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THEJEWISHSTANDARD.COM2015 84NORTH JERSEYDERSHOWITZ DEBATES DEAL page 6FUNDING FARMERS FALLOW FIELDS page8TOUROS HUBERMAN LOOKS BACK page12ISRAELI DANCER AT HOME IN HOUSTON page37AUGUST 14, 2015VOL. LXXXIV NO. 47$1.00 J e w i s h S t a n d a r d1 0 8 6 T e a n e c k R o a dT e a n e c k , N J 0 7 6 6 6C H A N G E S E R V I C E R E Q U E S T E DJS-1*Goodbye YThe Washington Township institution moves out, hopes to move on, and we look back page 24JS-2JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 20152 Thank youfor choosing methree years in a row.I am deeply honored.DAVID WILD, MD, FACCCardiologist and Director,Holy Name Medical CenterEchocardiography LaboratoryHoly Name Medical Center718 Teaneck RoadTeaneck, NJ 07666877-HOLY-NAME (465-9626) prompt 4holyname.orgHealing begins here.FIRST PLACECARDIOLOGISTREADERSCHOICE2015FIRST PLACECARDIOLOGISTREADERSCHOICE2015Holy NameCardiology Associates954 Teaneck RoadTeaneck, NJ 07666 201-833-2300.I love being able to come to work every day and care for so many wonderful people as if they weremy own family. I make it a goal to constantly improve quality of life. 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I look forwardto caring for you in the futureusing my expertise as a board-certied cardiologist, nuclearcardiologist and echocardiologisthelping you make the right choices for your heart and your life.Page 3JS-3*JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 20153 NOSHES ...............................................................4OPINION ............................................................ 18COVER STORY ................................................ 24CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................ 36ARTS & CULTURE .......................................... 37CALENDAR ...................................................... 38OBITUARIES ..................................................... 41CLASSIFIEDS .................................................. 42REAL ESTATE .................................................. 45CONTENTSFor convenient home delivery, call 201-837-8818 or bit.ly/jsubscribePUBLISHERSSTATEMENT:(USPS275-700ISN0021-6747)is publishedweeklyonFridayswithanadditionaleditionevery October,bytheNewJerseyJewishMediaGroup,1086Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. 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All rights in letters and unsolicited editorial,andgraphicmaterialwillbetreatedasunconditionally assignedforpublicationandcopyrightpurposesandsubjectto JEWISH STANDARDsunrestrictedrighttoeditandtocomment editorially.Nothingmaybereprintedinwholeorinpartwithout written permission from the publisher. 2015Candlelighting: Friday, Aug. 14, 7:38 p.m.Shabbat ends: Saturday, Aug. 15, 8:39 p.m.Israelimuseum treasuresonline It is an ironic but true thing that its often the most sophisticated work that evokes the least sophisticated response from us.As in Oh wow! As in open-mouthed staring.That is the logical response to a new website from Israel, www.museumsinis-rael.gov. Its a portal, in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, to the countrys museums, a showcase both for Israels cutting-edge technical sector and for its muse-ums. Fun fact: Israel has more museums per capital than any other country.Its a joint venture, four years in the making, of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, the heritage division of the prime ministers of-fice, and more than 50 of the countrys museums.The site offers quick access to information and high-resolution photos, including of works of art that are not on display, in these categories: art; Judaica; history; archaeology; world cultures; and nature and science. Some of the photos can be rotated online. You can search the site bymuseum, item, or exhibition.Its part of a rethinking of how to use the internet, a basic reori-entation to if you cant beat em, join em. Just as newspapers have learned that they cannot ignore the Internet but instead have to post their content and learn how to sell advertising around it, so, too, do museums realize that if they display some of their prizes online, people will consider paying entrance fees to the museum to see more.So take a look at the museums spreading their richness before you.JOANNE PALMERClay sculpture by Nachum Gutman at Nachum Gutman Museum in Tel Aviv.MUSEUMSINISRAEL.GOV.IL/ISRAEL 21CA steel numerator at MadaTech Israel National Museum of Science in Haifa. MADATECH MULTIMEDIA STUDIO/ISRAEL 21CBraid & Tower, a work by Drora Dominey at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art.ASAF BRENER/ISRAEL 21CArt from the Israel Museum.MUSEUMSINISRAEL.GOV.IL/ISRAEL 21CNoshes4JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-4*Tis is a scenario I never even dreamed of. Understatement by 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and great-grandfather Semion Simkin of Israel as he won a 10K race for senior runners in France last week. The runner-up came in 20 minutes later. Want to read more noshes? Visit facebook.com/jewishstandardWhich is the bigger turn-off, Judaica or veg-anism?Red Oaks, an Ama-zon series that centers on a mostly Jewish coun-try club in New Jersey, is coming in October. More on that show in a later column.Its the 25th anniversary of the publication of Friday Night Lights, written by journalist HARRY Buzz BISSING-ER, now 60. His cousin, actor/director PETER BERG, 51, turned the book into a hit movie and long-running TV series. Bissinger and his family moved to Odessa, Texas, in 1988 and lived there for a year, so he could follow the lives of the players on a high school football team in a football-mad town for a full season. The anniver-sary edition of the book, just out, includes a postscript about what happened to people in the book. In an NPR interview, Bissinger vehemently defended his reportage, pointing out that much of it was sympathetic, but saying that people knew he was a journalist and if they didnt want him to report, for example, that many used the n word, they shouldnt have used that word while talking to him.Bissingers personal life adds a bizarre side-bar to the story. In the same interview, he con-fesses to a very expen-sive shopping addiction mostly for womens tight leather clothing and candidly admits that his taste in clothes has a sexual element. Al-though long married to a woman and the father of two, he says that he has a certain amount of gen-der confusion, and that probably made him the perfect person to write the July, 2015 Vanity Fair cover story profile on Caitlyn Jenner. (Thats the story with the ANNIE LEIBOVITZ cover photo of Jenner in a revealing dress that every media outlet re-posted or re-printed.)NINA TOTEN-BERG, 71, is well known as NPRs erudite legal correspon-dent. Less well known is the fact that she is one of three daughters of the famous violinist ROMAN TOTENBERG, who died in 2012 at age 101. In 1980, Romans Stradivari-us violin, worth about $15 million today, was stolen. The widow of a violinist who was seen in the area of the theft brought it in for appraisal last June and the appraiser alerted the police. On August 6, there was a moving ceremony at the Manhat-tans U.S. Attorneys office, where the three Totenberg sisters posed with their fathers beloved instrument.N.B.Lisa BelkinCUTTING THE CORD:New strengthfor streamingJeffrey Tambor Billy EichnerJulie Klausner Buzz Bissinger Nina TotenbergA new HBO miniseries, Show Me a Hero, will have its premiere on Sun-day, August 16. It is based on a nonfiction book of the same name by New York Times journalist LISA BELKIN, 55, about how the city of Yonkers, N.Y., was thrown into turmoil in the 1980s when a federal public housing project was slated to be built in a middle-class neighbor-hood. The series was created and co-written by DAVID SIMON, 55 (The Wire). WINONA RYDER, 43, has a big supporting part as the Yonkers city council president, who favored the project.More and more people are cutting the cable cord in favor of stream-ing services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Sling. These services are en-couraging the trend via original series. Two of the biggest original hits have quite a bit of Jewish con-tent. Transparent on Amazon stars JEFFREY TAMBOR, 71, as a Jewish guy, and father of three, who becomes a woman. Over on Netflix, the first two seasons of Or-ange is the New Black featured Jason Biggs as Larry Bloom, the Jewish fianc of star character Piper Chapman. Bloom wasnt in the last season, but a couple of recent episodes centered on an African-American inmates conversion to Judaism.The Hulu series Dif-ficult People premiered with two episodes on August 5 and a new episode will be avail-able every Wednesday through September 16. It stars BILLY EICHNER, 36, and JULIE KLAUS-NER, 37, who co-created the show. The duo star as best friends Billy Ep-stein a gay Jew and Julie Kessler a straight Jew. They are constantly complaining social-media and pop-culture addicts who say aw-ful things to and about everybody. This sounds pretty awful, but the series is actually quite funny if you watch it just one or two episodes at a time. (I wouldnt recom-mend binge-viewing; it would be too hard to take that much of these two characters.) In the pilot episode, we find out that Billys perfect boyfriend has left himbut then they meet at a party, where the boyfriend is wearing a yarmulke, explaining that he is going to shul more. Billy trashes his ex-boyfriends yarmul-ke-wearing to Julie as soon as they are alone. 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Levy, EsqLocal6JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-6*Dershowitz on the dealNoted lawyer talks to the Jewish Standard about his objections to Iran pactJOANNE PALMERAlan Dershowitz is not exactly a slow worker.At 76, retired from Harvard Law School, he has lost none of the passion that has propelled him to take public positions on contentious issues (or, for that matter, to pay for them by taking on unappealing if not actively unsavory cli-ents, clear in the understanding that every-one is entitled to legal representation).Healwayshasbeenanadvocatefor Israel; although he is a liberal, his posi-tions fall where his logic takes them, and that means he is not doctrinaire.Thatswhyitsnotsurprisingthathis newbook,TheCaseAgainsttheIran Deal:HowCanWeNowStopIranfrom Getting Nukes? came out two weeks after the deal was made, in late July.(Of course, so far its just online, avail-able as a Kindle edition, although there are plans to publish a hard copy in paper-back.Itdoestakelesstimetouploada book than it does to design, print, bind, and distribute it.)Now, Mr. Dershowitz is promoting the book, as he did in an interview with the Jewish Standard.The day that the deal was struck, that night,Iwastossingandturninginmy bed, Mr. Dershowitz said. I said to myself that I had been thinking about this issue for 10 years, and writing about it so why not do a quick ebook? I already had done that last year, about Gaza. (That was Ter-ror Tunnels: The Case for Israels Just War Against Hamas.)I emailed my publisher, and he said yes if I could get it out in two weeks.I got it out in 11 days I just didnt go to the beach much. On the 13th day it already was up on Kindle, and the next day it was number 1 on international best-seller lists.Why go to the trouble of printing it in paperback? I want to submit it to every member of Congress, and to every staffer, he said. The goal is to have an impact on the debate.Mr. Dershowitz is against the proposed deal, but he would like to encourage oth-ers to consider it rather than blindly tak-ing his position. The issue is not as com-plicated as we are led to believe, he said; there are many details, but the deal itself is easily graspable. The issue is not in the details. It is whether or not this deal per-manently prevents Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal, or whether it postpones it for 10 or 12 or 15 years. Is it prevention or containment?Is it a green light for Iran or is it a red light?Most people do not know enough about thedealtoknowwhattheybelieve,he said and he believes that there is a cure for that.Ichallengetheadministration,and Fox,andNPR,andCNN,toconducta series of great debates about the bill, Mr. Dershowitz said. I challenge the admin-istration to debate me. I will come, with someoneelsemaybesomeonelike Chuck Schumer. (That is Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, who is Jewish and a party leader, and came out against the deal late last week, after much study and agonizing.)Thereshouldbegreatdebateson television, in the tradition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. It should be a real debate. Lets do it! Lets see what the American public thinks, after learning both sides of the issue.(Mr. Dershowitz was talking about the series of seven debates that Abraham Lin-colnandStephenDouglas,respectively theRepublicanandDemocraticcandi-dates for the Senate from Illinois, held in 1858. The subject was slavery; the debates, we are told by historians, were riveting.)Mr.DershowitzsaidthatPresident BarackObamahasbeeninconsistent about whether the deal will prevent Iran from ever getting nuclear weapons (inso-far,ofcourse,thatanydealcouldever control the distant future). In my book, I suggest that Congress pass a bill in which wesaythatIranwillnevergetnuclear I challenge the administration, and Fox, and NPR, and CNN, to conduct a series of great debates about the bill.Retired law professor Alan Dershowitz discusses his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House.Local JS-7JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 20157 * Interest rate of 1.00% with an Annual Percentage Yield (APY) of 1.01% will be paid for that portion of your daily balance that is $50,000 or less. An interest rate of .10% with an APY ranging from 1.01% to .55% will be paid for that portion of your daily balance that is more than $50,000 but less than $100,000. An interest rate of .15% with an APY ranging from.55% to .31% will be paid for that portion of your daily balance that is more than or equal to $100,000 calculated to theFDIC insured balance of $250,000. 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It would be a very good test to find out what the deal really means.Mr. Dershowitz was able to put the book togethersoquickly,hesaid,becauseI knew what the outlines of the deal were going to be. I wrote about the preliminary deal extensively. But the deal was much worse than I thought it would be.Thechangetothedealthathefound not only the hardest to accept but also the most purely shocking was that it allowed 24 days between demand and inspection.I am a criminal lawyer, and I am used to dealing with criminals, Mr. Dershowitz said. I know how the criminal mind works.If you want 24 days before an inspec-tion,thatsbecauseyouwanttohide something. There is no need for 24 days unless you are determined to hide some-thing. It is for cheating.IfIaminnocent,Isay,Searchme rightnow!Idontwanttowaitfor24 days, because you might think that I hid something.Iran says it wants the 24 days because itsaboutsovereignty.Itsabouttheir sovereign rights. Its just words. Ask the administrationwhytheygavethem24 days.Thepresidentoriginallysaidthat the red line for him was 24/7 immediate inspection.Ifjustthosetwochangesweremade to the deal, he could support it, Mr. Der-showitz said. Those two changes would be a commitment that Iran would never be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, and that there could be a 24/7 immediate inspection.Opposition to the deal is not breaking downalongconservative/liberallines, he continued. I wish that it was not as dividedalongpartylinesasitinitially started out to be, but I think that we ought to stop calling each other names and ques-tioning each others motives.Andeventhepartylinedivisionsare beginning to melt, he said. Senator [Rob-ert] Menendez and Senator Schumer are Democrats, and so is Congressman Alcee Hastings from Florida. Theyre all liberals. Lots of liberals have questions about this deal. Tom Friedman, Dennis Ross.He is opposed to the deal as an Ameri-can, Mr. Dershowitz said. I am fighting for the right for Americans to be safe. I care deeply about Israel but I am opposed to this deal as a liberal Democrat American patriot who voted for Obama twice.When it comes to Israel, What appalls me most is Obama objecting to Netanyahu trying to affect the outcome of the deal, Mr. Dershowitz said. Talking about how Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lob-biedAmericanpoliticians,President Obama ignorantly said on Sunday that no foreign leader has ever done that before.DoesheforgetthatLafayettetried to influence us? That Winston Churchill tried to influence us? That Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia has pushed us hard? That the president himself sent David Cameron, the former British prime minister, to try to influence Congress?So when the president makes a his-torically inaccurate statement like that, it feeds into the trope that only Israel tries toinfluenceAmericanforeignpolicy. That is false, and the president should not do that.Can you imagine if Netanyahu hadnt tried to help his own country, Mr. Der-showitzasked,indignantlyrhetorical. Thatishisjob.Thatiswhathewas elected to do.I had a private meeting with President Obama at the Oval Office, and I said, Mr. President, would you ever outsource the safetyofAmerica?Hesaid,Ofcourse not!Isaid,Socouldyouexpectthe prime minister of Israel to do that? And he said, Of course not. Israel has to do what it has to do.Alan Dershowitz very much hopes that legislators, in doing what they have to do, vote to reject the deal with Iran.What appalls me most is Obama objecting to Netanyahu trying to affect the outcome of the deal.Local8JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-8* Join a confdental and professionally facilitated group for long term survivors of domestc Violence. Group sessions provide a chance for women to share their feelings with others coping with similar experiences. Group members provide support and encouragement for each other in a safe environment.Please contact JFS at 201-837-9090 for more informaton www.jfsbergen.org Fallow groundLocal groups helps Israeli farmers survive the sabbatical yearABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMANFor six years you shall sow your land and gather its crops. And in the seventh you shall leave it untended and unharvested, and the destitute of your people shall eat, and the wildlife of the field shall eat what is left of them; so shall you do to your vine-yard and your olive grove.This passage from Exodus 23 is one of severalbiblicalreferencestothecom-mandmentofshmitahreleasingthe farmland in the Land of Israel from plant-ing and harvesting every seventh or sab-batical year.When Jewish farmers started returning to till the soil in the late 1800s and early 1900s, following 2,000 years of exile, they faced the practical problem of how to rest the land during the sabbatical year without losing their only means of survival. Many had no choice but to take advantage of a mechanismcalledhetermechira(sale permit), which was reluctantly endorsed by Mandatory Palestine Chief Rabbi Avra-ham Isaac Kook. It allowed them to turn over their fields ownership to a non-Jew under a one-year trust agreement, so that they could continue planting and harvest-ing during the seventh year.Today, many of Israels roughly 5,700 activefarmersrelyonhetermechira arrangements, but the number of farmers keeping shmitah has been rising. Whereas about2,000farmersobservedshmitah during the last cycle in 5768 (2007-2008), this year some 3,500 farmers are on board, despite the economic difficulties it entails.And that is where Dave Matkowsky of Teaneck comes in.The 48-year-old Jewish communal pro-fessional established the Shmitah Fund, a501(c)3nonprofitdedicatedtoeasing thefinancialburdenonIsraelifarmers whoarefulfillingthisreligious-national imperative. The Shmitah Fund is a partner organization of Jerusalem- and Brooklyn-based Keren Hashviis, which has solicited support from ultra-Orthodox communi-ties for shmitah-observant Israeli farmers since the 1950s. This years budget is $22.5 million, a sum Keren Hashviis could not raise alone.Mr.Matkowsky,aYeshivaUniversity graduate, thought it was time for the mod-ern Orthodox world to step up to the plate.Supportforfarmersintheshmitah year has not been on the radar screen of the modern Orthodox or religious Zion-istcommunities,maybebecauseofthe prevalenceofhetermechira,hesaid. But the vast majority of the farmers keep-ing shmitah are Religious Zionist or tradi-tional and some are even secular. While its wonderful that the charedi community has supported these farmers for the past 10 shmitah cycles, its important for other naturalconstituencies,suchasthereli-gious Zionist community, to join the effort. The farmers are counting on us.Thefundswebsite,www.shmitah-fund.org, features video interviews with six Israeli farmers who explain why they chosetohonorshmitahandwhatthat means for them on both the ideological and the practical level.I thought it was important to person-alize these farmers and their families, to give them the opportunity to explain what it means to them to be farming the land of Eyal Goldner of Moshav Amikam, like the other farmers shown here, is observing the shmitah year.Shimon Chazut of Moshav Gimzu looks at the fruit of one of his trees.Local JS-9*JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 20159 JOIN NOW AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR NEW TWO (2) YEAR MEMBERSHIP PLANSFamilySingle ParentSingle AdultDues Per Year$500$350$250 Building Fund000Holiday Seats000Hebrew School000 Total$500$350$250 Newlyweds Membership Special First Year FreeCongregation Shaarey IsraelTe Traditional Synagogue of Rockland County and Northern New JerseyFor more information call us - visit us: 18 Montebello Rd Montebello, NY Tel: 845-369-0300 Fax: 845-369-0305Find us at: www.congshaareyisrael.orgLike us on FACEBOOKCustom crafted Hebrew School curriculum for children 5 13 years of age. Unique Cooking with the Torah classes offered to our Hebrew School students, and children in our community.After Shabbat kiddush classes led by our clergy.Daily morning and evening services.Adult education classes by our clergy and members.Weekly Israeli dancing classes taught by Karin Sachs. Active mens club and sisterhood.Shabbat and holiday community dinners.Diversied holiday and cultural programing throughout the year. Plus a community Passover Seder.Experience the Difference!Israel and feeding the people of Israel after2,000yearsofexile,Mr.Mat-kowsky said, adding that the current budget allows for an average stipend of $6,000 to $7,000. Theyre not relax-ing and taking a vacation; theyre still shouldering the lions share of the bur-den. Were just making it possible to them to stay afloat and maintain their financial obligations.TheMinistryofAgricultureesti-matesthatabout2percentofthe Israelilaborforceisinvolvedin agriculture.Inmeetingwiththefarmersand hearing their stories again as we edited thevideo,Ifoundthemsoinspir-ing and I hope others will also, Mr. Matkowskysaid.Thesearepeople of great faith. Rav Kook wrote about the deep spiritual values embedded in the practice of shmitah that he was reluctant to give up in order to create a workaround in the heter mechira.Many farmers I met with said our people waited 2,000 years to keep this mitzvah; why rely on a workaround if they can actually fulfill it? Its a decla-ration that the land belongs to God, and that our livelihood is from God. If we find it hard to relate to this message in our modern economy, the farmers keeping shmitah remind us of this core principle of our faith.The Shmitah Funds rabbinic advi-sorycommitteeincludesprominent figuresinAmericaandIsrael.They include Rabbi Yosef Adler of Teanecks CongregationRinatYisrael,Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Englewoods Con-gregation Ahavath Torah, and Rabbi Steven Weil of Teaneck, senior man-aging director of the Orthodox Union.Shmitah is a mitzvah for the entire Jewishpeople,andtheTorahcon-nects our welfare as a people to proper observance of this mitzvah, Mr. Mat-kowskysaid.Thefarmersarethe onesonthefrontlines,butitsour obligation to offer whatever support we are able to. We are a very successful community in United States, and this is something that ought to be a com-munal priority.Thoughtheshmitahyearoffi-cially started last Rosh Hashanah and thuswillendsoon,Mr.Matkowsky explained that launching his initiative now is not as strange as it may seem. The effects of shmitah on many types of crops last well into the eighth year. Thatsbecauseoftheschedulethat controls when replanting is permitted and economically viable, and because of the wait until there is a crop to har-vest and sell.Leviticus25addressesthissitua-tion with a divine promise of bumper cropsinthesixthyearofthecycle, which will last through the eighth year. There are different understandings of the conditions necessary for the fulfill-ment of this promise, but in any case it is not part of the Shmitah Funds busi-ness model.Manyfarmersstressedthatthey are not testing God as a condition of their faith, Mr. Matkowsky said. They are simply following the Torah require-ment without expectation of reward. Our role as an organization is to part-ner with them in the mitzvah and to help make their sacrifice possible.Mr. Matkowsky is setting up presen-tations and meetings in Jewish com-munities across the country, and he is preparing a shmitah mini-curricu-lum for day schools in coordination with Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon, a noted authority in Israel on the laws of the sabbatical year. We plan to bring in some farmers to share their stories in person, he said.To arrange a presentation, get in touch with Mr. Mat-kowsky through his website.One of Harel Mandels sons sits by his tractor at Moshav Hazorim.Local10JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-10*On line, overseas, one-on-one learningLocal students work with Israeli teachers to fill hard-to-meet needsABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMANThere wasnt a Hebrew class that perfectly fit Haviva Tirschwells level and schedule in her yeshiva high school last year. Prob-lem? No problem!Haviva, who lives in Teaneck and was in 10th grade studied Hebrew long distance; her teacher, Michal Mandelbaum, lives in Israel.Ms. Mandelbaum is on the staff of Bonim BYachad, an Israeli company that works together with overseas Jewish day schools andorganizationstocreatecustomized online learning programs in just about any subject for any grade.It was fabulous, Avivas mother, Mir-iam,said.Sheprobablylearnedmore Hebrewthiswaythaninallhertimein school because it was catered to her and one-on-one. She was able to do it at home when there was no school, so the flexibil-ity was amazing. She really enjoyed learn-ing real-life Hebrew, and it was great for us.Now going into its fourth academic year, Bonim BYachad (building together in Hebrew) is headed by Aryeh Eisenberg of Modiin. Mr. Eisenberg made aliyah from Highland Park seven years ago, following a career as an administrator and teacher at two large Jewish day schools and as a consultant for other educational institu-tionsandorganizations.Thecompany now counts 22 teachers, all based in Israel, including Mr. Eisenberg.Altogether,weareworkingwith28 schools and expect a few more by the start of the school year, he said.UsingWebExorZoomteleconferenc-ing programs, Bonim BYachad bills itself as a practical and cost-effective alterna-tivefordayschoolsthatwishtooffera newcourseoranadditionalsectionor level of an existing course without hiring apart-timeteacher.Itcanbethesolu-tion to an individual need, as it was for Haviva Tirschwell, or for a small group of students.Jewish day schools have really challenging schedules, and some use block scheduling that makes it impossible to bring in part-time teachers, Mr. Eisenberg said. And other schools dont have enough demand for a particular elective. For example, at Yeshiva Univer-sitys Central High School in New York, Bonim BYachad is provid-ing French instruction for the few students who wanted to learn it.The most popular courses the company is asked to provide are Hebrew language and math, but BonimBYachadalsohasmet requests for such out-of-the-box subjects as architecture, engineer-ing, 3D design, Advanced Place-ment Latin, and Mandarin.Thi sallowsforawell-rounded educational experience without causing logisticalproblemsfortheschool,Mr. Eisenberg said. We work according to the needs of the schools; we dont make them Above, Bonim BYachads educational director Avi Mandelbaum, cen-ter, with former TABC students in his home in Israel. Josh Schwartz of Edison/Highland Park and Jordan Klahr of West Orange are on the left; Ari Krischer of Teaneck and Craig Klein of Rock-land County, N.Y., are on the right. 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For Touros complete Non-Discrimination Statement, please visit: www.touro.eduISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED:Tips for creating positive interaction with Mom and Dad, addressing medication compliance and caregiver fatigue.Up-to-the-minute information on advanced directives, long term care options and retirement planning.TOURO COLLEGE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKWHEN:Saturday, August 15, 6:20pmWHERE:Congregation Rinat Yisrael389 West Englewood Ave, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666 Dr. Steven Huberman is Founding Dean of the Touro College Graduate School of Social Work. Dean Huberman is a national expert on aging. Professor Huberman has written over 50 major publications and is Past President of the New York State Association of Graduate Schools of Social Work. facebook.com/WeAreTouro @WeAreTourogssw.touro.eduGrowingOldTaking Care ofYourself and YourParents: UniqueJewish Perspectives Like us on Facebookfacebook.com/jewishstandardchange the schedule for us, even if that means some of our teachers are working at night Israel time.David Klyman of Teaneck said that his son Yochanan has been practicing Hebrew online with Ms. Mandel-baum before beginning his sophomore year at Torah Academy, at the schools suggestion. He does two one-hour sessions per week, Mr. Klyman said. Its going well; hes getting one-on-one attention and it gives him a chance to interact with a teacher directly.TheSolomonSchechterDaySchoolofBergen County in New Milford is considering a partnership with Bonim BYachad in the upcoming school year.Were always looking for connections with Israel and solid ways to integrate technoloy, and if we can put the two together that would be wonderful, Ricky Stamler-Goldberg, Schechters Lower School princi-pal and director of Judaic studies, said.The component they add is creating a personalized boutique approach for a specific need, whether a child is excelling in a particular area or needs bolstering in a particular area, she added. The fact that a child can get individual attention, even in an area out of the norm, is very compelling. Were looking at Bonim BYachad for numerous possibilities if it should prove to be a perfect fit.Sheisintriguedaswellbythenotionthatachild could work with a Bonim BYachad teacher in seventh grade, and then meet that teacher in person when the Schechter eighth-graders take their annual trip to Israel.In fact, that kind of meeting already has happened.Bonim BYachads director of education, Avi Man-delbaum, who grew up in Teaneck and was educated at the Yeshiva of North Jersey, has offered home hos-pitality to some of the AP chemistry students he had taught online at Torah Academy of Bergen County, after they graduated and came to Israel for their gap year.The relationships I grow with my students are so much fun, and I enjoy seeing the impact Im having on them, he said. He was speaking from his home in the Haifa-area town of Moreshet, where he and his wife, fellow teacher Michal, and their children moved four years ago from central New Jersey.I had one student tell me, I was thinking about becoming X, but I had so much fun in your class that now Im thinking of becoming Y.Asateacher,Mr.Mandelbaumismakinggood use of his chemistry degree from Yeshiva University, though before arriving in Israel he worked not only in the pharmaceutical industry but also as a synagogue youth director. He has taught online courses as diverse as AP U.S. history and the history of rock and roll.Teaching has given me the opportunity to be more involved in my childrens lives, which was one of the goals of making aliyah, because in the States I wasnt with them as much as I would have liked, he said. The massive resurgence of aliyah means there are so many people in this country with a broad range of skills and knowledge. You can keep your day job and teach something youre passionate about at night.Mr.Eisenbergsaidthatthecompanyalsohas allowed many immigrant teachers to continue in their chosen profession. A lot of former day school teach-erswhomadealiyahwerebeingforcedtogointo other professions like technical writing, and thats a shame, he noted.The company has an office in the Modiin Entre-preneurs Startup Hub, or MESH. Most of the teachers work from home, all across Israel.Technoloy is an amazing tool, and if used cor-rectly can offer limitless educational possibilities, Mr. Eisenberg said.Local12JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-12*Learning from lifeTouros social work schools founding dean, Steven Huberman, tells his storyJOANNE PALMERDr.StevenHubermans early life, as he recalls it,wasaDickensian ni ghtmareaban-doned by his father, a felon, as was his uncle, young Steven lived with his mother, aunt, grandfather, and grandmother all but his grand-motherdisabledinapoverty-stricken household in a desperately poor, overwhelmingly non-Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia.Dr. Huberman now lives a very different life. The happily married father of three, now a grandfather, lives in Teaneck. As the culmina-tion of a career in the Jewish world, he is founding dean of the school of social work at Touro College.Hisexperiencesashegrew upshapednotonlythemanhe becamebutalsotheschoolhe created.Thel ackof moneyand resources, and the pressing needs of the adults with whom he grew up, overshadowed his childhood, Dr. Huberman said. He was born in 1950; his mother, Shirley, was disabled physically and had a men-tal health disability, although she was very smart, and his aunt was similarly disadvantaged. His grand-father had been hurt in an indus-trial accident in the chemical plant where he worked. And his father, Marvin Huberman, had virtually nocontactwithme,Dr.Huber-man said. I would see him from the time I was 1 until I was 10 in family court in Philadelphia. He refused to pay child support, and my mother would go to court and say, He is not paying his $25 a week.Then he seemed to disappear off the face of the earth and then I heard that hewasinLewisburgPenitentiary,Dr. Huberman said.In fact, he added, years later, My doc-toral adviser told me, Huberman, I think you should have been in the New York Times neediest case list.But even during this grim childhood, Dr. Huberman found help. His guidance counselor,JudithSchusterman,often found ways to give the boy the quarter he needed for lunch each day. And I think that where we lived was the reason why Ive been into fighting racism, he added. We were so poor that we were the only white family still in the neighborhood. I was the only white child in my elemen-tary school. And they elected me presi-dent of the student body!Itwasaveryinteresting childhood.Although at first he said that I had no Jewish connection, no nothing Jewish, Dr. Huberman recalledthatIwentwithmy blind grandfather to shul every Shabbes. And although we were living in extreme poverty, we all kept strictly kosher. I remember going with my zayde to the fish-monger on Friday afternoons; I remember that the carp was alivewhenweboughtit,and then he clubbed it.Dr.Hubermanalsoremem-bershisgrandfatherslug-ging kapporos, holding a live chicken up over his head and wavingitinacircle,assome observant Jews do before Yom Kippurastheysymbolically move their sins to the chicken beforetheyliterallykillthe chickenandtheirmetaphori-callytransferredsins.There had been nothing but coal in the basement, as far as I knew, he said. It was a distinct shock.Nurtured by his teachers, loved by his family, Dr. Huberman was encouraged to go to college. 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One is my cousin Harold, who is also my closest friend, and who is not the international president of Mazon, Dr. Huberman said.It was during his senior year at Temple that his under-standing of the Jewish world, and of his own place in it, changed, Dr. Huberman said. I was in the honors program, and I just wandered into a course on the phi-losophy of Judaism taught by Rabbi Robert Gordis, the influential Conservative rabbi and teacher.Dr. Gordis changed my life, he said. I never saw Judaism as a serious intellectual activity until that point. But Dr. Gordis had us read dozens of primary and secondary texts. We read the Bible from start to finish. We read Heschel. We read Jewish history.I loved the course. He was the most inspirational professor I ever had.Rabbi Gordiss influence on Dr. Hubermans life went far beyond the class.At the end of the course, Dr. Gordis came to me andasked,Steven,whatareyoudoingafteryou graduate? I said I had been admitted to a program in Scandinavia. I wanted to study urban planning and then come back to America. He said, Have you ever been to Israel? I said that I couldnt afford it. He said, I want you to go to Israel. I will assume all expenses for you, for a summer. I want you to study from morning to night, six days a week. I want you to study Hebrew.I thought it was a joke. It wasnt a joke.Dr. Huberman accepted the offer, and studied at Tel Aviv University.Rabbi Gordis called Dr. Huberman frequently that summer; as it neared its end, he said, Ill make you a deal. Stay for a year, and Ill pay all expenses. I want you to study from morning to night, six days a week. I want you to study Talmud.He paid for everything, Dr. Huberman marveled. Hismentorwouldcalltheyoungermanoften,and they would talk. It was intellectually exhilarating, Dr. Huberman said.It was during that time that Dr. Huberman became Ill make you a deal. Stay for a year, and Ill pay all expenses. I want you to study from morning to night, six days a week. I want you to study Talmud.Local14JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-14*religious observant. It was also during that time, still in Israel, that he met Frieda Hirsh-man, who also came from Philadelphia but whomhehadnotknownbackhome.In 1973, they married, and soon they moved back to the United States.When they returned, the Hubermans lived with Friedas parents, and Steven had to decide what to do next. He consid-ered rabbinical school but decided that it was not for him. Social work, on the other hand well, considering his background, considering how well the Jewish mandate tohelpothers,tohealthecommunity and the world, to leave the world better than you found it it just made sense for him. His life experiences, his education, his values they all called him.Oncehedecidedhisdirection.Dr. Huberman worked for a Philadelphia Jew-ish organization, helping to provide vet-erans with support services; from there, he went to Brandeis, where he earned a doctorateinaprogramthatcombined general management and administration with Jewish studies. It was a small pro-gram; only about five of us went through it, he said.Therewassomeoppositiontohis wearing a kippah; it was a time and place where men were not encouraged to cover theirheadsinpublic,andheworehis all the time, Dr. Huberman said. It was considered embarrassing, somehow un-American,headded.Buthismentor-cum-guardian angel, Rabbi Gordis, inter-vened yet again. Steven Huberman was allowed to keep his kippah on at all times, and Rabbi Gordis somehow managed to secure him the scholarship he needed.Afterheearnedhisdoctorate,Dr. Huberman worked in the Jewish world. He began at the Boston federation; moved to the Los Angeles federation, where he worked for Howard Charish, who retired from the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey just a few years ago; spent a few years with the Philadelphia federa-tion; went to the American Jewish Joint DistributionCommittee;movedtothe nationalUnitedJewishAppealinNew York, and then left the federation world to become director of regions for the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.While he was at United Synagogue, Dr. Huberman was recruited to create what he thinks of as his crowning achievement, Touros social work school.Dr. Huberman has stories from the differ-ent stops on his journey to Touro. He has a photograph of himself standing with my friend, Tom Bradley, who was Los Angeless first African American mayor. We built all kinds of social services and worked closely together. He was in Romania, working for the Joint Distribution Committee, during the fall of communism. There were tanks in the streets. And at UJA, I started Partner-ship 2000, which links Jewish communities in North America to communities in Israel.WhilehewasatUJA,Dr.Huberman said,hewasresponsibleforhonoring PresidentBillClintonwiththeIsaiah Award an award for distinguished world leadership that he created. But Yitzhak Rabinwasrecruitedtopresentit,soit was brought into being.It was at that ceremony, Dr. Huberman added, that Mr. Rabin, who had come, as instructed, wearing a black tie as in a tie that was black had to borrow an actual black tie, the one that goes with a tuxedo, from a security guard. It was Dr. Huber-man who actually did the borrowing, and Mr. Clinton ended up writing about it in his memoirs.In 1992, when he worked at UJA, the Hubermans Steven, Frieda, and their three children, Daniel, Shira, and Jona-than moved to Teaneck. We wanted to be in walking distance to a number of synagogues, and in close commuting dis-tance to New York, Dr. Huberman said. Teaneck fit the bill.The family joined Congregation Beth Sholom.Wewantedaplacethatwas shomer Shabbes but had an option for women, he said. The Conservative Beth Sholomisegalitariananditsmember-ship is very observant. But Dr. Huberman does not confine himself to one shul, or even one movement. I also daven at Bnai Yeshurun, which is Orthodox, he said. I have become friendly with Rabbi Pru-zansky, who leads Bnai Yeshurun. And I also go to Rinat, another local Ortho-dox shul, from time to time. In fact, he spoke about aging at Rinat last week.Dr. Huberman is proud of his place on the Jewish spectrum, but I think that Frieda and I increasingly are oddities, because we are strictly shomer Shabbat but believe in maximizing the role of women. That puts us in a minority in the general Jewish commu-nity, and particularly within the observant Jewish community.MyfriendJackWertheimerthat would be Dr. Jack Wertheimer, a profes-sor of American Jewish history at the Jew-ish Theological Seminary says, Huber-man, you are a dying breed.His son Daniel, 36, is an endocrinologist in Highland Park; he and his wife, Becky, are the parents of the Hubermans grand-child, 3-year-old Eitan. Shira, 31, lives in Manhattan,teachesintheearlychild-hood program at Ramaz, and is finishing a masters degree in special education at Touro. Jonathan, 24, soon will begin his second year of law school at the Univer-sity of Michigan.All of this all of Dr. Hubermans life experience has gone into Touros social work school.Theschooldoesnothaveacentral campus; instead, it rents space around the city. That makes it flexible, outward- rather than inward-centered, Dr. Huber-mansaid.Anditcaterstomembersof all ethnic groups but focuses on three black folks, Hispanics, and Jews.We usually live in silos, he continued. Black folks interact with black folks, His-panics with Hispanics, Jews dont have contact with either. We wanted to create a model where blacks, Latinos, and Jews work together and interact. We have cre-ated that here.I was a child of divorce, and I felt aban-doned as a kid. There are children living on the streets and some are from the Jewish community. We hope to form a model for dealing with at-risk kids in New York.Theschoolformspartnershipswith other organizations, other schools, and government officials, Dr. Huberman said; effective social work and effective social organizingdemandanddependupon good relationships.In the nine years since it opened, Touro has educated students who have gone on to help make change, he said.We want to create troublemakers at the school. Good troublemakers. Trouble-makers for social justice. Troublemakers for change.We want to create troublemakers at the school. Good troublemakers. Troublemakers for social justice. Troublemakers for change.Left, Dr. Steven Huberman and his bride, Frieda Hirshman, in a 1973 wedding photo. Right, Dr. Huberman welcomes President Bill Clinton to a UJA awards ceremony.JS-15JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 201515 We reserve the right to limit sales to 1 per family. Prices effective this store only. Not responsible for typographical errors. Some pictures are for design purposes only and do not necessarily represent items on sale.While Supply Lasts. No rain checks. We reserve the right to limit sales to 1 per family. Prices effective this store only. Not responsible for typographical errors. Some pictures are for design purposes only and do not necessarily represent items on sale.While Supply Lasts. No rain checks.zWe reserve the right to limit sales to 1 per family. 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Every year, when our community turns out in droves to supportourgolfeventandthanksto them and our generous sponsors, auc-tion contributors, chairs and staff, we raise the funds we need to continually developnewservicesforthisspecial population.Proceeds will support children with physical, emotional and developmental disabilities who attend the Guttenberg Center for Special Services at the JCC, whichoffersmorethan70programs eachmonthforpeoplewithspecial needs. The funding will allow children to participate in the JCC nursery school and summer camps; provide the oppor-tunityfordevelopmentallydisabled childrenandteenstolearnvaluable skills that will enhance their daily lives; and support Camp Dream Street, a free camp dedicated to children with cancer and blood disorders and their siblings, who get to swim, bake, dance, plant gar-dens, and do absolutely everything that their healthy peers would do, in a car-ing, medically safe environment. Asalways,theeventfeaturedan afternoon shotgun, a $250,000 shoot-out, hole-in-one competitions, prizes, awards, and a 50/50 raffle. The day also includedbrunch,acocktailanddin-ner reception, and live, fisherman, and silent auctions, featuring such items as sporting events, special theater tickets, and romantic getaways. A special highlight of the night was a presentation by James Ackerman, who toldhispersonalstoryabouthisson Josh and the JCC Therapeutic Nursery, which began 21 years ago. This led to Mr.AckermanbecomingaJCCboard member. Today, his son volunteers at the JCC in the IT department and does other tasks for several JCC areas. He is doing great and building confi-dence every day, and we are grateful to the JCC for all it has done for Josh and our family, Mr. Ackerman said.The JCC extends thanks to the Kurtz family as presenting sponsors and well as to the days co-chairs, Jeff Jagid, Eric Kleiner,andJasonRubach;incoming chairs Cory Hechler and Tracy Reichel; auctionchairTaraJagid;thegames committee, chaired by Allison Hechler; volunteer chairperson Melanie Zingler; specialeventschairAmyZagin,and development chair Bonnie Notis.For information, call Sharon Potolsky at (201) 408-1405 or email her at [email protected] Hechler, incoming chair of 2015 Play Fore! the Kids, wins the $250,000 shoot-out of the day.JCC board member James Ackerman addresses guests at the golf event.JCC chief executive officer Jordan Shenker, event co-chair Jason Ru-bach, incoming event chair Cory Hechler, presenting sponsor Richard Kurtz, event co-chairs Eric Kleiner and Jeffrey Jagid, and incoming event chair Tracy Reichel.The auction committee included Danielle Kaplan, special events chair Amy Zagin, Jennifer Zuckerman, Sari Perrino, Jennifer Zeccardi, incoming event chair Tracy Reichel, auction chair Tara Jagid, Alana Hurewitz, Audrey Gabel, Jeanine Casty, Jill Rubach, and Melissa Garden.Founding golf chairs, JCC secretary Barry Zeller, JCC president JoJo Rubach, and JCC vice president Michael Kollender.Special events chair Amy Zagin, volunteer chair Melanie Zingler, Jennifer Schiffman, Keri Friedman, Heather Rabinowitz, and games chair Allison Hechler.Play Fore! The Kids Golf classic scores big to aid developmentally disabledLocalJS-17*JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 201517 American Technion Society honors Norman Seiden and General HorevFriends,family,and supportersattended anAmericanTech-nion Society celebra-tionatMontammy Golf Club on July 14 to honor Norman Seiden of Tenafly and Israeli heroandstatesman Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Horev.Thetwomen,who haveknowneach other for decades, were recognized for their tireless efforts and dedication and fortheircentralrolesintheadvance-ment of innovation at the Technion, in the State of Israel, and in the world. The evening also was a celebration of the ATS 75th anniversary; Mr. Seidens parents had been at the inaugural ATS dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1940. Guests included the extended Seiden family, including Mr. Seidens sons and daughters-in-law,StephenandSha-ron and Mark and Diane; his daughter, Pearl, and a grandson, Sam. The crowd also included Stanley Shirvan and David Rosenblatt of Tenafly; Diane Oshin, who grewupinTenafly,andhermother, Carol, who still lives there; Ira and Shel-ley Taub of Alpine, Judy Taub Gold of Cresskill, and Marilyn Taub of Tenafly; ATS executive vice president Jeff Rich-ard, and several members of the north-ern New Jersey Jewish community. Togetherwithhis latewife,Barbara, Mr.Seidenhasmade manycontributions to the Technion, ATS, Israel,andtheNew Jersey Jewish commu-nity at-large. He is the honorary chair of the Technion Guardians (a designationreserved forthosewhohave reachedthehi gh-est level of support for the Technion), a member of the ATS New York Metro-politan Region board, and vice chair of theTechnionBoardofGovernors.He received an honorary fellowship in 1979, an honorary doctorate in 1986, and the Distinguished Technion Medal in 1991. In his local Jewish community, he serves on the boards and executive committees of organizations including the Arnold P. Gold and Russell Berrie foundations, the Jewish Home Family, and the Kaplan JCC on the Palisades. General Horev spoke about Israel and the Technion. One of Israels most cele-brated soldiers, scholars, business lead-ers and statesmen, he is counted among thegroupofheroesresponsiblefor securing Israels statehood and survival. General Horev also is a former Technion president, chair of the board of Rafael Ltd., and the director of Beit Shemesh Engines Ltd., the Dan Hotels Corp., and Elscint Ltd. Federations Onward Israel program supports lone soldier centersRecently,lonesoldiersintheTelAviv area and young men and women who participated in this summers Onward Israel program, had dinner together at the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Center inTelAviv.TheJewishFederationof Northern New Jersey provides funding for both Onward Israel and the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Centers in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The centers give lone sol-diers a place to gather and to have Shab-bat dinner.Norman Seiden, left, and Maj. Gen.(ret.) Amos HorevFor Jewish high school sophomores and juniors Be a Leader!Partcipaton is by applicaton only and an interview is required. Applicaton available to download at www.bchsjs.org. Applicatons will be reviewed on a rolling basis.YOUNG LEADERSHIP COURSECourse is held on Sunday mornings11:45am-12:45pm September 27, 2015 - May 22, 2016 Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies EnglewoodOF NORTHERN NEW JERSEYJewish FederationSkill building programsMeet prominent American and Israeli leadersMeet like-minded teens and get to know Israeli peersA trip to Israel is part of the program*Deadline for applicatons is September 4, 2015 For further informaton, please contact Bess [email protected] * A number of students who complete the program will be selected for a trip to Israel partally subsidized by the Jewish Federaton of Northern New Jersey PARTNERSHIP2GETHERJFS ofers Cafe Europa, a monthly luncheon for Holocaust survivors to meet and develop warm, supportive friendships. A kosher lunch is provided as well as entertainment.For more information please contact Shari Brodsky at 201-837-9090 ext. 237 or by email at [email protected] us at www.jfsbergen.orgUpcoming date for Cafe EuropaThursday, August 20, 201511:30am to 1:30pmJewish Community Center of Paramus/CBT304 Midland Avenue, Paramus, NJMusical Performance by The Bobby Block TrioClaims ConferencTe Conference on Jewish MaterialClaims Against Germanywww.claimscon.org Cafe EuropaEditorial1086 Teaneck RoadTeaneck, NJ 07666(201) 837-8818Fax 201-833-4959PublisherJames L. JanoffAssociate Publisher EmeritaMarcia GarfinkleEditorJoanne PalmerAssociate EditorLarry YudelsonGuide/Gallery Editor Beth Janoff ChananieAbout Our Children EditorHeidi Mae BrattCorrespondentsWarren BorosonLois GoldrichAbigail K. LeichmanMiriam RinnDr. Miryam Z. WahrmanAdvertising DirectorNatalie D. JayClassified DirectorJanice RosenAdvertising CoordinatorJane CarrAccount ExecutivesPeggy EliasGeorge KrollKaren Nathanson Brenda SutcliffeInternational Media PlacementP.O. Box 7195 Jerusalem 91077 Tel: 02-6252933, 02-6247919Fax: 02-6249240Israeli RepresentativeProduction ManagerJerry SzubinGraphic ArtistsDeborah HermanBob O'BrienReceptionistRuth HirschJewishStandardjstandard.comFounderMorris J. Janoff (19111987)Editor Emeritus Meyer Pesin (19011989)City EditorMort Cornin (19151984)Editorial Consultant Max Milians (1908-2005)SecretaryCeil Wolf (1914-2008)Editor EmeritaRebecca Kaplan BorosonOn Jewish communityThe big news in our community is that the YJCC in Washington Township has closed.Youalmostcouldhearitslammed shut, as if it were a huge dusty book.In fact, thats not quite what happened. The book isnt closed. The YJCC, which already has beenthroughmanyincarnationswithand without walls, in Hackensack, in Paramus, in the Pascack Valley and nearly an alphabet-full of letters YM-YWHA, JCC, the oddly metaphysical YJCC (I dont know why, JCC! Or even why, JCC? Tell me, please!) is facing another one.It is quite likely that the YJCC will survive. We certainly hope it will. But we also would like to consider what we all might have learned from the experience.First,asweallknow,lifeisaseriesoftrade-offs. The JCCs board realized that it had no good options as it moved to shutter the building, sell off its assets, and start again. The demands of its cal-endar year, with the budget due in June, the fis-cal year starting in September, and the school year starting then as well, gave the board a firm dead-line. Something had to be done either right away, or not for another year. Waiting a year, watching a years worth of money inexorably trickling away, was not possible, it decided. So it pounced.Thestaffandthememberswereleftfeeling abandoned. It felt as if some giant had taken a rusty hatchet to the ties of community that had bound them. They felt violated. Their commu-nity was demolished.Butitisalsotruethatthecommunityhad abandoned them long before. As Julie Eisen, a long-time YJCC supporter, explained, there has been a cultural, generational shift in the under-standing of community. The YJCC building, with its rigid walls, did not give the flexibility that so many one-time members and their grown chil-dren have come to demand. And it also seems that there is a lessening of the need to feel part of the community.It used to be that Jews supported their local institutionsshuls,YsandJCCs,othernon-profitagenciesbecausetheyfeltanobliga-tion to do so. Now, much sociology, including the constantly cited Pew Report, shows that the sense of obligation is waning. We dont know if that is true, but we do know that the YJCC is in a wealthy area. If only many of the people who are mourning its closure not the seniors, not the young families, not the special needs families, but the people who never used it but liked know-ing it was there, just in case felt a communal obligation to join, just because they could, just because it was the right thing to do, it would be flourishing now.JPKEEPING THE FAITHJustice, Pollard, and the wrong reactionJonathan Jay Pollard finally isgettingoutofjail,and the news has brought great joy to Jewish communities worldwide.When Pollard is released from federal custody, it will be exactly 30yearsfromthedayhewas arrested November 21, 1985. It is only right that he be released; it is long overdue. It is wrong for us to celebrate it.Equallywrongistobelieve justiceisfinallybeingserved. Justice, or what passes for it in theUnitedStates, wastrampledon in the Pollard case. His release does not rectify that breach; itmerelyputsa spotlight on it.Robert Frost once said,Ajurycon-sistsof12persons chosentodecide whohasthebetter lawyer.That,in essence,sumsup our system of justice.Synonymsf orj ust i ce include such words as fairness, fairplay,fair-mindedness,just-ness,equity,evenhandedness, impartiality, objectivity, neutral-ity,disinterestedness,honesty, righteousness, and morality.Noneofthoseapplyinour so-called justice system, which is more of a strategy game than a search for truth. Prosecutors anddefenseattorneysseekto havetheircasesplacedonthe dockets of judges friendly to the prosecution or defense. Each side, after all, wants to present its case to the jury, while limiting what the other side can present.Adefendant,forexample, mayhavecommittedsimilar crimes in the past. Prosecutors want to paint the defendant as aserialoffender.Thedefense objects because the defendants prior bad acts could prejudice the jury. Which lawyer wins the point depends on who is sitting on the bench, and which one of them makes the best argument.Ourcourtroomsarenotpal-aces of fairness and equity;theyare forums for debate. Scor i ngdebat -ing points is more i mport antthan beingimpartial, evenhanded,and objective.Thentherei s thequestionof resources.Alltoo of ten, adefen-dantwithlimited resources will consider pleading guilty to a lesser charge, regard-less of actual guilt, just to stop thefinancialblood-letting.A defendantwithresourcesthat can match the prosecutions lim-itless funds stands a much better chance of remaining free.Thatisoursystemofjustice, and it is not just in any way.In the Pollard case, even this twistednotionofjusticewas ignored. After many months of back-and-forth negotiations, the federal government and Pollards attorney agreed to a plea bargain, Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.18JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-18*On the dealIt is not at all accurate to say that the debate about the proposed nuclear deal with Iran has become more heated, shrill, and vitu-perative as time has gone on. In fact, it is hard to imagine anything more heated, shrill, andvituperativethanthedebateonthedeal, even before it was signed.That is not to say that we dont understand why emotions are high. The Iranian government has shown itself to be monstrous, it has threatened both Israel and the United States, and history has taught us to believe what our enemies hiss at us.We agree with Alan Dershowitz, who is pro-moting the idea of a televised (and of course live-streamed, because we live now, not 60 years ago) high-level debate, where smart, knowledgeable people make real arguments, based on knowl-edge, not emotion. It would be like the Lincoln/Douglasdebates,hesays.Althoughitisnot likely that any of us would have the patience to sit through hours of oratory our ancestors had fewer entertainment options it would be a very good idea.From what we have read so far, we also agree with Mr. Dershowitz that the deal is a bad idea, althoughwesaysotentatively.Therearereal argumentsonbothsides.Intheend,we,like somanyotherAmericans,includingNewJer-sey and New Yorks senior senators, come down against it.But we also urge that it not become a litmus test. The dangers posed by the deal are not lim-ited to Irans ability to get a bomb. They include itsabilitytoblowuprelationshipswithinthe Jewish community. JPShammai EngelmayerA report from Camp MommyToday were making ice cream.Theres another month to go before school begins. This morning, after much checking of Consumer Reports lists and Amazon cus-tomer reviews, Son Number 3 and I hop in the minivan and head off to Chef Central, coupon in hand, to pick up an ice cream maker. With Camp Sports and Arts over for the summer, it looks like Im running Camp Mommy until school starts up again.We have plans. Were going to make ice cream. (Choc-olate and pretzel! Demerara sugar and smoked maple bourbon! Cucumber and watermelon! And these nifty pareve recipes featuring chickpeas as a base!) After we tire of weird ice cream, maybe Ill spring for a deep fryer. We want to fry bananas, pickles, avocados, tempura-bat-tered ice cream and Oreo cookies.I should be digging out the cream, blending together the milk and sugar. But hmm, I wonder if theres any-thing new happening with the Iran nuclear deal? I put the ice cream maker down and click on the news.Is it good? Is it bad? Is it a mistake? Is it the only deal possible? Why now? Why must there be a deal at all? As an American, a Jew, and the child of Holocaust survivors, Im alarmed by the ugly confrontations Im observing betweenAmericanJewishorganizations, theIsraeligovernment,andtheWhite House. Each player is taking an unprece-dented leap over uncrossable lines. From the outset, the Obama administration has doneapoorjobofsellingitsowndeal. Nordiditexplainexactlyhowitwould fight the waves of terrorism financed by a newly sanction-free Iran, or how it would put sanctions back in place if it discovered the Iranians were cheating. Instead, it vili-fied its opponents as warmongers and snapped super-ciliously at anyone voicing questions and doubts, and accused Israel of meddling in U.S. affairs.As an American, Im distressed at the way my presi-dent is handling this situation. As the child of survivors, Im aghast at the headlines reporting battles between Israel and the White House on the front page of the New York Times, or on CNNs website. This is the kind of sit-uation that invites anti-Semites worldwide to say that behind the scenes, Jews run the U.S. government.Come on, Helen, focus. Focus on Camp Mommy, on the sweet, freckled face of Number 3, on his excitement as he comes up with ideas for far-out flavors. I concentrate on the steps to set up the ice cream maker: Wash special deep-freeze bowl. Place bowl in freezer for 16 to 24 hours, until you can no longer hear special deep-freeze liquid slosh around inside the double-walled stainless steel. 16 to 24 hours? That wasnt in the reviews. It was supposed to make ice cream in 20 minutes! Uh oh. The wheels are about to come off of the Camp Mommy bus.Wait. We can handle this. While the bowl chills, I tell Number 3, well prepare the ingredients. We need one cup of milk. Two cups of heavy cream. Vanilla. Dang. We dont have any heavy cream in the house, I inform Number 3. We need to go to the store.WhenyoureregisteredatCampMommy,the Farmers Market is considered a field trip. In the milk and eggs aisle, I cant help myself. I take out my smart-phone and peek at the Times of Israel. I want to know if theyve found the monsters who set that Palestinian familys house on fire. Im having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that someone who calls him-self an Orthodox Jew could murder a 16-year-old girl at a gay pride parade, or set fire to a house while a fam-ily sleeps inside. Weve just passed Tisha BAv. I spent the fast day reading about the catastrophic intra-Jewish hatred that existed towards the end of the Beit HaMik-dash. The extremist Zealots refused to allow civilians to exit besieged Jerusalem, forcing ordinary citizens to remain in the city and starve while the rebels fought the Romans. The Sicaari, even more extreme than the Zeal-ots, murdered anyone who disagreed with them.Twothousandyearsago,wewereexiledfromour land on account of sinat chinam, hatred of one another. I am anxious for whoever perpetrated this atrocity to be caught and punished, and I feel helpless when I think of how theres so little I can do to fight blind, contagious, crazy hatred.I shake my head like Im shaking off cob-webs. Camp Mommy, remember? Real life happening here.Werehomeagain.Mommy,pleads Number 3. Can we make ice cream now? Isthebowlfrozenyet?Unfortunately, whenItakethedeep-freezebowloutof the freezer, I can still hear the stupid liquid sloshing around inside its stupid double-walled stainless steel body. Luckily, Camp Mommyhadtheastonishingforesightto stopatMichaelsandbuysomeSculpey ModelingClay.Whydontyouopenup yournewclay?Isuggest.Createsome figures for that stop-motion video you wanted to make.Number3acceptsthesuggestion.Turnsoutthat instead of making ice cream, Camp Mommy is making a video today.Today, it is not in my power to do anything about peo-ple who set someones house on fire, or someone elses house of worship. Today, I cant do anything about peo-ple who feed on hate, and then use their hate as a justi-fication to kill innocents whose only crime is that they love differently, or believe differently. Today, it is not in my power to do anything about people who choose to see only one side of a situation. Today, it is not in my power to change politicians whose hope that something is true is so strong that it clouds their observation.Today, only one thing is in my power. Camp Mommy. How I raise my children. How I respond to their ques-tions, or to situations that arise. What I teach them to see. What I teach them to think. To act. To believe.Today,theonlypowerIhaveoverthenewsisthe power I have to affect the future. After all, the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.Helen Maryles Shankmans short fiction has appeared in many publications, including The Kenyon Review and JewishFiction.net. Her debut novel, The Color of Light, is available on Amazon. She lives in Teaneck.KEEPING THE FAITHJustice, Pollard, and the wrong reactionside, after all, wants to present its case to the jury, while limiting what the other side can present.Adefendant,forexample, mayhavecommittedsimilar crimes in the past. Prosecutors want to paint the defendant as aserialoffender.Thedefense objects because the defendants prior bad acts could prejudice the jury. Which lawyer wins the point depends on who is sitting on the bench, and which one of them makes the best argument.Ourcourtroomsarenotpal-aces of fairness and equity;theyare forums for debate. Scor i ngdebat -ing points is more i mport antthan beingimpartial, evenhanded,and objective.Thentherei s thequestionof resources.Alltoo of ten, adefen-dantwithlimited resources will consider pleading guilty to a lesser charge, regard-less of actual guilt, just to stop thefinancialblood-letting.A defendantwithresourcesthat can match the prosecutions lim-itless funds stands a much better chance of remaining free.Thatisoursystemofjustice, and it is not just in any way.In the Pollard case, even this twistednotionofjusticewas ignored. After many months of back-and-forth negotiations, the federal government and Pollards attorney agreed to a plea bargain, Opinionin which he would plead guilty to a single count of delivering classified material to a foreign government (Israel). At the time, the average prison term for that count, when the foreign government involved was an ally of the United States, was four years. In at least one case around that time, an accused spy was allowed to go free without prosecution.The prosecution in Pollards case agreed to a short sentence, then used rhetorical trickery to shamelessly signal to the judge hearing the case that it preferred life imprisonment for Pollard. This is a sentence nor-mallyreservedforthosewhospiedontheUnited States for an enemy state, not for someone who spied in the United States for an ally.The excuse the prosecution gave for abandoning the plea deal at the very last moment is spurious at best. The agreement stipulated that Pollard could not grant interviews unless they were sanctioned by the Justice Department. Pollard, his prosecutors said, abrogated theagreementbygrantingtwointerviewstoWolf Blitzer, at the time the Jerusalem Posts man in Wash-ington. Pollard, however, was in a maximum-security facility, and the government controlled access to him. The only way Blitzer could have gotten in to interview Pollard was with the governments permission.Therealsoistheexparteaffidavitsubmittedby Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at the judges request. The judge wanted to know just how much damage the government claimed Pollards spying for Israelhaddone.Thedefensehadnowayofrefut-ingthechargesinthatstill-secretaffidavit,which clearly violated the right of a defendant to confront his accuser.That Pollard is being released in November, then, assuming he is set free, is not a moment of justice tri-umphant, but merely a confirmation of justice denied.That being said, Jews neither here nor in Israel have reason to celebrate Pollards release.Pollard is no Jewish hero, and to paint him as one is to ignore facts that even he admits are true. He did not sell Israel information out of any love for the Jew-ish state, as he claims. He was in it for the money. His attempt to sell U.S. secrets to South Africa, which he admits, boldly testifies to his true motive. He had no religious, ethnic, or philosophical ties to South Africa. Money alone was his motive. We can only speculate whether Pollard would have approached other coun-tries had he not been caught.What Pollard did was a crime, period.He also put Jews in government, and especially in the intelligence branches, at great risk. After all, in his interviews with Blitzer, Pollard claimed that he did what he did because he was a loyal Jew who was con-science-bound to pass on information Israel needed to survive.Long before the two Blitzer interviews, the Reagan administrationalreadyletitbeknownthatittook seriously the possibility that American Jews generally were loyal to Israel first and the United States second.That message reared its ugly head just weeks after Pollards arrest, on December 16, when Vice President George H. W. Bush raised it in a speech to an audience at Yeshiva University. His statement that no one would even think of accusing American Jews of dual loyalty was seen as doing just that.The American system of justice is broken, and needs to be fixed.Pollards case exemplifies that. He did not deserve to be kept in jail for 30 years.He also does not deserve to be treated as a Jewish hero.JS-19*JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 201519 Opinions expressed in the op-ed and letters columns are not necessarily those of the Jewish Standard. The Jewish Standard reserves the right to edit letters. Be sure to include your town. Email [email protected]. Handwritten letters will not be printed.Helen Maryles ShankmanOpinion20JEWISH STANDARD AUGUST 14, 2015JS-20*Myth vs. realityA look at the shortcomings in th