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CONTENTS
Israeli moon monument
older than the pyramids
l This is the weekend the world
has been waiting for or at least,
that part of the world that has been
waiting for a gun that fires water
balloons, a giant robot King Kong
that can defend itself from quadcop-
ters, and a pot of pasta that plays a
steam-powered tune.
These are among the proposed
projects that nearly 200 Israelis hope
to bring to fruition in 52 frenzied
hours at GeekConX, taking place this
weekend near Caesarea in Israel.
To enter the unconference,
would-be inventors must present
a project proposal. They spend all
of GeekCon trying to make their
proposed objects real. Not everyone
succeeds but the fevered
challenge to overcome technical
obstacles on a firm deadline is a
large part of the fun.
Half the projects fail, which is
great, says Ilan Graicer, GeekCons
founder and organizer. In high tech,
you are under high pressure to make
something that works, so this is
the other way around: Do the most
idiotic thing in the most complicated
technological way. If your project
can become a product, youre not
admitted to GeekCon.
Part of the idea is that for the last
10 to 15 years, Israel has been too
focused on software development
for mobile and social stuff. We used
to do hardware in this country and
we kind of left it behind. Were trying
to get back to hardcore thinking,
to stay ahead of the curve, says
Mr. Graicer, 47, whos worked for
20 high-tech businesses including
Funtactix, acquired by Warner Music
in 2011 sadly, after Mr. Graicer had
already left.
Most of these people are
programmers or have their own
startups, Mr. Graicer explains. Every
one of us has a project in mind that
if we had time wed do, like build a
spaceship from LEGO, so this is a
weekend away from family and job,
where you have to do the hardware
the opposite of what you do every
day.
He came up with the idea for
GeekCon after helping to organize
high-tech guru Yossi Vardis second
annual Kinnernet unconference
networking event for Israeli Internet
professionals in 2004.
I met a lot of cool people there,
and a lot of us continued to hang out
and didnt want to wait another year
to meet again, says Mr. Graicer.
And though they will craft nothing
of any real value unless you
think anyone would buy a tomato-
shooting robot, a beer cooler/
musical instrument, a 3D popcorn
printer, or a kite surfing simulator
they are likely to finish the event with
potential business partners for the
real world. The money flows not to
the funny projects, but as a result of
the real relationships formed during
GeekCon.
Israeli startups that can trace their
origin to GeekCon events since 2005
have generated an estimated $160
million in business. The most well-
known success story is Face.com,
acquired by Facebook in 2012 for
$100 million.
And who knows? Maybe the world
really is waiting to buy a roaming
robot that uses computer vision to
locate cockroaches and kill them.
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Candlelighting: Friday, September 19, 6:40 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, September 20, 7:37 p.m.
Are you geeky enough
for GeekCon?
l Archaeologists have known about
the massive 500 foot-long landmark
near the Israeli city of Tsfat for a long
time. But it wasnt until Ido Wachtel,
a doctoral student at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, researched
the question that the stone structure
was identified as a 5,000-year-old
crescent-shaped monument.
Archaeologists were mystified by
its purpose. They had thought that
the structure was part of a city wall.
But Mr. Wachtels research shows
that there was no city beside it. The
structure is a standing monument.
Pottery excavated at the structure
indicates the monument dates to
between 3050 and 2650 BCE
which could make it older than the
pyramids and Stonehenge.
The structure, which scientists now
believe was intended to be moon-
shaped, is made of stones and rocks.
Its longer than a football field and its
volume is almost 500,000 cu. ft.
The proposed interpretation
for the site is that it constituted
a prominent landmark in its
natural landscape, serving to mark
possession and to assert authority
and rights over natural resources by
a local rural or pastoral population,
Mr. Wachtel wrote in a presentation
given recently at the International
Congress on the Archaeology of the
Ancient Near East.
Mr. Wachtel also noted that an
ancient town called Bet Yerah
(which translates to house of the
moon god) is a days walk from the
lunar-crescent-shaped monument,
and says it may have helped mark
the towns borders.
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Jewish women in labor scream: Epidural.
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[GOLDBERG, the show
creator]. When hes ready
to tell that story, hell tell
that story.
How to Get Away with
Murder started Monday
at 10 on ABC. This drama
centers on an African-
American law school
professor (Viola Davis),
her associates, and her
students and how they
get caught up in a murder
case. LIZA WEIL, 37, who
was Paris Geller on The
Gilmore Girls, plays one
of the associates.
The tragic death
of JOAN RIVERS
led People
magazine to run a good
online article about her
surprising friendship with
Prince Charles. They hit it
off at a dinner party in
2003 and she was a
guest at his 2005
wedding. The Prince
expressed his condolenc-
es right after her death
was announced. Also, on
September 6, the New
York Posts gossip
column reported that
GWYNETH PALTROW,
41, was converting to
Judaism. There was no
named source for this
bombshell, but, as
happens at least twice a
year, an almost certainly
made-up story of celeb
turns Jewish was
re-printed widely.
Consider this what is
she converting to? One
would think Reform, not
Conservative or Ortho-
dox Judaism. However,
theres almost certainly
no need for Paltrow to
formally convert under
Reform Jewish guide-
lines. Her father was
Jewish and the main
religion in her childhood
home was Judaism her
brother, her only sibling,
had a bar mitzvah.
N.B.
Bebe Neuwirth
JEWISH LINEUP:
TV premieres
Judd Hirsch
David Mazouz Eddie Kaye Thomas
The following
shows, which
premiere next
week, have a Jewish cast
member. Starts Septem-
ber 21: Madam Secre-
tary stars Tea Leoni as a
former CIA agent unex-
pectedly named Secre-
tary of State. BEBE
NEUWIRTH, 55, co-stars
as the secretarys chief of
staff. (CBS; 8 p.m.). Starts
September 22: Forever
is a supernatural drama
starring Ioan Gruffudd as
Harry, a NYC medical
examiner who cant die.
He studies the dead to try
and discover why hes
immortal. JUDD HIRSCH,
79, plays Abe, an antique
store owner and ladies
man who is Harrys best
friend and confidant. He
urges Harry to enjoy life,
including romance. (ABC;
10 p.m.). The highly-tout-
ed Gotham, a Batman
spin-off of sorts, starts
the same night on Fox at
8. Benjamin McKenzie
plays Detective Jim
Gordon, who is fated to
become Gothams police
commissioner. His first big
case is the investigation
of the murder of the
parents of the young
Bruce Wayne (much later
Batman). The young
Wayne is played by
DAVID MAZOUZ, 13, a
Sephardi actor from Los
Angeles. Scorpion starts
on CBS that day at 9. The
plot: a group of tech
nerds form a team to
solve the worlds most
difficult problems. EDDIE
KAYE THOMAS, 33
(Finch in American
Pie), plays Toby, a team
member.
Mysteries of Laura
(NBC) and Black-Ish
(ABC) both start on
Wednesday, September
24, at 8. Mysteries stars
DEBRA Will and Grace
MESSING, 46, as a bril-
liant police detective who
tries to balance career
and single motherhood.
Black-Ish was created
by and stars comedian
Anthony Anderson. It
explores one suburban
black fathers efforts to
establish a cultural iden-
tity for his four kids. Dres
biracial wife, Rainbow, is
played by TRACEE EL-
LIS ROSS, 41. Shes the
daughter of famous sing-
er Diana Ross and Ross
ex-husband, ROBERT EL-
LIS SILBERSTEIN, 67.
Dre and Rainbows four
children include Andre,
who really wants a bar
mitzvah although the
family isnt Jewish. By
the way, when ABC was
previewing this show for a
media audience, a report-
er referenced cultural
identity when he stood
up and told the head of
ABC programming, I
think Black-ish will men-
tion a bar mitzvah before
The Goldbergs [on
ABC] does. Paul Lee, the
programmer, implicitly
acknowledged that The
Goldbergs had gone a
full season without using
the word Jewish. He
said, I dont think theres
anybody in the country
that watches Goldbergs
and doesnt think its
about a Jewish family. We
have so much support
and respect for ADAM
Sitting shiva on film
gets mixed reviews
This is Where I Leave You is based on a 2009 novel
of the same name by JONATHAN TROPPER, 44, a
Modern Orthodox Jew. The plot: the four combative
siblings of the Altman family reunite at their childhood
home after their father dies to sit shiva. (The siblings
are played by Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver,
and COREY STOLL, 38.) Jane Fonda plays their Jewish
mother. Directed by SHAWN LEVY, 46; with screen-
play by Tropper. The good news: a major Hollywood
movie centering on sitting shiva! The bad news: advance
reviews are mostly so/so. (Opens today in many northern
N.J. and NYC theaters).
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Policies are the best policy
Teaneck synagogue forum addresses child sexual abuse
LARRY YUDELSON
D
oes your synagogue have policies in place to
protect children from sexual abuse? Do your
childrens schools and camps?
Such policies, Dr. Shira Berkovits told a meet-
ing in Teaneck on Sunday night, can make a difference to
childrens safety.
Dr. Berkovits is a consultant for the Department of Syna-
gogue Services at the Orthodox Union, and she is develop-
ing a guide to preventing child sexual abuse in synagogues.
She was speaking at Teanecks Congregation Rinat Yis-
rael, as part of a panel on preventing child sexual abuse
co-sponsored by three other Teaneck Orthodox congrega-
tions: Netivot Shalom, Keter Torah, and Lubavitch of Ber-
gen County.
A written policy brought up in the hiring process serves
as a very good deterrent to would-be molesters seeking
to work for the organization, she said, because it would
prod them to look for a less-aware organization. She said:
Theres an oft- cited belief molesters cant control their
urges. If that were the case they would molest when walk-
ing down the street, in the mall, on the bima. That doesnt
happen. Instead, she said, they wait for the right oppor-
tunity, when there are fewer chances of getting caught.
Rabbi Yosef Blau, head of spiritual guidance at Yeshiva
Universitys rabbinical school and a strong advocate for
child abuse survivors, said that parents have an incred-
ibly important role in preventing child abuse. How
many of you asked your childrens camp if they trained
their staff, and what are their procedures for dealing with
abuse? he said. You can ask the same questions about
the schools you send your children to. Even more so
about the seminaries and yeshivot in Israel youre send-
ing your children to.
But, he continued, People dont ask. Parents dont seem
to care. If you dont ask, why should the camps take it seri-
ously? When there are scandals the schools dont lose any
students, the camps dont lose any campers the commu-
nity is sending a powerful message of indifference.
We like to believe were different in the Orthodox com-
munity, Rabbi Blau said but that is not the case.
He told of a study five psychologists had conducted about
the effect of going to the mikvah on marital satisfaction.
To do this study properly, one of the questions they
asked the women was whether they had been abused at any
time in their lives, Rabbi Blau said. The result of the study
was that the percentage of Orthodox women who had been
abused was essentially exactly the same as everybody else.
That is to say: about a third of the women. (About one
in six men have been abused, for an overall average of
one in four people, according to the Center for Disease
Control).
When the psychologists presented the results to a meet-
ing of the Orthodox Forum, a think tank, everybody
doubted their statistics, he said. They rejected it totally.
I was given the assignment of responding to the report.
I went and asked a number of prominent psychologists
and psychiatrists about it. The response was, Ho hum,
of course its the same. Its a problem throughout society.
Its not determined by ethnic background, by wealth or
poverty.
One panelist, David Cheifetz, a member of Rinat Yisrael,
shared his story of being molested at a Jewish summer
camp as a child decades ago.
When a friend in whom he had confided reported the
abuse, David was sent home by the camp administrator
and the abuser went on to teach children for decades.
We need to change the culture that seeks to downplay
abuse in our Jewish community, Mr. Cheifetz said. Abuse
is real. It has an impact that is lifelong. Events such as this
forum are needed to shift societal attitudes away from it
being taboo.
We need a mechanism to provide support for the many
victims in our community, the walking wounded. We need
to acknowledge that we are not alone, he said.
Dr. Berkovits said that the problem of inadequate train-
ing on child abuse prevention is endemic in the Jewish com-
munity. She reported that she distributed a survey to syna-
gogue youth directors from all streams of Judaism. Only 33
percent responded that they had a child protection policy
in their synagogue. Only 17 percent said their synagogue
offered any training to them.
Insist on training and policies for all teachers, camp
counselors, youth group leaders, she said. Demand your
youth serving organizations get on board. There should be
training on what to do and what not to do, on whats a red
flag.
Child molesters do not end up in a youth serving organi-
zation by accident. They work hard to get there.
In your synagogue and organizations, form a committee
and ask that committee to seek expertise on how to form
policies, Dr. Berkovits added.
Yeshiva University is offering a training course geared for
rabbis, taught by Victor Vieth, the executive director emer-
itus of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training
Center in Winona, Minnesota.
Ask your rabbi to enroll in this course, she said. Show
your rabbi that this is a priority for the community by pay-
ing for the course.
Parents, she said, can take an in-depth, ten-hour
training program through Darkness to Light (www.d2l.org),
a national nonsectarian organization founded in 2000 to
protect children from sexual abuse.
From the earliest age, children are taught to respect
parents, elders, and rabbis, she said. Generally speaking
that is good, but we must qualify these lessons. We must
teach them that no one, not even a Torah scholar, a spiri-
tual leader, or an elder is above the law. We must teach
children to respect their own and others personal space.
They must feel comfortable and entitled to demand their
own personal space from adults. We need to model respect
for childrens boundaries so that theyre in charge.
Imagine a shul kiddush where some friendly man comes
up to your child and starts tousling his hair. Your child is all
squirmy. The natural response might be to ask the child to
show some respect, to give a handshake to Mr. Gold.
Imagine instead that you said, It doesnt look like my
child enjoys that, or My child asked you to stop touching
him. Please respect that.
It sends an important message to all the adults around
that this is a child who is trained to respect his own space
and has parents who will speak up for him. We have to
make sure that were taking the proper precautions, that
were properly supervising children. That doesnt mean we
have to be frantic about it or that every time we see an adult
talking to a child we need to freak out about it.
She said that if a child discloses that he or she has been
sexually abused, believe the child, and tell him or her you
believe what he or she is telling you. Research shows that
99 percent of the time the child is telling the truth.
Protect the child immediately from the suspected
offender. Dont give the suspected offender any further
access.
Then, do not investigate. You are not trained to inves-
tigate child abuse. All you need to know is that you have
a reasonable suspicion that sexual abuse has happened.
Report the suspicion to the police, then leave it to the
experts to determine if the abuse has happened.
Rabbi Yosef Blau and Dr. Shira Berkovitz took part in the panel discussion at Congregation Rinat Yisrael.
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Yavneh celebrates upgrade
New wing is first stage in renovations
LARRY YUDELSON
O
ne down. Two to go.
The Yavneh Academy in Para-
mus celebrated the completion
of the first phase of its $5 million
project to renovate and expand its school
building and grounds on Sunday.
Founded in Paterson in 1942, Yavneh
moved to Bergen County and the build-
ing it now occupies in 1981. It has about
800 students from nursery school through
eighth grade.
On Sunday, it inaugurated a new middle
school wing that was built this summer,
along with a new parking lot. Next on the
agenda: renovating the schools entrance
with an atrium and an enhanced security
center. And after that well, the schools
leaders have begun investigating the possi-
bility of building a new gym.
Its not about growing the school, but
meeting the needs of the students we have,
school president Pamela Scheininger said.
This project was narrowly tailored.
The new wing has a science lab and four
other classrooms. It provides us with school-
wide benefits, Principal Rabbi Jonathan
Knapp said. The new wing also enables us
to re-imagine and maximize the use of our
broader facility as a whole. We created new
and expanded space for our outstanding art
program, a dedicated and enlarged location
for our wonderful music program and con-
cert choirs, and designed an area for aerobics
and other fitness classes.
Peoples response has been very gen-
erous, Ms. Scheininger said. So far, the
schools solicitations have been directed
mainly toward parents and grandparents
of students and alumni. Sundays event
marked the expansion of the fundraising
campaign to ask every family to contribute
to this project.
The success so far has enabled planners
to start thinking about a new gym, which
was not in the original fundraising pro-
spectus. We need more adequate space
to insure kids have an opportunity to exer-
cise, said Ms. Scheininger, whose three
oldest children attend the school. The
fourth, she said, will start pre-K next fall.
Weve been thrilled at Yavneh, she said.
It was the best decision we could have
made as a family. We really felt comfort-
able about an institution that had a legacy
of success. We also felt the school was open
to innovation and change. That has proven
to be true.
Though there has been a tried and true
product, the school is always looking to do
better and be better.
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Gross Foundation gives grant to Ramapo
Longtime Hillsdale family gives $250,000 challenge grant for Holocaust studies
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
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ormer longtime Hillsdale resi-
dents Paul and Gayle Gross
awarded a five-year, $250,000
challenge grant to the Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at
Ramapo College of New Jersey through
the Gayle and Paul Gross Foundation,
which supports Jewish organizations and
causes in the arts, human services, and
education.
The center, established in 1990 and part
of the Salameno School of Humanities
and Global Studies, will be renamed the
Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies.
Gayle and I have been associated with
the center for a long time and are firm
believers in the ongoing need to ensure
that all people, especially schoolchildren,
know about the Holocaust and the impact
of hatred and bigotry in our societies, Mr.
Gross said.
He founded the NIA Group insurance
brokerage in Paramus in the 1950s and
sold it four years ago. During the 50 years
they lived in Bergen County, Paul and
Gayle Gross were involved in many non-
profits, including the YJCC in Washington
Township. Today they devote most of their
time to philanthropic endeavors.
In a conversation from West Palm
Beach, Florida, where the couple retired
three years ago, Mr. Gross explained that
their daughter, Lauren, has served on the
Ramapo centers advisory board for sev-
eral years and now is vice-chair.
Ive attended many of the lectures
there and have found them interesting and
educational, he said. Ive also attended
sessions where they brought teachers from
all over New Jersey to train them in Holo-
caust and genocide studies, and I thought
they did a fantastic job.
Recently, my daughter told us that
one of the significant donors passed away
and they lost some of their funding, so I
thought it was time for me to step up to bat
and make up for that missing donor and
give somewhat more than he was giving.
We chose a challenge grant because we
want to make sure the center continues
ad infinitum doing what its doing, and
that theyre not solely dependent upon
my money; a challenge grant gains other
donors. That will perpetuate the support,
so that other people will pick up the ball
when Im gone.
The centers programming focuses on
the history and lessons of the Holocaust,
the genocide in Armenia and Darfur, and
other conflicts. It is a member of the Asso-
ciation of Holocaust Organizations and
participates with similar organizations in
programs and outreach efforts under the
New Jersey State Commission on Holo-
caust Education.
The centers Gumpert Teacher Work-
shops provide secondary-school instruc-
tors with strategies and lesson plans for
incorporating the Holocaust and genocide
studies into their classroom studies.
Its lecture and film series, held in
collaboration with other campus and
community groups, bring scholars, film-
makers and policy leaders to campus for
discussion. All events are free and open to
the public.
Dr. Michael Riff, director of the cen-
ter, said the challenge grant will allow for
maintaining and beefing up our program-
ing and pave the way toward financial sus-
tainability for the future.
The centers director since 1996, Dr. Riff
also teaches courses at Ramapo includ-
ing 20th century Jewish history and The
Paradox of Genocide. He estimated that
about 20 percent of Ramapos students are
Jewish.
Were now developing programing
with other religious or secular institu-
tions, not necessarily Jewish, he said.
We try to reach out to the campus com-
munity, to involve young people who are
going to be leading their communities
one day. A lot of our students become
teachers and reappear at the teacher
workshops or contact me for advice, so
our work is very gratifying.
Dr. Riff said he has enjoyed a long rela-
tionship with the Grosses, whom he char-
acterized as a very philanthropic and
savvy family.
Mr. Gross said he and his wife stay in
New Jersey several months each year,
so they can be near their children and
11 grandchildren. I will continue to visit
classes that Michael Riff provides when
Im visiting the area, he said.
Dr. Peter P. Mercer, president of
Ramapo College, said the challenge grant
will further the institutions mission of
community engagement. It is part of
our ongoing effort to encourage toler-
ance and peaceful conflict resolution, to
raise awareness of genocide and to pro-
mote the democratic outcomes of a lib-
eral education, he said.
Dr. Riff noted that the Salameno School
of Humanities and Global Studies has a
new dean, Dr. Stephen Rice. Hes lent us
a great deal of integrity and intellectual
heft that has helped provide a sense of
security for the Grosses and others who
choose to invest in us, he said.
Learn more about the center at www.
ramapo.edu/holocaust.
From left, Ramapo colleges president, Dr. Peter P. Mercer, Lauren Gross, vice
chair of the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Paul Gross
stand together on campus.
We chose a
challenge grant
because we want
to make sure the
center continues
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doing what its
doing, and that
theyre not solely
dependent upon
my money.
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JOANNE PALMER
H
istory reverberated, ironies
abounded, and hope flut-
tered its wings at the annual
ordination exercise at Abra-
ham Geiger College, held this year in Wro-
claw, Poland.
Dr. David J. Fine, the rabbi of Temple
Israel and Jewish Community Center, and
Rabbi Daniel Freelander, the new presi-
dent of the World Union for Progressive
Judaism, both live in Ridgewood. They are
casual friends, but Rabbi Fine is Conser-
vative, Rabbi Freelander is Reform, they
both have busy professional and personal
lives, and they rarely have time to meet.
But there they both were in Wroclaw,
celebrating the ordination of Reform and
Progressive rabbinical students from Gei-
ger, which is based in Potsdam, Germany.
In order for this story to make sense,
you have to know that European universi-
ties and seminaries are not structured in
the same way as many are here, as inde-
pendent institutions. In Europe, aspiring
Protestant clerics receive some of their
education the general part at universi-
ties, where they study together with peers
from other parts of the Protestant world.
Their denomination-specific education
comes from seminaries, and they gradu-
ate from both.
The influential German theologian
Rabbi Abraham Geiger proposed such a
relationship between the Reform move-
ment and the University of Pottsdam. He
made that suggestion before World War
II; in 1999, the first class of rabbis gradu-
ated from Pottsdam and Geiger. Last year,
a Conservative seminary, Zecharias Fran-
kel College, admitted its first class of rab-
binical students. Like their Reform coun-
terparts, Zecharias students are affiliated
with the University of Pottsdam.
Following so far?
Geiger just graduated its 15
th
class of stu-
dents, who are now newly ordained rab-
bis, and marked their graduation with
four days of speeches, receptions, and
academic festivities. This year, as every
year, Geiger held its ordination in a differ-
ent city; and this year, for the first time, it
was outside Germany.
Rabbi Fine, whose ordination is from
the Jewish Theological Seminary in New
York, earned his doctorate in German his-
tory from the City University of New York.
His dissertation looked at German Jewish
soldiers who served their fatherland dur-
ing World War I. For the last few years, he
has taught an intense but short course at
Geiger, so this year, when four of the five
rabbinical students to be ordained were
his students, of course he was there as
well.
Of the four students three men and
one woman one was from Germany, one
from France, and one, who is Russian-born,
made aliyah to Israel when she was 12. The
fourth was born in Paraguay, grew up in
Israel, and now lives in Sweden. Of the new
cantors two women and one man two
are Russian and one is Israeli, he said.
Wroclaw which also is known as Bre-
slau has been traded between Austria,
Germany, and Poland for centuries. It
had been part of Germany from the 19
th

century until the end of World War II,
and with Berlin and Frankfurt one of that
countrys main cities. According to some
historians, the loss of Breslau as it was
called then was even more traumatic
to Germany than the partition into East
and West, Rabbi Fine said. It was the
equivalent of what losing Chicago would
be to us. But after the war, eastern Euro-
pean countries basically moved over a bit
to the left on the map. Parts of eastern
Poland went to Russia, and in compensa-
tion, Poland got some of Germany. That
included Breslau, which was a cosmopol-
itan hub, the meeting point of so many
cultures and nations, Rabbi Fine said.
And it is such a beautiful city! When I
first got there, it was dreary dark and
rainy but by the time we left, the sun
had come out and we could see how
beautiful it really is, and it has one of
the biggest and most beautiful central
squares in Eastern Europe.
But the ordination was not held in Wro-
claw because of its beauty, but for other
reasons. One is its Jewish connections. The
city had been overwhelmingly Jewish. It was
where Abraham Geiger lived for most of his
life, and where the first liberal seminary in
Europe opened in 1874. Rabbi Geiger was
passed over to head that seminary and
soon decamped to Berlin, where a newer
and more liberal seminary opened, but his
name is strongly associated with Breslau.
Another reason to hold the ordina-
tion there on September 1 was because
on September 1, 1939, Germany invaded
Poland, and World War II officially began.
German-Polish relations, German-Jewish
relations, Polish-Jewish relations all fis-
sured and were destroyed in World War
II, Rabbi Fine said. Here, we brought all
three groups together again, in the city
where it all began.
Guests at the ordination included Ger-
manys foreign minister, Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, and Polands Secretary of
State, Ministry of Administration and
Digitization, Stanislaw Huskowski. (As
he detailed the Poles eccentric job title,
Rabbi Fine said that it was typical of
Poland today, with its mixture of old build-
ings, bureaucracy, and spare, chic moder-
nity. The hotel I stayed in was the most
super modern contemporary hotel I have
ever seen, he said.)
Rabbi Freelander also spoke at the
ordination, and took away strong impres-
sions from it. For me, the most power-
ful moment was the address of the Ger-
man foreign minister, Dr. Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, he said. He quoted from Dr.
Steinmeiers speech: We are witnessing
an event that only a few years ago would
have been inconceivable: 75 years after
Germanys criminal invasion of Poland,
almost on the exact day, Germans and
Poles are jointly celebrating the renais-
sance of Jewish life in Poland.
It is good news that the collapse of
civilization in the Shoah did not mean the
end of Jewish life in Germany. They are a
tremendous asset for us all.
It would have been one thing for a
Jewish leader to mark this moment,
Rabbi Freelander said. But these words
from a top German governmental official
made the ordination and its implications
so much more powerful.
The use of language also was telling.
At a reception at the German consulate,
the German consul spoke in Polish first,
then repeated it in German, and then in
English. The rest of it was in English,
which is the worlds commonly accepted
and understood international language.
Rabbi Freelander paid tribute to
Hebrew Union College professor Rabbi
Lawrence Hoffman, as well as speaking
at the ordination. Rabbi Fine spoke at an
Rabbis David J. Fine, left, and Daniel Freelander at the site of the original Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau.
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associated event, the 160th anniversary of the found-
ing of the seminary in Wroclaw. That school, the one
that passed over Abraham Geiger for being too lib-
eral, was the Jewish Theological Seminary, the school
that the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in
northern Manhattan, claims as its inspiration.
While the denominational differences were not
as distinct then as they are now, nevertheless there
is a strong connection between JTSA and the mytho-
logical memory of the original seminary, he said.
There is a joke in the seminary the one in
Manhattan, that is that sometimes email meant
for the Jewish Theological Seminary of America but
sent incorrectly to jts.edu rather than jtsa goes to the
Jesuit Theological Seminary in Georgia, Rabbi Fine
said. Of course, in Wroclaw I had to say Georgia in
America, not the one next to Russia, he added.
But when we see the denominational lines in 19
th

century Jewish history, we are reading back from our
own history, and mythologizing. In the Conservative
movements self-understanding, there is a sense that
our JTS in New York follows the Breslau model, and
thats why it has the same name. But the name is a
coincidence.
Because the denominational boundaries were far
more nebulous and less land-mined than they are now,
crossover was easy and frequent. In truth, many lib-
eral rabbis studied at Orthodox seminaries, and some
Orthodox rabbis came from more liberal schools.
On the one hand, there are no direct lines from
the seminary in Breslau and the one in New York.
The Breslau seminary was a very serious and very
German school. The Nazis closed it in 1938, but the
professors wanted to graduate the rabbinical stu-
dents in their senior year. They had finished their
coursework, but they hadnt finished their exams.
They werent allowed to gather publicly, so the stu-
dents went individually to the homes of each of their
professors to take their exams, and each of the pro-
fessors signed off on them. Everyone passed.
And then the seminary ceased to exist.
It was such a German Jewish story. They had to
take their exams. It was a sign of spiritual resistance.
But even if there is not much truth to the idea that
the Jewish Theological Seminary of America is the
direct spiritual descendant of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of Breslau, it is important for all the lib-
eral movements all the non-Orthodox movements
and even the whole non-charedi world everyone
who does applied critical biblical studies. We all are
affected by the discipline of modern Jewish studies.
The seminary in Breslau was the first institution to
have it.
The space in Wroclaw where the seminary once
stood is now a parking lot, marked just by a plaque.
There are a lot of places in Europe where there is
an empty space on a block, Rabbi Fine said. Most of
those places once were filled by buildings that were
bombed to rubble. It is very poignant. It was such
an important place.
But now those empty spaces are being filled. Wro-
claws White Stork synagogue has been renovated.
Geiger is well into its second decade, and in a few
years Frankel will ordain students as well. Jewish life
in Europe is not easy and certainly new threats
pose formidable new challenges but there are
many signs of life and hope. Or, as Rabbi Fine said in
his speech in Wroclaw, Jewish continuity, through
the teaching and study of Torah, is what keeps us
alive despite and through all challenges.
This is the eternal legacy of Frankels seminary.
May its memory be for a blessing.
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Paramus mom relocated to Australia gives hi-tech stay-connected advice
F
aceTime, VOIP, WhatsApp, Glide, Skype, Sling-
box if all these words are familiar to you, its
likely that you use one or more of these high-
tech tools for staying in touch with a loved one
living far away.
Even if such apps and gadgets had existed when Allison
Weiss was growing up in Paramus, she would not have
predicted her need for them. I was never the going-away-
from-home type. Its funny how things worked out, she
said, several days before the September 7 debut of her
free enewsletter for long-distance families, Closer To The
Kids (www.closertothekids.com).
Ms. Weiss, now 32, met a man from Australia 11 years
ago. They married and moved to his native Sydney four
years ago. When we left, I didnt have a child, she said.
Things definitely change when you have a child.
The vast physical distance from her parents, Carol and
Ira Grodin, in Paramus, and her brother, Russell, and his
wife in New York, was difficult even before she became
a mother. We are a close-knit family; my parents and
brother work together, and my mom is my best friend
in the world, she said.
But when her daughter, Nava, was born almost three
years ago, the miles between them seemed to stretch to
eternity.
I missed out on the support they could have given
me as a new mother, and had to compensate in ways
I couldnt have imagined, she said during one of her
frequent trips with Nava to visit Ba and Bibble
the toddlers names for her maternal grandmother and
grandfather.
This is Navas seventh trip back to the States. It takes
a lot of financial and emotional commitment. I have to
work my professional hours accordingly and spend time
away from my husband, so it has a real impact.
The idea for the newsletter arose last December, after
Carol Grodins visit to Sydney. My daughter had the
best time with my mom, but two days later Nava was
hanging up on her on FaceTime, Apples video chat
application, Ms. Weiss said. So I went to find advice
online, and I only found very generic articles about long-
distance grandparenting or very specific blogs about
someones personal experience.
I saw a big gap for millions of families like mine and
also families where a parent is away in the military or
traveling often for work, or separated by divorce. Long-
distance families come in all shapes and sizes. The com-
monality I wanted to address is keeping relationships
with young kids strong from a distance.
She cites a recent report that New Jersey ranks 34th
in the nation in terms of retention rates of native-born
residents; only 62 percent of the people who live in New
Jersey now were born here. This means many grand-
children are leaving or being born elsewhere, she
pointed out.
Statistics show that 80 percent of U.S. grandparents
live 50 or more miles from a grandchild, and 43 per-
cent of them thats 35 to 40 million people live 200
or more miles away. Jewish grandparents find them-
selves in this group for many reasons, including because
they are snowbirds or have children who made aliyah or
moved away for love or job opportunities. We dont live
in a shtetl anymore, Ms. Weiss says.
When Nava gets up in the morning, she asks to call
Ba via FaceTime. She knows that when its nighttime
in Sydney its daytime in New Jersey, but she doesnt
understand yet that the time difference limits the time
available to talk. And no amount of video messaging can
take the place of a real-life hug.
Ms. Weiss, trained as a lawyer, built her site with
the help of contractors and freelancers, who provided
everything from the technical guts to the content. All
the illustrations were done by Mr. Weiss grandmother, a
90-year-old native New Yorker living in Sydney. Nava is
very lucky to have two great-grandmothers in Sydney,
Ms. Weiss said. My husbands other grandmother is a
90-year-old Holocaust survivor.
The free weekly enewsletter and website are designed
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strengthen bonds despite the challenges of distance.
Each week, subscribers will receive ideas including
what to do on a virtual playdate and how to handle the
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family, as well as new resources and technologies for
keeping in touch. Subscribers may connect with one
another through the websites social media communi-
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children and how to make the most of time together dur-
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We look forward to partnering with businesses in the
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families so that we can offer deals and discounts to our
subscribers, Ms. Weiss said.
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1. Mix it up
Think beyond the phone and webcam when it comes
to how you communicate with your faraway kids. Send
emails, share videos, mail care packages, and write
letters. Varying your communication style will help to
keep it regular, exciting, and let your kids know they
are always on your mind.
2. Focus on play time not FaceTime
Break down the virtual wall by pretending its not
there and look at your time on webcam as a virtual
playdate, not a video chat. Kids need regular
communication on their terms and they bond through
play, not by talking about their day. Use props to keep
it interesting, entertaining, and visual. Try parallel play
with younger kids and imaginary play with older ones.
3. Make new traditions
Just because you arent together physically doesnt
mean you cant create new family traditions. Traditions
dont have to be elaborate to be meaningful. Its the
consistency, dependability, and enjoyment that create
the family bond and special memories. Sign off on
the webcam with the same song or kiss each time, for
example, or send a special treat every time you send
mail. Your kids will come to anticipate these regular
occurrences with excitement.
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be on top of their latest interests and happenings.
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Be sure to know significant upcoming events and
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Leonard Cohens songs to ring in
the High Holy Days in Bayonne
LARRY YUDELSON
I
n 1974, Leonard Cohen borrowed from the High
Holy Day liturgy for his song Who By Fire.
This year, Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin is returning the
favor. He will bring Leonard Cohen songs into the
High Holy Day services at Temple Beth Am in Bayonne
and chant Unetaneh Tokef to the melody of the song it
inspired.
So much of his music is rooted in Jewish thought and
Jewish images, said Rabbi Salkin of Mr. Cohen, who
will turn 80 on Sunday. Two days later, on Tuesday, Mr.
Cohens 13th studio album will be released. Rabbi Salkin
believes that Mr. Cohens continuing relevance as he
reaches what Pirkei Avot calls the age of strength pro-
vides an important role model for his congregation.
Many of our most active members hover right around
the 80-year-old mark, he said. To sing Leonard Cohens
music is a testimony to ongoing creativity and vitality, and
that message is essential to the High Holy Days.
Rabbi Salkin developed his enthusiasm for Leonard
Cohen at a very young age. He was in seventh grade when
he first discovered Mr. Cohens songs as sung by Judy Col-
lins. After hearing the music, I went into a local book-
store and bought a book of his poetry, he said. I had
saved my allowance. It cost $1.50.
The song Story of Isaac particularly resonated with
him. It blew me away because I had been schooled
on Abraham and Isaac and the sacrifice that had been
averted. It tells it from the point of view of Isaac, and
explodes it into a lesson that everyone must embrace,
he said.
(Last year, Rabbi Salkin published The Gods Are
Broken! The Hidden Legacy of Abraham, a book looking
at another piece of Abrahams story, the midrash about
his smashing his fathers idols.)
On the first morning of Rosh Hashanah, the
three singers who provide most of the syna-
gogues musical accompaniment will sing
Mr. Cohens Story of Isaac before the
story of the binding of Isaac is read
from the Torah scroll. (Reform Jews
hear that story on the first day of
Rosh Hashanah; in Conservative
and Orthodox synagogues its read
on the second day.) Rabbi Salkin
will explain the song.
The line in the song that reso-
nates most strongly with Rabbi
Salkin this year is this one: You
who build these altars now, to
sacrifice these children, you
must not do it any more.
Its impossible not to hear it
as about Hamas, who build altars of terror and sacrifice
their children, Rabbi Salkin said. Were up against the
forces of a terrorist army that believes in child sacrifice.
That God is not a savage god who desires human sacrifice
must be repeated over and over again.
The penitential season opens Saturday night with Sli-
chot, and Rabbi Salkin plans to begin his Leonard Cohen
season with the song Anthem: Ring the bells that still
can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in
everything / Thats how the light gets in.
Rabbi Salkin explains: One of the things that Elul the
month before Rosh Hashanah tries to wean us from
is the idea of perfection. At a certain point we learn to
embrace our flaws and make artwork out of them.
At the end of Yom Kippur, Rabbi Salkin will conclude
the Neilah service with Leonard Cohens Hallelujah,
which combines biblical images of David and Samson with
kabbalistic images of sparks within words: Theres a blaze
of light in every word / It doesnt matter which you heard
/ The holy or the broken Hallelujah.
Were all singing a broken
Hallelujah, Rabbi Salkin said.
What we want to do on the
days of awe is to repair that
Hallelujah, so our songs of
praise are not broken but are
in fact whole.
The theme of the Days of
Awe is to renew the holy and
sanctify the new, he said,
quoting Rabbi Abraham Isaac
Kook. Leonard Cohen is sim-
ply giving us another entry-
way into the holy.
During the 1973 Yom
Kippur War, Leonard
Cohen flew to Israel to
entertain the troops. He
is pictured here next to
General Ariel Sharon.
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Turn, turn, stop turning
Slichot in River Edge focuses on music by Mahler, Mendelssohn
JOANNE PALMER
O
ne of the main themes of the High Holy Days
is teshuva.
The word literally means return; it is about
repentance, the desire to return to God, to the
community, to life as you really meant to have lived it. To
try again.
Turn it and turn it, for everything is in it, we are told;
that lesson is applied particularly to the holidays, with its
focus on turning toward redemption.
We usually think of turning as making a circle, a full 360
degrees. What if its only 180, and you end up facing away
from where you began?
And what if that direction points away from Judaism?
Thats the idea that the pre-Slichot program at Temple
Avodat Shalom in River Edge will examine.
It started with the pianist who will play that evening,
the synagogues Cantor Ronit Josephson said. His name
is Drew Peterson, he is very gifted, it came to my attention
that he was available, and we wanted to use him.
It is perhaps necessary to add that to call Mr. Peter-
son, who is 20 years old, very gifted is to understate
significantly. His musical and academic achievements are
extraordinary. He is considered a musical prodigy, and in
fact the writer Andrew Solomon included him in his chap-
ter on prodigies in Far From the Tree, his exhaustive and
enlightening book about children whose deficits or gifts
put them outside normal parameters.
Mr. Peterson is local he grew up in Oradell. On the
other hand, he is not Jewish.
So, Cantor Josephson was presented with an opportu-
nity to have him play what to do?
Every year, we sit with coffee and cake, and we have
a talk, or somebody lectures, or we watch a movie, and
there is a mood of privacy and intimacy and soul-search-
ing, she said. So together with Rabbi Paul thats Avo-
dat Shaloms rabbi, Paul Jacobson we put our thinking
caps on. We thought what if he would play the music of
Jewish composers some of them converted, and some
who didnt. (She was using the word converted to mean
converted out, she clarified.)
Conversion is such a painful subject in Judaism, she
continued. And nowadays the world is so crazy, people
are being killed, and religion is something that is used
in good ways and bad ways at the same time in different
During the 1973 Yom
Kippur War, Leonard
Cohen flew to Israel to
entertain the troops. He
is pictured here next to
General Ariel Sharon.
Cantor Ronit Josephson and pianist Drew Peterson
Who: Pianist Drew Peterson
What: Playing the work of Gershwin, Mendelssohn,
and Mahler
When: Saturday, September 20; concert at 7:30
p.m., Slichot by candlelight at 9:30
Where: Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland
Avenue, River Edge.
For information: Call (201) 489-2463 or go to
avodatshalom.net.
SEE RIVER EDGE PAGE 40
What if?
Playwright tells the sort-of-familiar story
of the four matriarchs in the garden
JOANNE PALMER
O
ne of our frequently told sto-
ries is of the four sages who
enter Paradise. Of the four,
one dies, one is struck mad,
one becomes a heretic, and one leaves
unscathed. It is a powerful, mysterious,
and unsettling tale.
Sigal Samuel of Brooklyn, a writer and
editor for the Jewish Forward, thought a
great deal about that midrash. I remem-
ber studying it in school a modern
Orthodox day school in Montreal and
with my father, a former professor of Jew-
ish mysticism in that citys Concordia Uni-
versity, she said. Ive been sitting with it
for many years.
Last year, Ms. Samuel was a fellow
at the Laba program sponsored by the
14
th
Street Y in Manhattan. Laba, which
its founders called a laboratory for Jew-
ish culture, uses classic Jewish texts as
a springboard to artistic creation, Ms.
Samuel said. The years theme was moth-
ers. So when the idea of Jewish texts in
general, the idea of mothers in general,
and this text, which had floated around
in her subconscious practically forever,
came together, they were catalyzed by
another realization.
Four sages entered Paradise.
There are four matriarchs in the Bible.
So Ms. Samuel asked the question that
talmudic sages, artists, and dreamers
always asked. What if?
The answer to that question will be on
view at Temple Emeth in Teaneck, when
her play, Four Women Enter Paradise, is
presented before Slichot services at Tem-
ple Emeth in Teaneck.
In the play, Ms. Samuel reframes famil-
iar stories to allow viewers to see them
from different angles, yielding new ques-
tions that logically demand new answers.
How did Sarah feel when her husband,
Abraham, told Pharaoh that she was his
sister, thus freeing Pharaoh to take her
as his wife? Did Rebecca really prefer the
mewling Jacob to the charismatic Esau,
or did she favor him simply to carry out
Gods perceived will? And what about the
complicated relationship between Rachel
and Leah?
And, for that matter, what about Eve?
The first woman also makes an appear-
ance, and what she says is both logical and
surprising.
Although the play was not written spe-
cifically for Slichot, it makes good sense
to see it then, Ms. Samuel said. It will be
an interesting thing to think about as we
go into the new year, because it takes our
traditional texts and twists them. It turns
them on their head, and lets us look at
them with new eyes.
Temple Emeth will present a staged
reading of the play at 7:30 p.m., performed
by synagogue members and directed by
Michael Bias, who also belongs to the
shul. Ms. Samuel will be on hand to answer
questions and moderate a discussion; after
dessert, Slichot will begin at 10.
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What: Presents a play, Four
[Women] Enter Paradise, directed
by Michael Bias, featuring Emeth
members, and talks about it
afterward.
Where: Temple Emeth, 1666
Windsor Road, Teaneck.
When: Saturday, September 20. Play
at 7:30 p.m.; discussion and dessert
follow; Slichot services at 10.
For information: (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Sigal Samuels play reconsiders the four matriarchs.
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Local doctor works on
Israeli stem-cell project to fight ALS
W
hile people across the
world raised huge sums
for ALS research this
summer by dousing
themselves in the Ice Bucket Challenge,
Teaneck physician Dr. Tony Fiorino has
become chief executive officer of an
Israeli company whose revolutionary
stem-cell therapy technology could be an
answer for neurodegenerative diseases,
including ALS.
The progressive neuromuscular dis-
ease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also
known as Lou Gehrigs disease, is a
death warrant. There is no known cure.
Victims gradually lose the ability to
move, swallow, and breathe. According
to the ALS Association, every year two
in 100,000 people are diagnosed in the
United States. They usually are between
55 and 65 years old.
Petach Tikva-based BrainStorm Cell
Therapeutics is in phase 2 testing of
NurOwn, a novel technique innovated at
Tel Aviv University for growing and modi-
fying adult stem cells to treat ALS. Stem
cells from the patients own bone marrow
are enhanced in order to secrete elevated
levels of nerve-growth factors that protect
existing motor neurons, promote motor
neuron growth, and reestablish nerve-
muscle interaction.
Following clinical trials in Israel, where
about 60 percent of patients treated with
NurOwn showed improvement, a larger
three-site safety trial approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration is begin-
ning at Massachusetts General Hospital,
the University of Massachusetts Memorial
Hospital, and the Mayo Clinic.
We spoke with Dr. Fiorino, 46, a mem-
ber of Teanecks Congregation Rinat Yis-
rael, about his involvement with Brain-
Storm and the potential of NurOwn.
Jewish Standard: What did you do
before BrainStorm?
Dr. Tony Fiorino: I earned my MD and
Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, and I studied liver stem
cells for my Ph.D. thesis, which was long
before stem cells became so popular. But
I actually have spent most of my career
on Wall Street, as a biotechnology and
pharmaceuticals analyst and portfolio
manager at firms including JP Morgan,
Citigroup, and Pequot Capital. In 2008
I left Pequot to run a start-up biotech-
nology company that we financed, and
I really enjoyed the operational side of
drug development. With BrainStorm,
I was given the opportunity to join an
Israeli biotech company with amaz-
ing science and really promising early
clinical data, which was simply too inter-
esting to pass up.
JS: How is NurOwn distinct from other
companies developing stem-cell therapeu-
tics for treating diseases like ALS?
TF: We have a directed approach. Many
other companies in the stem-cell space
take a shotgun approach, in which they use
early stem cells that possess the potential to
turn into many different cell types. By con-
trast, we have taken adult stem cells and
converted them into factories that pump
out growth factors known to promote the
survival of neurons. Thus we know exactly
where we want to use them; there are no
mysteries. Were focused on diseases in
which neurons are dying. This is really a
platform technology with applications out-
side of ALS, such as Parkinsons disease and
multiple sclerosis, though ALS is our lead
indication.
JS: Please describe the study now begin-
ning in Massachusetts and Minnesota.
TF: This is primarily a safety study involv-
ing 48 patients at sites headed by important
thought leaders in the field of ALS. In keep-
ing with FDA guidelines for a randomized,
double-blind study, 36 of the subjects will
randomly be chosen to receive NurOwn
and 12 will receive a placebo. Enrollment
will take 12 to 15 months, and there will be
six months of follow-up, so we expect the
study to be completed in early 2016.
JS: What did previous studies find?
TF: The first study, led by Professor Dimi-
trios Karussis at Hadassah Medical Center,
looked at patients getting NurOwn through
intramuscular injections or in the spinal
column via lumbar puncture. In the sec-
ond study, everyone received both types
of injections. That was partially driven by
not understanding if ALS spreads from the
central nervous system to the periphery or
vice versa, so we treated both. The study
also looked at a range of doses, and were
still following up on the last few cases.
In both Israeli studies, some patients
showed unexpected stabilization or even
temporary improvements in terms of their
function and respiration. Some had several
months of stabilization, although unfortu-
nately some did not respond. About 60 per-
cent of subjects in the two studies getting
NurOwn by lumbar puncture had slowing
of progression, stabilization, or improve-
ment, and we saw that injecting NurOwn
intramuscularly alone doesnt do much.
In the current U.S. studies were getting a
much bigger data set.
JS: What is your role in taking BrainStorm
to the next level?
TF: BrainStorm has never had a U.S.-
based employee, much less a U.S.-based
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CEO, so my joining the company repre-
sents a real shift. My immediate tasks are,
first, to make sure the phase 2 clinical
trial is running smoothly, and second, to
tell the BrainStorm story to U.S. biotech
investors, most of whom havent heard
of BrainStorm. Beyond that, it is my goal
to move additional programs into clini-
cal trials over the next one to two years.
We have established an excellent safety
profile on the basis of more than 30 ALS
patients treated in Israel at Hadassah, and
we have quite interesting data in animal
models of other neurodegenerative dis-
eases. As a small company, our resources
are limited, so we cant do everything we
want at once. That is why the dialogue
with investors is so important. They ulti-
mately provide the capital that biotech-
nology companies like ours need in order
to develop innovative therapies.
JS: As a practicing Jew, how do you feel
about the Israeli role in pioneering new
hope for ALS patients?
TF: It is a source of great pride. Our tech-
nology came out of the lab of Professor
Dani Offen at Tel Aviv University and was
nurtured and transformed into a clini-
cal program by BrainStorm entirely in
Israel. But, of course, ALS and other neu-
rodegenerative diseases do not observe
national, ethnic, or religious borders, and
drug development is a global business, so
the time had come to move our clinical
development beyond its Israeli roots. We
certainly hope and pray that NurOwn will
eventually emerge as a therapy that offers
benefits to ALS patients around the world,
and in that way will reflect back positively
on Israel.
JS: Your thoughts on the Ice Bucket
Challenge?
TF: I think the Ice Bucket Challenge has
been an amazing thing to watch and
on a personal note, a very wet and cold
thing to participate in. A substantial
amount of money has been raised that
would have gone elsewhere, so that is a
great thing for ALS research, and more
importantly down the road, for ALS
patients. BrainStorm probably will not
directly benefit from the Challenge. But
the ALS Association, which has gener-
ated so much publicity and galvanized
so much charitable giving through this
campaign, supports a good deal of
important research in ALS and they
have a much bigger pie to slice up now.
If they will offer grant programs rel-
evant to us, then we will certainly pur-
sue those opportunities. In any case, we
benefit indirectly from the attention that
the Ice Bucket Challenge has brought to
this relentless and devastating disease.
Dr. Tony Fiorino with Dr. Yossef Levy, BrainStorms vice president of cell
production, at the clean room facility at Hadassah Medical Center.
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JFSNJ marking 70th anniversary
Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey, a provider of
mental health services in
Bergen and Passaic coun-
ties, will celebrate its 70th
anniversary at its annual
gala at the Fair Lawn Jew-
ish Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel, on Septem-
ber 21. David Goodman
will receive the Commu-
nity Leadership award and
Daughters of Miriam/The
Gallen Institute of Clifton will be honored
with the Community Partner award.
Mr. Goodman has been on the JFSNJ
board for 14 years. He has been president
of both the JFSNF and of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey, and he has
been a long-time board member of the Kid-
ney & Urology Foundation of America. As a
co-founder of the JFNNJ Hurricane Katrina
Klene Up Krewe, Mr. Goodman led 13 New
Orleans trips; he also was instrumental
in creating four local projects to clean up
after Super Storm Sandy. He has received
many awards the most recent is the Scott
Cowen Alumni Service award, given by
Tulane Universitys alumni association.
Daughters of Miriam/The Gallen Insti-
tute is a state-of-the-art long-term and
sub-acute facility in Clifton
that provides broad-based
services to seniors. It is a
leader in dementia care
and serves as a university-
affiliated teaching center.
During the last 70 years,
JFSNJ and Daughters of
Miriam have partnered
across the spectrum to
provide housing for foster
care children and Kosher
Meals on Wheels, as well
as a nurse who delivers preventative care
to older adults.
Founded in 1944 by the trustees of the
Jewish Community Council (now the Jew-
ish Federation of Northern New Jersey) to
address the needs of orphaned children,
JFSNJ is a multifunction, nonprofit, non-
sectarian family and social service agency.
Some of its accomplishments over the
past 70 years include treating the mental
health needs of more than 140,000 clients
in Bergen and Passaic counties; delivering
13,000 kosher Meals on Wheels, and pro-
viding resettlement services to more than
1,400 families from Europe and the former
Soviet Union.
For information, call (973) 595-0111 or go
to www.jfsnorthjersey.org.
David Goodman
Celebrating grandparents at JHR
Residents, their families, staff, and visi-
tors at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh
celebrated Grandparents Day last week
with a petting zoo, wheelchair square
dancing, pony rides, refreshments, and
country music. The animals including
goats, rabbits, llamas, chickens, and a
pony were from Green Meadow Farm
in Hazlet.
Tables were set up with information
from the Adler Aphasia Center in May-
wood, HealthBarn USA in Wyckoff, and
Center for Food Action in Englewood.
Visitors could sample Tovas All Natural
gluten- and dairy-free custom cakes from
the Teaneck- based company and honey
from NJBBees.com.
Shiri Redensky, chair of JHRs Young
Leadership Board, which coordinated
the event, said, I am overcome by our
shared experience, which highlighted
the best of togetherness and commu-
nity. According to Sunni Herman,
JHRs executive vice president, This
was a win-win program. Together, the
residents and the children were able to
have fun with the animals. The highlight
was when the chickens ran loose on the
grounds and all the kids ran after them
to bring them back.
Chani Herman, left, with JHR
resident Marilyn Wechter and her
grandson, Ryan.
Four generations of JHR resident Sophie Beldners family, including Sawyer,
Hudson, Seth, Arlene, Ina, Billy, and Harold Chapler, with a llama.
Locals named to AFTAU board
American Friends of Tel
Aviv University has added
seven members to its board
of directors. Since it was
founded in 1956, AFTAU
has served as a bridge
between American and
Israeli leaders dedicated to
excellence in scholarship
and to strengthening the
State of Israel.
New AFTAU board mem-
bers include Richard Edlin
of Tenafly and Mark Levenson and Lisa S.
Aufzien, both of West Orange.
Mr. Edlin is the chair of the New York
litigation practice at Greenberg Traurig
LLP, the chair for its regional operations,
and a member of the firms executive
committee. He is a board member of the
Urban Justice Center, a member of the
board of governors of Hackensack Uni-
versity Medical Center, a trustee of the
Carnegie Council for Ethics in Interna-
tional Affairs, a fellow of the Litigation
Council of America, and a trustee of New
Jersey SEEDS.
Mark S. Levenson of West Orange, a
chair of the real estate department and
corporate real estate practice group of
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., also chairs the
firms Israel business practice group. He
was a former president of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Greater Clifton/Passaic, presi-
dent of the New Jersey Association of
Jewish Federations, and chair of the New
Jersey-Israel Commission.
Lisa S. Aufzien spent her career in
food service management with Standard
& Poors, Continental Insurance, and
Bell Labs. She was also director of food
service management for the Verona and
Caldwell school districts.
Mark S. Levenson Richard Edlin
Making sense of Israels summer war
Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, a fellow at the
Middle East Forum, which is headed
by Daniel Pipes, will discuss Hamas
and Abbas, Gaza and the U.N. Making
Sense of This Summers War and Israels
Future Challenges at Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley, tonight, during
kabbalat Shabbat services at 8 p.m.
Dr. Romirowsky, a former Israel
Defense Forces international relations
liaison officer in the West Bank and to
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, also
is the co-author of Religion, Politics,
and the Origins of Palestine Refugee
Relief.
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Turning inward,
looking outward
W
e live in a world that teaches us to blame
others for our failures and struggles.
Whether its health, finances, stalled
careers, or emotional unhappiness, our
often narcissistic and litigious society has trained us
to look outside ourselves to justify our suffering. We
explain our pain by telling ourselves that someone hurt
us, our boss overworked us, or a merchant was dishon-
est with us.
Not so in Jewish tradition. Judaism asks us to turn
inward when we are faced with conflict: Did I play a
part in bringing this pain on? Could I have done some-
thing to contribute to my sadness? The classic expres-
sion of this is found in the
rabbinic texts explaining
reasons for the Churban
the destruction of the
ancient Temples in Jerusa-
lem. They explain that the
first Temple fell because of
the sins of idolatry, murder
and sexual immorality, and
the second because of sinat
chinam, unbridled hatred
between Jews.
We are a people who
believe that goodness will
prevail over evil. So when evil seems to be winning, we
assume there must be something wrong with the good,
meaning with us. And more, as its been said, people
and communities who dont engage in self-reflection are
bound to repeat the same mistakes. This is a lesson illus-
trated by the two Temples falling on the same day the
9th of Av centuries apart. Introspection, then, is cru-
cial in all circumstances.
This is the season of inner examination within the
Jewish community. Slichot penitential prayers begin
after Shabbat at midnight and will lead us to the Ten
Days of Repentance, which start with Rosh Hashanah
and end with Yom Kippur. Sephardim have been saying
them since the start of the month of Elul, weeks ago. We
embrace now in earnest the task of repairing and renew-
ing our souls by seeking forgiveness from the Divine,
from those around us, and from ourselves.
Arguably, this season of repentance began weeks ago,
when we gathered mournfully on Tisha BAv, as we do
each summer, to read the Book of Lamentations, Jere-
miahs firsthand account of the destruction of Jerusalem.
The opening word, Eicha, literally means, How did
this come to be? But the Sages teach us that the origi-
nal Eicha was Ayekah Where are you? The two
Adina Lewittes is rabbi of Bergen Countys Shaar
Communities.
Rabbi Adina
Lewittes
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Opinion
Yavneh and its sages
G
ive me Yavneh
and i ts sages,
Rabbi Yochanan
Ben Zakai is said
to have told the Roman general after
he escaped from the besieged and
doomed city of Jerusalem.
Yavneh was on the Mediterranean,
a dozen miles south of Jaffa. Torah
scholars gathered there in a vineyard
that served as a refuge and gave the
promise of renewal.
Its no surprise, then, that just shy
of 2,000 years later, in the equally
dark days of 1942, the foresighted
Jewish leaders who established a
Jewish day school in Paterson named
it the Yavneh Academy. The young
generation of American-born Jews
the school hoped to educate were
destined to be would have to be,
for there was no other choice a ref-
uge for a Jewish world being snuffed
out in Europe, and the source for a
renewal of American Judaism.
The Yavneh Academy was not the
first Jewish day school in New Jersey
that was the Yeshiva of Jersey City,
established five years earlier but
give it credit for its evocative name.
For its first few years school was held
in Victorian houses, but before its
bar mitzvah year it had moved into a
building that looked to be the model
of a post-war American school.
Not until 1964 did the Jews of Ber-
gen County establish their own day
school, the Moriah School, now cele-
brating its 50th anniversary, joined in
1973 by the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County.
But Jews dont stay put. (Does any-
one?) Two generations after Rabbi
Yochanan, Rabbi Akiva taught not
in Yavneh but in the Galilee. In 1981,
Yavneh relocated less than 10 miles
east in Paramus. Bergen County was
the new Jewish center of northern
New Jersey. Not long after the one-
time Yeshiva of Jersey City, renamed
to the Yeshiva of Hudson County,
moved as well to Bergen County;
it is now known as the Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey.
Since then, more Jewi sh day
schools have sprung up in the 9
miles separating Moriah in Engle-
wood from Yavneh in Paramus, and,
as we report this week, Yavneh has
begun renovating and expanding its
facilities.
Yavnehs first kindergarteners
must now be turning 77. They, and
their successors, played a crucial
role in the revival of American Juda-
ism, and New Jersey Judaism, over
the past two generations.
Rabbi Yochanan Zakai would have
been proud. LY
Let the year and its blessing begin
T
he little sister
her prayers she
prepares and pro-
claims her praises.
O God, please, heal now her ailments.
Let the year and its curses conclude!
Thats from Achot Ketanah Little
Sister. It is one of the piyyutim liturgi-
cal poems we often sing to an entranc-
ing, winding Middle Eastern melody,
that often begins Slichot.
Slichot the service of peniten-
tial prayers that ushers in the High
Holy Day season is both dramatic
and unusual. Traditionally, at least
in the Ashkenazic world, the prayers
are recited but thats a pale verb.
Chanted? Sung? Intoned? Poured out?
first on the Saturday night before
Rosh Hashanah, and then every night
until the holiday begins.
They are said at midnight; even when
its made earlier for modern wimps,
who want to be in bed far earlier, still
its at night. And the moon, which
reappears as a sliver for Rosh Hasha-
nah, is tiny or completely hidden dur-
ing that time. The night is dark.
When we get to shul, we often hear,
usually for the first time, the haunting
melodies that signal the start of the new
year, and evoke the memories some
sweet, some bittersweet, some funny,
some joyous, some pure pain of the
year gone by. Of all the years gone by.
Let the year and its curses conclude!
It is also traditional, at least in this
country, to begin the evening with a
program before moving into Slichot.
Sometimes its a lecture, or a film, or a
concert, or just plain a chance to social-
ize over dessert. Often it involves music.
But it is also a chance for creativity
and because they always are well after
sunset, even people who are shomer
Shabbat are free to drive to them.
This community is unusually rich in
Slichot programs. Last week, we wrote
about the cabaret at Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes. This
week, we describe programs at Temple
Emeth in Teaneck, Temple Beth Am in
Bayonne, and Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge. And thats just a sampling of
what is on offer to learn more about
whats happening near you, at your
own shul, or at someplace youd always
wondered about but have not yet gotten
to take a look at our calendar listing,
starting on page 58.
To understate, this has been a hard
year. But the authors of the piyyutim
we sing at Slichot knew that. Achot Ket-
anah was written by R. Avraham Hazan
Girundi in 13th century Spain. The little
sister represents the Jewish people, and
every year we sing about her pain. But
then, at the end, there is hope.
Be strong and rejoice for the plun-
der is ended; place hope in the Rock
and keep Gods covenant. You will
ascend to Zion and He will say Pave!
Pave her paths.
Let the year and its blessings begin.
JP
Turning inward,
looking outward
W
e live in a world that teaches us to blame
others for our failures and struggles.
Whether its health, finances, stalled
careers, or emotional unhappiness, our
often narcissistic and litigious society has trained us
to look outside ourselves to justify our suffering. We
explain our pain by telling ourselves that someone hurt
us, our boss overworked us, or a merchant was dishon-
est with us.
Not so in Jewish tradition. Judaism asks us to turn
inward when we are faced with conflict: Did I play a
part in bringing this pain on? Could I have done some-
thing to contribute to my sadness? The classic expres-
sion of this is found in the
rabbinic texts explaining
reasons for the Churban
the destruction of the
ancient Temples in Jerusa-
lem. They explain that the
first Temple fell because of
the sins of idolatry, murder
and sexual immorality, and
the second because of sinat
chinam, unbridled hatred
between Jews.
We are a people who
believe that goodness will
prevail over evil. So when evil seems to be winning, we
assume there must be something wrong with the good,
meaning with us. And more, as its been said, people
and communities who dont engage in self-reflection are
bound to repeat the same mistakes. This is a lesson illus-
trated by the two Temples falling on the same day the
9th of Av centuries apart. Introspection, then, is cru-
cial in all circumstances.
This is the season of inner examination within the
Jewish community. Slichot penitential prayers begin
after Shabbat at midnight and will lead us to the Ten
Days of Repentance, which start with Rosh Hashanah
and end with Yom Kippur. Sephardim have been saying
them since the start of the month of Elul, weeks ago. We
embrace now in earnest the task of repairing and renew-
ing our souls by seeking forgiveness from the Divine,
from those around us, and from ourselves.
Arguably, this season of repentance began weeks ago,
when we gathered mournfully on Tisha BAv, as we do
each summer, to read the Book of Lamentations, Jere-
miahs firsthand account of the destruction of Jerusalem.
The opening word, Eicha, literally means, How did
this come to be? But the Sages teach us that the origi-
nal Eicha was Ayekah Where are you? The two
Opinion
words are spelled the same way in Hebrew. Ayekah? God
asked Adam and Eve, who hid from God in the Garden of
Eden after they ate the forbidden fruit. Where are you?
God probed. Where are you spiritually? Where are you psy-
chically? How has your state of mind and being affected your
circumstances today?
Sometimes this type of thinking is applied in ways that
are profoundly disturbing and offensive: blaming the Shoah
on Jews who were Zionists, or on those who were secular.
Recently, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe of
Kiryas Yoel, N.Y., blamed the deaths of the three Israeli teens,
Eyal, Gilad and Naftali, zl, on their Zionist parents, who took
their children to live in the West Bank. He said that instead
of eulogizing their sons, the parents ought to have recited
the Vidui, the confessional prayers, and repented. We are
appalled by those statements, as we should be.
Often I wonder how the ancient citizens of Jerusalem felt
being told that their citys devastating desolation, the loss of
their children to famine, their sisters and daughters to rape,
and their homes to fire and pillaging was their fault. And yet,
we persist in revisiting those teachings both on Tisha BAv
and on these days of Slichot, as we seek healing and renewal
from the physical and figurative ills of our lives through
appeals for forgiveness.
Its a paradox: on the one hand we reject that kind of self-
blame for the calamities that fill our lives, and we espe-
cially dont want to suggest that those who truly do us
harm are somehow not to blame. Yet, on the other, those
teachings affirm that our actions matter, that our choices
have consequences, that we can affect the fate not only of
our own lives but of our communities, even of the world,
for bad and for good.
Rav Kook taught that the healing from unfettered hatred
between Jews that caused Jerusalem to fall a millennium
ago, sinat chinam, can come only from its opposite: ahavat
chinam, unrestricted love and respect between Jews. Our
actions are the tikkun, the correction, even as our actions
may have contributed to the brokenness.
Put simply, Judaism, ancient and modern, understands
that conflict with others requires that we look deeply
at ourselves, and that resolution to conflict with others
requires a healing within, an inner tikkun, as part of the
solution to our outer troubles.
While on an individual level the challenge this season is
as compelling, if arduous, as ever, on a collective level this
year it feels especially difficult.
These days of repentance come at a very painful time
for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The dust is
just settling from the war this summer. For close to two
months, civilians throughout Israel were terrorized by an
endless barrage of rockets. We lost 66 soldiers and six civil-
ians. Thousands of people in Gaza were wounded. More
than 2,000 people there lost their lives, and while the IDF
asserts that almost half of them were combatants, scores
of those killed and hurt were innocent men, women, and
children. The Israeli army uncovered a terrifying network
of tunnels dug by terrorists to infiltrate Israel from Gaza and
murder soldiers and citizens. While we destroyed many, we
dont know if there are more tunnels or how many. We dont
know the extent to which the IDFs courageous actions
diminished our vulnerability, or for how long.
Outside of Israel, anti-Semitism barely masquerading
as anti-Israelism is in a terrifying upswing. People have
been comparing events now with those of the 1930s, such
as when a Belgian doctor refused to treat a Jewish patient
this summer, stores there hung signs saying Dogs wel-
come. Zionists never. A Hungarian mayor burned Netan-
yahu and Peres in effigy. Israeli dancers from Ben Gurion
University were dismissed from a dance competition in
Edinburgh because the organizers felt they couldnt pro-
tect them from anti-Israel demonstrators and chose to
cancel their performance rather than banning the protest-
ers. Jewish property was vandalized repeatedly in France.
Raucous and violent gatherings in major cities like Berlin,
New York, and Montreal had people yelling slaughter the
Jews. A British MP declared his district off limits to Israeli
products and people. People dared to speak of another
Holocaust on the horizon.
And yet, even within this climate, observers through-
out the world have begun to acknowledge the role Hamas
played in the deaths of its own people: hiding rockets and
launchers in schools and hospitals knowing the IDF would
retaliate while delighting in onlookers sympathy for their
pulverized homes and dead civilians. World leaders have
decried much of the vicious anti-Jewish expressions and
activities. And, most importantly for this message, Jewish
support for the war, both in Israel and around the world,
was almost unanimous: the justness of the IDF retaliatory
strikes, the morality of the IDF, and the absolute right of
the State of Israel to protect its citizens from current and
future threats went virtually unquestioned in Jewish cir-
cles for most of the summer.
Against this backdrop and in this time of great angst for
Jews and the Jewish state, how does the tradition of Sli-
chot, which asks us to seek forgiveness in order to heal our
suffering resonate when we feel such moral clarity about
the rightness of our actions and our outlook?
To be sure, its often those who exude moral certainty
who most need to be engaged in a process of self-reflec-
tion. So what might we, the Jewish people, bring to the
discussion this year?
Some of the more obvious themes might include the hor-
rific murder by Jewish vigilantes of Mohamed Abu Khdeir,
the Palestinian boy burned to death in response to the kill-
ing of the three Israeli teens. Or the gangs of Jewish youth
screaming violent slurs at Arabs and ultra-Orthodox men
yelling Death to the Arabs after the fatal bulldozer attack
in Jerusalem in which a Jewish man died. Israeli police had
to evacuate a bus of Arab workers out of concern for their
safety. And, of course, there is the larger picture of what just
about everyone agrees is the unsustainable reality of Israel
ruling over the Palestinian people, and the urgency of find-
ing a long-term diplomatic solution to the conflict.
But do those very real and disturbing issues reflect the
kind of inner wrestling the tradition demands? Is there a
larger question to which those issues belong?
Rabbi Daniel Gordis, senior vice president and the Koret
Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College in Jerusalem, who
often is referred to as one of the most thoughtful advocates
for Israel, posted an essay in the Jerusalem Post a while
back, in the midst of the hostilities. It answers our question
in a profound way. In When the Guns Fall Silent, Gordis
described the anxiety that fills the generation of young Israe-
lis today, who know that it is largely up to them to defend
and protect the country, putting their lives and dreams and
hopes at risk for a conflict that seems to have no end, no
resolution, making their inevitable sacrifices seem meaning-
less, purposeless.
How prescient Gordis was. Just weeks after he penned
the essay, the war is behind us (hopefully for good) and that
once-solid support for the IDF and the government of Israel
is giving way to questions about the worthwhileness of a
battle that seems to have left us no closer to any prospects
for peace, and with enemies more desperate and angry than
before.
To those youngsters and for them, Gordis admonished, we
must be able to answer the fundamental question of why we
live in a protracted state of war, both with our enemies in
the Arab world and with the swelling ranks of anti-Semites
around the globe. We must be able to articulate a meaning-
ful and compelling vision of Israel and Judaism, as a country
and as a way of life, that fulfills the historic Jewish belief in a
land flowing not only with milk and honey but with love and
justice, compassion, and peace.
As Gordis wrote, So why are we here? Thats the ques-
tion which is going to hang heavily over this country when
the uniforms return to the closets and the guns get put
away. Its the question these kids will want to hear their
society discussing. They will want to know that this is a
fight for our homes, but also for a vision. They want to
believe that this fight is worth the lives of the children they
havent yet had.
Gordis continued, When the guns go silent, are we really
going to abide a Haredi sector that, for the most part, did
nothing to protect this home? When the dust settles, what
are we going to do about the Jewish thugs who beat up Israeli
Arabs? When the dust settles, will we know how to pick up
where Herzl, Jabotinsky, Kook and Berdichevsky left off ?
This is an earthquake, let there be no doubt. When the guns
go silent, were going to need to renew a vision that blends
resolve with tolerance, strength with utter decency, indi-
vidual freedom coupled with a sense of serving something
greater than ourselves.
At least for now, the guns are, thankfully, mostly silent. It
is the season for Slichot and the days of repentance, the time
to emerge from our pain via the path of asking for forgive-
ness, a theme jumpstarted by Tisha BAv just weeks earlier.
A sacred Jewish myth tells us that thousands of years ago on
that very day, a Divine decree was made that the generation
of ancient Israelites swayed by spies and dismayed by the
seeming impossibility of success in the land of Israel was to
wander and die off in the desert.
Maybe this year, in this season of teshuvah, we can offer an
inner tikkun, an inner correction to that decree, and prevent
this generation from surrendering to dismay by bequeathing
to it a renewed, reinvigorated sense of mission, as a country
and as a people.
This year, Slichot have arrived just as Israel is beginning to
return to normal life after a war most understood as defen-
sive in spite of the vast destruction it entailed. Maybe this
year the inner searching prompted by Slichot and the High
Holy Days should be reframed for us as a community: less
about how we may have sinned to make ourselves vulnera-
ble to war and terrorism, and more about what we are capa-
ble of achieving to strengthen ourselves as a society and as a
spiritual and cultural tradition to ensure a future of integrity,
purpose and peace with our enemies, of course, but first
and foremost, with ourselves.
JS-23
Put simply, Judaism,
ancient and modern,
understands that
conict with others
requires that we look
deeply at ourselves.
We must be able to
articulate a meaningful
and compelling vision
of Israel and Judaism,
as a country and as
a way of life.
Opinion
JS-24*
Jewish time
Where memory, nature, and history combine
Have you forgotten that the seasons
have no regard
for the sovereignty of the sun
and instead attend upon
the grace and glory of the moon?
have you forgotten that the day begins
with evenings song
and ends with shadows conquest of the hills?
I
never heard any talk about Jewish
time until I moved to New Jersey.
When I was growing up, my fam-
ily belonged to a Reform temple in
Forest Hills, New York, and maybe it still
retained a strong sense of its German-Jew-
ish origins. Punctuality is a value, some
say an obsession, present in powerful
form in British as well as German culture,
and by extension the Anglo-Saxon-domi-
nated culture of the United States. And it
was marginalized groups that were known
to possess a different sense of time from
the mainstream.
Thats why, back when I was a college
student in the 70s, I heard references to
stereotypes about Indian time for Native
Americans, Spanish time for Latinos,
and Black time for African-Americans.
But back then, I never heard anyone talk
about Jewish time or Hebrew time to
explain why, for example, services sched-
uled to begin at 8 p.m. might not actually
start until 8:15 or 8:20.
Im not sure if its because the times
have changed, or because New Jersey-
ans are different from New Yorkers, or
because of a different mix of ethnic influ-
ences, but the reasons dont matter. What
matters is that its possible to have more
than one sense of time. Just as there can
be many different times, so that to every-
thing there is a season, and a time to every
purpose under heaven, there can also be
many different senses of time. We may
think of clock time as the time, but it is a
form of machine time, and there are alter-
natives that are forms of natural time and
human time.
As an undergraduate, learning about
intercultural communication, I recall
hearing that in many non-Western cul-
tures, if someone asks you for help and
you respond with, Ill be there in five
minutes, it would be considered an
insult. To us five minutes is a very short
time, and the point is to emphasize a
speedy response. But in non-Western cul-
tures, that response is taken to mean that
you consider those five minutes, how-
ever short a time that may be, to be more
important than the other person who is
asking for help. Instead, the reply should
be, Ill be there as soon as I can. By not
quantifying time, we instead are provid-
ing quality time. And true quality time is
about making human relationships our
priority.
Mircea Eliade, a scholar of
comparative religion, argued
that there are two differ-
ent senses of time, which
he referred to as sacred and
profane. Profane time is what
we experience in ordinary,
everyday life, and clock time
is one example of it. Sacred
time, on the other hand, is
the sense of time that is asso-
ciated with religious, spiri-
tual, and mystical experi-
ence. During sacred time, we depart from
the ordinary passage of time and stand
outside of history, connecting instead to
eternity. And sacred time often is associ-
ated with an act of creation or foundation.
The exodus from Egypt and the revelation
at Sinai are examples of sacred times that
cut across all of our history. That is why
we say that every generation of the Jewish
people participated in these events.
On Shabbat, we enter into a sacred time
that connects us to the origin of the world
according to Genesis. In keeping the Sab-
bath, we ritually re-enact Gods resting on
the seventh day, following the completion
of Creation. And we also connect to the
sacred time of in the beginning every
year during the High Holy Days, reflecting
the ancient idea that God is continually
renewing the act of creation.
Rosh Hashanah provides us with a dif-
ferent sense of time as well, because the
Jewish New Year, which we sometimes
refer to as the birthday of the world,
begins at the end of summer, not the dead
of winter. Admittedly, there are good rea-
sons to start the year in January, after the
winter solstice, as the days begin to get
longer. But you dont have to be Jewish to
appreciate the fact that there is a different
sense of time associated with the school
year that begins every September. Its a
sense of time that teachers, students, and
their parents all are quite familiar with.
And its a sense of time that Rosh Hasha-
nah fits in with quite well. There is some-
thing at least as natural (if not more so)
about beginning the new year at a time
when summer vacation and summer dol-
drums have come to a close.
We follow different senses of time in
celebrating both the Jewish New Year
and the secular New Year, and we may
also observe (but probably not celebrate)
one or more fiscal new years for any busi-
nesses or organizations with which we are
associated. Of course, the idea of having
several new years rather than just one is
nothing new for us; traditionally, the Jew-
ish calendar has four different new years
days. Each new year represents a some-
what different sense of time.
For most of us, the secular calendar is
the calendar, and therefore the time, in
the same sense that clock
time is the time. Its how
we think about and experi-
ence time. And thats why
you always hear people
commenting about how the
holidays are coming early,
or coming late. Some years
ago a colleague of mine
observed that Chanukah
was coming early that year,
and I replied that, no, it was
Christmas that was coming
late. He did a double-take for a moment,
and then nodded in understanding.
When we talk about the holidays com-
ing early or late, we mistake the measure
of time, the calendar, for the phenom-
enon it measures, the passage of time.
We confer upon the secular calendar an
authority it does not deserve, as if it were
itself an absolute time, and not a human
invention. Religious beliefs aside, the solar
and the lunar calendar are different ways
of keeping track of the days, providing dif-
ferent senses of time, neither more or less
correct than the other.
I cant help but conclude that Albert
Einsteins encounter with the sacred time
of the Jewish calendar, juxtaposed to the
profane time of the secular calendar,
played a role in his arriving at the theory
of relativity, that the passage of time is rel-
ative to the speed at which youre moving,
and there is nowhere in the physical uni-
verse where anything is at rest. In other
words, there is no place in the physical
universe where time is absolute.
And then theres the different sense of
time that comes from living in the year
2014 and the year 5774. On the plus side,
come Rosh Hashanah we wont have to get
used to dating our checks and the various
forms we fill out with 5775 instead of 74.
On the minus, we lose something very sig-
nificant in not following our traditional
way of counting the years, and follow-
ing a numbering system that originates
from a religion other than our own. It
makes perfect sense in Christian theology
to bifurcate history into before and after
periods. And Jewish scholars adapted to
the practice of the majority by adopting
the alternative terms, Before Common
Era (abbreviated as BCE) in place of BC,
and Common Era (abbreviated as CE)
in place of AD. That terminology has been
adopted widely in the scientific and schol-
arly community.
Even so, the division of calendar years
makes it difficult to talk and think about
events that occurred before the Com-
mon Era. Consider the awkwardness of
the statement that King Josiah reigned in
Judah from 641 to 609 BCE. How many
years would that be? More importantly,
this division of history serves as a subtle
form of delegitimation of most events
that happened in antiquity, including
the beginnings of civilization in Mesopo-
tamia and Egypt, the enormous intellec-
tual achievements of ancient Greece, the
extraordinary military accomplishments
of Alexander the Great, and the rise and
fall of the Roman Republic and its trans-
formation into the Roman Empire, as well
as most of the history of the Jewish people
before the diaspora.
Of course, saying that we are about
to embark upon the year 5775 naturally
leads to the question, 5,775 years since
what? The traditional answer is, since
the creation of the world, which relates
to Rosh Hashanah as a sacred time of
eternal return. But science has shown
that that estimate is more than a little bit
off, the planet Earth estimated to be 4.54
million years old, and the universe itself
clocked in at 13.8 billion years. If ever
there is cause to marvel at the glory of
Creation, isnt that cosmic time scale rea-
son enough?
But if our calendar does not stretch
back to the origin of the world, the ques-
tion remains, 5,775 years since what? An
easy answer would be, since someone
began counting. And thats not such a far-
fetched response. We trace the invention
of the first writing system, cuneiform, to
somewhere around 5,500 years ago. That
only puts us off by approximately 275
years, and often these dates are pushed
back after new archeological finds. But
more importantly, the introduction of the
written word by the Sumerians in Meso-
potamia was the product of a slow evolu-
tion of various systems of notation, dat-
ing back about 10,000 years ago, to the
beginnings of the agricultural revolution.
In other words, dating back to what we
understand to be the beginnings of civi-
lization, as opposed to nomadic, tribal,
hunter-gatherer ways of life. These sys-
tems of notation were used to keep track
of property, so that numerical notation
came first, before the development of
a complete writing system. Writing was
invented by accountants.
What this means is that its been 5,775
since the origin not of the world, but of
civilization. Our calendar marks and cel-
ebrates the beginnings of civilization, the
first steps on the long road forward from
tribalism, a journey that takes narrative
form in the story of Abraham as God tells
him to go forth from the Mesopotamian
city of Ur to the land that I will show
you.
We say that Rosh Hashanah and all our
holidays begin the night before, but that
too does not recognize the special quality
of Jewish time. In our tradition, the day
begins at sundown, not at some arbitrary
point in the middle of the night. And of
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course that follows again the archetype of Creation, in
which first there is darkness, and then God brings the
light into being. The 24-hour day is derived from the
Earths rotation, but the point when one day ends and
the next begins is also relative, the product of differ-
ent conventions. Similarly, the concept of the month
is based on the cycles of the moon, even though the
naming and days allotted to various months can vary
in different calendar systems. And likewise, the year
is associated with the Earths orbit around the sun.
Of all our calendar categories, only the 7-day week
is more or less arbitrary, having the least to do with
any natural phenomena. We therefore can under-
stand that the fourth commandment of the Deca-
logue, Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your
God: you shall not do any work, does more than
direct us to observe Shabbat, as well as engage in
labor on the other six days. And it does more than
ask us to take part in a ritual re-enactment of cre-
ation, and act as a means of separating and thereby
sanctifying the sacred time of the Sabbath from the
profane time of the other six days. The fourth com-
mandment also establishes the 7-day week as a unit
of measurement. There was no need to turn to Gods
authority for the day, the month, the year, or the
seasons for that matter, because they are based on
the observable cycles of nature. But the 7-day week
required outside legitimation to gain popular accep-
tance. And while we were not the only people of the
ancient world to use this time measurement dont
forget the Babylonians of Mesopotamia its due
to its appearance in Jewish tradition that the 7-day
week is now in use throughout the world.
Jewish time is different from secular time. Jewish
time is not homogenous, not like clock time, and not
like our contemporary movement towards a 24/7/365
society. Jewish time is a sense of time that distin-
guishes between the sacred and the profane, and that
measures the days, the months, and the years in its
own way. Jewish time includes a sense of relativity,
whether its Einsteins theory, or a rabbi waiting 10
more minutes before beginning the evenings prayers.
It follows that Jewish time emphasizes relationships,
and especially I-You rather than I-It relationships, as
a human time, a natural time, and a sacred time, and
not a machine time. Jewish time is historical time,
looking backward through the history of civilization,
and looking forward in hope and in faith for better
days to come.
And Jewish time is above all else a sense of time
based on memory. The repeated commandment to
remember goes to the heart of our sense of time.
Without memory, there is no history, no sense of
the past, nor any anticipation of the future. Without
memory, there is no knowing, no understanding, no
learning. Without memory, there is no keeping time,
there is only serving time, becoming servants of the
monolithic time of our clocks and calendars. How do
we achieve our exodus from our bondage to these
instruments of our own design?
Through the miracle of our memory, by remem-
bering to treasure and embrace our own special
sense of Jewish time, in this season of renewal, and
all year round.
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a professor
of communication and media studies at Fordham
University in the Bronx and president of his synagogue,
Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia. He is the author
of Amazing Ourselves to Death: Neil Postmans Brave
New World Revisited.
Go eat
It was about 60 years ago, and I was hitching from Brooklyn
to Monticello in search of a summer job at one of the hotels.
Although I was only 17 years old, I was tall and looked
older and considered myself a man of the world. Looking
back, it was actually a case of juvenile ignorance and bra-
vado... Anyway, I ended up at the Red Apple Rest. (Stop at
the Red Apple, September 12.)
Since I had spent all my money on breakfast at a diner that
morning, I merely sat on one of the benches and watched
people coming and going with their food. Then I felt a tap
on my shoulder. Want something to eat? a man said, and
before I could say anything, he handed me two dollars. I
remember to this day sitting there in total surprise, looking
at the money he had stuffed into my hand.
Gay essen go eat, he said, and walked away. When I
went to the counter to buy a hot dog I asked who that man
was, and I was told, thats the owner.
You know, Ill be 75 in November, and I still remember
that man, who was kind to me that day.
Phil Sills
Norwell, MA
Red Apple memories
I worked at the Red Apple Rest for two summers, 1968
and 1969, 12 hours a day shifts! (Stop at the Red Apple,
September 12.) Nice paycheck and nicer money under the
table. Lets say it was a formative time with Mr. Freed, Her-
bie, Neil and countless Runyonesque busboys, countermen,
and cooks. While I could never forget those two summers,
I have a painting of the outdoor stand hanging in my shore
apartment to keep my memory fresh.
Guess Ill have to read the book.
Steven Flatow
West Orange
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Disagree, dont silence
Please let me state my exception to the article regarding the
campaign against J Street by Dr. Charles Jacobs and others.
(Taking the J Street Challenge, September 12.)
First of all, I have several differences with J Street. I feel
they are living in the 90s, not today, ignoring the changes
brought about by the Intifada and subsequent incitement
as well as use of civilian shields by Hamas. However, they
do deserve a seat at the table within the Jewish community.
Secondly, rather than talking about ideas, Dr. Jacobs
attacks George Soros, the alleged mastermind of so-called
left. This mirrors the attacks on Sheldon Adelson by the
political left. This is a block to serious dialogue.
Thirdly, the existence of J Street does some good. Its
opposition to BDS is the most effective means of combat-
ting it within certain liberal church and political groups. It
will also pull Israeli advocacy to the center it has moved
to the right.
Fourthly, Dr. Charles Jacobs and company have their own
agenda. They are supporters of a Greater Israel (an Israel
which stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan
River) and a reoccupation of Gaza.
That is their right. Advocacy is one thing. Silencing others
is something else.
Alan M. Levin
Fair Lawn
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JOANNE PALMER
R
eal power doesnt have to be flashy.
Robert Menendez, a Democrat, is New
Jerseys senior United States senator, and
he is chair of the Senates Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. From that extremely powerful posi-
tion, his support of Israel, always clearly and explicitly
stated, helpful, and welcomed, has been particularly
useful this summer, when the Iron Dome system
whose presence in Israel he shepherded made a
life-and-death difference to many Israelis.
Youd never guess that from his local office.
Mr. Menendezs main office is in Washington, of
course, and he maintains two in New Jersey. One is in
Barrington, south and west of here in Camden County,
and the other is in Newark.
To get to his Newark office, you walk through a flo-
rescent mall space, filled with peppy, well-groomed,
coffee-gulping young people in suits. The ambiance
is somewhere between an airport gate and the Port
Authority bus terminal. His office, too, should make
taxpayers rest easy. Many expenses have been spared.
The broad windows of his conference room look out
on train tracks and parking lots not very far below.
Staten Island lurks sullenly off to the side.
Mr. Menendez who comes across as a real person,
with a firm handshake, a direct gaze, and warmth
sat at the head of the table. Two aides (both of them
Jewish, which made us wonder if he could provide
Coming
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Senator Robert Menendez tells
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Israel has a friend in D.C.
Menendez gave
key support
to Iron Dome
LARRY YUDELSON
T
he first two trips Senator
Robert Menendez took to
Israel right around the
time he was elected to the
Congress made a big impression on
him. A helicopter tour of the country
gave me a physical perspective of the
challenge Israel faces.
Its back is to the sea and it is sur-
rounded by neighbors who largely wish
it ill, he said.
He became convinced that Israel
is an incredibly important ally and
therefore you need to be able to help
them to be secure.
This led him to take a lead role in
cosponsoring the United States-Israel
Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of
2012, which basically deepened our
scientific and other relationships with
Israel, and that led to the Iron Dome
anti-missile defense, which was a joint
venture of the United States and Israel
in terms of its research and develop-
ment and ultimately its building, he
said.
This summer, Iron Dome proved its
effectiveness in repelling Hamas mis-
siles. It was critical to not having lost
thousands of Israeli lives, he said.
In the midst of the engagement
with Hamas, Sen. Menendez sponsored
a resolution with Senator Lindsey Gra-
ham (R.-S.C.) to say that Israel has the
right to defend itself. He also wanted
to provide Israel with the wherewithal
to defend itself, and that meant addi-
tional resources for Iron Dome.
He led the way through his com-
mittee for the Senates unanimous
approval of an $225 million package
of emergency funding for Iron Dome
to replenish the systems missiles. In
the midst of what was a contentious
period on other things, there was near
unanimity on this, he said. (There
were eight votes in the House against
the measure, which President Barack
Obama signed in early August.)
American foreign policy is strongest
when it can be bipartisan, Mr. Menen-
dez said. And its certainly strongest
when we can speak with one voice, or
as nearly as possible with one voice,
as it relates to the U.S.-Israel relation-
ship. I worked very hard as the chair-
man to maintain that bipartisanship,
even when actors on either side want
to shanghai the process and try to score
political points.
Still on the Senates agenda it
passed his committee but is awaiting
a vote by the full Senate is the U.S.-
Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014.
The act would declare Israel a strategic
partner of the United States. It would
increase cooperation between the two
countries, and would take $13 million
in funding allocated to aid Pakistan to
fund U.S.-Israel cooperative projects
further. And, most controversially, it
would waive requirements that Israelis
entering the United States receive a visa
in advance.
Were having some problems
with some of our Republican friends,
ethnicity-appropriate staffers for each of
the huge number of groups in this vastly
multicultural state) sat on one side, and we
sat on the other, as the senator answered
our questions.
(A report on Mr. Menendezs discussion
on Israel is in the panel at right.)
We Jews know ourselves to be an immi-
grant people; the term wandering Jew
came from somewhere. There are a few
Israeli families who can trace their roots
there back until they are lost to time. The
rest of us, though, know that not too many
generations back, our ancestors either
chose to leave where they had been in
search of something better, or were forc-
ibly evicted from their homes, their coun-
tries, their continents, their lives.
Mr. Menendez is a first-generation
Cuban American. His story is in some ways
similar to ours, and in some ways it is not.
His parents, Mario and Evangelina,
were born in Cuba, the descendants of
Spaniards who made their way to the New
World long ago. They were average work-
ing people, Mr. Menendez said. His father
ran a necktie factory for a company owned
by Jews and headquartered in New York,
and his mother was a housewife.
She also was a dynamo, and she had
clarity of vision. My mother didnt like
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Senator Menendez visits an Iron Dome installation in Israel in 2013. On his
right is former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Naveh.
There might
be at least as
many parallels
as differences
between the
Cuban and the
Jewish immigrant
experience.
Clockwise from left, Mario, Evange-
lina, Caridad, Reynaldo, and Robert
dress up for a family outing.
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dent of Cuba who became its dictator in 1952, presiding
over a government where rampant corruption reigned.
She didnt like what she saw in the mountains, with the
cattle barons, and she didnt like what she was afraid
was coming, Mr. Menendez said. She was the driving
force behind our leaving Cuba.
She said to my father, I dont want my kids to grow
up here. At that point, there were two children, Cari-
dad and Reynaldo. My father was hesitant. They didnt
have much but what they had was in Cuba. And she
said, Either you come with us or we leave you behind.
After a short stint in Puerto Rico, which they did not
like, the family came to New York City. That was in 1953.
Mario and Evangelina Menendezs youngest child, Rob-
ert, was born there on January 1, 1954.
When they first came here, Mario Menendez con-
tinued to work for the tie company, but eventually it
closed, and he became an itinerant carpenter, and Evan-
gelina Menendez became a seamstress. They left New
York when I was very young and came to New Jersey,
first to Hoboken and then in Union City, Robert Menen-
dez said. There was a nascent Cuban community not
from Havana, where my parents came from, and they
didnt know anybody. The small community grew
as more Cubans came over during the 1960s. What
brought them over was the embroidery business, he
said. That craft flourished in Hudson County. (Think of
the stories of Jews drawn to Paterson and Jersey City for
exactly that reason.)
My mother started in the embroidery business in
Hoboken. At one point, much later, I moved to a place
called Clinton Mills. I told my sister about it, and she
said, Thats where Mom used to work.
Life was not easy. We lived in a tenement in Union
City, and we were poor. There were five of us in two
rooms. My brother had to go to work in carpentry, and
my sister in retail. I got to be the first in my family to go
to college St. Peters University and then I went on
to law school Rutgers.
Education was an enormously important value to
my mother, he continued. (By this point, the parallels
between Mr. Menendezs experiences and ours are too
obvious to bear pointing out.) She knew very little Eng-
lish, but when I was growing up, at the end of a long day,
when she came home, and then finished cooking and
cleaning, she insisted on having me read her my home-
work assignment. Id say Mom, you know you dont
understand it, but she wouldnt care. She wanted to be
sure that her son was doing his homework, and that he
knew how much she cared.
The family spoke Spanish at home. My father was
fairly fluent in English, but for my mother, Spanish was
her language, he said.
I think about courage often, he said. We talk about
it often, and when we do, I always think about Mom.
She made the choice to move to freedom, not staying
with a right-wing dictator, or what she feared would be
the Communists coming from the mountains.
So she made the choice to come to a country where
she didnt know the language, where she didnt have
a job, where she didnt have anybody waiting for her.
After she got here, she was convinced that she had made
the right decision. She lived in a country where she was
free to worship at the altar she chose.
She wasnt politically engaged, but she was able to
say what she wanted to say without looking over her
shoulder.
There were very real costs to the family, and an even
harsher penalty was exacted on those left behind. My
parents yearned to see their brothers and sisters, Mr.
Menendez said. Eventually, one of his aunts was able to
come to the United States for a visit, but they never saw
anyone else again. And when I started getting politically
engaged, and then got into Congress, one of my aunts
got punished pretty badly because of my views on the
Castro regime.
He had asked his aunt to ask for political asylum in the
United States, but she refused to do so, he reported.
Then I asked her never to recognize me as her nephew,
and she agreed. The first two years were fine, but in the
second year that I was in the House, she was listening to
me in Havana on Radio Marti the U.S.-financed Cuban
equivalent of Radio Free Europe and in a moment of
pride, while there were visitors, she said Menendez is
my nephew.
One of the people was part of the Committee for the
Defense of the Revolution snitches who reported on
their neighbors for thought crimes and he went to
state security. Her life was a living hell from then on,
until she died.
Mr. Menendez has two children, Alicia and Robert.
What is their connection to Cuban culture and the
Cuban community?
If you would ask them, they would tell you that they
are Norwegian his former wifes ethnicity and
Cuban, he said. My daughter has a television show on
Fusion, a national cable network. Her whole focus is to
reach out to millennials and young Hispanics who want
to hear about Hispanic issues in English. Her nightly
show is about both identity and crossover issues. She
is living in Miami and engaged to a Cuban-American,
so she personally is fully engaged in the culture of the
Cuban community.
My son he calls himself Rob is a lawyer. He also
has an identity as a Cuban American, but not as deeply
as my daughter.
In the end, it seems that there might be at least as
many parallels as differences between the Cuban and
the Jewish immigrant experience the courage, the
dislocation, the sundering from many family members
forever, the focus on education, the joy in a childs suc-
cess, and did I mention the courage? Because it stands
out so strongly, the courage of our parents and grand-
parents and great-grandparents. Or, at any rate, the par-
allels between many of our stories and that of Robert
Menendez.
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Fulop, a fellow Hudson County Democrat.
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particularly on the visa waiver provisions, so were
trying to find some common ground, he said.
Because I really do think its a critical time to make
a statement like that. Hes hopeful that the bill can
be passed in the lame duck period.
But looming far larger in Menendez map of the
Middle East and his concerns for Israels security
is the threat of Iran getting nuclear weapons. He is
proud to have been on the forefront of the issue more
than 15 years ago, where he was serving on the House
Foreign Relations Committee in the 1990s.
Then, the specific issue was American voluntary
contributions to the International Atomic Energy
Agency. It was at a time when the IAEA was financing
peaceful development at Iranian nuclear facilities.
These contributions beyond mandatory dues to the
agency were going to create operational capacities
at Iranian nuclear reactors, against the national secu-
rity interests of the United States, Mr. Menendez said.
His effort to stop those contributions was success-
ful. That was the beginning of a many-year effort to
focus on Iran, he said.
In recent years, the question of Iranian nuclear
capability has been at the top of the American diplo-
matic and political agenda. But before that, I would
say to my friends who care about national security
and certainly to the Jewish community Why are
you talking to me about Hamas and the West Bank
and other challenges? This is an existential threat to
Israel and you need to pay attention to it.
Unfortunately, the world in general did not pay
attention to it, and Iran continued to march forward
in defiance of international positions.
Now Iran is at the negotiating table, and the
only reason, Mr. Mendendez believes, is because
of a series of sanctions I led with my colleague Sen.
Mark Kirk of Illinois, a Republican. Those, he said,
are some of the most biting sanctions we have ever
leveled.
In July, Iran and the six world powers it is negotiat-
ing with the United States, Russia, China, Great Brit-
ain, France, and Germany agreed to extend their
talks until November 24. I will be looking forward to
see what agreements, if any, are reached, and if so to
judge any agreement or any potential further exten-
sion by the parties, he said.
He has a pending piece of legislation that would
tighten sanctions on Iran further if the negotiators do
not strike an agreement, or if Iran violates the pres-
ent framework thats being negotiated.
The purpose of that in my mind was to send Iran
a very clear message of the consequences of not strik-
ing an agreement that we ultimately could all sup-
port, he said. Of course diplomacy is what we want
to have success in, but it cannot be a deal for a deals
sake. It must be a deal that verifiably ends Irans
march toward nuclear weaponry. I have serious res-
ervations as to whether they are willing to do what is
necessary to actually achieve that.
I will be judging any accord by the standards I
have publicly set, by a whole host of different thresh-
olds that will be important to be able to meet, in
order to come to the conclusion that we have an
agreement by which Iran cannot achieve nuclear
weaponry.
Senator Menendez said stopping Iran from get-
ting nuclear weapons is first and foremost in the
national and security interest of the United States.
Number one, a nuclear-armed Iran with the missile
technology they have been developing could easily
hit a European ally. Under Article Five of NATO, we
are guaranteed to respond to a NATO ally.
Secondly, we have a series of interests both in
our bases, our troops, and other interests within the
region that could be hit by an Iranian weapon.
Thirdly, as Ive traveled within the region, Ive
heard many countries say to me, Senator, if Iran is
allowed to have nuclear weapons, then under the
theory of mutual destruction, I have to have nuclear
weapons in order to defend my country. And the last
thing we need is a nuclear arms race in a tinderbox
of the world.
So while the threat of ISIS is something he is taking
seriously, he strongly opposes any compromises on
the nuclear issue to get Iranian cooperation against
ISIS.
The threat of a nuclear armed Iran from my per-
spective is much greater, Mr. Menendez said.
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H
eres the good news: The
Obama admi ni st rat i on
finally has grasped that the
onslaught of the ISIS terror
group through Iraq and Syria must be
defeated and destroyed.
According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC
News poll, 61 percent of Americans agree
with the president. At a time when much
of the world believes, not unreasonably,
that America is in retreat, the admin-
istrations willingness to pursue mili-
tary options and its almost
George W. Bush-esque rhet-
oric regarding the evil of
the Islamic State, as Secre-
tary of State John Kerry put
it, is most welcome.
Even so, the issue of
which states to involve in
the battle against ISIS should
leave us less sanguine about
where this battle might lead.
Yes, yes, I know: This is the
Middle East, and we are
therefore compelled to work with distaste-
ful regimes, such as the Saudis, in accom-
plishing strategic goals like the expulsion
of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991.
This time, however, we need to avoid an
outcome that strengthens Iranian influ-
ence in the region, which means that we
cannot indefinitely postpone the discus-
sion over what to do about the brutal
regime of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
By the same token, theres another
discussion that we cannot postpone
indefinitely. That one concerns the role
of Turkeya country described by a
senior Obama administration official, in
an interview with the New York Times
that coincided with Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagels visit to Ankara, as abso-
lutely indispensable to the struggle
against the Islamic State.
There is, of course, a great deal of merit
behind that statement. Turkey historically
is an ally of the United States and a member
of NATO. The airbase which the Americans
maintain at Incirlik has been critical opera-
tionally to our military engagements in the
region over the last quarter of a century,
including the present fight against the ter-
rorists of ISIS.
At the same time, there are three key rea-
sons why we should question whether the
Turks can continue to be a
pillar of an American-led alli-
ance. First, the Turkish gov-
ernments pursuit of political
outcomes that undermine
American interests. Sec-
ond, the murky relationship
between the Turks and the
various terrorist groups in
the region. Third, the grow-
ing intolerance that stains
Turkish politics, and particu-
larly the nakedly anti-Semitic
rhetoric directed towards Israel by Turkeys
former prime minister and newly elected
president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Lets start with the first reason. The
recent war between Israel and Hamas in
Gaza could have been ended much earlier
had an Egyptian truce proposal a plan,
moreover, to which the government of
Benjamin Netanyahu agreed been imple-
mented. But the Egyptian initiative was
derailed by a rival proposal from Turkey
and Qatar, the two main patrons of Hamas.
The Turkish-Qatari proposal temporarily
seduced the U.S. State Department and
resulted in the continuation of hostilities
for several more days.
The issue of Turkish trustworthiness
is equally alive in the context of Iraq and
Syria. Turkey has expressed concern that
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weapons will fall into the hands of the Kurdis-
tan Workers Party (PKK), a left-wing national-
ist organization designated by the Americans
and the Europeans as a terrorist group.
What this overlooks is the fact that the
PKK, along with its Syrian offshoot, the PYD,
already has played an indispensable role
in the fight against ISIS when, moreover, the
rest of the world was looking the other way.
PKK and PYD fighters go into combat along-
side Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraq. They
also are instrumental to the offensive against
ISIS in the area around Shingal, where tens
of thousands of Yazidis, an ancient religious
minority regarded as unbelievers by the
Islamists, have endured a savage genocide.
Given American reluctance to deploy
ground troops, and the recognition that
the fight against ISIS will be measured in
years rather than months, it is legitimate
to ask whether Turkish worries about
the PKK should be elevated above other
considerations. It even can be argued that
there is little justification for maintaining the
PKKs terrorist designation. As Glistan
Grbey, a political scientist based in Berlin,
told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle,
the PKK is deeply rooted in the Kurdish dias-
pora and is fighting against an existential
threat in the region in the form of ISIS.
This brings us to the second reason. Tur-
key is hardly in a position to complain about
Kurdish terrorism when it provides finan-
cial and political support to other terrorist
groups in the Middle East, notably Hamas.
In a recent article for the Tower magazine,
foreign policy analyst Jonathan Schanzer
observed, It is decidedly awkward for a
NATO ally to be so outwardly supportive of
Hamas in light of the groups grisly record
of violence against civilian targets since its
inception in 1987. Just as awkward, Schanzer
pointed out, is Turkeys involvement in sanc-
tions-busting operations with Iran, as well as
Erdogans relations with dubious individuals
like Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman who
was designated a terrorist financier shortly
after the Al-Qaeda atrocities of September 11,
2001.
Which brings us to reason number three.
States that support terrorist organizations
abroad frequently have woeful records of
suppression and intolerance at home. What
was true of Saddams Iraq remains true of
Assads Syriaand of Turkey, whose presi-
dent still is to be confronted with the con-
tradiction of membership in a democratic
alliance like NATO and support for jihadist
organizations like Hamas. Obama has deli-
cately raised the issue with Erdogan. The
President and President Erdogan discussed
the importance of building tolerant and inclu-
sive societies and combating the scourge of
anti-Semitism, said a White House statement
after the two leaders met at the last NATO
Summitbut this assumes that a tolerant
and inclusive society is what Erdogan wants.
When you have a store in downtown Istanbul
refusing entry to Jew Dogs at the same time
that Erdogan lambasts Israel as worse than
Adolf Hitler, thats a misguided and even dan-
gerous assumption.
Ultimately, the war against ISIS is a war
against the philosophy of jihad. As with any
war involving many parties fighting on the
same side, an overarching political vision is
nearly impossible to achieve. During the Sec-
ond World War, the U.S. and Britain had few
illusions about the Soviet Union, even as they
allied with it. Similar cynicism is warranted
now when it comes to Turkey. JNS.ORG
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My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-
First Century Antisemitism, is available
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lone wolves
Terrorists seen as
posing significant
threat to Jews
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Jewish institutions,
which have faced attacks in recent years
by lone wolves extremists who draw
their inspiration from the like-minded
but act on their own now must be wary
of returnees from the Iraq-Syria arena
who are trained and indoctrinated by
the jihadist group ISIS, top security con-
sultants said.
ISIS has not only stated intentions
to form a caliphate, but named U.S. and
Jewish people as targets specifically,
said John Cohen, who until earlier this
year was an undersecretary for intel-
ligence and analysis at the Department
of Homeland Security. Theres a signifi-
cant threat to Jewish communities.
The threat became evident when the
world learned that Mehdi Nemmouche,
the suspect in the May 24 shooting attack
on the Jewish museum in Brussels that
killed four people, allegedly had been
active with ISIS in Syria.
Its not yet clear if Nemmouche was
acting on orders, and if so, whether the
orders came from ISIS.
Cohen, now a professor at Rutgers
Universitys Institute for Emergency Pre-
paredness and Homeland Security, said
that when Nemmouche was arrested
during a customs inspection of a bus in
France, firearms were found wrapped
in an ISIS flag. Furthermore, a journalist
held captive by ISIS has identified Nem-
mouche as one of his captors.
Paul Goldenberg, director of the Secure
Community Network, which works
with national and local Jewish commu-
nity groups on security issues, said the
Brussels attack raised red flags for Jews
throughout the world. Their first mark
outside of the theater of combat was
a Jewish institution, and it wasnt even
an Israeli institution, Goldenberg said.
They didnt attack an embassy, a con-
sulate, or NATO headquarters. These are
people who are not only inspired but well
trained, potentially equipped, and poten-
tially coming back to the Americas. Those
are the ones who have us concerned.
SCN is an arm of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations and the Jewish Federations
of North America.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
has estimated that more than 100 Ameri-
cans have fought or are fighting with ISIS,
which also is known as Islamic State or
ISIL.
Cohen and Goldenberg said that many
American Jewish institutions have been
trained and equipped for lone wolf attacks
and are positioned to fend off strikes orga-
nized from abroad. Most recently, in the
April shooting attack on a Jewish commu-
nity center in suburban Kansas City, lock-
down procedures are believed to have
kept the assailant out of the building, so
only two people outside died.
In many respects, because of the work
that weve done over the years, the Jewish
community is well prepared to deal with
that threat, said Cohen, who consulted
with the Jewish community often during
his time at Homeland Security.
He noted improvements in equipment,
in many cases paid for by a Homeland
Security funding program, and increased
awareness of suspicious activity and coop-
eration with local law enforcement.
The Secure Community Network and
the institute where Cohen now lectures
are planning a conference at Rutgers for
Jewish communities here and overseas.
Goldenberg said SCN also was establish-
ing a campus security task force with
Hillel.
Cohen said that in the wake of the Brus-
sels attack, Homeland Security enhanced
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Jewish community. We worked to share
our information with members of the Jew-
ish community and to provide guidance
to members of the community so that
they are better prepared, he said.
In his speech last week outlining his
strategies to destroy ISIS, President
Obama said there was a possible but
not imminent threat to the home-
land. If left unchecked, these terrorists
could pose a growing threat beyond that
region, including to the United States,
he said. While we have not yet detected
specific plotting against our homeland,
ISIL leaders have threatened America
and our allies.
Our intelligence community believes
that thousands of foreigners, including
Europeans and some Americans, have
joined them in Syria and Iraq. Trained
and battle-hardened, these fighters could
try to return to their home countries and
carry out deadly attacks.
Skeptics have said the threat is over-
stated. Daniel Benjamin, a top State
Department official in Obamas first term,
exploded with sarcasm in a comment
to the New York Times on the day that
Obama delivered his speech.
Benjamin, now the director of
the Dickey Center for International
Understanding at Dartmouth College,
accused top U.S. officials of describ-
ing the threat in lurid terms that are not
justified.
Its hard to imagine a better indica-
tion of the ability of elected officials and
TV talking heads to spin the public into
a panic with claims that the nation is
honeycombed with sleeper cells, that
operatives are streaming across the bor-
der into Texas or that the group will soon
be spraying Ebola virus on mass transit
systems all on the basis of no corrobo-
rated information, he said.
Cohen agreed that there was no imme-
diate intelligence presaging an attack,
but suggested it was beside the point.
We know we have an organization that
has exhibited a certain level of brutality,
a certain level of sophistication in regard
to activities and an interest in recruiting
Americans, he said. We know they
have acquired significant amounts of
funding, that they have directly stated
that the U.S. is one of the enemies they
seek to combat and that they have
employed rather sophisticated tech-
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Gadi Yarkoni, the last Israeli wounded
during Operation Protective Edge, was
released from Soroka Medical Center in
Beersheba on Monday and will enter a
rehabilitation program at Sheba Medical
Center in Tel Hashomer.
The orthopedic and intensive care
medical teams said an emotional good-
bye to the 47-year-old father of three,
who was severely wounded by mor-
tar fire from Gaza into Kibbutz Nirim
only an hour before the cease-fire took
effect. Two long-time members of the
kibbutz, Zevik Etzion, 55, and Shahar
Melamed, 43, were killed in the attack
that wounded Yarkoni.
Yarkoni underwent a series of surger-
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below the knee.
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pedic trauma unit at Soroka, according
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as Bank of Israel governor, Dr. Karnit
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central bank governors.
The magazine, which publishes an
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the Philippines, Switzerland, and Saudi
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private comes home
RON KAMPEAS
ARLINGTON, VA. The scene at
Arlington National Cemetery last Fri-
day was not quite routine, but nor
was it unusual: A clergyman said a
prayer, an army NCO handed Bernard
Gavrins closest living relative a folded
U.S. flag, and a volunteer one of the
Arlington Ladies who attend to the
needs of grieving military families
offered words of comfort.
Mr. Gavrin stood out for two reasons:
The clergyman, Marvin Bash, was a
rabbi, and David Rogers, Mr. Gavrins
nephew, who received the flag, last
saw his uncle more than 70 years
ago in Brooklyn, when he kissed him
goodnight.
Mr. Gavrin, a U.S. Army private first
class, was part of an invasion force
in the Pacific island of Saipan, then
occupied by Japan, in June 1944. The
Japanese subjected the forces to sui-
cide attacks, killing and injuring more
than 900 U.S. soldiers. But Mr. Gavrins
remains were only found recently
in Saipan. Then they were returned
stateside.
I was 8 years old, living in an apart-
ment with my parents, Mr. Rogers, 82,
said in a phone interview from Delray
Beach, Fla., where he lives. I had had
a playground accident and went to
bed early. He came into my room and
kissed me on my forehead.
Not long after, Mr. Gavrin enlisted.
Mr. Rogers next memory of his uncle
his mothers younger brother came
four years later, in the summer of 1944.
I was 12, and I was living in the same
house my grandmother lived in when a
telegram came telling her that her son
was missing in action, Mr. Rogers said.
She let out a scream I can remember
to this day.
Mr. Gavrin was 29.
When he was declared presumed
dead a year later, his family hung a gold
star on the window.
In November 1948, the American
Graves Registration Services reviewed
the circumstances of Mr. Gavrins loss
and concluded his remains were non-
recoverable, the Pentagon said in a
September 10 release outlining the
events leading to the recovery of Mr.
Gavrins remains.
It wasnt until September 2013, when
Japanese researchers scouring Saipan,
which is now a U.S. territory, looking
for the remains of Japanese troops,
uncovered a grave with the remains
of four U.S. soldiers, including a bone,
a shoe and a dog tag belonging to Mr.
Gavrin. They turned over the remains
to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command.
U.S. officials tracked down Mr.
Gavrins two cousins, who lived in the
Washington, D.C., area, and referred
them to Mr. Rogers, who also had lived
in suburban Maryland and worked in
Sgt. Jason Lewis, a representative of the Armys 3rd U.S. Infantry regiment,
presents a flag to David Rogers, the nephew of Pfc. Bernard Gavrin, who
died in Saipan in 1944 and was buried on September 12, 70 years later, in
Arlington National Cemetery. RON KAMPEAS/JTA
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the garment trade there for years. As
the son of Mr. Gavrins sister, he was
the likeliest to be a DNA match.
In May, Mr. Rogers, himself a Korean
War veteran, got the news: He was a
match. The Pentagon asked the family
where they wanted to bury Mr. Gavrin,
and they opted for Arlington.
So early Friday afternoon, under a
cloud-dappled blue sky and with a light
breeze caressing Arlingtons trimmed
lawns, Mr. Gavrin was buried with full
military honors. Rabbi Bash, a retired
northern Virginia congregational rabbi,
delivered a short service, starting
Today, we go back in time.
For the Kaddish, several members of
Mr. Gavrins extended family about 40
attended the service joined in, and the
rhythmic Aramaic incantations of the
memorial prayer rose above the breeze
and the murmur of distant traffic.
Three volleys were fired. A casket
team folded the flag, and Sgt. Jason
Lewis, a representative of the Armys
3rd U.S. Infantry regiment, knelt and
presented it to Mr. Rogers. The U.S.
Army band, Pershings Own, twice
played Yigdal Elohim Chai while the
casket team brought the casket grave-
side and then it played America the
Beautiful as the team folded the flag.
A bugler sounded taps.
On Monday, New York Gov. Andrew
Cuomo ordered flags on state govern-
ment buildings to fly at half mast in Mr.
Gavrins memory.
After far too many years, he has
returned home and has been granted a
proper burial alongside the many other
heroes who answered the call, Cuomo
said in a statement.
Mr. Rogers said his family has found
peace in the burial.
All that was buried was a bone and a
shoe, but I could not be more satisfied.
There are 73,000 who are still lying in
far-off lands who have not been iden-
tified, Mr. Rogers said, referring to
the official figure of 73,536 U.S. miss-
ing from World War II. To be lost and
then to have his remains recovered is
astonishing and to be buried in hal-
lowed ground.
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A U.S. Army casket team lays Pfc. Bernard Gavrin to rest at Arlington Nation-
al Cemetery on September 12 while Rabbi Marvin Bash looks on. RON KAMPEAS
70 Years
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So we thought, what better examples
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two composers who did convert?
So the rabbi and myself were going
to gather some information about their
lives, to try and igure out what made
them convert.
(Both composers were Central Euro-
peans. Felix Mendelssohn, a grandson
of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn,
lived from 1809 to 1847; Gustav Mahlers
dates were 1860 to 1911. Both were
Romantic-era composers; both con-
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and their reputations nevertheless were
marred by their perceived Jewishness.)
Drew is also playing Gershwin a Jew
who remained Jewish, Cantor Joseph-
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The question for us is why are we still
Jewish? It is sort of a rhetorical question,
but it is very appropriate for this night of
soul-searching and reafirmation. And it
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Will it be controversial? Cantor
Josephson paused. Id like for it to be,
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non-Jewish people visiting, or other
people who converted out of Judaism?
But the main purpose of this evening is
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know exactly why we are Jewish? I hope
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California wines always have been
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Perhaps its not as complex and layered
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inal wine.
France is the oldest growing region,
producing grapes for ine table wines
for nearly ive plus centuries. (Did
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people irst grew grapes for wine?) Its
said that Rashi grew wine grapes in Bor-
deaux. And vineyards that existed even
as long as 500 years ago still produce
wines today. This allowed France to dis-
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grapes.
Because of its generally warmer cli-
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more ripe at harvest but its varied ter-
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The benefits of small,
home-like residences
for the memory impaired
CHRISTINE BERKNER
The Alzheimers Association estimates
that there are currently over 170,000 New
Jersey residents afflicted with Alzheimers
Disease and other dementias, with that
number growing to 210,000 by 2025.
Nationwide, one in nine people over 65
has Alzheimers Disease and may require
care outside their home. When starting to
explore care options, large skilled nurs-
ing homes and big-name assisted living
facilities may come to mind at first, based
on their traditional or medical model of
care. An alternative to consider is small,
home-like residences that specialize in the
care of those with memory impairment
through a more person-centered and
holistic approach. There are a number of
reasons why this intimate setting can be
beneficial for the quality of life for those
with dementia, as well as their families.
Small-scale, homelike settings with
common areas and limited census
are beneficial to those with dementia
because they foster a social senior
l i vi ng communi t y envi ronment .
Fewer residents come in contact with
fewer professional caregivers who, in
return, get to know the residents on a
more personal level. There tends to
be better social relationships between
residents, families and staff. This lessens
the incidence of social isolation for
residents, increases the experience of
support for the families, and provides a
more fulfilling job for the staff.
Recent studies have shown that
residents with memory impairment
l ivi ng i n smal l - scal e speci al i zed
residences, in general, have a more
positive effect and less incidence of
depression than those in traditional
medical settings. They have better
social interaction, perform more
personal tasks, and are more apt to
help with daily group activities than in
large institutions. In person-centered
settings, there is an emphasis on
empowering residents to maintain their
customary activities of daily life.
While behaviors related to dementia
may still occur in home-like residences,
they are more easily managed. For
example, the physical layout of these
specialty homes allows for safe wandering
in a continuous loop. Residents are able
to enjoy fresh air in well-landscaped
yards with secure grounds. Further,
incidence of use of pharmacological and
physical interventions is markedly less
than for residents of traditional medical
care facilities.
Small, specialty residences are simply
more like home and the residents respond
to it. Their treasured family photos,
favorite chair, private bedroom, handmade
embroidery, home-cooked meals, seasonal
gardens, and the ability to welcome their
own family and friends into their new
home makes all the difference.
Chri sti ne Berkner i s di rector
of programming at Memory Care
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RESPITE CARE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot
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September 24th October 17th
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Thin for real
Exercise: The catalyst for change
SUSAN L. HOLMBERG
I recently reconnected with my college freshman year best
friend through Facebook. She was absolutely shocked to
hear from me. So totally out of control was my lifestyle
back in 1972 that she naturally assumed I was dead.
Surprise!
Change has happened through me not to me over the
years, and my experience is that grace + action = change.
Thats why I teach (and write these articles) primarily
about learning to take action, not simply nutrition and
exercise facts. How many of us are frustrated and baffled
because we know what to do, but we dont know how to
stay doing it?
The most significant catalyst for permanent change in
my life from that 2 pack-a-day, eating disordered couch
potato she remembered continues to be exercise, perhaps
because it provides that same inspiring sense of self
mastery that weight loss does. Reluctantly surrendering
to the exercise advice of SmokEnders the third paid time
around was my personal tipping point after 10 years
of unused gym memberships, false starts, and broken
promises.
Heres what Ive learned to do:
Stop rationalizing that others find it so easy. They dont.
They just find it worth the effort.
Any deliberate movement daily maintains mojo. Three
days of nothing is the kiss of death.
Adjust my workout standards down. Something beats
nothing every time and grueling gets no extra brownie
points.
Do it first so I can take that great feeling of personal
victory into my day.
Multitask it so I cant rationalize not having the time.
Heres what Ive learned not to do:
Dont believe Ill do it later if I can but wont do it now.
Dont just do this other little thing first. Not now may
mean never.
Dont wait for the mood to strike. If youre sitting
down, it doesnt.
Have you experienced exercise as a catalyst to change?
Do you know what you need to do to keep exercise rolling
in your life?
Susan L. Holmberg, MS, CNS, is a nutritionist with
twenty years experience empowering individuals to solve
their weight challenges. Find out more at http://www.
susanholmberg.com/
Englewood Hospital
to celebrate cancer
survivors
The Cancer Treatment and Wellness Center at Engle-
wood Hospital and Medical Center is hosting a Teal
Party on Tuesday, September 30, at 2 p.m. in recogni-
tion of Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month.
The event is being held in an effort to generate
awareness through its network of survivors and those
still fighting forms of the disease. During the month of
September, the color teal represents the gynecologic
cancer community, helping to spotlight the impor-
tance of early detection and initiate conversations
about new treatments and finding a cure.
Women and loved ones affected by ovarian, cervi-
cal, uterine, vaginal, vulvar and fallopian tube can-
cers are invited to enjoy an afternoon tea with fellow
survivors and EHMC medical staff. Light refresh-
ments will be served. Free parking is available. To
RSVP, call (201) 894-2198.
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Education is the most effective way to prevent disease
and it is your best path to a healthy, energized life.
Join our Spirit of Women network to get free health
information, learn about exciting events, and receive
wellness and prevention tips for your whole family.
Membership is FREE.
Join today by submitting the online form at:
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women make positive changes for improving the
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To PSA or not to PSA?
DR. HOWARD FREY
A healthcare task force says no; a national urologic asso-
ciation says yes. Whats a man to do?
PSA is a protein produced by cells of the prostate
gland. The PSA prostate-specific antigen test
measures the level of PSA in a mans blood. An elevated
PSA level can be indicative of prostate cancer. Until
recently, many doctors and professional organizations
encouraged yearly PSA screening for men beginning at
age 50. Some organizations recommended that men who
are at higher risk of prostate cancer, including African
American men and men whose father or brother had
prostate cancer, begin screening at age 40 or 45.
The PSA test has now come under scrutiny because
routine screening may lead to unnecessary treatment for
low-grade, non-aggressive prostate cancer. The U.S
Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) whose
recommendations are made for primary care
doctors argues that the risks of treatment for low-
grade cancers outweigh the benefits gleaned from
screening. The American Urological Association
(AUA) comprising urologists, the physicians that
most commonly treat prostate cancer strongly
disagrees with the USPSTFs recommendation.
No one argues that PSA testing is not an effective
tool for finding prostate cancer. In fact, since the
advent of routine PSA testing, the death rate from
prostate cancer has dropped 40 percent. However,
many men diagnosed with prostate cancer will
have a slow-growing form of the disease that will
not cause any problems over the course of their
lifetime and does not require treatment. For
them, in fact, any intervention may cause more
harm than good. That is the crux of the USPSTFs
position that routine PSA screening will result in
too many patients needlessly undergoing treatment
for prostate cancer that could cause them more
harm than the disease itself. The AUA recommends
active surveillance as a means to avoid needless
treatment, with intervention if circumstances
change.
On the other hand, when a patient has a more
aggressive form of prostate cancer he should be
treated without delay. Aggressive prostate cancer
when undiagnosed and untreated can be life
threatening.
Ultimately, whether you should or should not
have a PSA test is something you will have to
decide after discussing it with your doctor, after
considering your overall risk factors and weighing
your personal preferences.
Personally, I get a PSA test every year.
Dr. Howard Frey is medical director of The
Valley Hospital Urologic Oncology Center. To
learn more about the services provided by the
Urologic Oncology Center, please visit www.
ValleyFightsCancer.com.
Holy Name Foundations
Founders Ball
to be held in October
The Holy Name Medical Center Foundation will hold
its annual Founders Ball on Saturday night, October
11, at Gotham Hall in New York City.
All proceeds will benefit Holy Names patients,
and the medical centers programs and services.
The honorees will include Joseph C. Parisi, Jr., a
trustee of Holy Name Medical Center and chairman
of the Holy Name Medical Center Foundation; and
Dr. Charles Vialotti, associate medical director, Villa
Marie Claire, for their dedication and support of the
Holy Name Medical Center mission.
Cocktails begin at 7 p.m. followed by dinner and
dancing. Registration forms can be found at http://
www.holyname.org/foundation/events_news.asp.
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Skil l , Experience,
and Respect for Traditions
Introducing a practice sensitive to
the unique needs of Jewish women.
Myriam Langer, M.D. is a skilled
OB/GYN with an understanding
of the laws of family purityand
Jewish birthing traditions:
Female physicians and staff
Focus on smooth, natural birth
Open to VBAC
Pre-conception carrier screening
Early morning and evening hours
Fluent in Hebrew and French
For more information visit:
www.hackensackumcpv.com
Myriam Langer, M.D.
Two convenient offices:
305 Grand Avenue
Montvale, NJ
201.746.9150
260 Old Hook Road,
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Westwood, NJ
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Muscles, memory, and you
RICHARD PORTUGAL
Until the middle of the 20th century,
it was believed by those who stud-
ied the human brain that by the age of
three years old the brain was fixed and
unchanging; that the neural pathways
were set in stone; that the brain no lon-
ger grew; and, if damaged, could not be
repaired.
Today, due to scientific research,
observat i on, and psychol ogi cal
analysis, we know that the human
brain demonstrates a remarkable
capacity to repair itself and forge new
pathways for its neural impulses to
travel. Physiologically, parts of the brain
designated for a particular function can
actually assume responsibility for other
damaged parts. It is the reason stroke
victims can regain the use of limbs or
learn to speak again after damage to the
brain; touch can be rekindled; hearing
renewed; and the newest current
research even reveals that vision can
be reborn as neural pathways build
connections to other areas of the brain
not assigned to sight.
The human brain demonstrates
plasticity, the ability to change and
mold itself and respond to physical and
emotional challenges. And this ability
lasts a lifetime. A seniors brain can
change and evolve; in partnership with
muscles and tissue memory, a seniors
strength, balance and cognitive fitness
can be dramatically improved.
Tissue has memory. It is a shadow
memory which has ramifications both
physically and psychologically. During
our lifetime, events stimulate the brain
which then filters and evaluates and
sends electrical impulses throughout
our bodies. Our brain creates memories
which, in turn, become embedded
in our tissues; those tissues, whether
fibers in our muscles or tissues in
our organs, react to lifes stimuli in a
preordained manner. Traumas that
occur in our youth are set deeply within
our psyche and, as we age, our adult
emotional reaction to those traumas
may automatically replicate those of
our youth. If someone abused you as a
child, you may employ as an adult the
same defenses learned as a child. These
psychological tissue memories can be
altered through recollection and analysis
and the recognition that we can change
our thought reactions. Our brains exhibit
that kind of plasticity; it can grow, learn
and repair itself over a full lifetime.
Our muscular system demonstrates
the same kind of plasticity; it can grow,
learn and repair itself over a full lifetime.
Muscles react to the stress of exercise
by gaining mass and strength. In fact,
a senior can proportionally gain more
muscle mass through their workouts
than an adult in their forties. As our
brain recalls the effortless movement
and strength of youth, our muscles
remember their lost agility and power.
Tissue memory employs coordination,
multi-tasking and speed developed
during our youth. Recall the adage about
bicycle riding: once learned, it is never
forgotten. That is muscle memory. Our
muscles, ligaments, tendons, and joints
remember the coordination and speed
from our youth. Those muscle memories
need only be rekindled through exercise
and proper coordination and speed
movement to effect better balance and
movement.
Our muscles want to be strong and
tissue memory helps transform that
natural propensity into the reality
of improved balance and strength.
Walking, arm and leg strength, balance
and cognitive functions can improve.
We need only to exercise and help our
bodies and mind to remember!
Richard Portugal is the founder and
owner of Fitness Senior Style, which
exercises seniors for balance, strength,
and cognitive fitness in their own
homes. He has been certified as a senior
trainer by the American Senior Fitness
Association. For further information, call
(201) 937-4722.
Atrial fibrillationturn the beat around
Join Dr. Suneet Mittal, director of the
electrophysiology laboratory at The
Valley Hospital, for a special program
at the Bergen County YJCC on Tuesday,
October 7, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Dr. Mi t t al s t opi c i s At r i al
FibrillationTurn the Beat Around, a
look at the heart rhythm abnormality
that affects an estimated 2.7 million
Americans. When Afib occurs, the
heart beats irregularly, and this can
lead to stroke and other heart-related
complications. Today an innovative
minimally invasive hybrid ablation
procedure is available for patients with
chronic or difficult-to-treat Afib. Learn
about this new procedure, how it is
performed, and how it can improve
quality of life at this free presentation.
The Bergen County YJCC is located
at 605 Pascack Road, Townshi p
of Washington. Pre-registration is
appreciated at www.valleyhealth.com/
events or by calling 1-800-VALLEY1.
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Alzheimers program
scheduled in Englewood
Communication: The Key To
Understanding Behaviors
The Alzheimers Association will present a community
education program, Communication: The Key To Under-
standing Behaviors at First Presbyterian Church of Engle-
wood on Monday, September 29, from 7 to 8 p.m. There
is no fee for attending this program, but registration is
required to reserve seating and materials. Call (973) 586-
4300 to register and for further information or driving
directions.
Caring for a person with Alzheimers disease may
present challenges. The ability to make sense of difficult
behaviors can make your job as a caregiver easier and may
improve quality of life for everyone involved. Learn how
to avoid unnecessary arguments and recognize the trig-
gers which may result in aggressive or risky behaviors. In
addition, learn communication techniques to effectively
respond to repetitive actions, recognition difficulties, and
anxious or agitated feelings.
The Alzheimers Association is the worlds leading vol-
untary health organization in Alzheimers care, support
and research. Services include a 24-hour Helpline; care
consultations; respite care assistance; support groups
for caregivers; early-stage programming; training and
education for families and professionals; safety services,
including the MedicAlert+Safe Return program that helps
locate Alzheimers disease individuals who may become
lost due to memory loss and confusion, and the Comfort
Zone service; and information on clinical trial opportuni-
ties. Call (800) 272-3900 or visit www.alz.org/nj for more
information.
Teaneck offers flu shots
The Township of Teaneck will hold its influenza vac-
cination clinics on October 7, October 8, October 14,
October 16 and October 21 from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30
p.m. The clinics will be held at the Richard Rodda
Community Center.
To be eligible for the vaccination, you must be 50
years of age or older, pregnant, or chronically ill with
a doctors order. In addition, you must be a Teaneck
resident.
All vaccinations will be administered by appointment
only, and the application will be completed during your
scheduled appointment.
To make an appointment call the Health Depart-
ment starting Monday, September 29 at (201) 837-1600
(x1500).
Each flu clinic session will be limited to 30 pre-regis-
tered residents. Walk-in will not be accepted. You can
also make an appointment at the service window located
at the Municipal Building, lower level starting the same
date or by e-mail at [email protected].
Bring proof of Teaneck residency and age to your
appointment. Pneumonia shots will also be available at
the clinic. The shots will be administered at no charge
to those having Medicare Part B. Be sure to bring your
Medicare Part B card and photo I.D. to the appointment,
as well. All others will be charged for the vaccinations.
The cost of these vaccinations will be $25 for influenza
and $75 for pneumonia shots. Payment by check is
required for all persons without proof of Medicare Part
B. Cash or credit card will not be accepted.

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Heritage Pointe of Teaneck honored
by Chamber of Commerce
Heritage Pointe of Teaneck, a senior living community,
has been named Business of the Year by the Teaneck
Chamber of Commerce. The award will be presented
on Thursday, October 30, at the Marriott Hotel at
Glenpointe.
This is a tremendous honor and we are extremely
grateful of the recognition, said Elizabeth Andropoli,
executive director of Heritage Pointe of Teaneck. It
speaks to the devotion of our entire staff in making Her-
itage Pointe a special place to live and work.
Added Joel Goldin, sales and marketing director of
Heritage Pointe of Teaneck, We are absolutely com-
mitted to offering our senior residents a warm, elegant,
upscale lifestyle that they are proud to be a part of and
to entertain their loved ones. We have many residents
here at Heritage Pointe who have lived in Teaneck and
the surrounding areas for decades because they feel this
is the perfect move when the time is right to leave their
homes.
Heritage Pointe of Teaneck celebrates its 10th
anniversary this year. A community for independent
seniors, it offers spacious one and two bedroom rental
apartments and active cultural and recreational pro-
grams for residents 62 and older.
Its like living in a private club, said one resident.
The grounds are beautiful and they keep us hopping,
between playing cards, the entertainment, Happy Hour.
Ive made great friends here and my daughter is here
every day. Whats not to like?
The Teaneck chambers mission is to promote busi-
ness growth in Teaneck. This is its 13th anniversary com-
munity awards dinner.
Each year, the number of nominations from the pub-
lic keeps growing and the selection process becomes
more and more competitive, said Larry Bauer, presi-
dent of the chamber. Heritage Pointe of Teaneck has
not only established itself as one of the leading senior
living communities in the state, but continues to play an
active and meaningful role within the community. They
are very deserving of this award.
BVMI marks fifth anniversary of providig free health
care to low income Bergen County residents
Today Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative is a bus-
tling, by-appointment-only healthcare center with 32
practitioners who provide care to 1,000 patients in
6,000 visits. Five years ago founder Dr. Samuel A. Cas-
sell saw his dream come alive when BVMI opened its
doors with four physicians and five nurse practitioners
who treated 499 patients in 1,875 visits the first year.
Volunteers in Medicine (VIM), based in Hilton Head,
S.C., served as the operational blueprint.
But starting something like BVMI isnt the kind of
thing you can do by yourself, Dr. Cassell stressed.
You have to have so many different people who are
enthusiastic about the mission and who know how
to get things done. And I was lucky enough to find
many movers and shakers who helped set up a 501(c)
(3), attract donors, secure grants, obtain corporate
sponsorships, and who had the public relations savvy
essential to getting us known within the medical com-
munity and our potential patient base.
Currently, clinical volunteers include primary care
physicians, womens health practitioners, dermatolo-
gists, general and orthopedic surgeons, nutritionists,
social workers, a diabetes specialist, a cardiologist,
and a podiatrist. Patients are seen five days a week.
As our patient base increased, our services
evolved, observed Dr. Arthur De Simone, medical
director. For example, 65 percent of our patients are
women so we developed the Womens Health Initia-
tive staffed by volunteer practitioners specializing in
this field. Patients receive education and support not
only during their visits but also in between visits when
follow up is needed. Our programs have flourished
and become successful, added Dr. De Simone.
All five Bergen County medical centers Holy
Name Medical Center, The Valley Hospital, Hacken-
sack University Medical Center, Englewood Hospi-
tal and Medical Center and Bergen Regional Medi-
cal Center provide x-rays and advanced diagnostic
procedures, while BD in Franklin Lakes and Madi-
son-based Quest Diagnostics supply donated medi-
cal products and comprehensive laboratory ser-
vices respectively. In addition to financial support,
J&J State Street Pharmacy, Hackensack, provides
discounted medicines to BVMI patients and medical sup-
plies to the center. Other companies like Cole, Schotz,
Meisel, Forman & Leonard, PA, TD Bank and Horizon
Blue Cross Blue Shield have provided much-needed
financial support.
BVMI is completely dependent on contributed income
from individuals, businesses, community groups and
foundations. BVMI Healthcare Center, a state-licensed
ambulatory care facility, is located at 241 Moore Street,
Hackensack. Visit bvmi.org for more information.
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cesses hearing and sound.
Addressing hearing loss in older adults remains an important
step in improving quality of life, treating depression, reinforcing
a positive sense of self-worth, and improving cognitive function.
While wearing a hearing instrument may seem like an obvious
choice to a family member or a friend within the patients social
circle, to the hearing aid candidate this transition in life isnt an
easy chapter.
There is an old axiom that says, One bad apple spoils the
whole bunch. In the case of the traditional hearing aid, it
appears that the whole bunch may be counted as being rotten
to the core. For decades, hearing aid wearers complained about
the annoying squeals and whistling caused by feedback;
about the inconvenience of changing out hearing aid bat-
teries and constantly buying new ones. Poor sound qual-
ity had always been an issue with conventional hearing
aids, and more often than not, the hideous gadgets found
permanent residence inside the drawers of bedside tables
throughout the world. Poorly designed hearing aids did
have a well-deserved bad reputation. Thanks to the tenac-
ity of a caring father, the hearing aid industry was about
to change forever.
Zounds Hearing, the fastest growing hearing aid com-
pany in the U.S., was born out of a fathers desire to help
his hearing impaired daughter, who suffered a severe
hearing loss as a toddler. After watching Kate struggle
with traditional hearing aids, Sam Thomasson, founder
and CEO of Zounds Hearing, went on a journey to build a
better hearing aid for his daughter. Zounds Hearing is the
culmination of his work.
Zounds Hearing has developed advanced digital hear-
ing aids that can be recharged overnight, providing up to
a full day of uninterrupted service. Whats more, Zounds
replaces the rechargeable batteries inside their Clareza
and Imprezo hearing aids free for the life of the hearing
aid. Advanced technology enables the aids to self-adjust
to suit the current environment. Each hearing aid is pro-
grammed to the patients specific hearing loss, based on
the results of a professional hearing test which is admin-
istered free of charge during the first visit. The aid is then
fitted and ready to go, all in the same visit.
Zounds was named a Healthcare Hero in 2014 by the
Congress for Innovation in Healthcare, and was ranked
2,205 of the 5,000 fastest-growing American companies
by Inc. magazine.
Free, no-obligation hearing tests are available by calling
Zounds of Washington Township at (201) 383-4667.
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than 300 patients to attend
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Thrive event. Entertain-
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Childrens Orchestra and the Choir of the Community
Baptist Church of Englewood.
This event is pure fun and inspiration, he said, as
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One of the most common questions I get asked
as a nutrition coach is what can I eat for a
snack? Now, in September, with the school
year underway, its a bit trickier to make recom-
mendations due to nut free school regulations..
Heres what I always suggest: Eat real food!
And please ditch those 100 calorie packs.
Instead, make my roasted chickpeas as a deli-
cious and nutritious crispy, crunchy, gluten
free, nut free, alternative snack.
Chickpeas are a great source of vegan pro-
tein and are high in fiber, potassium, calcium,
magnesium, iron, and vitamin B6. They aid
in lowering blood glucose levels, increasing
bone density, lowering bad cholesterol, reduc-
ing inflammation, promoting regularity, and
improving digestive tract health.
Their naturally mild flavor makes them the
perfect vehicle for sweet or savory flavoring.
Be creative. And when you roast them, they
become a crunchy healthy snack.
RECIPE:
INGREDIENTS
1 can organic low sodium chickpeas
1 tablespoon organic sesame or olive oil
1/2 teaspoon organic ginger
1/2 teaspoon organic cumin
1/4 teaspoon organic cayenne
Himalayan pink sea salt to taste
Or any spice combination you choose
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Drain/rinse/
dry (very well) the can of chickpeas. Toss
with oil and spices, coating evenly. Spread
in a single layer on a parchment paper-
lined baking sheet. Roast for approximate-
ly 40 minutes (depending on your oven)
or until the chickpeas are golden brown
and crispy. Store in an airtight container...
I keep them in the fridge to ensure fresh-
ness
Add them to salads in place of croutons,
atop hummus for an extra protein crunch,
or simply enjoy on their own.
Feel free to be creative with your spice
blends. Use raw organic honey and cinna-
mon, pure maple syrup and ginger, cocoa
powder and cayenne, Parmigian and rose-
mary, or simply sea salt... the possibilities
are limitless.
Remember: Eat real food.
Bon Appetit!
Note: Chickpeas are a legume, and while they
are not banned from schools, they could cause
an adverse reaction in some people with pea-
nut allergies. Please consult with your doctor
to make sure this is a safe food choice for you.
Rachel Miller is a certified personal trainer and
holistic health, wellness and nutritition coach at
The Gym of Englewood. For more information,
call (201) 567-9399 or visit www.gettothegym.com
Diabetic-friendly Hearty
Fall Soups demo coming
to Johnson Public Library
in Hackensack
Certified health coach and chef Daniel Frey will
speak on Diabetic-Friendly Hearty Fall Soups at a
cooking demonstration and tasting on Monday, Octo-
ber 6, from 7 to 8 p.m., at the Johnson Public Library,
274 Main Street, in Hackensack.
Mr. Frey, a diabetic who has developed recipes
and cooking strategies for his own use, believes that
some of the best medicine for controlling diabetes
comes right from your own kitchen. Food is the
fuel that keeps your body working, notes Mr. Frey.
What you eat profoundly affects your blood sugar
levels and the medicines you take.
Hearty Fall Soups is part of Delicious Dining, a
series of informative, diabetic-related cooking semi-
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Israeli study finds how rabies kills
If you get bitten by a rabid animal, the
rabies virus travels from the site of the bite
all the way to your brain, where it multi-
plies and can be fatal without prompt treat-
ment. A new study done in Israel in collabo-
ration with German scientists shows for the
first time how this happens.
Unlike many other pathogens, which
spread throughout the body via the hearts
blood-pumping action, the rabies virus
depends on a less well-understood nerve-
cell network that runs along the periphery
of the body.
In an article published recently in PLOS
Pathogens, the researchers explain exactly
how the virus hijacks this transport sys-
tem in peripheral nerve cells to reach the
brain with maximal speed and efficiency.
Peripheral neurons, as opposed to those
in the central nervous system, are highly
asymmetric. The body of the cell has a
long protrusion called an axon, extending
to another nerve cell or to a target organ
such as muscle tissue along a specific trans-
mission route. Axons can measure several
hundred times the diameter of the cell
body, and have the ability to rapidly trans-
mit electric impulses as well as molecular
materials over these distances.
A team led by Eran Perlson of Tel Aviv
University wanted to examine the details of
how this transmission occurs. They set up
a system to grow asymmetric nerve cells in
an observation chamber, and used live cell
imaging to track how rabies virus particles
are transported along the axons.
Our study shows that rabies virus can
not only hijack the transport systems of
the neuron, but might also manipulate the
axonal transport machinery to facilitate its
own arrival at the cell body, and from there
to the central nervous system at maximum
speed, the authors summarized.
This new understanding could lead to a
therapeutic approach to control the neuron
transmission system to treat rabies as well
as other diseases caused by viruses using
the same pathway. According to the World
Health Organization, more than 55,000
people die every year from the rabies virus,
mostly in Africa and Asia.
The study focused on the p75NTR recep-
tor, a protein found on the tips of periph-
eral neurons and known to bind a small
molecule called NGF (nerve growth factor).
When NGF binds p75NTR, both are taken
up into the neuron and move in acidic bub-
bles called vesicles toward the cell body.
The researchers found that the rabies
virus behaves very similar to NGF: It binds
p75NTR, both are internalized, and sub-
sequently are found in acidic vesicles that
move toward the nerve cell body along a
sort of railway system.
Rabies virus is known to be able to infect
neurons in the absence of p75NTR. How-
ever, when the researchers grew nerve cells
that had no p75NTR in their observation
chamber, they found that virus transport
along the axon is less frequent and much
slower.
Transport independent of p75NTR was
also more erratic, with a larger proportion
of viruses moving in the wrong direction
away from the cell body and towards the
tip suggesting that p75NTR facilitates the
directed fast movement of the virus.
When the researchers measured the
speed of transport, they found that
when the rabies virus is transported with
p75NTR, it moves at about eight centime-
ters (a bit more than three inches) per day.
Surprisingly, this is considerably faster (by
about 40 percent) than the transport speed
for NGF, the regular partner of p75NTR.
The team involved in this discovery with
Perlson included Shani Gluska, Eitan Erez
Zahavi, Michael Chein and Tal Gradus of
Tel Aviv University; and Anja Bauer and
Stefan Finke of Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut,
Institute of Molecular Virology and Cell
Biology, Germany. ISRAEL21C.ORG
Dvar Torah
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N
o matter what
you do, think,
choose, or be-
lieve, Dad will
always be Dad.
Hell always love you.
Care for you. Be there for
you.
You could disagree with
him. Defy him. Rebel against
him. Even reject and hate
him. But hell never lock his
doors, or his heart, to you.
He cant. Youre his child.
And hes Dad.
Hell watch with pain and
sadness as you trip and fall. Make mistakes. Insist on
repeating them. Refuse to listen to him. And demand,
without thanks, food, lodging, and money.
He just never gives up on you.
Even when he yells at you, its out of love. Its because
he doesnt want you doing that bad thing. And to him,
thats really bad. And it hurts him to rebuke you as much
as it hurts you.
Certainly, he will always celebrate you and is always
proud of your achievements and growth.
Now, were we talking about Dad? Or about God?
Judaism is replete with comparisons of God to the
human father: the loyal and giving patriarch, the rock,
the family man whos there for his clans every tragedy
and triumph, and who above all fiercely and endlessly
loves his every child.
All that, and more, is what we mean when we say
Avinu, our Father, in the Avinu Malkeinu prayer said
repeatedly throughout Rosh Hashanah. The phrase
appears in the daily liturgy too.
Dad conveys so much. We call God our Father
because He is to us everything that our fathers are to
usand infinitely more.
The Baal Shem Tov, founder of chasidism, taught
that every Jew is seen and loved by God, personally and
unconditionally, as an only child a belief that comes
to the fore on Rosh Hashanah.
A classic chasidic parable tells of the king who sent his
precious little boy to grow up among strangers far away.
Upon becoming a man, the prince couldnt even speak
his native tongue. Trying to enter the royal palace upon
return, he couldnt communicate with the guards, who
thrust him away. But the king heard the wordless sobs,
recognized his boy, and threw the gates open wide.
The shofar is that wordless cry of our souls, calling
out to our loving Father in heaven.
At Rosh Hashanah, lets remember that we are Gods
children. Were home. We want in.
And we want in on the best possible day to want in,
because Rosh Hashanah is our birthday.
Rosh Hashanah is the day on which God created Man.
And while it may be the birthday of Adam, the first
human, its really a milestone for all of usthe day on
which our Father in Heaven brought us into being. So
lets think about us for a bitour lives, our existence,
who we are.
In this weeks Torah portion of Nitzavim, which is
always read before Rosh Hashanah, God tells us: You
are all standing here today before the Lord your God
that you may enter the covenant of the Lord your God
and His oath which the Lord is making with you
today.
According to our Sages, that ancient day of reckoning
Rabbi Dov Drizin
Valley Chabad
Center for Jewish
Life, Woodcliff Lake,
Orthodox
Nitzavim-Vayelech: A birthday homecoming
refers to Rosh Hashanahmankinds collective birthday.
The message here is simple and powerful: All of us matter.
Just as your individual birthday is your beginning, the day
that makes you count, so is Rosh Hashanah the day we stand
before God and recognize that we count. On this awesome
day we celebrate our life and take into account what we were
created for.
We are Gods children. And God is Avinu, our Dad.
Celebrating Rosh Hashanah as mankinds birthday is Gods
way of saying that every human being matters that each
individual is to be celebrated and hailed, that every single
person makes a difference. We are all Gods children. He
is the Father of us all. And we matter. May we have the
strength to celebrate every day and know that every
moment counts.
Lshanah Tovah to all.
Rabbi Dov
Drizin
Valley Chabad
Center for Jewish
Life, Woodcliff
Lake, Orthodox
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1. Mossad worker (abbr.)
4. Aliyah picked it up in the early 1950s
9. J___ (found a shidduch online)
14. Go HaPoel Tel Aviv!
15. Maker of skin creams
16. No One is ___ (Sondheim song)
17. It opened doors for Rashi
18. ODonnell who played Golde oppo-
site Harvey Fiersteins Tevye
19. ___ HaDin (Gods judgement, to
Ashkenazim)
20. Academy in eight Daniel Radcliffe
films
22. Key skill for learning Talmud
23. Shemoneh ___ (3x/a day prayer)
24. Sheitel alternatives
26. Literature Nobelist Agnon
27. Farewell, Emile Zola!
30. Kind of WWII fighters rumored to
be Nazi weapons
31. Bye bye Bernie?
33. You can lay it down down by the
riverside
35. Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler
38. Kind of furnace in the Book of Daniel
39. 1920 battlesite maning Hill of Life
40. Way for Marlee Matlin to talk
(abbr.)
41. Some computers
42. Nibble (on)
46. Acted like Shabbat candles
49. Abzug or Spewack
50. Golden ___ Spain
51. More like kichel
54. Singers Sedaka and Diamond
55. His Kazakh sounds an awfully lot like
Hebrew
56. Start of vaudeville?
57. Faye Kellermans are exciting
58. Israeli candy brand
59. Dayenu! (___ have been enough
for us)
60. Step in making meat kosher along
with salt and soak
61. Gypsy song ___ Turn
62. ___ Lay Dying (2013 James Franco
film)
Down
1. Robinsons and that of Titus
2. Shoe rarely seen in Eilat
3. Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, for short
4. In Egypt, she pretended to be
Abrams sister
5. 2011 superhero film with Natalie
Portman
6. Lower ___ Side
7. Rent-a-car choice other than Eldan
8. West whom Midler will play in an HBO
biopic
9. Ryan of Saving Private Ryan
10. One party must do it with another to
make a Knesset coalition
11. 1995 mockumentary starring Joaquin
Phoenix
12. The Nazis regarding the 1935
Nuremberg laws
13. McAnuff who directed Frank
Loessers How to Succeed in
Business... on Broadway
21. Republic toppled by Hitler
22. Baseball star Limmer
24. What tzuris may do to you
25. Secret way of interpreting the
Torah
27. Hebrew suffix for limon (lemon)
that turns a fruit into a drink
28. Like Egyptian skin during the plague
of boils
29. ___ Pretty (Marias big song in
West Side Story)
32. Judging ___ (TV show with Dan
Futterman)
33. Keep Quiet!
34. New York politician Anthony with an
ironic last name
35. Englands only Jewish prime minister
36. Judaism or Zoroastrianism
37. Hebrew phonemes that are hard for
new speakers to pronounce
38. Yarmulke with a sports team logo,
e.g.
41. Beastie Boys album ___ & Dumb
43. Australian chanteuse Newton-John
44. Precipitates on the Frozen Chosen
45. Resident of Bnai Brak, perhaps
47. Uses rocks to indicate displeasure at
Shabbat drivers
48. 1975 Western starring Kirk Douglas
49. She played opposite Caan in
Misery
51. Harrison Fords Star Wars character
52. Self-proclaimed mentalist Geller and
others
53. Theres a Dung one in Jerusalem
54. Ira Flatows network, for short
55. Zionist Borochov who opposed the
Uganda Plan
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Arts & Culture
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Hoaxacaust
MIRIAM RINN
W
hats the most sacred con-
cept in American Jewish
life today?
Religious ritual? Sex?
Motherhood? Of course not; those topics
are routinely mocked, often savagely.
Israel? Maybe, but there are plenty of
voices willing to criticize, especially when
there is no war.
No, its the Holocaust. That seminal
event quickly shuts even the most irrever-
ent mouths, and its that nimbus of inviola-
bility that makes the one-man play Hoax-
acaust! Written and performed by Barry
Levey, with the generous assistance of
The Institute of Political and International
Studies, Tehran so exciting.
It should be said right off that Mr. Levey
takes the Holocaust very seriously, so seri-
ously that he is able to poke fun at the
excesses and trivializations to which it is
subject. In the same way that The Pro-
ducers used broad comedy as a weapon,
Hoaxacuast! uses sharp satire to pierce
the gasbags declaiming on the subject.
Part of the recent New York International
Fringe Festival, where it won the Overall
Excellence Award (an honor that Mr. Levey
mentions more than once) and now play-
ing at Baruch College, Hoaxacaust! takes
on many thorny subjects in an astounding
way by challenging the audience to fig-
ure out what is true and what is not. That
shouldnt be a stretch in the theater after
all, most drama tells lies to tell a deeper
truth but Mr. Levey creates a character
who is so engaging and likable that the
truth becomes more difficult to discern.
Barry comes out on a bare stage, intro-
ducing himself with Shmee Barry, and
reassuring the audience that the show they
are about to see is not religious. If you
like Jon Stewart, youre Jewish enough,
he says. Barry begins to talk about how he
came to take the extraordinary journey
that led to his entry into the Fringe Festival
and his appearance on stage. It all started
with his brother Howards upcoming mar-
riage in Budapest to a woman of Franco-
Algerian descent, or, as Barrys Dominican
boyfriend Anthony quotes Barrys mother,
to an Arab.
When Barry questions his mother
about her reaction to Howards marriage,
the conversation quickly turns to the
Holocaust, as in, Howard is furthering
Hitlers plan by marrying a non-Jew. Soon
trouble arises between Anthony and
Barry, with Anthony accusing Barry of
an addiction to victimhood, of constantly
invoking the Holocaust and of basing his
identity on persecution. In no time, Barry
is daydreaming about how much better
he would feel about himself if there had
been no Holocaust. Imagine how much
easier life would be, being Jewish would
be, if [the deniers] were right. If there
were no Holocaust to make us feel like
traitors for questioning Israel, or Hitlers
for loving goys. If we could just, like, wish
it away.
Directed by Jeremy Gold Kronenberg,
Mr. Levey plays all these roles with great
comic flair, and although he describes
himself as no actor, he clearly delineates
all the voices in the show, which include
his senile grandfather and various real-life
figures, including David Irving and Mah-
moud Ahmadinejad. Barry meets these
figures on his whirlwind tour of renowned
Holocaust deniers. Noting that Holocaust
denial and anti-Semitism spike whenever
DIXIE SHERIDAN
Israel is at war, Barry suggests that Jews
cannot afford to ignore what the world
thinks about us.
If our response to every criticism is the
Holocaust made us do it, then the people
we are talking to have two choices: either
agree and slink away or demand that we
prove it. When people are predisposed not
to believe something, its very hard to con-
vince them otherwise.
There are more controversial and pro-
vocative ideas crammed into the 70-min-
ute Hoaxacaust! than in most plays on or
off-Broadway. Have American and Israeli
Jews become dependent on the Holocaust
for their identities? What will happen to
that identity as we move further from the
historical event and the eyewitnesses to it?
Does Holocaust ignorance or denial equate
to anti-Semitism? Are the Jews fated always
to be a people apart? Is that feasible in an
open and diverse society?
Mr. Levey takes the audience down a
variety of twisted paths as he explores the
netherworld of Holocaust denial, finding
laughs in a lot of strange places. The ques-
tions he asks are serious, however. The
Holocaust is the burden that the Jews can-
not put down, but we have to find a way to
prevent it from crushing us.
Hoaxacaust! is at the Baruch Per-
forming Arts Center for two more perfor-
mances September 21st and 24th.
Calendar
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Friday
SEPTEMBER 19
Shabbat for seniors: The
Bergen County YJCC in
Washington Township
begins Kabbalat
Shabbat, a monthly
program with lunch and
a speaker, noon-2 p.m.
Program continues
October 24, November
21, and December 19.
Partially subsidized by
a grant from the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610.
Rabbi Manis Friedman
Shabbat in Tenafly:
Author, counselor,
lecturer, and philosopher
presents a Shabbat
of Inspiration and
Spirituality for the last
Shabbat of the year
at Lubavitch on the
Palisades. Traditional
dinner and a lecture,
Youre Only As Happy
As Your Unhappiest
Child, 7 p.m. On
Shabbat morning at
10:30 a.m., his topic will
be Existing Is Boring;
Life is Existing. He will
also be there for Slichot.
Dinner reservations,
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org/
shabbaton.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a service with organ
accompaniment, led
by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers services and
a sermon on modern-
day slavery by Maurice
Middleberg, executive
director of Free the
Slaves, 7:30 p.m. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Saturday
SEPTEMBER 20
Slichot in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob screens Ushpizin,
followed by a brief
Slichot service, 7 p.m.
176 West Side Ave. (201)
435-5725.
Slichot in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth has
dessert, a staged reading
of the one-act play
Four (Women) Entered
Paradise, by Sigal
Samuel, and a discussion,
7:30 p.m. Services at
10. 1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Slichot in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers family-friendly
Havdalah and Slichot
services, a short film and
discussion, 7:30 p.m. 53
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Slichot in Glen Rock:
Services, with the theme
of Renewal, are at the
Glen Rock Jewish Center,
8 p.m. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
[email protected].
Slichot in Closter:
Temple Beth El screens
The Truman Show, a
1998 film starring Jim
Carrey that explores
High Holy Day themes,
8 p.m., followed by
dessert and services. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Slichot in Paramus:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah honors Harold
Kaplan and his family
at its annual pre Rosh
Hashanah Slichot dessert
reception, 9 p.m. Services
follow. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
www.jccparamus.org.
Slichot in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
screens the documentary
Dressing America:
Tales from the Garment
Center, 9 p.m., followed
by a discussion by Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler and
refreshments. Services at
10:30. 70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515, ext.200
or www.jcot.org.
Slichot in Fort Lee:
Congregation Kehilath
Baruch/The New
Synagogue of Fort Lee
offers a program with
Professor Benjamin
Nelson, 9 p.m. Services
by Rabbi Meir Berger
and Cantor Leon Berger,
accompanied by the
Leon Berger Symphonic
Choir, at 10; supper at
11:30. 1585 Center Ave.
(201) 947-1555.
Slichot in Cliffside Park:
Temple Israel Community
Center/Congregation
Heichal Yisrael hosts its
annual William Golub
Memorial concert and
dessert social, with
Klezmer on the Kliff IV
starring the Hester Street
Troupe, 9:15 p.m. Services
follow. 207 Edgewater
Road. (201) 945-7310.
Slichot in Tenafly:
concludes his Shabbat
program with a lecture,
If You Can See the
Invisible, You Can Do the
Impossible, at Lubavitch
on the Palisades, 10 p.m.
Services at midnight
followed by light dinner
and music. (201) 871-1152
or www.chabadlubavitch.
org.
Slichot in Fort Lee:
The Young Israel of Fort
Lee welcomes its new
rabbi, Zev Goldberg, at
a reception, followed by
services led by Cantor Dr.
Joshua Kaplan, beginning
at 9 p.m. 1610 Parker Ave.
(201) 592-1518 or yiftlee.
org.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 21
Tot mitzvah in Leonia:
Congregation Adas
Emuno offers a program
for 3- and 4- year-olds
focusing on celebrating
the Jewish holidays with
art, song, music, food
and stories. Tot Mitzvah
classes will meet
monthly, 9 to 10 a.m. 254
Broad Avenue. 201-592-
1712 or doriskampwhite@
verizon.net.
Liesel Appel
Queens tea in Wayne:
The Jewish Womens
Circle of Chabad
Passaic County holds
its annual Queens Tea
at the Packanack Lake
Clubhouse, 11:30 a.m.
Brunch, raffles, tricky
tray baskets, gift
certificates. Guest
speaker Liesel Appel will
discuss her book The
Neighbors Son. Debra
Till, Lana Ladenheim,
Nigina Shindelman,
and Asia Shindelman
are honorees. 52 Lake
Drive West. Chani, (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Monday
SEPTEMBER 22
Chess in Tenafly: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades begins an
eight-session chess
session through
November 10, 10:30 a.m.
Another session will
begin on Thursday, Oct.
22, through December 18
at 7 p.m. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1457.
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 24
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: Temple
Emeth offers erev Rosh
Hashanah tot service for
children up to age 5 with
their families, 6:45 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road. Lee
Stein, (201) 833-1322.
Rosh Hashanah in
Closter: Temple Beth El
in Closter has community
services, 7:30 p.m.
No ticket needed. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 25
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, in the hospital
parking lot, 1-7 p.m. 718
Teaneck Road. (800)
933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
Fair Lawn: The Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers a family service
Happy Birthday World,
10 a.m. All children will
receive a new year gift
from the shul. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 796-
5040.
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: The Jewish
Learning Experience
offers free services at
Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls, 10 a.m.,
followed by kiddush.
Also September 26 and
for Yom Kippur. 1650
4498 or www.jle.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
Mahwah: Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom offers a
family service, 2:30 p.m.
280 Ramapo Valley
Road. (201) 512-1983.
Rosh Hashanah in
Closter: Temple Beth
El in Closter invites the
community to attend
High Holy Day family
services for young
children at 3:15 pm.
Tashlich at Demarest
Duck Pond at 4:30 pm.
No tickets required.
Services at 9 and
11:30 a.m. require tickets.
201-768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Rosh Hashanah in Glen
Rock: The Glen Rock
Jewish Center offers a
community apples and
honey service, 2 p.m.,
and tashlich at the Duck
Pond off Prospect Street
at 6. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
[email protected].
Rosh Hashanah in
Leonia: Tickets are
not required for family/
childrens services at
Congregation Adas
Emuno, 2 p.m. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712.
Rosh Hashanah in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israel holds a
service for families
with children of all
ages, 2:30 p.m. Tashlich
follows. Guest tickets
available. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272.
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: Temple Emeth
offers Rosh Hashanah
services for 6- to 12-year-
olds with their families,
3 p.m. Congregational
tashlich is at 4. 1666
Windsor Road. Lee Stein,
(201) 833-1322.
The acclaimed kids band Mama Doni
celebrates the Jewish new year with
Apples and Honey in the Big Apple,
a concert at the Museum of Jewish
HeritageA Living Memorial to the Holocaust, on
Sunday, September 28, at 2 p.m. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
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Special games field event and barbecue
The Chuck Guttenberg Center for the
Physically Challenged at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly will host the
annual Special Games for children and
adults with special needs on Sunday,
September 21. The games for children
are at noon and the adults games begin
at 1. A barbecue for everyone is from
12:30 to 2:30.
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Rosh Hashanah in
El in Closter has family
services for young
children, including
shofar blowing, 3:15 p.m.,
followed by tashlich
at the Demarest Duck
Pond, 4:30 p.m. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Rosh Hashanah in
Orangeburg: The
Orangetown Jewish
Center has family
services, 4:30 p.m. 8
Independence Ave.,
Orangeburg, N.Y. (845)
359-5920 or office@
theojc.org.
Friday
SEPTEMBER 26
Rosh Hashanah in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israel holds a
community service,
9 a.m., and junior
congregation services for
6- to 11-year-olds at 10.
Guest tickets available.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272.
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: Temple Emeth
offers community Rosh
Hashanah services, with
a healing theme, 10 a.m.
1666 Windsor Road. Lee
Stein, (201) 833-1322.
Rosh Hashanah in
Teaneck: The Jewish
Learning Experience
offers free services at
Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls, 10 a.m.,
followed by a kiddush.
Services also for Yom
Kippur. 1650 Palisade
Ave. (201) 966-4498 or
www.jle.org.
Rosh Hashanah in
El holds community
services, no ticket
needed. 10:30 a.m.
Shabbat Shuvah service
at 6:30 p.m. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Saturday
SEPTEMBER 27
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler
offers a Shabbat Shuvah
talk, The Bold, Brave and
Courageous, Chiddush
and Hitchaddshut:
Mastering Change and
Novelty, a Manual from
Tradition, following
services that begin at
9 a.m., at the Jewish
Center of Teaneck.
Kiddush served. 70
Sterling Place.(201) 833-
0515.
Monday
SEPTEMBER 29
Hadassah meets: Marty
Schneit, a licensed New
York City tour guide,
presents an illustrated
talk, The History of
NYCs Lower East Side,
for Fair Lawn Hadassah
at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel, 7:45 p.m.
10-10 Norma Ave. (201)
791-0327.
In New York
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 25
Rosh Hashanah: The
East Side Synagogue
offers free community
Rosh Hashanah services
at All Souls Sanctuary
in Manhattan, 10 a.m.,
including a shofar service
and light lunch. 1157
Lexington Ave., between
79th and 80th streets.
Participants must call the
information line, (212)
560-2222.
Macy Gray at BergenPAC
Macy Gray, the multi-award-winning, multi-plati-
num-selling singer, songwriter, actress, and mother,
will perform at the Bergen Performing Arts Center
in Englewood on Sunday, October 5, at 7 p.m. Tick-
ets are available at www.bergenpac.org, www.tick-
etmaster.com, or at the box office, (201) 227-1030.
Special games field event and barbecue
The Chuck Guttenberg Center for the
Physically Challenged at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly will host the
annual Special Games for children and
adults with special needs on Sunday,
September 21. The games for children
are at noon and the adults games begin
at 1. A barbecue for everyone is from
12:30 to 2:30.
Activities include golf putt, basketball,
softball throw, Frisbee and bean bag
toss, scooter races, and a beach ball bop.
Family, friends and volunteers con-
tribute to the success of the day. To
volunteer or participate, call Mindy
Liebowitz at (201) 408-1490 or email her
at mliebow [email protected].
Some of last years game participants display their ribbons.
Computer learning for adults
The EGL Foundation Computer Cen-
ter for Adults 40+ at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly offers classes
taught by experienced instructors and
volunteers. Registration is open, and
the courses will begin on October 6. An
open house and orientation will be held
on Tuesday, September 23, from 10:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Refreshments will be
served.
The open house includes a look at the
most interesting websites, the opportu-
nity to win a free computer course, and
a free practice session with hands-on
instruction and coaching.
Classes are small and meet once
or twice a week in the fully equipped
computer facility. Each student uses an
individual computer with the Windows
operating system and receives a detailed
course manual. Flash drives are used in
class and are available at a discounted
rate. Students are encouraged to own
their own computers to reinforce the
information they learn in their courses.
A two-hour free weekly supervised
practice session is available with every
course.
Students who register by September
30 will receive a 20 percent discount on
classes. Call Rachel Pasher Eijkenaar, at
(201) 569-7900, ext. 309, or go to www.
jccotp.org.
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A finale to remember
In Florida, special day for Israeli tennis ace Andy Ram and home crowd
HOWARD BLAS
SUNRISE, FLA. It wasnt Tel
Aviv, but thousands of people
chanting his name at a Davis Cup
match following a grueling vic-
tory was a pretty good way for
Israels Andy Ram to leave the
game of tennis.
After all, he had devoted more
than half his life to the game.
Ram, 34, and his longtime
doubles partner, Yoni Erlich, had
just outlasted the Argentine duo
of Federico Delbonis and Hora-
cio Zeballos in a five-set, nearly 3
1/3-hour match on Saturday.
With Ram sprawled out on cen-
ter court on his back, in tears
the crowd waved Israeli flags
and Todah Andy Ram signs
in Hebrew. (Todah means thank
you.)They chanted Andyoni
and Tishaer. Tishaer means
stay they were suggesting that
he put off the retirement he had
announced recently.
Hi s teammates, weari ng
Todah Andy shi rts, sur-
rounded Ram, hoisted him in the
air, and carried him off the court.
They proceeded to dump an ice-
filled bucket on his head.
He would stay on the court for
20 minutes signing autographs
and posing for pictures.
At a news conference after-
ward, Ram talked about his
actions following the match,
with Erlich and coach Eyal Ran
at his side. I ran out of energy,
he said. Then, as I was looking
up at the sky and the birds, I got
very emotional. And I cried like
a baby.
I thought of my father, who
couldnt be here. I thought of my
mom, who was here. I left home
at 14 to play tennis. Most of our
relationship was on the phone. It
meant the world to me that she
was here.
The doubles victory had put
underdog Israel ahead 2 to 1 in
the team match, but Argentina
took both singles matches the
following day to advance in the
international tournament.
Despite the thunderous recep-
tion as well as the Hebrew
music heard frequently during
the changeovers Ram and his
Israeli teammates lamented that
the match was not played in cen-
tral Israel, as scheduled, rather
than South Florida.
In July, the Argentine Tennis
Association requested a change
in venue from the Nokia Arena in
Tel Aviv because of security con-
cerns related to the conflict in
Gaza. The International Tennis
Federation told Israel in August
that the match had to be moved.
Israel appealed but lost; it would
have to serve as host in a location
far from home.
The Sunrise Tennis Club was
selected from among several
options. Much of the crowd there
backed the Israelis, with a section
of Argentines clad in light blue
and white shirts rooting on their
guys.
We are playing here in the
U.S.; it is a good feeling and yet it
is not the best feeling, Ram told
JTA on Friday. It was supposed
to be in Israel. I wanted to play in
front of my home crowd.
His teammate, Dudi Sela, was a
little more direct.
The ITF made a mistake, he
said. We were looking forward
to playing in front of 11,000 peo-
ple cheering for Israel.
Asi Touchmair, the chair of
the Israel Tennis Association,
noted in a statement that Israel
has hosted the Davis Cup during
times of war and military opera-
tions without having to move the
matches.
Despite the distance and the
logistics difficulties involved,
Touchmair said, we decided
to play the Davis Cup in South
Florida due to the warm and wel-
coming relationship that Israel
receives from the United States,
and where an atmosphere of a
home away from home will be
experienced by our Israel Davis
Cup team.
Among those who made the
trek to Sunrise was Andrea Eid-
man, an Argentine sports jour-
nalist who came from Buenos
Aires. People asked me, who
do you cheer for? And honestly,
I didnt care! she said.
Eidman added, For me, being
present at that tennis court, with
the Hebrew music going on and
on, with the Israeli flags, the
Hatikvah, the shofar it was a
party from beginning to end!
Ram, sitting in the stands with
Erlich, 37, on Friday, cheering
on his teammates during singles
matches, said that he had no
problem looking toward the
future.
I try to put it behind me, like
in the past, he said. I am the
kind of guy who is always think-
ing, Whats next?
It was fun. It was a good time.
Next is to focus on my kids. He
has two children 5 and 7 years
old. To see them growing, to be
great athletes. To find myself, my
way.
Ram and Erlich natives of
Uruguay and Argentina, respec-
tively reached as high as No.
5 in the world doubles rank-
ings. They advanced to 36 finals
and won 20 of them, including
the 2008 Australian Open. Ram
also won the Wimbledon mixed
doubles in 2006 and the French
Open mixed doubles in 2007.
Ram is particularly proud of
his Davis Cup record of 19 to 5
after the one final victory, which
he achieved despite pulling a
muscle in his left leg late in the
fifth set.
I sent Jonathan on a suicide
mission, Ram joked. He said,
Just get the serves in. I will do
the rest.
Ehrlichs particularly strong
volleys powered the duo in the
final set, despite the 91 degree
heat.
Ram talked about his partner-
ship with Ehrlich.
When we go on court together,
magic happens, he said. We
communicate. We know what the
other one will do.
Erlich offered, We had moti-
vation, energy, and a lot of
belief.
Eidman summed up the emo-
tion its likely that much of
the crowd was feeling as they
watched Rams last hurrah.
I felt like crying when Andy
Ram said goodbye to tennis, she
said, noting that the Argentina
teams captain, Martin Jaite, who
is Jewish, was playing in his final
match, too.
I would have loved to travel to
eretz Israel instead of America,
she added. It hurt my heart
not to go to Israel because of the
war.
But, Ram said, 11,000 people
screaming Andyoni is amazing!
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Israels Andy Ram sprawled on the court after his five-set doubles victory with partner Yoni Erlich, holding racket, against Argen-
tina in a Davis Cup match in Sunrise, Fla., on September 13. ANDREA EIDMAN
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Annette From, ne
Ravett, 87, of Brooklyn,
died September 15.
Born in New York
City, she was a retired
biochemist.
Predeceased by her
husband, David, she is
survived by sons Robert
of Manhattan and Stuart
of Park Ridge; and five
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
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Anne Garfinkel
Anne F. Garfinkel, ne
Fox, 91, of Fort Lee, died
September 10. Born in
Poland, before retiring,
along with her husband,
she owned Accurate
Copy and Printing Co.
in Manhattan. She was a
member of Congregation
Gesher Shalom/JCC of
Fort Lee.
Predeceased by her
husband, Irving, in
2006, she is survived
by daughters, Carol
Pally ( Jack) of Staten
Island, and Deborah
Silvestro of Mahwah;
and two grandsons and
great-grandsons.
Eden Memorial Chapels
in Fort Lee.
Cheryl Horowitz
Cheryl Horowitz,
ne Bergson, 69,
of Piscataway, died
September 12. Born in
Brooklyn, she was a legal
secretary.
She is survived by
children, Jessica Shaw of
Seattle, Luke of Highland
Park, and Ben of Jersey
City; a sister, Rabbi Leslie
Bergson of Manahawkin,
and three grandchildren.
Eden Memorial Chapels
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Howard Kaplan
Howard Mark Kaplan, 76,
of Teaneck, died
September 10.
He graduated from
the University of
Pennsylvania and Yale
Law School. He was a
lawyer in Teaneck for
more than 40 years, and
a former New Jersey state
deputy attorney general.
He was a member
of Temple Emeth in
Teaneck and its choir
and a former board
member. He was Bnai
Brith in Teanecks Man
of the Year in 1979 and
a member of the New
Jersey and Bergen County
Bar associations.
Predeceased by a
brother, Alan, he is
survived by his wife of 51
years, Carol, ne Silber;
daughters, Rachel of
Englewood, Deborah
Falkow (Howard) of
Ramsey, and Sarah
Beth Kaplan (Peter
Bogdanow) of Dallas; six
grandchildren; a sister-in-
law, Susan Kaplan of Fort
Obituaries are prepared with information
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Ellen Lee Bullock
Ellen Lee Bullock, 69, of Nes Ziona,
Israel, formerly of Bayonne, N.J., passed
away on August 28, 2014. She suffered
from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma but
stayed positive throughout over a year of
more than six different types of chemo-
therapy.
Ellen graduated from the Bayonne
Public Schools, Adelphi University, BA,
and Nova University, M.A.
She was a volunteer on the Sherut
LAm program to Israel in 1967.
Ellen lived in Israel for 45 years.
She was speech therapist at the Tomer
School for Handicapped Children for
35 years.
Ellen also had hearing aid clinics
called The Bullock Institute for Hearing
located in Nes Ziona, Rehovot, Rishon
Letzion, and Kiryat Gat.
Ellen celebrated her life Aug. 6 at a
party with a laughter therapist. After the
laughing, singing, and gourmet food, Ellen
wrote a song which everyone chanted
with her as she went around the circle,
Reach out and touch, give me your hand,
I feel your heart, I understand.
Ellen is survived by her husband David
Bullock, two daughters and sons-in-law,
Limore and Efe Frenkel, and Shani and
Eyal Leibovitz, and 5 grandchildren, Aviv
and Amir Frenkel, and Ariel, Eitan, and
Yaara Leibovitz all of Nes Ziona. Ellen
is survived by her sister, Emmy Hoffer
of Springfeld, N.J. and Deerfeld Beach,
Fla., and two nephews Aaron Hoffer of
Teaneck and Ben Hoffer of Springfeld.
She leaves a legacy of Being Positive
and Saying Only Good Things.
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Teaneck. Arrangements
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Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Leon Raff
Leon Raff, 85, of Davie,
Fla., formerly of Paterson
and Fair Lawn, died on
September 15.
Predeceased by
his wife, Elaine,
he is survived by a
daughter, Mary Whitt
(Christopher), two
grandchildren, and
cousins.
An Army World War
II veteran, he graduated
Upsala College and
Washington & Jefferson
College. Before retiring,
he was an insurance
executive in New Jersey
and New York. He was
an amateur boxer and a
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Bergen County Tennis
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n 1 Members of the Mens Club at the Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale, from left,
residents Sol Lieber, Joe Leeds, Aaron Eldridge, Albert Sheppard, Allan Gilbert, and S. Jaffe,
enjoy a bit of their home brew earlier this month. Rabbi Ariyeh Meir of Teaneck, the groups
leader, is standing. The beer-brewing sessions used love2brew products from North Bruns-
wick. Last month, Mark Spezio, love2brews COO, spoke to club members. Jason Shames,
CEO of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, was also there.
n 2 Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake will celebrate Rosh Hashanah
by using its new lightweight, easy-to-read Torah. It was created over a two- year period,
when members and their families joined with a sofer to write the letters in the new scroll.
Shul president Dr. Mark Tanchel is pictured carrying the new Torah into the sanctuary as the
synagogue prepares for Rosh Hashanah.
n 3 Children at the Helen Troum Nursery School and Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom
in Fair Lawn listen as Rabbi Baruch Zeilicovich blows the shofar in anticipation of Rosh Ha-
shanah.
n 4 Religious school students at Shomrei Torah Wayne Conservative Congregation
kicked off the year by bagging more than 100 breakfast bags for Family Promise of Passaic.
For information, call (973) 696-2500, ext. 13.
n 5 Rabbi Boruch Goodman welcomes students to Rutgers Chabads recent open house
schwarma grill extravaganza.
n 6 Recently, Cantor Lenny Mandel, left, and Rabbi Debra Orenstein, spiritual leaders of
Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson, participated in the ice bucket challenge in support of
ALS research. They were dunked in cold water at the synagogue; with the congregations
help, they raised $470 to be donated to the ALS Foundation.
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Broker/Associate
201-461-6764 Eve
201-970-4118 Cell
201-585-8080 x144 Ofce
[email protected]
FORT LEE - THE COLONY
1BR 1.5 Baths. Updated kitchen.
Mountain and sunset views. $139,999
1BR 1.5 Baths. Renovated. Oak oors
and new windows. West view. $159,900
1BR 1.5 Baths. Full renovation. Full river
and NYC views. $289,000
2BR 2.5 Baths. Low oor. River and west
views. Move in condition. $295,000
2BR 2 Baths. Gut renovation. Laundry.
East river view. $595,000
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Roomy tri-level split in charming neighborhood, eat-in kitchen w/island & lots
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4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 powder rooms, hardwood floors,
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spacious walk-in closet, 2nd closet and pella sgd to professionally
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huge basement - ent to 2 car garage - 2 separate driveways - many
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Aging in Place
discussed at Touro
seminar
Susan Brot knew that she wanted to work with senior citi-
zens back when she was a freshman at Boston University
and found herself volunteering for its Adopt-A-Grandpar-
ent program. I think I have always had an old soul, she
said with a chuckle.
At a recent seminar at Touro College, Aging In Place A
Stakeholders Conference on Care, Healthcare, Finance
and Law, Brot, coordinator of the Aging Social Work Ini-
tiative at Touros Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW),
told an audience of doctors, lawyers, and policymakers
about progress that has been made in the field of aging.
She described her unique experiences as the former
director of retiree services at the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), one of the most pow-
erful industrial unions of the 20th century (the unions
famous television ads depicted garment workers singing
the union theme song, Look for the Union Label).
At the ILGWU Brot oversaw groundbreaking initiatives
for the unions 250,000 retirees; one of those initiatives,
the Friendly Visiting Program, was a forerunner for what
is known today as aging in place.
The unions Friendly Visiting Program was a model
social services plan as well as a retraining program for
older workers, Brot said.
The visitors were retired ILGWU workers trained and
paid to help other retired ILGWU workers essentially
their peers who were homebound, disabled, or frail.
The visitors could, for example, escort homebound work-
ers to medical appointments, help them complete ben-
efits forms, or obtain absentee ballots so they could vote.
The program was clearly ahead of its time and Brot
speaks with great enthusiasm about how relevant that
program still is today. We were really in the middle
of something so historical and so important. We were
helping people age in place but we didnt call it that,
she said.
Brot says that aging in place is a hot topic because it is
where baby boomers are all headed. Most people dont
live in nursing homes, she said. The whole push now is
with community-based care.
The conference took place at the Fuchsberg Law Center
in Central Islip, L.I.
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185 E Palisade C6A - Englewood - For Sale $328,000
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privately set, courtyard view, new kitchen.
Wishing Te Entire Community
A Happy New Year
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location in Rockland County
USA Insulation, the countrys largest ret-
rofit insulation company, opened a new
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Franchise owners David Nay and Mark
Wanamaker will be providing homeown-
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superior customer service.
We look forward to working with
David and Mark to further develop the
USA Insulation brand in New York and
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Injected as a liquid into wall cavities
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around wires, pipes, outlets and other
obstacles that other types of insulation
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a thermal barrier with the highest R-Value
(resistance to temperature transfer) of
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Insulation also offers blown-in insulation
for attic spaces, and air sealing to close
any openings around pipes and fixtures.
Homeowners who live near the
Tappan Zee Bridge will really appreciate
USA Insulations Premium Foam sound
proofing capabilities, says Mr. Nay. It
has an STC-53 sound transmission class
rating which can significantly deaden
the bridge building noise over the next
several years.
Prior to becoming USA Insulation
franchisees, Mr. Nay rehabbed homes
and Mr. Wanamaker was a salesman
and currency trader in Manhattan. I
grew up in Nyack and my family first
settled here in the early 1800s, says
Mr. Wanamaker. Dave and I have
backgrounds that perfectly complement
each other and were excited to offer
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professionalism and enery saving
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homes more comfortable and most
important to all of us reduce their
monthly utility bills substantially.
USA Insulation offers a free enery
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We are anxious to hear the stories of
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Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
FIND OUT WHAT YOUR HOME IS WORTH!
Just call our 24/7 hotline for your complimentary consultation.
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
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646 Cedar Lane Teaneck, NJ 07666
Tel: 201-855-8500 Fax: 201-801-0225
FULL LINE OF HOLIDAY FRUITS

Visit Our Website at:
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WED: 7AM - 10PM
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FRI: 7AM - 2 HOUR5
BEFORE 5UNDOWN
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646 Cedar Lane Teaneck, NJ 07666
201-855-8500 Fax: 201-801-0225
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M A R K E T
M A R K E T
TERMS &CONDITIONS: This card is the property of Cedar Market, Inc. and is intended for exclusive use of the recipient and their household members. Card is not transferable. We reserve the right to change or rescind the terms and conditions of the Cedar Market loyalty programat any time, and without notice. By using this card, the cardholder signifes his/her agreement to the terms & conditions for use. Not to be combined with any other Discount/Store Coupon/Ofer. *Loyalty Card must be presented at time of purchase along with IDfor verifcation. Purchase cannot be reversed once sale is completed.
CEDAR MARKET
Loyalty
Program
CEDAR MARKET
Loyalty
Program
Fine Foods
Great Savings
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FISH
Morningstar
ea.
ea.
ea.

Vegetable
Roll

Godzilla
Roll

Calilornia
Roll
$
4
75
$
5
50
$
9
95
DAIRY FROZEN
MEAT DEPARTMENT LAMB HEADS ARE AVAILABLE
Cedar Markets Meat Dept. Prides Itself On Quality, Freshness And Affordability. We Carry The Finest Cuts
Of Meat And The Freshest Poultry... Our Dedicated Butchers Will Custom Cut Anything For You... Just Ask!
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Lb
Fresh
Chicken
Wings
Lb
$
4
49 $
2
49
Lb
Lb
Fresh
Chicken
Legs
Fresh
Chicken
Cutlets
Lb
Boneless Lamb
5houlder
Roast
$
10
99
$
8
99 $
7
99
Lb
Lb
Lb
$
4
99
Lb
American Black Angus Beel
5houlder
Roast
Boneless
Cholent Meat
Beel
Deckle
Ossies
5almon
Gelte Fish
EA
Breaded
Flounder LB
PROVISIONS
BAKERY
z6 oz
z6 oz
$
5
49
$
10
49
$
2
99
5 OZ
$
3
99
Hod Lavan
Kosher
Turkey Bacon
8 OZ
FISH
Super
Family
Pack
Super
Family
Pack
Boneless
White Meat
Turkey
Roast
$
99
$
99
5almon
with 5ealood
$
11
99
LB
5ave On!
A&B
5weet Gelte
Fish
20 OZ
Lb
5ave On!
Chicken
Bones
5ave On!
5hindlers
Tilapia
Fillets

$
4
99
2/$
3
$
4
99
Real Kosher
Chopped
Liver
Gelen
Non Dairy
Creamer
Eden Broccoli
Cuts & Long
5tem Florets
12 OZ
16 OZ
24 OZ
2 LB
5ave On!
Kineret
Onion
Rings $
2
99
Ol Tov
Chicken
Nuggets
$
4
99
Minced & Breaded
Dr Praegers
Fishies
5ticks & Cutlets
Macabee
Eggplant
Tirat Zvi
Assorted 5lices
24 OZ
32 OZ
8-10 OZ
Honey
Ring
$
9
99
$
5
99
2/$
7
$
3
99
Lb
Fresh
Empire
Whole Turkey
79
$
7
99
For 5pecial Orders
email [email protected]
WE WILL HAVE RAW AND
COOKED SALMON HEADS
FOR ROSH HASHANA
Lite Tuna
5alad
Ossies
Parve
5oup
$
4
99
$
5
99
EA
EA
HOMEMADE DAIRY
16 OZ
$
2
99
$
9
99
Product of Uruguay
Excluding Thinnies
PRODUCE
Organic
Cello
Carrots
4/$
5
for
for
lb.
5/$
4 1 LB.
10/$
4
Fresh & Firm
Artichokes
2/$
5
9
Golden 5weet
Pineapples
5ave On!
$
5
49
Lior Medjool
Dates
5/$
5
Farm Fresh
Broccoli
Mauzone
Dressing
Hot House New Crop!
3/$
2 9
Organic
Celery
English
Cucumbers
Gala or Cortland
Apples
5ave On!
Green
Peppers
5/$
5
$
3
99
New Crop!
Eastern
Potatoes
Cello
Onions
for
12 oz.
for lb.
3 lb. bag
14.1 oz. 5 lb. bag
for
5/$
5
GROCERY
99
In Oil or Water
Bumble Bee
Chunk Light
Tuna
5 OZ. 99
5ave On!
Poland
5pring
Water
GAL.
2/$
3
5ave On!
Natural Earth
Red Wine
Vinegar
12.7 OZ
$
1
99
$
2
99
Lite or Original
La Choy
5oy
5auce
Light Only
Hellmanns
Mayonnaise
10 OZ. 30 OZ.
4/$
5
Regular &Reduced 5odium
Manischewitz
Matzo Ball
& 5oup Mixes
4.5-5 OZ.
Assorted
White
Rock
5eltzer
$
1
79
5easons
5ardines
Boneless
& 5kinless
In Olive Oil
4.372 OZ.
5 LB.
3/$
1
5ave On!
Ner Mitzvah
Memorial
Tins
1 DAY
$
1
99
99
Chewy & Dark Fudgy

Duncan Hines
Brownie
Mix
5ave On!
Manischewitz
Egg Noodles
Medium & Fine
19.95 OZ. 12 OZ
$
1
99
5ave On!
Manischewitz
Assorted
Broth
32 OZ.
$
1
99
Classic
Gelen
Marinara
& Pizza 5auce
26 OZ
$
2
99
Assorted
Mikee
5esame
Teriyaki
20 OZ.
$
1
99
5ave On!
Golds
5weet Duck
5auce
40 OZ.
2/$
3
Original
Near East
Rice
Pilal
$
2
79 $
4
99
5ave On!
Natures
Valley
Oat & Honey
5ave On!
Folgers
Instant
Classic Roast
PK 8 OZ.
2/$
4
5ave On!
Tam
Tam
Crackers
9.6 OZ.
16 OZ.
2/$
4
5ave On!
5easons
Whole
Hearts
ol Palm
14 OZ.
5ave On!
Carolina
Extra Large
Rice
3/$
2 1 LTR.
$
3
99
Apple
Pie
Back By
Popular
Demand
All Natural Grass Fed Beel
Boneless
Rib Eye Roast
Super
Family
Pack
5ave On!
Flaums
Horseradish
16 oz
89
Mehadrin
Chocolate
Leben
6 oz
$
1
99
Assorted
Jell-O
Puddings
4pack
$
1
99
Unsalted
Mothers
Margarine
5ticks
16 oz
2/$
4
2/$
5
Assorted
Friendship
Cottage
Cheese
16 oz
5/$
5
Assorted
Chobani
Yogurt
6Z
$
2
99
Tuv Taam
Vegetarian
Liver
7.5 oz
$
1
79
Farms Creamery
Whipped
Cream
Cheese
8 oz
79
Assorted
5tonyeld
Yogurt
6Z
$
3
99
Assorted
5abra
Hummus
17 oz

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