New Jersey Jewish Standard: February 2, 2013

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Israeli singer David Broza to hold Sandy benefit concert in Closter

This time he sings for us

COMMUNITYSinai Schools celebrate history of meeting special needs 6

Teaching teens to stand up for Israel 8

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Have art, will travelLarry yudeLson

Would you like your art to transport you — to Israel?The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is

running an art competition, and the top two top win-ners will be awarded trips to Israel, where they will present their work at the federation’s sister community in Nahariya.

All the winners will have their work displayed at two exhibitions — at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly and at the Belskie Museum of Art & Science in Closter.

The theme for the competition is the “common thread that runs through the people of New Jersey and Nahariya,” according to the flier announcing the competition.

“Our main goal is to connect people,” said Sarit Ron, who coor-dinates the federation’s Partnership 2Gether sister city activities.

As part of that connection, the exhibitions also will feature art from a parallel contest that is being held now in Nahariya. And the winners of that contest will be flown to northern New Jersey, where they will have the opportunity to make art with their American counterparts.

“Art is a language everybody understands,” Ron said.One of last year’s visitors spoke no English, only French and

Hebrew. But under his guidance, artists from New Jersey and Israel collaborated on a statue of three dancers, Ron said.

So while contestants won’t be judged on their knowledge of Hebrew, a desire and willingness to collaborate will be considered.

The deadline is February 18. Submissions are to be made elec-tronically, in .jpg format. The original artwork can be up to 40 inches square. Full details are at http://bit.ly/js-art2

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Contents

Arts & CUltUre

New film asks ex-mayor: How’re ya doing? 40

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Meet some of the new

Knesset members

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Making sustainable Jewish communities 12

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Brilliant artist with dark palette to speak 11

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Winner’s of last year’s Partnership 2Gether art competition collaborate in Nahariya

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Sinai honoree takes particular pride in awardGreene called ‘driving force’ behind creation of special needs programs

Lois GoLdrich

Being the honoree at an annual dinner is always a cause for pride. But for Dr. Wallace Greene — who is among those being feted at this year’s

Sinai Schools benefit dinner — it is also a joy.“I’m fortunate to have some noteworthy

accomplishments,” said Greene, the driving force behind the creation of the school and the recipient of Sinai’s Poel Tzedek award. “But this stands out.”

Greene — now managing director at the Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland and former longtime director of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Jewish Educational Services — said the idea for the school took shape at a sisterhood meeting at Fair Lawn’s Shomrei Torah some 35 years ago. “We had two kids in the shul with serious issues,” he recalled.

The meeting included a presentation by Rabbi Aharon Hersh Fried, who, Greene said, founded the first Jewish special education program and “was one of only a few working on that.”

“Every principal of every day school was invited to attend,” he said. As it happened, he was the only one to show up, representing the Hebrew Youth Academy of Essex County, now known as the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy.

“What he said turned me on,” Greene said. “I was

embarrassed that as a Jewish educator I didn’t think of this on my own. Why weren’t we taking care of these kids? I gave it a lot of thought and came up with an idea to develop a school within a school.

“It wasn’t called inclusion,” he continued. “The word was not yet invented. But I realized that the social impact of being sent to a special school was very harmful to these kids. They needed to go on the same bus as their friends and siblings. They needed to be part of an environment that was welcoming — not set apart or discriminated against.”

Apparently, Greene said, that idea was still a novelty, so he set out to do the necessary research, immersing

himself in the subject. Ultimately, “it took two years of persistent, annoying cajoling of the board to get them to understand and agree to house a school at HYA.” The two conditions were that he raise one year’s operating expenses in advance and that the school not take up more than two classrooms.

“I have to give credit to Bruce Shoulson, president of the school at the time,” Greene said. “Most board presidents would have shut me down a long time before that. But he allowed me to make a pitch at every board meeting.”

“It was unheard of,” he said. “At that time, in the late ’70s, this was not a socially acceptable disability. Glasses were acceptable, hearing aids were acceptable,” but with learning disabilities, “there was tremendous prejudice to overcome.” He said, though, that Dassy Brandstatter and other founding parents were there to “push him along.”

He convinced an old childhood friend, Lorette Rothwachs — then living in Far Rockaway and teaching learning disabled children — “to come to the wilds of Fair Lawn.” (Although the school is in Essex County, Greene lives in Fair Lawn.)

When Rothwachs agreed to become a partner in the project, the program began with about four students.

‘Inclusion by design’ sets school apart, Sinai dean saysPersonalized approach is a hallmark of the program

Lois GoLdrich

Dr. Yisrael Rothwachs, dean of Sinai schools (and Lorette Rothwachs’ son), has no doubt that people appreciate the

work the school is doing. But, he fears, they may not fully understand its philosophy.

“I wouldn’t want to come off as being presumptive about what people think,” he said. “But in conversations I’ve had with both professionals and prospective parents over time, I’ve become sensitized to the lack of understanding of what our philosophy is.”

Because the school offers self-contained classes, he said some mistakenly assume that the special needs students are kept “separate.”

“For so many years, when parents had to find a better placement for their children than a regular yeshiva, for the most part they had two options,” he said. “They could put the child in a restrictive, segregated type of setting, which might give academic or specific emotional support but [leave the child] socially isolated. Or, they might try to make it work in a mainstream school and give extra support through things like a shadow. [The children] wouldn’t be isolated, but they might not be getting the support they needed.”

Sinai, he said, sees itself as “offering the best of both worlds. They come to our school, get self-contained classes and individual instruction for the parts of the day they need that for. But for those parts of day they

don’t, the options are there.”The dean explained that some children

may be in self-contained classes for one subject, like reading, but in “partner classes” for other subjects, whether math, history, or Chumash. “It depends on the kid,” he said.

Describing what he called “the individualized approach to education,” Rothwachs said that Sinai’s policy, inclusion by design, does not mean that Sinai students will have the opportunity to participate in everything, but that decisions regarding their placement “are thoughtful and deliberate. We sit down with the parents not only when the child is accepted but on an ongoing basis, planning with them what the inclusion formula will be for this particular child.”

Minimally, he said, the children benefit from being in a school with their peers, “riding the same buses, sitting at the same lunch tables, attending the same music

classes. They can say, ‘We go to YNJ’ or ‘We go to Kushner.’ They don’t have to explain about Sinai.”

Rothwachs said that “for anything that’s available for the kids to be part of and included in, we make the

What: sinai schools annual benefit dinner

When: sunday, February 10

Where: Marriott Glenpointe hotel, teaneck

Guests of honor: Lisa and Lowell Baron of Bergenfield; rachel and Michael dube of englewood; dr. wallace Greene of Fair Lawn; and debbie and Michael Kaplan of Livingston

For more information, or to make reservations or a donation, call (201) 833-1134, ext. 105, or go to www.sinaidinner.org

Sinai and TABC students spend some free time together.

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right decision together with the parents on what to offer.” He stressed that inclusion by design isn’t just about academic classes but embraces the totality of the child’s participation in the school, “from color war to field trips.”

Today, Sinai students can be found at the Sinai Elementary School at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston; Sinai Elementary School at Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in River Edge; Maor High School, hosted within the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston; and the Rabbi Mark & Linda Karasick Shalem High School at Torah Academy of Bergen County and the Rabbi Mark & Linda Karasick Shalem High School at Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls, both in Teaneck.

Sinai also runs adult transitional programs, including the Nathan Miller S.H.E.L.I. Residence for Men and Sinai Netivot Day Habilitation Program, both in Teaneck.

“The partner schools cooperate 100 percent of the time, if it makes sense,” Rothwachs said, noting that there are “so many variables in each class. They usually work with us to find the right siduch between a teacher and our students. I can really say that 100 percent of the time, the teachers chosen to include our kids do it eagerly and embrace it.”

For their part, Sinai staff “don’t just pop them in and say good luck. There is a high degree of communication.”

Sinai’s mission, he said, is to serve “all the kids who need us. It’s not our mission to be in every school, but to fill the needs of the community.”

According to Sam Fishman, a former Sinai parent and now its consulting managing director, Sinai is the only school in the community that serves Jewish children with a broad range of learning or developmental disabilities.

He pointed out that creating a completely individualized program for each child “translates into a nearly 1:2 staff-to-student ratio and several different in-house therapies, with specialists on staff at each school.”

Noting that Sinai is the only Jewish day school for children with special needs that has received accreditation from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Fishman said the school’s tuition, “reflective of the school’s own costs,” ranges from $45,000 to $66,500 per year.

“Without significant financial aid, Sinai’s tuition is beyond the reach of the vast majority of families,” he said. “Sinai awards large scholarships to 90 percent of its students — with the average scholarship actually exceeding the amount of full tuition at most regular yeshivot. Sinai relies on its dinner to raise a large portion of the funds necessary for these scholarships each year.”

This year’s dinner will feature a video called “Heroes.”“It tells the moving story of the Minchenberg family

and the challenges they have overcome with three children in Sinai Schools,” Fishman said, noting that Rabbi Yehuda Minchenberg is a teacher at Yeshivat Noam in Paramus.

Rothwachs said that the most important thing about Sinai’s policy of inclusion is “the individualization, the thoughtfulness of the process. It’s very unique,” he said, both in yeshivot and in special education schools.

“I try to get across that this is not just a Jewish option but a really good option,” he said. “The fact that we’re a yeshiva is an added plus. It’s high quality. Outside evaluators who get to know our structure are impressed by the amount of energy that goes into each child in a very thoughtful way.”

Sinai and rYnJ students sit together in music class.

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Teaching teens to ‘Stand Up for Israel’workshop prepares students for college campus ‘conversations’

Lois GoLdrich

No matter how much they know about Israel, high school students need help preparing for the “inevitable conversations” they will have when

they get to college.“All too frequently on college campuses there

are explosions — or at least ripples — of anti-Israel sentiment,” said Jeffrey Salkin, New Jersey regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, whose group has co-sponsored workshops on this issue for the past several years.

“We would not dream of sending kids out into world without their shots, vaccinations, and inoculations,” Salkin said. The purpose of Israel advocacy training “is not to inoculate kids against what they will experience but to provide them with a context for having those conversations.”

Dubbed “Stand Up for Israel,” the next workshop — jointly sponsored by ADL, the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, and the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Jewish Community Relations Council — is scheduled for February 10 at Teaneck’s Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls. The event is geared to high school juniors and seniors.

Salkin expects the workshop to draw about 70 students from a variety of schools and synagogues.

“What’s important about this is that it’s a delicious opportunity for the entire Jewish community to come together,” he said. “I believe all kids need this kind of education.”

Participants will include teachers, ADL staff, and members of the Israel advocacy group Stand With Us, as well as Hillel directors and students. Partnering organizations include more than a dozen local schools, synagogues, and Jewish communal organizations.

Salkin would like to see the gathering become an annual event.

“Some campuses can be danger zones for Jewish students,” he said. While “full-blown anti-Israel incidents” are relatively rare, “when they happen, they’re a source of concern.” “Moreover, even when there aren’t blatant anti-Israel demonstrations, sometimes there are more subtle forms of anti-Israel activity, in which the notion of the Jewish state is subject to intellectual micromanagement in ways no other nationality will ever experience.”

Salkin said the purpose of the workshops is to teach students what they’re likely to experience, how they might respond, and what not to say.

“We’re not so much giving them a catechism of history but the mindset of standing up for themselves,” he said. “The ADL has no political dog in this fight. Our issue is simply this: If you want to criticize Israeli policies, go right ahead. Our particular concern is when the needle moves into the red zone and becomes anti-Semitism — when Israel is demonized, delegitimized, and when double standards are applied. We have to teach kids how to recognize this and speak up civilly.”

“Most of our kids across the board religiously are ill prepared to respond to these kinds of challenges,” he continued. “Religious education prepares them adequately to participate in the ritual life of the Jewish people and to have a strong sense of Jewish identity and community. But Israel education has always been problematic.”

Mainly, he said, this is because while we don’t often have to update course materials on liturgy, “we need a constant update on Israel.

“Our kids grow up in an intellectual atmosphere where they’re taught that all truths and all narratives have equal validity,” he said. “One of my mottos is, ‘Don’t

let your mind be so open that everything falls out.’ We want our kids to have open minds but also to understand the truth.”

Bess Adler, principal of BCHSJS — a co-sponsor of the event — said the workshop is open to all teens in the county. “We’ve gotten the word out to synagogues to spread the word,” she said, noting that her school has some 50 students in the appropriate age group. “We’d love to have as many as possible.”

Adler said she got very positive feedback from a similar program held last year.

“It’s not just a frontal presentation,” she said. “It gives kids an opportunity to engage in conversation. It’s a nice way of educating kids about what they can expect.”

Adler said that while some students are “very savvy about Israel and about what happens on a college campus, the majority of kids don’t have a clue. To bring it to the fore is very important. I don’t think any of them are prepared to face what goes on [on campus] without a conversation and a chance to discuss it.”

Rabbi Paula Feldstein, rabbi-educator at Temple

Avodat Shalom in River Edge, said she will try to get as many 11th and 12th graders as possible to attend the program.

“It is a very important program,” she said. “[Even] those of us who are well-educated about Israel are constantly confused. When our Temple kids go off to college, they have learned a lot about Israel but not enough to be able to talk in an articulate, confident way to people who attack Israel. We want them to understand that Israel is an imperfect place — what place in the world is perfect? — and yet it is their Jewish home, and its right to exist and thrive are crucial.”

Miriam Allenson, speaking on behalf of JFNNJ — also a co-sponsor of the event — pointed out that “our Jewish community’s connections with Israel are a federation priority. We promote that connection in dozens of ways. The kind of program that’s taking place on February 10, where federation brings together forces that can help kids learn how to stand up for Israel, is central to what we do here.”

The workshop will take place from 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. To register, go to www.jfnnj.org/jcrc. For registration questions, call Natalya Taleysnik at (201) 820-3944 or email her at [email protected]. For program information, call Salkin at (973) 845-2821.

In 2011, Avi Posner of StandByUs and Rabbi Ely Allen, who teaches at BCHSJS and heads northern New Jersey’s Hillel, interact with students at the workshop.

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Finding a Jewish future around the worldLocal YU undergrads travel to underserved communities during winter break

AbigAil Klein leichmAn

In Nicaragua, Texas, and Israel, several local Yeshiva University undergrads used their winter intersession to discover new things about the world and about

themselves.The university’s Center for the Jewish Future offered

four 10-day service learning trips to YU and Stern College undergraduates over the January semester break: Teaching English and self-exploration through art to Israeli teens in Kiryat Malachi, Dimona, and Jerusalem; meeting Jewish communal leaders in Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston; and two humanitarian missions in one Mexican Mayan community and the other in Nicaragua.

Sam Weinstein of Teaneck, a sophomore who is majoring in accounting, was one of 39 YU students running programs for about 450 Israeli teenagers from underprivileged Israeli neighborhoods. In Kiryat Malachi, he learned about some of the issues facing Ethiopian immigrants.

“The principals and therapists we spoke to explained that these are all great kids, but they don’t see so many people who go to college and come from stable families,” Weinstein said. Teaching English and doing projects with seventh-, ninth-, and 10th-graders was a way to act as role models while interacting with the students.

One discussion-prompting activity with ninth-grade girls involved gluing a mirror to a sheet of construction paper and adding pictures to the page symbolizing their dreams for the future. Weinstein noticed that one girl wasn’t even looking through the packet of pictures he provided, so he asked her if she had any ideas about life after high school.

“She said ‘No.’ I said, ‘Have you thought about it at all?’ and she said, ‘No, I don’t care.’ So I went through the pictures with her and she said, ‘Oh, I’m kind of interested in going to the army,’ and ‘I am kind of interested in cosmetics,’ and slowly we added pictures to her page. She’s not necessarily going to do those things when she grows up, but now she has a general direction.”

Jeffrey Berger, also a sophomore from Teaneck, opted for the Nicaragua trip. He and 17 other YU students stayed in the impoverished city of San Juan del Sur and spent their mornings moving wood, sawing pipes, and hammering nails with a crew of Nicaraguan builders, working in collaboration with American Jewish World Service and Servicios Médicos Comunales. They were constructing a technological school and public library.

“The goal was for us to benefit from learning about a new culture, and for them to benefit from our help building the school, but I think it was more a learning experience for us, as we lived and worked with them and contrasted their circumstances to our lives and our opportunities,” he said. “It was very different, very isolated.”

Assuming — correctly, as it turned out — that the local populace had little knowledge of Judaism or Israel, Berger made it a priority to provide an introduction. “I brought a box of matzah, and offered it to them as a way of offering my culture, through a translator, and though they didn’t like the taste so much, they appreciated it.”

When it came to Israel, Berger told the Nicaraguans: “Visiting Israel is similar to visiting Nicaragua in that people have a perception that it’s a war-torn, third-world country with nothing growing or prospering, but that’s not really what it’s like at all.”

He confided that the prospect of leaving brought him to tears, despite his inability to converse in Spanish. “Somehow through hand motions and a few basic words we were able to communicate, laugh, and have a great time. The biggest lesson I learned was how to look beyond

differences and see that the similarities shine brighter than the differences,” he said.

Shai Berman and Chaim Metzger of Teaneck and Uri Schneider of Bergenfield joined 20 other future communal leaders in meeting Texas Jewish lay leaders, educators, and rabbis from all streams of Jewish life to understand the dynamics and challenges of “out of town” Jewish life.

All three were especially impressed by a 27-year-old Texan who is founding a new Jewish day school in San Antonio, a city with only about a dozen Sabbath-observant families. “In the New York area there are many such schools and lots of kids, but in Texas they need to make the [Jewish] school available to all segments of the Jewish community,” said Berman, noting the friendship among rabbis of different streams in Houston. “They work together on their commonalities,” he said.

Metzger learned that it’s not only rabbis who can take a leadership role in a small community. “You can have an impact, even if you don’t know it yet,” was his take-home message from meeting a woman in Houston who built a

community mikveh in the basement of her own house. “She ran it by herself for 30 years. Really impressive.”

Schneider, who is considering the rabbinate as a career, was affected by a remark made by one of the rabbinic directors of an outreach kollel (scholarly institute) in Dallas. “He was from Plano, and he said that the only way [these small communities] can grow is through Torah. It comes down to teaching Torah. We have to be able to interact on different religious levels, but we have to be able to teach something.”

The YU students led “tikkun olam” — social action — activities at Jewish day schools in the three cities.

“At the end, each kid goes to the board and writes something they could do to make the community better,” Berman said. “We did the same thing among ourselves at the end of our trip, writing something that we are inspired to do now or in the future based on what we learned.”

Among those items: “I definitely would consider living outside the New York area. They have a very warm environment and there are a lot of opportunities in terms of affordability and helping the Jewish community grow.”

Clockwise, from left: Shai Berman volunteering at Aishel House, a project that provides Jewish patients at the Texas Medical Center with kosher food and other services; Berman leads a program at Yavneh Academy in Dallas; Sam Weinstein with ninth-graders in Kiryat Malachi, Israel.

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‘Black Is a Color’Artist searches for technique and faith; eventually finds both

Joanne Palmer

In an odd and disquieting sort of way, the Shoah liberated the artist inside the son of one of its survivors.Until he began his work on “Black Is a Color,”

Stanley Aaron Lebovic had been a technical illustrator, working on the boundary where art meets science — and most of the time science wins. His father’s experience permitted him (or perhaps it is more fair to say compelled him) to overthrow the conventions and retain the precision of his profession — to develop striking new techniques that allow him to look at the Holocaust from new angles.

It is emotionally complicated to find any spark of good in overwhelming evil. Lebovic does not try to avoid that complication. In fact, his book, composed of his art and explanatory essays, is made of emotional complications and hard truths.

“I was really trying to use whatever I had at my disposal to deal with issues that are very important to me,” Lebovic said. “What I could use, I threw at it. I divorced myself from everything else I was working on; I sold my company — basically gave it away — to devote myself to this. I took what little talent I had, I put it all together, I threw it all at this, and anything that stuck I went with. I didn’t know where it was going until I was done.

“Photography, Photoshopping, history, philosophy, Jewish, non-Jewish — whatever worked.”

“Black Is a Color” is made up of 20 discrete pieces, tied together by an introduction and conclusion. It is the fruit of Lebovic’s attempt to make some sense for himself of the world he inherited. It is the result of his background — “My father was the kind of survivor who would talk about what he went through; a lot of survivors don’t,” his son said. “My father was very nonchalant when he talked about it — non-emotional — so it started to affect me more deeply as I got older,” when the impossible horror his father’s stories had skated around sank in.

“My father” — Alex Lebovic — “would tell me about concentration camps and the Holocaust, and at the same time he’d tell me that there was a good God who ruled the world. Those two things were difficult to comprehend.”

And then when Stan Lebovic, who had been brought up “not religious, just to believe in God,” was a teenager, he became more observant.

Lebovic, 49, now lives in Baltimore with his wife and the youngest of his four children, but he grew up in Los Angeles.

“The public school that I was supposed to go to wasn’t so good, so my parents sent me to day school, and then I went to a yeshivah in Israel, and that was that.”

The more observant he became, though, the harder it became for him to reconcile history and faith, the truth of the Shoah and a belief in a good and loving God. “At some point, about six years ago, in my mid-40s, I decided that I really couldn’t deal with the stress anymore,” he said. “I had to work it out.

“My main objective was to give religion a chance to prove itself. If I wasn’t hearing what I wanted to hear, was it because the Holocaust was too much for Judaism, or was it something that I was missing?

“So when I tried to explore the issues that bothered

me, I looked into the Torah to see how it could encompass such a thing. If we believe that the Torah was written before the world began, as a blueprint, then something that shows up in creation has got to be somewhere in that blueprint.

“I wanted to look at the Bible, at the stories my father told me, and to see if there was a message that I could hold onto, that said that Judaism gets it, understands the struggle of life, is not just the opium of the masses.

“Black Is a Color” is divided into three parts. The first part is about “defining the Holocaust,” Lebovic said, and that demanded looking at the Shoah clearly. There is a lot of talk about the miracles through which individual people were saved — “I understand why people gravitate to that,” he said — but that could not be enough. “The blackness was the wholesale slaughter of town after town,” he said. Any discussion, much less any conclusion that he could reach, “had to come from looking at it honestly, not watering it down.

“I can’t do justice to the horror,” he continued. “But I had to constantly keep pushing to be as realistic as I possibly could.”

A series of three photographs illustrates that theme. The pictures show a red-haired boy with a pinwheel. In the middle photo, which originally was to have stood alone, a pinwheel, motionless, leaves a subtle but unmistakable shadow on the boy’s face. It is the shadow of a swastika.

“At first, I wanted to give quick answers,” Lebovic said. “I wanted to show that perhaps looking at the Holocaust is not a fair way of looking at humanity, so in that picture, when the pinwheel stops spinning, you have the nasty swastika shadow that but exists only in that moment. If you stopped it at any other time, you wouldn’t see it.

“So I might have been saying that the Holocaust is just a sliver of time in the perspective of the history of the world since creation. That’s fair, but it didn’t do anything for me. I couldn’t think that 10,000 years of good times could wipe out the Holocaust. This quick way of trying

In “Lots,” one goat goes to God, the other to Azazel. Which is the lucky one?

Each of Stan Lebovic’s works is assembled with great care and pre-cision. Nothing in any of these photographs is without meaning. Courtesy stan LeboviC

“A Lasting Impression”; the three panels are labeled “Before,” “During,” and “After.”

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Who: Stan Lebovic

What: Talking about his book, “Black Is a Color”

When: Saturday, February 9, at 8:15 p.m.

Where: Congregation Beth Aaron, 950 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck

Why: To look at questions about the Holocaust, faith, and God, through the lens of art

For whom: The evening is free and open to the entire community

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Nigel Savage takes the long viewhazon director to speak on Judaism and sustainability in teaneck

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Nigel Savage is think-ing about the long term — and how it

intersects with the Jewish tradition.

Take, for example, the shmitta, or sabbatical year — the culmination of the biblical seven year cycle in which, according to the Torah, no agricultural work may be performed.

As executive director of Hazon, the Jewish organization devoted to sustainability and environmental aware-ness, he has started planning activities to tie in to the next shmitta year, which begins in about 18 months, on Rosh Hashana 2014.

But he also has some thoughts about the following cycle, the one that begins in the fall of 2021.

“What would it take to help the whole Jewish world look at the whole cycle of 2015 through 2022, and charge themselves seven-sixths of the cost of everything for six years, so that in the year starting in 2021, Jewish life was free, synagogues were free, day schools were free?” he wonders.

“It would be profound to have that whole conversation. Maybe we can’t make it free for everybody, but maybe we would like to say that for anyone who has an income under X, synagogue membership would be free, day school would be free. Would we like to do that?”

In other words, Savage wants to take the ancient idea of shmitta, with its year-long Sabbath, its break from day-to-day economics, and consider applying it to contemporary Jewish life. This sort of challenge to the Jewish community to reconsider its business-as-usual in light of classical Jewish values is at the core of Hazon’s mission to bring the ideas of sus-tainability and environmentalism to the Jewish community.

“We’re working to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community and a healthier and more sustainable world for everybody,” Savage said.

On Sunday morning, Savage will talk about these ideas at Teaneck’s Congregation Beth Sholom.

Savage came to the Jewish sustainability movement after a career on the London equivalent of Wall Street, where he man-aged investments for the Rothschilds.

Then he took time off to study in Israel. An invi-tation from a friend for a cross-country bike trip from the Mediterranean to the Kineret changed his life.

“It was the first time I was really outdoors,” he said. “I started connecting to the Israeli environmental move-ment, and to the Jewish tra-dition in relationship to the world. I felt getting outdoors

and pushing ourselves physically was good for us, and a great way to bring Jewish tra-dition to life.”

Savage came to New York and launched Hazon in 2000. Its first project: a nation-wide Jewish bike tour. Its scope soon expanded to include food conferences (fea-turing demonstrations of kosher slaughter). In December, a merger with the Isabella Freedman Retreat Center in Connecticut was announced, giving the organization its own environmental Jewish farm.

The organizational growth has coin-cided with a change in public perception of food.

“When Hazon was started, people were very nice to me and very polite, but in retrospect, the thought bubble over their head was saying, ‘What is he talking about?’ It started with us phoning people and wanting to engage people. Now the phone is ringing off the hook,” Savage said.

He says that members of his organiza-tion don’t want to be stereotyped as Jewish environmentalists “who bang you over the head and say ‘baal tashchit’” — the Torah’s prohibition on wanton destruction — “and say you have to A, B, and C. We’re interested in thinking through issues, engaging tradi-tion, and providing the opportunity for people to figure out things for themselves.

Thinking things through does not trans-late into simple. Hazon has a 60-page food guide and audit to help synagogue and day school leaders think about their food poli-cies. Its anthology of Jewish source texts related to food is 130 pages long.

As Jews, Savage said, “We’re engaged in 3,000 years of Jewish food traditions: keep-ing kosher, eating matzah on Pesach, eat-ing cholent on Shabbat, saying blessings on food.” He wants to expand the mindful-ness around eating to ask a different set of questions: “How are animals treated? How is the land treated? What do we think about genetically modified food? What do we think about teenage obesity?”

The work of the Jewish food movement, he said, is to show that the two sets of con-versations about food — the traditional Jewish one and the contemporary one — are not separate.

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A new voter ventures forth in IsraelDaniel Santacruz

Tuesday, January 22, was election day in Israel. It was a day like no other.

Not only did you have the day off from work for voting, after which you could go to the beach, the mall, or a barbecue, but you got paid too. Ah, and on top of that, the temperature was 80 degrees. Not bad for a winter day.

For me, voting in Israel for the first time, as well as following the electoral process, was quite an educa-tion. The voting place was near my house and most of the volunteers, and all the voters, spoke English; Bet Shemesh has a large Anglo community. Once I was inside the voting place — a school — my address and my name were checked against a huge address book, because I had lost my “notice to voters” postcard. Then came my first encounter with the Hebrew Alphabet Soup that decides the fate of each party.

The Alphabet Soup are cards stacked in piles in a blue tray, with the initials of each of the 32 parties participating in the election, neatly arranged inside 32 boxes. I didn’t try to find logic in the initials or what they stood for. Labor’s letters, for example, spelled out Emet (Truth), which is completely unrelated to Mifleget HaAvoda HaYisraeli, its official name. Or Likud, which was identified with a mem, a chet, and a lamed, a far cry from its name, HaLikud Ysrael Beiteinu. Needless to say, confusing.

After finding my party, the three letters of which I had memorized, I enclosed my card in a blue envelope, took it to a blue box located in front of the officials who were checking names, and pushed it through a hole. The color of the box matched the envelope, which matched the tray, which matched the Israeli flag.

For a country that prides itself on technological in-novations, using cardboard boxes to cast the votes in-stead of electronic voting machines, was disappointing.

The campaign process was short by American stan-dards, and voters didn’t have to suffer through prima-ries and party conventions with predictable results. The streets of Israeli cities and towns were full of posters, a colorful assortment of banners and slogans.

You may say that 32 parties for a country the size of New Jersey is a lot, but that shows the vibrancy of Israeli democracy. Even little-known parties, like the Pirate Party and Balad, whose founder is a fugitive from Israeli justice who lives in Qatar, have the chance to sit in the Knesset.

You know it’s a healthy democracy when the gov-ernment installs 194 polling stations at hospitals. Or it gives inmates freedom to choose at 57 polling stations at prisons.

Candidates, over all, behaved nicely to each other during the campaign, and some rabbis didn’t threaten to excommunicate members of rival parties as they had in earlier elections. There was no fire and brimstone coming from some sectors, and no candidates aired their dirty laundry in public.

Here’s a summary of what made the elections memorable:

The story that wasn’t: HaRav Zalman Leib Teitlebaum of Satmar flew from New York to Israel to attend his granddaughter’s wedding two days before the elections, but according to some reports, also to pay $100 cash to those who abstained from voting. But the rebbe, who is rabidly anti-Zionist, didn’t hand out any money in the end. Ironically, he was escorted by the police during his stay in the country.

Embarrassment award: Went to Shas for a TV ad making fun of conversions and non-Jews, featuring a bride with a thick Russian accent who receives her conversion certificate by fax right under the chuppah. (How do you say tacky in Hebrew?) The party pulled the ad at the request of the Supreme Court, but not without alienating many voters first.

Winners and losers: Fifty members of the 19th Knesset are newcomers, 26 are women, and 38 are reli-gious. There could be more women if Shas and United Torah Judaism allowed them to run. Only one American candidate, Rabbi Dov Lipman of Bet Shemesh, formerly of Baltimore, was elected. The other three Americans lost: New Brunswick-born Alon Tal of the Tzipi Livni Party; Atlanta-born Jeremy Gimpel of Bayit Yehudi; and

Boston native Baruch Marzel of Strong Israel.Provocation: In the religious neighborhood of Bayit

VeGan in Jerusalem, someone complained to the Central Elections Committee that a female worker at one of the polling places was dressed provocatively.

What a country.

Daniel Santacruz, who has written for this newspaper for several years, made aliyah from Teaneck to Bet Shemesh in November 2012. His story about religious extremism in Bet Sh-emesh appeared in the January 27, 2012 issue of the Standard.

A Shas banner with the picture of its spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, is posted in a poor neighbor-hood of Bet Shemesh. Daniel Santacruz

A ‘Taste’ of fame for Standard writerJeanette Friedman fails the audition, to viewers’ chagrin

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Jeanette Friedman of New Milford knew that her appearance on the first episode of ABC’s new real-ity show, “The Taste,” would be her last. Like 43 of

her fellow contestants who were flown out to Los Angeles for filming, she wasn’t chosen for one of the four teams headed by celebrity chefs.

What she couldn’t know is that she would prove to be the most popular contestant to people watching at home — and sharing their opinions in real time on Twitter.

“I love that Jewish woman Jeanette. Noodle pudding!!! #JewishPride #TheTaste,” Justin Albinder tweeted.

“How dare you not pick my dream grandma Jeanette Friedman!!!” wrote a Twitter user who goes by the name Meg, addressing chef Anthony Bourdain, who had chas-tised Friedman for breaking with tradition by adding jala-peno to her kugel dish.

Friedman, a frequent contributor to this newspaper, had prepared cholent for her first audition.

“The Taste” proved to be the most popular show in its time slot, and one of ABC’s highest rated shows in months.

The New York Times called it “a two-hour blur of choreo-graphed humiliation and tear-jerking back stories.”

Friedman was the fourth contestant to appear on the show, which premiered last Tuesday night.

The first was a professional chef from Las Vegas, who promised to wow the judges, “smashing them in the face with awesomeness.” But his pineapple maitake ground turkey mac and cheese stir fry was derided by all four judges, who said it was awful.

Another contestant, also a professional chef, offered chicken-fried watermelon with pickled watermelon rinds.

Neither of these professionals made the cut.And none of these contests caught the audience’s fancy

as Friedman did.“I want to watch Jeanette Friedman from New Milford

New Jersey on TV every week,” Elizabeth Figueredo tweeted. “Someone give that woman the talk show of our dreams.”

Buzzfeed’s food section joined in criticizing the judges: “UGH @Bourdain how could you not take the kugel bait!

TRAVESTY. #TheTaste”In her five minutes of television screen time, Friedman

tossed off bon mots that got picked up by bloggers writing about the show.

“Jewish food is like the Pointer Sisters: with a slow hand and a loving touch,” she said. And: “Even though I’m Jewish, I gotta bring in the bacon!”

In fact, even during her week in Los Angeles, she stayed in the hotel, working on freelance assignments on her lap-top, while other contestants were hitting the bars.

So what did she learn?About cooking: “Technique matters. Texture matters.

It is as important as taste. You can’t just make something that’s mushy without a crunch.”

About the world of television: “I learned not to take yourself too seriously. You need to take it in a spirit of fun.”

And did anyone in Hollywood see her five minutes of fame and popularity and decided to follow up on her dream of a cooking/interview show?

“Nothing I can talk about,” she said. “But think positive.”

David Cohen thanking a donor. Photos by JFNNJ

Long-time volunteer caller Jeff Wisotsky with his son, first-time caller Jake Wisotsky.

Placemats with the federation’s message in brief.

eNgageNJ young leaders had a tailgate party and a Ping-Pong tournament, in addition to making many phone calls along with members of Hillel of Northern New Jersey and Rutgers Hillel. Pictured: Sarah Goldberg, Erika Gould and Lisa Ames.

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies was well represented at the telethon.

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Phoning for fundingsuper sunday raises money for Jewish communities in new Jersey and around the world

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They came. They called. They charged credit cards and took pledges.

Volunteers turned out in force at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey for the organization’s annual Super Sunday telethon.

“We had a lot of volunteers,” said the federation’s CEO, Jason Shames. “There was great energy in the room.

Two hundred and seventy donors made calls on Super Sunday. The final accounting is not completed yet, but

the gifts tallied so far come to just over $800,000.But more important than the total figure, to Shames,

is the number of donors — 1,705 — and even more so, the 213 new donors.

Overall, he said, “It sounded like people were more receptive than they’ve been in the past.”

But connecting by phone grows harder and harder, as people increasingly screen their calls or ignore their telephones altogether.

“We try to cover our base through different methods,” Shames said. Rather than being a stand-alone event, Super Sunday is now one piece of a full package of fundraising that includes direct mail and email solicitations.

“We’ve tried to be a little more accurate in our sophistication of the marketplace, in knowing what messages are effective with people,” he said.

“It’s always a work in progress.”

Super Sunday chairs Matt Libien, Amy Silna Shafron, and Howard Chernin.

Jan Seligmann Weiss helping first-time volunteer Michael Paisner.

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Locals march in inaugural paradeZara Simpson of Hillsdale, far left, and Jason Weinberg of River Vale, center, marched in President Obama’s inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington as part of the drumline section of the “Mighty Sound of Maryland,” the University of Maryland’s marching band. Simpson, a 2008 graduate of Pascack Valley High School and the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, and Weinberg, a 2012 graduate of PVHS, were members of Pascack Valley’s marching band. Simpson is the daughter of Alicia and Burt Simpson, members of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake, and Weinberg is the son of Naomi and Bruce Weinberg, who belong to Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson.

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Seven will be lauded at Sinai Schools dinner on February 10Sinai Schools will celebrate its annual dinner on Sunday, February 10, at the Marriott Glenpointe Hotel in Teaneck, at 4:45 p.m.

This year’s guests of honor are Lisa and Lowell Baron, Rachel and Michael Dube, Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene, and Debbie and Michael Kaplan.

The dinner will feature a new video, “Heroes,” which tells the story of the Minchenberg family and the challenges they have overcome with three children in

Sinai Schools. Rabbi Yehuda Minchenberg is a teacher at Yeshivat Noam in Paramus.

Sinai is the only local school for Jewish children who have a broad range of learning or developmental disabilities and cannot learn in a regular education setting.

For information, call (201) 833-1134, ext. 105, or go to www.sinaidinner.org.

Teaneck seeks volunteers for emergency situationsEveryone is welcome to volunteer for the Teaneck Office of Emergency Management to help township employees as they set up the Rodda Center as a temporary transition facility for use during emergencies, including major storms, floods, fires, and other disasters. The facility will serve as a warming/cooling and activity center that will receive, register, and determine the needs of displaced Teaneck residents. Volunteers will not be asked to enter emergency scenes or perform hazardous duties; instead, they will provide support for township employees.

The Red Cross will provide training at no cost and applicants will be subject to a background check. Email Teaneck’s human resources director, Dean Kazinci, at [email protected] or call him at (201) 837-1600, ext. 1651.

OU announces presidential electionAn election for the office of president of the Orthodox Union will be held in New York City on Sunday, March 10, at 1 p.m. at the Sheraton New York.

Credentialed delegates appointed by OU member synagogues in good standing are eligible to vote in the election.

ORT installing new officersThe Englewood & Cliffs Chapter of ORT America will host a luncheon to install new officers at Le Jardin Restaurant in Edgewater on February 5 at noon.

Officers include the president, Doris Levin, and vice presidents Barbara Robbins, Elinor Weinrich, and Alice Macri.

For information, call Levin at (201) 461-0677.

Michaelsons are June honoreesAllyn and Richard Michaelson will be honored at Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn’s ad journal dinner dance on Sunday, June 9. The dinner will be held at the shul and will be catered by Main Event, with music by the Benji Rafaeli Orchestra.

The Michaelsons have been active at TBS for more than 30 years. Richard Michaelson has served two terms as co-president, the first one in the mid 1990s. He is now in the middle of another two-year term and is also on the Daughters of Miriam’s board of directors. Allyn Michaelson, who grew up at Temple Beth Sholom and became a board member 20 years ago, has chaired the trustees for the last decade and been involved in many committees. She is a vice president of Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, co-chairs the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Holocaust Commemoration Committee, and sits on the JFNNJ Women’s Philanthropy Board. She received the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Volunteer award and the Jewish Family Service of North Jersey Lou & Sadie Glatt volunteer award.

For information, call (201) 797-9321, ext 1.


Overnight camp opportunities help special needs childrenParents looking for a Jewish camping experience for their children with special needs can find one through Yachad/National Jewish Council for Disabilities. Yachad runs a variety of special needs camping programs within mainstream overnight camps, where children can be in-cluded in activities along with peers of all abilities.

Studies have shown that Jewish overnight camping experiences correlate highly with long-term Jewish en-gagement. Yachad can help parents find the right camp for their children. It runs different styles of programming for campers across a range of developmental abilities in a variety of camp settings in the Catskills and the Poconos.

For more information, call Nechama Braun at (212) 613-8369 or email her at [email protected].

Emergency preparedness seminarA Teaneck community emergency preparedness semi-nar has been scheduled for Thursday, February 7, at 7 p.m. The program has been put together by the Teaneck police department’s community policing squad, the Teaneck fire department, and the town’s office of emer-gency preparedness.

All town residents are encouraged to attend and learn what they can do to be prepared for an emergency. The event will take pace at police headquarters in the roll call room, 900 Teaneck Road.

For more information, call Officer Michael Sunga at (201) 837-2600, ext. 2311.

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The inaugural speech about values that President Obama could have deliveredRabbi Shmuley boteach

What was most telling about President Obama’s inaugural speech was not what he said, but what he failed to

say. He supported gay marriage but said noth-ing of shoring up the crumbling institution of heterosexual marriage. He spoke of the need to address gun violence but said nothing of gang youth in America who are raised mostly without

fathers and perpetrate a large part of that violence. He spoke of women earning equal

pay but declined to address the rot of values that reduces women in media offerings and advertis-ing to little more than a man’s sexual plaything, their bodies being used to sell cars and beer.

Over four years, a man who was raised without his father has been reluctant to address the out-of-wedlock birthrate that is 70 percent in the African-American community, 60 percent among Latinos, and 40 percent among whites. This leaves many women with the burden of raising their children alone. A man who is a loving and devoted husband has never once, to my knowledge, spoken of the 50 percent American divorce rate, which has ravaged American marital commitment. And a man who celebrates his Christianity has yet to call on all his fellow citizens to rediscover the spiritual bond that unites all of God’s children and to heed the call of service that is the obligation of every American.

My point is not to be critical. President Obama has a right to his agenda, and there are many aspects of that agenda that I support. But what America needs more than anything else is a values renaissance that will shore up the rotting parts of our culture, and in this regard a man of considerable eloquence mostly has been silent.

Having run as a Republican for Congress, it is unlikely that I will be invited to serve as a presidential speechwriter. But that shouldn’t stop me from suggesting the speech the president ought to give. Here it is:

“My fellow Americans, on our streets kids who should be in junior high are mowing each other down with high powered assault weapons. And I think we can all agree that they shouldn’t have access to guns and I therefore will propose strict new gun measures. But even I understand that this is treating the symptom rather than the

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach has just published his newest book, “The Fed-up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering.” He lives in Engle-wood.


Crossing over into hate

Editorial cartoons are not Disney-esque by their nature. They are meant to be pictorially biting com-mentary on current events.

A cartoon from 2012, for example, depicted a knight wearing a helmet and chain mail. Both arms and one leg are cut off by a depiction of sword-wielding Justice. The knight is labeled Arizona, and his sword, still being held in his now-amputated right arm, lying on the ground before him, is called “immigration law.” Says the knight to Justice, quoting Monty Python: “It’s just a flesh wound.”

The cartoon was a sharp commentary on how much Arizona was in denial about how damaged its anti-immigration law had become in a series of court decisions.

Editorial cartoons, however, must never step over the line from biting to hateful. A cartoon in a recent edition of the Sunday Times of London stepped way over the line, and was reminiscent of the vicious anti-Semitic cartoons published in Julius Streicher’s notorious Nazi house organ Der Stürmer. The cartoon showed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a sleeveless undershirt, wearing a determined scowl and holding a bloody trowel in his hand, building a wall on screaming Palestinian bodies. It is clear from the color cartoon that the cement he is using was made from blood. The caption read, “Israeli Elections … Will Cementing Peace Continue?”

Adding to the outrage was the day it was published — last Sunday, International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Wrote Joe Hyams, the man behind the HonestReporting website, “On any day, this cartoon’s imagery is an assault on

the real victims of genocide, demeans their suffering, and insults their memory.” HonestReporting, which bills itself as “defending Israel from media bias,” labeled the cartoon “a blood libel.”

The editorial cartoon is an outrage in every sense of the word. It is the rankest form of anti-Semitism and never would have been published in a legitimate newspaper decades ago. Especially in the past 10 to 15 years, however, anti-Semitism once again has become fashionable throughout Europe.

We recall an incident in 2001, when the then French ambassador to the Court of St. James, Daniel Bernard, told his dinner party host how “that [expletive deleted] little country, Israel,” was paving the way for World War III.

The remark was made at a party hosted by a journalist and passionate Zionist, Lady Barbara Amiel Black, and her husband, Lord Conrad Black, at the time the owner of a media empire that included the London Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Tribune, and the Jerusalem Post, among other holdings. Lady Black is Jewish; Lord Black is not.

In a column she wrote after the incident, Lady Black also cited the case of a prominent British socialite who told a gathering that she could not stand Jews, who were to blame for their own troubles. When she saw the shock on people’s faces, she said, “Oh come on, you all feel like that.”

Sadly, as the Sunday Times cartoon demonstrates, the socialite was all too correct.

The Sunday Times and the cartoonist both owe their readers and the Jewish people everywhere, not just in Israel, an explanation and an apology.

Justice defied

In what has to be one of the most egregious examples of justice defied, the Republic of Argentina has engaged a partner as it seeks to finally and authoritatively expose the

perpetrators of the 1994 bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association). Argentina’s partner in forming what it calls a “truth commis-sion” is the Islamic Republic of Iran, otherwise known as the most likely overall perpetrator of this act of terrorism. Eighty-five people were killed and many scores of others injured in the attack on the AMIA, a Buenos Aires Jewish community center.

It is like asking al-Qaeda to join an investigation into who was behind the 9/11 attacks, or Turkey to definitively probe accusations that there ever was murder of Armenians on a massive scale (what most of the world correctly refers to as the Armenian genocide).

In doing so, Argentina is reverting to the kind of behavior it apologized for in July 2005 — namely, a cover-up of the crime that ran down from the highest levels of the Argentine government into the darkest recesses of its investigative services. Indeed, over the years there has been evidence presented that a former president of Argentina, Carlos Menem, accepted a multimillion-dollar bribe to make the investigation go away. (Exactly how many millions remains a matter of dispute.)

In 2005, another president of the republic, Néstor Kirchner, called the government’s response to the crime a “national disgrace.” In the months that followed, fresh investigators, armed with new evidence that included credible testimony from former members of Iranian intelligence, filed a formal charge sheet accusing Iran and Hezbollah of carrying out the attack jointly. Argentine prosecutors subsequently asked Interpol to issue a Red Notice (roughly equivalent to an international arrest warrant and extradition request) for six people — five Iranian officials and a member of Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

Now, Argentina has made Iran its partner in assembling its “truth commission.” The news came as no surprise. Kirchner’s widow and successor as president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, telegraphed the move in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly several months ago. What does come as a surprise is Argentina’s stated belief that Iran has any interest in the truth. Its government long has been on record as insisting that the AMIA bombing was a “Zionist plot” designed to make it look bad.

Our hearts go out to the Argentine Jewish community, to the survivors of the bombing, and to the families of those killed. They have been seeking justice for over 18 years. Now they may never find it.

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Bring more loveliSa StuRm

It was no surprise that when my grandmother died, her last words to me were “I love

you.”These were her parting

words for as long as I could remember. They came right after “Be well, don’t work too hard, don’t worry about anything,” and “Enjoy every minute of your life.” That was the kind of lady my grandmother was; quick to give advice and blessings, praise and kisses. “Whatever you wish for yourself, God should grant you. You should have only nachas.” So of course she would part from me with love on her lips.

Recently, as a clinical social worker, I’ve begun to work with people who are ill and sometimes even dying, and I’ve been surprised by their last words to me. Last year, I became involved in the case of a highly regarded engineer who was at the pinnacle of his career when he was stricken with cancer. When I first met him, he was most interested in ascertaining what my role would be in his care, and why exactly I was sitting with him in his living room on that particular winter afternoon. On my second visit, he gave me a hug before I left and thanked me for coming. At our third and final

meeting, just a few weeks before his death, his speech was nearly

gone and he was bedridden. Still, before we parted he took my hand and softly spoke the words, “I love you.” These seemed to be among the last words he was able to locate

and vocalize.Around that time, I took

over a modest caseload from a therapist who specialized

in eldercare. Many of my new clients struggled with depression

related to memory loss or losing their independence. Some I saw on a weekly

basis, and we developed strong therapeutic relationships. One particular gentleman, whom

I’ll call George, was wheelchair-bound and showed some signs of dementia right from the start. George

had been a fiercely independent man and never had married. He was an Air Force veteran who had worked for the government, enjoyed sports, and loved his large extended family. He had a face that looked like a boxer’s and always had a twinkle in his light blue eyes. I worked with him for more than a year; over that time both his memory and his physical condition had deteriorated.

On the morning, a few months ago, when George’s

underlying cause. In my book, “Dreams of My Father,” I speak of the pain of not having my dad around when I grew up. It’s something I’ve tried to correct by always being there, amid a hectic schedule, for Sasha and Malia. But a father is not a luxury that should be the blessing of only certain families. Men in families are not superfluous. They are an absolute necessity. When dads are not at home it’s often the police who have to raise these kids on the streets. And an absent dad puts an unfair strain on single moms — who already are heroes in our communities — to support and raise these kids by themselves, all while nursing the pain of aloneness.

“Then you have all the marriages where a mom and a dad pledged undying love to one another, had children, but then saw their relationship fragment and the marriage end in divorce, which today accounts for one in two marriages.

“I know what that’s like. I was raised by a single mom after my own parents’ marriage ended in divorce. And I did not get the opportunity to grow up around my dad.

“So I’m calling on all men in our society to shoulder the responsibility of raising their children. You are not a hero to the world unless you’re a hero first and foremost to your own children. And you are not a man of significance unless you make your children feel that they have infinite worth.

I believe in marriage equality for same-sex couples. But I also believe in the continuity of opposite sex couples. And here in America, men and women in relationships are not faring all that well. I plan, therefore, to introduce stronger legislation that offers further financial incentives for couples to marry and stay married, and stiffer penalties to deadbeat dads who abandon their kids.

“And speaking of kids, I am the proud father of two daughters. I want my girls to be raised in a country that values their minds more than their appearance, their productive capacity as much as their reproductive role. I therefore want women to be paid equally to men. But I also want to my daughters to grow up in a culture where they are respected and valued by men. I am therefore calling on American corporations and media organizations to be sensitive to their depiction of women in the culture. When you highlight stick-thin women to our teenage girls, or supermodels to our women at home, you’re sending the message that a woman’s body is much more important than her intelligence. Men are also affected by that depiction, and it gives us the kinds of problems I referred to above: men who are drawn to women for what they can provide sensually but not emotionally.

“Which leads me to my finale. Unlike other nations that were born of geography, America was born of an idea. As President Lincoln said, our country is based on the proposition that all men are created equal. We have fought long and hard to see the full realization of that proposition. Men and women have marched, fought, and died so that they can be treated as equals in America. But the highest realization of that American ideal of equality is not found in material but in spiritual terms. By equality we don’t mean that all people are the same height, the same color, or possessed of the same gifts. Rather, we mean that they are possessed of the same spark of the divine. That’s why Lincoln said that we were ‘created equal.’ I call today for a new dawn of American soulfulness. Let’s together create a society where the gay man and the black woman, the Jewish boy and the Islamic girl, the stay-at-home mom and the professional woman, all find relevance in a nation that values their contribution and cannot prosper without their gift.

“I am calling today, therefore, for a mandatory year of national service, to commence upon graduation from high school, for every American man and woman, to both reverse the growing culture of narcissism and to teach us that America is a nation of givers and not takers.”

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every minute of your life.” That was the kind of lady my grandmother was; quick to give advice and blessings, praise and kisses. “Whatever you wish for yourself, God should grant you. You should have only nachas.” So of course she would part

Recently, as a clinical social worker, I’ve begun

meeting, just a few weeks before his death, his speech was nearly

gone and he was bedridden.

over a modest caseload from a therapist who specialized

in eldercare. Many of my new clients struggled with depression

related to memory loss or losing their independence. Some I saw on a weekly

basis, and we developed strong therapeutic relationships. One particular gentleman, whom

I’ll call George, was wheelchair-bound and showed

In support of Obama and HagelRabbi baRRy l. SchWaRtZ

I am an American rabbi who loves America and loves Israel. I also happen to have dual American-Israeli citizenship, and I served in the Israel Defense Forces.I write in support of President Obama and his

nomination of Chuck Hagel. I understand the concerns that have been expressed, but have less sympathy for the outright distortions and attacks on his character.

Here’s how I see the big picture:With elections behind us and both President Obama’s

national security team and the next Israeli government falling into place, it is time for the president to make good on his support for a two-state solution and launch a bold new peace initiative in the Middle East. President Obama already has made clear his commitment to a two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has made clear that he will not permit Iran to acquire nuclear arms. The American people and an overwhelming majority of American Jews voted in November to re-elect the President and to pursue a bold second term agenda.

So when the president nominates Hagel, a decorated military veteran and distinguished senator who shares his urgency for U.S. leadership in the Middle East, we should stand with him. And when a few groups try to derail Hagel’s confirmation by smearing him as anti-Israel, it is our job as American Jews to set the record straight.

Hagel’s strong support of Israel is evidenced clearly in his record. Over his 12-year Senate career, Hagel voted for nearly $40 billion in aid to Israel. He co-sponsored legislation that condemned and helped to combat terrorism against Israel and supported sanctions against Iran.

And Hagel hasn’t only defended Israel with his voting record; before it was popular to say so in Washington circles, Hagel spoke passionately and often of the need for the United States to help Israel achieve a two-state solution. Those views put him in line with over 80 percent of American Jews, and the last three Israeli prime ministers and U.S. presidents.

We need a two-state solution, and we don’t have much time. We saw last year in Gaza that it only takes a single spark to reignite the conflict into violence. Only a political agreement can achieve a lasting end to this conflict. Without one, both Israelis and Palestinians will continue to lose hope, abandoning leaders who speak of compromise in favor of stubborn replacements who claim peace is impossible. Soon, the Palestinians might decide that without negotiations, violence presents their best chance at achieving a state. And when Jews become a minority in the area under Israeli control, Israel will lose either its Jewish character or its democracy, compromising its founding principles and inviting unprecedented global isolation.

That is not a future that we should accept as inevitable. Hagel understands the unique role that the United States can play in bringing Israel and the Palestinians back to negotiations. Over his long career, Hagel has demonstrated a keen appreciation for political over military solutions, and his deep knowledge of the appropriate uses and limitations of military force made him a key voice in the debates over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is why the president wants him. We need that kind of voice now, by the president’s

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GENEVA, Switzerland — One of the seminal slogans of the 20th century was the historic refrain “Never again!”

This cry, which rose from the ashes of the Holocaust, was meant to ensure that there would be no repeat of the greatest tragedy in modern European history.

The refrain remains hollow if it remains a theoretical verbiage, used during speeches and ceremonies but lacking any real intent and action.

In recent years, a seemingly long-dormant ideology returned to a semblance of power for the first time since the unconditional surrender of the German forces on May 8, 1945. For the first time in well over six decades, political parties that require members to be of “Aryan origin” have full-armed and open-fisted salutes and logos distinctly resembling the swastika. Calls for a census of Jews are heard once again in Europe.

These elements no longer are consigned to the beer halls, isolated farm retreats, or the margins of European political discourse. They are moving closer and closer to the mainstream.

In fact, this newfound political confidence is reflected in the street, where more and more Jews are being physically and verbally attacked in the open.

The Golden Dawn party in Greece, Jobbik in Hungary, and Svoboda in Ukraine are just three examples of European political parties that have moved well beyond the historic far right and still unacceptable discourse of those like Le Pen’s National Front in France and the Freedom Party in Austria.

We appear to be entering a new phase in European political history, which has extremely worrying parallels with the past. Of course, many will argue that none of these parties now have much power.

But at what point will their power be too great? It’s a question that all decision makers, opinion shapers, and law enforcement agencies in Europe must ask. Not in a theoretical sense, but in a very real practical sense.

The Jewish people and other minorities who are in the direct line of fire from this malevolent hate have no doubt that this threshold already has passed, and it is having a very real practical effect on the streets. A recent survey found that 63 percent of Hungarians are willing to affirm their anti-Semitism with no shame.

On Sunday, the international community observed International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember the victims of the Holocaust and learn its lessons. A few days before, I visited the seat of European governance, the European Parliament, which was the joint recipient of the recent Nobel Prize for Peace, along with other European Union institutions. Along with many others, I lauded the Nobel committee for recognizing the European Union’s commitment to peace and its success at unifying a continent that has known so much bloodshed.

However, as Europeans, we cannot afford to rest on our laurels and claim that a lack of war or conflict means that the European Union has succeeded in creating a harmonious and peaceful continent that can prevent future catastrophes.

As the number of Holocaust survivors begins to dwindle, many are witnessing something that would have been unbelievable to them only a few short years ago: The new groups, rapidly increasing in popularity, are emulating and co-opting the policies and ideology of those who murdered their families and brought to them untold suffering.

There are too many Europeans, especially those among its leadership, who remember the death and destruction that follows the Nazi ideology. We, as Europeans, should do everything we can to rid ourselves of this force that again tries to lay a dark shadow on our continent.

We call on all figures in Europe — media, cultural, or academic — to use their platforms to assist in ridding the continent of this disease. European politicians as a moral mass must adopt stricter legislation proscribing groups that promote hate, discrimination, and racism from European political institutions. There also must be a demand for tougher enforcement and punishment and the strengthening of education teaching tolerance.

Some eight decades ago, the National Socialist Movement caught many by surprise, and most did not fully comprehend or believe that it would be willing or able to fulfill its genocidal and destructive platform. Living with this dark history in our relatively recent past, we have no similar excuses. We know what this ideology seeks, we know what this racist movement aspires to, and we cannot let it get a foothold again on our continent.

Just as eight decades ago Nazi ideology was able to take advantage of a financial recession, so we face similar economic challenges today. This is when we must be at our most vigilant. We must beat back the advances of this ideology, not for the victims of the past but for the possible victims in the future. If we do not, then “Never again!” will remain a hollow term used during speeches and ceremonies.

As the prominent Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer said, “Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

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Moshe Kantor is president of the European Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation.

Thank you, Rabbi EngelmayerI was touched by your insightful and timely column, and saddened to hear that another stirring voice crying out in the wilderness would be stilled. I find it dis-tressing whenever a valiant warrior bat-tling the pernicious cult of the “Arrogance of Absolutism” retires.

Rabbi Dr. Zvi H. SzubinTeaneck

My friend, teacher, and colleague Rabbi Shammai Engelmeyer’s decision to take a sabbatical from his challenging and thought-provoking column leaves a void in our communal dialogue. Shammai’s ability and willingness to speak truth to power, and to do so with intelligence and elegance of expression and with no con-cern for political correctness has been a great gift to all who care about Jewish life in general and our northern New Jersey Jewish community in particular. True to his rabbinic namesake, Rabbi Shammai seldom has found himself in the majority, but like the Shammai of the Mishnah he is willing to speak and teach Torah, using

his heart, soul, and might. May we all take up Shammai’s challenge and recognize that the rabbinic teaching “shivim panim la Torah” in the 21st century is a challenge to all if us to listen to each other, including the others with whom we disagree.

Thank you, Shammai, for this great summation of the years of Torah you have taught, and the standard of truth and honesty you have set for us all.

Rabbi Neal BorovitzRiver Edge

Kaddish is not fungibleHaving read Soma Morgenstern’s “The Third Pillar” many years ago, I can un-derstand the impulse that drew Robert Kanter to think of it as an almost universal Kaddish (“Saying Kaddish for Newtown,” Jan. 18). However, Morgenstern’s elegaic Kaddish is not a fungible document to use as Mr. Kanter did. Morgenstern de-voted “The Third Pillar” to try to come to terms with the Holocaust. In the end, he affirms the belief that despite the horror, “We say Yes to the creation, and we say Yes to our Creator and to His eternity and

holiness.” He follows this with the tradi-tional Kaddish, in which 17 sites where Jews were murdered (be it concentration camps or Babi Yar) are interspersed with the age-old text. So if we were to read Soma Morgenstern’s text, we would be reciting:

Yitkadal, Auschwitzv’yitkadash, Lodzsh’mei raba, Ponarb’alma di v’ra khir’utei, Babi Yar....

What Mr. Kanter has done by sub-stituting the names of seventeen of the slain children (A’H) in Newton for these catastrophic sites was to wrench Morgenstern’s excruciatingly painful ren-dition horribly out of context. In thinking that one tragedy is commensurate with another he has at the same time blotted out the existence of a most gifted writer whose name he does not mention.

For the sake of historical accuracy,

I would also note that the Siddur Sim Sholom (1985) in its sources section, pages 874-879, carefully attributed this reading for Yom Hashoah to the author (page 877). Furthermore, this is hardly “the Kaddish that Conservative Jews traditionally say on YomHashoah and Yom Kippur.” At the time of publication by the Rabbinical Assembly, the editor, Jules Harlow, together with the Siddur Committee accepted a suggestion from Professor Neil Gilman that this be included in the readings for Yom Hashoah along with the many other readings included in this siddur.

I think we need to tread very carefully on the graves of those for whom we mourn. No matter how deep our grief, each murder and loss deserves to be memorialized in its own way.

Menorah RotenbergTeaneck

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side, as he works toward a two-state solution to defend Israel’s Jewish and democratic future.

Recognizing the importance of Hagel’s confirmation, dozens of Jewish leaders, political leaders, and national security experts, including former ambassadors to Israel, have vouched for his pro-Israel credentials. So has Israel’s own deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, who said he saw firsthand that Hagel “believes in the relationship, in the natural partnership between Israel and the United States.”

Given Hagel’s notable supporters, perhaps it is his opponents who are outside the mainstream. The anti-Hagel campaign is being conducted by the same groups who tried and failed to make us question President Obama’s commitment to Israel. But we can’t afford inaction. This is not just a question of choosing our battles wisely. We who are pro-Israel and pro-peace need, in the words of Isaiah, “to raise our voice like a shofar.” For our sake, and for the America and Israel we love.

Barry L. Schwartz is the rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia.

There are too many Europeans, especially those among its leadership, who remember the death and destruction that follows the Nazi ideology. We, as Europeans, should do everything we can to rid ourselves of this force that again tries to lay a dark shadow on our continent.

We call on all figures in Europe — media, cultural, or academic — to use their platforms to assist in ridding the continent of this disease. European politicians as a moral mass must adopt stricter legislation proscribing groups that promote hate, discrimination, and racism from European political institutions. There also must be a demand for tougher enforcement and punishment and the strengthening of education teaching tolerance.

Some eight decades ago, the National Socialist Movement caught many by surprise, and most did not fully comprehend or believe that it would be willing or able to fulfill its genocidal and destructive platform. Living with this dark history in our relatively recent past, we have no similar excuses. We know what this ideology seeks, we know what this racist movement aspires to, and we cannot let it get a foothold again on our continent.

Just as eight decades ago Nazi ideology was able to take advantage of a financial recession, so we face similar economic challenges today. This is when we must be at our most vigilant. We must beat back the advances of this ideology, not for the victims of the past but for the possible victims in the future. If we do not, then “Never again!” will remain a hollow term used during speeches and ceremonies.

As the prominent Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer said, “Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”

JTA Wire Service

Moshe Kantor is president of the European Jewish Congress and co-chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation.

mind was surprisingly clear and we were able to discuss his failing health, tears streamed down his face as he told me a story, one stored in some compartment of his mind that still was accessible to him. As a child, he had attended a local fair with his aunt and some cousins. There they saw a family with many children, all looking longingly at the rides, too poor to buy tickets. He said his aunt gave him all of their tickets and told him to give them to the destitute mother for her children. “That was the way I was raised, to always care for others,” he concluded. Before I left that day he asked if he could kiss me, and I placed my cheek against his scared face, his gnarled arthritic hand in my own.

Two weeks later George was hospitalized, and I visited him for the last time. He looked small and frail but his eyes still were shining. Before I left I took his hand in mine and he said, “I love you.” “I love you too,” I replied and waved goodbye. George died about a week later.

Then just yesterday, I went to visit another elderly client, whom I’ll call Anna, who is now hospitalized. She had led a rather reclusive life, had never married, and had no children. Anna had been a journalist, but since she had retired she rarely left her apartment. Even at the assisted living facility where she lived, Anna never went down to communal meals and spent most of her time in bed, curled up with her furry companion, a noble golden alley cat she’d rescued from the streets of her old neighborhood.

A few weeks ago Anna fell and required complex surgery to repair her fractures. A wisp of a woman, once

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If there is a single method for performing tikkun olam and healing everything in our world, then perhaps, just perhaps, this is it.

Lisa A. Sturm, LCSW, is a psychotherapist with a private prac-tice in Mountainside.

she was hospitalized she ate less and less and her body began to waste away. When I entered her hospital room I was shocked by her condition; she twitched and shook and mumbled disconnected words to herself. I called her name and she gave me a half smile. After getting her an extra blanket and after a few futile attempts to get her to eat, I finally just sat down and took her hand. “What can I do for you?” I asked, leaning in close to hear her response.

Anna’s answer was both audible and clear. “Bring more love into the world.”

That was not at all the answer I was expecting. I felt helpless; I wanted to do something practical. After a few minutes I repeated my question, hoping to hear about some action I could take to help her feel more comfortable.

This time she raised her voice slightly as if she were annoyed that I hadn’t understood her the first time. “I said — bring more love into the world!”

Okay, I thought, I understand. In the end — the very bitter, deteriorated, demented, trembling, wasting away, hopeless end — there is only love. Since I have heard it from a Jewish grandmother, from an engineer, from a government worker, and from a journalist I have come to believe it is true. I do not know whether these words are being expressed because these people already have one foot in the spiritual realm or if they are simply part of a final realization of what is most important in life. Or perhaps both explanations are accurate.

In honoring the wishes of Anna, who remains hospitalized, I share her message with you. I urge you to heed her words and bring more love into the world.

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Joanne Palmer

David Broza often is called the Jewish Bruce Springsteen.

That’s because he is charismatic and gifted as both a musician and a poet, telling the stories both of his own heart and of his people.

But what do you think of first when you think of Springsteen? New Jersey! And as unlikely as it seems, Broza, who grew up in Israel and Spain, lived in Bergen County for 17 years. His children grew up here.

So it makes perfect sense that Broza will be in concert at Temple Emanu-El of Closter on Sunday, February 10, raising money to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy.

“New Jersey is beautiful,” Broza said in a phone interview from a studio in Tel Aviv. “We were in New York with little babies, and we thought that it would be hard to maintain a family life there, so we crossed the bridge. And what we saw there was gorgeous — green and lush and hilly. We found a house, and we moved in.”

Broza left Cresskill for Spain in 2000, and three years later he moved back to Israel. “My work was changing,” he said. Now he lives in three places. “I don’t have three legs, but basically I have one foot in Tel Aviv, one foot in Madrid, and one in New York.”

Broza, who is 57 years old, is a social activist, as well as an artist. (He comes by that naturally; his grandfather, Wellesley Aaron, who led a fascinating life, was a founder of Neve Shalom — Wahat as-Salam, a village in Israel where Jews and Arabs live together in peace.)

He feels compelled to present the concert for storm

relief, he said, because “it is horrifying, the outcome of the storm. It’s not over. A lot of people are struggling with loss; lost property, and the inability to stand on their feet.

“Because my life is so entangled and entwined with this area, I felt personally hurt. My way of showing solidarity and lending a hand is to dedicate a show, where hopefully we can raise funds and direct them to those who need it.

“I think funds are fundamental not only in rebuilding and reconstructing from the damage, but also in rebuilding people’s lives.

“This storm didn’t hit only the poor. It hit everybody. The community needs support.

“I can’t fill Madison Square Garden, but I hope that we can fill Temple Emanu-El. I hope that people will come out, and that they will continue offering help to those in need. And I’m happy to do it in Bergen County, because

Hitting a high noteBroza is back in Bergen to sing our way to relief

for Sandy’s victims

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I’m part of it and it’s part of me.”“The idea of the concert came from Mr. Broza,” Rabbi

David-Seth Kirshner said. It is being presented by the New York Board of Rabbis at Temple Emanu-El, which Kirshner leads. “Mr. Broza is donating all his services. We are covering the sound and lighting, and the VIP reception. Everything else is going directly to hurricane victims.

“We’re limited to 500 people. We hope to sell out; we’re already halfway there.”

(The Jewish Standard is a concert co-sponsor.)Rabbi Joseph Potasnik is the executive director of

the New York Board of Rabbis, where Kirshner is vice president-elect.

Despite its name, the board is not limited by geography. “It’s the largest interdenominational rabbinic body in the world,” Potasnik said. “We have all streams of Jewish life represented here. We like to think that it makes this a very special place, where people of different denominations can have discourse with one another.

“It also means that we have a responsibility to help each other.

“Hurricane Sandy was a tragedy that said to us that we need to do something to support and help those who were so deeply affected.”

Once the money is raised, “we will establish a committee of rabbis of different streams of Jewish life to decide on the distribution,” Potasnik said.

He sees that some good has come from the storm. “This is a wonderful moment of solidarity,” he said. “Sadly, sometimes it takes a tragedy to bring us all together. Maybe we’ll learn that we have to perpetuate that spirit.

“We have to bring people together not just during extraordinary times, but during ordinary times as well.”

Because David Broza grew up on two continents and spent much of his adulthood in a third, a sense of place and of language suffuses his work. When he first came

to the United States, decades ago, he toured the country to understand it, primarily through its music and poetry. He concentrated on the Midwest and the South. “The blues, rockabilly, bluegrass, country music, country and western music; I connect with all of that,” he said. “I wanted to connect through music, but I had to sing my way through, and in order to do that I had to find the words. The words were hidden in the poetry, and the poems were the treasure the poets held.

“I’ve mastered a lot of the poetry that I was studying in order to understand American language and culture,” he said. “I fell in love with Elizabeth Bishop, and particularly a poem called ‘One Eye.’ That should be adopted almost as a mantra for the recovery from Sandy.”

Broza quoted the beginning of the poem from memory.

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster,” he said.“Look it up,” he urged. “Read all of it. It’s one of the

most magical poems written in 20th-century America.”He’s written music for the lovely and haunting words

of this poem. With luck, he will sing it on the evening of February 10.

for Sandy’s victims

Who: david Broza

Where: temple emanu-el of Closter

When: sunday, February 10, at 6 pm; a ViP reception will follow the concert

Why: to benefit new Jersey victims of hurricane sandy

How: Presented by the new York Board of rabbis

For tickets call Jessie diPaolo at (212) 983-3521 or email her at [email protected].

Hurricane Sandy left Bergen County homes battered.

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WASHINGTON – Preaching to a preacher man — or woman — doesn’t always play out as planned.

That’s the lesson learned this week by officials at the National Cathedral after several clergy, including three rab-bis, made impromptu changes to the readings they were given to deliver at a prayer service following President Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 22.

Rabbis Rick Jacobs, Sharon Brous, and Julie Schonfeld made changes to the texts they were handed in the hope of making the language “Jewier,” as Brous put it lat-er: more conversational, more forthright, and more reflective of the rabbis’ under-standing of Jewish theology.

“I wanted to be able to pray with real kavannah [intention] in that moment, so the specific language mattered a lot to me,” Brous, who is a Conservative rabbi and the founder of IKAR, an indepen-dent congregation in Los Angeles, said. “I worked to find a way to capture the essence of the prayer in a Jewish idiom, to translate the beautiful sentiment into words that would be more personally resonant.”

A spokeswoman for the National Cathedral said the institution had no problem with the changes. Neither did Josh Dubois, the White House’s faith-based initiatives boss, who helped coordi-nate the event.

Gina Campbell, the cathedral’s di-rector of worship, “encouraged all the religious leaders to be faithful to their own traditions” and to emend texts as they saw fit, said the spokeswoman, who spoke on condition of not being named.

Clergy were assigned readings rather than asked to offer their own because the service was pegged to the inauguration’s theme, Faith in America’s Future, drawn from Abraham Lincoln’s determination 150 years ago to keep the nation united and to expand its liberties to all its people.

“The staff at the cathedral were sen-sitive about theological language and wanting people to speak in language that was comfortable and authentic,” said Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism.

Jacobs was assigned the recital of the priestly blessing alongside Laila Muhammad, the founder of a Muslim family service organization in Chicago. Muhammad told Jacobs beforehand that she would change “The Lord” in the blessing to “Allah.” Jacobs replied that he would not use “the Lord” either. He substituted “the Holy One” to reflect the Reform movement’s tendency to abjure gender-specific references to God.

Schonfeld, the executive director of the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, had no objection to the trans-lation of a psalm she was assigned. But reciting it without context raised difficult theological questions about human re-

sponsibility, especially in the wake of the massacre of schoolchildren last month in Newtown, Conn.

The translation, as assigned by the ca-thedral, reads in part, “The Lord watches over the innocent.” Schonfeld changed that to “The Lord watches over the inno-cent and calls upon us to watch over the innocent.”

“God can only watch over the innocent insofar as human beings watch over the innocent,” Schonfeld said.

The services also featured Cantor Mikhail Manevich of Washington Hebrew Congregation, which is Reform. He sang the Shema in Hebrew.

Christian clergy also made adjust-ments in keeping with their own religious orientations. The Rev. Nancy Wilson, moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, a denomination emphasizing outreach to the LGBT community, replaced five mas-culine pronouns in her assigned prayer, which opened the service.

The National Cathedral is both an Episcopal seat and a place of worship chartered by the Congress in the 19th century as the natural setting for national events. The church’s website emphasizes that it “welcomes all faiths.”

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WASHINGTON – Chuck Hagel has made strides in his bid to secure Senate confirmation as defense secretary, winning the endorsement of leading Jewish Democratic senators and meeting with the leaders of major American Jewish groups.

But opposition by conservative pro-Israel groups remains fierce. It is bolstered by the pivotal role being played by Christians United For Israel, the Texas-based group founded by Pastor John Hagee.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the first senator to come out against Hagel’s nomination, did so at Hagee’s be-hest, both men said on Monday.

CUFI’s affiliated Action Fund also has rallied hun-dreds of Christian pastors and leaders, bringing them to Washington this week to lobby against the former Republican Nebraska senator’s bid to succeed Leon Panetta.

And on Tuesday, as the pastors were swarming Senate offices, CUFI published four ads in states where Democratic senators are thought to be vulner-able in 2014: Arkansas, Louisiana, Colorado, and North Carolina.

“We pray you vote against confirming Senator Hagel,” said the ads, addressed to each state’s senators.

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“I cannot support a nominee for defense secretary who suggests we should be tougher on Israel and more lenient on Iran,” Cornyn said.

Hagel has walked back many of these positions and apologized for the “Jewish lobby” remark. But Cornyn said he believed they were part of what he called a “con-firmation conversion.”

In his efforts to tamp down the pro-Israel opposition to his nomination, Hagel has won support from some of the leading Jewish pro-Israel Democrats in the Senate: Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), and Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.).

The Vietnam War hero also has the support of liberal Jewish groups, including Americans for Peace Now, the Israel Policy Forum, and J Street. On Wednesday, J Street was set to join Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), a veteran and a member of the Armed Services Committee, on a confer-ence call backing Hagel.

Hagel also has met with leaders of centrist pro-Israel groups, several of which had expressed concerns about his candidacy, including the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The groups described the meeting as “an important opportu-nity for a serious and thorough discussion.”

Democrats control 55 of the Senate’s 100 seats, and sources close to Hagel have said he is hoping that his longstanding friendships with some Senate Republicans will be enough to get the 60 votes necessary to avoid a filibuster.

Meanwhile, conservative Jewish groups have worked to keep up the pressure.

Last week, the Republican Jewish Coalition posted a web video featuring Democrats and Jewish organi-zational leaders expressing concern about Hagel. The Emergency Committee for Israel similarly ran a full-page ad in the New York Times on January 15. The Zionist Organization of America is lobbying Senate offices.

Sheldon Adelson, one of the GOP’s most generous donors and an RJC board member, has called senators directly to make the case against Hagel.

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Every Sunday during the football season, a group of 30 diehard Jewish Baltimore Ravens fans suit up in purple pants, jerseys, socks, face paint, and

special Ravens tzitzit to watch the game together.If the game falls on a Saturday, the club gathers for a

“purple Shabbos,” when they wear Ravens jerseys under their suits, eat Ravens-inspired food from a purple menu, and go into lockdown mode once the game starts so they don’t accidentally discover the final score before they can watch the recorded broadcast after Shabbat ends.

“Yes, we’re all absolute Ravens nuts,” Noam Heller, a 25-year-old Baltimore native, said. “We’re not just casual football fans like some other states. Everyone who knows our crew knows we’re crazy.”

The group has been reveling in the Ravens together for about five years at the homes of its members. Wives and kids come along now, too.

With their beloved squad slated to face off against the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, Heller and company no doubt will get even crazier than usual.

Adding to its significance, the showdown comes just six months after the death of former owner Art Modell, the Jewish Brooklyn native who moved the team to Baltimore from Cleveland in 1996. Ravens players dedi-cated this season to Modell, wearing a patch with “Art” on their jerseys.

And even more poignant: The Pro Football Hall of Fame will announce whether Modell will be inducted on the day before the big game.

“Honestly, I’m kvelling over this game,” David Modell, one of the late owner’s two sons, himself a former presi-dent and CEO of the Ravens, said. “I’m not praying for results, I’m praying for the strength and courage of this team, and the rest will take care of itself. But a Super Bowl victory and a place in the Hall of Fame would be an in-credible way to honor my father’s memory.”

Modell’s legacy is something of a touchy subject for football fans. Supporters see him as a brilliant busi-nessman, best known for his role in negotiations with the ABC television network leading to the creation of “Monday Night Football” in 1970, and for his support for community charities in Cleveland and Baltimore.

In Cleveland, though, Modell isn’t remembered as fondly. After 34 years as owner of the Browns, Modell took the team to Baltimore in 1996 and renamed them the Ravens. Many Cleveland fans remain bitter over the loss of their team, and they say it would be wrong to

honor Modell with a spot in the Hall of Fame.“I don’t care how much money he gave to either

community or how well Baltimore is doing,” said one disgruntled Jewish Clevelander, who asked that his name not be published for fear of bad football karma. “Art Modell stole our pride in Cleveland, and stealing in foot-ball should not be praised.”

David Modell said that many Cleveland fans wrote to him and his brother, John, to offer condolences after their father died. It seemed that they forgave Modell, who sold the Ravens in 2004, for abandoning Cleveland. They now remember him mainly as a football legend.

Although Modell’s two sons are Catholic, children from the first marriage of his wife Patricia Breslin, David Modell said his father made sure to teach them the basic Jewish traditions of the religion he loved.

“My father wasn’t the type of man who wore his spiri-tuality on his sleeve, but he was a quietly religious and very spiritual Jew,” David Modell said. “We knew that he carried around a piece of paper with God’s name in his pocket every day of his life. Every year he would light me-morial candles for his parents’ death. He always attended temple on High Holidays. And Chanukah candles were so important to him that my brother in California and I Skyped together this year to light candles and recite the prayers.”

Modell had a special relationship with football players as well as fans, specifically with Ray Lewis, the Ravens’ All-Pro linebacker who is retiring at the end of this sea-son. Modell watched his team practice every day and had a father-son relationship with Lewis.

Unlike his former boss, Lewis did wear his spirituality on his sleeve — or at least on his chest. Following a 24-9 playoff victory over the Colts earlier this month, Lewis re-moved his game jersey to reveal a T-shirt that read “Psalm 91,” which concludes with the line, “With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.”

Heller and his friends responded by getting together for a communal reading of the psalm and to pray on the Ravens’ behalf.

“We’ve loved the Ravens since Art Modell first brought them to Baltimore in 1996,” Heller said. “We all looked up to him as kids.

“And this Super Bowl is going to be ours.”JTA Wire Service

Art Modell, the late owner of the Baltimore Ravens, has a hug for star linebacker Ray Lewis in 2001. Courtesy Baltimore ravens

Left to right, Baltimore Ravens’ coach John Harbaugh, late owner Art Modell, and general man-ager Ozzie Newsome at the Ravens training facilities in 2008. Courtesy Baltimore ravens

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TEL AVIV — Last week’s Israeli election saw a major shakeup in the country’s government, with 53 new mem-bers elected to its parliament, the Knesset.

Some already have received wide attention, including Yair Lapid, the middle class-focused chairman of Yesh Atid; Naftali Bennett, the high-tech entrepreneur who chairs the new Jewish Home party; technocrat Yair Shamir, Yisrael Beiteinu’s No. 2; and Moshe Feiglin, the

nationalist settler who finally landed a Knesset seat with the ruling Likud Party.

Though lesser known, many of the other new faces in the Knesset are no less interesting. Meet five of them: a woman with a doctorate in Talmud, an Ethiopian immigrant, a mother of 11 from Hebron, a socially conscious venture capitalist, and an American-born rabbi.

Meet some of Israel’s new Knesset members

Rabbi Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid)He’s a charedi Orthodox rabbi in a party calling for charedi army service. He’s been an advocate for coexistence in a city fraught with interreligious conflict. Soon he’ll be the first American-born mem-ber of Israel’s Knesset since Meir Kahane.

Lipman, 41, originally from Silver Spring, Md., was a Jewish educator in Cincinnati and Maryland before moving to Israel with his family in 2004. They ended up in Beit Shemesh, a Jerusalem suburb with a large charedi and Anglophone population that also has been a flashpoint for conflict between charedi and Modern Orthodox Israelis. As the city’s conflicts escalated in recent years, Lipman tried to serve as a bridge between the two sides.

He says he believes that there’s no contradiction between working, serving the country, and being charedi, and he wants to bring that ethic to Israel. It’s a challenge: Many of Israel’s charedim are unemployed, few serve in the Israeli military, and many are avowedly non-Zionist.

“In America, charedim have education, there are opportunities, and they work,” Lipman said. “That issue bothers us more because we know there’s no contradiction.”

Lipman hopes his presence in Yesh Atid — the party campaigned for universal national service, including by charedim — will allow him to help integrate charedi Israelis into the rest of Israeli society.

Leading up to Election Day, few expected Lipman, No. 17 on the Yesh Atid ticket, to land a seat in the Knesset. But Yesh Atid campaigned hard. Every night, it seemed, Lipman hosted a parlor meeting for English-speaking Israelis, participated in English-language debates, or blogged on the English news site Times of Israel.

When Yesh Atid won 19 seats, Lipman was in.

Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid)Calderon, 51, is a Jewish scholar who, like Lipman, ad-vocates interreligious understanding. Unlike Lipman and most Jewish scholars in Israel, Calderon earned her degree at a university, not a yeshivah.

But that didn’t stop her from starting one. Calderon, who holds a doctorate in Talmud from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, founded the Elul Beit Midrash in Jerusalem in 1989. It is one of the city’s first Jewish study houses where secular and religious Israelis can study and discuss Judaism together. More recently, Calderon founded Alma, a center for Hebrew culture in Tel Aviv whose mission is to combine Jewish, Israeli, and universal culture.

Calderon calls herself a “non-halachic person,” but that doesn’t stop her from posting daily passages from the Mishnah on her Facebook page. She also hosted “Hacheder,” a television program in which she discussed Hebrew culture with guests.

Erel Margalit (Labor)The Labor Party’s campaign this year, driven by party Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich, was to strengthen middle-class and poor Israelis. One of the campaign’s central slogans declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is good for rich people. Shelly is

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Rabbi Dov Lipman (Yesh Atid)He’s a charedi Orthodox rabbi in a party calling for charedi army service. He’s been an advocate for coexistence in a city fraught with interreligious conflict. Soon he’ll be the first American-born mem-ber of Israel’s Knesset since Meir Kahane.

Lipman, 41, originally from Silver Spring, Md., was a Jewish educator in Cincinnati and Maryland before moving to Israel with his family in 2004. They ended up in Beit Shemesh, a Jerusalem suburb with a large charedi and Anglophone population that also has been a flashpoint for conflict between charedi and Modern Orthodox Israelis. As the city’s conflicts escalated in recent years, Lipman tried to serve as a bridge between the two sides.

He says he believes that there’s no contradiction between working, serving the country, and being charedi, and he wants to bring that ethic to Israel. It’s a challenge: Many of Israel’s charedim are unemployed, few serve in the Israeli military, and many are avowedly non-Zionist.

“In America, charedim have education, there are opportunities, and they work,” Lipman said. “That issue bothers us more because we know there’s no contradiction.”

Lipman hopes his presence in Yesh Atid — the party campaigned for universal national service, including by charedim — will allow him to help integrate charedi Israelis into the rest of Israeli society.

Leading up to Election Day, few expected Lipman, No. 17 on the Yesh Atid ticket, to land a seat in the Knesset. But Yesh Atid campaigned hard. Every night, it seemed, Lipman hosted a parlor meeting for English-speaking Israelis, participated in English-language debates, or blogged on the English news site Times of Israel.

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Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid)Calderon, 51, is a Jewish scholar who, like Lipman, ad-vocates interreligious understanding. Unlike Lipman and most Jewish scholars in Israel, Calderon earned her degree at a university, not a yeshivah.

But that didn’t stop her from starting one. Calderon, who holds a doctorate in Talmud from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, founded the Elul Beit Midrash in Jerusalem in 1989. It is one of the city’s first Jewish study houses where secular and religious Israelis can study and discuss Judaism together. More recently, Calderon founded Alma, a center for Hebrew culture in Tel Aviv whose mission is to combine Jewish, Israeli, and universal culture.

Calderon calls herself a “non-halachic person,” but that doesn’t stop her from posting daily passages from the Mishnah on her Facebook page. She also hosted “Hacheder,” a television program in which she discussed Hebrew culture with guests.

Erel Margalit (Labor)The Labor Party’s campaign this year, driven by party Chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich, was to strengthen middle-class and poor Israelis. One of the campaign’s central slogans declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is good for rich people. Shelly is

good for you,” and one of the party’s most public new faces was 2011 social protest leader Stav Shaffir.

Now one of the party’s freshmen is one of Israel’s wealthiest and most successful venture capitalists.

Margalit, 51, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners, has been declared “king of the exits” by the Marker, Haaretz’s business magazine. From 2000 to 2010, he presided over seven $100 million exits, or sales of stakes in companies — the most in Israel.

But Labor’s social-democratic values speak to Margalit. He grew up on a kibbutz and in 2002 he founded JVP Community, a fund to address social issues in Jerusalem. One of its flagship programs is Bakehila, Hebrew for “in the community,” which organizes educational programs for disadvantaged Jewish and Arab children.

After Labor split and fell to a historic nadir of eight seats in 2011, Margalit founded the Labor Now organization to recruit new members to the party and reinvigorate its values. He ran for the party chairmanship that year but dropped out of the race.

Margalit may still harbor leadership ambitions. After Labor won 15 seats last week, he criticized Yachimovich’s campaign focus for the party’s failure to do better.

“We should have expressed ourselves more clearly over our foreign policy agenda,” he said, according to the daily Israel Hayom.

When he was a child, Margalit lived in Detroit for two years. He later earned a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University.

Orit Struk (Jewish Home)Struk, who comes from one of the most ideological com-munities in the west bank, will have to pass through a check-point or two on her commute to her new job in the Knesset. She lives in Hebron, where she runs the Jewish community’s legal and diplomatic division and has made her home for 30 years.

A mother of 11 and grandmother of 12, Struk also is the founder and chairwoman of Human Rights in Yesha, an organization that advocates for settlers’ rights. In that capacity, Struk has fought against alleged abuse of settlers by soldiers and policemen, and advocated for the rights of those who protested Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.

Struk, 52, also runs the Land of

Israel lobby in the Knesset that fought for settlement expansion and legalizing settlement outposts.

Days before the election, in the wake of the release of a video of Jeremy Gimpel, another Jewish Home candidate, speaking enthusiastically about the Dome of the Rock exploding, Struk said, “We pray that the Temple will rise again in Jerusalem.”

At times, Struk was described as a liability in Bennett’s campaign to present

Jewish Home as an inclusive right-wing party, not a settlers’ party. But in an interview shortly before the election with Israel’s Channel 2, Bennett denied she was a liability.

“I’m not hiding Orit Struk,” he said. “In every party, people vote with their conscience and it’s okay that among 15 people, we’ll have a representative of the right.”

Shimon Solomon (Yesh Atid)Solomon, 44, has come a long way to the Knesset. When he was 12, Solomon set out on foot with his family from Ethiopia, getting through Sudan to Israel.

Later, after becoming a social worker, he returned to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. From 2005 to 2007 he helped others follow in his footsteps. He also works with Physicians for Human Rights as an advocate for refugees and is a former director of the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, a center for orphans of the Rwandan genocide.

The future of refugees and migrants in Israel has been a topic of heated debate over the last year or two.

“He reminds me of my father,” said Lapid, the Yesh Atid chairman and son of

late Israeli politician Tommy Lapid, as he introduced Solomon as a candidate in November. “My father was an immigrant. He came here in a ship from another country without knowing a word of Hebrew. And like Shimon, when he set foot in Israel, it became his.”

Solomon responded by promoting an ethic of service. “Everyone needs to give of what he has, even if he doesn’t have much,” he said.

Solomon served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ paratroopers unit and is a

reserve officer. He is one of two Ethiopians on Yesh Atid’s list along with Pnina Tamnu-Shata, the first Ethiopian woman to be elected to the Knesset.

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American-born Rabbi Dov Lipman of the Yesh Atid party says there is no contradiction between working, serving the coun-try, and being cha-redi. Yossi Zeliger/

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New Jewish Home Knesset member Orit Struk, shown here looking through a window of her Hebron home, which had been pierced by bullets. Flash90/JTa

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Victim of shootings in Seattle speaks out for gun controlVANCOUVER, Canada – Cheryl Stumbo, a victim in the 2006 Seattle Jewish federation shootings, has begun ad-vocating for stricter gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Conn.

After years of mass shootings, Stumbo decided to use her personal experience to fight the American gun lobby by telling her story, she told the Seattle Times in an interview published on Sunday. She said she believes the more visible gun violence victims are, the quicker public opinion will shift.

“Victims of gun violence are walking around every day,” Stumbo, 50, told the Times. “You know someone, or they know someone, who was shot or had a gun held to their heads.”

Stumbo, who is not Jewish, said it took her six years of therapy to feel comfortable speaking publicly about the event, but after 20 elementary students and six school staffers were killed in the Newtown shootings, she de-cided it was time to speak.

“When Newtown happened, I had made the decision that I was going to do something about this,” Stumbo said. “I was going to use my personal perspective to help people understand.”

Stumbo, who worked as the marketing director for the Jewish federation, also was interviewed by local Seattle news channel King 5, an NBC affiliate.

The shooting at the Seattle Jewish federation took place on July 28, 2006, on a late Friday afternoon. Much of the staff had left to prepare for Shabbat, Stumbo said, when she stepped out of her office into the hallway and found herself staring down the barrel of a gun. The gun-man, Naveed Afzal Haq, shot Stumbo in the rib cage with a hollow-point bullet.

The shooting resulted in beefed-up security at Jewish institutions around the United States.

Stumbo was one of six women who was shot. Pam Waechter, 58, the director of annual giving at the federa-tion, was killed.

In Belgium, Moshe Friedman loses latest round on coed classesTHE HAGUE – The Belgian judge who forced a girls’ school to admit two sons of Moshe Friedman refused a separate petition to enroll the charedi Orthodox pariah’s daughters at a boys’ yeshiva.

According to the Belgian Jewish publication Joods Actueel, on Monday the judge cited procedural issues in rejecting the motion by Friedman, a father of eight who filed a request for an injunction against the Yavne Yeshiva, a boys’ religious seminary.

Last month the judge issued an injunction order-ing a girls’ school, Benoth Jerusalem, to admit two of Friedman’s sons. They started studying there on January 7.

Friedman, 40, is an anti-Zionist campaigner who has been excommunicated by the institutions and many members of Antwerp’s charedi community, including the Jewish school that refused to enroll his children. In 2006 he attended a conference of Holocaust deniers in Tehran and hugged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

In rejecting Friedman’s petition against the Yavne Yeshiva, the judge said she could not issue a temporary injunction in summary proceedings on a “permanent issue.”

Benoth Jerusalem is appealing the injunction forcing it to enroll the two boys, Joods Actueel reported.

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Israeli officials order halt to pressure in contraception of Ethiopian womenBen SaleS

TEL AVIV – Following a TV report alleging that Ethiopian Israeli women were being given contraceptive shots against their will, Israel’s Health Ministry has ordered physicians to put a stop to the practice.

The report, broadcast December 8 on the “Vacuum” investigative news program on Israeli Educational Television, alleged that Ethiopian immigrants were coerced or coaxed into receiving Depo-Provera, a long-term contraceptive shot that lasts three months, both by Jewish aid officials before their immigration to Israel and by health workers once they arrived in Israel.

In the last decade, births among Ethiopian women in Israel have fallen by nearly 50 percent, according to the report.

Last week, the Health Ministry instructed doctors to stop administering the shots unless women ask for them and understand their ramifications.

The ministry’s directive, sent by Director General Ron Gamzu on January 20 in response to a petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, instructs doc-tors “not to renew prescriptions of Depo-Provera to women of Ethiopian origin or any other women who, for whatever reason, may not understand the treatment’s implications.”

The directive also instructs doctors to ask patients why they want to take the shot before administering it, and to use a translator if necessary. The directive does not confirm the allegations or acknowledge any wrongdoing.

“We didn’t give the shots,” ministry spokeswoman Einav Shimron Greenbaum said. “We didn’t give them to anyone. We still deny it today.”

The allegations extend as far back as the health clin-ics the women visited in Ethiopia before they immi-grated to Israel. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provides prospective Ethiopians immigrants with an array of health services at those clinics, including contraception.

“They said, ‘Come, there are vaccinations, gather everyone,’” Amawaish Alane, an Ethiopian immigrant to Israel, told “Vacuum” reporter Gal Gabbay in the December 8 broadcast. “We said we wouldn’t receive it.

They said, ‘You won’t move to Israel.’”Alana and others on the program charged that work-

ers at the JDC clinic told them it would be hard for them to work, get apartments, or survive in Israel with large families.

A woman identified as S. said on the program that she was told at the Jewish aid compound in Gondar, Ethiopia, that she wouldn’t get a ticket to Israel if she didn’t take the shot.

“I didn’t want to take it,” she said. “They wanted me to take it. But I didn’t know it was a contraceptive. I thought it was an immunization.”

JDC denies the charges.“At no time did JDC coerce anyone into engaging at

family planning at its clinics. Those options were totally voluntary and offered to women who requested it,” a JDC spokesman in New York said in December. “They chose the form of contraceptive based on being fully informed of all the options available to them.”

The “Vacuum” report alleged that the women contin-ued to be coaxed into receiving the shots once they im-migrated to Israel, often without knowing that what they were getting was contraception.

A spokesman for ACRI, which filed its petition after the December 8 report aired, said that ACRI is interested in preventing future unwanted contraceptive shots rath-er than casting blame.

“Admission of guilt is not what we’re about,” ACRI spokesman Marc Grey said. “It’s more about acknowl-edging that this occurred and making sure it doesn’t hap-pen again.”

The project coordinator for women and medical tech-nologies at Isha L’Isha, an Israeli feminist group that also signed the petition, praised the Health Ministry’s Gamzu for issuing the new directive.

“What he’s done is different from all the other state-ments from the Health Ministry, which blamed the women and said that’s what they want,” Hedva Eyal, the project coordinator, said. “He said maybe we made a mistake. We need to make sure this never happens to any group with any health issue.”

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Taste Court decision on anti-Semitic tweets emboldens European activistsCnaan Liphshiz

BRUSSELS – Immediately after a French court ordered Twitter to reveal details about users who had posted anti-Semitic messages, a proud Sacha Reingewirtz was already spreading the word about a judgment he helped win — via Twitter.

Within minutes of the January 24 ruling, the vice presi-dent of the Union of French Jewish Students was firing off tweets with the details of the decision. The Grand Instance Court in Paris, responding to a complaint filed by the union and several other groups last year, gave Twitter 15 days to hand over personal details of users suspected of posting anti-Semitic tweets in violation of France’s restric-tive laws on hate speech.

The court also imposed a $1,300 fine for every day that Twitter fails to comply, and ordered the company to set up a system that would flag illegal content for removal.

“It is a major victory for us and a legal breakthrough for others to use elsewhere in Europe,” Reingewirtz said.

The French ruling is the latest skirmish in the fight over the extent of free speech protections in the digital age, exposing the gap between Europe’s more restrictive post-Holocaust legislation on hate speech and the sweeping protections of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

It’s a rift that also runs through the Jewish world, with European Jewish groups hailing the ruling as an important bulwark against hate.

“Behind the anonymity that Twitter affords them, some European users feel safe to air out hateful views which they would not disseminate under their own names,” said Esther Voet, deputy director of CIDI, a Dutch Jewish watchdog on anti-Semitism. “But Twitter is also a public space, subject to the same laws that apply on the street.”

The Anti-Defamation League, an American group, of-fered a more muted response, and declined to directly address the substance of the court order to reveal the identities of the offending users.

“Whether the French court order can or should be enforced in the United States gives rise to complicated is-sues of French legal interests versus American legal inter-ests,” Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s national director, said. “While the law may be one tool in the fight against online hate, we believe that the best antidote to hate speech is counter-speech.”

Foxman also encouraged Twitter and other social me-dia companies to “protect readers from harmful, hateful content.”

The French lawsuit centers on thousands of tweets organized under the hashtag #unbonjuif (“a good Jew”). Hashtags are labels used to index tweets on a particular topic.

In October, a competition of anti-Semitic and Holocaust jokes was indexed with the #unbonjuif hashtag. A similar phenomenon developed this month in Spanish with the hashtag #esdeJudios, or “just like Jews.”

In meetings with Twitter attorneys, the union de-manded the removal of thousands of anti-Semitic tweets. Twitter agreed to block access to the tweets only in France. It also refused to delete the tweets entirely, set up a flag-ging system, or hand over details about users who were seen by UEJF as inciting hatred against Jews.

The union and other groups filed a complaint with the Paris court on October 23.

“Of the social networks, Twitter were the only ones to reject that they bear any responsibility for content put on their site,” said Mike Whine of the Community Security Trust, British Jewry’s security unit. “You have to remember that the social networks were started 10 years ago by col-lege kids, sometimes from their parents’ garages, who are

only now beginning to accept their social responsibilities. It’s a journey.”

Last year, Whine attended talks in San Francisco be-tween social media companies and representatives of European anti-racism organizations to discuss how social networks could address hate speech requirements in Europe. The last round of talks, which have not been made public, was held four months ago at Stanford University.

“The representatives of Twitter silently walked out when the time came to agree on something,” said Ronald Eissens, co-founder of the Dutch anti-racism group Magenta and director of Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet, a watchdog on cyber hate.

Subsequently, Twitter agreed to block German users from gaining access to the account of a banned neo-Nazi group in the first application of a company policy known as “country-withheld content,” the New York Times reported.

A spokesperson for Twitter declined JTA’s request for comment about the meetings and would say only that Twitter was “currently reviewing the court’s decision.”

In Europe, anti-racism activists see the ruling as a failure of such negotiations toward a modus vivendi that could bridge European hate-speech legislation and American constitutional protections.

“The ruling is important, as social networks are the main vehicle for hate speech today,” said Valentin Gonzalez, co-founder of the Movement against Intolerance in Spain, where a new law outlawing Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic speech is about to go into effect. “But it’s regrettable that an agreement could not be reached instead of litigation, which is the last re-sort. Litigation creates a bad atmosphere, but we will also sue only if we feel we are getting no cooperation.”

Others believe that imposing any domestic legislative limits on international online platforms is a step backward from the freedom of information they enable.

Paul da Silva, a French computer journalist, said the Paris ruling was “excessive” and would hide hate speech instead of addressing it. And Benjamin Bayart, president of the French Data Network — a nonprofit promoting the online accessibility of academic research — said French prosecutors should “not hold the medium responsible for the content.”

But European judges and legislators are more atten-tive to European history and the lessons of the Holocaust, according to Ronny Naftaniel, the executive vice chairper-son of CEJI, a Brussels-based Jewish organization promot-ing tolerance through education.

“We have experienced what incitement can do and countering it is part of our commitment to the concept of ‘never again,’” Naftaniel said.

Nowhere are societies more open to both arguments than in Eastern Europe, according to Rafal Pankowski of the Polish group Never Again. Poland has resisted ratifying the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime, fearing the censorship of online expression.

Pankowski argues that curbing online incitement is inevitable if the region’s young democracies are to retain their commitments to human rights and pluralism.

“There are hardly any Jews in Poland, so populists can’t even use them as scapegoats,” Pankowski said. “Yet there is anti-Semitism that is kept alive and being transmitted to younger generations through social networks. Ideally this would be stopped through dialogue with the social media, but they largely ignore our requests. So sometimes suing is the only way.”

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In two Oscar-nominated documentaries, Israel takes hits — and helps pays for itTom Tugend

LOS ANGELES – It’s hard to imagine two more divergent perspectives on Israeli-Palestinian relations: that of a Palestinian farmer whose village is resisting the encroachment of a nearby Jewish settle-ment and of the security service chiefs responsible for maintaining order in the Palestinian territories.

Surprisingly, however, these protago-nists in two documentaries vying for an Academy Award in the best documentary feature category come to much the same conclusion: that military force alone will neither solve the conflict nor assure the Jewish state’s survival.

“The Gatekeepers” presents the per-spectives of six men who headed Israel’s Shin Bet security agency over the past three decades. They are tough men, who oversaw such operations as the targeted assassinations of Hamas and other terror-ist leaders.

In “5 Broken Cameras,” a Palestinian farmer chronicles his village’s resistance to the construction of an Israeli settlement and to the soldiers who try to squelch their protests.

The tone of “5 Broken Cameras” is more emotional and “Gatekeepers” more intellectual, but both show that Israelis will accept a level of criticism too daunting for most Americans to stomach or for main-stream Hollywood to depict. And if that weren’t enough, the Israeli government actually helped pay for the production of both films.

“We Jews are masters of self-criticism,” Dror Moreh, the director of “Gatekeepers,” said in an interview at a Los Angeles hotel. “It’s in our genes.”

The six Shin Bet heads featured in “Gatekeepers” vary as much as the prime ministers who appointed them, but they share a hard-headed intellect and a dis-dain for most of Israel’s politicians, past and present.

Avraham Shalom, who headed the Shin Bet from 1980 to 1986, is the oldest of the six. He helped track down and kidnap the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and pursued both the Arab perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and extremist Jewish west bank settlers.

Dressed in plaid shirt and red suspend-ers, the avuncular Shalom sets much of the tone for his successors, who generally agree that despite the rebuffs and failures, Israel must try to negotiate with the Palestinians and take some tentative steps on the path to peace.

“Negotiate with anyone?” Moreh asks somewhat incredulously in the film.

“Yes, anyone,” Shalom answers, even Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Yaakov Peri, who took the post in 1988, was the key figure in battling the second

intifada, setting up a vast network of Palestinian informers and collaborators, and allegedly authorizing “exceptional practices” during Shin Bet interrogations. Yet Peri reflects in the film on “the memo-ries etched deep inside you … when you retire, you become a bit of a leftist.”

Moreh said his most surprising mo-ment came when interviewing Yuval Diskin, who served as Shin Bet head from 2005 to 2011. Moreh asked for Diskin’s re-action to a quote by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, a left-wing academic who asserted that Israel’s control over the west bank would lead to the Jewish state’s inexorable moral corruption.

To Moreh’s astonishment, Diskin nod-ded in agreement, saying, “Every word is [written] in stone.”

Emad Burnat, the cameraman, nar-rator, and co-director of “5 Broken Cameras,” is a world removed from the well-educated, commanding Shin Bet chiefs of “Gatekeepers.”

A Palestinian farmer, his family has cul-tivated the land of Bil’in, a village of 1,900 just east of where Israel separates from the west bank. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born in 2005, he gets a video camera to record the boy’s infancy and childhood, as well as the surrounding village life.

At about the same time, the religious settlement of Modi’in Illit is established nearby, protected by a fence that bars the village farmers from much of their land and their olive groves. The villagers respond with weekly demonstrations. Israeli soldiers are called in to prevent the villagers from marching on the settlement, escalating the confrontation.

A self-taught photographer, Burnat and his camera capture the events, to the annoyance of the soldiers. Although some blood is spilled later on, the initial casual-ties are the cameras, which are smashed, replaced, and smashed again.

Five cameras go down, but the sixth is still doing duty today, Burnat says by phone from Bil’in.

Among the Israeli sympathizers who join the Bi’lin protesters is Guy Davidi, a Tel Aviv filmmaker who befriends Burnat and his family.

Two years ago, Burnat showed Davidi his huge cache of video footage, with the idea of fashioning it into a documentary. Davidi signed on as co-director and pro-ducer, raising $334,000, including $50,000 from government-funded Israel Film Council.

Though it sounds like an unalloyed success story, the film’s road to Oscar con-tention became a little bumpy after initial media reports in Israel and the United States trumpeted the unprecedented feat by “two Israeli films.” The claim justifiably

angered Burnat, opened him to criticism from his Palestinian compatriots, and led to a boycott of the film in Arab countries.

“This is a Palestinian film,” Burnat said. “It’s about my village, and mine is the ma-jor contribution.”

Under Academy Awards rules, docu-mentaries are not entered by countries (as is the case for foreign-language feature movies) but by individual filmmakers and their distributors. So “5 Broken Cameras” is officially labeled as a Palestinian-Israeli-French co-production.

The film illustrates one other point, too. As in most films by Palestinians, Israeli characters may be shown as unwelcome interlopers, but they are not made into monsters or Nazis.

“Many of the west bank Palestinians have worked in Israel as construction workers, gardeners, and so forth,” Davidi said. “They speak our language and know more about us than we know about them. Even if they hate us, they understand something about the complexity of our society.”

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Place onions in a pot and lay the meat and bones on top of it. Pour in 1/8 cup of olive oil, turmeric, pep-per, paprika, and salt. Chop the tomatoes and put on top. heat on medium to high flame. Once the water is released from the meat and the onions — about 10 minutes — bring to a boil. Cover and lower the flame to medium.

after 1 hour of cooking time add the haricots verts, brussels sprouts, cashews, garlic cloves, 1 tablespoon turmeric, 1/2 tablespoons paprika, 1/2 tablespoon salt, 1/2 tablespoon chicken consommé, and 1 teaspoon black pepper. add 1/2 cup of boiling water, 1/4 cup wine, and 1 bunch of parsley, chopped. One-quarter of the way up the meat and vegetables, add more if nec-essary. Cook until tender, about 2 hours.

**Good substitute is flanken or beef osso buco.

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Susie Fishbein coming to TeaneckCareOne at Teaneck is hosting “Healthy Kosher Cooking” with Susie Fishbein on Wednesday, February 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at CareOne, 544 Teaneck Road.

Fishbein, author of the “Kosher by Design” series, has just published “Kosher by Design Cooking Coach.”

To RSVP for the free event, which includes a book signing, and food demo, email [email protected] or call (210) 862-3300. Space is limited.

There is a recipe from Fishbein’s new book for Crustless Meat and Onion Pie on the Cooking With Beth Blog at www.jstandard.com.

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Golan Heights Winery releases limited cabernet sauvignonGolan Heights Winery, the lead-ing premium winery in Israel, has released the 2009 Yarden Cabernet Sauvignon El Rom Vineyard. The wine’s 2009 vin-tage represents the sixth time that the winery has released this single-vineyard wine, and the third year in a row following the previous release of its 2007 and 2008 editions. Additionally, the 2008 vintage just received the highest score of any Israeli wine in the latest edition of Robert Parker’s famous Wine Advocate magazine.

According to the winery, “the wine goes wonderfully with a roasted rack of lamb, a juicy rib eye steak, or a generous chunk of aged Gruyere.”

www.golanwines.co.ilOU kosher water chosen for Obama’s inaugurationWater from the Saratoga Spring Water Company, which has been bottling spring water products on the same site in upstate New York since 1872, was chosen by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to be served at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

The company’s unflavored spring water products, both sparkling and non-sparkling, are certified kosher, pareve, and for Passover, by the Orthodox Union.

“Saratoga Spring water has long been one of my beverages of choice, so when given the opportunity to share its iconic blue bottle with hundreds of guests at the Presidential Inauguration, it was a no brainer,” Schumer said. “I am honored to have been selected to plan the festivities at the presidential inauguration, particularly because it allows me to showcase this capital region company and its superior product at the 57th inauguration.”

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Sinai and RYNJ staff work togeth-er on an individu-alized inclusion plan.

Today, Sinai Schools serves 110.“People started coming here from everywhere,”

Greene said. “Some people even moved here from other parts of the country. Our biggest disappointment was that we had to turn away kids” — the program was unable to accommodate children with physical disabilities. “It was heartbreaking, but we could only handle people within a certain range.”

As news of the program spread through word of mouth, “it took off like wildfire.” And not only did it benefit the special needs population, “but it had a tremendous effect on the population of the school itself.”

While some HYA children teased the newcomers at first, “in very short order the school became an example of chesed in action. The older children became protective of the younger children. It changed the tenor of school” — even affecting the teachers and custodians.

Greene said that his original dream was to have a Sinai school in every yeshiva. At the very least, he longed to see the program spread to Bergen County.

Despite having “doors slammed in my face,” the program did indeed take root in a number of local schools, at both the elementary and the high school level.

Greene said the biggest challenge to the program is the high cost of tuition, “which is why these dinners are so important.” The problem is especially acute for parents who have more than one child in the program.

“We have overcome the reticence of parents to acknowledge that their kids have a problem,” he said. “Originally, that was a major obstacle. But now fundraising is the major problem because the services Sinai offers are second to none, but it costs to have highly trained people in both general and Jewish studies.”

Still, he said, “Sinai has exceeded my original goals. It’s far beyond what I could have imagined when I started the little program in my school.” He pointed out that when he left HYA, he, in effect, left Sinai, though he has remained unofficially involved.

“I’m very proud of the establishment of this program and the help it has brought to families,” he said. “You can’t imagine the joy it has brought to parents and grandparents. You can’t measure that.”

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“A growing number of shuls are thinking about the kind of food they’re serving. Does the fact that a two-liter bottle of soda has a hekhsher, a kosher certification, mean we should serve it if the rates of diabetes are going up and the plastic takes a thousand years to decompose? Let’s ask some of these questions for real, and through a Jewish lens,” he said.

What does it mean to eat sustainably?“It may mean eating a balanced diet. For most of us

today, it means partly unlearning how we grew up and eating less saturated fat, less meat, less tuna fish, more vegetables, more greens. Generally eating a diet that’s healthier for us as human beings. That’s a diet that will help us to lose weight, and to die less of the diseases of contemporary society like heart disease and cancers and diabetes.

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“Healthy and sustainable in relationship to the atmo-sphere means putting out less methane and carbon di-oxide. That means having fewer cows, because methane has a significant impact on climate change.

“The Jewish rhythms around eating turn out to be healthy,” Savage said. “When I worked on the English version of Wall Street, I ate great meals five days a week. Our grandparents ate well on Shabbat but the rest of the week ate much more simply. The rabbis of the Talmud fasted on Monday and Thursday.

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This week we read the magnif-icent verses known in English as The Ten Commandments.

Commandments two through ten are similar: do this, don’t do that. But the First Commandment is different. “I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”

Our rabbis understood that this com-mand is the foundation of them all: a statement of belief in God. Only after one has made a firm commitment to the reality of God would one be ready to serve the Divine through observing the remainder of the commandments, and indeed, the entire Torah. Yet, if you want a statement making the best case for the existence of God, wouldn’t it be more persuasive to say, “I am the Creator of the universe?” After all, many people find a sense of transcendence by experi-encing the wonders of the natural world. Why start with the Exodus from slavery, instead of the creation?

Our rabbis teach that we could look at a Creator of the universe as something vast and impersonal, too far away to touch us as individuals. But the image of

God who frees us from slavery is a God that is personal. More than that: God wants us to underline the miracles in our lives and to cultivate our gratitude for all the wonders in our day. The miracle of freedom is the prime example of the many Divine blessings we experience, all of which lead us to gratitude.

This concept of focusing on our bless-ings and strengthening our sense of grat-itude is the theme of the prayer called the Modim, which we say in every prayer service, three times a day. “We give thanks to You for all the miracles that are with us, morning, noon and night.” Judaism teaches us to become re-sensi-tized to all the goodness in our lives that we might take for granted: a comfy place to live, indoor plumbing, ample food and clean water, a familiar bed, family and friends, freedom from slavery. The First Commandment presents us with the image of God freeing us from slavery as a reminder to cultivate our gratitude for all the blessings we experience in the course of our days.

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tors and therapists who were working on her medical problems, the many support staff in the hospital who kept the place running so smoothly. She explained that through her gratitude, she was able to feel the Divine Presence accompanying her, a relationship which brought her strength. Through her own good cheer, “Mrs. Green” brought a sparkle to the eyes of those who interacted with her, making them feel appreciated, brighten-ing their day. “Mrs. Green” understood the secret of the First Commandment, that the foundation of Torah is feeling gratitude for the Divine miracles of daily life.

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Anyone who has ever met Ed Koch remembers the moment. The 88-year-old former New York

City mayor is a large and unforgettable presence, whether you met him on the street, doing what he does best — poli-ticking — or watched him give his opin-ion on something — Ed Koch always has an opinion.

Koch once attended a film screening about French Jews at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. I was there too. From the audience, I watched as Koch, a very proud Jew, went on to rail for a full three minutes about how all French people are anti-Semitic.

Now, finally, a filmmaker has taken on New York’s three-time mayor — he served from 1978 to 1989 — and captured this larger-than-life man on film.

“Koch” is Wall Street Journal reporter and hedge fund manager Neil Barsky’s first film. He does a masterful job following the iconic mayor’s daily activities.

Koch almost never stops. Despite three hospitalizations this year, he does not like sitting idly by. He still stomps for candidates, and his political endorsements, never tied to one party or ideology, still carry a great deal of weight. In the last election, Koch supported Barack Obama, and Democratic Party operatives saw Jewish Florida voting heavily Democratic. A Koch endorsement

still holds that kind of sway.Barsky follows Koch around the city

in order to provide a framework for his look back at a career that began with a failed run for State Assembly. He then shows how this little-known liberal congressman from Greenwich Village went on to wrestle with Mayor Abe Beame, Mario Cuomo, and three other well-established candidates, win the Democratic nomination, and become mayor. This was as New York City was on the edge of bankruptcy. Barsky looks at that fateful 1977 mayoral campaign, when accusations that Koch was gay almost put him out of contention. He shows how media guru David Garth brought in Bess Meyerson, the former Miss America, to join him on the campaign trail, often holding Koch’s hand, to mute the rumors and help him win.

Barsky amasses an amazing amount of footage to show us the combative figure

who ferociously took on his critics, fought to keep New York solvent, and went to Washington to secure financial backing as President Ford indicated that the federal government would not bail out the city. One of the more interesting moments that the filmmaker inserts is the exchange between then U.S. Senate Banking Committee chairman William Proxmire and the combative mayor about why New York should or should not get assistance. Koch loves his city and he made sure that the senators at the hearing understood that the nation’s well-being was tied closely to New York’s health. As we know, the city got the aid it needed and emerged from the crisis a stronger, better, and more fiscally responsible entity.

If you love contemporary history and are fascinated by how one person can make a difference, then you will thoroughly enjoy this movie. Barsky treats his subject not simply as the city’s 1970s

Koch

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savior, which in many ways he was, but as the combative and feisty person who made and continues to make as many enemies as he does friends. This comes through clearly as we sit in on the 2011 New York City Council vote that was to determine whether the Queensborough Bridge was to be renamed the Ed Koch Bridge. The votes in favor are far from unanimous. Some cite betrayals, others scandals in Koch’s third term that reached the highest levels of his administration. Yet, all in all, this mayor comes out of each and every fight as an honest and decent person. He remains unusually blunt, a characteristic generally missing in today’s politics. Koch talks about his decision to finally close Harlem’s Sydenham Hospital. The facility cost the city millions of dollars each year, but previous administrations saw the move as politically not feasible. He laments the decision as having cost him dearly as a politician, but sees it as the right thing to have done at a time when the city was fighting serious financial woes.

One of the segments touches on the election of Andrew Cuomo as governor. At one point in the campaign, Koch, having endorsed him, joins the junior Cuomo on stage, the two sharing warm words in a show of solidarity. But the animus between Koch and the Cuomos, which dates back to Mario Cuomo’s defeat in the mayoral primary and Koch’s loss to Cuomo five years later in the gubernatorial primary, is clear. Barsky catches a classic Koch moment as the mayor, waiting at the hotel where the newly elected Cuomo is to speak on the eve of his 2010 election victory, is told that Cuomo will not receive him until after he has spoken. Koch, leaving the hall disgusted at what he sees as a rebuff, simply calls the newly elected governor a schmuck.

There are moments that baffle us but add to our understanding of this unique person. Why does this man, so comfortable as an American Jew, choose Trinity Church’s cemetery as his final resting place? With typical Kochian logic, he explains that he cannot fathom being buried anywhere but in Manhattan. To be buried in some gated and locked Jewish cemetery that nobody can reach? No. Etched on the memorial stone, already prepared and ready, are a Jewish star and the Shema. Also on the stone, borrowing the last words uttered by journalist Daniel Pearl just before he was murdered by terrorists in 2002, is this proud Jew’s epitaph: “My Father is Jewish. My Mother is Jewish. I am Jewish!”

The film ends with The Mayor standing at the entrance to the bridge that will now bear his name. Whatever you want to say about Ed Koch, he truly bridged the gap and again made New York the Big Apple, cultural capital of the world. Michael Bloomberg may run New York today, but Ed Koch will always be The Mayor. May he reign till 120!!!

“Koch” opens in New York today at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and the Angelika Film Center.

Ed Koch and Bess Meyerson ride the bus during the 1977 mayoral campaign.

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friday [february 1]

Rabbi Moshe Stepansky Courtesy JCt

Shabbat in Teaneck Rabbi Moshe Stepansky, an associate of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, returns to the Jewish Center of Teaneck for Shabbat Yitro. During services at 4:55 p.m., he will discuss “One People.” On Shabbat afternoon, after Minchah, which starts at 4:45 p.m, the topic will be “Unity: from the Cosmic to the Personal.” 70 Sterling Place. (201) 833-0515.

Tot Shabbat Temple Sinai of Bergen County’s Early Childhood Center hosts Tot Shabbat for families with young children. Services at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner. 1 Engle St. (201) 568-6867 or [email protected].

Shabbat in Paramus The Young Jewish Families club of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus hosts a service and program for young families and children, 13 and younger, 7:30 p.m. Oneg/playtime in the gym follow. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691 or [email protected].

Shabbat in Teaneck Temple Emeth offers family services, 7:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El offers “Ruach Shabbat,” an informal/interactive evening with a choice of Shabbat experiences, including a healing prayer, 7:30 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Jersey City Cong. B’nai Jacob offers Friday Night Live! services with

wednesday [february 6]

Caregiver support A support group for those caring for the physically frail or suffering from Alzheimer’s disease meets at the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m. Topics include long-term care options, financial planning, legal concerns, and the personal toll of caregiving. Amy Matthews of the Alzheimer’s Association will discuss “Communication: A Key to Understanding Behavior.” Shelley Steiner, (201) 784-1414, ext. 5340.

Help for the modern Jewish woman The Rosh Chodesh Society, an international Chabad-sponsored Jewish sisterhood with 350 chapters, which recently launched its newest chapter for NW Bergen County, offers “Self-Help and Spirituality for the Modern Jewish Woman,” 11 a.m., and on Monday nights at 8 p.m., through June 10. It is part of RSC’s newest course, “It’s About Time: Kabbalistic Insights for Taking Charge of Your Life.” Sponsored by the Chabad Jewish Center in Franklin Lakes. 375 Pulis Ave. Mimi Kaplan, (201) 560-2640 or www.chabadplace.org.

Take care of your back Isaak Gorelov, director of health and wellness at the Bergen County YJCC, and Alison Witzmann, kinesiology professor at William Paterson University, offer a discussion/demonstration of effective exercise and stretching techniques to help alleviate back problems at the YJCC, 1 p.m. Sponsored by the Valley Hospital. 605 Pascack Road. (201) 666-6610, ext. 5710, or [email protected].

Movie in Fair Lawn The sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom screens “Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort,” 7 p.m. $5 donation for Superstorm Sandy Relief Fund. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

thursday [february 7]

Discussing the prophet Isaiah Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, asks “Why Is Isaiah the Most Oft-Cited Biblical Prophet?” at the JCC, 10:30 a.m. (201) 408-1429 or www.jccotp.org.

Introduction to Judaism Temple Beth El in Closter offers a 16-week educational class sponsored by the Union for Reform Judaism, 7 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Healthy bones Orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Feldman discusses “Healthy Bones and Joints” for ETC Hadassah at a private home in Cresskill, 7:30 p.m. (201) 768-2374 or [email protected].

Cooking for women Chef Jack Silverstein of “Jack’s Gourmet” in Brooklyn demonstrates “How to Prepare Shabbos in One Hour,” with menus, recipes, and tastings, at Chabad of Teaneck, 8 p.m. 513 Kenwood Place. (917) 907-0686 ext. 11 or [email protected].

friday [february 8]

Shabbat in Teaneck Carlebach-style davening is at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, 5 p.m. On Saturday Rabbi Lawrence Zierler discusses “The Green Torah: Judaism and the Environment” at

a wine-pairing seminar with the executive chef from Teaneck’s ETC Steakhouse. 240 Broad Ave. (201) 568-1315 or www.ahavathtorah.org.

sunday [february 3]

Tefillin event/bone marrow drive Temple Emanu-El of Closter participates in the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs’ World Wide Wrap to spread the mitzvah of tefillin, 9 a.m. Breakfast served. Bone marrow donor drive until 11:30 for Smiles for Shira, a mother of three who needs a donor match. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997.

Tefillin event in Fair Lawn Temple Beth Sholom participates in the World Wide Wrap, 9 a.m. Bagel breakfast. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

Pre-K program in Ridgewood The Northern New Jersey Jewish Academy, a collaborative Hebrew school with Temple Israel and JCC, Ridgewood; Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck; Kol Haneshama, Englewood; Temple Beth Sholom, Fair Lawn; and Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, Franklin Lakes, offers a free monthly pre-K program at Temple Israel, 9:30 a.m. 475 Grove St. (201) 444-9320 or [email protected].

War veterans meet in Teaneck The Teaneck/New Milford Post #498 Jewish War Veterans meets for breakfast at the American Legion Building, 9:30 a.m. Prospective members welcome. 650 American Legion Drive. Past Commander Stan Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.

Bagels/preschool class The JCC of Paramus’ Young Families Club offers a bagel and schmooze breakfast at 9:30 a.m. and the Candle Club, a monthly pre-K holiday class with stories, music, arts and crafts, and nut-free snacks, at 9:45. (201) 262-7733 or [email protected].

Tefillin event in Cliffside Park Temple Israel Community Center/Congregation Heichal Yisrael participates in the World Wide Wrap, 10 a.m. Open to all. Bagels served. 207 Edgewater Road. (201) 945-7310.

monday [february 4]

Hebrew Etia Segall teaches “Understanding the Hebrew of the Torah” through May 20 at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, 9:30 a.m., and advanced beginner Hebrew reading at 11:30. Hebrew reading classes are made possible in part by the Henry and Beate Voremberg Institute for Jewish Studies Endowment Fund. (201) 408-1429 or www.jccotp.org.

Blood drive in Teaneck Holy Name Medical Center holds a blood drive with New Jersey Blood Services in the bloodmobile in the hospital parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718 Teaneck Road. (800) 933-BLOOD or www.nybloodcenter.org.

tuesday [february 5]

Canasta The YJCC in Washington Township begins a six-week canasta class with Andrea Hershan, 7:30 p.m. 605 Pascack Road. Jill, (201) 666-6610 ext. 5812 or [email protected].

Hebrew prayers Cantor Sam Weiss begins a six-session course, “Penetrating Our Hebrew Prayers,” at the Jewish Community Center of Paramus, 8:15 p.m. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691.

Cantor Marsha Dubrow, 8 p.m. 176 West Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.org.

Shabbat in Emerson Congregation B’nai Israel offers its casual “Catskill Shabbat” service; Rabbi Debra Orenstein and Cantor Lenny Mandel share memories, history, and humor of summers in the Catskill Mountains’ borscht belt, “ 7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

saturday [february 2]

Shabbat in Teaneck Rabbi Jeffrey Beinenfeld of Jerusalem is the scholar-in-residence at Congregation Arzei Darom for Parashat Yitro. After Adon Olam, at approximately 11:15 a.m., he will discuss “Of Blessing & Miracles: Heroism in the Everyday.” After seudat shilishit at 5 p.m., he will discuss “Kibud Av v’Em & the 10th Commandment.” Collations sponsored by the Bienenfeld and Distenfeld families. 725 Queen Anne Road. (201) 836-1035 or www.arzeidarom.org.

Havdalah in Closter Temple Beth El invites families with children, 2 to 5, to Pajama Havdalah, with Tu Bi-Sh’vat stories, songs, and crafts, followed by pizza, 4 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.

Community Torah learning Sweet Tastes of Torah, a community night of study, discussion, music, and fun, presented by the North Jersey Board of Rabbis with support from the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and local synagogues, is at Temple Emeth in Teaneck. Registration, 6:30 p.m.; musical Havdalah, 6:50. Snow date February 9. (201) 652-1687 or www.jfnnj.org/sweettorah.

Wine sale/seminar The sisterhood and Road Scholars of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood host a pre-Passover wine sale, with more than 200 wines to sample, including Scotch and kosher-for-Passover liquors. Discount for purchases. Sale begin at 8 p.m., at 8:30 there will be


Louis Kosma ,Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra music director and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra bassist, leads the ensemble in a concert. Courtesy JCCotP

The JCC Thurnauer School of Music will hold its Winter Orchestra Concert, Wednesday, February 6, 7 p.m., in the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades’ Taub Auditorium, 411 East Clinton Ave. Performances by The Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra, String Camerata, and Philharmonia. (201) 408-1465 or jccotp.org/thurnauer.

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sunday [february 10]

Brunch in Caldwell New Jersey Jewish Singles 45+ meets for brunch and games at Congregation Agudath Israel, 11:30 a.m. 20 Academy Road. (973) 226-3600, meetup.com (use group name) or [email protected].

tuesday [february 19]

The dating world The Orthodox Union Singles Connection with Congregation Shearith Israel of Manhattan present “Text, Email, Phone, or [Gasp] In-Person Conversation: Matching the Medium to the Message in the Dating World,” for singles 22-35, 7 p.m. Moderators include Marc Goldmann, founder of Saw You at Sinai; social worker Naomi Mark; Helen Greenfield, Saw You at Sinai matchmaker; Sandy Weiner, dating coach; Baila Sebrow, matchmaker; and Michael Feldstein, member of the Singles Task Force Committee, YU Connects. Refreshments. 2 West 70th St. (212) 613-8300 or www.oucommunity.org.

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sunday [february 3]

Tefillin event in Orangeburg The Orangetown Jewish Center participates in the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs’ World Wide Wrap to spread the mitzvah of tefillin, 8:45 a.m. 8 Independence Ave. (845) 359-5920 or [email protected].

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Family concert The Jewish Museum presents the Grammy Award-nominated Pop Ups performing songs from its new album, “Radio Jungle,” 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 3 at 2:00 pm. 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3337 or TheJewishMuseum.org.


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Leonard Cohen Journalists uncover the life and times of Leonard Cohen at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 7 p.m. Music journalist Sylvie Simmons, author of “I’m Your Man:

his tisch with participants after the 9 a.m. service. Kinder Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds, while parents attend services, 10:30. (201) 833-0515 or www.jcot.org.

Shabbat in Closter Rabbi David S. Widzer and Cantor Rica Timman of Temple Beth El lead a Purim-themed tot Shabbat, 5:15 p.m., with songs, stories, and crafts. Chinese dinner at 5:45. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Paramus The JCC of Paramus hosts a catered Shabbat dinner, 6:45 p.m.; services at 8:30. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691 or [email protected].

Shabbat in Emerson Congregation B’nai Israel’s monthly intergenerational drumming circle celebrates Purim, 8 p.m. Drums provided; attendees can bring a percussion instrument. 53 Palisade Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

saturday [february 9]

Comedy in Wayne Congregation Shomrei Torah offers a comedy event with monologist Jon Fisch, Sherry Davey, who recently was named one of the “Top 10 Comedians in NYC” by Improper Magazine, and Moody McCarthy, 7:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres, dessert, and beer and wine for purchase. 30 Hinchman Ave. (973) 696-2500.

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Movie Toni Braxton stars in “Twist of Faith,” on Lifetime, 8 p.m.

sunday [february 10]

Film in Leonia Congregation Adas Emuno offers “Bagels and Boxing,” with a screening of “Impact: Jewish Boxers in America,” 9:30 a.m. Producer/director James Ford Nussbaum will discuss his film, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of America’s great Jewish boxers. Bagels and coffee. 254 Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712 or www.adasemuno.org.

Benefit spinning “Ride to Provide” to raise money for local food pantries and family service organizations, sponsored by Temple Emanu-El of Closter, is at CORE Fitness, Closter, 9:45-11:45 a.m. Water, Gatorade, healthy snacks, and goodie bag with shirt for each rider. 91 Ruckman Road. (201) 750-9997 or [email protected].

Responding to anti-Israel rhetoric Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck hosts a program for Jewish high school juniors and seniors on learning how to respond to anti-Israel rhetoric on college campuses, 10:15 a.m. Co-sponsored by Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Jewish Community Relations Council, Stand Up For Israel, the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, and the New Jersey Anti-Defamation League. Light lunch served; dietary laws observed. 1650 Palisade Ave. www.jfnnj.org/jcrc.

Toddler program in Tenafly As part of the shul’s Holiday Happenings program, Temple Sinai of Bergen County offers a Purim-themed event, with music, stories, crafts, and snacks, for 4-year-olds and their parents, 10:45 a.m. 1 Engle St. (201) 568-6867 or [email protected].

Toddler program in Washington Township As part of the shul’s Holiday Happenings program, the sisterhood of Temple Beth Or offers a Purim-themed event with music, stories, crafts, and snacks, for 2- to 6-year-olds and their parents, 11:15 a.m. 56 Ridgewood Road. (201) 664-7422 or www.templebethornj.org.

David Broza in Closter The New York Board of Rabbis presents David Broza in concert at Temple Emanu-El, 6 p.m. The Jewish Standard is among the sponsors. Proceeds benefit New Jersey Superstorm Sandy victims. 180 Piermont Road. Jessica DiPaolo, (212) 983-3521 or [email protected].


Caregiver support A support group for those caring for the physically frail or suffering from Alzheimer’s disease meets at the Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m. Topics include long-term care options, financial planning, legal concerns, and the personal toll of caregiving. Amy Matthews of the Alzheimer’s Association will discuss “Communication: A Key to Understanding Behavior.” Shelley Steiner, (201) 784-1414, ext. 5340.

Help for the modern Jewish woman The Rosh Chodesh Society, an international Chabad-sponsored Jewish sisterhood with 350 chapters, which recently launched its newest chapter for NW Bergen County, offers “Self-Help and Spirituality for the Modern Jewish Woman,” 11 a.m., and on Monday nights at 8 p.m., through June 10. It is part of RSC’s newest course, “It’s About Time: Kabbalistic Insights for Taking Charge of Your Life.” Sponsored by the Chabad Jewish Center in Franklin Lakes. 375 Pulis Ave. Mimi Kaplan, (201) 560-2640 or www.chabadplace.org.

Take care of your back Isaak Gorelov, director of health and wellness at the Bergen County YJCC, and Alison Witzmann, kinesiology professor at William Paterson University, offer a discussion/demonstration of effective exercise and stretching techniques to help alleviate back problems at the YJCC, 1 p.m. Sponsored by the Valley Hospital. 605 Pascack Road. (201) 666-6610, ext. 5710, or [email protected].

Movie in Fair Lawn The sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom screens “Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort,” 7 p.m. $5 donation for Superstorm Sandy Relief Fund. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321.

thursday [february 7]

Discussing the prophet Isaiah Rabbi Reuven Kimelman, Judaic scholar-in-residence at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, asks “Why Is Isaiah the Most Oft-Cited Biblical Prophet?” at the JCC, 10:30 a.m. (201) 408-1429 or www.jccotp.org.

Introduction to Judaism Temple Beth El in Closter offers a 16-week educational class sponsored by the Union for Reform Judaism, 7 p.m. 221 Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 768-5112.

Healthy bones Orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Feldman discusses “Healthy Bones and Joints” for ETC Hadassah at a private home in Cresskill, 7:30 p.m. (201) 768-2374 or [email protected].

Cooking for women Chef Jack Silverstein of “Jack’s Gourmet” in Brooklyn demonstrates “How to Prepare Shabbos in One Hour,” with menus, recipes, and tastings, at Chabad of Teaneck, 8 p.m. 513 Kenwood Place. (917) 907-0686 ext. 11 or [email protected].

friday [february 8]

Shabbat in Teaneck Carlebach-style davening is at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, 5 p.m. On Saturday Rabbi Lawrence Zierler discusses “The Green Torah: Judaism and the Environment” at


Broadway performer teaching at JCCTim Connell, a Broadway star from “Nick and Nora,” is joining the drama faculty at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades to teach teens and adults. Connell also was featured in the “Mystery of Edwin Drood,” “West Side Story,” and “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”

He has directed all levels of theater in New York City and has been a featured teaching artist for high-level workshops for at least 15 years. He recently became the director of Urban Stages, a summer program for skilled young actors that performs in a major off-Off-Broadway theater.

At the JCC, he will teach the Comedy and Drama Workshop to 11- to 14-year-olds from 6:40 to 7:40 p.m. on Thursdays for 12 weeks. He also will teach a course for adults, Advanced Scene Study Workshop, from 7:45 to 9:15 pm on Thursdays for 10 weeks. Both classes begin February 7. For information, call Deborah Roberts at (201) 408-1492 or register online at www.jccotp.org.

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Museum trip plannedTemple Beth Or in Washington Township is hosting a trip to the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City on Sunday, March 3, leaving the shul at noon. The trip includes a guided tour of “Meeting Hate with Humanity,” which will focus on the Holocaust in Poland. For information call (201) 664-7422 or go to www.templebethornj.org.

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Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization sup-porting young women and their families of all Jewish backgrounds facing breast cancer, offers Purim cards. A package of 12 costs $36, with an additional $3 per order charge for shipping and handling. Shipping orders are due February 15; call (201) 833-2341 for orders larger than 10 packages. The cards also can be picked up in Sharsheret’s Teaneck office, 1086 Teaneck Road, Suite 3A, through February 21. Call (201) 833-2341 or go to www.sharsheret.org.

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Anxiety expert speaks in TenaflyDaniel Smith offers advice from his best-selling new book, “Monkey Mind, A Memoir of Anxiety,” on Thursday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m., at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. Smith is a featured author for the JCC’s annual James H. Grossmann Memorial Jewish Book Month.

Describing anxiety as “a state of being that colors the way a

person thinks, feels, and acts,” Smith writes about how it is like to live with the kind of anxiety that permeates every waking moment, affecting your body and mind, your friendships and relationships, your work and your will.

A book signing and sale will take place after the presentation. Call (201) 408-1409 or go to www.jccotp.org/JBM.

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Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization sup-porting young women and their families of all Jewish backgrounds facing breast cancer, offers Purim cards. A package of 12 costs $36, with an additional $3 per order charge for shipping and handling. Shipping orders are due February 15; call (201) 833-2341 for orders larger than 10 packages. The cards also can be picked up in Sharsheret’s Teaneck office, 1086 Teaneck Road, Suite 3A, through February 21. Call (201) 833-2341 or go to www.sharsheret.org.

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‘Little Mermaid’ in WayneTickets are on sale for the upcoming performances of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid, Jr.” at the Wayne YMCA. Children who live in Wayne and the surrounding area will perform the show on Saturday, February 9 at 7 p.m., and February 10 at 2 p.m.

The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of The YM-YWHA of North Jersey. The Y is located at 1 Pike Drive in Wayne. Call (973) 595-0100.

History of Jews in New York The Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust welcomes co-authors Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer for a discus-sion of their book, “Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920,” on Sunday, February 3, 1 p.m., 36 Battery Place. (646) 437-4202 or www.mjh-nyc.org.

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Chai Ko Tapas comedy night in TeaneckGet a jump start on your Purim festivities. Celebrate Rosh Chodesh Adar with a night of comedy at Chai Ko Tapas at 515 Cedar Lane on Saturday, February 9, at 8. Performers include Josh Rabinowitz, who was named one of Comedy Central’s 2011 “Comics to Watch” at the New York Comedy Festival in July. He also has been featured on Comedy Central’s “Live On Campus Tour” and “College Humor Live.” Eli Lebowicz also will perform. In 2009, he won Yeshiva University’s Last Comic Standing, and in 2010 he was runner-up. He performs at comedy clubs in New York City and at colleges around the country.

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We extend our sympathies to Richard and Gail Dukas, to their

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and Jerusalem.

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Ari and Shani Roth-WeinstockMazal tov to Ari and Shani Roth-Weinstock of Teaneck on the birth of their daugh-ter, Adi Batya. She is the sister of Tali and Gabi; granddaughter of Fern and Steve Roth of Passaic, and Susan and Uri Weinstock of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and the great-granddaughter of Barbara Sterman of Boca Raton, Fla. Adi Batya is named in memory of her maternal great-great grandmother, Betty Dauer.

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Jessica Engel and Ryan BresslerJessica Lauren Engel, daughter of Valerie and Sam Engel of New York City, and Ryan Matthew Bressler, son of Marcia and Robert Bressler of River Vale are engaged.

The future bride, a graduate of Stamford High School and New York University, received a master’s at Bank Street College of Education. She is an assistant director and teacher at Kaplan Nursery School in Manhattan.

The future groom, a graduate of Pascack Valley High School and Pennsylvania State University, is an un-derwriting manager at Merchant Cash & Capital in New York City.

A June wedding is planned.

B’nai Mitzvah

Lindsay Haber

Lindsay Haber, daughter of Erica and Howard Haber of Woodcliff Lake and sis-ter of Julia, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on January 26 at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.

Hunter KupersmithHunter Kupersmith, son of Cara and Scott Kupersmith of Cresskill and brother of Jordan, celebrated becoming a bar mitz-vah on January 26 at Temple Emanu-El in Closter.

oBituariEs

Steve AbramoviciSteve Abramovici, 78, of Fort Lee, for-merly of West New York, died on January 17 at home.

Born in Europe, he was a Holocaust survivor and an engineer for Block Drugs in Jersey City. He was a member of Talmud Torah of West New York.

Cousins survive him.Arrangements were by Eden

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Izrail GrinbergIzrail Grinberg, 76, of Los Angeles, for-merly of Fair Lawn, died on January 21. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Pearl RichterPearl Richter, 97, of Fair Lawn, formerly of Bronx, N.Y., Ridgewood, and Elmwood Park, died on January 22.

A graduate of Hunter College in New York City, she taught English as a second language for the New York City Board of Education.

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Predeceased by brothers, Abraham and Edward, she is survived by children, Benjamin Gruberg (Jane Schaffer) and Paul Gruberg (Eva Seid); grandchildren, Julia and Laura; and a niece, Arlene Millman.

Donations can be sent to the United Jewish Appeal Campaign Fund. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Ilse Rothschild andRabbi Max RothschildIlse and Max Rothschild of River Edge and Fort Lee died on January 10 and January 18 respectively and were buried in Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem. Together for 75 years, they were active in the Dutch Resistance against the Nazis. Max Rothschild taught midrash at the Jewish Theological Seminary and Ilse Rothschild, a special education teacher, worked at Mountainside Hospital. Contributions can be sent to the Anne Frank Center in New York City. Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

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Judge Arthur Minuskin dies; a bold meticulous jurist ahead of his timeJanuary 24, 2013 – Fair Lawn, new JerseyArthur Minuskin, who served in his early thirties as Fair Lawn’s Borough Magistrate, and then as a Superior Court judge in Bergen, Essex, and Morris Counties for twenty-five years, has died after a long illness. He was 88.

Mr. Minuskin was appointed to the Superior Court bench in 1977. Prior to his distinguished career as a judge, Mr. Minuskin practiced law for twenty-eight years while engaging energetically in political, community and charitable affairs in Bergen County, particularly in Fair Lawn where he resided from 1951 until his death.

Born in Paterson, Mr. Minuskin graduated at the top of his Eastside High School class in 1942. He attended Harvard College, served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, and then earned his law degree at Harvard Law School in 1948. As a young lawyer he challenged the constitutionality of a vague municipal ordinance that imposed a criminal penalty on a person who could “not give a good account of himself.” He won that case and many significant others as he built a successful general law practice in Fair Lawn, the town he loved. Mr. Minuskin applied his Ivy League education to a lifetime of public service and securing justice for others, serving first as the town’s Borough Attorney from 1955 to 1958, and then as its Magistrate from 1958 to 1961.

As a judge, Mr. Minuskin demonstrated and expected from others high standards of performance in practice and dedication to justice. A perfectionist by nature, he earned a reputation as a tough but fair judge, who was able to manage and resolve unusually complex cases gracefully and with the universal respect of those who appeared before him. An uncommonly high number of his opinions were accepted for publication because of the thoroughness and eloquence of his analyses of cutting-edge legal questions in both civil and criminal arenas. Many of those decisions received mass media attention because of their boldness and his judicial foresight. Occasionally his decisions risked popular criticism because his thinking was ahead of the times. Early in his judicial tenure, he ordered that as a last

resort a woman in the advanced stages of terminal cancer be permitted to be treated with laetrile, a then experimental drug that had been denied her. Shortly thereafter, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill approving laetrile treatment for desperate cancer patients. Judge Minuskin was among the first jurists in the country to rule that the terms of a Jewish marriage contract created binding civil legal obligations between marriage partners; he ruled that a husband could not, on first amendment grounds, prevent his ex-wife from remarrying. In 2001, Judge Minuskin ruled that the City of Newark had standing to sue the country’s largest gun manufacturers for money damages resulting from gun violence on the city’s streets. In that decision he disagreed with a federal judicial panel’s opinion that had gone the other way in a similar case. Twice in 2002, his final year on the bench, decisions he made that were reversed by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court were reinstated by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Mr. Minuskin served on the board of directors of numerous civic and business organizations including the Fair Lawn Mental Health Center, the Fair Lawn Jewish Community Center, the Lawyers Division of the United Jewish Appeal (as Chair in 1965), the Preakness Hills Country Club, and the Interchange State Bank. He was president of the Fair Lawn Kiwanis Club and maintained membership in local posts of both the American Legion and the Jewish War Veterans. He also participated in numerous charitable efforts on behalf of various organizations including the Fair Lawn-East Paterson Charities Fund, Barnert Memorial Hospital Center, United Jewish Appeal, and Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Mr. Minuskin’s first wife Barbara (Levine) predeceased him. He is survived by his wife Jacqueline (Mancini), three children, Alan Minuskin and wife Eve Minkoff, Marcia Minuskin and husband Jeffrey Zonenshine, and Jeffrey Minuskin and wife Betty Minuskin, and four grandchildren, Sarah, Lily, Bradford, and Joshua.

Mr. Minuskin’s family asks that donations in lieu of flowers be made to Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, One Pike Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470.

Allen “lArry” FergAngAllen “Larry” Fergang, 80, of Monroe Township, N.J., died Saturday, January 26, (Tu Bishvat). Born in Culver City, Calif., he lived in Teaneck and Paramus before moving to Monroe Township 18 years ago.

He was a Marine serving in the Korean Conflict and received three Purple Hearts. He worked in restaurant management for many years. He was a member of Knights of Pythias, Monroe Town-ship, B’nai B’rith, Volunteer AARP in Princeton, N.J., and a member of Temple Shaari Emeth, Manalapan, N.J.

He is survived by his beloved wife: Madlyn, née Weigner, his devoted children: Michael (Claudia) of Columbus, Ohio, Brian (Leslie) of Weston, Fla., and Scott (Cantor Barbra Lieberstein) of Ramsey, N.J. He is also survived by his dear brother Howard of Stamford, Conn., grandchil-dren: Nicole, Carly, Hannah, Luke, Sara, Joshua, and Jordana; and a great-grandchild, Jordan.

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1 The dalet class of the Glen Rock Jewish Center’s religious school held its “Shtetl, Sephardic,

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2 Leah Kaufman, the executive director of Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, introduced the

Sam and Nina Wolff Caregivers Support Center to an audience of 100 at Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff. Alex Witchel, New York Times Magazine writer and author of “All Gone: A Memoir of My Mother’s Dementia,” talked to the audience and answered questions by Skype. Courtesy JFsNJ

3 Daniella Brunetti and Caroline Gharibian conduct density testing during a YMCA MLK Vacation Camp

program. Liquids tested included maple syrup, glue, soapy water, and canola oil. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. Courtesy yMCA

4 Rabbi Ely Allen, director of Hillel of Northern New Jersey, discussed Kabbalah with participants of

Jewish Family Service of North Jersey’s Cafe Europa. The program for Holocaust survivors meets monthly at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel. Courtesy JFsNJ

5 Second-graders at the Jewish Community Center of Paramus Hebrew School participated in a Shema

prayer workshop with Rabbi Arthur Weiner. Students came dressed in pajamas and had breakfast together. Courtesy JCCP

6 National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Section members, from left, Peggy Kabakow,

Gloria Lieberstein, NCJW BCS co-presidents Carole Benson and Elaine Pollack, and members Roselyn Altman and Phyllis Betancourt, participated in a rally in Trenton to advocate against human trafficking and to support legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman

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Jerusalem train landmark reviving as culture and cuisine attractionWhen The First Station opens this spring, it won’t be for railroad passengers but for shoppers, diners and tourists

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In the late 1800s, the introduction of the Jaffa-to-Jerusalem rail line revolutionized travel in the Holy Land. And from 1892 to 1998, the solid stone Ottoman structure at the junction of Jerusalem’s German Colony, Baka, and Abu Tor neighborhoods served as its eastern station house.

But when the trains stopped running to downtown Jerusalem, the building fell into disrepair and the rail yard behind it was left to the weeds. Several ideas for repurpos-ing this prime location were floated over the years, and finally the venerable venue will be getting a new life this spring.

Renamed The First Station, the 130-year-old Israel Railways property is to be a new culture and culinary hub in the capital city.

Vintage locomotives will dot the wood-decked, 4,000-square-meter former rail yard filled with food stalls, café tables, benches, and umbrella-topped vendor carts. Inside, black-and-white photos from the station’s past will line the refurbished walls encompassing three gourmet restaurants, a pub, and exhibition spaces for musical, liter-ary, and artistic events.

There will be an adjacent bike path linking The First Station with Train-Track Park, a walking and cycling

promenade under construction by Israel Railways and the Jerusalem municipality.

Just like its Jaffa twinThe $9.3 million train station refurbishment is financed by the municipality through its Jerusalem Development Authority in addition to business owners and the same pri-vate investment group that transformed the station house

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The cost, said Goldin, comes out to $95 a day — about half the price of a fine hotel (plus $500 per month should a second resident stay in the apartment).

“All you need to do is pack a bag with some clothes and toiletries as if you were going on vacation,” said Goldin. “They can leave everything else at home. It’s a great op-portunity for seniors to see what it’s like to live in a senior living community.”

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Rotary Club announces the second ‘Taste of Teaneck’ for a fun and food-filled date on April 15The Rotary Club of Teaneck encourages businesses and residents to hold the date of Monday, April 15, for the second annual “Taste of Teaneck.” This showcase of foods from area restaurants, sweets and treats from bakeries, plus entertainment, raffles, and a tricky tray auction, is an evening of celebration of Teaneck’s community spirit. The Rotary Club of Teaneck decided to repeat the event due to its overwhelming success last year, and Marriott Teaneck at Glenpointe has again donated the use of their ballroom.

Local restaurants, delis, bakeries, and caterers are invited to participate by preparing signature dishes for sampling. An entry fee charged by The Rotary Club covers the cost of these outstanding samplings, and the Marriott will provide beverages for purchase. Advance cost is $35 per ticket and $40 at the door. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to experience the diversity of foods found in

Teaneck, representing many of the cultures in the commu-nity. Both kosher and non-kosher foods will be available. Participants in last year’s event included Ma’adea, Honey Mediterranean, Classic Quiche, Athens Bakery, Zoe’s Cupcakes, Maggie’s and more.

Representatives from the Rotary will contact area res-taurants in the next few weeks with registration forms. For more information or to participate, call George Angelaccio at (201) 928-2016, email [email protected], or visit www.tasteofteaneck.com.

Now in its 84th year, The Rotary Club of Teaneck meets every Wednesday at noon at Vitale’s, 293 Queen Anne Road. All are welcome and the only cost is for lunch. Kosher or halal meals can be provided at meetings with advance no-tice. To find out more about our club and what we do, visit http://www.facebook.com/teaneckrotaryclub/.

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to put the Holocaust into perspective wasn’t for me. So I did the other two” — the top image shows the pinwheel in mo-tion, not yet casting a shadow, and the last one has the pinwheel again moving and the shadow still visible. “Time picks up again, but the swastika shadow is still on the boy’s face,” Lebovic said.

“I’m not going for easy answers, even if a rabbi gives them to me.”

The second theme is “the idea of religion being able to deal” with the Holocaust, Lebovic said. “It’s taking things from the Bible and asking if it makes sense to us.”

Although he feared that he might not be happy with the results of his search, “I found, to my relief, that Judaism really does seem to be a very reality-based religion, without the idea that everything will work out.

“It was refreshing. It was what I needed to see. The Torah has the ability to be viewed in a number of different ways, but once I put that lens on the stories I saw that many were telling the story of the Holocaust — that reality is very difficult, and Judaism understands the human condition.”

He uses the story of the goats on Yom Kippur. There are two identical goats; one is chosen by lot for slaughter, and the other, laden with the community’s sins, is sent off to the wilderness, to Azazel. Which choice is better? “The one chosen for God will be lucky enough to have its throat slit. The other goat, the unlucky one, will live,” Lebovic said, and it all is done in public, on the holiest day of the year.

“It is so arbitrary, so unjust, that you would think the rabbis would come in and explain, but they don’t,” Lebovic said. “It is an enigma. On this holy day, you see Judaism accept such an injustice. Life is unjust. You must accept it, because life

Black From page 11is random and unfair — but you must accept it because you have faith.

“When I look at the goat that goes to Azazel, that gives me the right to say that it’s okay that I don’t get it. I thought I was missing something, but the goat for Azazel shows me that even at the Temple, even with everybody watching, nobody gets it. That’s reality. Judaism says that yes, this is life, and faith is beyond.

“I don’t have to have answers. It’s not about the answers. It’s about asking questions.”

The third section of Lebovic’s book is about how Jews dealt with the Holocaust. “I compare it to coming out of Egypt,” he said. “It’s that important. The Holocaust is a new marker the Jewish people can use in the way we shape how we look at God and each other.”

To his surprise, Lebovic found that he ended his project with more hope than he had thought possible when he began. “Just as Egypt is about how God is good, the Holocaust is about how good the Jewish people are. It was a tremendously uplifting feeling.

“We have a relationship with God. It doesn’t diminish God to say that the Jewish people now are on a higher level in our relationship with God. That is what we have to focus on.”

Lebovic is not planning on returning to his career as a technical illustrator. Instead, he is touring with “Black Is a Color,” speaking at synagogues, schools, and universities. He will be speaking at Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck on February 9. (He has many local connections; three of his four children live in Teaneck.) He also has begun to write a Haggadah.

“I came to this because I had issues of faith,” he said. “A lot of people are turned off to Judaism because of evil in the world, and now I’m able to bring it into a context where people can talk about it. It’s not taboo. There might not be answers, but we can talk about it.”

at the other end of the line — Tel Aviv-Jaffa’s Hatachana — into a chic complex of cafés and restaurants, designer shops and art galleries.

Both buildings were designed in clas-sic 19th century European and German Templer style, the Jerusalem one of limestone and the Jaffa one of sandstone because those were the local materials available.

As they did in Jaffa, the investors have pledged to work with preservation archi-tects to retain the façade and footprint of the original building. According to their agreement with Israel Railways, they will operate The First Station for 10 years and then it will revert to the company.

But it’s a good bet that the venture will be successful enough to continue as is, be-cause it provides another anchor for the al-ready rich cultural offerings in this historic area of Jerusalem not far from the Old City.

Right across David Remez Square is the Khan Theater; down the road is the Jerusalem Cinemateque and the Menachem Begin Heritage Center; the

Jerusalem Theater is a 10-minute walk; and the Sherover Cultural Center is now being built in Abu Tor.

Mayor Nir Barkat is banking on this new site to shore up Jerusalem’s reputa-tion in the non-religious sphere. Except for kosher eateries that are branches of national chains, everything in The First Station will be open on Saturday — as is the Cinemateque but not much else in the capital city.

“The mayor made this decision a long time ago after considering all sides, and he does not want to hurt or offend any-one,” project spokeswoman Gili Katz says. Barkat’s intention, she adds, is to give secular and non-Jewish residents and tour-ists in Jerusalem something attractive to do on Friday nights and Saturdays.

It goes without saying that the mayor — and the investors — also intend for The First Station to become a popular new des-tination for all of Jerusalem’s diverse popu-lations of culture-seekers, whether they are residents or visitors. And it is not only meant for adults; children’s activities are to be part of the regular schedule of events at The First Station.

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DominoGranulated Sugar

4 lb

$2.99

SheilaBrownie Brittle

All Flavors

$2.99

Celestial SeasoningTea

All Flavors - 20 ct.

2 for $5

ShefaKishka

8 oz

$2.99(in Fridge Department)

ZadiesRegular

Challah Twist

$3.79

HeinzKetchup

Squeeze - 38 oz.

2 for $5

Arizona Ice TeaGallon

All Flavors

2 for $5

Lieber’sPretzelsAll Types

14 oz

$1.29

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Cheese/Wheat/Nacho60 Calories

New Jersey Jewish Standard: February 2, 2013

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