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Why is this matzah brei different Goop also published Jewish food ma-
from all others? ven Joan Nathans matzah brie recipe in
Its a favorite of Hollywood legend a special Kosher For Passover section.
Steven Spielberg, thats why. (By contrast, Nathans recipe uses wa-
The Academy Award-winning direc- ter and schmaltz and calls for a sweet
tor the force behind Schindlers topping, such as cinnamon, honey, or
List, Saving Private Ryan, E.T. and maple syrup.)
scores of other popular films has Matzah brei, which essentially is
shared his family matzah brei recipe pieces of matzah fried with eggs, is
with Goop, Gwyneth Paltrows upscale having a bit of a moment: A specialty
food and lifestyle website. matzah brei stand popped up at a
Uncle Mortys Gourmet Matzos New York City market last fall, and a
Brie, as its called at Goop, calls for slew of new recipes have been pub-
the slightly unusual method of soaking lished online.
matzah pieces in milk instead of water. I think people are always looking
It also includes chopped onion plac- for the next thing to modernize, said
ing it definitively in the savory, not Shannon Sarna-Goldberg, editor of
sweet, category. the Jewish food blog the Nosher. And
It also specifies a specific brand of matzah brei is both beloved and kind of
matzah: Streits, in business since bland, so it takes well to flavors.
1925, the recipe notes. Streits made One such flavor recommended by
headlines when it closed its iconic Low- Spielberg: truffle salt (if youre feeling
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The culmination of my whole
life is my bat mitzvah.
Majdanek and Auschwitz survivor Eugenia Unger, 91, who was called
to the Torah as a bat mitzvah in Buenos Aires, where she lives, last week.

MOVIES & STATUES:

Catch The Finest

and honor Theo
I recommend The in front of Bostons
Finest even though Fenway Park. Epstein
it has only a small was the general manager
Jewish connection when Boston finally won
(English Jewish actor a World Series in 2004
HENRY GOODMAN, 66, (their first since 1918).
in a supporting role). The Cubs 2016 World
Variety and others Series win was the first
gave a thumbs-up to since 1908. Henry Goodman Theo Epstein
this intelligent romantic Well, Fortune maga-
comedy, and lately zine has kind of bested
theres been a real my idea. In its March 23
dearth of such films. Its issue, it named Epstein
set in Britain in 1940, the Worlds Greatest
just after the fall of Leader. Fortune named
France and the heroic him #1 Numero Uno
evacuation of the British on its list of 50 lead-
army from Dunkirk. ers. He even beat out
Catrin (Gemma Ar- the pope.
terton), a former Epstein, 43, cracked a
newspaper writer, is joke about his #1 status
hired to write dialogue (I cant even get my dog
for woman characters to pee when I want) and
by a government pointed out how chance Hank Azaria Amanda Peet
agency that makes short is a big factor in baseball. Alan Arkin in a scene from Going in Style.
morale-boosting films. But Jena McGregor, writ- It centers on Jim (Shes great!)
Her struggling artist ing for the Washington Brockmire (HANK I dont think Brockmire,
husband (Jack Huston) Post, wouldnt buy that, AZARIA, 52), a famous who sounds Southern, is
looks down on her new
job, but she quickly fits
noting that his joke and
his humility show that he
baseball announcer. As
the first show begins, we
supposed to be Jewish,
but near the episodes
Its a happy ending
in with the agencys has a healthy perspec- see Brockmire suffer a end, while calling a home for Going in Style
rough-hewn male tive on what he does. total meltdown that ends run, he spouts a line that
writers. Pretty soon, she She also pointed out that his major league broad- no non-Jewish announc- Going in Style is a remake of a 1979 action/comedy
convinces the agency to Epstein built the Cubs cast career. While calling er would (really) say: film of the same name that starred GEORGE BURNS,
make an epic film on by carefully examining a Kansas City Royals Oh, folks, that ball can- LEE STRASBERG, and Art Carney as three nice senior
Dunkirk. It stars a very the character of every game, he described, on not be buried in a Jewish
citizens who decide to rob a bank. Its been made known
vain former matinee idol prospect and not just re- air, how he caught his cemetery, because that
lying on their stats. (See wife in a very kinky orgy. ball has just got tat- that this version has a happy ending, with the guys get-
(scene stealer Bill
Nighy). During filming, my next column for a list This orgy, Brockmire tooed! ting away with it not going to jail, like in the original.
sparks begin to fly of this seasons Jewish says, included a friend Chris Evans (Cap- The remake stars ALAN ARKIN, 82, Michael Caine,
between Catrin and the MLB players). of his a friend whose tain America) is set and Morgan Freeman. JOEY KING, 17, co-stars as Caines
lead writer (Sam Clafin). Brockmire pre- kids bar mitzvahs to star in Red Sea smart granddaughter. Its directed by ZACH BRAFF,
Back in October, I miered on IFC on I hosted. Diving Resort, a drama 41, the former star of Scrubs and the writer/director of
said that if the Wednesday, April 5, Ten years later, Brock- that revolves around the the 2004 indie hit Garden State. Braff has done some
Chicago Cubs won at 10 p.m. You can see mire tries to reclaim rescue and transport of
respectable work since Garden State, but he really
the World Series, they the first episode, for free, his career by calling Ethiopian Jews to Israel
should erect a statue of on YouTube. Just enter minor league ball in a in 1981. Evans will play a needs a hit now to restart a pretty stalled career. N.B.

THEO EPSTEIN, the IFC and Brockmire rust-belt town. AMAN- charming Israeli agent
Cubs executive who built and youll find it. The first DA PEET, 45, co-stars who assembles a ragtag
their winning team, in episode is bawdy and as the strong-willed team to help with the
front of Wrigley Field very funny. Baseball fans owner of the struggling exodus on the ground.
and erect another statue especially will love it. minor league team. N.B.

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How to Be a Holy Troublemaker

Letty Cottin Pogrebin will outline new challenges facing the womens movement
LOIS GOLDRICH

W
hen Ms. Magazine was
founded in the early
1970s, women earned 59
cents to a mans dollar.
Now, its around 72 cents, said Letty
Cottin Pogrebin, a founding editor of the
magazine, who shepherded the journal
for some 17 years. Still, she said, while
problems clearly remain and we are
definitely turning the clock backwards
our daughters and granddaughters
live in a very different world than the
one that existed before second-wave
feminism.
The first wave, she explained, mobilized
to get the vote. The second wave targeted
legal changes.
Im old enough to have traversed
every movement of the modern era,
said Ms. Pogrebin, noting that she has
been involved to some degree in the civil
rights movement, the womens move-
ment, the anti-war movement, and, as
a Zionist, in my concern for Israeli-Pales-
tinian peace.
When I became involved, there were
no women on the Supreme Court and only
a few in Congress, no women in state leg-
islatures, and you couldnt take out a loan
without a man co-signing, she said. There Letty Cottin Pogrebin will recount the triumphs and shortfalls of the womens movement during a lecture at Waynes
also were no laws protecting against preg- Temple Beth Tikvah.
nancy discrimination or sexual harass-
ment. Fortunately, much has changed trying to tie women back to our biology abortion, the first to explain and advocate children two daughters and a son all
thanks in no small part to activists such and keep us out of the marketplace so we for the ERA, to rate presidential candi- are proudly feminist, she added.
as Ms. Pogrebin, who will speak about her cant compete, she said. dates on womens issues, to put domestic One of her twin daughters, Abigail
adventures on April 7 at Temple Beth Ms. Pogrebin noted that women rec- violence and sexual harassment on the Pogrebin, is the author of My Jewish Year:
Tikvah in Wayne. ognize what is happening and thats why cover of a womens magazine, to feature 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew. Her sis-
In Activism 101, Or How to Be a Holy were seeing so many in the street. Such feminist protest of pornography, to com- ter, Robin Pogrebin, has been a reporter
Troublemaker the annual Rabbi Israel protests are positive, she said, and we mission and feature a national study on for the New York Times since 1995. Her
S. Dresner Tikkun Olam lecture Ms. need more of it. We only see change when date rape, and to blow the whistle on the son David, a foodie, is a graduate of the
Pogrebin will honor the synagogues for- those in power are made uncomfortable. undue influence of advertising on maga- Culinary Institute of America.
mer rabbi by talking about his life and We have to make it clear that were not zine journalism. Letty Pogrebin has written more than
career, tying his exploits into my own in going away. While Ms. once was a lonely voice on a dozen books, producing two in the past
respect to activism. Ms. Magazine, now published in Los such critical issues, Ms. Pogrebin said, the three years. Her most recent one, pub-
Tikkun olam, or repairing the world, Angeles under the auspices of the Femi- kinds of stories it published whether lished in 2015, was a novel, Single Jew-
fits under acts of lovingkindness, one of nist Majority Foundation, continues to be about rape crisis centers or womens pov- ish Male Seeking Soul Mate; in 2013 she
the three stools on which Judaism rests, necessary, Ms. Pogrebin said. erty are a staple of mainstream womens released How to Be a Friend to a Friend
she said. Its exactly what activists do From its outset, We wrote about wom- magazines today. We led the way, she Whos Sick. That book, written after her
look at the world and see where it needs ens lives as if they mattered, she said, said, noting that the magazine once again bout with breast cancer, was designed as
repair, and then do our part. tackling issues from stories about house- is in the forefront, bringing attention to a guidebook for people who feel awkward
Ms. Pogrebin said its hard for young wives rights to those about welfare wom- international feminism. visiting friends who are ill. Its a combi-
people to believe that the rights and free- ens rights. Her proudest accomplishment One of Ms. Pogrebins fond memories is nation memoir and research project, she
doms they enjoy now did not always exist. was to keep on keeping on, fulfilling the of working with Marlo Thomas on Free said.
Parents and grandparents have to make it goal we set; not just to realize that women to Be You and Me, a record album and
clear to our kids that we fought for things mattered and to reflect their lives, but to illustrated book first released in Novem- Who: Letty Cottin Pogrebin
they take for granted. Otherwise, they are make it a two-way street. We told them ber 1972. Featuring songs and stories sung What: Will deliver the Rabbi Israel S.
at risk of losing these rights. what was happening to other women, and or told by celebrities of the day, the album Dresner Tikkun Olam lecture
As for the problems women face today, they told us what was happening to them. encouraged moving beyond gender stereo- When: On April 7 at 7:30 p.m.
she said, we only have to look at the issue It was a splendid cycle. types, stressing individuality, tolerance, Where: At Temple Beth Tikvah, 950
of reproductive choice to see that were The magazine has a proud history. and comfort with your identity. Preakness Ave., Wayne
facing the same [problems]. Theyre turn- According to its website, the publication I cared about non-sexist child-rearing, More: Shabbat dinner at 6 p.m., fol-
ing the clock backwards. She noted the was the first U.S. magazine to feature Ms. Pogrebin said. Sexism starts in child- lowed by services and the talk. For din-
irony of opposing abortion while limiting a prominent American women demand- hood. If we stop it there, they grow up to ner reservations, call (973) 694-1616 or
womans right to contraception. Theyre ing the repeal of laws that criminalized be what they were meant to be. Her own go to templebethtikvahnj.org

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Global Unity Torah marks jubilee of reunited Jerusalem

Participants, locally and worldwide, earn certificates through good works
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

T
his years Jerusalem Day, which
falls on May 24, marks 50 years
since the reunification of Jerusa-
lem as a result of the Israeli vic-
tory in the Six-Day War.
Between 1948 and 1967, the capital city
was physically divided. Jews were barred
from their holy sites in the Old City, includ-
ing the Temple Mount and Western Wall.
Jordanian snipers shot randomly into
the west, ridding some neighborhoods,
including Musrara, Yemin Moshe, and
Mamilla today among the most expen-
sive real estate in Jerusalem of all but the
poorest or bravest Jews.
About a year ago, the staff of the Afikim
Foundation in Manhattan started consid-
ering how celebrate the jubilee of Jeru-
salems unification and the remarkable
growth and development that unification
has engendered.
The idea that struck them as most
appropriate was commissioning the writ-
ing of a Torah scroll to be used in Jeru-
salem. Instead of the traditional model
of soliciting dollars for each letter, they
would solicit acts of chesed kindness
from individuals and members of syna-
gogues, organizations, and schools.
Torah, Jerusalem, and chesed are the
three things that unite the Jewish people,
so we decided put them all together, said
Karen Hochberg, director of community
programs for the Afikim Foundation,
founded in 2002 by Rabbi Raphael B. But-
ler as an innovative incubator and imple-
menter of Jewish educational, cultural
and values-oriented programs that span
the globe.
Of the 304,805 letters in the Jerusa-
lem50 Global Unity Torah sponsored by
the Afikim Foundation in cooperation with
Israels Ministry of diaspora Affairs more
than 252,470 were claimed, as of April 3,
through acts of kindness performed by
people in 22 countries.
Locally, participating groups include the
Frisch, Noam, and Yavneh schools in Para-
mus; the Moriah School and Congregation
Ahavath Torah in Englewood; the Rosen-
baum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River
To earn letters in a Torah scroll, children make blankets for sick kids and duffel bags for homeless children.
Edge; Young Israel of Fort Lee; Yeshiva
Beis Hillel Boys and YBH Girls in Passaic,
and the Sinai and Maayanot schools and
congregations Arzei Darom, Beth Aaron,
and Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck.
An anonymous American donor
agreed to underwrite the $40,000 cost of
the Torah in memory of his grandfather,
who saved a Torah scroll from a burning
German shul on Kristallnacht in Novem-
ber 1938 and was beaten brutally for the
rescue. That Torah is housed in a Brook-
lyn synagogue.
The donor is thrilled with the notion of
every letter representing an act of chesed,
Ms. Hochberg said.
Though Torah scrolls are written by
hand with a feather pen and natural ink
on parchment, the Jerusalem50 Global
Unity Torah is being publicized and facil-
itated in a 21st century manner, via a
sophisticated website (www.Jerusalem50.
org) in English, Hebrew, Spanish, French,
and Russian, as well as by a social-media
campaign.
When each participants act of kind-
ness is posted on the site, it generates a
downloadable certificate. Some partici-
pating institutions have printed them out
and posted them prominently, Ms. Hoch-
berg said.
Descriptions of deeds shared on the
site range from Someone dropped
something so I picked it up and returned
it to them to Ran a car wash to help
raise money for a Bar-Mitzvah gift for an
kid that doesnt live at home to Deliver
the newspaper to my elderly neighbors
mailbox, so he does not need to bend
down every day to Bought 10 cups of
coffee for strangers in honor of my grand-
mother who passed away recently. Oth-
ers wrote that they helped clean for Pass-
over, prayed for a sick friend, or gave
money to charity.
Visitors to the website can click on an
image of the Torah text to see which let-
ters were claimed by whom and for which
kind deeds. For groups reserving blocks of
letters, the group manager gets a link to
send out to members, enabling people to
buy letters in their blocks, which turn
red when they are taken.
A permanent digital file of all names
and deeds will accompany the Global
Unity Torah, which will be finished by a
Jerusalem scribe in time for a dedication
in Jerusalem on May 28. The scroll is to
be given to ZAKA, Israels primary rescue-
and-recovery volunteer organization,
for the use of Jerusalem families during
shiva, the seven-day period of mourning
for a loved one.
The love and kindness that has poured
into the writing of this incredible Torah
should provide these families with much
strength and support, Rabbi Butler said.
The Global Unity Torah is an unprece-
dented communal platform for Jews world-
wide to do good and inspire goodness in
others. By using kindness as an impetus
for change and Jerusalem as a uniting fac-
tor, we can transform our world.
The Moriah School tied its participation
in the Global Unity Torah to a week-long
program of activities promoting inclusiv-
ity, kind words, and restraint from nega-
tive and harmful speech. It was dedicated
in memory of former Moriah preschooler
Evan Levy of Englewood, who died of a
brain tumor in December 2015.
Russi Shor, the lower school program
coordinator at the Yavneh Academy, said
the school reserved a block of 800 letters
in the Jerusalem50 Global Unity Torah,
corresponding roughly to the total num-
ber of students from pre-K to eighth grade.
The project dovetailed well with
Yavnehs culture of kindness program-
ming for the 50th anniversary of the
reunification of Jerusalem, which entails a
monthly focus on a different positive char-
acter trait.

May this Passover deliver freedom from want,

from hunger, from illness and from loneliness.
Wishing you and your family a wonderful holdiday.
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Children wash cars to raise money for Bet Elazraki and make cupcakes for a homeless shelter in Queens.
When we heard about the Global Unity
Torah, we realized this initiative would
work seamlessly with our kindness theme
in honor of Jerusalems reunification, Ms.
Shor said. It was an obvious decision to
jump on the opportunity and be a part of
this amazing program. Everyone was so
inspired and excited to be a part of some-
thing so great.
Rabbi Joshua Schulman, director of
chesed programming at Frisch, sees the
Global Unity Torah as an unbelievable
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opportunity for our students and mem-
bers of the broader community to be a part
of an initiative uniting various individuals
and groups of Jews worldwide through our
common love for Israel, Jerusalem, Torah,
and chesed.
Frisch reserved a block of 2,000 letters
for its 700 ninth- to 12th-grade students.
Students are, honestly, extremely
excited about being part of something so
right, so good, and so meaningful, Rabbi
Schulman said. We all find meaning in
finding ways to be of assistance to others,
and having the opportunity to pledge our
acts of kindness toward the writing of a sefer
Torah is inspiring for everyone involved.
The Afikim Foundation produced a set
of eight fabric murals depicting scenes
of Jerusalem, as well as colorful booklets
offering information and historical facts
about Jerusalem in five languages, to
enhance its Jerusalem50 project. The foun-
dation also is offering an interactive travel-
ing Jerusalem Exhibit with accompanying
study guide for educational institutions
and Jewish community centers.
Three people randomly chosen from
people who enter their email address
on the Jerusalem50 website will receive
round-trip tickets to attend the Torah ded-
ication ceremony in Jerusalem on May 28;
the ceremony will be headlined by Jerusa-
lems mayor, Nir Barkat.
For more information on the Afikim
Foundations Jerusalem50 project, go
to www.Jerusalem50.org or call (718)
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From chess games to shiurim

New app brings people together on the spur of the moment
LOIS GOLDRICH

I
magine for a moment that you play chess, and you
feel like engaging in a challenging game as soon as
possible.
Or that you need more people for a minyan and
time is short.
Or that you know about a wonderful Purim event and
want to ensure that anyone who is looking for something
fun to do on the holiday will know about it as well.
Fed up with our day jobs though in no position to
abandon them entirely friends Josh Block and Joshua
Yammer, who grew up in Teaneck, met at the Frisch
School in Paramus and continued their friendship at Rut-
gers University, decided it would be nice to do something
different, said Mr. Yammer, 26, who now lives in Califor-
nia. The result of that search, Spont, aims to help people
pull events together on short notice.
Mr. Yammer, who works in real estate during the day,
contrasts his program with sites such as Meetup.
With Meetup, he said, you do things at a scheduled
time. Ours is a free platform and more spontaneous
hence its name. Its focused on doing activities when the
user has free time.
Mr. Yammer and Mr. Block conceptualized the app,
which is available on iTunes and downloadable on
iPhones theyre now working on Android compatibil-
ity but we dont do the tech side, Mr. Yammer, not-
ing that Mr. Block, who plays chess in Washington Square
Park, ended up playing with this guy, Rob Silverman,
who loved the idea. We pitched it to him and he became The new app Spont puts users in
our programmer. A fourth acquaintance, Cecil Pang, also contact with events as they unfold. Josh
joined the team. Yammer, right, formerly of Teaneck, now
Like so much else these days, project planning meetings lives in California but collaborates with
are half in person, half virtual. The three New Yorkers work his app partners through Skype.
out of Mr. Silvermans apartment, and Mr. Yammer Skypes
in. Were equal partners, Mr. Yammer said, adding that posted a minchah minyan on it. Its not catered toward Mr. Yammer cited a line from Pirkei Avot, where
the project has involved very little cash outlay. We just had any one group. Everyone should use it as they see fit. Ben Zoma says: Who is rich? The one who appreciates
to pay for hosting data on servers, and some minor legal Mr. Yammer said that Judaism is key to his identity. what he has. That has helped me stay grounded and do
fees. We were lucky to find well-equipped programmers. I grew up in an Orthodox home in Teaneck and went to
Right now, he said, the program is free, although even- Moriah, Frisch, and did a year in Israel at Netiv Aryeh, he
tually the partners hope to monetize it. The goal isnt to said. Ive always been very connected to Jewish life its
make money, Mr. Yammer said. We found something we the center of my universe.
love to do and want to do. And wherever he goes, he attends synagogue. Ive Last year, someone
While he hopes that people of all ages will find a use for
the app, he assumes that most users will fall between the
moved from Teaneck (Rinat Yisrael) to Rutgers (Hillel and
Chabad on campus) to the Upper West Side (West Side
posted information
ages of 17 and 28, college students to post-grad, before Institutional) to the Lower East Side (Bialystoker) and now about a Zusha Purim
someone settles down.
Ive seen a lot of party get-togethers on it, he said. Last
to Los Angeles (Beth Jacob).
He was particularly inspired by Rabbi Shyah Shagolow
concert in the Bowery.
year, someone posted information about a Zusha Purim from Chabad at Rutgers, he said. Even though he was People came to the
concert in the Bowery. People came to the event who
hadnt been planning to go. They used our app to get to the
and is 100 percent my rabbi, he has and is always there as
a friend as well. He taught me what it means to be a Jew,
event who hadnt
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Local
Write em, Jewboy
Kinky Friedman brings new songs to local gigs during Passover
LARRY YUDELSON
K
inky Friedman is riding into
town, country-and-western
guitar in hand and a stack of
new songs in his repertoire
but dont get your hopes too high if youre
a fan, because they might get as thor-
oughly busted as one of the hapless New
York City miscreants who fill the pages of
his successful series of murder mysteries.
If youre not a fan, if youve never heard
of the Kinkster heres one clue: The
lead character and crime solver in the
18-volume mystery series that appeared
between 1986 and 2005 is a Jewish coun-
try-and-western singer-songwriter named
Kinky Friedman.
Yes, Mr. Friedman is not above a little
self-promotion and a lot of self-aggran-
dizement. Or is it the other way around?
So feel free to take some of this with a large
grain of kosher salt. He probably wouldnt
have it any other way.
But this much is undeniably true: Kinky
Friedman is kicking off his spring tour in
the Turning Point in Piermont, N.Y., just
a mile over the New Jersey state line, and
a tad closer than Manhattans B.B. King
Blues Club on 42nd Street, where Mr.
Friedman also will perform this month.
But heres the thing: Hes playing Pier-
mont Tuesday night, April 11. Which is the
second night of Passover.
It may send me directly to hell, he
admitted. I would anticipate the date
probably rules out a lot of church-going
Jews. Ill have to rely on the kindness of
strangers for that particular gig. Next year
well start in Jerusalem. Right now well
start in Piermont.
If youre a two-day yontif-observing
Friedman fan, you can forget about his
New York gig too: Thats on Monday, April
17, the eighth night of Pesach.
Some days, it seems, a Jew just cant win.
Which is more or less what he sang
in his 1973 song Ride em Jewboy.
 ide, ride em Jewboy
R a cowboy with too much dust of the road
Ride em all around the old corral
Im, Im with you boy
If Ive got to ride six million miles
Dont you let the morning blind ya
When on your sleeve you wore the yeller
star
Old memories still live behind ya
Cant you see by your outfit who you are
Is that an exploitive novelty number? Or
is it a reverential hymn, a religious experi-
ence equal to going synagogue as he sug-
gested in our interview?
You never can quite tell with Kinky.
He did, after all, name his first group
12 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017
Kinky Friedman will begn his spring tour with fresh material at stops in Man-
hattan and across the Jersey line in Piermont, N.Y.
Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. Like Jesus Anymore.
He was entitled to it; he grew up in Texas, I have a mild obsessions with Jesus,
where his parents ran a summer camp. Mr. Friedman said. Hes a good Jewish boy
Now the 400-acre ranch is his home. who got in trouble with the government.
His song We Reserve the Right to The Jews gave him to the world. We
Refuse Service to You was about being should take credit for that and stop being
an outcast as a Jew among Texans and as so provincial.
Dont forget he rode in on a jackass,
for the Jews: which is always a good thing. Part of the
reason I like Donald Trump is because so
You smell just like a communist, many people mocked him. When a lot of
You come on through just like a Jew, jackasses mock you, thats a good sign.
We reserve the right to refuse service to you. The big news about the tour is that it
.. will feature new songs, the first songs Ive
Your friends are all on welfare written in 40 years, he said.
You call yourself a Jew ? What made him pick up the guitar pick
You need your ticket and your tie and pen new songs?
To zip your prayers on through, My shrink, Willie Nelson, advised me
We reserve the right to refuse services unto to, Mr. Friedman said.
you. He called one night last year, about
three in the morning, asked me what I
And then theres the another classic was doing. I told him I was watching Mat-
from 40 years ago, They Aint Makin Jews lock. Willie said, Thats a sure sign of there trying to remember his song.
depression. Its bad energy, bad karma.
Turn Matlock off and start writing,
Kinky!
I had not written one song in 40 years.
I started writing just to be a song writer
again. I have about a dozen songs were
going to record this summer after the tour.
They dont sound like they were writ-
ten by the same person. Because I guess
theyre not, he said.
The two new songs I heard on YouTube
uploaded from recent concerts carry
the melancholy, reflective mood of his
2015 studio album of mostly cover songs,
The Loneliest Man I Ever Met. Its coun-
try folk in a minor key, with earnestness
rather than his youthful 1970s sarcasm. At
72, Kinky Friedman has grown up. But he
still knows how to write songs that stick in
your head after one listen.
To be a good songwriter, the songs
have to percolate a while, he said. Its a
very high spiritual state to be a songwriter
when theres almost no market for it.
That may be true of the music industry
in general. But there seems to be a market
for Kinky Friedman. The next year will see
three new Kinky Friedman-related books.
One of them is a book he wrote with Lou
Kemp, Bob Dylans childhood friend.
What the world needs today is another
Bob Dylan book, said Mr. Friedman, who
has his own Dylan-related claim to fame.
He took part in Mr. Dylans legendary Roll-
ing Thunder Revue tour in the 1970s, per-
forming four songs between sets by Mr.
Dylan and Joan Baez.
Almost all the other Bob Dylan books
were written by people who never met
Bob, he said. Theyre biographies by
people who never met them. In our case
weve got the only other guy who was
there most of the time. These were sto-
ries no one had heard. Like the seder with
Marlon Brandon. Theres some great stuff
there.
Theres a new mystery, The Return of
Kinky Friedman.
And theres the definitive biography,
Everythings Bigger in Texas: The Life
and Times of Kinky Friedman, coming in
November, written by Mary Lou Sullivan,
who also wrote the biography of another
Texas guitar slinger, Johnny Winter.
If you fail at something long enough,
you become a legend, Mr. Friedman said.
I think people are going to like the new
stuff. With the new stuff, Im kind of work-
ing without a net. The songs are so new
Im not sure Ive got them down.. I have
to depend on Mexican mouthwash, the
tequila, to get through the show.
If you cross the line, its terrible. No
one wants to see a drunken elderly Jew up
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Telling the story to your children
New Jersey family adds its own personalized touches to the Haggadah
JOANNE PALMER
L
ife is a constant tension between the specific and
general.
Thats pompous and over-reaching, isnt it?
But its also true.
We read the Haggadah twice every year, and as we retell
the story of the Exodus from Egypt we are told that it hap-
pened not only to our ancient ancestors but to us as well.
We are told to imagine ourselves fleeing Pharaohs chari-
ots, crossing the Red Sea, watching the water close over
our tormentors and their horses, and then beginning our
40-year trek to the land God promised us.
Thats a tall order.
No matter how vivid our imaginations, its hard to place
ourselves that far back and away.
But if the Haggadah is the story of us, then it also can be
the story of us more specifically. Not only of the entire Jew-
ish people, but of the individual families that are part of it.
Over the course of the last 20 or so years, the Glass
family has intertwined its own history with the history
14 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017
of the Jewish people. The Glasses have
not altered the text; this is not a watered-
down version. Instead, theyve added
footnotes, photographs, and its own his-
tory to the Maggid section theyre telling
their own story of exodus, immigration,
eventual comfort, and constant change.
The story of our family resembles that
of our ancestors in Egypt, that section
begins. The Glazomitskys and Ninburgs
also experienced oppression. That oppres-
sion moved our ancestors to leave their
native countries to make a better life
When Lisa Harris Glass, the chief plan-
ning officer at the Jewish Federation of Lisa Harris Glass
Northern New Jersey, married David, she
joined that family.
The Glasses are a family with deep roots in New Jersey;
when Luba Ninberg and Abe Glazomitsky who later
shortened their last name to Glass came to this country,
they went straight to Weequahic, the legendarily Jewish
section of Newark, the neighborhood that
made Philip Roth the writer he is, joining
other relatives who had gone on ahead of
them.
Being from Weequahic is a real thing,
Ms. Glass said. Ive had people stop me
and ask Youre a Glass? One of the New-
ark Glasses?
Luba and Abe had three children,
Harry, Isabel, and Fred, who all stayed in
Weequahic and had their own children.
The family bonds were intense. That
was very typical for Weequahic Jews, Ms.
Glass said. All these first cousins grew up
together. They did everything together.
Ms. Glasss husbands father was among
those first cousins.
Eventually, though, people started moving out of the
city. Newark was changing, and eventually that change hit
Weequahic. The riots in 1967 saw the last of the Jewish
community leave. But few went very far David Glass was
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Pages from the Glass Family Haggadah

born in Perth Amboy, and he and Lisa now live in Spring-

field; some cousins moved to Hillside, others to Somerset.
The family remained close.
A cousin, Susan Kobren of Somerset, a Glass grand-
daughter, retired schoolteacher, and avid amateur gene-
alogist, started researching the family. About two decades
ago, she saw the name Constantine Glazomitsky in an
advertisement from a pharmaceutical company. (When
you are a serious reader, you read everything.) Shed
never heard of him, but she thought that it was likely that
they were related, so she got in touch with him and
Constantine came over with a picture of Harry, Isabel,
and Fred as little children, sitting on the stoop in Weequa-
hic. Everyone was stunned.
The Glazomitskys in New York had lost touch with the
New Jersey Glasses, but here they were, rediscovered.
That lead Ms. Kobren to continue to research her family,
and then to work with other family members to put that
research in the Haggadah, which includes a family tree.
When someone has a serious significant other, it shows
that person in the family tree in parenthesis, Ms. Glass
said. When they get married, theyre moved into the box
with the other person. Their children get a box; so too do
children whose connection to the Glasses is not through
blood but their parents remarriage. Everyone belongs.
There is an in memoriam page, on page 9, called
Paganini to acknowledge one of the favorite jokes of one
of the people memorialized there. A whole page at the
back is devoted to family stories associated with the seder. sometimes in a house, occasionally, when there is no din- as she talked about it. It makes me cry every time, she
The Glass family seder is always the second seder; on ing room big enough to accommodate them, in a shul added.
the first night, different parts of the huge, ever-growing social hall, rented for the evening. This is the gift of the family now to the family of the
group go their own ways, perhaps with the other sides of This Haggadah shows that we are unique and also future. To the great-grandchildren we will never know.
the family. But on the second night, the Glasses gather; we are all the same, Ms. Glass said, her voice quavering It really moves me. It is such a gift.

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Local
Color-coded Haggadah
highlights seders origins
Teaneck rabbi reprints classic work of seven-hued scholarship
LARRY YUDELSON
Who wrote the Haggadah?
We know who wrote the Hogwarts
Haggadah. (Moshe Rosenberg.) We
know who wrote the Rav Kook Hag-
gadah. (Bezalel Naor.) We even know
who wrote the ArtScroll Family Hag-
gadah. (Nosson Scherman.)
But who wrote the original text?
Like all the siddur and other clas-
sic works of Judaism, the Haggadah
dates back to before people started
putting title pages and copyright
notices on their books and list-
ing them on Amazon. So we dont
really know.
We do know that most of the text
we use today is found in the earliest
Jewish liturgical manuscripts, which
date from the ninth century. And the
outline accords with the teachings of
the Mishna from six centuries earlier.
But who put this together, and
exactly when?
Truth be told, we dont know.
Now, however, a Teaneck rabbi
and Jewish Standard columnist has
republished a classic work that high-
lights all the different pieces of the
jigsaw puzzle.
We are having a conversation
with Jews across all periods of his-
tory, Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy said.
This is not just something were
doing with our family. Were having
a dialogue across the ages.
This month, Rabbi Zahavy reis-
sued the Polychrome Historical Hag-
gadah. Originally published in 1974,
it was the work of Rabbi Jacob Freed-
man of Springfield, Massachusetts. It
highlights the different levels of the A page from the Polychrome Historical Haggadah.
Haggadah by putting each stratum in
a different color. Biblical verses are black. Mishna passages
are red. And so on until contemporary additions like the
Hatikvah, appropriately in Israeli-flag blue.
It is a seven-hued rainbow.
I like the fact that it focuses you on the text of the Hag- decided to go out and investigate the Bible from a his-
gadah itself, Rabbi Zahavy said. You look at the colors
and think This is from the talmudic period, this is from
the biblical text, this is from medieval times.
Many of the Haggadahs make you associate interest-
ing ideas with the text but they take your mind off of the
page to other places, to other peoples concerns and con-
cepts. This Haggadah makes it possible to be mindful and
focused, just super-conscious of the text of the Haggadah.
The idea for the Polychrome Historical Haggadah came
from the Polychrome Bible, an edition of the Hebrew
scripture that was put out in the early part of the 20th
century in order to show the documentary elements
according to biblical scholarship, Rabbi Zahavy said. It
was a brilliant idea.
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Of course its a heretical idea to say the Torah was
the product of different documents, since according to
Orthodox theology its one unitary document. The Torah
is Moshe Rabbeinus Torah. But the world of scholarship
torical perspective and came up with the documentary
hypothesis that the Torah was a composite of four or
so different texts stitched together by an editor.
The Polychrome Bible was a result of that scholarship.
Rabbi Zahavy came to the polychrome concept when he
was studying the prayer book.
I was working on the siddur, and I saw the different
strata and strands, he said. I figured there must be some-
one who tried to do a polychrome siddur. Thats when
I came to rediscover Jacob Freedman, because he had
started working on a polychrome siddur showing the his-
torical layers. He was only able to publish a prototype of
28 pages.
Rabbi Freedman, ordained by the Jewish Theological
Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy
Seminary of America, led several Con-
servative synagogues. He was 71 years
old when his Haggadah was published
in 1974; he died 12 years later. Rabbi
Freedman assigned the copyright to
his book to a foundation he created.
The foundation subsequently was dis-
solved, leaving the copyright in limbo.
This is a work that I loved, Rabbi
Zahavy said. It was orphaned. I really
wanted to become a new parent of
this Haggadah. I started to work on it
finally as a labor of love.
Rabbi Zahavy scanned the pages of
Rabbi Freedmans original work, and
he wrote an introduction to it.
Its a very charming and impres-
sive work, Rabbi Zahavy said. It will
take anyone using this Haggadah sev-
eral years to get the full impact of the
scholarship that went into it.
In addition to the full color pages
of Hebrew text (the translation is
not color-coded), the Haggadah
reprints color pages from medieval illuminated Haggadah
manuscripts.
They are well chosen as well, Rabbi Zahavy said.
Theres a classic example of what the German 15th century
Haggadahs look like, what the 14th century Spanish Hag-
gadahs look like. Jacob Freedman picked out some really
good pages. They really add a lot of life and more color.
Seeing the different sources of the Haggadah in vibrant
color really makes the point that Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveit-
chik always said, that the Haggadah is not really the retell-
ing of a story.
Its the act of talmud Torah, studying Torah in the rab-
binic manner. When you finish at the end of the seder, you
havent really told the story of the Exodus in a very narra-
tive way. Youve told it in a kind of midrashic mishmash.
The color highlighting shows you the alternating cadences
of the work.
Its like an opera with different arias. The Haggadah is
the libretto, Rabbi Zahavy said.
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Stop & Shop donates 2 tons of Passover food to JFCS

Stop & Shop made an emergency donation
of two tons of kosher for Passover food to
the Jewish Family & Childrens Services of
Northern New Jerseys Kosher for Passover
food pantry in Teaneck.
Donated items included gefilte fish,
horseradish, chicken broth, chicken soup
mix, matzah ball soup mix, tea, mayon-
naise, potato pancake mix, Passover blin-
tzes, American cheese, shredded moz-
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frozen vegetables, kosher salt, macaroons,
cotton seed oil, olive oil, tomato sauce,
baking powder, baking soda, chocolate
chips, ketchup, and cooking spray.
JFCS officials say they provide food
pantry services to nearly 1,500 people
throughout the year, yet they know that
many families in the community who
have difficult times during the year cannot
afford the high cost of kosher-for-Passover
food. The Kosher Food Pantry opened in
2009 and began to offer Passover provi-
sions in 2010.
Robben Murray of Rochelle Park, a for-
mer assistant program manager at UMDNJ,
was forced to leave the workforce more
than 10 years ago to provide full-time care
to a parent suffering from Alzheimers.
She has not been able to get a full-time job
and relies on the JFCS Kosher Food Pantry
throughout the year.
The work they do is vital, she said. If
not for the service they provide, I and oth-
ers in need would be forced to do without.
I especially appreciate that their efforts
allow me to appropriately celebrate Pass-
over. Stop & Shops generosity and support
of JFCS mission is just incredible. I want
them to know how much their kindness
means to me.
Nearly one in five New Jersey residents
are food insecure, Jason M. Shames, the
CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, said. JFCS, with the help of
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
sey and other partners, provides invalu-
able support for food insecure individu-
als through both their food pantry and
Kosher Meals-On-Wheels programs. Indi-
vidual philanthropy is critical to support-
ing these programs. We have many gener-
ous donors; yet the enormous need in the
community outstrips available resources.
As such, support from dedicated corporate
citizens is critical to meeting communal
needs. Stop & Shops long-standing com-
mitment to philanthropy in local commu-
nities is an expression of their corporate
culture and of the values that we all share.
We thank them for their continuing work
to help the vulnerable in our community.
Stop & Shops generosity will allow us
to provide Passover food to many families
in our community who would otherwise go
without, Susan Greenbaum, JFCSs CEO,
said. For Stop & Shop to step up and offer
this type of donation is beyond expecta-
tion, and we are incredibly grateful. A con-
tribution of this magnitude goes a long way
to help JFCS help those in need.
It is our hope that families in need will
be able to enjoy Passover, Jim Keenoy, Stop
& Shops director of marketing and exter-
nal communications, said. Our effort to
assist the residents of northern New Jersey
underscores Stop & Shops commitment to
the communities we serve. We appreciate
the efforts of the dedicated staff and volun-
teers of the JFCS Kosher Food Pantry and
of our elected officials as we work together
to make this a joyful Passover.
Passover is a time for Jewish people
around the world to come together and
feast with their families, Bergen County
Executive Jim Tedesco said. Especially
during the holidays, families should not
worry or struggle to put food on their
tables. I applaud the generosity of the
Kosher for Passover Food Pantry and Stop
& Shop, and hope others will be inspired
to help feed Bergen County families in
need throughout the year.
The Township of Teaneck greatly
appreciates the work of the kosher for
Two SSDS students recognized
for C-SPAN documentary awards
Ilan Barnea and Samuel Modlinger, sev-
enth graders at the Solomon Schechter
Day School of Bdergen County, won an
honorable mention in C-SPANs national
2017 StudentCam documentary competi-
tion for their video, Terrorism: Civil Lib-
erties and Security in a Changing World.
The boys were among the 97 students
nationally who received an honorable
mention for their work. This is the fourth
consecutive year that SSDS middle
school students have earned honorable
mentions or better in the competition.
Each year since 2006, C-SPAN part-
ners with local cable affiliates in commu-
nities nationwide to invite sixth- through
Passover Food Pantry and thanks Stop &
Shop for their assistance in this effort,
Teanecks Mayor Mohammed Hameedud-
din said. Food insecurity is not some-
thing to be taken lightly, and I applaud any
and all efforts to assure that residents of
Teaneck and Bergen County have access
to quality food at all times, especially dur-
ing Passover.
eighth-graders and ninth- through 12th
graders to produce short documenta-
ries on an issue of national importance.
This year, students answered the ques-
tion, Your message to Washington:
What is the most urgent issue for the
new president and Congress to address
in 2017?
SSDS students work was recognized
among a record 2,903 video submis-
sions from more than 5,600 students in
46 states and Washington, D.C., as well
as England, Germany, Singapore, and
Taiwan.
To warch the students winning video,
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Migdal Ohr plans May dinner Fauda co-creator and star meets
Migdal Ohr, Israels premier education-focused organization for under-
privileged, orphaned, abused, and new immigrant children, will hold
with supporters of the IDF
Lior Raz, the co-creator and star of the
its annual dinner on Wednesday, May 10, at Convene in Manhattan.
hit Israeli Netflix show Fauda, met with
Supporters from across the tristate area are invited to attend and
more than 30 New Jersey Friends of the
raise funds to Un-Risk an At-Risk Israeli Child, while also honoring
IDF at the home of FIDF New Jersey co-
distinguished supporters who have contributed significantly to the
chairs Jodi and Saul Scherl last week in
success of the organization over its nearly 45 years.
support of the Israel Defense Forces.
Tzvi Solomon of Teaneck will receive the Lev Tov Young Leadership
Tzvi Solomon Funds raised will help construct well-
award; mother and daughter Marilyn Sopher and Lisa Sopher-Deutsch
being and recreational facilities for an
will be given the Midor LDor Generations award; Dr. Chaim and Anne
elite IDF unit in the Negev Desert. So far,
Bernstein will be honored with the Tower of Light award; and Shalom and Megan Auerbach will
$560,000 has been realized.
receive the inaugural Bayit Neeman BYisrael Bridal Fund award.
We were extremely honored to host FIDF supporters Elle Rubach, left, and
The evening includes a special program featuring Migdal Ohrs founder and dean, Israel Prize
Lior and have the opportunity to hear his Randi Kollender, right, with FIDF New
winner Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman.
inspiring story, FIDFs New Jersey direc- Jersey co-chairs Jodi and Saul Scherl.
For information, call (212) 397-3700 or go to www.migdalohrusa.org/2017gala.
tor, Howard Gases, said. As a former
soldier, he understands the importance
of projects such as the one we are spon-
Donations fortify Wayne food bank soring, and just how critical they are in
WIN, the Wayne Interfaith Network, a Items can be brought to two drop-off areas maintaining Israeli soldiers well-being.
coalition of volunteers from local houses in town: The Wayne YMCA, 1 Pike Drive The project in the Negev is the lat-
of worship and service organizations in the (donors can use the Jewish Family Service est initiative of the FIDF, which works
greater Wayne area, provides ongoing pro- entrance) or the Preakness branch of the to ease the burden of military service
visions of non-perishable food and other Wayne Public Library. for IDF soldiers. Projects have helped
basic necessities for Wayne residents who Anyone who needs food should call Regina create gyms, synagogues, auditoriums,
need them. Parks at (973) 694-1800, ext. 3281. Groups and pools, and well-being centers for sol- FIDF supporter Steve Rosen, left, with
Bags of non-perishable food and other organizations planning to collect food and diers. This new campus project will fea- speaker Lior Raz and FIDF supporter
basic necessities, such as paper goods, other basic necessities can call (973) 595-1900, ture a cafeteria, garden area, kitchen, Stephanie Goldman, president-elect of
toiletry items, and cleaning products, are go to www.winfoodpantry.org, or email info@ library, and changing -rooms, among the Jewish Federation of Northern New
requested during the winter months. winfoodpantry.org. other amenities. Jersey.  PHOTOS BY NIR ARIELI

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The Stoke Newington
connection
Three men rediscover their unlikely shared roots at the Kaplen JCC
J
Joanne Palmer
ewish geographys a real thing.
Talk to someone long enough
which usually isnt very long at
all and you realize that you
have at least one person in com-
mon. A friend, a relative, the
friend of a friend. Something.
Because after all, there arent
that many Jews in the world.
So its not so surprising that the three
men, all born in the 1930s, who met at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly,
learned that they had a great deal in com-
mon. They each spent at least one year at
the same school.
A primary school. (Wait. Whats that?
You mean an elementary school, right?
Well, no.)
A primary school, moreover, in the Lon-
don neighborhood of Stoke Newington
part of the borough of Hackney. Its a place
All three men went to the Northwold
Road School in Stoke Newington.
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that probably resembled New York Citys
outer boroughs, when most Jews had
moved on from the Lower East Side but
not yet made it out to even the closest ring
of suburbs.
These three men Jeffrey Levene and
Malcolm Galatin of Tenafly, and Jeffrey
Kane of Fort Lee but until a few years ago
also of Tenafly went to the same primary
school in London. All three experienced
the blitz (although with a childs rather
than an adults understanding of the
bombing to which London was subjected).
All were evacuated to the country.
The Jewish world is in some ways a very
small one.
Mr. Levene, Mr. Kane, and Dr. Galatin all
have lived in Tenafly and been members
of the JCC for decades, and theyd seen
each other around during that time, but
they only properly met and realized how
much background they shared in the last
few months.
He was in a gym class, chatting up
Jeff s wife, Arleene, and she said, You
sound English, Mr. Levene, whose accent
indeed is unmistakably British, said. I
said, I am, and she said, Sos my hus- arrived in the United States in two earlier
band. And there was another lady, Bea-
trice, in the same exercise class, who hus-
band is from London, and is about my age.
Wed known each other for some time, but
we never knew where anybody was from.
Then Arleene said, My husband is from
Stoke Newington, and I said, So am I!
And then Beatrice said, My husband is
too!
So the three couples that included Mr.
Levenes wife, Edith had dinner together.
Fish and chips, of course, the three men
said. And most of us had beer. They
went to the Irish place in Englewood,
Mr. Levene added. Since then, theyd been
sharing and unearthing memories.
In many ways, English and American
Jews share a history. Although many Jews
waves of immigration and most of the
first wave were Sephardic and the second
were German still, most American Jews
arrived from eastern Europe in a flood that
began around 1880.
A similar thing happened in England.
A large number of Jews settled in Lon-
dons East End because the prevailing
winds came from the west, so the atmo-
sphere there in the East End, with all the
city particulates and sewage and general
bad smells the winds had picked up on its
way across the city flaunting themselves
there, was the worst, Dr. Galatin said.
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And of course, the smellier, dirtier, and baby! in 1939.

more undesirable a neighborhood is, the
cheaper it is and the more it tends to
attract refugees and immigrants.
In a generation or so, the Jews moved
out and on. Stoke Newington was one
of the transitional neighborhoods that
attracted many families but did not hold
onto them for many generations. By
now it has become gentrified, Dr. Gala-
tin said. (In fact, according to the internet,
Stoke Newington now is actively trendy
and parts of it are becoming prohibitively
expensive. Think Lower East Side.) And
there is a big Indian community there now
too, he added.
In what was another typical pattern,
none of the three mens families stayed in
Stoke Newington. Rather, they moved to
other parts of London when the boys were
young. Still, all of them have vivid memo-
ries of their time in the borough.
It was comparable in size to Tenafly, Mr.
Levene said. And I think that somewhere
between 15 to 20 percent of the residents
were Jewish. Challenged on that statis-
tic by the other two to be fair, none of
the three of them really knew how many
people lived there or what percentage of
them were Jewish Mr. Levene resorted
Dr. Galatin and his family went to the Shackleford Lane Synagogue, which now is
the Shackleford Lane Mosque.
to argument by anecdote. All the people
I knew were Jewish, he said.
In a discussion that often centered on
landmarks the three shared remember
the theater? Which club did you go to?
Which shul? What school? each of the
men described his familys path to Lon-
don, as well as his own out of it.
Mr. Levene was born in 1934, Mr. Kane
in 1936, and Dr. Galatin Youre such a
Dr. Galatins mother had been born in
London, and his father was from Poland
but was taken to England when he was
young. That was true of Mr. Kanes parents
as well; Mr. Levenes family parents both
were first-generation London-born, but
their families were from eastern Europe.
Mr. Kane, unlike his two compatriots,
does not have a British accent. Thats
because his mother took him to the United
States when he was 4 years old we
were on the last convoy from England,
he said and they lived on Broadway at
110th Street for a few years. But then in
1944, my father wrote to us that the war
was over, and they went home. His father
was wrong. Thats when the buzz bombs
started thats the projectile also called
the doodlebug and then the V-2 bombs.
Those were early long-range guided ballis-
tic missiles.
We had an air raid shelter at the end of
our garden, but it was damp, and I dont
think we ever used it, Mr. Kane said.
The other two men didnt use bomb
shelters much either. My bedroom was
basically a metal box, Mr. Levene said. I
woke up in the morning, and the window
was blown out, and there was stuff all over.

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But I slept through it.
Dr. Galatin did go to an air raid shelter
at least once. My earliest memories are
being in a shelter, he said. It was under a
fruit market in Spitalfields with my mother
and her father. I have no memories at all
of being scared. I wasnt scared. Some of
it was an adventure. I remember running
around with my friends looking for pieces
of shrapnel after a raid.
I remember my parents taking me out
in the middle of the night when the sirens
were going off.
I very clearly remember sitting under
a table in our kitchen in Evering Road in
Stoke Newington. I remember hearing
planes go overhead, and telling her, Those
are ours, Dr. Galatin said. Theyre not
Jerrys. ( Jerry was a disparaging World
War I-vintage term for a German.)
That small child reassuring his mother
that the airplanes overhead were not
flown by the Germans who were intent on
destroying their city and killing them was
wearing my dressing gown, with a bunny
rabbit on the pocket, he added.
Its not that he wasnt afraid of anything,
Dr. Galatin said. He was. My major fear
was of barbers. I was afraid of getting my
hair cut.
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Thats how a childs mind works.
Dr. Galatin was evacuated to the coun-
try, but as a small child he was able to go
with his family; his is not the story we
often hear, about older children sent off
to the countryside to deal with their fears
and loneliness by themselves. Instead,
his extended family had rented a large
house, right on the edge of an airfield in a
town called Farnborough, in Hampshire.
Everyone chipped in toward the rent;
everyone lived there except the men who
were in the armed forces. My father was
not because he was not born in England,
Dr. Galatin said. He wasnt allowed to go
into the armed forces.
He was lucky that he hadnt been
interned; many Jewish men who were
born in Germany or Eastern Europe were,
on the ironic suspicion that they might be Jeffrey Kane and his wife raised these Boer goats in Vermont; they also raised
Nazis. Some of my family was interned, dogs to shepherd the goats.
and my fathers younger brothers were
sent to Canada, Mr. Kane said. experience with Jews. They were sur- All three of the men came from families
We were evacuated to Berkham- prised that we didnt have horns, Mr. Lev- that were deeply aware of being Jewish and
sted, Mr. Levene said. Thats a charm- ene said. I went to church on Sundays observant on and off the shuls they went
ing, wealthy old town not that far from the people we were living with went, and to on the holidays and occasionally oth-
London, he added. A lot of people from we went with them. erwise were Orthodox. In that, they were
Stoke Newington were evacuated there, It was fun. similar to their counterparts in New York
including an aunt of mine. He went to Sunday school at church, and Newark. There were some Liberal Jews
It was many of the townspeoples first and I was a star pupil there, he said. in London then but there werent many,
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and they werent in Stoke Newington.
We were always members of a shul,
and we kept kosher at home, Dr. Galatin
said. That was the Shackleford Lane Syn-
agogue, which now is the Shackleford
Lane Mosque. It was peculiar wed
go to shul, and then wed go out and eat
everything. We went to shul and then
wed go out to see a movie. We did keep
the Jewish holidays.
I went to Hebrew school, and I sang
in the shul choir. I started as a soprano
and I graduated eventually to becoming
an alto. We got paid two and sixpence a
month to sing.
Oh! So do you sing now? I dont sing
now and I couldnt sing then, Dr. Gala-
tin said.
We were not so religious, Mr. Kane
said. Religion was going to my grand-
parents shul on the High Holy Days,
Mr. Levene added. I was the oldest
grandchild on my mothers side, so they
made a big fuss over me. And he loved
it, he said.
We all went to cheder until our bar
mitzvah, Dr. Galatin said; each of them
became bar mitzvah, Mr. Kane added.
Each of the three took a different path
to Tenafly.
Primary school, back then, was for 5-
to 11-year-olds. (The British education
system has changed since then.) At 11,
students took the 11 plus exam, which
filtered them into different kinds of
schools and basically told most of them
where theyd be for the rest of their lives.
The top scorers went to grammar
schools, the next group to comprehensive
schools, and the third to trade schools.
Mr. Levene, the oldest of them, went
to a grammar school, the Sloane School;
after he graduated, he became an arti-
cled clerk in a firm of chartered accoun-
tants (properly pronounced clark, as
the Lord Admiral in Gilbert and Sulli-
vans H.M.S. Pinafore sang in When
I was a lad. Like Mr. Levene, the admi-
ral began his career as an articled clark.
And chartered accountants basically are
British CPAs.)
After taking and passing the exams to
become a chartered accountant (Its
quite an exam I lost my hair while I
was studying, he reported), Mr. Levene
joined the Royal Air Force for two years
of mandatory national service.
I was an air radar mechanic, and I
was posted to Germany, he said. This
was in the late 1950s. At the station I was
posted to, the officers mess accounts
were messed up, and they asked me
if I would work on them instead of air
radars. And I said yes, gladly.
My best friends were the barmen and
the cooks. We ate and drank well.
Jews in the British armed forces gath-
ered for something called the Moral
Leadership Course, which met over the
Jewish holidays. We had a wonderful
rabbi, and he knew all the Jews in the
British service in Germany, Mr. Levene
said. He met two of his oldest friends
there; all three couples are still in touch,
although a coldness between the two
women still in Britain means that when
he goes to visit there, he cannot see both
couples together but must apportion his
time between the two.
Soon Mr. Levene, young and restless,
went to Canada, worked in Toronto,
was about to go back to England, and
then I saw an ad in the paper. They
needed accountants in South America. I
contacted the local office it was Price
Waterhouse and they sent me to New
York for interviews, accepted me, and I
had the choice of Venezuela or Colom-
bia. First, I had to do six months of
indoctrination and yes, that was their
word into their style of accounting.
It was a great place to work.
A month before I was supposed to go,
I met Edith, and my proposal essentially
was Dont you want to marry me and go
to Venezuela?
She did, and so the former Edith
Levine changed a letter in her name and
became Edith Levene, and the couple
moved to Caracas. After two years, she
missed her family and wanted to come
home, Mr. Levene said. We had an
apartment in Englewood for a year or so,
and then we moved to Tenafly, where
her sister lived. They lived in the same
house for 45 years, brought up their
two children there, and then downsized
about five years ago.
Mr. Levene holds American citizen-
ship. I became an American when Newt
Gingrich became powerful, and it looked
as if he was going to do what Trump says
hes going to do, he said. His life was
in this country by then, and he did not
want to risk it. At that point you couldnt
have dual citizenship with England, so I
am now entirely an American, he said.
Mr. Levene, a trim, visibly fit man, is
a serious folk dancer; I started dancing
the week after I came to New York, he
said, and he has not stopped. He worked
with Michael Herman, a major figure in
the folk dance world, and then with Karl
Finger, a similarly looming figure in that
world. His commitment to folk danc-
ing took him to Bulgaria, and he still
dances twice a week; the JCC has ter-
rific classes, he said.
Mr. Kane, who has a degree in busi-
ness, and his wife, Arleene Migdal Kane,
have moved around the world; they have
lived in Bangkok, Singapore, and Manila,
and in Mexico and London. He worked
for a trading company specializing in
chemicals. In 1980, the Kanes moved to
Tenafly, where their three children, who
all were born in the United States, went
to high school.
He holds joint citizenship, which was
possible when he applied for his Ameri-
can passport. Its handy to have both,
he said. My son lives in England now,
and we go there at least twice a year.
Mr. Kane and his wife owned a house,
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set on many acres, in Vermont. I had read
an article in the New York Times saying
that there was a shortage of goat meat, he
said. And my land was perfect for goats
they could keep all the shrubbery down.
So he bought a herd of goats Boer goats,
from South Africa, 300 at a time and
hired local people to help care for them.
He also started to raise dogs Maremmas,
a breed of Italian sheepdogs primarily to
work with the goats, but also to sell.
That lasted for 15 years. It was a losing
proposition, though, he said; eventually,
the goats developed chlamydia, and the
dream ended.
Now, the Kanes live in Fort Lee; they
have three children.
Dr. Galatin, like Mr. Levene, took the
11 plus exam, and landed in a grammar
school, the Central Foundation School,
also known as the Cowper Street School
and named after the poet William Cowper.
From there he went to University College
in London and the London School of Eco-
nomics, earning a first class degree he
was the first in his family to go to college.
And then I decided that I wanted to go to
America.
There was a reason for that. When I
was 6, 7 years old, there was an exchange
teacher from the United States, her name
was Jo Basshe, and she always used to call
me Professor.
Of course I didnt have a crush on her! New York for 42 years, and ended up as
I did a lot of studying about the Ameri-
can political system; I could understand
in principle how it could work, but I
couldnt fathom that it really would. So I
was going to come here for a year to find
out how it works.
I had no money, so I applied for a fel-
lowship. And I turned down one from Har-
vard and accepted one from MIT, which
had the best economics department in the
world. I never worked so hard in my life.
I was going to stay for a year, but I
decided to stay and get my Ph.D. there, in
economics.
He wanted to become a university pro-
fessor, but the terms of his visa demanded
that he leave the country for two years. He
went to Canada, where he taught at the
University of Western Ontario, and he got
married to Beatrice Skulsky, a Brooklyn
girl whom he had met at Harvard she them, Elizabeth Seth, lives in Tenafly with
was earning a Ph.D. in German literature.
When the Galatins returned to the
United States, my official designation
was beneficiary alien, he said. Later, he
got a green card, and later still he became
a citizen; like Mr. Kane, he has dual
citizenship.
Dr. Galatin taught at the City College of
ways that reflect parts of the community
the chairman of the college, he said.
The Galatins first lived in Queens, but I
had a colleague who lived in Haworth, and
we came out to see it, and I liked it here,
he said. I liked all the trees. So we found
a house in Tenafly and we lived there for
42 years. Two years ago, we moved to a
different house.
Dr. Beatrice Galatin taught at Columbia,
but after a while her field dried up, her
husband said. German literature was not
in great demand. She couldnt continue to
teach it so she decided to change.
She went to Fairleigh Dickson, got a
degree in teaching, and taught in the
inner city in Paterson for 23 years. She
taught ESL in an elementary school, and
she enjoyed it. She loved the kids, and she
was very glad that she did it.
The Galatins have three children; one of
her husband and children.
Dr. Galatin has begun to paint, mainly in
acrylics, since he retired.
All the men have grandchildren; all love
them dearly.
All of them retain their connections to
the Jewish community. Each is active in
the JCC; each, in his own way and in
pretty accurately has had ties to syna-
gogue life as well. The Kanes belonged to
Temple Sinai in Tenafly. Dr. Galatins fam-
ily belongs to Temple Emanu-El in Engle-
wood, before it moved to Closter; now
they buy tickets there for High Holy Day
seats. The Levenes belong to Emanu-El,
and Mr. Levene goes during the winter
fairly frequently on Shabbes, because you
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The three men are easy together; their
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their shared memories memories they
share with just about no one else clearly
delight them. The similarities and differ-
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them, but surely they fascinate us.
And who knows who else might have
come from Stoke Newington? (There is a
guy from Tottenham another London
neighborhood and thats close enough,
Mr. Levene said.)
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In the wake of new building restrictions,
Israeli settlers lower expectations for Trump era
ANDREW TOBIN
JERUSALEM In response to new curbs
on West Bank construction, Israeli settle-
ment supporters hoped for the best and
expected the worst, tempering their ini-
tial euphoria at Donald Trumps election
as U.S. president.
Pro-settlement leaders who advocate
Jewish control of the entire West Bank
went as far as to welcome the recent
announcement that in a nod to Trump,
the government would restrict construc-
tion to developed areas of existing West
Bank Jewish communities. Others hoped
that the restrictions did not amount to a
freeze on settlement building.
No one was talking about bringing down
the government, which has been shaky in
recent weeks over the obscure issue of
public broadcasting.
You need to understand that people
built up an expectation that there would
be a new president, the old era would end,
and wed be able to do whatever we want,
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Much of the Israeli right anticipated
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hand in the West Bank than had his pre-
decessor, Barack Obama. But since being
elected in January, Trump has backed
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made moves toward the final-status
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Some observers have speculated that
Netanyahu wants Trump to push back on
settlements for fear of his own right-wing
coalition.
Having welcomed Trumps election
by announcing The era of a Palestinian
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declared policy.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced the new settlement policy
Thursday in a meeting of the security
cabinet. Netanyahu told his top ministers
that the policy was a goodwill gesture to
Trump, who last month said settlement
expansion may not be helpful in achiev-
ing peace and asked Netanyahu to hold
back on settlements a little bit.
According to the Prime Ministers
Office, Netanyahu said that settlement
construction would be limited to previ-
ously developed areas of the West Bank.
But where security or topography pre-
vented this, new homes would be built as
close as possible to the developed areas.
Israel would not allow the creation of any
new illegal outposts, he said.
Citing five participants in the meeting,
Haaretz reported that Netanyahu also
would allow the Palestinians to build in
Area C of the West Bank, where Israel has
full civil and military control, and said we
have to act wisely in eastern Jerusalem.
This is a very friendly administration
and we need to be considerate of the pres-
idents requests, Netanyahu said, accord-
ing to Haaretz.
Hours earlier, the security cabinet
approved the establishment of the first
entirely new settlement in two decades for
families evicted last month from Amona,
an illegal West Bank outpost. That settle-
ment would not be affected by the policy,
which the White House welcomed.
Most of the world considers all Israeli
construction in the territories it cap-
tured in the 1967 Six-Day War illegal. But
Israel disputes this view and allows gov-
ernment-authorized settlements on land
not demonstrably owned by Palestinians.
While Israel stopped building new settle-
ments in the early 1990s, it has approved
outposts retroactively, and let existing set-
tlements expand.
Last week, Revivi put a positive spin
on Netanyahus policy change, saying the
Yesha Council, the main umbrella group
for the settlements, would keep an eye on
the West Bank which he referred to by its
biblical name, Judea and Samaria.
The Yesha Council welcomes the cabi-
net decision to support new building proj-
ects across Judea and Samaria, in addition
to the establishment of a new town for
the former residents of Amona, he said.
We will be monitoring the government
very closely to see that these plans come
to fruition, enabling a new era of building
throughout our ancestral homeland.
Shlomo Brom, the head researcher on
Israeli-Palestinian relations at the Institute
for National Security Studies, said that if
the policy were strictly enforced, it would
reduce West Bank construction dramati-
cally. But Brom said that many settlers seem
to be betting the policy would be interpreted
flexibly, which could allow the settlements
to expand gradually and indefinitely.
Noting that in January his think tank
urged Israel to limit settlement construc-
tion to the major settlement blocs, Brom
said this policy is not close to that.
Meanwhile, several right-wing lawmak-
ers worried that the restrictions amounted
to a suspension of settlement building.
Yehudah Glick, a Knesset member in the
ruling Likud party who lives in a settle-
ment, held out hope in a tweet that this
was not the case.
I hope, in contrast to the commenta-
tors, that the government did not decide
on a freeze on settlement construction,
he said. We cannot accept this. Construc-
tion in Judea and Samaria is important for
those who want peace.
Bezalel Smotrich, an often inflammatory
Jewish Home party lawmaker who also
lives in a settlement, suggested that Israels
political right had lowered its expectations
too far.
This morning, on my [news feed] and
according to the commentators the right
wing claims that the cabinet decided yes-
terday on construction [in the West Bank],
the left claims that there is a freeze,
Smotrich tweeted. Unfortunately this
time the commentators on the left are cor-
rect. The right is willfully blinded.
Revivi, who is also the mayor of the Efrat
settlement, said settlers have been most
disappointed by Netanyahu. He said the
prime minister blamed President Barack
Obama, Trumps predecessor, for the lack
of construction in the West Bank for years,
but that is harder to do with Trump, who is
seen as more sympathetic to Israel.
Especially after the evacuation of
Amona, Revivi said, people feel that
promises are made but not really fulfilled.
Judy Simon, the former tourism coor-
dinator for the Beit El settlement and a
teacher there, said she has lost faith in the
governments commitment to the settle-
ment enterprise since Trump took office.
Here we have the most pro-Israel gov-
ernment weve had [in Washington] in a
decade, some say decades, and yet build-
ing is still being limited. What that says to
me is the king has no clothes, she said.
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More than 408,000 likes. As of Friday, nearly 200 women had
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We know from surveys and from
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we go into negotiations, and obviously
employers never tell you to ask for
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about how to build female-friendly
products. Rather than dictating to
women, we listen and let them tell us,
This is what we need, and this is how
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Katz-Arotchas said the survey,
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Women in Israel make less than three-quarters of
what men earn. The gap is even wider in high tech,
where women have been found to earn a little more
than half as much as men.
According to a recent Taub Center study, the
biggest reason for the disparity is that on average,
Nowadays, its a shortage
women work fewer hours than men. Another key
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of blood thats really a plague.
in lower-wage occupations and industries. Many
have argued that those factors are influenced by dis-
crimination as well.
The challenge of asking for higher pay came up
recently in a discussion on the XX+UX Israel Face-
book group. Shortly thereafter, two members of the
group posted a Google spreadsheet for members
to share information about their jobs, professional
experience, and monthly pay.
Were basically just a group of women who work
in high tech, and this is the kind of thing we talk
about, Yukla said. It was a really long, vibrant dis-
cussion, so we realized a lot of us are probably inter-
ested in what the standard is.
The survey, which the group plans to analyze sys-
tematically, showed monthly salaries ranging from
6,000 shekels (about $1,700) for a starting designer
to 46,500 shekels (about $13,000) for a veteran
product manager. It also found that some women
with similar jobs and qualifications reported signifi-
cantly different incomes. One project manager at a
large company said she made 20,600 shekels (about
$5,700) per month, along with bonuses and a com-
pany car. Another with the same education and six
more years of experience said her salary was 16,000
shekels (about $4,400).
One thing that was sort of surprising was you saw
different salary levels for the same job, the same skill
set, Yukla said. I think the question here is: Would
it be different for our male colleagues?
Group members responded enthusiastically to the
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JCC bomb threat suspects dad apologizes to U.S. Jews

JERUSALEM The father of the Israeli-American teenager unequivocal message: We are very sorry from the bottom The father denies knowing about what his son was
arrested on suspicion of calling in more than 100 bomb of our hearts. We are good Jews, we do not hate you. There doing, but he does not deny that his son carried out
threats to JCCs and Jewish institutions has apologized for was no hatred here. His motive is solely the disease, the the threats. The world has to understand, this boy is
his sons actions. teens father said on Channel 2 from his home in Ashkelon, different, hes unique, Eli said.
The father appeared in his first interview in Israel, nearly in southern Israel, where he remains under house arrest on The father said that he has undergone three surger-
two weeks after he was arrested, along with his son, follow- suspicion that he knew about his sons activities. ies to remove tumors after being exposed to harmful
ing a months-long undercover investigation by Israels anti- The identity of the suspect, 19, is under a gag order in chemicals at his job, and that his son has a benign
fraud unit, as well as the FBI in the United States and law Israel, though he has been identified in reports in other tumor in his head. At a court hearing last week, the
enforcement in other countries. countries. The father, who was not seen in the interview, is teens attorney presented photographs and medi-
To all the Jews in the United States, I want to convey an identified only as Eli, a pseudonym. cal images of a non-malignant brain tumor that the
defense says affects his behavior.
On Thursday, the teen will appear in court, where
investigators are expected to ask that he remain in
police custody. The father said he hopes his son will
be permitted to go to house arrest, though it seems
unlikely since law enforcement is portraying the teen
as dangerous.
He also is accused of a series of threats made in
Israel, Europe, Australia and New Zealand in the past
six months and of making a threatening call to Delta
Airlines, leading to the emergency landing of at least
one plane.
In a television interview, the teens mother said
through tears that the threats were not her sons fault
because he cannot control his behavior, not only
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The teen was born in the United States; the family
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The mother said she was shocked when she found
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This was not the first reported use of chemical weapons this
year. Although Assad agreed to give up his chemical weapons
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functions like breathing.
It has yet to be officially confirmed that sarin gas was
used, but videos from Idlib hospitals showed victims
with unresponsive, constricted pupils a telltale sign of
Israeli politicians responses to the alleged chemical
attack included some calls on the country to do more
about the suffering across the border, but they uniformly
lacked detailed proposals.
And military intervention seems to be off the table.
Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, head of the Institute for
National Security Studies think-tank and former head of
Military Intelligence, was one of the few people to urge
direct action against Assad, calling the chemical attack a
crime against humanity.
Speaking to Army Radio, Yadlin encouraged Israel to
destroy the planes used in Idlib from afar, in an appar-
ent reference to a missile attack.
An action that weakens Assad is right morally and stra-
tegically, he said. TIMES OF ISRAEL
Egypts El-Sisi and Trump
confer at White House
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with President
Donald Trump at the White House. This was the Egyp-
tian leaders first official U.S. visit since his rise to power
in 2013.
I just want to let everybody know, in case there was
any doubt, that we are very much behind President El-
Sisi, Trump said. Hes done a fantastic job in a very dif-
ficult situation. We are very much behind Egypt and the
people of Egypt.
El-Sisi told Trump, Ive had a deep appreciation
and admiration of your unique personality, especially
as youre standing very strong in the counter-terrorism
field.
The two leaders were expected to discuss a wide range
of issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
fighting Islamic terrorism.
In 2013, El-Sisi overthrew former President Moham-
med Morsi a leader of Hamass parent group, the Mus-
lim Brotherhood. The Obama administration was critical
of El-Sisi human rights record and had declined to invite
him to the White House. JNS.ORG

N.Y. education chief reverses

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The exact circumstances of the inci- Jewish Defense League.

dent in Pantin are the subject of an
ongoing police inquiry. Regardless
of its findings, though, the incident
already is underlining the distrust that
many French Jews have in their author-
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cemetery paths are too small for a truck to drive on with
enough speed to knock over a dozen massive headstones.
Nothing adds up.
Francoise Saadoun, who has four relatives buried in
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The authorities decided to make a deal to avoid rock-
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under Marine Le Pen, Zenou said. They covered it up.
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spiracy theories, are unusual among mainstream mem-
bers of a community that prides itself on its ability to unite
under threat.
He pegged the mood to several factors: inconsistencies
regarding the incident itself, compounded by a growing
distrust of authorities politicization of information on
anti-Semitism and anxiety over the popularity of Le Pen,
the far-right presidential candidate, heading into the elec-
tions this month.
Like many American Jews who criticized the Trump
administration for being slow to condemn anti-Semitism,
French Jews recently have seen a series of events that
weakened their own faith in their authorities.
One such event was the March 30 publication of a
government report that questioned the existence of a
new anti-Semitism in which Jews are targeted over Isra-
els actions. It also listed only far-right perpetrators of
hate crimes against Jews without mentioning the more
politically sensitive violence by Muslims against
Jews, which one Jewish watchdog group believes
accounts for most assaults.
The hate crime prosecution this year of a promi-
nent Jewish historian who said that Muslims are cul-
turally preconditioned to hate Jews further soured
French Jews on the judiciary, although the historian,
Georges Benssousan, ultimately was acquitted.
Many Jews also resented that Frances oldest Jew-
ish organizations LICRA, a human rights group
helped initiate Benssousans prosecution. That
highlighted a political gap between rank-and-file
members of the community and some members of
its elite.
All these factors joined together after the Pantin
cemetery incident to open a very divisive debate
about basic trust in the midst of the community in a
way that didnt exist in the past, Simon-Sellem said.
It also prompted a harsh and unusual rebuke of the
skeptics by Haim Korsia, the chief rabbi of France.
Korsia, whom many French Jews cherish for his
hopeful and consoling speeches at times of crisis,
delivered his scathing criticism of the speculation
around the Pantin incident in an op-ed published
March 29 in the Actualite Juive daily.
Calling the skeptics part of a campaign of
deceit, the rabbi wrote that he understood their
initial reflex to assume a hateful attack. But their
persistence in circulating rumors amid an atmo-
sphere of fury, conspiracy theory and revenge,
Korsia added, help neither our credulity as a com-
munity nor to generate support for our causes.
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Likud lawmaker challenges
ban on MPs ascending
to the Temple Mount
Member of Knesset Yehuda Glick (Likud), a well-
known advocate of Jewish access to the Temple
Mount, petitioned Israels High Court last week in
an effort to force the Israeli government to allow
lawmakers to ascend Judaisms holiest site before
the Passover holiday.
Glicks petition asks Israels attorney general to
limit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus author-
ity to intervene on operational police decisions,
and comes in response to the implementation of
an 18-month ban on Knesset members visiting the
Temple Mount.
Glick petitioned the High Court a day after
reports that Netanyahu agreed to lift the ban three
months from now, following the Jewish and Muslim
holiday seasons.
The situation is insufferable and very strange,
where all the people of the world can go in [to
the Temple Mount] except for Knesset members,
Glick stated in his petition.
The visitation ban was implemented in response
to an increase in Palestinian terror attacks in 2015.
Palestinian leaders claimed the violence was agi-
tated by Jewish calls to ascend the sensitive holy
site, which is also home to the Al-Aqsa mosque.
The status quo on the Temple Mount forbids
non-Muslims from praying at the site. JNS.ORG

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Haley tries to shift
Security Council debate
away from Israel
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations, announced that she will refocus the U.N.
Security Council away from the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, and instead turn toward longstanding issues
U.N. agency report will compare
Israeli occupation to U.S. slavery
After the United Nations-affiliated Economic and Social
Commission for Western Asia last month released a contro-
versial report describing Israel as an apartheid regime, it
is set to release a new report equating the Israeli occupation
with slavery in the U.S.
ESCWAs Beirut-based council is comprised of 18 Arab
members. The agencys recent apartheid report
authored by Richard Falk, a discredited former U.N. special
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rapporteur for human rights with a record of vehemently
anti-Israel rhetoric was rejected by U.N. Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres, who forced its withdrawal.
According to an ESCWA resolution passed in December
2016, the new slavery-themed anti-Israel report seeks to
establish premises and approach for calculating the cumu-
lative cost of the occupation.
Although it has yet to be clarified when the latest anti-
Israel report will be published, Israeli media have reported
it may be released in June on the 50th anniversary of the
1967 Six-Day War. JNS.ORG

that have been neglected in recent years, when she

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So much has been put toward Israel and the
Palestinian Authority and not enough has been
put toward some of the other issues, Haley said
at a press conference, noting that she will focus
an April 20 Security Council debate around issues
such as Irans support for terrorism, Syria, Hezbol-
lah, and Hamas.
That is our goal for the Middle East open
debate, she said.
Each month, a member of the 15-country Security
Council assumes control as president of the agency.
Haley also said she has warned Palestinian Author-
ity U.N. representative Riyad Mansour that the U.S.
will block any Arab-sponsored motions targeting
Israel, while also calling on the Palestinians to show
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Labour suspends Livingstone for year

but U.K. Jewish leaders want expulsion
JENNI FRAZER AND SUE SURKES
LONDON The U.K. Labour Party suspended former
London mayor and senior party official Ken Livingstone
for one year for comments he made about Hitler sup-
porting Zionism.
A disciplinary committee found those comments
grossly detrimental to the party.
Jewish groups, who had been calling for Livingston
to be expelled, called the move deeply disappointing
and said it would erode the fractured trust between the
party and its Jewish members.
Given that Ken Livingstone has been found guilty, we
are deeply disappointed at the decision not to expel him
from the Labour Party, the Jewish Leadership Council
said in a statement. A temporary suspension is no more
than a slap on the wrist.
Livingstones antagonistic attitude towards the Jew-
ish community has been longstanding and has had a
huge impact on Jewish people, the statement contin-
ued. This decision makes us question if the Labour
conduct that in the opinion of the National Executive
Committee was prejudicial and/or grossly detrimental
to the Labour Party.
A year ago, as the Labour Party was grappling with
a series of gaffes deemed anti-Zionist and even anti-
Semitic, veteran leftist Livingstone, a member of
Labours National Executive, claimed that Adolf Hitler
was initially a supporter of Zionism before he went
mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews.
Livingstone also charged that for decades the U.K. had
harbored a well-orchestrated campaign by the Israel
lobby to smear anybody who criticizes Israel policy as
anti-Semitic.
Last week, he caused fresh uproar by claiming that
German Zionists received assistance from the SS and
were close collaborators of the Nazi regime.
Livingstones case was heard by three members of
the 11-member Constitutional Committee. Two lawyers,
one retained by him and one by the Labor Party, cross-
examined him and a number of witnesses: Jeremy New-
mark, chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, the only
Board of Deputies or the Jewish Labor Movement.
Livingstone, who had expected to be expelled from the
party and had planned to fight expulsion through a judicial
review, seemed pleased with the verdict, calling it pretty
fair, the Guardian reported.
Have I said anything that wasnt true? he asked. All the
Jewish activists who spoke on my behalf yesterday, all actually
confirmed what I said was true.
While the suspension is seen as a blow to the man who
been a member of Labor for half a century, the Jewish Labour
Movement reacted to the verdict with dismay, saying it was a
betrayal of our Partys values, and allowed for a revolving
door for repeat offenders.
It simply cant be acceptable that there can be some kind
of revolving door policy, that you can revise the history of the
Holocaust, duck out of the party for a year and then come
back, said Jeremy Newmark. He described the suspension as
a betrayal of our partys values and called on leader Jeremy
Corbyn to make a hard and fast ruling of zero tolerance on
anti-Semitism.
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Party wanted to repair its historic and longstanding rela-
tionship with the Jewish community.
Those sentiments were echoed by the Jewish Board of
Deputies. Relations between the Labor Party and the
Jewish community have reached a new all-time low, its
president, Jonathan Arkush, said.
The Labour Party panel that decided Livingstones
fate technically leveled him with a two-year suspension,
one year of which already has been served, according
to the Guardian.
Livingstone, 71, was charged with engaging in
Jewish affiliate to the Labour Party, and five members
of the activist group Jews for Justice for the Palestinians,
described by Livingstone as leading Jewish members of
the Labor Party.
This was slammed by the mainstream Jewish com-
munity, who have said that JfJfP is not representative of
Anglo-Jewry. However, lawyer Michael Mansfield, repre-
senting Livingstone, tried to persuade the panel that the
views of Livingstones Jews, who included a 93-year-
old Berlin-born Holocaust survivor, Walter Wolfgang,
were equally as representative of Jewish feelings as the
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Passover

Elijah
the Prophet

P
assover finally
came. That dear
lovable holiday. I
was dressed like a
king, as befits a rich
mans son. But what
good did it do me, if I couldnt race
BY SHOLOM ALEICHEM around outside for I was prone to
catch cold? If I couldnt run around
Translated by Curt Leviant with the gang of poor boys for I
was a rich mans son? I had such
nice clothes and no one to show
them off to. A pocketful of nuts
and no one to play with.
Its no fun being an only child,
fondled and fussed over, the sole

I
surviving son of seven children. And
a rich mans son at that.

ts no fun being an only child,

fondled and fussed over, the
sole surviving son of seven
children. Dont stand here.
Dont go there. Dont eat this.
Dont drink that. Wear a hat.

A
Button your collar. Keep your hands
warm. Blow your nose.
Ah me, its no good being an only
son and a rich mans son at that. My fter Father put on
father, you see, was well off. A money his best gabardine
changer. He went from store to store and went to shul
with a bagful of coins. Exchanged sil- to pray, Mama sug-
ver for coppers and coppers for silver. gested, You know
Thats why his fingers were always what? You ought to
black and his nails chipped. He worked lie down and take a nap. Then you
very hard. Every day he came home wont be sleepy at the seder. And
tired and run-down. youll be able to ask Father the Four
My legs are going, he complained Questions.
to Mama. Theyre failing me. Was I out of my mind? Going to
Failing him? Possibly. But on the sleep before the seder?
other hand, he had a good business. But remember, Mama added,
Thats what everyone said. And every- youre not allowed to sleep during
one was green with envy that we made the seder. Because if you fall asleep,
a living, and such a good one, too. This card marked Passover 1919 in Luboml, Poland. God forbid, Elijah the Prophet will
Mama was very pleased that we were come with a sack on his shoulders.
well off. And so was I. For tonight he goes from house to house, and if he sees
What a Passover were going to have! May all Jews have anyone napping at the seder, he whisks him into his sack.
such a Passover, dear God! Mama said. She thanked God Me fall asleep at the seder? Me? Ill stay up all night
for the fine festival we were going to have. And so did I, with you. Even to the crack of dawn. What happened last
anxiously awaiting the arrival of this happy holiday. year, Mama?

40 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017


Last year you fell asleep right after the Kiddush.
So how come Elijah the Prophet didnt come with
his sack then?
Because last year you were a little boy, and now
youre bigger. Tonight you have to ask Father the Four
Questions and recite with him Slaves were we unto Pha-
raoh. And you have to eat fish and soup and matzah
balls with us. Oh, heres Father coming back from shul.
Gut yontev. Happy holiday.
Gut yontev. Happy holiday.
T
hank God Father finished the Kiddush.
He drank the first cup. So did I. Filled to
the brim too. Down to the last drop.
Look at that! Mama told Father. To
the last drop! Then she turned to me. A
full cup of wine? Youre going to doze off!
Me fall asleep? Me!? Ill stay up all night with you. Even
to the crack of dawn. Go ahead. Ask Father how I how
I rattled off the Four Questions, how I recited the Hag-
gadah, and how along with him I rocked back and forth,
saying, Slaves were we.
Mama did not take her eyes off me. She smiled and
said, Youre going to doze off. Fall asleep.
Oh, Mama, Mama! That alone could make a ten-
headed man fall asleep.
How would you like someone sitting opposite you,
droning in your ear, Fall asleep. Doze off. Fall asleep?
So naturally, I fell asleep.
I dozed off and dreamed that Father was already recit-
ing Pour Out Thy Wrath. Mama was getting up to open
the door and welcome Elijah the Prophet. How nice it
would be if Elijah appeared with a sack on his back and
told me to come with him! Just like Mama said.
The fault would be Mamas alone, with her constant
Dont fall asleep, dont fall asleep.
Suddenly I heard the door squeak. Father rose and
called out, Welcome!
I turned to the dooryes, it was he. He was coming.
He was coming.
Slowly. You could hardly hear him. Elijah the Prophet
he was a good-looking Jew. An old man. With a curly
gray beard reaching to his knees. His face was yellow
and wrinkled, but infinitely kind and beautiful. And his
eyes oh, what lovely, friendly eyes! Gentle, loving,
faithful eyes. With a sack on his bent back, he leaned on
a huge staff and silently walked toward me.
Well, little boy, hop into my sack, and lets go, the
old man said sweetly.
Where? I asked.
Passover
Wishing
all of Klall
Yisroel a
Youll see later, he replied.
I didnt want to go, and he repeated his request.
How can I go with you? Im a rich mans boy, I
pleaded.
What sort of privilege does that entitle you to?
Im their only son. I said.
I dont consider you an only son, Elijah said.
Im fondled and fussed over. The sole surviving son
of seven children. If they see that Ive gone, they wont
endure it. Theyll die. Especially Mama.
The old man looked at me and said as sweetly as
before, If you dont come with me, then sleep well
but keep on sleeping. Forever.
That means Ill die. I began to cry. They wont
endure it. . . . Especially Mama.
If you dont want to die, then come with me. Say
goodbye to your parents, and come along. Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
What do you mean? How can I go if Im an only child,
the sole surviving son of seven children?
For the last time, little boy, Elijah said more severely
now, make your choice. One or the other. Either say
goodbye to your parents forever and come with me, or
remain here fast asleep forever. For all eternity.
Having said this, he stepped away from me, to face
the door. What to do? If I went with the old man to
God-knows-where and disappeared, my parents would
die. Im an only child, the sole surviving son of seven
children.
But to remain here fast asleep forever meant that I
would die.
I stretched my hands out to him and said with tears in
my eyes, Elijah the Prophet. Dear, beloved, wonderful
Elijah. Give me one minute to think it over.
He turned his fine, old, yellow, and wrinkled face to
me.
I will give you one minute to consider it, child, he
said, and his loving and faithful eyes smiled. But no
more than that.
And the old man with the knee-length, curly gray
beard leaned on his huge staff and waited.
Now I ask you. What should I have done during that
minute to avoid going with the old man and yet not
remain asleep forever?
Well, go ahead and guess!
Curt Leviants most recent novels are the critically
acclaimed King of Yiddish and Kafkas Son.
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017 41
Dear Rabbi Zahavy
Your Talmudic advice column
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
Im worried about my upcoming seders. Our
extended family of three generations and
our cousins and aunts and uncles all get
together at our home for the Passover seder
rituals and the festive meal. It should be a
joyous occasion but in recent years it has
become a stressful event. There always seems
to be bickering and sometimes outright fight-
ing and arguing over past imagined sins and
slights. Recently the political divides in our
family also have erupted into messy debates.
What can we do to avoid the frictions of the
evening and keep things more harmonious?
Petrified of a Passover
Powder Keg in Paramus
Dear Petrified,
You are a wise person to assess past expe-
riences and to anticipate future troubles.
Thats a good start toward a solution.
You surely know that the potent ener-
gies that are released in the springtime
season of rebirth can at times lead to great
positive celebrations, and on occasion to
explosive events.
I need not remind you that the central
drama of Christianity, celebrated at Eas-
ter, is the springtime crucifixion of Jesus.
That was one noteworthy confrontation of
a Passover season of the past. And through
the ages we Jews as a community have
suffered blood libels and other forms of
anti-Semitism that triggered pogroms and
awful acts of terrorist violence against us
at Passover time.
In the interior microcosms of our fam-
ily meals you would think and hope that
we could control our emotions and avoid
unpleasantness. It is easy for me to say
be cognizant and behave. But I want to
offer you more granular advice for har-
monious seders.
The first thing you should consider is
including what I call strangers on your
guest list. I mean by that dont just have
your close and intimate family members
at the meal. Outsiders, who may in fact be
friends, add a balance to the social mix of
the evening. They can be your insurance
that your family will comport themselves
with greater dignity and propriety. Its no
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column
offers mindful advice based on
Talmudic wisdom. It aspires to be
equally open and meaningful to all
the varieties and denominations
of Judaism. You can find it here
on the first Friday of the month.
Please email your questions to
zahavy@gmail.com.
42 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017
guarantee, but it is human nature that with
others present, the dynamics of the inter-
actions change, hopefully for the better.
Now Ill add some more of my sugges-
tions, not just for avoiding confrontations,
but for creating a more wholly positive
evening. To seasoned seder leaders these
will be familiar ideas.
Prepare in advance the roles that your
guests will play in your seder. Every-
one should have a part to play in the
great opera that you will be performing
together. Think through what their skills
are and what reading or responsibility
they can be assigned in your seder.
Remember too that some of your guests
may be simple, some wise, and some
wont know how to ask a question. Try to
meet the needs of everyone assembled.
Those who dont read Hebrew can read a
passage from the Haggadah in translation
(English, Spanish, Russian or otherwise) or
perform another essential task.
It is true that you and your guests are on
stage in a dramatic opera. Still, this is not
an appropriate time to bring up old family
arguments or heated political issues. If you
do, your seder might become a tragedy
that separates you from your kin, or even
the last supper that you eat together.
With the right mix of guests and with
enough thoughtful strategic planning,
your seder at home will be a theatrical hit.
So invite, prepare and fear not, and have a
happy Passover.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
I have assembled much personal material
and I have written a book-length memoir
about my life and my family. I now want to
publish it. I approached several publishers.
Because I am an unknown amateur writer,
they want a hefty sum of money from me
to support the publishing venture. I am not
sure whether to do this or not.
Ambivalent Author in Alpine
Dear Ambivalent,
Yes, indeed, we are the people of the
books. In the center of our synagogues
there are no icons, but there stand our
books our Torah scrolls up front of us. book yourself.
We revere our main book. We kiss it
when it passes in front of us in procession
and we dance with it on a festival day. And
one Judaic value that is out there, but not
commonly observed, says that it is a mitz-
vah for every Jew to write a sefer Torah.
The larger literate world we live in
respects books, and book making too.
You should know that the way people
make books is changing now rapidly from
day to day. Technology is making the
www.thejewishstandard.com
self-publishing of everything
from Facebook posts, to blogs,
essays, to full-length books,
easier every passing week.
As Jews, and as Americans,
we cherish our books. And
you want to write one of your
own and publish it. I get that.
It is in our genes and in our
culture. Rabbi Tzvee
You describe a vanity publi- Zahavy
cation scenario. The book you
want to release has substan-
tial personal value but prepare for the
shock no real commercial worth. Should
you publish it? And if so, should you pay a
press to do that for you?
The commercial side of your question is
simple. Vanity publishing is a big business,
even in our digital age. People like you are
mystified by the publication process. Cer-
tain companies know that you want to
see your name on a published book and
that you will pay good money to see that
happen.
To publish or not to publish? Here are
some questions for you to answer to help
you clarify this decision.
Will the publication of this book make
anyone in your family or community
cringe? If so, is that what you want? It might getting cheaper and easier every day and
be so but I hope that is not your intent.
Have you had a literary friend or agent
review the quality of your writing? It does
not have to be great literature. But you
do want clean, logical, understandable
copy, free of obvious mistakes and infelici-
ties. You need to make sure that what you
wrote does not sound too weird or goofy
or off-the-wall (unless that is how you want
it to sound).
Are you adept at word processing, to the
point where you can format a book in a
template provided by a self-publishing out-
fit? Its a tricky process, but not as complex
as it sounds.
If your answers to these questions make
you inclined to publish, then allow me to
describe to you two scenarios that will
enable you to forego the expensive van-
ity press alternative and to publish your
Brown University and his rabbinic
If what you want to produce is an eBook,
I recommend you go ahead and use the
service called Amazon Kindle Direct.
And if you want to publish an on-demand
paperback book, I suggest that you use
Amazons CreateSpace.
The publication cost can be zero if you
do all the preparations yourself. Or they
can be minimal with the affordable a la
carte help available from the company.
In both cases your books will be created
on demand, meaning that
you will not need to rent
warehouse space to store
your book inventory. And
in both cases you will be
able to order copies of your
books from Amazon, the
best sales platform on Earth.
Be aware that there are
other self-publishing on-
demand platforms that you
can explore. But Im a huge
fan of Amazon products
and services. And I believe you cannot go
wrong if you go with them.
Many of us who write books do so
chiefly because we love to write. Still, its
natural to harbor false expectations about
their success. Those anticipations moti-
vate us to carry on through the difficult or
tedious parts of the process.
But and here is a big caveat allow me
to dispel your fantasy that others will care
about your book, will buy it, and will make
you much profit from your publication.
That almost certainly will not be the case.
Very few authors make money on their
publications. The book publishing busi-
ness is hypercompetitive, and getting
more so every day. That is because it is
the barriers to book publishing are get-
ting lower. And even more troubling for
authors is the fear that fewer people are
buying and reading books.
The bottom line is if you decide to self-
publish, be glad. You will not pay out
large fees to a vanity publisher. You can
do most of the work yourself. And at the
end of the process, you will have a pre-
sentable, professional volume to look at
with pride and to show off to give as a
gift and perhaps to sell (a few copies) to
others with satisfaction.
So yes, go ahead with your plan to pub-
lish. When you look finally with pride and
delight at your published volume, you will
know without doubt that it is number one
on your own best kveller list.
Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from
ordination from Yeshiva University. He
is a kvelling author and has published
many books through traditional
academic presses, and through the newest
publication platforms available. His more
than 60 books about Judaism include The
Polychrome Historical Haggadah, The
Book of Jewish Prayers in English, Gods
Favorite Prayers and Talmudic Advice
which includes his past columns from the
Jewish Standard and other essays.
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BRIEFS $55 million project revives
Dead Sea beaches, hotels
Arab center ranks Israeli Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin dedicated a new 3-mile-
3 Israeli universities long promenade along the Dead Sea beachfront at Ein Bokek
among worlds top 10 as part of a $55 million project seeking to revive the Dead Sea
hotel district.
The Center for World University Rankings, an initiative The Dead Sea infrastructure project, which began in 2012
launched by Saudi Arabia and based in the United Arab and concluded in 2016, was developed to combat flooding at
Emirates, has listed three Israeli universities in its inaugu- the seas southern basin. The initiative which is funded jointly
ral subject rankings. by the Israeli government and Dead Sea Works, a supplier of
Jewish World
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districts beaches by 6.5 feet. Additionally, saltwater-proof clay
berms have been installed along the entire length of Ein Bokeks
beaches.
Levin also announced proposals for a major expansion,
including the construction of at least 12 new hotels. The facilities
would add 3,700 hotel rooms on top of the current 4,000 to
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Dead Sea region. According to Levin, the new hotels would be
more environmentally friendly while blending into the natural
landscape.

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U.S. Supreme Court considers

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The U.S. Supreme Court this week agreed to consider a
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Keeping Kosher

Fun Passover recipes

from Kosher.com
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE

While searching for fun, easy-to-pre-

pare foods that might work for Pass-
over, I went to the Kosher.com site.
Choices included appetizers, main
dishes, desserts, side dishes, starters,
soups, snacks, salads, and more. It
was like a treasure chest with recipes save recipes. With some help from
from renowned kosher chefs includ- Kosher.coms editorial staff, I picked
ing Susie Fishbein, Jamie Geller, and the two easy recipes below that should
Naomi Nachman. The site even allows not be passed over for guests.
you to create your own recipe box to

Holiday section is supersized Absolutely

at Seasons Clifton supermarket
Seasons, the countrys largest kosher super-
market chain, has opened North Jerseys
largest kosher for Passover supermarket.
The Seasons Passover superstore, inside
the brand-new Seasons in Clifton, boasts
20,000 square feet of kosher for Passover
products, ranging from staples through
gourmet hard-to-find products, to fresh
meat, fish, and produce, all under one roof.
Designed with the customer in mind, the
Passover superstore boasts wide aisles and a
500-car parking lot.
Addictive Matzah
Brittle
RACHEL NAYMAN
Basic Matzah Brittle
4 square pieces of matzah
1 stick of margarine
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar Make the matzah brittle
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Ar-
Smores Topping range matzah crackers in a single
1/2 cup chocolate chips
layer on a foil-lined pan. Melt mar-
1/2 cup mini marshmallows
garine and brown sugar in a pot
Chocolate Craze until caramelized. Pour caramel
1/2 cup chocolate mixture over matzah and let bake
almond slivers or crushed almonds for seven minutes.
Mint Magic Take out of oven and sprinkle with
8 ounces white chocolate chocolate chips or chocolate as
crushed mint candies specified for your chosen toppings.
Place back in oven for two minutes,
Pomstachio then spread to cover. Sprinkle with
8 ounces white or dark chocolate remaining topping. (For smores
chips and mint magic, place back into
3/4 cup chopped salted pistachios oven for another two minutes).
1/2 cup pomegranate seeds Drizzle with more melted chocolate.
Freeze and break into bark pieces.
KOSHER.COM

Pecan Encrusted
Side of Salmon
Main ingredients
1 1/2 lbs. filleted salmon side
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
3 tablespoons honey
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup pecans, crushed
1/2 cup glazed pecans, crushed

Prepare the salmon

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Rinse salmon. Place on parch-
ment paper-lined baking sheet
and pat dry. Mix mayonnaise,
honey, and garlic powder and
spread a thin layer over the fish.
(Use any extra or make more to
serve as a sauce with the fish.)
Sprinkle the nuts in stripes over
the fish. Bake for about 15 to 18
minutes, or until the fish flakes
easily at its thickest part.
KOSHER.COM
Originally printed in Whisk by Ami
Magazine

46 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017

 Keeping Kosher

Matzah factory is thriving

near original Hudson Yeshiva
Union City is home to the Klausen-
berg community matzah-baking
factory on 34th Street. The Klausen-
berg community is in the Rabbi
Hirschman Temple Israel Emanuel
building, originally modeled after
the Touro Synagogue.
The Klausenbergs assumed its
position there in the early 1970s
when the Hudson County Jewish
community had dissipated. Nearby
was the original Yeshiva of Hudson
County. The HC Yeshiva emerged
to become the Rosenbaum Yeshiva
in Bergen County which now boasts
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Keeping Kosher

Cedar Market Many wines are unique

has a new twist GARY LANDSMAN

Y
on Pay Sach our wine is boring. Then stop
Cedar Market offers a wide variety of low- choosing those made exclu-
cost Passover groceries, complemented sively from grapes you are
with high quality meats and chickens, to familiar with.
make a beautiful seder table. It also has a There is more than Cabernet Sau-
fresh produce department, which receives vignon, Chardonnay and Merlot. Did
daily deliveries of fruits and vegetables. you know that there are literally thou-
Pesach need not be Pay Sach, said Eli sands of wine varietals? In Italy
Langer, the stores chief marketing officer, alone!
punning on the Yiddish word for a lot. While I love a good Cab too, Im
There is absolutely no reason Passover drinking less of it, and lots more wine
shopping should be a grueling experience, department or a weekly circular, Langer made from other grapes.
where families have to unnecessarily empty said. And customers truly appreciate Cedar Everyone has heard of Bordeaux,
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blends, Semillon is a grape that brings
an added weight and an almost bready
Last-minute tips on Passover cleaning flavor to the blend. I still drink a lot
of Sauvignon Blanc (Goose Bay is a
Here are great suggestions from three experts favorite), but I recently discovered a
on how to properly prepare for the holiday new favorite; the absolutely delicious
Matar Sauvignon Blanc-Smillon.
Anyone who has ever cleaned for Passover my pesach! We leave the flame on for a Another white grape I am mad for is
knows what a hassle it can be. Your Swiffer few hours, and then the rabbi comes in Riesling. Many people think of Ries-
is on overdrive getting under those couches, and blasts them with a blowtorch. ling as a grape used in sweet wine,
mats, and tables. CyberSem, an online semi- 2: For stainless steel, wipe it down with but there are Rieslings that are made
nary for women, wants to make this Passover hot water and then let it dry. After this in a dry style. These wines have acid-
more manageable for you. Here are some tips the blow torch tools come out again. Our ity that balances the sweetness of the traditionally paid by weight. But when
on how to stay sane while cleaning from the kitchen gets lit right before Passover! Riesling grape and result in wines the focus is quality over quantity, Cari-
CEO and founder, Dr. Chavi Goldberg: 3: P.S. Theres no way to kasher a deep- loaded with flavor that go great with so gnan adds tannin, astringency and
1: Stay calm: Remember that dirt and fryer. This is why Le Marais owns 15. many types of food. Two of my favor- color to a blend. Carignan is seen a lot
dust are not chametz! There is a differ- ite dry Rieslings are Carmel Kayoumi in Southern France and Spain, often
ence between Passover cleaning and spring Jonathan Greenstein owns and operates and Hagafens dry Riesling (Hagafen blended with one or all components
cleaning. J. Greenstein and Co., the only auction makes sweeter styles of Riesling too, of a GSM (Grenache, Syrah & Mourv-
2: Room by room: Start by cleaning one house in the United States that deals solely so if you want the dry one make sure dre) blend. Carignan needs a warm
room at a time then declare it chametz in Judaica and Jewish art. He is known for that is the one you pick out). climate to ripen properly and is being
free! This is a great tactic for any working his expertise in Jewish history and in his With the 2007 vintage, Carmel win- made as a single variety wine at many
mom who wants to get a head start on Pass- avid support for the state of Israel. In order ery launched the Carmel Mediterra- wineries in Israel or Spain. For exam-
over cleaning. to get your valuables ready for Passover, nean wine. It was ripe, elegant and ple, check out the well-made Jezreel
Jonathan has a few good tips to help you delicious. It was also a blend. The Winery Carignan.
Meanwhile, at Le Marais kosher French keep your head on straight: grapes werent in the name, but this The list of esoteric varietals goes
Brasserie in Times Square, the work is a lit- 1: Use some non-abrasive polish to wine was definitely a case of the whole on forever, but there is one last
tle more arduous. The owner, Jose Meirelles, shine your seder plate a few weeks being greater than the sum of the grape worth mentioning; Mourv-
said, This year were taking two whole days before Passover. Make sure that you dis- parts. Two of the grapes in this blend dre. The M in the aforementioned
to do to our turnover for Passover Friday play the plate in a dry place free from any came from old vines used in Israel GSM blend, Mourvdre adds red fruit
April 7 and Sunday April 9 but its always dampness. before wine became as popular as it flavors to wines and is said to lend
a multi-step process. The executive chef of 2: Pouring boiling water over a silver is today; Carignan and Petite Sirah. earthy notes. Southern Frances Ch-
Le Marais, Mark Hennessey, has two pieces antique in order to kasher it for Passover These varietals were used to make kid- teauneuf-du-Pape produces trophy
of advice for simple Passover cleaning: might not be the best for its preservation. dush wine back then, but more care wines using Mourvdre and Netofa
1: One of the hardest things to kasher for So instead of using it on your table, per- in the vineyard meant fabulous wines winerys founders believe there are
Passover are stove grates theyre a pain in haps you can display it close by. could be made using these grapes. similarities between the Rhne Val-
PS I love youthis isnt a typo. Its ley and Israel. As such, the winery
the name of a group adopted by peo- focuses mainly on Rhne varietals,
Tool helps to remove ple who love the Petite Sirah grape.
Not related to Syrah, this varietal is
and the flagship Latour Netofa, a
blend of Syrah and Mourvdre, is
every last bit of product known for the dark color it imparts on arguably one of Israels most complex
wines, and is unique in that its pulp is full-bodied red wines.
This nifty gadget finds its way into impossible-to-reach places, helping dark, not just its skin. (A grapes skin Be adventurous and break away
you get the most out of pricey products, from sauces in the kitchen to is where most red wine gets its color). from the norm. Check out one of the
small bottles of cosmetics. Its particularly helpful in getting everything A component in Shiloh Winerys Leg- wines mentioned above or ask your
out of those expensive Passover bottles think horseradish or jelly. The end and made as a single varietal wine wine retailer to recommend a wine
little non-toxic/BPA-free tool also can be used to help with decorating at Teperberg winery, there is good rea- made from an unusual grape. Im not
details on cakes and cookies. Spatty founder Cheryl Rigdon has been son Petite Sirah has a cult following. suggesting you quit your favorite Cab-
featured on Shark Tank. The Spatty is available in different sizes, includ- Carignan was used for kiddush wine ernet or Sauvignon Blanc just yet, but
ing the larger one, Spatty Daddy, at many locations including Bed Bath since its vine produce more clusters save some bottles for other varietals as
and Beyond, K-Mart, Walmart, Harmon, and thespatty.com. than other varietals and farmers were wellyou will be rewarded.

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 As the years pass and

my knowledge of each

vineyard deepens, tending

to the vines turns more

personal and intimate.

I am certain that this

roots one of our secrets

of success.

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Product of Israel

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Editorial
Leaving the
narrow place
I
ts a little odd approaching
Pesach this year, because
somehow some of it seems a
little less abstract than usual.
We are told that Mitzrayim Egypt
means a narrow place; that our is easier to imagine in the sunlight.
ancestors left a place of constriction,
restriction, and proscription and
then took 40 years and a full genera-
tion to become capable of accepting
freedom, with all its very different
demands, constraints, and restraints.
This year, though, Mitzrayim
seems a little more real to many of us.
Our horizons seem to be shrinking
as the certainties that had defined
our lives seem to vanish. Up is down
in this brave new world; enemies are
friends or are they really? Old slo-
gans come back have their mean-
ings changed? Does America no lon-
ger welcome refugees? What would
have happened to us, or to our par-
ents, or grandparents?
No matter how you feel about the
changes that face us whether you
cheer them or they scare you pro-
foundly it is impossible to deny
their potency and hard to deny the
feelings of uncertainty that they
engender.
So its good to turn to Pesach,
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which is not only the holiday of
freedom but also of spring. Flowers
are pushing up, trees are greening,
magnolias and cherries are budding
pink-and-white-and-redly. Liberation
this paragraph in the Shema is
This week, many of our stories
seem to be about connection. Three
men discover that they spent some
of their early childhoods in the same
place, an ocean away. A family stays
together by telling the story of the
Exodus in their own way, spurred on
by finding a lost branch of the family.
Pesach is about coming together,
forging a new identity, strengthen-
ing an existing identity, eating and
drinking and talking together, taking
emotional and spiritual and intellec-
tual leaps together.
We plan on doing a lot of eating
and drinking and talking; we hope
to discover new ways of looking
at old problems and we would be
thrilled to uncover new connections.
And we plan to spend a lot of time
outside, marveling at the new life
and fresh beauty, and hoping for a
world that somehow comes back to
its senses.
We wish all our readers a sweet
and liberating Passover. JP
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KEEPING THE FAITH
The Exodus question
that should be asked
M
oments after we sit down to the that the Lords Torah may be in your mouth.
first seder on Monday, we will Deuteronomy 6:20-25 is more specific:
come to one of the nights high- When, in time to come, your children ask you,
lights the Four Questions. What mean the decrees, laws, and rules that
An even more important question needs to the Lord our God has enjoined upon you? you
be asked, however. shall say to your children, We were slaves to
Why are we doing this at all? Pharaoh in Egypt, and the Lord freed us from
The answer is supposed to be, because Egypt with a mighty hand.Then the Lord
we are commanded to do so, beginning with commanded us to observe all these laws, to
Exodus 13:3-8: Remember this day, on which revere the Lord our God, for our lasting good
you went free from Egypt.And you shall tell it and for our survival.It therefore will be to
to your child on [the anniversary of ] that day. our meritto observe faithfully all these com-
The problem with that answer is that we mandments which He commanded us.
remember the Exodus in so many ways every The Torah constantly equates its command-
day of the year. Reference to it
is strewn throughout our daily
ments and their observance to the
Exodus.
prayers. We specifically recall
it at least twice each day (or we
Shabbat is not merely a mitz-
vah to refrain from creative work
should), when we recite the on the seventh day of every
third paragraph of the Shema week. It is about recognizing
in the morning and the evening, that every one of Gods crea-
the one referring to the wear- tures has the same right as we
ing of tzitzit. The Talmud says do to the same day of rest as we
that one reason for including do. In other words, it is all about
Rabbi equality. As the version of the
its reference to the Exodus. (See Shammai Ten Commandments in Deuter-
the Babylonian Talmud tractate Engelmayer onomy 5:14-15 puts it: You shall
Brachot 12b.) not do any work you, your son
The Exodus is recalled, as well, when we or your daughter, your male or female slave,
don tefillin, or at least it should be, according your ox or your she-donkey, or any of your cat-
to Exodus 13:9, so that the Lords Torah may tle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that
be in your mouth that with a mighty hand your male and female slave may rest as you do.
the Lord freed you from Egypt. Remember that you were a slave in the land of
What, then, is the point of the seder? Why Egypt and the Lord your God freed you from
is what we do this night different from what there with a mighty hand and an outstretched
we should be doing every day and night of arm; therefore the Lord your God has com-
the year? manded you to observe the Sabbath day.
The commandments about tzitzit and tefillin This restatement echoes back to Exodus
contain a broad hint of the real answer. The 23:12, which says that on the seventh day, you
Torah says this tzitzit in Numbers 15:40-41: shall cease from labor, in order that your ox
Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My and your she-donkey may rest, and that your
commandments and to be holy to your God. I bondman and the stranger may be refreshed.
the Lord am your God, who brought you out This connection is most prominently seen in
of the land of Egypt to be your God: I, the Lord the verses of Leviticus 19. We are commanded
your God. to behave in a certain way. Why? Because, as
As we just saw, Exodus 13:9, the first refer- verse 19:36 says in summing up the chapter, I
ence to tefillin in the Torah, includes this: so the Lord am your God who freed you from the
land of Egypt.
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of In that chapter, reverence for parents is
Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades in followed by Shabbat observance, is followed
Cliffside Park. by a ban on idol worship; by rules about a
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t The enslavement was
our on-the-job
training to fulfill
Gods hope for a
better world. The
-
Exodus from Egypt
was the foundation
-
upon which that
mission was built.
-
k sacrifice; by laws about what we owe to the poor and
y the stranger; by a law against misusing Gods name to
-
commit evil; by rules against fraud and robbery; by a
requirement to pay a worker his or her wages on time;
by laws against insulting the deaf and putting a stum-
bling block before the blind; by laws requiring a com-
t pletely fair and unbiased justice system; by prohibiting
spreading rumors about people; by a law to be actively
- engaged in helping those in difficult straits; and so on.
Verses 19:33-36 conclude the chapter: The stranger
who resides with you shall be to you as one of your
, citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were
- strangers in the land of Egypt: I the Lord am your
t God. You shall not falsify measures of length, weight,
. or capacity.I the Lord am your God who freed you
f from the land of Egypt. You shall faithfully observe all
My laws and all My rules: I am the Lord.
The enslavement was our on-the-job training to ful-
- fill Gods hope for a better world. The Exodus from
Egypt was the foundation upon which that mission
was built. You have seen what I did to the Egyptians.
Now then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep My
x covenant, you shall beto Me a kingdom of priests
r and a holy nation. (See Exodus 19:4-6.)
Rabbi Irving Greenberg once asked this question:
How can Jews testify to hope and human value when
they have been continuously persecuted, hated, dis-
pelled, destroyed? Out of the memories of the Exodus!
I (See his 1988 book, The Jewish Way, page 36.)
That, in fact, is the point of the seder and its rituals.
It is not our task on this night to recall the Exodus; we
do that enough every day of the year. Our task this
night is to understand why there was an Exodus, and
a to dwell on how that event informed who we are, and
what we are supposed to do for God because of it.
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The angels voice
The seder, the four children and a barbershop quartet
I
n relating the parental obligation to teach the
younger generation about the Exodus, the Torah
is understood to allude to four different types of
children.
One is analytical and so appears to be wise. One is indel-
icate in asking questions and so appears to be hostile or
even wicked. One is innocent, or simple, and one child
does not yet know how to ask questions.
The fact that appearances can be deceiv-
ing, however, is a major theme and lesson of
the Torah. The prophet chosen to convey the
word of God to Israel is a man of labored and
impeded speech. A small, powerless, and
landless community of enslaved immigrants
is in fact Gods chosen people, a nation of
priests. God is revealed in a burning bush
that is not consumed.
So, too, the four children are not necessar- Rabbi
ily what they appear to be. Is the Chacham Joseph H.
wise or is he a wise guy, a smart aleck? Is Prouser
she or he truly wise, or does the Chacham
merely crack wise? Is Chacham to be taken literally? Or
is the word spoken with irony or sarcasm? Is the wise child
too clever by half? Is he or she an intellectual snob? An
ostentatiously elitist braggart? It is not at all clear that the ritual? To view ourselves as if we each personally went
Chacham is the most admirable among the four children.
So, too, the Tam. Is the simple child lacking in
intelligence or sophistication? Or does Tam indicate
someone of pure heart and simple faith? Jacob, the
eponymic founder of Israel, is described as Tam (Gen-
esis 25:27). Noah, chosen by God from among all human-
ity to preserve life on Earth, is described as Tam. Job,
with his defiantly unshakable faith, is described repeat-
edly as Tam ( Job 1:1; 2:3). The Tam among our children
is in worthy company.
A child who does not even know how to ask ques-
tions (or does not know that it is a sacred duty to ask
questions), or an adult so far removed from Jewish
ritual and learning that she or he is aptly represented
by such a child, represents a special challenge. It has
been insightfully noted that the Haggadahs instruction
regarding such a child, at ptach lo You begin the
process for him or You open the conversation is
best understood as a pun. Reading the Hebrew with an
Ashkenazi pronunciation renders the phrase at psach
lo, suggesting, You are Passover (Pesach) for such a
person. Whatever blessing and inspiration
the One Who Does Not Know How to Ask
is going to wrest from the seder depends
on our diligent efforts, openness, patience,
and generosity of spirit.
The most misunderstood and unappreci-
ated among the four children is the Rasha.
How patently unfair and self-defeating it is
to deem such a child wicked. Hostile? Per-
haps. Disinterested? Possibly. A divergent
thinker? God willing! It must be pointed
out that the Rasha is, at least, present at the
seder. That is a beginning. The offending
question asked by this child, What does this
ritual mean to you? is, furthermore, an entirely appropri-
ate and valid inquiry. Is it not the obligation of each and
every seder participant to find himself or herself in the
forth from Egypt? It is the parents duty a sacred trust
to explain precisely what this ritual means to you,
whether or not this question is actually posed by a child.
That is a central goal of the seder. The Rasha is effectively
facilitating our religious observance by asking precisely
the right question.
How are we to understand the prescribed response to
the Rasha hakheh et shinav? The phrase is translated
variously as Speak harshly (or aggressively, or sharply) to
him or Blunt his teeth or Set his teeth on edge. Elie
Wiesel translates, Make him feel uncomfortable. Some
understand the Hebrew to signify we hope metaphori-
cally Smack him in the mouth!
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Opinion

Passover and the Jewish people

a time to connect and reflect on hard truths

T
he upcoming holiday of Pass-
over is the most celebrated of
all the Jewish holidays.
It is the time of year that Jew-
ish people ranging from the unaffiliated to
the most observant come together with
their families to tell the story of our exodus
from Egypt. At our seders we all will eat
matzah and maror, and dip celery in salt
water. We will remind ourselves about the
sweat and tears of the slaves mixed with
hope and rebirth that comes along with
the spring season and our journey through
the desert to the land of Israel.
It is a time that we all come together to
celebrate a shared past and look forward
to our future as free people. As we read
the Haggadah, we feel the connection to
all that has come before us in Jewish his-
tory and we feel our obligations to the Jew-
ish future. We praise God for all that God
has done for the Jewish people in ancient
times and through todays modern miracle
of the establishment of the State of Israel.
When we say Next year in Jerusalem at
the end of the seder, we know that it is no
longer a yearning or an aspiration. It is
now a reality, which we can experience
any time we like, this year, next year, or
some other time.
So, then, why is it that as soon as the
story is told and the matzah ball soup is
served so many Jewish people forget about
our shared history and return to the divi-
siveness of the present? Our ancestors
never could have dreamed about a coun-
try with the strength, technology, human-
ity, openness, and compassion that is the
modern State of Israel. Yet so many Jewish
people are so quick to point fingers at this
nation and accept a narrative coming from
others, who are bent on our destruction.
I am struggling to understand the cause
of this.
Is it that we are embarrassed by our
success? Can Jewish people be content
only when we are victims? If that is the
case, and as a result of this thinking Israel
does not continue to flourish and remain
strong, many of us who dont support the
Jewish state may inadvertently cause all
of the Jewish people to return to a victim-
like status. We can never forget our past,
nor can we allow ourselves to be played
by the distortions of the truth about the
settlements and their role in the lack of
a peace process. Settlements may not be
something everyone supports and there
is definitely room in our Jewish family for
disagreements.
But as Jewish people we are only safe
and secure when we are united and
respect each others differences of opin-
ion. We need not to look at every wart on
the policies and the actions of committed by others in the
the state of Israel and turn it names of their religions and
into a terminal disease. Israel nationalism?
should be held to a high stan- 3. Why do I, as a Jewish per-
dard it is a country born son, not feel a stronger con-
from a moral past and based nection to all Jewish people
in Torah. However, it cannot wherever they may be in the
be held to a standard that world, not just those that look
no other people or country, like me, pray and observe as I
the United States included, Daniel do, and live near me?
ever could meet. And Israel Shlufman 4. Why do I speak the
requires acceptance and words of Exodus, about what
understanding, in the way we accept all God did for me, without assuming the obli-
the different members of our family who gation of acting consistent with my respon-
sit around our seder table. Although we sibilities to God and the Jewish nation
dont agree with all of them, we provide through words, deeds, and tzedakah?
them with love and support, not disre- If you can answer these questions, or
spect and contempt. even discuss them at the seder, we will
So this Passover, before you bite into have come a long way toward healing the
that first matzah ball and forget about the divisions within our people.
reason you are there at the seder, you may It is a truth that without a strong and com-
want to answer the following modern Four mitted diaspora Jewish community, Israels
Questions: future is not assured. It is also a truth that
1. Why are Jewish people different than without a strong Israel and a cohesive Jew-
all other people? Are we not entitled to ish people, the continued viability of the
our own homeland, and to defend it from diaspora Jew is not assured either.
those who would annihilate us in every
generation? Daniel Shlufman of Tenafly is a member
2. Why are Israels failings so signifi- of the board of the Jewish Federation of
cant that the rest of the world is looking Northern New Jersey and one of its Berrie
to boycott, divest from, and sanction it, Fellows. He is an attorney and a mortgage
while looking away from the atrocities broker.

Voice
FROM PAGE 51
Such interpretations of the word hakhei
are unnecessary, unfortunate, and mis-
guided. Tellingly, this word is found in
Rashis commentary to Mishnah Pesa-
chim 2:8, the tractate dealing with Pass-
over observance. In Rashis commentary,
he uses the Hebrew verb to describe the
effect of placing grain in the charoset
(here not a ritual item, but a spicy dip or
relish for dipping meat). The grain was
used to counteract and dilute the sharp-
ness of the dip. Hakheh et shinav
might best be understood, therefore, to
indicate that we are to de-escalate any
potential confrontation with the Rasha.
We are to respond to her or his piquant
questions not with hostile, aggressive, or
caustic retorts: Had he been there he
would not have been redeemed! Or, as in
the original second-person formulation
of the Mechilta, on which the Haggadah
text is based, If you had been in Egypt,
you would not have been redeemed!
What an abusive and counterproductive
sentiment! Rather, hakheh indicates
that we are to respond to the Rashas
perceived sharpness with cool heads
and calming words, aimed at making the
experience more (certainly not less) pal-
atable like the grain used to counteract
the spicy salsa.
Simply by reading the Mechiltas pre-
scribed response to the Rasha not as
a harsh declaratory statement, but as
a question, we cheerfully invoke the
Socratic method: If you had been there,
wouldnt you have been redeemed, too?
The answer implicit in this rhetorical
question? Of course you would have
been! Thats why I celebrate. Thats why
you have every reason to celebrate, too!
So lets celebrate together! That is the
response of a worthy parent and an
effective seder leader.
Just as more thoughtful analysis reveals
that the Chacham may not necessarily be
truly sage, and the Tam is no simpleton,
the Rasha is not properly understood to be
wicked in the literal sense, or even truly hos-
tile. The Rasha plays an indispensable role
in the seder, despite the seemingly harsh
and misleading title he or she bears.
The Rasha is no devil. The term may find
its closest semantic equivalent, rather, in
the expression devils advocate some-
one who asks the tough questions and
expresses an unpopular perspective, not
out of personal conviction or antagonism,
but in order to clarify challenges and
obstacles, and thereby effectively to move
the debate closer to the truth. Rasha, we
are in your debt!
A useful framework for considering the
Four Sons and particularly the plight of
the misunderstood Rasha is the music
of the barbershop quartet.
In this a cappella (unaccompanied
vocal) form of music, the lead sings the
melody, while the tenor and bass harmo-
nize from above and below, respectively.
The baritone completes the chord. Not
unlike the various hymns included in the
Haggadah, barbershop music tends to
emphasize songs and ballads with simple
lyrics and accessible melodies. The most
distinctive element of barbershop music
and in many ways its most alluring
quality is the overtone. Also known
as expanded sound or the ringing
chord, the overtone is a natural acous-
tic phenomenon in which sound waves
interact and a fifth voice is produced over
and above the four voices of the quartet
as they combine to sing the chord.
The beauty of the overtone is achieved
only in the context of four very different
voices. The listener would be deprived
of the experience, would be musically
and aesthetically impoverished, if only
a bass or only a tenor were singing the
same piece, however gifted the singer
and pleasing the rendition.
It is telling that barbershop musicians
sometimes refer to the overtone effect as
the angels voice. In the Haggadah, in
our families and communities, as in bar-
bershop music, it is in our integration of
different voices and of people with vary-
ing strengths and perspectives that we
become more than the sum of our indi-
vidual constituent parts.
All four children contribute to the
whole. Each is indispensable to proper
celebration of the festival. No seder or
Jewish community or family is complete
(or, ultimately, very interesting) if com-
prised exclusively of sages or exclusively
of rebels. Only in listening openly and
lovingly to all four sons to all four chil-
dren to each other, in all our personal,
spiritual, theological, and vocal diversity,
do we find our purpose, maximize our
insight, hone our perception, and prop-
erly fulfill our divine charge.
In understanding the Haggadah, we
need all four performers if we hope to
hear the angels voice.
Joseph H. Prouser is rabbi of Temple
Emanu-El of North Jersey in Franklin
Lakes.

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Jewish Voice for Peace, how can you?
Last Friday, a Jewish Voice for Peace held a conference
in Chicago, with an estimated attendance of 1,000 peo-
ple. The conference was held following a series of fail-
ures of the BDS movement, the latest of which is the
legislation passed by Arkansas against BDS, the 17th state
in the U.S. that has passed laws against BDS.
One of the main speakers at the conference was Ras-
mah Odeh, a convicted terrorist who was active with
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror
organization. Rasmah was convicted and imprisoned in
Israel for her terrorist activities.
Other prominent speakers were leading individuals
in the boycott and anti-Israel movement. These include
Linda Sarsour, a prominent anti-Israeli activist in the
U.S., whose family members were imprisoned in Israel
due to their links with Hamas; Bina Ahmad, an attorney
who also worked for Al Haq and Badi; the lawyer Dima
Halidi, who was involved in the legal warfare against
Moshe Bogi Yaalon and Avi Dichter; Fadi Quran, who
in the past held a position in Al Haq, one of the leading
delegitimization organizations in the Palestinian Author-
ity and was arrested Hebron in 2012 following a physical
altercation with an IDF soldier; and Hatem Aboudiya,
an activist who was interrogated in the United States for
possession of materials supporting terrorism.
This conference was dedicated to harming Israel and
to the planning of boycotts, against the backdrop of a
series of failures that the movement has suffered in the
last year, in the legislative and economic spheres (closing
bank accounts, growing foreign investments in Israel)
and cultural activities (many prominent artists are plan-
ning to perform in Israel in the near future, despite the
attempts by the BDS to threaten and bully them into can-
celing their performances). Among the topics discussed
at the conference: The academic boycott; how to fight
legislation against BDS; how to promote labor union
boycotts; how to plan multifront campaigns, etc.
Jewish Voice for Peace was established in 1996 and
currently has 60 branches throughout the U.S. The
organization is headed by Rebecca Wilkommerson,
who lived in Israel for several years and was arrested
in 2014 for trespassing on the FIDF offices in New York.
The organization routinely collaborates with pro-Pales-
tinian organizations operating against the State of Israel,
including Students for Justice in Palestine, which works
to boycott Israel on campuses; American Muslims for
Palestine, and others.
The JVP is an anti-Semitic organization which incites
against Israel. It regularly cooperates with extremist
organizations which seek Israels destruction. It is inex-
cusable that the organization chose to host at its confer-
ence a terrorist who was convicted for her involvement
in murdering two Israeli students. I will continue to lead
a determined struggle against those who seek to harm
Israel and undermine its legitimacy.
As a Jew, I am ashamed that a conference that is filled
with hatred for Israel, and whose sole purpose is to
harm the homeland of the Jewish people, is led by a Jew-
ish organization.
Gilad Erdan
Israel
Gilad Erdan is Israels Minister of Strategic Affairs.
He is a member of the Likkud party.
AIPAC must build bridges
The problem with both AIPAC and the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is
that when it comes to both Israeli and American politics,
they have ceased to be bipartisan for the last 25 years;
they have been pro-Republican and pro-Likud.
Look at the speakers roster. You will see loads of
Republicans and only a few Democrats (no Senator Eliz-
abeth Warren or Senator Al Franken ) and a lot of crow-
ing about President Trump replacing President Obama.
When was the last time either of these groups met with
Livni, Hertzberg, or Lapid?
There are results of this bias. Jews and others who are
liberal tend to be turned off to Israel advocacy. Would
not AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents be more
effective in forming a coalition across the ideological
spectrum, including people are not necessarily in love
with Trump, Netanyahu or the West Bank settler?
As much as I disagree with both AIPAC and the Con-
ference of Presidents, I must state my distaste for the
demonstrators from If Not Now, When and Jewish Voices
for Peace.
First of all, as much as I may disagree with the policies
of the Likud-led coalition, the demonstrators seem to
ignore the fact that this coalition would not have come
to power but for the intifada and the violence in Gaza.
Both Labor- and Kadima-led governments tried to end
the occupation but were not allowed to, because of the
PAs failure to control violence and Hamas. Israel cannot
be expected to move toward peace unilaterally.
The cycle of violence involves two sides.
Secondly, regarding Jewish Voices for Peace, they have
adopted the most anti-Israel positions of them all. They
can cry about the Nakba ( Made necessary by the Arab
leaderships position on partition) but not about the
expulsion of Jews from Arab lands. One has to wonder if
they need to adopt such positions to prove how they are
proper leftist. This is not unlike the Jewish Stalinists in a
different generation who endorsed the Soviet-Nazi pact
at a time when the Holocaust was beginning.
Alan Mark Levin
Fair Lawn
Health care needs bipartisanship
There is an old expression: Beware the tail that wags
the dog for that is not the natural order of things.
The House Freedom Caucus, formerly the Tea Party
Caucus, has been the tail wagging the Republican Party
in Congress and America for the last 20 years.
They scare the heck out of House Speaker Paul Ryan,
President Trump, and many Republican moderates.
Freedom Caucus supporters have been, with some
exceptions, the likeliest to turn out in Republican pri-
maries and in heated general elections, though their
numbers are far less than the rest of registered Repub-
licans. The Freedom Caucus is a group of only about 35
to 40 of the Houses present 237 Republican members.
Without their votes, though, the House Republicans
need Democratic votes to reach a majority of 218, to
pass a bill.
Congressmen in the Freedom Caucus talk constantly
about letting the American people be free of the kinds
of federal government intervention they dont like.
They describe most federal programs as ones making
Americans weak and socialist.
However, for example, they insist on federal crop
and coal subsidies for their constituents, U.S. national
trade barriers against their states products com-
petitors, Congressional grants for roads, sewers and
bridges, and federal government money and supplies
in the event of natural disasters. The list is long.
Most of them would never want to reveal to their
families and constituents that their health care policies
will actually hurt Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
and Obamacare. Yet that would have been the effect of
their efforts, a few years ago, to privatize Social Secu-
rity; and this year to pass the Trump/Ryancare plan
that voucherized Medicare, raised prices for seniors,
Letters
ended the guarantee for Medicaid-eligible American
citizens, and destroyed Obamacare.
Only 17 percent of American citizens want to get rid
of Obamacare. My guess is that the number who would
want to hurt Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is
even lower. The vast majority of Republicans and Demo-
crats dont want harm to come to these programs.
Yes, our founders wrote about seeking the individuals
right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but
they also saw the need and created a governmental sys-
tem encouraged to form a more perfect Union and to
provide for the common defense and general welfare.
In the last 100 years, Congress has enacted social
safety net programs because the people of our country
need them. And the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled each
of those laws consistent with our Constitution.
Only 17 percent of
American citizens
want to get rid of
Obamacare. My guess
is that the number
who would want to
hurt Social Security,
Medicare, and
Medicaid is even lower.
So now the question is whether Trump and Ryan will
set these few Freedom Caucus members free.
Time for Trump to invite the moderate Republicans
and Democrats back to the grownups table. Thats the
way Ronald Reagan saved Social Security in 1983, when
he worked with Tip ONeil and the House Democrats.
If he follows Reagans example, Trump just might save
Obamacare. He could even take the first steps toward
Medicare For All, a program that will bring universal
health care to America and reduce our health care costs
dramatically.
After all, our present health care system relies on pri-
vate insurance companies to provide coverage; and their
profit-making overhead is 15 percent. Medicares over-
head is only 3 percent.
There would still be a role for private companies in
offering the kind of supplemental insurance they now
sell to todays Medicare recipients.
But first the American people must persuade Trump
that he wont be popular again unless he creates a bipar-
tisan effort to save Obamacare and then realize universal
health care for all Americans.
Stopping Trump/Ryancare saved 14 million Americans
from losing their health insurance next year; 24 million
from losing theirs in the next 10. It also avoided huge
increases in the healthcare and prescription costs for
seniors, the poor and working poor.
Now moderate Republicans and Democrats must insist
that the president and Speaker Ryan abandon their Free-
dom Caucus on this issue and reach out to them to fix
Obamacare and enact some form of Medicare for All.
Progress in our time. It is still possible. It is up to us.
Steven R. Rothman
Englewood
Steven R. Rothman, a Democrat, represented New Jerseys
9th Congressional District from 1997 to 2013.
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 7, 2017 53
Opinion

Approach Marine Le Pen with caution

T
here was an illumi-
nating report from
Paris in the Wall
Street Journal this
week that told how Marine
Le Pen, leader of the far-right
National Front, has been con-
sulting a group of French bank-
ers and captains of industry
in a bid to continue the main- Ben Cohen
streaming of her party as the
countrys presidential election approaches.
Named Les Horaces in honor of imperial Romes most
illustrious and politically astute poet, this collection of dig-
nitaries is preparing Le Pen, who represents what up until
now has been a perennial party of opposition, for the chal-
lenges of government. If Le Pens first task was to shake off
the legacy of her father, Jean-Marie the spiteful, bigoted
anti-Semite who founded the party her second will be
learning how to competently run Frances intensely com-
plex state institutions and bureaucracies.
While Le Pen can point to President Donald Trumps
victory as an example of how polling predictions can fall
spectacularly flat, she also might want to study his first two
months in office, during which the White House has failed
to manage either the legislative agenda or the presidents
media image. Its distinctly possible that the same fate
could befall her if she wins the electoral contest on April 23.
Depending on where you sit, a Le Pen victory would sig-
nal either the demise of fascism or its rebirth. The former
view is held by National Front activists and their global Marine Le Pen on the campaign trail in France. JNNICK JRMY VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

echo chamber, who insist that Le Pens expulsion of her

father from the very party he created a move requiring
courage and wiliness worthy of a Shakespeare plot sig-
nals an irrevocable break with its Nazi-stained past.
From this perspective, Le Pen is not so much Marshal
Petain, the collaborationist leader of German-occupied
France, as she is Charles de Gaulle, the resistance leader
who shaped postwar France and regarded international
institutions like NATO with Gallic sniffiness. Accord-
ing to her advocates, Le Pens Gaullist French national-
ism resembles that of Trump in America forthrightly
opposed to immigration, contemptuous of multicultural-
ism, warning constantly of the dangers of Islamic radical-
ism, and aggressively seeking national control of trade and
fiscal policy. What this means, first of all, might be the col-
lapse of the European Union, should France abandon the
euro single currency and then follow the U.K.s example
by leaving the EU itself.
That fuels the opposite idea: that a Le Pen victory would
mean the triumph of fascism at the polls in Europe for the
first time since the end of World War II. For all of its glar-
ing imperfections, the EU has been the embodiment of the
postwar pledge that never again would Europe collapse
into war and genocide. The manner of achieving this goal
was the EU, with its open borders and its control of trade.
Without the EU, the theory goes, Europe risks again
becoming a system of competing nation-states. Add to that
government-sanctioned racist rhetoric and discriminatory
policy, and all of a sudden, the 1930s dont look so distant.
To my mind, neither of these viewpoints captures the
profound challenge that a Le Pen victory would represent.
Even if fascism were to return to 21st-century Europe, it
If the last two decades
have taught us anything,
its that you dont need
anti-Semitic laws or
policies, nor anti-
Semitic government
ministers, to have a
major problem with
anti-Semitism.
And yet, those who believe that Le Pen is a French ver-
sion of Trump would do well to reconsider. Whereas in
Trumps case, much of the election campaign involved
discussing whether he even had any deeply held beliefs,
Le Pen comes from a recognizable and established tradi-
tion post-fascism, if we are to call it that, still comes from
fascism after all.
Theres another crucial difference. Trump has been
portrayed unfairly as an anti-Semite, with little evidence
to show for the claim; one reason for that is simply that
unlike France, America has no established anti-Semitic
tradition. Sure, weve had to deal with Father Coughlin,
David Duke, and Pat Buchanan, but there is no history of
as a modern ideology distinct from its Christian forebear,
proudly organizing themselves into political parties with
names like the League of Anti-Semites. The Dreyfus trial,
perhaps the key episode in the evolution of anti-Semitism
as a genocidal ideology, took place in France, and it defined
an entire generation. Today, France is rife with anti-Semitic
assaults, abuse, and terror attacks, much of it emanating
from the same Muslim migrant communities targeted by Le
Pen and therefore the source of the notion that unlike her
father, she will be good for the Jews.
It would be foolish, however, to reach that conclusion. If
the last two decades have taught us anything, its that you
dont need anti-Semitic laws or policies, nor anti-Semitic
government ministers, to have a major problem with anti-
Semitism. The hostility to Jews that envelops large sections
of the Muslim community, the far left, and the nostalgists
of the right will not disappear just because Le Pen becomes
president. Indeed, the phenomenon could get worse.
If Le Pen follows through on her campaign rhetoric by
denying French Jews the right to hold dual Israeli citizen-
ship, Frances perennial Jewish question likely will find
itself in the national spotlight once more, echoing past
smears about dual loyalty as well as present ones about
the irritating communalism a phrase from the pen of
leading French journalist Christophe Barbier French
Jews displayed during the rowdy anti-Semitic and anti-
Zionist demonstrations that accompanied the Gaza war
in 2014.
That is why I say, to those in America convinced that Le
Pen will be a faithful partner in the anti-globalist crusade,
be careful what you wish for. JNS.ORG

would look very different than its 20th-century incarna-
tion. And if Le Pen were intent on setting up a totalitarian
state, with racial laws against Jews, Muslims, and other
minorities, and with an ever-present secret police, she
would find the task much harder than Hitler did as he built
from the ashes of the Weimar Republic.
anti-Semitic legislation here, and neither of the two main
parties ever has incorporated anti-Semitic ideology into
its program.
In France, anti-Semitism has been, and is, far more seri-
ous. As in Germany, French intellectuals in the 19th and 20th
centuries played a pivotal role in developing anti-Semitism
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.

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 Dvar Torah
Tzav: Our internal and external fires

W
hen discussing the details
of the Temple activities in
the Torah, we are not just
referencing the ancient
practices. Rather, we are learning essential
and life-enhancing lessons for our character
building and spiritual development.
In the Temple, there were two altars: the
inner altar for incense and the outer altar
upon which the sacrifices were brought.
In this weeks portion we read (Leviticus,
1:5-6) that The fire on the [outer] altar
shall be kept burning; it shall not be extin-
guished. The priest shall kindle wood on it
every morning. A fire shall be kept burn-
ing continuously on the altar. It shall not
be extinguished.
As one reads these verses, an obvious
question can be asked: If the fire on the
altar is to be kept burning and not be extin-
guished, wouldnt that imply that it must
burn perpetually? What message does the
Torah wish to convey by adding that the
fire must be kept burning continuously,
and what lesson does it teach us about the
human soul?
In many synagogues, one will find a ner
tamid, an eternal lamp above the ark. This
eternal light is a symbol of the menorah, the
perpetual light which constantly burned in
the Tabernacle (and later in the holy Tem-
ple). It also serves as a symbol of Gods
unwavering presence and of our perpetual
faith in God.
The famous biblical commentator Rashi
teaches us that by using the word contin-
uously in the context of the outer altar,
the Torah reminds us of the menorah
which is called the ner tamid, the con-
tinuous light. It thereby teaches us the law
that the menorah, which was in the inner,
more sacred area of the Tabernacle, was
lit from the aish tamid, the continuously
burning fire of the altar that stood in the
outer, less sacred area of the Tabernacle.
There is an important lesson in our
self-refinement and Divine service in this
detail. The menorah and other vessels of
the inner area of the Tabernacle repre-
sents inner service, and the altar which
stood on the outer, less sacred area of the
Tabernacle represents our outer service.
Our inner service is where we focus on
developing our personal character, and
elevating ourselves. Our outer service
is that which we do to benefit the well-
being of those around us and our efforts
to improve our environment.
As we endeavor to find
happiness and fulfillment,
we often get caught up in
our own self-improvement
and development, seeing
any concern for the out-
side as a distraction. But
the law of the menorah
teaches us otherwise.
Just as the menorah must Rabbi
be kindled from the exter- Mendy Lewis
nal altar, so too our eternal Chabad of Old
Tappan, Orthodox
flame, our personal suc-
cess and spiritual growth,
can only be achieved when
it comes from the eternal fire of the outer
altar. It is only when we help others, when
we perform activities that benefit our society,
deeds that uplift the spirits of our friends and lets try to think of a Jewish person who may
neighbors, that we will truly be able to focus
on and find personal success and fulfillment.
This idea is expressed beautifully in the
ancient Talmudic tradition of giving charity
before praying. On an elementary level, giv-
ing charity before prayer is like giving a gift
to the king before making a request. On a
deeper level, however, it is about provoking
Gods kindness through giving charity and
doing acts of kindness ourselves.
Rabbi Shmuel, the fourth
rebbe of Chabad, would elabo-
rate: Prayer must be with life.
Through giving charity to a poor
person and giving him life, ones
personal prayer is suffused with a
great increase of aliveness.
Indeed, the first thing we will
do this Monday evening as we sit
down to enjoy our seder will be
to recite the Ha Lachma Anya,
where we invite those who are
hungry to join us. It is only when
we ignite the eternal flame of
another that we can truly expe-
rience the rich and life-enhancing traditions
of Passover.
So, this year, as we prepare for our seder,
be on his or her own. Lets invite them to a
seder, or give them authentic shmura matzah
or another Passover essential. This year, lets
ensure that we have done our part in seeing
to it that every Jew has the ability to celebrate
Passover and feel the continuous flame of
their soul, and in turn, may God bless each of
us and all of the Jewish people with a happy
and healthy Passover.
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach.

BRIEFS

AJC calls on Trump to look into The Guard was barely nascent at the time of the inter- launched his Hungarian political party, the New Dem-
view, and its embrace of hypernationalism and anti-Sem- ocratic Coalition, with veterans of Jobbik, a party AJC
Gorkas far-right Hungarian ties itism which led to international condemnation and to describes as an outright racist and anti-Semitic group.
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administration to look into associations between Sebas-
tian Gorka, who serves as a counterterrorism adviser to
President Donald Trump, and the far right in Hungary.
The AJC statement came after revelations that Gorka
said in a 2007 TV interview that a societal need was
filled by a Hungarian nationalist militia that later was
accused of racism and anti-Semitism.
AJC calls on the administration to look into new rev-
elations about Sebastian Gorkas past, the AJC, a centrist
group that is a preeminent representative of American
Jewish views in foreign capitals, said in a statement. They
raise serious concerns about his current role as deputy
assistant and advisor on counterterrorism to President
Donald J. Trump, and as a member of the administrations
Strategic Initiatives Group.
Gorka can be seen in the interview, obtained by the For-
ward, saying that he was not opposed to the establishment
of the Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary militia with strong
ties to the nationalist Jobbik party. In 2009, a Hungarian
court banned the Guard.
In the interview, when Gorka was asked, as a leader of
the newly formed New Democratic Coalition party, if he
supported the establishment of the militia, he said, That
is so, explaining that it responds to a big societal need.
Hungary was facing widespread anti-government pro-
tests at the time. Gorka has denied outright support for
the Hungarian Guard.
later. Moreover, Gorka said in the interview that while he
saw a need for the Guard, he also regarded the initiative
as political exploitation by right wing parties that were
rivals to his own.
During the program, a banner declares of Gorkas
party support for the Guard.
In 2009, the militia, which marched under the colors
of the Nazi-era Arrow Cross movement, was banned in
Hungary on the grounds that it generated ethnic tension
and threatened public order. It soon relaunched itself
under a new name.
Gorka was born to Hungarian parents in England in
1970. He moved to Hungary in 1992, where he appeared
on TV as a counterterrorism expert, helped found the
NDC, and served as an adviser to Viktor Orban, a politi-
cian who now heads the conservative Fidesz party. He
later moved to the United States, becoming a naturalized
citizen in 2012.
Last month, several Democratic lawmakers wrote let-
ters to Trump voicing concern over reports in the Forward
of Gorkas alleged membership in a Hungarian far-right
nationalist group, Historical Vitzi Rend. Gorka denied the
association, but said he has worn the regalia of the group
as a tribute to his father, who was honored by the group
for his anti-communist activism after World War II.
The AJC statement also referred to Gorkas associa-
tions with Historical Vitzi Rend, and noted that he
NCSY regional director
to advise Trumps Israel envoy
Aryeh Lightstone, a longtime official in U.S. Orthodox
Jewish organizations who now is the regional director of
the National Conference of Synagogue Youths New York
region, will advise David Friedman, the just-installed U.S.
ambassador to Israel.
NCSY is the Orthodox Unions youth group.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the State Department
confirmed that Lightstone would have an advisory role at
the embassy. It did not say in what capacity.
Lightstone also is a co-founder of Mekorot, an online
Jewish education portal, and has served in rabbinic roles
on Long Island. According to his biography on the Ortho-
dox Union website, he has ties to Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and to Ivanka Trump, President
Donald Trumps Jewish daughter, who is working for her
father as an unpaid adviser.
The Senate last month confirmed Friedman, a long-
time lawyer to Trump, in a mostly party line vote. Fried-
man was controversial in part because of his deep phil-
anthropic investment in the settlement movement and
for his insulting broadsides targeting liberal Jews, for
which he has offered regrets.
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The Frazzled Housewife
You are doing
WHAT for Passover??
P
eople have been going away for
Passover since the beginning of
time.
In fact, the origin of the word people. This column is going to discuss those
Passover, though thought to have been
because God passed over the houses of the
Jews, was really because they
had Do not disturb signs
on the doors. You might have
heard otherwise, something
about blood on the doorposts.
All rumors. Totally fake news.
A group of women were fed
up with the heat in the desert
and they just did not want to
make Passover. The sand gets
all over the place and it isnt Banji
so easy to clean up. One kid Ganchrow
spills his mushed-up crackers
and the process starts all over
again. That is why people go away for Pass-
over. And it started, coincidentally, while we grandmothers and mothers of those women,
were in Egypt.
So they are
making the
ultimate sacrifice.
They are (gasp)
staying home for
the Passover
holiday. Some, for
the first time ever.
When it comes to going away for this
spring time holiday, it is usually divided into
the haves and have-nots. Or the I have really sation. I have been away and I have stayed
good in-laws or parents who take me away
or the I do not have anyone who can afford
to take me away. Though there is something
very nice about staying home.
Even when my parents could afford it, it
was hard for my grandparents to go away, so
we would make Passover at home, and those
memories have stayed with me always. In
fact, making charoset with my grandfather
was so special, that we use the same chop-
per all these years later, when my dad makes
charoset with my boys. When my maternal
grandparents passed away, we started going
to the Concord Hotel with my paternal grand-
parents. In order to make that special, we
would get our own room for our seder, and
friends from Fair Lawn would join us. Those
were always the most fun.
Nowadays, there are Passover programs
all over the world. Italy, Mexico, Arizona
you name it and there is someone complain-
ing about all of the packing they have to do
before they get there. And then there are
those of us who stay home because we either
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE
a., arent invited to go away; b., cannot afford
to go away; or c., really love staying home.
But this column isnt going to discuss those
people who usually go away every single year
and this year they are not.
This year, when people ask
them if they are going back to
Florida, they have to reply, No,
we are (gasp) home this year.
The culprit? The dreaded Zika
virus. A few months ago, the
governor of Florida announced
that there were mosquitoes car-
rying the Zika virus flying loose
in Florida. This caused quite a
stir, because many of the most
successful Passover programs
are in Florida. Many women
who attend those programs
are in their prime child-bearing years. Many
who are in their child-bearing years, were
afraid to put their future great-grandchildren
and grandchildren at risk. So they are making
Across Down
the ultimate sacrifice. They are (gasp) staying 1. Recent Spielberg flop, with The 1. Han Solo carries one
home for the Passover holiday. Some, for the 4. Lewis Black might go on one 2. Helsinki Synagogue language
first time ever. 8. Feline with kesef
14. One can be told for Shalom Bayit
3. ___ HaDor (very holy Jews)
4. Title for a Jewish teacher
For those of us who have staying home
down to a science what to buy when, when
15. Its a congregation
16. Pesky comp. program
5. Take on, like Abram to Lot
6. Historic tribe (but not of Jews)
to start cooking, how to kasher our kitch- 17. In addition to 7. ___ Will Be Blood (Day-Lewis film)
ens in under an hour, how to pretend to be 8. Like Taft or Eglon
19. Esther, e.g.
20. It can shut down Jerusalem 9. Purim time, once in a while
excited for all of those people on Facebook
who are posting pictures of the outfits they
21. Heston as Moses, e.g.
23. Puttin on the ___
10. Author of Concerning the Jews
11. ___ Me Love (film with choreography
are taking with them we dont really feel
sorry for you. Because these are the same
24. Mosaic piece
25. Classic song from 1939
by Paula Abdul)
12. State that would have been a fitting
people who, when they are redoing their 28. Haifa to Nazareth dir.
29. General for Jews on Christmas eve
birthplace for Joaquin Phoenix
13. Ninth letter
kitchen, they dont put in a Passover kitchen
because I am never going to make Passover.
30. ___-Wan (he didnt carry a 1-Down)
31. Echad, to Juana
18. Miracle response
22. Torah cantillation
Hey lady, things happen. Nothing is in our 32. Horned Spider-Man villain created by 26. Rotenberg or Irish Roses man on
Stan Lee Broadway
control. This too shall pass. It is only a week. 27. Yom Kippur, e.g.
34. High res. level for this publications
I have been on both sides of this conver- pics 29. Tref appendage?
35. It often coincides with April and May 33. Mathieu Schneiders skating org.
home. This year, I am fortunate not to have 36. One way to fall in love 34. Makes like Ike Davis or Ron Blomberg,
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to make Passover. Hopefully, I will be with 43. Rabbi Looksteins NYC area 35. ___air
my parents and my brother and his family 44. What David felt when seeing 37. Halo, e.g.
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49. ___ Lanka 40. Hamelach or Suf
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56. Theyre found in Palestine and 45. ___ Us (from The Prince of Egypt)
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been lifted by the governor, so, God willing,
60. Rabbi, ___ I... (start of a request for this grid, perhaps
you will be back in your hotels next year, and advice) 54. Cause to cower
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and most importantly, good memories to last 62-Across 63. Giveret, in Madrid: Abbr
a lifetime! 66. What Jews do at a Seder
67. Mix occasionally seen in Jerusalem,
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wont pass out when she speaks. And if she Roz on Frasier
does, she hopes that someone will catch her 69. ACLU focus The solution to last weeks puzzle is
and that no one is filming it. on page 75.

Unlocking The Zookeepers Wife
Interview with director Niki Caro
ERIC GOLDMAN
Niki Caros work in The Zookeepers
Wife is exemplary. A native of New Zea-
land, she was educated there, but went
on to graduate studies in Australia. After
she completed a number of award-win-
ning short films and her first feature in
Australia, she went on to direct such films
as Whale Rider, North Country, and
McFarland, USA. This is her seventh fea-
ture-length film.
Our conversation ranged on a number
of subjects. Ms. Caro focused on her com-
mitment to tell the story of how a Polish
couple first committed their lives to saving
and protecting animals in their zoo, and
how that mission shifted to saving Jews.
Here are just a few excerpts from our
chat:
Q: You conclude the film with Jewish
stars drawn on the outside walls of the
Warsaw Zoo. Was that your idea?
A: I just wanted to end the movie honor-
ing those who had passed through the zoo,
and that seemed like a lyrical and appro-
priate way to do it.
Q: Growing up in New Zealand, had
you had any interactions with Holocaust
survivors?
A: I am not Jewish, but coincidentally, I
was educated in a synagogue. My parents
went through a funky education phase
and a new school opened up in a syna-
gogue. When I began, it was fifth grade
and there were only ten of us. There were
over 80 percent gentiles. My earliest mem-
ories were of learning Hebrew, singing the
Hatikvah. I can still do the prayers and
write my name in Hebrew.
I remember that I went to an Anglican
middle school and when I auditioned for
the choir, I didnt know any hymns, so I
sang the Hatikvah a cappella! So Ive
always felt very close to this story. When
we were at school, we had survivors come
talk to us.
Q: When did your interest in cinema
begin?
A: We were little children and I think that
maybe my filmmaking may have started
right there. We had the Christian holidays
and the Jewish holidays and my parents
both worked, so half the time I was never
in school. They would send my brother and
me off to the city and we would go watch
movies, because we didnt have babysit-
ters.... We were little, in elementary school,
and invariably when we walked out of the
movies a policeman might ask, Why are
you on the street by yourself in the middle
of the day? We would say, Well, its Yom
Arts & Culture
Kippur or Its Rosh Hashanah! What? Q: Were there any films that had a par-
So I guess movies and Jewish culture have
been a part of my life since as early as I can film?
remember.
Q: How did you respond when you were
offered a chance to direct this film?
A: I knew my responsibility. I felt it very
keenly. This story needs to be told and
retold. I had to consider whether I was the
right person to tell it and whether I could palette is very gray and brown. Its very
tell it in a way that would contribute to
the ongoing discussion. I was trying very
hard with this material to honor the mil-
lions who lost their lives by celebrating
three hundred that were saved and the
extraordinary circumstances of their being
saved and to do so in a way that was very
feminine and to offer some kind of healing
and hope. All of that said, I thought I was
making an historical drama, but it turns
out I was making a contemporary film. I
am horrified by how relevant this movie
is and I hope it goes out there and helps
people connect with why this must never
happen again and why we must stop this
madness.
Q: Toward the films conclusion, you
see Antonina ( Jessica Chastain) walking
off with a little bison in a line of refugees.
Do you choose to add that?
A: No. That was always part of the
script. When we were shooting, I was
always aware because we were shoot-
ing in Europe and the whole migrant cri-
sis was all around us, certainly in Hungary
that it was coming around again. It was
very unnerving to me, even more now
after the U.S. election and Brexit.
Caro and her crew made a considerable
effort to replicate the Warsaw Ghetto. But
I asked why, when she showed the ghetto
in flames, she chose not to include any
of the armed resistance that took place
there. She answered that she had shot
such a sequence but had to edit a great
deal of material out of the film, which was
too long. She went on to describe what for
her was a powerful portrait of resistance.
A: The sequence you are talking about is
really around the seder [which takes place
at the zoo as the ghetto is aflame]. The feel-
ing and the tone was all around the seder.
I love the sequence. I love the music. Our
composer, Harry Gregson-Williams, came
in to our editing room One of the scenes
[he watched] was the seder. He remem-
bered the music and he went back and
stayed up all night and he called me the
next morning and he said, Listen. Ive
just written a little ditty and I will sing it
to you, and he sent me what became the
theme of the movie. I cried when I heard
it. It was perfect. It seemed to be the voice
of all of that pain, but so beautiful.
time in color. I shared it with all my collab-
ticular influence on how you made this
sion to make very natural and very femi-
A: There was a documentary made
about when they [the Allied armies]
opened up the concentration camps and
they had American crews come over with
color film. It very interesting; very impor-
tant. Because on Holocaust movies, the
people, the beautiful life that she created
masculine. I have always maintained
that nature is going to thrive and flourish
regardless of what human beings are doing
Interview with Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain is an Academy Award-
nominated actress whose work in such
films as The Help, Tree of Life and
Zero Dark Thirty caught our atten-
tion. As the zookeepers wife, she had
to interact with real animals. In one
powerful scene, she brings a baby
elephant that is unable to breathe
back to life while an adult elephant
stands directly above her, often plac-
ing its trunk around her. Ms. Chastain
showed incredible grace playing Anto-
nina, studying extensively for the role,
traveling to Eastern Europe, and even
studying piano. Her performance is
masterful.
Q: What attracted you to this particu-
lar story?
A: There was so much in this story
that was really interesting to me. There
are so many films about the Holocaust,
but very rarely do you see it where it
celebrates love and light. A lot of times
we see death and darkness, hate and
murder, and the most terrible parts of
mankind. This was about an ordinary
person, an ordinary woman, a couple
who sacrificed their safety to save hun-
dreds of lives. To me, thats really inspir-
ing. It makes me feel good about human
beings, to know that when something
dark comes, we can step forward and
be the face of human kindness in the
face of war. I was also interested in what
it means to be in a cage, because thats
really a theme of the film the War-
saw zoo as a cage, the Warsaw ghetto
as a cage. Niki (Caro) found that people
would go on dates outside the Warsaw
ghetto and theyd stand in front of the
fence and take pictures while people
inside were suffering. It also relates to
animals, because it is about possessing
a living thing.
to each other and so it was revelatory for
me to see documentary material from that
orators, because it was always my inten-
nine images from this material. War did
not just happen to men. It happened to
women and it happened to children and it
happened to animals. I was going to speak
for their experience. It was about the
sanctuary that Antonina created for those
inside that villa, with art, with music, with
books. I wanted to celebrate that feminine
strength in wartime.
Q: What about the role you play as
Antonina?
A: You find out that when reading the
book and her journals, you see that she
was quite submissive. She deferred to
her husband a lot. In the film, you see
that. You see her always in the shadow
in the beginning, and shy to step for-
ward. When Jan is away and she is there
at the house, being responsible for so
many people, trying to keep everything
hidden when you have the soldiers
nearby she is organizing the whole
thing. Throughout this film, you see
them as equals, and you see her step
forward. And the relationship is rede-
fined at the end. That was exciting for
me to look at a womans place in 1939
and how she found her individuality
within this loving relationship.
Q: At the beginning of the film, you
interact with animals. In one scene,
there is an elephant right next to you.
Werent you afraid?
A: I have no fear. Im not afraid of ani-
mals at all. I have people tell me, Dont
get too close to the animal! I know that
if I get hurt by an animal in my life, its
my fault. Its not the animals fault. I
just trust them so much. I know not
to impose myself on them. I dont try
to own them. I dont try to possess
them. I dont have them to do things
they dont want to do. I wait for them
to invite me into their space. I wanted
them to be happy when they saw me.
I wanted them to be safe and to know
I wasnt going to do to them anything
that scared them. I met with Lily (the
elephant) many times before we even
began shooting. We just got along!
Q: Antonina seems to some extent
to be an outsider in Warsaw. She has a
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Calendar turned away for lack
Tamara of funds. Also second
night seder. 11 Harold St.
Freeman
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org/
seder.
Tuesday
APRIL 11
Sharing Passover in
Closter: Temples Beth
El in Closter, Emeth
in Teaneck, and Sinai
in Tenafly invite the
community to Passover
services, 10:30 a.m., at
Beth El, followed by a
matzah brei brunch. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
Cantor Sarah (201) 768-5112.
Silverberg
Seder in Wayne: Temple
Beth Tikvah holds a seder
community seder with
gourmet food and
vegetarian available,
8 p.m. Special rates. 11
Harold St. (201) 871-1152
or www.chabadlubavitch.
org/seder.
Wednesday
APRIL 12
The Inquisition: The
Wayne Public Library
presents The Inquisition
History and Legend,
a discussion by Kean
University professor
Dr. Christopher M.
Bellitto, noon. Funded
by the Horizon Speakers
bureau of the New
Jersey Council for
the Humanities, a
state partner of the
Wednesday
APRIL 19
Guide to Jewish
practice: Rabbi Jacob
Lieberman leads a
hands-on adult education
series, The Great Guide
to Jewish Practice, at
Temple Israel & JCC in
Ridgewood, 7:30 p.m.
The discussion is How
the End of Shabbat
Can Be the Beginning
of a Shabbat Practice
Seudah Shlishit and
Havdalah for Families.
Series continues May 17
and June 21. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320 or
www.synagogue.org.

APRIL Temple Beth Or in Washington Township

led by Rabbi Meeka
Simerly and Cantor
hosts its second annual Cantors Concert: Charles Romalis, 6 p.m.
National Endowment
for the Humanities.
Singles
Deborah Rosenblatt,

8 A Passover Celebration, Saturday, April 8,

7 p.m. Cantor Sarah Silverberg will be
joined by guest musicians violinist Tamara Freeman,
a Holocaust music expert, and TLV Unplugged, a trio of
Israeli performers. 56 Ridgewood Road. (201) 664-7422
or www.templebethornj.org.
lecture at Temple Beth
Friday Tikvah. Shabbat dinner
at 6 p.m., followed by
APRIL 7
services and her talk
at 7:30. 950 Preakness
Shabbat in Jersey Ave. Dinner reservations,
City: Bnai Jacob hosts
The Shabbat Project:
(973) 694-1616 or
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Millennial Edition,
for Jewish millennials Shabbat in Wyckoff:
(professionals, singles, Temple Beth Rishons
couples, and friends, adult choir, Kol Rishon,
20s-40s), with food, and its teen choir, Zemer
conversation, and Rishon, join with Rabbi
celebration, led by Rabbi Ken Emert, Cantor Ilan
Aaron Katz, 7-8 p.m. Mamber on guitar, Itay
176 West Side Ave. Goren on piano, Jimmy
(201) 435-5725 or www. Cohen on percussion,
bnaijacobjc.com. Jacob Niederman on
clarinet, and cantorial
Shabbat in Emerson intern Summer
Congregation Bnai Greenwald-Gonella for
Israel holds casual a pre-Passover service,
services: 7:30 p.m., with 7:30 p.m. 585 Russell
prayers set to the music Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
of singer/songwriter
Carole King. 53 Palisade
www.bethrishon.org.
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com. Monday
APRIL 10
Chametz burning: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
holds its annual Al and
Joy Amsel Memorial Biur
Hametz program, aka.,
Big Bread Burn, in the
shuls parking lot, 9:30-
11:45 a.m. Teaneck Fire
Department will bring
a truck and fire safety
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
MIKE LOVETT
trailer. Passover lollipops.
70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515, ext. 200.
Shabbat in Wayne:
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Seder in Franklin
founding editor of Ms. Lakes: Chabad of
Magazine, gives the NWBC hosts its annual
annual Rabbi Israel S. community seder at
Dresner Tikkun Olam
the Chabad Jewish
Family admission plus
a contribution to the
potluck dinner. For an
additional fee, a kosher
dinner in lieu of a potluck
contribution can be
arranged. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or
hopehaiman@yahoo.
com.
Center, 6 p.m. Four-
Seder in Teaneck:
course catered dinner
with imported kosher
Temple Emeth holds
its annual seder, 6 p.m.
wines and handmade 1666 Windsor Road.
shmurah matzah from
(201) 833-1322 or www.
Brooklyn. 375 Pulis Ave.
Emeth.org.
templeemanuel.com.
(201) 848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org/seder. Seder in Washington
Seder in Bergenfield:
Township: Temple Beth
Or has a community
The Jewish Learning seder led by Rabbi Noah
Experience hosts an Fabricant and Cantor
explanatory Passover Sarah Silverberg, 6 p.m.
seder at Congregation 56 Ridgewood Road.
Beth Abraham, 7:15 p.m. www.templebethornj.org
396 New Bridge Road. or (201) 664-7422.
Reservations, Rabbi
David Pietruszka, Seder in Bayonne:
(201) 966-4498 or Temple Emanu-El hosts
rabbip@jle.org. a seder led by Rabbi
Jacob Benzaquen, 6 p.m.
Passover in Woodcliff 735 Kennedy Boulevard.
Lake: Valley Chabad (201) 436-4499 or
has a community seder templeemanuelbayonne@
with Rabbi Dov Drizin, gmail.com. Free parking
7:30 p.m. Catered dinner
with a variety of fine
at St. Henrys Church, 82
SW. 29th St.
imported wines and
handmade shmurah Seder in New City: The
matzah. Reservations, Nanuet Hebrew Center
(201) 476-0157 www. has a community seder,
valleychabad.org/ 7:15 p.m. 411 South Little
passover. Tor Road, New City, N.Y.
(845) 708-9181 or www.
Passover in Haskell: nanuethc.org.
Chabad of Upper
Passaic County hosts a Seder in Paramus:
community seder at the The JCC of Paramus/
Chabad Jewish Center, Congregation Beth
7:30 p.m. (201) 696-7609 Tikvah hosts a
or jewishhighlands.org. community seder led
Passover in Tenafly:
by Rabbi Arthur and
Shira Weiner, 7:45 p.m.
Lubavitch on the 304 East Midland Ave.
Palisades has a
(201) 262-7691 or office@
community seder with jccparamus.org.
gourmet food and
vegetarian options Passover in Tenafly:
available, 8 p.m. Special Lubavitch on the
rates; no one will be Palisades has a
(973) 694-4272, ext.
5408, or rosenblattd@
waynepubliclibrary.org.
Sunday
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Seniors meet in West
Saturday Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social get-
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Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
Shabbat in Closter: The welcome, particularly if
mens club of Temple you are from Hudson,
Emanu-El participates Passaic, Bergen, or
in all parts of services
during a special service
Rockland counties.
Refreshments. 450 West
at the shul, 9 a.m.
Nyack Road. Gene Arkin,
180 Piermont Road. (845) 356-5525.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
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APRIL 17 Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Lunch and learn: Rabbi Movin On, a monthly
Aaron Katz leads a luncheon group for
discussion on current widows and widowers,
topics, over lunch, at meets at the Glen Rock
Congregation Bnai Jewish Center, 12:30 p.m.
Jacob in Jersey City, 682 Harristown Road.
noon. 176 West Side Ave. $5 for lunch. Next date,
(201) 435-5725 or www. May 18. (201) 652-6624
bnaijacobjc.com. or email Binny, arbgr@
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Wynton Marsalis, orchestra
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Marsalis, which includes 15 soloists, ensemble players,
and arrangers, will perform at the Bergen Performing
Arts Center in Englewood on May 3 at 8 p.m. Marsalis
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Local artists
works displayed
at Stevens Tech
Dr. Milton Ohring of Teaneck, a former
metallurgy and materials science profes-
sor at the Stevens Institute of Technology,
will display his Holocaust-themed monu-
ments and sculpture at the college, begin-
ning on Sunday, April 16. The exhibit,
The Holocaust in Metal and Stone, will
be in the Samuel C. Williams Library at
Stevens Institute. There will be an artists
reception with kosher-for Passover food
that day, from 1 to 3 p.m. The exhibit will
run until July 1.
The exhibit is in response to the alarm-
ing increase of worldwide anti-Semitism
and Holocaust forgetfulness, distortion,
and even denial as a result of the inevi-
table decline in the numbers of survivors
and witnesses. Dr. Ohring created these
works to remember the unprecedented
evil of the Holocaust.
Calendar
Register for Paramus Relay for Life
Paramus will hold the American Cancer Cancer Society at (800) 227-2345 and
Society Relay For Life on the weekend of
June 16 and 17 at Paramus High School.
press 2, or request Danielle Therese as a
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For information, go to www.RelayFor-
Life.org/ParamusNJ, call the American
Hoboken shul to screen
a tribute to matzah
Streits Matzo and the American Dream is
screened at a Passover program at the United
Synagogue of Hoboken on Saturday, April 15, fol-
lowing Havdalah at 8:15 p.m. A discussion follows
with filmmaker Michael Levine. Kosher for Pass-
over snacks will be served. The synagogue is at 115
Park Ave. For information, call (201) 659-4000 or
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Jewish World
Israels high-tech dairy industry
is an unsung start-up nation story
Alina Dain Sharon
Self-driving cars. Drip irrigation. Missile
defense. Milk?
Amid all the buzz around Israel as the
start-up nation, including Intels recent
$15 billion acquisition of Mobileye, a lesser-
known phenomenon is the high-tech and
hyper-efficient Israeli dairy industry.
Surprised? Dont be. The combination
of Israelis high demand for dairy prod-
ucts and the Jewish states well-docu-
mented ingenuity makes the cutting-edge
dairy industry a natural development in
what the Bible describes as a land flow-
ing with milk and honey.
Michal Kraus, executive director of the
Israeli Dairy Board, says that Israelis prefer
milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, or soft cheeses
during the warmer summer months
because these dairy products are cooler
and easier to digest. Hard cheeses tend to
be consumed in foods such as toast and
pizza, and more frequently during the win-
ter months. Israeli supermarket shelves fea-
ture about 800 varieties of dairy products.
The Israeli Dairy Boards estimates
show that last year 32 percent of Israelis
consumed soft cheeses, 30 percent drank
milk, 26 percent consumed hard cheeses,
and 12 percent ate other dairy products,
such as desserts.
The latest trends in Israels dairy mar-
ket involve going back to basic, nostalgic
products but also clean label [production]
and the reduction of salt and sugar, says
Tzvika Dor, director of business develop-
ment at the premium dairy plant Gad Dairy,
whose production represents 5 percent of
the Israeli dairy market.
Milk production in Israel is carried out
under a quota system that exists in only two
other nations Canada and Norway.
In case of an increase or expected
increase in the demand for milk products,
the Dairy Board lifts the quotaThe Dairy
Board advises the farmers, considering the
expected high demand for holidays and
summer months, allowing the farmers to
plan and get organized accordingly, says
Dr. Ephraim Maltz, a senior researcher
emeritus at the Volcani Center, the Israeli
Ministry of Agricultures research arm.
Demand is particularly high during
Shavuot, when eating dairy is a holiday
tradition.
Israels dairy sector functions in a unified
manner because the country is relatively
small, Kraus explains. All the industrys
players know at any given moment about
virtually each individual cow, what its envi-
ronment is, and if it carries any germs. This
information, she says, provides an advan-
tage in the cultivation of herds Israel uses
artificial insemination to breed cows and
enables increased milk production.
More than 80 percent of the countrys
72 Jewish Standard APRIL 7, 2017
The milking process at HaYogev, a moshav in northern Israel.
 Roy Berkovich/Israeli Dairy Board
cows are registered in the Israel Herd Book,
a computerized database that allows trac-
ing the genealogy, history, milk yield, and
other factors for each cow. Theses metrics
are monitored continuously for produc-
tion health and reproduction, Maltz says.
Israels Holstein cows the nations
specific breed of dairy cattle, which has
adapted to a warm climate produce about
3,000 gallons of milk per cow per year. This
figure is among the highest productions in
the world, if not the highest, says Maltz.
With the governments support, Israeli
farmers have learned to breed cows by
using the natural environment better,
despite the nations arid climate and chronic
water shortages. The farmers methods
include feeding cows with recycled natural
foods, using recycled water to grow fodder,
and reusing manure in agriculture. Several
delegations from other countries have vis-
ited Israel to learn from these techniques.
To obtain the necessary metrics, a major-
ity of Israels dairy cows are equipped with
electronic individual identification, and
almost all the milking parlors are equipped
with electronic milk meters, Maltz says.
Most Israeli dairy farms use electronic
methods to detect a cows estrous cycle
the reproductive cycle of mammals
such as cows by using individual cow
activity as an indication for insemination
time, he says.
Special sensors measure cows daily
body weight and milk composition for
protein, fat, lactose, and more. Many
farmers also measure daily rumination
and eating times.
Its like placing a watch on a persons
hand and measuring blood pressure, body
temperature or any other parameter you
want to know, Kraus says.
These sensors improve cows health and
reproduction, and increase efficiency in
the milking process. The monitoring and
production technologies are managed by
two Israeli companies, Afimilk and SCR,
that are internationally known dairy indus-
try pioneers who export their product all
over the world, says Maltz.
More cutting-edge technology comes
from Tnuva, Israels largest food manufac-
turer. Recently, the company began feed-
ing some cows with a substance contain-
ing flax, which the company says improves
both the cows health and their milk.
Based on this technique, they rolled out
a new brand of milk, Chalav Hameshek,
which is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids.
Tnuva aims to expand the project
still in its early stages at a few dairy
farms so it will ultimately be imple-
mented for all farms whose milk is deliv-
ered to the company, says its head sci-
entist, Zeev Paikowsky.
Israel has experienced a notable growth
in demand for dairy products since 2016,
Kraus says. The demand for Shavuot
largely can be met, she says, because
the holiday falls in a period of the year
(roughly December to June) that in the
Northern Hemisphere is the period when
cows produce the most milk.
One challenge, however, is milk plants
might be closed for several consecutive
days for holidays or Shabbat.
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by allowing sufficient storage by dehydrat-
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ation from the farms that have sufficient
storage space, Maltz says.
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many as five or six months before the holi-
day, Dor says.
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Leo Brown
Leo R. Brown, 71, of Glen Rock, formerly
of Fair Lawn, died April 3.
He graduated Rider University and
earned a masters at Fairleigh Dickinson
University. He worked for Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company and was
treasurer of the Glen Rock Historical
and Preservation Society.
Predeceased by a brother, Edward, he
is survived by his wife, Rosemary, ne
Gray, and sons, Edmund of Fair Lawn
and Jonathan of New York City.
Donations can be made to the Glen
Rock Historical and Preservation Society,
Glen Rock, NJ. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Edith Burian
Edith Dita Helga Burian, ne Mnz,
93, of Paramus died March 28.
She fled Nazi-occupied Austria at 15
and studied nursing in Jerusalem. She
was an intergenerational volunteer at
the Travell School in Ridgewood for
over 20 years, was an active member of
Hadassah, the Ethical Culture Society,
Womens Health Initiative, and the
Garden Club.
Predeceased by her husband of 69
years, Kurt, and a nephew, Daniel
Sokolski; she is survived by a sister,
Gertrude Sokolski, and a niece,
nephews, and great-nieces.
Donations can be made to Yad
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George Epstein
George Epstein, 82, of Rockleigh,
formerly of Bayonne, died March 25.
Born in Bayonne, he is survived by
nephews and nieces.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
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Lawrence Goldman
Lawrence H. Goldman, 84, of Wyckoff
died April 3.
A New York University graduate, along
with his brothers, he created United
Wire Hanger Industries, serving as CEO/
president for 50 years. He supported
many charitable organizations here
and in Israel and was a member of
Preakness Hills Country Club in Wayne.
He is survived by his wife of 61 years,
Cynthia, ne Bograd, children Peter
(Gloria), Michael (Bonnie), and Nancy
( James), and five grandchildren.
Donations can be made to JDRF
Diabetes Foundation. Arrangements
were by Robert Schoems Menorah
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Helen Katz
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formerly of Fair Lawn, died April 3.
She was a president of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Jewish War Veterans
of America, volunteered for Meals on
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different accent than her husband.
A: Antonina is a refugee [from St. Peters- MAZON IS ending hunger making a difference tikkun olam
burg] and she found her safe haven in War- keeping kids healthy nutrition for seniors sustenance
saw when she was an young woman. She tzedakah fostering responsibility raising awareness soup
also was helping refugees and I wanted to
show that she had found her place in the
kitchens food banks food pantries social justice self-
world. In the book, you do sense that she empowerment partnering for change advocating for people in
defers a lot to her husband. There is this need building a robust emergency food network encouraging
soft quality to Antonina. Then I met with
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if her mother would be an animal, what well-being tribute cards fulfilling a jewish tradition making
would that be, and she responded that an impact optimism nourishment pursuing justice working
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to end food insecurity meeting basic human needs nutrition
There is something about this that Jan and health education initiatives a strong safety net providing
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this time of war, of ugliness, of darkness.
Antonina was very feminine. In the begin-
who are hungry enhancing quality of life jewish values in action
ning, she shows a very submissive per-
sonality. She was very catlike. When cats THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
move, there is this kind of sensuality, and I
WORKING TOGETHER TO END HUNGER
wanted that in the voice. I actually pitched
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ments that she was not from that place.
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As a little girl, I was required to read The
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to the United States. So children here say,
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Gallery
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4 5
n 1 Last month, students in a JLI course, The
Dilemma: Modern Conundrums, at Lubavitch on
the Palisades, celebrated their class graduation.
The six-week CLE-accredited course was led by
Rabbi Mordechai Shain. The next course is Survival
of a Nation Exploring Israel through the Lens of
the Six Day War. www.myjli.com. COURTESY LOTP
n 2 IDF Captain Avidav and FIDF Lieutenant Itay answer
questions and take photos with Moriah students. The
visit was arranged by Friends of the IDF. COURTESY FIDF
n 3 Coach Bobby Kaplan, former athletic director
at Torah Academy of Bergen County, met with 500
students at Ridge Ranch School in Paramus. He talked
about how his experience inspired him to write childrens
books. His new book, Hoopsters: Dont Be a Bully
is the first in a planned series to teach children about
how to deal with bullies and bullying. PHOTO PROVIDED
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n 4 On March 26, Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn distributed 6
hand baked shmura matzah from Israel to the
children of its CETT school. Local officials, including
County Executive James Tedesco and Sheriff Michael
Saudino, pictured center, presented Bris Avrohom
with proclamations to celebrate the holiday as Days
of Religious Freedom. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 5 Susan Bromberg, standing, president of Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, and Sam Rak,
chair of a recent wine tasting there, joined Ellen
and Gershon Bodner, owners of Morad Winery
in Israel, as they spoke about various vintages.
Jacqueline Finch and Debbie Wescott, seated,
toasted their selections. COURTESY EMANUEL
n 6 Shomrei Torah of Waynes fifth grade
religious students recently lead kabbalat
Shabbat services. They are shown rehearsing
a few days earlier. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
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Englewood Englewood Englewood Englewood Tenafly

275 Engle Street 185 Engle Street 109 E. Palisade 150 Winthrop Place 56 North Lyle

Ayelet Recipient of the NJAR Circle of Excellence

Hurvitz Sales Award 2012-2016
Sterling Society Award Winner
Broker/Salesperson
2014-2016
Exceptional Service, Five Star Professional Award Winner 2016
Exceptional Results
Direct: 201-294-1844
Alpine/Closter Office: 201-767-0550 x 235
ahurvitz12@yahoo.com www.ayelethurvitz.com

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565 N FOREST DRIVE, TEANECK

Newer, Custom built exceptional Colonial in Strand section. Grand public rooms on 1st level leading out to masterfully landscaped grounds, approximately one half
acre. 7 Bedrooms, grand entry, true Chefs Kitchen designed by Peter Salerno, Inc and featured in multiple magazines. Sophisticated Butlers Pantry, Gas commercial
Garland Stove with pilots, tasteful guest wing with private entrance on main level. Multi zoned radiant heat, artistically rendered guest powder room and formal
washing station. Professional, acoustical Music Room in spacious finished basement. Smart House!

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294 Ridge Rd, New Milford 39 Rector Ct, Bergenfield 197 Griggs Ave, Teaneck

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665 Northumberland Ave, Teaneck 265 Briarcliffe Rd, Teaneck

Vera and Nechama Realty 1401 Palisade Avenue Teaneck, New Jersey 07666 vera-nechama.com 201.692.3700
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Cedar is ready for your Seder

Check out our fully stocked Passover section X X X X X
646 Cedar Lane Teaneck, NJ 07666
Tel: 201-855-8500 Fax: 201-801-0225
Text CEDAR to 42828 to receive our secret deals e-mails
You can view our weekly circular at TheCedarMarket.com Follow @TheCedarMarket on your favorite social network
Sale Effective 4/2/17 -4/10/17

PRODUCE SHOP THIS PASSOVER WITH CEDAR MARKET. TOP QUALITY PRODUCE: AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES!
Fresh Idaho White Green Loose Yellow
Horseradish Potatoes Cello Mushrooms Squash Carrots Loose Onions
5 lb. Bag
Only

MEAT DEPARTMENT
$ 99
1 LB. 2 3 FOR
$
GOURMET MEATS & FRESH POULTRY - KOSHER FOR PASSOVER
5 $5 FOR 69 LB. 29 LB. 29 LB.

Chicken Whole Chicken Chicken Boneless American Black Angus Beef

Drumsticks Chickens Cutlets Breast Turkey 1st Cut
on the Frame Thighs Brisket

SUPER FAMILY PACK

$ 99
1 Lb TWO IN A PACK
$ 99
1 Lb FAMILY PACK
$
479 Lb
$
249 Lb
$
399 Lb
$
1099 Lb

American Black Angus Beef American Black Angus Beef American Black Angus Beef American Black Angus Beef Homemade Marinated
Thick Cut Square Cut Boneless Baby Back Beef Chicken Wings
Fillet Steak Beef Roast Cholent Meat Ribs Pastrami Ready to Cook

$
999 Lb
$
949 Lb
$
899 Lb
$
699 Lb
$
999 Lb
$ 49
1 Lb

Tiferes
PRE-PASSOVER DEALS PRE-PASSOVER DEALS PRE-PASSOVER DEALS PRE-PASSOVER DEALS
Yehuda Vintage Oneg Bazooka ` Liebers Galore Streits Haddar Golden Fluff
Hand Schmura Matzo Seltzer Semi Sweet Fruit Gum Premium Ground Gluten Free Glazes Potato Chips
Matzo Original Only Chocolate Chips Cocoa Walnuts Israeli Couscous Assorted Assorted

25 27 25 26
6.3 OZ

5 1 24
12 PACK 9 OZ 16 OZ 8 OZ 14 OZ

1299 6 31
7.05 OZ .75 OZ
$
16 OZ

$
5 PACK

$ $ 99 $ 99 $ 79 FOR
$
FOR
$ FOR
$ FOR
$
BY THE CASE FOR FOR
Hagadda kosher for passover
Natural Earth Landau Matts kosher for passover
Natural Earth Glicks Gefen Liebers Spices Liebers
Baby Munchies Liebers Sweet n Low
Organic White Gluten Free Mini Balsamic Tomato Assorted Cut Hearts
Fingers Quinoa Panko Crumbs Mango Vinegar Sauce Sweetener Excluding Nutmeg
of Palm
Mandlen & All Peppers

26 4 27 24 3 4 43 24 99 99
4 OZ 9 OZ 7 OZ 1 OZ 16.9 OZ 15 OZ 1.75 OZ 0.5-5 OZ 14.5 OZ

$ $ 99
10 OZ

FOR
$ $
FOR
$ 99 $ 99 $
FOR FOR
$
FOR

Galil Streits Liebers Liebers Nescaf Domino

Pourable Sugar Kedem Glicks Paskesz Gefen
Roasted Potato Pancake Apple Vegetable Oil Tasters Superfine & Jumbo Mayonnaise Fruit Rolls Apple Sauce
Chestnuts Mix Juice Spray Choice Light Brown Grape Juice Original or Lite Assorted

2 $4 2 $4 2 $3
Glass

99 2 $3 2 $7 10 $ 10 2 $5
3.5 OZ 6 OZ 64 OZ 5 OZ 10-12 OZ 32 OZ 6 PACK

2 $9
.75 OZ

5
7 OZ 96 OZ

FOR FOR FOR

$ 99 FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR

Liebers or Gefen Terra Golds Schwartz Empire Liebers Liebers Streits Wissotzky or
Sweet Potato Sweet & Sour Apple Cider Sandwich Gefen Bigelow
Apple Juice Preserves Chicken Matzo Solid White
Boxes Chips Duck Sauce Broth Vinegar Cremos Tea
Strawberry Only Meal Tuna in Water

27 25 24 26
Assorted

35
16 OZ. Assorted

26
6 OZ 40 OZ 12 OZ

2 $4
4 PACK

$
3 $5
32 OZ

$ $ $
1 LB.

$ $
5 2 $4
10 OZ 6 OZ 20 PC

FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR $ 99 FOR FOR FOR

Liebers Liebers Liebers Gefen Liebers Gefen Liebers Liebers Manischewitz Lays
Almond Sweet Chili Sugar Free Pasta Couscous Marinara Mandarin Fruit Cups Marshmallows Potato
Butter Sauce Candies Assorted Assorted Sauce Oranges Assorted Regular or Mini Chips
Assorted

10 25
Assorted

2 $4 2 $5 2 $5 3 $2 2 $5 2
18 OZ 10 OZ 6 OZ

2 $7
2.5 OZ 9 OZ 6 OZ 4 PACK

$
2 $4
15 OZ 11 OZ

$ 99 $ 79
25 OZ

FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR FOR

FOR

Gefen Glicks Liebers Streits Liebers, Glicks, Paskesz Liebers Gefen Perfection Aluminum
Baking Mushrooms Imitation Matzo or Haddar Onion Rings Coat n Bake Soap Pads Plastic Baking Pans
Powder Stems & Pieces Vinegar Farfel Ketchup Assorted Cups 9x13

99 99 2 $4
10 PACK

2 $4 2 $4 2 $4 2 $1 4 $5 5 $1
24 OZ

5 $5
8 OZ 8 OZ 32 OZ. 1 LB .64 OZ 2.75 OZ 100 CT

FOR FOR FOR FOR

FOR FOR FOR FOR

SEAFOOD Passover Specials PROVISIONS Aarons Solomons Meal Mart

Baby A&H
Black Tirat Zvi
Beef Franks
Smoked Pastrami or Broiled Chicken
Tuna Flounder Pepper Turkey Slices FAMILY PACK Turkey Breast Corned Beef Liver
Steak Fillet Salmon
FAMILY PACK 40 OZ 8 OZ

2 $4
6 OZ

499 499
40 OZ

1399
12 OZ

$
1399 LB.
$
1399 LB.
$
1499 LB.
$
499 $ FOR
$ $
DAIRY - KOSHER FOR PASSOVER FROZEN - KOSHER FOR PASSOVER
TempTee Friendship Millers Breakstones Cedar Of Tov Chicken
Gefen Gefen Nuggets
Cream Cottage White American Whipped Butter Gefilte French Fries
Cheese Crushed Dinosaur & Chicken
Cheese Cheese 108 Slices
Salted & Unsalted
Fish Garlic Cubes Assorted Only
8 OZ

2 5
11.5 OZ 16 OZ

2 5
20 OZ 2.8 OZ

2 5
32 OZ

2 11
3 LB 19 OZ

$ 79
FOR
$ $ 99 FOR
$ $
3 99 FOR
$
2 6 FOR
$ $
899
Oneg La Yogurt Dannon Natural & Kosher Classic Cooking Frankels Shindlers Ungers
Sliced Cheese Plain, Strawberry, Yogurt Shredded Cheese Kugels 9 Inch Flounder Coffee
Blueberry & Cherry
Assorted
Only
Coffee, Vanilla &
Plain Only
Assorted Assorted Pizza Fillet Whitener
4 LB

1499
6 OZ 6 OZ 12 OZ

3 $2
20 OZ 16 OZ

3 $5 2 $3
5.3 OZ 2 LB

FOR FOR 2 1 FOR

$ $
9 99 $ $
6 99 $
399 FOR

Mehadrin Daisy Tuscan

kosher for passover
Meal Mart or Dyna-Sea Galil Kleins
Sour Cream Farmland Mock Crab Ice Cream
Chocolate Skim Plus Half & Half A&B Artichoke
By the Case Original & Light
Milk Creamer Kishka Sticks or Flakes Bottoms Dixie Cups
16 OZ 16 OZ

399
16 OZ

2 $3
16 OZ 12 PACK

2 $4
12 PACK 14 OZ

11 4 2 $6 999
64 OZ
$
$ 99 FOR 3
$ 99 FOR
$ 99 FOR
$
Vita Pine Belt Friendship Bodek Vegetables Bgan Diced
Extra Large Spring Valley
Atlantic Farmer Cheese Broccoli Florets,
Blintzes Butternut
Nova Salmon Eggs Original & No Salt Chopped Spinach, and
Cauliflower Florets Assorted Squash
12 PACK 7.5 OZ 24 OZ

99 2 $5
3 OZ 24 OZ 13 OZ

$
4 99 2 4 FOR
$
5
$ 99 $
4 99 FOR

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT SALES TO 1 PER FAMILY. PRICES EFFECTIVE THIS STORE ONLY. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS OR TEXT DESCRIPTION OF ITEMS. SOME PICTURES ARE FOR DESIGN PURPOSES ONLY AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT ITEMS ON SALE. WHILE SUPPLY LASTS. NO RAIN CHECKS. WE DO NOT ACCEPT RETURNS FOR SEASONAL ITEMS.