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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 3 NEWS 23-Year-Old Tel Aviv Terrorist Illegally Entered the Country

By Gal Cohen/www.jerusalemonline.com A Hamas spokesperson praised the ter- rorist harming innocent passengers.” ror attack. “The stabbing attack is a feat,” Iz- At least 16 people were injured Wednes- Tel Aviv—Hamza Matrouk, a 23-year-old zat a-Rishak wrote on his twitter account. day morning, including six in critical condi- Palestinian who infi ltrated Israel carried “This is a natural response to the crimes of tion, in the attack on Dan bus line #40 that out Wednesday’s stabbing attack on a bus the occupation and Israeli terror towards ended when Matrouk was shot by the po- near the Ma’ariv Bridge in Tel Aviv. Matrouk our people.” lice and arrested. It took place during the does not belong to any terrorist organiza- There is an ongoing investigation to see morning commute and began when he tion. He is originally from Tulkarem and if the terrorist had help from others. “It is stabbed the bus driver and some passen- now lives in Ramallah. very hard to fi nd a lone terrorist who de- gers, who fl ed when the bus stopped at a It was also reported that the IDF called cides to carry out an attack,” Police Com- green light and a student broke a window the terrorist’s father and other relatives to missioner Yohanan Danino stated. “We will with his elbow so that people could escape. come in for questioning. A friend said he continue to handle illegal aliens.” “I went to the parking lot and saw two was with Matrouk until 11 p.m. in Tulkarem He also praised the police, who worked people stabbed,” said one eyewitness. “I saw on Tuesday night and did not notice any- Cops arrest wounded terrorist in Tel Aviv. quickly to capture the terrorist. “That is ex- CONTINUED ON P. 47 thing unusual in his friend’s behavior. CHANNEL 2 NEWS actly how we must act when there is a ter-  JEWISH LINK OF NEW JERSEY TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Did Iran Murder Argentina’s body was blocking the door when they chief of staff described the allegations as Finally, Imad Mugniyeh, seen as the key Crusading Prosecutor tried to open it. They immediately called “foolishness.” Hezbollah operative in many of the group’s Alberto Nisman? police crime scene investigators who en- Nisman’s eventual focus on direct Irani- terrorist attacks, dating back to the bomb-  CONTINUED FROM P. 1 tered the bathroom, apparently making as an involvement, accusing Tehran of plan- ing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in much effort as possible not to disturb the ning and fi nancing the attack and Hezbol- 1983, was blown up with a well-placed car lah, waged a global war on the enemies of evidence. lah operatives of carrying it out, was not bomb in Damascus in 2008. The Israelis the Islamic Republic, deploying hit teams Nisman was on the fl oor with a.22 calib- universally supported, even by U.S. investi- generally are credited with that hit. second only to the Israelis in their skill at er pistol and one empty shell casing nearby. gators who followed the case. … But by then, Hezbollah guerrillas in Leb- assassination. The fi rst offi cial communiqu? did not In the world of intelligence, however, as anon had fought a successful war of attri- First, let’s look at the offi cial commu- say explicitly that Nisman died from a bul- distinct from the world of criminal justice, tion that led to Israel’s withdrawal from niqu? about Nisman’s death issued by Ar- let wound to the head, but offi cials have there has been little question that Iran was Lebanese territory in 2000 after decades of gentina’s Ministry of National Security on now confi rmed that a shot to his temple behind the AMIA bombing in 1994 and the occupation. Building on that victory, Hez- Monday morning, with the facts of the case was the cause of death. They are still wait- earlier car-bomb attack on the Israeli em- bollah became, and remains, the most pow- as the ministry said they were known: ing for the toxicology analysis to see if bassy in Buenos Aires in 1992 that killed 29 erful political party in the country. Nisman’s lifeless body was discovered drugs or other substances may have played people. Iran, for its part, has been trying to Sunday night in his apartment on the 13th- a role. At the time, the Israelis were attacking show itself a reasonable member of the fl oor of Le Parc Tower, which is part of a Deepening the mystery: investiga- Hezbollah leaders and Iranian clients in community of nations by negotiating with modern high-rise complex in the Puerto tors report Nisman did not own the gun Lebanon, Hezbollah and Iran struck back the Americans and Europeans about the fu- Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires. found with him. They say they are check- wherever they thought they could. “It’s ture of its nuclear program. Ten members of the Argentine Federal ing to see if a friend might have loaned an ongoing game, playing by the rules of Yet there have been signs within the last Police force had been assigned to him as it to him. They are checking for trac- the Bible,” a senior offi cial in Israeli intel- few days that the game as old as the Bible bodyguards, but it seems they were not de- es of gunpowder on his hand, but think ligence told me at height of the carnage, continues, and may once again grow very ployed when he was at home. that with such a small caliber pistol they meaning the rule of eye for an eye, “and dangerous. Last week, Hezbollah leader According to the communiqu?, mem- might not fi nd any. And they are looking at a certain point there is a balance of ter- Hassan Nasrallah boasted that his organiza- bers of the team alerted Nisman’s secre- at the possibility he may have been “in- ror where everyone knows what’s expect- tion now has weapons that can strike any- tary on Sunday afternoon that he was not duced” to commit suicide by some form ed.”… where in Israel. “We have made all neces- responding to repeated phone calls. When of external pressure. As the case sounds By the late 1990s, the Iranian govern- sary preparations for a future war,” he said. they learned that he was not answering the more and more like something from The ment apparently decided to slow these Then on Sunday, Israeli forces killed Ji- doorbell of his house either and that the Godfather or an old James Bond fl ick, pro- operations after several of them started had Mugniyeh, son of the late mastermind, Sunday newspaper was still on the step, tests have spread in Argentina. to bring down too much heat. The Ger- and several other Hezbollah offi cers who they decided to notify his relatives. It has been widely reported in Buenos mans conducted a relentless investiga- were operating in the Syrian sector of the The bodyguards then collected Nis- Aires that the documents for Nisman’s tes- tion of the murder of Kurdish leaders in Golan Heights. The Israeli press reported man’s mother at her home and took her timony before parliament were arrayed Berlin in 1992, tracing them back to the they had been planning attacks on Israeli to Le Parc. When they tried to enter, they on his desk when his body was found. In then-head of Iranian intelligence, Ali Fal- targets. found the door locked with the key on the interviews last week he claimed to have lahian. The AMIA bombing in 1994 caused Was Alberto Nisman somehow caught inside. They called the building’s mainte- uncovered evidence that Argentine Presi- international outrage. And the bombing up in this long war of assassinations? Or nance staff who then called a locksmith. dent Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and of the Khobar Towers apartments in Sau- did he decide for reasons we probably can- Nisman’s mother entered the apartment her foreign minister had made a secret ar- di Arabia in 1995, which killed 19 Ameri- not know to end his own life? with one of the bodyguards, and they rangement to give the implicated Iranians cans, was eventually traced to another The investigation will continue, unless found Nisman in the bathroom, where his immunity from prosecution. Kirchner’s group of Iranian acolytes. somebody stops it.

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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 5 NEWS ISIS Threat to Israel and the World Explored By Bar-Ilan University Professor Mordechai Kedar New York—Warning that “The world is that same year, 9/11, attacks in Bali, Madrid, “ISIS no longer views territories it con- has now killed approximately 300,000 of at war. Whoever doesn’t see it should wake London, Fort Hood, the aborted attack in trols as parts of Syria or Iraq. It now con- his own people. He said, “In reality, there up,” Dr. Mordechai Kedar, founder and di- Times Square, and this month’s Paris at- siders these areas to be part of the entire Is- is no Syria anymore. It has no borders, no rector for the Study of the Middle East & tacks. “We diminish the problem by call- lamic Nation,” said Kedar. law, no justice. There is no sense in talking Islam at Bar-Ilan University (BIU), opened ing this violence perpetrated by a few indi- When it comes to the Muslim Brother- about the Syria of the future. It would be his talk on “Between ISIS and General al-Si- viduals,” added Kedar, who is a member of hood’s intentions in Egypt, Kedar said you like resuscitating a dead body.” si: Where To?” He then “connected the dots the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic need not look any further than its logo. It He expressed concern about the safety of this war” for the 28 people who attended Studies at Bar-Ilan University. has two swords with the words “and pre- of the Druze in southern Syria, who may this American Friends of Bar-Ilan University Kedar viewed ISIS as a greater threat pare,” which are only mentioned in the Ko- come under attack by the Jihadists. “The (AFBIU) sponsored outreach event on Janu- than al-Queda because it now controls ter- ran as to “prepare to strike terror into the Druze would rather die than go into exile. ary 13 at the offi ces of Kaufmann, Gildin & ritory in Iraq that is three times the space enemies of Allah.” He added, “The Muslim I believe they won’t ask to go into Jordan if Robbins, LLP in New York City. AFBIU Board of Israel. He said that US air strikes against Brotherhood is the enemy of General al-Si- threatened.” member Daniel Gildin hosted this event. ISIS have been “totally ineffective” in get- si, who has spoken out against Islamic ex- To learn more about bringing a Bar-Ilan “This new type of ongoing war,” Kedar ting this territory back. “They have 100,000 tremism.” professor to your synagogue or Jewish or- said, began with the destruction of the USS combatants. You cannot get rid of them Kedar was troubled by al-Sisi’s friend- ganization, please call Michelle Dinenberg Cole in 1998, followed by the Kenya attack from the air,” he added. ship with Syrian President Assad, who at 212-906-3916. Lieberman Tried to Head of Israel Land Authority Reach Agreement Arrested on Suspicion of Fraud With Moderate Arabs By Shay Belalo the suspicion of fraud and breach By Omri Ariel of trust, police confi rmed both are www.jerusalemonline.com— under house arrest. The investi- www.jerusalemonline.com—Foreign Minister Benzi Lieberman, head of the Is- gation revolves around decisions Avigdor Lieberman refuses to expose the names rael Land Authority and former Benzi Lieberman made regarding a of moderate Arab leaders he met in an attempt to Foreign Ministry MK of the National Religious Par- particular real estate company he fulfi ll his “regional agreement” vision, Channel 2 had an agreement made this year,” he said. ty Nahum Langenthal were named had ties to, and several projects the News reported last week. The former foreign min- Before the government’s dissolution, Lieber- as two suspects that police ques- fi rm had been involved in. ister’s talks included discussion on transferring sev- man had gone to several European cities, includ- tioned this week in a corruption Langenthal, now an attor- eral Israeli Arab towns to Palestinian sovereignty. ing Vienna and Paris, accompanied by Mossad of- probe at the authority. ney, is suspected of similar con- He says the elections prevented any major break- fi cials. His strategy was to bypass PA leader Abu After being interrogated by the fl ict-of-interest violations for aid- through and brought his efforts to a halt. If the elec- Mazen, whom he perceived as too weak to be able Lahav 433 unit last Thursday on ing Lieberman. tions hadn’t been forced, “We would probably have to make any signifi cant decisions.

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6 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM NEWS The Battle at the ICC to Prosecute Israel for Defending Itself

By Anne Phyllis Pinzow an terrorists who routinely commit mul- natories which have not ratifi ed member- ship in the United Nations or in any of its tiple war crimes….” ship with the ICC (along with Bahrain, Ku- specialized agencies, or should the Pales- After acts of terror and war crimes per- Netanyahu went on, “It’s the democra- wait, Thailand, Ukraine and Yemen). tinians initiate or actively support an ICC petrated on Israel, and after the Palestini- cy of Israel, a world leader in fi ghting ter- The White House said that in a phone investigation aimed at Israeli nationals for an Authority and Hamas brought charges rorism, which is to be hauled to the dock call to Netanyahu, President Barack Oba- alleged crimes.” against Israel at the International Crim- in The Hague, while the terrorist war crim- ma said that the United States opposed She added, “Years of efforts on behalf of inal Court in the Hague last week, Israel inals of Hamas (claiming they have thou- the PA’s bid to join the ICC. He “reiterat- Palestinians for an independent state that began lobbying member-states of the ICC sands of documents proving the IDF’s in- ed the United States’ position that the Pal- peacefully exists side-by-side with Israel (Canada, Australia, Germany and Japan) volvement in war crimes) are the ones estinian Authority does not yet constitute are at risk. President Abbas’ retreat from to cut funding to the tribunal and Israe- who are going to be pressing the charges.” a state, and is therefore not eligible” to direct negotiations and pursuit of unilat- li Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is- Israel’s case could possibly be under- join the court, the administration said in eral action threatens to further destabilize sued a statement saying “Israel rejects the mined by both the United Nations and the a statement. an already highly volatile situation.” absurd decision of the ICC prosecutor.” He United States Department of State, which In a bi-partisan statement from US According to the ICC’s own rules the said the Palestinians don’t have a state and have issued reports detailing “price tag” Senators Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), opening of a preliminary examination is can only get one through direct negotia- attacks against Palestinians by “extrem- Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Chuck a matter of policy and practice. Accord- tions with Israel, not by ignoring interna- ist” Israelis but have not included any at- Schumer (D-New York), and Mark Kirk (R-Il- ing to a press release issued by the ICC, “A tional law and agreements, according to tacks by Palestinian terrorists against Is- linois), it was announced that “Congress preliminary examination is not an inves- the Oslo Accords. raelis in their reports of incidents in the will reassess its support for assistance to tigation but a process of examining the Pundits have said that this benefi ts Is- West Bank. the PA and seek additional ways to make information available in order to reach a rael rightwing parties by allowing them to Though ICC was formed to deal with clear to President Abbas that we strong- fully informed determination on wheth- paint Europe as recidivist antisemites and war crimes, such as the Holocaust, its past ly oppose his efforts to seek membership er there is a reasonable basis to proceed harden their positions for a one-state solu- decisions have ruled against Israel and al- in the ICC. If the ICC makes the egregious with an investigation pursuant to the tion. lowed the Palestinians to use the biased mistake of accepting the Palestinian Au- criteria established by the Rome Stat- “The rules of the ICC are clear,” said Ne- ICC to whittle away at the Oslo Accords thority as a member (which subsequently ute. Specifi cally, under article 53(1) of the tanyahu in his statement about Bensou- which prohibits them from seeking “a fi - it has), given that it is not a state, Congress Rome Statute.” da’s decision, “No State, No standing, No nal status determination outside of ne- will seek ways to protect Israeli citizens There are no timelines provided in the case. It’s absurd for the ICC to go after Is- gotiations and giving Israel exclusive ju- from politically abusive ICC actions.” Rome Statute for a decision on a prelimi- rael, which upholds the highest standards risdiction over Israeli nationals in the Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), nary examination. Depending on the facts of international law. Our actions are sub- territories.” Ranking Democrat on the House Appro- and circumstances of each situation, the ject to the constant and careful review of The UN General Assembly left-handed- priations Committee and the State and Offi ce will decide whether to continue to Israel’s world-renowned and utterly inde- ly granted “Palestine status as a ‘non-mem- Foreign Operations Subcommittee, said, collect information to establish a suffi - pendent legal system.” ber observer State,” to the PA on November “In the absence of an agreement negoti- cient factual and legal basis to render a de- He said “The decision is even more 29, 2012, and the PA could accept the juris- ated between Israel and the Palestinians, termination; initiate an investigation, sub- preposterous given that Israel is legiti- diction of the ICC from that date onward. economic assistance will be suspended if ject to judicial review as appropriate; or mately defending itself against Palestini- The United States and Israel are both sig- the Palestinians seek and obtain member- decline to initiate an investigation.

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 7 EDITORIAL JEWISH LINK OF NEW JERSEY Hitchcock, the Holocaust, Co-Founders/Co-Publishers Moshe Kinderlehrer Documentation and Denial Mark (Mendy) Schwartz Editor-in-Chief Jeanette Friedman This week marks the 70th anniversary of to the most researched, documented, stud- made under Hitchcock’s direction, until the liberation of Auschwitz, and commem- ied and memorialized event in the histo- they were recently dug up and made into Managing Editor Adam Negnewitzky orates what the six million died for and the ry of humanity are old and fading fast. The this very important fi lm. Why is it impor- Senior Editor survivors went through for being Jews. Yet burning question in Holocaust Education is, tant? Because in this ugly world, we need Elizabeth Kratz it’s not been 70 years, and the Holocaust is “How will we teach it without survivors?” to remember where we were a mere 70 Contributing Editors being downsized, universalized, revised, and The fi lm that will be shown on Tues- years ago, and use fi lm as a strong weapon Nina Glick denied. For sons and daughters of Holocaust day night on HBO, Night Will Fall, is one in fi ghting denial of the Holocaust, a deni- Phil Sieradski survivors and World War II vets who served way. It will open viewers eyes to the hor- al used as the tool to deny the legitimacy of Essex & Union Community Editor in Europe, as did fi lm director Alfred Hitch- rors the survivors didn’t want to talk about. Israel. It’s that simple. And in this day and Jill Kirsch cock, it is no secret that the eyewitnesses The British literally canned those fi lms, age, it’s that complicated. Advertising Director Yaakov Serle Associate Editor GUEST EDITORIAL Larry Bernstein Assistant Editor Avi Sheinfi l Would You Stay in France? Offi ce Manager Jennifer Hoff er By Michael Berenbaum and think nothing of it. They may be out- the streets of Lyon or Marseilles, was atten- Bookkeeper spoken in their opposition to the policies tion paid. Gila Negnewitzky In the wake of the horrifi c terrorist kill- of Israel, but they do not see that as license Bridging the divide between the Mus- Sales Development ings in France, my heart took many turns. to attack their Jewish neighbors. lims in France and the French people will Ken Goff stein First there was shock, replaced by grief, On the other hand, Muslim immigrants require an admission of a fundamental Sales Representatives then anger, followed by resolve. A few days and their descendants who live in France problem in France’s attitude toward its im- Limor Bennun later I realized I was going through a pro- feel themselves untouched, and even al- migrant workers, especially its lower class Alex Itzkowitz Risa Lefkowitz cess similar to mourning. And now I rumi- ienated from, or appalled by, the values immigrants, who are essential to the na- Lydia Sultanik nate as I search for meaning. of France. These people have no stake in tion’s workforce, but were never integrat- Simon Worman The responses to the massacres from French society. In France for some two ed into French society or French culture. It Database Coordinator the French and from the Israelis raise im- generations, they do not feel part of France, will take a long-term, focused fi x, and one Moishie Rosenberg portant issues for Jews who live inside and and consider themselves exiles from their that does not allow for intolerance and vi- Sports Editor outside of Israel. There is irony there, in true homes in Northern Africa and the Mid- olence. Steve Gutlove the offer of the Jewish State as a safe haven dle East. Their alienation is fueling their at- So why was the response to the Char- Proofreader/Copy Editor for Jews. “We want you here. This is your traction to the extreme values wreaking lie Hebdo massacre so atypical? Perhaps be- Ruth Brody home. It is here that you are safe.” Such havoc in the Middle East and Africa, where cause the French may have fi nally realized, Design words stir the heart of every Jew who re- the politics of rage dominate. Poverty and or cynically said out loud, that they felt a design2pro.com members the desperation of Jews fl eeing lack of opportunity created their aliena- threat to the very nature of France, to its Contributors the Holocaust, the Jews after Evian—Jews tion, but religion fuels their rage; religion self-image, its self-perception and its core Sarah Abenaim • Jenny Gans with nowhere to go. sanctions their violence. values because Jews aren’t secure living as Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Glick • Estelle Glass Sara Kosowsky Gross • Lisa Matkowsky But is it true? Is Israel the safest place The focus on the battle is therefore Jews in France. That’s because the French Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene • Elyse Hansford for the Jews? We shall return to that ques- against militant radical Islam that uses rage want to believe that they are not the same Gail Hochman • Robert Katz • Banji Latkin tion. to drive its followers and not against all people they were during World War II. Oren Oppenheim • Bracha Schwartz Frankly, I do not believe that the 3.5 Muslims. We were touched and heartened When the bodies of the Holocaust were Rabbi Dani Staum • Rabbi Mark Staum • Tzvi Silver N. Aaron Troodler • Temimah Zucker million person march in Paris, in solidari- when we learned Jewish lives were saved being uncovered, French populists were ty with the victims of Charlie Hebdo and by a Muslim employee in the supermarket. horrifi ed by their own collaborators, in- The Jewish Link of Bergen County the shoppers in the supermarket, or the Yet it is not enough for politically correct cluding the French police who partici- PO Box 3131 Teaneck, NJ 07666 declarations of French leadership about be- people, including Presidents Barack Obama pated in the roundup and deportation of Phone: 201-371-3212 ing at war “against terrorism, against jihad- and George W. Bush, to proclaim that mur- Jews, and Vichy France. The French today Email: [email protected] ism, against radical Islam,” or the statement derous rage does not defi ne a vast sector of see themselves today as a liberal, inclusive Advertising: [email protected] that France without its Jews is not France Islam—that it only speaks for the extrem- democratic society. It therefore follows Subscriptions/Home Delivery: [email protected] means anything much. What is new in the ists. Moderate Muslims must be the fi rst that if the Jews of France are again vulner- The Jewish Link of New Jersey, an independent publication, promotes remorse expressed by the French prime and loudest to reclaim the voice of their able to outbreaks of antisemitism and vio- honest and rigorous conversations about Judaism,Israel and issues aff ecting our community. The opinions refl ected in articles from our con- minister that his country has not done faith. But they don’t. We live in a world lence without the protections of a civilized tributors do not necessarily refl ect JLBC’s positions, and publishing them does not constitute an endorsement from JLBC. We simply off enough to combat antisemitism? Nothing! where extremism overpowers moderation. society, then France today is still not true er food for thought. We reserve the right to accept or refuse submis- sions and edit for content and length. We also reserve the right to re- But maybe I am wrong. Still, I never for- Moderates must fi ght with the same pas- to its professed core values, values that had fuse advertising that in our opinion does not refl ect the standards of get that the Islamists’ politics of rage have sion as the extremists for their moderation. the newspaper. We are not responsible for the kashrus of any product advertised in the Jewish Link of Bergen County. defi ned radical Islam. And rage leads direct- When there is so little outraged objec-  CONTINUED ON P. 38 ly to violence. In the eyes of many Muslims, tion from moderate Muslims to this plague murder—my terms, they call it killing, sa- of violence perpetrated in the name of cred killing—is a reasonable response to their own religion, we end up in dead-end- POLITICS & PARSHA what they see as the desecration of their re- ed conversations with other Westerners, ligion and the Prophet. For decades, fatwas, who assure one another that true Islam is killings and violent rioting were used by ex- actually moderate. And when those who Bo: Going Anywhere? tremist Islamists silence those they deem make the case for Islam don’t know the dif- to have insulted Islam. From the death sen- ferences between Salafi , Sunni and Shia, By Howie Beigelman Moses is equally unyielding. All, or tence on Salman Rushdie to the murder of the discussion is not only not credible, but none. a Danish cartoonist, from massive street it is hardly relevant. “Men of factious tempers, of local prej- These are two classic political power demonstrations in Egypt following the re- For the last ten years, as French Jews udices, or of sinister designs, may, by in- plays. lease of a minor video by a marginal, unim- were attacked, murdered and raped by ex- trigue, by corruption, or by other means, Pharaoh is pitting interest groups one portant American Protestant, to the killings tremist Muslims, the French police and fi rst obtain the suffrages, and then betray against the other in a classic divide and at Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket, people behaved as if a swastika painted on the interests, of the people.”—James Madi- conquer. Moses is building a coalition of al- unbridled rage, madness, leads to murder. a synagogue was petty graffi ti; the mugging son, Federalist No. 10 lies. For the last dozen years I asked that a rabbi or a pious Jew was a minor crime; Moses demands again of the Pharaoh Moses and Pharaoh teach us a lesson we distinguish between antisemitism in the murder of Yeshiva students was fodder that he release the Jewish slaves. Cowed by for the ages. France and the antisemitism of France. for the 24-hr news cycle. The French felt the plagues, Pharaoh begins negotiations. Words to consider. Ideas to ponder. Pol- Those who are of France have accepted the such hateful acts were the “understanda- “Who will go?” itics and the parsha. values of the French Revolution: Liberty ble” result of anger at Israel. And that was “Everyone,” replies Moses. Old and Equality and Fraternity, and have few prob- ok with them because Israel’s actions infu- young. Men, and women. Believers and Howie Beigelman works at the intersection of nonprof- lems seeing Jews as part of France. These riated many Europeans—and the French atheists. Priests and common slaves. it advocacy and Jewish communal aff airs. Follow him French citizens interact daily with Jews in particular. Only when this same violence But the Pharaoh is insistent. He will on Twitter @howielb. and Muslims, Christians and secularists was turned against a French non-Jew on only release the men.

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By Phil Jacobs An eruv, a symbolic enclo- in Westhampton Beach, N.Y. That sure signifi cant mostly to Ortho- challenge was brought by a group Jeffrey Weisenfeld had seen quite dox Jews, permits them to push known as the Jewish People for enough. a stroller or carry objects on the the Betterment of Westhamp- “I found it so outrageous when our civ- Sabbath and on Yom Kippur. ton Beach. The group was against ilization is in a struggle with radical Islam, The ritual boundary is made by, the installation of the lechis, and a very relevant threat, in the middle of this among other things, attaching claimed in court fi lings and in dif- there are people worried about a ‘fashtinka- lechis, or plastic strips to utility ferent media outlets that the East da’ eruv which no one will be able to see.” poles. End Eruv Association (EEEA), The Weisenfeld, a member of the Hampton The law fi rm of Weil, Got- Village of Westhampton Beach, Synagogue, was referring to the legal battle shal & Manges LLP argued suc- Verizon New York, Inc., and the that had to be waged to prove that the con- cessfully before the U.S. Court of Long Island Power Authority struction and maintenance of eruvin does Appeals for the Second Circuit (LIPA), would violate the Estab- not violate the First Amendment to the U.S. to dismiss a constitutional chal- lishment Clause of the U.S. Con- Constitution. lenge to the building of the eruv To see video visit: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/1jsrl7/the-thin-jew-line stitution by permitting the eruv’s installation. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York dismissed the group’s complaint, and the Second Circuit affi rmed that judgment. The Second Circuit emphatically ruled that “It is not a violation of the First Amend- ment for a utility to contract with a Jewish religious group to allow it to attach strips of wood or plastic to utility poles to create symbolic boundaries for certain members of the Jewish faith.” The court also found that “no reasona- ble observer who notices the strips on LIPA utility poles would draw the conclusion that a state actor is thereby endorsing re- ligion.” Also, the court noted that since private parties are paying for the installation and maintenance of the lechis, there is no risk of “excessive government entanglement with religion.” The Second Circuit’s decision was made against the backdrop of additional litiga- tion fi led by EEEA, as well as Verizon and LIPA, against Southampton, Westhampton Beach and Quogue – all municipalities in the Hamptons. In connection with one of those lawsuits, Judge Kathleen Tomlinson of the U.S. District Court in Central Islip ruled that Westhampton Beach could not prevent the building of an eruv. The judge also ruled that the village could not stop Verizon and LIPA from permitting the pro- eruv group to install the lechis on its utili- ty poles. The judge added that the law permits Verizon and LIPA to enter into private con- tracts for the use of their poles. The com- panies have, in the past, allowed signs pro- moting events such as St. Patrick’s Day festivities. David Yolkut, a Teaneck resident, and an associate attorney at Weil, who is work- ing on the case, said the Circuit Court’s de- cision was a “real victory for religious free- dom. The Court completely rejected the argument of the Jewish People for the Bet- terment of Westhampton Beach. The court made it clear that the lechis were virtual- ly invisible and that they’d be completely indistinguishable from various other items that may appear on the utility poles.” Yolkut, whose fi rm took on the case pro bono, said that while the Jewish People for the Betterment of Westhampton Beach had couched their opposition in constitu- tional terms, he read in the press such com- ments from their members such as “if you need an eruv, this is not the place,” along- side the comment: “why does the town have to change for certain people?” Yolkut said that his clients were thrilled about the ruling.  CONTINUED ON P. 14

10 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM NEWS Iran Making Naval Moves Into Red Sea

thetower.org—Iranian Navy Com- Egyptian sources said that what is hap- mander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari pening at the southern entrance to the Special Centennial Events! said that Iran plans to maintain its na- Red Sea is an attempt by Tehran to test val presence in international waters, es- the response of the Egyptians and Sau- pecially the Gulf of Aden and the north- dis, as well as U.S. forces. They say that “How to Live to 101” “I’ll Be Me” ern Indian Ocean, Farsnews reported Iran’s military power relies on two types Tuesday. of weapons – long-range missiles and na- SUNDAY JANUARY 25 SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1 “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy val power in the Persian Gulf and the Red has deployed in the North of the Indian Sea. Intelligence reports show Iran’s in- Ocean and the Gulf of Aden and this pres- tentions in increasing its presence in the ence will continue forever,” Sayyari said. Gulf of Aden, as well as its success in se-

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His statement confi rms reports that cretly building a naval base at the port of A tradition of caring. Iran sees the Red Sea as a strategic cen- Asab in Eritrea on the Red Sea. tral region in the Middle East, especial- Egyptian political science profes- ly for gaining a foothold in the heart of sor Tarek Fahmi said that Tehran is try- All Events are Free and Open to the Public! the Arab security zone. The strategic ship- ing to expand its infl uence in areas that For information call 201-750-4231. ping region is at the crossing of conti- are of strategic importance for Egypt. He nents and connects, via the Suez Canal, said Tehran was able to generate a pres- between the Mediterranean Sea (and ence on Egypt’s border in the Gaza Strip thus Europe and North Africa) and the In- through its connections with Hamas and dian Ocean – gateway to Africa, the Gulf Islamic Jihad, and in Lebanon through and Asia. Hezbollah. Now it wants to establish The importance of this region impacts its presence in the Red Sea, through the much of the turmoil taking place today Houthis in Yemen. Iran’s generous invest- in the Middle East, especially Iran’s in- ments allow it to strengthen its relations volvement in Arab nations. with the Nile Basin countries as it tries to The current war is Yemen has reawak- establish Shiite cells and exploit the pov- ened the Arab countries’ security con- erty in these countries. cerns over Iranian adventurism. These “Tehran aims to expand its infl uence concerns have been aggravated by re- in the Arab sea lanes, particularly in the ports of suspicious Iranian movements Persian Gulf and the Red Sea,” Fahmi in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, linking said. Its movements in the Horn of Africa the Red Sea at its southern edge with the have a signifi cant effect on the Egyptian Indian Ocean, and in light of Iran’s sup- and Saudi presence in the region. There is port for the Houthi Shi’ites, who have strong cooperation between Cairo and Ri- taken control of many power centers yadh to reduce these movements before in Yemen. The strengthening of the Shi- it’s too late, Fahmi said. ites in Yemen is especially worrisome for Fahmi also believes that Iranian sup- nearby Egypt and neighboring Saudi Ara- port for the Houthis has become a major bia, both of whom see it as part of anoth- danger for the Suez Canal area, especial- er Iranian attempt to take control of the ly amid the area’s growing importance Red Sea region. as an axis of economic and strategic de- A recent investigative report in the velopment for Egypt, which recently an- pan-Arab newspaper Al-Arab (Arabic link) nounced a mega-project to build a second looked at Iran’s stepped-up activity in canal parallel to the existing Suez Canal. the Red Sea region. Egypt recently identi- The Egyptian government takes the is- fi ed two Iranian warships moving in the sue seriously and even hinted that there Gulf of Aden, a busy international ship- is a military option on the table, if nec- ping traffi c route near the Strait of Bab- essary, because this area is a strategic is- el-Mandeb that is frequented by oil ships. sue which it believes cannot be compro- Egyptian sources said that Cairo recently mised. strengthened its maritime capabilities in Egyptian sources said that security order to remain the most powerful naval forces in Cairo began to warn of Iranian force in the Middle East. It has added sev- threats to the territorial integrity of Sau- eral new ships to its fl eet and submarines di Arabia following Tehran’s success in es- from Germany. Egypt has also signed an tablishing itself as a major player in Yem- agreement with France to build fi ve na- en, Saudi Arabia’s neighbor. Riyadh took val destroyers, of which one is being built the warnings very seriously and increased in France and four at Alexandria’s naval its cooperation with Cairo to counter the base. Iranian moves.

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By Hazem Balousha/www.al-monitor.com trol of the crossings as a pretext to evade his “So far, there is no political decision for Nevertheless, a Hamas source who Translator: Joelle El-Khoury (edited for brevity) responsibilities, since there are no employ- the Hamdallah government to exercise its spoke to Al-Monitor on condition of an- ees of the previous government at the bor- functions in the Gaza Strip. This is due to onymity said that handing over control Gaza Strip—The frequency of confl ict- der crossings with Israel. The movement a disagreement between the government of the crossings depends on treatment of ing statements has increased between the calls on him to halt the policy of discrimi- poles in Ramallah over who will take con- the former Gaza government employees Palestinian government and Hamas on nation and neglect against the Gaza Strip.” trol of the crossings and over the handover as legitimate ones in the Palestinian gov- control of the three crossings separating There are seven border crossings in the mechanisms, since there are many power ernment, and paying Gaza’s ministries op- the Gaza Strip, Israel and Egypt. Each of Gaza Strip. Six are with Israel, and four of centers,” he told Al-Monitor. erational expenses from the government the parties has accused the other of delay- them were closed several years ago. Indi- Under Hamas rule in Gaza, the PA was budget. ing the handover, one of the most impor- viduals are allowed to enter and exit Gaza and is still assuming responsibility for co- The Gaza Ministry of Finance is still col- tant conditions for the unity government through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in ordinating with the Israeli side regarding lecting taxes on goods entering the Gaza to take control of the besieged Gaza Strip, northern Gaza, while the Karam Abu Sa- the Erez crossing for the movement of Strip via the Kerem Shalom crossing, and allow the entry of reconstruction materials lem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern people, and the Kerem Shalom crossing a part of that revenue covers the operation- and reopen the Rafah border crossing. Gaza is used for the transport of goods. The for the transport of goods. All the while, al expenses of the offi cial institutions and While Hamas has accused the Palestin- Rafah border crossing is the only one be- the Hamas-run crossings administration the security staff’s salaries, which are not ian Authority (PA), led by Prime Minister tween Gaza and Egypt. decides who and what enters and exits covered by the Qatari grant to pay the civil Rami Hamdallah, of evading its responsi- Muhanna said the government was the crossings. servants’ salaries. bilities toward Gaza, the government re- ready to take control of the three crossings The crossings administration, which He explained, “…Pressure is being ex- sponded that Hamas, which had controlled in the Gaza Strip, but Hamas was obstruct- was appointed by the previous Hamas gov- erted to reopen it, and the issue is linked Gaza for seven years, refuses to hand over ing the handover process. ernment, has total control over the Rafah to political and security issues in Egypt, control of the crossings, asking for “a part- In a phone interview with Al-Monitor, border crossing between the Gaza Strip and not simply to the government’s con- nership.” he said, “We are governed by agreements and Egypt, in the absence of the PA. The trol of it.” Hamdallah called on Hamas to hand with Israel and Egypt, and the crossings Egyptian government completely closed Lost in the midst of the continued po- over the crossings on Jan. 3, saying, “All par- need to be handed over clear of any work- the crossing after the Karam al-Kawadis at- litical bickering between Hamas and Fatah, ties in Gaza need to empower the consen- ers. We have our trained staff from the tack in the Sinai Peninsula in November … are the Palestinian people, and more spe- sus government and hand over control of Gaza Strip and they are ready to take con- 2014, and requires that the Palestinian gov- cifi cally, the Gazans who cry in vain for as- the crossings.” This was after the govern- trol of them.” ernment exert control over it and security sistance from a political elite that is deaf to ment formed a committee to take over He said, “The crossings are affi liated be restored in Sinai for it to be reopened. their pleas. the crossings, headed by Minister of Civil with the governments and are not con- [Last week, a tunnel to Egypt was discov- Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/ Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh. The committee trolled by organizations. I cannot work ered packed with explosives and weapons.] pulse/originals/2015/01/hamas-gaza-cross- also includes Nazmi Muhanna, the direc- with the current staff, and the crossings Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s media ings-control-palestinian-government. tor-general of the PA’s general administra- need to be handed over unconditionally.” adviser, Taher al-Nunu, said that the move- html?utm_source=Al-Monitor+News- tion of border crossings, and Deputy Minis- Maher Abu Sabha, the Hamas-appoint- ment agreed with Deputy Prime Minister letter+%5BEnglish%5D&utm_cam- ter of Civil Affairs Nasser al-Sarraj. ed director of the border crossings in Gaza, Ziad Abu Amr to hand over the control of paign=94c2fc6e96-January_14_2015&utm_ Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri re- attributed the delay in the handover to the the crossing “based on a partnership, not medium=email&utm_term=0_ torted in a …media statement, “… Hamas, absence of a political decision by the gov- an exclusion,” with which the government 28264b27a0-94c2fc6e96-93120189#ixzz3P- considers Hamdallah’s call to hand over con- ernment to control them. did not comply. … 7cMSw2O

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US Courts Decide Eruvin Do Attempts to reach members of the Jew- The case did garner national attention Not Violate US Constitution ish People for the Betterment of Westh- when Weisenfeld appeared on a Come- Boehner Invites  CONTINUED FROM P. 10 ampton Beach were unsuccessful. dy Central Daily Show segment. The show Yolkut was also quick to give credit to made ironic light of Westhampton, infer- Bibi to Congress “This is a complete victory for our cli- retired fi rm partner Robert Sugarman, who ring that it wasn’t necessarily the eruv that ents,” he said. “We have a few more steps led the fi rm’s efforts in both Tenafl y and the community was worried about, but it (JNS.org) Following an Obama admin- to go with our case. But this is really signif- the Hamptons as well as Yehudah Buch- was more likely an increase of an Orthodox istration statement that he violated “pro- icant. The court found that eruvin are con- weitz, who argued the appeal. presence. tocol” by inviting Israeli Prime Minister stitutionally kosher. It happened in 2002 “We took every argument the other side “The Jewish community has always Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint in Tenafl y with a similar decision from had on its merit, and showed that they did contributed greatly to this town,” said Wei- session of Congress next month about the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. We’ve not hold up to the light of scrutiny,” said senfeld. the Iranian threat, Speaker of the U.S. helped create a nice body of law.” Yolkut. “It was exciting to be part of this as The Hampton Synagogue and its House of Representatives John Boehner Indeed, the Second Circuit’s January 6 an attorney. But also as a religious Jew my- spiritual leader Rabbi Marc Schneier (R-Ohio) said Congress “can make this de- ruling reached the same conclusion as an- self, I was particularly gratifi ed.” have created an Orthodox presence in cision on its own.” other appellate court, the Third Circuit What is left to do? town. White House spokesman Josh Ear- Court of Appeals, which in 2002 upheld an “There are a few steps we think we “The rabbi has built an oasis there,” said nest said regarding Boehner’s invita- eruv in Tenafl y, N.J. The two circuits cover have to cover. But this recent ruling elimi- Weisenfeld. “We love that it is far enough tion of Netanyahu, “The protocol would six states including New York, Connecticut, nates the core defense that the towns have. away from civilization, yet easy enough to suggest that the leader of one coun- New Jersey, Delaware, Vermont, Pennsylva- They can no longer use the Establishment get to.” try would contact the leader of another nia and the Virgin Islands. Clause in this case.” And it is now inside an eruv. country when he’s traveling there. … This particular event seems to be a departure from that protocol.” In a statement on Wednesday morn- ing, Boehner said, “In this time of chal- lenge, I am asking the prime minister [of Israel] to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life….” In response to Earnest’s remarks, Boehner said later on Wednesday that he does not believe he is “poking anyone in the eye” by extending his own invita- Create tion to Netanyahu. Menendez: The Smile Administration’s Talking Points You’ve Always Sound “Straight Wanted Out of Tehran” TIP—Senator Robert Menendez (D – N.J.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pushed back today against the White House’s Providing a comfortable and caring environment in a state of the art facility. claims that Congressional action could Mention this ad derail negotiations with Iran over its il- Complimentary cosmetic and implant consultations. licit nuclear program. In his State of the and receive Union speech last night, President Ba- rack Obama claimed that such initia- 50% off tives “will all but guarantee that diplo- macy fails” with Iran. Zoom Whitening In his opening statement to a com- or 50% off first mittee hearing titled “Iran Nuclear Ne- gotiations: Status of Talks and the Role Ȉ‹–”‘—•‡†ƒ–‹‘ Ȉ ’Žƒ–‡–‹•–”› Ȉ”ƒŽ—”‰‡”› new patient of Congress“, Menendez said: ”The more cleaning I hear from the administration in its Ȉ‘” ‡Žƒ‹‡‡‡”• Ȉ”–Š‘†‘–‹ • Ȉ‡”‹‘†‘–‹ • quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran. Ȉ‡‡–ŠŠ‹–‡‹‰ ȈŽ‡‡’’‡ƒ Ȉ ƒ ‹ƒŽ‘•‡–‹ • And it feeds to the Iranian narrative of victimization when they are the ones with original sin: an illicit nuclear weap- ons program going back over the course Jody Z. Bardash, D.M.D. of twenty years that they are unwilling to come clean on.” Josh Smilow, D.M.D.

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14 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM ISRAEL Israel’s President Rivlin Expresses Strong Support for Recently Launched Jerusalem Unity Prize

Jerusalem—Israel’s President Reuven of disunity within the greater presented alongside program- Rivlin has expressed support for the re- Jewish community. ming to promote unity initia- cent launch of the Jerusalem Unity Prize 3. Israel and the Diaspora - tives. The event is being held on in Memory of Eyal, Gil-ad, and Naftali in a This award will be presented to the one year anniversary of the ceremony attended by the families of the individuals or groups who have boys’ deaths. three boys and Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Bar- successfully advanced programs The Jerusalem Unity Prize kat, who has been the main initiator be- that better unite the Diaspora and Unity Day are being made hind the prize. It was conceived in part- with the land and people of Is- possible thanks to the support nership with the families of the three boys rael. of Ira and Ingeborg Rennert, Jay and a Jerusalem-based organization, Gesh- In addition to the prize, and Jeanie Schottenstein, Rob- er, as a way to perpetuate the spirit of uni- a special Unity Day is being ert and Amy Book, David and ty felt across Israel and around the world planned for June 3, 2015 in Jeru- Sarena Koschitzky, and the UJA during the days following the boys’ kid- salem where the awards will be HADAS PARUSH Federation of New York. napping. In his remarks the president said, “In the shadow of the events of last sum- mer, and inspired by that spirit of mu- tual responsibility which we witnessed, we must continue to encourage all those working to maintain and strengthen that sense, that feeling, of unity and commit- ment. The Jerusalem Unity Prize reminds us what is acceptable, what is desired, what is appropriate. In awarding this prize, we want to embolden and amplify the positive voices in our society, and fo- cus on the good.” Speaking during the ceremony with the president, Mayor Barkat remarked, “Out of the intense pain of the boys’ tragic deaths came remarkable unity in large part due to the strength and leadership exhibited by these three families,” he said. “We know that unity is a central value in our identity as a people and this prize will afford us the chance to advance these ideals across Israel and around the world.” The ceremony was also addressed by the fathers of the three boys. Avi Fraenkel, father of Naftali, said that he recalled his previous visit to the Residence during the days immediately following the kidnap- ping when their fate remained unknown. “During those days we gained enormous strength from the knowledge that people all around the globe were with us,” he said. “Today we have returned here to ensure that that spirit of unity is preserved and we are confi dent this award will serve to ac- complish that goal.” Uri Yifrach, father of Eyal, said that he had no doubt that the tragedies of the boys’ death brought together a sense of common bonds within the Jewish people which hadn’t been felt in many years. This feeling was echoed by Ofi r Shear, father of Gil-ad who said, “We feel an obli- gation to ensure that the personal pain that we have experienced be channeled for the betterment of people all over the world, and that is what we all hope this prize will accomplish.” The Jerusalem Unity Prize will be pre- sented in three separate categories, each with prizes of up to 100,000 shekel. Win- ners will be chosen from a committee chaired by the mayor, the parents of the three boys, and dignitaries from Israel and the Diaspora. 1. Individuals or Organizations - This award will be presented to individuals, en- tities, or organizations who prove that they have worked in an exemplary manner to advance Jewish unity over an extended pe- riod of time. 2. Social Initiatives - This award will be presented to individual visionaries or groups of visionaries who have advanced social programs that challenge the problem

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 15 NEWS Polish Catholic Church Urges Poles to Care for Jewish Heritage Sites Poland—The Catholic Church in Poland The bishops said no one should just hibition of the Museum of the History of for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in has called on Polish Catholics to care for shrug and say it’s none of their business. Polish Jews in Warsaw, which was opened Poland (FODZ), were established in 1998 by Jewish cemeteries, synagogues, and other Rather it is a “duty of conscience” to see in October. “It is our duty as Christians to the American lawyer Michael Traison, who physical traces of the pre-war Jew- that former synagogues, Jewish care for the salvation of their memory and has an offi ce in Warsaw and spends part of ish population, and also care for cemeteries, and the graves of vic- transmit their memory to our children and the year in Poland. The honorees are most- the graves of Holocaust victims, re- tims of the Holocaust “do not go grandchildren,” it said. ly volunteers and mostly from small, far- ports the organization Jewish Herit- forgotten.” The appeal echoed the words of the late, fl ung towns, and they have been honored age Europe. The Polish Episcopate “Do not let the signs of life and Polish-born Pope John Paul II who, years for activities ranging from cleaning up Jew- made the appeal on the church’s faith disappear from the face of ago, declared: “These Jewish cemeteries are ish cemeteries to running Jewish museums 18th Day of Judaism, an observance the earth,” the appeal said. If mate- part of our common history. These are plac- to carrying out school projects on Jewish aimed at promoting Catholic-Jew- rial evidence is gone, then as a sign es of particularly profound spiritual, escha- history and memory. ish dialogue and relations. of memory a memorial plaque in- tological, and historical importance. Let Writing on the Virtual Shtetl portal, “It is our moral duty to take care of the forming about the Jewish community living these places unite Poles and Jews for to- Krzysztof Bielawski, who also has docu- places where people who had been our here should be placed. This, it said, would gether we await the Day of Judgement and mented hundreds of Jewish cemeteries on neighbors for many years were murdered also be “an important gesture to the contem- Resurrection.” his web site www.kirkuty.xip.pl/, called and buried,” Bishop Mieczysław Cisło, chair- porary Jewish community which, though Many non-Jewish Poles already care for the Church’s appeal a “commendable ges- man of the Committee for Dialogue with small, is developing dynamically in Poland Jewish heritage sites and preserve Jewish ture” and said it is “very important that Judaism of the Polish Episcopate’s Council as part of a pluralistic society.” heritage: about 200 of them have been hon- the Church has voiced its opinion in this for Religious Dialogue, told the newspaper It said people often no longer realize ored for their activities at an annual “Pre- case.” Rzeczpospolita. The appeal called on priests that for centuries Jews, “our elder broth- serving Memory” ceremony held during But, he added, “How will the Church to lead the initiative “to commemorate the ers in faith, neighbors and fellow citizens” the Krakow Jewish Culture festival each members react to it? In how many towns Jewish community in those places where lived and worked in Polish towns and cit- summer. will Jewish cemeteries and graves be taken they lived, and to the faithful and local au- ies alongside Catholic Poles. This history, it The awards, a joint program of the Israe- care of by the residents? The coming years thorities to help in this work.” stated, was captured in the permanent ex- li Embassy in Poland and the Foundation will bring answers to these questions.” Abe Oster Holocaust Remembrance Fund Opens Tenth HS Music Competition at Kaplen JCC By Elyse Hansford ing on teens in grades 9-12 to submit orig- brance Award, a living memorial to the courage young minds to create works of art inal musical works. This year’s winner will six million innocent Jewish victims of the demonstrating a personal, historical and Tenafl y—Holocaust activist and phi- receive the 2015 Abe Oster Remembrance Holocaust was established in 2005 to hon- moral understanding of the Shoah. lanthropist Anne Oster is calling on high Award. “I am the child of survivors, my hus- or the memory of humanitarian Abe Oster. Anne’s mission is to get more and more school students to commemorate the Hol- band was the child of survivors. I wanted The contest is open to any high school stu- people to remember. “Survivors are pass- ocaust in a unique way. Ten years ago, she his name to live on and his legacy contin- dents living in Bergen or enrolled in a pub- ing away at an accelerated pace and in and the people at the Kaplen JCC created ued,” Anne Oster told JLNJ. lic or private Bergen County high school. a contest in her late husband’s name, call- The 2015 Abe Oster Holocaust Remem- The goal of the annual contest is to en-  CONTINUED ON P. 53

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Jewish Federation of Metrowest ry of what happened to these people be- nian genocide, eight additional posters will even more schools. Teaching about this top- Presents “From Memory to History” fore, during, and after the Holocaust. be displayed. Wind feels strongly that these ic makes students more aware and respect-  CONTINUED FROM P. 1 Barbara Wind, Director of the Coun- additions enhance the exhibit each year, ful. Wind believes that students must be cil since 2000, believes it is necessary to making it a more powerful experience for taught now, before they become registered son is taught to and, more importantly, educate people, not just about what hap- viewers. voters. They must understand who their learned by people everywhere, particular- pened, but about how it happened, to en- “I am passionate about what I do,” Wind idols are versus, perhaps, who they should ly future generations. sure that it will never be repeated. Trained says, believing it to be her mission to share be. She feels strongly that Holocaust educa- The 11th annual exhibition from the docents give tours of the exhibit, and stu- these stories with the community and the tion fosters civic awareness and responsi- Council, “From Memory to History,” a dent groups also benefi t from hearing sur- world. She wants people to understand that bility, and that is one of her goals. Students 50-panel exhibit which opens in Metro- vivors speak. They are fortunate to attend the Holocaust survivors were not Tevye who need to be taught what can happen when West on January 26, is intended to teach student-survivor lunch-and-learns, where fi ddled on the roof, nor were they all poor the wrong people are put in positions of just such lessons. It runs for three months the survivors tell their personal stories refugees. They were people just like the vis- power. They need to understand their role each year, and captures stories of local sur- to rooms of approximately 150 students. itors to the exhibit, some poor and some in shaping the future. vivors through photographic annotated Wind believes this contact is an impor- well-to-do, some observant and some sec- The guest speaker at the opening of the montages. Included are photographs, doc- tant part of the students’ experience be- ular. There was no one stereotype that fi t dual exhibitions will be Karine Birazian uments, and artifacts donated by Holo- cause it gives them a personal connection them all. Shnorhokian, who serves on the board of caust survivors, POWs, and concentration to what otherwise may have simply been “It is so rewarding to see the effect of the the Armenian National Committee of Amer- camp liberators. Additionally, there is a a sad story. exhibit on students,” says Wind. However, ica. She will introduce and discuss the fi lm, fi lm that runs continually in a loop, telling In addition to the regular exhibit, each she knows there is more to be done. In this, The Armenian Genocide. The opening will a story of survivors and liberators from the year Wind adds something to distinguish the 20th year of the state mandate to teach take place on Tuesday, January 26 at 7 pm at liberation of Buchenwald. Through these one year’s run from the last. This year, to Holocaust studies in New Jersey schools, the Alex Aidekman Family Campus, 901 Rt items, the exhibit attempts to tell the sto- commemorate the 100 years since the Arme- she believes the time is right to reach out to 10, Whippany.

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New York—Mental health ulation in the Orthodox Jewish ish community and discuss cutting-edge workers who are part of the in- Community. solutions. ternational Nefesh network will In announcing the fellow- “We applaud Touro’s generosity in in- be the benefi ciaries of a new fel- ship, Dean Huberman said “Tik- vesting in future Jewish social workers lowship created for them by the kun Olam was always a corner- with this scholarship,” said Rabbi Simcha Touro College Graduate School stone of Dr. Lander’s vision... In Feuerman, LCSW, President, Nefesh Inter- of Social Work (GSSW). The an- reaching out with fi nancial sup- national. “Through its trainings, confer- nouncement was made by the port we are helping to further ences, and networking events, Nefesh In- School’s Founding Dean, Dr. Ste- this goal...” ternational encourages and supports the ven Huberman, at the 18th Annual In attendance were approx- professional development of Jewish so- International Nefesh Conference imately 300 mental health pro- cial work students into future leaders in held recently on Long Island. fessionals from the Orthodox the fi eld.” The “Annual Nefesh Fellow- community worldwide. Nefesh At the conference dinner event, Da- ships” were established in mem- attracts the largest gathering of vid Mandel, CEO of Ohel and chair of the ory of Touro’s founding presi- Orthodox mental health profes- Touro College Graduate School of Social dent, Dr. Bernard Lander and his (l-r) Miriam Turk, LCSW, Executive Director, Nefesh International; sionals in the world, including Work Professional Advisory Committee, wife, Sarah Lander, to support Steven Huberman, Ph.D., Dean, Touro Graduate School of Social the top experts in the fi eld, who was presented with the Esther Solomon those committed to serve the Work; Simcha Feuerman, Rabbi, LCSW-R, Director of Operations, debate and address the chal- Award by HaRav Dovid Cohen, rabbinic most vulnerable and at-risk pop- Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services. lenges facing the observant Jew- authority for both Ohel and Nefesh. OHEL & JFS of Clifton-Passaic Bring Popular Sibshops Program to the Community Clifton-Passaic—Two dynamic local Groundbreaking Sibshops programs en- ing and non-judgmental. It’s a great place and JFS, who were both trained by Don Jewish organizations, OHEL and Jewish able children and teens with siblings who for participants to form friendships and Meyer, the creator of the Sibshops mod- Family Services, are partnering to success- have a developmental disability to fi rst and make lasting bonds. It is also a place where el. The fi rst group will be for girls ages fully bring Sibshops to the Clifton-Passaic foremost have a fun and lively time. Sib- they can have their questions answered 9-13. For more information, please con- community. Sibshops is a unique support shops features innovative activities and and learn more about their siblings, differ- tact Leah Elyakin, OHEL NJ Sibshop co- program offering fun and inspiration to discussion groups. Sibshoppers are free to ent disabilities, and what the future holds. ordinator, 862-686-7205 or Suzanne Mill- siblings of individuals with developmental share their feelings (positive, negative, or in The Passaic-Clifton Sibshops group er, Director Parent Resource Center at JFS disabilities. between) in an environment that is accept- will be co-led by facilitators from OHEL - 973-777-7638.

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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 19 COMMUNITY NEWS Skating Away in Fort Lee

By Larry Bernstein hind the Fort Lee High School Lee’s fi rst outdoor ice-skating football fi eld. rink in more than 40 years. The Fort Lee—Are your children going a Fort Lee residents are clear- borough acquired the space bit stir-crazy? With temperatures hover- ly excited about the changes in from the Palisades Interstate ing even lower than normal for this time their borough. Linda Stamker, Park Commission and upgrad- of year, who wants to go out? Besides, a resident of Fort Lee and a reg- ed it by putting in new lights what’s there to do this time of year an- ular shul attendee, said of the and a sound system. yway? rink, “It’s a nice thing and it’s al- The best part about the While there’s nothing that can be done ways nice to have new places new rink: It’s free! That’s right, about the temperature, your options of to take the kids.” you don’t need to pay to enjoy what to do just got bigger. On Friday, Janu- The rink is part of the revi- the rink. However, you need to ary 9, Fort Lee had a ribbon-cutting ceremo- talization of Fort Lee. Other ad- bring your own skates as there ny for its new outdoor ice skating rink. The ditions include the borough’s are no rentals and no supervi- rink is located at Palisades Interstate Park exciting new retail facilities sion. As of now, there are no on Hudson Terrace off Central Road, be- and parks. The rink itself is Fort retail components such as a snack bar, but the borough will consider such additions and other improvements based on this year’s turnout. If you are going with your children, please note that children 8 and under must be accompanied by a guardian. In addition, the rink’s daily opening is weath- er permitting. So, don’t let the cold temperatures keep you and your children inside. Brave the Serving the International Jewish Community for 27 years weather and enjoy free outdoor ice skating in Fort Lee. Ruderman Family Foundation and Chabad Partner on $1 Million Disability Inclusion Initiative (JNS.org) The Ruderman Family Founda- tion (RFF) will devote $1 million to a new partnership with the Chabad-Lubavitch to help “create a culture of inclusion” for peo- ple with disabilities in about 4,200 com- munities around the world. The initiative will work to change attitudes within Jew- ish communities from “doing for” to “work- ing with” people with disabilities.

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20 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM COMMUNITY NEWS Music Brings Memories When Words Fail

By Lisa Matkowsky experience from the distant past—a mem- ory resplendent with not only the story, Teaneck—Volunteer pianist Roby Lan- but the senses and the mood. Our memo- gert witnesses a phenomenon fi rsthand ries are imprinted with music, which helps every week at the CareOne nursing home us to defi ne our lives. in Teaneck. Patients locked in silence or It’s inspirational to see patients begin to lost in the maze of dementia fi nd some talk, smile, sing, and even dance, if only for memories when they hear the music she a few moments. Langert is deeply moved plays for them, music that rouses happy when she hears comments like “this made reminiscences and good feelings. my day,” or when a frail resident who could About 25 nursing home residents are not communicate in English broke into “Av- Roby Langert plays for the residents at CareOne of Teaneck. there on this snowy day, at fi rst most- inu Malkenu” with a big smile. One man, ly oblivious or sleeping. But as Langert but they can sing. The profound power of cultures and generations. This power grows during an impromptu game of “Name That launches into the familiar Hatikvah, there music has long been recognized across cul- as we age. To the elderly, music can be a ve- Tune,” said proudly, “I love this because I’m is a gradual, but perceptible reaction. Nod- tures as a means of expression when there hicle of reminiscence, such as when an old a real expert at this.” Roby Langert makes ding heads jolt awake, eyes widen. is no other, and as a language that bridges song brings back the vivid memory of an him feel that way every week. Since she retired from a small busi- ness almost three years ago, Teaneck resi- dent Langert has been sharing her musical talents and engaging personality with the long-term care and rehab residents. “I do it to give back, but I get so much more,” said Langert. “They look forward to it, and so do I. They’re transformed into another world.” Langert has been playing piano since she was a young child, and when her own father went into a nursing home, Serving the International Jewish Community for 27 years she would play for him during their visits, drawing crowds of listeners. Langert says, “I always said that when I had more free time, I would do this to make people happy.” Aging and disease can make expression diffi cult. Elders with memory loss brought on by conditions such as Alzheimer’s dis- ease often lose the ability to verbalize their

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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 21 COMMUNITY NEWS Parnassah Expo 2015: Perfecting Extraordinary Networking Tools

By Shimmy Blum This year there is a new setup. The As always, the expo caters to those at fl oor will include businesses from across every stage of their business and profes- There’s business networking and then the world, in a cross section of indus- sional life. Hence, a fi rst-ever expo fea- there’s…the networking that you can avail tries, but their location won’t be limited ture is the “Tabletop Station” exhibition There will also be a slew of address- yourself of at the 2015 Parnassah Expo to be based on the industry they’re in. Instead, section. This section is for small business- es and seminars by leading personali- held on March 17 and 18 at the New Jersey businesses of all industries will be dis- es, startups, and sole proprietorships who ties. Once again, we will feature “The Ac- Convention and Exposition Center. Regis- tributed throughout the fl oor, ensuring aren’t ready for a full, conventional booth. celerator” panel of investors, who will tration is already under way. that everyone is equally part of “the ac- This gives these exhibitors enormous op- be pitched investment opportunities in Exhibitors can view the fl oor plan of the tion” and can enjoy maximum network- portunity to get to the next level, and of- promising new businesses. There will be expo hall when they reserve online (www. ing capabilities. fers broadened opportunities for attendees other expo panels where the audience will parnassahexpo.com) and choose the loca- Based on the new fl oor map, every one and other exhibitors as well. be allowed to interact with major busi- tion for their booth, subject to availabili- of the thousands of expo attendees will In addition to the grand B2B expo, there ness personalities. ty, just as you can select a seat on a plane. walk through a “red carpet” section in or- will be separate expanded sections for high- Booth and sponsorship reservations for Exhibitors can choose the “real estate lo- der to reach the main expo fl oor. This sec- end business seminars, career and jobs the 2015 Parnassah Expo are well under cation” that suits their preferences. Under- tion will feature the premier expo exhibi- fairs, women in the workforce, and more, way. The earlier you reserve, the better choic- standably, the earlier a business makes a tors, who will enjoy super-prestigious and all laid out and structured in the most ef- es you have. Visit www.parnassahexpo.com reservation, the better the selection will be. broad exposure. fective way possible. or call 855-PAR-EXPO for more information. Halftime at the Super Bowl With Nachum Segal NYMetro—Caught up in the Super- Award-winning bassist Mitch Friedman. the game, for providing a family focused nel “NachumSegalNet”). bowl? Good news. The 2015 Kosher Half- “Featuring a band with the magnitude entertainment program during one of the The program’s presenting sponsor is time Show hosted by Jewish radio icon and talent of Soulfarm makes the Kosher most watched sports events of the year. Na- the Friends of The Abe Naymark Founda- Nachum Segal will be there for you with Halftime Show a real alternative for fam- chum’s trademark humor and commentary tion. Debuting Big Game commercials, Roy- the family-oriented alternative to the pop ilies during the Super Bowl,” says Segal. on the Jewish music scene and Jewish com- al Wine Corp., American Committee for culture musical and dance performance “There are many families that enjoy watch- munity life will provide background for the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, on broadcast television. The program will ing the game together, but when the half- entire program. You’ll be able to fi nd the and The Religious Zionist Slate (www.vote- stream and be available during halftime of time show starts they are uncomfortable. show on Nachum’s website. torah.com) will air 30-second spots. Ables & Super Bowl XLIX, Sunday, February 1, 2015, We’ve created family-friendly entertain- Following the game, the song “Shalom Heyman and Gourmet Glatt are sponsors as on www.nachumsegal.com. ment that can be enjoyed by everyone,” Se- Lach Eretz Nehederet” will be available on well. C Lanzbom and Soulfarm, led by Gram- gal concluded. iTunes, along with the rest of Soulfarm’s More information about the Nachum my Award-winning guitarist and lead sing- Last year’s inaugural show received ac- catalogue, and the entire Kosher Halftime Segal Network is at www.nachumsegal. er Noah Solomon Chase will entertain colades and attracting tens of thousands of Show will be available on demand on com and background on Soulfarm is at with drummer Ben Antelis and Grammy viewers during and in the weeks following NSN’s website and the NSN YouTube chan- www.soulfarm.com.

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(YeshivaWorldNews)—An offi ce work- this program is in Israel and we are excited be organized under the Unit- success in Jersey City,” said Eli er could be suffering from a heart attack, to be the fi rst city in the United States to ed Rescue banner. The goal is Beer, founder of United Hatza- while someone who could save his life launch such an innovative, life-saving pro- to ensure that there is always a lah. The CBEC program un- might be at a meeting on a fl oor below. gram,” said Fulop. cadre of trained and equipped der United Rescue will work How to tell him to get upstairs and help Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) EMS volunteers who can be instant- hand in glove with JCMC EMS the victim? Jersey City Mayor Steven M. is one of the top-rated EMS providers in the ly located and dispatched by the to benefi t the diverse popula- Fulop, the leadership of Jersey City Medi- country according to Journal of Emergency 911 operator to any scene. In an tion of Jersey City. Beer noted cal Center, and United Rescue believe that Medical Services. It focuses on the strategic emergency, residents will call that existing Hatzolah organi- making that happen is the difference be- dispersal of emergency response resourc- 911, and dispatchers will imme- zations came from an idea over tween life and death, and that’s why the es, and utilization of demand analysis tech- diately deploy an ambulance 40 years ago that came from the city adopted United Hatzalah of Israel’s nology with a highly trained and motivated and a CBEC team. CBEC volun- creative, practical, and unstop- unique EMS model. team of responders, and is strikingly simi- teers stabilize a patient’s condi- Jersey City Mayor pable vision of Hershel Weber When Fulop heard about the United lar to the United Hatzalah strategy. United tion until EMS techs arrive on Steven M. Fulop in Williamsburg. Hatzolah still Hatzalah model in Eli Beer’s talk at TED- Hatzalah revolutionized the provision of the scene. 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By Jenny Gans and enjoys the opportunity to attend a laced with gentle humor and wit that hu- Navi shiur. He says, “The shiur is so much manizes and personalizes the concepts he Teaneck—Every Motzei Shabbos, Ket- more than just Navi. R’ Reisman fi nds a spe- conveys.” er Torah hosts the Brooklyn broadcast of a cifi c pasuk—sometimes just one or two Each shiur is its own entity, so a person weekly shiur in Navi (Prophets). Given by R’ words—and from there he gives a timely who is not there for other shiurim may at- Yisroel Reisman, the R’ of Agudas Yisroel of and pertinent shiur. The topics have been tend sporadically and still gain the full ben- Madison, NJ, it is a shiur heard around the about shidduchim, complaining, or other efi t of the shiur. US and beyond. applicable matters.” The shiur is held at Keter Torah on Sat- R’ Reisman’s exegesis of the text is The shiur attracts listeners from all over urday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Once the clocks unique. He isolates a pasuk in Navi—cur- Teaneck, as well as other parts of North Jer- change, the timing will change according- rently from Sefer Yehoshua (Joshua)—and sey. Rochelle and Howard Gans of Paramus ly. The shiur goes on hiatus during the late expounds on that pasuk to tie into a top- look forward to the listening with a weekly Saturday nights of summer, with the last ic everyone can relate to. Murray Goldstein circle of “regulars.” Rochelle Gans says, “R’ shiur usually around Shavuos. Fans eager- has attended the shiur for many years, Rav Yisroel Reisman Reisman brings forward serious ideas inter- ly await its return in the fall. Young Israel to Host Dr. David Pelcovitz as Scholar-in-Residence By Sara Kosowsky Gross ic then will be “Honorable Menschen: In- M. Joel. In addition, Dr. Pelcovitz is an in- stilling Values in Our Children.” Shabbat af- structor in pastoral counseling at the Rab- Teaneck—Dr. David Pelcovitz, interna- ternoon, at 3:45 p.m., he will speak on the bi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. tionally recognized as an inspiring speak- topic “Keeping Our Marriages Strong.” Dr. Pelcovitz has published and lectured er with deep insight on family life and Babysitting services will be available for extensively on a variety of topics related spiritual development, will be a Schol- children in grades K-5 during that shiur. Fi- to education, parenting, and child men- ar-in-Residence at the Young Israel of Tean- nally, at Seudah Shlishit, he will speak on tal health. Areas of research and clinical eck, January 30-31, as part of its Dr. Bertram, “Nourishing Neshamos: Promoting Spirit- specialty include family violence, the im- z”l, and Ann Newman Adult Education Pro- uality.” pact of domestic violence, stress manage- gram. Admission is free and the entire com- According to Mark Glassberg, Chair, ment, transmitting values to children and munity is welcome to come to any of the YIOT Adult Education Committee, “We are adolescents, and coping with trauma and shiurim throughout the weekend. thrilled to be hosting Dr. Pelcovitz. Events loss. His most recent publication was Bal- Friday night Dr. Pelcovitz will give a like this are an integral part of our overall anced Parenting, a book he wrote in col- Dvar Torah before Maariv. At 8:15 p.m he goal of providing our members with high laboration with his father, Rabbi Raphael will give a shiur entitled, “Anger Manage- quality learning and intellectually engaging Pelcovitz, on parenting from a Jewish per- ment: Promoting Healthy Communica- programs to the community.” Dr. David Pelcovitz. YESHIVA UNIVERSITY spective. tion at Work and at Home.” Shabbat morn- Dr. Pelcovitz holds the Gwendolyn uate School of Jewish Education and Ad- For more information, email pres@yiot. ing he will deliver the drasha following the and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology ministration at Yeshiva University. He is org. The Young Israel of Teaneck is located Musaf service at the 9 a.m. minyan. His top- and Jewish Education at the Azrieli Grad- also special assistant to President Richard at 868 Perry Lane in Teaneck.

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By Rabbi Tzvi “Is the Torah a story book?” they ask. “Is excellence, the one who would model sto- As I refl ect upon those of my teachers Hersh Weinreb it not, rather, a set of instructions for ritu- rytelling for every subsequent father in who left a lasting impression upon me, I Executive Vice President, al and ethical behavior?” They each answer Jewish history. Gershom and Eliezer were recall the fact that they all told stories. In- Emeritus of the Orthodox Union these questions differently, but both con- denied witnessing the Exodus because deed, I remember those stories better than clude that much of the Torah, perhaps even God wanted them to serve as the fi rst Jew- the academic lessons they taught me. Since back in early most of it, is one long and fascinating story. ish children who would only hear its story, I remember a youth group leader named autumn, when we be- Why does a book designed to teach the who would not know the real-life experi- Shmuli who told us stories and gave us gan reading the Book reader about proper religious belief and ence of the Exodus but only hear its narra- cupcakes every Shabbat afternoon. I later of Genesis in the synagogue, we have been practice take the form of a narrative? tive told to them by their father. learned that he obtained those stories from reading one long story. It has been a very I think that the reason is quite simple. This, teaches the Belzer Rebbe, is the an early Chabad publication entitled Talks dramatic story, extending over many cen- The Torah recognizes the power of the sto- simple meaning of the verse in this week’s and Tales. Those tales left me with a taste turies. It began with the creation of man, ry to infl uence the minds and hearts of Torah portion: “…So that you (singular in for religion that even surpassed the taste of and proceeded with the narrative of the men. An author who wishes to profoundly the Hebrew) may tell the story, in the ears those delicious cupcakes. transformation of a small family into a impact his reader will do well to choose the of your son and son’s son, of how I made I remember my seventh-grade teacher large nation. narrative mode over other modes of com- a mockery of the Egyptians and how I dis- who read us the stories of William Saroyan For the past several weeks, the plot has munication. In secular terms, a good nov- played My signs among them—in order at the end of each class, laying the founda- thickened. That nation became cruelly en- el is more powerful than the best law book. that you may know that I am the Lord” (Ex- tion for my abiding love of literature. And, slaved. In this week’s Torah portion, Par- Taking note of this important lesson en- odus 10:2). The singular “you” at the begin- of course, there were the stories my unfor- shat Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16), the story takes ables us to understand an otherwise puz- ning of the verse, explains the Rebbe, refers gettable Talmud teacher told us about the a suspenseful turn. We sense that the re- zling phenomenon. Despite the fact that to Moses himself. He is to tell the story to heroes of rabbinic history, which ultimate- demption from slavery is imminent. But the Exodus from Egypt was, and remains, each of his sons individually, because he ly inspired me to pursue a career in the rab- before redemption begins, the narrative is the central experience of Jewish history, is the only father then alive whose sons binate. interrupted. there were at least two Jews alive at the would hear the story of the Exodus second Frankly, I fear that storytelling is be- The Torah shifts gears. It is no longer time of the Exodus who did not experience hand. In this manner, Moses set the stage coming a lost art with the rapid change a story that we hear, but a set of God-giv- it directly. I refer to Gershom and Eliezer, for all subsequent Jewish fathers. A Jewish of our modes of communication. Gross- en commands: “This month…shall be the the two sons of Moses. They remained be- father must be a storyteller! ly abbreviated electronic messages have fi rst of the months of the year for you. hind in Midian when Moses struggled with A good story’s power is familiar to all of replaced the face-to-face encounters that Each member of the community shall take Pharaoh. They did not witness the ten us. The secret of the Chassidic movement’s are essential for storytelling. The absence a lamb…Your lamb shall be without blem- plagues. They missed the thrilling fl ight success was not its texts or teachings, but of the good story will affect personal de- ish…You shall keep watch over it until the from Egyptian bondage. They did not per- the inspiring stories it told to its early ad- velopment negatively and will impede the fourteenth day of this month and…slaugh- sonally experience the wondrous miracle herents. To this day, Chassidim maintain spiritual development of our children and ter it at twilight, eat the fl esh that same of the splitting of the Red Sea. They were the tradition of storytelling in their melava grandchildren. night…not eat any of it raw…not leave any brought back to Moses by their maternal malka, or post-Shabbat repast, every week. For me, Torah is but the most outstand- of it over until morning.” (Exodus 12:1-10) grandfather Yitro, so it is not at all clear Personally, I long ago became familiar ing of the many stories which shaped my Whereas the novice reader of the To- whether they were even present at Mount with an approach to psychotherapy called Jewish identity. I can think of only one mo- rah is jolted by this drastic transition from Sinai when the Torah was given. narrative therapy, in which the patient uses dality that rivals the narrative as a basis for the narrative mode to a set of laws, Rashi The early twentieth century Chassid- his or her own personal narrative as the ba- emotional growth. That modality is music. and Ramban were not surprised by this ic master, Rabbi Yehoshua of Belz, won- sis for curative change. My favorite men- But space limits me to describing the nar- sudden shift. They wondered why the To- ders about this puzzling fact. His answer tor would emphasize that when a thera- rative nature of the Torah in this column. I rah would focus at such length on story- is a most instructive one: God wanted Mo- pist fi rst encounters a patient, his opening will reserve my take on the Torah as music telling and not proceed directly to this ses to tell his sons the story of the Exodus. question should not be, “What’s your prob- for another Person in the Parsha column. passage of ritual law. He wanted Moses to be the storyteller par lem?” but rather, “Please tell me your story.” Watch for it. MAGGID OF BERGENFIELD Bo: Darkness on the Edge of Town By Larry Stiefel “Well, O.K., but no crying or whimper- the matches. And for all you know, there’s Absolute darkness, before the sun and the ing.” something creepy, crawly lurking just be- moon, before the creation of light itself. It was a dark night “Deal.” yond your grasp. I’m talking dark, with a How’s that for dark?” at the campground. “Fine, everybody get comfortable in capital “D.” “I suppose that’s adequate.” The moon and stars your sleeping bags and fasten your seat- “Yawn.” Miles away on some distant road, a car were shrouded in belts, because it’s going to backfi red, releasing a sound that closely re- clouds. The campers be a wild, freaky ride.” sembled a gunshot. had hiked for hours “Just tell the story al- “You kids are tough. I’m impressed. I’ll to get there, through ready.” give it one last shot. It was so dark, it was the rocks, the mud, and the mosquitoes, “All right, all right. It was like Makat Choshech, the Plague of Dark- and and now they were all spread out in a cold, dark night at Camp ness from Egypt. I’m talking serious ma- their sleeping bags around the campfi re. Nissim—“ levolent darkness, like the kind in a horror The franks and beans were long gone. The “How dark was it?” movie. Some say the dark was so thick, you marshmallows had all been roasted on What?” couldn’t even move. It was like being held sticks and devoured. It was storytime. “You said it was dark. chained in the spot where you were. It was “Tell us a ghost story.” How dark was it?” a choking darkness, like you could bare- “I don’t think so.” “Oh, it was extremely ly breathe. It was like a foreshadowing of “Aw, come on! Why not?” dark. Black dark.” death, that’s how bad it was. Absolute, total, “I don’t think you kids can handle it.” “That doesn’t sound so terrifying, deep, black, in-your-face, murky, “What do you mean? Of course we bad.” malignant, pernicious, darkness. Fade to can.” A twig snapped loudly somewhere “It was like black hole black. You know, black.” “No, I don’t want you all getting night- south of the campgrounds. a region of space where the gravitation- For a moment, all was quiet. mares. I’m a really scary storyteller. There’s “It was the kind of dark you only see al fi eld is so strong, nothing can escape its “Wo, that’s dark.” a camper from last summer who’s still in far outside of town on a moonless night, pull once it enters its event horizon, not “Tell me about it.” therapy from the Monster in the Lake sto- where the wind itself seems to be speaking even light. We’re talking the end of the “So, go on with the story.” ry I told at last year’s campout. Another one to you, and every sound is amplifi ed like it world as we know it black. That’s seriously “As I said, it was dark in camp. Then sud- still sleeps with the lights on.” might jump out and grab you.” dark, my friends.” denly, someone let out a loud scream—“ “You’re making that up.” “That’s not so bad.” “I’m just not convinced it’s very dark.” “What kind of scream?” “Oh, am I? Ha, ha, ha, ha!” “Oh really? It was the kind of darkness “Are you serious? O.K., you asked for it. “Blood curdling and high pitched.” “Please? you experience during a blackout, when It was primeval darkness. The kind of dark- “That doesn’t sound so bad—“ Somewhere in the distance an owl everything just goes dead, and you have ness that only existed before God created hooted. no idea where you left the fl ashlights and the world. I’m talking tohu vavohu, baby. Larry Stiefel is a pediatrician at Tenafl y Pediatrics

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From the Editors of Gatestone Institute: a few readers have questioned the authenticity of the West Bank. No, Your Excellency, they are Your Excellency, perhaps it is now too some of Gatestone’s articles, such as the Open Letter to the French President [below]. Unfortu- not afraid to return home because of Isra- late to talk about the decision to invite Pres- nately, in many parts of the world, writers sometimes need to remain anonymous to protect el. They are afraid of being arrested by Pres- ident Abbas to the anti-terror rally. The dam- their safety. If we could not assure them of privacy, there would be no letters or articles from ident Abbas’s security forces, which accuse age has already been done, as far as I and those places at all—from where they are most needed. So we prefer to publish them rather than the two men of insulting their leader. many Palestinians are concerned. The way not. Critics will always oppose an article even when the author’s name is on it. We also wonder President Abbas, Your Excellency, should we see it is as follows: President Abbas has if people who focus on the identity of a writer, rather than on the content, are trying to shift at- be the last person to walk in a march hon- once again managed to deceive you and the tention away from the content, no matter how accurate or well-sourced it might be. oring journalists who were massacred be- rest of the international community by plac- cause of their satirical work. His participa- ing himself on the side of the good guys in By A Palestinian Journalist not blame you for being unaware of this as- tion in the Paris rally is not only in an insult their fi ght against terrorism and extremism. in Ramallah/www.gatestone.com sault on public freedoms because the main- to the memory of the slain journalists, but Even worse, President Abbas has managed January 14, 2015 at 5:00 am stream media, including French newspapers to all those who believe in freedom of ex- to create the false impression that he cares and magazines, deliberately turn a blind eye pression and media. about freedom of speech and independent His Excellency, François Hollande to these practices. Every day we see that the I also want to bring to the attention journalism. Dear Mr. President, Western media does not care about such vi- of Your Excellency that while President Undoubtedly, now Palestinians like me First, I wish to express my deep condo- olations unless they are committed by Israel. Mahmoud Abbas was attending the rally in will now pay a heavier price because Pres- lences over the killing of innocent citizens That is why, Your Excellency, you are Paris, a human rights group published a re- ident Abbas has been emboldened by his in the recent terror attacks in Paris. probably unaware of the cases of several Pal- port accusing the Palestinian Authority of participation in the Paris rally. President Ab- Second, I want to apologize to Your Ex- estinian journalists who have been arrested “waging war” against university students in bas will now step up his assaults on public cellency for not revealing my true identity. and intimidated by President Abbas’s secu- the West Bank. According to the report, 24 freedoms because he knows that the inter- After you read my letter, you will realize why rity forces over the past few years. Yes, this students have been arrested in recent weeks national community will only see photos people like me are afraid to reveal their real is the same Abbas who came to Paris to ex- by Abbas’s security forces for “political rea- of him marching together with Your Excel- identity. press his condolences over the brutal killing sons.” lency and other world leaders in defense of I decided to write to you this letter after of the Charlie Hebdo journalists. Again, I’m sure Your Excellency did not freedom of expression. hearing my president, Mahmoud Abbas, de- The most recent example of Abbas’s hear about the crackdown on university By extending the invitation to President clare that you had invited him to attend the crackdown on Palestinian journalists oc- campuses because Western media outlets Abbas, you have caused damage to Pales- anti-terror rally in Paris earlier this week. curred shortly before Your Excellency and foreign journalists based here do not re- tinians like me who have been hoping that Like many Palestinians, I see President phoned President Abbas to invite him to port about such stories. You read and hear someone -- maybe even a leader like you -- Abbas’s participation in a rally against terror- Paris. The case involves my female col- about such incidents only when the Israeli would fi nally expose the dictatorship of the ism and assaults on freedom of speech as an league, Majdolin Hassouneh, who was de- army or police are involved. Palestinian Authority for what it is. Presi- act of hypocrisy—a condition that is not al- tained for “extending her tongue,” or insult- I do not want to take much of your time, dent Abbas’s participation in the Paris ral- ien to Palestinian Authority leaders. ing, President Abbas. Your Excellency, by telling you about Presi- ly is a severe blow to people like me who In fact, many Palestinians nearly fell Your Excellency, please allow me to tell dent Abbas’s double standards and hypocri- are genuinely opposed to terrorism and sup- off their chairs upon seeing their president you that you are completely mistaken if sy on the subject of terrorism. You can learn pression of free speech. march in the front row of a rally in your cap- you ever thought that President Abbas and a lot about this by going on the Internet and Your Excellency, now that the damage ital, in protest against terrorism and assaults his Palestinian Authority are tolerant to- seeing, with your own eyes, how our presi- has already been done, all that is left for peo- on freedom of the media. ward satire or any form of criticism. And of dent often condones and glorifi es terrorism ple like me is to beg you to take all what I President Abbas’s participation in the ral- course, you haven’t heard of the Palestinian and terrorists. have said into account in your future deal- ly is an insult to the victims of the terror at- Authority’s decision to cancel the only popu- You will even discover that our presi- ings with President Abbas. Please do not hes- tacks. It is also an insult to Western values, lar satirical show on Palestine TV, Watan ala dent, who will soon celebrate his 80th birth- itate to raise these issues with President Ab- including freedom of expression and de- Watar (Country on a String). day, is prepared to stay awake all night to bas the next time he requests your support mocracy. The show was forced off the air in 2011 welcome Palestinians released from Israeli for the creation of an independent Palestin- Your Excellency, myself and other jour- because President Abbas believed it had prison for murdering Jews and committing ian state. Otherwise, France will be helping nalists living under the rule of the Palestini- “crossed a line” by mocking his top offi cials terror attacks no less serious than the ones to establish another corrupt and repressive an Authority in the West Bank were the fi rst in Ramallah. This is the same Abbas who your country experienced last week. Arab dictatorship—one that glorifi es and to be offended by the invitation you extend- came to Paris to protest the massacre at the You will also discover, Your Excellency, rewards terrorists no different from those ed to President Abbas to attend the anti-ter- satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. that our president also rewards terrorists by who carried out the Paris attacks. ror rally. And, Your Excellency, if you want fur- granting them monthly salaries and other Finally, Your Excellency, I hope that by Undoubtedly, you are unaware of the ther evidence of President Abbas’s clamp- privileges. now you understand the reason why I am fact that Abbas is personally responsible for down on political satire, you can ask Pales- What would be your reaction, Your Ex- too scared to reveal my identity. punishing Palestinian journalists who dare tinian comedians Abdel Rahman Daher and cellency, if someone decided to reward fi - Sincerely, to criticize him or express their views in Mahmoud Rizek. The two men are currently nancially the families of the terrorists who A Palestinian Journalist with No Name public. Of course, Your Excellency, we can- in Jordan because they are afraid to return to massacred the innocent civilians in Paris? or Voice RELATIONSHIPS Je Suis Charlie

By Mordechai Glick except for very brief periods when things have succeeded! We have built better hos- ample. It is beginning to be felt. It is still seemed quiet and normal—until it wasn’t pitals in the face of horrendous massacres. very far from being resolved and, in all like- The craziness is any longer. And even during those quiet pe- We are establishing centers and institutions lihood, many agunos will continue to suf- over—at least for the riods, there certainly were many parts of of care in spite of, or maybe because of, dev- fer and some will never be freed. But we are meantime. I hope it the world where the killing, depravity, and astating disorders and illnesses like autism, making progress. will still be somewhat madness continued relentlessly. spinal chord injuries, or ghastly burns. We What about treatment of people who quiet when you are The only thing that changed is method- have people traveling to far parts of the are not from the in-group, or tribe? That reading this next week. ology. It started out with rocks, graduated globe to treat and try to cure horrible diseas- unfairness has gone on forever, with only In the midst of it all there have been end- to fi re and sling shots, then moved on to es like Ebola. We have groups working end- minute changes. But just look to Chabad less stories of police, troops, and ammu- bows and arrows and spears, to gun pow- lessly to try to eradicate social ills like mis- and the Rebbe of Chabad, z”l, and you will nition guarding shuls, Jewish schools, and der, automatic guns, tanks, chemical war- treatment of women, children, people with be amazed at the stories of the Rebbe’s as- sundry other potential targets in France. fare, and nuclear bombs. I don’t believe it special needs (like all of us), and minorities. tonishing concern with black people, Chi- On the local front, there was lots of discus- will ever end. The only question is, will it We even have the beginnings of reli- nese people, and people of every stripe and sion about extra protection at various Jew- stop before we all revert back to Tohu Vavo- gions trying to deal with some of the ter- color. And most amazing, is the Rebbe’s ish sites throughout Long Island, New York, hu? If this was all an experiment to see if rible problems that have been created by love and concern for every Jew. New Jersey, and I’m sure, many other plac- we could ever build a world of goodness, it those very religions. In that area, progress Change is excruciatingly slow and all es as well. has failed miserably. has been resistant to change and remark- the more agonizing while people are con- When will it end—or perhaps, how will But maybe that wasn’t the point. Maybe ably slow, but it is coming. Slow, tenta- tinuing to suffer. But it is happening. Thank it end? Or maybe that’s the wrong question, it was to see if some people could continue tive changes—at least in attitude—have God that we have been given the chance to because it almost certainly won’t end. It moving forward—Je Suis Charlie style—no occurred. A likelihood of real change is in participate in this bizarre and strange real- has been going on since the time of Adam, matter what is going on. In that sense, we the appalling treatment of agunos, for ex- ity we call life.

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 31 DVAR TORAH Parshas Bo: Bringing Light into the Darkness

By Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz ness.” According to the Midrash, the Egyp- the holy (the Jewish area) and the unholy the homes of the “Egyptians,” of the appar- Chabad of West Orange tians could not see, or even move. Howev- (the idols of Egypt). In the holy realm it was ently secular and materialistic world. This er, for the Jewish people it was different: light; in the unholy realm it was dark. freedom is not just for ourselves. We have In Parshas Bo, the They had light wherever they lived. The second view is that the Jew in the power of light in the darkness of Egypt fi nal three plagues The Sages discuss this idea. Does it mean Egypt had the power to bring light to the so that we can bring the light of goodness are brought upon the that the darkness did not affect the specif- realm of the unholy. Even in the Egyptian and kindness, the light of peace and spirit- Egyptians: locusts, ic area where the Jewish people dwelt, the areas, where there was frighteningly thick uality to the entire world. darkness, and death Land of Goshen? Or does it mean, more mys- darkness, the Jew could see. Ultimately the In “light” of the recent tragedies in of the fi rstborn. Phar- teriously, that for a Jew, even in the Egyptian Jewish light within the darkness was visi- France, Israel, and the new wave of anti- aoh fi nally cracks and sends the Jewish areas, there was light in the darkness? ble to all. semitism being felt around the globe, we people running. What is the message of the As explained by the Lubavitcher Reb- This relates to our role in the world need to do all we can to “enlighten” our sur- ten plagues for us today? Let us examine be, of blessed memory, these two opinions today. The Jew enters a realm of spiritual roundings, and may it be God’s will that he the ninth plague, the plague of Darkness. relate to our view of the world. One view darkness, yet he or she has the power to redeem his people from their fi nal exile, There were three days of “thick dark- is that there is a deep separation between bring light into that darkness, to illuminate speedily in our days. Yeshiva University Presents Antisemitic Hate Community Beit Midrash Crimes Double in UK in Last Year New York—YU’s Center for the Jewish tice,” will be delivered at 10:30 a.m. by Ay- Future (CJF) will present the spring install- alon. The second lecture, at 11:45 a.m., will The Telegraph UK reports the number ment of its Community Beit Midrash pro- be presented by Dr. Shatz on “Pursuing of hate crimes against Jews nearly dou- gram beginning February 3 with a six-week the Right and the Good: Themes in Jew- bled last year, according to latest statis- series of talks by two distinguished mem- ish Ethics.” tics from the Metropolitan Police. There bers of YU’s faculty, Ambassador Danny Ay- Dr. Shatz said, “I will try to explore Jew- were 297 hate crimes against Jewish peo- alon, Rennert Visiting Professor of Foreign ish law, and open windows to questions Danny Ayalon David Shatz ple in the year to August. The fi gure was Policy Studies, and Dr. David Shatz, Uni- about human nature, ritual, self-sacrifi ce, up from 153 in the previous 12 months, versity Professor of Philosophy, Ethics and suffering, prayer, autonomy, and secular yu.edu/beitmidrash. For weekly sponsor- a rise of 94 per cent. In the same period Jewish Thought. The program is open to ethics—questions that I think are highly ship opportunities, please contact Julie the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes the community and runs for six consecu- relevant to our time and place… The initia- Schreier, director of the Long Island re- in the capital dipped slightly from 518 to tive Tuesdays at the Yeshiva University Mu- tive provides a wonderful bridge between gion, at [email protected] (516-972- 495 last year, a four per cent fall. Patrols seum, 15 West 16th Street, New York City. university and community.” 2920) or Aryeh Czarka, program coordina- in areas with large Jewish populations The fi rst lecture of each day, titled “Is- For more information or to register for tor, at [email protected] (212-960-5400 have been increased. rael’s Foreign Policy: Diplomacy in Prac- the Community Beit Midrash, visit www. x 6826).

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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 33 SEPHARDIC CORNER Ashkenazic Kohanim Visiting Sephardic Congregations Part I

By Rabbi Haim Jachter fore the three Regalim.3 The Agur adds only during Mussaf. The Mishnah Beru- 3 The Rambam (Hilchot Tumat Ochalim Rav of Congregation Shaarei that Bittul Melachah, detracting from ful- rah (128:166) adds that this applies to Yom 16:10) explains that the purifi cation is so that Orah, the Sephardic fi lling professional obligations, is another Kippur as well due to the joy of the for- we will be prepared to enter the Beit HaMik- Congregation of Teaneck concern. Chazal (Megillah 21 and Berachot giveness of our sins. Indeed, the Mishnah dash. Those who do not immerse before the 45b) were very sensitive to not keep peo- (Ta’anit 4:8 and Gemara Ta’anit 30b) states three Regalim assume that this obligation First time Ashkena- ple from their work-related responsibili- that Yom Kippur is one of the two happi- applies only when the Beit haMikdash is zic visitors to Sephard- ties, and therefore, for example, limited est days in the Jewish calendar due to its functioning. Immersion before Yom Kippur ic synagogues almost the number of Aliyot to Torah reading on being a day of forgiveness.6 is strongly encouraged (see Rosh Yoma 8:24) always fi nd it aston- Mondays and Thursdays to three. In our next column we continue to ex- as preparation for the day that Hashem pu- ishing that Sephard- The Agur concludes that refraining plore this fascinating question. rifi es us (Vayikra 16:30 and the conclusion of ic Kohanim conduct Nesi’at Kapayim (also from Birkat Kohanim is per- Mishnah Yoma 8:9) . known as Birkat Kohaim and Duchenen, mitted for these reasons since 4 Of course, this justifi - when the Kohanim bless the congrega- technically a Kohein does cation does not apply to an tion) every day, even outside of Eretz Yisra- not violate his obligation to Ashkenazic Jew who prays el. In reality, it is far more astonishing that bless the nation unless he is in a Sephardic congregation Ashkenazic Jews refrain from performing summoned with the call “Ko- which summons the Ko- daily Birkat Kohanim outside Eretz Yisra- hanim” to bless the nation. In- hanim to bless the nation, as el. The Mishnah (Kiddushin 1:9) sets forth deed, Targum Onkelos (BeM- we shall discuss later. the rule very clearly: “Any mitzvah which idbar 6:23; see the Torat Haim On the other hand, Yal- is land based, ‘Teluyah BaAretz,’ is prac- edition of Onkelos) translates kut Yosef’s instruction to Se- ticed only in Eretz Yisrael, and any mitz- the Pasuk, which states, “In- phardic Kohanim to leave an vah which is not land based applies both struct the children of Aharon, Ashkenazic service before the in Eretz Yisrael and outside Eretz Yisra- this is how to bless the chil- Shaliah Tzibbur reaches Bir- el.” Thus, since Birkat Kohanim is not a dren of Israel; say to them” kat Kohanim seems diffi cult. land based mitzvah, it is diffi cult to under- as “in this manner shall you Yalkut Yosef is concerned for stand why Ashkenazim refrain from Nesi’at bless Bnei Yisrael when they the Kohein failing to fulfi ll Kapayim, except for Yom Tov and Yom Kip- instruct you to do so.” Thus, his obligation to bless the Ka- pur, outside of Eretz Yisrael.1 The Sephard- the obligation for Kohanim hal in an Ashkenazic service. ic practice (strongly endorsed by Rav Yosef to bless the Jewish People is However, since Ashkenazim Karo in the Beit Yosef at the end of chap- triggered only by summoning do not summon Kohanim to ter 128), on the other hand, stems from a them to bless us. Since Ashkenazic Jews do bless this should not be a concern since straightforward reading of the Mishnah in not summon the Kohanim to bless the na- 1 Teshuvot Minchat Yitzchak (8:1) dis- the obligation to bless is bypassed. It seems Kiddushin. tion except for Yom Tov, no obligation de- cusses at length and strongly endorses that common practice among Sephardic Explaining the Ashkenazic Custom volves upon the Kohanim to bless.4 the Ashkenazic custom to perform Nesi’at Jews is not to leave the Beit Kenesset when Various explanations are offered for The Rama (Orach Haim 128:44) codifi es Kapa’im only on Shabbat in Haifa and the praying in an Ashkenazic congregation. the Ashkenazic custom. The Beit Yosef cites the universal custom among Ashkenazic Galil. Hacham Ovadia Yosef (Yalkut Yosef 5 This is not the proper mind frame for the Agur, a late Rishon, who offers two ex- Jews to refrain from Nesi’at Kapayim ex- 128:17) recommends to Ashkenazim that it Shabbat, as Rashi (to Shemot 20:9 s.v. V’asita planations. One is that the Kohanim cus- cept for Mussaf on Yamim Tovim. He jus- is proper to change this Minhag and recite Kol Melachtecha) notes that on Shabbat we tomarily immerse in a mikveh2 prior to tifi es the practice by noting that Kohanim Birkat Kohanim every day even in the Gal- should feel that all our work is done. Our blessing the congregation, and they fi nd should be in a pleasant mood to bless the il. The Gesher HaHaim (2:18-2-3) agrees and weekday worries and concerns should be it diffi cult to immerse in a mikveh every nation (“Tov Leiv Hu Yevareich”). Rama calls for Hahzarat Atarah Leyoshenah, to re- shunted aside as we usher in Shabbat with day during the cold winter months. On adds that during the week and even on store the original practice to recite Birkat its Neshamah Yeteira (added soul). 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34 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM A DIFFERENT KIND OF REMEMBRANCE Why Hitchcock’s Film on the Holocaust Was Never Shown

By Abigail Jones/www.newsweek.com We see soldiers slinging the dead over grew impatient with Bernstein’s slow, me- their shoulders as they hurl them into ticulous process and pulled its footage, hir- Two women drag an emaciated female dump trucks. We watch the twins who sur- ing its own director, Billy Wilder, to create corpse along the ground, its head bounc- vived Dr. Josef Mengele’s grotesque human a shorter fi lm. ing on the dirt. When they reach a large experiments at Auschwitz walk through Wilder’s Death Mills premiered in pit, they stop, give the naked body a quick a narrow corridor of barbed wire. And we Wurzberg following an operetta with Lil- tug backward to pick up momentum, then look into the eyes of the dead and dying at lian Harvey. Of the 500-odd people in the hurl it into the hole. The corpse, which Dachau, which John Krish, an editor on the audience at the beginning of the screening, looks like a skeleton covered in a thin fi lm fi lm, said “was like looking into the most less than 100 were in their seats at the end. of skin, fl ops onto a mound of decompos- appalling hell possible.” All the while, Ger- Bernstein’s work had also become a po- ing bodies. Alfred Hitchcock types a script on a portable man locals stood on the sidelines, bearing litical headache for American and British The scene, shot at the Bergen-Belsen typewriter his apartment in the Wilshire witness to a genocide they claimed they offi cials. The consensus was that the fi lm concentration camp at the end of World Palms. Hitchcock wanted his fi lm on the didn’t know about. was no longer necessary. “Policy at the mo- Holocaust to be as believable and irrefutable War II, might never have been seen by the The images will make you want to look ment in Germany is entirely in the direc- as possible—to ensure that the massacre of public had a decommissioned fi lm, boast- away, but don’t. As Raye Farr, a director at tion of encouraging, stimulating and inter- 11 million people would never be forgotten. ing Alfred Hitchcock as a supervising direc- the United States Holocaust Memorial Mu- esting the Germans out of their apathy, and PETER STACKPOLE/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY/HBO tor and British fi lm pioneer Sidney Bern- seum from 1995 to 2003, says in the docu- there are people around the Command- stein as producer, not been resurrected. the rutted tracks. On each side of the road mentary, “The fi lms shot at Bergen-Belsen er-in-Chief who will say ‘No atrocity fi lm,’” Authorized in the spring of 1945 by the Al- were brown wooden huts. There were fac- by the British cameramen reveal every level read a memo Bernstein received on August lied forces, German Concentration Camps es at the windows. The bony, emaciated of humanity to a much greater extent than 4, 1945, from the British Foreign Offi ce.Ger- Factual Survey captured the monstrous re- faces of starving women too weak to come any other of the fi lm evidence.” man Concentration Camps Factual Survey alities found during the liberation of Nazi outside, propping themselves against the Helping us make sense of this heart- was shelved in September 1945, though its death camps, including Bergen-Belsen, glass to see the daylight before they died. and gut-wrenching footage are interviews footage was key evidence in the trials of Dachau and Auschwitz. And they were dying, every hour and every with concentration camp survivors, the sol- Nazi war criminals. Yet by August of that year, the fi lm was minute.” diers who saved them and the cameramen Four years ago, the IWM began restor- shelved by British authorities. Everything— The report was so stunning that, a cou- who were there to record the slaughter. ing and completing Bernstein and Hitch- reels of footage, the script, the camera- ple of days later, Bernstein, then a leading “You couldn’t tell if they were dead or cock’s fi lm, as they had originally envi- men’s notes—was boxed up and buried in fi lm producer and head of fi lm for Britain’s alive,” Benjamin Ferencz, a sergeant with sioned it, including the sixth reel, which the archives of the Imperial War Museums psychological war department, made his the U.S. Third Army, recalls in the documen- was unfi nished when the project was shut (IWM) in London. A new HBO documenta- way to the camp. What he found there in- tary. “You’d step over a body and it would down. Night Will Fall ends with a scene ry, Night Will Fall (January 26), directed by spired his next endeavor: a full-length doc- suddenly wave at you, raise a hand. Total from the now-completed documentary. A André Singer and narrated by Helena Bon- umentary that would portray the Nazis’ chaos. Dysentery, typhoid, all kinds of dis- large group of civilians (it’s unclear who) ham Carter and Jasper Britton, tells the sto- horrifi c crimes so vividly it would be im- eases in the camp. Putrid. The smell of the walk through one of the camps, passing by ry of how, 70 years later, this lost fi lm came possible to deny they ever took place. camps, the crematorium was still going, the decaying bodies on both sides of the road. back to life. dead bodies piled up like cordwood in front As the camera zooms in on the grotesque In the spring of 1945, British, Ameri- ‘The Most Appalling Hell Possible’ of the crematorium. It’s hard to imagine for faces of the dead, the narrator speaks: “Un- can and Soviet troops were headed to- After the American and British govern- a normal human mind. I had peered into less the world learns the lesson these pic- ward Berlin in the fi nal days of the war. ments approved his fi lm, Bernstein hand- hell and that’s—” Ferencz, who later served tures teach, night will fall. But by God’s Along with them were soldiers who’d been picked a powerhouse team, including ed- as chief prosecutor during the Nuremberg grace, we who live will learn.” trained as cameramen—young, brawny itor Stewart McAllistar, writers Richard Trials, tries to stop himself from crying. “It’s With grace and masterful storytelling, men with cigarettes hanging out of their Crossman and Colin Willis, and a famous not something you quickly forget.” Night Will Fall reveals the carnage the Al- mouths and large, boxy cameras hoisted movie director, Alfred Hitchcock. They had German Concentration Camps Factu- lied troops found in the concentration up on their shoulders, who arrived at con- just three months to complete the docu- al Survey is Hitchcock’s only known docu- camps and reminds us of just how pow- centration camps during their liberation mentary from reels and reels of footage mentary feature. Though his tenure on the erful bearing witness can be. The fi lm is a to record the harrowing aftermath of the captured by those British, American and fi lm lasted just one month, he made lasting poignant, potent addition to the canon of atrocities there. Russian cameramen. contributions, helping to outline the story Holocaust history. As Bernstein said in an It took a while for details about the con- Night Will Fall shows many of these and emphasizing the importance of show- interview in 1984, “My instructions were centration camps to get out. On April 19, scenes, and they are rife with unspeakable ing just how close the concentration camps to fi lm everything which would prove one 1945, BBC Radio aired a controversial report details: Dead bodies are strewn across plots were to picturesque villages where German day that this had actually happened. It’d be by Richard Dimbleby about his experience of land, some in heaps and others lined up civilians lived during the war. He wanted a lesson to all mankind as well. As to the at Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany. Ini- like a carpet of human carcasses. When the the fi lm to be as believable and irrefutable Germans, for whom the fi lm that we were tially, the BBC refused to air the report; the camera zooms in, we see limbs, as thin as as possible to ensure that the massacre of putting together was designed…it would broadcaster simply couldn’t believe Dim- bones, tangled together like pretzels. Skulls 11 million people, including 6 million Jews, be the evidence we could show them…. bleby hadn’t embellished the details. “I cracked open by puncture wounds. Gaunt, would never be forgotten. I wanted to prove that they had seen it, found myself in the world of a nightmare,” hollow eyes and gaping mouths frozen in In the summer of 1945, plans for German so there was evidence, because I guessed he said. “Dead bodies, some of them in de- silent screams. Shoulders, thighs and legs Concentration Camps Factual Survey be- rightly, and most people would deny that cay, lay strewn about the road and along marked by burns, cuts and fi lth. gan to unravel. The American government it happened.” “When a Jew in France Is Suffering, the Jews in Poland React” By Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox As my daughter and I sat down this even lack an unconscious, unprocessed still being out of its element, and Knesses Director of Education and Interventions, Project CHAI morning over a rushed breakfast before de- emotional response, rushed as we are to Yisrael above still mourning the churban. parting for our daily routines, she asked me move on to some other focus, stimulus, And now, the late-breaking news is that This was an observation attributed, if anyone had contacted Project CHAI of or distraction. the Jews of Paris greeted Shabbos with variously, to Rav Meir Shapiro of Lub- Chai Lifeline about this crisis (we were still It is sort of like stepping on the glass at murdered, martyred kedoshim. Some of us lin z’l, to the Chofetz Chaim of Radin z’l, at the crisis level in that it was still “only” a the close of a chasuna. The ritual has be- managed to get in a kapitle Tehillim after to Rav Yisrael Lipkin of Salant z’t, and to hostage situation. We were not yet consid- come, for some, so refl exive that its seems Shacharis, or a barrage of Tefi llos at various many others, as well as to a related pas- ering this a “trauma,” at least for those of like a natural fl ow from the joyous antic- moments Friday morning. But the news sage in the Yerushalmi. We are all meant us ensconced within our homes and offi c- ipation of completing bracha achrita that came, the press moves on to other topics, to be a single land mass, unseparated by es elsewhere). the smashed goblet has become the sig- we stop and let these latest killings fl oat geographical borders and by time and Before I could answer my daughter, nal to yell out “mazal tov” then hit the aisle through our thoughts, and then…? space. When the fault lines of Jewish she responded to her own question, not- dancing and singing. It is no wonder that It is unwise and unhealthy to go on the safety crack anywhere across the globe, ing that in today’s cyber-saturated envi- there were poskim early in the last centu- lookout for tragedy. Scholars regard that as we are all meant to feel the quaking be- ronment, people don’t stop to process ry who queried the appropriateness of this “ignoble misfortune,” which can indicate a neath our feet and within our minds and bad news; they are already clicking on minhag, once intended as a brief zecher lack of mental health rather than a resilient souls. And yet, here we are once again, the next email or news bit. We sidestep l’churban. It is no wonder that some have mind. In contrast, when we do confront eruv Shabbos, getting ready for a restful our emotions before any reaction can the practice of stopping to chant “im eshk- tragedy r’l, we are not meant to dismiss it evening at home, with family, in shul and kick in. We seldom attain consciousness achech Yerushalayim” fi rst, giving the heart or ignore its scope of ramifi cations. in bais medrash, and Jewish blood has of what we might, or might want to be, and the neshama one more chance to focus been spilled in France. feeling. It is even possible that some of us on the universal sadness over klal Yisroel  CONTINUED ON P. 37

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 35 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Judaism: In His Name: The Possibility of Passion and Tolerance

By Rabbi Herzl Hefter ity and providing horrifi c examples of cru- maintain sincere and passionate fi deli- ternal authority in a landscape of intense- elty for all to see. ty to one’s particular religious tradition ly personal divine revelation in and of the And God spoke In 2001, a few months before 9/11, be- while being genuinely tolerant of other heart is beyond our scope here. But for to Moses and said to fore most of us could imagine what was people’s choices? Berger speaks of what those of us committed to a tradition that him: “I am the LORD. coming, the Taliban destroyed the ancient he calls “soft certainty.” This means that is alive for us, it is crucial to encounter this I appeared to Abra- Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan. The the basis of religious faith lies not in met- spiritual landscape within our tradition. ham, to Isaac, and civilized world was taken aback at the bar- aphysical assertions but in the recesses of A Hasidic interpretation of the divine to Jacob, as God Al- barity of the destruction. I, too, name, El-Shaddai, which appears in this mighty (El Shadd- thought the act to be a display week’s Torah portion helped me do so. ai), but by My name of barbarism and savagery. Yet I Shaddai has a number of possible mean- LORD (YHVH) I was not known to them.” was troubled by an uncomfort- ings. R’ Simcha Bunim of Przysucha (1765– (Exodus 6:2-3) able thought. Doesn’t the Torah, 1827), one of the great Hasidic masters in “My name is Alice, but—” which I hold dear, call for simi- Poland, explained it by breaking it into two “It’s a stupid name enough!” Humpty lar violence against idols? (Deu- parts. The letter shin is a prefi x meaning Dumpty interrupted impatiently. “What teronomy 7:5 is a good example: that, and dai means enough. She dai would does it mean?” “But thus shall ye deal with them: mean, “that [which] is suffi cient.” He goes “Must a name mean something?” Alice ye shall destroy their altars, and on to explain that this means that there is asked doubtfully. (Lewis Carroll, Through break down their images, and cut just enough revelation of God in the world the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found down their Asherah poles, and in order for humans to recognize His exist- There, 1871) burn their graven images with ence. In the revelation of the name Shadd- In 1989 Francis Fukuyama penned his fi re.”) And aren’t all traditional re- ai, God says of Himself that “there is just essay, “The End of History?” in which he ar- ligious systems closed structures enough of Me in the world to know Me.” The partially restored shul of Der Yid and R’ Simcha gued that the end of the Cold War, with the that allow for very little tolerance R’ Simcha Bunim’s reading of God’s Bunim in Przysucha, Poland. COURTESY: JEWISH HERITAGE EUROPE victory of liberal Western democracy over of the infi del or the heretic? name provides the necessary space for tol- other forms of government, heralded “the I began to ask myself honestly: “How the human heart. It is in the heart where erance of others and their choices. God has endpoint of mankind’s ideological evolu- was I, an Orthodox Jew, essentially differ- God is revealed and experienced. The real- delimited Himself in order to make human tion and the universalization of Western ent ideologically from the Taliban?” Was ity of this experience is the foundation of activity meaningful and free; the tolerance liberal democracy as the fi nal form of hu- it only that westernized Jews (and Chris- “soft certainty.” Certainty is not available we exhibit toward others is a necessary man government.” tians, for that matter) no longer possessed through contemplation of the reality “out consequence of God’s ongoing choice to Twenty-fi ve years later, we are left authentic religious enthusiasm? Was it there,” for “out there” is doubt and uncer- reveal “just enough” of the divine self. The scratching our heads, astonished at Fukuy- only that in modern religion, concern for tainty that carve out the topography nec- signifi cance of this teaching, however, ex- ama’s naïveté. Old ideological rivalries are public relations has displaced passion? I essary for tolerance. tends beyond facilitating a space of uncer- indeed dead, but ferocious religious con- also found myself wondering about the The proper place for institutionalized tainty that allows for religious tolerance. It fl icts have replaced them with a vengeance, question Peter Berger asks in his book, The orthodoxies (Jewish or otherwise) that becoming a major source of global instabil- Heretical Imperative: How is it possible to preach exclusivity and obedience to ex-  CONTINUED ON P. 37

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Ring In the New “When a Jew in France Is Suffering, Our children get those messages as well. vention at a community Jewish high school the Jews in Poland React” Their attitude about what to do with this where a tragic death had occurred. The prin- CONTINUED FROM P. 35 Year With a COLA  information, and what skills to draw on in cipal told me that the class was about to be- responding therein, are learned from their gin a semester on whether or not God does By Everett Lo A Torah individual feels the dent in him- interactions with us. evil; he wanted to know if he should post- self. We acknowledge the Divine origin of The challenge, friends, is for us to pay at- pone the lectures for a while.) In 2015, nearly 64 million Americans all that befalls us, including things that tention to the sound of yearning, of aching, And when our youth do not react at all, who receive Social Security or Supplemen- merely come across our radar rather than of suffering. We need to become conscious what do we do? tal Security Income (SSI) will receive a cost- impinging directly on our physical selves. of the sound and to address it. As parents and From a clinical view, of course, we of-living adjustment (COLA) increase to Whether I experience something person- as educators, we must address our youth. might consider that silence is a reaction, their monthly benefi t payments of 1.7%. ally, or I learn about another Jew’s experi- When they are afraid, we support and val- and the unresponsive teen or child may be The average monthly Social Securi- ence, I am being handed an envelope, and idate them, while offering credible encour- processing his/her experience deep within. ty benefi t for a retired worker in 2015 is there is a message awaiting me in some agement and hopefulness. When they are But from another vantage point, we need $1,328 (up from $1,306 in 2014). The aver- form or another. If I carelessly discard the sad, we validate that too, and discuss their to consider that no reaction = no reaction. age monthly Social Security benefi t for a envelope, I will fail to make use of that perceptions of what has happened. When The dilemma then becomes: Did they learn disabled worker in 2015 is $1,165 (up from message. Or I can open that envelope and they wax philosophical, we meet them half that from us? Is that what our non-respon- $1,146 in 2014). For people who receive SSI, study its message, then try to make person- way, willing to engage them in dialogue siveness refl ects to others? the maximum federal payment amount in- al sense of it, and determine how I plan to while also providing them with hashkafi cal- When Jewish blood is spilled in Paris, is creased to $733 (up from $721 in 2014). respond. ly sound direction. (I recently did an inter- it felt by the rest of us? The maximum amount of earnings sub- ject to the Social Security payroll tax will increase to $118,500 (up from $117,000 in 2014). A worker will earn one credit toward Social Security coverage after paying tax- es on $1,220 in earnings in 2015 (up from $1,200 in 2014). As a reminder, eligibility for retirement benefi ts still requires 40 credits (usually about 10 years of work). Information about Medicare changes for 2015 is available at www.medicare.gov. The Social Security Act outlines how the COLA is calculated. To read more about the COLA, please visit www.socialsecuri- ty.gov/cola. To learn more about other changes in 2015, read this fact sheet at www.socialse- curity.gov/news/press/factsheets/cola- facts2015.html.

Judaism: In His Name: The Possibility of Passion and Tolerance  CONTINUED FROM P. 36 actually promotes deeper and more engag- ing religious possibilities. R’ Simcha Bunim’s teaching disclos- es the precarious nature of creation. Too much Divine revelation and we lose our in- dependent identity. An example of this is the reaction of the children of Israel at Si- nai to the intense revelatory experience; they beseeched Moses to protect them from the all-consuming Presence of God. On the other hand, too little divine revela- tion and we have a world that is devoid of meaning or the possibility of redemption. Creation, as refl ected in the divine name Shaddai, teeters perilously between faith and skepticism, hope and despair, existence and annihilation, God’s at once comforting and disquieting Presence and His terrifying absence. Only in the world of El Shaddai, where belief in God cannot be taken for granted and atheism is possible, can faith be meaningful. And only in the world of El Shaddai, where certainty about God is elusive, can we have religious pas- sion alongside religious tolerance. Torah MiTzion was established in 1995 with the goal of strengthening Jewish com- munities around the globe and infusing them with the love for Torah, the Jewish People, and the State of Israel. Over the past 18 years Torah MiTzion has recruited, trained, and dis- patched more than one thousand shlichim (emissaries) to Jewish communities in coun- tries spanning fi ve continents and impacted Jewish communities with an inspiring model of commitment to both Judaism and Zionism.

Rabbi Herzl Hefter is the former Rosh Kollel in Cleve- land (1995–96) and currently Rosh Beit Midrash of the Har’El Program. www.arutz7

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 37 GUEST EDITORIAL

Would You Stay in France? and as a problem that can be solved only As I write these words I shed tears, be- than in Paris?  CONTINUED FROM P. 8 by the establishment of two states. Prime cause it wasn’t supposed to be so. We Zi- Fact: even as Jews consider leaving Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees Israel onists believed that the creation of an in- France, Jews are leaving Israel. We don’t to be painstakingly rebuilt after the Shoah. as battling the same forces of radical Islam dependent Jewish State with an army of its know why some Jews are getting Europe- If that’s the case, better late than never. But as the French government and the people own would end Jewish vulnerability. But an passports and moving to Europe, but let us hold them to those values. of France. Both sides may be right, but nei- Jewish history is fi lled with irony. In real- the prospect of endless war in Israel is sure- There’s more. The declaration of war ther accepts the other’s reading of the core ity, Israeli independence came just as the ly one contributing factor. Israeli Jews wea- against radical Islam articulated so passion- problem. world became increasingly interdepend- ry of war and perceiving a bleak future of ately by French President Francois Hol- In light of the attacks, and a doubling of ent, and the State of Israel has not end- unending battles are moving to Germany lande may—and only may—spell the end French Jews making Aliyah in the last year, ed Jewish vulnerability, it has simply giv- and other European countries—including of France’s appeasement to the politics of the Israelis are promising safety and securi- en us—Israelis and all Jews—new tools to France. This is true even as French Jews are rage. Let us hold them to that as well. Be- ty in the Jewish state. This invitation comes combat that vulnerability. coming to Israel to take their place. cause they haven’t been doing too well at it. despite the fact that over the past decades, If Netanyahu is to be believed, Israel I found the burial of the victims of the But do not expect this outpouring even with the rising tide of antisemitism currently faces a nuclear existential threat supermarket massacre were not killed be- of concern for French Jews to make the in Europe, both per capita and in absolute of vulnerability, either by Iran or by other cause they were Israelis, they were killed French government strong allies of Israel. numbers, many more Jews have been killed non-state actors armed by the Iranian state. because they were Jews. Their burial in Is- The French government and French soci- in Israel because they were Jews than any- If safety is what French Jews are seeking, rael may have reinforced the idea that Jews ety tend to see Israel in colonialist terms where else in the world. will their lives really be any safer in Tel Aviv do not belong to France, but rather to Is- rael, and that their murders were a Jewish problem and not a French problem. This cannot be the message that we of- fer up to the world. We must insist that France claim French Jews as their own, as citizens of France, not only publicly and loudly, but also sincerely, just as we must mourn them as Jews. And we insist that American Jews be considered Americans. False comparisons to the 1930s are not helpful. It is essential to remember that in the 1930s, the attack against the Jews was government sponsored, by the most pow- erful people as well as by important in- terest groups native to their country. To- day’s attacks are by disempowered people who impose their views through criminal acts of violence and intimidation. Mean- while the world powers, the leaders of Eu- rope, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germa- ny, Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain, Pope Francis and President Hol- lande of France among them, are repeat- edly condemning antisemitism loudly and clearly. One cannot compare the power of con- temporary Jews and the reality of Israel with the abject powerlessness and state- lessness of Jews in the 1930s. The refusal to equate today’s events to the Holocaust is not license to minimize their importance, but rather to insist that we affi rm how far we have come since then. Walking home from synagogue in Los Angeles, I saw that my French neighbor dis- played a sign Je Suis Charlie on his lawn, and I asked for a similar sign to place on mine. I would have felt better, much better, if my neighbor and his fellow countrymen all had exhibited two signs side by side, Je Suis Charlie, Je Suis Juif. Only when both signs stand side by side—when the rights of French citizens are valued as just highly as the essential democratic right to free speech—only then will the situation of Jews in France truly change.

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38 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM FEATURE I Always Knew My Mother’s Heart

By David Weinstein saw my mother crying, that I never wanted her to worry or cry because of me. Ever since the time I went to Sheeps- I always knew my mother’s heart, and head Bay to watch the people catch fi sh after that time I kept in close contact with off of the piers, I kept in very close contact her. I always worried that she would be with my mother. You might say that it was worrying about me. I know that God bless- a bit eccentric for a young boy to keep such ed me when He gave me my Mother. a closeness with his mother, but I was 10 When I was older and married and my years old and there was a good reason for parents knew that I was going on a big it. It had nothing to do with me. I would trip out of state, I would call them when have gone anywhere and come back home I reached my destination. On the phone at dinner time, but I knew she would wor- I remember my Mom saying, “I’m so glad ry, especially after what happened. you called. Now I’ll be able to sleep to- We lived about a mile and a half from night!” the Bay, not far from the Atlantic Ocean And I answered, “Me too, Mom!” and Manhattan Beach—which is where the rich people lived. But for me, there was nothing of interest to see beyond the Bay. Here the fi shing ships would dock at the piers, and when the ships left early in the morning to go out into the Atlantic, peo- ple would gather on the piers with rods and reels to cast into the Bay. It was where there was always action. As I watched the YOUR CHOICE: men cutting the bait and baiting the hooks, I wondered who would be the fi rst one to catch a fi sh. And then suddenly a rod would bend into an obvious pulsating curve, stir- ring everyone’s interest. “Got one!” the old-timer said calmly. Surely he had done this a hundred times before as he aptly reeled in that fi sh. It was a beauty, fl uttering around on the end of his line. But I guess I was so engrossed with all the new and interesting things that were happening around me that I lost track of time. The sun was setting and the western sky was all lit up in a colorful sunset. It was start- ing to get colder, so I fi gured that I better head home. I crossed the street and walked towards the corner at Ocean Avenue where it ends at the Bay. I continued walking north on Ocean Avenue, the most direct route to go home and was about two and a half blocks from home when I heard my moth- TRADITIONAL CONTEMPORARY er’s voice calling my name. Then I saw her as she ran into the street towards me, avoiding the people walking on the sidewalk. “Why did you take so long to come home? Where were you?” she said franti- cally with panting breath. I could see that she was relieved to see me. “Ma, I was watching them fi sh and I for- got.” I didn’t answer any more than that as I noticed the tears on her face. “Ma, what’s wrong,” I quickly responded, “what hap- pened?” “He told me that maybe you drowned in Sheepshead Bay!” “Who said that?!” I shouted. “The boy that I asked, the one with the new bicycle,” she replied while wiping the tears that were now streaming down her VINTAGE CLASSIC face. “I didn’t know what to think! I was afraid!” she said as she hugged me. “I would never go so close to the water or do anything like that. I’m not stupid! You ULTIMATE KITCHENS/FURNITURE PLUS know that, Ma!” I said, reassuringly. “Come, let’s get home. Irving is alone in the house!” She said. I realized then, when I 600 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD (RT. 45) THE JEWISH LINK Located CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY 10977 on the (845) 425-5959 EXT. 403 If you want to write about local NEW JERSEY politics, interesting people BORDER ULTIMATEKITCHENSNY.COM

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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 39 40 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM CHINUCH Let’s Hear It for the Teachers

By Wallace Greene ers’ opinions, by asking thoughtful ques- dition is not part of the way teachers are havior and said to the president, “How can tions, by consulting sources and arguing treated, then any such lay professional dis- you treat him this way? You have to respect A Master’s de- respectfully for what they think makes cussion is labeled “a session of scorners.” those who work on our behalf. You know gree in Jewish Educa- sense—they will learn their facts. It will Teachers deserve status, honor, and re- how important his job is.” Whereupon he tion or a state teach- take a little longer, but they will also learn spect. Parents should be proud when their replied “I respect Jewish education in the ing license includes a how to weigh options and examine others’ child wants to enter the fi eld. Using the Tal- abstract, not in the concrete!” great deal of instruc- opinions critically. They will learn to disa- mudic model of compensating someone Here’s something concrete to consid- tion in leadership, gree respectfully. They will learn to navi- for what they could have earned on the er. Most labor-management disputes are organizational man- gate complex ideas. “outside,” salaries need to be highly com- adversarial. Labor feels it deserves certain agement, and philos- Understanding the signifi cance of these petitive since teachers have to live “inside” benefi ts, wages, working conditions, etc., ophy of education. It activities and conversations for a rich Jew- the Jewish community, and it is expensive and management wants to provide as lit- may not be obvious ish life allows teachers to prioritize them to live as a committed Jew. Day-school tui- tle as possible. That is why employee pro- why these topics would enhance the day- appropriately and integrate what mat- tion, JCC and synagogue membership, sum- gress is usually achieved by organizing to-day professional work of a teacher. ters into the classroom. mer camp, legal services, into unions that utilize collective bargain- Teachers have a nearly impossible job. It helps get closer to the insurance, pension plans, ing, work stoppages, and strikes to achieve A wide variety of students with an array of goal of educating our stu- day care, etc. should ei- their goals. different learning styles shows up in their dents to their highest po- ther be included as bene- Arguably, the lay leadership of the day classrooms. They are tasked most broadly tential as both Jews and fi ts, or made possible by schools and their educational staff have a with preparing all these young people to Americans. It empowers a competitive salary. Fur- united goal and agenda. And this common- lead successful lives in the future—even them to enrich our world, thermore, good teaching ality of purpose should lead to an amicable though the skills and knowledge they will which will soon be their should not be reward- partnership. After all, partners should treat need are changing rapidly and are hard to world. ed by taking that teach- each other equitably. predict more than a few years ahead. In this Those who labor as er out of the classroom to dynamic environment, teachers make hun- Jewish day school teach- become an administrator. Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene has had a distinguished ca- dreds of decisions an hour as they work in ers do so out of deep pas- Arguably, effective ped- reer as a Jewish educator. He is the founder of the Si- the classroom. sion and a commitment agogy should be worth nai School, and is currently a consultant to schools, To be effective as a teacher, they pre- to make a difference. His- more than administrivia. non-profi t organizations, and The International March of pare lessons carefully, but must always be torically, those who ded- Today’s teacher is excep- The Living. He can be reached at [email protected]. ready to shift focus, reassess needs, and icated themselves ex- tionally motivated, pas- grab a teachable moment whenever it pre- clusively to education were held in high sionate, competent, and creative. Yet the sents itself. Because time in the classroom regard for their selfl ess devotion to this Jewish community does not value his/her Egypt Considering is necessarily limited, and there is much to high calling. The Jewish community valued services in the same way it values other teach, this often means focusing on one the services rendered by those who devot- professionals. Importing Natural concept, skill, or idea at the expense of oth- ed themselves completely to the study and If there is to be organizational and com- ers. Teachers must decide minute by min- teaching of Torah. As early as the 10th cen- munal vitality, this inequity must cease. We Gas from Israel ute what to prioritize. Teachers’ academic tury, Rabbenu Gershom of Mainz, Germany want to attract the fi nest and the best, yet backgrounds gives them a broad and deep ruled that such scholars were entitled to a we are not competitive. The private sector (JNS.org) Egyptian Minister of Pe- understanding of their subject areas. They monopoly (maarufta) in a certain business is luring away those whom the Jewish com- troleum Sherif Ismail said that Egypt is know what the critical building blocks and in order to provide an income. This con- munity has trained. Can we afford this in- considering importing natural gas from the central concepts are. cept was maintained until modem times. exorable hemorrhaging? Israel to alleviate its shortage of the re- Teaching in a Jewish day school is a Even the IRS extends certain courtesies to A certain community had just complet- source. “Anything can happen. Whatev- unique challenge. Teachers are tasked with the clergy. ed its new day-school campus and invit- er achieves the best interests of Egypt, preparing the students to lead successful All teachers deserve respect. And in the ed the professional head of a major Jewish and of the Egyptian economy and the Jewish lives in the future. Ideally, even the words of Maimonides, they deserve proper educational organization to be the guest role of Egypt in the region... that will de- secular studies faculty should share in the remuneration as well. There are core Jew- speaker at its dedication ceremony. On the termine the decision to import gas from responsibility to contextualize the lives of ish values that speak to the issue of how day of the dedication, the sidewalk cement Israel,” Ismail told the state-owned Al students and, hopefully, envision their fu- one treats the professionals who spend was still wet and there were signs to avoid Mussawar magazine, Reuters reported. ture needs as Jews in the wider world. more time each week with children than this area and enter from the rear of the Private companies are reportedly al- It is possible to teach students directly their own parents. building. The speaker was delayed. He pulls ready negotiating to bring Israeli gas to from a textbook. They can learn the facts There is a vast literature of Jewish la- up in a cab at the last minute and dashes Egypt, but any agreement will need to they need to know very effi ciently. It is bor relations and business ethics. Lay lead- into the building tracking cement onto the be approved on the government level. tempting to create neat, easy lessons in ers need to study these sources. Judaism is new carpet and leaving his footprints in In recent years, the two countries have that way. But a Jewish life is a complex one, not only about study and rituals, but about the sidewalk. found themselves increasingly working enhanced by an ability to negotiate the sig- how people who devote their lives to the The school president was furious! He together against terrorism in Egypt’s nifi cance of many different ideas and val- community ought to be treated. The teach- verbally pummeled the professional head Sinai Peninsula. The Israeli company ues. If teachers guide students’ learning by ings of the Torah must inform all aspects of of the major Jewish educational organiza- Delek Drilling has estimated that if an insisting that they learn facts analytically hiring, compensation, benefi ts, work envi- tion publicly, dressed him down in very agreement is signed, gas can begin fl ow- rather than by rote—by comparing their ronment, severance, etc. Staff manuals and abusive terms, and totally humiliated him. ing from Israel to Egypt in 2017. ideas with each other, by listening to oth- contracts need to be “Jewish.” If Jewish tra- Another lay leader was shocked at this be- Dr. Saul H. Lejtman D.M.D. P.A. Family and Cosmetic Dentistry Thinner With Every Visit Treating your family in a warm LILA state-of-the-art comfortable BODY CONTOURINGCONTOURING environment

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By Banji Latkin A survey was done on 600 middle-aged die from saccharin poisoning, but even if sneakers, but what do I know, I am only Ganchrow women and they found that women who I did, I wouldn’t know because I am suf- his mother. were more anxious had a greater risk of de- fering from that other disease because I Guess what, here is a newsfl ash, “Mom, I love getting veloping Alzheimer’s disease. How is that am an anxious middle-aged woman. There you were right, I need new sneakers.” How feedback about my for news? So, if I wasn’t anxious enough I go, tying it all together. How could that is that for news? So since his father, God columns. If you like before, I am even more anxious now, man not read my column?!?!?! willing, will be visiting him in the holy them, if you don’t but it’s okay because soon I land, off I went to buy him new sneakers. like them, it’s all won’t even remember that I How will I be doing this when he is in Isra- good. I am a middle child and I can take an- am anxious! Recently, there el? Face time. Standing in the sneaker de- ything you throw at me. People who usual- was a good piece of news on partment of Nordstrom (since I had a gift ly don’t even say hello to me feel they can television. A couple that fi rst card, I wouldn’t actually be buying him put their two cents in and I totally enjoy met when they were 3 years shoes from Nordstrom’s without the gift hearing their comments (and their actual old—she was a fl ower girl card) I face-timed my child and showed voices; who knew they could talk?). Sug- and he was a ring bearer— him all of his options. Now one of the gestions are always welcome, unless, of lost contact for a few years, problems with face time, and this is real- course, they aren’t. began dating in high school, ly and truly newsworthy, is that when you The other day, a cantankerous, elder- and recently got married to see yourself on the screen, you have four ly gentleman was telling me that he does each other. Cute story, don’t chins, unless I actually do have four chins not read my column, but that I should you think? There is some now and that is a whole other news seg- start writing about the news. Hmm, let hard-hitting journalism right ment. So I am trying to keep my head up so me get this straight, you don’t read what I there. my son doesn’t realize how much weight write about, but you have decided that it Another interesting tid- I have put on since he left and show him must be so bad that I should write about bit, a few years ago my fam- all of the available sneaker options. We the news? Hey mister, have you been ily took a tour of the Coca selected a pair and I told the lovely sales- reading about the news lately? It is bad. Cola factory in Atlanta. The man that I will probably be back in a week It is really bad. And scary. And depressing. tour is pretty pricey and I and a half because, well, they won’t fi t, Did I mention scary? Is that really what was unhappy (surprise, sur- they won’t be the right color, what was I you want me to write about? There are prise) that our particular thinking, blah blah blah. But the piece of shows on television that are supposed to tour was so crowded that it the story that I kind of glossed over, which be “based on reality” that are less fright- was hard to enjoy all the factory/muse- But this is the best piece of news I can makes this the most newsworthy of all, is ening then what is actually happening in um had to offer. Upon calling and speak- share with you. Son #1 is in Israel. Before that my son admitted I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!! reality. But this man would rather I write ing to the “person in charge,” who could he left, I noticed that his sneakers looked Ahh, if only all the news could be so re- about that then the stupidity that I enjoy not have been nicer and refunded my a little worn out. He insisted he didn’t warding…. writing about. So, elderly gentleman who credit card charge, he informed me that need new sneakers because, being his probably will not be reading this column the sweetener in my beloved Tab has been father’s son and not a big fan of spend- Banji Ganchrow is a self-proclaimed writer who enjoys either, here is some news that you can proven NOT to cause cancer in laborato- ing money, they were just fi ne. I told him getting attention because no one in her house gives sink your teeth into: ry animals. Great news! I am not going to it would be all right for him to buy new her any, unless, of course, they need something.

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By Temimah Zucker friends and important relationships. Think- teaching others. She said before she began rise above them, or allow them to build us ing of it as a blessing makes it sound like it working at the museum she did not speak and propel us to grow further. My hope is Last week I deliv- was too easy or simple. Still, as the professor to others about her visual impairment. Af- that we do not let those around us— or ered a speech to psy- said, “It allowed me to fi nd myself.” ter she began her job, however, she felt ourselves—be defeated or crushed by our chology students in During the second half of the week, a more comfortable and confi dent to discuss challenges. I have heard from many indi- IDC in Israel. General- dear friend of mine arrived in Israel for va- this with others. viduals that once they overcame a chal- ly, when I visit Israel, cation. Together we visited the Blind Muse- We each face a unique set of challeng- lenge they needed to close that chapter and I speak in various col- um in Holon and walked through the dark es in life. This is part of living; it is not sim- move on. This is the path that feels most leges and seminaries, hallways to understand, in some way, what ply about the joy and happy memories, but comfortable and positive for them and al- where I discuss body it is like to live with blindness or visual im- about the diffi culties that we experience and lows for growth and inner peace. The fi - image and eating-disorder awareness, and pairment. the ways in which we react to these experi- nal option of using this challenge is one to present my personal story. The program At the conclusion of the tour, the guide ences. When man faces a challenge, he must which I have connected and use in my dai- this week involved teaching the psycholo- brought the group to the cafeteria where learn to process his thoughts, feelings, and ly life. It is not simply that I overcame an- gy students the basics about eating disor- we sat munching on Bamba and Doritos behaviors in response to the diffi culty. He orexia. Rather, my journey with an eating ders and then bringing the subject to life by and were able to ask her any questions. My will then discover the most benefi cial way disorder has given me a passion and inspi- describing my journey. friend asked how long it takes for an indi- to overcome the challenge, the way that will ration to create ripples of change, to work At the conclusion of the 90 minutes, vidual to become acclimated to his condi- best allow him to learn and to grow. with this population, and to inspire hope. the professor of the class turned to me in tion if he becomes blind: to learn to read It is by welcoming this growth that we It is each individual’s duty to discover front of his students and commented, “It Braille and to absorb his surroundings can look at the negative and change our how s/he’d like to overcome life’s challeng- seems like, though this may sound strange, without the use of sight. She responded perspective. Only when we use the hard- es. Above all, my trip to Israel has reminded in the end it was a sort of blessing that you that for each person the timeline is differ- ships in life to advance ourselves and our me of the importance of pushing ourselves went through all of this.” When the class ent, but that the individual only begins to experiences of the world does it feel mean- to constantly move forward. We can easi- expressed confusion, he clarifi ed. “I don’t learn after he fi rst accepts the fact that he is ingful. This is not the say that the pro- ly remain stagnant, or let the diffi culties mean to say that it’s good that you had an blind. This may take months or even years, cess is simple or that we can fully appre- overpower our experiences in life. It is im- eating disorder. But, at the same time, you as acceptance of this new experience of liv- ciate something that has caused us pain, portant to feel our reactions and to create were able to work on things that otherwise ing can feel overwhelming or diffi cult and even when we use the experience to pro- space for pain and sadness. But at the end you might not have thought about, and may lead to denial. gress and develop. Rather, we can strive to of the day the lesson of learning to use our you were able to truly grow as a person.” I asked if she felt that working at the continue moving forward and not simple challenges as strengths and to create deep- I responded that, on some level, I agreed. museum was a way to help these individ- dwell in the pain. er meaning in our lives will only enhance My eating disorder was the hardest thing uals accept their lack of sight as it allowed There are three options when faced our experiences and lead the way to great- that I will ever experience. I lost many them to use their situation as a means of with great challenges: be defeated by them, er appreciation and development. HEALTH AND FITNESS Time for Business to Deal With Its Costly Sugar Problem

By Isabelle Szmigin tive is the UK coalition government’s Re- off the market or reduce its sugar content, Professor of Marketing at University of Birmingham sponsibility Deal, a voluntary scheme where without a new product launch? The an- companies sign up to pledges that include swer is obvious. food is. Ingredients are still measured in We need to reassess where responsi- reduction in salt, fat, and sugar. The Respon- Getting interventions right is another grams for this, however, which don’t con- bility lies for obesity and who should be sibility Deal has received criticism from pub- challenge highlighted by McKinsey. Some vey a whole lot to many of us. Instead it spending the money to tackle it. The Na- lic health leaders as companies have done promising ideas fail in practice and need to has been suggested that sugar should be ex- tional Institute for Health and Care Excel- little to change their production and mar- be further refi ned through trial and error, pressed in teaspoons, which is a measure lence (NICE), which advises the National keting of unhealthy foods because of it, and and some need even more time to become we can all relate to. Health Service in England, has published some have even reneged on pledges. understood. One pioneering intervention This year, Labor MP Keith Vaz introduced new guidelines on tackling obesity, a parliamentary bill for the sugar content on which it says is an “immense problem.” food labeling to be represented in number They say the number of obese people of 5ml spoonfuls per 100g. Even better might having weight loss surgery needs to dou- be labeling to show the total teaspoonfuls in ble or triple to cut the long term costs of the packet? This is an intervention that busi- Type 2 diabetes. nesses could make which really helps the in- These guidelines follow a report by the dividual exert responsibility. McKinsey Global Institute, which found The problem is that there is just too that obesity costs the world nearly as much much sugar in our food and too much sug- as war, armed violence, and terrorism put ar available to eat, which we’re often con- together. The report made a number of sug- suming unawares. A documentary coming gestions that have been lacking in many out in 2015, The Sugar Film, shows how a analyses of this huge issue. great deal of food that is low in fat actu- The report identifi ed that while busi- ally has a high sugar content. From low- ness has been increasingly implicated in fat yogurts and muesli bars to cereals and the obesity issue, and while reports contin- fruit juices, eating these apparently healthy ue to exhort individual responsibility and foods can still lead to weight gain. So by control, the Body Mass Index of the West Another problem with business’s cur- has been the use of calorie counts on res- low-fat measures alone, it’s time business- continues to rise. It is clearly diffi cult for rent role in the obesity crisis has been taurant menus. es came clean on sugar in a way we can all people to understand what the best option recognized in that a single company opt- Calorie counts have been required on understand. is when it comes to food. ing for an intervention runs the risk of menus in New York City’s restaurants and Responsibility lies at the individual, po- Research has shown that humans are harming its competitive position. Similar- coffee chains since 2008, but fi ndings to litical, and business level. It’s necessary that only partly rational and often respond au- ly, signing up to a pledge that all compa- date show ambivalent results with some new ways of steering people away from tomatically and routinely to the demands nies agree on inevitably leads to watered indication that there has been little change foods with high fat and sugar contents are of their immediate environment. Contrast down measures to avoid harming collec- in calorie intake. This intervention may broached. And that the food and drink in- this with the number of policies that as- tive competitive positions. So, while Coca provide better results in due course as oth- dustries take more responsibility for the sume individuals are capable of making the Cola has committed to promoting its low er initiatives to help understand calorie products they are marketing to us. virtuous decision of changing their behav- calorie drinks more, it continues to mar- intake take root as people become more ior of their own accord. ket its calorifi c classic brand, and its new- aware and used to calorie counting. Isabelle Szmigin does not work for, consult to, own While the McKinsey report has not ruled ly launched Coca Cola Life is only 50% less Other ways of steering people away shares in, or receive funding from any company or or- out the role of individual responsibility, it calorie-loaded than classic Coke. We must from food with a high sugar content have ganization that would benefi t from this article, and has has taken a more holistic line on the obesity think seriously as to whether fi ghting obe- been tried in the UK. There is the traf- no relevant affi liations. The University of Birmingham issue and highlighted the problems inherent sity should be a marketing opportunity in fi c light system, for example, which uses provides funding as a Founding Partner of The Conver- in some current initiatives. One such initia- this way: Why not just take classic Coke colors to indicate levels of how harmful sation. birmingham.ac.uk/index.aspx

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By Sarah Abenaim es. One child chose a mug, another made desperate to try going to shul. I just didn’t I thought offering to help clean it was the a glassworks dish, and the third insisted think I could juggle armloads of books and least I could do. I could see the judgment. Around once per on making a dog-statue, even though she a toddler who un-shelves every book he The library is no place for a dog statue, they year I indulge my kids is terrorized by dogs and hates them, but sees (I know, the library for probably thought, and fi nal- and take them to a I thought maybe this would be a foray for sure hates us, but don’t wor- ly, they unglued themselves painting-pottery ven- her into the world of dog loving. I acqui- ry, I try to reshelve them from the carnage and went ue. I have always en- esced, and allowed her to get the useless myself!), as well as a fragile to get a broom. I bent down, joyed these excursions dog. puppy, and so I said, “That’s together with a young by- because of the creativity it elicits, but don’t She lovingly stroked it with an array fi ne, but DO NOT give it to stander, and picked up always enjoy bringing the creations home. of colors, and when it was drenched in its me to hold. You’re respon- some larger shards to depos- We have a lot of pointless statues—orna- multicolored coat she squeezed puff paints sible for it the whole time.” it into the garbage. ments that sit, collecting dust, one eye ac- all over it to give it a wild, 3-D fur-effect. We She nodded, agreeing to my “I just brought it home a cidentally painted to look shut, eternally left it to bake for a few weeks until I could terms. few hours ago,” I whispered half-sleeping. Dogs, cats, cupcake-tzedakah fi nd the time to drive back to Ridgewood We were in the library to a librarian, as we met at boxes, a guitar that is long, hollow, and to pick up the pieces. The kids asked about for a less than a minute, the garbage can. She shook makes no music…we have had them all, their projects every day, and fi nally, when having just returned all of her head in sympathy, feel- and they have adorned the desks and bu- I couldn’t take living without the dog any- our books, when I heard a ing the pain of my daughter, reaus of my kids, until I decide they are no more (or, rather, I couldn’t take living with crash. From my perch be- who, surprisingly, seemed longer welcome. This is mostly because all of the nagging reminders), I went to pick tween two bookshelves, quite nonchalant. She had they are no longer noticed, touched, and up the projects. nosing through the J and no tears, and I couldn’t even have never really had a purpose, other than I left the ceramics in a bag in the front K stacks of youth fi ction, detect a hint of a frown. the fun of being painted. hallway of the house, and when the kids I knew in my heart that it “Don’t worry,” I said, “at least And so, I often try to encourage my kids shuffl ed in from the bus, they dug through was the dog, plunging to its I don’t have to throw it away to make something that has a future. A me- the contents to admire their stellar crea- death on the library fl oor. I myself. It’s better this way. I zuzah, a mug, a dish, a menorah. Some- tions. Cradled in their arms, they admired went to comfort my daugh- won’t feel guilty.” I was quite times they paint a bowl and it looks garish, the beauty of what they had crafted, and as ter who stood in the long hallway, look- content with its sudden fate; she held it, she and I am forced to use it, longingly wishing I corralled the children to get their library ing shocked and upset, and had to calm dropped it, and I was far removed from the the child hadn’t taken my advice and had books because they were all overdue, my down all of the librarians who came run- tragedy. The dog had a short life, and went just picked to make a lawn-gnome that can daughter looked at me and asked, “Can I ning in hysteria because it might have been out with a bang—a large, reverberating, li- stand alone in the backyard, until it mys- bring my dog to the library?” the loudest noise ever heard in a library. brary bang. It echoed through the tall win- teriously gets kidnapped or something. But I sighed. This usually means that she It wasn’t even that loud, but I guess for a dows and high ceilings, and there was a sub- my cabinet boasts a few hand-painted dish- will carry something for a duration of nine quiet place like a library, it was. And I bet sequent moment of utter silence. That’s es that do not really look that beautiful, but seconds, and then she will ask me to hold it was the fi rst ceramic dog that had ever more than last year’s dog had. still regularly grace our table. I can never re- her little porcelain dog. And so, I really been shattered there, too. It was an excit- ally win. didn’t want to because I have had to push ing moment. Sarah Abenaim is a freelance writer living in Bergen Coun- A few weeks ago, we had our annual doll strollers, wheel toy cars, and shlep “Do you have a broom I can use?” I asked, ty. She can be reached at [email protected]. visit, and I tried to suggest practical piec- around an American Girl Doll who was as they encircled me, their faces in horror. Psychological Insights From the Torah “At the Threshold Your Sin Awaits You…” By Dr. Renee Nussbaum of years prior to Maslow’s seemingly nov- of the mundane tasks so they could have are you angered and why is your counte- el discovery. And an understanding of how some quiet time together. Not a great deal nance falling?” Is it not true that if you do A story is told of a these ideas apply to Shalom Bayit is exact- to ask! good, you will be forgiven; but if you do not young man who ap- ly what the Rebbe was trying to impart to Yet, the Rav, also familiar with the do good, at the entrance stands your sin.” proached his rosh ye- the young husband in this story. young men in the Kollel, knew that per- Rashi, referencing the Targum Onkelus, shiva hoping for a bit The rosh yeshiva, familiar with the in- haps “high in the sky” with his learning, interprets these words in the following of the empathic advice tensity of the spiritual environment in the the husband was not always attuned to manner: “Is it not true that if you improve he was known to of- Kollel, was well aware of how this could what was going on with his wife. Maybe he your action, it will be forgiven…and if not, fer young marrieds. His impact on the relationship between a Kol- wanted supper on the table, time to think your sin will be preserved and it will fol- anguish was clearly visible as he described lel husband and his wife. We can well im- about what he learned, or to just quietly low you until your death.” in detail the transformation of his sweet, agine that this young woman, prior to her relax. Perhaps, given where he was coming Rabbi Peysach Krohn offered a nov- loving wife, into a “witch.” After only four marriage, was loved and valued by family, from, he may even have found himself un- el twist on these words, which resonated years of marriage and three children, her and friends for her very special qualities. able to relate to the mundane atmosphere so strongly for me that I will never forget exemplary midot of chesed were long ab- Moreover, it was probably these very mi- in the home or, in the worst-case scenar- the message for its simplicity as well as its sent in her character. strength. Each and every day, before we en- Instead of the usual sensitivity and We can choose to give in to the fatigue, annoyance, or other ter our homes, we have two choices in how words of kindness he expected from his we react to our spouses and our children. Rebbe, he was shocked when he heard residuals from our day, and take it out on those awaiting us We can choose to give in to the fatigue, an- his response: “If your wife, who frequent- at the other side of the threshold. Or, we can take a deep noyance, or other residuals from our day, ed nursing homes, helped friends in need, and take it out on those awaiting us at the and always spoke in a soft, loving voice, breath, remember the “Mini Bait Hamikdosh,” reflected in other side of the threshold. Or, we can take has suddenly turned into a witch, one can the holy sanctuaries of our homes, cross that threshold, a deep breath, remember the “Mini Bait Ha- conclude that it is you, my son, who turned mikdosh,” refl ected in the holy sanctuar- her into this ‘unrecognizable’ person.” and thank God and our families for the gifts that greet us. ies of our homes, cross that threshold, and “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,” which thank God and our families for the gifts that was considered a novel perspective in the dot that facilitated the Shidduch. Yet, we io, perhaps he felt himself above it all and greet us. Indeed, “at the entrance stands our 1980s, advanced the idea that the “need to can also consider that as they settled into even blamed his wife for the messy home sin,” for the good or the ill, the choice re- belong,” to feel connected, noticed, and the more realistic realm of marriage and or burned food he encountered, oblivious mains ours. This is the message the rosh valued, is among the basic human needs, family life, this feeling of connectedness to the demands made upon her. yeshiva communicated to the young hus- right along with “food,” “shelter,” and and valuation began to diminish. Perhaps Thus viewed, the Rav’s response was band, and this is the lesson we can apply “clothing.” Thus viewed, the experience of she was home alone all day with her chil- actually an attempt to help to help this each and every day as we enter the sanctu- emotional fulfi llment is just as necessary dren tending to all of their needs, failing young man take ownership of his part in ary of our homes. as physical satiation in order to actuate the to communicate with another adult for the turn of events the couple faced. fullness of one’s human potential. Inter- hours. No doubt, as she eagerly waited for This same message is revealed in Par- Renee Nussbaum, is a practicing psychoanalyst, with estingly, the idea of equating the value of her husband to come home, she imagined shat Bereishit in the pasuk where Hashem special training in Imago Relational Therapy. She can physical equilibrium with emotional sta- he would talk to her, share his day, even responds to Cain’s indignation regarding be reached at: doctorrenee nussbaum @gmail.com. bility also appears in our Torah, thousands his learning, and then help her with some the rejection of his inferior offering: “Why

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By Rabbi Mordechai people would have on their own children. daughter should be able to do everything know them better. This would have been a and Nina Glick Others said that they did not know who to that a man could do. She was grateful common occurrence in Montreal. invite. Many said they did not know peo- to him that he had taught her so much Obviously, we would not invite this Some of you had ple who were not Shomer Shabbos. We lis- and then mentioned to Nina that since lady to our home for Shabbos; howev- the pleasure of partic- tened and we were grossly unimpressed. we were obviously religious we proba- er, we are sure that many of us have en- ipating in the fi rst an- Just this week we had the opportunity bly wouldn’t understand since she under- counters with non-observant Jewish peo- nual Shabbos Project that took place in this to meet a lady who is not Jewish. Our car stood that women had very different roles ple every day. Do we make an effort to get community several months ago. We were battery died in the lot in front of Michael’s from men in our religion. to know them better? There have got to slightly dismayed in the lack of enthusi- on Rte 17. We’d used up our AAA allotment Nina explained to her that she had be neighbors around who are not Shom- asm displayed by many when this project of calls, and called Chaverim. Unfortunate- three daughters who were quite self-suffi - er Shabbos. Many of our children have was discussed. Some did not understand ly, they were unable to help us. Nina went cient, and she was totally shocked. By the teachers who are not Shomer Shabbos in the need of spreading the word of Shabbos, into Michael’s and asked if anyone had end of the conversation we felt as though the secular departments of their schools. others felt that it was a threat to their fam- booster cables. A lovely lady came forward we had established a new friendship with a All of us have business associates who “tol- ilies to invite non-Shomer Shabbos partici- and offered to help. She drove a Hummer. very lovely person. Had we had more time erate” our Shomer Shabbos observances, pants into their homes to experience what As she set up the cables, Nina chat- we probably would have ended up inviting such as early departures on Fridays or erev a Shabbos was all about. People voiced con- ted with her. She told us that her father her to our home with her young 12-year-old a chag or business lunches that must take cern of what the effect these non-observant owned a garage and believed that his daughter so that we could have gotten to place in a kosher establishment. For enthusiasts, there is a vibrant group meeting to plan the next Shabbos Project scheduled for the end of October 2015. It is our hope that this year every shul and or- Avi & Shneur ganization in the area will work together to make this a huge success. FASKOWITZ At a recent Shabbos Project meeting present the word “halachic Shabbos” came up. Im- mediately there was a concern from rep- resentatives of the Federation that this would exclude the world of Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations in the area. Not everyone observes Shabbos in the same way. Yet it is our hope that every- DAILY Passover Director one should be respected and honored for LIVE MUSIC whatever they do to make Shabbos special DAVID GROSS to them. The Shabbos Project should wel- By World Famous Host come everyone from every walk of life. Ob- JONATHAN servances on every individual level to make RIMBERG JEFF BRAVERMAN a person comfortable can still be a vital part from Nafshenu of this experience. Orchestra It is our hope that everyone in the com- munity—wearing whatever stripe that they do on their sleeve—can put aside this one Shabbos to make it special for themselves, their families, and anyone they know who has never had this heartening experience. Anyone interested in becoming part of this amazing project should please go on the following link: www.tinyurl.com/shab- bosprojectbergencounty P.S. We bought a new battery for our car today!

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48 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM A TEEN’S PERSPECTIVE Je Suis Charlie et Je Suis Juif

By Oren Oppenheim uncaring, but I see a side of it that can have Outside the door was a makeshift memo- immediate sympathy, can immediately be rial to the victims, fi lled with fl owers, signs, My aunt from Isra- spurred to action or at least to emotion. We and mementos people had left to honor the el was in France dur- instantly feel terrifi ed when we hear about cause. Inside, we were told that there wasn’t ing the time of the these sorts of events, and then sickened by really anyone we could present the objects Charlie Hebdo and su- the terribleness of it all, and then want to to (the members of the consulate were busy permarket shootings. help the victims. We need to give ourselves with meetings), but we could leave the fl ow- I only found out af- credit for doing so, and to keep that up. ers on a table that had a guestbook where ter she posted on Facebook that thank At my school we’ve been trying to fi nd people could write messages of consolation. God, she was all right. I was happy to hear ways to help out however we can. Some Ms. Benel wrote a message on behalf of us everything was okay, but it rattled me, for students printed cards writ- obvious reasons. ten in French wishing the com- I hadn’t ever heard of the Charlie Hebdo The poster in the lobby of the Consulate munity well and giving words magazine before the massacre, but it seems of support, then at lunch let like a worthy publication in its own right. I have less to say about the murders at people sign them and write I’ve written previously about the idea be- the supermarket, but I do have a stronger their own personal notes. Ms. hind not censoring one’s writing and be- connection to it, and the reason I have less DeeDee Benel, educational di- ing able to express oneself freely, but in a to say is that it’s more terrifying and more rector of student programs and way that doesn’t infl ame others or step over ordinary, as much as I hate to say so. There’s head of many of its chesed pro- any lines. From what I can tell, Charlie Heb- really no reason the store was targeted oth- grams had a beautiful idea of do’s work—while maybe not very political- er than the fact it was Jewish; I am not buy- having the Human Rights club ly correct—didn’t step over those lines. And ing the media sell that it’s not antisemitic visit the French Consulate Gen- The Ramaz Human Rights Club outside the French no matter what, printed matter does not de- because Muslims shop there too. France it- eral in New York, to bring fl ow- General Consulate. serve from anyone the catastrophic reaction self has always had a bit of a bad reputation ers and some cards to show solidarity. The from Ramaz, and I added the poster to the that Charlie Hebdo got. I would say this even when it comes to these things, but this is the Consulate General is on Fifth Avenue, at memorial outside. It was a brief visit, but it if the paper came out lambasting Moshe last straw. 75th Street and Ramaz is on 78th and Park— was something I won’t forget. I still feel ter- Rabbeinu as some sort of Nazi leader, or I’m not going to say that I have any only a few blocks away. In other words, it’s rible over everything that happened, and some other outlandish parody. sort of deep connection to France. I’ve al- extremely close, making it easy and almost that’s not about to change, but I’m glad I was I’m sorry if that sounds provocative, but ways wanted to visit Paris and see the Eif- an obligation for us to visit and show our able to do something small, at the very least. that’s what satire newspapers do. It’s under- fel Tower and the Louvre, but I’ve only been unity with France in some way. standable to protest them if they have ob- out of the United States once (to visit Isra- I decided to photograph Ramaz stu- Oren Oppenheim, age 17, is a junior at Ramaz Upper jectionable content—it doesn’t seem to be el) and don’t see myself going to the country dents holding a sign saying “Je suis Charlie” School in Manhattan and lives in Fair Lawn, New Jer- a very “kosher” paper—but they have every in the near future. I chose to learn Spanish (“I am Charlie”), and make a poster to give sey. He spends his free time writing and reading, and right to say what they want and not be si- in high school, not French (and I’m lousy at to the consulate. Right after homeroom on hopes to become a published novelist, but currently is lenced. Also, kudos to the surviving staff for pronouncing anything in French anyway). a Thursday, I and the other members of the drowning in emails from colleges. You can email him at getting a new issue out only a week after the But that doesn’t matter. Human nature gets Human Rights club walked over to the con- [email protected] and see his photography events. That is not easy. lambasted all the time for being selfi sh and sulate, a beautiful and ornate building. at facebook.com/orenphotography.

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 49 BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Gotta Dance? Morah Rochelle’s Rikkud Dance Program Offers Classes, Camp for Girls By Elizabeth Kratz

Teaneck—Rochelle Yaros has danced for as long as she can remember. Last year, she started Rikkud Dance, a private dance program in Teaneck, teaching dance to groups of little girls, aged three to nine, on Sunday mornings. She also runs a week- long Rikkud Dance Camp in the summer- time, between camp and school, and offers private instruction and party dancing ser- vices for teens. Dance has been a lifelong passion and priority for Yaros, who keeps it on the front burner. “I start- ed at age 3 with be- ginner’s ballet and jazz, and I loved it,” she told JLNJ. Yaros also intensely stud- ied hip-hop and tap. Rochelle Yaros She worked as a Students at Rikkud Dance Students at Rikkud Dance dance teacher and choreographer for local dance studios as a teen, and advanced to The classes were extremely popular “Although I enjoyed teaching general stud- ment and body awareness. Rikkud Dance head dance director for performances. En- and fi lled up quickly. “The women at Stern ies, I missed having dance in my life. I had Camp, her fi rst offering, was a week-long tering Stern College, Yaros identifi ed a need College were thrilled to have a physical ed- always dreamed of having my own dance program for girls ages 4 to 9 to explore for all-female dance classes, “to provide reli- ucation option that fi nally met the needs studio, so when I moved to Teaneck I be- jazz, ballet and hip-hop dance techniques gious women with an opportunity to learn of those who were passionate about danc- gan to think about how I could integrate and dance combinations, while engaging dance in an environment they would be ing,” Yaros said. my two passions of working with children in other active camp activities alongside comfortable in, and allow those who were After earning a dual masters in gener- and dancing.” their peers. “Last year was the fi rst year of more advanced to be challenged,” she said. al and special education, Yaros taught a Yaros felt she could provide the com- Rikkud Dance Camp and it was huge suc- Just after graduation, Yaros became an ad- range of learners in grades K to fi ve at a munity with a unique program where- junct dance professor at Stern. public school in downtown Manhattan. in children would have fun with move-  CONTINUED ON P. 51

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50 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM THE ARTS University of Pennsylvania Shabbatones Perform at Metrowest JCC By Sarah Beckoff and Jewish music. Now, don. Highlights have included singing the in their bar mitzvah year national anthem at an NHL game in Los West Orange—U of P (University of (they are 13 years old), Angeles and a performance to open for Pennsylvania) is hardly a place you’d think they’ve taken the show Committed, winners of NBC’s The Sing Off. would be home to a very popular Jewish on the road. Their recent The Shabbatones’ members and alum- a cappella group. Yet the Shabbatones, as whirlwind tour includ- ni include undergraduate and graduate they call themselves, are the pride of the U ed a performance at the students who are majoring in a wide vari- of P’s Hillel, young men and women who White House. Those 13 ety of subjects like engineering, psychol- travel across the world, using the purity of years were fi lled with per- ogy, English, and economics. All of their their voices to bring joy to their audiences. formances for a variety arrangements are composed, directed, The Shabbatones arrived in West Or- of audiences at Penn and and performed by students. They come ange last week on the last leg of their interesting venues. Dur- from a variety of Jewish backgrounds and East Coast tour and performed to an SRO ing university semesters, are unifi ed by a love for Jewish music and crowd at JCC Metrowest. Seats were fi lled the group performs at synagogues, schools, group tours America—they’ve been to Cal- a commitment to being the voice of one with seniors from the Margulies Center, and Jewish community centers across the ifornia, South Florida, Houston, and New of the largest and most vibrant Hillels in and people from four different JCCs in the Northeast. During semester breaks, the Orleans. They’ve even done a gig in Lon- the nation. area. The bouncy crowd was entertained with a variety of Hebrew and American pop songs—and for those nostalgic for a bit of chazanut, a few liturgical pieces fi lled the bill. When the Shabbatones were born, they were a campus-based U of P Hillel mu- sic group specializing in American, Israeli,

Gotta Dance? Morah Rochelle’s Rikkud Dance Program Offers Classes, Camp for Girls  CONTINUED FROM P. 50 cess; we will be holding sessions again this summer, at the end of the summer in the weeks in between camp and school,” Yaros said. The classes all have between eight and 15 children. Small groups allow her to tai- lor her instruction to meet the needs of in- dividual learners and dancers on a variety of levels, with no shortage of enthusias- tic participants: “My daughter practices all week long and looks forward to her week- ly class on Sunday. I see how much she is taking in and the positive impact Rochelle and the class are having on her,” said Ra- chel Feiner. Yaros also runs kids’ birthday parties and brings excitement to bat mitzvah parties through “Party Dancing with Ro- chelle.” Janet and Neil Lauer hired Yaros for a recent bat mitzvah. “”Rochelle was a pleasure to work with. The ruach she brought to the party truly enhanced our simcha. We have recommended her to our friends and would use her again for our own future simchas,” they wrote in an email. “I have been working as a dance moti- vator since college and love being able to bring my knowledge of music and danc- ing to provide families with a complete package of lively music and dance motiva- tion to help the girls and adults become involved in the party through dancing and lots of energy,” Yaros said. She combines dance with core strength training to teach others in private one-on- one training sessions. She also is open to bringing her program to other locations. “If there is interest in classes for adults that merge dance and core strength exercise, I’d love the opportunity to teach those,” she said. “I hope to continue to expand Rikkud and am always looking for new dance op- portunities and venues,” she said. For more information about Rikkud Dance Camp, Sunday dance classes, birth- day parties, or Bat Mitzvah DJing and dance motivation, please contact Yaros at [email protected]. You may also visit Rikkud.blogspot.com or https://www. facebook.com/dancewithrochelle.

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 51 PERSONAL FINANCE Mazel Tov, It’s a Tax Deduction!

By Daniel Magence $1,000 per child on your tax return. How- tually working for you. How young is too ever, you should note that this credit be- young? Surprisingly, the IRS has accepted Remember that joy gins to be phased out (on married fi ling on several occasions that a 7-year-old may when you saw your joint tax returns) with adjusted gross in- be an employee (and you thought the US baby for the fi rst time? come of $110,000, and the credit amount was against child labor). The compensa- What an amazing feel- is reduced by $50 for each $1,000 over tion must also be reasonable. I think the ing knowing that you $110,000. IRS may catch on if you are paying your brought so much joy Adoption Tax Credit: If you adopted a 9-year-old $400 an hour to clean your of- to the world. Now imagine your happiness child in 2014, you can receive a tax credit for fi ce. You must also comply with the same when you realize that you didn’t just bring your costs up to $13,190 per eligible child. legal requirements when hiring your child joy into the world, you also got tax breaks However, the adoption of a child who has as you do when hiring any other employ- for you and your family. According to the been determined to have special needs can ee. This includes completing an IRS Form Department of Agriculture, it costs on aver- claim the full credit of $13,190 as expenses, W-4, as well as other paperwork. On the age $245,340 to raise a child in the US until regardless of actual adoption expenses. The upside though, you can pay your child up age 18 (I think we all know that this doesn’t phase-out of this credit begins at adjusted to $6,200 in wages (the maximum stand- even come close to the actual costs in the gross income of $194,580 (on married fi ling ard deduction for the single person in Jewish world). But, for the moment, our fo- joint tax returns) and is completely phased 2014) without incurring income taxes cus is not on the fact that you are about out at $234,580 or more. and most employment taxes. The wages to become an ATM machine for that little The Child and Dependent Care Cred- would be tax-free to your child and you bundle of joy, it’s rather what you can save it: Unreimbursed payments made for the could deduct the wages as a business ex- in taxes. care for a child under the age of 13, or oth- pense on your own tax return. For a tax- Extra Exemption: In 2014, you can er qualifying dependent, while you work payer in the 25% tax bracket, this could be claim a $3,950 exemption for each quali- may qualify you for a tax credit from $600 a savings of $1,550. fying dependent. In other words, $3,950 of (for one dependent) up to $2100 (for two should consider employing your child (un- your income will not be taxed. So if you or more dependents) depending on your der the age of 18) for certain tasks to help Daniel Magence, CPA, Esq. is a principal at Pristine CPA are in the 25% tax bracket, this will save income. While the IRS has stated that with the business. That’s right, put your Solutions, LLC (www.pristinecpa.com). Pristine CPA you $987.50 in taxes owed to the govern- grades kindergarten and up do not qualify kid to work. Now, there are some rules Solutions off ers tax and accounting services to individ- ment. as valid expenses, summer camps do qual- to abide by before you go this route, but uals and businesses of all sizes. He can be reached at Child Tax Credit: For each child under ify (overnight camps do not qualify). this can be a great way of saving tax dol- [email protected] or 201-326-6908 if you age 17 at of the end of the calendar year, Hiring Your Child: If you are the sole lars. Firstly, your child shouldn’t be too have any questions, comments, or are interested in us- you are eligible for a tax credit of up to proprietor of your own business, you young or the IRS won’t believe s/he is ac- ing Pristine CPA’s services. Proportional Perspectives on Work and Retirement

By Elozor Preil A more relevant life expectancy com- but by age 20 most were working full time. The Ratio – Then and Now parison is at age 65, because this group has In the 1930s, the Committee on Econom- Some of these calculations are “back-of- For all the window lived long enough to need a retirement ic Security (CES) observed that the prevailing a-napkin” numbers; they use simple math dressing the fi nan- plan. While life-expectancy-at-65 numbers retirement age for the few private and state and broad assumptions. But consider the cial-service industry can have improved steadily since the middle of pension plans in existence varied between retirement ratios of four different genera- add to the process, it is the 20th century, the increase isn’t as signif- age 65 and 70. After confi rming with actu- tions of Americans that result: possible to distill the icant as at-birth life expectancy. arial research that a government-run Social essential issues in retirement planning to Here’s a chart from the Social Securi- Security program could be made “self-sus- YEAR OF BIRTH… 1875 1925 1950 1990 two, expressed as a ratio of working years ty Administration (Table 1), showing the taining with only modest levels of payroll to retirement years. This ratio does not pro- historical life expectancies of 65-year-old taxation,” the CES chose 65 as the age work- 1. LIFE EXPECTANCY 78 80 86 87 duce an exact number for retirement, but Americans at selected intervals since 1940: ers would be eligible for full benefi ts. Based AT 65 it gives you a sense of the task at hand and on the CES decision, a how long you have to complete it. This ra- Table 1: Life Expectancy for Social Security typical American retir- 2. EST. AGE ENTERING 15 20 25 30 WORKFORCE tio can also be quite instructive, particular- Year Cohort Percentage of Population Avg. Remaining Life Expectancy ing in 1940 had worked ly when placed in a historical context, be- 45–50 years (from age Turned 65 Surviving from Age 21 - Age 65 for Those Surviving to Age 65 3. EST. AGE AT 65 57 66 70 cause the numbers used to create it refl ect 15–20 to age 65). RETIREMENT signifi cant demographic and economic Male Female Male Female Since then, a varie- 4. WORKING YEARS 50 37 31 40 trends that impact individuals. 1940 53.9 60.6 12.7 14.7 ty of factors has led to a (Line 3 - Line 2) 1950 56.2 65.5 13.1 16.2 later start date for suc- Life Expectancy – Then and Now 1960 60.1 71.3 13.2 17.4 cessive generations of 5. YRS IN RETIREMENT 13 23 14 16 (Line 1 – Line 3) A standard calculation of life expectancy 1970 63.7 76.9 13.8 18.6 Americans beginning 1980 67.8 80.9 14.6 19.1 is anticipated average lifespan at birth. Ac- their working years. 1990 72.3 83.6 15.3 19.6 6. RATIO WORK/RET 3.8/1 1.6/1 2.2/1 2.5/ cording to geoba.se, a global statistics web- The high school di- (Line 4/Line 5) 1 site, the current life expectancy for someone Sixty-fi ve (65) is an arbitrary retirement ploma became the minimum standard for a born today in the United States is 78.6 years; age (more on this later), but it is relevant “basic education.” Government assistance al- Those born in 1875 were the fi rst gener- in 1935, the year Social Security was estab- when considering the life expectancies of lowed more people to pursue college degrees, ation to receive Social Security, and part of lished, the life expectancy at birth for Amer- retirees. A 65-year-old male in 1940 was pro- which also meant later entry into the work- a completely different economic era. The icans was 59.9. While this seems like a dra- jected to live 77.7 years. In 1990, the number force. In recent years, stagnant economic con- group born in 1925 represents the tail-end matic improvement in longevity, using life was 80.3. Current data from the Social Secu- ditions have made it harder for willing work- of the “greatest generation,” which enjoyed expectancy at birth can be misleading. rity Administration estimates a man age 65 ers to secure full-time work. A Georgetown the post-World War II economic surge in There is strong evidence that improving today can expect to live on average to age University study “found that on average, America. The 1950 contingent comes from at-birth longevity over the past 100 years is 84, a woman to age 86. The increase in lon- young workers are now 30 years old when the heart of the Baby Boom generation. primarily due to the dramatic decline in in- gevity over the past 75 years is only seven they fi rst earn a median-wage income of And the 1990 cohort is today’s college grad- fant deaths; because more people survived years. (What is signifi cant: a lot more peo- about $42,000, up from 26 years old in 1980” uates, for whom an estimated retirement childhood, the overall averages have moved ple are reaching age 65.) (Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2013). age is just a guess. up. Further skewing the at-birth number is At the same time, the average retire- In this hypothetical assessment, a per- the fact that life expectancy improves with Working Years and Retirement ment age declined from 1940 to about 1990, son born in 1875 had to work and save for age; the longer you live, the more likely you Ages – Then and Now and has only recently begun to climb. Amy 3.8 years to realize and pay for one year of are to live past your at-birth life expectancy. A person who turned 65 in 1940 was Langfi eld, in a May 16, 2013 article for cnbc. retirement. In contrast, the individual born For example, a 25-year-old American male born in 1875. For able-bodied Americans com, cited the following statistics from a in 1925 worked just 1.6 years for every year born in 1988 had a life expectancy at birth of in this cohort, the majority of whom still recent Gallup survey: of retirement—less than half as long. For 71.4 years. Using the Social Security Adminis- lived on the farm or in rural communities, • The average US retirement age has later generations, it appears the ratio is tration’s Life Expectancy Calculator, his life regular working life often started at age 15. climbed to 61, up from 57 two decades ago. climbing. expectancy today is 82.0 years. If he lives to High school and college graduates might • The average non-retired American now age 62, life expectancy increases to 86.2 years. have entered the workforce slightly later, plans to retire at 66, up from 60 in 1995.  CONTINUED ON P. 70

52 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM COMMUNITY NEWS

Abe Oster Holocaust Remembrance ly and friends,” said Oster. An active philanthropist and change Lodz ghetto. Fund Opens Tenth HS Music This year’s contest requires applicants agent, Oster has worked for years in vari- Oster expressed her gratitude to the JCC, Competition at Kaplen JCC to create an original musical work that ous roles bringing awareness to the Jewish “It is a remarkable institution. When you  CONTINUED FROM P. 16 communicates the relevance of the Holo- experience. Currently a Vice Chair of the walk in, right away you understand why their wake, there is a deafening silence. caust in the 21st Century. It must be a min- Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Me- you’re here and what it’s all about.” Upon We designed the competition to stimulate imum of two minutes and a maximum of morial to the Holocaust, located in Battery entering the building you feel connected to creativity, hoping that by default the con- 10 minutes in length andbe an original Park, New York, Oster recalls her husband the large community. On the left there is a test will inspire younger generations to re- work created solely for the contest. Appli- fondly, “Abe always supported me and my wooden edifi ce honoring the two toddlers main connected to those who perished; cants must record the music and submit a work without his support I would not have slain in the Shoah, immortalized in the gar- the entire families, the heroes, the chil- YouTube link along with their application. been able to do any of this work.” den with ongoing naming opportunity for dren, linking forever the living to the an- All genres of music will be accepted. The The Osters are sponsors of the beauti- others to donate. While the eyewitness- guish of the dead. It’s just amazing, the kids deadline is March 2, 2015. First place wins a ful bronze memorial garden at the main es are dying, thanks to the Oster and the are so creative. It gets all of them thinking $1,000 cash prize; $500 for second. Winners entrance to the Kaplen JCC that honors of JCC—and others like them—the survivors’ and for the winner it’s such a great accom- will be featured at the JCC Holocaust Com- Abe’s two siblings, Yoheved, 3 and Avrhami, memories will not die with them. To learn plishment. It brings out the parents, fami- memoration on April 16, 2015. 1 ½ years old, who were murdered in the more visit: www.jccotp.org/community Japanese Prime Minister: “IS’ Violence is Inexcusable” By Gal Cohen/www.jerusalemonline.com immediate release of the Jap- Yukawa. Yukawa, a private military contrac- anese citizens, stressing that tor in his 40s, was kidnapped in Syria in In Israel last week, Japanese Prime Min- the terrorists’ actions are “in- August. It is unclear why he was traveling ister Shinzo Abe called for the “immediate excusable. The extremism of there. Goto is a journalist who traveled to release of the hostages.” Two Japanese citi- IS endangers the internation- Syria to report on the war. zens were captured by IS and they threat- al community. I condemn As far as Western intelligence knows, ened to kill them in 72 hours if their re- all terrorist actions and call a British journalist named John Cantlie quest for $200 million was not met. upon the world to fi ght this is also in the hands of the terrorist organ- At a press conference in Jerusalem, the phenomenon.” He added ization and has become something of a Japanese Prime Minister addressed the and said that he feels resent- spokesman for the terror organization, chilling tape that was released that same ment and hatred toward the alongside an American woman, age 26, morning, showing the two Japanese hos- kidnappers. whose name has not been published upon tages on their knees. Between them was “Japanese Prime Minister, although you stop the spread of the Islamic State, you the request of the American authorities. John the Jihadist, with his knife. According are more than 8,000 kilometers away from contributed $100 million and as such, the The Anti-Terror Wing of the Japanese to him, if the terror organization does not the Islamic State, you are a part of this cru- life of this hostage is worth the same sum.” Foreign Ministry watched the video and receive $200 million within 72 hours, they sade,” John the Jihadist stated in the vid- He then addressed the Japanese people, de- the staff analyzed the threatening mes- are going to kill the hostages. eo. “You contributed in your fear, $100 mil- manding that they put pressure on the gov- sage. They stated that it was credible. “I demand that you do not hurt them,” lion to kill our women and children, and ernment to pay within 72 hours or the two The Japanese Foreign Ministry does not Abe announced. The Japanese Prime Min- to destroy the houses of Muslims. As such, would be killed. intend to give in to the terrorism: “Such ister declared that saving their lives is at the life of one of these hostages is worth According to the reports in Japan, the a threat is unacceptable and we are out- the top of his priorities and called for the $100 million,” he continued. “In order to hostages are Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna raged,” they said. KESHER KOSHER TOURS 2015 33 years of experience and success in traveling the world the Jewish way! VIETNAM & CAMBODIA THE JAPANESE LEGEND FEBRUARY 3-17, 2015 MARCH 16, 2015 GUARANTEED DEPARTURE

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54 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM IN GOOD TASTE Easy and Elegant: Fresh Herb-Crusted Petit Filet of Beef

By Lisa Reitman Dobi the chilled fi lets to the roasting pan rack. Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Several years ago, I discovered petit fi - Lightly drizzle the crusted fi lets with let, a cut that seemed too good to be true. a dash of olive oil. Place the roasting pan This fl avorful tenderloin section of beef in the center of the oven and bake the fi - shoulder is as ideal for a busy weeknight as lets for 20 minutes. To check for done- it is for entertaining. Petit fi let is cut from ness, press gently on the top of a fi let. It the teres major muscle along the blade of should offer just enough resistance to in- the shoulder. The cut reminds one of fi let dicate that the center will still be medi- mignon but at one-fourth the price, the dif- um rare. If your fi nger sinks into the meat ference between buttery soft fi let mignon too much, cook for several more minutes. and exquisitely tender petit fi let becomes Be careful not to overcook these fi lets. delightfully irrelevant. They are slender and lean, and can dry The two fi lets I purchased weighed a out if neglected. total of 1.25 pounds. One was far thicker Allow the meat to rest for ten minutes than the other so I sliced it lengthwise to before serving. even out the size and cooking time. If you I like to serve the fi lets cut diagonally plan on serving dinner for four, my sugges- in half, exposing the succulent center and tion is that you order four fi lets. If neces- contrasting crust. sary, split the larger ones. I adore leftovers, The fi lets I prepared for this recipe were and this cut is absolutely perfect served the 1 packed cup fresh, young herbs: orega- jon and mayonnaise mixture on all sides plated with sautéed onions and scallions next day. Roasted just long enough to keep no, thyme, sage, parsley, and rosemary, of the meat. Place in refrigerator for sever- mixed with a brown rice blend. I served a pink center, cold petit fi let slices up beau- cleaned, patted dry, and fi nely chopped al minutes while you prepare the herb, gar- horseradish sauce alongside, a favorite con- tifully for a late night snack, the following’s ½ tsp. three of the following dried lic, and Panko coating. diment that gave the meat just the right day’s luncheon platter, or the perfect pro- herbs: savory, oregano, sage, or thyme In a medium bowl, mix the fi nely kick for this family. tein addition atop a green salad. 1 C. gluten-free panko crumbs chopped fresh herbs with the dried herbs, Petit fi let can be served with just about I prepared these fi lets with a crust of 1 medium clove garlic, fi nely chopped the garlic, and the panko. Mix only un- any side dish your family enjoys. Whether fresh herbs mixed with gluten-free panko 1 ½ T. mayonnaise til blended; you want to avoid creating a roasted potatoes, quinoa, sautéed broccoli, crumbs. The following measurements are 1 ½ T. Dijon mustard paste. fresh summer corn, autumn acorn squash, suffi cient for the three pieces totaling 1.25 Fresh ground pepper Remove the petit fi lets from the refrig- or a rice pilaf, choose a side that is lightly pounds. Olive oil for drizzling erator. Cover each fi let evenly and com- seasoned. The meat has a lovely fl avor, one pletely with the herb and crumb mixture. that you will not want to overpower with What You Need: What to Do: Return the meat to the refrigerator, uncov- too much garlic or heavy spices. A light One rectangular Pyrex casserole In a small bowl, blend the Dijon and ered. These steps can be completed up to 12 green salad with a citrus dressing, warm One foil-lined jellyroll pan or roasting mayonnaise. hours in advance. bread, and your favorite wine round off an pan fi tted with a fl at rack Place the fi lets in the Pyrex dish. Grind Forty minutes before cooking, remove easily prepared, elegant meal. 1.25 pounds petit fi let of beef fresh pepper over the meat. Spread the Di- the meat from the fridge. Carefully transfer Enjoy! Direct Line Carpet & Flooring Family Owned and Operated Since 1989

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201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 55 FRUIT OF THE VINE Once Upon a Wine: A Winter Tale of Winemakers

By Talia Zimmerman “We want wine that’s good because of its quality and its story.” Once upon a time, in a land far, far Although the winter brings harsh cold away, a wintery season brought a chill to weather, an evening of cooking delicious the people. To ease the dark evenings, im- meals with a glass of wine available to the aginative winemakers of the land shared chef, as well as the stew, will bring forth a delicious winter recipes with great wines, warmth incomparable to anything else this adding a touch of magic to the dish. A glass season. of wine with a delicious supper by a toasty fi replace became an enchanting evening. Victor’s Cholent: And we still do that! Ingredients The head winemaker of the Golan • 4.4 lbs. osso buco cut into 0.7-inch Heights Winery, Victor Schoenfeld, gath- thick slices (by the butcher) ers his family and friends to prepare a se- • 2 smoked one half goose breasts/duck cret “cholent” stew recipe. He cooks this (about 600 g), cut crosswise into 0.4-inch dish for the coldest days, inhaling the mys- slices tical scent it brings forth. While cooking, • 2.2 lbs. sausage (I use beef/lamb/pis- his children question Schoenfeld on the or- tachio sausage, locally produced), cut into igins of the cholent. 4-inch lengths An old-fashioned recipe, for centuries, • 1.1 lbs. large dry white beans, soaked cholent has been a cozy and warm dish to for about 12 hours in water serve during harsh winter days. To person- • 1 whole head of garlic, separated into alize his cholent, Schoenfeld fuses with it a whole peeled cloves 7. Add a layer of half of the osso buco, fresh oregano) classic French Cassoulet (see Schoenfeld’s • 3.3 lbs. new red potatoes, washed sausage, eggs, and potatoes. • 2 tbls. chopped fresh rosemary recipe below). Schoenfeld specifi cally chose • Eggs, raw, in their shells…wash them 8. Add another layer of the beans, etc. • 2 tbls. chopped fresh parsley this dish as it pairs well with one of his fa- well fi rst (as many as you can fi t in, try one 9. Add another layer of the meat, etc. • 1 tbls. crushed dried paprika vorite wines, the Yarden Pinot Noir. He high- per person) 10. Finish with the remaining beans, etc. • 1 tsp. honey ly recommends this wine Depending on the size of the osso buco • 1 tsp. crushed coriander seeds for its aromatic cher- slices, eggs, and potatoes, it could be a chal- • Atlantic sea salt and fresh ground pep- ry, red currant, and ripe lenge to fi t everything in. Have an addi- per pomegranate fruit char- tional casserole on hand for the overfl ow, Preparation acteristics, layered with if any. Cut each garlic clove to four long piec- attractive fl oral and spice 11. Fill with liquid until there’s about 1 es; make small pockets all around the meat notes. Victor says, “If you in. of liquid covering the ingredients. If you with a sharp small knife and insert the gar- like your wines more have enough beef stock, use that. If the lic deep into the meat. complex and full-bod- beef stock is concentrated, use to taste and Mix the rest of the ingredients except ied, with notes of smoke, then use water to come to desired level. If the zest to a paste and massage the paste earth, and exotic spic- you do not have stock, use water. around the meat until it covers all the meat. es, I would attempt the 12. Bring to a boil and remove scum. Sprinkle salt and pepper and leave to Yarden Syrah.” 13. Cover with lid. If the lid does not fi t rest at least four hours. Victor’s style of wine tightly, there is a danger of the cholent dry- Roast in a pre-heated oven at 428°F for selecting parallels his ing out and burning overnight. You can add 25 minutes, take down the heat to 300°F daring lifestyle, as he a doubled strip of aluminum foil between and roast for an hour, take the leg out of also suggests an inter- the Dutch oven and lid to help seal. the oven, sprinkle the lemon zest. esting challenge for real white-wine lovers • 4 onions, chopped 14. Put overnight on 230° Fahrenheit. Let the leg rest for 15 minutes at room and the people who dare to think “outside • 2 shallots, thinly sliced 15. Serve the guests, and hear “oohs” and temperature and then slice very thin slices. the box” by trying his cholent with the rich • 1 cup pickled pearl onions, whole, “ahhs.” Yarden Chardonnay, which contrasts with drained Shivi’s Baked Chicken the heavy dish. • 3.5 ounces pearl barley Micha’s Lamb Roast Ingredients In close proximity, Micha Vaadia serves • ¼ cup decent red wine for deglazing Ingredients Medium whole clean chicken as chief winemaker at Galil Mountain Win- • Beef stock • 1 whole leg of lamb Rub for chicken: ery. Learning at vineyards in California, • Salt to taste • 8 cloves of garlic • Silan (date honey) New Zealand, and Argentina, Vaadia is now • Pepper to taste • Juice of one big lemon • 20 mint leaves one of the top winemakers in Israel. • Smoked Paprika to taste • Zest of one lemon • ¼ cup olive oil For a pleasant winter weekend, Vaadia Method • 5 tbls. Galilee olive oil • 1 tbls. soy sauce puts together his classic lamb roast with 1. Brown the slices of goose in a large, • 3 tbls. mustard • Salt rosemary, coriander seeds, and za’atar. heavy-bottomed skillet (you can do this di- • 1 tbls. whole-grain mustard Stuffi ng: Vaadia accompanies his lamb with Gal- rectly in the Dutch oven, but I fi nd it easi- • 2 tbls. chopped Galilee fresh sage • 1 cup cooked rice il Meron, a deep, complex blend of Syrah, er this way). You need no oil, as the goose • 2 tbls. chopped Galilee fresh za’atar (or • ¼ cup dried cranberries Cabernet Sauvignon, and Petit Verdot. The fat quickly renders itself. • 1 tbls. soy sauce wine pleasantly combines characteristics Set aside. • 1 tbls. of date honey of wild berry and blueberry, with hints of 2. Brown the osso • 20 mint leaves nutmeg and chocolate, it is a rich and bold buco in the goose fat. Set • 2 tbls. almond slices wine. aside. • ¼ cup hazelnuts (or pecans) Winemaker Dr. Shivi Drori, father of 3. Brown the sausage Instructions: six, discovered the ancient grapes of Israel in the same pan, set aside. Pre-heat oven to 390 degrees. and is attempting to produce a wine iden- 4. Add the onions and Mix the ingredients for the stuffi ng and tical to the wine consumed during ancient shallots and sauté in the place in the chicken’s cavity. times. Between this quest and his wine- remaining fat, until lightly Mix ingredients for the rub in a bowl making vineyard practices, Drori relishes browned. Add a bit of olive and rub the washed and well-fl icked chick- a quiet supper with his big, happy family. oil if necessary. Set aside. en with the mixture and place it a deep His classic baked chicken with silan (date 5. Deglaze the pan baking dish. honey), cranberry, and mint is a delightful with the red wine, then Cover and roast the chicken for about source of great protein for the winter. transfer liquid to Dutch an hour. He enjoys a red wine, Gvaot Herodion, a oven. When the chicken is nicely browned striking blend of Cabernet, Merlot, and Pe- 6. Make a thin layer at and juices run clear, place the chicken on tit Verdot. It offers a long-lasting notes of el- the bottom of the Dutch a platter and keep it warm, while deglazing egant black and red fruit aromas, with un- oven with a third of the the baking dish with Gvaot Herodion. dertones of spices and scents. A true artist beans and onion and bar- Transfer to sauce pan and reduce pan in the wine industry, Drori chooses only ley, with a sprinkling of juices to desired consistency. the fi nest wines with his meals, adding the spices. Cover chicken with gravy and serve.

56 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM FOOD AND WINE The Digital Appetizer for a Terrifi c Way to Tour Israel: Israel’s Top 100 Ethnic Restaurants

By JLNJ Staff rael to chomp your way through the men- centives for countries, lo- us on your tablet screen. cal authorities and organi- Livingston— We were invited people In a conversation with JLNJ, authors zations to keep preserving to a book party, one locally and one in a Jack Gottlieb and Gil Hovav said they dis- and investing in their Jew- trendy Israeli eatery in the city… But alas, covered that the way back to Jewish her- ish heritage assets, which fates intervened. And then we discovered itage for many folks was food. From the will further promote tour- this was not a party for a conventional stomach to the soul. Jack is an American ism to these sites and book. In fact, it wasn’t even a convention- expat and Gil is a food critic who is well events, creating an eco-sys- known in Israel, and they decided food is tem of Jewish heritage tour- the answer, a great equalizer and a bridge ism.” builder. The best way to go about Jack has a mission, and it’s not just to it, he thought was to preserve get people to eat their way across the plan- Jewish culinary heritage fi rst, ISRAEL’S TOP 100 et. He wants to preserve Jewish world her- using the e-book format to itage sites and needed to fi gure out how to teach folks about Israel’s hid- do it. This is his solution. “We decided that den ethnic culinary gems. ETHNIC what was needed was a kind of UNESCO And it’s a great franchise, for Judaism,” Gottlieb said. “Think of us as since there are other e-books RESTAURANTS a cross between UNESCO, Wikipedia and to follow… about Jewish cui- Trip advisor, with Jewish heritage and cul- sine in North America and ture being the unique components tying it Europe. )RUZDUGE\UHQRZQHGIRRGFULWLF*,/+29$9 all together.” “We chose food as the Why? At some point he realized that fi rst aspect of our heritage Gil Hovav and Jack Gottlieb no organization was solely dedicated to we’re trying to preserve, as al e-book. It’s more like an app. A yummy rescuing Jewish heritage sites in Europe. it represents such an im- app where the dishes look sumptuous on After a trip to see Jewish places in Bela- portant part of our culture,” the screen. Photos of 100 signature dishes rus and Ukraine, Gottlieb saw that these Gottlieb said. “It’s the sto- from 100 Israeli food purveyors make you places “had no voice; no one knew about ries behind the food, and be- want to dig into the screen and eat…but… them and they were falling into disrepair. hind the people who make but…what was that? No recipes! …Click on I thought, ‘Can we do something about it, that are the gateway to so apps, click on videos…Hmm. Fascinating. this?’” many other aspects of our It’s a travel guide that connects you to the He came up with the World Jewish heritage.” He also pointed out that some- paradise of ethnic food in Israel, which he places where you might choose to go. Go to Heritage Preservation Model, and uses times the best ethnic restaurants aren’t says aptly describes of 60 different ethnici- the purveyor’s home pages, whether a bak- digital-tourism tools to push more and in ethnic neighborhoods, describing one ties, each with its own unique culinary tra- ery or eatery, winery or farmers’ market and more visitors to Jewish heritage sites and New Jersey deli, as having the best corned ditions, in such a small country, a rainbow shuk. And then hop on a plane and go to Is- cultural events. He says that creates in- beef in the Tri-State area, but no Jews in of menus…As he put it in the book, “ …At the neighborhood, so you never know least gastronomically, that is what we are: where you end up when you look for au- colorful, sunny, enticing, shameless and thentic Jewish food. direct. We have been here for the past 66 Gil Hovav showcases what he calls a years and we have not even started to cre- ate what will eventually become a local cui- sine. We are people from more than 60 eth- nicities, living in this tiny country and each and every one of us is certain that his or her grandma’s cholent is far better (and more authentic!) than everyone else’s. And you know what? This is what makes us unique. And delicious.” Israel’s Top 100 Ethnic Restaurants is be- ing billed as a “digital appetizer to a wid- er menu of planned technology, including mobile applications that will put the pow- er of online, collaborative communications in the hands of the Jewish community to preserve Jewish heritage.” To learn more about the WJH, please Fancy Kubeh Pickled Beet Salad visit: http://worldjewishheritage.com

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58 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM EDUCATION Charter Schools: Fabulous or Failures? By Joshua Cowen Associate Professor of Educational Policy at Michigan State University Who benefits and who loses?

Depending on who Moreover, student achievement is not you ask, charter schools the only question under consideration in know where to score may be either an important solution to the charter debate. There is new evidence persistent educational inequality, or a mis- that charter schools’ impact on education- guided attack on public schools as Ameri- al attainment – high school graduation or the best food in town cans know them. Both sides are fi rmly en- college enrollment – are positive and sub- trenched in this debate, which remains stantial, perhaps more so than on student For the Big game one the more polarizing arguments in test scores. There may, however, be oth- American education. But what does the er impacts that are less desirable. A num- and anytime evidence actually say? The truth about ber of researchers have found evidence charter schools is, as with many areas of that students in charter schools are more public policy, somewhere in between. racially segregated than their tradition- al public peers. There is also the question of which students benefi t from high-per- forming charters. Although some studies have found that disadvantaged students may benefi t the most from charter school- ing, one prominent critique claims that charter schools succeed by avoiding the most challenging students, including low achievers or students with special needs. And do charter schools have an over- all effect on students who remain in tradi- tional schools? School districts may suffer net fi nancial losses to charter schools and, although some supporters have argued that competitive pressures from charters can force public schools to improve their own performance, the evidence for such outcomes is unclear. The answer then to the question of whether charter schools provide oppor- First Lady visits charter school in tunities for students in struggling public Washington DC. YURI GRIPAS/SHUTTERSTOCK schools appears to be “yes, but…” Part of the diffi culty in characterizing The important word here is “opportu- what experts know about charter schools nity.” For some students, attending certain is that it depends on the question we are charter schools may lead to signifi cant im- asking. For supporters and opponents provements in their educational experi- alike, the fi rst question concerns perfor- ences. How those effects occur remains a mance: are the academic outcomes of stu- matter for debate; explanations for char- dents attending charter schools higher or ter successes and failures are as varied as lower than those in the traditional public the results themselves. sector? One very recent study, using sophisti- cated statistical techniques to summarize dozens of analyses across many states and cities, found that charter schools general- ly outperform traditional public schools in math, with little difference between the two sectors in reading. Studies that ac- count for student background by assign- Order your ing charter seats on the basis of applicant lotteries–research generally considered the gold standard for social science–have Joe Bowl Package online provided some of the strongest evidence for positive charter effects. But if the bulk of the evidence availa- ble suggests modest, positive charter ad- A careful and balanced appraisal of the and receive a free gift vantages for student achievement, this charter school picture would recognize kind of bird’s eye view can mask impor- the potential that charters hold for stu- tant variation in the way charters operate dents in some settings, while acknowledg- nationwide. One recent study of schools ing that for most communities, the bulk of in 27 states containing 95 percent of the our social and economic investments re- nation’s charter students found charter main in the traditional public sector. TO ORDER advantages overall, but not necessarily in every state: reading scores were actually DISCLOSURE STATEMENT: Joshua Cowen has re- higher for traditional public school stu- ceived research funding from the Spencer Foun- 494 CEDAR LANE, TEANECK, NJ [email protected] dents in eight of the 27 states, and math dation, the U.S. Department of Education, and 201-836-RIBS [7427] WWW.SMOKEYJOESBBQ.COM scores higher in 13 out of 27 states. Simi- the Walton Family Foundation; he has received no larly, a new lottery-based study across funding for charter school research. The Conversa- 13 states found no signifi cant advantage tion is funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, DELIVERYDELIVERY AND ANDCARVING SERVICE SERVICE AVAILABLE AVAILABLE for charter students. Such differences are Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Alfred P Sloan at least partly due to differences in state Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foun- GLATT KOSHER UNDER SUPERVISION MASHGIACH TIMIDI laws defi ning what constitutes a charter dation. Our global publishing platform is funded by school. Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 59 SCHOOLS Special Tefi llah Program at RYNJ Science Day By Cindy Zucker year, all students will have had the oppor- at LPS! tunity to attend all the sessions and explore The middle school girls’ special pro- and gain a better understanding of tefi llah, By Jennifer Davis gram began with a dynamic shiur by Mrs. enriching their kavana and commitment to Suzanne Cohen, RYNJ parent and morah davening. It also affords the opportunity for Tenafl y—Lubavitch on the Palisades at Ma’ayanot, who spoke about the signif- all the talmidot to learn with each member Elementary School held its second an- icance of the Taanit. Then the girls partic- of the middle school limudei kodesh facul- nual Science Day. It was a hands-on and ipated in their round-robin program cover- ty, reconnecting with previous year teach- to spend a few hours learning with their interactive experience. Students each ing a meaningful topic that is not part of ers and getting to know the morot that they children and their children’s tabbeim and went to four learning stations that in- the daily curriculum. will be having in the future. morot on this special day. cluded topics on static electricity, air This year, the theme is tefi llah, and every The feedback from yhe school’s Yom pressure, buoyancy, engineering, the so- morah prepared a workshop based on a dif- Iyun was outstanding. Many parents ex- Cindy Zucker is Mashgicha Ruchanit at RYNJ. lar system, nutrition, rocks and miner- ferent segment. By the end of the school pressed their appreciation for being able als, and art. In art, students used scientif- ic processes to create their own colorful rubber balls. Students had a joyous and Gan Rina Explores Assyriology and BPY educational time as they maneuvered between stations, made predictions, did the Winter! mia and about Assyriology, experiments, and drew conclusions. the archaeological, historical, Students at Gan Rina are and linguistic study of ancient all ready for winter as they be- Mesopotamia and related cul- come scientists studying wa- tures that used cuneiform ter, ice, and steam, explore writing. their senses to make their The students had learned very own snow, and review about cuneiform, a wedge- their Hebrew language skills shaped system of writing, and for their winter gear. were amazed to see photo- graphs of clay tablets with cu- neiform writing brought in and Ben Porat Yosef 6th grade read to them by Dr. Holtz. After- students were privileged to wards, using a translation from have Dr. Shalom Holtz, Yeshi- his new book, Neo-Babylonian va University professor, As- Trial Records, the students were syriologist, author, and BPY able to read about an ancient Egg Drop Contests Winners. LPS parent, visit their classrooms court case, and then engage in on January 8th, to teach them lively debates using primary about daily life in Mesopota- sources as historians would. BPY 1st Graders Get Siddurim

Science of Making Play Dough. LPS MLK Chesed Project at SSDS During their all-day pro- tin Luther King Jr. into action: fessional development work- “In the end, we will remember shop, SSDS faculty and admin- not the words of our enemies, istrators packaged weekend but the silence of our friends.” snack-packs for Bergen Coun- A shout-out to Shop-Rite ty kids receiving support from in New Milford for partner- the Center for Food Action, ing with SSDS on its MLK Day putting the words of Dr. Mar- chesed project. Ben Porat Yosef 1st grad- about the many tefi llot that ers received their siddurim in they learned, and were present- One of the winning projects. LPS a special program which took ed with their siddurim by Rav place on Sunday, January 11th. Tomer Ronen, Rosh HaYeshiva. The students performed a play MICHAEL LAVES. Michael Wildes at Moriah Reads Day Moriah students spent a fabulous afternoon learning about immigration law with attorney Michael Wildes as part of Mori- ah Reads Day. Egg Drop Contest Winners. LPS

As a culminating activity, the stu- dents had the big Egg Drop Contest. Stu- dents created contraptions that were designed to protect an egg. Eggs were dropped from a high ladder, thanks to Mr. Lou, and inspected to see if they re- mained intact. Surprisingly, most of the eggs remained intact. There are a bunch of future engineers at LPS!

60 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM SCHOOLS JKHA Recognizes Martin Luther King

By Naomi Maron what they learned. Students in pre-k through 2nd grade Livingston—Martin Luther King Jr. participated in a special egg experiment. used peaceful demonstrations and the The students looked at eggs with differ- power of language to inspire fellow Amer- ent colored shells. They then made predic- icans to change the way in which African tions about how they thought the inside of Americans were treated. His message is an the eggs would be different. The students important one to instill in our students. quickly discovered that on the inside, each Prior to vacation, each grade in the egg was the same. At varying levels of un- Lower School focused on an age appro- derstanding, they made the connection to priate message that can be taken from people and the idea that we should not JKHA lower school students read about JKHA Kindergarten students learn that the Civil Rights Movement. The students judge people by the color of their skin. regardless of the color of their skin, all people learned about the life and accomplish- Dr. Martin Luther King, and write about his Last week, the students gathered for a message. NAOMI MARON are unique and special and should be treated ments of Dr. King, including his “I Have a school wide assembly. Through a multime- fairly. NAOMI MARON Dream” speech. They also learned about tices that occurred in our country during dia presentation, including songs, stories, the plights of Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridg- that time. Our students listened to stories, and footage of the “I Have a Dream” speech, They connected his dream to the words of es. The students had conversations about heard songs, researched the time period, the children were inspired to help Martin Rabbi Akiva, “ve’ahavta le’reacha camocha” how to treat others and discussed the injus- and used their writing skills to respond to Luther King Jr. make his dream a reality. (Love thy neighbor as yourself). JKHA 7th Graders Share Meaningful Shabbat Experiences By Jill Kirsch students spent Shabbat with their teachers. at Doin’ Dishes in Montclair. The 7th grade girls had a fantastic Shabba- The boys had an equally special Shabbat Livingston—During Shabbat parshat ton in West Orange, while the boys spent a experience. Judaic faculty members Rabbis Shemot, January 9 and 10, the JKHA 7th grade wonderful Shabbat in Passaic. The students Selengut and Sukenik generously hosted were housed in the homes of JKHA families, the Shabbaton activities. The boys enjoyed faculty members, and their neighbors. spending time with them, along with Rab- Debbie Finkelstein, JKHA principal, gra- bis Feit, Hertzberg and Wachtel, and all of ciously opened up her home to the girls their families. The boys were privileged to for meals and Shabbat afternoon activities. see the unity and diversity that is Passaic, The girls appreciated spending time with through davening in three different shuls, JKHA MS faculty members Morah Bluman, learning in a beautiful Beit Midrash, and Morah Goldstein, and Mrs. Zeif. They had a hearing words of Torah from Rabbi Yaak- great time making challah at school on Fri- ov Glasser, their rebbeim, and friends. De- day before the Shabbaton, eating delicious licious food, inspiring stories, fun games, meals at Congregation Ohr Torah and at the and competitive bowling after Shabbat Finkelstein home, singing zemirot, hear- made this Shabbaton a great success. ing divrei torah given by students Hannah The JKHA 7th grade girls spend their post- The JKHA MS 7th grade Shabbaton is JKHA 7th grade boys enjoyed an evening of Kirsch, Maya Mendelson, and Keren Ras- Shabbat activity at Doin’ Dishes in Montclair, held every year, and this year’s 6th graders bowling after their shabbaton in Passaic. kin, and painting pottery on Saturday night painting pottery. JLNJ STAFF are eagerly anticipating their turn. RKYHS Selected As NJ Champion School JKHA 2nd Graders Learn By Jill Kirsch cause of death and disability in teenagers, the True Meaning of Chesed and Kusher’s SADD (Students Against De- Livingston—One of only 59 schools in structive Decisions) committee works hard By Rachel Ginsberg the state, three of them in Essex County, the to promote safe and defensive driving. Ear- Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School has been lier this year, the committee brought in Livingston—JKHA 2nd grad- selected to participate in the 5th annual U speakers from Project PRIDE (Promoting ers fi nished reading their fi rst Got Brains Champion Schools program for Responsibility in Drug Education) who class novel, 100 Dresses, a sto- the 2014-15 school year. The program is spon- helped to educate the students by speaking ry of a girl who draws 100 pic- sored by the Brain Injury Alliance of New about their personal experiences. tures of dresses and hangs them Jersey and is intended to help high schools This is Kushner’s fourth year participat- up in her closet. She can’t afford develop teen driving safety programs for ing in the program. Last year the school re- to buy new dresses and the girls their schools. The schools were required ceived a driving simulator for its participa- in her class are teasing her be- to submit a proposal to the Alliance, which tion, which is now being used by students cause she wears the same dress then selected the ultimate participants. Par- in its driver’s ed class as a way to teach de- every day. ticipating high schools create an awareness fensive driving. This year, the SADD commit- This thought provoking and JKHA 2nd graders collected and sorted clothing for project which combines video production, a tee has selected “distracted driving” as their ultimately compassionate story donation. RACHEL GINSBERG social media campaign, and awareness pro- theme, and Kushner’s Teen Driving Safe- inspired the students to organ- grams within their schools. ty Awareness Campaign will focus on that ize a clothing drive for people Motor vehicle accidents are the leading theme in creating its program submissions. who don’t have enough money to buy clothes. First, the class sent home a letter to parents asking them for clothing do- nations. Next, the students col- lected all the clothing in their classrooms. Then, the classes sorted the clothing into differ- ent categories and organized them into neat bundles to do- nate. The students dragged the large bundles to their teach- er’s car and loaded the donat- ed clothing into the trunk to be Students help load their teacher’s car with donation bags for the less fortunate. RACHEL GINSBERG delivered. 100 Dresses is a book steeped in les- the students the opportunity to turn their Members of the RKYHS SADD leadership committee proudly display their Champion School sons of friendship, empathy, and compas- learning into action and make these valua- sion and this 2nd grade project really gave ble lessons into a real act of chesed. banner. HAL LEVY 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 61 SCHOOLS New State-of-the-Art STEM Center Planned for Golda Och Academy

By Erin Sternthal son, for making our dream of a new STEM Center a reality. This new STEM Center will West Orange—Golda Och Academy be a place where students can discover and is planning a state-of-the-art, three-sto- explore a passion for math, science, com- ry STEM (Science, Technology, Engineer- puters, and robotics.” ing and Mathematics) Center on the Eric Dr. Harrison is the president of Harri- F. Ross Upper School Campus. The new son Research Laboratories, Inc., which she STEM Center will be named in honor of Dr founded in 1981. The company tests prod- Lynne B Harrison, community philanthro- ucts for safety and effi cacy for major com- pist and school grandparent, who has gen- panies worldwide. Additionally, she is a erously committed $1 million toward the member of the board of Space Israel and the facility. newly-appointed chair of the USA Board of The Dr Lynne B Harrison STEM Center Space Israel. Dr Harrison has served as vice will be located in the front of the building chair of the Hillel International Board of next to the cafeteria and will measure ap- Dr Lynne B Harrison visits with Golda Och Academy’s high school robotics team, the Directors as well as a member of the Hillel proximately 3,666 square feet. Two levels CodeRunners. ERIN STERNTHAL International Board of Governors. In 2009, will be dedicated to STEM, including space “We hope by giving students access to state- According to Dr Harrison, “STEM work Hillel named Dr Harrison “Woman of the for a full competition fi eld for the robot- of-the-art labs and high-quality instruction, is the foundation for 21st century prosper- Year,” honoring her with the Founders’ ics team (the CodeRunners), dedicated ar- they will be well-positioned to be success- ity. Attracting our Jewish youth to these Award. She is also an offi cer of the United eas for project construction, additional ful both here at Golda Och Academy and professions and giving them a top-quality Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, a 3D printers, and a fully-stocked workshop beyond in their future careers.” education in these disciplines is of key im- with tools and instruments for students. To help with the design process, GOA portance. The time for the STEM Center is The center’s third fl oor will serve as a mul- is working with the Center for Initiatives now.” tipurpose space for students to collaborate in Jewish Education (CIJE) and the Gruss In the coming months, GOA’s STEM co- with one another as well as attend lectures Foundation, lending their expertise to en- ordinator, Dr. Shira Kelmanovich, who re- and demonstrations. sure the new center will meet the school’s ceived her Ph.D. in chemical engineering needs. “Our goal is to design space from Stanford University, will be trave- that is versatile and fully-function- ling to other schools and universities with al,” said Shapiro. dedicated STEM centers to research how The new center is an extension to best utilize the space. As far as goals for of the Dr Lynne B Harrison STEM the center, Kelmanovich said, “Our vision is program, which broadened GOA’s that the proposed STEM facility be a place STEM initiatives in 2013 thanks to where students have the opportunity and a $480,000 grant from Dr Harrison. the tools they need to innovate, design, The initial grant enabled the school build and test; a place they can see their to hire a new STEM Coordinator as ideas come to fruition.” well as fund a new, intensive high According to Nina Bilmes, GOA’s math Dr Lynne B Harrison receives CodeRunners school STEM class, high school ro- and science department chair, “We are shirt from Golda Och Academy’s high school botics team, computer science elec- truly excited about the prospect of a new robotics team. ERIN STERNTHAL Golda Och Academy’s 9th grade STEM class tests tives, 3D printers and, most recently, STEM center that will help us have addi- member of the Day School Council and a LEDs. ERIN STERNTHAL a brand new Macintosh lab. “We are tional space for our math and science pro- board member of Friends of Israel Sci Tech. “This new STEM center expansion is truly indebted to Dr Harrison for her sup- gram to fl ourish and continue to grow.” In addition, Dr Harrison founded and fund- something we are all excited about, and port and vision for STEM education here at “GOA is proud to be leading the way ed the Dr Lynne B Harrison Science Center we know that it will go a long way towards GOA,” said Rabbi Joyce Raynor, Ph.D., head among Jewish day schools in the area of at the New Jersey “Y” Camps, which offers enhancing our program and moving our of school at GOA, “and feel so fortunate to STEM education,” said Stephanie Bash- specialty science education to young Jew- school forward as a leader in STEM educa- be able to give our students a dedicated Soudry, director of development and alum- ish campers. She is a mother of two daugh- tion,” said Adam Shapiro, GOA’s associate high-tech facility to expand their knowl- ni relations at GOA. “We are so grateful to ters and the grandmother of GOA 8th grade head of school and upper school principal. edge in these disciplines.” our visionary partner, Dr Lynne B Harri- student Adam Harrison Gross. JEC’s Yeshiva of Elizabeth Educators Train with KIBO Robots By Adina Abramov Yeshiva of Elizabeth elementary division courages problem solving and experimen- are incredibly excited about our KIBO initi- were introduced to the KIBO robot, which tation,” explained Dr. Bers. “When you’re a ative,” said Dr. Goldie Grossman, Assistant Elizabeth, NJ—On January 12th, educa- offers an interactive, hands-on opportunity 5 year-old, there’s not much you can build Principal, “and look forward to sharing the tors from the Jewish Educational Center’s to help students hone their computation- and control in your world, but with Kibo children’s learning with all of our parents!” al thinking and learn about the engineer- you can make a robot that looks and moves ing design process. The educators were part exactly the way you want it to.” of a cohort meeting at Yavneh Academy The Kibo robot kit is designed not only in Paramus designed to learn about KIBO for children who are interested in technol- from its developer, Dr. Marina Bers of Kin- ogy and gadgetry, but also taps into creative derLab Robotics and Tufts University. types and those who enjoy making things Dr. Bers, who launched Kinderlab Ro- using their hands. Students are empowered botics with tech industry veteran Mitch to build robots using modular components Rosenberg for the purpose of develop- that are supplied in the kit, personalize ing the robot kit, likened technology to a them with assorted art designs, and then playground, where learning comes alive program them to perform a variety of ac- in many essential ways. She described the tivities, without the use of traditional com- KIBO robot as a “developmentally appropri- puters, tablets, or smartphones. ate” (and screen-free!) way of allowing even “It’s important that children grow up the youngest students to discover key tech- with the understanding that technology nology principles. isn’t magic, but is something that they can KIBO means “hope” in Japanese, and learn to master,” shared Rosenberg. “from a developmental perspective, it’s im- During the teacher training, JEC educa- EC’s Yeshiva of Elizabeth Early Childhood portant that children learn the basics be- tors had an opportunity to build and pro- Director Lisa Bond and Educator Sarah Kohn hind programming and logic at an early age gram KIBOs, experimenting with different KIBO Developer Dr. Marine Bers presents KIBO Build Their Own KIBO Robot. ADINA ABRAMOV while engaging in open-ended play that en- possibilities for curricular integration. “We Robot to Educators. ADINA ABRAMOV

62 January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM SPORTS Gotham Burger Sportstar of the Week: Nikki Bick

The Jewish Link of New Jersey and only ones who didn’t want that were her Gotham Burger would like to recognize opponents; and even then, some part of me 17-year-old Nikki Bick as Sportstar of the believes they rooted for her because they week. The 17-year-old Bruriah senior is lead- recognized in her what we all did, a talent ing her basketball team to fi rst place. and competitor they will most likely nev- er again experience in their lifetimes. Not much has changed in the four years that Nikki has graced the court. Nikki is the ultimate game changer David Siesser, Dan Stempel, Amichai Benson, Ely Abecassis, Azriel Rubinstein, Peter Osen hanging at and teams organize their game plans CMEK Winter Break. around her.” Nikki, who would you say is your role model? My Mom. What is your pregame meal? A protein bar. What is your favorite sports memo- ry? Winning the championship in freshman year. What is your favorite thing to do when not playing sports? Exercising (running). What is the best thing about being a sportstar? I make new friends and learn things on and off the court. I also get the opportunity to travel to different When asked to describe Nikki, Bruriah cities. Coach Susan Rifkin told the JLNJ, “From The Gotham Burger Sportstar of the the moment Nikki stepped on the court Week will receive a $10 gift certifi cate to as a freshman at Bruriah, it was clear that Gotham Burger. Please send nominees for her teammates, fans, and coach wanted the next week’s Gotham Burger Sportstar of Tzvi Bessler on the break away. AMANDA LEIFER. ball in her hands as much as possible. The the Week to [email protected] Kushner High School Hires Swim Coaches By Jill Kirsch team. She has been swimming since the age of 7 and has been an assistant swim Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School has coach for the past eight years. She replaces joined the few yeshiva high schools which the team’s fi rst coach, Allysa Selevan, who boast a swim team, and is the only school helped jumpstart the team last year and, to have a boys’ division. The girls’ team “without whom the team would not exist was the brainchild of Rachel Luxenberg, today,” commented Rabbi Richard Kirsch, current RKYHS junior, and was in its in- RKYHS Athletic Director. fancy during the 2013-2014 school year. Each team currently has six to eight This year, the school has hired coaches members, including several JKHA middle for both the girls’ and boys’ teams and has school swimmers on the girls’ team. The enough participants to compete against girls’ team will compete against other ye- other schools. shiva high schools, while the boys’ team Harold Huang, coach of the boys’ team, will compete against other private schools has been swimming competitively since with all boys teams. Yonatan Kaye lines up his shot for RYNJ. DOV HOOK. 1976 and, since 2002, has trained a NJ State The budding team is fortunate to train Champion swimmer, as well as several in the state-of-the-art pool at Gold’s Gym U.S. National level swimmers. He is look- in Whippany, NJ. They have gracious- ing forward to the challenge of building a ly worked out swim times whereby boys high school swim team. and girls swim separately, according to Or- Carlee Phillips is the coach of the girls’ thodox guidelines. SAR Varsity Basketball Sting the Rams Credit: Sting Sports Update points, Andrew Pitkoff had 11, and Simon Last week the SAR boys’ varsity basket- Kofman came off the bench and scored 8. ball team defeated the Ramaz Rams on the On both ends of the fl oor, SAR dominated road, 60-42. In desperate need of a win to and came away with the victory. stay in the playoff hunt, everyone showed SAR needs to win its fi nal three games up to play and played hard from start to to make the playoffs. Up next, the Hes- Tani Engel, Yonah Tarzik, and Pacey Jacoby at Frisch’s Yosroel Solomon will not be denied. fi nish. Rafi Kubersky led the team with 12 chel Heat. CMEK Winter break. AMANDA LEIFER.

ment and are now certifi ed at that weight. RKYHS Wrestling Wins These two wrestlers will cut down on the SAR JV Boys Basketball Wins at Heschel Three in a Row number of forfeits the team has been giv-  CONTINUED FROM P. 1 ing up, and help move in the direction of Credit: Sting Sports Update and went on a 21-9 run in the third to ex- fi lling out the lineup. With only 30 days The JV Boys Basketball team beat Hes- tend the lead. SAR rotated zone, box and This week also brought good news left until Nationals, Kushner will put its chel, 60-44, raising its record to 7-1. Led by one, and man-to-man defense and Adam with two wrestlers fi nally making it down best foot forward and hope to make a sol- Daniel Wisotsky’s 22 points and Dovie Duitz and Hank Stein were particularly to the weight classes in which they plan id impact when it arrives at Yeshiva Uni- Marcus’ 11, the Sting were up 5 at the half star-worthy on the box and one D. on wrestling at the Wittenberg Tourna- versity in February.

201-371-3212 • WWW.JEWISHLINKNJ.COM January 22, 2015 • 2 Shevat, 5775 63 SPORTS Boys JV Hockey Standings Metropolitan Western Conference Team Points Wins Loss OTL Ties Yeshiva High SAR Sting 16 8 0 0 0 FRISCH Cougars 12 6 2 0 0 TABC Storm 12 6 2 0 0 More Than Just Soda School Athletic JEC Thunder 10 5 3 0 0 MTA Lions 10 5 5 0 0 League **as RAMAZ Rams 7 3 6 1 0 HILLEL Heat 4 2 7 0 0 SportScan Photo Contest WESTCHESTER 00900 of 1/19/15 Wolverines As part of the community, SodaScan would love to give everybody the opportunity to post their own Western Division Boys JV Basketball Standings Boys Varsity Hockey Standings sport photos and have them featured right here, in Winning Western Division Western Conference Team Wins Loss Percentage the Jewish Link. Not to mention the awesome prizes Team Wins Loss Winning Team Points Wins Loss OTL Ties FRISCH Cougars 12 0 1.000 Percentage TABC Storm 22 11 0 0 0 we’re giving out TABC Storm 9 3 .750 SAR Sting 7 1 .875 HESCHEL Heat 7 4 .636 MTA Lions 7 1 .875 SAR Sting 19 9 2 0 1 HILLEL Heat 7 5 .583 FRISCH Cougars 6 2 .750 RAMAZ Rams 16 8 6 0 0 RAMAZ Rams 5 5 .500 RAMAZ Rams 7 7 .500 KUSHNER Cobras 15 7 3 1 0 TABC Storm 4 4 .500 JEC Thunder 6 6 .500 MTA Lions 14 7 4 0 0 HESCHEL Heat 4 4 .500 FRISCH Cougars 11 4 4 2 1 SAR Sting 4 7 .364 JEC Thunder 3 6 .333 MTA Lions 3 10 .231 KUSHNER Cobras 2 7 .222 JEC Thunder 6 3 9 0 0 KUSHNER Cobras 0 12 .000 HILLEL Heat 0 8 .000 HESCHEL 2 1 10 0 0

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Asking $399,999 $899,999 3 Bedrooms/2.5 Baths V& N Realty Anhalt Realty (201) 692-3700 201-568-3300 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Classic Tudor on This Split- Level home is locat- place, Formal Dining room, Kitchen. approximately 132 ft. frontage. Renovated ed on one of Teaneck’s most desirable Second fl oor: Two Bedrooms, Full Bath- kitchen and baths, elegant living room/ tree lined streets, Sheffi eld Road. Walk- room. Third fl oor: Master Bedroom w/ fi replace, formal dining room, den with ing distance to houses of worship, NYC Master bathroom. Ground Floor: Den, separate entrance. Transit and Country Club. First fl oor of- Powder room, Garage entrance. Moti- fers: Entry foyer, Living room w/fi re- vated Seller!

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Ken Goffstein 800-FIRST-95 3.500% 3.692% 0.000 3.625% 3.693% 0.103

3.750% 3.780% 0.000 15 year fixed New price $1,999,999 Ken Goffstein 3.000% 3.159% 0.000 Open House February 1st from 11am-3pm 800-FIRST-95 323 Ogden Avenue, Teaneck 3.000% 3.133% 0.191 Classic beauty & craftsmanship w/attention to detail is found in this breathtaking 3.125% 3.232% 0.000 7 BR/5.5 BTHRM custom built brick center hall colonial on 80 x 120 beautifully landscaped fenced property. Over 7,000 sqft of finished elegance. 1st fl features 30 year FHA 2 story grand entry hall w/floating staircase and Swarovski crystal chandelier, Ken Goffstein 9ft ceilings, Banquet DR w/butler’s pantry, formal LR w/frpl, built-in mahogany 800-FIRST-95 3.500% 4.488% 0.000 library, state of the art maple and granite Kit w/matching granite table in window surrounded Bkfst Rm, radiant heat, Laundry Rm, Fam Rm w/built-in cabinetry 3.750% 5.240% 0.000 and surround sound, Marble Powder Rm, & wrap-around Trex deck w/outdoor 5/1 ARM speakers. 2nd fl features a master suite w/2 WICs, 11ft tray ceiling, dressing area Ken Goffstein & spa-like MBTH w/radiant heat. 3 additional Lg BRs w/WICs and 2 FBTHs. 3rd 800-FIRST-95 2.500% 2.758% 0.000 floor w/2 Lg BRs w/WICs, FBTH, & storage. 7 zone base-board heat & 4 zone A/C. Fin Bsmt features a tiered 8 seat Movie Theater w/sound proof design, Office, Rec 2.750% 2.910% 0.271 Rm, guest BR, FBTH, storage Rm & 2 car garage. Programmable sprinkler system, alarm, front door camera with intercom and phone/intercom system throughout. WANT TO HAVE YOUR RATES LISTED HERE? No Brokers EMAIL [email protected] DETAILS *All rates are from January 20th and are subject to change. For Sale by owner by appointment: *All rates assume the property is located in Bergen County with a $417,000 loan, 20% down payment and credit scores of 740+. *All rates require full income verification Eric 973.418.6962 | [email protected] *Not responsible for typographical errors

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Freshly painted Tudor Colonial with Living Room/fi replace, Formal Dining Room, updated Kitchen, Den 238 Carlton Terr., and powder room on 1st fl oor. New Furnace, Hot Water Heater and Chimney Liner. Polished hardwood Teaneck $421,000 fl oors throughout, cental air, underground sprinklers for front lawn. Excellent curb appeal and newly 1:00-3:00pm (201) 692-3700 landscaped.

Fully renovated Fieldstone model, beautiful townhouse (duplex). Modern open fl oor plan kitchen with Cross Creek granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, Italian tiled working fi replace. 2 Bedrooms + Den/Offi ce. 35 Eagles Notch Asking 2 full bathrooms (including Master Bath) and 1 half bathroom. Secluded terrace with tree-lined views. 12:00-2:00pm (201) 568-3300 Englewood $469,000 Amenities include: Pool, Sundeck, Tennis courts, Basketball, Security, Landscaping, Snow removal, On-Site management.

1435 Hudson Rd., Elegant Colonial with extraordinary living room and fi replace, formal dining room and den on 1st fl oor. Teaneck $587,000 Spacious master bedroom with full bath. Security, mostly hardwood fl oors, central air. 12:00- 2:00pm (201) 692-3700

1285 Hastings St., Custom 6 Bedroom, 6 bath new luxury construction. Cherry hardwood fl oors, state of the art Kitchen/Sile $1,395,000 Stone counters, 10 ft ceilings on 1st fl oor. Forged Steel front doors, cherry wood bulter’s pantry in formal 1:00-3:00pm (201) 692-3700 Teaneck Dining Room. Elevator can be installed.

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By Martha terest as a tax advantage. However, for the day care, medical bills, and insurance for debt. They also had a 25% liquid down (Malkie) Aaron average buyer it’s important to know how cars, health, life, etc. and IRS taxes. These payment. The mortgage companies re- much you can afford to pay when looking are large chunks that come out of your fused to offer them a mortgage. This was If you’re look- for a house. paychecks after taxes. They will then fi g- after they found the house they want- ing for your dream When you get a Pre-Approval it doesn’t ure out how much is left over to pay for ed to buy. The broker told them to apply home the fi rst lock you into anything. It is a rough idea a mortgage, real estate taxes, and home for a few of the major credit cards and to step that you must of what the bank will advance you based owner’s insurance. Too many couples are charge everything on them from groceries take is to speak to on your down payment, your credit his- often shocked to discover that they didn’t to their car lease and to pay the bills every a mortgage bank- tory, and your debt to income ratio. You have the buying power for the kind of month before the due date. He told them er or broker. There may think that you and your spouse have house they want. to wait six months before applying for a are very few consumers out there that are great jobs with great salaries, but the I recently had a young couple with ab- mortgage. Needless to say they rented a lucky enough to buy for cash. Even if you banks will examine your debts with a fi ne solutely no credit history. They had good house and were quite disappointed that have the cash, your accountant may ad- tooth comb. Are you paying car loans, stu- jobs and paid all their bills with checks the rent money couldn’t go towards pay- vise you to get a mortgage to use the in- dent loans, credit card debt, tuition or or a debit card. They had no outstanding ing down a mortgage. Another realtor recently told me that his client had a $500,000 down payment for a $2 million home. He was turned down for a mortgage because of a sloppy payment history which resulted in a low credit score. His wealthy client walked away very despondent. Doing your homework beforehand can save aggravation. Before you apply any- where get your own credit report. Check it thoroughly and see if you fi nd any mis- takes. If you do, you should contact the credit agencies and try to eliminate the er- rors. This will raise your credit score when the time comes. The banks are tight with their mon- ey these days. They are offering low in- terest rates, but, those low rates usually are offered to those with the higher cred- it scores. It’s also important to know that the 240 Grand Ave Englewood, NJ banks are requiring you to put three 201 568 3300 Woodland/Palisade, Englewood Land for Sale 2.3 Acres months of taxes in escrow. This is a large chunk of money, in addition to the oth- er closing costs. You also need to set aside money for the actual move to your new home. SOLD When you get all the paperwork to- gether it will be easier for you to look for a home in a price range that you can af- ford. There are some banks that will al- low a co-signer for a mortgage when the numbers don’t look too good for the buy- er. Don’t rely on the fact that your parents will be happy to co-sign for you. I have seen too many disappointed buyer’s when they couldn’t get their parents to commit. Another step in the process is to get a gift from family members for the difference you need in order to buy the house. This gift will be recorded with your mortgage. 275 Arch Road, Englewood 400 Gloucester Street, Englewood These suggestions are meant to help you ease the process of buying your dream home and help you look for that home se- cure in the knowledge that you can afford it. Selling Tips: The Kitchen Comes First Kitchens will make or break a sale, so consider updating yours before put- ting the home on the market. Kitchen up- grades will most likely get you 85% of your money back, and renovations eliminate a buyer’s negotiating points (they may ask you to knock $10,000 off the price because the kitchen needs updating). 479 Adele Court, Englewood 181 Madison Avenue, Englewood To make the kitchen looking fresh without draining the bank account, con- sider adding a fresh coat of neutral-color- ed paint and new hardware to dated cab- inets. If you do have a little bit of cash to spend in this area, add at least one stain- less steel appliance to give the kitchen a high-end look.

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By Mordechai Schmutter And here’s something we learned so And then, the next time we’re in the far: It turns out that a bigger house is go- market for a new house, our agent will ask, We’re in the market for a new house. It ing to cost more money than we can get “Who writes, ‘Must have indoor kitchen’?” doesn’t actually have to be new, just new for our little house. Maybe we should have The things you don’t have are what you to us. Our current house isn’t tiny, but our thought of this back when we bought such ask for. When we were moving out of our kids keep getting bigger, and our house a little house in the fi rst place. We were apartment, our list said things like, “Living does not. just happy to get it because it was bigger room, dining room, kitchen, offi ce, guest Right now, we have something called than our apartment, which was two rooms, room, and playroom should not all be the a “starter house.” No one dies in a starter only one of which was a bedroom. The oth- same room,” and “Entrance in front,” and house (baruch Hashem). A starter house is a er room was our kitchen/living room/din- “Don’t have to cut through only bedroom small home with just enough bedrooms for ing room/foyer/pantry/basement/family to get to the bathroom,” and “No upstairs all of the major genders that a young cou- room/study/library/ playroom/home of- neighbor with twin infants that love pay- ple buys when they need to get out of their fi ce/multi-purpose/guest room. That room ing with their twin Bumble Balls (which is one-bedroom apartment so they can stop also had the one window, so in the bed- a toy where you turn it on, and the people putting guests on the living-room fl oor. room, it was always night, which was not do and don’t have now. Our agent looks at it who live below you think the house is fall- Sure, there are a lot of good things very helpful in waking up for Shacharis, al- and says, “Who puts ‘coat closet’ on a list?” ing down).” about our house. For example, it’s so old though it was great for getting the kids to We do. We’re sick of people seeing our But we can say we’re looking. You can that when the power goes off, the heat sleep. And yes, we had two kids in there. By coats. And we’d like to have somewhere to ask us, “Why do you want the next house does not. Also, there’s an outlet in the fi re- the time we moved out, the apartment was put a vacuum cleaner on the ground fl oor, to be perfect?” It doesn’t have to be, but it’s place for some reason. Also, we get nice so densely packed that when we fi nished considering what’s where our kids do most a house. We don’t want to move, spend a cross ventilation, even with the doors unpacking in our current house, we found of their spilling—that we know of. year unpacking our stuff, and then realize closed. And several members of Hatzolah that the stuff from our two-room apart- But the things that you have, you that it’s not really better than what we had. already know where it is. ment had fi lled up the entire house. don’t think to ask for. We’re going to end It’s not like buying a pair of pants, where So we’re looking for a house, the plan So we’ve been looking for houses. We up moving into a house without bath- you can return it. being that we’re going to sell our old made a list of what we want, we got an rooms, or with no indoor kitchen, and “Yeah, all my stuff doesn’t fi t in the house to pay for the new house, although agent, and occasionally my wife asks her when we ask, our agent will say, “Well, pockets.” Hashem only knows where we’re going to to show us a specifi c house. The truth is, you didn’t mention it.” “Oh. Well, what was wrong with your live in between. We hope it all goes down everyone makes a list. But in general, most (If you think there are no houses like old pants?” on the same day. people’s lists are really based on what they that, you don’t know Passaic.) “Too many windows.”

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Interested participants may 5:30PM Congregation Keter Torah 600 NJ Yachad Shake It Up Group – a social Workshops are free of charge and requires call 201 848 0449 or visit www.chabadplace. Roemer Ave Teaneck group for adults 18+ registration. Breakfast will be served. All THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH org Special program for brothers and sisters Trip to Medieval Times, Lynhurst New sessions will be followed by a support Lamdeinu 10:15AM Great Thinkers of Tail Gate Party 2:00PM – 4:00PM ages 7 -13 who have a sibling with Jersey. Kosher lunch included. groupled by Chani Herrmann LMSW Director the Twentieth Century 950 Queen Anne Young Israel of Teaneck 868 Pery Lane special needs. Free of charge including $25 or $36 with transportation RSVP by of NJ Yachad RSVP to [email protected] Rd Teaneck Teaneck snacks and dinner, games, prizes and Jan 16. Call Reva Judas at 201 833 1349 Rabbi Yosef Bronstein inspires by the Rain or Shine in Parking Lot $5 child - raffl es. 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Hamptons Synagogue Choir will lead a EREV SHABBAT lectures given by Rabbi Avrohom Frank W Burr Blvd Teaneck Navigating Parenthood – The World’s Hardest Carlebach davening on Friday night and a JANUARY 30TH Bergstein Honoring: Shelley and Ruvan Cohen, Job 8:00PM Series of six lectures given by regular Shabbat morning davening in the Scholar in Residence – Dr David Anshei Lubavitch 10-10 Plaza Rd establishing the Nathaniel Richman Cohen Rabbi Avrohom Bergstein morning. Pelcovitz Young Israel of Teaneck 868 Fairlawn A”H Scholarship Fund in memory of their son, Anshei Lubavitch 10-10 Plaza Rd Fairlawn Everyone is welcome. CHESED OPPORTUNITY

FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE’S REYNJ 666 Kinderkamack Rd River Edge - read a newspaper to one or several emailed to [email protected] or please email Arianne at ariannew@ MITZVAH VOLUNTEER $18 for the series. Registration residents and discuss current events dropped off with Debby in the shul verizon.net. PROGRAM! Required. - read a story to a small group office. Once you›ve completed the The Mitzvah Volunteer Program is a fi ve week For more info, email Zeesy@ - make phone calls for a particular form, please email Arianne at the email TOMCHEI SHABBOS training program for boys and girls in 6th BCFriendship.com or click here http:// resident whose vision is impaired address listed below. Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County Grade that teaches them how to interact with bcfriendship.com/mvp to register. - have a baking class When your application is received, one is looking for volunteers who are children who have special needs. Volunteers - play the piano or other instrument for of us will contact you to discuss your willing to commit to packing at 6 PM will learn about various disabilities, appropriate Bnai Yeshurun Chesed Committee a small group of residents availability. Wednesday either on a weekly, bi- conduct when volunteering, the importance Sharona Nagler Bikur Cholim Project - play a game such as chess or checkers The recommended visiting hours are monthly or monthly basis. Contact Sara of giving back to the community and the huge at Care One is resuming. Care One is a with a resident 1-5 and 6-8, allowing for dinner time. Walzman at [email protected] impact they can make on others. Each session rehabilitation center/nursing home - chatting with a resident When you go into the building you can Tomchei Shabbos of Bergen County has also includes a hands-on chessed project. in Teaneck which services many of our This project is being done in ask for Kitty, the Recreation Director or chesed opportunities for Bar and Bat community residents. coordination with Care One’s volunteer someone else from that department Mitzvah boys and girls! For information on Wednesdays, Jan 28, Feb 4,11, & 18 - The time commitment need not be department. There is a short form and say you are from Bnai Yeshurun -- how to commemorate your Simcha with 6:30-8:00 pm Cong Ahavath Torah 240 great and level of participation no to fi ll out and it is available in the and they can give you a person or two a chesed project thru partnering with Broad Ave, Englewood more challenging than some of these shul offi ce, or by clicking here. The to visit. Tomchei Shabbos, contact Andrea Fields at Finale: Sunday, Feb 22 1:00 – 2:00PM at examples: completed form can be scanned and If you have any questions or ideas 973-371-1771x411 or [email protected]

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URGENT of Bergen and North Hudson, will provide and Referral to schedule your initial All classes are taught under the guidance provides information on services available Bunny and Jimmy Hain are in support groups to help individuals who consultation @ 201-837-9090. of Debbie Greenwald-Director of the to members of the Jewish community desperate need of a kidney to save have experienced the loss of a spouse or Art Place. Cost is $75 Space is limited!!! of Bergen County at local hospitals. their son Donny’s life. They are of a parent. The groups will be guided by TEANECK BOYS RSVP by,Monday Jan 26,2015 to Reva Information also is provided on medical looking for living donors with blood- a professional social worker who will help CHOIR Judas [email protected] 201 833 1349 equipment gemachs and other services. This type B+, B- or O, who would make participants navigate this challenging Now accepting new members from comprehensive and user-friendly site should the best match. time. For more information, please grades 1 to 7 from Teaneck, SHEARIT HAPLATE make it easier for those in need to navigate Donny’s family asks: If you, or contact JFS at 201-837-9090. Bergenfi eld, Paramus, Fair Lawn, Fort OF BERGEN COUNT the options and the available resources. anyone you know would be Jewish Family Service of Bergen and Lee & Washington Height. The choir is The kosher food rescue organization interested in taking a fi rst step to North Hudson announces the formation known for its warm, haimish, and fun that collects prepared food leftovers CARE ONE see if you are a match, or would like of a support group for separating, atmosphere, encouraging our boys to from local caterers and restaurants Care One at Teaneck is seeking Shabbos general information about what separated, and divorced individuals. This express themselves and to learn teamwork and then repackages and distributes host families to provide hospitality kidney donation entails, please be is an opportunity to” give to and get from” and mutual respect. Be part of a great it to those that can benefi t in a for patients’ relatives. When illness or post in touch with Renewal. Call 718 431- others in similar circumstances. Learn group, learn new songs, and take part respectful way that helps ensure the surgery rehabilitation at their 9831 and reference Donny’s code, ways to cope with the loss of the dream in performances and CD recording. For recipient’s privacy and self-esteem facility requires a patient’s stay over which is R840, or email Renewal “Till death do us part” as well as the more information and enrollment, To Become a Recipient: If you or someone Shabbos ,they often receive requests for [email protected]. Renewal’s more practical challenges of recreating please e-mail teaneckboyschoir@gmail. you know would like to be accommodations for a spouse, adult child, website is www.renewal.org. All a quality lifestyle as a single person and com. notifi ed when food is available, please friend, or other family member. inquiries to Renewal are strictly learning to co-parent in a healthy way. Yehiel Levy & Hillel KapnickDirectors respond to this email. The information They will gladly provide on site RCBC confi dential and are without any For more information, please contact JFS will be kept confi dential within the supervised meals, a beautiful Shul and obligation. They can put you in touch at 201-837-9090. NJ YACHAD PRESENTS organization. most other requirements. However, when with others who have donated a A professional facilitated Group for THE RUTH ULEVITCH LANG PLEASE LET US HELP-EMAIL US TODAY! their facility is full, they try to arrange kidney and are happy to share their Women impacted by Intimate Partner INCLUSIVE ARTS PROGRAM [email protected]_ or nearby off -site accommodations for experiences. All kidney donation Violence meets every other week. It is not Tuesdays,February3-April 28 2015 [email protected] sleeping. As a token of their costs will be covered. a drop in group and Initial Consultation 7:00PM -8:00PM The ART Place 490 Curry appreciation, they will gladly provide is required. Please contact Jewish Family Ave.Englewood NJ BIKUR CHOLIM OF delicious Shabbos meals for the host L.O.S.S. (Loved one’s support Service of Bergen and North Hudson Open to local junior high and high school BERGEN COUNTY family, as well. To pre-register as a system) located at 1485 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, students and individuals with special Announces a new website, www. Shabbos host, please contact the A new program of Jewish Family Service NJ 07666 and ask for Information needs-ages12+ bikurcholimbergencounty.org, which admissions offi ce at 201 862 – 3300. GEMACHS

THE RINAT CHAIM GEMACH SIMCHAS Email [email protected] of a picture Judaica, household items, small appliances, opportunities available, such as driving Collects and lends new and used Shtick for a Wedding of what you’d like to donate and a giftware, etc. For more information contact young adults to their job sites and medical equipment – Please check Call Wendy at 646/996-2165 recipient can be matched. Carrie Cooper at 201-801-9028 or via email shadowing some of the students at various fi rst to inquire if items are needed. Email [email protected] for at [email protected]. community activities. For more information Items in good condition to those in need, Centerpiece Gemach – Cong Beth information or to volunteer contact Aggie Siletski at 201- for short-term or long-term use, including Aaron Bikur Cholim Wheelchair Gemach - 833-1134 x105 or via email at asiletski@ wheelchairs, commodes, portable Contact Ellen Chazin at njellen18@yahoo. The Bikkur Cholim of Passaic- Clifton’s 201 836 2907. sinaischools.org or visit their website commodes, walkers, shower chairs, bathtub com or 201 357 8426 or Michele Cooper at Medical Equipment Gemach at www.sinaischools.org. chairs, rollators, crutches and canes. . The [email protected] Wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes, CHILDREN WITH Gemach will be happy to deliver the items scooters and other medical equipment to SPECIAL NEEDS YACHAD, The National Jewish Council to families when necessary and to receive Chatan and Kallah Gemach lend at no charge. For more information or The Friendship Circle is a social for Disabilities, is dedicated to tax-deductible donations. To contact the Donate new, unopened gifts to needy to schedule a pick up contact Yael Gotteib at organization for children with special enhancing the life opportunities of Gemach, to borrow equipment, or to couples. Accepted in original boxes 973-778-9320. needs that involves them in a full range of individuals with disabilities, ensuring contribute, please visit their website, www. household, Judaica, engagement or recreational activities. Teenage volunteers their participation in the full spectrum rinatchaimgemach.com, or contact Yehiel wedding gifts that are not your taste or Housewares G’mach in Teaneck collects are the key to keeping our programs of Jewish life. New Jersey Yachad Levy, [email protected], 201-357-5495. cannot be used. Drop off at Carrie Cooper, brand new, still in their boxes, serving china running! Volunteers can visit a child at touches our community on a daily 1060 Windsor Road or email Carrie at platters, mixing bowls and many other home weekly for a play date, join a monthly basis, providing inclusive programs BABIES AND [email protected]. house ware items for new Kallahs in need. program on Sundays with sports, music, art, for individuals with special needs and CHILDREN: For more information or to donate contact and baking, join us for holiday programs, emotional support for all members Teaneck Bris Gemach Hosting a Simcha in your home? The Sara Beth Fein at [email protected]. camps or cooking programs. Volunteers of the family. Services include parent Bris outfi ts, pillows, pillow cases, tefi los Teaneck Simcha Gemach has folding must be in 7th grade or older. For more support groups, sibling support, for mothers to say. Open to the Jewish tables, cocktail tables, chairs and coat The Jewish Book Gemach collects Jewish information or to volunteer please call Zeesy information and referral, socialization community. There is no solicitation of funds. racks (w/ hangers) available for loan. books for 4th- 8th graders. If you have books Grossbaum, Director of Bergen County programs, weekend respite through For information or to reserve Email either Contact [email protected] to donate or would like to receive books Friendship Circle atZeesy@BCFriendship. monthly shabbatonim, over a [email protected] or [email protected] please contact Moshe and Shifra Schapiro com or via phone at 201-262-7172. Feel dozen summer camp programs, or call Zissi at 718 704 6225. Tablecloth Gemach at [email protected]. free to check out their website: www. vocational training, sensitivity In memory of Chaim Yissachar ben Yechiel BCFriendship.com. training workshops, advocacy, family Teaneck Baby Gemach Zeidel Dov Z’l. Congregation Ahavath Torah 240 retreats and so much more. For more Collects baby equipment, clothing to size Specialty cloths in all colors and sizes for Broad Avenue, Englewood) collects Sinai Schools services children and information please contact Chani 5T, toys, diapers, formula, and baby food every type of simcha. Donations will go fl ower centerpieces that can be brought to adults with learning and developmental Herrmann at [email protected] or call for Jewish families in Bergen County. For to Project Yi’che and are tax deductible. the homebound or those in the hospital. disabilities. There are various volunteer 201-833-1349. more information contact Avi and Ginnine Please contact [email protected] for an For more information call the Shul at 201- Fried at 718-753-6275, or by email at appointment 568-1315. [email protected]. Tax CLASSIFIEDS donation letters are available for any GOWNS Yad Leah collects modest and fi nancial and/or item donations. Fairlawn Gown Gemach contemporary clothing, infant through Bicycle Gemach Gowns (wedding gowns, mother of the adult, to be sent to Israel. Donated HELP WANTED Rivky Klar at [email protected] bride, bridesmaids and fl ower girls) are clothes must be in either excellent or like- loaned free of charge. Please call for new condition. For more information AFTERNOON GENERAL STUDIES POSITIONS AVAILABLE PREEMIE CLOTHING appointments. The number is 201 797- regarding drop off locations contact Jessica Yeshiva in Northern NJ seeks the following afternoon general studies positions: Yad Yocheved – 201 836 2071 1770. For donations or any other inquiries Katz at 973-594-9118 or via email Jessica@ 3rd grade teacher, Maternity leave sub & Teacher assistant. Must have experience please contact [email protected]. yadleah.org teaching, B.A. preferred. Email cover letter, resume, certifi cations & references to: yeshivaconfi [email protected] Passaic Baby G’mach Appts are not made by email. The Fair Lawn Collects baby clothing in excellent condition Gemach is under the auspices of Anshei The Kallah Gemach collects donations for up to size 2T as well as other baby gear Lubavitch of Fair Lawn. Kallahs in need. They collect any unopened including high chairs, cribs, strollers, new items in their original boxes from PLOTS AVAILABLE carriages, changing tables, diapers and ADULT CLOTHING people who have received gifts that they formula. They pick up in NJ/NY area. Chabad of Maplewood NJ. Contact: do not want and off er them to those less TWO PLOTS IN ERETZ YISROEL For more information contact Siggy Lenny Levy, 201-836-7376 or fortunate. All the items go to Passaic where Two plots available in the cemetery of Eretz HaChaim in Beit Shemesh in the YU Berger at 201-486-1492 or via email siggy@ email [email protected] the girls can come and see what they section - front row. Ideal for Cohamin and anybody who’s interested in having the aishdas.org. 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By Larry Bernstein Remember those old Dunkin’ Donuts able throughout Bergen County and be- commercials. A tired looking man contin- yond. “We are all over North Jersey, parts Fair Lawn—It’s a family affair. “I grew ues to shlep out of his house despite the of Queens, Manhattan, and South Jersey up in bakeries. It’s what I know,” says Adam time of day or conditions all in the name of “says Adam. It’s not just us in the Northeast Steinberg. Adam is one of the four co-own- fresh donuts. Well, it’s pretty much like that who are enjoying Zadie’s Bakeshop’s deli- ers of Zadies Bake Shop along with his fa- at Zadie’s. In fact, the oven is always baking. cious cakes and breads. Adam notes that ther Larry, brother Josh, and cousin Eric. And it needs to stay that way if Zadie’s is go- the bakery delivers to some kosher outlets The Zadie in the title, by the way, refers to ing to continue to maintain its high quality. in Boca, Atlanta, Northern Ohio, and South- Adam’s Zadie. So saying Zadies is a family “We do everything out of Fair Lawn and by ern Michigan and has the ability to ship to affair is most accurate. hand.” Adam says they have no intention any state. Adam is a fourth generation Steinberg of changing the way they operate—they in- However, their heart is in Bergen Coun- in the bakery business. However, unlike his sist on the best. “Our mantra is that quality Josh, Adam, and Eric—co-owners of Zadies ty and in Fair Lawn in particular. “We have brother Josh, who attended culinary school and freshness count. We put the best ingre- Bake Shop so much love for Fair Lawn. The people are and showed an interest in the bakery busi- dients in and get the best out. We want to that there are a lot of people out there that so nice and loyal.” One way Zadie’s Bake ness from a young age, make our product the best.” are eating our food. When they come up to Shop reciprocates this loyalty is by donat- Adam had other plans. And maintaining that quality is de- me and tell me how good it is, it makes all ing leftover bread to a local soup kitchen After attending Ohio manding. Adam is at the bakery by 5 a.m. the long hours worthwhile.” and donating leftover cake on Fridays to lo- State University, Ad- and doesn’t leave till 6 p.m. His fi rst task of Despite its great success, Zadie’s Bake cal shuls.” Adam says donating is a way of am’s intention was to the day is to set up the store so that is ready Shop is not resting on its laurels. “We are al- showing thanks and acknowledging that be a World History for its 6 a.m. opening. Adam says of his ways trying to make new items,” says Adam. all of the success is from Hashem. teacher. However, as he work day, “Every day is really different. I set Some items that are relatively You might think that says, “Hashem had an- up the store—lay out all the breads, rolls, new include a fl ourless choco- Adam has grown bored with other plan.” This new cakes, straighten up—so that we’re ready to late cake topped with raspber- the delicious food that he’s plan has caused Adam zero regret. In fact, he open at 6 am. As the day progresses, I speak ry and covered in chocolate around all day. Well, you loves what he does and is happy that he “got to wholesale accounts, help in the store, ganache. A few years ago they would be wrong. He nib- the opportunity to join the family business.” and pack cake and bread for wholesalers.” came up with a cocktail pull- bles all day, whether it’s on a That opportunity came from his father While Adam has a role in the bakery, ulti- a-part challah. They make fi ve mini black and white or a hot Larry. “I learned from my father, wo is a 30- mately he does what needs to be done. This types now. One type has bab- cheese Danish in the morn- year veteran of the baking industry. Lar- is the operating philosophy of the bakery. ka crumbs on top and marshmallow fl uff ing. He says, “I’ve been eating this stuff ry, who has had bakeries in both Long Is- “One thing does not function without the inside each bun. A second type has choco- since I was a baby.” Don’t force him to pick land and out West, came to Fair Lawn nine next. We all contribute, Everything has its late chips on top and chocolate fudge inside his favorite dessert. “It’s like having 16 kids. years ago with the intention of opening schedule. I couldn’t do anything without each bun. A big change came three years ago I love them all.” up a business with his son Josh. The two the help of my family and my employees,” when Zadie’s made the decision to go nut That love is apparent in all of Zadie’s of them found a bake shop for sale in Fair says Adam. free. “It was an easy transition, and one we Bake Shop products. Thanks to Adam and Lawn and saw it as an area of great poten- Clearly, the bakery business is hard were glad to make,” says Adam. the rest of the family, the Marie Antoinette tial. Eventually Adam and Eric joined the work. However, Adam says it’s worth it to While Zadie’s Bake Shop is locat- quote—“Let ‘em eat cake”—never sounded business as well. make people happy. “It’s so nice to know ed in Fair Lawn, the products are avail- so good.

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By Tzvi Silver Danny Goffstein is one of those Givati talion, saving the lives of his brothers on stands out in its welcoming and unity. Tz- JLNJ Israel Correspondent dreamers who made it. He grew up as an the battlefront. abar’s success is characterized by its three American-Israeli in the western city of Raa- Suzy and Jeff Goffstein, Danny’s parents, ideals: family, readiness for war, and per- Raanana—Of the fi ve brigades that nana, which attracts many olim from dif- originally made aliyah from Teaneck in 1983, fection. Recruits train for war together, aim form the Israeli Defense Forces’ infantry ferent backgrounds, many of whom are An- and began to raise their family in Israel. Less for perfection together, and become a fam- corps, Givati is unique in its openness and glo. Nonetheless, he knew from a young than 10 years later, they moved back to Tean- ily together. Danny’s family, along with par- diversity. Soldiers from all different kinds age that he wanted to serve in the Israeli eck, where Jeff worked with his brother Ken ents of another Anglo soldier in his unit, Defense Forces, and, after graduating high at their mortgage company. Then the Goff- are looking for donors who would like to school a few months ago, he was drafted in stein clan decided to move back to Israel, help contribute to supplying those serving August. Danny decided to undergo the rig- and have lived in Raanana ever since. Even in Tazabar Battalion with its much-needed orous training to become a combat med- though their son Danny never lived in Tean- equipment. ic, a process that involved 12 hours of study eck, his family is still very connected to the For more information, and to make every day along with hands-on work and Jewish community in New Jersey. a donation, please visit http://www.fi rst- extensive exams. He now serves as a pla- Even within the popular Givati Brigade, giving.com/fundraiser/givati_tzabar/josh_ toon medic in Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Bat- the 432nd, Danny’s Tzabar (Cactus) Battalion, danny. Business & Professional Directory

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