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Unclaimed millions The memory of memory Israel Holocaust commemoration in seeks heirs Lawrence draws hundreds of early By Sergey Kadinsky

Attorney Benjamin Brafman has defended millionaires and murderers. But Zionists until Sunday night, he never defended millions. By Mayer Fertig “For 35 years, I’ve spoken on issues They were the early adopters of the Zi- of Israel and Judaism,” said Brafman onist dream: Jews who invested in pre-state in an impassioned address at Congre- Palestine but didn’t survive the Holocaust. gation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. “But They left behind cash, stocks, real estate and objects of art worth an estimated quarter I’ve never spoken for six million murder of a billion dollars. Perhaps better late than victims.” never, Israel is now launching a search across Brafman, the son of Holocaust sur- North America to ﬁ nd their heirs and make vivors, was the second speaker at the restitution. community-wide Yom Hashoah com- There are some 55,000 unclaimed accounts and properties, including abandoned memoration held on the oldest Modern buildings and fallow land. Unclaimed assets Orthodox synagogue in Long Island. will eventually be used to support Holocaust Brafman’s parents lived in prewar Vi- survivors and honor the victims. enna, which had a sizable Jewish com- “What we want people to do is go onto the munity. On Kristallnacht in 1938, he Web-site and see if there’s someone who’s a relative, and submit a claim,” explained Jere- said, every synagogue in Vienna was my Ruden, a spokesman for the Company for torched. Location and Restitution of Holocaust Vic- “Can you see us all dead, in one night, tims Assets LTD, which was founded in 2005 800 Jews?” Brafman asked the crowd. at the direction of the Israeli government. A “It’s hard to get your mind around this. number of members of the company’s board of directors are survivors themselves. Now, multiply it by 6,000 times.” “We do our own research, depending on If anything, the theme of the program what records are still available.” he said. was not the memory of the Holocaust, “Did this person have family? Did they have but the memory of the memory of the brothers or sisters? We want to give this to Holocaust, which is gradually becoming the rightful owners.” The Web-site for claims is www.hashava. more distant as survivors die. A point org.il/eng. Its name translates in English to Brafman stressed and re-stressed in his “return.” A list of all the unclaimed assets is Continued on page 3 online, though it is short on details in order to minimize fraud and illegitimate claims. Speciﬁ c locations of properties are not pro- Photo by Claudio Papapietro vided, nor are details about art objects or un- Attorney Benjamin Brafman spoke about the need to keep the next generation from forgetting the Holocaust during the Continued on page 3 annual commemoration at Congregation Beth Sholom last Sunday.

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AR 5 star with the word Jude. The glass display case houses three continuously changing video screens suspended over two concentration camp photos and a worn pair of small tefi llin. The memorial is part of a yeshiva-wide program called 010 2 IY Project Zachor. The program’s intent is to not only educate the students regarding the Holocaust but to have them connect with their history on a personal level by recalling, through names and photographs, relatives who survived or Photos by Penny Frondelli April 16, 2 perished in the Holocaust. Project Zachor aims to teach children about the “We will get every child’s picture and how he’s related to a Holocaust through their families’ experiences. survivor or someone who passed away in the Holocaust,” explained Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, dean and rosh yeshiva While the yeshiva has a program about the Holocaust of Yeshiva of South Shore. The goal, he said, is to “connect on Yom Hashoah, Rabbi Kamenetzky stressed that it wasn’t the generations.” enough. The diorama will have varying exhibits of artifacts from “I don’t believe that the Shoah should be remembered just the war and screens showing photographs of people and one day a year, but should be inculcated all year in limudei scenes before, during and after the war. kodesh and limudei chol,” he said. Each screen has its own quote and reserve of photographs. Rabbi Kamenetzky recounted a visit by Rabbi Isaac Her- The fi rst, “zechor yimot olam” — remembering the past, has zog, the Chief Rabbi of Ireland and eventually the Chief Rabbi pictures of Europe before the Holocaust. The second, “zechor of Israel, to a yeshiva in Chicago in 1948; he had come from et asher asa lcha” — remember what was done to you, has a monastery in France to fi nd Jewish children hidden there pictures of the Holocaust. The third, “zechor ezkarenu od” during the Holocaust. Rabbi Herzog was repeatedly turned — I will continue to remember, has pictures of the students, away from the monastery and told that the “Schwartzes and implying the promise and hope for the future. the Schindlers” were all Germans. The program began on Yom Hashoah and will continue “We may have lost those children,” Rabbi Herzog related ah and what they went through,” he said. All four of Sturm’s through the year and the next few years. Students fi ll out a to the yeshiva students in Chicago, “ but we have you.” grandparents are survivors. form with their name, grade, relationship to a Holocaust sur- “We have to carry on,” emphasized Rabbi Kamenetzky. Nadav Menashy, 13, said that he was proud of his grandfa- vivor, the name of the survivor, and where the survivor lived. The children “have to learn about the past and carry on the ther, survivor Rabbi Israel Post, of blessed memory, and was Students also submit a picture of themselves and pictures of traditions.” thankful to Hashem to have known him. relatives who survived or died in the Holocaust. Rabbi Kame- Ezra Sturm, 13, who is in the seventh grade in the ye- “They are the last generation to see survivors,” said Rabbi netzky said that most students, except for some students with shiva, said he understood the message. Kamenetzky. “They have to know that they are part of the Sephardic roots, have some connection through a relative. “It’s important to know that people went through the Sho- chain.”

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Lebovits sentenced to 32 years in ﬁ rst trial T AR By Michael Orbach money,” DiMango explained. “Neither is a be used, came from Passaic to show her sup- dict was announced. Aidala asked that Lebo-

rabbi.” port for the victim’s family. Her son was also vits be allowed to keep his yarmulke and re- April 16, 2 Throughout the four-day trial of Baruch But there is one difference, the judge con- a victim of sexual abuse. ligious items, be provided with kosher food, Mordechai Lebovits, his lawyer, Arthur Aida- tinued. “I understand what it’s like to sit alone in and be placed in protective custody, because la, sought to portray Lebovits as an upstand- “The defendant stands convicted of eight a court room,” she said. “I wanted to make of an earlier incident with another inmate.

ing citizen in his chassidic community, who counts of...sexual abuse” and the victim, sure they weren’t sitting alone.” Ben Hirsch, the president of Survivors for 010 2 IY freely gave money to those in need and duti- whose name The Jewish Star is withholding, Lebovits’ daughter, a lithe Justice, an organization that fully took care of his seven children and 21 “does not.” woman with a black wig and provides support to victims grandchildren. All in contrast, Aidala main- Justice DiMango sentenced Lebovits to the red-rimmed eyes, held her of sexual abuse, praised the tained, to the 22 year-old who accused Lebo- maximum one to four years for each charge. ground to the end. ‘Mr. Lebovits verdict. AR 5 vits of molesting him numerous times from He will not be eligible for parole for 10 years “My father is 100 percent “The fact that Lebovits 7

May 2004 to February 2005, when he was and could spend as long as 32 years behind innocent,” she said. She con- chose not to address the court 7 16. The victim had a history of drug abuse; bars. Still, Lebovits is not likely to drop from fronted an anti-abuse activ- showed me no or the victim, compounded 0 he had served time in jail and, according to view. He plans to appeal his conviction and ist in the hallway before the by his refusal to acknowledge Aidala, was lying about the sexual abuse to faces two more trials on similar charges. sentencing. “Don’t you think guilt and his continued intim- extort money from Lebovits and his family. The “insular nature of the [Orthodox] we’re victims too?” she asked. mercy.’ idation of witnesses and the The contrast Aidala drew stood until community,” was pierced, if just for a mo- Until it was his turn to ad- victim — not to mention the the beginning of Justice Patricia DiMango’s ment, by Lebovits’ prosecution and convic- dress the court, the victim sat 80 letters of support submit- statement during Lebovits’s sentencing on tion, Di Mango said, adding that despite the quietly, his long hair covered by a small vel- ted by his supporters — may well have earned April 12. DiMango said she read Lebovits’ 80 letters she received supporting Lebovits, vet yarmulke held in place with a bobby pin. him the harsh prison term,” said Hirsch. probation report and found that he had suf- she did not believe “someone deemed a hu- “Mr. Lebovits showed me no mercy,” he Joseph Diangello, a victim of sexual abuse fered from sexual abuse for six months as a manitarian... is not unanswerable or incapa- said. “He showed no remorse.” whose gothic appearance hides a Chassidic child while living with his uncle in London ble of vicious acts.” The victim thanked the justice system and upbringing, was equally exuberant. and again at the hands of an older teenage “It is important for the courts to send a said it gave him hope for his life. “From now on victims of sexual abuse in friend. As an adult, Lebovits had a gambling clear message that abusing and harming chil- “If the justice I’ve experienced here is the Chassidic community that have no voice addiction for which he eventually received dren will not be tolerated,” she asserted. what my life can feel like, I know I can over- with the people that are supposed to protect treatment. The packed courtroom was divided equal- come my many challenges,” he said, before them, will have a voice in the court of law,” Suddenly, the similarities between the ly between supporters of Lebovits and of his concluding, “My hope is that because of our Diangello said. two men — Lebovits, a 59-year-old success- victim. The groups sat on opposite sides in efforts here my children will not have to deal After the sentencing, the victim’s father ful travel agent who sat hunched before the courtroom; the middle seats were shared with the threat of pedophiles being protected said he felt that the message was clear that the judge, and his victim, a pale man in a in an uneasy peace. The sentencing began af- and walking free in our community.” even people in the highest position of power black suit who sat in the second row with his ter noon, nearly three hours late, while Lebo- In longer remarks his father quoted Shake- could not escape justice. Earlier in the day, mother and two siblings — came into sharp vits was brought from Rikers Island. His sup- speare, King David, and Martin Luther King he said, he had been assaulted and thrown focus. porters, mostly chasidim, said tehillim; some Jr., and also criticized the Lebovits family. out of a Brooklyn shul, but he was not com- “The victim suffered from an addiction, slept. A police detective gave testimony about “You all knew who he was and how he was plaining. so does the defendant...the victim has sto- an unrelated murder case. destroying children for years,” he accused. “My son is becoming a new man,” he len money, the defendant has squandered... Beth, who asked that her last name not Lebovits made no comment after the ver- said.

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AR 5 By Michael Orbach ity of the highest integrity. It must not fall victim to an unscrupulous manipulator like Leib Tropper, the former kiruv guru Moshe Raice.” Tutoring Services whose affair with a woman he was convert- Tropper claims that the yeshiva’s leader- 010 2 IY ing to Judaism received national attention is ship did not invest Raice with the authority back in the spotlight. He and a trustee of the to pursue the lawsuit. Rabbinical leadership yeshiva he founded, Kol Yaakov, are engaged would “undoubtedly follow Jewish law,” he in a power struggle over half a million dollars added, “which provides that leadership issues April 16, 2 of the yeshiva’s money. in a religious organization should be worked Rabbi Moshe Raice, the trustee, has out internally and if there is an impasse, the sued Tropper on behalf of the yeshiva to issue should be referred to a Beth Din.” recover funds that Tropper withdrew after Raice and Schwartz maintain that “there he resigned. According to court documents is no such rabbinic board in existence,” and submitted by a lawyer for the yeshiva, Trop- that Tropper’s designated administrator “has per withdrew $80,000 from the Kol Yaakov never been associated with Kol Yaakov in any All Grades – All Subjects bank account the day after his resignation role.” Raice is listed as the principal on the was fi nalized. A month later he transferred yeshiva’s website. $500,000 of the yeshiva’s funds to a Monsey “His relationship with the yeshiva spans Individual and couple, Nathan and Jeanette Berney, with an decades, as a teacher, board member, and agreement that the money would be returned now as menahel or principal of Kol Yaakov,” to Tropper at the end of April. the website states about Raice. Group Sessions Tropper claims that he is still the senior Excluding Tropper, only one of the four rabbi at Kol Yaakov and that reports of his members of the rabbinical board is men- resignation were exaggerated. The issue is tioned on the website. not about him, he claims, but about the ye- Raice has also submitted a letter from shiva. “It is up to the ecumenical leadership Rabbi Reuven Feinstein. to determine what, if any continuing role I Regarding the half a million dollars, docu- will have at Kol Yaakov,” Tropper said in a ments submitted by Tropper and his lawyer, court fi ling. Joseph Haspel, indicate that the Berney fam- This time around, Tropper’s the one doing ily “has access to certain high yield bank in- Ask About the name-calling and he has convened what struments which, through their sources, can he calls a “rabbinical board” in order to dis- be bought at a discount from a European miss Raice from the institution. bank and sold at a profi t to institutions such One-Day Regents Review “Quite frankly,” Tropper wrote, “I am as pension funds, and Tropper wishes to ac- horrifi ed by the way Moshe Raice has ille- cess these transactions.” gally and immorally elevated his position of Incidentally, a son of Nathan and Jeanette, Lower Cost Options authority. I recognize that the good of Kol Rabbi Eliyahu Berney, is also listed online as Yaakov may be served by me eventually dis- a member on the rabbinical board. associating myself from the organization. In Haspel refused to discuss the case with that event, Kol Yaakov must be shepherded The Jewish Star. through this period by a rabbinical author- We Also Carry Test Prep Books

Call Howie Daar At Yehoshua’s grave (516) 612-7800 Great Neck resident Dr. Paul Brody marked the yahrzeit of Yehoshua Bin Nun at his grave in Israel. Brody says Located Inside LIFEHouse over 10,000 came to the celebration. Near Yehosh- ua’s grave is the grave of 112 Spruce Street his father, Nun, and Caleb ben Yefunah. Left, Brody Cedarhurst, NY stands before the sign that welcomes participants to the area. 367581 7 An unlikely resurrection THE JE WISH S

Even death can’t stop Milton Steinberg T AR By Michael Orbach manuscript had problems: Steinberg never had Goldman. “He’s saying that the metaphor ﬁ nished state, Gomer is, at best, a bit charac-

a chance to complete the novel and the com- of G-d’s love for Israel is a complicated one ter. A woman from a disreputable household, April 16, 2 For those who doubt life after death, there pleted sections were rough and unpolished. and we take it at face value. He [Steinberg] she marries Hosea but promises she cannot is the case of Rabbi Milton Steinberg. “The last scene he did while in an oxygen shows its complexity by making it real and love him. In a scene ripped out of a soap op- Steinberg, the rabbi of the Park Avenue tent on his death bed,” explained Steinberg’s concrete and not just a metaphor.” era, Hosea returns home to fi nd his wife be- Synagogue, was critically acclaimed as the youngest son, David, the president of Long Behrman concurred. ing unfaithful with his brother. 010 2 IY author of “As a Driven Leaf,” and a renowned Island University. “’The angel of death is ap- “I think [in] ‘As a Driven Leaf’ he was “It might appear so at fi rst, since the read- public speaker and theologian, who passed proaching.’ It’s the last words he wrote. The working out some of his theological issues er is very rarely treated to Gomer’s interior away at the age of 46 in 1950. However that handwritten manuscript trails off.” with religion and in this book he’s working thoughts. But I fully believe that Steinberg AR 5 minor inconvenience did not stop him. Behrman recruited journalist and Colum- out issues of marriage and fi delity and love,” intended the novel to allow us into Gomer’s

Steinberg’s sophomore novel, “The Prophet’s bia University professor Ari Goldman to lead said Behrman. point of view, eventually. Steinberg revised 7 7

Wife”, was released for the fi rst time last the project. The younger Steinberg also sees a sadder the manuscript of ‘As a Driven Leaf’ a num- 0 month to coincide with his 60th yahrtzeit. “It’s a wonder that there was another side to his father’s last novel which he com- ber of times before he arrived at the fi nal ver- At the time of his death from heart fail- book there,” explained Goldman, “It’s “As a pleted after the Holocaust. sion,” said Beth Lieberman of the company ure, Steinberg was working on the 440-page Driven Leaf” with sex.” “There was a darkening in father’s view Editor’s Circle, that edited the manuscript manuscript that would become “The Proph- Whereas Steinberg’s earlier work told the of life,” David Steinberg explained. “This is a and also set up a reader’s website. et’s Wife.” The unfi nished manuscript was story of Elisha Ben Abuyah, the Talmudic book of unrequited love, this is a book of pain According to Behrman, they debated moved to the American Jewish Historical Ar- sage who become a heretic, “The Prophet’s and that I think is not unconnected to the about fi nishing the novel. Other notable Jew- chive where it sat until a meeting between Wife” tells a story no less strange, that of the way father developed from 1945 to when he ish writers had taken a crack at the manu- Jonathan Sarna, the Joseph H. & Belle R. prophet Hosea. According to the book of Ho- died. He was growing in his capacity to see script including Herman Wouk and Chaim Braun Professor of American Jewish History sea and its Talmudic interpretations, Hosea the human suffering side of living.” Potok. Goldman completed one. at Brandeis University, and David Behrman, asked G-d to curse the Jews because of their The book is notable for its absence, not “It was the only way to do it,” said Beh- the president of Behrman House, the family- infi delity; in a tit-for-tat, G-d has Hosea marry only an ending, but also of G-d. rman of the decision, fi nally, to leave the owned publishing company that published Gomer, a prostitute, and is then told to aban- “You don’t hear G-d speak to Hosea as you ending undone. “Anything else would be “As A Driven Leaf.” don his children with her. Hosea refuses. In do in the biblical text,” explained author Nor- more unsatisfying since it wouldn’t be true.” “We were talking about another project... Steinberg’s version, Gomer is not a prostitute ma Rosen. “You hear G-d’s voice in justice, in Though the lack of endings has engen- and he [Sarna] said there’s another Steinberg but an unloved niece of a scoundrel. Hosea seeing justly.” dered its own meaning about Steinberg him- novel,” related Behrman, who immediately falls in love with her and Gomer agrees to Rosen for one, views the novel as proto- self. got in touch with the archive after speak- marry him, though not without reservation. feminist ordeal. “He was a man who was cut off in the ing with Sarna. “I said, ‘Can I have a copy?’ “The genius of Steinberg is he tries to “Hosea is a very brutal text and in it prime of his life with a young family and a They said, ‘you have to pay for photocopying imagine how a prophet in Israel could be in Gomer is a harlot, but in Steinberg’s text she congregation.” Said Goldman. “He achieved charges,” Behrman laughed. love with a prostitute, or a woman who’s not is not; She is simply a very beautiful and pas- many wonderful things in the 46 years he After reading the book, Behrman decided faithful and he tries to imagine what that sionate woman who fell in love with Hosea’s had, but one can only imagine what kind of to publish it and in 1999 made an arrange- person and romance would be like and builds brother... who is a very impious fellow.” giant he would have been had he a longer ment with Steinberg’s two sons. However, the a world around these characters,” explained Perhaps as a result of the manuscript’s un- life.”

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010 2 IY sity to join a group of journalists to observe wrecked vehicles dotting the road to Jerusa- the cutting edge research in the Negev. Being lem and explaining the history of the siege, the ﬂ uent in Hebrew and familiar with Israel, I many who died to bring food and medical sup- was tapped to assist at times. plies, and who were massacred by the Arabs,

April 16, 2 The itinerary cov- the battles for Latrun, the village of Abu Ghosh ered an archeological and its peaceful coexistence with Israel. IN MY VIEW site, showing the pres- After two days of intense science and ence of Jews in Israel health lectures, we had a breakfast meeting for thousands of years, with a Bedouin woman, a doctorate in sociol- a settlement, the secu- ogy, who studied and lectures at Ben Gurion rity fence, tours of labs University. Although mostly concerned with and farms and lectures the Arab woman’s role in Bedouin society on health and science in Israel, she made various statements and research including ro- claims condemning Israel - stating that there botics, nanotechnology were 180,000 Bedouins living in Beer Sheva and solar energy. before 1948 and the Jews destroyed their The trip was well educational system, a boys and a girls school run and was intended there. The other journalists were hanging on Photos by Malka Eisenberg to educate a diverse Avigayil, one of the stops on a reporting trip in Israel. her every word, smiling and nodding, some group of journalists wanting to interview her extensively later. I Malka Eisenberg principally interested I rejoined the group Motza’ei Shabbat at a and kippah seruga with his gun slung over stewed and later confronted one of the mis- in the science aspects restaurant. I was quiet, assessing my sur- his shoulder — who came to see me off. sion leaders loudly on the bus about her sta- of Israel. I cover a wide roundings and trying to connect names and I sat in the back. As we exited Yerusha- tistics. He agreed with me but wouldn’t let range of topics, but focus on science and faces. The next morning I boarded the bus to layim, one of the journalists opined, “That’s a me discuss this with the other journalists (I health and consider myself a life long student take us via Susie and Avigayil to Beer Sheva. disputed settlement and over the green line.” made sure they heard me, though). He noted of history, especially Israel and Judaism. If they had any doubt as to where I stood Out of my mouth came testily, “That is Ra- that today the total population of Beer She- I was the only dati person on the trip and religiously and politically (hat, skirt, three mot, a neighborhood of Jerusalem.” “Some va is about 180,000. (Sources I checked put I skipped the Shabbat program, opting for a quarter sleeves) I introduced my daughter people would say it shouldn’t exist,” she said. Beer Sheva’s pre-1948 population at about real Shabbat atmosphere with one daughter. and her chatan — he in paratrooper uniform “Some say the Jewish people and the State 4000.) One of the nodders was a radio jour- Grocery Coupon Madness Now On

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mission to educate other reporters April 16, 2 nalist well known for her anti-Israel reports. speaker and introduced myself and added Having heard her often one-sided broadcasts, that I lived in Kedumim (a town in the Shom-

I attempted to avoid her when she was in- ron known for its right-leaning occupants) 010 2 IY troduced, not knowing what I might say, but for three years. He stiffened and we began a she approached me and introduced herself. I rapid-ﬁ re discussion in Hebrew and English introduced myself, “Hi, I’m Malka Eisenberg on Israel, Arabs, Jews, territory and politics. I from the Jewish Star. Aren’t you the journal- kept calm, knowing that I had to be careful to AR 5 ist who issues the anti-Israel reports for ___ keep it friendly. The other journalists formed 7

__?” Her face froze. “The Arabs say that I’m a circle around us; I felt like I was in a verbal 7 pro-Israel,” she said. We managed to avoid sparring match. I knew we wouldn’t agree so 0 each other after that, although one other I half turned to the circle and said, motioning journalist suggested that I try to discuss my to my fellow combatant, “You see, we could views with her. both sit down and sing zemirot together at We visited a Bedouin village to see one the Shabbat table and get along fi ne; we just of the places where Siroka Hospital sends agree to disagree on certain things.” He took its mobile medical unit that is also, two days us on a walking tour of downtown Beer She- a week, a palliative care unit. It makes the va and we parted amicably. rounds among the remote Jewish and Bedou- At the last meal on the way to the airport, I in villages in the area. I pointed out the mat- pulled out a map of Israel, showing those around nas, community center, built with funds from me the borders and giving a crash course in the Israel’s lottery, the Payis and the huge, mag- history of the area, putting the smattering of in- nifi cent houses of this unrecognized village. I formation from the trip into perspective. noticed one of the journalists taking pictures On the way to the airport, I overheard one of some of the padlocked small abandoned of the trip coordinators say, “Let’s ask Malka.” buildings in the town. I asked her why she They asked me to tell the history of Masada, was photographing rundown structures; why and I did, in brief. One of the journalists said not show the magnifi cent homes? She said I should be a history professor. I wouldn’t go they were artistic. I had my doubts. that far. Ruins in Sussia, Israel. That night we ate in an Indian restaurant Aside from returning with a great deal of in Beer Sheva (Little India, good Hashgacha material to write for publication, I learned in our own land. I also learned that it is im- not eat. Davening Shacharit was easy; I just and food) and listened to a left-leaning doc- how important it is for every Jew to be well portant to keep a calm, even tone, maintain a got up early. At times I had to daven Mincha tor of anthropology discourse on his spe- versed in the history and geography of Israel, sense of humor and always show and do: I al- in a corner. Overall, it was a great experience cialty: food. I asked some benign questions. to look at it from a Torah perspective and to ways made sure to wash and bench at every and as hot as Beer Sheva is in the summer, As the meeting broke up, I approached the be able to defend our right to exist as Jews meal and if the food was questionable I did it’s a pretty cool town. 367359 12 AR

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0 with himself,” he said. A.K.A. Pella offers a different kind of professional chazzanim who get paid a lot of 7

7 In a Jewish world where the letter of the The 12 tracks are a mix of covers of con- sound, entirely. Like the Maccabeats, the money to daven on Yomim Nora’im, and are law is rarely enough anymore (why stop temporary Jewish music, a few classics, and album jacket certiﬁ es that, ‘no musical in- ‘beki’im’ (experts) in all types of music. They

AR 5 at one letter when you can have the whole several secular songs. The group’s origins struments were used in the making of this know everything from the Supremes to Pink aleph beis?) a Capella is a delightful exer- were modest. album.’ It’s just that on fi rst listen that can be Floyd. These are nice Jewish boys who just cise in strict observance. No music during “That fi rst year we were kind of a nerdy a little bit hard to believe. happen to have a encyclopedic knowledge of the Omer, between Pesach and Shavuot? No a Capella group, singing at the arts festival,” On track after track, rich harmonies are music,” he said. 010 2 IY problem. We’ll just sing. Shalev recalled. “It took until backed by complex drumming The 14 tracks were chosen New a Capella albums our second year for people to and percussion, keyboards, gui- as representing the very best —four of them — are in begin to” he paused, “like us.” tars, horns and bass — or at that Jewish music had to of- stores now, their arrival The Maccabeats performed at least it sounds that way, earn- fer in the last two years or so. April 16, 2 timed to the Omer. Recently the YU graduation at Madison ing the group’s tongue-in-cheek A number of runners-up are launched Chassidic singer Square Garden last June. tagline, ‘So good it should be named in the liner notes. Beri Webber has one; an- The other members of the assur.’ Eichler has known the other other is called Heimeshe group are Yonatan Shefa, of The group’s signature tech- six members of the group for Oitzros; and Sameach Music East Windsor, NJ, the only nique of heavily manipulating years, Ganz and Yoel Horow- has two that are the subject other alumnus besides Shalev; the human voice using studio itz from a yeshiva in Scranton, of this review. A.K.A. Pella’s the group’s founder, Michael technology was new to Jewish PA; and Dovi Ziffer, Zevi Dan- fourth album is called Plati- Greenberg of Queens; Noah music when A.K.A. Pella intro- iel, Elchonon Majewski and Avi num; and the Maccabeats, Jacobson from Houston, TX; duced it several years ago on Stewart from Yeshiva Ner Israel. Yeshiva University’s fi rst a capella group, re- David Block of West Hempstead; Mordy Prus the fi rst of their four albums, but it’s been The album took two years to produce. “I leased Voices from the Heights. Washington and Chanina Abramowitz of Brooklyn; Yona known for years on college campuses where think the art in the project is all in the de- Heights, that is. Both are well worth listen- Saperstein of Lawrence; Buri Rosenberg from a Capella is hugely popular. tails,” Eichler said. “Take Lady Gaga, Bad Ro- ing to but for different reasons on account of Monsey; Josh Jay from Paramus, NJ; Jeffrey Despite its complexity, the group’s pro- mance, and Aahron Razel, B’Inyan Hasimcha their very different styles. Ritholtz from Merrick; and Ari Lewis, of ducer, C.D. (Chaim Dovid) Eichler, a 31-year- — songs with widely different tempos,” he The Maccabeats, 14 young men led by Ju- Richmond, VA. old advertising executive from Monsey, said explained. “Many people don’t recognize the lian Horowitz of Brooklyn, a bass, and Im- Yeshiva’s president, Richard Joel appears most of the music could be performed and re- technical artistry that goes into mixing those. manuel Shalev of Lawrence, also a bass, have on track 8, called Shaleshudis Medley. corded live, “but we are literally arba kanfos Eichler defends the group’s use of secular a more old school sound. Their rich harmo- “We kind of insisted on it,” Shalev said. Haaretz,” from the four corners of the Earth. music. nies are accompanied by “beat-boxing” — vo- “We performed once at a Shabbaton at Stern “One guy lives in Israel,” he said, referring to “Music has a tremendous koach (pow- cal percussion provided by baritone Meir and he was the chazzan...we liked his voice, Elie Ganz, a rabbi. As a result, the album was er). If you’re going to take a song that your Shapiro of Passaic. so we thought we would ask him. recorded piecemeal in a variety of studios. daughter or your son is going to dance to, “There’s very little that we can’t do live,” The disk was recorded on campus at the A.K.A. Pella’s music is an unabashed I would like to take that koach and channel said Shalev, 23, now a fi rst year student at Belz School of Music. It’s available in Judaica mash-up of Jewish and secular music, all ful- it,” he said “I would like to use it for a higher Fordham Law. “Most of the production was stores and on iTunes. The group’s web site is ly credited. “Each guy in the group brings a purpose.” 367730 13 THE JE

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Nuclear change, too April 16, 2

t’s common knowledge: Israel has not tional radar. Israel would do what it had to rity. The guiding principle have, until now, been dic- signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation do, do what it was capable of doing and pro- stoking Israel’s nuclear tatorships, monarchies and I Treaty. Iran has. vide the United States broad stroke updates development is the knowl- What has not Muslim-oriented states. 010 2 IY Because Israel has not signed on that dot- on technological developments. The extent edge that unknown weap- Now the most powerful ted line, there is no supervision of Israel’s of Israel’s nuclear prowess would remain top ons of great strength will become news is democracy in the Western nuclear program. No inspectors, no surprise secret, but the United States would have a discourage enemy attack. world, the United States of AR 5 inspections. No accountability. Iran, on the general idea of what was what. The deterrence factor is America, is asking the same other hand, has agreed - in principle if not That’s the way it used to be. But the situ- the very essence of Israel’s that over the past question Iran has been ask- 7 7

entirely in practice - to ation has changed — another of the changes nuclear program. ing: why should Iran be so 0 open itself up to nucle- heaped upon Israel by this new administra- Israel began its nuclear few months Israeli transparent when Israel I’M THINKING ar world scrutiny. tion. program just weeks after does not permit any inter- Some countries con- When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declaring independence. nuclear scientists national inspection. sider this situation to chose not to go to the nuclear conference The father of Israel’s nucle- The answer is simple. be unfair, unjust, an sponsored by the White House, that story be- ar program is none other There can be no compari- improper balance of af- came news. The prime minister made his de- than the current President have been denied son between a totalitarian fairs. They want Israel cision after Israel disclosed that some confer- of Israel and Noble Prize theocracy and a democ- to come clean about ence participants intended to use the forum Laureate Shimon Peres. visa entry to the racy. Israeli leadership is their nukes — their ca- to pile on Israel — and the United States had Peres was hand-picked by accountable to its citizens pability, their arsenal, no intention of putting them down. David Ben Gurion to de- United States. and to a supreme court. and their plans. They What has not become news are reports velop the nuclear technol- Iran’s Supreme Leader is want Israel to admit that over the past few months Israeli nuclear ogy that would catapult accountable to no one. A to having nuclear tech- scientists have been denied visa entry to the Israel not only into the most advanced scien- theocracy is answerable only to its religious nology and to allow United States. The reports describe how Isra- tifi c country in the region, but also one of the interpretation. And that religious interpreta- international United el’s science community has been prevented biggest nuclear players in the world. tion never takes into account the lives of in- Nations inspectors from attending scientifi c and technical con- Israel has consistently remained mum on nocents and of non-believers. Micah D. Halpern from the International ferences in the States. Clearly, this is another the issue of nuclear development and the In the world of nuclear development Is- Atomic Energy Agency indication of a change in the attitude of the United States has always supported that stra- rael may now stand alone — but Israel stands to roam free. United States toward Israel as a state and tegic plan. At times, Israel has even gone so strong. It used to be that the countries pushing toward the state of Israel’s nuclear develop- far as to claim that they do not possess active Israel towards nuclear transparency were the ment. nuclear weapons. That probably means that Micah D. Halpern is a columnist and a so- enemies of Israel. Israel’s friend, the United No one should be surprised that Israel has the technology is all there, it simply needs to cial and political commentator. Read his latest States, has always accepted the status quo: nuclear technology. Israel operates under the be assembled or completed. book THUGS. He maintains The Micah Report Israel would fl y under the nuclear interna- assumption that having nukes improves secu- Those who demand that Israel come clean at www.micahhalpern.com. 367729 14 April 16, 0102 2 IYAR 5770 THE JEWISH STAR Monthly specialsections,allthisyearin C is thereadoctor Medical professionalsandhealth-related a or email newsroom@thejewishstar In GoodHealth l businesses, reserveyourspacenow! l

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The real problem with 1600 April 16, 2 effrey was the second biggest trouble- ger. Please check your shoes for this column. them has ended. build. For this she is excoriated and singled maker in our class. He spent more time If you’ve haven’t checked the news in the I met with Bibi Netanyahu in New York out for rebuke. We are witnessing an administration that J in the hallway than the custodian. There last 62 years you might believe that Israel’s years ago during his fi rst go-around as prime 010 2 IY was nothing worse than being sent out to the decision to build 1600 apartments was the minister of Israel. I told him then that as treats friends as enemies and enemies as hall to stand with your face to the wall when cause of all the world’s ills. Such seems to be tempting as it might be to view the United friends. We are witnessing an administration parents, particularly your own, were sched- the position of Barack Obama, who believes States as Israel’s best friend and ultimate pro- that treats friends as enemies and enemies uled to come to school. There was a class- that, under his leadership, the United States tector, in reality, if Israel was to succeed and as friends. And again, I write this sentence AR 5 room presentation one day and Jeffrey was has the right to dictate the terms and precon- continue to exist he, as prime minister, needs twice for I believe that a signifi cant segment 7 sent out moments before parents arrived. ditions of Mideast peace. Apparently forgot- to pretend that we are alone. Never have of our Jewish brethren still don’t get it; they 7 I shared with him one of my tricks: get ten are all the wars, pogroms, attacks, and those words rang more true. still support this misguided administration at 0 down on one knee and suicide bombings initiated by the Arabs since In Iraq, sectarian violence recently killed all costs out of some crazy allegiance to the pretend to tie your 1948 that threatened Israel’s existence. 50 and injured hundreds. In Afghanistan, Kar- Democratic Party. But this is not about party FROM THE OTHER shoes, thus explaining The the calls keep coming for goodwill zai vilifi es the West and speaks of joining the affi liation or a debt you might think we owe SIDE OF THE your presence in the gestures and concessions on Israel’s part, with Taliban. In India, rebels riot against the gov- the Democratic Party for her assistance in BENCH hallway. My job was to nary a concession sought or offered from the ernment. In Gaza, Hamas has been involved the 1930’s and 1940’s. It is about Israel’s very alert Jeffrey of the ar- Palestinians. Israel is called to retreat from in its own “occupation” and not a word from survival that I feel is in greater peril than at rival of his mother, at land that it captured and developed; Israel is our president. In Moscow, two bombings kill any time since 1948. Every Jew must draw which point he would called upon to dismantle communities, while scores and the Chechen Islamists leader takes the line in the Negev sand and tell the pres- get down on one knee the Arabs are simply asked to renounce vio- responsibility. North Korea and Iran proceed ent administration that they have no right to and pretend to tie his lence and acknowledge Israel’s right to exist in their quest for nuclear weapons. In Kyrgyz- dictate Israel’s future. shoe, thereby avoiding in principle. They have failed to deliver on stan, rebels fed up with Russian meddling, This is the time when every Jew must tell detection as a trouble- both counts. overthrow the government. Pakistan, which President Obama, and Biden and Hillary and maker. No, the problem is not 1600 apartments. receives over $7 billion a year in aid from Rahm: you have lost us. We will no longer I did not know that The problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. No, the United States, will not or cannot control follow blindly and pull the lever that keeps he was wearing slip- the problem is not 1600 apartments. The the Islamic militants on its western borders. you in Washington. ons that day. You would problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This is India sends a message to the United States The abuse and its treatment ends today, think that he would’ve not an editorial mistake. I write that sen- not to interfere in its dispute with Pakistan Mr. Obama. When you treat friends as friends known. The plan failed. tence twice because I believe that a signifi - over Kashmir. All the while, the administra- then you will realize that 1600 apartments David Seidemann He cried, told his moth- cant segment of the Jewish population fails tion expresses a desire for peace in these con- are the solution and not the problem. er, my mother, and the to recognize just how misguided the present fl icts, but stops short of labeling one side as teacher that I “set him administration has become. We cannot wait the impediment to peace. David Seidemann is a partner with the law up.” Believe it or not, I was sent to the hall! I until 2012 to punish them at the ballot box. Not so when it comes to Israel. Not so fi rm of Seidemann & Mermelstein. He can be still can’t fi gure it out. Since then I have been By that time it might be too late. 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Tthe return to post-Pesach reality and the the Torah says (14:34), “When you come to el to ridiculous standards (only because Israel April 16, 2 thought that the kids have “only” two months the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you will actually pay attention, for example, to of school until summer, we note the continued as an inheritance, I will place the mark of the president of the United States), typically passage of time. We are hit with Yom HaS- tzara’at in houses in the land you inherit.” pass judgment before looking at the reality or hoah, which comes with the realization that On a simple level, this verse seems to im- the facts on the ground. Boycotts and violent 010 2 IY as grateful as we are for all the survivors who ply that houses will become afﬂ icted with the crimes only stem from ignorance - though are still with us, their numbers dwindle with spiritual disease merely upon the arrival of anti-Semites will claim their victims are guilty

every passing year. And the people. More likely, the verse refers to the of the tzara’at-inducing crimes enumerated by AR 5 then, this weekend is idea that once everyone is settled, there will the Talmud.

the preview to the cel- come a time when individuals will notice this And it is not too far-fetched to say these 7 7

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Breakfast Committee* Tobias and Barbara Levkovich Harvey and Shelli Dachs Ronnie and Jan Lipstein Adam and Bini Dachs David and Jennifer Ottensosser THE ELIEZER PROJECT Moishe and Erica Dachs David and Jodi Pollack cordially invites you Ben and Yael Englander Jay and Fran Rabinowitz Stephen and Susan Fine Meir and Debby Rosenfeld Robert and Deena Fuchs Robbie and Helene Rothenberg Joey and Ricki Genachowski Ken and Kimberly Schuckman to attend a Stewart and Shari Greenberg William and Jane Senders Irwin and Susan Jacobs Jacob and Helen Weichholz Woodmere-Hewlett Community Breakfast Seme and Bernice Joszef Jonathan and Michal Weinstein at the home of Josh and Beth Kalter Moti and Dasi Weitz Izzy and Susan Kaufman Marvin and Sheila Weissman Shelli and Harvey Dachs Avi and Breindi Koschitzki Judah and Jan Wernick

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