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Nils Lofgren, left, on stage with Bruce Springsteen.
Springsteen’s guitarist
saved by an old bar mitzvah gift
l Bruce Springsteen’s longtime guitarist Nils Lofgren
found himself in a pickle last week. Just hours before
a sold-out solo show in Dallas, he discovered that his
four vintage guitars had been stolen.
Lofgren, who also has toured with Neil Young and
Ringo Starr, tweeted that he was “devastated” by
the robbery, but he promised fans that the show
would go on.
Thankfully the search for a replacement didn’t take
too long. Lofgren remembered that his old friend How-
ard Kweller — now a doctor, formerly Lofgren’s band-
mate in middle school — lives in north Texas. A little
more than two decades ago, Lofgren gave Kweller’s
son Ben a guitar for his bar mitzvah. Ben Kweller —
who is a noted indie rocker himself — was more than
happy to let Lofgren borrow the old bar mitzvah gift.
“Nils knows that guitar and he’s played it before,”
Howard Kweller told CBS DFW. “He’s the ultimate per-
former. I have no doubt he’ll have an amazing show.”
Ben Kweller has talked about his Jewish identity,
notably to the UK’s Jewish Telegraph in 2004. He said
that his family was the only Jewish one in Greenville,
Texas, where he grew up, and that he became friends
with his local rabbi.
“Being a Jew in a small town helped me form my
identity,” he told Mike Cohen. “I am proud to be Jewish.”
On his 2002 song “Lizzy,” Kweller sings the Hebrew
word “Dayenu” (“it would have been enough”), and
his son’s middle name is Zev, or wolf in Hebrew. (Ben’s
Eight crazy fire hazards
l Light one candle, and you
might burn the house down.
That’s the conclusion drawn
by the U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission, which deter-
mined last month that a novelty
Golden State Warriors Chanuk-
kah menorah poses a fire hazard
and should be thrown away.
Some 1,800 menorahs were handed out last December on Jewish Heritage
Night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. According to the CPSC alert, the
glue holding the orange basketball-shaped candleholders to the frame could
melt under the heat of a flame, “causing the candleholders and lit candles to
fall off, posing fire and burn hazards.”
While technically dubbed a recall, the CPSC announcement urges those in
possession of the menorahs to dispose of them.
Dan Pine/The Jewish News of Northern California
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Does Google know
your hummus taste?
l Google Israel has announced an application that
Kevin Winter/Getty Images detects what kind of hummus its customers enjoy.
“We’re extremely excited to share with you our
latest Google Cloud groundbreaking technology:
After enabling our customers to address senses
through Speech & Vision API, we are now releas-
ing a subset of Taste APIs starting with a dish we
all love — Hummus!” the YouTube video tells us.
It was released on April 1.
The video purports to show how Google re-
searchers came up with the a “taste stick” to de-
termine the variety of hummus that Israelis would
most enjoy based on an analysis of their taste
buds, and then pinpoint a local hummus restau-
rant, one of 20,000 in the country, that serves the
appropriate variety of hummus.
One woman who speaks in the video said she did
not feel Israeli enough because she had not been
able to find a hummus she enjoyed before she used
the Hummus API technology. Another praises the
API for helping her find a spicy hummus.
Even Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai gets in on the
act, saying that his city is a “culinary and techno-
logical center which embraces smart, innovative
new ideas. Therefore, it was natural for us to in-
tegrate the great hummus API in our city. People
find the hummus they need easier, they are hap-
pier, the hummus industry is blooming.”
Other Google videos released on April 1 — April
Fools’ Day — include a Where’s Waldo for Google
Maps, the “Bad Joke Detector” that clears space
on your phone by deleting all the bad jokes sent
From left: Ben Kweller, Niles Lofgren, a Kweller to you by family and friends, and a redesign of
granddaughter, and Dr. Howard Kweller. Google in Australia called Googz. JTA Wire Service
middle name is Lev, or heart in Hebrew.)
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The following VALENCIA, 33, Baltimore, the brains of dead
Jewish players first base/outfield. The people. She has access to
were on a major much-traveled Valencia these brains by working
league roster as of had an okay 2017 season at the medical examiner’s
opening day, 2018: with Seattle. A free office. As a bonus, her
RICHARD BLEIER, 30, agent, he was signed by diet allows Liz briefly to
Baltimore, relief pitcher. Baltimore and earned a take in some things that
He appeared in 23 games spot with the club in the dead knew. So she
with the Yankees in 2016 spring training. ZACH helps solve murders.
and pitched well but was WEISS, 25, Cincinnati, Bloom plays a murdered
in the minors last year. relief pitcher. This rookie actress.
RYAN BRAUN, 34, came back from surgery You should really check
Milwaukee, outfielder/ on his elbow late in 2016. out the new now-stream-
first base. This six-time Richard Bleier Ryan Braun Ike Barinoltz ing HBO documentary
All-Star and National At the movies about the late playwright
League MVP (2011) had a “Blockers,” which ARTHUR MILLER. How-
decent 2017 season, opens on April 6, ever, since it’s Passover, I
during which he hit his is a light, quite will relate one anecdote
300th home run. ALEX raunchy comedy. Basic appropriately NOT in the
BREGMAN, 24, Houston, plot: when three parents film. The late TONY RAN-
shortstop. Bregman had stumble upon their DALL loved to tell this
a very good 2017 season, daughters’ pact to lose story on talk shows, while
hitting especially well in their virginity at the admitting it was probably
the second half. He prom, they launch a made up. When MARILYN
turned in a stellar covert one-night opera- MONROE, who was fa-
performance in the tion to stop the teens mously married to Miller,
World Series, which the from sealing the deal. IKE first was served matzah-
Astros won. IAN KIN- BARINOLTZ, 41, plays the ball soup, she said: “What
SLER, 35, Los Angeles father of Sam, one of the Gina Gershon Taika Waititi Rachel Bloom do they do with the other
Angels, second base. three pact daughters. parts of the matzah?” In
Kinsler, a four-time The daughters are played for GINA GERSHON, 55, any film he wants. First, has ever had. a related Pesach vein, I
All-Star, had a weak bat by three relative un- in a particularly raunchy he made several films recently stumbled on a
in 2017 and was traded knowns, including subplot. in New Zealand — com- TV news and a little
2006 Jay Leno/Robin
from Detroit to the GIDEON ADLON, 20, as SCARLETT JOHANS- edies and dramas — that holiday humor Williams interview. They
Angels in the off-season. Sam. This is Adlon’s first SON, 33, reportedly has had one thing in com- RACHEL BLOOM, discussed the dangers
JOC PEDERSON, 25, Los big part. She is the signed to play a non- mon: they made money 30, the star of the of giving your kid an
Angeles Dodgers, daughter of actress/ Jewish German woman and also were critical CW series “My unusual name. Williams
outfielder. Always a writer PAMELA ADLON, who is hiding a Jewish hits. So he was tapped to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” will provided this example,
streak hitter, Pederson 51. Pamela had three girl in her home. Things direct “Thor Raganorok” guest-star on the CW “GWYNETH PALTROW
saved his major league daughters, including turn dicey when her son, (2017), a big-budget horror/detective show named her baby Moses,
career with a great Gideon, with her ex-hus- a Hitler Youth member, Hollywood flick. It was a “IZombie.” Her episode which means every few
performance in the band, director Percy discovers her secret. monster box-office and will air first on Monday, years he has to go to
playoffs and World Adlon, and raised them The film is directed by critical hit. His name is April 8, at 9 p.m. This Israel and say, “‘Okay
Series. KEVIN PILLAR, mostly alone. She turned New Zealander TAIKA pronounced TIE-CO WA- series has a very strange everybody, out of the
29, outfielder, Toronto. her experience as a very WAITITI, 42. Waititi, the TEE-TEE. Say that name premise, even for a water.’” (Paltrow really
Pillar had a very good busy single mother into son of a Jewish mother aloud a few times — sort zombie film or movie. has a son named MOSES,
hitting season in 2017, the hit FX series “Better and a Maori (native of chant it, Hawaiian The main character, Liz, is now 12, and boy do I miss
with a career high 16 Things.” Gideon looks a Polynesian) father, has style. It’s among the cool- a zombie, but maintains Robin Williams.)
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Hadassah Lieberman’s story
Daughter of survivors tells how her family
went from death camps to the U.S. Senate
JOANNE PALMER It’s an issue she knows firsthand. the point, which was very strong, that we

H
adassah Freilich Lieberman is
the daughter of survivors.
She is the Prague-born wife
of a retired United States sen-
ator who became the first Jewish vice pres-
idential candidate (that’s former senator
Joseph Lieberman, first Democrat, then
Independent, from Connecticut); she is
the mother of two children, one of whom
is a rabbi revolutionizing Jewish egalitar-
ian intellectually focused learning (that’s
Rabbi Ethan Tucker of Hadar), and the
stepmother of two children, and she also is
a powerhouse of charisma, charm, social
advocacy, and professionalism.
She’s also a frequent speaker on issues of
American Jewish life, particularly the Holo-
caust and its effects on the next generations.
She will be speaking at the Jewish Feder-
ation of Northern New Jersey’s Holocaust
commemoration in Fair Lawn on Wednes-
day. (See box.)
“I am a representative of the Shoah’s
next generation,” Ms. Lieberman said.
“My parents were survivors, my mother of
Auschwitz and Dachau — she was liberated
from Dachau — and my father from slave
labor camps.
“I really have no bigger message than that
I come to talk as a person who is a daugh-
ter of survivors, and who wonders how we
can pass things on,” she said. “I was talking
to my machetuniste, Ruth Wisse” — that’s
Dr. Ruth Wisse of Harvard, the mother of
Hadassah’s stepdaughter Rebecca Lieber-
man’s husband, Jacob Wisse — “who was
speaking about her memories. She made
as Jews have always had difficult memo-
ries, hard things to remember, and that we
have simultaneously stood up and flown,
with our wings, despite how low we have
been on so many occasions.
“What I want to talk about, what is so
important to me to talk about, is that my
mother survived the worst of horrors. I
found a diary after she died in 1970, telling
me that she could write only a few pages, Hadassah Freilich Lieberman
and therefore prayed that her children
could tell more of the story. not striking in his or her own way, she
“We” — that’s Ms. Lieberman and her asked.) “We must remember, repeat, and
brother, Ary Freilich, who lived in Tenafly listen. And at the same time, we have chil-
until a few years ago and continues to be dren and grandchildren, and we have to
active in local Jewish institutions — “had move forward with memory and strength.
striking parents.” But their obligations are And now we are very lucky because we
the same as those all children of survivors have the state of Israel.
confront. (And really, which survivor was SEE LIEBERMAN PAGE 8

Days of darkness, years of light

Israeli artist’s memories of German labor camps
are on display at Holocaust commemoration
JOANNE PALMER
Shmuel Leitner always wanted to be an artist.
It seems that one of the truths of the Holocaust is that
even as people were tortured and demeaned and dehu-
manized, robbed of love and hope, sometimes they
were able to hold onto shattered bits of the people they
had been. Sometimes they used those shards to slash
an escape, or to cut calluses from their hearts once they
were liberated.
Shmuel Leitner always wanted to be an artist. Eventu-
ally, he succeeded; some of his work will be on display
at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Holo-
caust commemoration on Wednesday night. (See box.)
Mr. Leitner was born in 1925 in Bendjin, Poland, to a
secular family, “integrated into Polish life,” as his daugh-
ter-in-law Ruth Leitner said.
“His father was a barber, the family had been barbers
for generations, and the center of their lives was the
barber shop. Shmuel had a brother, Felix, who was four
years younger. Shmuel was supposed to be a barber –
but the Holocaust happened.”
Mr. Leitner was not sent to a death camp or a concen-
tration camp. Instead, he “was sent to seven different
labor camps, starting when he was 16 years old,” Ms.
Leitner said. All of them were in Germany.
“He was talented as a draftsman, and the Germans
used his skills to make roads. He claims that what saved
his life was these skills.” How did the Germans know that
he could sketch? “He doesn’t know,” his daughter-in-law
said. “But he knows that it saved his life.”
He kept drawing, from camp to camp to camp.
“There were no pencils and no paper, and no drawing
boards, so he drew with the little stubs of pencil that
he could find, and on scraps of paper.” Those scraps —
most of them lost and recreated by memory — make up
“Days of Darkness 1938-1945,” Mr. Leitner’s book.
Mr. Leitner was liberated in 1945. “He went back to
his town and he found that there was nobody there.
There were no Jews left. And nobody who was there
knew anything about his family.”
He had been a Zionist before the war, so he tried to
get to Palestine by ship, but the British stopped the ship,
called “Lanegev,” and sent its passengers to detention
in Cyprus. He waited from 1946 to 1948. While he was
there, he studied art with a famous Israeli artist, Naftali
Bezem, who also was detained there. He met his wife,
Miriam, who was born in the town of Auschwitz and
had been imprisoned in concentration camps, and they Shmuel Leitner’s rendering of the entrance to
married there. In 1948, the Leitners got to Israel, where Auschwitz and the thousands of slave laborers.
they remarried; the next year, their only child, Ruth’s
husband Gaby, was born. after it was created — until the 1970s, it welcomed large
The Leitners were among the founders of Kibbutz numbers of Argentinian immigrants, who changed and
Gazit in the northern Galilee. Although Miriam -- who also strengthened it.
had been weakened by her ordeal by torture at the Like so many survivors then, “those Polish survivors
Nazis’ hands, never fully regained her health -- has died, never spoke a word about their experiences when they
Shmuel still belongs to the kibbutz, and Gaby was the arrived in ’48 and ’49,” Ms. Leitner said. “They had one
kibbutz’s first child. goal – to regain stability and a healthy family. Gaby
Gazit’s founders were almost all survivors from never heard a word about the Holocaust growing up.”
Poland, Ms. Leitner said, but from the 1950s — soon SEE DARKNESS PAGE 8

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Lieberman
FROM PAGE 6
“My husband and I just recently went
back to Ukraine — he is on the board of
Babi Yar — since both of our ancestors
are from that area,” she said. “There
were no Jews left. I really wanted to get
out of there quickly.
“As Jews, I don’t even want to have
memories of the town that marked our
families’ exodus from those areas. As
difficult as it is to remember, to go back
to those places — difficult because we
are no longer there, we are in another
place, and we are strong, and we want
to remain strong — we have worked
really hard to maintain that. We want
no part of the societies that have ousted
us. And what comes out of the memo-
ries that we want to pass on to our
children is strength, not weakness.”
Her father, Rabbi Samuel Freilich, was
active in postwar Czechoslovakia, work-
ing with the government to help get Jews
out of the country. “There still was ten-
sion between eastern and western Jews,”
she said — in rough, hugely overgen-
eralized terms, between the more and
less modern, more and less educated,
the ones who had been fairly affluent
until the Nazis struck and the ones who
never had been comfortable. “It always
is sickening to hear about any tensions
between Jews, when you look at how
difficult everything was for Jews,” Ms.
Lieberman said.
Rabbi Freilich had a yeshiva back-
ground; when he got to the United States,
he was ordained at the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary. He took a pulpit in Gard-
ner, Massachusetts. It was an interesting
situation. Rabbi Freilich was Orthodox by
background and early education, Conser-
vative by smicha, and not well versed in
American Jewish life. The shul was nomi-
nally Conservative but that affiliation
wasn’t very deep, and the Jewish commu-
nity was tightknit but small and not Jew-
ishly knowledgeable.
It was a learning experience on both
sides, their daughter reported.
Her mother was an always-elegant
woman, attractive and poised, who taught
Hebrew school and took a leading role in
the shul’s women’s club.
Ms. Lieberman had a happy childhood
but it was not without its challenges.
“Thank God we were where we were,”
she said.
Now, her goal is to ensure that Jews
remember the terrible places where many
of them, including her parents, have
been, while also always remembering to
be grateful for where they find themselves
now. And it’s not an abstraction for Hadas-
sah Lieberman, as the life story she tells to
make that point demonstrates.
Who: Hadassah Lieberman
What: Will give the keynote talk at the
Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey’s annual Holocaust commemo-
ration
Where: At Temple Beth Sholom, 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave., in Fair Lawn
When: On Wednesday, April 11; the art
exhibit begins at 6 p.m., and Hadassah
Lieberman will speak at 6:30.
For more information: Go to www.
tbsfl.org or call either the main number,
(201)797-9321, or Roz Melzer at (201)
791-3463.

Communist, and “they were afraid that if he got pack-

Darkness
FROM PAGE 6
Mr. Leitner taught art on the kibbutz three days a week;
he also worked in the kitchen, “paying his dues,” Ruth
Leitner said. And he became a prolific artist. “He does
amazing ceramics and paintings,” his daughter-in-law
said. “Colorful paintings of nature, and of families.” The
work about the Holocaust came much later. And his expe-
riences have come out only in his art. “I have known him
for more than 50 years, and I have never spoken more
than 10 words to him at a time. He is not communicative
at all – except in his art. It all goes into his art.”
Mr. Leitner knew that his parents had died, and he
believed that his brother had as well. “And then, in 1983,
he found out that his brother was alive and well and
living in Poland, under the assumed name of a Polish
person,” Ms. Leitner said. There was a Polish man living
near the Leitners’ town whose son had died. “He gave
his Polish son’s papers and identity card to Felix Leit-
ner, and Felix became Stefan Something, a Polish boy.”
Felix/Stefan was 11 then, and he became purely Stefan,
a Pole. “He married a Polish woman, and he became a
Polish man with a Polish wife.
For 40 years he lived that way, and then — this was
35 years ago — he came to the kibbutz. He was walking
around, alive and well.”
The two men rediscovered each other, and Shmuel
visited Stefan in Poland. He also sent Stefan packages,
because Poland was very poor then. But it still was
ages from Israel, then Stefan would be discovered as a
Jew. So they sent packages, but through Vienna.”
In 1989, when it was safe, Stefan visited his family in
Israel. “He was a Polish gentleman,” Ms. Leitner said.
“He gave us three kisses on the hand. He didn’t know
any language that we knew, but Gaby’s parents spoke
Polish with him. They were just glowing from the visit.
“And then he went back to Poland, and we never saw
him again, and we know that he died.”
Gaby Leitner went on to earn a doctorate in immunol-
ogy, and become “world-renowned as a scientist,” his
wife said. “This is a guy whose parents never finished
grade school.” They never had that opportunity. But the
Leitners kept their pain from their son and daughter-in-
law, and even when Gaby and Ruth — who is American-
born and has many family members in the United States
— left Israel to study, “they never said anything. They
never tried to influence us to stay.”
But by the time they were grandparents, the Leit-
ners were ready to talk. Their grandchildren all went to
Poland on the March of the Living. “And in the 1990s,
after 40 years, they started telling the stories — and
that’s when Shmuel started creating his Holocaust art.
There are now 17 Leitners; “second, third, and fourth-
generation Holocaust survivors,” Ms. Leitner said. “We
were at the memorial in Berlin, standing over Hitler’s
bunker, and we had the feeling that the Leitner family Mr. Leitner painted a Europe in flames with
beat the Nazis. Literally and figuratively. And that is the bombings and dispossessed populations.
message of the exhibit.”

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Marching for justice in Paris

Teaneck-born rabbi joins protestors marking
the murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll
Joanne Palmer

W
hen Mireille Knoll was
about 7 years old, she
escaped a roundup of
French Jews in Paris;
those Jews who did not escape, including
her family, soon were slaughtered by the
Nazis and their eager allies.
We are told that one of the two young
men who the French police arrested for
her brutal murder — “brutal” might be a
tabloid word, but it is hard to know what
more gentle word could be applied to a
death that involved being stabbed 11 times
and set on fire — knew Ms. Knoll since he
was 7; she was kind to him, we are told.
She was a kind woman, we are told, as
well as chic in the Parisian way that elderly
women can maintain with such apparent
ease in that capital of chic.
She was 85 years old, and in failing
health, when she was killed on March 23.
But she was Jewish, and apparently that
was enough to provoke her murderers,
according to French officials.
It also apparently was enough to pro-
voke an anti-Semitic murderer to kill
Sarah Halimi, a 66-year-old retired physi- Alain Ndigal, left, and Ruth Grammens wrap themselves in Israeli flags at the memorial march in Paris for Mireille Knoll.
cian and kindergarten teacher who lived  Cnaan Liphshiz

a few blocks away from Ms. Knoll, in 2017.

Ms. Halimi was beaten and then thrown off
her balcony, apparently by a young man
who lived in the apartment beneath hers
in Paris’s gentrifying 11th Arrondissement.
It is easy to draw parallels between now
and World War II that are more sweeping
than they should be. Jews were murdered
wholesale by government decree then; now
these murders are more retail, individual,
by killers who apparently are psychotic.
(There is much room for study on the differ-
ences between people made into murderers
by the surrounding culture that encourages
it, and people who are psychotic because
their brains are wired badly.)
And the reaction to the deaths have
been different.
Despite some initial reluctance to label
them, as well as other similar murders
of Jews, as anti-Semitic (and with a very
real need to make sure of the truth of
that claim before making it), the French
government has acknowledged the prob-
lem and denounced it. French politicians
showed up at Ms. Knoll’s funeral, and at
a memorial march and vigil that followed.
There has been a great deal of outrage at
the murder and the anti-Semitism that
seems to lie behind it in France, and its
politicians are reacting.
The Jewish community turned out in
force, and some Jews from outside France
took action as well. Rabbi Avram Mlotek
Rabbi Avram Mlotek
was among them.
Rabbi Mlotek grew up in Teaneck — his
parents, Debra and Zalmen, the artistic
director of the National Yiddish Theatre
— Folksbiene, still live there — and now
is the rabbi of the downtown New York’s
Base Hillel (he and his wife, Yael Kornfeld,
co-founded the growing millennial Jewish
group). He is strongly motivated by the
need for justice, and the competing pulls
of history and the future. “I heard about
the brutal murder, and I just felt called to
go there,” he said, in a phone call from
the airport in Paris last Thursday, the day
before Pesach started, as he waited for his
flight home.
“I had been in New York, I had just come
from a beit din where we had squeezed
in two conversions,” Rabbi Mlotek said.
“And I thought of my grandmother, who is
Ms. Knoll’s age, a Holocaust refugee from
Germany who is living in Connecticut,
my mother’s mother, Miriam Wolkenfeld
Cohen, and I realized that I had to go.
“I called my rabbi, Avi Weiss, who usu-
ally goes on missions like this, but he
and the other rabbis who usually would
do it couldn’t, because it was so close to
This woman, who
was 85 years old,
had escaped the
Nazis 76 years
ago, only to be
murdered in her
own home.
Pesach. But they were all supportive of
me, and Rabbi Weiss connected me to the
head of the chevra kadisha,” the burial
society, “there.
“My wife and I had just spent seven
hours cleaning, and we were going to wel-
come more than 50 young Jews to our
home for the seder, but I hopped on a
plane.” No worries — he got back home in
time to cook and prepare.
“But I met with the organizers of the
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from page 10
rally, and I went to the funeral, and it was
just so powerful.”
The president of France, Emanuel
Macron, was at the funeral. So too were
somewhere between 100 and 200 mourn-
ers, Rabbi Mlotek reported. “I introduced
myself to the officiating rabbi and the fam-
ily after the ceremony,” he said. “She was a
widow and had two sons — I think her hus-
band had been a survivor as well. Both the
sons are married, and one has a daughter
who made aliyah; one of the sons and that
granddaughter spoke.
“I met Macron, and I met the ambassa-
dor from Israel,” he continued. The funeral
was at graveside, “and it was raining, so we
were all stuffed together under the tent.
Right after the ceremony it poured even
more rain, so we were all pushed together
even closer.” Somehow, Rabbi Mlotek
ended up as one of the pallbearers.
“It was unfathomable to me,” he said.
“This woman, who was 85 years old, had
escaped the Nazis 76 years ago, only to be
murdered in her own home.
“We lined up and lowered the aron”
— the casket — “into the grave. It was so
powerful, the chesed shel emet,” the obli-
gation to take care of the dead with tender-
ness and respect, an obligation that by its
nature can never be repaid, at least by its
recipient. “And there were these people,
the president of France, Israel’s ambassa-
dor to France, all the mourners, standing
in the mud and the rain, because before
death everyone is equal.”
Because the Jewish world is so con-
nected, Rabbi Mlotek was able to meet
with other Jews through the inevitable
although often improbable networks
that link just about everyone. “I met
with a local rabbi in Paris,” he said. “It
was crazy.” He had led a group from Base
Hillel to the Women’s March that filled
Manhattan on the Shabbat in January
2016 that immediately followed Donald
Trump’s inauguration, and on that unsea-
sonably warm, oddly hope-filled, day, he
ran into a young French Jewish woman
who was looking for community. She
found it at Base — “she’s coming to us for
seder,” Rabbi Mlotek said — and in return
she connected her mother, still in Paris,
with Rabbi Mlotek, and Rabbi Mlotek got
to meet her rabbi, Tom Cohen of Kehilat
Gesher in Paris, an American expatriate
who is “married to the first woman rabbi
in France,” Pauline Bebe.
Talking to Rabbi Cohen, Rabbi Mlotek
“heard about the vibrant Jewish life in
Paris, juxtaposed with these horrific
attacks.” There has been “a decrease in the
number of anti-Semitic attacks in France,
but those attacks have become more vio-
lent,” he said.
The march and the vigil that followed
attracted many non-Jews, Rabbi Mlotek
said; still, “there must have been 10,000
people there, and the core was Jewish stu-
dents. It was driven by these youths, who
want a different reality, a different France,
a different home.”
It also is important to remember the
reality that Passover is not only an “oppor-
tunity for the Jewish people to remember
the Exodus, and to ponder what freedom
means, but it is also the commemoration of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. I think about
how my children won’t know what a Holo-
caust survivor’s voice sounds like by the
time they grow up.
“Yes, we can talk about how genocide
continues to be perpetrated, and we can
chant ‘never again,’ but now there still are
survivors living. It is a sacred responsibility
to ensure that they can live in peace during
their last years on this earth.
“The parallel to Passover is almost over-
whelming. We say that in every genera-
tion they rise up against us to annihilate
us. This is nothing new. There are pha-
raohs and there is Hitler. They have much
in common. Anti-Semitism is a plague like
any other plague, like racism or misogyny
or homophobia. It is our responsibility to
combat anti-Semitism by raising awareness
and holding the bigot accountable, and it
is also our responsibility to try to build a
world of compassion and love.
“It is that responsibility that brought me
to Paris.”

Paris vigil for murdered survivor brings together

family, politicians, and Muslim rescuer of Jews
Cnaan Liphshiz
French Jews mourning a Holocaust survivor murdered
in her Paris apartment welcomed the presence of
France’s interior minister, Gérard Collomb, at a vigil in
her memory.
“We appreciate authorities’ swift action for justice
and continued support,” Joel Mergui, the president of
a Jewish group, the Consistoire, said last week during a
vigil at the Tournelles Synagogue in Paris in memory of
Mireille Knoll.
Prosecutors said she was murdered, partly because
she was Jewish, by a Muslim neighbor and an accom-
plice. Knoll’s son Daniel eulogized his mother before an
audience of hundreds at the vigil.
Earlier that day, President Emmanuel Macron
attended Knoll’s funeral, where he embraced one of her
children and vowed to fight anti-Semitism.
But for many Jews at the vigil, which followed a memo-
rial march through Paris, Collomb’s presence seemed
secondary in importance to that of a young African Mus-
lim man who unceremoniously entered the synagogue
and sat in the back row. Within minutes, all eyes were
on the man — Lassana Bathily, a 27-year-old from Mali
whom many consider a hero because he hid a dozen
people from the jihadist who killed four Jews at a kosher
store in 2015.
After the vigil, dozens of people huddled around Bath-
ily — some to hug him, others to shake his hand, and
several to pose for selfies with him.
Some women crossed over from their section of the
synagogue to greet Bathily and thank him for coming,
addressing him in the familiar “tu” pronoun rather than
the “vous” that they normally would use with strangers.
Several people said his presence offers hope amid
growing despair over the proliferation of anti-Semitic
violence and authorities’ apparent inability to stop it.
“The minister is here and Mayor Anne Hidalgo is also
here, and that’s important because their commitment to
the values of the French Republic is imperative for the
survival of Jewish life here,” David Mechal, a Jewish man
from the suburb of Sarcelles, said. “But real change is
not up to them. It’s up to people like Lassana, so it’s mov-
ing to see him with us here, standing with us in solidarity
in our hour of need.”
For Bathily, who has consistently rejected assertions
that he was a hero, attending the vigil was “an act of soli-
darity,” but also a message, he said.
“I want to tell the Jews of France, you are not isolated.
You are not abandoned. This is your country,” said Bath-
ily, who became a French citizen by power of an exec-
utive decree weeks after the bloodbath at the Hyper-
Cacher store in recognition of his role in saving people
from the perpetrator. “Do not leave France, he added.
“Stay here. There are many like me who support you.”
Bathily was among many non-Jews who showed up for
commemoration events in memory of Knoll, whose kill-
ing shocked many Frenchmen because of its brutality —
she was stabbed 11 times before her body was torched —
but also because she survived the 1942 roundup of Jews
by French police working for the Nazis.
Some non-Jews at the march, which had at least
10,000 participants, were holding signs reading “don’t
touch my buddy.” Others, like Alain Ndigal, a 48-year-old
mechanic of African descent, wore Israeli flags.
“I am here to support French Jews, sure, but I’m also
here to support myself and other Frenchmen,” said Ndi-
gal, a devout Christian. “We know by now that what
begins with the Jews never ends with them. We are also
in the crosshairs.”
Notwithstanding, French Jews appeared to have been
the overwhelming majority at the march, despite calls by
organizers of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish
communities for non-Jews to attend.
Marine Le Pen, the far-right politician who CRIF Presi-
dent Francis Kalifat said was not welcome at the rally,
showed up anyway. Dozens of her supporters shouted
“Marine is with us” as others shouted “N for Nazi,” refer-
encing the first letter of her National Front party. French
Jews believe it is a hotbed of anti-Semitism, though she
denies the assertion.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, a far-left politician whom CRIF
said engages in anti-Semitic rhetoric, also showed up
despite being asked not to.
Attendance by non-Jews at commemorative events for
victims of anti-Semitism is a major issue to many French
Jews, who feel their society is more likely to focus on
Islamist violence when it is directed at non-Jews.
“It’s an impressive mobilization, for sure,” Vincent
Cohen said at the march. “But I look around and I see
around me the same people who came to the Hyper-
Cacher vigil, the same people who showed up at the
march for Sarah Halimi.
“I see mostly graying Jews. This place looks like a CRIF
conference and it slightly depresses me.”
Daniel Knoll touched on this point in a highly emo-
tional eulogy he delivered for his mother at the
synagogue.
“I look around and I want to see everyone, not only
Jews, but people of all colors, all faiths, at these events,”
he said.
Referencing how hatred of Israel sometimes morphs
into hatred of Jews in France, he asked: “But why hate
Israel in the first place? It’s a good place, based on jus-
tice. Why hate Israelis? My daughters are Israelis. They
are wonderful, compassionate women.”
Visibly grief-stricken, Daniel Knoll told the crowd that
“he has no answers for those questions,” or the question
with which he concluded his speech: “How do I go on
now, without a mother, with this terrible pain?”
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Anything but robotic

Yeshiva High School team competes for championship — but not on Shabbat
ABIGAIL KLEIN
LEICHMAN

F
or the 14 members of
the Yeshiva University
High School for Boys
rookie robotics team,
winning the New York City cham-
pionship in the FIRST Tech Chal-
lenge absolutely was a dream
come true.
The team — Lionotics 2 — made
history as the first yeshiva high
school team ever to qualify for
the FIRST Tech Challenge East
Region Super-Regional Champi-
onship, held at Scranton Univer-
sity in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Yet the boys’ elation was tem-
pered by a little problem they
already were discussing on the
bus back from their victory
— the next step. The regional
championship would take place
March 16 to 18, with matches
scheduled on Saturday. Shab-
bat. That was out of the ques-
tion for the Orthodox team.
“We weren’t sure we’d even
be able to go,” Lionotics 2 team Lionotics 2 team members, from left, Zack Mankowitz, Hannan Berger, Benny Jacob, Aryeh Greenberg, Netanel Tager, and Elishama
member Zachary Mankowitz of Marmon. Not pictured: Sammy Cohen, Yakov Kagansky, David Kohanchi, Ezra Muskat, GJ Neiman, Dovi Pfeiffer, Akiva Richman, and
Teaneck said. Dov Tuchman. YUHSB

After an initial request to

change the date of the competi-
tion was rejected, YUHSB admin-
istrators and Yeshiva Universi-
ty’s Department of Legal Affairs
worked closely with FIRST rep-
resentatives to reach a resolution
that would enable the team to
participate without compromis-
ing their religious observances.
And so, while other participat-
ing teams played their matches
over the course of the full three-
day event, Lionotics 2 played all
nine of its matches back-to-back
on Sunday in order to avoid des-
ecrating Shabbat.
“Our team worked tirelessly to
advance to this level of the FIRST
Tech Challenge competition,”
Rabbi Joshua Kahn, YUHSB’s
head of school, said. “We are
grateful to FIRST for promoting
cultural diversity and making the
accommodations necessary to
enable our team to compete.”
The team members and
accompanying adults arrived
in Scranton on Friday. “We did
our inspection and talked to
the judges and then said, ‘We’ll
be back on Sunday,’” reported
Aryeh Greenberg, a senior from
Teaneck who captained the
software part of the robotics
team. They spent Shabbat in the
dorm of the Yeshiva of Scranton.
Lionotics 2 won its first match,
but the tight schedule presented
disadvantages for the team,
which had no prior competi-
tion experience. The boys did
not have a lot of time to strate-
gize or make required improve-
ments and repairs to their robot
between matches.
Indeed, issues began to arise
as the day wore on.
“In one match, one of the
robot’s critical components
was smashed by another team’s
robot and bent, and our team
didn’t realize until the next
round when it didn’t work right
due to the rush from match to
match,” Lionotics 2 team mem-
ber Elishama Marmon of Ber-
genfield said. “The robot also
had connectivity issues, and
there were several matches
where it was unresponsive due
to unplugged wires or glitches.”
Ultimately, the yeshiva team
finished 23rd out of 36 teams
in its division. Still, the young
men came away with a positive
feeling.
“Even though we lost, the
experience was really incred-
ible,” Zachary said. “Everyone
was so nice and accommodating
when they found out we had all
nine games in a row. One oppos-
ing team even came and offered
us extra batteries in case ours
died. We were all trying to have
a fun, good time.”
Tom Zawislak and Dave Hack-
ett of Pennsylvania FIRST Robot-
ics, the East Super Regional
hosts, were instrumental in
making arrangements for the
YUHSB team to compete.
“As soon as we met the boys
we knew they had the passion
for robotics, but more impor-
tant, a thirst for learning and
experiencing new challenges,
such as this competition,” the
men said in a statement after
the event.
“We were thrilled to see them
engage with so many other
teams and create fun for them-
selves and share their fun with
others. They truly came ready
to play and were competitive on
the field throughout all of their
matches. Very impressive per-
formance by a rookie team!”
The other local members of
the team were GJ Neiman of Suf-
fern (captain for the hardware
part); Dov Tuchman of Passaic;
and Sammy Cohen, Benny Jacob,
and Netanel Tager of Teaneck.
FIRST (For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and
Technology) was founded in
1989 by inventor/entrepreneur
Dean Kamen. The not-for-profit
public charity offers programs
— including the Tech Challenge
— designed to motivate teams
of middle- and high-school stu-
dents to pursue education and
career opportunities in science,
technology, engineering, and
math (STEM), while building
self-confidence, knowledge, and
life skills.
This year’s Tech Challenge
required the robots to pick up
and stack blocks in “crypto-
boxes” (rails) and also to fetch
a “relic” from a corner of the
12-foot-square playing field and
move it off the field onto a mat
to score points.
Zachary helped work on the
robot’s hardware during weekly
(and sometimes twice-weekly)
after-school sessions, which
started in September. “We
remade the entire robot three
times over,” he said. “It was
hard to get the claws to work
right; we needed two, one for
the blocks and one for the relic.”
Each year the participating
robotics teams must build their
robot specifically to carry out
the tasks assigned by FIRST,
so it isn’t possible to reuse the
previous year’s entry. However,
Aryeh said “next year maybe
they’ll start from the drivetrain
and build up from there.”
He said that FIRST “is a great
organization because it allows
for integration of real-world
use of the STEM skills you learn
in school, like circuitry and
hardware design. I like to see
when my work comes to life
and that’s what robotics lets
you do. Being part of Lionotics
2 reinforced my love for STEM
and computer science.”
With the Super-Re gional
behind them, the boys now are
focusing their efforts on pre-
paring the robot to compete in
the second annual Yeshiva High
School Robotics League compe-
tition next month in Flatbush.

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Flinging Frisbees for peace

Jewish and Arab kids to show ultimate skills in Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON

A group of Israelis and Palestinians will

visit Teaneck on Sunday, as part of an
American trip whose high point is a pil-
grimage to Maplewood.
The high school students are travel-
ing under the aegis of Ultimate Peace, an
organization seeking to bring about Middle
East peace, or at least friendly coexistence,
through the sport of ultimate Frisbee.
It was at Maplewood’s Columbia High
School that the sport of ultimate Frisbee
was invented. That was back in 1968, when
Joel Silver — who would grow up to be a
producer of “The Matrix” and many other
films — brought the idea to the student
council. The game combines the general
principles of soccer — but instead of kick-
ing a ball, players throw a disk. (Please
note that Mr. Silver did not
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it competitive.)
Fifty years later, the World
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ognized by the International
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dozens of national affiliates.
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Emirates. (The United States ultimate Frisbee.
is number one.)
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ethos. Most notably, its play- Happy coexistence is evident during the matches.
ers eschew umpires and ref-
erees, replacing them with negotiated con- make friends, talk, and have fun.”
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It’s within that context that Ultimate to Ultimate Peace: Her son, Scott Graber,
Peace seeks to bring together Jews and has been involved with it for nearly seven
Arabs, girls and boys, from Israel and the years, first as a coach at its summer camp,
West Bank for Frisbee, fun, and friend- and then as a full-time staff member.
ship. Seventeen high school students from Mr. Graber’s Ultimate Frisbee career
Ultimate Peace’s Leaders-in-Training pro- began at Tenafly High School, where he
gram are on a 10-day trip to America that took charge of what had been a pickup
includes stops in Maplewood, Paramus, club and led the team to state tourna-
Brooklyn, and, on Sunday morning, Tem- ments. He was on the school team at Car-
ple Emeth in Teaneck. leton College in Minnesota, and it won its
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Abrams, is a fan of Ultimate Peace. “The He got the call to help Ultimate Peace
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munities in which they work would not to the head of Carleton’s Arabic depart-
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different communities and brings them Graber, who was studying Arabic, and the speaking Latin and they were speaking Palestinians from the West Bank. “There
together for local tournaments and leader- Tenafly native spent the summer in Israel Italian,” he said. “It wasn’t super.” was a big language divide,” he said.
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program culminates each year with a one- He found that two years of college Ara- the group of middle school girls he was next year.
week residential summer camp where the bic was not good preparation for under- assigned — particularly because English was After college, he wanted to keep work-
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BCHSJS name honorees for celebration on April 26

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, Ber-
gen County’s only weekly Hebrew high school, will hold
its annual gala on Thursday, April 26, at Temple Israel
and Jewish Community Center in Ridgewood. Heidi and

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Seth Seigel-Laddy of Fair Lawn, Rabbi David and Alla
Fine of Ridgewood, and Debora Propper Lesnoy of Fair
Lawn are the honorees.
This year’s parent honorees, Heidi and Seth Sei-
gel-Laddy, are active members of the Fair Lawn Jew-
ish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel. Heidi, a BCHSJS
board member, is a member of several shul commit-
tees, while Seth sits on the FLJC/CBI board, is a Men’s
Progress Club past president, and chairs several pro-
grams throughout the year. Their oldest daughter,
Alyssa, graduated from BCHSJS in 2016, and her sib-
lings, Kayla and Spencer, are students there now. “We
are grateful to BCHSJS for enriching and cultivating the
Jewish lives of our children,” Heidi and Seth said. “We
thank BCHSJS for this honor and hope that our partici-
pation will encourage others to get actively involved in
our school and in the Jewish community.”
Rabbi David and Alla Fine will receive the inaugural
Walter Ramsfelder Exemplary Service award, created to
honor the late Walter Ramsfelder, who was on the BCH-
SJS board from 1974 to 2014. David Fine has been the
rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center in
Ridgewood since 2009; he joined the BCHSJS board in
Heidi and Seth Seigel-Laddy Alla and Rabbi David Fine
2011 as a liaison between the school and the community
rabbis. He is now the board treasurer, and he is among
the Bergen County rabbis who teaches at BCHSJS. He
is also president of the New Jersey Rabbinical Assem-
bly, past president of the Ridgewood Interfaith Ministe-
rial Association, secretary of the North Jersey Board of
Rabbis, and an opinion writer for the Jewish Standard.
Alla Fine, a conference and event planner and fund-
raiser, has organized several events for Jewish commu-
nity organizations in Bergen and Westchester counties
and is on the BCHSJS gala committee. At Temple Israel
and JCC, she has coordinated the community seder,
annual karaoke parties, and outings to Russian night-
clubs to share her native culture. The Fines have two
Debora Lesnoy
sons, Laurence, a BCHSJS student, and Ariel, an eighth-
grader at Schechter Westchester.
Debora Propper Lesnoy, a Jewish educator for more
than 35 years, will be recognized as the BCHSJS Edu-
cator of the Year; in 2014, she received the Grinspoon
Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. She is the
director of the Helen Troum Nursery School at Temple
Beth Sholom and has been teaching at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center’s religious school for 19 years. Many of
the students from her seventh-grade classes continue
their Jewish education at BCHSJS. She has five children
and five grandchildren.
For more information on the dinner or to place an ad
in the green journal, go to www.bchsjsdinner.org.

JTS lauds 20 cantors at convocation

The Jewish Theological Sem- Resnick, dean of the Rab- Dr. Ben Chouake,
inary awarded honorary binical School, and Cantor Congressman Ron
doctorates to 20 cantors for Nancy Abramson, director Estes, Susan Estes,
their distinguished service of the H. L. Miller Cantorial and Dr. Munr Kazmir.
to the Jewish community at School and College of Jewish COURTESY NORPAC

a convocation on March 12. Music, sponsored the honor-

All are members of the Can-
tors Assembly. Through the
degrees it conferred, JTS cel-
ebrated the cantors’ achieve-
ments and their contributions Cantor Carey Cohen
to Jewish life.
This is the first time that JTS has awarded
honorary degrees to female cantors.
The ceremony was at Sutton Place Syn-
agogue in Manhattan. Marc Gary, JTS’s
executive vice chancellor and chief oper-
ating officer, presided, and its chancellor,
Professor Arnold M. Eisen, conferred the
degrees and delivered the convocation
address. Rabbi Daniel S. Nevins, dean of
the Division of Religious Leadership, Pearl
ees. There were musical per-
formances throughout the
program.
Cantor Carey Cohen, who
is retired and lives in Hacken-
sack, was among the honor-
ees. He tutors Judaic studies and does bar
Norpac hears Kansas congressman
and bat mitzvah training for Cantor Bar- Last week, the Kazmir family hosted a billion in public funds. Mr. Estes now
bara Lieberstein and her students in Ber- Norpac pro-Israel private dinner for Con- fills the seat vacated by CIA director
gen and Rockland counties. gressman Ron Estes (R-Kan.) in Closter. Mike Pompeo, who has been nominated
For more than 35 years, he served as Ron Estes, a freshman member of the as Secretary of State. He is running for
cantor and educator at Congregation Beth House, sits on the Education and Work- re-election this year.
Israel in Milwaukee, and he was on the force and Homeland Security commit- Join Norpac’s Mission to Washington
board of the Cantors Assembly of America tees. He was elected Kansas state trea- 2018 on April 25. For information, call
and Canada for 20 years. surer in 2010 and re-elected in 2014; (201) 788-5133.
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JWV Post 76 entertains vets at East Orange hospital
Jewish War Veterans Zweiman-Grover Post 76 of North Bergen
recently presented a two-hour, three-act program at the East
Orange Veterans Hospital.
The program included inspirational songs by Marty Rotella;
Peter Cafasso performed a tribute to Frank Sinatra; and New
Celebrating
Israel’s founding
A gala Teaneck-area Orthodox community-
Rishad Patel, wide celebration of Israel’s 70th anniver-
left, with Lewis sary is set for Yom Ha’atzmaut — Wednes-
Feldman, Howard day, April 18 — at 7:15 p.m., at the Jewish
Barmad, Dave Center of Teaneck.
Kronick, Lou The evening begins with Mincha, fol-
Adler, Peter lowed by a Yom Hazikaron presentation
Cafasso, Marty from an Israeli soldier, and Ma’ariv. It
Rotella, Barry continues in the shul’s social hall, which
Weiss, and Tracy will be transformed into a shuk Yisraeli,
and Carol Adler. with Israeli food, music, and experien-
PHOTO PROVIDED tial activities focusing on Israeli culture,
geography, and history. It concludes with
Shirei Eretz Yisrael — classic Israeli folk
songs — in the sanctuary.
Local synagogues sponsoring the cele-
bration include Beth Aaron, Beth Abraham,
Bais Medrash of Bergenfield, Bnai Yeshu-
run, Jewish Center of Teaneck, Keter Torah,
Netivot Shalom, Ohr Hatorah, Ohr Saadya,
Day Dawn Group, featuring Dawn Botti, David Botti, and Elo Rinat Yisrael, Shaare Tefillah, Shaarei Orah,
Hernandez, played rock music. Young Israel, and Zichron Mordechai.
The post commander, David Kronick, thanked its senior vice The event, sponsored by Nathan and
commander, Barry Weiss, for arranging the performance. Shari Lindenbaum, is geared for everyone
in sixth grade or older.

JFNNJ speaker series to open

Sivan Ya’ari, the founder and CEO of Innovation:
Africa, is the guest speaker at Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey’s Israel speaker series on
Thursday, April 12, at 7:15 p.m. A wine and cheese
reception follows. Innovation: Africa so far has trans-
formed more than a million lives as it has provided
villages with Israeli solar, agricultural, and water
. technologies.
Lee Lasher chairs the evening; the committee
includes Martha Cohen, Andrew and Leah Harary, Rob
and Irene Gottesman, and Ronnie and Marc Schlussel.
Jason Gewirtz, who is a CNBC executive producer Sivan Ya’ari
and a writer, and Shai Kivity, an IDF Talpiot officer
from 2007 to 2016, will speak on Thursday, April 19, at 7:15. For more information,
go to www.jfnnj.org/israelspeakers.

Holocaust survivor Sam Bradin addresses the high school students.

Valley Chabad launches fifth year
of its Eternal Flame program
On Sunday, March 25, Valley Chabad’s
Eternal Flame began its fifth year in Wood-
cliff Lake. The teen fellowship program, a
project of Valley Chabad and the George
and Martha Rich Foundation, is for high
school students.
Holocaust survivor Sam Bradin of Suf-
fern, N.Y., who will be 89 next month, was
the guest of honor. He told the story of his
life as a teenager at Auschwitz, including
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the loss of his entire family to the Nazis;
his older brother died just 10 days before
the British liberated his camp. Parents
were invited to join their children for Mr.
Bradin’s talk.
The next Eternal Flame session, on Sun-
day, April 15, will focus on Israel and anti-
Semitism on college campuses.
For information, email Rabbiyosef@
valleychabad.org or call (201) 476-0157.
Teaneck High School to host
commemoration of Holocaust
The Jewish Community Council of
Greater Teaneck will hold its annual
Yom Hashoah observance on Wednes-
day, April 11, at 7:30 p.m., at Teaneck
High School. The keynote speaker is Dr.
Moshe Avital, who survived six concen-
tration camps and eventually was liber-
ated at Buchenwald. Traveling illegally
to Palestine, Dr. Avital fought in Israel’s
wars from 1947 to 1956.
The program will feature vocalist Jon-
athan Rimberg, accompanied by violin-
ist Stephanie Kurtzman and the Yeshivat
Noam Choir. A multigenerational candle-
lighting ceremony, led by Holocaust survi-
vors and their families, will highlight the
ceremony, and the names of Holocaust
victims with ties to the community will
be read.
A pre-observance reception for sur-
vivors and their families will take place
in the high school’s media room, begin-
ning at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be
served and Hebrew and Yiddish music
will be provided by Yitzy Glicksman.
This month, the Teaneck Public
Library will feature a special Holocaust-
inspired exhibit by students of Ma’ayanot
High School for Girls in Teaneck. The
same artwork will be exhibited in Ber-
genfield’s Public Library during May.
For information, go to teaneckyo-
mhashoa.org or call Steve Fox at (201)
362-6776. To attend the reception for
survivors and their families, call Annette
Prager, (201) 638-5621.

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Three generations of the

Rak family, Noah Rak,
Sam Rak, and Miriam
Rak, light a candle at
last year’s Holocaust
commemoration.
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Woodcliff Lake marks the Holocaust
The Sisterhood of Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley and Pascack Valley/North-
ern Valley Hadassah will hold the annual
community Holocaust commemoration on
Wednesday, April 11, at Temple Emanuel in
Woodcliff Lake, at 7:30 p.m.
The evening incudes a candlelighting
ceremony that honors survivors, their
children, and the grandchildren. Diana Ros-
ner and Ronnie Silver are event co-chairs.
Erwin Ganz, the speaker, will talk about
growing up in Nazi Germany, before, dur-
ing, and after Kristallnacht. He emigrated
to the United States with his family when
he was 9 and settled in Newark.
For information, call (201) 391-0801.
Yeshivat He’Atid third-graders, from left, Aaron Hartstein,
Eitan Toledano, Noam Toledano, Benjamin Sichel, Tani
Fleischmann, Nathan Sichel, Eli Benzel, Lily Mezei, Yoni
Toledano, and Levi Mezei made a significant contribu-
tion to the Mega Food Drive. They put up posters at the
school, and Benjamin Sichel emailed his classmates to put
their chametz to good use by donating to Bergen County
food pantries. The students packed supplies for the pan-
tries, including the newly opened one in Fair Lawn.

Ron Rosensweig, Susan Benkel, Simone Wilker, Assemblywoman Vicki Monaloy, Linda Cohen, Jane Levine, Lori Daugh-
Holly Schepisi, JCRC chair Bruce Brafman, JCRC director Ariella erty, and Sheila Packer of the Jersey Hills section of the
Noveck, and government relations chair Stan Goodman. National Council of Jewish Women sorted and packed
food to benefit northern New Jersey food pantries.

JFNNJ food drive a ‘mega’ success

Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey held a community-wide March Mega
Food Drive on Sunday, March 25 to benefit five northern New Jersey food pantries
whose stock often is low this time of year.

Teaneck shul invites rabbi

Bruce Brafman, Ariella Noveck, Susan Benkel, State Senator Gerald
Cardinale, Stan Goodman, and Simone Wilker. PHOTOS PROVIDED
Legislative Advocacy Day
features two lawmakers
The Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey held its monthly Legislative Advocacy Day on March 28, meeting with
New Jersey Senator Gerald Cardinale and Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi, both
Republicans from Legislative District 39.
For information on the April Legislative Advocacy Day, email Ariella Noveck at
ariellan@jfnnj.org.
as weekend scholar-in-residence
Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler of the Ohel Nechama community
Synagogue in Jerusalem is the scholar-in-residence at Con-
gregation Rinat Yisrael, in Teaneck, beginning Friday, April
13. After Mincha at 7 p.m., he will give a brief dvar halacha.
Shabbat morning, there will be a drasha at both the 8:30
and 9 a.m. minyans. At 6 p.m., there will be a “Mimamakim”
shiur to honor Yom Hashoah. After Mincha at 7, Rabbi Adler
will discuss “Rambam’s Enigmatic Position on Yishuv Eretz
Yisrael.” There will be a kumsitz at the shul at 9:30, with “Al
Eileh Ani Bochi’ya,” songs for fallen soldiers. The weekend
ends with a Sunday morning shiur, “Kol Dodi Dofek Revis- Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler
ited,” at 8:45 a.m. The shul is at 389 West Englewood Ave.
For information, call (201) 837-2795.

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 Below, Israel Story’s core team:
Hannah Barg, Yochai Maital, Shai
Satran, Mishy Harman, Zev Levi,
Yuli Shiloach, and Maya Kosover.
Right, Peter Fogel, Hannah Barg,
Ari Wenig, and Mishy Harman stand
on Tell El Ful, the subject of the
episode called “King of the Hill.”
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JOANNE PALMER
eople love stories.
There seems to be a primal urge
toward stories; the desire, the need to
know what happens next just propels
us forward.
Stories can be disarming. They’re
so much more personal than speeches
or position paper or rants or talking
points. They can allow you, the reader or listener, to meet
someone, a person, with a history and parents and a birth-
place and a set of physical and emotional characteristics,
and to react to that person. They can go around or under-
neath or blithely above people’s usual defenses.
The Israel Story does that.
It’s a radio show that became also a podcast that
became also a live show — that live incarnation will be at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades later this month, spon-
sored by Congregation Beth Sholom of Teaneck (see box)
— and it tells stories from Israel. Not, despite its name,
THE Israel story; there is no one Israel story, its founders
would tell you. No, there are many stories in Israel, each
authentically Israeli.
And, they say, their work is not at all political. The show
is deeply smart, but it is apolitical.
“We position ourselves very carefully in that regard,”
Mishy Harman, one of the show’s four founders, said.
“Israel Story really was kind of born out of the realization
that there were these meta narratives about Israel. The
first one was the news narrative — Israel is a place of vio-
lence and conflict and Bibi and Iran. The other narrative
was classic Israel advocacy, hasbara — look at how homo-
sexuals love living in Tel Aviv! Look at how many Israeli
companies there are on the Nasdaq! Look at Israelis saving
people in Haiti and Nepal.”
It’s not that neither of these narratives are true. They’re
all true. But “having all spent time abroad, we all felt that
neither of those narratives was capturing the real com-
plexity of what was going on. And it wasn’t engaging
people — or at least it was engaging only the people who
would be engaged anyway.
“The majority of young people, the Jews I went to col-
lege with” — Dr. Harman, 34, graduated from Harvard in
2008, after three years in the IDF — “were Jew-ish. Those

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are the American Jews who found it increasingly hard to
reconcile their interest in Israel or engagement in Israel
with their general world view and their politics.
“It’s hard enough for a lot of Israelis,” he added.
“So these young Americans don’t have their parents’,
or even more their grandparents’, emotional attachment
to Israel, and as a result they just weren’t inter-
ested. So we thought that if we could tell
human interest stories that portray the
rich human tapestry that is Israel,
then perhaps we could get these peo-
ple on board.
“We have no hasbara preten-
sions whatsoever,” he added; like
Israel Story, Dr. Harman is earnest,
but not too earnest.
“Israel Story has no meta
goal of getting people to think
that Israel is a wonderful place, and
in many of our stories Israel comes
across as a horrible place, but we do have
a goal of getting people engaged in what’s going
on there. But we carefully avoid being grouped together
with hasbara efforts. The Foreign Ministry wants to use
our material, but we are very careful not to do that.”
Their Israel is a real, deeply
human, infinitely quirky place,
where various shades of reli-
gious beliefs and practices and
different religious traditions and
cultural assumptions butt up
against each other. Sometimes
they mix. Sometimes they don’t.
“We try to humanize Israel,”
Dr. Harman said. “Israel is like
any other place — but maybe
even more so, because there
is such a diversity in terms
of where people have come
from and what traditions they
have, and all of this is boiling in
extremely close quarters.
“We want to tell the stories
about what life truly is like in
Israel. The stories of a differ- Yochai Maital and Mishy Harman tell an Israel Story onstage.
ent Israel, stories that people
aren’t likely to hear in the news.” outside North America.) They’ve been friends ever since,
About five and a half years ago, when the idea for through high school and the IDF and college and gradu-
the project first germinated, the stories were the ones ate school, sometimes in close touch, sometimes not so
they knew about, Dr. Harman said. “Originally, they close, sometimes in different dyads within the quartet, but
were mainly from our own social network, our always in touch.
families, and so forth. And then we started div- Although Dr. Harman does not put it in these terms, it
ing into all kinds of local newspapers and is also clear that all four of the Israel Story founders are
blogs, and following up on Facebook. We comfortably upper middle class. They are all now in their
also embarked on these conceptual proj- mid-30s. They each had begun an academic career before
ects, where we would go outside of the Israel Story engrossed them. They all speak the kind of
our bubble and search for stories.” utterly fluent and colloquial English that makes the utterly
So who is this “we”? Israel fluent, entirely Israeli-accented Hebrew they speak when
Story was started by four guys, they use place names, say, in a sentence almost shocking.
four men who have been How do they do that? But they do.
friends since they met in a Dr. Harman’s own story is very Israeli, and the way he
camp sponsored by Noam, the describes the details makes it clear that he is a storyteller.
Masorti movement’s summer First — this part he didn’t talk about, but Google does —
program in Israel. (Masorti is there is his grandfather, Avraham Harman, the London-
the Conservative movement born, Oxford-educated third ambassador from Israel
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to the United States. (He followed Abba
Eban and was followed by Yitzhak Rabin.)
One of his children — and therefore one
of Mishy’s aunts — is Naomi Chazan, the
Israeli legislator, champion of women’s
and human rights and liberal causes, and
general public intellectual.
Mishy Harman was in an intelligence
unit in the IDF, and then he went to Har-
vard, and then to Cambridge University for
a master’s degree in archaeology. There,
he looked into ancient Middle Eastern pig
bones. “The question is why did the proto-
Israelites stop eating pig?” he said. “The
short answer is I really don’t know.
“This is a question that has been fasci-
nating researchers for decades,” he said.
So, the longer answer involves the Philis-
tines, because “it seems that there is at
least some archaeological evidence that
the pig prohibition was a reaction against
the Philistines’ diet.” The Philistines
recently moved into the area, and started
pushing eastward, away from the seacoast.
“The evidence of the pig bones was
pretty dramatic,” Dr. Harmon said. “Wild
boars do exist in the area, in that period
— 13th, 12th, 11th centuries — it’s not like
today. Then, you would eat what you
could hunt, so not eating something that is
abundant is peculiar behavior. Prior to the
arrival of the Philistines, there was pork
consumption in the proto-Israelite sites —
not a ton of it, but about 10 percent of the
bone assemblages contain pig bones.
“There is a lot of literature about
whether you should call those people
proto-Israelites or Canaanites,” he said
parenthetically, before resuming his
— went back to Hebrew University. His
doctoral dissertation is a biography of
the first Protestant missionary to work in
Ethiopia (or Abyssinia, as it was then). “He
was Swiss, worked for a British missionary
society, and I spent so much time with him
that I felt that we were dear friends,” Dr.
Harman said. Of special interest to Jews,
Fawz and
this missionary, Samuel Gobat, who later
Muhammad
Qutob told their
story to Mishy
Harman — and
he told it to us. We try to
humanize Israel.
Israel is like any
other place —
but maybe
even more so.
main narrative.
“But once the Philistines arrived and became the bishop of Jerusalem, “was the
started moving inland, and settling right first outsider to interact with the Falasha”
next to the local inhabitants, you see a — the Jews of Ethiopia — “and to a large
dramatic drop, to literally 100 percent no extent he was the one who got that story
pig bones. It looks like a differentiation going. He went back to Europe and pro-
strategy.” posed a mission that would be directed
Next, Dr. Harman — Mr. Harman then, primarily at Falasha Jews.”
or more likely Mishy to almost everyone So it is clear that Dr. Harman is a man of

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widely ranging interests. But until about
six years ago, those interests did not
include podcasts.
“The truth is that this whole project
was entirely accidental,” he said. “No one
of us had any inclination that we were
going to become podcasters. Right before
I came back to Israel, in 2011, I went on a
really long road trip across America with
my dog. My friend, Ro’ee” — that’s Ro’ee
Gilron, one of the other founders, who
went to Brandeis, did a project at NASA,
and is working toward a doctorate in
neuroscience — had downloaded This
American Life — the Ur of storytelling
radio and podcasts, the model and goal
of so many newer, younger podcasters —
“because he assumed I would spend a lot
of time in my car.
“I had never heard of podcasts
before. Ro’ee had been my best friend
for about 20 years. I knew he had kind
of far-out ideas about what is enjoy-
able, so I didn’t listen to his podcasts.
Instead, I turned to books on tape and
some music. Once I reached the Bible
Belt, I found Christian radio, which I
found fascinating, and I couldn’t get
enough of it — and then at some point I
got enough of it, and I started listening
to these podcasts.
“And then I had this really magical
experience, where I was sitting in my car
with my dog, and suddenly, in my ears,
with my headphones on, I found myself
being transported to all sorts of commu-
nities all over America and all across the
world, meeting people I would never
otherwise meet, hearing their most inti-
mate stories, in their own voices.
“It was a dizzying whirlwind. One
story is about a billionaire in a Wall
Street board room, and the next is about
an illegal avocado farm in California, and
there is also everything in between.
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Israel, even though there is a high inter-
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have cars, even more than in most other
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late them, but we realized that unlike the
way it works in films, radio doesn’t work
that way. We had to go back to the inter-
viewees and record them again, in a new
language — sometimes in a language that
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“In the end, when you do that, some-
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“But we also realized that the audi-
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the stories were different, and today
the operations are different. We are the
same one organization, but most of the
stories in Hebrew aren’t in English, and
vice versa. Maybe only about 10 to 15 per-
cent of the stories are shared.
“A lot of people listen to the English sto-
ries in Israel, but the majority of people
who listen to Israel Story in English are
not in Israel. They are in North America.”
A word about radio and podcasts —
many radio shows, particularly the ones
with highly produced, scripted narra-
tives, are available as podcasts, which
are unlike radio in that you can listen
to them whenever you want to, and
you can go back and hear what you’ve
missed or go forward should you hit a
boring patch. But Dr. Harman and his
friends seem often to use the words
almost interchangeably.
After the move from radio to podcast-
ing — and with a much bigger staff and
budget, thanks at least in part to the Ste-
ven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foun-
dation — the team next began live per-
formances. (Many podcasts now offer
live performances, but unlike many of
those, these are not unscripted discus-
sions. They are stories, Israel Stories,
read onstage.)
Israel Story’s first live show was at the
JCC in Manhattan — most of their per-
formances are at JCCs and other Jewish
institutions, and to primarily but not
entirely Jewish audiences.
At first, Dr. Harman said, “We were
quite concerned. Here we were, com-
ing to New York to perform, but people
could just choose to see “Hamilton”
instead. It didn’t seem that we were
really offering something that could be a
viable option. But then it went very well,
and the audiences were very receptive,
and we came back with that first live
show, Herzl 48, many times.”
The conceit of that show is that
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Where: at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 east Clinton ave. in tenafly
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Why: as part of the community’s celebration of Yom ha’atzmaut and israel’s 70th
anniversary
because there are so many Herzl Streets
in Israel, going to the building at #48 on
each of those streets would be likely to
produce a huge range of stories. It did.
Other live shows told love stories or
women’s stories, and “there was a live
show where we selected little things
that happened on Yom Ha’atzmaut” —
Israel Independence Day — “at 10-year
intervals that illuminated Israel’s larger
story. We had another show with inter-
tribal couples — Jew and Arab, secular
and religious.
Mishy Harman lives in Jerusalem now,
with his fiancée and two dogs. One of
those dogs, Nomi, a Vizsla, is the one
who went on the road trip with him,
and the other, Golda, is Nomi’s daugh-
ter. When you call him, you hear them
in the background.
Yochai Maital, on the other hand,
now lives on the Upper West Side, at
least until his wife finishes up her mas-
ter’s degree in environmental science at
Columbia; after that, the plan is for the
two parents and their two young chil-
dren to move back to Israel.
Mr. Maital is another of Israel Story’s
four founders. After the IDF, where, like
the other Israel Story founders, he was in
intelligence, he studied creative writing.
“I think that really our mission is sim-
ple,” he said. “To tell people stories, and
on a deeper level to create an environ-
ment that lets people listen to each other,
and to different perspectives on life.
“You get a prism, where you are trans-
ported to a different experience and
look at the world in a different way. It is
a powerful and transformative experi-
ence. It can be very personal.”
It is not political, Mr. Maital said. “We
are not necessarily trying to be an advo-
cate for Israel. This is not hasbara. But
we bring stories from Israel. We bring
the Israeli perspective, whatever that
means — both broadening Israelis’ per-
spectives and broadening the world’s
perspective on Israel.”
The fourth founder is Shai Satran,
who was working on a graduate degree
in clinical psychology when the Israel
Story bug bit.
Israel Story’s new production, Mix-
tape, tells Israel’s stories through music.
“We are exploring underlying tensions
within Israeli society through the lens of
some of Israel’s most iconic songs,” Dr.
Harman said.

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Donald Trump wants out of Syria.

Why Israel thinks that’s a problem
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — Meeting last month
with Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu came away satisfied
that he and the American president were
in agreement on a wide range of issues,
including Syria, where Israel wants to
limit Iranian influence as the Syrian civil
war wraps up.
“We don’t have any limits on our action
in Syria,” Netanyahu told reporters. “We
see eye to eye,” he said of Israeli and U.S.
policy.
A few weeks later, Middle East watchers
are wondering which eye bears watching:
Trump keeps saying he wants out of Syria,
while U.S. defense officials and diplomats
say the United States remains committed
to its role in pacifying the country after
seven years of a devastating war.
The equivocation is unsettling Israel,
said Jonathan Schanzer, a vice president
of the Foundation for Defense of Democ-
racies who travels frequently to Israel and
meets with its officials.
“There is a concern” in Israel “that the
mixed messaging right now is revealing a
certain confusion at a minimum, perhaps
a lack of will to remain in Syria,” he said in
an interview.
How are the messages mixed?
“We’ll be coming out of Syria like very
soon,” Trump said last week, just hours
after a Pentagon spokeswoman told
reporters in a briefing that the United
States was committed to its role in the
region at least until the terrorist group
Islamic State was defeated.
On Monday, U.S. defense officials said
they would send dozens of troops to
Syria to add to the 2,000 troops already
there assisting U.S. allied rebel forces. On
Tuesday, Trump said “it’s time” to get out
of Syria.
“It is very costly for our country, and it
helps other countries more than it helps
us,” he said. “I want to get out, I want to
bring our troops back home.”
Daniel Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassa-
dor to Israel who now is a visiting fellow at A view of a U.S. military base in Syria between Aleppo and the northern town of
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Syria
FROM PAGE 27
the Institute for National Security Studies
in Tel Aviv, said Trump’s pronouncements
were stirring turmoil in the region.
“It raises fundamental questions not
just for Israel, for our Kurdish allies, even
our adversaries, about whether the United
States plans to remain in Syria to complete
the fight against ISIS and to help prevent
an Iranian takeover of those areas that
ISIS has vacated,” he said. The U.S. forces
in Syria are advising and assisting Syrian
Kurdish rebels. ISIS is an acronym for
Islamic State.
Israelis fear that the defeat of the Islamic
State, while welcome, leaves in place Iran,
an enemy, and Russia, a country that is
friendly to Israel but whose interests are
not as aligned with it as the United States’.
Russia, notably, has been Iran’s de facto
ally in Syria.
The U.S. presence, comparatively, is
limited, but simply by maintaining a pres-
ence, the United States signals that it has
Israel’s back, thus freeing Israel to take
action, as it did in February with airstrikes
on Iranian targets in Syria after an Iranian
drone entered Israeli airspace.
proposition absent a U.S. presence, said
Moshe Maoz, Israel’s pre- eminent
Syria expert.
“Israel will have to bomb Iranian posi-
tions in Syria” if Iran establishes a weap-
ons supply line to Hezbollah, the Leba-
nese militia allied with Iran that is assisting
Syria, or if it establishes a permanent pres-
ence in Syria, said Maoz, a professor emer-
itus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
“And the danger is that the Russians will
intervene, and Israel needs the backing of
the United States.”
Russian officials reportedly have told
their Israeli counterparts that Israel likely
will have to put up with a permanent Ira-
nian presence in Syria.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, a fellow at the
Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum,
said a U.S. withdrawal could embolden the
Islamic State.
“I think the consequences at this stage
would be very negative for the SDF-held
areas where the U.S. maintains a pres-
ence, particularly as no peace plan has
been devised between the SDF and Tur-
key,” he said, referring to the U.S.-backed
rebel alliance, the Syrian Democratic
Forces. “Indeed, it is possible that there
could be an attack on multiple fronts
north and the regime and its allies from
the south. The concern that this could
create a vacuum for I.S. to regain some
strength is not unjustified.”
Heather Hurlburt, who directs the New
Models of Policy Change initiative at New
America, a liberal think tank, said the
United States remains too entrenched in
the region though its various alliances to
fully disengage.
“What I assume is happening is that the
connections between the Israeli military
and the Pentagon are incredibly tight,”
said Hurlburt, a foreign policy speech-
writer in the Clinton administration.
“Those folks are talking to each other;
in terms of what the Israelis need I’m
sure that line is open,” she said. “The
people in the administration who under-
stand Israel’s security concerns are
consoling themselves that they’ve got
all the firepower in place if and when
they’re needed.”
Joost Hiltermann, the Brussels-based
Middle East and North Africa director at
the Crisis Group, an international think
tank, said Iran’s influence in Syria may be
overstated. Russia, he said, is in Syria as
a means of leveraging its influence else-
where in the world, and is not invested
regime, which Russia and Iran have been
propping up in the Syrian civil war, trusts
Russia more than Iran; Assad and his
clique remain secularists and are wary of
Iran’s religious posturing.
“I’m not convinced for Iran this is sus-
tainable,” he said of Iran’s ambition for
a permanent stake in Syria. “They don’t
have allies.” Still, he said, Israel had rea-
son to be alert to Iranian efforts to transfer
weapons to Hezbollah, which launched a
war with Israel in 2006.
Hiltermann said Israel had cause to be
unsettled by Trump’s pledges. “The Irani-
ans would benefit most were the United
States to remove its footprint.”
Schanzer said Trump’s promises
to pull out were especially jarring for
Israel and other allies, who expected
Trump to reverse the policy of his pre-
decessor, Barack Obama, of limiting U.S.
involvement in the Syrian conflict — not
to advance it to its logical conclusion
and leave.
“From the Israeli perspective, this is
handing over the keys to their backyard to
their mortal enemies,” he said. “Across the
board this would be an unmitigated disas-
ter and also an unforced error.”
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Gaza border clashes and casualties yield

a Hamas PR victory and Israeli internal debate
MARCY OSTER
JERUSALEM — When the smoke from
the rifles of Israeli sharpshooters and the
firebombs thrown by Gaza Palestinians
cleared in the wake of the Palestinian
March of Return, there were at least 15
Palestinians dead and hundreds of pro-
testers injured.
Israel, meanwhile, had a huge PR mess.
Israeli troops “overreacted” Friday in
confronting thousands of Gaza demon-
strators gathered at the security fence
that separates Israel from Gaza, former
presidential candidate Senator Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) said in an interview on
CNN. Israel’s diplomats and pro-Israel
groups went into overdrive defending the
soldiers’ response.
But the criticism and defense in the
international arena was nothing com-
pared to the debate at home, where
parties on the far left have accused the
Israeli military of having a “trigger-happy
policy” and the government insisting that
a domestic or international inquiry into
Israel’s reactions to “orchestrated vio-
lence” is unjustified.
Plans for the March of Return were not
a secret. Hamas announced early on that
it would bring 100,000 Gaza Palestinians
to the border on Land Day, March 30, and
that thousands of them would remain
there, living in tent cities, until May 15, the
anniversary of the day when Israel became
an independent state, which the Palestin-
ians call the Nakba, or Catastrophe. It also
is the date by which the Trump administra-
tion has pledged to move the U.S. Embassy
to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
Palestinians around the world have
observed Land Day since 1976, when six
Israeli Arabs were killed and another 100
injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers and
police during protests when the govern-
ment expropriated Arab-owned land in
northern Israel to house Jewish citizens.
Israel, in turn, made it clear before
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Gaza
FROM PAGE 29
anything and everything should the pro-
testers attempt to breach the Gaza border
fence or if it was determined that Israeli
lives were in danger. Two days before the
march, the Israeli army’s chief of staff, Lt.
Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, said in interviews that
his soldiers were prepared to use live fire
to quell violent rioting and that 100 Israeli
snipers would be put into place around the
border to assist in the task.
In retrospect, violent clashes and the
casualties among the about 30,000 Pales-
tinians who converged on the border were
inevitable.
“The violent march on Israel’s southern
border is another deliberate provocation
by #Hamas, which intentionally endan-
gers #Gaza civilians, including women and
children, while trying to put the blame on
Israel,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry tweeted.
“It’s simply a part of Hamas strategy.”
If it was deliberate, the policy paid off
quickly and dramatically. As the body count
and the number of injured rose, the Pales-
tinian publicity machine kicked into high
crying Palestinian women holding bloodied
family members and Palestinian protest-
ers running from Israeli snipers. One video
showed a young Palestinian man being shot
in the back and killed by an Israeli shooter
as he fled from the border.
At the same time, the IDF Spokesper-
son’s Office released videos to counter the
images, including one nearly two minutes
long, narrated by the head of IDF Public
Diplomacy, summarizing Friday’s events
and showing clips of Palestinian protesters
throwing burning tires and firebombs and
attempting to breach the security fence.
“Our soldiers precisely targeted the spe-
cific terrorists that attempted to carry out
these acts of terror, some of them known
terrorists to our security forces,” Maj. Keren
Hajioff said in the video.
On Saturday, the IDF released photos of
10 Palestinians killed in the previous day’s
clashes, along with information about their
terrorist activity. Earlier in the day, Hamas
publicly acknowledged that five members of
its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
Brigades, were among those killed.
After a long weekend that included the
Our soldiers precisely
targeted the specific terrorists
that attempted to carry out
these acts of terror, some of
them known terrorists to our
security forces.
celebration of Passover and Easter Sunday,
Israel’s Foreign Ministry told the Times of
Israel that it believed it handled the public
diplomacy well, saying that it did not want
to call more attention to the situation, which
it determined was not getting much interest
around the world.
But Israeli lawmaker Michael Oren, the
former Israeli ambassador to the United
States who is now the deputy minister in
the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for
diplomacy, told the news website that “Isra-
el’s public diplomacy wasn’t ready.
“It always goes wrong,” Oren told The
Times of Israel. “We don’t lay the ground-
work, we don’t prepare the media about
what’s about to happen.”
In the United States, tweets from Sanders,
in which he called the Palestinian deaths
“tragic,” gained traction. So did calls by the
European Union and Human Rights Watch
for an “independent and transparent inves-
tigation” into Israel’s use of live ammunition
to quell the rioting.
The United Nations also swung into
action, calling an emergency Security
Council meeting on Friday night as Israeli
diplomats were sitting down to their first
seder. France later called on Israel to show
“restraint.” Turkey’s president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan, and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu traded barbs: Erdogan
referred to Netanyahu as a “terrorist,” while
Netanyahu said Erdogan was a “butcher.”

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Things were not any better at home. On
Saturday night, Netanyahu released a state-
ment praising the country’s soldiers for
“guarding the country’s borders and allow-
ing Israeli citizens to celebrate the holiday
quietly.” The following day, Defense Minis-
ter Avigdor Liberman asserted that the sol-
diers “did what was necessary” and asserted
there would be no international inquiry into
their actions.
But an inquiry is precisely what the left
wants. Tamar Zandberg, the newly elected
head of the left-wing Meretz party, called on
the government to open an independent
investigation into the violence on the Gaza
border. She called for “a probe into the rules
of engagement and the military and political
readiness for the events.”
“We must not allow a ‘trigger-happy’
policy to lead to the loss of innocent
lives,” she also said in statements posted
on social media.
Isaac Herzog, the leader of the Israeli
opposition and head of the Zionist Union,
was more circumspect in a Facebook post
on Friday night.
“Sending strength and encouragement
to all the soldiers of the Israel Defense
Forces and the members of the security
forces who this night are protecting the
citizens of the state and are required to
be away from their family Seder tables,”
he wrote.
Yair Lapid, head of the centrist Yesh
Atid party, asserted on Facebook that
Israel “has no war with women and chil-
dren. We’re doing everything we can to
avoid hitting civilian populations.”
Lapid also said that a commission of
inquiry should ask “what would have
happened if instead of investing in ter-
ror and death, the Palestinians would
have spent the last 12 years building
their economy, civilian life, education,
a health system? Why are they willing
to make their own life, their children’s,
to an ongoing hell just because the most
important thing to them is to try to kill
Jews?”
The head of the Arab Joint List party,
Ayman Odeh, had a different view. He
asserted in an interview on Israel’s 10
News that Hamas is “under occupa-
tion” and that Israel “closed Gaza, threw
the key into the sea and said ‘We’re not
responsible.’” Odeh also said that Hamas
The debate in Israel over the
Palestinian protest and the IDF
response is likely to remain at a
rolling boil for the next several
weeks as March of Return
protests continue and increase.
did not plan the Friday march, but just
joined in as a supporter.
Meanwhile, Army Radio host Koby
Meidan grabbed some attention in Israel,
and was suspended, for a Facebook post on
Saturday in reference to the previous day’s
violence saying “Today I am ashamed to be
Israeli.” Liberman responded in an inter-
view that he is “ashamed to have a radio
host of the type on Army Radio,” and called
on Meidan to resign.
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ian protest and the IDF response is likely
to remain at a rolling boil for the next sev-
eral weeks as March of Return protests con-
tinue and increase. Clashes continued over
the weekend following the large Friday
protests, and three Gaza Palestinians were
arrested Sunday evening for attempting
to breach the security fence. Large-scale
protests are in the works again for Friday,
and some have threatened that they will go
beyond Gaza. Israeli-Arab lawmaker Ahmed
Tibi told Army Radio last week that Palestin-
ians would breach the fences of West Bank
Jewish settlements during the weeks-long
protest — though “without weapons, in a
peaceful way.”
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endorse a nonviolent march, Ismail Hani-
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former Palestinian Authority prime minis-
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U.S.-China trade war is
‘bad news’ for economy
The governor of the Bank of Israel warned on Thursday
that a trade war between the United States and China
would be “bad news for the Israeli economy,” in an inter-
view with Bloomberg TV.
Central Bank of Israel Governor Dr. Karnit Flug said, “I
think if we go back from free trade this is bad news for
the global economy, and it’s certainly bad news for small,
open economies such as Israel’s … I think we all benefit
from free trade.”
She also referred to the strengthening Israeli shekel,
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While the U.S. Federal Reserve has begun to raise inter-
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“I think that tighter monetary policy, to the extent that
it reflects better economic performance in the U.S., is
good news for the Israeli economy,” she said. “But gener-
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Netanyahu freezes deal to resettle African migrants in West
In a dramatic turnaround, Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu has frozen a plan reached with the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on
the deportation of African migrants just hours after
it was announced.
“In the last few weeks, following tremendous
pressure on Rwanda by the New Israel Fund and
elements in the European Union, Rwanda has with-
drawn from the agreement and refused to absorb
infiltrators from Israel who are forcibly removed.
Due to this, I decided to strive for a new agreement
that would allow us to continue deporting the infil-
trators,” Netanyahu said in a Facebook post.
“However, I am attentive to you, and first and
foremost to the residents of southern Tel Aviv,”
Netanyahu said, referring to the neighborhood that
is home to many of the migrants, which has been
plagued by crime and complaints from long-term
residents. “Therefore, I decided to meet, together
with Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, with representa-
tives of the residents of southern Tel Aviv tomorrow
[Wednesday] morning.”
“In the meantime, I am suspending the implemen-
tation of the agreement, and after I meet with the
representatives, I will bring the agreement to a new
examination.”
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu’s office announced
an unprecedented deal with the UNHCR to resettle-
ment some 16,250 migrants, mostly Sudanese and
Eritrean illegal immigrants living in Israel, to various
Western countries, with another 18,000 being allowed
to remain in the state.
However, he faced significant criticism from mem-
bers of his right-wing coalition, who said the new deal
would award those who have broken the law.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett said that “grant-
ing legal status to 16,000 infiltrators will turn Israel
into a paradise for infiltrators and is a surrender to the
false campaign spread in the media in recent months.
By signing this agreement, we are sending a danger-
ous message to the whole world: Whoever succeeds in
infiltrating Israel illegally will get a prize of legal resi-
dence here or a Western country.”
The previous plan, which was due to go into effect
on Sunday, would have seen Israel expel migrants to
African countries such as Rwanda. That earlier pol-
icy, which offered each migrant $3,500 and a plane
ticket, was widely condemned by activists and the
United Nations, and had been delayed by a Supreme
Court ruling.
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Holocaust museum ‘hidden’ in Brooklyn
tells story through the eyes of Orthodox Jews
JON KALISH
Like Holocaust museums the world
over, the Amud Aish Memorial Museum
in Brooklyn focuses on European Jew-
ish communities that thrived before the
Nazis came to power, the killing machine
that led to millions of deaths, and the
resilience of survivors both during the
war and in rebuilding their Jewish lives
in the aftermath.
But the small museum also has a par-
ticular focus: telling the story of the
Shoah through the eyes of Orthodox
Jews. Its current exhibit, for example,
focuses on Jews who escaped to Shang-
hai in the 1930s. It is a familiar story, in
which 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to
the Japanese-occupied area, one of the
few safe havens in the world that did not
require a visa.
But the Amud Aish
display includes pho-
tos and documents
from the Bais Yaa-
kov school in Shang-
hai, an affiliate of the
Orthodox girls school
movement that origi-
nated in Europe and
spread to America.
The exhibit also docu-
ments how students Rabbi Sholom Friedmann
from the famed Lub- is the director of the Amud
lin Yeshiva in Poland Aish Memorial Museum.
made a month-long
walk to Vilna, Lithuania, before proceed-
ing to Shanghai.
“I felt that the Orthodox communi-
ty’s story throughout the Holocaust is
really not that well-documented and
there’s a lot to be mined in that story,”
said the museum’s director, Rabbi Sho-
lom Friedmann. “We’re looking at how
these Jews during the worst of times
looked to their faith, looked to Jewish
law as a means to make some sort of
meaning out of their experience, and to
be able to move forward and have the
resilience that they did.”
Located in the decidedly non-Ortho-
dox neighborhood of Mill Basin, Amud
Aish is housed in the headquarters of the
Americare Companies, a home health
care provider owned by Elly Kleinman,
who also is the museum’s president.
There are no visible signs in or on the
five-story office building alerting visitors
that they have arrived at the museum. A
receptionist in the lobby buzzes people
into the ground-floor museum, which
includes a 1,000-square-foot exhibition
Manhattan-based radio journalist Jon Kalish has reported for NPR since 1980.
Newspaper articles, audio documentaries, podcasts and radio stories are at
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Jewish World
space. Visits are by appointment only.
Amud Aish is Hebrew for “pillar of
fire,” a reference to the flames that
guided the Jews at night as they wan-
dered the desert during the Exodus from
Egypt. The museum’s mission statement
declares that “the lessons of the Holo-
caust are a guiding light for us.” Fried-
mann, a Detroit native who completed a
fellowship in Holocaust education at the
Imperial War Museum in London, came
up with the name.
The museum is staffed mostly by the
children and grandchildren of Holo-
caust survivors, including Kleinman, its
COURTESY OF AMUD AISH
founder, and Friedmann, the son of a
Belgian Holocaust survivor. Other mem-
bers of the nine-person staff include
acquisitions curator Chavi Felsenburg,
whose grandmother was a hidden child
and whose grandfather
survived six concen-
tration camps; collec- A set of tefillin and diary pages that belonged to Isaac Avigdor, a young Polish rabbi
tions manager Perachya imprisoned at Mauthausen, are on display at the Amud Aish Memorial Museum.
Sorscher, whose grandfa- Avigdor shared the smuggled tefillin with other inmates during his imprisonment.
ther managed to get extra
food to the Satmar rebbe
in the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp;
JON KALISH
and chief curator Henri
Lustiger-Thaler, whose
mother was liberated
from Bergen-Belsen.
“I feel like I’m doing
something that they
would be very proud of
and very, very meaningful to our fam-
ily,” said Felsenburg, whose acquisitions
include a rescue plea written on a piece
of coat lining and smuggled out of a
ghetto in southern France.
“We actually had known that such a
plea was sent out,” she said of the docu-
ment, which was rolled up and disguised
as a cigarette. “We were re-housing a col-
lection, putting it into sheet protectors
and there it is. I did not expect to see it
just like that, by flipping pages.”
Friedman said Amud Aish has a large
collection of documents pertaining to
Orthodox rescue efforts. This includes
the Schonfeld Collection, which docu-
ments the rescue activities of Solomon
Schonfeld, a British rabbi who saved
thousands of Jews, many of them chil-
dren, by arranging for South American
travel papers, kindertransports to Eng-
land, and temporary refuge in various
British territories. His efforts were con-
ducted under the auspices of the Reli-
gious Emergency Council, which was
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Museum
FROM PAGE 33
created by Schonfeld’s father-in-law, Joseph Hertz,
the chief rabbi of England.
Friedmann concedes that museums do not play
a big role within the Orthodox community.
“We’re introducing the legitimacy and the
power that a museum can bring as an educational
resource,” he said.
Amud Aish also has the papers of Mike Tress, a
Brooklyn businessman who was the grandfather of
Rabbi Dovid Reidel, a Bobover chasid who serves
as the museum’s director of research and archives.
The Tress Collection, like some of the other dona-

COURTESY OF AMUD AISH

tions, had been sitting in an attic or basement for
60 years.
“After the invasion of Poland, he gives up his

JON KALISH
business, he throws himself full force into trying to
rescue Jews,” Reidel said of his grandfather. “He’s
using his personal money, he’s selling his stocks to
put that money into those rescue efforts.” Yehuda and Breindy Gelbfish of Lakewood, who recently A small suitcase taken to the Budapest ghetto by
COURTESY OF AMUD AISH

Tress made weekly trips from his home in Brook- visited the museum with four of their 10 children, loaned a
lyn to Washington, D.C., where he met with first number of items that belonged to Yehuda’s father, Benjamin,
lady Eleanor Roosevelt and officials at the State a Lublin Yeshiva student who fled to Vilna.
Department. Reidel said his grandfather violated
the prohibition against travel on the Sabbath Breckenridge Long, an assistant secretary at the State
because his mission involved “pikuach nefesh,” the saving of Department, was convinced of the gravity of the situa-
a human soul. tion because these Orthodox Jews were willing to violate
One Saturday Tress joined Jacob Rosenheim, president of their Sabbath, and he intervened. Kotler made it out of
the umbrella group for Orthodox Jewry, Agudath Israel, at the the Soviet Union and went on to found Beth Medrash
State Department. They were desperate to get a visa to the Govoha in New Jersey, also known as the Lakewood
U.S. Embassy in Moscow for Rabbi Aharon Kotler, an Ortho- Yeshiva, which is thought to be the largest yeshiva in
dox Jewish leader in Lithuania. The way Reidel tells the story, the world.
One of Amud Aish’s most precious objects is a book in
which the Chevra Kadisha, or burial society, at Bergen-
Belsen recorded deaths and burials of the concentration
a family named Horowitz, which holds family pho-
tos, postcards and a challah cover, is on display at
the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in Brooklyn.
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Yom Hashoah
T a Passover meal for our time
his Wednesday evening,
we begin the commem-
oration of Yom Hashoah
— Holoc aust Remem-
brance Day.
For the next week or so, the
community will offer a range of
speakers and exhibits.
It used to be that it seemed to
be easy to get survivors to speak.
But perhaps easy is the wrong
word to use in this context. Many
survivors could not talk about
what happened to them for
decades. Later, some of them did
begin to tell their stories — some
kind of internal dam broke for
some of them, and they found
some momentary balm in talking.
For others, it hurt every time they
told the story, but it hurt even
more to think about them going
untold. It was a debt they owed
the dead, some of them came to
feel; passing the story on is the
only way to make its happening
again less likely. (Never impossi-
ble, we all know. But significantly
less likely.)
But there used to be many sur-
vivors — particularly here, in this
area — and there always were
some who could and would talk.
Now, though, that’s changing
again. There are fewer and fewer
survivors left, and none of them
are young. Eventually, there will
be none. Then all we will have
left is the stories they have told
us, the evidence they left behind.
We will have their voices archived
in the institutions founded and
funded by such visionaries as Ste-
ven Spielberg. But we won’t have
them, their physical presence,
the unassailable truth of their
experiences and their losses and
their pain, and also their indomi-
table spirit and their understand-
ing of what the human body and
soul can bear, their understand-
ing of the role of luck and timing
and relationships and once again
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luck in any person’s survival to
and through adulthood.
We know that anti-Semitism
never dies; sometimes it’s just
a blistering ember, sometimes
it’s full-on hatred, but it’s always
there. It’s resurfacing in Europe —
read about the hideous murder of
Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll
elsewhere in this paper — and even
in the United States. (Remember
Charlottesville, and its chant of
“Jews will not divide us.”) It is not
the main current running through
this country — it’s just a tiny
shunted-off line leading to some
godforsaken wilderness — but it’s
here. We can’t afford to forget it.
Something else that we get from
the importance of stories on Yom
Hashoah is the importance of
stories. We understand far more
about the horror of the Holocaust
from highly specific first-hand
accounts than we do from larger,
more impersonal histories. Stories
give us the chance to imagine what
we would do, how we would react,
how we would feel. It is not at all
comfortable to imagine yourself
as a Jew during the Holocaust, in
a concentration camp, in a death
march, and the truth is that none
of us who has not been there can
know what we would do. There
are some things whose reality we
cannot imagine, and in fact we
should not try to imagine, because
if we really were capable of imagin-
ing them as they were, in their full
horror, we would go insane with
terror and despair. It would be
the flip side of Moshe shielding his
eyes and sheltering in the rock lest
he see the full glory of God as God
passed by him. There are things
that human beings should not see.
A s t h i s Yo m H a s h o a h
approaches, we offer our aston-
ished gratitude to the survivors,
both those who can talk about
what they endured and those who
cannot. —JP
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onight (Friday, April 6, 2018), families when we invite the invisible prophet Elijah to
and friends will gather in many Jewish enter our homes to sip some wine from “his”
homes around the world to drink four cup. While people usually sing the “Eliyahu Ha-
cups of wine, eat some matzah and navi” song at that moment, it does not appear in
other special foods, sing some songs, and pray traditional haggadot. The words that do appear,
for our redemption finally to be complete with and should be recited and discussed, are these:
the coming of the messianic age. “Pour out Your wrath, O Lord, on those
No, this column is not being published a week nations whose actions and deeds deny Your
late. For possibly as long as the last 200 years ways, as they demonstrate a total disregard for
or so, the beginning of the eighth day of Pesach, human life and human dignity, and as they seek
Passover, has been marked in chasidic com- to subdue and dominate and enslave. Pour out
munities worldwide by a special meal known Your anger upon them and let Your raging fury
as se’udat ha-mashiach, the “messiah’s feast,” catch them. Chase them in anger and vanquish
which includes elements of the seder. Tradition them from under God’s heaven.”
attributes the origin of the feast There are other words in the
to Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the seder that also get short shrift, or
founder of chasidism known pop- no shrift, that relate to the “Pour
ularly as the Ba’al Shem Tov (the out Your wrath” text:
“master of the good name”). “In every generation, a person is
As Yitzchak Schochet, rabbi of required to see himself [or herself ]
Mill Hill United Synagogue in Lon- as if he [or she] personally came
don, explained it, “while belief in out of Egypt.” That is because we
Mashiach is a cardinal tenet of the must forever keep up our guard.
Jewish faith…, abstract belief is not Our redemption was not complete
enough. Our awareness must be Shammai when we left Egypt. The universal
translated into action.” Just as the Engelmayer message of the Exodus is that injus-
seder’s special foods and rituals are tice and intolerance have no place
meant to help us recreate the Exo- in our world, yet they are still with
dus vicariously, he wrote, “by partaking of this us. Also still with us — although people do not
special meal on the last night, and ingesting the want to acknowledge it — are the specific acts of
food, [it] helps to internalize the … yearning for injustice and intolerance that Egypt directed at
Mashiach…. Having recited the words ‘Next year us, the People Israel, the Jewish people. If we are
in Jerusalem’ at the conclusion of the Seder, it is not prepared to stand up against the anti-Semi-
incumbent upon us all to turn that dream into tism that seems to be getting more pronounced
reality.” every day, God certainly will not act for us.
The custom derives from the haftarah, the That is one of the messages in the Torah read-
prophetic reading we recite on the morning of ing in synagogues this morning, Pesach Day
the eighth day (meaning tomorrow morning). 7 (and it, too, gets short shrift nowadays). The
Taken from Isaiah (10:32-12:6), it describes the Egyptian host is bearing down on the Israelites.
age of the messiah, when “the wolf shall dwell The people cry out for deliverance, but God says
with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the to Moses, “Why do you cry out to Me? Tell the
kid…, with a little boy to herd them.” Israelites to go forward.”
The theme of this “messiah’s feast” originates In other words, tell them to go forward into
in the seder itself, however, although that text the not-yet-parted sea.
is either completely passed over by many, or The message is clear: God will intervene on
is recited without comment or thought. That our behalf, but only if we act first. Which is why,
is because it is encased in a moment of “fun,” “In every generation, a person is required to see
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out of Egypt.”
Too many of us, however, have fallen victim to com-
placency. We live in the “Land of the Free” and the
First Amendment, and we think our redemption is
somehow complete. We ignore the reality that is right
before our eyes.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, for exam-
ple, the swastika is considered to be “the most signifi-
cant and notorious of hate symbols, anti-Semitism,
and white supremacy for most of the world….” Swas-
tikas have no place in our world, yet they keep show-
ing up. In October, a swastika was spray-painted on
the outside wall of a Rutgers University residence hall.
In November, one was carved into the ground in a New
Jersey playground. Two weeks ago on Friday night, a
Holocaust memorial in Lakewood and the synagogue
adjacent to it had swastikas smeared on their walls.
There are many other such incidents.
Then there is Charlottesville. Last August, the city
sought to remove from public ground a statue of
Robert E. Lee, because it was seen as a symbol of the
oppression of blacks in the Old South. This led to a
“Unite the Right” rally that had less to do with blacks or
Robert E. Lee that it had to do with Jew-hatred. Swasti-
kas and brown shirts emblazoned with swastika arm-
bands and Hitler quotes were ubiquitous, as were anti-
Jewish slogans, such as “Jews will not replace us” and
“Jews are Satan’s children.” Neo-Nazi websites even
urged protestors to burn down the local synagogue,
Congregation Beth Israel.
As the ADL National Director Jonathan Greenblatt
noted, “This [demonstration allegedly] is an agenda
about celebrating the enslavement of Africans and
their descendants, and celebrating those that then
fought to preserve that terrible machine of white
supremacy and human enslavement…. And yet, some-
how, they’re all wearing shirts that talk about Adolf
Hitler.”
Swastikas are only part of the story. According to
the ADL, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the
United States in 2017 set a record by rising nearly 60
percent over 2016. Incidents were reported in all 50
states, something that had not happened in at least
10 years.
This is a trend that is worldwide. A couple of weeks
ago, it led to the murder in Paris of an 85-year-old
Holocaust survivor, Mireille Knoll. Police said she was
killed because she was a Jew.
The year 2017 also saw a record number of anti-
Semitic incidents in Britain, higher than any year since
such statistics began to be kept there in 1984. It may
have been this sharp rise that prompted this comment
by Prime Minister Theresa May in her Passover mes-
sage last week:
The “Exodus from Egypt,” she said, “did not mark
the end of anti-Semitic persecution. For millennia, the
descendants of those Moses led to freedom have con-
tinued to face hatred, discrimination, and violence.
It’s a situation that continues to this day, including, I’m
sad to say, here in Britain.”
Those in the chasidic world who tonight will sit
down to their seder-like seudat ha-mashiach under-
stand the consequences of complacency. Perhaps all
of us need to partake in “the messiah’s feast,” as well.
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The matzah and the hope:
Remembering Neil Gillman
R
abbi Neil Gillman, gifted and beloved teacher,
for 46 years professor of philosophy at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, for-
merly dean of its rabbinical school, leading
theologian, and passionate advocate for sophisticated
theological inquiry by both rabbis and the adult laity of
the American Jewish community, died this past Novem-
ber at the age of 84.
Throughout the time I was in residence at JTS’s New
York campus, as both an undergraduate and then in rab-
binical school, I made sure to study with Rabbi Gillman
every year, frequently both semesters (and occasionally
during the summer term). Introduction to Jewish philos-
ophy, methodologies in Jewish philosophy, philosophy
of Conservative Judaism, theology of the liturgy — each
course was a treat and a source of illumination, as Rabbi
Gillman engaged, entertained, inspired, and guided his
students in articulating a personal theology, a philoso-
phy of Jewish observance, an understanding of Jewish
history, and a thoughtful approach to the big questions
— God, revelation, redemption, Israel, chosen-ness, evil,
human suffering, the hereafter.
My gratitude for his instruction and friendship is in
no way diminished by the fact that our personal theolo-
gies differed dramatically. Rabbi Gillman served as my
personal adviser, mentoring me through an indepen-
dent major (and thesis) in liturgy for my B.A. As I have
pointed out on a number of occasions, the only semi-
nary faculty member with whom I spent more time, and
who has had a more profound impact on
my thinking and on the course of my life…
was the one I married. (I was, however,
discreetly exempted from my newlywed
bride’s required Bible course.)
As Passover approached for the first time
since his death, I felt my teacher’s absence
profoundly. So as to revisit the many cher-
ished hours I spent under his tutelage (and
simultaneously so as adequately to prepare
for my role as a seder leader), I re-read a Rabbi Joseph
commentary he had written on the Pass- H. Prouser
over Haggadah. In his reflections on the
passage “Ha lachma anya,” toward the
beginning of the seder, Rabbi Gillman focused on the
phrase “L’shanah ha-ba’ah b’nei chorin!” — “Next year,
may we be free.” His commentary (written years ago,
when he was in good health) struck me as particularly
poignant, especially in light of his death after a long and ple defied death and overcame losses that appeared
difficult illness:
“L’shanah ha-ba’ah b’nei chorin. This is the ultimate
eschatological hope. Hope is a theological category.
Not the everyday kind of hope that I will pass my exam,
or that the Red Sox will win the pennant, but what we
can call ‘hope against hope’ — hope when all the indi-
cations counsel despair, when the statistics are against
you, when the diagnosis suggests that all is lost. Yet, in
the face of all this, there surges within us hope… hope
against our better instincts.”
Of course, Rabbi Gillman, even if uniquely com-
pelling in his presentation, was not entirely original
in his approach to “hope against hope,” an insight
anticipated by a variety of religious thinkers. G. K.
Chesterton, the British theologian who was a convert
to Roman Catholicism, said, “Hope means hoping
when everything seems hopeless.” The Rev. Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. said, “We must accept finite disap-
pointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Rabbi Neil Gillman
I shared Rabbi Gillman’s words with family and guests
at our seder. If, indeed, “hope is a theological category,”
as my teacher taught, it is a category absolutely cen-
tral to the Passover experience. Hope frames the seder.
We begin with “L’shanah ha-ba’ah b’nei chorin!” and
we conclude with “L’shanah ha-ba’ah b’Yerushalayim”
— “Next year in Jerusalem.” When activists wished to
raise consciousness about Jews persecuted in the Soviet
Union, they introduced “The matzah of
hope” to our 1970s seders.
This year, there is no intermediate Sab-
bath (Shabbat chol ha-moed Pesach)
because the first and eighth days of the
festival coincide with Shabbat. This ren-
ders chol ha-moed (the festival’s interme-
diate days) an entirely weekday affair. The
haftarah that would be chanted on Shab-
bat chol ha-moed, however, is taken from
Ezekiel. It is the vision of the dry bones.
Ezekiel laments “avdah tikvateinu” — “Our
hope is lost” (Ezekiel 19:5. The most famous
midrash on this verse is to be found in the
defiant words of Hatikvah (“The Hope”), the national
anthem of the State of Israel: “Od lo avdah tikvateinu” —
“Our hope is NOT lost!”
Like the dry bones in Ezekiel’s vision, the Jewish peo-
insurmountable and defining, and some 70 years ago
miraculously took on new life as a sovereign state in its
historic land, precisely “when all indications counseled
despair, when the statistics were against us…. Yet, in
the face of all this, there surged within us hope … hope
against our better instincts.” Historic Zionism was pre-
cisely “hope against hope.”
Hope is a theological category woven throughout our
observance of Passover. We hope in the future, even as
N
we look back at our distant past and strive to re-create
and relive the experience.
The defiant hope that opens the Haggadah can seem
a bit less defiant to 21st-century American Jews, living as
we do with freedom, civil liberties, social acceptance,
and legal enfranchisements our ancestors could not
have imagined. Gratefully, “L’shanah ha-ba’ah b’nei cho-
rin” — “Next year may we be free” — hardly constitutes
“hope against hope.”
SEE GILLMAN PAGE 39
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 6, 2018 37
Opinion
How to end the occupation — continuing the debate
I
n his March 23 response to my opin-
ion piece of March 2, Rabbi Robert
Wolkoff posed some serious chal-
lenges to my assertion that the
Israeli occupation of the West Bank and
East Jerusalem involves serious human
rights violations. What follows are some of
his assertions and my responses.
Rabbi Wolkoff’s piece was written in the
spirit of “makhloket leshem shamayim,”
— the understanding that a controversy
for Heaven’s sake has lasting value (Avot,
ch. 5) — and I trust that my response will
continue a respectful dialogue, one that
should be more a part of the Jewish com-
munal agenda.
1. When exactly did it (the occupied
territories) become their (the Palestin-
ians’) land?
There is no “exactly” here. Arabs have
been living in Eretz Israel/Palestine for
hundreds of years. Many migrated to
the area from surrounding lands and
established hundreds of villages in what
it now the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel
proper. In 1948 those Arabs represented a
demographic majority. Palestinian Arabs
France makes incremental progress
in coming to grips with anti-Semitism
T
his year, as last year, the Jew-
ish community in France spent
Passover in the shadow of the
brutal murder of a vulnerable,
elderly Jewish woman living on her own in
public housing.
She survived the Holocaust, but not a
murderer in Paris.
On March 23, 85-year-old Mireille Knoll
was stabbed to death and her apart-
ment set on fire by two intruders, one
of whom is alleged to have shouted the
words “Allahu Akhbar” before plunging
the weapon into his victim. Last year, on
April 4, 65-year-old Dr. Sarah Halimi was
badly beaten and then ejected from the
window of her third-floor apartment by
an intruder, a young Malian-born Islamist,
who bellowed the word “Satan” at his vic-
tim during the ordeal.
There are some obvious similarities
between these two atrocities. Both Dr.
Halimi and Mrs. Knoll had close family
nearby, but they lived alone. Both of them
lived in the 11th Arrondissement in east-
ern Paris, where many other elderly Jews
in similar circumstances remain among a
much larger community of Muslims from
the Maghreb and West Africa. Indeed, resi-
dents in the neighborhood told a Paris TV
station after Mrs. Knoll’s murder that they
live in fear.
38 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 6, 2018
constituted the majority in cities: Jaffa,
Haifa, Lod and Ramle, Hebron, Nablus and
Ramallah, and they inhabited hundreds
of smaller towns and villages. By 1945,
1.3 million Arabs and 600,000 Jews lived
within the borders of Mandate Palestine.
2. We could question whether the occu-
pation is really an occupation at all.
Even before the resistance to the occu-
pation began, Israel began to construct
Jewish settlements and an elaborate infra-
structure in territories they conquered
in the Six-Day war in 1967. The desire to
expand the territory controlled by Israel
was a product of two factors: Israel’s need
for more defensible borders, and the push
from far-right nationalist and messianic
groups, such as Gush Emunim, to take pos-
session of “the Greater Land of Israel,” the
biblical land of Israel, whose eastern bor-
der would be the Jordan River.
For more than half a century, the Israel
military has occupied those lands and
ruled over the lives of their Palestinian
residents. The Israeli government has tried
to normalize the occupation and to trans-
form the territories into a region of Israel.
“We have to hide the signs of our Juda-
ism — kipot, Magen David necklaces,” said
Mickaël, who has lived there for 15 years.
“We trim our beards short, and we don’t
wear our tzitzit on the outside.” A Jewish
shopkeeper confessed that he was forced
to keep his door locked most of the time.
“There are many suspicious people trying
to get in,” he explained. “We’ll see what
the future brings.”
But there is also a major difference
between the two murders. Dr. Halimi’s
death was barely noticed for weeks and
months by the media in France and
abroad. But Mrs. Knoll’s death — and the
ensuing demonstration against anti-Semi-
tism less than a week later that brought a
crowd of nearly 30,000 onto the streets of
Paris — has been front-page news for the
New York Times, The Washington Post,
the BBC and every single media outlet in
France. (We write about it this week on
page 10.)
In Dr. Halimi’s case, several French
officials scandalously tried to deny the
anti-Semitic nature of her murder on
the grounds of her assailant’s supposed
mental illness, despite the fact that he is
a known petty criminal who growled the
words “dirty Jewess” when passing Dr.
Halimi on the stairwell. In Mrs. Knoll’s
case, there has been no such dispute, and
The call to annex the territo-
ries has grown louder among
right-wing politicians.
3. Checkpoints and other
limitations on Palestinians’
freedom of movement are
essential for reasons of
security.
Certainly Israel has secu- Rabbi
rity concerns and the sep- Aryeh Meir
aration barrier has been
effective in minimizing the
incursion of terrorists. However, security
should not trump the numerous human
rights violations that Israel has committed of 30,000 people have been prevented
over the many years of occupation. This
has not been (and by definition cannot be)
a humane occupation.
4. Because of Israel, Palestinians have
more water and better water than they
ever had before.
This is another myth. The truth is that
Israel has control of all water resources in the digging of cisterns for collecting rain-
the land between the sea and the Jordan
River. Both the West Bank and Gaza suf-
fer water shortages as a result of Israeli
the two suspects arrested for
her killing already have been
charged with an anti-Semitic
hate crime.
Why the contrast? Perhaps
the most significant factor
here, tragically, is timing.
When Dr. Halimi was mur-
dered, the French elections
were a few weeks away and Ben Cohen
a good portion of the French
media decided, with charac-
teristic hubris, that reporting her ordeal
would boost the fortunes of the far-right
presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen.
So for weeks, virtually nothing was said
about a murder notable for its chilling
level of violence, as well as the incompe-
tent response of the police and judicial
authorities. “I waited seven weeks before
I said anything,” Dr. Halimi’s brother, Wil- market in southern France. And when
liam Attal, later grieved.
The decisive victory over by Le Pen by
centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron in
May 2017 was therefore the most important
outside development upon the Halimi case
— and in many ways, explains the radically
different response to Mrs. Knoll’s fate.
Within weeks of his election, Macron
solemnly recognized that Dr. Halimi had
been a victim of anti-Semitic hatred. Since that a series of previously unlinked mur-
then, the French president frequently has
policies. Because of the poor
state of the pipelines link-
ing Palestinian communi-
ties and also of the water
grids within Palestinian cit-
ies and villages, about one-
third of all water supplied
to the Palestinian Authority
is lost due to leakage. Israel
has refused PA proposals
to repair the pipeline infra-
structure. As a result, West
Bank Palestinians live with a
constant water shortage. At least 180 Pal-
estinian communities with a population
from connecting to the water grid. They
are forced to purchase water from tank-
ers year round. Average water consump-
tion in these communities is 20 liters per
day, way below the WHO recommended
minimum of 100 liters. This water often is
not safe due to poor sanitary conditions in
the tankers. In area C, Israel forbids even
water. Why are the areas around Israeli
settlements bathed in green while the sur-
rounding Arab villages are subject to water
attacked French anti-Semi-
tism and Islamist anti-Sem-
itism, has spotlighted the
thematic overlaps between
anti-Semitism and anti-Zion-
ism, and has declared his
solidarity with the country’s
465,000-strong Jewish com-
munity — pointing out, as
have many others, that such
a modest number belies
the true nature of the Jew-
ish contribution to France over the past
millennium.
This was the changed environment into
which the news of Mrs. Knoll’s murder
emerged last week. Her killing took place
on the same day that a heroic police officer
and three hostages were shot dead by an
Islamist terrorist during a siege at a super-
Macron delivered his speech at the moving
national tribute on Tuesday to Col. Arnaud
Beltrame, the slain gendarme, he noted that
Mrs. Knoll — “murdered because she was
Jewish” — was a victim of the same “barbaric
obscurantism.”
As historically significant as these state-
ments certainly are, the situation is akin to
the shattering late discovery by investigators
ders were actually committed by the same

rotation? Because Israel’s national water company pro-
vides water to Jordan Valley settlements while Palestin-
ian villages must buy water from rusty tank trucks.
5. When Rabbi Meir writes that Palestinians cannot
participate in the political process that determines
the future of this geographic area he is precisely
wrong.
The basic fact is that Palestinians — under occupation,
lacking Israeli citizenship — cannot participate in the one
government that controls their everyday lives, the gov-
ernment of Israel. Under occupation, Palestinians have
no vote and no representation in the Israeli government
that oversees the military occupation. The fact that Pal-
estinians can vote in Palestinian elections is irrelevant
to this point, since the elected leaders of the PA do not
control the lives of Palestinians under occupation. The
Israeli military authorities do.
6. The majority of Palestinians would prefer leaders
who are more supportive of violence. A majority of
Palestinians, according to polls, support violence.
This is extremely complicated. Professor Shikaki’s
2016 poll concluded that “in the absence of negotia-
tions 60% [of Palestinians] support the return to armed
intifada. An identical percentage supports peaceful
popular resistance. This points to Palestinian frustration
and anger with their reality and to their ambivalence
Marchers honor the memory of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, 85, who was murdered March 23 in a
brutal anti-Semitic attack.
person. Since 2006, when the young cell-phone salesman
Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and murdered by a largely
Muslim gang who seized him on the conviction that “all
Jews are rich,” France has witnessed hundreds of assaults
and home robberies alongside these shameful murders of
Jews. In the end, it took the slaying of a woman who sur-
vived the July 1942 Vel d’Hiv Nazi deportation of the Jews
of Paris — the widow of a survivor of Auschwitz no less — to
regarding a strategy that will improve their prospects
for a brighter future. Most “Palestinians also believe that
Israel’s long-term aspirations are to extend its borders
to include all territories occupied in 1967 and expel the
inhabitants or deny them their political rights.” (Shikaki).
As frustration with the lack of progress increases, the
support for violent resistance increases.
7. The Israeli occupation is a moral occupation.
There is nothing moral about this occupation. There is
nothing moral about home demolitions, administrative
detention, expulsion of communities, road closures, and
denial of the right to compensation caused by security
forces. (B’tselem). There is nothing moral about con-
trolling the lives and destinies of millions of people and
denying Palestinians basic human rights (freedom of
movement, property rights) afforded to Jewish residents
of the same occupied territories. Because of the inherent
discrimination between those with full rights and those
whose rights are limited, occupation of another people
cannot by definition be considered moral.
I thank Rabbi Wolkoff for his thoughtful response, and
look forward to continuing the dialogue with any and
all readers.
Rabbi Aryeh Meir of Teaneck is on the faculty of the
Academy for Jewish Religion and is chairperson of the
Teaneck Environmental Commission.
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FROM PAGE 37
Similarly, the defiant hope inherent in the later mes-
sage of the seder can seem a bit less defiant to 21st-
century American Jews, living as we do with the real-
ity of a free, proud, powerful, and sovereign State of
Israel celebrating 70 years of independence. “L’shanah
ha-ba’ah b’Yerushalayim” — “Next year in Jerusalem”
— hardly constitutes the “hope against hope” it repre-
sented for countless earlier generations, notwithstand-
ing the very real challenges and abiding dangers con-
fronting the Jewish State.
Nevertheless, in these troubled times, Passover
remains a time for “‘hope against hope’ — hope when all
the indications counsel despair, when the statistics are
against you, when the diagnosis suggests that all is lost.”
Such defiant hope found expression at seder tables
where thoughtful families, friends, and communi-
ties related the memory of slavery, displacement,
and liberation to the plight of immigrants and the ill-
treatment of refugees, both in the United States and
in Israel.
Such defiant hope found expression at seder tables
where thoughtful families, friends, and communities
reflected on the lack of civility in public discourse.
Such defiant hope found expression at seder tables
where thoughtful families, friends, and communities
voiced profound concern at religious leaders, move-
ments, and institutions that seem to have lost their
way, cynically sacrificing moral principle and clar-
ity on the altar of political expediency or political
correctness.
The challenge, of course, is to translate such defi-
ant hopes (as pioneered decades ago by the “matzah
of hope”) into meaningful and transformative action
throughout the year, once our seders have concluded
and our Haggadot are back on the shelf.
Rabbi Gillman, also a prolific and eloquent author, iden-
tifies the way forward. Among his most impactful theologi-
cal works are “Shattered Fragments: Recovering Theology
for the Modern Jew,” “Doing Jewish Theology: God, Torah
& Israel in Modern Judaism,” “The Way into Encounter-
ing God in Judaism,” and “The Death of Death: Resurrec-
tion and Immortality in Jewish Thought.” In “The Death
of Death,” Rabbi Gillman reflects:
“The moral quality of the life I lead here on earth is of
importance to God, and … God will hold me responsible
for that life. But moral issues are complex, and human
motivations are obscure. I then forego my right to pass
judgment on my fellow human beings. That judgment I
am prepared to leave in God’s hands, convinced as I am
that, in the words of the liturgical formula I recite upon
hearing of a death, God’s judgment is always true. That
is my hope. That is my expectation.”
In our shared study of the liturgy so many years
ago, Rabbi Gillman also placed special emphasis on
the fact that the Passover Haggadah (through its final
song, “Chad Gadya”) concludes with God destroying
the Angel of Death. Despite his much lamented death,
Rabbi Gillman’s call for moral conduct in the service
of God, and a faith strong enough to inspire non-judg-
mental piety, is very much alive, and continues daily
to fire the imaginations of the countless disciples and
admirers whose hearts and minds he touched through-
out his life.
Will that vision, in the end, prevail in our communi-
ties and in our troubled world?
We can only hope.
Joseph Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 6, 2018 39
Calendar
Saturday  a year, in consultation
april 7
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
has a women’s reading
of Shir Ha-Shirim, 5 p.m.
70 Sterling Place. (201)
833-0515.
Ice cream with rabbi:
Rabbi Debra Orenstein of
Congregation B’nai Israel
in Emerson welcomes
guests to join her for
food and conversation
after Passover at
the Dairy Queen, 13
Kinderkamack Road in
Emerson, 8-8:45 p.m.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Celebrating Pesach’s
end: The Sephardic
Synagogue of Fort
Lee, headed by Rabbi
Ilan Acoca, holds a
mimouna celebration
(the traditional Moroccan
celebration as Pesach
ends), 10 p.m., in a home
in Fort Lee. Email for
address.
Sunday  looted art and preserve
April 8
“Goldstein,” an original new musical about a Jewish
family, is playing off-Broadway at the Actors Temple
Theatre in Manhattan. The play, by the writing/
producing duo Charlie Schulman and Michael Roberts,
is directed by Brad Rouse. The musical explores the
challenges and triumphs of three generations of an
immigrant Jewish American family. 339 West 47th St.,
between Eighth and Ninth avenues. (212) 239-6200 or
www.GoldsteinMusical.com. Jeremy Daniel
Abigail Pogrebin
The Jewish holiday
chronicled: The United
Brunswick St.; building a kosher-for-Passover Synagogue of Hoboken
Friday  entrance on 10th Street
where free parking is
Shabbat dinner, 6:30 p.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
hosts a book brunch
April 6 about “My Jewish Year”
available. Rabbi Aaron (201) 391-0801 or www. with author/former PBS
Katz, (201) 435-5725 or tepv.org.
and 60 Minutes producer
Shabbat in Jersey City: rabbiaaron1@gmail.com. Abigail Pogrebin,
Congregation B’nai
10:30 a.m. She will tell
Jacob holds services Shabbat in Woodcliff
her personal and often
at Hamilton House, Lake: Temple Emanuel
humorous story of the
6-7:30 p.m. Supported by of the Pascack Valley
rituals, fasts, and festivals
the Shuster family. 255 holds “Chefs Night Out,”
40 Jewish Standard APRIL 6, 2018
she observed during Freeman, Holocaust
with more than 60
ethnomusicologist and
the program’s artistic
well-known rabbis. director, will sing. 475
Brunch. 115 Park Ave. Grove St. (201) 444-9320
(201) 659-4000 or office@ or www.synagogue.org.
hobokensynagogue.org.
Monday 
april 9
Movie in Jersey City: Miriam Friedmann
Rabbi Aaron Katz of Morris
Congregation B’nai
Jacob in Jersey City Daughter discusses
hosts a screening of “The father’s art: In
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” commemoration of
4 p.m., at his home. Yom Hashoah, Miriam
(201) 435-5725 or email Friedmann Morris
RabbiAaron1@gmail.com. of Pomona, N.Y., will
discuss “From Chess
Masters to Clydesdales
— Holocaust Survivor
David Friedmann’s Art
Journey.” She will talk
about her quest to find
David Friedmann’s Nazi-
her father’s legacy. At
Ramapo College of New
Jersey Robert A. Scott
Dr. Sylvia Flescher Student Center (alumni
lounges, SC 157-158),
Yom Hashoah in 1 p.m. Under the auspices
Ridgewood: Ridgewood of the Gross Center for
psychoanalyst Dr. Sylvia Holocaust and Genocide
Flescher, the daughter Studies and Hillel of
of Holocaust survivor Ramapo. (201) 684-7409
Joachim Flescher, is the or email holgen@ramapo.
speaker at Temple Israel edu.
& Jewish Community
Center for the town’s
annual community
Tuesday 
commemoration, april 10
7:30 p.m. Interfaith
service led by Rabbi
Dr. David J. Fine. Music
includes the world
premier of “Postlude:
Anne Frank” for choir,
soprano, solo, and harp
by Adam Har-Zvi; the
Heimat String Quartet
will perform “Fantazie
a Fuga,” composed
Odessa Klezmer Band
by Gideon Klein while
he was interned in the
Café Europa in Fair
Terezin concentration Lawn: Café Europa,
camp; the Village
a social program
School Chorus and the
sponsored by Jewish J
Interfaith Adult Choir,
Family & Children’s
conducted by Dr. Tamara
Services of Northern

New Jersey for
Holocaust survivors,
funded by the Claims
Conference, meets at
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/CBI, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Kosher lunch and musical
performance by the
Odessa Klezmer Band.
10-10 Norma Ave.
Register, Shari Brodsky,
(201) 837-9090, ext. 237,
or sharib@jfcsnnj.org.
Film in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth’s adult
education group screens
a Jewish-themed movie,
7:30 p.m., as part of a
“Movies That Matter”
series. Refreshments.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Wednesday  Chico’s and a tricky tray
Calendar
interactive discussion. B’nai Israel in Emerson Opening Night” at a
Networking in Glen
Books available for
sale. 585 Russell Ave.
Thursday  Rock: The Jewish
holds a commemoration
involving high school
private home in Alpine,
2 p.m. Refreshments.
(201) 891-4466 or www. april 12 Business Network group students and younger Reservations,
bethrishon.org. meets at the Kosher children who will Janet Rosenberg,
Nosh Deli, 11:30 a.m. participate in a (201) 768-2374 or
Yom Hashoah in River 894 Prospect St. www. staged reading of Yoyojanet@aol.com.
Edge: Holocaust survivor jbusinessnetwork.net. stories about children
Ernest Mathias discusses during the Holocaust.
Celebrating Israel
“The Last Refuge — The
Jews of Shanghai during in Fort Lee: Marv
Rothenberg and his
9:30 a.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or Singles
World War II” for a joint www.bisrael.com.
daughter-in-law, Talya,
program sponsored
by Temple Avodat share photographs and Volunteer training
Sunday 
Shalom and the JCC of readings celebrating in Englewood: april 8
Paramus/Congregation Israel’s 70th anniversary Englewood Hospital
Rabbi Daniel Fridman at the Fort Lee Library, Senior singles meet in
Beth Tikvah, at and Medical Center
Avodat Shalom, 2 p.m. 320 Main St. holds an information West Nyack: Singles
7 p.m. 385 Howland (201) 592-3614 or www. session for volunteers 65+ meets for a social
Ave. (201) 489-2463 or fortlee.library.org. for its end-of-life doula get-together with
JCCParamus.org. program, at the hospital, refreshments at the JCC
Tricky tray/fashions in
10 a.m. Participants Rockland, 11 a.m. 450
Yom Hashoah Fair Lawn: The Pythian
must be compassionate, West Nyack Road. Gene,
in Englewood: Sisters holds a fashion
dedicated community (845) 356-5525.
Congregation Ahavath show with clothing from
members; they will

april 11
Celebrating Israel in
Wyckoff: As part of
Temple Beth Rishon’s
lunch and learn spring
module and the “One
Book One Community”
project, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
the shul hosts a dairy
lunch, noon. The Israeli
food will be made
from recipes using this
year’s book selection,
“Zahav: A World of Israeli
Cooking.” Afterward,
TBR congregant Stan
Goodman leads an
Torah presents “Who
Lives, Who Dies, Who
Tells Your Story” a
Rabbi Gedalyah Berger
multigenerational
conversation between
Yom Hashoah learning
Holocaust survivors
and second- and third-
generation community
members, 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with
East Hill Synagogue,
Kehillat Kesher, and
Congregation Kol
Haneshamah. 240 Broad
Ave. (201) 568-1315 or
www.ahavathtorah.org.
auction at the Fair Lawn provide comfort and
meaning to patients
Thursday 
Senior Center, 6:30 p.m. april 19
Admission includes a during their last days.
Volunteers receive
sheet of tickets and a
door prize ticket for a comprehensive Widows and widowers
in Teaneck: Rabbi training and continuing meet: Movin’ On, a
touchscreen HP laptop,
Daniel Fridman discusses and refreshments. education. Supported by monthly luncheon
“Teshuvot MiMa’amakim: the Kaplen Foundation. group for widows and
Proceeds will benefit
Responsa from the children’s charities. 11-05 (201) 894-3896 or widowers, meets at
Kovno Ghetto Holocaust EnglewoodHealth.org/ the Glen Rock Jewish
Gardiner Road. Gayle,
& Remembrance,” and (201) 791-0737 or Harriet, calendar. Center, 12:30 p.m. 682
Rabbi Gedalyah Berger Harristown Road. $5 for
(201) 796-2019. Learn about Broadway:
talks about “Be-ma’alot lunch. (201) 652-6624 or
Kedoshim: How Do We Broadway insider Doug email arbgr@aol.com.
Honor Those We Have Sunday  Besterman, a Drama
Desk and Tony Award-
Lost?” for Lamdeinu, april 15 winning orchestrator,
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. All are
welcome. 950 Queen presents “The Making
Yom Hashoah in of a Broadway Musical
Anne Road. lamdeinu.org Emerson: Congregation
or Lamdeinu lamdeinu@ from Beginning to
aol.com.

Archeology program in Teaneck

Shulie Mishkin will talk about
Israeli archeology at Congrega-
tion Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck on
Thursday, April 12, at 8 p.m.
Ms. Mishkin, a well-known
tour guide in Israel who teaches
at Pardes and Matan there,
will details the ways in which
archaeological finds over the
last century have both enriched
Courtesy Turquoise Films

and challenged biblical sto-

ries, focusing on what excava-
tions have revealed about King
Solomon.
For information, call (201) 837-2795.
Shulie Mishkin

Jewish American soldiers in World War II.

PBS to air ‘GI Jews’ documentary
on those who served in World War II
“GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War
II” spotlights the little-known story of
the more than 550,000 American Jews
who served in all branches of the mili-
tary during World War II. The feature-
length documentary features original
interviews with notables, including Mel
Brooks, Carl Reiner, Henry Kissinger,
and the late Bea Cohen.
The film premieres nationwide
Wednesday, April 11, at 10 p.m. on PBS
(check local listings) in honor of Holo-
caust Remembrance Day (April 12). It will
be available to stream the following day
on pbs.org/gijews and on PBS apps.
Holocaust events scheduled
at Museum of Jewish Heritage
The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust offers special
events and programs inside and outside
the museum in commemoration of Holo-
caust Remembrance Day, from Sunday,
April 8, through Thursday, April 26. Dur-
ing this period, museum admission is free
and its hours are extended until 8 p.m.,
from Monday to Thursday.
The programs begin with the largest
Yom Hashoah commemoration in the
metropolitan area — New York’s annual
Gathering of Remembrance, which starts
on April 8, at 2 p.m., at Temple Emanu-
El, 1 East 65th St. in Manhattan. It brings
together more than 2,000 Holocaust sur-
vivors and their families, civic leaders, and
the larger community.
For more information and ticket res-
ervations, go to mjhnyc.org or call (646)
437-4202.

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Crossword
“APRIL FOOLS”
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Across
1. Adidas alternative
5. Four-time Australian Open cham-
pion Andre
11. Like how Aleve and Advil are sold,
briefly
14. Court term, for 5-Across
15. Fill an Uzi again
16. Nes Gadol Haya ___
17. “Spaceballs” star born April 18, 1953
19. Samuel’s High Priest teacher
20. City east of Tel Aviv
21. Secondary hoops event, familiarly
22. Larson who won an Oscar
23. “Lou Grant” actor Ed
25. “Scrubs” star born April 6, 1975
27. Rosa Parks gained fame in one
28. Make like Mikaela Shiffrin
30. Applies less pressure, with ‘up’
31. Facilitate, as a felon
33. Org. that ranked 5-Across
35. “A mouse!”
36. “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”
star born April 29, 1954
41. Some kosher symbols
42. Debater’s position, sometimes
43. Bucks’ mates
45. It comes before a bet?
48. Cleopatra biter
50. Letters avoided by kosher keepers
51. “The Interview” star born April 15,
1982
55. “Ready Player One” locale, with
“the”
57. Running back Eddie
58. Higher power, to many
59. Executive, slangily
60. Shade of blonde
61. “‘Til Death” star born April 14, 1960
65. AKA alternative
66. Fed head Janet
67. Cupid, by a Greek name
68. 57-Across got 13 of ‘em in ‘14
69. Ancient Jewish monastic
70. Bat mitzvah request?
The solution to last week’s puzzle in on page 47.
42 JEWISH STANDARD APRIL 6, 2018
Down
1. Larson’s “The ___ Side”
2. Ex-dictator Amin
3. Franchise operator
4. Jewelry location, perhaps
5. Notable PED user
6. Neighbor of Aus.
7. The youngest Haim sister
8. Former Seattle basketball player,
for short
9. “Thus ___ the L-rd”
10. Driver’s lic. and others
11. “Aida” and “Carmen”
12. “L’chaim!”
13. Travis Kelce and Kareem Hunt’s team
18. Big name in candy bars
22. Slowed, in a car
23. Attorneys’ org.
24. Predicate’s counterpart, grammati-
cally (abbr.)
25. Acne, slangily
26. Burger meat, often
29. Strikeout symbols, in baseball
32. Stanley Cup, e.g.
34. Liveliness
35. Hall-of-Famer Slaughter
37. Region bordering the Rhine
38. Persia, now
39. They’re often boiled alive
40. Pastrami purveyor
44. Jump or Wall: Abbr.
45. Italicized
46. Rented out, as an apartment
47. Engraves with acid
49. Serve, as coffee
52. Shrek’s mishpacha
53. Soccer scores
54. Disorient
56. Network showing a television show,
e.g.
59. Right-minded
61. “Shalom”
62. Ike’s title, before being Pres.
63. “Mazel ___ !”
64. “Joy of Cooking” abbr.
The Frazzled Housewife
Son #3 and the DIY project
that almost went awry ...
I
have to be honest with you…I
wrote this column over a year ago.
It was never printed, so I decided
to resurrect it. You see, many of
you may be home for the Passover holi-
day, and I hope you will be reading my
column. But, many of you are away for
the Passover holiday. So I decided that
since I wrote about my failures with son
#3 last week, that I will take the oppor-
tunity to use this week to demonstrate
how seriously I take being son #3’s
mother. And then next week, I can use
this forum to make fun of all the things
I have witnessed while being away for
Passover. It is really a win-
win. Unless you don’t like
or read my column and then
this will just be appearing on
the floor of a bird or gerbil
cage near you…
So this column will be
dedicated to son #3, and I
will tell you the tale of the
headboard fiasco of 2017.
Per square inch, son #3 Banji
has the nicest room in the Ganchrow
house. I say per square inch
because it is also the small-
est room in the house, but when you are
the last to arrive, you get the last avail- mental face at all of the chocolate that I
able room. In order to make access to the
high riser easier for his old mom (since
I have enabled all of my boys to know
that mom will do everything for them),
we moved his night table against the wall
and the bed next to the night table. This
way, anytime he has a friend sleep over, I a parent to your kid and a friend to your
don’t have to shlep the night table across kid. I am the first to admit that I cross
the room to pull out the bed. (Of course,
since son #2 has been away, his room has
become a dormitory, but that is another
story altogether and I am only allowed to
speak of son #3 this week.)
OK, so we move everything around
and then we discover that his pillows
keep falling off his bed and he really
needs a headboard. Easy, right? No.
Because they didn’t seem to make the
headboard that we were looking for.
Long story short, son #3 and I decided
to make our own headboard. We went
to AC Moore and bought some pieces of
wood. We get home and I hammer the
pieces together and voila — a headboard.
Sort of. Now there is a whole not-spend-
ing-money-element to the story, and
here we thought if we did it ourselves,
we would save money. But then I had
the great idea to call Dani Faber, who is
this amazing carpenter who had fixed
my cracking piano legs a few years back.
The nicest thing about Dani? He didn’t
laugh at us when he saw what we had
hammered together. Now what he did
when he left the house is another story,
but to make a long story short again, he
turned our do-it-yourself headboard into
a real headboard. So much for saving
money, but at least I am no longer afraid
that son #3 is going to be impaled by one
of the really long nails that I had ham-
mered into the very thin wood.
And for the record, son #3 is the
only kid still living in the house, so he
gets lots and lots of attention. He gets
his dinner driven to TABC at least two
nights a week, and gets away with lots
of other stuff we don’t need to go into.
And he really is fun to go
shopping with because
he hasn’t inherited his
father’s Monsey gene
(and for those of you from
Monsey, you know what I
am talking about).
Son #3 was our faithful
companion on our trip
to Israel last winter vaca-
tion (2017). He helped
Husband #1 navigate with
Israeli Waze, he made all
of our day trips highly
entertaining, and he only made one judg-
was consuming (but can you blame me,
some of that stuff is kosher only in Israel.
A girl’s gotta do what she’s gotta do!) And
he even slept over at Sha’alavim one
night so he could bond with his brother.
There is always that fine line of being
the line a lot. I am convinced that the
relationship you have with your chil-
dren is entirely based on the relation-
ship you had with your parents. I never
thought my parents (well my mom spe-
cifically, sorry mom) was my friend. Of
course now she sort of is my friend in
a very unusual and codependent way.
(Good save, right?) But growing up
— not so much. So I try to be my kids’
friend. Sometimes it works and some-
times it doesn’t. But I have to say, son
#3 is a great son and a great grandson.
And if I forgot to mention him, it isn’t
because I don’t love him with all of my
heart, it is because I have narcissistic
personality disorder. And admitting it
is a great first step. Love you kid…Enjoy
the headboard.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck hopes that
son #3 will appreciate this additional
shoutout. Next week, hold on to your
cynical horses, because they will be
galloping all over the place!
 Keeping Kosher
Shul adds spice
to food programs
Cammy Bourcier, the food writer, author, and Israeli
cooking instructor, details how spices can improve your
health and food for the JCC of Northern New Jersey’s
Active Adult program at Temple Beth Or in Washington
Township on Thursday, April 12, at 11:15 a.m. Foods with
spices that are featured in “Zahav: A World of Israeli
Cooking,” this year’s book for the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey’s “One Book One Community”
project, will be served as part of the kosher lunch. The
shul is at 56 Ridgewood Road. For information, call (201)
666-6610, ext. 2, or email RuthB@JCCNNJ.org.
To spice up Shabbat, on Saturday, April 14, Rabbi
Noah Fabricant leads a Havdalah service at Temple
Beth Or at 6 p.m. It will be followed by “Zahav-
Dalah: A Celebration of Israeli Spices,” led by Ms.
Boucier, who is a congregant and teaches Hebrew
school teacher there. The food served will be pre-
pared with recipes and spices featured in “Zahav:
A World of Israeli Cooking.” For information on this
program, go to www.templebethornj.org or call
(201) 664-7422.
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
has scheduled several other events around the book
“Zahav — A World of Israeli Cooking.” Partnering with
the American-Israel Cultural Foundation Concert Series
at Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood, it offers a festive
reception featuring appetizers from “Zahav” on Sunday,
Royal Wine caters to all taste expectations
during its extravaganza at Chelsea Piers
More than 2,500 industry insiders and enthusiasts
attended the recent Kosher Food & Wine Experience
hosted by Royal Wine at Chelsea Piers. More than
700 fine kosher wines and spirits from around the
world were showcased, along with the latest in gour-
met kosher cuisine. More than 35,000 plates of mod-
ern bites were served up to the enthusiastic attend-
ees, including lamb bacon, buffalo meatballs, spicy
Hawaiian poke, lotus doughnuts, bacon-flavored brit-
tle, and pulled beef with veal truffle pate. Not only
were all of these delicacies kosher, but many were
kosher for Passover.
Kosher Food & Wine Experience is produced each
year by Royal Wine, the leading producer, importer,
and distributor of kosher wines and spirits in the
world.
Among the 30 participating restaurants, caterers,
and foods companies were Breadberry, Wandering
Que, Silverleaf Caterers, Great Falls Bistro, Diamond
Caterers, West Wing, Judd’s Memphis Kitchen, Marani,
Abigael’s on Broadway, Grow & Behold, Graze, Pelleh
Poultry, Sabra, Aufshnitt Meats, UN Plaza Grilll &
Sushi, Koshe Poke, Buffalo2Go, Bison & Bourbon, T
Fusion Steakhouse, Heritage Kosher, Le Marais, NY
Brat Factory, Teaneck Doghouse, Sushi Tokyo, Urban-
pops, Wissotzky, Susan Sez “Say it With Cake,” Sesame,
the Nuttery, Dess Frozen Excellence, and Reserve Cut.
April 22 at 3 p.m. For information, call (201) 444-9320.
Later that day, at 7 o’clock, with Congregation Beth Sha-
lom in Pompton Lakes, it offers “A Glimpse of Israeli
Cuisine.” There, after a film on Israeli cooking, Israeli
snacks and desserts from “Zahav,” prepared by book
club members, will be available. For information, go to
www.bethshalomnj.org.
Registration is open for JFNNJ’s culmination of Sisters Lexi and Charlotte Barbach make challah.
this year’s “One Book One Community” project, an
evening with the book’s author, chef Michael Solo-
monov, on Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m., at Temple
First challah bake
Israel & JCC in Ridgewood. is a rising success
For information on any of the upcoming events,
call Elisa Hirsch at JFNNJ, (201) 820-3918, or go to The Academies @ Gerrard Berman Day School hosted
www.jfnnj.org/oboc. its first “Great Family Challah Bake” on March 15 and the
event attracted more than 100 guests. Moms, dads, sons,
daughters, grandparents, and community members gath-
ered at the school to make challah, tapping into an age-old
tradition.
Local author Michal Levison, a GBDS board member and
the founder of “Seasoned Moments,” taught new braiding
techniques. She was accompanied by her daughters. All
funds raised benefit the school’s annual campaign.
Admission included dinner prepared by Ms. Levison,
and two challot for each family to take home.
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Jerome Berman
Jerome “Jerry” Berman,
94, of Paramus, formerly
of Glen Rock, died
March 24.
A CPA, he worked at the
Small Business Adminis-
tration and was an Army
World War II veteran,
going ashore at Omaha
Beach in the Normandy
landings in 1944. He
earned two battle stars
in France, was a member
of the American Division
of the French Legion of
Honor, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 850 in
Glen Rock, and was active
at the Glen Rock Jewish
Center with its ritual and
burial committees.
He is survived by his
wife of 61 years, Marcia,
née Geller, children, Lor-
raine Lehrhoff (Brian), and
Ronald (Faith), and grand-
children, Charles, Andrew,
Ethan, and Sarah.
Contributions can be
sent to the Glen Rock
Jewish Center or Thomas
D. Egan VFW Post 850.
Bella, and Luca.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Paula Rosenblum
Paula L. Rosenblum, née
Lach, 90 of Rockaway
Township, formerly of
Paterson and Fair Lawn,
died March 29.
She graduated Wil-
liam Paterson University
and earned a master’s at
Montclair State University.
Before retiring, she was
a secretary at the Warren
Point Elementary School
in Fair Lawn. She was a
former member of Temple
Avoda in Fair Lawn and
Barnert Temple in Frank-
lin Lakes and was active in
Brandeis Jewish Women
where she was a past
president.
Predeceased by her
husband, Leon, she is sur-
vived by children, Charles
( JoAnne) of North Caro-
lina, Lawrence of Mary-
land, and Lynn Rosenfelt
Todd (Emily), Amy
( Jason), and Sam (Ali), and
five great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made
to the Veritans Club,
Haledon. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Randy Shifrel
Randy Steven Shifrel, 59,
of Bloomfield, formerly
of New Milford, died
March 29.
Before retiring, he
worked in the construc-
tion industry. Predeceased
by his parents, Morris and
Norma Shifrel, he is sur-
vived by his companion,
Corina Carrasco; cousins
Doreen Janes and Scott
Shifrel, and other family
members and friends.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Dr. Alvin
Slomowitz
Dr. Alvin Slomowitz, 94,
of Saddle Brook died
March 28.
Obituaries
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International Day of the Agunah Black Box Rock Musical Theater What’s
gives teens an ‘intense’ experience new in
In observance of International
Agunah Day, held on the Fast
of Esther, the Knesset called
Rock Musical Theater Intensive, Black Box Studios’s popular sum-
mer program for teens with a serious interest in the performing
Parkinson’s
a special session to discuss arts, will run for its ninth season from Monday, July 2, until Sunday, research
the issue of prenuptial agree- August 12, weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (The six show The Jewish Home Family
ments. Yad La’isha: The Mon- dates will be announced soon, and all will fall between August 8 and Englewood Hospital
ica Dennis Goldberg Legal Aid and August 12.) and Medical Center will host
Center and Hotline, an Ohr In the collaborative Rock Musical Theater Intensive program, updates from The Michael
Torah Stone program, placed students aged 13-19 spend a month working on a Broadway-style J. Fox Foundation with
a cage in Tel Aviv’s Habima musical that culminates in a fully-staged production for family, Samantha J. Hutten, Ph.D.,
Square to dramatize the plight friends, the community, and industry professionals. senior associate director of
of these “caged” women who In this total-immersion, collaborative theater experience cre- research programs with the
are metaphorically impris- ated and run by BBS/BBPAC Artistic Director Matt Okin and other foundation.
oned and unable to move on trained professional teaching artists, participants receive hands- This event is open to
with their lives. Members of on instruction in acting, improvisation, voice, dance, stage com- physicians, medical profes-
Knesset and passersby were bat, audition technique and more. Students also explore numer- sionals, elder-care profes-
invited to enter the cage and ous genres of theater as they rehearse and mount a uniquely sionals and members of the
hear firsthand the stories staged, elaborately produced full-length show. Roles (and even community.
of current and former Yad the actual show itself ) are chosen specifically for each partici- It will take place Monday,
La’isha clients. pant to showcase their talents and each the opportunity to grow April 16. Light desert fare at
Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad over the course of the summer. RMTI is limited to the first 25 6:30 p.m.; presentation and
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Visitors will be welcomed

SELLING YOUR HOME? at Lester Senior Housing
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