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Plucky N.Y. teen gets surprising lowdown on kosher chicken F.Y. I . l For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman of Running for Blue Card Manhattan had an unusual Saturday As Jews, we are responsible ritual. for one another. And we have He and his mother would ride around a special responsibility to our metropolitan New York and buy up vast brothers and sisters who survived quantities of raw chicken. one of humanity’s darkest chap- Millman and his mother, Ann Marks, ters. didn’t cook the poultry. Instead they put Of the approximately 75,000 it on ice and shipped it overnight to a lab Holocaust survivors in the United in Arizona, which tested it for antibiotic- States, about one-third live below resistant strains of the E. coli bacteria. the poverty line, on an average T he study, which included 213 sam- annual income of only $15,000. ples of raw chicken bought at 15 loca- Thanks to organizations like the tions in the New York area, found that Blue Card, they are able to put kosher chicken has nearly food on the table, keep their heat twice the frequency of and lights on, and get necessary antibiotic-resistant strains as medications. non-kosher. The results were Blue Card provides emergency first published in the journal of the university’s Center aid to 2,000 Nazi victims across F1000 Research in July. for Ecosystem, Science and the country who live in poverty. My The findings are perplex- Society. Hungate connected grandparents, who survived the ing. Kosher laws contain no him to Price. horrors of Auschwitz and Bergen- requirements about how Working together, Mill- Belsen, rebuilt their lives in Amer- has fielded a team in the race for chickens are raised, and the man and Price designed an ica after the war with the help of the past few years, raising tens of only difference between experiment to test 10 brands organizations like Blue Card. thousands of dollars for elderly kosher and conventional Jack Millman of chicken in each of four Now I can repay the kindness survivors in need. Hurricane Sandy poultry is in the slaughtering categories. Millman did not the Jewish community showed put the kibosh on my plans to run and de-feathering. perform the actual lab tests, but he col- my family, by stepping up to make last year, but I am lacing up my Lance Price, a microbiologist with lected the samples, visited the lab, and sure that others who were not as sneakers this year and asking the Translation Genomics Research Insti- took the lead in writing up the results. lucky as my grandparents receive local community to help support tute in Phoenix who helped design the He also presented the findings at the the help they desperately need. this important work. study, suggested that kosher compa- American Society for Microbiology con- Even as the number of Holocaust Nothing can replace what was nies may be sourcing from producers or ference in Denver this year. survivors worldwide shrinks, their taken from victims of the Nazi re- hatcheries that use more antibiotics. Millman and the professional scien- needs increase as they age and gime. We must make certain that But Joe Regenstein, a food scien- tists with whom he partnered acknowl- their health falters. They need our its survivors are not forgotten in tist at Cornell University, and Timothy edge that the study, with its relatively help. Many of Blue Card’s clients their old age and have the means Lytton, the author of a recently pub- small sample size, is not intended to were not as fortunate as my grand- to live out their final years in dig- lished book on the kosher food indus- offer the final word on the topic. parents and have little to no family nity. I am running because of that try, dispute that notion. “This was big enough for a pilot of their own – except the Jewish responsibility. Writing recently in Food Safety News, study, and the finding was dramatic community. To learn more about my cam- Regenstein and Lytton say a likelier and consistent enough to indicate a On November 3, I am running paign and make a contribution, go explanation lies in the kosher method of problem,” Price said. “Of course there’s the New York City Marathon on to www.imathlete.com/donate/ feather removal. Most poultry is placed a need to follow up with a larger study behalf of the Blue Card, which joshlipowsky. Josh Lipowsky in scalding water before plucking, but and larger sample.” kosher poultry is dry plucked or soaked Price said that because the drugs in very cold water due to restrictions used by companies to raise chickens prohibiting any form of cooking before are “considered a trade secret” in the the meat has been soaked and salted. United States, provided they use FDA- For convenient home delivery, “Immersion in scalding water prior to approved antibiotics, it is difficult for plucking of non-kosher poultry produc- researchers to track. He noted that 29.9 call 201-837-8818 or bit.ly/jsubscribe tion reduces microbial load, by either million pounds of antibiotics are used washing microbes away or by killing each year in meat production, com- them, which might account for dif- pared to 7.7 million used for human ferences between kosher and other medical purposes. PUBLISHER’S STATEMENT: (USPS 275-700 ISN 0021-6747) is published weekly on Fridays with an additional edition production methods,” Regenstein and Millman said he isn’t sure whether every October, by the New Jersey Jewish Media Group, 1086 CONTENTS Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. Periodicals postage paid Noshes...... 4 Lytton wrote. more research with raw chicken is in his at Hackensack, NJ and additional offices. POSTMASTER: Millman, 17, who does not keep future, though he remains concerned Send address changes to New Jersey Jewish Media Group, OPINION...... 20 1086 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. 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Phil Jacobs a program that had a presence on many college campuses. Over the last few years, Baltimore – Rabbi Jim Rogozen of though, funding to the program was Teaneck took a seat for a few minutes and reduced, and last year it was shuttered. took in what was going on around him. In its strategic plan, adopted in early There were about 1,000 people. They 2011, United Synagogue declared post- all seemed to be in a hurry. And the rabbi college young adults to be vital to its knew exactly what their urgency was all mission, but since then funding to that about. demographic also has dried up. They had gathered at this city’s Marriott After hearing Kushner speak, Rogozen Waterfront Hotel to celebrate the United Steve Wernick Harold Kushner felt emboldened and excited about the Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s future, he said. 100th year, calling the biennial convention keynote address at the evening gala on “The people who are here noticed a “The Conversation of the Century.” Sunday. difference, a positive difference,” he said. In recent weeks, this nation’s Jewish He lamented the loss of many of the “Rabbi Kushner told the audience to stop community learned from the Pew Forum’s movement’s most promising students, with the negativity, and instead be part study that of all the major Jewish streams, Jim Rozogen who have defected to other movements of a solution, a creative solution to help Conservative Judaism’s affiliation numbers or started their own nondenominational USCJ make the changes we know we need were clearly decreasing most sharply. Wernick told the audience that the way communities. to make.” It also has had financial problems, as to reverse the movement’s decline in “I don’t begrudge my Orthodox Rogozen said that the conference served reported by the news service JTA. In its numbers was by “affirming three pillars colleagues the growth of Orthodox as a “pivot point” for what has to happen Judaism,” Kushner said. “I don’t begrudge not just within Conservative Judaism but my Reform colleagues the growth of within all of American Judaism for the next Reform Judaism, fueled in large measure 100 years. by intermarriage and conversion. “We talked here about creating a Jewish What does bother me is when the “What does bother me is when the best community we want,” he said. “A lot of best and brightest of our movement and brightest of our movement leave our the focus is not just about Conservative synagogues. We can’t hold onto them Judaism, but how do we contribute to leave our synagogues. We can’t — that more than anything else is what the whole Jewish community of America. hold onto them — that more than concerns me.” What are we going to do during the next United Synagogue historically has 100 years? How do we take our community anything else is what concerns me. nurtured its teenagers through its popular conversation to a much higher level. A lot Harold Kushner United Synagogue Youth program — the of those chains that have kept us bound teenagers in evidence at the conference up and kept us from thinking out of the most recent fiscal year, which ended in of Conservative Jewish life: tradition, were there for USY’s fall board meeting, box I think have been removed. We’ve June, United Synagogue raised $600,000. kehillah, and renewal.” held concurrently with the biennial, in the granted ourselves permission to think in That was far better than it had done in He urged his audience to reach out to same hotel. different ways.” 2011, when it raised $100,000, but still other Jews, be they affiliated or not. For 23 years, Conservative high school it was well below the budgeted target of “Let’s unite on issues that matter to graduates had the chance to stay in touch Phil Jacobs is a contributing editor to the $1.7 million. United Synagogue also lost $3 all of us, whether it is the scourge of with United Synagogue through Koach, Jewish Standard. million in 2012 and $2.7 million in 2011. gun violence in the U.S. or social justice Rogozen, though, is confident that the matters or the environment or access and movement’s best days are ahead, and that acceptance for people with disabilities this particular biennial conference would and special needs or supporting Israel,” be a positive turning point. Wernick said. “I think we are having a grand He invoked the memories of the awakening,” said Rogozen, who is United movement’s founder, Solomon Schechter, Synagogue’s chief learning officer. “We and the civil rights activist Abraham must ask ourselves at this conversation Joshua Heschel when describing the how we approach change. And then we power of renewal. must recognize that change is good, that “Solomon Schechter put renewal at the it’s not antithetical to Jewish values.” center of his vision when he created the Indeed, Rogozen wasn’t alone as a United Synagogue, making Conservative change agent. Judaism alive to the 20th century. That “Over the next two days, we’ll be was a century ago, and now the baton has questioning who we are, what we stand been passed to us,” he said. “What was for, and what we contribute to the Jewish new 100 years ago needs to be renewed landscape,” Rabbi Steven Wernick, once again.” CEO of United Synagogue, said in his Harold Kushner, the rabbi laureate of opening address. “We aspire to rewrite Temple Israel of Natick, Mass., and the our narrative from decline to renewal, author of best-selling works of popular energy, optimism, transcendence and theology including “When Bad Things In this iconic picture of a civil rights march inS elma, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, transformation.” Happen to Good People,” delivered the second from right, marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, center, and other supporters.

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Local Rifka Rosenwein ‘kept learning’ Day of learning to honor the memory of beloved Teaneck journalist

Abigail Klein Leichman “Rifka studied here and was actively standpoint, which Silber says “makes the “We’d meet after work, and it just engaged here,” Drisha’s founder and texts much more accessible to the general blossomed,” Heicklen said. “We found Ten years have gone by since the death of dean, Rabbi David Silber, said. “In her public. A literary approach shows it’s not Mishnah very accessible. It’s in Hebrew, journalist Rifka Rosenwein, a young Teaneck memory, we want to inspire people to just a bunch of laws, but has a certain as opposed to Aramaic like the Gemara mother of three who shared her family’s take a second look at Mishnah, arguably artistry to it. Many people think Mishnah [Talmud]. It really worked for us.” joys and challenges in popu- the most important Jewish is dry and don’t appreciate its complexity.” When Heicklen moved to Tokyo for three lar “Home Front” columns for texts that we have in terms Rosenwein did appreciate it, long before years in 1993, and later when she lived in The New York Jewish Week. of our ongoing interpretive the literary analysis approach came into London, she and Rosenwein continued their Aside from journalism, tradition. The study of how vogue. Her weekly studies with Heicklen studies by phone. Marriage and children, the Ivy League-educated Torah is interpreted over began in 1985 when the two women — careers and other obligations did not keep Rosenwein loved Mishnah, time begins with this all- then casual friends living on the Upper them from their learning. Neither did cancer. the six-section, 63-tractate embracing oral tradition of West Side of Manhattan — discovered “Even when she was diagnosed at the end code of Jewish law that forms the Jewish people.” they had both bought the new vowelized of 2001, we kept learning,” Heicklen said, the basis of the Talmud. Speakers include Avraham Pinchas Kehati edition of the third-century recalling that some 150 people attended Once a week for 18 years, she Walfish on “Commandment compilation, an edition that has become their final siyyum — a celebration marking the studied Mishnah with her and Control in Marriage: The popular worldwide. See Rosenwein page 47 friend Judy Heicklen, who Poetics of Mishnah Kiddushin moved to Teaneck in 2000 — Rifka Rosenwein Chapter 1,” Devora Steinmetz What: Day of study at Drisha, focusing on the Mishnah a year before Rosenwein was on “Mishnah and Memory: Why: To mark Rivka Rosenwein’s 10th yahrzeit diagnosed with cancer. An Educational Exploration,” and Eliezer When: Sunday, October 27, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. In commemoration of Rosenwein’s 10th Diamond on “From Cases to Concepts: R. Where: Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, 37 West 65th Street, 5th Floor, yahrzeit, the Drisha Institute for Jewish Jose’s Views on Property Rights as Reflected New York, NY 10023 | 212.595.0307 Education in Manhattan will host a day of in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmudim.” How much: Free and open to the public learning dedicated to the study of Mishnah. Walfish has done groundbreaking work For more information and reservations: [email protected] or 212-595-0307 (For more information, see the box.) in looking at Mishnah from a literary

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Local Health care and halacha Yeshiva University conference to look at intersection of medicine and Jewish law in Israel

Miryam Z. Wahrman science correspondent

From the beginning of life to its end, observant Jews are governed by Jew- ish law, or halacha. Thus the practice of Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women students make up the board of the Yeshiva University Medical medicine in the Jewish state also is influ- Ethics Society. Yeshiva University enced by halachic principles. A day-long conference, “Prescribing for a Nation: of medicine in Israel and America,” Examining the Interplay of Jewish Law said conference chair Rabbi Dr. Edward and Israeli Health Care,” addresses major Reichman, who is associate professor issues on that topic. The conference, of emergency medicine at YU’s Albert hosted by the Yeshiva University Medical Einstein College of Medicine and a Ethics Society, a student-run organiza- mentor to the MES program. “As Israel is tion, is scheduled for Sunday. comprised of a largely Jewish population, “What makes Israel so unique is that it presents unique challenges,” he said. so many people working in hospitals “Issues such as the practice of medicine on are practicing Jews,” Talia Felman of Shabbat, sensitivity to the Kohen visiting a Teaneck said. Felman, a junior at YU’s hospital, infertility treatments, end-of-life Stern College for Women, is institutional decision-making and organ donation are outreach coordinator for MES and but a few of the issues for which the Israeli serves on its board. “It’s a challenge medical landscape differs from ours.” that the Israeli government has [striking “With health care policy in the United a balance] between halacha and what States evolving right before our eyes, needs to be done to keep the country we are all interested to learn how Israeli running,” she said. institutions tackle the same difficult A ZAKA volunteer combs through the wrecked apartment in Kiryat Malachi, Is- Felman said that when she was a student questions,” said Stern College senior Chana rael. It had been the home of three people who were killed by a rocket terrorists at the Jerusalem-based seminary Michlala Herzig, co-president of MES. fired from the nearby Gaza Strip on November 15, 2012. Y ossi Zeliger/Flash90/JTA in the year after high school, she took a Professor Yonatan Halevy, director medical ethics class that stimulated her general of Shaare Zedek Medical Center interest in the field. “Just having a solid in Jerusalem, will give a keynote address, ZAKA volunteers are among the first to Talia Felman, who is a biology major background in halachot [Jewish laws] “Running a Modern Hospital According to arrive at the scene of an accident, a natural with an interest in medicine, explained in general and being exposed to Israeli Halachah.” Shaare Zedek Medical Center disaster, or a terrorist attack. They carefully what the Medical Ethics Society has meant bureaucracy makes it easier to understand, is on the cutting edge in many medical and respectfully collect remnants of victims to her. The organization represents an and apply, and think about these issues,” fields, including infertility research and from the scene, including blood and body intersection of a number of fields, she she said. practice, an area that has many halachic tissue, in order to afford every part of the said. “Sometimes they contradict and The Medical Ethics Society does not implications. As approaches to infertility human body a dignified burial. Because sometimes they converge.” shy away from controversial or complex have been developed, rabbis and doctors they frequently are first responders, ZAKA “It gives a more holistic experience,” issues. Past conferences and events have have worked together in creative ways volunteers also have been trained in first she said. “I get to be exposed to issues in grappled with the interplay of halacha to sanction high-tech methods for aid, and some have become paramedics. science, sometimes through the lens of with infertility, organ donation, modern conception, enabling observant Jewish One conference session will focus on “ZAKA philosophy, sometimes through the lens genetics, mental health issues, and medical couples to overcome obstacles to fertility. International and the Legal Ethics Behind of law, and sometimes through the lens dilemmas related to the Holocaust. This Shaare Zedek’s in vitro fertilization clinic Jewish End-of-Life Rescue.” of halachah.” conference, similarly, is boldly confronting boasts a high success rate for challenging difficult questions in health care. cases, enabling observant Jewish couples Who: Speakers including Dr. Mitchell Schwaber, director of the Israel Ministry of “Our hope is that this year’s MES to conceive within religious parameters. Health National Center for Infection Control; Dr. Michael Frogel, president-elect conference will help participants better Two of the speakers, Rabbi Zvi Gluck and of American Physicians and Friends for Medicine in Israel, and Rabbi Mordechai understand how halacha shapes every attorney Mark J. Kurzmann, are involved Willig and Rabbi Yosef Blau of YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. aspect of our lives and provides them with the organization ZAKA (the Hebrew What: A conference “Prescribing for a Nation: Examining the Interplay of Jewish with a newfound appreciation for the acronym for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, or Law and Israeli Health Care” differences and similarities of the practice Disaster Victim Identification). In Israel, Where: Yeshiva University’s Wilf Campus, 500 West 185 Street, Manhattan. When: Sunday, October 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman, this newspaper’s science correspondent, is a professor of biology at Why: To explore the intersection of health care and halacha in Israel William Paterson University and author of “Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide.” At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she was on the team that produced the first test tube baby How: Pre-registration is required. Register online at www.yumedicalethics.com. 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Local Two families, one concert Musical bridge to connect generations in Emerson

Joanne Palmer mine. The Conservative movement has enough to produce exactly the sound he worked to make room for women, and demands. Such pianos are not easy to Cantor Shira Lissek, who will perform in become more egalitarian, and I have find. They used to be available through concert with Arbie Orenstein at Congrega- gone through that change as well, slowing Steinway, the company that makes pianos tion B’nai Israel in Emerson on October allowing more femininity. and sold them at its showroom on 57th 28, said that her father’s old friends can “It is a challenge — I want to preserve street in Manhattan, but that showroom hear his voice in hers. the traditional sound of Judaism, but as a is gone now, Orenstein said. That was a That’s a neat trick. Her father, Cantor woman I can’t imitate it. blow. “But one of my students said that he Leon Lissek of Teaneck, who for more “When I taught a class about the High knew a place in New Jersey,” he said. That than 30 years sang from the bimah of Holy Days at Park Avenue, I kept playing was Lindeblad Piano Restoration in Pine Congregation B’nai Amoona in St. Louis, amazing moments from male cantors, and Brook. “As fate would have it, the fellow Mo., was one of the paradigmatic voices the class kept wanting to hear women.” dealing with us was wearing a yarmulke. of his generation, but his is a man’s voice. She played some early recordings; He was a religious Jew. We were talking Hers, clearly, is not. the women “were sisters of cantors, or The way his voice still is part of hers, just daughters of cantors, and they were as hers has become ever more her own — imitating them. They sounded like men.” the voice of a Jewish woman — traces the The class found it hard to believe, in fact, mystery of the transmission of talent and that those were women’s voices. “They We’re American passion and belonging and commitment said no, that’s not what we want. We want Jews, and the and change from generation to generation. to hear women.” And the way the concert will be a two- Cantor Shira Lissek But cantors today don’t sing only sounds that family celebration, featuring braided traditional chazzanaut, she continued. open our hearts generations of Lisseks and Orensteins, his time,” she said. “We’re American Jews, and the sounds shows the connections that underlie Inevitably, Lissek grew up surrounded that open our hearts aren’t the same aren’t the same Jewish life in America. by Jewish music, but “I never set out to be sounds that opened hearts in Europe. We sounds that Shira Lissek is a cantor at Park Avenue a cantor.” as Jews always are inspired by the sounds Synagogue in Manhattan; in a way, it She was born in 1974; the year of her bat around us.” opened hearts would have been hard for her to choose mitzvah was the first year the Conservative When she sings in Emerson, the pianist in Europe. another path. Her mother, Michal Lissek, movement invested women as chazzanim. will be Dr. Arbie Orenstein, who has his Shira Lissek is the daughter of Rabbi Pinchos Chazin, “It’s a very different Jewish landscape own family connections both to the shul who was a prominent Conservative rabbi now than it was then,” she said. “I never and to Lissek. in Philadelphia, and the granddaughter imagined that I could be a cantor.” Orenstein — who is, among many other Torah.” As it turned out, the company of Hirsch Louis Chazin, an Orthodox There was no Conservative day school things, a professor of music at Queens lends pianos to religious institutions, cantor in Perth Amboy. And Lissek’s in St. Louis during her childhood, so she College, a specialist on the life and music which must pay only transportation costs. father “was one of the great cantors of went to a modern Orthodox school; there of Maurice Ravel, a preconcert lecturer Orenstein tried all the pianos and found she learned that a cantor’s for the New York Philharmonic, the two to be acceptable. Both, though, were voice and a woman’s were editor of the academic journal Musica sold before the concert; he made another separated by an unbridgeable Judaica, and an active and committed trip to Pine Brook, found a third, and told chasm. Eventually, though, synagogue member on Long Island — is the salesman, “I’m your good luck charm. she bridged that gap. the uncle of Rabbi Debra Orenstein, who I play them — you sell them.” The salesman “I set out to be a singer,” leads B’nai Israel. agreed that if he could sell the third piano Lissek said. “I never realized He gives concerts benefiting synagogues before the concert, he would not ship it to that on this path, of opera — usually his own, but now his niece’s its new owners until afterward. and musical theater, I was as well — about four times a year. The “The idea of this concert is to set Jewish building the resume for a program at this concert will be accessible, music in the context of a classical concert,” cantor. I loved it, but there he said; it will include Hebrew and Yiddish Orenstein said. “It is a very nice afternoon; was something in the opera melodies; works by Puccini, Mozart, it gives a nice, warm, mispachadic feeling. world that I was missing. It Debussy, and Schubert, as well as by “We’re all making music together.” wasn’t fulfilling me. I realized Canadian Jewish songwriter Kenny Karen; that I wanted a direct and and some Broadway and popular classics, elevated role in people’s including Rogers and Hart’s “Bewitched, An afternoon of music lives.” Bothered, and Bewildered” and Irving Who: Cantor Shira Lissek will A part-time job at a shul in Berlin’s “What’ll I Do?” sing, and Dr. Abie Orenstein will Brooklyn led eventually to Arbie Orenstein met Shira Lissek’s father accompany her on piano and Park Avenue. when the two men were on staff at Camp explain the music The cantorate changed as Ramah in Nyack. The facility, which for What: A concert featuring Jewish, Jews adapted to America, years has been a day camp, was sleepaway Broadway, and classical music. (And as well as to the sound of a then; Orenstein, a graduate student, was a dessert reception will follow.) woman’s voice, Lissek said. a teacher that summer, and Leon Lissek, Where: Congregation B’nai Israel, She, too, used to hear her a cantorial student, was a waiter. The two 53 Palisade Avenue, Emerson father’s voice in her head remained friends, and their families are so When: Sunday, October 27, at 2 p.m. as she sang. “People were close that they still travel together. How: Reservations and information hearing my voice coming out Although the concert will be heimische, at the shul office, (201) 265-2272, or of my mouth, but I heard him. relaxed, and informal, Orenstein does not buy tickets at the door. Over the years, I have become compromise his standards. The pianos he How much: $25 per ticket Shira Lissek and her father, Cantor Leon Lissek more comfortable hearing rents to play at such events must be good

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Sex offender voluntarily barred from Englewood shuls

Joanne Palmer

Akiva Roth of Englewood, who had been hired this year to teach English at Yeshiva College, was fired last hat impresses us most about the BPY week, after news of his 1997 conviction for lewdness. education is how our children are Because of the nature of the offense of which he “W fully engaged and enjoy learning while they was convicted, last week the Orthodox synagogues in are developing skills crucial for future Englewood decided that prudence dictated that he be success. We marvel at how our asked not to show up for shul, and he agreed. children are stimulated to think critically Therefore, an email went out to the members of the shuls — Congregation Ahavath Torah, Congregation and are gaining skill in self-expression, Shomrei Emunah, the East Hill Synagogue, and communication, and presentation - all essential tools for future achievement. Kesher. That email soon made its way to the Internet, Ask where it was posted on the Failed Messiah blog. One example is the 3rd grade Rainforest unit. My daughter and her class “It is important that we respond appropriately,” the About Our worked in small groups, researched together, and created presentations for the email said. “On the one hand, with an eye towards the New Reduced class. Because the children were learning about the ‘why’, and how they are protection of all; on the other hand, without jumping Pre-K & K impacted, my daughter came home teaching me about the importance of the to conclusions solely based upon media accounts.” Tuition rainforest and how and why we should act environmentally responsible at home. Roth, now 42, was arrested in 1997, charged with Schedule Even further, on Author’s Day the poetry that the children wrote and read expressed exposing himself to pre-bar mitzvah boys at private their thoughts and feelings from their learning through the year. Many expressed their lessons, touching himself and encouraging them to feelings about the rainforest and environment, which demonstrated that they not only do as he did. He was then a teacher at what was the understood the lesson, but were truly engaged and internalized their lessons. It was Solomon Schechter Day School of Union and Essex; amazing how the children presented their personal work in front of a room full of adults. The that West Orange school has been renamed the Golda children were clearly developing self-confidence and gaining presentation skills at such a Och Academy. young age. We are amazed to see how BPY covers traditional material in engaging and The original charges were for sexual contact and innovative ways. BPY covers all the basic fundamentals, and then adds so much more.” endangering the welfare of a child, but Roth was convicted of four far less serious charges of lewdness. He was sentenced to 10 years of probation, a sentence Yael and Allan Sebbag that ended six years ago. Town – Teaneck The judge who sentenced him, Barnett Hoffman, Shul – Keter Torah, Kol Torah (Toronto) allowed him to plead guilty to lewdness rather than OPEN HOUSE Yael– Sr. Financial Analyst; York University Schulich the more serious charges, but he is reported as having School of Business been uncomfortable with Roth. One the one hand, Tuesday, October 29th Allan – Director of Finance; York University Hoffman said, Roth was “in the lowest category for 8PM Schulich School of Business risk of re-offense.” On the other hand, the judge said, Parents of – Gabriella (4th grade), Noah Roth demonstrated “a lack of appreciation for the Toddler through 8th Grade (3rd grade), Avital (K) wrongfulness of his conduct.” He went on: “Defendant is very arrogant and continues to blame the victims,” Hoffman said. For information, to schedule a tour, or to RSVP Roth has worked in many Jewish institutions, mainly Orthodox or Conservative — the Jewish Theological contact Ruth Roth, 201-845-5007, x16, Seminary, Camp Ramah, and YU. He also worked for [email protected] Hillel and AIPAC. “Like” us on FACEBOOK! The rabbis who signed the email — Akiva Block www.facebook.com/benporatyosef of Kesher, Menachem Genack of Shomrei Emunah, 201-845-5007 – www.benporatyosef.org Shmuel Goldin and Chaim Poupko of Ahavath Torah, Scan for a sneak peek and Zev Reichman of East Hill — are making few public of our school E. 243 FRISCH COURT, PARAMUS, NJ 07652 statements as they decide how to handle the issue, which is complicated by the age of the charges and the question of whether the behavior has ever recurred. As they consider their next steps, they are joined by Rabbi Fred Elias of Kol HaNeshamah, a Conservative shul in Englewood; Roth would sometimes go there as well as to the Orthodox ones. “The community is discussing the matter and see what’s cooking at determining the best path to take,” Goldin, who is also the immediate past president of the Rabbinical www.jstandard.com Council of America, said. “We are also researching Cooking with Beth blog whether there are any current issues. “We have to be sensitive both to the community and to Akiba,” he said. In their email, the rabbis acknowledged the tightrope. “May Hashem grant us the wisdom to deal with this and other complex situations properly,” they wrote.

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Lois GoLdrich found that there were many people before that at the Reform Temple of “Each time, the balance has been interested in learning more, “but not Suffern, now part of Beth Haverim Shir different,” she said. “Once it was almost When the three-session Taste of Judaism interested in a 16-week course.” Shalom in Mahwah. She has taught it three exclusively composed of people from program was created in the early 1990s, As a result, URJ created the new, shorter times at Barnert but “it’s been a while outside the congregation who were leaders of the URJ — then the Union of program. According to the organization, since we offered it here,” she said. Each looking into Judaism for personal reasons.” American Hebrew Congrega- since 1994 more than session lasts about two hours and explores Some three or four later converted. tions — already had a learn- 100,000 people have one of the three themes highlighted in the “This time we have four young ing program in place, said participated in this course. program: Jewish spirituality, ethics, and couples, three of whom are in interfaith Rabbi Elyse Frishman, reli- This year, the Reform group community values. relationships and looking to understand gious leader of Barnert Tem- has awarded grants to Recalling the creation of the program, what role Judaism should play in their ple in Franklin Lakes. congregations in 17 cities to Frishman said that at the outset, the URJ lives,” Frishman said. Another couple, Frishman, one of the offer it. Barnert Temple is invited a handful of rabbis in the area to older and already married, is exploring the original curriculum writers among them. create sample curricula. She was one of possibility of conversion for the non-Jewish for Taste of Judaism, “It’s an opportunity for those rabbis spouse. Still another couple, longstanding noted that the program Jews and non-Jews alike to “It emerged that there were a lot of members of the congregation, are “just was created “in the midst explore the core principles different ways to approach these three interested in learning more.” of our successful 16-week of Judaism and discern how topics,” she said. “It was clear that rabbis The course, she said, already inspired Introduction to Judaism Rabbi Elyse — if they’re Jewish — it could should have some leeway in designing the one participant to go further and enroll in course, designed for anyone Frishman be more meaningful; and — curriculum. Our samples were [sent out] the synagogue’s adult confirmation class. who would like to have if they’re not — then at the to help others.” “This is a gateway offering, a very low- a semester’s worth of engagement in very least to gain a deeper understanding The rabbi said that over the years, the barrier class,” she said. “It’s very easy to understanding Judaism more clearly.” of what Judaism is,” she said. And, she makeup of the classes has varied. walk into, with no obligations. Just show The course appealed to both Jews and added, a non-Jew involved in a relationship “This time we have 15 people,” she up.” non-Jews, she said, drawing in those with a Jew can learn “how to integrate said, pointing out that the classes, to be Participants are given cards on which to who were interested in learning more comfortably with that person’s heritage held throughout October, already have write down any questions they have about about their own religion along with those and family.” begun. “Of those, about one-third are Judaism, and Frishman promises them exploring the possibility of conversion. Frishman has been teaching the course members of the congregation, including that by the end of the third session, all of Still, Frishman said, movement leaders since its inception, both at Barnert and some new members.” see barnert page 58

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JOANNE PALMER approach that story, either on Wednesday, when he prerecords his radio talk, or Most pulpit rabbis have to worry about on Saturday. He already had two ideas, only one d’var Torah each week. That, of though. course, is the sermon they will deliver on “The Rambam says that we don’t Shabbat, generally based on the weekly have prophecy today, but one of the 13 Bible reading. principles of faith” — which Maimonides Rabbi Benjamin Yudin of Fair Lawn formulated — “is to believe that prophecy has double that responsibility. Not only existed. does he speak from the bimah of the “These are my words for the Rambam’s shul he has led since 1969, Congregation thoughts,” Yudin continued. “The old Shomrei Torah, every Shabbat morning, commercial said that Ivory soap was 99.4 but every Friday morning at 8:15 he also gives another 15-minute d’var Torah from his electronic bimah, 91.9 FM, during the radio show called JM in the AM. And he’s been doing it for 35 years — he It’s an incredible has missed only ive weeks during that time. challenge to find Now, Mosaica Press has gathered 52 something that of those broadcasts — a year’s worth of parashiot —into a book, “Rabbi Yudin on will not be so the Parsha.” basic that the Although of course he talks about the same parashah in shul and on the more educated air, Yudin does not give the same talk in community will both places. The text is the same, but the audience is not. turn it off, or too “Over the years, the listening advanced that audience has become very diverse,” Yudin said. “It’s not like going into a the others will. classroom, where more often than RABBI BENJAMIN YUDIN not your students are going to be homogenous. This audience is not.” percent pure. If Abraham’s prophesy He has some idea of who this was 99.4 percent accurate, then he audience is because listeners often never would have taken the knife and be approach him. “People stop me, prepared to offer Isaac as a sacri ice. You and they’ll say thank you,” he said. see from Abraham’s ability to go through The range of Jewish background with it that his prophecy was 100 percent and education spanned by Yudin’s accurate.” If Abraham had thought that listeners is both an intellectual Rabbi Benjamin Yudin signs a copy of God would allow him to slaughter Isaac, challenge and a reward for him, he his book for Milton Frank. he would have agonized over his decision. said. “I hate stereotypes, but the The other idea, also new to him this truth is that there are many Jews, have the privilege.” Those are the words year, was “that the Torah goes out of its listeners, in Pompton Lakes and Yudin used to begin his irst radio d’var way to tell us that the Akedah happened Franklin Lakes who do not have a Torah, and they are the words he still uses on the third day. The rabbis point out that sophisticated Jewish education. At as an introduction every week. “Religion had he done it immediately, he could have the same time, there is Lakewood. can become rote,” he said. “It can become been seen as acting out of a religious high. Many residents there do have a stale. I hope and really believe that it is a And had he more time to think about it, he sophisticated Jewish education. And privilege, that every week it is a new idea. wouldn’t have done it.” I also reach Brooklyn, and Monsey, A new privilege.” On Sunday, Fair Lawn’s mayor, John and each has a completely different mix. — who are driving, perhaps, or cleaning, Although it might seem to be dif icult Cosgrove, issued a proclamation honoring “It’s an incredible challenge to ind or preparing Shabbat dinner — do not have to come up with two new approaches Yudin’s book, and presented it to him at something that will not be so basic that either a text in front of them or their hands to a Torah parashah that comes around a book signing and breakfast at the shul. the more educated community will turn it free to turn pages. “I see it” — the radio every year without fail, Yudin inds it More than 150 people were there, listening off, or too advanced that the others will.” d’var Torah — “as an opportunity to create exhilarating. He does not worry about as Nachum Segal, JM in the AM’s host, There is also the question of vocabulary. bonds, week in and week out, and also the repeating himself, because he has learned and Shevi Yudin, the rabbi’s wife, talked “Sometimes I must translate words for opportunity for nourishment, not just of that if he is excited by an idea, the odds are with both respect and admiration about those who don’t understand — but I can’t the body or of the soul.” that it’s new to him. Benjamin Yudin. Shevi Yudin told stories translate too much.” Ideally, he added, the d’var Torah can This week’s Torah portion, Vayera, about her encounters with people who Another difference between his provide the seed for a Torah discussion includes the Akedah, the binding of Isaac, wanted to know if she was married to in-person d’var Torah and the on-air one, at Shabbat dinner at tables where the the powerful story in which God at irst “Rabbi Yudin from the radio show.” Yudin said, is its use of sources. In shul, he will for such discussions are there but the demands that Abraham sacri ice his son, And Rabbi Yudin from the radio can ask congregants to read the words he con idence and knowledge to start them his “only son,” and then at the very last show took a few minutes out from the quotes, so the learning can be text-based; may not be. moment stays the patriarch’s hand. On celebration to think about the next week’s he must assume that most radio listeners The book is subtitled “Tomorrow we Monday, Yudin was not sure how he would parashah.

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Cohen’s musical style is a blend of influences from samba to jazz to klezmer. Anat Cohen plays Rockland Israeli clarinetist and her quartet headline Chazen Jazz Concert

Abigail Klein Leichman 2012’s and 2013’s Multi-Reeds Player of makes appearances and recordings as a Spanish word describing the play of light the Year. trio with her older brother, saxophonist and shade. “I always try to surround myself with music It is not easy to pinpoint Cohen’s musi- Yuval Cohen, and her younger brother, Following her Rockland gig, she is and be part of as many projects as I can,” cal style. Influenced by the international trumpeter Avishai Cohen. The three sib- scheduled to appear in Knoxville, Tennes- says award-winning Israeli jazz clarinet- musicians with whom she learned at lings got their start in the Jaffa Music Con- see, and she plans to be at NJPAC in New- ist and saxophonist Anat Cohen. She and Berklee College of Music in Boston, she servatory in their native Israel, and each ark on November 7. her eponymous quartet will headline the plays a unique blend of Brazilian choro successfully auditioned for Berklee’s trav- At the Chazen concert, the JCC’s award annual Chazen Jazz Concert at Rockland and samba, classic New Orleans jazz, and eling representative in Tel Aviv. Cohen also for lifetime achievement in the arts is to Community College’s Cultural Arts Center swing, tinged with a hint of klezmer. played tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air be bestowed on jazz pianist George Wein, on October 26 at 8 p.m. “Clarinet is often associated with cer- Force band for her military service. founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Pianist Bruce Barth, guitar player Howard tain genres, like swing or folk music,” she The Cohen siblings’ fourth collabora- the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festi- Alden, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Free- said. “I combine the old and new, using tive album, “Tightrope,” was released this val, among other outdoor music events. man on drums will back her. “We’ll have the clarinet as an expressive tool and not week. “We played at a sold-out concert “George Wein created unique, lasting fun,” promises Cohen, whose appearance in in one genre. I’m just happy that people at Carnegie Hall in February and we will festivals that have really left their mark on Rockland was arranged by special request of are drawn to what I do. be playing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the American popular music scene,” JCC sponsors Jerry and Simona Chazen. “It’s a gradual process of adding things November,” Anat Cohen said. “When we Rockland CEO David Kirschtel said. “He is Cohen stole a few minutes to speak by to my repertoire. Just collaborating with play together, it augments the experience truly a visionary in the business. The JCC phone from her Manhattan home during a a new musician is enough to bring a new immensely.” is proud to honor him and that he will join week when she was jetting to performances subtle flavor to my work.” Albums featuring Cohen as a bandleader us for this exciting jazz concert.” in several cities in California and Italy. Earlier this year, New York Times colum- include “Place and Time,” named one of Tickets to the concert, available from She regularly plays such top music ven- nist Joe Nocera described Cohen as “a ter- All About Jazz-New York’s Best Debut www.jccrockland.org, cost $25 apiece. ues as Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Vil- rific musician, fluid, full-throated, with a Albums of 2005; “Noir” and “Poetica” Patrons who pay $75 will receive pre- lage Vanguard, has been voted Clarinetist knack for creating beautifully crafted, even (2007); “Notes From The Village” (2008); ferred reserved seating and are invited of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz eloquent solos.” “Clarinetwork” (2010); and “Claroscuro” to a private dairy dessert reception fol- Journalists Association, and was named In addition to her quartet, Cohen often (2012), which takes its title from the lowing the concert.

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Fair Trade backed in Teaneck Sabbath series

AbigAil Klein leichmAn Such products should be chosen in 19, Rabbi Joel Pitkowski will speak from place of commodities that may harm the the pulpit about fair trade in the context A trip to the florist three years ago inspired environment, the economy, communities, of environmental sustainability. The Prof. Dennis Klein to found the Fair Trade and disadvantaged people. service will be followed by a kiddush at Teaneck Steering Committee, which has “Fair Trade Teaneck’s decision to noon featuring certified fair-trade items. organized its third annual Fair Trade Sab- convene Fair Trade Sabbath observances On Sunday, October 20, Beth Sholom will bath series of events to mark national Fair during Fair Trade Month recalls the sponsor a program on the environment. Trade Month in October. international movement’s “I have been involved in Fair Trade Among the five houses of origins in organized religion,” Teaneck since I got here two and a half worship participating over said Klein, a human rights years ago,” Pitkowski said. “For me, it is the next few weeks are two activist who directs the a wonderful way to express Jewish values synagogues, Congregation master’s degree program of caring for our fellow human beings and Beth Sholom and Temple in Holocaust and genocide the environment, and having those values Emeth. Fair Trade Sabbath studies at Kane University. expressed in how we live every day.” is intended to unite religious “They remind us of our faith When Pitkowski came to Beth Sholom, congregations in support in dedicated hard work to among his first actions was switching the of fair wages, sustainable achieve a measure of justice “official” shul treat from Hershey Kisses to farming methods, and the for the most vulnerable and fair-trade chocolate. It was “a simple way abolition of child slave labor. marginalized among us.” to illustrate the idea,” he said. With its origins dating Prof. Dennis Klein His inspiration came when “One of the beautiful notions of Judaism to post-World War II, the he walked into Tiger Lily, is that it has something to say about fair trade movement originally was a a Teaneck florist shop, Klein said. The Blunk became a member of the steering everything we do — including what we eat, charitable effort championed by religious store’s owner, Tim Blunk, had a display committee that Klein put together. what we wear, and how we interact with organizations. Today, the movement about fair-trade flowers on his counter. “I His goal was to leverage the Teaneck the people who make our food and with encourages people to buy such products asked him about it, and he struck me as community’s long-time reputation for the environment that God created for us,” as coffee, tea, sugar, and clothing only if extremely knowledgeable and committed civic consciousness into practical support he added. those particular items are socially and to the project,” Klein said. “He really of fair trade. Temple Emeth will observe Fair Trade commercially sustainable products. tapped a nerve for me.” At Beth Sholom, at 10 a.m. on October see Fair trade page 58

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TruTh regardless of consequences A house divided People of uch has been said and wake of the Pew results, the words of This brings us to the second voice the bagel written in the last two two Orthodox rabbis stand out. The that stands out — that of Eliyahu Fink, weeks about the new first is Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Con- rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center/The Pew Research Center gregation Ahavath Torah in Engle- Shul on the Beach in Venice, Calif. versus people Msurvey, and its disturbing portrait of wood. “We are all in this together,” In an article that appeared on the state of American Jewry. he told our reporter Lois Goldrich the website of the Orthodox weekly No stream has reason to crow. (“Local rabbis talk about the Pew sur- the Jewish Press, Fink wrote “that of the book Attrition afflicts all flavors of Juda- vey,” Oct. 11, 2013). “We need to find a Orthodox Jews should be concerned ism — even the so-called secular, espe- way to reach out to those beyond our and make efforts to help revive non- new Pew Research poll suggests that Ameri- cially when we factor in the number ranks and boundaries, and do a bet- Orthodox Judaism....Orthodox Juda- can Jewry is on its way to sleeping with da of Jewish parents who say they are ter job within our ranks, to touch both ism is not going to magically become fishes. not raising their children “as Jewish minds and hearts.” the Judaism for the 89 percent of non- The surprising part was not the nearly 60 — either by religion or aside from reli- If we are to reverse the trend long Orthodox Jews. We can either wish Apercent intermarriage rate, or the two-thirds of Jews gion,” in the survey’s own words. In observed and yet again confirmed by them well and watch them disappear, who prefer the dentist’s chair to attending synagogue. Orthodoxy’s case, where the picture this new survey, we need to set aside or we can try to keep them connected No, it was Christmas that got me. appears to be less bleak, the num- our fractionalism and our factional- to their Jewish heritage.... [S]trength- Really? One third out of all American Jews are light- bers may be unfortunately skewed, ism. We need to eschew triumpha- ening the non-Orthodox denomina- ing a tree? Even the most secular Jews used to define because virtually all the Orthodox lism and embrace collaboration. We tions is a worthy endeavor. They are themselves as not being Christian. Now, according to interviewed were from Brooklyn, need to agree to disagree on matters also our brothers and sisters.” the study more than a third say that belief in Jesus is not Monsey, and Lakewood — solid bas- of observance and ideology, and focus We are all in this together. Only incompatible with being Jewish. tions of charedi Judaism, but not rep- instead on our common commitment together can we shore up the house Basically, we’re screwed. resentative of more liberal Orthodox to preserving the American Jewish so that it is strong enough to remain So where do we go from here? Some would say it’s enclaves. future. The best minds from every standing long into the distant future. time to book those El Al tickets, because American Among the comments, press corner of Jewish life need to sit at the We lack only one thing: leaders in Jewry has no future. But releases, speeches, articles, and same table, and come up with ways to all streams with the courage to stand this is a self-defeating argu- sound bites that inundated us in the fix that which clearly is very broken. together. ment. Israel needs a strong American Jewish commu- nity for its basic survival. All you have to do is look at tiny diaspora communities The four Cs that were once robust, like the UK, where a tsunami “Communication, conciliation, com- senator. As of this reading, the win- liberal Democrat faced a conserva- of anti-Israel sentiment has promise, and cooperation.” That, a ner likely has taken the oath of office tive libertarian Republican. The two Rabbi exploded, to know the price sadly underrated Gerald R. Ford told and is beginning his on-the-job men were as distinguishable as noon Shmuley paid for overseas communi- a joint session of Congress three days training. is from midnight. The business of Boteach ties that begin to disappear. after becoming the “accidental presi- While it is as yet unclear whether governing, however, is not the same Others miss anti-Semi- dent” in August 1974, was his “motto that person is Corey Booker or Steve as the business of running for office. tism. America is simply too for Congress.” Lonegan, it is very clear what are the Our new senator now represents all open a society for Jews not to blend in to the point of A year earlier, at his conformation issues that our new senator must the people of this state — those who oblivion. Both Spinoza and Sartre argued that with- hearings to replace Spiro T. Agnew as help address. voted for him, those who voted for out people to hate us we Jews will be no more. What vice president, Ford said that “com- Perhaps the biggest issue is how his opponent, those who did not we need is some good old fashion pogroms to keep us promise is the oil that makes govern- he can help the Senate — and the vote at all, and those who were not committed. ments go.” Congress as a whole — end the divi- eligible to vote. He is not a candidate, I find this the most offensive argument of all, not only To newly elected legislators, he sive political bickering that brought but a senator, and that is how he because it argues that Nazis can be credited with Jewish would often quote Thomas Huxley, government to a standstill over the must approach his new task. identity but rather because it’s simply not worth paying “who said a century ago: ‘Sit down last several years and inhibited the Our nation’s greatness has been before facts as a little child, be pre- nation’s economic recovery and diminished by the raging seas of ran- Shmuley Boteach became the first non-Christian to pared to give up every preconceived growth, and begin the process of leg- cor, discord, partisanship, and dis- ever win the London Times “Preacher of the Year” notion — or you shall learn nothing.’” islating for the public good. trust. We pray that our new senator competition and served as host of “The Shmuley Show” As of this writing, New Jersey In Wednesday’s race, the lines plunges himself instead into the four on the Oprah and Friends Radio Network. Follow him voters had yet to choose their new were clearly drawn. A moderate Cs of Gerald Ford. on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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the price. If only dead Jews get to remain affiliated, what’s the point? Why Yair Lapid is wrong Others find in this catastrophic study the ultimate vindi- Truth regardless of consequences cation of Orthodoxy, the only part of the community that on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is growing rather than vanishing. But as an Orthodox Jew People of who has always lived among the non-Orthodox, I take scant ’ll confess that when I first read comfort in the argument that only insularity and self-ghet- about Israeli Finance Minister toization can perpetuate our tradition. Yair Lapid’s disagreement with the bagel Rather, what’s needed, both for Orthodox and secu- Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- lar Jews, is an immediate program to make all Jewish day Iyahu’s insistence that the Palestinians schools free, just as Birthright is. Jewish education is the recognize Israel as a Jewish state, I felt versus people only guarantor of Jewish identity. We are not the people a degree of sympathy. Not for the sub- of the bagel. We are the people of the book. An extreme, stance of the argument, but for the draconian interpretation of separation of church and state manner in which Lapid expressed it. of the book in the United States makes it impossible for a dollar of our “My father didn’t come to Haifa from tax money to go to parochial schools, even for their secular the Budapest ghetto in order to get new Pew Research poll suggests that Ameri- departments. America is alone among developed counties recognition from Abu Mazen” —Pales- can Jewry is on its way to sleeping with da of the world in penalizing parents who want to give their tinian Authority President Mahmoud fishes. children a values-based religious education. We have to Abbas— Lapid said on October 7, at a The surprising part was not the nearly 60 fight this politically tooth and nail. If AIPAC can get 12,000 talk at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. Apercent intermarriage rate, or the two-thirds of Jews Jews together to support Israel, then a similarly well-run “Darn right,” I grunted at my Mac. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at right, and Finance who prefer the dentist’s chair to attending synagogue. political lobby can bring even greater numbers to pressure The core ethos of Zionism, as Lapid Minister Yair Lapid sit together during a press conference in July. No, it was Christmas that got me. the government to pass legislation to fund the secular cur- himself explained, is that we Jews Flash90 Really? One third out of all American Jews are light- riculum of parochial schools. are no longer the passive objects of ing a tree? Even the most secular Jews used to define The rest of the money should be provided by creating other nations’ histories. We make our own history and of the entire Zionist enterprise. Regardless of whether themselves as not being Christian. Now, according to a giant superfund that makes grants of approximately we define ourselves, for we are, as the Israeli national they are sitting at the table with Israeli negotiators, or the study more than a third say that belief in Jesus is not $10,000 per student per annum toward the cost of Jewish anthem Hatikvah declares in its penultimate line, “a free gallivanting around the U.N. demanding unilateral rec- incompatible with being Jewish. day schools, whatever the economic status of the parents. people in our own land.” ognition, the essential Palestinian message has, for more Basically, we’re screwed. The money can and must be raised. But however much we might appreciate Lapid’s than a century, been that the Jews really have no right to So where do we go from here? Some would say it’s Endorsing the centrality of Jewish education, Torah study, healthy dismissal of the opinions of those who deny the be here in the first place. time to book those El Al tickets, because American and mitzvah observance also means putting an end to an legitimacy of Jewish national aspirations, it is precisely The Palestinian campaign for the so-called “right of Jewry has no future. But emphasis on Jewish culture as a means of instilling identity. because of those same aspirations that his argument is return” is the clearest example of what I’m describ- this is a self-defeating argu- For a generation American Jewry has promoted Jewish dangerously flawed. ing. Abbas and the PA, as Yair Lapid really should know, ment. Israel needs a strong food, music, and art as focal points of identity. In place When you study what others call the Israeli-Palestin- repudiate Israel’s Jewish character because they refuse American Jewish commu- of kosher we have kosher style. Portnoy’s Complaint can ian conflict, and what I prefer to call the Palestinian war to give up on the idea that Israel’s Jewish society will nity for its basic survival. serve as a text to replace Genesis. against Israel’s legitimacy, it eventually be overwhelmed by the descendants of the All you have to do is look at Let’s now admit that Jewish culture has been an abysmal should be painfully appar- Arab refugees of 1948 “returning” to a country that they tiny diaspora communities failure. ent that it is the intangible have never set foot in. that were once robust, like Why? First there is no unifying Jewish culture. For my aspects of this long dispute As long as the Palestinians reject Israel’s Jewish char- the UK, where a tsunami father, a Sephardic Jew born in Iran, gefilte fish and klezmer that have confounded a final acter, they will insist on the “right of return.” That’s why of anti-Israel sentiment has are about as Jewish as sashimi and the Beatles. agreement, and not the tan- we don’t have the luxury of saying, “damn what you exploded, to know the price But even if this were not the case, Jews have voted over- gible ones. think.” Recognition of Israel as the historic homeland of paid for overseas communi- whelmingly with their feet and have decided that Jewish What I mean is this: if this the Jewish people should not be demoted to the status ties that begin to disappear. culture is inferior to its non-Jewish alternative. The best dispute were solely about of an afterthought, something we’d like to achieve if we Others miss anti-Semi- kosher restaurants today serve sushi over borscht, gar- sharing a territory, equitable can, but won’t worry about if we can’t. It is, rather, the tism. America is simply too lic chicken over boiled flanken. In Israel itself Arab foods Ben distribution of water rights, key reason why this conflict has persisted for so long. open a society for Jews not to blend in to the point of like falafel have killed farfel, shwarma has finished off Cohen common security arrange- As the Oslo process of the 1990s demonstrated, you oblivion. Both Spinoza and Sartre argued that with- corned beef. The same is true of Jewish music. Jews flock ments, and so forth, we can only go so far by not tackling these fundamental out people to hate us we Jews will be no more. What to Beethoven and Beyoncé. might well have arrived at a ideological objections on the Palestinian side. Indeed, we need is some good old fashion pogroms to keep us Does Jewish culture objectively match that of the Gentile resolution by now. When you look at other protracted negotiating with Palestinian leaders as if these objec- committed. west? No. And who cares? The Jews were never meant to conflicts that largely have been resolved — such as the tions don’t exist simply encourages Abbas and others I find this the most offensive argument of all, not only be famous for their cuisine or sculpture. Rather, it is our one in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic Irish to raise them at delicate moments. That way, they can because it argues that Nazis can be credited with Jewish incomparable religion and timeless values that make us the nationalists and mainly Protestant Unionists and the portray the Israelis as intransigent occupiers, safe in the identity but rather because it’s simply not worth paying chosen people and the envy of the earth. No nation has so British government — you see that success has come knowledge that the rest of the world regards the Pales- contributed to the goodness of the world than the Jews. We from the basic fact that each party recognizes the oth- tinians as blameless victims. have gifted the world a personal God attentive to human er’s legitimacy. However revolting the terrorist actions That is why Netanyahu’s unwavering stance on the suffering. The equality of humankind and the creation of of the Irish Republican Army, its leaders never sought need for Palestinian recognition of Israel’s Jewish char- life in God’s image. Directional history and thus the concept the dissolution of the United Kingdom. Equally, the loy- acter should be welcomed as a gesture of peace, not an of progress. The Sabbath and thus the superiority of rela- alist fanatics who terrorized innocent Catholics in Bel- excuse to perpetuate the status quo. Peace is only possi- tionships over productivity. A belief in moral choice that fast and Derry did not seek to destroy the Republic of ble if the Palestinians revise the historical narrative that transcends modern ideas of genetic predetermination. An Ireland. currently leads them to denigrate Israel as the “Zionist emphasis on communal obligation before personal salva- For that reason, the Northern Ireland peace process entity.” tion. And a fixation not with entering heaven but with fix- was able to focus on tangible goals, like the disarma- “Ah,” you say, “that’ll never happen.” And you may be ing the earth — with tikkun olam. ment of terrorist groups and a formula for power shar- right. But that’s a subject for another time.  JNS.org The novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer are an attractive ing, rather than getting bogged down in a competition read. But they cannot compare with the haunting reunion about historical rights. That’s not to deny the obvious Ben Cohen, JNS.org’s Shillman analyst, writes about of Joseph and his brothers, or the bravery of David before existence of historical wounds, merely to observe that Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work Goliath. Jewish film festivals are entertaining but pale they were overcome. has been published in Commentary, the New York before dancing on Simchat Torah or lighting the Chanukah By contrast, what nags in the context of the Israeli-Pal- Post, Ha’aretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other menorah. estinian conflict is the rejection by the Palestinian side publications. Greek and Roman culture may have sculpted our world— but Jewish values continue to electrify the earth.

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BTOS ON — The elders of Jewish life is inordinately friendships, and have a rich spiritual life also need to stop denying our own aging Israel are like the wings focused on children, teenagers and easy access to health care and health process. We are in this together. of a bird: Just as a bird and young adults. They are maintenance. In a women’s prayer book published cannot fly without wings, presented as our future and As Robert Putnam described in in Germany in 1908, there is a two-page Israel cannot do anything our continuity. People observe “Bowling Alone,” civic engagement, prayer for a daughter to recite when her without their elders (Vayi- children in a Jewish preschool belonging, and active participation mother is facing illness, as well as a prayer krah Rabba 11.8, Midrash or on a Birthright trip and in community results in better health to assist in getting along with an elderly on Leviticus 9:1). believe that we will succeed outcomes and increases the potential for stepmother. Such rituals and prayers Last I checked, there in having them live out our a longer happy life. Similarly, the reward for the children of older people largely was no mitzvah among Sara values. in the Torah for honoring your parents is have vanished from the liturgy. Jewish the 613 telling us to dye Paasche- There is no sin in nachas, that you shall merit a long life. Here we life can support this expansive stage of our hair to counter the Orlow the emotional gratification find an essential life circle: We honor our life much more fully by offering prayers, effects of aging. If only we take from our children. parents, and our children honor us, and rituals, generationally integrated social people would give charity But these populations should we succeed in extending life and life’s opportunities, and relevant educational and observe Shabbat as assiduously as not be granted the exclusive focus of our enjoyment. programming as we accompany they follow the social commandment to collective energy and creativity. Ensuring How do we do this as a community? our parents and all the elders of our hide their gray. The veneration that our our future — the future of every person We should be designing and building community from decade to decade, even tradition gives to a person with gray hair reading this article — means guarding life affordable supportive housing as we ourselves age into our 60s and 70s. is undermined by a nip-and-tuck culture. so that each of us can continue to live and integrated into our neighborhoods, with As I looked out this Yom Kippur at People in large numbers persist in trying join the elders of Israel, living good and health services easily accessible and the worshipers gathered at the Hebrew to mask the natural effects of aging, which meaningful lives up until the day we die. multigenerational communal life bubbling Rehabilitation Center in Boston, I saw a creates a false hierarchy of youth and There are some obvious challenges we all around. We honor them by integrating hundred faces of aging. Many were seated communicates that those who are older must overcome to help seniors remain in them into our lives. next to their 70-year-old children, an aide, are less valued. the midst of our people. Among them are More than 50 years ago, my grandfather, or a good friend. I indeed felt our prayers It’s time we got over it. The statistics improved access to health care, accessible Dr. Milton I. Levine, wrote a letter to the take flight, born on the wings of those are quite clear: We are living in a time communal organizations, supportive New York Times outlining a foster care worn and creased faces and the voices when the oldest in our society are the housing, and support for caregivers. program for elders. His idea remains that carried theirs, joining in song and fastest-growing portion of the population. People should not have to struggle alone. relevant today: Adopt an elder. Learn his prayer. JTA Wire Service And yet it is also clear that people over Jewish life should be easily accessible, or her story. By including elders in the 85 are frequently marginalized, lonely and people should be able to choose mental map of our neighborhoods, we Rabbi Sara Passche-Orlowe is the director and alienated from the life of our people. to live in a community where they can help create a stronger klal Yisrael. But of chaplaincy and religious services for Significant change is needed. receive supportive services, maintain to truly see the elders in our midst, we Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston. Defining a true Jew

here have been three reports barriers to conversion for fear that the Jew- holidays, or keep kosher, or meet any of the to the one that confronted the Jews in the released in the past few days that ish community would become too diluted. other criteria that are currently applied in first centuries of the Common Era. We once look at the Jewish population. In essence, they revised the standards population surveys. After the rabbis gained again have set up barriers to Jewish iden- Two of them, the Pew Research for Jewish identification, and as Judaism power, the nature of Judaism and Jewish tification, and we now have standards to TStudy and the Steinhardt Social Research became more rabbinical, whole segments identification changed. A Jew could no lon- determine if you are a true Jew: Was your Institute Study, are concerned with Jew- of the Jewish population who were not ger self select. He had to be listed as a Jew mother Jewish? Did you have a bar mitz- ish population numbers. The third, by the considered religious enough by the rabbis by the rabbi. Thus, if a Jew was not affili- vah? How often do you attend services? University of Huddersfield in England, con- became disenfranchised and were left out ated with a rabbinic religious community, Do you belong to a JCC? Contribute to Jew- cerns itself with the genetic history of Aske- in the cold. he was not counted as a Jew. ish charities? Been to Israel? Speak and/or nazi Jews. In fact, however, all three studies In great part, due to this exclusion- This situation continued for the next read Hebrew? Light Shabbat candles? Have are really about Jewish identity. ary policy, the world Jewish population thousand years, until Napoleon granted the a Christmas tree? And on and on. The Pew and Steinhart studies have declined sharply over the next thousand Jews citizenship, and pioneers and vision- These questions only serve to narrow come up with vastly different numbers years. According to the Jewish Encyclope- aries like the Bal Shem Tov, the founder of the field, in a time when we should be wid- describing the size of the Jewish population dia, the world Jewish population dropped chasidism, and Rabbi Abraham Geiger, the ening our tent. We can no longer afford to in the United from about five million at the start of the founder of the Reform movement, declared be an exclusive and exclusionary club. We States. This dis- Common Era to about one million by the that it was not necessary for a person to be need to find new ways to welcome not only parity is due to end of the first millennium CE. It remained affiliated with a synagogue or even know the disenchanted and disenfranchised Jews their diverse at about one million until the middle of the how to pray in order for him to consider but also the intermarried and their non- definitions of eighteenth century, when it suddenly sky- himself Jewish. (It should be remembered Jewish partners. who is a Jew. rocketed to seven million in less than a hun- that the Bal Shem Tov was excommuni- In the same way that Jews of the twenty- This is not a dred years. cated by the Vilna Gaon because of this first century are different from their first new problem. Both the precipitous population decline heretical idea.) century ancestors, so too must the defini- Jewish identity and the even more remarkable population These great visionaries said that if you tion of who is a true Jew be different. Until has been an increase resulted from the different poli- consider yourself Jewish, then you’re we can settle on a new definition, we will Bernard issue in the Jew- cies affected the way Jewish identity was Jewish! be unable to measure the Jewish popula- Beck ish community defined. In the early years of the Common As a result of this earth-shattering decla- tion accurately. at least since Era, before the rise of rabbinic Judaism, ration, the world Jewish population soared the beginning Jews were defined through self description; so high that by 1935, through the measure Bernard Beck, a former entrepreneur, of the Common Era, and perhaps even ear- for example, you could describe yourself as of self identification, there were fifteen mil- marketing consultant, Rutgers professor, lier. At the start of the Common Era, Jews a Roman Jew or as a Greek Jew. There was lion Jews in the world. (Hitler did not ask and Hebrew school teacher, is the author in Rome were proselytizing so successfully no other requirement than that. You didn’t how Jewish his victims were.) of many books, including “True Jew… that the rabbis felt that they had to erect have to belong to a synagogue or observe Today, we are facing a problem similar Challenging the Stereotype.”

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Letters

validity of the study as regards both demo- hospitable place for Jewish Americans. Alienating decorations graphic and religious behavior. You can’t spin the facts any other way. This is a letter I sent to the Hudson City Does it really make sense to accept the When and if the GOP regains its senses Savings Bank in Paramus about its Christ- Pew finding that 15 percent of charedi Jews and pulls back from the extremism of its mas decorations. I hope that some readers attend non-Jewish services several times Tea Party, that might change. Ask Eric Can- might consider writing similar letters to a year? Is it realistic to find chasidic Jews tor when — or if — that will happen. their banks. That’s how change happens. in churches and mosques several times a eric Weis Dear Sir: year? Do 24 percent of charedi Jews really Wayne A Christmas tree is a standard symbol handle money on Shabbat? for celebrating Christmas. The critical issue here is the matter of Communist Slovos This holiday is appropriately celebrated Our brother’s keeper obtaining a valid sample — the people who In his article lionizing Shawn Slovo of in a religious institution or a private home, Am I my brother’s keeper? were interviewed and who responded to South Africa (Noshes, October 4), Nate not in a bank. The question, from Genesis 4:9, is as rel- the questions. Charedi Jews are known Bloom fails to point out that Ms. Slovo’s My wife and I have had two accounts evant today as it was when the world was for their reticence about cooperating with parents, Joe Slovo and Ruth First, whom at the Teaneck branch of the Hudson City created. And here is why. journalists and survey researchers partic- he prefers to describe as “anti-apartheid Bank for 42 years and have been exposed Eleven days ago, a 14-year-old autis- ularly if the interviewers are not Yiddish activists,” were among the very founders to this religious celebration for these many tic African-America boy named Avonte speakers and unknown to the community. of the Communist Party of South Africa. years. How can you not be aware that Oquendo vanished from his school in Consequently, the number of Orthodox Sadly, today’s Communists — many among many people who do not celebrate Xmas Long Island City. He was not kidnapped. and charedi Jews interviewed and counted them are Jews by birth, but not by religion, feel excluded and offended? He simply ran away, and he wasn’t noticed is deeply problematic, and no conclusions as they don’t practice any religion, but Adding one little menorah to a corner of until he had disappeared into the vastness about these Jews can be made at this time. promote atheism — lend their full support the bank does not solve the problem. of New York City. Brill’s conclusions, drawn from the study, to those seeking to obliterate the world’s There is no reason to celebrate any reli- This is our worst nightmare. Our 1-year- consequently are deeply flawed. only Jewish state, and, along with it, the gion in a bank. old autistic son, Harrison, also has run charles selengut Ph.d. practice and observance of Judaism, from There are numerous banks in Teaneck away. He has jumped from the bay win- Teaneck the face of the earth. that do not have Christmas trees on their dow in our living room and run naked on harry eisenberg premises and are competing with Hudson a busy street while we slept. Political Spin-Meistering Glen Rock City Bank for the loyalty of this very large Young Avonte cannot speak to tell any- “It’s Ari’s party,” (October 11), reported Jewish and multiethnic community. one he is lost. Neither can our little Harry. on a gathering of Jewish Republicans in Don’t attack Iran May I suggest celebrating American Worse still, these boys appear perfectly Teaneck. Ari Fleischman, the quintessen- For those people who urge America to holidays? As a former officer in the USAF normal, so no adult would even think tial Republican Jew, addressed the faithful. attack Iran, I ask: Where will we get the I would like to see Veterans Day cele- something is amiss if they passed each He was quoted as saying that “not even a money? We are fighting two wars now. brated. Or how about Independence Day other on the street. majority of Democrats” support Israel. Where will we get the man and woman or Thanksgiving, thus including everybody We write now for two purposes. The Say what? A recent Gallup poll tracked power? Russia will have an invitation to in the community? first is to raise awareness of autism in our support for Israel. Since 2008, Democratic put missile batteries in Cuba. If you do intend to celebrate the reli- community. It is not just one of a dozen support for Israel has increased. Over the Do they think that Russia, China, and gious holiday of Xmas in December, and or more twisted ribbons you see on the last three years, a majority of Democrats Arab countries will do nothing to prevent I truly hope that you will follow the lead backs of minivans. There is no peace for do indeed favor Israel over the Palestin- the influx of other Muslims? Many years of Chase and other banks in Teaneck, and families of autistic children, who are flight ians. Fleischer should do some fact-check- ago I read that Iran had 40 million resi- omit Xmas decorations, may I suggest that risks and cannot communicate. Secondly, ing before he makes this kind of statement dents. By this time, it should have between you not exclude your loyal Jewish cus- we ask that you remember this young again. Otherwise, it is just the same old 50 and 60 million people. tomers and decorate the halls with Juda- man’s face, particularly those of us who political spin from a past master of the art. And finally, what do they think will hap- ica beginning a week before Chanukah, commute for work to New York City. And What’s more, Fleischer and the Repub- pen to Israel, with Hezbollah and Hammas which this year begins exceptionally early, here’s why: Am I my brother’s keeper? No, lican Jewish coalition privately must be having thousands of missiles and aimed at November 28! The same day as Thanksgiv- I am not. apoplectic over the hijacking of the GOP Israel. ing….and wouldn’t it be nice if you cele- We are all our brothers’ keepers. by the Tea Party. Rand Paul and his ilk are I would like some answers. brated this national holiday too? gabrielle nitti no friends of Israel. They favor a return Nothing is going to happen before the There are numerous Judaica stores in Warren nitti, esq. to isolationism, which would deliver the November 5th election. Teaneck and other towns where Chanu- Paramus Middle East into the willing arms of Rus- Irving gall kah decorations can be purchased at a sia and China. Without a continued Amer- Paramus very reasonable price. Pew naivete ican presence in the region — something reuben e. gross, Ph.d. There was, unfortunately, considerable championed by every U.S. President since Teaneck sociological naivete in the Jewish Stan- Harry S. Truman — Israel’s security would dard’s reporting and comments on the be at greater risk than at any time since recent Pew Research Center report on independence. American Jews. In his October 4 essay, No American Jew can or should be able “Observations on Orthodox Jews in the to feel at home in the new Republican Tea Pew,” Rabbi Alan Brill uncritically accepts Party. Fleischer may not like Democrats, the statistical data without seriously ques- but an examination of the facts reveals tioning the statistical and sociological that the Democratic Party is now a more Like us on Facebook.

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Cover Story Unchained reaction

Rabbi Mendel Epstein (left and on cover) has been hailed as “one of the foremost experts” on Jewish divorce law. Rabbi Martin Wolmark is a member of the Agudath Harabonim religious court. Both have worked on behalf of agunot. Now, both are in a federal prison in Trenton, charged with arranging a kidnapping to force a husband to give his wife a divorce.

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Cover Story Unchained reaction the rabbis offered to free agunot, “chained women,” by getting them the religious divorces they need to remarry. now two rabbis are behind bars, charged with kidnapping and conspiracy. What does last week’s arrest mean for the decades- long struggle for agunot?

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t was a crime a thousand years in I the making. On September 29 — so the FBI alleges in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District next step: “What we are going to be doing The quirks in Jewish law that make reli- and then debated by another millennium is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours gious divorce so difficult have provided fod- of rabbis — is generally the sole prerogative Court in Trenton — and beating him up and torturing him and der for family and civil court for decades. of the husband. Rabbi Mendel Epstein then getting him to give the get,” meaning Now, in the 21st century, the case of the It all starts with Deuteronomy, which the religious divorce. agunah — literally, a woman chained to her puts it like this: “When a man takes a wife, drove from Brooklyn, You can learn a lot about the laws of ex-husband, a man from whom she may be and marries her, then if it comes to pass across state lines, to Jewish divorce from reading this criminal legally divorced but to whom she remains that she find no favor in his eyes, because complaint. married in religious law — has become a he has found some unseemly thing in her, New Jersey’s Middlesex Also about torture techniques. federal case. that he writes her a bill of divorcement, County to case the joint. Epstein favored electric cattle prods. And behind the case, explaining the and gives it in her hand, and sends her out “If it can get a bull that weighs five tons wire transfers and the scribe and the cat- of his house....” Would a warehouse there really be a to move... You put it in certain parts of tle prod and the van with darkened win- Note that it’s all up to the man. good location to lure a man to in order to his body and in one minute the guy will dows, lurks the unlikely specter of Moses The Talmud softened that, and gave situ- beat him and force him to grant his wife a know,” Epstein explained. Maimonides, who decreed more than 800 ations where a man could be compelled to religious divorce? Or in the words of the Daily News head- years ago that a Jewish court can decide divorce his wife. Epstein saw that it was good, accord- line after the FBI made the arrests last that a man must divorce his wife, and hav- Which naturally raised the Talmudic ing to the allegation, so four nights later week: “Shock and Oy!” ing thus ruled, the court can whip him question: Were the Talmud’s examples he drove to Monsey, where he met with All told, 10 suspects were arrested in until he says, “I want to divorce her.” the only cases where a divorce could be Rabbi Martin Wolmark, the head of Yeshiva New York and New Jersey, including the • compelled? Or were they simply a repre- Shaarei Torah there, and convened a reli- two rabbis, a kidnap team, and a scribe Consent under torture may sound like sentative sample? gious court that promised, in exchange for prepared to use feather quills to write the a tortured definition of consent. But for Maimonides ruled that even in a case $50,000, to procure a divorce for a woman traditional divorce document. halacha — Jewish law — consent is the key where a woman had no specific grounds to who was, in fact, an undercover informant. They all are being held without bail in question, because divorce — as described explain her desire for a divorce other than Epstein was recorded explaining the Trenton. by the Torah, elaborated in the Talmud, her disgust with her husband, “We force

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him to divorce her immediately, for she is not as federal prison. a slave” — though the woman does not receive The evening after the news broke, Rabbi Mor- the divorce settlement promised in her ketubah dechai Willig, a leader of the Beit Din of Amer- — her marriage contract — when she leaves of ica court of the centrist Rabbinical Council of her own volition. America, was leading a previously scheduled This view was rejected by Ashkenazi authori- session of practical rabbinic training for the ties. Rabbenu Asher, who lived in Europe a cen- National Council of Young Israel. tury after Maimonides died in E�ypt, described Willig emphasized to the participants that the Maimonidean position as “perplexing. they can never do anything illegal, and that “How can one justify forcing a husband to give when one rabbi does something inappropriate, a get and to set a married woman free? Let her not “everyone whose first name is Rabbi is sullied,” have relationships with him and let her remain according to Rabbi Perry Tirschwell, executive an eternal widow, for she is not commanded to director of the National Council of Young Israel. beget children and merely because she desires to At Agudath Israel of America, the umbrella follow the fancy of her heart and has cast her eyes charedi group, executive director Rabbi Chaim upon another and desires him more than the hus- Dovid Zweibel suggested that the divorces band of her youth, shall we give in to her lusts, beaten out by Epstein’s “kidnap team” go and force her husband who loves the wife of his beyond the realm of acceptable pressure. youth to divorce her, God forbid?” “There is a considerable body of opinion that Between these two medieval positions are you can only take steps consistent with the law generations of rabbinic debate back and forth of the land,” he said. “Some would question — and, if the FBI affidavit describing Epstein’s the validity of a get that was procured in those recorded boasting is to be believed, one or two circumstances.” dozen customers willing to pay $50,000 to hal- But Epstein and Wolmark are hardly fringe achically end a marriage, even if they had to players in the charedi world. commit some felonies along the way. The Five Towns Jewish Times, an Orthodox • weekly on Long Island, this week described Orthodox rabbinic leaders were quick to dis- Epstein as “the kind of guy that knows his way A criminal complaint featuring both allegations of multiple felonies and tance themselves from the rabbis now sitting in around the maze of divorce law as it interfaces a concise introduction to the intricacies of Jewish divorce. Courtesy FailedMessiah.CoM

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with halacha or Jewish law. Many will say family therapy, told the Daily News Wolmark is one of six signatories, of her agunah status is obligated to do so that he is one of the foremost experts on this week that he’s heard stories about alongside Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, a halachic and doing so will indeed be the fulfillment the matter.” Epstein’s non-kosher tactics over the authority of the Orthodox Union; Rabbi of a great mitzvah,” the seruve declared. In August the paper published an inter- past few decades, but that his complaints Herschel Schachter of Yeshiva University, “Tamar Epstein is hereby granted permis- view with Epstein about “A bill of rights of always fell on deaf ears. the OU’s other halachic authority; Rabbi sion to take whatever appropriate steps a Jewish wife” that he had drafted. In the “What bothered me is that the police Shmuel Kamenetsky, rosh yeshiva of the are necessary to extricate herself from the interview, which quickly made its way on and courts didn’t care,” Weinstein was Yeshiva of Philadelphia and a member of chains of this agunah situation.” Facebook beyond the Five Towns, Epstein quoted as saying. Agudath Israel’s Council of Torah Sages; What’s appropriate? said, “A wife must be treated with respect In August 2012, the Washington Jewish and not be abused. A woman in an abusive Week reported that Friedman was beaten relationship has a right to seek a get.” in his wife’s driveway by two or three Within some circles, though, allegations masked men. of the violent side of his agunah activism Back in the 1990s, Epstein was the Rabbi David Eidensohn, a Monsey rabbi seemed to be already known. affiliated with the radical anti-Zionist In a comment posted to the article on target of a civil suit by a rabbi who Edah Charedis movement, has opposed September 9, a reader wrote, “This man alleged that Epstein ordered his Schachter and his Organization for the has been beating anyone he can as long Resolution of Agunot, which organizes as he gets paid. Where is the story of him beating by a kidnap crew that public protests against men who refuse to having men and women beaten under the tortured him and shocked his genitals give their wives a get. guise of halacha. His connections with Ken The Friedman-Epstein case may be Hynes have kept him out of jail, so far,” with a stun gun in attempt to force the highest profile case it has taken on, referring to the Brooklyn district attorney him to give his wife a divorce. because of Friedman’s job: He is a senior who has been criticized for failing to pros- aide to a congressman — Michigan Repub- ecute crimes committed by charedim. lican Dave Camp. Back in the 1990s, Epstein was the target As for Wolmark, his prominence in the Rabbi Gavriel Stern; and Rabbi Aryeh Ral- Eidensohn, who believes that even pub- of a civil suit by a rabbi who alleged that Orthodox world can be seen in a 2011 bag, former chief rabbi of Amsterdam and lic embarrassment is too coercive, has Epstein ordered his beating by a kidnap “seruv,” a document issued by the Union head kashrut coordinator of the Triangle K accused Schachter of improperly quoting A criminal complaint featuring both allegations of multiple felonies and crew that tortured him and shocked his of Orthodox Rabbis accusing Aharon kashrut supervision organization. the Maimonidean ruling in favor of beating a concise introduction to the intricacies of Jewish divorce. genitals with a stun gun in attempt to force Friedman, a party in a hotly contested “Any person who has the ability or husbands in public lectures. Courtesy FailedMessiah.COM him to give his wife a divorce. divorce, of being in contempt of court for opportunity to influence him to free On his blog, Eidensohn noted that vid- Dr. Monty Weinstein, who works in not giving his wife a get. Tamar Epstein [his wife] from the chains eos of Schachter’s lectures on agunot,

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44th Cover Story where he talked of the propriety of beat- leading Halakhic scholars to intensify ing get refusers, were removed from the their search for an authoritative remedy YUTorah.org web site this week. for this most distressing problem.” Annual Gala And indeed, at least three of Eighteen years later, Lamm was presi-

Schachter’s lectures on the topic of agu- dent of Yeshiva University. And writing Sunday Evening November 24, 2013 nah at that site, which had been there in Tradition on the agunah question, 22 Kislev 5774 recently enough to remain in the Google Attorney Irwin Haut noted Lamm’s hope search index, now return the message, that the Lieberman ketubah would prod New York Marriott Marquis “I’m sorry, the shiur you requested is not the search for a halachically acceptable available.” remedy for the agunah problem, adding 1535 Broadway • New York City • acerbically: “Apparently, it has not.” Reception 5:00 PM • Gala 6:00 PM Zweibel had other problems with the In fact, it was the charedi Agudath arrested rabbis’ alleged behavior — in Israel organization that would take the particular, their failure to provide a next public step for agunot, champion- proper court hearing before ruling that ing a law in New York State that effec- CHAIRPERSONS OF a divorce was mandated. tively made the giving of a get a precon- THE OHEL OMNI GOLF CLASSIC “On the surface” of the allegations, dition for getting a secular divorce. The CELEBRATING 10 SUCCESSFUL YEARS GUESTS OF HONOR he said, “this particular scenario was law, passed in 1983, required each party beyond the realm of anything the hal- in the divorce to certify that there were acha might countenance. It seems as no barriers to remarriage — in other if the role of one of the rabbis was to words, that a Jewish divorce had been determine whether the circumstances given. justified a beit din ruling that you could The law was opposed by much of force the guy. It clearly was done in a the non-Agudah Jewish community on way that leaves a lot to be desired. The the grounds that it violated the separa- whole case was a sham. The rabbi didn’t tion of church and state, but it became go on more than a woman’s crying and law nonetheless. In 1992, the law was Chani and Jay Kestenbaum signing a check. It’s very troubling” strengthened, allowing the family court L-R Ben Englander, Jonathan Marks, that the court didn’t hear what defense judge to consider a spouse’s withholding Michelle Sulzberger, Izzy Kaufman, might be offered by the husband who of a get in dividing up property. “That Jeffrey Schwartz was allegedly refusing to grant the get, one is more controversial,” Zweibel said; AND CELEBRATING Zweibel said. financial pressure is considered more THE CAMP KAYLIE ALL-STARS The allegation that the Prodfathers serious than holding up a civil divorce, — as the Daily News dubbed the white which has no halachic significance. bearded rabbis nabbed by the FBI — Did these legal efforts — which were would create an ad-hoc beit din, or successfully legislated only in New York court, to decide the case highlights one State — work? of the central facts of the agunah in “We hear in the field that they have America: There is no central rabbinical had an impact, but I couldn’t objectively court — or even the ability to create one. quantify it,” Zwiebel said. There are no centralized standards. Zweibel said he has not heard of as Nina Bernheim of Bergenfield, NJ Malkie Rubin of Teaneck, NJ (The same halachic issues undergird a many agunah situations as he used Daughter of Malkie and Josh Bernheim Daughter of Tzivia and Yossie Rubin different set of problems in Israel, where to years ago, even as the number of government-funded centralized courts divorces has gone up in his community. EUGEN GLUCK, HONORARY GALA CHAIRMAN provide the only avenue toward Jewish “Without a question there has been divorce.) a spike in divorces and broken engage- MARC HERSKOWITZ • ARI JUNGREIS • REUBEN LEVINE • ments,” he said. “We’re still nowhere HINDA MIZRAHI • CINDY & FRED SCHULMAN, GALA CHAIRPERSONS The first American rabbinic body to offer near the percentage of the broader a solution to the agunah problem was society around us, but is has been a the Conservative movement’s Rabbini- dramatic rise.” “The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. cal Assembly, which in the 1950s intro- • At OHEL duced a modification to the traditional In 1992, the centrist Orthodox Rabbini- Jewish marriage contract, drafted by the cal Council of America came up with we see the star in Everyone.” movement’s premier Talmud scholar, its solution. It introduced an agree- Rabbi Saul Lieberman. The new clause ment that couples would sign before mandated that the couple would turn their marriage. The agreement’s broad to the Rabbinical Assembly’s court and outline replicated the approach the obey its dictates. Rabbinical Assembly had adopted a While Lieberman sought Orthodox generation earlier, though it differed approval, Orthodox rabbis rejected the in details: It was a separate docu- proposal without proferring suggested ment, rather than an addendum to To Make Your Reservation or to Place Your Journal Ad improvements. the ketubah; and rather than leaving call 718.972.9338 email [email protected] “We can only hope that the apparent future financial penalties in the hands failure in practice of the Conservative of the beit din (in this case the RCA’s venture will in some measure make up Beit Din of America), it stipulated that Moishe Hellman & Mel Zachter Elly Kleinman for the lack of foresight in initiating it,” if a couple separated without a get, the Co-Presidents OHEL Camp Kaylie Chairman a young Rabbi Norman Lamm wrote in beit din would assess spousal support Ronny Hersh David Mandel 1959 in Tradition, the Orthodox jour- obligations of $150 a day. 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agunot things a significant segment of the com- frOm page 29 munity says produces illegitimacy.” on the continuing approval of the law, as In the late 1990s, a beit din under the embodied in a beit din. Let a beit din pull auspices of Rabbi Emanuel Rackman out the approval, even retroactively, and freed agunah by annulling marriages the betrothal and the marriage never — to the consternation of most of the happened. Orthodox community. Now, it seems Retroactive annulment makes many that the left wing of Orthodoxy might halachic authorities, and plenty of ordi- pick up the baton. nary people, uncomfortable. There is At this summer’s agunah confer- the whiff of legal fictions — and perhaps ence, Rabbi David Bigman, of the of time travel, which might even be more Ma’ale Gilboa yeshiva of Israel’s reli- disturbing. gious kibbutz movement, called for If the couple wasn’t married, then restarting the Rackman court. And what was going on all those years? Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the new presi- Since halacha doesn’t make children dent of the liberal Orthodox Yeshiva of unwed parents illegitimate, unmar- Chovei Torah, echoed the call; more rying the parents has no effect on the recently Rabbi Seth Farber, a YCT- children. ordained rabbi, has called for the lib- Except: Not for those who don’t accept eral Orthodox community to set up its the legal reasoning, and don’t consider own religious courts that would use the annulments valid. For them, the all methods — from prenuptial agree- woman is still married — and children ments, to writing gittin, to anulling from a subsequent marriage would be marriages — to solve the agunah prob- mamzerim, bastards, unable to marry lem, without worrying about accep- other Jews. tance from all sectors of Orthodoxy. “We have to craft solutions that have “Even if only 15 percent of the Ortho- a higher threshold of acceptability in dox community accepted this new beit divorce law than in kashrut,” said one din’s freeing of agunot, seeking a spouse centrist Orthodox rabbi familiar with among 15 percent of the Orthodox www.jstandard.com agunah issues. “You don’t want to do see agunot page 42

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Schwartz, Congregation Adas Emuno, Leonia Torah Academy of Bergen County To contact Project S.A.R.A.H. call (973) 777-7638 Ext. 154 or visit our website: www.projectsarah.org This outreach initiative was supported by Grant No. 2012-UW-AX-0007 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.

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Finance & Charitable Giving Muriel Siebert: What the obituaries don’t say

Warren Boroson Or how sympathetic to society’s victims. the first Lifetime Achieve- Western Reserve (now Case As New York’s banking commissioner, she ment Award from the New Western Reserve), but had to The obituaries don’t mention how smart learned about: Jersey Coalition for Financial drop out in 1949 because her Muriel Siebert was. • a 17-year-old student forced to declare Education. father became ill and the fam- The obituaries told how Siebert, who died bankruptcy because of overwhelming • ily finances were shaky. (She in August just shy of her 85 th birthday, was credit-card debt. I once asked her why she had still doesn’t have a college known as the First Woman of Finance, how • A young woman weeping because she run for office as a Republican. degree, but she has 18 honorary she was the first woman to own a seat on the had only 50 cents on her, not enough to (She lost to Daniel Moynihan.) doctorates.) New York Stock Exchange, and was the first get home from work. She didn’t know how She looked pained and didn’t In 1967, to start her own bro- woman to head one of the NYSE’s member to cash her first salary check, which she answer. But that was the era kerage firm, she asked ten dif- firms. had been holding for 10 days. when the Republican Party Muriel Siebert ferent men to sponsor her. Nine But they didn’t describe how she could • And then there was the young man boasted such people as Jacob turned her down. But she perse- look at a page of numbers… and immediately enraged because some crook — “FICA” — Javits, Clifford Case, and Nelson Rocke- vered, and today remains the only woman to spot something that was wrong. was stealing money from his salary check. feller, and among its supporters was Jackie head a firm on the New York Stock Exchange. Nor did they mention how charming she (FICA, of course, is the Social Security Robinson. Her firm was also the first discount bro- was. I gave her a CD of some of my favorite system.) She came to New Jersey to speak before a ker. And she was the first woman appointed music, and she glowed with pleasure when So she did something about it. forum put on by Rutgers Cooperative Exten- superintendent of banks in New York. And she she recognized songs by Jerome Kern. A financial curriculum she launched, via sion and the newspaper I then worked for, belongs to virtually every gilt-edged organiza- Or how ingenious. She went out to lunch the Muriel F. Siebert Foundation, is now so I became acquainted with her. I kept tion in the New York area. with some jerk, who kept making anti-Semitic being offered in more than 100 New York challenging her to a game of tennis—she • remarks. high schools, as well as in New Jersey. To was an avid player—but she always turned Her office is in the so-called Lipstick build- Back in her office, she sent him a poem she graduate, high school students will have me down. She must have heard what a good ing on 54th Street and the East Side. When had just written: to take a half-year of economic and finan- player I was. she rented the place, she was told: no pets. cial classes. Some 500 New Jersey teachers • Not even a goldfish. Roses are reddish have been trained to lead the classes. Other The following appeared in Newjerseynews- Now, Siebert happened to be very much Violets are blueish school systems around the country are also room.com in December of 2009: attached to a pet Chihuahua she owned. You may not know it studying the program. The daughter of a dentist, Siebert was born And when it came to the closing, she But I’m Jewish. Mickie, as everyone called her, received in 1932 in Cleveland and began attending refused to sign the lease. “No leash, no

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Pre-paid food cards Children’s meals and lease,” she said memorably. She got her lookalike in Florida. Monster 2. And she help families celebrate after-school programs for at-risk youth way. didn’t tell the manager that her dog was the holidays with dignity She carried the dog, Monster, in and now an impostor. out of the building. And it was confined Anyway, guess who was renting the two to her office — it didn’t wander at large. floors above Siebert’s floor. None other After a year, the building’s manager than the master swindler himself, the came to her and asked how she liked her unspeakable Bernie Madoff. And when offices. Did she want more room? She was his fraud came to light, an angry crowd Feeding thousands quite satisfied, she said. She herself asked: gathered outside the building. The build- in restaurant-style soup kitchens Had anyone complained about Monster? ing itself was filled with roving FBI agents Nope. and SEC agents. An atmosphere of fear Same thing happened the second year. permeated the offices. Any complaints about the dog? Nope. To ensure Siebert’s safety, the manager But during the third year, there was made sure that she was accompanied something new. The manager said that whenever she left her office. And he saw other tenants now wanted to bring pets to it that a cab picked her up in the morn- to their offices.... ing and took her home at night. Alas, Monster became seriously ill — After several weeks had gone by, the she was 17-and Siebert had to put her to manager came to visit Siebert in order sleep. Siebert went two months without to convey his abject apologies for every- a pet. “I was heart-broken,” she says. So thing she had been forced to endure-the she sent out a distress call to pet stores FBI agents, the SEC agents, the tightened and breeders around the country. The security. With your help, Meir Panim hopes to ease the burden of poverty building manager might not permit a Siebert just smiled. And she finally for many more Israelis,giving the needy of Israel a sweet new year. new dog. So, did anyone have a dog broke the news. that looked like Monster? She found a “Meet Monster 2.” All contributions are tax-deductible. Tax ID # 20-158-2478.

First Commerce Bank to open in Teaneck

Why is First Commerce Bank different our bank,” says Opatut, who notes its from all other banks? strong presence in Lakewood. It seems a fair question to ask as the The bank has a heter iska — a contract Lakewood-based bank opens a branch that permits borrowers to pay interest on Teaneck Road, it’s second in Bergen and lenders to receive it despite the County after an office in Closter. prohibitions on interest in Jewish law. For one thing, it’s a community bank. “We use it in all of our deposit and “If you picture a community bank, loan documents,” says Schneider. we would be it,” says C. Herbert Schnei- The bank offers the usual services of Helping to care for our elderly is a Mitzvah… der, the bank’s president and CEO. commercial and personal banking with “ We’re very focused on the commu- some special touches. Personal and As others have planted for us, nity. It’s not a big bank that’s located business checking accounts are free, The Jewish Home somewhere else that doesn’t know any- with no service charges. The bankers thing about Teaneck,” says senior vice are particularly proud of the number invites you to plant for the next generation president Karen M. Zoda.. of Small Business Administration loans Already, before the doors have they issue. “We were number 26 in the For further information about making a opened, the bankers have joined the state in the number of applications, Planned Gift or Bequest Teaneck Chamber of Commerce. number one in Ocean County.” to the Jewish Home Foundation, please call “We’re close to our borrowers and It also offers creative, quick business Melanie Cohen, Executive Director at 201-750-4231 customers,” says Abraham Opatut, the loans. “The decision comes in a very bank’s chairman. short time frame so people aren’t out “Where else would you find a bank’s there waiting,” says Zoda. president and chairman spending an All the loans go through Schneider. entire day in Bergen county meeting “Abe and I meet with the borrowers,’ customers and potential borrowers?” he says. he asks. The bank opens on Monday, October Four of the banks board members 21, at 1008 Teaneck Rd., directly south are from Bergen County. of Route 4. A grand opening ribbon cut- Four others are Orthodox. “We have ting and open house is scheduled for a significant Orthodox component in November 14. Members of

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Israeli chips for the ‘Internet of everything’ Looking beyond the smartphone, Israel’s Altair Semiconductor readies a novel chip to power devices with embedded Internet

Brian Blum “people only have two hands and two ears,” explains Altair co—founder Eran Watch out, Qualcomm. An Israeli startup Eshed, VP of marketing and business thinks it can make an end run around development. “How many cell phones your core business of providing chip- can one person own?” sets to smartphones. Altair Semicon- Altair’s play is to leapfrog over the ductor, located in the Tel Aviv suburb of understandable need to provide back- Hod HaSharon, aims to beat Qualcomm, wards compatibility in the cell phone Altair leaders, from left, Yigal Bitran, CTO; Oded Melamed, CEO; and Eran Eshed, as well as the other big semiconductor space – where a device needs to operate VP marketing and business development. makers like Intel, Broadcom and Mar- on every network available, from the lat- vell, by eschewing the phone entirely est and greatest known as “LTE” (“long of the LTE chips used in phones today, WiFi only and costs $199. Then there’s a and looking beyond to the “Internet of term evolution”) or 4G, as well as on pre- therefore makes its chips “multimodal,” multimodal one, that uses WiFi and 3G, everything.” vious, slower networks such as 3G and meaning they support the previous sys- which you can use everywhere, but it That’s the Internet that very soon will Edge when 4G isn’t available – and focus tems as well as LTE. By doing just LTE, costs $329, a premium of $130 over the be embedded in digital cameras, gam- just on LTE. Altair can make its chips smaller, cooler WiFi—only version. ing devices, car entertainment systems, That would initially seem problematic: and, most important, cheaper. And that, “Now, what if there was a device that video surveillance, traffic control and all In some locations, an LTE—only device Eshed says, will become increasingly only offered LTE?” he poses. “You can’t manner of sensors. simply won’t work. Israel, for example, important. use it everywhere, but it’s just $25—30 This “Internet of everything” stands to currently has no LTE coverage at all. “Imagine you walk into a Best Buy and more than the WiFi—only version. Would dwarf the smartphone market. After all, Qualcomm, which provides 90 percent you see several versions of tablets. One is that be an acceptable tradeoff?” Choice is a good thing.

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Eshed believes that for the typical “use the price of such a system dramatically. of chips. With 180 employees — 140 in to work at its facility in Texas, but he was case,” a price delta of $25 will make pur- The same logic will make LTE—con- R&D in Israel, the rest spread around the eager to get home. TI later downsized its chase of the LTE—only version a “no— nected digital cameras – which will, at world in sales and service — Altair is no Israel operations. brainer.” Altair hasn’t got its chip price least for the conceivable future, always longer a small startup. Altair, Eshed says, is blessed with inves- down that low yet, but “we’re on the way.” be higher quality than the cameras tors who are willing to see the big picture included in even the best smartphones – Placed his bets on LTE and weren’t constrained by a drive to see LTE in your a viable business. The company has raised $100 million instant profits. That allowed the com- camera and fridge In Altair’s vision, everything will be in venture capital investment and has pany to bet on LTE early, before it was And it’s not just price. LTE is so far supe- communicating via LTE – from your 30 “Internet of everything” custom- even clear if the market would evolve. (In rior to 3G in terms of speed (as much as refrigerator to “machine to machine” ers around the world. One is a Russian 2005, most techies thought a competing 10 times faster), that Eshed believes users devices, which don’t have a specific manufacturer that makes an inexpensive technology called Wimax, which Altair of certain devices will wonder why they consumer interface (think smart traf- USB stick that plugs into your laptop and also developed for, would rule the day; it ever put up with 3G in the first place. fic lights). Eshed estimates we’re talk- generates a portable LTE hotspot without never took off big time.) Take the Google Chromebook, where a ing about some 20 billion to 50 billion needing an external power source. Such It’s just a matter of time until mobile user’s data is stored entirely on the cloud. devices. That’s a lot of chips. Altair—powered products are popular in broadband, which LTE represents, comes The device doesn’t work at all without an Eshed predicts that by the time we see price—sensitive markets like India and to Israel and everywhere else, Eshed Internet connection. Using a Chrome- LTE—only phones around 2015, Altair Latin America. says. “4G is not just an evolutional step. book or a similar “thin client” device is should have made decent inroads into Eshed co—founded Altair with several Getting rid of the legacy stuff streamlines acceptable on WiFi, tortuous on 3G, but the market. other execs who had previously worked the whole network architecture. It’s a positively sings on LTE. Using one of Founded in 2005, the company is at a startup bought out by Texas Instru- fundamental paradigm shift.” Altair’s LTE—only chips can bring down already shipping hundreds of thousands ments in Israel. TI sent Eshed for a while israel21c.org

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Agunot her a get. He refused to abide by these decisions. impetus for those kinds of solutions and why people are so frOm page 31 “When I explained to her that our beit din was part of frustrated with the lack of progress that people are reach- community would be a vast improvement for agunot the Conservative movement, and our annulment would ing out for those solutions out of frustration.” who had been unable to marry anyone at all in the probably not be recognized in her community, she • Orthodox community,” longtime agunah activist Susan answered that she was aware of the facts. She realized Whatever the wink and nod the Orthodox community Aronoff said. that if she remained in her community, she would never gives to bullying tactics, it’s unlikely that the cattle prods In 1998, Rabbi Mayer Rabinowitz, a Conservative be able to remarry. Nevertheless she wanted closure. Psy- will be taken out any time soon. And while some activists rabbi in Teaneck, made a similar statement in Jerusa- chologically it was necessary for her to know that she was may be happy for a solution that moves halacha to a more lem. Rabinowitz was then the chair of the Conserva- finally free of him, and therefore she turned to us. egalitarian stance, that’s unlikely to be accepted any time tive movement’s beit din, which had begun annulling “We annulled the marriage,” he said. soon in much of the Orthodox community — including the marriages. • segments with which Rabbis Epstein and Wolmark work. “A woman from a very Orthodox community in New In part, it’s a debate over the nature of marriage. It could be that agunah, for the Orthodox, will be like York turned to us to help her free herself from her recal- Is traditional Jewish marriage — with its inherent love for the poet Leonard Cohen, who sang, citrant husband,” Rabinowitz said. “She had 17 decisions inequalities — a good thing? Or is it an institution that “The holy books are open wide from Orthodox batei din ordering her husband to give needs to be repaired? “The doctors working day and night “In the grand scheme of things, when we hear the horror “But they’ll never find that cure for love.” stories of the agunah situation, you also have to look at the Grossman PlumbinG & HeatinG society around us and see how marriage has become a very weak situation and how family life has changed so dramati- “A mensch with a wrench” cally in ways that are not for the better,” Zweibel said. One thing before you sign... 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Licensed # 10129 of halachic evolution over the centuries, “looking at the bring their disputes before religious rather than protections that have been built in over the years to help secular courts. 201-788 5758 women. she bases that claim on a report of remarks “I don’t think that story is done yet,” she said. made by rabbi Zalman nehemia goldberg, one The notion that divorce should be completely up to of the agreement’s authors, at a Yeshiva Univer- David’s Dog Training men “is not really respecting the inherent dignity of all sity conference. Obedience Training for Dogs us being created in the divine image, and I think that’s an and indeed, the agreement contains optional Education for Humans anti-Torah perspective,” she said. clauses that would empower the religious court to decide all a divorcing couple’s monetary dis- • putes and questions of custody and visitation. In the core of traditional Jewish marriage, kiddushin, the Bognar warns that it’s a trap into which un- husband acquires the bride. Because this doesn’t conform wary women might fall. with contemporary values of equality, some people have the document, notes Bognar, doesn’t indicate suggested that it’s timme to drop that traditional form 201-286-9898 whether the beth din will use the secular “best interests of the child” standard or rely on its in- [email protected] altogether. terpretation of halacha. DavidsDogTrainingNJ.com In her book “Engendering Jewish Judaism,” Rachel Adler of the Reform Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles in fact, the agreement’s author, rabbi morde- chai willig, admitted as much in an rCa booklet put forward a model for a Jewish marriage that was mod- promoting it. eled on a business partnership, rather than an acquisition. “[s]ome women or their attorneys will ob- (In the Mishnaic tractate on marriage, the first mishna on ject to the inclusion of monetary disputes (e.g. “a woman is acquired” is followed by one on how a slave is property settlements, alimony, child support) in acquired, and then on how an animal is acquired.) the arbitration agreement, for the current secular A proposal put forward by the liberal Orthodox blogger law of equitable distribution and maintenance who goes by the moniker “Dov Bear” is less complicated. or community property will generally result in a He suggests replacing marriage with the legal concept of larger financial settlement for women than does enforcing the provision of the standard ketubah. pilgashut, or concubinage. halakhically, however, resolutions of marital “You need ritual to get into a kiddushin relationship and property disputes are within the jurisdiction of you need a ritual to get out of a kiddushin relationship, a bet din, unless bet din permits the parties to and that exit ritual requires the man to cooperate. Without resolve them in court.” his cooperation the woman is stuck,” Bear said. “However, Unlike the no-fault judgments of courts in the kiddushin relationship is not the only halachic rela- most american states, the prenuptial agreement tionship that permits men and women to live together and states that the beit din “may take into account the respective responsibilities of the parties for raise a family.” the end of the marriage, as an additional, but not Does that offer less holiness than a traditional halachic exclusive, factor, in determining the distribution marriage? of marital property and support obligations.” “Something is holy if you believe it is holy,” Bear said. it’s not hard to find modern Orthodox YU- “What tradition are we losing? We can still initiate the ordained rabbis who will run to dissuade people pilegesh ritual with a big party.” from putting their divorces in the hands of the Like the prenuptial agreement, eliminating kiddushin Beit din of america — even if they’re not willing would solve the problem only in the future. Unlike a pre- to criticize the beit din publicly. the solution is simple, says rabbi shmuel nuptial agreement, it wouldn’t rely on financial induce- goldin of ahavath torah in englewood and im- ments or the possible enforcement of secular authori- mediate past president of the rCa: don’t check ties, instead ensuring from the beginning that a marriage the boxes on the prenuptial form that makes the couldn’t lead to an agunah situation. beit din binding arbitration for support, custody, However, it’s still too radical a notion for JOFA. or any other non-agunah issues. “We think the halacha is so profound and divinely that’s what he does with the couples he mar- inspired that solutions can and should be found within ries. - LY For more inFormation: 201.907.0493 or visit: www.cedarlane.net halacha,” Heicklen said. Still, “I certainly understand the

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BrieFS In Rome, rioting as Priebke’s body is brought to funeral Italians rioted and shouted “murderer” forgery made by the Jews,” he said in as the hearse carrying the body of Nazi a call to the newspaper from Buenos war criminal Erich Priebke made its way Aires. “Where should he be buried? To to a church in Rome for his funeral. me Israel also would be good, so that The funeral was held Tuesday after they’re happy.” the local police chief overruled an order Asked who “these people” were, he from Rome’s mayor, Ignazio Marino, answered, “the same as we have been banning a funeral in the city for Priebke, talking about,” meaning Jews. who died there last week at 100. Erich Priebke had served 15 years of The funeral was held by the Society of a life sentence in Rome under house St. Pius X, a Catholic order at odds with arrest for his involvement in one of Ita- the church’s hierarchy whose represen- ly’s worst World War II Nazi atrocities, tatives have charged contemporary Jews the March 1944 massacre of 335 men with deicide and whose bishop, Richard and boys, including about 75 Jews, in the Williamson, has made statements deny- Ardeatine Caves south of Rome. ing the Holocaust. Priebke’s body was to “It’s unfair,” Jorge Priebke added, be cremated. referring to the controversy over the Priebke’s son, Jorge Priebke, reacting funeral. “Why don’t these people pay to refusals to provide a venue for the attention to what’s happening in the funeral from Roma’s mayor and officials Middle East, in Syria, in Iran, or even representing Argentina and his father’s to the poor people of Lampedusa who German hometown, told the Italian die in the Mediterranean? But no, they news agency Ansa that his father was “a always pick on someone [for things that victim.” happened] during wartime more than “The case against my father is a 60 years ago.” JTA Wire Service

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Ron Kampeas of California, Berkeley. The article noted from 2004 to 2010. Obama that the couple attended the Reform Con- named her vice chair- WasHInGTon — Janet Yellen is soft-spo- gregation Beth El in the northern Califor- woman of the Federal ken, tough, methodological, flexible — and nia city. Reserve in 2010. Jewish. Beyond that, Yellen’s Jewish connections News reports about Yel- President Obama’s announcement last are not known. It’s not clear if she and her len have focused on her week that he had tapped Yellen, 67, to husband are attached to any Washington- similarities to Bernanke. succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of area synagogue, and local Jewish religious According to a New York the Federal Reserve made news in part leaders are unaware of any affiliation. The Times profile, Yellen because she would be the first woman in lone Jewish organization to note her nomi- intends to continue and the top spot. nation, the World Jewish Congress, made expand his insistence President Obama congratulates Janet Yellen after That very little was made of her Jewish- more of her gender than her faith. on transparency in how nominating her to head the Federal Reserve on Oc- ness likely derives mostly from the fact Profiles quoting her classmates at Brown the Fed arrives at its poli- tober 9. cHIp somodevIlla/GeTTy ImaGes that she would be not the first or second and Yale universities and at Fort Hamilton cies, and prizes precision but at least the fifth Jewish chair of the U.S. High School in her native Brooklyn depict in arriving at formulas to central bank, and the third in a row follow- her as a soft-spoken nerd. assess interest rates. rates amid low unemployment. ing Bernanke and Alan Greenspan. Her parents were Jewish, but one class- Yellen emphasizes unemployment over “Ms. Yellen’s policy orientation has The first Jewish Fed chairman was mate’s memory of her Brooklyn home inflation, and has said she is willing to proven to be flexible and appropriate appointed in the 1930s. He was Eugene evokes an upbringing focused on all-Amer- adjust inflation rates above 2 percent to to the prevailing economic conditions,” Meyer, perhaps better known as the patri- ican traditions. Her mom, Anna Blumen- spur employment. wrote Hooper, who was a staffer with Yel- arch of the family that ran the Washington thal, was a den mother to Cub Scouts, Rich But some colleagues have noted her len on the Fed’s Division of International Post for eight decades. Rubin told Reuters. past embrace of “hawkish” policies. Peter Finance. “I have known her to be a straight Yellen’s Wikipedia entry lists her as Jew- Yellen, who chaired President Bill Clin- Hooper of Deutsche Bank wrote in the shooter, someone whose views are gov- ish based on a reference to a 2001 profile ton’s Council of Economic Advisers in Economist on October 11 that in the 1990s, erned by an objective assessment of the of husband George Akerlof, then a Nobel the 1990s, went on to become president as a member of the Fed’s Open Market data within a reasonable analytical frame- Prize-winning economist at the University of San Francisco’s Federal Reserve Bank Committee, Yellen pushed to raise interest work.” JTa WIRe seRvIce

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Nobel laureates to hold convention in Israel next year More than 30 Nobel Prize winners plan to visit Israel in the summer of 2014 for the first Science and Tech- nology for the Future conference, a joint initiative of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and its Science and Technol- ogy Ministry. The Nobel laureates plan to visit Israel’s universities to meet with budding Israeli scientists. “This will be the first conference of its kind,” said Dr. Roger Kornberg, who is heading the event’s steering committee, according to Israel Hayom. Facebook acquires Israeli startup Onavo

Facebook announced the acquisition of an Israeli mobile analytics startup, Onavo, as part of a larger plan to reduce the number of people without Internet access. Facebook will also turn Onavo’s Tel Aviv office into the company’s first Israeli headquarters. Founded in 2010, Onavo focused on intelligence concerning mobile application data. According to the tech site AllThingsD, the services of Onavo are in line with Facebook CEO Mark Zuck- erberg’s Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring Internet connectivity to billions across the world. “We’re excited to join their team,” Onavo’s co- founder and CEO, Guy Rosen, wrote on the company’s blog. JNs.org

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Breast cancer seminar at Palisades Medical Center October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Palisades Medical Center invites the public to a free education seminar. Attendees will hear experts dis- cuss current research, early detection and preven- tion, and treatment options for breast cancer. Dr. Bret Taback, director of the Breast Center at Palisades Medical Center, and other medical professionals from Palisades Medical Center will be on hand to answer questions. Location is Palisades Medical Center Auditorium, 7600 River Road, North Bergen, on Monday, October 28, 6:30 – 8 p.m. Registration begins at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served. Free transportation available from 60th St. and Bergenline Avenue will be starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information, call Nikki Mederos at (201) 854-5702

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Diane Davis plays two roles. Here, she is the daughter her father, played by Mark Blum, lost to the Shoah.

designer Jenny Mannis outdoes herself ‘The Model Apartment’ with Davis’s fat suit. Without that costume, Davis portrays Dvoirah, the daughter Max MIRIAM RINN Max and Lola thought they were leaving lost in the Holocaust, the perfect daughter behind in Brooklyn. Debbie, their obese, who comes to him in dreams. His living When Max and Lola step into the 1980s mentally ill daughter, has followed them daughter is his nightmare, the receptacle model apartment where they are to spend to Florida. She barges in, making it clear of all his own nightmares. several days until their own Florida retire- that she plans to stay. Lola keeps warning Margulies has gone on to write much ment condo is ready for them, they are that there is no food, but Debbie begins more naturalistic, popular plays such as blown away by the luxury in front of them. chomping on the dry cereal they bought for “Collected Stories,” “Sight Unseen,” and Beautiful furniture, big TV set, the breakfast. Diane Davis imbues Debbie with “Dinner with Friends,” for which he won works. the manic enery and almost thoughtless the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. His earlier work Then they discover that it’s all just for innocence of an uncontrollable child. “You was more experimental, and “The Model show — the refrigerator has no plug, the can’t run away from me,” she cries, as if Apartment” falls into that group. With its television has no guts, the tchotchkes are they were all playing a game. shifts in time, its mixing of living and dead glued down. Nothing works. That’s the But that’s exactly what Max and Lola are characters, its altering tone of tragedy and irst clue that in “The Model Apartment” trying to do, just as American and Israeli comedy, the play is less tidy. things are not quite what they seem. Jews tried to escape the knowledge of the One of the strangest scenes is among Donald Margulies’ 1995 Obie-winning Diane Davis wears a fat suit to play Holocaust for decades before they gave up the most potent. Lola reminisces play, now in revival at Primary Stages, Debbie. Here she is with her mother, and began to tame it through sancti ication about her friendship with Anne Frank 59 East 59th Street, may appear to be a played by Kathryn Grody. and sentimentality. Debbie won’t be tamed, in concentration camp, when she traditional domestic drama at irst, but however. When her young homeless encouraged the Dutch teen to keep it is not that at all. Rather, it is a darkly they’ve been through. Played by Obie African-American boyfriend shows up, another diary about their experiences. comic treatment of the impact of the Award winning actress Kathryn Grody, they start to have sex right then and there. “I was a big character in this book,” Lola Holocaust on the Jews, the burden that Lola is an attractive woman still attracted When Lola tells the story of her friendship boasts. “I gave her the strength to live.” can never be thrown off. to her husband, whom she is accustomed with Anne Frank in Bergen Belsen, Debbie Just two young girls sharing secrets and Max and Lola have traveled from to manipulating through kvetching mockingly ills in every other sentence. This bread crusts, trying to ill the long, idle Brooklyn to their idea of heaven, a and flattery. Max (Mark Blum) is more is a story she has heard many times before. hours. This is the perfect sendup of the retirement development in Florida. reserved, a man who simply wants to In fact, Debbie has her own stories to tell, mythmaking around Anne Frank, the Speaking accented English, with the be able to read his Wall Street Journal in her own Nazi fantasies. “I remember things grandiosity of some survivors, the need to particular combination of fear and peace. Once he sees that the apartment is I never saw,” she says. “Hiding from the turn the worst of the world into a story, grievance that is characteristic of just a front, he goes grumpily to sleep. He Nazis ... night after night... waiting for the something with meaning. Holocaust survivors, they gingerly doesn’t call the agent or demand another Nazis to come.” Less than an hour and a half long, “The examine their new temporary home. place where the appliances work. His The set design by Lauren Halpern Model Apartment” is illed with more such “We are entitled, no?” Lola asks, when response is to hunker down and wait. perfectly captures the bland charm intriguing, discom iting insights than many surveying her new digs, after what A knock at the door soon reveals what of 1980s senior housing, and costume other much-longer Holocaust productions.

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Arts & Culture ‘The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers’

Eric A. Goldman Eshkol as a bureaucrat who somehow found his way to the top. But the film ong ago, leaders of religious insti- provides an insightful portrait of the tutions in the United States real- man, his warmth, love of Yiddishisms, ized that cinema was a compel- and ability to control a cabinet pushing ling way to tell their story. This him to go to war. Lyear you can expect to see many such sto- After Syria attacked and Egypt closed ries. Interestingly enough, Jews, who are the Straits of Tiran to Israel’s south in so much a part of Hollywood filmmaking, the spring of 1967, Eshkol chose to use never seem to fully grasp this potential — diplomacy to tackle the threat to Israel. except, that is, for the Simon Wiesenthal Avner points to these various failed Center. The Los Angeles-based center cre- attempts to get the world powers involved ated Moriah Films in 1982; over the years it on Israel’s behalf when Eshkol and his has reached out to members of the movie cabinet finally attacked, on that fateful community to provide narration in their morning of June 5. 13 films. Some of the documentary films Avner, who would later represent they produced have been stronger than Israel as ambassador to Britain, Ireland, others, but the care and dedication paid and Australia, offers some fascinating to the project by Rabbi Marvin Hier, the anecdotes. He talks about Yitzhak Rabin’s Moriah Films staff, and producer/director early months in Washington as Israel Richard Trank deserves not only our atten- ambassador to the United States, and the tion but our thanks. The center has pro- frustration Foreign Minister Abba Eban felt duced such Oscar-winning films as “Geno- cide” and “The Long Way Home,” as well

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and defense minister Moshe Dayan meet their troops on the Golan Heights dur- You are made ing the Yom Kippur War, on October to feel a part 21, 1973. Israeli Government Press Office of Israel, its a foray to be too dangerous. But as Avner described it, Begin “had a sense of Jewish history, and how history,” and he pushed his case for taking its leaders control of the Temple Mount, and Dayan and Eshkol finally agreed. We know the believed rest of the story; Avner tells us how he they were delayed his departure for the United States long enough so he could be at the Western representing the Wall, newly back in Jewish hands. entire Jewish Avner continues with a look at Golda Meir. As endearing as the first part of the people. film was, I wanted more about Golda. The film does focus on the special relationship as last year’s “It Is No Dream” about The- forged between the two Jews, Secretary odor Herzl. Its newest film is “The Prime of State Henry Kissinger and the prime Ministers: The Pioneers.” Prime Minister Golda Meir meets with Israeli troops on the Golan Heights during minister, but some of the intrigue between The film is based on Shlomo Avner’s the Yom Kippur War. Israeli Gov Press Office Golda and Richard Nixon was missing. I book, “The Prime Ministers: An wanted a broader picture of the woman, Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership,” because Rabin, not he, became Eshkol’s brings you in and makes you feel as if you and a deeper understanding of how she and it is the first of a two-part project to spokesperson. Avner tells how Charles de are part of this epic. Once it does, Trank coped with the growing dissatisfaction adapt Avner’s work for cinema. Avner Gaulle instituted an embargo against Israel does a fine job weaving the storytelling with her leadership. These were some of was a British immigrant to Israel in 1947, on the first day of the Six Day War, cutting Avner into the footage that he puts on the the moments that made “A Woman Called who worked his way up in the Foreign off Israel’s ability to acquire spare parts screen. There is a good balance between Golda” so mesmerizing. Ministry, where he served as an aide and for the armaments and planes that France anecdotes and history, and eyewitness In watching “The Prime Ministers: The speech writer and witnessed first-hand had sold to Israel. After the war, knowing Avner is masterful in showing how these Pioneers,” you are made to feel a part interactions between the key figures full well that he needed a new supplier of various encounters influenced events. of Israel, its history, and how its leaders who helped shape the state of Israel. The arms for Israel, Eshkol flew to Texas to One of the more interesting stories is believed they were representing the entire film begins with his wonderful insights meet with President Lyndon Johnson. The how Menachem Begin, then the Knesset’s Jewish people. It is a fine effort. Leonard into Levi Eshkol, who followed David rapport between the leaders had not been opposition leader, was brought into Nimoy provides the voice of Levi Eshkol, Ben-Gurion to become the third Israeli great until the two of them — the rancher Eshkol’s cabinet on the eve of the Six Sandra Bullock is Golda Meir, Michael prime minister — it was Eskhol who led and the former kibbutznik — were on Day War. There he was, sitting around a Douglas is Yitzhak Rabin, and Christoph the country during the Six Day War. In their knees in a barn on Johnson’s ranch, table with his political enemies, and once Waltz is Menachem Begin. The film opens the long list of 1960s Israeli personalities discussing cows. At that point, Israel Jordan had entered the war he asked his today at the Quad Theater in New York. that includes Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak found a new friend and arms provider — colleagues to authorize sending troops Rabin, and Yigal Allon, Eshkol typically the United States of America. into the Old City of Jerusalem. Eric Goldman of Teaneck is the author gets little notice. We think of Dayan or Avner tells his story on camera, and Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, hero of “The American Jewish Story through Rabin as the heroes of that war, and it does take a while before the narration of the 1956 Sinai campaign, believed such Cinema.”

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(201) 768-5112 or www. new Jersey offers play Herb Keinon rachelCoalition.org. tbenv.org. time, music, storytime, COURTESY JCCP/CBT snacks, and crafts for alzheimer’s workshop Shabbat in Wayne: moms and dads of Israeli correspondent in Wayne: the wayne temple Beth tikvah newborns through in Paramus: herb YMCa offers a family offers tot shabbat for 3-year-olds to connect Keinon, who has worked education workshop for children up to 8 and their with each other and the at the Jerusalem Post those caring for an aging families, with stories, Jewish community, at for 25 years, looks at parent or relative with songs, parades, and Congregation B’nai israel, how israel will cope alzheimer’s disease or prayers, 7:15 p.m. Bring 10 a.m. administered with syria burning, other dementia, 1:30 p.m. candlesticks; candles by JFnnJ’s synagogue egypt imploding, iran sponsored by home will be provided. snacks Leadership initiative, nuclearizing, and the instead senior Care. served at oneg. Casual funded by the henry and Palestinians negotiating, refreshments. the Metro dress. 950 Preakness Marilyn taub Foundation. at the Jewish Community YMCas of the Oranges ave. (973) 595-6565. 53 Palisade ave. (201) Center of Paramus/ is a partner of the YM- 265-2272, (201) 820-3917, Congregation Beth Ywha of north Jersey. Saturday or [email protected]. tikvah, 7 p.m. east 304 1 Pike drive. (973) 200- 0855 or (973) 595-0100. october 19 Midland ave. (201) 262- 7691. Hadassah meets: tri Shabbat in Maywood: Boro hadassah meets student rabbi ellen OCT. The Museum of Monday at the JCC of Paramus/ Jaffe-Gill and adult Jewish Heritage — october 21 Congregation Beth education chair Martin A Living Memorial tikvah to hear herb springer facilitate a look 20 hahn discuss “the at abraham’s life, from to the Holocaust in Jewish soul,” 2 p.m. his early years to his Manhattan hosts its annual Mah refreshments. east 304 first wife, at a lunch and Jongg Marathon benefit, Sunday, Midland ave. (201) 385- learn following shabbat 7289. services, 10 a.m. 34 west October 20, from noon to 5 p.m. Magnolia ave. (201) 845- All proceeds benefit the museum. 7550 or www.rtbi-online. Michael R. Dressler Wednesday org. Raffle prizes. Optional lunch. october 23 Importance of wills: Eric Goldman Bergen County (646) 437-4338 or mahjongg@ surrogate Michael r. mjhnyc.org. CaROLINE EaRP author in Teaneck: dr. School open house in dressler discusses the eric Goldman, adjunct New Milford: solomon importance of wills, associate professor schechter day school of probate procedures, course led by rabbi neil 1-3 p.m. refreshments. of cinema at Yeshiva Bergen County invites estate tax, and powers tow, through October 27, 225 Pompton road. University and the parents of prospective of attorney at temple 11 a.m. 682 harristown (973) 956-1220 or Carla@ Jewish theological students to an open Beth el in hackensack, road. (201) 652-6624 or CampVeritans.com. seminary and film critic house to meet the 10 a.m. refreshments. email [email protected]. for the Jewish standard, faculty, administration, Games in Pompton and students, and tour Rabbi Lawrence 280 summit ave. (201) discusses his new book 342-3045. School open house in Lakes: the Jewish “the american Jewish the facility, 7-9 p.m. (201) Troster Teaneck: Ma’ayanot Congregation of story through Cinema,” 262-9898, ext. 213, or COURTESY CBS adult ed in Fair Lawn: Yeshiva high school Kinnelon-Congregation at Congregation Beth [email protected]. rabbi Baruch Zeilicovich for Girls holds an open Beth shalom hosts sholom in teaneck. Shabbat in Teaneck: continues “rethinking house. registration, game day, including Books for sale. dinner, Thursday rabbi Lawrence troster the Covenant” at temple 12:30 p.m.; program at Clue, Monopoly, Boggle, 6:30 p.m., program presents “wrapped Beth sholom in Fair Lawn 1. 1650 Palisade ave. scattergories, playing at 7:15. 354 Maitland october 24 in a robe of Light, a with “the Boundaries nina Bieler, (201) 833- cards, and mah jongg, ave. (201) 836-2479 or Jewish response to of interpretation of the 4307, ext. 255 or www. 1-4 p.m. 21 Passaic [email protected]. Hair donation in energy Conservation Covenant,” 10:30 a.m. maayanot.org. ave. (973) 492-0751 or Tenafly: in conjunction and Climate Change” Program based on the [email protected]. with national Breast at Congregation Beth theme of the hartman Charity walk: the Tuesday Cancer awareness sholom for a lunch and institute’s rabbinic torah Friendship Circle october 22 Month, the Kaplen learn program, 12:30 p.m. study seminar. 40-25 of Passaic County JCC on the Palisades Charge for lunch; no Fair Lawn ave. (201) holds its annual sponsors Locks of cost for lecture at 1:15. 797-9321, ext. 415 or Friendswalk4Friends Love as it accepts hair 345 Maitland ave. (201) [email protected]. at wayne Valley high donations in the waltuch 833-2620 or office@ school, 1-4 p.m. Fun, Gallery, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. cbsteaneck.org. food, and entertainment haircuts provided by for the whole family. tenafly’s BBC salon. Proceeds benefit the appointments, Marie at Sunday Friendship Circle of BBC salon, (201) 567- october 20 Passaic County. (973) Randy Susan Meyers 0007 or call the JCC 694-6274 or www. PHOTO PROVIDED seiden wellness Center, atlantic City trip: friendswalk4friends.com. (201) 408-1441. Paramus Bat sheva Yiddish film in Franklin Novelist at Livingston hadassah hosts a bus Fall festival in North Lakes: temple emanuel luncheon: randy susan trip to resorts hotel. Haledon: Camp Veritans of north Jersey screens Meyers talks about Rabbi Neil Tow Bus leaves the JCC of holds its annual fall the 1941 Yiddish comedy her first novel, “the Paramus/Congregation festival with activities “the Great advisor,” kabbalah: the Glen rock Murderer’s daughters,” Beth tikvah’s parking lot including hayrides, arts 2 p.m. refreshments. 558 Jewish Center continues at the rachel Coalition’s at 8:30 a.m. $25; includes and crafts, and music, high Mountain road. “discover Kabbalah,” a annual “women to

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Saturday Making retirement years meaningful October 26 The Orthodox Union, in collabora- Shabbat in Fort tion with STAJE (a communal orga- Lee: Congregation nization seeking to help make the Gesher Shalom/Jewish retirement-age years meaningful Community Center for American Jews) and Congre- of Fort Lee offers tot Shabbat and a family gation Bnai Yeshurun of Teaneck, service, 11 a.m. 1449 announces the SAGE (Seniors Book discussion in Anderson Ave. (201) 947- Actively Growing and Exploring) ini- Washington Township: 1735. Temple Beth Or’s People tiative. The four-week series will fea- of the Book series ture leading rabbinic, communal, meets to discuss James Sunday and mental health professionals and McBride’s book, “The october 27 Color of Water: A Black focus on enhancing the Jewish com- Man’s Tribute to His Holiday boutique in munity’s educational opportunities. founding principal of the Frisch Strengthen Your Empathic Listening White Mother,” 7:30 p.m. Tenafly: The Temple The program will be held on School in Paramus and the Long & Communication Skills: An Empa- 56 Ridgewood Road. Sinai Early Childhood Monday afternoons — October 21, (201) 664-7422 or www. Island Hebrew Academy in Great thy Labyrinth Workshop” with Marc Education Committee templebethornj.org. November 4 and 18, and Decem- Neck, tackle the question “Do Sup- Weiner, comedian, puppeteer, tele- offers a boutique including jewelry, ber 2 — at Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West plements Really Do a Body Good? vision producer, and advocate; and Friday clothing, toys, children’s Englewood Ave., in Teaneck. (Bnai A Review of Some Vitamins, Min- “The Biblical and Historical Back- october 25 accessories, and home Yeshurun is a member of the OU.) erals and Essential Nutrients?” on ground of the Jewish Holy Days” décor, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 1 Sessions begin at noon with regis- November 4. with Reuben Ebrahimoff, who is Engle Street. (201) 568- Shabbat in Closter: 6867. tration and lunch, the program fol- The November 18 session includes well known on OU.org, or at Hato- Temple Beth El invites lows, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. “Boomers-Planning for Retirement rahman.com. young children and their families to Tot Shabbat The series opens on October 21 and Later Life: Estate and Financial The program costs $20 for four for songs, stories, and In New York with Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Planning” with Martin M. Shenk- sessions or $10 per workshop. For crafts, led by Rabbi Congregation Bnai Yeshurun dis- man, a lawyer in private practice information, call (212) 613-8300. David S. Widzer, Cantor cussing “The Secrets to a Long in Paramus and New York City, and Each session will begin at noon Rica Timman, and Music Saturday Lisa, 5:15 p.m. Monthly october 26 Life,” and “Grandparenting: Get it “Chanukah: Recognizing the Mira- with registration and lunch, fol- family service at 6:45. 221 Right and Everybody Wins,” with cles Around Us,” with Rabbi Benja- lowed by the program from 12:30 Schraalenburgh Road, Alex Bailey, a Northern New Jersey min Yudin of Congregation Shomrei to 2:30 p.m. Although walk-ins are Closter. (201) 768-5112. licensed clinical psychologist. Torah in Fair Lawn. welcome, organizers suggest that Shabbat in Emerson: Registered dietitian Devora Wech- The workshop concludes participants register online at www. Congregation B’nai ter and Rabbi Menahem Meier, on December 2 with “How to oucommunity.org. Israel offers its first Innovative Shabbat service with a celebration of the music, teachings, and life story of Rabbi Anat Cohen Shlomo Carlebach, Photo provided 7:30 p.m. Both Rabbi Debra Orenstein and Concert in Suffern: Genealogy programs in Tenafly Cantor Lenny Mandel had World-renowned personal relationships clarinetist Anat Cohen The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades presents two Ourselves,” at 1:30 p.m., offers tech- with Carlebach. 53 performs in concert programs on Jewish genealogy with geneal- niques for conducting in-depth searches. Palisade Ave. (201) 265- with legendary music 2272 or www.bisrael.com. impresario George Wein ogy expert Ron Arons on Sunday, November The second class, “Jewish Genealogy: at Rockland Community 3. Arons will teach participants how to search Finding Living People on the Internet,” College, Cultural Arts beyond names, dates, and places to help at 3 p.m., gives websites and examples to Center, 8 p.m. Sponsored by the JCC Rockland. answer questions about their ancestry. expand family history research. 145 College Road. (845) The first class, “Jewish Genealogy: Under- Call (201) 569-7900 or jccotp.org. Ron Arons 362-4400 or www. standing Our Families, Understanding jccrockland.org.

Cantor Jenna Daniels Singles Art in Teaneck PHOTO PROVIDED Friday Shabbat in Wyckoff: Lewis Cohen will present works Cantor Jenna Daniels, October 18 by his wife, the late Marilyn a fifth year student at Cohen, at the Teaneck General the Jewish Theological Shabbat in Clifton: The Seminary, will be North Jersey Jewish Store on Sunday, October 20, joined by Cantor Ilan Singles Meetup Group, from 4 to 6 p.m. Cohen’s collec- Mamber and the Kol 45- 60+, meets at the tion includes the “Celebration Clifton Jewish Center, Rishon Adult and Zemer of American Women,” where Rishon Teen choirs, at 6:30 p.m. Services, Temple Beth Rishon, dinner, activities, and she used paint to tell the story 8 p.m. The program discussion with Rabbi of immigrants in each one of the includes classical and Bob Mark. Dinner American states. reservations, (973) 772- contemporary selections. The store is at 502a Cedar Daniels will lead the 3131 or meetup.com, service and a concert will search for North jersey Lane in Teaneck. Refreshments follow. 585 Russell Ave. Jewish Singles at the will be served. CJC. (201) 891-4466 or www. For information, call (201) bethrishon.org. A painting by Marilyn Cohen. 530-5046.

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OU seminar on reducing student debt

David Siegel of Citibank leads a free semi- cuts payments by a third; a companion nar, “Reducing Student Debt Payments,” program allows the borrower to dis- for the Orthodox Union Job Board on charge any remaining debt after a set Tuesday, October 22, from 5:30 to 6:30 minimum of qualified payments. p.m. at OU headquarters, 11 Broadway, Siegel, a home lending specialist at New York City. Citibank who works with residential The program offers several federal mortgages, previously worked as a bank- programs that let the borrower reduce ruptcy attorney and helped clients with monthly payments and discharge remain- mortgage, consumer, and student debt- ing debt after a set period of time. This related issues. includes the Department of Education’s To join the class live or on-line, reg- recently introduced Income Based Repay- ister at http://www.eventzilla.net/web/ ment Program, which lets borrowers event?eventid=2139008534. A donation calculate monthly payments based on of $5 or more is appreciated and can be income and household size, regardless of made online. the amount of debt. For information email [email protected] Another program, Pay as You Earn, or call (212) 613-8280.

Jersey shul offers Israeli celebration

The Fountainheads, the Israeli singing group, will headline a family festival concert at Adath Israel Congregation in Law- renceville on Sunday, Octo- A cross Down ber 20. The concert marks the 1. Locust, e.g. 1. What Spielberg makes, for short beginning of a year-long cel- 5. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and 2. ___ HaChareidis ebration of the congregation’s Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) 3. Like the Negev 90th anniversary and 25 years 9. Egyptian resort where Israeli and 4. ___ radio (Dennis Prager’s medium) of service from its rabbi, Dan- Palestinian negotiating teams met 5. Undercoat of paint iel Grossman. 13. Theory of Relativity, e.g. 6. Surround 14. Bible’s first grandkid 7. Author/linguist Chomsky Sunday’s festivities also will 15. Celestial body with a tail 8. US IRS ID include a street fair to show- 16. “Cosmos” creator 9. Promoter case Israeli vendors and a 18. Capital of Russia? 10. “I’m mean and green, and I ___” gourmet middle eastern lun- 19. Talmudic tractate about the census (“Little Shop of Horrors” lyric) cheon included in the price of 20. Hospital signs 11. “Lost in Yonkers” character 21. Rabbi Dov ___ of Mezeritch 12. “This is only ___!” (radio message) admission. Doors will open at The Fountainheads 22. Strove for 15. Woody Allen’s “___ and 3 p.m. Kol Ha Layla, the Rut- 23. “Pajama Game” composer Misdemeanors” gers University Jewish student 28. Computer programmer Swartz 17. Forbes 400 member Haim ___ a cappella choir, will open the Fountainheads concert at 4:30. 29. Photographer Goldin and others 20. Home of a famous Gaon For information call Ellen Botwin at (609) 896-4977. 30. A son of Noah 22. Month before Nisan 33. Be aware of 23. Garden implement 34. Bava ___ (Talmudic tractate) 24. Kinsler and Ziering 36. “From a long ___ of rabbis” 25. Kibbutz output, often 37. Uri Geller talent, supposedly 26. First word of “Blowin’ in the Wind” 38. Lerner and Loewe’s 1958 hit musical 27. Memoirist immigrant Mary Fellowship for working journalists 39. ___ and lox 30. Rosh Hashana is this kind of holiday 40. It was annexed in 1981 31. Janis Ian album “Working Without 43. Bais Yaakov and Solomon Schechter ___” The FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz faculty to explore both the history of 46. Give an uzi to 32. Brooks and Blanc for the Study of Professional Ethics) pro- journalism and the ethical issues facing 47. Borneo beasts 34. Graham and Maher gram of the Museum of Jewish Heritage working journalists today. 48. Game plan 35. “It’s___!” (wow!) — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is All program costs, including interna- 53. Tier at Teddy Kollek stadium 36. ___ Ba’Omer 54. Behrman House competitor 38. Sergey Brin’s company open to working journalists and journal- tional and European travel, lodging, and 55. Swoon over 39. Synagogue platform ists in graduate school who wish to take food, are covered. 56. “You go not till ___ you up a glass”: 40. Hopeless causes part in an all-expenses-paid fellowship The program for FASPE Journalism Hamlet 41. The ADL fights it on contemporary journalism ethics in will run from May 25 to June 5. To be 57. B’nei ___ (Heavily Orthodox city) 42. Second-edition section Europe. The program is designed and eligible, applicants must be enrolled in 58. Fabulous flyers 43. Kind of year that isn’t lunar 59. Kinley, e.g. 44. The “Ani Maamin” (I believe), e.g. led by faculty from Columbia Universi- a graduate program or be working jour- 60. Szechwan sauces 45. Total chaos ty’s Graduate School of Journalism. nalists who completed their undergradu- 48. Shrug-eliciting, maybe Applications are being accepted for a ate degrees between June 2009 and June 49. Word processor settings fellowship that uses the conduct of jour- 2013. Completed applications must be 50. Shekel alternative nalists in Nazi Germany as a launching received by January 6, 2014. Candidates 51. Ashen 52. Won’t be quiet point for an intensive two-week summer of all religious, ethnic, and cultural back- 54. Opposite of ‘tain’t program on contemporary journalism grounds are encouraged to apply. The solution for last week’s ethics. For information, go to www.FASPE. puzzle is on page 67. Fellowships include a trip from New info or email Thorin R. Tritter, FASPE’s York to Berlin, Krakow, and Auschwitz, managing director, at ttritter@FASPE. where students will work with leading info.

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oBituaries Lucille Rosenblum Mazal tov Carolyn Schwartz Krawitz Lucille Rose Rosenblum, who lived of Wyckoff and brother of Elyse Bloom in the Bronx and Allendale, died Joseph, celebrated becom- Elyse Lynn Bloom of East September 6. Mazal tov to Barnett Design, Inc., ing a bar mitzvah on Brunswick, formerly of Paterson, Before retiring, she was a of Ramsey, which was selected October 12 at Temple Beth died October 9. Arrangements were bookkeeper for Richard Brown again as a multiple winner in the Rishon in Wyckoff. by Louis Suburban Chapel, in New York City. She was a past 2013 American Graphic Design Fair Lawn. president of a B’nai B’rith chapter in awards. Of the 8,000 entries this Caroline Lobel New York. year, 15 percent were recognized Caroline Lobel, daughter of Dr. John H. Cohn Predeceased by her parents and with an honor, with few studios Deborah and Gregg Lobel Dr. John H. Cohn of Teaneck died a brother, Alfred, she is survived by receiving multiple awards. of Demarest, celebrated October 12. a niece, Carolyn Shenberg (Saul); Among their award-winning becoming a bat mitzvah on Born in Bochum, Germany, he a nephew, Warren Shenberg; and entries was the End of Year Debbie Barnett October 12 at Temple Beth was a physician in New York City for great nieces and nephews, Gary and Appeal for Jewish Family Service El of Northern Valley 48 years before retiring in 2007. Sharon Shenberg, Pamela and Rabbi of Bergen & North Hudson in Teaneck. in Closter. He is survived by his wife of 49 Craig Axler, and Alan and Meryl To date, the Ramsey company has received 77 years, Marcia; a son, Nathaniel Shenberg. honors and awards. Sam Potolsky (Amanda) of Scarsdale, N.Y.; a sister, Arrangements were by Gutterman Sam Benjamin Potolsky, Marion Taube (Mike) of Pittsburgh; and Musicant Jewish Funeral son of Bethlee and Marc and grandchildren Dylan, Trevor, Directors, Hackensack. B’nai Mitzvah Joshua Hacklander Potolsky of Oradell and and Nicole. Joshua Noam Hacklander, brother of Drew, celebrated Donations can be sent to a char- Stanley Shafer Rebecca Brandon son of Beth and Frank becoming a bar mitzvah on ity of choice. Arrangements were Stanley G. Shafer, 79, of Fair Lawn, Hacklander of Tenafly October 12 at Temple Avo- by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish died October 14. Arrangements were and brother of Zachary, dat Shalom in River Edge. Funeral Directors, Hackensack. by Louis Suburban Chapel, celebrated becoming a bar His grandparents are Vivian Fair Lawn. mitzvah on October 12 at Potolsky, Gerald Potolsky Louis Farber Temple Emanu-El in Closter. and Rose Annunziata, and Louis I. Farber, who lived in Jersey Nathan Shatzoff Linda and the late Fred City, New York City, and Teaneck, Nathan Shatzoff, 95, of Paramus, Paul Jacobs Shaffer. died October 10. formerly of Hackensack, died Paul Jacobs, son of Debo- Born in Jersey City, he was a October 9. rah and Alexander Jacobs Abigail Reissner World War II Army veteran. Before Predeceased by his wife of 65 of Ridgewood, celebrated Abigail Reissner, daughter retiring in 1997, he was a financial years, Adele, neé Tondow, he is Rebecca Brandon, becoming a bar mitzvah on of Julie Reissner of Emer- analyst for Allied Building Products. survived by his children, Toby daughter of Cari and Eric October 12 at Temple Israel son, twin sister of Heather, Predeceased by three brothers, he Feinberg (Carl), Judy Munoz Brandon of Westwood and and Jewish Community and sister of Tyler, cel- is survived by his wife, Helene, neé ( Jack), and Fred. sister of Sarah, celebrated Center in Ridgewood. ebrated becoming a bat Sheveck, and a son, Aram. An Air Force World War II veteran, becoming a bat mitzvah mitzvah on October 12 at Contributions can be sent to the before retiring, he was a supervisor on October 12 at Temple Jacob Krawitz Temple Beth Or in Washing- Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. for the United States Postal Service Emanuel of the Pascack Jacob Krawitz, son of Drs. ton Township. Arrangements were by Gutterman and a member of the board of Valley in Woodcliff Lake. Lawrence Krawitz and and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc- Temple Beth El in Hackensack. Heather Reissner tors, Hackensack. Donations can be made to the Celebrate your simcha Heather Reissner, daugh- American Cancer Society or Temple we welcome announcements of readers’ bar/bat mitzvahs, ter of Julie Reissner of engagements, marriages and births. announcements are free, Dr. Stanley Hurst Beth El. Arrangements were by but there is a $10 charge for photographs, which must be Emerson, twin sister of accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope if the Stanley D. Hurst, DDS, of Fort Lee, Louis Suburban Chapel, photograph is to be returned. there is a $10 charge for mazal Abigail, and sister of Tyler, died October 13. Fair Lawn. tov announcements plus a $10 photograph charge. Please include a daytime telephone number and send to: celebrated becoming a bat He was born in Brooklyn and was nJ Jewish Media Group mitzvah on October 12 at a veteran of the Korean conflict. Jerome Some 1086 teaneck rd. Temple Beth Or in Washing- teaneck, nJ 07666 He is survived by his wife of Jerome Some of Hackensack died [email protected] ton Township. 54 years, Marcia, neé Koch; his October 8. Alec Sass children, Wendy Levine (Richard), Born in Bayonne, he was a MOHEL Lori Bushell (Victor), and Terry World War II Army Air Corps Alec Sass, son of Garena Rabbi Gerald Chirnomas Sanders (Bill); and grandchildren, veteran, earning the American TRAINED AT & CERTIFIED BY HADASSAH HOSPITAL, JERUSALEM and Steven Sass of Norwood CERTIFIED BY THE CHIEF RABBINATE OF JERUSALEM Jordan, Alexandra, Joshua, Abigail, Campaign, WW II Victory, and and brother of Sydney, (973) 334-6044 Hannnah, Austin, Taylor, and Asiatic Pacific Campaign medals. A www.rabbichirnomas.com celebrated becoming a bar Brooke. retail merchant, he owned Somes mitzvah on October 12 at Contributions can be sent to Uniforms for many years. He was Temple Emanu-El Englewood Hospital and Medical a member of Temple Beth El of in Closter. Center dialysis unit. Arrangements Hackensack and the Hackensack Simone Steinberg were by Gutterman and Musicant Chamber of Commerce. Jewish Funeral Directors, He is survived by his wife, Simone Brooke Steinberg, Hackensack. Diane, neé Russo; sons Lee and daughter of Franci and Mediterranean Jason; a daughter, Andrea (Duane); Adam Steinberg of Tenafly grandchildren, Heschel (Frances), and sister of Madeline and Obituaries are prepared with Pickles Joshua, and Candace; and a great- Noah, celebrated becoming information provided grandchild, Aurora. a bat mitzvah on October 12 by funeral homes. Correcting Contributions may be made to the at Temple Sinai of Bergen errors is the responsibility of Jerome S. Some Memorial Fund c/o County in Tenafly. the funeral home. Bergen County Housing Health and

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Human Services Center in Hackensack. Robert Schoem’s Menorah Chapel, Inc Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant SAUL L . CAYNE Jewish Funeral Directors Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack. Family Owned & managed Lucille Rosenblum CAYNE, Saul L., 89, of Teaneck, N.J., and formerly Generations of Lasting Service to the Jewish Community Lucille Rose Rosenblum, who lived Iris Wielkotz of Boynton Beach and Coconut Creek, Fla., passed • Serving NJ, NY, FL & • Our Facilities Will Accommodate in the Bronx and Allendale, died Iris Wielkotz, neé Rudnick, 83, of Clifton, formerly away Tuesday, Oct. 8th. Throughout USA Your Family’s Needs September 6. of Paterson, Fair Lawn, and Boca Raton, Fla., died • Prepaid & Preneed Planning • Handicap Accessibility From Large Saul grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., and Brooklyn, • Graveside Services Parking Area Before retiring, she was a October 9. N.Y., the fifth of five children of Joseph and Lena. After Gary Schoem – Manager - NJ Lic. 3811 bookkeeper for Richard Brown Predeceased by her husband, Leonard, she is graduation from Samuel Tilden High School, he served in in New York City. She was a past survived by sons Craig (Linda) and Steven (Susan); Conveniently Located World War II in the Army Air Corps, stationed in Italy. W-150 Route 4 East • Paramus, NJ 07652 president of a B’nai B’rith chapter in siblings, Ralph Rudnick (Barbara), and Ruth Rudnick; 201.843.9090 1.800.426.5869 New York. and grandchildren, Jason, Matthew, and Daniel. He was a graduate of New York University. Predeceased by her parents and Donations can be made to the Vitas Hospice He managed department stores in several states and a brother, Alfred, she is survived by Charitable Fund, Livingston. Arrangements were by later owned Mademoiselle et Monsieur Fashions Ltd., a niece, Carolyn Shenberg (Saul); Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn. in Rochester, N.Y. After his retirement to Florida, he a nephew, Warren Shenberg; and pursued a longtime interest in sculpting. great nieces and nephews, Gary and Stephen Wien He was married for 57 years to his beloved wife Sharon Shenberg, Pamela and Rabbi Stephen Saul Wien of Alpine and Boca Raton, Fla., Sheila Kaplan Cayne, who predeceased him in Established 1902 Craig Axler, and Alan and Meryl died October 12. Shenberg. He was born in Brooklyn and was a member of the 2009. He is survived by their four children: Howard Headstones, Duplicate Markers and Cemetery Lettering With Personalized and Top Quality Service Arrangements were by Gutterman Army Reserves. Before retiring in 2006, he was a stock- (Caroline) of Bethesda, Md.; Jenny (Georges and Musicant Jewish Funeral broker for Wien Securities Corp., formerly M.S. Wien Cohen) of Morganville, N.J., Louise (Ivo Varbanov) Please call 1-800-675-5624 Directors, Hackensack. and Co., in New York City for 56 years. of Cresskill, N.J.; and Jonathan ( Jana) of Potomac, www.kochmonument.com He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Edith; his Md.; nine grandchildren: Brian (Elizabeth), Allison 76 Johnson Ave., Hackensack, NJ 07601 Stanley Shafer children, Larry ( Julie) of Norwood, Brett (Kerri Baron) (Doug), Elizabeth (Max), Jocelyn, Hailey, Lindsay, Stanley G. Shafer, 79, of Fair Lawn, of Greenwich, Conn., and Nicole Naidrich ( Joseph) of Jason, Gillian, and Evan; and 13 nieces and nephews. died October 14. Arrangements were Tenafly; a sister, Sondra Goldring of Boca Raton, Fla.; Funeral services were held at Goldstein Funeral by Louis Suburban Chapel, and his grandchildren Jake, Alex, Ryan, Tyler, Emma, Fair Lawn. and James. Chapel in Edison, N.J., with burial at Beth Israel Contributions can be sent to St. Jude’s Children’s Cemetery in Woodbridge, N.J. Memorial donations Planning in advance is a part of our lives. Nathan Shatzoff Hospital or the Melanoma Research Foundation, Wash- may be made to the American Diabetes Association We spend a lifetime planning for milestones such as Nathan Shatzoff, 95, of Paramus, ington, D.C. at www.diabetes.org. weddings, homeownership, our children’s education, retirement, vacations, and insurance to protect our formerly of Hackensack, died Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jew- loved ones. October 9. ish Funeral Directors, Hackensack. Predeceased by his wife of 65 End-of-Life issues are another milestone. You make arrangements at your convenience, without years, Adele, neé Tondow, he is obligation and all funds are secured in a separate survived by his children, Toby Briefs account in your name only. Feinberg (Carl), Judy Munoz Call our Advance Planning Director for an appointment ( Jack), and Fred. to see for yourself what peace of mind you will receive An Air Force World War II veteran, Limmud debut in Peru Petition urging in return. before retiring, he was a supervisor for the United States Postal Service draws more than 600 D.C.’s Eli’s Restaurant and a member of the board of More than 600 participants attended the first Limmud to relocate GUTTERMAN AND MUSICANT Temple Beth El in Hackensack. educational experience in Peru on Sunday. JEWISHFUNERALDIRECTORS Donations can be made to the Limud Peru, held in Lima, featured 40 sessions for the WAsHiNGTON — Eli’s Restaurant, a popular kosher eat- 800-522-0588 American Cancer Society or Temple 450 adults and 160 children and teens on hand. The chil- ery in Washington D.C. frequented by politicians, lobby- Beth El. Arrangements were by dren took part in workshops on Judaism and the envi- ists, and government workers, may have a date with the Louis Suburban Chapel, ronment, soccer, and dancing. wrecking ball. WIEN& WIEN, INC. Fair Lawn. The Jewish Association of Peru, Leon Pinelo College, According to a petition being circulated on Change. MEMORIALCHAPELS Hebraica and Hanoar Hatzioni partnered to produce org, its “current storefront will be demolished as part of Jerome Some Limud Peru under the sponsorship of the American Jew- a redevelopment plan.” 800-322-0533 Jerome Some of Hackensack died ish Joint Distribution Committee and Limmud Interna- The petition’s signers want the owners to know “how 402 PARK STREET, HACKENSACK, NJ 07601 October 8. tional. More than 15 Jewish-owned companies and busi- important it is that they find a new location in DC and ALAN L. MUSICANT, Mgr., N.J. Lic. No. 2890 Born in Bayonne, he was a nesses underwrote the daylong event. continue to serve the downtown Jewish community.” MARTIN D. KASDAN, N.J. Lic. No. 4482 World War II Army Air Corps Limmud Jewish learning events have now been held in The restaurant has been serving corned beef sand- IRVING KLEINBERG, N.J. Lic. No. 2517 veteran, earning the American more than 65 communities and 29 countries worldwide. wiches, hamburgers, and soups at its location near Campaign, WW II Victory, and Among the sessions offered in the Peruvian capital DuPont Circle, at the southeast corner of the intersec- Advance Planning Conferences Conveniently Arranged Asiatic Pacific Campaign medals. A were “Superman, Federman, Spiderman: the Jewish tion of N and 20th streets, NW, since 2004. at Our Funeral Home or in Your Own Home retail merchant, he owned Somes influence on Comics” and Argentine-Israeli Gabriel ben Efforts to speak with the restaurant’s management GuttermanMusicantWien.com Uniforms for many years. He was Tasgal’s “Connecting with Israel through its Humor.” were unsuccessful. a member of Temple Beth El of Peru’s Jewish community of 2,500, which is centered At least one other kosher restaurant is open in down- Hackensack and the Hackensack in Lima, features three synagogues and a Jewish day town Washington - in the local JCC. JTA Wire service Chamber of Commerce. school with nearly 400 students. JTA Wire service He is survived by his wife, Diane, neé Russo; sons Lee and Jason; a daughter, Andrea (Duane); grandchildren, Heschel (Frances), Joshua, and Candace; and a great- grandchild, Aurora. www.jstandard.com Contributions may be made to the Jerome S. 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n 1 First graders at Yavneh Academy joined more than a million people in 79 countries celebrating International Dot Day. Yavneh’s celebration of creativity, courage, and collaboration included reading “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds, inspiring the children to make dots on iPads, which were shared globally. Courtesy Yavneh

n 2 More than 20 teens attended Temple Emanu-El of Closter’s F2F get-together at Tappan Golf’s Go- Karting. The group also meets at the shul to do community service projects. Courtesy Temple Emanu-El

n 3 Last month, Wildes & Weinberg, P.C.’s managing partner, Michael Wildes, who is a former mayor of Englewood, was at a book signing at the Friars Club in Manhattan to celebrate the release of “A Mayor’s Life” by a former New York City mayor, David Dinkins. Courtesy Michael Wildes

n 4 Author Bob Nesoff, center, a former president of the New Milford Jewish Center/ Congregation Beth Tikvah, now the newly merged JCC of Paramus/ Congregation Beth Tikvah, holds a copy of his novel, “Spyder Hole,” which he discussed at a recent book club meeting 3 4 at the shul. Among those with him, from left, are Myrna Levine, Irene Reiss, Miriam Levin, and Howie Cohn, a former CBT president, at right. Courtesy JCCP/CBT

n 5 Israeli Knesset member Rabbi Dov Lipman recently met with students at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey. Courtesy RYNJ

n 6 Children at the Helen Troum Nursery School and Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn learned about staying safe in an emergency during a visit from an Elmwood Park firefighter. The program was part of October’s fire prevention and awareness month. Photo provided

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Arts for Life offers hour-long experiential workshops at 11 herself wanting to take part in some a month of fun a.m. and 1 p.m. Mondays through Fri- of the school’s programs — as a stu- days in acting, appliqué, dance move- dent. “Arts education should not stop ALPINE EXQUISITE $3,200,000 and learning for ment, dalcroze eurhythmics, drum when we graduate,” she says, “it’s a Custom built contemporary on 1.8 park-like acres with brook, pool & tennis court on dead-end street, living & family rooms each have wet bar & fireplace, sunlit adults 60+ circle, recorder, ukelele, creative writ- lifetime occupation.” kitchen with skylights, master suite features 2 baths & walk-in ing, and poetry, taught by artist-teach- The health and psychic benefits closets, lower level has steam room, sauna & gym. The Performing Arts School at ber- ers who are experts in their field. The of active participation in the arts ALPINE/CLOSTERTENAFLY OrnaRIVER Jackson, VALE ENGLEWOOD Sales Associate CLIFFS TENAFLY 201-376-1389 CRESSKILL genPAC and The Arts for Life Net- fee is $15 for a single class, with dis- has been documented extensively 894-1234768-6868 666-0777 568-1818 894-1234 871-0800 work of New Jersey presents Arts for counts for 4 or more classes. and, with older adults being the fast- Life Expo, a month of participatory The Arts for Life Network of New est growing age cohort in the nation classes for older adults in the per- Jersey (artsforlifenj.com) is the brain- and an unusually large demographic TEANECK OPEN HOUSES forming, visual and literary arts. The child of Jacqueline Guttman, whose in Bergen County, a population is Sunday, October 20th, 1-4PM classes will be Thursday, October 30 work in arts education and adminis- emerging that is eager to learn, cre- Close to NYC Transport & Houses of Worship to Tuesday, November 26 . The new tration spans nearly 50 years. While ate and explore new possibilities. Performing Arts School at bergenPAC working at an area music school, she In addition, many older artists now 650 Queen Anne Road – Now Asking $899,000 will host the series, at 1 Depot Square noticed the unused classroom and have the time to teach. The goal of Magnificent 5BR, 3.5BTH Tudor on Landscaped 135x130 Property; in Englewood. studio space during the day during the Arts for Life network is to help Huge Livingroom w/Vaulted Ceiling; Spacious Updated Kitchen. 245 Pine Street – Just Listed for $419,900 The Arts for Life Expo provides the week. A musician, she found see Arts s chool PaGe 70 Large 3BR, 2.5 BTH Sidehall Colonial; Updated Kitchen & Baths; 1st Fl Family Room; Large Bedrooms & Loads of Closets. 789 Howard Street – Now Asking $334,900 Lester Senior Housing Community Well-Maintained 3BR Colonial Cape; Newer Roof; Large Finished marks Assisted Living Week Basement. Lovely landscaped yard. The residents and staff of Lester special week included a private — classes in song writing, creative BARBARA OSTROTH Your Teaneck Realtor! Senior Housing Community in cocktail reception for residents and writing, and poetry. NJAR Distinguished Sales Associate Whippany, one of the senior living their families of both residences “Floral & Hardy” flower arranging (201) 965-3105 cell communities owned and managed within the senior community, with a workshop. (201) 262-6600 x144 by the Jewish Community Housing display of residents’ original handi- The Jewish Community Housing www.BarbaraOstroth.com Corporation of Metropolitan New work such as needlepoint pieces Corporation offers seniors a range of Mortgage pre-approval Jersey ( JCHC), marked National and paintings. housing options, amenities, and ser- 1-888-538-5732 Assisted Living Week last month Programs to mark National vices in four senior living communi- 537 Kinderkamack Rd with a series of activities and infor- Assisted Living Week included: ties in Essex and Morris counties. The Oradell, NJ 07649 ©2013 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Coldwell Banker is aregistered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real mational and social programs that “Sweetness for a Sweet New Year,” Lester Senior Housing Community is Estate LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Owned and Operated by NRT LLC were open to the public. a presentation about apples, honey, located at 903-905 Route 10 East in The theme this year was “Home- and the Jewish New Year, part of the Whippany on the Aidekman cam- TEANECK made Happiness” and residents JCHC’s Creative Living series of work- pus of the JCC MetroWest. For more OPEN HOUSES of both Lester residences, Weston shops for older adults information about its independent Assisted Living Residence and Heller A presentation on “Assisted Living living or assisted living options, con- Independent Living Apartments, and Other Levels of Care” for seniors tact Barbara Knopf, Marketing and participated in creative arts classes and their family members Admissions Manager at (973) 929- and fun hands-on workshops. The Homemade Happiness in Art 2525 or visit www.jchcorp.org.

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The Orthodox Union, in collaboration with focusing on couples, parents and children, STAJE (a communal organization seeking to and families and schools. help make the retirement—age years mean- Week 2: Monday, November 4 ingful for American Jews) and Congrega- “Do Supplements Really Do a Body Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results. tion Bnai Yeshurun of Teaneck, announces Good? A Review of Some Vitamins, Min- The SAGE (Seniors Actively Growing and erals and Essential Nutrients” — Devora Jeffrey Schleider Ruth Miron-Schleider T: M: Exploring) Initiative, a four—week series Wechter, MS RD CDN — registered dietitian Broker/Owner NJ: 201.266.8555 • 201.906.6024 Broker/Owner featuring leading rabbinic, communal and “The Role of Thinking for the Observant Miron Properties NY Miron Properties NJ mental health professionals, focused on Jew” — Rabbi Menahem Meier — Founding NY: T: 212.888.6250 • M: 917.576.0776 enhancing the educational opportunities Principal of both the Frisch School in Para- of the Jewish community. mus and the Long Island Hebrew Academy ENGLEWOOD ENGLEWOOD ENGLEWOOD ENGLEWOOD OPEN HOUSE MEMBERSHIP! JUST MEDITERRANEAN The program will be held on Mon- in Great Neck, NY SUNDAY 2-4! POOL LISTED! day afternoons October 21, November Week 3: Monday, November 18 COLONIAL! 4, November 18, and December 2 at Bnai “Boomers—Planning for Retirement and Yeshurun. Later Life: Estate and Financial Planning” — “The OU is proud to sponsor the SAGE Martin M. Shenkman, P.C. — attorney in pri- series in Bergen County,” said Rabbi vate practice in Paramus, New Jersey, and Call Susan Laskin Today Judah Isaacs, director of the OU Depart- New York City concen trating on estate and To Make Your Next Move A Successful One! ment of Community Engagement. “The tax planning, and planning for closely held 154 MEADOWBROOK ROAD $695K Beautiful Center Hall Col. $749K Young pristine Col. $1,395,000 Amazing construction. $1,550,000 BergenCountyRealEstateSource.com Cell: 201-615-5353 OU recognizes that many people are businesses and estate administration retiring, and looking for active ways to “Chanuka: Recognizing the Miracles ©2013 Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. 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General Store celebrates poetry Stylish building. Heart of B’klyn. 2 BR w/terrace & garage. $422K Posh penthouse. Prime location. Grand 3 BR/2.5 BTH. $2,750,000 audience will have an open mike to read up to two of their own poems. There will be UPPER EAST SIDE MURRAY HILL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS WILLIAMSBURG JUST SOLD! SOLD! JUST time for the audience and poets to mingle. SOLD! SOLD! The sessions are on the third Thursday of each month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. The Teaneck General Store is at 502a Cedar Lane. Call (201) 530-5046. by bergenPAC, the Northern New Jersey Community Foundation and New Jersey Prime location. Doorman building. Magnifi cent loft living. Roof Deck. Pre-war bldg. Magic in B’klyn. Great duplex with city views. State Council on the Arts grant funds administered by the Bergen County Divi- sion of Cultural and Historic Affairs. For Contact us today for your complimentary consultation! more information and to register, call Arlene Grunfeld at 201-816-8160, ext. [email protected] · www.MironProperties.com 35 or [email protected]. More Details at www.Artsforlifenj.com [email protected] · www.MironProperties.com/NJ

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