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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. 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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. lots joining forces against asked about this, House Baron led the Boston continued his ight against injustice during and after Spiner told the website the invaders. Speaker Paul Ryan Globe team that uncov- Reconstruction and had two families — one with his irst “Collider” that Okun was In recent months, shook his head and said, ered the huge Boston- wife, who was white — and another with his second wife, supposed to be declared Donald Trump “I’ve never seen anything area pedophile priest who was black, after he separated from his irst wife. The dead by a military officer has barred a like it.” scandal. If Trump’s aim is in the original film script, large number of report- Bob Woodward, of to pressure the Post by director and screenwriter is GARY ROSS, 59 (“The Hun- but that line was cut. The ers from his private Watergate fame, now cutting off press access, ger Games,” “Seabiscuit”). The Smithsonian magazine’s cut allowed Okun to be campaign plane and the an assistant Washington he couldn’t have picked website has a great article about Ross, how he came to plausibly alive in the press section of his Post editor, appeared on two men less likely to make the ilm, and how he had to become an amateur sequel. Spiner is best public events. About ten the MSNBC show “Morn- cave. Woodward, his historian, consulting the best sources, to insure the ilm’s known for playing “Data,” major outlets, ranging ing Joe” on June 14. He colleague CARL BERN- veracity. It also covers Knight’s life history and how his the android officer on from the right-wing said, “Look, this [bar- STEIN, 72, and the Post many descendants to this day make up a separate group “Star Trek: Next Genera- National Review to the ring] isn’t right, but we’re management withstood tion.” left-wing Mother Jones, going to continue doing intense, sometimes in the county, not quite accepted by either blacks or Like the original, the have had their press this [Trump reporting] illegal pressure from the whites. Simply “Google” Smithsonian and “Free State of sequel was co-written credentials lifted after in a very aggressive, Nixon White House — Jones” and you’ll ind it. and co-produced by running a story or stories fair way.” Woodward and Baron took on the – N.B. DEAN DEVLIN, 53, who that Trump deemed was echoing the words powerful Boston Catholic once described himself unfair. As with other of his boss, Post chief church hierarchy. – N.B.

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Local A war of brothers Eunice Lipton to tell a family tale of the Spanish Civil War

LARRY YUDELSON

In March 1938, 22-year-old David Lipton said goodbye to his family and friends in the Bronx, and — in violation of the provisions of the Neutrality Act inscribed in his American passport — he shipped off to Spain to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic against General Francisco Franco. But David’s parents weren’t worried; he had told them he was working as a waiter in the Catskills. The trenches of the Spanish Republic were not a strange place for a young Jewish man just then. Jews made up an estimated third of the 3,000 American volunteers fighting alongside leftist Spaniards against the Ger- man-backed Nationalists. David Lipton never came home. He was shot and killed in December of that year. Eunice Lipton was born three years later. Her father, Phil, was David’s older brother. Growing up, her uncle was a sore spot in her family. Her father’s relationship to his dead brother clearly was painful, though he named Eunice’s brother, David, after him. Eunice Lipton “My father had such an ambivalent feeling — in 1926. Her grandmother, Anna, and David followed them about what happened to his brother,” she said. “He loved his the Puffin Foundation in Teaneck. two years later. brother, and at the same time said that he died for nothing, The familial ambivalence did not stem from a problem with Given his family, it wasn’t surprising that David became a that he threw his life away.” David’s politics. communist. It was communists who joined the Soviet Union- The roots of this painful ambivalence is one of the threads “My father’s family were communists,” Dr. Lipton said. “His backed Spanish communists in fighting against the German- of Dr. Lipton’s new book, “A Distant Heartbeat: A War, a Dis- mother and uncles were communists in Europe.” backed Spanish fascists appearance, and a Family’s Secrets.” Dr. Lipton will speak Dr. Lipton’s grandfather, Max Lifshitz, came to America It was, perhaps, surprising, though, that it was David, of all about her book, and her uncle’s story, on Friday, June 24, at from Latvia with his two oldest children — one of them Phil those in his leftist circle in New York, who took up arms. But it wasn’t just David’s death that distressed Phil. “My father did a terrible thing to his brother when he was in Spain,” Dr. Lipton said. Her father intercepted David’s letters to their parents, and they did not learn that their son was in Spain until they were notified of his death. Meanwhile, in Spain, David repeatedly asked his parents to write to him. “The story really ripped the family apart,” Dr. Lipton said. Could she imagine herself making the choice her uncle made at 22 — to go off to fight a foreign war? “No. I can’t,” she said. “In part, because when I was 21, I was just a girl. It was before the women’s movement,” Dr. Lipton said. She was born in 1941. “Also, my father inculcated in me a fear of risks,” she said. That is why “I wasn’t involved in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam war movement.” Not until the women’s movement came around did she become politically active. Yet Dr. Lipton had a desire for adventure, even if it was not as strong as her uncle’s had been, and she was fascinated with Europe. She first traveled to France when she was 19. Now she and her husband, Ken Aptekar, live there half of each year. “My father had a fantasy about France,” she said. “He came from Latvia, an urban setting where it was more or less com- Photo of David Levine in a trench, discovered in a New York library archive. fortable for Jews. For him, culture was French. Literature was

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Zola and Balzac. Politics was French. He val- on the ship to Spain and hung out together in ued the French Revolution, and that France France for a day. was the first country to make Jews citizens.” “I met people he was active with in the In her first career — she was an art historian Young Communist League in the Bronx,” she and university professor before she quit to said. “Everybody was really happy to talk and write full time — Dr. Lipton explored French give me their names. With one exception — a culture and art. This led to a book, “Alias woman who probably had been in the com- Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s munist underground in the 50s. She told me Notorious Model and Her Own Desire” about a lot about my uncle, how kind he was. I got Victorine Meurent, the model for Edouard guys reminiscing about their pasts. Many Manet’s most famous paintings. had shed their political interests long ago. He “She interested me because she had a very was the only one of their group who went to direct gaze,” Dr. Lipton said. “She looked out Spain.” at you as if she had autonomy. As a young In her Puffin talk, Dr. Lipton will describe teacher, I talked about her a lot. I decided to her uncle “as a Jew and an activist. And I research her life.” think I’m also going to talk about the part The book ended up being less a work of of him that was American and wanted to be straight art history than a memoir of Dr. Lip- In Spain. David Lipton is in the front row, second on the right. American. I’m going to try to create a portrait ton’s search for her; it was as much about of him as somebody who loved New York but Dr. Lipton as about Victorine Meurent. “My woman with desire — in the largest sense: to began 20 years ago. She started her research also carried in his heart and his soul a need mother made one appearance” in the first meet new people, see new places, to eat, to with the archives of the Abraham Lincoln to be useful. draft,” Dr. Lipton said. laugh, to schmooze. Being a mother didn’t Brigade, and it proved to be unexpectedly “I think I have that too.” “When I sold my book to Scribner, my really suit her. She was born in the wrong fruitful. editor said, ‘I think you wrote this because generation,” Dr. Lipton said. At the New York Public Library, a friend Who: Author Eunice Lipton’s you were looking for something about your Her next book, “French Seduction: An discovered a picture of David Lipton, stand- What: Presentation about her new mother. I want you to write her in.’ American’s Encounter with France, Her ing in a trench in Spain with a gun on his family history, “A Distant Heartbeat” “My editor was brilliant,” Dr. Lipton said. Father, and the Holocaust”, looked at her shoulders. Where: Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puf- “People were most fascinated by the relation- father — and French history. “I had a lot of Her uncle was real. Traces of his life could fin Way, Teaneck ship between me and my mother.” bad feelings about French collaboration with be recovered. Dr. Lipton searched for them. When: Friday, June 24, 7 p.m. “What I learned about my mother as I the Nazis,” she said. “I met the man who was with him when Suggested donation: $10 wrote ‘Alias Olympia’ was that she was a Dr. Lipton’s work on “A Distant Heartbeat” he was shot,” Dr. Lipton said. “They had met

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Local Local shul’s members want to help Interfaith effort to aid Syrian refugees spurs reflection, discussion

LOIS GOLDRICH

eaching at his synagogue’s Tik- kun Leil Shavuot, Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky spoke about a Jew’s responsibility to help others. TThe question is asked every day. Should we allot our (inevitably limited) resources only to our own people, or should we help those further afield? Should we factor in reli- gion when making our decision? What about geography? The discussion did not start and end with the tikkun. For several months, Teaneck’s Congregation Beth Sholom has been discuss- ing the place of social justice on the syna- Jerry and Judi Pitkowski gogue agenda. Can the synagogue, or any synagogue, take on causes that do not reflect Committee, Heart to Heart International, the needs of its membership, or the commu- and various other groups. Group organizers nity in which they live? Should it? hope that some 600 volunteers will turn out Migrants wait to be processed at the increasingly overwhelmed Moria camp on Rabbi Lee Paskind, who was a congrega- to assemble more than 7,500 kits, which are the island of Lesbos in Greece last October. SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES tional rabbi in Peekskill, N.Y., and now lives to be shipped to Istanbul and distributed to in Teaneck and is a member of Beth Sholom, refugees in many countries. “Since then, we’ve been but it sends a strong mes- would say that our responsibility goes way While most kits will contain basic hygienic talking about other possibili- sage. Standing side by side beyond our borders, to any group in dire supplies, special packages for women and ties,” he said. “We don’t have with people of other reli- need. girls also are being prepared. an official name or pres- gions means something.” Rabbi Paskind, who has participated in the “One of pharmaceutical companies is ence; we’re trying to decide Paskind noted that the Conservative movement’s social justice com- donating all the materials,” Rabbi Paskind what our profile should be.” Hebrew Immigrant Aid Soci- mission for nearly 30 years and now is a part- said. He pointed out that the groups organiz- The synagogue, he contin- ety has “an entire PDF file time consultant on these issues to the move- ing this effort have people on the ground in ued, “wants to discuss this on its website” — HIAS.org ment’s Rabbinical Assembly, will be joining all the communities to which refugees have some more. It’s not the type — “that advises congrega- about eight other congregants in New York fled, from Jordan and Turkey all the way up of activity [it usually does]. tions who would like to be City on June 26 as they stuff hygiene kits for to Europe. Some people don’t think this involved in supporting refu- Syrian refugees. “They’re trying to organize for 600 volun- is the kind of activity a shul Rabbi Lee Paskind gees. There are a number of “I’ve been involved in social justice issues teers,” he said. “It’s a large operation. They’re should be involved in.” different ways,” especially if for a long time,” Rabbi Paskind said, noting doing it in three one-hour shifts starting at For his part, though, “Saving life, and this refugees have settled in areas where the syna- that his participation this time is as an indi- 12:30. There will be people of all religions, arguably is exactly what these kits will do, gogue members live. “There are not a lot of vidual. The synagogue is not taking a formal as many groups as they can get. It’s intended is a mitzvah. Since the Torah commands us Syrian refugees in the Northeast,” he said. role in the effort. to be a very large positive statement about to love the stranger in our midst, I believe it “There are more in the Midwest.” Rabbi Pitkowsky, however, clearly is proud Americans of all religions reaching out to is a religious commandment to help people Nevertheless, he added, “advocacy is very of his activist congregants. “I am thrilled that help refugees no matter who they are.” After in these kinds of straits. You should see sto- important,” especially since 30 governors this group of Beth Sholom members is mov- learning of the project through the Rabbinical ries about things that have happened [to the already have said that their states will not ing ahead with the program to create emer- Assembly, Paskind sent out information to all refugees.] The West only became aware of accept any refugees and Congress is consid- gency kits for Syrian refugees,” he said in an Conservative rabbis in the tristate area. this dire situation a few years ago. That was ering cutting out its resettlement program. email. “The understanding that each human “We don’t have an official group in the syn- already three years into the Syrian war.” “Let Congress know we should be taking being is created in the image of God is a fun- agogue that is working specifically on social The United States, he said, is “being some action,” he said. damental tenet of Judaism. Acting on that justice issues, but a small group has been hands-off,” especially after the massacres in “As Jews, we have such a strong history belief, and working to guarantee the safety having a variety of discussions about possi- Paris and Brussels. “Personally, I understand of benefiting from the largesse of this coun- and dignity of each human being, is God’s ble programming ideas,” he said about Beth being concerned, needing to be vigilant for try,” he said, nevertheless acknowledging work that we should all take part in.” Sholom. As part of this effort, Beth Sholom the security of our country,” he said. “At the past U.S. failures — the United States closed The June 26 project is a joint effort of held a workshop before Pesach, in which par- same time, we’re simply commanded not to its doors to Jewish immigrants during World the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees, ticipants discussed, among other things, the look away. We have to figure out how to do War II. “We know what it means to be able to the American Jewish Joint Distribution plight of Syrian refugees. what we can. This is the easiest thing to do, find somewhere safe to land,” he said. Some

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hen you talk to educators, you hear about making connections. About form- ing and maintaining genuine relationships. WMuch of those connections are intellectual, to ideas and texts, and emotional, to teachers and other students. On a broader level, there is the many-stranded, multi directional network that connects the various constituent groups that make up a school community. When it comes to preschool, though, most of the connection — or at least the connection that has to be nurtured consciously — is between the parents and the school. The children are too young to realize that connections take work — for them, they don’t — but for the grown-ups, they do. Technology has helped parents connect with their kids’ schools, but it poses its own set of demands. First, it takes a great deal of teachers’ time. (More on that later.) And it also takes a great deal of tweaking to make it work for schools. The internet, for all its fabled near-magical ability to give everybody everything, right away, can be a very rigid place. A few young Israeli entrepreneurs (note that when you use any two of those three words, the third inevitably follows) saw an opening that they are �illing with a new product called Remini, which is used a great deal in Israel, to some extent across this country, including by Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, Gan Aviv in Fair Lawn and Bergen�ield, and by schools as far a�ield in every way as one in Dubai. Raz Wasserstein, 33, one of those entrepreneurs, has been spending some time in northern New Jersey, promoting his product. Like many Israelis involved in high tech, he met his partners and gained his skills in the Israeli Defense Forces. He has what he calls his “�irst and second degrees” — his undergradu- ate and masters’ degrees — in information and systems engineering; the IDF sent him to school, made These are sample screens him an of�icer, and put him to work in the prime min- as teachers see them. ister’s of�ice. Israel is now old and well-established REMINI enough to have a history of such training; “my parents did the same thing, on the same course,” Mr. Wasser- stein said. photos and messages to parents. Messages can go to the It can be organized in any way that the educators When he and his friends brainstormed about what whole school, an entire class, a speci�ic group of par- choose, and it can be used on all platforms — phones, niche they could �ill, they thought of providing software ents, or just one set of them. Parents can save photos tablets, and desktops. Each parent has a separate private that would allow parents and schools to be in touch, using and messages on the child’s own timeline — it’s backed place for each of his or her children. any device they wanted. They decided to name it Remini, up in the cloud — so a child’s entire early childhood can “It’s been more than three years, and we’re kind of big a real-sounding nonsense word in Hebrew, as it is in Eng- be documented and parents — and grandparents, should in Israel,” Mr. Wasserstein said. “We have agreements with lish. It’s taken from the word “reminiscence.” “Someone the parents decide to invite them — can gain access to it the biggest preschools in Israel, and we have thousands of thought it would be a good name,” Mr. Wasserstein said, easily. Parents cannot upload content to the main part preschools there.” In North America, Remini has signed working on the theory that if you have a top-notch new of the app, although they can to the timeline, but if the agreements with the United Synagogue of Conservative product, you can lay off a bit on the branding. teacher or administrator agrees, they can exchange pri- Judaism and the Union for Reform Judaism. It has signed Remini allows teachers and other educators to upload vate messages. SEE REMINI PAGE 12

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Remini a monthly letter from the director. More parents expect a lot more. FROM PAGE 10 “The technology is easy, theoretically schools in California, Chicago, Miami, at any rate, and parents expect to hear Ohio, and Boston so far. about what’s going on right away, and all Not all of the schools are Jewish. the time. At times their expectations are Which brings us to the school in Dubai. “It was quite a surprise for us,” Mr. Was- serstein said. “We found out when we saw the Arabic names in our database. Most of the names we have are Hebrew, and Using this then there was Fatma and Anwar.” The school, an English-language preschool, product, you had responded to an email that did not have the ability hide the fact that Remini is Israeli but did not trumpet that fact either. to follow a child There are interesting differences from when they between preschools in the United States and Israel, Mr. Wasserstein added paren- are in our little thetically. “In the United States, there are sprouts program usually between four and 20 classes in a preschool. In Israel, there are at most two — when they are or three classes per school.” That’s not babies — all the because classes are not organized by age, but because each school caters to children way through to of just one age group, and children age out our kindergarten. of school after school as they grow older. ALICE BERDY Also, the student/teacher ratio is much higher in Israel than here. “In most preschool classes, there is the teacher and unreasonable — sometimes they expect assistant teacher, and then about 30 kids,” that they can text their children’s teach- he said. That means that Remini is used ers during the day and get an answer right differently here and there. “In Israel, we away. see more material uploaded for the whole “Remini gives teachers and directors a class; here, there are more individual uploads than there she said. “This will make such a difference to parents. We tool to communicate with parents and tell them what’s are in Israel,” Mr. Wasserstein added. can document everything.” happening.” Alice Berdy, Barnert Temple’s preschool administrator, Maxine Handelman, who is based in Chicago, is United There is a trade-off, of course, but one that’s good for is excited about Remini, which she hopes can be launched Synagogue’s early childhood specialist, and she, too, is teachers. “The best schools recognize that this level of this summer, for the synagogue’s camp; if not, it will be up excited about Remini. communication takes time, and they budget it into teach- by the time school starts in the fall. “Early childhood programs have a very big need to ers’ salaries,” Ms. Handelman said. In fact, it takes a great Until now, the school had been using a regular photo- communicate with parents,” Ms. Handelman said. “They deal of time, particularly when teachers take photos of sharing platform, which was not created as a communica- have a lot going on. Truly, the more a school can make each child and then send those photos, along with notes, tions device for preschools and parents, and is not flexible the learning experience visible, the better the education to each of the parents in the class. “That’s part of the deal enough to be adapted for that use. Remini is different, she can be, because the parents can better understand their with using a system like this,” she said. “It’s also about said. children’s experience.” valuing teachers and the experience that children and “Using this product, you have the ability to follow a child Technology has changed the way schools oper- teachers have.” from when they are in our little sprouts program — when ate, she added. “There used to be a weekly newsletter, And, Ms. Berdy pointed out, “it also shows the parents they are babies — all the way through to our kindergarten,” which might or might not have pictures, and there’d be how cute their children are.”

These photos, from Barnert Temple’s preschool, soon will be uploaded on Remini’s app. BARNERT TEMPLE

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Robert Katz of Fair Lawn, Ohel’s chief development officer, with Mariano Celebrating teen achievements Rivera and one of his fans. Photo courtesy Ohel at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades Mariana Rivera pitches in for Ohel The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in design and execute their own projects Mariano Rivera, the former Yankees played catch with him; those players Tenafly recently hosted an end-of-year to fight such social injustices as poverty, pitcher and future Hall of Famer, came included children who had been part of banquet to celebrate the achievements homelessness, gender-based violence, out to support Ohel at a pre-Father’s Ohel’s foster care program. A barbecue of the teens who are part of the lead- mental health, and more. The annual Day barbeque at the Brecher home in followed. Many of the guests were from ership, philanthropy, and social action JCC Teen Leadership Conferences, held Lawrence, N.Y. The evening began with New Jersey. programs at the JCC. Those programs separately for middle and high school a meet-and-greet with Mr. Rivera. Next, Robert Katz, Ohel’s chief Develop- include the Teen Philanthropy Insti- students in partnership with the Ber- there was a baseball toss where children ment Officer, organized the day. tute, the Middle School Teen Leader- gen Family Center, allow students from ship Council, the High School Teen schools throughout Bergen County to Leadership Council, and the Commit tackle a multitude of difficult topics and Fellowship. A banquet highlight came concerns facing teens today. when TPI participants presented their The banquet also featured a keynote $5,000 in allocations to three charities address by Valerie Weisler, CEO of the they researched and chose to support. Validation Project, a global organiza- TPI, a two-year program for Jewish tion that she founded when she was eighth- through tenth-graders, gives a teenager. The Validation Project so participants in-depth exposure to the far has mentored 6,000 teens in 100 world of philanthropy and fundraising. countries, working with its “kindness Commit, a year-long JCC fellowship curriculum” to help them overcome offered in partnership with the Jewish bullying and other struggles. Federation of Northern New Jersey, For information on programs for provides teens with the opportunity to teens at the JCC, go to www.jccotp.org.

Heichal HaTorah’s building committee Photos by Kruter Photography Artist/student Gavi greets Jewish Standard publisher Heichal HaTorah holds annual dinner Jamie Janoff, who bought his artwork at the recent Unique “Building on the Inspirations Student Art Show Past — Ensuring Our and Auction. The show was Future” was the presented by the Bergen theme of Heichal County-based Sinai Schools HaTorah’s third and Bear Givers, a New annual dinner on York-based organization that June 15, when it ded- provides children in need with icated its new build- opportunities to feel the pride ing at 70 Sterling and joy of engaging in acts of Place in Teaneck. kindness and generosity. All Sarah and Corey Rabbi Aryeh Stechler, head of school, addresses the the artwork was created by Tarzik were the 430 dinner attendees. students as part of the Paley- guests of honor, Mironov art therapy program Suri and Dr. Benjamin Fogelman were the parents of the year, and Nechama and at Sinai Schools. Teaneck Jewish Center President Isaac Student received the Dor L’Dor award. The Bonei HaHeichal award went to the Heichal building committee: its chair, Moshe Insel; Rabbis Jackie Feigenbaum, Mark Karasick, and Simcha Katz, and Yitzy Karasick and Gail Stechler. For information, go to HeichalHaTorah.org.

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Rockland Let’s put on a show! Rockland shul brings talented young Israeli boarding school students on exchange program

JOANNE PALMER But she pursued it — and it happened. “We went to the ministry of tourism in Some kids start out life with lots of things Israel, and when I got back I went to all the stacked up against them — and then lots of past presidents of my congregation,” Can- other things in their favor. tor Zhar said. “I met with the rabbi, with As Cantor Anna Zhar of Temple Beth the director of the nursery school, with Sholom of New City learned, the chil- the principal of the religious school. And dren at Yohana Jabotinsky, a government- everyone supported me. funded boarding school in Rechovot, “It was a crazy idea, but an amazing Israel, are disadvantaged. Many of them one, and they were all for it. are immigrants; most who were born in “We started to collect money, and we Israel are the children of parents who were purchased tickets for nine children,” not. Many start at the high school with the she continued. They also brought over a problems that growing up in poverty often 19-year-old assistant teacher and a voice confer. Many did not speak Hebrew when coach, as well as two older teachers; 12 they started at the school. people in all. But the thing about the school is that it’s “They came here from April 13 to April for talented kids. It’s near the Weizmann 21, and they did their show, which they Institute, looks for academically gifted wrote themselves,” Cantor Zhar said. 13- to 18-year-old students, and nurtures “They called it ‘Reset Heaven.’” It was a their analytic gifts and scientific ability. It The Israeli visitors performed at Temple Israel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. modern take on the creation story that also seeks out teenagers who are gifted in begins the biblical book of Genesis, with music and in the visual arts, and it allows including book, music, and lyrics — “and a modern twist. Among many other them — and their talents — to learn, to they performed it. It was amazing. It was changes, the story now included another grow, even to flourish. unbelievable. day of creation, which involved the The students have made aliyah from “So I was sitting in the backyard with appearance of Google Translator, without all around the world — from Russia, other my brother and my niece and our new which the world could not stand. “It was European countries, Ethiopia, Morocco relatives, after the concert, thinking about hilarious,” Cantor Zhar said. — Cantor Zhar said. The school does very how we could help these kids, and if we The students were hosted by local Rock- good work, she added. could bring them to the United States,” land families. The host families included She learned about Yohana Jabotinsky Cantor Zhar continued. “And then came their own teenagers, which made the when she was in Israel for a family wed- the idea of the exchange program.” guests feel more at home. ding. (She officiated at the wedding, her She wanted to bring some students to “It was one of the best experiences I first Reform wedding in Israel; a fascinat- Cantor Anna Zhar with Yuli Kushnir, New City, where they could perform for have had as a cantor,” Cantor Zhar said. ing experience but another story, she said.) the Israeli school’s musical director. the congregation and its friends, and then “I had never seen such camaraderie at the One of the relatives in her niece’s new fam- complete the circle by taking some of her temple.” ily, an Israeli ambassador, took her to the it nurtures their talents, so it gives them a synagogue’s teens to Israel. The students gave three performances, school. “It has about 900 students, and chance to have a great life in Israel.” “Everyone starts with an idea, but I all at Reform synagogues. One was at Beth each child has a story,” she said. “Not nec- She saw one of the school’s concerts. never thought that we could pull this Sholom, one at Temple Israel of the City essarily a happy story — they were not all “They were doing a Broadway-style show, one off,” she said. “There are so many of New York, on Manhattan’s Upper East coming from happy childhoods. But the with their own sets, that they made, exchange programs! And they all require Side, and one at Temple Sinai in Roslyn school gives them a chance to flourish and and they wrote the whole play” — that’s a lot of money.” Heights. The second two synagogues both are huge, and both had contributed to the students’ trip. The students also got to tour New York; they saw such prime tourist destinations as the Statue of Liberty and Times Square. During Thanksgiving week, Beth Sho- lom will take its own students to Israel, along with some of their parents, as it ful- fills the second part of the exchange program. “We are going to stay at the boarding school, and we are going to perform there,” Cantor Zhar said. Her students will not write their own material, she added. “This makes everything real,” she said. “When people see the news about Israel on TV, all they see is war and the Gaza Everyone involved in the Israeli teenagers’ visit — guests, hosts, and other volunteers — gather outside Temple Beth Strip. Israel is so much more than that. Sholom in New City. TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM The idea was to bring real teenagers, and

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make a real connection.” Will she do it again? She hopes so, she said, but it won’t be next year. “This was such an overwhelming program,” she said. “Our members were moved by it.” Because the workload was so formidable, and the fundraising demands so steep, though, she will need some time to regroup. She hopes that she can try again in a few years. “I also hope that the kids can develop lifelong relationships through it,” she said. “Now, everyone is constantly on Skype with each other. “This was a chance that the kids from Israel would never have had if we hadn’t done it. I am very proud of it.” As for her own shul’s experience, “It was transforming,” she said simply. “It was amazing, and it really was transforming.” The American hosts greeted their guests as the Israelis disembarked at JFK. TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM

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Editorial Summer connections TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES Gays in Muslim countries t’s amazing, isn’t it? Summer — the sea- small group with ancient roots and an extraor- son of long lazy days, soft golden shad- dinarily unlikely survival story, and we value face annihilation ows, the smell of the sea and sunscreen each other for that reason. — starts, and that means the days already It’s not as if we don’t value people outside Ihave started getting shorter. our group. Of course we do. Some of us might e continue to learn of the Prophet were unanimous There’s probably a deep truth in that, but it’s be insular, but some of us are married to non- new information on killing, although they dif- too dispiriting to think about too deeply. Far Jews, and very few of us do not count non- about Omar Mateen, fered in the description, that is, better to bask in the sunlight and glory in it. Jews among our friends and increasingly our the man who carried in the manner of killing. Some of (And of course to remember that sunscreen.) relatives as well. We welcome people who are Wout the massacre in the Orlando the companions of the Prophet Meanwhile, we choose to think about the Jews by choice into our midst (although, sadly, nightclub, but many questions stated that [a homosexual] is to be summer not as a long slide into darkness but some Jews do it grudgingly, although we all are remain unanswered. They may burned with fire. It has also been as the season of connection. urged to do it whole-heartedly). never be answered, because said that he should be stoned, or We cannot help but notice that the Standard But that atavistic bond that connects us is we are unable to question the thrown from a high place.” has been full of stories of connection recently so very strong. murderer. Obama may call ISIS thugs. To — really, it always is, but the word’s gotten a That’s why this week’s stories about young We don’t know at this point, for their mind they are Muslims acting workout in the past few issues, and we think Israelis coming for short stays in Bergen and example, if he took Islam’s teach- according to their beliefs, which we know why. Rockland counties, and forging relationships ings about homosexuals literally has led them to execute at least 30 It’s the tribal thing. that have and will continue to last for far lon- and acted on them, or if he had homosexuals. At least three gay We Jews are connected to each other. It’s ger, are in some senses not at all surprising. Of some other motivation. Neverthe- men were thrown off the top of a hard to explain to outsiders, how it’s not course we feel those bonds. less, this tragedy must building in Mosul. something we work at, it’s not something we We hope that everyone who shares that bring out into the This punishment is have to cultivate, it’s not something we’re ever bond considers contributing to the programs open the serious anti- consistent with the taught. It just is. We are part of a network, a that strengthen them. —JP gay bigotry and perse- views of Sheikh Yusuf cution of homosexual-Qaradawi, one of als found in much of the most influential the Islamic world. Sunni clerics. When British filmmak- asked how homosexu- ers went undercover als should be treated, at the London Cen- he said, “Some say we Gun culture, here and in Israel tral Mosque, consid- Rabbi should throw them ered one of the most Shmuley from a high place, like hy is it that we cannot below the rate here. Last year, Daniel Gordis prestigious in Britain, Boteach God did with the peo- approach the issue of gun wrote, Americans shot each other 33 times to see if its imams ple of Sodom. Some safety in this country with more often, per capita, than Israelis, despite preached something say we should burn anything approaching sanity? the ubiquity of guns in Israel. different privately, that clashed them….The important thing is to WWhy, even as the shock waves from the per- Why? According to a column by Ron Kam- with the moderate image they treat this act as a crime.” haps-all-to-predictable slaughter in Orlando peas, who develops this argument further, projected in public. The documen- Homosexuals may be sentenced continue to reverberate, can’t we pass any on page 37, that’s because all but 4 percent of tary exposed imams “teaching the to death under Islamic law in 12 kind of legislation that would keep guns — and guns in Israel are issued by the military, and faithful that God orders them to countries, including Iran, Yemen, it’s funny, how the word “gun” is an oddly those guns, the soldiers who carry them, and kill homosexuals.” Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. dainty way to describe an automatic assault the way those soldiers use them are governed This was taught in Western Some of our Arab allies, includ- rifle, sort of like calling the rope on a gallows by military rules — rules the soldiers over- Europe. Imagine what Muslims ing Saudi Arabia and Qatar have a piece of string — out of the hands of people whelmingly obey. learn in madrassas in the Middle similar laws. Homosexuality is ille- we do not let on airplanes because we do not In a country where violence is far more of a East. Saudi Arabia produces text- gal in 64 other countries, includ- trust them? The lists may not be accurate — in constant threat than it is for more of us here, books used inside and outside ing Egypt, Syria, and Oman. Last fact probably they’re not — but that’s not why guns are not glorified. They are tools, not the kingdom that teach that the month a group of 51 Muslim states all four proposals were defeated. symbols. punishment for homosexuality is blocked 11 gay and transgender For more on what it’s like to carry an assault If only here they were seen as tools, to be death. One book quotes Ibn Quda- organizations from attending a UN weapon, read the op ed on page 22. used only as needed, which is rarely; if only they mah, who said, “The companions meeting on ending AIDS. Meanwhile, in Israel, where almost all young could be seen as symbols of failure — the famil- men and many young women serve in the iars of such loser-killers as Adam Lanza, Dylann Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of the World Values armed forces, and most of them are mandated Root, and Omar Mateen — rather than of free- Network and the author of 30 books, including his forthcoming “The Israel to carry weapons, the rate of gun deaths is far dom, we all would be infinitely better off. —JP Warriors Handbook.” Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES Who speaks out for gay Muslims? There was y son was about 8 or 9 when we had our first a Washington-based organization (it couldn’t be family outing to Six Flags Great Adventure in Gays in Muslim countries located in the Muslim world), al-Fatiha, which Jackson. claimed to be the principal international organiza- As I recall, it was his first time in the amuse- face annihilation tion promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, mentM park, and my first time as well. And I was pleased to and transgender Arabs. The group dissolved in discover, soon after entering, an attraction called Houdini’s 2011. Great Escape. It paled in comparison to anything that can of the Prophet were unanimous In the Palestinian Authority homosexuality is be found at one of Disney’s or Universal’s theme parks, but on killing, although they dif- taboo, and gays often fear for their lives. Palestin- I was happy to have the opportunity to introduce my son to fered in the description, that is, ian police keep files on homosexuals, blackmail- the great Jewish showman Harry Houdini. in the manner of killing. Some of ing them into working as spies and informants. In Houdini was a household name when I was growing up, the companions of the Prophet February, a gay Hamas commander was tortured immediately recognizable as the world-famous escape artist stated that [a homosexual] is to be and executed by his organization for “moral vio- of a bygone era. The fact that Houdini was Jewish also was burned with fire. It has also been lations.” Meanwhile, Western advocates for Pales- well known, especially within the Jewish community. said that he should be stoned, or tinian rights are silent about the mistreatment of Houdini’s fame persisted long after his death in 1926, at thrown from a high place.” homosexuals in the West Bank and Gaza. the age of 52, but it began to fade in the waning years of the “Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make — For Houdini,” Obama may call ISIS thugs. To According to lawyer Shaul Gannon, of the Israeli 20th century. I wonder how many millennials have heard this 1898 publicity photo from Famous Players-Lasky their mind they are Muslims acting LGBT organization Aguda, around 2,000 homosex- of him these days. For that reason, I applaud Six Flags for tells us. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, MCMANUS-YOUNG COLLECTION. according to their beliefs, which uals from the Palestinian territories live in Tel Aviv keeping his memory alive. I am particularly grateful to all has led them to execute at least 30 at any one time. Many flee to the one country in those who protested when Great Adventure closed the ride Harvey Keitel, Norman Mailer, and Adrien Brody. In this homosexuals. At least three gay the Middle East where gays are not only tolerated in 2008, and convinced Six Flags to bring it back in 2011. role, Weston looks Jewish, but not in a way that might be men were thrown off the top of a but protected by law — Israel. Yes, the country Pal- We bought my son a hamster about a month or two after deemed stereotypical or particularly overt. His speech building in Mosul. estinians are taught from birth to vilify is a haven our trip to the amusement park, and I asked him what name does not feature any obvious form of Jewish (or Hungar- This punishment is for Muslims whose only crime is their attraction to he wanted to give to his pet. He answered, ian) accent, although it does strike me as very consistent with the someone of the same sex. “Harry.” I smiled and said, “So you want to similar to the kinds of voices I hear at my con- views of Sheikh Yusuf Even in a country where Orthodox Jews play a name him after Harry Houdini?” “No,” he gregation. In short, in this series, the fact that al-Qaradawi, one of major role in shaping the laws and mores of society, replied. “After Harry Potter.” Houdini is Jewish is downplayed significantly the most influential Israel is one of the most gay-friendly countries in I immediately realized that Houdini’s Great — but it is not entirely absent. Sunni clerics. When the world, and Tel Aviv is one of the favorite desti- Escape made a much greater impression on “Houdini & Doyle” is a TV version of the asked how homosexu- nations for gay travelers. me than it did on him, and that there was no buddy film genre, a type of narrative espe- als should be treated, This does not mean Orthodox Judaism condones competing with the young adult novels by J. K cially commonplace in American popular cul- he said, “Some say we homosexuality. But unlike parts of the Muslim Rowling, and even more so with the Warner ture, no doubt due to the diversity of Ameri- should throw them world, Israel fully protects LGBT rights. Bros. film adaptations, with their amazing spe- Dr. Lance can society. That’s because it depends on from a high place, like As for the Jewish position on homosexuality, I cial effects, which made magic seem real. This Strate strange bedfellows, or if you prefer Neil Simon God did with the peo- have long argued that the Bible consists of 613 amounts to a bit of a reversal, as stage magi- to Will Shakespeare, an odd couple team-up. ple of Sodom. Some commandments. One of them is that a man should cians produced some of the first special effects The buddies often contrast opposing qualities say we should burn marry and have children, and another is that a to appear in early cinema. — rich and poor, white and black, male and them….The important thing is to man should avoid gay sex with another man. That Houdini himself started out as an illusionist performing female, young and old, professional and amateur, and so on. treat this act as a crime.” leaves 611 commandments for gay men to observe. in vaudeville, before achieving widespread fame by special- The great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Homosexuals may be sentenced That should keep them pretty busy. Homosexuality izing as an escapologist. He also starred in a few silent films argues that a culture’s myths are ways of symbolizing signif- to death under Islamic law in 12 should be treated like lighting fire on the Sabbath between 1906 and 1923, but he did not enjoy the same suc- icant polar oppositions, and scholars analyzing popular cul- countries, including Iran, Yemen, or eating non-kosher foods, both biblical prohibi- cess on the screen as he did in live performance. ture, such as Arthur Asa Berger, have applied this approach Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. tions. Eating shellfish also is called an “abomina- Significantly, Houdini was devoted to stage magic as a to film, television, and other media. Looking at “Houdini & Some of our Arab allies, includ- tion,” as homosexuality is. The word abomination profession, and led the Society of American Magicians as Doyle” through this lens can be quite revealing. ing Saudi Arabia and Qatar have appears more than 100 times in the Bible, only president of that organization for almost a decade, his ten- To begin, Houdini is American and Doyle is British, similar laws. Homosexuality is ille- twice referring to homosexuality. Moreover, as I ure cut short by his untimely death. The society pays for Houdini is ethnic while Doyle is a white Anglo-Saxon Prot- gal in 64 other countries, includ- have written at length elsewhere, the prohibition the maintenance and care of Houdini’s grave site, which is estant (WASPs are an ethnicity, of course, but traditionally ing Egypt, Syria, and Oman. Last of homosexuality is not a moral sin but a religious in the Machpelah Cemetery in Queens. The monument dis- they are presented as non-ethnic in American popular cul- month a group of 51 Muslim states sin, akin to, say, eating on Yom Kippur, the Day of plays both his stage name, Houdini, and his actually family ture), and Houdini is an American immigrant while Doyle blocked 11 gay and transgender Atonement, as there is no injured innocent party. name, Weiss; he was born Erik Weisz in Budapest, the son is native to Britain. (The show is set in London.) Houdini’s organizations from attending a UN Clearly not all Muslims accept the anti-gay teach- of a rabbi, and was only about 4 years old when his family background is not emphasized in the first few episodes, meeting on ending AIDS. ings of their faith, and even if they do, most do not emigrated to the United States. That’s when Erik Weisz was but in the third episode, “In Manus Dei,” he falls ill and act on them. Omar Mateen may, however, be one changed to the German version, Erich Weiss. his mother, who has accompanied him on his travels and of those who took these instructions literally. Pre- Though Houdini died almost 90 years ago, his name speaks with a noticeable accent, gives him chicken soup as a tending, as President Obama does, that Islam does recently has been resurrected on television with the airing cure. Her character, Houdini’s own devotion to her, and the not teach bigotry or promote violence enables Mus- of “Houdini & Doyle,” a series launched last month on Fox. insecurity associated with being an immigrant is featured lim extremists to spread their message and inspire It’s based on the actual friendship between the great escap- more prominently in episode 5, “The Curse of Korzha,” and other Omar Mateens to kill and maim homosexuals ologist and Arthur Conan Doyle, the British author best the fact that Houdini is Jewish is discussed briefly in episode and other innocents of all faiths. known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. While drawing 6, “The Monsters of Nethermoor.” on bits and pieces of historical fact, essentially the series is On the one hand, it is quite positive that a Jewish-Amer- fictional and full of anachronisms, blurring the line between ican immigrant can serve as a symbol of an American in fiction and nonfiction in ways that have become quite com- general. On the other hand, Houdini’s Jewishness mainly is The opinions expressed in this section mon in recent decades. The central fiction is that Houdini, reflected in his being a victim of prejudice, as he reveals in are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the newspaper’s editors, who is performing in London, teams up with Doyle to solve episode 6. This also makes him a champion of tolerance, publishers, or other staffers. mysteries that baffle the police. as he defends another character facing discrimination and We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to In this new series, Michael Weston (née Michael scapegoating, which is commendable. But in this respect, [email protected]. Rubinstein, grandson of Arthur Rubinstein) became the there is no contrast with Doyle, who is sympathetic, albeit most recent of at least a dozen actors to have portrayed revealed as never having been the victim of bias, while the Harry Houdini. 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private, because of my two years’ ROTC at infantry’s basic assault weapon. The Army Shooting an M-14 Rutgers. took rifle training very seriously, and for I quickly took the oath and practically the next three weeks the recruits would be A one-time reservist on using an assault weapon floated out of the General Brehon Somervell immersed in every aspect of caring for and USAR Center. No money had changed hands, mastering our new best friend. hen I arrived at Fort Dix in wanted to pursue my new profession and felt a cushy clerk’s job awaited, the possibility of Developed as the successor to the the winter of 1965 to start distanced from Vietnam politically and cul- Vietnam assignment virtually vanished, and renowned M-1 of the Second World War, the basic training, I probably turally. But the real possibility of ending up the prospect of monthly meetings and two- M-14 was considered by some experts as com- did so with fewer appre- there weighed heavily on my career-building week summer camps until 1970 wouldn’t promise hardware designed to accept the 7.62 hensionsW than many recruits. Even though mind. interfere with my journalism ambitions. mm cartridge used by all NATO nations. Oth- the fighting in Vietnam was heating up and One respectable route to avoid conscrip- At 22, I was one of the oldest guys in my ers, however, saw its commonality as a vir- I had never fired a weapon before, my for- tion was to join the National Guard or Army Fort Dix recruit company. My college years tue in the era of defense by alliance. Regard- tunate status as an Army reservist guaran- Reserve. But no units in the area seemed to conditioned me to refer to the new red brick less, it could be fired in both automatic and teed me a return to civilian life after only six have openings. Apparently most guys my age barracks as dorms, a fact First Sergeant Frank semi-automatic modes, was lighter than the months of active duty. facing Vietnam service had the same idea. A. Bagnato failed to appreci- M-1, accepted its clip under- I recall this now because my immersion in Reports surfaced daily about thousands of ate. My ROTC training, which neath the barrel as opposed the military still wasn’t enough to prepare me dollars exchanging hands between Guard I declined to continue past to the top-down M-1 slot, and for the ongoing carnage from gun violence. and Reserve recruiters and young men des- my sophomore year because produced less recoil than its Army training helped galvanize my views perate to buy into slots or be advanced on of electives I wanted to take, predecessor. on keeping firearms away from people who waiting lists. And relocating to Canada was stood me in good stead initially But it was manufactured for didn’t need them, or were unqualified to use definitely not an option. with drill, military courtesy, a European war against Soviet them. It made me respect the destructive In November 1964 I passed the Army physi- and the rudiments of Army life. bloc troops, not jungle combat power of weaponry and worry about assault cal and told my parents and my editors that When I made the decision pitting U.S. draftees against rifles falling into the hands of the unstable or I could be leaving for boot camp any day. not to commit to the final two Jonathan E. guerrillas and North Vietnam- of terrorists. Yet what has been happening Then, providentially, a friend called and said years of officer training and its Lazarus ese cadres fighting on their domestically exceeds every norm to which I he had found an Army Reserve unit in Morris attendant financial aid, Viet- home turf with the superior was accustomed. Plains, located midpoint between Greystone nam wasn’t even in my geo- Chinese-model Kalashnikov More Orlandos may be in the offing as the Park hospital and the Rabbinical College of graphical awareness. Besides, AK-47. gridlocked gun-control debate rages on. On America. The unit was discharging World my extended family was practically devoid of We trainees didn’t know it then, but the Monday night, the Senate shot down four War II, Korea, and Berlin crisis veterans who any military tradition. Dad had a brief fling United States was developing the high-tech fairly reasonable competing proposals to had either reached their pension require- in the New York National Guard in the 1920s (for its time) M-16 to outgun the AK-47. It prevent gun ownership by people on the no- ments or wanted no part of the ferment in before being separated for joining up under- wouldn’t reach our troops in Vietnam until fly list. Politics, posturing, and the specter Southeast Asia. age. My uncles served long stints in World 1970 and immediately encountered teething of the NRA in the background preordained My friend and I beelined to the reserve cen- War II, one as a doctor stationed stateside, problems because of its tendency to jam if the outcome. It is in this volatile, depressing ter. My sudden good fortune improved even the second as a MASH unit technician in Italy, not kept spotlessly clean. The Army solved context that I offer up my own experiences more when the warrant officer in charge, and the third as a quartermaster in Europe. the defect with a massive education cam- and thoughts on our pre-eminent national amiably named Mr. Peach, informed me that With the exception of the latter, my Uncle paign and issued new maintenance kits to all nightmare. I was to become company clerk because of Hesh, they definitely weren’t blood-and-guts the troops. Following graduation from Rutgers School my typing and word skills. Why, the colonel types. The civilian model of this assault weapon of Journalism in May 1964, I began work as might even need me to polish his reports. As we entered the third week of basic train- was marketed as the AR-15. With its variants, a reporter for a North Jersey daily. The only And, in a final fillip, Mr. Peach said I was to ing, the tone and atmosphere changed as we add-ons, and European counterparts, all sold intangible in my life then was the draft. I be inducted one pay grade above the lowest began classroom instruction in the M-14, the or available freely (often illegally) within our

Fighting BDS with the facts

eing a producer, it is natural for Hammerstein was known for his commit- Those who know the history the BDS movement but do not me to have great affection for ment to fighting injustice, and using his work of the Jewish people in the land advertise that fact? Some have film. But more and more, I find to express what he thought was important. of Israel understand that this is affixed their names to divest- there to be lessons for today in Who can forget “You’ve Got To Be Carefully a completely false narrative, ment petitions, but that is not theB most surprising places. Who remembers Taught” from South Pacific, exposing the and many great organizations always the case. the following verse? truth that prejudice is taught, not something have been working hard to stop For instance, this year, there “Let’s start at the very beginning, you are born with. That’ just one of so many it from gaining momentum. was a program at a New Jer- A very good place to start. other songs and musical librettos he wrote There is evidence to suggest sey university called “War and When you read you begin with A B C dealing with serious social issues. that the divestment resolutions Occupation, Broken Promises When you sing you begin with Do Re Me…” But “Do Re Me”? being presented on college Martha to Refugees from Palestine to Sound familiar? These lyrics are part of the Puzzling, yes. Yet after some thought, I campuses today are not an end Cohen Syria” featuring side-by-side collective memory of anyone who has lived understood. in themselves but a strategy to photos. One was captioned in the United States during the last 56 years. Underlying all allegations by the BDS begin to indoctrinate the unin- “Syrians having been forced to Of course, “Do Re Me” is a song from a Rog- movement is the so-called “fact” that Israel formed, determining their future actions, flee their homes” and the other said since the ers and Hammerstein musical, “The Sound is the child of colonization and occupation. and eventually United States policy. That’s 1948 UN partition of “Palestine and the forced of Music.” This song has been taught count- After all, the Jews of Europe were given land because those students will become influen- exile, known as the Nakba, Palestinians have less times to children starting in pre-school. stolen by the Europeans after the Holocaust tial in the decades to come. been trying to return to their ancestral home- Though it is carefree and fun, it has left an in order to assuage European guilt. The Jews The people behind the BDS movement land.” The panelists were to discuss “these indelible mark upon us. therefore are interlopers in the land that are serious and strategic. We know about tragic histories and explore the themes of So why has this admittedly light-hearted belonged to the Arabs and, as such, they notorious cases at universities including betrayal and broken promises in light of these song been playing in my head since attend- oppress the indigenous population. Through Rutgers, UC Irvine, Columbia, and Michi- two ongoing humanitarian crises.” One of the ing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS we can right this wrong, fight the Jew- gan, but what about the propaganda that is panelists, a professor at the university, is a sig- conference at the United Nations earlier this ish oppressors, and give back the land to the being spread more subtly in classes and at natory to a BDS petition, although you would month? What is the connection? Yes, Oscar rightful, oppressed owners. campus events with professors who support have to do a web search to learn this. Another

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borders, these weapons of unrestrained fire- weapons and honing marksmanship from there was an old Remington — the typewriter, and keep the worst of the worst from acquir- power were used to withering effect in New- various firing positions at varying distances, that is. Back at the reserve center, we drilled ing firearms. town, Aurora, San Bernardino, Fort Hood, always expressed in meters. The M-14 began with carbines and then added bayonets for I also want mental health screening Columbine, Orlando, and other places that to feel comfortable as well as lethal. Although riot control formations. Mercifully, my unit ramped up and educational programs have received less publicity. it was too cold to bivouac, the Army insisted was never activated for any of the disorders broadened. I want concealed-carrying gun This litany of heartbreaking events on serving us complete hot meals in the field, plaguing Jersey cities in the summer of 1967. laws overturned. And I want the latest safety remained decades away as my company resulting in the gravy congealing on the pot Five years passed, and as my enlistment technology and childproof smart guns fully began M-14 training, huddled against the roast before the ice cream cup was dumped neared its end, the unit received full-fledged developed and marketed. Mostly though, I Fort Dix chill in huts with coal-fired stoves. on top of it. M-1s as the result of some inexplicable Army want the gun culture in this country changed, I had heard rumors (and basic training was My closest brush with disaster came that equipment shuffle. We convoyed to Fort and the National Rifle Association cut down rife with all kinds) that the Army still tried Friday, when I suddenly broke out in fever Dix and spent the day on those same frozen to size. to force lefties to learn right-side firing for and spots while on the range. Sgt. Bagnato ranges where I trained originally. In the morn- In short, I want it all, but in this political cli- uniformity’s sake, and to avoid the cross- hustled me off to the base hospital, still mut- ing, we received the shorthand M-1 course mate I will take practically anything I can get. over bolt stringencies of the old M-1, but this tering about college boys. Much to my dis- and zeroed in the weapon. In the afternoon, Actually, on the day the Senate faltered with proved unfounded. I was allowed to proceed may, I was diagnosed with German measles. unit members were issued unlimited clips of the “no fly-no buy” bills, the U.S. Supreme southpaw. But two days later I sneaked out of Walson World-War II ammunition and told to pop off Court rejected a challenge to Connecticut’s The classes, presented by noncoms of Army Hospital and stole back to my unit, as many rounds as they wanted because the strict post-Newtown gun controls. So there varying teaching abilities, often proved wobbly but determined not to miss out on ordnance was getting unstable. An orgy of may be glimmers. numbing. Coal fumes permeated the hut, record firing. If I did, I would be recycled mindless firing ensued. As I watched the horror of Orlando and being short on sleep didn’t help our to “zero week,” and that would have been That was the last time I ever handled a fire- unfold, with the cumulative distress of all alertness. But somehow during that week we intolerable. arm. In the ensuing 46 years, I have, thank- the incidents that proceeded it, I reacted managed to learn the complexities of firing The bout with rubella left me groggy and fully, never experienced the urge to do so, or with both fury and sadness. President positions, breathing control, sighting down bleary eyed. In the record-fire exercise, to own a gun or rifle for either home protec- Obama has had to comfort the survivors of the barrel, the contact point between hand I did the best I could with a weapon I now tion or hunting. I belong to the school that mass shootings and the victims’ families 15 and cheek, and the weapon’s component respected but did not fear. My score quali- believes that we would inadvertently shoot times in his tenure. And Americans were parts and maintenance. We soon were able fied me as “sharpshooter,” the middle desig- ourselves in the foot when confronting an wrenched through the collective grieving to break down and reassemble the M-14 with nation between “expert” and “marksman.” intruder at night. As far as hunting goes, I pre- process once again. confidence. In morale-boosting Army nomenclature, fer meat from the supermarket and observ- We should be a nation of people, not of Sgt. Bagnato, a veteran of World War II those who fared poorest still graduated as ing the beauty of wildlife with my eyes, not guns, but we are in danger of a deadly priori- and Korea, almost took my head off dur- marksman. through the sights of a rifle. (This, though, is ties reversal. The New Jersey legislature now ing an inspection when he found rust in my The M-14 held one more surprise for me. pushed to the limit when I spot deer nibbling is poised to try to override the governor’s trigger-housing assembly. He tugged me into The first time I pulled the trigger in night fir- my shrubs.) veto of a measure to prohibit weapons sales the latrine by the ear, muttering something ing, an angry yellow-blue flame flared out I believe pretty much in any legislation to domestic abusers. If they succeed, it would along the way about “college boys.” Then he the sides of the barrel. I thought for sure that makes owning a weapon more difficult. be the first time lawmakers trumped Gover- showed me, quite counterintuitively, how to the weapon imploded. Instead, a sergeant I want the lapsed national law that banned nor Christie. run hot water over the part and wash away told me that the slotted flash suppressor had assault rifles reinstated. I want loopholes The legislation is a modest, logical pro- the rust. He barked out that I was to oil the done its job brilliantly, in both literal and closed for “straw buyers” at gun shows and posal. But since when did modest and logic mechanism as soon as I got back to the squad figurative terms. Until that moment, I never online. I want the unevenness between state intersect with gun control? bay. quite realized the explosive force and energy laws ironed out so that interstate trafficking is The following week we were trucked to expended in just one squeeze of the trigger. dealt with. I want better background checks, Jonathan E. Lazarus of West Orange is a the snow-covered rifle ranges of Fort Dix After Fort Dix, I was sent to clerk school at longer waiting periods, law enforcement proofreader for the Jewish Standard and a and spent the next five days zeroing in our Fort Polk, Louisiana. The only weapon I used computers that actually talk to each other former news editor of the Star-Ledger.

professor was the moderator — but a review preponderance of information can seem of the other panelists made one wonder why overwhelming? In other words, it seems like a moderator would be needed. they are in the advanced class, when they At the same university, another professor haven’t taken the first lesson yet. has resurrected Edward Said, dead more And thus the brilliance of Do Re Me. than a decade, via video, in an introductory We need to “start at the very beginning.” International Relations class, no less. The stu- By identifying a few basic facts that go dents did not know who Said was, or that his directly to the underpinnings of the BDS views were, at best, controversial, and he is movement, we can make serious strides presented as an expert, with the implication in the eradication of this dangerous that his teachings should not be questioned. propaganda. Mary Martin and friends in publicity shot for the original Broadway production of Many students with no prior background, Let’s ask everyone — rabbis, Jewish leaders, “The Sound of Music.” with no alternative views presented, would organizations, youth groups, and our families not even know what questions to ask. — to commit to communicating these three King Saul circa 1020 BCE. Jewish exile dates built on this very site. The indoctrination is insidious. As Buddha facts to our Jewish community throughout back to the destruction of the Second Temple These three facts are not overwhelming, said, a jug is filled drop by drop. the upcoming year, 5777 (2016-2017), and in 70 CE. but they go to the heart of the BDS argu- Most people who do know the history — then ask them to reach out to their friends, • Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel. ment. A key foundation is no longer miss- and this includes the Jewish community — neighbors, teachers, and community lead- Jewish communities predate both Chris- ing, enabling more elaborate information are part of the baby boomer generation and ers of all backgrounds so we can pre-empt tian and Muslim history. to be absorbed and shared. A foundation older. But with all the support that comes the false narrative from taking hold due to • The Temple Mount is the holiest site in that makes clear that Israel is the home of from the many organizations that fight ignorance. Judaism. the Jewish people. against BDS, why is the movement still gain- The three facts are: It is the site of Mount Moriah, under- And everyone deserves a home, right? ing ground with our young people? • Israel was not created in 1948, it was stood to be the spot where Abraham It’s as simple as Do Re Me. And then I understood why this song re-established. brought Isaac as a sacrifice. That act — had been echoing inside my head since The Jewish people crossed into the land which he was not allowed to complete — Martha Cohen is an award-winning producer the conference. How many people choose after they left Egyptian slavery circa 1250 BCE was, in essence, the beginning of the Jew- and creative executive. She lives in Fort Lee not to engage in the fight because the and established a kingdom, initially led by ish people, and why both Temples were with her husband and son.

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Orlando atrocity highlights America’s divisions

n the days since the massacre of 49 people and the wounding of hundreds more by an IslamistI gunman at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, America’s political leadership has sounded more discordant than ever. Never mind the absence of Ben Cohen a bipartisan consensus about what we should do; our politicians are engaged in unsightly squabbling about the nature of the problem itself. In one corner, we have the Democratic Party, led by President Barack Obama, aggressively steering the national debate toward gun control. According to this camp’s account, there was this vague, slippery phenomenon known as “hatred” that prodded and pushed the febrile mind of gunman Omar Mateen, but what really matters is the fact that he legally purchased an assault rifle to carry out his bestial attack. In the other corner, we have presumptive GOP presi- dential nominee Donald Trump and his rainbow coalition of the angry, the cheated, and the merely racist. Listening to Trump again advocating for a ban on Mus- lims entering this country, you could easily picture the many Republicans who gladly would transfer to a paral- lel universe where a Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz or even a Jeb Bush is leading their party’s response to the Orlando massacre. That they are stuck with Trump after eight years of the Obama administration tells you all you need to know about how the American conversation about national security has degenerated. It can and should be recognized that there are many legitimate concerns bound up with the Orlando blood- In Manhattan, a vigil for the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting. ELISA S VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS bath: access to guns, immigration policy, the ugly per- sistence of homophobia, the vulnerability of soft targets Trump is no better. He, too, wants to present the like clubs and restaurants, the fetish for violence that is a Islamist threat as a domestic issue, with his solution feature of nearly all extremist ideologies and individual involving a ban on Muslims entering the country instead pathologies. But none of these particular aspects should of more restrictions on gun ownership. The corollary Never mind the divert us from appraising the root cause of all this—that of this offensive, lazy, and downright stupid proposal is, Islamism. is that we leave the policing of the Middle East to Rus- absence of a bipartisan Depressingly, this argument should be obvious, but sian dictator President Vladimir Putin, the one foreign consensus about what it isn’t. Most Americans have known since 9/11 that leader idolized by Trump. That means, at least in the our Islamism, whether in its “constitutional” Muslim Broth- short term, the further empowerment of the Iranian we should do; erhood guise, or its Shi’a Iranian variant, or in the Sunni regime and its Syrian puppet, President Bashar al-Assad. politicians are engaged version that has spawned both al-Qaeda and Islamic Where would that leave the United States? That depends in unsightly squabbling State, is founded on the principle that coexistence with on who you think is better placed to manage and lever- Western civilization and its values should be opposed age the next evolutions in the Middle Eastern balance of about the nature of the at all costs. It is violently anti-Semitic, violently homo- power—a former KGB of icer, or a reality TV star whose phobic, and violently anti-democratic, and it cannot be hair would fall out at the irst crackle of gun ire. And if problem itself. anything else. These core precepts explain why Mateen your answer is “Hillary Clinton,” I’m afraid that only gen- was able to declare support for the Shi’a terrorist group erates another set of dif icult questions, among them prospect of a positive change in policy on the horizon. Hezbollah as well as the Sunni Islamic State. whether she can get tough with our enemies with the All that is visible are the threats: more terrorist attacks Yet everywhere this understanding of Islamism’s progressive wing of the Democratic Party breathing down here and in Europe, the collapse of the nuclear non-pro- essence, reinforced by each attack, is compromised by her neck, and how she would sell a future foreign military liferation regime inside and outside the Middle East, the parochial agendas. To listen to many Democrats, you’d engagement to the American public with the disastrous continued flow of refugees from Syria’s brutal civil war. think that Islamic State was just one of several extremist intervention in Libya on her record. Most of all, our real enemies will multiply outside our groups native to America, rather than a creation of the This is the reality that we must deal with: two pres- borders while we obsess about the phantom enemies, Middle East region (speci ically, of the power vacuum in idential candidates—one compromised by her past from transgender celebrities to Muslim taxi drivers, the region left by the Americans, and illed by the Rus- record, the other a vulgar neophyte—competing for the within them. JNS.ORG sians and the Iranians). That, of course, brings us neatly votes of a deeply polarized nation. No longer do terrible to matters like gun control, hate speech, bullying, and events like the Orlando atrocity bring us together. To Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org and the all the other progressive bugbears. Most importantly, the contrary, they shine a blinding light on our political Tower magazine, writes a weekly column for JNS.org on it means we can avoid a discussion about our foreign divisions. Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His writings policy and ignore the reality that Islamic State is a global In times of grief, it is natural to seek comfort. In the have been published in Commentary, the New York phenomenon that has struck in Paris and Brussels as wake of Orlando, though, comfort is in scant supply. Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal, and many other well as in Orlando. There are no soothing words to offer, nor is there much publications.

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Here and at top right, participants from eight years of trips meet for a reunion in Israel in 2014.

hink of it like a web. been involved in the program since it Not entirely the internet began 15 years ago, said. This year, there kind of web. Remember will be 20 teenagers, ranging from 11 to 13 when we used to call it the years old, and Ms. Mendelaw, who now is Opening World Wide Web, a decade a program co-chair, was part of the inter- or so ago, when we were viewing and vetting process that chose young? (Okay. Younger.) them. Keep the world wide part, but drop the “I’ve hosted 31 children over 15 years, virtualT aspect. This web is physical. and I’m still in touch with many of them,” For 15 years now, Open Hearts Open Ms. Mendelaw said. “I see many of them hearts Homes has been bringing young Israelis to almost every year, when I go to Israel. In stay with families during the summer, and the last few years I have been going in the Open Hearts to participate in travel and day programs springtime, specifically because I know at local Jewish institutions. As the world that they are more available then. has changed, Israel has changed, those “We have had reunions. This year, I young people have grown up, demograph- went to visit a young lady who stayed at Open Homes ics marched on, and the institutional land- my home 10 years ago. She is now an offi- scape here in northern New Jersey and cer in the IDF. She is lovely. She had two Rockland County has changed as well. And siblings killed during a bar mitzvah ter- brings young so has Open Hearts Open Homes. rorist attack; she was 13 when she came But the program doesn’t end for the to us, and the attack had been three years young Israelis and their host families once earlier. We got together with her and her Israelis for R&R the summer has ended and everyone’s mother in April.” back home. Instead, those relationships That, she said, was just one of the many continue. That’s the physical web part. visitors with whom she has maintained a in Bergen County Every year, more and more Israeli and relationship. “When I see these children American families are woven into this web. and their parents, when we’re in Israel, JOANNE PALMER “Every year, we bring over all of these the parents come up to me and hug me children, supported by two counselors,” and kiss me, and say ‘How can we ever Cindy Mendelaw of Hillsdale, who has repay you for what you did for our child?

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It changed their lives.’ “And I say ‘You don’t repay me. We do this because we want to. Because it is important.’” The program is particularly important to her, Ms. Mendelaw said, because of her relationship to Israel. It goes far back into her adolescence, when she lived on a kibbutz. Her husband — “his name is Shimi, but his real name is Shimson,” she said — is Israeli. “We have an exceptionally large family in Israel,” she continued. “Shimi is one of 11, and we have 46 nieces and nephews and about 125 great nieces and nephews on his side.” So when Harold Benus, who was the director of the YJCC in Washington Town- ship 15 years ago, and who started Open Hearts Open Homes, “came to me and said ‘I am looking for some people to help,’ I said ‘Count me in.’” The teenagers who come to be part of the Open Hearts Open Homes program are terror victims, related to victims, or, increasingly, living in such places as Sderot, where the threat of missiles from over the Gaza border is constant. There been involved in the program since it are firm criteria — they must speak began 15 years ago, said. This year, there English, because it is important that will be 20 teenagers, ranging from 11 to 13 they be able to communicate with their years old, and Ms. Mendelaw, who now is host families. They must be academically a program co-chair, was part of the inter- capable, and leaders in their own com- viewing and vetting process that chose munities — the idea is that they will be Jayne Petak and Herb Levine with some young Israelis This summer’s counselors, Michal Bechar and Ron them. exposed to new ideas and ways of thinking who have been part of Open Hearts Open Homes. Blecher, in Israel. “I’ve hosted 31 children over 15 years, and being that they can share with their and I’m still in touch with many of them,” Ms. Mendelaw said. “I see many of them almost every year, when I go to Israel. In the last few years I have been going in the springtime, specifically because I know When you hear that they are more available then. the stories about “We have had reunions. This year, I went to visit a young lady who stayed at the kids who are my home 10 years ago. She is now an offi- coming, you cer in the IDF. She is lovely. She had two siblings killed during a bar mitzvah ter- can’t not want to rorist attack; she was 13 when she came give them your to us, and the attack had been three years earlier. We got together with her and her whole heart. mother in April.” ELANA PREZANT That, she said, was just one of the many visitors with whom she has maintained a friends once they’re back home. And they relationship. “When I see these children must never have traveled overseas — Open and their parents, when we’re in Israel, Hearts Open Homes is for kids whose fam- the parents come up to me and hug me ilies’ means do not allow for such luxuries. Ms. Petak with Nitzan Avir, who had been and kiss me, and say ‘How can we ever Once they were chosen, there used to Leslie and David Smith with other hosts and guests. a guest at the Petaks’ house and remained repay you for what you did for our child? be a chance for participants to meet each close with them.

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other in Israel. This year, there were a few two went to Israel to recruit such meetings, including one at the Tel and interview students for the Aviv Rowing Center; professionally run trip; Cindy Mendelaw joined exercises encourage bonding. By the time them for a day. they come to this country, the children “It’s all private funding, and will know each other fairly well. (By the the chairpeople raise it,” Ms. time it’s over, usually groups have melded Prezant said. From the begin- firmly, and the Israelis continue to see ning, David and Leslie Smith each other.) were the co-chairs; years ago, Open Hearts Open Homes participants Cindy and Shimi Mendelaw are assigned to host families. Each family joined them. “It’s a fully inde- takes two Israeli kids, so no kid ever feels pendent group, and every- abandoned in a houseful of foreign strang- thing that is donated goes into ers. Each trip is accompanied by two the program. It’s all based on Israeli counselors, who are in their mid- relationships that the chair- twenties, “young enough so that they can people have developed. The relate to the children, and old enough to funding comes from them be mentors,” Ms. Mendelaw said. soliciting their friends. Once they are here, participants spend This year has presented a the trip’s three weeks seeing this part of particular challenge because the country. “They spend nights at the some of the institutional pro- Participants from eight years of visits gathered for a reunion in 2014. Y camps, and at Camp Getaway in Con- grams that Open Hearts Open necticut,” Ms. Mendelaw said. “They will Homes used to work no longer exist. The teen program to Open Hearts Open Homes. young, kids can identity where the bombs be going to water parks and amusement most obvious is the YJCC itself. It now is “That’s for three days and two nights, and are coming from. They can hear it. They parks; we will take them to New York City, operating on a skeleton basis as its lead- it’s three quarters of what we needed to can hear the bombs being launched before where they will see the Blue Man Group, ership tries to decide what form it should pay,” Ms. Prezant said. The New Jersey Y the sirens go off. take a boat ride and a bus tour. We will take; although it still is running some pro- Camps has given the group a two-day, one- “This mother has a 10 year old, who two take them either to the Statue of Liberty grams, it no longer can provide either night free stay at Camp Nah-Jee-Wah, and years ago was able to identify whether he or the Empire State Building, and to Times the physical base for Open Hearts Open Temple Beth Sholom of Pascack Valley in was hearing bombs from Gaza or fire from Square. We’ve learned that they love the Homes or the teen programming the Park Ridge will host the group for a Shabbat the IDF. Hershey store, and the M & M store. And Israeli kids can join. dinner during their stay. So will the Smiths. “The kibbutz is beautiful. I can see the we take them to Little Italy for dinner.” For a few years, Open Hearts Open Another change is that host families appeal of living there. And then you see Some plans have been adapted, given Homes also used the 92nd Street Y’s teen used to be centered around the north- the buildings where there are patches to kids’ reactions in other years. “We have programming, but trucking its kids to join ern part of Bergen County, but now they cover the bomb damage. One bomb fell taken them to see the Yankees,” Ms. Men- the Manhattan-based institution’s groups come from farther away, from Haworth near the gan,” the preschool. “The con- delaw said. “They go, and they’re all proved too tiring and time-consuming to and Tenafly. trast between the beauty and the danger excited. They get to the stadium, and it’s be practical. Ms. Prezant is deeply moved by some of is so strong. amazing, and they say ‘Look at this!’ and This year, with the YJCC’s build- the stories she heard as she interviewed “And then you meet the kids, and they ‘Look at that!’ and they run around and look ing entirely unavailable, Open Hearts potential trip participants. “The more you are all full of life. They all want to give, and at everything. And then after one inning Open Homes planned to work with the know about it, the more it touches your to do.” they’re bored out of their minds. They go Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, heart,” she said. “When you hear the stories Ms. Prezant talked about a public school to the concession stand, they walk around, but just a few months ago the JCC said about the kids who are coming, you can’t in Sderot whose students mostly come they do everything but watch the game. that its summer teen programs would be not want to give them your whole heart. from lower-income households. Eight of “They don’t know from the game. discontinued. “There’s a girl whose father was injured the school’s students will be on the trip “We have learned from experience that Out of what could be a disheartening two years ago. He was in the hospital this year. The school’s computer club, baseball’s not necessarily the best thing for situation, Open Hearts Open Homes sup- for a year, and she and her siblings were under the leadership of a boy who was them.” porters have found new possibilities. farmed out to friends and relatives. When on Open Hearts Open Homes last year, is The visitors pay nothing for any of this. For one thing, the Rockland JCC is host- he came home, the family had to make taking apart old computers, refurbishing All the costs are borne by the committee ing the visitors for one week. The Kaplen major adjustments. She is now living a life them, and giving them to kids who don’t and private donors. The program is over- JCC has invited the visitors and their hosts that is so very different from her life two have computers. “This is an afterschool seen by Abby Leipsner, the CEO of the to a Fourth of July party. Beyond that, it is years ago. There’s a boy whose father was club, in a school basement,” Ms. Prezant Washington Township YJCC, and admin- transferring the deposit it made to Camp a bus driver. There was a bomb on the bus. said, and this is how its members chose istered by Elana Prezant of Haworth. The Getaway, in Kent, Connecticut, for its own He suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, to spend their time. “These kids just want and it took him years to be able to drive a to give.” (As an aside, she said that the bus again.” club was “a roomful of boys and one girl. Although she has been to Israel many I asked the girl, ‘so where are your girl- times, speaks Hebrew fluently, and feels friends?’ and she said ‘they don’t want to she knows the country and its culture, do this — but I do want to do this.’ That girl “unless you see it” — you see exactly where is coming on our program.”) the kids are coming from, exactly what “One of my questions to the children they’re experiencing, exactly what pro- was ‘Have you ever been away from vides the background for their nightmares home?’ That was one of my main con- — “you don’t know what they mean.” So cerns. They said that they’d all been sent she’s done some traveling within the away during Operation Protective Edge, country. two summers ago. They’d been sent away Many of the recent participants come to safety to stay with family or friends. from Sderot, so she went there too. “I went “You ask this question and you expect to a kibbutz where one of the kids comes answers like ‘Yes, to camp’ or ‘Yes, on a from,” she said. “They talk about its prox- trip,’ but those were not the answers we imity to Gaza. From their homes, you can got,” she said. see the buildings in Gaza. One of the moth- One of the stories that touched her most Nitzan Avir with Jayne and David Petak’s sons, Aaron and Derek. ers told us that from the time they are very was about a boy who will be coming on the

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trip. He was referred to Open Hearts Open Homes through the One Family Fund, which, Ms. Prezant knew, means that he or someone close to him was the victim of terror. “We asked him about it,” she said. “He said that his mother had been in the shuk and there was a bomb. She was injured. “He didn’t tell us but we found out later that he had been with her. He was hold- ing her hand the whole time. They live in Dimona, and it took them seven hours to get to Jerusalem for the interview. She’s a single parent, she’s Russian, and they speak Russian at home. The two of them live alone together. You just want to protect him. You just want to hug him.” Some of this work is emotionally difficult. “In between interviews with the One Fam- ily kids, we had had to compose ourselves,” Ms. Prezant said. “Sometimes we cried.” They accepted the 20 children for whom they had space, “but there were more than 20 we’d have liked to have taken,” she said. David and Leslie Smith of River Vale can trace their involvement in Open Hearts This summer’s visitors met before the trip; here they are learning to row — and to bond — in Tel Aviv. Open Homes all the way back, and he recalls its roots. “I wouldn’t call myself Sderot,” Mr. Smith said. “One of them a founder, but I was involved since the was still sleeping with her mother, at 13, beginning,” Mr. Smith said; he and his wife because of the bombing. She came into our home, with another girl, and they both were as sweet and as wonderful as any we’ve ever had. We made a special bond with them. When these kids “They tried to get us to promise that we from Israel come would never have any other girls stay with us, because they were our daughters. Of into our lives, course we couldn’t make that promise, they don’t come but we have stayed in touch with the families, to the extent that last year friends of into our lives ours in Mahwah had a son who had a bar for just three mitzvah in Israel, and he went to one of the girl’s homes and spent the day with the weeks. They stay family. in our lives. “It was such a wonderful connection that we made that not only is it our con- DAVID SMITH nection, but now they also have a lifelong connection with the son of our friends. were active with Tzahal Shalom, which “When these kids from Israel come into brings injured IDF veterans to this coun- our lives, they don’t come into our lives for try. “When Harold Benus came back from just three weeks. They stay in our lives.” This year’s group has fun with more bonding exercises in Israel. Israel 15 years ago, it was with this idea Now that changing tastes and demo- that we could help kids affected by terror- graphics seem to have ended most local Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. bear hug. He’d been in the program three ism in a similar vein, but integrate them teen travel programs, Open Hearts Open “We have long discussions with host years before” — but not in her home, so more into Bergen County by integrating Homes is revamping. “In a way, it’s now families, making sure that they under- she didn’t know him nearly as well as the them into a teen travel program.” the best of all worlds,” Mr. Smith said. stand the responsibilities that come along participants who had been. “It took me a The Smiths have hosted many kids. “We’re doing some things with Rockland, with hosting,” Ms. Petak said. “We have to second to recognize him, but he said that “Leslie and I feel very strongly about shar- and we’re doing some of our own pro- make sure that the children go to families we’d met in the States, and thanked me for ing the program with others,” he said. “We gramming. We can have our kids do the that will be sensitive to them. It is the first being there, and for the program. don’t want to be in the position of taking New York experience in a way that local time that many of them have been away “He was now going to school, moving on kids every year, and not allowing others to kids don’t want to do — they don’t want from home — and they’re a long way from with his life. He was much bigger than he have that experience. to be tourists in the city.” He, his wife, home. The families have to care for them had been then, of course, and that’s why “Of course, it’s not every year that we the Mendelaws, Elana Prezant, and Abby as they need to be cared for.” I had to stare at him. It’s the connections have an overabundance of host families,” Leipsner handle all the fundraising and The host families “often have kids the that you make.” he said ruefully, although this year he did. the programming. same age” as the visitors, “or younger, and Although Open Hearts Open Homes One of this summer’s activities, a barbe- He is confident that the program will so the Israelis become surrogate big broth- is flourishing, it always needs funds, and cue, is being planned and hosted by two continue next year, as this year’s chal- ers or sisters.” now it needs them more than ever. “More families who were not able to take guests lenges have been surmounted. “We will She remembers being in Israel a few donations would be greatly appreciated,” — they came too late, and there were too always be involved, as long as there is an months ago, on federation business. “We Ms. Prezant said. “This year, we don’t many would-be hosts already — but wanted Open Hearts Open Homes,” Mr. Smith said. were in Sderot, opening the animal ther- have the YJCC behind us.” To support it, to do whatever they could to entertain the Jayne and David Petak of River Vale also apy center,” she said. “All of a sudden, or to get any questions about the program Israeli kids. are longtime Open Hearts Open Homes this young man taps me on the shoul- answered, email her at [email protected] “A few years ago, we had two girls from hosts; she also is the president of the der, and I turn around and get this giant or call her at (201) 666-6610.

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MARCUS MORAES Committee since 1995. Nuzman preferred to talk about the robust RIO DE JANEIRO — Mazel tov! Jewish connections at the games, including a That might be how the big shots in charge ceremony to honor the 11 Israelis murdered of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the first to by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olym- take place in South America, will toast vic- pics in 1972, the Israeli company that is pro- tories when the competition gets underway viding security for the games and his own on August 5. deep ties — as athlete, sporting official, and Three of the top officials of the Rio 2016 Jew — to Brazilian sports. Organizing Committee, including its presi- “My connection with Judaism and with dent, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, are Jewish. Israel is through sports,” said Nuzman, who But in the run-up to the games, there have was part of the first Brazilian male volleyball been more “oy gevalts” than mazel tovs as team in 1964 when the sport debuted at the organizers deal with reports of unfinished Olympic Games. “I started my career play- venues, polluted swimming and sailing ing at the Brazilian Israelite Club and I have sites, and worst of all, concerns about the attended four Maccabiah Games in Israel.” mosquito-borne Zika virus. The grandson of Russian immigrants, Nuz- In an interview, Nuzman said that the man was born in Rio, home to an estimated number of Zika cases in Rio has dropped 25,000 Jews. He is an active member of the The Jewish trio in charge of the Rio Olympics: Carlos Arthur Nuzman is sharply in recent weeks, and they are 440-family Conservative synagogue Con- flanked by Sidney Levy, left, and Leonardo Gryner. MARCIO RODRIGUES expected to fall even further during the dry gregacao Judaica do Brasil, which is led by months of the Brazilian winter, as Rio 2016 Rabbi Nilton Bonder, his nephew. Nuzman’s and marketing director who was part of Hall event. The Israeli government will organizers emphasized at a news conference father, Izaak, presided over the Rio Jewish the Rio 2016 bid, is deputy CEO. be represented by its minister of culture on June 7. Last month, the World Health federation, the Hebraica Club, and the local “I have no connection to sports at all,” and sport, Miri Regev. Organization said that there is no public Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal. Levy said in an interview published on “The mayor will open the doors of his health justification for postponing or can- “He was one the greatest leaders of our Keren Hayesod’s website. “My duty is house in a gesture of great friendship celing the Games. Jewish community. He brought Ben-Gurion totally business-related.” with the Brazilian Jewish community “None of the top athletes have declared and Golda Meir to Brazil,” Nuzman boasted, The Jewish trio at the helm of Rio 2016 and the whole people of Israel,” Israel’s not to come. If there’s a second-layer one noting the late prime ministers of Israel. is behind the ceremony to honor the honorary consul in Rio, Osias Wurman, who won’t come, good for him,” an irritated Nuzman relies on other prominent mem- Munich victims. The August 14 event at said. “We are deeply moved. Symboli- Nuzman said. bers of the local Jewish community as his Rio’s City Hall will be co-led by the Inter- cally falling on Tisha b’Av, one of the One of Brazil’s most prominent sports fig- deputies. Sidney Levy, a business executive, national Olympic Committee, along with saddest days of the Hebrew calendar, the ures, Nuzman, 77, is a former president of is the Rio 2016 committee’s chief executive the Olympic committees of Israel and event will be a unique moment.” the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation and officer and has a $2.2 billion budget to man- Brazil. The security of the 12,000 athletes has been president of the Brazilian Olympic age. Leonardo Gryner, a communications Four yeas ago, the IOC rejected and anticipated 500,000 visitors is appeals for a moment of silence at the among the most sensitive issues for orga- opening ceremonies of the London nizers, and the Israeli company Interna- Games in 2012, the 40th anniversary tional Security and Defense Systems, or of the tragedy. Critics at the time were ISDS, won the international tender to not appeased by various events marking secure the games. ISDS has coordinated the anniversary that took place at other security at previous Olympics and World venues. Cups, and will provide services from The IOC also announced a special consulting to security supply systems. area in the Rio Olympic Village to com- “It’s an honor for ISDS to be the very memorate the memory of all Olympians first ever Israeli group to be part of the who have died. In addition, a moment Olympic family,” Leo Gleser, ISDS presi- of reflection in honor of all dead Olym- dent and a former Mossad agent, said. pians will be held during the closing Last November, a French national ceremony. identified as an executioner in ISIS pro- “There will be no minute of silence paganda videos tweeted, “Brazil, you at the opening ceremony,” read an IOC are our next target.” Brazil’s counterter- note, frustrating many families’ long- rorism director, Luiz Alberto Sallaberry, standing request. recognized the statement as credible. Instead, the widows of weightlifter “I can’t speak much about security Rio 2016’s first test event, in August 2014, was an international sailing regatta Yossef Romano and fencing coach Andre or it won’t be security anymore,” Nuz- that drew 326 athletes from 35 countries. ALEX FERRO Spitzer will light 11 candles at the City man said.

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Brazil long has regarded itself as an Those who make it to Rio will be able unlikely target for extremists, thanks to its to take part in two special Shabbat cere- historical standing as a nonaligned, mul- monies. Some 300 guests are expected at ticultural nation. Security experts have Bonder’s synagogue, including Regev, the warned that many Brazilian officials do not Israeli sports minister. Chabad will host a realize how big a stage the Olympics is for Shabbat event during the Paralympics. anyone seeking to sow terror. In a joint educational project around Rio Israel, making its 16th appearance at 2016, students from four Jewish schools the Olympics, will bring its largest delega- and four municipal public schools will tion ever to Rio. There will be nearly 50 produce a book about the Munich murders Israeli athletes there for the Olympics and and the Olympic spirit. another 50 for the 2016 Paralympic Games “Children must understand the evil that follow immediately afterward. Some caused by terrorism,” said Sergio Niskier, 10,000 Israelis are expected to make it one of the project organizers and a former to Rio to root for their national heroes. A Jewish federation president. “It’s fantastic temporary Israeli consulate will be estab- to see Jewish schools and public schools lished in Rio to serve the Israeli population from the municipality, despite their abys- during the games. sal social and economic realities, working “The local Jewish community enjoys hand in hand in this project.” seeing the Olympics team in international The Israeli singer Ester Rada, whose par- cooperation with other countries. The fed- An aerial view of Rio 2016 Olympic Park during construction. ents were Ethiopian immigrants, will per- eral police have very well trained staff. We GABRIEL HEUSI/BRASIL2016.GOV.BR form at official sites where fans can watch are very optimistic,” Octavio Aronis, head the sporting action on big screens. of security of the Brazilian Israelite Con- happened twice in Argentina and Brazil is Schools will be closed during the Olym- “It’s an example of the polyvalent, mul- federation, said. not free of it,” he said, citing the Buenos pics, following a Rio municipality decision ticultural aspect of the Jewish state, which Rio’s Jewish federation president, Paulo Aires bombings of the Israeli Embassy in to move the winter school vacations from is formed by over 70 different origins that Maltz, is more guarded. 1992 and the AMIA Jewish center in 1994. July to August, in large part to reduce traf- make up the Israeli society,” the honorary “There is always a first time, it has “We’ll be on total alert.” fic. “It’s a relief,” Maltz said. consul, Wurman, said. JTA WIRE SERVICE Hall event. The Israeli government will be represented by its minister of culture and sport, Miri Regev. “The mayor will open the doors of his house in a gesture of great friendship with the Brazilian Jewish community Meet the Orthodox ‘American Ninja Warrior’ and the whole people of Israel,” Israel’s honorary consul in Rio, Osias Wurman, said. “We are deeply moved. Symboli- training to be a rabbi cally falling on Tisha b’Av, one of the saddest days of the Hebrew calendar, the LUCY COHEN BLATTER on for six interesting facts about the “ninja event will be a unique moment.” rabbi.” The security of the 12,000 athletes ike his fellow competitors on He found out about the show while at and anticipated 500,000 visitors is “American Ninja Warrior,” the gym. among the most sensitive issues for orga- 25-year-old Akiva Neuman Neuman was working out at the gym nizers, and the Israeli company Interna- pushed himself to his physical with a friend when he saw “American tional Security and Defense Systems, or limitsL — climbing, jumping and running Ninja Warrior” for the first time. (The ISDS, won the international tender to through an intense obstacle course — in show, which was based on a Japanese com- secure the games. ISDS has coordinated the hopes of making it to the national petition, now is in its eighth season in the security at previous Olympics and World finals in Las Vegas. United States and has something of a cult Cups, and will provide services from But unlike the dozens of athletes who following. In fact, the Wall Street Journal consulting to security supply systems. competed with him at the Philadelphia recently asked “Is ‘American Ninja War- “It’s an honor for ISDS to be the very qualifiers, which will air June 27 on NBC, rior’ the Future of Sports?”.) first ever Israeli group to be part of the Neuman prepared by saying the Shema. “It had my name written all over it — it’s Olympic family,” Leo Gleser, ISDS presi- He also wore tzitzit and a kippah through- competitive and athletic, but it’s not cut- dent and a former Mossad agent, said. out the competition. throat, and there’s a certain level of cama- Last November, a French national Dubbed #ninjarabbi for the occasion, raderie required,” Neuman said. (The identified as an executioner in ISIS pro- Neuman is an Orthodox Jew and rabbinical coaches, contestants and viewers cheer paganda videos tweeted, “Brazil, you student at Yeshiva University. He will finish each other on.) are our next target.” Brazil’s counterter- his smicha while he starts a full-time job “I thought, what’s the worst that hap- rorism director, Luiz Alberto Sallaberry, at Deloitte in the fall — yes, in addition to pens? I get rejected? So what?” recognized the statement as credible. “Ninja” training and studying to be a rabbi, Neuman also figured that being an “I can’t speak much about security Neuman also is pursuing a master’s degree Orthodox Jew could be his hook. He sub- or it won’t be security anymore,” Nuz- in taxation at St. John’s University. mitted a video that showed him sitting man said. Tune in to watch the sure-to-be com- with an open Talmud surrounded by other pelling profile of Neuman — after all, the religious texts; it also shows him rock show’s emotional, behind-the scenes sto- climbing and running. ries have been parodied by Drake on “Sat- “I love ‘American Ninja Warrior,’” he urday Night Live” — and to witness his sup- says in his video. “But I also do this stuff porters cheering “rabbi, rabbi,” while he because if I didn’t I’d be on shpilkes!” shows off his strength, speed, and agility. But most of his working out is done at As of press time, we don’t know whether home. or not Neuman, who lives in New York, Neuman says he’s always been athletic makes it to Vegas. In the meantime, read SEE NINJA PAGE 36 Akiva Neuman with his wife, Chani, and son, Yaakov Shmuel. EMUNI Z.

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also commanded to take care of our bod- ies. We’re scoring points by exercising, and fulfilling what God wants of us.” Athleticism runs in the family. Neuman and his wife, Chani, grew up near each other in Highland Park. She’s sporty, too. “When we were dating, we used to go to Dave and Buster’s a lot,” he said. “She always beat me in basketball. “We keep joking that next year it’ll be the rebbetzin’s turn,” he added. And the two are banking on the fact that their athleticism will carry on to the next generation. “We’re waiting for him to crawl first, but as soon as that happens, we’ll have a soccer ball at his feet,” he said of Koby. “We’re actually hoping he runs before he walks.” Soldiers attend the funeral of Alon Albert Govberg, who was killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem last JTA WIRE SERVICE October. HADAS PARUSH/FLASH90

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4 n 1 The Frisch school held its annual graduation ceremony. Gabriel Dardik gave the valedictory address and Zachary Abraham was salutatorian. Dr. Daniel Rynhold, associate professor of modern Jewish philosophy at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, gave the parents’ address, and Stephen Flatow presented the Sara R. Duker Tikkun Olam award to Jonathan Seidel and the Alisa M. Flatow Shem Tov Memorial award to Tali Ramras. COURTESY FRISCH

n 2 Students from Temple Beth El of Closter’s 10th grade confirmation class stand with Cantor Rica Timman and Rabbi David Widzer. Ninth graders from the religious school also participated in the service, which was held on Shavuot. 5 in Bethlehem, Pa., on June 10. The Cantare n 3 During erev Shavuot services, Choir, made up of singers from the McCloud Temple Emeth in Teaneck held Elementary School in Englewood who a confirmation ceremony, led study at Thurnauer, won first place superior by Cantor Ellen Tilem, left, for its performance. The Concert Choir, an and Rabbi Steven Sirbu. The ensemble of singers from the JCC, earned confirmands, from left, Regina second place; percussionist Gaddiel Renteria Fink, Naomi Friedman, and Claire was named best overall student accompanist, Fink, received gifts, including a and Cassie Bartels was awarded the chumash. Claire Fink received solo vocalist award. COURTESY JCCOTP the Wilford Weill Memorial Essay award. BARBARA BALKIN n 5 Earlier this month, 2,500 Jewish activists attended the American Jewish n 4 The Young People’s Chorus at Committee Global Forum in Washington, the Thurnauer School of Music at D.C. More than 60 of them came from the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades New Jersey, including Simone Wilker, in Tenafly won four awards in the left, with Eugene Lipkowitz, Shari Haber, “Music in the Parks” competition and Alain Sanders. PHOTO PROVIDED

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D’var Torah Beha’alotecha: Guided on our journey

y family is moving this month. We aren’t comparison, I’m only moving 4 members of We don’t know where we will find ourselves going very far. Google Maps tells me that my family, including me.) after Election Day. And, unlike the Israelites, the new home is only seven tenths of a mile How did they know where they were I’m not counting on rays of divine light to away from the old home. It’s a couple of going? What guided them on their way? point out our path. I don’t expect God to pick rightM hand turns and a short left, not even 2 minutes by Better than Waze or Siri, the Israelites have winners and losers in our electoral journey. car. I happen to like logistics and sequence puzzles, so get- an awesome navigation system, in the tru- I do hope, however, that we are guided ting all of our belongings from one house to the other has est sense of the word “awe-some.” The through this election season by Jewish val- been a good theoretical challenge. But I will confess that Torah tells us that there was a cloud over ues and American ideals. Let us seek candi- the actual process of organizing, sorting, boxing, taping, the Tabernacle. When it lifted and moved, dates who are humble like Moses, wise like packing, transporting, placing, and unpacking everything the Israelites would break camp and fol- Rabbi David Deborah, upright like Abraham, and kind we own has been a monumental undertaking to plan. low the cloud. When it settled, the Israel- S. Widzer like Rebecca. When we disagree with one Given my current preoccupation with moving, there’s a ites would stop and make camp (Numbers Temple Beth El of another, may we do so respectfully and toler- Northern Valley, section of Beha’alotecha that really resonates with me this 9:17). The Midrash even hints that, as they Closter, Reform antly. Let our discourse be civil, shying away year. The Israelites are in the wilderness, in the second journeyed, a ray of light would come forth from the evil ways words can be used. May month of the second year since leaving Egypt. They’ve from the cloud from time to time to point we strive for a society built on justice and already received the Torah and built the Tabernacle. And them in the correct direction (Tanhuma, righteousness, compassion and generosity, now the time comes for them to set out on their jour- Bemidbar, section 12). This was divine Providence at its grace and lovingkindness. Let us reject hatred, divisive- ney to the Promised Land. There are a lot of them – over best. God was directing their every step, giving them ness, and fear. Let us pursue peace. 600,000 men of fighting age, to say nothing of the women guidance and direction. My family’s journey to our new home is simple geogra- and children and other men in the camp. In precise detail, The metaphor of journey has particular meaning dur- phy. A map and a sense of direction, combined with solid the Torah tells us their marching order, tribe by tribe, as ing an election year such as this one. Pollsters love to ask, logistical planning, will get us there. The Israelites had a they set out on their way (Numbers 10:11-28). We’d been “Do you think the nation is headed in the right direction?” more difficult journey in traversing the wilderness, but given a preview of this a few chapters earlier (Numbers Candidates tout their ability to set the country on the right they were guided by God’s sheltering Presence, helping 2:1-34), when each tribe received its location in the camp path. As we make our way from the primary season to them organize and navigate the challenges that lay ahead. and its designated role in the procession. But now they the general election, I suspect we’ll hear this metaphor Our country’s journey through this election season may are actually on their way, hundreds of thousands of Isra- more often in the months ahead. But, unlike my family, we test our mettle as a nation. May we always be guided on elites, or more, moving as one. (For the record, by way of don’t necessarily know where our final destination will be. our way by our values and our ideals.

BRIEFS Israel declares new Jordan’s King Abdullah Israel and Turkey reportedly nearing holiday honoring vows to strike with ‘iron fist’ deal to normalize relations

immigrants after suicide attack Former Middle East allies Israel There have been many reports of The Israeli Knesset has formally declared Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed to strike back “with and Turkey reportedly are nearing impending reconciliation between a new holiday, National Aliyah Day, to cel- an iron fist” following a suicide bombing attack a deal to normalize relations. the former allies in recent years, ebrate the country’s history of immigra- that killed six soldiers in a remote area near the Delegations from both sides, but a normalization agreement has tion and immigrants’ contributions to the Jordanian border with Syria on Tuesday. headed by Turkish Foreign Min- yet to materialize. In 2013, Israeli Jewish state. “Jordan will respond with an iron fist against istry Undersecretary Feridun Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- The new holiday, which will fall on anyone who tries to tamper with its security and Sinirlioğlu and a special envoy rep- yahu apologized to Turkey for the the seventh day of the Hebrew month of borders,” Abdullah said during a meeting with resenting the Israeli prime minis- flotilla incident. In late 2015, Israel Cheshvan (which can be any time from senior military officials, AFP reported. ter, Joseph Ciechanover, are sched- and Turkey began secret negotia- late October to early November, depend- “Such criminal acts will only increase our deter- uled to meet June 26 to declare the tions, with other rounds continu- ing on the Gregorian calendar year), will mination to confront terrorism and terror gangs restoration of ties, Turkey’s Hur- ing in 2016 in Geneva and London. be marked by celebrations in the Knesset; that target army personnel who protect the secu- riyet Daily News reported. According to reports, the two a special cabinet session; and events at the rity of the country and its borders,” he added. Sources cited by the Hurriyet sides have met halfway on Tur- president’s residence, schools, and army According to the Jordanian military, the suicide Daily News said that after the dec- key’s demand that Israel lift the and police facilities. bombing killed four border guards, one member laration, an agreement would be blockade on Gaza. Israel, mean- “Israel’s prosperity was achieved, in of the country’s security services, and one mem- finalized and signed in July by for- while, has accepted procedures for part, thanks to those who left what they ber of the civil defense directorate. Fourteen oth- eign ministry undersecretaries, and a hospital to be built in Gaza and had behind and moved to the land of ers were wounded. relations would be officially normal- has agreed to not block Turkish- Israel,” according to the bill that formal- While there was no immediate claiming of ized by the end of that month. distributed supplies of medicine ized the new holiday. responsibility for the attack, Jordan is part of the Turkish-Israeli relations broke and personnel for the hospital. “Moreover, the immigration to Israel is a U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State terror down after the 2010 Gaza flotilla Additionally, Turkey and Germany symbol of Jewish history, during which the group in Syria and Iraq. Jordan has been targeted incident, in which nine Turkish will jointly build a power plant Jews lived in Israel, were expelled, but never by Islamic State in the past, when a Jordanian militants were killed in clashes after in Gaza, and Turkey will build a abandoned it for a moment and returned to fighter pilot was captured after his plane went they attacked Israeli commandos desalination plant there. All Turk- it — their historical home — as part of the down and was later gruesomely burned alive by who boarded a ship that was trying ish aid to Gaza will be delivered Zionist national miracle,” the bill added. the terror group. to breach the blockade on Hamas- through Israel’s Ashdod port.

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Arts & Culture Drug abuse, shame, and the Holocaust Grandson makes film about family of notorious Dutch lawyers

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AMSTERDAM — In a country where 75 percent of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, the Moszkowicz family of lawyers stood out as a unique Jewish success story. The four sons of Max Moszkowicz, a steel-willed Auschwitz survivor who became Holland’s first modern celebrity attorney, all lawyers, took the family business to new heights, turning their name into a household brand here with winning arguments in some of the country’s most famous trials. In 1987, Max Moszkowicz himself won a mere 4-year sentence for the kidnappers of the beverage mogul Freddy Heineken. In 1976, his second son, Robert, became Holland’s youngest person to pass the bar exam. He was 23 then, and became a mil- lionaire by 29. Another son, Bram, kept making international headlines — including winning the acquittal, of the anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, who had been charged with hate speech in 2010. The Moszkowiczes were widely recognized as legal geniuses in the media and at Max Moszkowicz, left, and his brother Robert near Maastricht, the Netherlands, in 2015. COURTESY OF MAX MOSZKOWICZ events held in their honor. But over the past decade, they have an attempt to examine their dysfunctions fallen from grace. Three of Max Moszko- in light of secondhand emotional dam- wicz’s sons were disbarred for impropri- age as siblings attempt to live up to their eties, starting in 2005 with Robert — a father’s ideals and legacy. The film reveals former heroin addict and flamboyant that the patriarch, determined to rebuild womanizer who was accused of cheating the Jewish family destroyed by the Nazis, his clients — and ending in March with the disowned Robert because he married oldest brother, David. a non-Jewish woman — the filmmaker’s This month, the Moszkowiczes once mother. again are making headlines in Holland The rejection was so absolute that in because of “We Moszkowicz,” the first 1993, the elder Max Moszkowicz and revealing documentary film about the three of his sons appeared as a family on remarkable family. Made by the first-born a television talk show without ever men- son of Robert Moszkowicz, the televi- tioning Robert. sion production retraces the Holocaust’s “Four musketeers,” Bram Moszkowicz deep effects on three generations that for told the host in describing his family on many represent Dutch Jewry’s struggle the show. “One for all, all for one.” to return to normalcy after the trauma of David concurred, saying with a grin: “I the genocide. couldn’t have said it better myself.” Combining footage from Amsterdam, Filmmaker Max Moszkowicz said the Jerusalem, and Auschwitz, the critically images, which he saw when he was 14, “cut

acclaimed work by Max Moszkowicz — WIKIMEDIA COMMONS like a knife. the 37-year-old filmmaker is named for Max Moszkowicz, right, with his son Bram in court in Amsterdam in 1987. “I wanted to understand what my father his 89-year-old grandfather — offers an had done to be cut from the family as unprecedented insight into the rise and that the beige powder and tin foil were for apparently have scarred several of his nine though he never existed,” he said. fall of a now notorious family. making special flu medicine. children, whom he had with four women. Ostracized by his kin, Robert Moszkow- The filmmaker describes to his father Standing opposite his father, Max Mosz- But “We Moszkowicz” is no damning icz, a handsome fast talker who enjoyed his own panic as a child at seeing Robert kowicz confronts him over his shame at indictment, filmmaker Max Moszkow- Italian designer suits and expensive cars — then still a celebrated and practicing law- elementary school following Robert’s pub- icz said in an interview last week about — though he struggles with debts, he still yer — collapse into a drug-induced stupor licized arrest. Over the space of six years, his film, which the Volkskrant daily owns a late model Jaguar — was driven at his mansion near Maastricht. Heroin the filmmaker followed his father around, described as “confrontational, moving, over the edge after the death of his third was in plain sight at his father’s Amster- assembling the portrait of a vain, some- and often painful.” child. Jair lived less than one year. He was dam apartment, the filmmaker recalls. times selfish, and ultimately unrepentant Instead, it’s a story about three genera- born to Robert and his second wife, a When Max was a child, Robert told him man who never apologized for actions that tions of a troubled but loving family, and SEE MOSZKOWICZ PAGE 44

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Friday From “Fait d’hiver” JUNE 24

Cantor Ilan Mamber Shabbat in Wyckoff: Temple Beth Rishon holds Shabbat Tzavta (Shabbat together), a participatory service that includes selections from contemporary and classical repertoires, folk rock melodies, liturgical selections, traditional motifs, and Israeli and Argentinian synagogue music, 7 p.m. Service led by Cantor Ilan Mamber with the Beth Rishon Klezmer AllStars: Jane Koch on keyboards, Gale Bindelglass on vocals, Adam Mester JUNE The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly hosts the touring exhibition “Asbury and Mark Kantrowitz Shorts — An Evening of the World’s Best Short Films” on Tuesday, June 28, at on guitar, Jimmy Cohen on percussion, and 7:30 p.m. The exhibit includes award-winning films, curated from the top global Len Stern on trumpet. 28 film festivals; it features a mix of Oscar Award-winners and nominees in short The service will be film comedy, drama, animation, and documentary. Films include “Fait d’hiver,” directed by Dirk outdoors, weather permitting. Dessert Belien; “The Timmy Brother’s Water,” directed by Paul Riccio, and “Hypothetically,” directed by and coffee. 585 Russell Peter Zinn. Sponsored in part by Brad-Core, Humanism in Building. Kathy, (201) 408-1454 or go Ave. (201) 891-4466 or bethrishon.org. to jccotp.org.

Wednesday 718 Teaneck Road. Club. The Metro YMCAs talks with Rabbi Peter a.k.a. the “Comic Book JUNE 29 Sunday (800) 933-2566 or www. of the Oranges is a Rubinstein, director of Rabbi.” Includes all nybloodcenter.org. partner of the YM-YWHA Jewish Community and meals, oneg with dating JULY 3 of North Jersey. 1 Pike the Bronfman Center mentors, speed dating, Dudu Fisher in Drive. (973) 595-0100 or for Jewish Life at the interactive meals, Film in Cliffside Park: Englewood: Chabad www.wayneymca.org. 92nd Street Y and co- and melave malkah/ Congregation Beth of Bergen County president of the U.S. kumsitz. Hosted by Israel screens the film hosts the Unity Concert board of the Tony Blair Rachel Ruchlamer “Operation Thunderbolt” with Dudu Fisher, “the Faith Foundation, about and Dr. Ratzker. in commemoration of the voice of Jerusalem and In New York the world situation, Shidduchprojects@ 40th anniversary of the Broadway,” at the Bergen especially the Middle gmail.com or call rescue at Entebbe, 2 p.m. Performing Arts Center, Monday East, extremism, (201) 522-4776. 207 Edgewater Road. 7:30 p.m.; doors open at governments, and Opera for seniors in (201)-945-1759 or email 6:45. Rabbi Moshe Bryski, JUNE 27 Tenafly: Cantor Bill education, at the Y, [email protected]. director of Chabad of 7 p.m. 1395 Lexington Walton will perform arias the Conejo in California, from Mozart’s opera “Don Ave. (212) 415-5500 or will be guest speaker. www.92Y.org. Giovanni” at the Kaplen Monday 30 North Van Brunt St. JCC on the Palisades, JULY 4 (201) 227-1030 or www. 11:15 a.m. Lunch available. bergenpac.org. Announce 411 E. Clinton Ave. Helene, BBQ in Paramus: Singles (201) 408-1451. The JCC of Paramus/ your events Congregation Beth Thursday Friday We welcome announce- Friday Tikvah hosts an JULY 7 ments of upcoming events. Independence Day Tony Blair JUNE 24 JULY 1 Announcements are free. barbecue, 12:30 p.m. Ventriloquist in Wayne: Accompanying photos must $5 per person. 304 The Summer Concert Bergenfield Shabbaton: be high resolution, jpg files. Shabbat in Cliffside E. Midland Ave. series at the Wayne The Shidduch Project Park: Congregation Beth Send announcements 2 to 3 (201) 262-7691. YMCA kicks off with a hosts “Be My Hero” weeks in advance. Not every Israel of the Palisades performance by John for modern Orthodox/ holds an Independence release will be published. Pizzi, who blends magic, machmir singles, 23-39, Include a daytime telephone Day barbecue, 6 p.m., Wednesday ventriloquism, and at Congregation Beth number and send to: with musical Kabbalat JULY 6 comedy, 7 p.m. He’s Abraham. Speakers Shabbat services, appeared on Letterman, include Rabbi Yaakov pr@jewishmediagroup. Ma’ariv services, and Blood drive in Teaneck: Neuberger of Beth com • 201-837-8818 x 110 Good Morning America, Rabbi Peter Rubinstein an oneg Shabbat. Holy Name Medical the Daily Show, and Abraham; Dr. Shani 207 Edgewater Road. Center holds a blood Showtime’s Comedy PHOTOS COURTESY 92ND ST Y Ratzker, author of Dinner reservations, drive with New Jersey Club Network and is a “Finding Your Bashert” Middle East discussion: (201)-945-1759 or email Blood Services, a regular at Atlantic City’s and the “Survival Guide Tony Blair, former prime [email protected]. division of New York Borgata and New York to Shidduchim,” and minister of Great Britain Blood Center, 2-8 p.m. City’s Caroline’s Comedy Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, and Northern Ireland,

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Calendar Crossword “PULITZER WINNERS” BY YONI GLATT [email protected] DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING Trip to Lubavitcher rebbe’s grave

To mark the 22nd yahrzeit of the at all hours to pray for inspiration, bless- Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem M. ing, and guidance. Schneerson, Lubavitch on the Palisades Buses will leave from 11 Harold Street will host a trip to his ohel — his grave — in in Tenafly at 6 p.m., and a light dinner Queens on July 5. will be served. Call (201) 871-1152 or go to Thousands of people come to his ohel www.chabadlubavitch.org/oheltrip.

Across Down 1. First name behind “The Prophet 1. Half an Israeli martial art Jeremiah” 2. Book after Joel 5. Kind of korban 3. Lewis Black might go on one 9. Kallah’s path 4. Not an ideal place to be put 14. One is equal to about half a meter 5. Whom Ewan played opposite Natalie, 15. Where many a Jew might retire, for for short short 6. Purim Yoga on the Green at the JCC 16. Israeli winery 7. Feeling after schlepping too much 17. Pulitzer Prize winner about...a lost 8. Unfounded emotion felt by many a The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades will host therapeutic yoga, meditation, and stress sukkah? 44-Across its annual Yoga on the Green, featuring management programs at no cost to 20. Scott Feldman’s baseball team 9. Bar Mitzvah requirement yoga instructors MaryBeth Sigler, John populations in need who face physical 21. Evening, at the Venice ghetto 10. Home state of “Dear Abby” Quirk, Robert Hoon, and Jill Schwalbe, and mental health challenges. Contribu- 22. Increases (the settings at a seder) 11. Went in headfirst, like Braun 23. Style of music running through 12. It was promised on Sunday, July 10, at 9 a.m. The free tions to Kula for Karma will be accepted. Braff’s “Garden State” 13. Makes Havdalah, e.g. event is held on the JCC grounds and Participants should bring a mat, a 25. Start of a seder? 18. 38-Across, e.g will feature a one-hour yoga class. Peo- towel, and a water bottle, and wear sun 27. ...Jonah’s journey to Nineveh? (with 19. Biblical verb ple of all ages and levels are encouraged screen. The program will be held in the “The”) 24. ___ before Tu B’Shvat (When to attend this one-of-a-kind fitness event, Taub Gym if the weather is inclement. 36. Sergey Brin to Google Shabbat Shira must fall according to 37. Tzanhanim scrub the Jewish calendar) which promotes relaxation, reduces Register online at www.jccotp.org/yoga. 38. Homer said “she puts the ‘she’ in 26. “Timid” Nobleman stress, and clears the mind. The class is free, but participants must yeshiva” 27. A chanukiah, for one Yoga on the Green will be held in click “add to cart” to register. For infor- 39. It can clean a tallit 28. Janet who married Tony Curtis collaboration with Kula for Karma, mation, email group exercise director 41. ...what many Jewish settlers estab- 29. Car that once had a Star of David a nonprofit organization that offers Hagit Tal at [email protected]. lished? logo 44. World War II loser 30. Word to describe the First Temple 45. Was guilty of Bal Tashchit (and a era chillul Hashem) on Halloween 31. Who was a greater prophet than 47. Where to find Hagafen Cellars Moses? 49. One who sang “Mazel Tov!” and 32. Jewish start of the day, to the bard “L’Chaim!” in a 2009 hit 33. Rickman opposite Radcliffe 50. ...what Indiana Jones made sure not 34. The Irgun Yanni to play Yanni to see in the Ark? 35. A Mossad agent might have one 54. Adam did it at 930 40. “Achbar!” bergenPAC 55. YU hs 42. Pit near Sinai Temple in Los Angeles Tickets are on sale for performances 56. “Everything is Illuminated” author 43. Non-kosher can by Yanni at the Bergen Performing Arts 60. Home of the Great Choral 46. Made like Crystal as Davis Jr. Synagogue 48. Shtick Center in Englewood on July 11 and 12. 63. Some Sanders ideas, to Trump 51. Popularized Zuckerberg button Both shows are at 8 p.m. 67. ...Yom Ha’atzmaut 52. Did some religious reading Yanni, a multi Grammy Award-nom- 70. Téa who married Duchovny 53. Crooks inated composer, multi-instrumental- 71. Home of Day-Lewis 56. The Knesset might seal one ist, producer, and performer, will be 72. Maimonides attained it 57. “And all their wealth, and all their 73. Notable Lauder little ___” (Gen. 34:29) accompanied by his 15-member master 74. Unlike Elijah, according to some 58. Mitzvot that are testimonies musician international orchestra. For 75. Way down Hermon 59. Kat’s “Thor” co-star Russo tickets, go to www.ticketmaster.com 61. Singer Brickell married to Paul Simon or call the box office at (201) 227-1030. 62. Aloe in some Ahava products 64. Saul Berenson’s frenemy Dar on The solution to last week’s puzzle “Homeland” in on page 47. 65. Dub at a bris 66. Green ___ monster, it violates a Commandment thejewishstandard.com 68. Big Apple order 69. Ryerson in Ramis’ “Groundhog Day”

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Moszkowicz disbarred,” he added. be invincible,” de Winter said. “And they, Wall. His son hugs him as he cries, leaning FROM PAGE 40 Bram Moszkowicz’s disbarment for in their desperate love and dedication against the ancient stones. heroin addict who kept injecting through- mismanagement of funds was “dispro- to him, felt the only way to get close and Robert also is a devoted father to his out her pregnancy. portionate,” de Winter said, noting that it equal to him was to follow him into hell.” youngest children with his fourth wife. After his first arrest for drug dealing, in And though they built an empire, the Opening up in this unprecedented manner the 1990s, Robert received a visit in jail Moszkowiczes always remained outsid- to his son’s camera, the filmmaker said, “is from his father, who despite their harsh ers in the Netherlands post-Holocaust, his way of making up for mistakes.” disagreements took on his son’s legal case separated from the intellectual elites It was with an eye to the future that the because not doing so “would’ve meant los- I saw my bloodied they frequented by their own traumas, younger Max Moszkowicz began making ing my son forever,” as the patriarch said reflection in as well as their weakness for flashy cars the film in the first place, he said. He did during a television interview. and expensive clothes. “It’s as though not want to repeat his father’s mistakes During the charged jailhouse meeting, a mirror at the they overcompensated in a delayed and with his own first son, Ilai, who was born the father told his wayward son that the tragic effect of the hell that Max Mosz- last year. facility reminded him of the concentra- party, and I could kowicz went through in Auschwitz,” de “Six years ago, I came drunk to a house tion camp. see my father’s Winter said. party with a bloody mouth that I got from “That’s what I want to experience,” Rob- For all its tragic retrospection, “We falling down en route,” the filmmaker ert replied in what he explained in the film self-destructive Moszkowicz” also offers a sense of hope recalled. “I had an alcohol and drug prob- as “a typical desire to feel what my father pattern. and redemption. lem. I saw my bloodied reflection in a mir- felt” in the Holocaust. MAX MOSZKOWICZ The filmmaker and his father are close, ror at the party, and I could see my father’s It’s a key moment in the documentary, their bond cemented on a two-week trip self-destructive pattern.” helping viewers understand the Mosz- ultimately came from legal transgressions they made to Israel in 2014. In one of the That evening, filmmaker Max Moszkow- kowiczes’ self-destructive streak, the motivated by an insatiable drive to please film’s most moving scenes, Robert Mosz- icz decided to take the hard look at his life best-selling Dutch Jewish author Leon the family patriarch, parents and two sib- kowicz, who is somewhat observant Jew- that resulted in the film. de Winter said. “It’s no coincidence that lings were murdered during the Holocaust. ishly and recites his prayers in Hebrew, “I feel I treated my demons,” he said. “I can three sons of this amazing family were The patriarch Max “raised his boys to is overcome with emotion at the Western move on with my life.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

Don Bloom Painter, illustrator, cartoonist, and art in the Piscataway Public Schools, serving as Bloom illustrated several books, including educator, DON BLOOM, 83, died June 12, Department Chairman from 1966-1983. He “Piscataway’s Story”, a history of Piscataway 2016, at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New was also an instructor in drawing and painting for children, authored by Margery Oleskie. York. for several northern New Jersey art centers, He executed numerous “First Day Covers” Born in Roxbury, Mass., he settled in East including the Livingston and Morris County for the Old Bridge Philatelic Corporation and Brunswick, NJ in 1968. He received his Art Associations, the Summit Art Center, Mendlowitz, Weitsen, CPA’s, including those on Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts and the Montclair Adult School. He was an Babe Ruth, Roberto Clemente, Jim Thorpe, all College of the Arts in 1953, attended the Art instructor for Bloomfield College and Trenton the US Presidents, and many others. In 1998, Students League of New York on scholarships State College (now the College of New Jersey), these cachets were awarded a second prize at from 1953 to 1955, and in 1956 was awarded and taught a workshop for teachers at the the Americover Society’s Annual National a full scholarship to the renowned Instituto Livingston Schools. Bloom also delivered Conference. Some have been shown at the Allende, San Miguel, Mexico, where he received lectures and demonstrations for numerous art Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY. his MFA in Painting in 1957. That same year groups, and was frequently sought as a judge He was a member of the East Brunswick the Newark News featured him as one of the 5 for art shows and exhibits. Jewish Center, serving in several leadership “Artists of the Year” in New Jersey. Bloom was also an acclaimed editorial positions for more than 25 years, where he was In 1960 Bloom was awarded the John Simon cartoonist. For 12 years, his editorial drawings named “Man of the Year” in 1987. In 1998, the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Painting, appeared in the Greater Media newspapers, Northern New Jersey Region selected him as and in 1964 and 1965, he was a resident fellow and he illustrated for the Forbes newspapers “Man of the Year”, its highest honor. at the Huntington Hartford Foundation in as well. Ten of his editorial cartoons are in From November 2000 to March 2001, Pacific Palisades, CA. His work was featured the permanent collection of the International Bloom was recognized through Mayoral in the Whitney Museum Annual in 1960, and Museum of Cartoon Art, in Boca Raton, Proclamations by East Brunswick, North he has had dozens of one-man exhibitions Florida. Brunswick, and South River townships. in the US and Mexico at museums, galleries, Bloom was a member of the National Mr. Bloom was married to Jeanette Bloom colleges, and libraries. His painting earned Cartoonists Society, The Associated Artists for 36 years, until her death in June, 2004. him numerous accolades and awards at the of New Jersey, the National Education He is survived by a son, Richard Julius of state and national level. Association, the NJ Education Association, Durham, NC; 2 daughters, Lisa Hughes and His paintings are held in hundreds of private and the Middlesex Country Retired Educators her husband Gary of Ocean, NJ, and Deborah collections and in numerous New Jersey colleges, Association. His biography first appeared Berman and her husband, Andrew of Tenafly, public institutions, and libraries, including the in “Who’s Who in American Art” in 1970, NJ; and 5 grandchildren: Melanie, Meghan, East Brunswick and South River Libraries, the in publications of the “Dictionary of Hannah, Sarah, and Julia. South River Council of Congregations, and the International Biography,” and he was featured Services were entrusted to MOUNT SINAI East Brunswick Senior Center. in the National Cartoonists Society Album, MEMORIAL CHAPELS, East Brunswick For 34 years Bloom worked as an art educator 50th Anniversary Edition, published in 1996. (www.msmc.us).

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Sim Ashkenazi Ruth Schweid Sim Ashkenazi, 93, of Fort Lee, died June 18. Ruth Schweid, née Wortzman, 95, of Fort Lee, died Born in Bulgaria, he was a Holocaust survivor, June 20. an accounting auditor, and a member of the JCC of Born in New York City, she was a member of the Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah. Benjamin Storch Family Circle. Obituaries are prepared with His wife, Laura, and daughter, Annette, survive him. Predeceased by her husband Sam in 2006, she is Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, survived by children, David of Englewood Cliffs and information provided by funeral homes. Fort Lee. Fran Levene Sweren of Fort Lee; four grandchildren Correcting errors is the responsibility and three great- grandchildren. of the funeral home. Dr. Martin Blechman Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Dr. Martin G. Blechman, 92, of Paramus and Boca Fort Lee. Raton, Fla., died June 16. A World War II Army veteran, he earned medals David Zeigerman including the Combat Medic Badge and a Bronze Star. David Zeigerman of Malmo, Sweden, and New Jersey, He earned a master’s from Columbia University and died June 17 in Edgewater. a medical degree at Thomas Jefferson University. He Born in Vienna, he worked in advertising as an was on staff at Hackensack University Medical Center award-winning art director, artist, collector, and for 41 years and in private practice. He was president entrepreneur. He advocated for Holocaust awareness, of the New Jersey Affiliate of the American Diabetes supported Israel, and was a member of Temple Association and a member of many organizatons, Emanu-El of Closter. including the JCC of Paramus/Congregtion Beth Tikvah. His wife, Mindy Gale, children, Arianne and Zara, He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Dr. Charlotte and a brother, Ziggy, survive him. Sokol-Blechman; daughters, Barbara, Linda Busch, and Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Rachel Devine (John); a sister, Helen Bolnick; and five Funeral Directors in Hackensack. grandchildren. Donations can be sent to the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

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