JS-1* AOC-01 About BAR/BAT ROCKLAND COUNTY SECTION pages 16-19 OurUseful InformationChildren for the Next Generation of Jewish Families MITZVAH Summer REDISCOVERING THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE page 6 Is for Kids Special Local Section HELPING SYRIAN REFUGEES page 8 IN THIS ISSUE IN THIS ISSUE CONNECTING WITH YOUR KIDS’ PRESCHOOL page 10 Sleepy Time EXAMINING THE MOSZKOWICZES Solutions page 41 Day-Cations from Here to There JUNE 24, 2016 Supplement to The Jewish Standard A supplement to the Jewish Standard · Spring 2016 July 2016 VOL. LXXXV NO. 42 $1.00 85 2016 NORTH JERSEY THEJEWISHSTANDARD.COM Weaving a web of connections Open Hearts, Open Homes brings Israeli kids to north Jersey CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE CHANGE page 30 Teaneck, NJ 07666 NJ Teaneck, 1086 Teaneck Road Teaneck 1086 Jewish Standard Jewish JS-2 Jane Riley, Cresskill, NJ Surviving stage four cancer got Jane back to the one stage she truly loves. Music has always been Jane’s passion. When she was diagnosed with multiple cancers including in her brain, she thought that part of her life was over. Our surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, pathologists, nurses and a physicist came together with one goal: the best treatment for Jane. Today, this mom, wife and drummer is back onstage, looking forward to many more encores. A personalized treatment plan created by a dedicated team of cancer experts – one more reason to make Englewood Hospital and Medical Center your hospital for life. englewoodhealth.org 2 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 24, 2016 EHMC_oncdrummer_11x14.indd 1 5/6/16 12:29 PM JS-3* Page 3 Hummus, American-style, redux Lipa Schmeltzer l Back in March, when we reported on batter-, and cookie dough-flavored toasts Pepsi Max bacon-flavored hummus, we thought hummus at any of the Hummus & Pita l Lipa Schmeltzer, chasidic pop star looking for,” and the commercial cuts we had discovered the nadir of bastard- Co.’s four Manhattan outlets. The non- and glasses fashionista, now can add to a slogan, “Top Heymish Food,” ized Americanized chickpea spread. kosher restaurant menu otherwise is another line to his resume: Israeli written in English. Heymish is Yiddish Boy, were we wrong. very traditional, boasting that its cuisine Pepsi Max endorser. for “comfortably familiar.” A friend of ours recently passed by draws from “Greece, Israel, Morocco Lipa, who has broken with his The commercial ends with Hebrew the Eighth Avenue outpost of the Hum- and the Middle East.” Brooklyn charedi community in sup- text inviting viewers to take a poll mus & Pita Co. and saw a sign advertis- But sweet hummus? porting the State of Israel, recorded about their opinions on the most ing “Hummus Sweets.” Only in America. a minute-long Pepsi Max commercial heymish restaurant in Israel. Yes, you can get chocolate-, cake LARRY YUDELSON blending Israeli culture with his own This is far from Lipa’s first foray Yiddish roots that showed up on You- into pop culture — he’s been called Tube earlier this week. the “chasidic Lady Gaga” — although He quickly announced the cam- we’re not sure by whom. A few weeks New children’s songs in an old language paign’s launch on Facebook. ago, he sang with lesbian Israeli l With all the Yiddish and Portugal more than In the spot, Lipa enters an Israeli composer Corinne Alal. In April, he in the air — in Manhat- 500 years ago. diner crowded with charedi men. appeared in the season finale of the tan theater, in Central Aroeste, 40, has The cashier smiles and offers Lipa Comedy Central TV show “Broad City.” Park concerts, even built her career on the trademark Israeli foods like schnit- He is also studying for a degree at in Teaneck classes — Ladino dialect. Her new zel, shwarma, and a mixed meat dish. Columbia University. we’re glad to report album, titled “Ora de Lipa rejects them all. The cashier is Lipa’s dress can be unorthodox at some good news for Despertar” (“Time to visibly surprised. times. He’s known for his vast collec- another Jewish lan- Wake Up”), was taken Lipa then sees a Pepsi Max cooler tion of unconventional glasses and guage: Ladino. from her personal ex- in the back of the restaurant. He gets often wears colorful shirts and vests. The L.A. Jewish periences as a mother. an ice-cold bottle and drinks. Sud- In the ad, of course, he wears a kippah Journal reports that “Of course, there denly, a dance party breaks out. Lipa embroidered with the Pepsi Max logo. singer Sarah Aroeste are some wonderful says, “Pepsi Max: That’s what I’m BEN SALES/JTA WIRE SERVICE has come out with a Ladino lullabies that new album for toddlers are beloved — very featuring catchy, easy-to-sing melodies, fun, sprightly songs that, certainly, kids Candlelighting: Friday, June 24, 8:14 p.m. simple repetitive lyrics inspired by the could enjoy, but they weren’t written child’s everyday world, and elements of for kids,” Aroeste told the Jewish Jour- Shabbat ends: Saturday, June 25, 9:23 p.m. humor and surprise. nal. “I wanted to play music for my kids But unlike every other children’s in the same vein as all the other CDs I album until now, all the songs are in was receiving in English or Hebrew. 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INDEPENDENCE DAY: The bad aliens are ‘resurgent’ “Independence as “a Filipino-Russian Day: Resurgence” Jew with an Irish last is a sequel to the name.” His late father, TV megahit “Independence director DON DEVLIN, Day.” The basic plot: The changed his last name bad aliens who almost to Devlin from Siegel. conquered Earth in 1996 Dean’s late mother, Pilar Charlotte Gainsbourg Brent Spiner are back, and appear to Seurat, played exotic be able to overcome the Asian characters in the defenses that Earth’s 1950s and ’60s. Dean is countries have created in a practicing Jew who’s anticipation of their married to actress LISA return. As in the original, BRENNER, 42 (born Lisa only the ingenuity of a Goldstein). She had big few brave men and wom- parts on soap operas in en can save our blue the mid-90s, but now Matthew McConaughey and Gary Ross shooting planet. The new tribe only takes an occasional “Free State of Jones.” member in “Resurgence” TV guest role. The large is CHARLOTTE GAINS- amount of Jewish con- BOURG, 44, as a French tent in the original film scientist. Original flick was mostly Dean’s doing. Fact better than fiction returnees include JEFF However, he found out Dean Devlin Martin Baron GOLDBLUM, 63, as after the film’s release in ‘Free State of Jones’ Jewish scientist David that in Lebanon, and issues, this position is editor MARTIN BARON, ● “Free State of Jones” is based on a fascinating true Levinson; JUDD HIRSCH, maybe in other Arab making things hard for 61. Baron, whom Wood- story. In 1864, Newt Knight (Matthew McConaughey), a 81, as Levinson’s religious countries, two scenes Trump’s allies. On June ward says “works 24 father; and BRENT were cut: Hirsch’s kip- 13, Trump de-credited hours a day,” was the white farmer who lived in Jones County in southwestern SPINER, 67, as Dr. Okun, pah-wearing character the Washington Post, editor depicted in the hit Mississippi, led an armed revolt against the Confederacy. a UFO scientist just leading a Jewish prayer and that brought the film “Spotlight.” (It won He led other local white farmers and slaves in a rebel- about everyone thought and Arab and Israeli pi- issue to the fore. When the Oscar for best pic.) lion that created the so-called “Free State of Jones.” He was killed in the original.