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Remorseful thief returns stolen artifacts
number of ballista stones
ployee of the Museum of
from the Early Roman
Islamic and Near Eastern
period, said Danny Syon
Cultures in Beersheva,
of the Israel Antiquities
could not believe his
Authority, who excavated
eyes last week when he
at Gamla for many years.
opened a bag left in the
The Romans shot
museums courtyard.
these stones at the
Inside were two slingdefenders of the city in
stones along with a typed
order to keep them away
note that read, These
from the wall, and in that
are two Roman ballista
way they could approach
The ballista balls and
balls from Gamla, from
the wall and break it with
the accompanying note
a residential quarter at
a battering ram. The
left at the Museum of Isthe foot of the summit.
stones were manually
lamic and Near Eastern
I stole them in July 1995
chiseled on site by solCultures.
Dalia Manor
diers or prisoners.
and since then they have
This is not the first time
brought me nothing but
that remorseful thieves have returned
trouble. Please, do not steal antiquities!
national treasures in their illegal possesThe museum director, Dalia Manor,
sion.
immediately reported the anonymous
According to the Antiquities Authorigift to the Israel Antiquities Authority, and soon these stones will join
tys Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities
other ballista balls from Gamla that
Robbery, some of the artifacts returned
are housed in the National Treasures
are a 2,000-year-old Jewish coffin that
Department. Many other stones such as
had been kept in the bedroom of a Tel
these are displayed in the Gamla Nature
Aviv resident until he realized what it
Reserve in the Golan Heights.
was; and a Jerusalem stone taken by
Almost 2,000 such stones were
a Christian tourist from New York and
found during the archaeological excavareturned to Israel through his pastor a
tions in the Gamla Nature Reserve, and
decade later.
Abigail Klein Leichman / Israel21c.org
this is the site where there is the largest

14-year-old Israeli girl new face of Dior

l Israels Channel 2 called

it a Cinderella story, and

thats no exaggeration.
Blond, blue-eyed, Israeli
14-year-old Sofia Mechetner became the new
in-house face of Christian
Dior, though she has zero
modeling experience. Her
$265,000 contract included introducing the Dior
Haute Couture fall-winter
line for 2015 at Paris Fashion Week from July 5-10.
Its likely that her single immigrant
mother can stop cleaning offices and
caring for the elderly, and Sofia can get
them a bigger place so she will no longer have to share a room with her two
younger siblings in a modest apartment
in Holon.
At 5 feet, 8 inches, Sofia caught
the eye of a talent scout from Israels
Roberto management agency, which
sent her with a chaperone to Paris for
a photo shoot and audition at the Viva
modeling agency. However, when Viva
discovered that Sofia was only 14 and
had never modeled, the shoot was
canceled. The disappointed pair took a
walk and stopped at a Dior store when
head designer Raf Simons just hap-

pened to be there.
Simons was struck by
Sofias looks and told the
companys casting director about her. He contacted the Viva Agency,
thinking she was a client.
Needless to say, the agency reconsidered its initial
rejection. Several weeks
later, back in Holon, Sofia
got the news that she got
the Dior gig. Some quick
lessons on runway modeling and she was off to Paris.
Channel 2 followed her around Holon
for a few days before the trip, showing
her picking up her sister and brother
from school and preparing food for
them, folding laundry and giving a tour
of the one-room flat. Photos of models
are posted on the walls above her mattress on the floor.
It has been noted that the teen
strongly resembles a young Kate Moss,
the British supermodel also discovered
at age 14. Whether Sofia will go on to
the kind of spectacular career Moss
has enjoyed remains to be seen. But
without a doubt, she will no longer be
embarrassed to bring friends home.
Abigail Klein Leichman / Israel21c.org

Candlelighting: Friday, July 17, 8:07 p.m.

Shabbat ends: Saturday, July 18, 9:13 p.m.

Cindy Azoulay/Jerusalem municipality

l Amos Cohen, an em-

City of gold and shade

l Downtown Jerusalem has wel-

comed summer with umbrellas!

A thousand colorful umbrellas were
suspended by barely visible string
over downtown areas, starting with
Yoel Moshe Solomon Street in the
historic Nachalat Shiva district just off
the Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall.
It never rains in Israel during the
summer months, but the sun is strong
enough to cook shakshuka on the
pavement. So lets call these decorative umbrellas parasols.
First and foremost, however, theyre
meant as an attention-catching way
to welcome visitors downtown. Yoel
Moshe Solomon is one of the citys
most cosmopolitan areas, filled with
art galleries, jewelry and craft shops,
boutiques, and cafs. People love
to walk through the pedestrian-only
street and browse the shops till the
wee hours, especially on Thursday and
Saturday nights.
The Umbrellas Street Project, produced by Eden-The Jerusalem Center
Development Corporation for the
municipality, includes free shows by
local street artists and musicians and
runs through October 5.
What is usually known as the Um-

brella Sky Project began several years

ago in Agueda, Portugal, and has
since spread to streets in Turkey, Serbia, Germany, Cambodia, and other
countries during the month of July. It
was first implemented in Israel in 2013,
when 600 colorful umbrellas were
suspended over Tel Avivs Rothschild
Boulevard to celebrate the arrival of
free Wi-Fi across the city.
Nachalat Shiva was founded in 1869
by seven (shiva, in Hebrew) Jewish
residents of Jerusalems Old City and
is one of the first neighborhoods to
be built outside the Old City walls.
In addition to galleries and shops, it
houses historic synagogues and the
iconic Tmol Shilshom bookstore caf.
Abigail Klein Leichman/Israel 21c.org

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Noshes

Israelis are generally fond of debate and will typically discuss any topic very passionately. Expect to
be cut off regularly during a presentation.
A slide Working with Israelis drawn from a guidebook by Intel USA that went
viral last week.

AMYS ANTICS:

Love is on track
in Trainwreck
Opening the
same day as
Ant-Man is
Trainwreck, which has
got great advance
buzz. It stars the really
hot (and I think brilliant)
comedian AMY SCHUMER, 34, and she also
wrote the film and her
characters name is
Amy. Its directed by
JUDD APATOW, 47, the
master of romantic
comedy with some
raunch. Heres the
capsule plot: Amys dad
(Colin Quinn) convinced
her monogamy isnt
realistic at an early age.
Now a magazine writer,
Amy lives by that credo
but her many relationships dont make her
happy. She starts to think
her dad is wrong when
she finds herself falling
for Aaron (Bill Hader), a
charming and successful
sports doctor who is the
subject of an article shes
writing.
VANESSA BAYER, 33,
has a major supporting role as Nikki, Amys
friend and sounding
board. This is the first big
budget film for the SNL
star. DAVE ATTELL, 50,
and EZRA MILLER, 22,
also have big supporting
roles. Also look for Jersey City native NORMAN
LLOYD, 100, who had
big parts in a number of
Hitchcock films dating
back to 1942. Hes prob-

ably best remembered

as Dr. Auschlander on
TVs St. Elsewhere.
Lloyd plays an interesting
neighbor of Amys father,
who lives in an assisted
living facility. Amys
father in the movie, like
her real-life father, has
multiple sclerosis. In a
recent interview with
CBS, Schumer said that
her fathers illness (which
struck when she was 12
years old and bankrupted the family), helped
her embrace life, laughter, and love. She says: I
want to, like, experience
all I can and make as
many memories as I can.
As for her dad, today,
Amy says: [Hes] just as
hilarious as ever and
when I go see him, its
not heavy. Hes happy.
Fun footnote: Apatow
likes to cast celebrities
from other fields and
Trainwreck features
basketball mega-star
LeBron James as Aarons
best friend. The advance
review from the Hollywood Reporter says:
James is charming in
the part, a penny-pinching Dowton Abbey
fan who is protective of
Aarons emotions.
Popular music
impresario and
Oscar-winning
film producer JERRY
WEINTRAUB died on
July 6, age 77. Not noted
in any obit I saw was how

Amy Schumer

Judd Apatow

Michael Douglas, left, Paul Rudd, and Ant-Man

Paul Rudd suits up

for his Ant-Man stint
Vanessa Bayer

Norman Lloyd

Weintraub became great

friends with the (first)
President Bush. In the
late 60s, Weintraub
bought a summer
vacation home in Maine.
He wanted to play tennis,
but the clerk at the
Kennebunkport (tennis)
Club made it clear to
him, after hearing his last
name, that Jews werent
allowed in (We have no
courts, she said, although the place was
empty and then
suggested he go somewhere else). Jerrys wife,
a Maine native, knew
George H. W. Bush, then
a businessman, and told
him what had happened
to Jerry. George is the
son of (now-deceased)

Senator Prescott Bush of

Connecticut (who had
many ties to Kennebunkport).
Not long after Jerry
got snubbed, George
invited him to play at the
tennis club with him and
his father. After their first
match, Senator Bush told
Jerry he would put him
up for membership
telling him to come to
him if there are any problems. Of course, given
the local prestige of the
Bush family, Jerry got his
membership in that tennis club. The Bush family
later cleared the way for
Jerrys membership in
other local clubs that had
few, if any, Jewish memN.B.
bers.

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PAUL RUDD, 46, stars in the title role of Ant-Man,

which opens July 17. This is the first time that Ant-Man,
a founding member of the Marvel Comics Avengers,
has hit the big screen. Ant-Man is really master thief
Scott Lang. He has a suit that allows him to shrink in
scale but increase dramatically in strength. The suit was
developed by his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (MICHAEL
DOUGLAS, 70). Lang, in the words of a publicity
release, has to channel his inner-hero to help his mentor and keep the secret of his suit from a new generation of towering threats. One of those possible threats
is Darren Cross, aka Yellowjacket, who has developed a
similar suit. Hes played by COREY STOLL, 39 (House
of Cards, The Strain).
By the way, Rudd is widely known as one of the nicest
guys in showbiz and somebody who other celebs like to
work with. And heres the Jewish angle his parents are
both Jewish (father now deceased); he was a bar mitzvah; and his wife, JULIE, is Jewish, too, and they wed
before a rabbi. The couple has a son, JACK, 9, and a
N.B.
daughter, DARBY, 5.

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Local
Expert to speak on Iran, nuclear proliferation
AIPAC and JFNNJ co-sponsor meeting at Closter shul
LARRY YUDELSON
When the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee host a meeting
next Wednesday night Stop Iran from
Going Nuclear attendees will have the
opportunity to hear from an AIPAC official knowledgeable about both Iran and
nuclear proliferation.
Bradley Gordon served on the CIAs Iranian desk in the early 1980s. Later, in the
administration of President George H. W.
Bush, he served as assistant director of the
United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, overseeing non-proliferation
policy. (In that capacity, he picked up the
title ambassador when representing the
United States during the 1990 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Process.)
His years in government also included
stints on the House and Senate foreign
relations committees. He joined AIPAC in
1995.
I spent the 1970s in graduate school,
he said. I spent 1977-78 in Israel, doing
[my] doctoral dissertation research. I got
back, and I was married and I had a child,
and I realized I needed a job, he said.
The topic of his research he never

Iran watcher
Bradley
Gordon
has been
studying the
country and
its rulers for
decades.

finished the dissertation was the impact

of social change on politics among Israeli
Arabs. At the time, he spoke Hebrew and
Arabic fluently. His dissertation adviser
was good friends with the head of the CIA
analysis section. He received a suitably
mysterious telegram with just a phone
number, beginning with 202. He called.
CIA, said the person who answered
the phone.
This was right after Menachem Begin
had been elected in 1977. The Labor
Party had always been in power in Israel.

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RALLY SPEAKERS Speakers confirmed for the Stop Iran Rally, include:
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JAMES
WOOLSEY

PETE
HOEKSTRA

ALLEN
WEST

Former Director of the

CIA and Chairman of the
Foundation for Defense of
Democracies

Former U.S.
Congressman and
Chair of the House
Intelligence Committee

Former Congressman
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STEVEN
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FRANK
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Founder of The
Investigative
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Terrorism

Founder of the
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CAROLINE
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and speaker

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Nobody at the CIA had a clue what this

meant. I could actually tell them, so they
hired me, he said.
He started in early 1979, covering
Yemen, at the time divided between warring North Yemen and South Yemen.
South Yemen was Marxist, so the ambassador ended up briefing the White House
and his CIA supervisors on what was a
Cold War hot spot.
In 1980, he was assigned to cover Iran a
similarly high-profile assignment as Ayatollah Khomeni had recently come to power.

I was not the guy who missed the

Islamic revolution at the CIA. It goes a long
way to explain how I got the job, he said.
He didnt speak Farsi, but that wasnt a
problem: The entire Iranian press would
be translated overnight.
Does that immersion in Iran 30 years
ago help him understand the country
today?
Interestingly, its pretty much the same
cast of characters, he said.
One of the things I argued at the time is
that the Iranian regime, once you grant its
point of view, can be very pragmatic when
pushed. If you look at it since then, Iranians have been pragmatic four times.
In the mid-1980s, when still in the
middle of the war with Iraq, their largely
American-equipped military was desperate for spare parts and American ammunition. They were prepared to pay the
U.S. millions and millions of dollars to get
access to that. It was supplied to them on
cargo planes from Israel. From the Iranian
perspective, they were prepared to pay
millions of dollars to the Great Satan and
have it delivered by the Little Satan.
In 1989 Khomeni decided to end the
Iran-Iraq war.
In 2003, when there were American

There has been a special feeling

of urgency in the Jewish world
during the just-concluded meetings in Geneva between Iran
and six other nations, including
the United States, on the Islamic
Republics ongoing nuclear
program.
On Tuesday morning, both
the U.S. and Iran announced
the conclusion of the negotiations and released the text of
a 154-page agreement which the
United States Congress, in an
unusual arrangement, will have
to approve.
As of Tuesday, there has been
little indication that the final
fine print has provided any comfort for those concerned by the

negotiations. Certainly the large

contingent of Jewish groups
about 50 early this week, part of
a quickly growing list that have
come together to raise awareness of the threat they feel Irans

Major areas of concern include

Irans willingness to allow surprise
site inspections and its demands
that the sanctions that seem to
have brought it to the negotiation
table in the first place be lifted

As of Tuesday, there has

been little indication that
the final fine print has
provided any comfort
for those concerned by
the negotiations.
nuclear ambitions pose arent
changing their plans for rally in
Times Square next week.

immediately. (Sanction are far easier to lift than to re-impose, critics

say.) Another area of concern, at

troops to their east and west in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they thought they
were next, they suspended their nuclear
enrichment program and stopped working on the bomb.
In 2013, because of sanctions, and
again because they feared for their survival, they entered into negotiations, he
said.
My own take is there are ideological hardliners in Iran, and pragmatic
hardliners in Iran, inside the regime.
All of them want to maintain the Islamic
Republic and the structure of rule by
Islamic jurisprudence. But the ideological hardliners are much less willing to do
anything to compromise. The pragmatic
hardliners are willing to make compromises because they see it as necessary to
preserve the regime, he said.
Compromise, however, doesnt mean
moderation. There have been more
executions since Rouhani has been president than any similar period of time,
he said. Its not like hes a human rights
activist.
So whats his take on the agreement?
Six hours after it was released,
Ambassador Gordon wasnt ready yet to
comment.
We are right now looking at it, he
said.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey expressed its concerns over the agreement.
In a statement, it said it was concerned that the processes outlined for
inspecting nuclear facilities and re-imposition of sanctions are convoluted and

easily corruptible. Irans regime has an

unacceptable track record of exploiting
loopholes to its own advantage.
It is disturbing that the agreement
also allows for the lifting of the international arms embargo against Iran, the
statement continued.
We remain extremely concerned
about Irans support of global terrorism
as well as its deplorable human rights
record. Irans support for Hezbollah and
Hamas, and its aggressive threats toward
neighboring countries, including Israel,
must not be allowed to go unchecked.
Looking forward to the debate in
Washington, It is our hope that Congress will carefully review this accord,
including the impact of Irans imminent
cash infusion, to ensure that the value
of all human life regardless of gender,
race, religion, or sexual orientation is
valued at an absolute premium.
We urge Congress to give this accord
its utmost scrutiny. As the president has
said, No deal is better than a bad deal.

least for Jewish groups, is Irans oftenrepeated desire to wipe Israel off the face
of the earth. Although such threats often
are dismissed as mere if ugly rhetorical
flourishes, many Jewish groups warn
that history teaches that it is imprudent
to ignore them.
This began as a grassroots efforts that
has grown to include many major organizations, because of a very widespread
and growing conviction that the convictions being discussed will result in either
no deal or a very bad one, Laura Fein
of Teaneck, the executive director of the
Zionist Organization of Americans New
Jersey chapter, said.
Either of those results would increase
the likelihood that only military action

will be able to stop Iran from attaining

nuclear weapons. As the negotiations
drag on, more and more Americans
recognize that the deal is a disaster, not
eliminating Irans capacity to create
nuclear weapons as originally intended,
nor even holding Irans program in
place, but in fact legalizing and facilitating Irans ability to get the bomb.
Dr. Paul Ferbank of Ridgefield Park,
who is a member of both ZOA and Americans For a Safe Israel, provided some
background on how the rally is coming
together.
The core group members of about
12 groups came together in October to
protest the Metropolitan Operas performances of The Death of Klinghoffer, an
opera that they said glorified the Palestinian terrorists who commandeered an
ocean liner, murdered a disabled Jewish
passenger, and threw him overboard,
still strapped into his wheelchair.
That rally was successful, in that the
opera has not played anywhere else
in the world, Mr. Ferbank said. It also
showed the groups mainly but not
entirely Jewish what they could do.
As important as that cause was, it

What: A huge rally, called Stop Iran

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When: Wednesday, July 22, from
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Where: Times Square in Manhattan,
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Local

Synagogue bomber trial to stay in Bergen

But proceeding will be overseen by judge from outside the county
Larry Yudelson

he trial of Aakash Dalal and

Anthony Marco Graziano will
take place in Bergen County,
according to a ruling Friday
afternoon by Superior Court Assignment
Judge Bonnie J. Mizdol.
This appears to have removed the last
legal hurdle to scheduling a trial for their
alleged responsibility in attacks on five Bergen County synagogues in December 2011
and January 2012.
Judge Mizdol also ruled that the trial
will be overseen by a judge from a different county. Last month, the state Supreme
Court decided that the trial could not be
overseen by a Bergen County judge, given
that Mr. Dalal allegedly made death threats
against two Bergen County judges.
These threats are expected to be evidence for a second set of charges against
Mr. Dalal, involving alleged death threats
against a member of the Bergen County
Prosecutors Office, made while Mr. Dalal
was in prison and unable to raise bail for
the synagogue attack charges.
The Supreme Court left it to a Bergen
County judge to decide whether to have
an outside judge brought into the Bergen
County courthouse to preside over a Bergen

County jury, or whether to move the entire

trial to a neighboring county.
During Fridays 60-minute hearing, an
attorney for Mr. Dalal argued for moving the
trial, and an attorney for the prosecutors
office argued against moving it.
The Supreme Court had asked that the
views of victims be taken into account when
enumerating reasons to oppose the move.
In this case, the victims were considered
the members of the five synagogues that
were targeted, in December 2011 and January 2012.
The attacks began with swastikas spraypainted on the building of the Reconstructionist Temple Beth Israel in Maywood. A
week later, similar graffiti was spray painted
at Temple Beth El in Hackensack. This was
followed by arson attacks that did minimal
damage at two congregations in Paramus,
and then a firebomb thrown into Temple
Beth El in Rutheford.
The prosecutors office reached out to the
synagogues in advance of Fridays hearing,
to get the views of their members on moving
the trial and to encourage them to attend
the hearing.
Some 75 members of the Jewish community were at the hearing. Among them were
Jason Shames, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.

Defense attorney Brian Neary addresses the court.

Mary K. Miraglia /cliffviewpilotcom

Accused synagogue attackers Aakash Dalal and Anthony Marco Graziano at

last Fridays court hearing.
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Members of the Jewish community and relatives of Aakash Dalal filled the
courtroom.
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There was also a contingent of Dalal
supporters. Advocates for Mr. Dalal
have argued that contrary to allegations that he was on the scene during the Beth El firebombing, he was
in New Hampshire campaigning for
Rand Paul.
We had about 20 members of our
congregation [at the hearing], said
Rabbi Arthur Wiener of the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus. I
expect we will have representation
from throughout the Jewish community at the trial.
No date has yet been set for the trial;
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settled, the defense is expected to raise
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begin within a year.
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Oren book recalls unsolved Jersey mystery

Israels former envoy writes of 1971 attack on West Orange shul
ROBERT WIENER

ichael Orens memoir

of his time as Israels
ambassador to the
United States, Ally,
refers to a number of historical events
of international consequence, among
them: the 1994 signing of the IsraeliJordanian peace treaty, the Gaza withdrawal of 2005, and Israels war on
Hamas in 2014.
But one date stands out both for its
obscurity and its significance for the
New Jersey Jewish community: April 18,
1971.
That was the day of an early-morning
attack on the West Orange Jewish Center,
now Bnai Shalom, the Conservative congregation Ambassador Oren attended as a
teen growing up in New Jersey.
[W]hen I was a high school freshman,
the phone rang with horrendous news:
a bomb had blown up our synagogue,
Ambassador Oren writes in Ally. I ran to
the scene and saw firemen leaping into the
flames to rescue the Torah scrolls. The next
day, our rabbi stood with Christian clergymen and led us in singing We Shall Overcome. But no display of brotherhood could
salve the pain.
According to a West Orange police report,
the bomb blew off the roof and tore out
the walls in the main lobby of the synagogue in addition to shattering windows
and destroying offices, furnishings and the
gymnasium.
No one was injured.
At first, it was believed that members of
the Ku Klux Klan planted the bomb beneath
a heavy air conditioner in the synagogue
vestibule. But no one was ever apprehended for the attack, despite investigations by, according to The New York Times,
a bomb squad from Fort Monmouth,
agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the local police.
The bombing occurred in the morning
before Rabbi Meir Kahane was to speak at
the synagogue. Rabbi Kahane, a Knesset
member and founder of the militant Jewish
Defense League, was a controversial rightwing ideologue who advocated the expulsion of Arabs from land controlled by Israel.
Rabbi Kahane, who was assassinated in
a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1990 by El
Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian-born American
citizen, accumulated numerous enemies
in his lifetime, but none was linked to the
bombing.
Seymour Graubard, national chair of
what was then called the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, offered a $5,000
reward for information leading to the arrest
and capture of the perpetrator. The Jewish
War Veterans of New Jersey offered another
$1,000 in reward money.
10 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 17, 2015

A front-page story on the bombing

from the Jewish News of April 23, 1971

With no victims, suspects, or subsequent

trial, memories of the bombing largely
faded. Official estimates of the damage,
along with photographs and hard copies of
police reports in a pre-computer era, may
have been lost several years ago when the
departments headquarters was flooded.
To complicate research on the case,
West Orange detectives William Lang,
James Underwood, and Philip Brown, who
headed the investigation, are all believed to
be deceased.
I only know when and I know where it
happened and what Ive read online, said
Sgt. Dennis McCall, a 15-year-veteran of the
departments Records Bureau.
We do not have the incident report.
Ive searched for it, and we dont have it.
There may have been photographs, but
we dont have them now, Sgt. McCall said.
Certain things that do not have an arrest
attached to them can be destroyed after a
certain amount of years, and seeing that it is
approaching 50 years old, it is possible the
records were destroyed.
One person with a clear memory of the
incident is Michael Herman, a synagogue
member who lived on Dawson Avenue a
mile away from the synagogue.
I was awakened by a single boom on
an early Sunday morning, he said. I ran
to the synagogue and saw heavily damaged
pews and smashed chandeliers.
Rabbi Stanley Asekoff, who became religious leader of the synagogue in August
1972, over a year after the bombing, knew
very little about the explosion.
I never received any formal briefing.
I have no idea why Kahane was invited. I
wasnt on the scene when it happened, he
said.
Rabbi Asekoffs wife, Cecille, director of
the Joint Chaplaincy Committee of Greater
MetroWest and executive vice president of
the National Association of Jewish Chaplains, said, I never heard anti-Semitism
discussed as a reason for the attack.
The incident, she said, did not deter
Stanley and me from wanting to be at Bnai

Bnai Shalom, 44 years after the April 1971 bombing that caused severe damage to
the Conservative synagogue on Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange. ROBERT WIENER

Former Israeli ambassador to the

United States Michael Oren who was
a teen living in West Orange when
the synagogue was attacked, said he
gets very choked up when I think
about it.

Shalom. We were young and innocent at the

time.
Despite her sketchy knowledge of the
bombing, she was reminded of it when
nine members of a Bible study group were
gunned down at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.,
in June.
I did think about it, she said. The
whole concept of If you disagree with somebody you just blow them up is frightening.
As has happened many times after
attacks on houses of worship, secular and
religious communities united to mourn and
condemn the assault on the synagogue.
The late Harold Mozeson, the Jewish
Centers rabbi, told the Jewish News in 1971,

The outpourings of expressions of support, coupled with prayers from Christians

and Jews of all persuasions who see this
senseless act of anti-religious vandalism as
a challenge, is a heartening source of pride
in our neighbors.
Sidney Weinstein, chair of the Community Relations Committee of what was then
known as the Jewish Community Council of Essex County, labeled it a senseless
bombing and an unconscionable affront
to the houses of worship of all religious
denominations.
Paul Stagg, general secretary of the New
Jersey Council of Churches, told the West
Orange Chronicle, This destruction and
irrational act is repugnant to all persons.
In a front-page statement in the Chronicle, the mayor at the time of the attack,
Louis Falcone, called for a show of solidarity against this desecration and called
the act dastardly, vile, detestable, and
criminal.
In Ambassador Orens book, the description of the synagogue bombing comes amid
his recollections of a childhood in which I
often encountered hatred. Ambassador
Oren, whose parents, Lester and Marilyn
Bornstein, still live in West Orange, writes
that he rarely made it off the school bus
without being ambushed by Jew-baiting
bullies.
The impact of the bombing still lingered
when he talked to a reporter for The StarLedger in 2013.
Can you imagine what this was for a
15-year-old kid? Ambassador Oren said in
the profile. I get very choked up when I
think about it.
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Your Jewish life is what you make it

Rabbi Francine Green Roston quits N.J. pulpit, finds God and community in Montana
URIEL HEILMAN
WHITEFISH, MONT. Until last year, Rabbi
Francine Green Roston was among the Conservative movements rising stars.
The first woman in the movement to head
a congregation with more than 500 members, Rabbi Roston, the spiritual leader of
Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New
Jersey, also published op-eds in local newspapers, gave talks at the Jewish Theological
Seminary and more than once had a sermon
cited in The New York Times.
But after fifteen years in the pulpit she
had led Congregation Beth Tikvah in New
Milford before moving to South Orange
Rabbi Roston was burnt out. She wanted
a break from synagogue politics, working
weekends, and putting communal needs
ahead of her family.
So about a year ago, Rabbi Roston and
her husband moved with their two children to this Montana city of 6,000 near
Glacier National Park, about an hour
from the Canadian border. Now, instead
of spending her mornings at synagogue
services, Rabbi Roston might be kayaking,
hiking, or walking her dog on a mountain
trail. Most precious of all, Rabbi Roston
says, she gets to sit down and have a homecooked dinner with her kids, a 12-year-old
son and 15-year-old daughter, every night.
I was tired and needed a break, Rabbi
Roston said. I could have looked to go to the
next step up. Instead, were opting out. Id sat
at many bedsides and been at many funerals,
and my husband and I thought: Lifes too
short. Lets create the life we know we want.
Despite its name, theres nothing really
Jewish about Whitefish, a place best
known for the 6,817-foot ski mountain that
carries its name.
But as Rabbi Roston starts her second year
here, shes finding herself drawn back into
Jewish leadership. Over the last year, she
has organized Jewish holiday celebrations
and made Shabbat services and potluck
dinners a regular monthly event. Shes also
been instrumental in facilitating a new, unified Jewish community for the roughly 100
known Jewish households in Whitefish and
nearby Kalispell, where there long has been
a Reform community but only sporadic meetups and no synagogue building. On June 30,
Kalispell and Whitefish voted to create a new
combined community called Glacier Jewish
Community-Bnai Shalom.
Though Rabbi Roston is positioning herself
as the rabbinic leader of this unaffiliated congregation without walls or membership dues,
she is not looking to re-create a rabbinic pulpit so much as to become a facilitator of Jewish life in a place that hasnt seen much of it
before.
Im going to be the non-Chabad
Chabad, the non-Orthodox Chabad,
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Rabbi Francine Green Roston and her family fell in love with Whitefish, Mont., on their first visit in the summer of 2010.  URIEL HEILMAN

Rabbi Roston said. I want to do things

that increase peoples own positive Jewish
identity, but also expose the larger community to the Jewish people in a positive
way. Ill be the communitys rabbi, but Ill
also open my own shingle so the things
the community wouldnt necessarily want
to do or pay for, more outreach-oriented
things, I would do on my own.
In Rabbi Rostons vision, that means organizing not just services and holiday celebrations but also challah-baking workshops at
the local bakery, Jewish storytelling at a local
coffee shop, a biweekly Torah study class at a
Kalispell diner, an Israeli film showcase, and
even a Jewish music festival.
My rabbinate has always been about
making Judaism accessible, about showing
people that Judaism isnt too difficult for
anyone, Rabbi Roston said. Here I get to
figure out how I can translate the ritual and
make it modern and make it meaningful for
people who want Judaism in their life.
Living as a committed Jew in Whitefish is
not without its challenges. For one thing,
theres no kosher meat or chicken here.
Rabbi Roston has visitors bring her supplies whenever possible or she splurges
on shipments from Grow and Behold, the
Brooklyn-based supplier of pasture-raised
kosher meat. She is already trying to figure
out how to provide proper bagels for her
sons bar mitzvah next year.

The ski mountain at Whitefish is about 45 minutes from Glacier National Park.

URIEL HEILMAN

For another, there are almost no Jews.

Rabbi Rostons kids went from a Solomon
Schechter day school in New Jersey to Montana public schools, where her son waited
weeks before he felt comfortable enough to
disclose his religion to his classmates.
Though Whitefish is home to the white
supremacist Richard B. Spencer, president
of the National Policy Institute (dedicated to
the heritage, identity, and future of European
people in the United States and around the
world), Rabbi Roston says her family hasnt
experienced any anti-Semitism in Montana
just curiosity.
Rabbi Rostons husband, Marc, an investment and private equity consultant, has kept
his career, and like many professionals who
move here spends a lot of time on airplanes

and on the phone. When he has an hour or

two of downtime between work calls, hell
often steal away for a quick hike or bike ride
or, in winter, skiing at Whitefish Mountain
Resort.
I get to ski like other people go to the
gym, he said.
There are other differences to living in
Montana. Nobody honks ever. Rabbi Roston does recall that Marc was backing up
once and a pickup truck gave him a gentle
warning beep. The driver then got out of his
vehicle to apologize.
Northwest Montana is almost entirely
white and Christian, but Rabbi Roston says
her kids experience more political and socioeconomic diversity than they did back East.
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URIEL HEILMAN

Passover, a few of his friends said they had gotten some

boxes of it from the local food bank.
The main things that drew the Rostons to Whitefish
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nature. On clear days, the family can see a couple of
the 25 glaciers left in the national park from the deck
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Rabbi Roston says its all been a welcome break from
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Rabbis, ministers, priests theres a point where
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enough spiritual energy coming in, Rabbi Roston said.
I was really drained. In nature I refuel. I feel more connected with Gods power and presence in the world than
I did.
As for her children, Rabbi Roston says Whitefish has
been good for their Jewish identity.
What Ive tried to say to myself and my kids is this is
more what the larger world is like, Rabbi Roston said.
We talk a lot about what they believe in and if they stand
out and how to speak up for Israel and negotiate their
identity in the larger, non-Jewish world. Im happy thats
happening when my husband and I are with them rather
than the first time they leave the bubble and go to college.
Though she sometimes misses the rich Jewish life available on the East Coast, Rabbi Roston says the move was
worth it overall.
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People should feel safe, she said.

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That was about anti-Semitism. This is
about a threat to the Western world.
This rally is meant to wake people
up, he said. Its not about any political party. Its not about the president.
Its about a bad deal that could lead to a
catastrophe. Its meant to wake people
up.
Elizabeth Berney is the ZOAs director
of special projects.
This is the most important existential issue facing Israel and also Europe
and America, she said. It is so dangerous. In addition to the potential for Iran
bombing Israel or Saudi Arabia or
New York one of the other huge dangers of the deal being negotiated is the
amount of the money the billions and
billions of dollars, an estimated $150
billion that will be released to Iran
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That is a very terrifying prospect.
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Local
100-mile ride in Lake Tahoe
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Te a m L i f e l i n e
participated in
the 24th annual
Americas Most
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Te a m L i f e l i n e
raises money and
aw a re n e s s f o r
Chai Lifeline, the
international childrens health support network.
Team participants train for
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alleviate some of the emotional, social,
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provides fun and support to the children,

their parents, and siblings.
Team Lifeline participates in four races
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Two New Jersey veterans

receive Anne Frank awards
Harry Ettlinger and Alan Moskin
were among the veterans honored
at the 19th annual Spirit of Anne
Frank awards in honor of the Helpers, Heroes and Liberators of
World War II. They were honored
on June 15 at ESPACE in Manhattan.
Harry Ettlinger of Rockaway
Township was part of the famous
Monuments Men and Alan Moskin
of Englewood helped liberate a concentration camp.
Mr. Ettlinger, who was born in
Germany, was no stranger to Hitler and the National Socialist Party.
His familys business was boycotted
Harry Ettlinger and Alan Moskin
under the Nazi regime and closed
in 1935. A day after his bar mitzvah
Mauthausen. After his return, he did
in 1938, Mr. Ettlinger and his parents
not speak about the war for more than
fled Germany and settled in Newark.
50 years. Then he felt the need to tell
Six years later, he was drafted and
his story in response to Holocaust
returned to Europe as an infantryman. Fluent in German, he was later
deniers. He now speaks regularly to
assigned to work as an interpreter at
groups about what he saw.
the Nuremberg trials. He also volunThe Spirit of Anne Frank Awards is
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ments, Fine Arts and Archives Probirthday, when awards are given to
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students, teachers, and citizens who
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have proven to be exceptional leaders
artworks from the frontlines and
in combating the sort of intolerance,
return them to their rightful owners.
prejudice, and injustice that Anne
Mr. Moskin, born in Englewood in
Frank and so many others faced.
1926, was 18 when he joined the 66th
Other awardees this year included
infantry, 71st Division, part of Genmembers of the Tuskegee Airmen;
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Individualized yeshiva study this

summer
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and August. The program is held at the
center, located at 375 Pulis Ave.
Attendees will have the opportunity
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students who are spending their summer in neighboring communities as

camp counselors. Subjects range from
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New nursery director

named in Fair Lawn
Debora J. Lesnoy has been named director of the Helen
Troum Nursery and Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom in
Fair Lawn. An experienced Jewish religious school and preschool educator, she has more than 15 years of teaching and
directorial experience in the preschool environment. She will
also lead the Mommy and Me program and start a Tot Shabbat for students and their families. For information, call (201)
797-2865.
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Editorial
Fires of inclusion and exclusion

t has been just more than three and a

half years since swastikas desecrated
Temple Israel in Maywood.
A week later, Temple Beth-El in
Hackensack was targeted.
At a time when the Jewish community
should be celebrating the joyous festival of
Chanukah, said Etzion Neuer of the ADL,
instead they find themselves cleaning
spray-painted symbols of hatred off of their
place of worship.
Then the attacks escalated a crude act
of arson at Khal Adath Jeshurun in Paramus; a planned attack with firebombs at the
Jewish Community Center of Paramus
interrupted when a police officer passed by.
Finally, actual firebombs were thrown into
Rutherfords Congregation Beth El, into the
bedroom of Rabbi Nosson Schuman.
The ADL offered a $10,000 reward. The
County Prosecutors office held a press
conference to highlight the reward. And
that with detective work one would be
tempted to call old-fashioned had it not
relied on the high-tech infrastructure
of the 21st century cracked the case.
Armed with a list of the ingredients of the
firebombs notably, Orange Crush for the
bottles they visited local stores until they
found a Walmart that had sold them all in
one transaction. Correlate that with the instore security cameras, and they had a suspect, later identified as Anthony Graziano.
Further police work following up on a
tip left on our website, examining Mr. Grazianos email and text messages led to

a second suspect, and alleged ringleader,

Aakash Dalal.
Arrests were made, and bail was put at an
impressively high $1 million.
Clearly, the Bergen Prosecutors office
was taking this case seriously.
As Rabbi Arthur Weiner of the Paramus Jewish Community Center, one of the
attacked shuls, puts it in our report on the
latest development in the case (page 8), Its
been terrific. Weve had amazing cooperation and interest in the case from the Bergen
County Prosecutors Office, the county sheriff, the state police, and the Paramus police.
If the point of the attackers was to make
the Jews of Bergen County feel hated, like
outsiders, the result was the opposite: We
felt protected by our police, cared for by our
government.
Further reassurance came as the attacked
synagogues with the exception of Rabbi
Weiners, among the smallest in North Jersey received federal Homeland Security
grants, enabling them to install video cameras and otherwise enhance their security.
And now, in advance of last weeks hearing, the prosecutors office reached out
again to the Jewish community.
As Jews in New Jersey, we are a minority. But the majoritys message to us is loud
and clear: We are included. We are not
outsiders.
Sadly, thats not always the case for
minorities everywhere.
While the past 3 1/2 years have seen no
further attacks on our religious institutions

keeping the faith

in New Jersey, over the same period, in

Israel, 43 churches and mosques have
been vandalized.
In contrast to the high level of concern
in New Jersey over synagogue vandalism,
the silence of the Israeli leadership has
been stunning.
Not until last week, following an attack
on a church in the Galilee that drew official outrage from the Vatican, were arrests
made.
Yet during much of this time, knowledgeable Israeli insiders such as Carmi
Gillon, the former head of Israels General
Security Services, the Shabak have said
the perpetrators were well known to the
security services.
Politicians questioned about the lack of
arrests have said: Its all politics.
In other words, the suspected perpetrators are not fringe loners like those allegedly behind the New Jersey synagogue
bombings.
Were hoping the arrests mean that the
Israeli government has decided to take
attacks on churches and synagogues seriously, and that if those arrested prove to
be guilty, they receive the kind of stiff sentences we expect to be meted out to our
alleged New Jersey desecrators if they are
found guilty.
We rightly applaud our government
when it works to keep our holy places safe.
If the State of Israel cant do the same for
the holy places of its minority religions, it
LY
deserves our opprobrium. 

Is there a room for role models?

everal weeks back, an article in

this paper reported that the Jewish community is no stranger to
senior abuse, much as we would
like to think that problems such as those
can be found only in less enlightened
groups. Whether the problem is drug
addition, gambling, spousal abuse or violence against children, Jews are present
as both perpetrators and victims.
This is disappointing, though not surprising. After all, we wanted deeply wanted
to fit in. And we do.
Ask a sports enthusiast today whether he

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cares that Tiger Woods cheated on his wife,

and he is more likely to care that Tigers
game has gone downhill. And truly
would anyone have cared that Bernard
Madoff was a shameless crook if his financial schemes had continued to pay off for
his clients?
So heres the question. Is there any room
left for role models? Does anyone respect
a mensch? Is light unto the nations still a
valid self-description, or even goal? Is anyone listening?
Whatever happened to teachings like
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(Leviticus 19.17); The meek shall inherit the

earth (Leviticus 19:17); and Do not follow a
crowd to do evil (Exodus 23; 4-13)?
We teach our children the words, but
do we model their meanings? Do we show
them what derekh eretz means? It is time to
take a long, hard look at ourselves and find
things to admire that are worth admiration.
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Lets talk civics

ere is a pop quiz. The answers

appear at the end of this
column.
1. May an impeached president continue in office?
2. In general terms, what is the process
for enacting a new law?
3. Can laws be enacted outside the legislative process, and, if yes, how and by
whom may this be done (and where)?
4. What is the Great Compromise?
5. How old must one be to become a
United States senator?
6. In the event of a deadlock in the Electoral College, what role does the Supreme
Court have in deciding who will be the
next president?
7. There are 50 stars on an American
flag. How many of these represent official states of the Union? What do the other
stars represent?
8. What is the legal difference between
the two?
If you went to school starting in the mid1970s, do not be surprised if you cannot
answer most of these questions correctly.
Before that time, our schools (public, private, parochial) included a course
called civics, which the New Oxford Dictionary defines as the study of the rights
and duties of citizenship. Merriam-Webster adds how government works to its
definition.
Seemingly overnight, civics courses disappeared from school curricula without so
much as a whimper of protest.
In one way, at least, the disappearance
is understandable, according to the Brooklyn-born actor Richard Dreyfuss. Civics,
he once said, has reached the iconic level
of most boring word in the history of the
English language.
Boring or not, the importance of teaching civics cannot be overstated, according to Dreyfuss. By not teaching it, he
said some years back, we drift off into
the netherland of not knowing right from
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wrong and good from evil. And thats
We are the only nation in history
why good men wake up in the morning bound by ideas only, he has said. And
and do evil things.
if each new generation of Americans is
Worse, we lose the sense of what it not taught those ideas, and taught and
means to be a government of the people, taught and taught with rigor and pleaby the people, for the people, to quote sure, we are not bound.
Dreyfuss is determined to push the
Abraham Lincoln. Voter participation is
nothing for the Republic to brag about. teaching of civics back onto school curriIn the 2014 midterm elections, for exam- cula. In the interest of full disclosure, he
ple, the turnout of eligible voters was the is being aided in this effort by his public
lowest since 1942 36.3 percent. In New relations counsel, who happens to be my
Jersey, with a Senate race on the ballot, son, Juda. We can help by donating to
the turnout was 30.4 percent, eighth low- his cause, of course, but we also need to
est in the nation. New York, which had encourage our day schools and yeshivot
a gubernatorial race, recorded the fifth to upgrade their civics courses.
lowest turnout in the entire country
Dreyfuss mission may be one of the
29.5 percent.
most important ones in the first decades
Statistics like these are nothing new, of the 21st century. If it fails, heaven help
which is why Dreyfuss in 2008 founded us all.
The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative, which
Serious civics courses are missing
describes itself as a non-profit, non-par- from Jewish curricula, despite the fact
tisan organization that aims
that Jewish law requires
to revive the teaching of civus to show concern for the
ics in American public educommunity at large (more
cation to empower future
about that in two weeks).
generations with the critiJewish students perhaps
cal-thinking skills they need
have an even greater need
to fulfill the vast potential of
to understand how America works than students
American citizenship.
of Christian backgrounds,
Dreyfuss himself puts
because
this knowledge
it much more simply: To
Shammai
is the best way to protect
teach our kids how to run
Engelmayer
ourselves from efforts to
our country, before they
diminish our freedom to
are called upon to run our
country.If we dont, someone else will be Jews and Americans at the same time.
Our children have little sense of what
run our country.
As TDCIs website explains, Through America means to Jews because they
grassroots programs and curriculum take America for granted and have little
enhancement, The Dreyfuss Civics Ini- understanding of how precarious Jewtiative can influence the preparation of ish life was over there. We need to give
young students for informed and active them that senseand a sense of pride in
citizenship. Our programs seek to mold America.
leaders who can run our country effecAnd now to the answers for the pop
tively and respectfully in accordance quiz:
with civic virtue.
1. Yes. Impeachment is a fancy word for
Another element of the initiative is indictment. A trial must be held before
the civics discussion club, which serves an elected official must step down.
myriad purposes, according to the
2. A bill is introduced into a legislature,
website. First, American students can studied, debated, and then voted upon.
improve their ability to logically assess A requisite number of votes is required
a problem in terms of civic virtue and for passage, and usually the executive
debate their contentions respectfully. If branch must sign the bill into law.
we can raise enough leaders with these
3. In 26 states and the District of
sets of skills, hopefully we can curb the Columbia, ordinary citizens may petipolitical strife that extremism has caused tion to get laws on the general election
ballot. New Jersey and New York are not
in America.
Civics began to go out of fashion in the among the 26.
4. The Founding Fathers could not
1960s, an era of political assassinations
and antiwar protests. The political scan- decide between a proportionately repdals of the early 1970s, and especially resentative legislature, or one in which
Watergate, turned many people off of each state has an equal say, so they chose
politics, and schools off of teaching civ- both.
ics, except in a most perfunctory and
5. A United States senator must be 30
unexciting way.
years old at the time of taking office.
Cynicism, Dreyfuss once said, is prob6. The Supreme Court has no role in
ably the worst characteristic that man deciding Electoral College deadlocks.
has. Its like a mule. It has no offspring. The 18th Amendment gives that role to
It gives us nothing but smirk. And weve the House.
now reached a point where we have a
7. Of the 50 stars, 46 represent states,
100 percent agreement in this country while four represent commonwealths.
that anything a politician says publicly is
8. There is no legal difference between
inauthentic.
a state and a commonwealth.

Liebermans Revenge

ould there ever be a Jewish presiJewish first lady of the United States. Here,
dent of the United States? That
too, we could find a precedent in the biblical personage of Esther.
was a question that was raised
Then came the year 2000, when Al Gore
repeatedly as I was growing up
chose the U.S. senator from Connecticut,
back in the sixties. On the one hand, we
Joe Lieberman, to be his running mate on
were told that here in the USA, anyone
the Democratic party ticket. And while
could grow up to be president. That idea
Lieberman was the first Jewish vice presiwas emblematic of the egalitarian foundation of American society, the basis of our
dential candidate to win the popular vote
democratic system of government. On the
(albeit riding Gores coattails), the conservative-dominated United States Supreme
other hand, there was the practical reality
Court decided the election
that everyone who had been
in favor of George W. Bush
president came from a very
and Dick Cheney. Gore and
limited demographic, all of
others harbored a degree of
them men, all of them white,
resentment towards Liebermost of them Anglo-Saxon
man for not going all in,
with the occasional Dutch or
and running simultaneously
German representative (e.g.,
for re-election as senator, a
Martin Van Buren, Dwight
race he won. But in truth,
Eisenhower), and all of them
with the economy still going
Protestant.
Lance Strate
strong under the ClintonSo when it came to the
Gore administration, the
question of whether we
election was Gores to lose. And he did.
would ever see a Jewish president, the
Lieberman became a presidential canconclusion we typically came to was that
didate in his own right in 2004, and for a
it was possible, but unlikely.
brief moment we came closer to the posThis is not to discount the significance of
sibility of a Jewish president than ever
the 1960 election, when John F. Kennedy, a
before. But he was identified as a centrist
Roman Catholic of Irish ancestry, defeated
at a time when the Democratic party was
Richard Nixon. No doubt, the advent of
moving to the left, as the shock of 9/11
our first Catholic president made the idea
began to recede and the reality of Bushs
of a Jewish president seem at least a little
occupation of Iraq began to take hold.
possible, and served as a spur to the discussions that took place within Jewish cirConsequently, Liebermans candidacy was
cles about whether it could happen, and
not very successful, and the United States
if it did, whether it would be good for the
senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kerry,
Jews or bad for the Jews. In some ways, we
a Roman Catholic just like the other JFK,
were more comfortable with a figure like
gained the Democratic nomination, only
Henry Kissinger, who became the 56th U.S.
to go down in defeat against Bushs re-election bid. Whether Lieberman would have
secretary of state, or more recently Rahm
done any better or any worse than Kerry
Emanuel, who served as the 23rd White
is hard to say.
House chief of staff. That sort of advisory
Kerrys defeat did not slow his partys
or ministerial role has a long precedent in
leftward tilt, which posed serious probour history, reaching all the way back to
lems for Lieberman, especially given his
Mordecai in the Book of Esther, and Joseph
somewhat hawkish stance on foreign polin Genesis. By way of contrast, we have the
icy issues. This came to a head in 2006,
19th-century example of Benjamin Disraeli, who served as prime minister of the
when he lost the Democratic primary
United Kingdom, but only after converting
in Connecticut, and decided to run for
to the Anglican Church as a child.
re-election to the Senate as an independent. While he won the election, he lost
And, as is well known, Kennedy tragically was assassinated before completing
the support of many former colleagues in
a full term in office, and while there have
the Democratic party, including Gore and
been several other Catholics who have
Hillary Clinton, who abandoned Lieberman and endorsed his rival. And while he
seriously vied for the presidency, including his two brothers, the nine presidents
remained more or less affiliated with the
who followed all have been affiliated with
Democrats during his final term as senator, which ended in 2013, Lieberman in
one or another Protestant sect. It is worth
turn endorsed Republican John McCain in
noting that the first Greek Orthodox presidential candidate was nominated by the
the 2008 presidential election, and spoke
Democratic Party in 1988, and had forat the Republican National Convention
mer Massachusetts governor Mike Dukathat year. Rumor had it that he had been
kis defeated George H. W. Bush, his wife,
considered a potential running mate for
Kitty Dukakis, would have become the first
McCain as well, and perhaps might have
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served McCain better than former Alaska
governor Sarah Palin.
Of course, the 2008 election was
extraordinary, in that we elected the first
African American president. And back in
the sixties, conversation about whether
there would ever be a Jewish president
would sometimes also turn to the question of what would be more likely, that
there would be a Jewish president or an
African American president? The answer
was far from clear, as both possibilities
seemed altogether improbable. The fact
that Barack Obama was elected and then
re-elected is a great testament to the progress we have made as a society, and also
a reflection of significant demographic
changes within the population of the
United States.
The 2008 primaries were also significant in regard to some of the other primary candidates. For example, for the
Republican party, former New York City
mayor Rudy Giuliani had been a contender, and could have been the first Italian-American elected to the White House

(many urged Democratic New York State

Governor Mario Cuomo to run back in the
80s, but to no avail). Mitt Romney came
close to taking the nomination away from
McCain, and then became the Republican
candidate in 2012, making him the first
Mormon to come close to winning the
presidency (whether Mormons are considered Protestants, or even Christians,
is open to debate). Back in 2008, former
United States senator from New York
Hillary Clinton was considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination,
and had Obama not overtaken her in the
primaries, she might have been the first
woman to serve as president.
And so we come to the present moment,
and the impressively diverse set of major
party candidates set to run in the 2016
primaries. On the Republican side, this
includes New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Roman Catholic; former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, a Roman Catholic convert; United States senator from Florida
Marco Rubio, a Roman Catholic of Cuban
descent; United States senator from Texas

Ted Cruz, whose father also was Cuban;

retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, an African American; and Louisiana Governor
Bobby Jindal, whose parents immigrated
to the U.S. from India.
On the Democratic side, we have former
first lady, senator, and secretary of state
Hillary Clinton once again running as the
heir apparent; former Maryland governor
Martin OMalley, a Roman Catholic; and
the United States senator from Vermont,
Bernie Sanders, born and raised, and bar
mitzvahed, in Brooklyn, New York.
Although their politics are quite distinct,
in tossing his hat into the ring to compete
in the Democratic primaries, Sanders is
following in Liebermans footsteps as a
Jewish candidate for president. And the
amazing thing is that Sanders is suddenly
mounting a credible challenge to Hillary
Clinton. I find this somehow ironic, given
that Clinton and others turned their backs
on Lieberman when he was down on his
luck, because Lieberman was seen as too
conservative. Now, along comes Sanders, who like Lieberman has independent

party affiliations while remaining associated with the Democrats, but whose
politics is significantly to the left of Clinton, to the extent that he identifies himself as a democratic socialist. So now it is
Clinton who is losing ground among the
party faithful because she is seen as too
conservative.
I imagine that the success Sanders is
achieving in the polls and in the all-important activity of fundraising is starting to
give Clinton some cause for concern,
maybe even an upset stomach? Thats why
I would call whats happening right now,
with apologies to Montezuma, Liebermans revenge.
Could Sanders win the Democratic nomination next year? And if he did, could he
beat whomever the Republicans pick out
of their extremely crowded field, thereby
becoming the first Jewish president of the
United States of America?
Its possible, but unlikely. But the really
nice thing about all this is, its unlikely
because of his politics, and not because
hes Jewish.

democracy, and the USA had to fight

the most deadly war in its history, and
struggle through an additional century of
Jim Crow laws, before we finally established full and equal citizenship and due
representation for all our citizens principles we are still struggling to enforce.
Yet Rabbi Chernick seems quite cheerful
about the future of American democracy.
Rabbi Chernick also supports his
gloom and doom concerns with a litany
of defiance from the fringe who introduce
crazy legislation and who call for soldiers
to disobey military orders. He fails to
note that no democracy has ever had a
shortage of politicians who misuse their
power or who urge disobedience. Hanoi
Jane Fonda and thousands of other
celebrities and people in power have
urged our military to disobey orders,
and untold numbers fled our country
and resisted the draft in protest of our
wars. Mouthing off from the left and the
right is in fact democracy in action, both
here and in Israel. Both democracies are
stronger for it. Israel has, for example,
called upon the IDF to remove settlers
from the Sinai and later from Gaza, and
in both instances, the IDF performed its
duty honorably and without bloodshed,
despite the call from the fringe to disobey
military orders. And a Congressman once
told a NORPAC gathering that if he were
to list the anti-democratic legislation
that is routinely introduced in the U.S.
Congress, and even more so in individual
state legislatures, one would lose all hope

for the future of democracy.

In the long term, we must indeed
stand vigilant against anti-democratic
forces in every country because such
forces reflect historical trends, not Jewish
ones. Right now, let us not be distracted
by far-fetched hypotheticals when real
dangers stand before us and the world.
The biggest threat to Israeli democracy,
and to world democracy, is Iran. Lets
stay focused.
Harry J. Reidler
Englewood

these truths to be self evident.) have

the weight of Divine scripture in our
national image and definition.
However, It is historically confirmed
that he and other founding fathers
(including George Washington) owned
many African American slaves. The fact
of their participation for many years
in this abhorrent institution cannot be
denied.
It is well known that the founding
fathers were greatly influenced by the
political/social/moral teachings of the
Hebrew scriptures. Slavery was dealt
with in the Bible with the thrust directed
towards the protection of the rights of
slaves and their pathway to freedom.
This is far from the concept of bondage employed in the American system
where the slaves were viewed as chattel
without rights or hope.
In my view this demonstrates how
powerful emotional (rather than intellectual/rational) needs can influence human
thinking.
Our forefathers (including some of
the greatest) resorted to George Orwells
newspeak in order to rationalize that
African Americans were subhumans who
should be enslaved and not included in
the American dream.
Racism remains embedded in our
national/personal psyche. Most of us are
not even aware of this. It takes a long time
for this disease to be cured.
Jerrold Terdiman, M.D.
Woodcliff Lake

Letters
Israeli democracy
alive and well

It seems like every week we hear another

doomsday prognostication concerning
Israel. CNN and the U.N., for example,
now predict that Jerusalems Old City is
On the Verge of Extinction. And Rabbi
Dr. Michael Chernick now muses in your
pages, If Israel was not a democracy,
would American Jewry still support it?
( July 10) But Israel is a democracy, and
its record of preserving its democracy
is actually better than that of all other
democracies facing similar mortal dangers. So wouldnt it be more appropriate
to ponder, The Palestinian Authority
and Hamas are totalitarian regimes, so
why does the political left support them
and incessantly criticize Israel while giving these regimes a virtual free pass?
Rabbi Chernick failed to incorporate
context, thus exaggerating the gravity
of his complaints. For example, without
explaining that this would not apply to
the secular world in which we actually
live, Rabbi Chernick claims that Jewish
tradition extols monarchy at the end
of days. And, as if they are related, he
immediately adds, It is interesting to
note that [Israels] Declaration of Independence does not mention democracy.
Actually, Israels Declaration pledges a
long list of democratic principles, including full and equal citizenship and due
representation to all its Jewish and Arab
citizens. It is, in fact, the U.S. Declaration
of Independence that does not mention

20 Jewish Standard JULY 17, 2015

Remembering Jerry Lewis

I remember very well a day in the 1940s

when Jerry and his wife were shopping
on Bergen Street in Newark. His wife was
busy in the store making her selections
when up and down the street people
noticed crowds gathering around a store
window. There in the window was Jerry
Lewis undressing a female dummy
dancing with it and making all types of
flirting gestures to her. The crowd was in
an uproar. Traffic was brought to a halt
for a short time. A great memory at the
start of a great career.
June Salzman
Fair Lawn

The national psyche

and racist attitudes

Thomas Jefferson is rightly viewed as

one our greatest presidents. I include
myself in this opinion. His words in the
Declaration of Independence (We hold

Opinion

World powers surrender on Iran deal

reverberates most immediately in Syria
BEN COHEN

ast week and please forgive

me for the graphic nature of this
metaphor Russian President
Vladimir Putin pulled down
his pants and urinated over the graves of
the 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys
exterminated by Serb forces in the enclave
of Srebrenica in July 1995.
Twenty years after Bosnia was torn
apart by the genocide committed by both
Serb and Croatian forces, the Russians
who were the main backers of the regime
of the late tyrant of Belgrade, Slobodan
Milosevic are still playing the insidious
role of denying the most monstrous crime
to take place in Europe since the Second
World War. In vetoing a joint AmericanBritish resolution to commemorate the
slaughter at Srebrenica with the legal status of a genocide, Russian U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin grunted that what
was tabled at the U.N. Security Council
was not constructive, confrontational,

Weve failed to
deliver a decisive
message to the
worlds tyrants
that they can no
longer get away
with murder.
and politically motivated. Predictably,
his words drew a furious response: After
20 years,Russia showed that it backed the
crime instead of justice, declared Munira
Subasic, the head of the Mothers of Srebrenica Association.
But as deplorable as the Russian stance
is, it isnt at all surprising. Toward the end
of the 1990s, when it came to dealing with
genocide and crimes against humanity,
the momentum was clearly on the side
of the western democracies. Among the
milestones were the creation of the International Criminal Court whose true purpose was to try monsters like Milosevic
and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
and the development of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. In essence, that
doctrine, known by the shorthand of R2P,
was aimed at overriding state sovereignty
in order to prevent authoritarian and totalitarian regimes from exterminating their
own civilians at will.
Halfway through the second decade
of the 21st century, its time to admit the
bitter truth. Weve failed. Weve failed

the iran nuclear programs heavy-water reactor at arak and Syrian president Bashar al-assad.
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to prevent genocide and crimes against

humanity. Weve failed to deliver a decisive message to the worlds tyrants that
they can no longer get away with murder. If anything, weve actually encouraged them to believe that the more violent and intransigent they are, the greater
the chances of them receiving deferential treatment. Look at North Korea. Or
Qatar. Or any other despicable regime
that denies those who live there the right
to speak and vote without fear of intimidation or arrest.
Look, most of all, at Iran, and at the deal
that was reached Tuesday in the talks over
Tehrans nuclear program in Vienna. The
litany of losers arising from this deal is by
now familiar: the United States of America, which in the name of enhancing its
own security is fatally compromising it;
Israel, which now faces its most serious
existential threat since the Yom Kippur
War of 1973; and the Arab states, many of
whom will now be racing toward their own
nuclear program.
But the biggest and most immediate losers are those who are too often forgotten:
the Syrian people locked in a diabolical
civil war that puts the horror of Bosnia
into the shade and credibly rivals Pol Pots
massacres in Cambodia when it comes to
atrocities. And the reason? Syrias dictator,
Bashar al-Assad, who is a tool of the Iranian regime.
Well over 200,000 civilians have been
killed during the four-year conflict. More
than 4 million refugees have fled the country, living in makeshift camps in countries like Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon all of them becoming increasingly

inhospitable to a massive population

influx that has created an enormous financial burden. Inside Syria, close to 8 million
people have been displaced from their
homes. When you remember that the prewar population of Syria was 22 million,
you come to the staggering realization that
more than half of its people have lost their
homes and livelihoods. No wonder they
are calling this the worst humanitarian
crisis since the Second World War.
And where is the West, with its Responsibility to Protect doctrine? In the Syrian
case, we appear to have inverted it; rather
than weakening the Assad regime, we are
in fact strengthening it. And the necessary
battle against the barbaric forces of the
Islamic State doesnt mean we arent also
obliged to confront Assad, who launched
this ghastly war in the first place.
How, though, does Assad himself see
the situation? Some clue as to his vision
was provided in a recent interview published on the Russian Sputnik website,
conducted by the French parliamentarian Jean-Frederic Poisson who sounds, if
youll allow me the pun, like a rather fishy
character who talks about the stability in
Syria that the preservation of Assads rule
would bring.
In his comments to Monsieur Poisson,
Assad criticized Western governments
for meddling in regional countries internal affairs, failing to listen to the voices of
nations, and displaying double standards
in the fight against terrorism. All tropes,
you will notice, that his Iranian paymasters were raising at the nuclear negotiations in Vienna.
The surrender in Vienna reverberates

most immediately in Syria. Assads most

powerful backers are now Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps, assisted by the
notorious Qods Force and various intelligence agencies. Hezbollah, the Iranianbacked Lebanese Shite terrorist group,
is also engaged in combat on behalf of
Assad. Even Shite militias from Iraq, like
the Kataib Hezbollah, have been imported
into Syria by the Iranians. Imagine what
they can do and will do when billions
of dollars of sanctions relief make their
way into Tehrans coffers after the signing
of this nuclear deal.
Assads future is not, of course, guaranteed. Recent reports suggest that members
of Assads own Alawite community are fed
up with Iranian domination of their country and are challenging their president on
that basis. Still, the guns, the planes, and
even the chemical weapons remain largely
in Assads hands, supported by the Iranians and also the Russians, who have no
reason to commemorate past genocides
when they are involved in present ones.
So, then: What of the Responsibility to
Protect? Maybe we should rename it the
License to Kill.
JNS WIRE SERVICES

Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.

org and The Tower Magazine, writes a
weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs
and Middle Eastern politics. His writings
have been published in Commentary, the
New York Post, Haaretz, The Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.He
is the author ofSome of My Best Friends:
A Journey Through Twenty-First Century
Antisemitism(Edition Critic, 2014).

Jewish standard JULY 17, 2015 21

Cover Story

Heat resistant
A list of summer reading
that looks to be very cool
Its summer, that time of year when everyone drops everything theyre doing,
finds a quiet stretch of sandy shore, and spends all day delving into their new
favorite books. Or maybe not. But whatever your plans, theres no denying that
the season brings a bumper crop of literary offerings, plus an abundance of lists
telling you which ones you must read. So heres ours, a sterling selection of
new books whose authors and/or themes provide some fun Jewish flair just
right for a beach read or an everyday coffee-break escape.

22 Jewish standard JULY 17, 2015

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Book of Numbers
(Random House)
By Joshua Cohen
the prolific, 34-year-old
Joshua Cohen presents
his fourth novel in less
than a decade, with a
protagonist who is also
a Jewish novelist named
Joshua Cohen only
this nebbish is hardly
prolific. with mounting debts, he agrees to
ghostwrite the memoir
of the eccentric, billionaire founder of a
google-like tech firm
(who is, as it happens,
also named Joshua
Cohen). what follows
is part thriller, part family drama, and part sex
comedy but primarily
its a pointed deliberation on what it means to
live in the age of search
engines, smartphones,
and constant surveillance.

The Book of Stone

(Fig Tree Books)
By Jonathan
Papernick
in the grey gap
between good and
evil, theres almost
always a great
story. after his successful collections
of short fiction,
author papernick
has gone longform
with this psychological thriller that
explores the evolution of the terrorist
mindset and the
complexities of religious radicalism
(and, yes, thats
radicalism of the
Jewish kind). this
may not be an
uplifting tale of

faith reconsidered
the Book of stone
aint Broadways the
Book of mormon but
its an engrossing read
about a sorrowful soul
whose search for meaning leads to a very dark
mission.

Compulsion
(Fig Tree Books)
By meyer Levin
when truth is more sensational than fiction, just
fictionalize the truth
which is precisely what
Levin did in Compulsion, the classic 1956
novel that reimagines,
ever so slightly, the
famous kidnap-murder
case of Leopold and
Loeb. Levin was the
killers classmate at the
University of Chicago
and covered their 1924
trial for the Chicago
daily news. and though
he changed names and
details, his book (and

the play and movie that

followed) is generally
recognized as paving
the way for non-fiction
novels such as truman Capotes in Cold
Blood. nearly a century
after this crime of the
century, Levins tale
in this new edition, with
a foreword by o.J. prosecutor-turned-novelist
marcia Clark is no less
gripping or disturbing.

Ghetto Brother:
Warrior to
Peacemaker
(NBM Publishing)
By Julian Voloj, with art
by Claudia Ahlering
heres a fascinating,
largely unknown story
thats told in a compelling, unexpected
way. set at the height
of gang warfare in the
south Bronx in 1971, this
graphic novel depicts
through Volojs lively
writing and ahlerings

funky illustrations
the true story of Benjy
melendez. the son
of puerto rican immigrants, melendez
founded the notorious
ghetto Brothers gang
but eventually initiated
a truce that spread
across the borough
and beyond. more than
that, the ghetto Brothers, also a band, held
weekly concerts and
this cross-pollination
of creativity ultimately
laid the foundation of
hip-hop culture. melendez eventually retired
from gang life, focusing
on reclaiming his roots
after learning of his
wait for it hidden
Jewish background.

Safekeeping
(Fig Tree Books)
By Jessamyn Hope
in 1994, an israeli kibbutz filled with colorful,
seemingly incompatible

characters welcomes
adam, a drug-addicted
new Yorker on a mission to right a past
wrong: he must return
a medieval sapphire
brooch to his grandfathers old flame, if
only he can track her
down. hopes debut
novel draws on her own
experiences living as an
outsider on a kibbutz in
the mid-1990s, but also
delves back into turbulent moments in Jewish
history. spanning seven
centuries and three continents, its one of those
sweeping epics thats
easy to get swept up in.

Saint Mazie
(Grand Central
Publishing)
By Jami Attenberg
with her fourth novel,
attenberg once again
deploys the wit and
sympathy that made
2012s the middleste-

ins such a big-hearted

hit. inspired by the life
of a real depressionera Jewish saint, the
star of this Jazz age
tale is the bawdy and
blunt ticket-taker at
a popular Lower east
side movie theater who
becomes a heroine to
the homeless after the
stock market crash.
mazie is a joy to meet
and a marvel to behold,
as her story emerges
through a series of diary entries and snippets of interviews with
people who knew her.

Sick in the Head:

Conversations about
Life and Comedy
(Random House)
By Judd Apatow
ever dream of having a
sit-down with your heroes? producer/director/
screenwriter apatow
has been doing it for
30 years. Long before
freaks and geeks
and Knocked Up, the
self-described comedy nerd was, as a
host of a show on his
high-school radio station, interviewing the
likes of Jerry seinfeld
and garry shandling.
and hes never really
stopped. decades in
the making, sick in
the head is a collection of his funny, candid chats with dozens
of the biggest names
in comedy, from
those who inspired
him (mel Brooks,
steve martin) to
those whose careers
hes nudged along
(seth rogen, amy
see BOOKS page 24

Jewish standard JULY 17, 2015 23

Cover Story

The poet and the pol

Freeholder Pat Sebold donates keepsakes of cousin Allen Ginsberg
RobeRt wieneR

s a veteran freeholder and

a board member of the Jewish Federation of Greater
MetroWest NJ, Pat Sebold is
one of the most widely known public figures in her local Jewish community.
But there is a private aspect to her life
that is known to far fewer people. Sebold
is a first cousin of the iconic American Beat
Generation poet Allen Ginsberg. Allens
father, Louis Ginsberg, was the brother of
her mother, Clara.
Although he was 12 years older than her,
Sebold treasures not only warm memories
of her cousin but a voluminous collection

I am compulsive.
Through the years
I have saved
everything.
PAT SEBOLD

of Ginsberg memorabilia. On July 1 she

donated all of it to the Jewish Historical
Society of New Jersey.
The trove includes signed copies of
hardbound and paperback versions of her
cousins poetry, as well as personal letters, postcards, family photographs, and
yellowed newspaper clippings about the
Newark-born poet, anti-war protester, gayrights activist, counter-culture muse, and
nonviolent social bandit, as he was once
described by the critic John Leonard.

Books
from page 23

schumer, Lena dunham). Come for the

laughs, but stay for the
soul-searching substance that spills out
whenever talented,
creative people start
talking about why they
do what they do.

The Sunlit Night

(Bloomsbury USA)
By Rebecca Dinerstein
Yes, dinerstein is a
20-something, ivyLeague grad whose
debut novel sparked
a bidding war; but get
past your Jonathan safran foer Complex in
fact, he helped dinerstein hone her manu-

Pat Sebold, right, discusses her cousin Allen Ginsbergs collection of poetry in
Howl with Linda Forgosh, executive director of the Jewish Historial Society of
New Jersey.

I am compulsive, Sebold confessed

to the societys executive director, Linda
Forgosh, as they sat at the kitchen table
recently in Sebolds Livingston apartment. Through the years I have saved
everything.
One postcard he sent to her family from
Amsterdam reads like a Ginsberg poem:
Cheese, canals, windows, bridges, dog
st, Indonesian restaurants, red light
district, youth clubs with rocknroll and
earth dope, friendliness on street and in
newspaper stories, tiny cars on tiny alleys,
salty soup, good clean toilets, pancake
desserts, tram cars, bricks, love, I think
of you fondly, Allen G.
Although the poets official archives

script and youll truly

appreciate this poetic
novel about loneliness
and growing apart from
family and first loves.
the setting is a barren,
northern norwegian
landscape not unlike
the arctic archipelago
Lofoten, where dinerstein lived in an artists
colony and composed
the beginnings of this
novel. there, at the
top of the world, two
distinctly drawn, heavyhearted Jewish characters find humor and
warmth in one anothers
company. Yet its dinersteins third protagonist,
the nearly night-less
norwegian countryside,
that provides much of
the novels wonder.

24 Jewish standard JULY 17, 2015

are located at Stanford University in Palo

Alto, Calif., they dont have his personal
stuff, said Sebold.
It is better it should go someplace
where it will be treasured, she added.
What are they going to do? Sit in a bookcase for the rest of my life?
That, to me, of course, is like gold,
said Forgosh, who plans to become a devotee of Allen Ginsberg. I will read it all and
study it all before mounting an exhibition
of the societys new collection.
When I learned that Pat had a

collection of personal papers, newspaper

articles, and photographs pertaining to
the life and times of Beat Generation poet
Allen Ginsberg, I wasnt able to rest until
these valuable items were acquired by the
JHS for preservation and exhibition. As of
now the exhibition of Ginsbergs papers
will be titled Ginsberg and Ginsberg,
meaning the poetry and papers of Allen
Ginsberg and the poetry and papers of
Louis Ginsberg, who was Allens father
and an important poet in his own right,
Forgosh said.
They will have a good home, she
promised Sebold.
Their discussion over stacks of poetry
books and file folders of photos and correspondence triggered Sebolds memories
of her cousin, who died of liver cancer in
1997 at age 70.
Whenever we had a Jewish holiday, he
would come, she said. The whole family
would get together and the discussion was
always about politics. Although I am the
only one who ever ran for office, they were
all very much involved in politics.
Her mothers parents had fled czarist
Russia in the late 1800s. My family was a
very, very liberal Jewish family, and when
the communists came to power, my family thought that was good because the czar
was going.
But such attitudes had changed by
1960, when Cuban President Fidel Castro
visited New York to address the United
Nations General Assembly. Ginsberg was
a guest of the Cuban leader at the Theresa

They Told Me Not

to Take That Job
(PublicAffairs)
By Reynold Levy
as head of the international rescue Committee in the 1990s,
Levy dealt daily with
desperate refugees
and rogue dictators of
failed states all of
which barely prepared
him to orchestrate his
greatest rescue mission, as president of
Lincoln Center. when,
against all advice, Levy
took the helm in 2002,
the countrys leading
arts venue was a maelstrom of bitter rivalries, clashing egos, and
public embarrassments.
his memoir relates what

happened over the

next decade, as he led
a $1.2-billion transformation of both Lincoln
Centers 16-acre campus
and its global reputa-

tion. its a
good read not just for
arts enthusiasts wanting to indulge in juicy
gossip
(Levy unreservedly

names names) but for

anyone seeking lessons
in leadership.
JtA wiRe seRVice

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Hotel in Harlem.
My Uncle Leo Litzky and Allen got
into a vicious fight about Castro. Allens
attitude was that [Fulgencio] Batista, the
right-wing dictator Castros forces overthrew, was horrible, and Castro was going
to be better for Cuba.
I can still remember my cousin Larry
and I were kids and we sat on the steps listening to the argument.
Ironically, five years later, Ginsberg was
deported from Cuba for publicly protesting its persecution of homosexuals.
Everybody in the family knew that
Allen was gay, but they didnt care, she
said.
One little-known fact about Ginsberg
was that in 1945 he joined the Merchant
Marines so he could earn money to continue his education at Columbia University. Nobody could understand why,
Sebold recalled.
Around 1950, when he first hooked
up with such other noted Beat Generation writers as Jack Kerouac, William
Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, Ginsberg
became interested in Buddhism and the
Hare Krishna movement. But Ginsberg
among whose best-known poems is Kaddish, dedicated to his mother, Naomi

Pat Sebold and

her cousin, the
poet and beat
writer Allen
Ginsberg.

retained a strong connection to his familys secular Jewish roots.

Allen was very comfortable with the
Jewish part of him, she said. He was a
very spiritual guy, and he never rejected
Judaism.
I knew Allens friends. They would
come by train to visit us and we would
pick them up. They were friendly and they
all talked to me, but they were so much
older.
Among those friends was poet, jazz
critic, and playwright LeRoi Jones, who

abandoned his white contemporaries of

the Beat Generation for the Black Power
movement and changed his name to Amiri
Baraka.
I heard from Allen that for years he
and Baraka never spoke. Then, about two
years ago, Baraka came to a freeholders
meeting. I went up to him and said, I dont
know if you remember who I am. He said,
Of course I do. Youre Allen Ginsbergs
cousin.
Although the poets body was cremated
and a memorial service was held in his

honor at a Buddhist temple in New York,

Ginsbergs ashes were divided between
two urns. One was given to the Buddhists
and the other was interred at the historic
Gomel Chesed Jewish Cemetery on McClellan Avenue in Newark, near the graves of
Sebolds parents and Ginsbergs father, a
poet and English teacher at Paterson High
School.
When Allen and Lou read their poems
together, I went to see them at the JCC in
West Orange and the library in Paterson,
she recalled. They used to fight over
poetry. With my Uncle Lou, everything
rhymed. Everything had an order. But
Allen was freewheeling. Lou would say,
Youre wrong. Allen would say, Youre
wrong. But there was a lot of love between
them, absolutely. His father and the rest of
the family were very proud of him.
Although there was a tremendous age
difference between us, I really looked up to
him as a talented poet, said Sebold. When
I talk to people I dont always say, Did you
know my cousin was Allen Ginsberg? But
if it becomes part of the conversation,
some people will look at me like Ive never
heard of him. Whos he? and others say
to me, Youre Allen Ginsbergs cousin?
in a tone of disbelief. They are amazed.
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Cover Story

Recreating the past in ones own image

New book takes issue with the history of Orthodoxy
AVRAhAm bRonstein

t a critical moment in George

Orwells 1984, Winston Smith
comes across a photo demonstrating that three notorious
traitors against the Party could not have
been where they allegedly committed their
crimes. As required by his job in the Ministry of Information, Smith destroys the
photo, but his own faith in the Party is badly
shaken.
In Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Changes Its History, Dr. Marc
Shapiro provides a series of examples
(including many photos) of internal censorship, selective editing, and outright fabrication demonstrating that much of what most
Orthodox Jews consider their history and
tradition is, in fact, constructed specifically
to serve their current religious and social
needs. In other words, contemporary Orthodoxy claims fealty to the past because it has
re-created that past in its own image.

The book is primarily divided by topic,

and Shapiro moves from halachic texts, philosophical texts, and sexually related content
to show how current mors and practices
are routinely imposed on earlier traditions
and accepted wisdom. For example, Rabbi
Joseph Karos Shulchan Aruch called the
pre-Yom Kippur kaparot ceremony a foolish custom. Those words were excised from
later editions of the Shulchan Aruch, as kaparot became an almost universally accepted
practice. Similarly, a popular and influential
ultra-Orthodox biography of Rabbi Elijah
Kremer, the Vilna Gaon, completely omits
the decades-long campaign he led in opposition to the chasidic movement that defines
much of his legacy. In the contemporary
Orthodox world, Shapiro explains, the legitimacy of chasidism has been largely accepted
by the non-chasidic community. The feud
the Gaon led has been largely resolved and
the market for his biography now includes
chasidim as well.
Two chapters deal specifically with

Dr. Marc Shapiro

revisionism surrounding Rabbi

Samson Raphael Hirsch and
Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook,
controversial and genre-transcending personalities. Hirsch
built his community in Frankfurt on the platform of Torah
Im Derech Eretz, an integration of religious observance
and participation in Western
society and culture. As time went on,
the ultra-Orthodox community rejected
this position but still wanted to keep
Hirsch in their pantheon. For one thing,
his own community had become more
ultra-Orthodox in its observance, and
other parts of Hirschs philosophy,
including austritt, religious separatism to avoid connections with Reform
institutions and communities, and anti-

Dr. Marc Shapiro

provides a
series of
examples
(including many
photos) of
internal
censorship,
selective
editing, and
outright
fabrication
Zionism, still resonated. As a result,
some later printings of Hirschs writings
simply omitted references to Torah Im
Derech Eretz. Other editions include
editors notes explaining (falsely, says
26 Jewish standard JULY 17, 2015

Shapiro) that Hirsch

only formulated Torah Im Derekh Eretz
as a stopgap against the inroads of the
19th century German Reform movement, but never meant it as an ideal for
communities that did not face the same
threat. In this way, the contemporary
ultra-Orthodox community, while categorically rejecting secular learning and
culture, still claims Hirsch as one of their
own.
In the case of Kook, Shapiro documents two layers of censorship. Though
controversial in his lifetime, Kook
enjoyed great respect from much of the
ultra-Orthodox establishment, many
of whom respected him greatly, corresponded with him, and even requested
his approbation for their books. However, as Kook became more important
to the Religious Zionist community in
Israel following the Six Day War, and
his son, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, arose
as a pre-eminent leader of the settler
movement, the ultra-Orthodox community reacted by removing references to
him from their literature. In one almost
comical case, a euloy of Kook delivered
by a Rabbi Isaac Kossowsky was republished as From a Euloy for One of the
Rabbis, deleting any direct reference
to Kook. Ironically, Kossowsky began
by describing the great importance of
eulogies and how those who deliver
them must make their audiences aware
of the special nature of the one being
mourned.
At the same time, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda
see SHAPIRO page 28

Cover Story

Selling books the old-fashioned way

I read them, says Northvale bookseller Ken Sarfin

Were not a Judaica

store, but we try to
feature as much for
Jewish holidays as
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holidays.
Jewish holidays come, I try to put out a display pertinent to the holiday. In addition to relevant books, the
store offers gifts appropriate for the holiday .
Were not a Judaica store, but we try to feature as
much for Jewish holidays as for non-Jewish holidays, he
said. Pesach and Chanukah receive the most attention.
We also have kosher cookbooks and fiction revolving
around Jewish subjects, he said, noting that he always
takes into account Jewish Book Council suggestions.
Sarfin, who grew up in Englewood Cliffs where
his 87-year-old mother still lives also tries to attract
Jewish speakers.
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has yet to welcome the ADL head. But he will soon

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Cover Story
Sarfin
from page 27

would be an important element of his business, and he says he built his business to
be event-driven.
Not surprising, his first speaker events
drew small crowds. But now, we have
major celebrities, he said, drawing 1,000
or more. Recently, for example, Books
and Greetings welcomed New York Yankee Jorge Posada and noted singer/actress
Julie Andrews.
Weve built a great reputation for doing
great events , he said, pointing out that
guest celebrity authors are delighted by
their book sales, the stores proximity to
Manhattan, and the fact that the events are
well-organized.
The store has also featured boxer Mike
Tyson, TV preacher Joel Osteen, performers Neil Patrick Harris and Lea Michele, as
well as Kiss singer Gene Simmons. In addition, he has welcomed Raquel Welch, Dr.
Ruth Westheimer, and Larry King.
Usually, TV personalities are the most
popular, he said, citing guests such as Hillary Duff. But baseball players are a big
draw as well, and the store has welcomed
sports figures such as Mariano Rivera, C.C.
Sabathia. and basketball great Shaquille
ONeill.
The customers love it, he said, adding
that attendees must buy a book in order
to attend an event. I tell them to take
advantage of this opportunity to meet the
authors in person.
Book sales help defray the cost of the
event and pay for ads. The ads I run cost
a lot of money, he said. There are very

Shapiro
from page 26

Kook, aware of his fathers growing

importance, tried to suppress many of
his fathers more radical writings to better
match the sensibilities of the burgeoning
Religious Zionist community he led. For
example, several passages that Kook wrote
embracing certain aspects of Spinozism
were never published. In short, Shapiro
provides an interesting perspective on
how the legacy of a great leader is influenced by history as much as the reverse.
Like Shapiros previous efforts, Changing The Immutable is meticulously
researched and footnoted sometimes
the extensive footnotes are an even livelier
read than the actual text. The examples he
cites cover a wide range of historical and
geographical material, and are often illustrated by photos and reproductions that
show precisely where and how the record
was changed. However, he provides little
context to connect the dots into a cohesive narrative or explain their historical
development. After finishing each chapter, we have many instances of rewritten history around a particular topic,
28 Jewish Standard JULY 17, 2015

few bookstores that run ads.

While books are the focus of the store,
were like an emporium, said Sarfin.
Were about as good of a local independent bookstore as you can find. We have
a great kids department, bestsellers, and
about 85,000 different backlist titles. We
can get almost any special order overnight,
and we carry the entire list of school books
for summer reading.
Even more significant, We do hand-

Were about as
good of a local
independent
bookstore as
you can find. We
have a great kids
department,
bestsellers,
and about
85,000 different
backlist titles.
selling, he said. We sell books the oldfashioned way we read them. I read, my
co-workers read, and the customers read.
Sarfin listens to everyones opinion before
deciding what to order.
Some best-sellers are a big joke they
may not even be out yet, he said. His

particularly from ultra-Orthodox communities and publishers, but we do not

really have a grasp on an overall story, or
context, within which to evaluate his findings. Notably, Shapiro devotes little, if any,
attention to literature produced by modern Orthodox communities, which, prima
facie, should have been a rich source of
material as well.
In his introduction, Shapiro claims that
Orthodox history and Soviet history
have a great deal in common, and quotes
a past editor of the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Neeman on the similarity of
his job to his peers at Pravda. However, as
opposed to the Communist Party in the
USSR, there is no single authority consciously setting an agenda for Orthodox
Judaism. Shapiro notes that, in the Orthodox world, objective truth is a value that
competes with many others, including
the honor of past leaders and the religious
needs of a works targeted audience. In
fact, according to some rabbinic sources,
a fabricated history that inspires religious
devotion is truer, in a cosmic sense, than
an accurate history that does not.
The actual production of that history,

offerings are based on real products.

The store also features a large greeting
card department, offering the upscale
Papyrus greeting cards. We want them
to be different, he said, not what you
find in every supermarket. In addition, it
includes a big toy department and gift section, with a full line of soaps and lotions.
Sarfin said he appreciates his base
of loyal customers. They come all the
time, he said. He is particularly pleased
that some children have called Books
and Greetings their favorite store. That
is really a compliment. I want them to be
comfortable and to look at books.
Sarfin, who is now trying to book events
for the fall and winter, said that despite his
best efforts, We dont do book clubs. We
tried it six months ago and it didnt work
too well.
To arrange his schedule, he goes through
the many publishers catalogues he receives
and decides who he wants to invite. Or,
publicists may give him a call, looking to
arrange an event for their clients.
When he works with publicists, I try to
build a chemistry, he said. We work with
those who know us and like us. Its rare a
publicist who will leave unhappy, he said.
Ensuring that everyone leaves the store
happy is one of Sarfins major goals.
I want them to have a good experience, he said. I want everyone to leave
happy. I tell my co-workers, make them
happy even if it costs us money. He also
loves when people come in to schmooze,
said Sarfin, whose store was recently featured on Entertainment Tonight.
Not all speakers draw large crowds.

Sarfin recalled that he invited an author

before Christmas who had a great Christmas gift book. No one showed up, but I
had sold 90 books ahead of time. Not only
was the author not put off by the small
crowd, but she came back again, he said.
Sarfin admits that there were a few
authors we didnt fall in love with. Some
are real divas, he said.
I tell them, people are here for you.
Theyre here to meet you. Give them a
few minutes. Fortunately, he said, most
of the authors who come are fabulous
friendly, engaging, and warm. Its sometimes surprising, he added, describing
how Kiss singer Simmons hugged and
kissed customers, sticking out his tongue
for their enjoyment (a performance
trademark).
Living in Old Tappan, Sarfin said he has
a four-minute commute which comes
in handy when he works seven days and
nights.
The key to his success besides hard
work?
We treat people the way we like to be
treated. Were here to help them, and they
can park at the door. I tell them, if you
dont support local business, you wont
have any business locally. There wont be
any retailing left. While its getting harder
to compete with the larger stores, we do
it with service and convenience, he said.
To find out more about the store, and
find out who will be speaking during the
coming year, contact Sarfin at (201) 7842665 or visit booksandgreetings.com.
Books and Greetings is located at 271 Livingston St. in Northvale.

though, turns out to be more grassroots

than top-down. In some ways, the ad-hoc
emergence of Orthodoxys rewritten past
is reflected in Shapiros haphazard presentation. It is clear something monumental
has been happening, but not at all clear
who started it, who is currently behind
it, and what, if any, its ultimate aims are.

as a practicing Orthodox Jew and real-life

Winston Smith. He does not tell us how
much faith he has lost in his community,
if any, or why. He also does not tell us how
he thinks a typical Orthodox Jew should
react to his findings, or how non-Orthodox
Jews should relate to the Orthodox in light
of them. These are tantalizing questions,
but they remain implicit.
Ultimately, Shapiro paints a picture of
a community whose current leadership is
beholden to a pantheon of historical leaders who are themselves only reflections of
contemporary practice. While he writes
about Orthodox Judaism, similar books
can certainly be written about political
parties, social movements, and national
institutions. In the age of the Internet,
when so many more pictures escape the
censors grasp, Shapiro challenges us to
purposefully shape our future not our
past.

However, he
provides little
context to
connect the dots
into a cohesive
narrative or
explain their
historical
development.
Shapiro writes as an academic, so we do
not get a sense of his unique perspective

Rabbi Avraham Bronstein is Program

Director of the Great Neck Synagogue. He
tweets at @AvBronstein and writes and
speaks on Jewish thought, politics, and
their intersection.

Jewish World

Following Iran deal, Israel to lobby

Congress and reconsider a strike
BEN SALES

sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has

decried an agreement over Irans nuclear program hundreds of times most notably in a March
speech to a joint session of Congress. Now that the
agreement is signed, experts say Netanyahu has one way
left to block it: Go to Congress again and persuade it to
reject the deal.
The agreement finalized Tuesday morning in Vienna
will relieve Iran of crippling international sanctions in
return for Iran limiting its uranium enrichment, ridding
most of its stockpile of enriched uranium, and submitting to agreed-upon inspections of its nuclear facilities.
The deal stipulates that Iran freeze and store but not
dismantle much of its nuclear infrastructure, and
requires inspectors to request access to some Iranian
facilities before entering.
Sanctions are set to be lifted once Iran fulfills its
commitments to deactivate centrifuges, restructure its
nuclear facilities and transfer or dilute its uranium stockpile. Sanctions could be restored within 65 days if a committee of representatives from world powers and Iran
determines that Iran has violated the agreement.
Portions of the accord will expire between 10 and 25
years from the date the accord is adopted. The United
Nations Security Council is expected to endorse the
accord in a resolution.
Netanyahu has made opposing Irans nuclear program the defining issue of his premiership, and has
consistently criticized the potential agreement since
negotiations began in 2013. On Tuesday, at a meeting
with Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders ahead of the
accords announcement, he called the agreement a historic mistake for the world.
Far-reaching concessions have been made in all
areas that were supposed to prevent Iran from obtaining
nuclear weapons capability, Netanyahu said at a news
conference. In addition, Iran will receive hundreds
of billions of dollars with which it can fuel its terror
machine and its expansion and aggression throughout
the Middle East and across the globe.
The agreement also was criticized by Israeli opposition leaders, and the Israeli public has long been skeptical of a deal. In February, an Israel Democracy Institute poll found that 61 percent of Jewish-Israelis thought
President Barack Obama would sign a deal even if the
Israeli government said it harms Israels security.
Yair Lapid, chairman of the opposition centrist Yesh
Atid party, said Israel should concentrate its criticism
on the provision for inspecting Irans nuclear facilities.
We should focus on the inspections regime, which
is the Achilles heel; its the weakest part of the deal,
Lapid said in a statement Monday. I started discussing
the issue during my visit to Washington last month and
theyre willing to listen.
The only thing standing in the way of the deals implementation now is a vote in Congress. Senators and
congressmen will have two months to parse the deals
details, and will vote to accept or reject it when Congress
reconvenes in September. President Obama has promised to veto a rejection, and overriding that veto would
require a two-thirds majority in both houses.
That, analysts say, is what Israels government will
lobby for. Jonathan Rynhold, a senior research associate

at Bar-Ilan Universitys Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic

Studies, said Israel will need to build a broad coalition
of the deals opponents including former members of
the Obama administration if it is to convince enough
lawmakers to reject the deal.
Israel cant do this on its own, but if theres a coalition of people who for their own reasons think its a bad
deal, that could change things, he said. Youve seen
criticism by other people who used to be involved in
policymaking by Obama.
Republicans have staunchly opposed a deal. But while
some Democrats have also voiced skepticism about the
agreement, reaching two-thirds would mean convincing a sizable chunk of the party to oppose its presidents
signature foreign policy initiative.
The question is how much the Democrats will be willing to debate with the president, said Ephraim Kam, a
senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. The Republicans will be able to debate.
They dont like the president, dont like the agreement.
The Democrats wont want to come out against the president even if they dont like the agreement.
Some experts said that Netanyahus March speech
before Congress damaged the effort to fight the deal
by forcing Democratic members of Congress to choose
between backing Israel and supporting Obama. But
Ephraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center, said
that the speech may have helped galvanize opposition
to the agreement by spelling out the dangers it poses.
I think Obamas policy gave presence to Netanyahus
speech, he said. They gave it a lot of attention, he got a
lot of attention, and his claims sounded sensible in public opinion.
Should the effort in Congress fail, some Israeli politicians have declared that theres only one avenue left
to prevent a nuclear Iran: a military strike. Netanyahu
has floated the threat of a strike for years, saying that
Israel has the right to defend itself by itself. Warnings
of a strike built up until the nuclear talks began in 2013.
Once America was engaged in negotiations with Iran,
talks of an Israeli strike subsided somewhat. But now
that America has signed the agreement, Lapid again
hinted at the possibility of bombing Irans nuclear
facilities.
If it is signed, the world needs to know Israel holds
all the options, Lapid told JTA last week. We need to
understand what all the options are. Israel cant allow a
nuclear Iran.
Experts have concluded that an Israeli strike on Iran
would not be able to destroy its nuclear program. And
Kam said that Israel would be hard-pressed to launch a
strike against the backdrop of a deal supported by the
worlds major powers.
I think its in the fridge, he said of plans for a strike.
Its not an option right now. To go militarily against an
agreement thats initiated by the great powers is a tough
move. Its not impossible, but its hard.
But Inbar said a strike has grown more likely, as the deal
has left Iran with the capability to enrich uranium, giving
it the ability to produce a bomb. If that happens, he said,
Israel will have no choice but to strike.
It obligates us to a path of military attack, he said.
The Americans dont care about our interests. Theres
no choice. We cant wait.

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Jewish World

Why the Iran nuclear deal is likely

to survive its several hurdles
RON KAMPEAS

he nuclear deal with Iran, 20

months in the making, is now
done at least as far as negotiations go. The accord, announced
early Tuesday, still faces hurdles, although
they likely wont keep the deal from going
ahead.
So what happens next?
We read the laws, perused the speeches,
scanned the deal, canvassed congressional
insiders and Iran experts, and heres what
we found out.

The U.N. Security Council

Action: The U.N.s sole lawmaking body
must now endorse the deal.
Likely consequence: Endorsement
The five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council France, Britain, China, the United States, and Russia
are among the six, along with Germany,
that signed off on the deal. Among the
remaining rotating members, only one,
Jordan, has expressed skepticism about
the Iran talks.

Congress
Action: Congress by law must review the
deal, but may not attempt to amend it.
Likely consequence: Disapproval
Congress, by law, gets the full text of the
deal within five calendar days of the agreement by this weekend in English, and
thanks to an amendment proposed by Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
in Persian as well. (The English version is
already available on the Internet, so this is
a formality.) Congress has 60 days to consider a deal and another 12 days to send
a joint resolution to President Obama,
should they resolve to do so.
In the coming days, Congress will need
to scrutinize this deal and answer whether
implementing the agreement is worth dismantling our painstakingly-constructed
sanctions regime that took more than a
decade to establish, Corker said in a statement. He and his ranking member, Sen.
Ben Cardin, D-Md., co-authored the law
mandating congressional review.
Leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives could bring resolutions to

either approve or disapprove the Iran deal

directly to the floor, but thats unlikely.
Lawmakers on both sides have talked up
the need to consider closely the 50-page
agreement and its 80 or so pages of
annexes, so the likelihood is that the agreement will get the committee treatment.
The first hurdle is each chambers foreign policy committee, Corkers and the
House Foreign Affairs Committee. Cardin
said he anticipates a hearing as early as
next week.
Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.),
a senior member of the Foreign Affairs
Committee and a skeptic of some aspects
of the deal, told JTA that the overwhelming
failure of a vote to approve would not be
binding, according to the law, and would
allow the deal to go ahead but it would
register as a moral victory for Congress,
It would indicate the intention of Congress to allow a future president to renegotiate the deal, particularly its sunset
clause, which removes restrictions on Iranian nuclear activity after 10 years.
That will be a signal that future congresses are not prevented from turning to
Iran in years to come and saying, No, you
cannot have an industrial size uranium
enrichment process after a decade, and
all options are on the table to stop you,
Sherman said.
Should Congress consider a resolution
of disapproval, theres a chance that it
would not make it out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, one congressional insider said. Republicans, in the
majority, own 11 of its 21 seats. But among
the 11 Republicans are two who have been
party outliers Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) who voted against
Iran sanctions in the past.
A source at a pro-Israel group acknowledged that a vote to disapprove could conceivably fail if Flake and Paul voted against
it. But Paul is unlikely to jeopardize his bid
for the GOP presidential nomination with
a vote against disapproval, the pro-Israel
source said, and among the 10 Democrats
on the committee, at least one, Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), is enough of a hardline Iran skeptic to cancel Flakes nay vote.
The next hurdle for disapproval would
be cloture, where a minimum of 60 votes
is needed to end debate, though cloture

Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, at

a Washington news conference in March 2015. Corker wondered whether implementing the Iran agreement was worth dismantling a painstakingly constructed
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may be scrapped through a filibuster.

Reaching cloture would require a minimum of five Democrats, which is not a
high hurdle, especially if the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee is rounding up votes.
Mark Dubowitz, the director of the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies a group that is skeptical about the
Iran deal and has consulted with Congress
and the administration on the agreement
said Democrats should consider how a
vote against disapproval could affect their
political careers. He noted how votes for
the Iraq War in 2003 derailed the ambitions of more than a handful of politicians.
No member of Congress pays an historical or political price for voting against
a massive leap of faith that goes right, he
said. They pay a huge price for voting for
one that goes badly wrong.
With Republican majorities in both
chambers and enough skeptical Democrats, a motion to disapprove will likely
succeed.

Veto
Action: Presidential veto and congressional override
Likely consequence: A veto followed by

a failure to override
Obama said outright on Tuesday, in
announcing the deal, that he would veto
any resolution of disapproval. Congress
then has 10 days to override the veto.
Congress needs two-thirds of each
chamber for an override. The 246 Republicans in the House would need 44 Democrats to hit 290, or two-thirds. Thats
unlikely: Representative Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.), the minority leader known for
commanding the loyalty of her caucus,
has lined herself up with deal backers in
her party and on Monday described the
Iran agreement as the product of years
of tough, bold, and clear-eyed leadership
from President Obama.
The likelihood of Congress stopping
this agreement is now low, Senator Mark
Kirk (R-Ill.), a deal opponent, told JTA,
describing the agreement as being against
American national security interests.
Kirk said, however, that it does not rule
out a congressional role in the future.
Down the line, the deal requires Congress
to permanently lift sanctions against Iran.
Thats a non-starter, he said. There
are no votes in the House and Senate for
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or tame this bucking progressive diseased
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brave caregivers, yet having no memories
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belts with gleaming buckles. He has forgotten how to ride a horse and his ranching
days have evaporated into the ether. His
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So how do we as a society respond to
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onslaught and growth of this disease? How
do we lift the ladder from the well?
We require far more research! To help
those afflicted and their families, we need
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The team discovered a protein that circulates in the blood that appears to be more
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lung cancer. The research built on the success of a study Dr. Ganepola led previously
that discovered a biomarker for pancreatic
cancer. Valley began biomarker research
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word biomarker was common, he said.
Our research on pancreatic cancer made
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research and with Wistars support, we
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Without the samples provided by Valley Hospital, this study would have been
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The achievements in cancer studies
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Dr. Ganepola is excited about the future
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Cancer is basically a genetic disease, but
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The Valley Hospital and The Wistar Institute team plan to validate their lung cancer
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Brightview to host
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Brightview Tenafly, a
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The free program for
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A skilled and experienced researcher and educator in the field of gerontology and dementia care,
Dr. Doyle will discuss the effects dementia has on
ones perception of reality. In addition, he will offer
communication tips to better connect with family
members and friends living with dementia and
other forms of memory impairments.
Dr. Doyle is Brightviews corporate director of
memory care services and is also adjunct assistant
professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Serving as a resource for older adults, families,
caregivers and others in the community is important to us, notes Alina Vanden Berg, Brightview
executive director. And partnering with Dr. Doyle
and sharing his expertise and knowledge with the
community is exciting.
Brightview Tenafly features assisted living apartment homes and a Wellspring Village neighborhood dedicated to dementia and Alzheimers care.
The community opened in June.
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Health, wellness, and the Kaplen JCC:
Moving ahead by constantly moving
From the time the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades first opened
its doors in its Tenafly location in 1981, it was the place people came to get fit and stay healthy. The new, state-of-theart facility included an indoor Olympic-size pool, tennis and
racquetball courts, and continued to expand with a health
club, massage suites, expansive gyms, athletic leagues, and
classes that included everything from water ballet, springboard diving, and advanced lifesaving to yoga, cycling, and
group exercise.
Truly ahead of its time in the wellness world, the JCC also
encouraged families and the community at large to engage
in healthy activities. It launched the Rubin Run to great success its very first year, as well as a wide range of healthy
programs and activities for kids. The goal was to encourage

health and wellness as a family and community priority.

Now, nearly 35 years later, its goal is the same, and the
JCC continues to provide the best in fitness for its community. Boasting a new, two-level, cutting-edge health and
wellness facility, it features all the latest equipment and a
professional staff that allows it to be true leader in everything fitness. Whether a persons passion is for swimming,
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Staff and parents cheer their children during a relay

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Children participating in this years Rubin Run.

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A group of fitness enthusiasts, enjoying a cycling

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The Welcome Center for Brightview Paramus, Brightview Senior Livings sixth community in New Jersey,
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This area has been underserved in terms of independent living, said Stephen Nichols, executive director.
We are excited to bring Brightviews worry-free lifestyle
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and spend time with family and friends.
With a total of 170 apartment homes for seniors, the
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Brightviews expansion in New Jersey and the metropolitan New York City area is exciting, said Brightview
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Brightview communities are known for offering an
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17 Temple washing item
18 Song by 57 Across about where
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20 Goes from big to small, like Paul
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22 Like Golem stories
23 Moniker (and hit) for 57 Across
25 Like Old Jewish Man from The
Simpsons
26 Kosher deli item
27 Indian matzah equivalent
28 Serling of TV
29 Baseballers Rosen and Levine
30 Its emblem has Hebrew on it
32 Shabbat staples
34 With The, song by 57 Across about
The Nile, as Pharaoh described it to
Joseph?
40 Rava or Abaye
41 Justin Barthas role in The Hangover
trilogy
43 2015 Oscar winner for Best Foreign
Language Film
46 Place for tefillin or a tallit
47 Israels has changed over the years
50 Fred Wilpons team div.
51 Uptown Funk musician
53 Song by 57 Across about Abram
leaving his fathers house?
55 Chanukah menorah branches, e.g.
56 Many poems by Leah Goldberg
57 Subject of this puzzle
59 Kosher deli item
62 Important ingredient in some pareve
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63 One is about 5000 square amot
64 Some people daven to win it
65 Israel has 16 varieties of this bird
66 Adrien Brody, e.g.?
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1 Bush who visited Israel in 2007
2 Meryls Prime co-star
3 Former Prime Minister
4 Spock was half of one
5 Last name in a company that produced Shalom Sesame
6 His name is often second on the letterhead
7 Pauls Mad About You co-star
8 Needs chicken soup, maybe
9 Moses felt it when seeing the Golden
Calf
10 Dairy, on Shavuot
11 1999 Lumet film, which was George C.
Scotts last
12 How Kirk would order torpedoes to
be fired
13 Tzedakah recipients
19 Something a Jewish grandmother
may have - or do
21 Mom
23 Be a yenta
24 Time for Lag Baomer
25 Use Israir
28 Holy heifer color
31 Actress Green of 300: Rise of an
Empire
32 Deg. of many professors teaching
Leibovitz
33 Like the life of Jephtahs daughter
35 Be the face of Israel
36 Non-holy heifer color
37 OU, e.g.
38 Mysterious Kubrickian item
39 Shipmate of Kirk and Spock
42 Divorce document
43 1950 Asimov classic
44 Like well-behaved kinderlach
45 Part of some kosher animals thats
not eaten
47 Newsman Safer
48 Marvel bigwig Arad
49 Kosher deli item
52 Rahel Varnhagen had a famous one
in Berlin
53 Mike who played Linda Richman on
SNL
54 Apples not suitable for Rosh
Hashanah?
56 Mashugana to Jose
58 Mo. Tu BShevat often falls in
60 Hotel room for a Chatan and Kallah:
abbr.
61 Like the Sinai

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Mattot-Masei: The long and winding road

his weeks double parsha of

Mattot-Masei concludes the
richly crafted book of Numbers. The first half of the book
describes the experiences, the highs and
ultimate lows, of the generation that left
Egypt. It then shifts in its second half to
the challenges, battles, and experiences
of the second generation, the one that
would entered the Promised land. We
emerge then with a portrait of the transition between two eras, two generations,
and their similarities and differences.
The second parsha, Masei, records the
forty-two different stations that the Israelites stopped at along the way on their
journey to the Land of Israel. It tells us
the name and location of each and every
stop, though it does not indicate how long
each stop was for. Many commentators
throughout history have struggled with
the question as to why the Torah spends
so much ink in recounting to us these
details of the journey. Maimonides in a
famous comment in the Guide for The Perplexed suggests that the Torah is trying to
highlight the historical fact of Gods great
munificence to the Israelites. The names of
all these locales highlight that the people

took a route through desert territory and

not in settled land. They did not traverse
close to cities or oases or towns that had
ready access to food and drink. And yet
God lovingly sustained them through
their sojourn in the desert, a land not cultivated ( Jeremiah 2:2) as we reference in
the Rosh Hashanah liturgy of the Zichronot passage.
In addition to this insight, other ideas
emerge from this presentation of the experience. Highlighting each and every stop
along the way is an important message for
each and every person in their hectic lives
on a personal level and for us on a communal and a national level. Often we are
driven to reach a goal and achieve an outcome whether in business or in our educational attainments, or even in our spiritual
and familial life. In the process, we often do
not appreciate the stops along the way and
do not live in the present, appreciating the
small moments and the value of the here
and now. It is important to luxuriate in the
experience at hand and fully invest in it. To
take two examples, it is a great achievement
to complete the study of the entire Talmud
in seven and half years of daily study, but it
should not only be this goal that animates

I will save you, and I will

ones study. It is the study of
redeem, and I will take you
each and every folio, each
to me as a people. In making
and every topic of our complex and rich legal texts cona blessing on each and every
taining that great amalgam
stage, even one which is only
of law, narrative, and guidpartial in the overall scheme
ance that should be the focus
of redemption, we affirm the
of ones learning of Torah.
fact that even partial salvation and success is worthy of
A second example from our
Rabbi
recognition. In applying that
daily life. In raising our chilNathaniel
dren we sometimes focus so
to the contemporary scene
Helfgot
much on them achieving cerhe went on to note that even
Modern Orthodox
tain goals and benchmarks
though the State of Israel is
that we do not give sufficient
not perfect and we are still a
weight to the moment and
ways off from our vision of a
experience at hand and simply appreciate
complete redeemed society, there is much
it on its own terms.
to give praise and thanksgiving to God and
On the national level the same apprewe should never lose sight of that fact.
ciation should be central to our outlook.
It is that balance between keeping our
My revered teacher, the recently deceased
eyes on the big goals and the end game of
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein of blessed
our journeys and appreciating the here
memory, often noted that the Ashkenazic
and now and the majesty of each moment
custom (in contrast to other halachic traand experience that is our charge.
ditions) is to recite a blessing on each
and every one of the four cups of wine
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot is rabbi of
at the Seder. The four cups traditionally
Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck
are understood to correspond to the four
and chair of the Department of Talmud
phrases of redemption in the Exodus:
and Rabbinics at SAR High School in New
and I will take you out of Egypt, and
York City.

warm hives. As the bees suck up nectar

from a flower, they shake it, which helps
disseminate the pollen.
The pollinating bees have for years
been helping Israeli farmers, who are
also affected by the global decline in the
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gag order) in order to bring him back to

Israel as well. We face a very cynical and
cruel enemy that denies the basic humanitarian obligation to send innocent citizens
back to their country. We will not slacken,
and we will do everything necessary in
order to bring these citizens back home.
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Briefs

Israeli bumblebees fly

first-class to Japan to
pollinate produce
Israeli bees are being sent to Japan to
help make up for a lack of bees caused
by the increased use of pesticides in that
countrys rice fields.
The Israeli bees are being sent to Japan
inside spacious hives, each of which contains an impregnated queen bee and 50
worker bees that supply her needs. The
Bio Bee firm, based at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu,
which raises and ships the bees, takes care
to ensure the queen and her minions have
as comfortable a flight as possible with
first-class conditions and a short layover
in Moscow.
When they arrive in Japan, the bees are
sent to greenhouses in farms throughout
the country, where they work busily to
pollinate the produce, a process vital to
ensure a good harvest.
Bio Bees mass-produced earth bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) are created for
pollination purposes only. They have been
bred to fulfill their mission even when the
temperature drops, as well as in rainy,
cloudy weather, when bees do not naturally work and prefer to huddle up in their

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Netanyahu visits
family of hostage,
vows all-out effort
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the family of Avera Mengistu in Ashkelon on Friday, a day after it was revealed
that Mengistu, a 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian descent, is being held hostage by the
Hamas terrorist group in Gaza since crossing the border fence last September.
After meeting with the family for more
than an hour, Netanyahu said, We are
doing everything in our ability to return
Avera to Israel, just as we are in contact
with the family of the other Israeli citizen
(a Bedouin whose identity is still under a

French jihadist leader,

13 others jailed for
plotting attacks on
Jewish targets
A French jihadist leader, along with 13
others, were sentenced to prison on Friday for plotting attacks on Jewish targets inside of France and for advocating
terrorism.
A Paris court sentenced Mohamed
Achamlane, the self-proclaimed emir
of the outlawed Forsane Alizza (Knights
of Pride) Islamist terror group, to nine
years in jail for plotting attacks on targets
such as kosher supermarkets and other
Jewish-owned shops in Paris, according to
files found on a computer by police. Thirteen accomplices of Achamlane were sentenced to up to six years in jail, Le Figaro
reported.

The convictions come as the French

government is seeking to crack down on
homegrown Islamic extremism following
Januarys terror attacks on the satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper
Cacher kosher supermarket.


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Pope Francis demands

end to genocide of
Mideast Christians
Pope Francis demanded an end to the
genocide of Middle East Christians during his visit to Bolivia on Thursday.
Today we are dismayed to see how
in the Middle East and elsewhere in the
world many of our brothers and sisters are
persecuted, tortured and killed for their
faith in Jesus, Pope Francis said.
In this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing,
a form of genocide is taking place, and it
must end, he added.
Francis has spoken frequently on the
issue of protecting the Middle Easts dwindling Christian population from attacks by
Muslim terror groups like Islamic State in
Syria and Iraq.
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Calendar
on trumpet, and Jacob
Niederman on sax
and clarinet. Weather
permitting, service
outdoors on the shuls
garden patio. Dessert
and coffee. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.

Friday
JULY 17
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
lead informal tot Shabbat
with songs, stories,
and crafts, 5:15 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.

Saturday
JULY 25
Shabbat in Teaneck:

Saturday

Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer,

senior director of the
Tikvah Fund and a judge
on the beit din of Rabbi
Asher Weiss, discusses
Why We Cry on Tisha
BAv, after the 8:30
a.m. Ashkenaz minyan
at Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun. Hosted by the
shuls adult education
committee and Beis
Medrash program. The
main minyan is at 9. 641
W. Englewood Ave. (201)
836-8916.

JULY 18

Rabbi Shalom Hammer

Shabbat in Fair
Lawn: Rabbi Shalom
Hammer, an IDF
chaplain and educator,
is scholar in residence at
Congregation Darchei
Noam. His shiur after
Kiddush is What Are
We Fighting For?
Instilling Ideology in
the IDF Soldier Today.
His afternoon talk is
The Churban HaBayit:
A Review of Jewish
Leadership, and there
will be a discussion
during seudah shlishit.
Sponsorships available.
10-04 Alexander Ave.
www.darcheinoam.com.

Rabbi Moshe Tzvi

Weinberg

Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation

Marthe Cohn, 94, a Jewish spy in Nazi

Germany, shares her heroic tale of survival
at the Chabad Jewish Center of Upper
Passaic County in Haskell, Tuesday, July 28,
7:30 p.m. She is the author of Behind Enemy Lines,
an international best-seller. At 80, she received the
Medaille Militaire, Frances highest military honor. 1069
Ringwood Ave., Suite 101. (201) 696-7609 or
www.JewishHighlands.org.

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28

Youth theater in Wayne:

Edwina Junior at the
YMCAs Rosen PAC,
2 p.m. The Metro YMCAs
of the Oranges is a
partner of the YM-YWHA
of North Jersey. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100 or
www.wayneymca.org.

Sunday
JULY 19
Youth theater in Wayne:
Actn Youth Performing
Ensemble at the Wayne
YMCA performs Dear

Don McLean. The series,

produced by Naomi Miller,
runs through August 20.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973)
595-0100.

Thursday

Friday

JULY 23

JULY 24
Tot Shabbat in Nyack:

Shabbat in Teaneck:
Tonight at 6:50 p.m.
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, Rabbi Moshe
Tzvi Weinberg of Yeshiva
University will discuss
One Heart, One Mind:
Chasidic Motifs in the Life
and Thought of Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795 or www.
rinat.org.

Bnai Jacob offers

mid-summer Shabbat.
Morning services,
9:15 a.m.; Torah Topics
at 10:30, followed by
a summer lunch. At
6:30 p.m., there will
be seudah shlishit and
a Tisha BAv pre-fast
supper, followed by
Havdalah at 7:45 and
a Tisha BAv service
at 8. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.

Music in Wayne: The

Summer Concert series
at the Wayne YMCA
continues with Nostalgia
Made Fresh. A Salute to
Singers/Songwriters of
the 70s, 7 p.m. Stephen
Hanks, the groups creator
and its host, leads; the
evening will feature six
vocalists singing the
work of Carole King, Paul
Simon, Joni Mitchell,
Stevie Wonder, Carly
Simon, Elton John, and

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PJ Library in Rockland
County and Ramah
Day Camp in Nyack,
N.Y., co-host Bim Bam
Shabbat, a free Friday
morning program with
Shabbat-related songs,
stories, and Jewish
activities for toddlers
and preschoolers, at
Ramah Day Camp,
9:30 a.m. Program is
weekly through August
14. 303 Christian Herald
Road. Lara Epstein,
(845) 362-4200, ext.
180, or lepstein@
jewishrockland.org.

Shabbat on the
Palisades: Temple Beth
El of Closter invites
the community to an

informal Prayers on
the Palisades Shabbat
service at 6:30 pm at the
State Line Lookout off
the Palisades Parkway.
The exit is on the PIP
northbound, two miles
north of Exit 2. All
are welcome. If the
weather is unpleasant,
services will be held
at Temple Beth El, 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.

Actn Youth Performing

Ensemble at the Wayne
YMCA performs Tarzan
the Musical, at the
YMCAs Rosen PAC,
7 p.m. The Metro YMCAs
of the Oranges is a
partner of the YM-YWHA
of North Jersey. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100 or
www.wayneymca.org.

Sunday
JULY 26
Tisha BAv in New City:
The Nanuet Hebrew
Center joins other
Rockland congregations
to offer a community
Tisha BAv service, 9 a.m.
411 South Little Tor Road,
off Exit 10, Palisades
Interstate Parkway.
(845) 708-9181 or
office@nanuethc.org.

Monday
JULY 27
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Childrens music
in Franklin Lakes:
Childrens entertainer
Bobby DooWah offers
his Music JAM (Jewish
Action Music) session
for children up to age
6 at the Chabad Jewish
Center of NWBC,
5-6 p.m. Dinner served.
375 Pulis Ave. Mimi,
(201) 848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org.

Singles
Wednesday
JULY 22
Singles meet in Old
Tappan: Singles 65+
meets for dinner at
Charlie Browns, 6 p.m.
Individual checks. The
group meets monthly
at the JCC Rockland.
Seymour Chenkin,
(845) 848-2038 or
salcssc@optimum.net.

Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
holds Shabbat
Tzavta (together), a
participatory folk-rock
service with selections
from contemporary and
classical repertoires, folk
rock melodies, liturgical
selections, traditional
motifs, and Israeli and
Argentinian melodies,
7 p.m. Service led by
Cantor Ilan Mamber
on guitar and harp,
with the Beth Rishon
Klezmer AllStars: Jane
Koch on keyboards, Gale
Bindelglass on vocals,
Adam Friedlander on
guitar, Jimmy Cohen on
percussion, Len Stern

Deep Purple at bergenPAC

Deep Purple performs on Wednesday, July 22, at 8
p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, as part of the Benzel-Busch Concert Series.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or
www.bergenpac.org or by calling the box office, (201)
227-1030.

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1

n 1 The fourth annual Yoga on the Green at

the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, led by JCC
master yoga instructor Brenda Blanco on an
expansive lawn on the JCC grounds in Tenafly,
attracted more than 250 participants. It was
one of the centers best-attended free health
and wellness events this year. Courtesy JCCOTP
n 2 A student at Anshei Lubavitch of Fair
Lawn Day Care Center/ Preschool displays
a newly hatched chick as part of the learning experience. Courtesy Anshei Lubavitch

n 3 Graduates of the Helen Troum Nursery

School and Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn celebrated with a musical
review of the Jewish calendar year for their
parents and invited guests. Courtesy TBS
n 4 On June 11, Bris Avrohoms executive director, Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky, right, put
a mezzuzah on the doorpost of the executive offices of Newark International Airport.
More than 100 airport employees watched.
From left, Bris Avrohoms rabbi, Avremy
Kanelsky; Richard Heslin, the airports general manager; and Diane M. Papianni, the
deputy general manager. Courtesy BA

n 5 Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood

featured a musical Shabbat Under the
Summer Sky last month. Members of the
centers two congregations, Temple Israel
and Reconstructionist Congregation Beth
Israel participated. Courtesy Temple Israel
n 6 Children at Camp Shalom participated
in Sinais fourth annual Swim for Sinai
swimathon. Funds raised benefit children
who cannot learn in a regular educational
environment and who depend on Sinai
Schools for an inclusive special education
program in one of their many partner Jewish day or high schools. Courtesy Sinai

Jewish Standard july 17, 2015 43

Jewish World

Ramadan tours promote coexistence

between Israeli Arabs and Jews
BEN SALES
KFAR QASIM, ISRAEL The group of
Jewish-Israelis sat in a semicircle on the
thick, red carpet of the mosque. The
women wore headscarves; everyones feet
were bare.
They had come to this Arab town in central Israel to experience a slice of Ramadan, the monthlong daytime fast observed
by Muslims that ends this week. But before
they left the mosque to visit Kfar Qasims
Ramadan market a nightly, open-air
food bazaar tour guide Shawkat Amer
sounded a note of reassurance.
Amer told the crowd that just before
the fast ended that evening, loudspeakers would sound calls of Allahu akbar,
Arabic for God is great, across the city.
Although its a phrase some Jewish-Israelis may associate with the final cry of terrorists before an attack, Amer urged his
guests to remain calm. The call, he said, is
in fact a message of goodwill.
Dont worry, its not a threat, he said.
If I say it, you should feel pleasure.
The nearly 50 men, women and children who joined the group on Sunday
night were among some 1,500 Jews who
have toured Arab-Israeli cities in the past
month for a small taste of iftar, the nightly
meal that breaks the Ramadan fast. In
spite of tensions between the groups, its
common for Jewish-Israelis to visit Arab
towns for discount shopping or Middle
Eastern food. But these tours aimed to
take that experience deeper by teaching
about Arab-Israeli culture and religion.
If the only narrative is a Jewish narrative and the only history is Jewish, and
you just buy hummus from Arabs, thats
not good, said Ron Gerlitz, co-executive
director of Sikkuy, the Jewish-Arab coexistence nonprofit that organized the tours
in Arab cities across central and northern
Israel. I dont object to people buying
hummus in Kfar Qasim, but for relations
between Jews and Arabs, you need more
than that.
A city of 21,000 residents adjacent to
the West Bank border and the middle-class
Jewish city of Rosh Haayin, Kfar Qasim is
one of Israels poorer towns. The Hebrew
signs on the shops lining its streets are
meant to entice Jewish customers.
As Koranic verses signaling the breakfast echoed across the city, the tour group
flooded into an open-air food market set
up for Ramadan. Merchants sold the tourists delicacies such as sticky pastries, fruit,
pickled vegetables and falafel, fried on the
spot in a giant pan. Part of the idea behind
the tours, Gerlitz said, is to boost the

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Vendors selling falafel at the nightly Ramadan market in Kfar Qasim. 

Arab-Israeli economy, which has less exposure to tourism dollars than Jewish cities.
Tourism is a meaningful tool for economic development, and tourism right
now is mostly in Jewish towns, he said.
Government investment is mostly in Jewish towns. That means there arent investments in Arab towns.
But the tours also aim to confront historical wounds. Near the center of town,
an austere black-and-white monument
that looks like an upside-down obelisk
with the year 1956 emblazoned on top
commemorates the Kfar Qasim massacre,
when Israeli border guards killed 48 fieldworkers returning home after curfew. In
2007, then-President Shimon Peres formally apologized for the incident, but
residents say they are still pained by its
memory. Some said they value dialogue
with Jews as a way to move past historical trauma.
The tour group doesnt make a difference for me but for my kids it does,
so they wont say Jews are animals, said
Amer Amer, a vendor of pickled vegetables
whose father died in the massacre. I want

Jews to feel trusted here, at home here. I

dont want them to just say, Those are
Arabs.
The tour provided few opportunities
for informal conversation with residents,
focusing more on basic information about
Islam and Arab-Israeli culture. But Adi, a
Hebrew tutor who declined to give her last
name, said the groups exposure to Arab
culture and Islam was still more than Jewish-Israelis normally receive.
I think it was at a more informative
level, but as an Israeli I got more of a taste
[of Arab-Israeli life] than I get day to day,
she said. It gave more familiarity than
what Im used to.
At the mosque visit ahead of their trip
to the market, the Jewish group heard
Eyad Amer, a local imam, alternate
between outlining the basics of Ramadan and answering the groups questions about Islamic worship. Was there
space for women in the mosque? (Yes,
in another room.) Does Islam have egalitarian movements, like Judaism? (No.)
How many of the citys 25,000 residents
observe the fast? (80 percent, based on

BEN SALES

mosque attendance.)
They just hear about extremist Islam,
the imam told said after the tour. They
dont know what moderate Islam is. If we
dont talk about Islam, theyll just have
a negative outlook toward us because
theyre just exposed to the dark side, not
the enlightened side of Islam.
Speaking to the group, both the imam
and the tour guide complained of discrimination against Arabs in Israel. (In fact, in
an interview, Imam Amer said he lived
under Israeli occupation, despite being a
citizen).
Still, there are hopes for improvement.
A two-hour tour wouldnt fix the longstanding challenges Arabs face in Israel,
tour guide Shawkat Amer said but he
hoped that greater Jewish familiarity with
Arab-Israelis could help chip away at tensions between the communities.
I cant fix the whole world, but even
if I do 1 percent of good, it will get better
and better, he said. The more Jewish
people I bring to Arab towns, the happier Ill be.

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Obituaries
George Kessel

George Kessel, 87, of Delray Beach,

Fla., formerly of Bergenfield, died
on July 7.
He attended Newark College of
Engineering and was a builder/real
estate developer at Bergen County
Iron Works and Kessel Associates
for 50 years. He was a president
of the National Association of
Industrial and Office Parks, and
former health club president at the
Bergen County YM-YWHA, a board
member of Midlantic Bank, and a
trustee of Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife of
60 years, Joan, ne Piekarsky,
sons, Jeffrey ( Jacqueline) and
Steven (Stephanie), and four
grandchildren.

Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Fumeral Directors, Hackensack.

Sally Rosenthal

Sally Rosenthal, 82, of Cliffside

Park died on July 13.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Seymour Shindel

Seymour S. Shindel of Pikesville,

Md., formerly of Fair Lawn, died on
July 9. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

The California State Assembly on Monday passed a resolution

urging action on the increasingly rampant anti-Semitism on
University of California (UC) campuses.
The resolution urges each UC campus to adopt a resolution condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and racism.
The bipartisan measure was introduced by State Senator
Jeff Stone (R-Riverside) following a series of events that targeted Jews and Israel on UC campuses, including an incident
at UC Davis in which a swastika was painted onto an Alpha
Epsilon Pi (AEPi) Jewish fraternity building and the UCLA
student governments probing of a Jewish students religious
identity during a hearing on her application for a judicial
board position.
The resolution was previously passed unanimously in May
by the California State Senate, 35-0, and by the California
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Canadian-Israeli woman
who fought with Kurds in
Syria returns to Israel
Canadian-Israeli Gill Rosenberg, who was the first woman to
go into Syria and help the Kurds fight the Islamic State terror
group, has reportedly returned to Israel.
Rosenberg, 31, was embedded in the region for eight
months and was unreachable for a lengthy period. This
sparked rumors that she was kidnapped. Rosenberg eventually did release a message that she was unharmed.
On Monday, Rosenberg cited the spread of Iranian influence in the Middle East as part of the reason for her decision
to return to Israel.
I think we as Jews, we say never again for the Shoah, and
I take it to mean not just for Jewish people, but for anyone,
for any human being, especially a helpless woman or child in
Syria or Iraq, Rosenberg told Israels Army Radio.
But in the past few weeks I think a lot of the dynamics have

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attacked by Arab Muslims
this year, leader says
A dozen Christians serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
have been attacked by Arab Muslims this year, an Israeli Christian leader said.
So far this year, 12 Christian soldiers have been attacked,
Rev. Gabriel Naddaf told the Jerusalem Post, adding that
nobody is doing anything about the phenomenon.
For several years, Naddaf has led efforts to increase participation of Israeli Christians in the IDF. Naddafs own son was
attacked in December 2013 because of his pro-IDF views.
I call on the [Israeli] government to quickly put an end to
this phenomenon [of Muslim attacks on soldiers] because it
will cause Christians to think twice before joining the army,
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IDF lone soldier killed in Gaza

honored with Torah dedication
A year after his death in Gaza during Operation Protective
Edge, IDF lone soldier Max Steinberg was honored with a
Torah scroll dedication ceremony on Sunday at the Aish
World Center in Jerusalem.
The ceremony was attended by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
of Israel David Lau, Steinbergs friends from the IDFs elite
Golani Brigade, and his parents, Stuart and Evie, who arrived
after meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.
Steinbergs friends wrote the final letters into the Torah
scroll dedicated in his name.
It is very emotional for me to see the soldiers here, Evie
Steinberg said. Losing a child is so difficult, but we draw so
much strength from the people when we come to Israel and
it helps a lot.
Steinberg, a 24-year-old Los Angeles native, was one of 13
Israeli soldiers killed in the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza
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Bergen Networking Group fundraiser helps Heroes to Heroes
reach out to veterans with post traumatic stress disorder
Event for foundation raises awareness and empathy

and restitution.
He is married to Silvers daughter
Michelle, a certified public accountant,
who was a co-owner and managing partner of the fraudulent investment fund,
Allese Capital. She has not been charged
in the fraud, which ran from 2007 to 2014.
Silver resigned in January after
being arrested in an anti-corruption
investigation.
Sentencing for Trebitsch is scheduled
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who has pleaded not guilty, goes on trial,
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The son-in-law of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded guilty
to running a $7 million Ponzi scheme.
Marcello Trebitsch, 37, offered his plea
in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on
Monday on charges of wire fraud and
securities fraud. He was arrested in April.
Im sorry for what Ive done and I
apologize to the court and my family,
Trebitsch reportedly said in court.
Trebitsch is facing up to 20 years in
prison. The plea deal calls for him to
serve between 51 to 63 months, according to the New York Daily News. He must
also pay nearly $5.9 million in forfeiture

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and peer support program for veterans.

The foundation serves veterans of Vietnam, Desert Storm, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
All who are having challenges with
PTSD or returning to civilian life after
serving their country are welcome.

Sheldon Silvers son-in-law pleads guilty

to $7 million Ponzi scheme

OPEN HOUSE 12-2

For more information about Bergen

Networking Group, their activities, or
how to join, visit http://www.BergenNetworkingGroup.com
Heroes to Heroes Foundation, a nondenominational 501(c)(3) organization, provides spiritual healing, suicide prevention,

fundraising event at Blue Moon Mexican

Caf in Englewood. Blue Moon donated 20
percent of its proceeds to the foundation.
Thank you to the entire Bergen Networking Group for your support of Heroes
to Heroes Foundation. Your hard work
and generosity will help save the lives of
some of our most vulnerable veterans.
said Judy I. Schaffer, founder and president of the foundation.
Representing the networking group
were Michael Baer, Larry Bauer, Kelly Cassidy, Venessa DiBona, Tamarha Ellerbe,
Jennifer Glass, Cathy Green, Jill Kravitz,
Elvin Lopez, Ray Turkin, and Liz Santos.
In addition to raising funds for Heroes to
Heroes, members also donated cash, soccer balls, backpacks, and other sporting
goods for a mission trip to Ghana, where
attorney Michael Baer will travel for the
third year to help children in need.
These donations will be brought
to the schoolchildren of Awate Torno,
Ghana. These are recently rescued child
slaves that are now in school and with
foster families said Baer.

Knowing how to network is invaluable

in business and in life, but it is a skill that
must be learned, honed, and practiced
consistently to achieve success.
The members of Bergen Networking
Group understand this and partner with
local clubs, organizations, and businesses
to connect them to the right people and
services needed.
One event representing such a combining of talents and effort is the Heroes to
Heroes fundraiser held July 7 and sponsored by the Bergen Networking Group
to help local veterans with post tramatic
stress disorder.
This event helps raise awareness of a
wonderful nonprofit that is helping our
local veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, said Fernando Sosa,
CEO of Haon Tech.com and president of
Bergen Networking Group. It is my hope
the Heroes to Heroes Foundation gets all
the support they need to continue to carry
on their mission.
As part of its 10th anniversary, Bergen Networking Group organized the

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Englewood annual sidewalk sale includes 80 stores

Next week, downtown Englewood will be transformed
into the ultimate shopping destination as over 80 participating stores take part in the Englewood Sidewalk Sale
on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
With a seemingly endless array of stores participating in
this years sidewalk sale, most everyone will find what
they are looking for whether on display outside or inside
the stores. There will be free metered parking.
Join us for the seasons best deals and much more,
said Englewood Chamber of Commerce President James
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about great deals and summer fun. With many stores
participating with great sales, this year offers many
exciting additions to this historic event. A special thanks
to the City of Englewood for their support by providing
free parking.
Students from the beyondDANCE ensemble of the Performing Arts School at bergenPAC, led by artistic director Roberta Mathes will be showcased doing a dance
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221 olim arrive in Israel on charter flight

as Nefesh BNefesh summer numbers swell
A jetliner chartered by Nefesh BNefesh has
arrived at Tel Avivs Ben Gurion Airport carrying 221 new immigrants (or olim) from 14
states, the District of Columbia, and four
Canadian provinces.
The flight was made in cooperation with
Israels Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant
Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel,
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and JNF-USA.
On board were 32 families, including 95
children and 53 singles 12 of whom will
be joining the Israel Defense Forces. Also
of note were the 46 olim moving to Israels
periphery as part of the Nefesh BNefesh and
Keren Kayemeth LeIsraels Go North and Go
South programs.
This was the first of two olim charter
flights which, along with six group aliyah
flights and olim arriving independently,
will bring over 2,000 olim making aliyah
through Nefesh BNefesh this summer.
An estimated 4,000 newcomers from
North America are expected in 2015. Since
2002, Nefesh BNefesh, together with its
partners, has brought 45,000 olim to Israel
from the U.S., Canada, and England.
This is a time when we are seeing
increased aliyah from the free, Western
world, said Natan Sharansky, chairman
of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for
Israel. Jews are coming to Israel from
Western countries not because it is a refuge, but rather because Israel is attractive
to people who are looking for a meaningful

An estimated
4,000
newcomers
from North
America are
expected
in 2015.

The new olim disembark from a Nefesh BNefesh charter flight facilitated in
cooperation with Israels Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption, The
Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and JNF-USA.

Jewish life, for freedom, personal security,

and for the chance to play a part in the evolution of Jewish history.
The increasing numbers of olim are a
result of the partnership between the government of Israel, The Jewish Agency, and
organizations like Nefesh BNefesh.
KKL-JNF Co-Chairman Eli Aflalo referred
to the unique strategic partnership between
the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish

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National Fund (KKL-JNF) and the members of Nefesh BNefesh.

The important work of the founders of the organization Nefesh BNefesh,
Tony Gelbart and Rabbi Yehoshua Fass,
has enabled us to create special programs that encourage immigrants to
reach the peripheral communities,
Aflalo said.
Immigrants who arrive in Israel
through these programs benefit from
the different grants provided to them.
In addition, communities in the periphery are blessed by the integration of
quality populations who are joining

their communities.
Rabbi Fass said: The hundreds of
new olim on this flight, and the thousands who will be joining them over the
course of this year, are the modern-day
pioneers helping to build and secure the
future of the State of Israel.
Over the past thirteen years, it has
been an incredible privilege assisting over 45,000 olim who are fulfilling their dreams, and the hopes of
our nation, by returning to the Jewish
homeland.
Friends and family saw the olim off
at a departure ceremony at JFK Airport.
Guests included Gila Gamliel, Israels
minister for senior citizens; Ambassador Ron Prosor, permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations; Orly
Zuckerman,the Jewish Agency for Israel
director of absorption programs; KKLJNF Vice Chairman Menachem Leibovic,
Keren Kayemeth LeIsrae; and Nefesh
BNefesh co-founders Rabbi Fass and
Tony Gelbart.

Some of the 95 children who made Aliyah on the Nefesh BNefesh charter
flight facilitated in cooperation with Israels Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant
Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and
JNF-USA.

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2 $4
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Assorted

Polly-O
Ricotta Cheese

2 5
15 OZ

FOR

Tree Ripe
Orange Juice
59 OZ

2 $5
FOR

2 $3

2 6
$

FOR

Bodek
Broccoli
Cuts

Gardein Ultimate
Beefless Burger

$ 99

12 OZ

New York Pasta

Spinach
Ravioli

$ 99

Dagim
Flounder
Fillet

Save On!

7 Layer
Cake

14 OZ

$ 99

13 OZ

Brooklyn Best
Pizza

$ 99

8 SLICE

Chocolate PB Swirl
or Fudge Bars Only

Enlightened
Ice Cream

$ 99

12 OZ

Save On!

Pomodori
Pizza Bites

$ 99

12 OZ

Spring Valley

Cheese or
Potato
Blintzes
13 OZ

2 $6
FOR

6
$ 49
4
$ 49
5
$ 99
22 oz

15 oz

$ 99 Dairy
Butter Loaf

$ 49
32 OZ

EACH

BAKERY

10.58 OZ

2 $1
3

EACH

Pereg
Quinoa Sponge
Cake

FROZEN

7 OZ

Baked
Ziti

$ 79 Black & White

FOR

Macabee
Mozzarella Sticks

EACH

Ossies

6 PACK

3
$ 99
7
$ 99
17
$ 99

Tuna
Salad

Keebler
Ready Crust 12 Ounce
Mini Shells Lox

1.4 OZ

FOR

Morningstar

8 OZ

Save On!

Ten Acre
Chips

14.5 OZ

LB.

HOMEMADE DAIRY

FOR

5.4 OZ

LB.

Fresh Fish Available

throughout the Nine Days.
Please order early.

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$

1099

Lb

Hunts
Tomatoe
Sauce

FOR

Liebers Cut
Hearts of
Palm

Flounder

Salmon
Florentine

Assorted Vegetable, Whole Grain,

And Italiana Only

Save On!

Breaded

$ 49

Original Only

3 4 2 5
$

FOR

FOR

Muenster, Edam,
Pepper Jack&
Mozzarella Only

3 $2
11 OZ

Gushers or
Fruit by the
Foot

$ 99

Asian Harvest

6 OZ

LB.

Lb

$ 99

Variety Pack Only

Hunts
Snack
Pack
4 PACK

1899

Ground Lamb
Shish Kebab

Strawberry Gel Only

ea.

FISH

Ready To Bake

5 OZ

FOR

Original

Barilla
Marinara
Sauce

89

25 25

ea.

Roll

$ 99

Bumble Bee
Chunk Light
Tuna

ea.

Spicy Tuna
Roll

Fillet Steak

In Water

Shibolim
Knockers

Cucumber
& Avocado
Roll

Wild King
Boneless Salmon

Lb

Assorted

FOR

FOR

11.5 OZ

FOR

1099

Flour
5 LB.BAG

2 5 2$4
64 OZ

99 2 $3
2

27
$

Lb

All Purpose &

High Gluten

1 GAL

$ 99

12 OZ

$ 99

Blueberries

Medallion
Steaks

Glicks

Wesson
Canola
Oil

Manishewitz Goodmans Rice Whole Baby

Egg w/Vermicelli
Corn
15 OZ
8 OZ
Noodles

TempTee
Cream Cheese

Organic

American Black Angus Beef

Lb

Save On!

$ 79
Apple & Eve
Apple
Juice

DAIRY

Lb

449

Reg. & Oven Ready

Wide & Fine

FOR

$ 99

Ground
Chuck

Lb

GROCERY

Carolina
Yellow Rice
Mix

26
$

FISH
SUSHI
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American Black Angus Beef

Chuck Eye
Roast

Fresh

Super Family Pack

$ 99

Save On!

FOR

American Black Angus Beef

$ 99

Lb

Chicken
Fingers

99

24
$

HEADS

Chicken
Cutlets

$ 79

Honeydew
Melons

Organic

Baby Bella
Mushrooms

each

Sugar Sweet

3 2

Thin Cut

Family Pack

Chicken
Legs

7.2 OZ

Locally Grown

MARKET

Cedar Markets Meat Dept. Prides Itself On Quality, Freshness And Affordability. We Carry The Finest Cuts Of Meat And
The Freshest Poultry... Our Dedicated Butchers Will Custom Cut Anything For You... Just Ask!

Fresh

Tullino
Mac &
Cheese

BUNCH

MEAT DEPARTMENT

BIGGER SIZE

99

2 1

MIX & MATCH

Heads

NEW !

Papayas

FOR

5 5

Loyalty
Program

Kale or Collard Romaine, Red or Green

Leaf Lettuce
Greens

Iceberg
Lettuce

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FOR

Jumbo

Sweet
Mangoes

Super Family Pack

Juicy

Escarole or
Chicory

Fresh Picked
Strawberries

Loyalty
Program

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TERMS & CONDITIONS: This card is the property of Cedar Market, Inc. and is intended for exclusive
use of the recipient and their household members. Card is not transferable. We reserve the right to
change or rescind the terms and conditions of the Cedar Market loyalty program at any time, and
without notice. By using this card, the cardholder signifies his/her agreement to the terms &
conditions for use. Not to be combined with any other Discount/Store Coupon/Offer. *Loyalty Card
must be presented at time of purchase along
with ID for verification. Purchase cannot be
reversed once sale is completed.

CEDAR MARKET

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PRODUCE
Sunday Super Saver!

Fine Foods
Great Savings

Morningstar
Farms Grillers
Original

2 $7
7 OZ

Non Dairy

Richs Whip
Topping

89

8 OZ

9 Inch

Merrick
Pie Crust

2 $5
FOR

We reserve the right to limit sales to 1 per family. Prices effective this store only. Not responsible for typographical errors. Some pictures are for design purposes only and do not necessarily represent items on sale. While Supply Lasts. No rain checks.

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