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● Move over SpongeBob, Winnie the Pooh, and any number of beloved children’s characters who have lent themselves to product licensing. Israeli supermarket chain Super-Sol last week stocked its shelves with a line of products featuring some of the best-loved characters from Israeli children’s books.

The line includes back-to-school backpacks and wall stickers, as well as the launch of baby care products: sham-poo and wet wipes in a package that is, in fact, labeled “The Wet Wipes Library.”

Israeli literati greeted this product with the calm equanimity for which Israelis are fa-mous.

Journalist Noa Os-terreicher posted on Facebook: “As of today, your children can wipe their butts with the finest of HaKibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House’s classics! Miriam Roth, Leah Goldberg and Tirza Atar are rolling in their graves.”

A harsh verdict? Not compared to that of Amir Ben-David, econom-ics editor for I24news, who posted: “Every time we get to the bottom and it seems we can go no lower, the sounds of digging are heard and to our horror it turns out that another cultural terror tunnel has been dug directly below us.”

Some of the strong words can be ex-plained because these characters have not been commercialized until now. The closest they came to exploitation — if you could call it that — has been Holon’s Story Garden, a lovely and award-winning project of sculptures of beloved children’s book characters, including some from “Tiras Ham” (Hot Corn) and “Maase b’Hamisha Balonim” (A Tale of Five Balloons), the lost dog from “Ayeh Pluto?” (Where is Pluto?) and many others.

Time Out reporter Guy Farchi was slightly more forgiving, pointing out that “You can’t expect much from a corporation like Super-Sol but before rushing to lash out at Hakib-butz Hameuchad, you must take into account the difficult situation of the book market in recent years. Al-though children’s literature is actually considered the more lucrative side of

the industry, didn’t all this start with contempt for authors and their work that forced publishers to market their books at the lowest prices, leaving no choice but to be drawn into this kind of cooperation? Either way, it is inter-esting that the publisher chose to sell the rights of authors no longer among the living. Leah Goldberg, Tirza Atar and Miriam Roth will not be able to rise up and object.”

Noa Epstein, deputy editor of Haaretz, came to the defense of com-mercialization.

“You all keep repeating ‘Wipe their bottoms’ like it’s such a bad thing compared to all the other things one does with children. Wet wipes, as any parent knows, aren’t just for wip-ing bottoms, they are a world unto themselves and make up 90% of most toddler activities. I would gladly give up Hello Kitty and the Princesses in favor of Pluto-branded toilet paper,” she wrote.

Super-Sol confirmed that the branding was done in cooperation with the publishing house while the publisher’s parent body, the United Kibbutz Movement, “declined to com-ment on the issue.”

In the end, the consumer will deter-mine whether or not these products stay on the shelves. Oddly enough, one of the pantheon of beloved char-acters was missing. Surely HaKina Nehama (Nehama the Louse) belongs on shampoo bottles!

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Tenafly’s high-octane Israel supporter● There’s no question where the Valero gas station in Tenafly stands on the Middle East.

“We support Israel’s quest for peace,” declares the sign standing in front. On the flagpole, an Israeli flag flies beneath the American flag.

“It helps get dialogue going,” says station owner Robert Obernauer about his proud and public support for Israel.

He said he was moved to take a stand after seeing people protesting in sup-port of Hamas around the world.

“I take it very personally,” he said.His grandfather, imprisoned in a con-

centration camp before World War II, was released and made his way to the United States in 1938, with his 6-year-old son, Mr. Obernauer’s father; they found a sponsor in this country at the last minute. “Americans in general don’t

realize the importance of Israel,” Mr. Obernauer said.

The sign has sparked many conversa-tions. “Lots of people don’t understand why Israel is there and what they’re fighting for,” Mr. Obernauer said. His customers have been split about 50-50 between agreeing and disagreeing with his support for Israel, he added.

Mr. Obernauer has owned the station, on Tenafly Road at West Clinton Av-enue, for about 15 years. He’s proud to affiliate with Valero, which is an Ameri-can-based gas refinery.

“Israel has pretty much become the 51st state, so the Israeli flag should always be flown under the American flag,” he said. “They’re fighting the same war we’ve been fighting for years against Al Qaeda.”

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Israeli children’s book stars ‘sell out’ to mixed reviews

Correction Some caption and photocredit information for Au-gust 8’s cover story, “To Israel, with love,” were not included in the story.

The cover shows Fran Hirmes, chair of the board of Emunah of America, standing with a soldier who holds a letter; the group brought many such mis-sives, written by children, to distribute to the IDF.

Both that photograph and all others used to illus-trate the story were taken by Lee Weinblatt.

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able to tell you if the late LAUREN BACALL and Israeli President SHIMON PERES really are related, as many sources claim.When you read this, it

will be almost two weeks since the shocking death of

Robin Williams. Here are just a couple of things about his Jewish con-nections. Williams was born into an upper-class Episcopalian family, but he often referred to himself as an honorary Jew. I think it’s fair to say

that his comedic streak was nurtured by grow-ing up in Bloomfield Hills, a heavily Jewish Detroit suburb. Last February, he tweeted: “When I was in 8th grade in Detroit, I went to 13 Bar Mitzvahs in one year.”

Williams often used Jewish or Yiddish ex-pressions, and always correctly. He didn’t throw them out to just show that he knew them. Most-ly, he employed them to advance his clever comedy. An example is found in a tribute piece that the publisher of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles wrote last week. He recalled that Williams spoke at a 2005 benefit for the USC Survivors of the Shoah Visual Foun-

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The Primetime Emmy awards for excellence in

television are being pre-sented, live, on Sunday, at 8 p.m. on NBC. Seth Meyers is hosting. Here are the confirmed Jew-ish nominees in most of the categories. ACT-ING: LENA DUNHAM, 28, lead actress, comedy series, “Girls”; LIZZY CA-PLAN, 32, lead actress, drama series, “Masters of Sex”; —also in this category—JULIANNA MARGULIES, 48, lead actress, drama series, “The Good Wife”; MAYIM BIALIK, 38, supporting actress, comedy series, “The Big Bang Theory”; JOSH CHARLES, 42, supporting actor, drama series, “The Good Wife”; MANDY PATINKIN, 61, supporting actor, drama series, “Homeland.”

WRITING Emmys: DA-VID CRANE, 57, comedy series, “Episodes”; JENJI KOHAN, 48, comedy series, “Orange is the New Black” (yes, “Or-ange”, a prison drama, is classed as a comedy); DAVID BENIOFF and D.B. WEISS, both 43, drama series, “Game of Thrones”; BRAD FAL-CHUK, 42, mini-series or TV movie, “American Horror Story: Coven”; LARRY KRAMER, 79, mini-series or TV movie, “The Normal Heart.”

Note: the Emmy for writ-ing a variety series in-cludes the whole, usually large, writing staff. Three of the six nominated va-riety series have a Jewish star who also co-writes the show: JON STEW-ART, 51, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”; CAR-RIE BROWNSTEIN, 39, “Portlandia”; and AMY SCHUMER, 33, “Inside Amy Schumer.”

“BEST OF” Emmys: The Emmy for outstand-ing series in an individual category goes to the series’ many producers (the show’s creator is al-most always a producer, too). Here are the series nominated for “outstand-ing” (best) Emmy with a Jewish creator or co-creator. BEST COMEDY series: CHUCK LORRE, 66, and BILL PRADY, 54, “The Big Bang Theory”; and also Jenji Kohan, “Orange is the New Black”; BEST DRAMA se-ries: “Games of Thrones”, Benioff and Weiss; and also MATTHEW WEINER, 49, “Mad Men”; BEST VA-RIETY series: “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”; BEST MINI-SERIES: Brad Falchuk, “American Hor-ror Story: Coven”; and also DAVID SIMON,53, “Treme.”

Finally, there’s BEST TV MOVIE. Two of the nominees have Jew-ish writers: “The Normal

TV to movies — new rolefor Matthew Weiner● Matthew Weiner (see above), of “Mad Men” fame, is debuting as a feature film director with “Are You Here,” a comedy that he also wrote; it opens today — Friday, August 22. Steve (Owen Wilson) and Ben (Zach Galifian-kis) co-star as close friends who return to Ben’s home-town after Ben’s estranged father dies. Ben, kind of a loser, is shocked to discover that he’s inherited the fam-ily fortune. Ben’s sister (Amy Poehler) and Ben’s father’s gorgeous young widow (Laura Ramsey) are equally shocked. They plan to vie with Ben for the moolah. – N.B.

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This evening’s meal will be milchidik, fleishadik, and sushidik.” In the same tribute piece, the publisher recalled that most celebrities duck out of benefits early. Not so Williams — he was at the Shoah benefit until the end. When the publisher asked him, as the benefit ended, about staying to the end, Williams told him, “This means a lot to me. Of course.” – N.B.

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Lessons from the ShoahInteractive program uses testimonies to give Schechter students a new understandingJOanne Palmer

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”

Is there any way to turn that around? To make any miniscule amount of good come out of great evil?

The Holocaust as living memory soon will flicker out. Survivors who can tell their stories are growing old. Soon it will be just images, photographs, videos, written and spoken words.

The Holocaust was pure evil, the unleashing of the worst human fears and instincts. There was nothing at all good about it. But in a soul-affirming act of reversal, it now is possible, almost 70 years after it ended, to use it to teach students how to become better people.

The first steps in that process are never to forget it, to honor its victims, and to lis-ten to its survivors.

The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County in New Milford has been chosen to partner with the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, which is dedicated to that process, in a program that uses some of the founda-tion’s more than 107,000 hours of video testimony and its highly sophisticated, searchable database to teach about worlds lost to genocide and lives lived before, dur-ing, after, and despite it. It also teaches tol-erance and decency.

“We are the first Jewish day school to be part of the Shoah Foundation,” Schech-ter’s head of school, Ruth Gafni, said. “It introduces teachers to methods of teach-ing using testimonies, and we incorporate the foundation’s educational materials into our school curriculum.”

The students from Schechter, which goes from preschool to 8th grade, will join about 21,000 other students, mainly in public high schools, and about 5,000 edu-cators in 58 countries around the world.

The program is unique in the way that it allows the school access to the vast resources the Shoah Foundation has amassed, Ms. Gafni said. Her school’s com-mitment to it took many years, culminat-ing in last year’s trip to Rwanda.

“We were able to pull testimonies from the foundation from Rwandan citizens who have gone through genocide, and testimonies from people who have come through the Shoah,” she said. “We were able to see commonalities of behavior among the predators, and the notion of the Other. We could see the uniqueness and magnitude of the Shoah and its impact

on us and on Israel today.“We became partners with the foun-

dation — in order to do that you have to commit to training with their materi-als, through professional development and visits to our school from USC profes-sors,” she continued. “That takes time and resources, and it also takes a decision from our leadership that the Shoah is a subject that is key to understanding and unlocking historical events, and to our understand-ing of the importance of tolerance.”

Half of the school’s funding for the pro-gram comes from the Shoah Foundation,

and the other half is from the school, Ms. Gafni said. The foundation’s own resources come from donors around the world.

“It also aligns with the inauguration of our new Shoah resource center,” she said. “We have the vision of serving as a resource to Hebrew schools, public schools, and other day schools in the area.

“For us, the uniqueness is in our ability to teach the material in a way that is alive because you are interacting. The testimo-nies are very personal, and you can focus on a word or subject. You can teach with more accuracy. Sometimes, when you talk

to someone, you hope that the person will say the right thing. Here, you have more control over the content.”

That control is possible because of the searchable database available to educators and to their students through iWitness.

“In today’s world, our kids have access to everything,” Ms. Gafni said. “The impor-tance of teaching Holocaust and genocide studies is because you want children to understand the depths and meaning of what happened in a developmentally age-appropriate way. Therefore, expos-ing them to it should be done responsibly, and with an understanding of the cultural context of the time, the geography, the anti-Semitism of the time, and all the other conditions that allowed it.

“When you raise kids, you should raise them with the ideal of tolerance, from the time they are very young,” she said. “Rather than it’s being, ‘It’s mine, it’s all about me,’ we should teach them, from the time they are very young, to think about the Other, to be aware of what they have versus what others have, to learn how to address each other, to think of the comfort of those around you.

“That is the framework that you create at home and at school, because it is only through education that you can make a dif-ference,” Ms. Gafni concluded.

“IWitness is USC Shoah Foundation’s online education platform,” Dr. Kori Street, the foundation’s director of educa-tion, said.

Students watch IWitness testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation.

A Rwandan student, Pacifiaue Umutoniwase, talks to Schechter students last year.

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A subset of those videos has been culled to produce IWitness. Those videos are posted on the web, and both students and teachers can use the database’s search engine to find exactly what they want.

“Those testimonies provide a complete picture of the overall col-lection,” Dr. Street said. “They also are clear and understandable to students. What we focus on is the raw material. We do not pick them because they are perfect, with no mistakes. They are all uncurated testimonies, and they go from earli-est memories to the moment of the interview itself.”

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Hands-on learning for local rabbisJerusalem’s Hartman Institute teaches about war as rockets fallLOIS GOLDRICH

If local rabbis attend the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem to take advantage of what Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner calls “great learning and great people,” this year they got more than they bargained for.

Rabbi Kirshner, religious leader of Temple Emanu-El in Closter, who this year spent his fifth summer at Hartman, said that “ironi-cally, the topic was war and peace in Jew-ish texts. Little did we know it would be so relevant.

“A lot of rabbis in the diaspora talk about Israel from a distance,” he said. “But to be there, to attend the funerals of the three boys” — Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah, whose abduction and murder

were the catalyst for the ongoing situation in Israel and Gaza — “to be familiar with bomb shelters,” makes a big difference.

And, to intensify the situation even further, he had his family with him.

“My youngest didn’t quite grasp what was going on,” Rabbi Kirshner said, adding that the child’s conception of “security…is looking both ways before you cross the street.” His older child, however, “fully comprehended it.” While she was with him in Tel Aviv, she was visibly nervous when she heard about the sirens in Jerusalem, where the rest of the family remained.

“But I told her about Iron Dome and she lit-erally saw it at work when the rockets started to fall. She was incredibly relieved to know that it’s there.”

While his children have been to Israel

many times and are “deeply Zionistic, I would say that for them to have this experi-ence gives them a different depth and differ-ent angle” on what that means.

Not surprisingly, Rabbi Kirshner said the conflict was a major focus of conversation among the rabbis at Hartman.

“It’s one of those safe spaces for all view-points,” he said. “The ethos there fosters dialogue and mutual respect.” He noted that many who saw rockets falling indiscrimi-nately became somewhat more “hawkish,” pointing out that even such left-of-center writers as Ari Shavit and Amos Oz “drew a line between a two-state solution and protect-ing your loved ones. It doesn’t mean that they didn’t feel pain knowing the civilian casualty toll, but it was understandable.”

Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky of Teaneck’s Congre-gation Beth Sholom also was at Hartman this year. It was his second summer at the group’s Rabbinic Leadership Institute.

At Hartman, Rabbi Pitkowsky said, “we delve much deeper into an understanding of what it means to be a leader in the Jewish community today. But to do it in real time, not just through texts…. We were confronted with serious questions about the role of the Jewish state in the world today and the role of the American Jewish community vis-a-vis the Jewish state when it is in conflict.

“How can we help? Are we in the way? Is there anything we can do? To be presented with these questions — almost in our faces — meant we had to deal with it on a different kind of level. I’ve been to Israel many times, but I never had to go into a bomb shelter. Or

have discussions with my children about why we were changing plans or what it means to stay,” despite the hostilities.

“I think they really understood that we were doing what we could to support the State of Israel,” he said, adding that it was easier for his children to relate to the concept of Israel as a home for family and friends.

“We care about them and love them,” Rabbi Pitkowsky told his children. “Being here helps us feel closer to them. We tried to be honest, but present it in a way that was understandable.”

He said that one of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the experience was being in Jerusalem, “where most of the time it’s very easy to just go about your day as if there’s nothing going on.”

Still, he said, whatever they did during the day, the family would watch the news at night and talk about it.

“It’s easy in the incredible Israeli way to go about regular life,” he said. “But for the kids, the disconnect between the news and [their experience] was very hard to understand.”

Discussions among rabbis were spirited, Rabbi Pitkowsky said. “There were definitely some people who felt that their assumptions about what the conflict was about were com-ing under fire, just as their bodies were. Now they were experiencing a small taste of what Sderot and Ashkelon were feeling, and ques-tioning their assumptions about how, and if, the conflict could be solved.

“One of the casualties of the summer was a sense on the part of many that the solution is just around the corner if only the groups

would reach an understanding about what we know is so clear.”

The rabbis also discussed their role as American Jewish leaders. “This just accentu-ated the difference in the lives of Jews in both countries,” Rabbi Pitkowsky said. “We were going to go home.”

Rabbi Pitkowsky said he wonders “where those of us there this summer will be in six months. Now that we’re back in our home environment with the usual group of people living in safety, will those experiences per-manently mark us, or will they be temporary glitches? I wonder what we’ll say on the High Holidays. What is the message? I’m honestly not sure.”

Rabbi Ziona Zelazo, a local synagogue edu-cator, chaplain, and leader of religious ser-vices, has spent six summers at the Hartman Institute.

Pointing out that the topic of war and peace had been prepared a year in advance, she said that this summer it was “not academic, not theory — but very real and emotional.”

Rabbi Zelazo, who spends part of every summer in Israel, said that “as an Israeli, I have experienced three big wars and served in the army. No way can I say that I feel unsafe in Israel. There’s turmoil year after year.”

But if she did not experience concern for her safety, she did feel a sense of sadness, “of déjà vu — I felt it in the kishkes.”

The sessions themselves were “amaz-ing,” she said, adding that she will never forget the opening session with Rabbi Donniel Hartman, the center’s president, “where he talked about the challenges of

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the Jewish narrative of peace.“When people talk about peace, they think

about it in different ways,” she said. “Are we talking about Isaiah, or about utopia, or about the Messiah? Are we waiting for God to do the work for us, or do we need to take action and look at it as something we need to pursue and not wait for? How relevant that was.”

She also became emotionally involved in a session on modern poetry, “the kind of poems I grew up with. All those poets were talking about war. A lot of poems show the vulnerability of Jews in Israel but say do not lose hope, keep singing.”

She was especially moved by the poem “The Last War,” sung by Yehoram Gaon.

“I was sobbing at that session, when [the lecturer] put on those songs. I took it more personally because I lived through it. I left the room because I couldn’t stop sobbing.”

She said that she still is struggling with the question, “Is this the last war?” She said she plans to read that poem when she speaks at an upcoming fundraising event for Israel.

Rabbi Zelazo said that when the sirens went off in Jerusalem, “there were rabbis in the middle of the street. They had been out eating dinner. They didn’t know what

to do with themselves.”Afterwards, they met to discuss what had

happened.“I chose not to hear it,” she said. “I needed

to deal with my own déjà vu.” As it turned out, however, she spent the evening comfort-ing a colleague from California “who pan-icked so much I had to be her chaplain for the whole night.”

Rabbi Zelazo said she is careful to keep the resource booklets handed out at Hartman in good condition, because they provide so much good material for her to use with stu-dents here.

“It’s all there,” she said, adding that it pro-vides “a good two weeks of intensive study.”

Rabbi Neil Tow, religious leader of the Glen Rock Jewish Center, attended his first pro-gram at Hartman this summer.

“I taught the iEngage curriculm in Bergen County, so I was familiar with the culture, approach, and thinking of the institute,” he said. “Also, Donniel Hartman had come here to encourage the use of curriculum. I was certainly expecting something intellectually stimulating.

“The experience of being on the ground in Jerusalem with over 100 mostly Conservative

and Reform colleagues was energizing,” Rabbi Tow continued. “There were colleagues from all over the world. It was a great opportunity to meet people of all backgrounds.”

His take-away, he said, was the sense of “chevra, partnership, and sharing” that all the rabbis — who came from Israel, North America, or other nations — reported feeling. “It expanded the network of people I know and will learn with again.”

Despite the conflict the program for the most part went forward “without a hitch from start to finish,” Rabbi Tow said although the institute had to adjust some of the field trips. And “there was a sense that the choice of the topic — war and peace —was kind of prophetic; but at the same time, looking back, Israel has basically been in a state of conflict since it was founded.”

What was different this year “was being there at a time when the conflict was more active,” he said. “In terms of my own experi-ence, this was the first time I experienced air raid sirens and going down into the basement of the hotel.”

Tow said he developed “a much more broad and diverse view” and acquired many new resources for teaching about war and

peace in Jewish tradition.For example, he used some of the mod-

ern Hebrew poetry introduced at Hartman on Tisha B’Av. “Seeing some of these issues through the eyes of modern Israeli poets pro-vides an interesting and compelling lens,” he said. “I brought back great material.”

Rabbi Tow said that there was “something strengthening for him about being in Israel at this particular time to show his support.”

Not only did he reflect once again on how small Israel is, he said, but when the sirens in Jerusalem went off, he realized how people down south must feel, hearing that on a regular basis.

He also received an “education in practical-ities,” as he watched tourism, which is so vital to the Israeli economy, begin to slow down.

“Store owners said the business they hoped for was not showing up,” he said. “It was reassuring to see that Birthright and USY trips were on.

“Israel can’t make it alone. It needs our help and support. Part of me was excited to go home, but I would like to go back.

“I feel like I can take the spirit of what I learned and share it. It gave me some good energy before the High Holiday season.”

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‘It’s a communal responsibility’Teaneck’s Orthodox community raises money for area mikvaotJOSH LIPOWSKY

The sages say that before a Jewish commu-nity builds a synagogue or buys a Torah, it should build a mikvah, the ritual bath used to observe laws of family purity and com-plete conversions.

The Teaneck mikvah on Windsor Road, next to Temple Emeth, was built in the 1970s, and the township’s mikvah asso-ciation opened a second ritual bath this spring. Set across the street from the Jewish Center of Teaneck, it is positioned to better serve families on the south side of town. The two mikvaot serve about 1,000 people each month, but rely solely on donations to cover operating costs. Now, many of Teaneck’s Orthodox synagogues are creat-ing a new kehilla fund fee in their member-ship dues to help support the mikvah.

“Certain things are communal respon-sibilities,” said Michael Rogovin, president of Teaneck’s Netivot Shalom. “The eruv and the mivkah are really critical to our functioning as an Orthodox community.”

“It’s really not a charity, it’s a religious obligation the community has taken upon itself,” said Miriam Greenspan, president of the Teaneck Mikvah. “It’s said that

before one gives money to their shul, the first obligation of the community is to build a mikvah. It’s a good message to us to send to the community and also to our children

that this is a basic part of our Judaism. It’s something we value and support.”

The mikvah holds an annual appeal on Shabbat Parshat Noach — the Torah

portion that includes the story of the flood and Noah’s ark — because of the tie-in with water, but it was not particularly success-ful, she said.

The shul presidents from most of the synagogues in the Teaneck/Bergenfield area meet periodically through the year to provide support and best practices for incoming presidents, said Jonathan Gellis, president of Keter Torah and co-president and co-founder of the presidents’ group with Shimmy Tennenbaum, past president of Bnai Yeshurun.

One of the committee’s first decisions was to institute a community-wide $18 fee per family, which the shuls would collect to support the maintenance of Teaneck’s eruv. After that program proved success-ful, the mikvah association approached the council. A majority of Teaneck’s 17 Orthodox shuls have signed on to the mik-vah fund, and Mr. Gellis expects to have full participation by the end of the year. The shul fee won’t solve all of the mikvah’s fundraising issues, but it will help, he said.

“It’s almost unfair to just rely on volun-teers to raise all of the money to operate such a cornerstone of the community,” he said. “We’re trying to give everyone the

A grandmother lives face to face with terrorismLESLIE NASSAU

The face of terrorism in the Middle East is a 60ish grandmother and her 9-year-old grandson.

Before I left on my first trip to Israel with the Washington Township YJCC in 2008, my son said, “You’ll be surprised at your response to the trip. It will change you.”

Many readers of this newspaper have grown up with an ingrained sense of responsibility to aid Israel, both financially and in spirit. We regularly read about the terror of the rockets and the suffering of the border cities. As a Jew, I feel that as long as Israel exists, we are safe here. That is the big picture.

But I am not a big-picture person. I am a microcosm person, most involved with my immediate family, than my larger fam-ily. My involvement ripples out from the family, like the ripples from a rock thrown into a pool of water. Eventually the ripples touch the entire pond. That’s where Roni and her 9-year-old grandson come in. They are now part of my small picture.

Our group’s visit with Roni was one of the “home hospitalities” that were an inte-gral part of the YJCC trip. Although I kept it to myself, I didn’t see the point of 20 Amer-icans drinking coffee with an Israeli. My mistake. This stranger opened her home

and her life to strangers from New Jersey.We nibbled cakes and coffee in Roni’s

living room while she talked about her life in Netiv Ha’asara. It is a moshav, a cooper-ative community, composed of small farm units, about 400 residents. Two of her five children and their families live there, too.

In the 1970s, Roni and her husband lived in the Sinai. He was an agricultural-ist, teaching Israelis and Egyptians how to grow bigger and better crops. When Israel withdrew from the Sinai, Roni and her family left their home voluntarily, and they resettled in Israel in 1982. “This was the price of peace,” she said.

Their “new” home — of 27 years — is

only 30 miles north of the old one, but the weather is cooler, the soil sandier, and the water supply more limited, all major chal-lenges for farmers. Her husband continued to teach agriculture. “There was only sand when we came,” she said. “Now, trees.”

In 2001 the missiles started falling. Her moshav, her resettled home of 27 years, is located on today’s Israel-Gaza border,

approximately 300 feet from the northern border. You can see the separation wall and the barbed-wire fence at one end of the community. You can’t see them from Roni’s house because trees block the view.

You can see her safe room. It’s rein-forced concrete, about the size of a large laundry room in your home. When there is a signal of a rocket attack, you have 20

One of the pools in the Windsor Road mikvah.

Leslie Nassau, at left, approaches the separation wall.

Is this the face of terrorism? Ronit lives in Netiv Ha’asara.

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opportunity to participate to alleviate the burden on the volunteers.”

Netivot Shalom alerted its members about the new fee last week, and so far the response has been positive.

“We see it as our communal obligation,” Mr. Rog-ovin said. “Of course, with the tough economy, some members may have difficulty meeting all of their obli-gations, and we work with them to accommodate their needs. But the addition of a kehilla fee has not gener-ated any opposition.”

The mikvah is something for which everybody in the Jewish community should feel responsible, Netivot Shalom’s Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot said.

“In Europe, that was the model and everybody contributed because everybody recognized the sig-nificance,” he said. “Like in America, we pay taxes for things we don’t immediately use but we recognize the importance of them for a flourishing society. Even if I’m 70 years old and my children have finished public school, I pay taxes because it’s important for my com-munity. We’re all in this together.”

Asked if the kehillah fund could become a model for additional fundraising for the day schools, Rabbi Helfgot said it is “the ideal structure.” Mr. Rogovin, speaking for himself and not on behalf of the shul, is open to exploring the creation of a similar fund for day schools and “making it a communal obligation just like in the public school system, where the majority of people who pay do not have kids in the school system because it’s not tuition — it’s a communal obligation to provide education.”

For now, though, the shuls are collecting for only the eruv and the mikvah, which are “very important

parts of observant Jewish life,” Rabbi Helfgot said.“One of the pillars of Jewish law is taharat mishpacha,

keeping the laws of family purity and ensuring people who are observant have access to a normal healthy married life,” he continued. “Whenever Jews came to a new community they ensured there was a synagogue, a mikvah, a cemetery, and a school. These are the touchstones of life to have a normal healthy family and healthy marital relations and to sustain our holiness, including in the sexual realm.”

In addition to money, the fee also can help raise aware-ness. For women, going to the mikvah is a private matter, and so children do not learn as much about it, Ms. Greens-pan said. Creating communal support for the mikvah “is a good message to give our future generations. It’s just a good message in general for all communities to see that Bergen County believes this is a responsibility.”

To learn more about Teaneck’s mikvaot, go to www.teaneckmikvah.com.

seconds — 20 SECONDS — to get into their safe room. Even when Roni is walking outside, she says that a small part of her consciousness is always calculating the location of the nearest safe room.

Her grandson is 9 years old. He also lives on the moshav. When he watches TV, someone has to sit on the couch next to him. When he goes to the bathroom, someone has to walk with him and wait outside the door until he comes out.

I also have a grandson. I have seen him when he is frightened. His face contorts and his body stiffens. To make his fear vanish, he needs only a hug.

How do we stop the rockets.? How do we reach indi-vidual Palestinians and start talking? Not at them but with them. I don’t know. Maybe you do. Or you could tell this story to someone who does know. Then we can begin to create ripples of change without the harm of the rocks.

Before I left for Israel an acquaintance gave me a dollar. “It’s for charity,” he said. “It’s only a dollar, but it’s a symbol. You give it and then you come home safe. When you return, you have to tell the story.”

At Passover we read the Haggadah every year to tell the story of the Jewish people and our quest for free-dom. We read it to make us feel as if each of us had been redeemed from Mitzrayim, from a place of narrowness. This is another story about Jewish people and freedom. I am asking you to tell it so that we can create a different future and not need to retell this story next year.

Then this 9-year-old boy can come home safe.

Leslie Nassau’s published writing includes both fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Hillsdale.

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A mission of solidarityThe Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey visits Israel

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They didn’t want to sit on the sidelines.

So last week, they went to Israel on a mission with the Jew-

ish Federation of Northern New Jersey.“Instead of sitting in my family room

with my iPad reading the news in Israel and feeling bereft, I was standing shoulder to shoulder with the families in the south who are suffering,” said Nina Kampler of Teaneck, who helped organize the trip as its volunteer chair.

The group spent most of its time in the south, but ventured north to visit the fed-eration’s sister city, Nahariya, at the end of the trip. The visit combined meeting with Israelis, including the wounded and the mourning, and hearing from experts.

“We were able to witness a society just beginning to emerge from the depth of the war but still reeling from its enormous impact, while directly infusing the people we met with support and love,” said Ms. Kampler, whose husband, Dr. Zvi Marans, is president of the federation.

“We helped our brothers and sisters in Israel not feel as isolated and neglected. It made them feel stronger and more con-nected. And in turn, it made us not feel distant from Israel’s trauma,” she said.

The trip was Israel Blum’s first involve-ment with the Jewish federation. Mr. Blum, who lives in Englewood, had given the organization his email address when he attended last month’s pro-Israel rally there. “As soon we got the information they’re going to Israel on the mission, I said book me,” he said.

“Everyone should have gone. Israel needs our support. When you go and meet people in places like Sderot and Netivot” — two cities that are near Gaza and among those most affected by rocket fire from Hamas — “they’re waiting to see people come and visit them.”

The most moving part of the trip for him was visiting wounded soldiers in the hos-pitals. He met a soldier wounded in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, and gave him money to renovate his apartment.

“Hopefully he will make full recovery,” Mr. Blum said.

The participants on the trip raised some money for federation to fund specific proj-ects, including supporting a tank battalion and providing air conditioning for a shel-ter, said Jason Shames, the federation’s CEO, who led the trip.

The main goal of the trip was “to show support for our family in Israel through thick and thin, and to send the message to the rest of the world that Israel matters, and the double standard is unacceptable,” Mr. Shames said.

“Israel is extremely relevant to our com-munity and a common fiber for all of us,” he added.

Over the last two months, the federation raised more than $570,000 for its “Stop the Sirens” campaign to help Israelis cope with the crisis. That amount came from more than 1,200 people, and exceeded the amount expected. “Israel is the common denominator,” Mr. Shames said.

Fred Fish of Englewood said he found the morale of the Israeli population “as high as I ever remember in the two dozen plus times I’ve been to Israel” — the first being back in 1962.

The high morale came from a cross-sec-tion of Israeli society, including “the uni-versity professor and the cab driver, the waiter and the doctor.”

He said that for him the most mov-ing moments of the trip were visits with wounded Israeli soldiers and a dinner with lone soldiers, including one who was a native of Englewood.

The group also visited an Iron Dome anti-rocket installation.

“On a physical basis, it’s very unimpres-sive. It’s two batteries, a couple of pieces of equipment, a Quonset hut. It’s like two tanks,” Mr. Fish said.

In view of its small size, “It’s incom-prehensible how effective they are. Nine protect the entire country,” he said with amazement.

Ms. Kampler said that “more than any other trip I’ve taken since my first trip in 1977, this validated the living miracle that is Israel.

“We had the opportunity to play with kids in an absorption center, who were actually drawing pictures of the war, of the good guys vs. the bad guys, as children are wont to do. We visited with families who had lost a husband or son in the war, and extended our deep condolences.

“We climbed hilltops overlooking Gaza and really understood just how close the danger. We spent time at a kibbutz that was empty of residents, because of the proximity of the tunnels, and was hosting a celebration for 300 soldiers back from Gaza,” she said.

The group also received briefings, including from staff at the U.S. embassy, members of Knesset, national security offi-cers, and the head of the IDF department dealing with kidnapped soldiers and those missing in action.

The group also visited Nahariya. As Israel’s most northernmost city, it had not been threatened from the rockets from the south. But its boys went off to war, and the federation group met with the family of a soldier who had been killed in Gaza.

Ms. Kampler said it was a privilege to help the people in Nahariya “feel

connected and validated during these stressful times. It’s a beautiful, bilateral relationship. These connections are grow-ing deeper and they’re broadening.”

The final event on the trip’s schedule was a buffet dinner in Nahariya hosted by a group of women. After the dinner, the Nahariya residents “turned to us and said, ‘when you’re ready to come, and if God forbid America becomes another France, our homes are your home,’” Ms. Kampler said.

Scenes from the federation’s mission of support for Israel.

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New COO at Bergen YJCCAbby Leipsner has been named chief operating officer at the Bergen County YJCC in Washington Town-ship. In this newly created position, she serves as the YJCC’s chief pro-gram officer, directly responsible for leading all aspects of program devel-opment and growth.

Ms. Leipsner has a strong back-ground in programming as well as managerial experience in both the Jewish and secular not-for-profit sectors. She was head of children’s services at the

JCC of Greater Baltimore and then program direc-tor at the Jewish Federa-tion of Greater MetroW-est, N.J. Next, she was the director of special events for the American Cancer Society of New Jersey. At the YJCC, she has been outreach coordinator for PJ Library and director of

the Open Hearts, Open Homes program for Israeli teens.

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Sen. Booker keynoter at Fort Lee galaThe New Synagogue of Fort Lee held its annual gala dinner dance at the Rockleigh Country Club to celebrate its 25th anniver-sary. More than 160 people came to the dinner, which honored Fort Lee’s Mayor Mark Sokolich; its police chief, Keith Bendul; its deputy police chief, Tim-othy Ford; and Detective Keith Kosuda, president of the Fort Lee PBA. Special honors also were given to the synagogue’s founder, the late David Ehrenpreis, its first president, and to Steven Sakin, its first vice president.

Fort Lee Deputy Police Timothy Ford, Police Chief Keith Bendul, Mayor Mark Sokolich, Detective Kevin Kosuda, Senator Loretta Weinberg, Assemblyman Gordon Johnson, and Rabbi Meir Berger. Photos courtesy NsFL

Mayor Mark Sokolich, with back to photo, Senator Cory Booker, and Rabbi Meir Berger.

IDF captain speaks at Shaarei OrahCaptain Oded Cohen, a commando in the IDF’s elite Egozi unit, spoke earlier this month to a crowd of nearly 100 people at Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck. He discussed his experiences in Gaza and the situation in Israel.

Afterward, Tehillim (psalms) were recited and the prayer for the Israel Defense Forces was led by Shaarei Orah member Ezra Douek, a retired IDF offi-cer who fought in three of Israel’s wars. Rabbi Haim Jachter, Shaarei Orah’s rabbi, concluded the evening with a call for increased love among the Jewish people.

Captain Oded Cohen and Rabbi Haim Jachter.

Local named to post at American Academy for Jewish ResearchProfessor Ephraim Kanarfogel of Teaneck, an E. Billi Ivry Univer-sity professor of Jewish history, literature, and law at Yeshiva Uni-versity, has been named to the executive committee of the Ameri-can Academy for Jewish Research, where he joins colleagues from Columbia and Princeton universities, and the universities of Michi-gan, Pennsylvania, and Toronto. The American Academy for Jew-ish Research represents the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America. Fellows are nominated and elected by their peers and thus constitute the most distinguished and most senior scholars teaching Judaic studies at American universities.

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Harman appointed to YU postYeshiva University President Richard M. Joel recently announced the appointment of Jacob Harman as the new vice president of business affairs and chief financial officer.

“We are excited to make this announce-ment as Jake brings to YU a deep skill-set with more than 35 years of experience and expertise as a seasoned well-rounded financial executive,” Mr. Joel said. “We are confident that Jake will provide new energy, focus, and commitment to YU’s finance operations at this important junc-ture in the University’s development of a long-term sustainable business model.”

Mr. Harman will lead the university’s

finance functions and help develop and implement financial and operational plans to support and meet the strategic goals set by the university. He will serve on the executive cabinet and work closely with senior vice president Josh Joseph on stra-tegic initiatives.

Before joining YU, Mr. Harman spent his career at KPMG, where most recently he was a senior audit partner in the firm’s Office of General Counsel. Previously, he was a partner in several areas of KPMG’s activities, including its assurance, forensic, and mergers and acquisition practices. He also is a certified public accountant.

NYC 5K to benefit the Lone Soldier CenterThis Sunday, August 24, the Lone Sol-dier Center will host “Run With Israel,” a 5K run/walk in Central Park. Race time is 10 a.m. Afterward, there will be a post-race event at Ramaz Middle School, 114 E. 85th St., between Park

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What’s up with the Times?

A few weeks ago, one of our op ed columnists, Helen Maryles Shankman, wrote about her agonized split with the New

York Times, the broadsheet that won her heart when she was young.

Because she is a wonderful writer, Helen effortlessly made clear the fact that she is a liberal, and so the break was hard, but still her allegiance not only to Israel but to fairness made it necessary and inevitable.

We here have not reached Helen’s level of resolve, but once again the Times has proved her point.

Last Sunday, two related stories, beginning on the front page of the whole massive rubber-banded bundle, delved into the horrors of Israeli organ dona-tions and transplants. Under the head-lines “Transplant Brokers in Israel Lure Desperate Kidney Patients to Costa Rica” and “A Clash of Religion and Bioethics Complicates Organ Donation in Israel,” the stories, both by reporter Kevin Sack, showed Israelis to be ensnared both by what he sketched as archaic religious law and by pernicious, soul-deadening selfishness. They are unwilling to allow their own organs to be donated, he

wrote. Instead, he implied, they prey on the poor; what they are not willing to give themselves they are willing to buy, for next to nothing, from desperately poor people. The Israeli thugs profiled are sinister — “wily” and “dodging” law enforcement; they have “nimbly shifted operations” and in return have “pock-eted enormous sums.”

Does that sound familiar to you? Maybe it sounds like the Jewish villains who have disgraced the pages of Western classics for centuries?

The main Times story is almost unread-ably long, a detailed, emotionally charged piece of writing with unmistakable vil-lains — they’re the Jews with the tattoos — and misled, misused victims.

It is probably true. There is no reason to doubt the reporting.

It is also true, as the sidebar story points out, that traditional Jewish stric-tures against organ donation have made Israeli families, like Jewish families around the world, less willing to donate their organs when beloved relatives die. (Often that decision has to be made in the first shock of sudden death, because when people die slowly their organs tend to be unusable.)

In this country, rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum, including the Ortho-dox world, have stressed the importance of organ donation. They say that it is an active mitzvah, because it saves lives.

It is true that not enough Jews are comfortable enough with organ dona-tion, and many organizations, includ-ing the Halachic Organ Donor Soci-ety, which is Orthodox, are trying to change that. It is also true that rab-bis are finding it to be a harder sell in Israel, where there still is a great deal of rabbinic opposition that combines with a natural distaste, than it is in this country.

But it is impossible not to think about the story’s placement and timing and wonder what the Times editors possibly might have been thinking. Although its front-page placement blared its impor-tance, it was not particularly timely; it was based on information and interviews carried out over the course of the last few years. But it did come on the heels of inflammatory story after inflammatory headline after inflammatory photograph about Israel and Gaza.

So, New York Times, what’s up? Was Helen prescient? Why was this story placed when and where it was? What can you possibly be thinking? And what are we to think about you? —JP

A Fein life

I t would be hard to overestimate the impact of Leonard Fein on Ameri-can Jewry — and on this writer.

Leonard — Leibel as he was known to intimates, which sadly I was not — died last week at 80.

He was an example of how one man could, again and again, create some-thing to meet an obvious need in the Jewish community that nobody else had noticed with an innovation no one else had thought to invent.

It was nearly 40 years ago that, together with Elie Wiesel, he launched Moment Magazine. His hope was to bring the New Yorker’s literary sensibility to Jew-ish affairs. He generated a communal

conversation while cultivating fine Jew-ish journalism — and casting a spotlight on important Israeli writers and thinkers.

More than I could have realized at the time, my parents’ subscription to Leon-ard Fein’s Moment, which I read as an adolescent, shaped my notion of what it means to be an American Jew and to be part of the American Jewish conversation.

In 1987, Leibel sold the never-profit-able magazine to another entrepreneur — and we all have missed the old Moment ever since.

Leibel picked up his pen again regularly in 1990, when he became a columnist for the revived Forward, and he was writing until the end.

But all his editing and writing was just one piece in a life that included teaching political science at Boston universities

and writing books on American Jewry.He created Mazon, the Jewish food

charity to which we regularly and proudly donate advertising space.

That was in 1985. He had just turned 50.In 1996 he created the National Jew-

ish Coalition for Literacy. Our own Bergen Reads is part of that effort. So while Leibel’s memory will inspire us in many ways, the most public and appropriate would be this: Think about volunteering for Bergen Reads. Just an hour a week of tutoring can change the life of child — and yours as well.

Now is the perfect time to volunteer and make plans for the soon to begin school year.

Call Beth Figman at (201) 820-3947, or email her at [email protected].

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Mystifying optimismA report on Israel’s wounded warriors

The most jolting thing about visiting wounded Israeli soldiers from Operation Protective Edge at Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv is how upbeat they are.

One soldier, 19 years old, was shot in the back of the head. The bullet shattered the bones in his skull, per-manently ripped out his hearing, and exited through his right eye. After six weeks in the hospital he is just beginning to recover. But that did not stop him from springing out of his bed, hugging me and my family, and thanking us profusely for visiting.

Another soldier, a 22-year-old commander, had his entire right arm shattered by shrapnel and lost

his thumb. The doctors planned to amputate, but a courageous surgeon undertook a 5-hour oper-ation to reconstruct what he could. The soldier faces two grueling years of physiotherapy and the possible restoration of 70 percent of his arm. But still he joked and laughed with us the entire time. I asked him if he was sleep-ing and he said, “No. I get

night terrors about the battle and all the pills they give me can’t stop them. So I try and stay awake.” A moment later he was back to his jovial self.

Yet another soldier had his leg shattered by a gre-nade. Bones were taken from the right leg to save the left. With great effort, he hopped from his wheel-chair to jump into the bed of an even more seriously injured soldier to take a picture with him.

Then there was the soldier who experienced severe head trauma when a missile was fired at his tank. Long lines of stiches covered his shaven head. He said, “Look at this,” and showed us a printed sheet of paper on the door of his hospital room that read, “Bar Refa-eli. Please visit. The soldiers need you.” Refaeli appar-ently saw a picture of the poster on her Facebook wall.

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Mystifying optimismA report on Israel’s wounded warriors

The most jolting thing about visiting wounded Israeli soldiers from Operation Protective Edge at Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel Aviv is how upbeat they are.

One soldier, 19 years old, was shot in the back of the head. The bullet shattered the bones in his skull, per-manently ripped out his hearing, and exited through his right eye. After six weeks in the hospital he is just beginning to recover. But that did not stop him from springing out of his bed, hugging me and my family, and thanking us profusely for visiting.

Another soldier, a 22-year-old commander, had his entire right arm shattered by shrapnel and lost

his thumb. The doctors planned to amputate, but a courageous surgeon undertook a 5-hour oper-ation to reconstruct what he could. The soldier faces two grueling years of physiotherapy and the possible restoration of 70 percent of his arm. But still he joked and laughed with us the entire time. I asked him if he was sleep-ing and he said, “No. I get

night terrors about the battle and all the pills they give me can’t stop them. So I try and stay awake.” A moment later he was back to his jovial self.

Yet another soldier had his leg shattered by a gre-nade. Bones were taken from the right leg to save the left. With great effort, he hopped from his wheel-chair to jump into the bed of an even more seriously injured soldier to take a picture with him.

Then there was the soldier who experienced severe head trauma when a missile was fired at his tank. Long lines of stiches covered his shaven head. He said, “Look at this,” and showed us a printed sheet of paper on the door of his hospital room that read, “Bar Refa-eli. Please visit. The soldiers need you.” Refaeli appar-ently saw a picture of the poster on her Facebook wall.

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She came and visited. The soldier showed us the picture. He was elated.

The battle between Israel and Hamas is not one between Jews and Muslims, Israe-lis and Palestinians. It is, rather, a battle of values between those who glorify life and those who celebrate death. That much always has been clear. Hamas is nothing but a gay-hating, women-honor-killing, Jew-murdering, freedom-crushing, child-sacrificing fundamentalist death cult. But I saw the contrast between the Hamas murderers who aspire to die and encour-age children to “offer their shoulders and chests” in martyrdom against Israel and Israelis in my visits with Israelis who had lost children in terror attacks or who had been severely wounded in battle.

A few days before visiting the hospital, we traveled to the West Bank home of Ofir and Bat Galim Shaer. Their son Gilad, 16, was one of the three Israeli teenagers whose kidnapping and brutal murder pre-cipitated Israel’s third Gaza war.

What do you say to the parents of a child murdered in one of the most grue-some terror attacks in memory?

I shared that a famous rabbi had writ-ten a column that said that had the three teens not died, Israel never would have known about the extensive Hamas tun-nels. Hundreds would have died. The terror attack was a hidden blessing. I was shocked by the comment and even responded with a column of my own. “This kind of justification minimizes the tragedy,” I wrote. “We Jews are supposed to protest to God these seeming divine miscarriages of justice, not find silver lin-ings in murder.”

But Bat Galim disagreed with me. “We miss our child every moment,” she said. “But we also want to know he did not just die in vain. If his horrible death can pre-serve life, then we have to give it meaning.”

She continued, “In the wake of our son’s murder, and the Hamas rocket bar-rage against civilians, the world is now seeing Hamas for what it is. They’re becoming more understanding of Isra-el’s position. The European nations and

especially the Americans know that today it’s Israel, tomorrow it will be them.”

This is an attitude we hear constantly. Israelis love life. But they acknowledge that protecting their land comes with a cost that we in the United States farm out to just two percent of the population — our brave military — whom we almost never meet.

Nancy Grace may be the only American TV host who regularly reads the names of American servicemen killed in Afghani-stan. Even on days when our country will bury some 10 soldiers killed in wars in the Middle East, the United States barely even feels our loss. We have become so accus-tomed to freedom that we are almost unaware of its price. We have forgotten Jefferson’s famous declaration that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots…”

In Israel, however, it’s a national mantra.

I spoke to a father who had lost two sons in the two previous Gaza wars. The IDF was keeping his third and last son out of combat so that the family would not bury its final child. Even so, the father had lobbied the Army to allow him to fight because his son was so disturbed to be left out while his friends went to war. “This land demands taxes,” he said to me, sending a chill running down my spine. “I have had to pay the tax. It hurts. But it’s the only way to live here. And we Jews have no place else to go. Israel is our only home.”

As for me — and as a parent of a child who served in the IDF — I cannot under-stand how Israeli families can accept so much death and horror surrounding them. I cannot accept that there is any blessing whatsoever in the death of a teen boy. Surely Israel could have found out about the tunnels through intelli-gence or informers. I am not a Christian, and I reject the idea that death can be redemptive.

Still, I sit in awe at the bravery, courage, and majesty of the Israeli people. They are glorious in every way.

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Reboot 2014The abandonment of the Jews

In an article last week that made my jaw drop, the Wall Street Journal reported a profound change in U.S. policy that has the potential to do long-term damage

not only to the U.S.-Israel relationship, but to Israel’s very existence.

And in an equally jaw-dropping reaction, nearly every major Jewish organization — ZOA proudly excepted — failed to make a statement condemning this change.

Long-standing U.S. policy and law allows munitions transfers to Israel to go through a bureaucratic Defense Department approval process. Reversing that policy last week, the administration stopped an already approved transfer, castigated Israel for “blindsiding” it by having made the request through routine channels, and instituted an onerous new policy to “scrutinize future transfers at the highest levels.”

In other words, the adminis-tration is changing the terms of our military alliance with Israel. Now everything is political. Never mind that the administra-tion’s accusations are inconsis-tent with the words of its own Defense Department officials, who repeatedly confirmed that the process for the transfer pre-cisely followed existing proce-dures. This was a routine trans-fer of munitions that already were stored at a pre-positioned weapons stockpile in Israel.

Never mind that Israel is battling for its life against a terrorist entity that has shot thou-sands of rockets at Israel’s civilian population centers and diverted international aid money to build a labyrinth of attack tunnels. We would expect the administration to approve any resupply of an ally in the midst of such a war. The fact that it interceded to stop a pre-approved transfer under such circumstances is beyond alarming.

Make no mistake, these actions were taken explicitly to punish Israel for what the admin-istration perceives as a lack of cooperation or, perhaps, obedience — something not required of other allies or aid recipients. The anony-mous “senior Obama administration official” last week told the WSJ that the United States has “many, many friends around the world” but the United States is Israel’s “strongest” friend, and that the “notion that they [Israel] are playing the United States, or that they’re manipulating us publicly, completely mis-calculates their place in the world.” “Playing us”? “Miscalculates their place”? Sounds like a threat from the bully in my junior high: I’m stronger, so do what I say, or else. These state-ments make clear the administration’s hostil-ity to Israel. And the resulting action, a power grab from the Defense Department and a slap in the face of Congressional intent, indicates a fundamental change in the nature of the

U.S.-Israel relationship — a change that should concern us deeply.

Once again, this administration has shown itself willing to play dirty, to use every admin-istrative power at its disposal to demand acquiescence or extract a price. We saw it last month, with the swift and unprecedented FAA ban on all U.S. flights to and from Israel coinci-dental to Kerry’s arrival in the region to press for concessions to Hamas. The FAA usually issues warnings or changes flight paths (as it did, for example, in areas of the Ukraine after a commercial jet was shot down); a complete ban is virtually unheard of. The ban took place at the height of Israel’s tourist season, inflict-ing economic harm on top of reputation and diplomatic damage. This, too, was done to teach Israel a lesson — that the administration expects Israel to obey or pay, and that Israel’s friends in Congress can’t always help.

Given Israel’s unfortunate location in the midst of the world’s most dangerous region, where order is unraveling by the minute, we cannot take its security, or even its existence, for granted. A hostile U.S. administration that will withhold military support, intentionally

inflict harm, or force conces-sions to Israel’s enemies, poses an existential threat to Israel. If the United States stops exercis-ing its Security Council power to block anti-Zionist initiatives (as it has already hinted it might), greater physical and economic harm to Israel, and indeed to Jews everywhere, could result. It is a dangerous situation that will only get worse if nothing is done to stop it now.

Which raises the question: Where are the large national Jewish organizations that should be condemning this serious diversion from existing policy? As of this writing, among major Jewish organizations, only the Zionist Organization of America has publicly con-demned the recent policy changes. Why aren’t more Jewish leaders calling out the adminis-tration on its bullying and betrayal? Will Amer-ican Jews again stay silent while other Jews pay the price?

In “The Abandonment of the Jews,” David Wyman documents the U.S. policies that pur-posefully obstructed the rescue of European Jews from the Holocaust, and the concurrent failure of the American Jewish community to press for policy changes that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives without imped-ing the war effort.

While the mass murder of Jews during the Gaza war has been more attempted than suc-cessful, Hamas is no less genocidal than Hit-ler in its intent or efforts. Yet the White House actions directly harm Israel’s ability to fight this scourge. It is yet to be seen whether the American Jewish community will speak out against these policies, or whether we will bear the guilt of previous generations for failing to speak up before it is once again too late.

Laura Fein is the executive director of ZOA-NJ, the Zionist Organization of America’s New Jersey region.

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Rabbi Boteach and his family stand with a wounded soldier.

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For all we are worthHow much does it cost to free a slave?

What does a person cost?When I was a kid,

science teachers were fond of telling their stu-

dents (if they wanted to shock or hum-ble us) the chemical value of a human body. It amounted then to about $1.78. With inflation, today you may be worth as much as $4.50.

Now, I don’t want you to get a swelled head (because we’ll be needing it at

its regular size), but if you sell off the components of your body, according to a 2011 story in Wired, then your heirs could get $45 million today, according to “Inside the Business of Selling Human Body Parts.” That’s because we live in the West. Blood, organs, and DNA are cheaper in the developing world.

The phrase “human values” normally has a very different connotation, but I have a morbid fascination these days about the price of a person. As I have mentioned before in the Standard, I made a commitment last Rosh Hasha-nah to take an active role in freeing slaves.

The most recent estimates put the number of slaves in the world today at 30 million. Federal officials report that about 60,000 slaves are now captive in the United States.

The price of a slave is shockingly low — $40 in some parts of the world. In hard currency and in percentage terms, the price for slaves actually has gone down in the United States since the Civil War. Across the world, life literally is counted as cheap.

I set a goal to free 100 slaves in a year. I wasn’t sure how I would go about it, but I committed to finding out. My first partners were my family and synagogue. Later, I collaborated with and learned from local federations, the New Jersey Commission Against Human Trafficking, T’ruah, Breaking the Chain Through Education, JChoice,

the Rabbinical Assembly, the Religious Action Center, and Free the Slaves.

How much money does it take to free 100 slaves?

More than you might think, given the cost of buying a slave on the open market. You can’t just buy a slave’s freedom outright. It might be dangerous. It probably would encour-age the kidnapping of more slaves. It certainly would require par-ticipating in the slave economy. And it doesn’t prevent re-enslavement.

Many factors can affect the cost of liberation. Among them: What are the local economic and social conditions? Were the slaves transported, and will they be far from home when rescued? What equipment and staff are needed to secure their freedom? Are police or government officials likely to help, or do they side with — or fear — slavehold-ers? What immediate medical care will be required?

It is not enough to pluck slaves from their environment. They must gain the resources to maintain their freedom. Insufficiencies in food, work, housing, education, and/or the rule of law keep people vulnerable to trafficking. Most immediately, those who have access to schools, health care, and credit are far less likely to be exploited.

If you have the choice of watching all your children starve or receiving payment for the oldest to be taken to a farm or factory for a “good job” (even if you know what that really means), then you might sell one child in order to save the others. Ensuring that people have a viable way to feed their families pro-tects parents and children from such a “Sophie’s Choice.”

People regularly fall into debt bond-age, although it is either altogether ille-gal or practiced with illegal excess. A man who owes less than $100 dollars to an employer might be forced to work it off” over decades, and the bondage commonly is extended to his children, as well. Workers are charged both inter-est on the debt and rental fees for the equipment they use in their labor, so that backbreaking work over many years never lowers the pay-off amount. Bullied and often beaten, these slaves typically do not know that the law is on their side. Public education campaigns, along with community organizing, have ended debt bondage in many regions by empowering people to claim their freedom.

Sometimes you have to improve the

lives of desperate people who resort to enslaving other human beings in order to feed themselves. Along the Volta River in Ghana, pol lut ion and over-fishing have created an environmental crisis for the region and an eco-nomic crisis for the local fishermen, who no lon-ger can make a living. For some, the “solution” is to

kidnap children to work as slaves on their boats. Breaking the Chain Through Education (btcte.org) helps fishermen to succeed without slaves, thereby aid-ing would-be and former captors, even as they rescue and provide schooling for enslaved children.

I n “ E n d i n g S l a v e r y,” Ke v i n Bales, founder of Free the Slaves (freetheslaves.net), estimates that the cost for securing long-term freedom for a single slave in the developing world varies between $400 and $1,200. Assuming a cost of $800 per slave, my

partners and I must raise $80,000 in order to free 100 slaves. That is why you will see a prominent “donate” but-ton at RabbiDebra.com and an account at jchoice.org for Jews Freeing Slaves.

It’s commonplace to assert that “you can’t just throw money at a problem.” Well, you can’t just throw money at the problem of slavery, but even small amounts of well-placed money can do astonishing amounts of good. It’s worth repeating: with the help of vetted organizations on the ground, you can

liberate a human being for about 800 bucks.

Not only your tzedakah, but also your grocery money and clothes bud-get can be deployed to help end slav-ery. Fair-trade foods and clothing cost only a little more in the short run than the cheapest (slave labor?) goods. In the long run, your purchasing power can help change industries and buy people’s freedom.

Giving of your time also can help to free slaves. Last January, anticipating the Super Bowl and the prostitutes it brings to town, the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking, including Jewish Federations, the National Council of Jewish Women, and synagogues, edu-cated local hotel managers and the broader community about forced pros-titution. Hundreds of volunteers dis-tributed 85,000 bars of hotel soap with wrappers that featured the Human Traf-ficking Resource Center hotline. I can’t say that it was that the advocacy and the soap that led directly to the libera-tion of 16 minors and 54 adults and the arrest of 45 sex traffickers. I am confi-dent, however, that this kind of public involvement encourages — and puts positive pressure on — law enforcement. Equally important, it helps to change our culture.

On Friday, September 19, at 7:30 pm, Maurice Middleberg, executive director of Free the Slaves, will speak at Congre-gation B’nai Israel, 53 Palisade Avenue in Emerson, during Shabbat services. The pubic is invited. Mr. Middleberg will discuss Jewish perspectives on slaves and the practical, concrete steps that each of us can take to help end slavery.

We ask in the morning liturgy: “What are we? What are our lives? What is our piety? What is our righteousness?” As Elul, the month of preparation for the High Holidays, approaches, those ques-tions become more urgent. What, really, is the measure of a person? How are we measuring up, by God’s standards and our own?

These questions circle back to the question with which I began: “What does a person cost?” That’s a heretical question. A better one is: What is a per-son worth? In particular, what are you worth? And what is the worth of a slave you may never meet, but just might be able to save?

Rabbi Debra Orenstein is spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson and a scholar-in-residence around the country. To learn more about freeing slaves, go to RabbiDebra.com.

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Cost of Jewish livingI must reply to “Bigger problems than a kosher bar” (Letters, August 1), in which the writer’s complaint boils down to it’s expensive to be a Jew because of the cost of synagogue affiliation and the cost of kosher food.

With all due respect, this is a spurious argument. Membership dues at most synagogues are reasonable and in some cases do not cover the cost of member-ship and synagogues will work with members who have legitimate hardship issues. Kosher food has always cost more than non-kosher due to costs involved in ritual slaughter and maintaining kosher certification.

Fortunately we live in Bergen County, with a multitude of kosher stores that keeps prices competitive. There is an expense involved with affiliation and keeping kosher but what is the alternative?

Dropping out and non-affiliation is not the answer! Bad-mouthing Jewish insti-tutions is counter-productive! There is a steep price we will pay if we discard our observances to save a few bucks.

Other faiths impose tithes and other financial obligations on their members as well. I suggest the writer look around at our Jewish community and see the many positive things going on, instead of dwell-ing on the perceived negatives.

Charles Cohen

Fair Lawn

Dead peoplecan’t fire rocketsSeventy years ago I lost most of my maternal and some of my paternal fam-ily to the German monsters that carried out a genocide that they had threatened years prior.

Now my children and grandchildren who live in Israel are threatened by a religion that will not countenance any-one else’s beliefs but their own.

I am sick and tired of hearing people like Shmuley Boteach say that Islam is not the reason that the world is on fire, and that it’s just a few miscreants who have hijacked the religion. And I ask Shmuley and Elie Wiesel why they spent so much money running full-page ads, thereby financially supporting left-lean-ing newspapers that are anti-Israel?

We are the people of the Torah, or at least we are supposed to be. The Torah commands that if someone comes to kill you, you are obligated to kill them first.

Why don’t Shmuley and Elie encour-age the Israeli government to act in a normal way when rockets are being indiscriminately fired at their popu-lace? America and England did what was normal in trying to obliterate their enemies during the Second World War. They did not drop leaflets, they did not make cell phone calls telling their ene-mies to escape — they did what normal people do.

The standing policy should be simply stated. If you shoot rockets at us, the place where the rockets are shot from will be destroyed. It makes no differ-ence where the rockets are launched. It doesn’t matter if it’s a mosque, a pri-vate home, a school, a hospital, or a U.N. installation.

Who cares what the world thinks? The anti-Semites are coming out of their holes anyway. Do Shmuley and Elie really think that their costly ads are going to make much of a difference? The sad fact is that the anti-Jews just cannot abide Jews being successful, having their own country, building a democracy, or being the chosen people.

It is very difficult for people who want to hobnob with the intellectually chal-lenged Hollywood elites and be wel-comed into the White House to espouse such a take-no-prisoners policy. They would rather make rational arguments in the face of insanity and barbarism.

In circumstances that the Jewish peo-ple are faced with today being reasonable and rational doesn’t work. It’s a delusion.

How many wars is it going take? How many dead soldiers are enough? How many broken families will satisfy the world? How much misery do families who have lost loved ones to terror have to endure? How many destructions, pogroms, Holocausts, and massacres is it going to take?

We have it set before us in the Torah from the mouth of God. Isn’t that enough? “If someone comes to kill you, kill them.” Dead people cannot fire rock-ets at you.

Arthur Aaron

Sarasota, Florida

Safe in New JerseyJust a word or three concerning Andrew Silow-Carroll’s op-ed (“The abstracting of Israel,” August 15). I certainly appreciate that he “…understand[s] people ... are upset with the enormous loss of life in the latest Gaza operation.” But he failed to answer the question why — he appears to blame this on the Jews. Sorry, but this great loss of life belongs squarely on the backs of Hamas. I know it, you know it, and the rest of the world knows it as well, but you and the world just plain choose to ignore it.

You want less loss of life? Tell Hamas to stop committing war crimes by trying to kill Israeli citizens by shooting rockets into Israel. You want human rights for the Palestinians? Why not human rights for everyone — even Israelis? What soci-ety knowingly allows terrorists to use its citizens as human shields? Even wild animals don’t. Sitting in a comfortable office in New Jersey, not where it’s kill or be killed, it’s easy to intellectualize about the Israelis’ actions.

David Neubart

Chandler, Ariz.

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Joanne Palmer

What exactly is a garmento?Is it a cringe-making label or a

badge of honor?Does the stereotypical garmento

embody traditional Jewish values? Or does he (or far less often she) defy or deny them?

Why did so many Jews go into the rag trade anyway?

And Sam, really, why did you make the pants so long?

Steven Fischler of Teaneck and his business part-ner, Joel Sucher of Hartsdale, N.Y., examine these questions — well, at least some of them — and simi-lar ones in a documentary, “Dressing America: Tales From the Garment Center.” Created in 2009, it will be broadcast a number of times on Channel 13 and on WLIW, beginning on September 2, to mark Fashion

Jews in theGarment Center

Local documentary maker looks at Jewish garmentos, anarchists, musicians, and other unusual Americans

Andrew Kozinn, the owner of St. Laurie Merchant Tailors, and his son, Jacob, are interviewed in “Dressing America.” Katsumi Funahashi, 2010

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Week in New York City.“The film looks at two things,” Mr. Fis-

chler said. “It talks about the Jewish immi-grant roots of today’s garment industry. Some of the Jewish immigrants who came over didn’t have a lot of money, but they had the skills — certainly sewing and clothes-making was something that Jews did in Europe. They brought their skills to this country, and they helped create the billion-dollar fashion industry that we have today.”

Much of that history is shown through old photographs and film snippets, and excerpts from both English- and Yiddish-language movies.

“The other aspect is a little bit of a slice of life,” he said. “There are some recurrent characters, who have been in the industry for a long time, and reflect the golden age of the garment industry, before every-thing got outsourced — when people didn’t have 90-page contracts but cut deals on a handshake.

“Of course,” he added, “the garment center was much smaller then; much more of a small town than it is today.”

The garment center wasn’t all Jewish, he added; like many of the New York City neighborhoods where its workers lived, it also was Italian. “But it had a very large and strong Jewish aspect,” and much of the documentary focuses on it.

Not only did some Jews come to New York with sewing skills — as they came to Paterson — they also brought an entrepre-neurial orientation and a quick-witted will-ingness to take chances.

“The garment center in New York City really is women’s wear,” Mr. Fischler said. “Men’s wear is mainly in the Midwest, particularly in Chicago, with big compa-nies like Hart Schaffner and Marx.” That’s because men’s styles change slowly — the lapel might wax and wane — so it is far eas-ier and safer to produce large numbers of basic items, and to charge more for them. “But women’s fashion changes every year, and it affects the nature of the business. Women’s fashion companies were much smaller and more highly specialized, and it was a more difficult business.

“If you picked the right dress, you made a lot of money. If you picked the wrong one — if, say, you went for a long skirt in

a year when the style was short — you were going to go bankrupt.” Bankruptcy is never pleasant, but it looms less for some-one who already has left home, crossed a continent using his wits and then steamed

across an ocean in stomach-turning steer-age, started a new life from scratch, and learned that it is almost always possible to start all over yet again.

There is always a great deal of creativity

in the fashion business, and it is not all con-fined to the designers (who, by the way, were not known by name in the ready-to-wear trade until Anne Klein came along). “In the film, you’ll see an interview with John Pomerantz, the son of Fred Pomer-antz, who founded Leslie Fay,” a large, well-known women’s wear manufacturer. “He tells the story of how, during the war” — World War II — “he was asked to make uniforms for the WACs” — the Women’s Army Corps. The Army had given Mr. Pomerantz the sizes they wanted, and told him that they wanted “real clothes for real people.”

After the war, in a test, Mr. Pomerantz made two batches of clothing, “one with the sizes the WACs gave him, and the other in the traditional sizing the industry had been using. He sent both to Filene’s Base-ment in Boston, and the ones with the smaller sizes” — the more realistic, WAC-driven sizes — “sold out like crazy.”

Mr. Pomerantz had created petite sizes.“He ended up running an extremely

profitable business,” Mr. Fishler said.(There is some irony in this. Women’s

wear since has gone in the other direction, with so-called vanity sizing acknowledging the truth that in the last few decades, most

Pacific Street Film Collective members Howard Blatt, Joel Sucher, and Steven Fischler on location for a WNBC documen-tary series, “Connecticut Illustrated.” ed Guilbaud, 1975

Business partners Steve Fischler, left, and Joel Sucher, shown in 2010, were childhood friends. layla morGan Wilde, 2010

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Americans, men and women both, have grown larger. The smallest petite sizes Mr. Pomerantz made mostly likely look Lillipu-tian now.)

Anne Klein, he added, made that name for herself by creating the idea of sports-wear, selling women separates, pieces that they could match as they chose, and wear from year to year, perhaps with changing accessories.

Mr. Fischler, who has lived in Teaneck since 1990, in many ways is a throwback to the town as it used to be, when its Jewish-ness was expressed more through progres-sive political action than religion.

He comes by his activism naturally. He grew up in Brooklyn, the son of a mother from a family of union organizers and a father who descended from entrepre-neurs. “Both sides of the picket line,” he joked; those two groups also provided many of the Garment Center stars.

Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher, who met when they both were 9, have been making documentaries since they were in college, working toward undergraduate degrees in film at NYU. Their first film together, “Red Squad,” “was a look at police and FBI intel-ligence gathering in New York during the anti-Vietnam War movement,” Mr. Fischler said. “When we started to make the film, they started to investigate us, so we filmed them investigating us.” It was inadver-tently and blackly funny.

“We were harassed by the New York City police,” he continued. “They didn’t like us

filming them. They tried to intimidate us — I was arrested but never charged. We wrote letters to all the newspapers, detail-ing the police harassment.

“This was in 1970. In 1971, Nat Hent-off” — a longtime investigative reporter at the then provocative and influential downtown weekly Village Voice (and also a jazz critic, among many other things) — “published the letter on the front page of the Village Voice. That started a series of

articles that he wrote about us. Immedi-ately after this coverage started, with the police getting such negative publicity in the press, they started to leave us alone.”

The two men were not willing to leave it alone, though. So “Joel Sucher and I became named plaintiffs in 1972, in Hanschu vs. Special Services Division. That lawsuit is probably one of the longest class-action lawsuits in New York State history.” After 14 years, the suit was settled — sort

of. “There was a settlement with the city, which set guidelines; there was a window where everyone could get their records, and the judge set limits on how under-cover agents could be used. It was consid-ered a big victory for civil liberties. It also was complicated because both federal and state governments were involved.”

And it’s still not over, Mr. Fischler said.“More recently, after 9/11, the police

department went back to court, and said that the terrorists are such a threat that we have to throw out this ruling. The judge allowed it, but only under his supervision. The fact that the city had settled under federal law means that the federal court has oversight.”

Through their production company, Pacific Street Films, Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher have made about 100 films. Some are independent documentaries and some are commissioned; some are biographies of actors, including Nick Nolte, and others are more socially conscious and hard-hit-ting. As is true of artists in just about any medium unlucky enough to be born with-out trust funds or rich uncles in Australia, much of their work is fundraising, particu-larly for their dream projects.

They also did crew work for domestic and foreign broadcasters after they gradu-ated from film school; among their credits is Saturday Night Live, where they worked, among other things, on John Belushi’s famous “Don’t Look Back in Anger” segment.

“Dressing America” is Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher’s third documentary to focus on Jews. The first, “Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists,” made in 1980, was followed by 1983’s “Anarchism in America.” “Free Voice of Labor” looked at the elderly anarchists as they finally folded their news-paper, the Fraye Arbeter Shtime.

“The Jewish anarchists were anti-reli-gious, but they approached anarchy with the religious zeal that would not be unfa-miliar to religious Jews,” Mr. Fischler said. “Their idea of religion was mutual aid.”

The second documentary on anarchism took the filmmakers on a trip across the United States. “We were exploring an idea that was being discussed at the time — are the ideas of anarchism in some way syn-onymous with what we think of as Ameri-can ideas — self-reliance, distrust of gov-ernment, decentralism, a do-it-yourself ethic,” Mr. Fischler said. It included inter-views with some of the Jewish radicals fea-tured in the first film as well. Perhaps iron-ically — and perhaps not — that film was funded in part by the National Endow-ment for the Humanities.

“From Swastika to Jim Crow,” aired on PBS in 2001, tells the story of the Ger-man Jewish academics who escaped the Holocaust only to find themselves virtu-ally unemployable in their haven, the United States. Many of them were able to get jobs at historically black colleges in the South, where they developed close

In 1977, Steven Fischler was the soundman for a famous John Belushi Saturday Night Live segment, “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” tom schiller, 1977

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bonds with their students.Mr. Fischler and Mr. Sucher now are working on a

project they are calling “Music and the Mob,” which grew out of a 1983 documentary called “I Promise to Remember: Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.” Frankie Lymon, one of the first black singers to cross racial bar-riers, was first the beneficiary and then the cast-aside victim of Morris Levy, “who was Jewish and the godfa-ther of the music industry in the 1950s and ’60s,’” Mr. Fischler said.

Mr. Levy “died about 10 years ago, and people are still afraid to talk about him,” Mr. Fischler said. “He was a heavy hitter.” When he was pressed, Mr. Fischler defined “heavy hitter” not as someone powerful, but as “a tough guy.” A gangster.

“There were allegations of Morris’s relationships with the Gambino family,” one of the Mafia families that ruled this area, Mr. Fischler said. “What is interesting is with the rock and roll industry, black music crossed over to white audiences.

“Stories are legion about black artists who never got paid their royalties — that’s why Morris Levy is listed as the songwriter for ‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love?’” Young singers so desperately wanted their songs on the radio

that they overlooked the importance of the copyright. “So in some ways gangsters were responsible for the integra-tion of the music industry,” Mr. Fishler said. “It’s ironic, of course. They ripped off the artists, and exploited them, but they allowed the music industry to change.

“Before that, it pretty much had been black artists writing songs covered by white teenagers in V-neck sweaters.”

Next up? Probably a film about Jersey City, based on a well-reviewed memoir by Helene Stepinski called “Five Finger Discount.” No, she is not Jewish, but among the book’s supporters is perhaps Jersey City’s most powerful Jew, Mayor Steve Fulop.

Who: steven Fischler of teaneck and his business partner, Joel sucher

What: their documentary “dressing america: tales From the Garment Center,” which looks at Jews and others in the fashion industry, will be broadcast on ...

Where and when: wnet/Channel thirteen on tuesday, september 2, at 10 p.m. and sunday, september 7 at 10:30 p.m.; wLiw on thursday, september 11 at 10 p.m. and Friday, september 12 at 1 a.m.

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PETALUMA, CALIF. — On a cool Sunday evening, Jew-ish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage one by one to perform poems they had composed on the theme of identity.

One girl riffed on being taunted for having “fuzzy eye-brows” and “bushy hair.” Another rhymed about being told “You don’t look Jewish” too many times to count.

If this doesn’t sound like your typical summer camp fare, it’s because Camp Be’chol Lashon has a markedly different mandate than most Jewish camps.

Nestled in the misty hills of Marin County, the north-ern California camp is the country’s only Jewish sleep-away camp geared to Jews of color.

“Part of the goal is to make these kids feel normal in a Jewish context,” said Diane Tobin, the founder and exec-utive director of the camp’s parent organization, the San Francisco-based nonprofit Be’chol Lashon, which pro-motes racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in Jewish life.

Tobin, 61, and her late husband, the eminent Jew-ish demographer Gary Tobin, founded the nonprofit in 2000, three years after adopting an African-American son. Now entering its sixth season, the organization’s camp integrates traditional Jewish practice with educa-tional activities that speak to the diversity of Jewish life around the globe.

Each morning, after the more typical fare of Wiffle ball and field sports, campers gather clues about the country they will “travel” to that day before going through “Customs” and having their makeshift pass-ports stamped. Throughout the day, between kayak-ing and swimming in the pond, campers make food and crafts inspired by the particular country they are “visiting.”

On a recent day, campers spent an afternoon writ-ing poems in an art room decorated with cultural items they had made, including woven baskets from Mexico and feathered raffia masks from Colombia. Aaron Levy Samuels, a New York-based black-Jewish performance poet, had flown in for the day to facilitate the poetry workshop.

Samuels, 25, whose first poetry collection, “Yar-mulkes & Fitted Caps,” was published last fall by Write Bloody Publishing, said that growing up in Rhode Island, he and his brother were the only two black kids at their local synagogue. The son of an African-American, Sam-uels said he identified with the struggles that Be’chol Lashon campers were going through and wished he could have attended such a camp.

Maia Campbell, 14, of San Francisco, who has gone to Be’chol Lashon since its founding, echoed that sentiment.

“It’s been really cool because my synagogue is basi-cally all white people,” said Maia, whose mother is Afri-can-American. “So I saw that there are other people like me.”

The camp is not just for Jews of color, as evinced by one white camper’s poem about her identity as a “nerdy Jewish girl.” It’s also very much a family affair. Tobin’s son, Jonah, is a junior counselor and her daughter, Sarah Spencer, serves as the camp’s co-director.

“The kids all come with very different stories about who they are and where they’ve come to be,” said Ms. Spencer, 38, a marriage and family therapist who also is the mother of two biracial children. “Here they get to practice explaining who they are to one another and we help them to feel good about whatever that is.”

Savannah Henry, a 21-year-old counselor whose father

Where Jews of color go to ‘feel normal’ at summer campis African-American, said that before her rabbi at Congregation Shir Hadash in Los Gatos, Calif., told her about Be’chol Lashon, she had spent a miserable summer at a more mainstream Jew-ish camp.

“I was the only Jew of color,” she said of her experience at a Reform Jewish summer camp in Santa Rosa. “I just didn’t con-nect that well.”

When she discovered Be’chol Lashon four years ago, Ms. Hen-ry’s outlook changed completely.

“If I had been a camper here, I would have fit in perfectly,” she said. “It’s definitely made me more of a proud Jew.”

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Grand strategy for the Middle East?As always we have to say that we don’t know what that has inclueded

Stroll ing through Jerusalem’s historic Yemin Moshe quar-ter on a pleasant

August morning, my ears caught a ringing, melodic sound emanating from within the walls of the Old City, perhaps half a mile from where I stood. This being a Sunday, the sound I heard was the chiming of church bells, welcoming Christian wor-shippers to morning services.

Normally, there is something joyous about the sound of those bells, particularly in a city that contains the key holy sites of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But on this day, I felt a profound sadness upon hearing them. For Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is one of the few places in the Mid-dle East where — despite what malicious anti-Zionist propagandists will tell you — Christians can practice their faith freely.

In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, about one day’s drive from here, only a minuscule handful of terrified Christians remain. The vast majority was driven out by the savage terrorists of the Islamic State jihadist group. The ethnic cleansing of Mosul’s Christians was accompanied by the destruction of many holy sites, includ-ing an 1,800-year-old church and the tomb of the prophet Jonah. As Mosul’s Patriarch Louis Sako mournfully observed at the end of July, “For the first time in the his-tory of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Chris-tians.” On no Sunday morning in that beleaguered city will you hear the sound of church bells.

The Islamic State’s onslaught has raged for several months now. Having spread from Syria into Iraq, the terrorist organiza-tion’s aim is to set up an Islamic caliphate in all the territories it conquers. It’s a mis-take to believe that the national borders that we in the West recognize as sacrosanct are in any way respected by these modern-day barbarians. As far as the Islamic State is concerned, there certainly is no place called Israel, and no place called Kurdis-tan, but there also is no Syria, no Iraq, no Lebanon, no Jordan. All these states are regarded as a contiguous territory where Islamic sharia law—as interpreted by a

group of criminals, rapists, and torturers—will remain eternally supreme.

Unless, of course, we in the West wake up to the threat and understand that the only way to roll back the Islamic State is to pulverize it with-out mercy, killing as many of its fighters as we can, and seizing back some of the crit-ical locations now under its

control. There are, thankfully, signs that this

process now is underway. After months of ignoring a worsening situation, despite the persistent pleas of our Kurdish allies—who along with Israel are the best, most loyal, and most reliable friends the United States has in the Middle East — the Obama admin-istration now is gingerly offering sorely needed military and logistical support. Important European allies, like France and Britain, are following suit, sending weapons and advisors to assist the Kurdish soldiers, the peshmerga, who are the first line of defense against the Islamic State. Backed by U.S. air strikes, the peshmerga have retaken the key Mosul dam.

There was a horrendous irony in the fact that while much bien-pensant opinion in the West was bemoaning a fake genocide in Gaza, a real one was taking place with ferocious rapidity in Iraq, beginning with the Christians and then extending to the Yazidis, an ancient faith of some 500,000 people who are ethnically Kurdish. And had it not been for the astonishing cour-age of a female Iraqi parliamentarian, Vian Dakhil of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the world may well have remained stuck in its myopia.

Earlier this month, Dakhil took to the floor of the Iraqi parliament, delivering an impassioned speech on behalf of her peo-ple that ended with her breaking down and sobbing. Many of those who watched the speech also were in tears as she choked out those desperate, final words; as I listened to Dakhil, my first thoughts were of the Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski and the Jewish Bund international representative Szmuel Zygielbojm, both of whom attempted to alert the Allied powers to the Holocaust befalling Jews

under Nazi occupation.Then, a few days later, when I learned

that Dakhil had been injured in a helicop-ter crash while delivering aid to Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, my heart sank even more. Thankfully, however, Dakhil is alive, and continuing to raise her voice against this grotesque genocide.

The horrors of northern Iraq have com-pelled the Obama administration both to quell its isolationist instincts and to delay the much-vaunted policy pivot from the Middle East to East Asia. However much we try, the Middle East will not let us go. And yet we still have no grand strategy for the region, no sense of how we want it to evolve, no doctrine to bring stability to its suffering peoples. Do we want to pre-serve Iraq’s integrity as a state? We don’t know. Do we want to encourage Kurdish independence? We don’t know. How far are we prepared to go to prevent the cru-cifixions, beheadings, and enslavement of women that have become the hallmarks of the Islamic State? We don’t know.

If we are bombing the Islamic State in Iraq, albeit cautiously, then why are we allowing the atrocities in Syria, carried out by both the Islamic State and by the Iranian-backed Assad regime, to continue? No one, apparently, has an answer.

I’ve heard it said many times that one of the reasons President Barack Obama

doesn’t like foreign intervention is that he believes political change can come only from the people whom intervention is intended to benefit. Obama is not alone; the great British political philosopher John Stuart Mill argued much the same against the background of the Crimean War of the late 1850s.

Very well, then — let us reframe the con-cept of intervention in defense of human rights so that the liberators themselves are those who otherwise would be liberated by outsiders.

Within these parameters, we would not send in troops. But we can provide air sup-port, military training, and weapons, and the expertise to create and sustain post-war democratic institutions by working with politicians like Vian Dakhil.

Such a strategy will mean staying in the Middle East a while longer. It will also mean that when we finally are able take a back seat, we will have left this region a much healthier and happier place than when we found it.

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The streets of North Miami Beach look different since the murder of Rabbi Joseph Raksin. At Northeast 175th Street and 8th Court, in the heavily Orthodox neigh-borhood where he was killed, a memorial of candles is arranged in a Star of David that the community keeps lit. Police officers have stepped up their patrols, filling the streets at all hours.

Rabbi Raksin, a member of the Chabad-Lubavitch chasidic sect who was in town from Brooklyn to visit his grandchildren, was shot on the morning of Sat-urday, August 9, as he walked to synagogue. Though police say no evidence has emerged that anti-Semi-tism was a motive in the crime, or that the killing was linked to several other recent hate crimes, Rabbi Rak-sin’s murder has raised unsettling questions about security in the Miami Jewish community.

It also has the community contemplating secu-rity measures already common at Jewish institutions throughout Europe and South America.

“We don’t know if Rabbi Raksin’s murder was a hate crime or not,” said Jacob Solomon, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Miami Jewish Federa-tion. “We do know that it followed local anti-Semitic incidents. We do know that it happened in a climate of a worldwide dramatic increase in anti-Semitic behav-ior. It happened in a climate of peak concern about anti-Semitism.”

About two weeks before Rabbi Raksin was killed, a North Miami Beach synagogue was spray-painted with swastikas and the word “Hamas.” Cars in nearby Miami Beach were smeared with “Jew” and “Hamas” in cream cheese. The day after Rabbi Raksin’s murder, a vandal scratched a swastika and an iron cross on the door of a car parked for his memorial service.

The incidents raised the specter that anti-Semitism, which has been on the upswing worldwide since the start of hostilities in Israel and Gaza, is a growing risk on the sunny streets of southern Florida.

The Miami-Dade Police Department has said that all indications in its investigation point to the killing as being an armed robbery gone wrong, and Jewish communal officials have praised the police handling of the matter. Still, the murder has placed the Jewish community on edge.

“A lot of people are convinced that this is a hate crime,” said Mark Rosenberg, a local resident and a chaplain for the Florida Highway Patrol.

As a result, local Jewish organizations have inten-sified their focus on security. In a joint statement by the Anti-Defamation League, the Greater Miami Jew-ish Federation, the American Jewish Committee, the Greater Miami Rabbinical Association, and Chabad, local leaders said they were refocusing on coordinat-ing security with police, increasing security training and greater public awareness. A spokesman for the Chabad community of North Miami Beach also said that local institutions were hiring more armed security guards and planning to install more security cameras.

“For decades, institutions in South America and Europe have been hardened, meaning bollards in front of their doors or large cement planters or guards or volunteer groups that provide neighborhood watch services,” the federation’s Mr. Solomon said. “Climati-cally, we are definitely moving in that direction.”

Response to rabbi’s murderMiami Jews fretting over security

Mr. Solomon also noted that while there were anti-Semitic overtones to some local protests of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, the protests generally were small, isolated events.

Crime also is nothing new to the residents of North

Miami Beach. “North Miami Beach in particular is open to neighborhoods that are not good neighborhoods,” said Rabbi Phineas Weberman, a chaplain with the Miami-Dade Police Department.

According to statistics compiled on City-Data.com, the rate of rapes, assaults, and robberies in the city of North Miami Beach, which covers part of the area’s heavily Jew-ish neighborhood, all have been significantly higher than the national average for more than a decade. Alvaro Zabaleta,

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Alleging U.N. bias, Israel again keeping distance from Gaza probeBEN SALES

TEL AVIV — The United Nations probe into the Gaza conflict hasn’t even begun, but Israel already is convinced that it won’t end well.

In a resolution adopted by a vote of 29-1 with 17 abstentions, the U.N. Human Rights Council moved last month to establish a commission of inquiry “to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” The United States cast the sole vote against it.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu criticized the council for choosing to investigate Israel rather than nearby crisis zones such as Iraq or Syria, and implied he would not cooperate with U.N. investigators.

“The report of this committee has already been written,” Mr. Netanyahu said, after a meeting with visiting New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo. “The committee chairman has already decided that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. Therefore, they have nothing to look for here. They should visit Damascus, Baghdad, and Tripoli. They should go see ISIS, the Syr-ian army, and Hamas. There they will find war crimes, not here.”

Israel has been down this road before. After the end of the last Gaza conflict, in early 2009, its government refused to cooperate with a U.N. investigation led by the South African jurist Richard Gold-stone. The probe, dubbed the Goldstone Report, alleged that Israel had targeted civilians intentionally, though Mr. Gold-stone later personally retracted that alle-gation. Israel rejected the original report as inaccurate and biased.

This time, the commission will be chaired by William Schabas, a Canadian-born professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. Mr. Schabas said in an August 12 interview with Israel’s Channel 2 that it would be “inappropriate” to assert that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Last year, Mr. Schabas said that Mr. Netanyahu would be his “favorite” leader to see tried at the International Criminal Court.

Mr. Schabas’ father is Jewish, and he sits on the advisory board of the Israel Law Review. In the Channel 2 interview, he said he would not let his personal opinions affect his investigation.

“What someone who sits on a commission or a judge has to be able to do is to put these things behind them and start fresh, and this is of course what I intend to do,” Mr. Schabas said. “It’s in Israel’s interest to be there in that discussion and give its version of events.

If it doesn’t, then that leaves an unfortunate one-sided picture of it.”

Israeli cooperation could have softened his report’s conclusions, Mr. Goldstone wrote in the 2011 Washington Post Op-Ed in which he backed down from the report’s most scathing criticism of Israel. Mr. Gold-stone noted that subsequent investigations by the Israeli military indicated that it was not Israel’s intent to target civilians.

“Although the Israeli evidence that has emerged since publication of our report doesn’t negate the tragic loss of civilian life, I regret that our fact-finding mission did not have such evidence explaining the circum-stances in which we said civilians in Gaza were targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about inten-tionality and war crimes,” Mr. Goldstone wrote. “Israel’s lack of cooperation with our investigation meant that we were not able to corroborate how many Gazans killed were civilians and how many were combatants.”

Among Israeli legal experts, there is broad agreement that Israel must do its part to present its version of events, even while disagreeing about how best to do that. Only Israel’s state comptroller has indicated that he will be investigating the Gaza conflict.

Amichai Cohen, an international law expert at the Israel Democracy Institute,

said the comptroller’s probe is insufficient and that Israel should launch an investiga-tion by experts.

“The comptroller himself doesn’t have knowledge in international law, in crimi-nal law, in military law. That’s not his spe-cialty,” Dr. Cohen said. “You need some-thing independent and transparent.”

Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based NGO UN Watch and a vocal critic of the Human Rights Council’s treat-ment of Israel, said that Israel should do what it did in 2009: Publish accounts from the conflict that show its side of the story without directly cooperating with the investigation.

“If the U.N. decides to have a one-sided inquiry, they will write a one-sided report,” Mr. Neuer said. “I’m confident Israel will make sure that the commission will have no excuse to say they didn’t have the information.”

Shlomy Zachary, an Israeli human rights lawyer, urged Israel to cooperate with the United Nations, noting that its decision to work with a 2010 U.N. investigation of the so-called flotilla incident helped mitigate criticism of Israel.

That probe, known as the Palmer Com-mission, was charged with investigating the storming of a Turkish boat aimed at breaking Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.

The report ultimately condemned the raid, but it also criticized the conduct of protesters on board the ship and deter-mined that the Gaza blockade was legal.

“When Israel cooperated with interna-tional bodies, the results were in favor of Israel,” Mr. Zachary said. “When Israel is not willing to cooperate, it creates the sus-picion it has something to hide.”

Mr. Neuer agreed that the 2010 probe was a good model for U.N. investigations, but he noted that it was supervised by the U.N. secretary-general, not the Human Rights Council. Mr. Neuer said that given the commission’s record of bias, Israel’s options are more limited.

Ultimately, the latest investigation’s conclusions will not be legally binding on Israel. But if its conclusions are harsh, it could further ratchet up international criticism. Dr. Cohen said that could put added pressure on Israel to exercise restraint should another round of con-flict take place.

“The point in these commissions isn’t just to research the past, it’s to tell the future,” Dr. Cohen said. “The main prob-lem is that a commission will say from now on, this or that should be prohibited. This is very problematic for Israel. That will make it harder next time.”

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A Palestinian child amid the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza on August 18. EMAD NASSER/FLASH90

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Sabras and slap shotsNorth Americans bring hockey know-how to Israel

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BALTIMORE — Drew Koike knew a bit about Israel: its capital, loca-tion, climate and biblical roots. But it never dawned on the 14-year-old Washingtonian that hockey existed in the country.

That was until earlier this year, when the coach of his hometown hockey program invited Drew and two other young charges on a summer trip to Israel to play and teach the sport.

The quartet spent 11 days there, mostly at the ice rink inside Can-ada Centre, a sports facility in the northern town of Metulla.

Four Canadians joined them. They included Laurie Boschman, a former National Hockey League veteran, and Tessa Bonhomme, who played for the Canadian women’s gold medal-winning team at the 2010 Olympics, as well as two teenage goalies.

For the eight North Americans, mostly non-Jews, venturing to the Middle East meant sharing their wisdom with more than 50 Israeli children who are devoted to the sport, despite living in a country with almost no hockey consciousness.

The visit grew out of the trip to Washington, D.C., four months earlier by 24 kids from the Can-ada Israel Hockey School, a pro-gram based at the Metulla rink.

The visit to Metulla reprised the hockey camps run there nearly two decades ago by the late Roger Neilson, a longtime NHL coach and observant Chris-tian who loved Israel. Return-ing to Canada, Neilson would rave about each summer’s experience.

His programs are credited with having planted the seeds of hockey in Israel.

“Our plan from Day 1 was to start up the camp the way Roger Neilson used to do — bring kids here from North America from different backgrounds,” said Mitch Miller of Ottawa, who assembled and accompanied this summer’s group. He plans to make the camp an annual event.

Mr. Miller and fellow Canadian Zach Springer were the only Jew-ish members of the North Ameri-can delegation. And of the five teenagers, only Drew had been abroad before.

“I wasn’t really sure what to expect, but I’ve had a great time,” Drew said during the trip. “The idea of hockey in Israel sounded like two cool things put together.”

Mr. Boschman, who had scored 229 goals for five teams in a 14-year NHL career, had run hockey clinics for youths in four European countries while work-ing for a Christian group, Hockey Ministries International — but never in Israel.

In Metulla, he and Ms. Bon-homme, a defenseman who starred at Ohio State, led morn-ing and afternoon on-ice drills along with midday training ses-sions that included running the rink’s steps and weight and car-diovascular exercises.

Zach Springer and his friend, Jack Moore, both 15 and from Kingston, Ontario, taught their Israeli peers about being goal-ies. By week’s end, Zach said, the two were particularly gratified by the progress shown by one of the Israelis.

Teaching in the program “was one of the main reasons I went,” Zach said.

All the while, the Washing-ton coach, Tom Newberry, was instructing two dozen Israeli coaches seeking certification by U.S.A. Hockey, the Colorado-based organization that pro-motes youth hockey and over-sees coaching. Mr. Newberry is U.S.A. Hockey’s Southeast director.

The Ice Hockey Federation of Israel will honor the certifi-cations, he said, with a goal of developing an indigenous certifi-cation program.

Mr. Newberry said the aim this summer was “to use this group of Israeli coaches as guinea pigs, and see what works.”

Mr. Newberry’s 12 hours of classroom instruction and some on-ice work centered on what he called “the science behind ath-lete-development.” That included training coaches to teach such fundamentals as skating and stickhandling at age-appropriate levels, along with helping the adults fashion a coaching phi-losophy that includes a positive approach and recognizing when kids aren’t grasping a skill, then re-teaching it.

“It’s extremely positive to be

in a room with a bunch of peo-ple who are eager to learn,” Mr. Newberry said. “They’re fully engaged, taking copious notes. It’s exciting to know that. These gentlemen are really more than coaches; they’re students of the game.”

With only three ice hockey rinks in Israel — the others are in Maalot and Holon — most of the participating coaches came from in-line hockey programs.

“These are people who are quite passionate about hockey,” Mr. Boschman said. “That’s really fun to see in a non-traditional hockey market.”

Throughout the program, Mr. Newberry updated the parents of the three Washingtonians on the Hamas bombings of Israel, which happened far from Metulla.

“We’re not letting it bother us,” he said. “We’re completely safe, enjoying the country, the

friendships and the incredible food.”

Before the hockey program started, the visitors spent several days touring. From Metulla, they also took side trips to the Sea of Galilee, the old city of Acre, and the kibbutz and Druse village where several of the Israeli play-ers live.

The mother of one Israeli player told them she’d moved the family to Metulla to be closer to the rink.

“It warms my heart to hear those kinds of stories,” Mr. Miller said.

Of the Israeli players, Drew said, “They’re fun to be with and fun to play hockey with. They’re really talented and work hard. You can tell that just by

watching.”When a U.S.-born soldier the

group ran into asked about Ms. Bonhomme’s gold medal, she took it from her pocket, draped it around his neck, and took his photograph.

Mr. Miller called the experience “a great first step” in deepening hockey’s presence in Israel. By next summer, he hopes to bring so many American and Canadian teen players that the numbers will demand a second program.

The North American and Israeli players and coaches plan to remain in touch by Skype and Facebook.

Mr. Miller said, “They’re not saying ‘Next year in Jerusalem’ but ‘Next year in Metulla.’”

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Above, Ex-NHLer Laurie Bos-chman instructs young Israeli hockey players at the Canada Centre in Metulla in July. Inset right, Mr. Boschman and Tessa Bonhomme, who won a gold medal with the Canadian women’s team at the 2010 Olympics, were members of the eight-person North American delegation. PHOTOS COURTESY LAURIE BOSCHMAN

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n 1 A group of congregants from the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Con-gregation Bnai Israel took part in a Jewish history and heritage tour of Prague, Budapest, and Vienna this summer. The group, led by Rabbi Ronald S. Roth, stands in front of a museum in Lidice in the Czech Republic. The town was destroyed and its residents mur-dered in 1942. COURTESY FLJC/CBI

n 2 The children at Temple Sinai Early Childhood Center summer camp enjoyed a visit from Jack’s Petting Zoo. COURTESY TEMPLE SINAI

n 3 Bris Avrohom Fair Lawn Jew-ish Day Camp, in its seventh year, has a record enrollment of 300 campers for 8 weeks of programs. The licensed camp includes swimming, trips, arts and crafts, lectures, and hot lunch. Among the adults shown here are FLJDC directors Rabbi Mendel and Elke Zaltzman; Bris Avrohom’s ex-ecutive and associate directors, Rabbi Mordechai and Shterney Kanelsky; Rabbi Nosson Kanelsky; BA’s senior rabbi, Rabbi Berele Zaltzman; Fair Lawn’s Mayor John Cosgrove; David Ganz, chair of the Bergen County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and Bergen County Clerk John Hogan. COURTESY BA

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The name Yerusha-layim — Jerusalem — appears 667 times in the Bible.

Yet, Moshe never refers to it by that name. Indeed, he never even identifies the precise location of our holy city and the future Temple. Instead, beginning in our parsha, whenever referenc-ing the national and reli-gious center of the Jewish people, he refers to it with the mysterious designation: “The place God will choose to dwell His Name (or presence) there.”

What is more surprising is that Moshe expects us to find this place by ourselves! “You shall seek out His Presence and come there” (Devarim 12:5). How are we supposed to find it? If God chooses the location, doesn’t He need to let us in on the secret? It seems as if God and Moshe are setting us up for failure.

The Midrash Sifre on Devarim explains

as follows: “‘You should inquire it’ — by means of a prophet. Perhaps you should wait until the prophet tells you (the location)? Says the verse: ‘You shall seek out His Presence and come there.’ Seek it out and find it and afterward the prophet will confirm it for you.”

In fact, continues the Midrash, this is exactly how Yerushalayim was ultimately located. As King David states in Tehillim (132:1-5): “God, remember unto David all

his suffering. How he swore to God, and vowed to the Strong One of Jacob. If I enter the tent of my home, if I go upon the bed that is spread for me. If I allow sleep to my eyes, slumber to my eyelids. Before I find a place for God, resting places for the strong one of Jacob.”

David went out and found Yerusha-layim. He lost sleep and refused to enjoy the comforts available to him until he

was able to locate “the place God will choose.” His initiative was met with Divine providence and only then does the prophet Natan confirm the selection of Yerushalayim.

Finding God’s presence in the world requires human initiative and effort. This choreographed narrative of man’s search to discover the location for God’s Temple teaches us this truth. We could not just ask the prophet; we could not simply wait for God to reveal it to us. We had to seek it out first.

In truth, this idea is not just about geog-raphy. A robust and intimate relationship with God cannot occur in a vacuum or be developed when a person remains passive. We need to prepare ourselves and look for Divine inspiration and not just wait for it to hit us. As Maimonides writes, love for God is achieved through action and effort — through experiencing and contemplating the wonders of God’s world and through learning His Torah (See Rambam, Sefer Hamitzvot, Mitz-vat Aseh #3 and Mishnah Torah, Hilchot

Yesodei HaTorah 2:2).There is a story (told by Dr. David Pelco-

vitz in the forthcoming Koren Ani Tefilla siddur) of a deeply religious man who had suffered such horrible losses in his per-sonal life that he could not bring himself to pray. His sadness was too great. Distraught over what seemed to be an end to his life-time of prayer and communication with God, he travels to visit a rabbi in whom he could confide. “Start small,” the rabbi told him. “Just say one thing, but say it every day.” Following the advice of the rabbi, he begins reciting every day the morn-ing prayer, “Blessed are You… who gives strength to the weary.” In time, he regains faith in prayer and rekindles his connec-tion to God.

One of my rabbis, Rav Yehuda Amital, z”l, used to say, “ein patentim,” there are no quick fixes in Judaism. If we want a relationship with God, we need to put in the effort to develop that relationship.

Rabbi Moshe Stavsky teaches Talmud at the Ramaz Upper School.

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Start of Israeli school year dedicated to Operation Protective Edge’s aftermathThe Israeli Education Ministry has decided to dedicate the first two weeks of this school year, which begins September 1, to Operation Protective Edge and its aftermath.

Schools and kindergartens nationwide have been instructed to incorporate vari-ous activities aimed at addressing the stu-dents’ emotional needs, with the hope of easing them back into the school year after a war-marred summer.

In particular, schools in communities adjacent to the Israel-Gaza border have been instructed to pay special attention to the psychological impact the fighting has had on children, many of whom were forced to leave their homes for the dura-tion of the military campaign.

Meanwhile, Kibbutz Nahal Oz has

decided to fortify the two kindergartens with security walls.

“When we considered the events of the recent weeks and the things that hap-pened during the fighting, especially the fact that almost everyone had to leave Nahal Oz, fortifying these two kindergar-tens became our primary concern,” a resi-dent of the kibbutz told Israel Hayom.

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Netanyahu to Sderot teens: your resilience gives us strength“The public’s resilience, and yours, gives us considerable strength,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told teen-age representatives of Sderot youth groups on Monday in a meeting supporting the southern city’s residents, who are under near-constant threat from rockets.

“We are in the midst of a diplomatic campaign and in a diplomatic campaign...

one needs much strength, patience, per-sistence and wisdom as well,” Netanyahu said, according to Israel Hayom.

The youth group leaders told Netan-yahu about the social and educational initiatives they had undertaken to bring the community together and to support Sderot residents. They also spoke of the efforts they organized to deliver packages to soldiers in Gaza and to visit injured soldiers, women and families with hus-bands and fathers on reserve duty, and bereaved families. JNS.ORG

British supermarket apologizes for removal of kosher foodThe British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s apologized Monday for removing kosher food from the shelves of a London store over the weekend.

A manager at the Sainsbury’s Holborn branch in central London initially made

the decision because he feared looting and violence by anti-Israel protesters. But not all the kosher foods sold at the store were made in Israel, and the decision attracted backlash.

Former Tory party MP Louise Mench tweeted, “Dear @Sainsburys kosher is JEWISH food. Israel is a COUNTRY. How DARE YOU equate Jews’ food to ISRAEL, how dare you #EverydayAntisemitism.”

Sainsbury’s said on its website that it would “like to apologize for any inconve-nience or offense caused” by the kosher food removal.

“The decision was taken in one store only to move these chilled products to cold storage elsewhere in that store for a short period on Saturday as a precaution-ary measure during a demonstration close by,” the chain said, adding that “as a non-political organization, Sainsbury’s would never take such a decision on grounds other than ensuring the quality or safety of our products.”

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Google20. Payroll co. founded by philanthropist

Henry Taub21. Word Meg Ryan repeated six times in

a row in a famous “When Harry Met Sally...” scene

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lets children create their own rabbi dolls)

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the Satmar chasidim33. Far-right Knesset member of note35. It might help catch a carp for gefilte

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by Walter Bernstein)38. Traditionalist Hungarian rabbi42. Abe Vigoda role on “Barney Miller”46. Cry of frustration for Freud47. City in the Jezreel Valley48. Homophone for a Reform youth group49. Etrog part51. Levin or Gershwin52. Behaved like public opinion expert

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Aviv)56. Noah’s pitch, basically57. Possible tools for calculating gematria58. Dreyfus Affair accuser61. Chronic ___ Disease (kidney malady

faced by many Israelis of North African descent)

62. Kohn’s kosher ___, the “home of the killer pastrami”

63. Janis Ian album “Working Without ___”64. Yinglish, e.g.65. Baron of Columbia University?66. Abba alternative

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Showbiz meets shtetlHelping Hollywood get chasidim rightMIRIAM MOSTER

When it comes to chasidic characters in movies, film consultant Elli Meyer believes that the real deal

trumps a random actor in costume.But that approach isn’t without its

challenges.Mr. Meyer, a New York-based Lubavit-

cher chasid, recounted one occasion when he was hired to cast extras for a film but refused upon learning that shooting would take place on Yom Kippur.

“Who told you to hire Jews?” one of the producers said, according to Mr. Meyer, though ultimately the shooting was postponed.

Mr. Meyer is among a handful of Jews from charedi Orthodox backgrounds who have carved out an unusual niche in show business as occasional consultants on films and TV shows aiming to depict chasidic life authentically.

These consultants often find themselves having to dispel misconceptions about cha-sidim as they advise on language, costum-ing, and plot, sometimes even stepping into rabbinic roles as explainers of Jewish law.

Mr. Meyer, 59, has been doing this kind of work for a decade. In 2014 alone he has acted in, consulted on, or done casting work for more than half a dozen TV shows or movies.

He said he was motivated to get into the consulting business because he was appalled by the sloppiness of many charac-terizations of chasidic Jews.

“They think they can slap on an Amish hat and a long black robe, and they’ve cre-ated a chasid,” he said of directors and pro-ducers in general.

Isaac Schonfeld, an Orthodox Jew who graduated from Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah high school in Queens, has consulted on several independent films.

Most recently, Mr. Schonfeld consulted for the 2013 comedy “Fading Gigolo,” directed by John Turturro, who stars as a novice prostitute being pimped out to female clients by a friend, who is played by Woody Allen. One of the major plot lines focuses on a budding romance that develops between Mr. Turturro’s charac-ter and a lonely chasidic widow who hires him as a masseur.

Mr. Schonfeld brought Mr. Turturro and several crew members to Chulent, a social gathering he runs in New York, that is popu-lar among many former chasidim and oth-ers on the margins of the charedi world.

Mr. Schonfeld has other acquaintances

who also helped with the film. One, Malky Lipshitz, contributed religious artwork and consulted with Vanessa Paradis, the French actress who played the chasidic woman in the film. Others submitted voice recordings for actor Liev Schreiber to use to practice his inflection in his role as a member of a chasidic community patrol vying for the widow’s affections.

Mr. Schonfeld pointed to one significant change that resulted from his advice. He said that Mr. Turturro had planned to name the chasidic widow Avital, wrongly believ-ing it to be an authentic-sounding chasidic name. Mr. Schonfeld noted that some peo-ple have a tendency to believe that Israeli and charedi names are interchangeable.

Mr. Schonfeld recommended similar alternative names that would be more plausibly chasidic but would still accom-modate Mr. Turturro’s attachments and artistic considerations. In the end Avital was renamed Avigal.

But the naming of characters was a minor challenge compared to another conun-drum: finding a Yiddish word for “pimp,” to be used in a scene before a rabbinic court, where Mr. Allen’s character is accused of providing a male prostitute for a chasidic woman. Finding the one word, “alfons,” which is rarely if ever used in contemporary

chasidic parlance, required a significant amount of research on Mr. Schonfeld’s part.

When it comes to meticulousness, “Fad-ing Gigolo” does not stand alone. “Felix and Meira,” a forthcoming independent Cana-dian film that follows a chasidic woman from Montreal who engages in an extra-marital affair with a non-Jewish man, also required significant research, consultation, and visits to the charedi community.

Several former chasidim consulted for the film in varying capacities. Rivka Katz, formerly a Lubavitcher chasid, consulted on the script, while Luzer Twersky and Melissa Weisz, who studied at Satmar cha-sidic schools growing up, both acted and consulted. Mr. Twersky plays the protago-nist’s husband and Ms. Weisz has the part of a chasidic woman, a minor character in the film.

They pointed to the verisimilitude of a scene set during a Shabbat meal.

“The shtreimel” — fur hat — “was real, the bekeshe” — frock coat — “was real, the chicken soup was real,” Mr. Twersky said.

Even though it was not actually shot on Shabbat, the scene seemed so authentic that Ms. Weisz, who acted in the scene, said that on a visceral level it felt wrong to be engaging in un-Shabbat-like activity like filmmaking.

Afterward, when conversation turned to the movie, “I got mad,” Ms. Weisz recalled, “because they shouldn’t be talking about that on Shabbos.”

But film consultants do not always agree with one another on what makes for the most authentic depiction of chasidim.

On Twitter, Mr. Twersky had criticized the 2010 movie “Holy Rollers,” starring Jesse Eisenberg as a drug-running yeshiva student, for its costuming choices and other issues. He tweeted: “guys with peyos don’t wear short suits and fedora hats.”

Mr. Meyer, who worked on the film, says he advises a “mish-mosh look,” piecing together the hat from one chasidic sect and the side curls of another, unless the director has a particular sect in mind.

To Mr. Twersky, that was one of several of the film’s failings.

But he acknowledges that departures from authentic portrayals of chasidic life are not always such a bad thing.

“We need to get over the fact that we don’t own the story of chasidic Jews,” Mr. Twersky said.

He noted that artistic considerations often result in departures from reality.

“Nobody wants to see regular people doing regular things,” Mr. Twersky said. “That’s not a movie.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

Luzer Twersky, right, consulted on and plays a chasidic character in the forthcoming film “Felix and Meira.” JULIE LANDREVILLE

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Friday AUGUST 22

Shabbat outdoors: Temple Beth El of Closter and Temple Emeth of Teaneck invite the community to an informal “Prayers on the Palisades” service at 6:30 p.m., at the State Line Lookout off the Palisades Parkway. All are welcome; bring a lawn chair and bug spray. In case of inclement weather, services will be at TBE, 221 Schraalenburgh Road, Closter. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.

Shabbat in Teaneck: The Jewish Center of Teaneck offers Carlebach-style davening, 7 p.m. 70 Sterling Place. (201) 833-0515 or www.jcot.org.

Shabbat in Jersey City: Temple Beth-El offers services with guest speaker Jim Nelson, executive director of St. Paul Lutheran Church’s food pantry, who will discuss “Hunger in Our City,” 8 p.m. 2419 Kennedy Boulevard. (201) 333-4229 or [email protected].

Saturday AUGUST 23

Shabbat in Teaneck: The Jewish Center of Teaneck offers services at 9 a.m.; then Rabbi Lawrence Zierler discusses “Journalism as Religion: Religious Disgraces Recounted and Dissected on the Broadsheet,” as part of the Three Cs — “Cholent, Cugel, and Conversation.” Kinder Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds, while parents attend services, 10:30-11:45. 70 Sterling Place. (201) 833-0515 or www.jcot.org.

Wednesday AUGUST 27

Blood drive in Teaneck: Holy Name Medical Center holds a blood drive with New Jersey Blood Services, a division of New York Blood Center, in the hospital parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718 Teaneck Road. (800) 933-2566 or www.nybloodcenter.org.

Thursday AUGUST 28

Summer concert in Wayne: The Summer Concert series at the YM-YWHA of North Jersey concludes with a performance by a klezmer band, the Big Galut(e), headed by violinist Sasha Margolis, 7 p.m. $12. (973) 595-0100, ext. 237.

Tuesday SEPTEMBER 2

History lecture in Tenafly: Dumont historian Dick Burnon gives a lecture, with video, on the “1886 Chicago Haymarket Affair” at a meeting of the REAP (Retired Executives and Active Professionals) at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 11 a.m. All are welcome. 411 East Clinton Ave. (201) 569-7900, ext. 235 or www.jccotp.org.

Wednesday SEPTEMBER 3

Remembering the Borscht Belt: Marty Schneit offers a presentation, “The Borscht Belt,” reliving memories about old Route 17, the Big Apple Rest, bungalow colonies, Grossingers, the Concord, Kutsher’s, Red Buttons, Myron Cohen, Buddy Hackett, Sid Caesar, Henny Youngman, Milton Berle, and Joan Rivers, at JCC Rockland in West Nyack, N.Y., 1 p.m. Refreshments. Sponsored by Friedwald Center. $5. 450 West Nyack Road. Bonnie, [email protected], or (845) 362-4400, ext. 109.

SinglesSunday AUGUST 24

Water park: West of the Hudson, a Jewish young professionals group from their 20s to their early 40s, is going to Camelbeach Water Park in the Poconos. To register, go to http://bit.ly/UGaGot or email [email protected].

The Leonora Messer 2014 Summer Concert Series continues outside on the

patio, weather permitting, at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh on Tuesday, August 26, at 6:30 p.m., with a performance by George Tuzzeo. Series concludes with Ed Goldberg & the Odessa Klezmer Band on September 16. 10 Link Drive. (201) 784-1414.

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Belz School publishes journal, releases double albumThe 32nd edition of the annual Jour-nal of Jewish Music and Liturgy, edited by Cantor Bernard Beer, director of Yeshiva University’s Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music, has been published, and the school also has released its first album in the Nusah Legacy Recordings Project.

The Journal of Jewish Music and Lit-urgy offers essays on Jewish music and prayer written by distinguished rabbis, cantors, musicologists, physicians, psy-chologists, and educators. The Nusah Legacy Recordings Project captures the yearly Jewish prayer cycle as it is taught in academic coursework at Belz. The first album, a CD set featuring Cantor Beer,

offers the liturgy for the Rosh Hashanah Musaf service.

Yiddish-language audio book library accessible onlineAn extensive collection of Yiddish-lan-guage audio books is available for free listening and downloading through a project of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass.

The Sami Rohr Library of Recorded Yiddish Books, which features about 150 titles, includes novels, short stories, non-fiction works, memoirs, essays, and poetry, by major and lesser-known Yid-dish writers.

The recordings were made at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal in the 1980s and 1990s, after a patron requested Yiddish audio books for his wife, whose failing eyesight prevented her from reading the literature she loved. The collection grew over the years thanks to dedicated volunteers—some of them professional actors, many of them laymen, all of them native Yiddish speakers—who devoted hours of their time to reading and recording the books

in a makeshift studio in the library’s basement.

The Yiddish Book Center, in partner-ship with the Jewish Public Library, digi-tally remastered those recordings and previously released a number of titles from the Sami Rohr Library on CD. Now the entire collection is accessible on the Center’s website (www.yiddishbookcen-ter.org/sami-rohr-library).

Library highlights include works by such well-known Yiddish writers as nov-elists I.J. Singer, I.L. Peretz, and Sholem Asch, and poets Chaim Nachman Bialik and Avrom Sutzkever. The collection also includes works by Sholem Aleichem, including his Tevye der Milkhiker (Teyve the Dairyman), read by renowned actor Shmuel Atzmon, founder and director of Yiddishpiel Theater in Tel Aviv. Dora Wasserman, founder of an eponymous Yiddish theater in Montreal, reads a col-lection of short stories.

Free concert at bergenPACAllison Strong, a former Performing Arts School singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, performs at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on Sunday, August 31, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Refresh-ments are available for purchase. Call (201) 227-1030. Allison Strong

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Ex-WNBA chief Donna Orender looks backSees NBA breakthrough for women as a show of respect

HILLEL KUTTLER

BALTIMORE — As a former WNBA presi-dent who played in what is considered the first U.S. professional basketball league for women, Donna Orender has been eager for a trailblazing female to join the National Basketball Association in a promi-nent role.

So she was plenty pleased last week when the world champion San Antonio Spurs hired Becky Hammon, a point guard with the WNBA’s Stars of the Texas city, as a paid assistant coach — a first in NBA history.

“Becky’s a special woman, a great player, a student of the game,” Ms. Oren-der said last week of the veteran back-court ace. “I always thought that the real breakthrough would be a woman coach-ing in the NBA because it would indicate a real level of respect. I was always wait-ing for it.”

Waiting and helping to pave the way.Ms. Orender, an All-America guard

at Queens College, was one of the few women to play in all three seasons of the Women’s Professional Basketball League, which lasted from 1978 to 1981. She led the Women’s NBA from 2006 to 2011, enjoying “incredible respect amongst those of us in the business,” recently retired NBA Com-missioner David Stern said.

Now leading a nonprofit organization, Generation W, she is mentoring girls and young women, including by hosting an annual forum of experts in politics, philan-thropy, business, and self-improvement. The group also provides guidance on get-ting into college and making a difference in the world through voluntarism.

Ms. Orender, 57, serves on the boards of Maccabi USA and the V Foundation for Cancer Research, which was established

in memory of collegiate basketball coach Jim Valvano, and she was co-chair of the Sports for Youth committee of the UJA-Federation of New York.

During Mr. Orender’s eight-year ten-ure, Sports for Youth more than tripled its annual fundraising, to $450,000 annually, said its director, Danielle Zalaznick.

“She’s an amazing leader. She has very creative ideas,” Ms. Zalaznick said.

Ms. Orender puts those ideas to use now as the principal of Orender Unlim-ited, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based firm that conducts strategic planning and market-ing for companies.

Sports, however, remain central to her life. It was in that arena that Ms. Orender made her professional mark, despite set-ting out to be a social worker or sociologist.

After doing research at ABC for such sportscasters as Jim Lampley and the ven-erable Jim McKay, Ms. Orender worked for 17 years as an executive for the PGA Tour, the main organizer of professional golf tournaments primarily for men, before taking the reins of the WNBA. Estab-lished by the NBA nearly two decades ago, the WNBA remains the most prominent female sports league in the country.

It was her track record from the playing and financial sides that appealed to Mr. Stern when he hired Ms. Orender for the post. She understood basketball “from the ground up,” he said.

“She was a great basketball player. She was an early player in a league back then and has a passion for the game,” Mr. Stern added. “She was a ranking person in the PGA, who got to know everything about our sponsorship and our business, and had an understanding of production and production values.”

Ann Meyers Drysdale, a longtime friend with whom Ms. Orender starred in the

backcourt of the WBL’s New Jersey Gems, says she and Ms. Orender still talk about the WNBA and its role in further advancing women’s athletics. Ms. Meyers Drysdale, a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, is an executive with both the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury.

For Ms. Orender, basketball also holds importance for her family and its Jewish identity through involvement in the Mac-cabi movement.

“I love the game,” she said. “It’s a pas-sion of mine. It helps me stay close to youth, Judaism and also connect with my own kids.”

Ms. Orender accompanied her 17-year-old twins, Zachary and Jacob, and their Maccabi USA youth team on a nine-game, 12-day trip earlier this summer to play Maccabi and club teams in London,

Amsterdam, and Frankfurt. Their itinerary included Jewish heritage sites and a game against a Dutch team of wheelchair-using athletes, with the able-bodied Americans also using wheelchairs.

Basketball was a means of “spreading good will, developing relationships and meeting some of our Maccabi brethren overseas,” said Ms. Orender, who also has two stepchildren.

Last summer, the Orender twins played in Israel in the Maccabiah, a quadren-nial international sports festival, just as their mother had in 1985. As they entered Jerusalem’s Teddy Kollek Stadium for the opening ceremony, her sons grabbed Ms. Orender’s hand and said, “This must be a dream for you.”

“It absolutely is,” she said.Ms. Hammon, whose 15-year WNBA

career will conclude this summer, was “one of my kids’ favorite players,” Ms. Orender said, and they saw Ms. Hammon in action many times when Ms. Orender led the WNBA.

Mother and sons often shoot baskets and break down game film. Ms. Orender concedes that “it’s very hard” to keep mum during games and let the boys’ coaches do their jobs. She’ll offer help if they ask, and they do, often seeking tips on in-game strategy, shooting and mak-ing decisions on passing in the flow of a game, she said.

She seems to revel in the entire sports experience. Ms. Orender recalls an Indi-ana Fever home playoff while serving as WNBA president, when she climbed to the top rows and gazed upon the sold-out arena.

“It was a very proud moment that really showcased the fans’ passion, the ability to grow a business, the athletes,” she said.

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Donna Orender says she was “always waiting” for a woman to be hired for a prominent role in the NBA. COURTESY DONNA ORENDER

Response to rabbi’s murderMiami Jews fretting over security

a spokesman for the Miami-Dade police, said the district had been “an active area” for shootings in 2014.

For now, daily life has resumed, but with a fear-ful edge. CBS 4 Miami reported that on the most recent Shabbat, residents walked to synagogue in clusters for safety. The local community has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Rabbi Raksin’s two assailants, who remain at large.

“From a Jewish perspective, from a moral per-spective, of course a hate crime makes a huge dif-ference,” Mr. Rosenberg said. “But from a safety perspective, for a residential neighborhood, it doesn’t really matter. You don’t want to live in a neighborhood where people get shot.”

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Ancient coins from time of Jewish revolt against Rome unearthedAncient bronze coins dating back to 69/70 C.E., the time of the Jewish revolt against Rome, were discovered in an archeological excavation of an ancient village in Israel. The village itself was discovered by construction workers expanding a highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

The 114 coins contain an image of a lulav and two etrogim—two of the four species of the Sukkot holiday—and the Hebrew inscription “Year Four,”

in reference to the fourth year of the revolt. On the other side of the coins another inscription reads, “For the redemption of Zion.”

“They are not referring to religious redemption, but to salvation. In other words, the minters of the coins were expressing a hope that the revolt would end well,” said Dr. Donald Zvi Ariel, head of the coins division at the Israel Antiquities Authority. JNS.ORG

Indians march in pro-Israel rally

Nearly 20,000 participants gathered at a pro-Israel rally in Kolkata, India, Saturday, marching with banners and

giving speeches against the terrorist group Hamas.

“The destiny of both India and Israel as thriving democracies are inter-twined. We both share the same val-ues,” said rally organizer Tapan Ghosh, according to the Times of Israel.

The rally was organized by an Indian political movement, the Hindu Sam-hati, which commemorates Gopal Mukhopadhyay, “a local hero who saved many innocent lives during the Great Calcutta Killing.” The Great Cal-cutta Killing refers to a week of Hindu-Muslim rioting that took place in 1946.

India and Israel are both “sur-rounded by very tough neighbors” and are united by peace, Ghosh said.

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Hortense ChrismanHortense Chrisman, neé Singer, 95, of Paterson, died August 14. She was an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War II. A Beaver College graduate, she was an interior designer and a longtime member of Temple Emanuel in Paterson.

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Henny SchachterHenny Schachter, neé Feuerstein, 89, of Rock-leigh, died August 18. Born in Vienna, before retiring she was a ladies hat buyer in New York City. Two daughters, Tina Carbone of Cliffside Park and Gail Ilic of Pound Ridge, N.Y.; a brother, Herb Feuerstein of Fort Lee, and two grandchil-dren survive her. Donations can be sent to Congregation Gesher Shalom/ JCC of Fort Lee or the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation. Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort Lee.

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Englewood Hospital and Medical Center named among “most wired” Englewood Hospital and Medical Center was honored as one of the “most wired” hospitals and health sys-tems in 2014. The recognition was granted based on the results of the 16th annual Most Wired survey, spon-sored by the Hospitals & Health Network. The survey evaluates the advancements hospitals have made in information technology in four categories: infrastruc-ture, business and administrative management, clini-cal quality and safety, and care continuum.

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EHMC’s advanced electronic medical record system and the recently launched online patient portal exemplify the tremendous strides the center has made in information technology over the past five years. These technologies create a cohesive and transparent system of information sharing among patients, physicians, and other healthcare providers. EHMC’s major IT initiatives reflect its ongoing commitment to stay on the leading edge of technological advancements, which support its mission to provide the highest quality care in a compassionate environment.

Summer recipes from Teaneck Farmers’ MarketThe Teaneck Farmers’ Market Second Annual Cooking Challenge took place August 14. It was organized by Robyn Samra of Pickle-Licious, along with her staff and the Cedar Lane Management Group’s market manager, Margaret Aaker. The event brought hundreds of peo-ple to line up on a buffet-type line for a free sampling of easy summer recipes designed by the vendors. To try the recipes at home, go to the market’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/TeaneckFarmersMarket.

The market continues to collect non-perishable food items for the Center for Food Action and Teaneck’s Helping Hand. Drop-off times are 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. for CFA, and 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. for Helping Hands. Many of the people who need these contributions are struggling to keep their households afloat, and with schools opening soon, a trip to these food pantries can give their families some nourishing meals.

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Dr. Henry Abramson appointed dean of Lander College of Arts & SciencesTouro College has appointed Dr. Henry (Hillel) Abramson as academic dean of the Lander College of Arts & Sciences in Flatbush. Dr. Abramson has been dean of academic affairs and student services for Touro College South in Miami, Fla., since 2006.

“Over the last eight years Dr. Abramson has demonstrated his ability to improve the student experience while strengthening the academic quality at Touro College South,” said Dr. Alan Kadish, president and CEO of the Touro College and University System. “We look forward to seeing Dr. Abramson bring those same talents to LAS.”

In his new role, Dr. Abramson will be tasked with improving the overall educational product at LAS. Initially he will concentrate on academic issues, in particular faculty development and training, working closely with Dr. Robert Goldschmidt, executive dean of LAS and Touro’s vice president for planning and assessment.

“I welcome Dr. Abramson to our leadership team and look forward to his assistance in expanding our programs and introducing new honors options at our campus,” Dean Goldschmidt said. “LAS has transformed the lives of thousands of men and women over the past 38 years, enabling graduates to support Torah families with dignity. Together with Dr. Abramson, we look forward to extending our reach and continuing to serve the educational needs of the Jewish community.”

Dr. Abramson will remain at Touro College South through the 2014-15 academic year and assume the position of dean at LAS in July 2015. As well as tending to his responsibilities at Touro College South, he will use the year to learn more about LAS and ensure a smooth transition.

Dr. Abramson earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Toronto in 1995, writing a dissertation on the Jews of Ukraine. Before joining Touro College as the dean of the Miami Beach campus, Dr. Abramson held post-doctoral and visiting appointments at Harvard, Cornell, Oxford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a tenured associate professor of history and university scholar of Judaica at Florida Atlantic University of Boca Raton.

He has published several books on Jewish history and thought, including “A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920” (Harvard, 1999); “Reading the Talmud: Developing Independence in Gemara Learning” (Feldheim, 2006); and the forthcoming “The Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Date Palm of Devorah.” Dr. Abramson has received many distinguished awards for his research and teaching, including fellowships from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he received the Excellence in the Academy Award from the National Education Association.

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YU’s Sy Syms School of Business debuts new curriculum and majorYeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business will launch a new curriculum and a new major in business intelligence and marketing analytics this fall.

Incorporat ing s tate - of- the -ar t technique in modern business education philosophy, the new curriculum is designed to grant students the flexibility and options to create a customized, unique educational experience perfectly tailored to suit their career interests.

“There’s a recognition now that we are all entrepreneurs of our own careers,” said Dr. Moses Pava, dean of Sy Syms. “We believe that this new and exciting curriculum, with its continued emphasis on communications skills, critical thinking, functional skills, entrepreneurial leadership, professionalism, social responsibility, and ethics, will be attractive to both current and prospective students, and will provide them with the education necessary to succeed both professionally and personally in today’s fast-changing, interconnected global economy.”

“Students can focus intensely on one functional area if they so wish or ground themselves in fields across the breadth of the business world,” said Dr. Avi Giloni, associate dean at Sy Syms. “They could also easily have a major and minor, an area of expertise and an additional focus, and if they really want to differentiate themselves, it becomes much easier to have a double major. We’re giving them the tools to shape their education and sculpt their own careers.”

Changes include making t wo existing operations management and macroeconomics requirements interchangeable with any two liberal arts or business electives, in addition to fewer required courses and more electives in most majors.

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“The benefits of these changes include providing students with more flexibility and better choices, thus meeting the needs of a diverse student population and enabling more efficient course scheduling, more relevant concentrations for today’s data-driven and entrepreneurial business environment, and greater opportunity to integrate liberal arts and business,” Dr. Pava said.

Several new courses will be offered in the fall, including business analytics and programming, systematic and inventive thinking, social media, and business intelligence and consumer insights. In addition, all Sy Syms students will be required to take business and halacha, a course that provides an overview of Jewish ethics as applied to the business world. “That’s the reason we have a business school at Yeshiva University,” Dr. Pava said. “I’m very proud that all our students learn the urgency of ethical conduct as Jews in the business world.” [email protected] · www.MironProperties.com

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Cedar Market celebrating first birthdayTeaneck’s Cedar Market is planning a celebration in honor of its first birth-day on Labor Day, September 1. The event by Gershy Moskowitz Produc-tions will include rides, clowns, cari-cature artists, face painting, magic shows, balloon sculptures, and live music including a concert with a sur-prise guest. There will also be pop-corn, cotton candy, sno cones, give-aways, prizes, and raffles.

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Beautiful Contemp. Picturesque cul-de-sac.

TENAFLY

Unique 4 BR/3 BTH property.

TENAFLY

Stunning home on a cul-de-sac. $2.1M

SOLD!SOLD!

JUSTLEASED!

PICTURESQUE

SETTING!

LOWER EAST SIDE

Renovated 3 BR/1.5 BTH condo. $999,000

UPPER WEST SIDE

Spacious 2 BR pre-war condo. Granite kitchen.

EAST VILLAGE

Sleek one-of-a-kind brownstone penthouse.

MURRAY HILL

Condo bldg. w/doorman, elevator & gym.

JUSTLISTED!

UNDERCONTRACT!

SOLD!SOLD!

CHELSEA

Spacious fl ex 1 BR. Doorman building.

GREENWICH VILLAGE

Gorgeous alcove studio. Doorman bldg.

GREENPOINT

Gorgeous 2-family. 3 BR & 1 BR. $1,895K

WILLIAMSBURG

Sleek penthouse duplex. City views.

SOLD!UNDER

CONTRACT!

INVESTMENT

PROPERTY!

JUSTSOLD!

Jeffrey SchleiderBroker/Owner

Miron Properties NY

Ruth Miron-SchleiderBroker/Owner

Miron Properties NJ

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Cedar Market celebrating first birthdayTeaneck’s Cedar Market is planning a celebration in honor of its first birth-day on Labor Day, September 1. The event by Gershy Moskowitz Produc-tions will include rides, clowns, cari-cature artists, face painting, magic shows, balloon sculptures, and live music including a concert with a sur-prise guest. There will also be pop-corn, cotton candy, sno cones, give-aways, prizes, and raffles.

Stay tuned for event details.The market is at 646 Cedar Lane. (201) 855-8500. www.thecedarmarket.com, [email protected].

North Jersey Jewish Standard, August 22, 2014

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