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REMEMBERING CARLEBACH AFTER 20 YEARS page 6 SITTING WITH SHARANSKY page 10 RABBI PRUZANSKY QUITS AREA CONVERSION COURT page 12 NOW PLAYING AT THE TEANECK FILM FESTIVAL page 51 NOVEMBER 7, 2014 VOL. LXXXIV NO. 7 $1.00 83 2014 NORTH JERSEY JSTANDARD.COM Local reporter Mike Kelly’s look at a horrible crime CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE CHANGE Teaneck, NJ 07666 NJ Teaneck, Page 30 1086 Teaneck Road Teaneck 1086 and its aftermath Jewish Standard Jewish JS-2 2 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 7, 2014 JS-3* Page 3 Animating a Japanese invasion (of tourists) l If you want to sell, you have to speak We’ve never claimed to be experts the language of your customers. on Japanese culture, so who knows. Making the case for So the surprising thing may be According to Ynet, the embassy that it took this long for the Israeli says it’s working: “The feedback Jewish Halloween costumers embassy in Tokyo to produce a we’re getting for the project is series of videos promoting travel to unprecedented. The show is receiving l We’re not big trick-or-treaters our- justice. Israel, in the anime style of Japanese massive media attention all across selves, but we certainly respect the true As mom Kate Livingston wrote to the animation most familiar to American Japan. The main goal is to showcase masters of costumery. Huffington Post when she submitted this parents from Pokemon cartoons. the lighter and original aspects of No question about it: Prize for best picture: “our 12-week-old son Sycamore Tourism from Japan certainly needs Israeli society all the while paying costume, Halloween 5765 edition, goes is his favorite feminist action figure, Ruth a boost: The country doesn’t even homage and respect to Japanese to a portrayal of a popular — and Jewish bader Ginsburg!” rate among Israel’s 21 highest provider popular culture.” — take-no-prisoners Supreme Court Larry yudeLson of visitors. (The bottom slot, at least We haven’t actually watched the in 2011, was held by South Korea.) full seven-minute video all the way to but did the video really need a the end, so we can’t vouch for how mascot, Shalom Chan, that looks like crazy it gets. Giant tentacled monster Where there is no rhino-vision, a cross between a dove and an egg? at the Kotel? You’ll have to watch the And the dancing dolphin? The video for yourself to know for sure. Israelis innovate repeated draining of wine glasses by You can find it on our Facebook page the two Japanese sisters who travel at facebook.com/JewishStandard l Tanda can see clearly now. to Israel in the video? Larry yudeLson The pain is gone. Tanda, 22, is a two-ton rhinoceros. And after 14 years at the Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan Zoo, the For convenient home delivery, South African native Tanda can call 201-837-8818 or bit.ly/jsubscribe now appreciate the bright, sunshiny days of her adopted home, thanks to zoo staffer Neta Gueta, who Candlelighting: Friday, November 7, 4:27 p.m. figured out how to treat the rhino’s Shabbat ends: Saturday, November 8, 5:27 p.m. chronic eye infection. The problem was that flies would lay eggs in Tanda’s eyes, and that inflamed her eyelids, opinion, p. 27 causing the chronic condition. Conventional medications and I mean community community, not virtual treatments failed to work. community. but Gueta’s innovation, a rabbi debra orenstein custom-made adaptation of an until the finished product was ready. equestrian fly mask, did the trick. Tanda was slowly introduced to the mask by wearing it for short She says she thought up the idea PUbLISHER’S STATEmENT: (USPS 275-700 ISN 0021-6747) is pub- CONTENTS of using the enormous face mask to spurts at a time. Now the enormous lished weekly on Fridays with an additional edition every october, by the New Jersey Jewish media Group, 1086 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, stop flies from laying eggs in Tanda’s patient waits for Gueta to arrive in the NJ 07666. Periodicals postage paid at Hackensack, NJ and additional Noshes....................................................4 eye after seeing a similar device work morning to put the see-through mask offices. PoSTmASTER: Send address changes to New Jersey Jewish oPINIoN................................................ 26 media Group, 1086 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666. Subscription cover.story ��30 for horses suffering from a related over her face for the entire day. price is $30.00 per year. out-of-state subscriptions are $45.00, Foreign countries subscriptions are $75.00. keePINg.kosher..............................46 before this innovative device was condition. The appearance of an advertisement in The Jewish Standard does not dear.rabbI ��48 ready, Tanda would rub her eyes constitute a kashrut endorsement. The publishing of a paid political Gueta used special netting that advertisement does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate torah.commeNtary ��49 allows flies to stand on it while on rough tree bark, which would political party or political position by the newspaper, the Federation or any employees. crossword.Puzzle.....................50 preventing them from laying their only exacerbate the infection. Now, The Jewish Standard assumes no responsibility to return unsolic- arts.&.culture �� 51 eggs inside. Despite skepticism from though, her face is a no-fly zone. ited editorial or graphic materials. All rights in letters and unsolic- caleNdar........................................... 52 ited editorial, and graphic material will be treated as uncondition- obItuarIes......................................... 57 the zoo’s veterinarians, Gueta says Vi Va sarah press / israeL21c.org ally assigned for publication and copyright purposes and subject Larry yudeLson to JEWISH STANDARD’s unrestricted right to edit and to comment classIfIeds....................................... 58 she continued working on the mask editorially. Nothing may be reprinted in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. © 2014 gallery...............................................60 real.estate ��61 JEWISH STANDARD NovEmbER 7, 2014 3 JS-4* “She is not going to worry about it and Noshes expects it to go away.” — An anonymous source close to 24-year-old rapper Iggy Azalea, who suffered a wardrobe malfunction when her pants split while she was performing at a Beverly Hills bar mitzvah party. Reported price tag for the party was $450,000. MOVIE NEWS: ‘Whiplash’ hits a high note “Whiplash,” which for on-demand/DVD opens in nearby the- releases. It stars Keira aters today, already Knightley as Megan, a has earned rave reviews 28-year-old without a from tough critics like career or a direction. Paul Reiser Jeff Garlin A. O. SCOTT of the New When her high school York Times. Miles Teller boyfriend proposes, she (who has one Jewish panics and hides out Lisa Kudrow grandparent), stars at the home of Annika as Andrew Neiman, a (Chloë Grace Moretz), a 19-year-old (Jewish) jazz teenage friend, and An- drummer who attends a nika’s world-weary single Kudrow returns top conservatory. There dad (Sam Rockwell). he becomes the protégé JEFF GARLIN, 52, has a ● The HBO series “Comeback,” which ran for one of Terence Fletcher (J.K. supporting role. A close Simmons), a very tough friend sent me this “Jew- 13-episode season in 2005, makes an eight (new) episode conductor. He uses every ish geography” email return to HBO on Sunday evening, November 9. LISA psychological trick he about novelist ANDREA KUDROW, 51, returns as sit-com actress Valerie Cherish. can to turn Neiman into SEIGEL, 36, who wrote In the original show, Cherish was a former sitcom star a “perfect” drummer (in- the book that “Laggies” Seth Rogen Joshua Bell who was trying to make a comeback on a new sitcom, cluding, once, referring is based upon — as well but was relegated to a secondary role. Meanwhile, her to Neiman as a “Hymie”). as the “Laggies” screen- three major film depic- for school kids before “comeback” was being documented by a reality show. Neiman’s proficiency play: “She grew up in tions of Wozniak (includ- the concert, Bell said: soars, but the rest of his Irvine [CA], had her bat ing the upcoming film). “You have to credit my The new series begins with Cherish trying to peddle a life, including his love life, mitzvah at Temple Bat Wozniak has been played Jewish upbringing about new reality show to Bravo. Shortly thereafter, the action suffers. His personality Yahm, and graduated in each by a Jewish actor the importance of doing turns to the evil producer of Cherish’s 2005 comeback changes so much that it from Brown.” — we couldn’t think of mitzvot, that reflects how sitcom. He’s trying to sell HBO a barely ictional series provokes a rebuke from Variety reports that a similar casting trifecta grateful I am to be a mu- about a neurotic has-been actress, like Cherish, and her his very mild-mannered SETH ROGEN, 32, has involving a real person. sician. My piano teacher relations with a sitcom producer. “The Comeback” was father, a failed writer been picked to play The first was the original (Russian Jewish violinist co-created and is co-written by Kudrow. (PAUL REISER, 57). The Apple co-founder Ste- 1999 TNT movie, “Pirates JOSEPH GINGOLD) gave – N.B. film was written and ven Wozniak in a bi- of Silicon Valley,” and me advice and taught directed by Damien opic based on the 2011 he was played by JOEY me the beauty of mu- Chazelle, 30. Expect to WALTER ISAACSON SLOTNICK, now 46. Last sic as I became idolized hear a lot more from him biography, “Steve Jobs” year, there was the movie by the great violinists in the future.

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