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CONTENTS

Candlelighting: Friday, January 9, 4:28 p.m.Shabbat ends: Saturday, January 10, 5:32 p.m.

● On Monday, the actress CameronDiaz married Benji Madden, the gui-tarist for the popular punk rock bandGood Charlotte, at her Beverly Hillshome.

In an interesting twist, the couple hada Jewish ceremony — despite the factthat neither appears to be Jewish.

Diaz’s father was Cuban, and hermother’s ancestry is English andGerman. Madden, who started GoodCharlotte with his twin brother, Joel,was born to Robin Madden and RogerCombs. There is no evidence that hehas any Jewish ancestry.

Furthermore, while some high-profilecelebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow andMadonna have a Jewish father or areinvolved in Kabbalah, it is not readilyapparent what Diaz or Madden’sconnection might be>.

So why the Jewish wedding? USWeekly reported that the ceremonywas complete with crushed glass,heartfelt chants of “mazel tov,” andeven a traditional yichud ritual, duringwhich the newlyweds were left bythemselves in a private room after itwas over.

One possible clue could lie in

Madden’s middle name, which,according to his Wikipedia page, isLevi. Perhaps there is some kind ofconversion or interest that the tabloidshave missed there.

The other possible phenomenonat work is the Jewish wedding’stransformation into a chic culturalstatement.

As Rachel Shukert wrote in Tablet:“For the first time in the history ofAmerica, Jewishness — and not just thebagels-and-lox part — is aspirational.There’s a seder in the White House,and rabbis gave the invocation at theconventions of both major politicalparties … Ralph Lauren built an empiregiving us all WASP anxiety; now theWASPs want to be Jews.”

The truth behind the Diaz-Maddenwedding may turn out to be morestraightforward, but having a Jewishwedding — even if the couple isn’tJewish — might just be the next trend inHollywood.

If this is turning into a trend, onepossible vector is the celebrity weddingplanner Diaz and Madden used: Israelinative Yifat Oren.

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Why did Cameron Diazhave a Jewish wedding?

What’s blue and whiteand green all over?

● There have been many successstories about Israeli com-panies on American stockexchanges. But no Israelicompany promises to beas high flying as One WorldCannabis, which begantrading in the over-the-counter market lastmonth.

One World Cannabisspecializes in research anddevelopment about medical uses ofmarijuana, and employs the formerhead of the Israeli Ministry of Health’smedical marijuana program.

The company entered the OTC

market through a reverse mergerwith Dynamic Applications, a smallIsraeli firm that owns a patent

for an electronicpercussion device.

The company changedits name to OWC

Pharmaceutical ResearchCorp. and trades withthe ticker symbol

OWCP.Pharmaceutical research

always is an investing longshot,and the medical marijuana industrylikely is no exception. The road toprofitability no doubt will be a long,strange trip indeed. LARRY YUDEL

● It’s been a big week for freedom marchesin Israel.

Animal freedom marches. That is tosay, animals marching past their keepersand into roads, and from there into videosuploaded to YouTube.

First out of the gate: Three rhinocerosesfrom the Ramat Gan zoo strolled througha side gate on January 1, moving past adozing keeper and into the parking lot.

Yehuda Bar, the zoo’s director, chasedafter them and brought them back.

The next escapee was an unnamedemu. This animal, which got away from afarm, made it out into traffic in Herzliyabefore it was captured.

What next? Given the apparent moodamong Israeli animals, if I were a shep-herd, I’d be worried about my lambs go-ing on the lam. LARRY YUDELSO

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Israelis of Moroccan Jew-ish ancestry.

The best film and TVseries awards go to theprincipal producers.Here noted are “best of”nominees with a strongJewish connection, likea director or writer. Bestfilm, drama: “Foxcatcher,”about the murder ofOlympic wrestler DaveSchultz. Directed byBENNETT MILLER andco-written by DAN FUT-TERMAN , both 47; and“The Imitation Game”(Moore); Best film, com-edy or musical: “Intothe Woods”, music bySTEPHEN SONDHEIM ,84, and screenplay byJAMES LAPINE , 65;Best TV drama: “Af-fair”, co-created/writ-ten by HAGAI LEVI , 51;

and “Games of Thrones,”co-created and writtenby DAVID BENIOFF , 44,and D. B. WEISS , 43;and “The Good Wife”,co-created/written byMICHELLE KING , 52;Best TV series, musicalor comedy: “Girls” (Dun-ham); and “Transpar-ent,” created/written byJILL SOLOWAY , 49. Bestmini-series/TV movie:“The Normal Heart”,screenplay by LARRY KRAMER , 79; and “OliveKitteridge,” directed byLISA CHOLODENKO , 50.

Correction: In aprevious column, I

said that Dave Schultzwas murdered on thePittsburgh-area estate ofJohn DuPont. The estatewas near Philadelphia.Also, I said I was unsure

Jake Gyllenhaal Joaquin Phoenix

Patricia Arquette Julianne Margulies

The Golden Globeawards will be

broadcast live on NBC onSunday, January 11, at 8p.m. Here are the Jewishnominees: Acting, film:Best actor, drama, JAKE GYLLENHAAL , 34,“Nightcrawler”; Bestactor, comedy/musical:JOAQUIN PHOENIX , 40,“Inherent Vice”; Bestsupporting actress,

drama, comedy, ormusical: PATRICIA ARQUETTE , 46, “Boy-hood”; Acting, TV: Bestactor, drama: LIEV SCHREIBER , 47, “RayDonovan”; Best actress,drama: JULIANNE MARGULIES , 48, “TheGood Wife”; Best actor,comedy/musical:JEFFREY TAMBOR , 70,“Transparent.” Tamborplays a transsexualJewish character, Mort/ Maura Pfefferman; Best(TV) actress, comedy/ musical: LENA DUNHAM ,28, “Girls”; Best actress,mini-series/TV movie:MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL ,37, for playing the Jewishcharacter BaronessNessa Stein in “TheHonourable Woman”.

Best film screenplay:GRAHAM MOORE , 32,for “The Imitation Game.”Best score: HANS ZIM-MER, 57, “Interstellar.”One of the most honoredfilm composers of ourtime, Zimmer was bornand raised in Germany,and is the son of a Ger-man Jewish mother whoescaped to England in

1939 and returned afterthe war. He outed himselfas Jewish on GermanTV in 1999, but this factwas not widely knownuntil he talked to theJewish Journal of LosAngeles last May. He toldthem, “The Jews are mypeople.” Best OriginalFilm Song: “Mercy Is”(“Noah”), Patti Smith andLENNY KAYE , 67, and

“Opportunity” (“Annie”),GREG KURSTIN , 45, SiaFurler, and WILL GLUCK ,42. Gluck directed “An-nie” and co-wrote thescreenplay.

Best Foreign Languagefilm: “Ida” (Denmark/ Poland). Plot: During the1960s, Anna, a novicenun, finds out from arelative that her parentswere Jewish and diedin the Holocaust. Shesets out to learn more.“Ida” was directed andco-written by PawelPawlikowski, a Pole wholearned as an adult thathis paternal grandmotherwas Jewish and that shedied in the camps. Alsoin this category: “Gett:The Trial of Viviane Am-salem” (Israel). In thewords of “Variety”: “Thisexpertly written, brilliant-ly acted film documentsthe painful five-yearprocess for one [Israeli]woman attempting toobtain a divorce [in Isra-el].” The film was co-writ-ten and co-directed byRONIT ELKABETZ , 50,and her brother, SHLOMI ELKABETZ , 46. They are

McCarthy? Jewish?Update: the Bravo series “Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce”premiered on December 2, and, as noted in an earliercolumn, it’s surprisingly good. Abby and Jake McCarthy,played by LISA EDELSTEIN , 49, and PAUL ADEL-STEIN , 45, are the show’s lead characters. With aname like “McCarthy” it was reasonable to assume they

weren’t a Jewish couple. Well, in the December 19 epi-sode, the divorcing McCarthys have a spat at the courtmediator’s of ice. Abby says that she’s Jewish and she

wants their two children to continue to be raised Jewish. Jake replies he has no problem with the kids’ religiousupbringing. Abby then says that she wants things to

be clear because Jake is “half Jewish” (adding that hismother isn’t Jewish). He gets angry, pointing out his halfstatus would come as a surprise to his parents, who were

at his bar mitzvah. Later, at their home, she sincerelyapologizes to Jake and says “you’re a full Jew.” Near theend of the show, Jake moves out and Abby celebratesFriday night Shabbat with the kids. (It’s still unclear why

Jake’s last name is McCarthy.) Also: A Standard reader wrote to remind me that Edelstein grew up in Wayne.She added that Lisa’s father, ALVIN , a now retired petrician, treated the reader’s children.

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Clear-sightedness on the Middle EastIsraeli intelligence expert to speak at the IAC in Tenafly

JOANNE PALMER

The more people know, themore clearly they can see.

The more they are pre-sented not with polemics but

with analysis, the more they can under-stand the world around them.

These points are simple and straight-forward, but often hard to practice.That’s particularly true when the sub-

ject under discussion is the Middle East.On Saturday night, the newly formed

New Jersey chapter of the Israeli-Amer-ican Council will present Avi Melamed,a longtime Israeli intelligence of icial

who is now a fellow for Middle Easternaffairs at the Eisenhower Institute inWashington, D.C.

Mr. Melamed aims for a clear-sightedapproach.

“I will be trying to give a more com-prehensive picture of what’s going onin the region today,” he said. “I try toprovide people with what I call a GPSso they can navigate their way. It’s a3D picture of what’s going on, in a waythat even people who have a powerfulknowledge of what’s going on — andeven people who have very little knowl-edge — will walk about thinking that

they now have a way to make somesense of it.”That sounds nice — but some exam-

ples, please.“Okay. I would try to explore the phe-

nomenon of ISIS, which must be viewedin the context of a few different areas,”Mr. Melamed said. “It must be seen inthe context of the growing Sunni-Shi’itestruggle in the Middle East. It is the out-come of some disease in Arab societies,and one of the interesting things to lookat is the current conversation that goeson within our society regarding the phe-nomenon of ISIS.

“I was just watching some Americantelevision on Sunday morning, and Isaw someone who wrote a book aboutISIS. Everyone is trying to monetize

ISIS, to ride the wave of panic.“I would argue that there is a need for

a much more balanced, proportionaloutlook. That is not at all to underminethe challenge it presents, but to under-stand more accurately the proportions

of the phenomenon.”Some of our distorted understandingof world phenomena have to do withthe media, he said. “The media in theWest has a tendency to create lots ofdrama.”

As an example of that tendency, hepointed to Malaysia Air Flight 370,

whic h van ished withou t a tra ce las tMarch. (“Not the more recent one,” theAir Asia jet that crashed last week, headded.) “You may recall that the media

was talking abou t it for at leas t three weeks, 24/7. That was a lot of hot air andno substance.”

Both in his talk and in his new book, which is due out in the fall, “one of mymajor premises is that the events inthe Middle East put a mirror in front of

Western media, about how it looks atand understands them,” he said. “Thereare some challenging misinterpretationsof the Middle East in the West that leadto counterproductive policies.

“One good example is the recent mili-tary round between Israel and Hamasthis summer. As you might recall, Secre-tary of State Kerry was trying to initiatea cease ire deal, a nd the brokers wereQatar and Turkey. There are many peo-ple in the Middle East, the Arab world,

who are not very pleased with the U.S.policy, and are convinced that theUnited States is currently deliberatelychanging its policy and betting on theIranian horse, not the Arab/Sunni one.So there was an interesting episode.

“Just because someone doesn’t like aspeci ic policy, that does not mean thatpolicy is inaccurate, but in this episode,the policy was inaccurate.

“Someone in the current U.S. admin -istration should have said, ‘Mr. Kerry.Mr. Secretary of State . You should knowthat E ypt physically holds the key tothe passages” — to the tunnels betweenGaza and Israel — “and E ypt has a very

bad relationship with Turkey and Qatar, which spons ors and harb ors Hama s.So the inevitable conclusion would be

that if you really want to cut a deal, youshould talk to E ypt.’“But unfortunately for Secretary of

State Kerry, as perceived by the Saudis ,and Israel, and E ypt, he was perceivedas providing a Nobel prize to Hamas,Qatar, and Turkey.

“Needless to say, E ypt, and SaudiArabia, and Israel were astonishedand disturbed and annoyed, and theoutcome was that Mr. Kerry’s initia-tives didn’t have a chance. It back ired,

because it presented the United Statesas totally clueless.

“More seriously, it was argued that because of t hat placebo initia tive, theoutcome was that the round continuedrather than coming to an end. It lin-

gered because Hamas, Qata r, and Tur-key thought, ‘Okay, now we have theAmerican administration on our side.We can continue.’

“This is an example of a very unfortu-nate move by the Americans.”

We Americans are at a disadvantage when it comes to unde rstand ing theMiddle East. No matter how well reador otherwise well informed we might

be, we are at a disa dvant age because“99 percent of Westerners do not speakArabic,” and it is only through expo-sure to original source material that

true understanding can be found, Mr.Melamed said. But most of our news “imediated through Westerners who donot themselves speak Arabic, and there-fore their ability to evaluate accuratelyis undermined.”

He understands the problem. “I donot speak Chinese, and so my ability tounderstand what is going on in China isquite limited,” he said.

Mr. Melamed does speak Arabithough. He learned the literary lan

guage at Hebrew University, and spokenArabic through his many years operat-ing in Arabic-speaking countries.

“I spent many years of my life operating in this region, and the overwhelm-ing majority of the analysis I provide topeople is based on sources from the Arab

world,” he said. “As an ex-intelligencperson and as someone trying for accu-racy, I never rely on only one source.”

Who: Avi Melamed, former Israeli intelligence official, fellow in Middle Easternaffairs at the Eisenhower InstituteWhat: Will talk about “Navigating the Middle East in the 21st Century”Where: At the Clinton Inn, 145 Dean Drive, TenaflyWhen: On Saturday, January 10, at 8:30 p.m.Why: For the first of the IAC Talks series presented by the Israeli-AmericanCouncilHow much: Tickets are $10 online at http://bit.ly/avimelamed; $20 at the door.Teens should email IAC director Shai Nemesh at [email protected] inadvance for free tickets.

Avi Melamed says that U.S. MiddleEast policy misses the mark.

I would try toexplore the

phenomenon ofISIS, which must

be viewed in thecontext of a fewdifferent areas.It must be seen

in the contextof the growing

Sunni-Shi’ite struggle in the

Middle East.AVI MELAMED

There are somechallenging

misinterpretationsof the Middle East in the West

that lead tocounterproductive

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When he talks about the United Statesand its Middle Eastern policy, “I do notnecessarily refer only to the currentadministration,” he said. “I am also talk-

ing about the previous ones. There is amajor conceptual flaw in the way theWest looks at the Middle East, mainly inthe last generation, and I think that thismust be reevaluated. This is the reason

why I think that in the second decade ofthe 21st century, some recent premisesand assumptions must be reevaluated.

He has not given up hope, though.“We are not running out of time. Wehave to understand the reasons for thischallenging situation, and we have toapply answers.

“I am always hopeful,” he added. “Iam optimistic by nature.”

Uri Zilberman of Fair Lawn is co-chair of the New Jersey IAC. The groupis inaugurating its IAC Talks series withMr. Melamed, he said, and then continu -ing with a series of lectures on similartopics, because “the situation in the

Middle East is so complicated — it is likea 10,000-piece puzzle. Following theMiddle East can be very hard. The Arabspring compared to the Islamic win-

ter — why is the Islamic world going inthat direction, becoming more radicalinstead of more modern?

“Today, there is a growing realiza-tion that not all the problems in theMiddle East have to do with Israel, orat the most, Israel has just a little bit todo with it.

“The reality of the world is that radi-cal Islam is ighting moderate Islam.Sunni is ighting Shi’ite, and Shi’ite is

ighting Sunni. That has nothing to do with Israel. And what is really terrifyingis that radical Islam seems to be gainingmomentum, and actually winning. Buton the other hand, the rest of the worldis starting to realize that Israel does nothave the blame for that.

“For me, education, getting a betterunderstanding of the situation, of whereit is coming from, of why it is growing so

fast, of why they are beheading peopleinstead of studying the glories of Islamand working toward more Nobel prizes.

“I don’t think it can happen in onelecture, but through education, peoplecan get a better understanding of thesituation. It is a 10,000-piece puzzle

but when you st art putting the piecestogether, after a certain amount of timeyou start getting the picture. There willalways be a lot of pieces, but gett ing thesense of the picture is important.”

The lecture will be in English, antherefore aimed not only at Israelis

but also at a more general audi ence“because I believe it is important thave the Israeli and Jewish Americapopulation get together,” Mr. Zilbermansaid.

“There is much more that connectsus than that separates us. I don’t seeenough bonding between Israelis andAmerican Jews. I know I am generaliing, but I want to see more of it.

“A lecture on a topic that might interest both groups, bring them to the sameplace — if we give it in English, it wallow us to bridge the two groups.”

Today, thereis a growingrealization

that not all the problems in

the Middle East have to do with Israel, or at themost, Israel has

just a lit tle bit todo with it.

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Bringing lacrosse to IsraelWyckoff student plays, teaches his sport on winter break, wins for Israel in Belgium

ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

Travelers schlep all kinds ofstuff to give out in Israel: cansof albacore tuna for friends,toys for pediatric patients,

socks for soldiers. On his irst foray tothe Jewish state, 17-year-old MatthewStern of Wyckoff schlepped 50 poundsof lacrosse equipment in a duffel bag.

“I’ve been playing lacrosse since kin -dergarten, and I really love it because itintroduces you to useful skills for life,like teamwork and friendship,” Mattsaid. “Especially for people living inIsrael, I want to spread that. I feel kidsin Israel will love lacrosse just as muchas I do; it’s a sport they can embraceand do well in.”

Matt took off from JFK InternationalAirport on December 24 as one of about75 young lacrosse players from acrossthe United States — plus one from Eng -land — under the auspices of the NewYork-based Israel Lacrosse Association(www.lacrosse.co.il/), which is formingteams in several Israeli cities.

A few weeks after a cease ire in thesummer conflict between Israel andHamas, Matt had come across the IsraelLacrosse Facebook page and discoveredthat it was recruiting a national devel -opment team for Jewish high-schoollacrosse players wishing to spend their

winter vaca tion introdu cing the sportto Israeli children and providing them with equipment to get started.

The trip would include leadinglacrosse clinics for young Israeli ath-letes, as well as hiking Masada at sun-rise, floating in the Dead Sea, and tour-ing Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Four teams(under-17 and under-19 for boys and

girl s) were to dorm and tra in at theWingate Institute for Sport, Israel’s of i-cial Olympic training facility in Netanya.Then they would fly to Belgium to repre-sent Israel in international competitionagainst several U 19 European clubs.

“It really intrigued me because I wan ted to spre ad the game and I’d

never been to Israel, so I thought this would be an a mazing opportunity fo rme,” Matt said. “I contacted them and

talked it over with my family.”At irst, Cindy and Dave Stern were

hesitant. They were concerned about

their son’s safety. They were particu-

larly uneasy because clinics were to takeplace in Ashkelon, the southern coastalcity that was a frequent target of Hamasmissiles from Gaza all summer. However, after speaking with Noah Millerthe Israel Lac rosse Association’s director of social responsibility and coordina-tor of the Ashkelon team, they felt reas-sured and gave Matt their permission.

And indeed, the Ramapo High Schoo junior found the Ashkelon experienceto be the highlight of his time in Israel.

“We did drills with the kids in thei ym classes, and it was amazing to se

the looks on their faces when they got

their new donated sticks,” he said. “It was challenging because of the language bar rie r, especi ally with the youngerkids. But we had received a list olacrosse vocabulary in Hebrew beforeour trip, so that helped.”

The group also ran lacrosse clinics aschools in Beersheva and Netanya.

Matt is a mid ielder, a position hdescribes as “basically running aup and down the ield, playing botoffense and defense.” In 2013, he established a nonpro it organization, Spreadthe Lax (“lax” is slang for lacrosse), tcollect new and used lacrosse gear forschools and communities that cannotafford to buy it.

Matt Stern, left, and teammate Jack Schenker stand together after a gameagainst the Netherlands men’s national team, held at the International School ofBrussels in Brussels, Belgium. COURTESY MATT STERN

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Matt, who transferred this year from the Ber- gen Academies, wi ll try out for the Ramapo HighSchool lacrosse team in early March — the seasonruns from March to May. The mini exhibition tour-nament in Belgium last week against Belgian andDutch national youth teams was a valuable practicefor him, but it was also much more.

“Being in Belgium brought home how mean-ingful the trip was and how cool it was to repre-sent Israel,” he said. “We also won all three of our

games, and our whole Israel Lacrosse program was8 and 0, so that was in itself a cool experience.”

The program scored a spiritual high for Matt as well. “When we went to the Yad Vashem HolocaustMemorial, we all felt a connection. My great-grand-parents were killed in the Holocaust, and it madeyou understand what you’re representing whenyou have ‘Israel Lacrosse’ on your jersey.”

Matt and his family attend Temple Beth Rishon inWyckoff. “This trip really brought out and revivedmy Judaism, and now I want to participate in more

Jewish ac tivitie s,” he said. “Israel Lacrosse offe rssummer internships, and I hope to do that thissummer or next.”

He also hopes to participate in the Israel LacrosseAssociation’s unique Taglit-Birthright trip when heis old enough to qualify. Registration opens Feb-ruary 3 for the second annual “Amazing IsraelLacrosse” Birthright program in June, and is lim-ited to 20 men and 20 women, from 18 to 26, whoare active players or recent graduates of an NCAA-sanctioned lacrosse program.

Matt Stern is flanked by two young studentsafter a lacrosse clinic that his group ran for thechildren at the Eshel HaNasi communal youthsettlement in Beersheba. COURTESY MATT STERN



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Not just blah-blah-blah and pizzaMahwah shul develops programming for pre- and post-b’nai mitzvah kids

LARRY YUDELSON

Somewhere on their way to the 21st cen-tury, bar and bat mitzvah celebrationstook a wrong turn.

In its origins, and in its fundamentalreligious signi icance, the bar mitzvah cer-emony marks a rite of passage. The 12- or13-year-old is now a Jewish adult, speci i-cally when it comes to synagogue servicesand other ritual obligations.

Yesterday, you were a child; today if youare not fully a man or a woman, at any rateyou are someone who can be called uponto make a minyan.

But in congregations where most familiesdon’t heed a daily or weekly call to publicprayer, it doesn’t really work that way.

After years of Hebrew school leading upto the ceremony, the newly minted Jew-ish adult drops out from Jewish life for theremainder of his or her teenage years.

How to change that?How, in the word of Rabbi Joel Mos-

bacher, “can we move from the idea thata bar mitzvah is a graduation and intothe idea that it’s a driver’s license,” which grants permission to play a driving role in Jewish ritual?

The question is not new, and it is notsmall.

It was the topic of a meeting of the Syna- gogue Leadership Institu te of the JewishFederation of Northern New Jersey last

month, and it is the target of a major initia-tive of the Union for Reform Judaism called“Bar Mitzvah Revolution.”

Rabbi Mosbacher’s congregation, BethHaverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah, has beentaking part in a synagogue training program under the Bar Mitzvah Revolutionumbrella. He and the congregation’s edu-cation director Rebecca McVeigh were themain speakers at the recent SLI program.

Their congregation has about 50 baror bat mitzvahs a year; that’s one or twoalmost every week between Septemberand June.

The bottom line: The congregationhas managed to increase the number ofteens who stay on after bar or bat mitzvah. But, Rabbi Mosbacher said, there isno one secret; no magic program he or theReform movement has discovered. “We were sitting in our little s taff ivory towertrying to guess what the perfect program would be. That wasn’t working,” he said.

Instead, “What we learned came largelyfrom periods of intensive listening to a broad range of congregants, and a willing-ness to do hard self-evaluation.

“It’s been less about a b’nai mitzvah rev-olution and more about an engagementrevolution. If we engage families and con-nect them with each other, they stay con-nected. If we wait until the bar mitzvah

year, it’s way too late,” he said.A few years ago, the congregation began

connecting with bar and bat mitzvah fami-

lies the year before their celebration witha day-long Shabbat event. It begins with aservice, at which the rabbi, the cantor, andMs. McVeigh explain what’s going on and

who’s doing what. After lunch, there’s aceremony where families are called up tothe Ark and given a booklet describing theTorah portion the child will chant the fol-lowing year. Then, the families begin look-ing at the portion and even draw up post-ers collecting their thoughts. Next, all theposters are taped together to form a scroll,

which will be opened to that portion at thechild’s bar or bat mitzvah.

Ms. McVeigh said the congregation isconsidering more such programs, to begineven earlier before the bar mitzvah date.Perhaps one in fourth grade focusing onthe service and the prayers, and anotherdevoted to community service, she said.Then, perhaps another event after theyear’s bar and bat mitzvah cycle has con -cluded, something that will bring every-one back again.

Already, a new program for familiesof the bar mitzvah age cohort has begun

gathering for monthly potluck Shabbatdinners at each others’ homes. Rabbi Dan-iel Kirzane, the congregation’s assistantrabbi, helps guide participants throughthe rituals. After an hour, he departs forFriday night services. A few families come

wi th hi m, bu t mo stremain behind and con-tinue socializing.

“It’s a way to buildcommunity and cel-ebrate Shabbat at thesame time,” said Rabbi Kirzane, whosedesire for a local Shabbat dinner — he livesin New York City — sparked the program.“This is feeding that human need for com-panionship and relationships — and ofcourse, food. As they build relationshipsto each other, they’re more committed toour community in general.”

For the bar or bat service itself, RabbiMosbacher said, there is a tension “betweenthe need of the individual family to have anindividual experience, and the needs of thecommunity to have a Shabbat service.” One

way the congregation addressed the tension was by setting aside honors for the congre - gation. Another was to have members of thecongregation come up during the service tocongratulate the b’nai mitzvah on behalf ofthe community.

And then there was the matter of havingthe parents give a blessing to their child.Such a blessing is ine — until it resemblesan Oscar speech.

“Do you think parents are born know-ing how to write a blessing?” one of RabbiMosbacher’s colleagues asked when thetopic came up.

So now there’s a how-to-write-a- blessing class . “The parents are really

appreciative,” Rabbi Mosbacher said.

“I used to meet with b’nai mitzvah kiand their families twice,” he added. “Now we meet seven times in the course ofyear. The last one is right before the bamitzvah. Now I’m thinking the last oshould be after the bar mitzvah. It’s a loof time on my part, but it’s time well spenin developing a relationship with the kidand with the families.”

While these efforts are designed to conect children and their families to the con

gregation before the bar or bat mitzvahthe synagogue also has changed its pos

b’nai mitzvah connections to the childrenIt hired a half-time youth professional.

targeted its new endowment campaign onyouth engagement. It moved the seventh

grade into the Hebrew high school pro gram, putting the seventh graders together with the older teens. Instead of being th

oldest, and ready graduate, they are nthe youngest, witclear path of invoment ahead. And onMonday night after t

bar or bat mitzvah, “make a big deal that Jor Suzie became mitzvah. It’s a thing. kids look forward toRabbi Mosbacher sa

The Bar Mitzvah R

lution program encoaged the congregatto listen to the con

gants. What Beth Haverim found in listeing to high school students, Rabbi Mo

bacher said, is that the students were to busy to go to a synagogue program th was primarily social.

“They say they don’t have time comea program that is just blah-blah-blah apizza,” he said. Accordingly, “We devoped more of a curriculum and serious content for our post b’nai mitzvah program.

“We’ve been more intentional” abou bringing post bar mitzvah youth into thMonday night religious school program“Last year, we had some of the 11th an12th graders call the linchpin kids” — tho

who would set the pace for their peers — recruit them for the program.

The synagogue also has been looking fother ways of engaging teenagers beyonthe Monday night program, includinexpanding the congregation’s four-day tripto Washington, D.C., which focus on sociaction, and opening it to kids who aren’t ithe religious school program.

“I think we’ve seen an increase in retetion,” Rabbi Mosbacher said. “The classfeel more like a class. It’s a slow cultushift, but it seems like we can see th

we’re turning the tide.”

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As the Bridgegate scandalseems to be moving towardits denouement just about asquickly as the traf ic on the

George Washington Bridge during thosefour September days last year — in other words, it’s not moving at all — the gov-ernment agency behind it is caught upin another set of problems.

The Port Authority of New York andNew Jersey, controlled by appointees ofthe governors of those two states, over-

sees bridges, tunnels, rail systems, ter-minals, ports, and airports; its “operat-ing and capital budgets combined totalan authorized amount of $8.2 billion,”according to its website.

It historically has been a honeypot forthe two states’ governors; because it isnot transparent, it provides them witha useful way to reward allies and fundprojects close to their own or their sup-porters’ hearts.

The George Washington Bridge is oneof the spans the Port Authority controls;last year’s lane closures were embar-rassing for the Port Authority, and led tocalls for increased transparency, at theleast, from the agency.

As the investigations into the laneclosures dragged on, the legislatures inNew Jersey and New York voted unani-mously in favor of a bill to lift someof the secrecy enshrouding the PortAuthority. That was no small feat —four separate bodies, upper and lowerhouses in two state legislatures, Demo-crats and Republicans alike, voted thesame way.

But on the Saturday night betweenChristmas and New Year’s Day — not atime of the day, or of the week, or ofthe year when most people pay muchattention to the news — Chris Christie,

the Republican governor of New Jerseyand Andrew Cuomo, the Democrati

governor of New York, chose to vetthe bill.

They replaced the legislation withreform plan of their own, which is nsubject to approval and can be impmented immediately.

Echoes of Tammany Hall spring irsistibly to mind.

But not only did the governors squathe reforms in the legislative plan, thadded some money-saving ideas of thown. Among them was the plan to sh

the PATH trains that go from Jersey Cand Hoboken to Manhattan on weekennights.

That, according to Jersey City’s maySteve Fulop, and Hoboken’s mayDawn Zimmer — as well as to Stor Robert Menendez and many othelected of icials — is a very bad anddamaging idea.

Both those mayors are Jewish, a both towns, once full of Jews, are seenew generations of Jews return. Boalso are cities of irst-generation im grants, whose stories mirror those many of our own parents, grandparentsor great grandparents as they work the way up from poverty to stabil ity athen, they hope, comfort.

Both mayors also are very angry.The proposed legislation “pass

unanimously at about 600 to zero,” MFulop said. “That’s probably never hapened before. It’s amazing.”

The governors’ choice to veto it whthey did was amazing as well, he adde“And it was so blatant.

“In theory, the legislatures can overide it, but there is zero history ofChristie veto override.”

The stealth timing was made ev worse by other political facts. “In NYork, a new state assembly will ta

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“The Port Authority’s budget is biggerthan most states’ budgets,” Mr. Fulop said.“There is very little oversight, because

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“There is zero incentive for them to want to change i t, because it ac ts like apig y bank for them.”

There are a number of reasons for par-ticular concern about the changes to PATHservice, he said. “When you look at Ber- gen, Hudson, and Essex counties, you seethat we are very congested. We should beinvesting in mass transit. Every study saysthat we are underserved in access betweenNew York and New Jersey.

“When they eliminated the ARC tunnel,it was a major blow.”

(ARC stands for Access to the Region’sCore. It was a complex commuter rail

project, estimated to cost almost $9 bil -lion. Construction on the project, which

irst took form in the 1990s, began in2009; Mr. Christie vetoed it the next year.“Lautenberg” —that is Senator Frank Laut-enberg, the New Jersey Democrat whodied in 2013 — “worked for 10 years to put

it together, and Christie literally eliminatedit in one day,” Mr. Fulop said. “Killed it.”)“We — the state — under the Christie

administration, have given hundreds ofmillions of dollars, both through the legis-lature and Christie’s bipartisan incentives,to attract businesses and residents to movefrom New York to New Jersey. Obviously,many things come into a person’s decisionto move a business or resident, but trans-portation seems to be one of the majordriving forces.

“When you look at the state’s economy,for the most part the only bright spot has been the Hudson County mass transpor-tation area, with PATH and the light rail,”he added. “It really incentivized a lot of businesses to move here. Anything that

damages it is counterintuitive.“To give hundreds of millions of dol-

lars to attract people to move here — andon the other hand to curtail an asset that would attract people to move here — it’skind of confusing.

“Why would they even propose it?”

He pointed to another counterintuitiveaction.“The Port Authority’s capital budget has

$10 billion to extend the PATH all the wayto Newark Airport,” he said. “That would give a single-seat ride to downtown Jer -sey City, Hoboken, or Manhattan. That isa huge economic incentive, and not manycities have that.

“Nobody is thinking through the impli-cations of investing $10 billion, and on theother hand cutting service on the sametrain.”

Mr. Fulop pointed out that most over-night PATH riders are “not only late-nightrevelers, or people going into New York fora night out. They are health-care workers,security guards, people with janitorial or

maintenance jobs. They are low-incom jobs, and people rely on those jobs.”

Why does he think that the governoreport included the PATH cuts? “I thin— and I’ve also heard this — that the York contingent at the Port Authoriadvocates for it bec ause the PATH mak

New Jersey more competitive.”If that’s true, why did the Jersey side along?

“I think it’s just laziness on the partthe chair of the Port Authority, who is Jersey guy,” Mr. Fulop said. “And Chri— I just don’t think he’s engaged with puing it through.

“Giving him the bene it of the doub would like to think that if Christie thougmore about it, he would have pushe back.

“But he doesn’t seem to care that mucabout New Jersey anymore. He might j be disengaged.

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Franklin Lakes shulholds mitzvah mallOn Sunday, February 8, from 8:30 a.m. to noonmembers of Barnert Temple in Franklin Lake will raise money and awareness for 10 selectcharities close to home and around the worldat its 15th annual Mitzvah Mall and PancaBreakfast.

In addition to interactive charity exhibits fochildren and adults, there will be adult education with Rabbi Elyse Frishman at 9 a.m., a pancake breakfast, and a raffle.

Each well-vetted charity represents the chancto do a mitzvah — the obligation to do modeeds or social justice through acts of kinness. All money raised will go directly to the grassroots organizations. Participating charitieinclude CASA for Children of Bergen County, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Meals with a Msion, the Good People Fund’s Self Suf icieProgram for Holocaust Survivors, LILY — Lforce in Later Years, the Forgotten People FundBergen Swan, Breaking the Chain Through Edcation, Ace Programs for the Homeless, anFinal Salute, Inc.

Barnert Temple is at 747 Route 208 Souin Franklin Lakes. For information, call (20848 1800 or go to www.barnerttemple.orMitzvahMall.

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Environmental science and Jewish values—perfect together

David Gray-Schoenblum of Wayne examines watersamples from the ecosystem of a local pond.

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On January 12 at 6:30 p.m., the Academiesat Gerrard Berman Day School in Oakland

will bring together two of its integral program clusters, environmental science and Jewish values, at a rally that is f ree andopen to the community.

Dr. George Amato, director of the Sack-ler Institute for Comparative Genomicsat the American Museum of Natural His-tory in Manhattan, and Amir Sagie, dep-uty consul general of Israel in New York, will present “Survival Against All Odds.”Dr. Amato, a frequent speaker at the 92ndStreet Y in Manhattan, will share his expe-riences in the ields of animal conservationand genetics. Mr. Sagie will discuss waysin which parents and students can combatanti-Semitism. The program underscoresthe school’s new direction.

“The Gerrard Berman Day School hasalways provided a nurturing Jewish edu-cation,” said Elaine Schlossberg, a schoolfounder. “For 29 years our mission has been clear-cut — to create responsible citi-zens and future leaders. We achieve that,over and over again. In 2013, the boardsupported the initiative to broaden andstrengthen the sciences.”

To integrate science into all curriculumareas, the board approved the hiring of theAcademies’ new coordinator, Sheila Bar- bach. “We wooed her away from CountyCollege of Morris,” the head of school, BobSmolen, said. That hire, combined witha grant from the Center for Initiatives in

Jewish Education, led to an emphasis onenvironmental studies. This year even theschool’s nursery students are doing sci -ence experiments.

It was a natural shift, Ms. Barbach said.“As Jews, our students are already deeplyaware of their obligation to protect theearth. Now we are challenging them to puttheir knowledge into action.” Together, Mr.Smolen and Ms. Barbach implemented

the school’s “Green New Year” initiative, which focuses on ecolo y. All elementaryand middle school students had a hand increating the oversized collage of a Torah, which is on display. “Every bit of the mate-rial was up-cycled,” Ms. Barbach added.“We want our students to realize that ordi-nary items can serve a higher purpose.”

The school is expanding its scienti icfootprint. Two Academies at GBDS teach-ers traveled to Israel to take part in Excel-lence 2000, a state-of-the-art math andscience training program co-sponsored bythe Center for Initiatives in Jewish Educa-tion and the Israel Center for Excellence in

Education. The teachers returned with aninquiry-based curriculum that challengesstudents who excel in math and science.

Academy students also bene it from adynamic lecture series. Last week JeremySlen and Caleb Zedek from Teva, the JewishEnvironmental Education Center in Con-necticut, spoke to middle school studentsabout the food supply. Other recent guestsinclude Dr. Brian Regal, history of scienceprofessor at Kean University, who spokeon the repercussions of pseudoscience;Dr. Mark Siegel of Hackensack UniversityMedical Center, who talked about the his-tory of DNA; Professor Dawn Dirgus, history

of science professor at Stevens InstituteTechnolo y, who examined the integtion between science and the humanitithroughout history; and Dr. Noah WilsoRich, who spoke about the behavior of bee

“My daughter, Sophie, came home excited about pollination,” parent JeSeligman said. “As part of tikkun olam, s wants to save the bees. I put the kibosh oputting a beehive in our backyard, but tolher she could have her own someday, anthat nothing needs to stop her.”

For information on the Academies’ in grated science programming , call (20337 1111 or email [email protected].

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Continuing the Jewish Center conversation

Our editorial about the Teaneck Jewish Center ’s plans to part-ner with Yeshivat HeichalHatorah clearly sparked dis-

cussion in our community, as our Letterspage has made clear these past few weeks.

Some have questioned what right we asa newspaper have to weigh in on the deci-sion to be made by a synagogue’s board.Those critics have forgotten the essentialnature of a newspaper editorial: To weighin on other people’s business. That otherpeople have no obligation to follow ouropinion is a given; had our editorials been binding these pages would have achievedMideast peace and ended world hungerdecades ago.

But how narrowly a synagogue board

can consider its disposition of its assetsis also a question. The Talmud (Megillah26a) cautions that the inhabitants of a largetown cannot sell a synagogue becauseit has raised money from, and served, alarger community outside the borders ofthe town. The Jewish Center of Teaneck was not buil t and suppor ted sole ly bythe 69 remaining member families; it is aproduct of the efforts — and — charity ofBergen County Jews who imagined andsought a center for all of the local Jewishcommunity.

The vast majority of those Jews have left,they or their descendants moving to syna - gogues where they could walk or where women could be called to the Torah. Yet itis the broader Jewish community that built

the Jewish Center.Forgive us, but we don’t see how HeichalHatorah meets a need for the vast major-ity of Teaneck’s, or even Bergen County’s, Jews. There is already a boy’s yeshivadevoted to Talmud study and academicexcellence in town; the Torah Academyof Bergen County. We do not doubt thatHeichal serves its students well; but that isnot ful illing a communal need. Providinga new school with a building at below-mar-ket rates is nice for those who bene it — butthat is not a communal good.

What would be a communal good? If we were on the board of the Jewish Cen-ter — and just typing those words remindsus to appreciate those who actually dothe hard and mostly thankless task of

governing the Jewish Center, and all ouother synagogues and communal institutions — well, we would use the monefrom selling the building at market valueto endow Jewish life in our community

going forward. Both the RosenbaumYeshiva of North Jersey and the SolomonSchechter Day School of Bergen Count

were incubated in the Jewish Center’sclassrooms. Would anything be a moreappropriate tribute by the Jewish Centerto its past and to the community’s futurethan to provide continuing support tothese two institutions that, while serving diverse populations, raise our next generation?

Not that we can think of.


Names count

Yesterday, we saw announce-ments of name changes fromtwo Jewish organizations.Because the changes were so

different, it started us thinking aboutnames.

The organization once known as the Jewi sh Telegraphic Agenc y and morerecently by the shortened form, JTA, is a venerable one. It was founded in 1917, andhas taken its mission as “the global newsservice of the Jewish people” seriously,reporting news from hot spots and offer -ing features and insights from across thecountry, Israel, and the world. Its archivesoffer an in in-depth look at history, from Jewish angles and through Jewish lenses.

JTA supplies Jewish newspapers aroundthe world and across the internet, includ-ing this one, with much of their news. In general, local news is home-generated, but anything from far away — or even just

outside the state’s or region’s borders —comes from JTA.

JTA has just announced that as it com-pletes its long-planned merger withanother, smaller, newer Jewish agency,the online education website MyJewishLe-

arning, it will change its name to 70 FacesMedia.Wait. What?“The name 70 Faces Media is derived

from the Jewish teaching that “the Torahhas seventy faces,” the press releaseannouncing the changes spells out ear-nestly. “The organization’s websiteexplains: ‘We take our name from and are guided by the enduring message of th isancient dictum, that the creation of Jew-ish knowledge and narrative must reflecta wide range of experiences, perspectivesand personalities,’” the release continues.

Oh my.It is striking that although 70 Faces

Media refers back to midrash, the word Jewish is nowhere present. To be fair, Jew-ish already had disappeared from JTA,although its reflection hovered just abovethe letters, vanishing if you looked straightat it.

On the other hand, a far newer, less well-known website than MyJewishLearn-ing, Open Quorum, is now changing itsname to Jewish Public Media.

(Open Quorum, from a group includ-ing the people responsible for the “SederOneg Shabbos” we wrote about in a coverstory on December 12, takes a passionate,knowledgeable, deeply committed, tradi-tional, egalitarian stand on Jewish life. It ismost closely related to Mechon Hadar, theegalitarian yeshiva in Manhattan.)

“Let me explain why a 21 st-centuryorganization is choosing a name thatsounds like it’s from the 20 th century,”its press release says. It goes on to say:

“We are changing to Jewish Public Medi because — wel l, because that’s exactl who we are, and because nobody else hasour mission.”

In other words, Jewish Public Me wants to sound like what it is. It wants

be straightforward. Although it apparent believes that to be straightforward is to old-fashioned, it seems to be choosiproud old fashion.

70 Faces Media seems to agree with Jish Public Media that to be descriptiveto be terribly, boringly, embarrassingly lacentury. It choses instead to be fashionab vague. It also seems to be choosing to raway from its own mission; even worseseems to be choosing to run away from own identity.

What’s the matter, 70 Faces Media? too embarrassing to say that you’re Jewis

We are not impressed.



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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

2014 — Year of the Bully2014 will be remembered asthe year of the bully. The just-

past 12 months have beencharacterized by the fero-cious bullying of the interna-tional community by rogue governments, oppressive dic-tatorships, and evil regimes.

By now, the word “Putin”has become a synonym for“bully,” and indeed the yearstarted with the Russian dic-tator invading UkrainianCrimea and rattling the sabers of war. Theepisode devolved in eastern Ukraine until aMalaysian civilian jetliner would be downedover Donetsk in mid-July, with all 298 of itspassengers and crew murdered. Putin, asusual, blamed the Ukrainians even whileevery shred of evidence pointed toward hispro-Russian separatist thugs.

In the middle of the year, we witnessedthe arch-bully Hamas attempting to terrorizeIsrael into submission by iring thousandsof rockets at Israeli cities. Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu rightly stood up tothe bullying, launching an aggressive inva-sion designed to limit Hamas’ capacity tointimidate Israel and murder innocent civil-ians using rockets and in iltration-tunnels.But just as soon the war was over, pro-Pal-estinian forces around the world unleashedtheir army of campus bullies in the form ofStudents for Justice in Palestine, who bully Jewish students with their laughable Israel-

apartheid walls and eviction notices and bully universities with their coercion cam-paigns for a boycott of Israel. Sadly, all toomany universities capitulate.

Throughout the year, ISIS, evil incar-nate, thought it could bully the West intoextortion payments by chopping off theheads of innocent prisoners. Many West-ern governments, especially France, Ger-many, and Italy, have capitulated, therebyputting a bounty on the head of any West-erner within ISIS’s reach. So far ISIS hasraised well over $100 million from West-ern governments from ransoms, whichare funding its operations. Very few gov-ernments, the United States among them,chose not to bend and instead launchedrocket attacks against the monsters. Inthe coming year we all look forward to the good news that ISIS’ executioner-in-chief, Jihadi John, will be blown to hell, where he will roast for eternity.

Just a few weeks ago we saw one of thisyear’s most ferocious samples of bullyingas North Korea attempted to punish Sonyfor its movie The Interview, with its plotabout an attempted assassination againstthe brutal dictator Kim Jong Un. Rarelyhave I seen such a more blatant act of out-right thuggery. Apparently, North Korea’scyberterror worked. Not only did Sonyannounce a decision not to release the

ilm, but after North Koreanagents threatened terrorist

action against anyone screen-ing the ilm, the four biggestcinema chains dropped themovie, too. (Later, the movie was released in some smalltheaters and became widelyavailable online.)

What a victory for terror.For the world’s most thuggish,

brutal, and psychotic govern-ment, this episode has been an

easy win.Last September, I was invited to an inter-

national peace conference in Seoul, SouthKorea, where seven other religious leadersand I spoke to 100,000 people in OlympicStadium. Each leader spoke of the need forreconciliation, harmony, and world peace.When it was my turn, I looked at all thosefaces in front of me and said, “Peace, asMartin Luther King said, means not justthe absence of tension but the presence of justice. There can be no peace with a bru-tal dictatorship to the north that starvesmillions of its own people and threatensits neighbor to the South with nuclearannihilation. There can be no peace withevil.” All those people rose to their feet andcheered. They were sick of being bullied.

Equally serious was the cyberterror attackagainst Sheldon Adelson and the Las VegasSands by the government of Iran.

In December of last year I hosted a panel

discussion at Yeshiva University on Iran’srepeated threats to annihilate the State ofIsrael and its Jews. Mr. Adelson, the world’sforemost Jewish philanthropist, was on thepanel. He was joined by Pulitzer-Prize win-ner Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journaland Yeshiva University’s president, Rich-ard Joel.

I asked the panelists what America shoulddo to show Iran that under no circumstances

whatsoever would we allow the world’s pri-mary sponsor of international terrorism toacquire a nuclear device. Mr. Adelson saidthat an atomic bomb should be detonated inan empty Iranian desert, to serve as a warn-ing to Iran that the United States will neverallow it to obtain nuclear weapons. Mr. Adel-son emphasized that the nuclear demon-stration in a desert wasteland should “nothurt a soul, except for a few rattlesnakes.”

The next day Mr. Adelson’s spokesman,Ron Reese, said that he had used “hyper- bole to make a point that … actions speaklouder than words.”

No doubt Mr. Adelson also was trying todemonstrate the double standard to whichIsrael is subjected constantly. MahmoudAhmadinejad repeatedly threatened thatIsrael would be destroyed. Doing so wouldrequire the murder of six million more Jewsin a second Holocaust. Despite his clearlystated genocidal intent, Ahmadinejad was

invited to speak at Columbia Universityand repeatedly at the U.N., where he was

clear about his intentions toward Israel.His stated intention of a second Holocaustdid not stop him from being invited to theCouncil on Foreign Relations.

Yet Mr. Adelson’s glib comments aboutnuking rattlesnakes seemed to rattle Iran’sleaders pretty seriously. While they lie tothe world and continue to pursue dooms-day weapons that would make it possible toannihilate Israel, Mr. Adelson’s commentsprovoked a nuclear cyber attack againsthis company, Las Vegas Sands. A full-ondevastating hacker assault nearly shut thecompany down until, against the odds, theattack was rebuffed. True to form, Adelsonrefused to be cowed.

But look at the silence from most quar-ters on Iran, even as it continues to shootdown its own people if they dare protestthe government. Even as it continues tohang gays from cranes in streets.

Bullies bully because they can. Theytarget weak and compliant people whomthey can exploit and ultimately subdue.The United States was built on the prem-ise of standing up to tyrants and bullieseven when they’re just taxing tea. GeorgeIII didn’t know what hit him when the col-onists decided they would no longer be bullied.

The same was true of Hitler, the mostevil man who ever lived, after Churchill became Britain’s prime minister. The easy

ride Neville Chamberlain gave Hitler — theogre was allowed to swallow whole coun-tries without repercussions — was over.After Churchill de ied Hitler’s attempt to bring Britain to its knees with the battle ofBritain, we hear an increasingly shrill anddesperate tone in Hitler’s addresses to theReichstag. He could not understand thisChurchill guy, who refused to be bullied.

The same thing is true of the incred-ible courage exhibited by Prime MinisterNetanyahu last year. The world doesn’tknow what to do with Mr. Netanyahu. Theythought he would be okay with rockets

ired at his cities. They thought he would bend to American pressure on settlementsrather than insist on Jews and Arabs beingallowed to live where they please. Now wesee him attacked from every angle. Theman who will not capitulate. The man who will not be bullied.

But as everyone knows, when you standup to a bully the bully falls apart. The bul-lying ends and the bully is left as he trulyis — utterly pathetic.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of This World: The Values Network,the world’s leading organization defending Israel in the media. He is the author of“Judaism for Everyone” and 29 other books. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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History orheresyStudents of the Talmud may encountsome strange and troubling passagespecially within its aggadic section

This is hardly a new phenomenoSkepticism regarding Talmudic rea— scienti ic, historical, and other legal observations recorded in tTalmud — far predates the modperiod. The reliability of Talmumedicine, for example, was qutioned by the Geonim of Babyloniaearly as the tenth century.

Much of this material can be undstood only in historical context. Whthe sages commented on nature thedrew on popular beliefs or used tlimited observational techniques their age. The rabbis acknowledgtheir own scienti ic shortcominthey conceded, for example, that Getile astronomers had bested them indebate about the sun’s path at night

Superstition in the Talmud c

be especially unsettling. Again, response must be to invoke historIt should go without saying that treferences to demons, witchcraevil spirits, the evil eye, incantatioamulets, magic, and astrolo y that ascattered throughout the Talmud anmidrashim derive from ancient NeEastern or Hellenistic culture, athat these phenomena have no basin physical reality.

The premium that the sages placon reality is on display in those psages where they struggle to reconcpopular ideas — the realities of thday now considered superstitious pseudoscienti ic — with traditi Jewish values.

Tractate Shabbat records a debaon the question of astrological infence over the Jewish people. Despthe pervasiveness of astrolo ythe ancient world, the rabbis weuncomfortable with the moral impcations of astrological determinisBut they could not dismiss astroloas nonsense; it appeared as real to prmodern people as any other force nature. After examining both sidesthe issue, the Talmud concludes thalthough the nations are subject to th

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stars, “Israel is free of astrological influ-ence.” This limited the impact of astrolo yand preserved Israel’s moral freedom.

Demons appear frequently in the Tal-mud. Near the end of Pesachim we ind

a lengthy digression on demons and witches, once thought to inhabit the mar- gins of society (one demon was famil-iar enough to be known as Joseph). Butthe Talmud’s bottom line on the subjectis explicitly subversive: Demons are outthere, but they harass only those whopay them too much attention. The rabbis regarded demonolo y to be largely atodds with Judaism. Short of denying theirexistence, which would have been impos-sible in the Talmudic era, the rabbis made

demons essentially irrelevant.Rather than cause for embarrassment, I

ind such Talmudic discussions inspiring.They grapple honestly with contemporarycultural issues and demonstrate a refusalto disengage from reality.

The sages transmitted a timeless tradi -

tion, but they did not live outside of time.They did not float above history. Theylived and breathed the realities of theirenvironment — a sign of spiritual andmoral courage rather than weakness.

Despite a persistent anti-rationalist tra-dition, the greatest Jewish thinkers andhalachists from Maimonides to SamsonRaphael Hirsch insisted that talmudic sci-ence was a product of its time, rather thana binding part of the Oral Law.

This bears emphasis and repetition

because it is current ly under attack asheresy.

An increasingly vocal school of thoughtclaims that all unquali ied scienti ic state -ments of the sages were divinely inspiredand must be accepted as truth. A corollaryto this position is that modern science is

transitory and unreliable compared to thedivine wisdom of the sages. Its proponentsmaintain that those who say otherwise aredisloyal to Jewish tradition.

This new talmudic fundamentalism is amajor departure from mainstream tradi -tional Jewish thought. Whatever its moti- vation, it is an ideolo y that is tragicallyout of touch with reality. It also smacks ofintellectual desperation, as if to say thatobservant Judaism had better hang onfor dear life to the divinity of the entire

Talmud — including its realia — or itslide down a slippery slope to assimilatio

History attempts to uncover the realitiof the past. Fearing that history will nonly explain tradition but explain it awatradition once viewed history as its naturenemy. But denying history is no longer a

option, and giants of tradition and historhave shown us how to marry the two.Despite those determined to drive

wedge between tradition and reality, theris reason to be optimistic. We can be cetain that “truth shall spring up from thearth,” even when it occ asionally initself underfoot.

David Zinberg lives in Teaneck with hiswife and three boys and works in inanc services. His blog is Realia Judaica.

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A 10-year-old at Yad VashemI remember the day my little girl was born, just over 10 years ago.

I was the irst one to hold her after thedoctor pulled her from my wife’s womb.Tears streamed down my face as I gazedinto this little person’s squinting eyes andsaw her future in the reflection of tears. Atthat moment, I dreamt in my mind’s eyeof all of the special milestones she wouldcelebrate. Her irst steps, irst words, start -ing school, taking the training wheels off ofher bicycle, skinned knees; her bat mitzvah, prom dates, college visits, walking

down the aisle, and many more specialtimes. I imagine many people with kidshave had similar experiences.

However, when she was in my arms, just a few minutes into her life, and evenas recently as last week, I never antici -pated another rite of passage — whenmy daughter was old enough to visit YadVashem, Israel’s memorial to the fallen ofthe Holocaust.

Our daughter is a precocious kid who is very dialed into her emotions. She might be 10 ½, but emotionally she seems to meto be older and more sophisticated thanI am much of the time. My wife and I dis -cussed this trip at length. We agreed thatthe choice of going to Yad Vashem would be hers. Just because she could go did notmean she had to. We put no pressure onher verdict. Our daughter chose to go.

As she strolled through the halls of themuseum, captivated with the photos, vid-eos, testimonies, and history, I saw the girl who is usually talkative and full of ener ynow idgeting with her lip and noticeablypensive. She, like most adults, had manymore questions than answers. She was try-ing to comprehend the incomprehensible.

When the tour ended with a personalstory from the museum docent abouthis parents, adults wiped tears fromtheir cheeks. My daughter was stoic. She

showed no emotion. Was thisone of those rare moments where she was a pure 10 yearold and not the mature, high-level person I was used to, I wondered.

Now my curiosity got the best of me. Did we make amistake by allowing her to visit the museum? Was shenot ready? Did she not getit? Was she more focused oniPads and music? All of that

would be ine too, but I was second-guess -ing our decision to take the training wheelsoff and allow her to begin this importantride down history’s road to our past.

I delicately tried to pry some thoughtsand emotions out of this usually talkativeprepubescent girl. She was buttoned up —a strange phenomenon for any 10-year-old girl, especially mine. I made no progress.Finally, out of sheer frustration, I pulledthe headphones from her ears and blurtedout over Taylor Swift as she played in the background, “Honey, did you understandanything that you saw at Yad Vashem yes-terday? Do you have any questions? Youhaven’t said a word about it!”

“Dad, the Holocaust was horrible andreally sad but, when we were here inIsrael this summer lots of people diedduring the war and the sirens and hidingin shelters was really sad and scary too,”she replied. “And going to Har Herzl, themilitary cemetery where so many soldiersdied for Israel, is really sad too. And dad,you are always talking on the phone aboutIran not getting a bomb and I know it is because they could hurt Israel with that bomb. So what is different between Iranand Hamas and the Nazis? Don’t they all want to hurt Jews and Israel? The Holo -caust was bad and sad, but so are all ofthese other things.”

She put her headphones back on her head and pickedup with Taylor Swift.

I, on the other hand, feltlike I had the wind suckedfrom my gut. She summedup a reality that we all know but perhaps often are afraidto admit.

The magnitude of theHolocaust is unparalleled.The scope of the atrocitiesand systemized killing of

communities and Jewish families is beyondcomprehension. Yet for this little girl, theHolocaust is as removed from her historyas the Jewish expulsion from Spain in 1492.She doesn’t know Holocaust survivors.They are not her teachers. They don’t sitnear her in shul. They are historical ig -ures. They are in no way real-life, modernpeople in her neighborhood.

When I was 10, I scanned every oldperson’s forearm for tattooed blue numbers. My daughter looks for a danglingHamsa and red-stringed bracelets. Shedid not grow up in the wake of the survivors’ generation, as I and most of this col-umn’s readers did. 1945, while yesterdayfor some, is a long time ago to her and herpeers.

So what she is really saying was ‘Why isthe challenge of that generation so muchharder than the challenge of this genera-tion?’ Other than the magnitude and scopeof the Holocaust, I had little retort. For thisinnocent and mature young girl, this is where her confusion was most acute. Shesurvived sirens and lived with fear and

knew of funerals for soldiers and civiliaWhy isn’t there a museum to that pain antorture and death?

What my 10 year old taught me throuher visit to Yad Vashem is what we kno but are afraid to say: Jews always h been the victims of anger and hate, t geted for our mere existence. Whether bZyklon B in a gas chamber or by suic bomber on a public bus or by a terrorsniper inside a tank in Gaza, the pain feach family member is immeasurable. Thtears taste the same. We have been pers

cuted with different weapons throughouhistory. When will there be a memorito recognize the end of that persecutioagainst the Jews instead of the latest itertion of it?

Sadly, I have no answer for her.Yad Vashem is a sacred place dedicat

to the memory, resistance, and survival Eastern European Jewry during World WII. It is important to place wreaths in halls and to make pilgrimages there whe we are in Israel. It is a critical piece of modern Jewish narrative and an importan building block of the Jewish state.

Through this unanticipated rite of pasage for my daughter I gathered new feand sadness in Yad Vashem. Not the sytematic killing of 6 million Jews, but the fear that this memorial will lose potency and relevance as Jews feel the loand pain of today in place of rememberinthe suffering of yesterday.

David-Seth Kirshner is the senior rabbi Temple Emanu-El of Closter and presideof the New York Board of Rabbis.

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Chanukah’s bright lightsRabbi Engelmayer says that Chanukah was meant as a homebound observance(“The brightest light by far,” December19). Who are the most impressionablepeople in the home? We can all agreethat it is the children. When I was grow-

ing up, we, the children, were requiredto sing Christmas carols in school. We walked through the halls of the school,stopping at each classroom to sing asong.

Chanukah was celebrated in my house with candle lighting and the receivingof Chanukah gelt. I knew I was Jewish.However, there was another world out-side my home that I could not enter. It was Christmas that permeated the worldto which I was not a part.

Rabbi Engelmayer writes that more Jews celebrate Chanukah than any other Jewish observance. Why is that? Perhapsit is because we see a menorah placed byChabad in the Town Center. Perhaps itis because we hear news commentatorson TV wishing us a happy Chanukah andsee a picture of a menorah on the majorstations. We even hear Chanukah songson the car radio.

Yes, it is a minor holiday, as RabbiEngelmayer said. But as we examine thenumber of those Jews who intermarry, we need to celebrate and express our Judaism on every occasion and at everyopportunity, openly, to indicate to ourown and to others, not in a competitive way, that we Jews have much to be proudof and the lights of the menorah in apublic place are a symbol to the worldof the precious freedom that is part and

parcel of this historic holiday.Let the candles continue to shine brightly for all to see!

Paul KleinWayne

Remember Tu B’ShevatFebruary got shafted (“The season after‘Tis,” December 26)? Have you heardof the beautiful holiday of Tu B’Shevat?This year it falls on February 4th. I feellike it deserved at least a mention. Youmight want to check it out :)

Rona InyCliffside Park

More on the JCTIn regard to your editorial in the Decem- ber 19 issue about the Jewish Center ofTeaneck and Rabbi Englemayer’s col-umn of January 2, I would like to clar-ify several points and correct somemisinformation.

Contrary to the information furnished by your sources, a discussion and a votein the Board of Trustees of the JCT onthe Holy Name Medical Center proposalto the JCT did indeed take place, at thesame board meeting (December 7, 2014)at which the vote in favor of the HeichalHatorah proposal was adopted.

Although it was acknowledged that

the HNMC proposal was generous andit did try to take the Jewish communityinto account, the board felt that a Jew-ish institution would be better suited toserve the Jewish community in Teaneck.It was the duty of the board to take thisinto consideration, together with other

factors, when evaluating the differentproposals offered to the JCT. One ofthe prime concerns of the board wasthe need to grow the congregation andensure its viability. Both the HeichalHatorah and Chabad proposals offeredideas to accomplish this, whereas theHNMC did not.

The JCT and HNMC have partnered inthe past and hope to continue to do soin the future. The JCT is ideally suited to be a venue for the HNMC to the Teaneck Jewish community as a Jewish institutionrather than just another HNMC building.For example, the women’s health sym-posium that was sponsored by HNMC,and recently held at the JCT drew morethan 200 attendees. We hope that suchcommunity cooperation will be able tocontinue.

Isaac StudentPresident

Jewish Center of Teaneck

Last word on the JCTHaving read so much misinformation inyour paper regarding the recent deci-sion by the Board of Trustees of the Jew-ish Center to negotiate a partnershiparrangement with Yeshiva Heichal HaTo-rah, it is time to dispel some myths.

Firstly, while it is true that the membership of the Jewish Center is substan-

tially reduced from its heyday of thepast, it is untrue that the Center is broke.While the Center is dependent on itsmonthly income to pay its bills, it doesmeet its bills, based on substantial fundsfrom rental and other sources of incomefrom the various activities at the Center.

That brings us to the second myth:that the Center is dead or dying becauseof a lack of activity. Nothing could befurther from the truth! This wonderfuland very substantial building is buzz-ing with activities all day long every dayand evening of the week. A Yeshiva highschool for boys; a pre-school for littlekids — Shalom Yeladim; classrooms forSinai school and Fairleigh Dickinson Uni- versity! A beautifully renovated ymna-sium which is busy day and night used by young boys and girls. A refurbishedswimming pool for members and vari-ous groups geared primarily for outsid-ers of all ages. Successful Zumba classesfor adults and young people, and a com-plete brand new itness center! And… amagni icent ballroom for bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, and various other din-ner/dance occasions! Sound like anempty shell lying fallow? All this is dueto the investments made by the board to generate activity and income!

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It is possible to tell Mr. Lev’s storychronologically, and I will try. But irst, theunderpants.

The shorts, scrupulously clean, kept ina baggie, look new. That’s because they’remade of very ine cotton. Fine E yptiancotton, in fact. Mr. Lev sewed them him-self, when he was in prison in E ypt, just afew years before the Suez crisis.

When you know what they are, you cansee the material’s irst life in its secondone. The fly has a row of small, neat but-tons, paired with equally neat buttonholes.

Those were from a shirt; Lev had removed, shorteneand replaced the plackets.

He’d been a sailor, his s was captured, and he and hmates found themselves in j(Details will follow.) The poners were given no suppli

but someone had lef t a shand he always had been handy.

How did he get a needle? “I got friend with an E yptian prisoner,” he said. ThIsraelis were kept one to a cell and nallowed out, but the E yptians weallowed a bit more freedom. The two werable to do each other small favors — MLev got the needle and a short time wita pencil stub, in return for some halvah.

Shlomo Levitsky was born in Odein 1927. When he was a child, the fammoved to Olevsk, a town outside Kiev

was the last son in a big family,” he sa

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JOANNE PALMER

So you walk into the big,airy, neat, well-furnishedCresskill apartment, fullof pale winter sun, and it’s

almost like walking into Schehe-razade’s rooms.

Presiding over this comfort-able, profoundly suburban setting,Shlomo Lev spins stories, one after theother, improbable but true, of times andplaces close enough to us for us to knowthey were real, but far enough away to bemythic nonetheless.

Mr. Lev is a small-boned, taut, wiryman, muscular still, even at 87. His close-cropped white hair, white mustache andcarefully trimmed beard, and light eyes,his blue jeans and windbreaker makehim look less like Shloime Levitsky, as heonce was, and more like a retired Britishsailor about to head out to the pub with his

mates in a 1950s movie.So why is he showing you what looks

like a very fancy pair of men’s underpants?Mr. Lev is many things, but most pro-

foundly he is a storyteller. He was anadventurer, a roamer, a brave, recklessman living in a time of great excitement,possibility, horror, and opportunity. Heand Israel were young together. His sto-ries certainly would ill a book; to retellall of them would take more space than anewspaper possibly could offer. But hereare some of them.

Scheherazadein CresskillFormer Palmach, Palyam fighter

talks about his adventures in Russia,

Palestine, Egypt, and Brooklyn



it was as if there was a famine. He startedto eat the dough. So Rachel grabbed him,and started yelling to the neighbors. It wasa boy, Volodya, next door — he wasn’t Jew-ish — and she started to call for him. She

was holding the guy by the throat, andthen he ran away.”

Mr. Lev’s mother, Babel, was an onlychild. “Her father had a big house, withhorses, and when the revolution startedhe donated his horses to the Red Army,”he said. “All my mother’s siblings died at

birth, so her parents went to the big rebbeand asked him what to do. He said ‘Giveyour baby the name Bobbe’” — grand-mother — “‘instead of a name like Esther,so that she will live to be a bobbe.’

“They believed it, so they did.” Sort of.“They called her Babel.”

Mr. Lev’s father wanted to get the familyout of Russia via Poland, and then go onto Palestine. That’s why the family endedup in Olevsk. “My father was a Zionist,” hisson said. “He had a brother in Chicago, buthe didn’t want to go there. He igured he

would sneak across the border, but whenhe gets there, some commissars stop thetrain. When they see a man with a beard,they ask, ‘Where are you going? What areyou doing?’ You could not travel in Russia

in those days. So they arrested him.“He was worried. It was a small tow

and the whole jail was in one room. Mfather looked through the window ansaw a little Jewish boy, so he called to hiand said to tell people that the rabbi iarrested. The boy told his father, and thfather told the big shots from the Jewiscommunity, and they went to the commissar and said ‘Why did you arrest the rabbiWe sent away for a rabbi!’

“So they let him out, and he brought hfamily there. So now we were in OlevskThey waited for passports to Palestine.

Shloime had been a fearless child, b when he was about 5, something spookhim. It was early in the morning, still daand he passed by a wooden fence, thinkinabout how something might reach out an

grab him, when he saw a black form comitoward him, stark against the white snoHe screamed, and after that, “I was scareof everything. No one knew what to do.

“They called for a witch doctor, an olady. They put me on a table. She had little roll in her hand, and she was goinon top of me, and they turned me aroundon my stomach and she said to me, ‘I athrowing it out and the dogs will eat, anyou will never be scared no more.’

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“I was born blue. They didn’t know if mymother would survive, so they didn’t careabout me. They wanted to save her. So myfather’s mother took me, with all the tumultin the house, and she put me in a drawer,and she gave me sugar water.” She savedhim, and his mother survived as well.

His father, Jacob, was the town’s onlyrabbi but it had many shuls, divided bysocial class or trade. “There was the onefor the rich people, the one for the tailors,the one for the shoemakers,” Mr. Lev said.Rabbi Levitsky would go from shul to shul,a rabbinic circuit rider.

“My father was a Hebrew scholar; ofcourse he knew Yiddish, but he also knew beautiful Hebrew,” his son said.

“I was very wild,” Mr. Lev said. “I grewup crazy.” He has stories of running asewing-machine needle through his inger when he was 4, and another of burning hisright hand so badly that he became a leftie,although he knew from playing soccer thathe naturally would favor his right hand.

Here is one of his many stories of hisearly childhood: “We had a cow, and everymorning the shepherd would come to takethe cows to pasture, and he would bringthem back every evening. Every cow knewher own house. My mother used to milk

our cow when it came back. She wouldlock the door to the house, and hang thekey to the house on the nail in the shed.She took me with her. I said I wanted to go

back to the house, but she said ‘Wait untilI inish.’ I didn’t want to wait, so I grabbedthe key from the nail and ran.

“I am running,” he said, dropping intothe present tense as he remembers. “Mymother is running after me. I can still see

the street. I turn right, and I run. It is dark.We don’t have electricity. I get scared, andI drop the key.”

He remembers everyone searchingin the dark for the key — eventually, ofcourse, they found it.

He also remembers the time his sisterRachel, then 14, was alone in their house,

with bread dough rising, soon to be baked.“She was all by herself at home, and a Gen-tile, a big guy, walked in. He was so hungry

I was very wild.I grew up crazy.

SHLOMO LEV

PHOTOS BY JERRY SZUBIN




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“And then I threw up — my motherused to say that she had given me a littletoo much.

“And after this I was not ever afraid ofanything.”

In 1933 their passports came, and Mr.Lev’s mother and father, and the ive chil-

dren still at home, all left from Odessa byship, stopping at Constantinople and thenYaffa. Mr. Lev, then 6, spent the rest of hischildhood in Givat Ram; his father boughta printing press there. His brother ran the business; “my father used to print rabbini-cal books. He was an editor, and he wasthe rabbi of Givat Ram.

“My father was a really nice person,” Mr.Lev said.

Growing up in Mandatory Palestine,Mr. Lev was a very physical young man,and he was deeply involved with youthmovements. “One time, it was 1941 or 42, we went for a weekend to a kibbutz. Inthe evening, there was a group of youngpeople we didn’t know. It was the Pal-mach. We would sit around a bon ire, andthey would tell us about their adventures,about how they went to Masada.

“In those days, only the Palmach could

get to Masada. It impressed me.” (The Pal-mach was an elite force within the Haga-nah. All of it was illegal, and joining was

by invitation.)“We came back, and I inished school.”

Some time passed. Mr. Lev turned 16.World War II raged.

The atmosphere then was tense, he said.“It was hard to describe. The Germans were in El Alamein. They were aiming to get E ypt, take Palestine, take Syria. They wanted to get to the oil ields of Iraq.

“So I said to my friend Shuka, ‘Let’s go join the British army.’” Shuka was a fewyears older than Mr. Lev; his father owneda barbershop in the British army head-quarters in Tel Aviv, and Shuka workedthere. Mr. Lev worked in his family’s printshop. “We went to the induction center inTel Aviv. I wanted to ight the Germans. Alot of people were going to join the JewishBrigade, but I was too young. But at 16 youcould join the navy.

“So if you want to go to the navy, there was a sign up in a corner, and there was alittle room, and we were standing there,looking in. We didn’t know what to do.And I see that the door to this little room in

the corner was open, and a fellow lookedat us and waved us over.” Mr. Lev gestured,showing how he had waved. “So we go in.This fellow later became Ben-Gurion’ssecretary. But he said ‘What are you doinghere?’ and I said ‘We don’t know what to

join.’ And he said ‘The navy’s not for you.Why don’t you join the Palmach?’

“We knew the Palmach. It sounded likea good adventure. They go to Masada! Hesaid, ‘We will ight the Germans from here,not from there.’ I said okay, so he gave usmoney for a bus to go to Givat Chayim.

“He didn’t give us any names. He just saidthat when we got there, we’d ind them.”

Shuka didn’t go — his father bribed himnot to with a gold watch, Mr. Lev said. Buthe told his parents that he was going to a

kibbutz — which was true enough — got on the bus.

“All right,” he said. “I am going to GiChayim all by myself. I don’t know wher

but I will smell it.”When he got to the kibbutz, he w

sent to another one, and then to another.“When I came to that kibbutz, near KfSaba, I saw tents. I got to the head tenand I saw people sleeping with their rifleI could see that this was the right place.”

He was in the Palmach.Mr. Lev was in Pluga Dalet, “all c

kids,” he said. “Our company was from aover. One of the fellows became a SupremCourt judge, and one became a famous scentist. I was really a street kid, so the training” — climbing ropes, running on buildi

ledges — “was nothing for me.”At their swearing insaid, the 10 top athlefrom each of Pluga Dathree companies compeagainst each other. He wnot on the team, which htrained hard, but one of tmembers of his companteam “got cold feet,” he had to take over. “I wthe smallest, but they sit didn’t matter. They sI just had to run.” But There was a three-mile rcarrying a rifle, and tha climb over the kibbu

gate. Then there was a rotied to two trees; contestahad to cross it. And then thhad to come down fromrope tied to a water towhand over hand, carryingrifle. He went last. He hadtrained for this at all.

“Now here I come, the lfellow. The rifle is getting

ger and b igger, getting bigthan me. It was so quiet. A

when I came down, everyoapplauded.” And then they hto swim.

Shloime Levitsky was born in Odessa in 1927, one of seven children.

Mr. Lev’s exploits led to front-page stories in the Israeli press.




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“In the evening, there was a big ire, and we swore allegiance to the Palmach.”

Pluga Dalet had tommy guns, which was illegal. The British found the guns andarrested the young men. Mr. Lev foundhimself in a detention camp in Latrun;eventually he was released.

Mr. Lev had enlisted in the Palmach forthe standard two years, but when his hitch was over, he was not ready to leave for amore standard job. “Men went on to goodcareers, but I didn’t want to go home,” hesaid. So he transferred from the Palmachto the Palyam, its smaller, newer, less- well-known naval division. “There was acourse,” he said. “All about everything todo with boats. We learned geography, nav-igation, all the things we needed.”

Despite his naval training, Mr. Lev’s nextassignment was to accompany Jews as theyattempted to enter Palestine illegally. They would bring in new olim from Syria andLebanon and bus them to the kibbutzim.Next, they went to Caesarea, where newimmigrants escaping Europe were hop-ing for new lives in Palestine. At irst, they would go out to the larger ships with littleArab boats, and transfer the olim.

Among the ships whose passengersthey smuggled to shore was the HannahSenesh. “The ship landed in Nahariyah,”he said. “The beach there — you go twosteps into the water, and it’s very deep.

“It was Christmas Day 1946. The Brit-ish were there. So we organized the pros-titutes and told them to keep the British busy. Everyone wanted to help, so theykept them drinking and singing. Andmeanwhile the ship was at anchor, we tiedit up. It came in very close and we tied it

up with a big rope.” Then they fetched theimmigrants.It was not well organized, Mr. Lev said,

and it was frightening for the passengers, who had already faced ordeal afterordeal on their way out of blood-soakedEurope. One woman started to scream,and another to slip away into the strongcurrent. But all 150 passengers survived,and all managed to blend into Palestine.

And then, as the operation got bigger,the British worked harder to stop them.

Mr. Lev had many adventures. Oneinvolved an attempt to smuggle new olimfrom Tel Aviv, but the British heard aboutit, and blockaded them. He and somefriends — including the later-famous actorShaike Ophir — took a rowboat out onthe Yarkon River. Their job was to throwexplosives onto the British patrol boat as itpassed by them.

As they waited for their prey toapproach, they heard explosions over TelAviv, caused, they later learned, by a ire-

ight between the British and Jews; whatthey knew at the time was that they hadto abort their mission. The British soldierson their boat were on alert, holding theirmachine guns ready. It was not a good timeto throw explosives at them. Mr. Lev andhis friends scattered; he and one otherman went to his sister’s house. She thought

that he was safe in a kibbutz, so many whis-pered explanations and other complica-tions followed, but they got away safely.

In 1947, Mr. Lev was transferred tothe reserves and went back to work inhis family print shop; his commander inthe reserves was Yitzhak Rabin. When

the United Nation’s partition plan wasannounced, shooting broke out. “I wasstanding on the machine, putting paperin, when a fellow stopped by the door andsaid, ‘Hey, Shloimeleh, we are going to

ight. What are you doing here?’ I stoppedthe machine, and my brother said, ‘Whereare you going?’ and I said ‘I am going toheadquarters.’ That was it.”

He escorted convoys to Jerusalem fromTel Aviv. “We brought food, water, oil —the basics. We had to escort them because

when you go to Jerusalem, there are moun-tains on both sides. They, the Arabs, they

were sitting on top of the mountain andshooting down. In those days, we didn’thave the policy of attacking them. We justprotected the convoy.

“Sugar would come in big sacks, so we would hide in the middle of the sacks andshoot from there.” Soon those convoys

were protected by armored-truck escorts.Mr. Lev would sleep at home when-

ever possible, even if he hadto be out very early. “I neverkissed my mother goodbye,”he said. “I’m not superstitious,

but I believed that if I kissedher goodbye, I wouldn’t come

back.”It was during this period that

he was on a mission to blow upan ice factory that had housed

Arabs who ambushed andkilled Jews. He was sneakingthrough an orchard when “allof a sudden I feel a bullet in myhip,” he said. “It didn’t hurtmuch, but I saw the blood.” Hehad to escape through enemy

ire; “you go between the trees and youhear the bullets, ching ching ching, in thetrees. And then we came to the highway,and we had to cross it. I am still walk-ing with the bullet, and bleeding, and

we come to a stop where you have to goacross a highway, and they are shooting

with machine guns.“I say to myself, you better go, and I keep

losing blood. I zoom over the highway, andthen I walked, and when I came to MikvahIsrael, the agricultural school that was our

base, I see the Israeli ambulance.“Then I pass out.“Something helped me to get through

that. I know it. And then I woke up in theambulance, and I felt good. They took meto the hospital in Tel Aviv, and I see a lotof people. They took me off in a stretcher,and they say ‘Look at him. He’s smiling.’

“And I was smiling.”Mr. Lev was in the hospital for two

weeks, and then he was sent to a convales-cent home. “The bullet went through oneside of my body and out the other side,” he

said. “And I had to carry around a cushion, because I couldn’t sit without one. I had nomeat on my behind.”

As he was convalescing, he heardrumors about a coming battle in Jerusa-lem, and that his company was gatheringin Hadera. “I had to go there, so I hitch-hiked there. With my cushion.

“The road to Jerusalem was blocked. I walked around to look for my company.The company’s nurse was the one who putme in the convalescent home. She said,‘Where are you going?’ I said, ‘I am goingto join the company.’” The nurse told himthat he shouldn’t, and he told her that hehad to. So she talked him into going homefor the seder — it was almost Pesach — andcoming back to ight once it was over. “SoI did,” Mr. Lev said.

He ended up ighting on the IsraeliBurma Road, which allowed Jewish con-

voys to bypass Arab blockades.It was during that time — during which

his wound opened and forced him intomore convalescence — that the State of

Israel was declared. “And then Ben-Guriosaid no more Palmach, and that’s it.

“So when I heard that they would hava navy, I said, all right, I will join the Israenavy. And then they started the merchantmarine, and I said, all right, I will join itHe joined as a deckboy, Mr. Lev said. Th

was the only job available. “I never lookdown on any job,” he said. “Nothing

below me. And everyone on the ship said‘Shlomo is a famous ighter, come dowfrom Jerusalem.’ They had a lot of respefor me.

“The ship once had all its cargo in thfront, so it leaned in front, and there wasonly one rudder. It was very hard to steer.So because I was a deckboy — but a dec

boy with a reputation — they put me onthe wheel.

“The captain was a Jew from HungaHungary has no navy. He was a big snoI was standing at the wheel, moving it likthis” — he mimed large-scale turns, hanover hand over hand — “and the ship goelike this.” He mimicked a ship ishtailin“But I learned after a few minutes how do it, how to turn it ahead of time.

Mr. Lev shows the underpants he madefrom a discarded shirt when he was inan Egyptian jail.




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“The captain looks at me, says, ‘Youdon’t turn the wheel so much,’ gives mea push, and grabs it. And then it turnsall the way around, so he gives it backto me. I took the wheel and continuedon to Haifa.

“When we got to Haifa, the captaincame over to me on the deck and said,‘From now on, you are an able seaman.’”

For two years, Mr. Lev worked for the

Norwegian merchant marine. “I sailedfrom the Far East to India,” he said; healso went to North and South America,and to Australia. When they stopped,priests often would board the ship tooffer spiritual succor to the sailors. They

would often talk to him irst, he said; with his pale skin, blond hair, and blueeyes, “I looked Norwegian.”

In January 1954, Mr. Lev had taken a job illing in for sailors on shore leave when an old friend, “an old ighter,” said,“Shloimeleh, come with me, we have a

job to do.” Mr. Lev didn’t know what the job was, but he told hi s parents that he was leaving, and followed his friend.

They flew to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, got a ship, changed its f lag to Israel’s,“boarded it, and sailed to the Suez Canalthrough the Red Sea,” he said. Israelhad opened a slaughterhouse and meat-canning factory in Addis, and their job

was to escort the shochet and mashgiachthere, and then to bring a load of cannedmeat home.

“On the way from Lod, we were sup-posed to fly over Eilat, and a ire startedin one engine. The plane had only twoengines. The shochet and the mashgiach

were sitting on the floor, saying tehillim.We were laughing. The plane made a bigU-turn and went back to Lod, and then

next day we flew again.“But the trip started off with bad luckThey sailed up to the Suez Canal

their ship, the Bat Galim — daughterthe waves. “When we got there, the captain tells me to hoist the Israeli flag, I dand the E yptians go crazy.

“There was all kinds of commotionThe 10 sailors were arrested and taketo Cairo. “Even the soldiers who took

there told us they felt sorry for us,” hsaid. “They knew they were taking us hell.”

When they got to their destination a prison whose name Mr. Lev does nknow — “there was a fellow outside lthe giant from Babi Yaga. A huge, human.

“We were on the truck, which wcovered, and they take off the bag, anyou have to get out from the back of thtruck, and each one who gets out gehit. We were 10 and there were a mlion of them and they hit and hit anhit. They put everyone in handcuffs, buI was the last one, and they didn’t havhandcuffs for me, so they left me alone

“They took each of us separately the of ice where a big fellow was sittiand they made us take off all our ringyour watches, everything.” He had a pinkie ring from his iancée, but somehoit was overlooked, as was the single dolar bill in the inside pocket in the leg his jeans.

“They were hitting us, hitting us, hiting us,” he said.

Each of the Israelis was shoved alo by two E yptians, one holding him oeither side.

Once he was in his cell, Mr. Lev ldown and slept. “I never in my life hav

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felt sorry for myself,” he said. “Every time I got in trouble, I said all right. But I felt sorryfor some of the others, two of them survi-

vors of the Holocaust, with numbers. Theyhad already gone through horror.

“I started laughing,” he said. “My motherused to say to me, in Yiddish, what are you

doing, where are you crawling, with yourcrooked feet? So I am laying down in my cell, with only a blanket and a pail of water, thinkingto myself, in Yiddish, what are you doing? Whereare you crawling, with your crooked feet?

“I was thinking to myself, so you made yourown bed, so you be happy.”

The 10 Israelis were imprisoned for threemonths, accused of killing a isherman, held fortwo-weeks at a time, with their sentences alwaysrenewed before the earlier one ran out. After sometime they were moved from the irst jail to one forpolitical prisoners, and their treatment improved.

“And then one day they put us on a train to Aza— it’s Gaza but the E yptians called i t Aza, and theyheld it then. They closed the windows, closed the

blinds, so we couldn’t see, and then the train goeschika chika chika and we cross the Suez Canal goingto Aza.” It was then that Mr. Lev remembered thedollar in his pants — it was worth something then —and asked one of his guards to use it to buy tea forall of them.

“They brought us to jail in Aza. It was New Year’sEve 1955. We were sleeping on the floor in the jail, andthen we hear all the bells ringing at midnight, and peo-ple yelling happy new year.

“The next day, an of icer brought us to the road, andsaid, ‘Go. That is Israel.’ My brother was there, waitingfor me.

“It was Shabbat when they released us.”The Israelis took the newly freed Israeli sailors to

their headquarters in central Tel Aviv, where theymet family members. That included Mr. Lev’s elderly

mother, who was Shabbat-observant and had walkedmiles to get there.By then, Mr. Lev “decided that it is enough adven-

ture.” He married Alma Feldner of Flatbush, whom hehad met while he was in the Israeli merchant marine,in 1955, and the two moved back to her native Brook-lyn. Ms. Lev, who since has retired, worked as a lab-oratory technologist, analyzing blood samples. Thecouple have three daughters — Ava Lev, Beverly Lev-Whitford, and Lily Lev-Glick, and four grandchildren. Just a few years ago, the Israeli government foundhim again, and awarded him with medals for his workdefending the Jewish state.

But as it turned out, Mr. Lev had not come to theend of his adventures when he moved to the States. He went back to the trade in which he had grown up, and became a printer. He joined the union, and worked fora Yiddish newspaper, Der Morgen Zshurnal, the morn-ing paper that competed with the Yiddish-languagedaily Forverts (the predecessor of today’s weekly For- ward). He became a foreman. When the print shopclosed, “I decided to go into business for myself, soI bought the things I needed, and opened a shop inBrooklyn. It was called Shalom Typographic.

“Then the Lubavitch wanted to start a weekly, andof course I knew exactly how to do it. So they startedthe Algemeiner, Yiddish. I printed it for about 10 years.

“And then,” he said, “the Satmar irebombed ourshop.

“Why? The editor was writing editorials againstthe Satmar, and they were ighting each other.” BothLubavitch and Satmar are chasidic groups, but they

are very different from each other. The Lubavitch are out- ward-facing, worldly, and noncommittal on Zionism. TheSatmar are inward, insular, and fervently anti-Zionist. Theylive close to each other in Brooklyn, and they tend not toapprove of each other.

The police knew about the irebombing, but they “didn’t want to deal with it,” seeing it as a losing proposition, Mr.

Lev said. There were people living on top of the shop, butthey were not harmed; no one at all was hurt.The irebombers did not win. (Had they known their

opponent, they would have known that they could not win.) “The machinery was all ruined,” Mr. Lev said. “We had

insurance, but we had to publish right away. So we rentedanother place, and I knew exactly what to do.”

He had kept copies of the pages and could reconstructthem. If the Russians and the E yptians and the Arabscouldn’t get him, certainly Satmar didn’t stand a chanceagainst Shlomo Lev.

Shlomo Lev retired, and about eight years ago he and

Alma moved to Cresskill. His adventurous days might be behind him, but his storytelling skills are so strong that he,his family, and everyone else lucky enough to be regaled bythem can be moved, inspired, amused, and amazed by themfor years to come.



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Now let’s get to the myths relatedto the proposals the Center receivedfor various partnership arrangements.Firstly, there were originally four—--all from worthy, substantial opera-

tions looking to expand in various ways. All four cal led for the JewishCenter to continue its religious activi-ties as in the past. One withdrew itsproposal early in the discussion pro-cess as it deemed it would be dif icultand lengthy for it to get the townshipapprovals of its expansion plans. Theother three names which have beenfrequently noted in your paper wereall brought to the board for reviewand discussion for recommendationto the broader membership. I person-ally was an early ardent supporterof the generous Holy Name MedicalCenter proposal, given the substantialcash that would have been broughtto the table, as well as the signi icantreaching out to the Jewish commu-nity that Mr. Maron and the hospitalhas already done towards that end.Contrary to reports published in yourpaper, the Holy Name proposal wasreviewed and thoroughly discussed in

both the expanded executive commit-tee as well as the full Board of Trusees. It was evident early on that thisproposal had signi icant opposition i

both venues based not only that somemembers were uncomfortable prayingin a synagogue within a building tha

was owned by a non-Jewish entity, bumore prominently argued that underthose circumstances, it would bhighly unlikely to attract future mem

bers which would be necessary for thelong-term survival of an already aginmembership. That is what swayed mefrom support for the HNMC proposalAgain, contrary to inaccurate reports,the HNMC proposal was brought tthe Board and the vote taken showed

very limited support.You have every right to be critical

this decision, but to imply it was nadequately considered does disservicto both the Jewish Center Board as weas to Holy Name Medical Center itsThe Jewish Center Board however hevery right and responsibility to cosider what is best for its own futu

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president almost six yearsago, foreign policy chat-ter was prone to includingterms like “regime change”and “axis of evil” in discus-sions about Iran.

But as Obama sought to break decisively with thelegacy of his predecessor,George W. Bush, he movedrapidly in the opposite direction, offer-ing an olive branch to the Iranian regime within a few weeks of assuming of ice.

In March 2009, Obama delivered amessage to mark the Persian New Yearin which he said, “The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran totake its rightful place in the commu-nity of nations. You have that right, butit comes with real responsibilities. Andthat place cannot be reached throughterror or arms, but rather throughpeaceful actions that demonstrate thetrue greatness of the Iranian people andcivilization.”

As a declaration of policy intent, thoseremarks were refreshingly free of ambi- guity. The reference to Iran as an “IslamicRepublic” indicated that Washington’s goal from that point forward would not be getting rid of the regime that seizedpower during the 1979 revolution, butrather stabilizing it and encouraging it

to behave more responsibly.By the close of 2014, though, it wasabundantly clear that America’s Iran pol-icy—based on Obama’s “Islamic Repub-lic” doctrine of trust in the regime—wasin a dangerous mess. The nuclear nego-tiations between Iran and Western pow-ers have yielded not a single gain, allow-ing the Iranians to continue with theiruranium enrichment program while

the International AtomicEner y Agency frets about

the likely prospect that Teh-ran is continuing to oper-ate clandestine nuclearfacilities.

At the same t ime ,the brutal civil war inSyria, which has claimed200,000 lives and turnedmore than half the coun-try’s people into refugees,

has boosted Iran’s regional standingmassively. The Iranian mullahs nowstand at the head of a coalition thatincludes the dictator of Damascus,Bashar al-Assad, the Lebanese terror-ist organization Hezbollah, and variousShi’a terror groups from Yemen to Iraq.Yet Western public opinion is continu-ally fed a stream of stories about how“moderate” Iran is under PresidentHasan Rouhani, and how we have anopportunity here that we cannot affordto lose. When you look at how Iran’smilitary interventions are destabilizingthe region, and when you realize thatits human rights record is as lousy as it

was last year (and the year before that),you can only conclude that Obama willstick to the policy of turning enemiesinto friends, even when those enemiesdon’t want to become friends.

Against that backdrop, we come tothe president’s recent interview with

National Public Radio, in which herestated, when talking about Iran, hisconviction that engaging with “rogueregimes” is the right thing to do if itadvances American interests.

The question is this: Does Obama stillregard Iran as a rogue regime? It would

be more accurate to say that he regards itas a regime with rogue elements, but youcan accept that analysis only if you share

Obama’s ‘Islamic Republic’ doctrinePresident’s trust in Iran creates a dangerous mess

the president’s view that there are moder-ate parties in Iran whom we can trust. “They

have a path to break through that isolationand they should seize it,” Obama declared.“Because if they do, there’s incredible tal-ent and resources and sophistication insideof Iran, and it would be a very successfulregional power that was also abiding by

international norms and international rules,and that would be good for everybody.”

Everybody? That’s not how the Saudis anthe United Arab Emirates, to name just twGulf states, see it; to the contrary, prevening Iran from becoming a “very successfregional power” is their top priority. Ditto fo

“Smile! It’s a grave new world,” a car toon by Nathan Moskowitz.

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WASHINGTON — A recent revelation that a top Republicanaddressed a white supremacist group is reviving an age-oldWashington debate: How important are false steps from thepast in evaluating a party today?

Not very, say Republicans, in the case of Rep. Steve Scalise(R La.), the majority whip in the U.S. House of Representa-tives sworn in on Tuesday. In 2002, when he was a statelegislator, Scalise spoke to a group af iliated with the whitenationalist David Duke.

Not so fast, counter Democrats, who say the speech, whilenot indicting Scalise as a racist, underscores what they claimis the GOP’s propensity to flirt with extremists.

Aaron Keyak, a consultant to Democrats and Jewish groups and the new managing director of Rabinowitz Com -munications, says the issue is potent and serious enough tomerit continued attention as both sides bid for the votes of Jews, blacks, Hispanics, and women before the 2016 presi-dential election.

“There will be increased scrutiny of the schedule of Con- gressman Scalise and other Republicans,” said Keyak, whountil last year was a senior adviser to Rep. Jerrold Nadler(D N.Y.).

He added: “There is a whole litany of reasons the Republi-can Party is out of step with the Jewish community, and thisis only one symptom of how out of touch they are.”

Jewish Republicans say they would prefer that the pastremain the past — but they are prepared to give as good asthey get.

“You’re referencing a meeting that took place a dozenyears ago,” said Rep. Lee Zeldin (R N.Y.), the only JewishRepublican in the incoming Congress. “The next person

may be concerned about the president meeting with Al

Sharpton 82 times in the White House.”Sharpton, a civil rights activist who is known for his ieryrhetoric about Jews during the 1991 Crown Heights riots, has visited the Obama White House 72 times, the majority forlarge events, according to a recent Washington Post report.

Scalise has said he regrets the 2002 speech and was notaware that the group had been founded by Duke, a formerKu Klux Klan grand wizard.

The Anti-Defamation League said that Scalise’s state-ment puts the matter to rest for now, but also that thethreat posed by Duke and other white supremacists shouldnot be minimized.

A number of recent pro iles of Scalise noted that as anambitious Louisiana pol, he cultivated friendships and alli-ances with black leaders. However, he also looked to the base that had propelled Duke to prominence in Louisianastate politics in the 1990s, when Duke served as a state leg-islator and ran for several other of ices.

Kenny Knight, a longtime Duke adviser, donated $1,000 toScalise’s congressional campaign in 2008. And Scalise votedtwice in the State Legislature against making Martin LutherKing Day a holiday.

“It’s part of a narrative, a steady drip of policy announce-ments and appearances at events that seem to suggest a deafear to Jewish sensitivities and to minorities’ sensitivities,”said Greg Rosenbaum, the chairman of the National JewishDemocratic Council.

Ann Lewis, who headed communications in the ClintonWhite House, says the controversy is reminiscent of remarksmade during the 2012 campaign by Todd Akin, a GOP can -didate in Missouri for the U.S. Senate who suggested thatrape could not lead to pregnancy in arguing against a rape

exemption to any abortion ban.Lewis, who also advised Hillary Rodham Cl

ton during her 2008 presidential run, says the GOPshowed discipline in the 2014 elections in controllinsuch problematic statements, but charges that the pol-icies underpinning the statements persisted.

“Candidates understood why 2012 was a problem,she said. “That doesn’t mean we’re going to see an better support for women’s health issues.”

Lewis notes a concerted national campaign by thstate Republican parties to add abortion restrictionsthrough state legislative bids.

“Do you take this kind of behavior seriously, do younderstand the signal you send?” she said. “With Scalise, what I hear from the Republican leadership is theyare the victims because they are getting criticized.”

News of Scalise’s speech comes as Republicans amaking a concerted effort to appeal to minorities and women, playing up the election to the House of Zeldiand Mia Love, a black woman from Utah.

But controversies over past political moves ar

hardly the domain of a single political party, says MatBrooks, the director of the Republican Jewish Coalition“On both sides of the aisle there’s a lot of this go

cha politics that goes on,” he said. Whether charge would stick, he says, depended “on the totality of theindividual and the circumstance.”

Scalise will survive, Brooks says, in part becauthe incident is in the past and some Democrats aredefending him now.

Zeldin says Republicans will appeal to minoriti by focusing on bread-and-butter issues that trumpedidentity politics.

“When the debate is focused so much on budgetand job creation and improving the business climate,it becomes much more of a strategic advantage foRepublicans to improve on that outreach with groupsthat have been primarily voting Democrat in the past,”he said.

Rabbi Jack Moline, who directed the NJDC uNovember, says Democrats should pitch their ight oan issues level and not focus on bad past decisions“What we needed to demand from Rep. Scalise waan explanation — and we got it,” he said.

He cites issues where Republicans would easilose Jews, including rolling back the social safety neopposition to immigration reform bills, and the growing wing within the GOP that opposes a robust U.role overseas.

“Those are things we ought to be debating, no whether or not someone who grew up in Louisianahas been exposed to bigotry,” Moline said.

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After decades of distance, Japan and Israel establish closer ties

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TOKYO— Reading his Japanese-language newspaperover breakfast, Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich spotted an ad

for a self-help DVD. The headline was “Get rich like the Jews.”

“Almost anywhere else in the world, such an ad” —published in several widely read Japanese dailies —“would have been deemed anti-Semitic incitement,”noted Sudakevich, an Israel-born Chabad emissary whosettled in Tokyo in 2000.

But in Japan, he and others said, it’s something akinto a compliment.

“The takeaway is that Jews, and Israel by extension,should be emulated and embraced,” said Ben-Ami Shil -lony, a historian and lecturer on the Far East at theHebrew University in Jerusalem.

Indeed, Japan’s government — buoyed by the popu-lation’s generally positive bias toward Jews — has beenactively seeking stronger economic ties with Israel.That’s especially true now that the nation’s decades-longdependence on Arab oil is waning, a result of America’sincreased ener y production and Japan’s decreased reli-ance on fossil fuels.

In 2014, trade between the two nations rose by 9.3percent to $1.75 billion, according to Israel’s Ministry ofEconomy.

Warmer relations also yielded several recent jointmemoranda on enhancing cooperation on research,trade, tourism, and even security cooperation — an areathat successive Japanese administrations regarded astaboo for fear that it would anger oil-rich Arab nations.

And in Japan, government policy has a substantiallylarger impact on private irms than in the West, Shill-ony said. This was evidenced in the decisions by nearly

all the large Japanese carmakers not to enter the Israelimarket until the 1990s, when the Arab oil boycott — aset of sanctions applied against nations that did business with Israel — began to loosen, he added.

Japan’s new certainty owes to the arrival in Octoberof U.S.-produced shale oil, which is expected to put theUnited States ahead of Saudi Arabia as the world’s larg-est exporter of black gold. As production in the UnitedStates nears the projected rate of 11.6 million barrels aday by 2020, exports to Japan are expected to grow far beyond the current level of 300,000 barrels a month.At the same time, Japan is increasingly relying on greenener y.

More evidence of warmer ties bet ween Israel and Japan: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s of i -cial visit to Tokyo in May, where he and his wife, Sara,dined with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie, at Abe’s residence. Their meeting exceededits allotted time — unusual for a state visit in Japan.

Abe, a center-right politician whose career and world- view in many respects align with Netanyahu’s, is head-ing to Israel later this month. It will be the irst state visit

of its kind for a Japanese leader in nine years. Netan-yahu’s predecessor, Ehud Olmert, visited Japan in 2008.

“I am determined, together with Prime MinisterNetanyahu, to make further efforts to strengthen Japan-Israel relations, so that the potentials are fully material-ized,” Abe told the media in Tokyo during his meeting with Netanyahu.

The feelings appear to be mutual.On Sunday, Netanyahu’s Cabinet approved a series

of measures aimed at boosting trade to the tune of sev-eral tens of millions of dollars. Israel will open an Econ-omy Ministry of ice in Osaka and increase government grants for joint Israeli-Japanese research projects by 50percent.

For Abe, strengthening ties with Israel is part of alarger vision for enhancing innovation and diversifying Japan’s highly centralized industries and markets in anattempt to reverse its declining economy and creepinginflation, according to Shillony.

In Abe’s Japan, the historian added, Israel is a partic -ularly valuable partner because its unique expertise indefense and military technologies its his plan for beef-ing up Japanese military capabilities against an increas-ingly de iant North Korea.

The Arab Spring of 2011 also changed Japan’s viewof the region in Israel’s favor, according to NaokiMaruyama, a professor of history at Japan’s Meiji GakuinUniversity.

“With the region falling into chaos and internal strife,Israel stands out as the exception — and the place in which to invest,” he said.

Abe’s economic doctrine of openness, which analystsoften call “Abenomics,” already is changing the reality ofdoing business in Japan as a foreigner, according to YoavKeidar, an Israeli businessman who has been working in

Japan for the past 25 years.“Once the main bottleneck for foreign irms, the gov-ernment is now actively helping those irms overcomeother blockages,” he said. “In Japanese terms, this isnothing short of a revolution.”

In Keidar’s case, the government fast-tracked permitsfor his telemedicine service — a vetting process that once would have taken years, he said.

Despite the dramatic increase in trade betweenthe two nations, it’s still some 30 percent lower thanIsrael’s trade with South Korea, one of Japan’s maincompetitors.

That competition is another factor enhancing Israel’sappeal in Japan, according to Peleg Lewi, head of mis-sion of Israel’s embassy in Tokyo.

“It did not escape Japanese industrialists and of icialsthat Israel still has much stronger trade with some of Japan’s strongest competitors,” Lewi said. “At a time when giants like Samsung, Intel and Google are operat-ing research centers in Israel, Japan is beginning to feelleft out .”

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Mario Cuomo, 1932-2015Three-term New York governor married assertive liberalism and sensitivity to the OrthodoxRON KAMPEAS

Mario Cuomo, a three-termNew York governor, was therare politician who appealedto the Jewish tent’s opposite

poles.A strident liberal with a nuanced under-

standing of the sense of vulnerabilityamong the deeply religious in a secularsociety, Cuomo died of heart failure onThursday, just hours after his son Andrew was sworn in for his second term as gover-nor. He was 82.

Lopsided Jewish support helped pro-pel Cuomo into the governor’s of ice in1982, 1986, and 1990. The state’s large Jew-ish community joined other liberal con-stituencies in celebrating the man whoemerged in the 1980s as the most promi-nent vanguard against President RonaldReagan.

Addressing a gathering of Holocaust survivors in 1985, Cuomo faulted Reagan forall-too-blithely ignoring Germany’s past when the president agreed to mark the40th anniversary of D Day at a cemeterycontaining the graves of SS of icers.

“The truth is, even those who are free

of anti-Semitism — even those who arealmost certainly sincere in their revulsionat the Holocaust — are tempted to forget,to declare this ugly chapter of human his-tory closed, done with, over,” Cuomo said.

The jibe was of a piece with rheto-ric that helped vault Cuomo to nationalprominence the previous year, when hekeynoted the Democratic National Con-

vention in San Francisco. Reagan’s sunny

conservatism was appealing, Cuomacknowledged, but ignored harsh realities

“A ‘shining city’ is perhaps all the preident sees from the portico of the WhitHouse and the veranda of his ranch, whereeveryone seems to be doing well,” Cuomsaid. “But there’s another city, anothepart to the shining city, the part whersome people can’t pay their mortgageand most young people can’t afford one

where students can’t afford the educationthey need and middle-class parents watchthe dreams they hold for their childrenevaporate.”

Cuomo credited his sensitivity to thneeds of the Orthodox to his childhooin Queens, where he served as a Shabbo

goy for a synagogue up the street from th grocery owned by his Sicilian immigraparents.

The job clearly left an impression. Hrecalled sharing the experience witBranch Rickey, the baseball executive whintegrated the sport when he hired JackiRobinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

“When I told him that I had been an al boy and a Shabbos goy, he wanted to knall about it,” Cuomo told a Rickey biograph

Mario Cuomo, seated, was New York’s governor when he was a featured speakerat the 57th General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations, held in NewOrleans in November 1988. He is with CJF’s President Mandell Berman, right,and Daniel Shapiro of New York. ROBERT A. CUMINS

At memorial for African Hebrew leader,signs of integration and respectBEN SALES

DIMONA, ISRAEL — YitzchokElefant ascended the stage in his black hat and coat and turned toface an auditorium full of peoplein flowing white shirts and pants with matching scarves and caps.

Standing beneath a bannerreading “A tribute to his majesty,our spiritual leader, the prince ofpeace, Ben Ammi,” Elefant, thecharedi Orthodox chief rabbi ofthis small southern town, deliv-ered a eulo y on Sunday for BenAmmi Ben-Israel, the leader ofthe African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem.

Ben-Israel died on December27 at 75, nearly half a centuryafter leading a group of African-Americans to settle in Dimona.

“The Hebrew communityis dear and loved to all of us inDimona,” Elefant said. “Thepublic in Dimona shares in yourmourning of the distinguishedleader Ben Ammi Ben-Israel.”

Such a tribute would have beenunthinkable when Ben-Israel irstarrived in Israel in 1969. Though

the community does not identifyas Jewish, Ben-Israel and his fol -lowers believe themselves to bedescendants of the ancient Isra-elites, a claim that Israeli authori-ties met with suspicion.

For two decades, accord-ing to community spokesmanAhmadiel Ben Yehuda, a seriesof religious government minis-ters blocked the group’s attemptsto gain permanent residencypermits.

But in recent years, the gov-ernment’s attitude has shifted.Today, the African Hebrewsenjoy permanent residency and apath to citizenship, and their chil-dren serve in the Israel DefenseForces. Ben-Israel gained Israelicitizenship in 2013.

At the service, Dimona MayorBeni Bitton promised to advanceplans to build a new neighbor-hood for the African Hebrewsnamed for Ben-Israel. KnessetSpeaker Yuli Edelstein, a seniormember of the ruling LikudParty, also addressed the crowd.

“The Israelite community isa meaningful addition to our

diversity,” Edelstein said. “BenAmmi deserved that blessing,and made sure that people whofollowed him would be de inedas Zionists, as a wonderful con-tribution to the mosaic of thispopulation of Dimona in part andIsrael in general.”

The approximately 3,000 Afri-can Hebrews in Israel considerBen-Israel a “messianic leader.”Ben Yehuda referred to Ben-Israel’s death as a “transition”and the memorial service hadan uplifting tone, with an upbeatdance performance, severalsongs and a video tribute. Thecrowd gave plenty of applause,along with shouts of “Hallelu-

jah!” and “Ben Ammi lives!”“Men like this that don’t come

around so often, their death isnot like a inality,” Ben Yehudasaid. “They very much remainalive and pressed into service ata higher level. They only changetheir form.”

Born Ben Carter in Chicagoin 1939, Ben-Israel was work-ing as a steelworker when heclaimed to have been visited

by the archangel Gabrie l, whoinstructed him to lead his follow-ers to Israel. The group aimed toestablish what Ben-Israel calledthe “Kingdom of God” in Israel,and the government repeatedlyattempted to deport and detainhis followers.

A detente between the groupand the government in the late

1980s led to a compromise und which African Hebrew fami gained citizenship in exchanfor their children performimilitary service.

With the residency confover, the group focused on prmoting health and sustainabilin Israel and abroad. Its membe

Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, the leader of the African Hebrew Isra-elites of Jerusalem, died on December 27. Here he celebratesShavuot in 2011. URIEL SINAI/GETTY IM

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eat a strictly vegan diet and wearclothes made of wool, silk, linen, orcotton. They point to the growingnumber of Israeli vegans — nearly 5percent of the country, according to a

recent survey — as evidence that their values are spreading.“Ben Ammi’s genius is reflected

daily here and in other countries, where the Dimona model, the holisticlife of the Hebrew Israelite commu-nity, is practiced,” said Zehorah BatIsrael, a community member. “In fact,in many parts of the world, Dimonahas become a brand name for healthyliving.”

The African Hebrews have also gained exposu re among ordinaryIsraelis. In 2013, community mem-

ber Ahtaliyah P ierce, then 17, per-formed on the Israeli version of “TheVoice,” a reality show for emergingsingers. About 300 African Hebrewshave served in the IDF, several of

whom performed in uni form at theservice.

“This is our land,” Ben Yehuda said.“We want to demonstrate that to theIsraeli public, but also to the Holy Oneof Israel, that we appreciate being herein this land.”

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Leader of world’s largestIslamic groupvisits Temple MountThe secretary-general of the Organization of IslamicCooperation, a Saudi Arabia-based umbrella grouprepresenting 57 Muslim countries, visited the TempleMount on Monday.

Iyad Madani’s irst Temple Mount visit comes Muslim-Jewish tension simmers over control of thholy site, contributing to an uptick in Palestinian ter-rorism in and around Jerusalem.

“Coming to the mosque is a right for me as well every Muslim,” Madani said in reference to the Al-AqMosque, which is located on the Temple Mount. “It our right to come here and to pray here. No occupation authority should take this right from us.”

Though it controls the Temple Mount, Israel bans Jewish prayer at the site. J

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Hamas: Khaled Mashaal not kicked out of Qatar

Hamas has denied a report that its exiledleader, Khaled Mashaal, was expelledfrom Qatar.

Mashaal and members of the MuslimBrotherhood were expelled from Qatarand were likely on their way to Turkey,CNN reported on Monday. Mashaal has

been in Qatar since he was forced out ofSyria in 2012. He was based in Syria fornearly a decade, but left over tensions

with Syrian Pres iden t Bashar al-As sadabout the civil war there.

Hamas of icial Izzat Rishq wrote on hisFacebook page on Tuesday afternoon,“There is no truth to reports by cer-tain media concerning the departure of

Khaled Mashaal from Qatar.”Nevertheless, the Israeli Foreign Min-

istry congratulated Qatar on its decision

to deport Mashaal, saying, “The ForeignMinistry, led by Minister Avigdor Lieber-man, has advanced various moves tocause Qatar to carry out this step andstop aiding Hamas, directly and indi-rectly. To this end, minister Liebermanand the ministry’s professional staff haveacted in overt and covert tracks withQatar and other states. We expect theTurkish government to now follow suit.”

The report on Mashaal comes as Qataris seeking to repair ties with its Gulfneighbors—Saudi Arabia and United Arab

Emirates—as well as E ypt. In late Dec ber, i t was reported in the Arab medithat Qatar suspended ties with Hama

in an effort to pressure the Palestiniaterror group to change its policy againE ypt.

At the same time, the Saudis are brkering reconciliation efforts betweeQatar and E ypt, in order to end a18-month standoff over Qatar’s suppoof Hamas’s parent group, E ypt’s MuslBrotherhood. Qatar opposed the overthrow of E yptian president MohameMorsi, a Brotherhood member, in Ju2013. J

Palestinian unilateralism said to undermine Oslo AccordsThe Palestinian Authority’s unilateralquest for statehood and other forms ofrecognition in the international arena isamong 10 points illustrating why the 1993Oslo Accords between Israel and the Pal-estinians are no longer valid, wrote AlanBaker, Israel’s former ambassador toCanada, in an article for a think tank, the

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.In a September 1993 letter to Israeli

prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Pales-tinian leader Yasser Arafat wrote that“all outstanding issues relating to per-manent status will be resolved through

negotiations” rather than unilateralactions.

“By petitioning the U.N., the InternationalCriminal Court, and international organiza-tions to recognize them and accept them asa full member state, and by their uni ication

with the Hamas terror organization, the Pal-estinians have knowingly and deliberately

bypassed their contractual obligations pur-suant to the Oslo Accords in an attempt toprejudge the main negotiating issues out-side the negotiation,” Baker wrote.

“This, together with their attemptsto delegitimize Israel among the

international community and theiattempted actions against Israel’s leaders, has served to frustrate any possibiity of realization of the Oslo Accords, aas such the Palestinians are in materia

breach of the ir contractual obligations,he added.

Baker, director of the JCPA’s Institufor Contemporary Affairs, wrote thIsrael now “has the legitimate right tdeclare that the Oslo Accords are no lo

ger valid and to act unilaterally in o rdeto protect its essential legal and securitinterests.” J

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Arts & Culture


Shlomo Carlebach musical has the soul

to heal frayed race relationsJUDA ENGELMAYER

The cracks that had been simplypainted over for so long beganto show in Ferguson, Mo., inNovember 2014, but in truth

they had begun to open wide much ear-lier—on Saturday, July 13, 2013. That is when a j ury in Sanford, Fla., acquittedGeorge Zimmerman of culpability for thedeath of a 17-year-old black man, TrayvonMartin. The cracks receded from view overtime, as other news obscured them.

Then came the evening of August 9,2014, when a young white Missouri policeof icer named Darren Wilson shot andkilled another black teenager, 18-year-oldMichael Brown. In November, a grand jurydeclined to indict Wilson for the teenager’sdeath. Parts of Missouri went up in flamesas frustrated and angry men, women, andteenagers took to the streets to expresstheir outrage and their disbelief. The grand jury’s decision con irmed for them that the justice system in America continues to fail black communities, and tha t raci sm sti llmotivates many in white America today.

As the grand jury verdict in the Browncase began to fade from public view,another case reared its head—this timein Staten Island, N.Y., where a grand jury

on December 3 refused to indict Of icerDaniel Pantaleo for the death of 43-year-old Eric Garner on July 17, 2014, eventhough Garner’s death-by-chokehold wascaught on a video. His death occurred aspolice attempted to arrest him for sellinguntaxed cigarettes.

What made the Garner case stand out wasthe video, which had gone viral during thesummer and was seen by millions of peo-ple around the world. Almost immediatelyafter the announcement that the grand jury would not indict Pantaleo, protests brokeout across the nation. These protests con-tinue. In one recent incident, several NewYork City police of icers were beaten duringa protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio,only added to the tensions when he told apress conference that he and his wife toldtheir own biracial son to fear the police.

Then came Saturday, Dec. 20, when twopolice of icers, Wenjian Liu and RafaelRamos, were assassinated while sitting intheir patrol car by a man who claimed to be seeking revenge for Garner.

The black-white divide now looms largeracross America than any time since thecivil rights protests of the 1960s, althoughBarack Obama, whose father was African,has been elected to two terms as presidentof the United States. That is a feat no other

minority yet can claim.But despite the rhetoric and bad-to-

worse news, there are glimmers of hope—on an off-Broadway stage, no less. The new version of the musical play “Soul Doctor”delivers an uplifting message from a time

when the success of the civil rights move-ment was still uncertain.

The soul doctor is the late Rabbi ShlomoCarlebach, an observant Jew who believedthat he could inspire people of all faithsand no faith to learn to love each otherthrough his music. He had seen so muchhate in his youth, when he and his fam-ily were forced to flee Austria and AdolfHitler’s madness. After his family cameto America, Carlebach discovered thathe had a talent for making people happythough music.

“Reb Shlomo,” as he was affectionatelyknown to his legions of followers, cameout of a closed-off chasidic community.He began to seek out a more soulful,spiritual approach to Jewish music. That

brought him to the jazz legend Nina Sim-one. Decades before Carlebach was born,the playwright Samson Raphaelson madethe connection between Jewish music and

jazz in his short story, “Day of Atonement,” which he then adapted into the play “The Jazz Singer.” “Soul Doctor” solidi ies thatconnection. It is the story of the friendship

between Carlebach and Simone, and howher music and advice helped him bridge

the wide gap between the insular worldfrom which he came and the one in which

he was now emerging.Even as he maintained his Orthodox Jewish beliefs and chasidic bent, Carlebachadded fun to prayer and a new spirit to the

Jewish souls that he touched throughouthis life. He also broke down a centuries-old

barrier that existed in non-chasidic Ortho-dox communities, which had frownedupon singing during prayer services. Today,there is hardly any synagogue—in any of

Judaism’s streams—that does not includeCarlebach’s melodies and the melodies ofthose who followed in his footsteps.

Carlebach’s influence also spread tonon-Jews. Simone’s influence and encour-agement led him to Haight-Ashbury, SanFrancisco’s hippy haven in the mid-20thcentury, where he brought his music as

well as his message of peace and love tohis “House of Love and Prayer.”

The influence of Simone and her soulful jazz run deep in Carlebach’s music. Suchhugely popular songs such as Ki Va Moed(The Time has Come) or Esa Einai (I Lift UpMy Eyes) were inspired by melodies thatoriginated as classical music entwined

with African and slave folk culture, withWest African influences.

Here was a chasidic man in the 1960s, who had hardly spoken a word in Eng -lish until he was 25 years old, who in hisyouth was deemed by great rabbis of the

day to be destined for greatness as a Torahscholar, sitting at the feet of a black femal

jazz singer and learning how to send spiits soaring higher and higher towards Goand a better world. And this was a tim

when ire hoses and police batons westandard tools for maintaining the divid

between whites and blacks.If that gap could be bridged then—a

it was a much wider gap than anyone outside the chasidic world could ever imaine—then the gap that is ever-widenitoday also can be bridged.

Carlebach saw no gaps. All people, whever they are, whatever they believe, whatever their race or ethnicity or gender, arechildren of the same God and created iHis image. “Soul Doctor” makes one reize that we are all more connected thasome would have us believe, and that wcan be—and have been—inspired by

very people around us whom some woulhave us fear.

The universal message of “Soul Doctois a message for all times, but it is particlarly a message for this time. Ki Va Moethe time is now, for the cracks to mendShlomo Carlebach knew this then, and wcan still learn from him now.

Juda Engelmayer of Teaneck is a senior president and group director at 5W Publ Relations, one of the largest public relat irms in the country.

The off-Broadway musicalplay “Soul Doctor.”

CAROL ROS



Gallery

n 1 Second graders at the Academies at Gerrard Berman DaySchool performed a comedy skit about an impatient familyfor the school’s annual talent show. COURTESY GBDS

n 2 Pictured at Jewish Family Service of North Jersey’s CafeEuropa Chanukah party are Arie Greenbaum and Abe Bowski,who celebrated with Carol Newman, a JFSNJ board mem-ber and co-president of JFNNJ Women’s Philanthropy. CafeEuropa is a monthly social group for Holocaust survivors.

PHOTO COURTESY JFSNJ

n 3 Harry Melzer, left, Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn’sadult education chair, with Amir Sagie, deputy consul generalof Israel in New York, and Rabb i Alberto Zeilicovich. Sagiegave an update on the political, diplomatic, and security situ-ations in Israel with its Middle Eastern neighbors, the U.S. andEurope. COURTESY TBS

n 4 Moriah eighth graders packed snack bags for the Chessed24/7 Kosher Room at Hackensack University Medical Cen-ter. Some of the students are pictured with Dvora Adler andEsther Levie, Chessed 24/7 representatives. COURTESY MORIAH

n 5 Michael Wildes joined the Yeshiva University College Dem-ocrats group to discuss the importance of local government.

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n 6 Students at Yeshivat Noam Middle School engaged ina friendly color war in celebration of Chanukah last month.

COURTESY YESHIVAT NOAM

n 7 Vicky Katzman, left, Rabbi Rachel Schwartz, and ElizabethFish led the effort on the Glen Rock Jewish Center communitymural project. They recruited members of all ages to paintand share their Jewish stories. Pictured is the top center panelof the 100-square-foot mural with part of the title, “Braysheet:From Eden to Glen Rock.” COURTESY G

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D’var Torah


Shemot: What’s in a name?

The name of a Torah portion is

highly signi icant. It commu-nicates the predominant mes-sage of that parasha. Further-

more, it is often referred to even whennot discussing the contents of the por-tion. This leads us into the Torah portionof this week — Shemot, which actuallymeans names. Thus, the name of this week’s parasha is Names!

What is so important about a name?Not merely the name of a parasha but,indeed, the names we have been given at birth and the names we bestow upon ourown offspring?

There are two contrasting aspects asso-ciated with a name. On the one hand,one’s own name seems totally irrelevant

to the self. When one is alone one has

no need for it. It only plays a role whenthere are others who need to communi-cate with that individual.

On the other hand, it does seem toreach into the very core of the self. Wit-ness what happens when one, God for-

bid, faints. One of the most effective waysof reviving that person is calling to him byname! Talking alone is unlikely to awakenthe victim; it is the name that seems toreach into the very depths of that indi-

vidual, stimulating him to the beginningof recovery.

The Jewish name is so important that we are told it is the vehicle through whichGod channels ener y and vitality intoour bodies and souls. Indeed, the Torah

tells us that a key factor

that changed Abraham andSara’s fate and inally pro-duced a child for the barrencouple was the fact that theychanged their names (fromAvram to Avraham and fromSarai to Sarah).

In this context, the Jew-ish name that one is givenat birth plays a vital role inmaintaining the inner linkone feels with our people.When one is called by the

Jewish name, one feel s aninstant af inity with other Jews. Thisis not only because this is likely to takeplace in shul when one is being given,

hopefully, an honor, b

also because it is ratlike a Jewish identity ba worn proud ly at appropate moments.

But what is an approate moment? More imptantly, how many of us state our Hebrew na without a blink of an ePerhaps it is time to pmote use of our Hebrname, at least while we in familiar Jewish surrouings. In this way, all our c

versat ions are preceded with that splisecond impact of Jewish identity.

Try it, you might just start to enjoy it

Rabbi MosheSchapiroChabad ofHoboken

BRIEFS

PA to join ICC on April 1The Palestinian Authority will become the 123rd member ofthe International Criminal Court on April 1, United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced late on Tuesday.

“The Statute will enter into force for the State of Pales-tine on 1 April 2015 in accordance with its article 126 (2)which reads as follows: ‘For each State ratifying, accepting,approving or acceding to this Statute after the deposit ofthe 60th instrument of rati ication, acceptance, approvalor accession, the Statute shall enter into force on the irstday of the month after the 60th day following the deposit by such State of its instrument of rati ication, acceptance,approval or accession,’” Ban said, referring to PA PresidentMahmoud Abbas’s signing of the ICC’s Rome Statute.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R Ill.) on Tuesday condemned thePA’s “irresponsible and destabilizing efforts to use the ICC totarget Israel and undermine the peace process” and calledfor the Obama administration to halt funding to the PA.

“The Administration must now enforce U.S. law as man-dated by Congress and cut off U.S. funding to the PalestinianAuthority until they start acting like the partner for peacethat is needed in the Middle East,” Kirk said. JNS.ORG

Labor-Hatnuah union removes‘Zionist’ from ads to appealto Arab votersIn a bid to appeal to Israeli Arab voters, the joint Labor-Hatnuah campaign that is challenging Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu in March’s elections apparentlyhas decided to remove any mention of the parties’ Zionistagenda from election ads.

The joint ticket formed by Labor leader Isaac Herzog andHatnuah leader Tzipi Livni has been informally named the“Zionist Camp,” but a campaign ad aired by Israel’s Channel10 on Tuesday evening, with hopes of appealing to IsraeliArab voters, made no mention of the word “Zionist” andreferred to the joint ticket as the “Labor party for peace andequality.”

A Labor source told Israel Hayom that the ad in ques-tion was released before the party’s union with Hatnuah,and that “Zionist Camp” was not the ticket’s of icial name.

The inal decision on the of icial name will be made onlyafter Labor’s primaries next week, which will determine themakeup of its Knesset list.

Another Labor source said both parties believed a Zion-ist agenda, including the name “Zionist Camp,” would beperceived as problematic by some among their voter base,particularly the Israeli Arab voters the parties are courting.The parties’ joint campaign still has to review the matter,the source said. JNS.ORG

Attorney-General mulls

incitement charges againstArab MKIsraeli Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein is weighingpressing criminal charges against Hanin Zoabi, an ArabKnesset member from the Balad party, over an incident lastsummer in which she allegedly accosted two courthouseof icers in Nazareth.

A statement issued by the Northern District Prosecu-tion on Tuesday said that while the state attorney’s of icehas recommended that Zoabi face trial for incitement andoffending a public servant, the inal decision on the matteris subject to the results of a judicial hearing. As a Knessetmember, Zoabi has parliamentary immunity.

Last July, according to the state attorney’s of ice, Zoabi verbally assaulted two Israe li Arab bailiffs se rving at theNazareth Magistrates’ Court. The state said that followingthe arraignment of Arab youths detained after rioting overthe murder of 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir in June,Zoabi had accused the bailiffs of being “traitors” and urgedothers to harm them.

Zoabi said of the bailiffs, “We should ostracize them. Weshould spit in their faces. They are the ones who testifyagainst our sons and daughters, the ones collaborating withthe occupation against their own people.” JNS.ORG

U.S. criticizes Israel’stax transfer suspensionThe United States on Monday criticized Israel’s decision to haltthe scheduled transfer of $127 million in tax revenue to the

Palestinian Authority in response to PA President Mah-moud Abbas’s decision to apply for Palestinian member-ship in the International Criminal Court.

“We’re opposed to any actions that raise tensions.And obviously, this is one that raises tensions. We callon both sides to avoid actions that raise tensions andmake it more dif icult to return to direct negotiations,”U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday thatIsrael would “not sit idly by” while the PA opts “for aconfrontation with the state of Israel.”

“We will not allow them to drag IDF soldiers and

commanders to the International Criminal Court in theHague,” Netanyahu said. The prime minister added thatinstead of Israeli of icials, it is “the heads of the Palestinian Authority who struck an alliance with the Hamas warcriminals who should be held accountable” by the ICC,referring to the unity agreement Abbas’s Fatah factionreached with the Hamas terrorist group last spring.

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Netanyahu: Left won’twithstand anti-Israel pressureIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked ofthe Likud party’s general elections campaign on Monday

with a speech in Tel Aviv, slamming the leaders of the

recently merged Labor and Hatnuah parties.“Tzipi Livni and Buji [Isaac] Herzog will not witstand the pressure, and there is a lot of internationalpressure,” he said. “They will be the ones to protect thesecurity of Israeli c itizens? They will stand up to Hamas?Hezbollah? Iran? They will surrender immediately todiktats. Not just because they are weak, but also becausethey want to capitulate. They just want to withdraw andconcede.”

“The Left promised a new Middle East,” he added“But we now have an Islamic State Middle East. I sa

with regret that the Left is disconnected from reality.”The Labor-Hatnuah campaign responded in a state

ment that Netanyahu “was weak against Hamas and con-ducted negotiations with it.” J



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1. That’s life?6. Tough, like Sophie’s choice10. Answer a bar mitzvah party invitation14. L.A. ___ (video game with mobster char-

acters ilke Mickey Cohen and JohnnyGoldberg)

15. It was known by locals as “The JewishLake” during Prohibition

16. Kind of vessel useful in hand-washing17. First name of film character Rae who

learned union organizing from ReubenWarshowsky

18. ___-tat (like Henny Youngman’s humorstyle)

19. What your brisket probably won’t be forthe first 90 minutes in the oven

20. No matter how you spell it, it’s comfortfood23. Joan Lunden co-hosted it, initially25. Holocaust Memorial Museum designer26. Amens, roughly27. Dip it in honey on Rosh Hashanah32. Trick named after skateboarder

Gelfand’s nickname33. One of three awards for playwright Tony

Kushner34. Overwhelmingly Jewish part of

Jerusalem35. Like Haman37. Part of Leslie Moonves’s CBS: Abbr.41. Violinist and composer Leopold, who

taught Efrem Zimbalist42. Amtrak express offering kosher meals

with advanced notice43. Brunch choice47. David nailed Goliath with one49. Kippah, technically

50. Adornment for Sen. Brian Schatz(D-Hawaii)51. Some like it hot56. Type of sax for Lee Konitz57. Locale of Chabad of Northern Nevada58. Sit in on, as a course at Yeshiva

University61. How Catholics sometimes spell a term

for Jerusalem62. Harvest, or what Sukkot celebrates63. People with chutzpah do this to parties64. A lot, like the colors of young Joseph’s

coat65. Animals used in some kapparot rituals66. Give one tenth, as Abraham did to

MelchizedekDown

1. Wolf Blitzer’s channel2. “Yoo-___, Mrs. Goldberg” (2009 docu-

mentary)

3. Sends a letter via El Al, say4. Zionist Lindheim, second Hadassah presi-

dent5. Knish, essentially (unless you’re a vegetar-

ian)6. Like Oskar Schindler7. Frank Zappa was an American one8. Rudner or Katz9. Howie Mandel offered one on a game

show10. It had a major part in “The Ten

Commandments”11. Logo of the company whose 2014 World

Cup ad was called anti-Semitic12. Hall for a Bat Mitzvah party, e.g.13. Removes chametz for Passover, say21. It influenced many Jewbus (Jewish

Buddhists)22. Defensive end Alzado23. Many chasidic Jews let their beards do it24. Like all rabbis before Regina Jonas28. Mark shiva29. “Dance of the ___” (Tune for Allan

Sherman’s “Helo Muddah, HelloFadduh”)

30. Globetrotters founder Saperstein31. Al Capp’s Abner35. Implement for pool player Mike Sigel36. Judaism, for one: Abbr.37. Start of many Yiddish-American terms38. Emulated Moses to Aaron, in the golden

calf incident39. Blackthorn that might be found in slivo-

vitz40. Sitcom starring Judd Hirsch41. “Happy Days Are Here Again” composer

Milton42. What zaftig women do to men, often43. New England birthplace of Leonard

Nimoy44. Blues singer Costa of the boy band Blue45. “What a klutz I am!”46. Four-time All-Star second baseman

Kinsler47. Tremor that may occur while plotzing48. Actress Shire of “Rocky” fame and

widow of Jack Schwartzman52. Robinson’s was built by Herod the Great53. Adjective for bupkis54. Let ___ a secret, like a yenta55. Russian entrepreneur and Facebook

investor Milner59. Comedian Kabibble60. Word before “Hangover,” in the title of a

2009 Justin Bartha film

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Calendar


Friday JANUARY 9

Shabbat in Emerson:

Congregation B’naiIsrael holds its monthlyyoung family service withsongs and puppets totell the story of Moses,6:30 p.m. Januarybirthdays celebrated;goody bags for children.53 Palisade Ave.(201) 265-2272 orwww.bisrael.com.

Shabbat in WoodcliffLake: Temple Emanuel ofthe Pascack Valley offersyoung family serviceswith Rabbi BenjaminShull and Cantor MarcBiddelman, 6:45 p.m.87 Overlook Drive.(201) 391-0801 or www.

tepv.org.Shabbat celebrationin Englewood Cliffs: Sha’ar Communitieshosts a communityShabbat with musical,spiritual services, andkiddish, 6:30 p.m.64 Hickory St. Lisa,(201) 281-4988 or www.shaarcommunities.org.

Shabbat in Closter: Temple Beth El offersservices led by RabbiDavid S. Widzer andCantor Rica Timman withthe Shabbat UnpluggedBand featuringcongregants, 7:30 p.m.221 SchraalenburghRoad. (201) 768-5112 orwww.tbenv.org.

Saturday JANUARY 10

Art and creativeexpression in Teaneck: Chabad of Teaneckoffers a hands-on artworkshop for womenwith local artist NataliaKadish, whose art isinspired by Torah andKabbalah, 8 p.m. Suppliesprovided. Melave malkaserved. 513 KenwoodPlace. Refreshments.(201) 907-0686 or

[email protected].

Sunday JANUARY 11

Children’s program: The JCC of Paramus/ Congregation BethTikvah continues amonthly class for 4-7year-olds, with “FunWith Mitzvot,” 9:30 a.m.Program focuses on theimportance of caring forothers, sharing, honestyand friendship. East 304Midland Ave. MarciaKagedan, (201) 262-7733

or edudirector@ jccparamus.org.

Book club in Paramus: M.L. Stedman’s “TheLight Between Oceans” isdiscussed at the JewishCommunity Center ofParamus/CongregationBeth Tikvah, 10 a.m.Refreshments. East304 Midland Ave.(201) 262-7691 or

jccparamus.org.

Book discussion inWayne: As part ofthe “One Book OneCommunity” project,sponsored by theJewish Federation ofNorthern New Jersey,Congregation ShomreiTorah offers a discussion

on this year’s bookselection, “The Golemand the Jinni,” by HeleneWecker, 10 a.m. Lunchfollows. 30 HinchmanAve. (973) 696-2500 [email protected].

Preschool program inWoodcliff Lake: TempleEmanuel of the PascackValley holds Club Katanfor children who willbegin kindergarten inSeptember, 10:15 a.m.87 Overlook Drive.(201) 391-0801, ext. 12.

Israeli teens vs. U.S.teens: Congregation

Adas Emuno in Leoniaoffers a discussion onthe difference betweenteenagers in Israel andthe U.S., led by twoIsraeli shlichot, 11 a.m.Sponsored by the JewishFederation of NorthernNew Jersey’s Center forIsrael Engagement. 254Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712or www.adasemuno.org.

Steve AlexanderCOURTESY YMCA

Concert in Wayne: The YMCA of Waynecontinues its Backstageat the Y Series with SteveAlexander “His Pianoand Quartet,” playingsongs from the AmericanSongbook, 11:45 a.m.The Metro YMCAs of theOranges is a partner ofThe YM-YWHA of NorthJersey. 1 Pike Drive.(973) 595-0100, ext. 257.

Children’s theater inTenafly: ArtsPowerpresents the musical“Rainbow Fish” forthe Kaplen JCC on thePalisades’ ProfessionalChildren’s Theaterseries, 2 p.m. Grouprates; birthday partiesarranged. 411 East ClintonAve. (201) 408-1493 orwww.jccotp.org.

Monday JANUARY 12

Talk with a geriatricdoctor in Hackensack: Dr. Terri Katz discusses“The Advantages ofa Geriatric Physician”at a Senior Sourceevent, 1:30 p.m., at theShops at RiversideSquare Mall, Suite 310.(201) 342-0962, [email protected], or www.seniorsourcellc.com.

Feature film: The Kaplen

JCC on the Palisadesin Tenafly screens“Brothers,” 7:30 p.m.,as part of a series,” TopFilms You May HaveMissed (or want to seeagain).” Harold Chaplerintroduces the film andleads the discussionafterward. 411 E. ClintonAve. (201) 408-1493.

Tuesday JANUARY 13

Computer open housein Tenafly: The EGLFoundation Computer

Center for adults 40+at the Kaplen JCC onthe Palisades offers anopen house/orientation,10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.,with a class “Most

Interesting Websites,”and a chance to win afree computer course.Discounts for early sign-ups. 411 E. Clinton Ave.Orna, (201) 569-7900,ext. 309.

Holocaust survivorgroup in Fair Lawn: Cafe Europa, a socialprogram the JewishFamily Service of NorthJersey sponsors forHolocaust survivors,funded in part by theConference on MaterialClaims Against Germany,Jewish Federation ofNorthern New Jersey,and private donations,

meets at the FairLawn Jewish Center/ Congregation B’nai Israel,11 a.m.-1 p.m. Rabbi ElyAllen, director of Hillelof Northern New Jerseyand Teen Connectionsfor Jewish Federationof Northern New Jersey,will share some of hisfavorite stories. Lightlunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.Transportation available.(973) 595-0111 or www.

jfsnorthjersey.org.

Parenting book groupin Emerson: RabbiDebra Orenstein ofCongregation B’nai Israelin Emerson begins a

five-session “JConnectParenting Workshop,” aparenting book group.The first session, “WhatDo the Jewish Traditionand ContemporarySocial Science Have toTeach About Raisinga Happy Mentsch?” isat the Emerson PublicLibrary, 12:30 p.m. Seriescontinues through May.(201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

Wednesday JANUARY 14

Documentary inTenafly: The KaplenJCC on the Palisadesscreens “Prime MinistersPart 2: Soldiers andPeacemakers,” a filmbased on the best-selling,award-winning book byAmbassador YehudaAvner, 7:30 p.m. 411 E.Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1496 or www.jccotp.org.

Friday JANUARY 16

Shabbat in Wyckoff:

Temple Beth Rishonholds ShabbatTzavta (together), aparticipatory folk-rockservice with selectionsfrom contemporary andclassical repertoires, folkrock melodies, liturgicalselections, traditionalmotifs, and Israeli andArgentinian melodies,8 p.m.. Service led byCantor Ilan Mamber withMark Kantrowitz andAdam Friedlander onguitar, Cantor Mamberon guitar and harp, JaneKoch on keyboards,Jack Seidenberg onbass guitar, JimmyCohen on percussion,

and Gale Bindelglasson vocals. Dessert andcoffee. 585 RussellAve. (201) 891-4466 orbethrishon.org.

Shabbat in WoodcliffLake: Temple Emanuelof the Pascack Valley’sCantor Mark Biddelman,on guitar, hosts ShabbatYachad, Hebrew prayersset to easy-to-singmelodies, accompaniedby keyboardist JonathanHanser, bassist BrianGlassman, and drummerGal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.Free copy of CD at theshul. 87 Overlook Drive.(201) 391-0801 or www.

tepv.org.

Saturday JANUARY 17

Comedy in Wayne:Shomrei Torah offersa night of laughsfeaturing criticallyacclaimed, crowd-pleasing comedians.Doors open at 7:30 p.m.for cocktails; show at 8.Beer/wine available forpurchase. 30 HinchmanAve. (973) 696-2500 oroffice@shomreitorahwccorg.

Sunday JANUARY 18

Jews and the afterlife:The Orangetown JewishCenter in Orangeburg,N.Y., offers a discussion,“Do We Believe theSoul Survives Death?Jewish Views On andExperiences with theOther Side,” led byBarbara Rosenthal andJane Segal. 10 a.m.Brunch follows. Programheld in memoryof Josh Birnbaum.8 Independence Ave.,Orangeburg, N.Y.

The YMCA ofWayne continues itsBackstage at the YSeries with “Puccini

Passion: The Operas of GiacomoPuccini and his Contemporaries,”performed by Dr. Robert W. Butts,an award-winning conductor,composer, and educator, 11:45 a.m.The Metro YMCAs of the Orangesis a partner of The YM-YWHA ofNorth Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973)595-0100, ext. 257.

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(845) 359-5920 ortheojc.com.

Breakfast in Teaneck: Temple Emeth’s adulteducation program,B’Yachad, hosts adiscussion on currentNew Jersey issuesincluding “Bridgegate”with State SenateMajority Leader LorettaWeinberg, 10:30 a.m.1666 Windsor Road.(201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org

Movie in Paramus: The JCC of Paramus/ Congregation BethTikvah screens “TheJolson Story,” 3 p.m.Afterward, there willbe a deli supper withreservations only.Dinner cost, $12.50.304 E. Midland Ave.(201) 262-7691 or www.

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SinglesSunday

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Senior singles meetin West Nyack: Singles 65+ meet fora social get-togetherat the JCC Rockland,

11 a.m. 450 West NyackRoad. $3. Gene Arkin,(845) 356-5525.

Music andentertainment inClifton: North JerseyJewish Singles 45-60’s,a group sponsoredby the Clifton JewishCenter, hosts a Jewishsingles brunch withschmoozing and livemusic by Nate Tiffe,noon. $20. 18 DelawareSt. (973) 772-3131 orwww.meetup.com.

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Singles meet inCaldwell: New JerseyJewish Singles 45+ meetfor a lunch and mingleevent at CongregationAgudath Israel, 12:45 p.m.$10. 20 Academy Road.Sue, (973) 226-3600, ext.145, or [email protected].

Winter dining inTeaneck: The JewishMosaic OutdoorMountain Club of GreaterNew York meets atVeggie Heaven, 4 p.m.Vegan and kosher. 473Cedar Lane. www.mosaic-gny.org.

Ceramics at the YJCCThe Bergen County YJCC inWashington Township is begin-ning a new session of ceram-ics classes the week of Janu-ary 19. The YJCC’s ceramics

studio includes six electricpotter’s wheels, two extrud-ers, a slab roller, and two elec-tric kilns. Through individual-ized instruction, beginners willlearn the basics of hand build-ing and wheel throwing. Moreexperienced students exploreadvanced techniques to developmore complex forms.Ceramics artist Raye Ellen Cooketeaches the class. The YJCC is at605 Pascack Road. For informa-tion, call (201) 666 6610.

Local artist displayingin Fair LawnTeaneck artist/art educatorKsenija Lea Kostic-Pecaric willexhibit her work at the PineGallery at the Fair Lawn PublicLibrary. The exhibit, “Reflec-tions,” follows her 20 years ofcreative work, the places shelived and worked during thelast two decades, and the peo-ple she has met. Her inspira-tion includes Jewish holidaysand symbols, nature, people,objects, and music.

Ms. Kostic-Pecaric, an artteacher at Yeshivat Noam inParamus, is a member of manyprofessional artists societies,and she has exhibited her worknationally and internationally.

The opening reception will beon Sunday, January 11, from 2:30to 4:30 p.m., at the library, 10 01Fair Lawn Ave. The exhibition

will be on view through Febru-ary 28. Call (201) 796 3400, ext.16, or go to www.fairlawnlibrary.org.

“Deep Sea Creatures” byKsenija Lea Kostic-Pecaric.

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about AuschwitzCNN’s Wolf Blitzer will be joinedHolocaust survivor Martin Green iat the Museum of Jewish HeritageLiving Memorial to the Holocaust fopreview of “The Voices of AuschwitThe CNN documentary marking t70th anniversary of the liberation othe camp will be screened on Sunda

Jan. 11, at 2:30 p.m. The museum i36 Battery Place in Manhattan. C(646) 437 4202 or visit www.mjhnorg.

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New semester of classesat LamdeinuLamdeinu will begin its spring semester of new classes on Tuesday,

Jan. 27. Lamdeinu, a new center for Jewish learning, was founded byRachel Friedman. It meets at Congregation Beth Aaron in Teaneck.

Register for classes including Parshanut HaMikra on Bereishit, Tal-mud Berakhot, Parashat HaShavua, Megillat Esther, Yirmiyahu, andGreat Thinkers of the Twentieth Century. Lamdeinu also offers an eve-ning class in Megillat Esther and a morning yoga class. Holiday pro-

gramming and special events will be available on the website.The shul is at 950 Queen Anne Road. For information, visit lam-

deinu.org.

Party showcaseset for SundayCelebrate! Party Showcase’s 23annual show presented by MitzvMarket is at the Park Ridge Marrioon Sunday, Jan. 11, from noon to 4 p.

There will be interactive pho booths, out-of-the-box venue ideacreative foods, invitations for all bu

gets, and the latest party décor anentertainment options.

The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Fodation will be conducting an on-si

bone marrow and stem cell regis trtion drive in support of Oren Wartof Livingston, who was recendiagnosed with Acute MyologenoLeukemia.

The hotel is at 300 Brae Boulevain Park Ridge. For information, c(646) 652 7512 or www.celebrateshcase.com.

Rabbi Dov Drizin leads a JLI class. COURTESY CHABAD

Series to explorenavigating parenthoodValley Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute offers the “Artof Parenting,” a six-session spring course led by Rabbi DovDrizin. It will be given on Sundays, beginning Jan. 18 at 10a.m., and on Mondays, starting Jan. 19 at 7:45 p.m.

The course was designed by the Rohr Jewish Learninginstitute to help parents with child rearing. It hopes toprovide a foundation anchored in the wisdom of Jewishthought and practice for parents to explore and developtheir own parenting philosophies and techniques.

For information, visit ValleyChabad.org/Parent or call(201) 476 0157.

YJCC ceramics student MartinKornheiser displays his work.

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Edward BabittsEdward H. Babitts, 93, of Fair Lawn, diedDecember. 30.

An Army World War II veteran, he earned aBronze Star and served in the European Theater ofOperations and was a member of the Benjamin N.Cardoza Knights of Pythias Lodge #163.

He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Norma;children, Laurie, Steven (Rosa), and Richard(Katherine); a brother, Lawrence (Geraldine); and

ive grandchildren. Arrangements were by LouisSuburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Louis BarashLouis Barash, 80, of Paramus, died January 5.Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,Fair Lawn.

Violet CarterViolet Carter, 84, of Fair Lawn, died January 5.Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,Fair Lawn.

Madelyn CooperMadelyn Wendy Cooper, 58, of Fort Lee, diedDecember 30.

Born in New York City, she was director of inancefor 2000 Linwood Owners Association in Fort Lee. Ason, Bradford of Fort Lee, survives her.

Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,Fort Lee.

Arnold DubinArnold Dubin, 90, of Tenafly, died January 1.

An Army World War II veteran, before retiringhe was a self-employed business owner, a memberof the Chavurah Beth Shalom in Alpine, and asupporter of Israel.

Predeceased by his wife, Rosalind, he is survived by his children, Roger (Hillary) of River Vale, andDr. Victoria Dubin Master (Warren), of Haworth; a

brother, Hilly of Oklahoma; and ive grandchildren.Donations can be made to Lone Soldier Center.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,Fair Lawn.

Selma ForrestSelma Forrest, n ée Winter, 91, of Bayonne and BocaRaton, Fla., died December 19.

Born in Brooklyn, she was a homemaker.Predeceased by her husband of 55 years, Max,

a son, Kenneth, and siblings, Charles Raymond, Julius Winter, and Pearl Goldberg, she is survived by a daughter, Diane LaHowchic (Nicholas John)of Port St. Lucie, Fla.; three grandchildren; ive

great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Dorothy Winter;cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Donations can be sent to Treasure Coast Hospice,Stuart, Fla. Arrangements were by Gutterman andMusicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

Leonid FuternikLeonid Futernik, 93, of Fair Lawn, diedDecember 30.


Miriam JacobsMiriam Jacobs, 90, of Elmwood Park, diedDecember 30. Arrangements were by LouisSuburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Harvey JoltHarvey Aaron Jolt, Ph.D., of Fort Lee,died January 1.

Before retiring ive years ago, he was a hospadministrator for New York City Health andHospitals Corporation — Lincoln, Woodhulland Coler-Goldwater Hospital. While working,he received his master’s and Ph.D. from NewYork University. He was a graduate professor ofhealthcare management at Adelphi and LongIsland universities and held optical dispensingand nursing home licenses. He was a member othe basketball team at City College.

He is survived by his wife, Loretta; children,Goldie Levey (Jerold), and Jodi, and two

grandchildren, Joshua and Jordyn Levey.Contributions can be sent to Villa Marie Clai

Hospice, Saddle River, or the American DiabeteAssociation. Arrangements were by Guttermanand Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,Hackensack.

Randy MerlinoRandy L. Merlino, 59, of Paramus, died

January 4.Before retiring in September, he worked in

the Con Edison engineering department for39 years. He was a member of Temple AvodatShalom and its brotherhood in River Edge. Heserved as assistant den leader/committee chairfor Cub Scout Pack 245, was troop committeemember/assistant scoutmaster for Boy ScoutTroop 205, and unit commissioner for TwinValley and Three Rivers District of the NorthernNew Jersey Council of the Boy Scouts of Amer

Predeceased by his father, Joseph Merlino, ana stepfather, Walter Zajac, he is survived by his

wife, Julia; his mother, Arlene Merlino; childreMichael, Christina, and Samantha Merlino;stepmother, Anne Merlino; brother, Richard, andnieces and nephews.

Services were at Temple AvodatShalom. Arrangements were by Louis SuburbanChapel, Fair Lawn.

Phyllis NagelbushPhyllis Nagelbush, née Archery, 73, of RochellePark, formerly of Hackensack, died January 5.

Predeceased by her husband, Melvin,she is survived by sons, Paul (Noreen) ofNew Milford and Richard (Melissa) of NorthArlington; a brother, Frederick Archery; and iv

grandchildren.Before retiring, she was a teacher’s aide

for Bergen County Special Services. She wasa member of Hadassah, Rochelle Park SeniorCitizens, and Temple Beth Israel in Maywood.

Donations can be made to the AmericanLung Association. Arrangements were by LouisSuburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Maxine RobinsMaxine Ney Robins, 84, of Boynton Beach, Flaformerly of Ramsey, died January 4.

Predeceased by her husband, Carl, she issurvived by her partner, Clyde Freint; children,Arthur (Devra), Barry (Suzanne), and StaceyBaum (Franklin); nine grandchildren and one

great-grandchild.Contributions can be sent to Hadassah.

Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’sMenorah Chapel, Paramus.

Cuomo created an of ice ofassistant to the governor for Jew-ish affairs and broke with his par-ty’s liberal wing on a number ofchurch-state issues.

He helped Kiryas Joel, a cha-redi Orthodox enclave in OrangeCounty, maintain a separateschool district despite a U.S.Supreme Court ruling to thecontrary.

The website for his unsuccess-ful 1994 bid to win a fourth termnoted that he established theKosher Food Advisory Council.

“He has consistently pushedfor stronger enforcement ofkosher regulations,” it said.

Cuomo also backed a bill thatallowed the charedi Orthodoxambulance corps Hatzolah toexpand its service.

During his 1990 election cam-paign, Cuomo, who was sport-ing a silver-bordered black kip-pah, beamed when he earnedthe blessing of the Lubavitcherrebbe, Menachem MendelSchneerson, who handed himtwo of the dollars he tradition-ally gave out to supplicants for

good luck — one each for theelection and his third term.

“This is more than I expected,rabbi, and this will require meto give back more, which I will,”Cuomo said.

Cuomo’s sensitivity to Jewishissues extended beyond the deli-cate church-state balance thatthe observant must navigate.He was an unstinting Israel sup-porter, visiting the country in1992.

“Until you come here, youknow the words but don’t under-stand the music,” he said.

Cuomo banned the state fromdoing business with anyone whocomplied with the Arab boycott,and he expanded business rela-tions with Israel.

Cuomo criticized New YorkMayor David Dinkins’ handling ofthe 1991 riots in Crown heights,

whi ch pit ted bla cks aga ins tOrthodox Jews and resulted inthe death of Yankel Rosenbaum.Cuomo appointed an investiga-tive committee, which eviscer-ated the city’s handling of theriots.

“Mario Cuomo was some-one who understood both theneeds of the Jewish communityon a practical level but also onan emotional one,” said EzraFriedlander, an Orthodox lobby-ist. “Mario Cuomo was a man offaith who understood with every

iber of his body the accommo-dations that government has toprovide to communities of faithto flourish, including the Jewishcommunity.”

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Donald SchwartzDonald R. Schwartz, 76, of Wayne, formerly of Paterson,died December 30. He was an entrepreneur.

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Julius Weber Julius “Julie” C. Weber, 93, of Teaneck, formerly ofHackensack and Fair Lawn, died December 27.

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Did Argentina’s president really adopt a Jewish manto prevent him from becoming a werewolf?DIEGO MELAMED

Last week, many news organi-zations reported an unusualitem about a werewolf leg-end that generated headlines

worldwide.The story was about Yair Tawil, the

irst Jewish man adopted as a godson byArgentina’s president, Cristina Fernandezde Kirchner.

The adoption was the result of a long-standing custom that presidents adoptthe seventh son, born to a family that hashad no daughters in between. The cus-tom arose to counter a legend that onceled families to put their seventh sons upfor adoption, abandon them, or even killthem, out of fear that they would become werewolves. The custom originated in theearly 20th century and was made the lawof the land in the 1970s. (In our originalreport, we erred when we said that thelaw dates from the 1920s).

Until 2009, the law had been restrictedto Catholics. Tawil was the irst Jew adoptedunder the law, though by the time of his

adoption he already was a grown man. Typi-cally the law is applied to babies.

Four days after our piece appeared, theU.K. Guardian challenged our report, whichhad been picked up by many news outlets by then. The Gu ardian quoted Argentinehistorian Daniel Balmaceda, who assertedthat there was no connection between thepresidential custom and the myth of thelobizon, a werewolf legend popular amongArgentine cowboys. The piece further suggested that media outlet s were quick toreport a story suggesting that the Argentinepresident believes in werewolves because ofa tendency to view Latin American leadersas “erratic.”

So did JTA botch the story?If we are to trust Balmaceda, we would

have to believe that there are two uncon-nected customs relating to the seventhson coexisting in Argentina — one hav-ing to do with werewolves, and the otherabout presidential adoptions — and thatthe former had absolutely no bearing onthe latter.

This is almost certainly not the case.The roots of presidential adoption in

Argentina date to 1907, when a son was born to Enrique Brost and Apolonia Hol-

mann in the town of Coronel Pringles,several hours south of Buenos Aires.Brost and Holmann were immigrantsfrom Russia, where there was a traditionof the czar adopting seventh sons to breaka spell under which they would become

werewolves. The couple asked the presi-dent at the time, Jose Figueroa Alcorta, toadopt their son, Jose Brost, and the presi-dent agreed.

Horacio Vazquez Rial, an Argentinehistorian who later moved to Spain,described in detail the Russian origins ofthe werewolf myth and the tradition ofczarist protection in the prologue to hisunpublished book, “The Last Werewolf.”Brost and Holmann, Vazquez Rial wrote,

were “very marked by Russian culture.”Finding themselves in a country withouta czar, however, they turned to the presi-dent to protect their son.

The website of the municipality of Cor-onel Pringles also claims that Brost andHolmann sought the protection of thepresident because of the werewolf legend.

Over the years, the adoption custom became entrenched and in 1973 it wasmade explicit in a presidential decree byArgentine President Juan Peron. The fol-lowing year, after Peron’s death, his wife,Isabel, extended the law to girls.

It’s likely that by the 1970s few people

in Argentina still believed in the werewolflegend, and Peron’s gesture probably wasintended to achieve other aims. VazquezRial himself gives some hint of this by

noting that Peron, a Catholic, was notsuperstitious, and may have acted withno knowledge of the origins of the cus-tom. And though the law remains on the

books, and even was extended in 2009 topermit non-Catholics to bene it (in addi-tion to symbolic adoption, the law pro-

vides for a medal and scholarship funds),it would be going too far to assert thatKirchner extended the honor to Tawil

because she genuinely beli eved that he would become a werewolf otherwise.

“It has become a symbol of the state’spatronage of the national population, as

well as a measure to extend a helping

hand to large families,” Raanan Rein, professor of Latin American and Spanishistory at Tel Aviv University, said. “Presdent Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’

decision to bestow the honor on nonChristian children as well is a reflectioof Peronist efforts to include all ethni

groups in the Argentine nation, as well aa growing recognition of Argentina’s muticultural character.”

Nevertheless, the link between the lawthe adoption custom, athe werewolf legend practically undeniaband they are recogniz widely in Argentina. werewolf roots of the lare mentioned regularlyArgentine media, includin coverage of adopti before Tawil’s.

In 2010, Argentine islator Ana Maria Corde Beltran, who is a me ber of the president’s ring party and had beinvolved in effortsexpand the Peron l

to cover Argentines of all faiths, wrote“Where did this law come from? It comefrom the myth of the werewolf in Argentina, which was called the myth of lobzon. This came from the Russia of thczars, where the myth that the seventhson of a family of seven sons would be

werewolf.” JTA WIRE SERVI

Yair Tawil and his family meet with Argentina’s President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner in December. T

Over the years,the adoption custom became entrenched

and in 1973 it wasmade explicit in a presidential decree by

Argentine President Juan Peron.

Until 2009, thelaw had been

restricted to

Catholics. Tawilwas the rst Jew adopted

under the law.



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E ypt, Jordan, Turkey, and a host ofother Arab and Muslim states. As forIsrael, it is impossible—literally impossi-

ble—to imagine the Jewish state’s enjoy-ing cordial relations with Iran while

the Islamist regime remains in power.Because even if Israel were willing toentertain such an outcome, none of themullahs—whether we’re talking aboutSupreme Leader Khamenei or PresidentRouhani—would do the same.

As for the Iranians’ “abiding by inter-national norms,” their slippery and dis-honest approach to their nuclear nego-tiations acutely demonstrates what theythink of that idea.

It’s therefore tempting to believe thathis personal legacy, and not any dis-passionate assessment of geopolitics,is what lies at the heart of Obama’s cal-culations. As Associated Press reporterMatt Lee observed at a White Housepress brie ing, “Since 1979, Americanforeign policy, with respect to Iran, has

been designed to keep it from becominga successful regional power.” So whathas changed? Certainly not the Iranians’

behavi or, or their stance. As a senio rIranian military commander said onlylast week, “There are only two thingsthat would end enmity between us andthe United States. Either the U.S. presi-dent and EU leaders should convert toIslam and imitate the Supreme Leader,

or Iran should abandon Islam and theIslamic revolution.”

Yet Obama wants to be rememberedas the president who made peace withstates that until then had been regardedas this country’s implacable enemies. If

we can make peace with Cuba, the logic

goes, and end a trade embargo that hasprevailed for more than 50 years, whycan’t we do the same with Iran?

One president’s legacy of peace, how -ever, quite easily can be another presi-dent’s inheritance of war and conflict.The present time would have been anideal opportunity for Obama to gettough with the Iranians, given that oilprices have collapsed and the Saudisare content for the price to remain atrock bottom if that makes life harderfor the Tehran regime. Instead, Amer-ica is leading the world—from the front,this time—into another series of open-ended negotiations with the mullahsthat could well result in the weaponiza-tion of Iran’s nuclear program by thetime Obama leaves of ice.

Never did the bitter words of theHebrew prophet Jeremiah ring truer:“Peace, peace, they say, when there isno peace.” JNS.ORG

Ben Cohen, JNS.org’s poli tical analyst,has written about Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics in Commentary,the New York Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other publications.

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Sprucing up your homein winter with wallpaperCHRISTINE BRUN

Wallpaper can be an ef icient and effec-tive way to spruce up a house withouttaking up any room. Wall coverings have been around for hundreds of years, butadmiration waxes and wanes with eachdecade. It seems that consistent popular-ity depends on regional housing styles.In the more traditional East, South andMidwest, classic homes have been moreconducive to the application of paperthan contemporary or Santa Fe-stylehomes. Other types of wall treatmentshave gained a foothold out West; treat-ments such as Venetian plaster, faux,

and decorative inishes. I have witnessedthese phases with curiosity.Back in the 1970s when I started my

design career, Mylar patterns werehot. These included shiny geometricpatterns that were printed in silver, gold and copper metallic paint. Papers were bold and intended to deliver a big punch! Often just one wall receivedthese strong designs — that was all thata room could stand. We used paperslike this in commercial situations andalso in homes. It was also an era whenphotographic murals were consideredthe rage and replaced the paperlandscape murals of the 1930s or 1940s.

As far back as colonial days, ine homesfeatured traditional scenic wallpaperin a stairwell, foyer or dining room.These might depict a Chinese scene with people, landscape and animals or aclassic French toile pattern. Today, youcan still ind examples in historic colonialhomes up and down the East Coast andinto the South. England and France were the main producers of enormouspanorama papers towards the end of the18th century. Britain eventually emergedas the king of wallpaper production,and multiple patterns are still popular incontemporary English design. Patternon pattern especially is used in a way not

often seen in the U.S. market.As wallpaper is printed with curre

color schemes, the material mig become dated more quickly. Wallpap books stay in print for several yearsa time, but you could ind it dif icureplace a paper originally printed years ago. It may become necessato change your entire color scheme select a neutral pattern instead if yodon’t want to change upholstery.

Nevertheless, after weighing enormous impact of a wall or twdecorated with a dynamic wallpappattern against the blandness ofsimple coat of paint, one easily can

convinced of the value. Good places accent wallpaper are powder bathroomfoyers, staircase walls, dining room waand bedrooms. In this vibrant exampof use, a key wall in the home is adorn with a pattern. Consider how the enticolor scheme of adjacent rooms mig be pulled from the floral paper hung oan entry wall. In the pattern you will icolors for drapery fabric, upholstecolors, and art accents.

Often a pattern is available in seve ways. There is typic ally a story oseries of companion-like patterns th go together. In general, reserve largpattern repeats for larger areas anuse the undersized pattern repeain smaller rooms. Additionallypattern might be printed on differe backgrounds. If you seek out a desthat is printed on white or off-white,can be easier to blend into an existicolor scheme. Know, however, that yoneed a skilled installer when you hapaper with a white background. Tseams show more when the backgrounis pure white. Patterns printed on tan oa colored ground are more forgiving.

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