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From [redacted]
with love
l A foreign country is messing around, even if
planning on trying to mess [redacted] can’t be named in
with Israel’s upcoming the Israeli press.
election, Shin Bet Chief “Argaman made the re-
Nadav Argaman warned. marks at a conference at-
Though Argaman explic- tended by civilians, appar-
itly mentioned which coun- ently assuming that they will
try is trying to meddle, and be published — in order to
he made his comments to a deter the very same country,”
large crowd during an event Ben Yishai writes. “His inten-
hosted by Friends of Tel tions were also perhaps to
Aviv University, according to tell Israeli citizens to beware
Hadashot TV news, Israel’s of fake news, and to recruit
military censor is barring them, in the effort to identify
publication of that detail and those attempts, based on the
others from his talk. knowledge gained from what
The military censor has happened in the U.S., France,
rules that are nothing if not and Britain.”
byzantine, though, and thus Somehow feeling its ears
it okayed the publication of a burning, Russian presidential
comment by the head of the spokesman Dmitry Peskov
Meretz party, Tamar Zand- told reporters not to read
berg. She said, “We demand Israeli news outlets (which
the security services make by the way don’t mention
sure that Putin doesn’t steal Russia).
the elections for his friend, the “It is out of the question.
tyrant Bibi.” Russia has never interfered in
Zandberg was talking about elections in any country and
Vladimir Putin, the president has no plans to do it in the
of Russia, and Prime Minister future,” he is quoted as saying
Benjamin Netanyahu. in the Kremlin-run Tass news
According to Ron Ben agency.
Yishai in Ynet and i24, Arga- At least they have a sense
man’s statement was meant of humor about it.
to send a message to [re- Joshua Davidovich/
dacted] to think twice before Times of Israel
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Noshes
“Please do not make a sour patch
kids hummus.”
— Washington Post food reporter Maura Judkis, talking
about the trend to put just about everything —
strawberries, mango, snickerdoodles — in hummus.
She’s not a fan.
A TAIL-WAGGER:
‘Dog’s Way Home’

is right on course
“A Dog’s Way doesn’t need to be Dapolito, deftly uses
Home” is a heart- through an organized Gilda’s diaries, home
warming story religion; for me it just movies, audiotapes,
about Bella, an adorable happens to be Judaism performance videos,
puppy who’s adopted by because that’s how I was and interviews with
Lucas (JONAH HAUER- brought up.” colleagues and family
KING, 23), a young “The Upside” is a members. Jewish inter-
medical student. The pair comedy/drama about viewees include Gilda’s
is inseparable until Bella how a recently paroled brother and nephew, her
gets lost and has to travel ex-convict (Kevin Hart) writing partner ALAN
400 tough wilderness improbably gets a job as ZWEIBEL, 68 (he also
miles to get back to her the personal attendant co-produced the film),
beloved owner. The of a paralyzed billionaire SNL creator LORNE
supporting cast includes (Bryan Cranston). The Jonah Hauer-King Julianna Margulies Nancy Meyers MICHAELS, 74, musician
Ashley Judd and Bryce star of “The Good Wife,” PAUL SHAFFER, 69, and
Dallas Howard (as the JULIANNA MARGULIES, SNL cast mate LARAINE
voice of Bella). This is the 52, has a biggish sup- NEWMAN, 66.
first big film role for the porting role as Lily.
handsome Hauer-King. “What Men Want” New on regular TV
He’s had a lot of British is a remake of “What A new sitcom,
TV roles, including a Women Want,” a 2000 “Fam,” premiered
major part — he was NANCY MEYERS film on CBS on Thurs-
Laurie — in the recent in which a man, after an day, January 10, at 9:30
British production of electric shock, magi- p.m. Nina Dobrev stars
“Little Women, which cally could hear women’s as Clem, a woman who
was shown on PBS. thoughts. In the remake, seems to have a perfect
Jonah’s British father, Ali, an African-American life that includes an
Jeremy King, 60ish, is a woman and a sports adoring fiancé (Tone
famous U.K. restaurateur. agent played by Taraji Adam Shankman Richard Dreyfuss Odessa Adlon Bell). But perfection
(I don’t know if Jeremy is P. Henson, is constantly ends when her out-of-
Jewish.) His American boxed out of good cli- will premiere on Netflix viewed the Israeli series supporting roles. control 16-year-old
mother, DEBRA HAUER, ents by male colleagues. on January 10. This “Fauda,” also on Netflix, Even CNN is get- half-sister, Shannon
60, was a theater After drinking a weird Hebrew-language you’ll recognize him. ting into the business (ODESSA ADLON, 17),
producer and now is a concoction, she can read English-subtitled series An original film, “The of showing films. On shows up unannounced,
therapist. Jonah, who has men’s thoughts. After tells the story of four Last Laugh,” premiers January 1, they first needing a place to stay.
a Cambridge University that, things go a lot bet- veterans of a special IDF on Netflix on January broadcast/streamed This is the first big role
degree in theology and ter for her. The director commando unit from 11. Chevy Chase plays “Love, Gilda,” a very-well for Adlon, who is the
religious studies, told his is ADAM SHANKMAN, the 2006 Lebanon War Al Hart, a retired talent reviewed 2017 docu- daughter of actress/
college magazine that he 54 (“The Wedding Plan- who reunite for a final manager in a retirement mentary about come- writer/director PAMELA
frequently visits the San ner”). JOSH BRENER, mission 11 years later. community who reunites dian GILDA RADNER ADLON, 52. Pamela
Francisco Bay area, 34 (“Silicon Valley”) and They will try to rescue there with his first client, (1946-1989) that played Adlon’s hit FX series,
where his mother grew MAX GREENFIELD, 38 the girlfriend of one of a comic named Buddy in a limited number of “Better Things,” features
up, and that he grew up (“New Girl”) have sup- the commandos, who Green (RICHARD DREY- movie theaters last year. her as the single mother
in a “North London porting parts. was kidnapped by a FUSS, 71). Buddy quit As I write this, “Love” is of three daughters. In
Jewish family.” His sister drug cartel in Colombia. showbiz 50 years ago, being re-shown regu- real life, she is the single
HANNAH, a theater Over on TOMER KAPON, 33, a but Al convinces him to larly on CNN during its mother of three daugh-
director, told a British Netflix/CNN real-life paratrooper hit the road for a cross- regular schedule and it’s ters — although her real
website: “I love being The 10-episode commander in the Leba- country comedy tour. available to subscribers daughters did not play
Jewish. I feel like we Israeli TV drama non War, plays one of Andie MacDowell and via CNN on-demand. her TV offspring.
should all be spiritual. It “When Heroes Fly” the veterans. If you LEWIS BLACK, 70, have The filmmaker, Lisa –N.B.
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Kidney donor rabbi gives away part of his liver
Teaneck father of nine helps save a life for the second time
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
A
dam Levitz urgently needed a
new liver.
The 44-year-old father of
three from Syosset, Long
Island, was on liver transplant lists in
three states since March 2017. Twice he
was disappointed when cadaveric livers
failed to be the right match for him. He
knew that a liver lobe from a living donor
is the best option, but he never expected
that a total stranger from Teaneck would
step up to be that donor.
“To have someone I didn’t know be
willing to put his life in jeopardy to save
my life was the most unbelievable thing I
ever heard of. Why would someone want
to do this?” he recalls thinking.
And when he found out that the altru-
istic donor was a Chabad rabbi with nine
children — Ephraim Simon, director of
Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County —
Mr. Levitz was even more amazed.
“You always hear a myth that Jewish Rabbi Ephraim Simon, left, clasps hands with Adam Levitz at the Cleveland Clinic.
people aren’t donors,” Mr. Levitz said.
“And here’s a rabbi ready to sacrifice his become a double donor is extremely greater risks and a longer hospital stay He said that his kids were all support-
family and his well-being to help save the rare, but she agreed to use her vast social and recovery. Furthermore, Rabbi Simon ive of the liver donation. When some-
life of another human being. I’m still try- network to help Rabbi Simon. Finding a knew from his previous experience that body asked his youngest, a 12-year-old
ing to wrap my head around it.” potential recipient turned out to be much opioid pain relievers are not effective for boy, if he was scared about his father’s
What’s even more remarkable is that easier than finding a hospital willing to him, and he’d have to soldier through the health, the child replied, “I was nervous,
this is the second time Rabbi Simon has accept a liver donor who already had inevitable post-op pain. but my father told me he’s going to be
donated a part of his body to someone donated a kidney. With all that, why was he so deter- okay and I trust him.”
who was gravely ill. In 2009, he donated For a long while, it seemed that the mined to donate? Before beginning the operation, Rabbi
a kidney to a 51-year-old father of 10. rabbi’s wish would go unfulfilled. “It’s a combination of two factors — Simon’s transplant surgeon, Dr. Federico
The Jewish Standard spoke to Mr. Lev- “I tried to match him up with numer- first and foremost, the ability to save N. Aucejo, asked if there was anything
itz and Rabbi Simon two weeks after the ous others who needed a liver donor, but another human being’s life,” he said. “I the rabbi wanted to tell him before he
procedure, which took place December their hospitals wouldn’t allow it,” Ms. believe very strongly that Hashem blesses was anesthetized. Thinking of his son,
20 at the Cleveland Clinic. Both were still Lipschutz wrote on Facebook. “Thank us with various resources in life and not Rabbi Simon said, “I have nine children
in Cleveland for outpatient monitoring you to Cleveland Clinic, one of the very everything He blesses us with we’re at home. Please make sure I get back to
before receiving clearance to go home. few hospitals in the USA — or world — that meant to hoard. them. My 12-year-old trusts my word that
“The experience of donating a kid- allow kidney donors to also donate part “I was blessed with good health and as I’ll be okay.”
ney was so powerful and amazing that I of their liver.” a thank-you to Hashem, if I can give some Two weeks after the surgery, Rabbi
wanted to see how I could do this again,” Neither donor nor recipient was of that health to another human being Simon reported feeling well. He was
Rabbi Simon said. “I spoke about kidney deterred by having to fly to Cleveland for and restore his or her life, it’s a power- expecting to go home on January 9. “For
donation publicly and encouraged others the procedure. ful motivating factor. Sometimes when me, it’s only a few weeks of pain and dis-
to do so. My story went viral on the inter- “Rabbi Simon was willing to go any- somebody is ill there is nothing you can comfort and then I’m back to my regu-
net and a lot of people wound up donat- where in the world to save another life! do. Here I had two situations where peo- lar life,” he said. “But for the recipient,
ing kidneys as a result. But I wanted to do What a very special person he is, to say the ple were suffering terribly, and I could do who was so sick, he now looks healthy
something even more tangible.” least!” Ms. Lipschutz posted on January 1. something about it.” and has a long life ahead of him. I’ll take
Obviously he couldn’t donate his Rabbi Simon, 50, acknowledges that His second motivating factor, he said, that trade.”
remaining kidney. He found out, how- some people were incredulous at his is his children. Mr. Levitz was told that the donated
ever, that it is possible for a person to decision. “Several people said, ‘It’s “I live my life to inspire my children liver lobe began functioning as soon as it
donate part of his or her liver because crazy, why would anybody do this?’” he and, secondarily, my congregation and was transplanted into his body. The next
the liver has a unique ability to regener- reported. “‘You’ve done enough; you community, to live meaningful lives,” few months will be critical in the recovery
ate itself after a few months. don’t need to do more.’ he said. “I educate them that our lives process, but he’s very optimistic, based on
So in 2012, Rabbi Simon got in touch “And a lot of people who love me were are very fleeting and in the time we the post-op monitoring thus far.
with Chaya Lipschutz of Brooklyn; it was really afraid for me to do this.” have we must try to make a difference “There is no better person in the world
through her nonprofit organization, Kid- Indeed, while the kidney removal was in the world. Our kids look much more than Rabbi Simon,” Mr. Levitz said. “We
ney Mitzvah, that he had been matched done laparoscopically and involved a at what we do than what we say, and I were amazed that he was thanking me
with his kidney recipient. He asked if she relatively short recovery period, donat- have said before that a rabbi’s greatest for the opportunity to save a life. He told
could help him find someone in need of ing part of a liver — in this case, the left sermon and a parent’s greatest lecture me the first time we met, ‘Adam, I’m 100
a liver transplant. lobe, or about one-third of the organ — is how they live their life. That for me is percent yours. I’m not going to back out. I
Ms. Lipschutz said that a request to requires open surgery that comes with incredibly motivating.” promise you this is your liver and you have

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nothing to worry about ever again.’ And the majority of Israeli altruistic kidney
now I have a new lease on life. I’m going donors are religious Jews.
to be 45 this month and I have long years This makes sense to Rabbi Simon.
ahead of me.” “When you believe in a higher truth and
The perception that Jews don’t usually a God who asks us to emulate him, as he
donate organs stems from the relatively gives chesed — kindness — to others, we do
low percentage of Jews with signed organ- too,” he said; being merciful is tradition-
donor cards, according to the Halachic ally considered a sure sign of Jewishness,
Organ Donor Society, which works world- he added.
wide to correct “a widespread mispercep- And he feels that he has been on the
tion … that Jewish law categorically pro- receiving end of great mercy from his fam-
hibits organ donation.” ily and community. “Saving this man’s life
However, in terms of living donation, was not me alone,” he said. “I could not
altruistic kidney donor numbers have have done this without many partners.
been rising particularly among religious The Teaneck community is one big part-
Jews. (We could not find statistics on living ner. They supported me emotionally and
Jewish liver-lobe donors, but such dona- supported the Chabad House financially,
tions are much rarer anyway. According because I raise all the money to keep it
to the American Transplant Foundation, in going and when I am not there the respon-
2017 there were only 367 liver transplants sibility falls on others.” Rabbi Ephraim Simon, director of Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County, with
from live donors, compared to 5,811 living One of his congregants, Juda Engel- his wife and their children.
kidney donor transplants.) mayer, started a GoFundMe crowdfunding
The Brooklyn-based nonprofit orga- campaign on January 2. The goal is to raise still at home, aged 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, and 22. I was in the ICU for 24 hours and in the
nization Renewal reports that Orthodox $100,000 for Friends of Lubavitch of Ber- Our 19-year-old daughter, Sarah, and our hospital for six days. The Cleveland Clinic
and ultra-Orthodox Jews make up more gen County. Youth and teen director Rabbi 22-year-old son, Mendel, basically ran the required a caretaker to be with me, and
than 15 percent of living altruistic kid- Michoel Goldin has been handling day-to- house while my wife and I were gone.” she volunteered to do that and did it with
ney donors, even though Jews make up day operations at the Chabad House in Rabbi Simon said that his wife, grace and beauty.”
only about 2 percent of the U.S. popu- Rabbi Simon’s absence. Nechamy, is “the real hero behind this Asked what he looks forward to upon his
lation, and Orthodox Jews are just one- “The other big partner is my incred- whole story. When I told her I wanted to return home, Rabbi Simon said, “When I
tenth of that 2 percent. Moreover, in ible children,” Rabbi Simon continued. do this — a major operation with a huge get back to Teaneck, the first thing I’ll do is
Israel a recent research study found that “We have two married children and seven recovery period — she was so supportive. hug my children.”
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Dr. King ... in deed and words

Community will come together to honor and reinvigorate his legacy
LOIS GOLDRICH
O
nce again this year, Rabbi Daniel Fridman,
who leads the Jewish Center of Teaneck,
has invited the community to a celebration
in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rabbi
Fridman clearly is passionate about preserving Dr. King’s
legacy, and the communitywide gathering planned for
January 13 is meant to further that goal.
“Last year we invited Theodora Lacey” — an Ameri-
can civil rights activist and educator who fought for vot-
ing rights and fair housing, and helped lead the effort to
integrate schools in New Jersey, Rabbi Fridman said. “She
helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, and Dr.
King was the pastor of her church, hired by her father.
Their youth leader was Rosa Parks.”
The crowd and the shul last year was both large and
diverse. Rabbi Fridman hopes that this year’s meeting,
featuring New Jersey State Attorney General Gurbir Gre-
wal, will draw a large crowd as well. (Mr. Grewal is the first
Sikh-American Attorney General in United States history.)
Rabbi Fridman is pleased that the celebration truly will
be communitywide. While the list of sponsoring syna-
gogues and community organizations still was in forma-
tion at press time, it included at least 10 shuls as well as
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Members
of the broader Teaneck community, “the mayor, the town
council, the superintendent, and the board of education,”
will be there as well, he said.
Perhaps most important, it will include all those
who “cherish the dignity of every human being created Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the
b’tzelem elohim, in the image of God,” Rabbi Fridman August 28, 1963, march on Washington.
said. “Discrimination is an affront to the basic sense of
godliness. It’s meaningful that this is a communitywide
event. I’m glad we can stand together to uphold the notion
that someone should not suffer discrimination because of
race or religion.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Day “comes down to one line —
‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’”
words Dr. King wrote while he was in jail in Birmingham,
Rabbi Fridman continued. Although the words had a spe-
cific meaning in their historical context, they also have “uni-
versal lessons and implications. Dr. King did not say that
African Americans deserve x, y, and z because of their color,
but because they’re human beings.” You can’t truly value
King’s words if you don’t value the dignity of all people.
“We have to constantly work on this,” he said. “We State Attorney General Rabbi Joel Pitkowski Rabbi Daniel Fridman Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
always have to be actively engaged.” He hopes that peo- Gurbir Grewal
ple who come to the celebration will be “energized to
realize that when they see injustice, they should speak honoring that disagreement — not allowing things to particular “is a living legacy of Dr. King in this country.
out against it [and] strive for a greater sense of honor- devolve into polarizing rhetoric.” Dr. King’s policy of The civil rights movement is not over. We have to con-
ing the dignity of the other person.” This can be done in civil disobedience reflected that concept, he said. stantly expand opportunities in this country. When
large ways or small, “even with something like engag- He feels strongly about the issue because he is a person the country is truly color blind, it will be an important
ing in a discussion where there is disagreement and of faith, Rabbi Fridman said. “At the core of my faith in God moment for everyone to celebrate — an achievement for
is that God is manifest in people, in human beings, who America and for our society. The Attorney General brings
are created in the image of God. This makes demands of a unique pride to his community, but we should see this
Who: New Jersey State Attorney General him when he interacts with anyone.” He noted that while as something we should all be proud of.”
Gurbir Grewal
in principle Dr. King’s words should resonate equally with While Attorney General Grewal will tell something of
What: Will speak at the second annual community all people, “in our own history, we’re not strangers to big- his own story, he will focus more on how that experience
commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. otry or discrimination. We’ve drunk from a bitter chalice helped him formulate his goals, as reflected in the work
Where: At the Jewish Center of Teaneck, and have a unique sensitivity. of his office.
70 Stirling Place “The Torah speaks on dozens of occasions about how “I’ll touch on my personal experience a bit in dealing
When: On Sunday, January 13, at 8 p.m. our experience of historical suffering should sensitize us with injustice and how it shaped my passion” to ensure
Sponsored by: Many local synagogues to the plight of the stranger, the widow, and the orphan. It that other communities be protected from discrimina-
has a particular historical resonance.” tion, Mr. Grewal said. “But a more important focus will be
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Jeremy Dauber to sketch out Jewish humor in Hoboken
JOANNE PALMER so much better than the neighboring peo- a complicated and rich religion, but in the
ples that even their beasts of burden know prophets’ view, it was simple idiocy.
You know how sometimes when people more than their wise men. “The kingdom “That’s what satire often does; it takes
try to explain jokes, they’re just not funny? was expanding, God was in his temple, a position and satirizes it, so the result is
How there’s really nothing less funny or so the humor is based on a certain kind that we wonder how anyone could have
more embarrassing than a flopped joke? of Jewish superiority,” Dr. Dauber said. been so idiotic as to believe in it.” By now,
Luckily, Dr. Jeremy Dauber doesn’t “It’s often mocking humor against Israel’s we believe only the idea that idolatry was
have that problem. He can talk about enemies.” But then the First Temple was lunacy, people bowing down to pieces of
jokes, study them, interpret them, con- destroyed, and “at the same time we have stone and wood; the ancient satire has
textualize them, be smart about them — the covenant, we know we are the chosen stripped it of its sophistication by remov-
and still be funny. people, in our own land, yet we have to ing the idea that it was symbolic rather
He’ll display that rare gift at the United make sense of the fact that we don’t feel than surface.
Synagogue of Hoboken on Sunday as he particularly chosen. There were many centuries of the
talks about his now-out-in-paperback “By the Book of Esther,” in between the
book, “Jewish Comedy: A Serious History.” First and Second Temples, “you have ner- Who: Dr. Jeremy Dauber
(See box.) vous, anxious comedy.” As time passes, What: Will talk about his book, “Jewish
Dr. Dauber, who grew up in Teaneck, “that comedy morphs until it becomes Comedy: A Serious History”
went to Harvard as an undergraduate and recognizable to us.” Where: At the United Synagogue of
then to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar; he’s The comedy in the Book of Esther, Dr. Hoboken, 115 Park Ave.
now a professor of Yiddish language, lit- Dauber said, “is anxiety; as Freud would When: On Sunday, January 13, from
erature, and culture and the director of Jeremy Dauber MARION ETTLINGER say, one way of dissipating anxiety is in 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies comedy.”
What else: There’s brunch too.
at Columbia. He has turned those deeply The first jokes, the oldest ones, are in There’s satire in the Bible as well, he said;
How much: Members, $18; nonmem-
serious credentials toward comedy. the Bible; they tend to be more triumph- it’s hard for us to recognize because we’re
bers, $25
In Hoboken, he’ll tell five representative alist than actually funny. Take Balaam’s not familiar with its target. “In the books
jokes that “are a way of illuminating some donkey. (Please take his donkey!) Not only of Judges and Prophets, there’s mockery For more information: Call (201) 659-
4000 or email office@hobokensyna-
of the ways in which Jewish comedy has does it showcase the folk humor of talk- of Israel’s enemies, and of idolaters,” he
gogue.org
woven around Jewish history,” he said. ing animals, it shows that the Israelites are continued. “Ancient paganism really was
A Liora by any other name

Teaneck speaker will discuss Jewish languages and word infiltration
LOIS GOLDRICH disciplines — “I teach mostly social sci- well as the language of their children.
ence, anthropology, and linguistics, with Dr. Benor became interested in Yiddish,
What’s in a name? a focus on the language of contemporary and Jewish languages in general, when
Quite a lot, actually. Important informa- Jews,” she said — and her course offerings she was a student at Columbia, majoring
tion, such as history, culture, and religious are equally varied. She teaches under- in comparative literature and linguistics.
identity. graduates at the University of Southern She later received a doctorate in linguistics
On Shabbat, Sarah Bunin Benor — pro- California about language, race, and iden- from Stanford. It was at Columbia that she
fessor of contemporary Jewish studies at tity in the United States, and she guides discovered the diverse varieties of Ameri-
Hebrew Union-Jewish Institute of Religion master’s students in the field of Jewish can Jewish English. Indeed, her under-
in Los Angeles — will speak about Jewish social research, showing them how to do graduate thesis was on how the Orthodox
names, Jewish language, and the particu- research on contemporary Jews. Jews at Columbia spoke English.
lar language of North American Jewish On Shabbat morning, Dr. Benor will talk Jewish English is not really one lan-
summer camps. about what Jewish languages are and who guage, she said.
Dr. Benor’s field includes many speaks them. “Historically, Jews have spo- “We use various Hebrew, Yiddish, Ara-
ken somewhat differently,” she said. Some- maic, Ladino, and Russian words and
Who: Professor Sarah Bunin Benor times the differences are small — people phrases, depending on where our family
integrate a few Hebrew words into a local is from and which communities we’re in.
What: Will deliver three lectures
language — and other times they are major, Sometimes we use distinctive grammatical
When: Friday, 7 p.m., “From Harry rendering their speech incomprehensible features or distinctive intonations.” Gener-
and Sally to Josh and Liora — Jewish to outsiders. ally, American Jews don’t do this with out-
Names Around the World”; Shabbat
“For the most part, when Jews moved Sarah Bunin Benor siders. But within the community, it helps
d’var Torah, “Do American Jews Speak
a Jewish Language?”; Shabbat, 1:30 to a new land they picked up the local lan- Jews identify each other and identify them-
p.m., “Ruach in the Dining Hall — Lan- guage and Judaicized it,” she said. “They Noting the diversity of the American Jew- selves as certain types of Jews.
guage at North American Jewish Sum- spoke a Jewish version of the local lan- ish community, however, she pointed out Her field is not new. “Starting in the
mer Camps” guages. Sometimes it was not intelligible that “among the Orthodox, there are more 1980s, scholars became interested in
Where: At Congregation Beth Sholom, to outsiders; sometimes it was.” differences.” For example, Orthodox Jew- Jewish language as a phenomenon,” she
354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck While the language of American Jews ish language is more likely to include Ying- said. Her research continues that tradi-
For more information: cbsteaneck.org has distinctive features, it is among those lish, the language of the immigrant generation of practice, “and takes it into the 21st
with fewer distinctive differences, she said. tion, who then acquired some English, as century.”

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medieval and early modern periods; his book dis-
cusses “the period when Jewish modernity really
starts,” Dr. Dauber said. He has some of the jokes.
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“There’s a lot of great material, particularly from (former interior designer of model
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important to remember that Yiddish was a language
in which people lived. Yes, they joked in Yiddish, but
they also cried, sang, wrote, debated, lived, and loved
in that language. For a totally new look using
your furniture or starting anew.
And then of course there is the postwar period.
He tells an archetypical joke — not to worry, not
the one he’ll tell in Hoboken — about the Schwartzes’
campaign to join a local country club. “The club is
restricted,” he said. No Jews allowed. So “they go to
Staging also available
Paris, changes their names, come back as the Noirs.”
(Schwartz, Noir, Black — it’s all the same.) They do 973-535-9192
everything they have to do, and they do it right.
“Everything goes well. In the final interview, they’re
asked what they do. He says, ‘I dabble in oils,’ and
Madame says, ‘I work on my sauces. I’m a Cordon
Bleu chef.’ It’s all going well.
“And then the head of the admissions committee
says, ‘I think I’m done here. Just one more question.
What religion are you?’
“And the Noirs say, ‘Well, we’re goyim.’”
Dr. Dauber pauses, waits for the laugh, then con-
tinues. “Both the fact that the Jewishness comes out
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Dr. Benor notes on the website she edits, jewish-

languages.org, that “Throughout the world, wher-
ever Jews have lived, they have spoken and written
differently from the non-Jews around them. Their
languages have differed by as little as a few embed-
ded Hebrew words or by as much as a highly vari-
ant grammar. Learning about Jewish languages (also
known as Jewish language varieties) leads to a better
understanding of the diversity of the Jewish diaspora
and of the linguistic manifestations of contact among
diverse communities.”
What is noticeably different among American Jews,
she said, is that our language is not written in Hebrew
letters, while most other Jewish languages have been
written in that alphabet. That is one of the topics she
will discuss.
Her website identifies twenty different languages.
But how many languages there really are is a mat-
ter of dispute. “It depends how you count,” she
explained. “Do you consider Moroccan Judeo-Ara-
bic and Yemenite Judeo-Arabic to be separate lan-
guages, or varieties of the same language? How
about medieval Judeo-French and contemporary
Jewish French? Orthodox Jewish English in New
York and Reform Jewish English in San Francisco?
In other words, anywhere from 20 to hundreds.”
Dr. Benor suggested that the popularity of some
Yiddish words and expressions now “has a lot to do
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Weaving a community
Jewish Federation and Foundation of Rockland County
works to form the mechanism, one strand at a time
J
JOANNE PALMER
ewish federations are important

institutions, often vital to the health
of a community, but often they’re
hard to define.
From the outside, they may seem to be
about fund-raising; from a little bit farther
inside, they might seem to be about allo-
cations as well. Sometimes it’s hard to see
the bigger picture.
But of course there is a bigger picture.
The Jewish Federation and Foundation
of Rockland County, which covers the area
just north of the state line with New Jersey,
does fund-raising and allocations. That’s a
necessary part of its work. But like all fed-
erations, it does much more.
In Rockland, the bigger job, the job that
the fund-raising and allocation work sup-
ports, the reason it matters, is called “com-
munity weaving.”
Think of a piece of cloth, the federa-
tion’s CEO, Gary Siepser, said. Woven
cloth, where you can see the warp and the
weft. “You have the different strands, and
every one of them can be only so strong,”
Mr. Siepser said. “When you weave them
together, you have something that is so
much stronger than any one strand.” The community came together quickly to mourn the victims murdered in in Pittsburgh.
He’s been the CEO for three years. “At
my first board meeting, when we went
around the group to get acquainted,
I asked each person to say what they
thought the purpose of federation was,”
he said. Fund-raising and allocation, each
answered. “I said that you might fire me
tonight for saying this, but that is not the
reason for federation.
“That’s the mechanism we need to build
a community. That’s an important part — if
we could do community weaving without
raising any money, life would be so much
easier for all of us.
“But we can’t. We have to pay for pro-
gram costs. We have to have an office and
a staff and professionals. We have to have
a governance structure.
“But that’s not our purpose. Our pur- Gary Siepser
pose is to build a Jewish community.”
The phrase isn’t his, Mr. Siepser added; Out of the 15 organizations invited to
it’s what some federations around the coun- the meeting, 11 sent representatives, Mr.
try call the work they do, and it resonates. Siepser said.
After his first discussion with the board, Teenagers stand by empty chairs labeled with the Pittsburgh victims’ names. “We talked about the fact that we had
“we came out with the focus that federa- to work together,” he said. “Of course,
tion’s job was to convene the local Jewish points, then it becomes a question of how Hillel, the Holocaust museum, and the nobody was going to argue that we had to
community, to take collective action to we can get everyone working together. day school — which since has gone out of work separately. But then we found that
build the local community, and to advo- “Community weaving is the mechanism business — as well as the rabbis and pres- really we could work together.”
cate and innovate on behalf of Israel, to for that to happen.” idents of all the congregations that are The group continued to meet, “and we
fight anti-Semitism and bigotry, and to After the federation’s leaders decided members of the Rockland County Board concluded that innovation was the thing
help those Jews who can’t help themselves to work on community weaving, Mr. of Rabbis” — that’s the organization to that we all had to do. All the congregations
and who need our help. That’s our pur- Siepser said, “in the spring of 2016, we which all the local Conservative, Reform, and all the agencies had to focus on how to
pose, not to raise and allocate funds. convened a meeting and invited the Reconstructionist, traditional, and unaf- be more innovative.”
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Dr. King in New Jersey. You can be pro-community, believe in that and want to see it happen.”
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pro-law, and pro-immigration, building a
model the rest of the country can look to.”
I think the Many members of the Jewish community
have worked hard toward the same end,
social, racial, economic, and even environ- Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky, who leads Teaneck’s community needs fighting racism and prejudice and seek-
mental justice.”
What does Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Congregation Beth Sholom — another spon-
sor of the event — said that Martin Luther
to come together ing to ensure more equality, he said.
Rabbi Helfgot mentioned the special
mean to the state’s chief legal officer? “To King Jr. Day “is a day to celebrate the accom- not only in times relationship between Dr. King’s move-
me, it’s a reminder that our fight for jus-
tice is still continuing. It’s a particularly
plishment of this extraordinary American
and understand that the work he cared so
of great sorrow ment and the Jewish community, “given
that so much of the rhetoric of civil
timely reminder given what’s coming out deeply about, civil rights and equal rights, or to remember rights and of Dr. King is rooted in biblical
of Washington. There’s a lot more work to
be done. This is best done by following Dr.
is incomplete. It’s been left to the next gen-
eration to pick up his mantle and continue
the past, but in themes. His famous speeches use bibli-
cal imagery from Exodus and the proph-
King’s example.” his work.” order for us to ets, and so much of the movement was
Does he think that Dr. King’s voice would
be heard today, as it would have to com-
Dr. King was assassinated on April 4,
1968. “I think about what he said the night
remember people inspired by the biblical notions of justice
and recognizing the dignity of all human
pete with the loud voices bombarding us before about having been to the mountain- who continue to beings.” Dr. King was a profoundly reli-
in this political environment? “I would be
listening,” Mr. Grewal said. “And based on
top and seen the Promised Land, but that
he might not be able to get there,” Rabbi
inspire us and gious leader, who “not only spoke to sec-
ular ideals like the pursuit of freedom but
what I hear, people would be listening and Pitkowsky said. “He’s paraphrasing the push us to create also to the deepest beliefs and values of
watching intently. That’s why we look at his
example.”
ending of Deuteronomy. Just like Moses,
who saw the land of Israel but couldn’t
a better future. our country as rooted in Judeo-Christian
ethics,” Rabbi Helfgot said
Since Mr. Grewal took office in January cross over to the other side. I think about He noted that for many people, Mar-
last year, the Attorney General’s office has the unfinished work. It’s a day to celebrate “I think the community needs to come tin Luther King Jr. Day is used “as a day
focused on several initiatives targeted to our common humanity and understand together not only in times of great sorrow of chesed.” (In 1994, Congress designated
relations between law enforcement and that the work is incomplete.” or to remember the past, but in order for Martin Luther King Jr. Jr. Day as a national
the wider community. Last November, his Rabbi Pitkowsky said that Dr. King was a us to remember people who continue day of service.) This is a “positive thing,
office issued the Immigrant Trust Directive, person “who wanted the African American to inspire us and push us to create a bet- to be able to give a push for people to get
community to claim its part of the Ameri- ter future. For me, Martin Luther King Jr. involved.” His synagogue tries to make its
can dream. Not to ruin the dream, but to Day is a time to think not only about his members aware of service programs going
enlarge it so they could be part of it. That’s life but also the legacy he leaves and look on in the community, he added.
To me, it’s a such an incredibly important part of what

it means to be an American. We say we
around at the community and understand
that we, as Mahatma Gandhi said, need to
How would Rabbi Helfgot characterize
Dr. King’s message? “The message is that
reminder that love our country because we claim that the ‘be the change that you wish to see in the unfortunately we live in a polarized age,”
our fight for dream is open to all people, regardless of

race, color, or creed. But I worry that this is
world.’ We should all want our country
to be a place where anyone can succeed
he said. “There’s nothing wrong with
healthy debate, but sometimes that rancor
justice is still less true than we want it to be. based on the merits of their character and and polarization have led to expressions
continuing. It’s a “If Dr. King was still here, he’d still be
fighting the good fight.”
accomplishments.”
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, who heads
of racism, anti-Semitism, and xenopho-
bia. On many sides of the political debate,
particularly Rabbi Pitkowsky said he thinks the Teaneck’s Netivot Shalom — another we’re not treating each other with dignity
timely reminder upcoming meeting is important, and he is

grateful to Rabbi Fridman for organizing it.
program sponsor — said, “I always try
to speak on the Shabbat before Martin
and respect.
“Part of the democratic game is to play
given what’s “Although there are issues that divide the Luther King Jr. weekend on some topic by the rules. As religious people, we rec-
coming out of community, whether the Jewish community

or the Bergen County community, there are
related to the work, life, or legacy of
Dr. King.” That’s because the civil rights
ognize a spark of divinity in every human
being. We need to unite — not just after
Washington. also issues that bring us together, that we leader worked to “create a more just soci- Pittsburgh or Charlottesville — but on a
stand united to fight for,” he said. ety and a better America, more in touch regular basis, to reaffirm those values.”
clarifying the role of state law enforcement
in relation to federal civil immigration law.
“We don’t participate,” he said; the role
of state law enforcement authorities is to Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
enforce the state’s criminal law. “The activi-
ties ICE” — that’s the federal agency whose These local organizations are also paying tribute to Dr. King:
full name is Immigration and Customs
Enforcement — “was engaging in were caus-
ing fear in our immigrant communities,”
Friday January 18
preventing them from coming forward Wayne Emerson
to report crimes. “We want to show them Rabbi emeritus Israel S. Dresner Congregation B’nai Israel in Emerson
we’re here to protect them.” This, he said, honors the life of Dr. Martin invites members of all faiths to its annual
fits in well with the teachings of Dr. King. Luther King Jr. during ser- “Freedom Shabbat” service honoring the
He pointed also to community outreach vices at Temple Beth Tikvah in lives and messages of Rev. Dr. Martin Lu-
efforts “to promote understanding between Wayne, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Dresner
was a prominent participant
ther King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Debra Oren-
Friday January 25
law enforcement and the community.” His New City
in the civil rights struggle of stein will lead the service with participa-
21-21 project calls upon the state’s 21 county the 1960s and was close to Dr. tion of local clergy members. Coffee, Temple Beth Sholom in New City,
prosecutors to organize quarterly public King. President Barack Obama desserts, and informal conversation will N.Y., will host members and the
events to discuss issues relevant to commu- honored Rabbi Dresner at the follow. On Saturday, there will a “Torah choir of the Berea Seventh-Day
nity policing in the 21st century. White House in 2013 for the Town Hall” service as part of the Shab- Adventist Church at its special an-
Mr. Grewal said he hopes the audience 50th anniversary celebration of bat morning interactive Torah discussion nual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
will leave with the feeling that while there is the March on Washington. 950 on the legacies of Rabbi Heschel and Dr. Jr. Shabbat service, 7:30 p.m. 228
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Students and faculty talk together before morning tefillot at the school.
The adults in the photo include, clockwise from the front, Rabbi Tavi
Koslove, STEM teacher Rochie Summer, humanities teacher Nancy
Edelman, and the director of the Idea School Institute, Rabbi Alan Zelenetz.
ALL PHOTO COURTESY OF THE IDEA SCHOOL
How’s the Idea School doing?

We look at the new Jewish education ninth-graders. Next year, the school will in some way.”
add a new ninth grade; it plans to gradu- It’s about the importance of facts and
‘laboratory’ at the Kaplen JCC ate its first class in four years. It has seven of truth. It’s less about hierarchy than
midway through its inaugural year teachers, three of them full-time, includ- about the way learning and learners and
the world in which and from which they
learn all interconnects. It’s about melding
JOANNE PALMER whom you work. science and art and emotion and Judaism
S
tarting a school — going from the
You need courage.
But if you can do it, the reward will be
It’s not that the in ways that are both challenging and real.
Sounds great but what does that mean
daydream to the absolute reality great. information the in the real world?
of actual ninth-graders looking at
you expectantly one September
If you have the courage and the heart
and the tenacity to go through with it,
students learn is It could mean that as you learn about
environmental science or biology, “You
day — is an extraordinary achievement. then you get to start from the beginning, different, it’s that could, say, test water in the Hackensack
The challenges are immense.
You have to find financial backers,
to institute the educational philosophy
that you think will be best for the students
it’s organized River or investigate whether people who
live close to Route 4 have higher levels of ill-
because it’s expensive. You have to find from the beginning, instead of having to fit differently. ness. Your research might yield something
space, because teaching takes up room. it into existing corners of the curriculum. authentic, and you could make connec-
You have to find teachers willing to give up You get to shape students’ lives. ing Rabbi Tavi Koslove, the school’s Judaic tions with experts in the field, with a water
security, perhaps even tenure, to work in That’s what Tikvah Wiener of Teaneck studies principal, and it works with other filtration specialist, say, or a chemist.”
what might not be a secure job. You have did with the Idea School, a new Jewish teachers. (Do you want to teach your stu- That sounds complex. Is project-based
to find parents willing to send their chil- high school whose freshman class started dents to plan a garden? Work with Yoseph learning only for high school students, and
dren to a place with absolutely no track in September. The school’s set at the Gillers of Grow Torah!) advanced ones at that? No, Ms. Wiener
record. You have to find students willing Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly; The Idea School’s educational model is said; an elementary school that did proj-
to be pioneers in what might be a grand the intergenerational programming inside project-based learning. “A big part of it is ect-based learning took a class pet’s death
experiment or a messy failure. the building and the wooded acres outside authenticity,” Ms. Wiener said. “It’s about and made a funeral, with invitations, writ-
You have to have a firm vision, a clear seem a necessary part of it. authentic connections to the real world. ten in the children’s own invented spelling,
head, faith in yourself and the people with There are 13 students now, all Your work should be part of the real world and went on from there, including as many

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Student Ezra Glasman works with GrowTorah’s Yosef Gillers.
elements from as many disciplines How does my knowledge of Tal-

as possible. mud and my Jewish identity Idea School students walk through the JCC’s halls.
The Idea School works on tri- inform my sense of citizenship?
mesters. There’s one big unit per In humanities, they’re learning
trimester, a concept that each disci- about ancient Greece and Rome,
pline uses in its own way. And then, and how to trace our American
“presenting and reflecting on work democracy to ancient concepts.”
is very important,” Ms. Wiener In their literature class, students
said. “We want the students pre- are studying Antigone. “The ques-
senting their work to each other, tion is what happens when my
and to as wide an audience as pos- personal sense of right and wrong
sible; if you were investigating river conflict with the societal sense of
levels, if you found something right and wrong? Then we get into
you’d want to present it to the town civil rights and civil disobedience
water board.” But the students start and the Freedom Riders,” and all
with each other, their teachers and that happens right around Martin
administrators, and parents. Luther King Day.
“It naturally builds leadership The students also had to cre-
skills,” Ms. Wiener said. ate their own superheroes, com-
The school’s first unit was about plete with backstories; they talked
cultivating good habits; the current about Bernie Madoff on this, the
one, its second, is consideration of tenth anniversary of his arrest and
what makes a good citizen. “There unmasking, and they used biblical Jacob Louk and Emma Hasson work on coding.
is a lot of emotional learning that and talmudic sources as they did
goes on,” Ms. Wiener said. “We so. They studied the ethics of organ
rooted our first unit of the year — donation. “It loops back to the ques-
the first unit of the school — in look- tion of what is my personal moral
ing at not only at how we develop responsibility to society?” Ms. Wie-
good habits as a person but how we ner said. “How much do I have to
do it as a school. And for life.” give? It’s all interconnected.”
The school uses the same core The Idea School is the first and
curriculum as other schools, she so far the only Jewish institution
added. “In ninth grade, social stud- “to be fully interdisciplinary and
ies is ancient civilizations, math project-based,” Ms. Wiener said.
is geometry, science is physics. Although the school may seem
These are not outliers. It’s not that unstructured, that’s far from the
the information the students learn truth, she said. It’s just that the
is different, it’s that it’s organized structure isn’t necessarily visible.
differently. It’s how we’re choosing It uses the chavruta model — stu-
to connect the courses. dents learning together in pairs
“So take the unit they’re work- — but “it’s not the typical ‘let’s
ing on now, about what makes a go learn together,’” she said. “It’s
good citizen. How do we pursue a protocol, with set criteria and
justice in society? So in Talmud, guidelines. When you give kids
the students are investigating the protocols, they don’t have to won- Soon after the school year started, students gathered for morning tefillot as Rabbi Tavi
Jewish version of that question. der what they are supposed to be Kosgrove unrolled a family sefer Torah and described some of its physical elements.

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doing. Those rules take the pres- grew ethically.” They also consider
sure off.” The school also uses practical implications, because
Socratic seminars; those, too, there’s no point in thinking great
have rules. thoughts that you cannot express,
“We are not interested only much less implement. So, “did they
in their scientific and academic meet their deadlines? Did they col-
exploration and their cultural lit- laborate well?
eracy,” Ms. Wiener said. “We are “Reflecting makes them aware
very interested in those things, of their areas of growth, and what
but we also are very interested they were good at already.”
in their moral character develop- Exhibitions are like a science fair,
ment within their exploration of Ms. Wiener said; and then the pre-
science and the humanities and sentations were made in front of
their Jewish heritage.” three to five teachers. “They were
Teaching Talmud is a neces- awesome,” she said.
sary and valuable way to teach Nancy Edelman of Teaneck
students not only Jewish practice teaches humanities — English and
but also Jewish values, she said. From left, the JCC’s chief experience officer, Leslie Meyers; Nancy Edelman; the JCC’s COO, Sue social studies. She’s taught else-
“If you grow up to cheat on your Gelsey; Rabbi Tavi Kaslove; the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, Jason where, mainly at the Torah Acad-
taxes but keep Shabbat perfectly, Shames; Tikvah Wiener; board member Lisa Farkovits, and Jordan Shenker celebrate the school. emy of Bergen County, for 19 years;
then we have failed.” her training is in art history, so she
She talked about some of her intellectual heroes — the then you are never not a Jew. If you practice Torah, then brings a lot of that way of looking at everything she sees
Rav, Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik; Rabbi Moshe Lich- there is never a world in which our laws don’t work.” into her classroom as well.
tenstein, and Rabbi Norman Lamm. Each had combined The goal is to make the integration of the morality and She isn’t really teaching in a different way, she said;
Torah, humanism, and morality. “Rabbi Lichtenstein said truth and knowledge of the different worlds in which the instead, the change is more “in the way we are assessing
the blessing that you say before you learn Torah also before students live visible. and connecting with the students. I have been teaching
studying secular subjects,” she said. “He was a massive One important way to do that is through reflection and literature for 26 years; this is the first time that nothing
Torah scholar, and a massive humanist. He said that any- presentation. “After students present their work — talk has been a finished product. It’s really liberating, and it’s
thing you do with a moral view is Torah. Of course there is about the superhero, and putting Antigone on trial — then really good for the kids.” She corrects assignments and
actual Torah, but if you look at the world through that lens they reflect and say what they got out of it. Whether they gives them back for revision rather than filing (or disposal);
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their work matters, and if it is to make a difference Speaking not as a parent but as “someone
it should be done right. But it should not be — and is who works here, I can say that I watch these
not — done harshly. “Talking about literature can be kids, and I’ve seen them come together,” she
a public thing, and then it becomes a piece of writ- said. “There is a group. Everyone contributes.
ing that has a public purpose,” she said. Everyone feels included and useful, and they
Ms. Edelman thinks it’s valuable to be able to give are able to talk to people.” She’s also pleased
them what she calls rubrics —detailed assessments with the way the school teaches Jewish subjects.
of their work — rather than just unexplained letter It allows students to think for themselves and
grades. She also values working with Rabbi Koslove; reach their own relationships with the texts
“in the beit midrash, when we were studying the ten and with their own practice, always with an
habits of ancient civilization, he had the kids find the understanding of the depth and beauty and
same habits in the Talmud.” They could compare the authenticity and relevance of the tradition. “It
way the rabbis and the ancient Greeks confronted is a beautiful thing,” she said. “When you forge
the same ethical dilemmas. “We’re trying to educate a deeper connection on your own, it means so
the whole Jewish young person,” she said. “Our inte- much more.”
grated curriculum allows us to break down barriers.” The faculty works wonders, she added.
She’s thrilled at being able to work in a brand- From left, Felicia Stendig, Leah Masri, and Gabe Shein work together. “Each of them individually brings so much
new school. “It’s really exciting,” she said. “It’s the to the school, and they all bring a belief in
first time in my career I’ve had the chance to help build have far less trouble with those often difficult feats than the educational model. We love each of those kids for
something from the ground up. those adults did. “It’s both highly structured and emotion- who they are and what they bring. We celebrate the indi-
Tamara Levin of Teaneck is both the parent of a ninth ally liberating here,” she said. And it makes her child “so vidual and still have structure. The teachers set boundar-
grade Idea School student and its business manager. “It is much more confident, and so happy to be here.” ies and the students are making their own. They want to
life-changing,” she said of the school. “I have a child who What’s it like to send a child to a brand new school? “It learn, and it is self-motivating.”
now is happy going to school. Who wants to be there. Who is a leap of faith,” she said. “It’s a little scary.” She and her The school gives her child “a feeling of freedom. There
is doing a lot more self-discovery than I ever could have family made that leap because it felt right — her child’s is an openness to have the freedom of the building,” the
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She worked in corporate human relations for 20 years, try a new one? — and it has paid off spectacularly. “After and light and trees. “They know where everything is
and she saw how often it was hard for people to speak the first exhibition, he pulled me aside and gave me a hug here.” They’ve gardened; in the fall, around the High
in public, to express themselves, to be themselves. She’s and said ‘I want to thank you for letting me go here,’” Ms. Holy Days, “they were talking about tefilla and teshuva,
impressed with the way that Idea School students seem to Levin said. “And he doesn’t talk like that.” and applying it to the garden, and in the spring they will
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lessons about growth and renewal come Felicia talked about the presentation
naturally there. of learning. “I was very stressed before
Felicia Stendig of Riverdale and Emma it happened, because I don’t like public
Hasson of Manhattan Beach — two almost speaking,” she said. “I was stressed and
preternaturally articulate and enthusias- overwhelmed and I thought that every-
tic ninth-graders, both are blissfully and one would judge me based on what I
realistically happy at the Idea School. said. But then when I started to write the
(They also both commute; Felicia’s notes and reflect on my learning, I saw
ride to school is against traffic and not how much I had learned, and how much
so bad, but Emma’s is epic. Manhat- I had grown.
tan Beach is in Brooklyn. But she says “On the day of the presentation, I was
it’s nothing, certainly minor compared shaking, because it’s scary getting up in
with her desire to be at the Idea School. front of people you don’t really know, and
Most of the students, however, are local. I didn’t really know everyone yet then.
Emma’s trek is unusual.) But then when I started I realized how
“I love being at a new school,” Felicia much I had learned, and how useful those
said. “It’s amazing how much input we skills are, and when I was in the middle
get at what goes on at the school, and in of it I realized that it was a really loving
the clubs and the teams.” She’s on the atmosphere. No one was making weird
track team, Emma’s on the model U.N. faces at me. They all were supporting me.
and the drawing club, and Felicia also And I could not have been happier.
is one of the two students who make up “Afterward, I was a little shocked at
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What’s that? five minutes after the presentation, I felt
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said. “It is one of the things that really sets the Idea opportunity that exist here at the JCC if they weren’t here.” The Idea School has only one grade now. It’s small. The
School apart. Instead of just teaching us a subject that For example? “A couple of students worked with senior JCC has many rooms to offer them, and the school not only
we may or may not really need to know, we really end adults to create a hypophonic planter in the senior adult stu- is flexible but takes great advantage of the range of spaces
up learning about learning. During our presentation dio, and now they are growing plants together. They worked open to it.
of learning, we present the actual information that we with the maintenance department to revise and build the “One of the nuances of the space for the school is that
learned, but the presentation is like the behind-the- sukkah at Sukkot. They are doing work with the adult spe- they don’t want dedicated classrooms. Their educational
scenes part, and we can use that for the rest of our cial needs population, and in the preschool. model is enhanced by the opportunity to use multiple
lives. “When they started, we both had the aspirational aware- spaces during the day.
“What we learn about ethics and morality and ness that there would be opportunities to collaborate, with- “Not only are they flexible, they desire flexibility.”
responsibility, really interesting things, don’t have out specific intentionality about what those things could be. But what happens when there are more grades? More stu-
easy answers, and thinking about them makes us grow But now that we see what some of them are, we realize that dents? More need for space? “We can have up to 50, 60,
and learn. the opportunities are endless.” SEE IDEA SCHOOL PAGE 26
“Antigone had to decide whether to bury her
brother — which is against the law — or not, and it is
not okay to just leave his body. In Greek tradition, if he
is not buried, if she leaves him, he will suffer forever.
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She has to make a choice.
“Antigone had to make a big moral decision, and the
consequences of it mattered. That’s the theme we are
exploring — what is your civic or moral responsibility,
what happens when the law conflicts with your per-
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ities,” Mr. Shenker said. “But scale the school forward. Say
there are 10 or 15 or 20 kids per class. And some of the seniors
would have been in the school for four years, and they would
have developed an intensive educational experience in ways
that can provide real significant value to the community.
“You could have 17- or maybe 18-year-old kids who could be Jonah Lumerman teaches a
interns in early childhood, or working with adults with special woman in a JCC program for
needs, or even working in finance or marketing. It doesn’t seniors about technology.
even necessarily have to be in programming. A significant part
of their day could be real-world applications of what they have
learned in school for three or four years.
“I have no idea what that would look like,” he added. “But
the thought of it is alluring to me. And it would provide a rich-
ness of educational experiences that the school couldn’t get
anywhere else.
“It would be a quadruple win. It benefits the Idea School
because it provides a richer educational experience. It ben-
efits the JCC, because the students are adding value to the pro- planning,” Mr. Shenker said. “We’re also looking at our often, we would help Jewish organizations and serve our
grams and services we offer. It benefits the students, because physical plant needs. And in the context of that plan- community better.”
they have access to experiences that they otherwise wouldn’t ning, if the schools scales up next year and continues to And what about Tikvah Wiener, whose vision and
have. And it benefits the constituencies the students would scale up, I think that there would be an intention for us drive created the Idea School?
be working with. to go together to look for potential funders to support “Tikvah is a rock star,” Mr. Shenker said. “She just
“It would be hard to invent an experience that could have our capital needs.” thinks differently as a person. I assume she thinks dif-
more benefits.” That of course has implications for both the Idea ferently as an educator as well, but I am not qualified to
So what to do? “We think that 75 students would be the tip- School and the JCC. It means that although the school comment on that. But when you pitch an idea to Tikvah,
ping point,” Mr. Shenker said; the point beyond which the JCC might have moved into the JCC thinking of it as a sort of she always listens to it. She is always open to it, on its
would be stretched too thinly in its existing space. And he’s starter home, a transitional space, now the Idea School face, without pre-judging it.
confident that the school will grow to that size. would have its permanent home at the JCC. “It seems to me that the first question she asks her-
“The JCC is now in the midst of doing some capital campaign “It is good business for both of us,” Mr. Shenker said. self is ‘How could this work?’ That’s as opposed to many
“They help us cover some of our infrastructure costs, people who approach any idea with the question ‘How
and we save them a ton of costs on the back end. It is a will this be a problem?’
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He stresses the underlying symbolic importance of That is so invigorating to be around!
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efit not only the community but each other, he said. “If because the school has a leader who wants to figure out
only we as a Jewish community thought this way more how to say yes.”
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Remembering
KEEPING THE FAITH
Chews to be choosy
Albert Burstein about being kosher
Y F
ou might have noticed that the American hard school to get into, but it was far harder for
flags in New Jersey flew at half-staff this Jews during those quota years, but he made it. He or those who see Jew- is “atom-for-atom identical to the
Monday. loved college, but he was too aware of the “huge ish law as stuck in the heme molecule found in meat,” the
That was at the order of Governor dark cloud” hanging over Europe to relax entirely. ancient past, with noth- company says.
Philip Murphy, and it was to honor the memory of He was drafted during his junior year, and sent to ing to say to us in the 21st Impossible products are avail-
Albert Burstein of Tenafly, who died on December a program for smart people — its formal name was century, here is something meaty able only in restaurants for now
27. He was 96 years old. the Army Specialized Training Program. But then to chew on. The next generation of and they are OU certified. Another
I met Mr. Burstein in 2015, when he was a mere 92, the United States invaded Europe, and he became faux meat is here, with yet another company, Beyond Meat, which also
a lawyer who still went to the office in Hackensack. an infantryman. “Hard times,” he said about it, generation only a couple of years is getting some notice, is available
Here’s how I started the cover story on him then: laconically. He got to Europe after D-Day but was in away, presenting us with issues, in certain stores (like Whole Foods),
“When you talk to Albert Burstein — World War II combat for two months. He almost died, was sent many of which are complex, that but is not yet kosher certified.
vet, Columbia grad, lawyer, political reformer, state to the hospital to recover, and so missed the Battle need to be addressed. If, in fact, one is unable to distin-
legislator, education advocate, grand old-school of the Bulge, where most of his unit were killed. The current concern is a new guish between a real meat burger
liberal, native and lifelong Jerseyan — you have to He saw concentration camp survivors. “It was type of veggie burger and these new plant-
reorient yourself. a terrible time,” he said; he was aware of his own that looks, acts, and based creations
“On the one hand, you feel relative extremely good for- tastes like meat-based (Business Insider
as if he’s a contemporary. tune, despite the horrors of burgers. Specifically, rated it better-tast-
None of the subtly patroniz- his war. a number of kosher ing than a burger
ing ‘he’s still so sharp’ assess- When he got back, he met eateries in our area served at a popular
ments can be applied to him. and married Ruth Appelb- now offer the Impos- hamburger chain),
He’s scary-smart, just as he latt, the love of his life, who sible Burger, a faux there is the thorny
clearly always has been. Ask survives him; so do his chil- meat product that issue of marit ayin,
him a question about this dren and grandchildren, has been getting a essentially perform-
week’s politics, and he’ll ana- and his brother. great deal of media Shammai ing an act that only
lyze it and answer it, elegantly, In the mid 1950s, the buzz of late — CNBC, Engelmayer appears to be pro-
cogently, convincingly. Bursteins moved to New Jer- BBC, Forbes, Wall hibited. An onlooker,
“On the other hand, Mr. sey; he was a lawyer by then, Street Journal, Wired, however, may get the
Burstein is 92 years old. That and joined the Democratic to name just a few — precisely idea that the actual prohibited act
means that he has almost a Party. He fought political because it looks like a burger, cooks is now a permitted one. (“I guess
century’s worth of stored fights in Jersey City, where like a burger, and even “bleeds” cheeseburgers are okay now, since
knowledge. Ask him a ques- they lived. They eventually like a burger. he’s eating one.”) Building a fence
tion about politics in the moved to Tenafly; from 1971 The Impossible Burger is pro- around this rule, the Babylonian
1980s, or ’60s, or ’40s, and to 1981, he was elected to duced by a Silicon Valley startup Talmud tractate Shabbat 64b says,
he’ll analyze it and answer it, the State Legislature, where that claims —apparently with jus- “Rav Yehuda quoted Rav as saying:
elegantly, cogently, convincingly.” he represented the 37th district. He worked on tification (“apparently,” because I ‘Wherever the Sages prohibited [an
And then I went on to write a long cover story funding for public education, fighting to make it have yet to try one) — that its prod- action] due to marit ha-ayin, even
about Mr. Burstein, leaving out far more than I fairer. After he decided not to run again, he worked ucts “deliver all the flavor, aroma in private [where no one will see
could put in. The hook for the story was that the on public commissions, doing whatever he could and beefiness of meat from cows,” it,] it is prohibited.”
New Jersey Law Journal had just given him its life- to make the world fairer. but is made entirely from plants. Not everyone agreed with Rav,
time achievement award, but really, given that he’d Al Burstein was an old-fashioned liberal; he The key ingredient is a virtu- however, as the discussion in Shab-
already earned a Bronze Star from the U.S. govern- believed in truth and justice and fairness, in hard ally unpronounceable protein the bat 64b notes. Based on its ruling,
ment for his service during World War II, and that work and kindness, in education and decency. He company extracts from soy, called the Jerusalem Talmud also dis-
the French government had named him a chevalier was lucky in many ways; he was brilliant, which is a leghemoglobin. It sounds rather agreed. (See the gemara portion of
of its Legion of Honor, the Law Journal award was gift, although it must be cultivated, and he did. He “bloody” (it is a close relative to JT Chullin, Chapter 9.1.)
almost gilding the lily. was loving, and he was well loved. He lived a long myoglobin, which is found in the Obviously, eating an Impossible
Almost. and complete life, and although his survivors mourn muscle tissue of most mammals), Burger in a restaurant is not eating
As I learned for my story, “A very busy 92 years,” him they remember him with pride and love. and it is what makes the Impos- it in private, so marit ayin would
from which I am quoting here, Mr. Burstein, the We as a Jewish community are lucky to have sible Burger “bloody” because it seem to apply, especially when
son of immigrants, grew up in Jersey City, a seri- had people like Albert Burstein fighting for us, and
ous Reform Jew, a basketball player, and a good stu- even sometimes, when it was necessary, fighting Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades,
dent. He went to Columbia — that’s always a very with us. We mourn him. —JP now in Fort Lee.
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eating a “cheeseburger.” Other Halachic issues abound. A major It was different last year.
factors come into play, however. one is how to categorize a cell. The From left, Nancy Kaufman,
For example, faux cheeseburg- Torah prohibits consuming the CEO of the National Council
ers made with traditional veggie flesh torn from a live animal (see of Jewish Women; Rabbi
burgers are no longer uncommon especially Genesis 9:4 and Exo- Tamara Cohen, chief of
for kosher consumers. Then again, dus 22:30). Are cells taken from innovation at Moving
the Impossible Burger looks like a live animal flesh ripped from Traditions, and Debbie
real meat. Is it fair to assume its that animal? Even if it is so con- Hoffmann, NCJW’s board
cheeseburger nevertheless falls sidered, can the same be said of president, at the National Mall
into the acceptable category? its “descendants,” or do they lose for the Women’s March on
One possible answer was pro- their original identity and so can- Washington on January 21, 2017.
vided by the late Rabbi Moshe not be seen as “torn flesh”? RON SACHS
- Feinstein (see his Igrot Moshe, Are these even valid questions,
w Orach Chayim, page 243.2). Some- though? The Torah, after all, only
r thing that was once forbidden prohibits what the naked eye can
because of marit ayin but now has see, and that excludes cells. Then
become commonplace no longer is again, that rule apparently applies
, subject to this rule. It is common- only to unintentional acts, such
-
place to use soy milk, or cashew
milk, or non-dairy creamer dur-
as drinking water on Pesach from
a stream that may have had cha-
Choose the women’s march ...
r
-
ing a meat meal, so why not add a
piece of real cheese to a faux meat
metz thrown into it earlier. There
is nothing unintentional about bit-
the one that’s free of prejudice
I
burger, even if it looks like real ing into a lab meat lamb chop.
r meat? Should it not be considered Can a cell even be considered will be at the Women’s March on NYC orga- Hollywood turning men into women and women
- the same as faux milk? a limb? We drink cow’s milk and nized by Women’s March Alliance on January into men.”
r What, however, would be the eat a chicken’s eggs. If they are not 19. I will not be marching in Washington D.C., Despite a public outcry, the Women’s March Inc.
r case if the “faux meat” product “limbs,” why should a microscopic as I cannot support the anti-Semitic, anti- leadership refused to condemn Farrakhan. This is
, was not “faux” at all, but was “real cell be considered one? LBGTQ, and hateful rhetoric that has been espoused not surprising since they frequently have met with
y meat,” albeit made in a laboratory? Another question is whether lab and endorsed by the national Women’s March Inc. Farrakhan and praised him, and now they use the
, “Lab meat” is a couple of years meat meets the halachic test for co-founders, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, and Nation of Islam members as security.
- away, but it already also is getting real meat. If it does, (a) may meat Carmen Perez. The leaders claim they don’t agree with every-
y lots of media buzz (from, among that was not kosher-slaughtered This week, Mallory told the New York Times thing Farrakhan says. But you cannot pick and
- other sources, the New York Times, (hard to do in a test tube) be con- that “white Jews, as white people, uphold white choose when it comes to hate speech. That is dan-
, the Washington Post, the Econo- sidered kosher; and (b) is it still supremacy.…” gerous, and a direct contradiction of the move-
mist, the Financial Times, Fortune, subject to the restrictions of not When white supremacists marched in Charlottes- ment’s principles of unity among all women. Preju-
t and Forbes). It also is subject to mixing meat with milk? ville, they chanted “Jews will not replace us.” How dice should not be acceptable in any form.
heavy lobbying by the meat indus- And then there is this ques- can Jews be targeted and blamed at For the record, if my rabbi said
try, which considers these creations tion: If lab meat does not meet the same time? Mallory’s comment, during services that Muslims con-
to be “egregiously labeled imita- the meat test according to Jew- which is both ignorant and offensive, trol government agencies or Hin-
tion products,” in the words of the ish law, may products produced suggests that Jewish people are com- dus were responsible for the slave
, National Cattlemen’s Beef Associa- from a pig’s cells be consumed by plicit in white supremacy. trade, I no longer be would attend-
: tion. These products-to-be —includ- kosher consumers? As a Sephardic Jew, I have rela- ing my synagogue.
ing “chicken” meat from an Israeli One prominent Orthodox tives who would be categorized as At a time when the women’s
company, SuperMeat, and “beef” Israeli rabbi, Yuval Cherlow, says people of color. They are profiled movement is actively supporting
products from Memphis Meats — absolutely yes. If the “cell of a pig getting onto airplanes and when fairness, respect, equality, inclu-
are laced with halachic issues. The is used and its genetic material pulled over by police. Twenty per- siveness, and legitimacy, the con-
, most important one is whether this is utilized in the production of cent of the Jewish population in the Jill Besnoy nection to leaders who are lacking
- “meat” is “real meat.” food,” he told the Times of Israel, United States is Sephardic, black, in these values is unacceptable.
, Meat comes from an animal, not “the cell in fact loses its original Asian, Latino, or mixed-race; that Like many other sister marches
- from a test tube. Memphis Meats, identity and therefore cannot be means that there are 1.2 million Jewish men and across the country, the Women’s March on NY,
f for one, promises “to bring deli- defined as forbidden for consump- women who do not identify as white. run by WMA, has broken with the national Wom-
cious and healthy meat to your tion. It wouldn’t even be meat, so The Women’s March Inc. leaders are confusing en’s March Inc. leadership. Similarly, the Women’s
table by harvesting it from cells you can consume it with dairy.” white supremacy with white privilege. They also are March on New Jersey is not associated with the
instead of animals. You can enjoy (Clearly, Cherlow also does not distracting us from the conversation about religious national Women’s March, Inc. organization and it
the meat you love today and see marit ayin as being a problem.) discrimination. According to the FBI, Jews are the is not accepting any financial help from the national
feel good about how it’s made,” There is a rabbinic principle, most targeted religious group in America, and hate group for the march in Trenton, organizers say.
because no animal has to die to however, that most authorities crimes are increasing. Last year 58 percent of hate As women are elected into office in historic num-
put juicy steaks on the table. studying these issues (Orthodox crimes based on religion were against Jews. bers and the women’s movement continues to grow,
Says the SuperMeat website, and Conservative) invoke: What The leaders of Women’s March Inc. seem deter- we have a choice. We can choose to support leaders
“We have the technology to grow derives from a kosher source is mined to alienate Jewish women from the wom- (and marches) who attempt to lift up all women, or
meat outside of the animal’s body, kosher, and what derives from a en’s movement. The most glaring example is their we can choose to support leaders who intentionally
and achieve the same mouth- non-kosher source is not kosher. refusal to repudiate Louis Farrakhan, a proud and leave some women behind.
watering results, eliminating the (See Rashi’s comment to “forbid- outspoken anti-Semite.
need to grow animals in mass for den for consumption by the rab- In March, Mallory was in the audience at a Jill Besnoy of Demarest is co-founder and co-president
meat harvesting.” bis” in BT Bechorot 24a.) Farrakhan rally when the Nation of Islam leader of Stanton Strong, Inc., a nonprofit with a mission to
In other words, according to The Torah may have been given gave her a shout-out. In the same speech, he increase access to reproductive health care, including
both companies, the beef, or veal, 3,500 years ago, as we will read on claimed that Jews control government agencies abortion care, for all women, regardless of race,
or lamb, or chicken they will pro- Shabbat two weeks from now, but and are responsible for “degenerate behavior in class, religion, and sexual and gender identity.
duce will be real meat in every its laws are for all times, all places,
way except one: The meat will not and all situations. It continues to
The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the newspaper’s editors,
come directly from the animal or be vital, vibrant, and highly rele-
bird, but from its cells. vant. Chew on that for a while. publishers, or other staffers. We welcome letters to the editor. Send them to [email protected].

Opinion
On a child flying solo — and how Jewish education helps
A
nnals of Appreciation: In 2018 I to mom and dad. But leaving home did As for her actual studies, Gemara? How can they com-
reached a milestone both mun- offer real-world moments, and again, she I found it hugely satisfying pete with hours and hours of
dane and magnificent — one of succeeded. My baby bird managed to get to see how much her Jewish Jewish studies taking up time
my birdies flew from the nest, her own passport, a process that involved education propelled her to that could be spent on math
and she is soaring. many complicated new procedures, like success, and how much she and grammar and other criti-
This child, who when last I checked entering a post office and filling out a gov- acknowledged this to be the cal knowledge?
could barely pour her own milk and whose ernment form. It required reading long case. We chose to send our How gratifying, then, to see
room resembles Times Square after the boring instructions and gathering multiple children to Jewish schools that the Jewish studies actu-
ball drops (only with way more trash on documents at the same time, not to men- for many reasons — to learn ally were the foundation for
the ground) has made it through her first tion remembering where to put stamps on their religion and heritage, Laura Fein her success in every subject.
semester of college with flying colors. She an envelope, a task she last did when her develop their spirituality and Yes, in all the ways building
studied! She ate! She made new friends! first grade class did a unit on mail. (The ethics, connect to their com- character and good work
She found someone willing to room with other class learned how to make choco- munity, ensure the continuity of the Jew- habits help, but also in unexpected ways.
her, who apparently loves stepping on late, a much more useful life skill.) She ish people. We want quality secular educa- Acquiring a huge body of knowledge few
trash! I could hardly ask for more. learned a new subway system and navi- tion too, but rarely consider how each part possess is like wearing a superhero costume
But there is more! University administra- gated airports and security lines and flight improves the other. More often, parents — it may not show on the outside, but you
tors talk about college as the “real world,” delays — actual flying! And she even called bemoan the tradeoffs of the dual curricu- know you have special powers. And when
something I question given that all meals her Bubbe and Saba once in a while. Such lum. Such a long day! So much pressure! So it’s revealed, admiration and awe abound.
are prepared by others and the bills go nachas! many subjects! Do they really need all that When the TA in her archaeology course
Losing Amos Oz ... but savoring his insights
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n December 28, 2018, Amos might have opened the way to greater clar-
Oz, one of Israel’s foremost ity about borders.
literary figures and thought He also supported Israeli actions in Gaza
leaders, died. Those of you during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, criti-
who have read any of his novels or short cizing Hamas’s use of human shields and
stories know how deep in feeling his writ- terror tunnels, asking: “What would you
ing could be, as in the case of his autobio- do if your neighbor across the street sits
graphical “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” down on the balcony, puts his little boy on
and how amazingly it caught the compli- his lap, and starts shooting machine-gun
cated and conflicted soul of Israel, as in fire into your nursery? What would you
Oz’s 1968 novel, “My Michael.” do if your neighbor across the street digs a
Less known are his political essays and tunnel from his nursery to your nursery in
cultural writings. He clearly was the most order to blow up your home or in order to
eloquent and well-known kidnap your family?”
voice of Israel’s left. He was Oz was a truth teller, and
among the first to propose as such he was willing to
a two-state solution to the be castigated by the Israeli
Israeli-Palestinian conflict left as much as he was will-
and he was an ongoing and ing to draw fire from the
trenchant critic of the Israeli right. As part of his obitu-
occupation of the territories ary, Haaretz’s Ofer Aderet
conquered in 1967, of the gov- wrote, “In the early 1960s he
ernment support for settle- opposed David Ben-Gurion’s Amos Oz STEPHANIE PILICK/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES
ment there, and of those set- Rabbi fierce grip on power, and in
tlers who turned to violence Dr. Michael the ‘70s he was a spokesman ideas it contained. I sent the essay with There was some small talk, but then
sometimes directed against Chernick for Peace Now. As an adult my comments back to Miri, thinking things turned more serious. He asked
IDF soldiers, sometimes he identified with the Labor that would be the end of it. I never imag- about some of the views I expressed in
directed at local Arabs. Party. He was close to Peres ined she’d send my comments on to my comments.
For all that the Israeli right denounced and Yitzhak Rabin, but has said he never the author of the essay, but she did. His I had been particularly struck by his
him as a traitor, his love for the Land and voted for either of them.” response was, “I would like to meet this idea that the Jewish people definitely
People of Israel and his army service in Amos Oz up close and personal fellow.” I couldn’t believe it. had the right to the entire biblical Land
their defense showed him to be a consum- One day I received an email from Miri In fact, Amoz Oz, the Varons, and the of Israel. He noted, however, that just
mate patriot, the quintessence of “the Varon, a close friend of our family and a Stern-Chernicks did meet for breakfast on because someone has a right doesn’t
loyal opposition.” writer who was close to Oz. In it was an the shores of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv. I mean it is necessary to use it. For him,
For example, Oz fully supported the sec- attachment containing a political essay wasn’t sure whether I was going to a social that meant that while Judea and Samaria
ond Lebanese war until the government by Oz. The email contained a request, event or a repeat performance of my doc- might by right be ours as a matter of his-
decided to extend the action beyond the “Make this essay your homework.” I am toral orals. Was I going to be angrily grilled tory, for the sake of peace with the Pales-
destruction of Hezbollah, thereby caus- pretty sure Miri just wanted me to read about my comments on Oz’s article by Oz tinians it was prudent to use it in a shar-
ing one of the worst military disasters in what Oz had written, and to emphasize himself? Was my Hebrew going to be suf- ing manner.
Israeli history. how important reading it was she called ficient for a conversation with this giant of Knowing how dedicated Oz was to the
He fully supported the security wall it “homework.” As I read it, however, I Hebrew literature? It was with excitement two-state solution, I found his view pater-
that snakes through Israel, with the pro- could not refrain from commenting on it, and trepidation that I went to breakfast nalistic. On one hand, he wanted the
viso that it hew to the Green Line, which because of some of the very provocative that morning. State of Palestine to exist. On the other,

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asked how she knew so much about ancient academic superpower. comfort with choosing a path of her own, of loving every class, developing close rela-
Mesopotamia, she felt like a genius. And she had yet another secret weapon the root of all success in life. Disregard- tionships with her professors and class-
In the social sciences and humanities, forged from ancient texts. Jewish studies ing the standard advice to take some intro mates, and strengthening her confidence in
learning Torah is like having the Force. classes develop incomparable analyti- classes and knock out a requirement or her abilities and her choices..
Bible study is rarer than ever for enter- cal skills, which in turn lead to original two, she devoted what seemed like exces- In a world that grows more complex
ing college students, yet it remains fun- insights. In what other curriculum do stu- sive time to selecting her courses, and chose every day, and requires ever more skill to
damental to any topic dealing with the dents study the same text repeatedly, year several with narrowly focused subjects, navigate, all parents wonder how to best
last few thousand years of Western civi- after year, accruing depth and nuance with including two with no other freshmen and give their children the education they
lization. Literature, history, political sci- each rereading? What program shares our only a few undergrads. What appeared odd need to succeed. I’m grateful to know that
ence, philosophy, art, music, sociology, focus on close readings, finding infer- choices in fact showed wisdom. Instead of the time my daughters spend pursuing
and psychology all draw on this univer- ences, and comparing multiple critiques of fretting that her learning differences pres- their heritage also gives them the lift they
sal source of shared morality and mem- the same text, all routine in every Talmud, ent challenges, she searched out classes that need to fly high. May you continue to soar
ory. My daughter’s Chumash teacher Chumash, and Navi class? The analytical played to her natural academic strengths. in 2019, baby bird! And please, clean up
found her knowledge ordinary, but her abilities and habits of mind most college Recognizing that her inner slacker would your nest!
tenured professors of art and history students work hard to acquire flow natu- be tempted if she could hide in the back of
thought it outstanding, God bless them. rally to those accustomed to traditional a large lecture hall like a normal freshman, Laura Fein is an attorney, writer, and
She may have laughed when they com- modes of Jewish learning. she chose tiny classes, knowing it would consultant. She lives in Teaneck with her
plimented her “rare” knowledge of the Most of all, my daughter’s lifelong immer- force her to show up prepared. Her comfort husband and five daughters. Reach her at
Bible, but she also recognized it as an sion in Jewish education developed her making decisions that differ reaped rewards [email protected].
his view seemed to be that a Palestinian have. It is ensconced in Israel’s Declara- Oz, to a great extent Amos Oz lost Israel. “I have fears about the kind of seeds we
state actually would belong to us by vir- tion of Independence. Why should Mus- People describing themselves as left wing will sow in the near future in the hearts
tue of our historical right to the entire lims have it and not Jews? As a liberal, in their politics numbered 8 percent of of the occupied. Even more, I have fears
biblical Land of Israel. He seemed to be would he not admit that freedom of con- the entire Israeli Jewish population as of about the seeds that will be implanted in
saying, “Out of our graciousness, due to science, of which freedom of religion is 2016. (That’s from a Pew study, Israel a the hearts of the occupiers.”
our quest for peace and security, we will a part, could not be a bargaining chip Religiously Divided Country.) It might “The idea of a binational state that
allow you Palestinians to have a part of in order to gain peace? Where was the be argued that Amos Oz was part of the we hear about these days from both the
our patrimony.” share-and-share-alike he was proposing center-left that has a greater share of the extreme left and the lunatic right is, I
He saw my point, but said that it was coming from the Arab side when a Jew Israeli population’s allegiance, but he believe, a sad joke. After 100 years of
simply too hard for him and for many caught whispering a prayer in the Jew- was neither perceived that way nor did blood, tears and disasters, it is impos-
other Israelis on the left and right to dis- ish people’s most historically and reli- he present himself to the public as such sible to expect Israelis and Palestinians
miss our history with the Land of Israel giously sacred site could be jailed for when it came to the most burning politi- to jump suddenly into a double bed and
along with our attachment to those places that act? Did Jewish civil and religious cal issues roiling the country. When he begin a honeymoon. No, we and the
that figured so prominently in the founda- rights count for nothing? opposed something, he did so in caustic Palestinians will not be able to become
tional document of the Jewish people, the His response was telling about how and provocative terms. Perhaps that was ‘one happy family’ tomorrow. We need
Tanach. He pointed out that his position complicated a person he was. He said, a mistake, one that caused his positions a fair divorce.”
was not all that different from King Solo- “You are right. The Temple Mount and to go unheard. “They called me a traitor. I’m in good
mon’s. Did he not made a gift of 20 Gali- the deprivation of our rights there are Here is a potpourri of those positions company.”
lean cities to King Hiram of Tyre for his painful and unjust. But we have the cited in his Haaretz obituary so you can After an ongoing battle with cancer,
help in building the first Temple in Jeru- choice of demanding our rights and wind- hear the voice that has been lost and can Amoz Oz died. His life was, at least as far
salem? Oz was clear about the fact that ing up with violence and bloodshed on all no longer be found in most Israeli circles: as I am concerned, a blessing. To have
the Palestinians hadn’t helped the Jewish sides because of the inflamed passions of “A great many Israelis, too many Israe- met him was an even greater one. He
people build the State of Israel, with an both Jews and Muslims or holding back in lis, believe — or are being brainwashed provided me and millions of others with
aside about that being an understatement order to advance the cause of two states into believing — that if we only take a very hours of good reads in gorgeous and
if there ever was one, but the principle of for two peoples. The sooner movement big stick and beat the Arabs with it just moving Hebrew and in translation. His
giving up part of the biblical Land of Israel toward a two-state solution happens, of one more time, very hard, they will take cultural essays opened vistas of under-
for a reason was there. necessity there will be a reckoning of fright and once and for all let us be, and standing into the nature of Jews, Judaism,
As a means of keeping the options for the rights of access to the places sacred everything will be fine. For almost 100 and the meaning of language in the Jew-
peace open, he also contended in his to various groups in Jerusalem. I cannot years the Arabs haven’t let us be, despite ish tradition. He spoke his sharp truths to
essay that Jews should not make use of believe that even a cold but acceptable our big stick.” his people and to power.
their right to pray on the Temple Mount. peace would not include sharing the “I have said that in contrast to some May his memory be a blessing as well.
Jewish prayer now is forbidden on the Temple Mount. Unwillingness to do so, of my friends in the dovish left, I cannot Yehi zikhro barukh.
Temple Mount by Israeli law out of def- depending on who was the intransigent guarantee that if we leave the territories
erence to the Wakf, the Arab guardians party, would show who really was seek- with a peace treaty, everything will be Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick and his wife,
of the Muslim holy places there. That ing a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian wonderful. ... It also might not hurt the Miriam Stern, live in Teaneck. He received his
injunction is enforced by Israeli police. conflict and who was not. Should that dovish left to share in that fear a little. doctorate from the Bernard Revel Graduate
As it stands, a bracha over so much as a intransigence emerge, then my country- There is something to be afraid of. A per- School and rabbinic ordination from the
sip of water can land you in jail for a few men and I would have to resign ourselves son who is afraid, rightly or wrongly, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.
hours and prevent you from ever going to endless conflict, which indeed may be never deserves contempt or ridicule, or He holds the Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish
up to the Temple Mount again. our fate.” scorn either. We have to debate the idea Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the
I reiterated the point I made in my Woe for those whom we have lost and of peace for land not with ridicule or Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
comments on his article: Freedom of cannot be found scorn, but as people who weigh one dan- Religion in New York; his area of expertise is
religion was a right everyone should I sense that before Israel lost Amos ger against another danger.” the Talmud.

Opinion
Rashida Tlaib should at least understand

the history behind the dual loyalty canard
A
great American Jewish jurist once argued against
the idea of a “hyphenated American.” He said
there was no place in America for immigrants
and their children to hold on to differences
based on “race or creed.”
“[T]o keep alive difference of origin or to classify men
according to their religious beliefs are inconsistent with
American idea of brotherhood, and are disloyal,” he argued.
A few years later, a great American Zionist leader
argued that there is nothing more American or patriotic
than holding “multiple loyalties” — to God, to country,
to your land of origin.
“Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are
inconsistent,” he wrote. “Every Irish American who con-
tributed towards advancing home rule was a better man
and a better American for the sacrifice he made. Every
American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settle-
ment in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his
descendants will ever live there, will likewise be a better
man and a better American for doing so.”
Of course, it was the same leader who said both things:
Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice and Zionist
leader of the first half of the 20th century. Brandeis’ contra-
dictory views on “dual loyalty” represent his own evolution.
(The first comment was in 1905, the second in 1915.) But they
also hit on a tension that American Jews still deal with more
than 100 years later.
The Brandeisian notion that “multiple loyalties” make Representative Rashida Tlaib, right, and Representative Gwen Moore leave a meeting of the House Demo-
you a better American has guided and justified Jewish cratic Caucus in the Capitol on January 4, 2019. TOM WILLIAMS/CQ ROLL CALL
activism for Israel even before its founding in

1948. It’s based partly on Brandeis’ theoreti- pointed out, “The legislation discussed is
cal notion that loyalty itself is an admirable sponsored by four non-Jewish Senators, any
and fungible quality, like honesty or sobriety. charge of dual loyalty has special sensitivity
And it assumes, as Brandeis did famously, that and resonance for Jews, particularly in an The point is this: It
American values, Jewish values, and Zionist environment of rising anti-Semitism.”
values are fully aligned. Suggestions that the pro-Israel camp is not dual loyalty
As Jeffrey Rosen explained in his biography works against American interests is a or unpatriotic for an
of Brandeis, the jurist envisioned the Jewish staple of pro-Palestinian activism, given
state “as a secular, liberal democracy ruled by a scholarly veneer by Stephen Walt and American to love her
ethical values of equality and social justice, Andrew John Mearsheimer in their 2007 book, homeland and lobby
and not by Jewish law.” Silow-Carroll “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Brandeis did not have the last word, of Pro-Palestinian media also track the ways for its people. And
course, and in almost every decade since he that Jews are sensitive to the dual loyalty Tlaib, of all people,
defended the hyphen, the loyalty of Jews has been called charge, and defend the right to criticize the pro-Israel
into question — whether for their support of a Jewish state, lobby’s influence without being called anti-Semites. should know that.
for Jews being persecuted under the Nazis, or for Jews My point is that even if she didn’t aim her tweet at Jews,
trapped behind the Iron Curtain. Tlaib should have been aware of the toxicity of her for- Congress, “covered herself in the flag of a foreign people,
It’s not clear whether or not Rashida Tlaib knew or for- mula, and avoided it. In making their case against Presi- not the American people.” Again, no. Israeli flags hang in
got this history in her tweet this week suggesting that back- dent Trump, progressives will note how he traffics in dog nearly every American synagogue — and I bet in not a few
ers of a series of pro-Israel bills “forgot what country they whistles — and say that whether or not he does so on pur- congressional offices. Tlaib’s support for the Palestinian
represent.” Jews quickly called her out, saying the new con- pose is beside the point. A dog whistle is a dog whistle. cause is no more un-American than American Jewish sup-
gresswoman from Michigan seemed to be leveling the despi- If Tlaib was unaware of the dual loyalty debate, which I port for Israelis.
cable “dual loyalty” charge: that Israel’s supporters put its doubt, she at least should acknowledge the ways that Brandeis’ defense of what Rosen calls “the value of group
interests ahead of those of the United States. (Critics of the words like hers have been used against Jews and, yes, Pal- differences for preserving American ideals” has benefited
legislation, which would make it easier for states to legislate estinians and Muslims. any ethnic or religious group that advocates for its causes
against those who back the Boycott Israel movement, say it The American Jewish Committee tried to make that point overseas. It has allowed Irish Americans to back indepen-
violates the Constitution.) in a tweet, but it stumbled. Sharing a photograph of Tlaib dence for Ireland and Cuban Americans to lobby over U.S.
When backers of the bill, like Senator Marco Rubio embracing a fan wrapped in a Palestinian flag, AJC wrote, policy toward the island.
(R-Fla.), complained that the “dual loyalty canard is a typi- “Tell us more about dual loyalty, @RashidaTlaib.” Not help- It also made it safe and fully American for Rashida Tlaib
cal anti-Semitic line,” Tlaib returned to Twitter to insist that ing! The point is not that if Jewish Americans are disloyal, so to be sworn in as a United States congresswoman wearing
she hadn’t directed her comments at Jews. are Palestinian-Americans. a thobe, a Palestinian embroidered dress. Anyone who cel-
“Sen. Rubio, it’s clear my earlier tweet was critical of U.S. The point is this: It is not dual loyalty or unpatriotic for ebrated that image should also celebrate the history and
Senators like yourself, who are seeking to strip Americans of an American to love her homeland and lobby for its people. legacy of American diversity that owes no small credit to
their Constitutional right to free speech,” she wrote. And Tlaib, of all people, should know that. Brandeis, the Jews — and yes, Zionists.
That may be, but she is either uninformed or being dis- And then there were critics of Tlaib who were com- JTA WIRE SERVICE
ingenuous about the history of a phrase like “forgot what pletely off base, like the foreign policy pundit who shared
country they represent.” As the Anti-Defamation League the AJC photo and complained that Tlaib, as a candidate for Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck is JTA’s editor in chief.

Opinion
The human future in the age of great computers
W
ill self-learning
computers,
initially pro-
grammed by
humans, continue to be gov-
erned by the judgments of our
relatively slow-thinking homo
sapiens species?
According to Yuval Noah
Harari, whose three nonfiction Steven R.
books each has spent months Rothman
on the best-seller lists, humans
have created ever-more-pow-
erful computers to examine, draw patterns from, and cre-
ate new insights and more effective approaches to improve
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human productivity, health, happiness, and longevity — and
perhaps even immortality.
Among other questions, Harari asks: What if the human-
programmed mission for these computers causes those
machines to shape the human experience itself?
Many theorists, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, the late
Stephen Hawking, and others, are concerned about a world
turned over to computers to make all decisions for all indi-
viduals and societies. Some other scholars believe these
fears are overblown. But it is always wise to think about
these problems in advance and to proceed with appropri-
ate caution.
After all, given the very “humanness” — read emotional,
at many times illogical, destructive, and clearly avaricious Lest anyone claim that I am missing the benefits of such a But the time for that choice is fast approaching.
human impulses and actions — it may be that computers time, many are foreseeing the day when computers make a As the theft of hundreds of millions of people’s personal
— again, designed by humans to achieve our goals — may future for us free from physical or emotional want. They also data recently has been revealed, we know that all of human
determine that it is their mission-directed duty to take the predict that humans will be able to download each of our behavior is being analyzed by artificially intelligent comput-
reins of decision-making from us. memories, individual knowledge, and experiences into an ers tasked with the advancement of the programmer’s goals.
Just as we note that humans are far more civil, rational, “artificial body” of our own choosing, which will carry our We know that these super-computers eventually will out-
and productive than chimps and bonobos, perhaps these “minds” for eternity, here on Earth and perhaps beyond. pace us, exponentially, in their ability to crunch data and to
self-learning, ever-advanced computers will realize that While that scenario might sound appealing to some, those offer or impose their “solutions” to our problems.
homo sapiens no longer should be calling the shots about memories, knowledge, and experiences might, nonetheless, It is up to us to start thinking about how much control
activities here on Earth or out into the universe. be solely the product of the computers’ best “judgments” of this problem-solving we wish to turn over to these
I speak of a future dominated by computers with artifi- for what humans need to think about, as opposed to what remarkable machines, and how, when, and if we will
cial intelligence capable of studying and learning from past we as individuals might like to ponder, according to our own allow that to happen.
human and machine errors, providing solutions to all prob- individual “free will.”
lems. The fear is that these “solutions” may well involve The question of whether these computers still will deem Steven R. Rothman of Englewood served eight terms in the
the complete takeover of what information each individual it necessary to keep purely flesh-and-blood humans around U.S. House of Representatives. He is an attorney of 40 years
receives about ourselves, each other, and the condition of is even more harrowing. After all, we do make a mess of and formerly served as Englewood mayor and as the Bergen
the world and the universe. many things. County Surrogate Court judge.
It might be a future where most, if not all, tasks are As for me, a future without the carnal, poetic, adven-
accomplished by machines; where humans are rele- turous, ambitious, daring, loving human spirit might be a
This article originally appeared in the Record on
gated to lives of simulations, drug-induced pleasures, future we’ll want to avoid. Perhaps that is a choice that our January 4, 2019, under the title “In The Great Age of
and immortality. It would be a personal world manipu- deepest thinkers, including our spiritual and ethical guides, Computers, Considering the Human Future.”
lated entirely by computers. can help us make for ourselves.
LETTER
Actually, Obama was far better Does he seriously draw a comparison between Obama’s encouraged illegal immigration.
I completely reject Mr. Milchen’s reliance on the tired thoughtless offhand remark to the prior Russian president And yes, Obama’s Justice Department overstepped its
canard, which the right wing always resorts to when pre- to Donald Trump’s disgraceful and uniformly criticized bounds regarding reporters’ right to protect their sources,
sented with valid criticisms of Donald Trump (and suc- Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin in July 2018? but does Mr. Milchen seriously compare that to Trump
cinctly used to title his letter): “But Obama was worse!” Mr. Milchen likely cites a 20-year-old GAO report, whose and surrogates’ relentless attack on the media as a means
( January 4). own authors clearly pointed out its limits. There are other, of distortion and misdirection, blurring the lines between
While Cuba’s human rights record remains wanting, more recent reports that find the opposite conclusion. I what is fake and what is genuine?
it has made great strides from higher education to medi- don’t favor illegal immigration, but I do know that Ron- The fact is, Rabbi Aryeh Meir’s fear (“I am very afraid
cal technology, in spite of a decades-long crushing U.S. ald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control for my country,” December 28) is grounded in reality, but I
embargo. Does Mr. Milchen seriously compare President Act (that led to the I-9 form) into law in 1986 in order to too hope better times and better government are to come.
Obama’s reasoned, partial rapprochement with our neigh- criminalize the act of engaging in a “pattern or practice” Louis Osman
bor to the south to Trump’s poorly planned and recklessly of knowingly hiring an “unauthorized alien.” That’s right, Teaneck
executed summit with Kim Jong Un? Congress and the president rightly found employers partly

D’var Torah
Bo: Mission possible
T
he Torah repeats over and over that God took mission? Do we have a relationship with God people.’ For what great nation is there that
us out of Egypt. But in Parashat Bo, we see that, in which we say “thank you” for all the bless- has a god so close at hand as is the Lord our
actually, Pharaoh expelled the Hebrews from ings He bestowed upon us? Are we a blessing God whenever we call upon Him? Or what
his kingdom. for others: family members, employers and great nation has laws and rules as perfect
We understand that would never have happened if it employees, our nation, or the Jewish People? as all this Teaching that I set before you this
wasn’t for God’s intervention. But by reading the text Egypt was a place for slavery. The pur- day?” (Deuteronomy 4: 5-8)
closely, we’ll see something strange: Not only did Pha- pose of its lifestyle was to build monuments. Sometimes it is normal to “hear voices,”
raoh order the Hebrews to leave, he added two instruc- It was a civilization defined by its material like in our Parasha. We can hear Pharaoh
tions, he gave them two tasks to fulfill. The Torah objects. Ironically, Pharaoh, the master of and Moses (three times he talked about
reports of Pharaoh, “He summoned Moses and Aaron that people, was the one to send us the mes- Rabbi teaching the children ) saying to us: “Don’t
in the night and said: Up, depart from among my people, sage: “leave this place, go away and build a Alberto let anti-Semitism keep you Jewish. In any
you and the Israelites with you! Go worship the Lord as society of kindness, justice, compassion and (Baruch) place you go and live, let Jewish education
you said… and may you bring a blessing upon me also.” love. Use your freedom to be free of enslav- Zeilicovich and observance be the source that shapes
(Exodus 12:31-32). ing materialism, and, by following God’s Temple Beth yours and the next generation’s identity.
Sholom, Fair Lawn,
Amazingly, the king of Egypt is telling us that the pur- instructions, build a society that will became Fulfill the mission and become God’s part-
Conservative
pose of our liberation is to worship and to bless. He is a model for others.” ner in making this a better world. Human-
reminding us about what God had in mind when He estab- The Torah is clear on this issue. We read: ity still needs the Jewish People to become
lished a covenant with Abraham: “I will make of you a “See, I have imparted to you laws and a blessing; and we deserve the naches to
great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name rules... for you to abide by.… Observe them faithfully, see our continuity in our children.”
great, and you shall be a blessing... and all the families of for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment May Hashem give us the strength to continue doing
the earth shall bless themselves by you.” (Genesis 12 : 2-3 ) to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will the good work, and the wisdom, humility, and courage
So it is logical to ask ourselves: Are we fulfilling our say: ‘Surely that great nation is a wise and discerning to start anew out of our inner Egypt.
Community Inventive Thinking — and brought in such “When we came back, we started institutions. Ateres Bais Yaakov of New
FROM PAGE 12 Israeli business superstars as the founders asking ourselves what we needed to Hempstead is an ultra-Orthodox girls’
So in February 2017, 30 people from of SpaceIL, the firm that plans to launch a do together — we talked about commu- yeshiva that has started working with the
that group went to Israel for a five-day lunar rover in the next few months. “They nity leadership development, we talked federation; now another two schools are
seminar. “It was a seminar, not a mission,” talked to us about how three guys having about teens, and we talked about the life joining as well. “It started with their ask-
Mr. Siepser said. The group didn’t tour or a beer came up with this idea,” he said. and legacy situation,” Mr. Siepser said. ing for help with security,” Mr. Siepser
travel; instead, “we parked ourselves in “How hard can it be? None of the shuls had more than a small said. “And then we began having a cup
Jaffa, in a hotel that was sitting on top of “It turned out to be very hard,” he added. endowment then; “we began to work on of coffee together here and there.” He
biblical-era ruins. You would look through “But hopefully they are going to do it.” a program that everyone would be in,” hopes that those relationships will con-
the plexiglass floor to the lobby to see the Back in Rockland, “people tell me that he continued. “We applied to the Harold tinue to grow.
ruins underneath. our demographics are wrong,” he said. Grinspoon Foundation life and legacy Mr. Siepser also points to “the most
“It was the perfect metaphor for what “That we’re an aging community, that program, and now we are in the pro- recent and painful” tragedy where the
we were doing,” he continued. “We were there is huge growth in the charedi com- gram. Everyone is working together and it new community network has made a dif-
constantly looking at our roots,” and they munity, and that the federation is shrink- is a wonderful collaboration. It’s not that ference. “The shooting in Pittsburgh hap-
were taking flight. ing. That everything is going against us. there are no disagreements and there is pened on Saturday morning,” he said.
Why was the meeting in Israel? Surely “But I am an optimist. And the leadership never any tension, but with the level of “On Saturday night, I sent out a message
it could have been held more conve- of the federation — co-presidents Lisa Green trust that exists now, I feel totally com- to everyone that federation is going to do
niently, far closer to home. “It was in Israel and Stephen Cohen, and former president fortable picking up the phone and talking a community gathering on Monday night,
because Israel is the wellspring of Jewish Bob Silverman — all are optimists. to any of my colleagues. and please plan to participate in it.
inspiration and of Jewish innovation, and “We all believe in our mission, and we “Community weaving has made a big “That Monday night, 1,500 people
it is the hub of innovation, the start-up believe that with innovation and good will difference.” attended. And no congregation had a sep-
nation,” Mr. Siepser said. and hard work, we can make a difference. Community weaving made last spring’s arate program.
The group worked with an international We can build a vibrant Jewish community.” Israel at 70 program a success. And it has “And that is community weaving.”
business consulting firm, SIT — Systematic So that’s theory. What about practice? even begun to draw in some Orthodox
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Dear Rabbi Zahavy
Your talmudic advice column

Dear Rabbi Zahavy, accordingly, the meaning of hedonist, the toiler, the wise observation.
What is the meaning of life? life for the common Jew is the person, and the God-fearing The scroll verges on insulting the value
Wondering in Weehawken same as for the rabbi. person. of the life endeavors of many kinds of peo-
Putting prudence aside, First, these rabbis hear ple. It is not surprising, then, that some
Dear Wondering, rather than stop there, I scenes in the book where rabbis wanted to prevent the scroll from
Sure, at this time of the new year it makes decided to go the Tanach to the hedonist expresses his entering the canon.
sense for a person to wax philosophical confirm that this is the mes- view of the meaning of life. My one main positive discovery upon
and to ask such a big question. sage of Judaism for the mean- And right up front, Kohelet rereading the work was that I found cues
However, let me consider that perhaps ing of life. derides this choice: “I said in this book for a few rudimentary medita-
you were not really serious in sending in There are many compet- Rabbi Tzvee in my heart, Come now, tions and visualizations. One of those con-
this question to begin with. ing messages in the complex Zahavy I will try thee with mirth, templative passages was made into a song
In that case, I will answer by quoting to composite collection of writ- therefore enjoy pleasure: lyric by Pete Seeger and was popularized
you from the epilogue, the last scene of ings of the Hebrew Bible. So and, behold, this also was by the singing group the Byrds in 1965 as
the 1983 Monty Python comedy film “The I homed in on the one book that seemed vanity.” (Ch. 2) the song “Turn! Turn! Turn!”
Meaning of Life.” There the host opens an particularly pertinent to your question, Next, in other passages those two mod- “To everything (turn, turn, turn) / There
envelope containing, well yes, the mean- that is the book of Kohelet, also known as ern rabbis hear the toiler opining on his is a season (turn, turn, turn) / And a time
ing of life. She reads it out loud and here Ecclesiastes, in the Writings (Ketubim), the view of the purpose of existence. But that to every purpose, under heaven.” (Ch.3)
is her profound advice: “Try and be nice third section of Tanach. (Kohelet is the bib- is dismissed in chapter 2: “I looked at all I reflected on the idea of the medita-
to people, avoid eating fat, read a good lical scroll that we read in synagogue once the works that my hands had wrought, tive qualities of some of the passages and
book every now and then, get some walk- a year on Sukkot.) and at the labor that I had labored to do: concluded finally that the compiler-editor
ing in, and try and live together in peace Kohelet is known to many of us as that and, behold, all was vanity and a striving of Kohelet wanted not to show the value
and harmony with people of all creeds and pessimistic philosophical work attributed after wind, and there was no profit under of meditation, but rather to expose the
nations.” to King Solomon that ponders, in its own the sun.” fruitlessness — the vanity — of a meditative
While that may not be the momentous ways, the meaning of life. They also hear in the book the voice approach to life.
meaning of life, that is not bad advice. You may recall the familiar refrain of this of the wisdom, the wise one, expressing Overall, I found on my latest foray into
Now, let me consider the alternative, scroll — havel havalim — most often trans- insight into life’s purpose. But at the out- Kohelet that it appears to be a superficial
and take your question as a serious inquiry lated as vanity of vanities — applied as an set Kohelet summarily dismisses the value caricature of several archetypes of people
and try to reply in kind. assessment of many aspects of human of wisdom: “And I gave my heart to know — all of whom the compiler of the book
It would be nice if I could answer you endeavor. The pessimism of the preacher wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I decided from the outset to deride and dis-
with a straightforward, focused reply, like comes through loud and clear. Some of us perceived that this also was a striving after miss. The hedonist pleasure seeker; the
the lady in the movie. But you do know listen to the proclamations of the book on wind. For in much wisdom is much grief: materialist toiling at work, career, or pro-
when you address your ultimate inquiry to Sukkot, or have studied the scroll, and per- and he that increases knowledge increases fession; the academic, student, scholar,
a talmudic advice columnist, you will get a haps have decided that it was too much of sorrow.” (Ch 1) writer, thinker; and even the God-fearer,
complex response. a downer for us to pay to it serious heed. And finally, they hear the God-fearer — chasid, righteous person. And the first
Since I got your question, I have tossed In fact, the Mishnah teaches that the a voice proclaiming his angle of vision on to be dismissed is the meditator, seeking
and turned many nights wondering (if you sanctity of this scroll was the subject of life’s meaning. to reach a state of compassion and joy
are serious) how I could possibly reply to controversy in the second century C.E. But time and again Kohelet ridicules that and achieve a better affective mode of
you. I could never claim enough personal The rabbis were going to exclude the book angle of vision too, as in this passage liken- consciousness.
wisdom to begin to settle such an issue. from the canon of the Tanach. But it was ing the fate of humans and beasts: “I said Nevertheless, like the Monty Python
I decided to rely on the sacred writings saved. According to Rabbi Simeon ben in my heart, God shall judge the righteous movie that I cited above, this book ends
of our religion, the Talmud and the Tan- Azzai, on the day that they elected Rabbi and the wicked … that that which befalls with an epilogue in which the narrator
ach, for some direction. Surprisingly, for Eleazar ben Azariah to the high political the sons of men befalls the beasts; even opens “an envelope” and reads from it the
the Talmud the answer from many cita- position of patriarch of the academy, it one thing befalls them both: as the one words we were waiting for all along:
tions is clear and to the point. First and was decided to keep Kohelet in the canon dies, so the other dies; yea, they have all “The end of the matter, all is said and
foremost, the primary meaning of life is to as a sacred scroll of the Tanach (Mishnah one breath; so that a man has no preemi- done: Fear God, and keep his command-
be found in the study of the Torah. And Yadaim 3:5). nence over a beast: for all is vanity.” (Ch. 4) ments: for that is the whole duty of man.”
secondly, the rest of the answer is for a And so, seeking out the meaning of life, You can see from these examples (and (End of chapter 12)
person to keep the commandments and to answer your query, I took a fresh long others repeated many times over in the Indeed, that’s the end of the matter,
live the life of the Torah. look at this book and found new insights scroll) how Kohelet may not provide a sat- after all has been considered. I wondered
You may say, hold on, study Torah and into the work. First, it’s clear to me now isfying answer to the meaning of life. Many then how to answer your query after con-
keep the commandments? That sounds that this book is a composite anthology of aspects of the book pop out to the reader sulting anew the (now to me more than
like the meaning of life for a rabbi. Yes, writings by more than one author. Yes, it as dismissive and sarcastic attacks on ways ever before) puzzling book of Kohelet.
true, it does, but the Talmud assumes that is true that the work purports at the open- of life, not as a thoughtful philosophical And so here it is, my reply, contrary to
all Jews aspire to be like the rabbis and ing to be by Kohelet, son of David, King Kohelet (and contrary to Monty Python).
in Jerusalem — that is, King Solomon. But You can find life’s meaning in many ways
going back to 1898, renowned Bible schol- Tzvee Zahavy of Teaneck has published — in a pleasure-seeking hedonist life, in a
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column
ars have posited that multiple sources numerous books and articles about hard-working materialist life, in an inquisi-
offers mindful advice based on
Talmudic reasoning and wisdom. make up the work. And because of its lan- Judaism and Jewish law. He’s working now tive critical academic life, in a pious God-
The author aspires to be equally guage and contents, critical evaluations of on a genuine study of Kohelet’s caricatures fearing life, and in a contemplative medi-
open and meaningful to all the the work date it to about 250 BCE — many and sarcasms. He has been a professor of tative life.
varieties and denominations of centuries after the reign of Solomon. world religions, Talmud, Jewish law codes, My advice: Be here and now in every
Judaism. You can find the column In a wonderful recent book, “Ani Kohe- Jewish liturgy, Jewish history, Near Eastern case — be firmly present in your immedi-
here usually on the first Friday let” (“I am Kohelet”), Israeli rabbis Yoel studies, and Jewish studies at major U.S. ate life — whichever path that is — that is
of the month. Please mail your Bin Nun and Yaakov Medan systemati- research universities and seminaries. He the first part of my answer to your inquiry.
questions to the Jewish Standard cally identify four distinct voices in the received his Ph.D. from Brown University And for me (and for you too, if you
or email them to zahavy@ work. The rabbis characterize the book and his rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva choose) beyond all that, I seek out another
gmail.com as a dramatic play, a chorus of these four University. Visit www.tzvee.com for element — namely the opportunity to find
voices articulated via one character: the more details. SEE ADVICE PAGE 46

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Against Parkinson’s…
“Song of the Sea” with
flutists Lois and Elliot
or edudirector@
jccparamus.org.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
widowers, meets at
JANUARY 14 Box with Us!” by Roman and new chants the Glen Rock Jewish
Marella Gevera, Jewish arranged by Cynthia Breakfast in Teaneck: Music in Tenafly: The Center, 12:30 p.m.
Genealogy: Senior Home at Rockleigh’s Powell, 7:30 p.m. 1 Engle Temple Emeth’s Thurnauer School of 682 Harristown Road.
Source welcomes recreation supervisor. St. (201) 568-3035. B’Yachad and Viewpoint Music at the Kaplen (201) 652-6624 or
Michele Silver of the Refreshments. 10 Link groups co-sponsor a JCC on the Palisades [email protected].
Genealogical Society
of Bergen County, who
Drive. (201) 750-4246
or email parkinsons@
Saturday breakfast featuring Chani
Getter, an ordained One
offers its Teen Town
Jazz Winter Concert,
will give an introduction jewishhomefamily.org. JANUARY 19 Spirit Interfaith Minister 4 p.m. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
to genealogy for Senior who was raised in an (201) 569-7900.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Source at the Shops at
Riverside, Second Floor, Friday Congregation B’nai
in Hackensack, 1:30 p.m. JANUARY 18 Israel holds its “Torah
(201) 342-0962 or Town Hall” service as
seniorsourcenj.org. Shabbat in Fair Lawn: part of the Shabbat
Rabbi Leiah Moser leads morning interactive
School open house in an informal discussion Torah discussion on
New City: Schechter about the weekly Torah the legacies of Rabbi
Westchester holds
a Rockland County
portion at its monthly
“Dessert & Discussion”
Dr. Abraham Joshua
Heschel and Rev. Dr. C
parlor meeting at a and in lieu of a service, Martin Luther King, Jr.,
private home, 8 p.m. for Reconstructionist 10 a.m. 53 Palisade Ave. C
Reservations, Jackie Congregation Beth Israel, (201) 265-2272 or www. m
Grosser, Swadmissions@ Ridgewood, 7 p.m. Event bisrael.com. A
SchechterWestchester. in a private home in Fair
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Tuesday Shabbat in Leonia:
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Congregation Adas
JANUARY 15 Emuno celebrates
Tu B’Shvat with a
Bella Abzug talk in lively Shabbat service Joel Chasnoff
Tenafly: Dumont including delicious fruits,
historian Dick Burnon 7:30 p.m. 254 Broad Ave. Comedy and rock music
talks about “‘Battling (201) 592-1712 or www. fundraiser: The men’s
Nursery open house in Tenafly

Bella’ Abzug, The adasemuno.org. club of Temple Emanu-El

Feisty New York in Closter holds “Comedy
Congresswoman,” at Shabbat in Wayne: & Rock Night” with
a meeting of REAP Rabbi emeritus Israel The Leonard & Syril Rubin Nursery solving skills, social and emotional
comedian Joel Chasnoff,
(Retired Executives S. Dresner honors the music by the Sinai
School at the Kaplen JCC on the Pali- growth opportunities, fine and gross
and Professionals) at life of Dr. Martin Luther Sessions Rock Band, sades in Tenafly holds an open house motor skill activities, sensory experi-
the Kaplen JCC on King Jr. during services food, and open bar, on Friday, January 18, from 9:15 to 10:30 ences, Judaic programming, art, music,
the Palisades, 10:45 at Temple Beth Tikvah, for those 21 and older,
a.m. Abzug was the 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Dresner a.m. Participants will have the oppor- dramatic play and cooking, gym and
7 p.m. Event celebrates
first Jewish woman was a prominent rabbinic the community and is a tunity to join in the school’s weekly Tot swimming, and preparation for kinder-
elected to the House of participant in the civil fundraiser for the Patnoi Shabbat program and receive a tour of garten and beyond.
Representatives. 411 East rights struggle of the family. (201) 750-9997 the school, which offers a warm, child- The state-licensed, accredited pro-
Clinton Ave. (201) 569- 1960s and was close or www.templeemanu-el.
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Obama honored Rabbi in Jewish values that encourages chil- activities for 3-month-olds to 5-year-olds.
Wednesday Dresner at the White
House in 2013 for
Film in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth’s adult
dren to become confident, responsible, To meet the varying needs of individual
and successful learners by exploring families, the school offers half-day, full-
JANUARY 16 the 50th anniversary education group screens
celebration of the a Jewish-themed movie, new concepts in a fun and nurturing day, and extended-day options.
Aging well: Jewish March on Washington. 7:30 p.m., as part of a environment. Registration is open for the 2019-2020
Family and Children’s 950 Preakness Ave. “Movies That Matter” The school’s core curriculum features school year. For more information, go
Services presents an (973) 595-6565 or www. series. Refreshments.
templebethtikvahnj.org. exposure to reading and math readi- to jccotp.org/nsopenhouse or call (201)
interactive program, “The 1666 Windsor Road.
Art of Aging,” at the JCC (201) 833-1322 or ness skills, logical thinking and problem 408-1436.
of Paramus/CBT, 1 p.m. emeth.org.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.

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JTS offers book talk with Royi Shaffin

The Jewish Theological Seminary will host
a book talk with Rabbi Royi Shaffin, author
of “The Hollywood Bible,” on January 17, at
7:30 p.m. Dr. David Kraemer, JTS librarian
and a professor of Talmud and rabbinics,
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will moderate.
“The Hollywood Bible” uses movies to
explore deep truths about spirituality and
Judaism. Analyzing hit films from “Star
Wars” to “The Creature from the Black
Lagoon” for Jewish meaning and symbol-
ism, Rabbi Shaffin’s book offers discussion
of both religious traditions and important
life issues. Artist David Zomick “The Scribe”
Admission to the talk is free, but reser-
vations are required. Please arrive early JCC gallery in Tenafly presents
and have a photo ID. For more informa-
tion, go to www.jtsa.edu.
Rabbi Royi Shaffin
a ‘Reality Enhanced’ exhibition
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades’ Waltuch Dr. Zomick said. “I may try to make
Art Gallery presents “Reality Enhanced,” it more beautiful by varying color or
an exhibition of more than 40 portraits, form; more mysterious by exaggerating
still lives, and streetscapes by artist Dr. the lights and darks; or more interest-
Teen leadership group reconvening David Zomick of Teaneck. The varied ing optically by creating a balanced (or
subjects and styles reflect the artist’s disconcerting) composition. As I pro-
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s headquarters. The students are learning background and interests. The show will ceed with a painting, it is a constant
iCAN Teen Task Force, a group of teens how working together with other campus be on display through January 31. struggle. My education as a physicist
from more than 20 public, private, and Jew- organizations is a way to counter the BDS After experimenting with pastels and and my career as an aerospace technol-
ish high schools, will meet again on Tues- movement. For more information, email oils, Dr. Zomick discovered acrylics and ogist would have me portray precisely
day, January 15, at 7 p.m., at JFNNJ Paramus [email protected] or call (201) 820-3946. developed his skills in this vibrant and what I see, in excruciating detail, with
accessible medium. His paintings gen- no embellishment or personal com-
erally are realistic, though he occasion- mentary. I need to constantly remind
ally paints something that is abstract or myself that my camera can achieve that
decorative. Although he began painting far more efficiently and effectively than
Challah bake in Fair Lawn only when he retired as a leader in aero- I can. When I look at a finished paint-
space technology 15 years ago, his painting and conclude that my camera could
Children who are 8 or older can bring their instructions, each participant will make ings and sculptures have won dozens of ‘never do that,’ I am happy.”
moms to a challah bake hosted by Bris his or her own batch of challah. awards in juried competitions. Dr. Zomick continues to study at
Avrohom of Fair Lawn on Sunday, Janu- To register, go www.jewishfairlawn.org Dr. Zomick recently won first place the Art Center of Northern New Jer-
ary 13. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the pro- or call (201) 791-7200. awards in the Focus New Jersey Open sey, sculpts in marble and alabaster,
gram will begin at 5:30. Using step-by-step Juried Art Show, Celebrating Bergen and has studied ceramic sculpting. He
County’s Diversity Exhibit, and the holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics and
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New Jersey Juried Senior Art Competi- masters’ degrees in physics and busi-
tion. He is a member of the Northern ness administration and has been a
New Jersey Art Affiliates and has had member of the JCC since 1991. He and
Women schedule ‘a night out’ one-man exhibits at Fairleigh Dickinson his wife live within walking distance of
University’s Weiner Library and at the their three married children; they have
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer- attend the event., which features the disco Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. His work 13 grandchildren, and four great grand-
sey’s Women’s Philanthropy hosts its first cover band Dancin’ Machine. For more has also been exhibited at Marcella Gelt- children, all of whom have been the
Girls’ Night Out dance party on Thursday, information, call Meli Rozenbaum at (201) man Gallery and local public libraries in subjects of his paintings and drawings.
January 24, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. 820-3906 or email [email protected]. Teaneck, Englewood, and Dumont. His hobbies include playing the piano
More than 300 women are expected to “My objective, when I begin a paint- and tennis.
ing, is to portray reality in a way that For more information, call Nina
will make the painting more interest- Bachrach at (201) 408-1406 or email her
ing to the viewer than reality itself,” at [email protected].
Wayne Y bills kids’ musical

On Sunday, January 27 seems hopeless until
at 3 p.m., the Rosen she meets Sky, a shy
PAC at the Wayne Square boy whose curi-
YMCA presents “Pol- osity for her unique
kadots: The Cool Kids polkadot skin blooms
Musical!” The show into an unexpected
follows 8-year-old Lily Polkadot who just pal-ship. Lily’s story teaches us all that
moved to the “Squares only” small town uniqueness should be celebrated.
of Rockaway. As the first “Polkadot” in Tickets can be purchased online at
an all-Square school, Lily faces an almost metroymcas.org. There will be a character
impossible task of gaining acceptance meet and greet after the show. For more
from her peers. From daily bullying to information, call (973) 595-0100. The
“New York Nights” COURTESY JCCOTP
segregated drinking fountains, Lily’s quest Wayne YMCA is at 1 Pike Drive.
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The Frazzled Housewife Kosher Crossword
“STAR SETTINGS” BY YONI GLATT
[email protected]
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Yes, you are old
E
very so often, a few days go was “my” show — “Days of Our Lives.”
by and you are feeling pretty My mother started watching that one
good. Your clothes seem to fit, the day it first aired because it was right
your hair is looking just right after my sister was born. I grew up with
— and then, all of a sudden, something everything working around “Days of
happens to make you realize that you are Our Lives.” It was on from 1 to 2 p.m.,
getting older. That you are no longer 16 and before the days of VCRs and DVRs,
years old. sometimes we had to watch it in shifts
It could be something obvious, like so my mother wouldn’t miss anything.
how can you be 16 when you have three Hope and Bo, Patch and Kayla, Roman
boys who are older than you are? Or it and Marlena, the other Roman and Mar-
could be a sudden pain in an area where lena — what a show. I stopped watching
there was no pain previously. I like to call it years ago, but the other day, husband
it the “newitis.” A “newitis” #1 was home because it
is an “itis” that you haven’t was either Christmas or
had before. It could be New Year’s Day and we
many things, but since I happened across Channel
am writing this, I will talk 4 and “Days of Our Lives”
about what happened to was still on!
me. My lower leg started to It was like time had
hurt, which made me sad stood still. Julie, from Doug
because it affected all of and Julie — not sure of their
the walking I do. I decided last name or what hap-
I would go to the “friendly” Banji pened to Doug. They may
urgent care to see what was Ganchrow or may not be Hope’s par-
going on. ents — anyway, Julie looks
Long story short, an amazing. She has not aged
actual doctor diagnosed me with in over 30 years and she was old over 30
cellulitis. years ago. God bless her plastic surgeon!
Across Down
Now those of you who know what cel- And then there was Kayla, from Patch
1. Sound of a mosquito biting the dust 1. Steve in “That Thing You Do!”
lulitis is, you know that it can be serious. and Kayla, and she hasn’t aged either!
4. Like Aly Raisman 2. Juice berry, nowadays
One Facebook friend even cautioned me Who is her surgeon? Also incredible! 9. Frasier or Niles 3. Salon job
that once her mother had it, she would But don’t get too excited. The “other” 14. It’s better than a king 4. It’s made moving to Israel
keep getting it over and over again. Roman also looked good, but he couldn’t 15. Place for a pin 5. Fracking extraction
Though this fb friend probably thought move his face when he spoke. It was like 16. She had “the face that launched a 6. It certainly beat out the Zune
thousand ships” 7. Funny Jay
she was being helpful, she just added to the words were coming out, but noth-
17. Indiana Jones star riding a Bronco? 8. Visitor to a 69-Across
my already ever-present anxiety. Fortu- ing was moving. So his plastic surgeon’s 20. Notable co-star of Shatner 9. When doubled, a dance
nately, I soon found out that my celluli- number is not one that I will be needing. 21. Martial arts school 10. Chorus
tis was actually tendonitis! That meant But it got me thinking, if Kayla’s face 22. 1990 World Series champs 11. Ahava ingredient, often enough
no more antibiotics but hello new ACE looks the same, does her knee crack 23. Mouth 12. Screech, e.g.
25. Away from port 13. Breaks off
bandage, three Advil every four hours, every time she gets up? Does she say “oy
27. “Moneyball” co-star atop a Bunker? 18. Met defeater in 2015
and the occasional pain med to make vey” every time she gets out of the car? 34. Like Haman 19. Honker
everything all better. But my walking was Does a face that doesn’t age translate 35. Knight’s title 24. Shrek’s cat friend
restricted by my very mean, but ador- into a body that doesn’t age either? How 36. A wedding, for one 26. Barak of Israel
able, orthopedist. In any event, I was does Julie, who has got to be in her 80s, 38. Low grade 27. Sith foe
39. Wow 28. Pizzeria fixtures
diagnosed with two new-itis’s in just one still walk up and down the stairs unas-
42. Half of sei 29. Dina, to Esau
week! Yay late 40s! So much fun! sisted? It’s a soap opera miracle! 43. Ancient Peruvians 30. Plum’s center
And then, if you aren’t feeling old But maybe that is why there is a gen- 45. Finish, with “up” 31. Best player in baseball, according to
enough, you have a conversation with eration of folks who still watch soap 46. Early Bond villain many
one of your kid’s friends about soap operas, because if those characters 47. “The Italian Job” co-star finishing a 32. Petrol unit
Master’s course? 33. Producer Michaels
operas. They had never heard of soap never age, neither to do the people who
51. Jekyll’s counterpart 37. Glowing gas
operas. Remember soap operas? Who follow them… 52. Famous Dr. who doesn’t have a Ph.D. 39. Far from ruddy
didn’t know about the wedding of Luke Gee, I answered my own question. The 53. Airline since 1948 40. Work the aisles
and Laura? Even if you didn’t watch power of denial. Good times! 56. “Time ___ the essence” 41. Water, for life
“General Hospital,” unless you were in a 59. They should be taken seriously 44. Sue Bird, e.g.
63. “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” star at 46. Great fear
coma for most of the 1980s, you knew Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is happy
Liberty to take a boat ride? 48. Thor’s pop
about Luke and Laura. And then there to report that she got her money back 66. Perón of note 49. Mama bird
was “All My Children” — Greg and Jenny. from her misdiagnosis. Husband #1 was 67. Singer Katz (brother of singer Shlomo) 50. ___ meat
Again, even if you didn’t watch the show, even happier that she is walking again… 68. “Exodus” hero 53. Just makes, with “out”
you knew about them. Erica Kane and (Nope, he is happier about getting the 69. Exodus commemoration 54. Cleanse
70. Dahl who said “There is a trait in the 55. Yesh party lead by Lapid
her eight or so husbands. And then there money back, let’s be honest.)
Jewish character that does provoke 57. Kasich’s land
animosity...” 58. Greek salad cheese
In any event, I was diagnosed 71. Make like Nissim 60. Ivan the Terrible, e.g.
with two new-itis’s in just

61. Israeli dance with few moves
62. Scissors sound
one week! Yay late 40s! The solution to last week’s puzzle is
on page 43.
64. Crew need
65. Actor Linden (born Lipshitz)
So much fun!
Local
Liora not notice happening,” she said. history,” she said, especially in Ashkenazi
FROM PAGE 11 Asked whether there is a stereotypical communities. There’s a midrash that says
with Jews being well integrated into Amer- Jewish voice — one you might hear in your we were redeemed by keeping our names.”
ican society. There’s also influence from head when thinking about the issue — Dr. In the last few (The midrash in question suggests that not
the media. The mid-20th century Bor- Benor said, “I think of the sketch ‘Cof- adopting Egyptian names was one of the
sht Belt is becoming more mainstream.” fee Talk’ on Saturday Night Live. There decades, there’s three merits for which the Jewish people
As one example, words like “chutzpah” absolutely is a connection between New been a shift in were redeemed.)
pop up increasingly on television and in York speech and Jewish speech.” Indeed, On the topic of summer camp Hebrew,
the press. she added, non-Jews typically think of American Jewish Dr. Benor said that the use of Hebrew at
She also noted that “the phenomenon New York speech when thinking of Jew- communities in camp “is not generally about proficiency.
of non-Jews using Jewish words is not ish speech. It’s about making camp into a distinctly
unique to American Jews. At various times In discussing Jewish names, she will using more Jewish environment. Language plays a
and places, non-Jews have used Hebrew focus on where common names through- Hebrew and huge role in it, more than in any other
words and other features of the language. It out the world come from. She also will domain. Hebrew is used to name places
became part of the professional jargon for explore such questions as why men are Yiddish words in and activities, and even in camps that are
cattle traders and jewelry makers.” Exam- more likely to have biblical names. Inter- certain realms. not as Jewishly engaged, they still have
ples abound in Dutch and German, she said. estingly, Dr. Benor put to rest to the myth some Hebrew words, Hebrew songs and
In addition, Jews themselves are using a that immigrants’ new surnames were a Jews “were more likely to pass as non- cheers, or word of the day.
few more “Jewish words. product of Ellis Island functionaries. Jews.” Still, she said, even when families “ The purpose i s to foster Jew-
“In the last few decades, there’s been a “The names were not changed on Ellis changed their names, they did not tend to ish identity.”
shift in American Jewish communities in Island,” she said. “They were changed drop their Jewish identities. Dr. Benor and her husband, Mark, have
using more Hebrew and Yiddish words later, either by official petition or infor- On the subject of Hebrew names, she three daughters, Aliza, Dalia, and Ari-
in certain realms. I didn’t grow up saying mally. It happened for reasons of eco- said that the practice of giving such names ella, who range in age from 10 to 16. This
‘shul’ but now I do, and now my parents nomic advancement related to anti-Semi- to newborn Jewish babies is still very com- summer, her oldest daughter will attend
do too. It’s one of those shifts you might tism.” When they Anglicized their names, mon. “It’s been happening throughout Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim.
BRIEFS
Spielvogels give $2 million New England Patriots owner Kraft wins $1 million ‘Jewish Nobel’
to U.S. Holocaust Museum JOSEFIN DOLSTEN Jewish family in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the chairman
MARCY OSTER New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has won the $1 mil- and CEO of Kraft Group, a holding company with assets in
lion Genesis Prize. That’s the so-called Jewish Nobel. sports, manufacturing, and real estate development.
Carl Spielvogel, a former U.S. ambassador to Kraft, 77, will give the money “to initiatives combatting anti- “This award amplifies my ability to raise both awareness and
the Slovak Republic, and his wife, Barbaralee Semitism and other forms of prejudice as well as attempts to de- additional funds to fight anti-Semitism, attempts to de-legitimize
Diamonstein-Spielvogel, have donated $2 million legitimize the State of Israel,” according to a statement. Israel and other forms of prejudices,” he said in the statement.
to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In an announcement, Genesis Prize chairman and co- Kraft will receive the award at a gala in June in Jerusalem.
President Ronald Reagan appointed Diamon- founder Stan Polovets called the NFL owner and business- He joins artist Anish Kapoor, violinist Itzhak Perlman, for-
stein-Spielvogel as a Museum Council member in man “one of the world’s most generous philanthropists whose mer New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and actor-
1987, and she was a founding chair of the subcom- charitable giving reflects the Jewish value of tikkun olam — director Michael Douglas as previous winners. The foundation
mittee that commissioned the original artwork repairing the world.” sometimes has been criticized for giving the prize to million-
created for the museum. The award honors people who serve “as an inspiration to aires, but it says the goal is to leverage the recipients’ influence
The New York couple’s gift will go to the muse- the next generation of Jews through their outstanding profes- and example to improve the world.
um’s endowment. The museum will name a gal- sional achievement along with their commitment to Jewish Last year, the foundation recognized Natalie Portman but
lery in its permanent exhibition that houses the values and the Jewish people.” canceled the ceremony after the actress said she would not
artwork “Consequence,” by Sol LeWitt, as the The Kraft family has given more than half a billion dollars over travel to Israel to receive the award in protest of Prime Minis-
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Ambas- many years to causes including health care, education, the Jew- ter Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies.
sador Carl Spielvogel Gallery. ish community, Christian organizations, and local needs. The prize, started in 2013, is financed through a permanent
Spielvogel was appointed ambassador under With a net worth of $6.6 billion, Kraft is the 79th richest endowment of $100 million established by the Genesis Prize
President Bill Clinton. JTA WIRE SERVICE American, according to Forbes. Kraft grew up in an Orthodox Foundation. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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while renovating their countryside home
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ this country,” van Iperen said.
She found sheet music that the sisters
AMSTERDAM — Despite its rustic charms, and their guests composed and performed
the dream home that Roxane van Iperen on musical evenings. (Lien was a well-
and her partner bought nearly ruined known singer.)There were worldly debates
their marriage. and garden dinners — several of the people
Van Iperen, a 42-year-old novelist, in hiding were artists — amid the laughter
underestimated the amount of renovation of children.
the countryside estate east of Amsterdam One of the rug rats was Robert Brandes,
COURTESY OF THE BRILLESLIJPER FAMILY

would need. She and Joris Lenglet bought the 5-year-old son of Janny and her hus-
the place in 2012 as a home for the couple band, Bob Brandes. Robert Brandes,
and their three children. now 79 and an artist, gave van Iperen,
“We almost separated by the time it was who tracked him down, a yellowing pho-
done,” she recalled in a November inter- tograph taken at her home in 1943. He is
view on NPO1, a Dutch television channel. seen splashing in a metal tub on a sunny
But amid “the arguing, misery and work,” day in the backyard flanked by his cousin,
as she described it, the couple made discov- Lien’s daughter Kathinka Rebling, and
eries whose significance they realized only another child.
months later. During the Holocaust, their Around the corner from the Jews in hid-
new home had been the center for one of Lien Brilleslijper and her daughter Jalda in Berlin in the 1970s. ing lived the lover of Anton Mussert, the
Holland’s most daring rescue operations head of the pro-Nazi NSB party and
conducted by Jews for Jews. the top collaborator with the Nazis. He
Recounted in a best-selling book that van Iperen pub- The renovations coincided with would often stay over, van Iperen also
lished last year, the story generated strong media interest major developments in attitudes to discovered.
amid a wave of introspection about the Dutch society’s the Holocaust in the Netherlands, But in June 1944, Eddy Musbergen,
checkered Holocaust-era record. In bookstores, “The High which received its first national one of the hundreds of Dutch gentiles
Nest” stayed on the top-10 list of locally produced nonfic- Holocaust museum only in 2016. who betrayed or hunted Jews in hiding,
tion for weeks. In 2012, the Netherlands saw reported his suspicions about the estate
“Many Jews resisted, but of most of them we know very the creation of a grassroots net- to the authorities.
little,” said the Jewish filmmaker Willy Lindwer, who has work of homeowners whose prop- It was an eventuality for which the sis-
produced several documentaries on the Holocaust in his erties once belonged to Holocaust ters had planned, according to Rebling,
native Netherlands. He said the “High Nest” story “shows victims. They now open dozens of Lien’s daughter. During the Gestapo
not all Dutch Jews went like lambs to the slaughter, and houses in some 20 municipalities raid, her mother removed a vase from a
that’s very important.” for visits by the public each year window sill overlooking the access path
But to general readers, part of the book’s appeal lies in on the Dutch memorial day. — a secret sign for other tenants that the
the strong characters of the people who did the rescuing Amsterdam, meanwhile, is house had been compromised.
at van Iperen’s home — sisters Janny and Lien Brilleslijper preparing a huge Holocaust mon- The raid occurred when Janny and her
and their families. ument at its center. son were out. Janny saw the vase as they
Daring anti-fascist activists — Janny also fought as a vol- This year, the city and the returned and attempted to catch up to
unteer combatant in the Spanish Civil War — they used Hague paid millions of dollars Robert, who was skipping along ahead of
connections to hide from the Germans in the house in in restitution to victims from her. But the Germans saw them and they
Naarden, 10 miles east of Amsterdam. But at great per- whom it had unjustly collected The cover of Roxane van Iperen’s were arrested.
sonal risk, they opened their safe house to Jews and oth- taxes. book “The High Nest.” The sisters and their families were sent
ers in need. In November, the national COURTESY OF VAN IPEREN to the Westerbork concentration camp,
Van Iperen found evidence of the sisters’ ingenuity railway company announced it Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen.
as soon as the renovations began. She discovered dou- would look into compensating victims that its workers At Bergen-Belsen, Janny met the family of Anne Frank.
ble walls, secret doors, and walled-off annexes that had helped transport. That triggered similar action last month “She was concealed in a blanket,” Janny, who died in
been concealed so well that they were left undetected for by Amsterdam’s GVB transportation company. 2003, recalled in a 1988 documentary by Lindwer. “She
decades. In one secret space, van Iperen even found war- Amid these developments, which were accompanied by had no more tears to cry. They had run out a long time
time resistance newspapers. a steady stream of news reports and books on the Holo- before.”
Dozens of Jews passed through the safe house, which is caust, the secrets of van Iperen’s house kept beckoning. Janny went to check on Anne a few days later and saw
“perfectly located near Amsterdam but in the middle of They eventually put her on a six-year journey of discov- Anne’s sister, Margot, lying dead on the floor. Anne died
nowhere,” van Iperen said. The nine-room estate is mostly ery, conducting interviews, studying archive material, and shortly thereafter, Janny said.
hidden from view by large trees that afforded privacy to cross-referencing information with survivors’ testimonies. Both Brilleslijper sisters survived the Holocaust — partly
the tenants. The sisters, intellectuals from a Liberal Jewish family, because they were persons of interest to the Nazis due to
The operation’s secrecy kept it out of the history books arrived at the estate near Naarden in 1943, amid deporta- their anti-fascist credentials, van Iperen discovered. This
even though it was a rare case in which Dutch Jews not tions to death camps and growing awareness of Hitler’s prevented them from being sent directly to the gas cham-
only escaped the genocide but helped others avoid annihilation of Europe’s Jews. bers at Auschwitz.
capture. By that time the Nazis had killed 75 percent of the Neth- Robert Brandes was spared deportation because after
Even as they were making these discoveries, van Iperen erlands’ prewar Jews — there had been about 140,000. his detention, the Nazis deemed him only half Jewish.
and her partner did not register their significance — at first. That was the highest death rate in Nazi-occupied Western Rebling, who was 3 and whose parents both were Jewish,
“The discovery story sounds romantic but the truth Europe. was spirited away from a detention facility by a resistance
is, we just weren’t aware of the findings,” she said in the “Everyone who could was in a panic to find a hiding fighter and survived the war in hiding.
interview. “It was an old house — that’s also what drew place,” van Iperen said. “That we are still alive can only be explained by an
us to it — and so you naturally discover things. We talked And yet at the Brilleslijpers’ house, “there was actually a unbroken chain of miracles,” Rebling said during the
about it. But then we just closed the hidden space and lot of music and lust for life during that time, which makes November interview with NPO1.
installed a new floor on it.” it different to the typical survival-in-hiding story we know in JTA WIRE SERVICE

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for a new year The annual Consumer Electronics Show, now in its 51st
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vehicles with rocks and knives, Cognata’s tech may receive
The Graf Center for Integrative Medicine at Englewood year, has become a mecca for Israeli tech firms. From particular interest this year at CES.
Health announces three new programs for 2019. software for autonomous vehicles to drones delivering Phantom Auto is building a “remote control” for autono-
Over six sessions, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduc- pizza to walking and talking robots, if there’s a con- mous cars. If there’s a problem with a self-driving vehicle and
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back, breath work, and mindful eating — to help with life any company’s international roll-out. location. Will that be enough to help passenger (and angry
changes, stress, and illness. Pre-registration is required. This year, there were dozens of Israeli startups mobs) get past their fear of driverless cars?
Jennifer Graf, LSW, certified in mind body medicine exhibiting across the sprawling Las Vegas World Trade Engie plugs into a car’s dashboard and helps drivers of
and positive psychology, and also a yoga instructor, and Center, where CES was held from January 8-11. Here “regular” vehicles (you know, the ones we’re driving today)
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day, January 16, through Wednesday, February 27, (no Innoviz makes smart LiDAR systems — the “eyes” SEE ISRAELI TECHS PAGE 46
session on February 20), from 6 to 8 p.m. in next-generation autonomous vehicles. Innoviz’s
Jennifer Graf will also teach Gentle Movement LiDAR sends out pulsed laser beams to measure
and Meditation, an eight-week program on Tuesdays and monitor a car’s surroundings. The company has
through February 26, from 6 to 6:45 p.m. Participants
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Israeli techs at the King’s Walk Golf Course in North home and office water generator that “Internet of crops.” The startup’s plat-
FROM PAGE 45
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rates) from the app’s mechanic mar- ages to golfers on-demand, and in Iceland between 25 and 30 liters of water a day. along the produce supply chain from
ketplace. Engie can tell you if your car where AHA which uses Flytrex to drop One liter of GENNY-made water costs just farm to train to truck to retail facility.
will pass its next air-pollution test or if goods in customers’ Reykjavik backyards. 2 cents. The company was named a “Best The app applies environmental informa-
the engine is running hot. It can even Edgybees’ First Response software of Innovation” nominee in CES’s “Tech tion and predictive models to decide how
remember where you parked your car. suite brings augmented reality, map lay- for a Better World” category. best to reduce the amount of poor quality
C2A, Karamba Security, SafeRide Tech- ers, and visual markers to allow drone Intellithings also won a CES 2019 Inno- product (no more wilted lettuce!) which
nologies and Argus Cyber Security all pilots to monitor more than the drone vation award for RoomMe, a personalized in turn should increase stores’ revenues.
help protect cars of today and tomorrow itself can; it allows commanders to moni- automation solution for smart homes. Robots are always showstoppers at tech
against cyber-threats. They work in dif- tor drones remotely; and it integrates Install RoomMe in a selected space and events, which practically guarantees per-
ferent ways: Argus embeds its security a drone’s visual progress into video its Bluetooth tech identifies who’s in sonal robot-maker Temi a big CES splash.
software directly into a car’s systems, streams and maps. The software was the room based on their smartphone. Use Temi ($1,499) to video chat with a
Karamba secures the infotainment cen- used during last year’s devastating Camp RoomMe then automatically adjusts loved one using its mobile telepresence
ter to keep out hackers, C2A is making Fire in California and during several lights, thermostats, and other devices to functionality, ask Temi a question or to
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able royalty-free, while SafeRide detects Consumer drones today mainly carry TechSee uses cameras and augmented Amazon Echo on wheels) or tell Temi to
vulnerabilities before a hacker even packages. But will a fully flying car be in reality to troubleshoot users’ tech prob- fetch some tea from the kitchen.
arrives by flagging any abnormal behav- our future? Startup NFT hopes to bring lems remotely. Just bought a new router Intuition Robotics’ ElliQ has a similar
ior and reporting it to the connected a bit of the Jetsons to our cities. The but don’t know how to set it up? Fire home use as Temi, minus the wheels, and
car’s Security Operation Center. company will be displaying a prototype up TechSee’s “Eve” app and point your is aimed at chatting with seniors to help
Tactile Mobility helps self-driving cars vehicle with VTOL (vertical takeoff and phone at the router. Eve will identify the them stay active and engaged. The prod-
“feel” the road. The company uses the landing) capabilities — no landing pad or model and walk you through installation uct won a “Best of Innovation award” in
data coming from a vehicle’s sensors to heliport required. NFT’s electric-pow- by demonstrating the steps you need to the Smart Home category at last year’s
tell how tightly a car is gripping the road, ered flying car has a range of 60 miles take on an augmented visual overlay. The CES.
whether the vehicle is bumping up and driving and 310 miles flying at a projected company raised $18 million in December. 42 Game Changer might just be the
down over potholes or how steep a hill price of $50,000. Handy with computers but hate house- perfect product for vendors at a trade
is. Tactile Mobility can help autonomous work? Foldimate will be demonstrating show like CES. The company makes
vehicles drive faster and be less wary of Robots and more its robotic laundry-folding machine at interactive mobile games branded for
fast-moving highway on and off ramps. Lumen is a personalized nutrition device CES. A ship date is estimated for later this its corporate customers. When visitors
that measures users’ metabolism by year with a target retail price of $980. approach the customer’s booth, they’re
Drone technology analyzing their breath. The company’s You feed your clothes into the top of the offered a chance to play a game and win
Flytrex wants to be the FedEx of the hand-held product includes carbon-diox- machine, which looks a bit like a giant a prize by entering their contact details.
drone-delivery world. Its soft ware ide sensors and flow meters to measure upright printer, and the clothes come The company also will power customer
allows operators to set pick-up and deliv- the breakdown of fat, carbohydrate and out neat and folded. Foldimate adjusts interaction at the booth of another Israeli
ery points and see information about protein. The results are displayed on an its folding technique based on item size company at CES, Human Eyes.
weather, topography and other drones accompanying smartphone app. and user preferences. ISRAEL21C.ORG
Standard column of talmudic advice.)

Advice That’s my answer for you, based in a
Moshe Arens
FROM PAGE 35 FROM PAGE 41
new examination (and questioning) of the
some new insight each day in the life that I its power, and its technological renewal.
wisdom of the past. It is what I have to say
have chosen. I call this the sheer joy of hid- “A man of vision, Moshe Arens suc-
today about the meaning of life.
dush — of discovering the novel interpreta- ceeded in creating a long list of impor-
To conclude with my wish for this year:
tion, a new way of living the life that I have. tant, forward-looking changes in the
Let’s all try to avoid sarcasm and cynical
(And by the way, for me this means that defense establishment and the IDF that
dismissals. Let’s be sincere, and let’s have
once a month I have sought to publish have enabled and still enable a more
a happy, healthy and prosperous 2019, liv-
some words describing fresh perspectives ing fully in the meaningful lives that we
correct and adapted confrontation to
on Jewish thought and life, in this Jewish have chosen.
the challenges of the present and the
future,” the statement continued. Moshe Arens, former Israeli diplomat
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