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HANDS-ON KASHRUT IN WOODCLIFF LAKE page 6

MARKING YOM HASHOAH IN WYCKOFF, TEANECK page 8, 10

FALLING IN LOVE WITH BEIT SHE’AN page 14

PORTRAITS OF IRISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS page 35

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Irene and Manny Buchman’s terrible journeys

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Yom Hashoah CommemorationThis year’s commemoration will feature a presentation by Ela Weissberger, who performed in the children’s opera Brundibar at the Theresienstadt concentration camp as a child—a show staged by the Nazis to fool the world into thinking nothing suspicious was taking place there. The Young People’s Chorus @ Thurnauer will sing selections from the opera. The program will also include the presentation of the Abe Oster Holocaust Remembrance Award, as well as a candle-lighting ceremony by Holocaust survivors.Thur, April 16, 7-9 pm Free and open to the community

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Shimon Peres, enthroned● No one in Israel has sat in more lofty perches than has Shimon Peres. Presi-dent, prime minister, defense minister — he has a lot to show for his 66-year career in public service.

Which is why, when he sat down in the Iron Throne of Westeros last week, we couldn’t help but wonder what he was thinking.

The Iron Throne is the central symbol in the HBO fantasy series “The Game of Thrones,” which portrays dynastic scheming loosely based on the Wars of the Roses. The popular series returns for its fifth season this week. Last week, an exhibit based on the show paid a Passover visit to Israel. And before it opened for the public, the British ambassador and the president of the Israeli video channel that imports “The Game of Thrones” escorted Mr. Peres for a special tour.

We don’t know whether Mr. Peres is a fan of the television show. Was he sim-ply bemused to sit in a throne made of swords? It’s certainly more fancy than the chairs from which he led cabinet

meetings. Or was he wondering how his career would have played out had he been a politician in the mythical world of Westeros, rather than in real Israel?

You can read the statement he left on his Facebook page and judge for yourself:

“The Passover holiday exemplifies that we knew how to release ourselves from the tyranny of foreign thrones and liberate ourselves from slavery to freedom,” Mr. Peres wrote. “Although in Game of Thrones there are many sword fights and beheadings, in the real world it is the duty of leaders to seek any way towards peace.” LARRY YUDELSON

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Jews for Rand? Or Jewish?● Ah, for the good old days when candidates looking for the Jewish vote could simply eat a bagel — and didn’t have to figure out how Jews would prefer to describe themselves.

On Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) launched his 2016 presidential campaign, and promptly stepped into a Jewish social media minefield. The candidate’s website asked supporters to adopt one of two dozen widgets, such as “African-American for Rand,” “Iowan for Rand,” and “Christian for Rand.”

But one sounded clunky to a lot of

ears: “Jew for Rand.”Some observers on Twitter quickly

suggested “Jewish-American for Rand.”

The campaign, however, settled on brevity rather than hyphenation, and soon issued a revised icon: “Jewish for Rand.”

Meanwhile, another page of interest to Jews on RandPaul.com received a first-day revision: “Rand Paul stands with Israel,” it was decided on second thought, was better illustrated with an Israeli flag than with Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock. - LY

The Chad Gadya Price Index● How much is that kid in the song?

Sure, it starts with a goat your fa-ther bought for two zuzim — however much that is. But what about the cat, and the dog, and…?

Not long before Pesach, Naomi Ad-land started to muse about the cost of Chad Gadya.

For 31 years, as she noted in her blog A Wandering Gnome, PNC Bank has been calculating what it calls the “Christmas Price Index” — the cost of all the gifts in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” from a partridge in a pear tree to twelve drummers drumming.

Now she offers the Chad Gadya Price Index as a Jewish answer, at http://bit.ly/js-chad.

The two zuzim themselves comes to $3.86 worth of silver. Good luck getting a kid for that: According to the 2012 USDA Census of Agriculture, the average price for a dairy goat in New York is $185.

“Then came a cat that ate the kid” — “What kind of a cat is big enough to eat a goat?” Ms. Adland wondered. The answer would be a bobcat or mountain lion. You can buy one for $1,750. Warning: You cannot own one

in New Jersey.The dog doesn’t have to kill the

bobcat; it just has to bite it. You can adopt a dog for $258.

A fire to burn the stick that beats the dog: “Sounds like a lightning strike to me,” writes Ms. Adland. One average lightning’s strike worth of property damage comes to $18,036.95.

Quenching a typical fire, according to the Fire Protection Research Foun-dation, requires 8,077 gallons of water — or $103.45 at New York City water and sewer rates.

You can buy an ox in New York for $312.50. Butchering it requires a full day’s work for the butcher, or about $164.

Playing the angel of death, how-ever, will at least cost your place in the world to come — and likely a few thousand dollars in cash as well.

“All in all,” concludes Ms. Adland, “you’re going to need to shell out $23,580.93, the respect of your fam-ily and friends, and your place in the world to come to purchase everything mentioned in Chad Gadya.”

And now we know. LARRY YUDELSON

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Director and writer NOAH BAUMBACH, 45, has explored the lives of sophisticated urbanites in generally well-received films, starting with “The Squid and the Whale” in 2005. Critics say that his new film, “While We’re Young,” is his most fully realized and satisfying work to date. BEN STILLER, 49 (who starred in Baumbach’s 2010 film, “Greenberg”), plays Josh, a Brooklynite

who can never seem to finish his documentary. Cornelia (Naomi Watts), his wife, is the daughter of a legendary documen-tary maker (CHARLES GRODIN, 79). Corne-lia and Josh, who can’t have children, drift away from their best friends, a couple their age who’ve just had a baby, and become friends with an energetic couple who are twenty years younger (Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver of “Girls” fame). The contrast in

styles and world view of these two age-disparate couples is often amusing and usually thought-pro-voking. ADAM “Beastie Boy” HOROVITZ, 48, as the male half of Josh’s “old couple’ friends, and PETER YARROW, 76, of Peter, Paul, and Mary, as a left-wing intellectual, both are in the film as well. (Opening dates vary around the country. In many cities, it is April 3 or April 10.)

“Daredevil,” a new Netflix series, is set

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“The Longest Ride,” which opens

on Friday, April 10, is based on a 2013 novel of the same name by Nicholas “The Notebook” Sparks. Basic plot: after being trapped in an isolated car crash, the life of 91-year-old Jewish widower, Ira Levinson, becomes entwined with that of young college student, Sophia Danko (Brit Robertson) and the cowboy whom she loves, named Luke (played by Scott Eastwood, son of Clint). Ira recalls his past life with his Jewish wife, Ruth, as he waits to be rescued.

Ira and Ruth were the first Jewish characters that Sparks created. In a 2013 interview, Sparks said that as wrote his novel, he drew from his memories of the Jews, some of whom were his friends, who lived in New Bern, North Caro-lina. He said that writing Jewish characters was “something I hadn’t done before, and I thought people would like it. Also, not a lot of people know there are Jewish people in the South. We all know there are a lot of Jewish people in New York and other big cities. Not a lot of people realize how prominent they are in the history of the South. New Bern, my home-

town, is the home of the first synagogue in North Carolina.”

Sparks’ Levinson is proud to be a Southerner and proud to be Jew-ish. Ruth’s background is much different: she came to North Carolina as a teen refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria. The film/novel follows Ira and Ruth as they fall in love almost the minute she enters Ira’s father’s small clothing store. Then we see them court while going to synagogue together. Later, we fol-low them as they share a passion for modern art and weather the dark days of World War II.

Oona Chaplin, Charlie’s granddaughter, plays the young Ruth, with Jack Huston (grandson of John Huston, nephew of Angelica) as the young Ira. By the way, Huston, who played a disfigured WWI vet on “Board-walk Empire,” has some remote Jewish ancestry: his maternal grandfather was the son of Marchio-ness Sybil Sassoon, of the famously wealthy and accomplished Iraqi Jewish/British Sas-soon family. Alan Alda, 79, plays the elderly Ira. Alda, who is not Jewish, has been married to a Jewish woman, ARLENE WEISS ALDA, 82, for 58 years, and their three

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to premiere on April 10, and per Netflix practice, the entire first season will be released on that date. I’m pretty sure that most of you interested in watching it already know that it is based on the Marvel Comics character first created by STAN LEE, now 92, in 1964. Here’s the basic plot: Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock (played by Charlie Cox) becomes Daredevil. He uses his senses, heightened because he was blinded as a young boy, to fight crime on the streets of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen at night.

One of the Dare-devil’s main adversaries is Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin. He’s a power-ful businessman in the same neighborhood. Fisk is played by Vincent D’Onofrio (Goren on “Law and Order: Crimi-nal Intent”). Fisk’s love interest, Vanessa Mari-anna, is played by Israeli actress AYELET ZURER, 45. Her past co-starring roles include Vittoria Vetra in “Angels and De-mons” and Lara, Super-man’s mother, in “Man of Steel” (2013). Veteran actor SCOTT GLENN, 74, has a recurring role as “Stick,” a mysterious marital arts expert who is Murdock’s mentor. –N.B.

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Kosher or not?Fourth-graders in Woodcliff Lake learn about kashrut

ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

Shrimp, flounder, anchovy. Which one isn’t kosher?

How long do you have to wait between eating dairy and meat?

What does the OU or OK symbol on packaged food mean?

Rather than learning the Jewish dietary laws only from books and lectures, the 28 fourth-graders at the religious school of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake experience kashrut via an active curriculum devised by Rabbi Shel-ley Kniaz, the shul’s director of congrega-tional education.

“Whether I’m teaching mitzvot that apply between person and person or between people and God, a hands-on approach is most important because mitz-vot are things that we do,” Rabbi Kniaz said. “In synagogue school, on Sunday mornings and weekday afternoons, you’re not eating. So I had to find another way to make kashrut hands on and experiential.”

The four-stage pro-cess begins with pri-mary sources in Eng-lish translation. Once the chi ldren have learned which ani-mals the Torah deems kosher and and which non-kosher, they sort stuffed animals accord-ingly, one group sort-ing land animals and the other water ani-mals. (This fun innova-tion was introduced by Temple Emanuel teacher Ira Brandwein a few years ago.)

Next, they examine how rabbinic law developed based on Torah verses — such as the separation of milk and meat deriv-ing from the prohibition against seething a kid in its mother’s milk, or how to slaugh-ter an animal as painlessly as possible — and discuss the philosophical underpin-nings of these rabbinic enactments. “They learn an aspect of kindness to animals, being aware of their feelings and needs,” for example.

Focusing on the Torah’s only stated rea-son for keeping kosher — that it makes the practitioner “holy” — they discuss the ben-efits of self-discipline in other arenas, such as training for a sport or learning to play piano.

Finally, the children make a field trip to the Woodcliff Lake A&P for a “hechsher hunt,” finding kosher-certified ingredients to use as they prepare a Sunday brunch for their parents. The A&P has cooperated

with the shul for six years, making sure there is a kosher ver-sion in stock for every item on the grocery list. Each group of kids

also buys a few items for the Jewish Fed-eration’s food pantry.

“The following Wednesday, the children cook with parent volunteers,” Rabbi Kniaz said. “They make blintz soufflé, ziti, quiche, brownies, and Rice Krispie treats, and on Sunday they prepare a fresh salad niçoise and serve the brunch so they can enjoy the fruits of their labors.”

At the brunch, the kids teach their par-ents what they have learned through raps, skits, and games such as “Are You Smarter Than a Fourth-Grader?”

Robyn Reifman of Upper Saddle River has had three children go through the curricu-lum. She said that they all have enjoyed it.

“When I first heard about this program, I thought it was a great way for the kids to learn about keeping kosher and how to identify kosher foods,” she said. “I think the hands-on experience they had shopping for food in the supermarket, and then cooking it, really reinforced their learning in a fun and practical way.”

Like most of the synagogue’s member families, the Reifmans do not observe the Jewish dietary laws. “Although we do not keep kosher at home, this program was wonderful in that it taught our children a great deal about the practice of keeping kosher and what it entails,” Ms. Reifman said.

Rabbi Kniaz said that some families opt to follow up the curriculum with a “kosher week,” during which they might eat out at a kosher restaurant, buy kosher meat, or separate meat and dairy. Over the years she has been teaching the course, some families even made a lasting commitment to kashrut, though this is not the goal of curriculum.

“We’re not telling families, ‘You should be doing this.’ The point is that we’re doing what we’re supposed to do — provid-ing the children with a quality Jewish edu-cation. There’s no way to understand the how and why of kashrut without doing it,” she says. “I didn’t grow up keeping kosher and when I became observant I thought I understood it intellectually, but you really don’t until you do it.

“Also, the children will make choices of their own as adults, and they should make informed choices. Generally parents are

very open to that.”Rachel Rimland, whose daughter Leah

is a fourth-grader, says she was “thrilled to learn about the program, particularly the interactive nature of the curriculum,” and adds that even though she does not intend to make her kitchen kosher, the program raised her family’s level of awareness about kashrut.

“As a family, we found the notion of self-discipline to be very informative,” says Ms. Rimland, of Upper Saddle River. “Even if we chose not to apply it to our eating hab-its, it does resonate in many other aspects of our lives. Leah is an animal lover so she was particularly interested in learning about how the animals are treated with respect and minimizing their pain.”

Rabbi Kniaz does similar hands-on activities for other grades and other mitz-vot. “Throughout, we work a lot in pairs — classmates teaching classmates and in many cases bringing parents in and teach-ing them what they learned.”

Formerly, Rabbi Kniaz served as a writer and trainer for Project ETGAR, a curricu-lum for Conservative synagogue schools in use throughout the country, and as assistant director of the United Synagogue Department of Education.

Amy Fuchs of Upper Saddle River, a 4th-grade parent, looks at labels with some students from Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley’s religious school. Inset: Sam Shulman, at left, and Max Dryerman inspect a package.

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Eleven schools. One message.Federation video highlights cornerstone role of area Jewish education

LARRY YUDELSON

“This is where Jewish community begins,” says a woman with a broad smile, as chil-

dren walk down a locker-lined school hall-way behind her.

What follows is a video of many brief scenes. Cuts follow fast and furious, as children and adults recite lines that in less than five minutes tell the story of the Jew-ish day schools of northern New Jersey. The film is the latest product of an ongo-ing marketing collaboration between the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the area’s 11 Jewish day schools.

“There are two audiences” for the video, said Linda Scherzer, who leads the day school marketing project and wrote the video’s script.

There’s the part of the community that’s very familiar with the day schools — and already sends its children there.

“We want them to know the value we as

a federation place on these schools,” Ms. Scherzer said. “We’re saying to our day school parents and our day school com-munity that we understand you to be the

cornerstone of the community, where we create the next generation of leaders.”

The second audience is the non-day school community. “We want them to

understand what these schools are about. We’re trying to take the mystery out of the schools for the wider community,” she said.

The goal is not recruiting new students — though if some parents of preschoolers watch the video and consider day school as an option, that would be nice, Mrs. Scherzer said. Rather, “we want the non-day school community to understand the value of these schools,” she continued. “That these are state-of-the-art institu-tions where Jewish values begin at morn-ing meeting.”

“We want to lift the hood off of the day schools and show the community their overall academic excellence and social impact,” said Scott Leibowitz, the federa-tion’s managing director of marketing and communications.

The video talks of day schools as con-veying Jewish values and continuity and basketball. It spotlights students who have won science, math, and stock-picking

A gallery of students is featured in a video about the 11 day schools in the area served by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.

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JFNNJ Holocaust commemoration retains tradition, adds new insightKeynote speaker will discuss biological implications of traumaLOIS GOLDRICH

There is something particularly meaningful about hearing the stories of individual survivors.

Allyn Michaelson and Rosa-lind Melzer, longtime organizers of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-sey’s annual Holocaust commemoration and this year’s co-chairs, have inter-viewed some 85 survivors, compiling their stories for these events.

“Finding survivors is getting harder,” Ms. Michaelson said, noting that as sur-vivors age, it’s more difficult for them to go through the interview process and then show up at the programs. In addi-tion, many have already told their sto-ries, while others have chosen not to do so.

“We’re also running into survivors who were very young at the time” of the Holo-caust, she said. In fact, one of the peo-ple who will be honored at the April 16 ceremony was 2 years old when he was placed on a kindertransport with his brother and sister.

The stories of the survivors — this year including Gregory Abraizov of Fair Lawn, Siegmar Silber of Paterson, Mali Janower of Monsey, N.Y., Miryam Suser-man of Hackensack, Bella Miller of Wanaque, and Abe Citrin of Fair Lawn — vary widely. Mr. Abraizov fought in the Russian army, while Ms. Suserman was caught in the Paris Velodrome d’ Hiver, a Nazi-directed raid and mass arrest of Jews in Paris by the French police in July 1942.

“She was then sent to a concentration camp, where she lost her mother and brother,” Ms. Michaelson said. “She went

through the system herself.”As is customary, this year’s program,

marking the 72nd anniversary of the War-saw Ghetto uprising, will feature local teenagers reading survivors’ stories. As their stories are read, each survivor will light a memorial candle.

While the program will follow the order set in earlier years, Ms. Michaelson believes each part of the ceremony has a particular value. For example, a chil-dren’s candle procession — with 72 yah-rzeit candles borne aloft by children from local schools and synagogues — is not just a decorative element, she said.

“Jewish children are the survivor’s vic-tory,” she said, adding that “this gives them an opportunity to take part, not just as spectators.” She also pointed out that the JFNNJ Holocaust commemora-tion embraces towns from Cliffside Park to Kinnelon.

She pointed out that more than 500 people attend the event each year. “It’s always so powerful to hear the narra-tion, especially from young voices,” she said.

This year, program organizers have added closed captioning. As survivors age and their hearing declines, “they say that they can’t hear and understand. It’s really hard to get good readers,” she added, even through program planners choose the readers carefully. Since Wyck-off ’s Beth Rishon— where the program will be held — has television screens, it can include closed captions.

“This is the first time we’re doing this,” Ms. Michaelson said.

The guest speaker for the evening, psychologist/neurobiologist Dr. Rachel Yehuda, has a special connection to one of the survivors.

“When I was interviewing Sig Silber, his wife, Norma, showed us a flier from a program where they heard Dr. Yehuda speak,” Ms. Michaelson said. “Sig’s sister, Zilla, was a case study for Dr. Yehuda. He discovered that only during the talk. He

wanted that to be known.”Dr. Yehuda, director of

the traumatic stress stud-ies division at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, will discuss “How the Trauma of the Holocaust is Genet-ically Transmitted from Survivors to Subsequent Generations.”

A professor of psychia-try and neurobiology who has written more than 300 papers and edited 10 volumes on biological studies of PTSD and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and PTSD, Dr. Yehuda noted that recent research has found that adult children of

Holocaust survivors appear to be more susceptible to depression and anxiety, but may also have more finely tuned mechanisms for detecting and coping with danger.

“I’ll make it easy,” she said of her pre-sentation. “It won’t be too scientific.”

She noted that children of Holocaust survivors have been saying for years that they were affected by the Holocaust, a trauma experienced by their parents. She will speak about the intergenera-tional effects of the Holocaust. “It’s

difficult to make invisible wounds visible,” she said. “If you can look inside the DNA and spot a physical change, it validates some-thing most people have suspected.

“For years, people who were exposed to trauma have said they’re not the same person as before the event. We haven’t had stress biology to help us

understand that. People generally say [about a trauma] that we get over things and the body goes back to normal. This scientific breakthrough allows us to talk about what was transformed by the expe-rience. And the effects can be transmit-ted to children.”

“This is not necessarily negative,” she said. “It’s meant to prepare the next gen-eration somehow as best as they can be prepared. The question is whether the preparation is appropriate or not appro-priate. It depends on the environmental context.”

Ms. Michaelson said that Dr. Yehuda’s talk “is not just relevant to survivors but to second and third generations. This val-idates what they’ve always felt.”

The evening also will include a wel-come from JFNNJ’s president, Dr. Zvi Marans, and from Beth Rishon’s Rabbi Kenneth Emert. The shul’s Cantor Ilan Mamber and members of the Beth Rishon choir will perform, as will Cantor David Perper of Mahwah’s Beth Haverim/Shir Shalom. Allen Zaks will offer the second generation response. Cantor Mamber will lead the prayer “El Maleh Rachamim,” and his father, who is 100 years old and left Europe in the early 1930s for Israel, will lead Kaddish.

Before the program, a photo exhibit curated by Rabbi Wallace Green that is at the Fair Lawn Public Library, will be on display at Beth Rishon. The exhibit’s theme is liberation.

What: JFNNJ Holocaust Commemoration

Where: Beth Rishon, 585 Russell Ave., Wyckoff

When: April 16 at 6:30 p.m.

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competitions. It shows children telling how they help the community, feeding the hungry and assisting in the wake of natural disasters.

And it features area residents who are Jewish day school alumni with impressive accomplishments — from recent graduates who are pro-Israel activists on campus; to Israel’s ambassador to South Africa, Arthur Lenk, who made aliyah after graduating from the Frisch School in 1983; to Jason Shames, the federa-tion’s CEO, a graduate of the Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy in the Bronx.

“It was really sweet to be in those schools and engage with these kids,” said David Thomas, who shot the film. The production took 15 days.

“When you set up filming, generally you’re going to try to keep it as little work as possible. You want everyone in one location. For this, however, we made a big commitment to go to all the locations,” he said.

This included not only the eleven different schools — “I was up at night making sure I was as fair as pos-sible for all the schools,” Mrs. Scherzer said — but also graduates’ homes and workplaces.

“We’ve got all these different schools that are really focused daily on their own students and their own lit-tle world. The piece was written where you felt there was one voice from all of the Jewish day schools,” Mr. Thomas said.

To anchor the disparate shots visually, “I began to shoot beautiful stills of the kids. Every day I added two, three, five faces to a wall of photos that was being built.” The final grid of faces “represented building and community and the Jewish day schools being the cornerstones of the Jewish community,” he said.

“We hope the film leaves a feeling of what these schools are about,” Ms. Scherzer said.

The video has been distributed by the day schools and posted to the federation’s Facebook page and website.

A teacher watches students bustle through the hallway between classes at Yeshivat Noam.

Youngsters at Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County enjoy being filmed for the video.

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Speaking to Howard Kleinberg on the phone, after the wed-ding of one of his grandchil-dren, I got the impression of

an extremely sweet man with a won-derful demeanor who is thankful for all that he has and was marveling in the fact that another grandson, this one a rabbi, had officiated at the wedding.

This perhaps is no wonder because Mr. Kleinberg’s harrowing tale of surviv-ing the Holocaust is filled with twists of fate. As he says, a number of miracles have brought him to where he is today.

Mr. Kleinberg was born in Staracho-wice, a small town in central Poland, the youngest of 10 children. His first encounter with fate came when he was 3, in 1928, when an uncle tried to get the family visas that would allow them to emigrate to the United States. Unfortunately, the doors to the States were closed, so he went to Toronto and obtained permission for the Kleinbergs to come to Canada. When the family got to Warsaw, though, there had been an outbreak of typhus. Canadian immigra-tion officials were screening potential

immigrants for the disease. Because Howard’s father was of slight build and under the weight limit, they told his mother that she could come with the children, but that Mr. Kleinberg could join them later. Not wanting to leave her husband, Mrs. Kleinberg opted to send the four oldest children by them-selves. She would go later, with the rest of the family, she thought. As fate had it, Canada then closed its doors. Of the remaining Kleinberg children and their parents, Howard was the only one to survive the war.

Anti-Semitism began to surface in Poland in the 1920s, as the Christian clergy, who controlled many of the schools, painted Jews as Christ killers and spread rumors of blood libel. As a 5-year-old, Howard looked forward to his first day of school, and went in his finest clothes — only to be beaten and bloodied there by a gang of older stu-dents. It was his first real taste of the plague that would dominate the next 15 years of his life.

In 1938 as rumblings about atroci-ties in Germany began to circulate, the local Poles took the cue and began beat-ing Jews in the streets. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Jews were forced into factory labor. Life as they knew it ceased to exist. In the middle of 1941, the Germans created ghettos in the center of the city and rounded up all of the Jews, forcing them to live together, sometimes 20 people in a one-bedroom apartment. When they decided to empty the ghettos and send the Jews to concen-tration camps, they began a selection

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process, choosing only the able-bodied people to work in the factories. “We thought that we could stay together as long we worked in the factory, but in October of 1942, we were awoken to the sounds of dogs barking and bullhorns blaring telling everyone to get out of their apartments with just the clothes on their back,” Mr. Kleinberg said. “Parents were separated from their children and sent to Treblinka. It was the last time I saw my parents.”

As the younger ones were shepherded to another factory, they were made to run on the roads and witnessed the local Poles applauding their misery. “They dehumanized you and took away all of your self-esteem,” he said. “If you didn’t run fast enough, you were shot, and to prove their point, they randomly shot six people as we started to leave the town.” Mr. Kleinberg’s group was sent to a camp named after the notorious Her-mann Goering. “The Germans made everyone line up every morning, and if one person was missing or escaped, they would kill 20 of us. We were given a tin and a slice of bread with some water to last us an entire day, and if you could find a paper bag from the cement, that became your insulation.”

Due to pestilence and unsanitary conditions, many people died of star-vation, and others, like Mr. Kleinberg, came down with typhus. “It was Jan-uary, 1943 and the commander was doing a health inspection,” he said. “I knew that if he saw me, I would be killed, so I hid in the back in the snow, and he passed me by. The next morn-ing, miraculously, the typhus went away.” The SS finally took over the camp. There were too many prisoners dying, and they needed the manpower.

Mr. Kleinberg spent the last two years of the war going from one con-centration camp to another, including Auschwitz and Mathausen, eventually arriving in Bergen-Belsen. The war was coming to an end, and even though

much of the work ceased in Bergen-Belsen, the prisoners were starved, and many died out in the yards. One of Mr. Kleinberg’s jobs was to take blankets and drag corpses into a pile. As his own health deteriorated, he could no longer stand. Instead, he lay down among the bodies, waiting to die.

Then the next miracle occurred. The British had liberated the camps. A young woman, who had been in the women’s section of the camp, saw How-ard lying there. She couldn’t believe he still was alive. She and a friend helped nurse him to health; then a British soldier took him to a hospital, where he recuperated for six months. Both he and the young woman indepen-dently made it to Toronto, where they reunited. Howard Kleinberg married Nechama Baum, the woman who saved his life. Today Nancy, as she is now called, and Howard Kleinberg have been married for more than 65 years and celebrate holidays with children and grandchildren.

We, the members of the Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration Commit-tee, search each year to find survivors to bear witness to the atrocities of the

Shoah and speak to the community, so that their stories are never forgotten. As the numbers of survivors diminish, we count our blessings as we continue to have survivors speak at our event, which will take place this year on April 16 at Teaneck High School. It is a privi-lege that all in the community should take advantage of.

Steve Fox is co-chair of the Teaneck Holocaust Commemoration Committee and of the Teaneck Holocaust Memorial Committee. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Twenty years laterStephen Flatow remembers his murdered daughter Alisa

JOANNE PALMER

When you ask attorney Stephen Flatow of West Orange how many children he has, his answer is immediate.

“I have five children,” he says.Not surprising. What father doesn’t know how many

children he has?And how are they doing?Four of them are flourishing; they are all married and all

parents. Mr. Flatow and his wife, Rosalyn, have 13 grand-children, and another one’s on the way. (And three of the Flatows’ children live in Bergen County.)

But the fifth, his oldest, Alisa, was murdered by terror-ists when she was 20; her 20th yahrzeit was last week. She has been dead as long as she was alive.

“Just because she isn’t there now, that doesn’t mean I’m not her father,” he said. “I just don’t have any recent pic-tures of her to show.”

It is her death that galvanized Mr. Flatow, 66, a warm, rumpled, silver-haired, avuncular, direct man, to take on Islamic Jihad, its sponsor, Iran, and even his own govern-ment. As he made the kinds of friends and gained the kind of supporters he never would have known otherwise, he came to learn more and more about how terrorism works.

It’s all about the money, he said. Just as blood feeds a tumor, money feeds the cancer that is terrorism. Figure out a way to starve the flow of money, and you’ll begin to starve the terrorists as well.

That is very hard-earned knowledge.Alisa was blown up on a bus in 1995. A graduate of

the Frisch School in Paramus and a student at Brandeis

University, she was spending a year in Israel, and had taken the bus to the beach in Gaza. Her parents had laid down some rules for her — no buses from place to place in the city, no traveling alone — and she had followed them. But her murderers didn’t care.

When Alisa was in the hospital, dying of her wounds, her parents flew to Israel and donated her organs, thus saving other people’s lives and also giving a huge boost to cadaveric organ donation in the Jewish community.

When they returned home, though, they had to resume their lives, with a huge smoldering sinkhole gaping at them. It wasn’t easy.

“I don’t subscribe to the theory that God only gives us things we can handle,” Mr. Flatow said. He had thought about that idea often, because it was so often offered to him in consolation. The mother of another victim had killed herself, he said, so that truism clearly was not true for her. But “one of the things that we were lucky with was the support we received from the community, both in the immediate aftermath and in the weeks and months thereafter.”

He and his wife also tried a group called Compassionate Friends; the meeting was at a synagogue, but the group was not Jewish. They found it both moving and useful. They listened to parents’ stories of losing their children “on the parkways, to cancer, to drug overdoses, to auto-mobile accidents. And then they came to us, and I said, ‘Our daughter was murdered in a terrorist attack.’

“Everybody gasped.” Then the meeting became all about them, which he found helpful then but could not do more than once. It drained too much attention away from everyone else, and focused too much on them. “So that was our last meeting.”

Still, he found the group’s newsletter useful. Although the holidays about which it gave practical advice tended to be Christmas and Easter, still the advice was smart, practi-cal, and easily transferable.

Once Alisa died, her father changed. First, he began a volunteer career as a public speaker, flying all over the country to talk to Jewish groups about Alisa. He and his family endowed the Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholarship, and they endowed a program in Alisa’s memory at Nish-mat in Israel. He threw himself into fundraising for these programs, and for Israel.

He also pursued legal remedies. Senator Frank Lauten-berg, the Democrat who represented New Jersey, spon-sored legislation that allowed American citizens to receive punitive damages from foreign countries. At a trial in 1998, “we introduced evidence that established that Alisa’s mur-der was done by Islamic Jihad, and that Iran sponsored Islamic Jihad,” he said. Those financial connections, and the fact that Alisa and her family both suffered, resulted in the family’s being awarded $247.5 million in damages, most of them punitive. “These people are not heroes. They are not martyrs. They are traitors to the human race,” the New York Times quoted Mr. Flatow as saying after the judgment was announced. “We call upon the people of the world who, like us, refuse to be intimidated by what happened to Alisa. We call upon them to say ‘Enough blood shed such as this.’”

“We saw 10 percent of money,” Mr. Flatow said last week. “The other 90 percent of it is out there. We are still trying to hold the Iranians’ feet to the fire, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be successful.”

In 1999, he and his allies “identified an office building in New York City that was owned by a charity, and we said that it was actually a front for the Iranian government.

“But the federal government fought us tooth and nail.”It wasn’t in the U.S. government’s interest to have pri-

vate citizens, no matter how well intentioned and no mat-ter how grotesquely aggrieved, fighting Iran in court. The government felt that such private fights would curtail its own options and disrupt necessary diplomacy. The Fla-tows lost that case; last year, though, a court in Brooklyn disagreed. In the BNP Bank Paribas case, ownership of the Manhattan building was traced to Iran, and the bank, which had scrubbed that connection from its books, was ordered to pay a $8.9 billion fine.

“For most of us, that’s an unbelievable amount of money,” Mr. Flatow said. For a bank, it’s not so much.

“The bank’s interest is not in terrorism,” he said. “It’s profit.”

He feels strongly that sanctions, such as the ones that have been levied against Iran, and will be lifted if Presi-dent Obama’s deal with Iran is ratified — which he does not like — “work, but you have to be at it long enough.

“Sanctions work because they cut off the flow of cash. A country has to determine if it will improve its roads and its schools and make its citizens’ lives better, or if it will use it to kill innocent civilians to advance a different purpose.”

Mr. Flatow was born in Middle Village, Queens. “My father was a salesman,” he said. “He used to sell ice cream cones, paper cups, and supplies to Dairy Queens, in stores like that.” Gil Flatow’s territory was northern New York State, beginning in Westchester and Rockland counties, some 40 miles away, so it made sense for the family to move further north.

They ended up in Monsey.He remembers the day that the family went to look at

the Rockland County town. “It was 1959, I was 11, my par-ents were both smoking like chimneys. There was no ven-tilation in the car. My sister sat between my brother and me and put her head in her lap. She was feeling very sick.” The trip ended in a development, where “my father was driving very slowly, and my mother had her head out the window at a weird angle.

“She was looking for mezuzahs.”There were many marked doorposts, so the family put

down a five percent deposit on the house, which cost $21,000.

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Steve Flatow and his daughter Alisa.

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1949 Oldsmobile, “with no power steering. She was short and thin, my mother, but she was an ox, and she had a cigarette in her mouth, with the ashes falling down, grasping at the wheel of the car.”

The family was Jewishly involved; once they moved, they joined Temple Beth El in Spring Valley, which had an “excellent rabbi, Louis Frishman,” who was influ-ential in Mr. Flatow’s life. He also was the father of Rabbi Elyse Frishman, who leads Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes.

The family did not become Orthodox until Alisa prodded them into it. She always was strong-willed, her father remembered fondly, and she always felt a deep pull toward Judaism. When she was a small child, she demanded to be sent to a Jewish kindergarten rather than a public one, and her parents complied. As she became more and more immersed in the Jewish world, her family followed her there. Now, it is their home.

Mr. Flatow went to Long Island University in South-ampton, and then to Brooklyn Law School. He got married in 1969 — Rosalyn Packett, his bride, grew up as a member of the Bergenfield Dumont Jewish Center in Bergenfield. After graduation — and after being des-ignated as 4F — undraftable — by the Vietnam War-era draft board for a condition that caused him to develop infections in the nerve canals in the small of his back — Mr. Flatow went into the title insurance business. It turned out that he liked it. “I love what I do,” he said. “I am very lucky.

“I love the problem-solving part of it. You see a problem, you figure out how to solve the problem.” It was that approach, in fact, that helped him as he dug into the problem of how Islamic Jihad was financed, and how Iran finances other terrorist groups.

Although he is a lawyer, he said, he did not function as a lawyer during any of the trials. It’s not his exper-tise. But he did use his skills as a researcher to follow the money.

Mr. Flatow has used his strong understanding that he still has — that he always will have — five children to great rhetorical effect. “During the trial against the Iranian government, my attorney said, ‘You were the father of Alisa Flatow,’ and I said, ‘No.’

“They looked at me, startled.“I said ‘I am her father.’“The judge, Royce Lamberth, looked away, and my

attorney, Stephen Perles — his eyes welled up.“The day before, he had gone through questions

he might ask me. Not answers, just questions.” But he hadn’t phrased the question in the same way that he did at the trial, and he assumed that he knew the answer.

“That got the trial off to a good start,” Mr. Flatow said.

In the 20 years since Alisa’s death, Mr. Flatow has learned to live with it. He smiles, he laughs, he is warm. He is deeply connected to the Jewish world, to Jews, and to Israel. He loves his work. He can be happy.

“Life goes on,” he said. “I still think about Alisa every day. I don’t say she is my driving force, but she plays a big role in my life, along with my other four kids, my 16 grandkids, my wife. She is present.

“It is as if she is here.”He imagines her happy, wherever she is now. He

remembers the smile that seemed to be her perma-nent expression. “I think that it is her job to accom-pany other souls, to make their transition easier,” he said. And he smiles too.

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At home in Beit She’anRidgewood woman on Israel Teaching Fellows program falls in love with the regionMELISSA J. CHARTOFF

I f someone told me a year and a half ago that I would move to Israel for 10 months, I am pretty confident I would not believe them.

And if someone told me I would be living in a town called Beit She’an, I am not even sure I would know what language they were speaking.

The connection I developed with Israel started after a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip in December 2013. Like so many other young Jewish Americans, this was my first exposure to Israel. However, I did not anticipate the effect this place would have on me at all. In the trip’s 10 short days I fell in love with so many aspects of the country: the landscapes and natural beauty, the food, the culture, the lifestyle, and the people.

After returning to New Jersey, I knew that I had to find a way to get back to Israel for longer than ten days. With a simple Google search of “teaching English in Israel” I came across the Israel Teaching Fellows website. There are a lot of subsidized programs available to get to Israel, but ITF was by far the most intriguing to me. I submitted my first appli-cation and that was when the most exciting time of my life began.

ITF works in eight cities around Israel, focusing in the periphery and on areas with overcrowded schools. Appli-cants are free to choose the city they want to work in at the beginning of the interview process. I was not very familiar with any of the cities but I knew I wanted to be in the north. I requested an interview with the coordinator in Netanya, a beach city between Haifa and Tel Aviv, with not much else to base my decision on other than location. By the end of our Skype interview, we had talked mostly about Beit She’an and how it would probably be a better fit for me. Beit She’an was already on my radar because of its location, so I switched gears and began the process of speaking with the coordinator here. I cannot imagine how different my experience would have been if I had ended up in Netanya.

In the months leading up to my departure, most people I talked to usually had little to no knowledge of Beit She’an. What I did hear over and over again was that it was hot. It is a very small city with about 20,000 residents and I have even come across Israelis who had never heard of it. Many people asked, and still ask, why I would choose to come to Beit She’an for 10 months.

At first, I didn’t have much of an answer to this ques-tion except “Why not?” After living here for six and a half months I truly feel at home in this city and could not be happier with my decision.

When I arrived in Beit She’an in September I immediately understood what everyone was talking about when they said that this place was hot. Beit She’an is in the Valley of Springs in Israel’s lower Galilee region, and it is surrounded by about 40 natural springs. In my opinion, Gan HaShlo-sha National Park (Sachne) beats the beach any day. In the winter, the hills in the area are green and lush and covered with colorful wildflowers. The natural landscapes here are just stunning.

When I decided to come to Israel, it was very important to me to learn Hebrew. There are formal ulpan classes as part of the ITF program — but little did I know that living in Beit She’an is basically a 24/7 ulpan. The city is not as American-ized as most of the bigger cities in Israel, and not a lot of English is spoken here. I was forced into a Hebrew mindset from the first week that I was here and it has been the best

way to pick up the language. A trip to the supermarket dur-ing my first month here was quite an adventure, but now I am (almost) as comfortable there as I am in any ShopRite!

The majority of my time is spent teaching English in ele-mentary schools. I had never taught formally before, and even after an intense introduction to the field, I really do enjoy it. I work in three different elementary schools, so I am lucky enough to know a lot of children around town. The Israeli and American school systems are vastly different in many ways but the children here are some of the sweetest,

most energetic and caring that I have ever met. There is nothing better than the dozens of hugs I receive every day and hearing my name called out on the street after school hours. It is so gratifying to see genuine excitement from the students when I work with them; it has really validated the work I am doing and the impact I have on the community.

In addition to teaching, I spend some time volunteering in town. I was thrilled to find out that there was an oppor-tunity to volunteer at the city’s biggest tourist attraction, the Beit She’an National Park, as an English-speaking guide.

A hilltop awash in wildflowers overlooks Beit She’an in the Valley of Springs in the lower Galilee, where Melissa Chartoff, inset, is spending 10 months.

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I have a background in tourism so this was a natural fit for me. It was not long until I became acquainted with the orga-nization Partnership2Gether (P2G) and their offices have become like a second home. P2G is a local organization that works closely with the Jewish Federation in Cleveland, Beit She’an’s sister city. When you live in Beit She’an, it does not take very long to realize how strong the connection between the two cities is. I have had some amazing experiences and opportunities at both volunteer loca-tions and being able to work in the tour-ism field has really provided such a well-rounded experience.

Without a doubt, my time in Israel has been the best and most exciting experi-ence of my life. I have learned, grown and changed so much from this amazing country and the people here. Even on my first trip to Israel, I felt completely at home but the community of Beit She’an has welcomed me in a way that I could never have imagined. I am lucky enough to have a host family that I have truly bonded with, and I now have the little sisters I never had but always wanted! Some of the warmest hospitality I have ever received has happened right here in this city, and it has yet to falter. I wonder if there is something in the water of these natural springs that makes everyone so sincerely generous. There is never a short-age of invitations to join a local family for Shabbat and other holidays. I have had

the best time making new friends, eating amazing food and I truly have a feeling of family here even though I am so far away from my own. I look forward to the new experiences that wait for me in the last three months of the program, but it will not be easy to say goodbye to this com-munity that has become my second home and the people have become family.

Melissa J. Chartoff is from Ridgefield, and a graduate of Temple University.

A pastorial, semi-tropical scene from Gan HaShlosha National Park.

There are Roman ruins in Beit She’an National Park.

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Kaplen JCC fundraising event proves to be a moveable feastMore than 300 women attended the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades’ culinary adventure, Lavish Lunches, a program that raises money to support essential JCC programs and services for senior adults in the community.

This year’s adventure began with a light breakfast at the home of Lindsay and Josh Epstein, where culinary expert Franklin Becker shared tips on how to use simple ingredients to create dishes that are healthy and delicious. Partici-pants sampled one of his favorite recipes.

At the breakfast, the son of a JCC senior center participant spoke about his father’s experience in the JCC Adult Reach Center, a welcoming program where his dad just celebrated his 105th birthday.

Later, guests went on to enjoy an appetizing Lavish Lunch, served in more than a dozen local homes and venues,

where hosts and hostesses provided a unique dining experience.

Event proceeds will support programs that allow seniors to age in place success-fully and remain engaged and connected to their community. They include social adult day care for people with Alzheim-er’s disease and dementia; programming for active retirees; door-to-door trans-portation in wheelchair accessible vehi-cles; breakfasts and hot kosher lunches; programs for the arts; lectures and con-certs; discussions on current affairs; gar-dening, music and exercise; sing-alongs and dancing; birthday and holiday cele-brations; and intergenerational pro-grams with nursery school children.

Alissa Epstein and Michele Ross co-chaired the program, and Artistic Tile, Marcia’s Attic, Salon Pavel, SeeSaw, and all the hosts and hostesses were sponsors.

This year’s Lavish Lunch committee: Jennifer Schiffman, Michel Ross, Erica Rivera, Lorin Cook, Dana Baumgarten, Lindsay Epstein, Alissa Epstein, Brandi Rubin, Merle Fish and Amy Zagin. COURTESY JCCOTPYJCC spring gala to honor leaders

for service and volunteeringThe Bergen County YJCC will hold its annual spring gala on Thursday, April 30, at Temple Emanu-el in Closter. The gala begins at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails and will be followed by the program, dinner and dancing.

Stephanie and Barry Kissler will be honored as Couple of the Year, Barnett “Buzz” Rukin will be recognized with the Community Builder award and Lisa and Adam Grossman have been named the year’s Young Leaders. An ad journal will be published in conjunction with the din-ner. Funds raised help support YJCC pro-grams and services to its members and the community.

Barry Kissler has served on the YJCC board for many years and he has been its secretary. He is also liaison to Jewish Feder-ation of Northern New Jersey and co-chair of the YJCC’s capital campaign. Stephanie Kissler is a regular volunteer, including serving lunch to YJCC senior adults weekly. They also are leaders and supporters of other community organizations, includ-ing Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Val-ley, Center for Hope and Safety (formerly Shelter Our Sisters), Israel Bonds, Valley Chabad, AIPAC, and the Jewish Home.

Barnett “Buzz” Rukin dates his connec-tion to the YJCC back to his childhood, when his parents were involved with

the YM-YWHA in Hackensack. The YJCC Nursery School bears the Rukin name — the David Rukin Early Childhood Cen-ter — as a tribute to his parents. Over the past 35 years, he has held many positions at the YJCC, including endowment and search committee chair, board member and president. He was Man of the Year in 1986. In the community, he has served as a board member for the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, a member of the Cornell University Council and vice chair of the Valley Hospital Foundation. He is a trustee of the Valley Hospital System and a board member of Valley National Bank.

Lisa and Adam Grossman have been active volunteers and fundraisers for the YJCC since they moved to the area 10 years ago. Lisa volunteered for fundraiser com-mittees benefiting the nursery school and YJCC and was chair of the Nursery School Parent Association. She also was a mem-ber of the YJCC board. Adam Grossman has been a member of special committees and various fundraising campaigns. Lisa recently concluded a two-year term on the Wandell School Education Foundation board of directors in Saddle River.

For information, call Ashley Warren at (201) 666-6610, ext. 5832, or email her at [email protected].

Barnett “Buzz” Rukin Stephanie and Barry Kissler Lisa and Adam Grossman

OU International Jewish Communities schedules home and job relocation fairThe Orthodox Union will hold its fifth International Jewish Communities Home and Job Relocation Fair on Sun-day, April 26, from noon to 6 p.m. at a new and larger location, Metropolitan West, 639 West 46th St., across from the Intrepid, in Manhattan.

In addition to representation from a record 45 communities from 22 states coast to coast, the State of Israel will be represented by OU Israel and Nefesh b’Nefesh, to answer questions from peo-ple thinking of making aliyah.

The fair highlights growing and thriving communities across the United States that have the amenities of Orthodox life, at a lower cost of living than in the New York area, as well as substantial employment opportunities for newcomers. Amenities include Orthodox synagogues, yeshivot/day schools, mikvaot, Judaica stores, and easily available kosher food.

New Jersey communities represented

at the fair include Paramus, Fair Lawn, Cherry Hill, East Brunswick, Linden, Long Branch, Manalapan, Springfield, Twin Rivers, and West Orange.

For information, call Hannah Farkas, the OU’s assistant director of synagogue and community services, at (212) 613-8351, or email her at [email protected].

Israel Bonds dinner recognizes the Jaffes and the YagodasState of Israel Bonds will honor Bunny and Leon Jaffe, members of the Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Congrega-tion Beth Tikvah, and Shoshana and Will Yagoda, members of Congregation Beth

Tefillah in Paramus, at the JCCP/CBT on Sunday, April 19, at 5:15 p.m. There will be a reception and dinner. For reservations, email [email protected].

The OU fairs provide a wealth of information.

Motorcycle ride will be scenicThe Chai Riders will offer its first ride of the season on Sunday, April 26. Reg-istration, along with a bagel-and-lox breakfast, is from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn. Events include a poker run through Bergen County, five stops along a scenic route with refreshments served

along the way, a barbecue lunch after the ride, and raffles and prizes.

For information, call Dr. Charlie Knapp at (201) 791-4161 or email him at [email protected]. The synagogue is at 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave., corner of Saddle River Road.

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KEEPING THE FAITH

In a Jerusalem schoolyard, a bloody rehearsal

I t was inevitable from the moment the Mandelbaum Gate was brought down 48 years ago.

The “it” in question is the sacrificing of a lamb by koha-nim dressed in supposed priestly garb, complete with the

sprinkling of blood on an altar. A crowd of hundreds watched the ceremony, which was conducted in a west Jerusalem schoolyard on the Monday before Passover.

To be sure, the ceremony — said to have been a perfect recre-ation of the one held in the Temple until it was destroyed 1,945 years ago — was meant as a rehearsal only, to demonstrate that “the priesthood” is prepared to restart the sacrificial cult “the min-

ute the government approves” prayer on the Temple Mount, according to the event’s spokesman, Arnon Segal. Segal told reporters that his group, the Temple Mount Institute in Jeru-salem’s Old City, even had a portable altar ready to be set up on the Temple Mount within minutes of a govern-ment okay.

That the government will give a green light to prayer on the Temple Mount is a stronger possibility today than ever, because Israel’s new cabi-net coalition is expected to include

at least three ministers who actively favor it. Whether such a go-ahead would include offering sacrifices is not so certain, although the Temple Mount Institute seems convinced of it.

What is reasonably certain is that any attempt to offer even just the Passover sacrifice once a year (ignoring the slew of other offer-ings, including the daily ones) will likely set off an Arab-Israeli war of an intensity not yet seen since Israel became a state. Anyone who thinks otherwise is likely to see more Jewish blood flowing from that act than lamb’s blood.

Seriously, how would any of us feel if someone came to the front door of our synagogues, killed an animal there, and then roasted it on an open fire? Like it or not, the Temple Mount is the site of two mosques that are considered sacred to Islam. Muslims will not take such sacrilege with any degree of equanimity.

This is why successive Israeli governments have banned non-Muslim prayer of any kind on the Temple Mount, not just Jewish prayer, even though a Jerusalem magistrate court ruled in March that Jews may pray there. Israel’s Supreme Court also holds that

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Yom Hashoah

Pesach falls when it falls — on the 15th day of Nisan, when the moon is full, hanging low and seeming close to us.

We know that because the Bible tell us so.Yom Hashoah, on the other hand, is not divinely

mandated — in fact, you could make the strong argu-ment that its origins come from the other direction, the pits of hell. But in fact it was created to fall close to the anniversary of the revolt of the Warsaw ghetto, the evening of Passover 1943, and just a week before Yom Hazikaron, when we remember Israel’s fallen heroes, and Yom Ha’atzmaut, when we switch from sorrow to joy as we celebrate Israel’s independence.

So this is a very complicated time for Jews. We start counting the Omer on the second day of Pass-over, counting down toward Shavuot. That sequence is biblically ordained, going from slavery to redemp-tion to acceptance of the Torah, with a little bit of agriculture thrown in too. And during that time, and not at all accidentally, we recall our people’s darkest hour, and then move from that darkness to another kind of light.

We mark Yom Hashoah here in many ways, as the calendar on page 36 shows. Many synagogues run programs, either separately or in partnership with other shuls. The JCC, the federation, local yeshivas, and many other Jewish institutions acknowledge the day.

The Upper West Side Jewish community will acknowledge the Shoah by reading the names of some of the murdered Jews. The somber reading lasts all day; it begins at shul at 10 on Wednesday night, moves to the JCC in Manhattan at 7 in the morning, and ends there at 9 Thursday night. (There is more information on page 37.) That allows enough time for only a small percentage of the names to be read, but it rescues each name from oblivion for at least the number of seconds it takes to say it out loud, to have that name’s syllables in a reader’s mouth and then on his or her lips, and then released to the hushed air.

Almost every shul on the Upper West Side takes part in this reading. It is one of the few times each year when ideological differences vanish. Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, unaffili-ated shuls all come together. That normally would be a great good; here, in the face of huge evil, it still is good, but it is almost tangential.

An unimaginable number of people were slaugh-tered. The reading of the names, one after another after another, endlessly but incompletely, gives us a tiny glimpse of the enormity of the crime.

We must remember — but we must keep in mind that we cannot remember what we did not know. One of the many tragedies of the Shoah is that there often was no one left to remember specific victims because whole family, villages, towns were demol-ished. We who were not yet born, who were a con-

tinent away, cannot remember anyone who died in the Shoah. What we can remember is that they lived, and that they died, and that they died because they were Jews, and that they and we are part of the same people.

Jews in this area are particularly aware of the Shoah because so many survivors or their children came here. We always have had a richness of sto-ries. They are hard to listen to — they are hard to tell, many survivors tell us — but we can find them. All we have to do is pay attention and listen.

Survivors are aging. We must listen to their sto-ries, and when they are no longer able to tell them, we must tell them ourselves. Those of us who are blessed not to have had those experiences still must find within ourselves the strength to keep telling them.

And at the same time, we must not let ourselves be overwhelmed by them. Our elders survived the Holocaust because they wanted to live. They had felt joy before the plague years, and many of them, heroically, astoundingly, were able to feel it again, tempered as it was by memories, images, knowledge of what real horror looks and smells and sounds like that no one ever should have. We must live not only for the evil, but for the good as well.

We cannot tell only Holocaust stories. We must tell all our stories. The survivors wanted to keep living, and so must we.

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Shammai Engelmayer

What we can remember is that they

lived, and that they died, and that they died because they

were Jews, and that they and we are part of the same people.

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way, but maintains that security concerns outweigh that right.

Beyond security, there is a religious component that is not easily ignored. Almost from the moment the Temple Mount was seized in the June 1967 Six-Day War, the Israeli chief rabbinate has warned repeatedly that praying on the site was a serious violation of Jewish law. That decision has been reaffirmed time and again by successive Ashke-nazi and Sephardi chief rabbis, along with hundreds of other rabbis. Only one Ashkenazic chief rabbi, the late Shlomo Goren, and one Rishon L’Tzion, Mordechai Eli-yahu, thought otherwise.

Nationalist elements within the rabbinate have become increasingly vocal in opposing the rabbinate’s decision. Behind the ruling, however, is the total lack of certainty about where the Temple actually stood, what its exact measurements were, and where the Holy of Holies was situated.

“Impure” people are not allowed within the inner Tem-ple precincts. Only the high priest is allowed to enter the Holy of Holies, and only on Yom Kippur. We do not have a high priest at the moment. Obviously, forbidden areas may be roped off, but no one can say for certain where those ropes should go. In fact, no one can outline with exactness where anything stood on the mount.

Then there is the problem of measurement. The units of measurement we have to go by are themselves the subject of much dispute, and have been for almost 2,000 years.

Take the cubit, the main measurement of length. Its length is determined by the distance from a person’s elbow to the tip of the middle finger. Only, whose fore-arm was used for determining the Temple’s cubit, and what was its length? Not knowing this led to a rabbinic debate over a cubit’s length, with opinions ranging from 17-18 inches on the low side to 23-24 inches on the high side. The most commonly accepted length is around 19.7 inches (half a meter).

To complicate matters even further, the Temple Mount as it exists today and the mount that existed in Temple times are of two different dimensions.

There is a reason why tradition says all of this must await the coming of the Messiah. Presumably, he will have the answers we cannot possibly provide today.

Beyond prayer and access, there is the whole question of sacrifices. We may pray for their return, but are they supposed to return?

Maimonides (the Rambam) thought not. The early Isra-elites were primitive people raised amidst pagan beliefs, he argued in Guide to the Perplexed 3:32. Because it “is not possible to suddenly go from one extreme to another,” and because “it was the firmly established and universal practice at the time to conduct religious worship with ani-mal sacrifices in temples, and people were brought up to accept that, God in His wisdom considered it impru-dent to command us to reject such practices outright, because...human nature inclines to habit.”

God, Rambam wrote, did not want to “[confuse] people’s minds by banning a familiar mode of worship,” although He “could do without them.”

In saying this, Rambam seems to be echoing a teaching from the Midrash (see Leviticus Rabba 22.7-8), which says that the Israelites “were passionate followers after idola-try in Egypt and used to bring their sacrifices to the goat-demons....” The sacrificial cult was created to wean Israel away from pagan practices.

How could midrashic sages (in this case Rabbi Pinchas in the name of Rabbi Levi), or Rambam say such things? In my opinion, it is because sacrifices and other cultic prac-tices were not part of God’s original plan for Israel, and this is provable by the Torah itself. That discussion, how-ever, must await a future column. I have run out of room.

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Thank you, Jon StewartWhy most of us trust him, and why we’ll miss him

The most trusted man in AmericaThe reality of Jon Stewart’s February 10

announcement that after 17 years he would be leaving as host of the “Daily Show” on the Comedy

Central cable network did not quite hit home until the March 30 announcement that his successor would be South African comedian Trevor Noah.

Noah, who has some Jewish ancestry, in turn was quickly the subject of controversy surrounding some offensive tweets he made in the past, tweets that some consider anti-Semitic, not to mention misogynistic, and perhaps worst of all, simply not at all funny.

But more significant is the fact that Jon Stewart’s replace-ment is, for all intents and purposes, a nobody. A Noah-body. And this should come as no surprise, despite all the specu-

lation about who might succeed him, with suggestions as varied as “Daily Show” alumni such as John Oliver, Larry Wilmore, and John Hodgman, and comics Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, her former co-star Alec Baldwin, and even MSNBC political commentator Rachel Maddow and disgraced NBC news anchor Brian Williams.

The simple truth is that Jon Stewart would be a hard act to follow. Close to impossible, really,

no matter how big the name and reputation. No established star in his or her right mind would risk the inevitable judg-ments about having failed to live up to Stewart’s legacy, so the only alternative was to find someone with nothing to lose to serve as the sacrificial lamb. Only time will tell whether Noah will be able to survive the flood of comparisons that surely will come his way.

But the big question is how did a nice Jewish boy, born in New York City and raised in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, grow up to become the most trusted man in America? “The most trusted man in America” is a citation that previously was bestowed upon the longtime CBS Evening News anchor Wal-ter Cronkite. That Jon Stewart seems to have inherited the title would no doubt strike the comedian, born Jon Stewart Lei-bowitz, as both an honor and a disturbing commentary on the state of journalism today. It is consistent with Neil Postman’s observation, three decades ago, that the television medium requires entertaining content, and that journalists on televi-sion news shows cannot help but become entertainers. By the 1990s, it became a commonplace to note that most young people got their news from the late night monologues of Jay Leno and David Letterman.

What set Jon Stewart apart from Leno, Letterman, and other talk show hosts, including his predecessor on the “Daily Show,” Craig Kilborn, was the depth of Stewart’s humor, his intelligence, and the incisiveness of his critique of the news media, and the subjects they report on, especially politics. If the fourth estate is supposed to fulfill the function of the watchdogs of society, Stewart provided the answer to the question of who watches the watchmen, and he has done so with dogged determination.

To be sure, on the conservative side of the political spec-trum, Stewart is not quite as well trusted as he is among liberal viewers. His political leanings are well known. As much as he has tried to be fair and balanced in his skewering of politi-cians and the media personalities who cover and comment on them, he could not help but direct a significant portion of ire and irony at Fox News, whose often blatant attempts at propaganda have made it all too easy a target. No doubt, given our current political polarization, we would be hard pressed to name someone who is equally trusted by those on the left and the right of the political spectrum, so it is enough to say that Stewart has gained the confidence of America’s moder-ates and centrists. And we also might recall that Cronkite was denounced as too liberal in his day, especially after coming out against the Vietnam War in 1968.

We might also recall that Cronkite was considered seriously as a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and was urged to run for president in 1980. So it should not come as a great surprise that following his resignation from the “Daily Show,” there have been calls for Jon Stewart to run for the Democratic presidential nomination for 2016, as the only viable alternative to Hillary Clinton. The calls have come from a variety of sources, including longtime television critic and biographer Marvin Kitman, who notes, “Now I realize Jon will have to talk to his mother in Teaneck first. But I’m hoping he will put his country ahead of the cheap overnight thrill of making just another movie. Or a better chicken soup.”

Stewart run for president? Why not? After all, his friend and colleague Stephen Colbert did it in 2007. And the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear that they co-hosted at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 2010, which was attended by more than 200,000 people, demonstrated the strength of his popular and populist appeal, and the foundational values on which his comedy was built. The “A Moment of Sincerity” address that he gave at the close of the event was as good as any campaign speech made by any candidate now out on the stump. Toward its end, he declared, “We know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes it’s just New Jersey. But we do it anyway, together.”

Whether he actually runs for office, in a serious campaign along the lines of the one run by United States Senator Al Franken, a Saturday Night Live alumnus, or as a form of sat-ire, as Colbert did, remains to be seen. But what is quite clear

Dr. Lance Strate

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Reminiscing about Pesachs pastJoy can be real. Tahiti — maybe not so much

Passover was really a joy in our home, and my parents made sure that all our friends and rela-tives who didn’t make a seder

would be at ours.I can’t remember a seder in our apart-

ment with less than 30 guests; a four-and-one-half room apartment (I never figured out which the half room was) with all those people, and we had a seder each night for two nights.

All the furniture in the living room was either pushed to the side or moved into my parents’ bedroom, and we lined tables up end to end, all the way into the den. Each table was not only a different shape and size — they were also all different heights. The trick was not to put a place setting near the abutting tables. The wine glasses were even trickier.

The seders were wonderful, and they got better every year. My dad sat at the head of the tables and we went around the table, with every person participat-ing in the reading of the Haggadah. If you couldn’t read Hebrew, you read in

English. There were exceptions that broke the order of going around the table, when my dad did specific parts, and the kids did specific parts. We had plenty of non-Jews at our seders over the years, and they par-ticipated as well. There were no excep-tions to the participation rule.

To this day, I can still smell the apart-ment: the soup, the roast, and all. I see the candles burning bright and I can hear the laughter and singing that continued way into the night as well.

When I was very young, my father would gently nudge the table so that the wine in Elijah’s cup would shake.

“You see,” he’d say, “Elijah’s drinking.” I didn’t understand how he wasn’t blasted silly after a dozen homes: forget about hun-dreds of thousands.

Passover is very different for us now. We no longer make the seder in our home; we go away. There came a time when it became a chore for my folks to schlep the dishes, and we decided that it would be more fun to have someone else do the work. After all, this is the holiday that celebrates freedom,

going from slavery to free-dom; slaving in the kitchen doesn’t exactly fit the spirit of the holiday. Here’s what I told my congregation a dozen or so years ago:

“Well, it’s almost Pesach, and I look forward to spend-ing these eight days, as I’m sure you all do, with my fam-ily and extended family,” I said. “This year we will be reveling on the white sand beaches of Tahiti, swimming in the azure waters of the Pacific along with the dolphins.

Picture it: a seder under the palm trees, reading the Haggadah by the light of flam-ing torches, the dark night sparkling with the lights of its jewels, the stars and the moon. The natives stand staring at us with awe, and wonder at the strange language we are speaking, and the even stranger rituals we follow.

We need salt water so that we can dip the potatoes, and a bare-footed server runs to

the ocean’s edge, scooping salt water from the sea with a conch shell, pure white.

At our seder we, the young-est from each family unit, stand and recite the four questions. It’s an interesting sight. My mom is the young-est of five children, and at 86 she stands, as do I, my son Wayne, his friend Jeff (who is 6 feet 4 inches tall) and so on until we get to the young-est at our seder table who is

now about 17.We are 31 people, singing together and

reciting different parts of the Haggadah as we go around the table. We’ve made changes to our seder, adding stories and songs, making the experience more than just tradition.

The natives standing around, smiling as we sing “Take Me Out To The Seder” (to the tune of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”) and There’s No Seder Like Our Seder (to the tune of “There’s No Business

Rabbi / Cantor Lenny Mandel

Letter from Israel: Chowing down on plantsABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

I was a vegetarian wannabe for most of my life, and when we made aliyah in August 2007, I grabbed the opportu-nity to take the plunge. Introducing

myself as a vegetarian from the get-go would ease the dietary transition, I reasoned.

And I was right. Our new friends didn’t bat an eye; a fair number of them also eschewed meat. Dining out was never a problem, thanks to bountiful kosher dairy and fish restaurants in Israel. My husband supported my decision with the caveat that we continue serving poultry at our Shabbat table for those like himself who prefer it. So far, so good.

A couple of years ago, after doing exten-sive reading and video viewing about the cruelty and environmental damage involved in the dairy, egg, and fish industries — not to mention mounting scientific evidence of the dubious nutritional value of animal foods as they are produced today — I began a gradual shift toward veganism.

Cow’s milk and eggs were the first items to go, since I always found them repulsive anyway. Banishing cheese, yogurt, and but-ter from our refrigerator took some effort for me but it didn’t bother Steve, who hasn’t touched dairy in 30 years.

Like most people, I did not understand that animal-free cuisine encompasses a whole lot more than tofu. With the help of a nutritionist in my HMO and friends who

share my sensibilities, I’ve learned to love tasty, nourishing, and satisfying legumes, grains, seeds, nuts, beans, and veggies that I’d barely heard of before. Millet was once what we fed the parakeet; now it’s on my plate along with amaranth, quinoa, bulgur, lentils, kale, goji berries, and other nutri-tional superfoods.

Choosing a restaurant can be tricky now. Most dairy establishments in Israel pile cheese on everything. Ironically, more plentiful vegan options are available in meat restaurants.

However, it seems that my dietary direc-tion is shared by an increasing number of Israelis. Fed up with factory-farming hor-rors, unwilling to swallow the dairy lobby’s slick ad campaigns, some 200,000 Israeli residents (out of a population of 8 million)

now identify as “tivoni,” or vegan.

Per capita, Israel stands at the forefront of a world-wide revolution toward a plant-based diet. Grassroots organizations such as Vegan Friendly are having an enor-mous impact on raising Israe-lis’ consciousness about what they put in their mouths.

A s a re su l t , amaz ing changes are afoot. (Amouth?). Due to popular demand, sev-eral café chains now offer vegan dishes or even a sepa-

rate vegan menu. The Israeli Domino’s Pizza chain was the first in the world to offer vegan pizza. I’ve enjoyed a delecta-ble portobello mushroom burger at Café Greg in Beit She’an, roasted-vegetable shakshuka (no eggs!) at Café Landwer in Jerusalem’s Cinema City, and a wonder-ful chickpea “omelet” at Aroma here in Ma’aleh Adumim.

I haven’t been there yet, but the Vegan Shawarma in downtown Jerusalem is a hit with my likeminded friends. The venerable vegetarian Village Green in Jerusalem has not only beefed up (sorry, couldn’t resist) its dairy– and egg–free options but also recently opened an all–vegan branch in Tel Aviv.

Tel Aviv, always on trend, is brimming with vegan eateries. Unfortunately, most of them are not under the supervision of

the Tel Aviv rabbinate, in part because few kosher diners are among their patrons. I hope that situation will improve as more keepers of kashrut voice their preferences for plant-based cuisine.

When we’re planning a trip, I phone ahead to make sure our hotel dining room will have tivoni options. They’re always happy to oblige, sometimes excessively so. During a November stay at a kibbutz hotel, for example, the chef insisted on making a few dishes especially for me, and I was plied with enough quinoa pilaf, tehina, and crudité for a week of meals. Soy milk, soy yogurts, legume and vegetable stews, and of course hummus usually are on hotel buffet tables.

A couple of weeks ago, a newfound cousin invited me to dinner in Jerusalem. I accepted her suggestion to meet at a sushi place because I knew its menu would have a variety of vegan options. When I walked in, the first thing I noticed about my rela-tive was the Vegan Friendly tote bag slung across her chair. While munching miso soup and veggie rolls, we formed a kinship that goes beyond genetics.

The majority of Israelis will not be giving up their turkey shawarma, chicken schnit-zel, and barbecued beef any time soon, so meat-eaters visiting Israel have no cause for alarm. But if you prefer plant foods, even for a meal or two, you have some-thing yummy to look forward to next time you’re here.

Vegan shakshuka at Israel’s Café Greg ELAD GUTMAN

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Like Show Business”). Our sons and daugh-ters, mostly grown, some already married or engaged, one with four children of her own, and all beautiful inside and out, cre-ate their own wonderful spirituality, with the boisterous singing and laughter.

When we drink each glass of wine, and we drink four (at least) full cups, one of the boys will start by saying: “All right, every-body leeeeeeean to the left.”

It is joyous, and we notice that more natives than are supposed to be there have come onto the beach to watch these rituals.

Dressed to the nines, we are. Suits, white shirts, and ties, beautiful dresses, shined shoes, each man wearing a kip-pah, some sitting on pillows, all of this in diametric opposition to the bare-chested, barefoot natives who are now surrounding our table.

“Kol dichphin yetay v’yechol. Kol ditzrich yetay v’yiphsach.” All who are hungry come and eat. All who are needy come and cel-ebrate the Pesach. Hmmm, do we invite the natives to our feast, to partake in our seder?

Now there are canoes; beautifully painted

outriggers paddled by a dozen men that pull up and onto the beach. The man who comes up to me is obviously the chief. Tat-toos adorn his body, and, although they are without bright colors, they speak volumes.

We invite him to join us and we explain the symbols and the rituals that we are enjoying. We talk about slavery, the exodus from Egypt, the bitter herbs, the charoset, the shank bone and the egg, and he nods as if he understands.

We eat gefilte fish, and I explain about this, the craftiest, most cunning and hard-est fish to catch — the Gefilte — and why it is such a delicacy. The kids have all heard this story before (every time any one comes up and asks me about gefilte fish) and do their best to keep straight faces. I explain that the Gefilte is easily spooked when it is nervous, and if it sees a glimmer of metal under the water it turns inside itself, coming out on its own other side (the head now emerging from where there was a tail) and swims away.

The natives begin to dance, a chorus of men around this huge fire, and we join

them, creating circles into circles into circles, the sand as soft as talcum powder under our now-bare feet.

We go back to the table, say Birkat Hamazon and move steadily toward Chad Gadya, the last song in the Haggadah. The fire on the beach has diminished to glow-ing embers as we sing. It is getting very late, and most of the natives are gone already.

We look out over the calm, silent Pacific, still glowing with the lights of the heavenly bodies above, and we know that in the morning, after shul, we’ll be frolicking in that beautiful blue sea, eating fresh coco-nuts and enjoying each other. We sit there and recount stories of Pesachs past, and talk about those of us who are no longer with us to enjoy and be enjoyed. They’re there just the same.

It’s the sharing. It’s being part of a joy-ous, joyful time. It’s families that have grown together after spending 18 years together each Pesach. It’s watching our kids grow and have kids of their own. It’s the singing and the laughter and the tears.

We are families from New York, New Jer-sey, Detroit, St. Louis, Memphis and Chi-cago. We are one fabulous family although we are not all related by blood.

All the feelings and emotions, the ritu-als and songs I speak about are all true. Tahiti? Tahiti is a figment of my Pesach imagination ( James Taylor was going to Carolina — in his mind), but then where you are when you celebrate this glorious time is only a state of mind: the one you put yourself in when you create the mood and surround yourself with those you truly love.

Now that’s what celebrating joyous occa-sions should be all about.”

Rabbi Lenny Mandel serves as the cantor at Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson. He has produced four films about Greek Jews and the Holocaust and the off-Broadway play The FlameKeeper. He is now funding a full length feature film “100 Gates,” and he is the author of “From Cross to Cross; The Musings of a Jewish Boy Riding his Motorcycle Through the Christian World.”

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J Street on Iran, ObamaIn Ben Cohen’s “Obama and J Street trad-ing on lies” (February 20) there were dis-tortions about J Street that I would like to rectify.

J Street was formed to create a pro-Israel and pro-peace movement here in the United States, and we have praised the Obama administration in its efforts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

J Street sees negotiations as the only way to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. We don’t know the details of a final agreement yet. How does Mr. Cohen know such an agreement enables Iran to develop a weapon? It seems like the alter-native he advocates is attacking Iran mili-tarily, which is liable to start another Mid-dle East war.

Instead of focusing on the goal of negoti-ating a two-state solution and the preven-tion of a nuclear-armed Iran, Cohen seems intent on bringing about a single Palestin-ian majority state and an Iran more com-mitted than ever to attain nuclear weapons in order to defend itself

Stuart Kaplan

Chair, North Jersey Chapter of J Street, Teaneck

Facts about MenendezAllegations are just accusations and denun-ciations about a person. They do not need to be substantiated. They are often slung in a person’s direction to tarnish character and to point out transgressions, proven or not.

Facts, on the other hand, are truths backed by evidence which present indis-putable data.

We always believe facts. Allegations, however, are suspect and should not be concluded upon until they have run their due and fair course.

Thus, I cannot speak about allegations against my senator, Bob Menendez. But, I can speak to facts.

It is a fact that Senator Menendez has led the efforts against Iran and its nuclear ambitions way before others knew about centrifuges. As former chairman of the For-eign Relations Committee and for decades before, our senator has kept our eye on the target of this evil regime and its hate-ful rhetoric to ensure that it never achieves nuclear capability.

It is a fact that Senator Menendez has repeatedly been governed by his con-science and not his party, crossing lines even when facing backlash to stand for what he believes is in his constituent’s and this country’s best interests. Senator Menendez regularly co-sponsors legislation with Republican colleagues if he believes the issue is one of concern. He is married to right over allegiance. I celebrate that ethic, which he demonstrates daily, and I wish more followed his example.

It is a fact that Senator Menendez has been a stalwart supporter of the victims of Hurricane Sandy. While the storm has passed, the suffering for countless families has not. Bob Menendez keeps them in his

mind and his efforts to provide the neces-sary monetary and emotional relief, even years after the storm. That is a sign of an honest leader.

It is a fact that Senator Menendez has been a fierce advocate for people with autism and non-typical learners. Addition-ally, he has used his leadership to support all people, old and young, who have spe-cial needs. Senator Menendez has done this throughout leadership roles he has filled proudly.

It is a fact that Senator Menendez is an unparalleled champion of the State of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel and the United States share values and technology, along with unprec-edented military cooperation. Few have stood taller and louder to support Israel and its right to exist free of terror than Bob Menendez.

The facts speak for themselves. The alle-gations, though, do not jibe with the facts and the person I am blessed to know and proud to call my senator. For now, until the process has been exhausted, I am sticking to the facts.

Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner

Temple Emanu-El of ClosterVice President, New Jersey Board of Rabbis

On gay marriageA recent letter stated that Orthodox Juda-ism cannot accept gay marriage (“Oy vey, my child is gay,” March 27).

But the issue is both communal and indi-vidual families, and this drives the practice. At one time, if a child married out of the faith, the parents sat shiva, and most had no further contact, even with the grand-children, who might be Jewish. Nowadays, certainly the modern Orthodox do not hold with this practice. They have changed, evolved, come to see that this is not how they really want to live.

Once women had a much reduced role in the Orthodox leadership and learning. The same should be applied to the gay married couple. Do not try to force them to be het-ero if they have no interest in this. If they do, fine, they can try, it’s been done. But let them marry, have children, and be counted in the Orthodox community.

Paul Frazer, Fair Lawn

The coming cataclysm?Rabbi Shmuley Boteach writes in the April 3 issue of a coming cataclysm with Iran. He may be right.

After all, how would any nation react if it was accused of “racist, genocidal intent,” “ritualistic, orgiastic…demented world-view,” “murderous intent,” “annihilation,” “carrying out a second holocaust,” and “obvious brutality and beheadings”? Those are Rabbi Boteach’s words, in just his first five paragraphs. Obviously, this nation must be none other than the devil incarnate.

But wait a minute. Let’s focus on just one of these claims, in regard to decapita-tion. The world is seeing the horror of this method of killing again, thanks to ISIS and

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As for who is beheading whom, Sunni ISIS is now reported to have cut off the head of a Hamas leader in Al-Yarmouk, Syria. The laws of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, and Iran permit decapitation, but only Saudi Arabia continues to carry out the practice of chopping off heads. In Iran, capital punishment is legal, but the methods used are firing squad, hanging and stoning.

Iran may be an unpleasant rogue state that is pushing to extend its regional hegemony. The rhetoric of the mullahs may be nauseating. Its nuclear policy may be frightening (although it is hardly alone, joined by the likes of Pakistan and North Korea which already belong to the club of nuclear-wea-ponized nations).

Even so, there is no reason for exaggeration or accusation. Iran is not beheading offenders, political prisoners, or jour-nalists. Iran is not ISIS. In fact, these two are enemies, in the longstanding Sunni-Shiite divide. So who’s the big bad wolf here? Will the real fanatics please stand up?

Eric Weis, Wayne

Love is a human rightGay used to have a different meaning — it meant being happy (“Oy vey, my child is gay,” March 27). Human rights is really what we are talking about. The perpetuation of the human race is what we are concerned about. Every

individual has the right to determine what person of the same species to spend time with and the duration of that time. God, the Creator, enabled us to have free will in mak-ing our decisions.

Today, with modern enlightenment, we can create humans in a different manner than before. Implants were never even considered in the past. As we learn more about ourselves and the wonders of our creativity, we face an unknown future. It is the fear of the unknown that causes man to react negatively to new concepts. Fear is irrational. It solves nothing. It is nega-tive to progress.

Human rights rely on positive thought. Love is expressed in many different ways to so many of God’s creations. If I can love another species of life, why can’t I love a member of my own species? Love is a state of mind that has expression in a multitude of ways, more mental than physical.

Love is a human right and should be thought of in that man-ner. Marriage is a formality in which early man and woman were not involved. In the Hebrew faith, several words recited to a witness were sufficient for uniting two people. A marriage certificate was unknown. As time progressed did our feeling about “marriage” progress? We soon needed a religious cer-emony and then we needed a legal contract. Marriage, with-out all the paperwork and technicalities, was based on a rela-tionship between two human beings. Man, who wrote and compiled the Torah, decided that in order to perpetuate the human species man should wed woman. (For those who are not in agreement with that statement, I refer you to the reality of the story of mankind, archeological and historical.)

God had no say in the matter and no man speaks for God!Shel Haas, Fort Lee

is that Jon Stewart was able to transform the Daily Show from just another low budget television vehicle for sopho-moric humor into a significant source of news and opin-ion, commentary and criticism, ad entertainment and education, and in doing so, transform himself from just another comedian to a worthy successor to the man who took us from John F. Kennedy’s assassination to the moon and beyond.

And is there any doubt that the secret to Jon Stewart’s success is the fact that his humor has been built on a foun-dation and rooted in a tradition of social justice, ethical conduct, and compassion for our fellow human beings? His values, the values of his upbringing, shine through his 17 years on the “Daily Show.” They make clear the fact that he is much more than a comedian — that he is nothing less than a mensch.

Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University in the Bronx and president of his synagogue, Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia. He is the author of “Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postman’s Brave New World Revisited.”

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There are many paths into hell.There is the short, direct one

that Irena Berkowitz, as she was called then, was herded onto. It

led straight to Auschwitz.Manny Buchman took a much longer, cir-

cuitous route; it allowed him some interest-ing vistas, and he was able to pause occa-sionally, toward the beginning. Eventually, though, he too ended up in a death camp.

Manny and Irena — now Irene — Buch-man have been married since 1958. They live in a neat, sunlit townhouse in a cozy, prewar Englewood court off a street of grand houses. They rebuilt their lives, had two daughters and now six grandchildren and so far one great-grandchild. They talk to and about each other with the love and ease that comes from decades together.

But they have terrible stories to tell.In January, they went back to Auschwitz

to mark the day, exactly 70 year earlier, when its gates were opened and its prison-ers were liberated — or at least those pris-oners who were strong enough to with-stand the shock to their enfeebled systems that food, water, and human compassion gave them.

Last month, back at home, they told their stories again. After all these years, after so many retellings, some parts of the story come quickly, but other parts are so painful that even after all these years and retellings, they can be told only haltingly and with obvious effort.

Both Irene and Manny were born in the Carpathian Mountains, in what was then

Czechoslovakia, had been part of the Aus-tro-Hungarian Empire, became Hungarian during their childhoods, later was taken by the Soviet Union, and at least for now is in Ukraine. He is from Kobiania and she from Bilke, close to the city of Munkatch.

Although they did not meet until much later, they described very similar upbring-ings, taking over each other’s stories, fin-ishing each other’s sentences, filling in missing facts.

The culture in which they lived was pro-foundly Jewish, and it influenced their entire lives.

“Our families lived for Shabbes,” Irene said. “Their lives focused around holidays

and Shabbes. On Friday, we used to help my mother to clean. We even cleaned the brass on the door. We used to have brass clocks, and we had to polish them every single week. We had to polish the floors every week.

“My father used to go to shul, and my mother used to make challah. We used to make soup and chulent and kugel.”

“On Thursday nights, my mother pre-pared the dough for the challah,” Manny said. “She would get up at 3, 4 o’clock on Friday to bake the bread for the whole week, and to cook for Shabbes. We would put all the soup and the meat and the chicken in the oven on Friday afternoon,

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and it would cook all night.”The boys went to cheder, but the girls

went to public school, and “the govern-ment paid a rabbi who came once a week and taught us Hebrew and religion,” Irene said.

She loved school. “The Czechs were so progressive when it came to education!” she said. It began with kindergarten. “When my father took me, I must have been 4 years old. He wrapped me in a big shawl, so I shouldn’t be cold, and he car-

ried me to kindergarten, five days a week.” It was a public school, but “everyone in the kindergarten was Jewish,” she reported.

The area was polyglot, and so were its children. “We spoke Yiddish at home, and we didn’t associate too much with gen-tiles,” Irene said.

“We boys went to cheder, and we trans-lated from Hebrew to Yiddish,” Manny added. “We spoke Yiddish at home, and outside we spoke Ukrainian.”

“Our parents went to Hungarian schools,” Irene continued; “My mother would write to her sister in Hungarian,” the Buchmans’ daughter Diane Strobel, added.

When Hitler occupied Poland in

1939, we prayed for the Polish Jews.

When he conquered France and Belgium,

we prayed for the Jews there. And when they

occupied our lands, no one remained

to pray for us.Manny and Irene Buchman at a family celebration in 2011.

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Eventually, toward the end of Irene’s time in school, Hungarian became the language of instruction.

The people of the Carpathian region were used to change.

The Nazis did not enter Hungary until 1944, but bad news started filtering toward them much earlier. “When Hitler came to power in 1933, we heard about the anti-Jew-ish laws in Poland, in Hungary, in Czecho-slovakia,” Manny said. “We knew about it from the newspapers. We still had a democ-racy, and we used to pray for those Jews.

“When Hitler occupied Poland in 1939, we prayed for the Polish Jews. When he conquered France and Belgium, we prayed for the Jews there. And when they occu-pied our lands, no one remained to pray for us.”

Irene, who was born in 1926, tells her story first. “I had a very normal child-hood,” she said. She went to shul if she wanted to and didn’t if she did not — “I was a girl,” she said — but she was defined by her Jewishness. And pretty soon also by a new idea, Zionism.

“There were a lot of Zionist groups in our town, so they used to rent a big room, and we used to go there,” she said. “It was a very nice get-together. We used to learn Hebrew songs and dances. It very much influenced me. I would love to be in Israel one day.” But that move seemed much more a dream than a reality. “Our rabbi said that we would be going to a treif land, that we wouldn’t be Jews any more in Israel.”

And moving would be hard. “Most of the people there didn’t want to leave. If some-body came and offered to send families to Israel, and get their property there, they still wouldn’t want to go. They were afraid to leave.”

Very quickly, everything went bad.In 1944, on the last day of Pesach, when

Jews are meant to be celebrating liberation, two weeks before Hitler invaded Hungary, the world went black for the Jews of Bilke. They were told that “all the Jews have to

Sisters Irene Berkowitz Buchman and Olga Berkowitz Jaeger, soon after liberation.

Irene made her own wedding dress.

Irene and Olga restarted their lives on the Upper West Side in the early 1950s.

Manny, his brother-in-law Isaac Green, and his new wife’s uncle, Hillel Berkowitz, at his wedding.

Olga and Manny married in Tel Aviv in 1958.

gather in the big shul, and that we could bring as much as we want,” she said. “Passover ended with Shabbat, and on Sunday morn-ing we had to pack whatever we wanted — bedding, some dishes, and whatever little bits of foods we had — and we went to the shul, and from there, after the shul, on the trains.” She was with her family — her parents, sister, and brothers.

“They took us to a brick-making factory.” It had been made into barracks, but it was open from both sides, like a backless doll-house. “There were no walls,” Irene said. “There was no nothing. Everybody took a piece of prop-erty there.” Families, stuck next to each other, used bedsheets to demarcate their few feet of floor space. They lived like that, in little wall-less compartments, for six weeks. “We had down covers, so at night we were okay, and then in May it started getting warmer,” she said. “But nothing was private.”

She does not remember where the food came from, beyond the few meals people had been able to bring from home. They also had almost nothing to do but sit and worry, although sometimes, some of the girls were able to go to work in a local fac-tory; their captors would bring them there in the morning and return them in the evening.

And then, six weeks later, they put some of the captives “on cattle trains, going to Birkenau.

“They squeezed us all in, and left all our

stuff behind.” They didn’t know what was next, although they knew it wasn’t going to be good. “We didn’t know we were going to a concentration camp, to a gas chamber,” Irene said. “We didn’t have any idea where we were going. It was very disorienting, and it was frightening.”

Manny broke in to tell a story. “We had a young lady who was abnormal, although she was physically okay,” he said. “My sis-ter told me that when they took people to the trains from my town, when they pushed them into the trains, that girl was screaming in Yiddish, ‘They are taking us

to burn us.’”“We were on the train for 10 days,” Irene

continued. “The train was going very slowly. Children were crying, and people were not feeling good. Somehow we all made it until we came to Auschwitz. We didn’t know where we were going. We went like little lambs who have no say going to the slaughterhouse. We didn’t know what would happen to us. We just went.

“It was unbelievable. We didn’t even cry. We didn’t do anything. When we saw the capos, those Jewish boys — I had cookies, my mother had baked them, I don’t know

how, in a frying pan in the ghetto. I offered them to one of them, and he said, ‘oh no no no.’ He didn’t take them. But he didn’t tell me what would happen.”

The men and the women were separated. The women were undressed, and their hair was cut off. They were put in a shower, and then given something rag-like to wear, and they went to the barracks. “My mother was with us for two weeks, because she was still a young woman,” Irene said. “And an aunt was there, and also my sister. We all got our hair cut off, but my mother somehow got a kerchief, and she cov-ered her head. But they left us with nothing.

“We were put in barracks, they had walls, and wooden bed planks, 13 girls sleeping on one of them, with nothing.

No cover, no pillows, no sheets, just 13 girls on each plank, in two rows.

“Each and every morning we went out for counting, rain or shine. That was our daily routine. We did hardly anything. We used to go and wash ourselves — we had a little piece of soup.

“After two weeks, they pulled out my mother and my aunt, and I started to cry. I went to the one who was in charge of the whole barracks, and I said, ‘They pulled out my mother, and I would like to have her back,’ and she was sorry for me, and said, ‘All right, I will go and see what

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Irene and Manny’s granddaughter Hannah Krutiansky went to Auschwitz with them in January. She wanted to bear witness.

Irene and Manny in Prague.In Israel, Manny holds the Torah as his daughter Diane’s father-in-law, Joseph Strobel, looks on.

I can do.’ She came back to me and said, ‘I cannot do nothing.’ I didn’t believe her, but my aunt said, ‘You have nothing to do here. You go back to your place. Me and your mother, we are going to take care of children.’

“That was a big lie. That’s what they used to say about the people who are not with us, that they are taking care of children.

“I was hugging and kissing her, my mother, and she said take care of Olga. And that was the end of my mother. And I couldn’t do nothing about it, and that was it.”

Her father and brothers already had disappeared forever. “I don’t even know what hap-pened to them,” Irene said.

Josef Mengele, the psycho-pathic Nazi doctor who experi-mented on living people, left orders to “choose some girls there,” Irene said. “When the orders came, I was standing in a row with my sister, and she was taken into a big ring of children, who were sent to the back, and they were all holding hands. Probably those kids would have wound up in the gas chamber.

“I don’t know what came over me, but there were a few hundred girls there, all holding hands, and I went and I cut the line, and I pulled Olga by the hand, and then when I did that, all of them dispersed. That’s how I saved my sister.

“Nobody saw it — Mengele was away.

“I went running back to the barracks with my sister — I had cousins there — and I was pound-ing on the door, yelling ‘Open up! Open up!’ There were some girls in there who were afraid to open it, but finally they did, and that’s how I saved my sister.

“I saved so many kids. I didn’t even know it. Courage came over me, although I was a very timid little girl.”

(That self-assessment clearly is not accurate, as her story proves.)

“From those barracks, they took us deep into Germany, to an ammunition factory. We were about 500 girls. We had indi-vidual beds and we got food. We went each and every day into the factory, and I was putting phosphor in the bombs. We stayed together until the end of 1945.” Then, at the end of the war, with Hitler about to lose, the remaining German soldiers forced the girls into trains, which just “went back and forth, back and forth.” Once, one of them was hit lightly by some kind of blast, “two or three girls were hit,

but they were all right,” Irene said.“We were in the woods, and the train

stopped, and the Germans ran away.” Tell-ing the story, for the first time since she had begun it, Irene smiled. “And in the morning, the English appeared.”

The surviving girls were taken to a place near the Atlantic. Their rescuers “took care

of us. And a lot of girls got sick, because the food — they couldn’t eat it.” They had been so starved for so long that their bodies had lost the ability to process food, and it sick-ened them even more. “I was probably so scrawny, but I cannot tell,” Irene said.

The British soldiers who cared for them “kept us there for two months, so we could

recuperate,” Irene said. “They were kind. They were nice. And after two months, we could go back home.

“So we picked ourselves up, and we went into the trains, and we stopped in Bratislava.” The Jewish Agency and the Jewish community there “pitched in with food, they were very hospitable and made sure we had where to live,” she said. After a few weeks, they went to Budapest, where again the commu-nity helped them as they tried to learn what had happened to their families.

“I heard that my uncle was alive, so I left my sister in Budapest and went to a city in the Carpathians and I stayed by my uncle for eight days, my Uncle Hillel, but I never went back to my hometown.”

Life began to seem a little more solid — Irene and Olga went to a friend’s wedding, something that would have been unthinkable less than a year ear-lier — but “we knew we don’t have par-ents. We don’t have nothing. We have to make what we can for ourselves.” So they moved to Bamberg, Germany, set-tled into a Displaced Persons camp, and lived there for three and a half years. During that time, Irene, who always loved to sew, and who had trained as a dressmaker in her mid-teens, “became the DP camp dressmaker.

“In 1949, we got our visas, and we came to the United States,” Irene Berkowitz Buchman said.

We will leave those two valiant women here for a while as we consider Irene’s husband, Manny Buchman, whose story is part picaresque, part pure horror.

Manny, who also was born in 1926, worked in Budapest as a delivery boy in the early 1940s. “In March 1944, I came home for Shabbes. It was 500 kilometers” — that’s about 400 miles — “so I would take the train to Budapest on Saturday night, and I was home by Monday morning, and when I got in, I went right to work.

“On March 19, I was home, I left around 5 in the evening, I traveled the whole night. I got off the train in Buda-pest, and there were Nazis, Germans — I didn’t know that they had occupied Hungary — and they were screaming and yelling, ‘All Jews to the left! All Jews to the left!’

“I didn’t go to the left.“At the exit, there was a policeman

who asked for papers before you left. I didn’t want the officers should ask me for my papers, so I said, ‘Listen, officer, you want to check me out? Because I have to start work at 8 o’clock.’ And

he looked at his watch and he said, ‘Run! You’ll get there on time!’

“And then I went to work.“A day or two later, a law comes out that

every Jew has to wear a yellow star. There was an intersection — we didn’t have traffic lights — with a policeman directing traffic.

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Top, the whole family; above left, Lily, the Buchmans’ first great grand-child; above right, with their grand-son, Asher Stro-bel, z’l, at his bar mitzah; at right, at a family bar mitz-vah in Israel, sisters Olga and Irene are flanked by by Dr. Ronald Strobel, Sam Jaeger, Diane Strobel, bar mitz-vah boy Joshua Strobel, and Manny Buchman.

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I was at that intersection four or five times a day.

“Sometimes I wore the yellow star, some-times I didn’t. The policeman stopped me. He beckoned to me — the police in Buda-pest were known to be relatively nice to Jewish people — and he said, ‘You are Jewish?’ I said to him, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘How come you don’t wear the yellow star?’ I said, ‘Officer, I don’t have one on every jacket, on every shirt. I have one, on one jacket.’

“He said, ‘I don’t care if you wear it or don’t wear it, but either way, do it all the time. Either wear it steady or don’t wear it ever.’ And he let me go.”

He didn’t wear his star after that.Manny had papers, and they should have

identified him as a Jew, but for some reason they had been filled out incompletely. The space that should have said “Jew” was left blank. He used that to his advantage when he was stopped by a young Nazi, who started quizzing him about his identity. “They used to call each other brother, and I said to him, ‘Listen, brother, you might have time to bull••• but if I am not in my job in five minutes, my boss will fire me.’ And I say to him ‘Heil Hitler’ and he says to me ‘Heil Hitler’ and I left.”

He wasn’t nervous, he said. “If I was ner-vous, I would be lost.” His looks helped, he said. “If I met gentiles, and they didn’t know me, and I told them that I was Jew-ish, they would say that I didn’t look Jew-ish.” Beyond the looks, he was blessed with the kind of sangfroid that allowed him to think clearly and keep going.

He kept himself well informed about the war because “Hungarian stations used to report it, and we used to listen secretly to the BBC in Hungarian.” That also helped.

In the end, though, he got caught. First, in 1944, when he was 18, “I had to register in a military camp, because I was Jewish.” He couldn’t get around it. He was put in a group of young men his age, and “they sent us to work in southern Hungary, in a city where the Germans had a big military air-port. We were building runways for them, making concrete by hand.

“There was a German engineer in charge. He wasn’t an anti-Semite — he was a very nice man — and he said, ‘Kids, all that I’m interested in is that you should make as much concrete as you can.’

“There were Hungarian civilians work-ing at that airport who went home at night, and every Friday they got a check. The engineer said, ‘You have to make such and such number of pieces of concrete a day. If you finish it and you make more, I will pay you extra, the way I pay the gentile.’ I had a partner, and by 10 o’clock in the morn-ing we used to be finished, and he’d say, ‘Okay, whatever you make from now on I will pay for.’

“He used to pay us every week. Of course, we didn’t become billionaires, and we were still sleeping there in the barracks.”

He has far too many stories to tell,

Manny said, but, to make his story signifi-cantly shorter, after the job in the cement factory, he was sent to a labor camp. “I ran away from there,” he said.

“We had an officer in charge, a very nice man. He was a priest, Hungarian, and he was in charge of the Jews in the group. He used to learn with us the Bible.

“In October 1944, the Hungarian prime minister was fired.” (That is shorthand for some very nasty Nazi black politics, too convoluted to go into here.) “We were stationed in Hungary, and the priest said, ‘Listen, kids, if it is true, what we heard, then we will have to work for the Germans. Everyone should be very careful.’

“I heard that statement as we were marching to work through a cornfield. When they had gone, I came out from the cornfield and I saw a highway far away. I went to the highway, and there were a lot of Hungarian refugees who had run away

from the Germans, with horses and wag-ons and cars, all on the same road.

“I had a story. I said that I was a scout, in the Russian-occupied territory, and they believed that I had run away. You had to have stories, or otherwise you wouldn’t survive.

“I jumped on a military truck, because I wanted to go to Budapest. They wouldn’t let us in — they would only let in Nazi party members. And one said to the other one, ‘Do you know if any Jews remain? Because if a Jew remains now, we will kill him.

“And I think I said amen.”Eventually he got into Budapest, where

his brother Yisroel was hiding. Eventu-ally, during a raid, the Buchman brothers were turned in, and they were forced onto a train that was going to Dachau. “They pushed us in, 100 people to a car, pushed and pushed until we didn’t have air. “And in each car was a Nazi with a gun, watch-ing. And they said that they would come every day, and if anyone is doing anything, it would be capital punishment and every-one could be punished.

“We were 10 days on that train. No food, no water. People were dying. They were throwing out dead bodies.”

“We decided that we were going to jump off that train. We decided to commit sui-cide.” Death seemed inevitable, so why wait for it passively? Why not make one last move, take one last risk?

But they were young and resilient, and

even more to the point, it was snowing. Manny had jumped off trolleys often, so he knew how to do it. “We saw a light in the snow, which was chest high, and we walked to it. And it was a Saturday night, and there were young men singing Com-munist songs.

“I said to my brother that I was afraid to say that we were Jewish, so we said that we were scouts, that we were going to Ger-many. We told them a whole story. You had to have a story! And they said, ‘Where are you going? The Russians are almost here already!”

Manny and Yisroel Buchman were able to keep ahead of their tormentors for months, but eventually they were caught and sent first to Mathausen and then, when it was too stuffed with living and dead bod-ies even for the Nazis to allow, to a satellite camp called Gusen.

“On Friday, May 4, you could see the SS guard had left. Nobody was watching us. Most of the people there couldn’t walk, but at around 4 in the afternoon my brother and I said, ‘Okay, we have to go to the main highway,’” which was about a mile and a half away.

“I went to the main highway with my brother and a friend from town. Ameri-can trucks were on the highway. The war hadn’t ended; they were moving from west to east. We jumped onto a truck and we came to Gratz. Those were the first troops who came to the city. We were walking, the three of us, and two American soldiers, a black guy and a white guy. They said, ‘Hold up. Who are you?’ and we say we are Jews, liberated from a concentration camp. He says to me, in Yiddish, ‘You are lying. Hit-ler killed all the Jews.’ He says, ‘What kind of soldier are you supposed to be?’ and we tell him that it’s just before Shavuos,” something that only Jews would be likely to know.

“He stops, and wipes his eyes, and tells us that he’s Jewish too.

“Then he stops crying, and says, ‘All right, you are coming with me.’” And for a few days, he took care of them; made sure they had food, drink, the chance to bathe, and clean clothes. “I never knew his name,” Manny said regretfully. “If I remember properly, though, he was from Florida.”

He spent some time in a hospital recu-perating, then he and his brother both went to a DP camp in Italy for two and a half years. Then, the Buchman brothers went to Cyprus, and from there to the new state of Israel.

Manny’s adventures in Israel could fill many more pages, but there is no room for it here. Readers now just should know that he was very happy there — and even happier because another sister had made her way there, and he had cousins there as well. Family had always been overwhelm-ingly important to him, and some of it was back.

Meanwhile, Irene and Olga Berkowitz had gone to the United States. They moved

first to Atlanta, courtesy of HIAS, and then to Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and learned English.

“It didn’t come that easily,” she said. “Not at all. But I was thinking that I don’t even know how to read newspapers, so how am I going to get along? So I learned.”

Then Irene, the DP camp dressmaker, got a job as a seamstress. She worked at S. Klein, the department store, “making dresses from scratch,” she said. From that, she moved up, making custom dresses, get-ting a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology that made it easier for her to get better jobs.

“I got pleasure from it,” she said. “That is my passion. I love creating.”

In 1955, after many years of hard work, she decided to splurge on a trip to Israel, crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary. (“It was very very nice — but I got seasick,” she said.)

Because they came from nearby towns, Irene Berkowitz and Manny Buchman had many connections, and so, quite logi-cally, they were introduced. They met on Pesach, and were married right around Shavuot.

It was clear that Irene was not likely to be happy living full time in Israel, which was her ideological home but could not give her the comforts she had earned, through her own very hard work in New York. So the two came back to Washington Heights, home to many Holocaust survivors.

Irene continued to work as a seamstress, and Manny became a plant manager, run-ning a big business, working very hard, almost all the time. The couple has two daughters. Diane and Ronald Strobel live in Englewood — and enticed the Buchmans to follow them there. Carol and Roberto Kru-tiansky live in Manhattan.

There is more family here now, for both Irene and Manny. Olga Berkowitz Jaeger lives in Fair Lawn, and Yisroel Buchman lives on Staten Island.

When Manny and Irene Buchman went back to Auschwitz in January, their 17-year-old granddaughter, Hannah Krutiansky, went with them.

“I was very reluctant to go,” Irene said. “But I wanted my granddaughter to know what happened to us. I wanted her to see the place where we were brought to be eliminated.

“We are human beings, and we live in the world.

“No one who didn’t go through it can grasp what we went through. I feel this all the time. To this day, the world doesn’t acknowledge our losses and our tragedies.

“This is something that no human being should have to go through.”

They have remained active Jews, Manny said. “I wasn’t religious, but what was I going to do? Go to another religion? My religion has a lot of history and I am very proud of it. We shouldn’t just let it pass away, just assimilate and forget about it.

“But I am not a fanatic about it. I am just an observant Jew.”

We were 10 days on that train. No

food, no water. People were

dying. They were throwing out dead bodies.

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Schumer defies Obama,backs Iran review billSenator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has broken with Pres-ident Barack Obama and says he will back a bill that will allow Congress to review the Iran nuclear frame-work deal announced last week.

“This is a very serious issue that deserves careful consideration, and I expect to have a classified briefing in the near future. I strongly believe Congress should have the right to disapprove any agreement and I sup-port the Corker bill which would allow that to occur,” Schumer told Politico.

The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 was introduced by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen-ator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.). The bill requires President Obama to submit the Iran final agreement to Congress for review while prohibiting the president from easing sanctions for 60 days.

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This figure represents an increase of about 21 per-cent from 2013 and puts Israel in third place in the world for U.S.-registered patents, behind only Taiwan and Japan.

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ing as France’s envoy to the United Nations in New York.

We talked at length about Iran, and this was the first thing he told me: “The Iranian nuclear program has no civilian explana-tion whatsoever. You don’t start a civilian nuclear program by enriching uranium. It’s like if you buy the gas before the car.”

As I watched the Iran nuclear negotia-tions in the Swiss city of Lausanne slide past an agreed deadline of midnight on March 31 into, appropriately, April Fools’ Day, it struck me that nothing had changed since Araud — who remains a trenchant critic of American concessions to Iran—uttered those words five years ago. The Ira-nian nuclear program was never about the civilian use of nuclear ener�y. It was, and remains, geared toward the production of a nuclear weapon — hence all the lies and deceit practiced by the Iranian regime over more than a decade, and hence the succes-sion of U.N. Security Council resolutions and anxious International Atomic Ener�y Agency reports underlining how Iran’s nuclear activities do not comport with those associated with a civilian program.

In fact, the glaring issues that remain unresolved in Lausanne reflect this fun-damental state of affairs, reinforcing the perception that the Obama administration will concede on almost anything in order

to secure a deal. Iran hasn’t disclosed the possible mili-tary dimensions of its pro-gram and will have even less incentive to do so if sanctions relief is offered regardless. At the same time, Iran has been told that it can continue operating centrifuges at its underground Fordo facility—a secret installation that was outed with great fanfare in 2009 by the Americans, the British, and the French—thus enabling it to further master the enrichment process. And as for their stockpile of enriched uranium, which the Iranians were supposed to be shipping to their Russian allies for safeguarding, well, apparently they won’t be doing that either.

At best, then, what we have here is a weak deal. The main goal is to carry on talking, as it has been since the Joint Plan of Action was agreed between Iran and the five members of the U.N. Security Coun-cil and Germany—the p5+1—in Geneva in November 2013. As former George W. Bush administration official Michael Doran, arguably the most insightful Iran analyst in the United States, told me last year, “The interim deal is for six months and can be rolled over by mutual consent for another six months and another six months, interminably. The Iranians are very good negotiators, so they will work to string this along for as long as possible.”

Because it’s a weak deal, inevitably there will be con-tradictory interpretations of what has been agreed. The overriding point, though, is that the Iranian regime will enjoy a great deal of leeway, thereby gravely hampering any attempts at verification by outside agencies like the IAEA.

Speaking on a conference call organized this week by The Israel Proj-ect, Olli Heinonen, a former IAEA deputy director-general, observed, “You need to know how far [the Iranians] got, which are the important institutions and capabilities so that you pick the right things for the monitoring… By far the best starting point is to have a complete disclosure.”

If the pressure of biting sanctions and the threat of military action didn’t per-suade the Iranians of the need for trans-parency, then a deal that allows them to maintain their nuclear infrastructure with little international oversight will be regarded as a strategic victory in Teh-ran. Heinonen is far from alone when he expresses extreme skepticism that the cur-rent framework will leave Iran at least one year away — one of the key American goals in the negotiations — from being able to weaponize its program. So, as the impli-cations of this lousy arrangement manifest themselves as we approach the November 2016 presidential election in the U.S., one

has to seriously ask whether the Iran deal will survive the Obama administration.

Will Hillary Clinton, assuming she wins her party’s nomination, feel bound by a deal pushed by her predecessor? If yes, can she withstand the volley of criticism that will come her way from her GOP rivals, who will gleefully and correctly argue that the Iran deal has not brought the United States or its local allies a single tangible benefit? And if not, what then? On the domestic front, all that is clear for now is that Obama’s successor will have to contend with the outcome of years of futile and fruitless negotiations, the net result of which has been to leave us with less lever-age over the Iranians than ever before.

In the Middle East, however, none of the states that are now confronting Iran is going to wait for a change of administra-tion in Washington. While Israel is gener-ally regarded as the key obstacle to a deal, the Jewish state’s objections thus far have been expressed only rhetorically. It is the Sunni Arab states that are now engaged in a hot war with Iran, over its designs on Yemen and its support for the Houthi rebels in that beleaguered country. Those same states, moreover, are engaging in nuclear proliferation of their own; it is distinctly possible that within a few years, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and E�ypt will have obtained nuclear weapons capability, thus ensuring an Asian arc of danger stretching from the Mediterranean coast all the way to North Korea.

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The problem is diplomatic as well as security-related; with France now emerging as the primary backer of the Sunni bloc, a new lever of pressure on Israel to make concessions to the Palestinian Authority could well emerge. In fact, France is already mooting the prospect of a new U.N. Secu-rity Council resolution that would define the parameters of an Israeli-Palestinian deal, among them locating the capital of a Palestinian state in eastern Jerusalem.

With all this fluidity, only one definitive prediction is pos-sible: Obama and his cohorts will have left the Middle East far more insecure than when they found it. Iran, Hezbol-lah, and Syria are surging in power, the Islamic State terror group remains embedded in Iraq and Syria, and Hamas still controls Gaza. And all this administration complains about is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

What a legacy that is. JNS.ORG

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Israel and the Obama administration have stepped up their war of words over the framework agreement that aims to limit Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for a gradual rollback of sanctions.

President Barack Obama made his most detailed effort yet to persuade skeptics of the accord reached last week in Switzerland in a weekend inter-view with the New York Times, assert-ing that the deal is the “best bet” to prevent Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and promising to “stand by” Israel in the event of Iranian aggression.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his skepticism about the deal undiminished, made the rounds of American talk shows on Sunday morning to denounce a deal that he said gives Iran a “free path” to the bomb. And on Monday, Israel’s minis-ter of strategic affairs, Yuval Steinitz, in an effort to rebut claims that Israel had offered no alternative to a military cam-paign against Iran, presented reporters in Jerusalem with a list of modifications he said would make the agreement “more reasonable.”

Steinitz’s requirements included the closing of the underground nuclear facility at Fordo, a commitment to ship uranium stockpiles out of the country, and an inspections regime that would allow international monitors the ability to go “anywhere, anytime” in Iran.

Under the terms of the framework accord reached April 2 in Lausanne, the Fordo facility would be reconfig-ured and would not enrich uranium, but it would not be shuttered entirely. Iran also would be permitted to con-tinue to enrich uranium using its first-generation IR-1 centrifuges at its facility in Natanz. The accord requires Iran to grant the International Atomic Energy

Agency access to investigate allega-tions of covert activity “anywhere in the country.”

In his interview with Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Obama said that the deal is a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportu-nity to open a new chapter with Iran while preserving all American options and capabilities in the event that Iran fails to uphold its end of the bargain.

“Iran may change,” Obama said. “If it doesn’t, our deterrence capabilities, our military superiority stays in place.”

He added, “We’re not relinquishing our capacity to defend ourselves or our allies. In that situation, why wouldn’t we test it?”

Obama acknowledged that Israel is far more vulnerable to Tehran, and he sought to offer assurances that the United States would maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge and come to its aid in the event of attack. The United States, Obama said, “is sending a very clear message to the Iranians and to the entire region that if anybody messes with Israel, America will be there.”

Yet on Monday, Obama indicated that there were limits to how far he would go with respect to Israel, rejecting a demand Netanyahu issued last Friday that a final deal require Iran to recog-nize Israel’s right to exist, calling the notion a “fundamental misjudgment.”

“The notion that we would condi-tion Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won’t sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely trans-forms,” Obama said in an interview with NPR. “And that is, I think, a funda-mental misjudgment. I want to return to this point: We want Iran not to have nuclear weapons precisely because we can’t bank on the nature of the regime changing.”

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Pesach: Sent on a mission

We got out of Egypt … and now what?

Everybody thinks that God took us out of Egypt

to give us the Torah at Mount Sinai. I don’t agree completely. Before you ask: “Rabbi, what’s wrong with you?” let me make it worse and ask you: Who really took the Jews out of Egypt? And yes, I had only four cups of wine, not four bottles!

Let’s review the text. When the Jews left Egypt, the Torah says: “Vayehi b’shalach Paro” (Exodus 13:17). Most translations don’t translate the true meaning of b’shalach — “sent” — but offer an interpretation, saying that Pharoah “let go.” Well, the root sh-l-ch means to send somebody with the purpose of fulfilling a mission.

We see this throughout the Torah. Jacob sends messengers to his brother Esau. The

name of that section, Parashat Vayishlach, translates “vayishlach” as sending. The mes-sengers have a mission: to appease Esau.

Later on Moses sends spies to tour the land and their mission was to come back with a report before the conquest. The name of the parasha? Shelach Lecha. “God said to Moses: Send men to scout the land.” (Numbers 13:2).

Even birds were sent: Noah “sent” —vay’shalach — the raven and the dove to learn if the flood waters had receded (Gen-esis 8:7-8).

So it is clear that Pharaoh didn’t “let go.” He “sent” the people.

So what was the mission on which they were sent?

The answer is in the Torah, of course. Exodus 12:31-32 quotes Pharaoh: “Up, depart from among my people…. Go,

worship the Lord as you said…. And may you bring a blessing upon me also.”

We came out of Egypt to fulfill the mission bestowed upon us at the very begin-ning of our existence as a nation: to become a bless-ing for the world.

This is the second time we are reminded why God chose Abraham to create the Jewish people, and why God took us out of Egypt to give us the Torah, creating then the Jewish nation.

In Genesis 12:2-3 God says to Abraham: “I will bless you, I will make your name great and you shall be a blessing…. and all the families of the earth shall bless

themselves by you.”We got out of Egypt, and

now what? We count the days till we’ll receive the Torah to study it and to live according to its instructions. By doing that, we will develop the per-sonality that will help us to become God’s partners, rec-reating His creation for the better.

We came out of Egypt and now, with deeds of loving-kindness, let us continue to labor for Tikun Olam. It is more than a mission. It is our

obligation to our children and the gener-ations to come.

May Hashem give us the strength and the courage to accomplish it.

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Congress. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the chair-man of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has proposed a bill that would grant Congress the right to review the deal. The committee is due to vote on the bill April 14. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is expected to become Senate minority leader when Harry Reid (D-Nev.) retires at the end of the year, said this week that he would support Corker’s legislation.

“I strongly believe Congress should have the right to disapprove any agreement, and I support the Corker bill, which would allow that to occur,” Schumer told Politico on Monday.

American Jewish groups are also skeptical of the accord. The Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs issued statements following the conclusion of the agreement last week expressing hope for a peace-ful diplomatic resolution to the standoff. But the groups also expressed doubt that Iran could be trusted to faithfully execute its end of the bargain.

“Given the nature of the Iranian regime, its pattern of seeking to deceive the international community on its nuclear program, its support for global terror and its regional hegemonic ambitions, its repeated calls for a world without Israel, and its clandestine weap-ons efforts, AJC is deeply concerned about whether Iran will abide by any undertaking it makes, and if any inspections regime will be sufficient to monitor Iran’s full compliance,” the American Jewish Committee said.

In an appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Netanyahu compared the agreement to the 1994 deal between the United States and North Korea. That deal, too, Netanyahu said, was “deemed to be a great

breakthrough,” but it did not prevent the country from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Iran, the prime minis-ter said, “is a great deal more dangerous than North Korea.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday morning that the agreement does not threaten Israel’s survival and that Netanyahu should “contain himself because he has put out no real alternative. In his speech to the Congress — no real alternative. Since then — no real alternative.”

Steinitz pushed back against that criticism on Mon-day, saying the notion that war is the alternative to the Obama deal “is wrong.”

“The alternative is not necessarily to declare war on Iran,” he said. “It is to increase pressure on Iran and stand firm and make Iran make serious concessions and have a much better deal.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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support the Corker bill, which would

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Portraits highlight stories of Holocaust few in IrelandJEFFREY F. BARKEN

When Irish art-ist Diana Muller first presented her works in

progress — paintings of some of her country’s few remain-ing Holocaust survivors — to the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin City, museum vice chair Yvonne Altman O’Connor sensed a teach-able moment in the making.

“We consider it very impor-tant to teach about the Holo-caust, especially as Irish people were somewhat removed from the experience,” O’Connor said. In fact, some people “refer to World War II as ‘the emergency,’” which is, needless to say, an obvi-ous understatement, she added.

Muller suggested that the museum host a temporary exhibit. Three years after she began the project, which has come to include portraits of Irish Holocaust survivors Jan Kaminski, Suzie Diamond, Tomi Reichental, and Zoltan Zinn-Col-lis, her artwork will be unveiled to the public on April 12 at the Irish Jewish Museum as part of a Yom Hashoah program.

Throughout the process of her journey across Ireland to paint the portraits, Muller kept a blog that detailed historical anecdotes and introspective reflections on her interactions. She admits that her knowledge of Irish Holocaust history was very limited before she started the project.

“I had read the autobiogra-phy of Zoltan Zinn-Collis years before, and so I knew about the ‘Belsen Children’ who had come to Ireland with Dr. Collis,” she said. “But I didn’t realize that Ireland had a policy against accepting Jewish refugees and that Dr. Collis had essentially smuggled those children into the country.”

Dr. Collis was an Irish pediatri-cian who volunteered with the British Red Cross at the end of the war, assisting with the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Only recently, in 2012, did Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter acknowledge that

the “doors to state [in Ireland] were kept firmly closed to Jews fleeing Hitler.” Shatter has called Irish neutrality during the war and the administration of then-prime minister Eamon de Val-era “morally bankrupt.” He has described de Valera’s peculiar 1945 visit with a German ambas-sador, during which de Valera expressed his condolences on Hitler’s death, as evidence that anti-Semitism taints that chapter of Irish history.

Muller credits Lynne Jackson, one of the trustees at Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, for mak-ing the introductions that led to her portrait series becoming a reality.

“I honestly felt a lot of trepi-dation when I started,” Muller said. “It was only after contacting HETI that I realized just how few

survivors actually live in this coun-try. Six at the time, three now.”

When one of Muller’s sub-jects, Zinn-Collis, died, the artist felt a renewed sense of urgency. She began to see her portraits of the elderly survivors as endur-ing symbols of their triumph. Muller believes the images she has crafted grant an element of immortality to her subjects. As she wrote on her blog in the wake of Zinn-Collis’s death, the portraits are “a slap in the face to the genocide that tried to take them.

“There’s an old adage that we all have ‘the face we deserve’ by the time we’re 50,” she said, describing how she transferred perceptions to the canvas.

“The idea that our experiences mark us in some visible way is true,” the artist adds. Zinn-Collis,

for example, had a physical dis-ability from his experiences in Bergen-Belsen as a child, suf-fered from tuberculosis, and had a spinal curvature — yet Muller says she “chose not to empha-size this in the painting because I didn’t think it defined him, at all.

“He had an amazing sense of humor,” she said. “He also vol-unteered for the Samaritans for years and had so much sympa-thy for suffering people.”

A colorist at heart, Muller was conscious of the elements.

“Interestingly, they all went for navy, light blue, and gray in their clothing choices,” she said. “I used quite a cool pal-ette and brought greens and yel-lows through. They all had nice gardens and a love of nature. I included some earth tones also.”

Mostly, Muller was touched by the conversations her vis-its evoked. From survivor Jan Kaminski, she learned about his experiences as a Polish teen-ager attending Trinity College in Dublin.

“He’s had an amazing career,” she said. He “was a restau-rant owner, and he used to run Ireland’s first-ever nightclub. He also started the Irish Pol-ish Society and met with Pope John Paul II during his 1979 visit. He struck me as a really gentle guy, but with huge amount of willpower.”

Survivor Suzie Diamond “is a very intelligent, open person,” she continued, recalling the time she and Diamond spent together.

“She is the last of the ‘Belsen Children’ who came over with Dr. Collis still living in Ireland. …We talked about her early memories of [Zinn-Collis] and the camp and the journey to Ireland. She was the youngest of the [adopted] children and said that people assumed she was too young to remember, but she remembers very well,” Muller said.

L ast ly, Tomi Reichental impressed Muller with his warmth and spirit. “He and his partner met me at their front door with tea and cake,” she says. Reichental “told me about

his uncle, who was an amazing impressionist painter. He showed me some pictures of his family, 35 of whom died in the Holocaust.”

“I never told anybody what I went through,” Reichental said, explaining how he kept silent about his experiences at Bergen-Belsen for more than 60 years — not even telling his wife. When he was asked to speak in front of his grandson’s middle school class in 2004, however, suddenly the vault opened.

“I realized I was one of the last witnesses for this horrific thing that happened,” he recounts in a short film made in honor of his recent efforts to educate chil-dren about the Holocaust. He since has made two documenta-ries and has traveled back to Ger-many to meet a former SS guard, an encounter chronicled in the film “Close to Evil.”

Reichental also has performed reconciliation work with the chil-dren and grandchildren of Nazi war criminals and was honored by the German government with the Order of Merit.

As it hosts Muller’s exhibit, the Irish Jewish Museum has stum-bled upon difficult times.

“The current state of the museum is in danger,” O’Connor said, noting that the building is no longer fit for its purpose and that plans to build an extension are in jeopardy due to lack of financial support. “The community is too small, and fundraising is difficult for the skeleton all-volunteer staff who have poured so much energy into keeping the museum alive for the past 30 years.”

Yet the exhibition of Muller’s portraits will go on as planned. Following a private reception, the pictures will be on display to the general public for one month. O’Connor hopes that the gallery will inspire renewed interest in the museum’s resources. At the very least, the portraits will make the Irish Holocaust survivors’ legacies particularly tangible for current and future generations.

“To be cheeky, we’re the ones that got away,” Reichental said. “We survived.” JNS.ORG

Diana Muller’s portrait of Irish Holocaust survivor Jan Kaminski. DIANA MULLER

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Saturday APRIL 11

Moshiach meal in Tenafly: Lubavitch on the Palisades hosts its moshiach meal — the last meal of the last day of Passover — at the Chabad House, 6:30 p.m. 11 Harold St. (201) 871-1152 or www.chabadlubavitch.org.

Film in Leonia: “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” an biographical documentary that premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, is screened at Congregation Adas Emuno, 7:30 p.m. Discussion led by Dr. Lance Strate, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University and a Jewish Standard columnist, follows. Refreshments. 254 Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712 or www.adasemuno.org.

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Music in Teaneck: Abe Barzelay on harmonica, and friends present an evening of Villa-Lobos, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Schumann, as well as popular and traditional

Jewish music, at the Puffin Cultural Center, 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:30. 20 Puffin Way. (201) 836-3499 or tix@ puffinfoundation.org.

Sunday APRIL 12

Author in Teaneck: Susan Dworkin discusses her book, “The Nazi Officer’s Wife: The Amazing Story of Edith Hahn,” at Temple Emeth’s B’yachad group bagel breakfast, 10:30 a.m. 1666 Windsor Road. Breakfast reservations, (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

A great heretic: Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly begins a three-session course, “The Great Heretic: The Life, Times and Thought of Baruch Spinoza,” led by Rabbi Lawrence Troster, noon. 1 Engle St. Registration, (201) 568-3075 or [email protected].

Family show in Wayne: Bugs and Balloons, a children’s theater duo, presents “The Lizard of Oz,” an interactive show, in the Shea Center for Performing Arts at William Paterson University, 1 p.m. Part of the “WP Presents!” series. Pre-show creative activities at 12:15. (973) 720-2371 or wp-presents.org.

Yom Hashoah in Jersey City: Congregation B’nai Jacob, Temple Beth-El, and the United Synagogue of Hoboken commemorate Yom Hashoah at B’nai Jacob, 3 p.m. Guest speaker is survivor Ann Monka, who fled her childhood home when the Nazis came and lived with the Bielski brothers and was featured in

the award-winning film “Defiance.” Also prayers and comments, musical selections, candle lighting, and community reception. 176 West Side Ave. (201) 435-7525 or www.BnaiJacobjc.org.

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Author in Teaneck: Brian Morton, a Teaneck High School graduate who is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, discusses his book “Florence Gordon” at the Teaneck General Store, 4 p.m. His novel “Starting Out in the Evening” was made into a film. 502a Cedar Lane. (201) 530-5046.

Children’s program in West Nyack: The Rockland Jewish Academy offers Sifriyat Pijama B’America, Hebrew story time with activities and the “Pizza Palooza,”

5-6:30 p.m. 450 West Nyack Road. Judy Klein, (845) 627-0010, ext. 104, www.rocklandjewishacademy.org, or [email protected].

Israeli correspondent in Paramus: Herb Keinon, author and Jerusalem Post correspondent, discusses “Israel’s 2015 elections: The country spoke, but what in the world did it say, and what in the world does it mean?” at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, 7 p.m. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org.

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Interfaith Yom Hashoah commemoration: Dr. Mehnaz A. Afridi a Muslim who is the director of Manhattan College’s Holocaust,

Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center, headlines Ridgewood’s interfaith Holocaust memorial service, hosted this year by Westside Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m. Temple Israel’s Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine, Cantor Caitlin Bromberg, and other members of Ridgewood’s Interfaith Clergy Council will join Westside’s Rev. Marc A. Oehler. Varian Fry Way, 6 South Monroe St. (201) 444-9320.

Yom Hashoah commemorated: The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel and its Men’s Progress Club offers a candle-lighting ceremony and will honor survivors and World War II liberators/veterans, 7:30 p.m. 10-10 Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040.

Monday APRIL 13

Dining out in Montvale: Temple Beth Or of Washington Township offers a restaurant fundraiser at Momma’s Kitchen in Montvale. Show the flier at the restaurant and it will donate 20 percent of your bill to benefit the shul’s early childhood programming. Dinner, 5 to 9 p.m., or have lunch/take-out. Print flier at www.templebethornj.org. 15 W. Grand Ave. (201) 746-9777

Book discussion: The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel holds its “Book and Lunch” program as Rabbi David Fine discusses Robert Harris’ “Officer and the Spy,” noon. Lunch served. 10-10 Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040.

Two-part Yom Hashoah commemoration in Paramus: The JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah screens “Defiance,” starring Daniel Craig, 7 p.m. The films tells the story of the Bielski brothers, partisans in Belarus during World War II, who were responsible

for saving more than 1,200 Jews. On Thursday, April 16, meet Robert Bielsky, the last surviving brother, who will speak at the shul’s Yom Hashoah commemoration at 8. East 304 Midland Ave. (201) 262-7691.

Feature film: The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly screens “Inside Job,” 7:30 p.m., as part of a series,” Top Films You May Have Missed (or Want to See Again).” Harold Chapler introduces the film and leads the discussion afterward. 411 E. Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1493.

Tuesday APRIL 14

Holocaust survivor group in Fair Lawn: Cafe Europa, a social program the Jewish Family Service of North Jersey sponsors for Holocaust survivors, funded in part by the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and private donations, meets at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai Israel, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Gale S. Bindelglass, Cantor Ilan Mamber and Jane Koch of the Rishon Trio will perform. Light lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave. Transportation available. (973) 595-0111 or www.jfsnorthjersey.org.

Norman Rockwell’s art: Art lecturer Judy Ebright discusses the art of Norman Rockwell for the senior daytime series at Temple Beth Tikvah, 1 p.m. Coffee, tea, snacks. 950 Preakness Ave. (973) 595-6565 or www.templebethtikvahnj.org.

Bereavement program in Teaneck: Holy Name Medical Center Hospice and Palliative Services offers “Sharing the Journey,” an eight-session bereavement program to provide support and guidance through the grieving process. Open to anyone who has experienced loss in the past year. Meetings at HNMC on Tuesdays at 6 p.m., and Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Group also meets at Villa Marie Claire, 12 West Saddle River Road, on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. Registration, Lenore Guido, (201) 833-3000, ext. 7580.

THIRTEEN’s “American Masters” series presents the national broadcast premiere of “Jascha

Heifetz: God’s Fiddler” on April 16 at 8 p.m. on PBS. Emmy-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen’s profile of the violin virtuoso features Heifetz’ previously unseen home movies, and interviews with Itzhak Perlman, Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, and Ayke Agus. Check local listings.

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Yom Hashoah in Teaneck: Torah Academy of Bergen County’s holds its annual Yom Hashoah program, this year focusing on hidden children. Twins Dr. Bernard and Henry Schanzer, one-time hidden children, are guest speakers. Program at 10:15 a.m. 1600 Queen Anne Road. (201) 837-7696.

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Community Yom Hashoah in Wyckoff: At the 72nd annual Holocaust commemoration hosted by the Jewish Federation of North Jersey, this year at Temple Beth Rishon, Dr. Rachel Yehuda, director of Traumatic Stress Studies Division at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, will discuss “How the Trauma of the Holocaust is Genetically Transmitted from Survivors to Subsequent Generations.” Program includes candle lighting, Yiddish speaker, survivor stories, and memorial prayers. 585 Russell Ave. Photo exhibit at 6 p.m.; program at 6:30. Free busing available from Fair Lawn at Temple Beth Sholom, 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave., at 5:30. 585 Russell Ave., Wyckoff. Dr. Wallace Greene, (201) 873-3263.

Yom Hashoah commemoration in Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers a Yom Hashoah commemoration with Theresienstadt survivor Ela Weissberger, 7 p.m. In 1942, Ms. Weissberger played the the cat in the children’s opera “Brundibar” there, in a show the Nazis staged to deceive International Red Cross inspectors. 411 E. Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1418.

Parenting workshop in Westwood: Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson’s rabbi, Debra Orenstein, leads a participatory book group discussion on Wendy Mogul’s “The Blessing of a Skinned Knee” at the Westwood Library,

7 p.m. 49 Park Ave. (201) 265-2272 or www.bisrael.com.

Yom Hashoah in Paramus: The JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah offers a Yom Hashoah service with a talk by Robert Bielsky, son of the legendary partisan commander, on the group that saved more than 1,200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust, 8:30 p.m. Also, memorial service, readings, and music by the Paramus-Tikvah singers. (201) 262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org.

Yom Hashoah in Woodcliff Lake: The Pascack Valley/Northern Valley chapter of Hadassah and the sisterhood of Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley hold a Yom Hashoah commemoration at the shul, 7:30 p.m. Community member and Holocaust survivor Berta Fromme will tell her story of survival. 87 Overlook Drive. (201) 391-0801.

Friday APRIL 17

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Shabbat in Parsippany: Award-winning journalist Allan Chernoff, former senior correspondent for CNN and CNBC, presents the annual Joseph Gotthelf Holocaust memorial lecture at Temple Beth Am, 7:30 p.m. He will discuss the experiences of the child survivors of Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland, including his mother, Rena Margulies Chernoff, one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, as told in his new book, “The Tailors of Tomaszow.” 879 Beverwyck Road. (973) 887-0046.

Shabbat in Washington Township: Temple Beth Or offers an interactive tot family service, 6 p.m. Oneg and craft activity follow. Meet Rabbi Noah Fabricant and Cantor Sarah Silverberg. 56 Ridgewood Road. (201) 664-7422 or templebethornj.org.

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Shabbat in Wayne: Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff, past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Association of Reform Zionists of America, author, and rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu-El of Westfield, gives the fourth annual Rabbi Israel S. Dresner Tikkun Olam lecture at Temple Beth Tikvah. He will discuss “Can One Jew Really Make a Difference?: From Nachshon to Dresner to…,” 8 p.m. Rabbi emeritus Israel Dresner’s 86th birthday will be celebrated at the Oneg Shabbat. 950 Preakness Ave. (973) 694-1616.

Shabbat in Teaneck: Temple Emeth offers a musical Shabbat service with the Temple Emeth band, 8 p.m. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake: Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley celebrates the Latin American Jewish community with “Shabbat La Vida Loca,” 8 p.m. Cantor Mark Biddelman and guest cantor Ilan Mamber of Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff will be joined by a band. 87 Overlook Drive. (201) 391-0801 or www.tepv.org.

Saturday APRIL 18

Casino night in Teaneck: Temple Emeth’s Spring Casino Night includes a Texas hold ‘em poker tournament, designer Bling Bingo, blackjack, craps, poker, roulette, and a big six wheel, 7:30 p.m. Ticket includes $50 in chips, full bar, buffet dinner, and dessert. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.

Sock hop in Wayne: The Wayne YMCA hosts a 50s-style sock hop with music by the Golden Gup, 7:30 p.m. Food, contests, and prizes. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-0100.

Film in Teaneck: Congregation Rinat Yisrael’s adult education committee presents the prize-winning documentary “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh,” 9:30 p.m. 389 W. Englewood Ave. (201) 837-2795.

Sunday APRIL 19

Toddler program in Tenafly: As part of the shul’s Holiday Happenings program, Temple Sinai of Bergen County offers music, stories, crafts, and snacks for pre-k students and their parents, 9:30 a.m. 1 Engle St. (201) 568-3035.

Aphasia center fundraiser in Leonia: The social action committee of Congregation Adas Emuno sponsors a fundraiser for Maywood’s Adler Aphasia Center at the shul, 10 a.m. Light breakfast, short informative session, and a sale of handmade jewelry and other gift items made by Aphasia center participants. 254 Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712 or www.adasemuno.org.

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

Yom Hashoah in Hackensack: Temple Beth El’s Yom Hashoah commemoration includes a film about Varian Fry, the American journalist, originally from Ridgewood, who ran a rescue network in France, helping anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees escape, 2 p.m. Memorial service follows. 280 Summit Ave. (201) 342-2045.

Family games in Teaneck: The Teaneck General Store offers family game day, led by game maven Leora Verbit, 4-6 p.m. 10 percent discount on games with reservation/coupon. 502a Cedar Lane. (201) 530-5046 or www.teaneckgeneralstore.com.

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Yom Hashoah in Teaneck: Congregation Rinat Yisrael presents a lecture by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, professor of Jewish history and Jewish thought and senior scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University, 8 p.m. He will discuss “The American Chaplain and the Survivors” in honor of the second yahrzeit of his father, Rabbi Herschel Schacter z”l, and in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald. 389 W. Englewood Ave. (201) 837-2795.

In New YorkWednesday APRIL 15

Yom Hashoah on the Upper West Side: Members of many shuls on Manhattan’s Upper West Side will come to Congregation B’nai Jeshurun for an all-night reading of the names of some of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. Shuls from across the Jewish spectrum, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist, and unaffiliated, join for the reading, which begins at 10 p.m. and ends at 7:30 at B’nai Jeshurun, resumes at 7 at the JCC, and continues until 9 p.m. B’nai Jeshurun is at 270 West 89th Street, between Broadway and West End; the JCC is at 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St.

Thursday APRIL 16

Yom Hashoah in New York: The Touro College and University system hosts “Commemorating Yom Hashoah: A 70-Year Perspective,” 5 p.m. Talks by survivors including Dr. Mark Hasten, chair of the Touro College board of trustees; kindertransport survivor Ruth Zimbler; Baruch Gross, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Orly Gross, who accompanied her grandfather on a trip to Auschwitz earlier this

year. Dr. Alan Kadish, president and CEO of Touro College, will also speak. Refreshments. At LCW, 227 West 60th St. Reservations, [email protected].

Saturday APRIL 18

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Israeli music: The Cleveland Orchestra’s principal flutist, Joshua Smith, joins the Israeli Chamber Project at Merkin Concert Hall, 8:30 p.m. Program features works of Ravel, Debussy, Schumann, Carter, and Zohar Sharon. 129 W. 67th St. (212) 501-3330, [email protected], or at www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org.

SinglesSunday APRIL 12

Senior singles meet in West Nyack: Singles 65+ meets for a social bagels and lox brunch at the JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. 450 West Nyack Road. $8. Gene Arkin, (845) 356-5525.

Monday APRIL 13

Support group in Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers a four-session bereavement group with therapist Judy Brauner: “Widows and Widowers: You Are Not Alone” at 6:15 p.m. 411 E. Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1456.

Sunday APRIL 19

Author at brunch in Clifton: North Jersey Jewish Singles 45-60s at the Clifton Jewish Center offers a brunch and presentation by Boris Fishman, who will discuss and sign copies of his book, “A Replacement Life,” noon. 18 Delaware St. Karen, (973) 772-3131 or join North Jersey Jewish Singles 45-60s, at www.meetup.com.

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Jewish Standard film critic leads seriesThe Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly has begun a daytime film appreciation course, the “JCC U Film School,” a series with Dr. Eric Goldman, who is the Jewish Standard’s film reviewer and an adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University. Dr. Goldman will screen foreign films in English and then lead a discussion on their themes.

Dr. Goldman’s most recent book, “The American Jewish Story Through Cinema,” was published last year. He is founder and president of Ergo Media, a video pub-lishing company. He also recently joined Robert Osborne as a co-host on the TCM-Turner Classic Movies cable network.

The course continues on April 23 with

“Zaytoun,” on May 7 with “Eagle vs. Shark,” and on May 21 with “Holy Smoke.”

For information, call Judy Lattif at (201) 408-1457 or email her at [email protected].

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Documentary highlights woman rabbiThe Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition and Ramapo College of New Jersey’s Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies will screen a recently released documentary, “Regina: A Tale of Love and Defiance,” at the Bergen County YJCC on Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. Academy Award-winning British actress Rachel Weisz is the voice of Regina in the film about Regina Jonas (1902-1944), who made history by becoming the first prop-erly ordained woman rabbi in the world. Sally J. Priesand, the first U.S.-ordained woman rabbi, will introduce and lead a discussion of the film, drawing on her participation in a study mission to Ber-lin and Terezin, which followed in the footsteps and honored the memory of Regina Jonas.

The Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition,

a sponsor of the free event, is a newly formed alliance committed to strength-ening and enhancing Jewish life in the region. Participants include Temple Beth Or of Washington Township, Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Wood-cliff Lake, Congregation B’nai Israel of Emerson, Temple Beth Sholom of Pas-cack Valley in Park Ridge, and the Ber-gen County YJCC of Washington Town-ship. The program’s other sponsor, the Gross Center for Holocaust and Geno-cide Studies, is under the auspices of Ramapo College of New Jersey.

The YJCC is at 605 Pascack Road in Washington Township. To reserve a seat, go to http://bit.ly/reginatherabbi. For information, call (201) 666-6610, ext. 5782.

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Holocaust photo exhibit in Fair LawnThe Maurice M. Pine Free Public Library of Fair Lawn will mark the 70th anniver-sary of the liberation of the Nazi con-centration camps with a photo exhibit curated by Dr. Wallace Greene. The exhibit will be on display through April 16. It is on the third floor in the reference

room, which is elevator accessible.Dr. Greene taught Jewish history for

many years and serves on the Holocaust Memorial committee of the Jewish Fed-eration of Northern New Jersey. The library is at 10-01 Fair Lawn Ave.

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The itinerary includes stops at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water, the Duquesne Incline, and Phipps Conservatory &

Botanical Garden. A cruise, two dinners and breakfasts, and lodging at the Comfort Inn & Suites is included. A $25 deposit is required by April 18. Call Leona Sesholtz at (201) 391-9354 or Shelley Schneider at (201) 692-0167.

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n 1 Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley held Passover workshops led by faculty members and congregant Sam Rak under the direc-tion of Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, director of congregational education, and Marjorie Shore, religious school administrator. Here, Amanda Ellis makes an afikoman bag. COURTESY TEPV

n 2 On Friday morning, April 3, the Jewish Center of Teaneck held the an-nual Joy and Al Amsel Me-morial Community Passover Biur Chametz — the bread burning. MICHAEL LAVES

n 3 Barry Wien is shown here with country singer Caroline Doctorow at the Songs of Freedom Passover concert at Adas Israel Synagogue in Sag Harbor, N.Y., the oldest synagogue in Suffolk County. Wien, a director at Eden Me-morial Chapels Inc. in Fort Lee, sits on the board of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh and the advisory board of the New York Board of Rabbis. He also is a member of the Jewish Funeral Directors of America and Kavod Indepen-dent Jewish Funeral Directors.

n 4 Ben Porat Yosef early childhood students attended a Living Legacy Matzah Factory led by Rabbi Michoel Goldin.

n 5 Students in the Shir-ley and Paul Pintel Nursery School at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congrega-tion B’nai Israel made hats representing the plague of frogs. COURTESY FLJC/CBI

n 6 Andrew, Sari, Ella, and Liz Sagat were among the families participating in the Bergen County YJCC’s David Rukin Early Child-hood Center Nursery School model seder. COURTESY YJCC

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Meet Omer Mei-DanIsraeli BASE jumper, stuntman — and orthopedic surgeon

URIEL HEILMAN

BOULDER, COLORADO — Dr. Omer Mei-Dan has jumped off more cliffs than he can count — not to mention helicopters, sky-scrapers and bridges.

Just don’t call him a skydiver.An orthopedic surgeon and extreme

sports athlete, Mei-Dan, 42, is a BASE jumper — one of an estimated 1,500 to 3,000 worldwide who jump from the fixed platforms for which the sport is named: buildings, antennas, spans and earth. Sky-diving is a cakewalk by comparison.

Because BASE jumpers leap from much lower altitudes, they often have mere mil-liseconds to deploy their parachutes. And for leaps that involve hazards below, like craggy mountainsides or steel structures, the risks are exponentially greater. To guide and control their falls, jumpers often don wingsuits, which make them look like bats or flying squirrels.

Perhaps not surprisingly, BASE jumpers die with alarming regularity. Even a tiny mistake or misfortune — a gust of wind, impeded visibility, an equipment mishap — can mean sudden and violent death.

But that’s all part of the thrill.“I like being afraid, I like the fear, I enjoy

it,” Mei-Dan said in an interview in Boul-der, where he lives with his wife and three children. “In BASE jumping, every small thing dictates life or death. It makes me feel vibrant. Extreme sports athletes have the ability to sustain, cope with and enjoy the amount of stress other people would define as bad experiences.”

Mei-Dan, who was born in Israel and moved to Boulder in 2012, stands out among BASE jumpers because he has found a way to combine his passion for extreme sports with his other area of expertise: medicine. A highly sought-after orthopedic surgeon with a robust medi-cal practice at the University of Colorado in Denver and Boulder, Mei-Dan studies extreme sports athletes, operates on them, and helps other physicians understand how to guide their rehabilitation.

While he was in medical school, Mei-Dan was a Red Bull-sponsored extreme sports athlete. He did stunts for corporate sponsors like McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. Last winter, the doctor starred in a 10-epi-sode show on Fox Sports called “Cutting Edge, MD” that focused on Mei-Dan’s treatment and rehabilitation regimens for injured professional athletes.

Mei-Dan’s own extreme athletic activi-ties are not limited to BASE jumping. He does backcountry skiing and ice climbing in the winter, whitewater kayaking in sum-mer, and rock climbing and mountaineer-ing all year long.

Raised on Kibbutz Ein Hamifratz north

of Haifa, Mei-Dan’s outdoorsy pursuits began on a surfboard in the Mediter-ranean at 10 and quickly escalated. His father was a pediatrician and Mei-Dan was always interested in medicine, but his drive to become a physician was strength-ened in the Israel Defense Forces, where he says he couldn’t abide standing on the sidelines while comrades were injured. A paratrooper, Mei-Dan also found he really liked jumping.

While studying medicine at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Mei-Dan spent about three months a year trav-eling abroad indulging his extreme hobbies. He picked up spon-sors like Red Bull and Nissan, did stunts for National Geographic and Discovery, and launched his own pro-duct ion company, ExtremeGate, to docu-ment his adventures. His mostly Israeli pro-duction team includes his wife, Hagit, whose sport of choice is open-water swimming. In Israel, Mei-Dan jumped off the Azrieli tow-ers in Tel Aviv, went cliff diving near the Dead Sea, and leaped from all manner of flying vehicles.

His medical interests developed in tandem. Mei-Dan studied orthopedics, became a sports surgeon, and developed a subspecialty in hip preservation. Hip inju-ries are common among extreme sports athletes.

Extreme sports athletes differ from other sportsmen in their physiology, endo-crinology, and even psyches, and need to be treated differently, Mei-Dan says. For example, a doctor who knows when to clear an injured soccer player to resume playing may not know enough to do so for rock climbers or BASE jumpers. The doc-tor might not realize, say, that a dislocated shoulder injury could lead to a BASE jump-er’s death if he loses the dexterity to pull his chute while in flight.

Mei-Dan outlined different approaches to treatment in a 2013 medical textbook, “Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries: Epidemiology, Treatment, Rehabilitation and Prevention,” and in June he organized an international conference on extreme sports medicine in Colorado.

Mei-Dan says his research suggests that extreme sports athletes are not subject to the post-traumatic stress that might affect others who witness gruesome fatalities or undergo frequent near-death experiences like those facing BASE jumpers. “These types of people are wired completely

differently,” he said. “BASE jumpers are immune to PTSD.”

Mei-Dan, who has the trim physique of a rock climber, hasn’t escaped without injury. A two-inch

scar on his clean-shaven scalp is the result of striking a cliff. He has cracked his pelvis, dislocated his ankle, torn his elbow, and cracked ribs. On average, Mei-Dan says he needs one or two reparative surgeries per year. He’s also seen many of his friends die right in front of him — something he shrugs off with the insouciance he says is neces-sary for extreme athletes. “Seeing fatali-ties, experiencing near-misses, injuring myself and having surgery — it’s all part of jumping,” he said.

In his younger, more careless days, Mei-Dan often would give his jumps a twist. When he jumped from the Eiffel Tower, Mei-Dan and his jumping partner, Jeb Corliss, compounded the danger by jumping through the center of the monu-ment rather than off it, falling through the hollow centers of the viewing platforms before deploying their chutes some 200 feet above the ground.

Mei-Dan easily could have been killed: missing the hole and smashing into a plat-form, deploying his chute too early and getting it snagged on the steel latticework, or deploying it too late and crashing into the ground at breakneck speed.

“The margin of error was about one-tenth of a second,” Mei-Dan recalled, not-ing that a jumper who tried soon after-ward to replicate the stunt died.

One thing Mei-Dan does not do before he jumps is appeal for divine help. “No prayers will come out of this mouth,” he said with a chuckle. “I’m more atheist than

anything else.”Mei-Dan came to Boulder three years

ago, lured by a great job, proximity to the mountains, and a culture that reveres the outdoors. When fresh snow fell in Colo-rado in late February after a long dry spell, Mei-Dan woke early that Monday morning to ski the backcountry some two hours from his home before zipping back to the city to see patients in the afternoon.

“I love the life here. I feel it’s exactly what I want and what I need,” he said. “I can walk five minutes to the flatirons” — the 1,500-foot rock formations just outside Boulder — “and climb them with my chil-dren. It’s a lifestyle.”

The Mei-Dans are involved in the local Jewish community. His kids go to the JCC Ranch Camp in Colorado, his wife is involved in the Jewish federation, and the family is connected to other local Israeli expats.

Though he has lived on five continents in 10 years, Mei-Dan said he didn’t imag-ine a future outside of Israel until about three years ago, when he got a job in Colo-rado and realized that in Boulder he could both maintain his extracurricular pursuits and do the kind of clinical work he finds interesting.

“Instead of looking into these activities that I like to do so much as just hobbies and just do them once in a while, I can actually live this life and enjoy them in a place that also offers me the university and the clinical practice,” he said.

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Stanley AtkinsStanley J. Atkins, 93, of Fort Lee died on April 6.

Born in Union City, he graduated from New York University and John Marshall Law School and was an attorney in Hud-son and Bergen counties for more than 62 years. During World War II, he was recipient of the Bronze Star and attained the rank of master ser-geant. He was a member of the VFW of Bergen County and the Fort Lee Jewish War Veterans, and was president of Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview.

Predeceased by his wife, Frances, née Feinman, in 1995, he is survived by his daugh-ters, Sonya of Teaneck, and Rae of Fort Lee; two grandchildren, and a nephew.

Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.

Vladimir BrukVladimir Bruk, 90, of Clifton died on April 1. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Sidney FinebergSidney Fineberg, 93, of San Francisco, formerly of New York City and Maplewood, died on April 4.

Born in Jersey City, he was a U.S. Army World War II veteran. Before retiring, he was a stock-broker at Spingarn Heine in Jersey City.

Predeceased by his wife, Ann, in 1984, he is survived by his children, Carol Nathan of San Francisco, Steven of West Long Branch, and Jane of Brooklyn; sisters, Eleanor Pashelinsky of Verona and Judy Hertzberg of New Orleans, and five grandchildren.

Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.

Evelyn HarrisEvelyn Sirotin Harris, 95, of Hackensack died on April 3.

She was a 1941 gradu-ate of New York Univer-sity and was an active civic leader.

She is survived by her husband, Richard, children, Peggy Plotnick, Liz Schaeffer (Peter), and Lynn; three grand-children, and three great-grandchildren.

Contributions can be sent to the NYU Scholar-ship Fund. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

Sima KhasdanSima Khasdan, 88, of Fair Lawn died on April 3.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Nana RoweNana Rowe, née Gorschen, formerly of River Edge, died on April 6.

She was a member of Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge.

Predeceased by her husband, Hartley, she is survived by her children, Sally Rowe (Anthony Biancoviso) of Barryville, N.Y., and Elizabeth Lawton (Leonard) of Paramus; three grand-children, and three great-grandchildren.

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Yeshiva University partners with eWorks for responsible electronic waste recyclingIn line with its goals of environmental and financial sustainability, Yeshiva Uni-versity recently partnered with eWorks Electronic Services, a program estab-lished by the HASC Center and AHRC, that provides recycling, refurbishment and resale services of office technologies and consumer electronics by employing individuals with physical or develop-mental disabilities.

“This program is a financially viable and sustainable partnership for dispos-ing of our electronic waste which is also beneficial to the Jewish and disabled community,” said Andrea Moore, sus-tainability manager at YU. “When we were considering our recycling options, eWorks added an element of social activ-ism that furthers Yeshiva’s goals of bet-tering the community while maintaining high standards of environmental and financial responsibility.”

eWorks technicians collect and disas-semble YU’s electronic waste, separating metals, plastics, rubber and glass. The recycled pieces are shipped out to be further processed at recycling plants. As a zero-landfill project, e-cycling respon-sibly recycles assets in compliance with local, state and federal regulations. “Metal and some of the other materials in these products have a high recyclable value,” said Moore. “For technology that can’t be fixed, they’re able to separate these components into pieces that can be used or recycled individually. Other technology they’re able to refurbish

completely for resale.”The partnership with eWorks is just

one of many initiatives organized by the Office of Energy and Sustainability to integrate sustainability throughout the academics, operations and administra-tion of YU. That includes tracking and working to decrease greenhouse emis-sions, creating programs that encour-age public or shared transportation to the YU campuses, as well as student-ori-ented programming like the Eco Repre-sentative Program, a paid environmental leadership initiative for YU undergradu-ates that focuses on raising awareness of environmental issues and impacting student behavior, and YU Unplugged, an annual dorm competition that seeks to reduce YU’s electricity usage and pro-mote awareness of energy conservation.

“The Torah Umadda philosophy of YU is a perfect complement to our mis-sion, because what we’re doing is taking the electronic sophistication of today’s age — the madda — and together we are observing the Torah commandment ofchesed[kindness],” said Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, clinical director of the HASC Center. “The electronic devices that are conveyed to our center are being used primarily to provide job opportu-nities for people who are intellectually challenged, which in turns gives them a sense of self-worth and a simchas hachayim [joy in life] which they may not otherwise achieve.”

Celebrate Israel Parade on May 31 features marchers, floats and fun runThe Jewish Community Relations Council of New York ( JCRC-NY) has announced that Manhattan’s Fifth Ave-nue will once again turn blue and white on Sunday, May 31, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., as more than 25 floats with musi-cal performers, 15 marching bands, and 40,000 marchers entertain hundreds of thousands of spectators for the larg-est celebration of Israel in the world, the annual Celebrate Israel Parade.

This year marks the 51st anniversary of what has become one of the largest parades in New York City. The parade is the marquee event of the JCRC-NY’s Cel-ebrate Israel Initiative — a project largely sponsored by UJA-Federation of New York and the consulate general of Israel in New York — that celebrates the posi-tive impact the Jewish and democratic state of Israel has on the lives of people in New York and around the world.

New this year, 400 people will be kick-ing off the parade with a one-mile fun run beginning at 11 a.m., following the route up Fifth Avenue. Registration is now open at celebrateisraelny.org.

More than 200 organizations are scheduled to march along Fifth Avenue, from 57th Street to 74th Street, including groups of rollerbladers, motorcyclists, dance groups, and juggling clowns.

The 2015 creative theme for marching groups and floats is “Israel Imagines!” Each group works with parade staff to develop a presentation of colorful ban-ners, costumes and props related to the theme in some way.

For the fifth year in a row, the Parade will be televised live by FOX affiliate, WWOR-TV My9 from 12–2 p.m., and streamed online from 12-3 p.m., so Israe-lis and Israel supporters throughout the world can watch.

Holy Name offers bereavement supportHoly Name Medical Center Hospice and Palliative Services offers a program to provide compassionate support and edu-cation to those who are bereaved. Since many people who have experienced the loss of a loved one find comfort in sharing their feelings with others, a bereavement group, “Sharing the Journey, “ was devel-oped as part of our bereavement program to provide support and guidance during the grieving process. The group is non-sectarian and will be facilitated by trained bereavement counselors.

“Sharing the Journey” will meet for eight weeks and is open to those who have expe-rienced loss in the past year. In order to accommodate the needs of our participants,

group meetings are being offered on Tues-days from 6– 7:30 p.m. at Holy Name Medi-cal Center beginning April 14 and Wednes-days from 10–11:30 a.m. at Holy Name Medical Center beginning April 15.

There will also be a group meeting Tues-days from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning April 15 at Villa Marie Claire, 12 West Saddle River Road, Saddle River. Villa Marie Claire is Holy Name’s residential hospice which provides comfort and care for people with advanced illness and for their families in a gracious and supportive setting.

The program is free, but pre-registration is mandatory. For information and regis-tration, please call Lenore Guido at (201) 833-3000, ext. 7580.

support for between 30 and 50 students. The foundation grant will supplement any other scholarships or grants students may receive. The first scholarships will be awarded to members of the incoming fall 2015 freshman class.

“This is truly a transformative grant for our students,” said Kathleen Waldron, president of William Paterson University. “We recognize that paying for college is a major burden for many of our students and their families, who rely on state and federal support, loans, savings, and full- or part-time jobs to pay for their education. This grant means that these students will

not need to take on debt to pay for their tuition. We are most grateful to the Taub Foundation and members of the Taub fam-ily for this very generous gift in support of our students and for demonstrating their confidence in the quality of a William Pat-erson University education.”

Speaking on behalf of the family foun-dation, Steven Taub said: “This grant builds on our family’s long tradition of supporting quality education. We are pleased to partner with William Pater-son University to make a college educa-tion possible for more students. We have named the program after my father, Henry Taub. He was the first in his family to attend college, as many of these stu-dents will also be.”

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Yeshiva University partners with eWorks for responsible electronic waste recycling

completely for resale.”The partnership with eWorks is just

one of many initiatives organized by the Office of Energy and Sustainability to integrate sustainability throughout the academics, operations and administra-tion of YU. That includes tracking and working to decrease greenhouse emis-sions, creating programs that encour-age public or shared transportation to the YU campuses, as well as student-ori-ented programming like the Eco Repre-sentative Program, a paid environmental leadership initiative for YU undergradu-ates that focuses on raising awareness of environmental issues and impacting student behavior, and YU Unplugged, an annual dorm competition that seeks to reduce YU’s electricity usage and pro-mote awareness of energy conservation.

“The Torah Umadda philosophy of YU is a perfect complement to our mis-sion, because what we’re doing is taking the electronic sophistication of today’s age — the madda — and together we are observing the Torah commandment ofchesed[kindness],” said Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak, clinical director of the HASC Center. “The electronic devices that are conveyed to our center are being used primarily to provide job opportu-nities for people who are intellectually challenged, which in turns gives them a sense of self-worth and a simchas hachayim [joy in life] which they may not otherwise achieve.”

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ORADELL

Beautifully appointed 5 BR/3.5 BTH Colonial.

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Newer custom home with great layout.

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