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The roots of Israel’s wild boars You can blame the Philistines for Earlier pig bones, however, showed bring pigs to the Holy Land. the same DNA as in other Near East- That’s the finding of a study of ern boar populations. F.Y. I . genetic and archeological evidence “The major shift,” according to the tracing the origins of Israel’s wild report, “took place around 900 b.c.e.” boars published in the journal Sci- which corresponded to the local ar- Paddling to Israel ence Reports this week. rival of the “Sea People” — better ● Woot! I yelled out at the empty sea Bergen County. A team of archaeologists and known as the Philistines of the Bible. “ around me” — From Dov Neimand’s Mr. Neimand, who keeps kosher, had zoologists followed up on an earlier The Sea People originated in Greece, blog, describing his exuberance on de- to turn down many offers from people study, which found that the DNA of Turkey, or Cyprus — and according parting Naples, destination Haifa. he met along the way, rejecting offers Israel’s boars was closer to that of to the bones they left behind, they to share meals that often sounded as if European boars than those in Egypt raised and ate much more pork than No ordinary traveler, Mr. Neimand, who grew up in Teaneck and whose they would have been delicious. “I just or Syria. did the indigenous inhabitants of the tell them I am a vegetarian, and they This study replicated those find- Land of Israel. parents still live there, is kayaking his way to the Holy Land. understand that,” he said. ings in contemporary animals, and The article can be found at http:// Mr. Neimand has another rule: Pad- tested preserved boar bones to find bit.ly/js-boar This is Part 2 of his epic journey. The first part began and ended in dling only a half-day on Friday and not their DNA. LARRY YUDELSON 2010, when he set out from Barcelona, at all on Shabbat. As he did on the first Spain. That trip was beset by delays part of the trip, he will try to find syna- and problems, including, at one point, gogues along the way. Starbucks promises a kosher tea party the theft of all his gear. Mr. Neimand, Besides a good supply of lentils for 30, a certified kayak instructor, made it nourishment, Mr. Neimand manages as far as Naples, but then had to return to stuff apparel, a two-way radio, an ● Having conquered coffee, Starbucks to his graduate studies in mathematics emergency beacon, a camp stove, a is now moving into tea. The coffee gi- at Bar-Ilan University. sleeping bag, and a computer aboard ant’s newest venture, He expects the present 1,700-nau- his craft. Teavana, launched tical-mile route to take about six The trek has been an unconvention- with a tea bar on the months, but delays in getting his kayak al education for him. “When you go Upper East Side of delivered to him to Italy already have outside the walls, you learn the most Manhattan. set back his timetable. His travels will amazing stuff,” he said. Starbucks CEO take him along the coasts of Greece, “I’ve met some super friendly peo- Howard Schultz says he Turkey, and Cyprus, and thence to Is- ple, and some super mean people,” he doesn’t expect the new rael. He will go ashore each night and said in an interview before he left. Mr. venture to be as big as either camp or find friendly lodging. Neimand has a colorful flare for telling the coffeehouse chain. 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Local Exploring ‘The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem’ Former Teaneck resident Dr. Jeremy Dauber to speak in Englewood

LARRY YUDELSON

holem Aleichem would have been pleased by Professor Jeremy Dauber’s work. And that would have been true evenS before Dr. Dauber started work on his third book, “The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man Who Created Tevye,” which was published last month. As professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Columbia University, Dauber’s professional work involves taking Yiddish literature seriously. And that, as the early pages of Dr. Dauber’s smart, eminently readable biography makes clear, meant all the world to the man born as Sholem Aleichem Rabinovich. Professor Jeremy Dauber The question of which language to write in was remarkable life, a world that he not a simple one for presented and encompassed, Sholem Aleichem and and the story of a how a certain Maurice Schwartz played the title character in the 1939 Yiddish ﬁ lm “Tevye,” his contemporaries. kind of great Jewish literature which will be screened Saturday night in Englewood. Yiddish was looked worked, all in one package.” down upon as a “jar- “The Worlds of Sholem transition.” in Englewood. He will screen the 1939 Yid- gon,” inferior to re ined Aleichem” has the smooth Dr. Dauber said he enjoyed discovering dish ilm Tevye, adapting the same stories Hebrew. But for Sholem writing we have come to Sholem Aleichem’s “the human dimen- that became the basis for “Fiddler on the Aleichem, the masses of expect from the NextBook sions — both the positive — I love the way he Roof.” (Here’s a fun factoid from the biogra- Jews who spoke, under- Jewish Encounters book series, was absolutely devoted to his family — and phy: There actually was a Tevye, who was stood, and read Yid- but it is weightier than most in the negative — he was sometimes overbear- the milkman in the village where Sholem dish consecrated the heft and in scholarship. Dr. ing and patriarchal and would have mood Aleichem took his family to live every sum- language; why write if Dauber found, to his surprise, swings. mer; they’d rent a different unfurnished not to be read? As Dr. that he is the irst to chronicle “He was a human being.” house each time, and schlep their own fur- Dauber shows, Sholem Sholem Aleichem’s life. One of the things that surprised Dr. Dauber niture to ill it.) Aleichem was no less idealistic than his col- Dr. Dauber, 40, grew up in Teaneck; his was “how much of his writing had to do with Tevye has shaped the perception of leagues who wrote in Hebrew; he sought to parents now live in Englewood and he lives the ebbs and glows of capitalism. He’s a great Sholem Aleichem’s legacy. enlighten the Jewish world with literature in Manhattan, near Columbia. He graduated writer about the economy; about business.” “When he died, it’s probable that his that rose to the highest standards of truth and from the Frisch School in Paramus and went Looking toward his next project, Dr. reputation in the non-Jewish world would beauty, the equivalent of Chekhov and Gogol, to Harvard for his undergraduate degree. He Dauber is interested in whether there is “a have rested on his stories about children,” “able to do all the things a truly engaged and irst read Sholem Aleichem when he was a unique Jewish horror.” Dr. Dauber said. “That’s what was beginning high-flying modern literature can do. That summer intern at the National Yiddish Book He said that “a good number of Sholem to be the most popular side of him. Later, was a breakthrough.” Center; he read more once he was back in col- Aleichem’s stories have horri ic elements the combination of Fiddler the vicissitudes He even wrote a 50 page book condemn- lege, where he studied under Dr. Ruth Wisse, to them. They have the trappings of folk of 20th century Jewish history made Fiddler ing the most popular writer of Yiddish who had just begun teaching at Harvard. fantasy, a folktale that he gives a horri ic or such a strong representative of his work. books, Nokhem Mayer Shaykevitch, who Dr. Dauber said he has read most of Sholem nervous twist. In the story translated as ‘The “The themes of modernity and tradition, churned out dozens of potboiler romances Aleichem’s writings. “He was tremendously Enchanted Tailor,’ on the one hand it’s clear of generational change, were important to each year under the pen name “Shomer” — proli ic, both because he needed to make a that everything that happens in the story has Sholem Aleichem as well. It’s also the case books Sholem Aleichem indicted for failing to living, and also because he loved to write,” he a rational explanation. But the story itself has that because of the Holocaust, the world reflect Jewish life said. “His collected works runs to about 20 a haunted feeling to it, that grows and grows. understood that there was a world — of Yid- The plot of Sholem Aleichem’s own life volumes, and that doesn’t cover all the mate- “At the end, you’re not sure whether it’s dish speaking Jewry — that was no more. wouldn’t have measured up to his own stan- rial he wrote. It doesn’t include the myriads wholly grounded in this world at all. There’s “Fiddler was very much evoking that dards of literary realism: romantic young love of letters he wrote to friends and others. an atmosphere that floats over it. He’s good world. that overcomes obstacles, sudden wealth, “He took on a whole bunch of different at that effect.” “Sholem Aleichem understood that Tevye inancial ruin, literary fame, and one of New genres that were popular at the time. He was On Saturday night, Dr. Dauber will speak SEE SHOLEM ALEICHEM PAGE 33 York City’s largest funeral processions at his well-read in contemporary Russian and Euro- death in 1914, and his characters adapted into pean literature. He would play with these a musical performed around the world. genres, whether stories told from the per- A night at the movies Dr. Dauber discovered that Sholem spective of local travelers, literary sketches, What: Dr. Jeremy Dauber will talk, sign books, and present the 1939 Yiddish Aleichem Aleichem’s life was as interesting a poem in prose, an exchange of letters — he movie “Tevye” (with English subtitles) as his stories when he irst taught the writer’s would take all of these genres and make them When: Saturday night, November 9, 8 p.m. works at Columbia; writing the biography about his chosen theme, which was the Jew- Where: Congregation Ahavat Torah, 250 Broad St., Englewood was “a great way to tell both the story of a ish community he loved and which was in

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Local ADL hosts key Iran players at centennial meeting Bergen County’s Abe Foxman leads discussion on foreign policy, anti-Semitism

Josh Lipowsky risks,” he said. “The real strength of Amer- ica lies in the American people; it lies in NEO W Y RK — The United States is test- those men and women in uniform who ing Iran’s diplomatic intentions, but are willing to put their lives on the line in remains “clear-eyed” on Iran’s role as a order to protect us.” state-sponsor of terror and exporter of Ms. Power, speaking earlier in the day, extremism, U.S. Secretary of Defense praised the ADL’s mission, calling National Chuck Hagel said. Director Abe Foxman, who lives in Bergen “But foreign policy is not a zero-sum County, “a fearless advocate of fairness game,” he said. “If we can find ways to and an outspoken defender of truth — and resolve disputes peacefully, we are wise by outspoken, I mean breaking-the-sound- to explore them.” barrier outspoken. Secretary Hagel’s comments on Iranian “When most leaders speak, people lis- nuclear negotiations came last week at ten. When Abe Foxman speaks — what the Anti-Defamation League’s centennial other choice do we have?” meeting in Manhattan, which attracted Turning to the crisis in Syria, Ms. Power some 600 people. It also attracted Amer- said that the United ican policy heavyweights as speakers, States seeks an end to including Mr. Hagel, U.N. Ambassador the killings and a new Samantha Power, and former Defense Syria that is represen- Secretary Leon Panetta. Discussion cen- tative of all religions, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the ADL’s Abe Foxman, tered on Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian opinions, and political and former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta all spoke at the peace process. affiliations. ADL’s centennial. ADL/David Karp Mr. Hagel used the opportunity to She emphasized announce that the United States is pro- that President Obama in 1964, it found that 29 not believe Israel is above criticism, and viding Israel with six new V-22 Osprey air- is determined to pre- percent of Americans it should be treated like any other state, craft in an “historic agreement” that will vent Iran from acquir- held anti-Semitic views. Mr. Forman said. enhance the range of Israel’s military. ing a nuclear weapon. “It is heartening that “When that criticism goes to the three “The Israeli and American defense She credited the inter- attitudes toward Jews Ds: delegitimization, demonization or relationship is stronger than ever, and national support the have improved over double standards on Israel — that’s when it will continue to strengthen,” he said, president has garnered the last few years,” that criticism crosses the line from a U.S. noting that he ordered the shipment be for multilateral sanc- Samantha Power is the United Mr. Foxman said. “The government perspective,” he added. expedited. tions on Iran for pres- States’ ambassador to the poll shows that while The U.S. Jewish community has to Mr. Hagel went on to introduce his pre- suring Iran to change United Nations. ADL/David Karp we have made great mobilize against anti-Semitism as it did decessor, Mr. Panetta, who received the its tactics about nuclear progress in promoting for Soviet Jewry in the 1980s, Mr. Forman ADL’s William & Naomi Gorowitz Service negotiations. understanding in American society, the said, but this fight doesn’t have visible, Award. Mr. Panetta, also a former CIA The level of mistrust between America most enduring anti-Semitic canards con- concrete results, as that one did. director, called for negotiations to deter- and Iran is deep, she said, and she under- tinue to hold sway among some segments The U.S. government has to be involved mine Iran’s seriousness, while maintain- stands skepticism of diplomatic efforts. of the American public.” as well, he said; that is why the posi- ing “healthy skepticism.” The Iranians are America is not “engaging Iran for the sake Modern anti-Semitism has transformed tion he now holds was created in 2004. unlikely to give up on uranium enrich- of engaging Iran,” she said, and “no deal is from Nazis and Skinheads to the demoni- Finally, he urged the Jewish community ment so the United States must be ready better than a bad deal.” zation of Israel, said Ira Forman, the to be open to allies in the Christian and to use military force to ensure Iran does “By engaging, by probing, by negotiat- U.S. State Department’s special envoy Muslim communities. not develop nuclear weapons, he said. ing, we are striving to secure an unam- tasked with monitoring and combating “These voices are important allies we Mr. Panetta urged caution not only biguous and verifiable guarantee that anti-Semitism, during a session on global will need to mobilize if we’re going to fight toward Iran, but also toward such rising Iran’s nuclear program is a peaceful one anti-Semitism. The U.S. government does anti-Semitism,” Mr. Forman said. powers as China; he also warned about and that its government will not build or the possible re-emergence of Russia. He acquire a nuclear weapon,” Ms. Power also predicted that cyber warfare could said. “We must get this done and, if we Anti-Semitism: Behind the numbers be the “Pearl Harbor of the future.” do, the world will be safer and prospects The Anti-Defamation League survey of the American people found that 12 percent “This is a time when we must maintain for stability throughout the region will of Americans harbor deeply entrenched anti-Semitic attitudes. Specifically: our military strength and our role in the improve.” 14% — agreed with the statement “Jews have too much power in the U.S. today.” world as a world leader,” he said. “We The ADL released its latest poll on 15% — believe Jews are “more willing to use shady practices.” cannot retreat from the responsibilities anti-Semitic attitudes in America, which 17% — say Jews have too much control on Wall Street. the United States has in the world today.” showed that 12 percent of Americans har- 18% — say Jews have too much influence over American news media. Political gridlock in Washington, how- bor anti-Semitic feelings. That is down 3 19% — believe Jews have too much power in the business world. 24% — agreed the movie and television industries are run by Jews. ever, is the biggest threat to U.S. security percent from the 2011 poll. The poll mea- 26% — believe “Jews were responsible for the death of Christ.” today, Mr. Panetta added. Government sured Americans’ agreement with vari- 30% — continue to say American Jews are “more loyal to Israel” than to their shutdowns send messages of weakness ous statements of anti-Semitic rhetoric, own country. to the rest of the world, creating “self- from Jewish responsibility for the death Overall, the poll found a 3 percent decline in anti-Semitic attitudes since the ADL’s inflicted wounds” that can be avoided. of Jesus to how much control Jews have of last survey in 2011. Source: Anti-Defamation League “Our leaders have to be willing to take the media. When the ADL began its poll

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Recently she took the sixth graders to the home that week, the students responded to the Can a Jewish educational Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Rather questions. than culminating a unit of study — a tradi- She said online discussions get a different tional field trip model — “we did not learn response than classroom conversations. standby become anything about it before we went. The idea “When you have an introverted child who was that the experience would lead to discus- rarely raises her hand in class, that child is new and improved? sion and learning afterward,” she said. more likely to write something very thoughtful Afterward, she posted pictures she had in a computer community than in a face-to-face Larry yudeLson Over this year, SLI will work with seven taken online, along with a text about welcom- community,” she said. congregations to help them innovate with ing strangers, and wrote a list of questions. 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Dr. Stephen M. Berk addresses Gerrard Berman Day School parents, alumni, and supporters. Past, present, and beyond At Berman talk in Wyckoff, historian explains how our world got this way

Joanne Palmer world — with a special emphasis on history as it was under the communists. Israel continued to develop scientifi- likely to be relevant to Jews — to an audi- “With the destruction of the Soviet cally and economically, he continued. “It hat was that about the end ence of the school’s supporters, parents, Union, too, the threat of a nuclear confla- became Silicon Valley East. A country of of history? and alumni. He is the proud grandfather gration is no longer there. There are ten- no more than 8 million people, devoid Oh, right. of GBDS students, and Ms. Shafron is not sions, but they are not of the same magni- of natural resources, has so much brain- In 1992, political scien- only the school’s development director tude. Russia is much weaker now.” power. It has engineers, physicists, and tistW Francis Fukuyama opined that because but a parent there as well, so the themes Another change in the last 28 years has mathematicians, many from the former human culture had pretty much perfected of family and history were woven together, been “the emergence of a powerful China,” Soviet Union — although of course native itself, nothing much beyond tiny refine- to create a fabric of community. Dr. Berk continued. “It has come on very Israeli talent played an important part as ment was possible. Dr. Berk talked “about the demise of the strong economically. That’s the results of well. A lot has happened since then. Soviet Union, which no one had predicted Deng Xiaoping, who led systematic reform “Unfortunately, though, Israel is a good Dr. Stephen M. Berk, the Henry and but really was a consequence both of inter- at the end of the ‘70s. country in a bad neighborhood — and that Sally Schaffer Professor of Holocaust and nal problems and the spiritual bankruptcy “A third factor was the emergence of a neighborhood has gotten worse. Israel Jewish Studies at Union College in Sche- of Marxism/Leninism,” he reported. “The strong sense of Islamic extremism, which faces a number of threats, including the nectady, N.Y., is an effortless speaker who consequences of this for the Jewish peo- I attribute to the coming to power [in 1979] existential one from Iran. can draw on his wide knowledge of world ple was that the gates were now open, and of Ayatollah [Ruhollah] Khomeini, and to “Internally, Israel faces two very dra- history to tie together seemingly uncon- hundreds of thousands of people from the the success of the mujahideen in throw- matic problems. One is income inequality” nected events. former Soviet Union would come to Israel. ing the Red Army out of Afghanistan. That — many Israelis are not benefiting from the That is a storyteller’s art, and last week This would have a tremendously invigorat- emboldened extremists who thought they booming high-tech economy. “The other it was on display at Amy Silna Shafron’s ing effect on the Israeli economy, particu- could fight the United States and over- is the continuing struggle between more house in Wyckoff in tribute to the first 28 larly in science and technology.” throw Israel. secular and more religious elements about years of the Gerrard Berman Day School Another fallout was that “millions of “There also were positive develop- what kind of country Israel is going to be.” in Oakland, a Solomon Schechter-affiliated people who had been enslaved by comments,” Dr. Berk said. “In 1990, Nel- Then Dr. Berk shifted gears, returning Conservative institution that draws chil- munism would now really be free, so we son Mandela was released from prison, to this country. “The most positive devel- dren from Bergen, Passaic, Rockland, and would have democratic countries all over and soon he became the democratically opment since 1985 was the extension of Orange counties. eastern and central Europe. And even elected president of South Africa. Apart- toleration on the part of large numbers of To celebrate that history, Dr. Berk talked though [President Vladimir] Putin rules heid was thrown into the garbage can of Americans toward gays and lesbians, and about some of what had happened in the Russia with an iron hand, it’s not the same history.” minorities in general,” he said. “No matter

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what you think of Barack Obama, it was a great thing to elect an African-American president. “The negative aspect, though, is the stagnation of FREE! Open to the public! the American middle class. Real income for the middle class has not increased in a very long time. It’s a consequence of globalization, the decline of the manu- facturing sector, and our country’s failure to provide meaningful education in science and technology, which would allow the middle class to grow, and people to enter it.” He criticized President Obama “not as much in Hanukkah Concert terms of domestic policy, but foreign policy. Israelis, Saudis, Iranians, Turks, Syrians, Egyptians — they just don’t take him seriously any more,” he said. “He made with the a mistake in not intervening in Syria early on, in 2011, when the rebels were more secular. But to draw red lines and not to follow up on them, to turn the issue over to Congress — it makes him look very weak, and in the Middle East weakness doesn’t go over very well. Funkey Monkeys! “Governments there don’t take an Obama threat seriously any more, and that can have dangerous consequences.” Sunday, November 17 @ 10 am He is worried about Europe, Dr. Berk said. “If this were 1945, and I were to say that Jews wearing kip- Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County pot would be attacked in the street, Jewish schools 275 McKinley Avenue, New Milford, NJ 07646 The negative aspect, though, is Ideal for young the stagnation of children ages 2-7 the American middle class. Real income for the middle class has not increased in a very long time. Dr. Stephen M. Berk would be attacked, Jewish boys and girls weren’t safe, people would say, ‘Oh those Poles! Those Ukrai- nians!’ But the fact is that these things are happen- ing in Paris, Brussels, Marseilles, even in London. Anti-Semitism has become mainstream in some of these countries, and now they are taking off the RSVP: www.ssdsbergen.org/schechter-rocks mask of anti-Zionism,” behind which true anti-Sem- itism lurked. “Anti-Semitism is coming back out of Meet our administrators in your the woodwork.” neighborhood on the following dates: Dr. Berk returned to the GBDS anniversary. “A 28-year slice of history is just a blink of an eye for a his- Tuesday, November 12, 7-9 pm: Teaneck torian,” he said. “I am not a navi — I am not a prophet Parlor Thursday, November 21, 7-9 pm: Englewood — but I will say that the next 28 years are sure to bring Tuesday, December 10, 7-9 pm: Fort Lee very interesting developments. exact address will be provided upon rsvP “And I hope that this very fine school to which my Meetings rsvP: www.ssdsbergen.org/schechter-rocks grandchildren go will continue to provide interesting for ProsPective Parents and inspiring education, so the Jewish community can Find Out About Our... continue to be invigorated.” Cardiologist Dr. Ed Julie’s children graduated from w World-class Science, Technology, Engineering GBDS long ago — his wife, Beth Julie, was one of its & Mathematics (STEM Program) w first presidents — but he still sits on the board. He was accredited by Inquiry-based Approach enthusiastic both about the school and about Dr. Berk. w Middot/Character Education Program “The conclusion of his lecture had to do with the w Hebrew language and Israel studies program importance of Jewish education in maintaining our w Warm, Inclusive Community legacy,” Dr. Julie said. “He underscored the impor- w “Busy 3s” through Grade 8 tance of developing future community leaders who will have an impact on Jewish events, and on the relationships between different communities.”

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Abigail Klein Leichman tragedy that I started visiting a couple of times a week when they moved her to Beit Levenstein,” ast March in Israel, 3-year-old Adelle Ms. Agus said, speaking with the Jewish Standard Biton was critically injured in a car acci- by phone as she drove over to the rehab hospital dent caused by Arab teenagers as they with the lunch she’d just prepared. threw large rocks onto a roadway near Others in Ra’anana also went into action. Mem- theL city of Ariel. bers of the national religious Zionist youth move- Adelle was hospitalized for four months, and she ment Bnei Akiva sit at Adelle’s bedside on Friday remains at Beit Levenstein Rehabilitation Center in nights, freeing Adva and Rafi to have Shabbat din- Ra’anana with severe brain injuries. ner at home. Another local resident comes to the The story may have faded from the headlines, hospital to give Adva manicures. OneFamily pro- but dozens of volunteers in Ra’anana — including vides the family with such services as psychologi- Teaneck natives Estie Feldman Agus and Shoshana cal counseling and art therapy. Twersky Baker — make the Biton family part of When Ms. Agus was heading to New Jersey for their daily lives through the local OneFamily Fund the summer, she asked her friend Shoshana Baker terror victims support center. to fill in for her. “Our goal is to get them to accept a little help “She introduced me to Adva, and from the first so they can have some semblance of a nor- time we met there was an inexplicable chemistry,” mal life,” said Ms. Agus, who moved to Israel said Ms. Baker, who is 42 years old, the daughter from Tenafly with her husband and children of Nahum and Sivie Twersky of Teaneck, and the in 2004. Her mother, Rella Feldman, still lives mother of four children, who range in age from in Teaneck, where OneFamily’s U.S. office is 8 to 14. “Adva is an amazing, personable, lovely headquartered. woman. I realized the food was secondary to the Last spring, Ms. Agus accompanied a volunteer idea of somebody letting her know she wasn’t to Schneider Children’s Medical Center, where alone, and that it gave her the strength to face Adva Biton — a college lecturer in statistics, chem- every day.” istry, and math — spends all day with Adelle after Ms. Baker worked with OneFamily and local taking her three other young daughters to school. synagogues to put together a rotation of 40 Her husband, Rafi, takes over the bedside vigil women willing to bring meals to Adva at Beit Shoshana Baker, standing with Adva Biton, shows off every night. Levenstein, and she continues to visit once or her Amsterdam marathon shirt. “I was so taken with Adva and the story of the twice a week. She arranged for the municipality

Veterans Day marks family’s deliverance day

Jonathan Lazarus reflection of her family’s priorities. Ms. Maclin’s brother, who died in 1985, eterans Day holds special signifi- served in the Army during World War II. She cance for Edith Samuel Maclin, met her husband, Ernest, when both were 82, of Paramus. engineering students at City College. He took That’s been true of every Veter- leave while he was stationed in the Air Force ansV Day since 1938. in Japan to come home and propose to her. On November 11 that year, Maclin, her par- She followed him back. ents and siblings entered New York Harbor Ernest Maclin died in 2006, just after aboard the SS Washington. They had fled the couple celebrated their 50th anniver- Germany just before the chilling events of sary. “He was the love of my life and the Kristallnacht. loss of my life,” Edith Maclin said. The family — mother, father, four sisters The Maclins had three children, Alan and a brother — found them themselves in Maclin, 55, of Chicago, a lawyer and consul- a modest apartment in Washington Heights, tant who divides his time between the United embarking on a challenging life in a new States and Israel where his wife, Lisa, lives; country they soon learned to love. Today, Deborah Maclin, 52, of Massachusetts; and much of that original family is gone, but Ms. Julie Nuciforo, 49, who lives in Park Ridge Maclin now has three children, 10 grandchil- with her husband, James, and their children. dren — eight of whom live in Israel — and two Ms. Maclin’s father died in 1962, always great-grandchildren. expressing gratitude to his adopted coun- Although she was 7 in 1938 and Veterans Edith Samuel Maclin looks at the article she wrote for the Jewish Standard in try, even though his years here were dif- Day was called Armistice Day, the importance 1988. ficult as he worked as a dishwasher at a of the moment was not lost on her, either Manhattan restaurant. Her mother, Gabri- then or now. Ms. Maclin used to mount the Stars and storm door. To her, overt patriotic expres- ele, who cleaned homes to supplement the “It is always very much on my mind and Stripes in a special display. But now she must sions are relevant and meaningful. family income, died in 1995, and a sister very meaningful for me,” she said. “I’m a content herself with two modest flags, one “We got our citizenship as soon as pos- died in 2001. staunch American.” embedded in a plant and the other in the sible,” she said, indicating that was a direct Two sisters remain from the family whose

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to provide full summer camp scholarships to the somebody has to be supervising it. shoulder during the race to run with me and to say that other Biton daughters. “The communal support “We need to reach deep into our pockets to help them I’d given them the strength to keep going. They wanted to has been phenomenal,” she said. do this.” know more about Adelle, so we talked as we ran.” On October 20, Ms. Baker ran for Team OneFamily At the marathon, Baker wore a shirt whose front was When she returned to Israel, she gave the shirt to Adva. at the 38th Amsterdam TCS Marathon, raising funds emblazoned with Adelle’s photograph and the OneFam- “She also enjoys running, and I told her we’re going to run and awareness for the Bitons. She had participated ily logo. On the back, it included an Israeli flag and the together someday.” in the New York Marathon two years ago to help the words “Am Yisrael Chai” — “The nation of Israel lives.” To contribute, go to www.onefamilytogether.org and EyeCan Childhood Eye Cancer Foundation in Israel “The race was amazing, but the physical success was click first on the “Donate Now” tab and then on the appro- buy early-detection equipment for Hadassah Medi- secondary to the emotional empowerment I received from priate country flag. Note that the donation is for the ben- cal Center. it,” she said. “At least 10 Israeli runners tapped me on the efit of Adelle Biton. “Sporting events have become a springboard for raising money,” Ms. Baker said. “The emotional component of running for a greater cause is very meaningful.” Team OneFamily was formed in response to that trend. This multi-sports training and fundraising platform facilitates participation in endurance events to benefit the organization’s programs for Israeli terror victims. Ms. Baker had not yet met the Bitons when her OPEN HOUSE husband, Mark, surprised her with a ticket to Amster- FOR MEN dam. As soon as she became aware of the situation, November 17, 2013 she decided to use the event to aid the family. “The Bitons’ lives have been turned upside down,” she said. “They get financial support from the government, but so many things need to be done. “For instance, their house must be remodeled Jordan YC ’14 | Software Engineering Intern, Google so that when Adelle comes home for Shabbat — and, please God, permanently — she can manage in a wheelchair. Private funding would take that to another level.” Ms. Baker also wants to be able to hire a private- duty nurse to take some of the pressure off Adva and At Yeshiva University, a remarkable career Rafi Biton. “She and her husband have never left Adelle’s begins with a remarkable education. side since March,” she said. “The only way they may hand over the mantle is if they could have a paid private nurse, because Adelle needs 24-hour care and

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What made this past Sunday’s Jewish Fed- decorated flower pots and planted seedlings eration of Northern New Jersey Mitzvah for residents of the Jewish Home at Day special was the way in which volun- Rockleigh. The Gerrard Berman Day School teers reached into every part of the com- choir performed for residents of Federation munity, from the Great Falls in Paterson to apartments, and dozens of Bonim builders the Hoboken Emergency Food Pantry, and put a fresh coat of paint on the walls at 42 other sites in between. at Family Promise of Bergen County in Volunteers removed trash from Van Saun Ridgewood. This is just a sampling of what Mill Brook. Community Blood Services went on at the many different sites. More set up in four locations and donors gave than 1,200 volunteers, in total, took part. 134 units of blood. The littlest volunteers Photos courtesy JFNNJ

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n a moonless night in the Negev desert town of Mitz- peh Ramon, Ira “Star Man” Machefsky drives visitors to aO desolate plateau where he has set up a telescope and chairs. Ira Machefsky at his telescope. Good pairs of binoculars rest on the COURTESY IRA MACHEFSKY chairs. A cooler holds hot-water bottles to take the chill out of the two-hour Greek mytholoy by way of the Romans, nighttime stargazing tour. handed down through the Arabs and Until he moved to Israel during Chanu- then back to the Roman West during the kah 2009, this lifelong amateur astron- Renaissance. omer had been living a very different “That’s why we see mostly Greek life. In 1998, Mr. Machefsky, his wife, mythological igures with Latin names, and their daughter had moved to Engle- such as Cygnus the swan,” Mr. Machef- wood from Palo Alto, Calif., so he could sky said. “Then the Arabs renamed most join a venture capital irm in Manhattan. of the stars,” he added, pointing out He had been raised in Memphis, Tenn., Deneb, the Arabic word for tail (“zanav” The call for nominations from around the world is open and graduated from the University of in Hebrew). Renaissance astronomers Chicago. named stars using the Greek alphabet November 1, 2013 to January 15, 2014. “We kids would go out and play and and the genitive case of the Latin name, spend time in the evening looking at the yielding stars such as Alpha Cygni. sky,” said Mr. Machefsky, who is now A close-up look through the telescope The Charles Bronfman Prize celebrates the vision and 66 years old. “One night I saw a shoot- provides a spectacular shot of Jupiter ing star crossing the sky, very bright and and its four moons. Mr. Machefsky calls endeavor of an individual or team under fifty years of age yellow. It was like seeing a woman and the view from this plateau “nature’s own whose humanitarian work, combined with their Jewish values, falling in love at irst sight. I was totally planetarium.” has significantly improved the world. Its goal is to recognize obsessed.” Ira and Pamela Machefsky probably While he was in high school, he built would not have claimed this piece of dynamic humanitarians whose innovation, leadership, and his own telescope. “These days, it’s heaven if not for their only child, Chavie, impact provide inspiration for the next generations. easier to buy one than to build one,” he now 28. Chavie Machefsky Fuchs gradu- said, although the telescope he uses for ated from Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School An internationally recognized panel of judges selects the Prize his sky tours was imported into Israel for Girls in Teaneck, came to Israel for recipient(s) and bestows an award of $100,000. For information with no small amount of bureaucratic her gap year, and stayed. She married hassle and expense. Donny Fuchs and moved to Mitzpeh about the nomination process, including guidelines and forms, “Welcome to tonight’s Dark Skies of Ramon, which would be like any other please visit www.TheCharlesBronfmanPrize.com Mitzpeh Ramon,” Mr. Machefsky begins, dusty Negev locale if not for its geologi- shooting a green laser light into the cal jewel: the world’s largest natural horizon. crater. Because of the Machtesh Ramon It’s the same Milky Way, whether you crater and the wildlife that inhabit it, a observe it from Englewood or from booming tourism industry flourishes in CELEBRATING A DECADE OF JEWISH VALUES MAKING A GLOBAL IMPACT Israel. But the lack of light or air pollu- Mitzpeh Ramon, an hour’s drive south tion, plus the nearly 3,000-foot altitude, of Beersheva. make for a crystal-clear view of the ion- “Chavie and Donny are here for ideo- ized hydrogen and interstellar dust that logical reasons, to populate the desert make up our home galaxy, its billions of in the tradition of Ben-Gurion, and they stars formed from the fusion of hydro- love the severe beauty of the landscape Like us on Facebook. gen into helium. and the wildlife,” Mr. Machefsky said. “That’s a thermonuclear reaction; He and Pamela decided to retire to that’s what makes hydrogen bombs go Mitzpeh Ramon, population 5,000, off,” Mr. Machefsky said. “So stars are where they can watch their three grand- basically huge thermonuclear weap- children feeding wild ibex in the yard. ons that God put in the sky, going off Few American immigrants choose to set- continuously.” tle in the Negev, but he seems to thrive Mr. Machefsky explained that the on the Israeli frontier. facebook.com/jewishstandard names of the constellations come from SEE STARS PAGE 33

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JFSNJ Rabbi Sacks appointed to posts community at Yeshiva, New York University program focuses Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks of the United Kingdom has been appointed to a dual professorship at New York University on Asperger’s and Yeshiva University. A world-renowned scholar, philoso- Jewish Family Service of North Jer- pher, religious leader, author, and moral voice, Rabbi Sacks sey presents a discussion with ther- was chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the apist Steven Paglierani, who treats Commonwealth from September 1991 until September 2013. children and adults with Asperger’s He was the sixth person to hold the position since it was for- Syndrome. Paglierani himself has malized in 1845. During his tenure, Anglo-Jewry was reinvigo- Asperger’s. rated through a series of communal projects in the fields of The parenting program will be on education, cultural creativity, and leadership development, Tuesday, November 19, at 7 p.m., at together with a call for a renewed commitment to the ethical the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congre- dimension of Judaism. UK’s Rabbi Lord gation B’nai Israel. There also will be Rabbi Sacks will be the Kressel and Efrat Family University Jonathan Sacks a question and answer session. For Professor of Jewish Thought at YU. Courtesy YU information, call (973) 595-0111 or go Lenny and Estelle Glass to www.jfsnorthjersey.org Courtesy Emunah

Aliyah seminar Letter Emunah benefit for medical writing dinner on professionals for Torah November 16 Estelle and Lenny Glass of Teaneck and students project will receive the Maurice Oelbaum On Sunday, November 17, Memorial Tribute at Emunah’s Circle Nefesh B’Nefesh holds an aliyah sem- members of Temple Eman- of Life benefit dinner on Saturday inar for medical professionals and uel of the Pascack Valley evening, November 16. The couple students in the Convene Conference will have another opportu- will be honored for their devotion Center, 730 Third Ave., between 45th nity to write a letter in the to Emunah’s children in Israel. Dr. and 46th streets, on Sunday, Novem- new Torah. Letter writing is Shimmy and Lani Tennenbaum of ber 17, at 12:30 p.m. The seminar is by appointment only from Teaneck are the campaign chairs. for doctors, dentists, nurses, psychol- noon to 5 p.m. The Torah is The dinner, at the Sheraton New ogists, occupational, physical and Last spring, Cantor Mark and Bette Biddelman of scheduled for completion in York Times Square Hotel, also will speech therapists, dental hygienists, Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley had the privi- June, and it will be marked celebrate Emunah’s accomplish- and dietitians. The head of the licens- lege of writing the first letter in a new Torah with the with a Siyum HaTorah (con- ments in Israel, where it is a leader ing department of Israel’s Ministry help of scribe Rabbi Gedaliah Druin. gregational celebration). Call in providing social welfare and edu- of Health will be on hand to discuss Courtesy TEPV (201) 391-0801. cational, cultural, and humanitarian licensing and certification. efforts. Call (866) 4-ALIYAH or go to www. Rabbi Sharon Shalom, one of the nbn.org.il/mdseminar. first Ethiopians to be ordained by the chief rabbi of Israel, who is a gradu- YU offers Jewish ate of an Emunah residential home, is the guest speaker. YJCC Pacesetter philanthropy certificate Other honorees include Elaine As Jewish causes face more fundraising Frankel, Aishet Chayil awardee; dinner next week challenges than ever before — including Batsheva and Shaul Katz, Keter Shem The Bergen County YJCC in Wash- increased competition both from within Tov awardees, and Rebecca Kirschen- ington Township will hold its annual the Jewish world and from other nonprofits baum, Young Leadership awardee. Pacesetter Dinner at the YJCC on and donors hit hard by the economic reces- Memorial tributes will be given Thursday, November 14, at 6:30 p.m. sion — Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler to Emunah supporters Maurice Oel- The YJCC’s 2014 honorees will be School of Social Work has launched a new baum, father of Ronnie Oelbaum of introduced at the event. They will certificate program in Jewish philanthropy Teaneck and husband of Melanie Oel- be honored at the YJCC’s annual ad to provide talented Jewish communal pro- baum of Fort Lee, and Jack Singer, journal gala in the spring. Debbie fessionals with the tools they need to suc- who died this year. and Ron Eisenberg will be the Couple ceed in the modern philanthropic arena. Students in YU’s Certificate of Jewish Dinner proceeds will help maintain of the Year; Jayne and David Petak, The program kicked off this semester Philanthropy program. Courtesy YU Emunah’s vast social service and edu- the Community Builders; and Jenni- with 20 participants from a wide range cational network throughout Israel. fer and Jason Auerbach, the Young of Jewish organizations and professional For reservations, journal ads and Leaders. backgrounds, including the UJA Federa- Messinger, president of the American Jew- information, call (212) 564-9045, ext. The Pacesetter Dinner begins the tion of New York, the Joint Distribution ish World Service, and Yossi Prager, execu- 303, or go to www.emunah.org/dinner. YJCC’s annual operating campaign that Committee, the American Jewish World tive director for North America at the Avi funds scholarships and programs and Service, Yachad, and American Friends Chai Foundation. services for children and young adults of Shalva. Classes meet twice a week and The program also features a 56-hour with special needs and senior adults. are offered in the “Art and Science of Fund internship with top-level professional Pacesetters are those who contrib- Raising” and the “Jewish Philanthropic mentoring in a Jewish development office, ute a minimum of $1,800 to the YJCC. Tradition.” Both are frequently guest- either within the institutions where fellows www.jstandard.com The dinner is an additional $100 per taught by leaders in the field, including Jef- now work or as an independent project. person. Call Bonnie Singer at (201) frey Solomon, president of the Andrea and For information, email Dr. Saul Andron 666-6610, ext. 5830, [email protected]. Charles Bronfman Philanthropies; Ruth at [email protected].

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Editorial

keeping the faith When push comes to shove Defining the ardly had we written the about the fallout from such Israeli pre- — and soon — about creating a national words of last week’s edito- varication and provocation. In recent unity government dedicated to serious ‘greatest task’ rial regarding the release months, Israel has benefited from the negotiations, however, not only will of 21 convicted Palestin- appearance of pursuing peace. The murderers have been freed for no rea- n the early fourth century, the talmudic master Hian murderers and would-be murder- prisoner releases have helped. Even son, but Amidror’s analysis will prove Rabbi Elazar ben Pedat said: “The Holy One, ers when some of our worst fears were the boycott-Israel movement has been on the money. That is not good news blessed be He, exiled Israel among the nations realized. somewhat slowed because of it. The for anyone. only in order that converts might join them.” The worst fear, of course, is that one announced housing plans, however, Also not good news — not for Israel I(See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Pesachim 87b.) or more of these 21 and those from the send a different message that can work and not for American supporters of Sixteen hundred years earlier, the alien curser- first group released in August would only to Israel’s detriment. Israel — is the Netanyahu penchant for for-hire, Bilam, said that Israel was “a people that resume their killing. That is a high As Netanyahu’s retiring national embarrassing high-level United States dwells apart, not counted among the nations.” (See enough price to pay for the possibility security adviser, Ya’akov Amidror, one officials publicly and pointedly on the Numbers 23:9.) of a peace agreement with the Palestin- of the prime minister’s closest and eve of their visits. Sooner or later, there Which are we — a people exiled among the nations ian Authority. It is too high a price to most trusted advisers, reportedly told must be a price to pay for using the visit in order to spread God’s word by example, or a peo- pay if Israel actually has no intention of the cabinet on Sunday, things will go of a vice president or a secretary of ple who are supposed to reaching such an agreement. downhill internationally very quickly if state as an opportunity to announce an live apart from the nations, Its actions last week and this sug- the peace talks fail and Israel is seen as action that both undermines the pur- untouched by their morals, gest that even if Prime Minister Bin- being at fault. pose of the visit and defies a 46-year- mores, ethics, and beliefs? yamin Netanyahu is eager to achieve The moment of truth is now fast old U.S. policy. Netanyahu could have In Judaism, the answer is that goal, he is unwilling to stand up approaching. The United States is about waited until after Kerry left the region almost always somewhere to those within his governing coalition to abandon its role as facilitator. By the to make the announcement; the Jerusa- in the middle. In this case, who do not want an agreement under beginning of 2014, according to news lem municipality certainly could have we are supposed to live any conditions. reports, it will present both sides with done so, especially since no one seri- among the peoples of the Thus, as Secretary of State John Kerry its own proposal for a peace agreement. ously believes it will tear down the east world, so that they can see prepared to visit Jerusalem, Israel It intends the proposal to be a frame- Jerusalem apartment buildings. Several Shammai how beautiful life can be if announced new construction in the work for an agreement and expects years ago, Netanyahu could have waited Engelmayer everyone followed God’s west bank. That was followed by an both sides to discuss the plan seriously. until Vice President Joe Biden came and ways. But we also are sup- announcement from the Jerusalem As with every United States-proposed went. Instead, such announcements are posed to maintain a sepa- municipality that it will destroy a num- plan since November 1967, this one made in advance; in Biden’s case, he ration between “us” and “them” — not because we ber of Arab apartment buildings in Arab reportedly will include a return to the was already in the air, flying to Israel. want to stand aloof, but because the beautiful life sections of east Jerusalem. June 1967 borders, modified to take into Netanyahu did something similar that Judaism is meant to promote can be nurtured Israel is a sovereign state and gets account Israel’s security concerns, with during a visit to Washington some years only when our uniqueness is reinforced by those to make its own decisions. We are land swaps added to take into account ago, when, while he was in his car en around us, rather than our standing out like a sore not commenting on that. We are con- so-called “facts on the ground,” a route to the White House, the Housing thumb in the broader world in which we live. cerned, however, about the prisoner euphemism for several well-established Ministry in Jerusalem announced new That is why I contend that building community release, which puts terrorists back on west bank settlements. Both Israel and west bank construction. is more important than fostering observance as we the streets for no apparent good reason, the Palestinians will be able to call Jeru- It is hard to remain friends with seek to reverse the downward spiral American Juda- as we wrote last week. salem their capital city. someone who constantly embarrasses ism has been in for the last several decades. If you Beyond that, we also are concerned Unless Netanyahu does something you in public. build community, observance will come. There is little about us that is different from “the other,” truth be told. Christians and Muslims subscribe to virtually the same moral and ethical code to WoW what a day! which we subscribe. That this code is not optional for Jews, but mandatory, is what distinguishes us from On Monday, as Jews around the demonstrators at around 500; the attempts to drown out the women with “them,” as does the fact that we also are obligated to world ushered in the month of Kislev, group itself claims 1,000 participants. loudspeakers, but there were no chairs observe certain rituals and practices that are specifi- Women of the Wall marked its 25th While there was some harassment thrown, no fistfights, no attempts to cally designed to keep us focused on our sacred task. anniversary in a remarkably unre- and some name-calling, there was no harm the women in any way. markable way: Its supporters prayed violence. There were far fewer cha- It is a welcome change that took a Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel at the Western Wall without much redi yeshivah girls present to taunt the great deal of behind-the-scenes work to Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael incident. In fact, this may have been more liberal-minded women, and an accomplish. Now that we know it can be in Cliffside Park. Although he is the executive editor the largest Rosh Chodesh gathering expected contingent of young religious done, however, we hope such peaceful of the Jewish Standard, the views expressed in his for the group in many years. Police Zionist women failed to materialize. On prayer services will continue until a per- columns do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this estimates put the size of the WoW the men’s side, there were the usual manent solution is in place. newspaper.

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Living “in community” means not having to feel out of place in the broader world; not having to Iran’s nuclear program — make difficult choices that inevitably water down keeping the faith our Judaism. Last week, as October came to an end, We have only ourselves to blame at least one New Jersey synagogue’s after-school Defining the program was canceled when only two students ne of the most irritating president, Hasan Rouhani, cannot the world’s most monstrous regimes. showed up for class; the rest opted for trick-or- aspects of the interna- camouflage some very basic facts. For Yet it’s unrealistic to expect the ‘greatest task’ treating. (The school is not in our area.) Parents tional efforts to deal with example, if Rouhani really does want Americans or the Europeans to raise often feel they must choose sending their child to a Iran’s nuclear program to reach a deal, how come he won’t any of these objections. After all, they n the early fourth century, the talmudic master school or little league ballgame on a Shabbat morn- liesO in the unrealistic expectations explain why Iran’s nuclear program shamefully folded over the use of Rabbi Elazar ben Pedat said: “The Holy One, ing, rather than to junior congregation. Inviting that negotiations create, even among was a clandestine enterprise from chemical weapons in Syria, so why blessed be He, exiled Israel among the nations non-Jewish neighbors to our homes for dinner is those—like the American Jewish advo- the beginning? The answer is simple: should Iran be any different? only in order that converts might join them.” awkward when it is not possible for us to have din- cacy groups who met with the White He is faithfully parroting the mullahs’ Moreover, even if they agree on a I(See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Pesachim 87b.) ner at their homes. House on October 29 to discuss the line that Iran’s intentions were always vague declaration of principles with Sixteen hundred years earlier, the alien curser- Community, however, as used here, means much nuclear issue — who have every rea- peaceful, that the regime never the Iranians, these will collapse under for-hire, Bilam, said that Israel was “a people that more than not feeling different. son to be cynical. intended to build nuclear weapons, the weight of details like the kind of dwells apart, not counted among the nations.” (See There are three Hebrew words for community, From November 7 to 8, members and that anyone who thinks other- monitoring regime to be put in place. Numbers 23:9.) each with a critically nuanced difference. of the so-called P5+1, which is made wise has fallen victim to an Israeli plot For you can rest assured that what- Which are we — a people exiled among the nations In some ways (perhaps too many), we are a tzibbur, up of the five members of the U.N. that seeks, in Rouhani’s own words, ever is acceptable to the Iranians will in order to spread God’s word by example, or a peo- a “mass,” a word derived from a root meaning pile. Security Council along with Ger- “to divert international attention not likely be unacceptable to the Israelis, ple who are supposed to We are a pile of people under a single umbrella, but many, were scheduled only from its own clan- the Saudis, and the Bahrainis, among live apart from the nations, with no unified notion of who and what we are, or to meet with repre- destine and dangerous others. And in any case, according to untouched by their morals, why we are, with “every man [doing] that which he sentatives of the Ira- nuclear weapons pro- Olli Heinonen, a former International mores, ethics, and beliefs? deems proper.” (See Deuteronomy 12:8.) nian regime in Geneva. gram, but also from its Atomic Energy Agency inspector, the In Judaism, the answer is At times, we are a kehillah. It is as disparate a These talks follow from destabilizing and inhu- Iranians have very little more to do on almost always somewhere grouping as tzibbur is, but in this case separate indi- preliminary discussions man policies and prac- the uranium enrichment front before in the middle. In this case, viduals congregate for a common purpose — such whose content has not tices in Palestine and reaching weaponization capacity. we are supposed to live as for prayer, which is why we refer to a synagogue been revealed, yet we the Middle East.” What’s needed now is a bold domes- among the peoples of the as a “kehillah kedoshah,” a sacred gathering, or are assured that they Thirdly, we’ve tic voice to challenge the Obama world, so that they can see assemblage. were “very intensive already had the oppor- administration’s newfound confidence how beautiful life can be if Finally, and most important, we are an edah, a wit- and very important” Ben tunity to test Iran’s in Iran’s rulers. everyone followed God’s nessing community. (Catherine Ashton, EU Cohen peaceful intentions out- But if you’re looking to Jewish ways. But we also are sup- “Edah comes from the word ed, meaning ‘wit- foreign policy chief ), side the scope of the establishment organizations to play posed to maintain a sepa- ness...,’” wrote former British Chief Rabbi Lord and that the Iranians nuclear negotiations, that role, forget it. Given that they’ve ration between “us” and “them” — not because we Jonathan Sacks several years ago. “The people who brought with them a proposal “with and the result is an unmistakable “F.” already been persuaded by Obama to want to stand aloof, but because the beautiful life constitute an edah have a strong sense of collective a level of seriousness and substance A recent BBC report included foot- drop support for further sanctions for that Judaism is meant to promote can be nurtured identity. They have witnessed the same things. They that we had not seen before” ( Jay age of Iranian Revolutionary Guards now, it’s unlikely that they will push only when our uniqueness is reinforced by those are bent on the same purpose.... The word empha- Carney, White House spokesman). fighting with the Assad regime in for the stronger measures that will be around us, rather than our standing out like a sore sizes strong identity.” Hence, the sense we are getting is Syria, under the watchful eye of necessary down the line. thumb in the broader world in which we live. Living “in community” as an edah, we witness to that one of the most intractable prob- a commander named Ismail Hey- Remember that line about the all- That is why I contend that building community each other all that is good about Jewish life, even as lems facing the Middle East is on the dari, who described Assad’s bloody powerful “Israel lobby?” If only it were is more important than fostering observance as we we bear witness to the outside world the beauty and cusp of being resolved. onslaught against his own people as a true. seek to reverse the downward spiral American Juda- the benefit of creating a just and equitable society That’s why I’m going to break ranks war “of Islam against the infidels.” So If only. JNS.org ism has been in for the last several decades. If you built around the Torah’s moral and ethical code. And by issuing a spoiler alert. rather than praising the Iranians over build community, observance will come. because we feel comfortable in our own milieu, we These talks aren’t going to lead to their willingness to talk about talking Ben Cohen, JNS.org’s Shillman analyst, There is little about us that is different from “the enable each other to assimilate into the broader cul- a deal. Instead, they will function (about talking about talking...) about writes on Jewish affairs and Middle other,” truth be told. Christians and Muslims sub- ture and take from it all that is good, without com- as they have always done. They will their nuclear program, we should Eastern politics. His work has been scribe to virtually the same moral and ethical code to promising our unique Jewish identity. allow the Iranians to buy time, safe in be hauling them before the Security published in Commentary, the New which we subscribe. That this code is not optional for Jews have always “assimilated,” in this adaptive the knowledge that the other options Council to demand answers over York Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, Jews, but mandatory, is what distinguishes us from sense. “Jewish culture” is richer for the poetry of we are told are always on the table Tehran’s decision to cross an interna- and many other publications. “them,” as does the fact that we also are obligated to medieval Muslim poets. “Jewish music” has many — from tighter sanctions to pre-emp- tional border in order to defend one of observe certain rituals and practices that are specifi- flavors — from Middle Eastern, to eastern European tive military action — are on the back cally designed to keep us focused on our sacred task. folk tunes, to North African chants, to Spanish love burner for now. songs, to contemporary American ballads. There are three main reasons We even have benefited from the philosophies behind my assertion. Firstly, the P5+1 of the other. Centuries before Hillel taught “what cannot for a moment pretend to rep- is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor; that resent an international consensus. is the sum of the Torah,” a sacred Hindu text, the On the inside, you have the Russians Mahabharata, declared: “This is the sum of duty: Do and the Chinese, who have backed nothing to others that, if done to you, would cause Iran consistently during the nuclear you pain.” dispute of the last decade. And on We could take from the other because we had a the outside, you have Israel and the strong sense of who we are. We need to regain that conservative Arab states, whose trust sense. To do so means joining together all three in the Obama administration when it words for community. As Lord Sacks wrote, we comes to Iran is close to evaporating, need to “preserve the diversity of a tzibbur with the and who thus may well reject any unity of purpose of an edah — that is the challenge of agreement framework. kehillah-formation, community-building....” Secondly, all the attention paid to He called that “the greatest task.” If Judaism in the apparently constructive atmo- America is to have a future, that is the task that is sphere at the preliminary discus- before us now. sions, along with the public relations offensive unleashed by Iran’s new “The delicacy of diplomacy” by Nathan Moskowitz JNS.org

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Op-Ed Space for critiques of Israel opens essential two-way street “I would rather stand up on the bimah on we expect other American Jews to do so? inspiring experience of American Judaism If we silence American Jews’ legitimate Yom Kippur, eat a bacon sandwich, and In my recently published book, “Loving as an open, pluralist way of life, which can concerns about Israel’s failings, it’s likely declare that I do not believe in God, than the Real Israel: An Educational Agenda for speak to different people in different ways; that in the long run they will cease to care criticize Israel from the pulpit.” Thus con- Liberal Zionism,” I set out what it would to the vibrancy of the diversity of Ameri- about Israel qua Israel. Asking American fided a rabbi to me in a recent conversa- mean to develop an educational discourse can Jewish experiences of personal spiri- Jews to develop passionate, angry, car- tion that mirrored the results that would not only allow but tual meaning; and to a religious commu- ing critique about Israel is an educational of the survey just released by encourage the kind of com- nity that has succeeded in having Jewish mode that is likely to increase connection. the Jewish Council for Public mitted-but-critical approach messages inspire and infuse hundreds of As the authors of the Jewish Council Affairs. that these rabbis are seeking. thousands of non-Jews. Israeli Judaism is for Public Affairs report write, “A stifled It’s deeply disturbing that One of my central arguments the poorer for the lack of such exposure. debate means a less healthy discourse and one third of American rab- is that we must stop seeing “‘Influence and be influenced’ must be missed educational opportunities.” This bis share this fear of publicly Israel education as an enter- the new catchphrase of dialogical liberal is true, but it’s only one step toward the criticizing Israel. Rabbis are prise that is intended solely Zionist Israel engagement.” answer. We need to do some serious edu- meant to be our communal to affect American Jews’ Once you develop a conceptual under- cational thinking about what this new dis- leaders, those who model identities, and instead see it standing of Israel engagement as a dialogi- course on Israel might look like, and how for us, their congregants, the Dr. Alex as a two-way, dialogical, rela- cal, two-way street, then criticism of Israel we educate both young people and adults Jewish dispositions, patterns Sinclair tional enterprise in which becomes not just tolerable, but in fact a toward it. Instead of treading on eggshells of behavior, and cultural American Jews should seek marker of a robust, dynamic, vibrant rela- when we speak about our disagreements norms that they would wish both to be influenced and to tionship with Israel. Critique becomes an with Israel, we need instead to see debate us to value. Being able to freely express influence. As I write in my book: educational goal in and of itself. about it as machloket l’shem shamayim — criticism of Israel is not just about freedom “American Jews need to be exposed This approach to Israel education and an argument for the sake of heaven. We of speech; it’s about giving voice to rela- to the remarkable, inspiring experience engagement can be liberating to rabbis, know how to apply that phrase to many tionships with Israel that are complex and of Israeli Jewish life as public, lived, sov- Jewish educators, and indeed all Ameri- aspects of our Jewish lives and identities: nuanced, which doesn’t mean less legiti- ereign space; to the vibrancy of Israeli can Jews who want to express their com- it’s time we applied it to Israel education mate or less connected to Israel. It’s also ethnic-religious-cultural creativity; and to mitment to Israel but don’t feel comfort- too. about understanding that critical thinking a society whose foundational civic narra- able remaining silent about Israel’s faults. is a mark of an educated person. The rab- tives are rooted in Jewish texts and lan- These faults might include its attitude in Dr. Alex Sinclair is director of programs in bis in this survey are deeply committed to guage. American Judaism is the poorer for peace talks with the Palestinians (from Israel education for the Jewish Theological Israel, and want to be allowed to criticize the lack of such exposure. either side of the political spectrum), its Seminary. His book, “Loving the Real Israel without that basic core commitment “But Israeli Jews also have much to policy toward African refugees, its posi- Israel: An Educational Agenda for Liberal being called into question. If they don’t learn from American Jews. Israeli Jews tion on non-Orthodox conversions and Zionism,” was published recently by Ben feel comfortable doing that, then how can need to be exposed to the remarkable, marriages, or any number of other issues. Yehuda Press. Hanging me out to dry … and liking it

Growing up in America, I always associ- outside even during the winter. (Indeed, between the price of the clothespins and sometimes refuses to fall off the clothes. ated clothes-hanging with somehow being there are middle-class Israelis who do not their sturdiness, and so I usually succumb You would think that my children would lower class. own a dryer.) to the tantalizing sales at the shuk. understand that they have perfectly clean Not only did I never live in a household Of course it has happened that the I figure: how bad can they be? The clothes, and if there is a little lint all they that hung clothes, but I never lived in a weather guys have been wrong and my answer: very bad. have to do is brush it off. neighborhood in which I saw clothes were soaked by a The right way to hang clothes is to Nothing doing. clothes hanging on a line. sudden rainfall, but I try not stretch the garment out and put pins at The shrieks of agony that come from my When we moved to Israel, we to think about those times. its edges. In an effort to protest against children when they see some lint on their moved into a house that had There are different kinds forced labor, my children sometimes clothes could tear your heart out. Sarah is a clothesline, all of our neigh- of clotheslines. We own lines will just cram their clothes onto the line called upon to do emergency lint-removal, bors hung their clothes out that are affixed to stationery all bunched up. Yet during the long sum- all the while muttering under her breath: to dry, and so I figured that brackets in our yard. My mer months even this sloppy way works, “This is it. Next time it’s the dryer.” In fact, clothes-hanging was part of neighbor uses a pulley sys- because the sun essentially bakes the I will often grant heavily linted items a few my patriotic duty. tem from the second floor of clothes dry within an hour or two. precious minutes of dryer time before Israeli culture encourages her home. Portable plastic Recently, perhaps because of the dismal hanging them up. clothes-hanging. Clothespins Teddy clothes racks are popular for clothespin situation, I made a startling dis- See, I can be reasonable. are sold in every grocery Weinberger people who rent, and have covery: For most clothing, I do not need The truth of the matter is that I actually store throughout the year. no permanent lines. With pins. Unless the day is particularly windy, like to hang clothes. I enjoy the fresh air, I When we first made aliyah, I the portable racks you can all I need to do is drape the item over the get to accomplish a household chore, and thought that if we own a dryer, it doesn’t easily follow the sun, and if rain suddenly line and that’s it: I’ve saved both on pin- I feel like I’ve done my small part for the make sense to hang up clothes during the threatens, you just move the whole thing ning (and unpinning) time as well as on environment. In keeping with my incli- rainy season. When I saw someone buying indoors. my expenditures for those seductive but nation toward full disclosure, however, I clothespins during the winter, therefore, I The lifespan of a clothespin is alarmingly minimal-use clothespins. should add what my children tell me about was surprised. But then I realized that if short. Good, old-fashioned, long-lasting Okay, I’ll admit it: There is the sticky this subject: “Face it Dad, you’re cheap.” you listen to the weather reports and get wooden pins are hard to come by. Colorful problem of lint. When you use a clothes those clothes out there early and then cheap plastic ones are pleasing to the eye, dryer, the lint magically flies off the clothes Teddy Weinberger is an Israeli-American keep transferring them to run after the sun but they must be replaced frequently. I into the lint holder. When you dry your writer who made aliyah with his family you can (go crazy and) dry your clothes always forget that there is a strict corollary clothes on the line, the gosh-darned lint in 1997.

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Celebrating Our One-Year Anniversary!

Letters Celebrating Our One-Year Anniversary! Exam, Heartworm & Fecal Ova, Parasite & Giardia Test Only Where is God More on Pollard on Mitzvah Day? I wish to commend you for your Novem- $ Exp. How sad that after all these years, Mitz- ber 1 editorial on the hypocrisy of keep- 35 11/30/13 vah Day in Bergen County, sponsored ing Jonathan Pollard in jail for 28 years by the Federation of Northern New Jer- for spying for a friendly nation, when Your Other Family Doctors OPENSYoEVENur DAYS OtherAW FamilyEEK Doctors sey, joined by dozens of synagogues and we have treated spies convicted of aid- OPENSEVEN DAYS AWEEK Jewish schools, continues to be a day of ing our enemies with lighter prison sen- social action only (“Be part of Mitzvah tences. Our country is constantly spying Day,” November 1). The word mitzvah against our enemies, as well as our allies, means any commandment from God, just as these nations are spying against whether ethical or ritual. Why define it, us. It is clear to me and should be clear then, as simply meaning good deeds? to the entire Jewish community that the At a time of massive assimilation and only reason that Pollard is being treated intermarriage, it behooves all of our Jew- this way is because of anti-Semitism. MG NJ MG NJ ish organizations to have both kinds of Seymour Berkowitz1© 1© mitzvos available to the thousands of Jew- Dumont54-0 16 54-0 ish adults, teens, and children involved. 16

This means we should be encouraging Remember Kristallnacht 000348 000348 the purchase of mezuzahs at discount, I read the Jewish Standard every week to Dr.Jennifer Suss Dr.Amy Pellicano the giving of inexpensive Shabbat cande- find out about all the events taking place. www.bergenDrve.Jt.comenn•1ifer680 TeSussaneckRd., TeanecDrk .Amy Pellicano labras with candles, the donning of t’fillin Therefore, I am very disappointed and 201.837.3470www.bergenvet.com •1680 TeaneckRd., Teaneck and perhaps discount coupons to kosher upset that so few synagogues in Bergen Anniversary! Celebrating Our One-Year 201.837.3470 supermarkets in an attempt to increase County have a commemorative service kashrut observance. for Kristallnacht. I was born in Berlin and Celebrating Our One-Year Anniversary! If Judaism continues to be a concentra- remember November 9, 1938, very vividly. tion on only ethical moral values, to the I will never forget it. majority of Jews then we will continue to I am a former member of Beth Tikvah/ lose to assimilatory forces. New Milford Jewish Center; we had a com- Martin polack memorative service every year. Teaneck Are we already forgetting what happened in our lifetime? Freedom for Pollard ellen gerber I applaud your November 1 editorial River Edge about Jonathan Pollard (“Hypocrisy comes in from the cold”). Unfortunately, Ugly reactions I suspect that the editorial will do noth- I am greatly disturbed by some of the ing to secure his freedom, just as the let- comments in NJ.com that followed the ters that I and many others have com- announcement of Valley Chabad’s plans posed have had no effect. to develop the Galaxy Gardens in Wood- What we need is for Jewish organi- cliff Lake. They clearly indicate the pres- zations to come together to organize ence of xenophobia. mass demonstrations in Washington, 1) “You have to keep both eyes open week after week. It is a disgrace that we, when dealing with these people. They members of the Jewish community, who pulled a similar scheme off in Randolph believe that “If you save one person you — with one of their “BS” chabads. They save the world,” apparently do not ascribe have probably already “convinced” ($$$) to that idea when it comes to Mr. Pollard. the local planning board of the benefits of Perhaps people should think how they their plan. The property should be imme- Avoid the ups and downs of other investments with would feel about the reaction of the Jew- diately fenced off and posted “no trespass- our safe, secure, solid CD. Earn a competitive return ish community if they or a loved one were ing” as they will come in and just do what with the safety that only an FDIC insured bank can deliver. in Mr. Pollard’s shoes. they want to--.” Furthermore, the juxtaposition of 2) “This will be a crowd exceeding more 54 Month 54 Month your comments about Mr. Pollard with than a few thousand, I will bet this group your “Setting murderers free, part two” tends to produce very large families.” StarBanking Plus CD CD (November 1) is very telling. It is obvious 3) “Careful, all of the taxes (that) they that we cannot rely on Israel to fight on saved in Lakewood will be used to buy Mr. Pollard’s behalf. 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Cover Story Portraits of veterans Shot down over Belgium Local man remembers the uncle he never knew

Larry Yudelson ended his sports career. Sidelined, he lost his college scholarship. So he joined f it weren’t for the war, Bernard Reserve Officers Training Corps. Nayovitz would have been a vet. And when graduation day came, he He had the degree, from Texas was commissioned as a first lieutenant A&M University. Veterinary immediately. medicineI was not a profession commonly In another century, the Army might have chosen by Jewish children born on needed a freshly graduated veterinarian. the Lower East side to Yiddish- and Not in World War II. He chose the air force. Hungarian-speaking immigrant parents His brother remembers building and in the final months of the Great War, flying model airplanes made from balsa and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn. wood. “He was interested in them — but But it made sense at Texas A&M, which not more than most kids.” had recruited him after seeing him play After a six month pilots training course, football for Tilden High. he was assigned to fly a B-17. Bernie was big. In his bar mitzvah The all-American Jewish flyer gave his pictures, he already stands shoulder to plane a name that looked homeward back shoulder with his parents. to Brownsville: “Dear Mom.” His brother Joseph, three years younger, • today a resident of Teaneck, remembers Joseph remembers the last time he saw his trying to chase after him in the park. He older brother. He had come back for a sup- could never catch up, of course. per visit before flying back overseas. He Joseph Nayowitz and his son Reuven pose with a portrait of their brother and Bernie was named All American couldn’t say where he was going or how uncle Bernie, who was shot down over Belgium in 1943. Fullback — until a dislocated shoulder he was leaving: There was a war going on

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and loose lips could sink ships, whether in amazing. the sea or in the air. There are photos of the crew. There is “Look out the window,” Bernie said, the sheet where Bernie signed out their knowingly. emergency kits on August 10. That day’s And sure enough, after he said his flight was canceled; a week later, they took goodbyes and left, they heard the sound their kits with them. of a low flying plane which tipped its wings And there are the reports written by as it flew by. the two soldiers who parachuted safely “Time flies by so quickly,” Joseph from the falling plane, and, aided by the recalled this week. “It almost seems like Belgian resistance, made their way to something I studied in school instead of North Africa. something I lived.” At the beginning of the report are • repeated warnings that all tales of escape It was August 1943 when the knock on the are secret. Any clue as to how it was done door came. Joseph had a premonition. He might aid the enemy. Now, those wartime answered the door, and when he saw the secrets are long since declassified. uniformed officer, the designated bearer “I saw tracers hitting the front part of of bad news, he went out and closed our ship,” recounted Sergeant Beverly the door behind him, to spare his parents, if only for a minute. “Dear Mom” had been shot down Huertgen Forest, November 1944; the battle there was both devastating and somewhere over Europe and Bernie inconclusive. bundesarchiV, biLd 183-J28303 / cc-by-sa was dead, as were five others of the 10-man crew. Two soldiers had been taken captive; two more escaped. Just a boy For 20 years, their mother tried not to believe the news. Portraits After the war, with secrecy lifted, the from Bayonne family learned that Bernie was buried near where his plane had crashed in Belgium. Army service and a landmine The army offered to relocate his remains; he is buried now in Tel Aviv. changed everything for Fort Lee man • There was a third brother, Abra- Joanne paLmer he had completed it. Three months of veterans ham, who also was a pilot. He too later, training done, he was assigned to wanted to fly combat missions; the t’s easy to say that what doesn’t kill the 75th Army division, which was on air force wouldn’t allow it. Instead, you makes you stronger. maneuvers in Louisiana. he flew transports, carrying troops Sometimes it might even be Basic training was the first time he and equipment, and staying far away true. had ever lived away from home; the from enemy fire. In the end, he logged IMartin Weinberger, who now lives only times he’d slept out of his house far more flight hours than his older in Fort Lee, was born in Bayonne on was when he’d visited his grandparents. brother. November 28, 1923; he turns 90 at the He had lived at home throughout college • First Lieutenant Bernard Nayovitz end of this month. Although his father — it was a major trek to go between Reuven Nayowitz (only Bernie spelled came from New York, his mother, too, Bayonne and NYU’s uptown campus, in the family name with a V), owner of Juda- Geyer in his formal debriefing. “It must was born into the once-vibrant Hudson the Bronx, but he could sleep in his own ica House in Teaneck, had heard the sto- have hit our controls, for the plane fell County Jewish community. bed every night. ries of the uncle he never met, who died over on one wing. We were heavily hit in In 1939, the 16-year-old Martin entered And then there was the strange three years before he was born. He had the oil tanks. Oil and pieces of wing came NYU. He was in the Reserve Officers authority of his position. seen the old pictures from the bar mitz- flying by me. The navigator called and Training Corps for his first two years — “You have to understand that I was a vah, the picture of Bernie as a pilot to wanted to know what was popping. The an NYU requirement for male students second lieutenant at 20 years of age,” Mr. which a light touch of color had been pilot ordered us to bail out.” in the immediate prewar era — and then Weinberger said. “Everybody was much added. • he chose to continue in ROTC through older than I was. I had people who were But all this abstract family memory And there are the details of the mission. graduation. 30 years old, and older, coming to me was pushed aside by the sharp details of The B-17 that Bernie flew was known as “I majored in liberal arts, but as the with their troubles. historical research in September. That’s “The Flying Fortress.” The Air Force had time grew closer to senior year, all that “I didn’t even know those troubles when he heard from an informal group of hoped that its defenses — including many any of us ever thought about was going existed, much less how to deal with amateur historians, most in Belgium, who machine guns — and its high altitude would into service,” Mr. Weinberger recalled. them,” he added ruefully. were dedicated to documenting the crew let it fly safely through Nazi airspace. The “We didn’t pay much attention to our Instead of staying with the 75th of “Dear Mom.” reality was less kind to the pilots. studies. Some of us were premed or division, Mr. Weinberger was sent to The effort started decades ago, back On August 17, 1943, “Dear Mom” was prelaw, and they did, but not the rest of England as a replacement to fill an when the response to typed letters among 376 B-17s that took off from several us. opening in the 8th Infantry Division. The mailed to Washington were typed replies, bases in England in a daring daytime “This was a just war — later it turned invasion of Omaha Beach was on June 6; divulging what was known about the mission aimed at two industrial targets: out to be the last just war,” he continued. three weeks later, the 8th went in. plane’s crew. Now the group gathers on The Messerschmitt fighter plane plant in “Everyone was gung-ho about going to “There was a lull between the time we Facebook and used the internet to bring Regensburg, and the ball-bearing factories war.” landed and the middle of July, and then together far-flung researchers to piece of Schweinfurt. Normally, four-year ROTC students a big push started,” he said. “On the first together the story of “Dear Mom” and its “Dear Mom” was headed to Regensberg. would graduate college as second day of that push, I was shot by a German doomed last mission. It was still 400 miles shy of its target lieutenants, but by 1943 that had soldier who I thought was surrendering. And what they have found — between when it was shot down. changed, and Mr. Weinberger found “He was a lone soldier in the middle government records, and memorabilia It was the first of 15 planes that didn’t himself at Fort Benning, Ga., in basic of the field, walking toward us, holding held by the crewmembers’ families — is see NAYoVITZ page 24 training; he was not commissioned until see WEINBErgEr page 24

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Nayovitz Weinberg Battle of the Bulge was shortly after it, but be fighting in the forest. We should have from page 23 from page 23 it was terrible. There was terrible loss of bypassed it, and let the Air Force bomb make it over the target; another 45 planes a rifle over his head. life; incredible loss of life. The division it — but that’s not how it works. were downed before reaching their “I assumed he was surrendering.” we replaced was decimated — no, it was “A day or two after Thanksgiving, destination bases. This was the crew’s 14th Weinberger was wrong. more than decimated. And we took a we were ordered to advance, and my mission. (A sense of the tension of life in “I turned to my radio operator, and terrible beating as well.” forward squad called back, saying they those bomber crews was captured in the said, ‘When he comes in, take his rifle The battle, in fact, was the longest had reached barbed wire,” he continued. 1949 Gregory Peck film “Twelve O’Clock and bring him back to headquarters.’ fought on German soil during World War “I said, ‘Let me come up.’ High.”) “The next thing I knew, he shot me.” II. It was also the longest single battle that “And as I walked up, I said, ‘Be careful. • The wound, to his buttocks, normally the U.S. Army has ever fought. Reports There might be mines.’ August 17, 2013. Seventy years to the would have been painful, but not say that 33,000 Americans and 28,000 “And as I said that, I stepped on one.” day, and a ceremony is held in Lummen, dangerous, but because the bullet first Germans were killed or wounded. It Martin Weinberger’s leg was mangled unveiling a monument to Nayovitz and hit and then ricocheted off a dirty shovel is not clear who won; the fact that the beyond repair. his comrades. An American honor guard Mr. Weinberger had been carrying before fight was inconclusive and the death toll “I had to be brought down to the road of young soldiers holds the American flag. it penetrated him, doctors were worried astronomic has led to the conclusion that — we were on top of the hill. It had been In the audience: the amateur historians about infection. He was sent to England the Allies lost. raining, and it was cold. who had prodded the town to create the — there were no closer surgical facilities. That soon became academic for Mr. “My medic was two steps behind me, monument, and some family members of He later rejoined his unit in Luxembourg. Weinberger. and he gave me a shot of morphine the crew. The Nayowitzes are not among And the German who shot him? “He “Right after Thanksgiving we were immediately. Still, it was a terrible trip, them. Contact had not yet been made. didn’t last for more than a few seconds,” ordered to advance,” he said. “We had just getting down to the aid station. For Reuven Nayowitz, one of the most Mr. Weinberger said. “Everybody opened been ordered to advance three or four “And that,” he concluded, “is the story amazing things about this newly opened fire. My whole platoon was lined up along times, and each time we met very heavy of my life.” chapter of family history is how young the hedgerow, and as soon as he shot fire. This time, it was incredibly bad. It is He was taken to a hospital in Verviers, his uncle was. True, Bernie was old for they fired.” hard — it is impossible — to describe the Belgium, where his leg was amputated. an enlistee — 25. But to Reuven, 70 years A few months after he returned to constant bombardment. And this is in “That was on November 27,” he said. “On later, that seems terribly young to be flying active duty, his division replaced the 29th heavy forest. the 28th, I became 21 years of age. That a plane into combat. division in Huertgen Forest in Germany. “We took terrible casualties. was not a great birthday.” “I have a son almost that age. He’s “It was one of the worse campaigns of “My company was down 50 percent by When he was strong enough to be sent finishing up college,” Reuven says. the war,” Mr. Weinberger said. “There the second week. The whole operation home, the Army sent Mr. Weinberger to is very little mention of it, because the was ill-conceived. There was no reason to Lawson General Hospital in Atlanta for

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recuperation. “I was to have the Army record for the longest-staying single amputee, because I turned out to be a very slow healer,” he said. “I finally got to go in June of 1946. I was in the hospital longer than some of my doctors had been doctors. “I was very anxious to get out. I really had had enough of military service, and of the hospital. I wanted to get back and start my life.” He did. He earned an MBA at NYU, got married, and worked in an advertising agency, Riedel and Freed; among other accounts, As Army jeep stands outside the Hürtgen Hotel. the Clifton-based firm worked on www.freerepubLic.com Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential campaigns in New Jersey. He and his wife moved “My company commander and my battalion to Teaneck; about eight years ago he moved to commander were very anti-Semitic, and made no Fort Lee. bones about it, but I gave as well as I got.” There was nothing particularly Jewish that There is no question that the army changed his characterized his Army career, Mr. Weinberger life. Certainly it changed his body. Much of it was said. He was used to a certain background level terrible, but some of it was not. “I really had been of anti-Semitism. “When I lived in Bayonne, on a weakling. I lived at home. And then I really grew many Mondays I got beaten up because in the up, very rapidly. Sunday sermon the kids had been told that the “I learned a lot. It prepared me for life,” Mr. A 1st Infantry Division half-track plows its way through a muddy Jews killed Christ. And I was a 90-pound weakling Weinberger said. road in the Huertgen Forest. edward norbuth as a youngster.

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in yiddishkeit,” and they formed the core of his community, Dr. Gross said; there were enough for a minyan, so they could pray together, and he would hold shiurim, study sessions, for them. There also was a small ex-pat Jewish community in Manila. He celebrated the holidays on the base. Before Sukkot, “I was sitting in my office, and I look up, and there’s a Filipino coming into my office with a machete. “I look at him, and he looks at me, and I look at the machete on his hip, and he says, ‘I’m ready.’ I think, ‘Oh my God.” And then he says, ‘What’s wrong, sir? I’m ready.’” Ready, that was, to put up the sukkah. And even in those pre-Chabad-menorah years, the base erected a large chanukiah to mark Festival of Lights. “You could see In another posed picture, Rabbi Gross, center, explains a seder. it a mile away,” Dr. Gross said. While he was at Clark, Dr. Gross earned in uniform — you just show them your Sephardic minhag,” he said. The minyan a master’s degree at the University of the orders, saying that you’re on vacation, and went by the customs of the Sephardic A chaplain’s calling Phillipines; his thesis was about the State then you go wherever you want.” community, which dictated that if a rabbi of Israel. He remembers going to a minyan during were honored with an aliyah, he would be During his time in the Philippines, Dr. a Shabbat in Hong Kong. expected to read. Pastoral work in the USAF Gross, whose travel before he joined the He was given an aliyah. Normally, Whoops. Air Force was limited by whether his that would mean that he would recite As it happened, Dr. Gross has been led rabbi into life as a counselor chosen destination had a subway stop, the blessing before and after the Torah trained more thoroughly in Torah reading was able to roam freely throughout the reading, and then stand by as someone — leyning — than most young men in his Forces, chaplains minister to their Far East. “I would just hop on a plane,” he else — someone who had advance position were, because his father had co-religionists, but they also act as said. “India, Bangkok, the ancient palace warning and had practiced — would chant believed such training to be necessary. But The chanukiah on the base could be advisors and counselors to everyone, at Ankor Watt, Japan. I always traveled from the vowel-less scroll. “But this was See gross page 29 seen a mile away. of any faith. It could be a complicated setup, but neither chaplains nor their charges seem to find it problematic. “I was a first lieutenant,” Dr. Gross said. “If someone has a problem, he would go to his captain, and on up the For Prospective Preschool Children and Their Parents chain of command. As a chaplain, I had access to the general. “It was a powerful position. Everyone was very friendly to me, and I was 24 years old,” he said. “I was a child.” After a few months, Dr. Gross received COME and PLAY with the MOROT of RYNJ another letter. He was being reassigned to Clark Air Force Base in Luzon. This Brooklyn boy was going to the other side of the world. How do you get there? Well, “you’re in the Air Force,” Dr. Gross said. “It’s like taking a bus in Manhattan. You go there” — in this case, “there” was San Francisco — “and ask when is the next plane going to the Philippines.” He had bought a car in Texas, so he drove north and west across the country Preschool Preview — “I stopped at the Grand Canyon,” he said — and flew to Hawaii and then on to Tokyo, where he spent a few (as it turned out, unauthorized) days sightseeing on his own, before reporting for duty at Clark. Sunday, November 17, 2013 pre-register at rynj.org There was a handful of other chaplains at Clark, Dr. Gross reported; some Catholic, others Protestant. There were only about 30 or so Jews on base; 9:30 am - 11:00 am nonetheless, he was welcomed with a big story in the base newspaper, which also announced the time for Friday night services. There were about 10 to 15 young men on the base “who were really immersed

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will, to urge the people to repent, gross and where, to Jonah’s dismay, the frOM page 27 people actually did so. there were some problems. 2nd Lt. Glasgall’s experience First, on a technical level, Sephardic and Ashkenazic was not nearly as conflict-free calligraphy are not the same; some words are spelled as Jonah’s. “This was part of the differently, and the scroll itself, housed in a metal case, is surge in Iraq. I was never engaged held up, not laid down on a desk. in direct combat, but I was ahead And it’s hard to do well when you’re in a strange place, of or behind a couple of those reading from a strange scroll, with not only your honor roadside bombs — IEDs. That was but your country’s at stake. the high point of al Qaida in Iraq. As he walked up to the bimah, a lamb to the slaughter, There were anywhere from 30 to Dr. Gross considered his options. 50 sig acts — short for significant “If I say to the baal koreh” — the reader — “‘You leyn,’ activities — a day; sig acts could be Ben Glasgall with his twins, Alexandra and Abigail, and his wife, Kristi. then he’ll do it, but everyone will say, ‘Those American anything from an IED going off to rabbis. They can’t even leyn.’” But, of course, were he to a unit on patrol being shot at. “The Army is a microcosm of America,” he said. try and fail, the judgment would be at least as harsh. “As the deployment wore down we got things under “Diversity is a big thing — even though the officer corps by “Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea,” he control, and that number decreased — but yeah… and large is white males. said. “During the first part of the deployment, I was “Where I grew up, joining the military isn’t really a “I’m 25 years old, and it is the yichus of the American running our operations center, so I was responsible thing that people do,” he continued. “In my high school rabbinate that I am holding in the palm of my hand.” for a bunch of people who were working for me. We graduating class, out of 300, about five of us elected to join When he got to the bimah, “I looked at it, and I said would track the movement of the units throughout the military in some way or another. You’re talking about to myself, ‘I know this parashah,’” he said. He read it the city, and if they needed support I would call over an incredibly small percentage. effortlessly, he recalled, and the national honor was saved. to the aviators, who had the attack helicopters and “But I think that a lot of it has to do with a misperception. Dr. Gross spent a year and a half in the Philippines; as gunships, and they would call over to bring the air I identify myself as a left-of-center Democrat; pretty his time there ended so did his enlistment in the Air Force. support to kill the enemy. centrist on some things, but very liberal on social issues. After he came back to New York, he realized that pastoral “There is really no other way to say it. We would kill There is a misperception on the part of a lot of people on work was the part of his work as a rabbi that appealed the enemy. the left that people in the military are stupid, or that they most to him. “One of the things about the army is that we’re have nothing else to do, or that they’re just bloodthirsty, His interests exposed him to much of the most exciting here to defend freedom and democracy. And the so they join the Army so that they can shoot a gun. trends in psychotherapy, which was at its cultural truth is that war is an ugly and violent business. The “That’s absolutely not been my experience. There are a height then, in the 1960s. Influenced strongly by Dr. army’s mission is to win the wars and kill the enemy. million different reasons why someone joins the military, Norman Vincent Peale’s power of positive thinking, Whatever it takes.” but those are misconceptions. he found himself drawn to the intersection of pastoral Despite his overwhelming desire to be in the Army, “I think its interesting that a lot of the kids I went to and psychological counseling; eventually he decided it was not always easy for him to adjust to what he high school with are still living within a 25-mile radius to practice psychotherapy. He earned a doctorate in saw, Capt. Glasgall added. “I kept a journal during my of the high school,” he concluded. “That might be a psychology and now specializes in marriage counseling. first deployment,” he said. “I would send it to a bunch generalization, but they haven’t gone very far from home.” By that time, he had grown into the authority that once of people, family and friends. During the end of the He has gone very far, and learned and grown much on came with his uniform — and vanished when he took it off. deployment, I was tired, angry, bitter — all that stuff. his travels. Now it was effortlessly his. And it kind of reflected in my writing. “I got married on February 15, 2011, in the middle of my second deployment, and my wife read the journals and she said, ‘Yeah, if I had met you back then, I don’t know if I would have married you.’” JS 6.5x5 ad Over time, though, he changed. Part of it was the way a deployment usually goes, he said. “You’re just THE ORTHODOX UNION, IN COLLABORATION WITH STAJE AND CONGREGATION BNAI YESHURUN tired. You want to go home. 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Wounds late father-in-law for serving in the Army. frOM page 31 I’ll thank my son-in-law, the IDF artillery have served in a “just” war such as WWI soldier, and my second cousin, home from or WWII or even in Iraq and Afghanistan. deployment in Afghanistan. But I’ll always There was a draft for Viet Nam, not one wish I’d know what they know. Because for Iraq and Afghanistan. to a man, it was hard for them to tell me, I would never recommend to anyone and I asked time after time. Still, when son- the path I took to stay out of the military in-law and my second get together, they service, though. I wear my regret as my speak a language I never will understand. own form of wound, almost in disgrace. It makes me proud, though. And I wish that I could go back there So on November 11, I’ll think of how and volunteer in a military hospital or a my father-in-law did his part as a medic military base. It’s not too late. I hope to to liberate a hospital outside of Paris. give back when I retire. I’ll think of my dad, who described the I think every day in our nation is Browning automatic rifle he learned to “Veterans’ Day,” not just November 11. fire. I will honor my son-in-law and cousin, Yet on that day, I’ll thank my late father who for now don’t want to talk about it. for serving in the WWII Army Reserves, my I wish I knew how that felt.

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These two photographs come from a book called “The Jews of Chaplain Hill,” published by the Jew- ish Welfare Board’s Jewish Chaplains Council. There is a story behind the book. Ken Kraetzer did research about Chaplains Hill at Arlington National Cemetery a few years ago. He was dismayed to Celebrates our 5th Anniversary! Join us at the incomparable realize that there were Chaplain Robert Marcus leads services after the Waldorf Astoria Hotel three memorials there — Battle of the Bulge. Passover 2014 in Orlando, FL one for Catholic chaplains, and two for Protestant denominations — chaplains, from World War II through Featured Scholars-in-Residence but none of them commemorated Jewish Vietnam, who died on active duty. “The Rabbi Kenneth N. Hain Rabbi Shmuel Hain chaplains. Jew of Chaplains Hill” honors them as Senior Rabbi and Spiritual Leader Rabbi, Young Israel Ohab Zedek Working with his old friend Sol Moglen well. Congregation Beth Shalom of North Riverdale/Yonkers Lawrence, NY Senior Ra”m and of Caldwell, he decided to change that. “Many people don’t realize that Rosh Beit Midrash It was not an easy change to effect, 550,000 Jewish men and women SAR High School Moglen learned; it could only be done served our country during World Rabbi Benjamin Blech Special Guest by an act of Congress. War II, and 1,000 rabbis volunteered Rabbi Emeritus He got it done. to be chaplains,” Moglen said. “The Young Israel of Oceanside Maggid Shiur, Yeshiva University Richard M. Joel The resolution, which was a rider to a government chose 311, and we lost eight President and Bravmann Family larger bill dealing with veterans’ affairs, of them. University Professor Yeshiva University passed in May 2011; it was written by now- “In the center of the monument is the disgraced former congressman Anthony emblem that Jewish chaplains wear on Alan Berger Director and Host Weiner, supported by representatives their lapels, the 10 Commandments. And Robyn Hartman Program Manager Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jeff I insisted that it also include the lions of For reservations or more information, please contact our team at: Miller and Senator Chuck Schumer, Judah, as does every synagogue around 1-877-PESACH4 (1-877-737-2244) or 516-734-0840 [email protected] and passed the House with 440 yesses the world.” www.passovergrandgetaways.com and no nos. “It was beautiful to see Richard Manberg of Hackensack, who Democrats and Republicans working has been friends with Moglen since they GG WAO 10Wx14H Ad 5774 #3.indd 1 10/23/13 1:34 PM together,” Moglen said. And, to top it off, met in Brooklyn as teenagers, added that May is Jewish Heritage Month. when Moglen raised funds, he would Next he had to complete the accept no more than $1,000 from any fundraising project to build the one donor. “He wanted small donation Like us on Facebook monument. He did, and it was dedicated so that everybody could feel part of it,” in October 2011. Manberg said. facebook.com/jewishstandard The monument honors the 14 Jewish - Joanne paLmer

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WasHInGTon JeWIsH WeeK apologized and announced that it would be stocking dreidels and to list their country of birth as Israel social media and a resurgent activist menorahs in some stores in time for — a law ignored by both President temperament that has been dormant 201-286-9898 the holiday season. The Anti-Defa- Obama and his predecessor, George since the 1970s. [email protected] mation League posted the apology W. Bush, citing presidential preroga- “There’s the decline of mainstream DavidsDogTrainingNJ.com on its website while noting that not tive in shaping foreign policy. Jewish organizations as the non- stocking Jewish items did not indicate The American Jewish Committee Orthodox committed Jewish popula- bigotry. initially opposed the lawsuit, consid- tion shrinks,” Cohen said. “There is A swift victory in the Internet age? ering it dangerous to bring the issue organizing in the postmodern age, Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s of Jerusalem before the courts. But the ability of social media to link peo- national director, isn’t so sure. In pressure from donors and right-wing ple and to push issues that have reso- fact, the whole experience left him activists ultimately persuaded the nance to the forefront very quickly. uneasy. AJC and other major Jewish groups It’s not much different from the Arab “In the good old days, when some- to sign on. Spring in Tunisia.” one said something critical or nasty, The lawsuit backfired. In July, Two top establishment figures you could ignore it,” Foxman said. the U.S. Court of Appeals for the speaking on background noted the “Now everyone has a megaphone. District of Columbia upheld the case of Mikey Weinstein as another Your supporters come and say, ‘Did president’s exclusive power “to example of the ways major groups you hear?’ You’re forced to deal and determine whether to recognize a have lost unfettered control over the engage.” foreign sovereign,” enshrining in communal agenda. A former military From matters of state to determi- legal precedent the president’s pre- lawyer, Weinstein founded the Mili- Wall Street nations of what should and should eminence in foreign policy matters tary Religious Freedom Foundation not offend Jews, the major Jewish over Congress, which historically after hearing reports from his sons re-visited organizations have been forced to has proved a pro-Israel bulwark at that they had been exposed to Chris- contend in recent years with people moments of tension between Israel tian proselytizing as cadets at the U.S. Five Years Later or small activist groups that increas- and the White House. Air Force Academy. If you want to understand banking and Wall Street ingly determine which issues domi- “How far Congress has the power Several establishment groups but everything you read seems so complicated and nate the communal agenda. to rein in the executive is not trivial,” took up the gauntlet and negotiated difficult... it is. 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D’var Torah Veyetze: Leaving home, discovering home

braham was lucky. He fearlessly in the outdoors, despite the marvelous thing happened: present lives have quite the richness of our left his parents’ house, strength- dangers lurking in the world. God appeared in Jacob’s pasts. Others of us have had brutal pasts, ened by a sense of purpose. Jacob, on the other hand, was dream and said: “Remember, and we stay stuck there, continually reliving Isaac, too, had it easy. He never a consummate homebody. I am with you: I will protect the pain of our youth. Still others perhaps hadA to leave home; he never set foot on He was a mild, cerebral man, you wherever you go. I will have emerged into our adult identities, and unfamiliar ground. Poor Jacob. Jacob alone who found comfort dwelling in not leave you.” yet we are still playing old, familial roles in among the patriarchs had great difficulty in the tents of his family’s camp. Through his dream, Jacob our everyday lives. leaving home. When he did finally leave, discovered that he possessed Like Jacob, somewhere, there is a voice Our Torah portion begins “Vayetze yaa- Jacob was practically pushed untapped resources within calling us, telling us that a fuller life awaits kov miber sheva” — Jacob went out from Ber out from behind the tent flaps Rabbi Ruth himself. He was capable us. Jacob discovered his true self when he Sheva. Jacob’s passage out from his child- by his mother and father. A. Zlotnick of journeying through that risked crossing the boundary into the wil- hood home already had been reported in Reluctantly, Jacob entered Temple Beth strange terrain all alone. In derness, leaving the past behind him. The Or, Washington last week’s portion. Our tradition teaches the wilderness, where every Township, Reform this unfamiliar, unremark- psychologist Alice Miller writes that when that there is a reason for every redundancy arid shrub and animal’s howl able place, Jacob learned that people remain tied to their past, “the true in the Torah. What can account for the rep- was alien to him. Trembling, until now he had been only self is in a state of non-communication. It etition of Jacob’s leave-taking? I believe that he happened upon a no-man’s land, an half aware of his potential. For the first time is only after the true self has been liberated Jacob had to leave home. He could not stay undistinguished place, a spot to lay his head in his life, when he opened his eyes, Jacob [from the past] that it can grow and develop on familiar terrain, as his father, Isaac, had for the night. For a man who lived in the was truly awake. He cried out: “Surely, God its creativity. Where there had only been done. He was unable to journey forward interior world of the mind, the wide-open is in this strange place, and I did not know fearful emptiness, there now is an unex- with purpose, like his grandfather Abra- space of the desert must have been terri- it. How awesome is this place. This is none pected wealth of vitality. This is not a home- ham. Our Torah portion emphasizes Jacob’s fying. Outside his parents’ home, Jacob’s other than the home of God.” At last, having coming, since this home had never before departure from his parents’ house because entire identity was called into question. revealed new parts of his soul, Jacob felt at existed. It is the discovery of home.” leaving home was the last thing that Jacob As night fell, Jacob gathered stones and home in the wild world beyond his family’s That is what Jacob experienced on that wanted to do. Yet leaving home was the one laid his head upon them. Soon, he bur- tent. dark night. Jacob learned that by living his thing that Jacob needed to do in order to dis- rowed into the shelter of sleep. He dreamed, For many people, Jacob’s story is our own life, he is at home in the world, no mat- cover his true self. of course, of that famous ladder, that escape story. Even if we are well beyond young ter where he may find himself. On this Shab- The differences between Jacob and his route out from ordinary earth toward adulthood, many adults are at an emo- bat, may we also wake up to God’s presence twin, Esau, were striking. Esau was a muscu- extraordinary heaven. On this, his first day tional standstill. Some of us wax nostalgic and discover that we, too, are at home in lar man, who loved a good hunt and thrived out on his own, away from his family, a about our childhoods, never feeling that our this world, wherever we may find ourselves.

Standby synagogue’s educator. “We have parents who Briefs are studying Hebrew, doing homework, get- from page 9 ting called on, taking tests.” Temple Mount visits by Jews There are other ways technology can By studying together (some lessons sepa- will lead to intifada, Arab MKs warn expand the synagogue’s community and rate out the adult from the children), the Arab Members of the Knesset protested Zahalka, and other Arab MKs who reach. religious school can be the subject of shared the standardization of Jewish visitation attended the meeting threatened dire “When our associate rabbi was pregnant conversations. rights to the Temple Mount at a session consequences, including a new intifada, and on bedrest, she was doing a lot of her bar “Not only do these parents know what of the Israeli Knesset Committee for the if any proposals on the issue would be mitzvah training on Skype,” Ms. Losch said. the kids do, they talk about it in the car. Interior on Monday. agreed upon. The parents were delighted, and not just They have a little more connectedness,” Ms. Deputy Minister for Religious Services “There is no Temple Mount. There because they didn’t have to drive to school McVeigh said. Eli Ben-Dahan said during the meeting is only the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” shouted for the lessons. “It was because the child was That, she said, is in contrast to a typical that he is seeking an agreement on Zahalka, according to the Jerusalem Post. practicing in the house and on the computer. parent-child after class conversation: “What the visitation rights with Israel’s chief Tibi said another intifada “will break out Parents were actually hearing the practice did you do in religious school today?” “Stuff.” rabbinate. But MKs Ahmad Tibi, Jamal again, also because of Al-Aqsa.” JNS.ORG and were more engaged than when they Having parents in the classroom changes come to the synagogue and go to the office the dynamic; the adult leading the class is not and close the door.” outnumbered by children. But not all grown- Detroit Tigers name Brad Ausmus, By contrast, at Beth Haverim Shir Shalom’s ups prove to be ideal students. religious school, the innovation comes in cre- “We have parents who are on their phones. Jewish former catcher, as new manager ating a unique in-class community. Not that We have to give them the same speech we Former Major League Baseball catcher team, whether I was in San Diego, it’s new; the Mahwah congregation has been give everyone else.” Brad Ausmus, who is Jewish, was named Detroit or Houston,” Ausmus said in running a “Family School” alternative track Ms. McVeigh herself took part in the first the manager of the Detroit Tigers. 2011 for a story on the Israeli national within its traditional religious school for a Family School group; she and her chil- Ausmus, 44, will be the league’s only team he managed that was trying to decade now. dren remain close friends with their fellow Jewish manager. He played for the Tigers, qualify for the World Baseball Classic. “I The Family School brings children and participants. Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, and would get letters from Jewish children. adults — generally a parent — to study “We think the family school is so amaz- Los Angeles Dodgers from 1993 to 2010. I quickly realized that American Jews together on Sunday mornings. ing, that there was some talk about making “Jewish fans would come up to me identified with me because of my The program includes Hebrew study, it mandatory. But we met with Family School and talk about how they were proud heritage. I’m very proud of that.” Judaic study, a half hour of worship, and a parents who said, ‘Why would I want to be in to have a Jewish major leaguer on their JNS.org 15-minute bagel break. Family School with people who didn’t want The program attracts about 45 families; a to be there?’” small portion of the 340 students registered Other models being discussed at the SLI in the school. event include a Shabbat school and a camp- www.jstandard.com “A lot of our best students are non-Jew- based program. ish parents,” said Rebecca McVeigh, the Jewish Standard NOVEMBER 8, 2013 35 JS-36

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Arts & Culture ‘No Joke’ Ruth Wisse explores Jewish humor

JONATHAN E. LAZARUS not exclusively in Yiddish. Freud, who camps but occupying the perfect perch loved jokes and traded them with gusto with which to skewer each contingent’s pening this review with among the Jewish glitterati of Vienna, foibles and pretensions, and doing so a story about a particu- would have labeled this a prime example through elegant German constructs. larly Jewish predica- of galgehumor (gallows humor): While Heine failed to speak to the Jews ment and ending it with Two Jews before a iring squad are asked of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltics, aO punch line would have been expe- whether they have a inal wish. Sholem Aleichem’s writings certainly did, dient. It could have been set in italics One requests a cigarette. and in a mongrel tongue that became the and placed above the lead paragraph The other snaps, “Shush, Moshe! Don’t lingua franca of the Pale of Settlement. for added flair. Perhaps it would make trouble.” In her Yiddish Heartland chapter, Wisse involve a rabbi, a tiger, and a bar.... In just three mordant sentences, the extols Aleichem’s beloved characters Yes, there will be some shpritzes for tribe is taken to task for passivity, although Menahem-Mendl, Sheyne-Sheyndl, and readers to chortle over later, but the sabras and IDF veterans would bristle at Tevye the Dairyman. His Yiddishkeidt proper way to launch an appraisal of such a suggestion. legacy subsequently pulsed through “No Joke: Making Jewish Humor,” Ruth From the second, kinder-gentler theater, painting, and music on both sides Wisse’s excursion through the world category, comes this example: of the Atlantic. of Jewish jocularity, is to immediately A woman, feeling sorry for a beggar Although Aleichem never became brand her book as intellectually who had come to her door, invited him wildly popular in America, Isaac Bashevis bracing, disarmingly entertaining, and in and offered him food. On the table was Singer did, and may have served as the disturbingly candid. a pile of dark bread — and a few slices of bridge to Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Wisse, a professor of Yiddish challah. The shnorrer promptly fell on and Philip Roth, sometimes referred to literature at Harvard, showcases some the challah. as the Hart, Shaffner & Marx of Jewish- of the best material in the world — stuff “There’s black bread, too,” the woman American literature. Roth, as Wisse that has been honed hinted. notes, trod where no other author had and riffed over the Take the “I prefer challah.” gone by both insulting gentiles and then centuries — with the predicament of a drowning “But challah is much more expensive.” bedding them. context and con idence person and the ickleness of “Lady,” said the beggar, “it’s worth it.” In parallel, the Borsch Belt, Hollywood needed to nuzzle all geography. Wisse cites the And since the third time can and TV stoked an insatiable appetite the sweet spots, or, tendency of Israelis to insist be a charm, an offering from the for hip, New York-centric shtick. As more accurately, the on unaccented Hebrew, assimilation-at-any-cost-school: Red Buttons presciently explained: All bittersweet spots as free of European inflections A wealthy American Jewish widow, the Jewish kids became comics and laughter and tears mix and baggage, a language determined to rise in society, hires all the Italian kids became crooners, with equal force. that speaks to the strength, coaches in elocution, manners, and dress separated by a year of high school. Henny Jews have always focus, and identity of the to help her shed her Yiddish accent and Youngman’s one-liners, Lenny Bruce’s deployed humor as Jewish state. She notes that a coarse Jewish ways. Once she feels ready, profanity-laced screeds, a madcap Danny the ultimate double- swimmer in trouble, let’s say she registers at a restricted resort, enters Kaye movie, or Woody Allen’s anguished edged sword. Thrust Ruth Wisse off a Haifa beach, could be in the dining room perfectly coiffed, wearing self-deconstruction attest nicely to this outward, it helped even deeper water unless they a basic black dress with a single string of postwar phenomenon. buffer repeated blows from the hostile cried out for help in acceptably enunciated pearls, and orders a dry martini — which Without missing a beat, Wisse returns world of gentiles, Arabs, and Cossacks. Hebrew. the waiter maladroitly spills on her lap. to the former Russia of shtetls, now Turned inward, it signi ied any number Contrast this with a possible scene at The woman cries: “Oy vey! — whatever transmogri ied into the Soviet Union of tropes from pride to self-loathing to the Jersey Shore, one which stands tall in that means.” of Stalin. Purges, famines, and forced otherness. All corners of the diaspora and the pantheon of Jewish mother jibes, and These tidbits are part of a rich tapestry collectivization generate a reservoir Israel proper have swelled the storehouse imagine the regional accent: stretching from Berlin to Bialystok, and of trenchant commentary covering of the Judaically risible. Mrs. Markowitz was walking along the Beersheba to the Borsch Belt. Wisse’s everything from chronic shortages to This phenomena ranges from the blunt beach with her grandson when suddenly ability to suss out the essential DNA in an authoritarian regime that rivaled and and unvarnished varieties to kinder, a wave came and washed the 3-year-old- Jewish humor while delving into the outlasted Nazi Germany (here Wisse gentler expressions. They can pivot on boy out to sea. darker question of whether one people’s limns a meager, underground supply, very narrow or quite universal situations, “Oh Lord!” she cried. “If you’ll just bring tribulations have been treated with too Poland being the exception). The cast is slyly unfolding with irony, parody, that boy back alive I’ll do anything. I’ll be much palliative self-mockery and shrugs now ruthless instead of Romanov, but the inversion, whimsy, spoof, sarcasm, and the best person. I’ll give to charity. I’ll go to of resignation commands and demands anti-Semitism is vintage. An example: compression. Whether satire, folk tale, temple. Please God! Send him back!” our attention. Haim is walking down the street when fable, or comic masterwork, Jewish humor At that moment, a wave washed the Her analysis begins with the diaspora, someone calls him a Jew bastard. can pit modernity against tradition, the child up on the sand, safe and sound. His continues through the indecencies of He mutters: “Ay, if only there were talmudically obscure against the absurdly grandmother looked at the boy and then the Middle Ages, and sails into the fresh meat in the shops, it would be like czarist common, and patron against peasant, all up to the heavens. breezes of the Enlightenment. For Wisse, times.”” iltered through a welter of languages. “Okay!” she exclaimed. “So where’s his a watershed moment occurs with the Wisse concludes her trans-continental hat?” birth of Heinrich Heine in 1797. The poet baedeker of humor with a focus on Jonathan E. Lazarus is a former news Here’s one from the blunter domain and satirist was a Jew who converted to Israel. As Zionists labored to build the editor at the Star-Ledger. that can be told most effectively though Christianity, losing credibility in both SEE NO JOKE PAGE 50

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Circle of life: Yiddish theater trip: Friday Congregation B’nai israel temple Beth rishon November 8 in emerson hosts “all You travels to see the need is Love,” focusing national Yiddish theatre Shabbat in Wayne: on “Birth, Bris, & Baby production of “Lies My shomrei torah honors namings,” with rabbi Father told Me,” 2 p.m., and thanks Jewish war debra Orenstein and at the Baruch Performing Veterans & auxiliary Cantor Lenny Mandel, arts Center in Manhattan. members, during 10 a.m. 53 Palisade ave. Cantor ilan Mamber, services, 8 p.m. there will (201) 265-2272 or www. (201) 891-4466 or www. be photos of members bisrael.com. bethrishon.org. who served in the armed Forces. 30 hinchman Honoring veterans The Walking Dead in ave. (973) 696-2500. in Fair Lawn: temple Franklin Lakes: temple Beth sholom’s men’s emanuel of north Dan Naturman Cantor Paul Zim Jon Fisch Shabbat in Woodcliff club hosts a program in Jersey hosts a panel Lake: dr. nily shiryon, recognition of Veterans of prominent religious an israeli psychologist day, featuring guest and community leaders NOV. Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort and educator, discusses speaker Col. Glenn h. discussing “the walking Lee hosts a “Comedy Concert,” starring “the Jewish right — Goldman, director of dead: what Can Zombies and imperative — of military instruction at teach us about Moral comedians Dan Naturman and Jon Fisch, Questioning” after 8 p.m. west Point, 10:30 a.m. absolutes?” based on 9 with music by Cantor Paul Zim, a.k.a., the services at temple Light breakfast. 40-25 the aMC television series, “Jewish Music Man,” who will sing music from Broadway emanuel of the Pascack Fair Lawn ave. (201) 797- “the walking dead,” Valley, 87 Overlook drive. 9321 or mensclub@tbsfl. 7 p.m. 558 high Mountain and the Italian and Jewish traditions. Saturday, (201) 391-0801. org. road. (201) 560-0200 or November 9, 8 p.m. Free babysitting with reservation. www.tenjfl.org. Hadassah meets: Sparkling drinks and desserts. 1449 Anderson Ave. Saturday teaneck-hackensack Restoring Polish (201) 947-1735 or www.geshershalom.org. PHoToS PRoVIDED November 9 hadassah hosts a brunch cemeteries: avi at a private home in Mizrachi describes teaneck, 11 a.m. Funds “Mending a Broken Gruber’s 102nd birthday, discusses “the new raised benefit the Link: Jewish Cemeteries 1 p.m. the film “ahead of Jersey supreme Court: ADHD discussion in hadassah Medical Center. restoration in Poland time,” based on Gruber’s an inside View.” Light Washington Township: (201) 836-9689. through education and life, will be will screened. lunch. 10-10 norma ave. the Valley hospital dialogue” for the annual Gruber will not be there. transportation available. offers a program susan nelson Glasser refreshments. 354 (973) 595-0111 or www. on attention deficit Memorial Kristallnacht Maitland ave. (201) 836- jfsnorthjersey.org. hyperactivity disorder commemoration 9689. with dr. Marivic santiano, at Congregation “Jeopardy” contestant neurodevelopmental shomrei torah in School open house speaks: the englewood pediatrician at the Fair Lawn, 7:30 p.m. in Tenafly: Lubavitch & Cliffs Chapter of Ort Kierker Center for Child Mizrachi is co-founder/ on the Palisades america meets to hear development, at the executive director of elementary school rabbi Joyce newmark Bergen County YJCC, the Foundation for holds an open house for share her story, “My 7 p.m. 605 Pascack holocaust education prospective parents of Jeopardy Journey,” at road. www.valleyhealth. Projects. refreshments. kindergarteners through Congregation Gesher com/events, 1-800-Valley, Deborah Lipstadt 19-10 Morlot ave. fifth-graders, 7:45 p.m. shalom/JCC Fort Lee, or (201) 666-6610. Tamara Freeman (201) 791-7910 or 11 harold st. 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(201) 794-9572 or ethnomusicologist and holocaust deniers. 180 Pre-Collegiate Learning www.onefamilytogether. concert violist, performs Piermont road, (201) Center high school org. pieces composed in 750-9997 or www. (PCLC) holds an open world war ii ghettos and templeemanu-el.com. house, 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. concentration camps on 511 ryders Lane. (732) her 1935 viola. Brunch 387-2693 or www.pclcnj. Sunday and candle lighting com/openhouse. November 10 ceremony. 354 Maitland ave.(201) 833-2620 or Nazi death camps: dr. Chief Justice Author in Wayne: [email protected]. School open house in Bernard raab is the Stuart Rabner david wilson offers a Paramus: the Frisch guest lecturer for the Appraisals in Fair discussion for his book school holds an open adult study institute at Lawn: the Fair Lawn Holocaust survivor “Jews of Paterson,” for house, 9 a.m. 120 west Young israel of Fort Lee, Community Center group in Fair Lawn: temple Beth tikvah’s Century road. (201) noon. raab, a former offers “what’s it worth? Cafe europa, a social senior daytime series, 267-9100, ext. 201, YiFL president, will – a Valuation event,” program the Jewish 1 p.m. 950 Preakness ave. openhouse.frisch.org, or discuss “is Obama More Book discussion in 11 a.m.-3 p.m., with Family service of north (973) 595-6565. [email protected]. Upset about Poison Gas Washington Township: professional appraisers, Jersey sponsors for than was roosevelt? School open house in a book group at the including those skilled holocaust survivors, Rummage sale in nazi death Camps: what Elizabeth: the Jewish Bergen County YJCC in Judaica. hosted by funded in part by Closter: the sisterhood did we Know and when educational Center’s rav discusses Gillian Flynn’s the Knights of Pythias, the Conference on of temple Beth el did we Know it?” Lunch. teitz Mesivta academy novel, “Gone Girl,” Benjamin n. Cardozo Material Claims against of northern Valley 1610 Parker ave. (201) holds an open house, 7:30 p.m. 605 Pascack Lodge. Proceeds benefit Germany, the Jewish holds its semi-annual 592-1518 or yiftlee.org Federation of northern 7 p.m. 330 elmora ave. road. Jill Brown, (201) rummage sale, 10 a.m.- the restoration of the (908) 355-4850 or www. 666-6610, ext. 5812 or naugle house and new Jersey, and private noon and 1-3 p.m. 221 Hadassah meets: the donations, meets at rtMa.thejec.org. [email protected]. schraalenburgh road. support the lodge’s teaneck-hackensack charity fund. 10-10 the Fair Lawn Jewish (201) 768-5112. chapter of hadassah Center/Congregation 20th st. Jon taner, meets at Congregation whatsitworthnJ@gmail. B’nai israel, 11 a.m. Chief Beth sholom in teaneck Justice stuart rabner com. to celebrate ruth

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(973) 226-3600 or and marriage, led by Music in Leonia: eugene [email protected]. rabbi Leanna Moritt, Marlow’s heritage 7:30 p.m. (201) 391-0801. ensemble performs at Congregation adas Michal Negrin emuno, 7 p.m. Featured Character tot fundraiser in Paramus: band members include the Bergen County high Grammy award-nominee Shabbat in school of Jewish studies Bobby sanabria. Coffee Shahar Azani hosts an evening of and dessert. 254 Broad Franklin Lakes shopping, champagne, ave. (201) 592-1712 or Discussing Israel: and berries at the www.adasemuno.org. shahar azani, the israeli Michal negrin Concept Join characters resembling Sponge- consulate’s consul for store in the westfield Bob, Elmo, Spiderman, and Tinkerbell Garden state Plaza Mall, Sunday media affairs, discusses at Character Tot Shabbat on Friday, current events in israel, 7-9 p.m. 15 percent of November 17 for a meeting of the israel all purchases will be November 15, from 4 to 5 p.m., at the donated to BChsJs. committee and the men’s Holiday boutique: Chabad Center, 375 Pulis Avenue, in the store will offer a From a recent tot Shabbat. progress club at the Fair the sisterhood of buy one/get one at Franklin Lakes. Lawn Jewish Center/ the Fair Lawn Jewish CoURTESY CHABAD 50% off. if you cannot The monthly program for children Congregation B’nai israel, Center/Congregation attend, mention BChsJs 8 p.m. refreshments. B’nai israel offers its up to 6, with their parents, features More Tot Shabbats have been sched- through december 6 10-10 norma ave. (201) vendor boutique, with lively Shabbat songs with props and uled for December 13, January 10, Feb- for the discount and 796-5040. handcrafted jewelry, donation. Level 1, next favorite children’s characters. There ruary 7, and March 7. ceramics, scarves, art, to Lord & taylor. elayne also will be a kid-friendly dinner and For information, call (201) 848-0449 Chanukah in Wayne: buckles, makeup, as Kalina, (201) 320-6556 or shomrei torah holds a seen on tV items, Torah crafts using food products. or go to www.chabadplace.org. [email protected]. discussion of Chanukah Judaica from Priceless celebrations around the Possessions, and gifts world through the eyes from teaneck’s Cohen of congregants, including Friday November 15 Printing, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. destinations in Poland, 10-10 norma ave. (201) the former soviet Union, 796- 5040. israel kibbutzim, and Shabbat celebration: syria, 8 p.m. dessert. 30 sha’ar Communities hinchman ave. (973) hosts Friday night Live! 696-2500 or office@ with music and melodies, In New York shomreitorahwcc.org. inspiring teachings, spirituality, creative ritual, activities, and food Sunday Wednesday at a private location, November 10 November 13 6:30 p.m. Joanne, (201) Michael 213-9569 or joanne@ School open house Book discussion in Fort shaarcommunities.org. for women: Yeshiva Lee: the sisterhood of University holds an open Feinstein Trio Congregation Gesher Shabbat in Closter: house for women. 500 Sponsored by shalom/JCC of Fort Lee temple Beth el offers west 185th st. (212) 960- The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation meets as Kathy Grazian services led by rabbi 5277 or www.yu.edu/ and naomi altschul david s. widzer and nJstandard. discuss Michael Lavigne’s Cantor rica timman with novel, “the wanting,” the shabbat Unplugged Kristallnacht: the 8:15 p.m. refreshments. Band, 7:30 p.m. 221 Museum of Jewish Friday 1449 anderson ave. (201) schraalenburgh road. heritage — a Living 947-1735. (201) 768-5112 or www. Memorial to the November 22nd 8pm tbenv.org. holocaust marks the Thursday 75th anniversary of Saturday Kristallnacht with November 14 nYU historian Marion November 16 Kaplan discussing the Book fair in Rockleigh: “november Pogrom,” the Jewish home Shabbat in Emerson: 2:30 p.m. inaugural at rockleigh holds a Congregation B’nai israel program of a series Jackie book/gift fair by Books offers its monthly family honoring the 50th are Fun; 30 to 70 shabbat, with separate anniversary of the percent off retail prices. groups for different ages, ordination of temple 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Portion celebrating Chanukah, emanu-el’s senior rabbi Mason of sales benefits the Jhr 10 a.m. Pizza, salads, emeritus, rabbi ronald residents’ fund. esther and ice cream lunch. B. sobel. 36 Battery stone, (201) 784-1414. 53 Palisade ave. (201) Place. (646) 437-4202 or 265-2272 or bnaioffice@ www.mjhnyc.org. Using your iPhone: Fred bisrael.com. seltzer leads a workshop Saturday on using an iPhone at the Family entertainment/ Sunday computer learning center dinner in Paramus: November 17 November 23rd 8pm at the Kaplen JCC on the aPt parents the Palisades in tenafly, group at the JCC of School open house for 10:30 a.m. (201) 569- Paramus/Congregation men: Yeshiva University 7900. Beth tikvah offers holds an open house for entertainment by Gemini, men. 500 west 185th st.

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Bubblemania coming to Wayne

Bubblemania, an “eye- popping, belly-laughing, fun-filled bubble extravaganza,” is coming to the Wayne YMCA on Sunday, November 24, at 11 a.m. The unique and popular show combines artistic skills, visual comedy, quick wit, and big band swing music with liquid spheres, ranging from intricate bubble sculptures to giant bubbles that can encase onlookers. To buy tickets online, go to www.wayneymca. org and click on the Rosen Theater icon at the right, Amphion String Quartet JANETTE BECKMAN or call (973) 595-0100. The Y is at 1 Pike Drive in World’s oldest Holocaust survivor Wayne. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner honored with words, film, and music of the YM-YWHA of North On Wednesday, November 20, at 7 Jersey. p.m., the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Manhattan will welcome pianist CoURTESY WAYNE Y Caroline Stoessinger and the Amphion String Quartet as they present “Living Legend: Alice Herz-Sommer,” a loving tribute to the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. Herz-Sommer, 109, who lives in England, will be honored at the museum with words, music, and film. Born in Prague in 1903 to a family of Jewish intellectuals and musicians, Herz-Sommer socialized with the likes of Kafka. In 1943, she, her husband, and their young son were deported to Theresienstadt. An accomplished concert pianist, she played more than 100 concerts for her fellow prisoners. Her son was one of only 93 children to survive that camp. Alice Herz-Sommer and Caroline Stoessinger, a pianist and a professor Stoessinger CoURTESY MJHNYC of music at John Jay College of Criminal Pinkalicious at bergenPAC Justice, is working on a documentary film about Alice Herz-Sommer. Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. Call The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Theatre Company’s home theater at 76th The Amphion String Quartet is a (646) 437-4202 or go to www.mjhnyc. Englewood presents “Pinkalicious” on Street and Broadway. Tickets are available winner of the 2011 Concert Artists org. Sunday, November 24, at 1 and 4 p.m. at www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergen- The show, in its sixth year, began at Vital pac.org or at the box office, (201) 227-1030.

Run and walk event to raise money for Yavneh

R.C.B.C. rwk Kosher Hundreds of runners and walkers from participants and has raised more than the community will pound the pave- $35,000 each year. NEW CAFE & PIZZERIA ment Sunday in Yavneh Academy’s ninth Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. fol- Bergen County YJCC Annual Benjamin Schwartz Memorial 5K lowed by the 5K run at 8:30 a.m. Break- Run and One Mile Fun Run/Walk at the fast will be served to participating run- Some of our Specialties: Garden State Plaza. ners and walkers beginning at 8:45 a.m. Bagels & Cream Cheese • Omelets • Tuna Melts The event, which benefits the Para- The one-mile event begins at 9:30. Salads • Soups • Pasta • Calzones • Falafels mus school’s scholarship needs, is Participants will gather at the Nord- 605 Pascack Rd. • Washington Township, NJ named for the brother of Yavneh parent strom entrance of the mall. For infor- and Teaneck resident Mendy Schwartz. mation call Heidi Kuperman at 201-262- 201-666-6610, ext. 5656 The run typically draws more than 800 8494, ext. 309.

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n 1 Teenagers from Temple Emanu-El on a company’s relationships with clients of Closter went to the IMAX theater at and prospects. Steven Adler, second from the Palisades Mall to see “Jerusalem.” left, and Karen Scharfstein, second from The synagogue plans a congregational right, were event chairs. JFNNJ secretary trip to see the movie on November 17. Dan Shlufman is at right. Courtesy JFNNJ Courtesy Emanu-El n 4 Adi Rubin, a schlicha for the Jewish 7 n 2 Sha’ar Communities supported Agency for Israel, leads a workshop with the work of PetResQ at Woofstock, the Club 34, one of the youth groups at Tem- group’s annual outdoor pet adoption fair, ple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff. Courtesy TBR while sharing Sha’ar’s creative approach to Jewish engagement. Courtesy Sha’ar n 5 Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Esther Manischewitz, as well as an academic n 7 Author Devyn Rose reads from her book, Graduate School of Jewish Studies lecture about Leibowitz’s Bible scholarship “Little Girls Should Not Wear Make-up,” at the n 3 The Jewish Federation of Northern recently held the first talk of the fall by Revel’s associate dean, Bible professor Dr. Bergen County YJCC’s Sefer Celebration: A New Jersey’s Commerce & Professional semester’s lecture series, “Nehama Lei- Mordechai Z. Cohen. Manischewitz and Co- Festival of Children’s Books. The event, also Division’s fall power networking breakfast bowitz and Tanakh Study: Yesterday hen both live in Teaneck. Courtesy YU featuring Carol Roth, author of “Little Bunny’s featured Joe Apfelbaum, left, CEO of Ajax and Today,” at YU’s Wilf Campus. The Sleepless Night,” included a book sale to ben- Union, and Stephanie Abrams, CEO of lecture, which drew more than 200, n 6 Sixth graders at the Moriah School take efit the William Seth Glazer Children’s Book SocialFly, center, who discussed how to included personal recollections of Lei- part in a simulated archaeological dig as part Fund at the YJCC. Courtesy YJCC market in the virtual world and the impact bowitz by one of her earliest pupils, of a social studies unit. Courtesy Moriah

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Bruce Granat Leonard Horn Gerald Schraub Barbara Tamary Bruce David Granat, 68, of Paramus, for- Leonard Horn, 84, of Del Ray Beach, Gerald “Jerry” Schraub, 74, of Glen Rock Barbara Tamary, 99, died on merly of New Rochelle, and Manhattan, Fla., died on October 30 at Hospice of died on September 23. October 30. died on November 4 in New Brunswick. Palm Beach County. Born in Elizabeth, he graduated from Born in Queens, she was a member Born in the Bronx, he was a graduate of Born in Brooklyn, he is survived by Brooklyn Talmudic Academy, City Col- of the Workmen’s Circle in Hudson New York and Pace universities. He owned his wife, Devora, daughters Donna lege of New York, and Fairleigh Dickinson and Bergen counties. She was head of Bruce Graphics and also worked in home Neuhaus and Sharon Horn, both of Fort University. housekeeping at Manhattan hotels. improvement. He was an active member of Lee, and five grandchildren. He worked in the computer field as a sys- Many friends survive her. the Jewish Community Center of Paramus/ Arrangements were by Eden Memorial tems analyst for more than 40 years. He was Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Congregation Beth Tikvah. Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee. a Bronze Life Master in the American Con- Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn, neé tract Bridge League and a board member of Schiff, daughters, Karen Barbara (Jerry), Joel Lefkowitz Unit 106 of the ACBL. He was a member of Kathie Williams and Danielle Mirshy (Steven); a brother, Joel A. Lefkowitz, 79, of Pompton Temple Israel & JCC in Ridgewood, where he Kathie Williams, neé Friedman, 58, of Richard (Nancy); sister and brother-in-law, Plains, formerly of Paterson, died on held board positions and was an accom- Franklin Lakes, formerly of Manhattan Fran and Tom Wills; and grandchildren, November 3. plished Torah reader. and the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., Tyler, David, and Nathan. An Air Force veteran of the He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Mar- area, died on October 30 from Contributions can be made to JCC of Korean War, he owned Aerospace ion, neé Kearney, children Deborah Crisp complications following a stem cell Paramus/CBT, or the cardiac units of Requirements, Inc. in Paterson before (Matthew), and Jessica Norman (Maxwell), transplant in treatment of non-hodgkins Hackensack University Medical Center or retiring. both of California; a sister, Helen Krane; five lymphoma. Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center. He is survived by his wife, Jean, grandchildren, and nieces, nephews, grand- Born in Minneapolis, she attended Arrangements were by Gutterman children, Ross Damelio and John nieces, and a grand-nephew. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Damelio (Barbara); five grandchildren, Donations can be sent to a charity of was a past president of Barnert Temple Hackensack. and three great-grandchildren. choice. Arrangements were by Schoem’s in Franklin Lakes and volunteered with Donations can be made to St. Jude’s Menorah Chapel, Paramus. many community organizations Wilma Greston Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, She is survived by her husband of Wilma Greston of Mamaroneck, N.Y., Tenn. Arrangements were by Louis Bruno Simon 30 years, John; her parents, Paul and formerly of Paterson, died on November Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn. Bruno Simon, 97, of Fort Lee, died on Octo- Sandra Friedman; children, Molly and 4. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban ber 30. Sam; and a brother, Kirk Friedman of Chapel, Fair Lawn. Born in Germany, he was a tailor. Minnetonka, Minn. Predeceased by his wife, Ruth, neé Donations can be sent to the Barnert Wertheim, he is survived by his children, Temple Lifelong Learning Fund or Eve Perlman and David Simon; two Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Center. Services were at Barnert Temple Arrangements were by Eden Memorial with arrangements by Robert Schoem’s Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee. Menorah Chapel, Paramus.

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Provident Bank Foundation supports Zoe’s Place Serving Bergen County “ANNIE GETS IT SOLD”

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oly Name Medical Center’s and State Board licensing examination. College. The AAS is in addition to the Nursing. School of Nursing (HNMC The academic year extends from mid- diploma in Nursing from the Holy Name The School participates in the Federal Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results. SON) will be hosting an open August to late June (two 16-week semesters Medical Center School of Nursing, and is Stafford and PLUS Loan programs, the house on Wednesday, Novem- and one six-week Spring semester), awarded to the graduate who has passed Federal Pell Grant, and Federal Nursing Jeffrey Schleider Ruth Miron-Schleider berH 13 between 3:306 p.m. at 690 Teaneck allowing eight to nine weeks off during the all the prescribed courses and presents Student Loan (NSL). There are alternative NJ: T: 201.266.8555 • M: 201.906.6024 Broker/Owner Broker/Owner Road, Teaneck. Prospective students will summer. Both college and nursing courses veri ication of NCLEX success to Saint loan programs if Stafford Loan limits are Miron Properties NY Miron Properties NJ be able to get more information about two- are taught at Holy Name Medical Center Peter’s College. insuf icient. Scholarship information NY: T: 212.888.6250 • M: 917.576.0776 and three-year Registered Nurse programs School of Nursing, with some clinical The School of Nursing is accredited by is also available by linking on to http:// TENAFLY TENAFLY TENAFLY TENAFLY and the one-year Licensed Practical Nurse af iliations at other health care facilities. the New Jersey Board of Nursing and the www.college-scholarships.com/free_ PRIME LOCATION! UNIQUE JUST BREATHTAKING program. The HNMC School of Nursing, through National League for Nursing Accrediting scholarship_searches.htm. This site offers COLONIAL! SOLD! The School places emphasis on the its collaborative agreement with St. Peter’s Commission. The School is also a no-cost scholarship searches. VIEWS! student’s development as a person and College, offers students the option of member of the Association of Diploma For information about the Holy Name a professional by offering a program of taking an additional three college credits Schools of Professional Nursing in New Medical Center’s School of Nursing, please liberal arts and sciences, nursing theory, over the basic curriculum to earn an Jersey, the National Coalition of Medical email [email protected] or call (201) and closely supervised clinical experiences Associate of Applied Science (AAS degree) Center Associated Schools and Colleges 8333005. For more, visit: www.holyname. to prepare the student for nursing practice in the Health Sciences from St. Peter’s of Nursing, and the National League for org/SchoolOfNursing.

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Stylish building. Heart of B’klyn. 2 BR w/terrace & garage. $422K Posh penthouse. Prime location. Grand 3 BR/2.5 BTH. $2,750,000 CHELSEA MURRAY HILL BROOKLYN HEIGHTS WILLIAMSBURG CHELSEA SOLD! SOLD! JUST SOLD! GEM!

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