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Two more Israeli stars in the heavens
Up in the sky.
Its a bird?
Its a plane?
No, its a pair of Israeli satellites!
Okay, youre not actually going to
be able to spot BGUSAT or DIDO2
when they next pass a few hundred
miles overhead. Both are nanosatel-
lites, about the size of milk cartons.
The two research satellites were
Valentines Day happy meal
at Tel Aviv Burger King
Putting the blue in the
blue-and white, a Burger
King franchise in Israel
offered something extra
to spark romance on Val-
entines Day.
After 6 p.m. on Tues-
day night, Israelis over
the age of 18 could buy a
special Adults Meal (as
opposed to a traditional
Kids Meal) from the
Burger King in Tel Avivs
Rabin Square or so
Burger King Israel posted
to its Facebook page.
The meal consisted of
two burgers, two orders of fries, and
two beers, and came with one of three
non-culinary treats: a blindfold, a feath-
er duster, or a head massager.
Valentines Day, named for a third-
century Catholic saint, is not widely ob-
served in Israel. Instead, theres Tu BAv,
a minor holiday in the summer thats
considered a Day of Love but even
then its not as big as Valentines Day is
Candlelighting: Friday, February 17, 5:15 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, February 18, 6:16 p.m.
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call 201-837-8818 or bit.ly/jsubscribe
among a swarm of 104 satellites the
Indian Space Research Organization
launched this week.
BGUSAT is the result of a five-year
joint project between Ben Gurion
University of the Negev, Israel Aero-
space Industries, and Israels Ministry
of Science, Technology and Space.
Israeli academias first nanosatel-
lite, it is outfitted with cameras that
in the United States
Whether the meals were actually
served, or if it was all a publicity stunt,
was not yet determined by Snopes.
com when this paper went to press. It
is important to note, however, that the
franchise in question is not one of the
two Israel Burger King branches certi-
fied as kosher.
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can detect climate phenomena and a
guidance system that lets the opera-
tors choose the areas to shoot and
research through a dedicated ground
station in Beersheva.
DIDO2 belongs to SpacePharma and
is designed for medical experiments.
The 10-pound satellite will examine the
effect of weightlessness on materials.
LARRY YUDELSON & ISRAEL21C.ORG
Israel cashes in on two more poets
Money is a kind of poetry, Wal-
lace Stevens once said. He would
know, as a Pulitzer Prize-winning
poet and the husband of Elsie Ka-
chel, whose profile is believed to
be embossed on the 1916 Mercury
dime.
The Bank of Israel apparently
agrees with Stevens. It has been in-
troducing a new series of banknotes
with enhanced security measures,
and the theme is Israeli poets. Na-
than Alterman is on the new 200
shekel note (worth about $50) and
Shaul Tchernichovsky is on the 50
shekel note.
Now the next two notes have
been announced.
Rachel Bluwstein, known to Is-
raelis as the poet Rachel, will be on the 20 shekel note. The 100 shekel note will
bear the face of Leah Goldberg, a poet who also is known for her classic chil-
drens books, which she both wrote and illustrated. LARRY YUDELSON
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FAUDA, on Netflix. Cool Israeli thriller.
With episodes only a little longer than your
average sitcom, its all killer and no filler.
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theaters across the musical role and hes that Tinker handled all of
country on February 16, been starring ever since, their business dealings.
18, and 22. Filmed live on in a series of shows Think Yiddish, Write
stage in Los Angeles, and in Smash, the TV British, is an old line
this rousing show series. Fankhauser has among Jewish writers to
co-stars original Broad- been profiled in the De- describe how they take
way stars JEREMY troit, Cleveland, and San material (comedy or
JORDAN, 32, as Jack Diego Jewish papers. His drama) from their Jew-
Kelley and BEN maternal grandparents ish background or sen-
FANKHAUSER, 27, as both were Holocaust sibility and translate it
Davey. Newsies began survivors. His parents (a into material that retains
as an original movie Swiss Jewish business- Jeremy Jordan Ben Frankhauser Barry Mann comedy or pathos but
musical with songs by man and an American is relatable to the over-
ALAN MENKEN, now Jewish psychologist) whelmingly non-Jewish
67,and lyrics by JACK met in Detroit, Bens world. CARL REINER,
FELDMAN, now 68. It mothers hometown. now 94, drew from his
was a box office flop, Bens parents divorced own experience in writ-
but gained a cult when he was 5 and his ing, with a pack of other
following over the years. mother relocated to Jews, the Sid Caesar
It became a smash Cleveland, where Ben Show, when he cre-
Broadway hit in 2012, went to Hebrew school ated Van Dyke. Then
aided by a new book by and was confirmed. Dur- he plucked Moore out of
HARVEY FIERSTEIN, ing the last two years, obscurity to co-star. She
now 62. The musical, he has co-starred in a said they had a basically
based on a true story, is national road company father-daughter relation-
set in the 1890s. Kelley is of Beautiful: The Carole ship. Likewise, the bril-
a newsboy and the King Musical. He played Zoe Kravitz Carl Reiner James L. Brooks liant JAMES L. BROOKS,
leader of a band of the great songwriter now 76, was the main
ragged teenaged BARRY MANN, now 77. the point of murder. ZOE the Jewish press that too (Rhoda; played by creator and writing
newsies, and long Big Little Lies, a NEWS
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work. Davey, another Feb. 19. The show is an ex-husband. Bonnie is a 1962 to 1981) in roles TMTMS, Mary, the take this translated ma-
newsboy, is Jacks smart adaptation of Liane spiritual yoga instructor, they never played. This character, stood up to terial and be its brilliant
ally and friend. (It is Moriartys 2014 darkly a sensitive soul with a writer credited them anti-Semitic discrimina- vessel not a dumbed
playing in Manhattan, comic novel of the same strong moral compass. with the following: (1) tion directed at Rhoda. down All-American girl
Paramus, and Wayne). name. It revolves around I loved Mary Tyler
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Tzedek, tzedek tirdof
Congregation Beth Sholom tackles issues of social justice
Lois Goldrich

R
abbi L ee Paskind
i s no st ranger to
social activism.
Until a few years ago
a congregational rabbi in Peek-
skill, N.Y. now a Teaneck resi-
dent and member of Congrega-
tion Beth Sholom Rabbi Paskind
has participated in the Conserva-
tive movements social justice
commission for nearly 30 years
and now is a part-time consultant
on these issues to the movements
Rabbinical Assembly.
Political times being what they
are, the issues of particular con-
cern to Rabbi Paskind the plight
of refugees, for example have
spurred him, and fellow congre-
gants who share his concerns, to
explore ways in which the syna-
gogue feasibly can respond to
these challenges .
I think that about a year and
a half ago, there were some peo-
ple interested in responding in
particular to the Syrian refugee Dr. Dennis B. Klein, director of Jewish studies at Kean University, is helping guide the Tzedek Tirdof effort at Congregation
crisis, he said, suggesting that Beth Sholom.
the much-publicized photo of a
3-year-old refugee boy washing up on the soup kitchens in Hackensack and prison reform to food insecurity
shores of Turkey probably had something Englewood and collect food and to human trafficking.
to do with that. clothing for special drives through- At a second meeting in Feb-
Its ironic, he said. The war in Syria out the year. The committee also ruary, members were given a
had been going on for years. But thats sponsors special activities based narrowed-down list of topics
what happens. Something caught peo- around Jewish holidays so that those and were asked to select their
ples attention, and everyone wanted to who are less fortunate can still cele- priority issues and then to focus
react. As a result, several people at the brate our joyous times like Hanuk- on what we could have a local
synagogue started to discuss what the kah, Purim, and Passover with impact on, Rabbi Paskind said.
shul might do in the face of this continu- dignity and respect. We had the feeling that prob-
ing humanitarian crisis. In some shuls, there is one group ably wed have the most impact
It was close to Pesach, he said. So we that does hands-on gemilut hasadim where people could make a
put together resources for people to use at which our social action committee Dr. Elaine Cohen Rabbi Lee Paskind hands-on commitment.
seders. The materials were not only about does, and that is wonderful, Rabbi At that meeting, the sugges-
Syrian refugees but included information Paskind said. But the committee didnt appointed by the president. And thus, tion that representatives from other orga-
on human trafficking as well. HIAS [for- feel that the refugee issue was their niche. Tzedek Tirdof justice you shall pursue nizations be invited to address the commit-
merly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society] People who wanted to do other things felt as Deuteronomy 16:20 tells us was cre- tee or possibly all interested members of
had a lot on its website, and we shared a they had to find a way to do those things. ated to provide the Beth Sholom com- the congregation to report on the needs
good amount of that, Rabbi Paskind said. Last spring, they began to pursue this munity with opportunities to address of vulnerable groups in the community
We also spoke about it after Shabbat ser- goal in earnest. Rabbi Paskind, Dr. Elaine contemporary social concerns from our was accepted. For example, speakers from
vices and got a good response. Cohen, Dennis Klein, and Rabbi Julia Jewish perspective. Family Promise, which offers services for
Still, the sense emerged that this kind Andelman all members of Beth Sholom The committee whose first meeting the working homeless, and the Center
of activity did not fall within the purview began to explore the idea of a separate in January drew some 30 people, much to for Food Action, which helps address the
of our social action committee, he contin- committee dedicated to these issues. After Rabbi Paskinds surprise has been a work problem of hunger throughout the area,
ued. According to Beth Sholoms website, presenting the idea to Beth Sholoms Rabbi in progress. We wanted to get it right, he since have been invited.
The Social Action/Tikkun Olam Commit- Joel Pitkowsky who has been very help- said. We tried to be inclusive. We want At the closing session of the syna-
tee is dedicated to spreading the word ful and supportive and to synagogue anyone to be involved who wants to be. gogues Shabbaton last week, several
about opportunities to repair our world president Lynn Geller, who invited Dr. At the meeting, facilitators invited attend- members of the committee talked
through commitment and love for our fel- Cohen and Rabbi Andelman to make a pre- ees to note particular areas of concern. It briefly about how each of us came to
low man and woman. Members of the sentation to the board, it finally emerged soon became apparent that members were social justice work and how different
synagogue regularly volunteer at the area that we could be an ad hoc committee passionate about dozens of topics, from parts of Jewish tradition motivated us,

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Rabbi Paskind said. Inevitably, the issue
of President Donald Trumps executive
order on refugees was raised, and some
expressed real surprise and dismay that
we are not addressing this crisis.
A subsequent synagogue meeting, to
which everyone was invited, drew 30
congregants interested in sharing their
thoughts and expectations. Were now
trying to figure out how to fold them into
the social justice group or another par-
allel group, Rabbi Paskind said. Tzedek
Tirdof might incorporate a group allow-
ing people to dialogue who see them-
selves on opposite sides, he added.
Many in our community are feeling
a great deal of anxiety, fear, and upset
these days about the state of the world
and the turning inward of our country,
Dr. Cohen said. Creating this commit-
tee has given us a place for conversations
about our concerns and our shared Jew-
ish and American values as well as a vehi-
cle for taking productive and construc-
tive action even though we havent yet
decided on our priorities for this year.
Mindful that not everyone in our con-
gregation holds the same perspective
or interprets the current realities in the
same way, establishing the committee
has given us a context for sharing, speak-
ing, and engaging in social justice work
together. I feel that it is helping me get
beyond feelings of helplessness and frus-
tration, and I hope that we will be able to
contribute in some modest ways to the
betterment of others less fortunate than
we are.
The scholar, author, and lecturer Dr.
Dennis B. Klein a professor of history
at Kean University and the director of the
schools Jewish studies program has
been an important force behind the cre-
ation of Tzekek Tirdof.
Echoing Rabbi Paskinds statement
that the scope of the committee is one
of the things were sorting out, Dr. Klein
noted that hes particularly interested in
the question of refugees, and how we
understand both sides of the problem.
I dont want to just advocate, I want to
talk, bringing folks with different opin-
ions together and recognizing that we
probably share more in common than
what separates us.
Dr. Klein said his own experience in the
area of social justice comes very much
out of the milieu of Jewish influences, and
how I see myself as a Jew positions me
toward these endeavors. Given his line of
work, he said, he is very aware of injustice,
and I react to that quite strongly.
It was while he was working on a paper
in high school during the summer that he
got interested in problems we have since
referred to as white supremacy. I took my
mother to [a white supremacist] meet-
ing to see how people think about this.
I could hardly believe it, he said, adding
that, of course, he couldnt voice his dis-
may out loud. (He did say, however, that
he had an amazing mother.)
That experience, he said, had a clear
influence on him. I became aware of
the other side; I wanted to understand
where they were coming from. Its not
me vs. them, but a conversation there.
He has also been influenced by a recent
article in Christian Century, written by
the journalist David Brooks, where he
makes it really clear that we are an over-
politicized, under-moralized culture.
That is, he said, we argue in terms of
political symbols rather than addressing
moral disagreements. We need to dig
away a little to what were all concerned
about, so we can get to a conversation
that moves us.
Klein suggested that todays polarized
climate is basically coming out of a great
fear, amplified by the media. It will be a
challenge for us to get people in the same
room who have hard feelings, and begin
to create a spirit of good will.
He became involved in the synagogues
social justice efforts when he was invited
to make a presentation comparing
todays refugee problem to the experi-
ence of Jews during the Holocaust. He
shared the platform with the late Dr. Ste-
phen P. Cohen, who for decades served as
a back-channel mediator between Israel
and its Arab neighbors (and was Elaine
Cohens husband). The program drew
a lot of people to talk about refugees,
he said, adding that it took place right
after the violence in San Bernardino. The
problem, he said, goes beyond the peo-
ple now in power. Were trying to de-
Trumpize the conversation or we cant
have a conversation.
Dr. Klein is working now to organize
meetings between the synagogue and the
local African American community, not
about the usual black-Jewish relations but
what were sharing in common on issues.
He is hopeful that a similar meeting can be
arranged with the Muslim community, to
bring in folks we dont talk with to discuss
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When the collaborator is your grandfather
Poet-turned-historian to talk in Hoboken about her family
Joanne Palmer
A good poet and a good historian, surprisingly, have a lot
in common.
Both write with precision. Both have fiendish eyes for
detail. Both reject generalizations as not useful, stereo-
types as not accurate, and platitudes as a great big waste
of words.
Rita Gabis, who will be speaking at the United Syna-
gogue of Hoboken on Sunday, February 26, is a poet; by
midway through her extensive research for her book, A
Guest at the Shooters Banquet. My Grandfathers SS Past,
My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth (see box for
details) she qualified as a historian as well.
Ms. Gabis, who lives in Manhattan and teaches cre-
ative writing at Hunter College, said that the book is a
hybrid a memoir, a family story, and also very heavily
grounded in research. She went to Eastern Europe
Poland, Ukraine, and particularly Lithuania, where most
of her family story unspooled. And its also a book about
identity, she said.
Ms. Gabiss mother is a Lithuanian-born Catholic who
immigrated to the United States from a DP camp in Ger-
many when she was 5 years old. Her father, who died 11
years ago, was a second-generation American Jew.
Ms. Gabiss identity always has been complicated. My
fathers mom was the amazing matriarch of the family,
she said. Even though Judaism passes through the matri-
lineal line, my grandmother took me aside when I was
about 12, and in defiance of rabbinical law, she said Youre
a Jew.
A few years earlier, my grandfather, my Lithuanian
Catholic grandfather, for reasons that I did not understand
then, took me aside and said Dont be like your father.
I was upset about that. I adored Dad. And then he clari-
fied. No Jews. No good.
My parents were married, and they remained married,
although it was a complicated marriage. And the declara-
tion of my Jewish grandmother really stuck with me, and
it would have, I think, even if I hadnt felt defiance toward
my grandfathers statement.
Thats how I grew up.
Ms. Gabis was born in Chicago, where her father earned
a Ph.D. in political philosophy, but her family soon moved
to Missouri. Every summer, wed trek to Marthas Vine-
yard, where her grandmother had scrabbled together
enough money to buy a house.
Shed grown up celebrating both Jewish and Christian
holidays; now, her identify is perhaps complicated, per-
haps made more clear by the fact that her husband is
Jewish. Her father had been secular until he got sick he
suffered from multiple myeloma and as he weakened,
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Jewishness became increasingly important to him. She
learned more about her fathers family her grand-
mother had escaped from Ukraine to London decades
before the Holocaust. Most of the relatives who stayed
behind died.
Her father kept trying to give me a paperback, His-
tory of the Jews, filled with his scribbly handwriting. He
kept saying, Read it. Read it. Read it! He said, These are
your people. You have to know where you came from. I
raised my eyebrow, and I said, With my Lithuanian Catho-
lic mother in the kitchen, making soup? and he said, Nev-
ertheless, take it.
And when it became clear that he was dying, I put it
on my shelf. Thats where it is today. Full of his scribbly
handwriting.
As she grew older, Ms. Gabis realized more and more
about her mothers background. Her grandmother, her
mothers mother, had been arrested by the secret police
in early 1941 and shipped off in a cattle car to Lubyanka
prison, where she was tortured, she said. The skin was
pulled off her forearms. And then she was given a prison
term in the gulag.
Astonishingly, her grandmother survived, although no
one in the family knew about it until much later. At about
11, we all went to JFK airport, and she descended, in the
middle of a blizzard, Ms. Gabis said.
Meanwhile, she was beginning to realize that her
We are here for you.
grandfather, whom she continued to love, had been a
partisan in the war against Russia. She knew about one
heroic deed hed managed to get his children in the
back of a wagon, across mined fields, to safety, but still
she didnt know what he had done in the war.
One day, after her father died, when she was sitting with
her mother having coffee at a diner on the Upper West
Side, I asked her if her father had been a policeman, and
she said yes. And I said What do you mean? Under the
Gestapo? And she said yes.
Ms. Gabis knew bits of Polish, German, and particularly
Lithuanian; she began to do research, starting at the Holo-
caust museum in Washington. (I could speak Lithuanian
as a child, she said. I remember once listening to my
mother and a friend speak Lithuanian and realizing that
I couldnt understand them. I had lost it.) Her linguistic
skills developed, and soon she moved the focus of her
work to eastern Europe.
I knew where my grandfather had been stationed,
and I learned that he had been a regional chief of security
police. The security police were the deadliest collabora-
tion force in Lithuania, where 95 percent of the Jewish
population was annihilated, she said.
Building on shreds of information, Ms. Gabis searched
through records; the Germans had kept meticulous files,
the Soviet Union took them over, and later gave them back
to Lithuania. I was going through microfiche for hours,
looking for names, its all horrific, and then I am think-
ing to myself What am I doing here? And I give myself
another half hour, and then another ten mninutes, and
I was turning the dial this was the days of microfiches,
with dials and all of a sudden there is my grandfathers
signature on a report. He had dictated it to a secretary,
and it had been translated in German. And then there was
another report. And another report. And another report.
And another and another and another. It was the begin-
ning of the paper trail.
For Ms. Gabis as a granddaughter, that was a moment
of pure pain; for her as a historian, she had been parched
and it was mannah.
Soon, she went to Warsaw, where I tracked down the
last living survivors of the ghetto in Svencyionas, the
town her grandfather had policed. She also found the last
surviving eyewitnesses to the massacres there. There
were two major massacres, she said. In the fall of 1941,
eight thousand Jews were rounded up and taken to a long
pit, about seven kilometers from where my grandfathers
office was based, and the street where he lived with my
mom and her siblings. The Jews were interned, and then
they were taken and shot. The second massacre saw
the murder of about one thousand noncombatant Poles,
mainly women and children.
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I discovered documentation that placed my grand-
father at the meeting with other chiefs of police, where
they discussed how to organize the mass killings of
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the back of the head.
From her talks with witnesses and survivors, it
became very important to Ms. Gabis to weave into
For a totally new look using
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know quite well, who survived against the odds, she your furniture or starting anew.
said. Anyone who does this work realizes that time
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Ms. Gabis has been thinking a great deal about col-
laboration lately, she said. Current events compel her
to it. Each story of collaboration has its own complex-
ity, and it became more and more important to me to
understand my grandfather not only because he was
my grandfather, but because he was someone who
found himself in a postion to gain from chaos.
Even though he hated the Germans, he really was
anti-Semite, and he was given a position with a certain
amount of power. That became a really important part
of the story the choices people make.
So many people including many of the Jews in
my life said, I dont know what I would have done
if someone put a gun to my head. And I said to them,
Actually there wasnt a gun to his head. And in the
end he was able to immigrate to this country. M A AYA N OT Y E S H I VA H I G H S C H O O L F O R G I R L S I N V I T E S T H E CO M M U N I T Y TO O U R
Her grandfather benefitted from the American post-
war obsession with Communists, she said. He had
been an anti-Communist, so whats a little war crime
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Her grandfather, oddly enough, was a guest at Rich-
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disconnected as she researched, were complicated.
Researching the book was like a series of shocks, she M E M O RY O F B R U C E R I T H O LT Z , Z L .
said. The first discovery was a profound shock, but
each following one was less severe. We are honored to present to his family our
That early exchange I had with my grandfather Beer Torah Memorial Award.
about my father, before I understood the extent of
his anti-Semitism, haunted me, she said. The more
I worked on the book, the more it haunted me. She
learned that her grandfather had ranted against Jews I N A D D I T I O N, PL E A S E J O I N U S I N H O N O R I N G :
during her childhood, although never in mixed com-
pany, or when she and her father were there. My
grandfather was very pragmatic, she said. He saw
that my father would earn a good living.
His brutal, Jew-killing past never got in the way of
her grandfathers continuing to love her, Ms. Gabis
said, but there is a question mark. In different his-
torical circumstances I dont know how far that love
would have gone.
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A M U D E I M A AYA N OT H O N O R E E S PA R E N T S O F T H E Y E A R T E AC H E R O F T H E Y E A R
Who: Rita Gabis
What: Will talk about her book, A Guest at the
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Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth, at brunch
Pam Ennis, Director of Development, at ennisp@maayanot.org
When: On Sunday, February 26, at 10:30 a.m.
Where: At the United Synagogue of Hoboken, 115
Park Ave.
Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls
For more information: Call (201) 659-4000 or go
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More perfect union
Gettysburg Address, in Hebrew, to be read in Franklin Lakes
Joanne Palmer
On Monday, February 17 thats both Pres-
idents Day, marking the births of two of
our most iconic presidents, George Wash-
ington and Abraham Lincoln, both born
in the second half of February, and one of
the three days on which Jews read Torah
aloud at morning minyan every week
Rabbi Joseph Prouser of Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes will bring
the two together.
During the Shacharit service, after the
Torah has been taken out of the ark, car-
ried around in procession, undressed,
unfurled, kissed, read, closed, and
recloaked in its velvet and silver, Rabbi
Prouser will read the Gettysburg Address,
which hes translated into Hebrew and set
to haftarah trope. (Thats the one breach of
standard synagogue protocol here gen-
erally we read the haftarah aloud only on
Shabbat and holidays.)
This year, for the third time, Rabbi
Prouser has invited local dignitaries, some
Jewish, some not, to the service, to hear
the prophetic voice of Abraham Lincoln,
set in the Gettysburg Address in short,
strong, vivid phrases, Hebrew-like in their
intensity and momentum.
This year, one of the guests will be Dr.
Joshua Zeitz of Hoboken, a historian who
has taught at Princeton and Harvard and is
the author of Lincolns Boys.
Often, when we look at the Gettysburg
Address, we see literature, he said; its
brilliant, but its so filled with phrases that
since have become clichs a testament
to their brilliance, of course that often
it can seem saccharine, he said, but the
address actually is radical. Delivered in
1863, two years into the bloody American
Civil War, halfway to its ending, as a dedi-
cation of a newly made cemetery filled
with soldiers who had died fighting that
war, it was, among other things, a canny
campaign speech as Lincoln worked
Who: Rabbi Joseph Prouser of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey
What: Will read the Gettysburg Ad-
dress at morning minyan
Where: At his shul, 558 High Mountain
Road in Franklin Lakes
When: On Monday, February 20, dur-
ing minyan, which begins at 8 a.m. and
ends at 9:15.
Who else: Its open to the whole com-
munity; many local elected officials
and politicians will be there. Dr. Joshua
Zeitz will have an aliyah.
What else: Light breakfast after the
minyan.
For more information: Call the shul at
(201) 560-0200 or email it at office@
tenjfl.org
10 Jewish Standard FEBRUARY 17, 2017
In this 1861 photograph, Abraham Lincoln addresses the huge crowd at his first
inaugural in front of the as-yet-unfinished Capitol building. Library of Congress
toward his second electoral vic-
tory as president, Dr. Zeitz said.
And Lincoln wasnt even the key-
note speaker that was Edward
Everett, the ever-present politician
from Massachusetts whose speech
was listed on the program as an
oration.
It was long, and set off Lin-
colns 272-word gem of a speech to
perfection.
It is easy for us to forget that the Dr. Joshua Zeitz
parties have completely realigned
themselves since Lincolns day. Then, it
was the Democrats who represented big
money, old families, and the southern
slaveholding aristocracy (we should par-
don that one word modifying the other);
the Republicans were the party of immi-
grants, the less wealthy, and change.
There were scores of important Repub-
licans senators, congressmen, other
important politicians, and newspaper edi-
tors at this dedication, Dr. Zeitz said. Lin-
coln used it as the opportunity to reframe
the purpose of the war.
He had been meticulous in defining the
war, until the address, as being fought just
to defend the nation, Dr. Zeitz said. When
he reframed it as a war to create a new
birth of freedom, he acknowledged that
it no longer just was about preserving the
union. It was arguing that it was time now to
create a country that no longer had slaves.
Lincoln was making the war be about
emancipation.
There was a clue in the speech that all
Rabbi Joseph Prouser
his listeners picked up on immediately. It
begins Four score and seven years ago.
Thats 87 years. Do the math, Dr. Zeitz
said: 87 years before 1863 was 1776. It
was more than just using a fancy way of
saying numbers, he continued. Lincoln
was arguing that the countrys founding
document was the Declaration of Indepen-
dence, famously written and released that
year, the year that we now think of as the
year of our countrys birth.
Then, 1789, the year after the Constitu-
tion was ratified, the year that its provi-
sions went into effect, is the year that was
considered the nations first.
The Declaration of Independence is
a statement of beliefs. It is not a legally
binding document. The Constitution is
legally binding. But the abolitionists
whose ranks Lincoln joined claimed
the Declaration as their own, Dr. Zeitz
said. The Declaration does not talk
about slavery. The abolitionists viewed
the Constitution as a sullied document,
because it included servitude and left
some human beings out.
So when Lincoln goes back to 1776, he
is embracing a very controversial aboli-
tionist argument, Dr. Zeitz said. People
who heard it understood it. And then he
talked about the new birth of freedom!
He almost was embarking on a new
American revolution, to perfect what had
been imperfect.
It was a very radical speech, he
stressed. It was widely reprinted and dis-
tributed. The Republicans loved it. The
Democrats hated it.
In another echo of todays politics, Lin-
coln was very polarizing, Dr. Zeitz said.
We think of him today as unifying, but
he elicited the kind of polarization we see
today. He was violently polarizing.
He became an increasingly popular
wartime president, but the opposition
hated him.
Not only did the South want to retain
slavery, people who lived in the Midwest
had no interest in freeing slaves, Dr. Zeitz
said. They were perfectly willing to risk
their lives and livelihoods to save their
country but they were white suprema-
cists. They would not fight to wipe out
slavery they were fine with that gro-
tesque institution.
People tend to view the Gettysburg
Address as about sacrifice and it is and
he was not jettisoning the argument that
it was being fought to save the country
but the war was not to save it as it had
become, Dr. Zeitz said.
We were fighting it to restore the val-
ues of 1776. And in urging that fight on, by
providing it with one of its most emotion-
ally resonant images, President Abraham
Lincoln sowed the seeds for much of what
was to follow in the next few years, and
beyond to our time.
So Rabbi Prouser, who loves history and
has identified at times as Republican, and
who is working very hard to maintain both
an apolitical position and a moral core, has
chosen to mark Presidents Day and the
genius of Abraham Lincoln by reading the
Gettysburg Address aloud.
The decision was not at all related to
the polarized if not actually toxic politi-
cal atmosphere weve all been trying to
breathe through Rabbi Prouser has
been doing this program for three years,
starting long before anyone could have
predicted the results of the 2016 elec-
tion but it seems prescient today. And
somehow it seems even more potent in
his shul which is old, elegant, attractive,
and comes with a very strong sense of his-
tory that seems to radiate out from its old
wooden pews.
This year, the reverberations from the
bimah will be even louder.
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Shirei Hodu
New melodies emerge in Indian Jewish research
MEYLEKH VISWANATH

On February 6 and 7 in New Delhi, India,

there was a very interesting conference on
Indian Jews called Shirei Hodu or Songs
of India, subtitled Hodu and the Jews.
(Hodu here refers to India.)
There were sessions on the oral and
written traditions of Jews in India, on com-
munity and identity, on relations between
Jews and non-Jews in both historical and
modern times, on Jews migration to and
from India, on Jewish art and architecture
in India, and on the challenges of preserv-
ing the Jewish heritage in India.
What was amazing about this conference
is that, as Joan Roland of Pace University,
a scholar of the Bene Israel community,
noted, it represented a maturing of Indo-
Jewish studies. There has been an influx
of many new young scholars into the field,
bringing with them new interdisciplinary
perspectives and more importantly, a care-
ful examination of existing documents and
new texts and a close inspection of the his- From left, community activitists Yael Jhirad and Ralphy Jhirad, MV Bijulal, Elijah Jacob, and Jael Silliman
torical trail. This moves us away
from an uncritical acceptance of
legends as history.
Another prominent scholar
of Indian Jews, Shalva Weil of
Hebrew University, noted that
Indian Jews are no longer thought
to be exotic, given that there has
been several decades of research
into the community. Unfortu-
nately, we continue to have popu-
lar Jewish magazines in the United
States that print and reprint factu-
ally incorrect and mythologized
accounts of Indian Jews. Hope-
fully, this new research will act as
a corrective to this trend of over-
romanticizing the Jewish commu-
nity in India.
Here are some of the new young
scholars who attended the confer-
ence, and who have blazed new
trails in the field.
Navras Jaat Aafreedi has been From left, an Israeli poster for a Bollywood film, Boot Polish, featuring
working on Indian and Muslim atti- a Bene Israel actor, David Cheulkar; another featuring a Bollywood
tudes toward Jews for more than a star, Sulochana, aka Ruby Myers; and one about doctors.
decade and has been tireless in try-
ing to establish the field of Jewish and Holocaust studies studying the way Yemeni rabbis in the eighteenth
in Indian universities. This has not been easy, because of through the twentieth centuries acted as a bridge
Indian scholars historical bias toward the Arab cause and between rabbinic Judaism and Indian Jewish commu-
the overt hostility (including Holocaust denial) that many nities, which were somewhat isolated from events in
Muslim Indians feel toward Jews and Israelis as a byprod- the larger Jewish world. He uses texts and archival doc-
uct of the Palestinian issue. In his remarks, Professor Aaf- uments, written in Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-Hebrew, and more than 5,000 German-speaking refugees in India dur-
reedi noted that when he wrote an article in the Lucknow other languages, to throw light on the relationship of the ing the Second World War. While the attitude of the Brit-
Tribute in 2012, called Jews in Lucknow: Moneylender Indian Jewish communities in modern times to the wider ish government and certain sections of Indians made it
and the Watchmaker, the editor illustrated it with a clas- Jewish world of the Indian Ocean. difficult for more refugees to enter India, nevertheless
sic anti-Semitic depiction of a hook-nosed Jew. Dr. Margit Franz of Vienna University in Austria, build- the existence of such a large Jewish community in India is
Professor Aafreedi now is assistant professor of history ing on Dr. Weils work, is looking at new texts that docu- remarkable and deserves greater examination.
at the prestigious Presidency University in Kolkata, India. ment the entry of German-speaking refugees from Nazism Professor Ophira Gamliel from the Ruhr University
Professor Menashe Anzi of Ben-Gurion University is into India. It was amazing to discover that there were Bochum in Germany is taking a fresh look at the history

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of Kerala Jews by looking at cold evidence, as opposed the Jewish cultural heritage of Maharashtra, and Jael Silli-
to legends and myths current in the Jewish commu- man, who spoke about her successes in building the digi-
nity. She focuses on Old Malayalam inscriptions, tal archive of the now minuscule Baghdadi community in
Judeo-Arabic documents from the Cairo Geniza, ref- Kolkata/Calcutta.
This is a replica
erences in pre-modern Western travelogues, Jewish These three perspectives on todays Indian Jewry repre-
of a genizah
and Christian literary compositions, and references sent three different melodies of Shirei Hodu. While they in Calcutta.
in the Synod of Diamper, which was convened in 1599 do not always sound pessimistic notes, they make clear (A genizah is
in Kerala and laid down rules for the unification of that the outlook for the future is not unambiguously posi- place where
the ancient Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala with the tive, either. Nevertheless, even if the outlook for the now sacred books
Roman Catholic Church. 4,000-strong Indian Jewish community of mainly Bene that no longer
Dr. Shimon Lev, who earned his Ph.D. from Hebrew Israelis is not clear, the presence of novel Judaizing move- can be used
University last year, and Professor Boaz Huss of Ben- ments, such as the Bene Menashe of North East India and are stored
Gurion University also are looking at modern Jewish- the Bene Ephraim of Andhra Pradesh in South India, as well before they
Indian history. Dr. Lev has worked on cultural and as the newly vibrant research into Indian Jewry, past and can be buried.)
political encounters between Jews and Indians in the present, ensures that we will continue to hear about Jews
context of their respective national movements. He and Judaism in India for a long time to come.
also has made significant contributions to the study
of the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his Meylekh (PV) Viswanath of Teaneck is a professor of finance
Jewish followers. Dr. Huss is studying the role of Jews at Pace Universitys Lubin School of Business.
in the context of new age movements in India. At the
conference, he made a presentation on Jewish theoso-
phists in India.
There were about 50 people at the conference. By
my count, about 30 percent were Jewish. Probably 30
percent of the participants were non-Indians as well
but of course not all the Jews were foreigners. The
gathering represented an interesting mix of scholars
from all over India and the world.
One of its interesting cultural aspects was the open-
ing ceremony, which included the traditional lamp-
lighting. Usually this lamp-lighting involves an image
of the goddess Saraswati or another deity, but in
deference to Jewish sensibilities, the image was not
included. Still, the ceremony provided a very Indian
start to the proceedings.
Another Indian touch was a performance of Bene-

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Are we using our tablets today?
Federation funding supports high tech Hebrew school learning
Larry Yudelson
T
he sixth graders at Temple Beth
Ors Hebrew school cant wait for
the magic words: Please take out
your devices.
Cammy Bourcier, their Hebrew teacher in
the Washington Township synagogue, believes
in aligning with technology rather than argu-
ing with it.
So whether its having the class look
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have a place in her classroom.
If you cant beat them, join them, she said.
She credits her new mindset largely to
an online course in educational technology
that she and nine other supplementary school
teachers took last summer. The course was pro-
vided by Kulanu NNJ, a program that helps the
communitys synagogue schools. Funding to
pay for the course came from the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey and the Cove-
nant Foundation. The distance learning course
Call 201-845-9600
(Sunday appointments available)
was conducted by an Israeli educator. It
exposed the teachers to a wide range of
online tools and challenged them to learn
to use them.
It was a lot of work, Ms. Bourcier said.
It totally stretched my brain.
The course also knocked down some of
the walls separating the religious schools.
One of the biggest things weve seen is the
collaboration between different teachers
and the different religious schools, said
Sarah David, the federations education
coordinator.
The teachers have shared with each
other more than 75 classroom activities
theyve created, ranging from quizzes on
the Shema to getting-to-know-you ques-
tionnaires for the start of the school year to
slide shows on holidays.
A couple of teachers not from our
school did these beautiful activities related
to Tu bShvat, Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, the
director of congregational learning at Tem-
ple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Wood-
cliff Lake, said. My teachers are going to
use them.
Rabbi Kniaz and Rabbi Paula Feldstein of
Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge orga-
nized Kulanu NNJ and wrote the grants for
the teacher training program .
The technology training is having a
ripple effect, Rabbi Kniaz said. One of
the things that we were hoping would
happen is that other teachers would be
inspired to start learning these things
and our current participants would men-
tor. Its already happening.
Rabbi Kniaz has been using high tech in
her Hebrew school for years. Her interest
was sparked by a course the federation ran
for principals of supplementary schools.
On Monday, when northern New Jersey
public schools shut down for a snow day,
Temple Emanuels seventh graders took
part in their regularly scheduled class on
Israel, video conferencing from home, as
they always do on Monday afternoons. A
teacher in Israel leads the class. The kids
are really involved, Rabbi Kniaz said.
In Devorah OBriens sixth-grade class-
room at Temple Emanuel, Google Slides
has replaced worksheets. If shes teaching
about Joshua, for example, she will pose
questions and assign students to small
groups to research the answers on their
iPads or phones.
Theyll put together pictures and a little
bit of history and their own thoughts on
how it applies to them in their own life onto
a Google Slide, Ms. OBrien said. Then
each group will present to the rest of the
class. Its very visual, very engaging, and
everyone feels theyre a part of it, she said.
She uses Google Forms to get feedback
from her students at the end of class to
find out what interested them most and
what they would like to learn next. Ms.
OBrien has been teaching at Temple
Emanuel for 15 years. Educational
technology has made a huge change in
engaging the children, she said. My
classroom is much more exciting. Chil-
dren are more excited to come to school
than ever before.
She said that bringing this technology
to Hebrew school is particularly neces-
sary because its what theyre doing now
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Temple Beth Or
sixth graders and
their teacher.
From left:
Kalyani Halisband,
Aydan Goldstein,
Cammy Bourcier,
Mikaela Baum,
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Norpac gathering to hear

new member of Congress
Dr. Munr Kazmir welcomes Representative Josh Gottheimer
(D-5th Dist.), who will be at a Norpac meeting in Closter on
Monday, February 20. The private dinner begins at 7 p.m. For
information, email Avi@NORPAC.net or call (201) 788-5133.

Representative
Josh Gottheimer

COURTESY FEDERATION
COURTESY NORPAC

Federation leaders meet Israel consul

Leaders of the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey recently visited Ambas-
sador Dani Dayan, Israels consul general
in New York, at his office. They discussed
Ambassador Dayans vision of his role,
goals, and objectives during his tenure in
New York. They also spoke about strate-
gies and how the federation and the con-
Standing, from left, are Jason Shames,
the federations CEO; Bruce Brafman; Lee
Lasher; the federations president; Jayne
Petak; Ambassador Dani Dayan; the federa-
tions incoming president, Stephanie Gold-
man; Dan Shlufman; Ron Rosensweig, and
Israels deputy consul general, Amir Sagie.
Roberta Abrams and Lori Fein, the director Photos from last years NBN event.  COURTESY NBN

sulate could work together with groups
within and without the Jewish community
to benefit Israel.
Touro College of Pharmacy
appoints local assistant dean
Heidi Fuchs of Teaneck has
been appointed assistant
dean for admissions and
enrollment management at
Touro College of Pharmacy.
In her new position, she will
oversee the office of admis-
sions and lead the college
in all aspects of admissions,
including recruitment and
enrollment management. Heidi Fuchs
Heidi will ensure that our  COURTESY TOURO
applicants receive the high-
est levels of student service, responsive-
ness, and satisfaction, the schools dean,
Henry Cohen, said. One of her primary
responsibilities will be to focus on recruit- field on rotation. The school has state-of-
ing the most qualified students. Under Hei-
dis capable leadership, we will embark on
partnerships with other colleges and fur-
ther implement our enhanced strategic
plan for student recruitment.
There are so many rewarding and
exciting career paths available to the next
generation of PharmDs, Ms. Fuchs said.
The career is especially suited for those
in the Orthodox community who seek
a challenging, science-based profession
that enables them to maintain strict reli-
gious observance and achieve a work-life
balance. Our graduates are charting career
paths that their grandparents could never
have imagined.
Whether it is a clinical pharmacy spe-
cialty in organ transplantation, infec-
tious diseases or pediatrics, community
of the federations Jewish Community Rela-
tions Committee, are seated.
pharmacy, drug research
and development, medica-
tion safety, nuclear phar-
macy or managed care we
offer a wealth of rotations and
expose our students to abun-
dant career options as we
skillfully situate them to pur-
sue their professional dreams
while living an observant life-
style, she added.
Founded in 2008, Touro
College of Pharmacy is the
only pharmacy school in Manhattan that
provides students with two years in the
classroom followed by two years in the
the-art laboratories and a working phar-
macy, where students gain critical expe-
rience as practicing pharmacists. TCOP
is affordable, and strives to increase the
number of minority health professionals
while serving under-resourced communi-
ties and providing outreach and education
about preventive care.
Ms. Fuchs has been the schools direc-
tor of recruitment and external relations
for the last three years, and she was the
interim director of admissions for the
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Before that, she was vice president and
recruiter for Merit Consulting Services and
operations manager for the Yeshiva Univer-
sitys office of undergraduate admissions.
Ms. Fuchs and her husband, Alan, have
four children and three grandchildren.
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The annual Nefesh BNefesh Mega Event
in Manhattan will be on February 26
at John Jay College in Manhattan. An
estimated 1,500 potential olim (immi-
grants), the largest number ever, are
expected to attend the aliyah fair, where
they can learn about moving to Israel
and have their questions answered by
professionals from all sectors of Israeli
life and society.
The Nefesh BNefesh fair is the pre-
lude to its aliyah fair road tours, called
Imagine Greater Possibilities, which
will visit Toronto, Montreal, and Los
Angeles. All the fairs are co-hosted by
Nefesh BNefesh, Israels Ministry of Ali-
yah and Immigrant Absorption, the Jew-
ish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth
LeIsrael, and JNF-USA.
Participants will be able to choose from
more than 50 sessions, workshops, and
one-on-one meetings with Israeli organi-
zations and aliyah professionals, on topics
ranging from home buying and education
to professional licensing and health insur-
ance. Eight Israeli municipalities will be
represented at the fair, providing a snap-
shot of life across the country.
Some of the people at the fair are likely
just to have begun considering aliyah; for
others the fair provides the important last
pieces that allowed them to finalize their
plans. From meetings with accountants to
financial planners, shippers, and a host
of Israeli vendors, participants will be
briefed on a broad range of matters asso-
ciated with moving to Israel.
This year, as a response to a rising
number of medical professionals inter-
ested in moving to Israel, representatives
from seven hospitals and four healthcare
providers will be coming to help recruit
doctors to join their staff. Representa-
tives of Israels Health Ministry will be on
hand to offer on-the-spot licensing and
professional consultations.
There are many reasons for the
increase in interest among Jews in mov-
ing to Israel, ranging from the political
environment in the United States to the
booming tech scene in Israel.
We have continuously seen a rise in
aliyah interest from North America in
recent years, so much so that we had
to move the Mega Event to a college
campus to accommodate and ensure
every interested individual and fam-
ily gets the attention and information
they need, said Rabbi Yehoshua Fass,
Nefesh BNefeshs co-founder and exec-
utive director. Now we have the ability
to provide additional programming for
children, significantly more sessions
on aliyah planning as well as an Israeli
themed food market.
For more information, go to www.
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The spirit of
innovation Daniel Straus of CareOne talks
about investing, health care, and life
Joanne Palmer
aniel Strauss conference
room probably would lend
itself to a metaphor but
to come up with it, a visi-
tor would have to stop
gawking at the view first.
The office is high above
the George Washington
Bridge, on the Fort Lee
side. It offers a hypnotic
view of traffic; on a good
traffic day you watch as cars,
trucks, and buses shoot from
the bridge and hurl themselves
at the spaghetti bowlful of lanes. On
a bad day a day, say, for traffic prob-
lems in Fort Lee youd get to see a panorama
of fuming drivers from your Olympian perch.
The most compelling thing about the inher-
ently mesmerizing view is that it is of con-
stantly changing motion within an unchanging
structure. Its a dance of fluidity and solidity.
Meanwhile, the conference room smells
scrumptiously of brand-new furniture, all
leather and polish.
Its not a new room or a new office, Dan-
iel Straus of Englewood said. Hes been there
for years. But the conference room has just
been remodeled. The key is to keep it new,
he said.
And theres the metaphor. Mr. Straus, who
has come to care a great deal about health
care, particularly as it applies to the elderly,
has run many successful businesses, moving
from field to field, but always retaining a focus
on the elderly, on the health care system in
20 Jewish Standard FEBRUARY 17, 2017
general and on the Jewish community.
Hes not a doctor; he is a lawyer but he
doesnt practice as one. Instead and as well many stories.
as being a generous philanthropist, a highly
successful venture capitalist, a real estate
developer, an owner of a basketball team, the
Memphis Grizzlies, and an unstoppable entre-
preneur he owns CareOne, a big tristate
area rehabilitation and senior living company
whose well-tended buildings are visible all
over northern New Jersey.
Mr. Straus also is an Orthodox Jew, deeply
tied to his community; hes the son, the
brother, father, and most recently the grand-
father of a family that is rooted in the Ameri-
can Jewish life.
Mr. Straus was born in 1956 in Boro Park,
Brooklyn. His father, Joseph, was born in 1912.
In 1922 Joseph Straus and his mother fled to
Brooklyn from Uman, the legendary town that
attracts hordes of chasidim every year as they
follow the trail of Nachman of Bratslav. The
Strauses were not Braslavers. Instead, they
were refugees from the Bolshevists.
When they arrived in Brooklyn, the
Strauses were reunited with Josephs father,
who had left first. His father drove a laun-
dry truck; Joseph was the first in his family
to go to college. He graduated from the then-
almost-brand-new Yeshiva University, with
rabbinic ordination, and then went on to
NYUs law school.
During World War II, Joseph Straus was a
chaplain, not for the armed forces but for the
USO, stationed in Ogden Utah, and then in
Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was a conscientious
objector, and a vegetarian, his son said. That
was unusual for his time; he came home with
Joseph Strauss wife Daniels mother
also had stories. Born Gwendolyn Goldstein
in 1918, she grew up in Williamsburg, lived
through the Depression, and uncharacter-
istically for her time and place, she went to
college, graduating from Brooklyn College.
Her family owned a hat factory; they were
fairly prosperous until the Depression, when
they werent any more, Daniel said. (The hat
company still exists, he added; cousins own it
now.) She earned a bachelors and then a mas-
ters degree in teaching, and taught second
and third grade in Brooklyn public schools.
After the war, Joseph and Gwendolyn mar-
ried and moved to Boro Park, where he prac-
ticed as a lawyer, tried his hand as a politician,
and began to develop a reputation as someone
who knew everybody and therefore was useful
for everybody to know. He was very involved
with the Democratic party, and he ran for
office a couple of times, Mr. Straus said. He
was well known in Brooklyn at the time.
He was a general practitioner, which means
he was like the community lawyer for Boro
Park, he continued. You try to explain what
a general practitioner is today, and nobody
can understand it. Just as general practitioner
physicians used to take on all cases, sending
patients to specialists only when it was neces-
sary, so too general practitioner lawyers would
take all the cases that came their way. Their
expertise was broad, and their relationships
were deep.
Daniel Straus in his office
overlooking the George
Washington Bridge
Jerry Szubin

Jewish Standard FEBRUARY 17, 2017 21

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Its not like today where you have
to turn people down because you dont
agree with their ideology, Mr. Straus said.
He would represent the very Orthodox,
and the Conservative. In fact, he added,
his fathers college roommate went on to
become a Conservative rabbi, and the two
remained friends.
It wasnt so long ago, but the world was
different then, Mr. Straus said. It was less
divided. My family was strictly Orthodox,
but its not that the rules then were more
relaxed they werent but people didnt
look down on everybody else.
The Straus family went to the Young
Israel of Boro Park, Mr. Straus said. My
father was very involved with the reli-
gious Zionists, and my mother was very
involved with Amit. She used to volunteer
all the time.
Because of his parents involvement,
we had parlor meetings in our house all
the time, where dignitaries would come to
talk. The subject often was the still-new
state of Israel, which always took up a big
part of the Straus familys collective heart.
Mr. Straus went to the Yeshiva Eitz
Chaim in Boro Park for elementary school,
and then to BTA, YUs Brooklyn-based
high school. College was at Columbia, and
At the Holy Name Medical Center Founders Ball, from left, Stanley Cup cham-
pion and N.J. Devils alum Grant Marshall, Devils president Hugh Weber, Daniel
Straus, Max Weinberg of the legendary E Street Band, and Holy Names Michael
Maron hold up a very large jersey.
then law school at NYU.
Just as he followed his fathers lead by
going to law school at NYU, Mr. Straus
entered the business his father had found
congenial nursing homes (as they were
Connecticut and New Jersey; when he
died unexpectedly in 1978, Daniel who
had been working as a lawyer at Paul Weis
in Manhattan and his brother Moshael
took them over. We formed a manage-
ment company Multicare Companies
to operate the nursing facilities that
our father left us, Mr. Straus said. Over
a period of 12 years, we built it up. It was
sold in 1997 as a publicly traded company.
(The buyer was Genesis Health Systems.)
That year, Mr. Straus pointed out, the New
York Times quoted a health care analyst,
Peter J. Sidoti, as saying that the Straus
brothers firm was a jewel in the nursing
home business, in quality of care and qual-
ity of management measured by earnings
growth and stock price appreciation.
It was sold for a princely sum, Mr.
Straus said. (According to the Times, it was
$1.06 billion, in cash.) Repeating his quote
in the New York Times, We made a lot of
money for a lot of people, he said.
Mr. Straus was only 40 years old barely
middle-aged when Multicare was sold;
called then. Today there are skilled nurs- the drive and energy that had gotten him
ing, assisted living, and independent so far would not allow him to retire then.
living facilities). His father, introduced I have been a serial entrepreneur ever
to that world because he represented since, he said. A lot of the businesses I
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build my own nursing homes and assisted living homes,
pharmacies, a hospice, a home care agency. I am also
the principal owner and chairman of a large medical
insurance company in Puerto Rico, and one in Califor-
nia. I have owned doctors practices.
The medical insurance company, InnovaCare Health,
is a managed health plan that is committed to providing
quality health care by creating sustainable, cost-effec-
tive models that are fully-integrated with todays most
advanced technologies, its website says.
And of course there is CareOne, which he founded
soon after selling Multicare. CareOne, which has facili-
ties throughout the Northeast, and particularly in New
Jersey, is the regions largest provider of housing, reha-
bilitation, medication, and other services for the elderly.
A lot of the investing I do is not in health care, but it
started that way, Mr. Straus said.
Some of his investments are entirely unrelated
to health care. Mr. Straus owns real estate, includ-
ing brownstones right next to Manhattans Whitney
Museum, which he is turning into spectacular (and spec-
tacularly priced) high-end apartments. And to turn to
something completely different not only is he a minor-
ity owner of the Memphis Grizzlies, he also is a vice pres-
ident of the NBA.
But I have always believed that the best way to influ-
ence social policy is through changing the world by good
business practices, by best practices, he said. I try to
influence public policy in health care by some of the
things that I do in business.
To that end, Mr. Straus published an op ed in the
New York Observer at the end of January. Free the
Doctor: To Fix ACA, Trump Must Restore Physician
Authority, he headlined it. He does not think that
Obamacare lives up to its promise, and he believes that
it must be overhauled. His argument, which he presses
passionately, is that the real problem with the Ameri-
can health care system is that hospitals, with what he
sees as their bloated bureaucracies, are more inter-
ested in enriching themselves than looking after their
patients. The way to restore the system is to put phy-
sicians actual human beings caring for other actual
human beings back in charge.
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Mr. Straus criticizes hospitals in general, but he does
not criticize all hospitals. He works closely with Holy
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honored him at its Founders Ball at the Pierre Hotel
in Manhattan in December, and he has nothing but
praise for it.
One of the reasons I agreed to be honored by Holy
Name is because it is run by the sisters, it is a local hos-
pital, and it is very forward-thinking and progressive in
terms of its patient care, he said. It has not succumbed
to the need to merge, or the need to own all its doctors.
Holy Name has been wonderful to his own commu-
nity, local Orthodox Jews, he said. (He and his wife, Joyce
Gabel Straus, belong to Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood.) I think it is very important to express grat-
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wanted to say that, representing the Orthodox commu-
nity. Holy Name is absolutely non-denominational. It is
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leading fundraising activities that can provide even more

aide. CareOne helped many victims of Hurricane Sandy,
and has led fundraising projects for organizations that help
children who have cancer, and their families, including the
Make-A-Wish Foundation. He also raised money and also
gave much of his own to fund breast cancer research.
Daniel and Joyce Straus have three children, Joseph and
Lizzie, who work in the family business, and Julia Baruch,
who is a yoetzet halacha she is trained and authorized by
the Orthodox community to provide halachic answers to
women on specifically womens issues. The Strauses also
have four grandchildren.
Michael Maron is Holy Names president and chief operat-
ing officer, and he is unstinting in his praise of Daniel Straus.
Daniel owns and operates CareOne, which is the major-
ity of the nursing homes in northern New Jersey, Mr. Maron
said. We have partnered with him recently in a number of
endeavors, trying to deliver value-based care through new
experimental payments, called episodes of care.
What does that mean? Traditionally, if you came to Holy
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Jews gather at rallies across U.S.
and urge support for refugees
JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
More than 100 years ago, Barnett Levine was greeted
by the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty as he
arrived in the United States, having fled anti-Semitism
and pogroms in his native Poland.
On Sunday, his grandson saw those very same land-
marks when he joined about 700 others in this citys Bat-
tery Park downtown at a rally protesting President Don-
ald Trumps executive order banning all refugees from
the country for 120 days.
I am the grandchild of four immigrants who came
here when the gates of the United States were wide open
and they made a life here, Harold Levine, a 60-year-old
marketing consultant, said. He added: I think that it is
the duty of the Jewish community to pay this forward to
other immigrants who are trying to come to the United
States.
The rally was organized by HIAS, formerly known as
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, as part of an initiative
by the immigrant resettlement group called the National
Day of Jewish Action for Refugees.
The president issued his order last month; it also
At the Manhattan rally, Lisa Davidson said she sees parallels banned citizens of seven predominantly Muslim coun-
between the Holocaust and the civil war in Syria. JOSEFIN DOLSTEN tries from entering the country for 90 days. Late last
Jewish World
week, a federal appeals court ruling upheld a stay on the
ban, a move praised by Jewish groups, including HIAS.
Thousands attended rallies on Sunday as part of the
HIAS initiative, including in Boston, Washington, D.C,
and other major cities, a representative for the group
said The demonstrations had more than 20 co-sponsors,
including the Anti-Defamation League, the American
Jewish Committee, the American Jewish World Service,
the Union for Reform Judaism, and the Conservative
movements Rabbinical Assembly.
Mark Hetfield, the CEO of HIAS, said the rallies were a
rare moment of joining together in support of refugees.
I havent seen anything like this since I got my start
[with HIAS] in 1989, which was at the height of the Soviet
Jewry movement, he said. This is a galvanizing moment
like that, but the difference is that then we were standing
up for Jews, and now we are standing up as Jews.
At the Manhattan rally, participants braved icy wind,
hail, and rain to join in chants of When refugees are
under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!
and Never again means never again for everyone
between speeches by rabbis and clergy members, politi-
cians, and leaders of Jewish groups. Among the speak-
ers were Mayor Bill de Blasio; Representative Keith Elli-
son (D-Minn.); the ADLs national director, Jonathan
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New York Citys Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the HIAS rally in Manhattan on
February 12.
Greenblatt, and Sana Mustafa, a Syrian
refugee.
In Boston, speakers at a rally with several
hundred participants included City Coun-
cilor Josh Zakim, whose father, the late
Lenny Zakim, was the longtime director of
the New England Anti-Defamation League;
Imam Faisal Khan, the director of religious
affairs at the Islamic Center of Wayland,
and Fred Manasse, a child Holocaust sur-
vivor who was brought to the U.S. by HIAS.
Speeches even those given by non-Jew-
ish speakers were peppered with refer-
ences to Jewish history and traditions.
In this city we believe we can live in har-
mony, de Blasio said in New York. Its not
perfect, but we believe we can do some-
thing that the whole world is struggling to
do, that we can all be together ... people of
all religions and backgrounds, that is what
were fighting for doesnt that fit beauti-
fully the profound Jewish concept of tikkun
olam, of healing the world?
Ellison, who said that the rally was one
of the main reasons for his visit to New
York, talked in his speech about the MS St.
Louis, a ship with 900 Jewish refugees from
Germany that tried to enter the United
States and other countries but was turned
away. He called the incident a shameful
time in our country.
All of our officials who worked with
this stuff knew about it. We cant say we
didnt know. We knew, said Ellison, who
is the first Muslim elected to Congress
and a front-runner to lead the Democratic
National Committee. We didnt want to get
involved, we wanted to just mind our own
business, we just kind of thought, Oh, this
is not our issue.
Jewish ritual featured prominently. At
one point during the New York rally, repre-
sentatives of 10 of the co-sponsoring groups
went on stage and tore pieces of cloth,
mimicking a Jewish ritual in which mourn-
ers rend their clothing. The tearing was
done to remind attendees of refugees who
had died before being able to reach safety,
as well as those who now are facing danger.
In addition to co-sponsoring the New
York event, last Sunday the ADL also
launched a campaign to rally opposition to
GILI GETZ
Trumps executive order. It urged people to
share their family stories of coming to the
United States on social media, and to tag
their posts with #ThisIsARefugee.
We remember that we were once
strangers, too, that Jewish refugees fleeing
Nazi Germany and oppression during the
Holocaust were often denied entry with
claims eerily similar to some of the claims
that are being made today to deny entrance
to refugees, and we think thats wrong,
Greenblatt said before the rally.
Participants at the rally said they were
compelled to attend for a variety of rea-
sons, both personal and historical. Lisa
Davidson, a 41-year-old professor who was
at the New York rally, said she saw historic
parallels between the Holocaust and the
civil war in Syria.
Whats going on in Syria right now is
criminal, and it is sort of reminiscent of
what happened in the Holocaust in the 30s
and 40s, and I think that we dont want to
repeat that again, and we dont want to sit
and say that we did nothing, Davidson said.
For some, the motivation came from
their family history. Levine, the marketing
consultant whose grandfather immigrated
to the U.S. over a century ago, brought with
him a poster saying This is personal and
showing a photograph of his grandfather
and his immigration paperwork.
I couldnt not come here. The minute
I heard about it, I thought I had to come,
he said.
Elianna Kan had similar reasons for com-
ing. The 28-year-old, a translator and jour-
nalist, said her family came to the United
States in the 1970s as refugees from the
Soviet Union, receiving financial and logis-
tical help from HIAS.
Im here and have the privilege of being
born in a free country because people who
were concerned with the plight of my fam-
ily, whether or not they had a personal con-
nection, were out there, and this seems like
an even more extreme case, she said. Its
a different case, but the parallels are far too
obvious to me. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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contributed reporting from Boston.

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Senate may honor WWII vet
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Several senators have introduced a bill seeking to award
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actions in a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag IXA,
that saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish-American
soldiers.
The bill to recognize Edmonds, which was introduced
by Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.),
Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.),
In first, Israeli company offers tours of North Korea
The Israeli company Tarbutu announced that it is add-
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an Israeli travel agency has offered organized tours to
the East Asian rogue state.
Tarbutu is the sole operator in Israel for the trips,
and will handle the visa application process with North
Korean authorities.
Israelis have previously been allowed into North
Korea only through Chinese tourism companies, and
only about 100 Israelis have gone on such trips. Tarbu-
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with a North Korean tourism company operating under
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British Jews open safe space for Syrian women in Turkey

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

ISTANBUL In a region awash

with half a million Syrian refu-
gees and the predators they
attract, home used to be the
only safe space for Samiyeh Hilo
and her infant son, Mohammed.
A teacher of English in her
30s, in 2011 Hilo was smuggled
out of her besieged city, Hama,
and into Turkey. She mostly has
stayed indoors since settling in a
camp for refugees of Syrias civil
war in the Turkish town of Isla-
hiye, 70 miles north of Aleppo.
I didnt go out much because
its not a safe environment for
me and for my child, anything
could happen, Hilo, a devout
Sunni Muslim, said during a
phone interview in Decem-
ber about her first five years in
Islahiye, a suburb of the city of
Gaziantep in Anatolia.
But Hilos situation, like that
of hundreds of other Syrian
women in Islahiye, improved
dramatically in June, when the
London-based World Jewish
Relief group and Turkish aid
workers opened a womens-only
educational and recreation cen-
ter, offering a rare safe space for
female clients. Syrian women learn English at the Womens Support Center in Islahiye, Turkey, in November. TANYA FREEDMAN/WORLD JEWISH RELIEF

It completely changed my
life, Hilo said of the center, where she now Even among more liberal refugees,
works as an English teacher for other refugees some women are hesitant to venture
while her son is in day care in an onsite nursery. alone into the street in Gaziantep, where
With an annual budget of under $200,000, 350,000 refugees constitute a fifth of
the Womens Support Center of Islahiye is oper- the population in the overcrowded city.
ated by 18 female staffers most of them refu- Relations between Turks and refugees
gees out of a three-story residential building
with a pink facade on the outskirts of Islahiye.
More than 1,500 women have used the facilities,
which World Jewish Relief designed and funds
exclusively; the Istanbul-based International
More than 1,500
Blue Crescent runs the place on the ground as women have
the implementing partner. Amenities include
a computer room with 20 machines, psycho-
used the
therapy sessions, Turkish and English-language facilities, which
classes, cooking and knitting workshops, child
care services, and literacy training.
World Jewish
Relief designed
TANYA FREEDMAN/WORLD JEWISH RELIEF

To be sure, the Womens Support Center is

not the only facility for refugees operating in the
vicinity of Islahiye and Gaziantep, a nearby city
and funds
that is a major destination in Turkey for immi- exclusively.
grants from Syria. The United Nations High Com-
missioner for Refugees, the International Blue are tense and sometimes turn violent, as
Crescent, and the Red Crescent all have commu- they did in 2014. Then thousands of Syr-
nity service units for refugees in the area, where ians left, fearing reprisals over the stab-
tens of thousands use the services. bing of a Turkish landlord by a refugee
But before the establishment of the Womens who felt he had been taken advantage of.
Support Center, there was no space for women Women are especially vulnerable,
in Gaziantep and Islahiye, Neslihan Klarslan, Syrian refugees Duaz, left, and Fatima show off two of Fatimas handmade according to a Council of Europe report
a project manager for the International Blue felt bags at the Womens Support Center in Islahiye, Turkey, in November. from last year that cited many cases of
Crescent, said in an interview at her organi- rape, pimping, sexual harassment, and
zations office in Istanbul. And this is crucial, she said, also has men. They are conservative, and their husbands gender-based violence, including in Turkey, which has
because Syrian women dont want to go to a space that dont allow it. nearly 3 million Syrian refugees. Children are another

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at-risk group, and Turkish and other bags in bright pink colors with bamboo World Jewish Relief, which has a core we get the added bonus of exposing peo-
sweatshop operators are quick to exploit handles. She sells the bags for $3. Her budget of approximately $6 million and ple to the substantial humanitarian work
them. friend Duaz, a 23-year-old mother of two about 22 salaried staff, has raised more facilitated by British Jews, but in other
Having identified the need for a wom- whose husband died while fighting in the the $1 million since 2013 for Syrian refu- cases, highlighting this could be compli-
ens-only center, the International Blue civil war, helps Fatima model the bags gees the second-most successful drive in cated, exposing projects to risk. So while
Crescent wrote a project proposal, the organizations history, according we never hide it, we dont always insist on
and last year World Jewish Relief to Richard Verber, its head of exter- PR either.
an international aid agency that nal affairs. Elsewhere in the world, other Jew-
British Jewry founded in 1933 Conducted alongside World Jew- ish groups also have raised considerable
decided to support as its only The result is a place ish Reliefs projects helping Jews in funds for Syrian refugees, including $2
sponsor.
The result is a place that stands
that stands out among Ukraine and Moldova, the Syrian aid
effort reflects not only the generos-
million by the American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committees Jewish Coalition for
out among facilities for refugees facilities for refugees ity of British Jewry, but also how the Disaster Relief.
because it has a lot of joy and
hope, said Tanya Freedman, the
because it has a lot refugee experience strikes a chord
in the hearts of a community with
Coming from some of Syrias most rural
areas including Sunni provinces, where
digital communications manager of joy and hope. a strong generational memory of residents were denied education options
at World Jewish Relief. She vis- what it means to flee your home at by the oppressive Alawite minority rule of
ited the facility in November; before she while wearing a face scarf. As the women a moments notice, he said. President Bashar al Assad many refugees
started to work at World Jewish Relief, she chat at the center, Duazs boys, 3 and 5, The center does not display any men- are illiterate.
was involved in helping refugees in France. play in the nursery with Fatimas 2-year- tion of its Jewish sponsor, which is a prom- Among the centers literacy students
Most of the clients at the Womens old son, Omar. inent member of the Olam network of Jew- is 32-year-old Aliyah, a seamstress from
Support Center cover their heads, and Many of the older women are protec- ish international aid groups. Aleppo who came to Turkey six years ago
some cover their faces, according to tive of Sara and Amena, two 15-year-old And while partner groups like the Inter- with her 5-year-old daughter and husband.
strict Islamic custom. They remove the girls who are among the dozen or so teen- national Blue Crescent are aware of World Aliyah is learning to read and write in Ara-
face coverings once they are inside the agers who make use of the center. Unlike Jewish Reliefs involvement, neither party bic and Turkish, and says she hopes to
building since there are no men around, the Aleppo-born Amena, who lives with broadcasts to the clients that one sponsor teach others in her position one day.
Freedman said in an interview this week her parents, Saras family is still in Syria, is Jewishly affiliated, said Verber, whose It feels like at last Im doing something
in London. in Idlib. groups logo is made up of the left half of a of value, she said in a recent interview
One woman, 32-year-old Fatima from The women treat the girls, and Sara Star of David. with Freedman. I love having somewhere
Aleppo, uses her time at the center to especially, as though they were their own Our priority is to deliver aid to those in to go where I can feel comfortable.
socialize, but also to make elaborate felt daughters, Freedman said. need, full stop, Verber said. Sometimes JTA WIRE SERVICE

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nerve cells. Memory, learning, and the
ability to plan and make decisions all
improve, no matter your age!
As a myth, we were also told to
accept our aging body in its decline.
Our bodies, once fluid and strong, were
to accept the natural aging process of
decay and atrophy, never to recapture
the vivid sense of youth. This myth is
also simply not true. Our bodies too
yearn to function at their peak no
matter the age. We have bodies of hunt-
ers and our muscular and skeleton sys-
tems positively respond to exercise,
both aerobic and anaerobic. Correctly
stress your muscles and gain strength,
speed and endurance at any age.
Walking, jogging, swimming, exercise
classes, coordination activities, speed
exercises, weight lifting, and a myriad
of other activities all will benefit you as
the myths of aging fail from their own
weight and their lack of credence.
Seniors have the capacity to control
their minds and bodies. Remember,
your mind and body want to be strong.
Be active both mentally and physically
and age gracefully and with strength.
Richard Portugal is the founder and
owner of Fitness Senior Style, which
exercises seniors for balance, strength,
and cognitive itness in their own
homes. He has been certiied as a senior
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The Gym raises $10,000 for Triple
Negative Breast Cancer Foundation
The Gym had yet another successful
Breast Cancer Awareness month, during
which it offered a special series of classes
that raised money for the Triple Negative
Breast Cancer Foundation (TNBCF). This is
the fourth year in a row that The Gym has
supported this worthy cause.
TNBCF is a local charity that funds
breakthrough research to support the dis-
covery of promising new treatments and
services for patients with triple negative
breast cancer. Triple negative tumors gen-
erally do not respond to receptor-targeted
treatment, can be particularly aggressive,
and are more likely to recur than other
subtypes of breast cancer. The Gym first
started working with TNBCF in 2013, and
has raised almost $30,000 since. The Gym
is proud to report that the latest round
of support from members and staff sur-
passed previous totals with an impressive
$10,000.
Hayley Dinerman, executive director
and co-founder of the Triple Negative
Breast Cancer Foundation, commented,
For the fourth year in a row, The Gym,
together with its incredible staff and dedi-
cated members, joined us in the fight
against triple negative breast cancer. Their
enthusiasm for our cause and remarkable
generosity have enabled the foundation
to continue supporting groundbreaking
research and provide essential services to
thousands of women who are battling this
aggressive disease.
The Gym of Englewood began fund-
raising with cause-themed classes includ-
ing Weekend DJ Pink Ride (spinning with
DJ Ajel), Triple Threat Dance, and even a
Push-Up Contest where members spon-
sored trainers to see how many push-
ups they could do to support the cause.
Strong Together t-shirts were also on
sale at the front desk with all proceeds
going to TNBCF.
The Gym of Montvale had fundraising
events and classes for a week that kicked
off with participation in a Ladies Night
Out Fashion Show fundraiser at Athletas
Montvale store that was open to all mem-
bers. A variety of classes held throughout
the week were pink-themed with trivia
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Front: Reggie Pettway, Lisa Bruchalski, Hayley Dinerman, Nurit Chasman. Back:
Shantel Ellis, Mike Fasulo, Michael Feeks, and Jeff Rivers.
extras including Wear Pink, 80s Video Foundation (TNBCF) was founded in 2006
Spin, Super Hero Video Spin, Ride thru in honor of Nancy Block-Zenna, who was
the Decades Video Spin and Dance to diagnosed at the age of 35 with triple neg-
the Divas! ative breast cancer before succumbing to
We are very proud to participate the disease in 2007. TNBCF strives to be a
wholeheartedly for this noble cause each credible source for triple negative breast
and every year, and to be a significant part cancer information, a catalyst for science
of the fight! said Lisa Bruchalsk, group fit- and patient advocacy groups, and a caring
ness director. We take pride in the con- community with meaningful services for
tinuously growing support from our dedi- triple negative patients and their families.
cated members and staff. For more information about TNBCF, visit
Tr i p l e N e g a t ive B re a s t C a n c e r www.tnbcfoundation.org.
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Mans best friend dogs Brightview Tenafly. His name is Rocco.

Residents at Brightview Tenafly are growing fond of
Rocco, an eight-month old pug. He loves to snuggle
and give kisses.
We adopted Rocco from Long Island to be our
community pet, explained Kate Meehan, director
of vibrant living at Brightview Tenafly. He comes
to the community almost every day and everyone
knows him by name.
Pets are proven to have incredible health ben-
efits for people, said Toni Musto, Brightview
Tenaflys executive director. We allow pets at
the community but many residents are physically
unable to care for them. With Rocco, its like every-
one has their own dog. For our residents and asso-
ciates, petting and talking to Rocco is an important
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advance-care planning
Conversation of Your Life
initiative offers community
events throughout Teaneck
Is there ever a good time to talk about serious illnesses
and medical crises? Or, what kind of care youd want
through the end of your life?
Beginning in March, Holy Name Medical Center, the
Township of Teaneck, and Age-Friendly Teaneck will
present a series of Conversation of Your Life events,
covering such topics as:
Your life: What gives you joy, pleasure and mean-
ing and how that meshes with deciding about the
care youd want if you faced a life-limiting illness.
Good communication: Talking about your pref-
erences with your loved ones and your health care
providers.
Advance-care planning: Documenting your wishes
and designating someone close to you who under-
stands them and can speak for you if you cant speak
for yourself.
The events begin with a meet-the-author event at
2 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, at the Teaneck Public
Library.
Ellen Rand, hospice volunteer, former New York
Times columnist, author of Last Comforts: Notes
from the Forefront of Late Life Care and Teaneck res-
ident, will discuss her book, trends in person-centered
care at the end of life, and how to advocate for better
care for yourself or your loved ones.
On Wednesday, March 29 at 10:30 a.m. at the Rich-
ard Rodda Comunity Center a program on Advance
Directives: What You Need to Know will be presented.
Following a short film, Lauren Van Saders, admin-
istrative director of post-acute services at Holy Name
Medical Centers Community Hospice Program and
Villa Marie Claire Hospice, will discuss how to start the
conversation and the process, and will share tools and
resources available to create your advance directive.
The program will continue in April with talks on
Estate Planning for Elders and Patient-Centered
Care: Goals for Care at the End of Life.
For more information, visit www.holyname.org/
events or call (201) 833-3336.
Admission to all events is free. Conversation of Your
Life is an initiative of the New Jersey Health care Qual-
ity Institutes Mayors Wellness Campaign.

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When it comes to successfully In the past, treatment guidelines focused on outlining undergoing a catheter ablation procedure if antiarrhythmic
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Jewish Home Family to host elder abuse prevention brunch for interfaith clergy
SeniorHaven for the Prevention of Elder Abuse, the to provide shelter and to educate our community. We know this vital work.
first elder abuse shelter in New Jersey, is hosting an that elder abuse is an under-recognized and under-reported Members of the community are asked to let their religious
interfaith brunch to help clergy identify and prevent problem in our community and nationally. We have trained leaders know about the event.
elder abuse in their communities. many individuals including home health providers, hospital The event is free of charge and will take place on March
SeniorHaven was established by the Jewish Home staff, physicians, attorneys and more and continue to offer 28 from 10 a.m. To 12 p.m. at the Jewish Home at Rock-
Family, which runs the Jewish Home Assisted Living, workshops and programs on an ongoing basis. This will leigh, 10 Link Dr., Rockleigh NJ 07647. For more informa-
in River Vale, the Jewish Home at Rockleigh and Jew- be our first effort focused on educating clergy and we are tion on SeniorHaven, see http://JewishHomeFamily.org/
ish Home at Home, which provides care throughout excited about the chance to engage this important group in seniorhaven.
Bergen and Rockland counties.
Spiritual leaders are in a unique position to under-
stand and help identify elder abuse, says Jewish
Home Family President and CEO Carol Silver Elliott.
They have the opportunity to see families and recog-
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are advised to spot-check their blood-glucose levels
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that about 700 million people fall into one of those
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The Israeli company Integrity Applications put
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Prevention is at the heart of staying healthy.
described as the first truly noninvasive system for self-
monitoring glucose levels. This comprehensive and noninvasive
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in development.
The higher and faster fluctuations of glucose levels
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Gal predicts that the simplicity of the pain-free
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Easing the discomfort and complications of feeding tubes
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Anyone unable to eat food normally receives a feeding tube,
a device inserted into the stomach through the abdomen.
Globally, every year more than 1.3 million people need
feeding tubes. That translates to 4 million tubes inserted
each year because they need to be replaced when they get
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dislodged or clogged.
Inserting, replacing, and removing feeding tubes are
unpleasant procedures for patients and time-consuming
for nurses.
Israeli pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Ishay Benuri, a
graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalems first BioDe-
sign program, wanted to redesign feeding tubes to be more
To find out how Daughters of Miriam Center
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easily handled, replaced and removed as well as less
prone to dislodging.
Fidmi Medical, the company he founded in 2014
with IP from Hadassah tech-transfer company Hada-
sit, expects its revolutionary feeding tube to receive
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval by
mid-2017 and CE approval in Europe sometime later.
Fidmis design delivers significant advantages over
existing feeding tubes, says CEO Shahar Millis, a
mechanical engineer with expertise in medical device
R&D and product management.
For starters, Fidmis rigid-core silicone internal
bumper keeps the tube in place better than the cur-
rent soft bumpers meant to be removed along with the
tube. A special tool detaches the tube from the bum-
per, which then breaks up and is eliminated naturally
from the body.
That allows us to remove only the tube, so there
is no need for anesthesia or endoscopy for removal,
Millis says.
However, the entire device rarely needs removing
because Fidmi features disposable inner feeding tubes
easily removed and replaced externally by anyone.
The overall solution costs more or less the same to
the end user but you get an easy-to-handle, bacteria-
free, clog-free tube every week, says Millis.
In addition, Fidmis low profile looks discreet.
Today when a patient first gets a feeding tube its
a long tube with a bulky connector to the source of
nutrition. When not in use, the tube must be taped
against the skin and this often causes irritation and it
frequently falls out, Millis explains.
There are low-profile devices in the market but
they are only used after six to eight months, necessi-
tating another procedure to have the long tube device
replaced. Fidmi can be used from day one.
Millis presented the Fidmi device at the Innovations
in Gastroenterology international conference on Janu-
ary 4 in Tel Aviv.
Feeding tubes in their current shape have been
around since the late 1970s, and they look pretty much
the same today as they did in the early 80s, says Mil-
lis. A lot of major corporations in this field are con-
stantly trying to make their devices better by optimi-
zation, but they still have many limitations in terms of
reliability, comfort and risks.
Its amazing that over 35 years no one came up
with a better solution. We approached it differently
and were able to bring solution to all major problems
in just one product.
Dr. Stephen Cohen, director of acute care surgery
at Greenbrier Medical Center in West Virginia, was so
enthusiastic about the Fidmi prototype that he recorded
a testimonial on his iPhone for the company to post.
Current products get clogged all the time, espe-
cially in nursing homes, and we should be able to
come up with a better device. Fidmi Medical has really
met an unmet need, Cohen says. This new tube
will completely change the paradigm for placing and
removing [feeding tubes] with much less chance of a
patient accidentally dislodging it. Anybody can unclog
it and change it easily.
Fidmi is now in the final development stages, Millis
says. We are starting a clinical trial at Hadassah and
were looking for strategic partners and distributors.
We recently raised about half a million dollars and are
looking for another $750,000 to complete the regula-
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The Valley Hospital unveils

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a new hospital in Paramus
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The Valley Hospital plans to build a new,
state-of-the-art hospital in Paramus.
Audrey Meyers, president and CEO of
The Valley Hospital and Valley Health
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Valley to meet the long-term health
care needs of northern New Jersey and
ensures that residents have access to the
highest quality of care.
On February 1, Valley filed a Certifi-
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Jersey Department of Health, which
must approve the hospital relocation.
Valley anticipates breaking ground in
2019 and the new hospital could open
as early as 2023.
The planned site for the new hos-
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Paramus, 2.5 miles from Valleys cur-
rent location in Ridgewood and directly
across the street from the hospitals
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Moving inpatient and emergency
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Ridgewood for a broad range of health
care services, including an urgent-care
center, and laboratory, radiology and
endoscopy services. In addition, Valley
plans to consolidate existing ambula-
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The New Valley Hospital will com-
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try and regain their strength and independence.

member of the Paramus community
and we are excited to be the future
home of The Valley Hospital, said
Mayor LaBarbiera. The New Valley
Hospital will help revitalize an aging
industrial and office-use area of Para-
mus, bring much needed roadway
improvements, provide economic
benefits for the entire town, and diver-
sify a retail-dependent tax base. Val-
ley has always supported Paramus
through sponsorships and commu-
nity programs, and consistent with
their philosophy of giving back, Val-
ley has committed to work with us on
new initiatives.
Valleys continuous efforts to inno-
vate and elevate the level of care they
provide demonstrates their stead-
fast dedication to the people they
serve, said Senator Bob Menendez.
The New Valley Hospital means
increased services for patients, more
jobs for area residents, and greater
access for families across northern
New Jersey to the latest advancements
in health care now and in the future.
I am excited about the potential
for Valleys new, modern hospital to
transform care for our residents and
bolster our economy by supporting
local businesses and bringing good
jobs to northern New Jersey, said
Representative Gottheimer.
For all of us who live here, raise our
families here or work here, access to
quality health care is an essential compo-
nent of our quality of life. Valley has been
the hospital of choice for my family, and
this new project will ensure future gen-
erations have access to the highest qual-
ity care, said State Senator Bob Gordon.
This is a milestone day for Ber-
gen County, said County Executive
Tedesco. Valleys commitment to the
community has been unwavering, and
this exciting project will not only pro-
vide greater access to health care for
the residents of Bergen County, but
will also strengthen our local economy
by creating new jobs. Bergen County
is well on its way to becoming the
health care hub of the state.
The New Valley Hospital will
incorporate cutting-edge technology
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and the flexibility required to accom-
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fort as well as improve the quality of
care provided, the new hospital will
be built with single-patient rooms.
Research has found that patients cared
for in single-patient rooms experience
shorter lengths of stay, fewer sleep dis-
turbances and lower rates of hospital-
acquired infections.
The plans for the new hospital also
call for the creation of universally
sized rooms for surgery and proce-
dures. These rooms will be designed
to accommodate the latest in health
care technology and meet all of the
standards to allow them to be used for
general surgery, minimally invasive
robotic surgery, cardiac catheteriza-
tions or endovascular procedures.
While our staff has long been rec-
ognized for the quality of care they
deliver to our patients in Ridgewood What Life Is Like at Brightview Tenafly
where we consistently rank at the top
of patient satisfaction in New Jersey It is a full day to look forward to.
modern, single-patient rooms in our
new facility will allow us to provide Rediscovering favorite pastimes. Sharing meals with friends. Enjoying the privacy
our patients and their families with an to hear yourself think.
even higher level of care and service,
said Meyers. Brightview Tenafly is filled with people who are comfortable, who feel at home,
Meyers said that Valley is committed who are rejuvenated and gain the energy to pursue their passions.
to working with the town to improve
traffic flow in the area and that one An appreciation for possibilities rather than limitations is the focus.
of the advantages to this site were
Everyone enjoys Brightview.
its multiple entry and exit points,
which would mitigate any impact to Residents are engaged in a full calendar of intellectual and cultural pursuits,
local streets. sports and exercise, music, art and travel.
We very much look forward to con-
tinuing to work with Mayor LaBarbiera Mom and Dad enjoy themselves and are no longer isolated in a house that has
and the council, and will be hosting gotten to be too much.
town hall meetings for the residents
of Paramus to introduce our project Everyone sleeps better at night.
to the borough, said Meyers.
Valley has launched a new website,
www.TheNewValleyHospital.com and Please call Richard
a Facebook page, Facebook.com/The- to schedule a personal visit.
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Editorial
Interesting times
I Americas ambassador to Israel?
t might be a clich that it is a curse to live in interest-
ing times, but right now we are in a position to judge
it for ourselves.
Remember the end of history? That was the lovely
theory that gained traction in the 1990s, when the Ameri-
can political scientist Francis Fukuyama told us that we in
the West had reached the summit of human achievement,
and that the summit was flat, filled with bright flowers and
their sweet perfume, and it is stretched on forever. (Okay, he
didnt use those words, but it was his implication.)
Boy was he wrong.
If in fact the 1990s were the summit of human perfection
in the West, then that summit actually was a jagged peak,
and we are sliding down it, gaining speed, bouncing over
the rough parts, breaking bones and dreams as we go.
Maybe perfection was too boring. Maybe history had to
go on because there is no narrative in perfection, and we
human beings crave narrative.
We certainly are living a story now. As a plot, its a doozy.
It has too many insane twists and impossible turns to be
anything but real life; no editor would buy it if it were fiction.
And it has far too many literally insane characters, pinch-
me motivations, and odd speech tics for even the largest
writing room, fueled with every legal or illegal drug in the
world, to think of.
And then theres Twitter. Pause for a second to think
about the sheer improbability of Twitter, and then move on.
If we were to hunt for a bright spot in this mess and we
must, because we are human beings, and like plants most
of us cant help but contort ourselves toward the light it
would be in how it is driving all of us to be more and more
involved. There is not much blandness around right now.
People have opinions, and they voice them, and not just
about politics. About everything. People seem to have found
their voices, and thats a good thing.
We see it here at the Standard. We are sent more opin-
ion pieces, more letters, more story suggestions, than I can
remember ever seeing before. Look at this weeks paper
social justice committees, impassioned debates about
Orthodox womens roles, more looks at the Holocaust, from
new angles. Somethings up.
Maybe partly its the time of year. The sap will be rising
in trees soon (to get all horticultural); its getting dark later,
the groundhog did whatever it is that groundhogs do, which
means that no matter what, dismal winter has less than six
weeks left. Even the thought of spring does things to us.
But its not only that. There are ideas rising like sap. Many
of us are worried, but many turn that worry into the fuel
that propels us forward.
We dont have any idea of how this story weve just begun
will end, but one thing is certain. It will be very, very inter-
esting. Well be talking about it for generations after it ends.
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40 JEWISH STANDARD FEBRUARY 17, 2017
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Will Cory Booker vote against
B
y the time you read this column, you prob-
ably will know whether David Friedman,
an Orthodox Jewish lawyer, philanthropist,
and major supporter of Israel, was con-
firmed this week as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.
And we in New Jersey will also know if our junior sena-
tor, my close friend Cory Booker, voted for or against
him.
Why Cory specifically? First, because he recently
joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
will be questioning Friedman directly. Second and
more important, there is a growing evolution in Corys
position on Israel. He is becoming more aligned with
the political left, which often finds itself
unfairly at odds with the Jewish state.
As everyone reading this column knows,
Cory once was a steadfast friend and a
reliable supporter of Israel. I do not in any
way question his love for the Jewish state
and his commitment to its security. I do,
however question, whether he is allowing
himself to succumb to pressure from the
far left to criticize Israel.
That Cory is tending in that direction Rabbi
overall is demonstrated by his precedent- Shmuley
setting testimony and condemnation of Boteach
Senator Jeff Sessions, now our attorney
general. Cory had every right to criti-
cize him if he found him objectionable. What made
his testimony contradictory, however, was that just
a year ago he had significantly praised Sessions for
working together with him to promote civil rights. He
said in February 2016 that he felt blessed and hon-
ored to have partnered with Senator Sessions in being
the Senate sponsors of a congressional gold medal,
which was awarded to those people who marched
from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
The same can be said of Corys criticism of Betsy
DeVos to be education secretary, and his vote against
her, because of her support for charter schools. Cory
had up until then been a staunch supporter of char-
ter schools and someone who worked to advance their
cause with the very same Betsy DeVos.
But what most concerns me is Corys position on
Israel. After years of pledging support to Israel in
front of audiences drawn from the American Jewish
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ent of pro-Israel contributions in the nation, Cory
defended the nuclear agreement with the genocidal
Iranian regime. This even while Iran repeatedly
threatened a second holocaust of the Jewish people
and funded terrorism around the world. Cory fre-
quently uses social media to communicate, so it
therefore was downright mystifying when he failed
to post anything from Israel during his visit last sum-
mer. This year he has opposed his colleagues efforts
to completely condemn the U.N. for passing a one-
sided resolution attacking Israel and denying the
Jewish right to Judaisms holiest sites in Jerusalem.
Voting against Friedman to placate the
far left would be unfortunate and inter-
preted as succumbing to further politi-
cal pressure against his core convictions.
Anti-Israel organizations and those on
the far left are mounting a campaign to
derail Friedmans nomination because of
his belief that Jews have the right to live
anywhere in their homeland, and that
Jerusalem, Israels eternal capital, should
be the site of the U.S. embassy. I hope that
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
will have ignored the attacks during his
hearing this week and moved his success-
ful nomination to the Senate floor.
After the president nominated him, Friedman
said, I intend to work tirelessly to strengthen the
unbreakable bond between our two countries and
advance the cause of peace within the region, and
look forward to doing this from the U.S. embassy in
Israels eternal capital, Jerusalem. This is precisely
the position we should expect from our next ambas-
sador, and may I say its about time.
For too long, American ambassadors have been
forced to toe the line drawn by timid State Depart-
ment officials, whose phobia over Arab reactions
to U.S. support for Israel have prevented the United
States from recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital
and relocating the embassy to the city.
For too long, our ambassadors have seen the need
to criticize the democratically elected government
of Israel publicly for protecting the interests of the
people of Israel.
And for too long our ambassadors have blamed
Israel for the ongoing dispute with the Palestinians,
rather than acknowledge the obstacle to peace is the
Palestinians refusal to accept the idea of a Jewish
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state coexisting next to a Palestinian state.

J Street predictably is leading the opposition
to Friedman because the group is fundamentally
opposed to Israeli democracy, insisting that its
members, sitting in the comfort of their homes
6,000 miles away, know better than the people of
Israel who should govern their nation and protect
them from their enemies. J Street does not believe
Jews have a legitimate claim to Judea and Samaria
or the right to live in all of their homeland. Further-
more, the group is out of step with Congress and
mainstream Jews who support moving the embassy
and recognizing Jerusalem as Israels capital.
Prodded by J Street, Friedman has been chal-
lenged about his past support for Jews in the com-
munity of Beit El. The world may villainize the
families as settlers, but they have every right to
live in the land of Israel. The territory may be dis-
puted, but Jews should not be barred from living
there just as Palestinians are not barred from liv-
ing in Israel and Friedman cannot be criticized
for making legal contributions to support Jews in
that community.
Friedman likely will be asked about his views
on a two-state solution. He should not be pun-
ished for his skepticism about the idea; he should
be applauded for his realism. Unlike many Middle
East commentators, Friedman knows the Palestin-
ians have been offered the possibility of statehood
no fewer than seven times going back to 1937. They Last Sunday, hundreds stood in the rain in Manhattan for a rally in support of refugees that was
missed every opportunity because of their refusal organized by HIAS. JOSEFIN DOLSTEN

to accept the idea that one of the two states would

be a Jewish state.
Democrats have obstinately united in opposition As Jews, we must take sides

to Trumps cabinet nominations as is their right.
Support for Israel, however, has always been bipar-
tisan because Republicans and Democrats recog-
nize that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle
East, the only reliable U.S. ally in the region, and
a nation that shares American values and interests.
President Obama undermined that bipartisan tra-
dition by his attacks on Israeli policy and its prime
minister, and by forcing Democrats to choose party
loyalty over Israeli security when he demanded
their support for the catastrophic nuclear deal he
signed with the genocidal regime in Iran.
I am confident that Democrats on the commit-
tee will reaffirm the bipartisan support for Israel.
Staunch friends of Israel, such as Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer of New York, Ben Cardin of Mary-
land, and Robert Menendez of New Jersey, were
the only Democrats with the backbone and wisdom
to vote against the nuclear deal and they will not be
swayed by the extremists in their party.
Although Cory made a catastrophic call on the
Iran nuclear agreement, lets hope that going for-
ward he will ally himself with these staunchly pro-
Israel Democratic colleagues in standing up for
Americas foremost ally and closest friend.
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O
n January 21 I took my ritual prayer shawl my Jews went like sheep to the slaughter, that they should have
tallit and my sign, reading Orthodox Rabbi done more to protect themselves. I knew my grandparents
Against Trump with Hate outlined in the friends were smugglers, couriers, and fighters in the Warsaw
background, and left my home. Ghetto uprising, and that they were partisans and poets. I
With hundreds of thousands of fellow New Yorkers was deeply knowledgeable about the rich cultural life that
around me, the street became my synagogue. I thought of thrived amid such persecution. I was raised to believe in
the blessing recited upon seeing such a large mass of people, peoples inherent spiritual strengths, as opposed to think-
where tradition blesses God as the knower ing I understood why they deserved whatever
of secrets. What brought each of us here? suffering that had befallen them.
Were we marching for an ideal or against a Where were we then? We, who by chance
leader? The answers were varied, the secrets and luck, found ourselves in positions of
unknown. power and places of privilege in our country,
The glory of the King is magnified by the which sings Give me your tired, your poor,
multitude of people, say the sages of the Tal- your huddled masses yearning to breathe
mud. This felt appropriate as I saw countless free? Where are we now? As a rabbi, I think
people of varying ethnicities and backgrounds, of the rabbis and community leaders before
with posters and chants just as diverse. Still, me, who pleaded with the president and
there was a unity, not conformity, in this Rabbi Avram powers that were, who organized and took
conglomeration. Mlotek to the streets to protest and demand action.
As the week went on and the president There must have been voices, like there are
announced his executive orders on immigra- today, that implored rabbis to stay away from
tion, I was thrust backward in time, looking through my politics, not to ruffle feathers, not to overly politicize. But
grandparents photo albums and reading their stories. As a there also were rabbis who accepted their mantle, who
grandchild of Holocaust survivors and refugees, I often think knew that they were part of a prophetic tradition that val-
about the worlds silence and Americas delayed interven- ued the sanctity of human life and were unafraid to rise
tion during World War II. While FDR and the Allies knew of up for the vulnerable.
the heinous war crimes being perpetuated against the Jews I see my family and community today my Jewish commu-
of Eastern Europe, the press failed to report these atroci- nity so protective of the memory of the Holocaust, of Hit-
ties though the Yiddish newspapers kept their readership ler, of the exceptionalism about the barbarism of Nazism that
informed. I remember as a teenager wondering what if allows them blinders stopping them from bearing witness to
while reading While Six Million Died by Arthur Morse, and the suffering of today. I see my community as so confident in
feeling full of shame. I have felt that same stomach-churning its own mythologized sense of its own uniqueness that it for-
uneasiness over the past years of the Syrian genocide, but gets the charge of serving as a light unto the nations and fails
the latest announcement delivered a new blow. to show up on behalf of those suffering besides themselves.
I imagined: how might I resist, if I were an innocent Syr- I see my people spiritually stuck in a place of
ian fleeing persecution? As a native Yiddish speaker, I never fear that does not allow them to fulfill the sacred
accepted the claim of the weak shtetl Yid, the idea that SEE SIDES PAGE 45

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Opinion
Lest we swallow each other alive
Remembering Rev. Peter Marshall
M
ore than 2,500 years ago,
t h e P ro p h e t Je re m i a h
warned, Seek the peace
and well-being of the city
where I have sent you into exile, and pray
to the Lord on its behalf, for in its peace
and well-being you will find your peace
and well-being ( Jeremiah 29:7).
Several centuries later, Rabbi Chanina,
the assistant high priest, put Jeremiahs
sentiment into even more compelling
terms: Pray for the peace and well-being
of the government. Were it not for the
fear thereof, people would swallow each
other alive (Pirkei Avot 3:2).
George Washington instinctively
assented to Jeremiah and Chaninas call
for prayer in 1789, when he added the
improvised So help me God to the oath
of office prescribed by Article II of the
United States Constitution. Every presi-
dent since has followed his example. As
Presidents Day (a late reformulation of
George Washingtons Birthday, Febru-
ary 22, which follows soon thereafter)
approaches this year, it is a particularly
propitious moment for us to adopt our
first presidents prayerful example.
Jews have acted on Jeremiahs coun-
sel in many countries throughout our
history. In my rabbinic study a leather-
bound, gilded 1896 Viennese siddur is on
display. The book invokes Gods bless-
ing upon the Fatherland, and specifi-
cally upon unserm Kaiser, the Austrian
Emperor Franz Josef I, and on the royal
family. My own community, Temple
The halachic ethos and female clergy
I
n a recent column, Rabbi Mitchell
Rocklin of the Tikvah Fund, who is
an executive committee member of
the Rabbinical Council of America,
misrepresented the Orthodox Unions newly
announced policy prohibiting female clergy
(Closing the door on Open Orthodoxy:
Why the Orthodox Union prohibited female
clergy, February 9).
He claimed that the OU prohibited women
clergy under strict halacha ( Jewish law), as
contrary to the biblical prohibition of fol-
lowing the religious paths of other nations.
Rocklin understood the OU to be making a
definitive statement about who may and may
not be called Orthodox. He characterized
proponents of female clergy as dissidents,
and recommended that they leave the Ortho-
dox community.
In fact, the eminent rabbinic panel com-
missioned by the OU to examine the ques-
tion of female clergy did not make a pointed
42 JEWISH STANDARD FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Emanuel of North Jersey, continues this
tradition by including a brief prayer for
the United States in our Shabbat morn-
ing worship, as do many contemporary
congregations. We elevate this prayerful
effort to a greater level of intensity with
our annual observance of Presidents Day,
attended by a broad segment of the Jew-
ish community, as well as elected officials
representing a variety of political persua-
sions and religious faiths.
As we draw upon our prescribed lit-
urgy or devise our own prayers for our
country, we do well to remember the sto-
ried career of a clergyman who devoted
much of his time and considerable skill
to that effort. Rev. Peter Marshall, a Scot-
tish immigrant and Presbyterian minis-
ter, occupied the pulpit of churches in
Atlanta and Washington, D.C., before
being appointed chaplain to the United
States Senate. Tragically, he died of a
heart attack at the age of 46, just two
years into his Senate ministry. His widow,
Catherine, wrote a popular biography of
her late husband, titled A Man Called
Peter. The movie adaptation by the same
name was nominated for an Academy
Award in 1955.
I have turned to the collected Senate
prayers of Peter Marshall from time to
time in my own congregational work, as,
too, in my personal life of prayer. His wis-
dom and spiritual sensitivity continue to
serve the nation well. During the week of
Washingtons Birthday in 1947, for exam-
ple, Rev. Marshall prayed on the Senate
halachic ruling, as Rocklin theorized. By its
own admission, the panel refrained from
issuing a classic teshuva or rabbinic respon-
sum, but instead wrote a position paper
that summarizes our extensive deliberations
[and] . . . conclusions. It underscored that
the conclusions were not based on any partic-
ular black letter biblical injunction. Nowhere
did the panel mention the supposed biblical
prohibition Rocklin referenced. Rather, the
panel emphasized that [t]he issue of female
clergy is complex, and touches upon not only
the dictates of halakhah, but also upon funda-
mental issues in our hashkafat olam (world
view).
The position paper only sparingly
addressed objective halachic bases for pro-
hibiting female clergy. Just two of the posi-
tion papers 17 pages are devoted to Hal-
akhic Perspectives on Women Clergy. And
the position paper disclosed: Members of
this group differ as to the relative weights
floor: Help our leaders to individuals, had moral obli-
weigh their words, that their gations that must transcend
words may carry weight. party loyalty, despite criti-
At times, Marshall cou- cism from personal detrac-
pled his characteristically tors and adverse media
poetic turn of phrase with attention:
a point illustrated through Forgive us, O God, that
accessible metaphor and we are so anxious, in all
popular cultural imagery: we say and do, to have the
We pray, O God, that Rabbi Joseph approval of men, forgetting
Thou wilt fill this sacred H. Prouser that it is Thy approval that
minute with meaning and brings us peace of mind and
make it an oasis for the clear conscience. Make us
refreshment of our souls, aware of the record Thou
a window cleaning for our vision, and a art writing We need to remember that
recharging of the batteries of our spirits. there is no party in integrity, no politics
Let us have less talking and more think- in goodness.
ing, less pressure and more prayer. For if Marshall also often addressed the
we are too busy to pray, we are far bus- closely related issue of personal spiri-
ier than we have any right to be. Speak tual hypocrisy and superficial public
to us, O Lord, and make us listen to Thy piety. May our faith be something that
broadcasting station that never goes off is not merely stamped on our coins, but
the air. expressed in our lives, he prayed before
So, too: Save us from hotheads that the Senate adjourned to celebrate Inde-
would lead us to act foolishly, and from pendence Day in 1947. Similarly, Deliver
cold feet that would keep us from acting us from the error of asking and expect-
at all. ing Thy blessing and Thy guidance in our
The young Senate chaplains prayers public lives while closing the doors to
frequently addressed the national mis- Thee in our private living.
sion of the United States, and its moral Notwithstanding his public responsi-
implications: Our Heavenly Father, if it bilities, Rev. Peter Marshall was first and
be Thy will that America should assume foremost a pastor, a man of God. Help
world leadership, as history demands us, O God, to treat every human heart
and the hopes of so many nations desire, as if it were breaking, and to consider
make us good enough to undertake it. the feeling of others as we do our own.
Marshall reminded his Senate flock Help us to be gentle, and to control our
that not only the nation, but they as tempers that we may learn to love one
accorded to each of these as an appreciation for, and
[halachic] concerns as well as application of, tradition as
whether each carries definitive the guide by which new ideas,
significance independently challenges and circumstances
or cumulatively. Instead, the are navigated. Halachic ethos
panel held that these [hala- analysis, the panel added,
chic] considerations combined assesses whether proposed
with [non-halachic] factors dis- changes and accommodations
cussed below, impose a legal will enable the community
preclusion to the appointment Daniel D. to advance the objectives of
of women clergy. Edelman an authentic Torah ethos, or
Rather than substantiat- simply accommodate prevail-
ing a ruling on pure halachic ing values and expectations,
grounds, the panel highlighted the Hal- often in opposition to the Torah worldview.
akhic Ethos as the primary basis for its The panel ascribed this halachic ethos
decision. It characterized this ethos as a methodology to Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveit-
collective world view emerging out of chik (the Rav). It wrote: For the Rav, the
general directives in the Torah, such as appreciation that Torah values could be
the biblical requirements of being holy and derived through the examination of the
doing goodness. It explained that this hala- Torahs legal sources was fundamental to
chic ethos underlie[s] the oft-referenced an understanding of Torah and the hal-
concept of masorah, which is defined akhic decision making process. The panel
 Opinion

another. Give us the grace so to live this
day. It is not difficult to imagine the
interpersonal dynamics that inspired
the chaplain to address such rudiments
of spirituality on the floor of the United
States Senate.
When faced with difficult decisions or
complex matters of policy and principle,
I often have turned to my favorite Peter
Marshall prayer, both timeless and timely
in its wisdom: Give to us clear vision that
we may know where to stand and what to
stand for because unless we stand for
something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall not only prayed for his
country, he taught his countrymen about
the nature of prayer, its limitations, pit-
falls, and potential:
Sometimes we pray for that which
is already ours, neglected and unused.
prayer he intended to deliver on the Sen-
ate floor the next day. In both word and
deed, he, too, seems to have embraced
the wisdom of Rabbi Tarfon. His prayer
was read in his name by a visiting mem-
ber of the clergy:
Deliver us, our Father, from futile
hopes and from clinging to lost causes,
that we may move into ever-growing
calm and ever-widening horizons. Where
we cannot convince, let us be willing to
persuade, for small deeds done are better
than great deeds planned. We know that
we cannot do everything. But help us to
do something.
Let us all do something as Presidents
Day nears. Let us continue the work of a
man called Peter, who died too young,
but whose memory endures as a blessing
to us all.

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Sometimes we pray for that which can
never be ours and sometimes for that
which we must do for ourselves. How
many times we never pray at all, and
then work ourselves to death to earn
something that is ours for the asking.
Help us to understand that faith without
works is dead and works without faith
can never live.
Whenever I conduct a funeral, I
include the words of Rabbi Tarfon, apt
reflections on human mortality recorded
in Pirkei Avot: The day is short and there
is much work to be done. You are not
obligated to complete the task, but nei-
ther are you free to desist from it. When
Peter Marshall died, he left behind a
Seek the peace and well-being of the
city where I have sent you into exile, and
pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its
peace and well-being you will find your
peace and well-being.
Pray for the peace and well-being of
the government.
Lest we swallow each other alive.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin
Lakes.
The Rev. Peter Marshall preaches
at a sunrise service in suburban
Maryland in 1942.

acknowledged, for example, that the Rav
employed halachic ethos considerations
more than 60 years ago in requiring that girls
receive the same talmudic education as boys.
To deduce the halakhic ethos of gender
roles in synagogue leadership, the panel
relied almost entirely on [d]ifferences
between the roles of men and women that
the Rav referenced in various lectures. The
panel then concluded that [w]e believe that
these distinctions are not merely a relic of
times bygone but reflect a Torah ethos a
masorah of different avenues and empha-
ses by which men and women are to achieve
identical goals the service of God and the
perpetuation of the Jewish people. Yet again,
however, there was disagreement among
panel members, with the majority opinion
finding that the appointment of women
clergy would be a contradiction to this hal-
akhic ethos.
Moreover, as the panel recognized, hal-
akhic ethos analysis differs from a pure
halachic determination, in that the latter
generally is an objective assessment while
the former takes stock of factual and subjec-
tive considerations. The Rav accentuated this
distinction, writing that the [t]he changes
in the realm of fact do not have a bearing
upon the a priori halakhic norm, but . . . the
ethos must be differently conceived. Where
Torah values are at issue, the Rav recognized
that [o]nly the general norm was legislated
by God: Be moral and lead a saintly life, be
holy and that there are an unlimited variety
of ways in which the general norm could be
implemented.
Consistent with this subjective halachic
ethos approach, the panel acknowledged that
differing factual circumstances play a part in
assessing the changing roles of women in
the modern Orthodox community. It wrote
[r]ole distinctions are not absolute and
it encourage[d] mothers and fathers to
assume appropriate roles and responsibili-
ties for their family circumstances despite
archetypical parenting roles in our tradition.
It also acknowledged that the halachic ethos
is strong enough to allow for some public
gender-based changes reflective of the world
in which we live, such as those impacting
synagogue architecture, writing that care
should continue to be taken to construct
mechitzot (separation barriers between men
and women) that . . . are also sensitive to the
degree of engagement with the services. Yet,
the panel felt constrained at this time from
extending this flexibility to [t]he formal
structure of synagogue leadership.
Certainly, eminent Torah scholars and
halachic authorities have a right indeed
the obligation to issue policy statements
about serious changes affecting the halachic
ethos. They are the stewards of the masorah.
But it is also vital to appreciate the sensitiv-
ity and scope of such decision-making. The
panels position paper was not a teshuva
defining who may be considered Orthodox,
and no one should exploit it as such. In fact,
the OU emphasized that there must be fur-
ther discussion based on achdut [unity]
and mutual respect . . . by convening and
promoting substantive dialogue, and . . . to
reach out and be inclusive, and resist push-
ing away any individuals who are committed
to the observance of halacha and who seek
to remain within the Orthodox camp.
Inevitably, there are a growing number
of female clergy proponents, institutions,
and organizations within Orthodoxy. Those
groups see resistance to female clergy titles
and roles as morally reprehensible, not
because of a desire to conform with societal
expectations but because such a discrimina-
tory prohibition is inconsistent, in their view,
with the obligations of morality and holiness
that are integral to the halachic ethos and thus
to the observance of mitzvot and the sustain-
ability of the Jewish people. As long as such
roles and titles are not uniformly deemed to
be in violation of strict halacha, it behooves
those who genuinely care about the masorah
to remain united in promoting halachic obser-
vance and morality, even if there is no univer-
sal consensus on the female clergy issue.
Let us all promote unity, not the schism
Rabbi Rocklin desires.
Daniel D. Edelman of Teaneck is a New York
City attorney.

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Opinion
Supporting our kids in college
O
ver the past several years, a
key and growing concern of
our Jewish community has
been: How do we prepare
our teens to be proud Jews and support-
ers of Israel once they are in college?
The Boycott, Divest, and Sanction
movement has generated alarming
levels of anti-Israel rhetoric and anti-
Semitism on college campuses. Tactics
have grown more hostile as well as more
strident. Some methods used at numer-
ous campuses, through coordinated
national funding and training, include
public displays accusing Israel of being
an apartheid or Nazi-like state, demon-
strations such as die-ins or fake evic-
tion notices slipped under dorm room
doors, and persistent disruption and
attempts to shut down pro-Israel speak-
ers. In contrast to sincere debate on the
issues, BDS efforts are designed to dele-
gitimize the Jewish state and intimidate
American Jewish students.
Its working. A recent survey by the
Steinhardt Social Research Institute at
Brandeis University found that more
than half of Jewish students reported
being exposed to anti-Semitism and
Cry, the beloved country
W
e should all be ashamed
and embarrassed.
We all should be very
ashamed and very embar-
rassed by our part in the political climate,
rhetoric, and lack of civility in the United
States. We have reached a point where
only lip service is paid to diversity, because
true diversity of thought is not allowed. If
you are conservative, differences are not
applauded if you dare to come out as being
pro-choice and in favor of gun control and
against school vouchers. If you are liberal,
differences are not applauded if you dare
to come out as being pro-life, pro guns, or
pro-Israeli settlements.
The Republicans and Democrats dont
have big tents. Instead, they have a Big
Top, where those with the loudest mouths,
who are willing to insult anyone in their
path, get the most attention. These dem-
agogues rose to the top of our political
consciousness by doing exactly what our
mothers told us not to do by putting oth-
ers down so they could rise up. It is the
complete opposite of our Jewish teach-
ings about doing unto others as you would
have them do unto you. It doesnt matter
that some people on the left and others
44 JEWISH STANDARD FEBRUARY 17, 2017
hostility toward Israel in the last year,
and nearly 60 percent of the schools
with the most Jewish students had inci-
dents involving the targeting of Jewish
students for harm, anti-Semitic expres-
sion, or BDS activity. Rutgers, Wiscon-
sin, NYU, and other popular schools
were named for having an especially
high number of incidents. Nearly half of
Jewish survey respondents had heard
messages such as Israelis behave like
Nazis toward the Palestinians, and
about one-quarter were blamed for
the actions of the Israeli government
because they were Jewish.
If you think this is limited to college
campuses, think again. Northern New
Jersey Jewish teens face anti-Semitism
in school, extracurricular activities, and
summer programs. Teenagers involved
in a Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey effort to address such issues had
many stories to tell. One high school
sophomore stopped wearing a Star of
David to school, hoping that the relent-
less taunts about Israelis being killers
would cease. Another teen reported
that on a summer program after his
freshman year, other students threw
on the right have many ideas that offend
the majority of the people. Some of these
ideas are so scary and beyond the pale of
what is acceptable in a capitalistic repub-
lic that in any sane time in history most
of them would be marginalized. Instead,
these charlatans, who claim to have magic
elixirs to cure our countrys woes and who
yell loudly and obscenely at any opposi-
tion, have risen to the highest offices in
our land.
During my lifetime there have been mas-
sive disagreements over policies. These
included the Vietnam war and affirmative
action. Each side was vocal about its posi-
tion, organized people and politicians to
garner support and advocated vigorously
for its side. Sometimes your side won and
sometimes your side lost. When you won,
you took your victory and savored it, but
you did not lord it over those who did not.
We were one nation. And when you lost,
you accepted the loss and either let it go,
or, if it was important enough (for exam-
ple, civil rights cases before the Supreme
Court), you reenergized your side for a
fight at another time, when politics might
be more in your favor. Then you worked to
elect officials who supported that position.
bacon at him in the cafete- Jewish students, even those
ria and called him Jew- with significant Jewish
boy. Several local high identity and knowledge of
schools have been defaced Israel, feel helpless when
with swastikas and similar a classmate, roommate or
graffiti. According to the friend expresses anti-Israel
Bergen County Prosecu- views that all too often
tors office, these types of have become mainstream.
incident are on the rise. Others feel uncomfortable
The impact on our chil- Lori Fein because they do not know
dren takes many forms. enough facts to counter
Students active in political common lies such as the
and social causes may find themselves apartheid analogy or defend their
excluded from some groups, particu- point of view. Rather than confronting
larly progressive ones, because of their someone they care about, many choose
support for Israel. Many attempts to to change the subject. The resulting
remove Jewish students from student disengagement from the debate leaves
council and other leadership positions a sense that discussing Israel invites
have cited visits to Israel on a Birthright unease.
trip as a basis for disqualification. Even Not all criticism of Israel is illegiti-
non-Jewish students with no particu- mate. As with any complicated topic,
lar views on the underlying issues have reasonable minds can differ on any
been attacked by BDS activists, some- number of issues. This makes it all the
times with frightening results. more difficult to distinguish legitimate
Not every student seeks leadership debate from delegitimization and pro-
positions. But when Jewish students feel paganda. Nuanced discussions of com-
uncomfortable expressing their views plex issues can get lost in the clear good
on Israel, they are silenced before they vs. evil narrative of Israels detractors.
begin a conversation. Time and again As parents prepare to send their kids
But then we moved forward the sidelines. Simply not
together as one country, com- promoting policies that you
mitted to working to make like, or even promoting poli-
our nation great. cies that are offensive to you,
Alas, the time of accep- isnt enough.
tance and civility has passed Like South Africa in the
and vitriol is the name of 1940s, as brilliantly cap-
the game. This occurs now tured in Alan Patons novel
through the relative anonym- Cry, the Beloved Country,
ity of social media, where Daniel M. our beloved country is at a
people (myself included) feel Shlufman crossroads but we seem
that it is not only proper but to be heading toward a time
actually required to argue of separation, not reconcili-
with people we dont know, using more ation. Its not that we cant handle the
emotion than facts. If posting articles truth as Jack Nicholson famously said in
relaying other peoples thoughts passes as A Few Good Men. Its that we are too lazy
support for a position, then we are headed to take the time to figure out what the truth
toward the death of independent thought is for ourselves. We would rather have the
and intellectualism. Both parties are quick talking heads of CNN, Fox, or MSNBC feed
to grab the mantle of the Holocaust or fling us the party.
the name of Hitler to put down a person or When cities and states set up sanctuar-
position on the other side. Jews often stay ies to protect illegal aliens who are accused
silent on this, and at their worst are acces- of crimes rather than following federal law
sories when their partisanship causes (whether you like the law or not), protest-
them to participate in this bastardization ing has moved toward anarchy. It is not
and degradation of the crime against our about politics, it is about the rule of law.
people. Until a party or politician advo- This time it is immigration, but for another
cates the murder of an entire group of president it could be about paying taxes to
people, we ought to keep these terms on support universal healthcare or abortion

off to college, they need to do more
than teach them to do laundry and
manage their finances. Our children
have to be informed about what they
may face, practice how to answer, and
know where to turn should a challeng-
ing situation arise. Moreover, they
need to connect with peers who are
experiencing the same situations, so
they know they are not alone and can
gain strength to answer rather than
avoid tough questions. Finally, no
matter how strong your teens identity
may be, additional inspiration serves
to inoculate them from the attacks
they may encounter.
This year, the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey, working with a
coalition of youth groups, pro-Israel,
and campus organizations and a task
force of teens from over 15 area high
schools, is launching a pilot program
on Sunday, March 5, called iCAN: I
Can Answer Now. The iCAN confer-
ence will empower area high school
students to wear their Judaism with
pride. Jewish teens from all back-
grounds will gather for common pur-
pose. Renowned speakers, including
Alas, the time
of acceptance
and civility has
passed and
vitriol is
the name of
the game.
rights. We cant have states refusing to
follow federal law. If we do, we will no
longer be the United States; instead,
we will be a confederacy of states. And,
ironically, we are heading this way not as
a result of a war that was won 150 years
ago, but rather by an intolerance of oth-
ers. As a result, through conduct not
war, the Civil Wars results may reverse,
150 years after its last shot was fired.
Most disappointing of all is that we
cant accept the concept that issues are
nuanced, and at times we must accept
the fact that there can be two competing
Chloe Valdary, Shahar Azani, and
Milan Chattergee, will educate and
inspire, while students on campus
now will share their experiences and
lessons learned. In workshops, stu-
dents will get a chance to practice
answers. Parents can attend a special
program with Rabbi Dan Smokler, Hil-
lel Internationals chief innovation
officer. To cap the day, comedian Jon
Rudnitsky, a Saturday Night Live alum
and proud Zionist, will give a different
take on how to stand up. Teens will
leave informed, inspired, energized,
proud, and ready to tackle whatever
they may encounter.
The issues on campus are difficult
and serious, but by coming together to
face them, not only can we fight BDS
and anti-Semitism, we can strengthen
ourselves, our kids, and our commu-
nity in the process.
Lori Fein is the director of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jerseys Jewish Community Relations
Committee. Register free for the iCAN
conference at www.jfnnj.org/ican, or
email Lori at LoriF@JFNNJ.org.
and seemingly contradictory truths that
co-exist. Without this understanding,
there is no way to negotiate a compro-
mise between these positions. Some
competing truths are that our country
has a history of immigration, and immi-
grants rights need to be supported. At
the same time, we have a right to limit
immigration and to protect the safety
of those living in the country. Similarly,
the Second Amendment allows for gun
ownership. At the same time gun own-
ership must to be regulated and limited
to protect our citizenry. Also, Israel has
a right to a secure Jewish state but the
Palestinians also have a right to a state,
as long as they can accept the existence
of a Jewish one.
If we do not accept that our adver-
sary is motivated by good intentions and
just does not share our vision, there is
no way for us to continue to exist as one
indivisible nation.
Daniel Shlufman of Tenafly is a member
of the board of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey and one of its
current cohort of Berrie Fellows. He is an
attorney and a mortgage broker.
At the Manhattan rally last Sunday, protestor Harold Levine held a poster show-
ing his grandfather, who immigrated to the United States more than 100 years
ago, fleeing anti-Semitism in his native Poland.
Sides
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commandment of loving the stranger, the
foreigner.
Over the last weeks I have looked inward
and at my religion, practicing my tradition,
imploring my God, studying my history and
staring at my people as I ask: How did we
arrive here?
I am not a policy expert, political pundit,
or lawmaker. But as a Zionist and religious
Jew, I am compelled to push my Ortho-
dox community and Jewish Trump sup-
porters: How do we account for the presi-
dent failing to mention Jewish deaths in
the Holocaust? How do we come to terms
with House Republicans who avoid voting
on a resolution stating that the Holocaust
targeted Jews? How do we justify banning
an entire religion from entering the United
States who come from countries that have
not produced a terrorist on U.S. soil in
decades? What do we make of Trumps
countless tweets that do not include even
one announcement of the dozens of bomb
threats against Jewish institutions? How do
we rationalize the presidents obsession
with his own persona? The Talmud teaches
that one who is arrogant is like an idol wor-
shipper. What then do we say of the man
who builds towers to the sky with his name
emblazoned on them?
As Jewish parents, what do we say to
our children, especially our daughters,
when they discover we have elected a man
accused dozens of times of sexual miscon-
duct, who has said the most misogynistic
and vile things about women, who rates
women on their physical appearance alone?
Is this the Torah value of walking humbly
with our God, of treating each human being
with dignity and respect, and acting as if we
believe that each person carried the image
of God in them? How do we explain the twit-
tering bully-in-chiefs childlike behavior?
And what do we say to the prime minister
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JOSEFIN DOLSTEN
of the State of Israel, who strives and claims
to represent Jewish people all over the
world, when he enthusiastically congratu-
lates and aligns himself with a man who
has emboldened a new generation of
anti-Semitism?
I carry my family and people within me
wherever I go. I accept that there is a time
for war and a time for peace. I hold the
dissonances that shaped my identity and
believe them integral to my spiritual DNA.
I pray for the welfare of this United States
government and all its elected officials. That
is why I cannot accept the presidents rheto-
ric, behavior, language, or executive orders
as being aligned with normative religious
values or stay silent.
This is a deeper divide than Republican,
Democrat, liberal, conservative it is about
moral decency. In Hebrew, its derech eretz.
For all the creative and provocative signs
on Saturday, January 21, and at the rallies
since then, God hasnt made it onto very
many cardboard posters. But I felt God
with me then as I do now, emboldened by
the outpouring of love for the most vulner-
able in our society, touched by the com-
munity that forms itself within hours, even
moments, after learning of a new damning
decree. I feel God as I encounter a Trump
supporter and demand to understand
why the newest form of blatant racism
feels acceptable to him. I feel God in these
moments of dissonance and despair, and I
believe wholeheartedly that light will prevail
amid this invasive darkness.
We must wake up, as the prophets
demanded, rise up, and speak out. As
Elie Wiesel once said, Neutrality helps
the oppressor, never the victim. So, Jews:
Which side are we on?
Rabbi Avram Mlotek grew up in Teaneck,
where his parents still live. He is the
grandchild of Holocaust refugees and a
founder of Base Hillel, a new model for
Jewish engagement..
Letters
Women clergy the change is organic
and necessary
The op ed piece on the OUs letter about women clergy
claims that this change in the modern Orthodox world is
the result of external, inorganic trends (Closing the door
on Open Orthodoxy, February 10). Nothing can be farther
from the truth.
The women clergy whom I have met are the daughters,
sisters, and wives of the modern Orthodox world (in my
case, a daughter-in-law). They are the daughters of rabbis
and scholars. All the members of the first graduating class
were daughters of rabbis.
I have seen them serve communities, performing tasks
that all men and women can do. I have attended their
classes, heard their sermons, marveled at their leader-
ship, seen them direct old rituals and new(ish) ones, and
even call out when it is time for mourners kaddish at
minchah. I have seen them not only answer questions on
family purity, but build a mikvah. I also have seen them
deal with the mess after the criminal behavior of a pillar
of the RCA and OU.
As Hillel said, If I am only for myself what am I? I also
have seen Orthodox women clergy lead the Jewish com-
munity in efforts that go beyond our parochial interests,
working with others and building alliances. Rabbi Rock-
lins list of modern Orthodoxys struggles with tuition
costs, the atmospheres of secular colleges, high costs of
living, helicopter parenting says much about what so
many people find to be missing in modern Orthodoxy. Is
it surprising that people are uninspired by the priorities
that Rabbi Rocklin lists, and instead are looking for fresh
voices for Torah values and a meaningful Jewish life?
Modern Orthodoxy has certified 20th century exter-
nal, inorganic changes like Zionism, womens education,
womens communal leadership, and bat mitzvahs. Mod-
ern Orthodoxy did so despite the gap that it created with
the non-modern Orthodox. This is not the time for it to
deny the internal, organic development of women clergy.
It can close its doors now to the synagogues and Jews who
appreciate what women clergy bring, but it will accept its
own daughters in the long run.
Mark Friedman
Former Director, Institute for Public Affairs,
Orthodox Union, Englewood
Decision an insult
Having read both the OU statement and the rabbinic
responses regarding women in leadership roles in the
Orthodox community, I was disappointed but not sur-
prised by the decision (Debating a ban, February 10).
The rabbinic decision was based on 3 main features:
halakha, mesora (precedent) and halakhic ethos. The hal-
akhic decision was based primarily on a statement in Sifri
that the women cannot be appointed king. Disregarding
the questionable comparison of rabbi to king, what are we
to make of Devora the judge and Shelomtzion the queen
of Judea? Women who were leaders of the Jewish people?
The mesora and halakhic ethos sections site no sources
at all. The rabbis state that the absence of institutional-
ized womens rabbinic leadership has been both deliber-
ate and meaningful. Deliberate certainly. Meaningful to
whom? And why?
This is an insult to Orthodox women and men who can
envision a more egalitarian leadership structure within
halakha. New and halakhically valid minyanim are being
founded and are growing, where women plan a more vital
and meaningful role than ever before.
In this nearsighted statement, the OU risks being left
behind as irrelevant.
Susan Fishbein
Englewood
46 JEWISH STANDARD FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Torah was given to men and women
It seems that the men do not think of women as equals.
Is Judaism just for men? Isnt it interesting that none of
our accepted Jewish texts were written by women? Yes,
we Jews had women leaders throughout history, but
they did not have a say in Orthodoxy, which did not exist
in name until the past two centuries. Rabbinic Judaism
involved only men. Orthodoxy followed, and it involved
only men. Women should proclaim their independence
now. They should disregard the rules set by men, and
form their own rules. Repeat the lessons of prior wom-
ens groups, who achieved success in achieving equal-
ity. Man by brute physical strength assumed the role of
master. Women, by their reasoning power, can and have
overcome that physicality. There are more female lead-
ers of countries than ever at this date. That is because
democracy has enabled that path to leadership.
The Orthodox world is not democratic, and only by a
comparable all-women movement that grows in power
can equality be achieved. The Torah was given to men and
women at Sinai. Its commandments are for both sexes.
Let all involved remember that without women, there
would not be a continuation of the Orthodox brand of
Judaism!
Shel Haas
Fort Lee
Safety first
In reality, I should copy my old letters to the Jewish Stan-
dard (there have been many) about my confrontations
with street walkers, because no rabbi or civilian ever has
responded to me.
The street walkers of Teaneck do not wear orange
safety belts or keep in single file. They walk dead center
in our streets; moving vehicles are not banned on Shab-
bat and chagim. Their children straggle behind them,
and many wear black coats, particularly in the winter
months. Our days are short, and our walks to and from
houses of worship are slippery. (I said our, meaning
all of our walks.).
There is no explanation for this behavior, even in the
summer, spring, or fall. But in the winter, homeowners
are required by law to shovel their sidewalks. Teaneck
has created many, many sidewalks with handicapped
access at the corners, so there is no excuse for the walk-
ing in the streets. You are setting a terrible example for
the children. You are taking your lives into your own
hands. Even if I were driving at 20 mph, I would have
difficulty seeing a small child darting into the center of
the street.
What is your investment in your familys life? Can
they wear a reflector belt? Wear a neon bright light
flasher? And even with these basics of nighttime walk-
ing, how about trying to walk on the sidewalk? So wait
to schmooze until you get home. Trade in the black gar-
ments for a lighter outer coat. And do not allow your
children to escape from the safety of your hand.
I work hard to shovel my sidewalks. I work hard to
drive very carefully and very observantly another
meaning for the word observant. So if you are obser-
vant, make it your business to stay on the sidewalk, not
in the street, and make sure your children do not use the
streets for footfall in the afternoon.
Young kids always think that they are faster than the
car coming around the corner. Teaneck and the sur-
rounding burbs are chock full of small parks and play-
ing fields.
Safety first used to be a motto on TV. Its a shame we
forget.
Sandra Steuer Cohen
Teaneck
Pardon Pollard
It was with sadness but not surprise that I have not yet
read of any efforts by any individuals or Jewish orga-
nizations to urge the pardon of Jonathan Pollard dur-
ing the final days of President Obama or currently now
under President Trump.
The action of President Obama to commute the sen-
tence of Chelsea Manning to seven years was the time
to make this plea. Manning was sentenced to only 35
years in prison after being found guilty of releasing
over 700,000 documents, many of them marked with
various grades of secrecy while a member off our mili-
tary. The release of some of the documents caused the
death of individuals who aided our military. Manning
according to Obama had served a tough prison sen-
tence. The sentence was disproportionate. Manning
served a significant amount of time.
Pollard served more time in solitary confinement
than Manning spent in jail. His life sentence was far
more disproportionate than any other person sen-
tenced for the same crime. His actions did not cause
the loss of life due to the passing on of information to
our ally, Israel. He pleaded guilty to one count of pass-
ing classified information to an ally, saving our govern-
ment the need for a trial which most probably would
have caused great discomfort and embarrassment to
our government.
What an excellent opportunity for those supposedly
representing our community to urge President Trump
to grant Pollard a pardon and allow Pollard to travel
home to Israel with Prime Minister Netanyahu when
he comes here on his state visit. What an excellent way
to start a new dawn of relations between the U.S. and
Israel.
Howard J. Cohn
New Milford
Best of both worlds
I am not a supporter of Mr. Trump, nor do I always
agree with Rabbi Boteach, but I do agree with some
of his statements in his recent column (Moral light
on Trumps temporary immigration ban, February 3).
If this country banned all immigrants many years
ago, my grandparents would not have been allowed
to enter and I wouldnt exist. But both of my grand-
parents did come here, one from Russia and one from
Italy, and because of that I was born into a loving Jew-
ish/Italian family. I was raised Jewish, but I was close
to both sides of my family, and because of that I am
accepting of all nationalities and religions. At that time,
intermarriage was frowned on, but my family made it
work. I went to my fathers side of the family for Easter
and Christmas, and they came to my house for Pass-
over. I wasnt allowed to have a Christmas tree, but I
was not deprived of decorating one. My aunt and uncle
always left some of the decorations for me to put on
the tree.
Both of my sons married non-Jewish women, but I
couldnt ask for two more wonderful daughters-in-law,
and all of my grandchildren are knowledgeable about
both their religions. When it became too difficult for
me to have all the holiday dinners at my house (after
all, I am 80 years old), one son now hosts the break-
fast on Yom Kippur and the other one has Passover. I
still do Chanukah, and of course I am at their houses
for Christmas and Easter dinners.
I always tell people that I had the best of both worlds
and I did.
Roberta Gross
West Milford
 Opinion

What Maimonides teaches us about Trump

I
f anyone can be said to In the wake of this
have discovered the for- comment, legions of
mula for a world with- pundits expressed
out evil, that accolade their horror that less
belongs to the great medieval than one month after
Jewish philosopher Moses Mai- an inauguration in
monides. For through cogni- which he pledged
tion of the truth, Maimonides fealty to the Consti-
wrote, enmity and hatred tution, the sitting
are removed and the inflict- Ben Cohen U.S. president would
ing of harm by people on one compare this nation
another is abolished. to Russia Americas
The successful search for truth is a nec- traditional foe, whose political sys-
essary condition for a world in which tem is designed to restrict, rather
peace reigns. As the Book of Isaiah, than expand, the freedom of the
cited by Maimonides, declares, Open individual.
ye the gates, that the righteous nation But there are many others who
which keepeth the truth may enter in. found Trumps candor liberating.
The accent here on keeping the truth is His remark can be interpreted as
significant; it suggests that truth is not shattering the very same assumption
something that we passively receive, that caused the objections to it: that
but something for which we strive, and American liberty is superior to Rus-
something that we hold dear in the face sian autocracy.
of competing claims based on false- In a world in which our first, and Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
hoods and misrepresentations. perhaps our only, mission is to our- KREMLIN.RUANDWHITEHOUSE

At the same time, this vision is the
polar opposite of the reality of politics,
as it actually has been practiced during
the last several centuries.
Politics revolves around conflict, com-
petition, and cooperation: over power,
over resources, over territories, but ulti- does bad things, including Americans,
mately over how those whose destiny is
to be ruled interpret the world around
them. In that vein, history shows us that
there have been periods of relative intel-
lectual harmony, when certain basic
truths about humanity are generally
Trump inserts a hefty
dose of his own brand
of realism: everyone
does bad things,
including Americans.
recognized, and periods like now of
notable rancor, when the very assump-
tions that guide not just our thinking,
but our values and identities, are dug
up by the roots.
Some of you no doubt are urging me
to get to the point, and quite a few of
you have probably figured out that the
trigger for these reflections is President
Donald Trumps pre-Super Bowl inter-
view with Bill OReilly of Fox News on
selves, a belief like this one is a relic
of the past. So, in place of elite plati-
tudes about the enduring importance
of personal liberty, a free press, and fair
elections, Trump inserts a hefty dose
of his own brand of realism: everyone
and Americans therefore shouldnt
use their own standards to judge those
with whom, like Putin, they seek to
cooperate.
That is why, in my view, the White
House will remain unmoved by protests
based on the facts that Putin
shoots and poisons his oppo-
nents both at home and abroad,
that Russia is a mafia state, and
that the Russian security appa-
ratus whose media constantly
pushes conspiracy theories
about American military opera-
tions is likely responsible for
one or two false flag terrorist
outrages of its own.
Such indifference leads to a
deeper fear: that rather than just negoti-
ating with these adversaries, as all presi-
dents have done, we will start adopting
their habits and their ways of thinking.
Those who dont instinctively recoil at
such a prospect should consider what
the world would look like now had
America adopted such a stance in, for
example, the 1970s, when the political
climate what with oil crises, reces-
sions, and terrorism arguably was just
have been possible had America been
disengaged and morally detached. As
for where it would leave us now, wed
probably be dealing with Putin in his
capacity as the secretary-general of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Additionally, the American public
might not have been such an authentic
base of support for Israel had it relent-
Additionally, the American public
might not have been such an
authentic base of support for
Israel had it relentlessly been
told that U.S. allies are a drain
on the countrys resources.
lessly been told that U.S. allies are a
drain on the countrys resources, and
that America shares some of the fea-
tures of a police state. Would succes-
sive decades of polling have shown that
a comfortable majority of Americans
share some sense of common purpose
with the people of Israel? Im not so
sure, if only for the reason that when
you look sullenly inward, its difficult to realists take note that in an anarchic
see anything benevolent on the outside.
None of that precludes having shared
interests with other states, but shared
interests are very different from the
Trump administration, such as its
tougher line on Iran and its warmth
toward Israel, we shouldnt be under
illusions about the worldview underly-
ing it. You dont need to be an ardent
advocate of democracy promotion to
recognize the corrosive effects of no
longer distinguishing between democ-
racies and tyrannies.
No society has wrestled more with the
realization that the purposes, desires,
opinions, and beliefs in the words
of Maimonides of human beings fre-
quently lead to evil outcomes than has
the United States. You might say that
this awareness of imperfection is what
makes Americans free and gives them
moral purpose. It also teaches us
world, casually tossing aside your most
precious values in full view of those who
already disdain them is a sign of weak-
ness, not strength. JNS.ORG

February 5. In the most widely quoted
passage of their exchange, Trump
repeated his respect for Russian dicta-
tor President Vladimir Putin. But hes
a killer, OReilly cut in.
There are a lot of killers. You think
our countrys so innocent? Trump
retorted.
as ripe for the kinds of populism weve
seen emerge in America and Europe.
Recall the great anxieties of the Jewish
people back then: Would Israel have
survived the Yom Kippur War? Would
rays of light have opened for the Jews
imprisoned in the Soviet Union? All
these triumphs of survival might not
proposition that it is shared values the
bedrock of the U.S. relationship with
Israel and other democracies that
stand between todays America and a
reworking of the catastrophes of the 20th
century.
While we therefore might embrace
some of the policy decisions of the
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.
org and the Tower magazine, writes a
weekly column on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has
been published in Commentary, the
New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.

JEWISH STANDARD FEBRUARY 17, 2017 47

Dvar Torah

Yitro: God is also a refugee

P
arashat Yitro is sacred lines. The Israelites were a people of refugees. with them wherever they were.
what we have all The most recognizable ele- That model from the Torah gave solace This critical notion is embedded in the
been waiting for, ment of this parashah through- and guidance to the people through the ages book of Exodus. The first half of the book
the moment when out most of Jewish history was as we moved from place to place, escap- is about the people leaving Egypt, while the
the Israelites arrive at Sinai. that the holiest moment in ing lands of trouble as we made our way to second half of the book is about God leaving
They have left Egypt, and our sacred history, that of the lands of promise. The wandering Jews took Sinai. After the excitement of parashat Yitro,
they gather at the foot of the establishment of the covenant the Torah wherever they went. It could be the bulk of the remainder of the book is
mountain to establish the cov- of the Torah with God, takes packed in a bag and carried around the devoted to the construction of the Taberna-
enant with God. The tension in place in the wilderness as the shoulder. A religion based on a covenant cle, the portable sanctuary that would allow
the parashah between chapter Rabbi Dr. people are leaving Egypt but of text and praxis, as expressed in parashat Gods presence, awesomely encountered
18, when Moses receives sage David J. Fine not yet in sight of their destina- Yitro, rather than a place-based cult, as is by the people in our parashah in Exodus 19,
advice from his father-in-law Temple Israel and tion. The Israelites of parashat emphasized alternatively in Deuteronomy, to be carried with the people. The people
JCC, Conservative,
Jethro, and the revelation of Ridgewood
Yitro are a refugee people. The was ideally suited to a people who so often move on only knowing that God will move
the Ten Commandments that monument of their founding found itself uprooted and decentered. on with them just as Gods presence spreads
follows, sets up what we can moment is a text, not a place. The key element of a religion of refugees only when the people are willing and able to
recognize as the three branches of govern- There is no Jewish tradition about where is the model of God as refugee. When Jeru- take God with them, to pack that scroll in a
ment: the judiciary, represented here by the Mount Sinai is (although there are Christian salem fell to the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E., bag over the shoulder, as in later years. The
court system with the high court of seventy and Muslim traditions about the location the people brought their stories and tradi- essence of the religiosity that comes from
elders that Jethro counsels Moses to estab- of the mountain). Our holy space is Jerusa- tions, their law and lore, to Babylon. There this part of the Torah is the worship of an
lish; the executive, represented by Moses, lem where the ancient Temple stood, but in the refugee scribes redacted their texts into ambulatory God by an ambulatory people.
with Aaron, and Joshua and his men; and the parashat Yitro Gods presence temporarily the Pentateuch as we know it, and there they We are ingrained by our historical-cultural
legislature, which is represented here as the rests atop a mountain, above a temporary accepted the radical notion that Gods pres- DNA as refugees who believe in a God who
text of the law, not only of the tablets but of encampment of the people. Parashat Yitro ence was not restricted to Jerusalem, that is a refugee. Gods sovereignty is all-power-
the continued legislation that follows. situates the essence of Jewishness in a dias- Gods power was not anesthetized by the ful because it can survive displacement and
While the Torah may not have been pora context where home and hearth are conquests of Nebuchadnezzar. rejection. So also is the strength and dignity
read in its time as pre-ordaining a three- moving targets. Mount Sinai, the place where The Jewish refugees in Babylon believed of the refugee. This is an ethic we should
branched governmental structure, it is hard God and humanity met, was a way-stop that God was a refugee with them, that God remember today as we recognize ourselves
for us not to recognize ourselves within its along a refugee route out of Egyptian slavery. accompanied them into exile, and would be in the text.

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 Arts & Culture
Try not to cry
Still, watch this Oscar-nominated film about a Holocaust survivor and his violin
CURT SCHLEIER

F
ilmmaker Kahane Cooperman
hasnt written an Oscars accep-
tance speech yet, but its likely
that she will before the Academy
Awards ceremony on February 28.
Not to jinx things or appear overcon-
fident, Cooperman said, but on the
chance it happens, for fear of leaving
someone out.
Her film, Joes Violin, is up for an
award for short documentary. Thats a cat-
egory typically ignored by viewers, who
are more interested in what Emma Stone
is wearing. Its a 24-minute-long five-hand-
kerchief weeper; a joyous paean to the
human spirit and a testimony to how sim-
ple acts of kindness can have important
and far-reaching implications.
The (appropriately) short version of
the films story: The eponymous Joe is Joe
Feingold, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor
from Poland. About three years ago, the
lifelong violinist realized that he no longer
had the dexterity to play well enough to
live up to his own standards. Joe Feingold and Brianna Perez in the Oscar-nominated short documentary Joes Violin. JOES VIOLIN

I had some good ideas of how a violin

should be played, he said. And I couldnt
do it anymore. The violin was here, in its
case in my apartment, and I thought I
should make some use out of it.
He considered selling the instrument,
but then heard an announcement on
WQXR, New Yorks classical music station.
Working in conjunction with the Mr. Hol-
lands Opus Foundation an outgrowth of
the film that won Richard Dreyfus an Oscar
nomination the station was looking for
used instruments to be donated to needy
New York City schoolchildren.
So Joe hopped on a bus and went to the
collection point at Lincoln Center, and he
left his treasured violin there. Matters may
have stood there were it not for the fact
that Feingold and his instrument had a fas-
cinating past, and for a second fact the
recipient, Brianna Perez, 12 at the time,
had a potentially amazing future
They were two strangers, connected by
a fiddle.
Feingold was born in Warsaw in 1923.
After the Nazis invaded in 1939, word
reached the family that his father was
about to be arrested. So Feingold and his
dad fled to eastern Poland, then under
Russian rule. But the Hitler-Stalin pact
changed everything. Father and son were
sent to separate Siberian labor camps, and
although they both survived, Feingolds
mother and one of his two brothers, who
stayed behind, did not.
After the war, Feingold made his way
to a displaced persons camp in Germany.
One day he was at a flea market and saw a
violin like Prousts madeleine, it brought
back memories of happier times. Lacking
money, he bartered a carton of cigarettes
for the instrument.
Why a violin?
Because I had a violin since childhood, the film.
he said. I loved the violin. I studied it. I
played it. I wasnt a great violinist, but the
music I made, it meant something to me.
I missed it.
Music was central to his prewar life,
Feingold said. His mother sang espe-
cially the songs of Edvard Grieg and the
family performed weekly for guests.
In the film, Feingold downplays the sig-
nificance of his donation.
I thought it was just a violin, he said.
It was a simple thing. I dont use it. Let
someone else have it.
But during our conversation per-
haps because hes had time to reflect, or
perhaps because he wants to promote
the documentary he offers a different
perspective.
I always thought it should mean some-
thing to the person who gets it, just as it did
for me, he said. It played such a great role
in my life. When I found out that the violin
was given to a girl in the South Bronx, thats
exactly what I dreamed would happen.
That girl, Brianna, is an old or, at least,
a middle-aged soul in a youthful body.
She was a student at the Bronx Global
Learning Institute for Girls, a K through 8
school where every pupil is taught violin
from day one.
She grasped the significance of the gift
relatively quickly. That violin has so many
secrets that nobody knows, she says in
ling about this one, she said. It stood out
Cooperman calls Brianna the most
amazing 12-year-old.
She had an innate respect and pro-
found understanding of why this violin
was meaningful beyond just a musical
instrument, added the filmmaker, a first-
generation American whose father left
Germany in 1934.
Cooperman heard about Feingolds
donation during a promotional segment
on WQXR in 2013. That sparked the idea
for the documentary.
The earlier parts of the violins odys-
sey are told in a voice-over at the begin-
ning of the film. But the viewers see
everything else: We are at the assembly
where a teacher chokes up as she tells stu-
dents about the violin and its donor, and
announces that Brianna will receive it. We
are there when Feingold reads the letter
Brianna wrote, inviting him to the school.
We watch him at a different assembly
addressing the students, and later as he
listens to Brianna play the Grieg number
she practiced painstakingly.
Did any of the events take place because
there was a camera there to film it?
Cooperman says no, this violin and its
tale would have been treated specially
even if she hadnt been there.
I think everyone knew that while all the
3,000 instruments donated in this drive
had a story, there was something compel-
from the pack.
Cooperman launched the film while still
working as a co-executive producer on
The Daily Show, a gig she got 18 years
earlier because of her background as a
documentarian. She quit the job, she said,
to return to her roots.
Making money was never part of this
for me, Cooperman said. It was a labor
of love.
In fact, Cooperman and her producer,
Raphaela Neihausen, needed Kickstarter
to crowdsource the funding. Its unlikely
that all 277 backers of the film will be men-
tioned in her planned Oscar speech.
I do not see Joes Violin specifically
as a Holocaust film for me its more
about human connection and hope,
Cooperman said. But I am very proud
that through Joe, we hear a first-person
account, especially when there are fewer
and fewer voices left.
Like most short documentary nomi-
nees, the film is available online at www.
JoesViolin.com.  JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Calendar
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Shabbat in Wayne: Professionals) at the particularly Temple Beth Northern Valley begins
Rabbi Meeka Simerly Kaplen JCC on the Tikvah religious school a fundraising series,
talks about her recent Palisades in Tenafly, parents, at their Wayne Mah jongg...The Fun
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Shabbat in Teaneck:
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school and family
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Wednesday Accompanying photos must
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musical services with
78-year-old Greek man (201) 704-3768. weeks in advance. Not every
the Temple Emeth Band, Election consequences: Game night in Paramus:
and his chasidic rapper release will be published.
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and The JCC of Fort Lee/ Music in Fair Lawn: Womens Philanthropy
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Weekly Tanach class

will begin in Teaneck
Rabbi Daniel Fridman will lead the Teaneck Tanach Study
Group at the Jewish Center of Teaneck on Mondays, from
7:45 to 8:30 p.m., after Maariv at 7:30.

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The five-week course is an analysis of Megillat Esther.
After Purim, the group will study the beginning of the
Prophets, the Book of Joshua.
All are welcome to join. For information, call (201) 833-
0515 or email office@jcot.org. Rabbi Daniel
Fridman

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Seeking artists to exhibit at the JCC

The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly is looking for painters, photogra-
phers, digital artists, and other creative
designers to exhibit at its Waltuch Art
Gallery, on the centers second floor. The
focus of the gallery is to exhibit themati-
cally Jewish artwork or art produced by
Jewish artists.
To be considered for a solo exhibition,
submit a brief bio and artists statement,
show title and theme, three or four high-
resolution jpegs of pieces that you plan
to include in the show, the price range,
and your website, if you have one.
Exhibits run from four to eight weeks
and include a meet-the-artist reception
hosted by the artist, who buys food
for it through the JCC Cafe. All exhibit
work should be for sale, allowing a por-
tion of the proceeds to support JCC
programming.
Submissions should be sent to Nina
Bachrach at nbachrach@jccotp.org. For
information, call Nina at (201) 408-1406.
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The Bergen Performing Arts Center, at 30 North Van Brunt St. in Englewood, presents
two giants of Motown the Temptations and the Four Tops as part of the Kundert
Volvo Concert series, set for Thursday, March 23, at 8 p.m.
The groups will perform classics, including the iconic My Girl, Papa Was a Rollin
Stone, and Reach Out (Ill Be There).
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Purim Crossword
PRESIDENTS DAY BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Think Purim March 12
Many organizations are selling cards for Purim. These are the ones we know about
so far.
Across
Sinai Schools offers Purim cards for $1 each. Since 1982, Sinai has provided Jewish
1. About or a former kosher restaurant in
education for children and young adults with a broad spectrum of learning and downtown Manhattan
developmental disabilities. Cards can be picked up at Sinai offices at the Rosenbaum 6. Cant stand (Like Newman of Jerry)
Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge; at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, 11. UWS clock setting
Maayanot Yeshiva High School, and Heichal HaTorah High School, all in Teaneck, or 14. Ahava application words
15. Tu bShvat honoree
at the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston. To order, call (201) 833-1134,
16. Kanes Batman & Robin, e.g.
ext. 106, or www.sinaischools.org/purimcards. Cards also are on sale at Maadan 17. Oldest serving president
Caterers, Best Glatt, and in the gift shop at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck. 19. Tree thats an anagram of legend
Brooks
Leket Israel, Israels National Food Bank and largest food rescue network, is selling 20. Lake in New York or a camp near
Morasha and Lavi
Purim cards. It costs $36 for 18 cards and envelopes, $70 for 36, $90 for 54, and
21. Jewish Federation of Greater ___
$170 for 108. Unlimited Purim e-cards, picture cards and video cards are available Moines
online for $18. To order, call Elena at (201) 331-0070, ext. 2, or go to purim.leket. 22. Taking the Jews out of Egypt, e.g.
org. Contributions support the distribution of fresh produce and hot meals to 23. A Steve Madden
those in need throughout Israel. 25. Klein competitor
27. First president
32. Snake in a plane with Indiana Jones
Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization supporting Jewish women and 33. Suffix with cash (shekel recipient)
families facing breast and ovarian cancer, offers Purim cards. This years cards 34. Lauder and others
have been redesigned. The inside text reads: In lieu of Mishloach Manot this 36. Flows very slowly into a mikvah
Purim, a gift has been made in your honor to Wishing you and your family a 39. Benjamin to Judah, for short
41. Vodka that sounds like the Western
Purim filled with joy, happiness, and good health! A package of 12 costs $36 and
Wall
can be picked up in Teaneck at Sharsherets offices, 1086 Teaneck Road, Suite 2G, 42. Start a trip (or to make aliyah)
through March 10; they can be shipped until March 7. For information, call (201) 44. Item left behind by many making
833-2341 or go to www.sharsheret.org. aliyah
46. Words not heard at an 8-Down wed-
ding
47. Longest serving president
51. Abound (like a locust plague)
52. Israeli singer Naim
53. Hamans raffles
56. You might say Job got into a real
bad one
58. Elisheba to Aaron
62. ___ Idiot Brother (Paul Rudd film)
63. President who recently got out of
prison
65. Great serve by Yishai Oliel
66. Eye parts that were striking on David
67. Winona (Ryder) in Beetlejuice
68. Makes like Ron Blomberg in the
lineup
69. Prep group for future soldiers
70. Love ___ Around (The Mary Tyler 59. Kosher inspector inspectors: Abbr.
Moore Show theme)
The solution to last weeks puzzle is
on page 55.
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Down
1. Be guilty of nivul peh
2. Blessed ___ who shepherds...
(Ezekiel 25:17...in Pulp Fiction)
3. Strap many an Egyptian might have
pulled at the Red Sea
4. 1978 Jane Fonda James Caan film,
___ Horseman
5. I
6. JSwipe, e.g.
7. What the Nile did, once
8. See 46-Across
9. It fits all
10. 6 and 431 in Isr.
11. Biblical plot
12. Kirks helmsman
13. Arnold and Brady
18. Mother-in-law of Ruth
22. Speak from the pulpit
24. Ram mates
26. Stop for those sent to Siberia
27. Feldman or Haim
28. Island where the first Jew arrived in
1492
29. Dampier who played for Cubans
Mavericks
30. Yeshivat ___ Aryeh (school in
43-Down)
31. ___ say more
32. Modern anti-Semitic letters
35. ___-mo (device used by Kubrick)
37. Actress Annie in Reitmans
Ghostbusters
38. Financial guru Orman
40. One getting a bris, usually
43. Old City
45. Pose to the rabbi again
48. Like one enjoying a Marx brothers
film
49. Language heard by many Israelis
vacationing in Kathmandu
50. Shtetl coins
53. One might do one to have clean
clothes for Shabbat
54. Response to a Goldberg punch
55. Casspi can hit a lot of them, in slang
57. Better ___ Ezra
60. Jib (by Eilat)
61. Assessment of a YU class
63. Elite coffee locale?
64. ___ Einai

Benjamin Bell
Benjamin Bell, 91, of Palisades Park died February 5.
A U.S. Army World War II veteran, he was the founder
and proprietor of Bellarno International Limited.
His is survived by his wife of 69 years, Esther, sons,
Alan (Florence) and Richard (the late Elaine), and a
grandchild, Samara Bell.
Contributions can be made to Jewish War Veterans,
Shoah Foundation, or Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center. Arrangements were by Gutterman Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Jeffrey Feldman
Jeffrey D. Feldman, 58, of Fair Lawn died February 10.
He was a self-employed plumber.
Predeceased by his parents, Dorothy and Edward
Feldman, he is survived by sisters, Sharon Keller
(Thomas) and Marilyn Leichtnam (Richard), and
nephews, nieces, and a great-nephew.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Brief
Obituaries
Sue-Ellen Finelt
Sue-Ellen Finelt died February 2.
She was a special education teacher in Northern Valley
Regional High Schools in Demarest and Old Tappan.
She is survived by her husband, Paul, and children,
Ariel and Jessica. She was also a grandmother and sister.
Contributions can be sent to the Pulmonary
Hypertension Association. Services were at Temple Beth
El in Closter. Arrangements were by Gutterman Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Beverly Kaplan
Beverly Kaplan, ne Beldner, 90, of Bayonne died
February 11.
Before retiring 10 years ago, she owned Belco Sales
Vending Machine Company in Jersey City.
Predeceased by her husband, Jesse, in 1977, she is
survived by children, Sanford of Westwood, and Cheryl
Wachtel of West Orange; four grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Mildred Lubitz
Mildred Lubitz, 93, died on January 26 in Westwood.
Born in New York City, she was a retired teacher.
Predeceased by her husband, Benjamin, she is
survived by children, Robert, Richard, and Candace
Redstone; grandchildren, Sara, Marcy, Douglas, Carrie,
Erica, and Adam, and great-grandchildren, Ronan,
Charlotte, Phoebe, Ben, and Landon.
Arrangements were by Gutterman Musicant Jewish
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The United Zembrover Society, a Jewish landsmanschaft
organization from Zambrow in northeast Poland, pub-
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Book of Zambrow. (A landsmanschaft is a group of peo-
ple from the same hometown, who look after each other,
both financially and emotionally.) Published in Yiddish
and Hebrew in 1963, the book is a memorial to prewar
Jewish life in the Zambrow. Its first print run 200 books
is nearly sold out.
Sefer Zambrow, the Yiddish version, was among
1,700 Yizkor books published after World War II. It was
compiled by people who left Zambrow before the war or
stayed and survived the Holocaust.
The book, with more than 600 pages and 250 photo-
graphs, depicts the diversity of the towns prewar Jewish
life, its schools, social and political organizations, youth
clubs, and religious life.
To bring the books richness to English speakers, the
organization contracted with Dr. Jacob Berger of Mah-
wah, who already had translated 11 other Yizkor books,
to translate it into English. Society members were able to
Tablets
from page 14
in public school.
At Temple Beth Or, Ms. Bourcier is using Quizlet, a flash-
card app and website, to teach Hebrew. She has created
flashcards with prayers and translations. That lets the stu-
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More electrifying is something call Quzlet Live, in which
students compete against each other to be first to match the
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Family History Museum website, www.museumoffam-
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Gallery
1 2

n 1 Minna Heilpern, a volunteer with

the Israel National Therapeutic Riding
Association, visited with students at the
Bergen County High School of Jewish
Studies. She gave them an update on
Jerry, one of their therapeutic horses, that
was purchased with tzedakah collected
in 2004 by BCHSJS students. Improving
Jerrys failing health has become this
years tzedakah project. COURTESY BCHSJS

n 2 Sixth and seventh graders at Shomrei

Torah in Wayne participated in the World
Wide Wrap, a celebration of the mitzvah
of wrapping tefillin. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH

n 3 Congregation Gesher Shalom/

JCC Fort Lee congregants visited the
New York Historical Society with Rabbi
Ken Stern. COURTESY GESHER SHALOM

4 n 4 A delegation of Jewish Federation

of Northern New Jersey women recently
visited Nahariya, JFNNJs sister city in
Israel. They met with relatives of Adar
Barsano, an IDF soldier who died during
Operation Protective Edge. Federation
has named its executive conference room
after Barsano. Adars father, Gil, left, is a
firefighter in the Nahariya Fire Department.
With him are Gale S. Bindelglass, Franci
Steinberg, Dana Post Adler, and Suzette
Diamond. Two Nahariya firefighters stand
between them. COURTESY FEDERATION

n 5 Temple Emanu-El of Closters sixth and

seventh graders and families joined Rabbis
David-Seth Kirshner and Alex Friedman
and Cantor Israel Singer to participate in
the World Wide Wrap. COURTESY EMANU-EL

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ada. Cushinan has also been recognized by the Ontario C Club Area. Mint Cond. Tri-Lev. Spectacular Grnt Isle Kit/Bfst Rm,
Hostelry Institute for being a member of the Top 30 .5 Bth, Sunken Den, LR, Form DR, Master Suite/Bth+3 more BRs +
Under 30 in Canadas hospitality industry. Mod Bth. C/A/C, Gar.
Hospitality is at the core of my everyday life, said 875 E Lawn Dr. $395,000 1 PM 3 PM
Cushinan. I truly believe, both in and outside of work, C Club Area. Bright & Airy S/L. LR, Form DR, Mod Eat In Kit, 3 BRs, 2
that we have the opportunity to make a difference in An extensive renovation also transformed the hotels Bths, Playrm. Rm to Exp. $395,000
the lives of those around us. I like to think that I dont lobby, ballrooms, restaurants and 26,500 square feet of 505 Martense Ave. $374,900 1 PM 3 PM
have an occupation, more so I get to live my passion meeting space. Pretty Dutch Col. Quiet St. 3 BRs. LR/Fplc, DR, Mod Eat in Kit to step
everyday through my restaurants and with my guests. down Fam Rm/Sldrs to Yard. Oak Flrs. Ceramic Tiled Fin Bsmt.
In addition, the hotel recently welcomed Starbucks to 713 Salem St. $449,000 1 PM 3 PM
the property with the opening of the first Teaneck loca- TM
C Club Area. Spacious S/L. LR, DR, Vault Ceil, Lg Kit/Solarium, Bkfst
tion of the popular coffee chain. The 900-square-foot, Rm & Deck. 4 BRs, 3 Full Bths. C/A/C. Gar.

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full service store is located near the Marriotts Grand
Ballroom entrance and accessible to the main lobby.
Visitors to this new coffeehouse location can enjoy
a full menu, including sandwiches, salads, pastries,
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W Eglwd Area. Brick Tri-Lev. Ceramic Tile Hall, LR/Fplc, Form DR,
and snacks to go, along with the brands hot or iced Fam Rm, Ceramic Tiled Updated Kit/Bkfst Rm, Laund. Super Master
coffees/teas, specialty drinks, and retail merchandise. Suite/WIC+Jacuzz Bth+4 more BRs, 2.5 Bths Tot. Tandem Gar,
Patrons can access the store from inside the hotel or C/A/C. $620s
via an exterior parking lot entrance. Seasonal outdoor Charm Brick Col. Nat Cherry Woodwk. Generous Sized LR/Fplc,
seating will be available. FDR, Enormous EIK/Sldrs to Deck/Yrd, Den. 4 BRs, 4 Bth Units. Fin
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a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 8 NORWOOD GORGEOUS $799,000 ALL CLOSE TO NY BUS / HOUSES OF WORSHIP /
Exquisite 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath colonial w/lemonade porch, great flow & fabulous
p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. layout, grand foyer, living room w/fireplace, updated eat-in kitchen/family room, all HIGHWAYS / SHOPPING / SCHOOLS & NY BUS
Lastly, a comprehensive multimillion-dollar renova- bedrooms have walk-in closets, finished basement w/gym,
almost .5 park-like acre is 226 deep. Congratulations to our 2016 NJ REALTORS
tion recently was completed to the hotels 353 over-
sized guest rooms. The renovation included new furni- ALPINE/CLOSTER
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Circle of Excellence Agents
Orna Jackson, Sales Associate 201-376-1389
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outlets and USB placement, and luxurious showers.

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