhetoric of the mullahs
may be nauseating. Its nuclear policy may be frightening
(although it is hardly alone, joined by the likes of Pakistan and
North Korea which already belong to the club of nuclear-weaponized nations).
Even so, there is no reason for exaggeration or accusation.
Iran is not beheading offenders, political prisoners, or journalists. Iran is not ISIS. In fact, these two are enemies, in the
longstanding Sunni-Shiite divide. So whos the big bad wolf
here? Will the real fanatics please stand up?
Eric Weis, Wayne
Love is a human right
Gay used to have a different meaning it meant being

happy (Oy vey, my child is gay, March 27). Human rights
is really what we are talking about. The perpetuation of
the human race is what we are concerned about. Every
individual has the right to determine what person of the

same species to spend time with and the duration of that
time. God, the Creator, enabled us to have free will in making our decisions.
Today, with modern enlightenment, we can create humans
in a different manner than before. Implants were never even
considered in the past. As we learn more about ourselves and
the wonders of our creativity, we face an unknown future. It
is the fear of the unknown that causes man to react negatively
to new concepts. Fear is irrational. It solves nothing. It is negative to progress.
Human rights rely on positive thought. Love is expressed
in many different ways to so many of Gods creations. If I can
love another species of life, why cant I love a member of my
own species? Love is a state of mind that has expression in a
multitude of ways, more mental than physical.
Love is a human right and should be thought of in that manner. Marriage is a formality in which early man and woman
were not involved. In the Hebrew faith, several words recited
to a witness were sufficient for uniting two people. A marriage
certificate was unknown. As time progressed did our feeling
about marriage progress? We soon needed a religious ceremony and then we needed a legal contract. Marriage, without all the paperwork and technicalities, was based on a relationship between two human beings. Man, who wrote and
compiled the Torah, decided that in order to perpetuate the
human species man should wed woman. (For those who are
not in agreement with that statement, I refer you to the reality
of the story of mankind, archeological and historical.)
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Terrible journeys
Irene and
Manny
Buchman
talk about
their
Holocaust
experiences
and it would cook all night.

The boys went to cheder, but the girls
went to public school, and the government paid a rabbi who came once a week
and taught us Hebrew and religion,
Irene said.
She loved school. The Czechs were so
progressive when it came to education!
she said. It began with kindergarten.
When my father took me, I must have
been 4 years old. He wrapped me in a big
shawl, so I shouldnt be cold, and he car-
Joanne Palmer
here are many paths into hell.

There is the short, direct one
that Irena Berkowitz, as she was
called then, was herded onto. It
led straight to Auschwitz.
Manny Buchman took a much longer, circuitous route; it allowed him some interesting vistas, and he was able to pause occasionally, toward the beginning. Eventually,
though, he too ended up in a death camp.
Manny and Irena now Irene Buchman have been married since 1958. They
live in a neat, sunlit townhouse in a cozy,
prewar Englewood court off a street of
grand houses. They rebuilt their lives, had
two daughters and now six grandchildren
and so far one great-grandchild. They talk
to and about each other with the love and
ease that comes from decades together.
But they have terrible stories to tell.
In January, they went back to Auschwitz
to mark the day, exactly 70 year earlier,
when its gates were opened and its prisoners were liberated or at least those prisoners who were strong enough to withstand the shock to their enfeebled systems
that food, water, and human compassion
gave them.
Last month, back at home, they told
their stories again. After all these years,
after so many retellings, some parts of the
story come quickly, but other parts are so
painful that even after all these years and
retellings, they can be told only haltingly
and with obvious effort.
Both Irene and Manny were born in the
Carpathian Mountains, in what was then
24 Jewish Standard APRIL 10, 2015
Manny and Irene Buchman at a family celebration in 2011.
Czechoslovakia, had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, became Hungarian

during their childhoods, later was taken by
the Soviet Union, and at least for now is in
Ukraine. He is from Kobiania and she from
Bilke, close to the city of Munkatch.
Although they did not meet until much
later, they described very similar upbringings, taking over each others stories, finishing each others sentences, filling in
missing facts.
The culture in which they lived was profoundly Jewish, and it influenced their
entire lives.
Our families lived for Shabbes, Irene
said. Their lives focused around holidays
and Shabbes. On Friday, we used to help

my mother to clean. We even cleaned the
brass on the door. We used to have brass
clocks, and we had to polish them every
single week. We had to polish the floors
every week.
My father used to go to shul, and my
mother used to make challah. We used to
make soup and chulent and kugel.
On Thursday nights, my mother prepared the dough for the challah, Manny
said. She would get up at 3, 4 oclock on
Friday to bake the bread for the whole
week, and to cook for Shabbes. We would
put all the soup and the meat and the
chicken in the oven on Friday afternoon,
When Hitler
occupied Poland in
1939, we prayed
for the Polish Jews.
When he conquered
France and Belgium,
we prayed for
the Jews there.
And when they
occupied our lands,
no one remained
to pray for us.
ried me to kindergarten, five days a week.
It was a public school, but everyone in the
kindergarten was Jewish, she reported.
The area was polyglot, and so were its
children. We spoke Yiddish at home, and
we didnt associate too much with gentiles, Irene said.
We boys went to cheder, and we translated from Hebrew to Yiddish, Manny
added. We spoke Yiddish at home, and
outside we spoke Ukrainian.
Our parents went to Hungarian
schools, Irene continued; My mother
would write to her sister in Hungarian, the
Buchmans daughter Diane Strobel, added.
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Sisters Irene Berkowitz Buchman and Olga

Berkowitz Jaeger, soon after liberation.
Eventually, toward the end of Irenes time

in school, Hungarian became the language
of instruction.
The people of the Carpathian region
were used to change.
The Nazis did not enter Hungary until
1944, but bad news started filtering toward
them much earlier. When Hitler came to
power in 1933, we heard about the anti-Jewish laws in Poland, in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, Manny said. We knew about it
from the newspapers. We still had a democracy, and we used to pray for those Jews.
When Hitler occupied Poland in 1939,
we prayed for the Polish Jews. When he
conquered France and Belgium, we prayed
for the Jews there. And when they occupied our lands, no one remained to pray
for us.
Irene, who was born in 1926, tells her
story first. I had a very normal childhood, she said. She went to shul if she
wanted to and didnt if she did not I was
a girl, she said but she was defined by
her Jewishness. And pretty soon also by a
new idea, Zionism.
There were a lot of Zionist groups in
our town, so they used to rent a big room,
and we used to go there, she said. It
was a very nice get-together. We used to
learn Hebrew songs and dances. It very
much influenced me. I would love to be
in Israel one day. But that move seemed
much more a dream than a reality. Our
rabbi said that we would be going to a treif
land, that we wouldnt be Jews any more
in Israel.
And moving would be hard. Most of the
people there didnt want to leave. If somebody came and offered to send families to
Israel, and get their property there, they
still wouldnt want to go. They were afraid
to leave.
Very quickly, everything went bad.
In 1944, on the last day of Pesach, when
Jews are meant to be celebrating liberation,
two weeks before Hitler invaded Hungary,
the world went black for the Jews of Bilke.
They were told that all the Jews have to
Irene made her own wedding dress.
Olga and Manny married in Tel Aviv in 1958.
Manny, his brother-in-law Isaac Green, and his new wifes

uncle, Hillel Berkowitz, at his wedding.
Irene and Olga restarted their lives on

the Upper West Side in the early 1950s.
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gather in the big shul, and that we
how, in a frying pan in the
could bring as much as we want,
ghetto. I offered them to one
she said. Passover ended with
of them, and he said, oh no
Shabbat, and on Sunday mornno no. He didnt take them.
ing we had to pack whatever we
But he didnt tell me what
wanted bedding, some dishes,
would happen.
and whatever little bits of foods
The men and the women
we had and we went to the shul,
were separated. The women
and from there, after the shul,
were undressed, and their
on the trains. She was with her
hair was cut off. They were
family her parents, sister, and
put in a shower, and then
brothers.
given something rag-like
They took us to a brick-making
to wear, and they went to
factory. It had been made into
the barracks. My mother
barracks, but it was open from
was with us for two weeks,
both sides, like a backless dollbecause she was still a young
house. There were no walls,
woman, Irene said. And an
Irene said. There was no nothing.
aunt was there, and also my
Everybody took a piece of propsister. We all got our hair cut
erty there. Families, stuck next
off, but my mother somehow
to each other, used bedsheets to
got a kerchief, and she covered her head. But they left us
demarcate their few feet of floor
with nothing.
space. They lived like that, in little
We were put in barracks,
wall-less compartments, for six
Irene and Mannys granddaughter Hannah Krutiansky went to Auschwitz with them in January. She
they had walls, and wooden
weeks. We had down covers, so
wanted to bear witness.
bed planks, 13 girls sleeping
at night we were okay, and then in
on one of them, with nothing.
May it started getting warmer, she
to burn us.
stuff behind. They didnt know what was
No cover, no pillows, no sheets, just 13 girls
said. But nothing was private.
We were on the train for 10 days, Irene
next, although they knew it wasnt going to
on each plank, in two rows.
She does not remember where the food
continued. The train was going very
be good. We didnt know we were going to
Each and every morning we went out
came from, beyond the few meals people
slowly. Children were crying, and people
a concentration camp, to a gas chamber,
for counting, rain or shine. That was our
had been able to bring from home. They
were not feeling good. Somehow we all
Irene said. We didnt have any idea where
daily routine. We did hardly anything. We
also had almost nothing to do but sit and
made it until we came to Auschwitz. We
we were going. It was very disorienting,
used to go and wash ourselves we had a
worry, although sometimes, some of the
didnt know where we were going. We went
and it was frightening.
little piece of soup.
girls were able to go to work in a local factory; their captors would bring them there
like little lambs who have no say going to
Manny broke in to tell a story. We had
After two weeks, they pulled out my
in the morning and return them in the
the slaughterhouse. We didnt know what
a young lady who was abnormal, although
mother and my aunt, and I started to
evening.
would happen to us. We just went.
she was physically okay, he said. My siscry. I went to the one who was in charge
ter told me that when they took people
And then, six weeks later, they put some
It was unbelievable. We didnt even cry.
of the whole barracks, and I said, They
to the trains from my town, when they
of the captives on cattle trains, going to
We didnt do anything. When we saw the
pulled out my mother, and I would like to
pushed them into the trains, that girl was
Birkenau.
capos, those Jewish boys I had cookies,
have her back, and she was sorry for me,
screaming in Yiddish, They are taking us
They squeezed us all in, and left all our
my mother had baked them, I dont know
and said, All right, I will go and see what
Irene and Manny in Prague.
In Israel, Manny holds the Torah as his daughter Dianes

father-in-law, Joseph Strobel, looks on.
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I can do. She came back to me
and said, I cannot do nothing.
I didnt believe her, but my aunt
said, You have nothing to do
here. You go back to your place.
Me and your mother, we are
going to take care of children.
That was a big lie. Thats what
they used to say about the people
who are not with us, that they are
taking care of children.
I was hugging and kissing her,
my mother, and she said take
care of Olga. And that was the
end of my mother. And I couldnt
do nothing about it, and that was
it.
Her father and brothers
already had disappeared forever.
I dont even know what happened to them, Irene said.
Josef Mengele, the psychopathic Nazi doctor who experimented on living people, left
orders to choose some girls
there, Irene said. When the
orders came, I was standing in a
row with my sister, and she was
taken into a big ring of children,
who were sent to the back, and
they were all holding hands.
Probably those kids would have
wound up in the gas chamber.
I dont know what came
over me, but there were a few
hundred girls there, all holding
hands, and I went and I cut the
line, and I pulled Olga by the
hand, and then when I did that,
all of them dispersed. Thats how
I saved my sister.
Nobody saw it Mengele was
away.
I went running back to the
Top, the whole
barracks with my sister I had
family; above left,
cousins there and I was poundLily, the Buchmans
ing on the door, yelling Open up!
first great grandOpen up! There were some girls
child; above right,
in there who were afraid to open
with their grandit, but finally they did, and thats
son, Asher Strohow I saved my sister.
bel, zl, at his bar
I saved so many kids. I didnt
mitzah; at right, at
even know it. Courage came over
a family bar mitzme, although I was a very timid
vah in Israel, sisters
little girl.
Olga and Irene are
(That self-assessment clearly
flanked by by Dr.
is not accurate, as her story
Ronald Strobel,
proves.)
Sam Jaeger, Diane
From those barracks, they
Strobel, bar mitztook us deep into Germany, to
vah boy Joshua
an ammunition factory. We were
Strobel, and Manny
about 500 girls. We had indiBuchman.
vidual beds and we got food. We
went each and every day into the
factory, and I was putting phosphor in the
but they were all right, Irene said.
bombs. We stayed together until the end
We were in the woods, and the train
of 1945. Then, at the end of the war, with
stopped, and the Germans ran away. Telling the story, for the first time since she
Hitler about to lose, the remaining German
had begun it, Irene smiled. And in the
soldiers forced the girls into trains, which
morning, the English appeared.
just went back and forth, back and forth.
The surviving girls were taken to a place
Once, one of them was hit lightly by some
near the Atlantic. Their rescuers took care
kind of blast, two or three girls were hit,
of us. And a lot of girls got sick, because the

food they couldnt eat it. They had been
so starved for so long that their bodies had
lost the ability to process food, and it sickened them even more. I was probably so
scrawny, but I cannot tell, Irene said.
The British soldiers who cared for them
kept us there for two months, so we could
recuperate, Irene said. They were

kind. They were nice. And after two
months, we could go back home.
So we picked ourselves up, and we
went into the trains, and we stopped
in Bratislava. The Jewish Agency and
the Jewish community there pitched
in with food, they were very hospitable
and made sure we had where to live,
she said. After a few weeks, they went
to Budapest, where again the community helped them as they tried to learn
what had happened to their families.
I heard that my uncle was alive, so
I left my sister in Budapest and went to
a city in the Carpathians and I stayed
by my uncle for eight days, my Uncle
Hillel, but I never went back to my
hometown.
Life began to seem a little more solid
Irene and Olga went to a friends
wedding, something that would have
been unthinkable less than a year earlier but we knew we dont have parents. We dont have nothing. We have
to make what we can for ourselves. So
they moved to Bamberg, Germany, settled into a Displaced Persons camp, and
lived there for three and a half years.
During that time, Irene, who always
loved to sew, and who had trained as a
dressmaker in her mid-teens, became
the DP camp dressmaker.
In 1949, we got our visas, and we
came to the United States, Irene
Berkowitz Buchman said.
We will leave those two valiant
women here for a while as we consider
Irenes husband, Manny Buchman,
whose story is part picaresque, part
pure horror.
Manny, who also was born in 1926,
worked in Budapest as a delivery boy
in the early 1940s. In March 1944, I
came home for Shabbes. It was 500
kilometers thats about 400 miles
so I would take the train to Budapest
on Saturday night, and I was home by
Monday morning, and when I got in, I
went right to work.
On March 19, I was home, I left
around 5 in the evening, I traveled the
whole night. I got off the train in Budapest, and there were Nazis, Germans
I didnt know that they had occupied
Hungary and they were screaming
and yelling, All Jews to the left! All Jews
to the left!
I didnt go to the left.
At the exit, there was a policeman
who asked for papers before you left. I
didnt want the officers should ask me
for my papers, so I said, Listen, officer,
you want to check me out? Because I
have to start work at 8 oclock. And
he looked at his watch and he said, Run!
Youll get there on time!
And then I went to work.
A day or two later, a law comes out that
every Jew has to wear a yellow star. There
was an intersection we didnt have traffic
lights with a policeman directing traffic.
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I was at that intersection four or five times
a day.
Sometimes I wore the yellow star, sometimes I didnt. The policeman stopped me.
He beckoned to me the police in Budapest were known to be relatively nice
to Jewish people and he said, You are
Jewish? I said to him, Yes. He said, How
come you dont wear the yellow star? I
said, Officer, I dont have one on every
jacket, on every shirt. I have one, on one
jacket.
He said, I dont care if you wear it or
dont wear it, but either way, do it all the
time. Either wear it steady or dont wear it
ever. And he let me go.
He didnt wear his star after that.
Manny had papers, and they should have
identified him as a Jew, but for some reason
they had been filled out incompletely. The
space that should have said Jew was left
blank. He used that to his advantage when
he was stopped by a young Nazi, who
started quizzing him about his identity.
They used to call each other brother, and
I said to him, Listen, brother, you might
have time to bull but if I am not in my
job in five minutes, my boss will fire me.
And I say to him Heil Hitler and he says to
me Heil Hitler and I left.
He wasnt nervous, he said. If I was nervous, I would be lost. His looks helped,
he said. If I met gentiles, and they didnt
know me, and I told them that I was Jewish, they would say that I didnt look Jewish. Beyond the looks, he was blessed with
the kind of sangfroid that allowed him to
think clearly and keep going.
He kept himself well informed about the
war because Hungarian stations used to
report it, and we used to listen secretly to
the BBC in Hungarian. That also helped.
In the end, though, he got caught. First,
in 1944, when he was 18, I had to register
in a military camp, because I was Jewish.
He couldnt get around it. He was put in a
group of young men his age, and they sent
us to work in southern Hungary, in a city
where the Germans had a big military airport. We were building runways for them,
making concrete by hand.
There was a German engineer in
charge. He wasnt an anti-Semite he was
a very nice man and he said, Kids, all
that Im interested in is that you should
make as much concrete as you can.
There were Hungarian civilians working at that airport who went home at night,
and every Friday they got a check. The
engineer said, You have to make such and
such number of pieces of concrete a day. If
you finish it and you make more, I will pay
you extra, the way I pay the gentile. I had
a partner, and by 10 oclock in the morning we used to be finished, and hed say,
Okay, whatever you make from now on I
will pay for.
He used to pay us every week. Of
course, we didnt become billionaires,
and we were still sleeping there in the
barracks.
He has far too many stories to tell,
Manny said, but, to make his story significantly shorter, after the job in the cement
factory, he was sent to a labor camp. I ran
away from there, he said.
We had an officer in charge, a very nice
man. He was a priest, Hungarian, and he
was in charge of the Jews in the group. He
used to learn with us the Bible.
In October 1944, the Hungarian prime
minister was fired. (That is shorthand for
some very nasty Nazi black politics, too
convoluted to go into here.) We were
stationed in Hungary, and the priest said,
Listen, kids, if it is true, what we heard,
then we will have to work for the Germans.
Everyone should be very careful.
I heard that statement as we were
marching to work through a cornfield.
When they had gone, I came out from the
cornfield and I saw a highway far away. I
went to the highway, and there were a lot
of Hungarian refugees who had run away
We were 10 days
on that train. No
food, no water.
People were
dying. They were
throwing out
dead bodies.
from the Germans, with horses and wagons and cars, all on the same road.
I had a story. I said that I was a scout,
in the Russian-occupied territory, and they
believed that I had run away. You had to
have stories, or otherwise you wouldnt
survive.
I jumped on a military truck, because I
wanted to go to Budapest. They wouldnt
let us in they would only let in Nazi party
members. And one said to the other one,
Do you know if any Jews remain? Because
if a Jew remains now, we will kill him.
And I think I said amen.
Eventually he got into Budapest, where
his brother Yisroel was hiding. Eventually, during a raid, the Buchman brothers
were turned in, and they were forced onto
a train that was going to Dachau. They
pushed us in, 100 people to a car, pushed
and pushed until we didnt have air. And
in each car was a Nazi with a gun, watching. And they said that they would come
every day, and if anyone is doing anything,
it would be capital punishment and everyone could be punished.
We were 10 days on that train. No food,
no water. People were dying. They were
throwing out dead bodies.
We decided that we were going to jump
off that train. We decided to commit suicide. Death seemed inevitable, so why
wait for it passively? Why not make one last
move, take one last risk?
But they were young and resilient, and
even more to the point, it was snowing.

Manny had jumped off trolleys often, so
he knew how to do it. We saw a light in
the snow, which was chest high, and we
walked to it. And it was a Saturday night,
and there were young men singing Communist songs.
I said to my brother that I was afraid
to say that we were Jewish, so we said that
we were scouts, that we were going to Germany. We told them a whole story. You had
to have a story! And they said, Where are
you going? The Russians are almost here
already!
Manny and Yisroel Buchman were able
to keep ahead of their tormentors for
months, but eventually they were caught
and sent first to Mathausen and then, when
it was too stuffed with living and dead bodies even for the Nazis to allow, to a satellite
camp called Gusen.
On Friday, May 4, you could see the SS
guard had left. Nobody was watching us.
Most of the people there couldnt walk, but
at around 4 in the afternoon my brother
and I said, Okay, we have to go to the main
highway, which was about a mile and a
half away.
I went to the main highway with my
brother and a friend from town. American trucks were on the highway. The war
hadnt ended; they were moving from west
to east. We jumped onto a truck and we
came to Gratz. Those were the first troops
who came to the city. We were walking, the
three of us, and two American soldiers, a
black guy and a white guy. They said, Hold
up. Who are you? and we say we are Jews,
liberated from a concentration camp. He
says to me, in Yiddish, You are lying. Hitler killed all the Jews. He says, What kind
of soldier are you supposed to be? and
we tell him that its just before Shavuos,
something that only Jews would be likely
to know.
He stops, and wipes his eyes, and tells
us that hes Jewish too.
Then he stops crying, and says, All
right, you are coming with me. And for
a few days, he took care of them; made
sure they had food, drink, the chance to
bathe, and clean clothes. I never knew
his name, Manny said regretfully. If I
remember properly, though, he was from
Florida.
He spent some time in a hospital recuperating, then he and his brother both
went to a DP camp in Italy for two and a
half years. Then, the Buchman brothers
went to Cyprus, and from there to the new
state of Israel.
Mannys adventures in Israel could fill
many more pages, but there is no room
for it here. Readers now just should know
that he was very happy there and even
happier because another sister had made
her way there, and he had cousins there as
well. Family had always been overwhelmingly important to him, and some of it was
back.
Meanwhile, Irene and Olga Berkowitz
had gone to the United States. They moved
first to Atlanta, courtesy of HIAS, and

then to Manhattans Upper West Side, and
learned English.
It didnt come that easily, she said.
Not at all. But I was thinking that I dont
even know how to read newspapers, so
how am I going to get along? So I learned.
Then Irene, the DP camp dressmaker,
got a job as a seamstress. She worked at
S. Klein, the department store, making
dresses from scratch, she said. From that,
she moved up, making custom dresses, getting a degree from the Fashion Institute of
Technology that made it easier for her to
get better jobs.
I got pleasure from it, she said. That is
my passion. I love creating.
In 1955, after many years of hard work,
she decided to splurge on a trip to Israel,
crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary.
(It was very very nice but I got seasick,
she said.)
Because they came from nearby towns,
Irene Berkowitz and Manny Buchman
had many connections, and so, quite logically, they were introduced. They met on
Pesach, and were married right around
Shavuot.
It was clear that Irene was not likely to be
happy living full time in Israel, which was
her ideological home but could not give
her the comforts she had earned, through
her own very hard work in New York. So
the two came back to Washington Heights,
home to many Holocaust survivors.
Irene continued to work as a seamstress,
and Manny became a plant manager, running a big business, working very hard,
almost all the time. The couple has two
daughters. Diane and Ronald Strobel live in
Englewood and enticed the Buchmans to
follow them there. Carol and Roberto Krutiansky live in Manhattan.
There is more family here now, for both
Irene and Manny. Olga Berkowitz Jaeger
lives in Fair Lawn, and Yisroel Buchman
lives on Staten Island.
When Manny and Irene Buchman went
back to Auschwitz in January, their 17-yearold granddaughter, Hannah Krutiansky,
went with them.
I was very reluctant to go, Irene said.
But I wanted my granddaughter to know
what happened to us. I wanted her to see
the place where we were brought to be
eliminated.
We are human beings, and we live in
the world.
No one who didnt go through it can
grasp what we went through. I feel this
all the time. To this day, the world doesnt
acknowledge our losses and our tragedies.
This is something that no human being
should have to go through.
They have remained active Jews, Manny
said. I wasnt religious, but what was I
going to do? Go to another religion? My
religion has a lot of history and I am very
proud of it. We shouldnt just let it pass
away, just assimilate and forget about it.
But I am not a fanatic about it. I am just
an observant Jew.
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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has broken with President Barack Obama and says he will back a bill that
will allow Congress to review the Iran nuclear framework deal announced last week.
This is a very serious issue that deserves careful
consideration, and I expect to have a classified briefing
in the near future. I strongly believe Congress should
have the right to disapprove any agreement and I support the Corker bill which would allow that to occur,
Schumer told Politico.
The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 was
introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). The bill requires President
Obama to submit the Iran final agreement to Congress
for review while prohibiting the president from easing
sanctions for 60 days.
The White House has said that it would likely veto
the bill. However, efforts are under way to achieve a
two-thirds majority in the Senate to override a presidential veto.
According to Politico, at least a dozen Democratic
senators have either co-sponsored the bill or indicated
they could support it, putting the bill one vote shy of a
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that
the framework deal reached between p5+1 nations
and Iran last Thursday keeps Irans vast nuclear infrastructure in place, in an interview on the CNN news
network Sunday.
Theyre getting a free path to the bomb, Netanyahu said, adding that the issue of Irans intercontinental ballistic missile system (ICBM) was not negotiated as part of the deal, and those missiles are only
used for you [the U.S.]. Theyre not missiles that can
reach us. And theyre geared for nuclear weapons.
I think theres a third alternative and that is standing firm, particularly with the use of very strong sanctions, Netanyahu said.
Meanwhile U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.),
vice chair of the of the Senate Intelligence Committee, also spoke on CNN, saying she wishes Netanyahu
would contain himself, and that Irans supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will be agreeable
when it comes to the deal.
Khamenei has repeatedly called for Israels annihilation and for Death to America in a speech earlier this
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Israel firms very active

in seeking U.S. patents
Israel continues as a global leader among countries
registering for U.S. patents. Israeli companies registered more than 3,500 patents in the U.S. in 2015,
according to BDICoface, Israels biggest business information group.
This figure represents an increase of about 21 percent from 2013 and puts Israel in third place in the
world for U.S.-registered patents, behind only Taiwan
and Japan.
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issue through investment in technological education,
improvement of infrastructure, and incentives for
global high-tech companies to carry on opening R&D
centers in Israel, said Tehila Yanai, a managing partJNS.ORG
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Opinion
A new age of Middle East insecurity
ack in 2010, I interviewed

Gerard Araud, who is now the
French ambassador in Washington, D.C., while he was still serving as Frances envoy to the United Nations
in New York.
We talked at length about Iran, and this
was the first thing he told me: The Iranian
nuclear program has no civilian explanation whatsoever. You dont start a civilian
nuclear program by enriching uranium.
Its like if you buy the gas before the car.
As I watched the Iran nuclear negotiations in the Swiss city of Lausanne slide
past an agreed deadline of midnight on
March 31 into, appropriately, April Fools
Day, it struck me that nothing had changed
since Araud who remains a trenchant
critic of American concessions to Iran
uttered those words five years ago. The Iranian nuclear program was never about the
civilian use of nuclear enery. It was, and
remains, geared toward the production of
a nuclear weapon hence all the lies and
deceit practiced by the Iranian regime over
more than a decade, and hence the succession of U.N. Security Council resolutions
and anxious International Atomic Enery
Agency reports underlining how Irans
nuclear activities do not comport with
those associated with a civilian program.
In fact, the glaring issues that remain
unresolved in Lausanne reflect this fundamental state of affairs, reinforcing the
perception that the Obama administration
will concede on almost anything in order
Because its a weak deal,

to secure a deal. Iran hasnt
inevitably there will be condisclosed the possible militradictory interpretations of
tary dimensions of its prowhat has been agreed. The
gram and will have even less
overriding point, though, is
incentive to do so if sanctions
that the Iranian regime will
relief is offered regardless. At
enjoy a great deal of leeway,
the same time, Iran has been
thereby gravely hampering
told that it can continue
any attempts at verification
operating centrifuges at its
Ben Cohen
by outside agencies like the
underground Fordo facility
IAEA.
a secret installation that was
Speaking on a conference
outed with great fanfare in
call organized this week by The Israel Proj2009 by the Americans, the British, and
ect, Olli Heinonen, a former IAEA deputy
the Frenchthus enabling it to further
director-general, observed, You need to
master the enrichment process. And as for
know how far [the Iranians] got, which are
their stockpile of enriched uranium, which
the important institutions and capabilities
the Iranians were supposed to be shipping
so that you pick the right things for the
to their Russian allies for safeguarding,
monitoring By far the best starting point
well, apparently they wont be doing that
is to have a complete disclosure.
either.
If the pressure of biting sanctions and
At best, then, what we have here is a
the threat of military action didnt perweak deal. The main goal is to carry on
suade the Iranians of the need for transtalking, as it has been since the Joint Plan
parency, then a deal that allows them
of Action was agreed between Iran and the
to maintain their nuclear infrastructure
five members of the U.N. Security Counwith little international oversight will be
cil and Germanythe p5+1in Geneva
regarded as a strategic victory in Tehin November 2013. As former George
ran. Heinonen is far from alone when he
W. Bush administration official Michael
expresses extreme skepticism that the curDoran, arguably the most insightful Iran
rent framework will leave Iran at least one
analyst in the United States, told me last
year away one of the key American goals
year, The interim deal is for six months
in the negotiations from being able to
and can be rolled over by mutual consent
weaponize its program. So, as the implifor another six months and another six
cations of this lousy arrangement manifest
months, interminably. The Iranians are
themselves as we approach the November
very good negotiators, so they will work to
2016 presidential election in the U.S., one
string this along for as long as possible.
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has to seriously ask whether the Iran deal

will survive the Obama administration.
Will Hillary Clinton, assuming she wins
her partys nomination, feel bound by a
deal pushed by her predecessor? If yes,
can she withstand the volley of criticism
that will come her way from her GOP
rivals, who will gleefully and correctly
argue that the Iran deal has not brought
the United States or its local allies a single
tangible benefit? And if not, what then?
On the domestic front, all that is clear for
now is that Obamas successor will have to
contend with the outcome of years of futile
and fruitless negotiations, the net result of
which has been to leave us with less leverage over the Iranians than ever before.
In the Middle East, however, none of
the states that are now confronting Iran is
going to wait for a change of administration in Washington. While Israel is generally regarded as the key obstacle to a deal,
the Jewish states objections thus far have
been expressed only rhetorically. It is the
Sunni Arab states that are now engaged
in a hot war with Iran, over its designs
on Yemen and its support for the Houthi
rebels in that beleaguered country. Those
same states, moreover, are engaging in
nuclear proliferation of their own; it is
distinctly possible that within a few years,
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Eypt will have
obtained nuclear weapons capability, thus
ensuring an Asian arc of danger stretching
from the Mediterranean coast all the way
to North Korea.
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their anxieties over Irans nuclear program trumping other
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given their past enmity toward Jerusalem and the markedly
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U.S., Israel escalate

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BEN HARRIS
Israel and the Obama administration
have stepped up their war of words
over the framework agreement that
aims to limit Irans nuclear activities
in exchange for a gradual rollback of
sanctions.
President Barack Obama made his
most detailed effort yet to persuade
skeptics of the accord reached last
week in Switzerland in a weekend interview with the New York Times, asserting that the deal is the best bet to
prevent Irans acquisition of a nuclear
weapon and promising to stand by
Israel in the event of Iranian aggression.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, his skepticism about the
deal undiminished, made the rounds
of American talk shows on Sunday
morning to denounce a deal that he
said gives Iran a free path to the
bomb. And on Monday, Israels minister of strategic affairs, Yuval Steinitz, in
an effort to rebut claims that Israel had
offered no alternative to a military campaign against Iran, presented reporters
in Jerusalem with a list of modifications
he said would make the agreement
more reasonable.
Steinitzs requirements included the
closing of the underground nuclear
facility at Fordo, a commitment to ship
uranium stockpiles out of the country,
and an inspections regime that would
allow international monitors the ability
to go anywhere, anytime in Iran.
Under the terms of the framework
accord reached April 2 in Lausanne,
the Fordo facility would be reconfigured and would not enrich uranium,
but it would not be shuttered entirely.
Iran also would be permitted to continue to enrich uranium using its firstgeneration IR-1 centrifuges at its facility
in Natanz. The accord requires Iran to
grant the International Atomic Energy
Agency access to investigate allegations of covert activity anywhere in

the country.
In his interview with Times columnist
Thomas Friedman, Obama said that the
deal is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open a new chapter with Iran
while preserving all American options
and capabilities in the event that Iran
fails to uphold its end of the bargain.
Iran may change, Obama said. If
it doesnt, our deterrence capabilities,
our military superiority stays in place.
He added, Were not relinquishing
our capacity to defend ourselves or our
allies. In that situation, why wouldnt
we test it?
Obama acknowledged that Israel is
far more vulnerable to Tehran, and
he sought to offer assurances that the
United States would maintain Israels
qualitative military edge and come to
its aid in the event of attack. The United
States, Obama said, is sending a very
clear message to the Iranians and to the
entire region that if anybody messes
with Israel, America will be there.
Yet on Monday, Obama indicated that
there were limits to how far he would
go with respect to Israel, rejecting a
demand Netanyahu issued last Friday
that a final deal require Iran to recognize Israels right to exist, calling the
notion a fundamental misjudgment.
The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons
in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing
Israel is really akin to saying that we
wont sign a deal unless the nature of
the Iranian regime completely transforms, Obama said in an interview
with NPR. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment. I want to return
to this point: We want Iran not to have
nuclear weapons precisely because we
cant bank on the nature of the regime
changing.
Obama still faces an uphill climb in
Dvar Torah
Pesach: Sent on a mission
e got out of Egypt and

now what?
Everybody thinks that
God took us out of Egypt
to give us the Torah at Mount Sinai. I dont
agree completely. Before you ask: Rabbi,
whats wrong with you? let me make it
worse and ask you: Who really took the Jews
out of Egypt? And yes, I had only four cups
of wine, not four bottles!
Lets review the text. When the Jews left
Egypt, the Torah says: Vayehi bshalach
Paro (Exodus 13:17). Most translations dont
translate the true meaning of bshalach
sent but offer an interpretation, saying
that Pharoah let go. Well, the root sh-l-ch
means to send somebody with the purpose
of fulfilling a mission.
We see this throughout the Torah. Jacob
sends messengers to his brother Esau. The
name of that section, Parashat Vayishlach,

translates vayishlach as sending. The messengers have a mission: to appease Esau.
Later on Moses sends spies to tour the
land and their mission was to come back
with a report before the conquest. The
name of the parasha? Shelach Lecha. God
said to Moses: Send men to scout the land.
(Numbers 13:2).
Even birds were sent: Noah sent
vayshalach the raven and the dove to
learn if the flood waters had receded (Genesis 8:7-8).
So it is clear that Pharaoh didnt let go.
He sent the people.
So what was the mission on which they
were sent?
The answer is in the Torah, of course.
Exodus 12:31-32 quotes Pharaoh: Up,
depart from among my people. Go,
Congress. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has
proposed a bill that would grant Congress the right
to review the deal. The committee is due to vote on
the bill April 14. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who
is expected to become Senate minority leader when
Harry Reid (D-Nev.) retires at the end of the year, said
this week that he would support Corkers legislation.
I strongly believe Congress should have the right to
disapprove any agreement, and I support the Corker
bill, which would allow that to occur, Schumer told
Politico on Monday.
American Jewish groups are also skeptical of the
accord. The Anti-Defamation League, the American
Jewish Committee, and the Jewish Council for Public
Affairs issued statements following the conclusion of
the agreement last week expressing hope for a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the standoff. But the
groups also expressed doubt that Iran could be trusted
to faithfully execute its end of the bargain.
Given the nature of the Iranian regime, its pattern
of seeking to deceive the international community on
its nuclear program, its support for global terror and
its regional hegemonic ambitions, its repeated calls
for a world without Israel, and its clandestine weapons efforts, AJC is deeply concerned about whether
Iran will abide by any undertaking it makes, and if any
inspections regime will be sufficient to monitor Irans
full compliance, the American Jewish Committee said.
In an appearance Sunday on NBCs Meet the Press,
Netanyahu compared the agreement to the 1994 deal
between the United States and North Korea. That
deal, too, Netanyahu said, was deemed to be a great
worship the Lord as you

themselves by you.
said. And may you bring a
We got out of Egypt, and
blessing upon me also.
now what? We count the days
We came out of Egypt to
till well receive the Torah to
fulfill the mission bestowed
study it and to live according
upon us at the very beginto its instructions. By doing
ning of our existence as a
that, we will develop the pernation: to become a blesssonality that will help us to
ing for the world.
become Gods partners, recRabbi Alberto
This is the second time
reating His creation for the
(Baruch)
we are reminded why God
better.
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chose Abraham to create
We came out of Egypt and
Temple Beth
the Jewish people, and why
now, with deeds of lovingSholom, Fair Lawn,
God took us out of Egypt to
kindness, let us continue to
Conservative
give us the Torah, creating
labor for Tikun Olam. It is
then the Jewish nation.
more than a mission. It is our
In Genesis 12:2-3 God says to Abraham:
obligation to our children and the generI will bless you, I will make your name
ations to come.
great and you shall be a blessing. and
May Hashem give us the strength and
all the families of the earth shall bless
the courage to accomplish it.
I strongly believe
Congress should
have the right to
disapprove any
agreement, and I
support the Corker
bill, which would
allow that to occur.
SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER
breakthrough, but it did not prevent the country from

acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran, the prime minister said, is a great deal more dangerous than North
Korea.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told CNNs State
of the Union on Sunday morning that the agreement
does not threaten Israels survival and that Netanyahu
should contain himself because he has put out no real
alternative. In his speech to the Congress no real
alternative. Since then no real alternative.
Steinitz pushed back against that criticism on Monday, saying the notion that war is the alternative to the
Obama deal is wrong.
The alternative is not necessarily to declare war on
Iran, he said. It is to increase pressure on Iran and
stand firm and make Iran make serious concessions
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17 With 61-Across, Pesach platter where
the starred foods in this puzzle can be
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18 Pesach food that symbolizes the clay
Jews used to make bricks and mortar....... (9)
20 Gp. that may distribute Israel maps (3)
22 Admire a menorah, say (5)
23 Pesach food that symbolizes the Jews
backbreaking labor for the Pharaoh
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30 . . . like ___ of bricks (1,3)
31 Diamond jewel box? (2,4)
32 Non-Jewish gospels (8)
34 Observant Orthodox Jew (4)
35 One of Madoffs many (5)
36 Pesach food that symbolizes the holiday offering in the days of the Holy
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42 Has chutzpah (5)
43 Schnook (4)
45 Dangers for Isidor and Ida Straus on
their Titanic voyage (8)
49 Order from Mt. Nebo (6)
51 Shock a gonif, perhaps (4)
52 Pesach food that symbolizes how
unpleasant the labor for the Pharaoh
was (6,4)
54 Apple messaging app that existed
when Ariel Sharon was P.M. (5)
56 Red Sea filler, in Nancy (3)
57 Pesach food that symbolizes the
Paschal sacrifice the Jews made
before leaving Egypt (9)
61 See 17-Across (5)
66 ___ Tamid (3)
67 One might be proposed by the father of
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68 Approaches the end of the Jerusalem
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69 Kosher salt amt. (3)
70 Literally princess (5)
71 Costing oodles of shekels (5)
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24 Synagogue congregation (4)

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26 Worlds ___ (St. Louis event that had a
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27 Most like a dybbuk (7)

28 Blasphemy et al. (5)
29 Ehud or Ezer (4)
33 The Simpsons character Flanders who
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35 Welsh bark mitzvah recipient? (5)
37 U.S. president during the Suez Crisis (3)
38 Joan Rivers remark (4)
39 Create a stained glass window for a
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40 Six-Day War feature, alas (4)
41 Bar Mitzvah attendee (4)
44 Isr. neighbor (3)
45 Siz shver tzu sein a Yid (___ easy
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46 Gelt hiding places (6)
47 Key used by Mahler (1-5)
48 Morsel mixed with Israeli couscous (4)
49 Org. concerned with MDMA smuggled
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50 Goes off, in Golan Heights (6)
53 Pesach food chompers (5)
55 Fiddler on the Roof buys: Abbr. (4)
58 Snake that, unlike the Israeli Viper, isnt
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59 Brandeis Rowing Team device (3)
60 Unit 8200s U.S. equivalent (3)
62 Like candles on a menorah (3)
63 Chances ___ (1989 Robert Downey Jr.
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64 Peg for Amy Alcott (3)
65 Uri Gellers claim, for short (3)
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Arts & Culture

Portraits highlight stories
of Holocaust few in Ireland
JEFFREY F. BARKEN
hen Irish artist Diana Muller

first presented
her works in
progress paintings of some
of her countrys few remaining Holocaust survivors to the
Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin
City, museum vice chair Yvonne
Altman OConnor sensed a teachable moment in the making.
We consider it very important to teach about the Holocaust, especially as Irish people
were somewhat removed from
the experience, OConnor said.
In fact, some people refer to
World War II as the emergency,
which is, needless to say, an obvious understatement, she added.
Muller suggested that the
museum host a temporary
exhibit. Three years after she
began the project, which has
come to include portraits of
Irish Holocaust survivors Jan
Kaminski, Suzie Diamond, Tomi
Reichental, and Zoltan Zinn-Collis, her artwork will be unveiled
to the public on April 12 at the
Irish Jewish Museum as part of a
Yom Hashoah program.
Throughout the process of her
journey across Ireland to paint
the portraits, Muller kept a blog
that detailed historical anecdotes
and introspective reflections on
her interactions. She admits that
her knowledge of Irish Holocaust
history was very limited before
she started the project.
I had read the autobiography of Zoltan Zinn-Collis years
before, and so I knew about
the Belsen Children who had
come to Ireland with Dr. Collis,
she said. But I didnt realize
that Ireland had a policy against
accepting Jewish refugees and
that Dr. Collis had essentially
smuggled those children into
the country.
Dr. Collis was an Irish pediatrician who volunteered with the
British Red Cross at the end of the
war, assisting with the liberation
of Bergen-Belsen. Only recently,
in 2012, did Irish Justice Minister
Alan Shatter acknowledge that
Diana Mullers portrait of Irish Holocaust survivor Jan Kaminski.

DIANA MULLER
the doors to state [in Ireland]

were kept firmly closed to Jews
fleeing Hitler. Shatter has called
Irish neutrality during the war
and the administration of thenprime minister Eamon de Valera morally bankrupt. He has
described de Valeras peculiar
1945 visit with a German ambassador, during which de Valera
expressed his condolences on
Hitlers death, as evidence that
anti-Semitism taints that chapter
of Irish history.
Muller credits Lynne Jackson,
one of the trustees at Holocaust
Education Trust Ireland, for making the introductions that led to
her portrait series becoming a
reality.
I honestly felt a lot of trepidation when I started, Muller
said. It was only after contacting
HETI that I realized just how few
survivors actually live in this country. Six at the time, three now.
When one of Mullers subjects, Zinn-Collis, died, the artist
felt a renewed sense of urgency.
She began to see her portraits of
the elderly survivors as enduring symbols of their triumph.
Muller believes the images she
has crafted grant an element
of immortality to her subjects.
As she wrote on her blog in the
wake of Zinn-Colliss death, the
portraits are a slap in the face
to the genocide that tried to take
them.
Theres an old adage that we
all have the face we deserve
by the time were 50, she said,
describing how she transferred
perceptions to the canvas.
The idea that our experiences
mark us in some visible way is
true, the artist adds. Zinn-Collis,
for example, had a physical disability from his experiences in

Bergen-Belsen as a child, suffered from tuberculosis, and had
a spinal curvature yet Muller
says she chose not to emphasize this in the painting because I
didnt think it defined him, at all.
He had an amazing sense of
humor, she said. He also volunteered for the Samaritans for
years and had so much sympathy for suffering people.
A colorist at heart, Muller was
conscious of the elements.
Interestingly, they all went
for navy, light blue, and gray
in their clothing choices, she
said. I used quite a cool palette and brought greens and yellows through. They all had nice
gardens and a love of nature. I
included some earth tones also.
Mostly, Muller was touched
by the conversations her visits evoked. From survivor Jan
Kaminski, she learned about
his experiences as a Polish teenager attending Trinity College in
Dublin.
Hes had an amazing career,
she said. He was a restaurant owner, and he used to run
Irelands first-ever nightclub.
He also started the Irish Polish Society and met with Pope
John PaulII during his 1979 visit.
He struck me as a really gentle
guy, but with huge amount of
willpower.
Survivor Suzie Diamond is a
very intelligent, open person,
she continued, recalling the time
she and Diamond spent together.
She is the last of the Belsen
Children who came over with Dr.
Collis still living in Ireland. We
talked about her early memories
of [Zinn-Collis] and the camp and
the journey to Ireland. She was
the youngest of the [adopted]
children and said that people
assumed she was too young to
remember, but she remembers
very well, Muller said.
L a s t ly, To m i Re i c h e n t a l
impressed Muller with his
warmth and spirit. He and his
partner met me at their front
door with tea and cake, she
says. Reichental told me about
his uncle, who was an amazing

impressionist painter. He showed
me some pictures of his family, 35
of whom died in the Holocaust.
I never told anybody what I
went through, Reichental said,
explaining how he kept silent
about his experiences at BergenBelsen for more than 60 years
not even telling his wife. When he
was asked to speak in front of his
grandsons middle school class
in 2004, however, suddenly the
vault opened.
I realized I was one of the last
witnesses for this horrific thing
that happened, he recounts in a
short film made in honor of his
recent efforts to educate children about the Holocaust. He
since has made two documentaries and has traveled back to Germany to meet a former SS guard,
an encounter chronicled in the
film Close to Evil.
Reichental also has performed
reconciliation work with the children and grandchildren of Nazi
war criminals and was honored
by the German government with
the Order of Merit.
As it hosts Mullers exhibit, the
Irish Jewish Museum has stumbled upon difficult times.
The current state of the
museum is in danger, OConnor
said, noting that the building is no
longer fit for its purpose and that
plans to build an extension are in
jeopardy due to lack of financial
support. The community is too
small, and fundraising is difficult
for the skeleton all-volunteer staff
who have poured so much energy
into keeping the museum alive
for the past 30 years.
Yet the exhibition of Mullers
portraits will go on as planned.
Following a private reception,
the pictures will be on display to
the general public for one month.
OConnor hopes that the gallery
will inspire renewed interest in
the museums resources. At the
very least, the portraits will make
the Irish Holocaust survivors
legacies particularly tangible for
current and future generations.
To be cheeky, were the ones
that got away, Reichental said.
JNS.ORG
We survived.
Calendar
Friday
APRIL 10
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
services for families with
young children, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Jewish music, at the

Puffin Cultural Center,
8 p.m. Doors open at
7:30. 20 Puffin Way.
(201) 836-3499 or tix@
puffinfoundation.org.
Genocide, and Interfaith

Education Center,
headlines Ridgewoods
interfaith Holocaust
memorial service, hosted
this year by Westside
Presbyterian Church,
7:30 p.m. Temple Israels
Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine,
Cantor Caitlin Bromberg,
and other members of
Ridgewoods Interfaith
Clergy Council will join
Westsides Rev. Marc
A. Oehler. Varian Fry
Way, 6 South Monroe St.
(201) 444-9320.
Sunday
APRIL 12
Shabbat in Washington
Township: Temple
Beth Or offers Shabbat
Hallelu, a musical family
service including singing,
clapping, and birthday
blessings for children,
7:30 p.m. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422 or
www.templebethornj.org.
Saturday
APRIL 11
Moshiach meal in
Tenafly: Lubavitch on
the Palisades hosts its
moshiach meal the
last meal of the last
day of Passover at
the Chabad House,
6:30 p.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Yom Hashoah
commemorated:
Author in Teaneck:
Susan Dworkin discusses
her book, The Nazi
Officers Wife: The
Amazing Story of Edith
Hahn, at Temple Emeths
Byachad group bagel
breakfast, 10:30 a.m. 1666
Windsor Road. Breakfast
reservations, (201) 8331322 or www.emeth.org.
A great heretic: Temple

Sinai of Bergen County
in Tenafly begins a
three-session course,
The Great Heretic:
The Life, Times and
Thought of Baruch
Spinoza, led by Rabbi
Lawrence Troster, noon.
1 Engle St. Registration,
(201) 568-3075
or bwaldman@
templesinaibc.org.
Film in Leonia: The

Internets Own Boy:
The Story of Aaron
Swartz, an biographical
documentary that
premiered at the
2014 Sundance Film
Festival, is screened
at Congregation Adas
Emuno, 7:30 p.m.
Discussion led by Dr.
Lance Strate, professor
of communications
and media studies at
Fordham University
and a Jewish Standard
columnist, follows.
Refreshments. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.
Music in Teaneck: Abe

Barzelay on harmonica,
and friends present an
evening of Villa-Lobos,
Mozart, Saint-Sans, and
Schumann, as well as
popular and traditional
16
the award-winning film

Defiance. Also prayers
and comments, musical
selections, candle
lighting, and community
reception. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-7525 or
www.BnaiJacobjc.org.
5-6:30 p.m. 450 West

Nyack Road. Judy
Klein, (845) 627-0010,
ext. 104, www.
rocklandjewishacademy.
org, or kleinj@
rocklandjewishacademy.
org.
Israeli correspondent in
Paramus: Herb Keinon,
Family show in Wayne:

Bugs and Balloons, a
childrens theater duo,
presents The Lizard
of Oz, an interactive
show, in the Shea Center
for Performing Arts
at William Paterson
University, 1 p.m. Part
of the WP Presents!
series. Pre-show creative
activities at 12:15.
(973) 720-2371 or wppresents.org.
Yom Hashoah in Jersey

City: Congregation
Abe Barzelay
THIRTEENs American
Masters series presents
the national broadcast
premiere of Jascha
Heifetz: Gods Fiddler on April 16
at 8 p.m. on PBS. Emmy-winning
filmmaker Peter Rosens profile of
the violin virtuoso features Heifetz
previously unseen home movies, and
interviews with Itzhak Perlman, Ivry
Gitlis, Ida Haendel, and Ayke Agus.
Check local listings.
APR.
Bnai Jacob, Temple

Beth-El, and the United
Synagogue of Hoboken
commemorate Yom
Hashoah at Bnai Jacob,
3 p.m. Guest speaker
is survivor Ann Monka,
who fled her childhood
home when the Nazis
came and lived with
the Bielski brothers
and was featured in
Brian Morton
COURTESY TGS
Author in Teaneck:
Brian Morton, a Teaneck
High School graduate
who is on the faculty
of Sarah Lawrence
College, discusses his
book Florence Gordon
at the Teaneck General
Store, 4 p.m. His novel
Starting Out in the
Evening was made into
a film. 502a Cedar Lane.
(201) 530-5046.
Childrens program
in West Nyack: The
Rockland Jewish
Academy offers Sifriyat
Pijama BAmerica,
Hebrew story time
with activities and
the Pizza Palooza,
author and Jerusalem

Post correspondent,
discusses Israels 2015
elections: The country
spoke, but what in the
world did it say, and
what in the world does
it mean? at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 7 p.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
The Fair Lawn Jewish

Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel and its
Mens Progress Club
offers a candle-lighting
ceremony and will honor
survivors and World War
II liberators/veterans,
7:30 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Monday
APRIL 13
Dining out in Montvale:
Temple Beth Or of
Washington Township
offers a restaurant
fundraiser at Mommas
Kitchen in Montvale.
Show the flier at the
restaurant and it will
donate 20 percent of
your bill to benefit the
shuls early childhood
programming. Dinner, 5
to 9 p.m., or have lunch/
take-out. Print flier at
www.templebethornj.
org. 15 W. Grand Ave.
(201) 746-9777
Book discussion: The

Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds its Book
and Lunch program
as Rabbi David Fine
discusses Robert Harris
Officer and the Spy,
noon. Lunch served.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Two-part Yom Hashoah

commemoration in
Paramus: The JCC of
Dr. Mehnaz A. Afridi
Interfaith Yom Hashoah
commemoration:
Dr. Mehnaz A. Afridi
a Muslim who is the
director of Manhattan
Colleges Holocaust,
Beth Tikvah screens
Defiance, starring
Daniel Craig, 7 p.m. The
films tells the story of
the Bielski brothers,
partisans in Belarus
during World War II,
who were responsible
for saving more than

1,200 Jews. On Thursday,
April 16, meet Robert
Bielsky, the last surviving
brother, who will speak at
the shuls Yom Hashoah
commemoration at 8.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Feature film: The Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Inside
Job, 7:30 p.m., as
part of a series, Top
Films You May Have
Missed (or Want to See
Again). Harold Chapler
introduces the film and
leads the discussion
afterward. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Tuesday
APRIL 14
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Gale
S. Bindelglass, Cantor
Ilan Mamber and Jane
Koch of the Rishon
Trio will perform. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Norman Rockwells
art: Art lecturer Judy
Ebright discusses the art
of Norman Rockwell for
the senior daytime series
at Temple Beth Tikvah,
1 p.m. Coffee, tea, snacks.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Bereavement program
in Teaneck: Holy
Name Medical Center
Hospice and Palliative
Services offers Sharing
the Journey, an eightsession bereavement
program to provide
support and guidance
through the grieving
process. Open to anyone
who has experienced
loss in the past year.
Meetings at HNMC on
Tuesdays at 6 p.m., and
Wednesdays at 10 a.m.
Group also meets at
Villa Marie Claire, 12
West Saddle River Road,
on Tuesdays at 11 a.m.
Registration, Lenore
Guido, (201) 833-3000,
ext. 7580.
Calendar
Thursday
APRIL 16
Yom Hashoah in
Teaneck: Torah
Academy of Bergen
Countys holds its annual
Yom Hashoah program,
this year focusing
on hidden children.
Twins Dr. Bernard and
Henry Schanzer, onetime hidden children,
are guest speakers.
Program at 10:15 a.m.
1600 Queen Anne Road.
(201) 837-7696.
7 p.m. 49 Park Ave.

(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Yom Hashoah in
Paramus: The JCC of
Beth Tikvah offers a Yom
Hashoah service with a
talk by Robert Bielsky,
son of the legendary
partisan commander,
on the group that
saved more than 1,200
Jewish lives during the
Holocaust, 8:30 p.m.
Also, memorial service,
readings, and music
by the Paramus-Tikvah
singers. (201) 262-7691 or
www.jccparamus.org.
Yom Hashoah in
Woodcliff Lake:
Dr. Rachel Yehuda

Community
Yom Hashoah in
Wyckoff: At the 72nd
annual Holocaust
commemoration hosted
by the Jewish Federation
of North Jersey, this year
at Temple Beth Rishon,
Dr. Rachel Yehuda,
director of Traumatic
Stress Studies Division
at Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine, will discuss
How the Trauma of the
Holocaust is Genetically
Transmitted from
Survivors to Subsequent
Generations. Program
includes candle lighting,
Yiddish speaker, survivor
stories, and memorial
prayers. 585 Russell Ave.
Photo exhibit at 6 p.m.;
program at 6:30. Free
busing available from
Fair Lawn at Temple
Beth Sholom, 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave., at 5:30. 585
Russell Ave., Wyckoff.
Dr. Wallace Greene,
(201) 873-3263.
Yom Hashoah
commemoration in
Tenafly: The Kaplen
offers a Yom Hashoah
commemoration with
Theresienstadt survivor
Ela Weissberger, 7 p.m.
In 1942, Ms. Weissberger
played the the cat in
the childrens opera
Brundibar there, in a
show the Nazis staged
to deceive International
Red Cross inspectors.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1418.
Parenting workshop
in Westwood:
Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emersons rabbi,
Debra Orenstein, leads a
participatory book group
discussion on Wendy
Moguls The Blessing
of a Skinned Knee at
the Westwood Library,
The Pascack Valley/

Northern Valley
chapter of Hadassah
and the sisterhood
of Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
hold a Yom Hashoah
commemoration at
the shul, 7:30 p.m.
Community member and
Holocaust survivor Berta
Fromme will tell her story
of survival. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Friday
APRIL 17
Rabbi Charles Kroloff

Shabbat in Wayne:
Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff,
past president of the
Central Conference
of American Rabbis
and the Association
of Reform Zionists of
America, author, and
rabbi emeritus of Temple
Emanu-El of Westfield,
gives the fourth annual
Rabbi Israel S. Dresner
Tikkun Olam lecture at
Temple Beth Tikvah.
He will discuss Can
One Jew Really Make
a Difference?: From
Nachshon to Dresner
to, 8 p.m. Rabbi
emeritus Israel Dresners
86th birthday will be
celebrated at the Oneg
Shabbat. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973) 694-1616.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
a musical Shabbat
service with the Temple
Emeth band, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
Allan Chernoff
Shabbat in Parsippany:
Award-winning journalist
Allan Chernoff, former
senior correspondent
for CNN and CNBC,
presents the annual
Joseph Gotthelf
Holocaust memorial
lecture at Temple Beth
Am, 7:30 p.m. He will
discuss the experiences
of the child survivors of
Tomaszow-Mazowiecki,
Poland, including his
mother, Rena Margulies
Chernoff, one of the
youngest survivors of
the Holocaust, as told
in his new book, The
Tailors of Tomaszow.
879 Beverwyck Road.
(973) 887-0046.
Shabbat in Washington
Township: Temple Beth
Or offers an interactive
tot family service, 6 p.m.
Oneg and craft activity
follow. Meet Rabbi
Noah Fabricant and
Cantor Sarah Silverberg.
56 Ridgewood Road.
(201) 664-7422 or
templebethornj.org.
year. Dr. Alan Kadish,

president and CEO of
Touro College, will also
speak. Refreshments.
At LCW, 227 West 60th
St. Reservations, anne.
bayefsky@touro.edu.
Film in Teaneck:
of the Pascack Valley

celebrates the Latin
American Jewish
community with
Shabbat La Vida Loca,
8 p.m. Cantor Mark
Biddelman and guest
cantor Ilan Mamber of
Temple Beth Rishon in
Wyckoff will be joined
by a band. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
www.tepv.org.
Saturday
APRIL 18
Casino night in Teaneck:
Temple Emeths Spring
Casino Night includes
a Texas hold em poker
tournament, designer
Bling Bingo, blackjack,
craps, poker, roulette,
and a big six wheel,
7:30 p.m. Ticket includes
$50 in chips, full bar,
buffet dinner, and
dessert. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Sock hop in Wayne: The

Wayne YMCA hosts a
50s-style sock hop with
music by the Golden
Gup, 7:30 p.m. Food,
contests, and prizes.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100.
Congregation Rinat
Yisraels adult education
committee presents
the prize-winning
documentary Blessed
Is the Match: The Life
and Death of Hannah
Senesh, 9:30 p.m. 389
W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Sunday
APRIL 19
Toddler program
in Tenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and snacks
for pre-k students and
their parents, 9:30 a.m. 1
Engle St. (201) 568-3035.
Aphasia center
fundraiser in
Leonia: The social
action committee of
Congregation Adas
Emuno sponsors a
fundraiser for Maywoods
Adler Aphasia Center
at the shul, 10 a.m.
Light breakfast, short
informative session,
and a sale of handmade
jewelry and other gift
items made by Aphasia
center participants. 254
Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712
or www.adasemuno.org.
Toddler program in
Washington Township:
As part of the shuls
Holiday Happenings
program, the sisterhood
of Temple Beth Or offers
music, stories, crafts, and
snacks for children up
to second-graders and
their parents, 11:15 a.m.
56 Ridgewood Road.
(201) 664-7422 or www.
templebethornj.org.
Yom Hashoah in
Hackensack: Temple
Beth Els Yom Hashoah
commemoration
includes a film about
Varian Fry, the American
journalist, originally from
Ridgewood, who ran a
rescue network in France,
helping anti-Nazi and
Jewish refugees escape,
2 p.m. Memorial service
follows. 280 Summit Ave.
(201) 342-2045.
Family games in
Teaneck: The Teaneck
General Store offers
family game day,
led by game maven
Leora Verbit, 4-6 p.m.
10 percent discount
on games with
reservation/coupon.
502a Cedar Lane.
(201) 530-5046 or www.
teaneckgeneralstore.com.
Saturday
Rabbi Dr. Jacob J.
Schacter
APRIL 18
Yom Hashoah in
Teaneck: Congregation
Rinat Yisrael presents a
lecture by Rabbi Dr. Jacob
J. Schacter, professor
of Jewish history and
Jewish thought and senior
scholar at the Center
for the Jewish Future at
Yeshiva University, 8 p.m.
He will discuss The
American Chaplain and
the Survivors in honor
of the second yahrzeit of
his father, Rabbi Herschel
Schacter zl, and in
commemoration of the
70th anniversary of the
liberation of Buchenwald.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
In New York
Wednesday
APRIL 15
Yom Hashoah on the
Upper West Side:
Members of many shuls
on Manhattans Upper
West Side will come
to Congregation Bnai
Jeshurun for an all-night
reading of the names of
some of the six million
Jews murdered during
the Holocaust. Shuls
from across the Jewish
spectrum, Orthodox,
Conservative, Reform,
Reconstructionist, and
unaffiliated, join for the
reading, which begins
at 10 p.m. and ends at
7:30 at Bnai Jeshurun,
resumes at 7 at the JCC,
and continues until 9
p.m. Bnai Jeshurun is at
270 West 89th Street,
between Broadway and
West End; the JCC is at
334 Amsterdam Ave. at
76th St.
Thursday
APRIL 16
Yom Hashoah in New
York: The Touro College
and University system
hosts Commemorating
Yom Hashoah: A 70-Year
Perspective, 5 p.m. Talks
by survivors including Dr.
Mark Hasten, chair of the
Touro College board of
trustees; kindertransport
survivor Ruth Zimbler;
Baruch Gross, a former
prisoner at AuschwitzBirkenau and Orly Gross,
who accompanied her
grandfather on a trip to
Auschwitz earlier this
Joshua Smith
FRANK J. LANZA, 2013
Israeli music: The

Cleveland Orchestras
principal flutist, Joshua
Smith, joins the Israeli
Chamber Project at
Merkin Concert Hall,
8:30 p.m. Program
features works of Ravel,
Debussy, Schumann,
Carter, and Zohar
Sharon. 129 W. 67th
St. (212) 501-3330,
boxoffice@kaufmancenter.org, or at www.
kaufmanmusiccenter.org.
Singles
Sunday
APRIL 12
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
bagels and lox brunch
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. $8. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Monday
APRIL 13
Support group in
Tenafly: The Kaplen
offers a four-session
bereavement group with
therapist Judy Brauner:
Widows and Widowers:
You Are Not Alone at
6:15 p.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1456.
Sunday
APRIL 19
Author at brunch in
Clifton: North Jersey
Jewish Singles 45-60s at
the Clifton Jewish Center
offers a brunch and
presentation by Boris
Fishman, who will discuss
and sign copies of his
book, A Replacement
Life, noon. 18 Delaware
St. Karen, (973) 772-3131
or join North Jersey
Jewish Singles 45-60s, at
www.meetup.com.
Calendar
Jewish Standard film critic leads series
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
has begun a daytime film appreciation
course, the JCC U Film School, a series
with Dr. Eric Goldman, who is the Jewish
Standards film reviewer and an adjunct
professor of cinema at Yeshiva University.
Dr. Goldman will screen foreign films in
English and then lead a discussion on their
themes.
Dr. Goldmans most recent book, The
American Jewish Story Through Cinema,
was published last year. He is founder
and president of Ergo Media, a video publishing company. He also recently joined
Robert Osborne as a co-host on the TCMTurner Classic Movies cable network.
The course continues on April 23 with
Eric Goldman
Zaytoun, on May 7 with Eagle vs.

Shark, and on May 21 with Holy Smoke.
For information, call Judy Lattif at (201)
408-1457 or email her at jlattif@jccotp.org.
NCJW schedules trip to Pittsburgh

The Jersey Hills section of the National
Council of Jewish Women is planning a
trip to Pittsburgh from July 17 to 19. Nonmembers are welcome as well.
The itinerary includes stops at Frank
Lloyd Wrights Falling Water, the Duquesne
Incline, and Phipps Conservatory &
Botanical Garden. A cruise, two dinners

and breakfasts, and lodging at the Comfort
Inn & Suites is included. A $25 deposit is
required by April 18. Call Leona Sesholtz
at (201) 391-9354 or Shelley Schneider at
(201) 692-0167.
Holocaust photo exhibit in Fair Lawn

The Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library
of Fair Lawn will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps with a photo exhibit
curated by Dr. Wallace Greene. The
exhibit will be on display through April
16. It is on the third floor in the reference
room, which is elevator accessible.

Dr. Greene taught Jewish history for
many years and serves on the Holocaust
Memorial committee of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. The
library is at 10-01 Fair Lawn Ave.
PHOTOS COURTESY YJCC
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The Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition and

Ramapo College of New Jerseys Gross
Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies will screen a recently released
documentary, Regina: A Tale of Love
and Defiance, at the Bergen County
YJCC on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.
Academy Award-winning British actress
Rachel Weisz is the voice of Regina in the
film about Regina Jonas (1902-1944), who
made history by becoming the first properly ordained woman rabbi in the world.
Sally J. Priesand, the first U.S.-ordained
woman rabbi, will introduce and lead a
discussion of the film, drawing on her
participation in a study mission to Berlin and Terezin, which followed in the
footsteps and honored the memory of
Regina Jonas.
The Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition,
a sponsor of the free event, is a newly

formed alliance committed to strengthening and enhancing Jewish life in the
region. Participants include Temple Beth
Or of Washington Township, Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake, Congregation Bnai Israel of
Emerson, Temple Beth Sholom of Pascack Valley in Park Ridge, and the Bergen County YJCC of Washington Township. The programs other sponsor, the
Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, is under the auspices of
Ramapo College of New Jersey.
The YJCC is at 605 Pascack Road in
Washington Township. To reserve a
seat, go to http://bit.ly/reginatherabbi.
For information, call (201) 666-6610,
ext. 5782.
Gallery
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n 1 Temple Emanuel of the

Pascack Valley held Passover
workshops led by faculty
members and congregant
Sam Rak under the direction of Rabbi Shelley Kniaz,
director of congregational
education, and Marjorie Shore,
religious school administrator.
Here, Amanda Ellis makes an
afikoman bag. COURTESY TEPV
n 2 On Friday morning,
April 3, the Jewish Center
of Teaneck held the annual Joy and Al Amsel Memorial Community Passover
Biur Chametz the bread
burning. MICHAEL LAVES
n 3 Barry Wien is shown here
with country singer Caroline
Doctorow at the Songs of
Freedom Passover concert
at Adas Israel Synagogue in
Sag Harbor, N.Y., the oldest
synagogue in Suffolk County.
Wien, a director at Eden Memorial Chapels Inc. in Fort
Lee, sits on the board of the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh
and the advisory board of the
New York Board of Rabbis.
He also is a member of the
Jewish Funeral Directors of
America and Kavod Independent Jewish Funeral Directors.
5
4
n 4 Ben Porat Yosef early

childhood students attended a
Living Legacy Matzah Factory
led by Rabbi Michoel Goldin.
n 5 Students in the Shirley and Paul Pintel Nursery
School at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel made hats
representing the plague of
frogs. COURTESY FLJC/CBI
n 6 Andrew, Sari, Ella, and
Liz Sagat were among the
families participating in
the Bergen County YJCCs
David Rukin Early Childhood Center Nursery School
model seder. COURTESY YJCC
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Jewish World
Meet Omer Mei-Dan

Israeli BASE jumper, stuntman and orthopedic surgeon
URIEL HEILMAN
BOULDER, COLORADO Dr. Omer MeiDan has jumped off more cliffs than he can
count not to mention helicopters, skyscrapers and bridges.
Just dont call him a skydiver.
An orthopedic surgeon and extreme
sports athlete, Mei-Dan, 42, is a BASE
jumper one of an estimated 1,500 to
3,000 worldwide who jump from the fixed
platforms for which the sport is named:
buildings, antennas, spans and earth. Skydiving is a cakewalk by comparison.
Because BASE jumpers leap from much
lower altitudes, they often have mere milliseconds to deploy their parachutes. And
for leaps that involve hazards below, like
craggy mountainsides or steel structures,
the risks are exponentially greater. To
guide and control their falls, jumpers often
don wingsuits, which make them look like
bats or flying squirrels.
Perhaps not surprisingly, BASE jumpers
die with alarming regularity. Even a tiny
mistake or misfortune a gust of wind,
impeded visibility, an equipment mishap
can mean sudden and violent death.
But thats all part of the thrill.
I like being afraid, I like the fear, I enjoy
it, Mei-Dan said in an interview in Boulder, where he lives with his wife and three
children. In BASE jumping, every small
thing dictates life or death. It makes me
feel vibrant. Extreme sports athletes have
the ability to sustain, cope with and enjoy
the amount of stress other people would
define as bad experiences.
Mei-Dan, who was born in Israel and
moved to Boulder in 2012, stands out
among BASE jumpers because he has
found a way to combine his passion for
extreme sports with his other area of
expertise: medicine. A highly sought-after
orthopedic surgeon with a robust medical practice at the University of Colorado
in Denver and Boulder, Mei-Dan studies
extreme sports athletes, operates on them,
and helps other physicians understand
how to guide their rehabilitation.
While he was in medical school, MeiDan was a Red Bull-sponsored extreme
sports athlete. He did stunts for corporate
sponsors like McDonalds and Coca-Cola.
Last winter, the doctor starred in a 10-episode show on Fox Sports called Cutting
Edge, MD that focused on Mei-Dans
treatment and rehabilitation regimens for
injured professional athletes.
Mei-Dans own extreme athletic activities are not limited to BASE jumping. He
does backcountry skiing and ice climbing
in the winter, whitewater kayaking in summer, and rock climbing and mountaineering all year long.
Raised on Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz north
of Haifa, Mei-Dans outdoorsy pursuits

began on a surfboard in the Mediterranean at 10 and quickly escalated. His
father was a pediatrician and Mei-Dan
was always interested in medicine, but his
drive to become a physician was strengthened in the Israel Defense Forces, where
he says he couldnt abide standing on the
sidelines while comrades were injured. A
paratrooper, Mei-Dan also found he really
liked jumping.
While studying medicine at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev in Beersheba, MeiDan spent about three months a year traveling abroad indulging
his extreme hobbies.
He picked up sponsors like Red Bull and
Nissan, did stunts for
National Geographic
and Discovery, and
launched his own prod u c t i o n c o m p a ny,
ExtremeGate, to document his adventures.
His mostly Israeli production team includes
his wife, Hagit, whose
sport of choice is openwater swimming. In
Israel, Mei-Dan jumped off the Azrieli towers in Tel Aviv, went cliff diving near the
Dead Sea, and leaped from all manner of
flying vehicles.
His medical interests developed in
tandem. Mei-Dan studied orthopedics,
became a sports surgeon, and developed a
subspecialty in hip preservation. Hip injuries are common among extreme sports
athletes.
Extreme sports athletes differ from
other sportsmen in their physiology, endocrinology, and even psyches, and need to
be treated differently, Mei-Dan says. For
example, a doctor who knows when to
clear an injured soccer player to resume
playing may not know enough to do so for
rock climbers or BASE jumpers. The doctor might not realize, say, that a dislocated
shoulder injury could lead to a BASE jumpers death if he loses the dexterity to pull
his chute while in flight.
Mei-Dan outlined different approaches
to treatment in a 2013 medical textbook,
Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries:
Epidemiology, Treatment, Rehabilitation
and Prevention, and in June he organized
an international conference on extreme
sports medicine in Colorado.
Mei-Dan says his research suggests that
extreme sports athletes are not subject to
the post-traumatic stress that might affect
others who witness gruesome fatalities or
undergo frequent near-death experiences
like those facing BASE jumpers. These
types of people are wired completely
Omer Mei-Dan jumps into the Cave of Swallows, a 1,200-foot-deep

site in Mexico. Mei-Dan, inset, courts danger.
COURTESY OMER MEI-DAN
differently, he said. BASE

jumpers are immune to
PTSD.
Mei-Dan, who has the
trim physique of a rock
climber, hasnt escaped
without injury. A two-inch
scar on his clean-shaven scalp is the result
of striking a cliff. He has cracked his pelvis,
dislocated his ankle, torn his elbow, and
cracked ribs. On average, Mei-Dan says he
needs one or two reparative surgeries per
year. Hes also seen many of his friends die
right in front of him something he shrugs
off with the insouciance he says is necessary for extreme athletes. Seeing fatalities, experiencing near-misses, injuring
myself and having surgery its all part of
jumping, he said.
In his younger, more careless days,
Mei-Dan often would give his jumps a
twist. When he jumped from the Eiffel
Tower, Mei-Dan and his jumping partner,
Jeb Corliss, compounded the danger by
jumping through the center of the monument rather than off it, falling through the
hollow centers of the viewing platforms
before deploying their chutes some 200
feet above the ground.
Mei-Dan easily could have been killed:
missing the hole and smashing into a platform, deploying his chute too early and
getting it snagged on the steel latticework,
or deploying it too late and crashing into
the ground at breakneck speed.
The margin of error was about onetenth of a second, Mei-Dan recalled, noting that a jumper who tried soon afterward to replicate the stunt died.
One thing Mei-Dan does not do before
he jumps is appeal for divine help. No
prayers will come out of this mouth, he
said with a chuckle. Im more atheist than
anything else.
Mei-Dan came to Boulder three years
ago, lured by a great job, proximity to the
mountains, and a culture that reveres the
outdoors. When fresh snow fell in Colorado in late February after a long dry spell,
Mei-Dan woke early that Monday morning
to ski the backcountry some two hours
from his home before zipping back to the
city to see patients in the afternoon.
I love the life here. I feel its exactly
what I want and what I need, he said. I
can walk five minutes to the flatirons
the 1,500-foot rock formations just outside
Boulder and climb them with my children. Its a lifestyle.
The Mei-Dans are involved in the local
Jewish community. His kids go to the
JCC Ranch Camp in Colorado, his wife is
involved in the Jewish federation, and the
family is connected to other local Israeli
expats.
Though he has lived on five continents
in 10 years, Mei-Dan said he didnt imagine a future outside of Israel until about
three years ago, when he got a job in Colorado and realized that in Boulder he could
both maintain his extracurricular pursuits
and do the kind of clinical work he finds
interesting.
Instead of looking into these activities
that I like to do so much as just hobbies
and just do them once in a while, I can
actually live this life and enjoy them in a
place that also offers me the university and
the clinical practice, he said.
Here you can snowboard, ice climb,
mountain bike and rock climb in the same
day, basically, and kayak and skydive and
BASE jump and do whatever you want
to do. This is how I want to live my life. I
didnt have to compromise.

JTA Wire Service
Obituaries
Stanley Atkins
Stanley J. Atkins, 93, of

Fort Lee died on April 6.
Born in Union City,
he graduated from New
York University and John
Marshall Law School and
was an attorney in Hudson and Bergen counties
for more than 62 years.
During World War II,
he was recipient of the
Bronze Star and attained
the rank of master sergeant. He was a member
of the VFW of Bergen
County and the Fort Lee
Jewish War Veterans, and
was president of Mount
Moriah Cemetery in
Fairview.
Predeceased by his
wife, Frances, ne
Feinman, in 1995, he is
survived by his daughters, Sonya of Teaneck,
and Rae of Fort Lee; two
grandchildren, and a
nephew.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Vladimir Bruk
Vladimir Bruk, 90, of

Clifton died on April 1.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
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Sidney Fineberg
Sidney Fineberg, 93, of

San Francisco, formerly
of New York City and
Maplewood, died on
April 4.
Born in Jersey City, he
was a U.S. Army World
War II veteran. Before
retiring, he was a stockbroker at Spingarn Heine
in Jersey City.
Predeceased by his
wife, Ann, in 1984, he is
survived by his children,
Carol Nathan of San
Francisco, Steven of West
Long Branch, and Jane of
Brooklyn; sisters, Eleanor
Pashelinsky of Verona
and Judy Hertzberg of
New Orleans, and five
grandchildren.
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Evelyn Harris
Evelyn Sirotin Harris, 95,

of Hackensack died on
April 3.
She was a 1941 graduate of New York University and was an active
civic leader.
She is survived by
her husband, Richard,
children, Peggy Plotnick,
Liz Schaeffer (Peter),
and Lynn; three grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be
sent to the NYU Scholarship Fund. Arrangements
were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.
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Nana Rowe
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Gorschen, formerly of
River Edge, died on
April 6.
She was a member of
Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge.
Predeceased by her
husband, Hartley, she is
survived by her children,
Sally Rowe (Anthony
Biancoviso) of Barryville,
N.Y., and Elizabeth
Lawton (Leonard) of
Paramus; three grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
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Holy Name offers bereavement support
Holy Name Medical Center Hospice and
Palliative Services offers a program to
provide compassionate support and education to those who are bereaved. Since
many people who have experienced the
loss of a loved one find comfort in sharing
their feelings with others, a bereavement
group, Sharing the Journey, was developed as part of our bereavement program
to provide support and guidance during
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bereavement counselors.
Sharing the Journey will meet for eight
weeks and is open to those who have experienced loss in the past year. In order to
accommodate the needs of our participants,
group meetings are being offered on Tuesdays from 6 7:30 p.m. at Holy Name Medical Center beginning April 14 and Wednesdays from 1011:30 a.m. at Holy Name
Medical Center beginning April 15.
There will also be a group meeting Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning April
15 at Villa Marie Claire, 12 West Saddle
River Road, Saddle River. Villa Marie Claire
is Holy Names residential hospice which
provides comfort and care for people with
advanced illness and for their families in a
gracious and supportive setting.
The program is free, but pre-registration
is mandatory. For information and registration, please call Lenore Guido at (201)
833-3000, ext. 7580.
Taub
not need to take on debt to pay for their

tuition. We are most grateful to the Taub
Foundation and members of the Taub family for this very generous gift in support of
our students and for demonstrating their
confidence in the quality of a William Paterson University education.
Speaking on behalf of the family foundation, Steven Taub said: This grant
builds on our familys long tradition of
supporting quality education. We are
pleased to partner with William Paterson University to make a college education possible for more students. We have
named the program after my father,
Henry Taub. He was the first in his family
to attend college, as many of these students will also be.
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support for between 30 and 50 students.

The foundation grant will supplement
any other scholarships or grants students
may receive. The first scholarships will be
awarded to members of the incoming fall
2015 freshman class.
This is truly a transformative grant for
our students, said Kathleen Waldron,
president of William Paterson University.
We recognize that paying for college is
a major burden for many of our students
and their families, who rely on state and
federal support, loans, savings, and full- or
part-time jobs to pay for their education.
This grant means that these students will
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Yeshiva University partners

with eWorks for responsible
electronic waste recycling
In line with its goals of environmental
and financial sustainability, Yeshiva University recently partnered with eWorks
Electronic Services, a program established by the HASC Center and AHRC,
that provides recycling, refurbishment
and resale services of office technologies
and consumer electronics by employing
individuals with physical or developmental disabilities.
This program is a financially viable
and sustainable partnership for disposing of our electronic waste which is also
beneficial to the Jewish and disabled
community, said Andrea Moore, sustainability manager at YU. When we
were considering our recycling options,
eWorks added an element of social activism that furthers Yeshivas goals of bettering the community while maintaining
high standards of environmental and
financial responsibility.
eWorks technicians collect and disassemble YUs electronic waste, separating
metals, plastics, rubber and glass. The
recycled pieces are shipped out to be
further processed at recycling plants. As
a zero-landfill project, e-cycling responsibly recycles assets in compliance with
local, state and federal regulations.
Metal and some of the other materials
in these products have a high recyclable
value, said Moore. For technology that
cant be fixed, theyre able to separate
these components into pieces that can
be used or recycled individually. Other
technology theyre able to refurbish
completely for resale.

The partnership with eWorks is just
one of many initiatives organized by the
Office of Energy and Sustainability to
integrate sustainability throughout the
academics, operations and administration of YU. That includes tracking and
working to decrease greenhouse emissions, creating programs that encourage public or shared transportation to
the YU campuses, as well as student-oriented programming like the Eco Representative Program, a paid environmental
leadership initiative for YU undergraduates that focuses on raising awareness
of environmental issues and impacting
student behavior, and YU Unplugged,
an annual dorm competition that seeks
to reduce YUs electricity usage and promote awareness of energy conservation.
The Torah Umadda philosophy of
YU is a perfect complement to our mission, because what were doing is taking
the electronic sophistication of todays
age the madda and together we are
observing the Torah commandment
ofchesed[kindness], said Rabbi Dr.
Chaim Wakslak, clinical director of the
HASC Center. The electronic devices
that are conveyed to our center are being
used primarily to provide job opportunities for people who are intellectually
challenged, which in turns gives them
a sense of self-worth and a simchas
hachayim [ joy in life] which they may
not otherwise achieve.
Celebrate Israel Parade on May 31

features marchers, floats and fun run
The Jewish Community Relations
Council of New York ( JCRC-NY) has
announced that Manhattans Fifth Avenue will once again turn blue and white
on Sunday, May 31, from 11 a.m. to 4
p.m., as more than 25 floats with musical performers, 15 marching bands, and
40,000 marchers entertain hundreds
of thousands of spectators for the largest celebration of Israel in the world, the
annual Celebrate Israel Parade.
This year marks the 51st anniversary
of what has become one of the largest
parades in New York City. The parade is
the marquee event of the JCRC-NYs Celebrate Israel Initiative a project largely
sponsored by UJA-Federation of New
York and the consulate general of Israel
in New York that celebrates the positive impact the Jewish and democratic
state of Israel has on the lives of people
in New York and around the world.
New this year, 400 people will be kicking off the parade with a one-mile fun
run beginning at 11 a.m., following the
route up Fifth Avenue. Registration is
now open at celebrateisraelny.org.
More than 200 organizations are
scheduled to march along Fifth Avenue,
from 57th Street to 74th Street, including
groups of rollerbladers, motorcyclists,
dance groups, and juggling clowns.
The 2015 creative theme for marching
groups and floats is Israel Imagines!
Each group works with parade staff to
develop a presentation of colorful banners, costumes and props related to the
theme in some way.
For the fifth year in a row, the Parade
will be televised live by FOX affiliate,
WWOR-TV My9 from 122 p.m., and
streamed online from 12-3 p.m., so Israelis and Israel supporters throughout the
world can watch.
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