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Candlelighting: Friday, July 25, 8:02 p.m.

Shabbat ends: Saturday, July 26, 9:06 p.m.

Kaddish for a TexanlThe soldiers walk pastus, two single-file linesbetween the grave-stones, their blank, sunk-en faces barely visible inthe darkness. The coffinappears, hoisted on theirarms and wrapped in anIsraeli flag. We follow inits wake.

Within minutes, some 20,000people have massed around the finalresting place of Sean Carmeli, Texasnative, IDF soldier, soon to be de-clared a Hero of Israel.

We stand silent as the rabbi chants

verses of psalms begging for mercy.We shrug off official instructions onprotocol should a siren sound.

Then a broken, crying, pantingvoice comes over the loudspeaker.Word by impossible word, Seans fa-ther is saying Kaddish. We say amen,and it hits home: A 21-year-old boy isdead.

We all lost a brother today, Mr.Carmelis friend, Elior Mizrachi, saysin his eulogy. He was my role model,my best friend.

Mr. Mizrachi exhales. Across thecrowd, people begin to sob.

Thirteen soldiers died Sunday in a

fierce battle in Gaza, but for Ameri-cans living in Israel, Mr. Carmeli andLos Angeles native Max Steinbergstood out. They were like us, kidswho grew up in the United States butmoved here for a feeling, an ethe-real connection. Both were far fromtheir families but, as Raanana MayorZeev Bielski said in his eulogy of Mr.Carmeli, they felt they had got to theright place.

Many of the tens of thousands whocame to Haifas Sde Yehoshua mili-tary cemetery on Monday night werespurred on by social media, Israeliscalling on each other to attend the

funeral of a lone soldier who had littlefamily here.

The eulogies they heard told astory many American Israelis couldrecognize: Mr. Carmelis high schoolprincipal recounting how he workedespecially hard to catch up to hisIsraeli classmates. Mr. Carmelis broth-er-in-law telling the crowd about howhis house had become Mr. Carmelissecond home, so far from the first.

And then there was the storys sadending.

We miss you so much, said Mr.Carmelis brother-in-law.

BEN SALES / JTA WIRE SERVICE

How you can help IsraellThe Jewish Federation of NorthernNew Jersey is collecting money tohelp Israelis affected by the escalatingviolence in Israel.

The federation will send all thefunds to its social service partners inIsrael, who are being called upon to

help children in areas closest to Gto provide assistance to the disabwho cant get to a safe place whesirens go off, and to counsel peopwith post-traumatic stress disord

Go to www.jfnnj.org/supportisrto donate and for more informati

Cole callingFormer federation headis inspired by

Israeli resiliencelLeonard Cole, past president of theJewish Federation of Northern NewJersey, and other leaders of the Jew-ish Federation of North America werein southern Israel this week, touringareas most affected by rocket at-tacks. He called New Jersey to reportwhat he saw as this paper was goingto press.

Until youre here you do not get

a sense of the terrible conditions

some of the people, particularly insouth, have been putting up with,said.

People everywhere are gratefuthat were here, he continued. Walso get inspired by the tenacity, tdedication of the Israelis. Theres powerful, energizing sense of unitsense of common purpose. It justmy spirits to see this.

The group arrived in Israel Sun-day night. Mr. Cole was scheduledto come home on Wednesday nigbut when we spoke on Tuesday, mplanes were not allowed in or outBen Gurion airport.

LARRY YUD

Leonard Cole speaking with Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky.

True patriot falls in GazalMax Steinberg, a24-year-old from Wood-land Hills, Calif., firstvisited Israel two yearsago on a Birthright Israeltrip.

He fell in love withthe country and thepeople, and he knewhe wanted to be there, said DannyDerakhshannia, Mr. Steinbergs child-hood friend from California.

On Sunday, Mr. Steinberg wasamong the 13 Israeli soldiers killedduring heavy fighting in Gaza onSunday.

Just months after his Birthright trip,Mr. Steinberg moved to Israel andbecame a lone soldier, a term for

diaspora Jews who move to Israel toserve in the Israeli military withouthaving close relatives in the country.

According to the Lone Soldier Cen-ter, an Israeli nonprofit, 5,700 suchpersonnel now serve in the Israel De-fense Forces.

The center was founded in honorof Michael Levin, a lone soldier fromPhiladelphia who was killed in 2006during the Second Lebanon War.

Hearing of the two Americansdeaths is reliving everything we

went through with Michael, Mr.Levins mother, Harriet, said.

A vigil in Mr. Steinbergs memorywas held on Sunday night at a parknear where he grew up. Mr. Derakh-shannia said he and his friend Max of-ten went skateboarding and bicyclingthere.

It was an emotional gathering,said Alex Cohen, another friend fromthe area.

Mr. Derakhshannia recalled that Mr.Steinberg known as Little Maxbecause he was short would takesome big hits during recreationalfootball games, but he would alwaysbounce right up.

He was a tough, tough kid, saidMr. Derakhshannia, who knew Mr.

Steinberg since they were middle-school classmates. Max would neverhold a grudge. Hed always be smil-ing.

Mr. Derakhshannia, who identifieshimself as a nonpracticing Muslimand whose parents are migrs fromIran, called Steinberg a true patriot.

He didnt just stand with the Israelipeople; he was standing up for whatsright, he said, adding, Thats why hewent to Israel to help democracythere. HILLEL KUTTLER / JTA WIRE SERVICE

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can be seen as sexist.But theres no denyingthe fact that showbiz islargely about sex appeal,and very few showbizwomen (or men) objectto their names appear-ing on these lists, whichare very popular on theweb. Recently a Jew-ish website got scads ofvisitors with its terriblyinaccurate list of who isJewish among the 2014Maxim 100. I say if youare going to venture intosexist territory, you mightas well be accurate. So,heres my accurate listof the Jewish women onthe Maxim list. The num-ber preceding their nameis their Maxim ranking.Unless otherwise noted,the woman is an actress:(2) Scarlett Johansson;(9) MILAKUNIS, 30;(33) ASHLEYTISDALE,

29; (41) LAURENCO-HAN, 32; (62) EMILYRATAJKOWSKI, 23; (64)MELISSARAUCH, 34;(66) Israeli model BARPALY, 29; and (84) GALGADOT, 29. Four otherwomen on the list comeup big asterisks: actressLea Michele, whose fa-ther is Jewish, was raisedCatholic; actress LakeBell has three Jewishgrandparents, includingher maternal grandma,but for some reason callsherself not Jewish;model Dylan Penn, thedaughter of the (secu-lar) actor SEANPENN,has just one Jewishgrandparent, her fathersfather, and actress OliviaWilde, whos on that in-accurate list and has onlyincredibly remote Jewishancestry.

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Daniel Stern

TAKING LIBERTIES:

On TV/historicalfootnote

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Ashley Zukerman Gen. Sir John Monash

WGN, the Chica-go-based supercable station, has

decided to venture intooriginal drama program-ming with series thatare sort-of-historical.Salem, a show inspiredby the 17th centurywitch trials in Salem,Mass., premiered lastApril. Here, inspiredmeans that Salemtakes big-time libertieswith the historical facts.Similarly, the new WGN

show Manhattan, whichstarts on Sunday, July 27,at 10 p.m., is inspired bythe Manhattan Project,the famous WWII pro-gram to build the firstatomic bomb. The wholecast of main characters isentirely fictional. The reallead scientist on the proj-ect was J. ROBERTOP-PENHEIMER(1904-1967).In the TV series, the lead-er is a character calledFrank Winter. The otherfictional characters in-clude Glen Babitt (playedby DANIELSTERN, 57), ascientist who is a mentorto other scientists, and

scientist Charlie Isaacs,who is described on theshows website as thisworking class Jewish kidfrom St Louis and he justhappens to be probablythe greatest mind of hisgeneration. ASHLEYZUKERMAN, 31, playsIsaacs. Zukerman wasborn in Los Angeles toJewish parents (I believehis mother is from Israel)and raised in Australia,where his parents bothteach computer-relatedsubjects at prestigious

Monash University.Zukerman has a longtrack record of goodparts in Aussie plays andTV series.

By the way, with all thenews about the 100thanniversary of the startof WWI, its worth notingthat Monash University isnamed after General SirJOHN MONASH(1865-1931), the commander ofall Aussie/New Zealandtroops in Europe duringthe last years of WWI .

He was certainly one ofthe top five Jewish mili-tary figures in the historyof diaspora. The son ofGerman Jewish immi-grants, he was knownfor his even temper, hisconcern for the welfareof his troops, and hisfar-sighted advocacyof coordinated attacksof aircraft, infantry, andtanks. Always a prac-ticing Jew, he also wasthe first president of hiscountrys Zionist federa-tion. 300,000 mourn-ers stood in the streetsduring his funeral, and avillage in Israel is named

for him.Maxims Hot He-brewsTongue firmly

in cheek, I might arguethat the fact that Jewsare the most highly re-garded religious groupin America (Pew Survey,June 2014) is due at leastin part to the astonish-ing rise in the number ofJewish women appear-ing on lists like Maximmagazines 100 HottestWomen in the World.Yes, I know these lists

At the movies:opening July 25Its no surprise that BRETTRATNER, 45, whomade his reputation helming the Rush Hour mo

was tapped to direct Hercules, a new flick about

ancient Greek demigod with rock-hard muscles. Dw

Johnson, formerly known as the Rock, is playing

title role. Meanwhile, SCARLETTJOHANSSON,

the titular star of Lucy, another action flick. This

taps into a modern myth: that there is some formu

device that can turn an ordinary person into a sup

hero. Lucy is forced to be a drug mule for Asian ga

and she is injected with a serum that allows her to

all her brain power she can absorb informatio

instantly, move objects with her mind, and ignore

Dwane Johnson and Brett Ratner on the set

of Hercules.

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Mississippi burning, rememberedPuffin marks jubilee of Freedom Summer

LARRY YUDELSON

It was a summer that changed lives.

It was a ight for American democ-

racy in the face of terrorism.

It was dubbed Freedom Sum-

mer, and it drew 700 college students and

young adults to help Mississippi activists

ight for civil rights.

The year was 1964.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had delivered

his I Have a Dream speech the previous

August, during the March on Washington

for Jobs and Freedom. In Washington,

a far-reaching civil rights bill that would

desegregate public facilities had been

introduced to Congress by President Lyn-

don Johnson but quickly stalled and was

then ilibustered for months.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating

Committee had been formed only four

years earlier. In 1961 it had taken part in

the Freedom Rides, in which racially inte-

grated groups had taken bus rides across

Mississippi together, in violation of local

segregation laws. SNCC had played a lead-

ing role in organizing the 1963 march.

Outside of the national spotlight, SNCC

was working in the deep South to reg-

ister blacks to vote. SNCC organizers

would travel the countryside and knock

on doors. They had a tremendously dif-

icult time. People were incredibly afraid

to talk with them, recalled Dorothy Zell-

ner of Manhattan, who worked for SNCC

at the time, typing up afidavits from the

ield organizers.

The community was very very afraid,

with good reason, because people who

registered to vote were often ired, or their

homes were irebombed, or in some case

they were murdered, she said.

Ms. Zellner will be speaking at the Puf-

in Cultural Forum in Teaneck on Sat-

urday night. She will be part of a panel

marking the 50th anniversary of Freedom

Summer and the opening of a traveling

exhibition on the topic created by Jewish

Currents magazine and sponsored by the

foundation.

Joining her on the panel wil l be Law-

rence Bush, editor of Jewish Currents, a

quarterly magazine that bills itself as a

progressive, secular voice; Theodora Smi-

ley Lacey, an African American leader of

Teanecks desegregation efforts in

the 1960s; Mark Levy, another Free-

dom Summer volunteer, and David

Goodman, Andrew Goodmans

brother. Andrew Goodman was a

Freedom Summer volunteer who

became famous in the worst pos-

sible way: He was arrested, along

with fellow activists Michael Schw-

erner and James Chaney, on June

21, 1964, and then all three were

murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.

Their bodies were not found for a

month and a half, after an intense

FBI search.

Their disappearance became a

major news item, and President

Johnson used the attention to break

the ilibuster and pass the Civil

Rights Act.

It brought national attention to a culture

of Ku Klux Klan violence, which included

beatings, church burnings, and murder

crimes that in large part had escaped

national scrutiny because they involved

Mississippi blacks.

And because Mr. Goodman and Mr.

Schwerner were New York Jews and

Mr. Chaney a native of Meridian, Missis-

sippi, the tragedy also provided martyrs

faces to the black-Jewish alliance that had

fought the Jim Crow system of segregation

through court battles, legislation, and pub-

lic campaigns for brotherhood. It was an

alliance that brought lawyers from civil

rights organizations and lawyers from

Jewish organizations such as the Anti-Def-

amation League and the American Jewish

Committee to a conference table at Reform

Judaisms Washington ofice, where they

drafted the civil rights legislation.

The alliance was visible that summer in

Mississippi; at least a third of the volun-

teers from the North were believed to be

Jewish.

And for those volunteers, like Mr

being Jewish was not a coincidence

the reason they were involved in t

rights movement.

My Jewish teachings and value

it feel like the right thing to do, M

said. And growing up in the shadow

Holocaust, he was taught that if di

nation was tolerated against one gr

could be turned against Jews next.

ing racism was a practical as well as

ical issue, he said.

It was actually Ms. Zellner who re

him for Freedom Summer.

She made it very clear that it

local movement of local black civi

activists that had been struggling fo

and had gotten to the point wher

needed help from around the coun

said. Not only in doing projects in

sippi, but in turning a national spotl

Mississippi.

Ms. Zellner also had been clear

the danger the northern volunteers

She was very upfront and honest

what we would be getting in to, he

Before heading down to Mississi

the SNCC staff and volunteers met

for training. Mr. Levy and his wif

had planned to work on the voter

tration drives. But in Ohio, they m

Schwermers wife, Rita, whom M

had known from Queens College.

Mickey and Rita said to us, w

guys do freedom schools instead o

registration? he recalled. (Th

dom schools were programs for A

What:Mississippi Freedom Summer

50th Anniversary exhibition opening

and panel discussion

Where:Puffin Cultural Forum, 20

Puffin Way, Teaneck

When:Saturday, June 26, 7 p.m.

Protesters march for equal representation. MARK LEVY PHOTO

Mark Levy and Roscoe Jones Sr., veterans of

Meridian Freedom School efforts.

PHOTO COURTESY MARK LEVY

Poster announcing rally for slain

rights activists.


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Americans mainly the children of the

local civil rights activists.) Levy and his

wife agreed, and stayed on for a second

week of training, which was devoted to

the schools.

Right before the end of that irst week,

word came up that one of the churchesthat was going to be used for a Freedom

School in Meridian, Mississippi, had been

burned down and some of the people had

been beaten. So Mickey [Schwerner] and

Andy [Goodman] and James [Chaney] and

some people who had inished the train-

ing went back to Mississippi, Mr. Levy

said. Their irst day back they went up

to check on the church that was burned.

Thats when they got arrested and taken

to jail and then released into the hands of

the Klan.

He and the rest of the Freedom School

teachers had a week more of training in

Ohio. But they did not reconsider heading

south; hardly anybody backed out. We

all had a healthy respect for the situation,

he said. SNCC made us call our parents.

They didnt want anybody coming down

who hadnt really thought it through.

Mr. Levy was one of a group of 15 teach-

ers who were sent to Meridian. They held

classes in a Baptist seminary and stayed

in local peoples homes. They were the

brave people. They risked an awful lot hav-

ing us, he said.

The Freedom Summer volunteers were

embedded in the African American com-

munity. In the evenings we would also

do voter registration work or go to meet-

ings in the communities. On weekends we

would go to churches to meet people.

There was some attempt to reach out

and make contact with the white commu-

nity, he said.

That initiative didnt go well. Neither did

his effort to connect with Meridians small

Jewish community.

My wife and I went to the synagogue,

he said. We were rejected. We werent

even allowed in. We were turned away

by an angry Jewish woman who shouted,

We are Southerners irst you are not

welcome here.

The Freedom School served a couple of

functions, Mr. Levy said.

In part, it served to develop the next

gener atio n of leade rshi p for the civi l

rights movement. Most of the activists in

Mississippi were in their late teens and

early twenties. The high school-aged stu-

dents Mr. Levy taught werent that much

younger. They were being groomed to be

the next wave of leadership.

The Freedom School also was

munity-building experience for ch

whose parents were active in the

ment. There was a range of kids

came from working class or middl

families. Some from very poor fa

Some from the Negro public schools

from the segregated parochial scho

said.

Students went to segregated sc

and most of the schools for black ch

didnt have art or drama. So the volu

brought art and drama and role p

and there was a traveling theater tr

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Adding to Jewish life in CliftonRabbi Moshe Mirsky heads religious services department

at Daughters of MiriamLOIS GOLDRICH

Rabbi Moshe Mir-

sky thinks his

new po si t io n

as the director

of religious services at the

Daughters of Miriam Center/

Gallen Institute in Clifton is a

perfect shidduch.

Actually, it is not quite a

new job. Rabbi Mirsky had

already worked there with

Rabbi Ira Kronenberg, who just retired

from the home this month, in the late

1980s. Back then Rabbi Mirsky was study-

ing for simicha rabbinic ordination. He

worked there once again in the 1990s,

whil e he was teac hing at vari ous day

schools.

I would come on the weekends for

Shabbat and on yom tov to assist Rabbi

Kronenberg, he said. I would lead

davening, give Torah classes, go to the

Alzheimers unit, and try to engage the

residents Jewishly. I had a special rap-

port with Rabbi Kronenberg and the

residents.

Indeed, then he already was doing

many of the things he is doing now as

director of religious affairs.

But the connection is even more per-

sonal. When he got engaged, he and

his now-wife, Karen, had their aufruf at

DMC.

Rabbi Mirsky, who earned his bache-

lors degree in psycholoy from Yeshiva

University and his rabbinic ordination

from YUs Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo-

logical Seminary, then moved on to

become assis tant rabbi at the Flatbush

Park Jewish Center in Brooklyn. Later, he

took on the position of religious leader at

Congregation Beth Israel of Schenectady,

where he has served for the last 10 years.

Throughout this time, he kept up a close

connection with Rabbi Kronenberg and

maintained good relations

with the other administra-

tors and staff.

When it came time for

Rabbi Kronenberg to retire,

both Rabbi Kronenberg and

the homes executive direc-

tor, Fred Feinstein, asked

me to come back. And, he

said, Im coming back now

with 20 years of brand new

experiences. That will be

very helpful.

Rabbi Mirsky said there are both simi-

larities and differences between heading

a congregation and working at DMC.

My view of the rabbinate has always

been to see people where they are and

to help them grow spiri tually, he said.

My last congregation was an older con-

gregation, so I have a good amount of

experience with the senior population.

I have respect for where theyre at, for

wha t the yve acc omp lis hed , and for

what theyre going through empathy is

important for people of all ages.

As for the differences, he noted that

in shul, the rabbi deals primarily with

vo lu nt ee rs ha nd s- on pres id ents ,

committee chairs, gabbayim. Here

there are many departments that are

professional.

Thats a blessing, he said. This

population needs a lot of care. Theres a

whole team, and Im part of the team that

meets the needs of the residents.

For example, he said, in his congrega-

tion, to get a minyan I would call peo-

ple and cajole them. Here they physi-

cally have to get there, so he has to

interact with nurses and the activities

department.

Rabbi Mirsky said he plans to build on

DMCs existing outreach programs and

bring in even more volunteers, especially

students, to visit residents.

I want to bring in younger people to

lead minyans, to have students coming

in to participate, to volunteer, possibly

by making arrangements with di fferent

schools.

Noting that mutual growth takes

place when young people interact with

seniors, the rabbi said he would encour-

age students to come in on a regular

basis to develop rel ationships with resi-

dents, or else just to visit.

Noting that he would also like to

encourage visits from adult volunteers,

he said that Congregation Shomrei Torah

in Fair Lawn sends a group to the cen-

ter every other Sunday to lead davening,

have breakfast, and visit residents.

Rabbi Kronenberg has done great

things, keeping the character of [the cen-

ter] Jewish, Rabbi Mirsky said. He, too,

will oversee kashrut, serve as a liaison to

the Jewish community, and oversee Jew-

ish activities in a stimulating and appro-

priate way.

Among his responsibilities will be lead-

ing the daily davening, counseling residents,

families, and staff, and facilitating religious

observance for example, helping families

who want to stay for Shabbat, and ensuring

that when a resident dies, his or her body is

handled according to halachah.

In other words, he said, he will b

ing with the wide-reaching area

ish law and customs. His ideoloy

ilar to Rabbi Kronenbergs. While

be necessary in the future to mak

changes, right now, he said, Im

ing and learning. He also credited

Kronenberg with helping him prep

the transition.

Rabbi Mirsky, who will live in P

with his wife and their 13-year-ol

Shmuel, said he thinks one of his g

strengths is that I view the senio

ulation as people. They have the

neshama and Jewish soul as yo

people, even when theyre conf

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residents with respect, and unde

that at times they may get angry, o

to understand that these shortco

are not under their control. I see t

human beings.

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employees and its residents, h

Theres a sense of caring and re

Thats why this is a good shidduch

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Poor assumptions = poor policy

ZOAs congressional lobbyist talks about Israel, Oslo, and plans doomed to fail

JOANNE PALMER

The two-state solution is a chi-

mera, Joshua London says. It is

a lovely vision of something that

never can be real, and chasing it

chasing the plan that would make Israel

and Palestine two separate states, living

next to each other in prickly but sustainable

peace is chasing the wind.

Mr. London, who lives in suburban Mary-

land, is the Zionist Organization of Americas

co-director of government affairs. He will be

taking a break from his daily routine lobby-

ing Congress to further the ZOAs own under-

standing of the Middle East to speak at a

parlor meeting in Teaneck on Wednesday.

His goal, he said, is to bring clarity and

critical analysis to the longstanding U.S. pol-

icy for support of and in fact to apply pres-

sure toward the creation of a Palestinian

state from territory that otherwise belongs to

Israel, and to do so under the notion that this

will bring peace.

It is an understatement to point out that

this talk is on a subject that is the intense

focus of much of the world right now, as

Israel and Gaza continue to explode.

False assumptions make for poor policy,

Mr. London said.

He traces the beginning of this failed myth

to the 1993 Oslo Accords, shepherded by

President Bill Clinton and signed by Yitzhak

Rabin and Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian

Authority has not made good on its commit-

ment since Day 1, Mr. London said. What

Israel acceded to was irreversible, but the PA

has committed itself to empty promises, and

the sum total of it has been not only death

and misery for Israelis, but death and misery

for Palestinians.

Their vacillation in pursuit of peace is

breathtaking, yet the policy remains essen-

tially unquestioned. And the illusion and mis-

ery keep playing out as we speak.

The building blocks for the failed policy

were quarried long ago, he continued. Land

for peace is a holdover from the history of

how Israel emerged from British Mandate

Palestine. The Peel Commission the Brit-

ish committee created to examine the ques-

tion decided that there were irreconcilable

differences between Palestinian Arabs andJews, so they recommended a partition into

two lands for two peoples. That idea, the

foundation for a number of failed attempts

as time marched on, became like the laws of

physics, immutable. Or, at any rate, immuta-

ble for Israel. The Oslo Accords were another

iteration of that idea, the sense of hope tri-

umphing over experience, Mr. London said.

After hard economic times in the 1980s,

Israel flourished in the 90s, and with that

terriic sense of growth, Israelis were begin-

ning to transition from being primarily wor-

ried about survival to wanting to enjoy some

luxury. So when a plan came along and the

Palestinians responded, it seemed like it was

worth a throw of the dice to many of them.

Not everyone shared that sense of hope, he

said. Yassir Arafat did not particularly instill

conidence, and history got in the way, but

for the peace process that did not matter.

Facts were not important. It was the hope.

In hindsight, a lot of people realize that there

was a lot of flawed thinking.

There are three fundamental assumptions,

dating back to the British governments land

for peace proposal, that are both fatally

flawed and also instrumental in maintaining

the disastrous intellectual status quo, he said.

First is the presumption that Israels legiti-

macy as a nation-state is tightly bound to the

completion of the partition formula that is,

until the Palestinians are given the land, Israel

is incomplete.

Second is the assumption that time is

running out for Israel. Thats the idea that

a demographic time bomb, fueled by the

Palestinians high birth rate and the Israelis

much lower one, will lead to Jews being vastly

outnumbered. Going along with that idea is

the thought that Palestinian statehood must

come about because otherwise time is run-

ning out for Israel. That is a ridiculous way to

argue, he said.

But according to Mr. London, the most

fundamentaland fundamentally misguided

idea is that the conviction that it is within

Israels power to choose peace. That there is

something that Israel can do to make peace

a reality.

The burden is entirely on Israel.

Part although not all of the problem,

Mr. London said, is that folks look at this

as something between the haves and have-

nots. The haves, of course, are the Israe-

lis. According to that worldview, solving the

problem is entirely up to the richer, more

accomplished group; it is a poor showing

on their part at best, and at worst a moral

failure if they do not succeed.

You hear this on the left all the time,

he said. You hear it from supposedly bril-

liant analysts and pundits, who say that

everyone knows what a inal status agree-

ment will look like, so why cant the Israe-

lis just do it?

But, he continued, if everyone knows

what the argument will look like, then

why is there the faade of negotiation?

And why would only one side know what

it looks like?

Mr. London is deeply troubled by the

partnership between the Palestinian

Authority and Hamas, and he does not

trust the authoritys leader, Mahmoud

Abbas. He is a supposed moderate, and a

supposed peace partner, he said. People

get excited about how he decried the rocket

ire from Gaza. But he has maintained a

unity government with Hamas. That is like

saying, I am in a partnership with the Ku

Klux Klan but dont worry. I am distanc-

ing myself from them. But of course we are

still partners.

And, he added, the Palestinian Authority

is notoriously corrupt.

Now, though, Mr. London said, the peace

plan enshrined in the Oslo Accords is held

in place by a closed shop mentality that

surrounded it both in Israel and in the

diaspora, particularly in the United States.

Because of it, any idea that does not con-

form largely to the mainstream parameters

is not considered.

To begin with, the barriers to entry are

extraordinarily high. We have established

that any plan has to resolve all outsconflicts at the outset. If your plan d

solve every possible jot and tittle

cern, you dont have the right to ente

His job is to convince Congress th

pointless and wasteful to continue

Oslo. He does not offer alternativ

me, the goal is to stop Congress from

foolish things, he said. You dont

replace a bad policy with an alternati

just have to kill the policy.

Nonetheless, he said, members

gress want some alternatives.

I dont have a grand vision of

would bring about peace, and its not

any one congressmans power anyw

said. But, he said, he has asked the

sentatives to consider how you ca

insure that our interests and our

are better protected against the

misallocation.

So my focus is more technocrati

get some auditing and ind out what

on. How did Mahmoud Abbas get

multimillionaire? And how did his so

A lot of it is just common sense. H

people reconcile the fact that the P

ians are among the more impoverish

ple in the world and yet have been aw

more grants and other money than

everyone else in history? Until p

can realize that yes, that money ha

spent, and yes, those people are sti

except, of course, for the ones who

still there, because of their career ch

becoming terrorists.

(As a March 5 congressional h

made clear, the Palestinian Authori

terrorists on a sliding scale, with th

heinous acts offering the biggest pay

London said.)

There is an overwhelming mo

of evidence that suggests that what

doing is not helpful to the Palestinia

and it is not helpful to Israel, he said

I want peace too, Mr. Londo

cluded. I have family in Israel wh

peace. But wanting peace and pur

two-decade-long failed policy are no

ally compatible.

Who:Joshua London, the ZOAs

director of government relations

What:Will speak at a parlor me

Where:At a private home in Tea

When:On August 6 at 7:30 p.m

Why: To discuss his lobbying eff

and the worldview behind them

also to meet the ZOAs New Jer

regional director, Laura Fein, wh

will be there as well. His talk is c

Promoting Israels Interests: A B

way Insiders Perspective.

For more information and locat

Call Laura Fein at (201) 424-1825

email her at [email protected].

Joshua London gives the ZOAs perspec-

tive on the conflict.

What Israel acceded to wasirreversible, but the PA hascommitted itself to empty

promises, and the sum total of

it has been not only death andmisery for Israelis, but death

and misery for Palestinians.JOSHUA LONDON


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The meaningof HavdalahDena Knoll Freundlich will discuss

Discerning the Deeper Meaning of

Havdalah: Sanctity of Time, Sanc-

tity of Place, at Congregation Rinat

Yisrael in Teaneck on Shabbat, July

26, at 6:45 p.m., at the shul, 389 W.

Englewood Ave.

Ms. Freundlich is the educational

director at Midreshet AMIT in Jeru-

salem. In 2010 she made aliyah from

Teaneck, where she was the Tal-mud department chair at Maayanot

Yeshiva High School for Girls. She was

a member of the irst graduating class

of Yeshiva Universitys Graduate Pro-

gram for Advanced Talmudic Studies.

Dena Knoll Freundlich

Stars memorializethe victimsLast week, leaders from Jewish Federation

of Northern New Jersey were in Greece

to visit the Jewish communities of Athens

and Salonika. Before World War II, there

had been a Jewish community in Salonika

(also called Thessaloniki) for 2,000 years.

One day in 1943, the Nazis gathered the

citys entire Jewish population of 50,000,

shoved them into 18 transports, and sent

them to their death in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

To memorialize these 50,000moth-ers, fathers, babies, school-age children,

and grandparents mission participants

planted stars with the names and year of

their birth and deportation. The JFNNJ

group recited poetry and prose in remem-

brance and sang Hatikvah, the eternal

song of hope.

JNF solidarity mission to IsraelThe Jewish National Fund is sponsor-

ing the LChaim solidarity mission to

show support for residents and to meet

with leaders and government oficials.

The group is set to leave for Israel on

July 27.

Mission participants will meet with

residents of the northern Negev to hear

their stories and experiences, get secu-

rity updates, and attend brieings with

Israeli oficials. In addition they will vol-

unteer at JNFs Indoor Recreation Cen-

ter in Sderot, speak with Iron Dome IDF

representatives, and help deliver much-

needed supplies to Israeli ireighters

and IDF soldiers, while hearin

stories of courage.

The JNFuture Leadership Institu

sion, another annual mission of

professionals from across the U.S

for July 27 to 31.

The LChaim Solidarity Mis

open to all. The special land-on

tion is $900. Flights are not in

but can be arranged on reques

single supplement price is $40

information or to register, go to

jnf.org/solidari tymi ssion, emai

Reinhard at [email protected],

her at (212) 8799305, ext. 235.

JNF and JDate singles joined for a mission to Israel. Here they are at Ro

Hanikrah on July 16. The mission returned July 19. COUR

Joseph Levy in TeaneckOn Shabbat, July 26, Joseph

Levy, an authority on the Jew-

ish communities in Arab coun-

tries, including Eypt, will

speak at Congregation Beth

Aaron in Teaneck.

His irst lecture, at 6:45

p.m., will provide an over-

view of Jewish hi story in the

Arab countries, including Jew-

ish life in Eypt from the late

19th century to the present.

During Seudah Shlishit between the 7:45

Mincha and the 9:02 Maariv services, he

will discuss how Nazism was not conined

to Europe and will focus on the Farhud, a

violent Nazi-inspired pogrom

that took place in Iraq in 1941.

Mr. Levy, a native of Cairo,

came to the United States as

a baby in 1958. He grew up

in Deal, and was educated in

New York, where he received

a law degree in 1984. For the

past 35 years, his interest has

been on Jewish refugees from

the Arab countries, whom he

considers to be the forgotten

people of the longstanding Arab-Israeli

dispute.

The shul is located at 950 Queen Anne

Road.

Joseph Levy

Theater party

TriBoro Hadassah plans a theater trip

to see Neil Simons Lost in Yonkers on

Sunday, August 10 at 3 p.m. The show is

at the Hackensack Cultural Arts Center

in Hackensack.

Tickets cost $15. Send checks pay-

able to TriBoro Hadassah by July 31

to Sandy Jonas, 2077 Center Ave.,

Fort Lee, NJ, 07024. Include a name,

address, and telephone number. Call

(201) 3848005.

Finger Lakes trip

The National Council of J

Women, Jersey Hills Section, i

soring a three day trip to the

Lakes, from October 18 to 20.

Trip highlights include a s

the Corning Museum, a scen

cruise, and a tour of the Finge

Winery.

Non-members are welcom

Ina at (201) 7961518 or Linda a

4453539.

Alzheimers walk has new locationThis years Alzheimers Association

Walk to End Alzheimers is set for

Sunday, October 26, at Bergen Com-

munity College, 400 Paramus Road in

Paramus. Nearly 5,000 people from

Bergen, Morris, and Passaic counties

are expected to participate.

The event with a 3-mile wal

to raise awareness and funds t

Alzheimers disease.

Visit alz.org/nj/walk or cal

2616009.

Author inTeaneck tonightMernaLyn, author of The 10 Second Diet,

will speak during kabbalat Shabbat ser-

vices tonight at 8 p.m. at Temple Emeth

in Teaneck.

The book, which incorporates the

authors devotion to her Jewish values and

heritage, was sent to the White House for

the First Lady to use with her initiative to

end childhood obesity.

MernaLyn is fourth generation family

member at Temple Beth El in Bloomield

Hills, Mich., where her grandfather helped

rewrite the temples bylaws.

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The

blood-dimmed tide

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned

Its starting to feel as if we live in that bleak Yeatsian world,

or at least as if we are watching it unfold in helpless horror.

It does seem that everything is falling apart, coming to

pieces, crumbling to dust, feathering to ash. The anarchy of

unleashed chaotic evil seems to creep out of tunnels, and yes,

the world is red with blood, and no, innocence is not nurtured.

Instead, it is crushed. Blown up.

The nightmare unfolding in Israel now seems to be some-

thing from which we can awaken, but we cannot. As Israel is

besieged, as its enemies hide among children and innocent

civilians, making clear that they value their own babies lives

far less than they value killing ours, the world, in a display

of blatant anti-Semitism, turns its collective back, tweeting its

smug superiority to us.

As the shambling, lantern-jawed, gaffe-prone secretary of

state, John Kerry, makes his unwanted way back to the Mid-

dle East, ready to fail at another round of hapless diplomacy,

the noose around Israel tightens. (If the unfolding situation

calls inexorable, bloody Shakespearean tragedy to mind, Mr.

Kerry seems to have stepped into the scene from a Jane Austen

novel. He is the pompous, bumbling, brown-nosed, entirely

appalling Mr. Collins come to life.)

For now, as we write on Tuesday, Israelis and visitors can

neither leave nor enter the country. They are frozen in place.

Meanwhile, almost directly north of Israel, the Russians and

the Ukrainians are enacting a piece of very bad performance

art that might be considered black comedy were it not so reso-

lutely not funny. Having most likely shot a passenger jet out

of the sky whoops! the Russians and their puppets now

try to hide it. Thats bad, but not surprising. But to cart the

rapidly decomposing bodies around rather than investigating

the crash and allowing the grieving families to bury their dead

shows not only an extraordinary callousness but also a com-

plete indifference to world opinion.

Vladimir Putin, in fact, seems entirely immune to any-

thing anyone else might think of him. Thug-bodied and fer-

ret-faced, he is a classic bully, a blend of autocratic Russian

evil and bland Soviet apparatchik malice. It is an unappealing

combination.

And then, of course, between Israel and Ukraine, between

Israel and the world, the rest of the Middle East is blowing up

as well, united only in its loathing for the Jewish state.

What will happen? Who knows? We, the Jewish people,

have been around forever. No one has managed to kill us. As

this time of year reminds us, we have been through suffering

many times, and we have always risen from it. We will survive

and we will flourish. But it will be good when this particular

nightmare is over. JP

TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

Et tu, Jody?Even a Nobel Peacelaureate attacks Israel;Rabbi Boteach asks why

Dear Ms. Jody Williams,

From the time you won the Nobel Peace

Prize for your efforts to ban landmines, you

have been a hero to me. In my 2008 book,

The Broken American Male, I wrote this:

There are those unique people who really dont

think about themselves. Few will remember her name,

but I remember how impressed I was with Jody Wil-

liams, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997 for

her contribution to the worldwide campaign to dis-

continue the use of landmines. On the day she won

she criticized the American government, President

Clinton, and every other world leader who didnt sign

the petition banning landmines. Had she not con-

demned them for failing to

take the threat of landmines

seriously, she would have

bee n tre ate d lik e roya lty.

As the winner of the Nobel

Peace Prize, she would have

been invited to royal recep-

tions and state dinners. But

that meant nothing to her

because she lives for a cause.

It was also a great pleasure

to meet you as a co-speaker

in Puebla, Mexico, at the

City of Ideas Convention,

where we became friendly, and then to be reunited at

the Peace Summit in Newark, convened by my close

friend, Mayor (and now Senator) Cory Booker.

You are a woman of unique righteousness. I am

therefore stunned to see your signature on the BDS

call for a military boycott against Israel while it is ight-

ing for its very life against Hamas. Are you not aware

that if Israel did not have an army or armaments by

which to ight its genocidal enemies, there would be a

second Holocaust immediately?

Hamas, whom Israel is battling in Gaza, has a geno-

cidal charter against the Jewish people, calling for the

murder of Jews wherever they may be found. Among

other rabidly racist, genocidal tropes, the charter says,

The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims ight

the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and

trees. The stones and trees will say, O Muslims ... there

is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.

How can you, a ighter for womens rights, align

yourself with Hamas, which is guilty of innumerable

Shmuley Boteach is the international best-selling au

29 books, and soon will publish The Fed-up Man of

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honor killings of Palestin-

ian women for the simple

desire to marry the man

they fall in love with if he isnot chosen by their father?

How can you, a campaigner

for the rights of all people,

align yourself with Hamas,

which has k illed hundreds

of innocent homosex-

ual Palestinians on false

charges of collaborating

with Israel?

In its efforts to impose

sharia law on Gaza, Hamas

has now criminalized couples holding hands

beach. Yet you signed a letter that said that Isra

its arms to maintain decades of oppression

than simply protect its civilian population fro

bloodt hirs ty murderers of Hamas, Hezbol la

Islamic Jihad.

Amid their fraudulent piety, Hamas values ar

grace to the peace-loving principles of Islam. H

motivated not by Palestinian freedom but by ha

Jews. Although Israel unilaterally withdrew from

in 2005, completely dismantling its settlemen

ibly removing its citizens, Hamas never stoppe

campaign to annihilate the State of Israel.

When Hamas came to power in 2006, it chan

the billions it received as the worlds largest p

ita recipients of international foreign aid into r

rather than into hospitals; they bought bombs

than universities. And they intentionally launc

rockets from nurseries and schools, renderi

innocent Palestinian population into human sh

I recognize and mourn the loss of innocent P

ian life amid Israels attempts to destroy the

terrorism infrastructure. Even the most adv

military instruments that Israel employs in or

reduce any and all civilian collateral casual

much as humanly possible still are imprecise

becomes especially true as Hamas purposely

rockets from hospitals, schools, and family h

Every Arab life is the equal of every Jewish li

Israel goes to lengths unmatched in modern w

to avoid innocent deaths. But what choice doe

have when Hamas has coiled itself around Gaz

poisonous viper, bringing suffering to Palestini

Israeli alike?

While the brotherhood of man may contin

elude us in an increasingly violent world, an

ment between prominent spokespersons

RabbiShmuley

Boteach

Jody Williams w

the Nobel Peac

Prize in 1997.

JUSTIN H

HUDSON UNION


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Peace laureates in particular to condemn all geno-

cidal organizations like Hamas would go far to estab-

lish moral rule in the world.

Where, Jody, do you see Israel glorifying murderers

and terrorists? Boruch Goldstein, who killed 29 innocent

Arabs at prayer in Hebron, is condemned as an abomi-

nation to Judaism by 99 percent of Israelis. Comparethat to this New York Times article of March 11, 2010:

Dozens of Palestinian students from the youth

division of Fatah, the mainstream party led by Presi-

dent Mahmoud Abbas, gathered here on Thursday to

dedicate a public square to the memory of a woman

who in 1978 helped carry out the deadliest terrorist

attack in Israels history. The woman being hon-

ored, Dalal Mughrabi, was the 19-year-old leader of

a Palestinian squad that sailed from Lebanon and

landed on a beach between Haifa and Tel Aviv. They

killed an American photojournalist, hijacked a bus

and commandeered another, embarking on a bloody

rampage that left 38 Israeli civilians dead, 13 of them

children, according to oficial Israeli igures.

Can you, Jody, who has dedicated herself to pre-

serving life, be on the side of those who glorify

death? Watching Israel warn the Palestinians of

every Hamas-occupied building they plan to attack

knowing full well that it is giving up the element of

surprise and increasing the likelihood of dead Israeli

soldiers how could you have signed a letter that

said, the Palestinian people in Gaza [face] the brunt

of Israels militarism, atrocities when those atroci-

ties are all committed by the monsters of Hamas?

There is more. You have co-signed the petition

with the likes of Roger Waters, who is not anti-Israel

but an out-an-out Jew-hater and anti-Semite.

The essence of anti-Semitism and the age-old

blood libel is the attempt to defame the Jewish peo-

ple as a murderous, bloodthirsty nation, deeply

immoral and therefore a direct threat to civilization.

As such, they must be eliminated at any cost.

Waters frequently compares Israel to Hitler and the

Nazis, the ultimate genocidal regime that murdered

six million Jews, including 1.5 million Jewish children.

Only a rabid racist and anti-Semite would compare

the victims of genocide to their perpetrators. Rogers

has no decency, no heart, and no soul. The Jews of

Germany did nothing to invite the aggression against

them. Indeed, they were loyal citizens of a country for

which many of them had fought courageously just 20

years earlier, in the First World War. They did not blow

up buses for political purposes. They did not send ter-

rorists into schools to murder children. They did not

preach that killing German children would get them

virgins in heaven. They lived lives of humanity and

decency and were murdered for no other reason than

the fact that they were Jews.

Waters spews a ilthy, vile blood libel. Your com-

pany is too good for him, Jody, and you are stained

by the association.

You have every right to criticize Israel. Lord

knows, Israels biggest critics are the Jews them-

selves, because we expect Israel to uphold the high-

est moral standards.

But criticism is one thing, defamation quite

another.

I urge you Jody, to do the moral thing as you

always have: remove your name from the horrible

Roger Waters petition. Do not associate yourself with

calling the Jews Nazis and falsely accusing Israel of

atrocities as it seeks to protect the lives of i ts citizens

from thousands of murderous Hamas rockets.

Your friend and admirer,

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Love thy neighborIn the midst of the nightmare,a joint 17thof Tammuz/Ramadan fast brings hope

Isnt it hopeless?

Here we go again, with Hamas attacking Israel

from Gaza for the third time, just weeks after

the kidnapping and tragic death of three Israeli

youngsters and the horrendous act of burning a Palestin-

ian boy alive by our own.

Who can bear it? And how will it ever end? Isnt it

hopeless?

There is a popular chasidic-style song with some sig-

niicant words for times like these: We are believers the

children of believers. Well, though it strains belief,

in the midst of all this terror and bad blood between

Israelis and Palestinians, there was a peace initiative that

actually went viral.

A group of Gush Etzion settlersyes, settlershave

been meeti ng with their Palestini an neighbors yes,

neighbors. They have created an organization called

Choose Life. For several months before all this craziness

began, a neighbor-to-neighbor dialogue began in houses

and around campires. These meetings have been pulled

together by Eliaz Cohen, a

poet from Kibbutz Kfar Etzion,

and Ali Abu Awwad of Beit

Oumar near Hevron. When

Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer,

and Eyal Yifrach were kid-

napped, Abu Awwad reported

to Choose Life that Palestin-

ians werent sleeping at night,

that they found themselves

looking at their children,

and thinking about the three

boys.

Abu Awwad asked whether

the bereaved families would accept a shiva visit from

Palestinians. Cohen inquired, and in her inimitably gra-

cious and digniied fashion Rachel Fraenkel said Yes.

The shiva call was made, and both the family and the

Palestinians shared their grief over what was felt as a

mutual lossa familys loss of its son and the further loss

of trust between peoples.

When Mohammed Abu Khdeirs burnt body was found,

Ali said to Cohen, Enough of talk. Its time for action.

Whether your right wing or left wing, no one is going to

disappear. Everyone is trying to punish the other side for

what he did and make excuses for the crimes each side

committed to the other. But there is no other side. There

is really only one side: the human side.

The two decided to call for a joint fast for peace and

understanding on the Jewish fast day of Tammuz 17,

which was the Muslim fast day of Ramadan 18 . Neigh-

bor-to-neighbor conversations took place during the late

afternoon of the joint fasts. As the day was coming to an

end, the Jewish contingent went to say the special fast

day Minchah afternoon service, followed by the Maariv

evening prayer, as the Muslims prayed Asr and Maghrib

and all prepared their break-fast and iftar.

All this while the rockets still flew in from Gaza and

the Israeli air force pounded the Strip.

What was little known in Bergen County was that the

Cohen-Awwad initiative had gone viral. Several hundred

American and European congregations of Jews and Mus-

lims brought their constituencies together for programs

similar to Cohens and Awwads. There was even a fast

for peace in Quwait, though only Muslims were repre-

sented since no Jews live there.

It was the outstanding effort of Hanan Schlesinresident of the Gush Etzion blocyes, a settler

made this program known worldwide. He is an

tor who works in Israel and the United States. H

his excellent pedagogical skills to create program

materials for groups or congregations who wan

join the Choose Life fast for peace.

We are now in the Three Week period of mo

that culminates in Tisha BAv. During these three

the walls of Jerusalem were breached and slow

surely the Roman troops made their way to the T

Once there, once they overcame Jewish resistan

Romans hammered wooden stakes between the

of the Temple, set them ablaze, and razed the mo

place of ancient Jewry to the ground.

The Talmud wonders how God could allow

destruction of the place where His presence w

most profoundly. Wasnt the Second Temple

one of intense religious commitment and dedica

Torah study? The Talmud answers, The Temp

destroyed because despite all the many wonderfu

acteristics of the generation there was baseless

among people. In his famous comment, Rabbi Ab

Isaac Kook, the irst chief rabbi of pre-State Pal

said that the Third Commonwealth would be re

lished only when unconditional love was common

Well, here is Isaiahs dream of that Third Com

wealth and its Temple: In the days to come, The

of the Eternal Ones House shall stand irm abo

mountains and tower above the hills; And all the n

shall gaze on it with joy. And the many peoples s

and say: Come, Let us go up to the Mount of th

nal One, to the House of the God of Jacob; That H

instruct us in His ways, And that we may walk

paths. For instruction shall come forth from Zio

the word of the Eternal One from Jerusalem. Th

will judge among the nations and arbitrate for th

peoples, and they shall beat their swords into

shares and their spears into pruning hooks: Natio

not take up sword against nation; and they shall

again know war (Isaiah 2:24). But this vision is

dent on the granting of unconditional love, and o

muz 17, corresponding to Ramadan 18, that was p

in Israel and around the world at the Choose Lif

for peace.

In reporting the event, the Times of Israel cited

as saying From what Im starting to hear from

gatherings that were held toni ght around the c

and world, I understand that we succeeded. With

help and Inshallah we will begin to see the image

in thousands of good women and men, who are s

something new at this dificult time.

For everyones sake, I hope he and Abu Awwa

created the fast for peace and hosted the joint bre

and iftar, will have Gods help. As the chasidic-sty

I mentioned ends, We have no one to rely on sa

Father in Heaven, Who is beneicent to all and

mercy extends to all He has created (Psalms 145

Professor Michael Chernick ho lds the Deutsch Fam

Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion i

York; his area of exper tise is the Talmud. He receive

doctorate from the Bernard Revel Graduate School

rabbinic ordination from R. Isaac Elchanan Theolo

Seminary, both afiliates of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Dr.MichaelChernick


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Rebuilding JerusalemOne of the fundamental teachings of Juda-

ism is the idea that there is meaning in all

historical events. This meaning refers to a

divine design, a master plan that encom-

passes all of history.

It is during the days commemorating

the destruction of the Holy Temple and

of Jerusalem in the year 70 A.D. that our

consciousness of history and its meaning

should be raised. The Temple and Jerusa-

lem were destroyed and millions of Jews

were murdered, taken into slavery, starved

to death, and exiled across the Roman

Empire. The rabbis concluded we were

punished because of our sins. Several sins

were suggested, but the overwhelming

opinion was the sin of disunity, unjusti-

ied hatred, and a lack of feeling respon-

sible one for the other. We all too often fail

to see that every person is created in the

image of God. Pride, envy, and anger are

the real sins. These are not petty moral

sins but basic tenets of the Jewish religion,

and a failure in our relationships is a fail-

ure as Jews.

American Jews live in an age of relative

prosperity, health, and happiness. It is

not easy to reflect on what appears to be

ancient history. Yet at every moment, with

every person we meet, perhaps we can be

a little more sensitive and accepting; possi-

bly give assistance to a person in need; and

maybe even love each person a little more.

Traditionally, each year Jews remember

the destruction of the Temple and Jerusa-

lem on the ninth day of the month of Av,

this year falling on July 29. It is a day of

reflection on our national and historical

tragedies, including the Holocaust and

Crusades. It is a time to think how we can

improve ourselves, our communities and

the world, and even how we can guard our

speech from hurting others

Rabbi Joseph Soloveichik teaches that

Judaism developed a very peculiar phi-

losophy of memory, an ethics of memory.

Memory is not just the capacity to know

events that lie in the past. It is experien-

tial in nature; we do not simply recollect

the past, but re-experience that which has

been. Just like during Passover we must

see ourselves as if we left Eyptian slavery,

so too we should attempt to re-experience

the destruction of the Temple and Jerusa-

lem, our dispersions and all the pogroms

and holocausts.

Every expression of traditional Judaism

envisages a happy ending, from the socio-

logical message of the prophets to the mys-

tical message of the kabbalists. The rabbis

assert that the anniversary of the day of

the destruction of the Temple would be

the birth date of the Messiah. Perhaps we

can help rebuild Jerusalem and bring the

messianic era of world peace.

Martin Polack

Teaneck

Hypocrisy alertA rocket lands ive miles from Ben Gurion

Airport and the FAA places a 24-hour

restriction on U.S. flag carriers flying into

Israel. The Obama administration just

played right into the hands of the Hamas

terrorists.

All these Hamas terrorists have to do is

feign an attack, ire a couple of rockets,

and the Obama administration jum

knee-jerk reaction, knowing full w

it can destroy Israels economy.

There is an attitude in our gover

and our mainstream press that h

Israelis lives in danger. The ter

know that if they strike Israel and

responds, the call will be for Israe

restraint.

Ban Ki Moon calls Israels def

actions atrocious and then slaps

on the wrist. Hamas hides its weap

mosques, hospitals, and residential

borhoods. When Israel attempts a s

strike, civilians are the victims. Ham

the world then condemn Israel for

casualties, but no one condemns

for using human shields.

Pictures in the Record continue t

Palestinian civilians and little ch

affected by the retaliation. Pictures

dren clutching stuffed animals am

the rubble are common. But very

said about Hamas using these innoc

cover their own cowardly backside

And then our government be

Letters

The heart that feels not now is deadAmerican patriot Thomas Paines Common Sense and the Jewish state

It is the goodfortune of

many to live

distant from

the scene of sorrow; the evil

is not suficiently brought

to their doors to make them

feel the precariousness of

those living under condi-

tions of war.

This observation aptly

describes the experience of

Jews who have been watching

increasingly tragic events unfold in Israel

from the privileged safety of our Ameri-

can diaspora. These words were penned,

however, by Thomas Paine American

author, political theorist, and philosopher

in his celebrated 1776 pamphlet, Com-

mon Sense. The precarious conditions he

described were, speciically, the privations

and predations endured by colonists in my

native Massachusetts, besieged and subju-

gated with particular brutality by the British

army. Paine wrote in order to arouse sympa-

thy and solidarity among colonists at a dis-

tance from the conflict those, say, in New

Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South

Carolina. His admonition in The Ameri-

can Crisis resounds with wisdom for Jews

ostensibly far from the scene of sorrow

during Operation Protective Edge: It mat-

ters not where you live, or what rank of life

you hold, the evil or the bless-ing will reach you all. The far

and the near, the home coun-

ties and the back, the rich and

the poor, will suffer or rejoice

alike. The heart that feels not

now is dead.

It was neither unbridled

nationalism nor prescient

self- interest that Paine

preached to his fellow colo-

nists. Instead, he offered

them and us a sound

and accessible moral vision of the military

action he endorsed:

My own line of reasoning is to myself

as straight and clear as a ray of light. Not

all the treasures of the world, so far as I

believe, could have induced me to support

an offensive war, for I think it murder; but

if a thief breaks into my house, burns and

destroys my property, and kills or threat-

ens to kill me, or those that are in it, and

to bind me in all cases whatsoever to his

absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signi-

ies it to me, whether he who does it is a

king or a common man; my countryman or

not my countryman; whether it be done by

an individual villain, or an army of them? If

we reason to the root of things we shall ind

no difference; neither can any just cause be

assigned why we should punish in the one

case and pardon in the other.

The impassioned call to armssounded by Paine and kindred

patriot spirits was in no way

disproportionate, precipitous,

or premature. It became neces-

sary when sustained diplomatic

efforts failed and continued for-

bearance became self-destruc-

tive. Every American school-

child can quote Patrick Henrys

dramatic Give me liberty or

give me death! That rallying

cry, however, is taken from a

less remembered, though well-

reasoned 1775 address to the

Second Virginia Convention:

We have petitioned; we

have remonstrated; we have

supplicated; we have pros-

trated ourselves Our peti-

tions have been slighted; our

remonstrances have produced

additional violence and insult;

our supplications have been

disregarded; and we have been

spurned, with contempt. In

vain, after these things, may we

indulge the fond hope of peace

and reconciliation. There is no longer any

room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we

mean to preserve inviolate those inesti -

mable privileges for which we have been

so long contending, if we mean not basely

to abandon the noble struggle in wh

have been so long engaged, and wh

have pledged ourselves never to ab

until the glorious object of our conte

be obtained, we must ight! I repea

Thomas Paines Common Sense message

resonates today.

Rabbi JosephH. Prouser


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complicit in the attack on Israel by pro-

hibiting our flag carriers from flying into

Israel, doing serious harm to the coun-

tys tourism industry.

Obama has shown despite some

rhetoric that he is no friend of Israel.

He has shown that leeway to him means

surrender.

Its time for our government to

totally disavow terrorism and for our

news media to start using balance in its

reporting.

Bob Nesoff

New Milford

Worrying about IranThere is a great parallel between the cur-

rent Gazan missile crisis and the Cuban

missile crisis. Except we in the United

States were able to stop any of it before

the rockets started to rain on New York

from our dear little neighbor.

Currently Hamas is trying to igure out

just how many simultaneous rockets are

needed before the Israeli anti-missile

system lets one through. Their Iranian

masters need to know shortly as they

complete the work towards a deliverable

nuclear bomb.

Our Kerry feels it appropriate to be

sarcastic about Israel. Yet at the same

time he is being beaten by the Iranians in

a negotiation that has taken a long time

and yielded nothing of importance.

Former President Bush was the irst

one to give up ighting the Iranians.

Then came Mrs. Clinton, who stated in

a speech to the American Israel Political

Action Committee in New York in 2008

that we need to talk to the Iranians to

get to know them. I was the only one in

the audience hissing. She got her chance

and together with the president came up

with nothing.

Will Iran be content to bomb only the

Little Satan or will they go for us in New

York as well?

Kerry is sarcastic with the Israelis, but

the sarcasm he should worry about is the

one of future history teachers.

E. Gunnar Tarnow

Fair Lawn

we must ight! An appeal to arms and to

the God of Hosts is all that is left us!

American Jews might live 6,000 or

more miles away from the front lines in

Israel and Gaza. But let our imagina-

tions transport us for a few moments,

as Paine put it. True to our recent cel-ebration of American Independence,

we need look no further than American

history to ind a worthy perspective on

current events and challenges confront-

ing the State of Israel. Perhaps it was just

such reflections of the American Revolu-

tions literary canon in the historic expe-

rience of the Jewish State that inspired

former Secretary of Education William

Bennett, in Why We Fight, to write:

Our essential human kinship with

Israel is a deep-rooted feeling of linked

destinies, a feeling that echoes back to

our founding and to the earliest con-

ceptions of the American experiment

itself. I myself am one of tens of mil-

lions of Americans who have seen in the

founding and flourishing of the Jewish

State the hand of the same beneicent

God who attended our own founding

and has guided our fortunes until now.

Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry

urged a moral clarity on their fellow

colonists, just as Israeli leaders and

advocates make all but the same case

to a far more hostile and cynical audi-

ence among the community of nations

today. Sharing such moral literacy is

absolutely essential. Without the pen

of the author of Common Sense, the

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