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FYiSarah Silverman’s sister makes pro-Obama videoJERUSALEM – A video in support of President Obama produced by the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman will begin airing in Florida.The video by Rabbi Susan Silverman, a Reform rabbi who lives in Jerusalem, was posted last week on Facebook. It shows Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in an interview and Israelis through-out the country praising Obama’s support for Israel’s security.

A 30-second version was scheduled to run in Florida television markets on Monday during the foreign policy debate between Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Susan Silverman, who lives in Israel with her husband, Yosef Abramowitz, the CEO of Arava Power, and their five children, be-came involved in making the video after asking her famous sister to make a video about Israelis’ support for Obama.

Sarah Silverman made “The Great Schlep” video in support of Obama four years ago to convince her grandparents and other people’s grandparents to vote for Obama. Earlier this year she made a video asking casino mogul Sheldon Adelson to switch his support to Obama.

The video comes on the heels of an op-ed published in the Jewish Press in which Rabbi Yaakov Rosenblatt criticizes Sarah Silverman for being “crude” and “vulgar.” He suggested that she channel her energy into marrying and having children. The Silvermans’ father, Donald, responded with a vulgar statement of his own.

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Politics in picturesCartoonist will share campaign portfolio with congregation

LOIS GOLDRICH

We’ve all seen one — a dog-eared car-toon hanging on a

friend’s refrigerator.That, says political cartoonist

Jimmy Margulies, is a sign of success.

Margulies, whose own cartoons have found their way to refrigerators and even to the counter of a local drug store — with a cartoon targeting the Medicare drug benefit program — calls this phenomenon the “refrigerator test.”

“Clippings on the refrigerator mean that someone liked it enough that they wanted to put it there,” said Margulies. He should know — he is an editorial cartoonist for The Record.

Margulies, who lives in Ridgewood and is a longtime member of Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center there, will present some of his work at the shul on Oct. 30.

“I was invited because this is a presidential election year,” he said. He reported that he has a large portfolio of slides on the election campaign, and “I also want to include a handful of cartoons that have gotten more than normal reaction on a variety of topics.”

One such reaction — which Margulies calls “a badge of honor” — was the placement of his name on the blacklist of the National Rifle Association.

“The impetus must have been after the Columbine massacre,” suggested the cartoonist, whose cartoon about the shootings was published by the New York Times on the Sunday after it happened and then circulated widely around the Internet.

“It showed a desk and chair in an NRA office with a telephone answering machine producing the message: ‘If you’re calling about a school shooting, press 1: if you’re calling about a post office shooting, press 2….’”

For Margulies — who says that humor is an important part of his work — cartoons are no laughing matter.

While humor is an “effective way to deliver the message and reach people who may not agree with you,” the cartoons themselves reflect a definite political outlook.

“I definitely am extremely vigilant about issues of tolerance and bigotry,” he said, attributing that awareness to “being a member of a group that has suffered centuries of oppression.”

Margulies chooses his own topics, draws the cartoons, and writes his own captions. He said that he writes to express his point of view and “to persuade people to see things the way I do.”

Nor is it simply enough to get a point across. Rather, said the cartoonist, who describes his work as “challenging, rather than stressful,” he wants to do it in a way that stands out, reflecting the kind of creativity that justifies his having an audience.

The idea of becoming a political cartoonist occurred to him when he was an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University.

“I studied graphic design, but about midway through college I hit upon the idea of doing editorial cartoons,” he recalled. “I liked political satire as long as I could understand it. I had been involved in music, playing the guitar. I definitely responded well to satirical songs about civil rights and the Vietnam War. It dawned on me that a career as a folk singer would be tough, so I went for the second hardest thing.”

From that decision, he said, it took more than seven years to achieve his goal.

“I pioneered the term ‘bounce-back person,’” he said, noting that he went back to live with his parents after college. He was able to get a job in the 1970s, when New York City was in dire financial straits and hiring artists to “fill in the gaps — like a latter-day version of the WPA.” (The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, passed by Congress in 1973, was designed to train workers and provide them with jobs in the public service.)

In 1980, Margulies, now 61, got a job with the Journal newspapers, a chain of suburban newspapers in Virginia and Washington, D.C. He remained there until 1984, when he took a position with the Houston Post. In 1990, he moved to The Record.

The nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist for that paper, Margulies’ cartoons appear in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times,

What: Jimmy Margulies will share his portfolio of nationally recognized cartoons from the last 20 years.

Where: Temple Israel, 475 Grove Street, Ridgewood

When: Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free and all are welcome. For information, call (201) 444-9320.

Jimmy Margulies

Time, Time.com, Newsweek, and Business Week, among many other publications through King Features. His cartoons on New Jersey issues are self-syndicated to newspapers and websites all over the state.

His work has garnered many prizes, including the 2007 and 2008 Clarion award for editorial cartoons from the Association for Women in Communications and the 2005 Berryman award for editorial cartoons from the National Press Foundation of Washington, D.C. In 1996 he won both the National Headliner Award for editorial cartoons and the Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition.

“I choose subjects that I know most people are aware of, and [about which] I have something interesting or important to say,” said the cartoonist, who pointed out that he “does his homework” and is an avid follower of the news. “Luckily, I’m given a lot of leeway in terms of editorial freedom.”

At the Record, he said, he happens to agree with the official editorial policy, but even at the Houston Post — where his political views differed — “it didn’t matter.”

He noted that feedback from the public varies with the political cartoon. On controversial issues, such as this summer’s flap over Chick-fil-A, he got many responses. Still, he said, “If it wasn’t getting some people angry, it wouldn’t be effective.”

With newspapers being threatened by online news venues, Margulies pointed out that not only are his cartoons available online but that there are iPhone apps for them.

“I’m up to the minute,” he joked, “though I would be more concerned with the fate of newspapers if I were younger than I am.”

He pointed out with the newspaper business contracting, editorial cartoonists have been hit particularly hard.

“There aren’t that many of us left,” he said. “I’m the only full-time newspaper staff cartoonist in the state of New Jersey.”

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When blind faith proves costlyPlaywright deb Margolin talks about her ‘imagining Madoff’

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When Circus Amok founder Jennifer Miller asked play-wright/actor Deb Margolin

of Montvale to write some monologues for a vaudeville-style piece she was cre-ating about Bernie Madoff, Margolin did not bother doing biographical research. The truth she was looking for was not going to be found on Wikipedia. Instead, she began to imagine who Madoff really was. “I advise my students to listen for the voice of the character,” Margolin said in an interview with the Jewish Standard recently.

At the time, Madoff was under house arrest for carrying out the greatest Ponzi scheme ever. A major macher in the organized Jewish community, he was revered as a brilliant money manager until many organizations and individual investors discovered that their gains were illusory. Madoff pleaded guilty to fraud and is serving a 150-year sentence in federal prison.

The success of Circus Amok’s “Cracked Ice” whetted Margolin’s appetite for a deeper investigation of Madoff. “What would my inner architecture need to be” to betray so many friends and colleagues, she asked herself. Margolin’s answer to that question was her play “Imagining Madoff,” now being presented by the Garage

Theater Group at the Becton Theatre at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck.

“Imagining Madoff” is different from Margolin’s previous efforts, which include such works as “Three Seconds in the Key” and “Rock, Scissors, Paper.” For one thing, “most of my plays have not been about men,” she said, and much of her work has been solo performance. Although she wrote the play before the many revelations about Madoff’s doings, “Imagining Madoff” presaged many details that were divulged later.

Margolin doubts that Madoff initially intended to defraud his investors. When things went wrong, he could not

acknowledge his failure, she believes. The fact that no one caught him for thirty-odd years proves that many Americans are willing not to ask questions about the numbers. “Everyone said the math doesn’t add up,” she pointed out, yet people kept investing. They had faith in Bernie’s brilliance, and faith preempts the need to dig. “With faith, you don’t have to work,” Margolin said. “That’s what this play is investigating.”

“Imagining Madoff” became embroiled in a controversy before it ever appeared on a stage. An accomplished monologist, Margolin wrote the play as a series of monologues between different characters. One

of those characters originally was Elie Wiesel, who has acknowledged that he and his foundation lost millions in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. As a courtesy, Margolin sent the script to Wiesel before the play was scheduled to be produced at Theater J in Washington, D.C. To her surprise, Wiesel was furious at her depiction, described the play as obscene and defamatory, and threatened to take legal action. Theater J quickly apologized to the Wiesel Foundation and bowed out of the production after Margolin refused to let the foundation have final approval after a year’s moratorium.

Margolin changed the name of the character to Solomon Galkin, a Holocaust survivor, translator, and poet. “It was a very fast edit. [The character] stood in for the great moral Jew of our time,” she said. “He was fictional to begin with.” “Imagining Madoff” was initially produced at Stageworks/Hudson, and eventually at Theater J. “The play went on with its life,” Margolin said. Although the experience was distressing, Margolin remains a fan of Theater J and its artistic director, Ari Roth. “I’m glad he and I were able to come together. That theater is alive with important debates about the cultural moment.”

Margolin grew up in Westchester County. She went to college at NYU, where her father was a professor, and she is now a professor in Yale’s undergraduate theater studies program. She feels glad to be able to share her play with her own community, she said, and there has been a reading at her Congregation Temple Beth Sholom in Park Ridge.

“We don’t like being reminded of our mistakes,” Margolin said when asked about Wiesel’s motivations. In that, he shared something with Madoff, who in her view also could not deal with his financial errors. “When all is said and done, Bernie Madoff and Elie Wiesel are just men,” Margolin said. “That’s the beauty of theater, that it can investigate these depths.”

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Sparks illuminates issues surrounding postpartum depressionMiryaM Z. WahrMan, Ph.D.

More than one out of eight mothers who give birth experience postpartum depression, or PPD.

But, according to Esther Kenigsberg, “Before Sparks opened I don’t remember anyone writing about it.” Kenigsberg, who lives in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and worked in schools counseling children, observed that many children were affected by postpartum depression in their families. This motivated her to found the Sparks organization — the initials come from its full mission, which is “Serving Pre- and postnatal women and families with Awareness, Relief, Knowledge and Support.”

“I’ve seen how many kids are in deep trouble, and it’s not their fault,” Kenigsberg said. She noted that when postpartum depression occurs, “the two primary victims are the mother and her infant.” When the newborn baby has problems bonding with the mother, that child later may experience emotional problems stemming from her mother’s depression during his or her early develop-mental stage. But other members of the family, including older children, become secondary victims, who also suf-fer from their mother’s depression.

Sparks, together with co-sponsors Jewish Family Services of Bergen and North Hudson and JFS of North Jersey, is offering a program on Oct. 28 to discuss “Dynamics of Family Life: The Health of the Mother Before and After Birth.” The event, which includes social worker Professor Susan Dowd Stone as its keynote speak-er, a video presentation, and workshops on various as-pects of PPD, is the first event run by Sparks in northern New Jersey. It is designed to raise awareness and provide resources for postpartum depression.

Who is at risk?According to a 1996 research article in the

International Review of Psychiatry, the prevalence of postpartum depression is approximately 13 percent. That meta-analysis of many varied studies combined data on 59 different studies on PPD, and included more than 12,000 subjects. The authors concluded that stron-gest predictors of PPD were women who had a “past his-tory of psychopathology and psychological disturbance during pregnancy, poor marital relationships and low social support and stressful life events. Less family in-come and lower occupational status are associated with increased risk,” the report said. Social support available to the mother was a major factor in predicting risk, which underscores how important awareness and support net-works are for all expectant and new mothers. Factors that did not appear to correlate with PPD risk included the age of the mother, her marital status, how long she had been in the relationship, her level of education, the num-ber of children that she had, and her employment status during pregnancy.

In concert with that landmark study, the Sparks web-site, www.sparkscenter.org, encourages awareness and support networks for women who are at risk for PPD. It provides information, testimonials, support groups, and events, as well as newsletters about PPD. The web-site includes a video testimonial featuring Elie Abadei, M.D., who is both a physician and the rabbi of the Safra Synagogue in midtown Manhattan. He notes that Sparks provides “an all-encompassing approach: physical, psy-chological and spiritual” to address PPD.

“Postpartum depression changes the dynamics of the family,” Abadei says in the video. “Other children suffer greatly. The baby suffers greatly…” He explains that Sparks’ first goal is “public awareness … to bring the issue of postpartum depression to the community

and let them know it’s something that exists… to see it as something not to be ashamed of and something that there is help for.”

Abadei also describes the work of “Esther [Kenigsberg, who] has dedicated her time, money and efforts to make sure that the organization serves the people.… It’s very professional, and at the same time very personable and very caring.”

“There are hormonal changes in life, perinatal, after birth, and during the monthly cycle,” said Kenigsberg, who not only founded Sparks but is now its executive director. “Doctors let you know about the physical issues, but don’t let you know about the anxiety and the emo-tional part. We have training, a hotline, support groups, and mentors.”

“We start with the awareness and continue with ser-vices that are needed until the mother is getting well,” she said. Postpartum depression occurs in “more than one in eight births. If the mother suffered once, she is at higher risk another time.”

Kenigsberg explained that PPD may appear to occur more in Orthodox Jewish families because they have more children. “Each birth is a risk,” she said. However, she added that “most phone calls [to the hotline] come in after the third child. For earlier births the mother may have had some symptoms but somehow controlled her-self.” She said that it is not known why PPD occurs more often after the third child, but it is not merely the stress of having two other small children, since it is also observed when the first two children are older.

According to Kenigsberg, emotional triggers that could increase risk include such major life changes as divorce, moving, changing jobs. Physical stresses, such as lack of sleep, could trigger an episode. The mother “needs at least five uninterrupted hours of sleep,” she said. “Good nutrition is also important. She needs folic acid, amino acids, minerals…”

Ironically, infertility treatments can be a trigger for postpartum depression. Infertile women may have been exposed to high doses of hormones to induce ovulation and to maintain the pregnancy. Kenigsberg has observed that “because of the physiological responses to hormon-al treatments [used for infertility] ... couples who finally had the child they were so desperately waiting for” may be at high risk for PPD.

“We give education – what they can do to prevent it,” Kenigsberg continued. “We look at the whole gestalt and see what is going on. Is there a family history of depres-sion, anxiety, bipolar disorder?

“The woman’s hormones are not in balance. It takes a year [after pregnancy] to go back to balance,” she said. “Because chemically everything is upside down we send the woman for a complete checkup. Thyroid testing, insulin levels, Vitamin B, we use medical and holistic approaches.

“We cover it from different angles,” she continued, and address “how to manage the stress. During that time don’t change jobs, don’t get divorced, make no major changes.

“Giving birth to a child causes changes in hormones, such that a trauma from 20 years ago, from childhood, can come up,” Kenigsberg said. “We say ‘when the ocean is moving a lot of garbage comes out.’ In easy cases, she is not at her best. In the worst cases, [a woman with PPD] can be suicidal or violent.”

Kenigsberg and Sparks also have spearheaded the publication of a new magazine, True Balance: Nourishing the Body, Mind and Spirit of Today’s Woman. This quar-terly publication has features on health, relationships, and emotional growth. A recent issue had an article called “Love Your Baby,” as well as an article by psychia-trist Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski of Teaneck, who has been an advocate for Sparks.

“Untreated ante and postpartum disorders can be shattering to the life of the mother, infant and entire fam-

ily…” Twerski wrote. “The public educational programs of Sparks and the services it provides are truly a precious gift to humanity.”

Dynamics of Family Life: The Health of the Mother Before and After Birth is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 28, from 3 to 6 p.m. at Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland Ave., River Edge. Speakers will include Professor Susan Dowd Stone, MSW, LCSW; Dr. James Forster; Elyse Goldstein; Rus Devorah (Darcy) Wallen, LCSW, ACSW; Sheila B. Steinbach, LPC; and Lauryn Tuchman, LCSW. The program is co-sponsored by Sparks, JFS of Bergen and North Hudson and JFS of North Jersey. Refreshments will be served and dietary laws strictly observed. Parking is available at the site. It is open to the entire community.

Information on Sparks can be found at www.spark-scenter.org. For information on True Balance magazine email [email protected].

Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman is professor of biology at William Pat-erson University of New Jersey. Author of “Brave New Judaism,” Wahrman has developed and teaches graduate courses in bio-ethics and research methodology.

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“Doctors let you know about the physical issues, but don’t let you know about the anxiety and the emotional part. We have training, a hotline, support groups, and mentors.”

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Local cemetery owners sign pactarea rabbis have not yet taken a position on the agreement

Larry yudeLson

Nearly two years of meetings between cemetery owners, rabbis, and state leg-islators have produced their first con-

crete result: Three cemetery owners have signed an agreement that will smooth the way to buri-als on Sundays and legal holidays, and end the requirement of cash payments to cemeteries that are not equipped to take credit cards.

The rabbis, however, have yet to take a posi-tion on the agreement.

Beth Israel Cemetery, Cedar Park Cemetery, and Riverside Cemetery, whose representatives signed the agreement, are among the leading Jewish cemeteries in the state.

The agreement does not deal with all the is-sues raised over the last five years by the North Jersey Board of Rabbis, including a major Jewish concern: The high price of Sunday burials. Jewish tradition urges that the dead be buried as soon as possible, but not on Shabbat.

The agreement was announced last week in a press release from the office of Assemblyman Gary Schaer, who took part in the meetings along with State Senator Loretta Weinberg. The meetings were facilitated by the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federations of Northern New Jersey, and took place at the federation’s offices.

“It’s a tremendous accomplishment,” Schaer said.

“When I first dealt with the issue, the only thing I would hear is that no one would sit with anyone else.

“This is not everything that we wanted, but this is a process and certainly further along the road than we have been,” he said.

The Board of Rabbis, which participated in the meetings, has not signed on to it yet, or even discussed it.

“We have not yet gotten around to discussing this agreement,” Rabbi Benjamin Shull, the rab-binical body’s president, said. “We planned to, but circumstances prevented it at our October meeting. We are not yet signatories, and have not taken any formal position as yet. We hope to do so at our November meeting.”

“I’m encouraged by any progress on the is-sue,” said Rabbi Steven Sirbu, who represented the Board of Rabbis in many of the meetings. He, like Shull, said that the November meeting will be the place to discuss the pact’s terms.

Rabbi Neal Borovitz, who chairs the JCR, was in Israel this week and could not be reached for this story. Schaer said that it his understanding, based on “extensive com-munication” with Borovitz and other rabbis, that “we all seem to be on board,” although Shull’s and Sirbu’s state-ments contradict that.

The agreement calls for a meeting in six months, and

“periodically thereafter,” to evaluate the progress on the issues.

“Hopefully, we will soon be able to deal with the issue of affordability” of Sunday and holiday burials, Schaer said.

Weinberg said that while “I’m happy we got this far, it’s not the end of the road.

“I admire the rabbis for their ability to articulate their problems, and admire the cemeteries in trying to react in the best way possible,” she said. “I don’t think it replaces legislation.”

Weinberg has had two bills pending in Trenton, which she now hopes to move to committee consideration be-fore the end of the year. One will change the makeup of the state cemetery board, which regulates cemeteries, so it no longer will be made up mostly of cemetery representa-tives. The other would provide for caps on cemetery fees.

Schaer, however, said he disagreed with Weinberg about the role of legislation, saying he would prefer to deal with the issues through discussion and negotiation, rather than “the strong arm of government.”

“I’ve made it clear to the cemeteries that on my part, as long as the discussions are ongoing and serious, I would rather deal with the matters at hand more informally, rather than under statehouse law,” he said.

In their memorandum of understanding, the cemetery owners commit to raising the question of holiday buri-als in their next union negotiations. “Reasonable holiday compensation to staff will be offered and appropriate costs passed through to families,” the agreement says.

Holiday burials would be guaranteed if the request is called in before 9 a.m., and would have to take place by 1 p.m. The cemeteries also commit to trying to accommo-date requests for burials after their normal hours, when daylight hours permit.

The complete memorandum of understanding can be viewed at http://bit.ly/js-mou.

Gary Schaer

Loretta Weinberg

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Man on a missiondonniel hartman returns to Bergen to re-educate it about israel

Larry yudeLson

When Rabbi Donniel Hartman speaks at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades next week, it will

be his first time back at the institution where served as scholar-in-residence from 1984 through 1995.

Now Hartman heads the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Founded by his father, Rabbi David Hartman, and named for his grandfather, the Hartman Institute’s current focus is reflected in the iEngage program being offered at area synagogues and institutions with the support of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. The program aims to reorient the conversation about Israel to one about Jewish values.

The younger Hartman grew up in Montreal, where his father served as rabbi of large, modern Orthodox congregation. When he was 13 his family made aliyah, and he attended high school in Jerusalem. In Israel, he served in the army, studied in yeshivah, was ordained as a rabbi, and received his undergraduate degree.

But his time in New Jersey was part of his education, too.

“It was a life-changing experience,” he said. “It really shaped in a deep way all my career, and all my teachings.

“The most important thing I took away was the need

to teach a Judaism which Jews of whatever denomination could feel comfortable with.

“One of the things I felt very strongly about was the idea of serving the totality of the Jewish people, where they were at; not necessarily standing on a mountain and waiting for them to come to you,” he said.

This JCC experience led to the institute’s present work on Israel-diaspora relations.

“I knew Judaism had to have multiple ways and access points for Jews of

different ways and denominations,” he said. “We didn’t have that when it came to Israel. When we come to Israeli with only one access point, Israel and the Jewish people lose.”

Traditionally, that access point has been one of crisis: Israel is endangered and the diaspora has to support it to save it. Hartman believes that message does not work anymore: “In a world where Jews don’t have to be Jewish, you’re not going to sell Judaism through crisis and death, and you’re not going to sell Israel that way,” he said.

“Why would Jews want to choose to be involved with something that’s always dying? Unless Israel is meaningful, unless Israel is enriching, unless the partnership with Israel is challenging people to add

dimensions to who they are, the significance wears off and it’s just a burden.”

A couple of years ago, Hartman, along with many other educators, began to recognize that a shift was occurring in American Jewry. Israel was not as central to Jewish identity as it had been.

“There was a group of the committed who was still there, but the committed group was becoming smaller and increasingly talking to themselves, and developing the notion that to be a lover of Israel you have to be like them,” he said.

Hartman distinguished between his approach — creating meaning-based conversations — with what he calls “the hasbara paradigm,” referring to the Hebrew word meaning explanation or propaganda, that assumes “if I can get you to know this fact, you’ll be just like me. If you just had this fact, you’ll change your opinion.

“So you love your spokespeople who say what you want to say, without even asking, ‘are you convincing anyone else?’

“One of the things that we all know is that people don’t shape their opinions on the basis of facts. They pick their facts on the basis of their opinions,” he said.

“Jewish education at its best crafts new ideas and new messages to make Judaism relevant in a changing world. When it comes to Israel, we’re rigid like the ultra-

Israel in contextshabbat scholars offer surprising perspectives

Joanne PaLmer

Israel seems to be on everyone’s mind right now.

We heard that clearly in the presidential debates. But dig just a bit below the surface, below the fireworks and bellowing smoke of presidential politics, and you learn that younger Jews increasingly care less about the Jewish state.

That’s why the Hartman program, iEngage, is trying to advance Americans’ understanding of the country, on the theory that you can more truly love what you more fully understand.

Many Jewish institutions across the area are using the iEngage program, which is funded by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and some are adding their own speakers and programs to it. That group includes Temple Emanu-El of Closter, which will host two speakers in residence over the next two Shabbatot, among many other people and programs.

Yossi Klein Halevi, a well-known and highly accomplished journalist, writer, and speaker who made aliyah about 30 years ago, also is a senior scholar at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He will be scholar-in-residence this

Shabbat, and he will talk, he said, about the current crisis in Israel. That, he pointed out in a phone interview, is a title that would always apply to Israel, now matter what the crisis might be.

The crisis now, though, he said, is dire.“We’re really at an extraordinary

moment,” he said. “On the one hand, the external threats haven’t been as acute as they are now at any time since 1967. Not even in 1973,” which was the year of the Yom Kippur War. That, he said, is because the war started and ended quickly. The situation today — he’s talking about Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, “and everything else we’re facing” — has built up over many years.

On the other hand, he continued, “many Israelis’ attention is on internal issues.

“That’s counterintuitive. We’ve always deferred dealing with domestic issues because of what we call hamatzav — the situation — but now the external situation is really acute, and Israelis are focused elsewhere. That may be a useful survival technique, or maybe there’s an element of denial about it.”

Israel’s elections are scheduled for

early in 2013 — its parliamentary system demands that dates be penciled rather than chiseled onto calendars — and the question of the price of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s genuinely achieved stability will be raised, Halevi said. “On Israeli radio these days, the interesting thing is that the left-winger will begin by saying that there is no denying the fact that as the region is roiling and the world economy is shaking, Natanyahu has brought stability. That’s from the left! On the right, you hear that Israelis are hurting and people are wondering about the future.”

Halevi worries that “there is an emerging liberal narrative of Israel that is partly true, and because it’s partly true it’s fundamentally distorted. There are ugly snapshots that are indicative of certain trends in Israel” — here, he was talking

specifically about the arrest of the Women of the Wall’s leader, Anat Hoffman, for saying the Sh’ma out loud in the women’s section of the Kotel — “but if those become the totality of how liberal Jews think of Israel, then it will be as distorting as your parents’ view of Israel as being Ari Ben-Canaan.” (Ari Ben-Canaan was the hero of Leon Uris’s novel “Exodus”; he was as lion-hearted as his first name demanded, and because he was played by Paul Newman in the movie, his name evokes visions of lean, blond, blue-eyed wiry glamor.)

“American Jews finally began to look at Israel more closely, which is something that should have happened years ago,” Halevi said. “But the lens they’re using is so narrow, and in some senses so self-referential, that liberal American Jews will

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Orthodox world; there’s only one truth and anyone who disagrees with us is a traitor and a deviant. For someone who is a lover of Israel, that’s dangerous. What makes it even more complex is the people who are pushing for it are the greatest lovers of Israel. It’s not our enemies who are creating a mediocre message. It’s our friends.

“It’s not an either-or paradigm,” he continued. “There is a place for hasbarah, and Israel faces dangers we have to worry about. But it can’t be the only thing we have to worry about.”

The religious pluralism that Hartman attributes to his JCC experience is, he said, one of the ways in which he has diverged from the teachings of his father, who he said is the “teacher with the most significant impact on my life. Much of my work and where I’m taking the Institute are founded on many of the teachings my father brought me. Much of the iEngage project is a continuation of the ideas that led him to make aliyah: seeing Israel as a

place where a renaissance came forth.”Some of the differences between

Hartman and his father have to do with age; “some have to do with the times we live in.”

Others have to do with their different upbringings. The elder Hartman, in his recent book, “The God Who Hates Lies: Confronting and Rethinking Jewish Tradition,” writes of leaving an ultra-Orthodox yeshivah for Yeshiva University, and then breaking with his teacher Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik to take a more lenient approach to Jewish law.

For the younger Hartman, “I don’t have either ultra-Orthodoxy or Orthodoxy in my closet. I’m an Orthodox Jew, but that’s not the significant other I have to prove myself to. I’m not fighting that battle.”

One more major difference: “While I believe Israeli is essential to Jewish life, I don’t believe it is the only center of Jewish life. I think there will be a Torah coming out of Zion, but there will be a Torah coming out of North America too.”

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end up making the same mistake their parents did, in the other direction.

“There is an anti-Leon Uris narrative emerging that is as distorting as the original.

“That is not to underestimate what happened to the Women of the Wall,” he added. “There is an outrageous lack of respect for the non-Orthodox denominations from the top. But if one understands that there is no one Israel but a multitude of Israels, which reflect the reality of the ingathering of dozens of Jewish communities around the world, then one would relate to Israel in a more expansive and nuanced way.

“Israel is a wonderfully chaotic, anarchic society,” he said. “How wide a lens will you use to look at it?” It should be a very wide lens, he suggested.

Dr. Rachel Korazim, who followed a career in the Jewish Agency with her new life as a freelance educator with a part-time connection to the Hartman Institute, will be at Emanu-El the next Shabbat, which begins Nov. 2. In a Skype interview from Israel, she said that an assumption underlying much of her work is that the old paradigms governing the way we see Israel no longer work. One classical

paradigm is made clear in the lament, “By the waters of Babylon, we sat and wept when we remembered Zion,” from Psalm 137. The other is apparent in Judah Halevi’s early 12th century poem that begins “My heart is in the East, and I am at the edge of the West.” In the first paradigm, we are in exile; in the second, we are living in beauty but Jerusalem is in ruins. “But for the last 60-odd years, both exiles and Jerusalem are doing fine,” she said.

Jerusalem certainly is not trouble-free, but it is flourishing, and Jews in exile live very well and have built fulfilling and actively Jewish lives. “We have to create a paradigm that allows for two success stories,” Korazim said.

At Emanu-El, she will teach a series that she thinks of as providing windows into Israeli society through literature.

“When you live outside Israel, there are various platforms or ways to get to know Israel,” she said. “It can be the Israel of the synagogue, or the Israel of fund-raising, or the Israel of the media. When you come to Israel often you take a tour, and it will show the highlights, but not necessarily the heart. When you are invited into the literature, you are invited into the intimate discourse of Israelis.”

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Lone soldiers grow upFriends of the idF remember — and help

Joanne Palmer

It’s not exactly a case of being careful about what you wish for in this case — but it’s not entirely different either.Often — increasingly — young diaspora Jews go to

Israel to join the army, full of idealistic fervor. They find a chance to serve the Jewish people and the Jewish state, and to challenge themselves at the same time.

It is noble and often transforming. The army is the blast furnace that melds people into lifelong relationships. It is the smelter that refines them into being more of exactly who they are.

It’s also often very hard, particularly for young “lone soldiers” with no immediate family close by, able to coddle them during their time off and keep the housekeeping details of their lives moving along when they are on duty. Lone soldiers generally have very little money; they are paid a bit more than other soldiers, but they must use that salary for basic expenses whenever they are off base.

Three Jewish guys who served together in Tzahal (the Hebrew acronym for Israel Defense Forces, or IDF) around 1970 remember all of that clearly. None of them remained in Israel, but their IDF experiences were formative. Two of them were lone soldiers — Mike Gross is from London, and Sammy Bar-Or, born in Iran, made aliyah by himself when he was 13. Later, Bar-Or moved to the United States and spent many years living in Saddle River.

A third friend from the same paratrooper unit, Avi Oren, a native Israeli who later moved to West Orange, founded a New Jersey group to support lone soldiers. In 2005, they joined forces with the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, or FIDF, glad to be able to use the larger organization’s structure and resources. Today their group is FIDF’s New Jersey chapter, and Bar-Or is on the parent group’s board.

A dinner set for Nov. 3 at the Sheraton Meadowland Hotel in East Rutherford will raise money for the chapter. (See box for details.)

“In 1967, I went over to Israel with my brother to join the army, and to my amazement I was taken into the army as a driver,” Gross said. “A driver had been killed, and they didn’t have another replacement.”

He was 19. He served in the elite Golani Brigade as a volunteer for a year, went home, and came back again in 1969 “and joined the army proper. I went into the paratrooper brigade, and was blessed by being with a fantastic group of guys,” a group that included Bar-Or and Oren. This was during the so-called war of attrition; the soldiers “were very young, and we lost quite a few men,” Gross said.

There was less understanding of the particular stresses lone soldiers faced then, Bar-Or said. “In 1970, they didn’t know what a lone soldier was,” he said. There were fewer young diaspora Jews, like Gross, in the IDF then, but there were many more who, like Bar-Or, had made aliyah without their parents or siblings. The two young lone soldiers became close very quickly, and their friendship, three decades later, is deep.

Gross finished his IDF stint just before Yom Kippur 1973 and went home. He went directly from his London shul back to Israel — on Yom Kippur, of course, the day the war broke out — and rejoined the army. “We were the farthest group of soldiers on the road toward Cairo, going south, when they stopped us,” he said. The war had ended.

He stayed in for another two years and then returned to make his life in London, but the IDF was firmly lodged in his heart.

While he was still in the IDF, Gross had started something he called Fun Days, a daylong retreat for lone soldiers. “I found a very nice Canadian family named Silver in 1971, who wanted to do something for soldiers.” The first Fun Day was in the Sharon Hotel in Herzylia, and it

attracted somewhere between 50 and 60 soldiers. “They still talk about it today,” Gross said.

Bar-Or, Gross, and Oren all were successful in their careers, all felt the need to give back, and each had something to give. They went to Israel together in 2002, “and I saw that some lone soldiers didn’t have much to eat, and they didn’t have much money. They needed help, so we decided to do something.”

At first, he thought “it would be easy,” Bar-Or said. “I have thousands of friends, and each one will give $100,000. But then I realized that it wouldn’t be so easy.”

The three began small, with a Fun Day for about 150 lone soldiers. That first event led to televised fundraising, which soon got the three men connected to the FIDF.

Gross, who said he’s been retired “for many years,” devotes himself to volunteer work for the IDF and for disadvantaged children in Israel. He feels particularly drawn to lone soldiers. To explain why, he begins by describing how the Israeli government defines them:

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WASHINGTON – George McGovern is widely remem-bered for advocating immediate American withdrawal from Vietnam and sharp reductions in defense spending.

Yet despite his reputation as a pacifist, the former U.S. senator and 1972 presidential candidate, who died Sunday at 90, did believe there were times when America should use military force abroad.

Case in point: the Allies’ failure to bomb Auschwitz, an episode with which McGovern had a little-known per-sonal connection.

In June 1944, the Roosevelt administration received a detailed report about Auschwitz from two escapees who described the mass-murder process and drew diagrams pinpointing the gas chambers and crematoria. Jewish organizations repeatedly asked U.S. officials to order the bombing of Auschwitz and the railroad lines leading to the camp. The proposal was rejected on the grounds that it would require “considerable diversion” of planes that were needed elsewhere for the war effort. One U.S. official claimed that bombing Auschwitz “might provoke even more vindictive action by the Germans.”

Enter McGovern. In World War II, the 22-year-old son of a South Dakota pastor piloted a B-24 “Liberator” bomber. Among his targets: German synthetic oil facto-ries in occupied Poland. Some of them were less than five miles from the Auschwitz gas chambers.

In 2004, McGovern spoke on camera for the first time about those experiences in a meeting organized by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies with Holocaust survivor and philanthropist Sigmund Rolat and filmmakers Stuart Erdheim and Chaim Hecht.

McGovern dismissed the Roosevelt administration’s claims about the diversion of planes. The argument was just “a rationalization,” he said, noting that no diversions would have been needed when he and other U.S pilots already were flying over that area.

Ironically, the Allies did divert military resources for other reasons. For example, in 1943 FDR ordered the Army to divert money and manpower to rescue artwork and historic monuments in Europe’s battle zones. The British provided ships to bring 20,000 Muslims on a re-ligious pilgrimage from Egypt to Mecca in the middle of the war. Gen. George Patton even diverted U.S. troops in Austria to save 150 of the famous Lipizzaner dancing horses.

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“Boys and girls who come from abroad and so have no parents in Israel; orphans; kids whose parents normally live in Israel but are living abroad — sons and daughters of ambassadors, or people who work for technology companies, but the sons and daughters have to go into the army.”

He cares about all of them, he said.“But the ones I care most about are the

ones from charedi families. If the kids go into the army, they are totally cut off from their families. They are totally disowned. There are hundreds of them. And they never ask for anything. I have kids who don’t have clothes when they leave the army, and they go to wherever it is they are calling home.

“Once a kid is recognized as a lone soldier — and they have to go through a process to be recognized — they get a bit more help. They get a bed in a room.”

There is a special program for disadvantaged soldiers, he said. “They serve for three years, but six months before the end of it they go to a special education base. It’s for kids who are not educated in the normal sense of the words — mainly charedim. They are given the chance to study for their bagrut” — a high school matriculation certificate. “All their lives, these kids have been learning Gemara. They know nothing about math, history, English, science.

“These kids are my passion,” he said. “It’s the two sides of Israel.”

Seth Rosenberger is the New Jersey FIDF chapter director. He is a former lone soldier, and that experience has driven his job choice.

“I know what it’s like,” he said. “Lone soldiers are paid about $350 a month. Beer costs about $8, and a sandwich is about $10. It’s very hard to live.”

In general, the FIDF focuses on three things — education programs to show IDF recruits from outside Israel what the country really is like, or to teach them about Judaism. (Many lone soldiers are from Ethiopia or the former Soviet Union, and have many knowledge gaps to fill.) Other education programs offer scholarships to soldiers once they leave the IDF or focus on the well-being of families while their children serve. The third set of programs builds shuls on army bases. In New Jersey, the FIDF concentrates mainly on lone soldiers because so many of them come from this state.

The Fun Days that Gross, Bar-Or, and Oren began and the New Jersey chapter funds “not only took you out of army life, it gave you a chance to relax, and even more importantly to have the opportunity to be around other people who are going through what you’re going through,” Rosenberger said. It was a kind of group therapy, and it was important because “being in the Israeli army is not an easy thing to do.”

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“There is no question we should have attempted ... to go after Auschwitz,” McGovern said in the interview. “There was a pretty good chance we could have blasted those rail lines off the face of the earth, which would have interrupted the flow of people to those death chambers, and we had a pretty good chance of knocking out those gas ovens.”

Even if there was a danger of acciden-

tally harming some of the prisoners, “it was certainly worth the effort, despite all the risks,” McGovern said, because the prisoners were already “doomed to death” and an Allied bombing attack might have slowed down the mass-murder process, thus saving many more lives.

At the time, 16-year-old Elie Wiesel was part of a slave labor battalion stationed just outside the main camp of Auschwitz. Many years later, in his best-selling book “Night,” Wiesel described a U.S. bombing raid on the oil factories that he witnessed.

“If a bomb had fallen on the blocks [the prisoners’ barracks], it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death,” Wiesel wrote. “Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confi-dence in life. The raid lasted over an hour. If it could only have lasted ten times ten hours!”

At the time, McGovern and his fellow pilots had no idea what was happening in Auschwitz.

“I attended every briefing that the Air Force gave to us,” he said. “I heard ev-

eryone, from generals on down. I never heard once mentioned the possibility that the United States Air Force might inter-dict against the gas chambers.”

Ironically, in one raid, several stray bombs from McGovern’s squadron missed the oil factory they were targeting and accidentally struck an SS sick bay, killing five SS men.

McGovern said that if his command-ers had asked for volunteers to bomb the death camp, “whole crews would have volunteered.” Most soldiers understood that the war against the Nazis was not just a military struggle but a moral one as well. In his view they would have recognized the importance of trying to interrupt the mass-murder process, even if it meant endangering their own lives in a risky bombing raid.

Indeed, the Allies’ air drops of sup-plies to the Polish Home Army rebels in Warsaw in August 1944 were carried out by volunteers, who agreed to undertake the missions despite the hazards of flying their planes to areas outside their normal range.

McGovern noted that he remained an ardent admirer of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“Franklin Roosevelt was a great man and he was my political hero,” he said. “But I think he made two great mistakes in World War II.” One was the internment of Japanese Americans; the other was the decision “not to go after Auschwitz.... God forgive us for that tragic miscalculation.”

In contrast with his pacifist image, McGovern emphasized that for him, the central lesson of the U.S. failure to bomb Auschwitz was the need for “a determi-nation that never again will we fail to ex-ercise the full capacity of our strength in that direction.”

He added, “We should have gone all out [against Auschwitz], and we must never again permit genocide.”

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Rafael Medoff is founding director of the Da-vid S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author or editor of 15 books about the Holocaust and American Jewish history.

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Teacher of the yearisraeli educator from nahariya visits local schools

Joanne Palmer

If you ask Gadi Avraham why he teaches, he smiles. “I’m happy,” he says.

Teaching, very simply, thrills him, and clearly his teaching makes his students happy too. Avraham, who was visiting northern New Jersey last week, was voted one of Israel’s six teachers of the year in a nationwide contest sponsored by the Jewish Agency and the newspa-per Yediot Acharonot. He lives in Nahariya, the Israeli city that partners with our area in a relationship sponsored and nourished by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Every year, the teachers honored by the award are sent to North America; because of the partnership, Avraham came here.

The process that ended with the award began last year, when his students “sent a petition to the commit-tee,” Avraham said. “I didn’t know about it. Then they called our principal, who told them that for many years I have been teaching weak students, and I bring them to high levels.” Many of his students are poor, and all ben-efit from the attention and care he gives them.

“Nahariya has about 20 old-age homes,” he said, and every Shabbat he brings students to develop relation-ships with the residents. “We sing to the old people, and

the students dance and sing. I sing to them in Yiddish. Most of them are Holocaust survivors, and I was born with Yiddish.

“That’s why they chose me.”Avraham, who is 62, has been teaching for 37 years.

He knew what he wanted to do since he was 12. “I had two teachers I admired, and they were my role models,” he said. So right after he got out of the army he began to study education.

“I am surrounded by young people, and it makes me young,” he said. “And I am always studying new things. I could retire now — I’d qualify for a pension — but I don’t want to. My life is very full.”

Avraham’s five days in northern New Jersey were a kaleidoscope tour of local schools. He was to see six in all — two Orthodox day schools (Noam and Frisch,) two Conservative ones (Solomon Schechter and Gerrard Berman), and two public schools (New Milford and

Gadi Avraham is surrounded by members of the Israel Club at Teaneck High School.

Teaneck). (Flight delays wreaked minor havoc on the plans; he ended up seeing only five.)

He put on a PowerPoint presentation about Israel at the schools he visited, and he noticed a few things. In the day schools, “The kids love Israel. The children love Israel. Everyone loves Israel here,” he said.

He is the son of Shoah survivors, and at the public school in New Milford by chance he found himself in a class on the Holocaust.

“There were about 25 kids in the class, and only two of them were Jews,” he said.

“Gadi has a real Holocaust story,” Phyllis Miller said. Miller, who is the coordinator of the federation’s education task force’s Partnership2Gether, accompanied Abraham on his school visits. “It’s a living thing. They’ve only known it through books. He told them the story. It was unbelievable.”

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The man in the maskMeet rabbi shammai engelmayer

Joanne Palmer

This is the next in our series of portraits of interesting people on our community

Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer has done many things during his nearly seven decades of life.

His weekly commentaries, which have ap-peared nearly continuously in the Jewish Standard since the mid-1990s, have made him at times one of the most controversial figures in northern New Jersey.

But when he stood in front a room full of students at Teaneck’s Congregation Beth Sholom on Oct. 15, it was as a teacher, the role he relishes most of all. That night, he began his 20th year as an instructor in the Hebrew University’s Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning. Although definitive records are hard to come by, he also most likely became the longest serving Melton instructor in North America — perhaps in the world.

Yet the man whom radio personality Barry Farber used to call “The Big Shahm” (he appeared on the show over 300 times “a lifetime ago”) is an even more compli-cated mix than you’d guess. A rabbi, journalist, author, lecturer, and teacher — and reportedly a great cook and challah baker — he often has described himself as some-thing of the Lone Ranger. He is forever the man in the mask, out to make the world a better place, but always keeping a part of himself hidden. It is hard to know who he is at any given time.

Even his name is up for grabs. He has written eight books and many scores of newspaper articles and won several prestigious journalism awards under the name Sheldon David Engelmayer. His parents called him “SHA-mee,” his teachers in yeshivah called him “Shammai,” and when he was called to the Torah at his bar mitzvah, he discovered that his name was Shamshon Dovid (“not Shimshon, please”). Everyone else calls him Shammai.

He may be a hard man to know, but at 6’3” and broad-shouldered, Engelmayer is a hard man to miss.

Looking dapper in the white linen suit he enjoys wear-ing well beyond Labor Day, topped with a straw hat, he looms less like the Lone Ranger and more like a cross between Mark Twain and Garrison Keillor.

Engelmayer, an only child, was born on the Lower East Side in 1945 to parents who emigrated from Galicia.

“I spoke Yiddish until I was five years old, although I can’t speak a lick of it now,” Engelmayer said. “When my parents didn’t want me to understand what they were saying, they spoke in Polish.”

He began school at a local yeshivah, Rabbi Shlomo Kluger, but in third grade he transferred to Yeshivah Rabbi Jacob Joseph; he stayed there through high school.

“RJJ was a very important yeshivah, and it was very important to me, even if I didn’t fully appreciate it at the

time,” Engelmayer said. “It tolerated thought.”“They allowed an idiot kid” — that would be him —

“to go up to the rabbi” — his teacher — “at the beginning of every year and ask him something like ‘I accept the fact that God created everything, but who created God?’ If the rabbi told me, ‘You’re an idiot, sit down and shut up,’ I’d tune him out for the year. But if he said something like ‘maybe you’ll come up with an answer if you study hard enough,’ I could listen to him. They allowed me to do that.”

After high school, Engelmayer went to Yeshiva University for a year, but it was not a good match. “I didn’t thrive there, my grades were lousy, and we mutually parted company.”

The summer after YU, he got a temporary job as a law librarian at a Park Avenue law firm.

“I loved it,” he said. “It was so much fun.” The firm liked him enough to ask him to stay on permanently. He agreed; he even began thinking about going to law school. “And then came erev Rosh Hashanah,” he said. He asked the office manager for permission to leave early that day. It was a Friday, the office was lawyer-less, and so the man said yes. On Monday, Engelmayer was fired. The firm did not hire Jews, he was told; at least,

not his kind of Jew.“That’s when I knew what my profession was going to

be. I was going to be a journalist. I was going to use the power of the pen to change the world.”

Because flat feet and bad eyesight kept him out of the war in Vietnam, Engelmayer was able to register in Brooklyn College and at the same time attend what he calls a “draft-dodger yeshivah,” where he actually studied and which gave him his s’michah in 1967.

He was a rabbi — but no one was supposed to know that.

Enter the man in the mask.“I was told from the time I was a tot by my father that

I would be a rabbi, that I was born to be a rabbi,” he said. “There were rabbis in the family for many generations and I was next. I was determined to make absolutely cer-tain that would never happen.”

Engelmayer was very involved in Reform Democratic politics on the Lower East Side when he was a teen-ager and into his early twenties. In 1965, he worked with Bobby Kennedy to help reform the Surrogate’s Court sys-tem in New York City, and “was all geared up in June 1968 to work for him in the presidential primary when Sirhan

Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer in his study. Courtesy shammai engelmayer

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Far left, Engelmayer and muriel humphrey on the ‘Today’ show in 1978, discussing his book with Robert J. Wagman, ‘hubert humphrey: The man and his Dream.’ Courtesy shammai engelmayer

Left, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Shammai Engelmayer cam-paigning together in 1965. Courtesy shammai engelmayer


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Sirhan did what he did. That was my last day in politics. I just couldn’t do it any more.”

Engelmayer had already begun his journalism career in 1967 at the Jewish Press, an Orthodox newspaper headquartered in Coney Island. He was married by then; soon, his daughter Malki was born. Sons Juda and Jay fol-lowed in quick succession.

Recalling his experience at the law firm, Engelmayer began a weekly feature with the very unsexy title of “Jobs Discrimination Desk,” which soon became the equally unsexy “Legislative Desk.” Boring title aside, the column packed a punch. Because of it, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller introduced “and went to the mat for” a bill forbidding job discrimination in the public sector. “We called it ‘The Jewish Press Bill,’” Engelmayer said. “I have a pen some-where from the signing ceremony. And a photo.”

In mid-1968, Engelmayer moved to the North American Newspaper Alliance-Bell McClure Syndicate. NANA, a supplementary news service, “had a star-stud-ded history,” he said. “Ernest Hemingway covered the Spanish Civil War for it. John Pershing’s memoirs were syndicated through it. Sheila Graham wrote for us, and so did Joyce Brothers. Drew Pearson was one of our owners at the time, as well as America’s most-read columnist.” These are names that might not have much resonance today, but they were stellar back then. “And here I was, at 23, the assistant editor.” Two years later, he became NANA’s editor.

“It was very heady,” he said. “I was 25, and now the youngest syndicate editor in the country. There was a lot of pressure, but also a lot of attention. I suddenly was at these great cocktail parties and soirees, the type straight out of ‘Annie Hall.’ I became a Tony voter and a first-nighter. I got into a major motion picture.” The film was “Rollercoaster”; he wound up on the cutting-room floor, with one still photograph to show for it.

At 26, he added the task of being Jack Anderson’s editor to his list of responsibilities. Anderson was Pearson’s successor and a very powerful columnist, who sometimes acted before he had all the facts. It was Engelmayer’s job to try to restrain him when necessary. It was not an easy task, “but I was hanging out on the cusp of all the big stories of the day — the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Nixon’s resignation, the Yom Kippur War — and I loved every moment of it.”

He also became friends with former Supreme Court Justice and United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, who tried to convince Engelmayer to move to Alaska to help Goldberg’s son start a newspaper there. He declined “respectfully.”

Engelmayer still lived on the Lower East Side, “and I was still Orthodox in my practice,” he said. And he still told no one that he was a rabbi. When his Italian secre-tary figured it out and then so did his Jewish boss, “I start-ed dumbing down” the depth of his Jewish knowledge. “Sometimes, I think I did that too well.”

Engelmayer also tried his hand at investigative journalism.

After the Yom Kippur War, for example, there was a natural gas shortage in the United States; the official reason was that there were not enough rigs available to pump the gas. Engelmayer and his writing partner, Bob Wagman, “got on the telephone and called every oil and gas equipment company in the country.” They learned that many rigs were available. They wrote a story that NANA submitted to the Pulizer Prize committee. They did not win a Pulitzer.

“Then I got a call from Britt Hume” — another fa-mous reporter and the future Fox News anchor — “who says ‘Congratulations! You just won the [Washington Journalism Center’s Thomas L.] Stokes award for national reporting!’

“I said, ‘We didn’t submit anything for the award.’ He said, ‘You really won the Pulitzer, but the board of gov-ernors took it away from you because they were sick of the investigative stuff. We didn’t think that was fair, so we

Shammai frOM page 14gave you this award instead.’”

Between their newspaper writing and several books, Wagman and Engelmayer exposed the dangers of the birth control device called the Dalkon Shield; did some of the earliest reporting on the dangers of asbestos; outdid Detroit newspapers in covering the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance; and laid the foundation for a criminal case in Elkhart, Ind., against the Ford Pinto, which had a tendency to explode when it was rear-ended. They also produced a film about the making of “Lion of the Desert,” a film about Libya during World War II. It starred Rod Steiger, Oliver Reed, and Anthony Quinn.

“I was doing wonderful things, but the weird thing was that throughout all of these things, I kept being drawn back into the Jewish world, no matter how hard I

tried to stay out of it.”In the mid-1980s, Engelmayer became managing

editor of the New York Jewish Week (he would become its executive editor), and was back in the Jewish world, this time for good. His rabbinic juices began to show, even through the mask.

“I realized that I had the world’s greatest pulpit,” he said. “I was delivering sermons every week to an audi-ence of 100,000 people, and I didn’t have to worry about anything else that pulpit rabbis worry about.”

He won awards from the American Jewish Press Association for his editorials year after year.

After about five years, Engelmayer left the Jewish Week and soon joined the Jewish Theological Seminary as its

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wife, Marilyn Henry, a journalist who would go on to specialize in Nazi-era res-titution, particularly of art plundered dur-ing the Shoah. They stayed married for 23 years, until she died on March 1, 2011.

Engelmayer was talked into teach-ing by a friend. The JCC on the Palisades had a problem — the teacher set to lead an eight-week summer course on Maimonides had pulled out a week before it was to begin, without having done as much as compiled a syllabus. Engelmayer compiled his own within a few days and submitted it to Vivian Kanig, then the director of adult education at the Tenafly JCC. She hired him based on the syllabus.

“The first week I taught it, it was aw-ful,” Engelmayer recalled having told Henry. “I couldn’t connect with anybody.”

“‘Look at yourself,’ she told me. ‘You’re 6 foot 3, you weigh 250 pounds, and you’re wearing a suit and a tie. You’re over-powering everybody in the room. You’re not going to connect with anyone.’

“The next week, I came home and changed into jeans and a sport shirt be-fore I went to the JCC. She was so right! The class and I connected.”

Engelmayer was hooked. (And his wardrobe was set, too. That’s why he wears the ice-cream suit and the straw hat — and jeans, he has lots of jeans. It’s less intimidating, he thinks.)

Before the summer session ended, Kanig recruited him for what was then known as the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, which was being run locally at the time by the JCC on the Palisades.

“There is something so amazing about teaching Judaism to adults who want to be in that room,” he said. “I love watching their faces for what I call the wow factor.

“I learn as much from my students as they get from me.”

In 1998, after a stint as rabbi in Hopatcong, Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park hired him. He’s been there ever since.

One of Engelmayer’s most salient char-acteristics — his inability to be small-o orthodox about anything — surfaced very early in his life, and led to his struggles with large-O Orthodoxy, as well. “I am un-orthodox, but am I non-Orthodox?

“From the philosophical standpoint, I identify with the Orthodox. I believe the Torah of Moses was the Torah God dictat-ed to Moses. I just believe that the Torah we have is full of accretions that Moshe had nothing to do with.

“I don’t belong anywhere. I’m no longer comfortable in the Orthodox world that I grew up in and that trained me, and I’m also uncomfortable in the Conservative world that I don’t think has lived up to its promise. I think the Conservative movement went too far in accommodating the laity, and not far enough in accommodating modernity.”

So now, “I want to create the world’s first Conservative egalitarian chasidische shtieble.”

With the help of an extraordinary membership, he said, that is what Temple Israel Community Center/Congregation Heichal Yisrael is becoming, “if it’s not already there. It’s very relaxed, and it’s en-tirely Torah-driven.”

So now, at 67, he has a multitude of jobs. He’s still at the Jewish Standard, where, he said, ‘I’m grateful to still to have my hand in the paper, but also grateful that I’m no longer the editor. The day-to-day editing of a paper is not me anymore.

“Teaching Torah is who I am. I love teaching Torah more than anything else.”

Unmasked at last.Now if only he can get his name

straight.

For more information about the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, go to www.jfnnj.org, or call the Melton office at fed-eration, 201-820-3900.

Engelmayer, far left, shouts questions at actor harry Guardino, right, in ‘Rollercoaster,’ his one and only film role. Courtesy

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new Shalom baby coordinator chosen by Jewish FederationEllen Finkelstein has been named the new Shalom Baby coordinator by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Synagogue Leadership Initiative. Most recently, Finkelstein was the assistant director of the Neil Klatskin day camp at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. She is a member of the executive board of Yavneh Academy and a past board member of the National Council of Jewish Women.

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Jewish Standard honored at Teaneck Chamber awards dinnerMore than 160 people attended the 11th annual Teaneck Chamber of Commerce Community Awards dinner. Rev. Clemens Reinke, a member of the Teaneck Inter-Clergy Council, delivered the invocation. Rabbi Lawrence Zierler was unable attend due to illness. Chamber president Larry Bauer opened the formal portion of

the evening by introducing dignitaries and Chamber board members; reports on the group’s projects and accomplishments followed.

Five Star Premier Residences of Teaneck was among the sponsors, and the Jewish Standard was among the media honorees.

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Amit event will recognize Steins for leadership rolesDrs. Francine and Aaron Stein of Englewood are Amit’s presidential leadership honorees at its annual dinner on Sunday, Nov. 4, at Pier Sixty-Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. More than 400 AMIT supporters from the tristate area are expected.

Joyce and Daniel Straus of Englewood and New York City are the event chairs and Harriet and Heshe Seif of Englewood are among the co-chairs.

Dr. Francine Stein served as Amit’s national president and held positions on both the national and local levels. In her chapter, Englewood Shalva Chai, she was the membership chair and then co-president. She became the chair of the national programming committee, tristate area regional vice president, and co-chair of the national board before moving on to the national presidency. She now is a member of the presidium of the World Zionist

Organization, an officer in the American Zionist movement, and a committee member on the Jewish Agency’s board of governors. Locally, she was co-chair of the Frisch Parent Association and a member on the parent liaison committee at Ramaz. She also was active in Congregation Ahavath Torah of Englewood’s youth committee and sisterhood.

Dr. Aaron Stein has supported Amit for many years and for the past few years has co-chaired the annual Amit the Mets event. He also is active at Congregation Ahavath Torah; he is chair of its religious services and is a member of the finance and chazzan committees.

Their children also are Amit supporters and involved in the organization.

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Hadassah Hospital benefit is scheduled for oct. 31Hadassah’s E-T-C chapter is hosting its annual hospital benefit dinner on Wednesday, Oct. 31, at the Rockleigh. The dinner, celebrating the group’s 30th anniversary, also will honor past presidents, including Lisa Abramowitz, Elena Baldasar, Stacey Faske, Laurie Fox, Beth Goldman, Laurie Goldman, Berni Koch, Nancy Simonson, Mindy Sprung, and Marilyn Steinthal. Hadassah’s national secretary, Ellen Hershkin, will be the guest speaker. Cocktails and dinner start at 6:30 p.m. For information, call Tami Goodman at (201) 871-5816.

Walk will raise funds for autoimmune disease researchIf your boots are meant for walkin’ they can do it for a cause on Sunday, Oct. 4, raising funds to support autoim-mune disease research.

The walk, planned by Teaneck resident Naomi Kadish, will take place at Votee Park in Teaneck. Walkers will meet at 10 a.m. at the bandshell at the corner of Queen Anne Road and Court Street.

Kadish decided to plan a walk to raise awareness about the severity of autoimmune diseases. The money raised will be donated to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association.

“Living with an ambiguous autoimmune disease is a challenge; therefore, I decided to move to action and raise money for research so other people won’t have to suffer,” said Kadish.

The walk is one of a series that have taken place across the country to raise awareness about the severity of au-toimmune diseases. Actress Kellie Martin, currently of “Army Wives” and well-known for her roles on “Life Goes

On” and “ER,” will be on hand as ambassador for the walk campaign.

“Autoimmune disease affected my family in a terrible way when I lost my sister and best friend, Heather, to lu-pus in 1998,” said Martin. “Since Heather’s death, I have worked with AARDA to raise awareness of autoimmune diseases. Now I have the opportunity to invite others who have been affected to join the fight — and walk.”

There are more than 100 autoimmune diseases that affect more than 50 million Americans. AARDA is the country’s only non-profit that focuses on autoimmune diseases as a category of disease and a major women’s health issue. The organization promotes collaborative research to find better treatments and cures for all auto-immune diseases.

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On Israel especially, a lot of air, but very little differenceThe presidential debates have ended and now

the campaigns are in the homestretch. The third and final debate, held in Boca Raton, Fla.,

focused mostly on foreign policy issues, especially in the Middle East, and demonstrated better than any campaign advertisement could that there is essentially no difference between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney on virtually every issue raised.

And that should give everyone pause, no matter for whom you plan to vote. If you are looking for a change in policy in the next administration toward Israel or Iran, neither candidate will deliver it.

Israel was mentioned 34 times in the non-debate (17 times by the president; 14 by Mr. Romney; three by moderator Bob Schieffer). No other country in the re-gion save one came close, not even those in which U.S. troops are fighting a war (Afghanistan was heard a mere 21 times on Monday evening; Iraq garnered only 22 mentions). Syria, where so many thousands have been

killed in a brutal civil conflict, also fell short, with 28 mentions. Only Iran beat out Israel, with 47 mentions, and most of those were as much about Israel as they were about Iran.

Yet it amounted to nothing much at all. We would have liked to have heard President Obama explain the near debacle at the Democratic convention over the exclusion of Jerusalem in the platform, which he personally stepped in to reverse, and why he believes some Democrats booed when Israel was mentioned. We would have liked to have heard Mr. Romney explain his own party’s downgraded position on Jerusalem in its platform and a clarification of remarks he made some months ago in which he denigrated a two-state solu-tion, something he insists he does support. We would have liked to have heard both candidates discuss how, whether, and when they will implement a congressio-nally mandated move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

We heard nothing of any of this. What we did hear from each candidate sounded very much like it could have been said by the other candidate — on Israel, Iran, and a host of other issues.

In Israel, news reports crowed about Israel’s central role in the debate. Some even expressed surprise at the president’s strong support for the Jewish state. In a play on words, one radio talk show host declared, “ha-barak chozer l’Obama,” which translates as “the sparkle re-turns to Obama.” Army radio gave Mr. Obama a 2-1 win.

Big deal. On the important questions, either they were not asked, or neither side offered anything differ-ent from the other.

It only proves what we have said before: Israel does not belong in this election.

On Nov. 7, we should be voting for the candidate who best represents the issues Jews hold most dear, from social concerns to economic ones. Israel’s safety and security will be safe regardless of who wins. –SE

Hear, O Israel, something is terribly wrongSay what you will about cultural relativism, local

custom, and long-cherished traditions, some things simply are wrong.

Apparently, there is some disagreement, at least in some circles, about whether a woman has to right to say the Sh’ma out loud, at least if she is standing near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, even if she is in the (very small and ever-shrinking) women’s section. That itself is new; the constraints on women at the Kotel, which has the legal status of an Orthodox synagogue, are growing. The struggle over whether they can wear tallitot — a right that has been theirs since the talmudic period, ac-cording to some halachists, although they do not have the obligation to wear them and often are actively dis-couraged from doing so — has been going on for years. They are not allowed to pray aloud while wearing them, and they must smuggle in Torah scrolls lest they break

the law by reading aloud from them. (See page 27.)The place of women in Jewish religious life is a

contentious one; it is the fault line that more than any other issue separates most Orthodox Jews from liberal ones. People of good faith can and do disagree strongly about it.

But Anat Hoffman, president of Women of the Wall, a group of Jewish women from all streams who meet monthly at the Kotel for a Rosh Chodesh celebration, was arrested, chained, dragged, strip-searched, and thrown into jail overnight for the crime of saying the Sh’ma out loud. Standing at the Kotel, a retaining wall at the base of the Temple Mount, reciting the basic decla-ration of faith, that simple core statement that martyrs said as they died because they were Jews, got a Jew thrown in jail.

In any place other than Israel, if someone would

be treated for saying the Sh’ma as Anat Hoffman was treated, civil libertarians and human rights activists would be enraged, and they would be right. But this was in Israel!

As writer Yossi Klein Halevi tells us (see page 11), Israel faces existential threats now. Israelis and diaspora Jews cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from that truth.

But we also have to understand that Jews around the world are distancing themselves from Israel, and behav-ior like this does not help. It would be one thing were it correct, if Israel was upholding unpopular truths in the face of vulgar popular demand, if halachah demanded such behavior. But it is wrong, untrue, and unhalachic.

We must not allow it. No Jew should be mistreated for saying Sh’ma Yisrael out loud.

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Christians’ letter an unworthy tacticNoam E. maraNs

Iran is threatening Israel, the Middle East, and the world with the specter of nuclear weapons. Christians across the Middle East are persecuted and martyred in

the repercussions of the so-called Arab Spring. But some American Christian leaders are busy dedicating time, money and resources to their habitual demonization of Israel.

The latest tactic is an Oct. 5 letter to Congress alleging human rights violations by Israel and calling for an inves-tigation of U.S. military aid to the country. The signatories include certain leaders of the Presbyterian Church (USA), United Methodist Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the National Council of Churches, among others.

What motivates these people to open a new anti-Israel front? One motivation could be the frustration of their own failure to convince denominations to use divestment as a club to pressure Israel. The letter’s signatories are grappling with the reality that Methodists and Presbyterians again rejected their leaders’ divestment proposals in May and July.

Criticism of the letter to Congress by diverse Christians has been sharp, including a call for leadership account-ability. Presbyterians for Middle East Peace, for example, declared, “It is unjust and disrespectful to the many General Assembly commissioners who worked so hard to serve the church at past assemblies to see their work undermined and misrepresented by church officials and staff with no author-ity to make policy.”

The new initiative led to the cancellation of the annual

Christian-Jewish Roundtable, which was founded in 2004 to open lines of communication between Christian and Jewish leaders in the wake of initiatives by liberal Protestant move-ments to divest from companies doing business with Israel. Jewish organizations expecting to discuss Arab-Israeli peace efforts at the Roundtable on Oct. 22-23 were blindsided when they learned of the Christian outreach to Congress.

In lieu of this year’s Roundtable, a broad spectrum of seven Jewish organizations joined to call for an extraordi-nary meeting of Jewish organizations and the senior lead-ership of the Christian institutions that signed the letter to Congress and have participated in the Roundtable. At that meeting a more positive path forward for our communities might be determined.

Even as we hold specific Christian denominations ac-countable for the excesses of some of their leaders, we should not generalize about all Christians or even all Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, etc. Americans are overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, and at least 75 per-cent of Americans are Christians. They understand that Israel is on the front line of the worldwide terrorism threat. They know that Israel strives mightily to avoid inadvertent harm to civilians while protecting all of its citizens — Jews, Christians and Muslims. They believe that Israel has pur-sued peace relentlessly and, when there is a partner — as there was with President Sadat of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan — has obtained sustainable peace and security with its neighbors. They comprehend that Israel is America’s only

reliable ally in the Middle East, with shared democratic and religious freedom values, in a dangerous part of the world.

Interfaith dialogue has had a transformative positive im-pact on the Jewish experience. We must never take that for granted. Christian-Jewish relations in the past two genera-tions have changed the course of the unfortunate first two millennia of Christian enmity and persecution of Jews and Judaism. Even as we continue to labor in the religious rela-tions vineyard, we should be ever vigilant that the successes of the past 50 years not be undermined by the nonrepresen-tative anti-Israel sentiment of some Christian leaders and their small but vocal, energetic, and well-funded follow-ers, who are attempting to hijack the positive trajectory of Christian-Jewish relations.

So it is important for American rabbis and other Jews to share their concerns with their Christian clergy colleagues and neighbors about this latest effort to demonize Israel and damage American-Israeli relations.

The people in the pews, Christian and Jewish, deserve better. Time will tell whether Christian leaders will take this crisis opportunity as a moment to reflect and offer a credible reset to Jewish leaders who have called upon them to step up to the plate.

Peace for Palestinians and Israelis will arrive only though direct negotiations between the parties leading to a two-state solution, the Jewish state of Israel and a future Palestinian state, dwelling in peace and security. New tactics that ultimately are not about peacemaking but are about demonizing Israel will not bring the peace that Israelis and Palestinians so much desire.

Rabbi Noam E. Marans of Teaneck is the director of interreligious and intergroup relations for the American Jewish Committee.

Terrorists targeting Jordanmicah halpErN

Jordan is a seething cauldron ready to explode. And the leader of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Georgetown-educated King Abdullah, knows it.

He knows it well.The Jordanians recently prevented a huge terror attack.

How recently, we don’t exactly know. Details are being kept under wraps. But we do know that 11 people, all members of an al Qaida cell, have been arrested.

Jordanian media is labeling the suspects clearly as Islamic radicals and militants whose objective it is to disrupt, destabilize, and destroy Jordan. These terrorists were planning to attack Western targets. They were going after Western diplomatic missions, Western-style shopping malls, and shopping areas in Jordan that are popular with Westerners.

This is the same organization that perpetrated the hor-rific simultaneous attacks that ripped through Amman in November 2005. In those attacks three Western hotels in the capital city were bombed, 60 people were killed, and more than 300 were wounded. The organization responsible for the attacks is an al Qaida affiliate and it wants to oust all non-Muslim leadership and eliminate all Western influence from the Arab world.

From the information we do have, it appears that this time the group was trying to recreate the Benghazi attack in Libya. There, they stormed the United States consulate, killing U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other U.S. embassy personnel. And, according to official media, this attack was to be a simultaneous action.

One group of the now-apprehended terrorists was planning to shoot rockets at the United States and British embassies in Jordan. The area around the embassies is populated by foreigners, and any of the buildings in the neighborhood would have made a good target. At the same time, another terrorist team was going to attack the shop-

ping centers and stores. These also are places where local Jordanians shop. Those locals, too, are targets for these ter-rorists, because they are Jordanians who desire to assimi-late into Western culture.

This arrest was an extremely important act. It both saved the lives of many people and kept the relationship between the West and Jordan very strong.

There are many Jordanians who are loyal to the Hashemite monarchy. Their loyalty stems from tradition, and from the relative ease with which they live their lives under this dictatorship. Those who want to oust King Abdullah couch their discontent in terms of democracy and democratic ideals, but they are by no means democratic.

The Muslim Brotherhood is out to get the king. They already have issued him several deadlines by which they want him to institute reforms and liberalize his govern-ment. If not, they threaten, the Brotherhood will take to the streets and create riots like those that toppled Mubarak in Egypt. In response to these unveiled threats the king has reshuffled his cabinet and instituted several changes — but not enough to make the Islamists happy.

King Abdullah also has reinstituted subsidies on food staples — and not in response to Muslim Brotherhood pressure. Tensions with the Islamists arose at the same time that Jordan was trying to take charge of its economy, which would have meant tightening their proverbial belt for sev-eral years.

So far, there only have been some marches in protest of the Abdullah government. There also have been some altercations and violence, even shootings. But neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor al Qaida want democratization in Jordan. What they really want is to oust the monarchy and to replace it with a Muslim leadership. Reforms and cries for liberalization are a smokescreen covering their real intentions.

For them, “Muslim” is not defined by religion. For them, “Muslim” defines a way of life. In the West, we are confused. We think, of course, that King Abdullah is Muslim. But in the eyes of the radicals trying to oust him, the Western-educated Abdullah is an assimilationist.

Because he is an assimilationist, Abdullah, the son of Hussein and an American-born mother, along with leaders like him and Jordanians like him and people from all over the Arab and Muslim world like him, is a heretic. And as heretics, all of these people can and must be annihilated. The true believer, aka the radical, believes that modern as-similationists are destroying Islam.

Jordan is not the only country targeted by these ter-rorists. There have been calls for other attacks from other sources against Western symbols across the Arabic and Islamic world. The loudest announcements have come re-peatedly from Ayman Zawahiri, the new leader of Al Qaida, the man who is filing the sandals of Osama bin Laden.

What almost happened in Jordan, however, is a new style of attack. Zawahiri’s plan is to have his al Qaida cells select smaller targets across the Arabic and Muslim world, not carry out simultaneous attacks against embassies and shopping malls. The Zawahiri plan is much harder, if not entirely impossible, to protect against.

Detecting, infiltrating, and stopping attacks requires very good local intelligence. Preventing attacks against embassies requires extremely strong defenses at Western diplomatic missions. But soft targets, like civilian targets, are harder to prevent. So are hotels and shopping malls. Terrorists have been very successful at attacking soft targets.

Al Qaida has embraced a new style of terror. Other radical extremist Muslim terrorists are incorporating the al Qaida model with their own. Jordan has been a testing ground. Luckily, this time, the test failed. But the cauldron still is boiling.

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Micah D. Halpern is a columnist and a social and political com-mentator. His latest book is “Thugs: How History’s Most Notorious Despots Transformed the World Through Terror, Tyranny, and Mass Murder” (Thomas Nelson).

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True love, true criticismIf you love Israel, you must strongly praise Israel for creat-ing a thriving democracy in the Middle East. If you love Israel, you must strongly defend Israel for the vicious and untrue attacks on Israel in America and the world.

If you truly love Israel, you must condemn and criti-cize the government of Israel for their treatment of non-ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall (“Woman of the Wall head arrested for singing at Western Wall,” Oct. 19), and the general bigoted treatment of non-Orthodox Jewish denominations in Israel.

True love includes praise and criticism.Harry Lerman

Paramus

Methodists stand with IsraelI am a fifth generation Methodist church member, re-sponding to “Protestants churches’ letter on Israel strain-ing ties with Jews” (Oct. 19). The general conference of the United Methodist Church in Tampa this past April voted by a majority of 57 percent to continue supporting Israel as before.

Each regional UMC conference is made up of the UMC churches in that region, and only one pastor and one or two lay members from each church attend the re-gional conferences. Ours is the Pacific Northwest region. I don’t know if this issue of the letters came up at our re-gional conference because they have moved its location from western Washington (greater population) to eastern Washington (Richland/Tri-Cities) and only our pastor at-tended for my church.

I can tell you truly that these letters do not represent the political or biblical stand of our total UMC members, which number more than seven million today. We did not all get the right to vote on this. The letter writers who use our church conference as a platform for their per-sonal political agenda and opinions cannot speak for all of us. They are using our Methodist Book of Discipline to gauge their actions and not the Holy Bible. Their letters offend me greatly and my concern is, above all, that God will not be pleased with their letters.

Christians are the “wild olive branch” grafted onto

the “tame, rooted olive tree” (i.e., Israel). God calls us to support and defend Israel, not harm her — and if we do, “...how much easier our wild branches (which replaced some of the original branches) can be removed from the original olive tree!” and (through the mouth of Isaiah): “Any individual, entity, or nation who comes against My precious remnant, Israel, will experience My right hand.” God made that perfectly crystal clear, didn’t He? Know that most UMC Christians do stand with Israel.

Sylvia TrentTacoma, Wash.

Yes, more civil debatesKudos to Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz of Congregation Adas Emuno for his timely, insightful article this election sea-son, “Why We Need More Debates” (Oct. 19).

The article was both informative and educational, and I learned that the most famous debating pair in Jewish history was Hillel and Shammai. I particularly liked the rabbi’s comment and I quote: “My own study led me to the conclusion that worthy debate, debate truly for the sake of heaven, must contain three essential elements: sincere intention, deep listening, and careful articulation.”

I see a need for more debates. I believe debates matter in that they reveal a candidate’s personality, his ideas and values, and most of all pro and cons of the issues as well as their future plans.

If only our candidates would discuss opposing ar-guments in a civil manner. The Talmud teaches disci-plined logic and learning and above all having truthful dialogues.

Sadly to say, I don’t believe they would pass the three-part test.

Grace JacobsCliffside Park

Jewish leadership needs gutsI was born in 1947 in Bergen-Belsen. I hated Joe McCarthy because his hearings pre-empted Howdy Dowdy. But I can remember my mother, a Holocaust

survivor, coming home from her job as a masseuse at the Paterson Y, in disbelief that American Jews could not see, or perhaps admit, that the Rosenberg trial was obviously anti-Semitic. I have unending admiration for Miriam Moskowitz’s strength, resilience, insight, and very pro-ductive life (“Out of the McCarthy maelstrom,” Aug. 24). I think Jewish leadership has learned a lot from its timidity during the Holocaust, but still lacks the guts to refuse the leadership of misguided billionaires.

Stephen TencerNew Milford

Unfair Christmas workImagine the uproar in the Jewish community if an em-ployer forced a Jewish employee to work on the Jewish holidays especially the high holidays and the first days of Passover, or any other holiday that any observant Jew celebrates.

On Christmas last year, I found that Christians were forced to work in the kosher restaurants in Teaneck.

I spoke to some of the employees. All were upset that they were not offered the day off, and some who I spoke to asked me not to speak to their bosses about it for fear of losing their jobs.

I also visited the JCC in Tenafly on Christmas and spoke to Christians there. Some didn’t mind. One Hispanic cleaner was very sad. Her job apparently was outsourced. However the JCC should have communi-cated with her employee to give the cleaning staff the day off. Surely the JCC could get by with one day of no cleaning.

This year let’s hope that our Christian brothers and sisters will be given the same respect that we demand. They should be given the day off, and not just on Christmas, but on Palm Sunday and Easter as well.

If these establishments want to stay open I am sure that we can find in our community people who would volunteer to take the place of Christians who wish to take the day off. I for one would be happy to wait tables on these days.

Ilana KanteyFort Lee

Remembering Arlen SpecterI am proud to say that late Sen. Arlen Specter was a friend of mine. He was the toughest man I ever knew. No mat-ter how difficult the situation was, he stood up like a giant and fought — and with a ready smile. Everything I ever asked him to do to help Israel, he did, from link-ing Palestinian aid to compliance with Oslo; to fighting Arab terrorists; to supporting moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem; to opposing Strobe Talbott, a hostile Israel critic, for Undersecretary of State. (Few knew that two of his sisters were Orthodox, with one living in Israel.) Specter was Israel’s best friend among the 13 Jewish senators. His passing was a great loss to Israel, America, and to me. I already miss him terribly.

Morton A. Klein, PresidentZionist Organization of America

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A president of values and visionraBBI sTeVen BoB, raBBI saM Gordon, and raBBI BurT VIsoTZKy

Jewish voters know the scene well.

Politicians show up at our synagogues, community events, and Jewish homes for the aging, all talking up “Jewish values,” all trying to speak the language of the Jewish community.

This election season, we are seeing more of that. The trick for our community and congregations is to decipher who really means it. It is to judge our political figures not by how well they can pronounce certain Hebrew terms, but how effectively they act on our shared values.

By this standard, there is no contest: President Barack Obama is the candidate

who best represents our Jewish values.

He is a leader of vision and integrity. His record reflects the embodiment of our deepest

obligations: tikkun olam, tzedakah,

shalom — to repair the world, to pursue justice, to

seek peace.When the president spoke to the

Union for Reform Judaism late last year, he offered an unexpected d’var Torah on that week’s parsha, delivering a powerful meditation on the word “hineini,” which means “here I am.”

As he made clear in those remarks, his words are not meant as hollow promises. Instead, they reflect tangible actions. As he has done throughout his first term in office, when it comes to the priorities important to American Jews, President Obama answers: “Here I am.”

The president has been there to advance a vision of responsibility and compassion at home, in our neighborhoods, in our cities, and in our communities. With health care reform, his efforts have helped us to heal the sick and lift up the weary; to live up to the call that says, “when we save one life, we save the world.”

With a focus on higher standards, better teachers, and more resources in our schools, his policies put education front and center. This is a recognition of the rabbinic reminder that children truly are the building blocks of our future, and

that students increase peace in the world.With support for clean energy, higher

fuel efficiency, and environmental protection, his actions reflect our duty to protect God’s creation and preserve a cleaner planet from generation to generation, l’dor v’dor.

With financial reform, investments in jobs, and assistance to the less fortunate, the president adheres to the words we recently read in the Torah: to “open wide your hand to your brother [and sister], to the needy and to the poor, in your land.”

In all these areas, and more, President Obama’s accomplishments and commitment help us work toward tikkun olam and tzedakah.

And on yet another core value, shalom, the president has earned our trust and support because he knows full well that the pursuit of a lasting peace for Israel is contingent on the safety and security of the Jewish state. His achievements for Israel are second to none.

Under this Obama administration, Israel has received record levels of security aid. Israel’s qualitative military edge has been restored and strengthened. And Israel’s families in Sderot and Ashkelon and Be’er Sheva are now protected from rocket attacks, thanks to President Obama’s investment in the Iron Dome system.

As Iran’s leaders pledge a world without Israel, President Obama has made it his promise plain and clear: We must not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. That’s why he worked with Congress to impose hard-hitting sanctions against Iran that already are affecting the Iranian economy dramatically. That’s why he built a global coalition to enhance our sanctions and isolate the Iranian regime. And that’s why he has promised to take no options off the table to counter the threat of a nuclear Iran, including military action. And as we’ve seen time and again, this president means what he says.

Don’t risk Israel’s security on Obama’s wordssHeLdon G. adeLson

“Americans who support Israel should take the

president at his word,” wrote Haim Saban recently in the New York Times, claiming President Barack Obama is fully commit-ted to the Jewish state.

But is that true? Should we take him at his word?

No, not when Israel confronts the threat of nuclear annihilation by Iran.

Time and again President Obama has signaled a lack of sympathy — or even outright hostility — toward Israel. Not long ago he was caught on an open microphone agreeing with French President Sarkozy’s slurring of the Israeli prime minister. And then there was his public snubbing of the Israeli leader’s request to discuss Iran during a recent U.S. visit, a measure Reuters termed “a highly unusual rebuff to a close ally.”

Even more worrying, last month former U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, who attended several of Obama’s meetings with Netanyahu, admitted “there are serious differences between our interests and Israel’s own security interests.”

All this certainly raises questions about Obama’s sincerity when he publicly says he’ll “always have Israel’s back.”

Nor are these the only times the president has left American voters wondering where he really stands on foreign relations.

Remember, earlier this year, when he inadvertently was recorded asking former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for “space” until his re-election, when he’d have more “flexibility” on missile defense? What did he mean? Obama was clearly not being forthright with the American people.

What else hasn’t he told us?Think about Obama’s anti-Israel

friends and mentors—radicals like Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, or the late Edward Said, the virulently anti-Israel professor under whom Obama studied. Has he made anti-Israel promises to them? Is Obama’s campaign rhetoric in support of Israel only creating “space” till after the election?

These questions cause genuine worry in Israel.

Even some liberals now complain

the president has lost so much Israeli trust that, in the words of Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, “there is almost no chance of progress [for peace] if Obama wins re-election.”

Given that Obama’s public expressions are not something Israelis can rely upon, we need to take seriously the question:

What are his second term plans when he no longer needs the Jewish vote?

Obama’s supporters tell us there’s nothing to worry about. He can be trusted, they say, because of his record of military aid to Israel and his support for sanctions against Iran.

But the aid was committed in programs that began decades before his presidency under previous administrations. He cannot rightly take credit for this aid in the sense of initiating it, just as he cannot take credit for merely signing pro-Israel legislation that had bipartisan congressional support.

Moreover, Obama’s campaign never mentions that in the past few years his budgets have proposed significant cuts in U.S.-Israel missile defense funds — from $121.7 million to $99.8 million, a substantial slash. And just ask Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak or Poland’s Lech Walesa about Obama’s reliability because of past military aid.

Even worse, the Iranian sanctions contain loopholes that, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, “you could drive a warhead through.” All 20 of Iran’s major trading partners enjoy sanction exemptions. They won’t stop Iran’s nuclear program.

Let’s also not forget that when Obama took office, he admitted his administration sought to put “daylight” between America and Israel. He lectured that the Jewish state needed “to engage in serious self-reflection” about peace — as if tiny Israel has not spent decades pursuing peace with its belligerent neighbors. And, unbelievably, in his 2009 address to the Muslim world, he implied a moral equivalence between the Holocaust and Palestinian dislocation.

With a second term the president

of our deepest obligations: tikkun

olam, tzedakah, shalom — to repair the

world, to pursue justice, to

that had bipartisan congressional support.

Moreover, Obama’s campaign never mentions that

who best represents our Jewish values.

vision and integrity. His record reflects

administrations. He cannot rightly take credit for this aid in the sense of initiating it, just as he

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Sheldon G. Adelson, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, supports Jewish education, the Birth-right Israel program, and Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. In June, he gave the pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC $10 million. He also owns Israel Hayom, the largest-circulation daily newspaper in Israel. JNS.org is the U.S. distributor for Israel Hayom’s English-language content. This op-ed was written exclusively for JNS.org.

Rabbi Steven Bob of Congregation Etz Chaim of DuPage County in Lombard, Ill.; Rabbi Sam Gordon of Congregation Sukkat Shalom in Wilmette, Ill.; and Rabbi Burton Visotzky, professor of midrash and interreligious studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, are the co-chairs of Rabbis for Obama.

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won’t have fears of electoral accountability and will act upon his true feelings toward Israel.

This is worrying — especially at a time when the Jewish state as well as Americans sorely need a president whose words and policies they can rely on.

Not since 1967 has Israel’s safety been more precarious. Iran is now racing for a nuclear bomb while bragging they only need “24 hours and an excuse” to destroy the Jewish state. Egypt is lost to the Muslim Brotherhood. Hezbollah is armed to the teeth in Lebanon. Turkey’s government is more foe than friend. The Gulf States use enormous petroleum wealth to fund global anti-Israel propaganda. The Arab Spring continues to usher extremists into power. And Hamas rules Gaza.

All the while, the United Nations never misses a chance to denounce the Jewish state; Western universities support boycotts of Israel; and a sizable portion of the Democratic Party protests the inclusion of Jerusalem in their party platform. The White House press secretary, Jay Carney, can’t even name Israel’s capital.

In these times of unrest and violence, it is necessary to elect a commander-in-chief whose words we can trust. Mitt Romney, to my mind, is a much safer choice. Unlike Obama, he not only understands Israel’s predicament, he actually likes the country.

To be sure, no one should argue that Jews must support Romney just because he is more reliable on Israel. But neither should they dismiss him because they don’t agree with his every position. When the Jewish homeland is at stake, we must not let ourselves be fooled by Obama’s oration skills. Nor can we afford to ignore his troubling track record on Israel.

Those who support Obama are asking the rest of us to trust a president who has yet to recognize Israel’s ancient capital, a promise he made in the last election.

So keep in mind Obama’s open microphone comments next time someone says you must take the president at his word. And ask yourself: Should we risk Israel’s security on his campaign rhetoric?

For Obama, the issue is only political; for Israel, it’s existential — a matter of survival.

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When no one would stand for Israel at the United Nations, the president has taken up the cause. He has said “here I am.” When the Carmel fire threatened to spread and risk even more Israeli lives, the president ensured that Israel got everything it needed to halt the flames; he said, again, “here I am.” And when six Israelis were under siege by a mob at their embassy in Cairo, and no one in Egypt would take Israel’s calls, the president intervened to secure their safe passage home. In Israel’s time of need, he said, once more, “here I am.”

This is the character of President Obama — always there, prepared to carry the banner of our values, ready to move forward for peace, for justice, and for a better world.

As it is written in the Book of Proverbs, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Luckily for our community and our country, our president is a man of vision and strong character, integrity, and faith. His values are Jewish values. They’re American values. We need his values in the White House for four more years.


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As Ohio goes…what Jewish voters in a key battleground state think

Larry yudeLson

With some analysts saying there’s a 50 percent chance that this election will be decided by the voters of Ohio, and others saying that

the Jewish vote will be decisive, the question arises: What do the Jewish voters of Ohio — who make up a bit more than 1 percent of the state’s population — think about the election?

Fortunately, the American Jewish Committee, which long has surveyed American Jewish public opinion, this year sponsored surveys of Jewish voters in the swing states of Florida and Ohio.

According to the poll of Ohio, 64 percent of them will choose President Obama and 29 percent will vote for Governor Romney on Election Day. Seven percent said they still were undecided.

The percentage committed to Romney was virtually the same as those who described themselves as conservative or leaning that way. With 49 percent describing themselves as liberal or leaning liberal,

Obama appears to have swayed the majority of the moderates, leaving about a third of them undecided.

The telephone survey of 238 registered Jewish voters in Ohio was conducted from Sept. 13-30 by QEV Analytics, a public opinion research organization. The margin of error was plus or minus 6.4 percent.

The most important issue is the economy for 47 percent of the sample. Fourteen percent said the most important issue is health care, with seven percent saying it is U.S.-Israel relations.

A further 21 percent rated U.S.-Israel relations as their second or third priority, making it one of the top three priorities of 28 percent of those polled. In contrast, the economy was a top-three priority of 78 percent of respondents; health care of 50 percent; and national security of 34 percent. Abortion was a top-three priority of 18 percent, Iran’s nuclear program of 10 percent, and church-state issues of 7 percent.

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When no one would stand for Israel at the United Nations, the president has taken up the cause. He has said “here I am.” When the Carmel fire threatened to spread and risk even more Israeli lives, the president ensured that Israel got everything it needed to halt the flames; he said, again, “here I am.” And when six Israelis were under siege by a mob at their embassy in Cairo, and no one in Egypt would take Israel’s calls, the president intervened to secure their safe passage home. In Israel’s time of need, he said, once more, “here I am.”

This is the character of President Obama — always there, prepared to carry the banner of our values, ready to move forward for peace, for justice, and for a better world.

As it is written in the Book of Proverbs, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Luckily for our community and our country, our president is a man of vision and strong character, integrity, and faith. His values are Jewish values. They’re American values. We need his values in the White House for four more years.


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At final debate, Israel and Iran take center stageRon Kampeas

WASHINGTON – Israel, a heated issue throughout the campaign, finally took center stage at the final presiden-tial debate.

It was mentioned a total of 29 times by President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney at Monday night’s foreign policy debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. Actual policy differences, however, seemed to be in short supply.

Israel and the Iranian nuclear program were among the main topics in a debate that largely focused on the Middle East. But whether the subject was Iran sanctions, the need to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, or the U.S. commitment to Israel, the clashing candidates sounded surprisingly similar notes.

Aaron David Miller, a vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, said the broad

areas of agreement on the Middle East reflected a grow-ing consensus among both parties that any president’s priority should be to focus on the struggling American economy and tread carefully overseas.

“There were tactical political reasons why the gov-ernor wanted to create the impression that he is a cen-trist,” said Miller, a former top Middle East negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations, speaking of Romney. “But I think we are faced now for the first time since the end of the Cold War with a remarkable consensus on what we can do in the world. The public understands that we need to fix America’s broken house, but that we are also stuck in a region of the world where we can’t fix it or extricate from it.”

With sharp policy differences mostly missing, both candidates painted their support for Israel in personal terms. Romney cited the strength of his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama spoke of how he was affected by a 2008 visit to Israel, with stops at its national Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem and the embattled town of Sderot.

Romney’s remark came as he dismissed out of hand a hypothetical proposal by the moderator, Bob Schieffer of CBS News, positing a last-minute warning call to the White House from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israeli bombers were on their way to Iran.

“Our relationship with Israel, my relationship with the prime minister of Israel, is such that we would not get a call saying our bombers are on the way or their fighters are on the way,” Romney said. “This is the kind of thing that would have been discussed and thoroughly evalu-ated well before.”

To draw a contrast, Romney accused Obama of saying that he wanted to “create daylight” between Israel and the United States. (The reference was to a 2009 meeting with Jewish leaders in which the president was pressed to have a policy of “no daylight” with Israel, to which Obama responded that such an approach had not ad-vanced peace in the past. Obama, however, is not known to have called for a policy of creating daylight proactively between the two countries.)

Romney also criticized the president for not visiting Israel during his travels to the region. Obama responded by suggesting that Romney’s recent visit to Israel con-trasted unfavorably with his own 2008 visit to the Jewish state as a presidential candidate.

“When I went to Israel as a candidate, I didn’t take donors,” Obama said. “I didn’t attend fundraisers. I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.”

Obama went on to recount his visit to the southern town of Sderot, which is near the Gaza Strip.

“And then I went down to the border towns of Sderot, which had experienced missiles raining down from Hamas,” he said. “And I saw families there who showed me there where missiles had come down near their children’s bedrooms. And I was reminded of what that would mean if those were my kids. Which is why as presi-dent, we funded an Iron Dome program to stop those missiles.”

The acrimony underlying the exchanges contrasted with the many overall agreements on policy that were acknowledged by the candidates a number of times.

Romney opened his statement during the Israel and Iran portion of the debate by seconding the president’s response to a question about whether the U.S. should regard an attack on Israel as an attack on itself.

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“I want to underscore the same point the president made, which is that if I’m president of the United States, when I’m president of the United States, we will stand with Israel,” Romney said. “And if Israel is attacked, we have their back, not just diplomatically, not just cultur-ally, but militarily.”

Romney expressed support for Obama’s Iran sanc-tions, although he faulted the president for introducing them later rather than sooner and claimed credit for call-ing for tougher sanctions in 2007 — although lawmak-ers for years before had been pressing the Clinton and second Bush administrations to institute such sanctions.

More critically, Romney’s emphasis was on “diplo-matic and peaceful means” — a posture that aligned with Obama’s preference for exhausting all options before considering a military strike to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“It is also essential for us to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from hav-ing a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means,” Romney said. “It’s absolutely the right thing to do, to have crippling sanctions. I would have put them in place earlier. But it’s good that we have them.”

A Congressional Research Service report published last week found that sanctions were affecting Iran’s economy seriously but had not yet stopped its suspected nuclear weapons program. The report held out the pros-pect of that happening soon.

“A broad international coalition has imposed pro-gressively strict economic sanctions on Iran’s oil export lifeline, producing increasingly severe effects on Iran’s economy,” the report said. “Many judge that Iran might soon decide it needs a nuclear compromise to produce an easing of sanctions.”

At the debate, Obama argued that the sanctions on Iran have been a policy success, saying that his adminis-tration “organized the strongest coalition and the stron-gest sanctions against Iran in history, and it is crippling their economy.”

Both candidates appeared to be on the same page when it came to adjudicating what circumstance would trigger consideration of a military strike.

“The clock is ticking,” Obama said. “We’re not going to allow Iran to perpetually engage in negotiations that lead nowhere. And I’ve been very clear to them. You know, because of the intelligence coordination that we do with a range of countries, including Israel, we have a sense of when they would get breakout capacity, which means that we would not be able to intervene in time to stop their nuclear program.”

Romney agreed, saying, “Of course, a military action is the last resort. It is something one would only — only consider if all of the other avenues had been — had been tried to their full extent.”

The candidates also shared agreement on other Middle Eastern issues. Romney’s campaign has assailed Obama for months for not doing enough to intervene in Syria, but during the debate the Republican candidate made clear that he, like the president, opposed direct

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areas of agreement on the Middle East reflected a grow-ing consensus among both parties that any president’s priority should be to focus on the struggling American economy and tread carefully overseas.

“There were tactical political reasons why the gov-ernor wanted to create the impression that he is a cen-trist,” said Miller, a former top Middle East negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations, speaking of Romney. “But I think we are faced now for the first time since the end of the Cold War with a remarkable consensus on what we can do in the world. The public understands that we need to fix America’s broken house, but that we are also stuck in a region of the world where we can’t fix it or extricate from it.”

With sharp policy differences mostly missing, both candidates painted their support for Israel in personal terms. Romney cited the strength of his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama spoke of how he was affected by a 2008 visit to Israel, with stops at its national Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem and the embattled town of Sderot.

Romney’s remark came as he dismissed out of hand a hypothetical proposal by the moderator, Bob Schieffer of CBS News, positing a last-minute warning call to the White House from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israeli bombers were on their way to Iran.

“Our relationship with Israel, my relationship with the prime minister of Israel, is such that we would not get a call saying our bombers are on the way or their fighters are on the way,” Romney said. “This is the kind of thing that would have been discussed and thoroughly evalu-ated well before.”

To draw a contrast, Romney accused Obama of saying that he wanted to “create daylight” between Israel and the United States. (The reference was to a 2009 meeting with Jewish leaders in which the president was pressed to have a policy of “no daylight” with Israel, to which Obama responded that such an approach had not ad-vanced peace in the past. Obama, however, is not known to have called for a policy of creating daylight proactively between the two countries.)

Romney also criticized the president for not visiting Israel during his travels to the region. Obama responded by suggesting that Romney’s recent visit to Israel con-trasted unfavorably with his own 2008 visit to the Jewish state as a presidential candidate.

“When I went to Israel as a candidate, I didn’t take donors,” Obama said. “I didn’t attend fundraisers. I went to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable.”

Obama went on to recount his visit to the southern town of Sderot, which is near the Gaza Strip.

“And then I went down to the border towns of Sderot, which had experienced missiles raining down from Hamas,” he said. “And I saw families there who showed me there where missiles had come down near their children’s bedrooms. And I was reminded of what that would mean if those were my kids. Which is why as presi-dent, we funded an Iron Dome program to stop those missiles.”

The acrimony underlying the exchanges contrasted with the many overall agreements on policy that were acknowledged by the candidates a number of times.

Romney opened his statement during the Israel and Iran portion of the debate by seconding the president’s response to a question about whether the U.S. should regard an attack on Israel as an attack on itself.

“I want to underscore the same point the president made, which is that if I’m president of the United States, when I’m president of the United States, we will stand with Israel,” Romney said. “And if Israel is attacked, we have their back, not just diplomatically, not just cultur-ally, but militarily.”

Romney expressed support for Obama’s Iran sanc-tions, although he faulted the president for introducing them later rather than sooner and claimed credit for call-ing for tougher sanctions in 2007 — although lawmak-ers for years before had been pressing the Clinton and second Bush administrations to institute such sanctions.

More critically, Romney’s emphasis was on “diplo-matic and peaceful means” — a posture that aligned with Obama’s preference for exhausting all options before considering a military strike to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“It is also essential for us to understand what our mission is in Iran, and that is to dissuade Iran from hav-ing a nuclear weapon through peaceful and diplomatic means,” Romney said. “It’s absolutely the right thing to do, to have crippling sanctions. I would have put them in place earlier. But it’s good that we have them.”

A Congressional Research Service report published last week found that sanctions were affecting Iran’s economy seriously but had not yet stopped its suspected nuclear weapons program. The report held out the pros-pect of that happening soon.

“A broad international coalition has imposed pro-gressively strict economic sanctions on Iran’s oil export lifeline, producing increasingly severe effects on Iran’s economy,” the report said. “Many judge that Iran might soon decide it needs a nuclear compromise to produce an easing of sanctions.”

At the debate, Obama argued that the sanctions on Iran have been a policy success, saying that his adminis-tration “organized the strongest coalition and the stron-gest sanctions against Iran in history, and it is crippling their economy.”

Both candidates appeared to be on the same page when it came to adjudicating what circumstance would trigger consideration of a military strike.

“The clock is ticking,” Obama said. “We’re not going to allow Iran to perpetually engage in negotiations that lead nowhere. And I’ve been very clear to them. You know, because of the intelligence coordination that we do with a range of countries, including Israel, we have a sense of when they would get breakout capacity, which means that we would not be able to intervene in time to stop their nuclear program.”

Romney agreed, saying, “Of course, a military action is the last resort. It is something one would only — only consider if all of the other avenues had been — had been tried to their full extent.”

The candidates also shared agreement on other Middle Eastern issues. Romney’s campaign has assailed Obama for months for not doing enough to intervene in Syria, but during the debate the Republican candidate made clear that he, like the president, opposed direct

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Romney also accused Obama of fail-ing to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace. Liberal critics of Romney had seized upon a secretly recorded meeting he had in May with Florida donors in which he expressed doubt that there would be any opportunities to advance the peace pro-cess in the near future.

But at the debate, Romney seemed to

suggest that the failure to make progress for peace was not inevitable but rather a policy failure by the president.

“Is — are Israel and the Palestinians closer to — to reaching a peace agree-ment? Romney asked. “No, they haven’t had talks in two years.”

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Drop in venture capital funding puts squeeze on Israel’s tech sectorBen SaleS

TEL AVIV — The Facebook page of PlayArt Labs, an Israeli gaming startup, looks more like the home page of an art museum than the profile of an emerging technol-ogy company.

It features an article about Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” an animation of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” and a link to a Twitter feed, @FrescoJesus, about a century-old Spanish fresco. The goal of the startup is to integrate art and cultural education into iPad games — to create “some added value from playing,” according to Adir Wanono, who launched PlayArt Labs 10 months ago.

But now Wanono, 34, who successfully funded another startup two years ago, has encountered an unfamiliar obstacle.

After eight months of working with barely any money, he has had trouble securing necessary funding from investors who like his idea but are hesitant to invest. Wanono has secured $55,000 in investments from family and friends, but with four people working at the company, even that shoestring budget will run out in six months, he estimates.

Wanono says the market in Israel has become tougher since his last startup.

“People say, ‘Go to the market, gain traction and we’ll invest,’ but this lowers the chances of most startups to succeed,” he said. “We need money now to maximize our chances to succeed. Without money now, we won’t be able to maximize the benefit from a good launch.”

PlayArt Labs is far from alone in encountering this problem. Recently, Israel’s famously booming startup scene has seen funding from large venture capital firms decline. That means there’s less money available than there used to be for startups — a key engine of the Israeli economy — to get off the ground.

This drop in funding has come as Israel’s technology sector, which includes startups and larger established companies, has experienced dramatic layoffs.

According to an August article in Haaretz, 16,000 of Israel’s 80,000 tech workers have lost their jobs. Government funding of the tech sector also has dropped 40 percent over the past decade, to $400 million in 2011.

While the number of new startups has not declined from previous years, industry investors and entrepreneurs say that venture capital firms have been less willing to take risks on those companies as they seek to expand.

“The entire venture capital model is broken,” said Yesha Sivan, president of the Israel Internet Association. “It used to be that a fund would get $100 million, it would

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Tel Aviv-based Rad BioMed, which focuses on biomedical startups, is one such accelerator. At the end of its central hallway, above a smooth beige table surrounded by beakers, microscopes, and computers, Dan Frumkin holds a test tube in his latex gloves. Frumkin, 40, hopes to improve diagnoses of bladder cancer by analyzing DNA. He is the vice president for biochemistry of Nucleix, a startup focusing on DNA analysis that he co-founded four years ago.

Nucleix rents space from Rad BioMed, though it does not receive funding from the lab.

“It’s cheaper and easier” to work at Rad BioMed’s offices, Frumkin said. “Instead of creating a laboratory, we entered an existing one. It helps that we have a little in common with other companies.”

Incubators and accelerators have less money to invest than venture capital firms — typically in the hundreds of thousands rather than the millions. But Yoav Chelouche, managing partner of Israel’s Aviv Venture Capital, says “the cost of building a new company is dramatically lower than it’s been” in the past.

“You don’t need to buy software and an operating system,” he said. “You can use a lot of open source code,” programs that are available for free on the Internet.

According to Chelouche’s research, venture capital firms in Israel provided about $3 billion of funding to startups in Israel from 2008 to 2012, versus $3.6 billion from 2004 to 2008 and $6.5 billion from 1999 to 2004. He also found, however, that Israel is on track to see about 600 new companies created in 2012, a similar number to 1999 and 2000. Chelouche says this could be a positive development for Israel’s tech sector, as it will create “a situation where companies have to do more with less, which is not necessarily a bad thing — being more frugal.”

But another investor, Roni Einav, the founder of New Dimension Software, which he sold for a record $675 million in 1999, says that companies may hit a roadblock as they seek to expand overseas.

“If the company is successful in developing and having the first three, four, or five customers in Israel, they can try to go abroad, but then they need more money,” he said.

The drop in funding actually could help people like Wanono, however, as they will own a greater percentage of their own companies and thus make larger profits should they sell their companies or go public on the stock market, Einav said.

“The question is how much time the founders are ready to sacrifice with minimal salaries, or whether they successfully convince the employees to work with reasonable salaries for a year or two,” he said. “If you’re an entrepreneur and you’re not ready to sacrifice a part of your salary, it’s like you have a dream but you want someone else to finance it.”

Einav also noted that the percentage of venture capital funding of Israeli companies from the United States is growing, which he says is “good because the biggest challenge is to cross the ocean, so an American investor will give credibility to the company.”

While some areas of the startup industry are hot targets for investment, like biomedical companies, Sivan says it’s harder now than in previous years to get major investments as a startup. Still, he has confidence that no matter how the industry changes, startups will always be an attractive career option for enterprising Israelis.

“This will always be something people do,” he said. “People like to create things, to take a chance.”

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Anat Hoffman’s arrest at Western Wall may spur liberal Jewish groups into actionBen SaleS and neil RuBin

TEL AVIV — Last week’s episode was hardly the first time Israeli police stopped activist Anat Hoffman while she was leading a women’s prayer service at the Western Wall in violation of Israeli law.

But this time, on Oct. 16, police actually arrested Hoffman — a first, she says — and the incident appears to be galvanizing liberal Jewish groups in the United States and Israel.

In the United States, the Union for Reform Judaism called for a police investigation and expressed its dismay to Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador in Washington. The United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism announced a global “Sh’ma flash mob” for Monday — a nod to the prayer Hoffman was reciting when she was arrested.

In Israel, the Israel Religious Action Center, which Hoffman leads, launched a petition to the Supreme Court requesting that the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which runs the holy site also known as the Kotel, change its decision-making process to include non-Orthodox Jews.

“There is no voice around that table for women, for the paratroopers who liberated the Wall, for the variety of pluralist voices,” said Hoffman, who also heads Women of the Wall. “We want to dismantle this body. If the wall belongs to the Jewish people, where are the Reform, Conservative, secular?”

For now, however, there is no grand coordinated strategy to challenge the laws governing Israel’s holy site, which bar women from praying while wearing a tallit or t’fillin, or from reading aloud from the Torah. In a 2003 Israeli Supreme Court decision, those rules were upheld on the ground that “local custom” at the wall did not allow for such practices.

So with Women of the Wall intent on continuing its practice of organizing a women’s prayer service at the site every Rosh Chodesh — the beginning of the Hebrew month — another incident likely is not far off.

Hoffman’s arrest during Rosh Chodesh service on the evening of Oct. 16 garnered more attention than previous incidents, in which she was detained but not arrested. Hadassah, which was holding its centennial celebrations in Jerusalem, had sent some 200 women to pray with Hoffman, giving a significant boost in numbers to the service. There were about 250 women there.

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Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said Hoffman’s claims about her treatment are “not accurate and not right.”

As the incident received wide coverage in the American Jewish media, the condemnations of Hoffman’s arrest poured in, particularly from women’s groups such as the Women’s Rabbinic Network and the National Council for Jewish Women. Hadassah’s national president, Marcie Natan, said that Hadassah “strongly supports the right of women to pray at the Wall.”

Yizhar Hess, executive director of Israel’s Masorti movement, as Conservative Judaism is called outside of North America, said that if Hoffman actually is charged with a crime, it would force a re-examination of the rules governing the Western Wall.

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and women. She sees an opening in the Supreme Court’s reliance on “local custom” as the basis for upholding the current rules. The Israel Religious Action Center’s petition aims to change who defines “local custom.”

Israeli police arresting anat hoffman after she said the Sh’ma at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Women of the Wall

Reform and Conservative Jews are allowed to hold services at Robinson’s Arch. It is at the Kotel’s southern corner, and it is not adjacent to the plaza.

Shari Eshet, director of the Israel office of the National Council of Jewish Women, said legal initiatives are the best way to effect change on the issue.

“With all of the screaming and yelling and American Jews banging on the table, at the end of the day this is a land with a court system,” Eshet said. “We need to find another way to bring this back into the court system.”

Leaders of some religiously pluralistic American Jewish groups admit that their efforts on this issue have not worked so far. Some hope that Hoffman’s arrest will galvanize their constituents anew.

“This is a moment for us to think differently,” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism. He said his organization was considering an array of options and that more details would be forthcoming in the next few weeks.

Rabbi Steven Wernick, executive vice president and CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, said a new strategy is needed.

“We’ve been very reactive thus far to these circumstances when they come,” he said. “Whatever strategies that we’ve been doing previously are not enough because this issue in recent years is getting progressively more difficult and troublesome.”

In Israel, groups working for religious pluralism face a dual challenge: They are fighting legal and legislative battles on a range of issues, and most Israelis are not motivated to join the fights — especially when it comes to the Western Wall.

“Israelis view the wall as something not relevant to day-to-day life,” Hess said. “What could have been a national symbol to connect Jews from all over the world is now only an Orthodox synagogue.”

Women of the Wall could attract more of an Israeli following if it linked its cause to other religious freedom issues, Rabbi Uri Regev, president and CEO of the Israeli pluralism organization Hiddush, said. “As emotionally attractive and justified as Women of the Wall is, there are bigger and more compelling issues,” like legalizing non-Orthodox Jewish marriage in Israel or funding non-Orthodox Jewish rabbis, he added.

Hoffman says she hopes diaspora Jews will push the issue with Israeli leaders. Wernick says he wants the Jewish Agency for Israel’s board of governors to put the issue of women praying at the Western Wall on its agenda. He also is pushing for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about it. But United Synagogue will not press for a new Israeli law on the matter, he said.

“We’re not Israeli citizens and we respect Israel’s right to determine its own course,” Wernick said.

Hoffman says, “The Western Wall is way too important to be left to the Israelis.”

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JERUSALEM – Growing up secular in Tel Aviv, Gilad Kariv often would spend Saturdays hik-ing around rural Israel with his family, appre-ciating its nature and telling its history.

But one Shabbat early in his childhood, Kariv decided to go to his neighborhood Orthodox synagogue.

“To the place my heart loves, there my legs take me,” Kariv said, quoting Rabbi Hillel of the Talmud. Soon he became a regular.

Even as he attended secular schools and youth groups, Kariv continued going to the synagogue, teaching himself Jewish texts for much of his adolescence. On one Shavuot, the synagogue’s rabbi delivered a talk that struck the wrong chord.

“Instead of talking about the giving of the Torah, he attacked kibbutzim for their values,” Kariv recalled in an interview with JTA at his office in the Jerusalem headquarters of Israel’s Reform movement, where he sat in front of a bookshelf lined with religious journals and a compilation of foundational Zionist writings.

The synagogue’s non-egalitarianism and strict adherence to halachah, or Jewish law, made Kariv feel out of place, and eventually he began to learn more about liberal Judaism. Now a Reform rabbi and the CEO of Israel’s Reform movement, Kariv, 39, is mulling yet another life-altering shift: Just as he went from secular to religious, and from Orthodox to Reform, he is deciding whether to move

from the synagogue — the “beit ha-knesset” in Hebrew — to the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament.

Kariv is the standout figure in a growing turn toward politics in Israeli Reform and Conservative circles. The movements were part of a recent conference on liberal Jewish political involvement and hope to break Orthodoxy’s traditional dominance of religion in Israel.

Kariv says he’s unsure whether he will run in Israel’s elections, which are scheduled for Jan. 22, but if he does he’ll

compete for a spot in the center-left Labor Party. At the moment, Kariv is the only prominent liberal religious leader actively contemplating a run for office.

Conservative and Reform officials here say it’s vital to have a pluralist voice to counter the Orthodox presence in the Knesset, which is growing along with the charedi Orthodox population in Israel. Kariv says he’s concerned with a range of issues, from the economy to security, but that he would focus on religious pluralism if he wins a Knesset seat.

Getting in, though, is no small matter. With elections in three months, Kariv would have to campaign and establish a base of support in Labor and beat out other candidates for a spot on the party’s Knesset list. The Knesset never has had a Reform rabbi in its ranks.

Kariv says increasing greater religious and racial pluralism in Israel is more important than advancing the rights of Reform Jews specifically. Israel’s rabbinate, which is supported by the government, funds Orthodox rabbis and institutions almost exclusively. The scant funding provided to Reform and Conservative rabbis is the result of a suit won this year by Israel’s Reform movement, which requires the government to fund the salaries of non-Orthodox rabbis in rural communities.

“I think the state doesn’t need to get involved in

religious communal life,” Kariv said. “I don’t ask for the Reform movement to have a government position like the Orthodox. Communal religious life needs to be organized voluntarily.”

When he talks about policy, Kariv skips his usual frequent quotation of the traditional Jewish canon and

Gilad Kariv “I think the state doesn’t need to get involved in religious communal life. I don’t ask for the Reform movement to have a government position like the Orthodox.” — Gilad Kariv

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starts to speak like a politician.“I have a fear of parties that come and go,” he said. “This

phenomenon happens in the liberal camp in Israel. That’s why this camp has trouble gaining influence or taking the reins of leadership. In the Labor Party across the years, there was the ability to join together.”

In the Knesset, Kariv would face a formidable opponent in the solid bloc of Orthodox parties. Labor Knesset member Daniel Ben-Simon says he’d be happy if Kariv decides to run, as he would present an alternative to the Orthodox regardless of whether he succeeds in passing legislation.

“He needs to make his voice heard and say there are different versions” of Judaism, Ben-Simon said. “He doesn’t need to change the law. I’d be happy for another presence here so we can know that the whole world is not Orthodox.”

Some of Kariv’s allies, though, note that entering politics can complicate a religious leader’s image and principles. Uri Regev, president and CEO of the Israeli pluralism organization Hiddush, says Kariv may have to compromise if he joins the Knesset and Labor decides not to tackle religious pluralism legislation.

“For the last 65 years, coalition parties have not advanced the cause of religious pluralism,” Regev said. “Are we going to have Reform and Conservative rabbis subject themselves to the manipulative cause of coalition work, which basically subverts the values of religious freedom and equality?”

But Kariv says that although political involvement comes with sacrifices, “the choice not to go into politics also has a price.”

Non-Orthodox Jews “gave up a feeling of ownership in the Jewish world,” Kariv said. “Too many years we lived in peace with this deal that Orthodox people guard our

Judaism, and we paid a great price.”Israel’s Reform population is small, with only 30

congregations. But Kariv points to a recent survey by the Israel Democracy Institute and the Avi Chai Foundation showing that 8 percent of Jewish Israelis consider themselves Reform or Conservative.

Religiously liberal candidates may expect financial support from the large Reform and Conservative bases in the United States.

“If we say this is the state of the Jewish people, we need to respect the Jewish people, and there is more than one way to be Jewish,” said Yizhar Hess, executive director of Israel’s Masorti, or Conservative, movement. Hess is not running for the Knesset. “It is more than natural for American Jewry to be involved in the discourse.”

That discourse animates Kariv’s passion for Judaism. Despite being a Reform leader, he is a member of an unaffiliated modern Orthodox minyan in Tel Aviv and praised such independent communities as “important players in the Jewish renaissance.” On his head he wears a large knit kippah, typical of Modern Orthodox Jews here, and he keeps kosher and Shabbat and he prays every day.

“We believe in cooperative work with other movements, including Orthodox,” he said. “There’s a need to build a broad front from modern Orthodoxy to secular Israelis. My home is the Reform movement. But I leave my home sometimes.”

Kariv says politics is a marathon, and he harbors no illusions about the difficulties of succeeding if he does decide to run for Knesset. But inspired by Jewish sources, Kariv says he refuses to be discouraged.

“You are not responsible for finishing the work, but you are not free to abstain from it,” he said, quoting a passage in Pirkei Avot. “If you don’t like a long race, don’t build the Jewish state.”

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Israeli debate of political party heads waiting for Bibi’s answerJERUSALEM – Leaders of Israel’s major political parties accepted an invitation to an American-style debate, except for Likud leader and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The debate, sponsored by the Citizens’ Empowerment Center, is scheduled for Jan. 1 at Tel Aviv University, ac-cording to the organization’s website.

“We all — left and right, religious and secular, Jews and Arabs — have a clear interest in knowing exactly who we choose and why,” the Citizens’ Empowerment Center said on its website. “Are you sure you do know the subtle but critical differences between the positions of the vari-ous candidates, not on a superficial level, but on the level of the specific nature and intentions? The answer is no.”

Party chairs Shelly Yachimovich (Labor), Shaul Mofaz (Kadima), and Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu) reportedly have agreed to participate, according to the Israeli media. Yair Lapid, chair of the new Yesh Atid party, also has accepted.

Lieberman said he will participate if Netanyahu agrees to join the debate. Netanyahu has not yet re-sponded, according to Ynet.

Yoni Cohen-Idov, who won the world debate cham-pionship in 2010 and serves as a debate coach at Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University, and Bar-Ilan University, will supervise the debate.

The last political debate was held in Israel in 1999, the second and final time that there were direct elec-tions for prime minister. The leading candidates did not participate.

JTA Wire Service

For further information call Tina Schweid at 201.408.1438 or email [email protected]

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Many people perceive that Jewish life in Israeland North America reflect radically differentJudaisms and tribal affiliations; but Rabbi Hartman believes these two dynamic Jewishcommunities are undergoing profound changesthat can lead to a deeper appreciation for theircommonalities and differences.

Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman is president of Shalom Hartman Institute;Director of the Engaging Israel Project; and the author of The Boundaries of Judaism and other important scholarly works.

This program is made possible by the Adler Family Innovation Fund at Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.

Cost: $7 JCC members/$9 general admissionFor more informtion call Robyn at 201.408.1429

Waltuch Art GalleryAbstractions on SilkBatik and SilkPaintings by Ritika Gandhi

Free and Open to the CommunityWaltuch Art Gallery - 2nd floor

Born in India, Ritika followed her dream to become an artist.She studied textile design, traveled to Hong Kong where she

worked as a freelance artist, and then on to England, where shestudied art at the Reading College of Art and Design.

Inspired by nature and color, Ritika’s work is influenced by her native India. Her art has been exhibited here and abroad.

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Meet-the-Artist Reception Sunday, November 4, 1-3 pm

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The “Tribes” of Israelwith Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman

Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, in Collaboration with Local Synagogues, Presents

Thursday, November 1, 7:30pm

Mah Jongg & More

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Life in StillsDocumentary in Hebrewwith English Subtitles

A film by Tamar TalSaturday, 11/17, 8:30 pmMonday, 11/19, 11 am

Gei OniIn Hebrew/Yiddishwith English Subtitles

With Director Dan WolmanSaturday, 10/27, 8:30 pm

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ישראליIsraeli Film Club

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Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2012. In Darkness,based on a true story, is directed by Agnieszka Holland, director of Europa Europa.Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in a Nazi occupied city inPoland, encounters a group of Jews trying to escape theghetto. He hides them in the sewers beneath the city.The film is an extraordinary story of survival as these men,women and children all try to outwit certain death.

Following the film, meet Krystyna Chiger one of the suvivors.She will be interviewed by Daniel Paisner, co-author ofThe Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadowwhich recounts her story of survival.Book sale and signingThe first 25 people to register will receive a free copy of the book.

$10 JCC members $12 non-members

In Darknesswith English Subtitles• Rated Rwith author Daniel Paisner& Krystyna Chiger, a child survivor

film screening at the JCC:Kristallnacht Commemoration

For tickets and information please call Robyn at 201.408.142

The story of Gei Oni (Rosh Pina) interweaves the story of the first wave ofJewish European migration toPalestine . At the heart of thissaga of survival and strugglelies an unusual love story between a young Russian immigrant, and a native Jew.Discussion in English withDan Wolman, one of Israel’sfinest film artist, producer/director, who taught cinema atTel Aviv University, and NYU.

At the age of 96, Miriam Weissensteinfaces a new chapter in her life. Whenthe Photo House – containing her latehusband Rudi’s life’ work – was destined for demolition, Miriam knew she needed help.Under the cloud of a family tragedy,a special relationship is forgedbetween Miriam and her grandson,Ben, as they join forces to save theshop and its nearly one millionnegatives that document Israel’sdefining moments.Ben and Miriam embark on a heart-wrenching journey, both humorousand touching, that teach somevaluable life lessons.

Sunday, 11/4, 1-4 pm

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The Future of Electric Cars and Oil Independence

With Michael Granoff, head of Oil Independence Policies at Better Place

Saturday, November 3rd, 8:30pm presentation in English

Better Place is the highest funded greentech start-up in history. It was founded in Israel by Shai Agassi. Better Place has constructed electric car networks across Israel and Denmark.As part of his role, Mr. Granoff advances the ability to move countries off oil by giving them a policy framework to speed the conversion from gas to electric drive, generating public support for these policies, and working with collaborators in the automobile, utility and other industries.

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November 1You Say You Want a Revolution: The Beatles and the Politics of the1960’s and 1970’s Dr. Terry Hamblin, Ph.D. in US

History from Stony Brook Univer-

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Comedy — What’s Funny and WhatCrosses the Line?Davin Rosenblatt, comedian,

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November 8Obama or Romney…Post-ElectionDiscussion of US Foreign Policy

Dr. Howard Stoffer, former Princi-

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Israeli English press booms as Hebrew media contractsBen SaleS

TEL AVIV — On Oct. 17, seven Israeli English news websites led with seven dif-ferent stories.

The Jerusalem Post had a piece on Egypt’s commitment to its treaty with Israel. Haaretz’s English site ran with a recently released Israeli document on Gaza. Ynet News, Yediot Achronot’s English site, led with threats to a retired Israeli security chief. Then there were the stories on the websites of the Times of Israel, Israel Hayom’s English edition, Israel National News, and +972, a popular news and commentary blog.

Twenty years ago, of these seven publications, only The Jerusalem Post existed. Two of the news outlets, Israel Hayom English and the Times of Israel, are less than three years old.

While Hebrew newspapers and TV channels are struggling, the Israeli English-language news market appears to be booming. But with the business of journalism under threat worldwide because of declining revenues, Israel’s English-language media face an uncertain future.

“We see an explosion of new media because online platforms are cheap and easy to use,” said Noam Sheizaf, CEO of +972. “We couldn’t have done +972 four years ago. Times of Israel would have been a much more expensive operation five years ago.”

The past few months have seen an implosion of the Hebrew press. Maariv, a tabloid founded in 1948 and for its first 20 years Israel’s largest circulation daily, recently was placed in the hands of a court-appointed trustee and could shut down within weeks, leaving 2,000 people jobless. Haaretz, Israel’s leading broadsheet, did not print on Oct. 4, because the staff was protesting the proposed layoff of 100 workers. Israel’s Channel 10 TV is in deep debt to the government and faces possible closure.

Many in Israel blame Israel Hayom, a

staunchly conservative free newspaper funded by American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, for aggravating the crisis in Hebrew media.

The tough environment “is exacerbated by the fact that in Israel we have the most generously funded free newspaper in the world,” said the Times of Israel’s founding editor, David Horovitz, who was editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post before he started the site in February. “That’s made life hard for all the publications in Israel.”

The boom in English-language media in Israel is due in part to the limited audience for Hebrew-language news: Israel has fewer than 8 million citizens, many of whom prefer the Arabic or Russian press to the Hebrew dailies. Editors of English publications here say Israeli media are looking for audiences overseas to sustain their operations, and there appears to be a limitless appetite around the world for news and opinion on Israel.

“There’s an audience for news coming out of the Jewish world,” said David Brinn, managing editor of the Jerusalem Post. And because most news content is free online, he added, people interested in Israel news will go to any number of news sites. That means that new publications do not necessarily threaten older ones.

Much of the growth of Israel’s English media has been online. Haaretz, Ynet News, Israel National News, and Israel Hayom all translate their Hebrew reportage while weaving in some original English reports.

In May, Haaretz, the only one of the Hebrew papers to have an English print edition, put up a paywall on its popular English website, charging digital subscribers $100 annually for unlimited access. It’s still uncertain whether the strategy will pay off, though the paywall experiment soon will expand to the Haaretz Hebrew site, too.

Israel’s English-language news market is booming now but publications face an uncertain future. Graphics by Uri Fintzy

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PENSION PAYMENTS AVAILABLE TO ADDITIONAL HOLOCAUST VICTIMS FOLLOWING NEGOTIATIONS

Recent negotiations with the German government have allowed the Claims Conference to expand eligibility for pension programs. According to these criteria, Jewish Holocaust survivors may be eligible for Claims Conference pensions if they were in:(i) Concentration camps; or(ii) Ghettos for at least 3 months; or(iii) Hiding for at least 6 months without access to the outside world, or lived under false

The comprehensive criteria and application forms are available on the Claims Conference website on www.claimscon.org.

Payments for approved applications for Claims Conference pensions under the new criteria will be retroactive to November 1, 2012 or January 1, 2013, depending on the basis for eligibility or, if the application was received after that date, from the date of the application.

There is no cost to apply. Applications can be obtained online and filed with the Claims Conference FREE OF CHARGE.

NOTE: Claims Conference pensions may only be paid to survivors who do not already receive a pension from a German source (Article 2 Fund, CEEF, German Federal Indemnification Law – BEG – Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz, PRVG, Austrian OFG – Opferfürsorgegesetz, Israeli Ministry of Finance under the Nazi Persecution Disabled Persons law 5717-1957) and who meet all other criteria, including the income and asset criteria, of the Article 2 Fund.

For information contact:Claims Conference, 1359 Broadway, Room 2000

New York, NY 10018 Tel: 646-536-9100Email: [email protected] www.claimscon.org

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“It’s unrealistic to rely solely on a print model to fund our journalistic operation,” said Charlotte Halle, editor of Haaretz’s English edition. “We wouldn’t be taking care of our journalistic future if we didn’t seek additional sources of income.”

Halle said the paper’s “authority, breadth of coverage, and dozens of reporters and editors we have in the field” have helped attract thousands of digital subscribers.

The Jerusalem Post has pursued additional revenue opportunities by printing a range of publications beyond its daily newspaper. The Post has international, Christian, and French editions — all produced, along with the daily, by just 60 employees. Most of the paper’s readers are online; the Post says it garners some 2 million hits per week.

The Times of Israel, which combines original reporting with articles that repackage information reported on Israeli TV, radio, and news sites, would not disclose readership statistics. But Horovitz says the site is exceeding expectations and has gotten 40,000 “likes” on Facebook since its launch eight months ago.

Horovitz says the publication’s “nonpartisan agenda” stands in contrast to the right-leaning Jerusalem Post and left-leaning Haaretz. The news coverage seeks to strike an unbiased tone, he says, while hundreds of bloggers, all unpaid, opine on a range of topics, from Iran’s

nuclear program to the morality of circumcision.

“We strive to tell it like it is,” Horovitz said. “People want to know what’s going on, and they don’t want to feel like it’s filtered through some political agenda.”

With such a crowded market in such challenging times for the news industry, Israel’s English-language journalists are not without trepidation about the future. “There will be some sort of reevaluation” of the Post print newspaper’s viability in a few years, Brinn said.

Beyond competing for the same readership, the publications must vie with an ever-expanding cyber universe that occasionally breaks stories before they do.

“Social media has served to democratize the media market in Israel,” said Avi Mayer, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s director of new media and a prolific tweeter of Israel news. “When people share information through Twitter, it is a personal experience.”

While many Israeli journalists have become active tweeters, +972’s Sheizaf is concerned that publications thriving now are resistant to change, which could hurt them in the future.

“People are not experimenting,” he said. “The readers are evolving and changing, but the journalists, the stories they write, look like the stories written in the 19th century. We need to be a lot more creative.”

Morsi answers amen to imam’s prayers for destruction of JewsJERUSALEM (JTA) – A video shows Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi say-ing amen to the prayers by an imam call-ing on Allah to “destroy the Jews and their supporters.”

In last weekend’s service, Morsi is seen praying with great concentration at a mosque in the Matrouh governorate. The service was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

“Oh Allah, absolve us of our sins, strengthen us, and grant us victory over the infidels,” prayed Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour, the local head of the religious council. “O Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters. O Allah, disperse them, rend them asunder. O Allah, demonstrate Your might and greatness upon them. Show us Your omnipotence, O Lord.”

The Anti-Defamation League ex-pressed concern about the anti-Semitic rhetoric coming out of Egypt.

“The drumbeat of anti-Semitism in the ‘new’ Egypt is growing louder and rever-berating further under President Morsi, and we are increasingly concerned about the continuing expressions of hatred for Jews and Israel in Egyptian society and

President Morsi’s silence in the face of most of these public expressions of hate,” Abraham Foxman, ADL’s national direc-tor, said in a statement.

The prayer service came just days af-ter Morsi sent a letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres, calling him a “great and good friend,” and requesting that the two countries continue “maintaining and strengthening the cordial relations which so happily exist between our two coun-tries,” according to the Times of Israel, which published a photo of the letter. The letter was presented to Peres by Egypt’s new ambassador to Israel.

A founder of Morsi’s Freedom and Justice Party, Ahmad Hamrawi, over the weekend left the Muslim Brotherhood over the letter, calling it “national and religious treason to millions of Egyptians” and alleging secret ties between Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The ADL wrote to Morsi last week urging him to reject statements made by the supreme authority of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, who called for violence against Jews and Israel.

JTA Wire Service

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On Israel Philharmonic’s whirlwind U.S. tour, a rich, diverse musicalityTom Tugend

LOS ANGELES – Few people can chroni-cle the changes in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra better than Gabriel Vole, a vet-eran double bass player.

Vole represents the third generation of his family to perform with the orchestra. His maternal grandfather, the Polish-born violinist Jacob Surowicz, was a co-founder. He was followed by Gabriel’s father, Leopold, whose son inherited his love for the double bass. In addition, Gabriel’s mother, Sarah, and his uncle Maurice filled in occasionally.

The biggest change, Vole says, is the number of women.

“When I signed up in 1967, there were maybe three or four women in the orchestra,” Vole said. “Now I’d say they make up 40 percent or more of the members.”

Vole and the IPO, led by music director for life Zubin Mehta, are kicking off a five-day concert tour spanning four American cities with a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York on Oct. 25 before moving on to Palm Springs, Calif., Las Vegas and

Disney Hall in Los Angeles on successive nights starting Oct. 28.

The release of the film “Orchestra of Exiles,” which documents the struggle to establish the orchestra in 1936 and to res-cue German Jewish musicians from Nazi persecution, complements the IPO’s tour.

The Carnegie Hall concert will include the New York premiere of “Mechaye Hametim” (Revival of the Dead), a choral symphony by Israeli composer and con-ductor Noam Sheriff that is dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust and the builders of Israel. Also at the famed venue, Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, 25, an audience favorite for her musicianship and fashion statements, will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor.

In the other venues, Wang will perform in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor. The program for all four concerts will feature Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1.

Over its 76 years, the IPO has under-gone many transformations.

Vole noted that early on the orchestra was made up mainly of refugees from Germany, with a large Polish contingent. It was rounded out by a smattering of Russians, Hungarians, Romanians, and native Israelis.

“At that time, the rehearsals, the corre-spondence, everything was in German,” Vole said in a phone interview.

That lasted until the 1950s, when an increasing number of native-trained musicians joined. An influx of talented musicians from the Soviet Union came in the 1970s and ‘80s, and they now make up about half of the 100-piece orchestra.

A number of players from North and South America also have entered the ranks, and the main working languages now are Hebrew and English. The latter is mainly to accommodate many of the Russians, who understand English better

Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a four-city U.S. tour. Shai Skiff

Chinese pianist Yuja Wang plays with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on its U.S. tour. felix Broede/deutSche

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than Hebrew.Vole tells the story of Gustavo Dudamel, now the ef-

fervescent conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, leading the IPO in 2008 and 2010 and once setting a rehearsal for late Saturday afternoon. Some religiously observant players did not show up until after the end of Sabbath.

When Dudamel asked about their absence, a violinist gave a one-word explanation: “Shabbes.”

The conductor grew extremely agitated and shouted, “Chavez? What does this have to do with Hugo Chavez?” He was talking about the president of Dudamel’s native Venezuela.

Vole says playing for the IPO is not purely about playing music “but about solidarity and making music together.”

The love affair between the orchestra and the India-born Mehta is passionate and longstanding. He knows the musicians and their spouses by their first names, and will converse in Yiddish with Russian newcomers.

“Zubin’s identification and involvement with the orchestra is complete, and so is his identification with Israel,” Vole said.

The founder of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, a precursor to the IPO, was Bronislaw Huberman, and the documentary “Orchestra of Exiles” is a tribute by filmmaker Josh Aronson to Huberman’s single-minded dedication and perseverance.

A native of Poland, Huberman was a musical child prodigy who was driven relentlessly by his father and be-came a world-renowned violinist. Disillusioned by World War I, Huberman quit at the height of his fame to broad-en his education at the Sorbonne in Paris and became an ardent advocate of a pan-European union.

With the rise of Hitler, and seeing worse to come, he set about forming a world-class orchestra in a yet largely barren land, far from the coffeehouses and opera houses of Vienna or Budapest.

In 1936, facing a critical shortfall of $80,000 to launch his venture, Huberman enlisted an amateur violinist named Albert Einstein, and together they raised the sum at one benefit dinner in New York.

For the orchestra’s inaugural concert under the great Italian conductor and ardent anti-fascist Arturo Toscanini, 100,000 buyers — in a total Jewish population of 400,000 — vied to buy the 2,000 available tickets.

Among those paying tribute to Huberman, and dem-onstrating their own virtuosity in the film, are violinists Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, and Joshua Bell.

“Orchestra of Exiles” opens Oct. 26 in New York and Nov. 2 in Los Angeles.

The New York and Los Angeles concerts will include fundraising galas featuring receptions with the artists and dinners hosted by the American Friends of the IPO. For information, go to http://www.afipo.org/events.

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More than 25 years after it was first published, the graphic novel “Maus” continues to revolu-tionize both comics and representations of the

Holocaust — and its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Art Spiegelman, remains on tour.

By showing “complex and complicated stories of intertwining human destinies acted out by mice, cats, pigs and dogs,” “Maus” turns “the notion of subhuman back on itself,” Ruth Knafo Setton said. She is the direc-tor of the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where Spiegelman will speak on Nov. 8.

Spiegelman “reminds us that the Final Solution of the Nazis was not merely to murder Jews, but to extermi-nate them,” Setton said. “Extermination is what we do to rodents, to those we view as nonhuman, or less than human.”

A prominent advocate of comics and graphic novels, the 64-year-old Spiegelman tours the United States giv-ing a lecture he calls “Comix 101: Forbidden Images and the Art of Outrage,” a presentation that includes a history of how comics have evolved.

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periences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor, “Maus” attracted an enormous amount of critical attention, particularly given its format. It was featured in an exhibi-tion at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

Spielgelman, born to Polish Jews in Sweden, grew up in Queens and was a major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. In 2005, he was named one of Time magazine’s “Top One Hundred Most Influential People.”

In “Maus,” Spiegelman interweaves image and text, past and present, global history and individual tragedy, and the problematic relationship between father and son, to create a drama of global proportions.

According to “Necessary Stains: Spiegelman’s MAUS and the Bleeding of History,” a journal article by scholar Michael Levine, the publication of “Maus,” first in 1986 and then a second edition in 1991, has helped to define an important turning point in the history of Holocaust testimony.

“Forty years after the Second World War, many survi-vors had reached a point in their lives where they knew that if ever there was a time to pass on their experience as a ‘legacy,’ it was now,” Levine writes. “It was also a time when the children of survivors began to participate in increasing numbers in the process of bearing witness. For this second generation it was a question not only of helping to elicit their parents’ stories — of persuading them to write, speak, or agree to be interviewed — but also of coming to terms with their own implication in their parents’ experiences. Indeed, many of these chil-dren had come to the discovery that the stories of the first generation had already been passed on to them, that they themselves had become the unwitting bearers of a traumatic legacy.

“For Spiegelman, the question of Holocaust survival is not only a matter of who survives as a witness, but of the interminable nature of the Holocaust itself.”

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Although he worked as co-editor on the comics’ mag-azines Arcade and Raw and as a contributing editor at The New Yorker, Spiegelman will be remembered mainly

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If anyone can escape from the afterlife, it is Harry Houdini.

Born Erik Weisz to Austro-Hungarian Jews, Houdini arguably was the greatest escape artist ever. Magic enthusiasts from around the globe gather annually in a predetermined city to cel-ebrate Houdini. Because Houdini died on Oct. 31, 1926, the gathering takes place on Halloween.

This year enthusiasts picked Fort Worth, Texas, for a celebration that includes an effort to contact Houdini during a séance.

Houdini scholar John Cox’s fascination with the magician began when he saw the film “Houdini,” starring Tony Curtis, when he was 10. Cox — whose website, wildabouthoudini.com, is a popular destination for Houdini fans — will give a talk on Houdini before the Fort Worth sé-ance and will be at the séance table itself.

“From my childhood my quest to learn the truth about Houdini has just never stopped. It’s amazing to me that I’m still discovering new things every day,” Cox said.

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was a rabbi, and while this did not necessarily af-fect his professional life, it did shape his personal life. Houdini had a strict sense of morality and a strong attachment to family. His mother called him “little father” as a boy. No matter where he was in the world, he always said Kaddish on the anniversary of his father’s death, and he dedi-cated his first book to his father, who instilled in young Erik a love of study and patience in research.

Houdini first attracted attention as “Harry Handcuff Houdini” on a tour of Europe, where he challenged different police forces to keep him locked up. This revealed his talent for gim-mickry and affinity for audience involvement. Soon Houdini extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjack-ets under water, and holding his breath inside a sealed milk can.

In 1904, thousands watched as he tried to es-cape from a special handcuff commissioned by London’s Daily Mirror, keeping them in suspense for an hour. Another stunt saw him buried and

A poster for a show starring Harry Houdini. Arthur Moses

“Houdini became a mythological figure in his own right, like Merlin. The word ‘Houdini’ means magic and the impossible. Then to learn he was a real person, who died on Halloween, who escaped from water torture cells onstage. It is fascinating stuff.”

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barely able to claw to the surface, emerging in a state of near breakdown. While many suspected these escapes were fabricated, Houdini presented himself as the scourge of fake magicians and spiritualists. As president of the Society of American Magicians, he was keen to uphold professional standards and expose fraudulent artists who gave practitioners a bad name. He also was quick to sue anyone who pirated his escape stunts.

A screenwriter and Houdini historian from Los Angeles, when he was a teenager Cox performed magic

and escapes, and even appeared on television doing a straitjacket release on the “Toni Tennille Show.”

Cox said the fascination with Houdini “has to do with the basic idea of a man who can escape from anything.”

“Add to that the element of death, and that’s a real attention grabber,” Cox said. “Houdini became a mytho-logical figure in his own right, like Merlin. The word ‘Houdini’ means magic and the impossible. Then to learn he was a real person, who died on Halloween, who escaped from water torture cells onstage. It is fascinating stuff.”

The first famous American magician was Alexander Herrmann. Herrmann also was Jewish, and he showed that magic was a lucrative path open to newly arrived immigrants.

Cox said that because Houdini’s father was a rabbi, Houdini founded the Rabbis’ Sons Theatrical Benevolent Association, whose membership included Al Jolson, Irving Berlin, and the Three Stooges. Houdini also “helped found the Jewish Theatrical Guild, which count-ed Eddie Cantor and William Morris among its leaders,” he said.

Another Houdini scholar asked to sit at the séance table with Cox in Forth Worth is Arthur Moses. A collec-tor of Houdini memorabilia with more than 4,500 items in his collection, Moses became interested in Houdini after reading a book about him when he was in seventh grade. He wrote two books and dozens of articles about the great magician.

“There are many things so interesting about him, mostly his personality, being fearless,” Moses said. “Houdini was fascinating for his sheer magnetism on the stage and his ability to command interest in his escapes and magic. He was able to overcome all of the challenges, both in life and in performing, set before him.”

Moses’s book, “Houdini Speaks Out,” reveals new in-sights and vividly recreates the lectures Houdini present-ed from 1922 until his death in 1926. The reader learns about Houdini’s struggles to reach into the afterlife to contact his dead mother during an era filled with decep-tive spirit mediums. Each of the 50 glass-lantern slides that Houdini used to highlight his lectures are painstak-ingly recreated and matched to his original lecture text.

Before his final years, Cox said, Houdini visited the scene of a Jewish massacre near Kishinev in Russia, which happened while he was performing there in 1903. The massacre took place on Houdini’s birthday. Houdini wrote of his encounters with anti-Semitism for journals.

“Houdini married outside the faith, as did all his brothers. He celebrated Christmas and sent out Christmas cards. He also had an interest and belief in reincarnation, so, go figure,” Cox added.

Moses said the Oct 31, 2012 séance in his hometown, Fort Worth, will have tickets available to the general pub-lic for only the second time ever, and he expects about 250 attendees.

The séance came to Fort Worth via Will Radner, son of Sidney Radner, who had inherited many of Houdini’s effects from the escape artist’s younger brother, Hardeen, in 1945.

Cox explained that Houdini’s widow, Bess, used to hold séances each year.

“The most famous of these occurred in 1936, the 10th anniversary of Houdini’s death,” Cox said. “It was held

on the roof of the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood and was opened to the public. They actually set up bleachers on the roof.”

While Houdini himself didn’t return, the séance script was recorded, “and you can still hear it today,” according to Cox.

“While that was the last séance held by Bess — she’s reported to have said ‘10 years is long enough to wait for any man’ — the tradition was carried on by Houdini’s brother and colleagues and continues right up to Fort Worth,” he said.

Harry Houdini enthusiast and expert John Cox at Houdini’s grave in Queens. John Cox

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“Houdini became a mythological figure in his own right, like Merlin. The word ‘Houdini’ means magic and the impossible. Then to learn he was a real person, who died on Halloween, who escaped from water torture cells onstage. It is fascinating stuff.”

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LOS ANGELES — It was the “Night of Broken Glass” in Germany — Kristallnacht, a national pogrom of death, the destruction of Jewish property, and the rounding up of Jews — and Dietrich (David) Hamburger was in hiding.

Hamburger was the leader of a small congregation that met in his home in Fuerstenau, a countryside village in what now is the province of Niedersachsen. Someone had warned him about the coming onslaught, and on Nov. 9, 1938, he went into hiding in the local Catholic hospital.

“The cover story was that he was in for a hernia,” Edith Strauss Kodmur, his granddaughter and the family’s historian, said.

This spring — 75 years later and in a Californian winery a continent away — Kodmur’s granddaughter will become bat mitzvah. And on that day Charlotte Ruth Smith will read from the Torah scroll that her great-great-grandfather rescued soon after that tragic night.

But first Hamburger had to escape from Germany and the Torah had to find its way back to his family.

“By prior arrangement, one of his hired hands met him in the hospital garden while the nuns were at Mass,” Kodmur recalled from detailed notes. “He drove Dietrich back to his home, where he packed, taking an oil portrait of wife Rosa and the community Torah with him.” Hamburger was a widower by then.

Kodmur thought Hamburger had removed the rollers, or etz chaim, to make the Torah easier to transport.

“He then boarded the train to Holland, to Winterswijk, to his daughter Bette,” said Kodmur, whose own parents as well as her uncle Siegried, Hamburger’s son, had left

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Dietrich (David) Hamburger, who rescued the com-munity Torah of Fuerstenau, Germany, days after Kristallnacht in 1938, is shown in a 1948 photo taken in Winterswijk, the Dutch town in which he hid from the Nazis. Julie Ann Kodmur

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A memorial book for the Holocaust victims of Winterswijk, “We Once Knew Them All,” uses quotes from the people who lived in the eastern Holland town to tell what happened to Hamburger and his family.

“My parents had a Jewish person in hiding during the last year of the war, a Mister Hamburger. We called him by his alias, ‘Uncle Derk,’” a community member recalls in the book. “His daughter, son-in-law, and their children died in the concentration camps. He also had a son in America.

“Once we were threatened by a posting of German soldiers at our home. Uncle Derk hid behind a wardrobe. Obviously we noticed that Mr. Hamburger was very afraid of being discovered. My father told Uncle Derk to act differently, otherwise everyone might be arrested.

“On the morning of liberation, I woke up Uncle Derk. He was so shaken by my excited talk that his false teeth fell out into the chamber pot!”

From another community member: “Father Hamburger stayed a while in Winterswijk after the war. My, my how that man cried over his grandchildren.”

After the war, while Siegfried was visiting his father in Holland, Hamburger gave him the Torah scroll to bring back to his home in Redwood City, Calif. It stayed there until Siegfried died.

Kodmur, who lives in the San Diego area, knew that Siegfried had given the Torah to his son Steven. But she had lost touch with that part of the family and did not know where it was.

In 1996, Kodmur’s daughter Julie Ann and her fiance, Stuart Smith, attended a pre-wedding counseling session with Rabbi Jerry Winston in San Anselmo, Calif. The rabbi mentioned that he had officiated at the marriage of Julie

Ann’s cousin.Julie Ann had heard the stories of her great-

grandfather’s escape with the Torah, and that no one knew where it was. In the whirr of Jewish geography and family history that ensued, both Julie Ann and Winston soon realized that Steven Hamburger had given the rescued Torah to the rabbi.

“I didn’t even think to ask him for it,” said Julie Ann, thinking back on that meeting.

In 2000, Winston officiated at the baby naming for her daughter Charlotte, but Julie Ann and the rabbi then would lose touch.

It was more than a decade later, when Julie Ann began thinking about her daughter’s bat mitzvah, that her thoughts again turned to the Torah. Beginning a search last year, she soon discovered that Winston had died and the small congregation he led had disbanded. Could he have given the Torah to another synagogue?

She called the big synagogue in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Marin County, Rodef Shalom, and the historic synagogue in San Francisco, Temple Emanu-El, and many others as well. She left messages. Then she received a call back.

“The woman had a German accent and said she was a friend of Rabbi Winston’s. She told me that his sons had given the Torah away, to Rabbi Alan Levinson of Sausalito,” remembered Julie Ann, who lives with her

husband, Stuart, and Charlotte in the small town of St. Helena, Calif., near the family-owned Smith-Madrone Winery.

After reaching Levinson, who had been a longtime friend of Winston’s, they quickly exchanged what each knew of the provenance of the scroll. It was the one. “His plan was to give it to another synagogue,” Julie Ann said.

Meanwhile, Julie Ann also was looking for a rabbi to prepare Charlotte for her bat mitzvah. She connected with Rabbi Jerry Levy, who worked with students via Skype. She had known Levy growing up in San Diego; he had been the rabbi at her brother David’s bar mitzvah.

Levy also was the chaplain at AlmaVia, a faith-based elder care community in San Rafael, Calif., where according to the rabbi, 18 to 20 of the 120 residents are Jewish. Julie Ann asked if Levinson would consider giving the Torah to Levy for use in his community. Levinson agreed, and this month Levy held a dedication at AlmaVia.

With Levinson, Julie Ann, and Charlotte present — she helped roll the scroll to the correct reading — the scroll, which was to be known as the Hamburger/Fuerstenau Torah, was dedicated.

“They were kvelling,” said Levy of the AlmaVia residents at the service.

Speaking at the ceremony, Charlotte recounted her great-great-grandfather’s escape on Kristallnacht and the Torah’s travels.

“We found it, and not only would I be able to use it for my bat mitzvah, we could give it a home here at AlmaVia,” she said.

“This coming spring, I will borrow the Torah from all of you here at AlmaVia for my bat mitzvah. And the story will continue.”

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Palestinian reporter Asmaa al-Ghoul aims to keep thorn in Hamas’ side

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TEL AVIV – She can’t stay out of trouble there, but Asmaa al-Ghoul always comes back to Gaza.

A secular feminist Palestinian journalist, al-Ghoul, 30, has been harassed by Hamas. She’s also been beaten and arrested by Hamas police for protesting its Islamist poli-cies and suppression of human rights.

But unlike most residents of the impoverished coastal strip where Hamas reigns, al-Ghoul has been able to get out, traveling as far as South Korea and spending considerable time in Europe in the course of her work. On Wednesday she will be in New York to receive the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Then she will return to Gaza City.

“I tried to stay in Europe and outside” Gaza, she said in a recent phone interview from Cairo. “In Gaza there are my son and my mom. At least in Gaza I am near my home because all of my family is in Rafah,” the Gazan refugee camp where she grew up.

Al-Ghoul began her career nine years ago as a news reporter for the Al-Ayyam newspaper. But as she saw ongoing violations of human and civil rights, she had trouble keeping her opinions to herself. In 2007, al-Ghoul published a piece criticizing her uncle, a Hamas leader, for beating rival Fatah Party activists in their homes. In response, she received death threats.

Undeterred, al-Ghoul since has opposed Hamas in word and deed. She attends weekly women’s protests

in Gaza City advocating for Palestinian unity between Hamas and Fatah, and has been arrested for walking with a man on a beach and for riding a bicycle — Hamas bans both activities. Unlike Gaza’s many religiously conserva-tive women, al-Ghoul poses for pictures in a T-shirt and jeans with her hair uncovered.

A vocal advocate of democratic reform in Gaza, she says that Hamas’ repressive policies hinder the na-tional aspirations of Palestinians and peace with Israel. Al-Ghoul traveled to Cairo to support the Arab Spring revolution there last year, and she has been a constant promoter of a Palestinian unity government.

In its file on the Palestinian territories, Reporters Without Borders says that “journalists condemning Hamas policy remain targets for intimidation, assault, unfair arrest and abusive imprisonment.”

“You cannot choose to be neutral all the time,” said al-Ghoul, who now works for Lebanon’s Samir Kassir Foundation, which advocates for media freedom. “I tried to be neutral and write about people, but then I found myself as part of the scene, so I started to blog about the government and about life in Gaza. In your blog you can be yourself.”

Although she is a fierce advocate of women’s rights, some of al-Ghoul’s most vocal opponents are religious Muslim women. She says that Gaza’s secular and Islamist camps both have strong female contingents, and that “this is healthy, to see all these voices in the same small area.”

But al-Ghoul’s criticism of Hamas does not make her pro-Israel. She recalls watching her father being beaten by Israeli soldiers in the first intifada, during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as the rest of the family hid in the bathroom.

“I was fasting and we were crying a lot,” she said. “My mouth gets dry now when I remember that day.”

She also is quite critical of the Israeli military’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza during December 2008 and January 2009, in which 13 Israelis and approximately 1,400 Palestinians were killed.

Al-Ghoul says she eschews violence and hopes one day to see peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

“I believe in peace,” she said. “I hate war, and as a writer I cannot deal with war and revenge and blood. I don’t want to see people die again. Why should you hate the other?”

The daughter of an architecture professor, al-Ghoul remembers curling up in a small room as a child reading whatever books she found on her father’s shelf — even if they were Islamist texts.

“My father used to behave with me very liberally, discussing everything,” she said. Although al-Ghoul had both brothers and sisters, she said her father “never made a difference between us. He treated us the same.”

Now married with children of her own — an 8-year-old boy and a baby girl — al-Ghoul says she doesn’t have much time for fun or relaxation, though she called spending time with her children “the most beautiful time in the world.”

And though she is not a religious Muslim, al-Ghoul says her faith in God has helped her through hard times.

“We all have one God, so I believe in this God,” she said. “It’s very easy to be a believer. You become strong and at the same time you will see peace.”

Ultimately, though, she looks to her writing to sustain her.

“I love to express myself,” she said. “To keep myself alive in this situation, I should write more and more.”

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In this week’s portion, Chapter 13 of Genesis describes Abraham’s disen-gagement from his nephew Lot. The

background to this development is clear. Both Abraham and Lot have become quite wealthy; their flocks have become numerous; the grazing lands are no lon-ger large enough to meet their needs. Disputes break out between the shep-herds of Abraham and Lot.

So Abraham tells Lot: “Let there be no arguments between the two of us or between our shepherds, because, after all, we are brothers.” Abraham suggests that they part ways. “If you go left then I will go right, and if you go right then I will go left.” Immediately agreeing to Abraham’s proposal, Lot chooses the Jordan plain and Abraham settles in the Land of Canaan. They separate.

The story seems straightforward. Yet sensitive, as always, to subtle nuances in the biblical narrative, our sages exposed another dimension.

Following the story of the disengagement, the Torah continues the narrative: “And God spoke to Abraham after Lot parted from him…” It is clearly a new sentence, yet the Torah inserts the word “and,” “And God spoke to Abraham,” indicating a sequence. God, the Midrash suggests, had spoken also about the separation between uncle Abraham and his nephew Lot.

What did God say about the matter? The Midrash cites two perspectives. Rabbi Nechemiah believes that God approved. Abraham, who was childless at the time, erroneously saw in Lot his heir, both materially and spiritually. This was a role Lot could not live up to, and the separation was thus productive.

However, Rabbi Yehuda presents an opposing view: God was profoundly critical of Abraham’s decision to part ways with Lot. “Anger was directed towards our patriarch Abraham when Lot, his nephew, left him. God said: ‘He befriends everyone, he cleaves to everybody, but he cleaves not to Lot — his own brother!’”

This is a sharp critique. Abraham was the biblical paradigm of love and kindness; a heart open to people of all background and walks of life, ready to embrace them with a glowing heart and a delicious meal, opening vistas to their spiritual yearnings and aching souls. Abraham was the first human being to reach out beyond his own community

of faith, turning monotheism from an inner-circle tradition to a world phenomenon. Wandering Arab Bedouins felt comfortable in Abraham’s presence as did men of great scholarship and prestige.

Yet when it came to family, the rules were altered. “He cleaves to everyone,” God laments, “but he cleaves not to Lot — his own brother.” With his own nephew, he somehow cannot find the right approach and appropriate words to maintain the loving connection.

Let us not be swift to judge Abraham. Lot was a deeply troubled soul. He most certainly experienced a love-hate relationship with Abraham. Abraham raised him and nurtured him, yet Lot was aware that his own father, Haran, was killed because of his support for Abraham. In Lot’s eyes, Abraham was indirectly responsible for his misery; and yet Lot needed Abraham for his survival. This creates a quite complicated family dynamic. Perhaps Abraham felt that at this point Lot desperately needed to make it on his own, to establish his independence, and deal with his skeletons — away from the powerful presence of Abraham.

More ideas have been suggested by the biblical commentators as to the value of the disengagement. But God was still upset! You know how to embrace the entire world, could you really not find a way to embrace your own kin? You know how to invoke the name of a healing God in the hearts of strangers; can’t you generate healing in the heart of your brother?

The excuses may have been valid; the situation was indeed difficult. But God could still not tolerate the very dichotomy: How can you attract the entire world, yet alienate your own brother?

We often encounter people who are kind, gracious, and non-judgmental — as long as they are dealing with strangers. Yet within their family, there is strife, animosity, and deception. They can embrace the most remote stranger, but with their own brother they are often not on speaking terms.

“Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper,” Nietzsche said. His own family history was indicative of this. The man considered to be the greatest philosopher of modern times was at

some point loathed by most of his friends. The fact remains that it is often easier to capture the attention of the masses than the heart of your children. You can be a celebrity to millions, but a menace to those who should cherish you most.

The rabbis in the Midrash were sensitive to the truth of Judaism, that God is intolerant of a universal soul who has not the time and patience to cultivate loving and genuine relationships within his or her own family. Before you embrace a stranger, make sure you learn how to embrace your own brother; before you save the world, make sure you save your marriage. Before you rise up to

give a brilliant presentation to the 300 employees in your company, make sure you are on speaking terms with your parents and siblings.

“He befriends everyone, but he cleaves not to his own brother!” How is it that sometimes we know how to be there for everybody else, besides our own?

Abraham, at the end, internalized God’s critique. When his nephew was in danger, he risked his life to save his. At a moment of danger, Abraham was there for Lot like nobody else would be. The truly great heroes are those who are first heroes within their own families.

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There’s nothing about the sweet and funny off-Broadway musical “The Other Josh Cohen” that wouldn’t warm any

Jewish mother’s heart. Full of zip and just zany enough to avoid sappiness, the show exudes menschlichkeit in a way that’s rarely seen. “The Other Josh Cohen” asks the question, Do nice guys ever finish first? and answers triumphant-ly, yes.

Conceived and written entirely (book, music, lyrics) by David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, and smartly directed by Ted Sperling, the show tells the true story (at least, true according to the press notes) of aspiring writer Josh Cohen and his search for love and luck — in that order. Narrated by Rossmer, who plays present-day Josh, the story meets last-year Josh (that’s Rosen, with a mustache) just as he learns that his first-floor New York apartment has been robbed of everything except a Neil Diamond CD, and not even one of the good ones. This comes after a series of crushing romantic disappointments, which always seem to leave him alone on Valentine’s Day, or VD.

Hannah Elless, Vadim Feichtner, and Ken Triwush play a variety of characters as well as drums, keyboards, and bass on stage. Rossmer and Rosen also play instruments as they sing and dance all over the small, cozy stage of the Soho Playhouse. The youthful simplicity of the staging gives the show even more charm, as does the constant back and forth between the two incarnations of Josh.

A week after the break-in, last-year Josh receives a letter addressed to him from someone in West Palm Beach. Inside is a check for $56,000. Who could it be from? The hilarious song “Samuel Cohen’s Family Tree” explains it could be from any of a dozen elderly relatives. Their patriarch Sam “impregnated wombs

from sea to sea” and now they are all a part of the same family, “a genetic, Semitic potpourri/predisposed to colitis and severe anxiety.”

So much money really could change Josh’s run of bad luck. He could afford a new suit from Macy’s, a manly purple tie, and a computer that doesn’t take floppy discs. But now his Jewish guilt kicks in. How can he find out who sent the check? Who exactly is Irma Cohen and how is she related to him? There’s a very funny call to his parents that doesn’t help much, but eventually Josh tracks her down. Through some twists and turns, Josh does the right thing and everything turns out okay. What’s so surprising is that he gives any thought to it at all. We so rarely see the challenge of everyday ethical behavior presented on stage that it seems quite astonishing. It’s the ordinariness of Josh’s dilemma that makes it so touching.

Rossmer grew up in River Edge, and he and Rosen first met as teenagers in summer camp, where they did an improvisational sketch together. They have continued to work together as well as apart, and they have achieved a lot of success. Rossmer just left the Tony Award-winning play “Peter and the Starcatcher” and Rosen appeared in “Spamalot” and “The Farnsworth Invention.” Along with Sarah Satzberg and Dan Lipton, they created “Don’t Quit Your Night Job,” which combined music, improv, and skits, and toured several theaters in New York. They are now working on a television pilot and an adaptation of their off-Broadway musical “Rated P for Parenthood.”

Aside from some relatively tame references to pornography and marijuana, this is an ideal show for teens. The references won’t shock them, and the genuine sweetness of the show, as well as the warmth of its family feeling, can only do them good.

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What do you do when your nose falls off?That was the question facing David

Rossmer his first time on stage. He was playing the starring role in an elementary school production of Pinocchio, and his prosthetic proboscis came lose.

“I somehow went on with the show,” says the River Edge native, who has pursued a career on stage as an actor and backstage as a playwright and lyricist. In his most recent production, “The Other Josh Cohen,” he is both co-author and actor, playing one of the two Josh Cohens at the center of the musical comedy.

His is the older Josh, narrating the events of his year-younger-self, played by Rossmer’s writing partner, Steve Rosen.

Rossmer and Rosen met as kids at French Woods performing arts summer camp in upstate New York. “We met doing an improvisation. We made each other

laugh and ever since have been the closest of friends,” Rossmer said.

They were working together in Los Angeles on a television project when “The Other Josh Cohen” was born.

“One night Neil Diamond came to us like Elijah and we just started writing these songs,” Rossmer said.

The spirit of the American Jewish singer-songwriter was summoned by a video game the creative duo played to relax the night before an important meeting.

“The music sounded like a Neil Diamond song,” said. “In the apartment Steve sublet, there was a guitar on the wall. We took it down and started to write a lot of songs that felt in the style of Neil Diamond.

“We just had so much fun. The sun came out and we had eight songs, Neil Diamond-style songs, and all except one ended up in the show. We had such a blast we just wanted to share them.

“Steve and I both love Neil Diamond. My first Neil Diamond record was Hot August Night. My mother had an incredible record collection. I always listened to Neil Diamond and Sergeant Pepper. And Jacques Brel, for some reason, in French. She loved music. She played the piano and guitar; that’s the reason I play piano and guitar,” he said.

As for the plot of “The Other Josh Cohen,” Rossmer said that “it was a true story. Most of it is true. It’s been embellished for the theater. We chose the name to protect the innocent. The person it happened to had a very common Jewish name. We sort of took the truth and shielded it.”

Despite having changed the name of the protagonist, the playwrights have been getting calls from real Josh Cohens. “I say, of course we didn’t write a musical about you. We don’t know you,’” Rossmer said.

“But I have trouble with money and heartache and I like Neil Diamond,” replied a Josh Cohen.

Nonetheless, there is good news for the Josh Cohens of the world: They’re eligible for a special discount code.

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Steve Rosen as Josh Cohen and David Rossmer as Josh Cohen

Photo by Carol Rosegg


The Other SonEric A. GoldmAn

How does a filmmaker tackle the Arab-Palestinian conflict?

Israelis have been struggling with this for decades. The earliest films, like the 1961 classic “They Were Ten,” were similar to the classic romantic Westerns that were popular at the time. They showed how enemies can live next to each other, side by side, in peace. Just as the white man and the “Indian” came together in such American Westerns as “Broken Arrow” to smoke a peace pipe, this film had Jew and Arab each take a puff from a hookah and then seem to live happily ever after. The conclusions of these films laid out a hope that both sides could somehow live in peace.

But in the intervening years much has happened in the Middle East. In trying to broach the differences, Israeli filmmakers made a series of films tackling the conflict through the realm of forbidden love. Some historians observed that this made it easier for the Israeli audience to encounter the conflict, whose roots otherwise were too complex and often painful. In the post-1982 Lebanon War period, films like Daniel Wachmann’s 1982 “Hamsin,” which showed the unraveling of long-held friendships between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs in the Galilee, and Nissim Dayan’s 1985 “On a Narrow Bridge,” about the relationship between a male Israeli reserve officer and Palestinian Christian woman in the west bank, tried to push the notion that each side might somehow come together. These films began to draw the attention of Israeli moviegoers and several other Israeli films of this genre followed.

Could love somehow prevail and bring about a peace?Now, French writer and director Lorraine Lévy enters

the fray with “The Other Son.” She, too, draws on the question of love — though it is a different form of love — to draw us in to continue to examine the current situation between Israel and the Palestinians. She

enters a controversial sphere of filmmaking, which is riddled with hidden minefields. European and American filmmakers already have entered this terrain, attempting to give their interpretation of events and provide a perspective on a potential coming together of Israelis and Palestinians. But, by and large, moviemakers — even the most talented among them, like Costa-Gavras (1983’s “Hanna K) and Steven Spielberg (2005’s “Munich”) — were slammed, either for not telling the right story or for relating one that was not fair enough to one side or the other.

Could Lévy do the subject justice?She draws on a familiar literary motif, that of two

babies who accidentally are switched at birth and then grow up and live in what should have been the other’s domain. One is an Israeli Jew, the other a Palestinian Muslim.

Just what is it in their DNA that makes them different and what are the repercussions when their true identities are uncovered? Can the parents continue to love their sons, and what are the consequences of such love?

The filmmaker uses this plotline to tackle the current tense situation effectively, with a sensitivity and tastefulness that does not attempt to make you squirm, but rather allows you to sit upright and pay close attention. She provides a unique perspective as we are

able to observe the various reactions of mothers, fathers and siblings on both sides of the border. As the filmmaker told me, “In fiction you can say so much more.”

She did acknowledge, however, that her film would not change anything. All she wants is for her movie to encourage dialogue. When I quizzed her about why she made this film, she talked about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in France. She referred to the violence wreaked by people in France “who do not really know what Jews do and who Jews really are.” She wanted to raise the subject of identity and the question of what it is like to be “the other,” issues that have been central throughout Jewish history. “My film falls into this present context,” she said. “You sometimes need to fight against prejudice.” Lévy mediates fairly between both sides.

“The Other Son” was filmed in Israel and in the west bank. The very making of the film was an exercise in cooperation and conflict resolution. The film crew was made up of French, Israeli, and Palestinian artists and technicians, who complemented each other and worked well together. When there was an issue with Israeli security, the Israelis on the crew dealt with it. When Palestinian teenagers threw stones, the problem was resolved quickly when the Palestinian crew members met with the residents. Oh, if it all could be so easy!

Emmanuelle Davos as Orit, the French-born Israeli mother, and Alon Silbers as her macho Israeli husband do a fine job, as do Khalifa Natour and Areen Omari as the Arab couple. Both the actors who play the 18-year-old youths, Jules Sitruk and Medhi Dehbi, are quite believable. This is the third film that Lorraine Lévy has directed; in it, she brings us a sensitive portrait of a difficult situation at a demanding time in Israel.

The film opens today in New York City, Westchester, and Montclair.

Eric A. Goldman, president of Ergo Media, teaches cinema and is film reviewer for the Jewish Standard

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friday [oct. 26]

Shabbat in Demarest Sha’ar Communities offers musical Shabbat services led by Rabbi Adina Lewittes, 6:15 p.m. (201) 213-9569 or [email protected] for location.

saturday [oct. 27]

Shabbat in Wyckoff Rabbi Ziona Zelazo leads an alternative meditative prayer service in Temple Beth Rishon’s library, 10 a.m. 585 Russell Ave. (201) 891-4466 or Louis, [email protected].

sunday [oct. 28]

Blood drive in Ridgewood Temple Israel and St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church of Ridgewood sponsor a blood drive at the shul, 8:45 a.m.-2 p.m., in conjunction with Community Blood Services. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320 or [email protected].

Walkathon The Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities holds its annual walkathon, rain or shine, at the Englewood Boat Basin recreational area, 9 a.m. (201) 457-0058, ext. 13, or www.J-ADD.org.

Family program The YJCC in Washington Township offers a program, “First Friends,” where young families can meet one another, 9 a.m. Hosted by the YJCC’s Nursery School Parent Association; bagels served. 605 Pascack Road. (201) 666-6610, ext. 5662.

Harlem tour The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel holds a Jewish walking tour of Harlem, leaving the FLJC at 9:30 a.m. Fee includes bus, guided tour (approximately three hours), lunch, and gratuities at Talia Steakhouse. 10-10 Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040 or Adrienne, [email protected].

Book/gift sale The YJCC in Washington Township holds “Sefer Celebration: A Festival of Children’s Books,” its annual children’s book and gift sale, 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. Also Monday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. All proceeds benefit the YJCC’s William Seth Glazer Children’s Book Fund. 605 Pascack Road. Anette McGarity, (201) 666-6610, ext. 5662 or [email protected].

Yard sale in Hackensack Temple Beth El offers a sale, rain or shine, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Participants are welcome to buy a table to sell their wares or donate the items to the temple to sell. 280 Summit Ave. (201) 342-2045.

God and spirituality Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich continues a fall series at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn, “God and Spirituality in the Modern World,” 10:30 a.m. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

Yaakov Rosenthal Courtesy tGs

Healthy Shabbat food Yaakov Rosenthal, who trained at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, offers a “Healthy Shabbat Food

Dementia,” for River Dell Hadassah at the River Edge Public Library, 12:30 p.m. Dairy refreshments. 685 Elm Ave. (551) 265-1573.

Mini-health fair in Washington Township The YJCC hosts a health fair from Valley Hospital, 1-3 p.m. Flu shots available with appointment, (201) 291-6090. 605 Pascack Road. (201) 666-6610.

Jimmy Margulies Courtesy temple Israel

Cartoonist in Ridgewood Jimmy Margulies, a longtime member of Temple Israel in Ridgewood and a syndicated award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Record, talks at the shul, 7:30 p.m. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320.

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In touch with your inner self Rabbi Mordechai Shain of Lubavitch on the Palisades begins a six-week JLI course, “The Kabbalah of You,” 8 p.m. 11 Harold St. (201) 871-1152 or www.myjli.com.

wednesday [oct. 31]

Jazz in Tenafly The JCC Thurnauer School of Music offers a Jazz Wednesday performance by the school’s jazz combos and large ensemble, led by the music school’s jazz faculty, 7:30 p.m. 411 East Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1465.

friday [nov. 2]

Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El offers the Shabbat spiritual evening service led by Rabbi David S. Widzer and Cantor Rica Timman with guest harpist Barbara Allen, 7:30 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley offers “Shabbat Tikvah,” a service of inspiration and renewal. Pareve chocolate/sweets reception, 7:45 p.m.; service at 8. Discussion on mending relationships during the oneg. 87 Overlook Drive. (201) 391-0801 or www.tepv.org.

saturday [nov. 3]

Havdalah in Emerson Congregation B’nai Israel offers Pajama Havdalah for families with children up to age 7, along

School open house in River Edge The Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey holds its annual open house, beginning with reg-istration and an academic fair, 7 p.m., and a program with interactive presentations at 7:30. 666 Kinderkamack Road. Tamar Kahn, (201) 986-1414, [email protected], or www.rynj.org.

monday [oct. 29]

Senior program in Wayne The Chabad Center of Passaic County continues its Smile on Seniors (SOS) program with a film/discussion and brunch, at the center, 11:30 a.m. 194 Ratzer Road. Chani, (973) 694-6274 or [email protected].

Jewish women Rabbi Rachel Hertzman discusses “It’s in the Bag: Jewish Women and Identity,” a look at what’s in women’s purses, backpacks, and briefcases, for the Rosh Chodesh Women’s Group at Temple Emeth, 7:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck, (201) 833-1322.

Open house in Paramus Yeshivat Noam invites prospective parents to an open house, 8 p.m. 70 West Century Road. Ruchie Wiesel, (201) 261-1919, ext. 380, or [email protected].

tuesday [oct. 30]

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Community health talk Nancy Ellson, coordinator, Center for Healthy Living, Holy Name Medical Center, Teaneck, discusses “I Forgot Where I Put the Car Keys! Should I Worry? Current Issues in Alzheimer’s and

Workshop” at the Teaneck General Store, 10:30 a.m. 502 Cedar Lane. (201) 530-5046.

Family bingo in Fair Lawn Temple Beth Sholom holds its annual family bingo day with prizes and refreshments, 1:30 p.m. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

Art auction The Veritans Club hosts an art exhibition and auction to benefit Camp Veritans in the camp’s dining hall. Preview, 2 p.m.; auction at 3 by Marlin Art. Refreshments. Babysitting available. 225 Pompton Road, Haledon. Hallie, (973) 706-5369 or www.campveritans.com.

Healthy pregnant moms SPARKS offers “The Health of the Mother Before and After Birth” as part of a program on the dynamics of family life at Temple Avodat Shalom, 3-6 p.m. Professor Susan Dowd will discuss “Women’s Reproductive Health in Relation of Perinatal and Postpartum Disorders.” Video follows. Other presenters include Dr. James Forster, Elyse Goldstein, Rus Devorah (Darcy) Wallen, and Sheila Steinbach of JFS. Refreshments. Co-sponsored by JFS of Bergen and North Hudson, JFS of North Jersey, and Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. 385 Howland Ave., River Edge. (718) 277-2757 ext 5, email [email protected], or (201) 489-2463.

Movie/discussion in Franklin Lakes Temple Emanuel of North Jersey screens “The Walking Dead,” 6 p.m. Panel discussion on moral questions raised in the provocative television series with Rev. Donald Hummel, chaplain of Paramus Catholic High School; Alyssa Gray, associate professor of codes and responsa at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; attorney Moshe Horn, former Manhattan assistant district attorney; and attorney Richard Altabef, Emmy Award-winning former counsel to CBS News and “Sixty Minutes” and legal adviser to Univision News. Temple Emanuel’s Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser will moderate. A representative from Skyline Films, an independent film and promotional video producer, will record the proceedings. 558 High Mountain Road. (201) 560-0200.


Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter welcomes harpist Barbara Allen for a Shabbat spiritual service, along with Cantor Rica Timman, pianist James Rensink, the shul’s musical director, and Rabbi David S. Widzer, Friday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road, Closter. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.

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with their parents, grandparents, and siblings, 6:30 p.m. Bring a bedtime toy and pillow. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

Family fun The Glen Rock Jewish Center hosts a family fun night with a Havdalah service, films for children, appetizers for adults (BYO kosher wine), and dairy dessert, 7 p.m. 682 Harristown Road. (201) 652-6624.

sunday [nov. 4]

Holiday boutique/art sale in Washington Township The Bergen County YJCC holds its annual holiday boutique. Items include hats, scarves, gloves, jewelry, stationery, clothing, handcrafted ceramics, and paintings created by professional artists and students in the YJCC’s classes, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and again on Monday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 605 Pascack Road. (201) 666-6610.

School open house in Elizabeth The Jewish Educational Center’s Bruriah High School for Girls holds an open house, 9:30 a.m. 35 North Ave. (908) 355-4850 or [email protected].

Kristallnacht commemoration in Tenafly The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades screens “in Darkness,” an Oscar-nominated film for Best Foreign Film/English subtitles, in commemoration of Kristallnacht, 1 p.m. Daniel Paisner, co-author of “The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow,” and Krystyna Chiger, a Holocaust survivor, will be there. Co-sponsored by the Judaic and adult departments and the Martin Perlman & Jo-Ann Hassan Holocaust Education Institute Endowment Fund. 411 East Clinton Ave. Robyn, (201) 408-1429.

Kristallnacht commemoration in Fair Lawn Congregation Shomrei Torah holds the fourth annual Susan Nelson Glasser Memorial Kristallnacht Commemoration, 7:30 p.m. The film “Light in the Dark” will be screened. 19-10 Morlot Ave. (201) 791-7910 or [email protected].

tuesday [nov. 6]

Hadassah meets in River Edge Former Jewish Community News editor Edith Sobel discusses “Into the Next 100 Years” at River Dell Hadassah’s fundraising luncheon at Sanducci’s Trattoria, noon. Fish or pasta entree. Proceeds benefit Hadassah and the Hadassah Medical Organization. Door prizes. 620 Kinderkamack Road. Amy, (201) 967-8919.

Holocaust offers a family program “Lettuce Rejoice!” an interactive puppet show starring Yellow Sneaker, 2 p.m. 36 Battery Place. (646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.

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sunday [nov. 11]

For marriage minded Jewish women A seminar, “Inner Self/Outer Self,” offers a spiritual and physical makeover from head to toe with certified makeup artists, professional hair stylists, a nutritional therapist, personal trainer, spiritual and dating life coach, image consultant/stylist, and Zumba. Bring sneakers. Demonstrations, discussions, applications, refreshments, giveaways, and prizes. Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El, 2-6:30 p.m. Registration, 1:45 p.m. 133 East 29th St., Manhattan, between Lexington and Third Avenue. (973) 851-9070 or [email protected].

tuesday [nov. 13]

Networking The Tribe hosts a Jewish Business Networking event for Jewish professionals at the Russian Art Museum in downtown Jersey City, 8:30 a.m. 80 Grand St., Jersey City, Joshua Bernstein, [email protected].

the exhibition Hava Nagila: A Song for the People. www.mjhnyc.org or (646) 437-4202.

sunday, [nov. 4]

School information session Ramah Jerusalem High School holds an information session at the Jewish Theological Seminar of America, 7 p.m. Program coordinator Arie Hasit is the guest speaker. 3080 Broadway. (212) 678-8883, [email protected], or ramah.org.il/try.

Klezmer in Brooklyn Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos play at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts, 2 p.m. $30. (718) 951-4500 or www.brooklyncenteronline.org.

wednesday [nov. 7]

Finances during health crisis A roundtable discussion, “Taking Control of Your Financial Health During and After a Health Crisis,” sponsored by Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization supporting young women and their families of all Jewish backgrounds facing breast cancer, is at UJA Federation of New York, 7 p.m. 130 East 59th St., Room 710. Light kosher dinner. www.sharsheret.org.

sunday [nov. 11]

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Jewish music Joey Weisenberg, a rising star of the Brooklyn music scene, and his ensemble offer Jewish melodies, prayers, and chants, at the historic Eldridge Street Synagogue, 3 p.m. www.eldridgestreet.org.

thursday [oct. 25]

Music at Carnegie Hall The Collegiate Chorale performs “Kol Nidre” (Arnold Schoenberg) and “Mechaye Hametim” (Noam Sheriff) with the Israel Philharmonic, 7 p.m. Presented by American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. (212) 697-2949, (212) 247-7800, or [email protected].

sunday [oct. 28]

Tag sale in Spring Valley Congregation Sons of Israel holds a tag sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Rain date, Nov. 4. 80 Williams Ave. (845) 634-1115.

Israeli dances The Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust offers Hava Nagila Hoedown, an afternoon of Israeli folk dance for people of all ages and skill levels, hosted by Ruth Goodman, director of the Israeli Dance Institute, 2:30 p.m., in conjunction with


Broadway ‘classics’ will ring out in ParamusThe Jewish Community Center of Paramus presents “An Evening of Broadway Classics” on Saturday, Nov. 10. Doors open at 7 p.m. with a silent auction preview, followed by the show at 7:30.

The auction will have items including electronics, wine, food, Judaica, books, and memorabilia.

The star-studded group performing includes James Michael, baritone, Gay Willis, soprano, and David Maiullo, pianist.

Michael’s early influences were Robert Goulet, John Raitt, and Howard Keel. He has appeared in off-Broadway productions, has been a frequent guest artist in area concerts, and was featured soloist with Bravo Alliance of Performing Artists. This evening marks his 20th performance of “Broadway Classics” with the other two stars.

Award-winning soprano Willis performed in the world tour of “The

Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber” with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman and starred in many shows, including as Christine Daae in “The Phantom of the Opera” opposite Colm Wilkinson.

Accompanist, con-ductor, coach, and mu-sic director Maiullo has performed more than 3,000 recitals and pro-grams at venues in-cluding Carnegie, Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Merkin concert halls, as well as venues in Spain, Portugal, Germany,

Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Japan. He is also the coach/accompanist at the musical theater class at the Julliard School of Music.

Tickets are $25 through Nov. 1 and $36 after that date; and $45 at the door. Prices include wine and dairy refreshments.

Event proceeds will benefit synagogue programs at the JCC of Paramus.

For information, call (201) 262-7691.

James Michael photo proVIded Batik and silk art in Tenafly

“Abstractions on Silk — Batik and Silk Paintings by Ritika Gandhi” will be on display Nov. 1-26 at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. A meet-the-artist reception will be on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 1 to 3 p.m.

Gandhi of Wayne was born and raised in India. For information, call the Waltuch Gallery director, Ophrah Listokin, at (201) 408-1408 or www.jccotp.org.

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Deborah BeckmanDeborah Beckman, daughter of Ruth Beckman and John Vena of Rutherford and sister of Alex, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Oct. 20 at Temple Beth Or in Washington Township.

Hannah BermanHannah Berman, daughter of Deborah and Andrew Berman of Tenafly, sister of Melanie and Julia, and granddaughter of Don and the late Jeanette Bloom of East Brunswick and Patricia and the late Meyer Berman of Boca Raton, Fla., celebrated becom-ing a bat mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Congregation Kol HaNeshamah of Englewood. She is a sixth grader at Forum School in Waldwick.

Scott BudkofskyScott Budkofsky, son of Stacy and Bruce Budkofsky and broth-er of Adam, celebrated becom-ing a bar mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.

Aaron DelinAaron Delin, son of Cheryl and Robert Delin of Demarest, cel-ebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter.

Jacob FeitJacob Feit, son of Diane and Daniel Feit and brother of Elijah and Gillian, celebrated becom-ing a bar mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.

Mendy Garb

Mendy Garb, son of Rachi and Shneur Garb of Teaneck, broth-er of Kayla, 15, a student at Bruriah High School, and Ziporah (Ziggy), 8, who attends the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, and grandson of Rivki Garb of Brooklyn, celebrated be-coming a bar mitzvah on Shemini Atzeret, Oct. 8, at the Chabad House of Teaneck. He attends Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston.

Chloe GoldbergChloe Goldberg, daughter of Karen Krane and Neil Goldberg of Fair Lawn and sister of Sophie, celebrated becom-ing a bat mitzvah on Oct. 20 at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel.

Deanna JaverDeanna Javer, daughter of Sharon and Dennis Javer of Mahwah and sister of Dayrn, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Oct. 20 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.

Samuel LipschitzSamuel Lipschitz, son of Rebecca Wolk and Seth Lipschitz of Oakland, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Israel & Jewish Community Center in Ridgewood.

Dylan MandelblattDylan Mandelblatt, son of Michelle and Lowell Mandelblatt of Closter, cel-ebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter.

Sage MillerSage Miller, daughter of Carol and Randy Miller of Old Tappan, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-vah on Oct. 20 at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter.

Blake ReedBlake Reed, son of Carrie and Chris Reed of Wyckoff and brother of Grant, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.

Sari Rosen

Sari Rosen, daughter of Adyna and Eric Rosen, sister of Kyle, and granddaughter of Janice and Gerald Rosen of Teaneck and Harold and the late Candi Brown, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck. Sari attends Solomon Schechter Day School in New Milford. As a mitzvah project, she volunteers at Chance at Life Cat Rescue in Hackensack.

Jake RunyonJake Runyon, son of Dana and Michael Runyon and brother of Jordan and Tyler, celebrated be-coming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.

Rachel SarnackRachel Sarnack, daughter of Sheryl and Neil Sarnack and sis-ter of Matthew and Genevieve,

celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.

Michael SchutzMichael Schutz, son of Emily Hadjis and Eric Schutz of Fair Lawn, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Emeth in Teaneck.

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Ashley Jenna Sloan, daughter of Carol and Darren Sloan of Maywood, sister of Josh, and granddaughter of Renee and Carl Sloan of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Marjorie and William Tomer of Vero Beach, Fla., cel-ebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on Oct. 13 at Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge.

Jordan WaxenbaumJordan Waxenbaum, son of Mimi and Steven Waxenbaum of Upper Saddle River and brother of Scott and Alex, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 20 at Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah.

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Dillon Henry Weiss, son of Roz and Jeffrey Rosenthal of Wayne and the late Stuart Weiss, cele-brated becoming a bar mitzvah on Oct. 6 at the Chabad Center of Passaic County.

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Ben Porat Yosef student Joey Yudelson placed ninth in a field of over 70 gifted seventh grade math students in the Bergen County Annual Math Competition, which took place on Sunday, Oct. 14 . He is pictured here with Stanley Fischman, director of gen-eral studies, and Rav Tomer Ronen, Rosh HaYeshiva (head of school), at Ben Porat Yosef.

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Mazal tov to Olivia Deutsch and Brandon Jerome who are the 100th couple engaged through YUConnects. They met at a YUConnects Shabbaton in Teaneck. The couple plans a November wedding.

YU President Richard M. Joel and David Pelcovitz, the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and Jewish Education at YU’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, created YUConnects for YU students and alumni to meet. The program is facilitated by more than 100 trained YU connectors and is powered by SawYouatSinai, a Jewish community dating site. YUConnects also launched the Jewish Matchmaking Alliance.


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Predeceased by her husband, Milton, and sisters Rebecca Freedman and Evelyn Cohen, she is survived by sons, Larry (Cathy Harris), Bruce (Barbara), and Clifford (Alice); sisters Anita Epstein (William) and Ethel Chaifetz; and eight grandchildren.

Contributions can be sent to Northern NJ Tri-Boro Chapter of Hadassah; arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Philip CohenPhilip H. Cohen, 90, of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Fair Lawn, died on Oct. 23.

He was a World War II Army Air Force veteran serving in the European Theatre and attained the rank of lieu-tenant. Before retiring, he owned W. Kodak Jewelers in South Plainfield.

He is survived by his wife, Lenore; children, Elyse and Jeffrey (Robin); two grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.

Donations can be sent to Hospice By The Sea, Boca Raton, Fla.; arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Harriet K. DuchanHarriet Duchan, 87, formerly of Fair Lawn, died on Oct. 22.

Before retiring, she was a speech pathologist for Elmwood Park High School and a volunteer mediator for the New Jersey Superior Court.

Predeceased by her husband, Simon, and sons, Andrew and Jeffrey, she is survived by daughters Barbara Duchan and Sharon Abrams; brothers Warren and Robert Kirschner; and two granddaughters.

Donations can be sent to the Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities, Hackensack; arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Kenneth FeldmanKenneth Feldman of Fort Lee, formerly of Tenafly and Cliffside Park, died on Oct. 21 in Fort Lee.

Born in Englewood, he was a worker’s compensation lawyer. For the last 4 ½ years, he was the president of Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee and was a member of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood.

He is survived by a sister, Bonnie Lieman of Port Washington, Md., and two nieces, Kara and Joy.

Contributions can be sent to the above named syna-gogues; arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

Charlotte FishCharlotte Fish of Livingston, formerly of Paterson, died on Oct. 22. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Ida RosenbergIda Rosenberg, 84, of Fair Lawn, died on Oct. 19. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Rose SchwartzRose W. Schwartz, neé Weisser, 99, of Park Ridge, for-merly of New York and Westwood, died on Oct. 23 in Park Ridge.

Predeceased by her husband, Irving, in 2000 and a son-in-law, Martin Wintner, she is survived by a daughter, Barbara Wintner; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Donations can be sent to the American Cancer Society; arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

Larry WenzelLarry Wenzel, 78, of Paramus, died on Oct. 21 in Paramus.

Born In Jersey City, he was a Korean War veteran and an antiques dealer in Bergenfield.

He is survived by his wife, Carol, née Davidson, chil-dren, Michael and Beth; and five grandchildren.

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How sorely we are stricken!Congregation Gesher Shalom (The Jewish Community Center of Fort Lee) grieves as we mourn the sudden and shocking passing of our dedicated and munificent co-President, Kenneth Feldman. We will miss his presence (at daily minyanim and at Shabbat and Yom Tov services), his quips, his barbs, his humor, his caring, his critiques and his love for our Shul.

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1 Early childhood students at the Yavneh Academy “jumped” right in to learn how to make grape

juice as parts of a four-session Havdalah learning experience. Debbie AbrAmowitz

2 Former Teaneck mayor Elie Katz helps volunteers and Team Kayla cut the ribbon at the Friendship

Circle of Bergen County’s New Jersey Walk last month at Votee Park in Teaneck. More than 1,000 people joined the festivities that supported the Friendship Circle, a project of the Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County that fosters relationships between community teens and children with special needs. Courtesy FC

3 Students in the Bergen County YJCC’s David Rukin Early Childhood Center Nursery School

enjoy their new custom-designed playground, which was completed in September. Courtesy yJCC

4 Rabbi Lawrence Zierler, left, of the Jewish Center of Teaneck, is pictured with Rabbi Aryeh Spero,

JCT guest speaker, who examined “Why This Rabbi is a Political Conservative — It’s Biblical.” The context was the upcoming presidential election. miChAel lAves

5 Students at the Northern New Jersey Jewish Academy, housed at Temple Israel in Ridgewood,

hold up stuffed toy donations representative of the

134,000 toys donated to Bears from Bergenfield over the past 10 years. Rabbi Claire Ginsburg Goldstein, Bear’s group founder, joins the event. Courtesy ClAire

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6 The Torah Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck held its alumni reunion in Israel, for alumni who

are spending their gap year or a second year learning in Israel, on Oct. 10. TABC’s coach Bobby Kaplan has organized the annual Sukkot event for seven years. Courtesy tAbC

The Jewish Standard was fortunate enough to receive an abundance of community Sukkot photos. Go to www.jstandard.com/photogallery to view the entire Sukkot gallery of photos.

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Seniors at Five Star Premier enjoy dining and dancing“Come out and meet the stars” was the theme of the 23rd anniversary festivities at Five Star Premier Residences of Teaneck. Marilyn Monroe, Bette Grable, Audrey Hepburn, Tony Curtis and other life-size stand-up ce-lebrities joined residents at the celebration.

The evening started with a gourmet dinner prepared by executive chef Rob Derin. The evening continued with former Radio City Rockette Lynn Sullivan guiding guests as they danced the lindy, cha-cha, box step, horah and line dances. Five Star staff and Fairleigh Dickinson University students celebrated with residents, partnering with them on the dance floor.

To tour the community and join a day of great pro-gramming, call (201) 836-7474 for an appointment.

Five Star Senior Living, the Senior Living division of Five Star Quality Care, is one of the country’s largest providers of quality retirement living, with over 250 com-munities in 32 states.

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Thanksgiving food drive in TeaneckThe township of Teaneck, the Teaneck Police Department’s community policing squad, the Helping Hands Food Pantry, the Teaneck Rotary Club, and Hope Presbyterian Church are conducting a food drive. Last year, the drive provided 150 Teaneck families with a tur-key and ingredients for a Thanksgiving dinner.

Food donations are welcome from both individuals and businesses. The most needed items are canned veg-etables, boxes of stuffing, canned green beans, canned potatoes, cranberry sauce, boxed pies, and boxed maca-roni and cheese.

Financial contributions from individuals or business-es are welcome as well. Please make your check payable to “Teaneck Township” with a reference on the bottom of the check to “Social Services.” Gift certificates also are accepted.

The food drive will go from Oct. 29 to Nov. 15. Collection points are the Teaneck Municipal Building (818 Teaneck Road); Richard Rodda Center (250 Colonial Court); police headquarters (900 Teaneck Road); fire headquarters and all fire stations (1231 Teaneck Road, 617 Cedar Lane, 370 Teaneck Road, and 1375 Windsor Road); the public library (840 Teaneck Road); Davis Saperstein & Salomon, P.C. (375 Cedar Lane); Bogota Savings Bank (819 Teaneck Road), and Hope Presbyterian Church (1190 River Road).

Families in need should call social work specialist Gloria Andrade at (201) 837-1600 ext. 1503 or email her at [email protected].


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Enilsa Lora appointed to charter school boardEnilsa Lora, NVE Bank branch man-ager and assistant vice president, has been elected to serve on the board of trustees for the Englewood on the Palisades Charter School. “I am pleased and proud that Enilsa has received this honor from such a worthwhile organization,” said Robert Rey, president and CEO of NVE Bank. “NVE Bank strongly encourages our team mem-bers to become involved within their com-

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Teaneck Radiology Center helps sponsor cancer walk

T eaneck Radiology Center employees joined with more than 10,000 walkers to participate in

the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. The event, which took place on Oct. 21 in Overpeck Park in Ridgefield, raised more than $680,000. Teaneck Radiology was a sponsor of the walk.

Erica Greenblatt, director of market-ing for the radiology center, organized the walkers. It was important for em-ployees of a center that offers mammo-grams and other women’s health services to take part in a walk that supports organizations that “fight to end breast cancer,” Greenblatt said. The radiol-ogy center sponsors a variety of other women’s health organizations, including

Gilda’s Club and Sharsheret.“On a personal level, my aunt had

passed away from the disease nearly 20 years ago, and I wanted to walk in her honor,” said Greenblatt. Teaneck Radiology Center was founded 25 years ago. Today it provides state-of-the art imaging services for patients of all ages. The center recently hired two women’s specialty radiologists from University Radiology Group, installed Hologic digi-tal mammography equipment and con-structed a private women’s lounge. TRC offers a full range of women’s imaging services, including ultrasound guided breast biopsies.

For more information call (201) 836-2500 or visit www.teaneckradiology.com.

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