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United Synagogue looks to the futureTeaneck rabbi upbeat about the Conservative movement’s chances

Phil Jacobs

baltimore – Rabbi Jim Roozen o

Teaneck took a seat or a ew minutes and

took in what was oin on around him.

There were about 1,000 people. They

all seemed to be in a hurry. And the rabbi

knew exactly what their urgency was all

about.

They had athered at this city’s Marriott

Waterront Hotel to celebrate the United

Synaoue o Conservative Judaism’s

100th year, callin the biennial convention

“The Conversation o the Century.”

In recent weeks, this nation’s Jewish

community learned rom the Pew Forum’sstudy that o all the major Jewish streams,

Conservative Judaism’s afiliation numbers

were clearly decreasin most sharply.

It also has had financial problems, as

reported by the news service JTA. In its

most recent fiscal year, which ended in

June, United Synaoue raised $600,000.

That was ar better than it had done in

2011, when it raised $100,000, but still

it was well below the budeted taret o

$1.7 million. United Synaoue also lost $3

million in 2012 and $2.7 million in 2011.

Roozen, thouh, is confident that the

movement’s best days are ahead, and that

this particular biennial conerence would

be a positive turnin point.

“I think we are havin a rand

awakenin,” said Roozen, who is United

Synaoue’s chie learnin oficer. “We

must ask ourselves at this conversation

how we approach chane. And then we

must reconize that chane is ood, that

it’s not antithetical to Jewish values.”Indeed, Roozen wasn’t alone as a

chane aent.

“Over the next two days, we’ll be

questionin who we are, what we stand

or, and what we contribute to the Jewish

landscape,” Rabbi Steven Wernick,

CEO o United Synaoue, said in his

openin address. “We aspire to rewrite

our narrative rom decline to renewal,

energy, optimism, transcendence and

transormation.”

Wernick told the audience that the way

to reverse the movement’s decline in

numbers was by “afirmin three pillars

o Conservative Jewish lie: tradition,

kehillah, and renewal.”

He ured his audience to reach out to

other Jews, be they afiliated or not.

“Let’s unite on issues that matter to

all o us, whether it is the scoure o

un violence in the U.S. or social justice

matters or the environment or access and

acceptance or people with disabilities

and special needs or supportin Israel,”

Wernick said.

He invoked the memories of the

movement’s founder, Solomon Schechter,

and the civil rights activist Abraham

Joshu a Hesc hel when des cri bing the

power of renewal.

“Solomon Schechter put renewal at the

center o his vision when he created theUnited Synaoue, makin Conservative

Judaism alive to the 20th century. That

was a century ao, and now the baton has

been passed to us,” he said. “What was

new 100 years ao needs to be renewed

once aain.”

Harold Kushner, the rabbi laureate o

Temple Israel o Natick, Mass., and the

author o best-sellin works o popular

theology includin “When Bad Thins

Happen to Good People,” delivered the

keynote address at the evenin ala on

Sunday.

He lamented the loss o many o the

movement’s most promisin students, who have deec ted to other movements

or started their own nondenominational

communities.

“I don’t berude my Orthodox

colleaues the rowth o Orthodox

Judaism,” Kushner said. “I don’t berude

my Reorm colleaues the rowth o

Reorm Judaism, ueled in lare measure

by intermarriae and conversion.

“What does bother me is when the best

and brihtest o our movement leave our

synaoues. We can’t hold onto them

— that more than anythin else is what

concerns me.”

United Synaoue historically has

nurtured its teenaers throuh its popular

United Synaoue Youth proram — the

teenaers in evidence at the conerence were there or USY’s all board meetin,

held concurrently with the biennial, in the

same hotel.

For 23 years, Conservative hih school

raduates had the chance to stay in touch

with United Synaoue throuh Koach,

a proram that had a presence on man

collee campuses. Over the last ew year

thouh, undin to the proram w

reduced, and last year it was shuttered.

In its strateic plan, adopted in ear

2011, United Synaoue declared po

collee youn adults to be vital to

mission, but since then undin to th

demoraphic also has dried up.

Ater hearin Kushner speak, Rooz

elt emboldened and excited about th

uture, he said.

“The people who are here noticed

difference, a positive difference,” he sai

“Rabbi Kushner told the audience to sto

with the negativity, and instead be paof a solution, a creative solution to he

USCJ make the changes we know we nee

to make.”

Roozen said that the conerence serv

as a “pivot point” or what has to happ

not just within Conservative Judaism b

within all o American Judaism or the ne

100 years.

“We talked here about creating a Jewi

community we want,” he said. “A lot

the focus is not just about Conservati

Judaism, but how do we contribute

the whole Jewish community of Americ

What are we going to do during the ne

100 years? How do we take our commun

conversation to a much higher level. A l

of those chains that have kept us boun

up and kept us from thinking out of t box I think have been removed. We’

granted ourselves permission to think

different ways.”

Phil Jacobs is a contributing editor to the

Jewish Standard.

What does bother me is when the best and brightest of our movement

leave our synagogues. We can’t hold onto them — that more than

anything else is what concerns me.Hd KH

In this iconic picture of a civil rights march in elma, abbi braham Joshua Hesche

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Rifka Rosenwein ‘kept learning’Day of learning to honor the memory of beloved Teaneck journalist

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Ten years have gone by since the death o

journalist Rika Rosenwein, a young Teaneck

mother o three who shared her amily’s

joys and challenges in popu-

lar “Home Front” columns or

The New York Jewish Week.

Aside rom journalism,

the Ivy League-educated

Rosenwein loved Mishnah,

the six-section, 63-tractate

code o Jewish law that orms

the basis o the Talmud.

Once a week or 18 years, she

studied Mishnah with her

riend Judy Heicklen, who

moved to Teaneck in 2000 —

a year beore Rosenwein wasdiagnosed with cancer.

In commemoration o Rosenwein’s 10th

yahrzeit, the Drisha Institute or Jewish

Education in Manhattan will host a day o

learning dedicated to the study o Mishnah.

(For more inormation, see the box.)

“Rika studied here and was activelyengaged here,” Drisha’s ounder and

dean, Rabbi David Silber, said. “In her

memory, we want to inspire people to

take a second look at Mishnah, arguably

the most important Jewish

texts that we have in terms

o our ongoing interpretive

tradition. The study o how

Torah is interpreted over

time begins with this all-

embracing oral tradition o

the Jewish people.”

Speakers include Avraham

Walfish on “Commandment

and Control in Marriage: The

Poetics o Mishnah Kiddushin

Chapter 1,” Devora Steinmetz

on “Mishnah and Memory:An Educational Exploration,” and Eliezer

Diamond on “From Cases to Concepts: R.

Jose’s Views on Property Rights as Relected

in the Mishnah, Toseta, and Talmudim.”

Walfish has done groundbreaking work

in looking at Mishnah rom a literary

standpoint, which Silber says “makes thetexts much more accessible to the general

public. A literary approach shows it’s not

just a bunc h o laws, but has a cert ain

artistry to it. Many people think Mishnah

is dry and don’t appreciate its complexity.”

Rosenwein did appreciate it, long beore

the literary analysis approach came into

vogue. Her weekly stud ies with Heicklen

bega n in 1985 when the two women —

then casual riends living on the Upper

West Side o Manhattan — discovered

they had both bought the new vowelized

Pinchas Kehati edition o the third-century

compilation, an edition that has become

popular worldwide.

“We’d meet ater work, and it ju bloss omed,” Heick len said. “We oun

Mishnah very accessible. It’s in Hebrew

as opposed to Aramaic like the Gema

[Talmud]. It really worked or us.”

When Heicklen moved to Tokyo or thr

years in 1993, and later when she lived

London, she and Rosenwein continued the

studies by phone. Marriage and childre

careers and other obligations did not ke

them rom their learning. Neither did canc

“Even when she was diagnosed at the e

o 2001, we kept learning,” Heicklen sai

recalling that some 150 people attend

their final siyyum — a celebration marking t

What: ay of study at risa, focusig o t Misa

Why: o mark ivka osi’s 10t yarzit

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Health care and halachaYeshiva University

conference to lookat intersectionof medicine and Jewish law in Israel

MiM Z. WM science correspondent

From the beinnin o lie to its end,

observant Jews are overned by Jew-

ish law, or halacha. Thus the practice o

medicine in the Jewish state also is inlu-

enced by halachic principles. A day-lon

conerence, “Prescribin or a Nation:

Examinin the Interplay o Jewish Law

and Israeli Health Care,” addresses majorissues on that topic. The conerence,

hosted by the Yeshiva University Medical

Ethics Society, a student-run oraniza-

tion, is scheduled or Sunday.

“What makes Israel so unique is that

so many people workin in hospitals

are practicin Jews,” Talia Felman o

Teaneck said. Felman, a junior at YU’s

Stern Collee or Women, is institutional

outreach coordinator or MES and

serves on its board. “It’s a challene

that the Israeli overnment has [strikin

a balance] between halacha and what

needs to be done to keep the country

runnin,” she said.

Felman said that when she was a student

at the Jerusalem-based seminary Michlala

in the year ater hih school, she took amedical ethics class that stimulated her

interest in the field. “Just havin a solid

back round in halachot [ Jewish laws]

in eneral and bein exposed to Israeli

bureaucracy makes it easier to understand,

and apply, and think about these issues,”

she said.

The Medical Ethics Society does not

shy away rom controversial or complex

issues. Past conerences and events have

rappled with the interp lay o halacha

with inert ility, oran donation, modern

enetics, mental health issues, and medical

dilemmas related to the Holocaust. This

conerence, similarly, is boldly conrontin

dificult questions in health care.

“Our hope is that this year’s MES

conerence will help participants betterunderstand how halacha shapes every

aspect o our lives and provides them

with a newou nd appreciation or the

dierences and similarities o the practice

o medicine in Israel and America,”

said conerence chair Rabbi Dr. Edward

Reichman, who is associate proessoro emerency medicine at YU’s Albert

Einstein Collee o Medicine and a

mentor to the MES proram. “As Israel is

comprised o a larely Jewish population,

it presents unique challenes,” he said.

“Issues such as the practice o medicine on

Shabbat, sensitivity to the Kohen visitin a

hospital, inertility treatments, end-o-lie

decision-makin and oran donation are

but a ew o the issues or which the Israeli

medical landscape diers rom ours.”

“With health care policy in the United

States evolvin riht beore our eyes,

we are all interested to learn how Israeli

institutions tackle the same dificult

questions,” said Stern Collee senior Chana

Herzi, co-president o MES.

Proessor Yonatan Halevy, director eneral o Shaare Zedek Medical Center

in Jerusalem, will ive a keynote address,

“Runnin a Modern Hospital Accordin to

Halachah.” Shaare Zedek Medical Center

is on the cuttin ede in many medical

fields, includin inertility research and

practice, an area that has many halachic

implications. As approaches to inertility

have been developed, rabbis and doctors

have worked toether in creative ways

to sanction hih-tech methods or

conception, enablin observant Jewish

couples to overcome obstacles to ertility.

Shaare Zedek’s in vitro ertilization clinic

boasts a hih success rate or challenin

cases, enablin observant Jewish couples

to conceive within reliious parameters.

Two o the speakers, Rabbi Zvi Gluck andattorney Mark J. Kurzmann, are involved

with the oranization ZAKA (the Hebrew

acronym or Zihuy Korbanot Ason, or

Disaster Victim Identification). In Israel,

ZAKA volunteers are amon the first to

arrive at the scene o an accident, a natural

disaster, or a terrorist attack. They careully

and respectully collect remnants o victims

rom the scene, includin blood and body

tissue, in order to aord every part o the

human body a dinified burial. Because

they requently are first responders, ZAKA

volunteers also have been trained in first

aid, and some have become paramedics.

One conerence session will ocus on “ZAKA

International and the Leal Ethics Behind

Jewish End-o-Lie Rescue.”

Talia Felman, who is a biology maj

with an interest in medicine, explain

what the Medical Ethics Society has mea

to her. The oranization represents a

intersection o a number o fields, sh

said. “Sometimes they contradict an

sometimes they convere.”

“It ives a more holistic experience

she said. “I et to be exposed to issues

science, sometimes throuh the lens

philosophy, sometimes throuh the le

o law, and sometimes throuh the le

o halachah.”

Wh: peakers incluing dr. Micell caber, irecor of e srael Minisry of

heal aional Cener for nfecion Conrol; dr. Micael Frogel, presien-elecof merican Pysicians an Friens for Meicine in srael, an abbi Morecai

willig an abbi Yosef Blau of YU’s abbi saac lcanan teological eminary.

What: conference “Prescribing for a aion: xamining e nerplay of JeisLa an sraeli heal Care”

Whr: Yesiva Universiy’s wilf Campus, 500 wes 185 ree, Manaan.

Whn: unay, Ocober 20, 9 a.m. o 3 p.m.

Why: to explore e inersecion of eal care an alaca in srael

w: Pre-regisraion is require. egiser online a .yumeicaleics.com.egisraion fee ($36 per aul, $60 per couple, $10 for college suens, $5 for

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A ZAKA volunteer combs through the wrecked apartment in Kiryat Malachi, Is-

rael. It had been the home of three people who were killed by a rocket terrorist

fired from the nearby Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. ossi Zelige/Fls90/J

Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women students make up the board of the Yeshiva University Medical

Ethics Society. esiv Uives

Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman, this newspaper’s science correspondent, is a proessor o biology at

William Paterson University and author o “Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture

Collide.” At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she was on the team that produced the first test tube baby

in New York State. At William Paterson, she developed pioneerin underraduate and raduate

prorams in biotechnology, and more recently she developed and teaches interdisciplinary

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Two families, one concertMusical bridge to connect generations in Emerson

Joanne Palmer

Cantor Shira Lissek, who will perorm in

concert with Arbie Orenstein at Conrea-

tion B’nai Israel in Emerson on October

28, said that her ather’s old riends can

hear his voice in hers.

That’s a neat trick. Her ather, Cantor

Leon Lissek o Teaneck, who or more

than 30 years san rom the bimah o

Conreation B’nai Amoona in St. Louis,

Mo., was one o the paradimatic voices

o his eneration, but his is a man’s voice.

Hers, clearly, is not.

The way his voice still is part o hers, just

as hers has become ever more her own —

the voice o a Jewish woman — traces the

mystery o the transmission o talent and

passion and belonin and commitmentand chane rom eneration to eneration.

And the way the concert will be a two-

amily celebration, eaturin braided

enerat ions o Lisseks and Orensteins,

shows the connections that underlie

Jewish lie in America.

Shira Lissek is a cantor at Park Avenue

Synagogue in Manhattan; in a way, it

would have been hard for her to choose

another path. Her mother, Michal Lissek,

is the daughter of Rabbi Pinchos Chazin,

who was a prominent Conservative rabbi

in Philadelphia, and the granddaughter

of Hirsch Louis Chazin, an Orthodox

cantor in Perth Amboy. And Lissek’s

father “was one of the great cantors of

his time,” she said.

Inevitably, Lissek rew up surrounded

by Jewish music, but “I never set out to be

a cantor.”

She was born in 1974; the year o her bat

mitzvah was the first year the Conservative

movement invested women as chazzanim.

“It’s a very dierent Jewish landscape

now than it was then,” she said. “I never

imained that I could be a cantor.”

There was no Conservative day school

in St. Louis durin her childhood, so she

went to a modern Orthodox school; there

she learned that a cantor’s

voice and a woman’s wereseparated by an unbrideable

chasm. Eventually, thouh,

she brided that ap.

“I set out to be a siner,”

Lissek said. “I never realized

that on this path, o opera

and musical theater, I was

buil din the resu me or a

cantor. I loved it, but there

was somethin in the opera

world t hat I wa s missin. It

wasn’t ulfillin me. I realized

that I wanted a direct and

elevated role in people’s

lives.”

A part-time job at a shul in

Brooklyn led eventually to

Park Avenue.The cantorate chaned as

Jews adapted to Americ a,

as well as to the sound o a

woman’s voice, Lissek said.

She, too, used to hear her

ather’s voice in her head

as she san. “People were

hearin my voice comin out

o my mouth, but I heard him.

Over the years, I have become

more comortable hearin

mine. The Conservative movement has worked to make room or women, and

beco me more eal ita rian , and I have

one throuh that chane as well, slowin

allowin more emininity.

“It is a challene — I want to preserve

the traditional sound o Judaism, but as a

woman I can’t imitate it.

“When I tauht a class about the Hih

Holy Days at Park Avenue, I kept playin

amazin moments rom male cantors, and

the class kept wantin to hear women.”

She played some early recordins;

the women “were sisters o cantors, or

dauhters o cantors, and they were

imitatin them. They sounded like men.”

The class ound it hard to believe, in act,

that those were women’s voices. “They

said no, that’s not what we want. We wantto hear women.”

But cantors today don’t sin only

traditional chazzanaut, she continued.

“We’re American Jews, and the sounds

that open our hearts aren’t the same

sounds that opened hearts in Europe. We

as Jews always are inspired by the sounds

around us.”

When she sins in Emerson, the pianist

will be Dr. Arbie Orenstein, who has his

own amily connections both to the shul

and to Lissek.

Orenstein — who is, among many other

things, a professor of music at Queens

College, a specialist on the life and music

of Maurice Ravel, a preconcert lecturer

for the New York Philharmonic, the

editor of the academic journal Musica Judaica, and an active and committed

synagogue member on Long Island — is

the uncle of Rabbi Debra Orenstein, who

leads B’nai Israel.

He ives concerts benefitin synaoues

— usually his own, but now his niece’s

as well — about our times a year. The

proram at this concert will be accessible,

he said; it will include Hebrew and Yiddish

melodies; works by Puccini, Mozart,

Debussy, and Schubert, as well as by

Canadian Jewish songwriter Kenny Karen;

and some Broadway and popular classics,

includin Roers and Hart’s “Bewitched,

Bothered, and Bewildered” and Irvin

Berlin’s “What’ll I Do?”

Arbie Orenstein met Shira Lissek’s ather

when the two men were on sta at CampRamah in Nyack. The acility, which or

years has been a day camp, was sleepaway

then; Orenstein, a raduate student, was

a teacher that summer, and Leon Lissek,

a cantorial student, was a waiter. The two

remained riends, and their amilies are so

close that they still travel toether.

Althouh the concert will be heimische,

relaxed, and inormal, Orenstein does not

compromise his standards. The pianos he

rents to play at such events must be ood

enouh to produce exactly the sound hdemands. Such pianos are not easy

find. They used to be available throu

Steinway, the company that makes pian

and sold them at its showroom on 57

street in Manhattan, but that showroo

is one now, Orenstein said. That was

blow. “But one o my students said that

knew a place in New Jersey,” he said. Th

was Lindeblad Piano Restoration in Pin

Brook. “As ate would have it, the ello

dealin with us was wearin a yarmulk

He was a reliious Jew. We were talkin

Torah.” As it turned out, the compan

lends pianos to reliious institution

which must pay only transportation cos

Orenstein tried all the pianos and oun

two to be acceptable. Both, thouh, we

sold beore the concert; he made anothtrip to Pine Brook, ound a third, and to

the salesman, “I’m your ood luck charm

I play them — you sell them.” The salesm

areed that i he could sell the third pian

beore the concert, he would not ship it

its new owners until aterward.

“The idea o this concert is to set Jewis

music in the context o a classical concer

Orenstein said. “It is a very nice aternoo

it ives a nice, warm, mispachadic eelin

“We’re all makin music toether.”

We’re American Jews, and the

sounds thaopen our heartsaren’t the same

sounds thaopened heart

in EuropeS LSS

Cantor Shira Lissek

Shira Lissek and her father, Cantor Leon Lissek

An afternoon of music

Who: Cantor hira Lissek will

sing, an dr. bie Orenstein will

accompany her on piano an

explain the music

What: concert featuring Jewish,

Broaway, an classical music. (n

a essert reception will follow.)

Where: Congregation B’nai srael,

53 Palisae venue, merson

When: unay, October 27, at 2 p.m.

How: eservations an information

at the shul office, (201) 265-2272, or

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Akiva Roth o Englewood, who had been hired this

year to teach English at Yeshiva College, was fired last

week, ater news o his 1997 conviction or lewdness.

Because o the nature o the oense o which he

was convicted, last week the Orthodox synagogues in

Englewood decided that prudence dictated that he be

asked not to show up or shul, and he agreed.

Thereore, an email went out to the members o the

shuls — Congregation Ahavath Torah, Congregation

Shomrei Emunah, the East Hill Synagogue, and

Kesher. That email soon made its way to the Internet,

where it was posted on the Failed Messiah blog.

“It is important that we respond appropriately,” the

email said. “On the one hand, with an eye towards the

protection o all; on the other hand, without jumping

to conclusions solely based upon media accounts.”

Roth, now 42, was arrested in 1997, charged withexposing himsel to pre-bar mitzvah boys at private

lessons, touching himsel and encouraging them to

do as he did. He was then a teacher at what was the

Solomon Schechter Day School o Union and Essex;

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Och Academy.

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Seminary, Camp Ramah, and YU. He also worked or

Hillel and AIPAC.

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o Kesher, Menachem Genack o Shomrei Emunah,

Shmuel Goldin and Chaim Poupko o Ahavath Torah,

and Zev Reichman o East Hill — are making ew public

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shul in Englewood; Roth would sometimes go there as

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whether there are any current issues.

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to Akiba,” he said.

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tightrope. “May Hashem grant us the wisdom to deal

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When the three-session Taste o Judaism

program was created in the early 1990s,leaders o the URJ — then the Union o

American Hebrew Congrega-

tions — already had a learn-

ing program in place, said

Rabbi Elyse Frishman, reli-

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Frishman, one o the

original curriculum writers

or Taste o Judaism,

noted that the program

was created “in the midst

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Introduction to Judaism

course, designed or anyone

who wou ld lik e to have

a semester’s worth o engagement in

understanding Judaism more clearly.”The course appealed to both Jews and

non-Jews, she said, drawing in those

who were interested in learning more

about their own religion along with those

exploring the possibility o conversion.

Still, Frishman said, movement leaders

ound that there were many people

interested in learning more, “but not

interested in a 16-week course.”

As a result, URJ created the new, shorterprogram. According to the organization,

since 1994 more than

100,000 people have

participated in this course.

This year, the Reorm group

has awarded grants to

congregations in 17 cities to

oer it. Barnert Temple is

among them.

“It’s an opportunity or

Jews and non-Jews alike to

explore the core principles

o Judaism and discern how

— i they’re Jewish — it could

be more meaningul; and —

i they’re not — then at the

very least to gain a deeper understanding

o what Judaism is,” she said. And, sheadded, a non-Jew involved in a relationship

with a Jew can learn “how to integrate

comortably with that person’s heritage

and amily.”

Frishman has been teaching the course

since its inception, both at Barnert and

beo re that at the Reor m Templ e o

Suern, now part o Beth Haverim Shir

Shalom in Mahwah. She has taught it three

times at Barnert but “it’s been a whilesince we oered it here,” she said. Each

session lasts about two hours and explores

one o the three themes highlighted in the

program: Jewish spirituality, ethics, and

community values.

Recalling the creation o the program,

Frishman said that at the outset, the URJ

invited a handul o rabbis in the area to

create sample curricula. She was one o

those rabbis

“It emerged that there were a lot o

dierent ways to approach these three

topics,” she said. “It was clear that rabbis

should have some leeway in designing the

curriculum. Our samples were [sent out]

to help others.”

The rabbi said that over the years, the

makeup o the classes has varied.“This time we have 15 people,” she

said, pointing out that the classes, to be

held throughout Oc tober, already have

begu n. “O those, about one-t hird are

members o the congregation, including

some new members.”

“Each time, the balance has bee

dierent,” she said. “Once it was almo

exclusively composed o people ro

outside the congregation who welooking into Judaism or personal reason

Some three or our later converted.

“This time we have our youn

couples, three o whom are in interai

relationships and looking to understan

what role Judaism should play in the

lives,” Frishman said. Another coupl

older and already married, is exploring th

possibility o conversion or the non-Jewi

spouse. Still another couple, longstandin

members o the congregation, are “ju

interested in learning more.”

The course, she said, already inspire

one participant to go urther and enroll

the synagogue’s adult confirmation clas

“This is a gateway oering, a very low

barrier class,” she said. “It’s very easy

walk into, with no obligations. Just shoup.”

Participants are given cards on which

write down any questions they have abo

Judaism, and Frishma n promises the

that by the end o the third session, all

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Double dose of Torah talkMaking book on Fair Lawn rabbi’s weekly radio and bimah discourses

JOANNE PALMER

Most pulpit rabbis have to worry about

only one d’var Torah each week. That, of

course, is the sermon they will deliver on

Shabbat, generally based on the weekly

Bible reading.

Rabbi Benjamin Yudin of Fair Lawn

has double that responsibility. Not only

does he speak from the bimah of the

shul he has led since 1969, Congregation

Shomrei Torah, every Shabbat morning,

but every Friday morning at 8:15 he also

gives another 15-minute d’var Torah from

his electronic bimah, 91.9 FM, during the

radio show called JM in the AM.

And he’s been doing it for 35 years — he

has missed only ive weeks during that

time.Now, Mosaica Press has gathered 52

of those broadcasts — a year’s worth of

parashiot —into a book, “Rabbi Yudin on

the Parsha.”

Although of course he talks about

the same parashah in shul and on the

air, Yudin does not give the same talk in

both places. The text is the same, but the

audience is not.

“Over the years, the listening

audience has become very diverse,”

Yudin said. “It’s not like going into a

classroom, where more often than

not your students are going to be

homogenous. This audience is not.”

He has some idea of who this

audience is because listeners often

approach him. “People stop me,and they’ll say thank you,” he said.

The range of Jewish background

and education spanned by Yudin’s

listeners is both an intellectual

challenge and a reward for him, he

said. “I hate stereotypes, but the

truth is that there are many Jews,

listeners, in Pompton Lakes and

Franklin Lakes who do not have a

sophisticated Jewish education. At

the same time, there is Lakewood.

Many residents there do have a

sophisticated Jewish education. And

I also reach Brooklyn, and Monsey,

and each has a completely different mix.

“It’s an incredible challenge to ind

something that will not be so basic that

the more educated community will turn itoff, or too advanced that the others will.”

There is also the question of vocabulary.

“Sometimes I must translate words for

those who don’t understand — but I can’t

translate too much.”

Another difference between his

in-person d’var Torah and the on-air one,

Yudin said, is its use of sources. In shul, he

can ask congregants to read the words he

quotes, so the learning can be text-based;

he must assume that most radio listeners

— who are driving, perhaps, or cleaning,

or preparing Shabbat dinner — do not have

either a text in front of them or their hands

free to turn pages. “I see it” — the radiod’var Torah — “as an opportunity to create

bonds, week in and week out, and also the

opportunity for nourishment, not just of

the body or of the soul.”

Ideally, he added, the d’var Torah can

provide the seed for a Torah discussion

at Shabbat dinner at tables where the

will for such discussions are there but the

conidence and knowledge to start them

may not be.

The book is subtitled “Tomorrow we

have the privilege.” Those are the words

Yudin used to begin his irst radio d’var

Torah, and they are the words he still uses

as an introduction every week. “Religion

can become rote,” he said. “It can become

stale. I hope and really believe that it is a

privilege, that every week it is a new idea.

A new privilege.”

Although it might seem to be dificult

to come up with two new approaches

to a Torah parashah that comes around

every year without fail, Yudin inds itexhilarating. He does not worry about

repeating himself, because he has learned

that if he is excited by an idea, the odds are

that it’s new to him.

This week’s Torah portion, Vayera,

includes the Akedah, the binding of Isaac,

the powerful story in which God at irst

demands that Abraham sacriice his son,

his “only son,” and then at the very last

moment stays the patriarch’s hand. On

Monday, Yudin was not sure how he would

approach that story, either on Wednesda when he prerecords his radio talk,

on Saturday. He already had two idea

though.

“The Rambam says that we don

have prophecy today, but one of the

principles of faith” — which Maimonid

formulated — “is to believe that prophe

existed.

“These are my words for the Rambam

thoughts,” Yudin continued. “The o

commercial said that Ivory soap was 99

percent pure. If Abraham’s prophe

was 99.4 per cen t acc ura te, the n h

never would have taken the knife and b

prepared to offer Isaac as a sacriice. Yosee from Abraham’s ability to go throug

with it that his prophecy was 100 perce

accurate.” If Abraham had thought th

God would allow him to slaughter Isaa

he would have agonized over his decisio

The other idea, also new to him th

year, was “that the Torah goes out of

way to tell us that the Akedah happen

on the third day. The rabbis point out th

had he done it immediately, he could ha

been seen as acting out of a religious hig

And had he more time to think about it,

wouldn’t have done it.”

On Sunday, Fair Lawn’s mayor, Joh

Cosgrove, issued a proclamation honori

Yudin’s book, and presented it to him

a book signing and breakfast at the shu

More than 150 people were there, listeninas Nachum Segal, JM in the AM’s ho

and Shevi Yudin, the rabbi’s wife, talk

with both respect and admiration abo

Benjamin Yudin. Shevi Yudin told stori

about her encounters with people wh

wanted to know if she was married

“Rabbi Yudin from the radio show.”

And Rabbi Yudin from the rad

show took a few minutes out from th

celebration to think about the next week

parashah.

It’s an incredibl

challenge to find something thawill not be so

basic that themore educatedcommunity wi

turn it off, or tooadvanced thathe others wil

RABBI BENJAMIN YUD

Rabbi Benjamin Yudin signs a copy of

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Anat Cohen plays RocklandIsraeli clarinetist and her quartet headline Chazen Jazz Concert

AbigAil Klein leichmAn

“I always try to surround mysel with music

and be part o as many projects as I can,”

says award-winning Israeli jazz clarinet-

ist and saxophonist Anat Cohen. She and

her eponymous quartet will headline the

annual Chazen Jazz Concert at Rockland

Community College’s Cultural Arts Center

on October 26 at 8 p.m.

Pianist Bruce Barth, guitar player Howard

Alden, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Free-

man on drums will back her. “We’ll have

un,” promises Cohen, whose appearance inRockland was arranged by special request o

sponsors Jerry and Simona Chazen.

Cohen stole a ew minutes to speak by

phone rom her Manhattan home during a

week when she was jetting to perormances

in several cities in Caliornia and Italy.

She regularly plays such top music ven-

ues as Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Vil-

lage Vanguard, has been voted Clarinetist

o the Year six years in a row by the Jazz

Journalists Associati on, and was named

2012’s and 2013’s Multi-Reeds Player o

the Year.

It is not easy to pinpoint Cohen’s musi-

cal style. Inluenced by the international

musicians with whom she learned at

Berklee College o Music in Boston, she

plays a unique blend o Brazilian choro

and samba, classic New Orleans jazz, and

swing, tinged with a hint o klezmer.

“Clarinet is oten associated with cer-

tain genres, like swing or olk music,” she

said. “I combine the old and new, using

the clarinet as an expressive tool and not

in one genre. I’m just happy that peopleare drawn to what I do.

“It’s a gradual process o adding things

to my repertoire. Just collaborating with

a new musician is enough to bring a new

subtle lavor to my work.”

Earlier this year, New York Times colum-

nist Joe Nocera described Cohen as “a ter-

rific musician, luid, ull-throated, with a

knack or creating beautiully crated, even

eloquent solos.”

In addition to her quartet, Cohen oten

makes appearances and recordings as a

trio with her older brother, saxophonist

Yuval Cohen, and her younger brother,

trumpeter Avishai Cohen. The three sib-

lings got their start in the Jaa Music Con-

servatory in their native Israel, and each

successully auditioned or Berklee’s trav-

eling representative in Tel Aviv. Cohen also

played tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air

Force band or her military service.

The Cohen siblings’ ourth collabora-

tive album, “Tightrope,” was released this

week. “We played at a sold-out concert

at Carnegie Hall in February and we will be playing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in

November,” Anat Cohen said. “When we

play together, it augments the experience

immensely.”

Albums eaturing Cohen as a bandleader

include “Place and Time,” named one o

All About Jazz-New York’s Best Debut

Albums o 2005; “Noir” and “Poetica”

(2007); “Notes From The Village” (2008);

“Clarinetwork” (2010); and “Claroscuro”

(2012), which takes its title rom the

Spanish word describing the play o lig

and shade.

Following her Rockland gig, she

scheduled to appear in Knoxville, Tenne

see, and she plans to be at NJPAC in Ne

ark on November 7.

At the Chazen concert, the JCC’s awa

or lietime achievement in the arts is

be bestowed on jazz pianist George We

ounder o the Newport Jazz Festival an

the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fes

val, among other outdoor music events

“George Wein created unique, lasti

estivals that have really let their mark the American popular music scene,” JC

Rockland CEO David Kirschtel said. “He

truly a visionary in the business. The JC

is proud to honor him and that he will jo

us or this exciting jazz concert.”

Tickets to the concert, available ro

www.jcc rockland.org, cost $25 apiec

Patrons who pay $75 will receive pr

erred reserved seating and are invit

to a private dairy dessert reception o

lowing the concert.

Cohen’s musical style is a blend o infuences rom samba to jazz to klezmer.


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AbigAil Klein leichmAn

A trip to the lorist three years ago inspired

Pro. Dennis Klein to ound the Fair TradeTeaneck Steering Committee, which has

organized its third annual Fair Trade Sab-

bath series o events to mark national Fair

Trade Month in October.

Among the five houses o

worship participating over

the next ew weeks are two

synagogues, Congregation

Beth Sholom and Temple

Emeth. Fair Trade Sabbath

is intended to unite religious

congregations in support

o air wages, sustainable

arming methods, and the

abolition o child slave labor.

With its origins dating

to post-World War II, the

air trade movement originally was acharitable eort championed by religious

organizations. Today, the movement

encourages people to buy such products

as coee, tea, sugar, and clothing only i

those particular items are socially and

commercially sustainable products.

Such products should be chosen in

place o commodities that may harm the

environment, the economy, communities,

and disadvantaged people.“Fair Trade Teaneck’s decision to

convene Fair Trade Sabbath observances

during Fair Trade Month recalls the

international movement’s

origins in organized religion,”

said Klein, a human rights

activist who directs the

master’s degree program

in Holocaust and genocide

studies at Kane University.

“They remind us o our aith

in dedicated hard work to

achieve a measure o justice

or the most vulnerable and

marginalized among us.”

His inspiration came when

he walked into Tiger Lily,

a Teaneck lorist shop, Klein said. Thestore’s owner, Tim Blunk, had a display

about air-trade lowers on his counter. “I

asked him about it, and he struck me as

extremely knowledgeable and committed

to the project,” Klein said. “He really

tapped a nerve or me.”

Blunk became a member o the steering committee that Klein put together.

His goal was to leverage the Teaneck

community’s long-time reputation or

civic consciousness into practical support

o air trade.

At Beth Sholom, at 10 a.m. on October

19, Rabbi Joel Pitkowski will speak ro

the pulpit about air trade in the conte

o environmental sustainability. Th

service will be ollowed by a kiddush noon eaturing certified air-trade item

On Sunday, October 20, Beth Sholom w

sponsor a program on the environment

“I have been involved in Fair Trad

Teaneck since I got here two and a ha

years ago,” Pitkowski said. “For me, it

a wonderul way to express Jewish valu

o caring or our ellow human beings an

the environment, and having those valu

expressed in how we live every day.”

When Pitkowski came to Beth Sholo

among his first actions was switching th

“oficial” shul treat rom Hershey Kisses

air-trade chocolate. It was “a simple w

to illustrate the idea,” he said.

“One o the beautiul notions o Judais

is that it has something to say abo

everything we do — including what we ea what we wear, and how we interact wi

the people who make our ood and wi

the environment that God created or us

he added.

Temple Emeth will observe Fair Tra

Prof. Dennis Klein

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old, who plan to meet at 8 a.m. in Central Park at the

69th Street and 5th Avenue entrance. Call Kim at (201)

820-3936 or email [email protected].

Fort Lee shul dedicationOn Sunday, October 20, at 9:45 a.m., the Young Israel

o Fort Lee will dedicate its new building at 1610

Parker Ave. Participants include Fort Lee Mayor Mark

Sokolich; Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, honorary president o

the Rabbinical Council o America and leader o Con

gregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood; Paul Glasser,

senior director o Institutional Advancement o the

Orthodox Union; and Rabbi Neil Winkler o the Young

Israel o Fort Lee; and shul leaderss.

The new acility, the “Ulo and Ethel Barad Build

ing,” is named ater its donors. Their son, Gerald, willspeak at the event in memory o his parents, who

were longtime members and contributors. An open

house will be held rom 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., ollowing

the dedication.

The original building, erected in 1980, was demol

ished nearly three years ago to make way or a much

larger, twoloor acility to serve its 120 amilies. The

new handicappedaccessibile structure includes

an elevator that runs automatically on Shabbat, ull

kitchen, reception hall, main sanctuary and smaller

beit midrash or weekly services.

Emunah honors leadersWomen in the community who head chessed com

mittees in local shuls will be honored at Emunah’s

Kallah Tea on this Shabbat, October 19, 435 WarwickAve., Teaneck. Nechama Price, on the aculty at Stern

College in the Bible and Judaic studies departments

since 2004 and a recent graduate o the first class o

the American branch o Nishmat’s Yoetzet Halacha

program, will discuss “Strong or Weak? Women in

the Tanach.”

The honorees include rom Congregation Arzei

Darom, Valerie Levin; Bais Medrash o Bergen County,

Michelle Wasserlau; Beth Aaron, Toby Feder; Congre

gation Beth Abraham, Tammy Greenberg and Tsipi

Gurell; Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, Betty Kay and

Ora Parmett; Congregation Ahavat Shalom, Lizzie

Zimmer Farberwitz; Keter Torah, Estee Kirsch; Con

gregation Ohr HaTorah, Elissa Hochbaum; Congre

gation Rinat Yisrael, Yael Davidovics; Congregation

Shaarei Orah, Malka Jachter; Congregation Shaaarei

Tefillah, Audra Lichter and Terri Normand; Young

Israel o Teaneck, Marsha Friedman, Devorah Schatz,Robin Mendelson, and Hadassah Weinberger; and

Zichron Mordechai, Rhonda Leibowitz.

For inormation, email [email protected].

AMIT dinnerat Chelsea PiersChana and Daniel Shields o Teaneck will be honored

at AMIT’s annual dinner on Sunday, November 10, at

Pier Sixty Chelsea Piers in New York City at 5:30 p.m.

The evening will also pay tribute to the memory o

Esther Semmelman, Chana’s sister, who also lived in

Teaneck. Rabbi Shai Piron, the minister o educationor the State o Israel, is the special guest.

Hundreds o AMIT riends and supporters are

expected to attend. All proceeds will benefit the AMIT

Network o schools and programs throughout Israel,

which in recent years has grown to encompass more

than 26,000 students rom kindergarten through

junior college.

The dinner will also honor Ina and David Tropper

o Riverdale, N.Y., and Jill and Yoni Ellman o New York

City. Event chairs are ormer dinner honorees Stacey

and David Kanbar o New York City. Among the dinner

cochairs are Robin and Shukie Grossman o Teaneck,

Jacques Semmelman o Teaneck, and Alex Thurm o

Englewood.

Chana Shields and her amily have been deeply

rooted in AMIT or generations. Her grandmother,

Shirley Halpern, was an active member o her Miz

rachi chapter in Brooklyn, while her mother, MarciaHolzer, was involved on both the national and local

levels and is a past national board member, as was her

late sister, Esther Semmelman. Chana’s aunt, Norma

Holzer, was also a past national president. Chana was

a member o the inaugural NewGen board, involved in

the initiative to bring a younger generation into AMIT,

served as recording secretary, and is the national vice

president o marketing.

Dan Shields is also dedicated to Jewish communal

lie. Growing up in Toronto, his amily was involved

in organizations ranging rom the local Jewish day

schools, yeshivot, and synagogues to Bikur Cholim

and Mizrachi. He served as treasurer o the Lower

Merion Synagogue in Pennsylvania and as a trustee o

Yeshivat Noam, while also being active at Congrega

tion Keter Torah.

Esther Holzer Semmelman grew up in Monsey, N.Y.,

and was a lawyer. She worked at the UJA Federationand was a member o the inaugural NewGen board,

later serving on the national board. She and her hus

band, Jacques, and their two children, were active in

many communal organizations including their shul,

Rinat Yisrael, Shalva, Keren Or, Moriah, and the Torah

Academy o Bergen County.

Esther died in 2012, ater a 10year battle with can

cer. The Art Project at the AMIT Beatrice and Irving

Stone Meysharim School in Shoham, Israel, is dedi

cated in her memory.

For inormation on the dinner call (212) 477-4725.

Daniel and Chana Shields

CourtesyAmit


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A house dividedM

uch has been said and

written in the last two

weeks about the new

Pew Research Center

survey, and its disturbin portrait o

the state o American Jewry.

No stream has reason to crow.

Attrition alicts all lavors o Juda-

ism — even the so-called secular, espe-

cially when we actor in the number

o Jewish parents who say they are

not raisin their children “as Jewish

— either by reliion or aside rom reli-

ion,” in the survey’s own words. In

Orthodoxy’s case, where the picture

appears to be less bleak, the num-

bers m ay be unortunately skewed, because virtua lly all the Orthodox

interviewed were rom Brooklyn,

Monsey, and Lakewood — solid bas-

tions o charedi Judaism, but not rep-

resentative o more liberal Orthodox

enclaves.

Amon the comments, press

releases, speeches, articles, and

sound bites that inundated us in the

wake o the Pew results, the words o

two Orthodox rabbis stand out. The

first is Rabbi Shmuel Goldin o Con-

reat ion Ahavath Torah in Enle-

wood. “We are all in this toether,”

he told our reporter Lois Goldrich

(“Local rabbis talk about the Pew sur-

vey,” Oct. 11, 2013). “We need to find a

way to reach out to those beyond our

ranks and boundaries, and do a bet-

ter job within our ranks, to touch both

minds and hearts.”

I we are to reverse the trend lon

observed and yet aain confirmed by

this new survey, we need to set aside

our ractionalism and our actional-

ism. We need to eschew triumpha-lism and embrace collaboration. We

need to aree to disaree on matters

o observance and ideology, and ocus

instead on our common commitment

to preservin the American Jewish

uture. The best minds rom every

corner o Jewish lie need to sit at the

same table, and come up with ways to

fix that which clearly is very broken.

This brins us to the second voice

that stands out — that o Eliyahu Fink,

rabbi o the Pacific Jewish Center/The

Shul on the Beach in Venice, Cali.

In an article that appeared on

the website o the Orthodox weekly

the Jewish Press, Fink wrote “that

Orthodox Jews should be concerned

and make eorts to help revive non-

Orthodox Judaism....Orthodox Juda-

ism is not oin to maically become

the Judaism or the 89 percent o non-

Orthodox Jews. We can either wish

them well and watch them disappear,

or we can try to keep them connected

to their Jewish heritae.... [S]trenth-

enin the non-Orthodox denomina-tions is a worthy endeavor. They are

also our brothers and sisters.”

We are all in this toether. Only

toether can we shore up the house

so that it is stron enouh to remain

standin lon into the distant uture.

We lack only one thin: leaders in

all streams with the courae to stand

toether.

TuTh gd of coquc

People of the bagelversus peopleof the book

A new Pew Research poll suests that Ame

can Jewry is on its way to sleepin with d

fishes.

The surprisin part was not the nearly 6

percent intermarriae rate, or the two-thirds o Jew

who preer the dentist’s chair to attendin synaou

No, it was Christmas that ot me.

Really? One third out o all American Jews are li

in a tree? Even the most secular Jews used to definthemselves as not bein Christian. Now, accordin

the study more than a third say that belie in Jesus is n

incompatible with bein Jewish.

Basically, we’re screwed.

So where do we o rom here? Some would say i

time to book those El Al tickets, because Americ

Jewry has no uture. B

this is a sel-deeatin ar

ment. Israel needs a stro

American Jewish comm

nity or its basic surviv

All you have to do is look

tiny diaspora communiti

that were once robust, li

the UK, where a tsunam

o anti-Israel sentiment h

exploded, to know the pri

paid or overseas commuties that bein to disappea

Others miss anti-Sem

tism. America is simply t

open a society or Jews not to blend in to the point

oblivion. Both Spinoza and Sartre arued that wi

out people to hate us we Jews will be no more. Wh

we need is some ood old ashion poroms to keep

committed.

I find this the most oensive arument o all, not on

because it arues that Nazis can be credited with Jewi

identity but rather because it’s simply not worth payi

Shmuley Boteach became the first non-Christian to

ever win the London Times “Preacher o the Year”

competition and served as host o “The Shmuley Show

on the Oprah and Friends Radio Network. Follow him

on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

Rabbi

Shmuley Boteach

20 Jwish stndrd OCtOBr 18, 2013

The four Cs“Communication, conciliation, com-

promise, and cooperation.” That, a

sadly underrated Gerald R. Ford tolda joint session o Conress three days

ater becomin the “accidental presi-

dent” in Auust 1974, was his “motto

or Conress.”

A year earlier, at his conormation

hearings to replace Spiro T. Agnew as

vice president, Ford said that “com-

promise is the oil that makes govern-

ments go.”

To newly elected leislators, he

would oten quote Thomas Huxley,

“who said a century ao: ‘Sit down

beore acts as a little child, be pre -

pared to ive up every preconceived

notion — or you shall learn nothin.’”

As o this writin, New Jersey

voters had yet to choose their new

senator. As o this readin, the win-

ner likely has taken the oath o ofice

and is beinnin his on-the-jobtrainin.

While it is as yet unclear whether

that person is Corey Booker or Steve

Lonean, it is very clear what are the

issues that our new senator must

help address.

Perhaps the biest issue is how

he can help the Senate — and the

Conress as a whole — end the divi-

sive political bickerin that brouht

overnment to a standstill over the

last several years and inhibited the

nation’s economic recovery and

rowth, and bein the process o le-

islatin or the public ood.

In Wednesday’s race, the lines

were clear ly drawn . A moder ate

liberal Democrat aced a conserva-

tive libertarian Republican. The two

men were as distinuishable as noonis rom midniht. The business o

overnin, however, is not the same

as the business o runnin or ofice.

Our new senator now represents all

the people o this state — those who

voted or him, those who voted or

his opponent, those who did not

vote at all, and those who were not

eliible to vote. He is not a candidate,

but a senator, and that is how he

must approach his new task.

Our nation’s reatness has been

diminished by the rain seas o ran-

cor, discord, partisanship, and dis-

trust. We pray that our new senator

plunes himsel instead into the our

Cs o Gerald Ford.


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Jwish stndrd OCtOBr 18, 2013

the price. I only dead Jews et to remain afiliated, what’s

the point?

Others find in this catastrophic study the ultimate vindi-

cation o Orthodoxy, the only part o the community that

is rowin rather than vanishin. But as an Orthodox Jew

who has always lived amon the non-Orthodox, I take scant

comort in the arument that only insularity and sel-het-toization can perpetuate our tradition.

Rather, what’s needed, both or Orthodox and secu-

lar Jews, is an immediate proram to make all Jewish day

schools ree, just as Birthriht is. Jewish education is the

only uarantor o Jewish identity. We are not the people

o the bael. We are the people o the book. An extreme,

draconian interpretation o separation o church and state

in the United States makes it impossible or a dollar o our

tax money to o to parochial schools, even or their secular

departments. America is alone amon developed counties

o the world in penalizin parents who want to ive their

children a values-based reliious education. We have to

fiht this politically tooth and nail. I AIPAC can et 12,000

Jews toether to support Israel, then a similarly well-run

political lobby can brin even reater numbers to pressure

the overnment to pass leislation to und the secular cur-

riculum o parochial schools.

The rest o the money should be provided by creatin a iant superund that makes rants o approximately

$10,000 per student per annum toward the cost o Jewish

day schools, whatever the economic status o the parents.

The money can and must be raised.

Endorsin the centrality o Jewish education, Torah study,

and mitzvah observance also means puttin an end to an

emphasis on Jewish culture as a means o instillin identity.

For a eneration American Jew

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