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Hip for tzedakah
l Whats has four legs, is colorful and shiny, and helps raise
money for a good cause?
Why, a Tzedakapotamus, of course!
Its a nine inch long tzedakah box labeled with two slo-
gans, hippos for justices! and three cheers for giving!
The Tzedakapotamus is the creation of Lisa Pierce, a
Maine artist who sells them at her online store, etsy.com/
shop/thevanillastudio. Ms. Pierce has taken nondescript
hollow plastic toys, cut a hole in their backs, painted them,
added a stopper, and voila! A beautiful charity box.
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On Monday, the team beat Korea Under the rules of the World Base- eral current and former Major League moved their hats and put on yarmulkes.
in a 10-inning match, 2-1. ball Classic, teams can include any Baseball players. The team mascot is the Mensch on
On Tuesday, Israel clobbered the player who is eligible for citizenships. Before the Israeli national anthem the Bench.
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Noshes
TRITE AND TRUE:
Table 19 talk
needs resetting
I goofed and didnt
tell you about the
romantic comedy,
Table 19, before it got pretty good reviews
opened last Friday. The
good news, should you
choose to see it, is that
still it is in theaters. The
bad news is that the
reviews have been pretty
bad and its probably
best to wait for the
streaming/DVD version.
That second point is sad
because its a tribe-heavy
film. The basic plot:
Eloise (Anna Kendrick) is
supposed to be the maid
of honor at her oldest
friends wedding, until
she gets dumped by her
boyfriend, who just
happens to be the brides
brother (WYATT RUS-
SELL, 30; GOLDIE
HAWNs son). Eloise
feels obligated to show
up anyway, and is
relegated to Table 19,
where the hosts plunk
guests who were invited
only reluctantly. LISA
KUDROW, 53, and JUNE
SQUIBB, 87, also appear
in big supporting roles.
Ridgewood native
JEFFREY BLITZ, 48,
directed and wrote the
film. He started out his
career with Spellbound, picked it up last month. It
a hit 2002 documentary
about the National Spell-
ing Bee. However, as Va-
riety, says, his attempts night they meet in a bar
to segue into fiction have
been awkward. His 2007
film, Rocket Science, a later. The couple is
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romantic dramedy about
a New Jersey high school
student with a stutter,
and also co-starred Ken-
drick. But it died at the
box office. Variety says
the plot of Table is for-
mulaic (the 19 outcasts
quickly become best
friends for life) and the
dialogue, the reviewer
says, sounds like it came
out of a therapeutic
Jerry Maguire Cuisinart.
For example, Kendrick
says to Russell: I cant
spend my whole life dis-
appointing you the way I
disappoint myself.
No, I dont own
stock in Netflix. But
two recent addi-
tions are really worth
noting. The first is Emily
and Tim: A Marriage in
Six Acts. The director
and writer is ERIC
WEBER, the owner of
the Tenafly Film Compa-
ny. (He is a Jewish
Standard reader and
contacted me about two
of his earlier films, A
Jersey Christmas and
Second Best, both set Thomas Mann as Tim.
in Jersey.) Emily (Actors who appear in
opened in limited release
last August and Netflix
Andre Braugher, and
tells the story of the
tumultuous marriage of
Emily and Tim, from the
gay.) It isnt a great
to their twilight years
more than half a century
Wyatt Russell
Eric Weber
portrayed by six diverse
pairs of actors in six acts.
The first act features
ZOSIA MAMET, 29
(Girls), as Emily and episodes, including the
fifth one, about PAULA
SCHER, 68, were posted
later incarnations include
Kal Penn, Alexis Bledel,
I should have and you
Olympia Dukakis. In one
act, they are African-
American; in another,
in the world. Its im-
movie, but it is worth
your time.
Abstract: The Art would include iconic
Available Now
Its traditional for the Speaker
to hide the health care bill at
the start of the seder so the children
can search for it later.
Matthew Yglesias, commenting on Twitter in response to reports
that the House Republicans were providing limited access to a
draft health care bill in a basement office on Capitol Hill.
Lisa Kudrow June Squibb
Zosia Mamet Paula Scher
of Design is a six-part record covers, adver-
original Netflix docu- tisements, posters, and
mentary series that other graphic work for
premiered in January. All New Yorks Public the-
ater and the interior of
the New Jersey Center
for the Performing Arts.
at the same time. I didnt Almost as good: Scher
know about Scher but is a very lively interview
subject. Her husband
should too. Many call is the famous designer
her the greatest living SEYMOUR CHWAST, 85.
female graphic designer He was her teacher be-
fore they married. They mothers. (Also available
possible to summarize are a really cool Jewish
her work a sampler couple, but they never
collaborate. They agree
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
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E-Class
Sedan
that they wouldnt still be
together if they did.
DAVID SUSSKIND
(1920-1987) was a
pioneering and top
TV producer, as well as
the host of The David
Susskind Show, a
long-running syndicated
talk show. In 1970, he
hosted a program called
How To Be a Jewish
Son. I saw it years ago,
and it was hilarious.
Something made me
think about it, and I
found that all but 20 of
its 90 minutes are
posted on YouTube
simply enter Mel
Brooks and David
Susskind and you will
find Part I and Part III
(they follow each other).
There were six guests.
Four were/are quite
famous: MEL BROOKS,
now 90; GEORGE
SEGAL, now 83; DAVID
STEINBERG, now 74;
and DAN GREENBURG,
now 80 (he wrote the
1964 bestseller How To
Be a Jewish Mother and
was the late NORA
EPHRONs first hus-
band). The show is not
that dated and every-
bodys at the top of their
form. Nice to note: all
these guys mothers
were alive in 1970 and
they all liked their
on DVD.) Trust me, its a
treat.
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Local
Remembering Deborah Kaplan of Teaneck
Hadassah president and lifelong Jerseyan a role model to many
BANJI GANCHROW
W
hile most grandparents enjoy boast-
ing about their grandchildren, how
many grandchildren can boast that
their grandmother has met presi-
dents, prime ministers and other dignitaries? How
many grandchildren can say that their grandmother
looked an American president in the eye and disagreed
with his views on guaranteed loans for Israel?
Deborah Kaplans grandchildren can.
As the 20th national president of Hadassah, Ms.
Kaplan, who was born in 1926, lived in Teaneck, and
died last week at 91, was a truly remarkable role model
for her family and everyone who knew her. Pictures of
her mother with President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, and many others adorn the walls
of her daughters Teaneck home; Miriam Kaplan Arons
own children call it her Hall of Fame.
Ms. Kaplans funeral felt a bit like a Hadassah meet-
ing, filled with members who served beside her and
with her; friends and family that came to honor the
memory of a woman of valor. An eloquent orator, she
was just as comfortable speaking in front of 5,000
people as she was in front of five. Her grandson, Noam
Aron, was one of the many people who spoke at her
funeral; he talked about being at a Hadassah Interna-
tional convention with his grandmother with his, and
seeing how she could capture an audience and hold
them mesmerized with her message of devotion to Deborah Kaplan of Teaneck gave devoted service to Hadassah
Israel and its people. As a teenager, he was able to see and Israel befor her death last week at 91.
the impact that his grandmother had on others, as well
as what she was doing for a country that she held so dear.
Noam also mentioned that he was treated as a VIP because he
was her grandson. Her other grandchildren who spoke shared
those sentiments.
Rabbi Yosef Adler, who heads Congregation Rinat Yisrael
in Teaneck, spoke of how Queen Esther is referred to as
Hadassah in the megillah, and he compared Ms. Kaplans
devotion to Hadassah and the State of Israel to Esthers
devotion to her people.
After she arrived in Israel for her installation as president
in the summer of 1991, her son-in-law, Mark Aron, said, Ms.
Kaplan learned that a plane of Russian immigrants was land-
ing at 2 in the morning. She insisted on arranging for members
of the convention to be bused to the tarmac to greet the new
olim. She knew that these immigrants didnt speak Hebrew
and were coming to a new land, away from everyone and
everyone they knew. There was no way she wasnt going to
make their introduction to Israel a special one, Mr. Aron said.
So when the plane arrived, more than 100 Hadassah mem-
bers greeted the new immigrants. For almost two hours, there
was singing and dancing and celebrating on the tarmac. The
Hadassah members made the Russian olim feel special and
welcome, because that is how Debbie Kaplan wanted to make
everyone feel, he said.
She was always looking to help, and the women of Hadas-
sah who came after her owe their opportunities to her, Mr.
Aron concluded.
Ms. Kaplan, who was born in Jersey City and lived in Bay-
onne until she was 85, came to Zionism naturally.
In 1919, when her part of her family went to the United
States from Russia, her grandfathers brother went to
6 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 10, 2017
Palestine. She developed a love for Israel at a very young
age, and met her beloved husband, Aaron, through Young
Judaea, which was Hadassahs youth movement. She
became president of her local Hadassah chapter in Bay-
onne and later became president of Hadassahs Northern
New Jersey Region. Ms. Kaplan held many national Hadas-
sah offices among other positions, she was vice president died in 2004, and her son Philip died in 1986. She is sur-
and treasurer, and the coordinator of Hadassah fundraising,
education, and Hadassah-International divisions.
Ms. Kaplan climbed the ranks of Hadassah through hard
work and dedication, earning her presidency through merit,
her son-in-law said.
During her tenure, from 1991 to 1995, Ms. Kaplan
accomplished many things, including the building of
the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother & Child Center, a
pediatric research and treatment facility on Hadassah
Hospitals Ein Kerem campus. It was officially opened
at the 1995 Hadassah National Convention. The center
was named in honor of a longtime Hadassah activist
and leader, who also was the mother of former New
York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Also under Ms. Kaplans leadership, according
to a statement from Hadassah, the organization
increased its concentration on womens health
and education, spoke out in favor of more AIDS
research, and advocated for U.S. loan guarantees
for Israel. In 1992, Ms. Kaplan led more than 1,500
Hadassah members from across the United States
in the March for Womens Lives in Washington,
which was organized by the National Organization Former Hadassah president Deborah Kaplan is embraced
for Women, better known as NOW. Ms. Kaplan also by Shimon Peres.
was the Hadassah representative during the signing of
the first Israeli-Palestinian agreement in 1993, as well
as the 1995 signing of the peace treaty between Prime
Minister Yitzchak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan.
Even after her tenure as president ended, Ms.
Kaplan remained an integral part of Hadassah, lead-
ing both events and departments. She chaired the
90th anniversary celebration of the Henrietta Szold
Award committee, the planned giving and estates
department, and Hadassahs Jewish National Fund
chair. (Henrietta Szold was the founder of Hadassah;
in a striking coincidence, she and Kaplan now share
a yarzheit they both died on the same day of the
Jewish calendar.)
In 2006, when Hezbollahs rocket attacks sparked
forest fires in northern Israel, Ms. Kaplan led Opera-
tion Northern Renewal. She sat down with Jewish
National Fund leaders to see what they could do
together to make a difference. The operation included
the gift of a fire truck to JNFs firefighting center at
Hatzor Haglilit.
In recognition of all that Ms. Kaplan had done,
the conference and play area at Hadassah Hospitals
Mother and Child Center was named in her honor, as
was the sports center at the Meir Shfeyah Youth Village.
During shiva for her mother, Ms. Kaplans daugh-
ter, Miriam Aron, said that hundreds of cards, certifi-
cates, and emails poured in from around the world.
Many of them were from Hadassah friends and col-
leagues; many described the effect that Debbie had
on peoples lives, how she had mentored them, and
how she always had exuded warmth and caring. My
mother devoted so much time to Hadassah over the years
because of her passion for Israel and the Jewish people,
Ms. Aron said. As a current member of the national board,
I know that her wisdom and advice will be sorely missed at
our meetings.
Ms. Kaplans husband, Aaron, died in 2007, her son David
vived by her daughter and son-in-law, Miriam and Marc
Aron; her daughters-in-law, Philips wife, Sandi Kaplan of
Highland Park, Illinois, and Davids wife, Anise Kaplan of
Deal; nine grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.

Senators, congressmen, governor condemn hate
Public officials speak at Tenafly JCC in wake of bomb threats
LARRY YUDELSON
T
wo U.S. senators, two con-
gressmen, one governor, and
many state and local officials
stood in the main gym of the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
on Friday morning, in a rally called by
Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) to con-
demn hatred in general and the rash of
bomb threats against JCCs nationwide
in particular.
Anti-Semitism is not dead or dormant,
Mr. Menendez, New Jerseys senior sena-
tor, lamented. Whether its the deface-
ment of property or the attempts at the
delegitimization of the State of Israel,
its incumbent to speak out against
anti-Semitism.
Mr. Menendez said that when he was
in the New Jersey state legislature, he had
written the states bias crime law.
We cannot stop hatred in somebodys
heart, but bias laws sent a societal message
that we do not tolerate crimes of hate, he
said. Whether you are a Sikh who wears a
Local
turban, a Hindu who wears a bindi, a Mus-
lim who wears a hijab, a Christian who
wears a cross, or a Jew who wears a Star of
David, together we understand that we are
stronger than those who hate.
He said that he will ask the administra-
tion and the Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee to double the number of Homeland
Security grants awarded to nonprofit orga-
nizations. The program gives $20 million
in grants to nonprofits so they can increase
their security measures. Over the years,
Jewish institutions have been the primary
recipients of these grants.
Let us stand up for tolerance, Mr.
Menendez said. Today we say we are
all Jews.
Governor Chris Christie said the hate
behind the bomb threats is foreign to
my experience in New Jersey. We are the Governor Chris Christie addresses a rally at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
most ethnically and religiously diverse Tenafly to condemn hatred and the series of bomb threats against JCCs.
state in the nation.
It is not enough to condemn hate, the makes us better. When we hear the awful something about it. If you want to be one
governor, a Republican, continued. It remark we have to let the person know of the 8.9 million people of New Jersey,
is important to also speak out about the its unacceptable. Its not good enough one of the requirements is to love your
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Hate has no home here
Teaneck group sells lawn signs offering hope instead
JOANNE PALMER The signs presence in Teaneck, and now in surround- The signs are to express the message that Teaneck wel-

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pring is coming.
Crocuses started sticking up from the ground a
week or so ago, at first a tentative green, now yel-
low and purple and bright. Some trees are start-
ing to have a faint green fuzz, and others are developing
buds that we hope this weeks cold hasnt harmed.
So lawns are looking different now. But whats that burst
of red, white, and blue, particularly in Teaneck? Its a bit
too rectangular to be natural
Its an outburst of unseasonal lawn signs theyre fre-
quently spotted in campaign season, but not generally in
late winter or early spring, when elections are safely over
and the honeymoons usually still on.
These are not signs for any candidate, anyway. Theyre
signs of hope. Springtime signs. Hate has no home here,
they say, in six languages English, Hebrew, Arabic, Span-
ish, Korean, and Urdu. (Five of those six languages all
except Urdu are spoken in Teaneck.)
ing towns, is the work of Teaneck Women Together, a
subgroup of Teaneck Together. The group was formed
as a reaction to the hatred and racism that we as a group
saw after the inauguration, Shira Weiss, one of its lead-
ers, said. The group first called Teaneck Together and
created quickly, largely on social media was formed
by a group of women, and we are doing most of the
work, she said, so the decision to brand the smaller
group as Teaneck Women Together was to make sure
that it was clear.
The groups first public effort, a rapidly called together
rally in response to the administrations first, now newly
rewritten and re-imposed attempt at immigration control,
startled and pleased its creators by drawing more than 300
people, men and women, Jews, Muslim, and Christians.
Teaneck is a diverse place, Ms. Weiss said. It is popu-
lated by people of all races, religions, and cultures. Simi-
larly, Teaneck Women Together is made up of Orthodox
Jewish women who are working with Muslim women.
comes inclusivity, she said. Any messages of hate are not
representative of us. If youd see our group together, youd
see that we are Jewish women, Muslim women, black,
white, and Asian women. We all have a dialogue with each
other. We are supporting each other. We understand each
others fears.
The signs are not at all an indictment of most of Presi-
dent Trumps supporters, she said. We know that there
are many Teaneck residents who support him and do not
say anything that is hateful. But this group was formed by
people who were upset by the hateful things that were
said, and wanted to show solidarity against them.
Showing solidarity, she continued, turns out to be a
positive thing. Just by having conversations with peo-
ple I never would have talked to before, I know so much
more now than I knew growing up, she said. I grew up
in Riverdale, and my family always was very liberal and
open-minded, but because I went to all-Jewish schools, I
didnt know people of other religions and now I have a

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The signs have an American flag and a heart on
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On Sunday, Teaneck Women Together sold its first
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Frank Lucia and his son, Joe, are flanked by Lavish Lunch co-chairs Brandi Rubin,
left, and Lorin Cook at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
What a Lavish Lunch can buy
Chefs appearance adds flavor to Kaplen JCC program for seniors
BANJI GANCHROW
F
or the last 10 years, Frank Lucia of Demarest, or
Grandpa Frank as he is affectionately called,
has been an active member of the Kaplen JCC of
the Palisades senior program.
Oh, and he is 107 years old.
According to his son, 78-year-old Joe Lucia, the JCC has
been the best thing to happen to his father. Grandpa Frank
moved in with his son about seven years ago, after his wife
died. He rode his bike until he was 98, and drove a car until
he was 100.
The JCC has given my dad a place to come and make
friends, Joe Lucia said. It is a real feeling of warmth and
family. The activities keep him both mentally and physi-
cally active. When Frank comes home, he is always asked,
What did you do at the center today? and then he regales
his family with stories about the lectures hes heard, the
aerobics, singing, and dancing hes done, and of course a
nice lunch.
Not only are the programs at the JCC wonderful for Frank,
they are extremely helpful to his son and daughter-in-law
as well, the younger Mr. Lucia said. My dad cannot be left
10 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 10, 2017
Claire Roodman, second from right, with her son-in-law and daughter, Joe
JCCOTP and Sheryl Eichenholz, and her son, David Roodman.
alone, because he still feels he is able to do anything. He
would be out blowing leaves if we let him. While he is at the
center, my wife and I have a chance to get errands done, go
to appointments, and take care of whatever is at hand. Once
dad gets home, we cant let him out of our sight.
Grandpa Frank is just one of more than 500 people who
benefit from the JCCs senior activities. The majority of
these programs are free to residents of Bergen County. Lav-
ish Lunches, the magnificent and delicious fundraiser that
the JCC held last week, is another major source of income
for these vital community programs, which are not all and
never fully state funded. This fundraiser, which the JCC has
held for the last 12 years, brings in between $50,000 and
$60,000 every year. This year, its chairs were Lorin Cook
and Brandi Rubin, who both have been involved with Lavish
Lunches in other capacities in years past.
I was so impressed by the first one, which was held on
someones basketball court, that I have been on the com-
mittee for every one since, Ms. Cook said. The event helps
fund these amazing programs, and you cant help but want
to get involved.
These programs include the Kaplen Adult Reach Center
better known as ARC. According to the JCCs website, ARC
JCCOTP
provides programming for people with Alzheimers disease
and related forms of dementia, making it possible for par-
ticipants to make friends and enjoy a socially engaging life
while providing respite, support, and guidance for their fam-
ily caregivers. ARC meets four days a week, from 9 a.m. to 2
p.m., in a big, bright room with an outdoor patio, and door-
to-door transportation in handicapped-accessible vehicles
to many local towns is available. The program includes a full
breakfast and hot kosher lunch, as well as a diverse calendar
of activities led by an experienced professional staff. ARC is
reasonably priced, and offers financial assistance. Free care-
giver support groups are available twice a month. For more
information on senior programming, call Judi Nahary, the
director of the JCCs senior programming, (201) 408-1450 or
email her at jnahary@jccopt.org.
There is also the Senior Activity Center SAC for short
for people who are 75 and over. The program includes
trips, lectures, door-to-door transportation, speakers, and
current events groups, among other activities. The pro-
gram meets from Monday to Friday, from 9 a.m. to 1:45
p.m., and includes a nutritious hot meal. For more informa-
tion, call Helene Schwartz at (201) 408-1451 or email her at
hschwartz@jccotp.org.
Retired Executives and Professionals REAP meets on
Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.; it offers book discussions and lec-
tures, among other activities. Participants can get transpor-
tation for $5; and they can either bring their own lunch or
Children at the
JCCs nursery
school meet weekly
with JCC seniors to
celebrate Shabbat
or holidays, or for
the seniors to read
to the children.
Here, young
dancers perform at
a Lavish Lunch.
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vest them together. These programs allow the seniors

to age in place, to stay in their homes, and then come
to us for activities, socialization, and a chance to feel
needed, Ms. Nahary said. We help take advantage of
all the skills they have to offer, and that makes everyone
feel good.
Lavish Lunches is a unique culinary experience.
The day begins with breakfast together, with all the
participants gathered at one home. Next, they choose
lunch from among 12 different options, ranging from
spa-themed cuisine to a meal with the seniors at the
JCC that this fundraiser benefits to the luxury of being
cooked for by American chef and restaurateur David
Burke.
More than 100 women joined Lavish Lunches this
year. The guest speaker at breakfast was Chef Josh
Capon, who is known for his many restaurants both
in Manhattan and in Florida, including Lure Fishbar,
El Toro Blanco, Bowery Meat Company, and the B&B
Wine Pub.
Here, he answers some questions.

Five questions for Chef Josh Capon

1. Q. What was the first meal you ever cooked?
A. Chicken parm and caesar salad. That was my
go-to for a long time!

2. Q. Since Purim is coming, what is your favorite

hamantaschen filling?
A. Always raspberry, or apricot is a close second.
Never understood the prune! No one wants to eat the
prune! I would like to see a raspberry apricot swirl.

3. Q. With Passover around the corner, what is your

favorite kosher-for-Passover dish?
A. My mom used to make a pretty mean braised
flanken or short rib dish with pomegranate seeds and
fresh horseradish over whipped celery root and apple
puree. OK, I added the horseradish and puree, but my
mom gets credit for the pomegranate.

4. Q. Since Lavish Lunches is a fundraising event for

senior programming, what is your favorite low-sodium
low-sugar, heart-healthy dish?
A. Poached salmon or halibut with artichokes,
tomatoes and olives with white wine, fresh thyme,
and lemon. Easy and delicious. Throw in some carrot,
celery, and fennel if you want.

5. Q. What is a culinary dream you have yet to fulfill?

A. I definitely want to explore the Far East.
China, Japan, street food in Vietnam, Thailand. I
love those flavors, and I am sure it would be quite
the culinary journey!

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How to make a Jewish activist
Steven Goldstein of Teaneck, new head of the Anne Frank Center, talks about his life
Joanne Palmer
Not that many of us have heard of the
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in
midtown Manhattan.
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam,
yes, of course. The Diary of Anne Frank?
Who hasnt? Anne Frank herself ? Abso-
lutely everyones heard of her.
But the Anne Frank Center for Mutual
Respect was a quiet, even genteel place. If
it sent out press releases, they didnt get
far. If they had representatives make pub-
lic statements, they might have been like
trees, falling in the middle of a forest, mak-
ing no sound.
But now Steven Goldstein of Teaneck is
the centers executive director, and all of a
sudden its in the news.
Mr. Goldstein is a longtime social activ-
ist who has been passionate about being
a Jew for as long as he can remember; the
Anne Frank Centers mission, as a pro-
gressive voice for social justice, not nec-
essarily focusing on Jewish issues but on
the unbearable death of an extraordinary
young woman just one in six million and
like every one of those six million Jews
murdered during the Shoah (and of course
like every one of the other millions of peo-
ple murdered during the Shoah) entirely
unique and completely irreplaceable.
Now, after every bomb threat to a JCC,
every cemetery desecration, every
attack on Jews, an impassioned email
lands in the inbox of just about every
Jewish leader, activist, and journalist in
the country. Theyre all signed by Ste-
ven Goldstein.
Mr. Goldsteins long career as a social
activist, honed during the fight for
marriage equality for the lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and queer com-
munity, as well as his deep, tribal, spiri-
tual connection to the Jewish commu-
nity and to Israel, positioned him well
to take the helm, this summer, just as a
new outpouring of anti-Semitism and
other hate crimes took on new force,
seemingly liberated from the sewer in
which theyd been contained since the
end of World War II.
Mr. Goldstein is also an irrepressible
force, full of shtick and wit and outrage
and fun, all at the same time, all impos-
sible to overlook. If the Anne Frank Cen-
ters leadership wanted attention as well
as a new focus, clearly it went to the right
person.
Ive been an LGBT American for almost
55 years, Mr. Goldstein, who will turn 55
in June, said. I have been a Jew for 5777
years. What people who are close to me
know, but maybe other people may not
know from reading about me as an LGBT
activist, is that my Jewish identity is central
12 Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017
Steven Goldstein lays tefillin with Chabad outside the 72nd Street subway in
Manhattan.
ate up those ten minutes.
But somehow, despite his shuls
soullessness, the way it conducted
services without joy, without much
spirituality, and without any partic-
ular consumer in mind, when his
grandfather would hoist little Steven
on his shoulders, I would stare won-
drously at the bimah.
It was the heyday for my syna-
gogue, and there were about 2,000
people there, he said. I would
watch the rabbi blow the shofar, and
I felt 5,000 years of spirituality travel
from the shofar to my heart. That
feeling has never really left me.
Steven Goldstein, left, with Steve Carell, who I knew this was for me, he said.
played him in Freeheld. He wanted to be a rabbi, Mr. Gold-
stein said. That was the first thing
to who I am, far more than any other iden- that I knew, when my parents asked me
tity in my life. what I wanted to be when I grew up. I
I have had a love affair with Judaism remember sitting in the backseat of my
from the time I was in my mothers womb. parents Chevrolet, when they asked me.
Mr. Goldstein is from Little Neck, N.Y. I I was 7. It was not the era, and I did not
dont come from a particularly observant come from a family, where saying I dont
family, he said. It was a family that was know what I want to be when I grow up at
proud to be Jewish, but it was your typical age 7 was okay. So I blurted out what I had
once-a-year-shulgoing family. Wed drive to in my heart. I wanted to be a rabbi.
synagogue ten minutes before the end of But my parents his mother was a
Yom Kippur to hear the shofar blown, and keypunch operator, and his father, who
then wed hug and kiss everyone and that was very entrepreneurial, created and
owned one of the citys first and biggest
court reporting firms said its not a job
for a nice Jewish boy. They dont make
enough money.
Thats not what kept him from rabbini-
cal school. It was his gayness when he
had graduated from Brandeis and was
ready to think about his next move, rab-
binical schools had not opened themselves
to openly gay applicants that kept him
out. And if I had been able to do that, the
whole glorious career that I had would
never have happened, he said.
Instead, Mr. Goldstein went on to earn
more degrees than a thermometer, he
said. He has a masters degree in public
policy from Harvards Kennedy School of
Government, another masters, this one
in journalism, from Columbia, and a law
degree, also from Columbia. He worked
for New Jerseys Senator Frank Lauten-
berg the two were very close, Mr. Gold-
stein said and then for New Yorks Sena-
tor Charles Schumer, who now is Senate
minority leader.
During his career as a Senate staffer, Mr.
Goldstein worked on gun control and pro-
choice legislation, although the last time
I heard, I wasnt going to get pregnant any
time soon, he said. For that same rea-
son it was a major civil rights issue he
devoted himself to marriage equality; the
fact that this was something that could
apply to him was not his major impetus, he
said. If I had been a straight progressive,
I would have been fighting for marriage
equality just as I had fought for a womans
right to choose and now I fight against the
Muslim ban. I dont believe that there is a
correlation between being a member of
a community affected by oppression and
your ability to fight it with all your heart.
That said, Did I have an extra feeling
for it? I have a Jewish answer. Cain vlo. Yes
and no. It did affect me personally but if
I had not been a gay man with a same-sex
partner, would I have joined the fight? Cer-
tainly I would have.
Mr. Goldsteins way of joining the fight
was to start an organization to fight with.
Garden State Equality was and still is,
even without Mr. Goldstein at its helm
a formidable group. And Mr. Goldsteins
work in it led among the legislative suc-
cesses that in the end are more important,
of course to his being played by the actor
Steve Carell in Freeheld, a 2015 feature
film, based on a true story about a lesbian
couples legal fight for medical benefits.
Mr. Goldstein found it interesting to
be played by Mr. Carell. He is an Italian
American, Mr. Goldstein said. He was
shouting out my words in Freeheld as if
I were Don Corleone in The Godfather.
I tried to explain that when you say Oy!
you do not yell it, with your fist pointing
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that you were killing me. I was not Don Corleone. I was
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Thats how my activism works. You should feel guilty
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Hands-on problem-solving
Maayanot names Makerspace for Nobel laureate Rosalyn Yalow
LARRY YUDELSON

P
eople often think that science
is about theories and equations
and big ideas. The earth goes
around the sun, gravity attracts
with a force inversely proportional to
the square of the distance, e equals mc
squared. Its chalk-on-blackboard stuff.
But most working scientists spend less
time with theories on the blackboard, and
more time trying to measure things that
arent easy to measure. How do you build
a machine that can detect subatomic parti-
cles? How do you find gravity waves? How
do you measure how much insulin is in a
sample of blood?
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow won a Nobel
Prize for answering the last question in
the words of the Nobel Prize Committee,
for the development of radioimmunoas-
says of peptide hormones. The answer
she came up with sounds as much like
witchcraft as science: Inject guinea pigs
with cow insulin. Add radioactive iodine
to an extract from their blood. Throw in a
few more steps, measure the radiation of
the final product with a gamma ray detec-
tor, perform some calculations, and voila:
You can measure insulin in blood, even Above, Benjamin Yalow, second from left, looks on as STEAM instructor Reyce
when it is as diluted as a sugar cube would Krause shows off Maayanots Makerspace. Insert, Mr. Yalow dedicates the Rosa-
be if it were thrown into Lake Erie. lyn Yalow Makerspace at Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls.
No wonder the answer was prize-worthy.
There are no guinea pigs or radioactive learned. We do the opposite. We say son Benjamin was alive and well and liv-
iodine in the Rosalyn Yalow Makerspace were going to create this it might be a ing in Riverdale, N.Y. The school invited
at the Maayanot Yeshiva High School for 3D-printed drone or a wearable LED that him to speak and he agreed. Last week,
Girls in Teaneck. But students are getting lights up in the dark and youre going his energetic talk, which he clearly
hands-on instruction in learning how to to need to learn circuitry and coding to enjoyed delivering, was the highlight of
solve problems with 3D printers and laser create it. Weve captured their imagina- the ceremony dedicating and inaugurat-
cutters and microcontrollers and wearable tion, and then were guiding them with ing the Makerspace.
circuits and soldering irons. All that equip- the skills needed to complete the project. Like the students at Maayanot, Rosalyn
ment is in a room called the Makerspace. Its a different experience than read, Yalow went to a girls high school Wal-
Weve created a mindset of thought and learn, study, regurgitate on the test. ton, in the Bronx and then to Hunter Col-
wonder and exploration, Gila Stein said No matter how successful you are aca- lege, when it too was all women.
proudly. Ms. Stein is the schools co-direc- demically in other classes, in STEAM it And in an indication of how different
tor of STEAM education and innovation; will take many iterations to get it right. times were in 1941, when she graduated
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Students learn its okay if its not right the with an undergraduate physics degree,
Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. With first time, she said. We have mantras like the most likely path to graduate school for
her co-director, Orly Nadler, Ms. Stein has failing forward. her was to learn stenography so she could
created a new STEAM curriculum for the The course changes how the students work at Columbia University as a secretary
school, which begins requiring a STEAM learn in other classes. Theyre asking and take courses there on the side.
technology and engineering course for all different kinds of questions in science Before that happened, however, she As a physicist, she was an expert in
its ninth graders this year. Next year, 10th classes, Ms. Stein said. Theyre more was accepted into the graduate program radioactivity. Radioisotopes had medical
graders will be required to take a second open to thinking and exploring. The mind- at the University of Illinois. The spot had implications but physicians werent
year of STEAM. set of growth has carried over. opened up because of the looming war; familiar with them, Mr. Yalow said. Dr.
The course, and the Makerspace room The Makerspace was funded by a grant she was the first woman admitted to the Yalow joined a lab at a Veterans Admin-
where it takes place, came about as the from a foundation that wants to remain program since 1917. She got to tear up her istration hospital in the 1950s, where she
school started to reappraise its curriculum anonymous which meant that the nam- steno books and study to be a physicist, continued to work until shortly before she
in light of the question: Are we equipping ing was aspirational. her son said. died in 2011.
our students with the necessary skills for We were looking for a woman who At the University of Illinois, one of the Growing up, the lab was very much a
this century? would be a role model for our students, two other Jewish students in the class second home for my sister and myself,
How is a STEAM course different than a Ms. Stein said. Dr. Yalow fit the bill. She immediately fell in love with her. It took Mr. Yalow said. We would often go in on
regular high school class? was the first American-born Jewish woman time for her to reciprocate. She married weekends. There was a lab full of research
In a typical class we teach skills, Ms. to get the Nobel Prize in medicine. She Aaron Yalow two years later. He was the animals and no money to pay someone
Nadler said. And then, if theres a proj- was a trailblazer, Ms. Stein said. son of an Orthodox rabbi, and the couple to feed the guinea pigs and rabbits and
ect, you utilize the skills youve already Then they discovered that Dr. Yalows kept a kosher home. mice. So Dr. Yalow did.

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Medical dreams in the 21st century

Students get hands-on experience with robotics at Englewood Hospital
Heidi Mae Bratt

I
t was a human and robotic hands-
on learning experience for a lucky
group of Solomon Schechter Day
School sixth graders, who got to
perform surgery at Englewood Hospi-
tal and Medical Center last week.
Okay, so the students may have lifted lol-
lipops and gumballs, and unwrapped Star-
burst cubes, instead of cutting tissue and
removing organs. And they may have been
gathered in the hospitals lobby, not inside
a high-tech, sterile operating room.
Nevertheless, these youngsters got a
real feel for one of todays most cutting-
edge and increasingly popular surgical
procedures robotic surgery.
After an introduction and some instruc-
tion, the students got the chance to sit at
the operating console of the da Vinci surgi-
cal system and direct the hulking machine
as it performed various delicate maneu-
vers, just like a skilled surgeon would do
in the operating room.
We figured it was really good for the
kids to show them what were doing, said
Dr. Anna Serur, the hospitals chief of colon
and rectal surgery, who spearheaded the
event. We also wanted to have them keep
in mind that there are very exciting things
to do in medicine, she added. Some-
times its better to learn in the field than
from behind the desk.
Dr. Serur is the mother of five children,
including four who are students at the
Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County in New Milford. A seasoned sur-
geon, Dr. Serur, who joined Englewood Sixth graders from Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County gather around the da Vinci surgical system at Engle-
in January, has performed more than wood Hospital and Medical Center.
500 procedures using the da Vinci surgi-
cal system.
The daylong demonstration of the $2
million da Vinci surgical system the
youngsters were not using the hospitals
We figured it
actual robotic system, but one on loan was really good
from the company specifically for the
event also was part of the hospitals
for the kids to
education effort for Colon Cancer Aware- show them what
ness Month. Dr. Serur stressed the impor-
tance of screenings, especially when
were doing.
there may be family history of colon and
rectal cancer. added, aligns with the schools 21st cen-
The goal is to educate people every tury approach to learning.
month, she said. Students deftly pick up pieces of candy using the Rabbi Elias also noted that the students
Among the Solomon Schechter sixth da Vinci surgical system at Englewood Hospital whose first language in some senses is
graders at the hospital was Avital Serur, and Medical Center. Dr. Anna Serur digital took to the robotic technique
Dr. Serurs 11-year-old daughter. She got with complete ease. It was incredible
to learn a thing or two about the robotic said the experience was not only eye- said he received more than five emails how good they were at it, he said. Its
system and about her own mother. I opening, but also possibly life-altering. from parents who told him that their chil- not always easy to engage middle school-
thought my mother did her surgery with Now I want to become a surgeon, dren were so excited by their visit to Engle- ers. But this did.
hands and tools, Avital said. I never Jayden said. I was really inspired. wood Hospital that they, too, expressed It also provided so much for them
imagined that doctors would use this He wasnt the only one. interest in becoming doctors. It was a fan- to think and dream big for the oppor-
robot. It was really fun. Rabbi Fred Elias, principal of the middle tastic interactive opportunity for the kids, tunities that await them in the 21st
Another student, Jayden Shalom, 12, school at Solomon Schechter Day School, Rabbi Elias said of the field trip, which, he century.

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Sinai Schools
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Sinai Schools gala benefits its program
More than 900 people came together
to eat, talk, and raise funds for the Sinai
Schools as it held its annual benefit din-
ner on February 26 at the Marriott Glen-
pointe Hotel in Teaneck. This years hon-
orees were Ilana and Adam Chill of New
Rochelle; Malca and Rabbi Chaim Jachter
of Teaneck; Esther and Moshe Muschel of
Englewood, and Orit and Moshe Zharnest
of Fair Lawn. The Chills and Jachters are
parents of Sinai students.
The program illustrated the breadth of
services Sinai provides and the wide range
of students it helps. Menashe Shershow, a
Sinai alumnus who now is studying psychol-
ogy at the Honors College at the University
of Hartford, talked about stigma and inclu-
sion, and the role Sinai played in his life.
Parent and honoree Ilana Chill spoke about
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1. Honoree Ilana Chill delivers her speech, A Silver Linings Life.
2. From left, honorees Moshe and Orit Zharnest; Sinais dean emeritus,
what it is like to be the parent of a child with
Laurette Rothwachs; the chair of Sinais board, Rabbi Mark Karasick; honor-
special needs. Sinais dean, Rabbi Yisrael
ees Moshe and Esther Muschel; honorees Malca and Rabbi Chaim Jachter
Rothwachs, and Michael Maron, CEO and
and their daughter, Chaya Ziporah; Sinais chief development officer, Esti
President of Holy Name Medical Center, dis-
Herman; honorees Ilana and Adam Chill; Sinais vice president, Danny Fe-
cussed Breaking Barriers in Care, a new
derbush; Sinais dean, Rabbi Yisrael Rothwachs, and its managing director,
program developed in partnership for Holy
Sam Fishman.
Names Institute for Simulation Training,
to sensitize healthcare professionals to the 3. Laurette Rothwachs; Sinais associate dean, Judi Karp; Sinais director at
needs of people with developmental disabil- Heichal HaTorah, Jordan Silvestri; Sam Fishman; Hillel, Debby, and Jacob
ities and to improve patient care. Adler, and Rabbi Yisrael Rothwachs.
This years feature documentary, Jacobs
4. Rabbi Yisrael Rothwachs; Sinais president, Avi Vogel; Cantor Joseph
Footprints, tells the story of Jacob Adler,
Malovany with his son, Ellis Malovany, and his grandchildren.
a Sinai student with cerebral palsy who
inspires everyone who meets him. 5. Holy Name Medical Center board member Ed Ruzinsky; Jewish Standard
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at the dinner, go to www.sinaischools. Michael Maron, and Sinai board member Ruvan Cohen.
org/2017-dinner-videos. For information or
6. Sinai alumnus and evening speaker Menashe Shershow.
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Part of the Shomrei Torah Purim spiel cast. Beth Julie is at front right.
Wayne shul readies Purim gala
with 28 musical numbers
Shomrei Torah will hold its gala ad journal
celebration on Saturday, March 11, begin-
ning with megillah highlights at 7 p.m., fol-
lowed by cocktails and dinner. At 9, The
Haman Blues, a Purim spiel directed and
cast by congregant Beth Julie and featur-
ing many congregants, will be performed.
It will be performed again on Sunday, after
the carnival, which begins at 11:30 a.m.
Ms. Julie and her husband, Dr. Edward
Julie, live in Wayne, where she teaches
in Shomrei Torahs religious school. Ms.
Julie enjoys music and playwriting; in
fact, this is the third play she has written
for the shul. Shes played the piano since
she was 4 and her mother was an ama-
teur songwriter. Trained as a statistician,
she managed the financial part of her hus-
bands medical practice before becoming
a teacher. Her plans include writing Jewish
books into rhyme.
According to Ms. Julie, the Purimspiel is
a full musical production, accompanied by
professional musicians. The score is made
up of 28 musical numbers; there is rela-
tively little narration. While the 31-mem-
ber cast, which includes seven children in
Shomrei Torah dinner March 19
Congregation Shomrei Torah of Fair Lawn
will hold its 42nd annual dinner program
at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck on
Sunday, March 19, at 6 p.m.
This years guest of honor is the
shuls Torah Tuesday program; Mendy
Aron will accept the award on its behalf.
Typically, the guest is responsible for
the increased study of Torah, including
contributions to charities, by many in
the community. The Torah Tuesday pro-
gram, Mr. Arons brainchild, which began
10 years ago, continues to develop and
improve under his leadership.
Laurette and Bernie Rothwachs are the
David I. Goldberg Ohr Chesed honorees.
20 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 10, 2017
the Sunday production, are all amateurs,
they will get everyone on their feet laugh-
ing, singing, and clapping. Costumes were
created by Jodi Kashmann.
Esthers story is so important, Ms. Julie
said, because her story is one of joy,
perseverance, tenacity, loyalty, respect
for Jewish values, and the importance
of being proactive. It is the classic story
of good prevailing over evil, but without
the death of even one of our people.
She added, Purim teaches us the subtle
nature in which God can exert influence.
Purim shows us that miracles are evident
all around us, if we are open to their exis-
tence. Unlike so many of our other holi-
days, the celebration of Purim is quite
similar across the spectrum of Jewish
observance. Also, the Book of Esther is
studied by all Christian denominations.
Ms. Julie feels she needs to do things
at the shul that are unifying. It is brutal
getting people to participate -- this they
come to to have a great time together at
the synagogue.
Go to www.ShomreiTorahWCC.org or
call (973) 696-2500 for more information.
They moved to Fair Lawn in 1982. Thats the
year that the Learning Disabilities Program,
later known as Sinai Schools, was launched,
and where Ms. Rothwachs is dean emeri-
tus. Mr. Rothwachs is on Shomrei Torahs
board, and he is a member of many of its
committees, including the chevra kadisha.
Yael and Ari Mayefsky are receiving the
Young Leadership award. Ms. Mayefsky
is a supervisor and director of high-risk
cases at Bikur Cholim of Rockland County
and Mr. Mayefsky is the director of human
services there. The Mayefskys, who have
three young children, are very involved in
the shul; they are youth directors there.
For reservations, call (201) 791-7910.
World Values Network
to honor Rwandan president
Paul Kagame, president of
the Republic of Rwanda, will
receive the Dr. Miriam and
Sheldon G. Adelson award for
Outstanding Friendship with
the Jewish People from the
World Values Network. It will
be presented at the WVNs
annual gala on May 21 at Cipri-
ani in Manhattan.
The award recognizes Presi-
dent Kagames position as one
of the worlds foremost fight-
ers against genocide as well
as Rwandas productive rela-
tions with Israel and its con-
nection to the global Jewish
community.
President Kagame is credited Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Rwanda
with ending the 1994 genocide
in Rwanda, which caused the
President Paul Kagame COURTESY WVN
deaths of nearly one million people. The WVN places a special emphasis on
The World Values Network, founded genocide education and prevention. In
and led by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, pro- 2013 the World Values Network launched
motes universal values and champions the Champions of Jewish Values Interna-
the democratic values represented by tional Awards gala to recognize people
the United States and the State of Israel who strive to affect society positively.
in mainstream and international media. For information about the gala, go to
Together with world leaders, it tackles thisworldgala.com, call Julie Bernstein
pressing issues through global media, at (212) 634-7777, or email her at julie@
debates, panels, forums, and lectures at shmuley.com.
venues worldwide.
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New mezuzah for Gottheimers office
Congressman Josh Gottheimer, the BAs executive director, Rabbi Mordechai
Democrat representing New Jerseys Kanelsky; Representative Gottheimer;
5th District, invited rabbis from Fair BA director Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman,
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affix a mezuzah. Here, from left, are
JFNNJ party will pay tribute
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annual cocktail party for health care professionals. Its set for
Thursday, March 23, at 7 p.m., at Temple Emanu-El, 180 Pier-
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of Israel in New York, is the keynote speaker. For information
and reservations, go to www.jfnnj.org/healthcare.
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Cover Story

Rabbi Shai Held speaks at

Limmud NY, held in Princeton
in February. Inset, the cover
of Rabbi Helds book on the
influential theologian Rabbi
Abraham Joshua Heschel.

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 Cover Story

Arguments
for the sake of
heaven
Rabbi Shai Held and his nondenominational yeshiva, Mechon Hadar

R
LARRY YUDELSON

abbi Joseph B.
S o l ove i t c h i k a n d
Rabbi Abraham
Joshua Heschel never
argued over Jewish
values face to face
though they, and
their students, certainly disagreed. Rabbi
Soloveitchik, known to his students and
their modern Orthodox community sim-
ply as the Rav, the rabbi, was and remains
the role model for the modern Orthodox
Judaism centered around Yeshiva Univer-
sity. Rabbi Heschel inspired students at the
Conservative movements Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary.
So it fell to Rabbi Shai Held to play out
their dispute, imagining what they would
say to each other in a session at Limmud
NY, a weekend of Jewish study held in
Princeton last month.
That he was able to do so reflects Rabbi
Helds past in both the Orthodox and
Conservative worlds, and his present as a
founder and the dean of Mechon Hadar,
the nondenominational yeshiva in Man-
hattan. (He and his two co-founders, Rab-
bis Ethan Tucker and Elie Kaunfer, share
leadership and the title of president.) Talmud study is the core of the Mechon Hadar curriculum.
Last weekend Hadar celebrated its tenth
year with a sold-out Shabbaton at the Glen- or Hebrew College in Boston, Rabbi
pointe Marriott in Teaneck. Held said. But we started Hadar to cre-
Mechon Hadar began in the summer of ate a beit midrash for lay people. In the
2007. We sent out emails to everyone we We really wanted to avoid becoming Reform and Conservative movements, if
knew in the Jewish world and said were
starting a yeshiva, Rabbi Held remem-
another sectarian institution, cutting you became serious about observance,
you were told to go to rabbinical school.
bered. They drew 20 students. out another thin slice on the There was no obvious address for immer-
Now, there are 500 alumni who have
studied at the yeshiva full time, whether
Jewish denominational spectrum. sive Jewish learning.
Rabbi Held is an ordained Conservative
for a two-month summer session or nine Jewish law, treating women as equal to men. institution, cutting out another thin slice rabbi, a graduate of the Jewish Theologi-
months during the year. Its weeklong Is that Conservative? Is it something else? on the Jewish denominational spectrum. cal Seminary of America who was a Hil-
yeshiva program has drawn 250 rabbis The whole denominational discourse One way Hadar avoids becoming a lel rabbi on the Harvard campus for a few
from across the Jewish spectrum, from doesnt interest me very much, Rabbi denomination is by not ordaining rab- years before launching Mechon Hadar. He
Yeshiva University to Jewish Renewal. Held said. The terms we use are legacies bis. Weve had many students go on did not, however, grow up in a Conserva-
Rabbi Held and Hadar are committed of 19th century Germany. We really wanted to rabbinical school, mostly to Yeshivat tive home a fact that helps explain his
to halachic egalitarianism observing to avoid becoming another sectarian Chovevei Torah, Hebrew Union College, not feeling at home in the movement.

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y Cover Story
My parents were pioneers in aliyah
and yeridah, moving to Israel and mov-
ing from Israel, he likes to joke. His father,
Moshe Held, was born in Warsaw and
moved to Palestine with his family in the
1930s. He fought in the Haganah during
Israels 1948 War of Independence.
Moshe Held married Balfura Mos, who
was born to a Zionist family in Kovno,
Lithuania. How Zionist? Her very name
was a tribute to Lord Balfour and his dec-
laration. Her father was a leader of the
Jewish National Fund. When his Zion-
ist activity brought about his expulsion
from Lithuania, they made a decision
that if they were being kicked out of
European countries for being Jews, Pal-
estine was the place they needed to go,
Rabbi Held said.
Moshe Held studied Bible at Hebrew
University with the noted rabbi and Bible
scholar Umberto Cassuto, and then came
to America to pursue his doctorate in
ancient Semitic languages. He ended up
teaching Semitics at Columbia, and Bible
and interpretation at JTS. Balfura taught
Hebrew at the Frisch School in Paramus
and at Rockland Community College. Shai
grew up in Spring Valley, N.Y., the young-
est of the couples three children.
3 24 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 10, 2017
Dr. Moshe Held
My parents entire life was about
Judaic studies, Rabbi Held said. My
father had endless passion about trying
to figure out what words meant. He was
a philologists philologist. My mother
lived her life with Bialik and Agnon as her
two best friends. She could quote entire
Agnon stories by heart.
He picked up on their love for learning
and for books.
tr a d it io n a l day
Ca m ps sp o rt s sC
h eb re w im m er si o
n hi -t eC h Fi n e a
da n Ce d ra m a
ea rly & en d o F su m
I used to come home from school and
sit under my fathers desk while he was
writing or reading, and just watch him,
Rabbi Held said. My father loved Torah in
a very personal way. It was explicitly not
religious for him.
Both of my parents were believers
whose faith had been profoundly scarred
by the middle of the 20th century, fleeing
Europe and losing most of their relatives.
The Jews were subjected to a genocide
and God didnt do anything.
That kind of stuff haunted my parents.
My mother said to me when I was very
much an adult and had been a rabbi quite
a while, You know, Im so angry that I
guess I am a believer. I had intuited that
about both my parents.
They raised their children speaking
Hebrew Rabbi Held still sometimes
reaches for the English translation of a
Hebrew word in an English conversation
and they sent him to Orthodox day schools,
first Ashar in Rockland County, and then
Ramaz in Manhattan for high school.
My father had a clear view that chil-
dren didnt have to be frum religious
but they shouldnt be amaratzim a different life than the one I had, Rabbi
ignorant, Rabbi Held said. When I was
twelve I could read a gemara with Rashi
ie n Ce
rt s m us iC
m er m in i- Ca m ps
My father loved
Torah in a very
personal way. It
was explicitly not
religious for him.
and Tosfos, no problem, but I had never
seen a Shabbos kiddush.
Perhaps its not a surprise that he was
drawn to and even tortured by theologi-
cal questions as a child. How could it be
that my father was a professor of Bible
who was skeptical of traditional assump-
tions, and in my school I was learning that
God wrote the Bible?
The elder Dr. Held died a month before
Shais bar mitzvah. He was only 60, and
was in Israel, visiting Ben Gurion Univer-
sity and considering a possible return to
Israel. Theres not a small chance that
had my father not died then, we would
have moved to Israel and I would have had
Held said.
Rabbi Held regrets never having studied
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Torah with his father. I think he did not
want to push that on us, he said.
Just recently, Rabbi Held received 10
years of tapes of his fathers Columbia
classes. I plan on taking Tanach seminars
with my father, who has been dead for 30
years, he said. Its amazing.
Rabbi Held is deeply grateful for his
Orthodox education, and particularly for
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who was principal
of Ramaz for 50 years. The most impor-
tant thing I learned there was activism,
he said. I spent a lot of time with Rabbi
Lookstein, working on the Soviet Jewry
movement. I learned that if I believed in
something I could fight for it, rather than
just going along and getting along.
After Ramaz, Shai went to an elite Israeli
hesder yeshiva. He lasted six weeks.
The yeshiva paired American students
with Israeli study partners. Rabbi Held tells
the story of a conversation that begin with
a discussion of their high school extracur-
ricular activities. Shai had worked in the
Manhattan borough presidents office,
where he helped organize a conference to
bring together black and Hispanic youth.
The Israeli student was amazed.
You think God cares about blacks and
Hispanics? he asked.
Rabbi Shai Held talks with Rabbi Irving Greenberg.
Shai was stunned by the question, which
haunts him still, and animates his convic-
tion that its less important to ask whether
you believe in God than to ask what kind of
God you believe in.
the book, at least read it in your room. I
It was during this stay in yeshiva that
someone first gave him a book of Rabbi
Heschels to read. It was a sensible choice
for the teenaged Shai. Rabbi Heschel, after
all, famously believed God cared about
civil rights in America and bombs falling
in Vietnam. But it cemented his decision
to leave that yeshiva.
I was reading it outside the beit
midrash, the study hall and one of
the teachers said, If youre going to read
was taken aback. I figured it must be inter-
esting, and started reading a lot of Heschel.
He finished his year in Israel at a differ-
ent yeshiva. Its didnt really engage the
questions I wanted to engage with, but I
was left alone, he said. I learned Talmud
pretty much all day every day, and really
loved it.
After Israel, Shai went to Harvard
where he started off his undergraduate
career as part of the liberal wing of the
Orthodox minyan. He came to realize
that many of the philosophical and theo-
logical conversations I wanted to have I
could not find in the Orthodox world. At
some point I came to be more and more
uncomfortable with the gender inequality
in ritual and learning. By my senior year, I
realized I could no longer fit comfortably
in an Orthodox setting.
I have tremendous gratitude for the
things I learned in Orthodox institu-
tions and the passion I saw in Orthodox

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culture, but I realized thats not who I
was, he said.
His friendship with Ethan Tucker goes
back to his senior year at Harvard, when
Ethan was a freshman. One of my first
memories of learning together is him
attending a Talmud shiur I gave on Sha-
vuot night at Harvard Hillel, he said.
After graduation, Shai went to rab-
binical school at JTS with tremendous
ambivalence. It was a complicated
experience for me in many ways. I
appreciated and really loved the open
mindedness, yet I didnt find the reli-
gious passion there at the time that I
was looking for.
In starting Hadar, I tried to take the
best of JTS and what I had gotten in the
world of yeshiva and build something to
hold both those experiences, he said.
I wanted to build the Jewish learning
institution I felt I had spent my life look-
ing for but never found. A place that
was thoroughly immersed in Torah and
committed to its authority, and totally,
unapologetically open to the modern
world and the real, difficult questions
modernity poses.
As in a traditional yeshiva, study at
Mechon Hadar focuses on Talmud, but
5 7 p.m. that is only part of the menu, which
also includes Bible and Jewish thought.
Admissions@bergen.edu No one has come to Hadar and just
done Talmud, Rabbi Held said. The
Jewish curriculum is much broader
than Talmud. Talmud is the cultural
coin of the Jewish people, its how we
talk, how we engage questions, but its
not the only discourse.
His students are an interesting collec-
tion of young adults, he said. Some of
them went to college with a very weak
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welcomed. Of those students who come
to Hadar with a denominational identifi-
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anything else.
The kids who come to us have deep
religious yearning and commitment,
and need a different beit midrash. It
offers another voice, one that is often
muted or absent in the schools those
kids have attended. Weve provided a
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ens of them. Its one of the things were
most proud of.
They are young adults who are look-
ing for a beit midrash that is thoroughly
immersed in and committed to author-
ity of Jewish sources, unapologetically
committed to the full participation of
women, a place committed to engaging
with general culture, secular philosophy,
and academic Jewish studies, a place
that is interested in avodat Hashem, ask-
ing what does Hashem require from us.
One thing Hadar requires from its full-
time students is to volunteer at the New
Jewish Home, a nursing home a couple
of miles away from the yeshivas Upper
West Side building. Rabbi Held had
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needed to step into the breach and serve
the community in that way, he said.
Equally importantly, We wanted to cre-
ate a real conversation, a searching con-
versation, about chesed, about what the
sages call walking in Gods way. What
does it really mean to show up and be
present with people in the most vulner-
able phase of their lives? By getting people
to do chesed work thats very hard, you
can help them manage their fear and anxi-
ety and have the conversation about how
to commit real acts of kindness and love
the world. Students go to the home, they
spend a couple of hours visiting people.
They get to know people on a couple of
floors. We frequently have a processing
group afterwards, talking about the practi-
cal skills and about their experiences. Its
okay to be afraid. You can be afraid to enter
a particular shiva home, but yet you go,
because fear does not have the last word.
Visiting the Jewish home is not an
extracurricular activity. In a way, its the
main thing. Were helping our students
walk in Gods way more and to do it better.
Theyre learning to show up where people
are suffering and be with them.
Showing up where people are suffer-
ing and being with them could serve as a
thumbnail description of Gods attributes
in Heschels theology. The thought of God
and indifference to other peoples suffer-
ing are mutually exclusive, Heschel wrote.
When Rabbi Held enacted the debate
between rabbis Heschel and Sololoveit-
chik at Limmud, he gave Heschel the
final word. In conversation and classes,
its clear that Rabbi Held shares Heschels
commitment to religiously motivated,
divinely mandated, difficult, ethical deeds.
Rabbi Helds doctorate in religion at Har-
vard was on Heschel, a dissertation he
developed into a book, Abraham Joshua
Heschel: The Call of Transcendence.
When I started looking at literature
on Heschel, almost all was either harshly
critical or worshipful, Rabbi Held says.
I wanted to write something that was, in
my understanding, more respectful than
either of those approaches. I wanted to
honor him by taking him seriously as a
theologian and a philosopher, and point-
ing to where there are some real philo-
sophical problems. Its a serious engage-
ment with the corpus of his writings.
People dont take him seriously enough
as a thinker because they dismiss him as a
poet, he said.
Instead, Rabbi Held believes, Heschel
was a poet at least in part because he was
a theologian. Heschel speaks in a poetic
vein precisely because this is what he
thinks is necessary for his theological proj-
ect, Rabbi Held said. Religious language
for Heschel is always indicative rather so much.
than descriptive. We cant presume to
describe God fully in words; the only way
to speak about the mystery is to gesture
toward it.
In rabbinical school, Rabbi Held once
had the opportunity to teach a class on
Heschel. I must have been 24, he said.
I became totally preoccupied by him. I
wanted so badly to believe in the God he
portrays. I found his language just unbe-
lievably compelling, inspiring, persuasive,
challenging. I thought he had answered
every question about Judaism that I
thought was important.
Fifteen years later, when I wrote the
book, I had way more hesitations and mis-
givings. I had grown much more critical of
some of his ideas the older I got, he said.
In the fall, the Jewish Publication Society
will publish the first of two volumes col-
lecting Rabbi Helds essays on the weekly
Torah portion, originally distributed by
email and published on Hadars website.
He is working on his own book of theology,
centered on the idea of love.
My theology is deeply impacted by
Heschel, he said. Its point of emphasis is
somewhat different. It dovetails with some
ideas of Heschel, but its not his language
The premise is that in many ways
American Jews define their Judaism as
whatever they imagine Christianity not to
be. Since they thought Christianity is a reli-
gion of love, they insisted Judaism is about
something else law, practice, whatever it
might be. That has led to a very distorted
and impoverished view of Judaism.
Essentially, Jewish theology is a theol-
ogy of love. Its a story of a God who loves
all human beings and fell into particular
love with the Jewish people.
There are three mandates that we have
in response: To reciprocate Gods love.
Loving the neighbor. And what is in some
way the most radical of all: loving the ger,
the strangers, the outsiders. At the heart
of Jewish theology is a mandate to live a
life of love.
Heschel talks more often about divine
suffering than about divine love. I think
sometimes people underestimate the
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his entire world falling apart around him.
He had a sense of the tangible presence of
God in his life, and a sense the world was
an inferno.
One of the things I will show in the
book is that in many ways Jewish spiritu-
ality begins in two places. One is a place
of gratitude and one is a place of protest.
The challenge is to be capacious enough
to hold gratitude for life, along with an
equally deep sense that the world as it is is
not how its supposed to be.
Its easy to have a saccharine notion
of gratitude, or an always angry commit-
ment to protest. Judaism asks for some-
thing more complex than that, the ability
to hold and embody both of them at the
same time. My commitment to a dialec-
tic approach in that way is much closer to
Soloveitchik than to Heschel.
Rabbi Held acknowledges that theology
thinking about God is not a popular
endeavor in todays Jewish world.
The conversations about God are
absent, he said. In some ways each of
the movements developed something
else they talked about instead of God. For
modern Orthodoxy it was halacha, for
Conservative Judaism it was history for
a long time. For Reform Judaism it was
social action.
One of the things were trying to do at
Hadar is create a context for both rabbis
and lay people to engage the questions
about God. Earlier this year I did a series
of lectures and dialogues asking can we
find ways to talk about God, he said. One
such dialogue, with philosopher of sci-
ence Michael Ruse, examined how Darwin
affected talking about God.
We did a yom iyun for rabbis earlier
this year on engaging questions of faith
and doubt. Were trying to jumpstart that
conversation. Its an uphill battle. But with-
out a conversation about theology, we run
the risk of having a Judaism that is a whole
lot of trees without a forest.
Im a proponent of traditional ways
of thinking about God. In recent Jewish
life, youve seen more liberal alterna-
tives to thinking about God. There was
a moment in American Jewish history
when post-Holocaust theology was enor-
mously important. You had this small
canon of writers engaged in conversa-
tions: Eliezer Berkovits, Yitz Greenberg,
Richard Rubinstein, Emil Fackenheim.
Those conversations ended. I wonder
whether the question won.
Which brings us back to the imagined
conversation between Hershel and
Soloveitchik. One point about Rabbi Helds
relationship to Soloveitchik.
From the time I was in high school, I
have been opposed to this reflex of refer-
ring to a certain specific person as the rav,
whether it was Rabbi Soloveitchik here in
the United States or Rabbi Kook in Israel.
Thats not how Torah works as a conver-
sation. There is no rav. There are rabbis,
he said.
That position taking Soloveitchik seri-
ously but not reverentially allows Rabbi
Held to discuss his views with unusual
seriousness and openness. He has taught
both Soloveitchik and Heschel at Hadar.
I tried to present two modern thinkers,
both deeply committed to the tradition, to
traditional Jewish lives, who have different
approaches, he said.
At Limmud, Rabbi Held began the
imagined conversation with a discussion
about prayer. Is prayer about transcend-
ing the self to connect with God, as per
Heschel? Or is it about acknowledging the
selfs dependence on God, as Soloveitchik
maintained?
Then he went into ethics. How you
think about God has consequences for eth-
ics, he said.
Soloveitchik, Rabbi Held said, presented
the akeida, the near sacrifice of Isaac, as a
model of the need for a person to sacrifice
his or her ethical judgment for Gods will.
Its a bad Christian reading of one
chapter of the Torah that ignores the
rest of Tanach and how the akeidah was
understood by Jews for two thousand
years, Rabbi Held said in Heschels
voice, referring to Soloveitchiks borrow-
ing his understanding of the akeida from
the 19th century Christian thinker Soren
Kierkegaard.
Soloveitchik would respond, Rabbi Held
believes, by criticizing Heschel for acting
according to his own ethical judgment. If
you insist that God would never do any-
thing that violates your sense of ethics, at
the end of the day you are worshipping a
god made in your own image, Soloveit-
chik might say.
But Rabbi Held gave Heschel and the
priority of ethics the final word. If your
God is unethical and is particularly ask-
ing you to inflict harm on a third party like
Isaac what kind of God are you worship-
ping? he asked. Do we really want to
worship a God who is less ethical and less
compassionate than we are? Is that kind of
god worthy of being called God?

Goldstein
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Palestinians to be seen as people.
While he was at Garden State Equality
in fact, while he was working on the case
that is the basis for Freeheld Mr. Gold-
stein also commuted to the Reconstruc-
tionist Rabbinical School in Philadelphia,
following his dream of ordination. It was
very stressful, he said. I dont smoke,
and I dont drink. When I am stressed, I
hit the bottle but my bottle is Diet Coke.
And I eat Entenmanns chocolate-covered
donuts. Thats my rock bottom.
He gave up on rabbinical school because
the stress and the commute were too
much, but Mr. Goldstein has not given
up on the idea of ordination. He hopes
perhaps to enter the Academy for Jewish
Religion, which allows students to take as
much time as they need, he said.
Mr. Goldstein left Garden State Equality
once the fight for marriage equality was
won. He taught at Rutgers, where he had a
joint appointment at the law school and in
the political science department, and was
as happy as a kosher clam, he said. It
was a much lower-key life than hed been
used to living, and he loved it But then, I
got a call from the Anne Frank Center. Id
never heard of it and I was a native New
Yorker, very involved in Jewish causes.
And part of me said, Why do you want
this challenge? But I took it because of my
Jewish identity.
This finally was the opportunity to lead
an organization that works in the Jewish
community and also works on other
issues. If I hadnt taken it and someone
else had, Id have hated it.
The Anne Frank Center had concen-
trated on education; it still does, but now
with a dose of Mr. Goldsteins social activ-
ism shaking it up.
He gets a huge amount of hatred
directed at him, he said; poisonous emails
that shake him and disturb him. When
I get hate stuff, I weep, he said. I have
worked for public figures, who seem as
tough as nails on the outside. You think
theyd never get hurt. And in private
theyre devastated.
Thats true of him too, he said. Ive
never gotten many anti-LGBT emails in
my life. No matter what the cause was
marriage equality, gun control, a wom-
ans right to choose whatever it was,
whenever I got hate mail, it was always
against Steven Goldstein the Jew. Not Ste-
ven Goldstein the gay man. Steven Gold-
stein the Jew.
Being a Jew is central to my identity. I
dont go to bed at night even if Im not
going to be alone and I dont wake up
in the morning saying that Im a member
of the LGBT community. I do go to bed
at night and wake up in the morning as
a Jew.
In 2015, when his relationship with his
husband ended suddenly and traumati-
cally and left me in trauma, I didnt leave
my bed until I read the daily portions of
the Tanach and Talmud, Mr. Goldstein
said. As a progressive Jew, I would read
the Torah and Talmud and often say thats
ridiculous; I would read very critically, and
I would say, Hillel and Shammai, I dont
agree with either of you.
I read it and I question it, but to me
thats a very Jewish way to read. I didnt
read great LGBT works or great secular
works. No. It was my Judaism that got me
through. So when someone attacks me
based on my Jewish faith or my love for
Israel, that rocks me to the core.
As for his work now, We are proudly
Jewish, and this is not paradoxical, but we
fight every injustice as strongly as we fight
anti-Semitism. We do not prioritize. We
fight it when we see Islamophobia, immi-
grant bashing, or fascism. There is no time
lag. We respond to it all with equal gusto.
That is not at all paradoxical. Its
what were taught about tikkun olam
about helping to fix the world. And
its what Martin Luther King Jr. taught.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.
It is Steven Goldsteins mission and pas-
sion to fight injustice everywhere.
Loretta Weinberg of Teaneck, the New
Jersey state Senate majority leader, has
been friends with Mr. Goldstein for about
14 years now. They met through their joint
work on marriage equality; the relation-
ship now is so close that Ms. Weinberg
calls Mr. Goldstein a member of my fam-
ily. Hes like another son, she said; I
always refer to him as my easiest birth.
Her grandchildren call him uncle, she
added; at her granddaughters bat mitzvah
this year, in California, where she lives, she
called Mr. Goldstein up to light a candle,
along with other people who have helped
change the world.
Mr. Goldstein is a bigger-than-life
character, Ms. Weinberg said. Not only is
his personality huge a word to which she
said he could lay claim, despite its current
use in other political contexts. When hed
throw fundraising programs, theyd be
so extensive that, she said, she jokes that
wed get marriage equality done quicker
than this evening.
She remembers the time that Mr. Gold-
stein asked her speak to celebrate the pas-
sage of a bill allowing domestic partner-
ships in New Jersey. It was such a tiny
step in the evolution of marriage equality,
she said. It only affected state employees;
anyone in local government had to opt it,
and it didnt affect private business at all.
Still it was a symbolic victory.
Steven arranged a big rally in front of
Maplewoods town hall, and asked me if
I could come to speak, she said. Shed
expected about 100 people, but there
must have been at least 1,000, and the
bill probably didnt even affect 75 percent
of the audience. I remember thinking Id
never done so little to make so many peo-
ple happy. It was force of Mr. Goldsteins
personality, she said, that drew those
crowds, affected the legislation, and made
everyone feel that there was hope.
As for his Jewishness, Steven wears his
yarmulke with pride, she said. Switching
metaphors, he wears his Jewishness on
his sleeve, she added. He is so very pro-
Israel. Being Jewish is part and parcel of
who he is.
I met Steven through an odyssey
thats what I call the march toward mar-
riage equality, Ms. Weinberg concluded.
And now hes off on another odyssey.

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L.H. CHENIN BLANC * 750ML 16.95
EN FUEGO CAVA 12.95
TERRA VEGA CABERNET SAUV * (N) 7.95 PALAIS DE L'OMBRIERE BORD. (N) 19.95 BINYAMINA RESER
FREIXENET EXCELENCIA BRUT 15.95 BIN CABERNET * 12.95 RESER
L.H. JOH.RIESLING * 19.95 TERRA VEGA CHARDONNAY * (N) 7.95 CHATENAUEAUF ROUGE SEMI-DRY BORD. 11.95
GILGAL BRUT 14.95 BIN CHARDONNAY * 12.95 ROSE
L.H. ORANGE MUSCAT 375ML 9.95 TERRA VEGA MALBEC * (N)) 7.95 PAVILLON DE LA ROTONDE BORD. (N) 19.95
L.H. ORANGE MUSCAT * 750ML 16.95 TERRA VEGA PINOT NOIR * (N) 7.95 PAVILLON DE LEOVILLE POYFERRE BIN MERLOT * 12.95 GA
TERRA VEGA ROSE * (N) 7.95 ST. JULIEN 53.95 BIN SYRAH * 12.95 ALON
L.H. ZINFANDEL * 18.95
TERRA VEGA SAUV. BLANC * (N) 7.95 GASPARD BORDEAUX RESERVE 15.95 CAVE OLD VINES INQUIRE ELA RE
ROSE OF CABERNET 9.95
CARIGNAN RESERVE * 12.95 BARBE
SPEC. RES. ST. HELENA CABERNET (N) 37.95 TERRA VEGA SYRAH * (N) 7.95 THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER
CABERNET RESERVE * 19.95 CABER
RES SPRING MOUNTAIN NAPA (N) 69.95 BORDEAUX 14.95
L.H. GEWURTZTRAMINER 23.95 MERLO
SPECIAL RESERVE CHARDONNAY *
SPECIAL RESERVE ALEX CABERNET *
26.95
33.95
FRANCE VIN DE PAYS CABERNET. *
VIN DE PAYS MERLOT *
7.95
7.95
MERLOT RESERVE * 19.95 MERON
SPEC. RES LAKE COUNTY CAB (N) 34.95 FRENCH WHITE DAVID VIGNOBLES
SAUVIGNON BLANC RESERVE * 13.95 ROSE
KOENIG GEWURTZTRAMINER 16.95 SHIRAZ RESERVE * 18.95 PINOT
SPEC. RES LAKE LES MASQUES CHAT DU PAPE 64.95
KOENIG PINOT GRIS 16.95 THE CAVE 2009 * 79.95 YIRON
COUNTY CAB FRANC (N) 36.95 BARONS ROTHCHILD LES LAURIERS 23.95
SPEC. RES. PRINCE VINEYARD KOENIG RIESLING 16.95 VALFLORE SEMI-DRY CAB* 7.95
THE CAVE 94.95 GA
ABARBANEL BATCH 30 CHARD* 11.95 ZINFANDEL RESERVE 18.95 CABER
PETIT SYRAH * (N) 37.95
CARMEL CABER
SPEC.RES PASO ROBLES MALBEC(N)
SPECIAL RESERVE NAPA CABERNET *
36.95
38.95
PASCAL BOUCHARD CHABLIS *
JOSEPH MELLOT SANCERRE
37.95
34.95 ISRAEL LTD. EDITION 75.95 CHARD
CHARD
SPECIAL RES RUTHEFORD CAB (N) 84.95 BARON ROTHSCHILD CHATENAUEAUF ADIR WINERY MEDITERRANEAN 51.95 MERLO
SPECIAL RES PETITE WHITE SEMI-DRY BORDE 10.95 BEN ZIMRA CABERNET SAUVIGNON 39.95 MOSCATO DI CARMEL * 8.95 MERLO
VERDOT NAPA (N) 36.95 DOMAINE BUNAN BANDOL ABEN ZIMRA SHIRAZ 34.95 SELECTED CABERNET 9.95 MOSCA
VARIATIONS THREE * 23.95 PROVENCE ROSE 29.95 PLATO CABERNET 72.95 SELECTED CHARD (N) * 9.95 GIL
VARIATIONS FOUR * 23.95 CH. DE RAYNE AGUR SELECTED EMERALD RIES/CHENIN (N) 9.95 CABER
VARIATIONS FIVE * 23.95 VIGEAU SAUTERNES (N) 149.95 LAYAM SYRAH MOURVEDRE 34.95 SELECTED SAUV BLANC 9.95 CABER
CH. MAIME ROSE 49.95 KESSEM 27.95 SELECTED MOSCATO (N) * 8.95 CHARD
WARNECKE SPECIAL ED. CAB * 82.95
SELECTED ROSE (N) * 9.95 PINOT
B.R. COHN CHAVIGNOL SANCERRE
VIN DE PAYS CHARDONNAY *
46.95
7.95
ROSE (LIMITED) (N)
SPECIAL RESERVE
24.95
34.95 APPELLATION CABERNET * 15.95 SANGI
B.R. COHN CABERNET SAUV 43.95 SYRAH
COVENANT Herzog Camouflage $ 26.95 BARON ROTHSCHILD M&G ROYALE VOUVRAY 15.95 ALEXANDER WINERY SINGLE VINEYARD ADMON CAB (N) 24.95
WHITE
SINGLE VINEYARD KAYOUMI SHIRAZ 33.95
CABERNET SAUVIGNON 89.95 BRUT CUVEE 39.95
CHATEAU VALMER VOUVRAY
BARON ROTHSCHILD
21.95 AMAROLO 115.00
SINGLE VINEYARD KAYOUMI
GV
LAVAN CHARDONNAY 35.95 ALEXANDER CABERNET FRANC 32.95
BRUT ROSE * 43.95 LES LAURIERES ROSE 19.95 WHITE REISLING 24.95 (LIM
RED C 43.95 ALEX.THE GREAT CAB SAUVIGNON 74.95 GOFNA
HERZOG BLANC DE BLANC BRUT * 12.95
SAUVIGNON BLANC RED C 21.95
HERZOG BRUT CALIFORNIA * 10.95
FRENCH RED ALEX. THE GREAT CAB SAUVIGNON 175.95 SHAAL L.H. GEWURTZ (375ML)
TRADITIONAL CONCORD GRAPE *
20.95
6.95
GOFNA
SOLOMON LOT 70 145.00 ABARBANEL BATCH 22 CAB SAUV* 12.95 ALEX. THE GREAT GOFNA
SYRAH 64.95 HERZOG BRUT ROSE * 12.95 TRADITIONAL SACRAMENTAL * 6.95
BARON ROTHSCHILD BORDEAUX 31.95 GRAND RESERVE INQUIRE GOFNA
THE TRIBE RED
THE TRIBE WHITE
36.95
31.95
KEDEM WHITE CHAMP * 6.95
BARON ROTHSCHILD CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE 32.95 CHATEAU REMO DANCE
KEDEM PINK CHAMP * 6.95 CABERNET RESERVE (N) 25.95 DANCE
BORDEAUX 375ML (N) * 19.95 CLEOPATRA 54.95
CHABAD CUVEE RED ZINFANDEL (N) * 43.95 LAURENT-PERRIER BRUT 78.95 GRAND RED BLEND (N) 28.95 CABER
CH. L'OASIS PROVENCE ROSE 19.95 GASTON BLEND
HAGAFEN LAURENT-PERRIER ROSE 135.95
CH. BELIERIVES DUBOIS CAB/MERLOT/SHIRAZ 32.95 RED BLEND (N) 25.95 MASSA
MERLO
CABERNET FRANC 34.95 LOUIS DE SACY BRUT ROSE * 74.95
BORDEAUX* 12.95 LIZA SAUVIGNON BLANC 21.95 DALTON PETIT
CABERNET SAUVIGNON * 42.95 LOUIS DE SACY BRUT * 59.95 MERLOT RESERVE 31.95 20TH ANNIVERSARY RED 59.95
CH. BELIERIVES DUBOIS WHITE 11.95 THE PR
CHARDONNAY * 22.95 LOUIS DE VIGNEZAC GRAND CRU 79.95
LAKE COUNTY RIESLING (O) * 17.95
CH. CANTELAUDETTE SANDRO CABERNET/MERLOT 22.95 20TH ANNIVERSARY WHITE 29.95 JAC
LATE HARVEST SAUV.BLANC * 29.95
NOTTE ITALIANA PROSECCO *
TABOR MT. TABOR 562 BRUT
14.95
16.95
BORDEAUX 21.95 BARKAN ALMA CRIMSON BLEND 19.95
COTES
CH. DE AREYRES BORDEAUX * 16.95 ALTITUDE SERIES + 412 38.95 ALMA CAB/MER/CAB FRANC* 19.95
MERLOT * 26.95 TISHBI BRUT 26.95 CUVEE
CH. DE LA GRAVE * BORDEAUX 12.95 ALTITUDE SERIES + 720 38.95 ALMA WHITE BLEND 19.95
PINOT NOIR * 29.95 VAL D'OCA EXTRA DRY PROSECCO * 14.95 CUVEE
CH. DE COR BUGEAUD ALTITUDE SERIES + 624 38.95 ALMA GSM BLEND 19.95
SAUVIGNON BLANC * 17.95 YARDEN BLANC DE BLANC 27.95 CUVEE
BORDEAUX* 13.95 CLASSIC CABERNET SAUVIGNON * 9.95 ANNA DESSERT WINE (N) LTD QTY 39.95
JER
SYRAH
NAPA VALLEY WHITE RIESLING *
26.95
24.95 ARGENTINA CH. DE PARSAC SAINT EMILION *
CH. DE PARSAC
21.95 CLASSIC CABERNET SAUV 375ML
CLASSIC CHARDONNAY *
5.95
9.95
CABERNET RESERVE
CANAAN RED *
31.95
12.95 2900 R
WHITE RIESLING DRY* 23.95 DON GUILLERMO MALBEC * 9.95
SAINT EMILION* (N) 375ML 15.95 CLASSIC CHARDONNAY 375ML 5.95 CANAAN WHITE * 12.95 2900 W
ELI MONTERO MALBEC 8.95
SHIRAH WINES FLECHAS DE LOS ANDES CAB/SYRAH 23.95 CH. DES RIGANES BORDEAUX *
CH. FOURCAS DUPRE MEDOC
10.95
25.95
CLASSIC SAUVIGNON BLANC *
CLASSIC MALBEC*
9.95
9.95
D SERIES CABERNET SAUV ESTATE
D SERIES ESTATE PETITE SIRAH
16.95
19.95
GERST
GERST
(LIMITED QTY) FLECHAS DE LOS ANDES MALBEC 24.95
CH. GRAND PUY DUCASSE CLASSIC MERLOT * 9.95 D SERIES ROSE 15.95 GERST
BRO-DEAX BLEND 47.95 WILD GOAT BONARDA SPECIAL 8.95
BORDEAUX 82.95 CLASSIC PETIT SYRAH * 9.95 D SERIES MERLOT 16.95 PREMI
COUNTER PUNCH 44.95 WILD GOAT RESERVE MALBEC 10.95
CH. GISCOURS MARGAUX 95.95 CLASSIC PINOTAGE * 9.95 D SERIES MOSCATO * 10.95 PREMI
GESHEM SPARKLING MOSCATO 56.95 WILD GOAT TRI-VARIETAL 8.95
CLASSIC SHIRAZ * 9.95 D SERIES SHIRAZ 16.95
AUSTRIA
ONE TWO PUNCH 42.95 CH. HAUT CONDISSAS MEDOC 69.95 PREMI
CLASSIC PINOT NOIR * 9.95 D SERIES FUME BLANC 13.95
PINOT NOIR 58.95 CH. JAUMARD BORDEAUX* 13.95 RESER
HAFNER LH MUSCAT (N) * (O) 12.95 CLASSIC MERLOT/ARGAMAN * 9.95 D SERIES UNOAKED CHARDONNAY 14.95
POWER TO THE PEOPLE 79.95 CH. LA CLARE MEDOC 26.95 RESER
HAFNER QUEEN OF SHEBA RED (N) * (O) 12.95 CHARDONNAY RESERVE 13.95 GRENACHE (N) 18.95
SYRAH 38.95 CH. LA FLEUR DE BEAULIEU SPECIA
CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE 16.95 MATATIA RED (N) LTD QTY 149.95
QUEEN ESTHER CAB/SAUV RES (N) * (O) 13.95
VINTAGE WHITES VIOGNIER 26.95 SAINT EMILION 22.95
MERLOT RESERVE 16.95 MERON CABERNET (LIMITED) 37.95 JEZ
WEINSTOCK QUEEN ESTHER MERLOT RES (N) * (O) 13.95 CH. LA TONNELLE BORDEAUX 27.95
MERLOT RESERVE 38.95 ADUM
AUSTRALIA CH. LE CROCK SAINT ESTEPHE 59.95 SHIRAZ RESERVE 15.95
CABERNET SAUV * 8.95 MOSCATO 10.95 ARGAM
CH. LE PETIT CHABAN * BORDEAUX 15.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON WINEMAKER 21.95
CHARDONNAY * 8.95 TEAL LAKE CABERNET/MERLOT * 10.95 M SERIES CABERNET SAUV (N) * 16.95 CARIG
CH. LA CLIDE ST. EMILION MERLOT WINEMAKER'S CHOICE 21.95
MERLOT * 8.95 M SERIES SAUV BLANC (N) * 14.95
TEAL LAKE CABERNET RESERVE * 16.95 GRAND CRU (N) 89.95 CHARDONNAY WINEMAKER'S CHOICE 22.95 CHARD
"W" MOSCATO * 7.95 SHIRAZ WINEMAKER'S CHOICE 21.95 PINOT GRIS (N) 17.95
TEAL LAKE CHARDONNAY * 10.95 CH.MARQUISAT DE BINET LEVAN
"W" RED * 7.95 ASSEMBLAGE EITAN 28.95 SHIRAZ RESERVE 32.95
TEAL LAKE MOSCATO D'AUSSIE * 6.95 CUVEE ABEL (N) 42.95 VALLE
"W" WHITE * 7.95 BEN ZIMRA MERLOT
WHITE ZINFANDEL * 6.95
TEAL LAKE SHIRAZ * 10.95 CH. PICAMBAU SAINT EMILION 22.95 ASSEMBLAGE REICHAN
ASSEMBLAGE TZAFIT
28.95
28.95 SINGLE VINEYARD 38.95
KA
TEAL LAKE SHIRAZ RESERVE * 16.95 CH. LEOVILLE POYFERRE CABER
SELECT ALICANTE BOUSCHET * 18.95
CHILE SUPERIEUR CABERNET * 61.95 EL KOSH SHIRAZ
ST. JULIEN 219.95 NES H
SELECT CABERNET FRANC*
SELECT CABERNET NAPA *
21.95
19.95 CH. MOULIN RICHE BORDEAUX 53.95 BAT SHLOMO SINGLE VINEYARD 39.95
WADI
ALFASI CABERNET RESERVE 9.95 BETTY"S CUVEE RED (N) 58.95 SAFSUFA CABERNET * 17.95
SELECT CHARDONNAY SONOMA * 18.95 ALFASI CABERNET SAUVIGNON * 7.95
CH. ROLLAN DE BY MEDOC
CH. ROYAUMONT POMEROL
51.95
45.95 CHARDONNAY (N) 39.95 SAFSUFA SHIRAZ * 17.95 MA
SELECT PETITE SIRAH * 18.95 ALFASI CHARDONNAY * 7.95 YUVALIM CAB SAUV 13.95 MATAR
CH. TERTRE DUGUAY SAINT EMILION 99.95 SAUVIGNON BLANC (N) 29.95
SELECT RED ZINFANDEL * 18.95
TWIN SUNS
ALFASI L.H. SAUVIGNON BLANC 17.95
CH. TOUR SERAN MEDOC 55.95 BAZELET HAGOLAN ZINFANDEL 20.95 MATAR
ALFASI MALBEC/SYRAH RESERVE 9.95
CH. THENAC FLEUR DU PERIGORD * 21.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 35.95 DOMAINE DU CASTEL MATAR
CHARDONNAY * 11.95 ALFASI MERLOT * 7.95 BCABERNET SAUVIGNON RSV 53.95 BLANC DU CASTEL 42.95 MATAR
CH. CAMPLAY BORDEAUX 13.95
CABERNET SAUVIGNON * 11.95 ALFASI MERLOT RESERVE 8.95 MERLOT 34.95 GRAND VIN 69.95 MATAR
CH. LE BOURDIEU MEDOC 25.95
CABERNET RESV * 22.95 ALFASI MISTICO 7.95
LA CITADELLE DE DIAMANT BMAGMA BLEND 29.95 DOMAINE DU CASTEL PETITE CASTEL 42.95
ME
GRAND SELECT RED BLEND 32.95 ALFASI PINOT NOIR RESERVE 9.95
CAESAR (N) 29.95 MERLOT RESERVE 43.95 DOMAINE NETOFA CABER
RESERVE ROSE (N)
RESERVE SYRAH (N)
22.95
27.95
DON ALFONSO CAB SAUV * 5.95
LA PIGONNIER VAISINIERE BEIT EL LATOUR RED 33.95 CHARD
DON ALFONSO MERLOT * 5.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 19.95 RED 20.95
ST. EMILION (N) 27.95 MERLO
RESERVE ZINFANDEL (N) 27.95 DON ALFONSO SAUVIGNON BLANC * 5.95 WHITE BLEND 19.95
LE MOUREE COTES DU RHONE 17.95 CARIGNAN 19.95 PINOT
SYRAH * 11.95 LANZUR CARMENERE * 7.95 TINTO 24.95
LE MOUREE COTES DU RHONE MAJESTIQUE CABERNET 42.95 RED B
ROSE 18.95

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JOURNEY RED (N) 21.95 SAUVIGNON BLANC* 15.95
JOURNEY WHITE 21.95 PINOT NOIR RESERVE (N) 29.95
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11.95
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SYRAH
2T DRY RED
T2 FORTIED DESSERT WINE
16.95
24.95
31.95
36.95
EN FUEGO CABERNET SAUVIGNON
EN FUEGO TEMPRANILLO
ELVI 26 DE ELVI PRIORAT
8.95
8.95
48.95
CABERNET RESERVE 16.95 ELVI CLOS MESORAH (LIMITED) 68.95
CHARDONNAY RESERVE 14.95 YAFFO ELVI HERENZA CRIANZA 24.95
FLAM MONTEFIORE MERLOT RESERVE 16.95 CHARDONNAY ELLA VALLEY (N) 31.95 ELVI HERENZA RESERVA 61.95
8.95 BLANC 32.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 29.95 GEWRTZTRAMINER ELLA VALLEY (N) 31.95
DISHON CABERNET SAUVGIGNON 31.95 ELVI HERENZA RIOJA 11.95
8.95 CLASSICO 26.95 KEREM MOSHE 48.95 HERITAGE ELLA VALLEY BLEND (N) 39.95
DOVEV ARGAMAN 30.95 NEXUS ONE RIBERA DEL DUERO 21.95
8.95 NOBLE 94.95 RED 18.95 HOMAGE CABERNET (N) 32.95
CABERNET UNFILTERED 74.95 PINORD VINA CHATEL TEMPRANILLO 8.95
7.95 RESERVE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 54.95 WHITE 18.95 HOMAGE ROSE ELLA VALLEY (N) 27.95
RED BLEND * 13.95 RAMON CARDOVA CRIANZA 18.95
RESERVE MERLOT 54.95 MORAD WHITE BLEND * 13.95 YATIR RAMON CARDOVA GARNACHA 16.95
12.95 RESERVE SYRAH 39.95 AMARETTO 19.95
12.95 ROSE 31.95 DOUBLE ESPRESSO 19.95
SHILOH VIOGNIER
MT. AMASA RED BLEND
37.95
39.95
RAMON CARDOVA RIOJA * 13.95
CABERNET FRANC 29.95
12.95 GALIL DANUE PASSION FRUIT WINE 16.95
CABERNET SAUVIGNON 25.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 49.95
VINA ENCINA RED (N) * 10.95
12.95 ALON RED BLEND 17.95 DANUE POMERGRANATE WINE 16.95 FOREST 2010 76.95 VINA ENCINA ROSE (N) * 10.95
CABERNET SECRET RESERVE * 39.95 VINA ENCINA WHITE (N) * 10.95
QUIRE ELA RED BLEND 17.95 DANUE RED GRAPEFRUIT WINE 16.95 PETIT VERDOT 43.95
CHARDONNAY 24.95
12.95 BARBERA 16.95 LYCHEE WINE 16.95 SYRAH 45.95 VOLCANUS PETIT VERDOT 19.95
FORT DESSERT WINE 27.95
19.95 CABERNET 13.95 NADIV WINERY HEROES EDITION 3 PACK (N) 199.95 YOGEV VOLCANUS TEMPRANILLO * 15.95
23.95 MERLOT 13.95 NADIV ELYONE RED BLEND (N) 53.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 12.95 VOLCANUS TEMPRANILLO RIOJA 13.95
LEGEND * 34.95
19.95 MERON 28.95 NADIV MATAN RED BLEND (N) 36.95 CABERNET/MERLOT 12.95
LEGEND II* 34.95
13.95
18.95
ROSE (S)
PINOT NOIR
12.95
16.95
NADIV RESHIT RED BLEND (N)
OR HAGANUZ
22.95 MERLOT SECRET RESERVE *
MOR BLEND
36.95
24.95
CABERNET/PETITE VERDOT
CABERNET/SHIRAZ
12.95
12.95
SHERRY/PORT
79.95 YIRON 28.95 ELIMA (NO SULFITES ADDED) 28.95 CHARDONNAY/SAUVIGNON BLANC 12.95 KEDEM SHERRY ROYALE * 7.95
MOSAIC 55.95
94.95 GAMLA AMUKA SERIES SAUVIGNON BLANC 15.95 MOSAIC EXCLUSIVE EDITION 89.95 1848 WINERY KEDEM PORT * 12.95
18.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 12.95 OAMUKA SERIES CABERNET SAUV 15.95 KEDEM LIMITED 26YRS 39.95
PRIVELEGE RED BLEND * 22.95 2ND GENERATION CABERNET/MERLOT 19.95
CABERNET RESERVE 16.95 AMUKA SERIES SHIRAZ 15.95 PORTO CORDOVERO 27.95
CHARDONNAY 12.95 SHIRAZ SECRET RESERVE * 36.95 2ND GENERATION CAB SAUVIGNON 19.95
75.95 PORTO CORDOVERO LBV 47.95
51.95
CHARDONNAY RESERVE 16.95 AMUKA SERIES MERLOT
HORKENUS
15.95
89.95
TABOR 5TH GENERATION CABERNET FRANC 24.95
TIO PEPE 17.95
MERLOT 12.95 SPECIAL EDITION CAB/MERLOT BLEND 37.95 5TH GENERATION SYRAH 24.95
8.95 MERLOT RESERVE 16.95 MARON SERIES CABERNET SAUV 26.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE 35.95 QUEVEDO RUBY PORT 17.95
ADAMA CAB SAUVIGNON 16.95
9.95 MOSCATO 9.95 MARON SERIES CAB SAUV/ SHIRAZ 24.95 SPECIAL RESERVE CAB SAUV 52.95
ADAMA MERLOT 16.95
9.95 GILGAL
9.95 CABERNET 12.95
MARON SERIES CABERNET FRANC
LEIBALE WINERY
24.95 ADAMA SHIRAZ
ADAMA ZOHAR
16.95
23.95
CABERNET/MERLOT RESERVE 35.95
KOSHER SPIRITS
9.95 CABERNET-MERLOT 12.95
8.95 CHARDONNAY 13.95
CABERNET SAUV (N)
MAYANOT RED BLEND (N)
19.95
11.95
BARBERA ROSE (N)
MT. TABOR CABERNET
16.95
12.95
ITALY CHILI PEPPER LIQ (375) (N)
CHILI PEPPER LIQ (750ML) (N)
15.95
21.95
9.95 PINOT NOIR
SANGIOVESE
12.95
12.95 NOV CABERNET SAUV (N) 28.95 MT. TABOR MERLOT 12.95
BARTENURA ASKALON ARAK 80 18.95
15.95 MALVAISA 10.95
24.95
SYRAH 12.95 LEWIS PASCO MT. TABOR SHIRAZ 12.95
MONTEPULCIANO D ABRUZZO (N) 12.95
ASKALON ARAK 100 19.95
WHITE RIESLING 13.95 LIQUIDITY CAB SAUV (LTD QTY) 55.95 MT. TABOR CHARD. 12.95 ASKALON BRANDY 80 13.95
33.95
GVAOT WINERY PROJECT #2 (LTD QTY) 24.95 TABOR LIMITED ED. CABERNET 49.95
MOSCATO DI ASTI *
MOSCATO DI ASTI (375 ML)*
9.95
6.95
BARKAN STOCK 84 BRANDY 80 15.95
24.95 (LIMITED QTY) SAUVIGNON BLANC 18.95
NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO 13.95
BINYAMINA AMARETTO 16.95
20.95 GOFNA CABERNET SAUV RSV 57.95 TEPERBERG OVADIA BARBERA * 14.95 BINYAMINA BANANA 16.95
GOFNA RES CABERNET FRANC (N) 59.95 ESSENCE CABERNET (N) 33.95
6.95 OVADIA CHIANTI 11.95 BINYAMINA BBB BRANDY 19.95
GOFNA RES PETIT VERDOT 57.95
6.95 ESSENCE CHARDONNAY (N) 27.95 BINYAMINA CHOCOLATE 16.95
GOFNA RES PINOT NOIR 44.95 OVADIA DOLC.D'ALBA 15.95
DANCE RED BLEND 29.95 ESSENCE FORTESSE (N) 34.95 BINYAMINA LIMONCELLO 16.95
OVADIA MORELLINO * 14.95
25.95 DANCE WHITE 31.95 ESSENCE MERLOT (N) 33.95
ROSSO DI MONTEPULCIANO 12.95 BINYAMINA SOUR APPLE 16.95
28.95 CABERNET 29.95 IMPRESSION CAB SAUV * 16.95
ROSSO TOSCANO * 6.95 TRIPLE SEC 16.95
25.95 MASSADA 68.95 IMPRESSION CHARDONNAY * 16.95
MERLOT 29.95 PINOT GRIGIO * 11.95 BOUHKA BOKOBSA FIG BRANDY 31.95
IMPRESION MERLOT * 16.95
PETIT VERDOT 56.95 UMBRIA ROSSO* 6.95
IMPRESION SEMI-DRY CAB (N) * 16.95 CAVA CAFE TEQUILA (N) 42.95
59.95 THE PROMISE 25.95
INSPIRE DEVOTAGE RED BLEND * 23.95
BORGO REALE CAVA BLANCO TEQUILA (N) 42.95
29.95
19.95
JACQUES CAPSUTO INSIRE MERITAGE (N) 21.95 BAROLO 39.95
CLEAR CRK KIRSCHWASSER 750ML 48.95
COTES DE GALILEE VILLAGE BLANC 16.95 LEGACY PETITE SIRAH * 69.95 BRUNELLO DI MONT. 45.95
19.95 CLEAR CRK KIRSCHWASSER 375ML 29.95
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Jewish World

Parents vow to stay at JCCs across the country

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nity Center was hit with a bomb threat on
Jan. 18, Adam Bellows was satisfied with
how the staff handled the preschool kids,
including his two-year-old son.
The kids, said Bellows, had no idea the threat had hap-
pened. They were evacuated and taken to a secure location,
where they watched cartoons.
But after he got home, Bellows son started having a
tough time. He couldnt sleep, and was scared to return to
turbed him, Bellows said. He wasnt scared at the time or
anything, but the next day he was saying, I dont want to go
to the JCC. He kept asking, Are we going to watch Mickey
Mouse again? Is mommy going to come pick me up again?
His world was interrupted.
More than 100 bomb threats have targeted JCCs, day
schools, and other Jewish institutions, coming in six waves
since the beginning of the year. The latest wave, on Tues-
day, targeted more than a dozen locations, including JCCs,
schools, and the offices of the Anti-Defamation League.
While many JCCs report that members and preschoolers
Roth Family JCC near Orlando has seen 50 children
pull out, according to reports that JTA has confirmed
with a source who has knowledge of the matter. In Bir-
mingham, Alabama, where the JCC has been targeted
four separate times, six families have withdrawn their
children.
Parents who spoke to JTA were happy with how
the centers have handled the threats. The kids have
returned promptly to their programs, and business
has been able to carry on as usual.
She wasnt scared, she wasnt worried, said Matt
Mandell, 39, of his four-year-old, a preschooler at the
JCC in Rockville, Maryland, which was threatened on
Jan. 9. They did a great job of keeping everyone calm
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NEWS ANALYSIS
JCC bomb threats are weapons of fear
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
T
he fear itself thing? FDR was
on to something.
The rash of JCC bomb threats
and cemetery desecrations,
combined with a general sense that the
country is becoming more intolerant, has
Jews on edge in ways they havent been
in years. The head of a major American
Jewish organization wrote to me that the
recent outbreak of anti-Semitic activity
is the worst America has seen since the
1930s. (Its not.)
Ronald Lauder of the World Jewish Con-
gress has declared that in recent weeks
and months we have witnessed an unprec-
edented and inconceivable escalation of
anti-Semitic acts in the United States
again, an exaggeration.
The stats, tracked rigorously but nar-
rowly by the Anti-Defamation League and
haphazardly by the FBI, arent in for 2016
or early 2017, the period covering the pres-
idential campaign and that presumably
would include the kinds of spikes many
would like to attribute to Donald Trumps
racially and ethnically charged campaign
34 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 10, 2017
and emboldening of the alt-right.
One of the more worrying account-
ings came from the New York City police
department, which found that anti-Semitic
incidents were up 94 percent in the city
over this time last year, with 35 anti-
Semitic incidents reported in January and
February.
But such numbers dont yet point to an
unprecedented and inconceivable escala-
tion in anti-Semitism. And they dont take
into account the counter-evidence, like a
Pew study that found that Jews are the
most warmly regarded religious group tion of the commander in chief, the politi-
in the United States. (Great news! said
parents and staff huddled outside an evac-
uated JCC.) Or the acts of kindness and
concern that followed many of the attacks,
from Muslims raising money to restore a
vandalized cemetery to the unanimous
Senate letter urging the White House to
boost security measures at Jewish institu-
tions and assure the investigation and pun-
ishment of hate crimes.
Nor can it be overlooked that American
Jews are as comfortable and accepted as
we ever have been in history. No school,
no neighborhood, and no profession is off
limits. Jews are over-represented in poli-
tics, academia, and media. Even the high
rate of intermarriage is a sign of social
acceptance of Jews. Unlike many parts of
Europe, where armed guards protect syn-
agogues and observant Jewish men often
hide their kippot under caps, American
Jews can be out, proud, and as loud as we
want to be.
But the numbers and sociology cant
account for the way Jews feel, and right
now many are not feeling good. The high
levels of Jewish anxiety owe to a combina-
he said in a 2016 radio interview with (wait
cal mood, the nature of the JCC attacks,
and the media.
Lets start with President Trump: Most
Jews didnt vote for him, and regarded his
campaign antics as particularly unsettling,
from his appeal among white supremacists
and ethno-nationalists to his willingness
to exploit the countrys racial and ethnic
divides.
In his embrace of a fiercely chauvinis-
tic economic nationalism, White House
strategist Steve Bannon represents some-
thing unprecedented and inconceivable
in the minds of many Jews. Until Trump,
resurgent nationalism seemed very much
a problem for Europe, where economic
malaise, fear of immigrants, and the ghosts
of the 20th century have combined into a
particularly toxic brew on the right.
Recent Republican and Democratic
administrations alike gave at least lip ser-
vice to the idea of America as a vivid tapes-
try in which people of all races, religions,
and nationalities are welcome. Bannon,
youll recall, is not just a foe of illegal immi-
gration, but of legal immigration, which
has kinda overwhelmed the country, as
for it) Trump advisor and speechwriter
Stephen Miller.
Even for those who believe Trump is
the savior Israel has been waiting for, and
who accept his disavowals of the alt-right,
it upset Jewish assumptions about their
position as a privileged minority when
Trump couldnt bring himself to denounce
the JCC threats and other anti-Semitic acts
forthrightly.
The nature of the JCC attacks are dia-
bolically brilliant in their ability to unset-
tle Jews. I imagine a lone wolf or a team
of hackers, armed with some cheap
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electronics and a motive to maxi- about the members or preschool

mize mischief, working off an easy
to find list of institutions with Jew-
ish and community in their very
names. There are far fewer JCCs
than synagogues, but targeting JCCs
assures you of hitting at least one
easily identifiable Jewish institution
in every consequential Jewish com-
munity across the country. Im bet-
ting its only an unhappy accident
that the hoaxer picked one of the
few Jewish places that cuts across
all movements and ideologies, and
even attracts non-Jews to their fit-
ness centers and childcare pro-
grams. That potentially puts every
Jew on edge.
Coverage of these attacks, while
unavoidable, also instills fear. As
the editor of a Jewish news service,
I feel implicated: What if in the
name of informing the community, we are
merely spreading anxiety? Readers rely
on us to cover acts of anti-Semitism, large
and small. These include nasty anti-Zion-
ist demonstrations on college campuses,
grotesque internet memes originating
Police block off a parking lot at the Jewish Community Center of Southern Nevada in Las
Vegas on February 27. 
of human feces.
But do these various acts, in a country copycat charged last week in at least
of over 300 million, represent a growing
trend or the salacious exception?
And what if we and the anti-Semitism
watchdogs are wrong? What if the JCC
ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
enough, Juan Thompson, a suspected
eight of the JCC attacks, turns out to be
an unhinged young man whose apparent
motivation wasnt even anti-Semitism but
revenge on an old flame.
students theyve lost as a result
of the hoaxes, but word is getting
out that the numbers might be
significant. You cant blame the
families who just dont need the
tsurris, but you can look at your
own behavior and ask in what
ways you are making a bad situ-
ation worse.
So yes, we need strong enforce-
ment of our hate crimes laws. And
institutions that have the security
they need. And careful monitoring
of anti-Semitism in all its forms.
And government leaders who have
the backs of targeted minorities
and pledge to defend the diversity
of multicultural America.
But we also need a reminder
that Jews have it pretty good here,
and that we shouldnt give too
much power to a kid with a Sharpie, or a
hacker with a speed-dial, or a disturbed,
disgraced stalker. We have to stand up and
say these institutions are ours, and were
here to stay.
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with the alt-right, and increasingly bizarre attacks arent the vanguard of the New That doesnt make the targeted Jew or
examples of swastika graffiti, including Anti-Semitism, but a weird and personal Jewish institution feel any better. Fear Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is the
some carved in snow and one shaped out vendetta on the part of the hoaxer? Sure has its own dynamic. JCCs arent talking editor of JTA.

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Why former U.S. envoy Dan Shapiro keeps staying in Israel
Andrew Tobin
RAANANA, Israel Dan Shapiro cant seem to
leave Israel.
Before stepping down as the U.S. ambassador to the
country in January, he said he would stay long enough
for his daughters to finish the school year. On Sunday,
he announced he would be sticking around a little lon-
ger, to join the Institute for National Security Studies, a
top think tank in Tel Aviv. He and his wife, along with
their three daughters, are living within commuting dis-
tance, in a rental house in an upscale neighborhood
of Raanana.
The plan is to stay for a number of months, Shapiro
said in an interview next to his backyard pool, which he
hopes to get a chance to use this summer.
I can say the primary reason we made the decision was
to let the kids finish their school year, he said. But we are
very much looking forward to the opportunity to experi-
ence life in Israel as a normal family. It was something we
considered long ago, like many Jewish parents.
Shapiro acknowledged it was somewhat unusual for
him to remain in country after his service ended but
his ties to Israel are much more than professional. The
six years he spent representing the Obama administration
here were part of a lifelong commitment to Israel.
Shapiro first visited in 1973, when he was 4 years old.
His parents, both English professors at the University of
Illinois, brought him and his young siblings to Jerusalem
for a sabbatical. When the Yom Kippur War broke out that
October, they abandoned their research to contribute to
the war effort volunteering at a bakery, a chicken coop,
and a school, anywhere jobs had been left vacant by men
who went to fight, Shapiro said.
The experience left an impression on Shapiro, who
still recalls the air raid sirens and bomb shelters. It also
created a connection between his family and Israel
that persisted after they returned home to Champaign,
Illinois.
By the time we left, we as a family, our relationship
with Israel had been transformed, and it really forged a
bond that I dont think would have happened without the
war, Shapiro said. For the rest of my childhood, Israel
was this very, very prominent part of life and discussion.
Shapiro returned to Israel in 1987 for a gap year before
college and again in 1989 for a year abroad at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem with his then-girlfriend Julie
Fisher, whom he had met at a Reform Jewish summer
camp in Wisconsin and started dating as a counselor
there. Building on the Hebrew he learned at the camp
and at synagogue growing up, Shapiro became fluent in
the language.
I just fell in love with Israel, and I knew from then that
I would keep coming back, he said.
After returning to the United States, Shapiro and Fisher
both graduated from Brandeis University. They got mar-
ried in 1992, while Shapiro was earning a masters degree
in near eastern and Judaic studies at Harvard University.
When he graduated, they moved to Washington, D.C.,
where Shapiro did political and consulting work on Capi-
tol Hill and Fisher worked at a prominent local Jewish day
school. Between 2000 and 2006, they had a daughter and
adopted two others from Guatemala.
Sometimes, the couple plotted ways to spend a year in
Israel, waiting for a time when the kids were old enough
to really get something out of it, as I did, Shapiro said.
Those plans were set aside during Barack Obamas
presidential campaign in 2008, though they did man-
age a great family trip to Israel after the Democratic
Dan Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel,
stands in his backyard in Raanana, Israel, on
March 2.  Andrew Tobin
primaries, he said. Shapiro was one of many Chicago-area
Jews who advised Obama when he was a Democratic U.S.
senator from Illinois, including on his first trip to Israel in
2006, and he worked on Obamas campaign.
It turned out, Shapiro said, that he and Obama shared
similar political views. They are both consensus-minded
progressives when it comes to the United States, and
strong supporters of a two-state solution in Israel in part
to ensure Israels Jewish and democratic character. The
idea of a homeland also resonated with Obama, he said.
But of course I understood that wherever my family
and I actually ended up choosing to live, our destiny was
going to be shaped in part by the survival and the suc-
cess of Israel and that we wanted to be connected to it,
he continued. Whether living in it or whether living in
the diaspora, that connection was really profound and a
direct connection. I think its a little different for a non-
Jewish person.
After serving as a Middle East advisor on the National
Security Council for several years, in 2011 Shapiro was
appointed ambassador to Israel. The family moved into
the official residence in Herzliya, just east of Raanana,
and began attending a Conservative synagogue, as they
had in Washington. The only person to be at every meet-
ing between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, Shapiro often was caught in the crossfire of
the leaders famously contentious relationship.
When Shapiro criticized Israeli policy in the West Bank
last January, a former Netanyahu advisor publicly called
him a little Jew boy. And after Secretary of State John
Kerrys speech in December blasting Israeli settlement
expansion, Netanyahu summoned Shapiro for a dress-
ing down.
But Shapiro said he had a friendly working relationship
with the prime minister. My personal relationship with
Netanyahu was always very good, very warm, he said.
We were able to talk candidly. There were definitely occa-
sions where we had meetings that reflected the tensions
between our governments, but it was never personal.
Shapiro was well-liked in Jerusalem, even among right
wing ministers and lawmakers. At a farewell party for Sha-
piro at the Knesset on Jan. 17, ministers from the ruling
Likud party heaped praise on him, even while acknowl-
edging U.S.-Israel tensions. Minister Yuval Steinitz, a close
Jewish World
ally of Netanyahu, called him the best U.S. ambassador to
Israel the country has ever had. Shapiros most important
role fulfilled in an impeccable manner during a period
of passionate disagreements and difficult conditions
was as a shock absorber, he said.
Asked if there was a downside to an ambassador hav-
ing a personal connection to the country where he serves
as does David Friedman, President Donald Trumps
ardently pro-settlement ambassador-designate Shapiro
said it had worked for him. But he stressed the importance
of serving the entire country. Shapiro made an unprec-
edented effort to do this, regularly appearing in main-
stream, national religious, and charedi media.
I thought it was davka important to have very open,
very friendly dialogue with parts of the society that I
didnt know and maybe that we wouldnt agree on certain
issues, he said, noting that the ambassador ultimately
acts and speaks on behalf of the president.
Since leaving his post on Jan. 20, Shapiro has been
speaking for himself. He has written opinion articles,
including one for Foreign Affairs laying out some of the
potential benefits of a well-managed move of the U.S.
embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. And he has opened
a new personal Twitter account, where he posts wonky
takes on Israel-U.S. relations, including threads that are
widely shared among journalists and influencers in the
Jewish world.
He has not shied away from tweeting criticism of Trump
on the issues he knows best: Israel, diplomacy, and Jews.
Over the last month, Shapiro dismissed the presidents
stated willingness to give up on a Palestinian state as the-
ater, said the administration was stunningly dumb to
nix former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad s appointment as a U.N. envoy, and repeatedly
questioned the White Houses failure until recently
to condemn the bomb threats against Jewish community
centers across the United States.
Seriously, what is wrong with him? he tweeted of the
president on Feb. 15. I cant understand why he cant
condemn blatant anti-Semitism when he sees it.
Asked if he is enjoying speaking his mind, Shapiro
laughed and gave a diplomatic answer. I am. I cant deny
that. I spent more than 20 years of my life in government
service, which Im very proud of and was very content
to do. But of course it comes with the built-in restriction
that you articulate publicly the policy of the people you
work for.
Still, Shapiro largely has kept his disagreements with the
Israeli government to himself, sticking to touting the coun-
trys LGBT-friendly culture and high-tech prowess. He
explained that he has a different relationship with Israel
than with the United States.
As a concerned and patriotic American citizen, I think
I have every right and even responsibly to say what I think
and offer my best hopefully constructive commentary
and analysis about my own government, and that means
there will be times that it will include criticism, he said. I
try to maintain a more analytical approach to policy ques-
tions from the point of view of the Israeli government. You
know, I remain a guest in this country, and I think thats
an appropriate way for me to conduct my activities at
this stage.
Shapiro said along with his research as a distinguished
visiting fellow at INSS, he plans to continue writing,
including possibly a memoir. Fisher is looking for a job in
education. Their daughters will start a new school year in
the fall, he said, and it would be a shame to move in the
middle of their studies.
 JTA Wire Service
Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017 37
Editorial
Slowing down
Purims whirl
P T
urim, the topsy-turvy holi-
day that features a woman
(yes, using her charm and
beauty, but still) beating out
a man, tells the story of Jewish survival
without mentioning God, is celebrated
at least in theory and often if fact
with drunken revelry, allows people to
mask themselves, thus often and para-
doxically revealing their true selves, or
their deepest desires (and sometimes
allowing them just to wear whatevers
on hand, too), and in general goes for
the kind of raucous fun not the rev-
erential joy of Simchat Torah, but fun
that is not always part of Jewish life. Its
the mirror image of what we usually do
and think; it could be dangerous if we
let it get too far, or it could be danger-
ously liberating.
Its sometimes even thought of as the
mirror image of Yom Kippur. (One of the
holidays formal names is Yom HaKip-
purim, which could mean the day that
is like Purim.) In this topsy-turvy world,
somehow the ways in which we can
abandon ourselves for other selves or
other worlds somehow can lead either
to liberation or to its opposite.
On Yom Kippur we neither eat nor
drink. On Purim, we are allowed to
eat and actively encouraged to drink.
Which is more holy? On Yom Kippur we
listen to the shofar. On Purim we listen
to the grogger. Which is more beautiful?
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Which is more piercing? The answers
seem clear, but are they?
Purim also serves another, different
function. Its full moon reminds us that
Pesach is coming. The next full moon
will light the first seder. Pretty soon the
thing that will be most topsy-turvy will
be the kitchen, with the yearlong stuff
going out and the once-a-year stuff com-
ing in. Every year, many most? all?
of us wonder if that organizational
insanity is worth it, and if any liberation
can follow.
In this topsy-turvy time that we are
living in, where unusual things seems
to be happening as frequently to us as
they did to Alice once she fell through to
Wonderful when the only thing we can
count on is that something jaw-drop-
ping has just happened and another
thing is about to happen maybe the white supremacist movement has
predictable topsy-turvy-ness of Purim,
and the eventual liberation of Pesach,
once the kitchen is clean and the new
clothes are on and the food is cooked
and the wine is poured and the seder is
ready and your family and friends are
around the table maybe we will be
able to reveal our true selves then.
Until then, please, dont drink too
much on Pesach, and please please
please if you do drink too much dont
drive!
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readers a happy Purim. JP
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But sometimes life is funny, some-
times silly things happen, sometimes
we like to laugh, even if its not Purim.
We welcome Banji, who is funny and
open and a good writer, and whose
take on the world around her some-
times makes us laugh out loud. Were
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keeping the faith
A modern-dress Haman
is now known as Bannon
here is a new Haman in the palace. His By Jews, of course, the Daily Stormer means
name is Steve Bannon. the media. As everyone who is an anti-Semite
The philosopher George Santayana knows, but the rest of us have serious doubts
wrote, Those who cannot remember about, we Jews control the media
the past are condemned to repeat it. Bannon/Haman knows where his votes come
That is not just a warning to us to avoid the from, and he is not about to allow his king to
traps of those who would do us evil, for Santaya- step on those toes.
nas warning works for them as well. A case in point was the statement Trumps
The new Haman surrounds himself with Jew- White House released to mark International Holo-
ish acolytes who are fooled by his smooth talk, caust Remembrance Day a statement that did
especially regarding the State of Israel. His not even contain the word Jew. According to
actions, however or rather the words and lack news reports, the White House rejected the state-
of deeds that come from his King Ahasuerus ment drafted by the State Departments Office of
tell a much different story. the Special Envoy on Holocaust
Especially since Bannon took Issues that did specifically mention
over running the Trump campaign, Jewish victims.
and then was named senior adviser Generalizing the Shoah is clas-
to the president, the virulently sic Holocaust denial, which is why
anti-Semitic white nationalist/ Trumps statement was hailed by
the Daily Stormer. The president,
been enthusiastic in its support. it said, was exceeding expecta-
Bannon, they crow, is the answer tions in pushing back against Jew-
to their prayers. ish supremacy.
To David Duke, former Ku Rabbi The statement proved too much
Klux Klan grand wizard, Holo- Shammai even for an ardent Trump sup-
caust-denier, and perpetuator of Engelmayer porter like Mort Klein, president
anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, of the Zionist Organization of
Trumps choice of Bannon was an excellent America. I and ZOA are compelled to express
one, because Bannon is now in a position to our chagrin and deep pain at President Trump,
[create] the ideological aspects of where were Klein said in a statement.
going. To Peter Brimelow, founder of the racist Bannons influence is being felt even more in
website VDare, the appointment is nothing short the White Houses tepid response to the raging
of amazing. flood of anti-Semitism we are experiencing.
When White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer At first, Spicer, clearly influenced by Ban-
reamed the media for its supposedly biased cov- nons politics-over-everything philosophy, could
erage of the inauguration, here is how The Daily not even bring himself to use the word Jewish
Stormer, an obvious would-be successor to the in half-heartedly condemning the attacks. As
Hitler-era Der Strmer, reported on the outburst:
Spicer, the story reported, utterly annihilated
reported by the daily newspaper Haaretz, Spic-
ers statement, like the Holocaust statement ear-
the lying Jews.Wow just wow.What a way to lier, again failed to mention that the target of the
start the era. He makes it clear that these Jews threats have been Jews.
are all liars, and that their lying trickery will not The president, whose busy fingers do the talk-
be tolerated. He slams their lies over the num- ing about fake news and Meryl Streeps acting
bers at the inauguration, which are completely abilities, has never thumbed a word about a sin-
faked.But the filthy lying kikes just lied about gle anti-Semitic incident.
it. As usual. In fact, at one point, before his speech to Con-
gress, Trump even tried to deny there was any
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of outbreak of anti-Semitism. He told a group of vis-
Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades in iting state attorneys general that these acts actu-
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make others look bad, presumably meaning himself
and Bannon, and that the reverse can be true.
To Pennsylvanias attorney general, Josh Shapiro,
saying the reverse can be true sounded as though
Trump was saying Jews themselves were to blame.
If so, it was a tactic straight out of the anti-Semitic
playbook.
The Daily Stormer shared Shapiros assessment.
Trumps remark, it said, may cause the Jewish cul-
prits to quit while theyre ahead.
When finally pushed to the wall, the president
did begin speaking about the spate of attacks. In his
remarks to Congress late last month, Trump refer-
enced the attacks and said they should remind us
thatwe are a country that stands united in condemn-
ing hate and evil in all its forms.
Rather than cheering the president for what he did
- say, jeer him for what he did not say. Again to quote
the Daily Stormer, Trumps remark was thankfully
quick and vague.
- Consider statements made by two other chief exec-
f utives New Yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo and
t New Jerseys Governor Chris Christie.
Given the wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish
community centers and disturbing vandalism at Jew-
- ish cemeteries nationwide, I am directing the state
y police to immediately launch a full investigation into
y this matter, Cuomo said. He added, New York has
, zero tolerance for bias or discrimination of any kind,
- and we will always stand united in the face of anti-
- Semitism and divisiveness.
Cuomo then left for Israel, saying, To those people
who want to destroy our relationship with the Jewish
- community, I say were going to make our relation-
t ship stronger and were going to fortify the bonds.
f Christie, attending last Fridays rally at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, assured the crowd
that New Jersey would prosecute to the full extent of
the law and send to prison the perpetrators of bias
n crimes. He announced a $10,000 reward for informa-
g tion leading to the arrest of the hatemongers. He also
announced that both the state police and the Office of
- Homeland Security and Preparedness were increas-
ing patrols at synagogues and other houses of worship.
Trump has issued no such orders. Politics ber alles
Bannon would not want him to. After all, to launch a
- full investigation into this matter, and to prosecute
- to the full extent of the law and send to prison the
perpetrators of these heinous acts would be to go after
the very people who think Steve Bannon standing at
- the right hand of Donald Trump is excellent and
g amazing.
- Those who cannot remember the past are con-
demned to repeat it, Santayana warned.
- This is Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Remember.
y There is a new Haman in the palace. We may try to
- blot out the name of the old one this weekend each
- time it is mentioned, but remember him we must, all
year round.
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Opinion
A glowing verdict for Judge Wapner
W
e lost a great judge on February 26 when
Joseph A. Wapner, 97, was called to his
eternal rest.
We remember him from The Peoples
Court, the hit daytime television show from the 1980s, but
Judge Wapner also was a strongly identified American Jew. He
once remarked that when he was elected presiding judge over
the Los Angeles Superior Court system in 1961, I was the only
Jew whod ever been elected and I dont know when therell
be another. Between college and law school he served in the
Pacific in World War II, taking shrapnel in his left foot in the
Philippines, and earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. After a
decade as a practicing attorney and over two decades on the Los
Angeles bench, Judge Wapner was selected to serve as the judge
on the hit series The Peoples Court, which began in 1981 and
continued in its original version with Judge Wapner until 1993.
A 1989 Washington Post poll found that while two thirds
of Americans could not name a single justice sitting on the
United States Supreme Court, 54 per cent could identify Judge
Wapner as the judge of The Peoples Court.
Judge Wapner became a symbol for Americans
of the wisdom of good justice and the mediat-
ing role of the judiciary. That is a symbol worth
remembering today.
I, along with several hundred other Jewish
college students, heard Joseph Wapner speak
at a United Synagogue Koach/College Outreach
convention. He was always proud of being Jew-
ish and embraced the opportunity to speak with
us. I cant remember exactly when or where it Rabbi Dr.
was, except that I was about a quarter-century David J. Fine
younger, and that the judges presence and words
ring as loudly in my ears today as they did then.
The immediate impression you got of Judge Wapner was his
dignified and commanding presence. When we stand before a
judge we find ourselves standing taller, reaching for our human-
ity even as we are humbled by authority. The most powerful bra-
cha I recite with people as a rabbi is the traditional blessing we
say when we tear the clothing or ribbon just before a funeral. At
the moment of utmost grief and despair, we acknowledge God
as the True Judge (dayan ha-emet). Modern theologians often
struggle with the implications of those words, but for me they
express not belief but emotion.
A true judge commands our acceptance of the result, even
if it is not what we wanted. We imagine God in our image, just
as we imitate the image of God. This might be why judges are
sometimes referred to as gods in the Torah.
Judge Wapner commanded acceptance of his words. When
he spoke, you listened. Let me remind my readers of a few ele-
ments of The Peoples Court. The judge had a great deal of sought to do.
experience on the bench of a great city, and the litigants were
not actors. The cases were real. The producers would find peo-
ple from small claims court and decide which cases to invite the
litigants to submit to Judge Wapner. The litigants would sign an
arbitration agreement, agreeing to be bound by Judge Wapners
decision in lieu of their civil court proceedings. That excited the the capping principle of general goodness, is the establishment
television audience. Yes, The Peoples Court was the first real- of courts. This is a principle that we need to remember at all
ity TV series, way ahead of the later trend.
I learned from the idea of the The Peoples Court the is being re-examined.
value of arbitration, that the foundation of a legal system,
and ultimately of civilization in general, is the litigants
agreement to follow given rules of procedure and abide by
the results. Later, as I studied for the rabbinate, I developed
a theory of Jewish law as itself an arbitration system. We talk
about rabbinic law, but the original rabbis who developed
this law lived under the rule of Rome. Their authority was
not enforceable except through the willing and voluntary
acceptance of their adherents, much like the way religion
functions today. The basis of law is rooted not in the power
Judge Joseph A. Wapner
of the executive but rather in the consent of the governed.
Understanding, then, how The Peoples Court dealt with
real cases that were selected and televised for commercial pur-
poses, I remember how surprised I was to listen to what Judge
Wapner had to say to us at that Jewish college stu-
dents conference. Whenever he heard a case, he
explained to us, going back to his days on the Los
Angeles bench, he always first would ask to see
the parties in chambers. There he would listen to
what each had to say and try to work out an agree-
ment. In most cases, he was successful in working
out a settlement in lieu of hearing the case.
He told us that of course he understood that we
(and his television audience) enjoyed watching
the drama of courtroom testimony, but that we
should understand that he always saw himself as
a failure if he had to hear the case in trial. Why?
Because the judicial system works best when it
can work out a settlement, usually argued by attorneys, and
often with a judges impartial guidance. Because that way, Judge
Wapner explained to us, each party walks out with something.
When you to go trial there is a winner and a loser.
I would judge the case as best I could, he told us, but no
matter what, half the people who came to me would go home
disappointed.
That lesson I learned that day from Judge Wapner has served
me ever since, as a rabbi and as a human being. We are most civ-
ilized, most cultured, when we can find solutions where every-
one walks away with something. There are times when that does
not work. And for that we have means that are both established
and fair for deciding who and which view prevails. But usually
we are able to work out our differences so there need not be
winners and losers.
Judge Wapner told us that we should do that, as he had always
Judge Wapner served as a symbol for me of what the judiciary
means in society. People always will have disputes with other
people. That is human nature. But the true human society is
the one that elevates judges so that they can resolve disputes.
We learn in the Talmud that the seventh of the Noahide laws,
times, but especially when the nature of society and governance
There is nothing more critical to the moral fabric of a civiliza-
tion than the respect, dignity, and deference given to its judges.
May Judge Wapners memory be for a blessing. Baruch Dayan
Ha-emet. Blessed be the True Judge.
David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center of Ridgewood, holds a doctorate in modern European
history, and is an adjunct professor of Jewish law at the Abraham
Geiger and Zacharias Frankel colleges at the University of
Potsdam in Germany.
Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017 39
Opinion
Rabbinic wisdom on the Muslim ban 120 years later
T
he Immigration Act of 1891
banned polygamists from enter-
ing the United States. It was
passed during the administra-
tion of President Benjamin Harrison. Later,
when he was president, Theodore Roos-
evelt expanded that ban to include all who
believed in polygamy as a religious principle,
whether or not they personally practiced
polygamy or, indeed, whether or not they
were married at all. That is to say, Teddy Roo-
sevelt imposed a Muslim ban in 1907.
Mormons, the target of the 1891 ban, had
formally renounced and prohibited polyg-
amy, and by 1907 the practice had all but
disappeared even among those who had
entered so-called plural marriages before
the 1890 manifesto that changed Latter-day
Saints marital practice. Roosevelts action
thus was directed specifically at Muslims.
It did not take that long, however, for Jew-
ish religious leaders to recognize the earlier
act as transparently religious in motivation
and intent, as well, and to protest such reli-
gious discrimination.
In November of 1897, 120 years ago, Isaac
Mayer Wise rabbi, author, editor, Reform
movement visionary, and Hebrew Union
College founder protested the Muslim
ban in an editorial published in The Ameri-
can Israelite, a leading 19th century Jewish
newspaper. He began by making reference to
Solon, the Athenian law-maker, constitutional
reformer, and poet, who was counted among
Fools for a day
F
or centuries, the ancient Ger-
man city of Worms was a center
of Jewish life and learning.
The community built its first
synagogue in 1034; by the middle of the
seventeenth century, the Jews of Worms
had developed a distinctive set of religious
practices, many unique within Germany.
Much of what we know about their prac-
tices comes from a detailed ritual manual
called the Wormser Minhagbuch (Book
of Customs), composed in 1648 by Juspa
Shammes, the communitys official sex-
ton. With a chroniclers eye for the note-
worthy, Juspa recorded the customs he
witnessed related to the liturgy, holiday
observances, and lifecycle events.
One of the most striking rituals men-
tioned in the Minhagbuch, known as
Shabbat Ha-Bachurim (Boys Sabbath),
took place on the Sabbath following
Purim.
The event began on Friday evening with
a procession of boys making their way
through the Jewish quarter, banners in
hand, behind a leader who danced wildly,
in the dress and manner of a fool. At the
synagogue, the young men took the most
prestigious seats, and in the morning, the
40 Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017
the founding fathers of the legal profession
and thus is a towering and transformative fig-
ure in the principle of society based in law:
Every citizen must be an active partisan
in his state, said Solon, which meant every
man must take an interest in every question
arising in his state or municipality, and take a
decisive stand. Indifference is a sin of omis-
sion, Rabbi Wise wrote. Whatever is to be
done for the benefit and wellbeing of all, is
the duty of each.
Rabbi Wise continued with words of Torah:
Therefore the law of the covenant, formu-
lated in the Decalogue, is in the second per-
son singular, and not in the plural form,
although it was addressed first and foremost
to the whole congregation of Israel.
The practical application of the Sinai cov-
enant, and its implicit call for individual
responsibility and activism in civic affairs and
devotion to the rule of law, was abundantly
clear to Rabbi Wise:
Our newly amended immigration law
bars out Moslems on the ground that they
believe in the Koran, which, in turn, teaches
polygamy, he wrote. It is as plainly against
the spirit and letter of the constitution as pur-
chasing a senatorship.
Rabbi Wises reference to buying a seat
in the Senate may have been about Sena-
tor Mark Hana of Ohio, who was alleged to
have secured his election, at least in part,
through bribery. Rabbi Wise, who presided
over a congregation in Cincinnati throughout
boys received all the honors (except for the
rabbis blessing on the Torah), which could
be traded for gifts of wine. Objections were
disregarded. In short, Juspa writes, the
Boys Sabbath takes precedence, custom
uproots the law, and the boys have the
upper hand.
While the Boys Sabbath was unique
to Worms, many Jewish communities in
various places and times held topsy-turvy
themed Purim celebrations. Children were
made rabbis, kings, or queens for a day,
mockery of communal and religious lead-
ers was tolerated, and despite the usual
prohibition, cross-dressing was permit-
ted. (Some of those practices in form, if
not content bear a strong resemblance
to folk observances like the medieval Feast
of Fools and pre-Lenten carnivals).
Social historians call such role-reversal
ceremonies rituals of inversion. The
function they serve in society, aside from
providing an entertaining spectacle, is
a subject of debate. A plausible theory
holds that displays of inversion and mock-
ery reinforce, rather than undermine, the
social order of traditional, hierarchical
societies. Institutionalized parody, allowed
one day a year, helps maintain the norms
the protracted scandal, was
writing as a critical and civic-
minded constituent of the
embattled senator. The allu-
sion must have been far from
subtle in 1897 Ohio.
Rabbi Wises editorial in
defense of prospective Mus-
lim immigrants to the United
States is a forgotten gem of Rabbi Joseph
American Jewish history H. Prouser
and rabbinic leadership. Not
only is it prescient in its anticipation of
events 120 years later, but with erudition
and moral clarity, it draws a direct line
of development from Israels covenantal
tradition to the Greek crucible of western
civilization, grounded in the rule of law,
to the Constitution of the United States.
Rabbi Wise taught us that much is at stake
in the manner in which America responds
to its constitutional obligations, and in
how individual Americans hold their lead-
ers and their president accountable.
The American Jewish community is quite
properly carefully attuned to the evil of
encroachments on religious liberty, care-
fully attuned to the Constitutions hortatory James Madison, just as Madisons legacy was
protections against religious tests, and all carried on effectively by Rabbi Isaac Mayer
too aware that mistreatment of any religious
group also bodes ill for the Jewish people.
George Washington admonished all his fel-
low Americans: While we are contending for
our own liberty, we should be very conscious
and values of society.
The inversion proves the
rule.
If rituals like the Boys Sab-
bath fulfill a particular social
function, we still have to
explain why they are associ-
ated with Purim. The answer,
of course, is that inversion is
the key to Megillat Esther. If David S.
any Jewish holiday deserves Zinberg
its own inversion ritual, it is
Purim.
The Megillahs symmetrical structure is
unique within the Bible. The first chapters
build toward a turning point, when a thin-
skinned, volatile, and easily manipulated
king orders Haman to hold a parade in
Mordechais honor instead of signing off
on his execution, as Haman expected.
From there, things move rapidly in
reverse.
On the opposite side of the Megillahs cli-
max, verses repeat themselves nearly ver-
batim, but in mirror image: Haman went
out happy and lighthearted is inverted
into Haman hurried home, his head
covered in mourning. First, the city of
Shushan was dumbfounded; later, the
of violating the rights of con-
science in others, ever con-
sidering that God alone is the
judge of the hearts of men, and
to Him only in this case they
are answerable. More to the
point, President James Madi-
son, a seminal jurist and, as it
happens, a scholar of Hebrew,
cautioned Americans to be
mindful of our history:
The people of the United
States owe their independence and their
liberty to the wisdom of descrying in the
minute tax of three pence on tea, the mag-
nitude of the evil comprised in the prec-
edent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in
watching against every evil lurking under
plausible disguises, and growing up from
small beginnings.
Madison concluded his timeless mes-
sage in Latin: Obsta Principiis: Resist the
beginnings.
Solon was right. Society is well governed
when its people obey the magistrates, and the
magistrates obey the law, he wrote. Solon
had a worthy and gifted disciple in President
Wise. Rabbi Wise died in Cincinnati in 1900,
just days short of his 81st birthday. His wis-
dom in 1897, his understanding of our obliga-
tions both as Americans and as Jews, remains
a vital, living legacy.
city of Shushan rang with joy-
ous cries. Great mourning
among the Jews, with fast-
ing, weeping, and wailing
is transformed into glad-
ness and joy among the Jews,
a feast, and a holiday. The
reader can almost fold the
text along an axis of symme-
try that divides the winding
action from its unwinding.
Near the Megillahs conclu-
sion, the phrases ve-nahafokh hu (the
opposite happened) and ha-chodesh
asher nehepakh (the month that was
transformed) draw the readers attention
to the leitmotif.
La-hafokh means to reverse or
transform, but it also means to destroy
to subvert, rather than invert. God
upended (hafakh) Sodom and Gomor-
rah. In forty days, Nineveh shall be
upended (nehepakhet), in the words of
Jonahs unfulfilled prophecy. The same
root can also denote social or political
upheaval. In modern Hebrew, mahape-
khah is a revolution.
The sight of order turned to chaos,
truth replaced by lies, and children

Isaac Mayer Wise
His message thus enjoys the blessing of
long, health life bestowed upon Moses,
enshrined in the closing chapter of the Torah:
He was 120 years old when he died, with his
eyes undimmed, his vigor unabated.
May those who take up Rabbi Wises
cause in the moral crisis of 2017 be simi-
larly rewarded. As Rabbi Wise wrote in 1897,
Take a decisive stand. Indifference is a sin
of omission.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
impersonating leaders is funny, and per-
haps socially stabilizing, so long as it is also
temporary and reversible. We can laugh
at the parodies of a Purim shpiel because
we know that reality will take over at the
plays conclusion.
Permanent social inversion, on the other
hand, is a story of madness, not irony. It is
the plotline of false messiahs who shout
slogans like cultural revolution and lets
take our country back and the decon-
struction of the administrative state. But
the grand bargain they strike with their fol-
lowers to redeem society by means of its
destruction is a fraud. Visionaries who
see an apocalypse as the first step along
the path to a glorious future succeed only
in delivering the first step, with all of its
misery. Their utopia never materializes.
That narrative is no cause for celebration.
May the inversions of Purim always
bring much delight, and at the same time
provide a renewed appreciation for a right-
side up world. And may they always last no
more than a day.
David S. Zinberg lives in Teaneck with his
wife and three sons. He works in financial
services.
Facile analogies do not edify
L
ast week, Senator Bernie
Sanders spoke to the annual
J Street policy conference,
held in Washington, D.C.
Senator Sanders, who is widely
seen as the head of the progres-
sive wing of the Democratic party,
articulated his vision for an Israeli-
Palestinian peace process. He reit-
erated many of the themes that he Rabbi
had laid out during his unsuccessful Nathaniel
run for the presidency last year to Helfgot
the 3,500 participants there. These
themes included his strong backing
for a two-state solution and for a territorial compromise by
Israel in a negotiated settlement.
Moreover, he once again critiqued many Israeli actions over
the course of the last number of years, including its prosecu-
tion of the war in Gaza in the summer of 2014. He further
made the point, which is unassailable, that it is possible to be
opposed to the Netanyahu government without being anti-
Israel or anti-Semitic, just as it is possible to be opposed to the
Trump administration without being anti-American or any-
thing other than an American patriot.
Unfortunately, Senator Sanders also included a section in
this speech that is deeply troubling and reflects a tin ear to
the historical, religious, and political self-understanding and
reality of the Jewish people, the modern-Zionist movement,
and the reality of Jewish history.
Senator Sanders said:
I think it is very important for everyone, but particularly
for progressives, to acknowledge the enormous achievement
of establishing a democratic homeland for the Jewish people
after centuries of displacement and persecution, and particu-
larly after the horror of the Holocaust.
But as you all know, there was another side to the story of
Israels creation, a more painful side. Like our own country,
the founding of Israel involved the displacement of hundreds
of thousands of people already living there, the Palestinian
people. Over 700,000 people were made refugees.
To acknowledge this painful historical fact does not dele-
gitimize Israel, any more than acknowledging the Trail of
Tears delegitimizes the United States of America.
A number of elements in this presentation are troubling.
First, the analogy to the Trail of Tears experience of native
Americans is deeply flawed. The Trail of Tears refers to the
explicit and official governmental policy of the forced removal
of tens of thousands of native Americans by the U.S. govern-
ment during the 1830s and 1840s. These acts were carried out
as part of Indian removal laws and executive actions that were
part of the master plan of the U.S. government of the time.
Whatever the exact causes of the Palestinian refugee phenom-
enon in 1948 may be and historians continue to debate them
an unassailable fact is that the refugee crisis emerged in the
context of Israels War of Independence and its struggle to
survive in the midst of attack by many Arab nations as well as
local Palestinian militias and irregulars.
As noted historian Benny Morris concluded in discussing
his nuanced research on the topic in his 2004 book, The
Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited,:
The book that emerged undermined both the official
Zionist and the traditional Arab narratives. The documents
showed that the 700,000 or so Arabs who had fled or been
driven from their homes in the area that became the state
of Israel in 1948-49 had not done so, by and large, on orders
from or at the behest of Palestinian or outside Arab leaders,
as Israelis were educated to believe; but, at the same time,
they had not been expelled by the Israelis in compliance with
a preset master plan or in line with a systematic policy, as the
Opinion
In 2015, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) delivers an
address at the Brookings Institution.
 Paul Morigi Photography/Brookings Institution via Flickr.com
Arabs, in their demonization of Israel, have been taught.
Second, the analogy speaks to a profound misreading of the
historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel.
The European settlers who came to the new world, beginning
with Columbus, indeed were colonialists and imperialists who
would have worn that badge proudly. They did come and dis-
place an indigenous population from a land to which they, the
Europeans, had no historical, religious, or political ties.
In sharp contrast, the Zionist movement was a movement
of return of a people to its historic homeland, for which
it yearned and to which it retained its ties for two thousand
years. Those ties include the uninterrupted presence of a
small group of Jews who remained through the thick and
thin of history and persecution. Indeed, the classical Hebrew
term for the Zionist enterprise was and is shivat Tzion the
return to Zion.
It is true that the old Zionist slogan, a people without a
land returning to a land without a people, was false in that
there were other groups of people living in the land when the
masses of Jews began to return. This, of course, is part of the
tragedy of the reality of two indigenous peoples and two his-
torical narratives in conflict over one small parcel of land. The
distortion of the Jewish peoples connection to the land, how-
ever, and their buying into the classic Palestinian narrative of
the white European Jewish settlers as colonialists and imperi-
alists should not be the lingua franca of Jewish progressives.
The Jewish people did not simply establish a homeland, as
Senator Sanders said, but were returning to a homeland.
This critical point cannot be emphasized enough, and it is a
point that progressive Jews especially must be willing to artic-
ulate to themselves and to the world. It is then, with a sense
of truth and the recognition of our own narrative and history
and justice, that we can then pivot and recognize the mistakes
and pain we have also caused to Palestinians in our legitimate
struggle to return to our home.
It is only then that we can truly engage in any painful com-
promise and negotiation which will, we hope, lead to peace,
security, and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Nathaniel Helfgot is the rabbi of Congregation Netivot Shalom
in Teaneck.
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Letters
A Palestinian state would
be bad for Israel, U.S. too
We all know why the creation of a Palestinian state now
would be dangerous for Israel the indefensible bor-
ders, the vulnerable airports, the lack of water sources
(The one state solution: The prescription that kills the
patient, March 3). But lets consider why a Palestinian
state would be dangerous for America.
Turmoil and instability: The Palestinians have a long
record of fomenting regional instability. In 1970, they
provoked an armed conflict with King Hussein of Jordan
that resulted in the deaths of thousands. They instigated
a civil war in Lebanon that resulted in the deaths of
thousands. Its only a matter of time before a Palestinian
state would stir up turmoil and mayhem throughout the
region. That kind of chaos, in such a sensitive region of
the world, is the last thing the U.S. needs.
Proxy for rogues: The Palestinians always have
allied themselves with the most extreme and aggres-
sive regimes in the world: in the old days, it was the
Soviet Union; today, its North Korea and Iran. Pal-
estine would quickly invite Iranian volunteers and
North Korean missiles. It would become a proxy-state
for the worlds worst rogue regimes. How would an
Iranian port in Gaza be good for America?
Against American values: We can already see from
the Palestinian Authoritys practices over the past
23 years what kind of state it would have. Islam will
be the state religion. Elections will be held rarely, if
ever. (Mahmoud Abbas is in the 12th year of his four-
year term of office.) Critics of the regime will be sup-
pressed. Labor unions will be harassed. Prisoners will
be tortured. Christians will be intimidated. Women
will be second-class citizens. The Islamist and authori-
tarian values embodied by the Palestinian state will be
the exact opposite of the democratic and pluralistic
values that we Americans cherish.
Enemy of America: A Palestinian state would be an
actively anti-American state in word and deed. How do
we know? Just look at what the Palestinian Authority
has been teaching its people, and especially its chil-
dren, for the past two decades. The PAs media and
schools portray the United States as racist, colonial,
and war-mongering. They accuse the U.S. of carrying
out the 9/11 attacks, spreading disease and immorality,
and conspiring against Islam.
A Palestinian state will promote hatred of America,
vote against the U.S. in international forums, and align
itself with radical Third World regimes. The world
already has plenty of America-hating countries. Why
do we need yet another?
One of the more remarkable things about the PAs
behavior has been its habit of taking $500-million from
the U.S. every year and then turning around and nam-
ing streets, parks, schools, and sports competitions
after terrorists who have murdered Americans. If this
is how the PA acts now, when it desperately needs U.S.
support for its statehood campaign, just imagine how
it will act when it has a sovereign state and no longer
needs American assistance.
Undermining Americas ally: Israel has always
been Americas closest friend and most reliable ally.
As a matter of principle, and as a matter of strategic
wisdom, the United States should always stand by
its friends. To set up a Palestinian state along Isra-
els borders would pose a grave danger to our ally. It
would also undermine the confidence of all of Amer-
icas allies, and call into doubt the value of Americas
promises.
Dragging the U.S. into overseas conflicts: Israel has
never asked the United States to defend it militarily.
The Israelis fight their own battles. But if a weakened,
42 Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017
shrunken Israel is in danger of being overrun by a Pal-
estinian-Iranian-North Korean onslaught, there will be
tremendous pressure on the United States to take mili-
tary action rather than see its closest ally destroyed.
Thus the U.S. could find itself dragged into an overseas
conflict that was entirely preventable.
In every conceivable respect, a Palestinian state would
be bad for America bad for American values, bad for
American interests, and bad for Americas allies.
Stephen M. Flatow
Long Branch
Stephen Flatow is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was
murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist
attack in 1995. He is a vice president of the Religious
Zionists of America.
Disagreeing with Rabbi Boteach
Early and late Hitler
I share Rabbi Boteachs outrage over dragging the started by giving the deplorables permission to come
unspeakable Hitler into polemics with American poli-
ticians one does not like (Comparing Trump to Hitler
trivializes the Holocaust, March 3). There is, however,
a nuance that the rabbi ignores.
There is the early Hitler and the late Hitler. The latter
was the chronic initiator of wars and the mad exter-
minator of vast groups of people, a man who can be
compared only with Stalin and Mao. But the early Hit-
ler, as the leader of a political party, reached for power
by practicing the big lie technique use many lies,
exaggerate them, repeat them.
That procedure is not so different from that of the man
who began his political career with a six year crusade to
delegitimize an American president by means of mul-
tiple lies about Obamas birth certificate and continued
by setting an all time record in American politics for bra-
zen lying about almost everything, as established by var-
ious fact-checking organizations. In that regard, Trump
is indeed comparable to Hitler, the early Hitler. All of
which is not to say that he will turn into the later Hitler,
a suggestion that is indeed beyond the pale.
Manfred Weidhorn
Fair Lawn
Making Germany great again
In response to Rabbi Boteachs March 3 column (Com-
paring Trump to Hitler trivializes the Holocaust). I
could not disagree with it more. Rabbi Boteach criti-
cizes Phil Murphy for his November 20 remarks, when,
according to Boteach, Mr. Murphy compared Donald
Trumps rise to power to the ascension of Adolf Hitler
in Germany.
Nowhere in the rabbis column does he suggest
that Mr. Murphy indicated that the comparison
between Trump and Hitler has anything to do with
anti-Semitism.
Any understanding of the rise of Hitler in 1930s Ger-
many shows that it was much more insidious than the
horror of anti-Semitism. Hitlers ability to convince an
entire nation of civilized people to follow him in his
madness was due to very careful manipulation of the
German people. We must remember that Hitler had to
gain total power before he could unleash his horror
upon the world. The Holocaust was the result of Hit-
lers total control of the German people. His method-
ology to gain that power is what Trump has followed.
Trump tries to delegitimize anyone who disagrees
with him. He tweets his vitriol and has no filter on his
language or the scope of his charges. The more outra-
geous the tweets, the more obscene the charges and
allegations, the more Trump emulates Hitlers modus
operandi. The comparison between Hitler and Trump
(and many other totalitarian dictators) is easy to see.
At the time of Hitlers rise to power, Germany was
suffering from horrific economic conditions. Hitler
came along and told them that their country was great
and that with his leadership he would make Germany
great again Deutschland Uber Alles Germany
above all others. He then laid Germanys problems at
the feet of the scapegoat, the Jews.
Trump has laid all the problems of the United States
at the feet of his scapegoats, Mexicans, Muslims, and
anyone else who has the temerity to disagree with him.
His language, his disgusting behavior, and his outra-
geous lies, day in and day out, are directly out of Hit-
lers playbook. Trump follows Joseph Goebbels rule
tell a lie big enough and loud enough and often enough
and people will believe you.
Hitler succeeded by whipping up the bigotry and
anti-Semitism of that portion of the German popu-
lation for whom these views were red meat. Trump
out from under their rocks and begin to spew their
filth and hate publicly against whichever group the
particular deplorable wished to target.
Every speech and rally at which Trump spoke
increased the deplorables fervor. Then, as in Ger-
many, people who were being disadvantaged by eco-
nomic or social dislocation bought into the Trump
philosophy. Trump built his majority in exactly the
same way that Hitler built his.
It is interesting to note that Hitler never broke the
laws of Germany. However, he did engineer to have a
legislature and a judiciary that would never disagree
with him. If they did, they were removed quickly.
I am a first generation American. My mother came
here from Russia as a small child in 1906 and my father
from Austria-Hungry in 1920. Much of my fathers fam-
ily perished in the Holocaust. I do not trivialize the
Holocaust. Neither do I believe that Trump is an anti-
Semite. The fact that his targets are not Jews does not
mean that his rise to power cannot be compared with
Hitlers rise to power. Sadly, there are many more simi-
larities between these two demagogues than there are
differences.
I believe firmly that our government is much stron-
ger than the government that existed in Germany in
the 1930s. I believe that even with its dysfunctional-
ity, our Congress and our judiciary will prevent our
beloved country from the horror that Hitler brought
down on Germany and the entire world.
It would behoove Rabbi Boteach to apologize to Phil
Murphy and to all Americans who have no trouble see-
ing that which is so obvious. We have elected a despi-
cable excuse for a human being to be our president.
We must continue to speak out each and every day that
he continues to try to destroy the soul of America.
Vicki Rosenblith
Upper Saddle River
Rabbi Boteach misses the point
I read with great interest Rabbi Boteachs editorial
(Comparing Trump to Hitler trivializes the Holo-
caust, March 3) about Phil Murphys comparison of
Trumps rise to Adolph Hitlers rise in Germany. Rabbi
Boteach takes great umbrage with Murphys words but
I feel he completely misses the point.
During the campaign, our president made many
statements that I would compare to statements of any
dictator, especially Hitler. Why isnt Rabbi Boteach
upset by statements by Trump that incites to violence
(Carry him out on a stretcher)? Why isnt he upset

by statements that demean the press and journalists?
Why isnt he upset when Trump makes statements
with lies, false numbers, and screeds against immi-
grants? ( I venture to guess that Rabbi Boteachs ances-
tors were immigrants).
Journalists unveil the truth whether we like it or not.
Trump, like the bully he likes to play, doesnt like the
truth. But instead of disagreeing, as a president should,
he descends into invective and often inciteful language.
Is that a problem for Rabbi Boteach? Apparently not.
What bothers him are the comparisons with Hitler.
My parents made it through the Holocaust and Aus-
chwitz, and they told me plenty of stories of Nazis.
Trump and his words to me are more menacing and
frightful than Murphys comparison of him to Hitler.
Jews should not be spooked with any mention of Hitler.
The comparisons are there. Rabbi Boteach may be too
nave to see them. Just remember, Hitler was elected in
a democracy, and we see where that led.
Harry Katz
Wyckoff
Serious about never again
I was very disappointed to read Rabbi Shmuley Bote-
achs March 3 op ed, Comparing Trump to Hitler trivi-
alizes the Holocaust. As the daughter of a Holocaust
survivor, the last thing in the world Id want to do is to
trivialize the Holocaust, but I take the words never
again seriously, as should every Jewish person.
It is quite easy to see the parallels between what is
going on in our country today and Nazi Germany. For
starters, one has to look no further than our presi-
dents demonizing of the press, yelling fake news
every time information that he prefers to suppress
comes out. How different is that from Hitler and his
cohorts labeling reporters, lgenpresse or lying
press, as they were called in Nazi Germany?
Was Rabbi Boteach not paying attention when
Trump asked his followers at a rally to pledge their
loyalty to him personally and not to the country? They
were practically, as a group, and sometimes, literally,
as individuals, offering the Seig Heil on his command.
One literally would have to have blinders on not to
see the parallels between how Hitler came to power by
scapegoating immigrants and religious minorities and
how Trump came to power doing the same. The differ-
ence is that Hitlers targets were Jewish, and in Trumps
case they are a mixture of Muslims and Mexicans so
far. It is anything but trivial not to want to see what hap-
pened to the Jewish people at the hands of a demagogue
happen to another vulnerable societal out-group.
I think most Jewish people know that having Jewish
family members does not in itself disqualify someone
from being an anti-Semite, especially when the deci-
sion to bring Jewish people into the family was not
their own.
Did Rabbi Boteach not know that Trumps wife
Ivana revealed in 1990 that her husband kept a book
of Hitlers speeches by his bedside? I think that before
writing his article, the rabbi had a responsibility to
have researched this information. What was Trumps
response at the time? He admitted it, and said that his
friend, Marty Davis from Paramount Pictures, gave
him the book and that he was a Jew. When asked, Davis
confirmed that he gave him My New Order and that
he was Trumps friend but that he was not Jewish.
Not only do I find it troubling that Trump, who doesnt
read very much, spent time reading Hitlers speeches,
but I also find it troubling that Trump assumed that
his friend was Jewish just because he worked in Holly-
wood. Its all very troubling when you look at it.
In the context of what Trump recently said in a
conversation with Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh
Shapiro, his idea that recent desecrations of Jewish
cemeteries could possibly be the reverse of what they
seem, Vice President Pences photo op at a Jewish cem-
etery, referenced by Boteach in his article, seems pretty
empty. Trumps words blamed our own community for
these attacks, and that can only fuel the fires of anti-Sem-
itism amongst his followers, many of whom have already
shown a strong proclivity in that direction.
Rabbi Boteach conveniently avoided the entire sub-
ject of Steve Bannon, Trumps choice for chief strat-
egist, along with Bannons personal and professional
history of anti-Semitic statements and promoting
white supremacy on a website, in print media, and on
film. These are pretty big things to overlook, yet Bote-
ach manages to do just that by failing to include and
address the subject.
When Rabbi Boteach pointed out that Hitler ran
gas chambers that killed 100,000 Jews a day, he con-
veniently left out the fact that he was comparing the
culmination of Hitlers activities with the first 30 days
of Trumps reign. Trump has been doing or saying
something more horrible and extreme almost every
day since the start of his campaign. This stuff is esca-
lating. Already Trump is rounding up minorities and
ripping children out of their mothers arms in deten-
tion camps. We as Jewish people cant look away; if we
did that, it would be an obscenity. Phil Murphys astute
and courageous decision to point out the obvious par-
allels between Donald Trump and his administration
and the leaders of the Third Reich is not an obscen-
ity, as Boteach characterizes it. It is a responsibility of
decent leadership.
What was most insulting to my intelligence was Bote-
achs repeated reference to Trump as being democrat-
ically elected and to Phil Murphys inability to accept Murphys exact quote was, I have lived in Germany
the results of the election in the context of the cred-
ible reports of Russian interference in our election. To
call Trump democratically elected in the context of the
improper actions of the FBI, which chose to remain
silent about what it knew about the interference of
that foreign power before the election, while releas-
ing baseless and confusing trivial material about Hill-
ary Clinton, is preposterous and outrageous. It is com-
pletely rational to not accept the results of this election
along with Donald Trump and his crew of accomplices.
Boteach wrote this nonsensical statement about
Murphys audience reaction: the reception his audi-
ence gave his speech they were silent being equally
disappointing. People who call themselves progres-
sives should exhibit progressive values, which reject
genocide, intolerance, anti-Semitism, and demagogu-
ery. How is not accepting Trump, who selected a
vice-president who is intolerant of gay people, a chief
strategist who is a virulent anti-Semite and promoter
of white supremacy, and an attorney general who has
worked against civil rights for racial minorities, not
rejecting genocide intolerance and anti-Semitism? How
is not accepting Trump, who is a textbook demagogue,
not rejecting demagoguery? Anyone who apologizes
for and supports Trump in any way is someone who is,
at the moment, accepting intolerance, anti-Semitism,
and demagoguery, and history has shown how this can
escalate, when not opposed, into genocide.
Rabbi Boteach might be a kindly ostrich who refuses
to look at the obvious parallels between where our
country is now and what occurred in Hitlers Germany
and the striking parallels between Hitler and Trump,
but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck He
might be overlooking the multitude of reasons why
Trump is unfit for the office he is in because he likes
Trumps stand on Jerusalem, but that is truly making a
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deal with the devil. Trump does know how to say what
people want to hear, but his track record in business
shows his words are just as likely to be empty prom-
ises as not.
Our community has to be too smart to fall for his
tricks and above being bought. I found it horrifying
that a respected leader of the Jewish community chose
to enable this demagogue and to belittle those who
recognize Trump for who he is and what he does. It
takes more than just saying never again you have
to put your actions and integrity behind those words.
The world is watching the American Jewish commu-
nity, and history will judge us for how we respond at
this time. Now is the time to act with courage, compas-
sion and the wisdom we have hopefully gained from
our great loss and suffering. Nothing trivializes the
Holocaust more than the Jewish people who have not
learned from it.
Lori Joachim Fredrics
Park Ridge
Rabbi Boteachs column
was in Breitbart first
Rabbi Shmuley Boteachs op ed (Comparing Trump
to Hitler trivializes the Holocaust, March 3) sadly suf-
fers from a dubious interpretation of Mr. Phil Murphys
remarks concerning President Donald Trump. Rabbi
Boteach vilifies Murphy with what feels like the same
tactics that Mr. Trump uses: taking a statement and
manipulating its meaning beyond its actual wording.
The comparison Murphy made was to the Adolph
Hitler who promised upon his ascendancy to power to
uphold the constitution and govern for the good of the
nation. Hitler then proceeded to denigrate the opposi-
tion party and vilify the media.
twice once as a private citizen and once as the United
States ambassador, and Im a modest student of Ger-
many history. And I know what was being said about
somebody else in the 1920s. And you could unfortu-
nately drop in names from today into those observa-
tions from the 1920s, and the moves that have been
made early on only aid and abet that argument.
That does not sound like hyperbole to me it sounds
like an authentic description of the political disarray in
which this country now finds itself.
It is hardly necessary to go into the many shrill and
bizarre statements that Donald Trump has made in the
nearly eight weeks of his presidency. His accusations
against the media (the lying media enemy of the
American people) are accusations that plainly mirror
those of Adolph Hitler. One need not be a fanatic to
Hitlers degree to share some of the same nefarious
attributes. Both leaders are unfit by temperament and
experience, and pose a potential danger to democratic
norms.
Finally, Rabbi Boteach might also want to consider
whether writings like his should also be appearing
in online publications like Breitbart, where his essay
appeared word for word even before the Jewish Stan-
dard arrived in our homes. With friends like Steve Ban-
nons Breitbart News, Rabbi Boteachs protestations
carry an eerie irony.
Norman Levin
Teaneck
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Opinion

A UN task for President Trump

F
or those of us who
spent much of 2016,
based upon then-
candidate Donald
Trumps own bombastic dec-
larations, worrying about the
thrust of the foreign policy
of a future Trump adminis-
tration, President Trumps
address to Congress on Feb- Ben Cohen
ruary 28 provided welcome
relief.
As ever, precise details were scarce and important
shifts of direction went unacknowledged, but the
underlying message was clear and it was notably
more centrist in orientation. Trump correctly identi-
fied radical Islamic terror as Americas prime enemy,
but he also spoke of the importance of our Muslim
allies, thereby offering the clearest clarification yet
that we are not at war with Islam as a whole.
Americas key alliance with Israel shunted aside
by President Barack Obama, and veritably demonized
by the far-right figures who endorsed Trump during
the electionwas underlined with enthusiasm. Trump
also gave a thoughtful endorsement of NATO, pointing
out that the alliance was forged in the bonds of two
World Wars and the Cold War. This last point was par-
ticularly gratifying, as it emphasized the shared experi-
ence of fighting totalitarianism that remains the foun- ambassador nikki haley un Photo/ManuEl Elias

dation of our alliances from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

That was a time like now, when we face rogue regimes
such as Iran and North Korea, and so it is precisely a
time to recall that history. Revealingly, mention of Rus-
sia touted by candidate Trump as an ally in the war
against Islamic State even as he poured scorn on NATO
was absent from the speech to Congress entirely.
If democratic principles are going to inform U.S. for-
eign policy if, in the words of John Adams, Ameri-
can benedictions and prayers will live wherever
the standard of freedom and independence has been
or shall be unfurled then it is right that we recog-
nize the value of our historic alliance with our fellow
democracies. But affirming those principles shouldnt
blind us to those international institutions that have
dominated the post-World War II global order, yet are
in sore need of dramatic reform.
The United Nations wasnt featured as a topic in
Trumps address, but his new U.N. ambassador, Nikki
Haley, has been making bold efforts to revitalize Amer-
icas support for Israel from the nadir of last Decem-
bers abstention on a Security Council vote that harshly
criticized the Jewish state. Haley has made clear her
distaste for the U.N.s systemic bias against Israel; in
that vein, the Trump administration is reconsidering
its participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council, cit-
ing that bodys obsession with condemning Israel as
the main reason.
Those who believe that a U.S. withdrawal from the
UNHRC would be ill-advised and hasty should remem-
ber that the council has had more than a decade to
get its act together. Created in 2006, the UNHRC suc-
ceeded the former Commission on Human Rights, a
body that was similarly obsessed with Israel. At the
time, there were vague hopes that the UNHRC would
expend more energy on the gravest abusers, but the
wildly disproportionate attention upon Israel has per-
sisted. Nor has the UNHRC prevented grievous human
rights abusers, from Venezuela to Saudi Arabia, from
serving as members and participating in its decisions.
The Trump
administration is
reconsidering its
participation in the
U.N. Human Rights
Council, citing that
bodys obsession with
condemning Israel as
the main reason.
Thats because in the U.N.s universe, having an appall-
ing human rights record never disqualifies you from
judging the human rights records of others.
Unless, that is, you happen to be Israel.
If confronting this blatant discrimination against a
state that was first admitted to the U.N. in 1949 is to be
a marker of the Trump administrations approach to
the international body, then its important to realize
that the battle is much wider than simply the UNHRC.
The deeper rot that needs to be addressed set in more
than 40 years ago on November 10, 1975, to be exact.
On that date, the U.N. General Assembly passed the
Soviet-inspired Resolution 3379, equating Zionism with
racisma resolution that was rescinded in 1991. Less
well-known is another resolution passed on that day
3376, which created the grandly named Committee on
the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People, giving us the unwieldy acronym CEIRPP.
The inalienable rights that this committee rep-
resents include, as Resolution 3376 makes unambig-
uously clear, the exercise by Palestinians of their
inalienable right to return to their homes and property
from which they have been displaced and uprooted.
Note the terminology used here not Palestinian ref-
ugees of the 1948 war, but all Palestinians, including
those born after 1948 in the Arab world, in Europe, in
North America, and in Latin America. It doesnt take
tremendous insight to realize that it is a formula for the
elimination of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel.
That is the very same formula that drives the BDS hate
campaign against Israel and gives it the undeserved
gloss of human rights.
For more than 40 years longer, when you remem-
ber that the U.N. set up its first Israel-bashing commit-
tee, thewait for itSpecial Committee to Investigate
Israeli Human Rights Practices Affecting the Palestin-
ian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territo-
ries yes, SCIIHRPOAOT in 1968, the United States,
Israel, and other democratic nations have devoted
precious resources to the U.N., even as it deepened
its institutionalized anti-Zionism. Since 1979, the
CEIRPP has been serviced by a Division for Palestinian
Rights, churning out an endless stream of anti-Israel
propaganda through international conferences and
publications.
(And no, there isnt a division for Tibetan rights, or
for Kurdish rights.)
All this costs around $6 million annually. In interna-
tional organizational terms, thats unremarkable, but
when you consider how the money is spent, its little
short of obscene. We would like to imagine that fact is
one that President Trump will grasp instinctively, and
act upon accordingly.
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.

44 Jewish standard MarCh 10, 2017

 Dvar Torah

Tetzave: The ideal Jew

P
arashat Tetzave asked God to Please send priest and prophet: The role of the are but exercises to develop a person-
brings something somebody else. God was priest was dynastic. Until today, who is ality that will allow us to become Gods
new to the Torah angr y with Moses and a cohen? The son of a cohen! The same partners in recreating his creation for the
reading since we appointed Aaron to go with the levites. Those who were dedi- better each day. The priest is the one who
started the book of Exodus. with him, dividing the two cated to the work of the Tabernacle got will assure Jewish continuity through
It is a parasha where Moses roles Moses should fulfill, their jobs from their fathers. maintaining the common bond of coming
is not mentioned! Our Sages that of a spiritual leader, a But the role of the prophet was not together to share the spirituality of Juda-
tried to explain this rarity prophet, and that of a more inherited. The sons of Moses were not ism. The prophet will make sure we stay
in different ways. The Vilna physical leader, a priest. prophets. focused in our mission as Jews to repre-
Gaon explained it by link- Rabbi Alberto Our parasha is centered The priest was related to his office. sent our values.
ing the parasha to the Jew- (Baruch) on the figure of the priest, There was no room for personality or Our parasha starts with God command-
ish Calendar: Moses died on Zeilicovich the cohen: his task at the charisma. Compare that with the differ- ing the people to bring oil to have an
the seventh day of Adar, the Temple Beth Tabernacle, the garments ent personalities of the prophets, each of eternal light in the tent of meeting. We
Sholom, Fair Lawn,
time when commonly we Conservative he wears, and the Taberna- whom had his own style. The priest did have an eternal light in our synagogues
read Tetzaveh, and that loss cle where he performs his his job in silence. The prophet did his in front of the ark. It was Moses who lit
is reflected in the text. sacred work. with spoken words. the fire in the souls of the Jews, but Aaron
The Baal Haturim explains: So what is missing is not Time didnt matter for prophets. made it an eternal light. Both represent
In the following parasha, Moses asks God only Moses, but his role: the prophet. Whenever the vision came was the time the ideal Jew, the one who finds in his tra-
to forgive the people and if not..blot me Jewish values and tradition and the for action. The priest lived and was ruled dition and rituals the source to become
out of the book you have written. The Tal- spirit of the Torah were built by the by the calendar. He used words like holy, a light for the nations while making
mud teaches that a curse of a Sage comes two characters of priest and prophet, pure, and impure to instruct and distin- sure the next generation will continue
true even if it is conditional, so Moses navi and cohen. (True, there were some guish, to heal. But it was the prophet who to fulfill the vision given to Abraham: to
name was blotted out for one week. important kings, but they were con- didnt let ritual itself become idolatry, become a living blessing.
The Panea Raz a linked Moses fronted many times by the prophets reminding the nation that peoplehood
absence in the parasha with the inci- when their deeds didnt measure up.) and brotherhood is the ultimate goal of Based on a commentary by Rabbi
dent at the burning bush, when Moses There is a great difference between religion. The repeated ways of worship Jonathan Sacks

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The Frazzled Housewife
What am I? Chopped liver?
Banji Ganchrow
A
irport travel has
become very stress-
ful. You have to plan
your outfit to fit into
security guidelines and this
is coming from a person who
wears a Billy Joel concert T-shirt
and extra large yoga pants Banji
almost every day. (Full disclo- Ganchrow
sure I dont actually do yoga, I
just find the pants very comfort-
able.) And when you buy them online from
Old Navy, they are also very reasonable.
In any case, for someone who is sensitive so appealing and there was no way I was
of her bat wings thats what we middle- throwing it out, so I asked to speak with
aged flabby ladies like to call our upper arms his supervisor. The supervisor informed
if we are going to wear a tank top, we are
going to be wearing a sweater or jacket to
cover the arm situation. Nobody needs to
be seeing any of that floppiness, unless, of
course, you are comfortable with that, and
then more power to you, sister!
Well, any of you who have gone through
security know that chances are, they will
make you take off the jacket. I often plead
with the TSA guy, but that usually ends up
with a pat-down from a female agent who
keeps asking me if I am hiding anything
under my shirt and so I have to say, No
maam, that is just 40-some-odd years of
Entenmanns consumption. She never finds
it funny, but I always make myself laugh.
To continue with my tale. I went to Chi-
cago to pay a shiva call. And before I went
back to the airport, my friend took me to
Romanian Deli, home of the cheapest deli
sandwiches around. I am talking approxi-
mately FIVE DOLLARS for a sandwich. No,
I am not lying. They also have amazing
chopped liver. A little more than a pound
cost less than six dollars. It is almost worth then starting the process again. Out comes
it to move to Chicago. I knew that the liver
would make my dad happy, and I have
traveled with it before, so the purchase
was made and to the airport we went.
I arrived at security all prepared to take you tried to confiscate my chopped liver
my sweater off, to take my sneakers off, and
to be patted down by an agent and have to
justify my stomach. The computer comes
out of its case and into the plastic box, and
in next to it go my carry-on, my phone, my
boarding pass, and assorted other items
that I was traveling with. The container of
chopped liver and the corned beef sandwich
were safe and sound in my carry-on. I go
through that spinny security thing with my
feet planted on the footprints and my hands
in the air. Secretly, I always hope that this
machine will turn me into Wonder Woman,
but it never does.
As I go to gather my belongings, one of
the agents pulls me aside and says he has
to go through my carry-on.
Not knowing where this is going, I just
smile. He looks in my bag and takes out
the chopped liver. Maam, is this peanut and the wife of husband #1. (She calls him
butter? No, sir, I nervously reply. Its that because, well, you just never know....)
46 Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017
chopped liver, I am bring-
ing it back for my dad, who
hasnt been well. Maam,
is this anything like pea-
nut butter? Um, no sir,
it is chopped liver. I have
traveled with it before.
Maam, I am sorry, but
this looks like peanut but-
ter and it is more than
three ounces, so you will
either have to check it, or
throw it away.
The thought of spending $25 to check
a $5 container of chopped liver wasnt
me that yes, chopped liver is like peanut
butter, and I can travel with it in a bag or
on a piece of bread but not in a container.
No maam, that
is just 40-some-
odd years
of Entenmanns
consumption.
I told her I would put it on a piece of bread
(you cant make this up) and she told me
I would need to go back through security
and start all over again.
So visualize a large woman dumping a
container of chopped liver onto a piece
of bread (from the corned beef sandwich,
poor thing didnt know what hit it), rewrap-
ping it, putting it back in her carry-on, and
the computer, the phone, the change, off
goes the jacket, off go the shoes, and the
TSA guy looks at me and says, Hey, didnt
you just go through security? Yes, genius,
(no, I didnt say that out loud, and fortu-
nately, they cannot read your thoughts
when you go through the spinny thing).
I get patted down again, had to explain my
extra weight gain again, put all of my stuff
back in the carry-on. Open up the sandwich,
dump the liver back into the container, apol-
ogize to the corned beef for destroying its
sanctity, and then have a nice man hand me
a napkin as he watches me make a mess all
over the place with the chopped liver.
And after all of that, my dad really
enjoyed the chopped liver in question, so
it was totally worth it.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is very
excited about her new home at the Jewish
Standard, a paper she grew up reading. She
is the mother of son #1, son #2, and son #3,
Crossword
A Very Star Wars Purim by Yoni Glatt
koshercrosswords@gmail.com
Difficulty Level: Manageable
Across
1. Any (discovered) part of the Mishkan
6. ___ Sam (Sean Penn film)
9. Be unselfish
14. Ben Gurion rental
15. Saul Berensons org. on Homeland
16. Hes usually mentioned with Amos
17. Evil plotting heroic smuggler?
19. Parts for a shochet
20. Selig was its commissioner
21. They cheer for Team Israel
22. (Some Elite) chewy candy
23. He gets along very well with
The Donald
24. Casspi plays one for a living
25. Jewish savior who was a wick-
ed son?
30. One rebelling against G-d
31. Boys singing group originally from
Florida, for short
32. One to care for a sick red heifer
34. More in need of a refuah shlema
35. Tool on a kibbutz
36. Give land for peace, e.g.
38. Red ___
39. Madoff is one
40. Invalidated (like Madoffs accounts)
41. Noise making Obi-Wan actor?
45. Bobby Fischers corner piece
46. Truth
47. Youre ___ (Carly Simon hit)
50. Tinker with this publication
51. Shecket!
54. Jericho residents
55. Sith lord who was Israels first king?
57. Robin Williams character that spoke
a little Yiddish
58. Stat for Thor or Koufax
59. Bird with a similar head to
Larry David
60. Syrian president
61. NBA team owned by Joe Lacob, on
the scoreboard
62. What rotten herring does
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 55.
Down
1. Emanuel of note
2. Carrier whose name means skyward
3. Passover sacrifice
4. ___ Believer (Neil Diamond)
5. Best friend, psychologist, or maybe
a rabbi
6. Like Lauren Bacall or Harrison Ford
7. Suffers from a plague
8. Cultural Revolution leader who sup-
ported Palestinian militants
9. First name in Jewish song
10. Astaire or Abdul, slangily
11. Catchphrase of Cher Horowitz
12. Dustins Outbreakco-star Russo
13. Alleviate
18. Light weapon for this puzzle
22. Locker room supply
23. Cheesy actress Alison?
24. Lewis Black line, at times
25. Like the end of Blazing Saddles
26. Court ___ (Beth Din)
27. A Stranger ___ Us
28. Avoid, like a Mossad agent
29. Bli follower
30. Display chutzpah, slangily
33. Cruz who strongly supports Israel
35. Pawn (but not one for Fischer)
36. Someday we will all be ___
37. Fixes like Rothstein of the World
Series, supposedly
39. Achshav!
40. Bag on a 2-Down flight
42. Saudi land
43. ___ off (said some Lashon Hara)
44. Create 52-Down again
47. The Star Wars films, e.g.
48. Timna Valley mine outputs
49. Sheruts, basically
50. Obamas are often exaggerated
51. Ramban or Rambam
52. Avenger created by Lee and Kirby
53. Drinks in Palestine and Jerusalem?
55. Paper from YU?
56. Freelancers enc.
The Frazzled Housewife
What am I? Chopped liver?
Banji Ganchrow
A
irport travel has
become very stress-
ful. You have to plan
your outfit to fit into
security guidelines and this
is coming from a person who
wears a Billy Joel concert T-shirt
and extra large yoga pants Banji
almost every day. (Full disclo- Ganchrow
sure I dont actually do yoga, I
just find the pants very comfort-
able.) And when you buy them online from
Old Navy, they are also very reasonable.
In any case, for someone who is sensitive so appealing and there was no way I was
of her bat wings thats what we middle- throwing it out, so I asked to speak with
aged flabby ladies like to call our upper arms his supervisor. The supervisor informed
if we are going to wear a tank top, we are
going to be wearing a sweater or jacket to
cover the arm situation. Nobody needs to
be seeing any of that floppiness, unless, of
course, you are comfortable with that, and
then more power to you, sister!
Well, any of you who have gone through
security know that chances are, they will
make you take off the jacket. I often plead
with the TSA guy, but that usually ends up
with a pat-down from a female agent who
keeps asking me if I am hiding anything
under my shirt and so I have to say, No
maam, that is just 40-some-odd years of
Entenmanns consumption. She never finds
it funny, but I always make myself laugh.
To continue with my tale. I went to Chi-
cago to pay a shiva call. And before I went
back to the airport, my friend took me to
Romanian Deli, home of the cheapest deli
sandwiches around. I am talking approxi-
mately FIVE DOLLARS for a sandwich. No,
I am not lying. They also have amazing
chopped liver. A little more than a pound
cost less than six dollars. It is almost worth then starting the process again. Out comes
it to move to Chicago. I knew that the liver
would make my dad happy, and I have
traveled with it before, so the purchase
was made and to the airport we went.
I arrived at security all prepared to take you tried to confiscate my chopped liver
my sweater off, to take my sneakers off, and
to be patted down by an agent and have to
justify my stomach. The computer comes
out of its case and into the plastic box, and
in next to it go my carry-on, my phone, my
boarding pass, and assorted other items
that I was traveling with. The container of
chopped liver and the corned beef sandwich
were safe and sound in my carry-on. I go
through that spinny security thing with my
feet planted on the footprints and my hands
in the air. Secretly, I always hope that this
machine will turn me into Wonder Woman,
but it never does.
As I go to gather my belongings, one of
the agents pulls me aside and says he has
to go through my carry-on.
Not knowing where this is going, I just
smile. He looks in my bag and takes out
the chopped liver. Maam, is this peanut and the wife of husband #1. (She calls him
butter? No, sir, I nervously reply. Its that because, well, you just never know....)
46 Jewish Standard MARCH 10, 2017
chopped liver, I am bring-
ing it back for my dad, who
hasnt been well. Maam,
is this anything like pea-
nut butter? Um, no sir,
it is chopped liver. I have
traveled with it before.
Maam, I am sorry, but
this looks like peanut but-
ter and it is more than
three ounces, so you will
either have to check it, or
throw it away.
The thought of spending $25 to check
a $5 container of chopped liver wasnt
me that yes, chopped liver is like peanut
butter, and I can travel with it in a bag or
on a piece of bread but not in a container. I
No maam, that
is just 40-some-
odd years
of Entenmanns
consumption.
told her I would put in on a piece of bread
(you cant make this up) and she told me
I would need to go back through security
and start all over again.
So visualize a large woman dumping a
container of chopped liver onto a piece
of bread (from the corned beef sandwich,
poor thing didnt know what hit it), rewrap-
ping it, putting it back in her carry-on, and
the computer, the phone, the change, off
goes the jacket, off go the shoes, and the
TSA guy looks at me and says, Hey, didnt
you just go through security? Yes genius,
(no, I didnt say that out loud, and fortu-
nately, they cannot read your thoughts
when you go through the spinny thing).
I get patted down again, had to explain my
extra weight gain again, put all of my stuff
back in the carry-on. Open up the sandwich,
dump the liver back into the container, apol-
ogize to the corned beef for destroying its
sanctity, and then have a nice man hand me
a napkin as he watches me make a mess all
over the place with the chopped liver.
And after all of that, my dad really
enjoyed the chopped liver in question, so
it was totally worth it.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is very
excited about her new home at the Jewish
Standard, a paper she grew up reading. She
is the mother of son #1, son #2, and son #3,
Crossword
A Very Star Wars Purim by Yoni Glatt
koshercrosswords@gmail.com
Difficulty Level: Manageable
Across
1. Any (discovered) part of the Mishkan
6. ___ Sam (Sean Penn film)
9. Be unselfish
14. Ben Gurion rental
15. Saul Berensons org. on Homeland
16. Hes usually mentioned with Amos
17. Evil plotting heroic smuggler?
19. Parts for a shochet
20. Selig was its commissioner
21. They cheer for Team Israel
22. (Some Elite) chewy candy
23. He gets along very well with
The Donald
24. Casspi plays one for a living
25. Jewish savior who was a wick-
ed son?
30. One rebelling against G-d
31. Boys singing group originally from
Florida, for short
32. One to care for a sick red heifer
34. More in need of a refuah shlema
35. Tool on a kibbutz
36. Give land for peace, e.g.
38. Red ___
39. Madoff is one
40. Invalidated (like Madoffs accounts)
41. Noise making Obi-Wan actor?
45. Bobby Fischers corner piece
46. Truth
47. Youre ___ (Carly Simon hit)
50. Tinker with this publication
51. Shecket!
54. Jericho residents
55. Sith lord who was Israels first king?
57. Robin Williams character that spoke
a little Yiddish
58. Stat for Thor or Koufax
59. Bird with a similar head to
Larry David
60. Syrian president
61. NBA team owned by Joe Lacob, on
the scoreboard
62. What rotten herring does
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 55.
Down
1. Emanuel of note
2. Carrier whose name means skyward
3. Passover sacrifice
4. ___ Believer (Neil Diamond)
5. Best friend, psychologist, or maybe
a rabbi
6. Like Lauren Bacall or Harrison Ford
7. Suffers from a plague
8. Cultural Revolution leader who sup-
ported Palestinian militants
9. First name in Jewish song
10. Astaire or Abdul, slangily
11. Catchphrase of Cher Horowitz
12. Dustins Outbreakco-star Russo
13. Alleviate
18. Light weapon for this puzzle
22. Locker room supply
23. Cheesy actress Alison?
24. Lewis Black line, at times
25. Like the end of Blazing Saddles
26. Court ___ (Beth Din)
27. A Stranger ___ Us
28. Avoid, like a Mossad agent
29. Bli follower
30. Display chutzpah, slangily
33. Cruz who strongly supports Israel
35. Pawn (but not one for Fischer)
36. Someday we will all be ___
37. Fixes like Rothstein of the World
Series, supposedly
39. Achshav!
40. Bag on a 2-Down flight
42. Saudi land
43. ___ off (said some Lashon Hara)
44. Create 52-Down again
47. The Star Wars films, e.g.
48. Timna Valley mine outputs
49. Sheruts, basically
50. Obamas are often exaggerated
51. Ramban or Rambam
52. Avenger created by Lee and Kirby
53. Drinks in Palestine and Jerusalem?
55. Paper from YU?
56. Freelancers enc.
 Arts & Culture
What was Purim in 19th century Italy like?
Heres a look at it, through an anonymous Purim-shpil
Discovered, introduced, translated, and edited by Curt Leviant

I found this mid- to late-19th-century rhymed
Purim-shpil from Italy in the archives of a branch
of a municipal library in Italy while I was doing
research on a totally different topic. The library
does not permit a manuscript to be photocopied
or even copied by hand. Note-taking, however, is
permitted, and I was given special permission to
translate this charming Purim play.
Because vowel endings in Italian are ubiquitous
it is easy to rhyme in that language. An Italian nov-
elist once remarked, jokingly, that for writers in
Italian it is very difficult not to rhyme. But Eng-
lish is not Italian, and so on occasion I had to take
some liberties to capture the spirit of the story.
The librarian, however, kindly permitted me to
quote the lively Italian couplet at the end of the
play. Note too that, uniquely, in this version Zeresh
takes a more active anti-Semitic role. Ive never
seen this accented in any other Purim play.
There is no telling that this Purim-shpil was
chanted as was the typical Purim-shpil in East-
ern Europe. But if the chanted exchanges I
once heard on the streets of Venice during
Carnivale some years ago are any indica-
tion, I would assume that for the prepara-
tion of this Purim-shpil during the Jewish
Carnivale, the parts may very well have
been chanted, as were the recitatives in
the Commedia del Arte.
The rhymes are in iambic tetrameter;
most are in couplets. For variation there is
an occasional triplet, and, once in a while,
the rhyme scheme, instead of a-b, a-b, is
offered as a-b-b-a.

Ahasuerus: Im Ahasuerus, the mighty King,
(aside) (and this Purim-shpils director,
editor and set erector).
When I speak to attention spring!
Our Jewish Commedia del Arte,
a comic story, soon will start-e.
Here are all the Purim-shpiller
to play for you the great megilla,
so please sit still, and even stiller.
(Ahasuerus points to Mordecai and Esther)
For our heroes a hearty cheer!
(He points to Haman and Zeresh)
And for these villains a growling jeer!
(Haman and Zeresh retreat in fear and huddle in
a corner of the stage.)
Zeresh (steps forward):
I am Zeresh, Hamans wife.
Do I like stress, do I love strife!
But as for hate, its Mordecai,
who with his clan is doomed to die.
Soon will come that destined day,
So let all Persians shout: Hurray!
(She turns to Mordecai)
Youll see, when we claim victory,
youll be swinging from a tree.
Mordecai: Ladies first, thats courtesy.
Try it, then report to me.
(Enter Haman)
Haman: All the world knows Hamans name.
The Book of Esther made my fame.
I am favored by the King,
for to his coffers gold I bring.
When Jews hear Haman they shout boos.
What do you expect from no-good Jews?
No good will come from those Hebrews.
I just proposed; the King gave orders
to kill the Jews within our borders.
Im not as bad as people say.
Im quite okay; the Jews say nay.
My wife is worse. Shes thinks shes Zeus,
that self-indulgent, silly goose.
Its Zeresh who should get the noose.
(Haman goes and hugs Zeresh. She slaps his face.
He whispers loudly, improvising)
I dont mean the words I say;
its just the script Im forced to play.
Esther: Follow script, stick to megilla,
you evil man, you mean gorilla.
Ahasuerus: You heard my name is Ahasuerus.
Pronounce it, please, as Ah-ha-swear-us.
I declare it all the time:
my name impossible to rhyme.
Chorus: One cannot rhyme a name so long,
Not in poem, shpil or song.
Zeresh (steps forward):
And dont forget my odd name too
the poets try but none can do.
Chorus: Our loud and lengthy lusty hisses
to that evil brazen missus.
Haman: What a gorgeous name have I;
more elegant than Mordecai.
For my name too we have no rhyme,
a name so rare, a name sublime.
Whenever I decide to choose,
Ill rid my Persia of the Jews.
Chorus: Haman lets out hue and cry:
to rhyme my name dont even try.
Mordecai: Why waste our precious Shushan time,
with childish thoughts, like, can we rhyme?
Because of evil Hamans hate
he decreed our peoples fate.
Since I refused to bow, he said,
Soon all your kinsmen will be dead.
Ahasuerus: Look, here comes a delegation
from the chosen Jewish nation.
Chorus (of Jews): Oh great king, oh Ahasuerus,
your evil Hamans out to snare us.
Chorus: Why claim we cannot rhyme his name?
Those who do, they bask in fame.
Ahasuerus: An Italian proverb: rice is
eaten in a crisis.
Mordecai: What link has that to the megilla,
when we fear the Persian Titus?
Ahasuerus (shrugs):
Its just a catchy, rhyming filler.
Injustice, yes, a moral stain.
But a Purim-shpil must entertain.
(The king sees Esther entering)
Here comes my lovely lady royal,
my Queen, devoted, wise and loyal.
I love to have you, Esther, near.
What glad tidings bring you here?
Esther: :No glad tidings, my dear sire,
but wail and woe, grief and ire.
My folk in danger, Ahasuerus!
The Jews, my kin, youll have to spare us.
Chorus: One cannot rhyme his longish name,
no poet wild, no poet tame.
Zeresh (points to Esther, improvises):
Whyd they choose her for a queen?
Shes as skinny as a bean,
And looks just like a piece of wood.
I shouldve been the queen, I should.
Esther (improvises): Youre not, Zeresh, even Jewish.
Youre mean, youre jealous, sly, and shrewish.
Your soul is made of wood, not love,
and Zeresh fits you like a glove!
(applause from the audience)
Ahasuerus (improvises):
Now, now, now, lets stick to script.
The Purim tale we must depict
in honest fashion, nice and strict.
Mordecai (to Ahasuerus): Recall, I overheard a plot
where plans were made to have you shot,
but my good deed you soon forgot.
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Friday Family pricing available.
30 Hinchman Ave.
march 10 (973) 696-2500.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
Purim spiel to the tunes
of Carole King following
services at 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.

Saturday Purim in Tenafly: The

march 11 Rubach Family Purim
Carnival is at the Kaplen
Shabbat/Purim in JCC on the Palisades,
Wayne: Architect 1-4 p.m. Children are
Stephen Schwartz guides encouraged to wear
participants in recreating costumes. There are
the ancient city of bounce houses, slides,
Shushan, where the story games, prizes, life-size
of Purim happened, with cartoon characters,
Legos, at Temple Beth popcorn, and cotton
Tikvah, 3-5 p.m. Megillah candy. Children with
reading at 5; pizza special needs and their
and ice cream served families are welcome
afterward. 950 Preakness from noon1 for games
Ave. Reservations, and booths, Purim crafts,
randilondon@yahoo.com. and other activities for
an hour of fun before
Purim in Bayonne: Join the carnival opens to the
Temple Emanu-El for a march Malcolm I. Hoenlein, executive vice chair and CEO of public. Seventh-through
megillah reading and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
19
12th-graders, can receive
Wondergy Laser show,
6:30 p.m. Costumes
Organizations, considers Assessing U.S.-Israel Relations II: Is community service
hours volunteering.
encouraged. 735 the Special Relationship Still Intact? at the annual Israel and 411 E. Clinton Ave.
Kennedy Boulevard. Pearl Stern Memorial lecture at the Community Synagogue of Monsey on (201) 408-1485.
(201) 436-4499 or
templeemanuelbayonne@
Sunday, March 19, at 10:15 a.m. Brunch follows. Co-sponsored by the Stern
gmail.com. family. 89 West Maple Ave. (845) 356-2720 or comsyn.org.
Purim in Closter:
Megillah, seudah, and Teaneck has a womens
Purim Balloonapalooza Purim in Glen Rock: Purim in Paramus: Purim in Woodcliff megillah reading, by
at Temple Emanu-El The Glen Rock Jewish The JCC of Paramus/ Lake: Temple Emanuel and for women, 11.a.m.
of Closter, 6:30 p.m., Center celebrates with a Congregation Beth of the Pascack Valley 70 Sterling Place.
followed by a carnival, crazy grogger service for Tefillah offers family throws Beach Party (201) 833-0515.
games, prizes, and food. kids including megillah services led by Rabbi Purim with megillah
Costumes encouraged. story-telling, costumes, Arthur Weiner and reading, 10 a.m.; wear Purim in Wyckoff:
180 Piermont Road. and hamentaschen, Cantor Sam Weiss and shorts and flip-flops. Temple Beth Rishon has
6:45 p.m. At 7:30, there a traditional service led There will be carnival Ellen Rand
(201) 750-9997. a carnival-style Purim
will be a megillah reading by Rabbi Avram Kogen, games, rides, and food. celebration with laser Meet the author in
Purim in Leonia: followed by an adult 7:15 p.m. Celebration 87 Overlook Drive. tag, game truck, carnival Teaneck: To kick off a
Congregation Adas karaoke party. Bring at 8:15 with food, drink, (201) 391-0801. games, photo booth, series, Conversation
Emuno celebrates with kosher wine, spirits, singing, dancing, live inflatables, face painters, of Your Life, planned
singing, megillah reading, or beer. Snacks and music, and annual raffle. Purim in Fair Lawn: arts and crafts, and food,
The sisterhood and by the Township of
and an original Purim appetizers provided. Costumes encouraged. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. 585 Russell Teaneck, Holy Name
spiel, The Festival 682 Harristown Road. 304 E. Midland Ave. mens progress club at Ave. (201) 891-4466.
the Fair Lawn Jewish Medical Center, and
of Lots, written by (201) 652-6624. (201) 262-7691. Age-Friendly Teaneck,
Lance Strate, 6:30 p.m. Center/CBI host a Purim Purim in Glen Rock: The
Purim in Jersey City: Purim in Closter: carnival, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Ellen Rand, hospice
Hamentaschen and Glen Rock Jewish Center volunteer, former New
refreshments. 254 Broad Bnai Jacob hosts Purim Temple Beth El invites with games, costumes, has with a carnival,
ChilliFest with services, the community to join crafts, spin art, goldfish, York Times columnist,
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or magic show, games and author of Last
www.adasemuno.org. 7 p.m., followed by chili, them for an adult Purim prizes, cotton candy, and and prizes, balloons,
beer, and hamentaschen. celebration, 7:30 p.m. 221 snacks. 10-10 Norma Ave. Comforts: Notes from
music, costumes, the Forefront of Late
Purim in Park Ridge: Costumes encouraged. Schraalenburgh Road. (201) 796-5040. and hamentaschen,
Temple Beth Sholom 176 West Side Ave. (201) 768-5112. Life Care, will talk about
11 a.m.-1 p.m. 682 how to advocate for
of Pascack Valley has (201) 435-5725. Purim in Paramus: Harristown Road.
The JCC of Paramus/ better care for yourself
services with megillah
reading, klezmer Purim in Woodcliff Sunday Congregation Beth
(201) 652-6624. or your loved ones at the
Lake: Temple Emanuel march 12 Tikvah and Congregation Teaneck Public Library,
music, snacks, sushi, Purim in Closter: Temple
costume contest, and of the Pascack Valley Beth Tefillah host a Purim 2 p.m.. Refreshments.
Beth El has a carnival,
Purim-themed bingo, has a megillah reading, magic show, 11 a.m., (201) 833-3336 or www.
Purim in Emerson: 11:15 a.m., with games,
7:30 p.m. 32 Park Ave. 7 p.m., followed by food, and a carnival with a holyname.org/events or
Congregation Bnai food, and surprises.
(201) 391-4620 or www. wine, and hors doeuvres bouncy castle, games, lastcomforts.com.
Israels annual Purim Special preview for
temple-beth-sholom.org. by gourmet chef Sam spiel, directed by Cantor cotton candy, goldfish, nursery school-aged
Rak. 87 Overlook prizes, kiddie corner, Purim in Fort Lee:
Lenny Mandel and families at 10:45. 221 Chabad of Fort Lee
Purim in of Fort Lee: The Drive. Reservations, featuring Hebrew school and food, at the JCC Schraalenburgh Road.
JCC of Fort Lee/Gesher (201) 391-0801. Paramus, noon-2 p.m. presents the Ultimate
students and megillah (201) 768-5112. Superhero Purim
Shalom has a megillah reading is at 9:30 a.m.; Costumes encouraged.
Purim in Hackensack: celebration at Chabad
reading, costume a carnival with games, E. 304 Midland Ave. Purim in Wayne:
parade, food, and drink, Temple Beth El reads (201) 262-7691 or www. of Fort Lee. Top secret
prizes, and food follows. Congregation Shomrei
7:30 p.m. Reservations the megillah, 7 p.m. jccparamus.org. megillah reading,
Costumes encouraged. Torah has a carnival,
needed for pizza dinner. Refreshments include 3:30 p.m.; feast and
53 Palisade Ave. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., and
1449 Anderson Ave. make-your-own sundaes. Purim for women party with DJ, photo
(201) 265-2272or www. a parade, followed by
(201) 947-1735. 280 Summit Ave. in in Teaneck: The booth, face painting,
bisrael.com. a performance of the
(201) 342-2045. Jewish Center of and more, at 4. Dress
original spiel, The

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as your favorite
superhero. 808 Abbott
on Your Behalf at
the JCC of Paramus/
Israeli emissaries, 7 p.m.
Participants should bring
follows. (201) 444-9320,
or www.synagogue.org. Contemporary issues
Blvd. Reservations, Congregation Beth a food donation for
in an era of change
(201) 886-1238 or www.
chabadfortlee.com.
Tikvah, sponsored by Tri
Boro Hadassah, 1 p.m.
WIN-Wayne Interfaith
Network. Homemade
Monday National Council of Jewish
Refreshments. Guests desserts. 950 Preakness march 20
Purim in Hackensack: welcome. E. 304 Midland Ave. (973) 595-6565. Women will hold its annual
Temple Beth El screens Ave., Paramus. Yoga for arthritis: Lunch and Learn on Tues-
a documentary, Deli day, March 28, at noon at
Man, and offers a Guide to Jewish Friday The Graf Center for
Integrative Medicine Temple Emeth in Teaneck.
Purim seudah dinner, practice: Rabbi Jacob march 17 at Englewood Hospital
3:30 p.m. 280 Summit Lieberman leads a hands- and Medical Center Lori Fein, the director of
Ave. Reservations, on adult education series, Shabbat in Teaneck: offers a series for people the Jewish Community
(201) 342-2045. The Great Guide to Temple Emeth offers with arthritis, 2:30 p.m. Relations Committee of the
Jewish Practice, through musical services with Free valet parking. Jewish Federation of North-
Monday June at Temple Israel
& JCC in Ridgewood,
the Temple Emeth Band,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
(201) 608-2377 or
grafcenter@ehmchealth. ern New Jersey, will dis-
march 13 7:30 p.m. The first Rabbi Steven Sirbu, org. cuss Redefining the Jewish
discussion is How to 8 p.m. 1666 Windsor Advocacy Agenda: Contem- Lori Fein
Film in Tenafly: The Host a Passover Seder Road. (201) 833-1322 or porary Issues in an Era of  Courtesy NCJW
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades screens Ghost
Like a Boss. Series
continues April 19, May 17,
www.Emeth.org.
Singles Change. Reservations are
Town of Film: The Story and June 21. 475 Grove due March 18. Send checks payable to NCJW BCS to Mari-
of Fort Lee, for seniors, St. (201) 444-9320 or Saturday Sunday lynn Friedman, 49 Buff Road, Tenafly, NJ 07670, no later
11:15 a.m. Tom Meyers www.synagogue.org. march 18 than March 18. It costs $18 for members, $23 for non-
talk about the Champion march 12
members. For information, go to www.ncjwbcs.org.
Studio and the fall of
the studios in Fort
Thursday Hudson County
Night Out: The newly Seniors meet in West
Lee. 411 E. Clinton Ave. March 16 inaugurated Hudson Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social bagels
(201) 408-1409. County Regional
Council of the Jewish and lox brunch at the Kid-friendly seders
Bnai mitzvah class Federation of Northern JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
in Jersey City: Rabbi New Jersey hosts are welcome, particularly Yavneh Academy in Paramus joins Congregation
Aaron Katz begins a bnai Hudson County Night if you are from Hudson,
mitzvah program with Passaic, Bergen, or Shaare Tefillah and Congregation Rinat Yisrael, both
Out, wine, desserts,
classes at Bnai Jacob, conversation, and an Rockland counties. 450 in Teaneck, for Seder Surprises with Zalman Suldan
5 p.m. 176 West Side Ave. opportunity to meet West Nyack Road. Gene at Rinat, 389 West Englewood Ave., on Monday, March
(201) 435-5725 or www. Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
the newly appointed 20, at 7:30 p.m. For information, call (201) 837-2795.
bnaijacobjc.com. council members,
Womens Purim Hadassah meets in 8:30-10:30 p.m., at JCity
Realty, 109 Christopher
Thursday
symposium: Temple
Emanuel in Woodcliff
Park Ridge: Pascack
Valley/Northern Valley Columbus Drive, Jersey
City. Kim Schwartzman,
march 16 A tour of Israeli wines
Lake offers a symposium, Hadassah screens the Widows and widowers
Womens Issues Today 2013 documentary, (201) 820-3936 or The mens club of Teanecks Congregation Beth Aaron
KimberlyS@jfnnj.org. meet in Glen Rock:
and How Judaism and When Comedy Went Movin On, a monthly offers a night of Israeli wine tasting by Wine Country
the Torah Help Us Cope, to School, at Temple
Beth Shalom, 1:30 p.m.
luncheon group for Store in Bergenfield on Sunday, March 19, from 6 to 9
with Rabbis Loren widows and widowers,
Monosov, Shelley Kniaz, Refreshments. 32 Park p.m. at the shul.
meets at the Glen Rock
and Leana Moritt, and Ave. (201) 880-4614. Jewish Center, 12:30 p.m. Wine expert Jay Buchsbaum will lead the tour and
educator Miriam Gray, 682 Harristown Road. give samples of Israeli wines, including the best of Flam,
7:30 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
$5 for lunch. Next date, Teperberg, Yatir, and Matar. The shul is at 950 Queen
April 20. (201) 652-6624
Anne Road. For information, go to www.bethaaron.org/
or email Binny, arbgr@
Tuesday aol.com. event/winesale17 or email mensclub@bethaaron.org.
March 14
Friday
Purim for seniors in
Closter: Hazak at Temple
Tom McTiernan
march 17 Rockland JCC screens
Emanu-El meets for an
intergenerational Purim
Comedy in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel Singles Shabbaton A Grain of Truth
hosts Luck of LChaim in Teaneck: Sharon The JCC Rockands 14th
party and lunch with Comedy Night with Ganz & Friends hosts a
Schechter students, Rabbi David Fine
Post Purim Shabbaton annual international Jew-
Tom McTiernan, Record
11:30 a.m. 180 Piermont
Presidents and Israel: columnist Bill Ervolino, weekend for Orthodox ish Film Festival presents
Road. (201) 750-9997. and Buddy Fitzpatrick. Jewish singles, 27-43, A Grain of Truth on Sun-
Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine
leads a series, From Doors open at 7:30 p.m.; at Congregation Bnai day, March 12, at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday Roosevelt to Obama: comedy begins at Yeshurun, including
The film, a whodunit, is
Presidential Interactions 8:30. 53 Palisade Ave. Shabbat meals, mixers,
march 15 (201) 265-2272orwww. discussions, guest based on the bestselling
with Israel, at the JCC
of Fort Lee/Gesher bisrael.com. speakers, Shabbat tour Polish novel by the same
Heart nutrition: of Teaneck, Melava Malka
Christina M. Kamilaris, Shalom, 12:45 p.m. name. Once the star of
registered dietitian at Discussion, The Nixon
and Ford Years; The Yom
Sunday party, and programs.
Housing available. the Warsaw prosecutors
ShopRite of Paramus,
Kippur War, The Carter march 19 Sharon, (646) 529-8748 office, Teodor Szacki has
gives a community
Administration; Camp or (718) 575-3962. left his career and mar- Slawomir Grunberg
heart health talk for Israeli musicians:
River Dell Hadassah at David I. Refreshments at riage to start a new life in  Courtesy JCCRockland
12:30. Program continues Temple Israel & JCC of
Temple Avodat Shalom Ridgewood hosts its a close-knit Polish town. As
in River Edge, 12:30 p.m. March 23, 30, and April
6. 1449 Anderson Ave. Winter Music Sunday an outsider he faces resistance when he is called on to
Recipes and samples.
385 Howland Ave. (201) 947-1735. concert, featuring pianist get to the bottom of the brutal murder of a well-known
Benjamin Goodman and social activist whose body was discovered outside a
(551) 265-1573. Meet Israeli emissaries mezzo soprano Inbal
in Wayne: Women of Milliger, performing former synagogue.
Advocate for yourself:
Chai at Temple Beth works by Purcell, Mozart, After the screening, the films Emmy Award-winning
Lita Talbot of Seniors
for Seniors discusses Tikvah welcome Shahar Gershwin, Bizet, Weill, producer, Slawomir Grunberg, will speak. For infor-
Firan and Shir Ben and others. 4 p.m. Wine
Programs to Advocate mation, call (845) 362-4400.
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The Kaplen JCC

on the Palisades
in Tenafly con-
tinues a series of
free family
wellness events.
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Family wellness events in Tenafly

Mary Beth Augustine leads Healthy Body foods to eat for sports nutrition that help
Image on Sunday, March 12, at noon. It is build better performance and athletic
- Gavin Caine as the prince and Alika Saxena as Cinderella during rehearsal. an opportunity to learn how to celebrate longevity. The series continues Tuesday,
 Photo Provided body diversity, find joy in moving, and eat March 28, at 6:30 with Family Yoga,
mindfully. a way to strengthen muscles and help
Cinderella at Tenafly High On Tuesday, March 14, the JCC offers
Family Performance Training at 6:30
breathing for releasing stress and improv-
ing immunity.
Alika Lazarus Saxena, a daughter of Rodgers & Hammersteins musical Cin- p.m., and Ms. Augustine will lead Fuel- For more information, go to www.
Rochelle Lazarus of Tenafly and the late derella, March 16 to 18 at Tenafly High ing for Competition on Tuesday, March jccotp.org/youth-fitness or call Keri
Sanjeet Saxena, stars as Cinderella in School. Go to www.tenaflytheatre.com. 21, at 6:30 p.m., talking about the proper Thoren at (201) 408-1476.
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n 1 Religious school students from
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
visited a local supermarket to learn
what to look for when selecting
kosher foods. Courtesy TEPV

n 2 High school students spent an

afternoon volunteering at the Bristal in
Woodcliff Lake as part of Valley
Chabads Teen Leaderships CTeen
program. Together with residents,
they painted trees to celebrate Tu
bShvat and ate the five fruits from
Israel traditionally eaten on the
holiday. Jordan Grabow and Jack
Brodsky, both juniors at Pascack Hills
High School, are pictured. Courtesy
Chabad

n 3 Avichai Slossberg, Kelli Efrusy,

Jessica Krakovsky, and Ofeer
Ginzburg, students at the Academies
at Gerrard Berman Day School in
Oakland, were among the students
and teachers who participated in
Computer Science Education Week.
More than 100 million students
worldwide took part in the Hour of
Code, a nationwide initiative to
introduce students to one hour of
computer science and computer
programming. Courtesy GBDS
n 4 Members of the tikkun olam committee at Temple Israel & JCC of
Ridgewood prepared and served a hearty meal to clients of the Bergen
County Human Services Center in Hackensack. The dinner was part of the
monthly Family Promise Walk-in Dinner program. Teens from TI-JCCs youth
group baked heart-shaped cookies for dessert. Courtesy Temple Israel & JCC
n 5 GRJC Hebrew Schools Kitah Shtaeem class, including Juliet Rosenberg
and her family, pictured, learned about the meanings and significance of their
Hebrew names. They also shared family stories, photos, and traditions.
Courtesy GRJC
n 6 Shomrei Torah students created food gifts to give to their friends for
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Obituaries/Local

Appreciating Robert Osborne Sofiya Frid

Sofiya Frid, 87, of Fair Lawn died
March 2.
Eric A. Goldman Arrangements were by Louis

R
obert Osborne, a legendary television personality
who introduced classic cinema to millions of view-
ers, died on March 6 at his home in New York City.
He was 84.
No, he wasnt Jewish, but his understanding of Jews in the
cinema was wide-reaching and important.
Osborne has been the principle host of the Turner Classic
Movies cable channel since it began operation in 1994. He was
a product of a different time; he was erudite, trusted, gentle-
manly, and genial. He was committed to furthering our knowl-
edge and love for the cinema and had a way about him that
endeared him to millions of Americans.
At a time when some audiences are unable to relate to todays
television programming, TCM has provided a stimulating alter-
native entertainment option. It brings us back to a quieter and
simpler period, where the likes of a Mr. Blandings, played by
Cary Grant, could talk his wife, played by Myrna Loy, into buy-
ing a fixer-upper home in the suburbs, with all kinds of zany
results. In his opening and closing remarks for a film like this
1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Osborne might
have pointed out that the film was one of many social issue films
made at the time by producer Dore Schary that advocated for
social change in the midst of a housing shortage and an indif-
ferent America, or he might simply tell stories about the lives
of the films stars or filmmakers. No matter what he might say
before the film, you would surely stick around after watching
the movie to hear Roberts closing commentary.
Born in rural Washington State, Robert grew up sitting at his
grandmothers table, being fed stories about her hero, Adolf Hit-
ler. It was part of an upbringing that made him very aware of
the differences and prejudices that can be part of the makeup of
America. In introducing films rarely seen by todays audiences,
he took particular delight in highlighting the work of some of
the non-Jewish directors and producers who had the courage to
fight Nazism or anti-Semitism, people with backgrounds similar
to his. One such director, Edward Dmytryk, who grew up in an
anti-Semitic Polish Catholic household, would become one of
the most philo-Semitic directors of the 1940s and 50s. While
most of the Jewish Hollywood studio heads feared calling atten-
tion to themselves as Jews, producers like Darryl F. Zanuck and
directors like Charlie Chaplin and Dmytryk took on the fight in
making such films against hatred of Jews; they made films like
The House of Rothschild (1934), The Great Dictator (1940),
Gentlemans Agreement (1947), Crossfire (1947), and The and Sallah.
Young Lions (1958). Dmytryk also related on film the story of a
nascent Israel and its struggle to absorb Holocaust survivors in
the 1953 The Juggler, starring Kirk Douglas.
Robert Osborne, who died at 84, during the 73rd Annual
Peabody Awards in 2014.  Wikimedia Commons
In his introductions and post-screening presentations, Rob-
ert Osborne made sure that you had an understanding of why
and how these motion pictures were produced and the context
in which they were made. I had the great honor, a few years
ago, to co-host a 20-film TCM series on the image of the Jew in
cinema with Robert. Robert embraced the project, and was par-
ticularly enthusiastic about the screening of two never before
shown Israeli film classics on TCM Hill 24 Doesnt Answer
Robert Osborne loved movies and people. He wasnt Jewish
but he was a mentsch par excellence. May his memory be a
blessing.
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Helen Gaelick
Helen Gaelick, ne Krinsky, 87, of
Paramus, formerly of Fair Lawn, died
March 6.
She was a member of the Fair Lawn
chapter of Deborah Hospital and the
Fair Lawn Senior Citizens Center.
Predeceased by her husband, Lloyd,
she is survived by children, Cheryl
Schultz (Brian) of Fair Lawn, and
Ed (Liz) of Woodcliff Lake, and four
grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
American Heart Association.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Peter Kaltman
Peter G. Kaltman, 70, of Reno, Nev.,
formerly of Monroe, N.Y., died
February 27.
He was a retired CPA.
He is survived by his wife, Valerie,
ne Silver, children, Dayna of Fort
Lee and Lee of Ithaca, N.Y.; a sister,
Suzette Schultz of Florida, and two
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Marvin Newman
Marvin Newman, 88, of Wayne,
formerly of Elmwood Park, died
February 28.
A Navy World War II veteran, he
owned Ann-Dys Magic and Costumes
Shop in Pompton Lakes before retiring.
He was a member of the Chabad
Center of Passaic County in Wayne.
Predeceased by his wife, Ann, and
a son, Herbert, he is survived by
children, Rhonda, Lisa, and Andrew
( Jeanine), and four grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the
Chabad Center of Passaic County.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Hate
from page 7
neighbor as yourself.
I hope we will speak out against all
other forms of hate, Mr. Christie added,
noting that the Jewish community in fact
has taken the lead in this regard.
We are here in response to hate, and
we are here in affirmation of love, Cory
Booker, the Democrat who is New Jer-
seys junior U.S. senator, said. We must
be agents of hope.
This is not a partisan issue. I call on all
of us here that we will never let a hateful
word be the last word. Let us go out from
here not just to condemn hatred. Let us
tell our truth as Americans, let people
know that we are a nation that celebrates
every one of our citizens.
The speech that inflames and insti-
gates was not born overnight, Bill Pas-
crell, the Democratic congressman who
represents New Jerseys ninth district,
said. He noted that mosques have been
burnt in Florida and Texas and praised
the Jewish community for coming to the
aid of repairing the burnt mosques, 18
dollars at a time.
He called for a holistic, inclusive
approach to counter violent extremism
and self-radicalization.
These acts of violence do not happen
in a vacuum, he said. This is why our
words matter.
Rookie Congressman Josh Gottheimer,
the Democrat who represents New
Jerseys fifth district, talked about being
as scared as everyone else when I drop
my son off at his Jewish preschool.
This national trend is not by acci-
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Chorus: The king has constantly opined,
Chorus: King even found a rhyme for her;
no rhyme for him can we find.
You did it, Ahasuerus, sir!
Ahasuerus: Whats your wish, my chosen bride?
Zeresh (improvises): Youre a bunch of anti-
To half my kingdom, long and wide.
goyim,
Esther: To save my people, gracious King! Jew-bilating on your Purim.
Thats the only prayer I bring. Anti-goyness is a crime
of which youre guilty all the time.
Chorus (Jews): Mighty ruler, Ahasuerus!
Give us life! Free, declare us! Dont like the way Im being treated.
Once this so-called shpils completed
Ahasuerus: Whos the cause of this great sin? Ill get even, count on me
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Chorus (pointing to Haman and Zeresh, who point to (Chorus takes both Haman and Zeresh away to
each other) back of stage.)
Esther: Hamans plan to kill us Jews, Ahasuerus: With hopes that no ones been of-
thats his nasty, wicked ruse. fended,
(Haman and Zeresh cringe, retreat. They do not huddle.) our comedy is now upended.
Haman, Haman is the killer, Finished now with our megilla,
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pasta, olives, and tequila.
Haman: No, no, not me, its all my wife, Yes, all agree that for the Jews
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One thing, Jews, I must make clear, (Now everyone joins hands; Zeresh reluctantly)
old and grown-up, girl and boy,
a happy Purim, full of joy.
Buon felice festivale,
And while youre at it, Mordecai. gioiosa Carnevale!
Its time to bid him fond goodbye.

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SELLING YOUR HOME?

A Q & A about kosher wines

with Gabriel Geller of Royal Wine
Q: What are the new Purim offerings get slowly into ros and white wines and
from Royal Wine this year? are also getting interested in other vari-
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many! I would point Franc, Petite Sirah,
out three wines in par- Shiraz etc. The Nadiv
ticular. Im a big fan of Reshit, for instance, is
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enant Red C Ros from lian-style blend.
California is excellent, Q: Has there been a
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I think people do not drink enough Q: It looks like Royal continues to
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Q: Where can our readers learn more
about your wines?
A: In the Jewish Standard of course!
But one of the best places to stay up to
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