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Jon Stewart teases
Jimmy Kimmels bar mitzvah boy
l Will Rubin of Media, Penn., is a
major Jimmy Kimmel fan. So major,
in fact, that the theme of his recent
bar mitzvah party was Jimmy Kim-
mel Live.
Kimmel, naturally, invited Will onto
the show to talk about his big day
but former Daily Show host Jon
Stewart makes a surprise appear-
ance in the studio, seemingly offend-
ed that he wasnt the newly minted
mans first choice.
Im Jon Stewart, Im a talk show
host as well. I was. A few years ago,
Stewart says. And Im a Jew.
You probably had your choice of
really, you know, of idolizing any talk
show host, and you could have gone
Mayim versus the bottles
l Mayim Bialiks latest acting gig
has her traveling in time and pro-
moting environmentalism.
In a humorous commercial for
Israeli seltzer company SodaStream,
the Jewish actress (The Big Bang
Theory) and neuroscientist (she
earned a doctorate from UCLA)
stars as an anthropologist in the
year 2136 recalling an encounter
with a near-extinct species: The
Homoschlepiens.
The Homoschlepiens among
them actor Kristian Nairn (Hodor
from Game of Thrones, in a very
Hodor-like role) are defined by
the fact that they cannot drink wa-
ter that doesnt come from a plastic
bottle. Bialik talks about the species
to a group of school kids who are
gathered at The Museum of UnNat-
ural History; the children, who live
in a world without plastic bottles,
are shocked.
Bialik then touts the benefits of
the SodaStream machine to make
sparkling water at home no plas-
tic bottles needed.
The commercial, which was shot
in Ukraine, was a good fit for the
Jewish actress, who is passionate
about the environment.
with a Jew, he deadpans.
The bit goes on with Stewart rib-
bing Kimmel for not being a member
of the tribe. Dont be fooled by his
learned-looking beard and his puffy,
sad eyes, he quips. Hes not rab-
binical. Hes just unhealthy.
While Kimmel who dated co-
median Sarah Silverman for several
years often is mistaken as a Jew,
he was raised Roman Catholic and
was once an altar boy.
Kimmel, for his part, laughs his
way through Stewarts bit, sug-
gesting this compromise to Rubin:
Maybe you can have a Jon Stewart-
themed wedding.
JTA Wire Service
As a species, we have evolved so
much, but much as we know plastic
bottles pollute our environment and
kill marine life, we continue to use
them, Bialik, 41, wrote in an email.
Single-use plastic bottles should be
a thing of the past and belong in a
museum!
My love affair with the environ-
ment started as a teenager: I was
fascinated with all animals and with
marine animals in particular, she
added. Even in high school, I used
canvas bags instead of paper or
plastic and was ridiculed for it; it
wasnt part of our collective con-
sciousness yet as a society to re-
duce and reuse yet!
Even small changes can make a
difference, she said, noting that re-
cycling is better than nothing.
Still, recycling itself is a dirty
business that involves robust indus-
trial system of transportation and
facilities which ironically are highly
contaminating on their own, she
wrote. This is why I think that the
future lies in reduction at the source
and this is what SodaStream
stands for and its why I am so hap-
py to be a part of this campaign.
Josefin Dolsten/JTA Wire Service
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To the Galmobile, Modi!
l Last week we ran
this picture of prime
ministers Narendra
Modi of India and Ben-
jamin Netanyahu in
a jeep on the beach.
Some of our astute
readers asked: What
is all that tubing in the
back of the jeep?
So we looked into
the matter and discov-
ered that, yes, that is
no ordinary jeep.
Meet the Galmobile.
Its a water purification machine. And its a jeep.
Invented by the Israeli G.A.L. Water Technologies Ltd. (gal is Hebrew for
waves), the Galmobile is designed to provide clean water in the immediate
aftermath of a disaster.
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AT THE MOVIES:
Harold and Lillian
a suprise gem
Make a mental
note about this
documentary: Harold
and Lillian: A Hollywood
Love Story. It got great
reviews from New York
and Los Angeles critics,
but it now is being
screened in very few
cities and that may not
change. It will hit some
streaming service
(Netflix, HBO, etc.) in the
next year or so. Im
telling you about it now
because I unexpectedly
loved the film and no
other breaking news
crowds it out this week.
HAROLD MICHELSON
(1907-2006) was a Hol-
lywood art director,
and his wife, LILLIAN
MICHELSON, now 88,
headed up a film refer-
ence library. Yes, the film
covers their careers. But
it is also the story about
how two people kept a
60-year marriage going
despite poverty at the
outset, an autistic child,
a serious accident, and
more. They were loved
by the scores of Holly-
wood community mem-
bers as colleagues and
mentors. One loving trib-
ute: the King and Queen
characters in Shrek
(2004) bear the faces of
Harold and Lillian.
Harold is most famous
for his storyboards. They
are drawings, similar to
graphic comics, that lay
out the films script in vi-
sual images. In the hands
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of a master like Harold,
they can be a shot-by-
shot guide for a director.
More than once, Harolds
boards directed the vi-
sual part of the film more
than the director did.
(The Ten Command-
ments, for example,
followed his board draw-
ings shot-by-shot). He
was essential to the suc-
cess of The Birds, The
Graduate, and Fiddler
on the Roof, among
many others.
In 1961, Lillian vol-
unteered to help the
research librarian at
Sam Goldwyn Studios.
In 1968, the studio shut
down the library and
Lillian bought it. For
decades, filmmakers
flocked to her library,
seeking information to
make their works histori-
cally accurate. Lillian had
learned how to research
almost anything. For ex-
ample, the three daugh-
ters in the Fiddler film to make a film called
(1971) are in their un-
derwear in part of the
Matchmaker, Matchmak- went to Leordina, a small
er number. No photo town in northern Roma-
of young Jewish women
in their underwear circa
1905 exists. So Lillian
went down to the most home where his mother
Jewish area of Los An-
geles and asked elderly
women if they remem-
bered what the under-
wear looked like. One not
only remembered she streets of Leordina, and
went home and sewed after that in New York,
Lillian a pattern!
It took 100-plus years for the Cubs to win
a world championship, and it took 100-plus
years for kosher food to get to Wrigley.
Sam Mashiach of Danziger Kosher Midwest, who will open a kosher food stand
at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs; the team, as everyone knows, won its
first World Series since its 1908 victory last year.
Lillian Michelson Harvey Keitel
Terry Dubrow
Jake Gyllenhaal Joaquin Phoenix Dr. Tushy
For every quality TV show today, there are at least 10
The website these images in mind
Rumania Insider the little girl who came
bad shows on all those cable, etc. stations. The really bad
had two stories July 10 from Leordina to ones I think of as bottom feeders. E! TV has a weird
about Jewish actors New York. show called Botched. It follows Hollywood plastic
filming or about to film in The town welcomed surgeon TERRY DUBROW, 58, as he repairs patients
that country. The first Keitel with traditional bad plastic surgery. In a recent episode, Dubrow really
was about HARVEY food and drinks, gave was bottom feeding as he removed bad buttock implants
KEITEL, 78, who is there him a traditional cos-
from a pro domininatrixs tush. He then sculpted her a
tume, and local officials
See You Soon. On July nice new backside. N.B.
named him an honor-
6, he took a day off and ary citizen.
Im sure that when force that occupied part Its based on an ac-
Harvey was in high of Beirut in 1958. Miriam, claimed 2011 novel of
nia where his mother, school, his mother, who who died in 1987 at 76, the same name. JAKE
MIRIAM, lived until she ran a Brooklyn luncheon- did live to see her son GYLLENHAAL, 36, plays
was 12. He visited the ette with his father, become an important Herman, an amiable
couldnt imagine that actor on the cusp of his prospector who is ac-
grew up and the Jewish one day her son would biggest roles (Reservoir cused of stealing from a
cemetery where his be an Oscar nominee Dogs, Pulp Fiction, nasty rich guy. The rich
ancestors were buried. (Bugsy) and be lion- and The Piano). guy hires two broth-
Im thinking of my ized in her old home- In September, the ers, whose last name is
mother walking on the town. Harvey dropped filming of a big-budget Sister, to kill Herman.
out of high school, joined Western, The Sister JOAQUIN PHOENIX,
the Marines at 17, and Brothers, will move 42, plays one of the
Keitel said. I have all ended up serving in the from Spain to Romania. brothers. N.B.
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Meet Rabba Eryn London
Yeshivat Maharat ordains Fair Lawn woman
JOANNE PALMER

F
rom the time she was a little
girl, Eryn London knew that
she wanted to be something in
the Jewish world, the world that
provided her with oxygen and meaning.
She also knew that she had to be a
leader. Actually, it was not so much that
she had to be a leader but that no matter
what, she always ended up in that posi-
tion; just as cream and heat rise to the
top, so did she, invariably and inevitably.
(Please note, readers, that this is not how
she tells her story; her modest retelling
hides that truth but like cream, like heat,
eventually it surfaces.)
Ms. London, 31, who grew up in Ran-
dolph and whose parents now live in Fair
Lawn, is part of the modern Orthodox
world, so her path to Jewish leadership
was not as clearly lit as it would have been
had she been a man.
Last month, at Congregation Kehilat
Jeshurun, the proudly modern Orthodox
synagogue on Manhattans Upper East
Side, Ms. London now, at least provision-
ally, Rabba London (shes not yet decided
on her title) was ordained, along with
five other women, by Yeshivat Maharat.
The school, founded by Rabbi Avi Weiss
and Rabba Sara Hurwitz, both of the
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in the Bronx, area in Shaare Zedek. All that work was in Rabba Eryn London speaks at her or-
was founded in 2009 and has ordained 19 Hebrew, in which she was fluent. dination; three of the four other newly
women so far. It carefully walks the line Certified medical clowns add touches of ordained Maharat graduates from
between the Orthodox understanding of life, color, and hope to patients; they are left, Rabbanit Chava Evans, Rabba-
halacha Jewish law and the leadership not the stereotypical scary or sad figures nit Goldie Guy, and Rabbanit Bracha
roles available to women living resolutely but instead approachable, silly but never Jaffe listen. Rabbi Lila Kagedan, who
under that law. stupid characters who never approach was ordained in 2015, holds the pole.
It is unsurprisingly controversial, and its patients with needles or prods or pills but Inset: Rabba Eryn London holds her
graduates need a certain amount of koach instead with warmth and openness. They ordination certificate. GABEE LONDON

of strength to persevere. can disarm and relax patients, taking them

It turned out to be a place to which
Rabba London was well-suited.
First, though, there is the story of how
she got there.
When she graduated from Kushner
Academy and then the Kushner High
School in Livingston, Rabba London, like
most of her classmates, went to Israel for
her gap year. She joined a now-shuttered
program that mainly took Israeli women
who had just graduated high school, chose
to do community service by day rather
than join the IDF, and then study at night.
Rabba Londons community service was
as a certified medical clown.
Thats a job thats common in Israel
now, but was new when she was there,
about 14 years ago.
She worked in a childrens ward in Tel
Hashomer Hospital as she earned certifica-
tion, and then she moved to the geriatrics
down from the state of high alert hospitals
can induce.
The training, which now has become
fairly expensive, was not costly when she
learned how to become a medical clown,
Rabba London said. She learned how to
make balloon animals, but I also learned
how to exit and enter a room, how to fig-
ure out what was going on, both with the
patient and with the family, to figure out
what the emotions are, whats going on in
that room. She also learned how to ask
permission sometimes someone doesnt
want you there.
As a medical clown, I would basically
go onto the floor and knock on doors,
Rabba London said. Id be wearing a cos-
tume. Id be dressed as a clown, but I never
put on a full face of makeup, because
sometimes people are afraid of clowns.
Its the face that does it. So I would wear
lots of rainbow things, rainbow shirts over
other rainbow shirts over a rainbow skirt,
with rainbow bows in my hair, and lots of
scrunchies. And rainbow socks.
Id also have a red nose on a string.
She put it on if it seemed as if it would
make the patient happy; she wouldnt if
she sensed that it wouldnt.
When she took the training, it was
expected that medical clowns would pick
a population to work with. Now you
work in all units, but then, when it was so
new, all the training was with children,
Rabba London said. I was one of the first
three clowns not to work with children.
She chose to work with geriatric patients
instead. Why? I have always loved working
with the older adult population, she said.
When shed walk into a hospital room,
sometimes the patient would want me to
be a silly little clown, and I would sing and
dance. Sometimes the entire family would
be there, and I would teach them to make
balloon animals. And sometimes I would
hear about someone who hadnt had a
visitor all day, and Id go in there and sit
down and just be someone who was visit-
ing, and Id still be dressed as a clown but
I wouldnt wear my nose, and wed have a
normal conversation.
Talking to people and listening to them
was as much part of my job as making bal-
loon animals and making people laugh,
Rabba London said.
Once the year was over, she came back
to the United States; she went to Goucher

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College in Baltimore, majoring in theater
and taking on a double minor in psychol-
ogy and Judaic studies.
I was always an active member of the
Jewish community, Rabba London said.
Goucher is a very small school. There
were about 1,400 students, and about 30
percent were Jewish, and there were prob-
ably four of us who identified as Orthodox.
So there wasnt much of an Orthodox com-
munity, but I was very involved in the Jew-
ish community. I was on the Hillel board
for all four years and I was its president
for a year and a half. I ran a lot of things
through Hillel, a beit midrash and parasha
study and Talmud study.
I was very active. I made the things that
I wanted to happen happen, and people
just came.
Among those things that she just made
happen was intergenerational theater
at the assisted living facility and nursing
home next to the college.
Rabba London always had been inter-
ested in theater, she said, but I was keep-
ing Shabbat, which meant that acting was
very difficult. School productions tended
to be on Friday nights. So I thought,
what can I do? and I had this crazy idea,
and the people there said Go for it! The
idea was to have Goucher students and
assisted living residents work together on
theater. Goucher was very supportive,
Rabbi London said. We put on a play
about the similarities of living on a college
campus and an assisted living facility, and
the next year we did a play about growing
up. I wrote those. The next year, we put on
Thornton Wilders Our Town.
My professors were very jazzed about
it, she continued. They supported me
and pushed me and came to our perfor-
mances, at 10 on Sunday mornings.
After she graduated, Eryn London
moved to London, England, for a masters
degree in applied drama at Goldsmiths
College, part of the University of London.
I lived in a Hillel House in Golders
Green, one of Londons densely Jew-
ish neighborhoods, she said. I wrote a
dissertation on the use of ritual in com-
munity building, and I looked at Judaism
and community-based drama. As always,
Rabba London became deeply involved in
the local Jewish community.
After returning from London, masters
in hand, Rabba London came back to the
United States and then made aliyah in
2010; among many other activities, she
taught theater for Young Judea; she taught
theater and directed productions in nurs-
ing homes; she worked for Nesiyah, she
day from 8 to 12, came home for lunch,
then had an hour-and-a-half shiur with
Eryn London trained as a medical
clown in Israel. ERYN LONDON
studied in Pardes. And then I started at
the smicha program at Midreshet Linden-
baum, she said.
Midreshet Lindenbaum is the womens
school at Yeshivat Hamivtar, the school in
Jerusalem founded by Rabbi Chaim Brov-
ender. The school has been unusual in its
work educating young Orthodox women
for religious leadership in Israel.
After a few years, Rabba London trans-
ferred to Yeshivat Maharat as a distance
Local
student. Maharat and Lindenbaum offer
similar but distinct programs, she said,
and much as she loved Lindenbaum, she
was drawn to Maharats emphasis on pas-
toral work and its record in placing its
graduates in jobs.
For a year, Rabba London worked every
then used the beit midrash at Pardes, and
Maharat online. I was really grateful that I
could be around my friends and my com-
munity, lead my community, and be a part
of all those things I was doing.
In May of 2016, Rabba London returned
to New York to study. It was supposed
to be the year when I did my first unit of
chaplaincy at Columbia Presbyterian,
she said. But I saw a job ad that a commu-
nity in Canberra as in Australia was
looking for a scholar in residence. Need-
less to say, she applied for it. I finished
my chaplaincy internship on a Friday and
flew to Australia on that Sunday. That was
in August 2016, and I lived in Canberra
until I moved to America in December. In
June, she graduated, and plans to spend
next year in a chaplain residency program
at New York Presbyterian.
Now, the question of what title to use
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NJBR provides rabbis with a place to check in
LOIS GOLDRICH
C
ongregants turn to rabbis when
they have questions, face per-
sonal or religious crises, or sim-
ply need help preparing for a
life-cycle event. But where do their rabbis
turn when they need help?
Rabbi Steven Sirbu, past president of the
North Jersey Board of Rabbis, says that his
organization was created precisely to pro-
vide that help.
Founded decades ago as the Bergen
County Board of Rabbis, in 1977 the group
changed its name to signal the inclusion of
all rabbis who live or work in Bergen, North
Hudson, or Passaic counties. Throughout,
the NJBR has remained committed to foster-
ing collegiality among local rabbis and pur-
suing ways in which they can work together.
An important feature of any board
of rabbis is being a source of chizuk
strength for its members, Rabbi Randall
Mark said. Rabbi Mark, the religious leader
of Waynes Shomrei Torah, was president
of NJBR for three years. The rabbinate can
be an isolating position. There are not many
people in the building to discuss problems
with. Its nice to have colleagues with simi-
lar experiences.
Rabbi Mark implemented a monthly
check-in, as he called it, a time when rab-
bis can talk about what was going on in their
lives. My goal was to have people connect
to one another and be a source of support to
one another, he said. Its a nice place for
colleagues to come together who normally
wouldnt.
According to Rabbi Sirbu, who leads
Temple Emeth in Teaneck, About 25 rab-
bis show up during the year, but we gener-
ally reach out to about 65. We keep track
of every rabbi who is eligible to join. Mem-
bers include religious leaders from the Con-
servative, Reform, Reconstructionist, and
Renewal streams of Judaism. Orthodox rab-
bis have their own group, the Rabbinical
Council of Bergen County.
Its a great way for a rabbi to feel con-
nected to the rabbinic community, Rabbi
Sirbu said. We can provide resources
beyond what their individual organizations
Helping you find balance through lifes challenges.
Individual, couples and family counseling available.
Ofces in Teaneck, Wayne and Fair Lawn. Open Sunday through Friday.
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Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner Rabbi Randall Mark
can provide. Still, he continued, Like a lot
of volunteer organizations, we have to face
the fact that we have much more wed like
to do, but dont have the resources.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner, religious
leader of Temple Emanu-El in Closter and
NJBRs incoming president, pointed out
that there are many rabbis for whom New
Jersey is a bedroom community. It would
be nice to get them on board, he said,
adding that he wants to give that effort
more of a push, gaining some of these
rabbis as members.
Throughout the years there have been
attempts to connect the RCBC and NJBR;
those attempts have been met with varying
results, not including much long-term suc-
cess. According to Rabbi Sirbu, the amount
of effort expended toward that end depends
on the priorities of each NJBR president. For
his part, he said, he recognized that the two
groups have significantly different needs in ourselves. He acknowledged that previous
terms of schedules, the expectations of our
congregations, and the fact that so many
more non-Orthodox rabbis are full time, in
contrast to Orthodox rabbis. Our needs are
different. I didnt set it as a priority.
That is not the case with his successor.
One of his goals, Rabbi Kirshner said, will be
to extend an olive branch to the RCBC. Its
silly to have two separate rabbinic bodies. I
want to create a commonality, a platform to
share, on issues such as resources and the
security of Israel and our communal institu-
tions. Why keep two Shabbeses?
There are dates on the calendar we
share in common, such as Yom HaShoah
and Yom HaZikaron. Why not collaborate?
Evening appointments available.
Rabbi Steven Sirbu
Throughout the
years there have
been attempts to
connect the RCBC
and NJBR; those
attempts have
been met with
varying results, not
including much
long-term success.
His aim, he said, is to create a platform
to link ourselves together, not all fend for
tives to the community. The NJBR also
efforts to accomplish this goal have not been
successful. But while his attempt will not be
the first, hopefully it will be the last.
One past effort, under Rabbi Mark, was
moderately successful. I tried to build
bridges between the RCBC and NJBR,
he said. I met with Larry Rothwachs of
Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck, who
then was the RCBCs president and we
talked about things we could do together.
He noted, for example, that in 2009,
the geniza project where rabbis across
denominations could bring materials from
the synagogue to be buried at the JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly, then under renovation
worked well. Still, he said, many of travel together, it might lead to further
these things are cyclical. If you stop putting
in energy, the progress stops.
Another priority for the organization
under Rabbi Mark was connection to the
community, he said. We made sure each
year at one of our meetings to bring in the
executive director of Federation and the
JCRC director, and we met with Schech-
ter principals or head of schools and
were involved with both BARJ the now-
defunct Bergen Academy of Reform Juda-
ism and the Bergen County High School
of Jewish Studies.
Working together with the community
is another of Rabbi Kirshners major goals.
Its important to establish ourselves as a
part of the community, to work with other
spokes of the wheel, he said, citing the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, and Jew-
ish Home at Rockleigh as examples. We
want to have an established presence at
communal events. Its important for politi-
cal, social, and even perception reasons
that people see our involvement in com-
munal events.
Our role is to be a resource for rabbis
and the community as a whole, he added.
While the board of rabbis has accom-
plished a lot, its best days are still ahead
of it. He pointed to the continued success
of the Sweet Tastes of Torah created to
promote Jewish learning where different
local rabbis teach throughout one evening
in February, offering differing perspec-
sponsors an annual yom iyun, where rab-
bis of different streams come together to
hear a guest speaker.
There are exciting things on the hori-
zon, Rabbi Kirshner said, noting that the
group sent a delegation to the AIPAC con-
vention and met together with the New
York Board of Rabbis to discuss High Holi-
day sermons.
Another goal for the incoming president
is to take a rabbinic mission including
members of the RCBC to Israel. When
you travel, you come back transformed,
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Reason to believe
Rabbi Chaim Jachter makes a rational case for Orthodox Judaism
LARRY YUDELSON
Rabbi Chaim Jachter remembers the conversation that
sparked his newest book, Reason to Believe: Rational
Explanations of Orthodox Jewish Faith.
It was in 2008, and it was with someone who, like Rabbi
Jachter, is a teacher at a Jewish high school though not
at the Torah Academy of Bergen County, where Rabbi
Jachter teaches.
He told me his students were saying the stories in the
Torah were fairy tales, Rabbi Jachter said. He said its
prevalent. Its the dominant idea at the school. It hit me
that we have to do something about that.
Rabbi Jachter realized that the fundamental principles
of Orthodox Jewish belief were not being addressed in the
educational system, which took belief for granted.
In the yeshiva system, from the time I entered first
grade until I got yadin yadin the highest level of rabbin-
ical ordination, which empowers Rabbi Jachter to serve
on a rabbinical court, the beth din of Elizabeth there
never was any discussion on why I should believe in God
or that the Torah is a divinely authored document. I was
ill equipped and it seemed most of my colleagues were ill
equipped to address this. Sometimes people even leave
observance because their questions are not addressed.
So Rabbi Jachter began researching the answers.
There never really has been one book from a modern
Orthodox perspective that addressed a whole range of
issues like are addressed in this book, he said. Im not
going to say it answers every single question, but at least
its a significant start.
The book began as a series of articles in TABCs school
newsletter, just as the four volumes in his Gray Matters
series had done. But these are problems not only for teen-
agers, Rabbi Jachter said. He also is the rabbi at Shaarei
Orah The Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck. (Not
that he actually is of Sephardic heritage. Im an adopted
member of the Sephardic family, is how I like to put it,
he said.)
Chapters in the book address challenges to faith rang-
ing from science to archeology to the Holocaust to ethical
objections to Jewish law.
The book presents a range of opinions on some issues.
Take the question of science and specifically certain state-
ments of the Talmud about biology that turn out not to be
scientifically accurate.
Rabbi Jachter presents the views of Rabbi Nathan
Slifkin, whose books were banned by charedi Orthodox
rabbis for explaining that the Talmud simply was passing
on the received scientific knowledge of its time.
And he also presents the charedi explanation, virulently
opposed by Rabbi Slifkin, that modern science is transi-
tory compared to the wisdom of the divinely inspired and
therefore accurate rabbis of the Talmud.
I tell my students that we have to take a humble
approach, he said. We were not there. Its hard to know
whos right. Its worth hearing what everybody has to say.
Everyone can decide on their own whats the most satisfy-
ing answer to them.
Rabbi Jachter particularly likes the approach champi-
oned by Dr. Jeremy England, who is an Orthodox Jew and
a physics professor at MIT. Dr. England investigates how
life emerges from unalive matter that is to say, the very
basis of the evolution of life without outside intervention.
For that, he has been called the next Darwin, Rabbi
Jachter said. Rabbi Jachter brought Dr. England to speak
10 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 21, 2017
to the Torah and Science class
he teaches at TABC.
He spoke about how Rav
Soloveitchik talked about the
two creation stories in Genesis.
So why cant there be three cre-
ation stories? That is to say, the
one in Genesis chapter 1, the
one in Genesis 2, and then the
scientists?
Science is one story and the
Torah is another story but both
are equally valid. In my mind
thats the most satisfying reso-
lution to the problem of Torah
and science.
Other professors of phys-
ics told the class that whats in
the Torah matches what phys-
ics says. Dr. England said thats basar
vchalav meat and milk. Theyre both good, but its but Im not trying to present proofs. The title is
not a good mixture. Trying to shoehorn the science into
the Chumash really doesnt work and shouldnt work.
Rabbi Jachter said his students also like another
approach he discusses, that of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
They love watching the video where he debates Rich-
ard Dawkins. Rabbi Sacks says that Torah rejects binary
thinking. You can have two ways of understanding cre-
ation at the same time. You can be a fully observant Jew
and not feel you have to fight the age of the universe or
evolution. Theres more than one way to look at things.
So what would he tell a yeshiva high school student
who true example wakes up one morning and says,
You know, if I had been born into a different family, it
never would have occurred to me to be an observant Jew?
Arent I only observant because thats what my family is,
and if I were born to a Christian or Hindu family I would
find that religion equally good and would never be con-
vinced by Judaism?
I would tell you that s not atypical, Rabbi Jachter said.
The main point to note is that the revelation story for
Jews is fundamentally different than the revelation story for
other religions. Our revelation the giving of the Torah at
Mount Sinai is a national revelation, as opposed to the
individual revelations given to Jesus and Mohammed.
Thats a standard argument, he said. Its a feature of
the Kuzari, one of the first books to justify Jewish religious
belief, which was written around 1140.
I try to take this argument and strengthen it and point
out that its not just that were the only people that expe-
rienced a national revelation story, but we have a history
from time immemorial until this very day. We are a con-
tentious, argumentative people. The fact that a conten-
tious people that argued about everything with Moshe and
yet accepted the Torah to me its unreasonable to say
that our people were misled.
For Rabbi Jachter, Jewish history and particularly the
history of the State of Israel is a very strong argument
for the truth of Judaism.
The Torah makes
predictions that
shouldnt happen and
yet they have happened.
It predicts were going
to be a small nation but
one that gives blessing
to the entire world. That
happened. The Torah
predicts that were going
to be scattered and were
going to return to Israel.
Thats not a normal course
of events.
And the story of the last
75 years, the ongoing Cha-
nukah miracle of the State
of Israel, shows you there is
something very special.
Then theres an approach
that convinced me when I
was a teenager: The richness
of the stories, the fact that
every story has such rich rel-
evance after it was written.
That might not sound like
a decisive theological proof
not proofs of the Orthodox religion, but rather rational
explanations. This is what convinces me and I hope oth-
ers make the same choice, that it convinces them.
Rabbi Jachter can cite at least one time these argu-
ments worked. After a presentation on these issues at
TABC, one student, who was very devoted to obser-
vance and Torah study, said, Wow! This makes sense! I
thought we were just doing this because this is what my
parents and community does. I didnt realize it actually
makes sense.
I hope people will realize that the Jewish life of obser-
vance and belief makes sense. You do have to make a
choice, but its a reasonable choice. I think its more rea-
sonable than secular choices. Whats were doing is the
best way to live a life and the most reasonable belief sys-
tem available.

Some of the 19 TORA walkers gathered for a photograph.
Active retirement
Local synagogue starts group
for Orthodox retirees
BANJI GANCHROW
Retirement can be a very relaxing stage
of life.
Unless, of course, you have a problem
relaxing. After years of working, of hav-
ing a set schedule, with every minute of
the day planned out, you might find that
you have the capacity to drive yourself
crazy trying to figure out whats next.
When you are blessed with good health,
the next act in your life can be filled with
family, travel, and many adventures.
But where do you begin?
Michael Karlin of Teaneck asked him-
self this question. He has been retired for
about three years, after a 35-year career
as an actuary and pension consultant for
an employee benefits consulting firm in
New York City. Since retirement, Ive
been dabbling in several activities, such
as consulting on social security maxi-
mization strategies, volunteer work for
Orthodox non-profits, and survey tak-
ing, he said. But he felt that he needed
more options and so did other retired
community members.
Ive been mulling this over for a
couple years already, mentioned it to
several people who all thought it was a
good idea, Mr. Karlin said. And then he
took action. Finally, I decided to write
an email introducing the formation of
this group, seeking people to join the
mailing list, and was bold enough to hit
the send button. Other retirees were
happy that he did. Thats how TORA
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to the east of Teaneck, Englewoods
Congregation Ahavath Torah has a
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YU student from Passaic presents New administrator/educator

research at international conference
Last month, Yitzchak Shmalo of Pas-
saic presented original research at a key
international conference on chaos the-
ory, the area of mathematics that studies
nonlinear topics that are impossible to
predict or control effectively because of
the complexity of the systems involved
think weather or the stock market. The
conference, Llavefest: A Broad Perspec-
tive on Finite and Infinite Dimensional
Dynamical Systems, was in Barcelona,
Spain, and drew many of the fields most
accomplished researchers.
Mr. Shmalo, who studied mathematics
and philosophy at Yeshiva College and is
now working toward a masters degree
in mathematics at YU, presented a paper
that provides a simple proof of the exis-
tence of fixed points and periodic orbits
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at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne
Marian Kleinman is Temple Beth Tikvah of
Waynes new administrator and head edu-
cator. Before joining Beth Tikvah, she was
the principal at Beth Am Temple in Pearl
River, N.Y., for seven years, a cantorial
soloist at Congregation Agudas Achim in
Livingston Manor, N.Y., and cantorial solo-
ist/education director at Farmington Val-
ley Jewish Congregation Emek Shalom
in Simsbury, Conn. She also was the reli-
gious school principal and choir and music
director at Temple of Israel in Wilmington,
N.C. She also is a part-time freelance jour-
nalist who has taught at several online and
community colleges and wrote a screen-
play and memoir about her mothers expe-
riences as a member of the Belgian Resis- Marian Kleinman
tance during the Shoah.
Ms. Kleinman holds a masters in Jewish gardening, music, dance, art, playing gui-
studies from Gratz College and another in tar, and activities with her family. She lives
creative writing from City College of New with her daughter, Rosa, in Wayne.
York. She earned a graduate prize for her Ms. Kleinman grew up in Rockland
academic achievement in liturgy at Gratz. County, where her parents were founding
She is a cantorial student at the Academy members of Temple Beth Sholom in New
for Jewish Religion in Yonkers and writes City. Her mother continues to be active in
poetry, enjoys reading, yoga, baking, the Jewish community and with Hadassah.

Standing from left, are Rabbis Neal

Turk and Menachem Penner; Drs.
Lawrence Siegel, Arlene Steinberg,
and Roz Sherman; Laura Turk, and
Dr. Atara Berliner. Graduates seated,
from left, are Yitz Richmond, Zach-
ary Schwartz, Aviyam Levinson, David
Strauss, Dan Cohen, and Jacob Bern-
stein. Jeremy Bresler and Israel Apfel
are not pictured.  COURTESY YU

RIETS joint mental health counseling program

A pioneering joint mental health counseling program
offered to students in Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Theological Seminary in conjunction with
the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology recently
celebrated the graduation of its first cohort. At a cer-
emony last month on the Wilf Campus, eight smi-
cha students, including Yitz Richmond and Israel
Apfel, both of Teaneck, received their certificates of
completion.
The RIETS/Ferkauf program for a certificate in men-
tal health counseling will be transformative for the
Orthodox rabbinate, said Rabbi Neal Turk, director of
the RIETS mental health counseling program. The stu-
dents are gaining a broader and deeper understanding
of psychological issues which will make them rab-
bis better equipped to counsel people who are going
through all kinds of life crises. The counseling aspect of
rabbinic work has become an essential component of
what a rabbi does. The students have invested time and
effort which will make them better rabbis and pastoral
counselors.

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This butterfly is resting on the back window of the
Cover Story
Leichters Riverside Drive apartment. KIRSTEN JOHNSON
Here One Day
Film about mental illness, suicide,
and the family that remains,
to be screened in Teaneck shul
Joanne Palmer
T
here were two views out of the windows in
Kathy Leichters prewar Upper West Side
apartment.
One window looked out over Riverside
Drive; the Hudson River would sparkle every evening
as the sun set over it. In the springtime, the trees in
Riverside Park would show baby green; in the fall, the
oranges and reds would dazzle. The view was expan-
sive, colorful, and hopeful.
On the other side of the apartment, the kitchen win-
dow opened onto the air shaft, a small brick-lined hole
that ended in cement 11 floors below.
Ms. Leichters mother, Nina, saw both views for
many years; that apartment was her home long before
her daughter and eventually her daughters own hus-
band and children moved in.
Caption The river view entranced her, but it was the kitchen
window she jumped through to her death.
Kathy Leichter We see both windows and the views they offer in Ms.
Leichters documentary, Here One Day, a wrenching,
deeply personal, hugely affecting film that also is physi-
cally beautiful and profoundly human.
It will be screened at Congregation Beth Aaron
in Teaneck, and Ms. Leichter will talk about it and
14 Jewish Standard JULY 21, 2017
answer questions after its shown. (See box for more
information.)
Nina Leichter suffered from mental illness specifi-
cally, from bipolar disorder which led directly to her
suicide. The film, shot over the course of many years,
chronicles both her struggle with her illness and her
familys struggles to cope with it, with her, and with
the gaping hole she left when she jumped.
Kathy Leichter is both a grieving daughter and a
filmmaker; she is a main character in the film that
she directed.
Nina Leichter died in 1995. Soon after her death,
her daughter discovered tapes that her mother had
recorded toward the end of her life. She pushed them
aside for almost a decade, unable to listen to them,
as she pursued her career, first as a staffer on Mister
Rogers Neighborhood and then as a documentary
filmmaker, concentrating on films that explored social
justice concerns.
Eventually, though, the pull of those tapes was too
strong, and the impact of her mothers illness and
death were too overwhelming, for her to ignore them
anymore. Shed already moved back to the apartment
that her family including her father, former New York
State Senator Franz Leichter had shared. Now she
listened to the tapes, old reel-to-reel memory-evoking

Nina Leichter; years later, Kathy found some of her mothers pills; toward the end of her life, Nina wrote poetry, including this piece.
objects, and eventually made a
movie around them.
All documentary making, at
least the kind I do, is a journey
and a process, she said. You
never know what you are mak-
ing when you start out. When
I started, I was making a very
different kind of film about
mother-loss in my family. My
kids were little, and I was very
interested in how mother-loss
affected me. And then the story
I wanted to tell for nine years
came to the fore.
I have been a documentary
filmmaker for my whole profes-
sional life, but I never thought
I would make a film about my
e mothers experiences, and her
death. I couldnt even think
- about it at the beginning.
r I couldnt even tell any-
, one she had died of suicide.
r The stigma and the pain are so
h intense. When I started making
the film, about nine years after
a she died, only about 20 people
t knew that it was suicide. And
thats common. Nina Leichter
, Another catalyst for the film
d was that I found out that I was pregnant
m and found out that I was having a second
, son, and I was kind of thrown by a huge
r tsunami of grief about not having a daugh-
y ter. And then I realized that the grief about
l not having a daughter wasnt really about
having a son. It was about my mother. It
o was how I wanted to close the loop.
d I realized that the film and my journey
m were what I needed to do. I had a lot more
t grieving to do. It had been nine years but
k grief is not linear.
e So far, it sounds as if this film could have
g been a sort of vanity project, a working
FRANZ LEICHTER
out of personal grief that would be inter-
esting only to Ms. Leichters family and
closest friends. But the story she tells is far
broader than that, the art with which the
film is made makes it accessible to anyone,
and of course the subject she explores
not only mental illness and suicide but
the stigma that surround it, which makes
the nearly unbearable pain burrow inside
because it cannot be shared can touch
anyone anywhere.
These kinds of independent films take
five to 10 years to make, she said; hers
was done in 2012. During that time, she
KIRSTEN JOHNSON
FRANZ LEICHTER
talked to family members and it became
an opportunity for us all to process what
had happened to us.
Most of the time, families are reluctant to
talk about the suicide that tore them apart,
but most families do not have the chance
to tell their stories in public, in front of a
camera. Perhaps surprisingly, though or
perhaps not so surprisingly the camera
helped to unlock secrets and tongues.
I interviewed my aunt, and it was like
no one had ever asked her before, about
her memories of childhood, or what it
was like for her when she found out that
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KIRSTEN JOHNSON
her sister was sick. And then my
aunt just poured it out.
In the film, she was the his-
torical voice, the wise old aunt.
Shes photographed lovingly,
in subtly golden light, and her
kindness, warmth, and com-
passion all are evident. (I had
an amazing cinematographer,
Kathy Leichter said.)
Here One Day begins with a
look at Franz Leichters parents.
His parents, Kthe and Otto
Leichter, were Viennese aca-
demics, feminists, ardent social-
ists who had forsworn Judaism
in favor of political progressiv-
ism. Kthe was a sociologist and
economist who argued for equal
pay for women, and she was a
prolific writer. The Nazis impris-
oned her in 1938 and she died at
Ravensbrck in 1940.
The rest of the family, includ-
ing Franz, who was born in
1930, escaped from Austria and
came to New York in 1940.
Her family, Kathy Leichter
said, were assimilated Jews.
We were very liberal. Her
grandparents experiences
had been internalized, she said. That
her familys relationship to Judaism was
somewhat attenuated is clear in the film;
while everyone in it is Jewish, the word
Jewish was said only once, by a friend
of Ninas, in a friendly but tossed-off way.
My father showed up in New York when
he was 10. He was persecuted, and he lost
his mother. My fathers brother, who was
older, had internalized it even more, but
my father also wanted to forget some of
what he had experienced.
But still the familys identity is real. I
was very clear that I was Jewish, she said.
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I am very proud of that.

Here One Day traces Ninas descent
from a golden childhood to a happy young
adulthood to a troubled middle age. She
was brilliant and politically active, married
to a brilliant and politically successful man,
trying to figure out a path between social
activism and motherhood that wasnt clear
then and still isnt clear now. Her disorder
appeared slowly and was diagnosed even
more slowly, but once she knew what she
KIRSTEN JOHNSON

was fighting she fought hard.

The film examines the relationships
the remaining three Leichters have with
each other. (There are grandchildren too
Kathys two and her brother Joshs two,
and they show up in the film, but mainly as
graceful and often adorable background.)
In one of the most emotionally intense
scenes, the three talk about what hap-
pened in the years before and after Ninas

I couldnt even
tell anyone she
had died of
suicide. The
stigma and the
pain are so
intense.
death. It is both hard to watch and impossi-
ble not to watch; there is no mistaking that
this is not choreographed so-called reality
but the actual thing itself. Entirely real.
Kathy has toured this country and
Europe with the film, and she has learned
that viewers with similar stories find them- The family spent a great deal of time in a country house upstate; here, Kathy looks out a barn window. ELANA GOODRIDGE

selves and their families in it. In Amster-

dam, a woman stood up and said, I am
your brother. I was like, What do you
mean? and she explained that in her fam-
ily she plays the role of Josh. And another
woman told me that she was writing a novel
about a situation very much like mine.
And all of a sudden a giant light bulb
went off in my head.
Shed seen the film as a personal journal
of a personal journey. But I realized that
Id made a film that other people can use to help, its the whole family. That they knew.
deal with their own mental health issues, But the stigma can be overcome.
and to help them take control of their own They think, Yes, this happened to me.
experiences, she said. Its not only the I can get help. Where can I get help? I want
person who committed suicide who needs to get help. And I want to talk about what
KIRSTEN JOHNSON

KIRSTEN JOHNSON
FRANZ LEICHTER

Nina and her son Josh; light and shadows in the familys country house; Nina and some of her self-descriptive writing

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Ive been through.
And it also helps people who have men-
tal health issues. Nina was an amazing per-
son, and that is empowering for people.
Much has changed, even in the last five
years, she added. The stigma has been
reduced. I have been doing community
mental health education ever since the
film was released in 2012, she said. I
have worked with foundations, with uni-
versities all over the country. Ive shown it
on college campuses, in churches, and in
synagogues.
Its important for me to show it in Jew-
ish communities, and I do a lot of that,
she added.
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs of Congregation
Beth Aaron believes strongly in the films
message.
Over the years Ive spoken about the
issue of mental illness from many angles,
he said. Ive given Torah classes on the
topic, Ive given sermons on the topic, and
I have tried to address the topic. This isnt
the first and wont be the last time there is
such a public discussion of the issue.
Given how important he feels such dis-
cussions to be, someone directed me to
the film, he continued. I watched it and
found it to be exceptionally powerful and
I thought that it would be a great trigger.
More than anything else, the purpose
of showing this film, and of all the pro-
gramming about it we do in the shul, is to
address issues of treatment, and of stigma.
We are not giving clinical advice anyone
suffering from mental illness hopefully is
getting specific advice from their doctors
but the goal is to address the issue.
There are two ways to address the issue
of stigma. The first is that just by offering
this program, that we are inviting people
to the shul to watch the film and it is such
a raw display of such a personal nature
and be able to participate in a discussion
on an issue that can touch anyone that
goes a long way to addressing the stigma.
Why does the stigma exist? (And to be
clear, its strong in the Jewish community
but it is by no means confined to it. Its
fairly universal.) Why do people tend to
shun friends and neighbors with mental
disorders? I think that probably the most
compelling reason and Im talking here
about people who are otherwise caring,
ethical, sensitive, concerned about their
neighbors is because we tend to asso-
ciate behaviors with motivations, Rabbi
Rothwachs said. When people in the grip
of a disorder behave in ways that make
others uncomfortable, that seem out of
KIRSTEN JOHNSON
character or inappropriate or just plain
weird, we tend to assume that it shows
what they really think, he said. What
they really mean. But its not the people
who are talking, its the disorder. People
who do not suffer from mental illness do
Franz Leichter and his daughter, Kathy.
not have that disconnect between what
they do and say and who they are, and
people who do not suffer from mental ill-
ness have a difficult time understanding
that the behavior does not reflect the way
that person actually is.
The only people who truly can see past
it are either professionals who spend most
of their time dealing with it, or the people
It rarely if ever
is something
you can see on
a CAT scan,
its not a fever,
you dont wear
a bandage
or a cast.
themselves, or maybe their families. But
that goes against our instincts.
Our instinct is that if we see a person
acting inappropriately, we tend to become
judgmental. We dont understand that its
not the persons true nature, its a chemi-
cal imbalance, Rabbi Rothwachs said.
The instinct to be judgmental is hard to
overcome, but its far from impossible, and
the more we understand that mental illness
is not at all a moral but purely a chemical
problem, we can work on it, he suggested.
What makes mental illness different
from other illnesses is that it lacks the
external features they have, he said. It
rarely if ever is something you can see on a
CAT scan, its not a fever, you dont wear a
bandage or a cast. People who suffer from
mental illness look just like everyone else.
So the stigma must be addressed if it is
to be overcome. One way to address it is
to offer programs like this one. It sends
KIRSTEN JOHNSON
a clear message, even to people who do
not attend the event, because they are too
busy or they dont want to. This is a mes-
sage that this is something that is impor-
tant to us, and that we are able to talk
about it.
Also, in a film like this you are look-
ing at people who could be you, Rabbi
Rothwachs continued. It could be your
mother. It could be your sister. It gives peo-
ple a better way to understand who we are
dealing with.
Probably the most critical, the most
essential step in addressing the stigma is to
get them to understand that this is not the
result of poor parenting or bad schools. It
is not because someone is lazy or unwill-
ing to change. It is not someone who is
moody, someone who should get up off
the couch. It is not someone who should
just grow up.
No. It is someone who is trapped.
Trapped in his or her own mind, by his or
Nina, who was both a social activisit and a political wife, straightens the tie of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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her own biochemistry.
It is only if we get that message across
that we can reduce, if not eliminate, the
degree to which the stigma affects the
community.
Rabbi Rothwachs agrees with Kathy
Leichter that the understanding of mental
illness has changed. When I was in high
school, there wasnt even a psychologist
on staff, he said Now they have psycholo-
gists and social workers and grade counsel-
ors and grade deans. Institutionally, there
is a heightened sense of awareness now.
There are many ways to overcome
stigma. Some are simple. As Kathys aunt
puts it in Here One Day, as she looks at
the camera, For Ninas sake, hug some-
body you love.
Who: Producer and director Kathy
Leichter
What: Will talk about Here One Day,
her film about mental illness, suicide,
and family
Where: At Congregation Beth Aaron,
950 Queen Anne Road in Teaneck
When: On Sunday, July 30, at 7 p.m.
Why: To understand how mental illness
can affect a family, and to learn how to
reduce the stigma surrounding it.
What else: Beth Aarons rabbi, Larry
Rothwachs, will introduce the film,
and Ms. Leichter will answer questions
about it after the screening.
For more information about the film:
Ms. Leichters website, which includes a
trailer, is www.hereoneday.com.
For more information about the
screening: Call the shul at (201) 836-
6210 or go to www.bethaaron.org.
FRANZ LEICHTER
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7 reasons why Macrons Shoah

speech was groundbreaking
Cnaan Liphshiz
PARIS It wasnt the first time that a
French president acknowledged his
nations Holocaust-era guilt, but Emman-
uel Macrons speech last Sunday nonethe-
less was groundbreaking in format, con-
tent, and style.
Delivered during a ceremony at the Vel
dHiv Holocaust memorial monument
exactly 75 years after French police officers
rounded up 13,152 Jews there for depor-
tation to Nazi death camps, the 35-min-
ute address was Macrons first about the
Holocaust since the centrist won the presi-
dency in May.
The speech, evocative and more forth-
right than any of the speeches on the sub-
ject any of his predecessors had delivered,
Macrons address relieved the feeling
of isolation experienced by many Jews
as a result of anti-Semitism today. Thats
according to Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur,
who leads the Liberal Jewish movement
in France.
Macrons speech made me proud to be
French and Jewish, she said.
Here are seven significant ways in which
the address differed from those of previ-
ous French presidents, including in scope;
the unusual role played at the event by
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu; its references to present realities,
and Macrons emotional delivery.
1. Monsieur
le Premier Ministre
This was the first time that an Israeli head
of state attended the annual commemora-
tion for the Vel dHiv deportations of July
16-17, 1942, named after the Velodrome
dHiver stadium that used to stand near
the monument.
Netanyahu was invited despite objec-
tions on Muslim websites, from the Com-
munist Party, and from the party of the Emmanuel Macron speaks at the July 16 ceremony commemorating the 75th an-
far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon. (The niversary of the Vel dHiv Holocaust roundup in Paris. Kamil ZihnIoglu/AFP/Getty Images
invitation, however, came from the CRIF
the federation of French Jewish communi- Palace, as reported by some French event, did not object publicly to Netanya-
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The arrival of Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, in a

more than
motorcade whose limousines sported gold-fringed
Israeli flags, electrified the predominantly Jewish
audience of 1,200 people. Holocaust survivors in
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their 80s and 90s approached the monument railing
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2. Anti-Zionism and the reinvention

of anti-Semitism
Addressing Netanyahu, Macron assured the Israeli

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against terrorism and the worst kinds of fanaticism,
adding: So yes, we will never surrender to the expres-
sions of hatred; we will not surrender to anti-Zionism

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because it is a reinvention of anti-Semitism.
Articulated in recent years by Emmanuel Valls, a
former prime minister of France, Macrons statement
was the first time an incumbent president in France

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equated anti-Zionism a fairly popular sentiment in
France with anti-Semitism. It triggered several emo-
tional yelps from the audience and applause so vigor-
ous that it caused the tarp strung up over the monu-
ment plaza for security reasons to vibrate.
There was another wave of applause when, unusu-
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3. Deeper, farther to secure $40 million in
Much of Macrons speech was devoted to establishing government funding for
Frances complicity in the murder of 25 percent of its
Jewish population during the Holocaust and decon- nonpublic schools across the
structing apologist views on the subject.
Speaking plainly and avoiding metaphors, Macron
state of New Jersey.
sounded less like a politician than a historian or a This provides record funding for
prosecutor who is committed to factual accuracy.
Jewish Day Schools and supports the
In the first admission of Holocaust culpability by
a French president, Jacques Chirac in 1995 said that safety and success of our children.
Frenchmen, the French state assisted the criminal
Thank you! We could not have done
folly of the occupier, resulting in a failure to uphold
the nations values and an irreparable crime. it without our coalition of schools,
And in 2012 Francois Hollande said the roundups federations, synagogues, volunteers
were a crime committed in France, by France. and the local communities.
But Macrons address was a precedent-setting
speech that went deeper, on a pedagogic level, than Join us in making a
addresses that preceded it by French presidents, said
Serge Klarsfeld, a historian and one of Frances lead- difference in our childrens
ing researchers on the Holocaust.
Macrons speech was the first presidential address
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More jarringly to many French ears, Macron said
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Macron
from page 19
that succeeded it after the countrys libera-
tion in World War II.
Ministers, civil servants, police officers,
economy officials, unions, teachers from
the Vichy government were all incorporated
into the Third Republic that replaced it,
Macron said.
By touching on Frances perceived fail-
ure to purge itself of collaborators and
their legacy, Macron differentiated himself
from all of Frances presidents after Fran-
cois Mitterrand. Klarsfeld praised Macron
for pointing out how Mitterrand and post-
war leader Charles de Gaulle remained
silent on the historical truth about col-
laboration in favor of appeasement
and reconciliation.
Macron said he does not judge his pre-
decessors who remained silent on the issue.
During his speech, Macron said It is very
convenient to view Vichy as a monstros-
ity, born of nothing and returned to
nothing. But that is false. We cannot
base any pride on a lie. Rather than
weaken the French nation, as argued by
National Front politicians, admitting its
guilt opened the path to correcting its
faults, Macron said.
4. Refuting revisionists
Speaking about the Vichy puppet gov-
ernment, Macron deconstructed the
main revisionist talking points put for-
a hate crime.
In his address, Netanyahu counted
Halimi among other French Jews mur-
dered in recent years by Islamists.
Macron replied: Despite the denials
of the murderer, the judiciary must as
soon as possible provide maximum clar-
ity on the death of Sarah Halimi. Klars-
feld said it was a strong message that will
probably induce change in how Traore
is tried.
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I reject the attempts to absolve
ones conscience by those who claim
Vichy wasnt France, Macron said. No
other French president had said this in
these terms.
5. Laffaire Halimi
Responding to repeated pleas by French
Jews including at the Vel dHiv event
during a speech by CRIF President Fran-
cis Kalifat for the first time Macron com-
mented on the death of Sarah Halimi,
Halimi, a 66-year-old physician, was
murdered by a Muslim neighbor, Kobili
Traore, who shouted about Allah before
he killed her. Halimis daughter said that
Traore had called her a dirty Jew. Yet
in what CRIF considers a cover-up,
the indictment filed against Traore last
week does not categorize the killing as
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A rational and analytical thinker with
a background in banking and econom-
ics, Macron surprised many of his lis-
teners with the apparent intensity of his
intonation and body language during
the speech.
Above all, the speech was special for
his palpable emotion, Horvilleur said.
7. Vision
Like many others, Delphine Horvilleur,
the Liberal rabbi, was deeply moved
by Macrons remarks at the end of his
speech about how the children deported
from Vel dHiv informs how he views his
role as president.
Children who wanted to go to school,
graduate, find work, start a family, read,
watch a show, learn and travel, he said.
I want to tell those children that France
has not forgotten them. That she loves
them. That their tragic fate demands
of us never to give up to hate, rancor,
or despair.
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The first medic to respond to the

Temple Mount terror attack was Muslim
Heres his story
ANDREW TOBIN
JERUSALEM When Nedal Sader first heard the crackle
of automatic weapon fire last Friday morning, he couldnt
believe it was coming from the Temple Mount.
As a Muslim, he looks at the complex just outside his apart-
ment as a sacred and peaceful place. He prayed there nearly
every week.
But as a seasoned first responder, he knew what gunshots
sounded like echoing off the stones of the Old City. He finished
dressing, threw on his medics jacket, and raced to the scene.
Sader, a 37-year-old nurse and father of five, was the first
medical professional to arrive at the Temple Mount after the
attack, in which two Israeli Druze police officers were shot
dead. The three Arab-Israeli gunmen then were killed by
police on the scene.
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complex, Sader said he simply tried to save whomever he
could.
It doesnt matter who the person is, said Sader, a Mus-
lim volunteer with United Hatzalah, the Orthodox Jewish-
run ambulance service. Whoever needs help most gets help
first.
Sader joined the mostly charedi rescue service in 2012,
soon after his father died of a heart attack while waiting for an
ambulance. He said he hoped to improve emergency medical
care in the Arab quarter of the Old City, which like other Arab
neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem long has suffered from
lack of services. It is illegal for Jewish medics to enter Arab
villages or neighborhoods without a police escort because of
security concerns.
I had to do something, Sader said. I didnt want the same
thing to happen to anyone else in my
neighborhood or in Israel.
United Hatzalah has about 300 Mus-
lim, Druze, and Christian volunteers
EMTs, paramedics, and doctors, who
account for about 10 percent of the
total, according to spokesman Raphael
Poch. He said the organization began
recruiting Muslims to serve their own
neighborhoods about a decade ago.
We formed the organization to
respond in every community in Israel,
Poch said. Because were community
based, that means engaging Muslim
volunteers.
Sader said that in the last five years,
he has responded to seven major Pal-
estinian attacks in the Old City, often
on a motor scooter provided by United
Hatzalah. When he responds to calls,
Sader said, he leaves on his helmet
and sometimes his sunglasses to avoid
being identified as Arab. He also tries
not to speak much.
I dont want to deal with being
seen, he said. Some Arabs might get
upset. Some Jews might get upset. I
focus on helping people. Thats whats
important.
After Fridays attack, police officers
on the Temple Mount saw Sader com-
ing and urged him to treat their fallen
comrades. But he had to wait for a
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Sader as he and another officer applied compression.
Still, he continued for about 15 minutes, until an ambu-
lance arrived. But the officer never was revived.
July 27
When it comes to the tensions on the Temple Mount,
Merengue Sader said that both Arabs and Jews are to blame. The
August 3 former site of the ancient Jewish temple is the holiest in
Salsa Judaism. Meanwhile, two Arab prayer sites, the Dome
of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque, make it among the
August 10 most important places in Islam as well.
Swing Since Israel captured the Temple Mount from Jordan
August 24 in the 1967 Six-Day War, the site has become a flashpoint
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Jerusalem has opted not to pursue Israeli citizenship,
said violence is unacceptable in such a religious place.
But as is common in the Arab world, he denied Jews
historic or religious claims to the mount and said that
he opposed allowing Jewish prayer and the new security
measures introduced since the attack.
He did seem to concede the Western Wall to the Jews.
I respect the Kotel and other holy places, and I think
people should respect our holy place, he said, using the
Hebrew term for the Western Wall.
On Friday night, Sader headed to his paid job. He
worked a 24-hour shift at the Terem medical clinic in the
mostly charedi West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit. He
said he respects religious Jews and their customs, and
does not openly smoke or speak on his cellphone dur-
ing his breaks on Shabbat, when Orthodox Jews eschew
such activities.
Typically, Sader said, he can get some sleep on the Shab-
bat shift. But this time he found himself pacing the halls all
night, even when there were no patients to care for.
After a day like that, you cant sleep, he said. But
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ADL releases Whos Who
guide of alt-right and
alt-lite extremists
ERIC CORTELLESSA
WASHINGTON Highlighting the
growing influence of the alt-right move-
ment, the Anti-Defamation League
released a roster of its major players,
from neo-Nazis to conservative politi-
cians and internet trolls.
The anti-Semitism watchdog groups
new guide is a Whos Who? of 36
activists and leaders of the alt-right and
alt-lite. They personify these move-
ments at a time of increased public
activity, the ADL says.
ADL officials said the lists were
needed to help understand and track
the movements and the various ideolo-
gies they represent, underlining con-
cerns in the Jewish community and
elsewhere of the growing prominence
of hate groups in the United States
under President Donald Trump.
The alt-right, an amorphous desig-
nation that includes among its ranks
white supremacist groups, white
nationalists, and neo-Nazis, sprang
from obscurity during the 2016 elec-
tion cycle to become one of the most
prominent extremist groups in the
United States.
The alt-lite is a term created by its
leaders to differentiate themselves
from right-wing activists who spurn the
white supremacist ideology. Many of its
adherents, however, also are extremists
and traffic in various forms of bigotry.
In the past year, members of the alt
-right and alt-lite have been increas-
ingly at odds with each other, even
as they hold public rallies to promote
their extreme views, the ADLs head,
Jonathan Greenblatt, said. We want
people to understand who the key play-
ers are and what they truly represent.
The groups report, which was com-
piled by its Center on Extremism, aims
to increase understanding of these
movements central characters and
how their behavior and strategies are
evolving over time.
While the alt-right has been around
for years, the current iteration is still
figuring out what it is and isnt, said
Oren Segal, who directs the ADLs Cen-
ter on Extremism, in a statement.
This is further complicated by the
emergence of the alt-lite, which oper-
ates in the orbit of the alt-right, but
has rejected public displays of white
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Editorial
Stigma and sinat chinam
A to homophobia and the
s we begin the Nine Days that usher
in the fast of Tisha bAv, when we sit
on the floor by candlelight and sing
the dirges that mark the fear and
destruction that is part of our history and as
that night turns into day, and we listen to the
sadness again, and then inexorably we move
toward light, and Shabbat Nachamu, the Shab-
bat of comfort, and joy is allowed to creep in
well, as all that happens, we think about dis-
cord in our community.
This year, the Nine Days begin this Sunday,
July 23, during the most scorching part of the
most scorching season. That makes sense; its
a time of dust and doom.
As we start the countdown to Tisha bAv
actually its already started, with the Thirty
Days ( Jews might be the People of the Book,
but we also seem to be consumed with arith-
metic) we recall, as we do every year, that
the destruction was triggered by sinat chinam.
Thats unreasonable, baseless hatred, aimed at
each other, like a circular firing squad.
This year, in this issue of the Standard, we
have stories not so much about baseless hatred
as baseless fear, about the stigma that comes
from being different. In other issues weve
written about the stigma that have surrounded
people with developmental disabilities, and
how some organizations particularly the
Sinai Schools have worked not only to help
students with disabilities but also to batter
down the stigmas that often leave their parents
unable intimidated or afraid, to be precise
to ask for help.
This week, both the cover story and Dena
Croogs op ed are about the stigma that sur-
rounds mental illness. Rabbi Larry Rothwachs
explains, with great clarity, that the stigma
often comes from fear. People with mental
illness, who otherwise are physically indistin-
guishable from everyone else, at times act inap-
propriately, say odd things, laugh too loudly,
sob too often. The rest of us dont know what
to make of that information and so we judge
harshly. We must stop doing that.
And then there is the more conventional
baseless hatred.
In another op ed, Rabbi David Fine, taking
up a topic that has been addressed often in
these pages recently, because it obtrudes itself
into our lives so frequently, talks about how
no Jew, no stream of Judaism, has a monopoly
on authenticity. None of us lives a biblical life;
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none of us would want to. Ideally, each would
respect the others decisions, even while
reserving for itself, and no doubt constantly
exercising, its right to think the others wrong,
misguided, headed for trouble.
But there are not very many of us, relatively
speaking. We share a past, and its not unrealis-
tic to think that at least to some extent we share
a future.
That truth made itself clear in an odd way
this week. ProPublica reported that President
Donald Trumps personal lawyer, Marc Kasow-
itz, has problems with alcohol abuse and inap-
propriate behavior toward young women. For
that reason, the story said, most likely he could
not get the security clearance that hed need
to help the president most effectively with the
investigation into Russia.
In response to that news, which was
reported widely, a man whose name was not
released emailed Mr. Kasowitz, urging him
to resign. The email was polite in its wording,
although of course such an email can be only
so polite.
Mr. Kasowitz responded with fury, firing off
a few emails, the first just an expletive, the next
two more detailed. In the last one, he wrote
Im Jewish. I presume you are too. Stop being
afraid. Call me. Or give me your number and I
will call you. I already know where you live, Im
on you. You might as well call me. You will see
me. I promise. Bro.
And then he apologized.
A few points. First, what does Im Jewish
have to do with anything? What does the origi-
nal writers presumed Jewishness have to do
with anything? Why is that in there?
Second, the first stories about the emails left
out the Im Jewish part. In some ways that
makes sense. It is entirely irrelevant in many
ways. And it can lead to more hatred, more
accusations, more grief. So why not take it out?
As an editor, I can see both sides of this issue.
But I do not understand why Mr. Kasowitz
included it in the first place. Some sort of pride,
no doubt but what sort?
So we come back to the issue of sinat chinam,
of baseless hatred, of stigma. And of the inexo-
rable movement from the 30 Days to the Nine
Days to Tisha bAv to Shabbat Nachamu, and
then of course next year it starts all over again.
But sinat chinam, and stigmatizing people
who are different, can stop right here. Right
now. With us. Cant it? JP
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Linda Sarsours blind eye
slaughter in Syria
I
n a speech last week, the co- throughout the world for exclusively
director of the Womans March violent ends. If Sarsour chooses to call
on Washington Linda Sarsour for jihad, she should be sure to con-
seemed to call for jihad against demn the violence that is so often fos-
President Trump. tered under its verbal cloak and that
Sarsour, a Brooklyn native, a Pales- seriously stains an otherwise great
tinian-American social-justice activist, world religion.
and a former head of the Arab Ameri- This is especially true considering
can Association of New York, achieved one cant be sure that Sarsour truly
national headlines earlier this year for a does repudiate the violent connota-
fundraising campaign she tions of jihad, consider-
launched to repair vandal- ing her relationship with
ized and neglected Jewish Rasmeah Odeh. Odeh was
cemeteries. Though she a PFLP terrorist convicted
has been accused of with- in 1969 for detonating a
holding the funds a story bomb in an Israeli super-
Sarsour blamed on the ill- market on a Friday after-
intentions of right wing noon, when the shops
Zionists the crowd- are most crowded by Jews
funding effort marked Sar- preparing for the Sabbath.
sour as a moderate willing Rabbi The bomb, placed inside
to reach across the space Shmuley cans of instant coffee, took
that lies between the Jew- Boteach the lives of two young stu-
ish and Muslim communi- dents and maimed nine
ties. Having shared a TV more. A second bomb, set
stage with Sarsour, I too was impressed to detonate once emergency workers
by her efforts, as I am by her pride in had arrived, would have killed many
and commitment to her faith. more had it not been defused quickly by
Sarsours recent speech, however, security forces.
given at a luncheon held by the Islamic Having hidden this information from
Society of North America, struck an American immigration officials, Odeh
alarmingly radical tone. was stripped of her citizenship and
The best form of jihad, she quoted deported from the United States. Sar-
the prophet Mohammed as saying, was sour, however, defended Odeh, saying
a word of truth in front of a tyrant or that deportation of this perjurer and
leader. She was speaking, she said, of murderer somehow proves that weve
the fascists, and white-supremacists, lost our way as a nation. Sarsour even
and Islamaphobes reigning in the White spoke alongside Odeh at a dinner, telling
House. Sarsour took to the Washington the audience that she was honored to
Post to defend her use of the word jihad, be on this stage with Rasmea.
which she claimed was not a call to vio- Laying the jihad issue aside, however,
lence, but a call to speak truth to power. Lindas speech was even more troubling,
But Sarsour is well aware that the albeit for very different reasons.
word jihad has been co-opted by a stag- At the start of her speech, Sarsour
gering number of Islamic terrorists extended her gratitude to her favorite
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person in this room, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom
she went on to call her mentor, motivator, and
encourager. Wahhaj is well known for hateful
views expressed toward homosexuals, non-Mus-
lims, and even America. Hes also advocated put-
ting women back in their natural place, making
him an odd mentor for a feminist.
What was most concerning about Sarsours
speech, however, was not her verbal commis-
sions but her omissions.
In the keynote address to what Sarsour herself
described as the largest gathering of Muslims in
y America, the social-justice activist did not once
call on the American-Muslim community to rise
- in action against the greatest humanitarian atroc-
- ity of our century: the genocide in Syria.
t This, in the one country that can do the most
t to stop it.
Far from trying to amplify Muslim-Americans
so-far tepid response to the horrors befalling our
y brothers and sisters in Syria, Sarsour asked them
- to tone it down.
- dose ending a lifelong battle with mental illness
What was most
- [screwed]; youre sitting in a room populated by
- concerning about
Sarsours speech,
. however, was not her
verbal commissions
k above: taboo, shame, judgment, and stigma.
- but her omissions.
t When youre at a fundraiser and youre giv-
ing $1000 to Syria I ask you to say to yourself
y Im gonna give $1000 to Syria? Maybe this time
y Im gonna give $800 to Syria, and then Im gonna
take the other $200 and give it to an organization
like ICNA Relief, ISNA[or] a local organization.
Muslim children are being gassed to death,
500,000 Arabs have already been murdered,
- Assad is running a crematorium in Saydnaya
prison, and Linda Sarsour thinks were giving too
much money to combat it.
International human rights lawyer Arsalan
Iftikhar has, in the past, condemned the Ameri-
can Muslim community for having failed the
Syrian people miserably by inadequately mobi-
lizing to help them. The tragic abandonment of
, the people of Syria evident in Sarsours speech
, a speech which, over the course of twenty-min-
utes, did not mention Assad even once lends
r credibility to his claim.
And it is words like those, far more than her
use of the term jihad, that represent the failure
that Sarsour ought to urgently repair.
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Why we stay silent
W
hy do we stay silent about so many facets of
our lives?
We are a society cloaked in shame, fearing
stigma and judgment that we dont always rec-
ognize as false, wary of voicing concerns over what might be
considered taboo.
We can say it isnt really our fault, I guess. Years of fear of
the unknown, misinformation, and silence have led us to this
point. But even if it is not our fault, still it is our responsibility to more insular and self-contained, many parents choose not to
pull ourselves out from beneath the proverbial rug under which
weve been swept if not for a persons own sake, then for the
sake of all those hiding nearby. We may not know these others
are there, but I assure you, they are there. Its a pretty big rug.
And chances are, they are the people living right next door to
you.
To frame the topic using another metaphor: the elephant in
the room. Whichever elephant of your choosing.
In an earlier column, I had dubbed Carrie Fisher a mental
health warrior a title to which I still stick, despite a drug over-
and substance abuse. In a 2009 interview with
Vanity Fair, she hit the nail on the head when
she said: If you claim something, you can own
it. But if you have it as a shameful secret, youre
elephants. I have a lot of elephants to kill. But I
also have a lot to be grateful for.
So, lets talk about elephants. And lets talk
about why theyre in the room in the first place.
They are in the room because of four words stated Dena Croog
In the interest of time and allotted word count,
Ill boil down the multiple definitions and synonyms of these
words to the following connotations: banned, forbidden, dis-
honorable, improper, blame, social disgrace, infamy, blemish,
tarnish, scar.
With words like that, why would anyone talk about anything
at all? But I think we should talk, because the only way to prog-
ress is through communication. It has been this way since the
Stone Age. But 10,000 years later, communication shouldnt be
as difficult as chiseling stone. Thats why I used a much quicker
mode of communication.
What topics do people not talk about due to stigma/taboo/
shame?
I posted this on Facebook and waited for someone to bite.
Within the first two hours, 30+ topics were brought up either on
my post or in private messages. Heres the bulk of it:
Listed under the mental illness/wellness category were eating
disorders, substance abuse, seeing a mental health professional,
taking psychiatric medication, family history of mental illness,
and suicide. Disordered eating was singled out as a problem
within the Jewish community, specifically in how excess focus
on food at the center of our culture combines with extreme
pressure to look a certain way.
Postpartum depression was a crossover topic, under both the
mental health and womens health umbrellas. Other womens
topics included miscarriage, infant pregnancy loss, infertility,
single women deciding to get pregnant on their own, and
quite relevant to the Jewish community in light of the positive
commandment, Be fruitful and multiply deciding not to
have children.
Physical/chronic illness was listed as something people dont
talk about for fear of looking weak or incapable, or for fear of
judgment about how a person is taking care of his or her illness.
One comment took it a step further that parents tend to con-
sider mental and physical illness when their children are dating,
out of concern for how illness might affect future offspring.
Other topics: Learning disabilities in kids. Failure to do it
all. Relationship dysfunction and divorce. Issues of violence,
including domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, incest,
rape, and bullying.
A multitude of sexual topics were listed as taboo, especially
within the Jewish community, including sexual dysfunction, sex-
ual orientation and homosexuality, internalized homophobia,
sexual misconduct in the dating world, and anything related to
either premarital or marital sex. One person noted that since
the general Orthodox and modern Orthodox communities are
expose their children to issues of sexuality that are outside the
community norm.
Issues of halachic observance also were mentioned. Peoples
public observance versus private lack thereof. Converts who
dont feel fully accepted. When one partner wants to take on
more and the other less. Kids going off the derech. Intermar-
riage within the family.
One person had a valid argument, saying that among all
these topics there is a difference between avoiding it as taboo
and just not wanting to bring up an emotional experience in a
casual environment. Another person noted that
many of these topics are talked about, but none
of them enough, and that often we speak about
them with such judgment, not looking to learn,
grow, or help.
One comment towards the end of the thread
was particularly insightful:
In certain respects, I see the closeness of our
community as a bit of our undoing. People feel
such pressure to exude perfection. Whether its
their childrens academics or extracurriculars,
or their finances, or their marriages, or their reli-
gious observance, or their community involve-
ment that pain, stress, pressure, and other aspects of real
life are kept quiet or suppressed. To me, the solution starts with
those brave few who get up and are open about their imperfec-
tions, and slowly, over time, we as a community realize that we
are more alike in our imperfections than we may have initially
thought.
And there it is again, one simple word: communication.
Among all the topics, there was one answer that struck a
chord: loneliness
Maybe the comment was meant as an expression of the state
or feeling of loneliness in and of itself. Thats something with
which I, too, can identify. But the answer took on another mean-
ing for me, as well, one that, in a way, was the joining factor of
every single other comment posted.
When we truly believe we are alone in our struggles, it seems
as though there is no one to whom we can reach out. But the
truth is, in reality, we are very far from being alone. Thirty plus
separate topics listed on my Facebook wall within two hours of
posing my question say something different. They say that there
are many elephants in the room. They say that a countless num-
ber of people feel trapped under a rug so wide that Im not sure
where it actually ends.
Its a serious question, because its muffling us. Where does
the rug end?
And so I wonder if there is some way to lift up this huge rug
that cloaks us with taboo, shame, stigma, and judgment. I won-
der if we can find a safe space to communicate about these top-
ics in a format that lies somewhere between chiseled stone and
bits of ether. Maybe that safe space can one day be face to face.
I sure hope so.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck and the founder
of Refaenu, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mood
disorder awareness and support. More information about the
organization and its support groups can be found at www.
refaenu.org. You can also email dena@refaenu.org with any
questions or comments.
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Opinion
The Wall, conversion, and Jewish legitimacy
T
he latest crisis over
the status of the West-
ern Wall has raised
the stakes in the rela-
tionship of non-Orthodox Juda-
ism with the Jewish state.
After the Israeli government
reneged on a carefully negoti-
ated agreement to establish
a section of the Wall for non- Rabbi Dr.
Orthodox prayer, and on the David J Fine
same day gave a go-ahead for a
strict conversion bill that would
deny any status to conversions organized by any other than
chief rabbinate-authorized rabbis, non-Orthodox Jewry was
left scrambling to discover any remaining space for a rela-
tionship with the state. The freeze the prime minister put
on the conversion legislation did not prevent the chief rab-
binate from publishing a list of hundreds of rabbis whose
conversions would not be accepted.
The governments decision to yield to the pressure of
ultra-Orthodox interests can be understood pragmatically.
The majority of the Israeli population, while not Orthodox,
does not care much one way or the other about religious
disputes. The average Israeli, while he or she might prefer
a Western Wall experience under non-Orthodox auspices,
does not care much because he or she will not visit the Wall
more than a few times in a lifetime, and will vote for par-
ties in the Knesset based on opinions on the economy or
security, not religion. The average American Jew also will
not visit the Wall more than a few times, if that, in a lifetime
either. The average American Jew either supports Israel out
of a sense of Zionist identity and will support the state no
matter what, or will look for alternative ways to influence
the government to take a principled stand on the territories
Fake news about guns
F
ake news is very much
of the moment right
now.
But it has existed
since biblical times. As we read
a few weeks ago in parasha
Shelach, Moses sent spies to
reconnoiter the land of Israel
and they returned with fake
news about invincible giants. Sophie
That condemned the Israelites Heymann
to spend 40 years in the desert.
Medieval times brought the
blood libel, and later came the Protocols of the Elders
of Zion, both of which are still very much with us. We
all are familiar with the words of the Nazi propaganda
director Joseph Goebbels, who proclaimed, If you tell a
lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventu-
ally come to believe it.
One of the greatest and most damaging lies being per-
petuated right now is the interpretation of the second
amendment to our Constitution, which claims that it
authorizes personal use of guns and other weaponry.
Only three weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas and the newly appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch
wrote that the framers of the Constitution made a clear
choice. They reserved to all Americans the right to bear
26 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 21, 2017
or the peace process. And so neither group seems to get
exercised enough to prevent the ultra-Orthodox minorities
from pursuing their extremist agenda in the religious perse-
cution of Judaism in the Jewish state.
We can understand how a parliamentary democracy
works. Different factions angle their influences to achieve
their factionalist goals, and the prime minister needs to
make enough deals to form a coalition where a majority of
the people are at least somewhat represented in the govern-
ment. The parliamentary system is clumsy and fragile, but
it is not necessarily inferior to our two-party system in the
United States where everything is polarized and the issues
themselves are lost behind the party line-ups. We also can
understand that the majority of Israelis, just like the major-
ity of American Jews, are not going to put religious questions
at the forefront of their politics. Each Israeli government
must decide how much insult it can afford to levy against
world Judaism as the price of managing the ultra-Orthodox
pressure on the governing coalition.
It is for these reasons that the Conservative and Reform
movements in Israel have resorted to judicial avenues to
address grievances with the government. Certainly, the courts
should uphold the right of religious freedom as a basic tenet
of any modern democratic state. Perhaps in the long run that
will happen, but the wheels of justice move slowly. And then
there is the problem of agreeing to suspend court proceedings
to allow for negotiation with the government, only for the gov-
ernment to renege on its own commitments.
But the biggest problem with this situation, and perhaps
the one that is easiest to resolve, is the mindset of the major-
ity of non-Orthodox Jews, both in Israel and the diaspora.
Perhaps they will not vote against the ultra-Orthodox, but
they should at least not believe the ultra-Orthodox when
they explain why they see the Western Wall agreement, and
the status of conversions, as so essential to their concerns.
arms for self defense... We should not stand idly by
while a state denies its citizens that right...
It is offensive that the two justices chose the phrase
stand idly by. Thats the motto chosen by the gun
control group headed by Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, the for-
mer leader of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah. It
comes from Leviticus 19:16 and was intended to teach
compassion, not murder.
It is more offensive that the term is used to support
the fake news propagated by arms manufacturers
and the NRA, which claims that meaning for the second
amendment. In fact, that was never the case until the
passage of the 1938 National Firearms act, which cut into
the profits of the gun manufacturers. Their campaign of
fake news was so efficient that even the proponents of
gun control believe it.
Here is the truth, as stated in the Federal Textbook
on Citizenship: Rights of the People Book 2. Its a
primer, printed in 1943, for public school students who
were candidates for naturalization, printed by the U.S.
printing office in 1943.
The booklet tells us (with italics added for emphasis):
The Second Amendment protects our right to carry arms
in the National Guard. The National Guard keeps order
and protects property within a State. In wartime it is part
of the United States Army. The amendment does not say
that everyone has the right to use guns.
The ultra-Orthodox explain that they represent the one
unchanging authentic Judaism. They object to what they
claim is the audacity of Reform and Conservative Judaism in
seeking to change and challenge the authentic inheritance.
One ultra-Orthodox statement last month conceded that
Reform Judaism may be a respectable form of religion, and
perhaps should be respected like Christianity or Islam, but
that it is not Judaism. Another ultra-Orthodox voice quoted
recently in this paper argued that Orthodoxy alone is the
Judaism that goes back to Moses and Sinai, so it alone has
claim to Jewish holy sites like the Wall, and its rabbis alone
can be afforded recognition for conversions in the eyes of
the state.
These statements are utterly false. But they are dangerous
because too many non-Orthodox Jews believe them.
All forms of Judaism today are modern expressions that
were forged through our common historical experience.
Ultra-Orthodoxy is no more or less a response to modern
conditions than Reform or Conservative Judaism. All derive
from tradition, and all have a claim on coming from that
tradition. The ancient Israelites did not wear black hats and
speak Yiddish any more than they wore t-shirts and spoke
English. They had neither rabbis nor synagogues. And
they certainly did not have yeshivot. The coming summer
fast of Tisha bAv, commemorating the destruction of the
ancient Temple (where sacrifices were observed in strict
compliance with the Hebrew Bible), should remind us of
how much change the Jewish people have suffered, and how
much Judaism has adapted to adjust to that change. The
worldview of ultra-Orthodoxy, to close the gates between
the Jewish and the outside worlds so as to resist the pull of
modernity, is itself an extreme reaction to modernity.
Non-Orthodox Judaism seeks less of a rupture with the
course of history. The differences between Conservative and
Reform Judaism ultimately are about how much change is
Sophie Heymann of Closter and her family escaped from
Nazi Europe in 1938. She earned a B.A. at Hunter College and
an MBA at NYU, partnered with her husband at Abeles and
Heymann, Inc., and has been an active volunteer in Closter
for more than 60 years, including eight years as mayor.

necessary in order to maintain an authentic Judaism. Just
as a sailor must decide how much to fight against the cur-
rent and how much to go with it, so does each denomina-
tion determine how best to ride the winds of time.
The attempt to delegitimize the overwhelming major-
ity of conversions to Judaism and to restrict access at
the Wall only to certain minority expressions of Judaism
is ultimately a struggle over the legitimacy of differing
forms of Judaism. There always have been competing
forms of Judaism. Most have heard of the Pharisees and
the Sadducees. Today, the names have changed but the
condition of plurality of ideas has not.
Legitimacy always was regulated within each group,
but the groups together formed the Jewish people
because each recognized the others claim to authen-
ticity, even if each disagreed with the others path. The
people of Israel ultimately will need to decide if they
want a state that guarantees freedom of religion and
embraces all types of Jews, as the Zionist movement
always did in the past, or if they want to champion only
one form of Judaism to the exclusion of others. But no
one ever should feel that he or she has less of a claim on
authentic Judaism because religious devotion takes up
fewer hours of his or her time, or because that Jew lives
a life more in accommodation with the modern world
than at odds with it.
The ultra-Orthodox Jew has every right to believe that
he or she alone is the truly authentic Jew. But no one
else should believe that.
David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center of Ridgewood, holds a doctorate in
modern European history, and is an adjunct professor of
Jewish law at the Abraham Geiger and Zacharias Frankel
colleges at the University of Potsdam in Germany.
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Opinion
A BDS lesson from Tunisia
T
o get a sense of what
really lies beneath
the campaign to boy-
cott Israel which is
about much more than just boy-
cotting Israel it can be help-
ful to see how this issue is pre-
sented in the Arab world, and
how it plays out there.
The prestigious international Ben Cohen
culture festival in Carthage, Tuni-
sia, opened July 13 under the
shadow of a call to boycott one of the performers Michel
Boujenah, a French-Jewish actor and a proud son of Tunisia,
the land of his birth.
Boujenah is not an Israeli citizen, nor does he live in
Israel. But he is a vocal supporter of the Jewish state, and an
outspoken opponent of the anti-Semitism that continues to
plague France. Michel Boujenah
Here in the West, the BDS campaign has not quite reached
the stage of boycotting artists simply because they have
expressed support for Israel you must perform, exhibit,
publish, or lecture there in order to incur their wrathful cam-
paigns, such as the one recently launched by aging rocker I dont think its a
Roger Waters against the band Radiohead. Additionally,
because the anti-Semitism of the BDS movement is carefully coincidence that these
coded, its Western components tend to shy away from boycot- two examples of
ting Jews whose only tie to Israel is that they have family there,
and care deeply about what happens to the country. Boujenahs Tunisian
Not so in the Arab world. In Tunisia, Boujenahs personal defendersand there
relationship with Israel was enough for the UGTT, Tunisias
labor union federation, to join Tunisian BDS advocates from were more of them
the International Campaign for Boycotting Zionism in call- come, respectively, from
ing for his removal from the lineup at the Carthage Festival.
We do not want a Zionist, whatever their nationality, the elds of political
on our stages and in our festivals! the boycotters declared. advocacy and the
Michel Boujenah is known as one of the leading Zionist
Franco-Tunisian figures who have always defended Israel, its promotion of culture.
wars and its army.
But if the campaign against Boujenah is a reminder of how That does not make him a leader of Zionism!
crude Arab anti-Semitism can be, the events that followed the I dont think its a coincidence that these two examples
call to boycott him are an even more important reminder that of Boujenahs Tunisian defendersand there were more of
there are some very courageous people in the Arab world, themcome, respectively, from the fields of political advocacy
who are taking a stand against the political ugliness embodied and the promotion of culture. From their distinct vantage
by the campaign to oppose normalization with Israel. points, both of them perceive without much difficulty what
Yamina Thabet, president of the Tunisian Association for makes the BDS campaign so detestable: its doctrinaire anti-
the Support of Minorities, mocked the boycotters claim that Semitism; its desire to censor, boycott, and ban those who
Boujenah could not be a loyal Tunisian, as if being non-Mus- purvey knowledge and entertainment, and its determination
lim requires one to prove ones patriotism! to suppress an honest dialogue between Jews and Muslims
What I denounce is the cowardly behavior of those who about the issues dividing us.
do not have the guts to acknowledge their hatred and there- I wish, frankly, that we had more examples of such clear-
fore hide the under guise of some general excuse, Thabet sightedness and bravery on our own American landscape.
declared, thereby acknowledging a simple truth that the West- Listening to the likes of BDS activist Linda Sarsour or the anti-
ern BDS campaign, along with its enablers and excusers, con- Semitic group Students for Justice in Palestine, you are com-
tinues to dance around: BDS is anti-Semitic. pelled to wonder why American progressives are unable to
Even in the comparatively liberal environs of Tunisia, it still see what their Tunisian counterparts are seeing in the case
requires remarkable courage for someone like Thabet to pro- of Boujenah.
test against the dual loyalty smears aimed at a man who, inci- Perhaps it will take outright boycotts of people simply for
dentally, is coming to perform, not to promote Israel or Jewish supporting Israel most of whom will be Jews, with the occa-
causes such as the case of the murdered Jewish pensioner sional non-Jew thrown in as cover to persuade those who
Sarah Halimi, for whom Boujenah has become an articulate think BDS is reasonable that it is manifestly not so. As I said
and passionate spokesman. earlier, the BDS movement in the West hasnt quite reached
Encouragingly, Thabet was not alone. Carthage Festival this position; equally, we have no reason to believe this hate
Director Mokhtar Rassaa responded to the boycotters on a campaign wont eventually arrive there. JNS.ORG
local radio station, describing Boujenah as above all a Tuni-
sian artist, and praising him for his frequently expressed sup- Ben Cohen writes about Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern
port of Tunisias democracy movement. politics. His work has been published in Commentary, the New
He is a Jew, he has an attachment to Israel, just as York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal, and many other
we Muslims have an attachment to Mecca, Rassaa said. publications.
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I saw a flock of geese flying south. They were in forma-
tion, about twenty birds soaring overhead to some distant
destination. Conserving energy, they barely flapped their
wings and remained tightly grouped behind the leader.
They flew not twenty feet above the ground, soundless,
their eyes fixed on the horizon. This was no playful romp,
but a serious attempt to comply with the earths rotation
and change of seasons. The coming winter with its icy
snows and biting winds dictated an annual migration
to find solace elsewhere. As a comparison, most bears
hibernate the winter away, snug within their dens in a
deep sleep dreaming of fast running rivers laden with fat
salmon. Winter deposits insulating snow over their dens
where they remain warm, solitary and contented. Deer
however remain active during winters celebration of
cold and scarcity. They remain hidden amongst the trees
and forage for shoots, leaves, and moss. A wolf pack also
remains active, eyes alert for deer, but generally hunt-
ing small animals within their burrows beneath the tight
snow. Wolves are one with winter, accepting its scarcity
with a knitted fur hide, heightened sense of smell and
hearing, and large padded paws to cross a snowy patch
with speed and silence. The pine forest watches silently,
its needles quiet and inactive while other trees have
shaken off their leaves and await springs rebirth.
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strength will not inevitably shadow winters frost. Our
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Staying healthy this summer
The arrival of summer brings opportunities and challenges.
Summertime signals a more relaxed schedule and time to
reconnect. Whether spending time indoors or getting some
fresh air, it is important to be aware that warmer tempera-
tures increase the risk of heat stroke, exhaustion, and dehy-
dration. These conditions can be particularly dangerous in
the elderly.
Knowing the warning signs of heat-related conditions and
following the tips below will enable you to enjoy the sum-
mer while staying healthy.
Signs of dehydration in older adults can include: extreme
thirst and a dry mouth, less frequent urination, dark-col-
ored urine, difficulty walking, fatigue, dizziness or head-
aches, urinary tract infections, and confusion.
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the forearm or forehead gently between your index finger
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quickly this may be an indication of dehydration.
A certified home health aide can be an integral part of a
hydration plan and can help take measures to insure that
you or your loved one keep cool as the temperatures rise.
Your aide can be sure to offer fluids and a diet that reduces
the likelihood of dehydration, being certain that a water bot-
tle is always close at hand. As the primary cause of dehydra-
tion is lack of fluids and electrolytes, the most important
way to prevent dehydration is drinking frequently, even if
you arent feeling thirsty. Eating foods like fruits and veg-
etables that have high water content will also help with
hydration. If you are limited in the amount of fluids you can
drink or if you are on water pills, you should consult a doc-
tor about how much to drink when it is hot. It is recom-
mended to check your body weight regularly. Fluctuations
of 2-3 pounds per day may indicate irregular fluid intake.
Staying cool is critical to beating the heat. If you are going
ilies. Aphasia is a language disorder caused by a stroke
out with your aide avoid being in the hot sun for long
periods. It is best to go outside before 10 a.m. and
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after 6 p.m. when it is usually cooler. During peak d
heat hours, stay indoors with access to air condition-
ing. If your home is too hot, and you are mobile, go A
with your aide to public places with air conditioning, i
such as libraries, the movies, the mall or designated d
cooling centers. H
Limit the amount of strenuous exercise. J
Have your aide help choose loose, lightweight, L
light-colored clothing. l
Have your aide assist with cool showers or baths d
to cool down. C
Together, you and your aide can look for warning m
signs of dehydration or heat-related concerns and fol- t
low up with a medical professional before the symp-
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Stroke survivors with
aphasia have standing
weekly volunteer date
Since 2011, five of Adler Aphasia Centers members
with aphasia Ken Albrecht, Bob Mayer, Walt Nolt-
ing, Javed Ispahany, and Vinnie Filippini have been
volunteering almost every Friday at the Jewish Home
Gift Shop in Rockleigh.
Several days a week, this team, dubbed The Wolf-
pack, and several dozen other members with apha-
sia gather at the centers member-run boutique called
Something Special to design and craft gifts, as well
as a couture line of jewelry. Something Special was
founded in 2009 as a way to re-engage members in
creative, hands-on, meaningful vocational work that
gives them the opportunity to go out in the commu-
nity to sell their handcrafted pieces, practice their
newfound communication skills while talking to
potential customers about aphasia and give back to
the center. Since the programs inception, proceeds,
which support the centers Scholarship Fund, have
exceeded $350,000.
Adler Aphasia Center, a non-profit organization with
two full service facilities based in Maywood and West
Orange, and eight Aphasia Communication Groups
located throughout the state, is an innovative post-
rehabilitative therapeutic program that addresses the
long-term needs of people with aphasia and their fam-
or other brain injury and impairs the expression and
understanding of spoken language, reading and writ-
ing. It affects a persons ability to communicate, but
does not affect his or her intellect.
When the Jewish Home offered to feature and
sell Something Specials products, The Wolfpack
learned that the gift shop desperately needed volun-
teers to man the shop on Fridays. Thats when they
took action and became part of the Jewish Homes
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Artists living with dementia

display works in Piermont
An exhibit of paint-
ings created by resi-
dents of The Jewish
Home at Rockleigh,
Jewish Home Assisted
Living, and the Gal-
len Day Center are on
display at Bunburys
Coffee Shop in Pier-
mont, N.Y., through
the end of July.
The paintings were
created through
an innovative pro-
gram called Opening
Minds through Art
(OMA). OMA is an expressive art pro- volunteers working on a one-to-one
gram for people with dementia. It is basis. There is a growing body of
aimed at promoting social engagement evidence that creative expression
and autonomy through the experience improves the physical and psychologi-
of creative self-expression. The program cal well-being of people with dementia.
was founded in 2007 at Scripps Geron- For more information about OMA or if
tology at Miami University. youre interested in becoming an OMA
OMA is implemented in small volunteer, contact Stacey Orden at
groups with the assistance of trained sorden@jewishhomefamily.org.

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 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles
Defining our act
CAROL SILVER ELLIOTT
Recently I had the privilege of being in a
full-day workshop that the Jewish Home
Family sponsored. We brought in a man
named Alex Kerten, author of the book
Goodbye Parkinsons,
Hello Life. Alex has been
working with individuals
with Parkinsons disease for
more than 30 years and he
shared both his powerful
tools and unique perspec-
tives with us. The audience
primarily comprised indi-
viduals with Parkinsons
and their care partners.
Alex had everyone in the Carol Silver Elliott
audience engaged, teach-
ing them techniques from breathing to
using rhythm that helped many to move
in ways they had not for many years. It
was a powerful day and one that I feel cer-
tain had a lasting impact on those in the
room. (email parkinsons@jewishhome-
family.org to receive the full video free).
One of the things that Alex said, over
and over, was that the way we move, the
way see and present ourselves, the way
we interact is our individual and per-
sonal act. And within our act we have
choices to make about how we define
ourselves and how we live our lives. He
NOW OPEN IN CRESSKILL! told us that we all have Parkinsons,
meaning that we all have our own set of
challenges, and that we can define the
role we are to play in our own life story.
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7 Days! Available connection and we certainly recognize
that the two are inextricably linked, our
mental state impacts our physical and
Full Service Medical Office vice versa. Yet Alex took it a step farther,
pushing the concept that, even in the
No Appointment Necessary - face of chronic and debilitating disease,
there are still choices we can make. He
Walk In & Be Seen! was not saying that we can think our-
selves out of a condition that we have but
We Can Do more that we can redefine ourselves and
Everything
Your
Stroke
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how we approach that condition.
He taught the participants how to walk
differently, shifting weight from one foot
to the other and feeling the rhythm of
it. He taught them to stop trying to con-
trol tremors but rather to own them,
moving to the music and the beat that
individuals can embrace
and incorporate into every
aspect of their daily lives.
But underlying, and over-
arching, it all was the con-
cept that this is our act,
and we can choose our
roles as actors.
It was a concept that res-
onated with many of us in
the room and also one that
has much broader implica-
tions. Are we to be defined
by our disease or disability or are we to
define ourselves? Are we to allow our-
selves to be crippled by the emotional
pain that life inevitably brings us? Do we
let our stresses and worries control our
days and nights or do we find a way to
reframe, retool and retell our stories?
There are many things in life that are
beyond our control. Yet our stories, the
plays of our lives, are ours alone to con-
trol. If we decided, with purpose and
commitment, to act our roles in the way
we choose, to follow a script we write, to
choose a supporting cast that meets our
unique needs and desires, how different
might our lives be?
Carol Silver Elliott is President and CEO
of The Jewish Home Family, which runs
New Jerseys Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
Jewish Home Assisted Living, Jewish
Home Foundation and Jewish Home
at Home. She joined The Jewish Home
Family in 2014. Previously, she served
as President and CEO of Cedar Village
Retirement Community in Cincinnati,
Ohio. She is a member of the boards of
LeadingAge and the Association of Jewish
Aging Services.
about aphasia. To date, the team has
sold more than $24,000 in products at
this site. The team was recently recog-
nized at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh
for their years of volunteer service.
For more information about the cen-
ters programs and services, go to www.
AdlerAphasiaCenter.org or call (201)
368.8585.

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Across
1. Aarons eldest
6. Ike Davis first New York team
10. Talking shrub, once
14. Barberas partner
15. Co-star to Harrison and Carrie in 1977
16. Fitzgerald who covered 44-Down
17. Actor Williams clothing issue?
20. Like some Neil Gaiman work
21. Israel: Jerusalem :: Canada: ___
22. Have 45-Down
25. Shemesh, in Mexico
26. Deliver a great set, like Elayne
Boosler
27. TV host Ormans decorated hut?
30. Miami hotel, with Eden
33. The ___ Banquet (1883 infamous
event)
34. El Al flights soar through it
35. Title for Freud before Doctor
36. Bagel feature
37. Rabbi Sacks and George Byron, e.g.
39. Uncle of Judah
40. How the second word of Mrs.
Robinson would be said in a
Cockney accent
41. J. Hozman Airport abbr.
42. Caribbean country that recognized
Israel in 1949
43. Shofar source
44. TV host Lauers simple food?
47. Parshat Ki ___
48. It was true for David when he killed
Goliath
49. ___ thou shalt lose for me one drop
of blood (Merchant of Venice)
50. She ended the Soup Nazis reign
53. Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh singer
Sherman
55. Fixture on actress Debras doorway?
60. Einstein was good at it
61. Jyn or Galen in the Chris Weitz
penned Star Wars: Rogue One
62. Rare striped kosher animal
63. Solo for Beverly Sills
64. Kevin who advises Louis-Dreyfus on
Veep
65. Beer Sheva is in it
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 43.
Crossword
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Down
1. North American students org. for
those with a lot of chochmas
2. Spa sound (Ayzeh yofi)
3. It connects most claimed descendants
of Aaron
4. Buy in for Eli Elezra
5. Bayer who plays a Bar Mitzvah boy on
SNL
6. Hirschs Taxi co-star Henner
7. Give me children, or ___ I die (Gen.
30:1)
8. Rob Gronkowski and Randy
Grossman: Abbr.
9. Maimonides and Nachmonides, e.g.
10. One of Beas Golden Girls co-stars
11. Tefillin area bone
12. Knocked off, in a biblical way
13. Late great singer Ofra
18. (False) god of love
19. Second word in a bracha
22. Notable Jewish queen of a foreign
land
23. Shirleys Oscar-winning role in
Brooks Terms of Endearment
24. B___ Elokim
26. ___ Row, band heavily influenced by
Kiss
28. Zilch
29. Goldsmiths measure
30. Adjust, like a pair of tefillin
31. Rabbi Sacks is considered a great
one
32. Kosherica vacation offering
35. It can be intense in 65-Across
37. Unlike chametz
38. Preminger who made Exodus
42. Birchat follower following a meal
44. The ___ Love (Gershwin classic)
45. Lox source
46. Distance not normally used in Israel
47. ___ BAv
50. First name behind The New
Colossus
51. Producer Norman
52. Bartenura ___ Spumante
53. Part of NAJC or Nasdaq: Abbr.
54. Zap (a way to warm up falafel)
56. Despicable Me 3 hero
57. Zigs partner
58. Animal in a 2011 James Franco hit
59. Target of the Gamorra protein being
studied at Hebrew U.
The Frazzled Housewife
Nine years
W
hen you live in they learned the phrase
a house in the TMI. Too much informa-
suburbs, you tion. But he meant well,
would think and he was a nice man.
that it would be pretty boring. That brings us to nine
Sort of like Mr. Rogers Neigh- years ago. It was a very,
borhood. You have a friendly very hot and humid July 17.
mail carrier, friendly neigh- The smell of gas had been
bors coming by with flowers pretty intense by Richards
from their garden, friendly Banji house since the beginning
neighbors bringing by freshly Ganchrow of July. PSE&G had been
baked pies. You have the ice called, workers came and
cream truck playing music in investigated, and noth-
the background, little kids laughing and ing was found to be wrong. On that par-
blowing bubbles. The possibilities of a sub- ticular day, I had gotten a bill in the mail,
urban utopia are endless. and since it smelled so strongly of gas
Of course, you can also live in a neigh- outside I called them and they sent over
borhood where everybody minds their some young kid. After an hour, he told
own business and wouldnt lend you a cup me everything was fine. But the smell is
of sugar. I think where I live is somewhere coming from my neighbors house, I said.
in the middle. I often say that people are Their policy was not to knock on some-
really nice when you are dying, dead, ones door, unless that someone called
or on Purim. But further analysis is for them himself. And the young man went
another time. back into his truck and drove off.
Nineteen years ago, on a sunny day in
March, we moved into our house. To one
side, we had a neighbor, Louise, who was
the original 1929 owner of her home. She
had been engaged to a soldier who died in
I often say that
the war. It could have been the Civil War, people are really
because Louise was pretty old when we
moved in, but more likely it was World
nice when you
War II. To the other side was a house that are dying, dead,
had a side yard that separated our proper-
ties. Mr. and Mrs. Haas lived in that house.
or on Purim.
They too, like Louise, could have been But further
alive during the Civil War. Mr. Haas invited
my very little boys over for bananas, and
analysis is for
we would sit at his kitchen table and talk another time.
to him and his wife.
Unfortunately, one Thanksgiving, my F o u r h o u r s l a t e r, R i c h a r d s
boys watched Mrs. Haas being taken out of house exploded.
the home after she had passed away. Ques- I had been at the pool with son #3,
tions were asked and answered and life which was a good thing for so many rea-
lessons were taught. Little did we know sons. When I rushed home after receiving
how many lessons were to be learned a phone call about what had happened,
from our neighbors. Soon after Mrs. Haas the firefighters were chopping down my
passed away, Richard, their son, moved in. front door and Richards house had fire
He turned the side yard into a vegetable coming out of everywhere. Never had I
garden/jungle. As the house deteriorated, seen anything like it.
we watched it turn into a zoo deer, rac- The police were asking me questions,
coons, possums. The kids loved it. Hus- and I asked if there was a second car in the
band #1 loved that we didnt have to pay driveway. Richard had a friend who had
an admission fee. come to visit him that day. Fortunately, the
And then Mr. Haas joined his wife in the friend had left before the explosion.
beautiful neighborhood in the sky, and I was hoping that Richard was out rid-
Richard was left alone. He roamed his gar- ing his bike, but they found his body in the
den barefoot, because, as he had told me basement a few hours later. I write about
many, many times, The ground is a natu- him this week because he has no one else to
ral exfoliant. He started riding his bicycle remember him, and he was a good person,
because gas became too expensive for a good neighbor, and a really good son.
him, and he enjoyed playing basketball in Hug the ones you love, remember the
the park. He had no children of his own, loved ones that you have lost, and appreci-
so he always was friendly to the kids in the ate the blessings that you have.
neighborhood. My children learned what
happens when you are allergic to ripe Banji Ganchrow will return to humor next
fruit, as he explained that to them in detail week. Perhaps she will write about the joys
when he ate at our home. That is when of hot flashes...
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JULY 27 senior pharmacist at
St. Josephs Regional
Networking in Fair Medical Center, on
Lawn: The Jewish Medication Safety/
Book discussion in Business Network meets Management,
Teaneck: The Jewish for breakfast at the Ives 11:30 a.m. 194 Ratzer
Center of Teaneck Architecture offices, Road. (973) 694-6274 or
hosts the Leaves of 8:30 a.m. 14-25 Plaza Chanig@optonline.net.
Faith Book Club with Road, Suite S-3-5. www.
a discussion on John jbusinessnetwork.net. Tisha BAv for women:
Williams book Stoner, Teaneck Womens
JULY Rabbi Shmuel Goldin leads A Tale of Two 8 p.m. 70 Sterling Place. Tefillah, a community-
Fasts: Comparing and Contrasting Tisha (201) 833-0515. wide group of women

25 BAv and Yom Kippur for the last Dor

LDor lunch and learn lecture he will give Tuesday
JULY 25
who gather several
times during the year,
has its annual reading
before he retires. Its at Congregation Ahavath Torah of Megillat Eicha, at a
private home, 10 p.m.
in Englewood, noon. After the talk, the shul will show Location information,
Names Not Numbers. 240 Broad Ave. Reservations, email teaneck.womens.
(201) 568-1315 or office@AhavathTorah.org. David Perper and
tefillah@gmail.com.

Faith Steinsnyder
screening of Spotlight, old Gomez Mill House Music in Wayne: Cantors Singles
Friday 7 p.m. 176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
the oldest standing
Jewish dwelling in
David Perper and Faith
JULY 21 bnaijacobjc.com. North America. 11
Steinsnyder perform
classics, Broadway,
Wednesday
Mill House Road, off cantorial, folk, and pop JULY 26
Shabbat in Hoboken:
The United Synagogue of Sunday Route 9W, Marlboro,
N.Y. (845) 236-3126 or
selections at the summer
concert series at the Seniors meet in
Hoboken hosts Shabbat JULY 23 Gomez.org. Film in Teaneck: The Wayne YMCA, 7 p.m. Tallman: Singles 65+
in the Park for children Juggler with Kirk Series runs through Aug. of the JCC Rockland
and adults of all ages, Music in the Hudson Douglas is screened at 24. The Metro YMCAs of meets for dinner
especially with young Valley: Singers/ Temple Emeth, 7:30 p.m. the Oranges is a partner at the Waterwheel
children, 6 p.m. Bring songwriters Lydia Adams 1666 Windsor Road. of the YM-YWHA of Restaurant and Cafe,
a kosher or vegetarian Davis, Pat Lamanna, (201) 833-1322. North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. 6 p.m. Individual checks.
picnic dinner; challah and and Sharleen Leahey (973) 595-0100 or www. 272 Route 59. Gene,
grape juice provided. perform traditional and Jewish learning in wayneymca.org. (845) 356-5525.
Rain will cancel event. original folk songs for Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
Regular services at shul a program on womens Films in Wayne: The a center for Jewish
at 7. Church Square Park, suffrage at the Gomez Chabad Center of Passaic learning that meets Sunday
5th and Willow/Park. County shows Denial, at Congregation Beth
Foundation for Mill
6 p.m., followed by a
JULY 30
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com. N.Y., 1 p.m. Free tour of dessert buffet. The group part series on Educating
will show Operation Film in Teaneck:
the Gomez Mill House Our Children for a New
Shabbat in Jersey Wedding on Thursday, Congregation Beth
follows. Refreshments. Reality, taught by Dr.
City: Bnai Jacob offers Aug. 17, at 7. 194 Ratzer Aaron offers a screening
The Gomez Foundation Rivka Schwartz, 8:15 p.m.
Shabbat dinner and Road. (973) 694-6274 or of Here One Day, 7 p.m.
for Mill House works to 950 Queen Anne Road.
celebration, led by Jewishwayne.com. Rabbi Larry Rothwachs
preserve the 300-year- Register at lamdeinu.org.
Rabbi Aaron Katz, with a introduces the award-

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Hadassah holds walkathon

for heart health awareness
Hadassah Northern New Jersey will hold
its second annual Heart Health Aware-
ness Walkathon on Sunday, August 6, at
the Verona Park Boathouse. The family-
friendly day starts with registration at 8
a.m.; the walk begins at 8:30. Walkers are
encouraged to get sponsors to raise funds
for heart health awareness and research.
Corporate sponsors include the law office
of Alan M. Bonder; Shop Rite; David T.
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Pop-up fish restaurant

coming to Teaneck
Jeff Ingbar of Kosher Catch, whose story was on the
cover of the Jewish Standard on May 11, will bring
his wild-caught fish to Congregation Beth Aaron
in Teaneck for a fish-and-chips pop-up restaurant
during the Nine Days. The restaurant will be at the
shul on Thursday, July 27, from 5 to 8 p.m., and will
feature fish and chips, fish sandwiches, and fresh
raw poke bowls. A mashgiach will be on site when
it is open.
Kosher Catch is under the supervision of Rabbi
Aaron Benjaminson of the Chabad of the South Jeff Ingbar
Coast in Massachusetts. Congregation Beth Aaron
is at 950 Queen Anne Road in Teaneck. For information, call (201) 836-6210, or go to For tickets visit NYTF.org or call 866-811-4111
www.bethaaron.org/event/fishandchips.

Sharsheret webinar on Aug. 8

focuses on communication
Sharsheret will present a national webinar on August 8 at 8 p.m.,
focusing on consulting your health care provider. The webinar
will feature Dr. Noam Z. Drazin from Cedars Sinai Medical Group,
who will offer information to improve and enhance your com-
munication with your health care team. Topics include learning
how to advocate for yourself when discussing your individual
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Judge David B. Follender
FOLLENDER, David B., 91, of Boca Raton, Fla.,
and Fort Lee, N.J., died Monday, July 17, 2017, after
a brief illness. He was born to Harry and Elsie Fol-
lender in Union City in humble circumstances, and
was initially raised in Jersey City where his grand-
father, after whom he was named, founded Congre-
gation Mt. Sinai in Jersey City Heights which he
continued to support during his lifetime. The family
relocated early to Hackensack, N.J., where he was
raised and remained for the duration of his profes-
sional life. He was a veteran of the United States
Army during World War II. Upon returning from
service he matriculated through the University of Il-
linois-Urbana in 2 1/2 years earning academic hon-
ors along the way. While he attended Harvard Law
School for his first year, he ultimately transferred to
New Jersey where he completed his law school de-
gree at Rutgers-Newark School of Law graduating
3rd in his class and serving as note editor of the Rut-
gers Law Review. He opened his private practice in
1952 in Hackensack and soon met and married the
love of his life, Irma R. Follender (ne Haibloom),
of New York City, in 1954. David was also keenly
interested in building and construction and became
a hands-on developer and builder of commercial
and residential properties in Northern New Jersey
which supplemented his busy law practice. David
and Irma made a home in Teaneck, N.J., and raised
their three children. Together they organized and led
the United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bonds efforts
of Bergen County both before, during, and after, the
Six Day War in support of Israel. They made count-
less trips to Israel and to Europe, both to repatriate
displaced Jews in Israel and to aid Jews living in re-
pressive countries such as the former Soviet Union.
Their endeavors also include serving as Lifetime
Trustees and active members of the Jewish Center of
Teaneck, founders of the Moriah School in Engle-
wood, active in the building of Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun in Teaneck, National Board member and
local Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, for-
mer Board member of the Jewish Home of Rock-
leigh, and Board member of Boys Town Jerusalem
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Brief
Hungarian prime minister acknowledges WWII sin to Netanyahu
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in a meet-
ing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
acknowledged Hungarys sin during World War II and
vowed to protect his countrys Jewish community.
We decided in World War II, instead of protecting
the Jewish community, to cooperate with the Nazis.
This will never happen again, Orban said. I made
it clear to Prime Minister Netanyahu that the govern-
ment will secure the Jewish minority and that we have
zero tolerance to anti-Semitism.
Hungarys Nazi-allied government sent nearly half a
million Hungarian Jews to their deaths during the Holo-
caust. Orban recently came under criticism for prais-
ing Hungarys Holocaust-era leader Mikls Horthy, an
40 Jewish Standard JULY 21, 2017
and builder at that same institution of the Judge
David B. and Irma R. Follender Robotics Center.
Among the numerous awards he accumulated for
his activities are the Annual Award Moriah School
of Englewood, NJ (1969); UJA Teaneck Presidents
award (1973); Jewish National Fund, Woodland in
JFK Forest, Israel (1971); Torch of Liberty Award
of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith
(1992); and Gates of Jerusalem Award, State of Is-
rael Bonds (1994).
In 1973, Judge Follender was appointed to the Su-
perior Court of New Jersey and served with distinc-
tion as the complex case judge for 19 years full
time and thereafter on recall for another eight until
fully retiring in 2000. Among his notable cases are
(Berman v. Allan) in which, as a trial judge he wrote
an opinion that compelled the New Jersey Supreme
Court to review and declare unconstitutional a prec-
edent case that relied upon a holding that abortion
in New Jersey was unattainable; redefined the scope
of the Bergen County Sunday Blue Laws (Mack
Paramus Co v. Paramus), and establishing the cause
of action of accounting malpractice (H. Rosenblum
Inc v. Adler).
Judge Follender was known for his direct forth-
rightness, intellectual honesty, and thorough re-
search. He was a man well-respected and loved by
those who had the honor or privilege to come in
contact with him and he will be sorely missed.
Judge Follender is predeceased by his wife Irma,
and his sisters Judith Aisenstock and Sonia Avis, as
well as his parents. He is survived by his three lov-
ing children: Jonathan Follender, Big Indian, NY;
Mark (Caryn) Follender, Ridgewood, NJ; and Nan-
cy Follender (Curt Buckler), Edgewater, NJ; and his
grandchildren, Hannah, Alecsa, and Emma. Fu-
neral services were on Thursday July 20 at Gutter-
man & Musicant in Hackensack. The family will sit
Shiva through Wednesday morning July 26. Details
to be found at www.guttermanandmusicant.com.
Donations in his memory may be made to Boys
Town Jerusalem at the following link: https://www.
boystownjerusalem.org/donate.php
ally of Adolf Hitler, as an exceptional statesman.
Netanyahus visit to Hungary, the first official trip to
the country by a sitting Israeli prime minister in 30
years, comes amid controversy surrounding the Hun-
garian governments campaign against Hungarian-
born Jewish billionaire George Soros.
Israeli critics of Netanyahu have said he has not gone
far enough to pressure Orban to end his campaign
against Soros, which many view as anti-Semitic. Post-
ers featuring a grinning Soros had been displayed in
the countrys streets, captioned, Lets not let Soros
have the last laugh. Netanyahu has long been a critic
of Soros, who funds anti-Israel causes.
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Michael Alter
Michael Alter, 67, of Closter, died July 15.
Born in Israel, he owned real estate and was a
member of Chabad of Tenafly.
He is survived by his wife, Rivka, ne Gorin;
daughters, Sharon and Dana of Closter; sons, Ilan
and Yoav of Israel; and six grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Daniel Beer
Daniel Beer, 11, died suddenly on July 10. He enjoyed
tennis, swimming, piano, basketball, soccer, and
video games.
His parents, Jill and Sam Beer; a brother, Ethan;
and grandparents, Sherwin and the late Arlene
Baumgarten, and Laura and the late Benjamin Beer
survive him. He was the nephew of Keith and Rina
Baumgarten, Evan and Lisa Baumgarten, Amy Beth,
Jonathan, and Rena Baumgarten, and Gloria Beer,
and cousin to their children.
Donations should be made to a charity benefitting
children. Arrangements were by Hellman Memorial
Chapel, Spring Valley, N.Y.; services were on July 12 at
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Marion Buchwalter
Marion Buchwalter, 91, of Teaneck, formerly of Boca
Raton, Fla., Fort Lee, Woodland Hills, Calif., and New
Rochelle, N.Y., died July 16.
Predeceased by her husband of 67 years, and a
brother, Bernie, she is survived by her children,
Alayne Pick, Naomi Muse (Matt), Barbara Trzaska
(Dennis), and Larry (Susan); grandchildren, Rebecca
Wong ( James), Ben and Nora, Alison, Randall,
Russell, and Daniel; and two great- grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Daniel Goldfarb
Daniel Goldfarb, 92, of Springfield, died July 14.
A U.S. Army World War II veteran serving in
Italy and North Africa, he owned Dans Camera in
Elizabeth for over 50 years until retiring in 2010.
Predeceased by his second wife, Adrienne, he is
survived by his sons, Steven (Debbie) of Wyckoff
and sons, Samuel and Maxwell; Joe (Debbie) of
Springfield and sons, Scott and Eric; Eugene (Denise)
of Whitehouse Station and daughters Hanna and
Jamie; step-son Jeffrey Gross (Paula) of Pennington
and sons, Shane, Aidan, and Ethan; a brother,
Norman Philips (Genie) of Florida; and his first wife,
Claire Mayer of Morristown.
Donations can be sent to Autism Speaks.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel in Paramus.
Martin Kritzer
Martin Leonard Kritzer, 95, of North Palm Beach,
Fla., died July 14.
He was a member of the Nassau Yacht Club in
Freeport, N.Y., and was recognized by the Jewelry
Industry of New York as its Man of the Year.
He is survived by his wife of 72 years Lynn
(Evelyn); daughters, Carol Shalom (Alan), and
Ann Kritzer; grandchildren Kevin Kirstein, Karen
Bergman (Ryan), and Logan Badin; and three
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to cancer research, or
the Heart or Kidney foundations. Arrangements
were by Gutterman Musicant Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.

Gertrude Lorch
Gertrude Trude Lorch, 94, formerly of Bergenfield, and
Delray Beach, Fla., died July 16.
A Holocaust survivor, she was predeceased by her
husband, Arthur in 1992, and is survived by children, Carol
Willner (Harold), Dr. Warren (Harriet), and Judy Bromberg
(Dr. Steven); grandchildren, Michelle Wickwire (Brian),
Jeffrey Willner (Tracy), Evan Lorch (Allison), Rachael
Lissman (David), Lisa Bromberg and Dr. David Bromberg;
and nine great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Stein Assisted Living in
Somerset. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel in Paramus.
Dr. Irwin Rosentover
Dr. Irwin F. Rosentover, 78, of Wayne, formerly of Passaic,
died July 11.
He earned a masters from William Paterson University
and an EdD from Rutgers University. He was a guidance
counselor at Westwood Regional High School, president of
the Bergen County Professional Guidance Association, and a
former member of Congregation Shomrei Torah in Wayne.
Predeceased by a sister, Sue Ann Pine, he is survived by
Golda Greenbaum
March 31, 1924 - July 16, 2017
Goldie Bubbe Greenbaum,
died peacefully surrounded by
her loving family. Goldie met and
married her husband, Baruch, as
refugees in a Displaced Persons
camp in Germany after WWII.
Having arrived in the U.S.
in 1951, she and her beloved
husband built a life filled with family, dedication to
community as an exemplary volunteer, and a love
for Judaism. For those who knew her well, she was
a dynamic force in life.
She is survived by her children, Susan Greenbaum,
and Maurice & Pearl Greenbaum, 5 grandchildren,
5 great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Her funeral service was on July 18 at Maple Hill
Cemetery in Peabody, MA.
Donations in Goldies memory can be made to
Jewish Family & Childrens Services, 1485 Teaneck
Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666.
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his wife of 53 years, Arlene, ne Kursch; a son, Todd (Alycia
Weinberger) of Maryland; and two grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center or St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, The staff of the Jewish Standard
Fair Lawn. extends its sincere sympathy to
Bessie Scholack Susan Greenbaum,
Bessie Scholack, ne Cleiff, 102, of Paterson and Clifton, died JFCS executive director,
July 10.
on the death of her beloved mother,
Predeceased by her husband, Meyer, she is survived
by children, Joel (Sheila) of Hackensack, and Ann
Sternberger (Marc) of Clifton; four grandchildren; and three
Goldie Greenbaum.
great-grandchildren.
May her memory be a blessing.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Paulyn Cohen
Paulyn Cohen, born Nov. 4, 1932 of Monroe
Judge David B. Follender Township, died on July 1, 2017. She is survived
by sons, Richard and Jonathan Cohen, daughter,
Boys Town Jerusalem mourns the passing of a Judi Oshinsky, and their spouses; and a brother,
most valued member of our extended family. Eli Lesser. She was a loving grandmother to 12
Judge Follender was an ardent Zionist, who, grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. She
together with his late wife Irma, assumed key grew up in New York City before moving to
roles in UJA, JNF, ADL and Israel Bonds. The
Follenders support of Boys Town goes back to
Teaneck in 1955.
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Festival organizers in Krakow ask:

Who speaks for Jewish culture?
Penny Schwartz

KRAKOW, Poland For four days this

summer, a trio of artists and performers
dressed in rabbinical-looking garb took
turns sitting at a table behind an open air
booth, hawking good luck to passers-by
alongside a bustling street in the heart of
Kazimierz, this citys lively Jewish quarter.
Playing the character of the Lucky
Jew, the actor sat at a desk laden with an
accounting ledger, an old-fashioned ink-
well and a quill pen in a small theatrical set
designed to resemble a picture frame. The
scene mimicked a Polish folk painting that
shows a traditional-looking Jewish man in
a similar pose; that painting is widely pop-
ular in post-Holocaust Poland.
With wry humor, warm conversation,
and theatrics, Jason Francisco, Michael
Rubenfeld, and Menachem Kaiser brought
the mythical image to life, offering good
fortune in exchange for a few Polish zlo-
tys. Their street performance both poked
fun at the stereotypical trope of Jews as
money handlers while provoking serious
questions about the lingering attraction
of Polish folk figurines of archetypal Jews.
Are they anti-Semitic, or are they, as some
Poles argue, a form of respect for Jews?
The performance aims to create a The scene at Shalom on Seroka Street, the free concert after Shabbat at the festival.
meaningful interaction not with a Jewish
stereotype, rather a real living Jew made acknowledges the wealth of programs
approachable through a play on a stereo- offered at the main Krakow Jewish Culture
type, Francisco, a photographer, artist, Festival and by the JCC and Galicia Jewish
and essayist, explains on his website. Museum.
The performance of Lucky Jews made But the organizers of Festivalt envision
its debut as part of the inaugural Festivalt, their programming as an alternative stage
a series of site-specific artistic and theat- that pushes the boundaries with challeng-
rical events created by Rubenfeld, Fran- ing and edgier fare meant to comple-
cisco, and several other Krakow-based ment, not compete with, the cultural
international artists and performers. Cel- festival.
ebrations of Jewish culture, like the ubiqui- In addition to Lucky Jews, Festivalt
tous figurines, are familiar in Poland. Festi- included programs from a queer arts col-
valt coincided with the 27th Krakow Jewish lective, a mild-mannered street action that
Culture Festival, a hugely popular nine-day took aim at how a one-time synagogue
Jewish music and arts extravaganza that building now is rented out as a pub and
attracted an estimated 30,000 visitors and disco, and a production of We Keep Com-
residents to this splendid medieval city. ing Back, an engaging multimedia play by
But theres an irony to the success of the
main festival, noted Jonathan Ornstein, Janusz Makuch is the founder and
executive director of the Jewish Commu- director of the Krakow Jewish Culture Shye Ben-Tzur and the Rajasthan Express perform at this years Krakow Jewish
nity Center of Krakow. Non-Jews created Festival. Culture Festival. photos by michal Ramuz/Krakow Jewish Culture Festival

and led an event that helped rekindle

Jewish life in Krakow. The festivals unex-
pected success raises the question of who
speaks for Jewish culture.
These are complicated issues, Orn-
stein said.
Confronting those complex questions
through the arts is precisely the reason
behind Festivalt, according to Rubenfeld
and his partners, who also include writer
Maia Ipp and designer Magda Ruben-
feld Koralewska. Rubenfeld, who now
makes his home in Krakow and Canada,
Rubenfeld. The play traces the real-life
journey Rubenfeld made with his mother
to the Polish towns where her Holocaust-
survivor parents once lived.
We did not see a space that placed a
specific focus on presenting art that had a
critical voice, Rubenfeld said of the main
festival in an email. This is something we
had all been doing one way or another
and felt this was the right year to come
together to start something new.
They also were interested in featuring
the work of Polish-Jewish artists and other
Jewish artists from around the world.
Still, the influence of the Krakow Jewish
Culture Festival cannot be discounted.
In the nearly three decades since stag-
ing its first summer concerts featuring
klezmer bands, the festival has evolved
from a quirky, bold, and even maverick
idea to one of the most respected and
popular summer festivals in Europe. At the
time Janusz Makuch launched the festival
in 1988, many Jews thought of Poland only
through the lens of the Holocaust and the
Nazi death camps of Auschwitz, some 40
miles from Krakow.
Makuch, who is not Jewish, had a vision
to counter that prevailing perspective
through music and the arts that reflected
centuries of Jewish presence in Poland
rather than its absence.
You can draw a straight line between
the Jewish Culture Festival and the rebirth
of this 700-year-old Jewish community [in
See FESTIVAL page 46

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Eryn London
from page 7
is real. Yeshivat Maharat graduated five women this year,
and each is free to choose her own title rabbi, rabba,
rabbanit, or even the never-popular maharat. Im still
figuring out which one to use, Rabba London said. I
think it will be either Rabba or Rabbi, depending on the
situation. I will use the title rabbi at the hospital, and I
will introduce myself with that title if I have to use a title.
Thats because everyone understands it.
On the other hand, in some circles its very con-
troversial. And if I go back to Israel, I will go by rabba,
because rabbi is not a Hebrew word.
So why did Rabba London choose the path she
took? It just made sense, she said. Its something
that people have been either joking with me about or
asking me seriously about for as long as I can remem-
ber. When I was younger, I said, Guys, that cant
happen. But my friends said, Dont worry. Youll
figure a way out.
And when I was writing my dissertation in Lon-
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doing and had done community building and lead-
ership and teaching Torah and pastoral care. I put
them all together, and put them into one job, and
thats what a rabbi does.
Her parents, Henry and Fran, have been very sup-
portive, and I am lucky to have them, she continued.
Her path isnt always the easiest path to choose, and
knowing that my parents are going to be there for me
means that I am very lucky.
She also has three siblings, she added; her brother
Uri lives in Baltimore, her brother Torrey is in Israel,
and her sister, Gabee, lives in Teaneck.
And why did she decide to stay in the Orthodox
world? I am aware that there are communities that
wont accept me, and thats okay, she said. There
are some people I will never win that argument with.
I am not trying to work in those communities, and
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I am not trying to push my agenda on anyone else.
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ies in Jerusalem, the two flagship Conservative/
Masorti rabbinical seminaries. Those are amazing
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Festival
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The theme for this years festi-
val was Jerusalem, a nod to the 50th
anniversary of the unification of the
city following the 1967 Six-Day War. It
featured more than 200 events, con-
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even more significant. The JCCs programs showcase Jew-
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