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Pyramid to rise above Jerusalem skyline
Charcoaled scroll unrolled (virtually)
l Think of it as Ramses revenge.
l Thanks to modern technologies,
Jerusalems ever-changing skyline

is due to get a high-rise pyramid, if a
recently approved plan comes to be.
Designed by architects Daniel Libeskind and Yigal Levi, the Freedom
Pyramid will put commercial shopping and high-end residences on the
site of the old Eden theater, near the
Machaneh Yisrael market.
We want to bring to the city center
the revolution that Mamilla spurred
in its area, Levi told Haaretz. There
are a lot of new projects in the city
center, but they dont create a meeting place where people can linger and
meet. We are a one-minute walk from
Jerusalems King George Street-Jaffa
Road intersection, very close to the
Machane Yehuda market and close
to Nachlaot. Daniel managed to open
up the project in all directions, and
created a new network of links to the
surrounding streets. If you add to this
his unique design, you will see something very good for the city center.
The project will include 180 to 200
luxury apartments, a boutique hotel,
a rooftop restaurant, retail stores, and
an outdoor public plaza.
This comes as the skyline of Jerusalem is being altered by a number
of ongoing projects, including a new
tower by the world-renowned American architect I.M. Pei.
Jerusalems urban preservationists
have fought a losing battle against
some of these developments. But
nobody seems to have dealt with
the emotional impact on those

Israelites who died long ago building
the pyramids in Egypt. What will
they feel when they find themselves
resurrected in Jerusalem rebuilt
and pyramided?
LARRY YUDELSON & VIVA SARAH PRESS/
ISRAEL21C.ORG
a portion of a burnt 1,500-year-old

Hebrew scroll found in archaeological
excavations at Ein Gedi 45 years ago finally has been deciphered. The mezuzah-sized scroll was revealed to contain
the first eight verses of the Book of
Leviticus.
The parchment scroll was unearthed
in 1970 in archaeological excavations in
the synagogue at Ein Gedi,
near the Dead Sea. Because
it was charred, however, it
was not possible to either
unroll or decipher it.
Ein Gedi was a Jewish
village in the Byzantine period. It had a synagogue with
a holy ark, where the scroll
was found. Originally built
in the third century C.E. and
later expanded, the synagogue, along with the entire
village, was destroyed by fire. This was
in the late sixth century C.E.
None of its inhabitants ever returned
to live there again, or to pick through
the ruins in order to salvage valuable
property, said Dr. Sefi Porath, who led
the 1970 dig. In the archaeological
excavations of the burnt synagogue, we
found, in addition to the charred scroll
fragments, a bronze seven-branched
candelabrum, the communitys money
box containing about 3,500 coins, glass
and ceramic oil lamps, and vessels that
held perfume. We have no information about the cause of the fire, but
theories for the destruction range from
tionship between JDate and JSwipe,

you could say its complicated.
JDate, one of the worlds largest
Jewish dating services, is suing its
up-and-coming competitor, JSwipe,
which has been nicknamed the Jewish Tinder, for a surprising reason
the J at the front of its name.
JDate claims to hold a trademark
among dating sites on the J-family
of names.
JDates parent company, Sparks
Networks, also is claiming to own the
patent on technology that notifies users of mutual matches in feelings and
interests the feature that tells two
users when they like each other.
Forbes Gregory Ferenstein, who
unearthed the November 2014 lawsuit
on Friday, explained that this patent
would give JDate a case against every
major dating service, including the
wildly popular app Tinder. He speculated that JDate singled out JSwipe
in an attempt to bully it into a buyout. JSwipe has 375,000 users to
JDates 750,000 or so but its on
the rise among millennials and nonJews.
While JDate is enforcing its J pat-
ent, it may want to consider suing

these other entities that also use the
Judaism-powered letter.
1. JCrush: JDate could just swap
JCrushs name for JSwipes on the
lawsuit. Like JSwipe, JCrush is a
Tinder-style app that uses the swiperight-or-left model swipe right to
say you have a crush; swipe left to
say oy vey.
2. JWed: Why give the Orthodox
a pass? After all, theyre the fastest
growing segment of the Jewish community. Called Frumster from 2001 to
2012, JWed once claimed to be the
largest dating service for Orthodox
Jewish singles.
3. Jzoog: The service, founded by
Orthodox rabbi and dating coach
Arnie Singer in 2013, has a matchmaker feature that allows users to
set each other up. Sounds like a viral
threat.
4. J Street: No stranger to controversy, the liberal pro-Israel policy
group could surely handle a little
more. Plus, it has the audacity to highlight its J with a space. Worst case:
A lawsuit could be settled by having
J Street lobby for JDate among the
Beltway crowd.
LARRY YUDELSON
Candlelighting:
Friday, July 31, 7:55 p.m.
Nine other things that start with J for JDate to sue

l When it comes to defining the rela-
conquest by Bedouins
from the region east of
the Dead Sea to conflicts
with the Byzantine authorities.
One layer of the scroll
was decoded with help
of a high resolution 3D
scanner. Special digital
imaging software developed at the University of Kentucky
transformed the scan to allow the scroll
to be unrolled virtually. Once that was
done, researchers were able to read the
text. Because the decoded text from
Leviticus is only one layer of the tightly
wrapped charred scroll, researchers
hope to be able to read other layers.
The Ein Gedi scroll was the oldest
Torah scroll that archaeologists had
uncovered in a synagogue. And it is
the oldest Torah manuscript after the
Dead Sea Scrolls, which date to a few
hundred years earlier. Carbon dating
pegged the scroll to about 500 C.E.
5. j. the Jewish news weekly of

Northern California: The Bay Area
newspaper, which has been published
for over a century, thinks it can get
away with using a lowercase j at the
start of its name but its wrong.
6. JVibe: The now-defunct magazine catered to Jewish teenagers
the next generation of dating app users. JDate should have sued it before
it shuttered in 2010.
7. J. Crew: Why should JDate limit
itself solely to suing Jewish companies? The popular clothing retailer
uses the letter J just the same.
8. JSTOR: The digital database
of journals may be an invaluable
academic resource, but that doesnt
mean it should get away with appropriating the letter J. And with its
reach on college campuses, its wellpositioned to move into the dating
world.
9. J-Lo: Actress Jennifer Lopez isnt
the only celebrity with a nickname
that starts with J, but hers is perhaps
the most iconic. Suing Lopez would
put all of those other celebrities on
notice. Watch out, Jennifer Lawrence.
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Do you read the Torah? Maybe you

should. Do you realize how much wisdom
there is for life?
Ohio Governor and Republican presidential contender John Kasich, speaking
to political columnist Matt Bai, who is Jewish.
MORE VACATION:
Troupe heads off

to Walley World
Vacation, the
seventh in the series
of Vacation films that
began with National
Lampoons Vacation in
1983, opened Wednesday, July 29. The original
featured Chevy Chase as
the put-upon dad, Clark
Griswold, with Beverly
DAngelo as Ellen, his
understanding wife. In
the new film, their son,
Rusty, is all grown up,
and he decides to follow
in his fathers footsteps
and take Debbie, his wife
(Christina Applegate),
and the kids cross-country to Americas favorite
fun park: Walley World.
Ed Helms, well known as
a Daily Show correspondent, plays Rusty,
with Leslie Mann (Mrs.
JUDD APATOW) as
Rustys sister. SKYLER
GISONDO, 19, plays
James, Rusty and
Debbies older son.
Gisondo played Nick in
the last Night at the
Museum movie. (Three
of his grands are Jewish
his paternal grandpa
was Italian and not
Jewish.) By the way,
Chase and DAngelo are
in this film, too.
The film was co-directed and co-written by
JOHN FRANCIS DALEY,
30, and JONATHAN
GOLDSTEIN, 46. It marks
a directorial debut for
both guys. Daley, who
was raised in his moth-
ers Jewish faith, became

well known in the TV series Freaks and Geeks,
which Apatow produced.
He is now known for his
role as Lance Sweets on
the long-running show
Bones. In 2011, he and
Goldstein co-wrote
the hit flick Horrible
Bosses. Goldstein is a
Harvard-trained lawyer
who switched to sit-com
writing in 1998.
Actor Alex Rocco died
on July 18 at 79. His Hollywood Reporter obit
recounted how Rocco
got his most famous
role, playing Jewish
gangster Moe Green in
The Godfather. Rocco said: When I got
the script, I went in to
Francis Ford Coppola,
and in those days, the
word was, Read [Mario Puzos] book, which
I already did, and then
the actor would suggest to him which part
they would like. Well, I
went for I dunno, one
of the Italian parts. But
Coppola goes, I got my
Jew! And I went, Oh no,
Mr. Coppola, Im Italian.
I wouldnt know how to
play a Jew. And he goes,
Oh, shut up. [Laughs.]
He says, The Italians do
this, and he punches his
fingers up. And the Jews
do this, and his hands
extended, the palm flat.
Greatest piece of direction I ever got. Ive been
Skyler Gisondo
John Francis Daley
Stacey Farber
Aubrey Drake Graham
Paul Rudd
David Wain
playing Jews ever since.

From 1979 to the
present, there have
been TV specials,
movies, and series about
teens living near De
Grassi Street in Toronto.
Several TV series have
had Degrassi in the
title, and generations of
kids worldwide have
followed whats called
The Degrassi franchise.
There will be a reunion
special of former
Degrassi: Next Generation stars on the
TeenNick cable station

on Friday, July 31, at 8
p.m. Tribe members (all
Canadian landsmen)
appearing on the special
include STACEY FARBER, 27 (Ellie), LAUREN
COLLINS, 28 (Paige),
SHANE KIPPEL, 29
(Spinner), and JAKE
EPSTEIN, 27 (Craig). The
most famous Degrassi
alumnus wont be there:
rap star AUBREY DRAKE
GRAHAM, 28, aka Drake,
who played Jimmy
Brooks. (By the way,
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Netflix will show new episodes of Degrassi: Next

Class starting next January. Netflix rescued the
franchise from its
cancellation on the
Nickelodeon cable
stations.)
Netflix is the venue
for Wet Hot American
Summer: The First Day
of Camp. It is an eightepisode prequel of sorts
to the 2001 film that
failed at the box office
but later became a cult
hit. The episodes tell
the back stories of most

of the lead characters.
The films later success
was due in part to the
later fame of so many
cast members, including Bradley Cooper,
Amy Poehler, and PAUL
RUDD, 46. It seemed
clear in the original that
the setting, a summer
camp, was a Jewish summer camp, and it had a
lot of Jewish references
and jokes. Expect the
same in the sequel.
The original and the
sequel were directed by
DAVID WAIN, 45, and
both were co-written
by Wain and MICHAEL
SHOWALTER, 45. The
pair was able to coax the
entire original cast to appear in sequel episodes.
Tribe members in the
original and also in the
sequel include: Rudd,
MICHAEL IAN BLACK,
43, JUDAH FRIEDLANDER, 46 (30 Rock),
ELIZABETH BANKS, 43,
and KEVIN SUSSMAN,
34 (Stuart on Big Bang
Theory). Tribe members who appear in the
series but werent in the
movie, include JASON
SCHWARTZMAN, 35,
JOSH CHARLES, 43,
and RICHARD SCHIFF,
60 (The West Wing).
Other big names in the
sequel include Chris
Pine, Jon Hamm,
Michael Cera, and
Weird Al Yankovic. N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

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The golden bride
Yiddish theater as it was when it was young
JOANNE PALMER
young woman grows up almost

as an orphan in Russia her
mother has apparently misplaced her in her own search
for a better life, and her father is gone for
good. Tragic, of course.
And then her true love the son of
the innkeepers who have brought her up
goes off to university, and a rich uncle
shows up, and she is besieged by suitors,
one more outlandish than the next, and
then she brings all of them to gold-paved
America, and then they all compete for her
hand at a masked ball (because of course
thats the way you party in America) by
bringing her fake mothers, and theyre all
silly, and its mistaken identity after mistaken identity after, youve got it, mistaken
identity, and then her real mother shows
up, and then her true love is unmasked in
his true glory.
And they all sing and sing and sing.
Its not tragic. Not at all. Its funny.
What exactly is it? Its Di Goldene
Kale. The Golden Bride. An operetta,
fizzy and tuneful and illogical and fun,
looking at real issues, the search for
home, the need to stay put and the need
to move on, but never letting that get in
the way. Not unreminiscent of, say, Franz
Lehar or Jacques Offenbach or Gilbert and
Sullivan except for one thing.
Its in Yiddish.
Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, the artistic
director of the National Yiddish Theatre
Folksbiene, in partnership with Rutgers Universitys Mason Gross School of
the Arts, is presenting Di Goldene Kale
as part of the 2015 Mason Gross Summer
Series. The one-time-only production, set
for Wednesday, August 5, is a concert reading, with minimal staging and costumes.
The show was a huge hit when it first
opened, 92 years ago, at Kesslers Second
Avenue Theatre on Manhattans Lower
What: Di Goldene Kale The Golden
Bride
When: Wednesday, August 5; Dr.
Michael Ochs will talk about it from 6
to 6:30 p.m., and the performance will
begin at 7.
Where: At Rutgers Universitys Mason
Gross Performing Arts Center, 85
George St., New Brunswick
How much: $15; $10 for Rutgers
alumni, employees, and seniors; $5 for
students with valid IDs.
Information: (848) 932-7511
6 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 31, 2015
The score for Di Goldene Kale, a Yiddish operetta that will be presented at
Rutgers Universitys Mason Gross Performing Arts Center. Right, the program
cover for its first run, on Second Avenue.
East Side, but it had been forgotten for

years. It was unearthed about 25 years
ago, but it has taken another few decades
for its dust to be blown off and its shine
allowed to emerge.
Both this operetta and others like it
and more broadly, other works of Jewish
theater, including straight plays resonated so much with thousands of people,
Mr. Mlotek said. And although now we
tend to associate Yiddish with older people, the audience then was far younger it
was a regular theater audience.
We are looking at an important example of how popular the Yiddish theater
was in its time, Mr. Mlotek said. We are
looking at it not only as entertainment, but
when you put it in the perspective of history, it is a sociological statement, in terms
of the dialogue and the themes.
But also the music is so rich, such an
amalgam of so many influences.
The audience will have to imagine sets
and costumes, but they can get a sense of
the real draw people felt to go to Second
Avenue to escape into the theater. After
working an 18- to 20-hour day in a sweatshop, a seamstress might be able to save
up her pennies so she could go to the Yiddish theater, and be transformed somewhere else.
Our mission is to bring this world to a
new audience, so they can hear this glorious literature.
Because Mr. Mloteks roots are deep
within Yiddish theater his parents,
Chana and Joseph, were vitally important
to the rediscovery and renewal of Yiddish
culture, particularly its music I happened to know some of the tunes, he said.
Some of them were hits, and many of
them were in my consciousness all my life.
But it wasnt until Michael Ochs, who was
the head of the Loeb Music Library at Harvard then, discovered the manuscript, that
the long chain of work and discovery that
eventually led to the performance began.
Dr. Ochs, born in Germany in 1937, was
lucky since my very early childhood, he
said. My family and I got out a few days
before the invasion of Poland in 1939.
They came to New York, where we spoke
German at home, he said. Yiddish was
considered beneath contempt, and the
people who spoke it even worse.
(Ive been married to a Litvak for 55
years, so Im no longer a yekke, he added

quickly.)
Dr. Ochs first found the manuscript for
Di Goldene Kale about a quarter century
ago, as an exhibit for a meeting of the Society for American Music. I didnt know
anything about it, and I forgot about it,
he said. But then, after he retired from his
second career, as music editor at Norton
(I had the office next to the editor of the
Norton Antholoy of English Literature,
he said, marveling at it still, all these years
later), he was working on a project that
made him remember Die Goldene Kale,
found it, and was drawn into it. About
Local
five years ago, it was accepted as part of
a series from the University of Michigan,
Music in American Life.
As he followed research leads, Dr. Ochs
met Chana Mlotek; through her he met her
son, Zalmen.
Dr. Ochs figured out that the manuscript
was from a 1929 performance, not from the
1923 premiere. It was part of a huge and
elaborate circuit. This operetta opened
in a 2,000-seat theater in New York, and it
ran for 18 weeks. Then it traveled all over,
to all the usual places Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Omaha [!]. And then Buenos
Aires New York troupes would go down
to Argentina in the summer, when it was
winter there. It was performed in Manchester, England, and probably in eastern
Europe as well.
Mr. Mlotek first performed the piece in
New York. It was a concert performance;
at the piano, he provided the only musical accompaniment. Four people in the
audience were from Rutgers, One of them
was the dean of the school of arts, George
Staufer, who is not Jewish but is very interested in Jewish music. The very next day
they contacted the Folksbiene and said
they wanted to put it on, Dr. Ochs said.
Di Goldene Kale was written by Joseph
Rumshinsky, a prolific Jewish composer
Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre

Folksbiene, plays piano at the rehearsal.
who made it his mission to raise the level

of the Yiddish theater, which had begun
as a popular entertainment form, more
music hall, less high art. He succeeded in
that goal, Dr. Ochs said, experimenting
with such changes as introducing dance to

his operettas. There is a lot of dancing in
Di Goldene Kale, he added.
The libretto, he added, was by a woman,
Frieda Frieman, who is known to have
written a few others, although her husband, Louis Frieman, generally is assigned
the credit for it. The story seems to have
been that Louis Frieman tried to pitch it
to Rumshinsky, who was impatient at first
although he was bowled over by it soon
enough. But it was hard enough getting
the composer to listen to a young strangers pitch; had he added that the libretto
was by my wife, could he have gotten
Rumshinsky to listen to it? Dr. Ochs said.
I doubt it. But he is delighted to have
uncovered her secret, and now, all these
years later, to attach her name to it. (Louis
Gilrod, a professional lyricist, wrote the
lyrics.)
Dr. Ochs, a gifted speaker whose very
real delight in Di Goldene Kale is clear
whenever he discuss it, will talk about the
operetta before the performance. And
then the performance, accompanied by a
20-piece orchestra, sung by a full cast led
by the Folksbienes Dani Marcus, and who
range in age from about 25 to about 45,
will begin. And if you dont know Yiddish,
dont worry there will be subtitles.
With any luck and of course with
enough money Di Goldene Kale will
be performed again. But for now, there is
just this one chance to see it, hear it, and
glory in it.
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Local student joins other filmmakers in Israeli workshop
Abigail Klein Leichman
hen a promo for the

Jerusalem Film Workshop (www.thejfw.com)
popped up on his Facebook page earlier this year, Zev Rand of
Teaneck applied right away.
The 20-year-old was in his first year at
Manhattans School of Visual Arts, pursuing a bachelor of fine arts with a concentration in film editing.
Mr. Rand was one of 22 aspiring filmmakers accepted to the six-week summer
program, which gives participants a handson learning experience led by prominent
professionals in Israeli cinema in partnership with the New Fund for Cinema and
Television, the Jerusalem Film Festival,
and other sponsoring organizations.
The young filmmakers produced short
documentaries screened at the Jerusalem
Film Festival earlier in July. (Read more
about the festival on page 45.) Now Mr.
Rand is doing preproduction on a narrative short film, which will be completed by
the end of the program on August 7.
Who wouldnt want a summer in Israel,
learning from the best people in the Israeli
film industry, and on top of all that earning a film festival credit? he asked rhetorically. And what else could a Zionist like
me possibly ask for than having his first
film festival be the Jerusalem Film Festival?
Its perfection.
The workshop is based in Maaleh School
of Television, Film & the Arts near Jerusalem City Hall. Thats a fitting location, given
that the municipality has invested some NIS
50 million into planning a future state-ofthe-art film production complex. In recent
years, several major television and Hollywood projects were shot in the capital city,
including the NBC series Dig and Natalie
Portmans A Tale of Love and Darkness.
The international student workshop,
now in its second year, is an initiative of Gal
Greenspan and Roi Kurland, chief executive
officers of Tel Aviv-based Green Productions (www.greenproductions.co.il).
Our inaugural program showed us
Fun at summer film school. Zev Rand,

in plaid shirt, with interns Gil Eliav
(Jerusalem), Rita Zhang (China), Judy
Kim (California), Zoey Peck (Long
Island), Daria Cavlina (Croatia), Jamie
Blenden (West Orange), and Yael Lior
(Boston).
Photo courtesy of Zev Rand
how Israel truly offers an unparalleled

location for learning cinema and producing great works of film, Mr. Greenspan
said. Based on the first years success, we
looked to attract a new class of budding
filmmakers who recognize the filmmaking potential that exists here in Israel, and
we are deeply proud to have some of our
countrys most heralded cinematic minds
among our instructors.
The faculty includes, for example, director Tom Shoval, nominated for a 2015
Academy Award for his role in the film
Aya, and Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon,
From left, documentary team Niah Anson of Las Vegas, Gil Eliav of Jerusalem,
Zev Rand of Teaneck, and Lucas Markman of Texas in Jerusalem.

Photo courtesy of Zev Rand
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whose film Summer Vacation was short-listed for an
Oscar nomination.
For Mr. Rand, the superstar of the faculty is Arik
Lahav-Leibovich, a celebrated Israeli film editor best
known for his work on such multi-award-winning films
as The Bands Visit (2007), Lebanon (2009), and
Zero Motivation (2014). There really isnt much else
a young editor can ask for than to learn from one of
the top editors in Israeli cinema, he said. It has been
an awesome experience.
Though he is only entering his sophomore year, Mr.
Rand already has commercial film production and
editing experience on his rsum, thanks mainly to
three years in the amazing film club at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston. The group produced a range of videos for the school to use for fundraising and other purposes, learning valuable skills
along the way.
This genre has become a liberating mode of communication for Mr. Rand, who has struggled with a
speech impediment all his life.
The reason my concentration is editing is because
it is the volcano inside me and the words I do not have
because of my stutter, he texts on his phone the easiest way for him to convey what he wishes to express
verbally.
He has not allowed this challenge to keep him from
achieving his goals thus far, so when he says that he
aspires to be a head editor of feature films, a listener
is inclined to believe it will happen.
Whether it will happen in America or Israel is a bigger question. I want to do my part to transform Jerusalem into a major international film production location, and I hope to make aliyah after the Israeli film
scene gets bigger, he said.
He has visited Israel many times and would like to
have an Israeli residence to call his own, even if its not
full time. His older sister, Emma, lives in Tel Aviv and
served in the Israel Defense Forces.
Mr. Rands familiarity with the Israeli landscape
is helpful to first-time visitors in the workshop, who
come from countries including Croatia, France, Panama, and China, as well as Canada and the United
States. They look up to people like me to show them
all the fun stuff to do in Jerusalem, he said. Ive taken
them to a lot of the great restaurants I found during
my gap year in Israel at Mechinat Yeud.
The Rand family also includes parents Anne and
Jonathan; Eli, 13; and Devora, 12. They are members
of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck.
Many of the workshop participants are not Jewish,
or Jewish but not religiously observant. Mr. Rand said
that everyone gets along well. We all know how to
deal with including everyone, even on Shabbat.
For his film festival project, he worked with three
other students Lucas Markman of Texas, Niah Anson
of Las Vegas, and Jerusalemite Gil Eliav on a documentary about a local man who turns old windows
into works of art. We did two days of photography
and four days of post-production. We all hit it off right
away, which saved a ton of time.
The Jerusalem Film Workshop has garnered the support and involvement of leading lights in the industry.
Steve Tisch, who won an Oscar for producing Forrest
Gump, is a member of its advisory board, as are Dorit
Inbar, general director of the New Fund for Cinema and
Television, and Moshe Edry, head of United King Films.
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From garage to basement to museum

Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey finds new home
LOIS GOLDRICH
ts been a long time coming.

But when it opens its doors,
the Jewish Historical Society of
North Jerseys new home in Fair
Lawn will do even more than offer
its extensive collection of photos and
memorabilia. According to the groups
treasurer, Moe Liss, it will be a local
history museum.
For two years, the JHSNJ board has
been saying, We have to get out of the
basement. We need a museum, Mr.
Liss said.
The basement in question at
Barnert Hospital in Paterson has
been the most recent home to the societys voluminous collection.
Overseen by Jerry Nathans, who is
now the societys president emeritus,
since the 1980s, the basement quarters supplanted the organizations earlier homes in Nathans garage, the Y in
Wayne, and, briefly, William Paterson
College.
We have a gold mine here, over 175
years of local Jewish history, Mr. Liss
said. Its an amazing collection. Now
the entire nation can see it. He hopes
that the new location
will be more visible and
attract more people.
According to a JHSNJ
statement, the collection came into being in
the 1980s, when Sylvia
Firschein, at the Wayne
Library, recognized
[that] there was no collection of local Jewish history. She invited
people to come and give
oral histories and collected more than 100
interviews. From there
the Jewish Historical
Society of North Jersey
Treasures from the Jewish Historical Society of North Jerseys files and display cases and, above at left, some of the files.
was born.
Today, that collection
includes artifacts such as silk mill tools
on River Road across from ShopRite
12-member board originally just friends
from virtually having no money at all to
and Torah covers, banners, trophies, yearwill be easily accessible and have onsite
of Mr. Nathans but now a more profesraising enough to buy and to renovate a
books, newspapers, magazines, personal
parking.
sional body determined that the Barnert
property in just a few months, society
and family papers, and records of synaWere going to have a lot to do before
basement was just a storage space and
president Richard Polton said in a stategogues, service and social organizations,
it opens, he said. Theres an architechad to be replaced by a larger, multiuse
ment issued by the organization. The
and businesses. The materials reflect the
tural firm drawing up plans for the buildfacility. Thanks to a grant from the Jewish
opportunity to buy our own home was
social, cultural, economic, and religious
ing and rooms a board member, archiFederation of North Jersey, the board was
met with contributions from dozens and
history of Jewish life in Bergen, Passaic,
tect Marty Feitlowitz, who also is a former
able to work with a strategic planner to
dozens of friends of our organization.
and Hudson counties, Mr. Liss said.
chair of the Paterson Historic Commission
reach this goal.
It was exceedingly gratifying to feel the
He hopes that the new facility will serve
has donated his architectural skills to the
Reaching out to foundations, organistrength of support from so many people
as a museum, library, and resource center
project and it needs to be climate conzations, and individuals to get the funds
who wanted to see this happen.
not only for individuals but also for groups
trolled. Then there are details like paintit needed the property cost $200,000
The JHSNJs Photo Fridays has been a
from Jewish schools.
ing, decorating, and buying furniture.
we exceeded our goals, Mr. Liss, an
major factor not only in advertising and
Its a focal point we didnt have before,
Still, Mr. Liss said, we plan to open after
active member of the fundraising commitpromoting the historical society but in
a valuable resource for the community,
the holidays.
tee, said.
fundraising as well, Mr. Liss said. Photo
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Historical Society
FROM PAGE 10
Fridays is an email showcasing photographs of community members, from a

range of historical periods. Past president
Dorothy Green started it a few years ago; it
reaches 1,000 members and nonmembers
as well as organizations and foundations.
While the new facility will retain the services of archivist Miriam Spectre, it will be
staffed primarily by volunteers, Mr. Liss
said.
One longtime volunteer, Miriam Gray,
was drawn to the society through her connection to Paterson. When she was a small
child, as a result of her fathers job, her
family moved to the city, and it remains
foundational to her.
I began kindergarten in Paterson, Ms.
Gray said. More importantly, I started
religious school in Paterson. So began a
lifetime of commitment to Judaism, to Jewish education, to Israel, and to the magic of
the Paterson Jewish community.
It was a special time in Jewish and
be a museum, he said.
People should come because its their
history, said Mr. Liss, who was born and
raised in Paterson and has been active
in the local Jewish community for many
years. Why has he been so passionate
about the historical society? I have tremendous roots in Paterson, he said. It
was natural to get involved.
Jerry Nathans recalled some of the many
treasures the society holds.
In more than 35 years, the society has
amassed many wonderful items, including
Jewish business and professional cards,
telling who was here and what they did,
he said. The Jewish community played
an important part in the development of
the city. Nathan Barnert was twice elected
mayor, and a statue in his honor was
erected in front of City Hall while he was
still alive.
The society has an autobiography by
Rabbi Abraham Shinedling about life in
Paterson from about 1900 to 1910 in the
area mostly north of the Passaic River
The post World War II environment

brought forth a passion for
synagogue attendance, a fierce
commitment to Israel, and a strong,
very connected Jewish community.
MIRIAM GRAY
American history, she continued. The

post World War II environment brought
forth a passion for synagogue attendance, a fierce commitment to Israel,
and a strong, very connected Jewish community. This community, and my familys earnest devotion to the Jewish community, left a lasting impression on me.
Thus, my responsibility is to help maintain, preserve, and showcase the history
of the community that changed lives by
being a model of charity, good deeds, and
brotherhood.
Mr. Liss said that Fair Lawn was chosen as the location for the JHSNJ museum
not just because it contained a building
perfect for our needs but also because
it contains a large Jewish population, is
close to Paterson, where a large percentage [of Jews] started out in the mid1800s, and will allow the group to reach
out to more Jews in Bergen County. He
credited Alvin Reisbaum of Wayne, a
JHSNJ board member and former president of the Jewish Federation of North
Jersey, with selecting the site and negotiating for its purchase.
In the JHSNJ statement, Mr. Reisbaum
said that the new facility will be able to
offer climate-controlled rooms to protect
the collections. There also will be areas for
permanent exhibits and special displays,
classes, meetings and events.
We were a warehouse, but now we will
above Water Street. He gives many names

and their occupations.
We have records of congregations that
no longer exist in both Passaic and Bergen
Counties, he continued. And we were
able to microfilm the first five years of the
Jewish Standard out of Jersey City.
When the old Jewish Community News
went out of business, its editor, Edith
Sobel, gave the society hundreds of its
photos. Thats unusual, he said most
photographers, when their business
closed, left their negatives on the curb.
Still, most of the photos are unidentified, undated and no location or occasion, he said. We have Yiddish writings
that need translation, as well as Yiddish
and English books by local authors. We
have congregation and organization
scrap books and banners. There are oral
interviews that need to be transcribed
or digitized, handmade religious items
and so much more.
To become a member of JHSNJ or make
a tax deductible donation, go to https://
jhsnj.wordpress.com or write to the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey, 680
Broadway, Suite 2, Paterson, N.J. 07514.
Email jhsnnj@gmail.com or call (862) 2571208 for more information.
Visitors are welcome to the collection
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Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Appointments are necessary.
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LETTER FROM ISRAEL
You have 60 minutes to get out

Escape room games, including one from a Passaic, captivate Israelis
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
t was just the four of us in a small,

dark room my husband and me,
and our friends Esti and Benjie. To
proceed to the next room we had to
feel for the ringing mobile phone and the
flashlights that would help us locate and
correctly match up at least half a dozen
locks and keys leading to the main door
lock.
This task took us about 15 minutes, a
quarter of the total time designated for our
escape-room adventure at Secret Room
Jerusalem. Not surprisingly, the clock ran
down before we found the hidden stash of
cash in the third and final room. But we
had a heck of a good time trying.
If you havent already heard of real-life
room escape games, you will soon no
matter where you live. Escape rooms have
been popping up all over the world, and
Israel is no exception.
The concept, inspired by Agatha Christie mystery novels and the 1980s Quest
computer game, started in Silicon Valley
around 2006. The challenge: Your group
(usually two to five people, ages 12 or 14
and up) must escape a room or series of
rooms within 60 minutes by scouring
the environment for clever clues to solve
puzzles leading to the exit. A theme, like
escaping a prison cell or hunting for a treasure, heightens the fun.
There are now about 15 escape rooms
in Israel, mostly in Tel Aviv. Nearly all of
them offer a choice of English or Hebrew,
and sometimes other languages. It can be
a great activity for tourists at night or on
a hot or rainy day, but you must register
online in advance.
Olga Pasitselskaya from Secret Room
Jerusalem says that people are still just
learning about the concept. When Secret
Room opened last March following two
months of design and construction by
founders Vladimir Shevelevich and Konstantin Karelin, they offered a Groupon
deal that started the ball rolling.
People still ask us what they win at the
end, Pasitselskaya said with a laugh. Of
course, theres no actual prize aside from
the satisfaction of successfully escaping, or
the fun of trying. Many corporations use
escape rooms as a team-building tool.
Some escape rooms have Israeli twists.
Jerry Glazer made aliyah from Passaic.
He established Jerusalem Puzzle Quest,
which poses would-be escapees in
groups of up to eight with this question:
In the Nazirs apartment are 4 wine bottles in a cabinet near the door. Get them
and get out. Sound easy
Two problems. The cabinet is locked
Participants, like our correspondent Abby Leichman and her husband and friends, try to figure out how to escape from
Secret Room.
SECRET ROOM JERUSALEM
family in London, he said. And

it was awesome.
Then we did one in Amsterdam, and I decided I wanted to
do something like this, on steroids. So I built EscapeIt Israel
and opened last April.
In EscapeIts Syrian Spy
Room, players assume the role
of Mossad agents who must neutralize an assassination threat
after Israels downing of six Syrian MiG-21s. The plot is based on
an actual situation, which happened in April 1967.
I knew at least one of my
rooms would be specifically
Israeli, said Mr. Samuel, who
had been a chef and marketer
Players search for clues inside Questomanias Total Loss escape room.
PHOTO VIA YOUTUBE
before beginning this new venture. We have so many stories
brainstorm off of each other. Teamwork is
and the Nazir is trying to stop you.
here, from biblical times on. I came up
key.
(The choice to become a nazir is detailed
with the Syrian storyline in 12 minutes,
Questomania is another escape room
in the Bible. A nazir is someone who has
based totally on history.
offering an Israeli twist, with its Iron
vowed not to cut his hair or, more relMr. Samuel said that while many of Israevantly in this context, to drink wine. It is
els escape rooms use imported Russian
Dome themed game, based on the technology that protected the country during
a vow viewed with some ambivalence by
games and technology escape rooms are
last years Gaza war, coming soon.
our tradition.)
popular in Moscow EscapeIt and a few
Some of the larger escape rooms like
Participants have the option of adding
others developed all their software and
EscapeIt Israel in Tel Aviv allow two
an actor who plays the nazir. This actor
hardware in Israel.
teams of up to five members each to play
seeks to neutralize the participants as
Every game we will have in the future
against one another in identical setups.
they try to unlock the wine cabinet.
will be made in Israel as well, Mr. Samuel said. Our next branches in other citOfer Samuel, co-owner and founder
The Nazir is not violent or scary, but
ies will be phenomenal. Im planning on
of EscapeIt, experienced his first escape
he can slow you down, according to Jerusalem Puzzle Quests website, www.jpq.
doing it really, really big.
room in Berlin last year. My girlfriend
ISRAEL21C
co.il, but you will need to work fast and
suggested it; shed done one with her
Local
Touro dean to address challenges
of both aging and caregiving
Fair Lawn rabbi studies in Israel

Rabbi Alberto Zeilicovich of Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn
participated in this years Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar at Hartman Institute In Jerusalem. Rabbi Zeilicovich joined scholars in
Bible, Talmud, Jewish philosophy, and theology to explore justice and righteousness and their application today in America
and Israel. This fall, he will offer a series of adult education lectures at Temple Beth Sholom based on his study at Hartman.
Rabbi Alberto
Zeilicovich
One shul, two Kabbalat Shabbat services

Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood, two congregations
within one community, offers separate
Conservative and Reconstructionist Shabbat services.
Kabbalat Shabbat services will begin at
8 p.m. The Conservative service is held
in the main sanctuary, while the Reconstructionist minyan meets on the centers
second floor. Both congregations come

together for a festive Oneg Shabbat on Friday nights and for Kiddush lunch on Shabbat morning, after both groups separate
services have ended.
All services and special events are open
to the community. Go to TI-JCCs website,
www.synagogue.org, for information.
Dr. Steven Huberman, founding dean of the Touro College

Graduate School of Social
Work, will discuss Growing
Old: Taking Care of Yourself
and Your Parents Unique
Jewish Perspectives at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in
Te a n e c k . T h e S at u rd ay,
August 15 presentation, set
for 6:20 p.m. on Shabbat, Parshat Reeh, will include a question and
answer session.
Dr. Huberman will cover topics
including the need for regular timed
interaction with parents, medication
compliance, diet and

exerc i se for seniors,
long term care options
and finances, caregiver
fatigue, considering
the big question, and
advanced directives.
Dr. Huberman is a
national expert on aging
and recently served as
president of the New York
State Association of Deans of Social Work
Schools. The shul is at 389 W. Englewood
Ave. For information, call (201) 837-2795
or go to www.rinat.org.
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Local U.S. FIDF leaders visit

soldiers, commanders, and bases
More than 20 young leaders and supporters of Friends of the Israel Defense
Forces, representing communities from
the tristate area and across the United
States, joined the FIDF Young Leadership Mission to Israel this month to show
their appreciation for the IDF.
The mission brought members of
FIDFs Young Leadership Division
together with IDF soldiers. Mission participants received in-depth briefings by
military officers, toured strategic IDF

bases to get a behind-the-scenes look
into the Israeli military, and experienced
Israel in an entirely new way.
The mission was led by FIDF national
YL director Dan Haskell, FIDF development associate Carly Billig, and FIDF
YL mission co-chairs and YL-NY board
members Arielle Cole, Matthew Gelles,
and Katie Frankel.
Movie night honors Russian partisan

More than 100 people attended a movie night at
Lubavitch on the Palisades of Tenafly to pay tribute
to Nikolai Kiselev, a non-Jewish Russian partisan, who
managed to save more 200 Jews of Dolginovo (Dalhinev)
during World War II, at great personal risk. Kiselev later
was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, an official title awarded by Yad Vashem on behalf of the state
of Israel and the Jewish people to non-Jews who risked
their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The title is
awarded by a special commission, headed by an Israeli
Supreme Court justice, according to a well-defined set of
criteria and regulations.
Bertha Cremer-Karasek, one of the survivors, told
the audience her story.
Bertha Cremer-Karasek
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Teaneck shul elects new officers

The Jewish Center of Teanecks new officers, all dedicated and active members,
bring a wide range of experience to the
Jewish Center. According to President
Isaac Student, We welcome families as
well as individuals of all ages, and we all
look forward to meeting members and
guests at our daily, Shabbat and holiday
services, weekly Shabbat kiddushes,
and various events. He also noted that

the Jewish Center inaugurated a separate Sephardic minyan on Shabbat
Mevarchim (the Shabbat before Rosh
Chodesh); it will meet next on August 8.
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Sterling Place. For information, call (201)
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Montebello Jewish Center offers affinity groups in Kehillah Kedishah program
JOANNE PALMER
t least since the end of World

War II, people have joined synagogues for a number of reasons.
Prominent among those reasons
was the need to have a place for a child to
celebrate becoming bar or bat mitzvah. And
an even more compelling reason often has
been the understanding that its just what
you do. What Jews do.
That understanding has broken down, as
last years Pew study has shown (and as we
have written about exhaustively), so now
synagogues are trying to find their new centers of gravity as the world changes around
them.
The Montebello Jewish Center in Montebello, N.Y. thats in the town of Ramapo,
across the state line from Mahwah, N.J.
is facing the challenge by offering Kehillah
Kedishah a sacred community. That community is made up of about a dozen affinity
groups, small clutches of people not necessarily shul members brought together
by common interests, connected to the shul
through the structure of the program.
Kehillah Kedishah grew out of the spiritual
yearnings of two of the Conservative synagogues members, Nancy Recant and Laura
Schneider, and its rabbi, Adam Baldachin.
Ms. Recant, who moved to Tuxedo about
five years ago from Ridgewood and has
been a member of the Montebello Jewish
Center since then, had been feeling some
Laura Schneider
Nancy Recant
dissatisfaction with it. It wasnt working

for me. It was not spiritual. It just didnt feel
right, she said; Ms. Schneider shared that
malaise, she said. It also was a bit off socially,
she added. I was tired of going into shul and
not knowing people. I would go on Shabbat
and not really feel connected to anyone. I
wasnt a regular shul-goer, though, because
it wasnt appealing to me. Something needed
to change.
It was like an old machine that wasnt
working.
And as is true of many synagogues across
the liberal Jewish world, the demographics
were not in the Jewish centers favor. My
husband and I are in our late 50s, early 60s,
and we were among the younger members,
she said. Where are the young people? Why
werent they coming? Will we have a new
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Rabbi Adam Baldachin
generation of Conservative Jews?

The problems she saw, in other
words, were both specific to her synagogue, specific to her movement, and to
a large extent true for the larger Jewish
community.
Someone else might have given up
on the shul, perhaps on Conservative
Judaism, perhaps on Judaism itself, but
Ms. Recant is a lifer, with the critical eye
granted to people who know things from
the inside.
Her parents, Mina Morgenstern Jacobs
and Rabbi Israel Jacobs, were Holocaust
survivors. Rabbi Jacobs was the cantor
and ritual director at Ramat El, a Conservative synagogue in suburban Philadelphia, and Ms. Jacobs grew up in the
home of one of the most extreme chasidic rebbes, the last of the dynasty of
the Kotzker rebbe, Joseph Aaron Morgensztern. So Ms. Recant knew a great
deal about religious life to her right and
to her left. She liked much of it, she felt
alienated by much of it, but I never left
it, she said.
So there she was, unhappy but committed. Ms. Schneiders father died at
the beginning of January this year, and
Mina Jacobs, Ms. Recants mother, died
the next week. The energy of grief fueled
both women; they met with Rabbi Baldachin, and the idea of Kehillah Kedishah began to take form. Soon, they had
a committee they were joined by Linda
Eisen and Elinor Silver.
Kehillah Kedishah is based on the
work of Dr. Ron Wolfson, an educator and Conservative Jew whose books
delve into the ways that Jews can make
community. The groups that make up
Kehillah Kedishah will coalesce around
such shared interests as hiking, mah
jongg, arts and culture (defined in the
way that the groups members care

to define it), spiritual memoir writing
(which Ms. Recant will lead), morning
meditation, socializing for seniors (I
was shocked that there was a need for it,
but so many people signed up for it, Ms.
Recant said), scrapbooking, and morning meditation.
Lets get people by their interests,
Ms. Recant said. Those groups will be
a doorway; we want to create as many
doorways as possible.
We want to nurture leaders. Each
group will have a leader or co-leader.
Our leadership at the Kehillah Kedishah
will visit each group at least twice a year.
It will be a network with a clearly
defined center.
This is a unique program, Rabbi Baldachin said. People today are looking
for community in ways that are not traditional. We are looking to help people
relate to other people in the synagogue
in deeper ways.
The program is a low barrier to entry
for anyone who is considering coming
in.
Ron Wolfson offered a really great
model for me personally about how I
can offer connections through relationships, he continued. His local banker
remembered that it was his childs birthday, and that he was going on vacation.
When he got back, the banker sent him a
handwritten note, saying happy birthday
to his daughter, and that she hoped he
had a good vacation, and that he would
stop by and tell her about it.
He was so touched! His own rabbi
didnt remember about the birthday or
the vacation.
It is so important to create more
points of connection, so that even if the
rabbi doesnt get to ask them how their
last vacation was, at least people in the
group will. Theyll know exactly whats
going on with them.
Kehillah Kedishah is open to everyone; its leaders hope to draw participants from both Rockland and Bergen
counties. A survey up on the shuls
website is offering Kehillah Kedishahs
organizers more information about
what people want. Registration will be
open through the middle of August. For
more information, go to the shuls website, www.montebellojc.org, and click
on the Kehillah Kedishah tab at the top
left.
Rockland
Federation hosts trip
to Berlin and Prague
Holocaust museum
plans November gala
Jewish wisdom
on Wednesdays
Join the Jewish Federation of Rockland County on

a mission to Berlin and Prague from October 26 to
November 2. Spend time with German and Czech
Jewish communities to learn how the federation is
supporting and transforming the region as you visit a
number of historical attractions.
Deposits are due by Monday, August 3. If a 15-person minimum is not met, deposits will be refunded.
For information, call (888) 811-2812 or go to www.
jewishrockland.org.
The
Holocaust
Museum & Study Center will hold its annual
gala brunch on Sunday, November 8, at
10:30 a.m., at Rockland
Community Colleges
Cultural Arts Center.
This years honorees
are the Sasson family
Sharon, Uri, Elan, Ari,
Bret Stephens
Yamit, Tami, and Julie.
JASON SMITH
Pulitzer Prize-winner Bret Stephens, the
deputy editorial page editor for the Wall Street Journal, will give the keynote address.
For information, journal ads, and tickets, call (845)
574-4099 or email awinograd@holocauststudies.org.
Rockland Jewish Family Service offers a two-session course,

Pirkei Avot: Ethics of the Fathers on August 5 and 12. On
August 19 and 26 it will offer another two-session course,
The Healing Wisdom of Rabbinic Tales. All classes are at
11 a.m. Light refreshments will be served. Call Carol at (845)
354-2121, ext. 142, or email cking@rjfs.org.For information,
call (845) 574-4099.
Melton class scheduled

The Jewish Federation of Rockland will
hold a free Taste of
Melton class, taught
by Rabbi Paula Mack
Drill, on August 13, at
12:30 p.m., in the Elkin
conference room in the
federation suite of the
Rockland Jewish community campus, 450
Rabbi Paula Mack Drill
West Nyack Road, West
Nyack.
The curriculum is set by the Florence Melton School
of Adult Jewish Learning, and there are also a number
of individual classes. The Melton core curriculum, a
two-year program, is a comprehensive series of textbased lessons.
For information call Roberta Seitzman at (845) 3624200, ext. 130.
Upcoming events
at United Hospice
Several events are planned for the United Hospice
of Rockland. On Sunday, August 9, the 12th annual
Motorcycle Dice Run will start at Rhodes North Tavern, 40 Orange Turnpike, in Sloatsburg. Registration
begins at 9:30 a.m. The ride ends with a party at the
Haverstraw Elks Lodge. The Dancing with Our Stars
gala is set for Sunday, October 4, at the Colonial Inn
in Norwood.
For information, call (845) 634-4974 or go to hospiceofrockland.org.
Bim Bam Shabbat

for Camp Ramah
The Jewish Federation of Rockland continues Bim
Bam Shabbat with Rocklands PJ Library and Ramah
Day Camp at Ramah in Nyack, on Friday mornings
through August 14 at 9:30 a.m.
The program includes Shabbat-related songs, stories, and Jewish activities for toddlers and preschoolers. The camp is at 303 Christian Herald Road. Call
Lara Epstein at (845) 362-4200, ext. 180, or lepstein@
jewishrockland.org.
Help with combating hate

The Holocaust Museum & Study Center will offer a professional workshop for teachers, professionals, and parents
to help young people combat hate in all forms, including
bullying and anti-Semitism.
Keep us informed
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every photo will be published.
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collecting school supplies
Rockland Jewish Family Service is collecting donations
to help make the first day of school a success for local
families in need.
Suggested donations are backpacks, pens and #2
pencils, colored pencils and crayons, college and
wide-ruled paper, spiral and composition notebooks,
binders and folders, glue sticks and erasers, calculators and pocket dictionaries, pencil boxes, sanitizers,
tissue boxes, and gift cards to such stores as Staples,
Walmart, and Target.
Donations can be dropped off at RJFS, 450 West
Nyack Road, Suite 2, in West Nyack. Call Jessica at
(845) 354-2121, ext. 177, or email Jvera@rjfs.org.
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Remembering our history
ast and present often braid

together, just as hair does
or for that matter challah or havdalah candles
do. (Maybe its a Jewish thing; our
history is so very long that if we dont
do that, it would tangle and snarl the
way long hair does.)
In northern New Jersey, we can see
two of those intricately coiled braids
this week. In Di Goldene Kale, Zalmen Mlotek and the Folksbiene take
an old operetta, recognize that some
of its themes are modern and some
are timeless, that its giggle-making
silliness transcends now or then, that
wonderful music is wonderful music
and ask young singers to perform it
in front of a modern audience.
We know that a common perception of Yiddish is that its old, old,
old, and that anything that touches
it, even briefly, will come away faintly
mildewed. Thats wrong, wrong,
wrong. As Mr. Mlotek pointed out,
the audiences that went to Second
Avenue theaters were young (probably younger than Broadway audiences today, because what young
person can afford a ticket to Broadway?), and the shows were made to
appeal to them.
We urge our readers to experiment

by going to see Di Goldene Kale at
Rutgers on Wednesday night (and if
its sold out, as it well might be, to
push for another chance to see it). We
can guarantee that you wont pick up
any mold, and we can assure you that
youll exit laughing. Maybe itll even
tempt you to learn Yiddish.
Meanwhile, the New Jersey Historical Society of North Jersey finally is
able to move to a new home, a place
where it can unpack, unfurl, and
maybe even breathe.
The society speaks to the specificity of experience. If your New World
roots are in New York, as mine are,
then it is likely that you made the
same assumption that I did that the
American Jewish Ur was the Lower
East Side. Yes, of course there was
Ellis Island, but after that it was all
Delancey and Houston and Rivington and Orchard. And that is true for
many of us.
Our parents or grandparents moved
on to the other four boroughs (or
really three of them, because as far as
we know almost no one went to Staten
Island) and then on to the suburbs
east to Long Island, north to Westchester, west to New Jersey. Others might
have moved on to other parts of the

country (and then dropped off our
radars, because really).That is not at
all true, of course. Some of us learned
through Philip Roth that the unpronounceable and nearly unspellable
Weequahic, in Newark, was the magnetic center of a tightly knit community, made up of people whose ancestors moved there right off the boat and
until recently rarely strayed farther
than the towns that make up Metro
West, right next to Newark.
And thats still not the full truth.
Many Jews went straight to Paterson,
many of them textile workers drawn
to the work there. Others went to Jersey City, and others to Hackensack.
Each of those places developed its
own community and culture. They
are no longer as distinct as they used
to be, but they have not vanished
fully. The Historical Society pays
homage to those very specific places,
its objects carry their imprint, and
its photographs shows us the faces
of the people who lived and worked
and loved there.
Places matter. Faces matter. History matters. Connections matter.
We are lucky to be able to see those
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truths this week.
Releasing Pollard
ccording to Jonathan
Pollards lawyers (and
as we told you on our
website last week), the
United States Parole Commission has
decided that Jonathan Pollard will be
released in November. He will have
served 30 years of his life sentence.
We at this newspaper have argued
before that no matter what you think
of Pollards crime he did spy on the
United States, albeit for a friendly
country; he did sell the information,
so his motive was at least partly venal;
he was in prison far longer than anyone convicted of a similar offense,
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even though those other crimes had

far worse consequences for national
security and unmasked spies he
was kept in prison far too long.
He should have been released long
ago, and we are glad that if nothing
changes, soon he will be.
Our government denies that Mr.
Pollard will be released in order to
placate American and Israeli Jews,
many of whom are enraged over the
arms deal our secretary of state, John
Kerry, signed with Iran.
Perhaps thats true. Perhaps the timing was simply coincidental it is true
that Mr. Pollard will be newly eligible
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for parole then. But the timing seems

so fortuitous the Jewish communitys been pushing for Pollards parole
for many years, and the United States
could use a bone to throw to us that
it is hard to believe in that coincidence.
We are glad that Mr. Pollard will
be released. It was long overdue. We
pray that our leaders will have the
wisdom to vote on the Iran deal in
a way that history will show to have
been wise our inclination is to
believe that it should be rejected, but
we claim no particular expertise.
We deplore the linkage between
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Sinning against
God in Ramapo
hat does burying the dead have to do

with raising reading scores in public
schools?
Everything.
A bill now before the New York State Legislature
would strip away the powers of the elected members
of Rockland Countys East Ramapo Central School District Board of Education and hand those powers to a
state-selected outside monitor. The districts board is
made up of nine members, seven of whom are charedi.
What prompted the bill was a report issued by the
New York State Board of Education, based on the findings of an appointed fiscal monitor, Henry M. Hank
Greenberg.
What Greenberg found was horrifying.
The Ramapo district is home to 33,000 children of
school age. Of that number, 9,000 students most
of whom are Latino, black, or Haitian attend public schools. Nearly all of the
remaining 24,000 students
attend private schools,
which in the districts case
is a euphemism for a network of 60 yeshivot.
By virtually every educational measure Greenberg
used, the East Ramapo district does not measure up,
Shammai
only down. For example,
Engelmayer
46 percent of the 33,000
students in grades three
through eight registered
well below proficient in reading skills, while 38 percent were merely below proficient. Only 14 percent
were proficient and only 2 percent fell under the
excels in standards column.
In math, 55 percent of all students in grades three
through eight were well below proficient, while 32
percent were merely below proficient.
If someone needs it to be spelled out, this means
that in East Ramapo, 85 percent of children in grades
three through eight are incapable of simple arithmetic
computations.
As to why, Beginning in 2009, [the] Board made
draconian spending cuts to public school programs and services in order to balance its budgets.
Then, after cutting teachers, assistant teachers,
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
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administrators, social workers, and guidance counselors, and
putting a freeze on the purchase of new books, equipment, and
supplies, the board diverted much of the savings to the yeshivot.
Most disturbing, as Greenberg put it, the Board appears to
favor the interests of private schools over public schools.
That brings us to what burying the dead has to do with raising
reading scores in public schools.
In the Babylonian Talmud tractate Gittin (61a), we are taught:
We provide support for the poor of the non-Jews along with the
poor of Israel, and visit the sick of the non-Jews along with the sick
of Israel, and bury the dead of the non-Jews along with the dead of
Israel, in accord with the Ways of Peace (darchei shalom).
In other words, you might think that Jews need to be concerned
only about other Jews and their needs, but in order to live in peace
with our non-Jewish neighbors, the Talmud says in Gittin, we do
for them what we would do for our own.
There is nothing peaceful about the East Ramapo situation,
however. Meetings of the school board tend to degenerate into
verbal brawls, Greenberg wrote.
The excerpt from Gittin seems to imply, however, that we need
to be concerned with the needs of the non-Jew only if not doing
so could have disastrous consequences.
That indeed was the world in which the early Sages lived. AntiJewish riots often with fatal results were not uncommon, and
the slightest slight could set them off.
By the close of the talmudic period, however, meaning around
the year 600, things had improved somewhat, and halachic rulings reflected that. For example, Jewish physicians were told they
had to heal all who were ill, without distinction, and they could
not charge a fee if their patients were poor.
Jewish communities established norms of behavior that
included visiting anyone who was ill, Jew or non-Jew, and giving
charity to everyone in need. They also established communal philanthropies, and some of those funds went to support the needs
of the general non-Jewish community.
Darchei shalom was no longer the motivator; darchei Torah, the
ways of the Torah, was. In his commentary to BT Bava Kamma
37b, the 13th century French scholar and author Menachem Meiri
explained as much:
The double standard approach implied in the Gittin excerpt
above and elsewhere (including in a passage further down) in the
early stages of talmudic development referred, he said, specifically to the nations that are not constrained by the ways of religion
and morals, which is another way of saying they do not obey the
so-called Seven Noahide Commandments.
However, the Meiri said, whenever they [the non-Jews] do
observe these seven mitzvot, their legal status with respect to us
is the same as our legal status with respect to them, and we must
not favor ourselves in matters of law. And given this is the case, it
goes without saying that this [equality] holds true for the people
constrained by the ways of religion and morals.
Understand what the Meiri is saying: non-Jews may be righteous,
in part, because of their beliefs, not in spite of them.
That was revolutionary.
Rabbi Yaakov Emden (1697-1776) went even further. The Talmud, he noted, said that despite black-letter Torah law that
required that all lost objects had to be returned to their owners, a
Jew could keep an object a non-Jew lost. Emden explained:
The Israelite was not obliged to restore the lost object of the
non-Jew because the non-Jew, too, did not return the Israelites
lost article. But this only applies to those nations that knew no
Creator or Torah, meaning, they had nothing in common with
us. However, it is long known that the present day nations who
believe in the principles of the Torah meaning Christians and
Muslims cannot be regarded as strangers by us.
Clearly, then, in addition to being a Chilul Hashem, a desecration of Gods holy name, what is going on in Ramapo clearly goes
violates everything the Torah and the Judaism that flows from
it stands for.
What makes it worse is that the people doing this proclaim
loudly that they are the only authentic Jews because they practice
Judaism as God intended.
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are you to know that it really doesnt
rejection and not making the
have to do with your shoes, even if
right connection the right
thats a ridiculous reason not to accept
shidduch, you might say.
someone for a position unless, say,
There definitely is a difference,
youre wearing sneakers to an interview, which would in most cases be
though. Sometimes relationships just
inappropriate. It would be a sign to an
dont work out, although there was no
employer that youre not cut out for
fault by either party. Of course there are
Dena Croog
the job. But more realistically, how do
exceptions, but for the sake of this argument, Im going to go with situations
you know that the company isnt taking you on because youre female or a
wherein a relationship simply doesnt
minority, rather than because youre not the right
work out.
person for the position?
I heard someone recently reflect on this idea, in
Yes, such discrimination may be illegal, but how
reference to any type of relationship, saying how
are you to know?
clicking socially with another person is kind of like
I guess a person can make him or herself go crazy
trying on a new pair of shoes. Sometimes the shoes
(and I use that term very loosely) trying to understand
are to a persons liking, and sometimes they dont fit
the why-WHY-WHY???!! when faced with rejection.
the bill. Its no reflection on the shoes themselves, or
One exception, I would say, is religious discrimion any kind of objective sense of beauty. There is no
nation. Whether you are rejected personally for
objective sense of beauty. Its all subjective. One persons trash is another ones treasure. Not to compare
your choice of observance or whether an entire
shoes, or better yet a person, to trash even though
religious demographic is rejected, when it has to
I kind of am making that comparison But my point
do with such prejudice, it hits the core of a person.
is that its all a matter of being the right fit for you.
Thus, I believe, it is entirely personal.
A more popular trend may not be to your own likDue to its timely nature it was marked just last
ing. Likewise, the right fit for you is not always the
Sunday lets take Tisha BAv and the events that are
right fit for everyone.
associated with it. The destruction of both Temples:
The same is true of finding a job. You may be a canpersonal. Religious persecution in the hands of the
didate who doesnt end up getting the position, or
Babylonians: personal. Religious persecution at the
you may be someone not chosen as a candidate at all.
hands of the Romans: personal. The expulsion of
This isnt a reflection of your inner being. It doesnt
Jews from England: personal. The expulsion of Jews
make you a bad person. Its not personal. It simply
from France: personal. The expulsion of Jews from
means that youre not the right fit for the job. Yes, of
Spain: personal. Approval of the Final Solution
course, the rejection may feel like a one-two punch to
and the other events of the Holocaust: personal.
Rejection is difficult, but I think its important to put
the stomach, and yes, of course, its incredibly frustrating when youre on a job hunt that seems to be
things into perspective, especially while we are still
going nowhere. But amid all of that, its important to
remembering Tisha BAv so clearly. In this day and age,
remember throughout not to take it personally.
we are still being rejected as Jews. And while you might
Its not about you, per se. Its about the fit. Unless,
argue that its a rejection of a people, not a personal
that is, theyre rejecting you because of your shoes,
rejection, I would say that the rejection of all Jews is a
which may be fine-looking shoes under any other
personal rejection of each and every one of us as individuals, just as a rejection of one Jew because of his or
standard of dress. That, I would consider personal.
So not taking things personally its so much easier
her religion equates to a rejection of all Jews.
And that, as I see it, is entirely personal.
said than done. Im trying to remember this every time
Still, just because common-day scenarios of rejecI get a rejection response from a literary agent regarding
tion may not be as weighted as anti-Semitism, and
my submissions. They often phrase it like this: while its
may really not be meant to be taken personally like
an interesting premise, nice writing, blah blah blah, its
religious persecution, that doesnt belittle the fact
just not the right fit for us. Thats all well and good, and
that such scenarios do exist. While the idea of being
I know its a tough business out there, but a rejection is
rejected as Jews seems to put other forms of rejection
a rejection no matter how nicely its phrased. And so I
into perspective, it definitely does not negate them.
have to continue with the mantra Ive been preaching
Being rejected is a hard pill to swallow, no matter
right here, to not take it personally. (Selfish side note, if
how you cut it. Its sometimes difficult to internalanyone out there has connections to an agent, feel free
ize the fact that most of the time it isnt about
to send them my way...).
So then what things might we take personally? I
you, specifically. Whether youre job hunting, pitching your book, pitching yourself, or shopping, its
guess it depends on the details. If you discover that
important to realize that, very simply, sometimes
the reason your date doesnt click with you is because
the shoe just doesnt fit.
he or she thinks you lack good looks or are too low
on the social status totem pole, then yes, maybe take
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck and
that personally. If you find out that someone wants
the founder of Refaenu, a nonprofit organization
nothing to do with you socially because of a disability, then yes, Id take that personally. But on the other
dedicated to mood disorder awareness and support.
hand, how are you to know that these are the reasons
More information about the organization and its
for the rejection (unless you are told as much) and
support groups can be found at www.refaenu.org.
that its not simply a case of not being the right fit in
You also can email dena@refaenu.org with any
terms of personality?
questions or comments.
Opinion
How goodly are thy tents

A rabbi/Eagle Scout reflects on the movements new stand
distinct high point

70 percent of Naval Academy
among my rabbinic
graduates. Eleven of the 12 astronauts to walk on the moon had
activities this past
been Boy Scouts, including Eagle
week was the opportunity to offer an invocation at
Scout Neil Armstrong. Apollo
an Eagle Scout Court of Honor
13 commander Jim Lovell (with
the ceremony at which a boy
whom I had the opportunity to
is recognized with the highest
discuss Scout programming) also
award the Boy Scouts of America
was an Eagle Scout.
bestow.
In addition to opening this
The
newly
we e k s c h e e r f u l
minted Eagle
proceedings with a
Scout in this case
word of prayer (I
had been a young
have borne you on
member of the coneagles wings, and
gregation I led in
brought you close
Newington, Conto Me), I also prenecticut, for many
sented my young
years. His parents
fellow Eagle Scout
were active memwith a congratulabers of the comRabbi Joseph
tory letter and cerH. Prouser
munity, congregatificate on behalf of
tional leaders, and
the National Jewish Committee on
observant Conservative Jews. This was not the first
Scouting, on which I have served
rite of passage that brought me
for many years. The function of
and this particular guest of honor
that national committee (one of
together almost 18 years ago, it
the oldest in the Boy Scouts of
was my privilege to bestow his
America, together with the analogous Roman Catholic body), is
Hebrew name upon him at his
to provide Jewish programming,
bris. I also had joined his parents
to administer a religious awards
together in marriage.
program (recognizing boys
It was deeply gratifying to be
learning, observance, and serreunited with this young man,
vice in the Jewish community),
and to see how seriously he has
and to recruit Jewish organizaembraced both his religious obligations and the values of charactions congregations, Jewish
ter, patriotism, and leadership
community centers, and schools
at the heart of the Boy Scout
to sponsor local troops and
Movement, an organization with
Cub Scout packs.
which I (Eagle Scout Class of
For many years, the National
1976) have been proudly affiliJewish Committees efforts to
ated for some 40 years.
recruit sponsoring organizations
One of the troop leaders in
called charter partners in
attendance at the celebration
the Jewish community has been
shared a series of statistics with
hampered by objections among
the assemblage, demonstrating
progressive Jews to a BSA policy
the impact of the Boy Scout expebarring gay men and women
rience. For example, he pointed
from serving as volunteer adult
out that 89 percent of boys servleaders. Many congregations and
ing as high school senior class
Jewish schools have refused to
presidents have been involved
sponsor affiliated troops or have
in scouting, as have 85 percent
severed ties to the Boy Scout
of those boys elected high school
movement to protest the policy
student council president. So,
on adult leaders. As a result, the
too, 71 percent of high school
number of Jewish-sponsored
football captains and 65 percent
local units and as a consequence, the number of Jewish
of basketball captains. Looking only at the men in each of
boys and teens affiliated with the
these groups, Boy Scout alumni
BSA declined precipitously in
also account for 85 percent of
recent years.
FBI agents, 65 percent of college
The Boy Scouts of America
graduates, 72 percent of Rhodes
was impoverished by the decline
scholars, 63 percent of Air Force
in Jewish enrollment. More tragically, Jewish boys and teens have
Academy graduates, 68 percent
missed out on an outstanding
of West Point graduates, and
Rabbi Joseph Prouser, at the center of the last row, and a Muslim chaplain with a troupe from
Bengal. (Girls are part of the scouting movement outside North America.)
The Scottish contingent arrives at the Boy Scout Jamboree.
program that combines fun,

healthy outdoor activities, patriotic expression, leadership- and
character-building activities,
and socialization in a culturally
diverse context. All this is done
through an organization that
from its founding more than 100
years ago has on principle
warmly and explicitly included
Jews at every level, and that
has inspired countless young
members of the Jewish community (this rabbinic writer among
them) to deeper religious commitment and devotion.
The national policy barring
gay volunteer leaders, which
has led so many Jewish organizations to eschew the Boy Scout
movement, has been dropped.

In a new policy introduced by
BSA President (and former U.S.
Secretary of Defense) Robert
Gates, himself an Eagle Scout,
and adopted by the BSA executive board, local charter organizations synagogues, day
schools, and Jewish community
centers, as well as churches of
a variety of faiths now will be
permitted to set their own standards for volunteer leaders. That
is to say, prospective sponsoring
organizations in the Jewish community henceforth may organize

troops staffed with adult volunteers regardless of sexual orientation if they so choose.
Religious organizations with
principled objections to enrolling
gay adult volunteers in their own
troops are permitted to make
their local staffing decisions
accordingly. It is widely assumed
that Roman Catholic and Mormon churches, for example, will
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Cover Story
Where
the wild
things
are
collects animals
and their verses
LARRY YUDELSON

poses with a friend.
abbi Nathan Slifkin fell in love with animals when

he was 3 years old.
It is a passion he hasnt outgrown.
I used to endlessly read books about animals
and have all kinds of exotic pets, he said in a recent phone
conversation from his home in Beit Shemesh, Israel.
Those pets included hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, guinea pigs,
frogs, newts, salamanders, parrots and more.
My mother indulged me, Rabbi Slifkin said. She let me
have everything except snakes and tarantulas. So I used to
keep my snakes and tarantulas hidden away in the closet.
Zookeeper didnt seem a likely profession for a nice Orthodox Jewish boy growing up in Manchester, England. When
Nathan was 10, his next door neighbor offered a suggestion:
When you grow up, you could write a book about animals
in the Torah.
At 40, Rabbi Slifkin has grown up. And he has just published
the first volume in The Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal
Kingdom. He will be in Teaneck and Bergenfield this week,
celebrating the books publication.
But at least as satisfying for his inner 10 year old, he also has
become a zookeeper. Last fall he opened the Biblical Museum
of Natural History in Beit Shemesh.
The museum and the encyclopedia complement each
other, Rabbi Slifkin said. The museum presents the animals
in the flesh. The encyclopedia presents them in the written
word, in a lot more detail.
In the encyclopedia, he aims to include every animal mentioned in the Bible, and a few mentioned only in the Talmud.
He discusses natural history (did you know leopards were
common in Israel through the 19th century, and still were
found in the Galilee in the 1960s?); the identification of which
species the Tanach refers to; and all the discussions of the
animal in the Talmud, midrash, and other traditional Jewish
sources.
The text reflects his scholarly interests. When he studied for
the rabbinate and became interested in Jewish education, I
looked into what the Torah had to say about animals, and saw a
wealth of information. Color pictures, though, guarantee that
even his 3-year-old self would have enjoyed the encyclopedia.
The first volume he expects three in

all focuses on wild animals: Lions and
leopards and bears, and also gazelles and
ibexes and monkeys and hippopotamuses.
There are 26 animals in all.
Wait a second. Hippopotamuses in the
Bible?
These were animals who lived in Israel.
Crocodiles and hippos and cheetahs you
used to see them in Israel. Now you can
only see them in Africa, he said. (Rabbi
Slifkin leads an annual trip to Africa to see
the animals.)
Israel, he noted, had Asian, African,
and European animals, such as gazelles,
hippos, and bears.
You will not find live lions at Rabbi
Slifkins museum, which combines live
exhibits and taxidermy. He used to give
tours at the Jerusalem zoo, but I wanted
something that would be more focused
and hands-on and interactive.
There is a stuffed lion. Elephants are
represented by tusks. The Bible says King
Solomon received elephant tusks as gifts.
Theyre huge. The live animals about 30
different species are smaller.
They include chameleons, geckos, birds,
and hyraxes.
Hyraxes?
Hyraxes are cousins of elephants that
look like rabbits, he said. Thats being
charitable; some would say: that look like

extremely unpleasant and disgruntled
groundhogs.
Psalms 104:18 says: The high hills are
for the ibex; the rocks are a hiding place
for the hyrax. In the museum, there is a
stuffed ibex mounted above a cage containing live hyraxes.
Theyre mentioned several times in the
Tanach. Every native Israeli knows what it
is, Rabbi Slifkin said.
American Jews who have some elementary-school knowledge of Hebrew, though,
will be misled by the verse. The Hebrew
for hyrax is shafan which is modern
Hebrew, and in childhood songs, means
rabbit.
A lot of the identities of animals in the
Bible got lost as a result of exile, Rabbi
Slifkin explained. The animals of the
Torah are of the Land of Israel. When Jews
moved to Europe, they lost track. Tzvi
is really a gazelle. In Europe, they transferred the name to the deer. The Gemara
says the horns of a tzvi are not branched.
The horns of deer are branched. Rashi
explained that what he living in France
called a tzvi is not really a tzvi. Similarly, a nesher is a vulture. In Europe, they
switched the name to eagle.
Likewise, they switched shafan to rabbit. Thats why a lot of Israelis use shafan
At his Biblical Museum of Natural History, Rabbi Nathan Slifkin shows off
live reptiles and stuffed large mammals.
Who What Where

Shabbat, August 1: Rabbi Nathan Slifkin
will speak at the Bais Medrash of Bergenfield in the morning and afternoon.
The synagogue is at 371 S. Prospect Ave.,
Bergenfield.
Sunday, August 2: Congregation Beth

Aaron will host Rabbi Slifkin and his multimedia program, The Animal Kingdom
in Jewish Thought. 10 a.m. 950 Queen
Anne Road.
for rabbit, and shafan sela rock shafan

for the hyrax.
The museum collection began in his
house, recreating the well-known Jewish
folktale. My wife complained that our
house was too small, so I brought in a
stuffed cheetah and ibex and a hyena. And
then I took them out and now the house is
so big, he said.
We still have a few things at home: turtles and birds.
Being in Beit Shemesh, we cater to
a very diverse population, he said. We
have chasidic schools who come whose
students cant speak Hebrew, and need
Yiddish speaking tour guides. We have
Orthodox and secular people come.
Unlike a typical zoo or museum, where
visitors can wander at will, visits to the
Biblical Museum are conducted by guides.
Visitors have to make reservations in
advance to ensure a guide who speaks
their language (English, Hebrew, and Yiddish) will be available.
Rabbi Slifkin frequently leads the
90-minute English-language tours.
Its a lot of fun and extremely educational. We pull out a nine foot python and
wrap it around peoples necks, he said.
Is there a python in the Tanach?
It turns out the museum isnt strict
about which species it exhibits.
There are several different snakes
mentioned in the Tanach, but not actually
pythons, Rabbi Slifkin said. We take the
general category mentioned in the Torah,
we dont necessarily have the same species. The Torah mentions a gecko. Israeli
geckos dont do so well in captivity, so we
views of renowned Torah authorities,

nobody could say anything.
I learned that there are radically
different world views in Judaism. The
rationalist worldview of Maimonides
and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch are
not accepted in large parts of the charedi world. In some parts they refuse to
believe that respected rabbis could have
said that, so they assume their rationalist statements are forgeries. Others admit
that they said it, but that it is forbidden to
teach it today, he said.
Rabbi Slifkin is calm about it.
Different strokes for different folks,
he said.
He doesnt discuss these topics in the
encyclopedia or the museum.
I dont want to get into a topic thats
Children visiting the Biblical Museum of Natural History in Beit Shemesh
going to alienate some people. Its not relevant. Im dealing with the animal world
charedi rabbis in Israel and the United
of the Torah, and dinosaurs are not part of
have a different species.
States, demanding he renounce his book.
the animal world of the Torah.
Rabbi Slifkin is proud to be presenting
He refused, and wall posters went up in
So how does he reconcile science with
a new dimension of Judaism. Judaism
his neighborhood, accusing him of being
the Torahs account of a six-day-long
doesnt only deal with the kitchen and the
a heretic. The rabbis leading the opposicreation?
shul, but also cheetahs and crocodiles.
tion to his work refused to speak to him
Oof. On one foot? Its a very compliBut the museum does not address the
or hear his side; most were incapable of
cated topic. Thats why I have a whole
topic that put Rabbi Slifkin in the center
reading his books, which were published
book on it.
of an international firestorm a decade ago:
in English.
Very briefly, I follow the approach of
evolution.
Bookstores pulled his books. His pubRabbi Hirsch, the 19th century German
At the time, Rabbi Slifkin considered
lisher dropped him. He lost a teaching job.
Orthodox rabbi. Writing when the thehimself charedi. He had published four
In the end, the books were republished
ory of evolution was new, Rabbi Hirsch
books with a charedi publisher. In one, he
by a different Orthodox publisher 10 years
said that if it were proven true, it gives
discussed evolution and used Orthodox
ago, he said. I was in a very different
evidence of the creative wisdom of God,
sources to defend the idea that the world is
state of life.
that God could create the laws of nature
more than 6,000 years old. He had OrthoI thought since I was essentially not
that developed the initial building blocks
dox rabbis who approved of his writing.
saying anything new, just saying the
of matter into what we see today.
And then he received faxes from leading
In the same way that we daven about
the weather but it doesnt
preclude the science of

is used elsewhere to refer to a stain.12
:
Others relate it to
meteoroloy, and we
the term chabura, wound, and explain
that it refers to the
mark left by a wound.13 Thus, this particu
lar verse seems to
daven to God to heal the
specifically refer to the bruise-like blotchi
Cheetahs and leopards are basically similar
ng of the leopard
in terms
of their coloration; although cheetah
rather than the more perfect circular spots
sick but we have the scis have spots and
that a cheetah
leopards have blotchy markings, both
would certainly be possesses.
described as variegated in their colorat
ence of medicine, it goes
ion. However, it is
interesting to note the wording of the
famous verse that The Greek Leopard
in the same way with the
refers to the leopards markings:
Symbolism
One of the most intriguing appearances

Can the Cushite change his skin, or

of the leopard in

development of life.
the
leopard
his
Scriptu
re is in a prophetic vision of Daniel:
blotches (chavarburotav)? So too, can

you, in whom
evil is ingrained, do good? ( Jer. 13:23)
Hashem works through

Daniel told the following: In my vision
at night, I saw
the four winds of heaven stirring up the
The word used to describe the leopard
great sea. Four
the
laws of nature.
be man-eaters in other parts of the world, and are hunted
s markings, chamighty
beasts, each differen
century, at
The Leopards of Israel
NATURAL HISTORY
ad of
The strikingly beautiful leopard is the most widespre
in much of
habitats
of
all the big cats. It lives in a variety
leoptimes,
former
In
Asia.
and
East,
Middle
Africa, the
in the
ards were abundant throughout Israel, especially
hilly and mountainous regions:
With me from Lebanon, O bride, come with me from
Lebanon, look from the peak of Amana, from the peak
the
of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from
mountains of leopards. (Song. 4:8).
1122
varburotav, is conventionally translated

as spots, but this
is not a precise translation. Amongst the
traditional commentators, some translate chavarburotav
as ketem, which
as a result. In the first decade of the twentieth

and
least five leopards were killed in between Jerusalem
after
Beit Shemesh; one of them badly mauled a person
being shot.3 The last specimen was killed by a shepherd
lived
near Hanita in 1965.4 Another leopard subspecies that
It
in the area was the Sinai leopard, Panthera pardus jarvus.
was hunted by the Bedouin upon whose goats it preyed,
and is now extinct.

is
Today, the Arabian leopard, Panthera pardus nimr,
It is
the only subspecies of leopard to be found in Israel.
only
one of the smallest subspecies of leopards, weighing
up to about seventy pounds. The Arabian leopard usually
But
preys on ibex and hyrax, and rarely attacks livestock.
s
it, too, faces extinction. Some leopards of this subspecie
learned
and
area,
Gedi
Ein
formerly inhabited the popular
dogs
that an easy source of food was to be found in the
were
and cats of the local kibbutz. As a result, two females
EYAL BARTOV
The leopard of the mountains was the Anatolian leopof

ard, Panthera pardus tulliana, which was found in much
in
the hilly regions of Israel. After the 1834 Arab pogrom
AnaThe
town.1
Safed, leopards moved into the destroyed
in
region
Carmel
the
in
recorded
still
was
tolian leopard
as the
1866,2 and was found in the Galilee until as recently
leopards,
of
s
subspecie
1960s. These were one of the largest
porweighing up to 170 pounds, and preying on wild boar,
dly
cupines, hyrax, and livestock. They were also undoubte
to
known
are
size
this
dangerous to humans; leopards of
Namer
t from the other, emerged

from the sea. . . . The first was like a lion
. . . and behold,
another beast, a second one, similar to
a bear. . . . Afterwards I beheld, and there was another,
similar to a leop-
Aftfteerwards I beheld, and there was anoth

er,
similar to a leopard, which had upon its
back four wings of a bird; the beast also h
ad
four heads, and dominion was given to it.
From the Torah

Encyclopedia of the
Animal Kingdom
(Dan
(D
aniel
ieel 7:
7:1166))
14
Steve Creitz
Leopard
To reserve a tour at
the Biblical Museum of
Natural History in Beit
Shemesh, go to biblicalnaturalhistory.org. The
museum is near the entrance of Beit Shemesh,
about half an hour from
Jerusalem, and ten
minutes from the Sorek
Stalactite Cave Nature
Reserve.
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Hey @TheIranDeal,
I have some questions
Actually, lots of questions
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his week, a bunch of

journalists, foreign policy wonks, and assorted
pundits received an email
from the White House that began:
Hey, Im Ben Rhodes, a Deputy
National Security Advisor to President Obama. For the past few years,
Ive been working closely with
Americas negotiating team, which
was tasked with finding a way to
The Twitter page of @TheIranDeal
achieve a diplomatic resolution
that prevents Iran from obtaining a
nuclear weapon.
American national security. What
Dont you just love that Hey,
that means and here, Rhodes was
greeting? So informal, so accessible,
explicit is ensuring that America
so confident, so quintessentially
isnt dragged into another conflict
Obaman. And it didnt end there.
in the Middle East. In other words,
Last week, Rhodes continued,
the choice is between agreeing to
after two years of tough negotiathis lousy, feeble deal or risking the
tions, our team along with our interlives and limbs of our troops in an
national partners achieved just that.
Iraq/Afghanistan redux. But if youre
Perhaps anticipating a chorus of
still not convinced, you can send
Oh no, you didnt, Rhodes added,
comments and questions to @TheIIts important that everyone here
ranDeal, and they will be answered.
and around the world understands
As the Twitter page declares, Tweet
exactly whats in it and how itll
us your questions, and well set the
work. And then came this assurrecord straight.
ance: This is a strong deal, with sigAs of the afternoon of Wednesday,
nificant constraints on Irans nuclear
July 22, more than 24 hours after
program, and unprecthe Twitter feed was
edented access to Iralaunched, and with
nian nuclear facilities
more than 12,000 fol including 24/7, conlowers already signed
tinuous monitoring.
up, @TheIranDeal had
So what do you do if
published exactly 19
you still have doubts?
tweets. They were all
The purpose of the
pretty platitudinous,
round-robin email
more or less, for examfrom Rhodes was to
ple, Why #IranDeal is
Ben Cohen
announce the latest
a vital step: Problems
PR initiative from the
like sponsoring terror
White House, in the
or detaining citizens
form of a Twitter feed with the hanmade more difficult to resolve if Iran
dle @TheIranDeal. (If Israeli Prime
acquired a nuke. As for answering
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had
the difficult questions, I saw no evidone the same, the Obama adminisdence of any effort to do so. Two
tration and its sympathizers would
questions I sent them remain, at the
now all be whining about hasbara,
time of this writing, unanswered,
the Hebrew word for public diploand dozens of friends and colleagues
macy, but lets leave that aside for
have told me that they were hearing
now.)
the same virtual silence.
According to Rhodes, @TheIranMaybe the White House is shortDeal is dedicated to delivering the
staffed. Maybe they dont know
facts and answering your questions
how to answer the difficult quesabout the deal and how it enhances
tions. I cant say for sure, but what
TWITTER
I do know is this: With @TheIranDeal, the Obama administration has

pledged itself to a direct dialogue
with the citizens of this country and
with the global public at large. So we
need to hold them to account and
bombard them with questions and
comments.
In that light, I modestly offer some
suggestions, in no particular order,
as to what you all should be raising.
There are any number of topics
the lifting of sanctions, the support
for terrorism, the Iranian backing
for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,
the weak inspections regime, the
woeful human rights situation in
Iran that must be addressed. All
you have to remember is to keep
your questions within Twitters
140-character limit. Oh, and maybe
start off with the word Hey, since
this is now apparently an acceptable
addition to the lexicon of political
terminology.
Hey @TheIranDeal, how will
you prevent the sanctions windfall
coming Irans way from being used
to kill more Syrian kids?
Hey @TheIranDeal, if Irans
nuclear program is peaceful, why is
the regime only called upon not to
undertake ballistic missile activity?
Hey @TheIranDeal, why are you
claiming 24/7 continuous monitoring when the Iranians have at least
24 days to approve inspections?
Hey @TheIranDeal, whats your
response to nuclear expert Olli Heinonens claim that the 24-day window will make hiding nuclear arms
development work easier?
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OurChildren
About
Useful Information for the Next Generation of Jewish Families
How to Survive the Summer

and Keep on Smiling
A D I N A S O C LO F
s a parent, I have a lovehate relationship with

summer. I love the lack
of structure but at times find it
daunting.
Here are my 10 best summer survival skills for parents
1. Schedule: Summertime
lends itself to spontaneity,
but as parents we still need to
maintain a bit of structure. Children do better when they have
a routine. Its best if mealtime,
screen time, bath time, outdoor/indoor activities are built
into a set schedule. There is
still plenty of room for flexibility; you can make bedtime later,
but still have a bedtime.
2. Keep your expectations
in check: Many times we have
lofty goals for the summer. The
children will finally stop fighting, we are going to paint and
clean out the garage. We get so
disappointed when we dont
achieve anything we have set
our hearts on. Make more realistic goals. Be happy when
your children are peaceful for
10 minutes a day instead of
the whole summer. Be glad if
you clean that one shelf in the
garage. Be realistic about what
you can and cant do and you
and your children will be much
happier.
3. Emergency Kit: Try
to have everything you need
stocked and ready to go: towels, sunscreens, waters, hats,
snacks etc. Stock up on some
arts and crafts supplies, and
make sure your sprinkler is in
working order. It will save you

the time and energy that you
will need to take care of your
children.
4. Plan your menu: We are
often on the go during the summer and then 4 oclock comes
around and we have nothing to
serve our hungry brood for dinner. Simple meals are essential.
Use your grill and make sure to
have a lot of noodles on hand. It
is best to have a simple weekly
menu to refer to, as well as a
standard shopping list. It will
make your summer cooking a
breeze.
5. No unsuitable activities: It seems that children melt
down and tantrum more during
the summer. It can be because
of the lack of sleep, their meal
times are off and the heat. To
prevent tantrums, try not to

take your children on one more
errand at the end of a long day.
Dont take them to places where
they may be unsuccessful, fancy restaurants, loud and noisy
amusement parks, or to a museum that is not age appropriate. Make an effort to research
activities that you know will
work for your family according
to their age and temperament.
6. Know your familys personality: Plan your summer
activities taking into consideration your personality and your
familys personalities as well.
Some questions to ask yourself are: Am I a morning person
or evening person? When do
I have the most energy? Do I
like a fast, busy schedule or a
slow, easy schedule? Do I mind
crowds? Do I like being out in

nature? Once you figure yourself out, then think about your
spouse and children, under
what conditions do they work
best? Then try to plan your
schedule accordingly.
7. Quiet time: Everyone
can benefit from a bit of alone
time, especially parents. It is
beneficial for everyone to retire
to his or her rooms with a book
or a quiet toy for a half hour
or hour everyday. One mom
put together a special box with
toys for her children that they
were only allowed to use during
quiet time. It is a great way for
everyone to recharge.
8. Get a handle on sibling
rivalry: Families often spend a
lot of time together in the summer, which means that there
is an often lot of fighting. Try

to figure out the times where
your children are more prone
to squabble. Is it when they are
in the car? Video time? At dinner. When you have that figured
out, ask them, I know there
seems to be a lot of fighting
when we get into the car. How
can we keep the peace when
we are driving? Children can
come up with some great ideas
that really work for them.
9. Real summer homework: Many times children
have academic work that they
need to complete over the summer. We dont want them to lose
the skills that they have gained
throughout the year. However, learning can be done is
so many ways, reading books,
museums, and being out in nature. Many children who stress
about school, blossom during
the summer. It is best if we can
find activities that interest our
struggling students and help
them shine.
10. Get a babysitter:
Spending all your time with
your children can be tiring. Everyone needs a bit of adult time
or alone time. Hire a babysitter,
and treat yourself to a night out
or even go to the grocery store
alone. You will be glad you did.
Adina Soclof is the director of
Parent Outreach for A+ Solutions,
facilitating How to Talk so Kids
will Listen and Listen so Kids
will Talk workshops as well as
workshops based on Siblings
Without Rivalry. She also runs
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musings from the editor
ummertime, and the living is easy.

Really?
Summertime is no school.
No homework. No heavy-duty
responsibility. Its vacation.
Then why does it feel busier
than ever? And why does it
feel like its slipping away? The
days are long; the weeks are
short.
This summer was a novel one. For
starters, everyone has been home. And
for the first time, Yehuda and Shaina
both worked in day camps for the first
half. It was a great experience for them.
But supporting my working children
meant setting the clock almost as early
as I do for school to get up and help
with a hearty breakfast. The day was
filled with the requisite responsibilities,
capped by making sure my famished
working returnees have a good dinner.
Another summer activity that kicks
into high gear? Laundry. More washing,
including the two (!) staff camp shirts
the kids got for a five-day week. Dont we
wear fewer layers in the summer? Then
why are there more loads of laundry?
T-shirts are thinner than sweaters, but
more time is spent in the laundry room.
We sweat more. We change more often.
There are bathing suits. And towels!
Now the children are switching
gears. They enjoyed their work their
first paychecks. For the latter half of the
season they will be pursuing more creative activities. Yehuda will hone his funny bone in comedy camp, and Shaina,
her flare for drama in theater camp.
Dont get me wrong. Im ever filled
with gratitude for being busy with the
family, but I can remember feeling that
summers were long and languorous
when I was growing up. There were
plenty of days filled with camp, and days
spent at the beach club, but there were
also many days that I recall just simply
hanging out.
It was unscheduled time
in which I would sleep late,
watch television, and, at
high noon, go into the backyard. There I would recline
on a lounge chair, slathered
in baby oil, with a reflector
positioned on my chest for
maximum effect, to soak in
the sun while a portable radio played the Top 40. After the sun session, I would make sure to wear something white to highlight the tan, which,
of course, manifested first as a sometimes-painful burn.
In those days the evenings melted
into nights when our friends would meet
outside. It was innocent fun. Summer felt
forever.
The long summer was sometimes
punctuated by a trip to the country. My
parents would take us to visit cousins in
a bungalow colony or to a hotel upstate.
We would make our weekly visit to the
beach on the weekends. The overall feeling was that the summer was expansive,
wide and open.
How the perception of time has
changed! Perhaps its just like the proverbial sands of the hourglass that seem
to run out more quickly when the glass
is nearly empty. Time feels like its moving faster as you get older.
How to slow it down? How to enjoy it
more? How to feel the season?
Just surrender to the summer. Like
children do.
I hope that my children are having
and will remember their long, happy
summer.
Because school, after all, is just
around the corner.
Cheers,
About
OurChildren
James L. Janoff
Natalie Jay
Ed Silberfarb
Adina Soclof
Heidi Mae Bratt
Peggy Elias
George Kroll
Karen Nathanson
Janice Rosen
Brenda Sutcliffe
Contributing Writers
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Editor
Deborah Herman
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Two Teaneck Girls

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H E I D I M A E B RAT T
or two Teaneck girls, the

bright lights of the Great
White Way beckon, as they
take to the stage performing in
an off-Broadway musical.
Sophie Knapp, who turns 7
in late August, and Nili Kepets,
who is 8 years old, will perform in the young ensemble in
the U.S. premiere of Jo NoelHartleys musical, Dream
Street, which plays from August 12 to 16 at the Pearl Theatre in New York City.
Presented by KOTA (Kids
of the Arts), Dream Street is
a musical depicting the trials
and tribulations of young auditioning actors. The premise:
world-famous director Sebastian Rickter is holding open
auditions for a new West End
musical, Dream Street, and is
looking for undiscovered talent.

Each youngster faces his or her
own challenges in the process,
but through grit and creative
hard work, they make their
dreams come true.
The girls, who will be appearing in the same performances of Dream Street, met
a few years ago while studying
at the Nunnbetter Dance Theatre in Bergenfield, and became
friends. They also both attend
local yeshiva day schools.
As for their extra-curricular
activityperformingthey
are living on their own dream
street.
Sophie loves performing,
says her mother, Chavie Knapp.
She would live her whole life
on stage if she could.
In Dream Street, Sophie
plays the parts of Madeline
and George. With an impres-
Sophie Knapp
Nili Kepets
sive resum at her tender age,

she previously played in the
off-Broadway production of A
Little Princess, and last September made her Broadway
debut in the Tony-winning musical Once, where she performed four shows a week with
the closing cast.
Its been a lot of juggling,

Chavie Knapp says of her
daughters efforts, and she is
a really hard worker. She has
found her passion.
Nili, who will play the role
of Nora in Dream Street, is
making her New York City debut and is very excited, says
her mother Beth Kepets.

Nili danced for years at the
Nunnbetter Dance Theatre and
has performed several different
parts in its renowned production of The Nutcracker. Her
mother called it a highlight of
her year.
Her daughters first taste of
musical theater, she said, came
after attending the JKNJ Nunnbetter Broadway camp, where
she performed in Movies the
Musical.
In describing Nili, Beth
Kepets says, Offstage, she is
shy. But she lights up on stage.
It is her comfort zone.
The girls will perform at
the Pearl Theatre, 555 W. 42nd
Street, New York City, on August
12 at 7:30 p.m., August 14 at 2
p.m., and August 16 at 2 p.m.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of
About Our Children.
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Abigail Bonifacio, daughter of

Melissa and Mark Bonifacio of
Northvale, celebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on June 20
at Temple Beth El of Northern
Valley in Closter.
Natalia Ratner, daughter

of Susan and Ian Ratner of
Ho-Ho-Kus and sister of
William, Charlie, and August,
celebrated becoming a
bat mitzvah on June 20 at
Temple Beth Or in Washington
Township.
GRACE GOLDBERG
JULIA ROMAN
Grace Goldberg, daughter of

Colette and Marc Goldberg of
Kinnelon and sister of Gabriel,
19, and Ariella, 18, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
June 13 at Barnert Temple in
Franklin Lakes.
JORDAN LIEMAN
Jordan Lieman, daughter of
Julie Lieman of Fair Lawn and
sister of Ryan and Aimee,
celebrated becoming a bat
mitzvah on June 6 at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel.
CAROLINE MCKINNON
Caroline McKinnon, daughter of Rebecca and Andrew
McKinnon of Midland Park and
sister of Tyler, 21, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
June 6 at Barnert Temple in
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DANIEL METSCH
Daniel Metsch, son of Nancy
and Kenneth Metsch of
Bergenfield, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on
June 20 at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck.
JARED NOVACK
Jared Novack, son of Stacey
and Steven Novack of
Woodcliff Lake and brother
of Aaron, 15, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on
June 20 at Temple Emanuel
in Woodcliff Lake. His grandparents are Diane and Howard
Novack of Oradell and Merle
and Barry Glick of Paramus.
Julia Roman, daughter of

Ellen Stern and Bob Roman
of Wyckoff and sister of Scott,
mitzvah on June 20 at Temple
Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.
ILANA WHITTAKER
Ilana Whittaker, daughter of
Lorissa Lightman and Jeffrey
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mitzvah on June 20 at Temple
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GENERATION G
A Grandfather Reflects
on Memories of His Own Pop Wahl
E D S I L B E R FA R B
have been so preoccupied the past

18 years with my own grandchildren
that I tend to forget that I was once
a grandchild myself. My grandchildhood
was made possible by the efforts of Max
(n Mordecai) and Raizel Silberfarb from
Russia and Louis (n Eliezar) and Mollie
Wahl from Poland, now Belarus and the
Ukraine.
Raizel died when I was a baby, Max
when I was 10 years old, Mollie when I
was 24, but Louis, Pop Wahl as we called
him, lived long enough to become a great
grandfather. My youngest grandson was
named after him.
This spring evoked a Pop Wahl
memory when the Streits Matzo Factory, after more than 100 years on the
Lower East Side of Manhattan, announced it was moving to New Jersey. It

was at Streits on Rivington Street some
60 years ago that my grandfather and
I shopped for Passover provisions. In
those days the matzah meal was in bins,
not in sterile packaging, and Pop Wahls
favorite saleslady was a legendary anarchist from the old socialist days.
Pop Wahl knew the mean streets and
confusing byways of the Lower East Side
like a native, which he almost was, having arrived there as a teenager. He knew
the difference between the incongruously named Norfolk and Suffolk Streets, and
led me in my bewilderment past the Orchard Street pushcarts to lunch of kasha
varnishkas at Ratners dairy restaurant,
now long gone, or a more modest repast
of knishes at Yonah Schimmels, now
barely holding its own on Houston Street.

When he arrived amidst the grinding poverty of the Lower East Side, the
youthful Louis Wahl found work as a
sewing machine operator in the garment
industry that dominated the neighborhood. Eventually he was able to own his
own machine. Later he rented space in
the second floor of a loft building, hired
two other operators, and created his
own mini-factory.
The classic up-from-poverty success
story ended abruptly when a representative of the Garment Workers Union paid
him a visit. Louies personality did not
lend itself to calm negotiation. He threw
the unionist down the stairs and closed
the shop.
His imperial attitude may have
evolved from an ancestor, Saul Wahl,
who, according to the Jewish Encyclopedia, was king for a day in 16th century
Poland. He was the principal advisor to
the king, and when the monarch died
Saul Wahl held the reins of government
until a successor was named.
But Louis Wahl did not need royalty to reinforce his personality. He had
a more powerful inheritance. He was
a kohen from Judaisms priestly class.
Saul Wahl was a mere 500 years ago, but
the kohanim descended from Moses
brother Aaron, guardian of Jewish law
throughout the ages. Pop Wahl drew
strength from that law by which he lived.
It may have been that strength that
helped him overcome the most daunting
of mortal threats.
When he was in his mid-sixties, Pop
Wahls skin took on a sickly, yellowish
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was a radical operation
to describe the enorknown as the Whipple
mity. My grandmother
involving a major interwas torn between her
nal resectioning. Not
sacred duty as keeper
many surgeons were caof the kosher kitchen
pable of performing it or
and the needs of her bewilling to try. Dr. Whiploved grandchild. For my
ple, himself, may have
mother, the only probsucceeded, but he was
lem was how to stealthinot available. Needed
ly acquire the forbidden,
was a surgeon who had
Pop Wahl at the pidyon ha-ben
but vital, food. At age
the skill and the stamina
of his great grandson.
nine, I was fascinated
for a full day at the opby the complexity of the
erating table. Dr. F., who
problem, so I confided in one of my fifth
did the job, was a big, rawboned young
grade classmates whom I knew to be an
man who looked and talked more like a
observant Jew.
farmer than a master surgeon. The opNo! he said. No treif will cure your
eration was a success.
brother. It will only make him sicker.
On a visit a few days later, with my
Before it could do lasting damage
grandfather morosely recovering in the
to the family structure, the episode was
hospital, the doctor asked, How you doresolved when my brothers health iming, Louie? Are you eating?
proved. The magical bacon was no lonNah, who can eat?
ger necessary, and my brother soon deWhat you need is a nice, big Jewish
veloped whooping cough, which was not
corned beef sandwich.
considered a nutritional problem.
The nurses were horrified at what
After his proprietorship of a threewould surely poison their patient, but
man garment factory ended, Pop Wahl
Dr. F. sent for one, and, indeed, it was, as
took to selling ladies hats designed by
they say, just what the doctor ordered.
his sister. Soon they had a chain of oneMy parents, children of immigrants,
price millinery shops in Jersey City and
were of the generation that rebelled
Bayonne, which were eventually lost in
against the old ways, especially Orthothe Great Depression. The rest of his life
dox Judaism, and so my earliest synaPop Wahl was a salesman, who always
gogue memories were accompanying
appreciated the value of a dollar and
my grandfather. When my parents evenguarded his dollars zealously.
tually enrolled me in a Reform Sunday
One product he sold was heating
school, and later a Conservative afteroil because one of his pinochle partschool program, my grandfather was
ners owned a large commercial laundry,
appalled and doubted that I would ever
which consumed vast amounts of fuel
meet the demands of a bar mitzvah. It
oil. The owner agreed to buy his oil from
wasnt until years later, when his son,
the company that hired Louis Wahl, who
my uncle, rose to become president of
thus became an ace fuel salesman with
a prominent Conservative congregation,
only one customer.
that Pop Wahl quietly conceded, in an
His sense of responsibility as a kohen
aside to me, Well, its a different life.
never faltered. When my grandmother
During a brief period in my childdied, he made sure her grave was near
hood, when we were living with my
the edge of the cemetery so he could
grandparents, Pop Wahl loomed large a
visit it frequently without passing other
fierce temper modified by periods of unburial sites forbidden for a kohen. It was
derstanding and flashes of wisdom. One
his religious faith that fortified him when
day, dispatched to buy a loaf of rye bread,
two of his daughters predeceased him.
I broke off the end and ate it on the way
home. No problem, I thought, because I
He lived well into his nineties, long
would give it to my compassionate grandenough to perform one of the most pridemother, who couldnt bear the thought of
ful acts of his life. As a kohen he presided
a child going hungry. Instead it fell into
over the pidyon ha-ben of my son, his
the hands of my grandfather. I expected
great grandson. He even uncharacteristithe worst. Whats the matter with you?
cally refunded the five silver dollars I gave
he erupted. When I was your age I would
him for redemption of the first-born male.
have eaten half the loaf.
Ed Silberfarb was a reporter for the Bergen
That year in my grandparents
Record in New Jersey, then the New York
home, laws of kashruth were immutable,
Herald Tribune where he was City Hall bureau
but then the unthinkable happened. My
chief. Later, he was a public information offiyounger brother, about two years old,
cer for the New York City Transit Authority and
editor of one of its employee publications.
was sickly, and the god-like pediatrician
decided he should be fed bacon.
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Jewish lawmakers shut out noise

as they consider Iran nuclear deal
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Turn off the ads, turn down the noise,
and read, consult, and listen.
Thats what five key Jewish lawmakers say they are
planning for the five to seven weeks they have to contemplate their vote on the Iran nuclear deal.
There are 28 Jews in Congress. Seven of them are
undecided and in positions of influence as lawmakers
consider an agreement that grants Iran sanctions relief
in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.
Republicans are mostly against the deal, so the focus is
on Democrats who would be key to garnering the twothirds majorities in the House of Representatives and the
Senate to override President Barack Obamas promised
veto of any resolution of disapproval of a deal.
Democrats traditionally take their cues from members
considered closest to a particular issue. In this case, Jewish Democrats, and their leadership on pro-Israel advocacy, make them among the most watched.
A number of groups opposing the deal are running
ads in states with large numbers of Jewish Democratic
voters, including Florida, New York, and California. New
Yorks Senator Charles Schumer, who is likely to become
party leader in the Senate when Senator Harry Reid of
Nevada retires next year, has been targeted in particular
by the ads.
Joseph Lieberman, a former senator who is lobbying
against the deal, told a New York-area conservative talk
radio show that Schumer was key, and that his nay
would open the way for a lot of other Democrats to
oppose it as well.
Obama spent face time toward the end of last week
with a number of leading Jewish lawmakers, urging
them to back the deal.
For all the pressure, in interviews Jewish lawmakers
shared one adamant claim: They will not be rushed, and
they will not let the noise get to them.
I was one of those members who fought vigorously for a 60-day review period, said Representative
Steve Israel of New York, noting that Congress has that
amount of time to approve or disapprove the deal. If
youre going to fight for that, the responsible and nonpartisan thing to do is to take that time.
Israel led his partys congressional re-election campaign during the last two cycles and chafed at the rush
among Republicans to denounce the deal.
Representative Eliot Engel of New York, the senior
Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said
he was looking forward to quiet time alone with his staff
in the Sensitive Compartmentalized Information facility
where government officials with clearance may review
classified materials.
I dont like finger pointing and rhetoric, Engel said.
I look at the agreement and try to make decisions

there.
Representative Adam Schiff of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said
he was really trying to tune out the emotional appeals
and figure out what makes the most sense. Schiff noted
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabees
comparing the deal to the Holocaust, saying the comments were singularly unhelpful and made me feel a
bit ill.
JTA spoke with five of the leading Jewish undecided.
Schumer did not return our requests for an interview. Representative Nita Lowey of New York, the top
Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee,
indicated interest in an interview but was unable to
make time during the past five days.
The other undecideds who spoke to JTA are Senator
Ben Cardin of Maryland, the senior Democrat on the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Ted Deutch of Florida, the senior Democrat on the
Foreign Affairs Committees Middle East subcommittee.
Three Jewish Democrats in leadership have come out
in favor of the deal: Representative Jan Schakowsky of
Illinois, the Houses chief deputy whip; Representative
Sander Levin of Michigan, the longest-serving Jewish
congressman and the ranking member on the Ways and
Means Committee; and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), a longtime
leader on pro-Israel issues who is retiring, also has indicated she would back the deal.
Israel, whose background is in Jewish organizational
activism, said he was relying on his experience.
What I mostly do is in my DNA, said the congressman, who was arrested in the 1980s for Soviet Jewry
activism.
More tangibly, many of the lawmakers, particularly
those with large Jewish constituencies, will be hosting
town hall meetings during the August break.
Weve got at least four big town halls that were
planning for soon after we get back to South Florida
in August, Deutch said. I also know weve been setting
up meetings with different constituents and different
groups who want to come discuss the deal.
Deutch, who told JTA he was skeptical abut the deal,
said he could announce his leaning by the end of this
week.
Administration officials insist that if Congress rejects a
deal, European partners who would be key to reconstituting sanctions would not cooperate. But Deutch isnt
sure thats the case.
I dont want to rely on what were told by American
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Jewish groups stake out positions on the accord

URIEL HEILMAN
When the Jewish Federation of Greater Los
Angeles came out with a strongly worded
statement last week opposing the Iran
nuclear deal, it became one of a handful
of federations across the country to stake
out a clear position on the agreement.
This Iran deal threatens the mission of
our Federation as we exist to assure the
continuity of the Jewish people, support
a secure State of Israel, care for Jews in
need here and abroad and mobilize on
issues of concern, the federation said in
its July 21 statement.
The accord, reached July 14 in Vienna,
places limits on Irans nuclear program in
exchange for sanctions relief.
Unlike in some other communities where
federation leaders came out against the
deal none has come out in support
there was strong, public pushback in Los
Angeles. In a column titled Federation:
Take it back, Rob Eshman, the editor-inchief and publisher of the L.A. Jewish Journal, called the federations action a mistake.
The Los Angeles Federation made a
wholly unnecessary but completely reparable mistake by urging its members to
defeat the Iran deal, Eshman wrote in his
piece, which was published on July 26. In
doing so, it misrepresented the people it
Protestors turned out in Los Angeles to protest the Iran nuclear deal on July 26.

PETER DUKE
the deal than oppose it: Of the 501 Jewish

respondents, about 48 percent said they
favored the deal, compared to 28 percent
against; 25 percent said they didnt know.
At the same time, 54 percent said they were
not confident that the deal would prevent
Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons over
Sometimes when you take positions,

you do so recognizing that one of
the results will be a louder, more
interesting communal conversation.
purports to represent, alienated a good
chunk of them, and clouded, rather than
clarified, the Iran deal debate.
Federation CEO Jay Sanderson has canceled his planned vacation to talk to community members who were upset about
the federation decision.
We are not a voice of the entire Jewish community, he said. We just arent.
Nobody is. And we dont make political
statements. But this is an extraordinary
moment.
Sometimes when you take positions,
you do so recognizing that one of the
results will be a louder, more interesting
communal conversation. At the very least
the community is thinking and talking
about this in a way it hadnt a week ago.
The kerfuffle in Los Angeles highlights
the apparent gap on the Iran deal between
American Jews as a whole and American
Jewish organizations.
According to a telephone survey of American Jews sponsored by the Jewish Journal
and carried out July 16 to July 20 by a reputable polling firm using scientific methodology, far more American Jews support
the next decade or so, compared to 43 percent who said they were confident.
The survey was conducted by Steven
M. Cohen, a research professor at the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York, and it was carried
out by SSRS Omnibus, which culled Jewish respondents from the lists it has assembled from nationwide weekly telephone
surveys on a variety of issues. The margin
of error was 6 percent.
By contrast, all seven Jewish federations
that came out with position statements on
the deal Boston, Miami, Detroit, Dallas,
Floridas South Palm Beach, Phoenix, and
Los Angeles oppose it. The federation
umbrella group, the Jewish Federations
of North America, has not taken a formal
position.
Its not uncommon for federations to
take policy positions, but the issues usually are matters of broad consensus within
their communities, such as bills that would
affect the social safety net or increased
U.S. assistance for Israel.
The Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations, an
umbrella group for 51 national Jewish

organizations that is meant to be the Jewish communitys voice on foreign policy,
also has not taken a position on the Iran
deal. Nevertheless, the organizations
executive vice chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein, made his position on the deal clear
in an interview.
We believe it is a dangerous deal and
the implications are extremely serious,
Hoenlein said. This is not some minor
piece of legislation. This really goes to
the core of concerns that we have been
involved with for 20 years regarding Irans
nuclear program. The more people study
the deal, the more questions people have
and the more concerns are raised.
Hoenlein said that while an overwhelming majority of organizations in
the Presidents Conference oppose the
deal, the umbrella group, which is meant
to operate on the basis of consensus decision-making, isnt yet ready to take a formal position.
We will take a position, but we will
come to it in a way that keeps the community unified, he said.
In Boston, the local Jewish federation,
Combined Jewish Philanthropies, was the
first to oppose the Iran deal publicly after
it was announced. The decision followed a
unanimous vote in a conference call with
board members, the federations president, Barry Shrage, said.
We took this to our full board, and its
got Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and
conservatives. It was unanimous in opposition to the deal, Shrage said of the 24
of 40 board members who participated in
the call. Of course, there are lots of different opinions about what we did. We dont
think were speaking for the whole Jewish
community. We expressed the opinion of
our board.
So far, the only Jewish organizations to

express public support for the deal have
been those identified with the political left
wing, such as J Street and Americans for
Peace Now. Meanwhile, right-wing organizations, like the Zionist Organization
of America, and Orthodox groups, such
as the Orthodox Union, have come out
against the agreement.
The Jewish Journal isnt the only poll of
U.S. Jewish sentiment on the deal, but its
the only scientific one to be carried out by
a nonpartisan group. The Israel Project
released its own survey on Tuesday conducted online by a Republican pollster
showing slightly more Jews opposing the
deal, 45 percent, than supporting it, 40
percent. Also Tuesday, J Street released a
poll showing U.S. Jewish support for the
deal at 60 percent, compared to 40 percent opposed.
Meanwhile, national surveys of Americans also show some divergence. In a telephone survey of 1,017 Americans sponsored by CNN and carried out July 22-25 by
ORC International, 52 percent of respondents said that Congress should reject the
deal, compared to 44 percent who said it
should be approved. By contrast, a Washington Post telephone survey conducted a
few days earlier, July 16 to July 19, found 56
percent support for the deal and 37 percent opposed. Its not clear whether the
different findings are the result of methodological differences or whether Americans are growing increasingly opposed to
the deal the more they learn about it.
In Israel, a poll conducted by Israels
Channel 10 shortly after the agreements
announcement found 69 percent of Israeli
respondents opposed to the deal and 10
percent in favor.
Cohen, who designed the Jewish Journal survey, said the divergence between
American Jewish opinion on the Iran deal
and the positions of American Jewish organizations reflected how the constituencies
of Jewish organizations differ from average
American Jews: Jewish organizational supporters tend to be older, more traditional,
and more affiliated.
We live in an elitist bubble of Jewish
insiders, and we forget that the rest of the
Jewish world doesnt think like us, Cohen
said. Jewish organizations are doing what
theyre supposed to be doing: representing their membership. That makes sense.
As for the wide difference between
American and Israeli Jews, Cohen, who
holds dual Israeli and American citizenship
and divides his time between the two countries, chalked it up to the Israelis heightened sense of their own vulnerability.
Israeli Jews have a strong sense of
their vulnerabilities and their imminent
destruction, given who their neighbors
are, he said. American Jews neighbors
arent trying to kill them; theyre marrying them.
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Mike Huckabee fields questions at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames,

Iowa, this week. The Republican presidential candidate is standing by remarks he made over the weekend that President Obama is marching Israelis
to the door of the oven as part of the Iran nuclear deal.
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Israels U.S. envoy raps

Huckabee on analogy
of Iran deal, Holocaust
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Call it a double miracle
for the pastor who would be president:
Mike Huckabee managed to unite Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
President Barack Obama while grabbing
the spotlight from Donald Trump.
Netanyahus ambassador to the United
States, Ron Dermer, slammed Huckabee,
a Republican candidate for the White
House in 2016, for saying that Obama
will march Israelis to the door of the
oven as part of the Iran nuclear deal.
And Obama has mocked Huckabees
remarks, casting them as part of a coarsening of political debate.
Dermer made his comments in an
interview Monday on USA Todays Capital Download program after Huckabee
doubled down on his remarks.
These are not words that I would
use or that I think are appropriate, the
Israeli envoy said. We dont in any way
impugn the motives of the people who
are doing this deal. I think its important
to conduct this debate in a way thats
befitting of the alliance between our two
countries.
Dermer said he believes a majority of
Congress members are against the deal,
but acknowledged that there may not be
enough votes to override a presidential
veto.
They want to work with us to discuss
what happens the day after, Dermer
said. Were not in that conversation at
this point because we want to focus on
preventing what we think is a very bad
deal for Israel, for the region, and for the
world.
Meanwhile, despite criticism from

the Anti-Defamation League and the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, Huckabee
asserted on Tuesday morning that the
Jewish community supports the linkage between the Holocaust and the Iran
nuclear deal.
The response from Jewish people has
been overwhelmingly positive, Huckabee said on the Today show. The
response from Holocaust survivors, from
the children of Holocaust supporters.
Last night I was in an event, I was probably one of four gentiles in the entire
event, this was a Jewish event, people
were overwhelmingly supportive.
The Zionist Organization of America
stood by Huckabee, saying the analogy
was appropriate for the situation.
The ZOA agrees with Governor Huckabee that this Iran deal could lead to a
Holocaust-like massacre of the Jews,
the ZOA said in a statement. In such
circumstances, when the Jewish state
is threatened with nuclear annihilation,
a Holocaust analogy such as Governor
Huckabee used is acceptable and not
out of place.
Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister
and a former governor of Arkansas, has
come under fire for the analogy made in
an interview over the weekend with Breitbart News.
Other Republican presidential candidates addressed Huckabees remarks.
The use of that kind of language
is just wrong, Jeb Bush said on Monday after a town hall-style meeting in
Orlando, Florida. This is not the way
were going to win elections and thats
not how were going to solve problems.
Jewish World
So, unfortunate remark not quite sure
why he felt compelled to say it.
Bush pointed out that he has been to
Israel several times, and called the Iran
nuclear agreement a bad deal.
Donald Trumps special counsel,
Michael Cohen, told CNN on Monday
that he does not think that Trump finds
Huckabees words offensive. Trump, who
has been at the center of a media storm
of late with controversial remarks about
Mexican immigrants and U.S. Senator
John McCain (R-Ariz.), has roundly criticized the Iran deal.
I think what [Huckabee is] really trying
to say is were in a bad place, Cohen said.
Im not offended by the words, he
said, acknowledging that he lost family
members in the Holocaust. What I am is
Im concerned. Im truly concerned for the
safety of not just this country but the countries all around the world.
Obama made his remarks on Huckabees
statement at a news conference Monday in
Ethiopia, where he is on a visit.
The particular comments of Mr. Huckabee are, I think, part of just a general pattern that weve seen that is would be
considered ridiculous if it werent so sad,
Obama said.
The president listed a series of recent
rhetorical controversies, including Senator
Tom Cotton (R-Ark), comparing Secretary
of State John Kerry to Pontius Pilate for his
role in reaching the Iran deal and Trump
mocking McCain for his captivity during
the Vietnam War.
Were creating a culture that is not conducive to good policy or good politics,
Obama said.
In 18 months, Im turning over the
keys I want to make sure Im turning
over the keys to somebody who is serious
about the serious problems the country
Lawmakers
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European friends, and Ive been doing

that.
Deutch also said that lawmakers were
consulting one another.
I want my colleagues to understand
how important it is to get past the talking
points and to dig into the details, he said.
Congress members are paying attention to calls from constituents. Schiff said
his are running half and half; Deutch and
Engel said callers tend to share their concerns about the deal; and Israel said on
Friday that calls were running 550 for the
deal and 300 against.
Cardin did not have a tally, but said the
calls were influential. Feedback from constituents, he said, was one of the factors
that go into the political process, and it
certainly has an impact.
Like others, the Maryland Democrat
said he was also paying close attention to
the open hearings, such as the contentious
faces and the world faces, he said. And

that requires on both sides, Democrat and
Republican, a sense of seriousness and
decorum and honesty.
Huckabee stood by his remarks.
Whats ridiculous and sad is that President Obama does not take Irans repeated
threats seriously, CNN quoted Huckabee as saying in a statement issued after
Obamas remarks. For decades, Iranian
leaders have pledged to destroy, annihilate, and wipe Israel off the map with a
big Holocaust.
Jewish Democrats and the Anti-Defamation League have excoriated Huckabee for
the comparison.
Whatever ones views of the nuclear
agreement with Iran and we have been
critical of it, noting that there are serious
unanswered questions that need to be
addressed comments such as those by
Mike Huckabee suggesting the president
is leading Israel to another Holocaust are
completely out of line and unacceptable,
ADLs national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, said in a statement.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center, also criticized Huckabees analogy, telling CNN such rheotric
would hamper efforts to build bipartisan
opposition to the deal and advising that
no president of the United States should
be compared in any way to Adolf Hitler.
Obama says the sanctions relief for the
nuclear restrictions deal reached July 14
between Iran and six major powers is the
only means of keeping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Israels government
and most Republican lawmakers say it
leaves Iran poised to become a nuclear
weapons threshold state. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Israel correspondent Marcy Oster
contributed to this report.
ones that Secretary of State John Kerry and

other Cabinet ministers have endured in
recent days in the House and Senate, as
well as classified briefings.
I want to fully understand this agreement, whether we are better off with
this agreement, of having Iran becoming
a nuclear weapons state, and if we walk
away what the consequences will be, he
said.
The lawmakers are taking meetings with
organizations that oppose the deal, chief
among them the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, and those that support
it.
Schiff said television advertising run
by groups backing and opposing the deal
wont influence him.
When the ad campaigns begin, Im
going to try and tune those out as well,
the California Democrat said. I dont
think this is something going to be decided
by a 30-second ad.
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Jon Stewart looks back

at his Jewish moments
Stewart quipping to the
audience:
For years it has been writHow did you know
ten about, and on the night
I was Jewish? For years
of July 23 it was sealed:
I have gone out of my
Jon Stewart is proud to be
way to avoid displaying
Jewish.
any of the stereotypical
With just two weeks
characteristics of our
left before he leaves The
shared heritage.
Daily Show following a
Then Jon, you have
16-year run as host and
failed spectacularly,
well ahead of the High HolSchumer said. So
idays he appears to be
Jon Stewart performs
tonight, Id actually like
as part of Comedy
tying up loose ends. Stewto celebrate your memCentrals Night Of
art made his Jewish pride
bership in the tribe.
Too Many Stars at
clear in a segment called
That served as a cue
the Beacon Theatre in
A Look Back: Let His Peofor a concise but hilariManhattan in February
ple Laugh.
ously memorable video
this year.
Senator Chuck Schumer
of some of Stewarts
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made a surprise appearbest Jewish moments
FOR COMEDY CENTRAL
ance as a follow-up to his
on the show of which
inclusion on the previous nights show,
there are far too many to cram into a
which poked fun at the New York Demofour-minute video. A partial list of the
crats preference for talking about diner
Yiddish or Hebrew words Stewart says
food rather than addressing the Iran
in the video includes shalom, mazel
deal. (What have you done? Stewart
tov, schmutz, bubbe, dayenu, shpilkes,
asked MSNBC about its choice of locapunum, minyan, meshuganah, and
tion for its interview with Schumer last
bubkes.
weekend. You brought an old New York
After the video concluded, Schumer
Jewish man to a diner!)
asked Stewart: Now would you show
Conversation about diner breakfast
up at synagogue every once in a while?
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food inevitably led to a Jewish joke, with
We miss you!
GABE FRIEDMAN
Amy Schumers childhood rabbi

dishes on her Hebrew school antics
his teachers with jokes.
Salkin also marvels at
Comedian Amy Schumthe fact that his synagogue
ers childhood rabbi has
has produced more than
dished up a few tasty,
one famous comedian.
albeit kosher, tidbits
Schumers sister and writing partner, Kim Caraabout the foul-mouthed
mele, standup comedian
funny girls childhood,
Dave Attell, and former
writing a sweet, jokeDaily Show writer Rory
speckled post about her
Albanese all attended serHebrew school antics
vices, he says.
for Religion News Service. (Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer talking
Schumer, a stand-up
about her new film,
is related to Senator
artist, writer and actress,
Trainwreck, at the
Chuck Schumer.)
catapulted to fame with
Tribeca Film Festival in
The Trainwreck star,
her Comedy Central show
New York in April.
says Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin,
Inside Amy Schumer, on
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the former rabbi of the
which she developed her
Central Synagogue of
self-deprecating, tongueNassau County in Rockville Centre, N.Y.,
deep-in-cheek brand of feminist humor.
and more recently at Temple Beth Am in
The Judd Apatow-directed romantic
Bayonne, was a religious school cutup. In
comedy Trainwreck, which she wrote
this, she follows a noble tradition.
and stars in, hit theaters Friday, July 24.
The good rabbi goes on to note that
I remember Amy as a sweet, funny
Abraham himself was a rebel, always
kid, who often asked probing and
asking prodding questions, as was the
humorous questions in religious school,
great thinker Baruch Spinoza, who sat at
he concluded.
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the back of the classroom and taunted

DEBRA KAMIN
Dvar Torah
Va-etchanan: Unfinished business
a-etchanan is my favorite parashah in the Torah. The inclusion of both the Shema and
the Ten Commandments in
the same portion provides the basic text
material for any study of the essentials of
Judaism.
For me, though, I remain stuck on the
first paragraph. Moses pleads with God
to allow him to enter the promised land,
and his entreaty is denied. Enough! Never
speak to Me again of this matter! God
replies. By relaying this personal discussion with God to the people in the most
public of ways, a major address before the
whole people assembled, and preserved
forever in the very text of the Torah, Moses
has clearly not dropped the issue. And how
could he have? Moses has devoted his life,
at the cost of so much personal happiness,
to the service of his people and his God,
to bring the people to the promised land.
Now, at the end of the journey, he asks only
to cross over the river so that he may briefly
enjoy the fruit of his labors before he dies.
Why does God refuse to grant his wish?
The commentaries have addressed this
question through the generations.
The standard understanding is that
Moses is not permitted to complete the
journey because of an earlier incident

where he failed to invoke Gods name
before drawing water from a rock. The
people were rebelling when there was no
water, and Moses called upon the rock to
bring forth water. God provided if not
Moses would have been stoned to death
but was not pleased with Moses action.
Moses should have called upon God to
bring water from the rock rather than
directly commanding the rock, as if Moses
himself were the source of power.
While strongly rooted in textual tradition, this solution has never satisfied me.
Although Moses was wrong in not invoking
Gods name at that incident, why would
God not be forgiving of Moses? Certainly
we have all acted in certain ways in stressful situations that we later regret. And
when have we been accosted by an angry
mob? And what of all the merit that Moses
had earned, why cannot all his good work
counterbalance this one mistake? Why is
God not more understanding? Is not God
supposed to be a model for us in how to
treat others? That is, if we were God in that
situation, shouldnt we forgive Moses?
There are other explanations for why
Moses cannot enter the land, some pointing to other mistakes or sins he committed.
He killed an Egyptian. He did

is nothing that we can do
not want to accept Gods misabout that. I am reminded
sion. The midrash contains
of the sage Rabbi Tarfons
dozens of reasons for Gods
teaching in Pirkei Avot: It
refusal to Moses. The very
is not upon you to complete the task, but neither
existence of so many explanations reveals not a heavy
are you free to neglect it.
indictment against Moses
Even Moses could not
worthiness, but rather despercomplete the task that he
ation on the part of the comRabbi David
set out to perform, to bring
J. Fine
mentators to explain what is
the Israelites from slavery
Temple Israel,
so inexplicable, why Moses
to freedom in the promised
Ridgewood,
could not enter the land.
land. If Moses had to die
Conservative
In the Torah itself, Gods
with unfinished business
refusal of Moses is stark and
on the table, then so can
abrupt, and is meant to be so.
we. There will always be
Any list of reasons misses the point. A way
unfinished business, as we know from all
to understand Gods refusal to allow Moses
stages of life.
to fulfill his lifes work is to see it as a demThe lesson for us is to fulfill mitzvot, to
onstration of human nature, as pedagogic
do what must be done, and take solace
rather than vindictive.
not always in the job completed but in
Rather than God punishing Moses, the
the job well done to the best of our abilities. There are always unrealized dreams.
story is a metaphor about the frustration
What is important is that we dream our
of not fulfilling all our dreams. The Torah
dreams and follow them in the right direcis teaching us here that we will generally
tions. Moses worked hard for God and the
fail to complete everything that we set
people. He should have felt good about his
out to do in life. This is the great frustration of mortality. There will always be
labors. That solace was his promised land.
more things to do than can be done. Our
It is a land of milk and honey available to
lives will end when they do, and there
us all.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry welcomed

Bensoudas decision to appeal, saying the
ICC never had any business to deal with
this event to begin with.
Israel acted out of self-defense according to international law, the Foreign Ministry added.
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many times in the last several weeks to discuss the parameters of [the Iran deal]. We
are in constant consultants with our Israeli
counterparts about this.
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BRIEFS
ICC prosecutor appeals

decision to reopen
Gaza flotilla case
International Criminal Court prosecutor
Fatou Bensouda has appealed a decision
by a panel of judges to reopen an investigation of Israel for alleged war crimes over
the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.
The incident left nine Turkish militants
dead after they had attacked Israeli commandos on a vessel that tried to break the
naval blockade of Gaza. In her appeal,
Bensouda said the judges did not consider
the unique context of violent resistance
abroad the Mavi Marmara.
Earlier this month, in a 2-1 ruling, a
panel of ICC judges granted a request
by the Comoros Islands to reconsider
the case after the discovery of material
errors in the prosecutors assessment of
the matter.
In November 2014, Bensouda concluded
that the Mavi Marmara incident did not
have sufficient gravity to be investigated
by the ICC despite a reasonable basis to
believe that war crimes were committed
by Israel. As such, many considered the
case to be closed until the recent judicial
order to re-open it.
Kerry to skip Israel

during Mideast trip
focused on Iran deal
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to travel to Egypt and Qatar this
week to alleviate concerns about the Iran
nuclear deal with Arab leaders, but he will
not visit Israel during the trip.
U.S. State Department spokesman John
Kirby said Kerry will visit Egypt on August
2 and then travel to Qatar to meet with the
foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation
Council to discuss the nuclear deal, before
heading to East Asia.
When asked by reporters why Kerry
wont be visiting Israel, Kirby said, It is
just not part of the trip.
It is an around-the-world trip, said
Kirby. [Kerry] has been in touch with
Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu
Israeli minister meets

secretly with chief
PA negotiator
Israeli Interior Minister and Vice Prime
Minister Silvan Shalom (Likud) held a
secret meeting with chief Palestinian
Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat in the
Jordanian capital of Amman last week.
The purpose of the meeting was to
discuss ways to renew the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which has been
stalled for more than a year. In addition
to his ministerial and Knesset duties, Shalom is in charge of negotiations with the
Palestinians.
An Israeli government official called
the meeting between Shalom and Erekat
a very important trust-building step.
Additionally, a source involved in the matter said the closed-door, face-to-face meeting was held in a positive atmosphere,
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Israel Hayom reported.
Indian president,
prime minister to make
historic visits to Israel
Indias president, Pranab Mukherjee,
and its prime minister, Narendra Modi,
will visit Israel this year, in an illustration of the growing ties between the two
countries.
Mukherjee plans to begin his Middle
East trip on Oct. 9. According to Indian
media reports, his first stop will be Jordan, followed by the Palestinian Authority. Next, he will arrive in Israel.
Since its founding, India has had close
relations with the Arab world. But recent
years have seen a gradual rapprochement between Jerusalem and New Delhi,
manifested by increased security cooperation. In February, Israeli Defense Minister
Moshe Yaalon visited India, where the two
countries finalized a major defense deal
worth more than $1.5 billion.
Modi also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year on the
sidelines of the United Nations General
Assembly. Reports have indicated that
Modi is considering a shift in his countrys
pro-Palestinian stance at the U.N.

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Irans Khamenei tweets a graphic

of Obama pointing gun to his own head
In the aftermath of his country reaching
a nuclear deal with a group of world powers that includes the United States, Iranian
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Saturday tweeted a graphic of President Barack Obama pointing a gun at his
own head.
The @khamenei_ir English-language
Twitter account has not been officially
verified as being Khameneis, but is widely
believed to belong to him. The graphic
shows a silhouette of Obama with a gun
to his head, accompanied by the text, We
welcome no war, nor do we initiate any

war, but if any war happens, the one who
will emerge loser will be the aggressive
and criminal U.S.
In response to Khameneis previous
post-deal remark that the agreement will
not change our policy toward the arrogant U.S., Secretary of State John Kerry
told Al Arabiya television that often comments are made publicly and things can
evolve that are different. If it is the policy,
its very disturbing, its very troubling.

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Kerry says Israeli strike on Iran facilities

would be an enormous mistake
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said it
would an enormous mistake for Israel
to launch airstrikes on Irans nuclear
facilities.
Thatd be an enormous mistake, a
huge mistake with grave consequences for
Israel and for the region, and I dont think
its necessary, Kerry told NBCs Today
Show.
Kerry has been promoting the Iran
nuclear deal to a skeptical Congress and to
the American public. Congress has 60 days
to review the agreement.
The more people learn about this

agreement, the more people are learning
this is the only viable alternative to be able
to control Irans already existing nuclear
program, Kerry told NBC.
On Friday, Kerry also met with American Jewish leaders to discuss the U.S.Israel relationship and regional issues, the
State Department said. Most Jewish groups
in the U.S. have either explicitly opposed
or expressed concern about the nuclear
deal.

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Israel eases patient access to medical marijuana

Israels deputy health minister, MK Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism
party, announced new measures to make
it easier for Israelis to obtain medical marijuana by allowing pharmacies to dispense
prescriptions to patients.
Today pharmacies give out all kinds of
drugs, including narcotics such as morphine, and its done in a perfectly orderly
fashion. So marijuana will be handled the
same way, Litzman told the Knesset Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, the
Times of Israel reported.
It will be prescribed and monitored by
the same standards as other medications,
he added.
Tens of thousands of Israelis who have
been prescribed medical marijuana now

can receive it only through marijuana dispensaries, which struggle to meet popular
demand and to overcome bureaucratic
hurdles. Litzman hopes the new process
will ease access.
Many medical professionals and scientists regularly visit Israel to learn about
the countrys innovations in medical marijuana research and development. Efforts
to decriminalize marijuana are also under
way in the Jewish state. A recently introduced Knesset bill would make the cannabis plant legal for private use and allow
users over 21 to possess small amounts of
marijuana.

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Google removes Hamas app from Android store

Google has removed from its Android app
store a cell phone application built by
Hamas. The app, which the Palestinian terrorist organization created to improve its
connection with its followers, appeared in
the Google Play Store, but was removed at
10 p.m. Saturday night (Israel time).
Earlier Saturday, Hamas announced via
its @HamasInfoEn Twitter feed, Today
we launched the android app for the Arabic version of our website, while Apple
refused to host the iOS application.

Hamas launched an English-language website on June 25.
The app included, among other features, historical information about the
group, an overview of its terrorist activities, and updates about terrorists being
held in Israeli prisons. Google said in a
statement that it removes apps that violate its policies, such as those that incite
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hatred.
Across
1 Feh, pick one boyfriend!
8 Impose a plague on
12 What tensions in the Middle East will
ideally do
16 1913s Cohen Saves the Flag, for one

17 Third 31-Across book
19 Fourth 31-Across book
20 Preparing to dispose of, as a chocolate
gelt wrapper
21 Temple membership charge

22 Golden Globe winner Dinah
24 Made dough at a bagel shop?
25 Former ambassador Moshe
26 Course for Israeli immigrants to the U.S.:
Abbr.
27 Landed via El Al
31 Its written from right-to-left, like each
Across entry in this puzzle
34 Jewish religion et al.

36 31-Across form, often
38 Have the effect of matzah ball soup on
the soul
40 Nat ___ (Shadow Soldiers: Israel network, informally)
42 Israels third-largest trading partner
43 Israel began sending one to the
Olympics in 1952
44 Present time?
48 Noshes on
49 Fifth 31-Across book
52 Menorah mishap residue
55 Only method for producing kosher
meat
56 ___ Yar
60 Jerusalem Biblical Zoo heavyweight
62 Tree mentioned in Isaiah
63 She cant remarry
65 Second 36-Across book
67 Job for Ginsburg
70 Main 31-Across character
71 Israels is around $228 billion
72 Abbr. once seen in kosher markets
74 Goldman Sachs closes them
76 Its eruption caused a tsunami that submerged Atlit Yam
78 Plotz sounds
79 Challah ingredient
82 Boxer and Franken, at times
86 First 31-Across book
88 31-Across locale, sometimes
89 Shylock quality
90 Encyclopaedia Judaica, e.g.
91 Technion hurdle
92 Einsteins collection
The Solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 51.
Down
1 Give me children, or ___ I die: Rachel
2 Nearly bubkes
3 Red Sea formation
4 Peeper, to Emma Lazarus
5 Souvenir, as from a Birthright trip
6 Harden, Job-style
7 Presidents Medal and others
8 JDate exchange, for short
9 Compete in the Jerusalem Marathon
10 Post-Pesach digestion aids
11 Jewish campus group
12 Churchill who supported the Zionist
movement
13 Hebrew form of Abe

14 2013 Spike Jonze film
15 Bubbes specialty
18 Baer vs. Schmeling outcome, 1933
23 Japheths brother
25 Full of schmutz
26 One needing real gelt to pay off a mortgage
28 Flowery Hebrew name

29 Lech-___
30 The Nazarene author
31 Ralph Lauren line?
32 Found the afikoman!
33 Ayalon Highway, for instance: Abbr.
35 Jerusalem Post informants
37 Spike, as grape juice
39 Used an Uzi
41 Philistine city
45 ___ zemirot, Shabbat prayer
46 Theologian Kaufmann
47 Service admonition
50 On the Jewish Question essayist Karl
51 Enjoyed kugel
52 Barbara Walters is one
53 Display chutzpah
54 Knesset assistant
57 Vehicle that doesnt operate during
Shabbat in Tel Aviv
58 In biblical days
59 Sound of klutzes colliding
61 Lower Galilee boarding school
64 Sanitary state, as at the Ichilov Hospital
66 Gradually drives meshuga
68 Pharaonic symbol
69 Where rabbinical robes hang
73 Brandeis bigwigs
75 Walker known for anti-Semitism
77 Emulate a concerned Jewish mother
78 Part of William S. Paleys CBS, briefly
79 The Talmud considers it an example
of the weak who cast terror on the
strong
80 Jezreel Valley kibbutz
81 Old-style Oy vey!
82 Take in, as light
83 Drink thats Hebrew for be exalted
84 Goliaths was big
85 Body part equivalent to itself, biblically
87 Sandy Koufax stat
Arts & Culture

At Jerusalem Film Festival,
new year brings new kind of drama
JUDY LASH BALINT
n July 2014 in Jerusalem, sirens

over the city at the beginning of the
50-day Gaza war forced the cancellation of the outdoor opening event of
the Jerusalem International Film Festival.
The festival went on, despite several
schedule changes and film celebrities who
were last-minute no-shows, but the usually
festive atmosphere was distinctly muted.
This year, the July 9 to 19 festival was not
without controversy, but it bore none of
last years tensions. Both the opening and
closing events drew large crowds at the
Sultans Pool venue just below the walls of
the Old City.
John Turturro, star of Mia Madre,
the feature film that opened the festival,
told filmgoers, I always wanted to come
to Jerusalem. The closing event brought
together the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra with Francis Ford Coppolas classic, The Godfather,
as the orchestra performed
Nino Rotas music to an
appreciative audience.
The Jerusalem Cinematheque and Sultans Pool is just below the
This year marked the
walls of the Old City. It is the centerpiece for the annual Jerusalem
32nd annual Jerusalem Film
International Film Festival.
JUDY LASH BALINT
Festival, an event that has
assumed a prominent place
for Israeli filmmakers to both promote
in the international film fesBeyond the Fear was
tival circuit and become
their completed works and try to obtain
nowhere to be seen in the
a 10-day hub of cinematic
funding and attention for their works in
awards ceremony. The
activity that highlights the
progress. This year, 11 projects competed
Van Leer award for Best
dynamic Israeli film scene.
in the festivals Pitch Point sessions in
Documentary Film went to
Most of the 230 films showfront of a prestigious international jury
Silvina Landsmanns Hotcased during the festival were
line, which highlights the
that included American producer Ira Deutchman, Serb producer Miroslav Mogoroscreened in and around the
work of the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants in Tel
vic, and Karni Ziv, head of Israels Keshet
Jerusalem Cinematheque in
Aviv.
Media Group.
the Hinnom Valley before an
Avishai Sivans Tikkun,
On the lighter side, in collaboration
international crowd of guests
set in the charedi comwith the Jerusalem Municipality, the festithat included renowned film
munity, won the Haggiag
val offered free screenings under the stars
critics, producers, directors,
The Jerusalem International Film Festivals founder, the late Lia
competition for the best
in several locations in the Old City, with
and actors, who could be
Van Leer, at the 2012 festival. Van Leer died earlier this year, and
full-length Israeli feature.
the emphasis on fantasies, family-friendly
seen mingling and talking
the recent 2015 festival featured a tribute to her that attracted
The film tells the story of a
films, and action films. At the nearby First
shop in the gardens between
hundreds who remembered her persistence in trying to make
young religious man who
Station recreational area, nightly free
screenings.
the Jerusalem Cinematheque open to all.
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goes through a near-death
showings of classic Israeli films were a
Cinematheque co-founder
experience and emerges a
popular feature of this years festival.
and longtime film festival
former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
different person.
Many festival attendees dive into the
director Lia Van Leer died earlier this year
Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport Miri
The Israel Critics Forum award for best
events catalog as soon as its published.
at 90. A moving tribute evening during the
Regev wanted the film scrapped from the
feature film went to Tova Aschers AKA
They often have trouble whittling down
festival attracted hundreds who remembered her charismatic presence and perfestival lineup, and she threatened to slash
Nadia, filmed in Jerusalem and London.
their film choices. For some, like Adina
sistence in trying to make the Cinemagovernment support for the festival unless
Ascher is a renowned Israeli film editor,
Mishkoff Kischel, the process is a real martheque open to all in Jerusalem.
athon she told her Facebook friends that
it was removed. Former president Shimon
and AKA Nadia is her first feature film.
The most controversial movie of this
she had bought tickets for 30 films over
Peres and opposition leader Member of
The Audience award went to Doron Paz
years festival, and a film that was protested
the course of the 10-day festival.
Knesset Isaac Herzog of the Zionist Union
and Yoav Pazs JeruZalem, a creative horror movie set in the Holy City that will have
by both right and left within Israels conNow that the curtain has closed on this
also protested the film. In a compromise,
tentious cultural landscape, was Beyond
its official world premiere at the Fantasia
years festival, what will next year bring?
the film eventually was shown twice at a
The Fear, a documentary about the perInternational Film Festival in Canada.
Many more options for film buffs like
separate nearby venue, on the day before
sonal life of Yigal Amir, who is serving a life
In addition to hosting film screenings,
Kischel to choose from and perhaps a
the festival opened. Both screenings were
JNS.ORG
sentence in prison for the assassination of
the Jerusalem festival is an opportunity
new controversy to boot.
sold out.
Calendar
9:45 a.m. Bring a blanket,
sunscreen, and a hat.
39 Barbour Pond Road.
Jessica, jessicak@jfnnj.
org or (201) 783-4842.
Author in Teaneck:
Rabbi Natan Slifkin,
director of the Biblical
Museum of Natural
History in Israel, will
present a multimedia
program, The
Animal Kingdom in
Jewish Thought, at
Congregation Beth
Aaron, 10 a.m. 950
Queen Anne Road.
(201) 836-6210 or www.
bethaaron.org.,
Tuesday
AUG. 4
Ice cream for children:
The Summer Concert

series at the Wayne
YMCA continues
with The Extreme
Magic of Eric, a performance
by the award-winning illusionist
Eric Wilzig, on Thursday, August
6, at 7 p.m. The series, produced
by Naomi Miller, runs through
August 20. The Metro YMCAs of
the Oranges is a partner of the
YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100.
AUG.
Friday
JULY 31
Shabbat at West Point:
The Mens Club of the
Nanuet Hebrew Center
invites family and friends
to services and kosher
dinner with cadets
at West Point, 7 p.m.
(845) 708-9181 or www.
nanuethc.org.
Shabbat in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
offers a Shabbat outdoor
experience with Rabbis
Elyse Frishman and
Rachel Steiner, 7 p.m.
747 Route 208 South.
(201) 848-1800.
Saturday
AUG.1
Concert in Wayne: Steve
Alexander and the Jazz
Generation perform for
the Rosen PACs Summer
Concerts Under the Stars
series in the Berman

Atrium at the Wayne
YMCA, 7:30 p.m. Steve
and the band will play
jazz selections from the
American Songbook.
Indoors if it rains. The
Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100 or www.
wayneymca.org.
Sunday
AUG. 2
Childrens program
in the park: Waynes
Congregation Shomrei
Torah and Temple Beth
Tikvah, in conjunction
with the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey and Shalom
Baby, host Popsicles
in the Park: Bubbles, a
playgroup for newborns
through 3-year-olds and
their parents, at Barbour
Pond Park in Wayne,
PJ Library in northern
New Jersey, a program
of the Harold Grinspoon
Foundation, and
sponsored locally by the
Bergen County YJCC,
is holding a series of
events in partnership
with local synagogues
for kids, 6 months-to 6
-years-old. The first
with Barnert Temple of
Franklin Lakes is at Ben &
Jerrys, 106 Franklin Ave.,
Ridgewood, 3:30-5 p.m.
Crafts and stories and a
discount on an ice cream
purchase. (201) 221-5782,
www.pjlibrary.org, or
lripps@yjcc.org.
Thursday
AUG. 6
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Congregation Yisrael
holds a blood drive
with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 2-8 p.m.
O-negative blood donors
especially needed. 389
W. Englewood Ave.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Shabbat in Emerson:
The sisterhood of
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds its annual
Summer Erev Shabbat
service, Lovingkindness:
How Can Acts of
Lovingkindness
Transform Our Lives?
Outdoors, weather
permitting, 7 p.m.
Homemade treats served
afterward. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
offers Shabbat in the
Woods with Rabbis
Elyse Frishman and
Rachel Steiner, 7 p.m.,
followed by a pot-luck
dinner. 747 Route 208
South. (201) 848-1800.
Sunday
AUG. 9
Film in Wayne: The
Chabad Center of Passaic
County screens Above
and Beyond, produced
by Nancy Spielberg,
7 p.m. In 1948, a group
of Jewish-American
pilots smuggled planes
out of the U.S., trained
behind the Iron Curtain
in Czechoslovakia, and
flew for Israel in its
War of Independence.
Discussion following
the film. Refreshments.
194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274 or
Jewishwayne.com.
Wednesday
Saturday
AUG. 12
AUG. 1
Casino trip: The
Singles mixer in
Teaneck: Singles gather
sisterhood of Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn
takes a trip to the Sands
Casino in Pennsylvania.
A bus leaves the parking
lot at 9 a.m. $35; includes
$20 slot money plus a
$5 food voucher. Bring
ID. 40-25 Fair Lawn
Ave. Reservations,
(201) 797-9321.
Lunch/games in Fort
Lee: Englewood &
Cliffs Chapter of ORT
America holds its annual
summer card party/deli
luncheon at the Colony
Spa, 11:30 a.m. Games
include cards, mah jongg,
Scrabble, dominoes, and
RummiKub. Homemade
desserts. 1530 Palisade
Ave. (201) 346-9165.
Singles
to celebrate Parshat
Nachamu at a dinner
party at Gotham Burger,
9:30 p.m. Pay at the
register for food. 1383
Queen Anne Road. (201)
530-7400.
Sunday
AUG. 2
Singles dance and
dinner in Clifton: North
Jersey Jewish Singles
40s-60s celebrates
Tu BAv at the Clifton
Jewish Center with a
matchmaking event,
6 p.m. Buffet dinner,
desserts and ice cream
bar, socializing, ice
breakers, live singer/
pianist, and dancing.
18 Delaware St. Karen,
(973) 772-3131.
Wednesday
Friday
JULY 31
AUG. 5
Shabbat in Clifton: The
Cruise in NYC: Jewish
North Jersey Jewish

Singles Meetup Group,
30s-40s, launches its
new meetup for younger
singles at the Clifton
Jewish Center, 7:15 p.m.
Services, sermon by
Rabbi Bob Mark on
Tu BAv Jewish
Matchmaking Day,
dinner, kiddush, and
discussion. Reservations,
(973) 772-3131 or
meetup.com, North
Jersey Jewish Singles
30s-40s at the CJC.
singles 35-50s are

welcome to a Jewish
Love Boat dinner/dance
cruise around Manhattan
aboard a luxury yacht,
6:45 p.m. Meet at the
Skyport Marina, corner
East 23rd Street and FDR
Drive. www.JSTFevents.
com.
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Friday AUG. 7
Tot Shabbat in Nyack:
PJ Library in Rockland
County and Ramah
Day Camp in Nyack,
N.Y., co-host Bim Bam
Shabbat, a free Friday
morning program with
Shabbat-related songs,
stories, and Jewish
activities for toddlers
and preschoolers, at
Ramah Day Camp,
9:30 a.m. Program is
weekly through August
14. 303 Christian Herald
Road. Lara Epstein,
(845) 362-4200, ext.
180, or lepstein@
jewishrockland.org.
Three Dog Night tickets on sale

Tickets are on sale at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood for
a performance by the legendary Three
Dog Night on Thursday, November 5,
at 8 p.m. From 1969 to 1974, no other
group achieved more top-10 hits, moved
more records, or sold more concert
tickets than the group. Their hit songs

include Mama Told Me (Not To Come),
Joy to the World, Black and White,
and Shambala.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or www.bergenpac.org or
by calling the box office, (201) 227-1030.
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Yiddish concert features
Jordan Hirsch ensemble
Sir Nicolas
Winton
Nicholas Winton holds a child he rescued.

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From Harold Arlen and Eddie Cantor to Ziggy Elman and

Mannie Klein, the worlds of jazz and of the Great American Songbook have deep roots in the world of Yiddish and
klezmer. Join Teaneck-based trumpeter Jordan Hirsch on
Wednesday, August 5, for an entertaining evening as he
explores the musical crossroads of Yiddish vaudeville, early
hot jazz, and swing music, leading an all-star ensemble of
jazz and Yiddish stalwarts, including the legendary pianist Peter Sokolow. 7 p.m., Museum at Eldridge Street, 12
Eldridge St., Manhattan. Call (212) 219-0302.
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Film screening honors

Holocaust hero
In commemoration of Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Wintons death on July 1 at 106, Valley Chabads
Eternal Flame program and the Bergen County
YJCC will screen the documentary Nickys Family on Wednesday, August 12. The doors will open
at the YJCC in Washington Township at 7 p.m., and
the film will begin at 7:30.
The film tells the story of Nicholas Winton, an
Englishman who organized the rescue of 669 Czech
and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. The story of the
rescue is known all over the world. Queen Elizabeth II knighted him and the U.S.
House of Representatives passed H.R. 583 recognizing his deed.
Registration is required. Call (201) 476-0157 or go to Eternalflame.org/events.
Max Wolkowitz, left, and Howard Pinhasik in Penguin Rep Theatres production
of My Name is Asher Lev.
STEPHEN NACHAMIE
My Name is Asher Lev and more

at Rocklands Penguin Rep Theatre
JCC campers at Cradles to Crayons. COURTESY JCCOTP
Travel/volunteer camp
stops in Boston
Eighteen local teens participating in the
Teen Adventures Travel and Volunteer
Camp at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly recently traveled to Boston.
There they took part in a special social
service project, Cradles to Crayons, to
help financially challenged families get
a head start preparing their children for
the school year.
Before leaving for Boston, the teens
collected sneakers, childrens clothes,
crib sheets, and toiletries, including
shampoo, soap, combs, toothpaste,
and toothbrushes, to bring with them.
In Boston, the group volunteered at
Cradles to Crayons, assembling clothing

packages for families in need. They also
pooled some of the money their parents
gave them for their trip and donated it
to buy the children new backpacks and
school supplies.
The five-week summer camp, for
seventh- through tenth-graders, features weekly community service projects and trips to amusement and water
parks, beaches, and sporting events,
and extended getaways. For information
on teen programs at the JCC, email Cara
at cfutterweit@jccotp.org or call (201)
408-1470.
Penguin Rep Theatre,

under the leadership of
founding artistic director
Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M.
Horn, continues the Rockland County-based professional companys 38th
season with My Name is
Asher Lev by Aaron Posner. Stephen Nachamie
directs the show, adapted from Chaim
Potoks best-selling novel. Performances
are through August 2.
From August 14 to September 6, Penguin will present Becoming Dr. Ruth,
written by Mark St. Germain, the author
of Freuds Last Session and co-author
of last seasons The Fabulous Lipitones.
The comedy stars Anne OSullivan. Dr.
Ruth Westheimer and author Mark St. Germain will be at the August 16 official opening, which will include a post-performance
Becoming Dr. Ruth, about

Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl
who became Dr. Ruth, stars
Anne OSullivan, left, who
understudied the title role
in the recent Off-Broadway
production.
COURTESY PENGUIN REP THEATRE
discussion, followed by coffee and cake.

Performances are at Penguins 108seat theater, 7 Crickettown Road in Stony
Point, N.Y. On September 26, SUNY Rockland Community Colleges Cultural Arts
Theatre in Suffern, N.Y., will be the venue
for Jake Ehrenreichs musical comedy A
Jew Grows in Brooklyn. Penguin Rep Theatre is a not-for-profit professional Equity
theatre.
For information, go to www.penguinrep.
org, or call (845) 786-2873.
Jewish World
Why is a thriving shul spending $15 million to downsize?

URIEL HEILMAN
BROOKLINE, MASS. Times are good for
Kehillath Israel, the storied Conservative
synagogue in this Boston suburb.
While many other area Conservative
congregations are shrinking, membership
at KI is growing. The 430-member synagogue has a thrice-daily minyan and hosts
three different services on Shabbat mornings; a fourth is slated to be added this fall.
KI is also home to several Jewish agencies,
has a growing preschool, and for the third
year in a row is running a budget surplus.
Now the 98-year-old synagogue on Harvard Street is about to embark on a radical
renovation plan that might seem counterintuitive. It is downsizing.
The first phase, which will cost $15 million and is scheduled to begin next summer, is all about making the facility more
flexible. The fixed pews in the sanctuary will be yanked out and replaced with
stacking chairs, and moveable walls will
be installed to make the space useable for
purposes other than worship. In phase
two, Jewish senior housing will be built on
the site, creating a significant long-term
revenue stream. Overall, the buildings
footprint will decrease slightly, to 53,000
square feet from 55,000, excluding the
senior housing facility.
Its all part of an unconventional master
plan designed to position KI for future success or decline.
Were very mindful of whats happening to suburban synagogues across the
American Jewish frontier that have found
their synagogues to be very costly and
challenging to maintain, and were doing
everything possible to hedge against that,
the synagogues rabbi, William Hamilton,
said. We know that life wont always be
this way, and things will change. Hopefully well have left the people who follow
us with a campus that is versatile enough
and endowed enough financially to serve
future generations.
With Reform and Conservative affiliation on the decline, large urban and suburban synagogues across the country are
facing some stark choices. Built during
the good times of the early and mid-20th
century, many have become burdens to
shrunken congregations now too small
to afford their upkeep. Synagogues with
sanctuaries built to seat 1,500 or more
may barely see 100 worshippers on Shabbat, and many congregations now use
their sanctuaries only on High Holidays
or special occasions. And if these trends
hold, the worst is yet to come.
KI is one of four non-Orthodox synagogues in the Boston area in the midst of
making major changes that reflect how
synagogues are trying to adjust to these
trends.
Just blocks from KI, Massachusetts
oldest congregation, the Reform Temple
Rabbi William Hamilton of Brooklines Kehillath Israel is credited with helping rejuvenate the 98-year-old synagogue.

Ohabei Shalom on Beacon Street, has

turned to rental income for survival. Five
years ago, the synagogue built an addition that generates revenue by renting
space to a local public preschool. Now the
350-member synagogue is fixing its roof
and updating its 1,700-seat sanctuary as
part of a $2.3 million renovation project
it hopes will make the massive sanctuary
more attractive for rentals to cultural institutions and universities.
We need outside rental income in order
to sustain this building, Ohabei Shaloms
rabbi, Sonia Saltzman, said. We cant do
it just from the membership.
A few miles away, in the Chestnut Hill
neighborhood in south Brookline, the
Conservative Temple Emeth is pursuing
an if-you-build-it-they-will-come approach.
The shul just began a $1 million renovation to raise ceilings, brighten hallways,
increase handicapped accessibility, and
upgrade the 67-year-old buildings roof
and air-conditioning systems. Additional
renovations totaling $2 million are on the
drawing table.
Its going to be a much brighter office,
which fills people with optimism, Rabbi
Alan Turetz said. We decided this is a
good time to put our best face forward,
and we timed it to our 75th anniversary.
Temple Emeth has tried this approach
once before. In 2005, a $1.5 million renovation updated the sanctuary while slightly
shrinking its size, but it failed to arrest the
slide in membership. Since then, the synagogue has merged its weekday minyan with
URIEL HEILMAN
another struggling Conservative synagogue

and combined its supplementary religious
school with those of two other synagogues.
To capitalize on its unused space, Temple
Emeth rents part of the building to a local
public preschool and sometimes to the popular Chabad across the street.
Mishkan Tefila, the Conservative synagogue that shares a weekday minyan and
religious school with Emeth, may not survive at all. One of the largest synagogue
properties in Massachusetts, Mishkan is
entertaining bids to sell off some or all of
its 23-acre property. Though Mishkans
sanctuary seats 800 and can be opened
up to seat 2,000, the synagogue barely has
300 members.
We need to do something to secure a
long-term future because there are not that
many young families in the Newton area
right now, Mishkans rabbi, Leonard Gordon, said. For Mishkan to thrive in a new
iteration, it would have to be more than
a local synagogue. It would have to be an
institution thats open seven days a week,
with programming and outreach. It would
have to become a destination synagogue.
Located in semi-urban Brookline, which
abuts Boston, KI already has succeeded in
becoming a destination not just for synagogue members but for the wider community. The synagogue has welcomed
two independent minyans into the building on Shabbat (both of which seat men
and women separately, one with a mechitzah barrier and one without) and adopted
many of the best practices of independent
egalitarian minyans in the shuls main

Shabbat service, including lay-led prayers,
spirited singing, and traditional liturgy.
The congregation also serves as home
to a couple of Jewish start-ups and the
regional offices of an Orthodox organization, Yachad, which works with the disabled. KI charges only token rent to these
groups. Its sole genuine tenant is the Dancesport Academy of New England, which
rents out the social hall during the week.
While KI may be bucking the Conservative movements downward trend for
now, the synagogues master plan demonstrates how it is simultaneously trying
to accommodate its current vivacity while
also preparing for a future that may not be
as bright.
The plan for which over $8 million
has been raised, including from Patriots
owner Robert Kraft includes additional
income streams: The Jewish Community
Housing for the Elderly facility will hold a
long-term lease on the site, and a new synagogue social hall better suited to wedding
rentals will be constructed over most of
what is now a garden. The renovation will
also make the building more handicapped
accessible and energy efficient.
This is a complete rethinking of what
a synagogue can be, said Jonathan Sarna,
a KI member and professor of American
Jewish history at Brandeis University. The
different institutions maintaining their
integrity and identity but all interacting
together will be a very significant experiment to watch.
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Pollards wait not over

Fight to bring him to Israel will outlast his release
be released, Netanyahu said. Throughout his time in
prison, I consistently raised the issue of his release in
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will not
my meetings and conversations with the leadership of
alter the terms of Jonathan Pollards parole once he is
successive U.S. administrations. We are looking forward
released.
to his release.
That is a signal that Israels struggle to bring Pollard
In 1995, Pollard was granted Israeli citizenship, in part
to the country whose citizenship he has assumed will
because he hoped to travel to Israel as soon as he was
outlast his November release date.
released.
Mandatory parole did not guarantee Pollards release.
Mr. Pollard will serve his sentence as mandated
However, as opposed to previous requests, where the burby statute for the very serious crimes he committed,
den was on Pollard to show why he should be released,
Alistair Baskey, a National Security Council spokesman,
in the case of mandatory parole, the burden was on the
said in an emailed statement. The president has no
government to show why he should not be freed. Justice
intention of altering the terms of Mr. Pollards parole.
Department officials declined to raise objections.
It is not clear what if any parole terms may be
The Department of Justice has always maintained
imposed on the convicted Israeli spy upon his November 20 release after serving 30 years in a federal prison.
that Jonathan Pollard should serve his full sentence for
His lawyers in a statement Tuesday said that Pollard
the serious crimes he committed, which in this case
would be required to remain in the United States for five
is a 30-year sentence, as mandated by statute, ending
years. Within minutes, however, Eliot Lauer and Jacques
Nov. 21, 2015, Justice Department spokesman Marc
Semmelman issued a corrected release removing that
Raimondi wrote in an email. Another spokesman later
sentence.
clarified that under the law at the time Pollard was prosecuted, an individual would be presumed eligible for
The corrected statement nonetheless suggested that
mandatory parole once they had served two thirds of
Pollard would face travel restrictions.
their sentence. Thirty years is two thirds of 45.
President Obama, who has the constitutional power
Obama administration officials have been at pains to
of executive clemency, has the authority to release Mr.
distinguish between the Nov. 20 parole and the earlier
Pollard before November 21, 2015, as well as the authority to allow Mr. Pollard to leave the United States and
denied requests.
move to Israel immediately, the statement said, noting
A number of media reports and critics of the Obama
Pollards mandated release date by statute.
administration have said that Pollards release is compensation to Israel for the Iran nuclear deal reached
A Justice Department spokesman said that the Parole
between the major powers and Iran on July 14. Israels
Commissions communication with the lawyers for Pollard was not available to the public, and Semmelman
government rejects the deal and is urging Congress to
and Lauer said that they were not ready to release it.
use its power to kill it.
The lawyers have secured lodging and employment
Mr. Pollards status was determined by the United
for Pollard in the New York area when he is released.
States Parole Commission according to standard procedures, and the Parole Commissions decision was in
For years, Israeli officials and U.S. advocacy groups
no way linked to foreign policy considerations, Baskey
have called for the release of Pollard, a civilian U.S. Navy
said.
analyst arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in 1987 for
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewspying for Israel.
ish Organizations, the umbrella foreign policy body
A number of Israeli officials rushed to express the
for the community, welcomes the paroled release
hope that they would greet him on his arrival in Israel,
announcement but also emphasized that Iran was not
but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was cautious,
a factor.
stopping short of looking forward to Pollards arrival in
We do not believe that there is any connection to the
a short statement he released after he spoke with Pollards wife, Esther.
nuclear agreement with Iran, its statement said. The
After decades of effort, Jonathan Pollard will finally
parole date was set at the time of his sentencing and the
current parole process preceded the
negotiations with Iran.
Among those criticizing Pollards
release was Donald Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, who revealed
on Tuesday that he advised President
George W. Bush to forcefully refuse
Israeli entreaties to free Pollard.
Rumsfeld, Bushs defense secretary
from 2001 to 2006, posted a letter on
Twitter that he wrote to Bush in March
2001, ahead of a visit by Israeli officials
early in Bushs presidency.
Releasing Pollard was a bad idea
in 1998 & 2001, Rumsfeld said in his
tweet. It is not a better idea today.
Rumsfeld copied the March 16,
2001, letter to Bush Secretary of State
Israelis call for Jonathan Pollards release in Jerusalem on March
Colin Powell, National Security Adviser
21, 2013.
LIAR MIZRAHI/GETTY IMAGES
Condoleezza Rice and Vice President
RON KAMPEAS
Dick Cheney.
It is possible that in the meeting you will be asked to take
action to free Pollard, Rumsfeld wrote. Any step to free Pollard would be enormously damaging to our efforts to keep
spies out of government. My suggestion would be to come on
very forcefully and say not no, but definitely no no today,
tomorrow and the next day, and that is not a matter that you
would consider during your administration.
Rumsfeld, who was also defense secretary during the presidency of Gerald Ford in the mid-1970s, attached to his letter to
Bush a 1998 letter he had drafted and co-signed with six other
former defense secretaries including Cheney, who served
in the post during the George H. W. Bush presidency urging
President Bill Clinton not to accede to Israeli requests to free
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n 1 Open Hearts Open Homes, a Bergen County YJCC program that welcomes
Israeli teens affected by violence and terror into the community for respite,
home hospitality, and a teen travel experience, completed its first threeweek session on July 19. Teens, host families, and staff gathered at the YJCC
before the teens returned home to Israel. A second group of Israeli teens
arrived on July 26. The program is in its 14th summer. COURTESY YJCC
n 2 Participants are shown at a gym activity at the Fair Lawn Jewish Day Camp,
which is now in its seventh year and serves more than 350 campers. COURTESY FLJDC
n 3 Ambassador Bradley Gordon, a former CIA political analyst who is
now AIPACs director of policy and government, spoke about the recent
Iran nuclear deal before an overflow crowd of more than 600 people at
Temple Emanu-El of Closter last week. The event was co-sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and AIPAC. COURTESY JFNNJ
n 4 The Lt. James I. Platt JWV Post 651 of Fair Lawn installed officers
earlier this month. From left, appointee Jack Wall, Commander Mel Kaplan,
New Jersey Department Commander Larry Rosenthal, Vice Commander
George Pollack Jr., and Vice Commander Jules Corn Sr. COURTESY JWV
n 5 Dr. Ben Chouake, left, with Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and
Rabbi Steven Weil at last weeks NORPAC meeting with the senator
at Rabbi Steven and Yael Weils Teaneck home. The deal with Iran was
the meetings topic. NORPAC held a similar meeting in Riverdale, N.Y.,
featuring Representative Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz). COURTESY NORPAC
n 6 Children at the Leah Sokoloff Nursery School summer program
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will make Teva one of the worlds biggest.
Founded in Jerusalem in 1901 by three pharmacists
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Iran Deal
FROM PAGE 28
Hey @TheIranDeal, why are you taking Gen. Qassem Solaimani, a man responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq,
off the sanctions list?
Hey @TheIranDeal, how do you assess
nuclear expert David Albrights claim that
installing new centrifuges will lower Irans
break-out time to a few days or weeks?
Hey @TheIranDeal, what leverage do
you have if the Iranians refuse full disclosure of the Possible Military Dimensions of
their nuclear research?
Hey @TheIranDeal, how will you monitor the underground Fordow enrichment
facility if the Revolutionary Guards wont
let International Atomic Enery Agency
inspectors in?
Hey @TheIranDeal, can you explain
how legitimizing Irans nuclear program
begun clandestinely will improve human
rights in that country?
Hey @TheIranDeal, does it bother you
that Irans Supreme Leader addressed a
Death to America rally one day after this
deal was announced?
Hey @TheIranDeal, what will you do if

Irans National Security Council refuses to
ratify the deal?
Hey @TheIranDeal, to quote President
Obama, are all options still on the table?
There are hundreds of similar questions that can be asked, but I hope you
get my drift. The White House believes it
can sell the Iran deal in the manner that
you might sell a hot fashion designer
putting Obama on The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart, plastering social media platforms, and creating a general zeitgeist that
anyone who opposes this deal is not only
nuts, but probably someone who voted for
George W. Bush.
Keep blitzing @TheIranDeal with questions. Keep demanding answers. Just
because they are silent, it doesnt mean
JNS.ORG
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& The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly
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Scouts
FROM PAGE 22
avail themselves of this option, as may

some traditional Jewish groups. A
church or synagogue or religious school
that uses scouting as an aspect of its own
religious educational program or ministry properly is entitled to shape the
local troop activities and structure to
reflect its own religious vision. Sponsoring organizations that are not faith-based
(fraternal organizations, for example)
do not have the option of a local policy
excluding leaders on the basis of sexual
orientation.
While shifting staffing decisions to the
local sponsoring organization may not
satisfy all those who have objected to
the earlier BSA policy, I hardly think that
the religious scruples of, say, a local Mormon church in Orem, Utah, or a Catholic church in Chicago, should preclude a
Reform synagogue or a Jewish community center or a Hebrew day school in
New Jersey (or elsewhere) from providing young Jewish boys with a religiously
sponsored Scout troop experience in
accordance with their own religious and
social principles.
In short, it is time for the progressive
Jewish community to step up. Religious
organizations that have boycotted the
Boy Scouts on the basis of its volunteer
leadership policies offering assurances implicit and explicit that a cooperative relationship would resume upon
adoption of a more inclusive stance
now should eagerly make good on
those stated intentions. A broad influx
of BSA charter partners from within the
Jewish community would have a transformative impact on the organization,
raising the visibility and stature of the
Jewish community in a venerable and
diverse American institution, providing
an avenue for Jewish youth activities
(with a long record of proven success)
tailored to reflect local Jewish values,
and demonstrating to the Boy Scouts
of America the profound benefits of
responsiveness to Jewish religious and
moral concerns.
Not insignificantly, a broad influx of
BSA charter partners from within the

Jewish community thereby matching
action to rhetoric will be a dramatic
expression of the honor and integrity
that the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of religious persuasion or political
perspective, so deeply cherish and sincerely value. A scout is trustworthy.
As for Jewish sponsoring organizations and individual supporters of scouting who maintained a relationship with
the BSA despite misgivings about leadership policies, your persistent friendship has been profoundly appreciated,
not only by your fellow Jews in scouting,
but by all who value the BSAs mission.
May your bonds with scouting grow only
stronger and more satisfying.
For those in the Jewish community
who viewed the BSAs erstwhile policy
with approval, all your scouting compatriots look forward to your continued
support and participation.
On the BSA adult volunteer policy
as on almost every issue confronting us
the Jewish community has never spoken with one voice, and honorable and
mutually respectful discussants will continue to hold differing opinions. Whatever your religious perspective on homosexuality and whatever your views on
the earlier BSA policy on adult volunteer
leaders Jewish religious organizations
from across the denominational spectrum should now take a fresh look at the
Boy Scouts of America, and declare as
one in both word and through meaningful action: How goodly are thy tents,
O Jacob!
May those ancient words of prophecy (first spoken at Sedeh-Tzofim, literally A Field of Scouts see Numbers
23:14; 24:5) continue to bring blessing to
the Jewish people, and may a principled
Jewish community now more than
ever do all it can to bring blessing to
a deserving organization that has served
and shaped our youth for more than one
hundred years.
Joseph Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin
Lakes.
Israeli high-tech raises record $1.12 billion

during second-quarter transactions
VIVA SARAH PRESS
New records for Israeli high-tech investments as 179 companies raised $1.12
billion in the second quarter of 2015,
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high $1.11 billion invested in Q4/2014.
Fifty percent of the amount raised
during this quarter, and even more
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