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Meet Harlems AfricanAmerican rugelach king
l With a JCC down
the block and a
Chabad the next
street over, its not
surprising that this
New York City bakery sells rugelach.
But look around
the small one-room
shop, and you wont
see the usual Jewish kitsch or stylized Hebrew writing
adorning the walls.
Two certifications
from the City of
New York, and a picture of the Obamas,
hang where the
kosher certificate
might be. On the
opposite wall, instead of recommendations from local
rabbis, frames enclose a letter from
Rep. Charlie Rangel, the longtime local congressman retiring next year,
and pictures of other dignitaries here
in Harlem.
And instead of advertising an Ashkenazi name, the front window of
Lee Lees Baked Goods on 118th St. in
Manhattan displays a picture of Alvin
Lee Smalls, the stores African-American proprietor. Below Smalls photo is
his slogan Rugelach by a brother.
Smalls, 75, has turned his unlikely
business into a Harlem institution. For
half a century, hes had two missions:
to introduce rugelach to his Harlem
neighbors, and to keep the craft of
artisanal, handmade rugelach-baking
alive.
Its something I learned to bake,
and people love it, he said. So they
make me want to keep baking it.
Smalls was working as a chef in
a hospital in 1964 when he found a
recipe for rugelach in the newspaper.
He isnt Jewish and hadnt grown up
with the pastry as a child in South
Carolina, but decided to try it out.
When he didnt like the finished product, he started experimenting, altering the recipe for a few months. His
new and improved formula yielded a
crispier, sturdier, tastier version of the
Jewish staple sometimes described
as a mini Yiddishe croissant.
His secret is butter. In the longstanding debate between dairy and
pareve non-dairy rugelach,
Smalls comes down firmly, and
moistly, on the side of dairy. Smalls
shuns the standard vegetable oil
for a rich, dairy dough. To keep the
rugelach moist, he wraps the crust
around raisins covered in honey.

Smalls apricot and raspberry rugelach come covered in cinnamon
with walnuts inside, while the chocolate variety is imbued with almonds.
A dozen of the small, dense rectangles costs $15, though newcomers
to the bakery get their first taste for
free. The store also sells pies, muffins, and bread pudding and even
rugelach ice cream.
Harlemites are so familiar with
Smalls rugelach that when he had to
shut the store down in 2010 because
of a budget shortfall, local blogs sent
enough customers over to allow him
to reopen.
But Smalls jokes that just because
the stores African-American neighbors like his pastries doesnt mean
they know how to pronounce them.
They call it all kinds of different
names, he said. Jewish people,
when they say it, have a little click in
the back [of the throat].
Smalls still makes his rugelach with
his own hands, something he says is
a dying art. This week, as he stepped
out of the kitchen in a white plastic
apron to meet me, he turned around
every couple of minutes to shout instructions to his fellow bakers.
He laments that most of the rugelach bakeries he enjoyed in the
1960s and 70s arent around anymore. But with Harlems Jewish
population booming (see page 52),
he hopes to stay in business for a
while longer.
Most of them either retired or
passed away, he said of his rivals.
Todays rugelach are now made in
the factory, not like the old-time rugelach.
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Seat rights fight becomes

public billboard battle
l Orthodox Jewish
mens efforts to avoid
having to sit next to
women on an airplane
have become a First
Amendment issue. But
the battle isnt over
the religious freedom
clause, but rather a different matter that has
been much litigated in
recent years: Can public
agencies bar all noncommercial advertisements on matters of
public interest in the
advertising spaces they
rent out?
This legal issue has
played out in controversies by pro-BDS organizations seeking to
advertise anti-Israel positions on buses and subway platforms.
Now the issue has come to the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The agency has rejected a proposed
billboard at its airports that would tell
women flying to Israel that they do not
have to switch seats to accommodate
charedi passengers.
However, the Port Authority now says
it is reviewing its ad guidelines, making
it likely that the seating ad will eventually appear at a local airport, according
to the New York Times, which reported
on the rejection of the ad, which happened last month.
Sponsored by the Israel Religious
Action Center, the public and legal advocacy arm of the Reform movement
in Israel, the ad reads: Ladies, please
take your seat and keep it. It explains
that requiring a person to switch seats
because of gender is illegal and that
flight attendants are not allowed to ask
a passenger to switch seats to enable
segregation by gender.
The center, known as IRAC, planned
to hang the billboard in the El Al airlines
passenger waiting area at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

The Port Authoritys guidelines for
ads in airports, subways, and bus stations say that the ads must be for a
product or a service and cannot offer a
religious or political message. Allowances are sometimes made for public service announcements, though that is left
to the discretion of the Port Authority.
IRAC has hired a civil rights lawyer
to convince the Port Authority to allow
the billboards to hang, and the lawyer
already has provided some legal precedents in favor of it, according to the
Times.
More women have been complaining that they have been asked to switch
seats in the last few years. Those requests are driven by the feeling among
male charedim that it is immodest for
them to sit next to women. In December, an 81-year-old Holocaust survivor sued El Al after she was asked to
change seats on a flight from Newark
Liberty to Tel Aviv.

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Superman needs to confront his

Jewish roots, and Id like to write that.
Id like to have him face a death camp.
Legendary comic book artist and writer Frank Miller, speaking to Inverse.com
at New Yorks Comic-Con last week.
THE ACCOUNTANT:
Rogue role adds up

for Ben Affleck
The Accountant is
a thriller starring
Ben Affleck as
Christian Wolff, a math
savant with Aspergers
syndrome. (He has
trouble relating to
people.) Behind the
cover of a small-town
CPA office, Wolff works
as a freelance accountant for criminal organizations, like the Mafia. A
criminal investigator for
the Treasury Dept. (J.K.
Simmons) is hot on
Wolffs trail.
Wolff decides to take a
legitimate client a high
tech company where an
accounting clerk (Anna
Kendrick) has discovered a multimillion-dollar
discrepancy. As Wolff
unwinds this companys
books, people start to die.
JON BERNTHAL,
40, and Emmy darling
JEFFREY TAMBOR,
72, have large supporting roles. Bernthal plays
Brax, a mercenary for
hire, and Tambor plays
Francis Silverberg, a
veteran Mafia accountant
who is Afflecks mentor.
CHRISTOPHER
GUEST, 68, is the
master of the
mockumentary. He
co-wrote This is Spinal
Tap. He co-wrote and
directed Waiting for
Guffman, Best in Show,
and A Mighty Wind.
Mascots, his new film,
follows several people
who play sports team
mascots as they compete
for honors (The Gold
Fluffy Award) at the
(fictional) World Mascot
Association. (Mascots
opened in a few theaters
on October 13 and began
streaming on Netflix that
day, too.)
BOB BALABAN, 71,
who usually plays Jewish
characters in Guest films,
seems to be playing another Jew, Sol Lumpkin.
Another Guest-film regular, HARRY SHEARER,
72, plays the competition
announcer. Shearer was
a child actor; his first big
role was in a 1953 film,
The Robe. I remembered Shearers early
role when I learned, last
week, that the co-winner
of the 2016 Nobel Prize
in Physics, MICHAEL
KOSTERLITZ, 73, is the
nephew of the late HENRY KOSTER, the Oscarnominated director of
The Robe. Both Henry
and his brilliant biochemist brother, HANS
KOSTERLITZ, Michaels
father, fled Nazi Germany. Hans is credited
with being one of the key
discovers of endorphins
(natural pain killers).
Michael, whose work is
harder to summarize, is
a professor of physics at
Brown University.
If youre like me,
you like to know

about interesting
Jewish candidates before
election day, and occasionally look at how
theyre doing in the polls.
Lets call Missouri, this
year, 5 Stars-of David
super interesting. (The
online NY Times and
RealClearPolitics have
daily updated charts of
Jon Bernthal
Jeffrey Tambor
Christopher Guest
Bob Balaban
the polling on Senate

and gubernatorial races.)
ERIC GRIETANS, 42, is
running as the Republican nominee for Missouri
governor. Here are but
a few of the highlights
of his incredible resume
this St. Louis native
was a Rhodes scholar,
has a Ph.D. in development studies, became
a Navy Seal after getting his doctorate, led
raids on Al-Qaeda cells,
got the Bronze Star and
Purple Heart, founded a
vets group called The
Mission Continues, and
has written three books,
one a memoir about his
Seal service.
While Missouri is
trending GOP in recent
elections, as I write this
Greitans Democratic opponent is doing better
than expected and the

race is neck and neck.
Meanwhile, another
tribe member, Democrat JASON KANDER,
35, also is doing much
better than expected in
his attempt to oust GOP
Senator Roy Blunt. After
graduating from Georgetown Law School, Kander did a tour of duty in
Afghanistan as an Army
lieutenant. Subsequently,
he served in the Missouri
legislature and as Missouris secretary of state.
He believes in background gun checks and
countered Blunts criticism of his position by
posting a video in which
he took apart and assembled a rifle, blindfolded. The race is virtually
tied in the latest polls.
Kander has known his
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The Fifth District Republican talks politics, Israel, even a little Trump
JOANNE PALMER
cott Garrett is the Republican who has represented New Jerseys Fifth Congressional District
since 2003.
Until 2012, Mr. Garrett was of merely academic
interest to most of our readers in our catchment area,
because the Fifth District was largely rural, composed
of mainly Sussex and Warren counties. But once the districts boundaries were redefined as they can be every
10 years it came to include much of Bergen County. Mr.
Garrett now represents many if not most of our readers.
As a congressman, he of course is up for re-election this
year, although it is perhaps safe to say that the outsize and
extraordinary presidential contest has sucked much of the
attention from down-ticket races.
But Mr. Garrett is running a close race; his challenger,
Josh Gottheimer, is mounting a serious campaign against
him, and the polls show no daylight between them.
With that in mind, meet Mr. Garrett.
In a way, the redistricting took Mr. Garrett, who has
lived in Sussex County for most of his adult life, back to
his roots. He was born in Englewood Hospital in 1959,
to a mother Sue, who now is 93 and lives in Florida
whose own family came from Bergen County, and a father
Ernie, dead about a dozen years who came from Weehawken, just one county south. When I was a little kid,
we lived in a house in Closter that my dad built, Mr. Garrett said. My mom would tell the story of how he laid
down cinder blocks, piece by piece, and they painted it
themselves. It came down just a few years ago, in one of
the big storms. His grandmother they called her Nana
lived next door.
Soon, the family moved to Sussex County. Ernie Garrett worked in Manhattan, for a company that was then
called U.S. Rubber and then became Uniroyal.
And yes, he confirmed, he is a lifelong Republican.
Mr. Garrett, ever the Jersey boy, graduated from
Montclair State University and then went to Rutgers
to study law. He practiced law mainly general practice and personal injury, on the defense side for about
two decades, becoming involved in local politics as he
worked his way up. For 12 years, starting in 1990, he sat
in the state legislature. I ran an uphill campaign there
were five people in the race and I was the long-shot candidate, but I outworked them and won that race, he
said. I surprised everybody.
Mr. Garrett sits on the House Financial Services Committee, and he now chairs the financial services subcommittee on capital market and government-sponsored enterprises.
Mr. Garrett is a born-again Christian. My testimony
is that I grew up in a Christian household but became
born again sometime during my married years, he said.
I grew up mainline Protestant the churches we went
to were Baptist and Presbyterian and now we go to an
evangelical unaffiliated church. How did that happen?
How do you become born again? Maryellen and I were
married, and we had kids two daughters, both now
adults and then we began to have all these questions,
the questions that you have when you have kids. And so
you begin to attend different churches, and find the one
you fit with the best. Thats how it works.
Scott Garrett at his campaign headquarters in Hackensack.

Scott and Maryellen Garrett homeschooled their daughters; they could not find a Christian school that taught
their values well enough, he has said.
Mr. Garrett is a deeply committed Christian. He studies
scripture every day if he possibly can, both by himself and
in small groups.
Does his religion affect his work in Congress? Religion affects all aspects of your life, he said. Of course,
as a representative, I represent all the people of my district as well.
Mr. Garretts positions, particularly on social issues,
are deeply conservative. Recently, that has caused
controversy; he has lost a great deal of support over
his staunch opposition to same-sex marriage, and he
has been charged with bias against the lesbian, gay,
bisexual, and transgender community. Those charges
have led to decreased funding from many major financial institutions, which count LGBT people among
their employees.
I support traditional marriage, Mr. Garrett said.
I support those people in traditional marriages. I
LARRY YUDELSON
support the Republican platform, which includes traditional marriage.

He is charged with hating gays, he said; the accusations
are that I hate this group or that group. But I dont hate
anyone. We are taught to love people, wherever they are.
Mr. Garretts record also shows him to be unswervingly
anti-abortion; he has a zero percent rating from the Naral,
a national pro-choice group, and a 100 percent rating from
its ideological opposite, the National Right to Life Committee. He is also a founding member of the Liberty Caucus,
a right-wing, libertarian-leaning congressional caucus that
has philosophical ties to the Tea Party movement.
Mr. Garretts support for the Republican party is
unswerving. I have been very active supporting the
party, and supporting other Republican candidates financially as well, he said.
What about the head of the Republican ticket?
Its important to be clear here. Mr. Garrett was speaking on Thursday afternoon, 24 hours before the first
video of his partys candidate for president, Donald
Trump, showed the candidate using vulgar language
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and seemingly admitting to committing sexual abuses,
just because, as he told us, he could. It was before Mr.
Trumps subsequent meltdown, and before the contentious Sunday-night debate, but already Mr. Trump had
used enough vulgar language and insulted enough people
to make the question a logical one to ask of a devoutly
Christian politician.
I support the Republican nominee, Mr. Garrett said.
Do you support Donald Trump? The obvious followup question was asked.
I support the Republican nominee, Mr. Garrett said.
He paused, deadpan. Donald Trump.
There are things that trouble me that both candidates
have said, he continued. I dont think you can expect
anyone to agree with everything anyone says.
On Saturday, after the video was released and the fallout had begun, Mr. Garrett released a statement. Donald Trumps comments are inexcusable, he wrote. I am
appalled that he would brag about violating a womans
physical boundaries I believe that Mike Pence would
be the best nominee for the Republican Party to defeat
Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Garrett is a strong supporter of Israel. Ive been
there several times, and Ive enjoyed every one of my visits, he said. My wife and I have toured quite a bit, and
I have met Netanyahu. I visited Sdorot where missiles
from over the border in Gaza terrorized residents and
upended their lives and Ive been up to the Golan. It
seems that every time I have visited, I have gone over there
during a time of troubles, attacks on buses, bombings, the
intifada. Just the last time, there were knife attacks in the
streets. That was last summer, when a spate of occasionally murderous stabbings unnerved Israelis and visitors.
One of the most troubling aspects was the news coverage, he added. The news coverage in the rest of the
world was abysmal.
We were there when Josephs tomb was burned. The
tomb, in Nablus, a town in the West Bank, is a flash point
between Jews and Palestinians, and for long periods Jews
have not been allowed to worship there. In 2015, a group
of Palestinians tried to burn it down and caused damage;
that was not the first attempt at arson there.
The international media made the knife attacks seem
random, like they were done by thugs, Mr. Garrett said.
They made it seem like it was not a concerted effort,
which it was. That was nowhere in the international
media. The rest of the world just shakes it off.
The rest of the world says that Israels reaction is disproportionate. I say that there is nothing disproportionate
in the way Israel handles these things.
Mr. Garrett concluded with a paean to bipartisanship,
which, he said, still exists, even though no one talks
about it.
Ronald Reagan used to say that you can get a lot done
in Washington if you dont care who gets credit, he said.
Hes learned that its true. I have found on my committee that you can get a lot done if you really dont care
about getting your name on it. Our committee probably
moves the most bills in the most bipartisan manner of
any committee. Just about every bill that comes out of my
committee comes out with full bipartisan support, and

then it goes to the full house committee and comes out
again with full bipartisan support, and then it goes to the
full House of Representatives, and again comes out with
full bipartisan support.
Why dont we hear about that? Because the mainstream
press covers just two or three big issues at a time, and there
is a lot of partisanship on those issues. But thats only about
five or six percent of what we do.
I think that my committee is pretty important, but you
wont open the Bergen Record or the Star-Ledger or your
paper and see anything about bills we pass. But if there
was, it would have to say that it was passed with bipartisan support.
I know that what I do is not sexy, but when I try to
relate it to people, I say, do you want to get a car loan,
a mortgage, start a small business? My committee affects
whether that is hard or easy to do. But when I start talking
about it in any detail, their eyes glaze over. I can talk about
Dodd Frank but its not sexy. So when you go on talk
shows and try to say that youre getting something done
and passing bills and working together, its like dog bites
man, not man bites dog.
It happens less now than it used to, he conceded, but
thats because we all are just too busy to go out with our
friends. Were all too busy to do it to go out with friends
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HIASs Mark Hetfield to speak on refugees in Hoboken
LARRY YUDELSON
he head of the refugee resettlement organization formerly

known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society is a fan of
Antonio Guterres, the Portuguese diplomat who has been tapped as the next secretary general of the United Nations.
And Mr. Guterres, who was the United
Nations high commissioner for refugees,
is in turn a fan of HIAS, according to Mark
Hetfield, its president.
Weve had quite a few meetings with
him, Mr. Hetfield said. His frustration
was always that he couldnt deal with
the root causes that led refugees to flee
their homes. Now hes in a position to
deal with the root causes. Its appropriate
because were facing the greatest refugee
crisis since World War II.
Mr. Hetfield will be speaking after services next Friday night at the United Synagogue of Hoboken.
HIAS dates back 135 years, to the beginning of the mass immigration of Russian
Jews to America in 1881. That makes it the
oldest refugee resettlement organization
in the world.
But about 25 years ago, as the flow of
Jews from the former Soviet Union slowed
dramatically, HIAS changed its focus from
being an agency that helps refugees
because theyre Jewish to an agency that
helps refugees because we are Jewish, Mr.
Hetfield said.
While HIAS no longer has Hebrew
(or any other word) in its name, it is still
strongly based in the Jewish community.
Thats what frequently sends Mr. Hetfield
and other HIAS representatives to synagogues to talk.
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When: 8 p.m., Friday, October 21,
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Overwhelmingly, the Jewish community tends to be very supportive of refugees, he said.

When anti-refugee sentiment rose last
year, fostered by Republican presidential
contender Donald Trump after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November, HIAS
thought it was important to step up and
speak out, Mr. Hetfield said. The organization produced a letter, signed by 1,287
rabbis, supporting continued resettlement
of refugees in America. Two hundred and
twelve synagogues have signed on to a
Welcome Campaign organized by HIAS to
show their support for refugees. (Those in
northern New Jersey include the United
Synagogue of Hoboken, Barnert Temple in
Franklin Lakes, Temple Beth El in Jersey
City, and Shomrei Torah in Wayne.)
Of course, its not unanimous, Mr. Hetfield said of Jewish communal support for
refugees. There are people who are concerned about bringing in populations they
feel are not favorably disposed toward
Israel or toward Jews. He said that the
experience of resettling refugees through
Jewish family service agencies have been
only positive. Theres no better antidote
toward anti-Semitism than exposing people to Jews who are helping them and
doing good things for their families.
HIAS operates around the world. It tries
to help refugees in their country of first
asylum, and to prevent them from being
deported back to the countries they fled.
HIAS works in places including Ukraine,
Panama, Chad, and Kenya. It works with
asylum seekers in Israel, and it has just
opened an office in Greece, on the Isle of
Lebos, where it works with a lot of Syrians, Afghans, and anybody who tries to get
to Europe by boat and ends up on Lesbos.
We try to ensure they apply for asylum in
Europe and are not returned to Turkey.
Overall, HIAS has a staff of about 500
and a budget of around $46 million.
The United Nations estimates that in
2015, 1.8 million people were displaced
from their home countries; the U.S. refugee quota is a tiny fraction of that number.
Recently, refugee quotas have been going
Mark Hetfield with Syrian refugees recently resettled by HIAS in Toledo, Ohio, in
October 2015.
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up both in general and for Syrians but

not as vastly as the needs have been going
up, Mr. Hetfield said. For many years,
the U.S. was accepting 70,000 a year.
President Obama raised that to 85,000
and promised at least 10,000 would be
Syrian. Hes increased it to 110,000 for the
current fiscal year.
This is quite substantial but far short
of the needs and far short of the numbers
of people we used to resettle in the early
1980s, during the years of Soviet Jewish
migration and Indochinese resettlement.
Part of why President Obama has not
increased it further is because the security procedures cause the process to take
a fairly long time. It takes 18 to 24 months
to get through that process. Its difficult to
rescue people when youre dealing with
that kind of timeline.
Security is always an issue because
they come from companies known for
human rights violations and bad relations
with the U.S.
What are the security procedures the
U.S. government takes as it vets potential
refugees?
There are multiple face-to-face
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Mr. Hetfield said. Those interviews last
hours, particularly for the Syrians.
They take their fingerprints. Theyre
not only checked against Interpol and
worldwide databases, but kept on file.
They do a number of name and identity
checks, running the information by a
number of law enforcement and security
agencies.
They dont give the refugees the benefit of the doubt. One of the frustrating
things for the refugees is theyre not told
why theyre not allowed in. Its difficult to
address any evidence being used against
them, he said.
Mr. Hetfield said he is frustrated at the
attention paid to refugees, who are less
than a tenth of each years immigration to
the United States.
Look at the people who carried out the
attacks in Paris last year that started this
hysteria, he said. None were perpetrated
by refugees. All were radicalized Europeans who come to the U.S. without a visa.
Its misdirected energy.
The refugees are just an easy target,
he said.
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The business
of Tamid is business
Fair Lawn native heads
New York regions student group
last year as she participated in Tamid, a
national organization that connects AmerYou dont need an MBA degree to know
ican students to Israel through business
that a PowerPoint presentation has to grab
consulting and stock picking. Ms. Mangot was so inspired by her Tamid experiattention, but the way to do it isnt with
ence that this year she has
vulgarity even if its particularly well chosen.
become the director of
In fact, for one Israeli
Tamids New York region,
company, the verdict that
which comprises six campus chapters.
cuss words dont fly in the
All told, Tamid has 35
American professional
chapters across the councontext was delivered by
try, involving 1,600 stua team of undergraduates.
dents. Thats according to
There are huge cultural
Yoni Heilman, the execudifferences between Israel
tive director of Tamid
and the States, Micaela
Group, as the organization
Mangot explained. Ms.
Micaela Mangot
calls itself. Twenty more
Mangot, 20, from Fair
campus chapters are being
Lawn, is a junior at NYU,
formed. The organization was started
where she majors in media culture and
eight years ago by two University of Michicommunications. Her introduction to
gan students who wanted to help Israel
Israeli-American cultural differences came
LARRY YUDELSON
This years first meeting of the Tamid group at NYU.
but felt the vast majority of students

were not engaged by political discussions
or by religious identity, Mr. Heilman said.
They came up with this idea of an organization that trains the next generation of
business leaders and gives them a strong
connection to Israel.
There are four aspects to Tamids programming. The first involves standardissue campus speakers. Ms. Mangot has
scheduled a talk at Columbia about IsraelChina business relations, and a panel discussion at NYU by young entrepreneurs
(including the founder of a company offering removable tattoos that last a year, and
another that promises 15 minute delivery time for online bodega orders). Last
month the NYU chapter, together with Hillel, co-sponsored a talk by former Israeli
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A century of Jewish commitment

Pompton Lakes synagogue celebrates its most senior member
LOIS GOLDRICH
Its not really an unlikely friendship despite the fact that
one woman is in her 70s and the other is 103.
They bonded over bridge in 2006, but their relationship
grew steadily as they got to know each other better. Today,
the younger woman has become a valuable repository for
her friends stories.
On September 9, centenarian Mildred Nochimson was
honored by Congregation Beth Shalom in Pompton Lakes.
At a special Shabbat service and celebration, the congregation presented her with a plaque for her many contributions to the synagogue. As it happens, this was particularly fitting. Her parents, Rose and Benjamin Singer,
helped create that synagogue, and Rose Singer served as
the first president of its sisterhood a role held later by
her daughter.
Patricia Leclerc Ms. Nochimsons friend, primary caretaker, and informal biographer said that she planned to
take Ms. Nochimson to the synagogue for several hours on
the High Holy Days. Everyone comes over and says, Nice
to see you. Many people will say, You dont know me, but
you knew my mother. Theyre very warm and welcoming
and friendly. It makes her feel good to go there.
Rabbi David Bockman, the congregations religious
leader, noted that while Ms. Nochimson no longer gets
out as much as she used to, she still does everything with
style and aplomb, and with a beautiful and infectious
smile. She hand-writes personal thank-you notes that are
genteel and heartfelt. Im just very glad that she still finds
it important to belong to our synagogue.
While Ms. Nochimson

no longer gets out as
much as she used to,
she still does
everything with style
and aplomb.
RABBI DAVID BOCKMAN
Mildred Nochimsons story begins small literally and

grows increasingly bigger. She was born on July 13, 1913, in
a second-story apartment above the True Value Hardware
store on Wanaque Ave in Pompton Lakes. She arrived
two months early, weighing about two lbs., and wasnt
expected to live, Ms. Leclerc said. Her grandmother,
Marsha Krigstein, nestled her in her fathers sock drawer
to keep her warm, and despite all odds, Mildred survived.
Imagine her mothers doctors surprise when meeting
Mildred and her mother 12 years later on a street in Paterson. When he realized that this was the same child, he
rushed them to City Hall to register Mildreds birth, since
he hadnt done so, thinking she wouldnt live.
There was no high school in their town, so the Singers
moved to Paterson and Mildred was able to go to Eastside
High School there. Then she went to Syracuse University
at a time when few women attended college, Ms. Leclerc
said and earned a degree in teaching. Mildred met Sam
Nochimson when he was teaching Hebrew at a synagogue
in Paterson. Later, he became an attorney. They married
Mildred Nochimson flashes a warm smile for

well-wishers.
in 1936 and had two children, Judith Stein, who lives in

New York, and David Nochimson, now in Santa Monica,
California. Both are attorneys.
Mildred and Sam continued Rose and Bens legacy
as active members of Congregation Beth Shalom, Ms.
Leclerc said, adding that Sam Nochimson was a past
president of the synagogue. Mildred also was active in the
Pompton Lakes Womens Club and the Pompton Lakes
Jewish Center, and was president of her local Hadassah
chapter. Israel Bonds honored the couple in 1951 in
appreciation for their pioneering support of Israel.
Their children learned about their Jewish heritage and
faith from their parents and Congregation Beth Shalom,
Ms. Leclerc said. Mildred cooked the entire Passover
seder for her extended family and friends until age 100,
and she was reluctant to surrender that role to her niece.
She kept a kosher home and lit candles, Ms. Leclerc
continued. Faith and her synagogue are very important
to her. She did as much as she could until she couldnt. I
took her to the kosher butcher and to buy kosher wine.
She pressed her tablecloth until she was 100.
She also was a good businesswoman. After her husband died and up until her late 90s, she single-handedly
rented the apartments she owned with her husband and
took care of the taxes. She would also evict people. She
did everything that was involved with having the properties. There was no property manager.
Ms. Leclerc met Ms. Nochimson in a hospital room.
I was there for emergency gall bladder surgery, she
said. There was a curtain between our beds. People kept
coming in to see her the director of the hospital brought
her a fruit basket. She sounded very nice and when I was
able to walk, I asked her if I could pull the curtain. There
she was, an attractive woman reading a book. And, Ms.
Leclerc said, her fellow patient looked no older than 75.
She was 93 at the time.
She asked if I played bridge and I said I hadnt played
for 15 years. Ms. Nochimson, it emerged, had a regular game with her slightly younger friend Ethel, but the
other players all had died. She said play with us. Well be
patient. A week later she called on a day that I didnt have
anything planned and suggested we meet at a diner. She
coerced me into agreeing to play bridge and we played the
following week. I got out a book on bridge for dummies
and found a fourth player.
The game took place at Ms. Nochimsons house. She
had her china set out and had made a cake, Ms. Leclerc
said. It was a nice afternoon. We met at Ethels house
the next week, beginning what would become a 7-year
weekly bridge game. It was the highlight of their week.
Eventually, Mildred needed to stop, but not before Ms.
Leclerc met some fascinating people, including one
92-year-old who takes tap-dancing lessons every week.
Theyre sassy, savvy ladies.
Ms. Leclerc and Ms. Nochimson became friends, as
the younger woman began to drive her friend to doctors appointments and accompany her on other errands.
While Ms. Nochimson lives with a full-time aide, I have
become her primary caretaker, overseeing what needs to
be done around the house, Ms. Leclerc said.
How do you describe a woman like Mildred Nochimson?
Shes dynamic, Ms. Leclerc said. She decides on something and does it. I met someone in the hospital who was
her real estate agent 30 years ago. He said pretty much the
same thing. She was always ready. She was up and dressed
at 7:30 and ready to go.
Ms. Leclerc attributes Ms. Nochimsons longevity to
good genes. Her kids look absolutely wonderful. Her son,
at 74, is a hiker and her daughter is very active. Also, she
added, she never ate junk food and she kept her mind
active. She did the daily New York Times crossword puzzle
and was an avid reader, checking out the newest mystery
novels at the Emmanuel Einstein Memorial Library.
She noted that Ms. Nochimson attributes her own longevity to the fact that I never drank alcohol nor smoked.
I eat whatever I want, and enjoy a piece of chocolate every
day. But her biggest joy, Ms. Leclerc said, was the theater.
I took her to see South Pacific. She went up to the conductor and said she had seen the original performance of
this play. She saw all of them. At the theater, a light goes
on in her. She is so happy.
While Ms. Nochimson doesnt get out as much as she
did in the past, she remained active and independent
as long as possible, Ms. Leclerc said. She began to work
as a saleswoman at Lord and Taylor when she was 71
and kept it up until her mid-80s. It gave her a reason
to get up, Ms. Leclerc said. She was always on time.
She would do it today if she could. She loved socializing
with the staff and customers. She knew customer service
and got steady customers. She gave them very personalized attention.
Ms. Nochimson came by this expertise honestly. According to Ms. Leclerc, her parents owned and operated Singers Department Store on Wanaque Avenue, which supplied everything from coats to shoes, and everything in
between. Mildred helped out at the store during busy
times and learned the retail business from the best.
At 103, Mildred is still a proud citizen of Pompton
Lakes, Ms. Leclerc said. She still goes to the same hairdresser and nail salon and is always ready to accept a
dinner invitation. She loves company and relishes visits
from family and friends. And, it should be mentioned,
she received good wishes on her birthday from Pompton
Lakes Mayor Michael Serra, Governor Chris Christie, and
Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Laughing again
Koby Mandells parents turn grief into powerful force for good
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
There was a time when Rabbi Seth and
Sherri Mandell may have thought that they
would never laugh again. But they realized
that humor in the right context is a fitting
and a healing way to remember their
son Koby, who always loved a good joke.
Koby, who was 13, and his friend Yosef
Ishran, were exploring a cave near their
home in Tekoa, a town in the Gush Etzion
bloc south of Jerusalem, when they were
stoned to death by Arab terrorists on May
8, 2001.
Later that year, Kobys parents started
the Koby Mandell Foundation to fund programs providing emotional, physical, and
spiritual healing for Israeli families in grief.
The programs include Camp Koby and Big
Brothers/Big Sisters, which provide help
for hundreds of children of families struck
by terror; healing retreats and support
groups for bereaved mothers and wives,
and programs for fathers, siblings, and
friends of murdered children. Laughter
yoga, the Mandells discovered, is among
the activities that can bring relief.
In 2008, the Mandells partnered with
Avi Liberman, an Israeli-born Los Angeles
comedian. Mr. Liberman had organized
tours by American standup comics in
Israel during the second intifada, September 2000 through early 2005. That was
a time when Israelis didnt have much to
laugh about.
The concept was rebranded as Comedy
for Koby. Since then, twice-yearly shows
across Israel have raised tens of thousands
of dollars for the foundation.
The first year, people were really looking a little askance at it, but the truth is that
Koby loved to laugh and he loved jokes,
Rabbi Mandell said. He had downloaded
about 300 jokes from the Internet, and
about 100 of them are on our website. So I
open each show by talking about Koby and
telling one or two of his jokes.
As a society and as individuals, we
need to understand the power of humor to
instill a sense of moving forward with life.
And now, due to the efforts of foundation
board members in Englewood, Comedy for
Koby is coming to the United States. The
initial show is set for November 12 at 9 p.m.
at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck.
Mr. Liberman will open the show for a
lineup starring Ryan Hamilton (one of Rolling Stones Five Comics to Watch), latenight standup standout Dan Naturman,
and Butch Bradley, a veteran of all the top
New York comedy clubs.
Proceeds will go toward Camp Koby
scholarships.
The first time I went to a Comedy for
Koby show in Jerusalem at the Hirsch Theater, the energy I felt in the building was
Avi Liberman will headline Comedy for Koby in Teaneck.
astounding, board member Heshy Feldman of Englewood said. Seth and Sherri
co-emceed and did a little comedy routine.
Who on earth would have thought you
could laugh wholeheartedly with these
amazing people, who can take what happened to them and convert it into something positive and lighthearted? Its that
Jewish quality of finding humor in dark
times, and meshing it with charity and
spiritual work.
Eve Feldman added that although the
foundation has sponsored local events,
such as dinners and barbecues and even

once had Avi Liberman open an event with
standup comedy she and her husband
felt that Comedy for Koby would provide a
fun night out for a worthy cause.
It didnt take much effort for the Feldmans to convince Lee Lasher, a vice president of the Koby Mandell Foundation, to
agree to organize a Comedy for Koby show
in Bergen County.
Mr. Lasher first met the Mandells only
a couple of months after Kobys murder,
during a summer solidarity mission from
Englewood, where he lives. Their guide,

Yitzhak Sokoloff, had been Kobys Little
League coach and offered to take a few of
the mission participants to pay a condolence visit to the family. Mr. Lasher went
with a friend. He was deeply touched by
the encounter.
When he left, Mr. Lasher asked Rabbi
Mandell for a picture of Koby holding a
baseball glove. That photo still hangs in
his office. A few months later, he agreed
to be on the board of the newly formed
foundation. And in next years, as the
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intifada continued, Englewood missions to Israel

always included informal time with the Mandells and
visits to the foundations projects.
Eve Feldman recalls meeting with bereaved mothers about 14 years ago, during one of those missions.
They were working on a quilt project with squares
memorializing a loved one, she said. One mother
told us that on August 9, 2001, she had just bought
fabric in downtown Jerusalem with her daughter and
then went to get pizza at Sbarro, where her daughter
was killed in a terror attack. All she had left was that
piece of fabric, and she was using it in the quilt.
That inspired us to help the foundation in any way
we could. My husband has a textile and fabric business
and he offered to donate fabric for the project.
The Feldmans became close with the Mandells and
have hosted them in their home during fundraising
trips to the United States.
Mr. Feldman said he hopes that the November show
will kick off an annual tradition, and not only in North
Jersey. Were looking forward to this being the first
of many Comedy for Koby shows across the United
States, he said.
The foundation helps thousands of people, so
were trying to raise awareness and get people to
come out to this really first-class show instead of
going to a comedy club in New York, Mr. Lasher said.
Im proud to be part of the Koby Mandell Foundation and the incredible work they do in their camps
and retreats. I hope people will come out to support
them.
Comedy for Koby has transformed peoples vision
of Sherri and me and the foundation from something
which was filled almost completely with sorrow to
something that is still sad but that has an element of
resilience and joy, Rabbi Mandell said. It makes a difference in the way people are able to relate to us.
Mr. Liberman made a documentary, Comedy
Road, about the shows and their effect on the family,
its performers, and their audiences. It will premiere at
the Jerusalem Cinemateque on October 20.
Documentaries are about change and experience
for both the comedians and the audience, he said.
One of the nice things Seth told us is that usually
everyone walks on eggshells around them, not knowing what to say, but now the name Koby is associated
with something light and funny and not tragic.
What: Comedy for Koby
Where: Congregation Keter Torah, 600 Roemer
Avenue, Teaneck.
When: Saturday, November 12, at 9 p.m.
What else: A reception before the show, at 8 p.m.,
will include a wine tasting hosted by Royal Wines
and desserts donated by Five Star Caterers.
How much: General admission tickets are $54, VIP
reserved seats are $180, and sponsorships start at
$1,000.
Why: Proceeds from the tickets and a raffle will go
toward Camp Koby scholarships.
For reservations: Go to www.israelgives.org/
tickets/kobymandell/.
For more information: Email
ComedyForKobyUSA@KobyMandell.org.
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The Bergen County section of the
National Council of Jewish Women
honored Evelyn Masheb as its September Volunteer of the Month.
Ms. Masheb, an early childhood
teacher, reading specialist, and staff
developer, became involved with
NCJW BCS after she retired. She volunteers at several of NCJWs community services, including the Childrens Court Care Center at the Bergen
County courthouse (its a supervised
play area within the courthouse for
children of litigants involved in court
proceedings), and organizes afterschool activities for children at the
Holley Center, a residential treatment
home that offers a safe environment.
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Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary performed at the Jewish Home
Familys annual gala at the Rockleigh on Sunday. He is pictured singing
with Charlotte Poole, who lives in the Jewish Home at Rockleigh. Ms.
Poole, who is blind, said that meeting Mr. Yarrow was a dream come true.
Above, AABGUs incoming

president, Toni Young, left,
and executive vice president
Doron Krakow, right, paid
tribute to outgoing president/
philanthropist Lloyd Goldman,
center. At left, actor Danny
Burstein as Tevye sings If I
Were a Rich Man.
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL PRIEST
PHOTOGRAPHY
Fiddler cast members

perform for AABGU gala
The American Associates of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev launched the
2020 Vision 50th Anniversary Campaign
at its annual meeting at the Mandarin
Oriental New York Hotel earlier this
month. Cast members of Fiddler surprised guests with performances from
the Tony Award-winning revival.
AABGUs worldwide $500 million
campaign on behalf of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev will expand the universitys campuses, facilitate groundbreaking research, and help transform
the Negev. The university is turning 50
years old in 2020. AABGU is leading the
major fundraising initiative; its goal is

to raise 80 percent of the total, or $400
million, by 2020.
Toni Young and Doron Krakow, pictured above, presented Lloyd Goldman with a reproduction of rare letters
about the dream to create a Yavne in
the Negev. It was signed by Israels first
prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
A significant portion of the funds
raised will be dedicated to building the
universitys new 57-acre North Campus,
which will double the size of its campus
in Beersheba.
YU conference to mark
anniversary of S.Y. Agnons Nobel Prize
The Yeshiva University
speakers at the conference
Center for Israel Studies
will include Dr. Zafrira
will host a conference on
Livodsky-Cohen, professor
the work and influence of
of Hebrew and director of
Nobel Prize-winning Israeli
Hebrew language and literature; Dr. Steven Fine,
author S.Y. Agnon. The allthe Dean Pinkhos Churgin
day conference, which will
Professor of Jewish History
mark the 50th anniversary
and director of the Center
of his award, will be called
for Israel Studies at YU; Dr.
Agnons Stories of the
Avraham Holtz, Simon H.
Land of Israel: Celebrating
Fabian Professor Emeritus
the 50th Anniversary of S.Y.
of Hebrew Literature at the
Agnons Nobel Prize and is
Jewish Theological Semiset for Monday, October 31,
nary; Alan Mintz, Chana
beginning at 9:30 a.m., on
S.Y. Agnon receiving the
Kekst Professor of Hebrew
the universitys Wilf CamNobel Prize in Literature
pus in Furst Hall, Room
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in 1966.
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Co-sponsored by Agnon House JeruJewish Literature and Feminist Studies at
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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute
School of Jewish Studies, the conference
of Religion.
was convened by Rabbi Shalom Carmy, an
The conference is organized by the Center for Israel Studies and its Joseph and
assistant professor of Bible and Jewish philosophy, and Rabbi Jeffrey Saks, an Agnon
Faye Glatt Program on Israel and the Rule
scholar and the director of the Academy
of Law. For information, go to yu.edu/cis/
for Torah Initiatives and Directions. Other
activities/conferences.
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Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and hosted investor Josh

Kushner (yes, the New Jersey-born brother-of-son-inlaw-of-DonaldJ-Trump Jared.)
Then there are the summer internships in Israel. This
is an aspect of Tamid in which Ms. Mangot, who has yet
to visit Israel, has not taken part. (Shes trying to decide
between a summer internship and a Birthright trip.) The
internships began as one students initiative. A Tamid
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Iran nuclear deal looms large
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON Although the Iran
nuclear deal is getting fleeting attention
in the presidential race, it is shaping up
as a key issue in at least nine states integral to Democrats hopes of regaining
control of the U.S. Senate.
Rival pro-Israel factions are pouring
money into many of those races, and
candidates are using support or opposition to the controversial deal as a means
of tarring their opponents.
And depending on what happens in
November, the election could redefine
what it means to be pro-Israel.
Democrats are seeking four to five
wins to regain control of the chamber.
Up to 11 states are in play; Iran is an issue
in at least nine of them.
Iran has entered the calculus in a way
that reflects the split between J Street,
the liberal Jewish Middle East policy
group, and the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, the powerful centrist lobbying group. J Street and AIPAC,
which does not back candidates, went
head to head over the Iran deal, which
exchanges sanctions relief in return for a
nuclear rollback. The first group worked
hard to keep lawmakers from rejecting
the deal; the second one led the effort
to kill it.
Anti-deal forces garnered more votes,
but pro-deal backers kept them shy of
the necessary two-thirds majority to
override President Barack Obamas veto.
On Wednesday, J Street said it was
ready to spend $750,000 backing
endorsers of the deal in four critical

races, including two that include expensive ad buys on TV.
Pro-Israel political action committees
that lean further to the right, including NORPAC and the Republican Jewish
Coalitions PAC, are spending on candidates who opposed the Iran deal.
Were aiming to fundamentally transform the political calculation by demonstrating that the Iran nuclear agreement
and diplomacy-first approaches make
for good policy and for good politics,
Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Streets president,
said in rolling out the ad campaign.
The Obama/Clinton Iran deal puts
Israel at risk and makes us less safe is
the title of one of several leaflets that the
Republican Jewish Coalition has distributed to Jewish homes in several key states.
Heres a look at how the battle is playing out and what it means.
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What are the numbers?

There are 34 Senate elections this year.
Polling suggests that 11 could switch
parties, although incumbents in some
of these have begun to pull away from
challengers in recent weeks. Ten of the
races Arizona, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North
Carolina, New Hampshire, and Florida
could go from Republican to Democratic.
Nevada could go the other way.
J Street is making backing for the Iran
deal a factor in nine of the 11 races while
endorsing Democrats in Illinois, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Arizona, Nevada,
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and Ohio. Its sinking money into contests that are close, or where Democratic
challengers are beginning to pull away, in
Wisconsin, Illinois, New Hampshire, and
Pennsylvania. (Recent polls show Republicans trailing substantially in Wisconsin
and Illinois.)
Show me the money:

How high does Iran loom?
In Illinois, where Sen. Mark Kirk, the
incumbent Republican and a longtime
leader in passing Iran sanctions, faces
Rep. Tammy Duckworth, contribu-
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Candidates are
using support or
opposition to the
controversial
deal as a means
of tarring their
opponents.
tions from both sides of the Iran debate
loom large
OpenSecrets, the campaign finance
tracker, shows that Kirks single biggest
donor among PACs is NORPAC. Donors
have funneled $130,931 to date to Kirk
through the New Jersey-based proIsrael PAC.
J Street ranks second among Duckworths biggest PAC givers, sending
$145,832 to the aspirant. Only Emilys
List, a feminist PAC, has provided more.
In Wisconsin, J Street ranks third
among the PACs backing Democrat Russ
Feingold, the former Wisconsin senator who is challenging the man who
replaced him, Republican Ron Johnson. Feingold, who is Jewish, has earned
$68,600 in contributions from J Street.

Johnson, a millionaire who self-funded a
hefty portion of his 2010 campaign, has
attracted $29,200 from pro-Israel PACs
to the right of J Street.
The Republican Jewish Coalition has
launched door-knocking and phonebanking campaigns in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with a main focus on protecting Republican incumbent senators,
citing their opposition to the Iran deal.
What are the arguments?

J Street runs essentially the same ad in
New Hampshire, Illinois, Wisconsin,
and Pennsylvania. Its pitch is primarily
political, coupling Donald Trump, who is
unpopular, with the Republican incumbent senator Kirk, Johnson, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, and Pat Toomey
of Pennsylvania.
X and Donald Trump oppose the Iran
deal, it begins, and X thinks he (she)
knows better like Donald Trump, he
(she) is wrong.
In between, the ad cites U.S. and
Israeli security experts as saying the
stringent components of the deal
prevent Iran from producing nuclear
weapons. (Israels government opposes
the deal, and its security experts have
said the deal appears to be working. But
these experts also are anxious about the
expiration date of many of its restrictions, in 15 years.)
Sen. Rob Portman, the incumbent
Republican in Ohio, has run at least
three ads attacking his J Street-backed
challenger, former Gov. Ted Strickland,
for backing the Iran deal since the summer of 2015. Portmans emphasis has
been on how the sanctions relief frees
up funds Iran can now use to fund terrorist groups, as the campaign put it in
a February ad.
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Republican
incumbent in Florida, ran hard during
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deal, and hes doing the same in his bid to keep Rep.
Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., from taking his seat. (Murphy is
another J Street endorsee.)
Rubio, in an interview last month with a Miami-area
NBC affiliate, brought up Murphys backing for the Iran
deal as an example of his loyal support for Obamas
liberal agenda. Rubio said in the interview that he
would work to pass legislation that would restrict how a
president can use funds to facilitate the deal, citing the
$400 million in frozen Iranian funds the United States
released in January after Iran turned over five American
prisoners. The Republican Jewish Coalition and others
called that a ransom payment to Iran; the administration counters that it was leverage needed to achieve
multiple U.S. objectives.
I hope Patrick Murphy will vote to make sure something like that doesnt happen again, Rubio said.
Well see.
Whats the possible impact?

In previous years, candidates seeking the pro-Israel vote
and money hewed to parameters set by centrist organizations like AIPAC or those to its right. The handful who
defied those norms invited infusions of cash for their
opponents from pro-Israel givers.
J Street, launched in 2008, sought to change those
terms by creating room for candidates to embrace
a more aggressive U.S. intervention in Middle
East peacemaking.
Until this year, that metric left plenty of wiggle room:

AIPAC, after all, embraced the two-state solution, and
there were plenty of lawmakers who could comfortably
work the halls of AIPACs policy conferences and also
appear at J Streets annual dinner as sponsors.
J Street wants to change the Israel calculus in how candidates run for office, and the either-or nature of the
Iran debate is part of that formula.
AIPAC, however, is hardly going away: Last month, it
got 88 senators to sign off on a letter urging Obama not
to allow the Palestinians to pursue statehood recognition absent peace talks during Obamas final months in
office. Some of the 12 who did not sign on, including
Rubio, abstained because the letter embraced an outcome the two-state solution no longer endorsed by
the Republican Party.
Still, two possible outcomes could nudge what proIsrael means in J Streets direction:
A win by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton, coupled with a retaking of the Senate, would
consolidate the Iran deal as unsinkable and make J
Streets win in last years congressional lobbying wars
more formidable.
J Street also could seize on the ouster of senators
closely identified with killing the deal as opposed to
those who simply followed GOP party lines and voted
against the deal as a sign that hewing the AIPAC line is
box office poison. Among those at risk who fit this bill
are Ayotte, Kirk, Rubio, Portman, Roy Blunt of Missouri,
JTA Wire Service
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pleads for triumph of tolerance over bigotry
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON Vice President Joe Biden
said that Shimon Peres legacy should be
one of tolerance at a time of rising bigotry.
At a time when the currents of bigotry
and anger and isolationism are on the rise,
when too many are quick to cast blame on
the outsider, on the other, and the promise
of peace might seem like a distant dream,
its my hope, my sincere hope, that each
of us continues to hold Shimons memory very close, Biden said last week at
a memorial service held at Adas Israel, a
synagogue in Washington, D.C.
Top Obama administration officials,
including President Barack Obama and
his wife, Michelle, along with others, have
seized opportunities in recent weeks to
express fears of the possibility of a Donald
Trump presidency in veiled and sometimes not so veiled references to bigotry.
The Republican presidential nominees
campaign has been marked by broadsides
against Muslims, Mexicans, and others,
and he has advocated a retreat from U.S.
military engagement overseas.

Biden noted with amazement that Peres
told him earlier this year that he still hoped
both peoples Arabs and Israelis would
emerge as winning the conflict through
peaceful coexistence.
In all of us who continue to hear his
voice in our ears, that deliberate irresistible rumble urging us on; Dream big, he
implores us still, make the world a better
place, the vice president said.
Obama and former President Bill Clinton delivered eulogies at the funeral in
Jerusalem for the former Israeli president and prime minister. But Biden is the
administration figure known for having
the closest ties to Israel and the pro-Israel
community.
He spoke of his friendship with Peres,
which dated back nearly 45 years, when
Biden was elected senator from Delaware,
and of their shared love of poetry. Peres
would tease Biden about his love for Irish
poets, said Biden, who is of Irish Catholic
heritage. Biden would rejoin that Peres
was mistaken; his preference was not for
Irish poets but for the best poets.

A love of poetry, Biden said, is one thing
the Irish and Jews share. Another is guilt.
Biden also spoke pointedly of Peres as a
founder of Israel, casting the Jewish state
as the only guarantor of Jewish survival.
I learned a long time ago when I said I
am a Zionist and was criticized for it that
you dont have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,
he said.
Biden mentioned Peres advocacy of the
two-state solution, but unlike Obama, he
did not make it a centerpiece of his eulogy.
That was a decision that was seen by some
as the presidents implied rebuke to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, whose government is overwhelmingly
against establishing a Palestinian state.
Instead, Biden spoke of Peres dream of
peace in broader terms.
Shimon Peres embodied the spirit of
the Israeli people, Biden said. He was, in
my opinion, the conscience and the soul of
the Israeli people.
Other speakers included Madeleine
Albright, the former secretary of state,
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memorial for Shimon Peres in Washington on October 6.
Ron Kampeas
and Peres son Chemi, who delivered a

recorded message.
Like his father, Chemi Peres made clear
that he saw Obama as a friend of his country, a pointed reference in a week when
the Netanyahu and Obama governments
are once again at odds over Israels settlement plans.
I want to thank President Obama for
leading such a distinguished delegation
to the funeral and for his moving eulogy,
Chemi Peres said, and also thanked Clinton. Both are outstanding presidents and
great friends of my father and even more
so of the State of Israel. JTA Wire Service
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Europe and how European governments are combating the issue.
Reps. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY),
Steve Israel (D-NY), Ted Deutch (D-FL), joined
by Republicans Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ileana RosLehtinen (R-FL), Kay Granger (R-Texas) and Peter
Roskam (R-IL), the co-chairs of the U.S. House of
Representatives bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, introduced the Combating European Anti-Semitism Act of 2016 to tackle the rising
tide of anti-Semitism in Europe.
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passed in 2015, that calls on greater U.S. cooperation with Europe on anti-Semitism, asks for
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A rabbi who was beaten severely at a Ukrainian
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Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime ChabadLubavitch emissary in France and more recently in
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the city of Zhitomir early Friday morning. According to Chabad, the attack was apparently carried
out by a group of drunks motived by theft, not
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that does not in any way reflect on the community
in Ukraine, said Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, director
of Chabad-Lubavitch of Zhitomir. Apparently, this
is not a case of anti-Semitism. Rabbi Deitsch was
attacked and beaten while being robbed.
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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sparred fiercely at the second presidential debate, held at Washington
University in St. Louis, on October 9.
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Iran, Syria, dog whistles, and deplorables
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump did not shake hands,
and then they did. The Republican nominee called his
rival the devil and said he would jail her. Clinton said that
three minutes of a 2005 video in which Trump bragged
about committing what constitutes sexual assault represents exactly who he is. He said it was locker room
talk and pressed hard by a moderator said he did
not commit the acts that he claimed in the video.
Those highlights from the debate were strewn
throughout social media and made headlines the next
morning.
But sown throughout the second presidential debate,
held at Washington University in St. Louis, which is said
to be the most intensely negative in modern history,
were notes of substance and tone. Jewish and pro-Israel
readers may want to heed a number of them.
Donald Trump mentioned Iran often.

Trump slammed the Iran nuclear deal three times,
emphatically, as had his running mate, Indiana Gov.
Mike Pence, in his debate with the Democratic vice
presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.
The deal reached between Iran and six major powers
led by the United States last year, which exchanges sanctions relief for rollbacks in the Iran nuclear program, has
become the Trump campaigns exhibit A in showing the
Obama administration as a foreign policy failure.
At the debate, Trump called it the dumbest deal perhaps Ive ever seen in the history of deal-making and
again said it converted Iran within three years from a
weak nation to a powerful one.
Its a notable transition: Throughout the Republican
primaries, Trump said the agreement was a bad one,
but was coy about whether he would rescind it, saying
he would first consult experts once he was in office. It
wasnt a foreign policy priority for him, like renegotiating trade deals or walling off Mexico.
Now the deal has become a front-and-center issue,
and while Trump still is not specific on whether he
would scrap the agreement altogether or attempt to
renegotiate it, it is nearing the top of his to-do list.

Hillary Clinton mentioned Iran, in passing.
Clintons main foreign policy thrust was to remind
viewers of Trumps coziness with Russian President
Vladimir Putin and present herself as a tougher alternative. She mentioned the Iran deal as a means of showing that she is capable of cooperating with Russia, while
confronting it as well.
Its how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid
on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single
shot, she said of her role as secretary of state in getting
a reluctant Russia on board with the sanctions regime.
The Democrats notation was not the seven robust
mentions her running mate gave the deal in the vice
presidential debate. Kaine, who is close to J Street, the
liberal Jewish Middle East policy group that backed the
deal, was instrumental in shepherding the deal through
Congress last year.
Clinton instead has emphasized her role in setting up
the sanctions regime and has also sought to present herself as more of a hawk than President Barack Obama.
The latest dump of hacked Clinton-related emails
includes one from an adviser, Stuart Eizenstat, counseling just such a distancing on the Iran deal last year.
Hillary cannot oppose the agreement given her position as the Presidents Secretary of State and should urge
its approval by Congress, Eizenstat said in an email
to Clintons top foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan.
But she can and should point out concerns with it.
More broadly, she should appear more muscular in her
approach than the Presidents.
Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
Did Trump just hand Syria to Iran?

Trump delivered a rambling and at times inchoate
response when a moderator asked him what he would
do to stop the carnage in Syria.
One clear takeaway: He does not want to confront the
regime of Bashar Assad, which is principally responsible for the nearly 500,000 lives lost in the civil war
that has ravaged the country since 2011. Instead, he said,
the United States should solely be focused on hitting the
Islamic State terrorist group. Trump said, as he has in
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that Syria is otherwise a lost cause and should be left to
Assad and his allies, Russia and Iran.
I think you have to knock out ISIS, he said. Right
now, Syria is fighting ISIS. We have people that want to
fight both at the same time. But Syria is no longer Syria.
Syria is Russia and its Iran.
Israel sees few good outcomes in the Syrian war. One
of the worst, though, is leaving Iran, its deadliest regional
enemy, indefinitely in place on its northern border.
The Syria exchange provided a notable moment for
Clinton as well. Not only did she robustly differentiate herself from Obama, counseling a no-fly zone and
increasing arms and training for some rebels, the sole
moment she interrupted Trump (he interrupted her
18 times, according to Vox) was when he charged that
she was with Obama when he violated his line in the
sand pledge to use the military to hit Assad should his
regime use chemical weapons. Assad crossed that line
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another Clinton backer, when he brought up Soros, and
while Goldman Sachs is only one of a number of banks
that hosted Clinton, the most salient leaks in the recent
batch of hacked emails were from her appearance at an

event hosted by Lloyd Blankfein, the banks CEO.
The moderators asked Clinton about her comment
last month at a fundraiser that half of Trumps followers were deplorables motivated by race hatred,
among other factors. At the time the former New York
senator almost immediately apologized for saying it
was half, and now she appeared to say it was down
to one, Trump.
My argument is not with his supporters, she said.
Its with him and with the hateful and divisive campaign
that he has run, and the inciting of violence at his rallies,
and the very brutal kinds of comments about not just
women, but all Americans, all kinds of Americans. And
what he has said about African-Americans and Latinos,
about Muslims, about POWs, about immigrants, about
people with disabilities, hes never apologized for.
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her heart.
Did Trump miss the Jewy moment?

As long as were circling back to the juicy bits, there was
one moment I predicted would take place but it didnt
go down exactly the way I thought.
It was a town hall forum, where undecided voters
were supposed to ask questions. (They kind of got lost
in the sniping among the candidates and the assertive
questioning by the moderators.) One who stood out was
the final questioner, Karl Becker, who asked: My question to both of you is, regardless of the current rhetoric,
would either of you name one positive thing that you
respect in one another?
I predicted this question and Clintons answer past
debates have featured similar questions, and usually the
reply has to do with how ones rival is a decent family
man, if nothing else. Why would it be Jewy, this time?
Trumps daughter, Ivanka, is Jewish; his son, Eric, is
married to a Jewish woman, and Clintons daughter,
Chelsea, is married to a Jewish man.
I think thats a very fair and important question,
Clinton said, going first. Look, I respect his children.
His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think
that says a lot about Donald. I dont agree with nearly
anything else he says or does, but I do respect that. And
I think that is something that as a mother and a grandmother is very important to me.
Trumps reply was that Clinton was a fighter who
doesnt give up (a little at odds with his multiple jabs
about her stamina). But he appeared reluctant to
accept Clintons reply as the compliment it was.
I consider her statement about my children to be a
very nice compliment, he said. I dont know if it was
meant to be a compliment, but it is a great Im very
proud of my children. And theyve done a wonderful
job, and theyve been wonderful, wonderful kids. So I
consider that a compliment.
It was an odd reply: Clinton was not saying that his
good children were an anomaly, or that they turned out
well in spite of him. That says a lot about Donald, she
said, presumably crediting his parenting. (Chelsea and
Ivanka are good buddies, so Clinton presumably knows
whereof she speaks.)
Donald, parenting is the hardest job there is. When
someone says youve made a good go of it, just run
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TEL AVIV Israeli lawmaker Merav BenAmi is pregnant, and everyone knows it.
As Ben-Ami headed into an interview
here on Thursday, an Orthodox Jewish
woman stopped her to offer congratulations. The woman said that her 38-yearold sister was considering in vitro fertilization, too. Speaking as though to an
old friend, Ben-Ami said she hoped her
story would encourage the sister.
Ben-Ami, 40, has had many such
encounters since she revealed the story
of her pregnancy in last weekends edition of the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot.
This is the story Ben-Ami, a Knesset member representing the centrist
Kulanu party, is having a baby with her
gay friend.
I dont want to set off a rumor mill,
with people wondering how a single
woman at the Knesset is suddenly pregnant, Ben-Air told Yediot. So Im saying it outright: Im pregnant and everythings all right. Im not the first MK to
get pregnant, but I am the first single MK
to get pregnant by a gay friend without
getting married.
Ben-Ami was nervous about announcing her unconventional pregnancy, but
she said the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. The nations celebration of childbearing seems to have
trumped, or at least tempered, any
discomfort with Ben-Amis nontraditional choice of family, even among
the Orthodox.
Its not easy here because most people know how a family is supposed to
look: a mother, a father and children
who live together, Ben-Ami said. But
that woman who approached me is not
the first, even today. I got really, really

good comments about the article, from
politicians, from people I know, from
people I dont know.
In Israel, the biblical exhortation to
Be fruitful and multiply is amplified
by a national emphasis on maintaining a Jewish majority, replacing Jews
lost in the Holocaust, and the general
precariousness of life in the shadow
of war and terrorism. Israel is the only
country that pays for infertile couples to
have two babies with IVF, and mothers
are entitled to 14 weeks paid maternity
leave. Fathers can take the time in place
of their wives, or they can take five paid
days along with them.
Ben-Ami always planned to marry and
have a baby, like a good Israeli. But she
was busy.
She first came to the countrys attention in 2005, when she won the reality show Needed: A Leader. With the
5 million shekels ($1.3 million) in prize
money, she set up a chain of centers
for at-risk youth in the central cities of
Netanya and Herzliya, which she ran
until being elected to the Tel Aviv City
Council in 2013. In 2015, she talked her
way into a spot on the list for the new
Kulanu party, and she was elected to the
Knesset, Israels parliament.
Also, I wanted to see the world, she
said. I went abroad every summer for
one month, sometimes two. I went to
the Philippines, to Vietnam. It was more
interesting than to sit here and wait to
maybe go on a date. I was more focused
on myself, on my career, on my hobbies
I admit on my life.
At 38, single and poised to enter
national politics, Ben-Ami realized she
might be running out of time to have a
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baby. A conversation with her mother
helped convince her to move ahead with
IVF. She and her close friend Ofir agreed
in writing to try to have a baby together,
and to raise the baby as a team. Ofir, a
41-year-old finance manager, lives down
the block from Ben-Ami in this city and is
in a relationship with another man. BenAmi plans to continue looking for love.
A few months ago, on her third round
of IVF in two years, Ben-Ami learned
that she finally was pregnant. After consulting with people she trusted, including Kulanus leader, Finance Minister
Moshe Kahlon, she decided to go public with her story to take control of the
message, as she put it.
Just before the Yediot interview
was published, Ben-Ami had second
thoughts, but reminded herself that
she was in no position to hide her pregnancy. Although she still fits into her
jeans and fitted black top, the lawmaker
will be five months pregnant when the
Knessets winter session starts at the end
of this month.
Outgoing and direct, Ben-Ami said she
believes public officials have an obligation
to let people know who you are, and
she wanted to set an example for Israeli
women. After all, her work in the Knesset, where she is a member of seven committees and has sponsored six bills that
became law, is focused on social welfare.
When you are single in Israel after
30, people start to wonder what is wrong
with you, she said. They dont understand. I really want to inspire women not
to be afraid of taking this step. I think
Israel is already changing, especially
here in Tel Aviv. Im surrounded by single mothers.
Alexandra Kalev, a socioloy professor
at Tel Aviv University, said that although
Israelis are relatively conservative, they
are not as wedded to the idea of the traditional family as are people in countries
like the United States.
Theres way more tolerance of different types of families, she said. Whats
most important is that family serve the
Zionist value of procreating.
Still, Kalev said, Ben-Amis announcement sent a powerful message that
women can define their own reality. It
is even more significant coming from a
woman of Middle Eastern origin, as Mizrahi Jews are seen as more traditional
and have historically faced discrimination in Israel, she added. While Israel
has a proud tradition of gender equality, dating back to the pre-state militias
and kibbutzim, women historically have
been excluded from shaping the institutions of power.
Meravs story is a reminder that the
kind of commitment that work requires
too often comes at the expense of having
a family, and thats one reason we dont
see more women in leadership, she said.
She is sending an important message
that women have the right to a family
however they want it, even if that means

breaking the traditional categories.
So far, Israelis have been supportive.
Ben-Ami said she has been flooded with
congratulatory messages and phone
calls in the past week. Her Facebook post
about the article has some 1,500 likes
and hundreds of gushing comments.
Ben-Ami said that her colleagues in the
Knesset, including some from charedi
Orthodox and Arab parties, have congratulated her privately
There are very liberal charedim,
she said. There are different streams.
And theres a lot of difference of opinion there.
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, a prominent
moderate among religious Zionists,
said that most Orthodox rabbis would
not support Ben-Amis decision to
have a baby outside a Jewish marriage.
If a woman is worried about not getting married in time to have a baby, the
standard advice is to freeze your eggs,
he said. That is the policy of the Puah
Institute, a Jerusalem center that advises
infertile couples based on Jewish law,
or halachah.
On the other hand, Judaism is very
understanding of a womans need to
have babies, Cherlow said. In the Torah,
the Jewish matriarch Rachel tells her
husband, Jacob, to give her a baby or
she will die. Rabbis draw on the Bibles
emphasis on fertility to craft fairly liberal positions on assisted reproductive technoloy.
Cherlow said he is among a minority of Orthodox rabbis who recommend
that older single women try IVF, partly
because frozen eggs are known not to be
a reliable option for them. From the perspective of Jewish law, he said, it is a positive that Ben-Amis baby will have a father.
The Orthodox consider homosexuality incompatible with Judaism, although
public attitudes were seen to shift after a
charedi Orthodox man stabbed a teenage girl to death at the 2014 Jerusalem
Gay Pride Parade. But the fact that Ofir
is gay is irrelevant to his being a father,
according to Cherlow.
I would prefer like every rabbi in
the world that babies would be part of
a Jewish family according to halachah,
he said. But she made the decision not
to miss being a mother, and the babys
father is known and will be involved.
These are positive things.
Now that Ben-Ami has made her
announcement, she is ready to get back to
work. At the end of the day, she said, she
is just another expecting Israeli mother.
You look around and every third or
fourth woman is pregnant. So you need
to take it in proportion, she said. From
a Jewish point of view, the baby is the
important thing, even if its from a gay
man, even if youre 40. Of course wed
prefer this or that, but yalla, we cant
wait forever.
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vichai Koch says farming is in

his blood.
His parents, both Holocaust survivors, came from
Europe to an Israeli moshav near Tel
Aviv, where they worked the land, grew
olives, herded cattle, and sold chickens
until their recent retirement.
Today, the family tradition lives on
at Koch Farm on Moshav Tekuma, four
miles from the Gaza Strip. There, Koch
erected a series of handmade greenhouses, where he grows everything
from cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, radishes, and scallions to herbs
and mangoes.
At this time of year, Sukkot (known as
Chag Ha-Asif or the Festival of Ingathering), he is reminded about just how
tied his profession is to Jewish law
and tradition.
In Israel, farming is definitely Jewish, Koch said. Everything is tied to the
Jewish calendar. Around Rosh Hashanah
is pomegranate season and every Sukkot
the etrogim the yellow citron fruit
are ready. The seasons of the year are
the seasons of the Torah. When I plant, I
dont say by August, I base my growing
seasons on the holidays.
Farmers such as Koch, however, are
becoming fewer and far between in
Israel. In the last decade, internal economic challenges, reduced government
investment in the agriculture industry, and external challenges such as
the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement have forced many family
farmers to shut down or sell to larger
farming corporations.
You see many empty greenhouses in
the Negev, their plastic coverings flying

in the wind, Koch said.
A report by the Israel Farmers Association released last month found Israeli
agricultural exports in deep crisis, with
revenue numbers remaining stagnant
over the last five years.
Last year, agricultural revenue was
lower than in 2014 at $7.72 billion.
In 2015, the crop sectors lost about
$265 million in revenue. The amount
of vegetables sold dropped about 6
percent, while prices rose around 7
percent. In the same year, the Central
Bureau of Statistics reported that household spending on agricultural products
makes up just 7 percent of overall household expenditures.
Taking a historical look back, in 1949,
a year after the founding of the Jewish
state, agriculture accounted for 12 percent of gross domestic product and 65
percent of exports, according to the
Central Bureau of Statistics. By comparison, in 2011, agriculture accounted
for just 1.7 percent of GDP and 2 percent of exports.
Analysts say the challenges to the agricultural industry are due in part to a
lack of investment by the government,
which recently shifted from providing
direct to indirect assistance. Further,
while Israel is the start-up nation, it has
invested much more heavily in advanced
cyber, communication, and bio technologies than in water, solar energy or seed
technology. This has left many farmers
behind the times.
As farmers age Koch says most farmers are in their 60s or older, like his
father their children are opting for
other careers because The business is
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COLLECTIONS & THEIR LOCATIONS

Drives are already taking place. Please contact individual locations for their collection dates.
Adult Briefs
Jewish Federation
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
Cell Phones
Congregation Keter Torah

Jewish Federation
Temple Emeth
Animal Shelter Items Toys, food, treats,

cleaning supplies, paper towels
Chanukah Toys New and unwrapped
Baby Basics Diapers, wipes, formula,

lotions, shampoo, new bottles
Coats New or gently used
Barnert Temple
Barnert Temple
Jewish Federation
Temple Emeth
Baby Clothing New/gently worn infant - 5T

Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School
Barnert Temple
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom
Congregation Beth Sholom Teaneck
Gan Aviv Day Care
NCJW Jersey Hills 201-796-0463
Shomrei Torah: The Wayne
Conservative Congregation
Solomon Schechter Day School
Temple Beth Rishon
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
Blankets and Towels For pet shelters

Temple Beth Sholom, Fair Lawn
Books New for grades K - 4
Jewish Federation
Temple Israel of Ridgewood & JCC
Reconstructionist Cong. Beth Israel
Books Gently used (all ages)

Busy Boxes for Pediatric Cancer Patients
All items must be new in original packaging.
Preschool: board books, coloring books,

crayons, Play-Doh, puzzles, rubber ducks,
single arts & crafts kits, figurines (no choking
hazards), stickers, sunglasses
Congregation Beth Sholom
School Age: activity books (crossword,
sudoku), books, colored pencils, coloring
books, figurines, journals, magazines,
markers, Model Magic, pens, puzzles,
Rubiks Cubes, single arts & crafts kits,
Slinkys, stickers, stress balls, sunglasses,
temporary tattoos
Yavneh Academy
Teens: activity books (crossword, sudoku),
adult coloring books, colored pencils, extra
fine markers, journals, lotions/creams,
magazines, Model Magic, nail polish, pens,
Rubiks Cubes, single arts & crafts kits,
sketch books
Temple Beth El Northern Valley
Assorted Art Supplies: coloring books,
crayons, Play-Doh, colored pencils, markers
Cantor Barbra Lieberstein
287 N. Central Ave., Ramsey
Jewish Federation
Valley Chabad
Yeshivat Noam

Congregation Beth Aaron
Chabad Center of Passaic County
Emergency Care Kits Packets of tuna/

salmon (easy-open preferred), dried
fruit/raisins, juice boxes, peanut butter,
individual servings of applesauce,
pudding/jello, V8 juice, cereal,
flashlights with batteries
Temple Emanu-El of Closter
Congregation Beth Sholom
Eyeglasses

Temple Emeth
Milk and Honey Club at Wanaque
Reserve (residents only)
Flashlights
Temple Sinai
Food Unopened, non-perishable,

non-expired, no glass or soda
Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva
Cong. Bnai Israel of Emerson
Jewish Federation
Solomon Schechter Day School
Temple Beth El Northern Valley
Temple Beth Or
Temple Beth Rishon
Temple Beth Sholom Fair Lawn
Temple Sinai
Yeshivat Noam
Gloves, Hats and Scarves New

Chabad of Passaic County
Temple Beth Or
Kitchen Supplies New unopened boxes

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plastic disposable gloves (medium
& large), unopened rolls of paper
towels, antibacterial wipes, permanent
markers, baby wipes
JCC Fort Lee/Cong. Gesher Shalom
Jewish Community Center
Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
No-Sew Blankets Kits
JCC Fort Lee/Cong. Gesher Shalom
Plastic Supermarket Bags
Jewish Federation
Temple Beth Sholom Fair Lawn
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Temple Beth Or
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Gan Aviv Day Care
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Shomrei Torah, the Wayne
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Solomon Schecter Day School
Temple Beth Rishon
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Cong. Ahavat Achim Fair Lawn
Temple Avodat Shalom
Wayne YMCA
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Temple Beth Or
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Jewish Federation
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Jewish Federation thanks the following groups

for their participation in this years Mitzvah Day.
JCC Fort Lee/Congregation Gesher
Shalom, Fort Lee Hebrew school students
make no-sew blankets for Shalom Baby.
Congregation Beth Sholom of Teaneck

assembles emergency care kits for senior
clients of Jewish Family Service agencies.
Shirat Chesed Chior performs and Areyvut

clowns around with the residents at Care
One at Teaneck.
Pomegranate Guild of Judaic Needlework

makes no-sew blankets at Fair Lawn
Jewish Center for children here and in
Israel.
Temple Avodat Shalom religious school

students make cards and crafts for
residents of Jewish Home Assisted Living.
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation

Bnai Israel Choir perform at Oradell Health
Care Center.
Yavneh Academy students interact with

residents playing active games at the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
Temple Avodat Shalom singers perform at

Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale.
Temple Emanu-El of Closters Hebrew

School students make emergency kits for
Jewish agencies.
Yavneh Academy students sort donations
for Tackle Kids Cancer and dental supplies
for the Uganda Jewish community.
Congregation Beth Tikvah & Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, Woodcliff
Lake religious school students bake
cookies for first responders.
Lubavitch on the Palisades Hebrew School

children assemble gifts to benefit children
with cancer.
Congregation Kol Haneshamas young
members put on a musical revue and lead
a sing-a-long at Brightview Assisted Living
in Tenafly.
Paramus-Tikvah Singers of Jewish

Community Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth Tikvah entertain
residents at Jewish Home at Rockleigh
with American oldies and Jewish favorites.
Yeshivat Noam students and their families
play games and socialize with residents of
Prospect Heights Care Center.
MITZVAH DAY 2016 PARTICIPANTS

Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School | Areyvut | Barnert Temple | Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva | Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies | Beth Haverim Shir Shalom | Cantor Barbra Liebersteins Jewish Life Cycles | Chabad Center of Passaic County | Clifton
Jewish Center | Congregation Adas Emuno | Congregation Ahavat Achim | Congregation Ahavath Torah | Congregation Beth Aaron |
Congregation Beth Sholom Teaneck | Congregation Kol Haneshama | Congregation Shomrei Torah Fair Lawn | Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel | Fair Lawn Gemach | Friends of the Hackensack River Greenway | Friendship Circle | The Frisch School |
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very difficult. Of his siblings, he is the

only farmer.
Today, there are about 5,700 active
farmers in Israel. That number was
closer to 20,000 in the 1980s, according to Dave Matkowsky, founder of the
Shmitah Fund, which provides financial
assistance to Israeli farmers who observe
a sabbatical year every seventh year as
mandated by the Torah.
One of the main obstacles has been
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Matkowsky worries that a diminishing
agricultural sector could put Israel in a
situation of food insecurity. With BDS
and Israel being in a dangerous neighborhood, he said Israels imports could

be threatened.
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harvesting 7.4 acres of grapes to serve
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last week for smuggling explosives
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bombs in the Haifa area, the Israel
Security Agency, Shin Bet, said.
In September, Shin Bet, Israel
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After discovering explosives hidden
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led by Diab Saad Jamil Kahamuz, were
in contact with Hezbollah and assisted

them in smuggling and gathering intelligence in Israel.
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Hezbollah activities, according to
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liaison between Hezbollah and his
family members in Ghajar. Hezbollah had the son, Diab, and his brothers, carry out a terror attack in Haifa.
They had planned to target a bus
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New U.N. chief is

former Portuguese prime minister
The former prime minister of Portugal, Antonio Guterres, replaces Ban KiMoon as the next United Nations Secretary-General in January 2017.
Guterres was Portugals prime minister from 1995 to 2002. He served as the
High Commissioner for Refugees at the
U.N. from 2005 until last year.
Israels ambassador to the U.N.,
Danny Danon, welcomed the choice
of Guterres, saying the state of Israel
hopes and expects that the U.N. under
his leadership will act in the spirit of its

founding principles as a fair body able
to differentiate between good and evil
and will end its obsession with Israel.
Danon added, I hope that this
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to the organizations hostility toward
the Jewish state.
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Assembly for a five-year term.
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The United Kingdom is freezing aid payments to the

Palestinian Authority amid claims the funds are ending up in the hands of terrorists or their families.
The U.K.s International Development Secretary Priti Patel has ordered the freeze of $31 million one-third of the total given to the Palestinian
Authority pending an investigation into how the
funds are being used, the Sun reported.
Earlier this year, many British lawmakers
demanded action after reports revealed the U.K.
aid had been going to families of suicide bombers
or teenagers attacking Israel.
We are not stopping for the Palestinian Authority overall, just delaying it to a date when we know
our money wont be going to people who do nothing in return for it, a source within the Department for International Development told the Sun.
British Jewish leaders praised the decision to
withhold the payments, saying they have long suspected the Palestinians of misusing the funds.
We have long been deeply concerned by the
Department for International Developments assertion that British tax money categorically does not
fund terrorism and incitement, Richard Verber,
senior vice president of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews, said in a statement.
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eBay buying Israeli startup

for $30 million
E-commerce giant eBay announced on Wednesday
that it will buy an Israeli startup, Corrigon, for $30
million.
Corrigon, a visual search technologies developer
based in Tel Aviv, was founded by Avinoam Omer
and Einav Itamar in 2008. As we continue to
evolve the eBay shopping experience, Corrigons
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experiences that were not possible a year ago,
before our investments in structured data,
Amit Menipaz, eBays vice president and general
manager of structured data, said in a statement.
Corrigons CEO and co-founder, Omer, said
his company will help eBay sellers list more
efficiently and eBay buyers find what they are
looking for faster in order to increase customer
sales conversions.
This is the second Israeli company eBay has bought
this year. It also paid $40 million for SalesPredict,
a company that uses advanced analytics to predict
customers buying and selling patterns.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt laughed at a
senior aides remark about kikes, according to
a new book by the former New York Times editor
Joseph Lelyveld.
In the newly released book, His Final Battle,
the Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt, Lelyveld reveals that after FDR met with the Saudi
Jewish World
Arabian king in 1945, senior adviser Charles Bohlen

remarked, If you put any more kikes in Palestine,
he is going to kill them. Roosevelt laughed at
Bohlens remark. The anecdote appears in a previously unpublished draft of Bohlens autobiography.
Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies, said the kikes
anecdote is consistent with President Roosevelts
own private remark about Hebraic noses and his
grandsons statement that FDR enjoyed telling antiSemitic stories, complete with Jewish accents. An
essay by Medoff chronicling the history of anti-Semitism among U.S. presidents will appear in the forthcoming book From Anti-Semitism to Anti-Zionism,
edited by Professor Eunice G. Pollack.
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First Jewish-Druze military

academy opens in northern
Israel
A first-of-its-kind joint Jewish-Druze military academy opened its gates last week in the northern
Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel, near Haifa. Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoob Kara,
who also heads the implementation of the governments efforts to develop the Druze and Bedouin
sectors in Israel, was present at the ceremony.
The academy, he said, illustrates how the
Druze and the Jews are in essence one people that
decided to come together to sanctify the values of
life, democracy, freedom of expression, religion
and movement, and this is what our sons are fighting for, every hour of every day.
Kara described the alliance as the safeguard protecting Israels Jews and Druze, even in very problematic areas.
At the end of his speech, Kara saluted the heads
of the Israel National Defense College, which he
said was sending many students to the elite units
of the Israel Defense Forces, 15 percent as officers,
the highest percentage in the IDF.
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Palestinian Authority
postpones elections another
four months
The Palestinian Authority has postponed the
municipal elections for an additional four months,
after the PA High Court ruled that the elections will
only take place in the West Bank, not the Hamasruled Gaza Strip.
A Hamas spokesman criticized the courts decision
saying the ruling divides the Palestinian people
and the terror group Hamas will consult with other
factions on how to confront it, Haaretz reported.
Nearly a month ago, the PA High Court suspended what would have been the first democratic
elections between Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party and their rival, the
Islamist terror group Hamas. The elections were
expected to be held in October.
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Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, welcomed the
PAs decision urging all Palestinian bodies to work
together in good faith to overcome internal divisions and democracy.

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Civility and modesty
e are now in the

middle of our
holiday season.
Armed by the
hope and fear of Rosh Hashanah and the climax of Neilah
on Yom Kippur, we should be
able to look forward to the
warm autumnal glow of Sukkot and the frenzied joy of
Simchat Torah, knowing that
winter is coming but safe in
our communities and families.
But the insane political
season is going on around
us. Its starting to feel as if
were living in our sukkot full
time, all day and all night all
month, as incoming missiles
hiss and spit nearby, barely
missing us as we huddle. Its
been that bad.
It does seem to be upending
convention. None of the rules
of civility seem to apply any
more. If you are a star, we are
told, everything is available to
you, and no one ever will say
no its a sort of weaponized
version of Tevyes lament, If
youre rich, they think you
really know.
The rules of speed and of
news cycle also seem to have
blown up. News cycles last
about 30 seconds, it seems;
thats all very exciting, but
whats an old-fashioned editorialist to do?
First, maybe, to take advantage of shifting conventions.
We acknowledge, as we never
used to, that the short weeks
that we work during this
month of Tishrei otherwise
known this year as October,
the run-up to the elections
make it difficult not only to
turn around stories, but also
to write editorials that have
not been left behind by more
and more and more outrages,
more extraordinary stories,
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more well, lets be blunt

and more insanity.
So I will acknowledge that I
write this editorial on Tuesday
morning, going into Yom Kippur. I do not know what might
change between now and then.
The political landscape that
once seemed to be made of
granite clearly is built on sand.
One inescapable lesson
of this dismal season is the
importance of civility. Thats a
lesson we learn when we look
at the world without civility.
Its an ugly place.
Another l e sso n i s th e
importance of modesty. Its
a Jewish value, of course; its
often thought of in the material sense, as the value of not
flaunting physical attributes,
but its much more than that.
It means not saying that you
are the biggest, the richest, the
smartest, the best. There is, of
course, a practical reason for
refraining from such statements they are usually easily disprovable, often mortifyingly so. Successful braggarts
can find themselves in over
their heads, having to deal
with situations for which they
are entirely unqualified. But
there is a deeper reason, too.
Bragging displaying a lack
of humility dispensing with
modesty is corrosive. It eats
away at community. It demolishes humor, which relies on
a certain amount of healthy
self-deprecation, replacing
it, at best, with heavy-handed
sarcasm. (Or, to be honest, the
attempt to disguise an insult as
a joke.)
Please, please, as this
autumn catches fire, as the
leaves turn gold and as tempers smolder, let us work very
hard to keep the world from
JP
exploding. Please.
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Joanne Palmer
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What Jews should learn

from the new National Museum
of African-American History
y wife and I stood out

a curfew on an army base where they
among the throngs
were moved after their homes were
massing into the new
destroyed by flooding.
National Museum of AfriOr I could have told her I was Michael
can-American History and Culture on
Jacksons rabbi. (One of the prizes in
its very first day.
the museums collection was his fedora,
We were white. Nearly everyone surwhich oddly resembles a rabbis hat.)
rounding us was black.
But I said none of these things. I
As we walked through the displays
wasnt there because I was a white
Shmuley
discussing the Dred Scott decision of
man who was close to the black comBoteach
munity. And I wasnt there because I
1857, which essentially declared black
had connections in the African-Amerslaves to be non-citizens with no rights,
ican leadership.
an elderly African-American woman
Rather, I was there because this was Americas
with a walker called out to me. I want to speak to
greatest new museum. And I am an American who
you, she said. With everyone turning around to
loves his country and loves its history. I was there
glimpse the commotion, I stopped as she slowly
because African-American history is American
walked over to me.
history.
I mean no disrespect, she said. But what would
When the Holocaust museum was built in 1993,
bring a couple like you, white, and obviously Jewish,
and Orthodox, to a museum like this on its first day? the Jewish community hoped that it would not
become the Jewish museum. That it would tell a
I could have told her that I have had a lifelong
relationship with the African-American community. universal story that applied to people of all races, all
That from the time I was a small boy in Los Angeles, creeds, all religions, and all nationalities. And, given
when my mother was in a deteriorating marriage, how many visitors the museum attracts, we know
that objective has been achieved.
her close friend was a black woman who worked
The same is true of the new Smithsonian Museum
with her as a bank teller and offered her emotional
of African-American History. It is a museum that
and moral support.
belongs to all Americans and tells the story of our
I could have told her that at Oxford University I
appointed the first ever African-American non- nation as a whole.
Being there on its first day was a privilege.
Jewish president of a major Jewish organization
The museum is beautiful and breathtaking, utterly
when Cory Booker, now a senator from New Jersey,
comprehensive and thorough. It packs so much
became our student leader.
American experience into its golden metal grating
I could have told her that I was the first white
that you feel transformed upon emerging.
morning radio host on Americas legacy black radio
I am a lover of history and the museum overstation, WWRL 1600 AM in NYC, where I commandeered the air waves with my co-host and soul- whelms you with its sheer richness of detail and
friend Peter Noel.
artifacts. Here is the story of how slavery came to
I could have told her that I had taken the Rev. Al
the new world. How sugar was treated as gold and
Sharpton to Israel on a solidarity trip right after 9/11, how King Cotton claimed many subjects, but mostly
or that I had had the privilege of speaking at the
those who were colored.
Martin Luther King Chapel at Morehouse College
The museum is America at its bravest and boldest,
in the presence of Coretta Scott King, or that I had
because it pulls no punches in hiding Americas sins.
been terminated from a prominent radio position in
In this respect, America has replicated Germanys
Utah after I stuck up for African-American evacuees
willingness to tell the story of the holocaust even as
of Hurricane Katrina who were ridiculously given
it shames the country to its core.
Shmuley Boteach is the founder of The World Values Network and is the author of 30 books, including
Wrestling with the Divine and The Fed-Up Man of Faith, both of which deal with the problem of human
suffering. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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Slavery was the great American abomination, segregation
its slightly less evil cousin. The museum demonstrates both
in all their ugliness, including the stone block from which
human beings were sold as animals and babies were ripped
away from their mothers breasts.
Perhaps the most famous of all the museums artifacts is
Emmet Tills actual casket. The casket today lies empty, but
in 1955 his mother insisted that it remain open so that the
world could see the barbarity to which her son had been
subjected by Southern racists. The room holding the casket
is a shrine, and those of us who walked in became more serious and somber with every step.
I was slightly disappointed in the Civil War part of the
museum, finding it much too brief. America has debated
whether the war was about states rights or slavery and I was
hoping for a more definitive statement about the war and its
cause: undoubtedly slavery disguised as states rights.
But with that rare omission, the museum sparkles in every
way. Here is a bucket where Martin Luther King placed his
feet after another scorching march. Here are the cleats
worn by Jesse Owens when he obliterated Hitlers ideas of
an Aryan race of supermen, undone by a black man more
gifted than anyone the Fuhrer could put up against him.
I am a lover of
history and the
museum overwhelms
you with its sheer
richness of detail and
artifacts. Here is
the story of how
slavery came to the
new world.
It was nostalgic to see Michael Jacksons sequined jacket,
and his fedora. It made me think of the tragedy of his life
and the utter sadness of his passing. And yet, in 2009, while
he yet lived, he was arguably the most famous entertainer
on earth, Muhammad Ali was the most famous athlete,
Oprah Winfrey was the most celebrated TV host, and Barack
Obama quite simply the most powerful man on earth.
In other words, for all the tragedy and heartbreak conveyed by the museum as to the African-American experience, there is also a story of great triumph.
And as I left the museum, I thought of the black woman
who had stopped me as I walked in at first. She had wondered why we white folk, Jews, were at the museum.
I was there to learn.
For all its success in attracting a vast number of non-Jews,
the National Holocaust Memorial Museum is still treated in
many respects as the Jewish museum on the National Mall,
given that six million victims of the Holocaust were Jews.
But it is only a story of tragedy. Pure, unrelenting, unremitting sorrow.
Im not complaining. The Holocaust museum is a miracle
and one of the best in the world at conveying mans capacity
for inhumanity to his fellow man.
But I did find myself wishing that the story of the Jews
could also be told in all its tragedy but matched by triumph.
That after falling into pits of indescribable despair, there still
is a glimmer that one day things will be better and man will
discard hate and embrace love.
As Martin Luther King said, We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
Mabovitchs daughter
On exploring the connections between Russian pogroms,
the Munich massacre, and the Israeli state
uring his tenure as president of the State of Israel,

Shimon Peres welcomed
citizens into his official
residence for an open house.
Part of the visit included an opportunity for guests to spend time with
Peres in his sukkah, the temporary
shelter that can be constructed at
Dr. Lee
houses of worship and private homes
in celebration of the Jewish festival
of Sukkot. But adorning his sukkah
with garden-variety seasonal fruits and traditional
decorations wasnt enough for Peres. One year, he
included an exhibition of aerospace satellites, science experiments, agricultural advancements, and
medical technologies, according to a theme aimed
at highlighting Israeli innovation and achievement.
Maybe this is the type of thing to expect from a
person who once said, The Jews greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction. Were a nation
born to be discontented. Whatever exists we
believe can be changed for the better.
At this time of year, as soon as they have recovered from atoning for sins and breaking the fast
after Yom Kippur, many Jews find themselves
involved in putting together a sukkah in one place
or another. There is always some way, directly
or indirectly, to contribute to the effort. Stacks
of wooden slats, metals poles, and green fronds
laid out across the ground can become a sturdy,
loose shack within a few hours time. The activity reflects a sense of accomplishment and even
more, a sense of community, responsibility, and
purpose.
Forty years before Peres invited his neighbors
from around the country to drop by for a day of
joy, the mood in Israel was quite different. About
two weeks before Sukkot that year, members of
the Black September terrorist slinked over a fence
and the group broke into the athletes village at the
Olympic Games in Munich. There, they laid siege to
the apartments housing the Israeli team. The terrorists killed two Israeli Olympic team members
in the initial assault. Then they took nine others
hostage.
What the terrorists hoped to achieve was the
release of 230 sympathizers who were held in
Israeli and German jails. Israeli officials refused
to negotiate with the terrorists, following a policy
that assumes that doing so will encourage more of
the same activity in the future. German officials
launched a rescue mission that was botched in
both planning and action. The failed mission left
the nine Israeli hostages dead, along with five terrorists and one German police officer. Within days,
the top of the Israeli government sanctioned and
unleashed a clandestine counterterrorism mission Operation Wrath of

God in response to what happened
in Munich.
Earlier in the century, in the western
reaches of the Russian Empire, Moshe
Mabovitch had his own concerns about
being attacked because of his religion
and heritage. A mild-mannered carIgel
penter, Mabovitch did what he could
to steel his family and home every
time there were rumors of another
pogrom. The most he could do before the organized mob came was to take the help of a neighbor in nailing wooden slats over the front door of
the house. Years later, one of his daughters would
recall that ... to this day I remember how scared I
Earlier in the
century, in the
western reaches of
the Russian Empire,
Moshe Mabovitch
had his own concerns
about being attacked
because of his
religion and heritage.
was, and how angry that all my father could do to
protect me was to nail a few planks together while
we waited for the hooligans to come. And above
all, I remember being aware that this was happening to me because I was Jewish.
Mabovitchs daughter carried that earliest
impression with her throughout her life. It influenced and informed her major decisions, including
how to make sense of the Munich massacre, and
what to do about it. And that became of some particular consequence on more than a personal note.
Firsthand accounts and declassified reports from
that time reveal it didnt take long for her to determine what she felt needed to be done. From her
seat as the prime minister of Israel, Golda Meir
born Goldie Mabovitch knew well her sense of
community, responsibility, and purpose.
Dr. Lee Igel of Haworth is a clinical associate
professor at NYUs Tisch Institute and the
co-director of NYUs sports and society program.
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Opinion
Yizkor for a father and a son
n Tuesday, December 22, 2015, while I

was marathon grocery shopping in
anticipation of my four children,
plus two spouses, gathering for
the weekend at our home in
Teaneck, my son Judah surrendered to the torment that slowly
Nina
had been destroying him.
Kampler
Our beautiful boy was so very
lost. , our Hebrew
language gently conveys; he
literally could no longer find his way. In his very complicated brilliance, Judah understood that his journey on
earth had ended. And in the final test of unconditional
love, we immediately and radically accepted that our son
had no alternative but to rescue his misplaced soul.
While it is true that nothing prepares you for the death
of a child, our family had been working together for years
in our private challenge to help our struggling Judah. My
husbands regular 36-hour missions to Berkeley each time
he detected a certain pause in Judahs stride, our other
childrens ability to breathe life into their brother and
cheerlead him to the next day. And now we had reached
the terminus of his incurable illness.
was Judahs mantra; he never
judged, and he insisted that we always grant others the
benefit of the doubt. He had great faith in humankind.
In fact, one of Judahs favorite quotes was Anne Franks:
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are
really good at heart. He would share with us that if she
could say that about her situation, he could say it about
his. But ultimately his reality was incompatible with life
in this world.
My father, Paul, who spent six terrible years in German concentration camps, often spoke of his indefatigable determination to live, in spite of the miasma of
omnipresent death. Judah was the grandson who most
resembled his Opa, who inherited his baby blue eyes,
insatiable curiosity, and razor-sharp intellect, and also
acquired his tenacious fight to survive. But the odds
were impossible. Judah struggled valiantly, never sharing his pain beyond our immediate family, wearing an
enormous smile while displaying profound sensitivity to
everyone he encountered. And while my father refused
to let himself die, my son no longer could sustain life.
And I am the bridge between them.
I am named for my fathers mother, Hinda, who died
on an unknown date, in an unknown way, in an unknown
place, after she was boxed on the death tracks in late
1943. And because of all these unknowables, my father
adopted the custom, encouraged by the post-Holocaust
Jewish world, of designating a fast day for her yahrzeit.
And that date, the tenth day of Tevet, always was marked
by the candle lit atop the refrigerator in the kitchen, as the
memory of the grandmother I never knew flickered in the
Philadelphia home where I was raised.
Just five days before his 28th birthday, 72 years later,
I lost my son on this very same day: the tenth day of
Tevet, a day of Jewish communal suffering, now a day of
intense personal anguish.
When we lose someone we love dearly, the resulting
enormous vacuum exerts actual pressure that threatens
to splinter our hearts into shards. It is as if their physical essence is reversed into an imploding emptiness that
suctions out our own energy. We are bereft, our broken
selves attempting to reconfigure to accommodate the
person we cant let go, as we incorporate their souls into
Judah Marans and his grandfather, Paul Kampler, at Judahs bar mitzvah.
our very own so they are not completely and forever

lost. The grief process is the relocation of our loved one
from their body into ours, as we absorb their spirit into
our go-forward existence.
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire
nation to bury him. We will go on with living, not
dying I repeated and repeated, my salty tears softening
my crisp words, to the choreographed rows of overflowing shiva visitors who rearranged their vacations to offer
words of comfort. And despite the proclamations that
there are no words, it is the bounty and beauty of kind
human language that continues to help us breathe today.
It is more difficult to drown in self-pity when friends
and relatives stand by to rescue you. It becomes impossible to feel isolated when you are surrounded by people
who dont stop calling, who bring flowers and tins of
cookies and teddy bear hugs, who text daily even when
you dont respond, who show up at your door laden
with overflowing bags of groceries, who open your closets to set your table with china and silver because they
know it tastes better when it is not served on paper, who
memorize your Starbucks preference, and who nine
full months later, my reverse pregnancy complete
continue to help us grapple with the loss that otherwise
would paralyze us. Our sorrow is diminished, spread
out, shared. The power of our people is the engine that
pulls us forward.
On Rosh Hashanah, as we read the story of the sacrifice of Isaac, we are reminded that in place of the son,
a ram was offered instead. This very animal gifts us the
shofar, whose piercing blasts this High Holiday season
beacon to help us find perspective and faith in the face
of adversity and horror, as Abraham demonstrated in his
challenges. And on this divine Day of Judgment, I forever

will hear Judahs voice calling on us never to judge our
fellow man.
It is my fathers legacy that guides me in the march
from death that I have been navigating since December. I
have chosen to manage my personal tragedy as my Holocaust surviving DNA dictates: by choosing life. Because
if the Holocaust survivors lost their entire families and
homes and towns, their freedom and belongings, without ever losing their dignity or hope or grace, and then
sailed alone across foreign seas to strange lands to master new languages and form new families, and learned
again to love and laugh with lust for life then how can
I just let myself fall?
None of us knows what the coming year will bring.
Who shall thrive and who shall perish. While we may
have no control over what happens to us, we have control over how we respond. And this High Holiday season,
the first since we lost our son, we pray for the continuing
strength to together embrace our destiny.
May the memory of Judah Aaron Marans be a blessing.

Our family has established the Judah Marans Memorial
Fund to build the Judah Marans Music and Art Center at
Yavneh Academy. To contribute, please go to www.jfnnj.
org/judahmaransmemorialfund
A version of this column appeared in the online magazine
Tablet.
Nina Kampler is a lawyer and a retail real estate
strategist. She and her husband, Dr. Zvi Marans, live
in Teaneck.
Opinion
My mother, my teacher
n Shabbat morning, August

8, 2015, my mother died. On
Sunday, October 16, her gravestone will be unveiled. Here is
the eulogy I delivered at her funeral.
My mother, my teacher, is how we
refer to our mothers when we pray for
their blessing in the Grace after Meals.
My mother unquestionably was my
earliest teacher, but those earliest lessons date from long before my memories
coalesced. What I can remember, though,
what stands out for me, and what I want to
share, is what my mother taught me in her
final months of cancer and illness, through
both example and conversation.
We were walking the fifth floor hall of
the Highland Hospital in Rochester three
months before she died when she told me
a story about a time in my life in which she
was my mother, but my memories were
not sticking. I was about two months old
when she and my father and I moved from
Atlanta my parents hometown to Chicago, where my father was studying for his
doctorate at Northwestern.
I went to the park with you to make
friends, she told me.
She discovered, however, that on the
park benches of Evanston, friendships
didnt form easily. Wives of the upwardly
mobile medical and law students werent
eager to share an afternoon with the wife
of someone whose husband was headed
for a career in academia.
But my mother persevered past the
rejections.
She kept introducing herself to the
women in the park until she found friends.
And then, having found friends, she
kept at it.
Two years later, we left Chicago.
I couldnt believe the number of
women who came up to me and said, You
were the first person to introduce herself
to me at the park, my mother told me,
some 49 years later.
This hadnt been easy, she said. She was
naturally shy.
That my mother was determined I knew.
That she was shy well, that was a surprise. Making friends and reaching out to
people had become a habit.
Another story about my mothers determination. As she wrote in her memoir
With An Outstretched Arm I think
she would want me to squeeze in a plug
for her book here my mother was given
a Reform Jewish education that left her
deeply dissatisfied as she grew older. One
hole in her childhood curriculum, which
she sought to remedy in herself and in
her children, was a lack of knowledge of
Hebrew.
She sent us to Jewish day schools. She
studied Hebrew as an adult three times.
The first time, she was a masters student in
Old Testament theology at Emory Divinity
school that was the closest she could get
to a Jewish studies degree in Atlanta back

in 64. There, she studied biblical Hebrew.
When we lived in Cleveland she took
classes in conversational Hebrew at the
Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. And
then, when she retired, about 10 years
ago, she began studying with a tutor every
week.
In the following years, I saw her collection of flashcards swell. It outgrew its initial
index card box, and then my father crafted
a fine wooden case that could hold thousands of cards, which, she told me, she
would review as she brushed her teeth.
I had no idea of how much progress she
was making until the last year of her life.
As my mother grew sicker, I spent more
time in Rochester. Visiting without my children, not on holidays, I stayed with her as
she went about her ordinary life. So it was
that one Sunday I joined her at a meeting
of Ivrit bkapit the Hebrew coffee klatch
she had organized with an Israeli friend at
a nearby coffee shop. I discovered that my
mother could carry on a Hebrew conversation for an hour. If only she could have
done that when I needed help with my
third grade Hebrew homework!
A couple of months later I was in Rochester when my mother came home from the
hospital and moved into our living room.
She was too weak to walk up the stairs to
her bedroom, so we set up a hospital bed
for her downstairs. That first night, I slept
Her ability to make friends,

on the couch next to her in
so hard-won in Chicago 50
case she needed anything in
years before, was manifest
the middle of the night.
as every new nurse came on
She indeed woke up. Then
shift. Her warmth and curiosshe couldnt fall back asleep.
ity came through, despite the
It was a Friday night, so one
pains and indignities of her
of us suggested studying
hospitalization. The nurses
the weeks Torah portion. I
she met became friends
began reading her the verses
Larry
and the subjects of one of her
in Hebrew. She translated. I
Yudelson
last pieces of writing.
helped her with some of the
In the spirit of my mothgrammar, but she was able
ers profession as a writer for
to hear and understand the
non-profit organizations, it seemed approTorah in Hebrew.
priate to conclude this remembrance with
She had been determined to learn
a call to action. One of my mothers great
Hebrew and she persevered and she succeeded. It was an inspiring lesson.
sources of satisfaction after her retirement, and one of the pieces of her life
The next morning I received a third lesson from my mother. I met the Shabbat
she was saddest to let go when her illness
morning Torah study group that had been
constrained her, was volunteering to help
meeting at her house for over a year, since
second graders learn to read. Each week
she had become too ill to walk the mile
during the school year she visited a second
and a half to synagogue. It was clear that
grade class, where she spent time working one-on-one, helping a child sound
my mother had become close friends with
out words. Her volunteering was the local
the women in the group, most of whom
equivalent of our Bergen Reads program of
she had known only casually beforehand.
the Jewish Federation of Northern New JerIt was a lesson in how to handle obstacles.
sey. To find out how to be a Bergen Reads
Weakened by cancer, she could no longer
reading buddy for an hour a week, contact
attend synagogue. That became an opportunity to do something new, to grow in
Beth Figman at 201-820-3947 or bethf@
another way.
jfnnj.org.
When she was in the hospital a couple
Larry Yudelson, associate editor of this
of months before her death, she similarly
newspaper, lives in Teaneck.
reached out rather than retreating inward.
B.J. Yudelson in the solo canoe she loved three months before she died.
Opinion
The value of a single human being

A way to stop the Palestinian Authority from paying for murder
The principle of criminal law
in every civilized society has this
in common. Any person who
sways another to commit murder; any person who furnishes a
lethal weapon for the purpose of
the crime; any person who is an
accessory to the crime, is guilty.
JUDGE DAN HAYWOOD
Martha
Cohen
his line is part of
a riveting speech
given by Judge Haywood, played brilliantly by Spencer Tracy, as
prelude to the verdict he is about to pass on the four German judges and prosecutors who are on trial for crimes
against humanity in post-WWII Germany in the 1961 film
Judgment at Nuremberg. The film was inspired by what
is referred to as the judges trial, which was held in
Nuremberg after the war.
I have watched this three-hour film many times over the
years, yet it continues to draw me in. There are many reasons
for that, including the work of its director and producer, Stanley Kramer, and the superior performances of its star-studded cast. Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, Richard Widmark,
Maximillian Schell (who won an Oscar for his performance
as the zealous defense attorney), Marlene Dietrich, and Burt
Lancaster all were superb. But there are many wonderful
films that I dont feel compelled to watch each time they are
shown. So why the fascination with this one?
I think I found the answer to that question a few weeks
We can call our

representatives, ask
them to co-sponsor the
Taylor Force Act, and
urge that they get it
to the floor for a vote
before another
martyr is praised
and paid.
ago, when I learned about a bill that was introduced and
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. It is called
the Taylor Force Act (S.3414). For those of you who may
not immediately recall, Taylor Force was a very special
young man. He was a West Point graduate who had served
in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Upon returning home, he
decided to pursue his MBA at Vanderbilt University. One
evening in March of this year, he was on the boardwalk
in Jaffa with a group of fellow students on an internship
program in Israel when an Arab terrorist stabbed him to
death in a knife attack. The rampage injured 11 others.
According to Vanderbilts Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos,
Taylor embarked on this trip to expand his understanding
of global entrepreneurship and also to share his insights and
knowledge with start-ups in Israel. Taylor was not even 30.
His life was extinguished brutally by a terrorist whose family now will be on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority
through the PLO. (It uses a little accounting trick, since the
Palestinian Authority cannot officially use international funds to pay

terrorists. Never mind that the PA is
part of the PLO. Details, details.)
The terrorist also would be a
recipient for those funds if he
hadnt died that evening. Dont
worry, though. He was glorified at
his funeral; the official Palestinian
Authority spokesman said that his
burial ceremony was a national
wedding, befitting of martyrs.
Though this secretive payment
for terror system came into being
under Yasir Arafat, following the
signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords,
in 1998 a directive from President
Abbas formalized payments to perpetrators and their families for the
killing of innocent people in Israel.
According to the senators who presented the Taylor Force Act, the
pay scale is based on the severity
of the injury more deaths gets
you the biggest payments. The PA
brings the terrorists on as employees once their incarceration ends.
Even the level of employment is
measured according to the severity of the crime. For example, a
Taylor Force
5- to 6-year sentence translates to
approximately $500 per month, along with the choice of
being a civilian department head or a lieutenant in the
security forces. A 25- to 30-year sentence could result in
$2,500 a month six times the average income of the average Palestinian Arab worker and the choice of becoming
a deputy minister or a major general in the security forces.
Deliberately enticing your people to commit murder
with promises of remuneration and honor for you and
your family in perpetuity. Sounds like a diabolical lie, but
the endless tears of parents like those of Taylor Force, as
well as of spouses and children, remind us that this deviance is real and growing under the Palestinian Authority.
Yet the worst is that we, the citizens of the United States,
are paying for this orchestrated indoctrination through the
foreign aid we give the Palestinian Authority every year. It
totals hundreds of millions of dollars and that is just from
the United States. There are hundreds of millions more
coming from the EU and other countries, in addition to the
funds dispersed from the UN through UNWRA. According
to a 2012 Congressional Research Service report, since the
mid-1990s the United States has committed more than 4 billion dollars to the PA, who are among the worlds largest
per capita recipients of international foreign aid.
What in the world are we doing? We are, unknowingly
for most of us, in Judge Haywoods words, accessory to
the crime. But we can do something about it today. We
can call our representatives, ask them to co-sponsor the
Taylor Force Act, and urge that they get it to the floor for a
vote before another martyr is praised and paid.
Read the Taylor Force Act it is barely two pages long.
It conditions assistance based upon three pillars. Briefly,
they are:
1. Taking credible steps to end acts of violence against
United States and Israeli citizens that are perpetrated by
individuals under its jurisdictional control.
2. Publicly condemning such acts and investigating or
cooperating in investigations of such acts to bring the

perpetrators to justice.
3. Terminating payments for acts of terrorism against
the United States and Israeli citizens.
To those who might be swayed by representatives who
will sympathize with the many American and Israeli lives
lost due to this duplicity but still offer up as an excuse that
they cant support the bill because the Palestinian Authority is too weak to survive without this tremendous infusion
of cash, the most trenchant response comes from another
part of the same speech by Judge Haywood.
The answer to that is, survival as what? A country isnt
a rock. Its not an extension of oneself. Its what it stands
for. Its what it stands for when standing for something is
the most difficult. Before the people of the world, let it
now be noted, that here in our decision, this is what we
stand for justice, truth, and the value of a single human
being.
What it stands for. This is the critical question in light
of the indoctrination of the population to murder, beginning with children. What does the Palestinian Authority
stand for?
The value of a single human being. Taylor Force. Ezra
Schwartz. Naftali Frenkel. Thats just a few Americans who
were brutally murdered within the last few years. There is
no future for them, but American money continues to flow
into the hands of their murderers and/or their families.
When we say never again, isnt that what we mean? That
every single human being has value and must be allowed
to live out their full measure of days in peace? If so, then
we have no choice but to fight for the Taylor Force Act.
The value of a single human being. I think that is
worth fighting for, dont you?
Martha Cohen is an award-winning producer and creative
executive. She lives in Fort Lee with her husband and son.
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Opinion
A view from the pew

Remembering Shimon Peres
he festival of
Sukkot is called
z man simchataynu a time for
The final chapter of Torah

that we will read on Simchat
Torah next week marks the
end of the life and leadership of Moses. The week of
rejoicing.
Shimon Peress death, the
In biblical times Sukkot was the greatest of the
opening words of the Torah
three pilgrimage festivals,
reading were Atem nitzavm
celebrating the ingathering
hayom All of you, the
Rabbi Neal
of the harvest. Jews from
People of Israel, are standBorovitz
ing here on the precipice of
all across the Land of Israel
a new era. We the readers,
and beyond would gather
as well as Moses himself, are
together in Jerusalem to
told that though his life would come to an
give thanks for their personal and communal blessings and to pay their taxes,
end, the life of the Jewish people would
supporting both the religious life and
continue.
the civic needs of biblical Israel.
The very same week that we read
In the first two centuries after the
those words, at the end of the year,
destruction of the ancient Temple and
5776, world leaders from more than
the independent political kingdom, the
90 countries, along with all of us Jews
early rabbis assigned the special scriparound the world, stood in respect,
tural readings for all of our holy days.
mourning the loss of Simon Peres, who
They chose Ecclesiastes as the megillah
had died after 70 years of service as a
to be read on the Shabbat of Sukkot. This
leader of Israel.
book is hardly the most uplifting and celSimilar to great leaders of every era,
ebratory work in the Bible. One of the
Shimon Peres was an imperfect man,
most often quoted passages of Ecclesiaswho made many mistakes. Like the bibtes is from Chapter Three, where we are
lical Moses, about whose wife and children we are told very little in the Torah,
told, For everything there is a season; a
Peres was a man who kept his personal
time for everything under the sun; a time
and public life separate. In both cases,
to be born and a time to die.
we can assume that the families paid a
Throughout the book, the theme of
price in sharing a husband and father
inevitability and powerlessness seems
with the world.
to nullify the challenging and comforting conclusion of the High Holy Day
Like Moses, Peres was a leader who
prayer Unetane Tokef, where we are
was willing and capable to do teshuvah to admit his mistakes and change
told that through teshuvah, tefilah, and
direction. I gained firsthand knowledge
tzedakah repentance, prayer, and acts
of this when I had the honor to work
of charity we can temper the severity of even a Divine decree. Perhaps that
closely with Shimon Peres in 1982-83 as
is why these very same rabbis assigned
director of the U.S. Labor Zionist Alliance. Peres then was the leader of the
Exodus 34, the story of Moses second
Labor party, which was out of power.
ascent of Mount Sinai, as the Torah reading for the Shabbat of Sukkot. After all,
Shimon Peres, despite the political
if Israel could be forgiven for building a
attacks from his opponents both within
golden calf and Moses for smashing the
his own party and from the opposition
first set of the Ten Commandments, perthat then was in power, never lost his
haps we too, both as individuals and as
grace and dignity, his passion and compassion. It was during that year, in the
a community and society, can achieve
wake of the Lebanon war, that Peres,
atonement for our transgressions and
who had been the wizard who built
mistakes. Maybe, that is, if we truly
Israels defense establishment and had
repent, and in the spirit of teshuvah we
been an advocate for allowing the first
change our direction, and if we dedicate
Jewish settlements to be established at
ourselves to tzedakah, both in its command to be charitable and in its root
Gush Etziyon in the West Bank after the
meaning of justice, by working to cre1967 war, made the pivot to the pursuit
ate a more just society.
of peace with Palestinians. That was
On both Yom Kippur, which precedes
because he saw it as the only way to
Sukkot by four days, and on the sepadefend and grow a Jewish state of Israel.
rate festival of Atzeret Simchat Torah,
Peres, who made aliyah when he was
which begins at the sundown ending
11, became a devoted Zionist Socialist.
the week of Sukkot, Jewish tradition
When he was minister of finance and
instructs us to recite Yizkor, memorial
prime minister in the 1980s, partnering with his longtime political oppoprayers for loved ones who have died.
nent Yitzchak Shamir, it was Peres who
This year I have added to my personal
brought hyperinflation under conYizkor prayers the name of President
trol and laid the groundwork for Start
Shimon Peres.
Shimon Peres
For President Peres truly to rest

in peace we must commit
ourselves not to rest until we do
our share in completing the task
of bringing a lasting peace to
the Middle East that will include
a safe secure democratic and
Jewish State of Israel.
Up Israel. He did this by giving up his
socialist orthodoxy, but he never sought
special economic privilege for himself.
Even after leaving the Israel Labor Party
a decade before his death, Peres always
identified himself as a Labor Zionist.
The death decree of Shimon Peres is
sealed, but his life does not have to end.
If we are willing to keep telling his story
from generation to generation, and if
we hear in his life a challenging call to
action, then Peres, like great political
leaders and thinkers of ages past, can
continue to live through his words and
his deeds, through his accomplishments
and his failures.
To truly honor the memory of Shimon

Peres, we must rededicate ourselves in
5777 to the pursuit of peace between
the children of Isaac and Ishmael. For
President Peres truly to rest in peace we
must commit ourselves not to rest until
we do our share in completing the task
of bringing a lasting peace to the Middle
East that will include a safe secure democratic and Jewish State of Israel.
Neal Borovitz, rabbi emeritus of Temple
Avodat Shalom in River Edge, is a past
chair of the Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey.
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Securing a future for

religious minorities in the Middle East
ou have to wonder if
the barbarians fighting under the flag
of the Islamic State
still believe that 72 virgins will
be waiting for them in paradise
once they become martyrs.
I say this not because the
leaders and foot soldiers of ISIS
Ben Cohen
suddenly have woken up to
the possibility that this belief
is based, according to several
scholars, on a mistranslation of the relevant verse of the
Quran. That would be expecting too much of them. I say
this because they already have had a taste of that paradise
here on earth, as a result of their campaign of genocide
against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria. One
aspect of this horrific slaughter has been the kidnapping
of thousands of Yazidi women and girls to serve as sexual
slaves to these savages.
A recent report from the U.N. Human Rights Council
a body that spends most of its time condemning Israel
for alleged human rights violations sheds some light on
both the scale and the nature of the genocide, which was
ignored by the international community for far too long.
The campaign against the Yazidis was launched by ISIS
over two years ago, in August 2014, when its forces began
an assault on the Yazidi villages in Sinjar, a district in the
northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. At least 5,000 Yazidis
have been killed during the genocide, while 3,200 women
and children remain in ISIS captivity. About 70,000, estimated to make up 15 percent of the overall Yazidi population, are reported to have fled Iraq.
The stories in the U.N. report will be depressingly
familiar to anyone who has studied genocide over the
last century. Men and boys are either executed or forcibly converted, while women and girls exist solely for
the use and pleasure of ISIS terrorists. The manner of
the persecution is gruesome. After we were captured,
ISIS forced us to watch them beheading some of our
Yazidi men, said one 16-year-old girl. They made the
men kneel in a line in the street, with their hands tied
behind their backs. The ISIS fighters took knives and cut
their throats.
Despite this reign of terror, the Yazidis have not been
destroyed as a distinctive group. Before the ISIS attacks
A Yazidi resistance fighter holds his peoples flag.

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Iraqi Yazidi children get stuffed animals from an international aid group.
began, around 700,000 Yazidis are said to have lived

in Iraq. That was the largest single concentration of the
religions followers. Yazidis are ethnic Kurds; their faith
is described by scholars as syncretic, which means it
combines elements of other religions, including Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. Based on
that, its worth noting that ISIS isnt the only Islamist
group that regards the Yazidis as infidels. The theology
of more mainstream Islamist groups, like the Muslim
Brotherhood, assigns them a similar status.
Presently, the main focus for the Yazidis is the rescue of their women and girls from the clutches of ISIS.
Often this is done through ransom payments, involving
middlemen who collect huge sums from their families
one recently reunited family paid a total of $34,000 for
their two daughters which then are paid to ISIS. After
their release, both girls said they didnt expect that they
would see each other again, describing their captors as
dirty and abusive, and said that they were subjected
to regular beatings.
What this illustrates is the need for greater physical
security for the Yazidis, as well as for other religious
minorities in the region, if and when ISIS is defeated.
Without that concrete measure, continued religious and
ethnic conflict in the Middle East will target vulnerable
minorities first and foremost.
For that reason, the decision of the Iraqi parliament
on October 4 to reject Yazidi and Assyrian Christian
appeals for separate provinces should spark concern.
The Iraqi people reject any decision that partitions the
Nineveh province. The people of the city determine the
destiny of their city in the post-Islamic State (IS) stage,
said Ahmed al-Jabra, a Sunni member of parliament, justifying the vote. Conveniently, for the Sunni Arab population, the vote also means that Yazidis and other minorities, who have been dispossessed from the region, will
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be reluctant to come back. Viyan Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament, already has said that Yazidis
will be wary of returning to the Nineveh province without significant changes in its administration.
It was Dakhil who first alerted the world to the slaughter of the Yazidis in 2014, when her emotional plea to the
world to save her people went viral on the internet. In a
speech earlier this year at the U.N. in Geneva, arranged
by the dedicated staff of the U.N. Watch nongovernmental organization, Dakhil declared, The international
community has to support us, to call upon the U.N.
Security Council to recognize what is happening to us
as genocide, and to refer our case to the International
Criminal Court. And there are signs that the process is
in motion, with both the U.S. and British governments
formally acknowledging that the Yazidis have experienced a genocide in the legal sense of the term.
What is worrying is that measures to protect the Yazidis from future brutalities have been set back by the
Iraqi parliament decision. As Jews from Middle Eastern
countries know only too well, being a minority in the
midst of profound instability in Arab and Muslim societies is not a fate anyone would want. The only way to
protect yourself is by exercising some significant degree
of self-determination, including the right of self-defense,
secured by international guarantee. After all, we Jews
were only able to say never again once we secured
the means to prevent further persecution, in the form of
the state of Israel. The other religious minorities of the
JNS.ORG
Middle East deserve no less.
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org and the Tower
magazine, writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.
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Matty
Selmans
life,
in
stories
Read little bits about Uncle Philips Coat,
Staten Islands chicken, the Selman familys
living-room Oldsmobile, Porgy and Bess
in a tent, and many other fragments
Joanne Palmer
ou might think about a
one-man, one-act play,
performed by the writer
on a completely plain
stage, and think about
better things you could
do that night than see it. Maybe wash your
hair. Or the car. Or the dog.
You would be entirely wrong.
If you were to have a chance to see
Uncle Philips Coat and you do not jump
at it, you will miss the unfolding of a complex character, reflexively funny, reluctantly sad, irrefutably tragic, that is also
deeply woven into the 20th-century Jewish immigrant experience.
Matty Selman wrote Uncle Philips
Coat, and most of the time he performs it
as well. (There are three characters in the
play; a quick change of accessory and of
tone and accent tells the audience which
one is in front of them.) Mr. Selman, who
was born in Jersey City, grew up on Staten

Island, and now lives in Manhattan, has
told an only-sort-of-embellished version
of his own familys improbable, only-inAmerica, could-only-be-Jews, right? story.
Its got gunslingers, war stories, operatic
divas, left-wing politics, dancing chickens,
and nursery schools, among many other
elements. Not all these stories end up in
the play, but they all undergird it.
To spend time with Mr. Selman is to be
regaled with stories, to be almost pelted
with stories, to hear so many stories that
they come together in a glorious jumble. Its impossible to retell all of them,
although it was necessary for him to know
all of them and live through many of them
to come up with Uncle Philips Coat, but
here are some of them.
Mr. Selmans grandfather, Sam, came
off the boat on Ellis Island as a teenager;
a guy came right up to him and said For
$35, which I know you dont have right
now, you will have a cemetery plot. This
was real. My grandfather started paying it

off. Its in Passaic Junction.
Sam was a New York kind of wheeler
dealer, Mr. Selman said. Before the Great
Crash, he owned stores, and he was rich.
He had a car, with isinglass windows and
a running board, and a driver who wore a
leather cap and was named John. He was in
one of the first cars to go through the Lincoln Tunnel. The family lived in Harlem,
on 121st Street near Amsterdam Avenue, in
what was then a ritzy neighborhood.
Sams wife, Millie, came from upstate
New York (or at least the part of New York
that downstaters call upstate, Beacon, and
then Newburgh). If there is any artistic
bent in me, it comes from Millies mother,
Dora Goodman, Mr. Selman said. She
was from Vienna, and talk about stereotypes. She was elegant, she sang, she married a guy who looked like a Hungarian
Clint Eastwood, made money in Galveston, shot cougars, and kept his guns in a
wooden chest.
I still have that chest, he added. The

guns, though, are long gone.
Dora and Millie ran a store upstate;
when Millie and Sam married, there was
a cultural clash that had to be negotiated.
Sam was used to small stores, where you
bought two peaches and three apples.
Where my grandmother grew up, you buy
by the bushel, Mr. Selman said.
To get ahead of the story, when Mr. Selmans father, Jerome, came home from
the war, he brought a booklet with him
that showed how to prepare meals for
a platoon, Mr. Selman said. Shes reading this, sees 3,400 eggs, 200 pounds of
toast, and shes going, Yeah. Thats just
about right.
When the crash brought Sam Selmans
retail empire down, he became an insurance agent with Prudential, and the family moved to Bayonne. Theres a picture
of him in the late 1930s, what they called
the Old Guard, with first line of Prudential insurance men, Mr. Selman said.
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They all looked like mobsters. (That

picture is on the bottom of this page.)
Jerome Selman was the oldest of the
familys three sons. They were all really
bright, Matty Selman said. They were all
valedictorians. They were the smart Jewish
boys who were going to save the family.
Jerome Selman went to Cooper Union
as an undergraduate, and became a civil
engineer. In April 1944, he enlisted in the
U.S. Army and was assigned to the 187th
To spend time
with Mr. Selman
is to be regaled
with stories, to
be almost pelted
with stories.
Infantry as a machine gunner. He was
deployed in November of that year and
shipped overseas in December to the Battle of the Bulge, and on January 1945 he
was wounded. He nearly died, and his life
was changed.
How did it happen? There were war
stories that he just couldnt talk about,
Mr. Selman said, but there are some that
he did know. His fathers sergeant had
been very upset because someone had
taken his Walnettos a popular caramel
candy so he wasnt thinking clearly, and
he sent my father and another GI out to
what they called the ammo dump, about
45 minutes on the other side of where
they were, toward the German front, to
get more ammo.
That was right at the Maginot line. It
was nighttime. The sergeant didnt estimate
how long it would take them to get there. It
was something that they did under cover of
darkness, and he estimated wrong.
By the time my father and this other
guy started trudging back, it was 4, 4:30,
and light enough for the guys in the German pillbox, 1,500 feet away, to see
them. So as soon as it was light, they were
strafed, and his friend was hit in the head,
and my father gave him all his morphine
pills. And then they were strafed again,
and the other guy died, and a bullet shot
through my fathers left calf and through
his knee.
My father said that when he was shot,
he didnt feel pain immediately. It felt like
someone had hit the bottom of his boot

with a cold wet hammer. It was cold out,
so cold that his blood froze. Thats what
saved him.
He had to remain on that hillside for 14
hours, until it was dark again.
Sometimes, when I am alone with my
thoughts, when I am afraid of doing something, no matter how small or how big, I
think about what it must have been like for
my father during those 14 hours. You dont
know what the next minute will bring. And
it was 14 hours.
When nighttime did come, he took his
carbine, and he walked away.
Jerome Selman was taken to a field
hospital, where they didnt have ambulances, just jeeps. So they would take the
stretchers and tie them onto the hood
of the jeeps. And whenever they were
shelled, the drivers would jump out, and
Jerome Selman, after the war; his crutches lean against the wall behind him.
The Prudential Old Guard, looking ever-so-slightly threatening, at a sales meeting in Atlantic City. Sam Selman is the third
from the left in the front row.
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there hed be, lying across the hood.
After he was well enough to leave England, he was sent to Halloran Army Hospital on Staten Island. He crossed the
Atlantic on the Queen Mary. He wasnt in a
position to appreciate it, though he still
was in traction. Halloran later became Willowbrook, the state hospital notorious for
the way it warehoused and mistreated children with Downs Syndrome.
Hes in the paraplegic ward, and all of
the guys there with him were in traction,
and the nurses would come and scratch
their backs. There was this cute little nurse
named Ruthie, who was from Staten Island
and happened to be Jewish.
She saw that my father had a bag tied
to the side of his bed, stuffed with books
and literature.
Mattys father had been a poet and a
painter. He wrote a beautiful short story
that was published with a compilation of
Whit Burnetts, he said. The story was
called A Sword for Serena, and it was
in Story: The Fiction of the Forties;
although not many people today know
about Whit Burnett or his literary magazine, called Story, the magazine was
prestigious. To have a story in it was a
major coup.
Ruthie who of course was Mattys
mother, Ruth won the English award
at Lincoln High School. Of course shell be
attracted to the guy who was literate.
Ruthies last name was Corey, he said,
but her real last name was Zhivatovsky.
The two started a writers group at the
hospital. As their relationship continued,

my mother saw that his leg was deteriorating, and there was talk of amputating it.
She was adamant that it would not happen,
and she provided physical therapy, and he
credited her with having saved his leg.
Its funny, Matty continued, not talking about anything that is at all ha-ha
funny. At the end of his life, my father was
in a VA hospital, and during the course of
that time I felt like he was living the war
over again. What happened was that
those guys were young and strong, and so
despite their injuries they were okay, but
with their wounds this gets compromised,
and that gets compromised, and then 50
years later these things start echoing. And
then suddenly the war comes back.
One of the sad things that happened
to my father was when he was wounded,
because he had that kind of brain, he got
fascinated with medicine, and he wanted
to be a doctor, Matty continued. He
claimed that it wasnt anti-Semitism, but
apparently none of the medical schools
in the United States would consider his
degree from Cooper Union as something
that would get him into medical school.
His only option was to go to Switzerland.
He didnt.
Ruth Corey Selmans mother was one of
a pair of sisters, Lillian and Anyuta, who
came off the boat from Russia together. Lillian was the revolutionary, the firebrand,
like Perchik in Fiddler,; the maybe wise,
maybe know-it-all sister who would go up
to women with their babies in the park and
snatch the pacifiers from their mouths and
tell them Youre ruining their teeth!
Ruthie grew up as a wunderkind, the
marvel in a family of marvels; a socialist
madcap in a family of madcaps and socialists. Like her aunt Lillian, Ruthie learned
high culture, and particularly loved music;
in fact, one of Mattys strongest school
memories is the time he didnt get into
the orchestra in fifth grade. I walked the
three blocks to the house and my mother
is standing at the door, with a big smile
on her face, and she asks me how I did.

When I say I failed, she grabs my hand I
still have the marks! and literally pulls
me back to school and up the stairs to the
principals office.
My mother was barely five feet tall,
and the principal was an impressive Irish
woman, six feet something tall, who
always wore these suits. She was magnificent. My mother stands in the doorway,
and says I am Mrs. Selman, and this is my
son Matthew. I am not leaving until my son
Matty Selman
was born in 1949,
and the Staten
Island on which
he grew up was
a remote place.
The Verrazano
Bridge had not
yet been built.
is in the orchestra. There was total silence.
It was like David and Goliath. There was no
way she could survive unless she gave in to
the little lady.
Thats how Mr. Selman learned to play
the trombone, and why today he is a
composer.
So the Selman sons grew up on Staten
Island; Jerome worked for the government, and Ruth, who went to college after
her sons were in their teens, spent 50
years in the Montessori preschool movement; in fact, some of Mattys most poignant stories about her come from the
teachers, parents, and students whose
lives she lit.
Matty Selman was born in 1949, and the
Staten Island on which he grew up was a
remote place. The Verrazano Bridge had
not yet been built. And it was not very

Jewish. In fact, it was a hotbed of conservatism, where I learned about antiSemitism, Mr. Selman said. On the other
hand, it held wonders. The Revolutionary
War started on Staten Island, when King
George had his Hessian soldiers bivouac in
Richmondtown, and they attacked Brooklyn from there, he continued. When I
was a kid, my father used to take me to dig,
and we would find soldiers spoons.
It was very provincial, and closed off
from the rest of the world, he said. All
farms and golf ranges. There was a strange
amusement park and restaurant called Al
Deppes. It had a dancing chicken. You
put in a quarter, and the chicken got an
electric shock, and it danced. There was
a farmers market that was open only at
night, where in the dark, out of nowhere,
youd see tents strung with light bulbs, and
guys selling comic books with half their
covers torn off.
It was like a Fellini movie.
Mr. Selman remembers a trip he and his
family took. We took a cross-country trip
in 1954. My father had an assignment to
do some inspections in Bakersfield, so we
drove in a 1951 Oldsmobile. The car was a
light minty green, and there was a lot of
chrome, and in the center of the drive
shaft there was a little three-dimensional
diorama of a rocket ship.
And there were electric windows
they were hydraulic, and they leaked. It
was an innocent, almost prelapsarian time
a fancy way of saying that there were
no seatbelts, and no ideas about safety.
I went cross-country lying in the back
window of this tank, looking out the window. It was like being in a moving Hayden
Planetarium.
It was very hot, and the family drove
across the Mohave Dessert. It was way
before car air conditioning, but my father
found this thing, in a place called Pep
Boys.
It was like an oversized shoebox, made
of anodized aluminum, he continued. It
The real Uncle Philip.
Ruthie Corey
Selman as a
child, and with
her son Matty.
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was all very Rube Goldberg. The box was
filled with ice, which the family bought
at every gas station they passed, and one
hole in it was plugged with a sponge. They
also plugged a fan into the cigarette lighter,
and the fan whirred and blew the cold air
around the car.
It was 110 degrees out. My mother is
sitting in the front seat, in her brassiere,
nursing the baby his mother was very
progressive, in that as in so many other
ways and the front seat of the car is like
a sectional sofa. Its like a living room that
can steer.
The Selman took Route 66 down
through the South from Chicago to L.A.!
and they slept in motels. There was no
speed limit then, and we were going at 60
miles an hour. We pulled into a lot, one
night, at about 7, and there was still a bit of
twilight, and we paid and went into a tent,
and saw a production of Porgy and Bess.
Mr. Selman pauses when he tells the
story. The wonder of the twilight and
the tent and the music and the strangeness and the beauty are still alive for him.
We sat on bales of hay, and it was lit by
torches, he said, with reverence.
They got to California in July of 1955; by
pure chance, they ended up at Disneyland
on opening day. I remember a traumatic
thing, Mr. Selman said. I was on the
Dumbo ride, and it got stuck. They had to
take a ladder to get me down from it. My
first image of Disneyland was that it was
broken. But I also remember being held by
a guy in a space suit.
Staten Island might have been an isolated place, but it was not without culture;
in fact, there was a lot of it, centered on
Wagner College, which has one of the top
theater programs in the country, Mr. Selman said. His mother took him to see all
sorts of plays; he remembers seeing John
Carradine, the father He had a face! All
craggy and weathered. I saw him in A Man
For All Seasons, in a red gown, parading
across the stage. I was a little kid, and I
remember staring in awe.
He saw Richard Kiley in The Royal Hunt
of the Sun, and he saw Richard Burton in
Hamlet. The color of his smoking jacket
was the exact color of my grandmothers
drapes, he remembers.
Mr. Selman went to the High School of
Performing Arts in Manhattan not an
easy feat if you live on Staten Island, but
there was a group of us that went there,
he said. It was an hour and a half each
way, but it was worth it. He graduated in
1969, and had to figure out how to deal
with the draft, which might have sent him
to Vietnam. My father was a war hero,
but he didnt want me to go, Mr. Selman said. He discovered that there was
a legal loophole other than the student
deferment. It was a loophole set up for
the sons of statesmen and ambassadors
who found themselves abroad at 18. Mattys father was neither a statesman nor
an ambassador, but his parents decided
that he would find himself abroad on his
Matty at a reading for one of his plays,

and a mint-green Oldsmobile like the
one his family drove cross-country.
birthday, which was in May, nonetheless.

So, just before he turned 18, Matty, who
had never been abroad before, went to
London. He was going to study theater
there, his parents decided, and he was
going to sign up at the American embassy
as a conscientious objector.
His parents had figured everything out
except what he was going to do when he
got off the plane, where he would live,
what he would eat, and, most importantly,
how he would register. They gave him $50
and their ceaseless confidence in him.
Many misadventures later chief among
them his being assigned a fleabag hotel
room already given to someone else, and
his being thrown out of that room at 4 in
the morning it worked.
And then he went back and finished
high school, and then he drove across the

Manhattan bridge and into an accident
that kept him in stitches not in the good
way and away from graduation, and then
he went to Woodstock. But he had gone
there with his cousin, who was 14 to his 18,
and she vanished in the crush of people at
the start of the festival, only to reappear at
its end, so he spent the whole time worrying. It wasnt pleasant, but it was memorable, he reported.
So what about Uncle Philips Coat?
Its the story of his mothers brother,
a sad man of great but lost promise. His
mother loved him. She always took him
in and fed him, he said. Hed sit at the
table in a blue serge suit, so grateful for a
meal. Hed come for Shabbes. She really
loved him, but the rest of the family didnt.
You could pick up her empathy for him.

After every dinner, my parents would
clear the coffee table and he would start
displaying the things in his pockets, things
hed try to sell kazoos, beautiful pens, all
sorts of things. He was like a walking display case. During the day, hed be on the
boardwalk on Coney Island, selling these
things. Sometimes hed sleep in the basement. His shoes would be polished with
Vaseline, and hed leave the bathroom
spotless. It was never cleaner than when it
was cleaned by a homeless guy.
Uncle Philip died in 1994; his story sat
inside Matty for some time. Mattys a
writer, mainly a playwright, lyricist, and
composer, and the creator of The Gefilte
Fish Chronicles, which has played in venues including the White House but he
had been a performer at one point too.
Although Uncle Philips Coat had been
written for another actor, he ended up
performing it. The play has won many
awards; it was named 2015s best production the top award! out of 150 finalists,
from six continents, in the United Solo Festival, held in Manhattan.
Its playing around the country, sometimes starring Matty Selman. Its the distillation of many of his stories; its Jewish,
funny, sad, and true. If you can see it, do. If
you can see anything else of Mr. Selmans
do that too.
To learn more about Matty Selman, go
to www.mattyselman.com.
Dvar Torah
Haazinu: A poem
for reconciliation
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arashat Haazinu is the last Torah portion

we read on a regular Shabbat. The next one
will be read on Simchat Torah to complete
another Torah reading cycle.
Its very telling that we read this parasha, a poem,
after Yom Kippur. Why? Because the text matches the
spirit and purpose of the High Holidays: self introspection, acknowledging our wrongdoings, mending broken relationships, seeking
forgiveness, and the possibility of second chances.
The poem really begins
in the previous portion,
when God tells Moses to
assemble the people and
instructs him to teach them
this poem. God knows that
in the future they will go
Rabbi
astray, worshiping other
Alberto
gods, and they will aban(Baruch)
don Him. By doing so, they
Zeilicovich
will follow the ways of other
Temple Beth
nations, learn their culSholom, Fair Lawn,
ture, and not live accordConservative
ing to the way of life the
Torah teaches.
So, God knows we are going to break up with Him,
and then a lot of bad things are going to befall us: Our
enemies will prevail, we will suffer economic hardship,
we will even be scattered in exile to diaspora. But God
is giving us a tool to return, to come back to the ideal
situation when Israel and God where partners in teaching the world how to live a life both in a material and
spiritual way, while building a just society. Therefore,
write down this poem and teach it to the people of
Israel; put it in their mouths, in order that this poem
may be a witness against the people of Israel (Deuteronomy 31:19).
The poem starts with admonition, but ends with forgiveness and consolation.
As we read Haazinu it will be easy to understand
our need to go back to the right path of life. Our High
Holidays were designed to be a process of change for
the better. Our liturgy, as we find in the machzor, is full
of poetry leading us to that way.
In the light of Haazinu, maybe we can say that Yom
Kippur is not only a Day of Atonement, but also an
opportunity for reconciliation.
Gmar chatimah tova.
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Across
1. Yichud ___ (newlywed locale)
5. Uzi projectile
9. Davids dad
14. Small kosher ox
15. Tribe, but not of Israel
16. Exam and Torah
17. Restaurants one might eat at
on Sukkot?
19. Bob of Fuller House
20. Shusters Man of ___
21. The Romans laid one on Jerusalem
23. Palindromic sacrifice
24. Start of Moses most famous line
26. Gives Paul Simon a hand
28. The OU, e.g.
31. Restaurants one might eat at, and
use a lulav and etrog in, on Sukkot?
36. Silver suffix at the Shabbat table
38. Middle of Jerusalem?
39. Like the Burning Bush or Moses face
40. Falls that might inspire one to make
a blessing
42. Proverbs
43. New Israeli from Paris, e.g.
44. Shtick
45. Money guru Greenspan
46. Ideal seat choices at some restaurants for Sukkot?
49. Lyric poem by Lazarus or Keats
50. Entered a higher amount for a
mezuzah on eBay
51. Number of sons Zilpah had
53. Zac Efrons are well-defined
56. Twin voiced by Julie Kavner
58. Democratic Arab leader
62. Og, for one
64. Fitting Florida city to find 17, 31, and
46-Across
66. Like the treatment of (Jewish) slaves
67. Purim time
68. And I am ___ that the king of Egypt
will not... (Ex. 3:19)
69. First name of a returned captive
70. Lake that might (but probably
doesnt) house a leviathan
71. ___ Refaim
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 55.
Down
1. Sings like Nissim
2. Step ___! (Maher!)
3. Drip like honey
4. Some have more of it than others
5. Sheket!
6. Reed and Gehrig
7. Gaza violence developments of 2014
8. Bundchen married to Robert
Krafts quarterback
9. Notable Jewish historian
10. Koufax had a low one
11. Great rabbi
12. Killed, in the Bible
13. Bass player for Haim
18. Schmaltz Brewing outputs
22. 1944 Ingrid Bergman hit directed by
George Cukor
25. Biography on Rabbi Menachem
Mendel Schneerson
27. Borats real first name
28. Had, like the Temple Mount to David
29. Director Sam
30. Ruth gathered it
32. Judah ruler in 1 Kings 15
33. Stringed instrument played by
Amit Peled
34. Start making challah
35. Writer R.L.
37. Ham-and-___ (Joe Schmo)
41. Mitchell Hurwitzs ___ Development
42. Shalom site
44. Like the universe, to the religious
47. Engine sump or a vessel for
Chanukah candles
48. Schmatte
52. Not just fat, like Eglon
53. King killed by Samuel
54. Prime Minister, familiarly
55. King grilled by Samuel
57. Cry of woe from the Bible or
in Shakespeare
59. Writers L. Frank or Bernie
60. The Western Wall plaza is about the
size of one
61. Israeli dough, for short
63. Hush-hush org. that assists Israel
at times
65. ___ Robinson
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Written by Alfred Uhry, Directed by Carol Fisher

Best Play: Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League (1997)
A bittersweet romantic comedy set in Atlanta, 1939 depicting a Jewish family
whose main goal is to assimilate at any cost
By the author of Driving Miss Daisy
October 22 thru November 12, 2016

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Fri. & Sat. $21, Sun. $17
Box office open:

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Calendar
Saturday
OCTOBER 15
Pink Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El raises
breast cancer awareness
during Shabbat services,
9 a.m. Variety of family
services at 10:15.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
Erev Sukkot in Pearl

River: Beth Am Temple
offers services, 7 p.m.,
followed by a visit to
the shuls sukkah. 60
East Madison Ave.
(845) 735-5858 or www.
bethamtemple.org.
Monday
OCTOBER 17
Pink Shabbat in Fair

Lawn: Sisterhood of
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/CBI partners
with Sharsheret for
Pink Shabbat, 9 a.m. A
breast cancer survivor
will speak during
services. There will be
educational materials
from Sharsheret at the
Pink Kiddush following
services. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Shabbat in Wayne:
Senior members of
Temple Beth Tikvah have
lunch in the shuls sukkah,
noon-2 p.m. Free for
seniors, $5 for everyone
else. 950 Preakness Ave.
Barbara, (973) 694-7478
or bobsreiss@aol.com.
Sunday
OCTOBER 16
Sukkah building in Park
Ridge: Help build Temple
Beth Sholom of Pascack
Valleys sukkah, 9 a.m.,
breakfast served. 32 Park
Ave. (201) 391-4620.
Sukkah building
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob erects its sukkah,
10:30 a.m. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
www.bnaijacobjc.com.
Lego Sukkot in Closter:

Temple Emanu-El hosts
Lego building, sukkah
decoration making, and
pizza for kindergarteners
and first graders,
11:30 a.m. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997
or www.templeemanuel.
com.
Erev Sukkot in Wayne:

Temple Beth Tikvah hosts
Sukkot pizza dinner and
service in the sukkah,
5 p.m. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973)628-1969 or
sa4school@yahoo.com.
Erev Sukkot in Closter:

Temple Beth El has
Sukkot Family Fun
Night, led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman,
with dinner, 6 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. Reservations,
(201) 768-5112.
Illicit trade in the

Congo: When
Elephants Fight, a film
narrated and produced
by Golden Globe Awardwinner Robin Wright
exposing the illicit
mineral trade in the
Democratic Republic of
Congo, is screened in the
Trustees Pavilion (PAV
1&2) at Ramapo College
in Mahwah, 2 p.m.
Followed by Q&A via
Skype with producers.
Sponsored by Ramapos
Gross Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies. 505 Ramapo
Valley Road, Mahwah.
(201) 684-7409.
Wednesday
OCTOBER 19
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Jewish Family Service
of North Jerseys Cafe
Europa, a monthly
social and support
program for Holocaust
survivors, meets at
the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/CBI, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The JCC Jazz Quartet
will perform and lunch
will be served. Made
possible through grants
from the Conference on
Jewish Materials Claims
Against Germany, Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, and private
donations. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Transportation
available. (973) 595-0111
or www.jfsnorthjersey.
org.
Healthy living
program in Wayne:
The Wayne YMCA and
St. Josephs Regional
Medical Center team
up to offer Reducing
Your Risk of Falls with
nurse Kimberly Russo,
St. Josephs trauma
and injury prevention
coordinator, at the Y,
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen Countys

Sunday@Schechter Series presents a Sukkot concert with
a performance of Kef in Israel, a bilingual interactive show
by Yeladudes Theater, on Sunday, October 23, at 1 p.m.
Co-sponsored by AHAVA the SSDS Parents Association. Arts and crafts
and snacks in the SSDS sukkah. 275 McKinley Ave., in New Milford.
www.ssdsbergen.org/schechter-rocks. (201) 262-9898, ext. 213.
OCT.
23
1 p.m. The Metro YMCAs

of the Oranges is a
partner of the YM-YWHA
of North Jersey. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100.
Sukkot in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
Sisterhood hosts Sushi
& Vodka in the shuls
sukkah, 7:30 p.m.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
Thursday,
OCTOBER 20
Avenue. To register, Shari

Brodsky, (201) 837-9090,
ext. 237, or sharib@
jfsbergen.org.
Falling risks: River

Dell Hadassah offers
Standing Tall Against
Falls: Learn How to
Decrease Your Risk of
Falling, a community
health talk, at the
River Edge Public
Library, 1 p.m. Joanne
Wendolowski, public
health nurse supervisor
at Hackensack
UMC, is the speaker.
Dairy refreshments.
685 Elm Ave.
(551) 265-1573.
Sukkot in Closter:
Caf Europa in
Paramus: Caf Europa,
a social program
sponsored by Jewish
Family Service of Bergen
and North Hudson for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Claims Conference and
the Jewish Federation of
North Jersey, meets at
the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus from
11:30-1:30. Kosher lunch.
Musical performance
by the Odessa Klezmer
Band. 304 E. Midland
Temple Emanu-El Mens

Club hosts Steak &
Scotch in the shuls
sukkah, 7:30 p.m.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
7:30 p.m. Homemade refreshments.

950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565.
Friday,
Saturday
OCTOBER 21
OCTOBER 22
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation
Jazz concert: The JCC
Bnai Jacob offers

dinner outdoors in its
sukkah and a program
by Rabbi Aaron Katz,
6 p.m. 176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.
Shabbat in Hoboken:
The United Synagogue of
Hoboken holds services,
7 p.m. Mark Hetfield,
president and CEO of
the Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society, is the guest
speaker. Oneg in the
sukkah. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or
hobokensynagogue.org.
Shabbat in Park Ridge:
Rabbi Meeka Simerly

Music in Wayne: Women
of Chai at Temple Beth
Tikvah hosts a musical
evening with the shuls
new spiritual leader,
Rabbi Meeka Simerly,
Rabbi Steven Sirbu,

8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.
Temple Beth Sholom

of Pascack Valley has
services, 8 p.m., and
also Shabbat morning
at 9:30 a.m.; with oneg
Shabbat/Kiddush
in sukkah, weather
permitting. 32 Park Ave.
(201) 391-4620.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
musical services with
the Temple Emeth Band,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
Rockland presents the

dueling pianos of Dick
Hyman and Bill Charlap
in a concert at the
Rockland Community
College Cultural Arts
Center in Suffern, N.Y.,
8 p.m. jccrockland.org/
jazz.
Sunday
OCTOBER 23
Yoga for Sukkot: The
hosts yoga with Rachel
Dewan, a certified
Anusara Yoga teacher,
11:30 a.m. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org or www.
yogatova.com.
Sukkot in Hoboken:
The United Synagogue
of Hoboken holds a
communal barbecue in
the sukkah, 1 p.m. 115 Park
Ave. (201) 659-4000 or
hobokensynagogue.org.
Sukkot in Jersey City:

The Jewish Young
Adults of Jersey City and
Temple Beth-El join for
Calendar
Sushi in the Sukkah,
5:30 p.m., followed by a
Simchat Torah celebration
at 6:30. 2419 Kennedy
Boulevard. www.betheljc.
org, (201) 333-4229, or
youngadults@betheljc.
org.
Erev Simchat Torah/

consecration in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
consecration and erev
Simchat Torah services,
led by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 6:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
201 768-5112.
Erev Simchat Torah in

Pearl River: Beth Am
Temple offers services
and celebration, 7 p.m.
60 East Madison Ave.
Call for free tickets.

(845) 735-5858 or www.
bethamtemple.org.
N.Y. Nancy Lerea or Gila

Kolb, (718) 548-2727,
ext. 1576, admissions@
sarhighschool.org.
Register at www.
sarhighschool.org/
hsopenhouse.
Erev Simchat Torah

in Park Ridge: Temple
Beth Sholom of Pascack
Valley celebrates with
services and festivities,
7:30 p.m. 32 Park Ave.
(201) 391-4620.
In New York
Sunday
OCTOBER 30
Singles
Thursday
OCTOBER 20
Seniors meet in
Tallman: Singles 65+
SAR School open

house: SAR High School
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 503
W. 259th St., Riverdale,
from the JCC Rockland

meets for dinner at the
Waterwheel Restaurant,
6 p.m. Individual checks.
272 Route 59. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.
Reform rabbis teach Judaism course

The rabbis of Rockland Countys three
Reform synagogues will co-teach an Introduction to Judaism course on Thursdays
at 7:30 p.m., beginning on October 27. The
16-week course is designed for interfaith
couples, people seeking greater understanding and knowledge of Judaism, and
those considering conversion to Judaism.
The class is open to the public; participants do not have to be Jewish or synagogue members.
The course, which offers a comprehensive look at Jewish holidays, lifecycle
events, traditions, and beliefs, is co-sponsored by Beth Am Temple in Pearl River,
the Reform Temple of Rockland in Upper
Nyack, and Temple Beth Sholom in New

City. Rabbi Daniel Pernick will teach the
first five two-hour sessions at Beth Am,
Rabbi Benjamin Sharff will teach the next
five at the Reform Temple, and Rabbi
Brian Leiken will lead the following five
at Beth Sholom. All three rabbis will teach
the final class together.
Hebrew is not part of the curriculum
and will be offered separately at a later
date. To register contact the rabbis or their
congregations. Beth Am Temple, www.
bethamtemple.org, (845) 735-5858; Temple Beth Sholom, www.tbsrockland.org,
(845) 638-0770; or the Reform Temple of
Rockland, www.rtrny.org, (845) 358-2248.
Grounds for Sculpture trip

Lamdeinus fall semester begins
Lamdeinu, a center for Jewish learning,
will begin its fall semester on Thursday
October 27.
Dean Rachel Friedman will be teaching
Parshanut HaMikra Bereishit: Avot ve-Imahot on Mondays in chevruta/shiur style.
Tuesday mornings will feature What is
Kabbalah Really About?, a new, seven-part
series by Dr. Jonathan Dauber. Rabbi Daniel
Fridman is teaching Masekhet Kiddushin
on Tuesday afternoons and Parashah and
Haftarah Pointers on Thursday afternoons.
Rabbi Dr. Yitzhak Berger teaches Why
Are We Here: The Purpose of Creation
on Tuesday nights. Dean Rachel Friedman
will give insights on tefillah on Wednesday mornings in a new class, How Bible
Becomes Prayer. Rabbi Gedalyah Berger
will teach Hilchot Shabbat: Why Can I or
Cant I Do That on Shabbat? in his new
Thursday morning class. There will be
a rosh chodesh Chesvan celebration for
women on Wednesday, November 2.
New students are welcome to join any
class. Lamdeinu, a center for Jewish learning founded by Rachel Friedman, its dean,
is at Congregation Beth Aaron, 950 Queen
Anne Road, in Teaneck. For information,
go to www. lamdeinu.org or email lamdeinu@aol.com.
Temple Beth Tikvah of Waynes Renaissance Club plans a trip to the Grounds
for Sculpture in Hamilton on Wednesday,
October 19, rain or shine. A bus will leave
the shul at 8 a.m.
The Renaissance Club is a group of active
adults from Temple Beth Tikvah. The trip
costs club members $60; non-members
pay $65; the fee includes admission and
lunch at the Witherspoon Grill in Princeton. The first 30 people to sign up get an
hour-long docent-guided tour. There will
be provisions for people who are unable
to walk.
Mail checks payable to Renaissance
Club to Harry Stricker, 83 Easedale Road,
Wayne, NJ 07470. Indicate if you want the
docent tour and/or assistance.
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Bring the whole mispucha! Rosie ODonnell
Tradition is a funny thing...
Toni Braxton
coming to Englewood
The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood presents seven-time Grammy Award-winner Toni Braxton on
Wednesday, November 9, at 8 p.m. The concert is part of
the Benzel-Busch Motor Car Corp Concert Series.
Most recently, Braxton released Love, Marriage &
Divorce, a duets album with Kenny Babyface Edmonds.
She is recognized as one of the most outstanding voices of
her generation, with more than 67 million in sales worldwide. The theater is at 30 North Van Brunt St.
Buy tickets at www.bergenpac.org, www.ticketmaster.
com, or via the box office, (201) 227-1030. VIP packages
are available.
A New Comedy
Written by & Starring
Leo Frank exhibition

extended through next year
The exhibition Seeking Justice: The Leo
Frank Case Revisited has been extended
through winter 2017 at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust, at 36 Battery Place in
Manhattan.
Seeking Justice recounts the momentous and tragic events surrounding the
1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan,
a white Christian girl, and the lynching
of Leo Frank two years later, events that
have been remembered and debated for

more than a century. Without drawing
conclusions about Franks guilt or innocence, Seeking Justice invites visitors
to explore the fascinating evidence surrounding Phagans murder and Franks
arrest, trial, conviction, and lynching by
prominent citizens of Marietta, Georgia.
The exhibition was created by the
William Breman Jewish Heritage
Museum in Atlanta.
Directed by
Mark Waldrop
Photo by Patrick Conde
Monica
Piper
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Harlems new Jewish renaissance

Living in the Jewish mecca of Manhattans
Upper West Side, Rabbi Laurie Phillips was
loath to uproot her family when her rent
shot up two years ago.
But in looking for housing around
the city, Phillips was drawn to Harlems
diverse culture not to mention its spacious apartments.
Phillips, 48, now lives with her husband,
her stepson, and their dog in a brownstone
with a backyard near Marcus Garvey Park,
in the heart of this citys historically African-American quarter.
We started looking further uptown and
downtown, and loved the neighborhood
in Harlem, Phillips said. Were excited
about being in a diverse place, a place
that had more texture and energy. For the
same amount [of money], we have more
space.
Phillips is one of a growing number of
Jews moving to a neighborhood that a century ago boasted one of the largest Jewish
communities in New York perhaps even
the world. Attracted by the location, the
relatively affordable apartments, and the
diverse population, the new Jewish Harlemites are among a wave of recent arrivals that have transformed the neighborhood since the turn of the millennium.
According to an analysis by the New York
Times, by 2008 Harlems African-American population made up only 40 percent
of the neighborhood.
According to The Jews of Harlem,
a soon-to-be-published book by Jeffrey
Gurock, central Harlems Jewish population increased ninefold between 1990
and 2011 from 300 to 2,700. As of 2011,
Gurock wrote, Jews made up about 20 percent of central Harlems approximately
13,000 Caucasian residents. The new Harlemites have launched a handful of Jewish initiatives, from independent prayer
groups to an Israeli cafe. The neighborhood also boasts a Chabad center, which
was founded nearly a decade ago, and
a Hebrew-language charter school that
opened in 2013.
The return of Jews to Harlem is part of
the gentrification of the city, in the same
sense that young Jews have moved to new
neighborhoods all over the city, said
Gurock, a professor of Jewish history at
Yeshiva University. You walk 125th Street
in the evening, you have all these cafes,
bars, and restaurants. Harlem is a little
behind [in terms of gentrification], but
growing immensely.
This month, with the opening of JCC
Harlem, an extension of the Upper West
Sides JCC Manhattan, Harlems Jewish
footprint grew larger. The 6,000-squarefoot facility with a large atrium, classrooms, and a small lofted area aims to
serve as a gathering space for a number of
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JCC Harlem holds a launch dinner in August. The 6,000-square-foot space will host Jewish and local community programs.
local organizations, both Jewish and nonJewish, as well as to promote Jewish life in
the neighborhood.
There are Jews here, and they probably want to experience Jewish holidays
and meet other people and take Jewish values for a walk, said Rabbi Joy Levitt, JCC
Manhattans executive director. The fact
that this place doesnt have synagogues
and much infrastructure isnt an indication that the folks who live here dont want
Jewish life.
According to Gurock, Harlems earlier
Jewish community included well-to-do
Jews living in relatively large homes, as
well as poorer families who were squeezed
out of the Lower East Side. But after World
War I, many Jews moved to newly constructed neighborhoods across the city,
while many African-Americans, barred
by racist policies, stayed in Harlem. At its
peak in 1917, Harlems Jewish community
numbered 175,000 a figure that plummeted over the next 60 years.
Today, some Harlem Jews depict their
community as a growing hodgepodge of
young families with varying beliefs and
affiliations. Steven I. Weiss, whose family lived in the Manhattan Jewish neighborhoods of Washington Heights and the
Lower East Side before moving to Harlem
in 2013, says the local Jewish communitys
makeup is as if you randomly chose Jewish families from the rest of New York and
placed them here.
The lines get blurred, he said. Its to
a degree what you see in smaller towns,
where people just get along with each

other because they cant choose their
friends based on having a complete overlap of ideological and religious and cultural viewpoints.
Weiss is a member of the Harlem Minyan, an independent egalitarian prayer
group that meets for monthly Friday
night services, as well as for holidays and
the occasional Saturday morning. And
thats not the only game in town: Phillips
founded Beineinu, a group that facilitates
informal Jewish experiences throughout
New York. Lab/Shul, which describes itself
as an experimental community for sacred
Jewish gatherings, has held services in
Harlem and hosted a pre-Rosh Hashanah
service last Sunday at JCC Harlem.
I think people that move to Harlem are
seeking something a little bit different than
Brooklyn and Manhattan, said Naomi
Less, Lab/Shuls associate director. Every
neighborhood has its own flavor ... and so
what we found with Harlem is that people
are willing to show up and be part of [it]
and roll up their sleeves.
JCC Harlem plans to collaborate and provide space for local Jewish groups, but it
doesnt want to take space from Harlems
African-American community. To that
end, JCCs staff has embarked on a listening tour of sorts, to learn how the center
can work with its black neighbors, and it
plans to encourage Jewish volunteers to
work with community groups.
One store owner who hopes to benefit from the JCC is Alvin Lee Smalls, an
African-American man who has been baking cinnamon-nut rugelach since the 1960s
and owns a small shop down the street
from the JCC. Hes advertising rugelach
by a brother. Smalls hopes the JCC will
bring more customers, but worries that
continued gentrification will push longtime black residents out of Harlem.
What can we do? he said. Its bad for
all the people that were living around here
that cant afford the rent here, but for business its good.
Smalls says gentrification hasnt created
strife between Harlems blacks and Jews.
Another Harlem restaurateur, Sivan Baron,
says that if anything, she feels interracial
relations are improving. Baron, an Israeli,
is the proprietor of Silvana, an Israeli cafe
near the JCC, and also owns a local French
restaurant as well as a music venue.
Sitting in her bright cafe surrounded by
the artisanal goods from around the world
that she sells, including shoulder bags and
scarves, Baron says she encountered some
hostility when she first moved to Harlem.
But now, many locals are used to the
neighborhoods changing demographics.
I got all kinds of remarks Go back
to where you came from, she recalled.
Today were open to everyone, and I
have a lot of black American neighbors,
and they come here to Silvana.
But though her businesses are successful, Baron herself soon will be leaving the
neighborhood. Prices are rising, so she
and her husband are moving to a house in
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Obituaries
Edith Baskind
Edith Baskind, 95, of Hackensack, formerly of Fair

Lawn, and Paterson, died October 6.
She was a long-time volunteer at the Hackensack
University Medical Center after working 50 years as an
executive secretary.
Predeceased by her husband of 56 years, Seymour,
in 2008, she is survived by sons, Larry ( Jill) and Carl
(Dianne); and grandchildren, Julie, Melanie, Daniel,
and Matthew.
Contributions can be sent to Amedisys Hospice Care,
Hackensack, or the Maywood Public Library.
Arrangements were by Gutterman & Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Edna Marks
Edna Marks, ne Golenser, 88, of Haverford, Pa.,

formerly of Wayne and Paterson, died October 4. She
and her husband were founding members of Temple
Beth Tikvah in Wayne.
Predeceased by her husband, Abraham, she is
survived by children, Steven of Plaineld, Paul (Amy)
of Clinton, Harlan (Nina) of Virginia, and Ruth MarksSwift (Robert) and Randi Marks-Yosen (Mark), both
of Pennsylvania; a sister, Judy Finkelstein; seven
grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
Donations can be sent to the Romalis Music Fund
at Temple Beth Tikvah. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Meta Plaut
Meta Plaut, ne Levison, 103, of Tamarac, Fla.,

formerly of Teaneck, died October 6.
She was a charter member of ORT and a life member
of Hadassah. She was the last surviving original
member of Congregation Beth Sholom of Teaneck,
where she was a sisterhood president. She was vicechair of the Womens Division of State of Israel
Bonds in Teaneck and did fundraising for UJA and
Deborah Hospital.
Predeceased by her husband, Walter, she is survived
by children Leonore of Florida, and Marcel (Ellen) of
Washington Township; three grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to Congregation Beth
Sholom, Teaneck, or Congregation Bnai Israel,
Emerson. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Obituaries are prepared with

information provided by funeral homes.
Correcting errors is the responsibility
of the funeral home.
Thea Zendell
Thea Zendell, ne Orent, 89, who lived in Rockland

County, died October 3.
She graduated from the Bellevue School of Nursing, New York University, and received a masters
from Sarah Lawrence College. A nurse for five
decades, she was among the nations first infection
control practitioners and was an advocate for seniors
and patient safety. She was a board member of the
New York State Statewide Senior Advocacy Council.
Predeceased by her husband, Philip, and siblings, Phyllis Karmen, Ted Grossman (Lilyan), Edith
Rosenblatt (David), and Muriel Epstein (Benjamin);
she is survived by children, Steven (Anna), Jonathan (Cathy), and Robin; a brother, David Grossman
(Myrna); and grandchildren, Kate, Michael, and Julia.
Contributions can be sent to Autism Speaks,
Princeton.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Kenneth Schindler
Kenneth (Kenny) Jay Schindler died Friday, October 7,
2016, in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 56 years young.
Ken is the husband of Debra Bale Schindler. They
were married for 31 years. Together, they are the proud
parents of Adam, Scott, and Stacy Schindler. Ken is the
son of Walter and Renee Schindler of Boca Raton, Florida, and the brother of Randi Paris (Dr. David Paris) of
Boca Raton.
Ken was born in Brooklyn in 1960. He was raised
Matawan and earned a Bachelors Degree from University of Miami. He built his life and professional career
in Bergen County, NJ and resided in Tenafly, New Jersey
for the past 26 years.
Ken was the President and Owner of Walters Wicker,
an outdoor furniture and custom hotel furnishings company, based in Teterboro, NJ. He is the third generation
in this family business. His clients ranged from personal
residential to 5 Star Hotels on 6 continents. Under his
leadership the company expanded by leaps and bounds.
In addition, he owned The Wicker Works, a high-end
wicker furniture company based in San Francisco, California, and Giati, a teak furniture and fabric company,
based in Santa Barbara, California.
In addition to his professional accomplishments,
Ken was a Trustee of Temple Emanu-El in Closter, NJ.
He leaves a giant void in his family's and friends hearts
and lives.
Those that wish to make a donation in memory of
Ken Schindler, should do so to the Ken Schindler Memorial Fund at Temple Emanu-El, 180 Piermont Road,
Closter, NJ 07624.
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n 1 Gan Rina nursery students learned all about

the shofar and used their five senses to
explore apples and honey. COURTESY GAN RINA
n 4 Students at Temple Emanu-El of Closter

packed snacks to donate to the Center for
Food Action in Englewood. COURTESY EMANU-EL
n 2 Third and fourth graders in the religious school at Temple Emeth in Teaneck
gathered in the shuls garden to participate in a harvest activity in preparation for Sukkot. COURTESY TEMPLE EMETH
n 5 Holocaust survivor Bernie Gola, 89, pictured, and his wife, Bernice, who live in Washington Township, spoke to sixth graders at
Valley Chabads Hebrew School. Mr. Gola
showed the tattoo on his arm #B-3078
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n 3 Cantor Sam Weiss of the JCC of Paramus/

Congregation Beth Tikvah, left, taught sixth and
seventh graders in the shuls Hebrew school
how to blow a shofar. COURTESY JCCP/CBT
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n 6 Sunday morning minyanaires joined

Rabbi Shelley Kniaz of Temple Emanuel
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n 7 Rabbi Moshe Grossbaum of Living Legacy
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