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Hilazon Tachtit cave in northern Israel.
Shamaness held court in Galilee
A new sheriffs star is born

l Like many other people, we were shocked but not surprised when Donald
Trump published an anti-Hillary Clinton image featuring the words Most
Corrupt Candidate Ever in a six-pointed star.
We were not at all surprised that the image turned out to have been lifted
from an anti-Semitic white supremacist Twitter user.
And we were not surprised when the presumptive Republican candidate for
president of the United States responded on Twitter, Dishonest media is trying
their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the Star of David rather than a
Sheriffs Star, or plain star!
Critics of Mr. Trumps explanation noted that sheriffs stars generally have
circles at their tips.
Here, though, courtesy of Facebook user who goes by the name Fred
Larry Yudelson
MacDowell, is a sheriffs star sans tips.
A magical Sabbath lamp

l Once upon a time, when I did not
want to switch a lamp off on Shabbat,

I used to read in bed on Friday nights
by the light of a closet light I left on.
If I wanted to fall asleep and the light
was too bright, I simply would close
the closet door.
Then along came a magical invention a lamp with a low-wattage
florescent bulb that could be dimmed
by moving an opaque shade into
place. The manufacturer, Kosher Innovations, dubbed it the KosherLamp.
Over the years, the simple lamp has
multiplied into a variety of styles and
colors and even a portable travel versions.
The newest incarnation of the KosherLamp, however, has us blinking in
disbelief.
Its the Mushroom KosherLamp, introduced as The KosherLamp for Kids.
All the KosherLamps work because
you can cover or expose the 13-watt
bulb, enabling it to shed no light or to
light up the room.
The Mushroom KosherLamp is marketed on Kosher Innovations website with a smiling cartoon character,
Moshe Room.
l A new chapter has been added to the

history of womens leadership in Israel
or to be precise, prehistory.
A Hebrew University archaeological expedition this week reported its
surprising discovery in a cave on the
bank of the Hilazon River in the Western Galilee.
They found a womans corpse set on
a bed of gazelle horn cores, fragments
of chalk, fresh clay, limestone blocks,
and sediment.
Eighty-six tortoise shells were placed
under and around her body, while seashells, an eagles wing, a leopards pelvis, a wild boars leg, and a human foot
were placed atop the woman. A large
stone was added to seal the site.
The archaeologists believe the woman may have been a shaman during the
Natufian period, 15,000 to 11,500 years
ago. She was about 45 years old an
old age for that time, at the very beginning of agriculture.
According to the archaeologists
reconstruction, her funeral began with
the excavation of an oval pit in the cave

floor. A layer of objects was cached between large stones, including seashells,
a broken basalt palette, red ochre, chalk,
and several tortoise shells. These were
covered by a layer of sediment containing ashes, flint, and animal bones.
About halfway through the ritual, the
woman was laid inside the pit in a childbearing position, and special items, including many more tortoise shells, were
placed on top of and around her. Next,
another layer of filling and limestones
of various sizes was placed directly on
the body. The ritual concluded with the
sealing of the grave.
The archeologists speculate that the
collection of materials and the capture
and preparation of animals for the feast,
particularly the 86 tortoises, must have
been time-consuming.
The significant pre-planning implies
that there was a defined to-do list, and
a working plan of ritual actions and
their order, archaeologist Leore GrosIsrael21c.org
man said.
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The lamp is red with white spots, and

as Kosher Innovations helpfully explained, it is modeled after the amanita
muscaria mushroom, also called the fly
agaric.
Which happens to be a very psychedelic mushroom.
Then again, how better to take a trip
on Shabbat if you cant drive a car? And
is there a better time to take mind-altering drugs than on a day when youre
not operating heavy machinery?
Larry Yudelson
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WIENER-DOG:
I dont know if a Garden of Eden awaits adults

in the hereafter. I do know, though, that there is a
Garden of Eden for children here in this life.
Elie Wiesel, reporting about Disneyland in 1957; the original, written in Yiddish and
published in the Forverts, was rediscovered by Tablet.
Solondz tries
a light touch in tale
of a dachshund
Director/writer
TODD SOLONDZ,
56, is known for his
dark, quirky films, like
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1996). His new
film, Wiener-Dog, is
lighter in some ways
but critics agree that
its not for everybody.
The basic plot: It follows
the adventures of a
dachshund who is
owned, in turn, by the
worlds worst mom (Julie
Delphy), a beleaguered
screenwriter (Danny
DeVito), an adult version
of the lead character of
Dollhouse (Greta
Gerwig), and a suburban
shut-in grandma (Ellen
Burstyn). The last
segment, which co-stars
ZOSIA MAMET, 28, as
Burstyns flaky granddaughter, has been
hailed as the films best
segment and is visually
stunning. (Opened July 1;
opens much wider on
July 8.)
The Secret Life of
Pets is a combo
live-action and
animated film that
advance reviews say will
entertain most adults
and children. Simply put,
its a comedic look at
what urban pets might
do after their human
companions go to work
or school for the day. The
main criticism of the film
seems to be that it
sometimes sacrifices
insight into the inner life
of our pets for comedic
shtick. (Opens July 8.)
The central character

is a terrier named Max,
voiced by Louis C.K. Hes
a pampered Manhattan
pet, but things get sticky
when his owner bring
home Duke, a much bigger dog. Max doesnt like
him. Duke tricks Max into
eluding their dog-walker
and they venture far into
the city and have a series
of harrowing adventures.
Tribe members voicing important characters include JENNY
SLATE, 34, as Gidget,
an American Eskimo
dog who has a crush on
Max and recruits a hawk
named Tiberius (voiced
by ALBERT BROOKS,
68) to help Max get out
of serious trouble. Also
appearing in a smaller,
live action role is original
Saturday Night Live
cast member LARAINE
NEWMAN, 64. She plays
the owner of a cat in
Maxs building.
Like Newman, Slate
was an SNL cast member, but she barely made
a mark in her one year
on the show (2009-10).
While shes constantly
working as a stand-up
comedian and actress,
she has yet to find a
break-out role. Slate
came close with Obvious Child (2014), an
indie film about a Jewish
stand-up comedian who
makes a considered decision to have an abortion.
It was critically praised,
but certainly wasnt a
box office blockbuster.
Todd Solondz
Zosia Mamet
Paul Rudd
Jenny Slate
Albert Brooks
I was amused by this

description of a riff in
her stand-up act that
I just came across in
the Jewish Journal of
Los Angeles: Slate has
described feeling terrified on Yom Kippur that
shes so distracted by all
the halitosis spewed by
the fasting congregants
that she might forget to
repent and thus might
get banned from the
Book of Life.
No doubt you
heard about the
tragic death of
actor ANTON YELCHIN
on June 19. He was 27.
Many have written that
he always seemed
younger than his age,
and of course he now is
frozen in our memories
as 27 or even younger.
You can find much about

his talent and versatility
in scores of online
articles. Still, only a few
of these articles note
and this broke my heart
that he was an only
child and his parents,
who survive him, left a
comfortable life in the
former Soviet Union to
ensure his future. His
youth is reflected in the
fact that the website
Find-a-Grave lists 178
famous burials at Mt.
Sinai, a Jewish cemetery
in Los Angeles; Yelchin is
the youngest famous
person interred there.
Other big names there
include HERSCHEL
BERNARDI, LEE J.
COBB, BONNIE FRANKLIN, SID CAESAR, and
N.B.
DANIEL PEARL.
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Rudd plays it straight

in caregiver role
You might want to check out the recently released
original Netflix film, The Fundamentals of Caring. It
stars PAUL RUDD, 47, as a failed novelist who takes a
job as a caregiver for a teenager with muscular dystrophy. Rudd is not his usual glib, upbeat self in this role
and that actually adds interest. Hes good in this straight
role. Most of the snappy, funny lines are provided by the
teen. The film got pretty good reviews and its worth a
look. Meanwhile, Rudd was featured last week on the
Today Show. He and other comedians who hail from
the Kansas City area have an annual tradition of returning home for a big benefit for local cancer-treatment
facilities. Called The Big Slick, the events (celeb bowling, an auction, softball game, etc.) raised $1.3 million
over the June 17 weekend. Rudd was joined by Jason
Sudekis and Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family).
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How American Orthodoxy evolved
YU professor to trace Orthodox Judaism in two Fort Lee talks
affluent, and American society is more
accepting of us. Here, you dont have to
work on Shabbes to survive economically.
It has a lot to do with the world around
us.
Jews now have some political power, and
that changes things. In the late 1890s, there
JOANNE PALMER
We Jews have a very long history. This is
not news.
Our history stretches around the world
and across millennia. We have a tendency
to see patterns in it we moved there, it
was okay, then they hated us, then they
tried to kill us, then we left. (And yes, of
course, we all know the joke lets eat.)
Historys actually a bit more specific than
that, though. It changes by the decade and
almost by zip code.
Dr. Jeffrey Gurock is a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, specializing in the American Jewish story. He will
talk about some of it about the complex
interplay of ideology, economics, politics,
and culture at the Young Israel of Fort Lee
next Wednesday and the following Wednesday. (See box for details.)
Dr. Gurocks first talk will focus on the
search for new leadership at Yeshiva University, a subject that demands the backstory he plans to tell. The second will look
at the struggles American Orthodox Jews
faced as they adjusted to life in this country.
One talk deals with the leadership, and the
other looks at the laity, he said.
The story of Yeshiva Universitys search
for its fifth president its fourth, Richard
Joel, announced his planned retirement last
year, triggering that search has its roots
in its search for its first president, Bernard
Revel, 101 years ago, Dr. Gurock said, and
some of the huge changes the American
Jewish world have undergone are visible
in that story. When Yeshiva University was
founded, believe it or not, there was a
great closeness between the Jewish Theological Seminary, the flagship institution of
Conservative Judaism in the United States,
and YU, Dr. Gurock said. The two movements are very different today, but the way
that Orthodoxy related to Conservative
Judaism is a backdrop to this talk.
He plans on looking in depth at some
excerpts from the diaries of Mordecai
Kaplan, the rabbi whose career took him
through most of the American Jewish world
of the early and mid 20th century he
began his career at Kehilat Jeshurun, one
of Manhattans most iconic and fashionable
Orthodox synagogues, founded the Jewish
Center, its starchy West Side counterpart,
taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary,
and founded the Reconstructionist movement. His journals have some interesting
references to YUs search, Dr. Gurock said.
Without wanting to give away too much
of what he will discuss on Wednesday night,
he said, there are some references to the
possibility that Revel could have become
Dr. Jeffrey Gurock
president of the Jewish Theological Seminary. I dont want to give away too much
of the story but it indicates how close the
movements were at that point, before the
first world war, when one person could
have been president of what are now two
very different institutions.
Dr. Gurocks second talk, called American Orthodoxy in the Era of Nonobservance, looks at Orthodox Jews in the first
part of the 20th century just around the
same time as when Rabbi Kaplan was commenting on Dr. Revel in his diaries. Its
about the religious values of Jews who went
to Orthodox synagogues, Dr. Gurock said.
Paraphrasing the introduction to his 2009
work, Orthodox Jews in America, he said,
What do you call the following type of Jew:
A man whose home is kosher and shomer
Shabbes, who regularly goes to shul, goes
to the rabbis shiur, scrimps and saves so
his children can go to day school but
works on Shabbes? How do you characterize that sort of person?
I have been privileged to teach at
Yeshiva for many years, and every year
I teach a course on American Judaism at
Stern, YUs undergraduate womens college. I ask them to go home and discuss
it at home. If they are privileged to have
grandparents, ask them if they knew anyone like that. They all come back and say
yes, their grandparents did know people
like that.
Sometimes, it was their own
grandparents.
There always were frum Jews in America, but we rarely talk about what life was
like for the rank and file of synagogue-goers
prior to our contemporary generations,

Dr. Gurock said.
One of the biggest changes is in the Jewish education available to the communitys children. Its been estimated that
in the entire United States in 1940, about
8,000 young men and a handful of young
women received any sort of day school or
yeshiva education, from anyplace ranging
from Ramaz, on the left, to Torah Vodaas.
Maybe its not 8,000 make it 16,000!
but still it was just a handful of students.
Orthodoxys greatest investment in
terms of its continuity was the emergence
of day school and yeshiva education for
my generation, the baby boomers, he
continued.
Another big change is notwithstanding
the phenomenon of baale teshuvah and
notwithstanding the arrival of the Jews
who came here after World War II, the reality is that the number of people in the last
few years who have belonged to Orthodox
synagogues and identify as Orthodox Jews
has declined. The people who have left
the Orthodox fold either have moved into
the more liberal denominations or have
moved outside Orthodox life. Therefore,
the Orthodox community today is made
up of people who are more observant than
their parents and grandparents. The less
observant cohort has dropped out.
Going back to the iconic Jew who is
shomer Shabbes except that he also works
on Shabbes, its very possible that he and
his wife could have children and grandchildren who are far more observant of
Shabbes than he is, Dr. Gurock said. In
America, Orthodox Jews now are more
The Orthodox
community
today is made
up of people
who are more
observant than
their parents and
grandparents.
The less
observant cohort
has dropped out.
was a Rosh Hashanah that fell on Monday and
Tuesday, Dr. Gurock said. This story takes
place in New York, which then had blue laws.
The Jewish community got the city of New
York to suspend the blue laws that Sunday,
because otherwise it would have been four
days with neither shopping nor selling possible. The community had enough clout to
do that, he said. Similarly, he recalls going
to Brooklyn with his wife for a shiva call. We
parked our car at a meter that said it had to
be fed Monday through Friday and also on
Sunday, he said. I said to my wife, Boy,
think about it. Your car is legally able to rest
on Shabbat.
This is political power, and it reflects the
maturation of the Orthodox community.
Who: Dr. Jeffrey Gurock, the Libby M.
Klaperman Professor of Jewish History
at Yeshiva University
What: Will give two talks
Where: At the Young Israel of Fort Lee,
1610 Parker Avenue
When: On two Wednesdays, July 13
and July 20, at 7 p.m.
What: On July 13, Dr. Gurock will talk
about The Yeshiva Presidential Search,
1915 Style. On July 20, the subject will
be American Orthodoxys Era of NonObservance.
For more information: Call (201) 5921518, email yiftlee@gmail.com, or go to
yiftlee.org.
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Support for the sick

Bikur Cholim offers taxi service for non-urgent Shabbat hospital visits
In an emergency situation you have to
call 911 or the local ambulance company,
stressed Batsheva Preil of Bergenfield, one
of Bikur Cholims coordinators. This is
something for non-emergency situations,
when you can wait a few minutes, like
when you need stitches, are in early labor,
or you are suffering from kidney stones.
Thanks to Bikur Cholim, anyone who
needs a non-urgent Shabbat or holiday
ride to a local hospital can call Teaneck
Taxi, say theyre calling for Bikur Cholim,
and give Bikur Cholims phone number.
(See box for details.) The service began
around Passover, and has been called
upon a few times since.
The exact question of when to use the
service and when just to stay home Bikur
Cholims organizers leave to your rabbinic
advisor. Theyre working with two Orthodox rabbis to come up with guidelines to
put on their website.
Ms. Preil said the idea came from other
communities that have such a service.
Bikur Cholim began decades ago, out of
Larry Yudelson
ts never fun having to go to the

hospital.
And its not fun not to be sure if
you have to go the hospital when
youre faced with a judgment call. Is that
heartburn or a heart attack? Does that cut
really need a stitch or would a bandage do?
The question gets more fraught if its
Shabbat and youre strictly observant.
Theres no question about calling an
ambulance or driving to the hospital if its
a matter of life and death but what if its
not?
Now theres a new option in town: A taxi
service that will take you to a local hospital, not ask for payment, and even help
you through electric doors once you get
there.
Its a project of Bikur Cholim Bergen
County a group whose name means
visiting the sick but that offers a broader
array of community support for local people facing health problems.
Meredith Yager
Teanecks Congregation Bnai Yeshurun. Its

initial focus was on the towns Holy Name
Hospital and Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center. In the past
couple of years, the group has begun to
serve as a central clearinghouse for various health-related chesed services in the
Join Us
area, including the bikur cholim volunteers working with the areas hospitals.
Those services include rides, offered
during the week to anyone who has to
get to medical appointments in Bergen
County; it is particularly useful for elderly
patients who no longer can drive themselves. Other services are help in coordinating visitors to the lonely homebound
and visiting with sick patients in the
hospital.
Then there are medical equipment
gemachs organizations that lend wheelchairs and crutches and other medical
supplies.
Bikur Cholim works with Hackensack
University Medical Center and volunteers
from Englewood who prepare rooms for
people who need to stay over Shabbat as
visitors. Unlike Holy Name and Englewood
Hospital and Medical Center, Hackensack
is not inside an eruv and therefore is less
inherently convenient for the observant
community.
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Protecting Jewish communities

against anti-Semitism and terrorism
Leonard A. Cole
owhere in Europe has the

rise of anti-Semitism and
terrorism been of greater
concern than in France.
The French Jewish population,
at 500,000, is the third largest in
the world, behind only Israel and
the United States. In response to
the dual threat of Jew-hatred and
terror, the French Jewish community maintains an organization to
help protect its institutions and
empower its members. The efforts
can be instructive for Jewish communities and others in Europe, the
United States, and elsewhere.
Eric de Rothschild is tall, elegant,
and soft-spoken. He is a French
Dr. Leonard Cole stands with Orit
scion of the venerable banking
From left, Dr. Cole, the federations Jason Shames, and Carol and Alan Silberstein of
Noked, a former Israeli MK and minister
family whose wealth and service
Tenafly are at the Jewish Agency meeting in Paris.
of agriculture.
is a storied part of European history. His communal and philanthropic efforts have included leadership of the
One exercise paired young men and women,
Paris Grand Synagogue and the French Shoah
with an assailant brandishing an imitation knife
Memorial museum. More recently, his dedication
and the other person, playing the target seeking to
to combating anti-Semitism has led to his posiprotect him or herself. Both wore protective headgear and layers of outerwear to prevent injury as
tion as president of the Service de Protection de la
they engaged in rigorous punching, tugging, and
Communaut Juive, the Jewish Community Security Service of France. A non-profit organization
kicking. During each encounter coaches were urging specific moves to help the victim prevail.
with a small staff and about 2,000 volunteers, the
Another video showed a gymnasium filled with
SPCJs mission is to protect Jewish life in its pluralistic expression. Founded in 1980 after the bombhundreds of young adults, each shadowboxing
ing of the rue Copernic synagogue, its role has grown in
against an imaginary opponent. For an extended period
49 percent of racist acts of violence. The acts ranged
response to the rise of anti-Semitism and terrorism.
the trainees bounced up and down and side to side, feintfrom verbal and texted threats to physical assaults, pering, weaving, and thrusting jabs alternately left and right.
Mr. de Rothschild and the SPCJs chief executive, Tali
petrated mostly by Muslim extremists. Perhaps the best
This was one phase of an hour-long training session.
Ohayon, addressed a large delegation from the Jewish
known assault was the attack on a kosher supermarket in
Paris, where 29 people were held hostage and four were
A third video included about 30 8- and 9-year-old chilAgency for Israel during a meeting in Paris last week.
dren, divided into pairs, wearing headgear and thick boxmurdered.
Their presentations, and especially videos offered by
ing gloves. At the sound of a whistle they began landing
Anti-Semitism has prompted some of Frances Jews to
Ms. Ohayon, revealed a variety of exercises and precautions. Working in cooperation with government authoripunches on each other. As a coach called out encouremigrate about 15,000 have gone to Israel in the last
ties, the SPCJ identified more than 800 acts of anti-Semiagement to be aggressive, you could hear the sound of
two years but most remain in place for now. Specially
tism throughout France in 2015. Although Jews make up
punches and the occasional oo-ee, the French equivatrained SPCS volunteers offer protection at synagogues,
lent of ouch. The value of such programs in promotless than one percent of the total population of France,
community centers, organizations, and other Jewish gatherings. The rise of anti-Semitic terror also has prompted
Jews were the target of 40 percent of racist crimes and
ing awareness, self-confidence, and defense capabilities
a new focus on individual preparedness graphically illusseems self-evident.
Dr. Leonard Cole of Ridgewood is co-chair of the Jewish
trated by Tali Ohayon. Her videos showed various Jewish
Wondering about preparedness in the American Jewish
Agencys Task Force on Anti-Semitism and a former
cohorts training in the martial arts and other techniques
community, I spoke with David Dabscheck, president and
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to fend off attackers.
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Fighting hate in New Jersey

The Anti-Defamation Leagues
audit of anti-Semitism reveals that
college campuses are todays battleground
Noting the current political climate,
We have seen a number of candidates
ometimes we have to look
use charged language, treading into the
beyond the numbers.
area of bias and bigotry, he continued.
For example the recent
Its emboldened a number of individuals and groups white supremacists,
Anti-Defamation League audit
neo-Nazis, the fringe of the fringe have
of anti-Semitic events in New Jersey
been given a national platform. More
shows 137 instances of bias in 2015, compared with 107 in 2014. The number of
disturbing, journalists covering the elecassaults, the report tells us, actually went
tion are being targeted with anti-Semitic
[messages] on social media.
down. On the other hand, anti-Semitic
The ADL has convened a task force to
incidents on campuses went up, nearly
address this situation, he said, bringing
doubling the previous years figure.
together a group of experts from various
Some 90 incidents were reported on
fields. The group will put out a report
60 college campuses in 2015, compared
to assess the scope of antiwith 47 incidents on 43 campuses in 2014, Joshua Cohen,
Semitism on social media to
the ADLs New Jersey regional
see if it is having an impact
director, said. Indeed, camon free speech, and propus anti-Semitic incidents
pose solutions.
While it is deeply trouaccounted for 10 percent of
bling that two incidents of
the total incidents reported
anti-Semitism are reported
in the United States in 2015.
New Jersey ranked third
every week, this doesnt
in the nation for anti-Semitic
account for the online
incidents reported in 2015,
harassment seen every
Joshua Cohen
behind New York, with 198,
hour, Mr. Cohen continued. Its so widespread
and California, with 175. The
that its difficult to quantify. And its not
New Jersey counties with the highest
just Jewish journalists. The ADL itself
totals were Ocean (23), Middlesex (15),
receives all sorts of harassment.
and Monmouth (15).
Our numbers are whats reported,
Its a new platform to disseminate
Mr. Cohen said. For every reported incihate. Years ago you had to do it in public. Now you can write vile and hatedent, there are those that go unreported.
We have to remember that the audit is
a snapshot of one specific aspect of a
nationwide problem, identifying possible trends and changes in the activities
reported. That helps us develop programs to prevent that.
Seeing an increase of incidents on
campus not just related to BDS but
traditional things like swastikas and
graffiti like Heil Hitler Mr. Cohen
said that the ADL takes note of the fact
that such incidents are increasing across
the country. To counter this, the group
does proactive training, running such
programs as Words to Action, respondful things in 144 characters and it goes
ing to anti-Israel animus on campus.
global. Another troubling trend, he
Its not just talking points, he said.
Its a holistic approach. There is an
said, is that young people four generations removed from the Holocaust think
entire cadre of Jews on campus trained
its funny to make jokes about it.
to respond. Special facilitators help stuHe cited the case of a high school girl
dents gain skills, giving them a framein Ocean County who dressed up as
work for how to respond, for example,
Hitler because she thought it would be
if theres a bias comment from a friend
or a professor, or if theres a swastika on
funny. And in a horribly offensive antitheir locker. We look at incidents across
Semitic drinking game at a Princeton
the spectrum.
high school, students have been playing
Words to Action is not yet offered on
Jews versus Nazi for a number of years.
When teens are doing this in a
New Jersey campuses, but we are reaching out through Hillels and Chabad to
state with a Holocaust mandate it
provide the responses, Mr. Cohen said.
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The intersection outside the Prima

Kings Hotel, where we stayed for
Shabbat.
Steve Leichman
Jerusalems Great Synagogue.
Charedim get ready for shabbat in Jerusalems Kikar Shabbos neighborhood.
Letter from Israel
A day in the life a snapshot of Jerusalem

Shabbat shalom, he said with a smile and
a nod, as he does every Friday.
any people harbor a stereoSteve and I had booked a downtown
typical image of Israel as a
Jerusalem hotel room for that night, so we
nation of camel-riding rabhoisted our overnight bags and our sliced
bis and Rambos; a country
watermelon aboard the 174 bus outside
defined by religious intolerance and terour house in Maaleh Adumim. Ordinarily,
ror attacks.
the trip to our friends house
Jerusalem in particular is
takes about an hour on two
imagined as a place where
buses and the light rail.
women must cover their
This time, however, the
knees and elbows lest they get
driver announced that we
stoned by fanatical Jews, and
would be bypassing the
everyone is in constant danger
Ammunition Hill light rail
of getting stabbed by bloodstation. This was the last
thirsty Arabs.
Friday in the Muslim month
Most every stereotype has a
of Ramadan, and as a prekernel of truth at its core, but
caution in a week marked
Abigail Klein
its the nuances that are critiby Arab-on-Jewish violence
Leichman
cal to an accurate and fair picon the Temple Mount ,
ture. Visitors always express
police had blocked certain
surprise upon discovering that everyday
approach roads.
life in the Jewish state looks more like a
Recalibrating our route, we got off
vibrant mosaic than a black-and-white
the 174 near the stop for a city bus that
photograph. Disturbing events tinge the
would take us where we needed to go,
variegated portrait without dominating it.
albeit slowly. Due to the closed roads
Id like to illustrate that point simply by
and backed-up traffic, the electronic signboard at the stop indicated a longer wait
describing, without commentary, a few of
than usual.
my experiences last weekend (thats Friday and Saturday here in Israel).
Resigning ourselves to a late arrival, we
Friday morning I strolled to our local groset our bags down on the crowded sidewalk when suddenly I heard someone callcery to buy fruit for a brunch at the Jeruing my name. It was the daughter of one
salem home of a close friend. As I walked
of my first cousins, a young charedi (ultrain, another customer was handing a huge
watermelon to one of the Arab workers,
Orthodox) nursery school teacher. Noting
Bassem. She asked him to halve it.
our luggage, she asked where we were
Ill take the other half, please, I chimed
headed, and we explained that we were
in. Bassem placed the melon on a cutting
at this bus stop because we couldnt reach
board and cleaved it in two with an enorthe light rail. I guess you were meant to
mous knife. He wrapped the halves in plasrun into me! she said with a laugh as we
tic and handed them across the counter.
embraced, me with my bare polished toes
Abigail Klein Leichman
in sandals, she with her thick-stockinged

legs in sturdy black shoes.
We finally arrived at our destination,
where a small group, ranging in age from
five months to 74 years, celebrated the
June birthdays of my husband, our hostess, and a mutual friend from Tel Aviv.
Though all three honorees are passionate
Zionists who made aliyah from the United
States, one is Orthodox, one Conservative,
and one unaffiliated.
While we were enjoying good food and
good cheer, a Jewish father of 10 driving
near Hebron was shot dead by terrorists.
That was only 15 kilometers from where
Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, was stabbed to death
in her bedroom by 17-year-old Muhammad Tarayrah the previous day. About 50
kilometers due west of Hebron, a missile
launched from Gaza had damaged a preschool in Sderot on Thursday.
We didnt yet know about the latest
attack, 28 kilometers to the south, as
we entered the hotel late Friday afternoon. Two employees whose nametags
read Naser and Muhammad greeted
us warmly at the reception desk. Naser
handed us a notice with the times for
candle-lighting and Havdalah, and asked
if we wanted a non-electronic key for the
Sabbath.
Strains of Kiddush and Sabbath hymns
circulated in the hotel dining room that
night, along with the incomparable aroma
of Shabbat delicacies. A well-coiffed older
woman, eating alone, was invited to join
a family from her hometown. A young
woman in shorts and a t-shirt cried softly
into her phone and pushed food around
her plate. Outside, streams of young people some in their Sabbath best, some in
everyday clothes walked the streets in

boisterous fellowship.
The following morning in the lobby, an
American hotel guest asked Naser when
Shabbat would be over. About 3:30 or 4?
she ventured. No, 8:30, Naser told her in
English. At sundown.
Our hotel was in easy walking distance
of the Great Synagogue and other Orthodox houses of worship, Hebrew Union College (Reform), Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center
for Conservative Judaism, the Worldwide
North Africa Jewish Heritage Center, the
Rosary Sisters Convent, and the Jerusalem
International YMCA.
Though public transportation ceases on
Shabbat, cars traversed the streets at all
hours, and the busy intersection and public square outside our window were filled
with passersby: modern Orthodox families
holding hands, shul-going men wrapped in
prayer shawls, dog-walkers talking on cell
phones, tourists hailing cabs.
A gay couple, crocheted kippot pinned
to their heads, pushed a stroller in which
a dark-skinned toddler clutched a teddy
bear. Patrons streamed into a non-kosher
restaurant at the edge of an urban park.
Black-hatted men wordlessly shared sidewalk space with tank-topped women.
The balcony of our room was cattycorner from the balcony of the Fuchsberg
Center. As the sun sank into the horizon
Saturday night, I saw about 25 young people sitting in a circle, singing, arms linked,
the flame of the Havdalah candle flickering
on their faces.
When we went downstairs to check out,
a new shift had arrived. We handed our
non-electronic key to Tarik and he wished
us shavuah tov. A good week.
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Jewish Home Family
welcomes new
board members
The Jewish Home Family held its annual meeting on
June 20. Board members from all of its entities Jewish Home at Rockleigh, Jewish Home Assisted Living,
Jewish Home Foundation, and Jewish Home at Home
Board member, Rabbi Marvin
were represented, as well as staff, volunteers, and
Eiseman, left, and Jewish Home at
community members. A barbecue preceded the
Board
members
Howard
and
Anita
Blatt,
left,
with
the
Jewish
Rockleighs chaplain Rabbi Simon
meeting, and a music video made by staff and resiHome
at
Rockleighs
treasurer,
Joe
Klyde.
Feld.
dents of the Jewish Home and a short film documenting the Jewish Home Family Centennial Mission to
Israel were shown.
Familys president and CEO, Carol Silver Elliott, said.
viable, for future generations.
Lisa Mactas of Woodcliff Lake and Daniel Hochstadt
These new ventures are all focused on making sure
Some of the those ventures include upgrades to the
of Englewood are joining the Jewish Home Familys
that the Jewish Home Family continues to understand
Gallen Day Center; new and cutting-edge innovations in
board.
and meet the needs of our community into the future.
the Jewish Home Familys sub-acute rehabilitation programs; opening New Jerseys only elder abuse shelter,
We were thrilled to have a large attendance, and the
As health care changes and the number of older adults
SeniorHaven for Elder Abuse Prevention, and this sumroom was filled with great energy as we described some
increases, we are adjusting to meet these changes,
mers launch of a Senior Driver Safety program.
of our new and ongoing projects, the Jewish Home
ensuring that we will continue to be of service, and be
Jewish Home Family Board Chairman Eli Ungar, Jewish Home

Foundations President Jon Furer, Jewish Home at Rockleighs
President Gayle Gerstein; Jewish Home Familys President/CEO
Carol Silver Elliott, and Jewish Home Assisted Livings President Peter Martin.
Board membersm standing from left, Dr. Sandra Gold, Jay Nadel, with Brad
Ruder. Seated, Dr. Arnold Gold, left, with honorary Jewish Home Family board
chair Norman Seiden and board members William Lippman, Elaine Adler, and
Rosalee Keech.
PHOTOS COURTESY JEWISH HOME FAMILY
Local teens raise funds for food bank

With the summer here, Englewood
teens Jaclyn Wildes and Moshe Shoenfeld led a fundraising campaign to benefit the Center for Food Actions Weekend Snack Pack Program.
Throughout the school year, the CFA
distributes snack bags for area students
to bring home for the weekends, so that
they can return to school on Monday
focused, fed, and ready to learn.
While many adolescents look forward to the end of the school year
and summer treats such as ice cream
cones, picnics in the park, and slushies
to keep them cool, there are other kids
in our community who are worried all
year long about having enough food to
keep them nourished and feeling full,
Jaclyn said.
Jaclyn and Moshe are both high
school sophomores shes at the
Ramaz Upper School in Manhattan,
and hes at the Frisch School in Paramus. When they learned that CFA was
running low on resources to provide
essential items, they were eager to
help. After creating an online fundraising account, they reached out to family
and friends on social media, through
email, and by word of mouth. Our
faith and traditions have taught us that
it is our responsibility to help others,
Moshe said.
The two friends have been helping
Englewoods former mayor, Michael Wildes Jaclyns father with his Thanksgiving donations for as long as they can
remember. Along with other city residents, Jaclyn and Moshe have prepared
and delivered Thanksgiving packages to
residents at the Vincent K. Tibbs Senior
Citizen building for many years.
Jennifer Johnson, director of communications and community relations
at the Center for Food Action, said,

We are extraordinarily grateful to
Jaclyn and Moshe for their commitment and dedication to helping local
children in need by supporting CFAs
Weekend Snack Pack Program. We
are pleased to announce that they
will collectively be one of this years
sponsors of our National Day of Service & Remembrance event on 9/11.
Although Moshe and Jaclyn have
reached their own personal fundraising goal, the CFA still needs
financial contributions to help keep
the shelves stocked over the summer,
and to have enough snack packs on
hand for the beginning of the school
year in September. Moshe and Jaclyn will work alongside other volunteers and community members at the
Englewood Field Club on September
11 to help assemble the bags.
Jaclyn Wildes and Moshe Shoenfeld visit the

Center for Food Action in Englewood.
Briefly Local
COURTESY NCJWBCS
Wayne shul honors volunteers
NCJW awards seven scholarships

The Bergen County section of the
National Council of Jewish Women
awarded seven deserving young Jewish
women $1,000-endowed college scholarships. In addition to academic achievement, each recipient demonstrated
outstanding leadership and initiative in
school and/or community life as well
as commitment to her Jewish heritage.
The winners were introduced at a recent
board meeting with their parents in
attendance.
Leah Field of Northern Valley Regional
High School, who will go to Vanderbilt
University, and Rachel Gleyzer of the
Academy of Science and Technology,
who will attend the University of Chicago, received Marjorie G. Aerenson
memorial awards.
Danielle Mandelblatt of Northern Valley Regional High School, who will be at
the University of Michigan, and Mikaela

Rosen of Glen Rock High School, who
will be at Johns Hopkins University, were
given Zimmerman Family Scholarships.
Inbar Tivon of Fair Lawn High School,
who will be going to the University of
Pennsylvania, received the Kabakow
Family Scholarship,
Justine Laufer of Tenafly High School,
who will be attending the University of
Chicago, received the Wolfeiler-Simon
Scholarship.
Lauren Gerlin of River Dell High
School, who will go to Penn State University, won the Boch Scholarship.
The NCJW BCS scholarship committee was chaired by Evalyn Brownstein
and Nan Matlick; committee members
were Peggy Kabakow, Liz Warms, Grace
Fuld, Henrietta Wolfeiler, and Phyllis
Grossman-Kaplan.
Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne held

its Volunteer Appreciation Shabbat
on June 17. The annual George Rafes
Memorial Service awards were given
to Joan Gottlieb and Mickie Stricker,
and 153 people who volunteered their
time, talents, and energy to the shul
during the year were honored.
Among this years new initiatives
were a search for a new rabbi and the
yearlong celebration of Cantor Charles
Romalis jubilee. Both of these initiatives were huge successes, as we look
forward to welcoming Rabbi Meeka
Simerly later this summer and as we
bask in the celebratory and financial
achievements of the year-long series
of jubilee events, the shuls president,
Mickie Stricker and Joan Gottlieb
Janice Paul, said. We were thrilled
COURTESY TBT
to recognize the leaders of these two
projects with this award.
and was shul president from 2011 to 2013.
Joan Gottlieb, the vice chair of the search
She also is on steering committees of the
committee, was instrumental in reviving
Renaissance Club and the Women of TBT.
the Women of Chai, Temple Beth Tikvahs
The George Rafes Memorial Service
Sisterhood, and is the sisterhoods co-president with Diana Krefting. She is chair of
award, originally called the Executive Citation, changed in 1972 to honor the memthe scrip program, a board member, and
incoming executive vice president. Mickie
ory of beloved congregant George Rafes.
Stricker chaired the Jubilee Committee
Senator Kirk at Norpac

meeting in Englewood
Abby and Scott Herschmann and Roni and Yehuda Blinder will
host a Norpac meeting in Englewood for Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL)
on Sunday, July 10, at 8 p.m. For information email Avi@NORPAC.
net or call (201) 788-5133.
Senator Mark Kirk
Ruth Cole, Elayne Kalina, and Susan and Dr. Deane Penn
PHOTOS BY JOSEPH SAVETSKY OF TRIPLE S STUDIOS.
BCHSJS holds gala

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies recently held its annual gala at
Temple Emanu-El in Closter. Fred Nagler,
BCHSJS principal and director, emceed
the evening, Rabbi Nat Benjamin gave
the invocation, and the school president,
Elayne Kalina, welcomed the attendees.
Dr. Deane and Susan Penn received the
Rabbi Debra Orenstein and

Hanna Wechsler
inaugural LDor VDor award, which recognizes community leaders who further
Jewish continuity by actively supporting
educational and social programs for Jewish teens and serving as role models for
active Jewish engagement.
Robin and Michael Baer and Julia
and Roman Kosiborod were the parent
honorees.
The Baers are involved in many
Michael and Robin Baer
community activities, including at their

synagogue, the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel. They have two
daughters Julia, who is a BCHSJS alumnae, and Jessica, who is a student now.
The Kosiborods, who come from the former Soviet Union, where they could not
get a Jewish education, were determined
to provide their four children with one.
Two of their children, Benjamin and
Julia and Roman Kosiborod
David, are BCHSJS students.

Hanna Wechsler was honored as BCHSJS Educator of the Year. A Holocaust
survivor, she also volunteers at the Rockland County Holocaust Center. She was
this years featured speaker at BCHSJS
Yom Hashoah commemoration.
Seniors Ilana Fishman and Rachel Silverman spoke, and a video highlighting
the BCHSJS graduating seniors was shown.
Editorial
Saying goodbye
to Elie Wiesel
hen the Nazis murdered

his family, along with all
the other Jews and various undesirables they dismissed as less than human, they did not
realize that in Elie Wiesel they were creating a witness who would not be silent.
Mr. Wiesel used his skill as a writer, his
grasp of detail as an observer, and his
strongly honed sense of justice as a survivor to make it impossible for the world not
to hear the story of the Holocaust. He used
the moral authority granted him through
what he had seen and what he had told to
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
bring public attention to other genocides,

and to other situations where Jews were
in peril.
He did not pretend to have all the
answers. He remained an observant Jew
despite his experiences, while acknowledging clearly that his was far from the
only logical reaction to them. He was
imperfect he was human! and he was
an extraordinary model of the power one
person can have, given the integrity, heart,
and stomach to exercise it.
The world is poorer now that hes left it.
JP

Saying huh?
to a candidates tweets
here is an undercurrent of antiSemitism in the presidential campaign that we ignore at our peril.
In fact, if we have learned anything at all from the extraordinary life of
Elie Wiesel, it is that undercurrents of antiSemitism always are ignored at our peril.
As we always are told, Donald Trump
cannot be anti-Semitic because his daughter converted to Judaism and three of his
grandchildren are Jewish. We have no
doubt that is true.
We also are told that his active philo-Semitism, as proven by his family and his once
having led a Salute to Israel parade, is so clear
that there is no need for him or his campaign
to deny the distinct wafts of anti-Semitism
that assault our nostrils, coming from the
general direction of his social media campaign. That one is less self-evident.
There have been a number of antiSemitic incidents bedeviling the Trump
campaign. The names of Jewish reporters covering him in ways that the campaign considers to be unfavorable have
been marked with triple parentheses.
This is a signal that they are Jewish, and
it opens them to a campaign of antiSemitic threats that are bullying at best
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and dangerous at worst.

This Saturday, the day that Elie Wiesel
died, a tweet from the Trump campaign
showed Hillary Clinton, against a background of money. Lettering inside a sixpointed star called her the Most Corrupt
Candidate Ever! The Trump campaign
uncharacteristically reacted to criticism of
it first by covering the star with a circle and
then by deleting it entirely. The six-pointed
star was a sheriffs star, it said, leaving the
background money unexplained. (Sheriffs fees?) No, no, the six-pointed star was
a Microsoft shape.
It is possible that the whole thing
was a mistake, put together by someone unskilled at graphic design and
unschooled in old-school anti-Semitic symbolism except it wasnt. It turns out that
the whole tweet came from the alt-right,
one of the places were anti-Semitic nativism lives and breeds.
These are not images to play with. This is
not cute. It is not harmless. It is not funny.
It is not gormless. It is dangerous.
We hope that the Trump campaign will
stop trafficking in anti-Semitic images,
accidentally or on purpose. Far too much
JP
is at stake for that.
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My last night
with Elie Wiesel
was in North Carolina this week,

accompanying my son and family for
a meeting at the American Hebrew
Academy in Greensboro, when Elisha Wiesel informed me that his fathers
health had taken an irreversible turn for
the worse.
Elie, or Reb Eliezer as I always affectionately called him, had been battling illness
for more than two years. But each time he
fought back. Hearing this was now not the
case, I was stunned and numb.
Elisha is his fathers foremost achievement and only child. A man of deep warmth
and humility, his gentility and moral clarity
reminds you instantly that
he is his fathers son. I have
loved Elie Wiesel my whole
life, and I have known him
for the past 26 years. He has
served as inspiration, mentor, guide, and loving friend.
Every moment I have spent
with him had been an honor
and privilege.
Rabbi
I had visited with him just
Shmuley
last week.
Boteach
I decided that though we
planned to remain in the
South for the 4th of July
weekend, we would begin the long drive
back so that I might have the privilege of
spending Shabbat with him. For the next
hours, I lived with the constant dread that
we would not make it in time.
I arrived minutes before the Sabbath,
and Elisha greeted me at the door. I offered
whatever comfort I could to Marion, Elies
remarkable wife of 47 years, and his worldrenowned translator. Marion and Elisha
then invited me into the room with Elie. I
will remember those last moments with
the man President Obama called the conscience of the world as some of the precious and haunting of my life, and I was
consciously aware that I was being granted

an unprecedented privilege in spending his
last Sabbath with the Jewish peoples greatest living son.
Elie was lying down, and I pulled my
chair up close to his bed. His family, including his daughter-in-law, Lynn, and his
grandson, Elijah, were all at his side.
I shared with him how much I loved him
and what he meant to the Jewish people
and the world. I told him that in the last few
hundred years the Jewish nation had rarely
produced a personality that had made
more of a global impact.
I did not know quite what to say. I felt
inadequate to the task. But
I did not want to choose my
words. I wanted them to flow
from my heart.
I suddenly found myself
reminiscing aloud about
some of our personal
experiences.
I reminded him that when
he spoke for us at Oxford 26
years ago he had told the students that if the world gave
the Jewish people its children for just one generation
we would return the children to them in a way that would greatly
increase the worlds light. Why I chose that
particular story amid the many speeches
I had heard Elie say over the years I do
not quite know. I know that when he said
it there was a hushed silence in the room
filled with more than 1,000 students. He
was responding to a student who was insinuating that the worlds Jews had too much
influence. He said that quite the reverse is
true. We have had our voices silenced. But
give us your children for one generation,
and we will return them with greater love
and light than when we took them.
I told him that I remembered that as he
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Clearing out the house
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach shared a long friendship with Elie Wiesel.

walked into the Oxford Union chamber to deliver
his lecture that night, he suddenly stopped and
put on a yarmulke, telling me he would deliver his
speech at the worlds most famous debating chamber as a proud Jew.
I looked at Elisha at the foot of the bed and
remembered the herculean efforts and endless patience this only child had shown amid his
fathers long illness during the past few years. I
suddenly remembered the story that Elie had told
me about Elisha. It was at a kosher restaurant in
Manhattan, where I had invited Elie to have dinner
with Michael Jackson. Elie shared that Elisha had
taken up sky-diving. He told me that he, Elie Wiesel, would rather throw himself from the airplane
with a parachute than see any risk to his precious
son. If providence decrees that a Wiesel has to be
thrown from an airplane, then let it be Elie rather
than Elisha Wiesel.
I told Elie that his son and grandchildren were
his greatest legacy. His daughter-in-law, Lynn, was
cradling his head and kissing him gently.
I told him he had been the Jewish peoples great
light to the nations, the man who had lent eternity
to the six million of the holocaust. The martyrs of
the Holocaust honored him for honoring them. I
shared with him that without his books, especially
Night, the six million would not be remembered
in the same way.
I suddenly recalled Elie telling me, when he was
writing his novel The Forgotten, about a man
with Alzheimers, Im writing a book about a man
who is losing his memory because I am fascinated
by the connection between memory and identity.
Without memory there can be no identity.
I told him that I remembered all the special public events we had shared together, from public conversations with Samantha Power and President
Paul Kagame against genocide, to speeches against
Iranian brutality with Ted Cruz at the United States
Senate, to our public discussion with Dr. Oz on spiritual wellbeing, to the many times we were fortunate to honor him at our gala dinners.
And I told him how much I loved our private
interactions, the unending warmth and affection
he always showed me, the stories he shared, the
wisdom he offered, the loving rebukes of a devoted
friend always seeking to bring out my light.

And I sat there, I remembered his honesty and
integrity, his righteousness and unending truth.
I remembered that only a few months ago I
asked Elie at his home about the searing honesty
he expressed toward the end of Night, when
he revealed that his father, consumed with fever,
asked him in the death camp barracks for water.
Elie, emaciated, starving, infirm, and famished,
had hoped that after spending weeks taking
care of his typhoid-ravished father he finally
would be liberated from his care. When his
father begged him for water in the middle of the
night, Elie, freezing and barely holding on to life
himself, could not summon the energy to even
respond. In the morning the pleas had ceased.
Elies father had expired. Elie was free at last.
How did you write those haunting words? I
asked. How could anyone be so painfully honest?
I wrote them, he said, because if I was not
honest in the book there was no point in writing
it at all.
That commitment to the truth allowed Elie to
become the greatest chronicler of the greatest
crime in human history.
Though I am not a Kohen, a priest, I turned to
Marion and Elisha, and said I would like to give Elie
the biblical priestly blessing. I stood up. May the
Lord protect you and keep you. May the Lord shine
his light to you and be gracious. May the Lord lift
his countenance to you and always give you peace.
And I kissed him repeatedly on the cheek, telling
him each time how much I loved him.
On Shabbat night, after returning from Elies
bedside and sharing with my children his struggle for life, my daughter Shterny, who will God
willing soon be married, broke down in tears. At
16 she had written a book report about Elie and
he kindly agreed to answer all her questions at
his office. He spoke to her with his customary
gentility, whispering wisdom and truth. It was
an experience she will never forget. And now at
the table she cried.
I asked her why she was crying and she said, If
we God forbid lose Elie Wiesel, there will be no
more special people alive any more. There will be
nobody left. He is the last of the giants.
he lights are
fathers lab, which is
off when we
something of a surcome into
prise; Dad passed
the house,
away two months ago.
so we flick the switch.
We are here to clear
Yellow light floods
out the house.
the hallway, illuminatBut the house
ing the family photos
d o e s n t k n ow i t .
lined up on the piano
The drawers are full
and along the walls,
of my moms pasHelen
making the crystal
tel sweaters and her
Maryles
Shankman
sparkle in the china
pretty embroidered
cabinet. I expect my
tablecloths, and the
mother to come buschina cabinet holds
tling out of the kitchen to offer
the dishes we never used because
us chicken soup, my dad to dash
someone might break a plate or a
up the stairs from the rec room,
teacup. The champagne glasses we
which he had turned into his dennever drank from because we were
tal laboratory.
waiting for just the right simcha sit
I feel their presence in every
on the shelf, still waiting. Thats
room. Where are you guys? But the
what the house does. It waits. It
house is silent.
waits for Mom and Dad to come
My art school watercolors feshome.
toon the hallway, interspersed with
In the past few years, my father
hilarious graduation portraits and
seemed to end up in the hospital
early 1980s bar mitzvah photos.
every other month, sometimes with
The refrigerator magnets advertise
pneumonia, sometimes with some
podiatrists, drugstores, realtors.
scary medical event the doctors
The photos they anchor show my
never could figure out, but a week
children, frozen in time, when my
later, he always was home again.
college-age daughter was 12.
His passing was completely unexThe kitchen is a world to itself.
pected. The morning the hospital
Holocaust survivors are thrifty. If it
called with the awful, unbelievworked, you didnt replace it, even
able news, we still were hoping he
if it was a dishwasher from the late
would be able to join us for the last
70s, tinted harvest gold. Some salesdays of Pesach.
man convinced my parents that
If the phone rings after 9, my
they should wallpaper the whole
mind jumps to the conclusion that
house in wild patterns, and in some
its him. I remember that we need
rooms it is beginning to peel. The
to find him a suitable place to live
refrigerator motor squeals, and the
out here, and then, with a sting of
air conditioner whirs, quietly, effisorrow, I remember that we dont.
ciently, blowing cool air through
Its impossible to believe that we
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the vents. The house smells like my
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Editorial
Has a more secure coalition created a less secure state?
Dr. Mark Gold of Teaneck holds a Ph.D. in economics from NYU. He is on the executive
board of Partners for Progressive Israel, a member organization of the American Zionist
Movement and an affiliate of the World Union of Meretz.
Hiam Simon of Englewood is the chief operating officer of Ameinu, the leading
progressive Zionist membership organization in the United States. He lived in Israel for
many years, where he was the dean of students for what is now the Alexander Muss high
School, and he was an artillery sergeant in the IDF.
YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90
hen the state of Israel

concerns focused on the replacement of
came into being on May
a former chief of staff with a politician
14, 1948, its declaration
who had never risen above the rank of
of independence was
corporal. Other concerns centered on
followed by the establishment of a proviLiebermans penchant for extremist pronouncements, which seemed to be a lit
sional government and the absorption of
fuse in a bunker of explosives.
disparate Jewish armed militias into the
Israel Defense Forces.
Netanyahus blatant desire to remain
The speed with which the creation
in power placed political considerations
of the army followed the establishment
over military competence. Most of the
of the state was hardly a coincidence.
country sees it as a self-serving move,
Pressed by invading armies sworn to
taken even at the cost of Israels security.
destroy it, Israel needed to organize its
Prime Minister Netanyahu, who ran for
security forces.
re-election as Mr. Security, had cobbled
But the creation of a single unified
together a coalition that held a one-vote
army under the command of the civilian
margin in the Knesset, a fractious combination of dubious discipline. Netangovernment was a complicated affair
yahu could not abide the situation, not
separate commands connected to differing commanders and ideologibecause a weak governcal visions had to be combined
ment might put Israel in
into one national defense
danger but because this
force. So volatile an endeavor
tenuous collection of ministers could fall apart and
was it that the sitting head of
leave him out of power.
the provisional government,
He needed to expand the
David Ben Gurion, had to
coalition so that no one
command Israeli soldiers to
single minister could topsink the Altalena, a ship filled
ple his government.
with badly needed munitions
Dr. Mark
A public gesture by Presprocured by the Irgun, one
Gold
ident Sisi of Egypt proof the Jewish guerrilla forces
vided an opening for Bibi
fighting for Israels independence. Menachem Begin, who
to entice opposition Labor
headed the Irgun, had refused
leader Yitzhak Herzog into
to allow the weapons to be
a unity government. Talks
distributed to any soldier who
between Bibi and Herzog
wasnt a part of that force.
stalled, because the conditions Herzog demanded if
Ben Gurion sank the ship to
he were to join the governensure that the IDF would be
ment might have forced
a unified army, under the control of the government, comother parties out of the
Hiam Simon
coalition, thereby further
mitted to defending the state
weakening Bibis hold on
and its citizens.
As the army was to serve
power. Netanyahu, in a
the nation under the control of the civildesperate move, shifted from the center
ian government, policy and direction
to the far right, offering to bring Avigdor Lieberman and his Yisrael Beiteinu
would be sourced from the cabinet and
party into the government. Lieberman
the defense minister. Because of the vital
demanded to be defense minister a
importance of the position, and the need
price Netanyahu apparently found easfor skills necessary to defend the people
ier to accept. Indeed, for Netanyahu, it
of Israel, almost every defense minister,
was a win-win; he increased the size of
since the creation of the state, has had a
his coalition, further securing his reign as
deep relationship with the armed forces
prime minister, while removing Yaalon, a
before he was appointed. Experience has
formidable potential challenger, from his
shown when this was not the case, disaster followed.
position as minister of defense. Yaalon,
Consequently, when Prime Minister
whose credentials include having been a
Netanyahu forced out Moshe Yaalon as
highly respected former major general in
defense minister last month and replaced
the IDF, a former head of military intelligence, and former IDF chief of staff, was
him with Avigdor Lieberman, a wave of
now to be replaced by former Corporal
criticism swept the country. Some of the
Moshe Yaalon
Avigdor Lieberman
Liberman.
Yaalon, who has a reputation for
hardline diplomacy with Palestinians,
has been equally tough on the issue of
maintaining the rule of law. For example, when members of Lehava, which
promotes the ideology of the late Jewish
Defense League leader Meir Kahane and
his outlawed terrorist organization, were
arrested and indicted for committing
arson and spray-painting anti-Arab graffiti at the Hebrew-Arab Bilingual School
in Jerusalem, Yaalon, then defense minister, ordered Israeli military intelligence,
the Shin Bet, and the defense ministry to
assemble evidence required to classify
Lehava as a terrorist organization. That
put Yaalon at odds with the settler movement, which long has seen itself as a law
unto itself. This was further exacerbated
after the recent extrajudicial execution of
an immobilized terrorist in Hebron back
in March, when Yaalon came out in public support of the IDF and its arrest of the
soldier.
While achieving the Netanyahu governments short-term advantages, the
move to replace Yaalon with Liberman
exposed its weaknesses and shifted its
political center of gravity to the far right.
This comes at a time when the government was coming under criticism for its
right-wing religious-chauvinist ideological drift and style of leadership, threatening Israels democracy and its international relationships.
As he left the defense minister post,
Yaalon said: Extreme and dangerous elements have taken over Israel and the Likud
Party and are destabilizing our home and
threatening to harm its inhabitants. I saw
before me the safety of Israel and its citizens in all of my acts and decisions, and
the good of the country above all other
considerations. This was so in security and
professional matters and in matters of values and rule of the law.
I fought with all my might against
the phenomena of extremism, violence, and racism in Israeli society that
are threatening our national resilience

and are seeping into the Israel Defense
Forces, in fact already harming it. I
fought with all my might against attempts
to harm the Supreme Court and Israels
justices, trends whose outcomes greatly
harm the rule of law and could be disastrous for our country.
In general, Israeli society is healthy,
with a sane majority that strives for a Jewish, democratic, and liberal state; a state
that accepts every person as he is, regardless of religion, race, gender, ethnic background, or sexual inclination. A tolerant
state that tolerates the weak and the minorities; a state obligated to draw them closer,
not incite against them. A country that fights
against attempts to exclude women or condone sexual harassment against them.
Yaalons protest is the latest chapter in a long story of the growing gap
between policy views of Israels security
establishment and Netanyahus views.
Back in 2012, the film The Gatekeepers
revealed that all six living former heads
of the Shin Bet agreed that the continuing
occupation of the West Bank was harming Israel. In October 2014, Commanders for Israels Security was formed to
promote peace and stable relations with
Palestinians and normalize relations with
moderate Arab states. The movements
members include 200 former Israeli generals, along with former IDF chief of staff
Dan Halutz, former directors of Mossad,
a former head of the Shin Bet, former Air
Force commanders, and former police
commissioners.
This security establishments concern
is that the trends of religious extremism and nationalist chauvinism that are
calling for the annexation of the West
Bank into the state of Israel proper are
eroding the Jewish democratic future
of Israel and undermining the international support that is of vital importance
to Israels security. On May 31, the 68th
anniversary of the founding of the IDF,
this group delivered its Security First
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Letters
House
FROM PAGE 15
never again will set up his bed in a space we

carved out of the living room, curtaining off
the cozy area near the fireplace because it was
too difficult for him to go up our stairs. Impossible to believe that he wont be joining us for
Rosh Hashanah, or Sukkot, or Thanksgiving, or
Chanukah, or Pesach, or any of 10 more special
occasions. He was always here for one holiday or
another, praising my cooking, grumbling about
my stairs, kvelling over the kids, criticizing the
kids, arguing about politics, asking for a coffee,
seated at the table with a newspaper or parked
on my couch watching CNN.
I am an orphan.
You dont expect it to have as much impact
when youre all grown up. After all, youre an
adult, with kids of your own. But you feel it,
more often than you possibly can expect. Life is
full of minefields. A class play. The fifth grade
state fair. The second grade storytelling festival. The siddur party, the science fair, a baseball
championship, a graduation. You glance around
at the families seated around you, three happy
generations sitting together on the bleachers or
folding chairs or at the restaurant or reception,
a raucous mishmash of parents and grandparents and children and there it is, a strike to
the heart.
You feel it when the vast majority of your
congregation files out for Yizkor, and you stand
there watching them go, a small island of grief.
You feel it at family get-togethers, when you realize your cousins still have their parents, but you
dont. The list of mundane little activities I will
no longer do with my dad is long, and each item
astonishes me all over again, gives me a little
electric shock when I think of it.
But for now, we must clear out the house.
There are decisions to be made. What do we do
with the long letters, written in undulating Yiddish, that we do not understand? What about
the datebooks from 1963, with my mothers enigmatic notes, half in English and half in Yiddish,
reminding her to pronounce certain words correctly? What do we do with the photographs of
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FROM PAGE 16
plan for improving Israels security situation and

international standing to government ministers,
deputy ministers, and lawmakers.
Recognizing that military force alone will not
solve Israels security problems with Palestinians
in the West Bank or in Gaza, the plan prescribes
a combination of security, civil, and economic
measures aimed at keeping the promise of a twostate solution alive and encouraging Israels integration into a regional arrangement with the 52
Arab states that have agreed to recognize it once
the conflict with the Palestinians is resolved.
The question that remains is whether Corporal Lieberman will listen to the generals
suggestions. Yaalons ouster and Liebermans
my parents smiling next to unidentified strangers? Old passports? Their immigration certificates? My kindergarten report card? My brothers graduation programs? The letter from Dads
army buddy? The mismatched dairy silverware?
The sheets of Bicentennial stamps? The couch
that was lovingly built by my grandfather, even
though it is to no ones taste?
And I also am burdened by this: My parents
were among the last of the Holocaust survivors.
My dad was 15 when the war was over, a living memorial to a world that has disappeared,
as well as a repository of information about a
way of life that was obliterated. His brother, my
uncle, cant talk about his war experiences. My
mothers surviving brother is becoming forgetful. This is the thing I have always feared. My parents stories were so individual, so unique. Who
will tell them to me now?
Life is a hard teacher. It robs the energetic of
their legs. It leaves those who have experienced
catastrophic events, events they would be better
off forgetting, with too much time to think.
In the end, all we have are our memories. As
my aunt drives me to the airport, we pass the
corner at the end of my block. When I was 4
years old, the school bus that was dropping me
off after my first day of camp left me at that very
corner. It also happened to be the same day that
my family moved to our new house from another
neighborhood. Nothing looked familiar. Tearfully, I protested to the bus driver that this wasnt
where I lived. To which she replied testily, Yes it
is. This is the address I have for you. Now get off
the bus. I was a good girl. I stepped down and
stood on the strange street corner, crying as she
drove away.
Just then, through the blur of my tears, I saw
my dad, smiling his brilliant smile, hurrying up
the block to find me, to sweep me up into his
arms, to bring me home.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is an
artist and writer. Her work appears in many
fine journals, including The Kenyon Review,
Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and Cream City
Review. Scribner recently published her second
novel, In The Land of Armadillos.
ascension occur at a time of tension in the country, the result of a wave of lone-wolf Palestinian terrorist attacks. While these events do not
threaten Israels existential viability, they erode
the sense of personal security Israelis feel as they
go about their daily lives.
But Lieberman is unlikely to have the skills
necessary to promote effective security measures. His well-known connection with Russias
Putin and his lack of senior military experience
and professional relationships with Israeli military commanders makes him particularly illsuited to run the defense ministry. At the same
time, it makes the Netanyahu government even
less likely to evolve political conditions that
might reduce Israeli-Palestinian tensions and
promote the international good-will so important for Israels security.
Mitzvot clarification
I would like to thank the Jewish Standard and Abigail Klein Leichman on
such a wonderful well written article on the nursing home clothing project
that I am involved with (Dressing the needy, July1). It has brought public
awareness of the project; just this past week since it was published numerous more people have approached me regarding donations. I am happy
that many more recipients will benefit as a result.
There is one point, however, that I would like to clarify. I had mentioned
in the interview that there are two types of mitzvot between man and
God (Shabbos, kashrut, etc.) and between man and man (treating your
fellow man well). I wanted to say that they are of equal importance. The
point I wanted to make was that sometimes people are strict with the
mitzvot between man and God and lax with the mitzvot between their
fellow man, and that is wrong. I believe that both types of mitzvot should
be pursued with equal zeal
Unfortunately I miscommunicated this in the interview and the article
said that I believe the mitzvot between man and man are more important.
That is not my belief, and I wanted to clarify it.
Dr. Sam Carr, Fair Lawn
Thank you, Mr. Wiesel
Elie Wiesel AH was a unique and inspiring individual, whose experience

during the Holocaust influenced him to not only fight to perpetuate the
memory of the 6 million Jews who died, but also to speak out against all
genocide.
I was fortunate to videotape an interview with him a number of years
ago, and recounted to him how my father AH had last seen him at the late
Benjamin Meeds birthday party in Florida. Ben was the head of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization my father worked with it for more
than 40 years. It was the group most responsible for creating large public
Holocaust commemorations in New York.
Elies passing signifies yet another end of an era of survivors who overcame unthinkable odds and spent their lifetimes making sure that the
world would not forget.
My father was my biggest role model for keeping the lessons of the Holocaust alive, and he, along with Elie Weisel and Professor Yaffa Eliach, who
I studied with at Brooklyn College, were my heroes. It was their eloquence
and determination never to let the world forget what happens when racism and tyranny are allowed to go unchecked that kept a moral conscience
on an otherwise immoral world.
We will miss Elie Wiesel terribly. May his memory be a blessing.
Steve Fox, Teaneck
Mr. Fox is co-chair of the Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration Committee and
the Northern New Jersey Holocaust Memorial and Education Center, which
is to be built in Teaneck.
In education, basics first
Mr. Adam Poswolsky must have interviewed a small select group

of millennials, because most are interested in getting a job that
enables them to exist on their own while living with parents, sharing an apartment with others, etc. His do-gooders are a vast minority who probably can afford to live as do-gooders (How might we
engage students? July 1). As for learning, basic tools are needed
before problems can be solved.
Omitted from todays teachings are the importance of geography
and civics. Knowing how children learn is a priority. Individual and
group goals are desirable for learning. The path to achieve these
goals does not always involve problem learning. If adults cannot
solve world problems, can elementary students do so?
The young lady who has solved some of the mysteries of cancer
growth had a basic learning experience and from that expanded
through personal interest and challenge to achieve her goal. The
problem solving came after basic learning, not as part of basic learning. All of course is dependent on the target student population.
Shel Haas, Fort Lee
Mr. Haas has been a teacher, school principal, high-le vel
administrator, and curriculum writer for the New York City Board of
Education, specializing in mathematics.
Letters
What happened to civility?
In todays political climate, we witness

how it has become commonplace for
political candidates to name-call and
use insults. This is no way to win an
election. They would be better served
to run on issues covering domestic
and foreign concerns. Name-calling is
harmful and degrading and definitely
not presidential. I dont recall any
other time in our history, how low the
debates among the Republicans were.
The candidates resorted to thuggish,
unprecedented behavior.
I am disgusted by the lack of civility
that exists in our modern day discourse
and am looking for a candidate with
values and principles who will best
serve our nation.
Think of all the nastiness and disrespect that is permeating our nations
discourse. For example, how despicable it is for a candidate for the office of
president to make racist statements?
What does this teach our children?
Where are the good and qualified people to seek election? My answer to that
is who wants to be placed in a position of name-calling and the spewing
of lies?
To me, the most ugly, harmful display of disrespect was shown toward
President Obama during one of his
State of the Union addresses, when
he was shouted down by a Republican
lawmaker who yelled, Youre a liar!
Such incivility was disgraceful, insidious, and dangerous.
I quote from my favorite book, A
Code of Jewish Ethics, Vol. 1 by Rabbi
Joseph Telushkin, and from my Torah
teachings as follows:
The Rabbis explain that while the
Torahs commandments were revealed
and became binding only at the time
of the revelation at Mount Sinai, the
obligation to act with courtesy and
civility toward others originated with
Adam and the creation of humanity.
God could imagine humankind existing for thousands of years without
the Torah, but He could not imagine
human beings existing without the
need for civility.
All Americans should be concerned
about the lack of civility in todays
political climate.
Grace Jacobs, Cliffside Park
In support of
Donald Trump!
Ben Cohen Orlando atrocity highlights

Americas divisions ( June 24) would
have been much more meaningful if he
had stuck to the facts and not concentrated on ad hominem attacks on Donald Trump and those who may support
him. Mr. Cohen should have stayed with
the Islamist angle instead of emphasizing his dislike and animosity toward
Donald Trump. Falsehood and childish

attacks will not win over those who are
not already in ones camp.
He starts off with the non-factual statements that hundreds were wounded
by a legally purchased assault rifle in
the hands of the Islamist gunman. The
wounded numbered 53 and the weapon
used was not an assault rifle, although it
was purchased legally.
We are then informed that on one
side we have those for gun control and
on the other side, Trump and his rainbow coalition of the angry, cheated,
and the merely racist. Really? This is
the composition of Trumps supporters? Whether Mr. Cohen recognizes it
as such, the Islamist threat is a domestic issue. Anything affecting us within
the borders of the U.S.A. is a domestic
issue. Although there should be some
restrictions on gun ownership, this may
make ownership and possession of an
illegal weapon harder and more expensive to acquire. It will not make it impossible for those desiring to acquire one
from getting one.
We now learn that according to Mr.
Cohen, Putin is the one foreign leader
idolized by Trump. This idolization will
in turn lead to more power for the Russians, the Iranians and Assad in Syria as
the policemen in the Middle East. Could
Mr. Cohen please explain how this will
be different than what is happening now
in the area under President Obama?
Cohen then presents the choice for the
U. S. voter between having a former KGB
leader to form the new paths that will be
taken in the Middle East or a reality TV
star whose hair will fall out at the first
crackle of gunfire. Its not easy to dispel
the logic of this argument presented by
Cohen unless one has the ability to discern the difference between the sun and
the moon. Better ad hominem than facts
or reason.
We then are presented with the choice
between, one (candidate) compromised by her past record, the other a
vulgar neophyte... It would have been
informative for him to let the reader
know why he considers her compromised by her record but that would be
expecting too much. Vulgar neophyte,
another sophomoric choice of terms.
The thrust of his opinion piece was
to further demonize Trump and not to
present light to the issue. The polarizing
of the people is being fed predominantly
by the Obama administration, their allies
and the American media.
Mr. Cohen would have better served
himself and his readers by using his
skills as a writer to compose his words
and facts in a way to deliver his message in a logical manner, devoid of ad
hominem attacks.
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strident adjectives historic,
earth-shaking, tectonic, and
the like inserted into the slew
of commentary that has followed the
British electorates June 23 decision
to leave the European Union after 40
years of membership.
One of the fears regularly aired during the debate about the Brexit was that
a vote in favor of leaving the EU would
spur the rise of extremist politics on the
right and the left, both in the United
Kingdom and throughout Europe.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy
There were two interrelated considerCorbyn saw more than 20 members
ations behind this: firstly, on the ecoof his shadow cabinet resign within
nomic front, a shift away from free
days of the Brexit referendum.
trade and the free movement of people,
and secondly, a return to
the politics of nationalism
this time the party was
and nativism. Similar condown by more than 1 milcerns have been aired here
lion votes.
in America in the context
To be sure, Podemos
of the Donald Trump and
hasnt been reduced to
Bernie Sanders presidenashes. It remains an influtial bids.
ential force on Spains
But as the dust settles
political landscape, paracross the Atlantic, it is
ticularly at the municipal
Ben Cohen
becoming increasingly
level, where the boycott
clear that the fortunes of
of Israel has been pushed
the far left have endured
energetically by Podemos
something of a hiding.
activists. For the time being, though,
In the frame here is, of course, the
Podemos is not a party of government.
British Labour Party, which has been
And given the persistent reports about
so severely bruised by the aftermath of
funding for the party from the Iranian
the Brexit vote that it might not even
regime, as well as from the rapidly
survive. More on that in a moment,
crumbling dictatorship in Venezuela,
though, because we first need to examone must hope it never will be.
ine what has happened in Spain.
Like Podemos, Britains Labour
Three days after the Brexit referenParty also portrays itself as a beadum, the Spanish held their second
con of hope in the face of injustice.
general election since last DecemAnd like Podemos, Labour, from the
bers inconclusive outing to the ballot
grassroots to the leadership, is domibox. Pundits and pollsters widely prenated by people whose idea of human
dicted a major triumph for the far-left
rights promotion was laid bare in 2013,
Podemos (We Can sound familwhen the partys previous leader, the
iar?) party. Lots of informed observers
spectacularly immoral Ed Miliband,
predicted that the partys share of the
derailed Prime Minister David Camervote would be large enough to place it
ons attempt to license a limited British
in a commanding position in the submilitary operation against the barbaric
sequent negotiations to form a govmassacres perpetrated by President
erning coalition. As the results of the
Bashar-al Assad in Syria.
British referendum rolled in, the conWhile Miliband, chillingly unmoved
clusion that Brexit would further boost
by the sight of children murdered with
Podemos, on the grounds that Europe
chemical weapons, helped to provide
was now in revolt against established
the Assad regime with a new lease of
parties, ideologies, and the aloof EU
life, the same cannot be said of his conbureaucracy, was widely shared.
tribution to his own party. Labours
That didnt happen. Podemos, which
defeat in the 2015 election resulted in
is part of a fractious left-wing alliance
Jeremy Corbyn, a stalwart of the parthat includes the Spanish Communist
tys far left, becoming leader. Less than
Party, ended up coming third, behind
a year after his triumph, Corbyn now
the conservative Peoples Party and
faces a massive revolt from the partys
moderate Socialist Party. Compared
own parliamentarians. The only thing
with its December 2015 performance,
saving his leadership are the grassroots
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activists who joined the party en masse in
2015 for the sole purpose of electing him
as leader.
Corbyns woes stem, in the main, from
his muddled role in the campaign to keep
Britain in the EU. He stands accused of
not pulling his weight, because while the
party is committed to the EU, Corbyn himself is not. As a result, within days of the
Brexit result, more than 20 members of
Corbyns shadow cabinet had resigned
their posts.
Brexit, however, is not the only factor
here. Corbyns short period at the helm
of the Labour Party has been marked by
consistent complaints of anti-Semitism
within its ranks, a story that the British
media has embraced with gusto. And
Corbyn a contributor to Irans official
propaganda channel Press TV and a supporter of the viciously anti-Zionist Palestine Solidarity Campaign has been
accused of enabling it.
That impression was reinforced on June
30, when the party released the report of
an internal inquiry into racism and antiSemitism. In a scene that could have been
lifted from a political satire, Ruth Smeeth,
a Jewish Labour parliamentarian, left the
launch event in tears after she faced a torrent of anti-Semitic invective from a Corbyn supporter. Until today I had made
no public comment about Jeremys ability
to lead our party, Smeeth said in a later
statement, but the fact that he failed to
intervene is final proof for me that he
is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party
under his stewardship cannot be a safe
space for British Jews.
As for the report itself, it is a major
disappointment, but not a surprise. Its
recommendation that abusive terms like

Zio and analogies of Israeli behavior
with that of the Nazis be placed beyond
the pale is welcome, but that didnt stop
Corbyn from comparing Israel to the
Islamic State in making the statement that
British Jews should not be held accountable for the actions of the Israeli government, just as British Muslims should not
be held responsible for the savages fighting under the Islamic State banner. Clearly
implied here is the notion that British Jews
should not want to be associated with the
only country in the world that, in Corbyns warped view, is deserving of the
rogue state label.
If Corbyn clings to his leadership position, that may well be at the price of the
Labour Partys existence. A split seems
more and more likely, as Labours parliamentarians have realized that Corbyns continued tenure spells electoral
oblivion.
As heretical as this might sound, a split
may not be such a bad thing if it propels
the formation of the center-left party that
Britains venerable democracy so badly
needs. More broadly, the setbacks for
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Abraham Foxman
remembers
Elie Wiesel
and the particular, was one that Mr. Wiesel

maintained throughout his life, Mr. Foxman
braham Foxman was not sursaid.
prised by his friend Elie WieMr. Wiesel did not fear Holocaust deniers,
sels death, but he found the
according to Mr. Foxman. There is a vast historical record that only people blinded with
sense of loss inescapable.
It wasnt just the loss of a
hate could deny. He was much more concerned about trivialization. That could undo
friend, someone with whom
memory. If you have soup Nazis and everyhe could share memories of lost European
thing-else Nazis, and if every police officer
childhoods in Yiddish, that Mr. Foxman was
becomes the Gestapo, it so undermines the
mourning. We surviving survivors lost our
understanding of what Nazism is, of what
most authentic voice of memory, he said.
Hitler was, that it leaves nothing to take a
The world lost a great moral voice. We the
lesson from. Nothing to remember.
Jewish people, and the state of Israel lost a
His advocacy for Jews extended beyond
strong, constant defender.
the Shoah victims who were his most immeElie Wiesel died last Saturday, July 2, at 87;
diate concern. He was a visionary, Mr.
his legacy, Mr. Foxman said, is wide-ranging.
Foxman said. I credit him more than anyMr. Foxman, who lives in Bergen County,
body else except the Soviet Jews themselves
worked for the Anti-Defamation League for 50
with bringing the issue of Soviet Jewry to the
years and headed it for almost 30; soon after
fore, Mr. Foxman said. It was his visit and
he retired, he became the first head of a new
his book that was The Jews of Silence,
center studying anti-Semitism at the Museum
published in 1966 that made us all of a
of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan.
sudden discover Soviet Jewry.
When he talks about Mr. Wiesel, who was
In an entirely different direction, Elie
about a decade older and therefore a teenand his wife, Marion, built a school for
ager during the Holocaust, it is not only with
Ethiopian immigrants in Israel, he said.
love and a deep respect, but also with a hardearned understanding.
Mr. Wiesel had a sharp sense of fairness; he
Had it not been for Mr. Wiesel, Mr. Foxman
fought its lack whenever he could. Once,
said, knowledge of the Holocaust might not
when Elie and I were in Israel at the same
have been seared as deeply as it has been into
time, he and I went to visit the Bialikthe worlds consciousness. One of the things
Rogozin School its a school for illegal
that he did for both the Jewish people and the
immigrants in Tel Aviv, Mr. Foxman said.
Abraham Foxman and Elie Wiesel are at a party celebrating Mr. Wiesels
world is that he took a uniquely Jewish tragedy
The kids were from Africa, from Asia, from
75th birthday.
ADL
which until Wiesel developed his voice was
the Philippines; most of them were born in
only our tragedy.
Israel but their parents were illegal immigrants. There was a political question just then, as
it was there to stay.
For some of us, it was too heavy to bear. For some of
there is every couple of months, about whether those
Later, Mr. Wiesel was able to use this background to
us back in that time, in the 1950s and 60s, when survivors didnt talk about it except perhaps among themchildren would be able to stay in Israel. Most of those
help other peoples in other places around the world.
selves, when the bright new postwar world had no corners
kids were going to be expelled, and there they were,
And then came Elie, who took this very particular Jewish tragedy onto the world stage, without making it unifor those dark images and middle-of-the-night horrors
speaking Hebrew, singing Hebrew. Thats what they
versal, Mr. Foxman said. It didnt lose its uniqueness he
it even was embarrassing, a grim reliving not only of fear
knew, Mr. Foxman said.
And his friend, Mr. Wiesel? He sang with them and he
was quoted as saying that not all victims were Jews, but
and death but also of humiliation and utter powerlessness.
danced with them, Mr. Foxman said.
Jews were all victims and he didnt take away from the
We didnt want to talk about it. We didnt want to pass it
It has become nearly a clich by now, but Mr. Wiesel
tragedy, which went beyond the Jewish people.
on to our children.
did speak truth to power, Mr. Foxman said. He recalled
He added the universal he became an advocate for
That started to change in 1960, with the American publication of Mr. Wiesels first Holocaust memoir, Night.
the time, in 1985, when Mr. Wiesel told the president of
the Cambodians, the Rwandans, the Yugoslavs but he
The books power was in the strength and specificity of its
the United States, Ronald Reagan, that he was wrong in
never detracted from the Jewishness of the tragedy.
images. Once the books truth seeped into readers minds,
going to Bitburg, Germany, to leave a wreath on the grave
That extremely hard balance, between the universal
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of Waffen-SS soldiers. That place, Mr.

President, is not your place, Mr. Wiesel
said, in a losing attempt to get Mr. Reagan
to change his mind. Having the strength
and the power to walk into the White
House and say that to the president and
the world it looks simple but it is not
simple, Mr. Foxman said.
There are a lot of words to describe
Elie, but probably the most powerful are
teacher and preacher. He loved to teach.
His greatest moments were speaking at the
92nd Street Y, or at Boston University, or
meeting with kids.
Many people struggle with faith; regular
life offers many reasons to disbelieve. The
There are a lot

of words to
describe Elie,
but probably the
most powerful
are teacher
and preacher.
effect of the Holocaust on faith was vast,
unimaginable to outsiders. He struggled
with faith, Mr. Foxman said about his
friend. We all struggle with faith.
The two men met every two weeks or
so for the last several years, at first in restaurants, and then, as Mr. Wiesels health
declined, in his home. I would try to visit
every Friday if I could, and his wife would
permit me an hour or so, Mr. Foxman
said. Those were precious, precious conversations. We spoke in Yiddish that was
his comfort zone. French was his writing
language, and he and I talked about the
language he dreamed in. Sometimes it was
French, but usually it was Yiddish. That
was still the mamaloshen, the mother
tongue, the language of parents and children and before-the-fall love. So we spoke
in Yiddish, Mr. Foxman said.
We talked about his childhood, the
cheder, the joy and happiness he felt then.
People saw him as a prophet of destruction, but he really was a prophet of hope.
Sometimes theyd turn from the purely
personal to more abstract matters. We
talked about the eternal, universal questions, about forgiveness, about memory,
about the history of the Jewish people,
Mr. Foxman said. Religion and faith was
a frequent subject.
All survivors struggle with it, he continued. I struggle with it. My father
helped me I asked him how can you

teach me religion, after what you have
seen and lived through, and my father
said, These are the works of man, not of
God. My father saw the manifestation of
God as the miracles.
Elies view was that his father, his
grandfather, and his great grandfather all
had faith in God. He was not going to be
the first to break that chain.
If Im angry at God, that means that
Im not going to celebrate Shabbat? Or the
miracle of the Torah?
We all find rationales, and he did too,
but he never resolved it. He always continued to tussle with the question. But
now, he is in a different universe, where
he can ask those questions directly to the
Almighty.
He asked a lot of questions, but the
fact that he did not know the answers
did not turn him against whatever he was
questioning.
Elie had a charm and a charisma, Mr.
Foxman said. He spoke in a very low
voice, so you had to strain to listen to him.
His message was even more anti-hate
than it was pro-love, he continued. He
said that love is a very difficult thing to
achieve, but if we can eliminate hate we
can live with each other. We dont have
to love each other to live with each other,
but if we hate each other we cant live with

each other.
Mr. Wiesel was a prime example of the
power of one, Mr. Foxman said. Elie is a
prime example of what an individual can
do. He moved mountains.
Mr. Wiesels funeral, at the Fifth Avenue
Synagogue in Manhattan, was private, Mr.
Foxman said. The guests including him

were family and friends, not celebrities, and that was exactly as it should have
been, for a man who was very public but
whose core was deeply private. I think it
was dignified and appropriate.
This is a terrible, terrible, terrible loss,
from all perspectives, Mr. Foxman said.
Mr. Wiesel and Natan Sharansky speak at a meeting sponsored by the Jewish
Federations of North America.
Elie Wiesel and President Barack Obama have lunch in the Oval Offices private dining room on May 4, 2010.
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Elie Wiesel gave the Holocaust

a face and the world a conscience
SARAH WILDMAN
WASHINGTON Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate who
became a leading icon of Holocaust
remembrance and a global symbol of conscience, died on Saturday at 87.
His death was the result of natural
causes, the World Jewish Congress said in
a statement.
A philosopher, professor, and author
of such seminal works of Holocaust literature as Night and Dawn, Mr. Wiesel
perhaps more than any other figure came
to embody the legacy of the Holocaust and
the worldwide community of survivors.
I have tried to keep memory alive, Mr.
Wiesel said at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 1986. I have tried to fight those
who would forget. Because if we forget, we
are guilty, we are accomplices.
Often he would say that the opposite of
love is not hate, it is indifference.
The quest to challenge indifference was
a driving force in Mr. Wiesels writing,
advocacy, and public presence. Though
he considered himself primarily a writer,
by the end of the 1970s he had settled into
the role of moral compass, a touchstone
for presidents, and a voice that challenged
easy complacency about history.
Mr. Wiesel spent the majority of his public life speaking of the atrocities he had witnessed and asking the public to consider
other acts of cruelty around the world,
though he drew the line at direct comparisons with the Holocaust. I am always
advocating the utmost care and prudence
when one uses that word, he said in 1980.
President Barack Obama, who met frequently with Mr. Wiesel and took his counsel, said he had been a living memorial.
Along with his beloved wife Marion
and the foundation that bears his name,
he raised his voice, not just against antiSemitism, but against hatred, bigotry and
intolerance in all its forms, Obama said
in a statement. He implored each of us,
as nations and as human beings, to do the
same, to see ourselves in each other and
to make real that pledge of never again.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said Mr. Wiesel was bitterly
mourned by the state of Israel and the
Jewish people. Elie, the wordsmith,
expressed through his extraordinary personality and fascinating books the triumph
of the human spirit over cruelty and evil,
he said in a statement.
Mr. Wiesel won a myriad of awards
for his work, including the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, the Congressional
Gold Medal, and the National Jewish Book
Award. Night now is standard reading in
high schools across America. Oprah Winfrey chose it as a book club selection in
Mr. Wiesels first book, Night, a Holocaust memoir, was enormously influential.
Elie Wiesel, shown here in Paris in November 1968, was awarded the Medicis
prize for his novel Le Mendiant de Jerusalem.
AFP/GETTY IMAGES
2006, so, nearly half a century after it was

first published, it spent more than a year
atop the best-seller list.
Mr. Wiesel took Ms. Winfrey to Auschwitz that same year.
Writing for The New York Times Book
Review in 2008, Rachel Donadio said that
Night had become a case study in how a
book helped created a genre, how a writer
became an icon and how the Holocaust was
absorbed into the American experience.
There is no way to talk about the last

half century of Holocaust consciousness
without giving Wiesel a front and center
role, said Michael Berenbaum, a professor
at the American Jewish University in Los
Angeles and a former director of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museums research
institute. What he did, extraordinarily,
was to use the Nobel Prize as a tool to call
attention to things, and as a vehicle to
scream louder, shout more, agitate more.
Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, then and now a part of Romania, in
1928, Elie Wiesel was deported to Auschwitz with his family in 1944, when he
was 15. His mother and one of his sisters
would disappear forever when the family
was forced aboard the cattle cars. They
were murdered immediately. His father,
who traveled with him to the camps, died
of dysentery and starvation in Buchenwald. Two sisters survived the war.
In Night, Mr. Wiesel describes pinching his face to see if he was dreaming when
he saw infants being murdered. In those
places, in one night one becomes old, he
told NPR in 2014. What one saw in one
night, generations of men and women had
not seen in their own entire lives.
Mr. Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald in 1945. He went on to study at the Sorbonne and moved to New York at the end of
the 1950s, where he lived in relative obscurity. He worked hard to find a publisher for
Night, which initially sold poorly.
The truth is in the 1950s and in the
early 1960s there was little interest and
willingness to listen to survivors, said
Wiesels longtime friend Rabbi Irving
Yitz Greenberg, who had read Night
in Israel in the early 1960s. In 1963, someone told me this author is alive and well in
New York City and I somehow managed to
find him and go see him.
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In 1985, Mr. Wiesels reputation
grew beyond the Jewish world when
he challenged President Ronald Reagan on live television over the presidents plan to visit a German cemetery that housed the remains of Nazi
soldiers. In the Oval Office to receive
the Congressional Medal of Achievement, Mr. Wiesel chastised Reagan.
This is not your place, Mr. President, Mr. Wiesel famously said.
The president visited the cemetery
anyway, but changed his itinerary to
include a visit to the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp.
Mr. Wiesel challenged the White
House again in 1993 when he
charged the newly inaugurated
President Bill Clinton to do more to
address the atrocities then unfolding in Yugoslavia.
Most people dont confront a sitting president that way, and he confronted two, said Sara Bloomfield,
now the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museums director.
He saw people would listen to
him, said Stuart Eizenstat, who
held senior positions in many presidential administrations and was a
key figure in the negotiation of Holocaust restitution agreements with
several European governments.
He became more aggressive
about showing that it is not just the
Holocaust, but applying lessons to
rest of the world as well, Mr. Eizenstat said. He became more active
in other genocidal or world conscious issues. He wanted to use that
power for the cause not just of Holocaust memory, but also to prevent
genocide.
At the inauguration in 1993 of the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
Mr. Wiesel said, clearly, I dont
believe there are answers. There
are no answers. And this museum
is not an answer; it is a question
mark. He applied that question
mark to global atrocities, as well as
to historical ones.
In Mr. Wiesels later years, he
waded into politics. He was friends
with Mr. Obama but also loudly chastised the president for calling for an
end to settlement construction and
for brokering the Iran nuclear rollback-for-sanctions-relief deal. Those
positions led to criticism, even from
longtime admirers. His very public support for Netanyahu also was
questioned. Peter Beinart wrote in
Haaretz: Wiesel takes refuge in the
Elie Wiesel and his wife, Marion, Abe Foxman, and Hillary Clinton stand together at
Mr. Wiesels birthday celebration.
Israel of his imagination, using it to

block out the painful reckoning that
might come from scrutinizing Israel
as it actually is.
The final years of his life also
included financial turmoil. His personal finances and $15.2 million in
assets of the Elie Wiesel Foundation
for Humanity were invested with
Bernie Madoff, who was convicted
of fraud in 2009. Mr. Wiesels fortune and his organizations reserves
were wiped out.
Yet he did not cease his work.
Just months after the Madoff scandal broke, in June 2009, Mr. Wiesel
led Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a trip to Auschwitz, which, he noted, was at his
fathers grave. Mr. Wiesel then gave
a searing indictment of the worlds
continued inability to learn.
As a public figure who was also
the very symbol of the Holocaust
survivor in America, Wiesel acted
as a moral compass, his personal
history lending unequaled gravity
to his public remarks on genocide,
anti-Semitism and other issues of
injustice worldwide, said Ruth
Franklin, author of A Thousand
Darknesses: Lies and Truth in
Holocaust Fiction. Wiesel never
pretended that he understood
the Holocaust. He spoke of it as
a horror beyond explanation, a
black hole in history. As the virtual
embodiment of the catchphrase
never forget, he did more than
anyone else to raise awareness of
the Holocaust in American life.
Mr. Wiesel is survived by his wife
and their son, Shlomo Elisha.
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working as a freelance reporter, a
stringer, for a French newspaper,
an Israeli newspaper and a Yiddish newspaper and for none of
the above was he making a living,
Rabbi Greenberg said.
He was determined to help Mr.
Wiesel find work.
He had this magnetic presence,
Rabbi Greenberg said. He was
quiet but with tremendous force,
and he felt the vividness of the Holocaust had a message.
In the late 1960s, Mr. Wiesel
finally began to emerge as one of the
preeminent voices in Holocaust literature. By the end of his career he
had written some 50 books.
In 1972, he enthralled Yeshiva
University students with his excoriation of the American and American Jewish leadership for its silence
during the Holocaust. How many
Jewish leaders tore their clothes
in mourning? he asked. How
many marched on Washington?
How many weddings took place
without music?
His 1966 book reporting the plight
of Soviet Jews, The Jews of Silence,
made the movement that sought
their freedom possible.
Elie Wiesel was the collective
moral compass of the Jewish people, Natan Sharansky, who became
the face of the Soviet Jewish struggle, said in a statement with his
wife, Avital, who with Mr. Wiesel
led advocacy for Mr. Sharanskys
release from prison.
He was the first to break the
silence surrounding the plight of
Soviet Jewry, and he accompanied
our struggle until we achieved victory, said Mr. Sharansky, who is
now the chairman of the Jewish
Agency for Israel. We will miss
him deeply.
In 1978, Mr. Wiesel became the
chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Holocaust, which
ultimately would recommend that
a Holocaust museum be built in
Washington. As his public presence grew, he began to visit the
sites of other genocides. In 1980,
he traveled to Cambodia; when he
returned, he called the Cambodian
refugee camps spectacles of horror and noted, That these things
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Thessalonikis mayor wants his Greek

city to remember its vibrant Jewish past
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON I am proud to be a
Vlach, says Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of
Thessaloniki, Greeces second largest city.
Ostensibly, were here at the Washington Hilton to discuss Boutaris bid to put
the Jewish back in Thessaloniki, a city
perhaps best known as Salonika that
once was home to the largest numbers of
Jews in Greece.
But Im the one who brought up the
Vlachs, a dwindling minority of speakers of an ancient Latin dialect, scattered
throughout the Balkans. When he ambles
over, I greet him with the Ci fac? I
have learned from my wifes family. Pronounced Tzi fatz, it more or less means
whats up?
His eyes widen a little. Gini! he says,
hes fine. He looks at his aide, Leonidas Makris, with a look that suggests, I
thought you told me this guy was Jewish?
I explain my connection, through marriage, to the Vlachs, insular shepherds
whose descendants, starting a century
ago, assimilated throughout Balkan societies. He asks me where my wife is from. I
know better than to say Washington, and I
tell him Perivoli, the tiny village in the Pindar mountains where our family has summered. He smiles, recognizing the village
as one of a constellation of mountaintop
Vlach summertime refuges, even before I
have completely pronounced it.
Boutaris, a youthful, wiry 74, was here
in June to be honored by the American
Jewish Committee at its annual Washington conference. He is among 508 American and European mayors who have
Yiannis Boutaris is the mayor of

Thessaloniki.
RON KAMPEAS
A street in the Ladadika neighborhood, which used to be the Jewish quarter in Thessaloniki.
signed on to the AJCs Mayors Against

Anti-Semitism pledge.
Boutaris stands out among the mayors,
though, for his commitment to his citys
Jewish meaning. At his most recent inauguration, he wore a yellow patch reminiscent of the ones forced on Jews during
the Holocaust. It was received as a definite position against the Golden Dawn,
Greeces anti-Semitic, ultranationalist
party, he said.
Everyone knows what the yellow star
was, he said.
The gesture also infuriated the citys
powerful and at times intrusive Greek
Orthodox leadership.
Boutaris, a vintner by trade, enjoys
recounting his bouts with his citys prelates. He recalls his first election campaign,
spearheading an alliance of left-leaning
parties in 2010. I said in a public speech,
the archbishop acts like the mujahedin!
he said, referring to the Muslim jihadis in
various countries.
On Thessalonikis national day, October
26, the archbishop warned him, you will
never see the municipality chair!
The next month, Boutaris won the election handily. Of the archbishops expressed
enmity, he says: I think this helped a lot,
although he hastens to add that he has
since achieved a dtente with the church.

Boutaris city, an Ottoman haven for
Jewish refugees from the Spanish and
Portuguese inquisitions, was famous for
centuries for its Jewish plurality. Its reputation for tolerance diminished when the
city was riven by nationalist struggles as
the Ottoman empire collapsed in the early
part of the 20th century, and then by a
devastating fire in 1917 that drove many
Jews to emigrate.
There remained a vibrant community
nonetheless, even as the ethnocentric
Greek nationalist movement exerted pressure on minorities Turks, Jews, Vlachs
to repress their languages and identities and become Greek. Two of my Jewish
grandparents were born there. In 1941, the
Nazis occupied the city and in short order
deported over 95 percent of the community to death camps and labor camps.
Salonikas Jewish past is a faint echo now,
recalled only in the occasional neighborhood name like the Modiano market,
named for a prominent Jewish family.
Boutaris, like the other 188 European
mayors who signed onto the AJC pledge,
casts it as a means of containing the antiSemitism reemerging on their continent.
Boutaris and the other signers are
individually and collectively sending a
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powerful, if not unprecedented, message to

their larger communities, David Harris, the
AJC CEO, wrote in an emailed statement.
Boutaris and Makris, his assistant, are
not comfortable discussing Greeces status, according to Anti-Defamation League
surveys in 2014 and 2015, as the continents most anti-Semitic country. Some
67 percent of the population hold antiSemitic views, the more recent survey
said. The mayor and his assistant believe
the survey is vastly exaggerated.
Makris tries to explain the results as a
product of a deeply pessimistic Greek
political culture, where poll respondents
are likely to believe the worst about their
leaders, immigrants, minorities, their
next-door neighbors just about everyone but otherwise behave in a welcoming manner.
There is an ambivalence among Greek
people, he says, noting how Greeks simultaneously cast the flood of refugees from
Syria as a burden and yet have turned
out en masse to assist them.
Boutaris says that Israels conflict is
keenly felt in a country that has ancient
ties with the Arab world, and that has
been influenced in recent decades by
close relations between Arab nationalists
and the Greek left. Greeks wonder why
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they cant find a way of living together, he says of
Israel and the Palestinians.
Yet the obsession with Israel among some Greeks
clearly frustrates Boutaris, in a way that Israels
leaders would appreciate. Every country deals
with internal and external threats, he says, some in
ways that make Israels actions pale by comparison.
You have to sit down and see whats happening in
Syria! he exclaimed.
There is a deeper, more resonant dimension to
Boutaris Jewish outreach, one that aligns with his origins as a Vlach, a people disappearing into Greeces
forcefully monolithic culture.
Boutaris wants Greeks to remember that their country was once not so monocultural, that there were
other peoples that once thrived here. He has proposed a monument to the Young Turks, who emerged
in Thessaloniki in the first decade of the 20th century
and whose uprising eventually led to Turkeys transformation into a secular state in the 1920s.
His focus in Washington is raising awareness about a
Jewish cultural center he hopes to found. (The city has a
small Jewish museum.) He has raised $20 million so far;
he needs another $5 million or so for operating costs.
The one thing he does not want it to be is another
Holocaust memorial; instead, he wants a monument
to a community that thrived in Thessaloniki for 500
years and that helped define the city.
Enough with the Holocaust, enough with the
mourning, although we will never forget, he says.
We want to bring up the Jewish heritage, which
should not stop with the Holocaust.
I bring up with Boutaris another personal connection to Thessaloniki: an incident from my first visit to
the city, in 1996, that still haunts me.
A newly met Greek friend plied me and my then
fiance with a little too much retsina, the sweet and
potent Greek white wine, during a visit to his house.
When I conked out and lay down, I overheard him,
through a haze, ask my fiance what had become of
Salonikas Jewish
past is a faint echo
now, recalled only in
the occasional
neighborhood name
like the Modiano
market, named
for a prominent
Jewish family.
me. She told him I was sleeping it off, and he laughed
and began to sing Durme, Durme, the Jewish Ladino
lullaby that at one time would have been familiar to
the citys Jews and non-Jews alike.
I asked our Greek friend afterward if he understood
the lullabys Jewish origins. He had no idea. It was a
song. It was another echo of a disappeared Jewish city.
Boutaris gets it, before I have even finished pronouncing Durme, Durme he knows the lullaby.
Attention must be paid might as well be his mission
statement. No one knows what Thessaloniki could
have been if it hadnt lost 95 percent of its Jewish community, he says.
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In post-Brexit Scotland,
Jews warm up to leaving UK
Many young Scots have taken to
wearing a safety pin on their jackets
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND The last
a gesture against the xenophobic rhetoric that the Brexit vote unleashed in
time that Scotland voted on whether
England (but not in Scotland). Others
to become independent from the
placed placards reading Everyones
United Kingdom, most of its 7,000 Jews
welcome on windows overlooking
thought doing so was a bad idea.
Edinburghs narrow, cobbled, and
Worried that Scottish independence
winding streets.
would encourage nationalism and
Edinburghs Rabbi Rose says memembolden an already aggressive antibers of his congregation are taking
Israel movement that had deep roots
out European passports to make sure
in the pro-independence camp, Jews
they remain EU citizens an option
here were relieved when, during a
open to many Scottish Jews because,
2014 referendum, 62 percent of Scottish voters supported remaining in the
unlike older U.K. Jewish communities,
United Kingdom.
most of them are descended from Jews
Less than two years after that supwho left Eastern Europe from the 19th
posedly definitive vote, Scotland and
century and later. Some Jews in Engits Jews are preparing for yet another
land are doing the same, the IndepenU.K. independence vote. This time
dent reported.
around Scottish Jews may be more
At a breakfast at the Edinburgh
Hebrew Congregation, Rose collects
receptive to such a vote, thanks in part
fees from about 12 congregants whove
to anger over the June 23 Brexit referendum in which the U.K. voted to leave
come for Sunday salmon, bagels, and
the European Union.
coffee. This used to be worth a lot
Howard and Claire Singerman stand outside Marks Deli, a Jewish restaurant in
The head of Scotlands government,
more last week, he remarks with
Glasgow, on July 4.
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Nicola Sturgeon, has called another
annoyance about the cup full of British pounds.
U.K. independence vote highly likely,
Under Sturgeons leadership, ScoJeC
a large Orthodox synagogue located at
Following Brexit, the pound had its
thanks to the Brexit results.
the foot of a range of green hills the stasaw its budget increased twice, once by 28
sharpest-ever two-day decline against the
In contrast to English voters, who
ple prayer for the safety of Israeli soldiers
percent and then again by 20 percent on
dollar, reaching $1.31. Thats a level not
favored Brexit, most Scots voted to remain
was dropped at least once that year so as
top of that.
seen since 1985.
part of the E.U, and Scotlands ruling Scottish National Party has said it would not
not to offend non-Jews during the conflict.
Last year, the Community Security
With the economy and political establishment in disarray, Nicola Sturgeon is
allow Scots to lose their EU citizenship.
Discretion is the better part of valor,
Trust, or CST, British Jewrys watchdog on
Many Scottish Jews now are more at ease
suddenly the only dependable figure for
Rabbi David Rose said at the time.
anti-Semitism, criticized an SNP lawmaker
with the idea of split from the U.K., due to
many Scottish Jews, Howard Singerman
Salmond, who had called for applying
in the Scottish parliament, Sandra White,
vigorous trust-building actions by Sturgeon,
of Glasgow said. A former Labour voter
sanctions against Israel, largely ignored
for retweeting an anti-Semitic caricature.
who heads the ruling Scottish National
who has rejected that party over a series
pleas by Jewish community representaIt featured a sow labeled Rothschild
tives to curb the vitriol, according to HowParty, or SNP an offshoot from Labour
of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks by
nursing piglets labeled as Islamist terrorist
ard Singerman, former treasurer of the
that is now Britains third-largest party.
various Labour leaders, he said he is congroups, the CIA and Israel. Sturgeon called
They have certainly engaged with
sidering voting SNP for its strong social
Glasgow Jewish Representative Council.
the incident abhorrent and apologized
the Jewish community very strongly,
platform. He never would have done so
But Sturgeon, his successor, is taking
for it, as did White.
Ephraim Borowski, director of the Scotunder Salmond, he said.
action, according to Borowski. He cited
Clearly, the Scottish leadership have
tish Council of Jewish Communities, or
Scotlands major Jewish groups have
her extremely strong message during
realized that the anti-Semitism issue is a
ScoJeC, said of SNP, which Sturgeon came
taken a formal position neither on Brexit
a conference on hate crime co-organized
litmus test of sorts for Scottish society, and
to lead in 2014.
nor on independence. For Singerman and
last year by the Chief Constable and the
we are seeing serious efforts to address
Under Sturgeons predecessor, the formany other Jews who define themselves
head of Scotlands prosecution service.
the communitys concerns, said Mark
mer SNP party leader Alex Salmond, the
as proud Scots, independence would be
I dont want to be the first minister,
Gardner, CSTs Glasgow-born director of
city councils of Glasgow and Fife flew
going a step too far.
or even live in a country, in which Jewish
communications.
the Palestinian flag during Israels 2014
Some Scottish Jews, Borowski said, have
people feel that they want to leave or hide
Other European parties could do far
war in Gaza. That was a move many Jews
an instinctive aversion to anything called
their identity, she said then.
worse than follow their example, he
interpreted as an act of solidarity with
or perceived as nationalist. Others simply
She also distanced the SNP from the
added.
the terrorist group Hamas. At that years
think independence is either too costly or
unsavory and horrible creeds that call
Coming before SNPs bid for a second
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a popular arts
impractical. Many think their bid for sepathemselves nationalism. If you choose
independence vote, Sturgeons Jewish
rate EU membership would be blocked
festival, two Israeli troupes canceled their
to live in Scotland, she said, it doesnt
charm offensive puts her on better footby members wary of their own separatist
ing with Scottish Jews than Salmond ever
performances in response to pro-Palestinmatter where youre from; its not about
ian protests.
movements, including Spain, France, Belenjoyed.
identity but about everyone who lives here
gium, and Italy.
Citing police figures, ScoJeC reported a
Frustration over the vote for a British
sharing the responsibility to make Scotland as good as it can be.
As a Scottish Jew you can feel more
record 50 anti-Semitic incidents in 2014 in
exit is palpable on the streets of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, where 74
Sturgeon told Borowski that she wanted
Scotland and an unprecedented number
trust toward Sturgeon, said Evy Yedd, a
percent voted against leaving the EU. Many
her ministers to be seen engaging with
of Jewish people who expressed anxiety
co-president of the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council. But she remains suslocals have hung Scottish and EU flags on
the Jewish community, not merely makabout their perception of increased antiing statements. She met with Israelis in
semitism in Scotland. The rise in hostility
picious of other SNP lawmakers and said
the windows, and 52 percent of respondents to a Sunday Times poll said they
Scotland, and attended Jewish communal
cannot be excused as merely political proshes convinced that the independence
would vote for independence from the
test against Israel, the groups report said.
events and met with Jewish students conthing is a total and foolish waste of time.
cerned about vitriol on campus.
At the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation
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Some British Jews think

the Brexit vote unleashed the bigots
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LONDON For two years, as she has
traveled around the English capital,
Natalie Pitimson has toted a library bag
emblazoned with a word in Yiddish.
The word schlep written on the side
perfectly describes my regular hour-long
trek through central London, Pitimson,
a senior sociology lecturer at the University of Brighton, wrote on her blog.
She had encountered no unpleasant
incidents over the bag, whose slogan
reminds me of growing up in a lively
Jewish family where such phrases littered otherwise very English sentences,
she wrote.
But last week, the bag caused Pitimson
distress when it invited a vicious verbal
attack by a fellow passenger in the London underground. According to Pitimson, the man told her to f- off back to
Israel with the other yids.
The June 28 incident left Pitimson
shaking and very upset, she wrote. I
thought about nothing else for the rest
of the day. I have never been targeted in
this way before.
Pitimson traces the schlep incident
to a noticeable uptick in expressions of
xenophobia following the June 23 referendum in the United Kingdom, in which
52 percent of voters supported a British
exit the so-called Brexit from the
European Union.
As the nation struggles to deal with
the aftermath of the divisive vote, Brexit
opponents cite such incidents as proof
that the vote has unleashed a wave of
racism. According to the National Police
Chiefs Council, 331 alleged hate crime
incidents were reported to police in
the week after the vote, compared with
a weekly average of only 63 before the

vote (the statement did not specify the
previous time period).
The Community Security Trust, British Jewrys watchdog on anti-Semitism,
expressed its concern, along with other
British Jewish groups, over this rise in
incidents, which included hate graffiti
against Polish immigrants and verbal
abuse of other immigrants on the street.
But neither CST nor the Campaign
Against Antisemitism, a smaller, volunteer-led alternative to the CST, can point
to any directly related rise in anti-Semitic
incidents following Brexit.
In the heavily Jewish neighborhood
of Golders Green, some locals said they
feel no less safe after the vote than they
did before. I dont see it, not more than
usual, said Mike Cohen, an observant
Jew from Golders Green. Not on the
street, not on television, not anywhere.
Nevertheless, reports of hate crimes
and verbal attacks prompted front-page
headlines and passionate op-eds in Britains liberal media. Minister David Cameron, who worked to prevent a Brexit
vote and resigned over his efforts failure, condemned the spate of attacks.
In the past few days we have seen
despicable graffiti daubed on a Polish
community centre, weve seen verbal
abuse hurled against individuals because
they are members of ethnic minorities,
Cameron said in Parliament last week.
Lets remember these people have
come here and made a wonderful contribution to our country. We will not stand
for hate crime or these kinds of attacks;
they must be stamped out.
But some Brexit supporters suggested
Cameron and other Brexit opponents
were exaggerating the severity of the
situation to undermine the Brexit results.

Will Franken, a conservative London
comedian and blogger, wrote that the media
and watchdog groups reporting a rise in hate
crimes were scaremongering to discredit
those who voted to leave the EU.
CSTs director of communications, Mark
Gardner, said his organization was taking
very seriously concerns that anti-Semitism
might be abused by those with other agendas than fighting racism.
But Gardner also said that complaints of
racist rhetoric after Brexit nonetheless gives
cause for concern.
The racism that came out in Brexits wake
is based on the principle of taking the country back and when that is the mode of thinking, it is very easy for Jews to also be labeled
as aliens, as inauthentic to Britain, he said.
He added the Brexit has been seized
upon by far-right anti-Semites in social
media circles, where some celebrated the
vote as a defeat to Zionist bankers.
Pitimson has no doubt that her subway
ordeal is Brexit-related.
Ive just been verbally abused tell me
again how racism played no part in Brexit,
she titled her blog entry on the experience.
Though her interlocutor said nothing specifically about the vote, Pitimson feels his
actions are an expression of nationalist sentiment against anyone perceived to be foreign.
Immigration was a major theme for those who
voted to leave the EU, many of whom cited
concerns over the stream of 1.8 million Muslims who entered Europe this year from the
Middle East. Migrant workers from Eastern
European also were a major gripe.
In another London underground incident,
filmmaker Haim Bresheeth said that on June
24, an obvious Brexiter confronted him
because Bresheeth spoke in Hebrew on the
phone. In this country we speak English!
Cant you speak English, sir? the man said
to Bresheeth, but made no reference to the
vote, according to Bresheeths account of the
incident on Facebook.

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Jewish World
Jewish ex-major leaguer

trying to get back to baseballs big show
Hillel Kuttler
HARRISBURG, Pa. Taking a seat on
the dugout bench of the Portland Sea
Dogs, Nate Freiman politely dismisses
the premise that he pines to return to the
major leagues.
Maybe its a defense mechanism now
that hes two seasons and three organizations removed from his last appearance in
the bigs. But Freiman, dripping sweat from
pregame batting and fielding practice,
projects sincerity in his gratitude for playing baseball professionally. Its even more
pronounced because hes playing for his
hometown Red Soxs AA affiliate in Maine,
whose home games are driving distance
from his parents home near Boston.
Im not here on a daily basis thinking
about getting back to the big leagues, said
Freiman, 29, a first baseman who played
for Israels entry in the World Baseball
Classic in 2012. Im here thinking, Lets
beat Harrisburg tonight, Im going to have
four or five competitive at-bats, and then
at the end of the night, Im going to think
about what I did right and what I couldve
done better.
Nearly three seasons ago, Freiman was a
rookie trying to help the Oakland Athletics
in its ultimately successful stretch run to
reach the playoffs. But after the 2014 season he was released by the Athletics, his
third organization, after being on its postseason roster.
Since then, Freiman has played in the
minors for the Atlanta Braves, the Washington Nationals, and now the Red Sox. Amid
the moving around, he and his wife had a
son, William David, in November 2014.
Where I want to be is just getting the
chance to play, the Washington, D.C.,
native said. Anything else will take care
of itself. Theyre giving me the chance to
play every day, and thats all I can ask for.
Ive really enjoyed it. If youre on the
field playing with a uniform on, anything
can happen.
The expression that goes around
baseball is that staying in the big leagues
is the hard part, which implies that getting there is the easy part. By no means is
that a reasonable thing to say. Its resultsbased, theres not a lot of room for error
and there are a lot of people trying to get
there. If you dont get the job done, theyll
go with someone who will. Thats what we
all know going into it.
Not that playing in the majors lacked
impact and import.
Being in the major leagues is an experience I can barely even describe, Freiman,
an eighth-round draft pick of the San Diego
Padres in 2009, said, adding, To be on
the playoff roster was awesome. Its what
were all working for, to get there and to
Nate Freiman is at bat for the Portland Sea Dogs in a game against the Harrisburg Senators in Pennsylvania in May.Hillel Kuttler
try to get back.

I have nothing but the best things to
say about that organization, he said of the
Athletics. Im happy with my time there.
Unfortunately, we hit the end of the road
and it was time to move on.
The Red Sox signed Freiman on May
10, after the Nationals released him. In 44
games with Portland, where he is the regular first baseman, he is batting .260, with
5 homers and 25 runs batted in following
a strong start.
But Freiman is making contributions
off the field, too, with some veteran
leadership.
Recently, while the Sea Dogs lounged in
the clubhouse in Altoona while rain pelted
the field, manager Carlos Febles called a
team meeting. The club was last in its
division. Febles went around the room
encouraging players to provide their input
on how things were going.
When his turn came, the 6-foot-8 Freiman stood and talked. The others listened.
Hes been in the big leagues, and thats
where everybody wants to go, said Febles,
who reached the show as an infielder with
the Kansas City Royals. Why not get him
in front of the guys and talk about what
they need to do to get there? It really was
interesting to listen to him the things he
went through to get to the big leagues.
Id been talking to the players a lot, but
If you dont get

the job done,
theyll go with
someone who
will. Thats what
we all know
going into it.
sometimes its better to come from a teammate. At some point, you get sick of listening to the same thing from the coaches.
Hitting coach Jon Nunnally, also a former major leaguer, said Freiman was
at his best in citing big leaguers making
the teams victory a higher priority than
attaining individual statistics.
He was really big on that, backing us up,
Nunnally said, adding that Freiman can
talk to the guys and they look up to him.
Freiman spoke on a deeper level, a different perspective from the rest, pitcher
Keith Couch said.
When you get to AAA, the majors, its
a different animal, said Couch, who not
much later was promoted back to Pawtucket, the Red Sox Triple A team. Hes a
great team guy.

Freiman recalled that his Oakland teammates really treated me well, particularly Brandon Moss, Seth Smith, Jed Lowrie, and Adam Rosales, who made me feel
welcome.
As a newcomer to Portland, Freiman
said he tread lightly because he wanted to
fit in the first week or two and become
part of this team. He said hes never
adopted an air of superiority for reaching
the majors.
If youre a guy thats going to be arrogant about having time in the big leagues
thats just not how I would act in any situation, Freiman said. Im fortunate to have
spent some time in the big leagues, but
that doesnt give me license to act in a different way toward anybody on this team.
There are some people on this team
who will play in Fenway some day, he said
of the Red Sox home park. Hopefully I get
there as well.
If he doesnt reach the Sox this season,
Israels World Baseball Classic team could
benefit. Its qualifying games are scheduled for late September, during the major
league season but after the minors season
concludes. Freiman was a standout for the
squad of several years ago.
It would be an honor to be asked, he
said of a possible 2016 reprise. It was a
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Jewish World
Why not Al Franken?

Some think the senator and former comic could be Hillarys VP
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
ast week Senator Al Franken

(D-Minn.) said that if Hillary Clinton asked him to be her running
mate, hed take the job.
If Hillary Clinton came to me and said,
Al, I really need you to be my vice president, to run with me, I would say yes, but
Im very happy in the job that I have right
now.
Although Franken, 64, has spent seven
years in the Senate and proven himself to
be a conscientious lawmaker championing decidedly unfunny issues like health
insurance, mental health services in
schools, and net neutrality some people
still find it hard to take the former comedian and Saturday Night Live writer seriously as a political figure. He was, after all,
the author of an article in Playboy in 2000
about his visit to a (fictional) institute offering virtual pornography, and he wrote an
infamous Saturday Night Live sketch in
which a suave Roman played by Burt Reynolds tries to pick up women at the local
vomitorium.
And yet Franken, who defeated Republican incumbent and fellow Jew Norm Coleman in a bitter, highly disputed election in
2008, is on a number of short lists for the
veep spot on the Democratic presidential
ticket. The Hill included Franken among
Clintons 9 most likely VP picks (admittedly, he was number 9), and Newsweek
ranked him fifth as a possible choice, tied
with former Massachusetts Gov. Deval
Patrick.
Franken himself was the author, in 1999,
of Why Not Me?, a satirical campaign
memoir in which a character named Al
Franken becomes president (and chooses
as his running mate former Connecticut
senator Joe Lieberman, correctly predicting Al Gores VP choice a year before it
happened).
Heres the case being made for a ClintonFranken ticket by some (mostly progressive) political commentators, along with
some caveats.
A bit of Bernie,
a foe of Trump
Politico suggests that Franken has what it
takes to win over the energized left-wing
youth who backed Vermont Independent
Bernie Sanders, and he can defuse Donald
Trumps toughest barbs and insults with
his more finely tuned sense of humor.
(Franken once said of George W. Bush,
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
I didnt realize he meant our nation.)
Franken has worked hard to prove he
is a detail-oriented, issues-driven senator, not a political novelty act, writes Bill
Senator Al Franken is at the 68th Annual Writers Guild Awards in Manhattan in February.

THEO WARGO/GETTY IMAGES FOR THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA
Scher. But he has decades of experience

skewering factually challenged conservatives. His track record before running for
senator includes a series of books of sharp
political commentary and a stint as a liberal radio host on the short-lived Air America network.
Newsweeks Taylor Wofford also notes
that Franken voted against fast-tracking
the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the global
trade agreement that the Democratic
Partys liberal base opposes. And his personality friendly, approachable, jokey
would compliment Clintons extremely
well, writes Wofford. Hes also outspoken, and he wouldnt be afraid to get into
it with Trump on Clintons behalf. And if
anyone can out-bully Trump, its Franken.
If Franken has to resign to run for veep, his

replacement would be chosen by a fellow
Democrat, Minnesota Gov. Mark Drayton,
so Clinton doesnt need to worry about
losing a seat to the GOP, writes Wofford.
Minnesota Supreme Court before Franken could declare victory over Coleman.
Franken led by 312 votes after a statewide
recount, but Coleman sued, arguing that
the recount was flawed.
It was easier for him the second time
around, when he cruised to a 10-point
reelection victory in 2014.
Doggone it, the Clintons like him
The Daily Kos notes that Franken has
been friendly with Bill and Hillary Clinton
for two decades, and in the tough times
ahead would be a comfortable Oval Office
companion for the high-strung Hillary.
An early Clinton endorser, Franken
could serve as a bridge between the grassroots left and the Democratic establishment, Scher writes.
The Daily Kos even thinks Franken would
be a good choice to succeed Clinton as president after her two full and highly successful terms in office, perhaps with another
short-listed vice presidential possibility, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Julian Castro, as his running mate.
Hes battle-tested
The Jew America needs
Politico recalls Frankens knock-down,

drag-out race for the Senate in 2008. It
took eight months of recounts and legal
challenges including a decision by the
Although Lieberman came close, Franken would become the first Jewish vice
president in American history. That may
ease the disappointment of Sanders
His Senate seat is safe
supporters, who hoped their Jewish candidate like Franken, a New York City native
would make it to the White House.
Minnesota has a recent tradition of
electing Jews to high office. Before Franken and Coleman faced off, three previous elections for senator there matched
two Jews Republican Rudy Boschwitz
vs. Democrat Paul Wellstone twice, then
Wellstone vs. incumbent Norm Coleman.
(Wellstone was killed in a plane crash two
weeks before that election.)
I dont think Minnesota is ready for a
gentile in this seat, Franken quipped at
the time.
On the other hand

Franken remains a long-shot for the VP
nod, trailing other senators like Tim Kaine
(Va.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Sherrod Brown (Oh.) among prognosticators.
Newsweeks Wofford suggests why:
Picking Franken gives the GOP a lot of
ammo: many of his remarks from before
his career in politics, including his old SNL
footage, will be resurfaced if Clinton picks
him. And some may worry he doesnt have
the temperament for the Oval Office. Plus,
Minnesotas not a swing state.
And hes an old white guy.

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Dvar Torah
Brexit: What will Korach say?
We are all the same.
his single statement encapsulates Korachs fatal opposition

to the appointment of Aaron,
Moses brother, to the position of high priest in this weeks Torah
portion. Korach demands of Moses: Why
have you appointed your brother to this
exalted position? We are all holy; we are
all the same and do not need someone to
serve on our behalf.
Not so, says God. There are differences
amongst people (and among nations)
which should be acknowledged and celebrated rather than negated or shunted
to the side.
Perhaps this idea is relevant to a major
ongoing news item.
This past week I learned that in addition to my U.S. citizenship, I am also an
English citizen by descent. While it may
be too late to vote on the Brexit referendum, I will excercise my right to weigh in
on the issue from a Jewish perspective.
The European Union was conceived after
WWII as a way to stabilize a historically
volatile continent which was the source of

many centuries of war and mayhem
To some degree it succeeded. However,
there were fundamental differences that
were glossed over which are now coming to
a head. One major difference is the fact that
each country in the E.U. has maintained
its own language and culture (in addition
to national budgets, monetary policy, and
defense establishments).
This has similarities to the story in the
Torah about the Tower of Babel in which
all of civilization united to form a common
society. But the people in the generations
between Noah and Abraham went further
than 20th century Europeans to enshrine
their unity: They built a tower which
reached up to the skies and symbolized
the supremacy of humankind, and their
civilizations rejection of God and the
seven Noahide laws given to all mankind.
In response to this development, the
Torah tells us, God mixed up their languages so that one will not understand
the language of the next. This brought
the entire enterprise to a permanent
halt. Since that period of human history,
no philosophy or system has

at one time, prohibited Jewish settlement! And now,
successfully eliminated the
history is coming full circle
distinctions between the
as we again witness a frightseventy nations enumerated by the Torah, though
ening return of naked antimany have tried.
Semitism across the EuroFor the moment it appears
pean continent disguised
that Europes attempt at uni(and legitimized) as opposification has met the same
tion to Israeli policy essenRabbi
fate.
tial to its survival.
Chanoch
It brings to mind the old Bob
So is a breakup of the E.U.
Kaplan
Dylan song called The Neighgood for the Jews or bad for
Chabad Jewish
bourhood Bully in which he
the Jews?
Center of
succinctly articulates the antiWell, heres one way to
Northwest Bergen
Semitism we face.
look at it.
County, Franklin
Lakes, Orthodox
The neighborhood bully
The reason my ancestors
he just lives to survive.
lived in Russia was because
Hes criticized and conPoland had become inhospidemned for being alive.
table to Jews; the reason they had lived
Hes not supposed to fight back, hes
in Poland was because Germany had
become inhospitable to Jews; and the reasupposed to have thick skin.
son they lived in Germany was because
Hes supposed to lay down and die
Spain and France had become inhospiwhen his door is kicked in.
table to them and their Jewishness.
Hes the neighborhood bully.
Now, just imagine what would have
So is European unity good for the Jews
happened if there were a common union
or bad for the Jews?
between all of these nations and they all,
Ill leave that to you to decide.
BRIEFS
Kenya set to help restore

Israeli ties with Africa
Kenya will work to help restore Israels observer status
in the African Union, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
announced at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Nairobi.
Netanyahu is on a four-nation tour of Africa, where he
is seeking to restore and strengthen ties with the continent. Kenyatta said that Africa needs to reassess its relationship with Israel in order to deal better with global
challenges.
The biggest challenge is terrorism by deranged people who believe in no religion and threaten men, women
and children across the globe, Kenyatta said, according
to a Kenyan newspaper, the Daily Nation.
Netanyahu, the first sitting Israeli prime minister to
visit Kenya, reacted to Kenyattas announcement. I
think that this is significant, he said. This will have an
impact in Africa now, but I think that it will have very
considerable effect regarding Israels international relations in the future, vis--vis our effort to bring about a
very great number of countries that support Israel.
Israel lost its observer status with the African Union, formerly known as the Organization of African Unity, in 2002.
The Palestinian Authority, meanwhile, does hold member
status with the African body.
Both leaders also mentioned Kenyas role in Operation
Entebbe in 1976. Then, jets carrying Israeli commandos
were allowed to land at the countrys Jomo Kenyatta airport to refuel on their way to raid the Entebbe airport in
Uganda, where terrorists held 260 hostages.
Netanyahus tour began in Uganda, where he marked
the 40th anniversary of the Israeli special rescue mission
in which his brother, Yonatan, was killed while trying to

rescue the hostages.
After the ceremony, the prime minister attended an
African summit with seven African nations, a development that he said brings a monumental change in the
relations between Israel and Africa. Netanyahu also will
visit Rwanda and Ethiopia during his tour this week.

JNS.ORG
First Turkish aid shipment in six

years reaches Gaza through Israel
In the first Turkish aid shipment to Gaza since the 2010
Gaza flotilla incident in which nine Turks were killed in
clashes after Turkish militants attacked Israeli commandos who had boarded the flotilla 10 trucks with supplies
got to Gaza through Israel. This was a week after the new
reconciliation deal between Turkey and Israel was signed.
These are the first Turkish aid trucks into Gaza,
Mustafa Sarnc, Turkeys ambassador to the Palestinian
Authority, said in a press conference, AFP reported.
The ship containing 11,000 tons of cargo docked at Israels Ashdod port on Sunday. Supplies included food, clothing, toys, and machines. This is an immediate implementation of the agreement between Israel and Turkey,
Israeli government spokesperson Oren Rosenblatt said on
Sunday.
Turkey originally tried to convince Israel to lift the
blockade on Gaza, but eventually agreed to send aid to
Gaza through Ashdod, where contents would be unloaded
and inspected.
The blockade is necessary to prevent Hamas from
receiving materials that could be used for military and
terrorism purposes, according to Israeli officials. JNS.ORG
Israel learns of Hamas tunnel

locations by uncovering
cash-smuggling ring
Israels security agency, Shin Bet, and Israel Police
announced that they have gained intelligence on underground tunnel locations in Gaza as a result of the arrest, last
month, of two Gazans who were smuggling cash into Judea
and Samaria for Hamas.
Faiz Attar, 65, worked as a courier, smuggling tens of
thousands of euros hidden in his shoes. Attars family also
was involved with Hamas, digging cross-border tunnels and
using a private home for Hamas meetings.
The investigation revealed information about the
openings of tunnels that were located, for the most part,
under civilian structures such as innocent residences and
mosques, as well as about launching points for rockets that
were located close to civilian structures, thus endangering
the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet said.
The second suspect, 27-year-old Itallah Sarhan, was
caught trying to smuggle 10,000 euros in his shoes. Sarhan
also worked as a truck driver for a company that cleared
sand from tunnel-digging sites for Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Investigators learned about several tunnel excavation sites
through Sarhans interrogation.
He divulged considerable information about openings of tunnel shafts including their exact locations and
conditions, and the terrorist organizations responsible,
the Shin Bet said, adding, The State of Israel allows, on
a monthly basis, the entry of thousands of residents of
the Gaza Strip for humanitarian medical and other needs.
More than once, terrorist elements have exploited these
permit holders for illegal purposes including the transfer
JNS.ORG
of cash for terrorism.
Arts & Culture

Esther in
Khazaria
The Book of Esther
mashes the Purim story,
the myth of Jewish Khazaria,
and World War II
RACHEL OKIN
hat makes a heroine?

A heroine usually is a strong, independent woman who rises up against some
type of conflict and takes control of her
own fate. How a woman becomes a heroine is the main
idea Emily Barton explores in her new novel, The Book
of Esther.
Esther, of course, recalls the
brave queen featured in the
Purim story, who is memorialized
every Purim along with her uncle,
Mordechai. Bartons main character shares with the famous queen
a desire to stand up and fight for
her people, as well as her stubbornness and bravery during a
time when women were expected
to be neither stubborn nor brave.
The book uses some of the characteristics of Esther in the Purim
story to tell another story, this one
loosely based on World War II. The
enemys leader is called Haman
the Agagite, as is the Purim villain, and Esther herself compares
their situation to the story of Purim.
This science-fiction novel, however,
takes place in a different time and
place: its 1942 in Eastern Europe;
specifically, its in Khazaria, a powerful
Jewish Central Asian kingdom that lies
between the Black Sea and the Caspian
Sea and is targeted by an antagonistic
nation known as Germania.
Like the biblical queen, 16-year-old
Esther bat Josephus, the eldest daughter of the chief policy advisor, begins the
novel as a relatively passive figure. She is
from a traditional Jewish home and is set
to marry the chief rabbis son, of whom
she is unsure; shes annoyed that she
was unable choose her own husband:
Esther would have liked to invite Rukhl
Emily Barton
to the wedding and the Seven Blessings,
Barton writes. But Esther had so little
to do with choosing Shimon ben Kalonymos, she doubted
shed be allowed to choose her guests. While she does like
Shimon, Esther longs to make her own choices rather than
having her family making them for her.
In her spare time, Esther secretly visits the refugee
camp, which is filled with Jews who seek to escape the
Germanii, and soon she realizes that

the threat against her people is widening. She decides that she can no
longer just be a bystander she must
fight to save her people. Because of
the way women are devalued, Esther
decides that in order to gain the
respect she desires, she must transform herself into a man. To do this,
she visits a sect of kabbalists in the
village of Yetzirah, who are said to be
able to perform magic. The story goes
on from there.
In this novel, Barton weaves history
with folklore, supernatural beings,
including werewolves and golems, and
steampunk elements like the mechanical
horses that were used to ride into war,
and aeroplanes, which she describes
as being more or less like helicopters.
In one chilling scene, the aeroplanes
swarm the air around the city, causing
fear among the people: By now, a faint
hum, as of a far-off swarm of locusts,
approached from beyond the harvest
plain Its an aeroplane, he said, but
kept scanning the sky. Its three of them,
flying in a vee, like geese. More than
three. Esther could now make them out, dark specks in
the bright morning...
The novel retells the story of World War II, combining
history with high fantasy elements. Although some of
these elements will keep the readers attention, at times
they may be confusing. The way the author combines
languages, mixing Hebrew and Yiddish phrases, also may

not be altogether easy for someone who isnt familiar with
Judaism, Hebrew or Yiddish.
Esther is the very definition of a heroine. She is a
woman who desires change and equality and at the same
time is deeply rooted in her Jewish traditions. Throughout
the novel, we can see that she enjoys Jewish rituals very
much. The scenes with Shabbat meals at the kabbalists
village, with much merriment, tasty food, and dancing,
are especially endearing.
The Book of Esther features an array of diverse characters. They include Itakh, a slave boy who has been
raised as Esthers younger brother; Amit, who Esther
meets when she is with the kabbalists, and Esthers father,
Josephus, a stern yet loving figure. The golems, which
are made of clay and are servants of sorts to the kabbalists, who had fashioned them out of clay with kabbalistic
magic, also are particularly captivating. Esther realizes
that at times they show signs of humanity and compassion, but they are greatly discriminated against. Some
moments with the creatures fuel the most enthralling
scenes in the novel.
Some points of the novel, especially when Esther arrives
and spends time at the kabbalist village, take unexpected
twists and turns. Barton covers many topics, such as war,
feminism, gender and gender roles, and family and Jewish
values. Esthers character goes through different stages of
growth, forges new friendships, and ultimately achieves
her goal of leading the army into battle.
The book, which spans 418 pages, packs in plenty of
action, but then it ends on a frustratingly abrupt note,
demanding a sequel. Bartons novel is a inventive and
detailed tale about a nation on the brink of war that will
keep the reader interested through the last scene.
Calendar
Film in Wayne: Shomrei
Torah screens Welcome
to Kutshersthe Last
Catskills Resort, 8 p.m.
30 Hinchman Ave. (973)
696-2500 or office@
shomreitorahwcc.org.
Thursday
JULY 14
and North Hudson for

Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Claims Conference on
Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany and
the Jewish Federation of
Northern Jersey, meets
at Congregation Beth
Sholom, 11:30 a.m. Kosher
lunch and Lecturesin-Song by Fred Miller.
354 Maitland Ave. Shari,
(201) 837-9090, ext. 237
or sharib@jfsbergen.org.
In New York
Sunday
JULY 10
Music for seniors in

Tenafly: Vocalist Van
Bang on a Can and the Jewish Museum in Manhattan present

a concert by clarinetist-composer Don Byron, Thursday,
July 14, 7:30 p.m., at the museum. Byron, who received the
first Doris Duke Performing Artist award and whose broadly
ranging music includes klezmer, is a long-time collaborator with Bang on
a Can. The concert is made possible by an endowment from the William
Petschek family. 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3337 or
www.thejewishmuseum.org.
PHOTO BY DAVE WEILAND
JULY
14
Friday
JULY 8
Rabbi Levy Wineberg

Shabbat in Tenafly:
Rabbi Levy Wineberg
is the guest at a special
Shabbaton hosted
by Lubavitch on the
Palisades in honor of
Gimmel Tammuz, the
22nd yahrzeit of the
Lubavitcher rebbe,
Menachem Mendel
Schneersohn. Rabbi
Wineberg, an author,
teacher, and shliach to
Johannesburg, South
Africa, since 1983, will
speak on different topics
throughout Shabbat,
including Brain and
Soul Their Interface,
Nature vs. Nurture
or via Nurture? and
Happy with a Pebble,
Dissatisfied with a
Mountain. Special
childrens program and
dinner on Friday night.
(201) 871-1152.
Shabbat on the
Palisades: Temple
Beth El of Northern
Valley in Closter invites
the community to the
informal Prayers on
the Palisades Shabbat
service led by rabbis
David Widzer and
Beth Kramer-Mazer at
6:30 p.m., at the State
Line Lookout off the
Palisades Parkway.
The exit is northbound
on the PIP, two miles
north of Exit 2. Bring
a lawn chair and bug
spray. If the weather is
inclement services will
be held at the shul, 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112 for
more information.
Rummage sale in
Closter: The sisterhood
of Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley holds its
semi-annual rummage
sale, 9 a.m.-noon
and 1-3 p.m. Gently
used clothing and
household goods. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112, or www.
tbenv.org.
Veterans Post #651 Fair

Lawn meets for breakfast
at the Coach House,
10 a.m., to honor its new
commander, Edward
Rosenblatt. Members and
spouses welcome. Route
4 East. (201) 797-3190.
JULY 10
Atlantic City trip: Fair
Tuesday
JULY 12
Film in Paramus: JCC of

Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah screens A
Man For All Seasons
with Paul Scofield and
Robert Shaw, 3 p.m.
Snacks served. Deli
dinner follows for those
with reservations.
Sunday
JULY 17
Charity walk in Verona:
Hadassah Northern
NJ holds Every Step
Counts, its first annual
Heart Health Awareness
walkathon, at Verona
Park. Registration,
8 a.m.; walk at 8:30.
(973) 530-3996 or www.
hadassah.org/events/
hhaw.
Tuesday
JULY 19
Book discussion in
Paramus: The JCC of
War veterans meet in

Hackensack: Jewish War
Sunday
Lawn Hadassah travels
to Resorts Casino Hotel.
Bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI at 9 a.m.; be there
by 8:30. Breakfast on
bus. $30 with $25 slotplay money. Park on side
streets. Bring a valid ID.
10-10 Norma Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
East 304 Midland Ave.

(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Martin performs Rat

Pack favorites in a fun
sing-along at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
11:15 a.m. Lunch available.
411 E. Clinton Ave. Helene,
(201) 408-1451.
Rabbi Ely Allen

Program for Holocaust
survivors: Cafe Europa,
a social program the
Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey sponsors
for Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at Temple Beth
Sholom in Fair Lawn,
11 a.m. Program includes
lunch, a health and
wellness fair, and talk by
Rabbi Ely Allen on life
in Israel. Transportation
available. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. (973) 595-0111,
www.jfsnorthjersey.org.
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers
a discussion on
Angelas Ashes,
by Frank McCourt,
6:45 p.m. Refreshments.
Suggested donation.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Wednesday
JULY 20
JFK discussion in
Tenafly: Marty Alboum
offers a discussion with
seniors on John F.
Kennedy at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
11:15 a.m. Lunch available.
411 E. Clinton Ave. Helene,
(201) 408-1451.
Holocaust survivor
group in Teaneck: Caf
Europa, a social program
sponsored by Jewish
Family Service of Bergen
Karen Kaplan
Author in NYC: Karen
Kaplan, the daughter
of a Holocaust survivor,
will be in Riverdale to
talk about her memoir,
Descendants Of
Rajgrd: Learning To
Forgive, at the Riverdale
Atria, 11 a.m. On Monday,
July 11, at 6 p.m., she
will be in Greenwich
Village at the Cornelia
Street Caf. On Tuesday,
July 12, she will be at
the Riverdale Y Senior
Center, 5625 Arlington
Ave., 10:30 a.m., followed
by an optional lunch.
www.karenlkaplan.
com. Riverdale Y
reservations/lunch, Vicki,
(347) 913-4395.
Singles
Sunday
JULY 10
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
if you are from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
BBQ and concert in

Clifton: North Jersey
Jewish Singles 45-60s, a
group sponsored by the
Clifton Jewish Center,
hosts a barbecue at
the shul, 18 Delaware
St., 5 p.m. A concert,
Calendar
Art in
Tenafly
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paintings by artist
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on display to August
31 at the Waltuch Gallery at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades, 411
E. Clinton Ave., in
Tenafly.
Beach Sleeper by Win Zibeon.
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known for his trompe
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paintings are framed conventionally; he paints the frames he wants to see on his
work.
For information call Esther Mazor, (201) 408-1456 or go to www.jccotp.org.
Seeking volunteers and items

for annual childrens clothing drive
The annual Childrens Clothing Drive at
Keter Torah needs gently used childrens
clothing, coats, shoes, and volunteers to
help. For those in need of the free items,
shopping can be arranged by appointment and done anonymously.
Drop off is in the Keter Torah ballroom, 600 Roemer Ave, in Teaneck, on
Sunday, July 24, from 9 to 11 a.m. and all
day Monday, July 25. Enter through the
shuls main doors. Do not leave items
outdoors. It would be helpful if items
that are donated could be sorted and
labeled by size and gender before they
are dropped off. Donors can sort and
fold clothing directly onto the tables at
drop off.
Items needed include clothing, shoes,

boots, coats, snow pants, and baby
blankets and buntings, all for infants
through 14-year-olds. Do not donate
ripped, stained, or torn clothing; no personal logos or bat/bar mitzvah, camp,
or school shirts; no tzitzit; socks, or
headbands.
There will be a rummage sale on
August 3, which will be open to everyone; the clothing left after the sale will
be sent to Israel. The money raised will
go directly to Yad Leah, which will help
defray the cost of shipping the clothing. For information, email ChildrensClothingDrive @gmail.com.
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Swing, Rock, Rhythm

& Blues, at nearby
Main Memorial Park, will
follow. (973) 772-3131 or
www.meetup.com.
Thursday
JULY 21
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a monthly
luncheon group for
widows and widowers,
meets at the Glen
Rock Jewish Center,
12:30 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for

lunch. (201) 652-6624
or email Binny, arbgr@
aol.com.
Seniors meet in
Orangeburg: Singles
65+ of the JCC
Rockland meet for
dinner at Hogans Diner
in Orangeburg, N.Y.,
6 p.m. Individual checks.
17 Dutch Hill Road.
Gene, (845) 356-5525.
Friday
JULY 22
Singles Shabbaton
in Teaneck: Sharon
Ganz & Friends hosts
a Summer Shabbaton
weekend for Orthodox
Jewish singles, 20s-40s,
at Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun. It will include
Shabbat meals, home
hospitality, mixers,
discussions, guest
speakers, and programs.
Sharon, (646) 529-8748
or (718) 575-3962.
Across
1. Israel spends a lot of time in it?
6. Emanuel of Chicago
10. Apples many Jews dont use on Rosh
Hashana?
14. Alter, as talmudic text
15. Layer that gave Davids eyes their
beautiful color
16. Fall (down for a Shabbat nap)
17. Simplified political ticket for a Labor
leader and a Kach leader?
20. Tulsa based school without a Hillel or
Chabad
21. Prophet after Joel
22. Oil can letters (but not for Hanukkah)
23. Some make it from citrons
26. ___air
28. Kosher venison hard to come by
29. Sacrificial animal
30. Simplified sefer by a Chief Rabbi of
Israel and Shulchan Aruch scribe?
34. Roseanne star
35. One way to send a paper to Israel
36. Possible weight of Goliath
37. Some go without it Shavuot night
39. David Silvers org.
41. Seed a kibbutz field again
45. Level Kinsler played in before the
Majors
47. Central Israel moshav
49. Volcano across the Mediterranean
from Israel
50. Simplified comedy bill for one silly
and one angry legend?
55. File extension on a Dell
56. Rosters Ryan Braun and Ike Davis try
to avoid: Abbr.
57. Hit the slopes at Hermon
58. Uninvited sukkah guest
59. Article in hip-hop titles
60. Bots in Bays Transformers
62. Bots in Bays Transformers
64. Simplified marquee for Fish in the
Dark and Glengarry Glen Ross
scribes?
70. Guinness in Kafka
71. Encyclopaedia Judaica list ender
72. Like Kerri Strug
73. Exams some might take before Bar
Ilan
74. Make like Esau, regarding his birthright
75. European city with the largest Jewish
population
The solution to last weeks puzzle

in on page 39.
Down
1. Uzi ammo unit
2. Genre of Joe Trohmans Fall Out Boy
3. Marina ___ Rey, Bronx home of many a
Jewish wedding
4. ___-European (Yiddishs language
family)
5. Jewish addition, sometimes
6. Feel like Anthony Wiener after his
scandal(s)
7. Footwear brand or Tel Aviv hotel
8. Greek false god with wings
9. Holy Land market
10. Alternative speed letters in Israel
11. State where Chalav Yisroel gets
shipped in
12. 1997 Bruckheimer movie with Nicolas
Cage
13. Brand for Eilat
18. Shabbat prayer
19. Request
23. Temple assignments for the priests
24. But..., bivrit
25. One too many for Solomon
27. Spielberg title character
31. The world is ___ without you, dear
(Bob Dylan)
32. The ___ Incident, classic novel and
film
33. Bow
38. When one gets shekels
40. Fleischer and Melber
42. Make like Yael to Sisera
43. Number of times Elijah split the
Jordan
44. Dont ___ me up!
46. Suggests (like many biblical verses,
on a deeper level)
48. Said Mah Nishtana, e.g.
50. Many get it when arriving in Israel
51. What some might do after a tense
Bnei Yehuda soccer game
52. 68-Down did this to young Samuel
53. General item in a Rothschild will
54. Possible format of pics on The
Jerusalem Post website
61. Office of interest for Bernie Sanders
63. Life story of Moses, e.g.
65. Some kosher colas
66. Like one who might be prayed for
67. Russian space station (meaning
Shalom)
68. See 52-Down
69. Randy Grossman and Rob
Gronkowski: Abrr.
Local/Jewish World
Bikur Cholim
with a multiple pregnancy.

We ended up following her for a few months, Ms.
Yager said. She needed a lot of different supports. We
visited her and brought her healthy meals. We helped
her when her babies came.
The group has more than 40 volunteers, but is
always looking for more. (See box.) Were trying to
build up a volunteer base, Ms. Preil said. The biggest need is to drive sick or elderly people to doctor
appointments. We have many people who need trips
for local medical appointments, she said. If youre
able to give even a small amount of time, you can be
involved in a great chesed.
Volunteers also visit the sick in hospitals and offer
respite to caretakers.
from page 7
We want to make it easy for a consumer to go to one

place and get their information, Meredith Yager,
another of the groups coordinators, said. Bikur Cholim recently set up a hotline 201-579-3066 that fields
questions about kosher food availability at hospitals,
how to arrange for rides, how to borrow medical equipment, and Shabbat sleeping arrangements. And it has
centralized information at its website, bikurcholimbergencounty.org.
The numerous calls to our hotline make us feel like
we fill a niche, Ms. Yager said.
One hotline call that stands out: A woman called to
say her cousin was in Hackensack Hospital, on bedrest
Protecting
from page 8
co-founder of the nonprofit Community Security

Service in the United States. CSS provides protection and security training for Jewish institutions,
much as the SPCJ does in France. The organization
receives support from many law enforcement agencies and the Department of Homeland Security.
Still, Mr. Dabscheck said, the threat is increasing,
and it necessitates intensive community engagement around security. In this regard, we train
members of the Jewish community so they can
also help protect synagogues, community institutions and events.
CSS was founded in 2007. Active largely in the
Northeast, it plans to expand to other locations as
well. Its 3,000 members are trained to deal with a
variety of situations, from biological and chemical
terrorism to active shooter threats. But demand outstrips current resources, Mr. Dabscheck said, adding, We receive requests from across the country
for help with security issues. Because the CSS is
able to provide only limited advice in some places,

he hopes that additional resources become available
before another terrorist attack strikes the Jewish
community.
Eric de Rothschild, born in 1940, is too young to
remember the Nazi horrors of World War II, but he
and his family suffered the scars. His father Alain
de Rothschild had been arrested by the Vichy government and imprisoned in a French concentration
camp during the war. Alains banking acumen, postwar philanthropy, and support for French Jewry
foretold his sons similar interests. The legacy lives
on, as is clear in these comments, which Eric de
Rothschild made in 2016. The murderous attacks in
Paris and Saint-Denis demonstrate once again that
violence committed against the Jewish community
is a harbinger of even greater threats against our
countrys democracy and republican values, he
said. His fervid commitment to the protection of the
Jewish community arises in part from memory of a
time when there was no Israel and little means of
defense for besieged local Jewish communities.
Bikur Cholim Shabbat & holiday

taxi service
Call Teaneck Taxi, (201) 907-0044
Say you are calling for Bikur Cholim Bergen County and give its
telephone number: (201) 579-3066
Rides are available to Bergen County residents going to
Englewood Hospital Medical Center, Hackensack University
Medical Center, Holy Name Medical Center, and Valley Hospital.
Volunteer for Bikur Cholim
Bikur Cholim is always looking for more volunteers. You can
sign up at bikurcholimbergencounty.org, email volunteer@
bikurcholimbergencounty.org, or call (201) 579-3066.
Hate
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says something about the type of education theyre receiving,

he said. There are ways the ADL can help it can work with
a school district, and schools can respond by distancing themselves from such incidents and providing programs that offer
healing for the student body.
One such program, Mr. Cohen continued, is ADLs Echoes and
Reflections, a Holocaust education program developed with Yad
Vashem for middle and high school teachers. It gives educators a way to teach about the Holocaust in a way that stimulates
critical thinking, he said, noting that the program was offered
in Ridgewood during the past year.
Mr. Cohen added that the increased number of anti-Semitic
incidents is a sobering reminder that New Jersey is not immune
to anti-Jewish animus. The way to fight hate speech is to counter with good speech. It has to be cut out at the root, requiring
education at an early age.
He said that his organization has been combating cyberhate
since 1985 with a best practices toolkit, and it offers a way for
people to register their concerns when they see something offensive online. Peoples voices are the most powerful tool for fighting hate online, Mr. Cohen said. Companies rely on users to
bring problems to their attention.
Briefs
Algeria reportedly calls off

soccer match with Ghana
over Israeli coach
State Department scolds

Israel over construction in
disputed territories
Algeria has reportedly called off a friendly soccer match

with Ghana because the teams coach, Avram Grant, is
Israeli.
According to Algerian media reports, the team dropped
out of the match so that it could prevent Grant from entering the country. Algerian journalist Ayman Gada wrote on
Facebook that the Algerian national team canceled the
friendly match with Ghana because it refused to host Ghanas Israeli coach, Avraham (sic) Grant.
Grant, who was born in Petah Tikvah, has managed the
Israeli national team and Chelsea F.C. in the English Premier League. He has spent the past two years coaching
Ghanas national team.
Like many Arab countries, Algeria does not have diplomatic relations with Israel. Additionally, a wave of proPalestinian sentiment has engulfed the country in recent
months, including a number of solidarity marches for the
Palestinians.
The Palestinian people raise the flag of Algeria, because
it is for them a model and for all the oppressed people in
the world. We have learnt a lot from its revolution, the
Palestinian ambassador to Algeria, Louai Aissa, recently
JNS.ORG
said, the Algeria Press Service reported.
The U.S. State Department issued a strongly worded

statement expressing deep concern over Israels recent
approval of hundreds of new housing units in the disputed
territories.
If its true, this report would be the latest step in what
seems to be the systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions, and legalization of outposts that is
fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state
solution, State Department spokesman John Kirby wrote
in a statement. We oppose steps like these which we
believe are counterproductive.
This action risks entrenching a one state reality and
raises serious questions about Israels intentions, he
added.
Kirby said that the United States is engaging in tough
discussions with Israeli leaders on the state of the IsraeliPalestinian peace process.
Last weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman approved
hundreds of new housing units in eastern Jerusalem
and Maaleh Adumim. While Israel considers both areas
as part of the Jewish state in any future agreement with
the Palestinians, they both lie beyond Israels pre-1967
borders meaning that the United States and many

other governments around the world oppose any Israeli
JNS.ORG
construction there.
Israeli-Arab mother gets

22 months in prison for trying
to join Islamic State
Israeli-Arab Ayman Kanjou, 44, the mother of five children,
was sentenced to 22 months in prison for attempting to join
the Islamic State.
Kanjou was charged with contacting a foreign agent and
attempting to leave Israel illegally and was sentenced by
the Haifa District Court as part of a plea deal. She was given
an additional suspended sentence of one year and a fine of
about $7,800.
Kanjou has a doctoral degree in Islam from Al-Azhar University in Cairo. She was arrested in August after flying to
Turkey with her father for a family trip and then disappearing. Israeli and Turkish security forces worked together to
arrest her when she tried to cross the border into Syria with
a few dozen other people from various countries.
In her interrogation, Kanjou admitted that she had been
thinking about joining Islamic State, leading her to make
contact with an operative from the terror group who promised to help her enter Syria.
JNS.ORG
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Lois Budnitsky
Lois Budnitsky of Jersey City died June 29.

She was a teacher in the Jersey City school system.
Her husband, Joseph, survives her.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Ingrid Cohen
Ingrid Cohen, ne Ahrens, of Wayne, died June 27.

Born in Germany, she was a beautician. A brother,
Michael Ahrens of Florida, survives her.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Evelyn H. Thomas, ne Green, 98, of Edgewater, died

June 29.
Born in New York City, she is survived by her
husband, S. Bernard; children, John Hechtlinger of
Fort Lee and Ruth Thomas of Flanders, N.Y.
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Florida; and two grandchildren survive him.
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Adelaide Kohlman
Adelaide Kohlman, ne Kende, of Lakeville, Pa., died

June 25.
Born in Germany, she was a Kristallnacht survivor.
She was a former member of the Bergenfield-Dumont
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Predeceased by her husband, Manfred, she is
survived by sons, Milton (the late Connie), Jeffrey
(Lynne), and David (Mary); six grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; and a great-great granddaughter.
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center. These innovations will be
made available to multiple car vendors and other industries.
The goal of the collaboration is to
enable drivers to take their hands off
the steering wheel and their eyes off
the road. Ultimately, self-driving vehicles are expected to operate without a
human driver inside.
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enables fully autonomous driving to

become a reality within the next few
years, said Hebrew Universitys Dr.
Amnon Shashua, the cofounder, chairman, and chief technology officer of
Mobileye.
Mobileye is proud to contribute
our expertise in sensing, localization and driver policy to enable fully
autonomous driving in this cooperation, he added.
The processing of sensing, like our
capabilities to understand the driving scene through a single camera,
will be deployed on Mobileyes latest
system-on-chip, the EyeQ5, and the
collaborative development of fusion
algorithms will be deployed on Intel
computing platforms. In addition,
Mobileye Road Experience Management (REM) technology will provide
real-time precise localization and
model the driving scene to essentially
support fully autonomous driving.
Meanwhile, Mobileye was ranked
No. 6 on MIT Technology Reviews
newly published list of the worlds
50 smartest companies, topped only
by Amazon, Baidu, Illumina, Tesla
Motors, and Aquion Energy.
Intels R&D center in Israel will have
a part in developing the automotive
chips for the project along with other
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