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JOANNE PALMER

inutes matter. When it comes to saving lives, even seconds matter. When they face a medical emergency,M people call 911, and an ambulance is dispatched immediately. That system indisputably saves lives. But the EMT technicians inside those ambulances must negotiate snarled traffic, dangerous inter- sections, careless pedestrians, callous drivers, and other road hazards. Valuable minutes are lost. What to do? In Jersey City, Mayor Steven Fulop has a solution — and it comes straight from Israel. The city is joining forces with United Jersey City Hatzalah and the Mayor Jersey City Medical Steven Fulop Center — Barnabas Health to form Community Based Emer- gency Care. That is a bland name for a clever new program aimed at bridging the gap between the time that an emergency is called in and when the cavalry — the EMTs and their ambulance full of equipment — can show up. It will use a combination of human passion and goodwill and technology to meet that goal. Basically, the program will either train and certify or simply certify volunteers Motorcycles are specially rigged to hold volunteers’ gear. who can provide emergency care. Barn- abas offers a free 60-hour course to people “You never know who is in the building Uber and airbnb use, that has disrupted was in Haifa, and that had percolated on who have no medical background, and will now who could help,” Mr. Fulop said. “You existing ways of doing business,” he added. the Internet. “A parent had called 101” — test and certify students who pass it, while just never know.” The program has just been launched. the Israeli 911 equivalent — “and a United doctors, EMTs, firefighters, and other peo- Talking from his car, he pointed out One hundred volunteers have signed up Hatzalah volunteer happened to be two ple with similar backgrounds can waive in that he was passing by a friend’s house — the goal is 200 — and the plan is to get doors down. and be certified. The volunteers will be just then. She’s a doctor. “If there was an them trained by February and at work by “The father ran toward the volunteer, given ambulatory life-saving equipment, emergency now, she’d never know — but early summer. holding his five-year-old child, who was and they will be covered by Barnabas’s if she did know, she’d 100 percent walk to “It is entirely funded by philanthropic choking on a balloon. insurance and New Jersey’s Good Samari- get there,” he said. dollars,” Mr. Fulop said. “We were brought “The child was unconscious. Death was tan laws. Jersey City is perfect for this kind of the idea by Mark Gerson,” the Manhattan- a minute or so away. If he had waited for That’s the human part. technology because it is so dense, but it based entrepreneur, investor, and philan- an ambulance it was a 100 percent chance The high-tech part is the phone app, tied already is well served by its 911 service, thropist who chairs United Hatzalah. “And that the child would be dead. to the city’s 911 system, which automati- Mayor Fulop said. “Right now, we are it highlights what an innovator Israel is; “The volunteer tried CPR. It didn’t cally will alert the person who could be at rated the top EMS in the country, with how it is technologically great.” work. But he was able to push the balloon the scene soonest. the fastest response time. It takes a little “We’ve been working in Israel for the down the child’s lungs, and that saved his “Let’s say, hypothetically, that someone more than five minutes” for an ambulance last eight or nine years, and we had over life. He’s fine now. has a heart attack on the 10th floor of a to arrive. Still, it is possible to do better, a quarter of a million calls last year,” Mr. “There is a video of the volunteer and building. Or that she’s choking. Or having and that will save lives. “In theory, the Gerson said. Jersey City will be United Hat- the father standing over the child’s bed in a stroke. There might be a doctor living response time with this new technology” zalah’s first U.S. adopter. Preliminary work the hospital, crying uncontrollably. They on the 15th floor, who might or might not — CBEC — “is two minutes. on establishing it is now underway in Chi- couldn’t stop crying.” hear the commotion, might or might not “In these kinds of situations, it’s not cago and Boston as well. “We’d love other Although the volunteer and the child respond, just in case.” minutes that matter. It’s seconds. The goal cities to adopt it,” Mr. Gerson said. lived so close to each other, they never had With the phone app, though, that hypo- is that when EMTs get there, you are hand- There are as many stories of CBEC’s suc- met. Now they are bonded for life. thetical doctor, who is just one elevator ing off to them someone who already has cess as there are patients, but when asked That was in Israel. In Jersey City last ride away, would be alerted to the emer- received some care. to tell one, Mr. Gerson detailed a series of week, “I met some of the first people to gency immediately and jump into action. “It’s the same kind of technology that events that unfolded last month, when he sign up on the website,” Mr. Gerson said.

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“It was a retired Jersey City police lieuten- ant and his wife, who is a nurse. “He used to work doing security at the Holland Tunnel, and a few years ago, his best friend died of a heart attack. It was during a snowstorm. Someone called 911, but it took 20 to 25 minutes for the ambulance to get there. His friend died. “Now this couple both already are trained in CPR, and they have a defibril- lator in their house. They could start right away. In a heart attack, you have about four minutes. And if they had been in the system, they could have been in their friend’s house in two minutes.” As in Israel, volunteers can get to victims on foot, by elevator, car, or specially equipped motorcycles or bicycles. “Hat- zalah” means “rescue.” There are many organizations that use the word; they are Boats are part of Hatzalah’s rescue armada. loosely affiliated at most, but all save lives (and their mission demands that they save Because CBEC depends on the local 911 will not work outside its borders, although all lives, not just Jews’). United Hatzalah, system, it can be only as big as that system. people who work in Jersey City but live else- Israel’s version, was founded by Eli Beer, In New Jersey, each municipality has its own where are welcome to volunteer. whose impassioned explanation of how 911 system; in Israel, the system is country- More information on Jersey City’s CBEC, he came to dedicate his life to that work, wide, and so is United Hatzalah’s cover- including links for volunteering and delivered as a TED Talk, is online at www. age. Because of the vagaries of New Jer- donating, is available on its website, unit- Sometimes a bycycle is the fastest ted.com/speakers/eli_beer. sey’s home-rule system, Jersey City’s CBEC edrescue.us. way to get around.

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Don’t bogart that joint — at least not on Shabbat Fair Lawn’s Shomrei Torah’s study session looks at medical ethics, medicinal cannabis, and other issues

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Just because 22 states have legalized medical marijuana, does that make it com- pletely kosher in the eyes of Jewish law? This timely topic will be one of the issues explored during “Torah, Text, and Tradi- tion: An Evening of Learning and Shar- ing,” set to take place from 7 to 9:45 p.m. on January 31 at Fair Lawn’s Congregation Shomrei Torah, 19-10 Morlot Avenue. Nine members of the Orthodox congregation are offering lectures grouped into three time slots. There are three choices in each slot, providing a smorgasbord of options free of charge to men, women, and teenagers from the greater community. The idea for the evening came from Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene, a retired Jew- ish educator and communal leader who Community members attend a recent Torah class at Fair Lawn’s Congregation Shomrei Torah. PHOTO BY RABBI ANDREW MARKOWITZ joined Shomrei Torah in 1971. He will present “Medical Marijuana in Halakha,” a and weight loss related to AIDS, migraine the halachic permissibility of wearing College in Baltimore, will delve into the subject he has been writing and speaking headaches, Alzheimer’s, muscle spasms, amulets such as a red string around the mystery of “The Lost Ark and its Contem- about for the last two years as part of his fibromyalgia, arthritic pain, glaucoma, and wrist. porary Relevance.” greater interest in Jewish bioethics. other conditions,” he wrote in an article in The remaining topics cover a broad Rabbi Greene says he based the struc- “When medical marijuana was starting the Jewish Standard in April 2012. range. ture of the program on a successful Jew- to be legalized, I wanted to explore it from “Even where marijuana has been legal- Rabbi Shmuel Leifer, who works for the ish Federation “Evening of Learning” sev- a halachic perspective,” he said. ized, do its dangerous side effects militate New York Port Authority, will talk about eral years ago, featuring public lectures His analysis raised many questions, for against its use? Does compassion for the issues relating to the scribal arts. Dr. How- by members of the (non-Orthodox) North example about the conflict between Amer- patient override concerns of possible long- ard Nuer will address the halachic ramifi- Jersey Board of Rabbis. The round-robin ican and Jewish law, the permissibility of term harm? Under which circumstances cations of the “two Jews, three opinions” night of classes proved quite popular, and using medical marijuana — or any other may a patient put himself into a potentially phenomenon in deciding points of law. he envisioned a similar event drawing on medication — on Shabbat, and how far harmful situation? If the non-medicinal Rabbi Howard Gershon, the shul’s the talents of Shomrei Torah congregants. the role of the doctor as healer ought to properties of marijuana promote a feeling recently retired gabbai, is to reveal the “In our shul there is a lot of Torah learn- extend. of well-being so that a patient feels relief, rationales for standing during the reci- ing going on all the time, every day and As with many other modern-day conun- does that constitute a valid reason to pre- tation of the 10 Commandments in the night,” he said. “We have many mem- drums, surprisingly, the Talmud has scribe it?” Torah portion of Yitro, to be read in syna- bers scholarly enough to give classes, so plenty of light to shed on the issue. Rabbi The evening program at Shomrei Torah gogues worldwide on the following Shab- I thought it would be nice to share some Greene cites a Talmudic discussion from has another medical-related talk sched- bat. Rabbi Martin Rosenfeld, an attorney unusual topics from a Torah perspective nearly 2,000 years ago concerning the uled: Dr. Adam Karp, an internal medi- and divorce mediation specialist, will with our shul and our community. I hope pros and cons of marijuana-type, habit- cine and geriatric specialist, will present explore “The Role of Midrash in Rashi’s that people who haven’t been to our shul forming substances known to have posi- “Unconventional Remedies.” Commentary.” before might want to take a taste.” tive medical effects. He approaches the Dr. Karp says he plans to discuss Clinical psychologist Dr. Yael Mayefsky is He pledges that there will be no discussion in the same way, citing scien- whether the allowance for taking con- to address the mitzvah of visiting the sick, speeches or appeals. “We’re only inter- tific evidence on the medical efficacy of ventional medications from a non-kosher while Aliza Strassman, an elementary- ested in spreading Torah,” he said. But cannabis versus its side effects. source, or on Shabbat, applies as well to school teacher at Ben Porat Yosef in Para- there will be refreshments and socializing “It has been documented that mari- complementary and alternative medica- mus, will talk about differentiated instruc- in the ballroom after the last session. juana is an analgesic for sufferers of nau- tions that have not been proven scientifi- tion in the Torah. Zach Stern, a recent For more information, email Rabbi sea related to chemotherapy, appetite, cally to be effective. He will also explore graduate of the Ner Israel Rabbinical Greene at [email protected].

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JCC University WinTer Term Top professors and experts present on a variety of topics. Three of the winter presenters are: Gail Sheehy, author of Passages, one of the most influential books of our time, Tobi Kahn, painter, sculptor, international art lecturer and well-known art tour leader; and Dr. Ronald Brown, professor at Union Theological Seminary and Touro College. For more info, call Kathy at 201.408.1454. 4 Thursdays, Jan 29, Feb 12, 26 & Mar 12, 10:30am-2:15 pm, $110/$140, 1 Thursday $32/$40

UN Holocaust Remembrance Day feaTuring “an inTerrupTed life” by l isl malKin From bone-chilling confrontations with the Gestapo to passage via the Kinder Transport, Lisl Malkin shares her astounding story about her escape from Vienna during the Nazis invasion and discusses how she achieved independence and a meaningful full life in America. The evening will include a screening of Words of Wisdom: Lisl Malkin, a powerful 4-minute film about the lessons we can all learn from Malkin’s story, filmed and directed by Ben, Adam, Daniel and Georgia Danzger. Refreshments served. Sun, Jan 25, 5:30 pm, Free

Baseball & Bagels peTe rose-an american dilemma WiTh auThor KosTya Kennedy Calling all baseball fans to join us for a bagel brunch as we explore the life and times of Pete Rose, one of the most provocative and fascinating athletes of our generation. Kennedy will examine the moral questions of how Rose’s gambling led him to be barred not only from the game but from baseball’s Hall of Fame. Should he be forgiven? For more info, call Kathy at 201.408.1454. Sun, Feb 8, 10:30 am, $15/$20

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An American rabbi in Paris NYU’s Rabbi Yehuda Sarna talks about France to local shuls

LARRY YUDELSON also comes from Canada and speaks French. There was a rabbi from Montreal Two weeks ago, when four Jews were and some former students from NYU. killed in a terrorist attack at a kosher “Having eight people going enabled us supermarket in Paris, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna to split up when we needed to,” Rabbi decided to go to Paris to visit and comfort Sarna said. the community “We visited three Jewish schools. We Rabbi Sarna leads the Bronfman Center spoke with different leaders of CRIF, the for Jewish Life at New York University — Jewish representative council. We met the school’s equivalent of a Hillel chapter. with a cousin of Yoav Hattab, one of the As a native of Montreal, he speaks four who was killed. We went to the kosher French. And as a disciple and former supermarket” — Hyper Casher, where hos- intern of Rabbi Avi Weiss, his reaction to tages had been taken. “People were gath- a crisis is: “When you feel a personal con- ering and there were tehillim that were nection and likely nobody else will be being said. We also visited with the shul there, just go.” where Netanyahu had spoken days before, So two weeks ago, shortly before Shab- and met with a number of rabbis. bat, he posted plans to go to Paris on his “We were very, very warmly received. I Rabbi Sarna left this letter, written by an American schoolchild, outside the Facebook page. Within half an hour, he believe we were the only group of Ameri- Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Paris where four hostages died. had found a group of people interested in cans who came in this capacity in the after- going with him. math. Because we had people who spoke came to shul covered head to toe in dust. This felt different. It felt like there was a Then he spent that Shabbat at Engle- French and who knew Paris and knew “He said, ‘Yehuda, you really should hidden threat and no one quite knew when wood’s Kesher synagogue as scholar-in- members of the community, that elevated come down with me.’ it would strike. People feel like they’re in residence. It was the first of two consec- the level of comfort people had. “I said, ‘Why?’ the crosshairs of someone’s sight. utive scholar-in-residence weekends in “Typically during a crisis people can “He said, ‘You just have to go where the “Every school we walked into had Englewood that bookended his Paris trip; only see right in front of themselves. For crisis is.’ armed soldiers in front. last Shabbat he was at Congregation Aha- others to come from such a great distance “I went down. Initially I didn’t know “We asked a class of ninth graders how vath Torah there. Both weekends were and say ‘we care about you’ is a very pow- what to expect. Then I saw the way he they felt and they said they’re terrified.” planned months ago and Ahavath Torah erful thing,” he said. was providing moral support to people at The group met with the head of the PTA got the better deal: Congregants there got Rabbi Sarna learned about the impor- such a difficult time and saw the wisdom in from a Jewish school five minutes away to hear about his trip. tance of these visits during his second just getting there and figuring out the rest from HyperCacher. Rabbi Sarna ended up traveling as part week as a rabbinical student intern at later,” he said. “What am I supposed to tell parents?” of a group of eight. Rabbi Weiss had been Rabbi Weiss’ Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. What did he learn during his visit to she asked. “Our school was in lockdown in Israel and changed his plans to join It was September, 2001. Paris? while the hostage-taking was in process. them. Rabbah Sarah Hurwitz was among As soon as Rabbi Weiss heard what hap- “I had never seen that many Jews in fear. Parents couldn’t get in. Kids couldn’t get the group, as was a Canadian student at pened on September 11, “he went down to I’ve been in Israel through the second inti- out. The children are traumatized every Rabbah Hurwitz’s Yeshiva Maharat who the site. The next morning at Shacharit, he fada, during the war this past summer. day. They’re asking the question: ‘Does every child have to go to a school with guns at the door?’” Rabbi Sarna said that “French Jewry are anything but a weak people. They’re very brave, very bold. They’re very confident, smart and strong. “But the threat is very real so they’re legitimately in fear. It’s not that they’re scared of their shadow. They’re scared of a very real threat. I think it’s important to communicate that voice,” he said. On Shabbat morning at Ahavath Torah, the topic of Rabbi Sarna’s talk, agreed upon months ago, was the future of Muslim-Jewish relations. (Rabbi Sarna’s relationship with NYU’s Muslim religious leader, Imam Khalid Latif, was the topic of a documentary film, “Of Many.”) “Much of what I said was consistent with what I would have said previously,” before the terror in Paris and his trip there. “The argument is simply that alienation from society is one cause — not the only cause — one step toward radicalization. With all the tensions that exist between Jews and Muslims in the U.S., the U.S. is still doing a pretty good job of integrat- ing the Muslim population and providing them with the hope one can be both Rabbi Yehuda Sarna outside the Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Paris. Muslim and American. My experience in

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“I am a Muslim who has come to share in your mourning,” reads a sign left outside Hyper Casher. Tu B’Shevat France is that there’s still a lot of work to be done in that regard there. “I’m trying to encourage the Jewish community here in the United States to do more to reach out to Sing-a-long with Muslim communities here.” While he was in Paris, Rabbi Sarna took advantage of his connections through NYU’s Paris outpost to organize a screening of the documentary. “A lot of students came out, a lot of faculty members. Some Dafna of the local religious leaders attended. I reached out to local Muslim clergy, none of whom were able to attend that night, but a number of whom were eager to meet us. That to me provided a glimmer of hope. ShirFun “One of the things which surprised me that came out from dialogue after the film screening is the strong secularist ethic that pervades French culture, and the advantage and disadvantages that creates, when All Stars we’re talking about what is, in part, an interreligious struggle. “In the U.S., because the fabric of our culture is reli- JANUARY 25 gious, there’s a greater comfort in talking religion from the inside. People will talk about their faith. In France it’s very different. That is a disadvantage. 10- 11:30 AM “On the other hand, the secularism can create a kind of faith-blindness, where everyone is expected to leave their religious background out of it when they engage in the public sphere,” he said. Rabbi Sarna said that a group in New York is work- Great for young ing to launch an association to help American Jews help French Jewry. children (ages 2-7) “We do have a role to play but we need to develop a depth of understanding of the situation so our efforts can really be productive,” he said. “The situation there & their families is very complicated. French Jewry has its own narra- tive, its own illustrious history, its own strengths. American Jewry must be keenly aware of those.” One method of helping French Jews was suggested by his wife, Dr. Michelle Waldman Sarna, a school psychologist, who suggested he take letters from Ameri- Yummy, can children to their French counterparts. “I brought sixty or seventy letters, written mostly in Nut-free Snacks! English, some in Hebrew, a handful in French. I was able to go into the classrooms there and say to children, ‘Your brothers and sisters in the United States have sent you these letters because they care about RSVP: www.ssdsbergen.org/schechter-rocks you.’ To watch them gather around, cutting open the envelopes, trying to translate from English to French SOLOMON Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County — that was a beautiful moment,” he said. SCHECHTER Rabbi Sarna is now organizing a massive letter- DAYSC HOOL 275 McKinley Avenue, New Milford, NJ 07646 writing campaign, “to ensure that all of the 167 Jewish OF BERGENCOUNTY schools in France receive letters like that,” he said. www.ssdsbergen.org

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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES High-tech nation Why Martin Luther hat is it about Israel way to fuse volunteers’ passion, GPS Israeli Jew. The “United” in its name, and hi tech? technology, 911 systems, and hospi- he said, is meant to signal that the King was the No matter what tal-provided training to match vic- service is meant for everyone, Jews, else is going on in tims with rescuers as they wait for Muslims, and Christians. A life is a greatest American Wthe world that affects Jews — air fully trained EMT technicians and life, according to Mr. Beer and his strikes in Syria, murder in Paris, fully stocked ambulances to arrive. organization, and United Hatzalah, of the 20th century assassination in Argentina, or the We are struck by the simplic- “is about saving people.” barbs thrown at Israel by its ene- ity and elegance of the solution, We are not sure what it is that mies — somehow the flow of extraor- which seems entirely obvious, now draws Israelis — and for that matter, was moved to tears by the movie “Selma.” dinary discoveries and inventions, that someone else has thought of Jews around the world — to science, It captured the greatest American of the twentieth cen- fueled apparently by brainpower, it. (And that, of course, is how ele- technology, and creativity, but what- tury at the height of his powers, using oratory and an army willpower, and overflowing creativ- gance is defined.) ever it is, we know we like it of religious leaders who answered his call to change Amer- ity, never seems to end. We also were struck by its idealism. We hope that CBEC is successful in Iica. As a communal activist, the idea that Martin Luther King’s Right now, we are focused on The organization that is behind CBEC Jersey City, that it is adopted by other entire career spanned just 14 years — from when he was 25 to his something that is not at all new, but in Israel, United Hatzalah — and that local municipalities, and that it saves assassination before his 40th birthday — beggars the imagination. is new to this country — Community is joining Jersey City and Jersey City lives. We also hope that the people Martin Luther King Day was this week. To Americans it should Based Emergency Care, the program Medical Center-Barnabas Health who benefit from it keep in mind that signify a rebirth of the principles enumerated on the Fourth of July. that Jersey City has begun to imple- in starting the program here — was it came from Israel. The latter commemorates the forma- ment, as we detail on page 6. It is a created by Eli Beer, an observant —JP tion of our country upon the values of freedom, equality, and the infinite worth of the human person. When we remember Martin Luther King, how- What’s the deal with Argentina? ever, we commemorate the man who brought America to conform to those any Jews escaped who wrote about the junta, suffered scheduled to show the country’s founding principles, which were being to Argentina in the terribly for it, as his book, “Prisoner Congress evidence that he said would violated. Just think of an America so middle of the last cen- Without A Name, Cell Without a implicate President Cristina Fernan- great that it could cross the Atlantic tury, and it now has Number,” described. dez de Kirchner, and, with thudding Rabbi to fight and defeat Hitler while at the moreM than any other Latin American In March 1992, the Israeli embassy irony, her foreign minister, Jacobo Shmuley same time denying a black child in the country. Argentinian accents and in Buenos Aires was bombed. Timerman’s son Hector, in the cover- Boteach South the right to drink water from a melodies — and rabbis and cantors — Twenty-nine people died. In July up. (See the story on page 28.) fountain on a scorching summer day. have influenced Jewish life in North 1994, the local JCC, called the AMIA, Here is where we go from thriller But to Jews, Martin Luther King’s America for decades now. Once we also was bombed. Eighty-five peo- to locked-room mystery. On Mon- memory is also of unique importance. get over the strangeness of Spanish ple died, and more than 200 were day, Mr. Nisman, who was Jewish, As protests waged through Ferguson and New York City these first names joined with quintessen- wounded. was found dead in his room, a pistol past few months, anti-Israel activists pounced on the opportunity tially Ashkenazi last names, we real- The history of the investigations next to his body. Government offi- to hijack the tragedies to their own ends. Mixed in with the “Black ized that they come from a Jewish into the bombings reads like a plot cials immediately said that he had Lives Matter” billboards were a handful of other signs reading “Pal- culture not unlike ours. summary of an implausible down- killed himself — so very, very sad! estinian Lives Matter.” What the Israel haters are trying to do is to In some ways, at any rate. In other market thriller. It seems that Iran is they said — but much of the world, drive a wedge between the Jewish and black communities. ways, it is very different. behind at least the AMIA bombing, including most of the country’s Jews, They will fail. Many Nazis decamped to Argen- but two decades of Argentinian pres- disagreed. After all, Mr. Nisman had The relationship between blacks and Jews is one of authenticity tina toward the end of the war. Chief idents and their governments have gotten death threats. There was no and depth, striking to the core of both peoples. It was not built on among them, the supremely evil twisted themselves into unbecom- suicide note. There was no gunpow- a shared oppression but on a shared faith. Not upon a common Adolf Eichmann, who was captured, ing knots to keep Iran out of it — and der residue on his hand. history but upon a common destiny. Not on shared interests but on taken to Israel, tried for crimes perhaps, at least it is alleged, have We have no idea what hap- shared values. Not upon a mutual alienation from the mainstream against humanity, and executed. accepted huge amounts of money pened. We know that life seldom but upon a mutual commitment to social justice. Later, during the military junta for so knotting themselves. There resembles murder mysteries or Faith always has been the central pillar of the black commu- that ruled Argentina from 1976 to have been a few low-level arrests, but thrillers. We know that many peo- nity. Far from being a simple political response to injustice and 1983, many people were disap- nothing more. ple died in the bombings, and that peared, as the phrase went; many Recently, it seemed as if that status the murderers have gone unpun- Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of This World: The Values were pushed out of airplanes or quo possibly might change. Alberto ished. We mourn Mr. Nisman’s Network, the world’s leading organization defending Israel in met other terrifying fates. Jews were Nisman, the prosecutor assigned death, and we hope that his find- world media. He is the author of “Judaism for Everyone” and 30 prime targets for disappearance. to the case after the last prosecutor ings will survive him, and that other books, including his most recent, “Kosher Lust.” Follow Jacobo Timerman, the journalist was removed for corruption, was eventually justice will prevail. —JP him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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oppression, the civil rights movement was a religious movement – The murderer down the street conceived in churches, led by min- TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES isters, and marched to the sounds f course, I haven’t seen him since he I hurried through the cold from the house to the of old “Negro spirituals.” was 9, the year I left Chicago for New car on one of our infrequent visits from New York, Why Martin Luther Faith fueled the soldiers of the York. The only memory I have of him is the tough lady, who no longer looked neat and put civil rights movement and sacri- as a dark-haired little boy, chipping golf together, stopped us to say how wonderful Mom King was the fice sustained them. And it was ballsO by himself on his lawn. was. The Jewish community had abandoned her, this burning faith that serves as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers I should mention here that he didn’t murder just she said, but not my mom. greatest American the true secret to their success. his “I Have a Dream” speech one person. He murdered two. His mother and his The years went by. Breaks-ins became common The world has seen so many lib- from the Lincoln Memorial on grandmother. We’ll call him Andy. on my parents’ street. We all knew who was behind of the 20th century eration movements succumb to August 28, 1963. Andy’s grandmother was a tough lady who lived them. On successive visits, I saw the house grow the battling egos of their leaders or WIKIPEDIA/PUBLIC DOMAIN two houses down, in a manicured sixties-era bi- stranger and more decrepit. Mom told me that the simply replace the original oppres- level, with a friendly, pear-shaped husband and a grandmother finally kicked Andy out for his drug use. was moved to tears by the movie “Selma.” sor with a newer one: Czar Nicho- compensate. But the faith of Jews fluffy orange Pomeranian named Fritzie. I encoun- In 1996, I was living in a two bedroom apartment It captured the greatest American of the twentieth cen- las with Lenin and Stalin, Batista and African-Americans inspired tered this neat, put-together lady and her dog every on 97th Street. I’d just had my first child. Mom was tury at the height of his powers, using oratory and an army with Fidel Castro, or a white-ruled them to challenge existing preju- day on their regular walks down the street. Desper- staying with us, teaching me how to be a mother. of religious leaders who answered his call to change Amer- Rhodesia for a Mugabe-controlled dices, because man is not born to ate for doggie contact, I begged her to walk Fritzie, One night, as we did the baby dance in front of Iica. As a communal activist, the idea that Martin Luther King’s Zimbabwe. suffer. Man dare not await the para- and every now and then she let me hold the leash. the TV, rocking side-to-side and back-and-forth to entire career spanned just 14 years — from when he was 25 to his The leaders of the civil rights dise of Eden. His highest obligation Someone else I encountered every day on his comfort my colicky infant, a breaking news story assassination before his 40th birthday — beggars the imagination. movement, being men and women is to create heaven on earth. regular walks was a skinny, chain-smoking, bare- flashed across the screen. Double murder in Chi- Martin Luther King Day was this week. To Americans it should of deep belief and spiritual convic- As a Jew, my attachment to King’s chested, long-haired young man. (And when I say cago, a woman and her daughter. A dog. The mur- signify a rebirth of the principles enumerated on the Fourth of July. tion, exhibited the most incred- speeches has less to do with the long-haired, I mean all the way down to his butt.) derer was still at large. And there, beyond the yel- The latter commemorates the forma- ible humility. They always put the injustice of segregation — to which Naked to the waist, flicking his ash low police tape, was Andy’s house, in tion of our country upon the values interest of the people before any I thankfully was never subject and onto our rosebushes, he was an all its crumbling glory. of freedom, equality, and the infinite personal lust for power. Walter from which he cured America — extraordinary sight in my plain-vanilla The police spoke to everyone on worth of the human person. When we Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth and everything to do with a mod- suburban neighborhood, pacing up my block. Surprise surprise, they remember Martin Luther King, how- easily could have resented Martin ern preacher who brought the and down the sidewalk in front of our all shrugged their shoulders. The ever, we commemorate the man who Luther King Jr. for his higher profile, ancient Hebrew prophets to life. house. newspeople interviewed a next-door brought America to conform to those and King could have wanted more While studying at yeshiva I related Soon, the young man disappeared. neighbor who, surprise surprise, also founding principles, which were being for himself than to die on the lonely to Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah When I was old enough, my mother had no idea who might have done it. violated. Just think of an America so balcony of a second-rate Memphis as characters in a book. But after explained who he was. Though I No one was dumb enough to mention great that it could cross the Atlantic motel. But their objective was not listening to King’s magical ora- had never seen her, there was some- Andy. to fight and defeat Hitler while at the personal advancement but rather tions, many of which I have tried one else living in that house, an only Helen But I think the police already knew. same time denying a black child in the to lead God’s children toward a to memorize, I related to them as daughter. She’d been away to college Maryles He was arrested the following day. South the right to drink water from a promised land of equal rights and living figures — as emboldened and somewhere far away and exotic, and Shankman They put him on suicide watch. fountain on a scorching summer day. human dignity. They put the peo- animated opponents of injustice. had returned home with a non-Jewish Andy had been living on the street. But to Jews, Martin Luther King’s ple before their egos and placed Like Moses, King never reached husband, the long-haired young man. As drug addicts often do, he came memory is also of unique importance. reconciliation with the white man the promised land. But like Moses, The friendly, pear-shaped husband died, of heart- home looking for money. His mother refused. There As protests waged through Ferguson and New York City these ahead of fratricidal civil war. he found redemption in a life of ser- break, it was said. In a hushed whisper, my mother was a knife. She started to scream. He needed his past few months, anti-Israel activists pounced on the opportunity The same chains of slavery that vice over adventure, winning righ- explained that the daughter drank. Or drugged. Or mother to keep quiet. Then he needed his grand- to hijack the tragedies to their own ends. Mixed in with the “Black bound the Jews in ancient Egypt teousness over recognition. something. In all of the 15 years that I lived at home, mother to keep quiet, too. And the dog. Lives Matter” billboards were a handful of other signs reading “Pal- and the blacks in the New World That the Jewish and black com- I never saw her; she never emerged from the house. I’ve thought a lot about Andy since 1996. I think estinian Lives Matter.” What the Israel haters are trying to do is to may have imprisoned their bod- munities are distinguished by their Eventually, what did emerge was a little boy. about how easy it would have been to avert the drive a wedge between the Jewish and black communities. ies — but it liberated their spirit. attachment to their faith is further About this time, the house with the manicured tragic ending. If he had gone to a different school. If They will fail. Those chains taught Jews and evidenced by the unique problems lawn began to take on an unkempt appearance, the his teachers had noticed that he needed help. If he’d The relationship between blacks and Jews is one of authenticity blacks, above all else, to see in God faced by each upon the abandon- juniper bushes in front growing high and gnarled had playdates. If he’d had friends. If his learning dis- and depth, striking to the core of both peoples. It was not built on the source of their salvation rather ment of that faith. The Jewish break and wild, the white paint peeling off of the window abilities had been addressed. If the Jewish commu- a shared oppression but on a shared faith. Not upon a common than in any professed human lib- with ritualistic tradition at times has casements. Crabgrass and dandelions choked the nity had gotten involved. If people hadn’t turned history but upon a common destiny. Not on shared interests but on erator, be he as righteous as Moses led to materialism. Assimilation lawn that no one ever mowed anymore. No one away and looked in the other direction. If someone shared values. Not upon a mutual alienation from the mainstream or as determined as Lincoln. Both has led to questioning of identity, came out of the house now. Except for Andy. had cared enough to interfere. but upon a mutual commitment to social justice. became nations to whom faith was a futile attempt to erase distinc- Andy looked like many other 8-year-old Jewish In every class I teach, there is bound to be a Faith always has been the central pillar of the black commu- endemic and sustaining. tive Jewish characteristics, and a boys; dark hair, big eyes, cute, small, vulnerable. child with uncombed hair and shadowy eyes nity. Far from being a simple political response to injustice and For most people, religion is a misguided effort to blend and dis- There were no friends, no playdates. I never saw who looks a little haunted. Though the other guide to gaining entry into the after- appear into the mainstream. For anyone play with him at all, not his mother, not his kids complain, I always give them extra atten- life, a way of avoiding hell. For Afri- many in the African-American com- grandmother. tion. Sometimes the people who need help the can-Americans and Jews, however, munity, a loss of the anchor of faith As a teenager, all I wanted to do was move to New most are the ones who do not ask. religion was a guide to finding hope has led to a breakdown in familial York, and when I was 19 I did, ending regular con- and comfort in this life, so that their and social bonds. tact with the sad, busted family two houses down. Helen Maryles Shankman, an artist and writer, lives earthly existence might transcend Today, as we experience a sharp With the shining city of New York filling my horizon, in Teaneck with her husband and four children. Her the hell it often was. Other reli- rise in anti-Semitism and racism, I forgot all about them. work appears in many fine journals, including the gions reinforced the oppression of the Jewish and African-American But Mom never forgot. When she had extra, Kenyon Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and the faithful by instructing them in communities need each other she would bring them a pot of chicken soup, or Cream City Review. Scribner will publish her second the divine right of kings. But Jews more than ever. They are bound by her homemade gefilte fish. Once, as my sister and novel, “In The Land of Armadillos,” in spring 2016. and blacks always held fast to the many things, not least of which is faith that no man was born subject the memory of the greatest Ameri- to another. To them, all men were can of the twentieth century, the princes. man who restored America to its Other religions taught men to founding vision of the equality of Opinions expressed in the op-ed and letters columns are not necessarily those of the Jewish Standard. The Jewish Standard accept their suffering in this world all of God’s children. reserves the right to edit letters. Be sure to include your town. Email [email protected]. Handwritten letters will in exchange for the comforts of The truly incomparable Martin not be printed. paradise, which would more than Luther King Jr.

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Death and dignity in New Jersey

he New Jersey State Senate is due that transcend faith and culture and indi- complies in good faith with ill to end if not their own, then to consider a bill legalizing and vidual autonomy. I do so because Judaism’s the provisions of this act shall the collateral suffering of loved regulating physician-assisted sui- mission to teach the absolute sanctity of all be deemed to be in compli- ones. cide — the “New Jersey Death with human life has never been more urgent — or ance with this act” — desul- Rabbi Emanuel Rackman DTignity Act” — already approved by the State more embattled. I am grateful, too, for the tory departure from exact- discussed the far-reaching con- Assembly. shared moral perspective taught by our sis- ing legal or medical protocols sequences of the type of law The law would permit “qualified” compe- ter faith. notwithstanding. now pending in New Jersey: tent adults, whom physicians predict will die I find the proposed “Death with Dignity” The most insidious decep- “The misery of the few who of a terminal disease within six months, to act to be profoundly dishonest. While assert- tion inherent in the proposed might take advantage of the obtain lethal drugs in order to end their own ing a person’s right to end his or her own life, law, however, is codified in its Rabbi Joseph legislation proposed is naught lives. As the New Jersey Senate (before which, it provides that the death certificate “shall list very name: the “Death with H. Prouser by comparison with the misery in 1861, Abraham Lincoln called Americans the underlying terminal disease as the cause Dignity Act.” What greater of the multitudes whom the the “almost Chosen People”) prepares for of death.” That is to say, the law requires that assault on human dignity Leviathan will destroy when this debate, the citizenry of the state and its the lethal actions for which it provides moral could be perpetrated than the official deter- and if we raze the ramparts which religion legislators can benefit profoundly from the and legal sanction be obfuscated. The conse- mination that a person’s life no longer merits has raised for millennia around the sanctity wisdom of Jewish tradition. quences of the law must be hidden from view society’s unqualified protection and esteem of life.” Suicide is not a sin in Judaism. Suicide is and expunged from the record. as sacrosanct. There is no dignity, to bor- Historically, Jewish law has responded to (as Catholic theologian G. K. Chesterton said) Also less than forthright is the law’s assur- row a telling term from the medical horrors the moral offense of suicide with two com- “THE sin.” ance that a health care facility (as, for exam- plementary and carefully balanced policies. That principled, absolute opposition to ple, a hospital administered by a religious First, the suicide is theoretically “punishable” suicide was also the position of, among oth- body opposed to suicide) may bar its employ- with posthumous sanctions: certain funerary ers, Rabbi Seymour Siegel: “One can say that ees from facilitating patient suicides under prayers and rites are withheld, burial is at a the revulsion of the suicide is the hinge upon the proposed act. Such religious institutions’ How quickly the distance from other graves, and mourners which the whole ethical system of Judaism authority to prohibit physicians’ participation right to suicide continue daily recitation of Kaddish longer turns. By disdaining the suicide, Judaism in assisted suicide does not extend to actions than usual — as its fullest expiatory power affirms its high valuation of life and its belief taken in “the private medical office of a physi- will be perceived is deemed necessary following so sinful a in the sovereignty of the Creator.” cian or other provider.” Similarly, a physician — especially by demise. Chesterton elaborated on the principle would enjoy immunity from employer bans The second historic trend in Jewish law Rabbi Siegel would come to share: “It is the and punitive action when “acting outside the the physically has been to consider only the narrowest ultimate and absolute evil… The man who course and scope of that individual’s capacity depleted and conceivable category of suicide as culpable: kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills as an employee.” That is, an oncologist pro- only those people who, in a calm state and himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned hibited by Saint Mary’s Hospital from pre- emotionally with sound mind and judgment, clearly state he wipes out the world… There is not a tiny scribing a lethal dose of narcotics to a termi- vulnerable — as a before witnesses their intention to take their creature in the cosmos at whom his death is nal patient could circumvent his employer’s own lives, and then proceed immediately not a sneer.” directives by doing so strategically, in the pri- duty of self- to carry out their threatened course of self- vacy of his own office, or by doing so osten- destruction. destruction. In other words, rabbinic tradi- sibly not as an employee, but as a trusted tion has, gratefully, all but legislated “true” friend of the family, “off the clock.” of the Nazi era, in being ruled lebensun- suicide (and any punitive measures imposed The very use of “medication” to effect wertig — “not worthy of life” — nor of the in its wake) out of existence — an expression The most insidious patient suicide is profoundly deceitful. Sui- unconditional moral immunities human life of incredulous disdain for suicide as well as a deception inherent cide by a self-administered overdose of phy- commands. gesture of genuine compassion for both the sician-prescribed drugs is no more morally Of course, those suffering with terminal deceased and the bereaved. in the proposed defensible or refined than suicide by fire- illness (indeed, any who suffer) require our The “safeguard” in the proposed physi- law, however, is arm or hanging, exposure to the elements, compassion. By divorcing compassion from cian-assisted suicide legislation require pre- or poison. The “big lie” of involving healers reason and a sense of normative moral duty, cisely those elements that render suicide codified in its very and “curative” substances in state-regulated however, by acceding even to a patient’s own halachically culpable: establishment of psy- name: the “Death suicide was addressed decades ago by Dan- desperate urging to kill in the name of kind- chological competence, unambiguous decla- iel Callahan, co-founder and president of the ness, we distort the moral virtue of compas- ration of suicidal intent before witnesses, and with Dignity Act.” Hastings Center, a research organization in sion beyond all recognition. Permitting or self-administered lethal action in accordance Westchester County: facilitating suicide in the name of compassion with those pronouncements. The proposed The fact that Jewish ethics (or Roman “As people have turned away from reli- is the wrong application of the right principle. New Jersey law, that is to say, would remove Catholic doctrine) soundly condemns sui- gion and elevated medicine as the supreme The argument from compassion for legal- any claim to extending or exculpatory cir- cide is itself, of course, insufficient cause to arbiter of our lives, we ask for medicine’s izing suicide is simultaneously seductive and cumstances, and restore the tragic category ban its practice in a secular democracy with sanction. It might be argued that if a person perilous. How quickly the right to suicide of culpable suicide, thus undoing millennia of a religiously and culturally diverse popula- wants to commit suicide, they can most often will be perceived — especially by the physi- indulgent sensitivity and compassion toward tion. Such an argument, based exclusively do it themselves — why bring in the medical cally depleted and emotionally vulnerable those driven to such desperate acts. on religious principle, would be theocratic in community to legitimate it? Why? Because — as a duty of self-destruction. Do not loved Jews traditionally are self-described as nature — religious coercion inconsistent with we need somebody in authority to say it is ones who share the anxiety of illness (as, too, “rachmanim, b’nei rachmanim” — compas- our constitutional system. However, it would okay for us to do something that we know is the emotional trials, financial burdens, and sionate people, born and bred (literally, be the height of folly to abandon good public reprehensible.” often onerous demands on personal time “compassionate people, children of the com- policy simply because its wisdom is acknowl- The true role of medical professionals and energy occasioned by caring for the ter- passionate”). The call for compassion in the edged and anticipated by life-affirming reli- and “medication” in the proposed law is not minally ill) also deserve compassion? Will not current debate is alluring — perhaps espe- gious traditions. I offer my fellow New Jersey to avoid but to mask the moral offense in the absolutized principle of “compassion” cially to us as Jews. Suicide, however, simply citizens insights from Jewish law and tradi- self-destruction, and in so doing, to delude invoked to justify physician-assisted suicide cannot be reconciled with our ancestral tra- tion not because they all should necessarily patients and their families by manipulating also demand selfless compassion from the dition, our historic mission, our life-affirming be bound by that discipline. I do so because the trust and esteem customarily vested in terminally ill, to alleviate the “suffering” of code. “Let God Who gave life take it away; let I firmly believe that in this troubling ethical the physician. those around them? Notwithstanding its no mortal commit self-injury.” These suc- debate, Judaism long since has articulated The safeguards built into the law are them- procedural safeguards, the proposed law cinct and stirring words were spoken by the eternal truths and identified moral absolutes selves illusory: “A person who substantially will place unjust pressure on the terminally SEE DEATH AND DIGNITY PAGE 50

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Soul Doctor’s roots in Haight-Ashbury. In short, Shlomo’s ability to send spirits Support the historical society While I enjoyed Juda Engelmayer’s January 9 essay on the soaring came out of his own deep Jewish soul and the cha- The Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey wishes to Shlomo Carlebach musical newly staged off-Broadway at the sidic musical influences around him; that it bridged white thank the Jewish Standard and Abigail Leichman for the Actor’s Temple Theater (“Shlomo Carlebach musical has the and black was due to his own deep love of God and all His wonderful article detailing the Society’s mission and oper- soul to heal frayed race relations”), I would like to correct a creations. ation in north Jersey (“Past moves into present,” January few serious errors that he makes. I speak as a devoted fol- Further, Reb Shlomo (as he is now known to his fol- 16). We hope area synagogues and organizations will pick lower of Reb Shlomo for 23 years and an active member of lowers, to show respect) did not come out of a closed- up on our mission and make us more visible to their mem- the Carlebach Shul. off chasidic community. His family were prominent non- bers and the Jewish community. Mr. Engelmayer confuses artistic license with historical chasidic Ashkenazi rabbis for many generations. Reb We seek to collect and preserve materials and items fact. The Carlebach musical uses Nina Simone as an artis- Shlomo, however, was attracted to chasidism. After the that document the history of the Jewish communities in tic device to promote Shlomo’s (and yes, he was known to death of the Modzhitzer rebbe, Reb Shlomo spent much Bergen, Hudson and Passaic Counties. Before discarding everyone as, simply, “Shlomo,” not “Reb Shlomo,” by his time learning with the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem documents and artifacts, please email us at jhsnnj@gmail. choice) love of all humankind. Although she was an acquain- Mendel Schneerson, before he became the rebbe. Reb com or call us at 862-257-1208. You also can email Jerry tance, she was not a significant influence on his musical Shlomo and Reb Zalman Schachter became the first Nathans at [email protected]. We can arrange to development, nor did he ever sit at her feet, “learning how shaliachs sent out by Chabad Lubavitch to reach out to have items picked up. You can follow us on Facebook and to send spirits soaring higher and higher toward God and all the lost Jewish souls. As everyone knows, Chabad is on our website at jhsnj.wordpress.com. a better world.” According to the late Itzhik Aisenstadt, definitely not a “closed-off chasidic community,” as Mr. We want to ensure that future generations will know the person who was most knowledgeable about Shlomo’s Engelmayer describes it. and appreciate the important and fascinating heritage music, the principal source of his musical inspiration came As a more minor correction, non-chasidic Orthodox syna- of Jewish north Jersey, of where we came from and who from the Modzhitzer chasidim. Itzik told me that Shlomo gogues have always had communal singing in their religious brought us to this place and time. spent a summer in the late 1940s taking long walks with services; singing was not frowned upon, rather, it was not Jerry Nathans the Modzhitzer rebbe. The Modzhitzer chasidim are con- engaged in to the extent of chasidic communities. Certainly President emeritus sidered by many to have the strongest musical tradition we remember Adon Olam, Aleynu, and many other prayers Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey among all chasidic groups. Shlomo also hung out with musi- being sung in Ashkenazi synagogues before Reb Shlomo’s cians, including black jazz musicians, heard gospel music, advent. And Sephardic communities have always had a rich and was undoubtedly influenced by them. But his major tradition of singing and chanting during prayer services. Like us on Facebook. musical influence from the beginning and throughout his Nonetheless, as Mr. Engelmayer writes, the universal career always was in the deep Jewish roots of chasidic music. message of “Soul Doctor” is a message for all times and Further, Nina Simone had nothing whatsoever to do with for this time. Shlomo’s playing at the Berkeley Folk Festival in 1966 and Leon Sutton facebook.com/jewishstandard the subsequent formation of the House of Love and Prayer New York, NY

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Father Patrick Desbois’s mission to document and preserve the mass graves of Eastern Europe began at this site, Rava-Ruska in Ukraine.

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LARRY YUDELSON face to face, if often through a translator. along the way. In the 28 months that Aus- including, as always, women and children. “You have a choice,” he said last week. chwitz had operated as an extermination “Every Jew was killed by one person. ather Patrick Desbois keeps all “You can express yourself or you can camp, more than one million Jews had Every victim saw his killer. Every killer saw expression off his face when know the truth.” been murdered there. Auschwitz and the his victim,” Father Desbois said. people tell him the most horrible The truth he seeks to uncover is a hor- other death camps, however, were not the During the war, Germans’ direct involve- things. rible one: the story of how more than two beginning of the Nazi machinery of death ment in the murders proved too much for FIf he let his feelings show, the people million people were murdered, one at a — they were its culmination. First had many of them to handle. Auschwitz and the wouldn’t talk. And he wants them to talk: time, by Nazis and their Eastern European come the Einsatzgruppen, literally “task other death camps were created to spare He asks them questions again and again, collaborators. forces” — squads of SS officers assigned Nazis the emotional anguish of individual- pinning down details. Where did this hap- This Wednesday marks the 70th anni- to follow the advancing Nazi front and do ized murder. Better to transport millions pen? What window were you watching versary of the day that the Soviet army clean up, by murdering local leaders, intel- of Jews by rail than to exterminate them from? Who was there? reached the gates of Auschwitz, the date lectuals, communists, and Jews of all ages. one by one, as had been done in Lithuania, Listening without reacting is a core com- selected for Holocaust commemoration In all, the Einsatzgruppen and other Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Soviet petency for a Catholic priest like Father by the United Nations. Yet the Red Army German units killed more than two mil- republics — throughout Nazi territory in Desbois. But in a confession booth, the liberated only 7,500 Jews there; tens of lion people, the vast majority Jews, one what today are seven different countries. priest’s face is shielded. Father Desbois thousands had been marched west by the bullet at a time. In the Ukraine alone they After the war, only 14 Einsatzgrup- interviews people in their homes, speaking Nazis to Bergen-Belsen. Most of them died killed more Jews than died at Auschwitz, pen leaders were tried at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. However, several hundred German soldiers who were involved were prosecuted in Eastern and Western Germany for murder. Now, Father Desbois works to collect testimony from eyewitnesses and to mark the exact location of mass graves. Last week he was in Englewood, describing his work at a parlor meeting to raise support for the organization he founded 10 years ago, “Yahad — In Unum.” Yahad means “together” in Hebrew, as does “in unum” in Latin, and the organization reflects cooperation between Father Des- bois and his superiors in the French Cath- olic Church, and Jewish organizations in

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The villagers were not eager to remem- Father Desbois said. “He said the Germans ber. There was no memorial. And when were worried during the digging. One was he came to talk to witnesses, no one playing harmonica and he broke his har- would talk. He knew, though, that they monica. Later with a metal detector we had known what had happened, as it found the piece of German harmonica in happened. the ground.” “In my village” — in Burgundy — “we Martin remembered all the details, killed two Germans and everyone knows.” Father Desbois continued. How the Ger- Father Desbois didn’t accept silence as mans asked the villagers for two chickens, an answer. which the Germans grilled themselves “I came back three more times to the and ate. Then they commanded the Jews same village with the same question. I was to leave the pit, and the Germans entered the nudnick of the village,” he said. it. They laid down explosives. Then came a change of regime. A new “After a moment the Germans said to the mayor was elected, who was not affiliated Jews, now you can go on digging, and the 30 with the old Communist regime. Jews exploded,” Father Desbois said. When Father Desbois returned, the new Yahad has posted subtitled video testimony from thousands of interviews at mayor took him to a small hamlet outside yahadinunum.org. of town. Here, the mayor told him, was the mass grave of the last 1,500 Jews of France and America. that?’” Rava–Ruska. He was Father Desbois was born in 1955. This Patrick forgot the conversation as he And there was a surprise: a row of peo- story begins, however, in 1942, with his grew up and became a math teacher and ple, lining up to tell their stories. “They determined to grandfather who was arrested by the a priest. came one by one to speak because all were learn what Germans after the invasion of France. Then he organized a pilgrimage to present at the killing. They are not histori- He escaped from his prison camp — and Poland to meet Pope John Paul II. ans. They are neighbors,” he said. happened there. then was reported to the Germans, who In Poland, he got lost. Trying to find “One guy named Martin said ‘I was He had to know deported him to a disciplinary camp his bearings, he heard the place again: alone with my mother, keeping my cow. I in the Ukrainian town of Rava-Ruska. “Rava–Ruska.” It was the name of a bor- saw a German arrive with a motorcycle,’” what happened. Later, he would not speak of his wartime der crossing; the village where his grand- he said. experience. father had been imprisoned was only five This was how it began: One German Then a woman named Maria testified. But, recalled Father Desbois, “when we miles past the border. “In one night, my sent a week before the massacre, to find “I was a girl, 14. I was in my farm. The said Rava-Ruska everyone was crying in life changed,” he said. out how many Jews are still alive in the vil- Germans said, come to take the Jews from the family. He was determined to learn what lage. Once they knew how many people the tree. I climbed into the tree and took “I said, ‘Why do you not speak? Perhaps happened there. He had to know what they plan to kill, the SS could calculate the pieces of Jews from the tree,” she told you did something bad? Perhaps you killed happened. volume of the mass grave. Father Desbois. “In one day and a half, somebody?’ The facts were not hard to discover. The following week, five Germans they shot 1,500 people with two shooters “He said: ‘No. I was in a camp. We had no “In that village they shot 15,000 Jews and arrived. They rounded up 30 Jews and and three pushers with gloves,” he said. food or drink. Outside was worse than that.’ 18,000 Soviet prisoners,” Father Desbois forced them to dig the pit. They packed the Jews into the pit like “I thought: ‘What could be worse than said. “Martin remembered everything,” sardines, he said, forcing them to lie on

Eight hundred Jews are buried in this mass grave in Ostrozhets, Ukraine. At right, a mass grave in Kysylyn, Ukraine, where 500 Jews are buried. These are among the sites being preserved and memorialized by the American Jewish Committee.

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top of the just-shot corpses. Then that new they have a sketch to say where are the layer of Jews was shot. mass graves. We know exactly where are “In ’41 they established this rule: One the spots.” Jew, one bullet. If people were only injured The team stays in a hotel nearby and at they pushed them in and buried them 6 a.m. begins knocking on doors and ask- alive. People say always that it took three ing questions. “Only positive questions, days for a mass grave to die,” he said. because people remember the KGB,” he Father Desbois had finally learned some said. of what his grandfather wouldn’t tell him. “You were here during the war? You “It could have been finished this day,” he were during the day of shooting of the said of this journey. Jews? Can you help us? Will you accept to “The witnesses went away. I was alone speak in front of the camera?” team mem- with the mayor. He said: ‘Patrick, what I bers ask. did for one village I can do for a hundred “Ninety-nine percent of the people say villages.’” yes,” he said. When he returned to Paris, he spoke The interviews focus on the specif- with his superior in the church, Cardinal ics. Where did the Germans come from? Jean-Marie Lustiger, who told him: “I know Where did they park? Do you remem- the story because my Polish Jewish fam- ber the color of their car? Who was the ily was killed the same way.” They set up translator? residents were used. to the house when he was a teenager, and Yahad — In Unum together with the World Detail by detail, the team exhumes the And also in that third category — the seeing bullet-ridden bodies lying on the Jewish Congress. ghosts of memories and the memory of group with at least some blood on their floor. Ten years later, the organization has ghosts. Afterward, “most of them want to hands — are those who pulled the trigger. What did he do with the corpses? “I a full-time staff of 25. It has interviewed go to the mass grave,” he said. One time, Father Desbois said, a man don’t remember. I buried them far away,” 3,900 people and found 1,700 extermina- There are three categories of witnesses, said, “I am in a Jewish house. If you want he said. tion sites, working in 10 countries, travel- he said. The first are the neighbors who to see a Jewish house, come.” It sounded strange to Father Desbois. ing as far east as Azerbaijan. saw the shooting from their window. Could the cameraman film? A woman arrived and told him “Father, Yahad’s research starts with reports The second are the people who went “Yes, yes.” he’s lying. Come with me into his garden.” from the Soviet Union. “In 1944 the Soviets out to see the slaughter. Most of them Father Desbois asked how he got the One yard behind the door, she stood reopened all the mass graves, took pictures, were teenagers then. Now they’re in their house. The man told of his family coming and said: “The corpses are under my feet.” and interviewed people,” Father Desbois 80s. They climbed trees to get a better said. The result was 16 million pages of doc- view. They borrowed binoculars from the umentation. Little was actually needed for Germans. the Nuremberg trials. Yahad has scanned The third category are the people the and translated these archives. Germans requisitioned to assist. There It also has the typically meticulous Ger- were farmers who dug the mass grave. man reports of the killings. Farmers who carried Jews in their carts. “Before we go to a village we have the Farmers who pulled the gold teeth from German version and the Soviet version,” Jews before they were shot. In all, there he said. “The Soviets, most of the time were 50 categories of jobs for which local

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The man said: “She’s telling the truth.” hungry elderly Holocaust survivors and memorializing Father Desbois recalled: “He began with a pen to the graves in Europe’s killing fields, the Jewish commu- write on the wall of his house the list of Jews buried in nity chose the former. his garden.” The American Jewish Committee has gotten involved. “You have to show nothing,” said Father Desbois, In Ukraine, they’ve started a pilot project “of taking Pat- describing his emotional response, and how much of it rick’s data and memorializing and protecting sites.” Five Do you have or he is prepared to reveal to the interviewees. “As if it is sites are involved at this stage. The AJC has sponsored a normal to have a mass grave of Jews in your garden and design competition with local architects. “The idea is know someone who has your parents killed them. We need to know the truth to have something that is modest, not expensive, that and where are the corpses. If they were working with would make it clear that it’s a special site and to ensure Obsessive-Compulsive the Gestapo they are my best witnesses. that the full area of the mass grave is demarcated and “People speak. Our particularity is that we are not has proper memorial language,” he said. Disorder? Jews. They know I’m a priest. They know I would not Every time Yahad finds a grave, the organization Are you experiencing uncomfortable or even disabling call the police. transmits the GPS coordinates to the American Jewish symptoms? If so, you may be eligible for one of our “I recently interviewed a killer. He was 104 year old. Committee. “In most cases where we find a mass grave, new treatment studies for individuals with OCD. His memory was as good as mine. He was in a military we hide it,” Father Desbois said. “Often mass graves are unit of Romanians. He himself killed 220 Jews. I asked opened by neighbors, hoping to find gold.” We have studies that include free treatment available him, ‘Are you sure you remember more than 200 Jews?’ Preserving the graves requires marking them and then for people who are currently on medications, and for He said, ‘I got a free box of cartridges when I killed 100.’” covering them over with concrete to stop grave robber- people who are not on psychiatric medication. He allows himself to show no emotion because “you ies. Sometimes, if they are not marked, the graves sim- can express yourself — or you can know the truth. You ply are destroyed to make room for construction. “In If you are currently on medications for OCD and are have to be more like playing poker. A family of killers a city like Kiev they built a bank over a mass grave,” he interested in treatment or more information please call: I have interviewed three times still does not know my said. “They found bones and threw them away.” position. Why is this project important for Father Desbois? “We (646) 774-8062 “This is the challenge of the organization. We want to can’t accept that we build modernity on the mass graves If you are not on medications and are interested in know the truth, to find the last mass grave.” of Jews and gypsies,” he said. “If we accept it, what can Once a mass grave is located, then what should hap- we say to Rwanda and Darfur and Syria?” treatment or more information please call: pen next? Another motivation is religious. (646) 774-8118 or (646) 774-8064 It is a problem so vast — there are so many graves “I worked a lot with religious Jews. They say these are — that when the Iron Curtain fell and Eastern Europe tzadikim,” righteous martyrs. “They are tzadikim buried For more information about our center, opened up, Jewish organizations shied away from it. like animals. It is an attack on the Jewish religion and our services, and OCD, visit us at: “Before Patrick undertook his work, many people the Christian religion. In the beginning of the Bible, the understood that there was an advantage to not be con- first question of God is to Cain: ‘Where is your brother?’ www.columbia-ocd.org fronted with this problem, because it’s an overwhelming “Since I was a child, I hear the question, ‘Where is one,” said Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international your Jewish brother?’ coming from Russia, from the Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee. “He Ukraine, from Moldova. forced many of us to confront a problem that in the past “He is under the bushes like an animal. We cannot www.jstandard.com people didn’t want to confront.” build a modern world, a modern country, and ask two Given the choice between spending money to aid million Abels to keep silent,” he said.

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TEL AVIV–Former Israeli President Shimon Peres said he is con ident about France’s ability to ight anti-Semitism on its own soil. Immigration to Israel, he said, should be encouraged for positive reasons, not only as a response to persecution abroad. “We call on Jews to immigrate to Israel when there’s no crime and no other reason,” said Peres, speaking exclusively to JTA from his Peres Center for Peace of ice over- looking the Mediterranean. Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have called on French Jews to move to Israel following the January 9 hostage siege at a Paris kosher supermarket. The attack killed four Jewish men. “I think Zionism is a movement of rebirth, not protest. Why should I have a negative reason? I have a positive reason,” said Peres, 91, who twice served as the nation’s prime minister. Peres declined to discuss Netanyahu or his remarks directly. He praised the French government’s longtime support for Israel, as well as its historical commitment to democratic ideals. Peres added that there is a “European awak- ening to go to war” against anti-Semitism, and that while Israel should support French efforts to combat anti-Semi- tism, it does not need to get involved directly. “When the French prime minister comes out so strongly against anti-Semitism, we support the French position,” Peres said, referring to Manuel Valls’ speech to the National Assembly of France last week, during which he decried anti-Semitism. “They don’t need assistance.” Peres, however, called for a worldwide coalition to ight terror, echoing recent statements by Netanyahu. He also called on religious leaders to speak out against terrorism. “All of enlightened humanity needs to unite and put an end to the barbarism of terror,” he said. “We need to be among those who will take part in the worldwide, mutual, democratic effort to ight this danger to all of humanity.” Also during the interview, Peres criticized the Interna- tional Criminal Court for opening an examination of Isra- el’s conduct during last summer’s war in Gaza. He said the ICC instead should investigate the conduct of Hamas, the terrorist organization that governs Gaza. “There’s an organization called Hamas that murders and can’t make a claim on Israel,” he said. “Israel withdrew from Gaza, so they can’t say they’re freedom ighters.” On the subject of Israel’s March 17 elections, Peres didn’t talk speci ics but did say that Israelis face a stark choice. “So Israel can stay a Jewish and democratic state, we need two states,” he said. “There are two opinions in Israel. We need to choose. One of them says two states. One says we’ll manage the crisis. Every citizen will choose.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Uriel Heilman But the suicide theory was dismissed out of hand on the streets of Buenos Aires and The mysterious death of Argentine prosecu- among people around the world who were tor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight familiar with Nisman and his work inves- out of a crime thriller. tigating the AMIA bombing. Instead, they Nisman — the indefatigable prosecutor said, Nisman, 51, was the victim of foul play. collecting evidence of culpability in the The suicide theory lost even more ground 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center on Tuesday when Viviana Fein, the prose- in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people — cutor investigating Nisman’s death, said that was found dead in his apartment just hours no traces of gunpowder had been found on before he was to present evidence to Argen- Nisman’s hand. tina’s congress that he said implicated his There also was no suicide note. country’s president and foreign minister in “The idea of suicide I think is nonsense,” a nefarious cover-up scheme. The charge? Abraham Foxman, national director of the That the two agreed to suppress Tehran’s Anti-Defamation League, said. role in the AMIA bombing in exchange for “The Jewish community has lost a stalwart oil shipments to energy-starved Argentina. hero, and Argentina and all people who pur- Nisman’s body was discovered late Sun- sue the truth and justice with a passionate day in his 13-floor apartment with a single zeal have lost a great fighter,” Foxman said. A demonstrator at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires protesting the death of gunshot wound to the head. “Throughout the years, all kinds of forces Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman wears a sign, in French, echo- Officials connected to the president, Cris- have tried to put him down, to destroy ing last week’s Je Suis Charlie protests, saying “I am Nisman.” tina Fernández de Kirchner, quickly said him. Every time he uncovered new stuff or movimiento argentino de FotógraFos independientes aUtoconvocados that the evidence pointed to suicide, noting exposed some interests that weren’t happy, that a .22-caliber pistol and a spent cartridge they set the courts against him or they set tried to put him down, he fought it, he had been a well-respected Argentine- were found near Nisman’s body. the police against him. And every time they got up and beat them.” Israeli human rights activist. The govern- The investigation of the 1994 bomb- ments of Israel and the United States also ing — the deadliest terrorist attack in denounced the deal. Argentine history and one of the worst Nisman challenged the deal in court RCBC incidents of anti-Jewish violence in the as “wrongful interference” by the presi- diaspora since World War II — was seen dent in judicial affairs, and it never was as hopelessly inept and corrupt until Nis- implemented. man took over the case in 2005. A few years earlier, during a 2009 visit For years after the AMIA bombing, to New York, Nisman said that any trial We Deliver which was preceded by the deadly 1992 for the AMIA bombing should be moved bombing of the Israeli embassy in Bue- outside of Argentina if it were to have nos Aires, there were no significant any chance of success. arrests. After 20 local men, including “We’re thinking of taking this case to a 19 police officers, were put on trial in court in a third country due to the chal- SUPER BOWL SPECIALS 2001 on charges of involvement in the lenges of pursuing it in Argentina,” Nis- All orders must be placed by Thursday, January 29, 2015 by 5 pm Jewish center attack, the investigating man said at the time, at a briefing at ADL’s judge, Juan Jose Galiano, was caught on national headquarters. “There is a practi- video offering one of the men a bribe in cal impossibility of doing it in Argentina Garlic Famous Wings (9 x 13) ...... $40 return for evidence. 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Just hours before Nisman’s death — he did not eat dinner on Sunday night, investigators said, suggest- ing that he probably was shot before dinnertime — six Hezbollah fighters were killed in an airstrike in southern Syria that was attributed to Israel. Among the dead were Mohammed Allahdadi, a general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and Jihad Mughniyeh, son of the late Hezbollah mastermind Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a February 2008 car bombing in Damascus. Hezbollah accused Israel of being behind Sunday’s airstrike. Israeli officials, adhering to protocol in such cases, declined to comment. But an unnamed senior Israeli security source confirmed to Reuters that Israel was behind the strike but said it wasn’t meant to target had been a well-respected Argentine- a senior Iranian general. Israeli human rights activist. The govern- “We did not expect the outcome in terms of the stat- ments of Israel and the United States also ure of those killed — certainly not the Iranian general,” denounced the deal. the source told Reuters. “We thought we were hitting Nisman challenged the deal in court an enemy field unit that was on its way to carry out an as “wrongful interference” by the presi- attack on us at the frontier fence.” dent in judicial affairs, and it never was Could Hezbollah have pulled off Nisman’s killing so implemented. quickly after the airstrike in Syria? It would be unchar- A few years earlier, during a 2009 visit acteristic for the Lebanon-based group, which typi- to New York, Nisman said that any trial cally has carried out its well-planned reprisals months for the AMIA bombing should be moved or years after Israeli attacks. outside of Argentina if it were to have The circumstances of Nisman’s death, assuming that any chance of success. he really was murdered, certainly represent a failure “We’re thinking of taking this case to a of the Argentine authorities. Nisman had been under court in a third country due to the chal- police protection, including the positioning of police lenges of pursuing it in Argentina,” Nis- guards outside the luxury high-rise where he was man said at the time, at a briefing at ADL’s found dead. national headquarters. “There is a practi- Nisman had made several prescient references to cal impossibility of doing it in Argentina the possibility of his untimely death, saying as recently because Iran has said it won’t deliver the as Saturday, “I might get out of this dead.” people we have accused. It’s also been On Sunday, the guards assigned to protect Nisman hard for Interpol to arrest those people said they hadn’t been able to reach him by telephone, because whenever they leave Iran, they and his newspaper still lay untouched outside his do so under diplomatic immunity.” apartment door. His mother was called and came with Even outside Argentina, Nisman said, her spare key, but the lock was jammed; a key was it was highly unlikely that Iran would stuck in the other side. A locksmith opened the door, submit suspects for trial, but the move and Nisman’s body was found in the bathroom. could bring some closure to the families Jorge Kirszembaum, a former president of the of the AMIA bombing victims. Argentine Jewish community’s political umbrella “I’m following the wishes of relatives group, DAIA, said that a cousin of Nisman’s who vis- and looking for a way to get them some ited the crime scene found a note to the maid with closure,” Nisman said through a transla- Monday’s tasks spelled out. tor. “I cannot give up on ways of trying Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a Jewish leader and member to get justice.” of Argentina’s congress, called Nisman “victim 86 of Among Argentina’s 200,000 Jews — the AMIA attack.” He leaves two daughters. the largest Jewish community in Latin Now that Nisman is gone, it’s not clear what will America —Nisman, who also was Jewish, happen with the AMIA case, or his accusations against was seen as a crusading hero. Kirchner and Timerman. So who could have wanted him dead? In another one of his eerily prescient comments, Many Argentines are pointing the Nisman told a TV interviewer last week, after news of finger at President Kirchner. 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ANTHONY WEISS Diego and Beth Hillel Day School in Los Angeles opted out of vaccines. In 2012, 14 LOS ANGELES — A recent measles out- percent of kindergarten students at the break originating at Disneyland that has Seattle Hebrew Academy in Washington infected more than 50 people has returned state opted out, according to the radio sta- the issue of declining immunization rates tion KUOW in Seattle. to the national headlines. The statistics are not a perfect guide to California health officials report that immunization rates. For example, Beth the outbreak began at the Anaheim theme Israel principal Seth Pozzi said that the park in mid-December and quickly spread seemingly high rate of non-vaccination throughout the country, helped along in was because several of the children in part by the growing influence of the anti- transitional kindergarten were too young immunization movement, which, despite to complete their vaccines. Pozzi said since the science that clearly disproves such then all have been vaccinated. links, sees vaccines as unhealthy and The Chabad Academy of San Diego and linked to disorders such as autism. Seattle Hebrew Academy did not return As a number of newspaper and maga- multiple calls requesting comment. zine articles have noted, parents who Nonetheless, there is broad consensus refuse to vaccinate their children tend to among health experts that vaccination be concentrated in affluent, well-educated rates have been falling, in part due to par- areas of major U.S. cities — areas that also ents refusing to vaccinate their children. Jewish schools with low and high opt-out rates for vaccinations range across encompass the majority of Jewish day Variations in state law limit what schools denominational lines from community to Orthodox institutions. SHUTTERSTOCK schools, several of which have non-immu- can do about parents who decline vacci- nization rates as high as 26 percent. nations for their children. In New York, parents to immunize their children and state allows school districts to set more According to a compilation of state data private schools may ban unvaccinated must accept any student whose parents restrictive policies; none have. by the San Francisco-based radio station students. But schools in other states have submit the proper waiver form claiming “You have a conflict of what state law KQED, 26 percent of kindergarten students fewer options. According to California law, religious, philosophical, or health-related allows you to do versus what you may last year at the Chabad Academy of San individual schools have no right to force exemptions to immunization. Washington want to do individually,” said Donald

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Zimring of Brandeis Hillel Day School, a But, he added, “When you have an erosion Steven Albert. But the school is host to community school whose Marin County of herd immunity, the most contagious dis- afterschool programs that bring in stu- campus in northern California’s Bay Area eases come back first.” dents from other schools, and Albert said had a 15 percent opt-out rate in 2013. “It In New York, private schools have it would be impossible for his academy would be my personal preference to only much greater freedom to decide whether It’s [vaccination] to institute its own vaccine policies for admit youngsters who are immunized.” to accept parental objections to vaccina- a condition of those students. At Brandeis Hillel’s San Francisco cam- tions on religious grounds. At the Ramaz The issue cuts across denominational pus, only 5 percent of students opted out School, a modern Orthodox day school in attending Ramaz. lines. Schools with low and high opt-out in 2013. But even schools with relatively Manhattan, principal Rabbi Haskel Look- It’s absolutely rates for vaccinations range from com- low opt-out rates can pose dangers. stein issued a ruling that vaccinations munity schools to Orthodox. Suspicions To be effective, vaccines rely upon what are considered “p’kuach nefesh,” a Jew- required for the that vaccinations lead to ill effects such is called herd immunity. In the case of the ish legal standard under which religious protection of as autism — a concern, based on a paper most contagious diseases, like measles requirements are suspended to protect that later was retracted as a hoax and dis- and whooping cough, roughly 95 percent human life. the health of the proven conclusively by scientific research of the population must be immunized to “It’s a condition of attending Ramaz,” students. — affect both wealthy, liberal areas such ensure that if an infected person should Paul Shaviv, its head of school, said of vac- PAUL SHAVIV as Marin County and some parts of the appear, the disease will not spread. This is cinations. “It’s absolutely required for the charedi Orthodox world. particularly important to protect the less protection of the health of the students.” But Offit of Children’s Hospital argues than 1 percent of the population who have In 2005, the Conservative movement’s an influential charedi rabbi in Philadel- that exemptions on both philosophical an adverse physical reaction to vaccines, Committee on Jewish Law and Stan- phia, told the Baltimore Jewish Times, and religious grounds should be elimi- including anaphylaxis, and thus cannot be dards ruled unanimously that vaccina- “I see vaccinations as the problem. It’s a nated from state laws, noting that Missis- vaccinated. tion was required under Jewish law, save hoax. Even the Salk vaccine [against polio] sippi and West Virginia offer no exemp- “We eliminated measles transmission in for medical exceptions. But elsewhere is a hoax. It is just big business.” tions of any kind, save for medical ones, the U.S. in 2000,” said Dr. Paul Offit, direc- in the country, the rules are not so strict In Oregon, only about 1 percent of the from vaccination requirements. tor of the Vaccine Education Center at the or the community is not as supportive of student population at the Portland Jew- “The choice to put a child in an unnec- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a immunization. ish Academy have vaccination exemp- essarily risky position is an unreligious strong advocate for universal vaccination. Last August, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, tions, according to executive director act,” Offit said. JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Parashat Bo: Kosher bugs and ethical tomatoes

ocusts are bad news. In this week’s parashah, evocative metaphor employed when Jeremiah describes Here’s one possible God deploys a swarm of locusts as the eighth the Babylonians (Jer. 46) and Nahum describes the Assyr- answer: Making locusts plague: “They ate up all the grasses of the ield ians (Nah. 3). No wonder they are a curse against treach- kosher redeems them and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had erous Israelites (Deut. 28:38) and an image of the End of from their ignominious left,L so that nothing green was left … in all the land of Days (Joel 12). reputation. There’s still a Eypt” (Ex. 10:15). The “thick mass” devastates, pillages, Why, then, are we explicitly allowed to eat them while lot to be concerned about, and destroys, leaving nothing in its wake. almost all other insects are forbidden (Lev. 11:2022)? but ultimately they’re not No wonder the Amalekites are referred to as a swarm What is to be learned from our permission to consume all bad. of invading locusts (Judges 67). No wonder locusts are an that which devours everything in its path? The same is true today of the produce we eat in Rabbi Daniel our daily lives. Much of Kirzane the fresh produce we con- Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah, sume is hand-picked by Reform laborers whose working conditions often fall below the minimum standards NEW required by law. Take tomatoes for example: Until recently, any fresh American tomato you found in VOLUME! a grocery store, restaurant, or cafeteria between November and May probably came from Florida, and it was probably picked by someone living in the town of Immokalee. These tomato workers — who are the same people who pick strawberries, oranges, watermelons, and more throughout the year — have been paid less than minimum wage, and their basic human rights to health and safety have historically Mutual responsibilities. been jeopardized. You might rightly feel guilty eating food from a system that regularly abuses its workers. But now, many tomatoes are “fair,” just as locusts Financial agreements. are kosher. The worker-organized Coalition of Immo- kalee Workers has implemented a phenomenally Marriage. Divorce. successful Fair Food Program that secures fair pay and decent conditions for nearly all of Florida’s farm And everything in workers. Restaurants such as Burger King, McDon- ald’s, and Chipotle and grocery stores such as Whole between. Foods, Walmart, and Trader Joe’s have agreed to pay farm workers more and to ensure the protection of their basic human rights. Visit www.fairfoodpro- NO WONDER THE SAGES gram.org to learn more — and be on the lookout soon for a Fair Food label just like you might look out for a CALLED IT “SHAS KATAN”. kosher label. This will tell you the tomato came from an ethically stable American farm! As Jews, we seek food that’s “kosher” or “ it for our consumption.” Remembering the plight and redemption of the locust can remind us that even when something seems overwhelmingly negative, there’s always a ray of light we can latch onto. And that holy connection can bring each of us, bite by bite, a tiny bit closer to the ultimate Source of our sustenance.

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Arts & Culture Meet Stefan Zweig Jewish novelist who inspired ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ is having a comeback

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es Anderson’s whimsical film “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was nominated for nine Academy Awards last week,W just days after winning the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical. Named one of the best films of the year by several top critics, it could earn Ander- son, a director whose cult following has steadily grown over the past decade, his first Oscar. It also is likely to raise the profile of Stefan Zweig, the Austrian Jewish novelist who, Anderson has said, inspired the film’s quirky Eastern European setting and several of its characters. Indeed, a new book about him, “The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World,” just won the Jewish Book Council’s National Jewish Book Award for Best Jewish Biography. During the 1920s and ‘30s, Zweig was one of the world’s most prominent nov- elists. Born to wealthy Jewish parents in 1881, he earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Vienna in 1904 and fell in with the Austrian and German literary intellectual crowds of the time. Although he was not a practicing Jew, he became friends with Theodor Herzl, who published some of his earliest essays in the A scene from “Grand Budapest Hotel.” Neue Freie Presse, then Vienna’s lead- FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES ing newspaper. Later, during his peak decades of popularity, Zweig became which was released in March 2014. close with Sigmund Freud, whose psy- New editions of his fiction, includ- choanalytic theories influenced his fic- ing his collected stories, are being tion. (Zweig even gave a eulogy at Freud’s published; some are appearing in Eng- funeral in 1939.) lish for the first time. Movies are being In 1942, after years of unhappy emigra- adapted from his writing; a new selection though England and South America tion of his letters is in the works; plans to forced upon him by Hitler’s rise to power, reissue his many biographies and essays Zweig and his wife committed suicide by are in motion, and his complicated life overdosing on barbiturates. has provided inspiration for new biog- It is unclear why Zweig’s famous works, raphies and a best-selling French novel. such as “Beware of Pity” and “Confusion Some of these examples include the of Feelings,” fell into such obscurity in 2013 French film “A Promise,” which the years after World War II. Some crit- is based on Zweig’s novella “Journey ics, including the New Republic’s Adam Into the Past,” and the Swiss film “Mary Kirsch, have noted that Zweig symbolized Queen of Scots” from the same year, a liberal prewar state of mind and was which is based on Zweig’s novel “Maria intensely nostalgic. Perhaps it was not a Stuart.” Publishers such as the Pushkin coincidence that Zweig’s autobiography Press have published editions of over was called “The World of Yesterday.” 20 of Zweig’s fictional works in recent “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and the years. award-winning biography are not the only So regardless of how “The Grand examples of Zweig’s recent re-emergence. Budapest Hotel” fares at the Oscars, The New York Times has reported that we could be seeing (and reading) a lot new translations and editions of Zweig’s more of Stefan Zweig in the years to work have gradually reappeared over the come. past few years before Anderson’s film, JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Sharey Tefilo-Israel and Now,” performed (201) 362-2712, Rabbi hosts “Cooking with by pianist Carolyn [email protected], the Cantors,” 9:30 a.m. Enger, 11:45 a.m. The or www.myJLI.com. Participants will learn Metro YMCAs of the about challah baking and Oranges is a partner of Jewish food history with the YM-YWHA of North Monday TSTI Cantors Rebecca Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. JANUARY 26 Moses and Joan Finn. (973) 595-0100, ext. 257. Snow date March 1. Participants will sample Bowling in Clifton: The challah and get dough Friendship Circle of JAN. “Bang on a Can: Beauty Is Power,” a to bake at home. 432 Passaic County offers concert featuring cellist Maya Beiser, Scotland Road. www.tsti. a bowling league for is at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, org. special needs children 29 at Van Houten Lanes, Thursday, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. The 1:30 p.m. Volunteers performance is in conjunction with the museum’s will be on hand to exhibition, “Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power.” assist the children. Siblings welcome. $5. Senior program in 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3337 or 564 Van Houten Ave. Wayne: The Chabad TheJewishMuseum.org. (763) 228-8570 or www. Center of Passaic County FCPassaicCounty.com. continues its “Smile on The Three Challas Seniors” program with second bar mitzvah COURTESY JCCOTP brunch, social time, Friday of Marlowe Marcus of Shabbat in Ridgewood: and a screening of Haworth, 7:30 p.m. 221 Temple Israel and JCC Bi-lingual “The Book Thief,” at the JANUARY 23 Schraalenburgh Road. and the Academies at entertainment in center, 11:30 a.m. Light (201) 768-5112. Gerrard Berman Day Tenafly: The Yeladudes brunch. $5. 194 Ratzer Children’s program School in Oakland Theater presents Road. (973) 694-6274 or in West Nyack: The Shabbat in Jersey City: offer “PJ Havdallah for “The Three Challas,” a [email protected]. Rockland Jewish Temple Beth-El hosts its Tots,” led by Cantor bilingual show at the Lisl Malkin Academy offers a Sifriyat 30th annual service, led Caitlin Bromberg on Kaplen JCC on the Hadassah meets in Fair Pijama B’America — by Rabbi Debra Hachen her guitar, at Temple Palisades, 10:30 a.m. Holocaust survivor Lawn: Bernard Roth Hebrew story time with and student cantor Elaya Israel. Crafts and pizza, 411 East Clinton Ave. tells story: To mark UN discusses “Embracing activities and a snack, Jenkins-Adelberg, in 6 p.m., followed by (201) 408-1465. Holocaust Remembrance Yiddish Culture and 1:30 p.m. Sifriyat Pijama tribute to Martin Luther Havdalah. 475 Grove St. Day, Holocaust survivor Values; What Our continues on March 6 King, Jr., 7:45 p.m. U.S. (201) 444-9320 or www. Lisl Malkin of Tenafly Grandparents Knew But and April 12. 450 West Sen. Cory Booker is synagogue.org. shares her story of Failed to Tell Us” for Fair Nyack Road. Judy the guest speaker. A survival and discusses Lawn Hadassah at the Klein, (845) 627-0010, bone marrow drive her book, “An Interrupted Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ ext. 104, www. jointly sponsored by the Life,” followed by a Congregation B’nai Israel, rocklandjewishacademy. synagogue and the Love screening of “Words of 1 p.m. Refreshments. org, or kleinj@ of Jesus Family Church Wisdom: Lisl Malkin,” 10-10 Norma Ave. (201) rocklandjewishacademy. will be held during the at the Kaplen JCC on 791- 0327. org. oneg, sponsored by the Palisades in Tenafly, the Pesin family. 2419 Rabbi Benjamin Shull 5:30 p.m. (201) 569-7900 Shabbat in Ridgewood: Kennedy Boulevard. or www.jccotp.org. Tuesday Temple Israel and Jewish (201) 333-4229 or www. Teens talk with rabbi JANUARY 27 Community Center betheljc.org. in Woodcliff Lake: offers family services Rabbi Benjamin Shull Domestic issues: for 4– to 13-year-olds, leads a “Teen Talk” National Council of led by Cantor Caitlin Saturday session with “The Case Jewish Women Bergen Bromberg on her guitar, JANUARY 24 for the Jewish State of County Section’s 7 p.m. Oneg Shabbat Steven Masi Israel,” for all eighth to study group presents follows. 475 Grove St. Shabbat in Fort Lee: 12th graders, at Temple a program with Lil (201) 444-9320 or www. Congregation Gesher Schubert in Tenafly: Emanuel of the Pascack Corcoran of the Center synagogue.org. Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee Steven Masi performs the Valley, 11:15 a.m. Bagel for Hope and Safety offers Club Shabbat for music of Franz Schubert breakfast. 87 Overlook (formerly Shelter Our Shabbat in Closter: second to sixth graders, at the Kaplen JCC on Drive. (201) 391-0801 or Film/book discussion Sisters), 1 p.m., in the Temple Beth El holds and Torah Tots, for the Palisades Thurnauer [email protected]. in Woodcliff Lake: conference room at a service led by Rabbi As part of the “One 3- to 6-year-olds with School of Music, 7 p.m. the Shops at Riverside David S. Widzer and Book One Community” their parents, 11 a.m. The opening concert, Square in Hackensack. Cantor Rica Timman, with project, sponsored by 1449 Anderson Ave. “An Evening of Chamber Discussion includes organ accompaniment, the Jewish Federation (201) 947-1735. Music,” launches a new mental health issues, to commemorate the of Northern New Jersey, multiyear music series physical safety, shelter

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and food needs, $7 for breakfast. 385 and immigration Whole grains: Danielle Shabbat in Tenafly: Howland Ave. Tuesday Singles legal problems. Cinnante of the Valley Temple Sinai of Bergen (201) 489-2463 Hospital offers a talk County hosts Sabbath JANUARY 27 ruthseitelman@gmail. or administrator@ Sunday com. about cooking with of Song with composer/ avodatshalom.net. whole grains, “Amaranth pianist Ronn Yedidia, Commemorating the JANUARY 25 Navigating parenthood: to Quinoa and Everything jazz flutist Itai Kriss, and Baseball columnist in Holocaust: The Museum The Rohr Jewish in Between,” at the percussionist Yuval Edut, Teaneck: Bob Klapisch, of Jewish Heritage—A Singles meet in Learning Institute Bergen County YJCC, 7:30 p.m., 1 Engle St. the Record’s baseball Living Memorial to Caldwell: New Jersey begins a course, “The 7 p.m. 605 Pascack (201) 568-3035. columnist, speaks at a the Holocaust marks Jewish Singles 45+ meet Art of Parenting,” led Road. (201) 666-6610, Men’s Club breakfast Holocaust Remembrance for lunch and to socialize by Rabbi Mordechai (800) Valley1, or www. Saturday at Congregation Beth Day and the 70th and play games at Shain, at Lubavitch on valleyhealth.com/events. Aaron, 9:30 a.m. He anniversary of the Congregation Agudath the Palisades in Tenafly, JANUARY 31 will preview the 2015 liberation of Auschwitz- Israel, 12:45 p.m. $10. 20 8 p.m. 11 Harold St. Thursday baseball season, discuss Birkenau with children Academy Road. Sue, (201) 871-1152 or www. Shabbat in Ridgewood: A-Rod and the Yankees, of Holocaust survivors (973) 226-3600, ext. 145, myJLI.com. JANUARY 29 Temple Israel and Jewish whether the Mets can sharing their stories or [email protected]. Community Center be competitive, and the of regeneration, Adult b’nai mitzvah offers tot Shabbat Hall of Fame vote; q-&-a 7 p.m. 36 Battery Place. Winter dining in Wednesday class: The JCC of Fort led by Cantor Caitlin session follows. Breakfast (646) 437-4202 or www. Teaneck: The Jewish JANUARY 28 Lee/Congregation Bromberg on her guitar, served. 950 Queen Anne mjhnyc.org. Mosaic Outdoor Gesher Shalom begins 11 a.m. Youngsters, with Road. (201) 836-6210 or Mountain Club of Greater Navigating parenthood: an adult bar/bat their families, join the www.bethaaron.org. New York meets at The Rohr Jewish mitzvah class, 10:30 a.m. service in the sanctuary Veggie Heaven, 4 p.m. Learning Institute begins 1449 Anderson Ave. for concluding hymns, Used book sale: The Vegan and kosher. 473 a six-session course, (201) 947-1735. followed by kiddush Fair Lawn Jewish Cedar Lane. www. “The Art of Parenting,” lunch. 475 Grove St. Center/Congregation mosaic-gny.org. at the Chabad Jewish Hadassah meets: (201) 444-9320 or www. B’nai Israel holds a sale, Center in Franklin The Pascack Valley/ synagogue.org. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Children’s Lakes, 10:30 a.m.; a Northern Valley chapter books, 50 cents; adult second session will start of Hadassah meets Shabbat in Fair Lawn: paperbacks, $1; and on Sunday, Feb. 1 at at the Jewish Home Congregation Shomrei hardcover books, $2. 9:45 a.m. 375 Pulis Ave. Assisted Living in River Torah hosts “Torah, 10-10 Norma Ave. Registration open (201) 848-0449, www. Vale, 2:30 p.m. The Text, and Tradition: An (201) 796-5040. chabadplace.org, or chapter’s “Hadassah Evening of Learning and at Kaplen JCC U www.myJLI.com. Players” perform a Sharing,” 7-9:45 p.m., Mishloach Manot for musical, “Beautiful including three sessions the IDF: Congregation — The Story of Hedy with three choices. No Kol HaNeshamah in The JCC University at the Lamarr.” Refreshments. speeches. 19-09 Morlot Englewood assembles Kaplen JCC on the Palisades 685 Westwood Ave. Ave. Rabbi Wallace mishloach manot in Tenafly begins a new winter Coffee and dessert. Greene, wmg14c@gmail. packages for lone program, featuring an array of (201) 664-1488 or com or (201) 791-7910. soldiers in the Israel (201) 880-4614. Defense Forces at topics. The four-session term Super Bowl special St. Paul’s Church, will be taught by top profes- needs program: The 2—4 p.m. (201) 816-1611, sors and experts in their fields. Friday Chabad Center of [email protected], or Gail Sheehy, a trailblazer in JANUARY 30 Passaic County offers www.khnj.org. “Saturday Night Live,” journalism, and Tobi Kahn, a Rabbi Arthur Weiner Shabbat in Wayne: a Super Bowl themed Monday major voice in contemporary The Chabad Center of program for children art, are among the presenters. Gail Sheehy Zionism in Paramus: with special needs, with FEBRUARY 2 Rabbi Arthur Weiner of Passaic County hosts its Classes are on Thursdays, Jan- pre-Super Bowl Shabbat their siblings, 7 p.m. Sub the Jewish Community sandwiches served. $10 uary 29, February 12 and 26, Center of Paramus/ dinner, hosted by Blood drive in Teaneck: per family. 194 Ratzer and March 12. Congregation Beth Hebrew school students, Holy Name Medical 6 p.m. Children’s Road. (763) 228-8570 or Center holds a blood On January 29, Dr. Josh Tikvah begins a six-week jewishwayne.com. class, “The History of program included. 194 drive with New Jersey Gleis, an international secu- Ratzer Road. Chani, Blood Services, a Zionism, The Jewish Havdalah in Haskell: rity consultant and political National Movement,” (973) 694-6274 or www. division of New York jewishwayne.com. Filmmaker/musician/ Blood Center, 1-7 p.m. risk analyst, will discuss “ISIS: at 3 and 8:15 p.m. East author David Nesenoff 304 Midland Ave. 718 Teaneck Road. Short Term Threat or Long Shabbat in Closter: presents “A Funny (800) 933-2566 or www. (201) 262-7691 or www. Term Challenge.” On February Rabbi David S. Widzer Thing Happened to me nybloodcenter.org. jccparamus.org. and Cantor Rica Timman at the White House” at 12, Dr. Richard Roberts, pro- are joined by Rinat Chabad of Upper Passaic fessor emeritus of medicine at Tobi Kahn County, 7:45 p.m. Musical Beth El Junior Choir Weill Cornell Medical College for a family friendly Havdalah ceremony with In New York service, 6:45 p.m. 221 guitarist Jeff Goldstein. and adjunct at Rockefeller University, will talk about Schraalenburgh Road. 1069 Ringwood Ave, Ebola, and Tobi Kahn will offer “Looking at Art Now Suite 101. 201-696-7609 Sunday (201) 768-5112. with Tobi Kahn.” or info@JewishHighlands. JANUARY 25 Shabbat in Wyckoff: org. On February 26, Fred Gardaphe, distinguished pro- Temple Beth Rishon Film in NYC: The fessor of English and Italian studies at Queens College, Zumba in Tenafly: offers Shabbat Shirah, Museum of Jewish will talk about “From Wise Guys to Wise Men: The a service in song, 7 p.m. The Kaplen JCC on Heritage—A Living Image of the Italian American Gangster,” and CUNY Led by Cantor Ilan the Palisades hosts Memorial to the Mamber and featuring a 75-minute “Zumba Holocaust and the sociology professor and author William Helmreich will Talia Tzour the Kol Rishon Choir Fitness Party” with exotic Primo Levi Center co- talk about “The New York Nobody Knows: Walking rhythms, high energy with soloist Jo-Ann present “Oro Macht 6000 Miles in the City.” On March 12, Ronald Brown, Cooking & conversation: Skiena Garey and Latin and international Frei” (Gold Will Set associate professor at Touro College and the Unifica- Talia Tzour, Jewish Summer Greenwald- beats, and easy-to-follow You Free), in English National Funds’ Gonella, the shul’s moves, for those 12 and and Italian with English tion Theological Seminary, will talk about “Divine New chief Israel emissary, cantorial intern from older, 8 p.m. 411 East subtitles, 2:30 p.m. The York: A Religious History of New York City,” and Gail Clinton Ave. Barbara, leads “Cooking & the Jewish Theological new film sheds light on Sheehy, the author of “Passages,” will talk about “Dar- Conversation,” a program Seminary; instrumental (201) 408-1475. the persecution and ing: My Passages.” for JNF Women for Israel, accompaniment by Ilan deportation of the Jews 6:30 p.m., at a private Mamber, Itay Goren, Mark Sunday of Rome. Alessandra Di For information, call Kathy at (201) 408-1454 or email home in Norwood. jnf. Kantrowitz, and Jimmy Castro, director of the her at [email protected]. org/nnjcooking or call Cohen. Dessert and FEBRUARY 1 Jewish Museum of Rome, (973) 593-0095, ext. 823. coffee. 585 Russell Ave. will speak. 36 Battery (201) 891-4466 or www. Games in River Edge: Place. (646) 437-4202 or bethrishon.org. Temple Avodat Shalom www.mjhnyc.org. hosts “Jewpardy Breakfast,” 9:15 a.m. JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015 43 JS-44

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Lucky Break performs this Sunday Jerry Wicentowski’s bluegrass band Lucky Break peforms in concert on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m., at Davar in Teaneck. Featured will be traditional Jewish tunes and bluegrass tunes performed by world class musicians. It costs $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Davar is at 1500 Sussex Road. For reservations, call (201) 287-1959. SuperBowl kosher halftime show features Soulfarm Jewish radio icon Nachum Segal of the Following the game, the new song Nachum Segal Network will host this will be available on iTunes, along with year’s “Kosher Halftime Show” during the rest of Soulfarm’s catalogue, and Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, February 1. the entire Kosher Halftime Show will The program will stream and be available be available on demand on NSN’s web- on www.nachumsegal.com. The show is site and the NSN YouTube channel a family-oriented alternative to the pop NachumSegalNet. culture musical and dance performance The program’s presenting sponsor is on television. the Friends of the Abe Naymark Foun- The program will feature Soulfarm, dation. Big game commercials include led by Grammy Award-winning guitarist Royal Wine Corp., American Commit- C Lanzbom and lead singer Noah Solo- tee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in PHOTOS COURTESY MJHNYC mon Chase. Together with drummer Jerusalem, and the Religious Zionist Slate Ben Antelis and Grammy Award-winning (www.votetorah.com). Ables & Heyman Museum program features director bassist Mitch Friedman, Soulfarm will and Gourmet Glatt also are sponsors. screening/discussing Jewish pilots film debut “Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet” To learn more, go to www.nachumse- and perform two other songs. gal.com or www.soulfarm.net. Director Roberta Grossman screens and abroad” — the group laid the groundwork discusses her latest film, “Above and for the Israeli Air Force. The film includes Beyond,” at the Museum of Jewish Heri- interviews with surviving pilots, scholars, tage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and statesmen, including Shimon Peres; Englewood artist’s works on display on Wednesday, January 28, at 7 p.m. archival footage, and special effects by Gail Sheehy The film tells the story of a group of George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic. It “SAVED: Recycled Artist Jewish American World War II veterans is the first major documentary about the Books” by Irmari Nacht who volunteered to fight for Israel and subject. will be on display at the smuggled planes out of the United States The museum is at 36 Battery Place in second floor display space, during the 1948 War of Independence. As New York City. For information, call (646) Balcony Cases, at Brooklyn members of Machal — “volunteers from 437-4202 or go to www.mjhnyc.org. Public Library, from Febru- ary 12 to April 5. Ms. Nacht’s recycled book series, “SAVED,” uses books that otherwise Tobi Kahn might have been discarded and transforms them into artworks. The books are cut, sometimes into slivers that curl and return to the Englewood artist Irmari Nacht’s “Books39Isaiah.” tree-like shape from which the paper was made. The artwork uses Palisades in Tenafly, the Belskie Museum the book as a metaphor. in Closter, and the Intermezzo Gallery at Ms. Nacht’s “Books39Isaiah,” pic- bergenPAC in Englewood, among many tured, uses words from the prophet Isa- other places. Her art has been exhibited iah’s writings. According to her, “In my internationally and nationally and is in recycled artist book, I am fascinated by several corporate and public collections, the beauty of the Hebrew letters as they including AT&T, PSE&G, ADP, Newark PHOTOS COURTESY BERGENPAC reach out to the viewer. The words are Museum, International Museum of Col- “Connections” by Marilyn Deitchman. not immediately readable, but give an lage, Rutgers University, Cleveland Art impression of content. The words are Institute, Bowdoin College, Jimmy Carter Art featured at bergenPAC displaced from the book, much like the Museum, and Yale Art Museum. Nazi victims who were removed from An opening reception is set for Thurs- The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Intermezzo Gallery. The gallery is open to their homes. But there is hope; in its day, February12, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Englewood presents “Life Forms: An the general public during box office hours. recycling, the torn pages take on a tree- Dweck Center Lobby at the Brooklyn Exhibit of Acrylic Painting by Carole Gold- Bergen PAC is at 30 North Van Brunt St. like shape, and a tree is life.” Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, stein & Marilyn Deitchman,” from Febru- in Englewood. For information, call (201) Locally, Ms. Nacht’s work recently was Brooklyn. For information, go to www. ary 1 to 28. An opening reception is set 227-1030 or go to www.bergenpac.org. shown at the at the Kaplen JCC on the bklynlibrary.org. for February 11 at 5 p.m. in the center’s

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Alvin Goldfarb Corps veteran of World War II, a retired real estate Alvin Goldfarb, 89, of Fort Lee died on December 5. appraiser, and a member of Congregation Agudath Born in New York, he was a U.S. Army veteran of Sholom in Jersey City. World War II. He is survived by his wife, Elaine, neé Jacobowitz, He is survived by his wife, Anita, and was a father sons, Mark of Ocean, James of Fort Myers, Fla., and and a grandfather. Arrangements were by Eden Paul of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; a brother, Robert Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee. of Boca Raton, Fla.; seven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. Eileen Landau Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Eileen Landau, née Triebit, 78, of Fort Lee died on Fort Lee. January 20. Born in the Bronx, she was member of the Edith Silber Fordham Affiliate Association in the borough Edith Silber, née Rickard, 89, of Westwood, formerly of She is survived by her husband, Murray, children, Tenafly and Boynton Beach, Fla., died on January 17. Denise of Fort Lee and Keith of Milford, Pa.; sisters Born in Brooklyn, she was a Hunter College Edna Horwitz of the Bronx and Shirley Maldanado of graduate and earned a master’s from Montclair State. Brooklyn, and two grandchildren. She was a member of Temple Sinai of Bergen County Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, in Tenafly. Fort Lee. Predeceased by her husband Frank in 1991, she is survived by her sons, Robert (Karen) and Fred Stanley Rubenstein (Randi) of Tenafly, and Tom (Candace) of Madison, Stanley Rubenstein, 87, of Deal and Pompano Beach, Wis., and four grandchildren. Fla., died on January 18. Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Born in North Bergen, he was an Army Air Fort Lee.

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n 1 Rabbi Randall Mark, right, leads a family n 5 Lubavitch on the Palisades Elementary School held 8 Havdalah program at Shomrei Torah in Wayne. its second annual hands-on/interactive science day, cul- minating in the “Big Egg Drop” contest. Students created n 2 Teacher Shoshana Ishayik helps fourth and fifth contraptions to protect an egg, pictured. COURTESY LPS graders at Temple Emeth in Teaneck’s religious school discover the history of the Hebrew alphabet. n 6 Arnold Grodman, a co-president at Congrega- tion Gesher Shalom/JCC Fort Lee, made applesauce n 3 Debbie Bessen, center, a registered dietitian and the with Hebrew school students. COURTESY GESHER SHALOM oncology dietitian for the Cancer Center at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, spoke to the Jewish Com- n 7 Mahmoud Hamza, right, communal leader of the Mus- munity Center of Paramus/ Congregation Beth Tikvah lim Society of Ridgewood, spoke to a capacity crowd at sisterhood about how to improve our eating habits, Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center in Ridge- one step at a time. Sisterhood president Wendy Stein- wood on Sunday, January 11. Here, he is with Temple berg, left, and Sue Kaminer, sisterhood member and Israel’s rabbi, Dr. David J. Fine, holding a family tree show- registered dietician, join her here . COURTESY JCCP/CBT ing Prophet Muhammed as a descendant of Adam and the Jewish patriarchs. Hamza serves with Rabbi Fine on n 4 Students at Gan Rina explored the snow and Ridgewood’s Interfaith Religious Council. COURTESY TIJCC cold on a winter nature walk. Indoors, they reen- acted the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears n 8 Dr. Shalom Holtz, Yeshiva University professor, Assyri- during a hibernation party. COURTESY GAN RINA ologist, author, and Ben Porat Yosef parent, taught BPY sixth graders about daily life in Mesopotamia. COURTESY BPY

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New York metropolitan area Ashkenazi Jewish women and to be covered for BRCA genetic testing,” said Dr. Susan men aged 25 and older can now opt to undergo testing for Klugman, medical director for the Program for Jewish the three common Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA founder muta- Genetic Health, director of the division of reproductive tions at a fraction of the commercial price. That is thanks to genetics at Montefiore, and professor of clinical obstet- a new, philanthropy-based initiative from the Program for rics and gynecology and women’s health at Einstein. Jewish Genetic Health (PJGH), a not-for-profit organization “We at the Program for Jewish Genetic Health are not affiliated with Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein College willing to wait for that.” of Medicine, in conjunction with Montefiore Health System. Approximately one in 40 individuals of Ashkenazi This initiative, the first of its kind in the United States, makes Jewish descent carries one of three founder mutations in testing available to all Ashkenazi Jewish individuals, regard- the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, a carrier rate tenfold higher less of their BRCA-related cancer histories or their insur- than that of the general population. Females carrying a ance/financial situations, both of which have been barriers BRCA mutation face a significantly higher risk of devel- to date. oping breast and ovarian cancer in their lifetime, while “Most insurance companies currently require people to male BRCA mutation carriers are at higher risk of devel- already have had family members with cancer if they want oping prostate and breast cancer, among other cancers. BRCA carriers also have a 50 percent chance of passing the altered gene on to each of their offspring, who in turn will have an increased susceptibility for these cancer types. Individuals who find out that they are BRCA carriers through genetic testing have cancer risk-reducing and reproductive options. Today, most health insurance policies cover BRCA testing only for those who are considered at “high risk” to have a BRCA mutation — those with a significant personal or family history of these cancers. However, indi- Congratulations to Our Star viduals who are at “low risk” to have a BRCA mutation — those who do not have a significant personal or fam- Top Producers for 2014! ily history of cancer — along with those with no health insurance, are faced with steep out-of-pocket costs. Testing for the three common Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA founder mutations via the traditional, commercial- based process can cost more than $600 for these low risk and uninsured individuals. The Program for Jewish Genetic Health is now providing testing for $100, along

Cynthia Abbott Ravit Advocat Sean Bowe Phyllis Buonomo Aviva Clark with complimentary pre-test genetic counseling cour- - + -$+ ((+ &/' +( !( $## $( # $. /!! ) ,$#$"$ !) %()#++ - Sales#(.) Representative !)Sales %()#++ -Representative Sales!) Representative %()#++ - Broker-Salesperson Sales Representative($ (!) tesy of Montefiore. !) %()#++ - %()#++ - #!/ $ !)ALPINE %()#++ - OFFICE #!.$$TENAFLY! ) OFFICE $ CRESSKILL -( ! OFFICE $ CRESSKILL OFFICE TENAFLY OFFICE -( ! $ ()) !! $ ()) !! $ According to the PJGH, one of the primary goals of the new initiative, that also includes a research compo- nent, is to identify new BRCA mutation carriers in this “low-risk” group who otherwise would have gone unde- tected. Recent studies from Israel have reaffirmed that the one in 40 carrier rate in Ashkenazi Jews also applies to these low risk individuals, and suggest that the risks to ((/Nick DeCandia ! ) ((Harry !! Elias Farrah!# Feggelle $# ## (Nicole Idler "# Skip $$( Kelley (- Miriam $! Lambert !( develop cancer in BRCA carriers coming from both “low !)Broker-Salesperson %()#++ - Sales($ Representative(!) !)Broker-Salesperson %()#++ - Sales!) Representative %()#++ - Sales Representative($ (!) Sales!) Representative %()#++ - %()#++ - %()#++ - ())CRESSKILL !! $ OFFICE CRESSKILL OFFICE TENAFLY!% # $ OFFICE TENAFLY()) !!OFFICE $ RIVER VALE OFFICE ALPINE#!/ OFFICE $ #!/ $ #!.$$ ! ) $ risk” and “high risk” families may be more equivalent than originally thought. Interested participants aged 25 and older who self- identify as Ashkenazi Jewish will begin by visiting the PJGH’s BRCA Community Study website (http:// brcacommunitystudy.einstein.yu.edu/), where they can learn more about BRCA and the initiative, and

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