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Fans of science fiction know that

death had no dominion over Mr. Spock,

the child of human-Vulcan intermar-

riage who died in Star Trek II and re-

turned in Star Trek III. It turns out that

Leonard Nimoy, the Jewish actor who

portrayed Mr. Spock for nearly 50 years

and died last February, lives on — or at

least his influence does.

The Women of the Wall have

announced that they will hold a

women’s priestly blessing at the

Kotel on Pesach — with support for

marketing from Mr. Nimoy’s estate and

from his widow, Susan Bay Nimoy.

The priestly blessing is the formula

that God, in the Book of Numbers,

commanded Aaron’s descendants to

bestow on the people. In traditionalAshkenazi synagogues, kohanim — men

who are descendants of the priestly

caste — go to the bimah, hold their

hands out, fingers paired and split

down the middle, and recite the three-

part liturgy, which begins “May God

bless and keep you.”

In 1970, a Jerusalem rabbi began

to make it a public event at the Kotel;

last Pesach, the rite attracted tens of

thousands of men.

But the ritual, and in particular its

distinctive hand gesture, has Mr. Nimoy

to thank for its fame. He had seen the

ceremony as a child in his synagogue.

And on a June day in 1967, either during

or immediately following the Six Day

War, he realized that the Star Trek

episode he was working on then would

benefit from some distinctive gesture

of greeting. And thus was born the

Vulcan salute, which accompanied the

greeting reminiscent of the blessing

from Numbers: “Live long and prosper.”

And as Star Trek went on to live long

and prosper, the priestly hand gesture

entered popular culture. (Now it’s

available as an emoji character on your

cell phone.)

So perhaps it’s only logical that the

first public grant from the Nimoy estate

would come to a priestly blessing —

even if a rather un-Orthodox one. The

Women of the Wall are inviting women

from the priestly caste to bless the

audience and other women to receivethe blessing. The grant will enable the

group to publicize the event.

The road from press release to

priestly ritual is likely to be a rocky one,

given the ongoing controversy over

non-Orthodox rituals at the Western

Wall. (The rabbi of the Kotel has

backed away from his approval of a

compromise on the issue agreed upon

by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

and the Reform and Conservative

movements.)

At least the Kotel conflict, unlike the

one featured on the planet Vulcan in

that 1967 episode, will not be resolved

with a battle to the death.LARRY YUDELSON

Making hummus treif again● Who owns the chickpea paste

known as hummus? Is it an Israeli

dish? A Lebanese specialty?

It turns out that while advocates

of Middle Eastern countries were

distracted by

squabbling for the right to humm

Americans stepped up to the plat

with their can-do attitude and too

it over for themselves.

Sorry, Muslims and Jews.

Meet your bastardized America

offspring, bacon hummus.

More precisely, “Smoky flavoredBacon hummus, a delicious

blend of smoky hummus

topped with real bacon”

brought to us by Stop-

and-Shop’s “Simply

Enjoy” brand.

We have no idea

how it tastes —

though as fans of

Sabra’s jalapeno-

flavored hummus

(that one is kosher

we probably have

no standing to

complain about

cross-cultural chickp

contamination.

But as you can see

from the photograph, ofriend who discovered the

bacon hummus pronounced

good to the last dip.

LARRY YUDEL

Spock blesses Women of theWall from beyond the grave

On the cover: Siobhan Barry-Bratcher, her granddaughter, Alice Rose Ferra

and her father, James Bratcher, on vacation at Seaside Heights last August.

PHOTO BY KIMBERLEE PIPER/DREAMPIPER

Not for male Vulcans only:

Spock (Leonard Nimoy)

exchanges the Vulcan

salute with T’Pau (Betty

Matsushita) in a 1967

episode of Star Trek.


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created by a rabbi (mod-eled on Loew) some fourcenturies before. (Thisfilm was co-written andco-directed by its staractors, HENRIK GALEEN and Paul Wegener.) “TheGolem” clearly influ-enced the classic 1930s“Frankenstein” films di-rected by James Whale,

and Whale’s films, muchmore than the Shelleynovel, have inspired andinformed later Fran-kenstein-like film crea-tures, including, I expect,Doomsday.

The fact that thatlong-serving Iowagovernor Terry

Branstad, a Republican,and a very big Israelsupporter, is the son of aJewish mother (whobecame a Lutheran) anda Lutheran father is notwell known. (Branstad

later converted toCatholicism.) The factthat he’s a second cousinof Supreme Courtnominee MERRICK GARLAND, 63, is evenless well known. Gar-land’s late father, an Iowanative, and Branstad’slate mother werecousins. Branstad did

support Garland’sappointment to thefederal bench in 1997.However, he is nowdeferring to the decisionof Iowa Republican Sena-tor Charles Grassley, thehead of the JudiciaryCommittee, not to holdconfirmation hearings.This must be a bitawkward for Branstad,who met Judge Garlandfor the first time about amonth ago, when theyhad breakfast together inWashington. –N.B.

Jesse Eisenberg

IT’S SHOWDOWN TIME:

Two ‘kosher’

superheroes;two ‘kosher’supervillians

Gal Gadot

Ezra Miller Merrick Garland

The blockbuster ac-tion film, “Batmanv. Superman: Dawn

of Justice,” is opening onFriday, March 25. Un-doubtedly the late BOB KANE, who createdBatman, and the lateJERRY SIEGEL and JOE SCHUSTER, who createdSuperman, would besurprised to see the duoat odds. But an iconicsuperhero showdown is anovel twist, and we’ll seehow well it’s done. Thefilm opens with Batman/ Bruce Wayne (BenAffleck) and Superman/ Clark Kent (Henry Cavill)both in a funk, as theyponder the casualties ofcrime fighting and theproper use of superpowers. Enter Lex Luthor(JESSE EISENBERG, 32),a billionaire sociopathwho plays on theiranxieties and thenorchestrates a massmurder aimed at turningthe superhero duo

against each other.“Batman v. Super-

man” features the firstappearance of super-hero Wonder Womanin a major movie. TheJewish press has longkvelled about the cast-ing of Israeli actress GAL GADOT, 30 (“Fast andFurious”) as WonderWoman. The news getsbetter: Wonder Womanis, indeed, a major char-acter in the film, and shewill re-appear in future“DC Extended Universe”

films. EZRA MILLER, 23,as the Flash, also ap-pears in a brief scene. Itseems likely that Miller(as the Flash) will havea much bigger role inthe “Extended Universe”films to come.

Luthor, by the way,has another weapon uphis sleeve: He uses someKryptonian relics (in-cluding body parts froma Kryptonian villain) tocook up a giant mu-tant Frankenstein-typemonster, called Dooms-day. There is no clearevidence that Mary Shel-ley, who wrote the 1818novel “Frankenstein,”was inspired by the Jew-ish legend of the golem— a soulless but pow-erful artificial creaturebrought to life thoughmagic (in some ver-sions, by invoking God’sname). However, thereis another direct linefrom the golem legendto Doomsday. The most

famous golem was theone supposedly createdby Rabbi JUDAH LOEW (1513-1609) of Prague. Hedid so to protect Jewsfrom attacks by non-Jews. In all versions ofthe Lowe/ golem story,Rabbi Loew disables thegolem after he protectsJews but kills innocentsin doing so. Movingahead in time, there’sthe classic silent Ger-man film “The Golem”(1915), about the modernrediscovery of a golem

Coming straightinto your home● On March 18, Netflix began streaming a new Pee

Wee Herman ilm, “Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday.” Herma

course, is the famous character created and played

PAUL REUBENS, 63 (who was born Paul Rubenfe

A big star in the ’80s, Reubens’ career was derailed

1991 sex scandal that seems almost quaint today in

of much more serious celeb scandals, like Bill Cosby

He revived the Pee Wee Herman character in 2009

his stage appearances as Pee Wee have been popula

acclaimed. “Holiday,” produced by JUDD APATOW

has good advance buzz and it works because Reube

has aged well, and Pee Wee’s age never was speciieso even at 63, you can accept Reubens in his signat

role. The plot has Herman leaving his hometown of

ville and going on the irst vacation of his life. He’s t

eling to New York to celebrate his friend Joe’s birthd

party. Along the way, he gets caught up in wacky hi

By the way, Reuben’s late father served in the Britis

and American air forces during WWII and was one

the courageous diaspora Jews who flew rickety plan

during Israel’s War of Independence and were criti

Israel’s survival.

Paul Rubens

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The frozen chosenFrisch hockey team gains glory for Jews on skates

LARRY YUDELSON

T wo moments stand out when Joe

Tropp thinks about his recently

concluded high school ice

hockey season. Joe, a Teaneck

sophomore at the Frisch School in Para-mus, was assistant captain of his school’s

team, the Cougars.

The irst moment came on January 31.

Frisch was playing Old Tappan. The score

was 6 to 5. Frisch was behind.

And then, with 13 seconds left, the Cou-

gars scored a goal and tied the game.

“We went up against a very good team

we were not supposed to win against,” he

said. “We managed to not give up even

when we were down, and we tied it up.”

The second moment took place off the

ice, when the team learned that it had

made it into the inals of the non-public

division of the NJ State Interscholastic Ath-

letic Association on the strength of its sea-

son’s record of 6 wins, 4 losses, and 2 ties.

Not bad for a team in its irst year.

“All season we tried to prove ourselves

and the fact we actually got some recogni-

tion from the public really felt good,” Joesaid.

“Hearing that news was just awesome,”

Evan Fromen of Englewood said. “We

were a yeshiva with a team put together

from scratch.”

Ice hockey is not the irst sport that

comes to mind when you think of yeshiva

teams. It’s not that Jews and ice are inher-

ent enemies — didn’t the lakes and rivers

freeze back in Anatevka? — but basketball

and wrestling are much more suited for a

high school ymnasium.

The boy’s ice hockey team put the roster

of Frisch’s sports teams, for both boys and

girls, at 26, and it is one of the school’s few

teams that competes outside of the yeshiva

league that pits the Jewish high schools of

the metropolitan New York region against

each other in regular matches and annual

tournaments. A couple of other local

yeshiva high schools have hockey clubs —among them, the Torah Academy of Ber-

gen County in Teaneck— but they don’t

ield competitive teams.

“It all came about because of the dedi-

cation of four parents,” said Aron Coren,

Frisch’s athletic director. “They saw a

need. We didn’t have an ice hockey pro-

gram and they really wanted to start one

for their kids.”

It began last year as a club before

becoming a team this year.

“It’s amazing what the ice hockey pro-

gram does, because it’s so hard to ind ice

time,” he said.

The team mostly practices at th

in Englewood’s MacKay park. It me

to three times a week — once durin

week, and on Saturday and Sunday

when there are no games on the sch

“They really are dedicated and pu

much effort,” Mr. Coren said. “Thplaying against kids who practic

times a week.”

The impetus for the team really

from the players, according to the

coach, Ralph Abecassis of Englewoo

son, Aaron, a junior, is one of the t

captains. “The kids wanted to do

kind of took it from there,” he said.

The seeds of the team were plant

or six years ago, he said, when Aaro

several of his friends played at the

wood Field Club. “There were so

Jewish kids signing up that they sw

the Saturday games to Saturday n

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after Shabbat ended, he said.

“These kids have been playing for so

many years, the question was, why does it

have to go to waste after eighth grade? We

parents looked at each other and said, why

don’t we try doing something?”

From there to a irst-year tournament —

pretty impressive, even if Frisch lost in the

irst round to Saint Joseph Regional HighSchool in Montvale with a non-competitive

score of 11 to 1.

“What you have to realize is since we’re

a non-public school we have to play in

a non-public division,” Mr. Abecassis

said. “You’re playing against the power-

houses,” schools that recruit based on

their athletic programs.

Frisch, too, now is recruiting students

on the strength of its hockey team, at least

in a small way. For hockey players, Frisch,

as the only yeshiva high school with a

team, has become the school of choice.

But what makes ice hockey so compel-

ling that teenagers are willing to practice

late at night, whenever the team can get

precious access to the ice?

“The sport itself is awesome,” Evan said.

“It takes so much out of you. After a 45-sec-

ond shift already you’re out of breath. You

have to constantly rotate players. It’s a

very fast pace. Everyone gets more time

in the game because players are so tired.”

The rotation means that even those of

the 28 members of the team who were

new to the sport got a chance to compete.“Every moment counts,” Evan said.

“Our shifts are a lot faster” than in other

sports. “Even professionals have short

shifts.”

Why is playing on ice more tiring than

playing on a wooden ymnasium floor?

“I’ve never really understood that

myself,” Evan said.

Joe said he was thrilled with the oppor-

tunity Frisch gave him to play ice hockey

in a Jewish environment.”

“I started playing hockey when I was

four years old. I played hockey for a few

years in the Ice House in Hackensack.

Then I was told that I couldn’t play on

the good team because I was Jewish and

couldn’t play on Saturday. I had to go

around from league to league and ind the

teams that accept me and let me play on

Sundays but not Saturday. It’s been hard.

Frisch gave me the opportunity.”

But despite its relative success, the

Frisch ice hockey team hasn’t made a

true believer of Mr. Coren, the at

director.

“I tried it once,” he said. “It too

too long to get dressed. There’s a tr

dous amount of equipment you h

put on.”

Maury Bauer, Benjamin Feintuch, Sammy Wietschner, and Aaron Abecassis Evan Fromen

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Take me out to the fairFranklin Lakes shul to host contemporary film on 1939 World’s Fair

JOANNE PALMER

Yes, this is a little bit of Queens

geography.

But Bergen County’s not so

far from Long Island, and you

have to go through Queens to get there,

so it’s not likely to be foreign to our

readers.

You know how you see the old World’s

Fair grounds — Flushing Meadows-

Corona Park, to be technical — when you

take the Grand Central Parkway or the

Van Wyck Expressway? You can’t really

tell from the road, but those once-glori-

ous monuments to the future are crum-

bling. They’re the remnants of the 1964

World’s Fair, the postwar ode to progress

that introduced some of us of a certainage, wide-eyed children then, to such

wonders as picturephones (not nearly

as good as FaceTime or Skype but purely

miraculous then), moving sidewalks (an

idea whose time has not yet come and

most likely never will), and a stunning

showcase for DuPont’s immortal slogan

“Better Living Through Chemistry.”

Not to mention Belgian waffles.

Before the 1964 World’s Fair, though,

that same park hosted the 1939 World’s

Fair, also a paean to the future but this

one built during the Great Depression,

with World War II looming. For our read-

ers’ parents, grandparents, or maybe

even great-grandparents, were they luckyenough to have made it to this country

by then, and have gotten to the fair, it

represented hope, progress, and a better

life. We remember the ‘64 World’s Fair in

Technicolor and the 1939 one in moody

period black-and-white, but really the ‘39

fair blazed with color and life.

Charles Sokol of Wayne is a semi-retired chemist (and a Ph.D. who chooses

not to use that title outside his profes-

sional life) who describes himself as “a

collector of various things,” among them

“probably the world’s largest collection

of early English-language comedy record-

ings — and by early I’m talking from 1897

to the early 1950s,” he said. He also col-

lects other early audio and visual record-

ings. Among those treasures is a six-hour

silent ilm of the 1939 World’s Fair.

“There was a gentleman — I assume he

was a man, but I just know his last name,

Medicus,” Mr. Sokol said. “This person

— Medicus — had a 16 millimeter silent

movie camera. It wasn’t just 8 millime-

ter, so that it was decent quality.” It wasalso in color.

Mr. Sokol often creates programs based

on his collection and shows them at his

synagogue, Temple Emanuel of North

Jersey in Franklin Lakes.

He has divided the Medicus ilm into

four segments. On Sunday, April 3, he

will show the last , hour-long sec tion,

backed by per iod Bri tish danc e band

music — “totally silent ilms can be very

boring ,” he said, and the music is Brit-

ish because “with British copyright laws,

anything recorded before 1950 is in the

public domain, and I didn’t violate any

copyright laws.” (Nothing is simple.)

See the box for more information onthis week’s program.

The ilm shows “everything at the fair

— and I do mean everything,” Mr. Sokol

said. “This guy or gal or whatever went to

the entire fair and ilmed it. There were

all sorts of things that surprised me.” Among those surprises, “there was a

fair amount of nudity,” he said. “And this

guy captured it. The French pavilion had

an outdoor garden, and there were top-

less female models, just walking around

talking to people, having what looked like

normal conversations.”

Along those lines, “one of the most

surprising things I found is that in 1939,

the surrealist painter Salvador Dali had

designed a topless bathing suit, and he

had the women swimming in tanks.”They were in a pavilion called “Dreams

of Venus,” which looks jaw-droppingly

avant-garde in the ilm.

Next Sunday, Mr. Sokol will pair that

last segment of the Medicus documen-

tary with an “incredible ilm, a docu-

drama, put together by the Westing-

house Corporation,” he said. The ilm,

called “The Middleton Family at the New

York World’s Fair,” also in color, and with

sound, is more or less about the triumph

of the American Way.

Mr. Sokol’s oldest Jewish recordings

were not made by Jewish perfo rmers,

he said. Jewish vaudevillians, like

of their non-Jewish peers, were

about recordings at irst, fearin

they would cut into proits. Why

audiences venture out to theaters

they could listen to records at h

“At that time, royalties were pitifu

said. “They were afraid of losing

income.” So the records were ma

non-Jews who heard the Jewish rou

saw how popular they are, reco

what they heard (particularly if it wEnglish; they tended to omit the Y

bits). Jews were the target audienc

As they got into the early 20th ce

Jewish performers “noticed that p

still were coming to their shows

Sokol said. In fact, the recordings

raising awareness among their pot

audiences. “In about 1902, you st

to see Jewish performers making r

ings,” he added.

Most of the early recordings were

in Edison, and sold in record s

“The very irst ones were on wax

ders, and then they started to be

The facade of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion showed a copper relief sculptur

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cylinders and disks,” he said. “Around 1912 or 1913,

they started using plastic,” which wore far better.

Mr. Sokol relishes some of the titles of the Jewishrecordings. There’s “Under the Matzah Tree,” he

said, and the immortal “Who Ate Napoleons With

Josephine When Bonaparte Was Away?” Later, after

“At the Yiddish Wedding Jubilee” and “Marry a Yid-

disher Boy,” there came the eternal question “Whose

Izzy Is He?”

Another highlight of his collection, Mr. Sokol said,

is a program he put together using both some mate-

rial in his collection and some from Steven Spiel-

berg’s archives. “In my collection, I have two of the

irst ilms ever made in Jerusalem,” he said. They are

small bits of ilm made in 1896 by the Lumiere broth-

ers, who were important early ilmmakers. “It shows

Jerusalem when the whole area was still under Turk-

ish control,” Mr. Sokol said.

He already has presented that ilm at Temple

Emanuel but is thinking about showing it again.“It probably got the best response of anything I’ve

done,” he said.

Who: Early film collector Charles Sokol of Wayne

What: Presents a two-part documentary on the 1939World’s Fair, using footage filmed at the fair

When: On Sunday, April 3, at 2 p.m.

Where: At Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, 558High Mountain Road, Franklin Lakes

What else: Popcorn and ice cream

For information: (201) 560-0200 or www.tenjfl.org.

Elektro the Moto-Man and his Little Dog Sparko,

who toured the country before and after the fair,

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Paul and the rabbisAt Rutgers talk, Israeli academic discusses the ties between early Christians and Jews

JOANNE PALMER

Often, we all can feel a strong

attraction to — and some-

times also repulsion toward

— someone or something

that feels both entirely foreign and

oddly familiar at the same time.

Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi is an associate pro-

fessor and the head of the Talmud and

late antiquities section in the Hebrew

culture studies department at Tel-Aviv

University. His publications look at the

intersection between the cultures vying

for breathing space during the few cen-

turies that began the Common Era; he’s

focused on midrashic hermeneutics, the

Mishna itself, Temple rituals in rabbinic

literature, and gender and sexualityduring that time.

Now, he is exploring that very polar-

izing Christian igure, the apostle Paul,

né Saul, the very Jewish Christian whose

writing about the Jews has had such a

devastating impact on so many Jews,

tragically culminating, in a logical pro-

gression, he said, in the Shoah.

“I’ve always been fascinated with

Paul, as a scholar, as a Jew, as someone

who works with rabbinic lite rature,”

Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. It’s the push-pull of

the familiar and the foreign. “On the

one hand, he is an anti-Jewish, maybe

even anti-Semitic thinker, and on the

other hand, he is so similar in the wayhe works with the Bible to create a kind

of holy community.

“I’ve always been interested in Paul,

but only rece ntly I’ve tri ed to think

more systematically in this area,” he

said.

Academic thinking about Paul has

changed a great deal since World War

II. “It was the area in which scholarship

was most affe cted by the Holoc aust,”

Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “It was acknowl-

edged that the Protestant interpreta-

tion of Paul actually contributed to the

caricature of Judaism as a kind of god-

less, spirit-less religion that had to be

replaced. Throughout the 1950s, ‘60s,

and 70s, we ind this really very thor-ough attempt to separate Paul from

later developments in Christianity.

It was an attempt to make Paul not

guil ty for the horrors that seemed tostem from his worldview.

“In the beginning, Paul was a com-

mitted Jew, a Pharisee, someone who

bragged about his knowledge of the law,

his conception of Judaism and of Torah,

and of his mission as a Jew,” Dr. Rosen-

Zvi said, explaining that scholarly view.

“That is radical and different from the

way the second-century church fathers

saw him.

“It is an attempt to read Paul as Jew-

ish, and his critique as an inner Jewish

critique, aimed at his own world.”

Those historians and theologians

were Protestant. “Jewish scholars enter

the game very late, only in the last 15or 20 years,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “Prot-

estant scholars were creating a mixture

of very sensitive historical scholarship,

that says that we have to read Paul in the

context of irst-century Judaism, on the

one hand, and on the other there was

a lot of apologetics. They were saying

that they had to save Paul.” They had to

reclaim his reputation.

“And if you have to save Paul, that lim-

its your ability to read the text clearly.”

From there, “the effect of the trend

was a really big investment in reading

Paul inside Judaism.” That’s when schol-

ars began comparing his writing to rab-

binic literature.

“Comparing Paul to the rabbinic lit-erature is problematic because the rab-

bis are later — the second century of the

Common Era — and the irst documents

that we have are from the beginning of

the third century. Paul is in the middle

of the irst century. So it’s problematic.

“But it is really tempting, becausethey” — that’s the rabbis and Paul — “are

doing very similar things.

“They are both based in biblical inter-

pretation, and from a kind of relevanti-

cization of the Bible they are attempting

to create what I call holy communities

under Rome.

“They had very developed eschatol-

oy on one hand, and on the other they

accepted reality. They did not attempt

to leave the city or urban life; both the

irst Christian communities and the rab-

bis lived in the city, part of secular life

under Rome. And in this realm, they

tried to create a holy community

a new conception of what being

people means.

“To me, this means that the comson is unavoidable. The question i

to do it,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “And

we get to the question of methodo

Dismissing the crude assumptio

every time “the rabbis talk abou

great the Torah is, or how great Isr

we should read i t as a kind of ant

polemic,” that means that “we h

ind more sensitive tools,” he said

“There are two main streams in

arship. One sees Paul as the recei

Jewish trad itions, and that thos

ditions also are preserved in rab

literature. That means that Paul

Who: Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi of Tel Aviv University

What: Will talk about “The Apostle Paul and the Rabbis” at Rutgers University

Where: At Brower Commons, 145 College Avenue in New Brunswick

When: On Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by: The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life

Cost and how to register: Free; free parking is available. Advance registration is

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More information: Go to BildnerCenter.rutgers.edu

Dr. Ishay Rosen-Zvi

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ancient Jewish traditions and adds his Christologi-

cal flavor to them, so when we ind similar storiesin Paul and the rabbis we should assume that they

are preserving the right tradition.

“The other stream says no. The rabbis are later

than Paul, and Paul is a very influential igure in the

second century. It’s not that they would have read

him — but his ideas would have penetrated in the

culture. They would have known his ideas.”

For example, he said, “the rabbis say that Abra-

ham inherited the land of Israel not because of his

faith or his beliefs, but because he preserved the

commandments. This seems to be the exact oppo-

site of what Paul says — that Abraham inherited

the land not only because he was a believer, not

because he kept the commandments.” That’s in

keeping with Christian theoloy, which says that

the mitzvot ceased to be necessary once their mes-

siah lived and died.The rabbis, in other words, offered a direct

refutation of Paul, these scholars believe. “They

emphasize the rabbinical statements as polemical.”

Dr. Rosen-Zvi believes that the truth about

whether Paul and the rabbis inherited the same tra-

ditions separately or that the rabbis were respond-

ing to Paul is that they are both right — part of the

time. Sometimes i t’s one, sometimes it’s the other.

It depends.

“My modest contribution is to help identify when

we shoul d talk about anci ent trad itio ns shared

by Paul and the rabbis, and when we should talk

about the rabbis being aware of Pauline ideas and

reacting to them,” he said.

“My criterion is a simple question mark.”

Sometimes, traditions that seem to have beenunquestioned all of a sudden come with an expla-

nation. Why? “The simple fact that the rabbis add

that question mark, making it a question to ask, a

problem to solve, I suggest is the Pauline effect.”

An example — the term Abraham’s seed, zera

Avraham in Hebrew — “is a biblical term, and it

is used by many biblical and post-biblical writers

before Paul,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. “But the rabbis

suddenly, out of the blue, made it into a huge issue.

The Mishna says that only Israelites are the sons of

Abraham.

“This term was used for hundreds of years, and

nobody thought that it had to be clariied. Suddenly

the rabbis go out of their way. Since we have Paul

say explicitly, in many places, that Christ-believers

among the nations become the seeds of Abraham,

it seems very hard to detach these things.So sometimes the rabbis and Paul are draw-

ing from the same story-well, and sometimes the

rabbis react to Paul. “ These perspectives are not

mutually exclusive,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi said. The trick,

however, is to igure out what i s going on with any

one issue. “These traditions can get new perspec-

tives when the rabbis relate to their new use — from

their perspective, their misuse — as seen through

the Pauline lens.”

That means that “both sides are right” in the

academic dispute. “They are old traditions, but

old traditions do not stay the same,” Dr. Rosen-Zvi

said. “They get new twists, and new uses.” And that

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Palisades Players keep it short and sweetLocal actors put on nine 10-minute plays at the Kaplen JCC in Tenafly

MIRIAM RINN

Can a play be too short?

Not according to many the-

ater goers. A good writer can

say a lot in 10 minutes, and for

its second production, the Kaplen JCC on

the Palisades’ community theater group

Palisades Players is presenting a collection

of comedic and dramatic shorts to prove

the point. Drawn mostly from “Voices

from Ariel: Ten Minute Plays Reflecting

the Jewish Experience,” the show will pre-

miere in the JCC Eric Brown Theater on

Saturday, April 2, at 8:45 pm, and it will

play again on Sunday, April 3, at 6 pm.

Originally commissioned by Theater

Ariel, a Philadelphia-based nonproit orga-

nization that specializes in Jewish works,the one-act plays deal with relationships,

conversion, memory, and identity, using

humor to explore these issues. The expe-

rienced playwrights, including Michael

Elkin and Julianne Bernstein, have had

their work produced on regional stages

and in New York. Deborah Roberts, per-

forming arts director at the JCC, wrote an

additional play called “Boxed In,” specii-

cally for the teens and children who take

acting classes at the JCC. She wanted some-

thing that her young actors could partici-

pate in, she said, and the cast for the play

about youngsters who encounter a refugee

boy running from the police range from

teenagers to younger children.At an early rehearsal of “A Festival of 10

Minute Plays,” as the show is called, direc-

tor Deborah Dine led actors Julian Mill-

stein of Teaneck and Sarah Feinmark of

Haworth through “Interview with a Scape-

goat,” a funny riff on the cultural collision

of the biblical animal and the modern

media. Ms. Dine, who lives in Glen Ridge,

teaches teen comedy and drama as well as

advanced scene study at the Tenafly JCC

to people she described as “semi and fully

professional.” Ms. Feinmark has many

credits in local productions, and Mr. Mill-

stein studied at the Academy of Dramatic

Arts before he pursued a business career.

Her adult actors can commit pages of

dialogue to memory just as easily as the

younger ones can, Ms. Dine said. “They

astound me.” Her students have a mix ofexperience; some are former profession-

als while others now are working actors.

“People are auditioning out here [in New

Jersey] and it’s just as competitive as New

York,” she said. “It’s really interesting to

me to discover that — and it’s exciting.”

Mr. Millstein played a critical role in

launching the company, working with Ms.

Roberts to produce their irst successful

production, “Broadway: A Jewish Expe-

rience.” “I am very happy with what we

have going,” Mr. Millstein said, adding that

“Voices from Ariel” will tell them whether

straight plays are as appealing to their

audience as musicals. Thanks to an anon-

ymous benefactor’s matching grant, the

Palisades Players are secure for the time

being, according to Mr. Millstein.

“I think they’re doing a wonderfulthing,” Ms. Dine said of Palisades Players,

noting that this was her irst experience

with community theater. “They are using

the professional actors as well as training

new actors. There’s a lot to be learned

from people who are just beginning. They

don’t have any bad habits.”

Ms. Dine has been acting and teach-

ing for 40 years, so when she passes on

advice to her actors, she explained, “it’s

really Sandy Meisner giving you that nug-

get.” (Sanford Meisner was a famous acting

teacher.) New actors beneit from a long

tradition of acting coaches and teachers

as they learn their craft from more expe-

rienced performers. “It’s exciting to see I

remember what it’s like to really want to be an actor and not know how to start,”

Ms. Dine said.

The show includes the following plays:

“‘Til Death Do Us Plots,” by Julianne

Bernstein, zeroes in on the arguments

of a newly divorced couple over their

double cofin; “Boxed In,” by Deborah

Roberts, is about a group of young peo-

ple deciding what to do about a runaway

refugee; “Interview with a Scapegoat,” by

Louis Greenstein, imagines the ancient

bibl ic al sc apego at’s encounter wi th

an ambitious reporter; “Single Jewish

Female,” by Julianne Bernstein, tackles

the weird world of online dating ;

Ger” (The Convert), by Leslie B

and Louis Greenstein, explores the

tional issues confronted by a new coand her mother; “Class Act,” by M

Elkin, is a comic monologue by an

woman who is addicted to self-imp

ment classes; “In Spite of Everythin

Hindi Brooks, spends time in a Te

apartment with a mother and dau

during an Iraqi Scud attack; “Smok

Louis Greenstein, examines the nat

memory and how certain objects

as cigars, help preserve it; “Where’

Stuff?” by Daniel Brenner, follows a

to-be father who has grown distan

Judaism as he encounters the ghost

talkative and hungry former c anto

From left, AJ Horowitz, Ariel Abergel, Kimmy Norrell, Shayne Barrett, Adiel Coren, and Tomer Ophir in Deborah Robe

“Boxed In.”

Rebecca Lopkin and Dan Nemzer in the Palisades Players’ premiere of “Broadway,

a Jewish Experience” last year. Both actors are in the company this year too.

From left, Ariel Abergel and Tom

Ophir in Deborah Roberts’ “Boxe



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Lavish Lunches raises needed funds for seniorsNearly 300 women attended the Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades’ culinary adventure

— Lavish Lunches — which raises money

that supports JCC programs and services

for senior adults in the community.

This year’s program began with break-fast at the home of Stephanie and Daniel

Cohn, where Chef Seamus Mullen spoke

about his journey to health and healthy

eating and shared samples of one of his

favorite recipes. Wendy Bernowitz, daugh-

ter of a senior participant in the Kaplen

Adult Reach Center, talked about her

mother’s experience in the program.

“It’s been a dificult journey, but the JCC

has made a world of difference,” Ms. Ber-

nowitz said. “It has given her a newfound

sense of self and independence and she is

more conident and social since she joined

the program. It gives her a structured day,

social engagement, daily exercise, a music

program and so much more.”

Guests chose from a selection of “LavishLunches,” some of them kosher, served in

local homes and venues, where hostesses

provided a unique and memorable dining

experience.

Support from Lavish Lunches and dona-

tions from the community enable the JCC

to provide a wide variety of programs that

allow seniors to age in place successfully.

“As a not-for-proit agency open to the

entire community, the JCC believes that

caring for seniors is a core component of

its mission,” the JCC’s CEO, Jordan Shen-

ker, said. “Our center is a place seniors can

come to make friends, share in programs

that keep them connected to the commu-

nity, and ind a sense of purpose that is so

often absent in the aging process. And it’sprograms like Lavish Lunches that make

this possible.”

The day was co-chaired by Lorin Cook

and Brandi Rubin, with a committee that

included Dana Baumgarten, Orly Chen,

Alissa Epstein, Nira Feldman, Merle Fish,

Melissa Garden, Amy Goldstein, Lauren

Gordon, Erica Rivera, Michele Ross, Beth

Rubach, Jennifer Schiffman, Jillian Som-

berg, and Francie Steiner, and special

events chair Marci Ginzburg,.

Hostesses who offered their h

included Dana Adler, Lorin Cook,

Corsair, Gina Curko, Diane Denberg

Esser, Merle Fish, Jennifer Graf,

Ginzburg, Tina Guberman, Ariel J

Jodi Kle iner, Sloa ne Levine, MiMarom, Robin Miller, Heather Rabin

Erica Rivera, Pearl Seiden, Brandi R

Jennifer Schiffman, J illian Somberg

Harley Ungar.

Sponsors included Artistic Tile,

wood Wine Merchants, Gilly ’s Org

Hartly, Leet Homes, LLC, Orly Che

MAX Properties Plus, SEESAW, Sho

Treeco, The Real Estate Equity Com

and Verus Therapy.

JCC COO Sue Gelsey, Lavish

Lunch co-chair Brandi Rubin, and

JCC president JoJo Rubach.

Lavish Lunch co-chair Lorin Cook,

speaker Seamus Mullen, and a

breakfast host, Stephanie Cohn.

Wendy and Richard Bernowitz

with Wendy’s mother Ethel

Bikel, a Kaplen Adult Reach

Center participant.

Breakfast hosts Stephanie and Daniel Cohn, JC

CEO Jordan Shenker, and Lavish Lunches co-ch

Lorin Cook and Brandi Rubin.

Jill and Rabbi Mark WildesAbby Lerner

YUHS dinner set for April 6Yeshiva University High Schools

holds its annual dinner on Wednes-

day, April 6, at 6 p.m., at Marina

del Rey in the Bronx.

Abby Lerner of Great Neck, N.Y.,

and Rabbi Mark and Jill Wildes ofManhattan are the guests of honor.

Rafael and Shifra Yehoshua of

Great Neck are the school’s Parents

of the Year and Megan HLZacks of

Manhattan will be given the Fac-

ulty Recognition award.

Ms. Lerner is the admissions

director at Yeshiva University’s

Samuel H. Wang High School for

Girls (Central) and has taught there

for 28 years. The Wildes, founders

of the Manhattan Jewish Experi-

ence, work together to connect

unafiliated Jews in their 20s and

30s with Judaism and the Jewish

community. Rabbi Wildes is the

brother of the former mayor of

Englewood, Michael Wildes. The

Yehoshuas are dedicated to Cen-

tral and to their local community.Ms. HLZacks chairs MTA’s science

department.

In addition, due to a gift, the

YUHS board of trustees announced

a $1 Million Challenge: every dona-

tion towards this year’s dinner will

be matched dollar for dollar with

the goal of raising $1 million to help

strengthen the future of YU High

Schools.

For information, go to www.

yu.edu/hsdinner, call Elissa

Schertz at (212) 9605223, or email

her at [email protected].

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Norpac hosts senator and House leaderNorpac had two separate meetings last week;one featured Senator John McCain (RAZ) and

the other showcased House Majority Leader

Kevin McCarthy (RCA.)

Guests met Senator McCain at a fundrais-

ing dinner at the Englewood home of Raphael

and Linda Benaroya. Mr. McCain was joined by

General Charles G. Boyd, USAF (Ret.), a deco-

rated combat pilot who fought in Vietnam and

was the only prisoner of war from that con-

flict to reach the four-star rank. Mr. McCain, a

former presidential candidate, is the chairthe Senate Armed Services Committee.

In Teaneck, Drs. Mort and Esther Fridm

hosted Congressman Kevin McCarthy, wh

was elected House Majority Leader in 20

Among the irst bills Mr. McCarthy she

herded through the House in his new positi

was emergency funding for the Iron Dom

anti-missile defensive system during Oper

tion Protective Edge. Both Mr. McCain and M

McCarthy are running for re-election this ye

Senator John McCain, left, with Linda and

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Caregiver Support Center at

Monteiore Health System,

will discuss “Caregiving: a

Responsibility and a Privi-

lege,” to beneit the Jewish

Family Service of North Jer-

sey’s Sam and Nina Wolff

Caregiver Support Center.

The talk, set for Thurs-

day, April 7, at 7 p.m., will

be at Temple Beth Rishonin Wyckoff. A question and

answer session and dessert

reception will follow.

Ms. Kaplan established the irst — and

so far the only — caregiver support cen-

ter at a premier academic medical cen-

ter in New York City. She supervises the

centers at Monteiore’s Moses and Weiler

campuses. Since the center was opened

in 2011, Monteiore has served more than

7,000 family caregivers. Before she came

to Monteiore, Ms. K

worked at the Jewish

of Family and Child

Services.

JFSNJ ’s Wolff Car

Support Center, estab

in 2012 and supervis

Melanie Lester, pro

needed services, reso

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those caring for loved

with Alzheimer’s disedementia. Through th

erosity of the Wolff f

100 percent of the proceeds from th

ning will support the center.

Jewish Family Service of North J

with ofi ces in Wayne and Fair La

a nonproit, nonsectarian social s

agency that helps members of the

munity in coping with life’s challeng

information, call Ms. Lester at (973

0111 or go to www.jfsnorthjersey.org

YU’s basketball tourney includes local teamsYeshiva University’s milestone 25th

annual Red Sarachek Invitational Bas-

ketball Tournament inished with the

Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School

of Woodmere, N.Y.’s team, the Wildcats,

beating the Shalhevet High School of Los

Angeles’s team, the Firehawks, in the

championship game.

The 20 yeshiva high schools repre-

sented in the tournament included

teams from the Frisch School in Para-

mus and the Torah Academy of Bergen

County in Teaneck. The annual tourn

ment is named for the legendary B

nard “Red” Sarachek, YU’s former lon

time men’s basketball coach.

Parenting Shabbaton in TeaneckCongregation Keter Torah

hosts its “Parenting and Car-

ing” Shabbaton on Shabbat

Parashat Tzav, March 25 to

26. Dr. Norman Blumenthal,

who is Ohel’s Zachter Fam-

ily chair in trauma and crisis

counseling and the direc-

tor of Ohel’s Miriam Center

for Trauma, Bereavement,

and Crisis Response, will bescholar in residence for the

weekend.

On Shabbat morning, Dr. Blumenthal

will discuss “Discipline and Limits at All

Ages.” His pre-Minhca talk, sponsored

by Atara, is “Technoloy

and the New Culture of

Childhood,” and he will

address “Being a Parent

Forever” during seudah

shlishit.

Rabbi Jeremy Donath,

who is Ohel Northern

NJ’s community coordi-

nator, a rabbi at Yavneh

Academy, and head ofCongregation Darchei

Noam of Fair Lawn, will

lead a teen minyan.

Call (201) 6923972 or go to www.

ohelfamily.org.

Dr. NormanBlumenthal

Pre-Pesach learning programOn Shabbat, April 2, at 3:45 p.m., Con-

gregations Rinat Yisrael and Beth Sho-

lom in Teaneck will hold a pre-Pesach

joint learning program at Beth Sholom,

354 Maitland Ave.

The partnership program, whichattracted 200 participants last year,

offers participants small groups where

they can study Jewish texts. This year,

the theme will be “Leichach Anachnu

Chayavim Lehodot: Can We Always Be

Grateful? Should We Be? A Communal

Study of Gratitude in the Jewish Tradi-

tion.” Texts will include the Haggadah,

passages from the Talmud, midrashim,

and modern commentaries. Materials

will be available in the original languageand in English. A committee planned

the event with representatives from

both shuls.

Call (201) 8332620 or email ofice@

cbsteaneck.org.

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Playing lacrosse in IsraelMen’s national team’s coach is from New City

ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

The head coach of the Israel Men’s National

Lacrosse Team is from New City.

Jeffrey Schwartz will lead the 23-man team to

the European Lacrosse Federation’s Champion-

ships in Budapest, Hungary, from July 27 to August 7.

Lacrosse is not a well-known team sport in Israel,

where soccer and basketball reign supreme. But interest

is picking up because of the efforts of the New York-basedIsrael Lacrosse Association, the Amazing Israel Lacrosse

Birthright program, and Masa Israel Journey’s new Israel

Lacrosse Internship.

Mr. Schwartz, 28, recently on a ive-month Masa intern-

ship, along with ive other participants. He began playing

lacrosse in high school and went on to captain Lynch-

burg College’s men’s lacrosse team during his junior and

senior years.

“I graduated in 2012 and stayed at Lynchburg for a year

as a graduate assistant, then moved to the DC area to work

in IT stafing, and then had the epiphany that I wanted to

get back into the sport of lacrosse,” he said.

“A good friend from high school had played on the

Israel National Team in 2014 and he put me in touch with

a bunch of guys, and through them I learned of the Masa

Israel internship. I had been on Birthright in February

2014, and though I hadn’t thought about living in Israel I

did want to come back.”

The Israel Lacrosse interns, of whom Mr. Schwartz is

the oldest, live together in Ashkelon, one of several cities

where the Israel Lacrosse Association has been developing

under-19 and under-15 teams. In addition to helpin

local and national recruiting and coaching, they p

pate in cultural experiences, Hebrew classes and to

offered by Masa during the ive months.

The language classes are critical. “It’s been a hug

lenge, and I knew it would be,” Mr. Schwartz said

language barrier has gotten easier as the months

gone by; I learned to coach in Hebrew before I lear

converse in Hebrew. Masa provides 64 hours of H

lessons, but most of the learning comes from wheare forced to try to communicate with the kids.”

Working alongside Israel Lacrosse employee

interns start by visiting schools and guest-hosting

ple of phys-ed periods to introduce the sport and l

kids try playing it. There are separate school-base

national teams for men and women.

“Hopefully they take a liking to it and turn into kid

love lacrosse and want to register and play in our le

Mr. Schwartz said. “In each city there may be four

teams that can play against each other. We’ve had

pretty good success and I think we’ll continue to get

at the recruiting process.”

His work with youth development and his succ

associate head coach of the Haifa Lacrosse Club —

Schwartz savors a victory.

Jeffrey Schwartz

demonstrates technique.


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The Ramah Nyack Scholarship Run isset for May 22 at Rockland Lake Park.

At 10:15 a.m., there will be a 5K Run/

Walk; the Camper Fun Run will be at 11.

From noon to 3 p.m., participants are

offered a barbecue, family fun day, and

alumni reunion. All proceeds beneit

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mer, Ramah Nyack provided more than

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RJS plans

annual galaRockland Jewish Family Ser-

vice will hold its annual gala,

this year honoring Lyn and

Hank Meyers, Dr. Joan Black,

and Lauren Lipoff, at Congre-

gation Shaarey Israel in Mon-

tebello, on Sunday, June 5.

For information or reserva-

tions, call (845) 3542121, ext.

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Lyn and Hank Meyers

Dr. Joan Black Lauren Lipoff

he helped lead to the Israel Premiere

Lacrosse League championship game

in the team’s irst season — made Mr.

Schwartz the Israel Lacrosse Associa-

tion’s top pick for coaching the men’snational team.

Explaining his love of the sport, Mr.

Schwartz describes lacrosse as a “pure

game” in which players are challenged

not only physically. “It’s a momentum-

based sport,” he said. “You start your

day with a full tank and then, whether

playing or coaching, your tank is emp-

tied. I’ve never experienced anything

else that empties my tank that way.”

In addition, he adds, “lacrosse is big

enough so that it’s popular in the U.S.

but it’s still a tight-knit community, and

I like that. The opportunities you’re

afforded in lacrosse you might not have

in baseball or basketball, including the

opportunity to go abroad to teach it.”Because no Israeli sports store carries

lacrosse equipment, American donors

send over gear that is used but in excel-

lent condition. Participants in the high

school clinics use those donated sticks,

helmets, gloves, shoulder pads, and

lacrosse balls for free. Those who regis-

ter for league and youth programs can

buy their own set. “We sell the equip-

ment to the kids at a very low price so

it becomes a very affordable sport,” Mr.

Schwartz said. “If they want upgrades,

they can trade in and spend a bit more.”

After the summer championship in

Budapest, Mr. Schwartz plans to con-tinue growing and developing the Israel

national team.

The experience has been fun, he said,

though it has not been easy to acclimate

to a different country and culture. “It’s

an adjustment, but we’re attracted to the

opportunity to challenge ourselves from

a lacrosse perspective and a life perspec-

tive,” he said. “That’s been the hard part

and the cool part all at the same time.”

Mr. Schwartz’s mother, Lois, now

lives in Nyack while his father, Steven,

recently moved to Dallas from Mont-

vale, N.J. Aside from congregational

Hebrew school, Mr. Schwartz’s only pre-

vious communal Jewish experience was

a few summers at Camp Kinder Ring,a program of the Workmen’s Circle/

Arbeter Ring, an activist-based national

organization promoting secular Jewish

heritage, Yiddishkeit, and social and

economic justice.

Jewish athletes from 18 to 30 who

are interested in participating in Israel

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Bris Avrohomhosts Monsey rabbiBris Avrohom hosted Rabbi Boruch Lesches

of K’hal Tzemach Tzedek, Chabad of Greater

Monsey. He spoke about shalom bayit (peace

in the home) and the laws of taharat hamish-

pacha (family purity) to community members. A dinner with sushi and beer followed.

Rabbi Avremy Kanelsky, Bris Avrohom’s

Torah education and youth director, orga-

nized the meeting.

Community Yom HaShoah programA community-wide Yom HaShoah commemoration

sponsored by the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tol-

erance and Education in Suffern is set for Sunday, May

1, at 5 p.m., at the Cultural Arts Center in Rockland Com-

munity College in Suffern.

Debórah Dwork, an internationally recognized Holo-

caust historian, will be the keynote speaker. For more

information, call (845) 5744099 or go to www.holocaust

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Exhibit featuresHolocaust survivorsand descendants“L’Dor Vador,” a portrait

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Jewish historyin DenmarkRockland Community College, Hillel Rockland

the Holocaust Museum & Center for Toleranc

Education offers “Jewish History in Denmark:

ence, Rescue & Survival,” presented by Charlotte

may, the director of Jewish Copenhagen. The l

is on March 30 at 12:30 p.m. at the RCC Techn

Center, and again at 7 p.m., in a private hom

information, call (845) 5744099 or email hol

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a.m. Sessions include “Tell Your Daughter: The

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Tappan Zee Bridge history

The Rockland section of the

National Council of Jewish

Women presents Bob Baird,

the award-winning editor

and columnist for the Jour-

nal News, who will talk aboutthe history of the Tappan Zee

Bridge. Mr. Baird is a Pulitzer

Prize inalist and has won pub-

lic service awards; in 2015 he

was named a “Living Land-

mark” for his knowledge of

Rockland history.

The program starts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April

6, at the Reform Temple of Rockland (formerly Temple

Beth El), on 415 Viola Road in Spring Valley. Refresh-

ments will be served. Participants are asked to bring a

package or can of kosher-for-Passover food to donate to

the needy. For information, go to ncjwrockland.org.

Synagogue volunteershost homelessRockland residentsMembers of Montebello Jewish Center opened their

synagogue this month to feed and shelter homeless

Rockland County residents. Partnering with Help-ing Hands for the Homeless of Rockland County,

MJC was one of the Safe Havens for the 20152016

season. The JCC Rockland Teen Leadership Initia-

tive also inancially supported the undertaking. MJC

volunteers cooked and served meals and made the

synagogue comfortable for guests to sleep on March

6, 7, and 8.

“Montebello Jewish Center models itself after the

kindness of our ancestors Abraham and Sarah who

opened their homes to strangers and fed the less for-

tunate out of a sense of obligation to take care of one

another,” the synagogue’s rabbi, Adam Baldachin,

said. “Helping Hands is an extension of that vision

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